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Locked in a tiny room, a pair of eyes stared helples, then police officer sees the look!
The sight was almost unbearable for NYPD officer Joshua Sailor. As he made his way up an abandoned building in September, he was not prepared for what he was about to encounter.
Locked in a tiny crate-sized room, a pair of eyes stared helplessly up through the black metal bars.
The 8-month-old pit bull had a heavy metal chain wrapped around her neck and tied to the gate, giving her just enough freedom to stand up in the narrow space.
Officer Sailor also noticed that one of the walls was torn up and gnawed at. "She was so bored and hungry that's what she was eating and chewing," he said.
When they released her from her prison, Sailor's heart nearly shattered when he noticed her body.
"Physically, you could see everything from her spine, to her hip bone, her ribs," Sailor said.
But it wasn't the condition of her body that really caught his attention, it was the look on her face.
"When we rescued Mila, she just gave me that look," he explains. "Like, thank you. Thank you for getting me out of there."
At that moment he knew he couldn't let her go.
After she received care at the ASPCA, the pair was reunited and have been inseparable since.
"It was like when you wake up on Christmas morning as a little kid [and] you see all the presents downstairs," Sailor said, beaming.
"She 100 percent needed me, but I 100 percent needed her too."
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FS2 children were learning all about Plants and Animals when visited Marbella Horses, a pony club in Estepona. As the sun was shining, they had super fun learning how to care for the ponies; brushing their hair, feeding them healthy carrots and learning about the toys they like to play with in their stables! To end their time learning about the ponies, they were then able to have a pony ride around the stables, a highlight for them all. They also talked about growing vegetables and visited their fantastic allotment where they saw the vegetables up close and learned how to make their veggie patch at school grow even better. Finally, they selected some vegetable seeds and planted them in small pots to bring back to school.


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This scanning electron micrograph shows HIV particles (yellow) emerging from an infected T cell (blue). Credit: NIAID
Different mechanisms suppressed the virus in each person.
Research led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health has identified two distinct ways that people with HIV can control the virus for an extended period after stopping antiretroviral therapy (ART) under medical supervision. This information could inform efforts to develop new tools to help people with HIV put the virus into remission without taking lifelong medication, which can have long-term side-effects.
The study, published on October 28, 2021, in the journal Nature Medicine, was led by Tae-Wook Chun, Ph.D., chief of the HIV Immunovirology Section in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH; and by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID director and chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation.
The study involved two adults with HIV who began ART soon after acquiring the virus and continued with treatment for more than six years, successfully suppressing HIV. The individuals then joined an HIV clinical trial and stopped taking ART under medical supervision. The study team followed one of these people for four years and the other for more than five years, with study visits roughly every two to three weeks.
The investigators monitored the timing and size of viral rebounds in each participant, that is, times when the amount of HIV in their blood became detectable. One participant suppressed the virus with intermittent rebounds for nearly 3.5 years, at which point he began taking suboptimal ART without telling the study team. The other participant almost completely suppressed HIV for nearly 4 years, at which point the virus rebounded dramatically because he became infected with a different HIV strain, a phenomenon known as "superinfection."
In the first participant but not the second, the scientists found high levels of HIV-specific immune cells called CD8+ T cells that can kill virus-infected cells, indicating that different mechanisms of control were at work in each person. The researchers also found that the second participant, who had a weaker CD8+ T cell response against HIV, had a very strong neutralizing antibody response throughout the follow-up period until the sudden viral rebound. According to the scientists, this suggests that neutralizing antibodies may have played a significant role in facilitating near-complete HIV suppression in this individual until he newly acquired a different strain of the virus.
The researchers emphasized that to avoid the emergence of viral resistance and prevent potential misinterpretation of scientific data in studies like this one, it is important to conduct routine antiretroviral drug testing of people with HIV who halt treatment for extended periods. In addition, the researchers identified HIV superinfection as a potential cause of sudden virologic breakthrough in people with HIV who halt treatment, especially when the breakthrough occurs after a prolonged period of virus suppression.
Reference: "Distinct mechanisms of long-term virologic control in two HIV-infected individuals after treatment interruption of antiretroviral therapy" by
Jana Blazkova, Feng Gao, Manukumar Honnayakanahalli Marichannegowda, J. Shawn Justement, Victoria Shi, Emily J. Whitehead, Rachel F. Schneck, Erin D. Huiting, Kathleen Gittens, Mackenzie Cottrell, Erika Benko, Colin Kovacs, Justin Lack, Michael C. Sneller, Susan Moir, Anthony S. Fauci and Tae-Wook Chun, 28 October 2021, Nature Medicine.
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Top Contributors - Lucinda hampton
1 Hormones
2 The Endocrine System
3 Steroid and Peptide Hormones
4 Glands
5 Hypothalamus
6 Problems of the endocrine system
7 Endocrine Disruptors
A hormone is a chemical transmitter substance produced by cells of the body and transported by the bloodstream to the cells and organs on which it has a specific regulatory effect. They are an integral part of the endocrine system.
Hormones act as chemical messengers to body organs, stimulating certain life processes and retarding others. Growth, reproduction, control of metabolic processes, sexual attributes, and even mental conditions and personality traits are dependent on hormones[1].
The word "hormone" comes from a Greek word that means "to spur on." This reflects how hormones act as catalysts for chemical changes at the cellular level that are necessary for growth, development and energy.[2]
A collection of glands and organs that produce and regulate hormones in the bloodstream to control many functions of the body.
Hormones that are made in the body's glands work like messages. Just like with other types of communication, the proper message must reach its intended destination to be effective. For this reason, certain hormones are designed to end up only at certain cells, called target cells.
This system overlaps with the nervous system and exocrine system, and its responsibilities include metabolism, growth and sexual development. Most animals that have advanced physiology, such as vertebrates and crustaceans, have an endocrine system.[3]
Steroid and Peptide Hormones
Steroid and peptide hormones are two types of hormones in the body. The main differences
Steroid hormones: lipid-soluble and can diffuse easily into the cell membrane of the target cell to bind to the receptors inside the cytoplasm to act as second messengers
Peptide hormones: water-soluble and connects with receptors at the membrane as it can't diffuse through the membrane. Since peptide hormones bind to receptors at the surface, their effect is faster than steroid hormones.[4]
Unlike exocrine glands(sweat, salivary), endocrine glands secrete their respective substances directly into the bloodstream rather than through a duct. These endocrine glands belong to the body's control system and they produce hormones which help to regulate the functions of cells and tissues. The endocrine system involves many organ systems and hormones, many of which are still being investigated and understood.
The major glands of the endocrine system are the listed below:
Pituitary gland: Enclosed deep within the skull (the size of a pea). Hangs on a stalk at the base of the brain. It consists of an anterior portion that produces hormones and a posterior portion that has many neural links. Regarded as the master gland as it controls the functions of all the other glands (such as the adrenal, thyroid glands) in the endocrine system. The pituitary gland stimulates the adrenal gland to secrete cortisol, a steroid hormone controls a range of activities from controlling the body's metabolism to stimulating blood pressure. The pituitary gland also secretes prolactin, which stimulates the production of milk.
2. Pineal gland: Located between the two halves of the brain. It produces melatonin which influences the body's Circadian Rhythm (the body's sleep/wake cycle).
3. Thyroid gland: Found at the front of the neck, low in the throat, between the windpipe. Brownish red, it has blood vessels coursing through it. It secretes hormones that are collectively called thyroid hormones. The most prominent are T3 and T4, which influence the body's rate of metabolism.
Parathyroid glands: Consist of four small glands that are located behind the thyroids in the neck. They influence the calcium levels in the body by producing a hormone called Parathyroid Hormone. Sometimes, when the gland produces excess parathyroid hormones, it can have negative effects such as brittle bones and kidney stones.
5. Adrenal glands: Sit atop the kidneys and are no larger than a walnut. These glands produce over 150 hormones that regulate different functions in the body. The most well known is Adrenaline, which triggers the flight or fight response. In other words, this is a stress hormone that helps the organism to either face a dangerous situation or to avoid it altogether. It does this by:
Increasing blood sugar levels
Increasing the blood supply to the muscles, particularly to the limbs.
Dilating the pupils
Increasing the heart rate
Tightening the jaw muscles.
6. Pancreas: Exocrine as well as an endocrine gland (sits behind the stomach). It is roughly 6 inches long and rather flat. The pancreas has two primary roles to play:
Producing digestive enzymes
Producing hormones such as insulin and glucagon[5].
7. Gonads: The ovaries are specific to females and are located in the pelvic cavity. While the testes are specific to males. Ovaries produce estrogen that is important for reproduction and female sex characteristics. Testes produce testosterone that is responsible for male sex characteristics. Also, it results in increased muscle mass and body hair.
To a lesser degree, organs such as the heart, lungs and stomach are involved in hormone management.
The hypothalamus is a part of the brain that has a vital role in controlling many bodily functions including the release of hormones from the pituitary gland (some people don't consider it a gland)[6]:
Located on the undersurface of the brain. It lies just below the thalamus and above the pituitary gland, to which it is attached by a stalk. It is an extremely complex part of the brain containing many regions with highly specialised functions. In humans, the hypothalamus is approximately the size of a pea and accounts for less than 1% of the weight of the brain.
One of the major functions of the hypothalamus is to maintain homeostasis, i.e. to keep the human body in a stable, constant condition.
Responds to a variety of signals from the internal and external environment including body temperature, hunger, feelings of being full up after eating, blood pressure and levels of hormones in the circulation.
Responds to stress and controls our daily bodily rhythms such as the night-time secretion of melatonin from the pineal gland and the changes in cortisol (the stress hormone) and body temperature over a 24-hour period.
Collects and combines all above information and puts changes in place to correct any imbalances[7].
Problems of the endocrine system
Numerous problems can occur in the endocrine system. These can be considered as excessive or deficient hormone production. Endocrine organs are also prone to tumours (adenomas) which can over produce hormones. See Metabolic/Endocrine Disorders
Hyperthyroidism: occurs when the thyroid gland makes more thyroid hormone than necessary. This can be caused by a range of things, including autoimmune conditions. eg. Graves disease is an autoimmune disorder and common form of hyperthyroidism.
Hypothyroidism: occurs when the thyroid doesn't produce enough thyroid hormone.
Cushing syndrome: occurs due to high levels of the hormone cortisol.
Addison disease: occurs when the adrenal glands don't produce enough cortisol or aldosterone.
Estrogen dominance: changes in sleep patterns, changes in weight and appetite, higher perceived stress, slowed metabolism
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS): infertility, weight gain, higher risk for diabetes, acne, abnormal hair growth
Low estrogen: low sex drive, reproductive problems, menstrual irregularity, changes in mood .
Low testosterone: erectile dysfunction, muscle loss, weight gain, fatigue, mood-related problems[8]
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can interfere with endocrine systems at certain doses. These disruptions can cause cancerous tumors, birth defects, and other developmental disorders. Any system in the body controlled by hormones can be derailed by hormone disruptors. Specifically, endocrine disruptors may be associated with the development of learning disabilities, severe attention deficit disorder, cognitive and brain development problems deformations of the body that includes breast cancer, prostate cancer, thyroid and other cancers; sexual development problems such as feminizing of males or masculinizing effects on females, etc.[9]
There are some 800 chemicals suspected as being capable of interfering with hormone receptors, synthesis, conversion or cell signalling during critical periods of cell and organ development. Some of these occur naturally, but many are synthetic and used in agriculture (growth promoters, pesticides and wetting agents), plasticizers, as flame-retardants in textiles, clothing and furnishings, non-stick coatings, food additives, electronics and cosmetics, personal care products and perfumes.[10]
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The Davistown Museum is a tool, art, and regional history museum with two physical locations in Maine and a website, rich with resources. Its main building is in Liberty, while its office and a sculpture garden are in Hulls Cove (Bar Harbor). The primary mission of the museum is the recovery, display, and interpretation of hand tools used in Maine and New England's maritime culture. It serves as an important clearinghouse for information on the history of hand tools and their roles in the early industries of Maine and New England and offers an extensive exhibit of hand tools in Liberty and online. The Museum also provides a forum for contemporary Maine artists to exhibit their work, creating a unique environment that juxtaposes tools, as both historical and sculptural objects, with a wide diversity of art forms. In addition, the Museum strives to increase community awareness of and to provide access to information on local, regional, Native American, and environmental history. Visitors to the Davistown Museum website will find an unprecedented wealth of resources, which include the complete text of museum publications; unpublished essays; photo tours of the entire museum at both sites; annotated inventories of holdings, including tools and art, many with photos, and library books; bibliographies, and the Maine Artists Guild Gallery website.
March to December:
10 AM to 4 PM Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment
Closed January & February
Yearly Hours
New Davistown Museum publication: Climate Change and the Ecology of the Gulf of Maine: History, Biodiversity, Fisheries and the Pollution Cocktail. The focus of this publication is the impact of greenhouse gas emissions and environmental chemicals on the biodiversity and ecology of the Gulf of Maine. We use the term "pollution cocktail" to describe the effluents of the rapidly growing global military-industrial consumer society, the legacy of the age of plastics, and its progeny, the information technology revolution.
Kirkus has reviewed this publication: "An environmental work explores the way pollution has altered the waters off Maine. The Gulf of Maine is a robust and vital environment, home to some of the world's most productive fisheries. This biodiversity—and the economies that are sustained by it—is increasingly threatened by the plastics, chemicals, and other eco-toxins present in the Gulf's waters. These pollutants, along with rising ocean temperatures, acidification, invasive pathogens, and unsustainable fishing practices, are coming together to pose an existential threat to the ecology of the Gulf and neighboring habitats. With this book, Brack seeks to diagnose these problems and describe their particular impacts on the health of the region. After a discussion of the history of cataclysmic climate change on the global scale—since, as the author points out, "any commentary on the ecology and biodiversity of the Gulf of Maine must begin with the observation that this bioregion is only one small component of an interconnected finite biosphere"—he sets his sights on the Gulf itself, including its geography, hydrology, biology, and the effects of both human commerce and regulation. He concludes by enumerating the specific threats that exist for Maine fisheries, many of which cannot be solved outside of addressing the global climate crisis. This is a technical work, and Brack's prose is suited for its purpose: "It's also important to note the role the diadromous fisheries played in the early economy of Maine fisheries. Diadromous fish are those species that migrate between the sea and freshwater environments." The text features maps, charts, and graphs displaying information on fish landings, catch limits, invasive species, water cycles, and other relevant data. The author offers few solutions—indeed, there are few local fixes for a globalized crisis—but he does a fine job laying out the parameters of the problem and how it may worsen over time. This is not a work that will appeal to average readers, but those with a stake or interest in the ecology or economy of the Gulf of Maine may find the facts contained here helpful, if grim. A useful and sober evaluation of the changing situation in the Gulf of Maine."
Crafting a Vibrant Art Scene in Ellsworth
The Ellsworth American has an article on a new community arts space in Ellsworth, opened by Ken and Linda Perrin, whose work is in the Davistown Museum.
David Wright Films Skip and Alan Magee Conversation for Feature Documentary
Filmmaker David Wright (http://www.expeditioncamera.com/ )recently visited the museum and Liberty Tool to film a segment of his feature documentary The Dark Illuminates the Light about artist Alan Magee, whose work is featured in the museum.
"This film takes the viewer on a breathtaking visual journey—an exploration of the artist's recurring subjects, locales, and the historical sources which have sustained his passion for five decades. Through his paintings, sculpture, monotypes, music, and short films Magee invites viewers to travel with him through the veiled recesses of human experience—and back into the affirming light of day.
Through this film, Director David Wright hopes to inspire people in all disciplines, especially the young, to bring their gifts and aptitudes to bear on the multiple crises that threaten our common future. " (from http://www.expeditioncamera.com/thedarkilluminatesthelight)
Skip is one of a number of Alan's friends filmed in conversation with him for the documentary. They discussed how Alan's work has been influenced by and connects with Liberty Tool, Skip's work, and the museum.
Kirkus has issued a review for Where Have All the Plastics Gone?
Public Safety Notice and press release for "Where Have All the Plastics Gone?"
Publication now available through amazon.com
Video of a presentation given by curator Skip Brack at the Thomaston Historical Society is now available.
A new historical marker has been erected outside the Hulls Cove Sculpture Garden and Hulls Cove Tool Barn with information on the confederacy of the Mawooshen and the history of Breakneck Hollow.
Jessica Straus, who has new work on display in the museum, wrote a blog entry about the Davistown Museum and Liberty Tool Company across the street.
Liberty Tool Company (across the street in Liberty) was featured in an article in the Bangor Daily News, "Liberty Tool still heart of the community despite being for sale."
Curator Skip Brack was interviewed for the WBGO News segment "This Day in 1870" featuring Seth Boyden, inventor of malleable iron.
The Winter 2014-Spring 2015 issue of our newsletter, Tooling Around, is out.
Drafts are underway for volume 4 of Biocatastrophe: Antibiotic Resistance: Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi and other Pathogens, A Threat to World Health.
New photos of the current displays in the main hall are up.
A new rolling glass display case in the Main Hall features tools used in the display at the Plymouth public library in May 2013. These tools will be part of the Tools Teach outreach program.
The Davistown Museum recieved a grant from the 1916 Foundation for a commemorative sculpture created by Jay Sawyer in memory of David McLaughlin titled "A Spirit of its Own." It is loaned to the Portland Jetport where it is installed and viewable from the Jetport Access Road. See: The Portland Daily Sun, The Press Herald
We have acquired for display an important Red Paint artifact collection from Sandy Point, Stockton Springs.
We have completed our Hand Tools in History series with the publication of Tools Teach: The Iconography of American Hand Tools (Volume 13). Kirkus has issued this review.
Publications are available from our publications page, amazon.com, and other booksellers
Live streaming webcam feed of the Davistown Museum main hall in Liberty.
The Liberty Tool Company across the street from the Davistown Museum also has a live streaming webcam, as does Captain Tinkham's Emporium in Searsport
The Davistown Museum's environmental history department has information on severe solar storms
Donna Dodson, new MAG artist, visits the museum in 2012.
Photo Tour: Tools Conservation Area (last updated 3-10-11)
The Davistown Museum is currently seeking a hardness tester for use on metals. Donations welcome! The Museum is seeking various metallurgical samples, including bog iron, silicon slag, blooms, etc. We are also seeking photographs of certain old metal tools. Please contact us if you can help!
New Levi Tinkham planes
Additions from the ax and tool collection of Ed Shaw, including items recovered from the ruins of the 1966 Peavey factory fire by John Kebabian
A Notebook for Nekesa by Hannah and Sarah Emigh-Doyle added to Publications
Special Publication 62: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Information Handbook. A sample text may be found here. A review of this publication by Kirkus Book Reviews may be found here.
Nuclear Disaster in Japan: Accident Blog
Wapanoag Repatriation of the Wapanucket Hoard
Need help? Try our Guide to Flat and Round World Resources or see the museum website directory.
Overnight accommodations are available at the Liberty facility for visitors to the Center for the Study of Early Tools.
History and tool enthusiasts are urged to support the Davistown Museum by becoming members, making tax deductible contributions to our endowment, or donating tools and other artifacts for resale on our e-stores and auctions. Consignments for our e-stores are also welcome
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shower proof is an artist's impression of the Hair Shirt Army in the vault of EL-DE-Haus, the Nazi Documentation Centre, Cologne (D), produced before the installation was actually presented from 13th February to 21st April 2014. This work is part of a series on the original Hugo Boss fashion company that employed forced labour in their production of Nazi uniforms during WW2.
A plastic raincoat that doesn't let the rain in is shower proof; the function of a good shower curtain is also to keep the wet in. The image shower proof is a digital photographic collage of 19 army greatcoats, made up of little plastic bags containing date labels and Tanya Ury's hair from natural fallout that she has collected over a period of 20 years. Implied in the title's wordplay however, is the protection from a concentration camp shower emitting gas, not water, which these or any other coats would never have been able to provide; and the proof was in the shower. shower proof is a visual oxymoron.


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How Did The Tradition Of Giving Your Sweetheart A Valentine Get Started?
Edmond P. DeRousse February 13, 2019 at 1:17 pm
Valentine's Day is observed by almost everyone. It is the second most popular card-sending holiday after Christmas. Approximately 150 million cards are swapped annually.
Many believe Valentine's Day is named after the third century Roman priest, Valentine. So, just who is that guy and how did he become associated with the celebration of romance? His actual history is a bit mysterious. St. Valentine was indeed martyred for his beliefs, but there supposedly were three different St. Valentines. Two of them could have been the same person.
The most popular belief for Valentine's Day roots begin around 270 A. D. starting with a conflict between a kindhearted priest and a powerful ruler. One story states that a priest by the name of Valentine was put to death because he performed marriages for young lovers despite a decree from the Roman Emperor, Claudius II. The emperor believed that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, so he outlawed marriages for young men.
Valentine, despite Claudius's decree, performed marriages in secret for young lovers. He was eventually arrested, thrown in prison, and sentenced to death. While in prison he fell in love with a young girl. Some say possibly his jailor's daughter who visited him during his imprisonment. Before his death on 14 February, he allegedly wrote her a letter signed "From your Valentine".
Lupercalia, a fertility festival honoring Faunus, the Roman God of agriculture was a big celebration in Rome. This festival occurred during the ides of February and continued being celebrated until it was deemed "un-Christian" at the end of the 5th century. Pope Gelasius in 496 A.D. declared Valentine's Day to be 14 February.
In medieval times it was believed that birds selected their mates on 14 February. Some suggest the idea of romance for Valentine's Day may have been inspired by this ritual. Human lovebirds recited verse or prose to honor the day. For instance, William Shakespeare wrote: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote: "How do I love thee; let me count the ways."
Early St. Valentine's Day ceremonies included putting girls' names in a box. Boys would draw them out. The couples would be paired off until the following year. The girls' names would be substituted with saints' names hoping that the boy would model his life after the saint whose name he drew.
Over the centuries, that ceremony was eventually replaced by sending anonymous cards or messages to celebrate love, affection, or friendship. Early versions of Valentine cards were made of satin and lace. They were decorated with flowers and ribbons. Images of cupids or birds began appearing in England in the 1880s.
How did we connect Cupid to a day celebrating St. Valentine?
Cupid was actually based on Greek and Roman mythology.
To the Greeks he was known as Eros (the inspiration for the word "erotic"). He was the son of Aphrodite and Zeus, the goddess of love and beauty. The Romans called him Cupid. His mother was Venus, the goddess of love, sex, beauty, and fertility.
According to Roman mythology, Venus was a jealous God. When she saw the beauty of the mortal maiden, Psyche, she sent her son, Cupid to punish her. Instead Cupid fell in love with her. They married on the condition that Psyche never look at his face. But she eventually gave in to temptation and gazed upon his face. Cupid got so angry he fled. Psyche searched the world for her lover and finally found him. The Gods were so moved by her love for Cupid, they made her a goddess.
Cupid was a mischievous god armed with a bow and quiver. Mythology says it was filled with golden arrows to kindle desire and leaden arrows to provoke loathing. He once shot a golden arrow at Apollo, who fell madly in love with the nymph, Daphne. Cupid then shot Daphne with the leaden arrow, so she would be repulsed by him. Then Cupid laughed and laughed.
Before shooting them, Apollo had apparently challenged Cupid's archery ability. Apollo was implying that archery should be left to people like him. Thus, the above story.
Today we see Cupid as a cherub-faced infant with wings. The fact that he is an infant represents the irrationality of love. His wings represent the fact that lovers are flighty and likely to change their minds. Love can wound and inflame the heart. Thus, the symbol of the inflamed arrow. This description and interpretation was established many centuries ago.
Many believe Cupid's look can be credited to Renaissance art. The artist of the time painted winged cherubs as symbols of love and innocence. Cupid symbolized such a sentiment. That sentimentality and the popular art form of the time produced the winged cherub. It is the image of Cupid as a cute baby with wings that has endured.
Here is the link to my Valentine Video Blog with special guest Rod Stewart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZSdEdvmS4A
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/common/valentine-day
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/02/13/valentines-day-traditions-chocolates-roses-cupid/5370383/
http://www.history.com/topics/valentines-day/history-of-valentines-day
http://www.theholidayspot.com/valentine/history_of_valentine.htm
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_valentin_1.htm
http://theromantic.com/valentinesday/cupid.htm#
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-is-cupid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid
https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/cupid_roman_deity
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Comparing yourself to other people is a guaranteed path to nowhere happy. When you compare your accomplishments to other people's accomplishments and your children to other people's children, you almost never come out on top. Unless, of course, you're purposely comparing yourself to someone far less fortunate than you in order to make yourself feel better—and that's not really comparison, that's just mean.
Theodore Roosevelt once said comparison is the thief of joy, and I believe that wholeheartedly—mainly because I've experienced it wholeheartedly.
I was once on a business trip in Arizona and rather than relax by the pool during my downtime, I decided to climb Camelback Mountain. I spent the day before the hike preparing: I drank lots of water, I researched the different trails and I even rented a fanny pack from the athletic center to carry my phone and extra water bottles (even though I felt like a loser paying money to wear a fanny pack).
I was incredibly proud of myself for choosing the hike over laying by the pool and for getting a jumpstart on my day rather than sleeping in like I really wanted to. I was advised to get an early start on the climb because the midday heat would make the climb more challenging. I made plans to arrive at the base of the mountain by 7 a.m., and I was told that I could easily make it to the summit in 45 minutes.
To my surprise, I made it to the base of the mountain to start my hike at 6:45 a.m. "Wow, look at me," I thought. "Up and about so early, taking advantage of the day, enjoying Mother Nature and living life to its fullest." I'm not going to lie, I was ridiculously proud of myself.
My "you go, girl" moment was awesome. But it only lasted an additional 86 steps before it all went to hell.
I was no more than two minutes into my hike up the side of an enormous mountain when I looked up and saw a shirtless, sweaty, fit, happy, healthy, (did I say "fit" already?) young guy barreling towards me on his way down from the summit.
I was two minutes into my hike, it was 6:47 in the morning and he was two minutes from being done.
The gerbils in my mind took off on their hamster wheel to hell, and the comparisons started spiraling out of control: What the hell just happened? What time did that guy wake up this morning? What time did he go to bed last night? Was he really running? Do people actually run to the top of mountains? I wonder if he does this every day? I wonder if he's this stellar in every aspect of his life? I wonder if he thinks I'm a loser? And lazy?
And so went the first half of my first hike up a mountain.
I was so taken aback by the mountain runner that it was the only thing I could think about, and I allowed his greatness to cast a shadow over my own accomplishments.
The gerbil wheel kept spinning: I should have gotten up earlier. The concierge said the sunrise is amazing from the top, but nooooooo, I had to sleep in until 6:15 and I missed it. I couldn't run to the top of this mountain if a masked murderer was chasing me. I would literally die trying. He didn't even have any water with him! Meanwhile, I'm sporting a used fanny pack with three plastic water bottles bouncing off my hips like a very environmentally unfriendly hula skirt. If I'd tried hiking before, like all my Facebook friends have, I wouldn't look like such a doofus.
And that's how it went. I compared my 'I've-never-done-this-before' self to his 'I-could-do-this-in-my-sleep' self, robbing myself of genuine joy along the way.
Until I hit pause on a plateau, where I took a little breather and talked some sense into myself.
What I witnessed at the bottom of the mountain was simply a data point: that guy is very active and very fit. His accomplishments have no bearing on my accomplishments. I've never even seen him in my entire life, so how could our performances possibly be linked?
And on that plateau, my resting place, I found freedom from comparison. My freedom came from my ability to say, "Good for that guy. But also good for me." He had challenged himself that morning and so had I.
I woke up early and climbed a mountain, damnit. Alone. For the very first time.
As mothers we have an uncanny ability to turn the strengths of others into indictments against ourselves. And it's a terrible way to live.
I am right here, in this moment, on this mountain, right now. I'm not at the top, I'm not at the bottom, I'm right here, right now. And I might as well enjoy it while it lasts.
When I stepped off the plateau, I left that guy behind. I got my groove back and I was filled with joy.
I didn't make it to the summit in 45 minutes as others had promised I could. It took me an hour and 15 minutes. And that's OK. It was worth every minute of effort, mainly because I actually experienced this experience—once I was able to forget about the runner and refocus on myself.
I didn't run to the top. I walked, climbed and stumbled my way to the top. I tripped many times and was exhausted more than most of the time.
But that's ok. I'd never done anything remotely like this before.
What was I expecting? To be able to run to the summit and back without a shirt or water before the sun even came up?
This is INCREDIBLE!! Thank you for writing this empowering story!!! We're all a bit stronger than we give ourselves credit.
Thanks Julie. You're right, we are a lot stronger than we give ourselves credit for…it's time to give credit where credit is due!
I am literally laughing as this was my own experience this weekend but it involved riding a mountain bike straight up the mountain for 4 miles. Several more fit, and much better dressed, mountain bikers pump easily by me. I was a little down and frustrated that it was so much harder for me…I am a desk jockey 5 days a week but a die-hard weekend sports lovin' wanna be. I have an athlete's heart stuck in a needlepoint body. I have learned that life, as well as hiking, biking & kayaking is an adventure not a race . My latest thing I say to myself is "Embrace YOUR pace" and enjoy it. I was proud of myself when I got to the summit (even though I must admit there was a short time of dismounting that bike and walking next to it…and wishing I had remembered my inhaler (which I left in the car). Downhill was excellent! #embraceyourpace PS Here's to all the mommas that get out there and do challenging stuff!
Love #embraceyourpace! My new mantra. You should be proud of yourself!
Hi Tara! We are definitely not a alone in the struggle. Thanks so much for your sweet comment. Much love!


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Created by: Claude Lucchini, Paul Mafayon
Published by: Libellud, Pearl Games
Mid-22nd century, after 300 years of unconsciousness, the water rising engulfs the last emerged lands. Fighting for their lives, the survivor's settlements must remain above the sea level.
You live in the Otys colony and you must retrieve the past civilizations debris in the depths to build the future of humanity.
Your diver's team is trained to bring up the most useful materials remaining in the depths. You need to use them wisely to fulfill the contracts offered by the Colony and thus obtain more notoriety than your contenders.
Your divers lay at different depths; it is up to you to best match their special abilities with the bonuses offered by the Colony. But beware! Your diver's oxygen is limited, and as soon as they have accomplished their mission, they must go up to the surface.
Try to manage all the parameters of your team in a profitable way, so the Colony will reward you more than it will the others!
Otys is an optimization and development game co-published by Pearl Games and Libellud. Optimize your game in order to match the depth of your divers, their special abilities and the Colony bonuses. That is how you will supply the best contracts and win.
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Remembering a Veteran: U.S. Army Nurse Lillian S. McKnight, RRC
The Royal Red Cross (RRC) is bestowed by the British Crown exclusively upon nurses. Established by Royal Warrant of Queen Victoria on 27 April 1883, the RRC is the second oldest decoration in the British scheme, following the Victoria Cross (VC) which was created on 29 January 1856. The RRC is distinctly different from the Red Cross medal, granted by the British Red Cross to a Red Cross nurse for long service.
The RRC is a prestigious decoration; to date, it has been awarded 8,969 times, with the first going to Florence Nightingale. The RRC was often called "The Nurse's VC", since nurses were ineligible for the VC. Victoria's instruction to Parliament was:
To confer the decoration upon any ladies, whether subjects or foreign persons, for zeal and devotion in providing for, and nursing, sick and wounded sailors, soldiers, and others with the army in the field, on board ship or in hospitals.
Reflecting change in the profession, males became eligible in 1977. Over the succeeding 135 years other aspects of the qualifications have been interpreted and tweaked. Today those eligible are qualified nurses, serving with an officially recognized military or civilian medical service, who have either shown "exceptional devotion and competence in performance of actual nursing duty over a sustained period" or performed a "very exceptional act of bravery and devotion to duty."
The award was expanded in 1917 to two classes—nursing assistants and VADs were eligible for the 2nd Class (until 1920). Later the classes were renamed "Full" and "Associate" Members, and the abbreviation for an Associate is ARRC.
During the period 1914 through 1921 there were about 23,000 nurses and 75,000 VADs in British service, and 1,100 of the former were seconded U.S. Army nurses. RRCs of both classes were awarded to 6,741 nurses, 69 of which went to the Americans.
One of these RRC recipients was Lillian Sarah McKnight, from Cavalier County, North Dakota. She was born on 30 September 1886 in Leaskdale, Ontario. Her family moved to a farm in North Dakota in 1887.
Lillian's account of her war service is included in North Dakota Nurses Over There, by Grace E.F. Holmes, MD, Professor Emerita at the University of Kansas Medical Center, along with the stories of 224 other nurses from the Roughrider State.
Lillian begins her story with this preamble:
At the time that war was declared, I was nursing at Minot, North Dakota. I enrolled with the Red Cross at once at Grand Forks. The memories of an army nurse summed up in the short sketch that follows are taken from my diary. This recalls many memories of glad days and sad days, good times and hard times, friends and enemies. Beautiful stretches of foreign country and desolate wastes of the war district, the meeting of some wonderful people, so many I shall never remember them all…
The SS Orduña Departing Halifax, February 1918
Lillian Is in the Crowd Somewhere
She received her Red Cross appointment on 3 November 1917 and was sworn into the Army on 2 January 1918. She proceeded at once to New York for training and kitting out and was assigned to the First Detachable Unit, which was made up of 100 nurses not assigned to a U.S. Base Hospital unit. Her group departed for France on the SS Orduña, leaving on 1 February and arriving at Liverpool on 17 February. Two days later they went over to Le Havre and were sent to British hospitals. Lillian was one of the four assigned to Stationary Hospital No. 3, a 1,200-bed facility located at a former convent near Rouen. Lillian was on the surgical floor, in charge of 78 beds.
Frequently they had as many as 2,000 patients, sometimes running out of space. Lillian recounted this experience:
Red Cross Nurses at Rouen
One night my ward with filled when they brought in about thirty patients...and we had to place them on the floor. I said to one boy [Lillian was 33 at the time]…"Buddy, I'm sorry we haven't a bed for you." His answer was "Sister, this is the first time I have been comfortable in months—just let me rest." That was the type our soldier patients were.
The hospital was swamped by the German spring offensive called Operation Michael. At one time they were only 16 miles from the fighting, and they could hear the guns and see the flashes, which Lillian described as like "a bad electrical storm". As the British troops moved forward, the nurses would try to go to the road to call out "Goodbye and good luck," to which some would reply "Goodbye, Sister, I'll be back in a few days. Have a bed for me."
After the offensive, the Germans began intensive night bombing around Rouen, which meant caring for the patients in the dark and sheltering in dugouts. When the Armistice was announced, one of her patients said "Well, no more over the top and good luck." Although the war was over, nursing was not. Her British hospital slowly emptied out as patients died or were sent to the U.K., and eventually she was transferred to U.S. Base Hospital 110 at Mars-sur-Allier.
A Typical Ward at Rouen Like the One Supervised by Lillian
Lillian left St. Nazaire on 12 April 1919 on the SS Ryjndam and arrived at Newport News on 26 April. Eventually she returned to North Dakota and received her discharge on 21 July 1919, having served about 18 ½ months, long for a U.S. Army nurse in WWI.
In 1924, while working as a nurse for Pillsbury Mills in Minneapolis, she married Joe Weir, a regular Army soldier, who was listed as retired in 1930. She is known to have lived in Indiana and Florida as well. An LDS family history entry says that she was called "Lil" in the family, and she sometimes used "Sarah Lillian" rather than her birth names. Also stated was that she was a shrewd investor and generous to her nephews and nieces. She passed away in Miami Beach on 8 April 1976 and is listed as buried in Cavalier County.
North Dakota Nurses Over There can be purchased through the publisher, the American Legion Auxiliary, Department of North Dakota, at its website: ndala.org.
Anne Johnson, MD February 26, 2018 at 12:09 PM
Nurse McKnight's story is just one of many from "North Dakota Nurses Over There." All reflect touching devotion to their patients. Nurses were overworked and overwhelmed yet saw to each patient with loving care. In fact these nurses were every severely injured soldier boy's surrogate mother, sister, sweetheart, or wife even as he lay dying in her arms. It is not possible to truly appreciate the contribution of nurses in WW-I, the single icon of mercy and loving care.
James Larrimore February 26, 2018 at 1:57 PM
New York Herald war correspondent Don Martin sent several touching stories about the "noble work" American nurses were doing. This one was written on June 5, 1918.
WHERE AMERICAN WOMEN LABORED TO AID WOUNDED
By Don Martin
Special Correspondent of the Herald with the American Armies in France
In a French hospital close to the firing line in the great battle of the Marne I saw a little group of American women performing an heroic and noble task. Their names should be recorded, so here they are:--Mrs. Herbert G. Squires, Miss Marian Hoyt Wyborg, Miss Susanne Wills, Miss Mary Withers, Mrs. Mary Hammond, Miss Peyton and Miss Meunier. Mrs. Squires has been in hospital work for the French government almost from the beginning of the war and has a remarkable record. The women mentioned form her group of nurses and assistants. All are women of prominence.
Their hospital is not a very large one. It has never been overcrowded, but recently during the big German drive ambulances by the score sped up to the yard and deposited dangerously wounded soldiers who had been caught in a fierce bombardment from German guns. No one expected a flood of cases at the hospital where Mrs. Squires was. But the ambulances kept coming.
Between ten o'clock at night and daylight 500 wounded men were brought in. Many had legs and arms crushed, many had terrible abdominal wounds and faces were shot away. There were French, Cingalese, British and a few Americans. I saw a great room, once a dining room in a convent, literally jammed with cots, on each of which lay a man suffering with frightful wounds. These nurses handled them all. They worked without a wink of sleep, and they worked all the next day and the next night without rest. They saved many lives.
I visited the hospital in the midst of the rush. A half hour in this hospital this particular night would have furnished any one in the world plenty of light on the horrors of war. The story is too ghastly to tell in cold type. I should say that about every half hour during the night a cot with a sheeted covering was quietly borne out the back way. With the superintendent I walked through one of the wards.
"That man," she said, pointing to a Frenchman with his head completely swathed in bandages, "is terribly hurt. A shell tore away practically three-quarters of his face, but he will live."
Pointing to another, a youth whose face was colorless, she said:--
"Shot through the stomach—can live but a few hours."
Then, with a touch of sorrow in her tones she indicated a young man, his eyes closed, who seemed to be breathing peacefully.
"That's our first American. He was hit by a shell in a bombardment and a leg crushed so it had to be amputated. He was in very bad shape but we feel sure now he will get well. He is a Brooklyn boy and terribly brave. When he was told his leg would have to come off he said that was all right, but he wanted to send a letter to his mother. He dictated it, and all the poor boy said was that he thought he would come home, but if he didn't she must remember that he did his duty and was glad of it."
And so it went. Four Americans came to the hospital. All will get well.
vaiybora March 2, 2018 at 10:15 PM
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Thank you for a wonderfully written article Mr. Patton. It's so great to know that the bravery and fortitude exuded by Lillian still lives through stories such as this. Mrs. McKnight was my great aunt. I never had the pleasure of meeting her as she passed several years before I was born. It was brought to my attention that I have her savviness in part to thank for the direction life took me. I am forever grateful!
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Sons and Fathers
By Joe Carducci
Illustration © Frank Miller
THE AMERICAN SUPERHERO phenomenon was made possible by young sons shamed by immigrant fathers, fathers who couldn't speak English, worked unheroic yet dangerous jobs, and kept their heads down while bootleggers and white slavers fought for streets in a wide-open city. Those kids helped their European-born or former-sharecropper fathers read Dick Tracy at the end of the day: newsprint was their cultural currency. Little boys burned for a response to the criminal impunity they witnessed all around them, and from the early thirties they found it in Dick Tracy, in radio's Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet, in Superman, and then, in 1939, in Batman.
As DC Comics' two flagship superhero franchises go, Superman has had the more continuous career: his primary-color power fantasy may warp and weft a bit with the times, but it's always essentially the same. Bob Kane and Bill Finger's Batman is a trickier creature, constantly being pushed and pulled between camp and grit. The character's relative incoherence may owe something to his more confused origin: Superman had a six-year gestation, whereas Batman was ordered up almost overnight in an attempt to match Superman's sales figures. As a violent creature of the night, Batman is sometimes plucked from the world of superheroes entirely and sucked into the vortex of that still-spreading, posthumously-applied-and-thus-faux category, noir. Where Superman's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster drew on science fiction and the Jewish legend of the Golem, Kane pulled from a contemporary source: the 1922 Broadway hit The Bat and Roland West's film adaptations of it, the 1926 silent and 1930 talkie (the latter titled The Bat Whispers). In the 1930 film — a visually innovative comic mystery in what used to be called the "old dark house picture" genre — a master thief wears a mask and cape and baits the police with mocking notes; the film even features a bat signal. Batman, like West's Bat, wears a mask, though he is the hero and not the villain, and the mask would prove a feature that had an interesting hold on young boys' imaginations. The mask promises self-erasure: it promises that one's deeds will speak for themselves and reveal one's true identity as crusader or avenger, rather than the grubby little kid one really is.
Kane and Finger eventually built up a distinctive gallery of arch-criminals, but in the early comics, only the title-page portraits of "the Batman" had real iconic power. Detective Comics wouldn't commit graphically to a nocturnal world of black-and-white, and so Batman jumps around in an incongruously brightly-colored night. Another misstep was the speedy addition of sidekick Robin, whose introduction in April 1940, one year into Batman's must have insulted all but the title's youngest readers. (If Batman can't be a brooding loner in the night, who can be?) The same year, DC published the first free-standing Batman No. 1 — the comic which introduces the Joker. From this point, the original Batman finds its formula: Batman and Robin versus a gallery of arch villains every inch their sartorial match.
If, for the kids who created and originally read them, superheroes were a wish-fulfillment fantasy, today they're a kind of cultural capital. It is as if American World War II victory culture was so intimidating, and the burdens of the Cold War so intolerable, that the generations that followed suspect any achievements of their own must pale in comparison. And so we easy-living children of the post-war boom reach back to loot the toy-chest of 1920s and 1930s modernism, the result a footrace between the naive appetite of fans and the sour drive of university adjuncts. This collegiate plaintiffeoisie has some apparent need to pose as their own kind of supercritics, always dragging some stand-in for their parents into the dock to "deconstruct" or "subvert."
For a variety of reasons, Batman has always appealed especially to those who want to distort the superhero ethos. First MAD, The Realist, and underground comics published funny, derisive, lewd versions of famous daily comic strip and comic book characters like Batman and Robin, allowing the backroom cynicism of politics, the newsroom, and showbiz to invade our youthful entertainments. Then, there was the infamously campy, Zeitgeist-grabbing Batman television show, starring Adam West and Burt Ward, which ditched the vestigial noir elements for a leap into pure pop idiocy.
Such sacrilege demanded a reformation, and Batman fans got it in the 1980s with the work of Frank Miller. Miller, a Gotham lover of the old school, gives his Dark Knight Returns a nod to its pulp sources with a reference to Commissioner Gordon's "sketchy" early days as a Chicago cop. Miller picked the right superhero to revisit. Not only could the 60s devolution of Batman be improved: so could the original.
Miller is a classicist; he loves the melodrama of the comics form. He speaks of forcing his readers to slow down, to work against the impulse to race along with the storyline, in order to appreciate the art. A story chopped into a procession of frames colliding and sparking off each other is a perfect illustration of Eisenstein's theory of montage, but there is a limit. When a comic book is reprinted as a bound book — much less in an extravagant, large, boxed, hard cover glossy re-framing of form like this edition — its cheap glory is corrupted by promising too much. The graphic-novelization of comics is a wrong turn as sure as Cinerama was for cinema. I never saw the first printing of Miller's work, and I'm sure those who have seen the original art value the high-tone reproductions now available. Nonetheless, this deluxe treatment shifts focus from storytelling and the normal porn of form to the distracting fetish of printing specs.
However he might feel about this edition, though, Miller is, as I say, grounded in the original real thing of comics. While he's influenced by the underground trends of the 60s and 70s, he doesn't surrender to them. There was, of course, no turning back from the midcentury's mocking suspicion of the caped crusader, and in his introduction to the recent collection Absolute Dark Knight (which gathers 1987's The Dark Knight Returns with 2002's The Dark Knight Strikes Again), Miller makes veiled reference to Frederick Wertham's 1954 anti-comic book polemic, Seduction of the Innocent, in which the good doctor accuses Batman comics of being "psychologically homosexual." By the mid-60s, The Realist was able to revisit Wertham's attitudes for laughs, but also for real in an assertion like John Cochran's "Batman and Robin were lovers." Miller responds to this over- and underground derision by enlisting a new female Robin (Dick Grayson having gone bad), at once squashing the rumors and contemporizing the aging Batman's world.
Throughout Dark Knight, Miller cannily extracts drama (and comedy) out of the mismatch between the dark, hard core of Batman and the incorrigible silliness and softness of the American culture in which he is embedded. First and foremost on Miller's list of satirical targets is the media. In Kane's original, newspapermen are merely bumbling fools, blaming Batman for crimes he is on the brink of solving. What concerns Miller is the corruption of truth that the electronic news media yields and wields. The omnipresent faces on screens seem a willful chorus of some sealed-off collective id: reporters barely see the streets, and by the time we get to The Dark Knight Strikes Again we have "News in the Nude" and a holographic president.
While the mediascape grows ever more ludicrous, the streets get darker and tougher. In The Dark Knight Returns, Miller placed Batman in the decaying seventies New York that had inspired films like Death Wish, The Warriors, and Escape from New York: a reminder of his roots in gangland squalor. In The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Miller updates the city from the late Lindsay era to the end of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's tenure. One-party Democratic New York had turned to their own dark knight, a Republican, seen as a last hope crime-fighter, and, amazingly, he delivered (to the point that it's now safe for even the suits to claim they miss the old Times Square). As reward, Giuliani was set to exit a lame-duck laughingstock, dragging himself towards divorce and the sideline of punditry. And then super-villains attacked from their secret lair on September 11th.
In the introduction to Absolute Dark Knight, Miller writes:
Much of what I was after was to use the crime-ridden world around me to portray a world that needed an obsessive, Herculean, half-maniac genius to bring order. But that was only half the job. I saved my nastiest venom … for the vapid, pandering talking heads who so poorly chronicled the gigantic conflicts of the time. What would these little people do if giants walked the Earth? How would they regard a powerful, demanding, unrepentant hero? Or a villain whose soul is as black as death? Fifteen years passed. I found out. I was halfway thru The Dark Knight Strikes Again when the Twin Towers collapsed and thousands of my neighbors were slaughtered.
The Dark Knight Strikes Again couldn't thereafter be the "affectionate romp" he'd originally intended. While the color shifts after 9/11 into an unhinged computer-chromaticized scheme – not quite air-brush minimal, not quite psychedelic – the story skids out into end-times for this hero, as Batman, or Bruce Wayne, begins to break down due to age and the increasingly hopelessness of his attempt to bring about a revolution against the corporatized government ruling America.
Even before 9/11, Miller was frankly a man of the right: his vision of the superhero is a fundamentally conservative one, and this is what separates him from his closest peers. In 1980s London, Alan Moore and David Lloyd tried to rationalize terror in V for Vendetta by turning Guy Fawkes (a militant Catholic to the right of Franco) into a Nechaev of style and taste who delivers freedom, via propaganda, by the deed, and succeeds in destroying the structures of bourgeois democracy, something of an idée fixe of both national socialism and international socialism until the cataclysm of the 1940s. Moore and Lloyd surrender to countercultural subterfuge: they subvert the superhero by making him a revolutionary. They make Miller look like a genius for accepting that comics can bear no redeeming. Miller believes that human nature is "immutable," and with this simple declaration he throws off much of the worst political pretense of the twentieth century. The swinging 60s version of Batman was dumbed-down New Left cant, proffered by poli-sci washouts and pseudo-artists who moved in the wake of the old left, the civil rights movement, rock and roll, and R. Crumb. But the only New Man possible in the world of 80s comic book crime-fighters is the next hideous, black-hearted mutant announcing himself with some insane outrage.
Still, the Dark Knight books aren't quite the millennial allegories they strive to be. To his credit, Miller understands that the story of the superhero is a profane version of the story of Christ, and not so far removed from that of those mortals who intervened in the history of their nations — Fujimori, Pinochet, Franco — and were rightfully called fascists for their trouble. But those conflicts are specific, and superheroes should be universal; the world of comics should be a single city: the city as planet. It's a mistake to allude to New York as directly as Kane and Miller do, or even to acknowledge Chicago or Washington as Miller does. What works on a local level is unreadable when blown up to national or global proportions. Giuliani's tenure in New York is about as perfect a model of this comic book truth as reality can provide, though the Al-Qaeda outrage unaccountably afforded him the rare opportunity to leave office with honor. Even so, he should never have run for president. And the professors should give it a rest. There are limitations to the pop metaphysics of comics, and they are unforgiving. The world they describe implodes at the slightest attempt to make any more of it than what a son can describe to his father in this strange new world.
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Tharöknen, även känd som Great Indian Desert, är ett ökenområde med en yta på 253 300 km2 som ligger i de indiska delstaterna Rajasthan, Punjab och Gujarat samt i Punjab och Sindh sydöstra Pakistan.

Geografi
Tharöknen gränsar mot Indusslätten och Indusflodens delta i väster, Punjabslätten i norr och nordost, Rann av Kutch i söder och i Aravallibergen i sydost har floden Luni, vars flodbädd normalt är torrlagd, sin källa.

Tharöknen är till en tiondel täckt av sanddyner. De resterande ytan består av klippor, dyner som fixerats av  buskvegetation, som ger bete åt bland annat antiloper, samt playor (uttorkade saltsjöbottnar). De högre sanddynerna är cirka 150 meter höga.

Klimat
Vintertid förekommer frost och sommartid kan temperaturen vandra upp till over 50 °C. Nederbörden ligger mellan 100 mm eller mindre per år i väster och 500 mm per år öster. Regnet kommer i huvudsak med den sydvästliga monsunen mellan juli och september och varierar starkt år till år. Under de hetaste månaderna, maj och juni, är det vanligt med sandstormar.

Växter och djur
Vegetationen i Tharöknen består olika gräsarter samt träd och buskar, exempelvis akacior (Acacia nilotica), ärtväxter (Prosopis cineraria) tamarisker (Tamarix aphylla), kaprisväxter (Capparis decidua), slideväxter (Calligonum polygonoides) och amarantväxer (Haloxylon recurvum).
Det hårda klimatet till trots finns ett antal djur som lever i Tharöknen.  Totalt lever 41 däggdjur i Tharöknen, bland andra  besoarantilop, indisk gasell, ökenlo och indisk räv. 141 fåglar finns i området, exempelvis den akut hotade indiska trappen, fälthöns och vaktlar samt ibland flyttfåglarna, flyghöns, ankor, gäss,  trana, jungfrutrana och större flamingo. Dessutom finns 11 reptilarter i öknen.

Människor och jordbruk
Jämfört med motsvarande ökenområden är Thar tätbefolkat med 84 personer per km2 i Rajastanområdet. De flesta av öknens invånare finns på landsbygden. Där nederbörden är som störst odlas jorden upp och andra områden används som betesmark. Odling och överbetning har lett till att sanden kommit på drift. För att stabilisera sanddynerna har man planterat bland annat acacia och eukalyptus. Staden Jaisalmer, huvudstad i det tidigare furstendömet Jaisalmer, ligger i Tharöknen.

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Auditor-elect Keith Faber, a Republican, announced the senior-staff appointment Thursday. It will take effect Jan. 14, when Faber is sworn in as auditor.
Justice DeGenaro lost the Nov. 6 election to Democrat Melody Stewart for a full six-year term. Justice DeGenaro will leave the Supreme Court on Jan. 1.
Faber also said Thursday he was appointing New Albany Mayor Sloan Spalding as his incoming chief of staff.
Justice DeGenaro spent 17 years on the Youngstown-based 7th District Court of Appeals, first elected in 2000 after 14 years in private practice. She was re-elected in 2006 and 2012.
She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Youngstown State University in 1983 and a law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1986. She was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1986.
Justice DeGenaro, a Cuyahoga County native, spent her entire legal career in Mahoning County. She became the first sitting judge from Mahoning County on the state Supreme Court since Paul W. Brown, who also sat on the 7th District Court of Appeals bench, served from 1964 to 1968. He resigned to become state attorney general.


Within the framework of the WIFI4YOU initiative there are over 300 requests from Bulgarian municipalities for inclusion in internet projects, a decision of the Bulgarian government and the local authorities is one or several schools to be included in each application, Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society said on 30thof March at a meeting with the Executive Committee of the Coordination Council of Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB).
announced that he had talked on this subject with the Minister of Education Krasimir Valchev and received support. The idea of "Wireless Internet for Every School" is to be discussed with the National Association of Municipalities.
Another important objective for CITUB is a digital training programme for workers. More than 30 per cent of the population has never entered the Internet, and without digital skills these people are lost at the labour market, Plamen Dimitrov said.
Gabriel said that this is one of the priority sectors in her term in office as a commissioner and supports any initiative that aims to improve the digital skills not only for Bulgarian but for all European citizens.
"I have stated several times that my priority is not the Blockchain Technology or Artificial Intelligence, but the person who controls them," she said as quoted in the report.
The goal is not only to develop artificial intelligence, but to put human boundaries and control both on development and on its use, she added. One of the goals of the Bulgarian EU Commissioner will be to maintain the leadership of the European Union with regard to new technologies.
The leader of the Union of the Bulgarian Teachers, Yanka Takeva, has raised the issue of the technological renewal of the companies involved in the dual training programmes.
Investing in new technologies is needed because children need to learn to work on new machines, not on the ones from the past century, Takeva said.
Mariya Gabriel has supported the chair of the UBT and has announced that each company will be able to apply for the programmes of the European Commission for the renewal of the technologies and the machines they use.


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As the country continues to return to normal from the Covid pandemic, issues of public policy arise and call for the attention of lawmakers to address. School policy has become one of those issues.
John Kristof of EdChoice has released a report that offers insight into the opinions and attitudes of a nationally representative sample of parents regarding schooling and its relation with Covid currently.
For one, the data suggests that parents are becoming more comfortable with sending their kids back to school for in-person learning. According to the report, 63 percent of parents polled showed that they were either "very comfortable" or "somewhat comfortable" with sending their kids back to school in person. Moreover, that number has risen from the previous month by 6 points.
Two possible explanations can come from this. Either parents see that the Covid situation is improving and, therefore, are becoming more comfortable, or they see no change and are gradually becoming more comfortable with sending their kids anyway. While the former is more likely, either option demonstrates that government simply cannot stick with the status quo. Something has to change to promote the education of children. Therefore, this issue ought to be a top issue for state legislatures.
Additionally, the data shows that parents view government institutions as the worst entities to respond to the pandemic. Even state governments rank similarly with national institutions such as the federal government, media, and national corporations. A third of those polled found state government as an obstacle rather than an aid to an individual's way of life.
As things gradually return back to normal, people as a whole may become impatient with the government education system's inability to get closer to normal as well. Unfortunately, government is often an obstacle to meaningful change, so the default should allow more individuals and their families to make their own choices. This promotes true educational freedom.
It is important to note that the slight increase in support of mandatory masks does not necessarily provide a direct correlation with support for government mask mandates in schools. As time moves on and children continue to remain either out of school or in some Covid-related alternative, parents are gradually going to show support for any requirement for in-school learn as their desire to return to in-school learning increases.
The prospect of masks protecting children at school is inconclusive at best, and some have suggested that they do more harm than good. However, if parents are given a choice between in-school learning with masks or some temporary solution that they think can no longer work, they will likely show support for masks. However, it is possible that such support is given as a concession rather than a preference.
The greatest takeaway from this report is that children have been severely affected by the pandemic. If a child was required to quarantine from school, most had to be quarantined from school multiple times. The average number of quarantines per child was about 2.54. This is a massive disruption to the development and education of the child.
Ultimately, as it approaches K-12 education policy, the state should adopt a philosophy of freedom and choice for families. Seventy-four percent of parents support school choice programs such as Educational Savings Accounts (ESAs). Additionally, parents desire to expand and promote programs such as school vouchers and charter schools to open up options for students as we exit the pandemic. These programs should be expanded to promote more options for families. Government often has a track record of inhibiting freedom. School choice reforms are an opportunity to change this trajectory and provide educational opportunities to families in the state.
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JDC Resilience Conference: European Jews Must Be Prepared For Challenges As Vast Majority Remain In Place
June 30, 2015 By Dan Brown
"By the time you hear the thunder, it's to late to build the ark."
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Ana Libl, President of the Jewish Community of Croatia and Avital Livneh, Headmaster of Tikva School, Barcelona.
Barcelona, Spain, June 29, 2015 – In a year of growing challenges and threats to European Jewish communities and with immediate concerns over the impact of a potential Greek default, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) concluded a multi-day international conference in Barcelona aimed at strengthening Jewish community resilience in the face of adversity. Dozens of Jewish leaders, experts, and professionals from across the continent took part in the pan-European discussions that focused on bolstering crisis management and response, community security, and streamlining inter-communal cooperation. The conference was co-organized in cooperation with the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation and European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC).
"As a variety of challenges threaten European Jews, it was critical for us to provide a forum for Jewish community leaders to engage in a healthy, robust conversation on challenges they face and present specific, concrete ways of overcoming them," Diego Ornique, JDC Regional Director for Europe told eJP. "I'm certain many of the skills and tools will be utilized by community leaders in the immediate future, maintaining the balance between thriving Jewish life and an uncertain European socioeconomic landscape."
Keynote speaker, renowned French academic Dominique Moisi, delivered an analysis of the current state of Europe – the new normal – and the challenges ahead. In comments directed to Jerusalem as much as to attendees, historian Diana Pinto strongly rebutted the oft-cited argument that the only option for European Jews is to leave the continent. In fact, many communal leaders complained privately of the unhelpful comments by Israel's Prime Minister and The Jewish Agency's Chair about the dim future for Jewish life in Europe and the need to make aliya.
"The story of the Jews in Europe isn't yet ready to be relegated to museums," said Pinto. "Those who have chosen to leave have [primarily] left for personal, professional, or economic reasons – not for Zionist ones."
Workshop leaders included David Gidron, a social psychologist and expert in community resilience and crisis management who has worked extensively with JDC.
"The message of responsibility, sustainability and development – that's the real security," said Gidron. "That's been present throughout the conference and it's the whole story."
Other speakers included Eric Ghozlan, a psychologist and project manager for the Psychodrama and Resilience Unit, OSE, France, and Taly Levanon of the Israeli Trauma Coalition. Ghozlan talked about lessons learned from the attacks in Paris while Levanon spoke about psycho-social preparedness and building response systems within communities.
"What the JDC is doing here – and I think it's a wonderful thing – is to bring Jewish leaders together, [where] we can exchange best practices, and help communities build community. It is important to to [create] real coalitions, real partnerships," said Rabbi Michael Melchior, the chief rabbi of Norway and a former Israeli cabinet minister." Some of the broader thinking for the preparedness of communities – not just in an emergency situation but in a broader sense of where Europe is going – I've learned a lot from that."
Delegates from dozens of nations participated including Benjamin Albalas of Greece and a leader of the European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC); Jonathan Arkush, the President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews; French academic Dominique Moisi; Peter Kreko, Director of Political Capital Institute in Hungary; Spanish Jewish community leaders David Hatchwell and Uri Benguigui; and Josh Spinner, CEO of the Ronald. S. Lauder Foundation.
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Flight Lieutenant William Davidson MBE, his wife Euphemia "Betty" and his daughter Heather Turner.
This family all now passed away were, in effect an RAF family. Bill or "Dave" as he was known to many of his RAF friends, was virtually in at the start of the RAF, having first enlisted in the Royal Flying Corp as a Private on 27th August 1917. He served with them in France and transferred to the nascent RAF as an Air Mechanic until finally being discharged on 8th December 1919 . He remustered in the RAF as Fitter Aero Engines in 1921, after completing his Engineering apprenticeship at St.John's Foundry and Engineering Co. in Perth .
After WW1 Bill served for a total of 37 years including stations in India , Iraq , and Burma . He held the Kurdistan Medal, the Long Service Medal, the Burma Star and was twice mentioned in Despatches.
In the Second World War he was awarded the M.B.E. when he was with No.82 Squadron in Burma .
Flight–Lt Davidson returned to Burma after the war to take up the post of Chief Technical Adviser to the Burmese Airforce where, at the request of the Burmese Government, he undertook alongside his official duties the successful formation of a Burmese Air Force Pipe Band.
Bill Davidson's experience in Military aircraft propulsion and flight was probably unique, travelling from the "rickety" machines of the First World War to the jets of the modern era.
Even after his retirement from the RAF, he could not be kept away from his "second wife" - aircraft engines. He joined Bristol Siddeley as a Technical Author writing instruction manuals for Jet Engines and was often a visitor to the rocket engine testing facility there. Bill Davidson's story featured in the Bristol Siddeley Newspaper 23/8/62, where he was described as "exuding a quiet Scottish tenacity, which explains a lot."
His family have been unable to discover reasons for his two Mentions in Despatches, but the events leading to his award of M.B.E. are perhaps unusual:
"7th February 1944, 82 Squadron
Particulars of Meritorious Service
This officer has been Engineer Officer in this Squadron for the last year, his untiring and brilliant work put in by him during this time have been largely responsible for the success of Vengeance aircraft on this front. A year ago these aircraft were unreliable, and teething troubles abounded; in January 1943 the Squadron serviceability was NIL. By June 1943 the Squadron was operating successfully on these aircraft, and in August 1943 the Squadron serviceability was the best in Bengal command (3rd R.A.F.). This position has been held for the last six months, at a time when the Squadron has been carrying out extensive operations. In fact, in the last six months the Squadron completed over 1000 sorties, and at the same time kept up a serviceability of 15 out of 16 aircraft. Both these facts were undoubtedly due to the exceptional stamina and skill of this officer, who not only refused to be beaten by a difficult job, but promised that the serviceability of the aircraft of his squadron would be the best in the Command, a promise fulfilled during the last six months.
His devotion to duty and his personal drive were of the highest order, and an example to the whole Squadron. The successful operations carried out by this Squadron, would never have been possible, but for this officer's achievements. He is most strongly recommended for this decoration.
Recognition recommended........M.B.E. (Medal of the British Empire )
Signed D.R.Gibbs S/ LDR – O.C.No.82 Squadron R.A.F. "
F/Lt Davidson was promoted "in the field" on 20th October 1943.
His M.B.E. was posted in the London Gazette on 1st January 1945.
Although there is little surviving evidence of his musical talent, he was a skilled violinist, having been tutored in Perth by the legendary Scottish fiddler Scot Skinner. He was an enthusiastic sportsman, despite an almost career-ending motor cycle accident and he would often be found on The Old Course, St.Andrews playing golf to a very high level. He was also a noted animal lover, starting off with a Seal which he apparently kept in an ice house in Perth (by the River Tay), followed by a Bear, a Mongoose, and a Leopard cub which apparently decided to grace one mess table, to the rigid consternation of his fellow officers.
In describing my wife Heather and her Mother as an 'RAF family', in most cases within the UK where Bill went, they went too, living off base. Mum soon made a home from home with her basic kit of personal possessions, ornaments etc. and Heather attended schools in Harlech, Bishopriggs, Edzell, St.Andrews and most memorably in Rangoon, Burma, which she loved and always longed to return to.
Bill Davidson's final posting was to Edzell and following this he stayed in Newport on Tay . Not for long however, his engines called and so it was on the road again for the family to Coventry and his new career as a Technical Author. Here Heather qualified to teach Speech and Drama having gained a LAMDA Gold Medal. She married Roger an ex-Merchant Navy Purser in 1966, they had two daughters Lindsay and Alison and eventually after the death of Heather's Father and Mother, they moved back to the family home in Newport on Tay .
Flight L/t William Davidson passed away in Coventry on 6/6/1969, and his ashes courtesy of the RAF were scattered in the North Sea . Euphemia Davidson (Nee Wilson) died also in Coventry 8/3/1975
and her ashes joined her husband's in the North Sea, as will those of Heather Turner, who died on 20th February 2012 at Torksey, Lincolnshire . She is much missed by Husband Roger, her Daughters Lindsay Davies and Alison Monday and Grandchildren Tom and Bethany .
This RAF memory includes Euphemia's nephew, John Fortune Wilson (known as Ian) who was looked upon much as a brother to Heather. Unfortunately, after serving in the RAF in Ismalia, he was lost on 19th February 1956 in a well documented air crash in Malta .
Photo shows:- Flt.Lt.Davidson,his wife Betty,Daughter Heather and Betty`s sister Aunty "Peg"


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