Essential tremor is the most common movement disorder. It is characterized by involuntary and rhythmic shaking (tremor), especially in the hands, without any other signs or symptoms. It is distinguished from tremor that results from other disorders or known causes, such as tremors seen with Parkinson disease or head trauma. Most cases of essential tremor are hereditary. There are five forms of essential tremor that are based on different genetic causes. Several genes as well as lifestyle and environmental factors likely play a role in a person's risk of developing this complex condition. In mild cases, treatment may not be necessary. In cases where symptoms interfere with daily living, medications may help to relieve symptoms.
The causes of essential tremor are unknown. Researchers are studying several areas (loci) on particular chromosomes that may be linked to essential tremor, but no specific genetic associations have been confirmed. Several genes, as well as environmental factors, are likely involved in an individual's risk of developing this complex condition.
About half of all cases of essential tremor appear to occur because of a genetic mutation. This is referred to as familial tremor. In these cases, essential tremor appears to be passed through generations in families, but the inheritance pattern varies. In many affected families, the condition appears to be inherited in an autosomal dominant manner, which means one copy of an altered gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the disorder. In other families, the inheritance pattern is unclear. Essential tremor may also appear in people with no history of the disorder in their family.
In some families, there are individuals who have essential tremor while others have other movement disorders, such as involuntary muscle tensing (dystonia). The potential genetic connection between essential tremor and other movement disorders is an active area of research.
These drugs can have significant side effects.
Eliminating tremor "triggers" such as caffeine and other stimulants from the diet is often recommended. Physical therapy may help to reduce tremor and improve coordination and muscle control for some patients.
More details about the management of essential tremor can be accessed through the Mayo Clinic and Medscape.
ClinicalTrials.gov lists trials that are related to Essential tremor. Click on the link to go to ClinicalTrials.gov to read descriptions of these studies.
MayoClinic.com provides information about essential tremor. Click on the link to view this information.
Genetics Home Reference (GHR) contains information on Essential tremor. This website is maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) lists the subtypes and associated genes for Essential tremor in a table called Phenotypic Series. Each entry in OMIM includes a summary of related medical articles. It is meant for health care professionals and researchers. OMIM is maintained by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
PubMed is a searchable database of medical literature and lists journal articles that discuss Essential tremor. Click on the link to view a sample search on this topic.
Essential tremor. Genetics Home Reference (GHR). June 2013; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/essential-tremor.
NINDS Essential Tremor Information Page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). April 25, 2013; https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Essential-Tremor-Information-Page.
Essential tremor. MedlinePlus. 2014; http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000762.htm.
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Florida hospitals are overrun as state fights one of the worst Covid outbreaks in the U.S. – CNBC
A nurse checks in on a Covid-19 patient in the Covid ward at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida.
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Dr. David Wein, an emergency medicine physician at Tampa General Hospital in Florida, said the Covid-19 outbreak there is the most severe he and his colleagues have witnessed since the pandemic began.
In Hillsborough County, where Tampa General Hospital is located, the number of new Covid cases has reached an average of about 1,200 per day, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. That's more than twice the national rate when adjusting for population.
Covid patients are now occupying nearly 200 of Tampa General Hospital's 1,041 beds as of Tuesday, according to data provided by the hospital, which serves western Florida and the greater Tampa Bay region. Sixty-one patients are in the ICU. The surge in patients, most of them unvaccinated, is causing a strain on the hospital's 8,000-plus member staff, Wein said.
"Everyone is working at full capacity and then some, and it feels like we've been that way for a long time," Wein said Tuesday in a phone interview. He added the hospital was beginning to run low on nurses. "It's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel right now."
Hospitals across Florida are now being pushed to the limit with ICU beds filling up and providers struggling to find enough staff to care for patients as the state fights one of the worst Covid-19 outbreaks in the nation, fueled by the highly contagious delta variant.
Florida's surge in cases comes as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to resist calls from the Biden administration and state advocacy groups to enforce mask mandates and other pandemic-related measures to help contain the massive outbreak. He signed an executive order and law in May that lifted all Covid restrictions across the state and permanently blocked local officials from enacting new ones starting July 1.
In late July, DeSantis issued a controversial executive order that blocked mask mandates in the state's schools, overruling two counties that required face coverings for their students and defying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's masking recommendations. DeSantis' office didn't immediately have a comment for this article and the Florida Department of Health didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Cases have continued to climb. Florida's latest Covid data, which is released just once a week on Fridays, shows its seven-day average of new cases hit a new record last week of 19,250 per day, up from around 1,500 in June and accounting for almost 18% of new cases in the U.S., according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. On a per capita basis, Florida is second-highest in the nation in cases at 90 new infections per day per 100,000 people — behind Louisiana at 116 cases per 100,000 residents.
DeSantis has blamed the Biden administration's policies on immigration for the new wave of Covid infections.
DeSantis' policies have been "utterly irresponsible," said Lawrence Gostin, director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. He said the policies threaten to slow the entire nation's progress in ending the pandemic, especially as schools reopen and employers begin to bring workers back to the office this fall.
"With a highly contagious delta variant raging through the state, the people have been largely abandoned by their state government," Gostin said. "America is so close to getting back to normal. This could be a major setback to our national Covid response."
Hospital beds are filling up in the meantime, with 86% of in-patient beds in use compared with 74% nationwide as of Wednesday, according to data compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services. Across the U.S., roughly 10% of all hospital beds are being used to treat Covid patients, while nearly 28% of the beds in Florida are occupied by them — the highest of any state, the data shows.
Just over 90% of the state's ICU beds were in use as of Wednesday, almost half of them filled with Covid patients, according to HHS data.
Florida's death toll is on the rise as well at a seven-day average of 88 daily Covid deaths, up 51% from last week but below the record average of more than 180 deaths per day in late January, according to Hopkins data.
The federal government is now sending 200 ventilators, 100 breathing devices and other related supplies to the state, according to NBC News, to help Florida health officials respond to the record number of hospitalizations. DeSantis said he was unaware of the federal allocation, but local and state health officials had requested equipment from the national stockpile, according to NBC News.
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PARSHAS PINCHOS 5779
"RABBI'S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)"
Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Pinchos
26 Tamuz 5779/July 26, 2019 - Avos perek 1
Mevorchim Chodesh Menachem Av
It's not easy for parents to send off their children to sleepaway camp. Besides being a tremendous expense, it's emotionally taxing to send a child away for four or eight weeks. Yet, parents do so, in the hope that their children will have the summer of their lives.
There is nothing that a parent of a sleepaway camper wants to hear more than how much their child is enjoying camp and having fun. On the flip side, one of the most difficult things for a parent to hear and contend with is a homesick child.
I've been a division head in camp for a decade-and-a-half, and have dealt with tens of homesick campers. It's hard and painful when a camper is in tears begging to go home. Nights and Shabbosos are often more challenging for a homesick child. During the day when the child is busy and playing activities he isn't thinking about home. But in the quiet of night or during a long Shabbos afternoon, the camper has more time to think, and more time to feel miserable.
Generally, the reason why most kids feel homesick, has less to do with missing their parents than with unfamiliar surroundings. In one's own home, he knows where the fridge is, and he knows the protocols of his family. He knows who to go to in case he needs anything and who to go to if he wants something. But in camp, he isn't familiar with any of those things. He doesn't know what's expected, where things are, or who to go to when he needs something.
During the years that I have been a division head, 98% of the campers in my division who were homesick were completely fine and enjoying camp within a week. But that first week can be gut wrenching. The parent must be able to tell their child that they aren't coming to pick them up. Otherwise, if the child thinks he's leaving imminently, he will never allow himself to adjust to his surroundings and there is little chance that he will feel comfortable.
Then, there's the opposite extreme. There's the child who goes off to camp and totally forgets about home. He is having such a good time that he never bothers to write (there's still a few kids who know how to do that) or call. The only contact he makes with home is to inform his parents that he desperately needs more money in his canteen account, and what his parents need to schlep up when they come to camp on visiting day.
The ideal for parents is if their child is exuberantly happy in camp, and enjoys all the activities and everything about camp. Yet, they also miss their parents a little and are happy to see them, not just because of the things they bring for them.
Hashem, our loving father, sent us into exile almost two thousand years ago. There is hardly any comparison with a nation being sent into exile and a parent sending a child to have fun in camp. But the analogy does remind us that Hashem sent us into exile with a purpose. He wants us to acclimate in exile so that we can thrive and grow in Avodas Hashem. However, He doesn't want us to become so comfortable in exile that we forget we are in exile or that it has supplanted Jerusalem. In fact, Hashem waits to see that we are at least minimally homesick in exile, and beg to return home.
During these Three Weeks of mourning for the Bais Hamikdash, Hashem wants to see that we are homesick, or at least want to be homesick. The laws and restrictions of this time period are all to help us in that regard.
We don't want to be satiated with occasional "visiting days" in exile - Shabbos and holidays when we feel closer with Hashem. We want to actually come home, and this time forever!
Shabbat Shalom & Good Shabbos,
R' Dani and Chani Staum
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PARSHAS BALAK 5779
Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Balak
Last week, the morning before we left on a trip, our head counselor here in Camp Dora Golding, Rabbi A.C. Posner, shared with the campers a post from a Sullivan county Facebook page which was making its rounds. It was written by Ann-Marie Barton, a non-Jewish bus driver who had driven a group of frum boys on a trip and was incredibly impressed:
"I had a bus full of 14 year old boys from one camp and I could not have asked for a better behaved, polite and grateful group of boys. Each one thanked me as they got on my bus and again as they got off. I asked them all not to leave a mess and there was not one thing left on my bus. Not ONE thing!!... My hat is off to the parents raising these boys."
What I found very moving was that when Rabbi Posner finished reading the post, our campers erupted with clapping and cheers. It had not been written about our campers, and we didn't know which camp those boys were from. Yet they instinctively felt a sense of pride because that kiddush Hashem clearly represented us as well.
In the last few days, our inextricable unity was displayed as well. A rebbe from Virginia was tragically swept out to sea, while trying to help a camper. After a couple of days searching for the body, the coast guard announced that they were concluding their search. Immediately, myriads of Jewish organizations throughout the east coast mobilized. The coast guard said they had never seen anything like it. With tremendous siyata dishmaya, the rabbi's body was found, allowing the bereaved family to have a modicum of closure.
At the same time, a father and mother appealed to fellow Jews for help. Their two-year old daughter, Eliana, has a rare genetic condition that severely impedes normal functioning.
But there is hope for her in a new medication that can help regenerate the missing gene. The problem is that it costs 2.2 million dollars, and insurance won't give a penny. In addition, the FDA will only allow it to be administered up to two years of age and Ilana turns two this week. It became a race against the clock to raise the overwhelming amount. Yet, within days the goal was reached, and the fund was closed. (The family asks everyone to continue davening for Chana bas Shani.)
There are a lot of issues and formidable challenges in our communities. But sometimes we need to step back and recognize how incredible we are and how lucky we are to be part of it.
A few months ago, I went to the warehouse of an organization called Olam Chesed. At the time, I knew nothing about the organization. But I was told that they would be willing to donate a couple of products as prizes for the Chol Hamoed learning program I have been privileged to facilitate the last few years.
I was greeted at the warehouse by R' Mutty Reznick, who was working there alone at that time. He showed me into the vast warehouse and told me to walk through it and look around; I was literally blown away. There were endless shelves and piles of quality merchandise, organized and waiting to be organized.
Olam Chesed was founded and is run by Mordechai Roizman and his wife, a wonderful family in our community who we have met and know. But we had no idea that they were running such an incredible organization.
Olam Chesed partners with big-name companies like Walmart, Bed Bath and Beyond, Target and La-Z-Boy. Through overstock and returned items, these businesses donate brand-new, high-quality, brand-name items.
Since its inception, Bonei Olam has disseminated millions of dollars worth of merchandise to Jewish families contending with divorce, unemployment, and tragic situations, such as fire and poverty. The organization doesn't disseminate funds; it disseminates ready-to-use, quality household goods to families in need.
Olam Chesed is housed in a huge warehouse that was donated. The Roizmans gave up their jobs to become fully invested in unloading, stocking, and organizing the massive undertaking. During the winter it's freezing in the warehouse, and during the summer the heat can be stifling. Yet they, and their worthy volunteers, spend their days there. Why? For the sake of chesed and helping those who need it.
It's that sense of altruism and unity that gives us hope that we will merit to witness Moshiach.
We all know that there is a lot of divisiveness among the Jewish people. When it comes to chesed however, there are no barriers. The chesed we do for each other is incredibly unique and no other group or nation can boast anything remotely like it.
As we begin the three weeks of mourning for the Bais Hamikdash, and seek to build and foster internal unity amongst ourselves, we can gather chizuk from the chesed we perform for, and with, each other.
**Although this article is not an appeal, and I was not asked to write it, if anyone would like more information, or to donate funds to the incredible work of Olam Chesed, visit: worldofgiving.org.
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PARSHAS CHUKAS 5779
Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Chukas
9 Tamuz 5779/July 12, 2019 - Avos perek 5
Rabbi Noach Sauber, a seasoned and popular educator and a personal mentor of mine, is the Assistant Principal and Head of Judaic Studies at RTMA in Elizabeth, NJ, as well as the Learning Director here in Camp Dora Golding.
Rabbi Sauber related that a few winters ago, he was teaching parshas Vayeira to his students in RTMA. When he reached the Torah's account of Avrohom Avinu offering his beloved son Yitzchak as a sacrifice to Hashem at the akeidah, he paused. He was about to teach about the greatest act of personal sacrifice ever displayed by a human being towards G-d, but they would not be able to relate to it at all. The whole story, including the idea of G-d calling for human sacrifice, was incredibly foreign to a group of twenty-first century Modern Orthodox kids. He felt it would be a missed opportunity if he couldn't somehow bring the story down to their lives, so they could gain from the heroic story in a practical manner.
He thought long and hard until he was struck by an epiphany. He then said a silent prayer that his idea and efforts be successful.
The following day, at the beginning of shiur, his students filed into class and settled into their seats. Five minutes after he began class, Jeff, who was notoriously late, sauntered into class. The rule in RTMA is that all students must place their cell phones in a basket on the teacher's desk at the beginning of each class. Being late, Jeff was a bit flustered and forgot to give in his phone.
As Jeff sat down, Rabbi Sauber pretended he was frustrated with Jeff and asked him where his phone was. Jeff apologized and pulled it out of his pocket, walked up to the front, and handed it to Rabbi Sauber. At that point, Rabbi Sauber grabbed the phone, walked over to the window, threw it open, and emphatically declared that he had it with the lateness and the phones. He then threw the phone out the window, at least that is how it appeared to a very shocked Jeff and his classmates.
The classroom was dead silent. Rabbi Sauber looked at Jeff and asked him what was wrong. Jeff looked up in shock, "What's wrong? My whole life is on that phone and you just threw it out the window." At that point, Rabbi Sauber opened his hand and showed Jeff that he never thrown it at all. "But Jeff, you're telling me that your phone has your whole life on it. I want to ask you a question, but you have to answer me honestly. If G-d Himself appeared to you today and instructed you to throw your cell phone out the window, would you do it?"
Jeff looked up slowly, "Honestly, I am not sure I could do it, even if G-d Himself told me to." At that point, Rabbi Sauber told his class, "Now we are going to learn about the greatest act of self-sacrifice that ever occurred. Now perhaps you can have a small glimpse of what it took for Avrohom Avinu to perform the akeidah."
Rabbi Moshe Wolfson notes that the word nefesh refers to one's desires. When Avrohom Avinu was negotiating with Ephron and the B'nei Cheis to purchase the Cave of Machpelah, he said, "אם יש את נפשכם – If it is your desire" (Bereishis 23:8).
The greatest level of mesiras nefesh is giving up one's life, because our ultimate desire is to live. However, any time one suppresses or overcomes a desire or a personal craving in order to fulfill G-d's Will, he has been moser nesfeh – i.e. he has given up some of his nefesh.
That means that every individual has the opportunity to be moser nefesh constantly. Every time we challenge our base desires and overcome our whims, we demonstrate mastery over the animalistic component of ourselves. One who averts his senses, alters his behaviors, or invests added resources and efforts into his spiritual pursuits, exercises his soul over his physical body and becomes that much greater.
We do not need to offer our child upon the akeidah in order to follow in the footsteps of Avrohom Avinu. We need only to prioritize the Will of G-d over our own.
PARSHAS KORACH 5779
Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Korach
2 Tamuz 5779/July 5, 2019 - Avos perek 4
Throughout my youth, I enjoyed Country Yossi's Kivi and Tuki children tapes.
On one of the tapes, Country Yossi annoyedly asks Tuki why he can't get him into bed at night, but then can't get him out of bed in the morning. Tuki replies that it is one of the many unanswerable mysteries of life.
For children and adolescents, there is a certain thrill in staying up late. Somewhere along the way in early adulthood we begin to wish someone would put us to bed at 8:30 pm. But children love to brag about how late they were up.
On Thursday of last week, the 2019 summer camping season began at Camp Dora Golding. Wasting no time, on Motzei Shabbos, the oldest two divisions of camp (the "Malchus" divisions) were informed that they would have an all-nighter. The campers loved it. After late night sports competitions, they enjoyed a midnight swim with a barbecue at the pool, followed by a bonfire. They then davened shachris at vasikin (3:45 am camp time). The best part of their all-nighter was that they had no morning activities and were able to sleep until lunch.
A younger camper asked me why they wanted to stay up all night. If they would have done all those same activities during the day, they could have done everything for longer.
It brought to mind the prevalent custom to stay awake the entire Shavuos night. The whole custom seems counterintuitive. If the point is to learn as much Torah as possible, wouldn't it make more sense to get a normal night's sleep, and then learn through the afternoon? Being that Shavuos is during the summer when the nights are relatively short, on average a person learns 4-5 hours during the overnight (not including coffee and cheesecake breaks). The afternoon on the other hand, is 7-8 hours. (Someone noted that in Gateshead the night is even shorter, and learning all night entails learning for only about 45 minutes...)
Obviously staying up all night isn't about qualitative learning, but about demonstrating excitement. One only stays up late, or all night, for something truly important or exciting.
For teenagers, playing ball, swimming, and eating through the night is unusual, and therefore exciting.
Remaining awake all night on Shavuos reinforces to us that Torah study is something special, something worth willingly giving up sleep for.
A friend once quipped that when someone asks you how you are, he means aside from the fact that you're tired. Then fact that you feel fatigued is taken as a given.
As we get older, we seem to yearn to spend more time in bed. We constantly feel sleep deprived and energy-drained, as we try to keep up with our daily stresses and responsibilities. Yet, there are things that we willingly give up sleep for. Parents know well about losing sleep for their children. We attend weddings to celebrate with friends and stay up late to complete projects or meet deadlines.
There are the many people who drag themselves out to learn Torah at night after a full day or work or pull themselves out of bed early so they can immerse themselves in Torah before heading off to work. What incredible people!
Every morning we recite the beracha thanking Hashem "Who gives strength to the tired." We would love to not feel drained or tired, but fatigue seems to be an inevitability of life. The challenge is for us to push past our tiredness in order to fulfill our obligations and responsibilities.
We don't thank Hashem Who takes away our tiredness. Rather, we thank Him for helping us traverse it.
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A most amazing thought! Rav Eliyahu Lopian would repeat the following in the name of R' Simcha Zissel Broide (aka The Alter of Kelm), one of the prime students of R' Yisroel Salanter;
>> It would be worthy for Hashem to create the entire universe and cause it to exist for 6000 years just so that one Jew would say "Boruch Hu U'voruch Shemo" one time!
>>However, 1000 "Boruch Hu U'voruch Shemo's" is not equal to one "Amein"!
>>Nevertheless, 1000 Amein's is not equal to one "Amein Yehei Shemei Rabbah"!
>>Yet, 1000 "Amein Yehei Shemei Rabbah's" is not equal to one single word of Torah learnt by one Jew!
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Marguerite d'Youville vs. Pandita Ramabai
Supreme Executive Committee on April 4, 2019 — 105 Comments
In yesterday's Biblical battle, Photini defeated Tabitha 58% to 42%, setting up an intriguing Elate Eight matchup with Martha of Bethany.
Today it's Canadian vs. Indian as Marguerite d'Youville faces Pandita Ramabai. You'll recall that Pandita made it this far by barely sneaking past Damien of Molokai in the closest ever Lent Madness vote, while Marguerite upset(?) Phillips Brooks.
In other Lent Madness news, we shared the incredible story of two merging California congregations who decided to name their community St. Anna's, after last year's Golden Halo winner Anna Alexander.
Marguerite d'Youville
This quote attributed to Marguerite, "All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united," reminds us that being happily united in service to Jesus rarely reads like a comforting fairy tale and is rarely without unsettling aspects. Marguerite's life exemplifies that. Her union with her husband was tragic on several levels, from his rampant drinking and gambling to four of six children dying in infancy. In the aftermath of the death of her husband, Marguerite, a young widow with no income and two small children, writes of hearing these words from her priest in her despair, "Console yourself, Madame, God has destined you for great works, and you will rebuild a crumbling house."
She did rebuild the crumbling house of her life. She soon joined with two other women to form an order eventually known as The Grey Nuns. They sought to care for the sick, the poor, and the outcast – whoever needed care, companionship, and comfort. One of the vows they made was to receive, feed, and shelter as many poor as they can take care of.
But her house would crumble again with a fire that completely destroyed the sisters' original dwelling. In the aftermath, Marguerite said to her fellow nuns, "We have until now lived a little too comfortably; henceforth, we shall have more in common with the poor by living more like them."
Instead of rebuilding their chapter house, Marguerite, who was as ingenious and inspired as she was devout, soon rebuilt a crumbling hospital. This "Mother of the Poor," as she was known, rebuilt the building and the hospital ministry. This rebuilding, however, was not solely due to Marguerite's labor. We would be remiss to ignore that Marguerite was one of Montreal's more prominent owners of enslaved people, including People of Color, Indigenous Peoples, and British prisoners. Saints are not perfect, and our telling of them should not be edited.
The hospital, too, burned to the ground some years after its founding. As Marguerite began the enormous task of rebuilding, she wrote to a friend, "My dear Father, pray that God will give me the strength to bear all these crosses and to make saintly use of them. So much at one time: to lose one's king, one's country, one's possessions." She worked tirelessly, often so exhausted from her ministry she had to be carried home via a wheelbarrow.
She and the Grey Nuns did rebuild, and their mission continues. During their early years, people in Montreal were often heard saying, "Go to the Grey Nuns; they never refuse anything." For that part of Marguerite's legacy, we pray that our lives, too, will be lives of service and love.
–Laurie Brock
Pandita Ramabai
A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret. -Pandita Ramabai
Born in 1858 to a family of Hindu scholars, Pandita Ramabai was no stranger to loss. Her parents and sister died in a famine when she was a teenager, but not before her father had broken societal rules to teach her and her mother Sanskrit. She went to university with her surviving brother and because of her knowledge of the sacred texts was granted the titles Pandita (a wise person) and Sarasvati (a goddess of learning).
Perhaps due to her radical upbringing, she was committed to social reform. With her brother, she advocated for women's education and the ability for women to be independent in society, rather than reliant upon male family members. She once took the podium to give a speech on gender reform and waited for absolute silence before speaking. She began with the words, 'It is not strange, my countrymen, that my voice is small, for you have never given a woman the chance to make her voice strong!" Unsurprisingly, the resolution she advocated for won the vote.
After being widowed at a young age, Pandita Ramabai traveled to the UK and then America. There she raised funds for residential schools where widows could learn skills to be independent. Written at this time, her book The High Caste Hindu Woman critiqued the patriarchy of her caste, the Brahmins. It was in England that she converted from Hinduism to Christianity, for which she was harshly critiqued by the Brahmin community.
I realized after reading the fourth chapter of St. John's Gospel, that Christ was truly the Divine Saviour he claimed to be, and no one but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden women of India…Thus my heart was drawn to the religion of Christ. -Pandita Ramabai
While abroad from India, she also studied how western educational and philanthropic institutions worked, which enabled her to start Sharada Sadan (or Home for Learning) in Mumbai in 1889. There, women received formal academic education and vocational training. In the same year, after a famine hit Mumbai, she founded Mukti Mission, which still runs to this day. For more than a hundred years women at the Mission have been taught skills they need to be self-reliant and were forbidden to learn: carpentry, tailoring, and farming to name a few. Perhaps most radically, they were also taught about their own bodies.
People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless. -Pandita Ramabai
Feminist scholars argue that, as a woman and a Christian, Pandita Ramabai's contributions to scholarship and society were erased from mainstream Indian history, but what cannot be erased are the effects of her vision on the lives of generations of women and girls.
–Amber Belldene
Pandita Ramabai (62%, 4,423 Votes)
Marguerite d'Youville (38%, 2,703 Votes)
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Michael Wachter
April 4, 2019 - 8:01 am | Permalink
Our tribute takes us to 1891 German and the world of Spring Awakening. Please sing today's song to the tune of the musicial's most popular song, The Bitch of Living:
Last round, Marguerite d'Youville
Soundly bested Phillips Brooks,
And then Ramabai beat Damien
Entering the record books.
Help me out, out of this quandry
As we take our second looks.
So, hey, just cast your vote, kid –
The task you undertook.
We have opened the email
That was sent by Scott and Tim,
And today it is two women,
Thus, you cannot vote for "him."
Oh, the bloggers worked their magic
Telling us of Quotes and Quirks,
Or you could just flip a coin here.
I say, whatever works.
It's the Lenten Madness.
(Madness of Lent)
A bracket in your hand.
(Lent's so mad…)
Just the Lenten Madness
As you pick who gets canned.
When I think of Marge d'Youville
and the things that she has done,
Like that hospital she worked on
With her band of tipsy nuns,
You cannot discount her life's work
Without sounding like a schmuck.
As a saint, I mean, God,
She's the first one born Canuck.
(It's mad…)
When both saints you'd promote.
(To promote…)
Just the Lenten Madness:
Don't know how to vote.
Does SEC want this?
Oh, who knows?
Of the saintly ones in India,
Rama Dogre is the best.
Woman "nasty" – she persisted
Turn of Cent'ry feminist.
Her cause went to Queen Victoria:
Education's meant for all.
As a nun and a Pandita,
Ramabai had a dual call.
(It's the Lenten Madness.)
Not leaving this to fate.
(This to fate…)
Who moves on to Elate Eight?
Seeking Gangamoola rhymes.
With pained medulla times.
Your bracket just went bust
And knowing you're but dust.
Are we but dust?
We are but dust!
Oh, God, what a Lent!
What? No bracket poem? I'll scurry
To dash these five lines in a hurry…
They pit Marguerite, a
Grey Nun 'gainst Pandita –
And the latter, my favor didst curry.
Kate the Catechist
An additional ten points to LM show tunes master Michael for his dashing limerick!
Ten points for Ravenclaw!
Verdery Kassebaum
April 4, 2019 - 11:51 am | Permalink
Michael Wachter–"…favor didst curry." I saw what you did there!
Grace Kennedy
April 4, 2019 - 12:16 pm | Permalink
You're on fire today, Michael! Guess that's a spicy curry…
Loved the "pained medulla times" bit!
Are you always this brilliant, Michael, or does the fasting of Lent enhance your creativity?
Thank you for sharing your talent.
Susan Lee Hauser
I LOVE "Spring Awakening." And the "but(t) dust" joke! And "schmuck" and "Canuck"! Terrific one, Michael!
SUCH a good show.
Turns out Wachter's lyrics work great as a rap. Try it!
Thanks, Michael.
Just fabulous. Do you use language like this for a living???
"I have a song to sing, oh…"
Until now I've been submitting a limerick for each contest, always about my bracket pick for the day. As none of my first-round picks have made it through for today and tomorrow's contests, in place of a limerick, I am offering a ditty you may be familiar with from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado":
As by happenstance it turns out my next bracket picks are toast
I've got a little list — I've got a little list
For today and for tomorrow there's some folks I'd like to roast
And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!
There's the pestilential Piskys who cast votes for dogs and cats
Or potentially a dragon that is more or less ersatz
There's the people who create a one-time avatar to post
They say their say, then steal away as silent as a ghost.
Proponents pushing pronouns that did not before exist
They'd none of 'em be missed — they'd none of 'em be missed!
He's got 'em on the list — he's got 'em on the list;
And they'll none of 'em be missed — they'll none of 'em be missed
First Mary lost to Martha: now she's sweeping out the hall
The abolitionist then Agatha dismissed
Next Tikhon challenged Loyola to win or lose it all
But he could not resist that fierce antagonist
As Marg'ret of Cortona from her bracket disappeared
And James the Greater moments later faced what he had feared
Then Hannah fell to Allen; we heard her supporters' howls
Marina humbled Dominic in the Contest of the Cowls
Though legions of the faithful still their worthiness insist
Their Lenten shot they missed — from Madness they're dismissed.
He put them on his list — he's got 'em on the list;
Thus far one of them he missed — a single one he missed.
(part 2 tomorrow…)
Carolyn Mack
Interesting, since today's match could be two "ladies from the provinces" (Montreal and India), although I am a little uncomfortable with the Lord High executioners song discussing saints. Love both today, but since my calling is education, I went with Pandita.
Oops! Executioner's.
You go, John!
Mary Katherine
FABULOUS! I didn't think your limericks could be improved upon – then this!!!!
Love it, John Cabot! Which song from the Mikado?
It is the one sung by the Lord High Executioner, a patter song best known as "I've Got A Little List" which starts out, "As someday it may happen that a victim must be found…" and goes from there. John nailed this one! 🙂
Sue Goodman
Excellent! Brilliant little list!
Brilliant, Michael. Just brilliant! I'm looking forward to tomorrow's contribution.
(Anything from "Pinafore? I played Buttercup longer ago than I care to admit.)
Sunderland Em
Spectacular, John! Since the list is often updated topically in contemporary productions of The Mikado, I 'd like to think that G&S would be very pleased with John's work on today's bracket match. Not current politics, as is the usual take, but a delightful summary of recent LM history.
Love your limericks, but this pestilential Piskey can't wait for Part 2 tomorrow.
April 4, 2019 - 1:03 pm | Permalink
Your rhymes are wonderful, and it's a great parody of the song, but I'm troubled by roasting folks on this platform. Those dogs and cats and pronouns are really, really important to some on this journey with us. They "wouldn't be missed"?
Of course they would be missed. Lent Madness is a marvelous curry (thanks, Michael) of viewpoints, with an occasional burst of pepper. My intent is to spend these two "lay days" (courtesy of my shot-torn bracket) recapping our Lenten voyage together so far in a spirit of fun.
In respect for Gilbert and as an aide-mémoire to those less familiar with his œuvre, in stanza 1 I retained the satirical form as well as the original final line and chorus. I had already altered them for stanzas 2-4 (as you will see tomorrow), since I did not want to imply that these saints (however flawed) "would not be missed". In fact, at the moment I miss some of them dearly 🙁
With malice toward none, and charity for all,
Thanks, John. I appreciate your responding. I thought you were saying that the LM voters wouldn't be missed. My mistake.
Susan, there are doubtless some LM voters I wouldn't miss (viz. shot-torn bracket). However, I will definitely miss this wild 'n wooly crew of commenters.
Davis Dassori
Having played Koko in a (believe it or not) parish production of "The Mikado," I loved for once being able to sing along to a tune I knew. And, John, I find your contributions a daily delight.
That said (OK, here it comes), I found the one about the pronouns a little hard to get by. I'm a grammar freak among my less attractive traits, and the use of "they are" in place of "he/she is" grates horribly on my ears; but there IS a problem in need of a solution here. Whether that will be the eventual outcome remains to be seen, but in the meantime we need to tolerate sincere attempts to resolve it. I take comfort that "you" was once plural and accusative to boot, which would make "you are" in the singular equivalent to "them is," and it likely sounded awful to conservative speakers of the time.
We may end the Turks their single third-person singular pronoun, but our language is English and we're stuck with it in all its glory.
Davis, no question our society is going through a tremendous reimagining of the concept of "gender", and of the words that relate to it. That's OK, the English language should not a constant. Marry, I trow I knowst not how to do't.
God help the French…
Pamela Payne
Love The Mikado and love your lyrics. Limericks and Lyrics….you and Michael make Lent Madness even madder! (In a good way, of course!). And my bracket has not done do well this year either…today is a coin toss!
Jackie B.
Love it! I finally know a tune!
etupper
Is this a "patter" song or a "pater" song? Brilliant. I voted for the ersatz dragon too. Keep them coming, John, be ye not of faint heart!
Miss Jan
Why wasn't Marguerite's slave owning mentioned in the first round biography?
I cannot vote for a slave owner, & definitely not over a woman who worked to liberate other women.
#VotePanditaRamabai
Richard the Chalice Bearer
To be fair, Miss Jan, her slave-owning did come up and prompted lively discussion in the comments, but as I see you're an early voter, you could easily have missed that.
Personally, I agree with you. #VotePanditaRamabai
Frank Hubbard
Pandita for sure. A liberator. I had not heard her story before LM, and the quote is very pertinent to church life.
Truly shocked that there are any votes for a slave owner, or that a slave owner was even included in Lent Madness.
Considering that Christianity began at a time when slave-owning was common, you might find yourself writing off numerous early Christians. Judge a person in the context of his time.
Exactly. As abhorrent as i find slavery, one should consider the norms and standards of the time in which a person lived. To apply modern thoughts and standards to the past isn't fair to them, just as i hope future generations won't condemn a good person today because standards have changed.
Sorry, no. This isn't a slave in Jesus's time. She lived in the 1700s – as did many of our forefathers who now aren't given a pass for owning slaves. I can absolutely apply judgment to someone who owned another human, and in this instance I did it by voting for Pandita. The "he/she was from a different time" argument is a slippery slope and can be used to rationalize all sorts of sins, both then and now.
Tessa Lucero
Slave ownership is common in both the Old and New Testaments. A number of Jesus's parables include slavery as a part of the narrative, he and his listeners took slavery for granted as an established institution. And looking at this year's bracket I would venture to guess that there are other slave owners. Nicodemus the Pharisee, for instance, almost certainly owned slaves. I would not be surprised to learn that Mary and Martha of Bethany were slaveowners — even though Martha was doing some of the hard work of hosting guests. Paula of Rome's biography mentions that in her youth Paula was carried around the city by a cluster of eunuch slaves. I don't think we can judge people who lived thousands of years ago by our standards of today.
I was wondering how many others in the bracket were also slave owners. Judging people by today's standards vs. those of their time is something I struggle with.
I truly don't see how you can be "shocked." If such things shock you, you must be in a constant state of shock from every direction. And I find it borderline offensive that you would find a single vote for Marguerite, such as the one I may cast, so incomprehensible as to be shocking. So brace yourself . . . .
OK, dear sister in Christ, you can relax — I'm going with Pandita.
I'll admit: many things do shock me these days. I find it very hard to observe certain people's behavior nowadays. Don't worry though; I'll survive. And respond with my vote, both in Lent Madness and 2020.
In that vein–and I'm sorry if this is a bit off topic, but it's bothering me–I hope John Chrysostom's anti-Semitism is mentioned in the next round. Both it and its long-term consequences were appalling and not worthy of this competition–and they didn't come up in either writeup. I don't care how influential his golden tongue was–it was also a poison tongue, and I really don't want to see him advance any further.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversus_Judaeos#Chrysostom's_homilies_and_Nazism
St Celia
Many people commented on John's anti-semitism. And Luther last year was roundly excoriated for anti-semitism.
And that's as it should be. If we can't exclude saints from Lent Madness for their unfortunate behavior/thoughts, then at the very least we should expose them. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, etc.
As far as I know, the only evidence we have that she was a slave owner is her husband's will. I don't know what she did with the slave when she inherited her.
Well-wrought! Welcome to Topsy-turvy land.
Most difficult choice this year! How can I vote for both?
Pandita for me, today. I find it inspirational that she worked so hard to change her society's rules and expectations. I love that her schools were designed to teach women skills to be independent. To me this exemplifies the adage "give a man a fish and he'll eat today, teach a man to fish and he'll never go hungry".
I also love the quote in today's blog "People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless."
Pandita was faithful before she knew Christ;
A valorous one, Spirit-caught.
She knew being female
Did not make her mind frail.
For women, God's daughters, she fought.
Nice one, Diana!
Karen Eshelman
Amongst the many reasons I am voting for the scholar Pandita Ramabai, this particularly caught my attention:
"She translated the Bible into Marathi, the language of her birth, spoken in Western India."
I voted for Pandita. I was glad to have the opportunity to vote for a goddess. Marguerite and the Grey Nuns remind me very much of Nonnatus House in "Call the Midwife." Nevertheless, I feel that efforts to raise up women around the globe are deserving of special notice.
Mary O'Donnell
A hard choice. My sisters name is Marguerite so I went with her.
Pandita Ramabai has our vote today, as in the earlier round.
Mary's Magnificat refers to being the "handmaid of the lord." The word she uses is "doula," slave. While chattel slavery may have been the original sin of north america, along with exploitation and extermination of the indigenous peoples, I am afraid that if we fetishize the term "slave" and fixate on that to the exclusion of all else, we will lose sight of other issues requiring our spiritual attention. We have enslaved the earth, and not one of us is free of that legacy. Some ability to move between metaphor and brute fact will be necessary if we are to survive as a species at all.
Donice Gilliland
Beautifully stated.
Interesting to me that the people who care for women in labor and in the early post-partum period are also called "doulas." In this instance, the allusion is beautiful
It is also quite a different thing to willingly declare oneself to belong to God, entirely subject to God's will, than to be given as a tool or piece of property to another human being, without choice or recourse.
The Supreme Executive Committee is very very cruel making us choose between Tabitha and Photini and now Marguerite and Pandita. All so worthy! I chose Marguerite only because I grew up next to Canada so it's near and dear to my heart.
"During their early years, people in Montreal were often heard saying, "Go to the Grey Nuns; they never refuse anything."" Our celebrity blogger's words brought to mind Judy Collins singing Leonard Cohen's "Sisters of Mercy." Thus an impulsive vote for Marguerite.
Mary Jane C. Ingalls
Good morning! The detail of Marguerite's less than perfect use of enslaved people addresses the frequent dilemma of holding historical persons to current standards which, personally, I believe is a mistake. "Progress not perfection", and "work in progress" is a concept that embraces our ability to change and grow.
This day, however, I would prefer to embrace the change and the growth by voting for Pandita. The contribution, importance, and sacrifice of women have for too long been discounted, erased, and subjugated.
Elaine Hood Culver
Another coin toss of a day. I voted for Marguerite because of the death and resurrection course of her life. You just can't keep a good woman down!
All honor to Pandita for reminding us that the Kingdom of God is something to be lived out.
Marguerite d'Youville would be an interesting match up against William Wilberforce. The ratio would be amazing.
Alas, Rudolph got Ratioed. We will not see that like again for awhile.
For her fiery speeches and bold feminist ideals, still relevant today, as she worked from within her own culture to effect change, my vote goes to Pandita Ramabai. She didn't sugar-coat her messages, and yet even a queen sat up and took notice when she spoke!
Seems to me that after everything burns down twice it might be a message from the universe that you're going about things the wrong way. Oh yeah, but you can get the slaves to rebuild.
I had the opposite reaction. I thought, How much determination, strength, and faith it would take to do the whole thing over again! I don't know that I would have it in me. Nevertheless, I voted for Pandita! How awesome would it be for someone from India to get the Golden Halo!
"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up."
'e isn't the Messiah. 'e's a very naughty boy.
Kathy in Nicaragua
Since I voted for her in the first round, and voted for Damien as well, I voted for Marguerite today. But this is one of those days when both saints are equally worthy of advancing, in my opinion. By the way, at the beginning of the Saintly 16 round I predicted Martha vs Ramabai for the Golden Halo.
It is not a hard choice to voice for Pandita. And despite her wonderful works, it was not a hard choice to walk away from Marguerite. In today's world, I cannot celebrate a slave owner.
I am having a difficult time understanding the statement that St. Marguerite was a slave owner. It does not explain the circumstance around the statement. For a poor woman who had nothing, how can this be? Were these people a property of the hospital or her husband? She gave so much to the lowly and poor, could it be that she was offering shelter? We just don't know. There are African Americans that "owned" slaves. They were their own family members, because it may have been the only way to keep their families safe and together. Yet you would denounce them as a slave owner? I'm not in any way supporting slavery, I would like to have more information before jumping to any conclusions.
I love that Pandita Ramabai was converted by reading the story of Photini.
I can't, in good conscience, vote for a slave owner, despite all the good work she did. How did Marguerite even get into Lent Madness??
"the good work she did"
Marguerite kept coming back from adversity. In my adversities (pales in comparison to Marguerite's) I find strength in her story.
The Rev. Missy Couch
I was wondering if there is any relationship between who gets listed first on the daily Lent Madness voting ballot and who wins that day?
Enjoying this year's contest.
Round of 32: 6 first-comers out of 16 won their rounds (37.5%).
Saintly 16: 4 out of 5 first-comers (so far) have won their rounds (80%). If Ramabai holds onto today's lead, that would be 66%: close to the converse of 37.5%.
I don't see a relationship based on this (admittedly small) sample. Anyone here want to look back over the last ten years' data to test this hypothesis?
Barbara MacRobie
We all have our litmus tests for saints, the behavior that although acceptable to some people in the context of the saint's own times make them unusable role models for ourselves. Anti-Semitism did in Martin Luther last year. Marguerite d'Youville is getting X'd out for owning slaves. William Wilberforce got dinged for being politically conservative.
For me, it's a matter of degree, how controversial in its own time the behavior was, and the behavior's lasting effects. If people in the saint's own time and society were saying, "That's not okay," the saint had an option.
Very good point. John Chrysostom is also being judged by today's standards, though his behavior was not controversial in his time.
However, the lasting effects of the writings and the behavior do need to be considered. Paul's harsh words about women and what we now call the LBGTQ+ community have caused untold guilt and grief over the years.
I agree with your analysis, but I have been wondering why his anti-Jewish/Judaizer writings have not done in John Chrysostom so far? Their misuse in the 2oth Century alone (by the Nazi regime) was deadly.
http://web.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/John_Chrysostom
I'm totally anti-Chrysostom, and that's why I say "matter of degree." He went on and on for eight sermons – eight that we know of! – with absolutely viciousness. Inspired by Lent Madness, I read large chunks of them for myself, and I am appalled. I can't believe he's gotten as far as he has in this year's Madness.
One reason for John Chrysostom's advance so far is that his homilies on Jews (or alternatively "Judaizing Christians") and on homosexuality are nowhere mentioned in the posts so far by his Celebrity Blogger David Creech. Instead, their existence (and tragic legacy) have appeared only in subsequent comments — which are not read by the majority of LM voters.
Today's contest further supports this hypothesis. In the first round, Marguerite's Celebrity Blogger (Laurie Brock) did not refer to Marguerite's forcible employment of slaves, ex-prostitutes, and POWs, and Marguerite handily won against Phillips Brooks. To her credit, Rev. Brock has rectified that omission in today's post, and it appears that Marguerite's luster has substantially dimmed as a result.
I respectfully urge the SEC and Dr. Creech to reflect on Rev. Brock's words today: "Saints are not perfect, and our telling of them should not be edited."
I have been waiting on this match since the (in)famous Damien match-up (#DamienForever!). After re-reading the bios I think I will go with Marguerite. She took adversity as a sign that she was too affluent and really gave what she could to her cause(s). She openned her heart, her wealth, her status, and more to the lowliest around her. Plus she gave up all while her world crumbled around her (she wasn't being dramatic when she said she lost her king, country, and possessions; she wrote that in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Britain taking her French Canada). The bios haven't said so but I bet she provided an important source of stability for her fellow French-Canadians at such a traumatic time…
I voted for Photini yesterday and today I vote for Pandita who found faith through her story. What a remarkable, courageous woman.
But in the end, Pandita my favor hath curried and, without reference to the issue of slavery, will get my vote. At the same time I must say that there has to be a better approach to sLavery than relentlessly disqualifying every participant in the institution and setting such a treasure of good and, yes, exemplary works at naught.
I found today's choice difficult, but, as always, the comments from the community are challenging, inspiring, and witty – I chose Pandita because, as others have noted she was a believer before she was a Christian –
Theresa Todd
Yesterday's vote ended in a quandary for our church – a dead heat that refused to be broken. In case you run into this, here's a workable solution. Ask a dog to break the tie. All you have to do is get the dog to sit, place two treats on either side of her paws, repeat the name of the saint represented by each treat, then let the dog choose one treat or the other. Of course, you want to be scientifically rigorous, so repeating the exercise twice more clearly validates the results. We'd have done a double blind trial, but that would just be the blind leading the blind. Just to be clear, no dog was harmed in this study, and the dog got to eat the rest of the treats!
Waynecarlos
58% to 42% is not a "dead heat".
We must refer these difficult matters to St. Guinefort. Guinefort's always been a real dog of a saint. When the rest of us give pause, Guinefort will give paws. No bones about it, Guinefort's your canonical canine.
A slave-owner is one of the contestants in Lent Madness today, but it is a descendent of slaves that is remembered throughout The Episcopal Church today.
Almighty God, who by the hand of Moses Thy servant didst lead Thy people out of slavery, and didst make them free at last: Grant that Thy Church, following the example of Thy prophet Martin Luther King, may resist oppression in the name of Thy love, and may strive to secure for all Thy children the blessed liberty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; who liveth and reignth with Thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Elaine Chilcote
Having lived in Nepal for several years, I know how much criticism Pandita must have received for her conversion to Christianity. I was struck by her words, "A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret." I was happy to vote for her.
Judy Bye
It looks like Pandita will go up against Wilberforce and lose. Wilberforce vs Santa, oh no. That winner against Martha, Photini or Ignatius. Santa probably has a strong base with all those churches with their voting, non-commenting kids. Are Santa's elves slaves? Does he promote Free Trade? Provide health insurance? A 401K? On site day care for his employees kids? Are his products made in the USA? I don't think this match matters. Whenever the opportunity is there, vote for Wilberforce or against Santa.
You make excellent points about Santa's elves. Are the elves unionized? What happens to aging reindeer? No one has ever told how Santa sourced his glue. And since the unfortunate Rudolph incident, has Santa implemented an anti-bullying policy? This will make the kitsch round grim indeed.
Santa's workshop is in Canada, so everyone has national health insurance. I suspect anything made in his workshop is "Made in Canada" where the postal code for the North Pole is H0H 0H0.
I was all set to vote for my fellow Canadian, Marguerite, as I grew up with a Grey Nuns convent nearby that I always rode my bike past. At one point, I even wanted to become a nun, and the Grey Nuns ( "Les Soeurs Grises") were high on my list.
In today's reading, however, we learn that Marguerite was the owner of slaves, and that is hard to reconcile, despite the times. I am surprised that this was not mentioned in the first introduction to her. My vote is for Pandita, who bravely converted to Christianity and stood up for women's rights.
Anne Lane
I am applying Pandita Ramabai's quote to Marguerite and voting for imperfect Marguerite. "People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless." -Pandita Ramabai
Pandita. "For more than a hundred years women at the Mission have been taught skills they need to be self-reliant and were forbidden to learn: carpentry, tailoring, and farming to name a few. Perhaps most radically, they were also taught about their own bodies."
Both saints did a prodigious amount of good in the world. Leaving aside any possible demons in their respective closets (Please, please, no one come up with unsavory dirt about Pandita), it's a difference between giving the needy fish or fishing poles. What you are able to give depends on the time, place, your resources, and many other factors, and neither action is less holy. However, yesterday, I was meditating on the great need for crafters of poles and for fishing instructors in our world, so I went with Pandita. I am hoping my French-Canadian grandparents, who struggled with poverty in their day, look down from the heavens and approve of my choice.
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OVIK (also trading as OVIK CROSSWAY) is a British company which designs and manufactures specialist and armoured vehicles and chassis systems.
Established in 2008, and based in Dorset, OVIK designs and develops specialist vehicles (and other equipment) for defence, security, emergency services and commercial customers. Since 2012 OVIK has been developing a new range of vehicles based upon its own CROSSWAY chassis systems (The CENTAUR-44 and the CENTAUR-66 chassis). All the vehicles based on this system also go by the brand name CROSSWAY. OVIK now only designs, manufactures and supplies specialist vehicles based on the CROSSWAY CENTAUR-44 & CENTAUR-66 chassis systems and under the CROSSWAY marque.
Formed by brothers Jez and Duncan Hermer in 2008, OVIK has been both a specialist vehicle manufacturer and an engineering consultancy offering support for the design, prototype and test of all manner of land-based and amphibious special vehicles. Historic products include the OVIK PANGOLIN Armoured Public Order Vehicle, the Cameleon IV440 Modular Mission Vehicle, the Armoured PHOENIX Land Rover and the MEERKAT Super Light Tracked Vehicle. OVIK was deeply involved in the transformation of the Singapore Technologies Kinetics Bronco All Terrain Tracked Carrier vehicle into the UK MOD's WARTHOG vehicle, a vehicle developed as an Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR) for Operation Herrick in Afghanistan. Founding member Jez Hermer MBE, a former Royal Marines Major, was also the Royal Marines lead on development of the Hagglunds BvS10 VIKING vehicle for 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines
OVIK is based in Dorset, a county in the south of the United Kingdom - and is close to the British Army's Armour Centre at Bovington - the 'Heart of Armour' and the birthplace of the tank. The name OVIK is derived from the name of the Swedish town Ornskoldsvik often shortened to OVIK, a town Jez Hermer is associated with through his work with Hagglunds, a company headquartered in the town. Hermer drew on his association with Ornskoldsvik when he named the company in 2008.
Whilst OVIK continues to produce a range of specialist, vehicle related equipment, it now concentrates primarily on development of specialist vehicle platforms based on the proven CROSSWAY CENTAUR-44 and CENTAUR-66 chassis and under the CROSSWAY marque.
OVIK CROSSWAY and CENTAUR Chassis
CROSSWAY 4x4 and 6x6 vehicles. CROSSWAY represents a range of specialist armoured and non-armoured vehicles built on the CROSSWAY CENTAUR-44 and CENTAUR-66 chassis by OVIK. Following three years of in-house design and development which included multiple prototype builds, OVIK revealed the first production CROSSWAY to the general public in the Sunday Times Business Section in an article by Dominic Prince on 12/04/2015.
OVIK first exhibited the prototype CROSSWAY at the Counter Terror Expo at London's Olympia in April 2013. Numerous iterations followed with the final production ready vehicle emerging in November 2014. Customers so far include the United Kingdom Civil Nuclear Constabulary, Thames Valley Police and Dorset Police. Overseas orders are now believed to be under way.
CROSSWAY is a totally unique vehicle, the CENTAUR chassis system being designed and built in house by OVIK, along with axles, suspension and all body components. OVIK states that the vehicle is 100% British built - although the FORD engines are believed to be imported from South Africa.
Current customers for CROSSWAY include the UK Civil Nuclear Constabulary, Dorset Police, Thames Valley Police,Kent Police and Essex Police.
Other OVIK customers include the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Dorset Police, Devon and Cornwall Police, Avon and Somerset Police, Thames Valley Police, Kent and Essex Police, Merseyside Police, Bedfordshire Police, Hampshire Police, Hertfordshire Police, Cambridgeshire Police and UK MOD.
CENTAUR Chassis - A range of specialist, all terrain chassis and chassis cowls designed for on-wards or stage-2 development either by OVIK or available to other vehicle integrators at various stages of chassis build.
Other OVIK Products
The PANGOLIN Armoured Public Order Vehicle, now in its third generation (batches 1 & 2 now followed by PANGOLIN Batch 3). There are currently 168 PANGOLINS in service with the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Merseyside Police. PANGOLIN is based upon the Land Rover DEFENDER chassis and represents OVIK's final product based upon a chassis other than its own STRIVE Chassis system.
OVIK MEERKAT Super Light Tracked Vehicle (SLTV). OVIK developed MEERKAT as a concept demonstrator and in order showcase OVIK's ability to upgrade and develop existing tracked vehicles. MEERKAT is based upon a CVR(T) SABRE hull - fully up-rated by OVIK with new suspension, final drives, David Brown TN15E+ transmission and CUMMINS 6.7 ISB engine. The original tank turret was removed, an enhanced armoured body added, the driver moved from under the front armour to a position inside the main hull and seated in a side-by-side configuration with the vehicle commander. MEERKAT is steered with an intuitive yet standard steering wheel - as opposed to the original tiller system. MEERKAT SLTV can be fitted with a range of weapons systems Via a removable, modular weapons cassette system, however the original was fitted with a Kongsberg PROTECTOR remote weapon station (RWS). MEERKAT has a top speed of 72 mph and can carry up to six troops in the armoured hull in addition to the two crew.
OVIK Cameleon IV440 Modular Mission Vehicle is designed to offer end-users extreme vehicle flexibility. The rear bed de-mount system allows the operators to swap load configurations and vehicle bodies in less than two minutes thus creating a highly versatile vehicle platform. The CAMELEON system has been employed on IVECO Daily 4x4 and UNIMOG base chassis. OVIK has now developed a new version of the CAMELEON system for integration onto a variant of the CROSSWAY vehicle.


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2019: Shivraj did not visit as CM but did as ex-CM
Deshdeep Saxena, Shivraj the ex-CM goes where Shivraj the CM didn't dare visit, March 16, 2019: The Times of India
Shivraj Singh Chouhan went where he hadn't in the 13 years he was Madhya Pradesh chief minister — the city of Ashoknagar.
The city had never figured in his itinerary, nor his campaign trails for elections. The reason was never explained. There's a superstition that anyone who visits the city as CM loses the next election.
After setting foot on the 'jinxed' land, as part of the Vijay Sankalp Yatra, Shivraj asked the people, "Hum se kya bhool hui jo ye sazaa hum ko mili?" (What mistake were we punished for?) — a reference to BJP's defeat in the assembly elections.
The last time Chouhan had visited Ashoknagar was in 2003 as an MP from Vidisha. On Thursday, the former CM began his speech at Ashoknagar by apologising for the long delay, saying, "Der aaye, durust aaye (better late than never)."
Chouhan hadn't stepped into the municipal limits of Ashoknagar even to inaugurate development projects. Once, as CM, he laid the foundation stone for development projects for Ashoknagar outside city limits. In June last year, he cancelled all his programmes — including the inauguration of the new collector office and foundation stone ceremony of schemes worth Rs 200 crore.
When reporters asked him on Thursday why he hadn't visited Ashoknagar all these years, Chouhan said: "I may have not visited Ashoknagar, but I regularly visited the district. The people here have given me massive support and my heart beats for Ashoknagar."
A senior BJP leader told TOI the superstition runs deep. Many former CMs like Congress's Shyama Charan Shukla, P C Sethi, Arjun Singh and Motilal Vora and BJP's Sunderlal Patwa did not return to power after visiting Ashoknagar, he claimed, adding: "A priest in Ashoknagar had revealed the jinx to Shivraj Singh Chouhan."
The former CM said he did everything that could be done for the people. "Still we could not make it, and fell short by just two to three seats," he rued.
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ATLANTA – Georgia Tech, ranked No. 4 in the pre-season fall rankings by Golf World magazine, opens its 2011 fall campaign Friday at the 23rd annual Carpet Capital Collegiate at The Farm Golf Club in Rocky Face, Ga. The Yellow Jackets have won this event six times, but are looking for their first victory since 2001.
Head coach Bruce Heppler's team is one of six teams from the nation's top 25 in the Golf World poll that will compete in the 54-hole event, which runs through Sunday. The 12-team field includes Alabama (ranked No. 3), Auburn (9), Chattanooga, Clemson (16), Georgia (15), Kennesaw State (38), Middle Tennessee State, LSU (17), South Carolina (44), Tennessee (28) and Wake Forest (27).
Tech is coming off a banner year in which it won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship for the third straight year and for the fifth time in six years. The Yellow Jackets won two other events as well, and finished second in both the NCAA East Regional and the stroke-play portion of the NCAA Championship.
Two starters return from that team – first-team All-American James White, a senior from Acworth, Ga., and sophomore Richard Werenski from South Hadley, Mass., but neither will be on the travel squad for the Jackets this weekend.
That's because a group of Tech's up-and-comers prevailed in the team's 99-hole qualifying tournament. Three sophomores, Bo Andrews, Drew Czuchry and Seth Reeves, and two freshmen, Anders Albertson and Ollie Schniederjans, muscled their way into the starting lineup for the first tournament of the fall. Only Andrews has played in the Carpet Capital Collegiate before (a tie for 24th in 2009) and the group has played a combined 32 collegiate rounds.
"We had some guys work very, very hard this summer and had some successes that they hadn't had before, so you would assume that they arrived with a lot more confidence and spring in their step," said Heppler, who is beginning his 17th year coaching the Yellow Jackets. "The last couple years it has been a pretty closed shop due to the fact that probably at one time last year we had four of the top 50 amateurs on our team.
Czuchry, a native of Auburn, Ga., who played six events last year at Akron before transferring to Tech, has 17 of those rounds under his belt. Reeves, the Duluth, Ga., native who won the Grub Mart Collegiate last spring and the Southeastern Amateur this summer, has played nine collegiate rounds. Andrews, from Raleigh, N.C., played six rounds as a freshman in 2009-10 before red-shirting last year, and won the Greystone Invitational this summer.
Schniederjans and Albertson, both highly regarded junior players who enrolled at Tech last January, showed no fear in qualifying after combining for 10 top-25 finishes this summer in amateur events. Albertson, from Etowah High School in Woodstock, Ga., has four top-5 finishes in amateur events this summer, including a tie for first in a U.S. Amateur qualifier. Schniederjans, from Powder Springs, Ga., and Harrison High School, just missed qualifying for the U.S. Open and had four other top-20 showings.
Four of the five 18-hole rounds were contested at East Lake Golf Club, which is nearing tournament-ready condition for the PGA's Tour Championship later this month.
None of the players on Tech's team were yet in high school the last time the Yellow Jackets won the Carpet Capital Collegiate. It began as a spring event in 1989 and moved to the fall in 1999, and it continues to attact many of the nation's top teams. Among the individual winners of the tournament are current PGA stars Stewart Cink, Bryce Molder and Troy Matteson from Georgia Tech, as well as Lucas Glover, D.J. Trahan and Kyle Stanley from Clemson, Tim Clark of NC State and Bill Haas from Wake Forest.
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Marketing ideas that stick
In tough economic times, with fewer people seeking medical care because they've lost insurance coverage or they're hoarding spare cash, attracting new patients and keeping established patients takes on increasing importance.
Carol Rupe, MD, a family physician in Charlotte, North Carolina, recently added a Facebook component to her marketing efforts, which have included direct mail, speaking at charitable fund-raisers, and participating in health fairs.
John C. Johnson, MD, an emergency medicine and urgent care specialist in Valparaiso, Indiana, has a "The doctor is IN" sign that faces the highway and, during office hours, is lit in neon red.
In honor of his practice's 100th birthday (his grandfather started the practice in 1910, his father took over in 1951, and he joined in 1988), Peter Menger, MD, an ophthalmologist in Franklin Square, New York, is sponsoring community events and teams, offering free diabetic eye screenings, and speaking about eye health to local community groups and schools.
MARKETING INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT
Determining the best ways to market your particular "brand," however, involves research and careful planning. "If a patient comes in and says 'I want an antibiotic,' you wouldn't just prescribe it for him," says Stewart Gandolf, a founding partner of Healthcare Success Strategies, a medical marketing company headquartered in Irvine, California. "You'd do an exam, make a diagnosis, and come up with a treatment plan. We tell doctor-clients that marketing requires the same approach-diagnose where you are, examine the marketplace, and then develop a promotion plan that suits your practice, because every practice is unique."


According to this article from the Toronto Star (Sept. 27, 2016), New Brunswick puffins are dying out due to climate change. Apparently only 12 % of the puffin chicks on ONE island in the Bay of Fundy (Machias Seal Island) survived this summer and scientists suggest climate change is to blame.
If you take the time to read the article (which we know most people won't do), it states that the average annual survival rate is 59%. Further down, it's revealed that in 2013, it was 15 per cent. BUT, and here we go….in 2014 it was 44 % and 75 % in 2015.
That's right. Just last year the success rate was ABOVE AVERAGE. What did they contribute that to? Did we see headlines about that? I don't recall. So I did a Google search….Nothing. But there are plenty of sites repeating the same headline as the T. Star.
As usual, we are continuously bombarded with phoney alarmist headlines that don't hold up under scrutiny.
I'll take your word for it, rather than give the Red Star the click… these propaganda outfits are all the same; selective reporting as well as selective amnesia.
For environmental evangelists they seem pretty clueless about natural cycles and boom/bust population patterns but then few see Nature in the raw and those who do generally set about grooming it for their comfort and convenience. Pretty soon all hiking trails will post trigger warnings as well as liability disclaimers.


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The ups and downs: Highlights, lowlights of the 2013-14 Utah Jazz season
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Derrick Favors (15) and Gordon Hayward (20) of the Utah Jazz react near the end of the game against New Orleans during NBA basketball in Salt Lake City, Friday, April 4, 2014.
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The 2013-14 season will be one Utah Jazz fans won't soon forget.
While there were some scattered good times, the majority of the year was rife with shortcomings. The hope is that these struggles will pay off with future successes.
What are some of the high, and low, moments from a season that Jazz fans and team management are surely anxious to see in the rearview mirror?
Take a look back at these moments from the 2013-14 Jazz season.
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The Dairy Queen Blizzard of the Month for April is the S'mores Blizzard, and this year, we get an extra Blizzard – The Oregon S'mores Blizzard.
The regular S'mores Blizzard includes pieces of graham crackers mixed with marshmallow filled pieces of chocolate and served with their vanilla soft serve ice cream.
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Google has just released Google Maps Mobile 4.3 for Android which comes with a couple of new new features to help users to quickly choose the right place to grab dinner, catch the next train and find friends to add in Latitude. Instead of pouring through full reviews of a place, users see a snapshot of what people are saying about places right on search result pages, by looking at what the most frequently mentioned aspects about a place are, such as food, service, atmosphere, or anything else people keep mentioning.
Also new is the addition to public transit station pages which now includes upcoming schedules. By selecting any transit station icon directly from the map users will find a handy list of the next departure times for any subways, trains, or buses that are leaving from that station where transit info is available.
Last but not least Google Latitude now features friends suggestion. Right at the bottom of the Latitude friend list, users will be able to quickly start sharing the location with contracts from your Google Contacts. Furthermore, any suggested friend can be added to the list of Latitude friends by tapping the + icon and sending them a sharing request. Tapping the x will drop the contact from the suggested friends list.
Google Maps Mobile 4.3 is now available from the Android Market; it requires Android 1.6 or higher. Version 4.3 is available in all the countries and languages where Maps is currently available.


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Letter From The Editor: February 2018
by : Vanessa Craft- Jan 25th, 2018
About a year ago, I got an unexpectedly powerful confidence boost while on an alpine hiking trip.
I don't know what I was thinking going on a five-day "detoxification" mountain retreat — I typically resist being in nature for lengthy stretches of time and avoid any form of contact with khaki pants that unzip into shorts.
The B.C. location was beautiful, but the schedule was brutal: Up at 5:30 a.m. Yoga at 6. After lunch, a tough four- to five-hour hike. At 8 p.m., a spin class. Wi-Fi was shut down at bedtime, and food, though delicious, was limited to a measly 900 calories a day. I was ravenous and irritable among a group of excited health fanatics happy to drink herbal tea or a caffeine-free coffee substitute (made with hickory) that did not taste anything like coffee. "But it smells like it!" said a sprightly woman beside me at breakfast. Every night, I listened to my stomach rumble and dreamed of hitchhiking back to the comfort of the city lights.
The last day was the hardest: a long hike, all uphill. I dejectedly wrapped my blistered feet and packed my snack of two small plums and an ounce of cheese. At the rest stop a third of the way up, I paused and set down my 30-pound backpack, sweat dripping into my eyes and my legs shaky from the strain. "I quit," I said to my hickory-drinking hiking mate who was doing lunges beside me to stay warmed up. "I can't get up this hill. It's impossible. I swear on Starbucks, I just can't do it." But when our guide started us up again and encouraged me to try to go farther, I did. And somehow I kept climbing even though I wanted to cry. When we reached the summit, the picturesque scene — a tranquil sapphire-hued alpine lake surrounded by towering hemlock and cedar trees — was stunning. So, too, was the recognition that I had made it through one of the hardest physical experiences of my life. As I swatted away a swarm of thirsty mosquitoes, I realized that I was stronger than I thought. If I could do this impossibly hard thing, I could do anything. A year later, that belief is still there. No matter what challenge is in front of me, I think "Girl, you hiked over bear droppings carrying a backpack that wasn't even Chanel. You got this."
And that brings me to this month's theme: "Love yourself." Self-love (the belief that you are valuable and worthy) and self-confidence (the belief that you can handle any test and rely on yourself) are inextricably linked. So many of the incredible women we spoke to for in Your Guide to Self-Love told us that their self-esteem was driven by taking risks or facing their fears and the confidence that came afterwards. I guarantee that their advice will help you feel more empowered — no hike in the mountains required.
Vanessa Craft
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This article originally appeared in the February 2018 issue of ELLE Canada.
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Sergeant Pepper
Sergeant Pepper, born Garnett Cross, was born in London, England in 1965 and came from a deep-rooted and successful family of musicians. As a young boy he instantly took an interest in the rhythm of reggae music. Shortly after he found his way into drumming for the local church. By 1981 in the Brixton area of London, Sergeant Pepper and his brother Victor Cross started to establish a name for themselves musically.
With the turn of the eighties, Mad Professor launched the Ariwa record label. In search of talent, Mad Professor attended a stage show where he witnessed Sergeant Pepper's dynamic performance. He knew then that Sergeant Pepper would play a key role in the success of the Ariwa. This gave Sergeant Pepper the platform he needed to arrange and produce himself.
With the harmonious sounds of Sergeant Pepper and the wizardry of Mad Professor they released their first single titled "Come Back Again". Pepper then joined the band Aquizim as a keyboardist and they released the songs "True True Loving" and "Time of My Life". Soon after his release of "Magnet" and "Time a Go Dread", Sergeant Pepper's first album "Judgement Day" was created. Not long after the career of his sister Sandra Cross took off with her singles "I Adore You" and "Country Living" and with their group the Wild Bunch. Sergeant Pepper then connected with Jah Shaka in 1985 to release the album "Jah Shaka meets Sgt. Pepper in Addis Ababa Studio's". Sergeant Pepper then took over as keyboardist for the legendary Twinkle Brothers which allowed him to tour the globe and be amongst reggae music at it's finest. But as the music became digital, Pepper decided that a break was needed.
It wasn't until 2015 that the call came from San Diego, California and the vibes became too much to contain. After making the journey across the world he saw his fire and passion for music never declined and he knew the time is now to come back and deliver his style of music to the masses. Pepper swiftly returned to the studio and with his new release of "Jah Children" and his version of the Aquizim classic "Concrete Slave Ship", Sergeant Pepper's time has now arrived to command his skills to the world and bring back the sound that has captured many reggae fans.


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Welcome to the website of Tulane's Anthropology Department! The history of anthropology at Tulane goes back to 1924, when the Department of Middle American Research (now the Middle American Research Institute) was founded. The first anthropology courses were offered in 1938-1939. By 1947, anthropologists were teaching courses in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. A separate Department of Anthropology was established in 1967. The Department has since grown to include 20 faculty, 100 to 150 undergraduate anthropology majors, and approximately 60 graduate students.
The Department has four-field programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The faculty includes eight cultural anthropologists, five archaeologists, three biological anthropologists, and three linguists. The teaching and research interests of the faculty have global reach: North America (the Gulf South and the southeastern United States), Mesoamerica and Central America (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica), the Caribbeans (Cuba), South America (Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru), Africa (Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, and South Africa), Europe (France and Portugal), and Asia (China and Vietnam).
As anthropologists, we respectfully acknowledge that Tulane and New Orleans sit on unceded Chitimacha lands. Known in Choctaw and Mobilian Jargon as Bulbancha "Place of Many Tongues", this raised land between the Mississippi and Bayuk Chopik (Bayou Saint John) has long been a meeting place for over 40 Indigenous groups. Their cultures and knowledges, as well as those of other Indigenous peoples of the Americas, continue to inform and enrich our lives and our studies.
The mission of the Department of Anthropology is to provide undergraduate and graduate instruction in anthropology, and to produce innovative research and scholarship. Key to our research and teaching mission is maintaining integration and balance among anthropology's four fields: biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology, and archaeology. Through research and publication, and the teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students, we strive to advance and disseminate knowledge of human and nonhuman primate origins and behavior, major developments in human prehistory, mechanisms of cultural change, human adaptation to diverse environments, and an understanding and appreciation of modern cultural, biological, and linguistic diversity.
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Yes, I have a trip booked within the next few months.
595 (15 %)
No, I will not be leaving my province.
2705 (68 %)
Not internationally, but I do plan to travel within Canada.
Yes, but only because of work.
50 (1 %)
Total number of votes: 3959
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