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Henry Man was born in 1747/48 on Prescot Street, Whitechapel, Middlesex, the eldest son of John and Mary (Balchen) Man, and was baptized on 14 February 1747/8 at St. Mary Matfellon, Whitechapel High Street, Whitechapel, Middlesex.
Henry married Eleanor Ann Thompson on 17 May 1777 at St Mary Aldermary, Bow Lane (now Queen Victoria Street), London. Henry died on 4 December 1799 while living on Fenchurch Street in London and was buried on 12 December at St. Margaret Patten (in the Church), Rood Lane, London. He left a WILL.
Eleanor Thompson was born on 13 November 1744 in London, the daughter of James and Ann (Easthem) Thompson, and was baptized on 21 November at St. Mary Aldermary. Eleanor died on 13 March 1823 at Maidstone, Kent, and was buried on 21 March at St Margaret Pattens, London.
Henry and Eleanor belong to Generation Three; their children belong to Generation Four and are:
PETER BRUELS
EMMA CLAUDIANA REBECCA
SARAH CAROLINA
HARRY STOE
ELEANOR ANN RANKIN
[References: Henry's birthplace and baptism – FHL Film # 0094693; his marriage and Eleanor's birth date and baptism – FHL Film # 0374484; his date of death – the introduction to his posthumously published 'Miscellaneous Works' (1802); their burials – records obtained at London Metropolitan Archives. Henry's burial in the church is also on microfilm at the Guildhall Library which keeps the parish records for St Margaret Pattens. Microfilm Number 5287/2 ]
St Margaret Pattens
NOTE: St. Gabriel Fenchurch was destroyed in 1666 and and the parish was united with St. Margaret Pattens in 1670. Henry and Eleanor's children were born in the parish of St. Gabriel Fenchurch, but the ceremonies would have had to have been performed at the church on Rood Lane (St Margaret Pattens).
The proper description to use for the baptisms of Henry's and Eleanor's children would be 'at St. Gabriel Fenchurch w/St Margaret Pattens' although on this site we use the shorter 'at St. Gabriel Fenchurch' etc.
Below the baptismal record for Henry Man at St. Mary Matfellon. His entry appears on the last line: 14 Henry Man Son of John and Mary. Prescott Street.
Henry's baptismal record at St. Mary Matfellon: 14 Henry Man Son of John & Mary. Prescott Street. [last line]
Henry was Deputy Secretary to the South Sea House, Threadneedle Street, London, (shown below) as well as an author.
His works were gathered up after his death and posthumously published in 1802 in two volumes. These volumes are each over 200 pages and can be accessed from at the end of this page under 'Bibliography'.
The South Sea House
An entry for Henry Man appears in the Dictionary of National Biography and he is recalled in Thomas Frognall Dibdin's 'Reminiscences', as well as in Charles Lamb's 'Essays on Elia'. There is also in our possession his letters to a friend (Edward Venn) as well as to his wife Nelly and children. He frequently wrote for the Morning Chronicle using the pseudonym HOMO. However others too used the same pseudonym and Henry was forced to declare that HOMO was used exclusively by him in the Morning Chronicle:
The Gentleman who lately published some Cursory Thoughts on Learning in this paper, under the signature Homo, desires us to assure our readers that he is not the author of any piece under that name inserted in the other papers; as he confines his imperfect labours to the Morning Chronicle.
Henry's signature
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF HENRY MAN (1747-1799).
Henry Man, as author, never wrote under his own name, as was usual at the time, but as 'The Trifler', or as HOMO, or else anonymously. Copies of all of the works listed below are in the possession of David Man and if anyone would like a copy sent them please email dm286@columbia.edu. Henry Man's articles 'Cursory Thoughts on Education' (<— follow this link) published in the Morning Chronicle as well as some articles using the anonym HOMO.
1771. The muse in miniature, a series of moral miscellanies, humbly attempted by the Trifler. Published in London and printed for the author by E. Moore, No 16, Old Broad Street, Consisting of viii, 146 pages. Verse.
Review in the London Magazine (1771) Vol. 40, p.274
1775. Cloacina; a comi-tragedy. Published in London and printed for George Kearsly, (A dramatic satire on various literary and political figures, including Johnson and Chesterfield). (Note the handwriting on this copy is that of Horace Walpole).
1775. Mr. Bentley, the rural philosopher: a tale. In two volumes. Published in London and printed for W. Goldsmith. (To read volume one of Mr. Bentley in PDF click (226 pages) CLICK HERE to read volume two in PDF (234 pages) click HERE). This book was also reviewed soon after it was published and the review can be read right at the very end of this page because of its length.
1775. Bentley, der Philosoph auf dem Lande: eine Erzahlung. Published in Leipzig, Germany Bey [By] Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 284 p. (To read 'der Philosoph' click HERE (<— PDF)).
1777. Mr. Bentley: or, the rural philosopher. A tale. In two volumes… Published in Dublin and printed for W. Whitestone, (successor to the late Mr. Ewing), 274 Pages.
1780. The elders: A farce in two acts [41] leaves. (Also in our possession is a photocopy copy of the original handwritten version which was made by the Huntington Library).
1783. The Trifler No I – VI in The Gentleman's Magazine. [However I have some doubts about this being by HM]
1797. Henry Man is supposed to have had some articles published in Volume One (1797) of the following journal: The Spirit of the public journals: Being an impartial selection of the most exquisite essays and jeux d'esprits, principally prose, that appear in the newspapers and other publications. Published in London, and printed for James Ridgway, Vol. 1 (1797).
(Notes: We do not know which of the various pieces that make up this volume belong to Henry, so the entire volume can be accessed from the above link and we leave it to the reader to decide which pieces are Henry's.)
1802. The miscellaneous works, in verse and prose, of the late Henry Man. Published in London by J. Nichols, 1802; Volume One Can be read HERE and Volume Two can be read HERE.
A contemporary review of the book appeared in The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1802 …, 2 January, 1803, Volume 2 as follows: These volumes, it may be presumed, are published by some friend of the late Author. "Heaven defend me from my friends, and I will defend myself from my enemies," was of old said, and not unjustly. The injudicious kindness of friends has, if possible, a more mischievous tendency than even the harshness of splenetic and interested Critics. Nothing but the very folly of friendship could have thought of calling the attention of the world to Mr. Man's writings. They may have pleased in a private circle, but they possess none of the requisites which command the public praise. Mr. Man seems to have written upon every occasion, and by that means to have attained a facility of rhyming. His verses have little either of elegance or thought. By no stretch of courtesy can they be dignified with the title of poetry. They have also a worse fault than being trite; they are sometimes indelicate. His Essays are in a strain of common-place thinking.
An Advertisement in the Times March 29, 1800.
The Monthly Magazine Death Notice for Henry.
Monthly Magazine (1800) Vol. 8, p. 1009
The reference to the 'Supplement to the Tobago Gazette' above has led us to find the piece
in The Spirit of the Public Journals (3 pages) and can be read HERE.
Henry maintained a 'Pocket Book' which he unfortunately maintained only fitfully thus leaving many pages blank. This book can be viewed HERE.
The following items are about Henry Man and/or his works.
Charles Lamb has left a short record of Henry Man which he included in his Essays on Elia. Two years after Lamb left Christ's hospital school, he obtained a temporary appointment in the examiner's office in the South Sea House, which he held from September, 1791 to February, 1792. This "dignified establishment", in the unexacting service of which his brother John Lamb spent his life, is described in the first 'Elia' essay 'The South Sea House'. These essays are the foundation of Lamb's literary fame, for they speak of Lamb's own thought and life.
Lamb writes:
Whom next shall we summon from the dusty dead, in whom common qualities become uncommon? Can I forget thee, Henry Man, the wit, the polished man of letters, the author, of the South Sea House? who never enteredst thy office in a morning, or quittedst it in mid-day — (what didst thou in an office ?) — without some quirk that left a sting! Thy gibes and thy jokes are now extinct, or survive but in two forgotten volumes, which I had the good fortune to rescue from a stall in Barbican, not three days ago, and found thee terse, fresh, epigrammatic, as alive. Thy wit is a little gone by in these fastidious days — thy topics are staled by the "new-born gauds" of the time — but great thou used to be in Public Ledgers, and in Chronicles, upon Chatham, and Shelburne, and Rockingham, and Howe, and Burgoyne, and Clinton, and the war which ended in the tearing from Great Britain her rebellious colonies, — and Keppel, and Wilkes, and Sawbridge, and Bull, and Dunning, and Pratt, and Richmond, — and such small politics.
The 'two forgotten volumes' are The Miscellaneous Works' referred to above. Among the subscribers being three of the officials named later in Lamb's essay — John Evans, R. Plumer, and Mr. Tipp, and also Thomas Maynard, who, though assigned to the Stock Exchange, is probably the "childlike, pastoral M—-" of a later paragraph in the Essays of Elia. Small politics are for the most part kept out of Man's volumes, which are high-spirited rather than witty, but this punning epigram (of which Lamb was an admirer) on Lord Spencer and Lord Sandwich may be quoted:
Two Lords whose names if I should quote,
Some folks might call me sinner:
The one invented "half a coat",
The other "half a dinner".
Such lords as these are useful men,
Heaven sends them to console one;
Because there's now not one in ten,
That can procure a "whole one".
The following is taken from the Encyclopedia Britannica:
Lamb's greatest achievements in prose were the essays that he wrote under the pseudonym Elia for London Magazine, which was founded in 1820. The essays are almost wholly autobiographical (though often he appropriated to himself the experiences of others). Many of the best deal with things half a century past: vistas revealed by an imagination looking back down the experiences of a lifetime. The subject of his first essay was the South Sea house, where his elder brother, John, was a clerk. In order to spare his brother's feelings, Lamb called himself Elia (the name of another clerk at the South Sea house). The persona of Elia predominates in nearly all of the essays. Lamb's style, therefore, is highly personal and mannered, its function being to "create" and delineate this persona, and the writing, though sometimes simple, is never plain. The essays conjure up, with humour and sometimes with pathos, old acquaintances such as Samuel Salt [& Henry Man]; they recall scenes from childhood and from later life, indulge the author's sense of playfulness and fancy, and avoid only whatever is urgent or disturbing–politics, suffering, sex, religion. The first essays were published separately in 1823; a second series appeared, as The Last Essays of Elia, in 1833.
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Reminiscences of a Literary Life. Published: London J. Major, 1836. (Describes Henry Man as 'more of a wag than a wit'). Dibdin was a pupil at the school of John Man of Reading and in his reminiscences he recalls John's brother Henry Man (pp. 54-55) as follows:
Thomas Frognall Dibdin
My master's brother, a very original character, Mr. Henry Man1, Secretary of the South Sea House, came and now and then from London to pay us a visit. He used to notice me very much-knowing the peculiarity of my situation; and seeing me fond of drawing, asked me if I should like to have some colours? I jumped with joy at the proposal, and asked for blue, red, and yellow. The first use I made of them was to paint paper flags for my soldiers! But I did not always make this legitimate use of them; for a due portion of cunning and conceit frequently induced me to get sly possession of those books of my schoolfellows which contained prints, and unmercifully to daub and disguise them with the use of these primitive colours.
Footnote: 1 This original character lived in Fenchurch Street. He was rather a wag than a wit-but was very much above the ordinary inhabitants of his locality. He had a small, dark, brilliant eye – what Thomson calls a "roguish twinkling, in each eye" – and a dry, but droll tone of voice. His pen was in constant exercise, upon topics not always connected with matters of the "South Sea." The speculators in lotteries at a time when Bonaparte was elbowing all the neighbouring potentates used to employ him to write lottery puffs, to be placarded in large letters in the streets. I remember one – singularly quaint and original. Tickets were sixteen guineas each. The author makes sundry suppositions – supposing Bonaparte to defeat, or to be defeated? Again, supposing the Austrians to make an onward, or a retrograde movement? Again, supposing Prussia to be more or less influenced by this forward or backward operation? The reader, wondering what will be the result, is called upon to say "What then will be the price of the lottery ticket? Answer: SIXTEEN GUINEAS." —- Mr. Henry Man (who was the elder brother) wrote some amusing pieces of poetry, which will be found in two volumes of posthumous works, published in 1802. Among these, a parody upon the song of "Jolly Dick the Lamplighter," contains a few good hits. It begins thus:
"I'm Billy P-t, the minister, Lord Ch—–m was my dad;
Though both our views were sinister, yet mine were the more sad."
At page 208 of vol. ii. there is a short poem upon "Delicacy," which is, in parts, as original as it is sweet and tender.
Hogan, Beecher Charles. The London Stage 1660-1880, Part 5, 1776-1880. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. Some Account of the English Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830. Vol. VI. Pages 149-150, E. Carrington, Bath. (refers to Cloacina)
Prance, Claude A (1983) Companion to Charles Lamb: A Guide to people and places 1760-1847. Mansell publishing, New York. Letter No. 343 from Charles Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson January 20, 1825.
The English Novel (1740-1850): A catalogue including prose, romances, short stories, and translations of foreign fiction, by Andrew Block (1961). Published by Dawsons, London.
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and letters: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Volume II, K-Z. Edited by David C. Sutton. Published by the British Library, 1995. Pages 624-625. (Refers to two letters from Henry Man to William Pitt the Younger and one to Walter Sterling held by the Public Records Office in London (PRO 30/8/155/2/172-175). Copies of these may be got through the PRO). We have not got a hold of these yet.
Biographia Dramatica; or, a companion to the playhouse: containing historical and critical memoirs, and original anecdotes of British and Irish dramatic writers … Vol. 1, Part 1 (Reprinted by AMS Press of New York in 1966) pages 451-452. Contains quite a detailed description of the Man himself, his life and works.
CLOACINA. A Comi-Trag. Anonym. [We believe, Henry Man.] 4to. 1775. This piece (as every reader will suppose from its title) was not intended for exhibition. It contains, however, some pleasant satire on the caprice of managers, and the bad taste displayed by our modern writers of tragedy. The whole is interspersed with pleasant but severe strokes of ridicule on particular characters; among which that of an eminent patriotic speaker is delineated in the following couplet;
The specious B — ke, who talks without design,
As Indians paint, because their tints are fine.
We do not think our author's censure is absolutely just on the present occasion; but yet, if the orator be such a one as he describes, the comparison in the second line is at once new, happy, and judicious.
[There then follows a fairly long sequence taken directly from the play]
We should not have given so considerable a quotation, but that the book (howsoever it happens) is now very rarely met with.
America in English Fiction (1760-1800): The influence of the American revolution. By Robert Bechtold Heilman. Published in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by the Louisiana State University Press, 1937. (This work makes brief references to Edward Niklin's 'The History of Sir Geoffrey Restless …' and 'Flights of Inflatus' which are wrongly attributed to Henry Man. It is somewhat abstract and scholarly. Pages 267 and pages 411- 414.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors: living and deceased… Vol. II. By S. Austin Allibone. Published by J. B. Lippincot & Co. of Philadelphia, 1872 and republished by The Gale Research Company, Detroit (1965).
Works attributed to Henry Man but are NOT by him.
The following are attributed to Henry Man but in fact were written by Edward Nicklin. The British Library (and many others) catalog 'The Trifler' and the other works listed below as by Henry Man, but they are all the product of another writer, Edward Nicklin. To read a rational of why these are not be Henry Man click here.
1775. The trifler: or, a ramble among the wilds of fancy, the works of nature, and the manners of men … Vols. 1 and 2. Published in London and printed for R. Baldwin, 1775-77. (Note: 'The Critical Review or Annals of Literature by A Society of Gentlemen', London, Volume 44, 1777, contains an anonymous review of 'The Trifler: or a ramble among the Wilds of Fancy …' page 64.)
1777 The trifler: or, a ramble … Vols. 3 and 4. Published in London and printed for R. Baldwin.
1779. The trifler: or, a ramble among the wilds of fancy, the works of nature, and the manners of men. Published in Dublin and printed for W. Colles, G. Burnet, T. Walker, C. Jenkin, W. Hallhead, W. Gilbert, L. L. Flin, and J. Beatty. 322 pages.
1791. The history of Sir Geoffrey Restless, and his brother Charles. By the author of the Trifler. Published in Birmingham and printed by E. Piercy, for W. Lowndes, London.
1791. Flights of Inflatus; or, the sallies, stories, and adventures of a wild-goose philosopher. By the author of The trifler. Published in London and printed for C. Stalker and sold by J. Holl, & W. Smart, Worcester; Sharp, Warwick; Walford, Stratford; Luckman, Coventry; Sandford, Shrewsbury; and Swinney, Birmingham, Two Volumes.
Among those listed as subscribers to Henry Man's posthumous 'Miscellaneous Works' were David Ricardo and his brother Nicholas; the former being one of the great economic thinkers of the eighteenth century. Since Henry Man's obituary lists him as a 'Stockbroker', as were the Ricardo brothers, it is safe to assume that the Ricardos knew Henry from the exchange. See also the exchange of letters between Henry's cousin George Cumberland and David Ricardo. The letters can be read here.
NOTE: Although Henry's children were baptized at St. Gabriel, Fenchurch between the years 1778 to 1788, it must be kept in mind that during The Great Fire of London in 1666, St. Gabriel's was destroyed and never rebuilt. The explanation for this apparent discrepancy is probably that after the Great Fire many of the City of London churches that were not rebuilt were combined with adjacent parishes. The parish of St Gabriel Fenchurch was combined with St Margaret Pattens in 1670. In many cases such combined parishes continued to use either two separate registers, or one register with two separate sections for the parishioners of each part of the combined parish. Obviously with time the practice was discontinued but this would depend on the individual church and incumbent as to when this happened.
Thus Henry, who resided at Fenchurch Street, was a parishioner of a parish without a church and although his children's baptisms took place in the church of St Margaret Pattens they were recorded in the registry of St. Gabriel.
HENRY MAN'S WILL
I Henry Man of the South Sea House, London, Gent., make this my last Will and Testament. I leave to MrJohn Morrice of Clark House, East Malling, Gent., all my Property of every denomination or description in Trust to apply the same for the eventual Benefit of my Wife Eleanor Man, my two Sons Peter and Harry Stoe Man, and my Daughters Emma, Sarah and Ann Man in such way as himself and my Wifes ffriends shall deem most advisable, hereby revoking all former Wills by me made at any time whatever and I hereby appoint the aforesd John Morrice my sole Executor for the due execution hereof. Witness my Hand this twentieth day of ffebruary in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight. Henry Man Signed in the presence of Thomas Travis & James Towson, South Sea House.
This Will was proved at London the thirtieth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seventy hundred and ninety nine before the Worshipful John Jewell, Doctor of Laws, and Surrogate of the Right Honorable Sir William Wynne, Knight, and also Doctor of Laws, master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, lawfully constituted by the Oath of John Morrice, the sole Executor named in the said Will to whom Administration was granted of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of the said deceased having been first sworn duly to administer.
Auction Notice April 23 1800
REVIEW OF MR BENTLEY
From: The Critical review, or, Annals of literature, Volume 39
Mr. Bentley, the Rural Philosopher: A Tale. In Two Vols, Small 8vo. 5s, sewed. Printed for W. Goldsmith, 1775.
We never fail to recommend to the public the works of those authors who endeavour with any tolerable degree of success, to inculcate a detestation of vice; and are ever sparing of censure when we meet with unsuccessful endeavours for that purpose. There are so many snares laid in the paths of virtue, and so many temptations to draw the inexperienced aside, that he who takes pains to caution the unwary of their danger is certainly entitled to thanks. This is the case with the author of the Rural Philosopher, who, although in some instances his sentiments are singular, and his opinions ill founded, holds forth to observation many useful lessons for the conduct! of life.
'In a small Welch village,' says our author, 'delightfully situated near Carmarthen, undebauched by the maxims of polished life, the rude barbarity of courts, the pride of cloisters, or the artifice of trade, lived a plain son of simplicity, educated in the school of nature, whom we shalt beg leave to introduce to the reader under the name of Bentley.'
To the ear of a philosopher the rude barbarity of courts is, perhaps, no uncouth expression, however a courtier might deem him a barbarian who adopted it; but if we are not to look for polished life in courts, from which our author separates it, we should be glad he would inform us where it is to be found.
'He was happily possessed of a large benevolent, humble heart, a quick susceptible understanding; he dedicated his genius to the service of his fellow-creatures; he said heaven would reward him for it.'
A man of this character, who had early quitted the busy world, and neglected temporal interest, might truly be styled a philosopher, whose history, when care has been taken to throw in his way motives for putting his principles in practice, may be productive of much beneficial information. Those who read these volumes in expectation of finding such information will not be disappointed.
Our readers may, perhaps, have curiosity to be informed of some of Mr. Bentley's opinions. Part of these we shall extract from an answer which he writes to an invitation he received to reside in London; though we cannot, on this occasion, help remarking, that the author has been extremely negligent of his style, where the least attention would have enabled him to make it correct.
'Mr. Bentley observed to his old friend, that he had received an invitation from London, to pass a few weeks in that city ; and, says he, I will shew you the answer I have sent to it. He writes to me like a man of this world who has no notion of another'
If Mr. Bentley observed, the succeeding passage ought to have been, and said he, I will shew you. And in the phrase he writes to me, the relative he has no antecedent; for no writer has been spoken of. But to proceed:
'The wisdom,' says Mr. Bentley, that is taught in seminaries and schools of science, may feed the avarice of the mind for knowledge, but seldom benefits the heart; and the confusion of opinions with which the libraries of the learned abound, either tend to confine men's prejudices to objects of little moment, or to keep the more liberal in a constant fluctuation of sentiments, and make them sceptics in the very worst fense of the word.'
Yet, in our opinion, Scepticism is preferable to Ignorance, which blindly takes up opinions upon trust, and submits to the impositions of artful and interested impostors.
'We are strange self-deceivers, we greedily pass the cheat upon ourselves, and are no longer happy than while fancy is flattered by extravagant delusions, or the judgment is weakened by powerful appeals to the pailions. Hence we find both sexes of all ages, all degrees of sense, crowding each night to the playhouse. The brilliant figures in the boxes, the bewitching charms of music, the air of delight that is spread over every feature, the wanton attitude of the actresses, and many other attractions unite to call off the mind from more rational speculations, inflame the bosoms of youth with licentious wishes, and fix the attention of grey age to the follies of past times, when they should be betterengaged in preparing, for the happiness of the future. I remember when I was a young man, and fond of romance, the theatre was my constant theme, my prevailing infatuation; the rhapsody of bombast was power the whining of the lover was charmingly affecting and pathetic, the richness of their dresses [theirs, quere-whose?] was grandeur in the extreme, and the clinking of chains in Bajazet and Pierre, I considered the very pinnacle of perfection. But I remember too I never went into a theatre with a vicious view, nor never came out of it without many. The poet and the player might both be innocent, but the theatre collectively considered, the company, and the glare, spread the poison which is so often fatal to the morals of the youth of both sexes. I remember the worst follies of my life took their rife from that quarter, and that the vagrant connection which so long embittered my days, was first made at the playhouse.'
It would not, we believe, be impossible to justify the stage against the censure here passed on it.
'At my time I remember in very many chapels and churches about the metropolis, common sense was violently deposed, and poetry reigned in its stead. We had the climax of Tully instead of the great Deliverer's sermon on the mount; we had figure and metaphor, and extracts from polished poets, because the language of base fishermen was not so well adapted to amuse the croud. To amuse the crowd! yes, for look to your evening lectures delivered in spruce wigs and starched bands, and tell me if the audience is not to the full as polite as it is pious, tell me if moral philosophy, such as the poor heathen Epictetus taught, is not all you hear, and whether that deficient morality for this day is not the most inconsiderable part of this lecture. Where is sober reasoning? Where are the bold appeals to the consciences of callous men? Where is the honest zeal of the ambassadors of heaven? All is lost, all is forgotten, all is sacrificed to sound and pleasant period. Like men who have a certain business to execute in a shorter time, they lose all in sharpening their tools. If a charity sermon is to be preached; how much is trusted to a pathetic picture? A deserted orphan, helpless, forlorn, abandoned to the wide uncharitable world, are so many commonplace figures of rhetoric to make old gentlewomen and simple virgins subscribe to the plate at the door; and as if Christians were to be entertained by a discourse in a church, as by a lecture in a coffee-room, death, hell, judgment, and futurity, are not touched upon at all, or else only at a distance.'
Our readers will smile at the philosopher's opinion, and probably recommend to him the raving harangues at the Tabernacle, where he may indulge in his favourite subjects of death, hell, and damnation, without being troubled with Epictetus or morality.
The manner in which our philosopher employed himself is the subject of great part of the first volume. The Adventures of his Son, with Episodical Narratives, furnish matter for the remainder of the work. A few improbable circumstances ocur in the course of it; but as it is on whole instructive and entertaining, we recommend it to the perusal of our young readers of both sexes.
ANOTHER REVIEW OF MR BENTLEY:
The monthly review, or, literary journal, Volume 52Mr. Bentley; The Rural Philosopher: A Tale. i2mo. 2 Vols. 6 s. Goldsmith. In the midst of the endless variety of love-stories which our office calls us to peruse, it is a great relief and pleasure to us, sometimes to meet with a novel writer, who ventures out of the beaten track, and employs narrative and fiction, for other purposes than merely to cherish the flame, which nature is sufficiently able to kindle and keep alive without the help of art. Soon discovering, that 'the author of the Rural Philosopher belongs to this higher class of novelists, and observing from his preface, that he introduces himself to the world with great modesty and diffidence, we undertook the perusal of the work with very favourable expectations. The writer (who acknowledges himself " indifferent about acquiring literary fame," and declares, that he by no means expects the approbation of the learned, but trusts to the candour of his peers, and that he is prepared to submit to any candid strictures that may be opposed to. his opinions) will therefore, at least, acquit us from the charge of prejudice against his work, if we give our judgment concerning it with our usual freedom,
We observe through the whole work, a strong sense of the obligations of morality and religion, and a generous indignation against vice, which leaves us no room to doubt that the author was induced to appear in public by the molt laudable motives. We find many just and seasonable observations on men and things, that well deserve she attention of an age, which seems ambitious of distinguishing itself by those vices which are the offspring of dissipation and luxury. We admire the picture which the Rural Philosopher draws of his quiet retreat, and the tranquil pleasures that bless his humble cottage: we listen with satisfaction to his lessons of religion, benevolence, and prudence; and we are charmed with the tenderness and generosity with which the good man and his children employ their little store, in relieving the distresses of their neighbours. We are sensible, that there is too much grounds for many of the censures which Mr. Bentley passes on the manners of the times. But we cannot help regretting, that with just moral reflections, he has sometimes mixed ideas of life which seem incompatible with the present condition of human nature; and that his satire in some instances degenerates into acrimony, and a cynical contempt of the world.
In this light, we consider his severe censure of the clergy, whom he accuses of "sacrificing sense and orthodoxy, zeal and sincerity, to elegance of language, and a polished delivery, and of deposing common sense, that poetry may reign in its stead." The contempt which he often expresses for learning,—particularly, when he inconsistently enough makes his Philosopher say, (speaking of his library) philosophy and science find no harbour there, for alas! I have little or no respect for worldly wisdom,—there are few of his readers who will not be so uncharitable, as to impute either to ignorance or to enthusiasm. To some such cause, they will probably ascribe his injudicious censure of the study of the ancient languages as of 'no other use, than to enable " schoolmen and lawyers to (how their pedantry, physicians to disguise their prescriptions, and apothecaries to scrawl labels upon gallypots:" and his illiberal reflection upon our great Philosopher, when he says, that Newton's Principia has perhaps rather informed the world than served it." For it is obvious to reply, in a few words, to all his objections against modern learning, that though virtue is the first it is not the only accomplishment; that learning by improving taste, and the sciences by exercising and enlarging the understanding, refine and elevate human nature, extend the circle of innocent pleasures, and contribute largely to the happiness of individuals and of society; and therefore, that to inform the world is to serve it.
His picture of the tables of the polite is surely drawn with the sombre pencil. "When you are invited to the tables of the polite, expect nothing but unsocial ceremonies, unmeaning professions, contemptible forms, and a stupid confinement of behaviour. The great art to make yourself agreeable, is merely to toast beauties you never saw, and great men you never heard of; to admire something n the mistress of the house, and to gratify the vanity of her daughter you may say as much as you please without thinking; but, depend upon it, if you adhere to truth and propriety, you will be disqualified altogether."
His remarks upon the education and manners of the fair sex are unreasonably severe; and he pathetically laments, that" the generality of them are not sufficiently political in improving the advantages of their persons, by the more lasting accomplishments of the mind. Speaking of ladies in polite life, he fays, " Can you believe, that they encourage every insipidity of address from the men; that they are satisfied with professions without truth, delicacy without sense, and politeness without a meaning? Can you conceive, that their conversation is altogether confined to trifles; that their education is without wisdom, their examples without prudence, and their conduct without consistency?"
On the whole, though our Author appears to us to be a zealous friend to the interests of virtue, we apprehend, the methods which he takes to serve them are not very judiciously chosen, or likely to be attended with much success: for we cannot think, that ignorance is the parent of virtue, or that the way to prepare men for another world is to put them out of humour with this.
With respect to the Author's merit as a writer, we observe many traces of a lively imagination, and no inconsiderable ability in describing natural objects, and delineating human characters. He has introduced into the story a singular character in low life, with' the design and execution of which we are much pleased; and we apprehend, that in this walk of writing he might employ himself with no inconsiderable degree of success. But in his narrative, there are, we think, several improbabilities ; such as, that a young man in. love with the daughter of his father's friend, should conceal his passion till it throws him into a fever; that the lovers should both faint on receiving the news of a short separation, occasioned by an intended journey of the young man to London.—That a man, with such ideas of the town as Mr. Bentley, should form a design of sending his own son, and his friend's, to reside in it for some time; that a young man so educated and principled as young Bentley, should be able, in the space of six months, so entirely to banish every opinion, and every principle, imbibed in his childhood, as not only to run into all the excesses of the most debauched veterans, but become capable of perpetrating a deliberate rape, attended with many shocking circumstances of barbarity; and lastly, that the friend, to whose care the young adventurers were entrusted, should neglect so long after he must have discovered an unhappy change in their manners, to send them back to their parents.
In the expression, we have remarked several inaccuracies; and we have observed a greater number of material errors of the press, than usually occur in two small volumes: such as, he respectively pressed her hand — the divine attitudes, &c.
We should not have noticed these defects so minutely, had we not discerned marks of understanding and ability, which place this writer above the vulgar walk of novel-writers, and encourage us to expect, that when he has habituated himself to think with greater precision, and to write more correctly, he will be able very agreeably to entertain the public under the character of a philosophical novelist.
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Web graphical user interface in Python and C++.

## Architecture

NanoWeb is not a library but two. Part of your application logic runs
on the client's browser and the rest on the server side. You can
decide how much logic runs in each side, but there are some trade
offs:

- The more logic you add in the client, the more responsive and
  latency immune it will be. But also it will result in a bigger
  javascript module you have to send to the client, so the startup
  time could be slower.

- Adding logic in the client side also alleviates the server load.

- On the other side, it's easier to grow the logic in the server and
  store huge amounts of data that can be queried by the client
  incrementally.

Client part is written in C++ and can be extended in C or C++
naturally. Python is the language of choice for the server part, but
can be easily replaced by other technologies.

For testing purposes, the client or frontend part can also be compiled
for the desktop, having the exact appearance and behaviour than in the
web.

When compiling for the web, the C and C++ code is 'transcompiled' into
javascript by means of `emscripten`.

## Compilation

NanoWeb uses CMake for the client side. There is a convenient script
in the root directory to compile the client part for the web and the
desktop in release and debug modes: `build_all.sh`. It will generate
the build artifacts in the directories:
`build_<debug|release>_<web|desktop>`.

## Hello world!

For a simple test of usage, follow these instructions:

- Compile client side part as explained in previous section.

- Go to `.../example/hello_world` and execute:
  `$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9999`

- In a browser, just navigate to: `http://127.0.0.1:9999`.

- You should see the Hello world! test example in the browser.

- To check the desktop frontend, execute
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Roxana Zal (* 8. November 1969 in Los Angeles) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

Leben und Leistungen
Zal debütierte in einer Folge der Fernsehserie Hart aber herzlich aus dem Jahr 1981, für welche Rolle sie im Jahr 1983 den Young Artist Award erhielt. Im Filmdrama Table for Five (1983) spielte sie an der Seite von Jon Voight und Richard Crenna eine der größeren Rollen, wofür sie 1984 erneut den Young Artist Award gewann. Im Filmdrama Das letzte Testament (1983) spielte sie eine Tochter von Carol Wetherly (Jane Alexander), die nach einem Nuklearkrieg alleine für drei Kinder sorgt. Für diese Rolle wurde Zal 1985 für den Young Artist Award nominiert.

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Im Krimidrama Das Messer am Ufer (1986) war Zal an der Seite von Crispin Glover und Keanu Reeves in einer größeren Rolle zu sehen. Im Fernsehdrama Tochter der Nacht (1990) übernahm sie eine der Hauptrollen. In den 1990er Jahren trat sie in einigen Independentfilmen auf wie die Dramen Land of Milk and Honey (1996) und Broken Vessels (1998). Für die Rolle im zweiten dieser Filme, den sie auch mitproduzierte, erhielt sie 1998 den Publikumspreis des Los Angeles Independent Film Festivals.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1981: Hart aber herzlich (Hart to Hart; Folge: Hoppe, hoppe Reiter)
 1983: Table for Five
 1983: Das letzte Testament (Testament)
 1984: Something About Amelia
 1986: Das Messer am Ufer (River's Edge)
 1989: Under the Boardwalk
 1990: Tochter der Nacht (Daughter of the Streets)
 1992: Verhängnisvolle Liebe (Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story)
 1993: Das Biest hinter der Maske (Deadly Relations)
 1996: Red Line – Volles Risiko
 1996: Land of Milk and Honey
 1998: L.A. Nights (The Thief & the Stripper)
 1999: Big City Blues
 1999: Mord am Abgrund (Her Married Lover)
 2001: Mörderische Schwestern (Blind Obsession)
 2003: Crossing Jordan – Pathologin mit Profil
 2004: 3-Way
 2004: Skin Walker
 2006: Watch Over Me (Fernsehserie)

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Einzelnachweise

Filmschauspieler
Kinderdarsteller
Emmy-Preisträger
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1969
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Interview: Andrew "The Reinforcer" Anderson talks about wrestling and his career
By: Kelley Mullon AXS Contributor Dec 4, 2018
Andrew " The Reinforcer" Anderson showing off the Northeastern American Heavyweight Title Belt.
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The many faces of Andrew "The Reinforcer' Anderson includes a heavyweight championship belt holder, a successful business man, an actor, as well as a friend to many people who has taken the time to get to know the rough edged wrestler. He graduated from St Peter's College with a degree in Business Administration in 1989, and he uses his business degree every day making sure his wrestling and acting career are successful. In 1997 he received his big break in the wrestling world being discovered by wrestling legend Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka and was offered an extensive training program under the tutelage of Gino Caruso, Nickolai Volkoff and the Kodiak Bear at Caruso's gym in Lake Hiawatha. Always having great love and respect for the wrestling legends of the 80's and the ones he watched as a child, it is fitting that he has now earned their respect in the wrestling community.
Andrew can be seen at wrestling matches along the east coast. He has been wrestling in the East Coast Professional Wrestling circuit, as well as the NWA Gulf Coast Wrestling. He is always very approachable by the fans and loves the interacting with them at any of the events he is at.
Andrew has expanded his wrestling career into an acting career also. He can be seen in the movie The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke that was released in December of 2008. Most recently he was on Season 4 of Gotham as the leader of the Demon Biker Gang. There are rumors out there of Andrew being cast in a new film that will be released late in 2019 or early 2020.
AXS: At what age did you start wrestling?
ANDREW ANDERSON: I started wrestling at the age of 23.
AXS: What wrestlers influenced your career?
AA: Don Muraco, Jimmy Snuka (The person who trained me) Ric Flair, Bruiser Brody, Stan Hansen, Terry Funk, Road Warriors, and Superstar Graham.
AXS: The name Andrew "The Reinforcer" Anderson - was that given to you by someone or did you pick the name for yourself?
AA: Arn Anderson was called the Enforcer, after years of wrestling as Siberian Tiger, Crowbar Chris Ford tagged me as The Reinforcer
AXS: Do you have any major wrestling events coming up in the next 90 days?
AA: Dec 8, 2018 in Seaford, Delaware at the Cross Christian Academy located at 110 Holly Street for the ICW Redemption matches.
Dec 15, at Coastal Sports 5 Gardner Road in Fairfield, NJ. A fundraiser for St Jude's Children's Research Hospital. I am part of the 6 man tag team match.
Dec 22, 2018 at the ECPW Wrestling Season's Slam. St Jude Parish Center 40 Maxim Drive in Hopatcong, NJ. Another night to support St Jude's Children's Research Hospital while enjoying a night out with great entertainment.
Dec 28, 2018 in Lyndhurst, NJ at the Recreation Center located at 862 Valley Brook Ave. This event is the first ever YouTube TV taping. Proud to say that we're still cheaper than a night at the movies and we're helping community groups each and every event!. This show is a fundraiser for the Lyndhurst Police Unity Tour, girls basketball, and recreational wrestling. Please help support the community and enjoy a great night out watching a fabulous wrestling show.
AXS: Do you have any appearances in the near future where your fans can get pictures/autographs?
AA: I usually set up to meet fans and take pictures at each of the shows I appear at. There are a few conventions in the future I will have a table set up to sign autographs and pictures
AXS: What title belts have you held?
AA: ECPW Heavyweight Champion four times, ECPW TV Champion, ECPW Tag Champion two times, HIWF Heavyweight Champion, JCW Heavyweight Champion, RCW Heavyweight Champion, UPWF International Champion.
AXS: Do you have any advice for wrestlers who are just starting and what to expand their career to include the professional wrestling scene?
AA: My advice to younger wrestlers is to slow down and let the fans register your actions, also grab a hold, wrestling is about holds not high spots and acrobatics, so grab a hold and work that hold.
AXS: Do you have other "career" / hobbies that you do when not wrestling?
AA: I collect Marvel comics and Marvel, DC and Star Wars action figures.
AXS: How can the fans follow your career/wrestling/ and appearances?
AA: Fans can follow me on Twitter @drewthewrestler, I have a Facebook fan page AndrewAnderson, as well as Andrew "the Reinforcer" Anderson on Facebook.
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As eleições estaduais no Paraná em 1986 ocorreram em 15 de novembro como parte das eleições gerais no Distrito Federal, em 23 estados e nos territórios federais do Amapá e Roraima. Numa época onde não vigiam os dois turnos em eleições majoritárias para cargos executivos, foram eleitos o governador Alvaro Dias, o vice-governador Ary Queiroz, os senadores Afonso Camargo e José Richa, além de 30 deputados federais e 54 deputados estaduais.

Historiador formado em 1967 pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina, o paulista Alvaro Dias nasceu em Quatá e acompanhou a família rumo à cidade paranaense de Maringá. Antes de graduar-se, foi presidente do Centro Acadêmico da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras, além de trabalhar como professor, locutor, redator de radioteatro e autor de radionovelas na Rádio Paiquerê e na Rádio Atalaia. Sua estreia na política aconteceu em 1968 ao eleger-se vereador em Londrina pelo MDB. Eleito deputado estadual em 1970, trabalhou como jornalista na TV Tibagi e candidatou-se a prefeito de Londrina numa sublegenda do MDB num pleito vencido por seu correligionário, José Richa. Nos anos seguintes foi eleito deputado federal em 1974 e 1978, ingressando no PMDB em 1980 com a restauração do pluripartidarismo. Em 1982 foi eleito senador via sublegenda e votou em Tancredo Neves no Colégio Eleitoral em 1985, sendo eleito governador do Paraná em 1986 com 70,69% dos votos apurados, recorde ainda vigente. Como renunciou ao mandato parlamentar apenas em 11 de março de 1987, Alvaro Dias participou das sessões iniciais da Assembleia Nacional Constituinte que escreveu a Constituição de 1988.

Natural de Curitiba, o engenheiro civil Ary Queiroz formou-se na Universidade Federal do Paraná dedicando-se à iniciativa privada depois da graduação. Após residir nas cidades paulistas de Cajati e em São Paulo, aceitou o convite do então governador José Richa e assumiu a presidência da Companhia Paranaense de Energia, cargo ao qual renunciou a tempo de eleger-se vice-governador do Paraná pelo PMDB em 1986 na chapa de Alvaro Dias.

Resultado da eleição para governador
Conforme o arquivo do Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, foram apurados 3.321.094 votos nominais.

Biografia dos senadores eleitos

José Richa
Nascido no município fluminense de São Fidélis, o odontologista José Richa foi presidente da União Paranaense dos Estudantes e do Diretório Nacional da Juventude Democrática Cristã antes de graduar-se na Universidade Federal do Paraná em 1959. Jornalista, trabalhou no Diário do Paraná e estreou na vida pública via PDC sob a liderança de Ney Braga. Eleito deputado federal em 1962, migrou para o MDB quando o Regime Militar de 1964 outorgou o bipartidarismo, renovou o mandato em 1966. Derrotado na eleição para o Senado Federal em 1970, venceu a disputa para prefeito de Londrina em 1972 e foi eleito senador graças ao mecanismo da sublegenda em 1978 e após dois anos filiou-se ao PMDB, legenda na qual venceu a eleição para governador do Paraná em 1982 e obteve um segundo mandato de senador em 1986 e como tal ajudou a escrever a Constituição de 1988.

Afonso Camargo
Nascido em Curitiba, Afonso Camargo é contabilista e engenheiro civil graduado na Universidade Federal do Paraná em 1951 e 1952, respectivamente. Neto de Afonso Camargo e genro de Fernando Flores, trabalhou no ramo imobiliário até o governador Ney Braga nomeá-lo diretor do Departamento de Águas e Energia Elétrica do Paraná, presidente da Companhia de Desenvolvimento do Paraná (CODEPAR) e secretário de Justiça a partir de 1961. Filiado ao PDC, foi eleito vice-governador pela Assembleia Legislativa do Paraná em fevereiro de 1964, mas renunciou no ano seguinte e em 1966 entrou no MDB, contudo perdeu a eleição para senador para Ney Braga, com quem rompera. De volta à iniciativa privada, reconciliou-se com seus aliados de outrora e foi presidente do Banco do Estado do Paraná e secretário de Fazenda entre os governos Emílio Gomes e Jayme Canet e presidente do diretório estadual da ARENA, posição na qual estava ao eleger-se senador biônico em 1978, com o apoio de Ney Braga.. Após transferir-se para o PDS em 1980, aderiu ao PMDB, votou em Tancredo Neves no Colégio Eleitoral em 1985 e foi ministro dos Transportes no Governo Sarney. Reeleito senador em 1986, foi signatário da Constituição de 1988.

Suplente efetivado

Leite Chaves
Paraibano de Itaporanga, o advogado Leite Chaves estudou na Universidade Federal da Paraíba antes de transferir-se para a Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, onde graduou-se em 1956 e obteve o título de Doutor em 1958. Funcionário do Banco do Brasil, foi presidente do Sindicato dos Bancários da Paraíba antes de fixar-se na cidade paranaense de Londrina em 1959 em razão das transferências relativas à sua condição de funcionário público. Presidente do Sindicato dos Bancários do Norte do Paraná, chegou a ser preso durante alguns dias no começo do Regime Militar de 1964. Empresário, estreou na vida pública ao eleger-se senador pelo MDB em 1974. Durante seu mandato ocorreu a restauração do pluripartidarismo e em razão disso ingressou no PTB em apoio a Leonel Brizola, mas logo estaria no PMDB. Eleito primeiro suplente de senador na chapa de Alvaro Dias em 1982, foi nomeado procurador-geral da Justiça Militar pelo presidente José Sarney em 10 de abril de 1986. Neste mesmo ano Alvaro Dias elegeu-se governador do Paraná e assim Leite Chaves tomou posse como senador em 18 de março de 1987, figurando como subscritor da Constituição de 1988.

Resultado da eleição para senador
Dados referentes apenas aos candidatos vencedores fornecidos pelo Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, que aponta 5.740.717 votos nominais.

Deputados federais eleitos
São relacionados os candidatos eleitos com informações complementares da Câmara dos Deputados.

Deputados estaduais eleitos
Na disputa pelas 54 vagas da Assembleia Legislativa do Paraná.

Paraná
1986
1986 no Paraná


Online click-and-reserve services—for everything from bike tune-ups and grocery deliveries to golf tee times and restaurant reservations—are exploding.
Online click-and-reserve services—for everything from bike tune-ups and grocery deliveries to golf tee times and restaurant reservations—are exploding. The idea is that the Web is the perfect 24-hour, 7-day medium for scheduling. In recent months, a number of sites for booking even the most recondite services have appeared.
At the eFrenzy portal (www.efrenzy.com), you can place a service request for dance instruction or Web development training. You can also offer your own services to other site participants. At imandi.com, you can post a request for anything from personal insurance quotes to small-business payroll services, then receive competitive bids within hours of your post.
A site called mylackey.com currently offers its services only to residents of Seattle and Portland, but eight other major cities, including Los Angeles and New York, will be added soon. The site lets you schedule a "lackey" to run errands, walk your dog, tune up your bike, give you a pedicure, or mop your floors. Sites such as iCastle (www.icastle.com), ImproveNet (www.improvenet.com), RepairNow.com, ServiceLane.com, ServiceMagic (www.servicemagic.com), and ServiceStop (www.servicestop.com), to name just a few, offer similar services.
All these players have their eyes on a potentially big market. According to a recent Cisco Systems study, less than 7 percent of the Internet economy is generated by services, even though service industries represent about half of the $6.9 trillion U.S. economy.
Still, it's not yet clear what the perfect model for offering services on the Web is, and the appointment scheduling required is a technology challenge. Players such as Xtime and MDSI/Connectria specialize in the e-scheduling technology necessary to make online service procurement a reality. According to Richard Waidmann, Connectria's president and CEO, "The service industry's lag in offering reliable online service scheduling stems from the extreme complexity in developing accurate time-scheduling algorithms for each unique service within each service industry." Xtime recently debuted a universal scheduling platform that lets service merchants accept reservations and appointments over the Internet.


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Japan's Shinzo Abe Lifts Coronavirus State Of Emergency As Critics Swarm
By Colin Dwyer
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves a news conference Monday in Tokyo, after lifting the country's nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus.
Japan has completely lifted its nationwide state of emergency.
The country's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, announced Monday that officials have loosened the coronavirus restrictions in the last five of the country's 47 prefectures: Tokyo and its surrounding regions, as well as the northern island of Hokkaido.
"We've set some of the most strict criteria in the world to lift the declaration," Abe told a news conference, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK, "and we concluded that prefectures across the country have met that standard."
Japan implemented its state of emergency in Tokyo and nearby prefectures in mid-April and expanded the order less than two weeks later to include the entire country. Last month's announcements came amid a surge of new coronavirus cases in the country, which at one point topped 1,000 confirmed cases in a day — but those numbers have begun to taper in recent weeks, and government officials have been lifting the weeks-long state of emergency piecemeal.
Now, new cases number in the dozens, at most.
"Recently, new infection cases have fallen below 50 for the entire nation," Abe said, "and what was once nearly 10,000 hospitalized cases — that has now fallen below 2,000."
Abe attributed the positive developments to what he touted as the "Japanese model," which included the nationwide state of emergency declaration and rigorous standards for social distancing. He added that the decision to lift the remaining state of emergency orders does not change the recommendation from government health officials to avoid crowded spaces and close contact with others.
Still, the prime minister's response to the virus has attracted its fair share of criticism. A recent survey published by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun put Abe's approval rating at just 29% — a record low for the longtime leader, whose second stint in power began in 2012. Much of that dissatisfaction is tied to his government's handling of the pandemic, with the world's third-largest economy recently plunged into recession and critics pointing to what they call a botched testing rollout and an inadequate financial relief package.
The prime minister is also grappling with the controversy eddying around his pick for the Tokyo high public prosecutor's office, Hiromu Kurokawa, who, as a prosecutor, critics viewed as too close to Abe and who ultimately resigned last week after reports that Kurokawa violated coronavirus rules.
On Monday, Abe said that while the weeks-long state of emergency is ending, officials expect residents to carry on largely as they have been even as businesses reopen.
"Our businesses and daily routines will be completely disrupted if we continue with strict curbs on social and economic activity," Abe said, according to NHK. "From now on, it's important to think about how we can conduct business and live our lives while still controlling the risk of infection."


You have a great knife that you can't leave behind when you hit the great outdoors. Your knife needs to perform to cut branches, skinning or cleaning your catch. At the end of the day or hunt your knife has performed as it should. How long your knife lasts is determined on how you care for it. To help you keep your knife in perfect condition here are a few tips to follow.
1. Specialty knives are just that, for a special purpose. For example: A skinning knife is used for that purpose only. You don't want to use this knife to cut branches or use as a pry bar. You will only dull or ruin your knife altogether.
2.Cleaning your knife after each use is a must. The blade is important to clean, but don't forget the handle and even the shaft. Use running water to clean your knife, remember never to soak your knife. Dry your knife thoroughly, because moisture on your knife can lead to rust, and a inefficient knife. Keeping your knife dry can be tough, especially if you are in a wet environment. Get in the habit of drying your knife off after use, especially if its your favorite knife. Use a leaf in the field to dry off your knife. If your knife is made of carbon steel, you can also use baking soda and water. Use just plain water and dish soap on stainless steel knives. Try to avoid touching your stainless steel knife. Acid left on the blade from your fingerprint can actually stain your knife, and overtime cause corrosion. Never put your knife in a automatic dishwasher, as the detergent contains abrasives and salt that can cause corrosion.
3. Oil your knife on a regular basis, this will prevent friction. Oil can provide a protective coating on the blade that keeps rust from forming. If you have a folding knife, oil is more important for the moving parts and joints. Use the same oil you use for your firearms or just household oil. Some oils can leave a aftertaste in your meat, in that case use a food grade mineral base oil. Be leary of oiling your handle as this will cause it to be slippery. Wood handles can be treated with linseed oil. Remember a little oil goes a long way. If your handle if made of rubber or artificial materials, nothing is required. But if you feel the need, treat it with armor all. Leather handles can be treated with mink oil. This also works good on sheaths. Bone or stag handles that have crevies should be cleaned with soap and water. Crevices and cracks in your knife can cause dirt buildup, which can draw moisture and can damage your knife.


Crédito Real is a Mexican company with 25 years of experience in the financial services sector. The company, which has granted approximately five million loans, is one of the 500 largest in the country, and has recently expanded its operations to the USA and Central America.
In 2012, Crédito Real opted to become a publicly traded company and obtained a listing on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV). Following this, the company has achieved accelerated growth and assumed a leading market position. Crédito Real has received several prestigious awards from a range of industry voices, including "Socially Responsible Company", "Inclusive Company" and "Great Place To Work".
The flexibility and variety of Crédito Real's products has enabled it to meet the credit needs of Mexico's middle and lower income demographic, which are generally not serviced by traditional banking, reaching a portfolio of MXN31,355m ($1,716m) in Q1 2018.
A large part of Crédito Real's success is primarily based on payroll loans: Crédito Real seized the opportunity to include solid assets in its portfolio which belong to institutions that guarantee the service and payment of originated loans with the contributions of federal funds. Another crucial element in this regard was the acquisition of Instacredit – a personal loans company based in Costa Rica – as well as achieving synergies with other business units. In 2017, the company achieved a better-than-expected performance, surpassing the objectives set out in its mandate.
At the beginning of 2018, following the first issuance for MXN800m under its credit loan portfolio securitisation programme and the placement of $230m subordinated perpetual notes (both executed at the end of the previous year), Crédito Real continued to strengthen its financial position by closing its offering of CHF $170m bonds in the Swiss market, enhancing the company's liquidity and diversification of funding sources.
Crédito Real has an annual growth of 29.4% in its consolidated loan portfolio, and the non-performing loan ratio has maintained a downward trend, reaching 1.9% at the end of Q1 2018, below the level recorded by the SOFOMES (Multiple Purpose Financial Institutions) sector in Mexico.
Today, the size of this SOFOM makes it a major player in its sector, with a financial margin of over MXN5,920m pesos and net income of above MXN1,680m pesos recorded in the 12-month period ended 31 March 2018.
Currently, about 20% of the company's credit portfolio comes from businesses outside Mexico, in particular, Costa Rica and the US. In 2016, Crédito Real acquired 70% of the capital stock of Instacredit, which has 72 branches in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama. Instacredit is a well recognised brand in Central America, with a core business granting consumer loans to middle and low-income segments. Its products are personal loans; auto loans; SME loans; and mortgage loans.
Adding to the mix, the North American market has always been a source of huge potential to Crédito Real, especially the Hispanic segment without credit history, which is close to 50 million people. In 2015, Crédito Real began working with auto loan company Don Carro and, in addition, has acquired 99% of the capital stock of AFS Acceptance LLC, now Crédito Real USA Finance, a company comprising more than 580 distributors of used and pre-owned car loans, licensed to operate in 32 states across the US. The used cars loan portfolio in the US, composed of Crédito Real USA Finance and Don Carro, represents approximately 7% of the company's total loan portfolio.
Since its beginnings as a debt issuer, and following its IPO in 2012, Crédito Real has focused on strengthening its internal controls to ensure efficient operations, as well as complying with best corporate governance practices to safeguard the interests of its shareholders and other stakeholders.
Crédito Real's corporate governance is made up of a framework of values, rules and statutes that constantly regulate the operation of the bodies responsible for generating value to the company. Accounting for this is the Board of Directors, four supporting committees (Executive, Audit, Corporate Practices, and Communication and Control), and a strict code of ethics and business conduct principles.
Most of Crédito Real's committees have independent directors with specialist experience in a specific area of global and national financial markets. The proportion of independent directors is 33%.
Testimony to the robust nature of the company structure is the reward received from the BMV in 2017 for the best rating amongst 80 issuers evaluated for corporate governance under the IPC sustainable methodology. In 2018, the Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía (Mexican Center for Philanthropy) presented Crédito Real with the "Corporate Social Responsibility Award 2018".
Crédito Real's strategy enables it to reach a potential consumer base of over 36 million people. Together with its broad geographic and diverse product range, as well as enhanced funding sources, this will allow it to fully capitalise on new growth opportunities.
Crédito Real has several strategic alliances, which, in addition to enhancing its commercial presence, will continue to generate synergies across a range of business lines and markets. The selective loan origination will allow it to continue maintaining a stable NPL ratio, which remains among the lowest in the sector.
Crédito Real is also incorporating new technologies to expand its financial services offering and is especially interested in dynamic fintech companies.
The company aims to consolidate a loan portfolio where 50% corresponds to the Mexican market and the remaining 50% to international markets; the company expects to achieve this in 2022.
Crédito Real will continue to be a strong performer because of its team and customer base, and it will continue to strive to provide a better place to work in a context of equality and respect. Crédito Real will continue to support its clients and enhance their quality of life through a thorough and ethical service, which delivers constant product innovation. Above all, Crédito Real wants to help its staff and customers exceed their potential.


Small black insects on the surface of houseplant soil or around container-grown plants are likely to be fungus gnats. These black insects, up to 1/8 inch long, are a flying nuisance in the home and in greenhouses but do not actively damage plants. The larvae are rarely seen and live in the soil, feeding on rotting leaves and detritus on the soil surface. Control fungus gnats by keep pot-soil tidy and on the dry side, or with insecticidal products.
Remove all dead leaves from the surface of the soil around your plants. Cut away any dead leaves that are hanging down from your plant and are touching the soil.
Water your plants only when the top inch of their soil is completely dry. Fungus gnat larvae thrive in consistently moist compost. Make sure that the drainage hold at the bottom of your pots is clear. Re-pot your plants if the soil has broken down or is retaining moisture for long periods between waterings.
Place sticky yellow cards, available from gardening stores, around your plants to attract and trap adult gnats. Position them on the side of plant pots or stuck to branches close to the soil.
Spray your plants with a pyrethroid-based insecticidal spray containing a chemical such as bifenthrin or permethrin to kill adult gnats. Sprays based on pyrethrins or insecticidal soaps will kill fungus gnats on contact but are not persistent enough to kill new adults emerging from the soil.
Kill fungus gnat larvae with a systemic insecticide containing imidacloprid. This comes as granules or as slow-release spikes sold in gardening stores. Alternatively, use a biological soil drench containing the nemaode Steinernema feltiae.
University of Florida; Management of Fungus Gnats in Ornamentals; James Price, et al.


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Rh blood group system
Rh blood group system, system for classifying blood groups according to the presence or absence of the Rh antigen, often called the Rh factor, on the cell membranes of the red blood cells (erythrocytes). The designation Rh is derived from the use of the blood of rhesus monkeys in the basic test for determining the presence of the Rh antigen in human blood. The Rh blood group system was discovered in 1940 by Karl Landsteiner and A.S. Weiner. Since that time a number of distinct Rh antigens have been identified, but the first and most common one, called RhD, causes the most severe immune reaction and is the primary determinant of the Rh trait.
The Rh antigen poses a danger for the Rh-negative person, who lacks the antigen, if Rh-positive blood is given in transfusion. Adverse effects may not occur the first time Rh-incompatible blood is given, but the immune system responds to the foreign Rh antigen by producing anti-Rh antibodies. If Rh-positive blood is given again after the antibodies form, they will attack the foreign red blood cells, causing them to clump together, or agglutinate. The resulting hemolysis, or destruction of the red blood cells, causes serious illness and sometimes death.
A similar hazard exists during pregnancy for the Rh-positive offspring of Rh-incompatible parents, when the mother is Rh-negative and the father is Rh-positive. The first child of such parents is usually in no danger unless the mother has acquired anti-Rh antibodies by virtue of incompatible blood transfusion. During labour, however, a small amount of the fetus's blood may enter the mother's bloodstream. The mother will then produce anti-Rh antibodies, which will attack any Rh-incompatible fetus in subsequent pregnancies. This process produces erythroblastosis fetalis, or hemolytic disease of the newborn, which can be fatal to the fetus or to the infant shortly after birth. Treatment of erythroblastosis fetalis usually entails one or more exchange transfusions. The disease can be avoided by vaccinating the mother with Rh immunoglobulin after delivery of her firstborn if there is Rh-incompatibility. The Rh vaccine destroys any fetal blood cells before the mother's immune system can develop antibodies.
Although the Rh-negative trait is rare in most parts of the world, it occurs in about 15 percent of Caucasians in Europe, Canada, and the United States. The trait's highest incidence is among the Basques of the Pyrenees (25–35 percent) and the Imazighen (Berbers) of Africa and the Bedouins of the Sinai Peninsula (18–30 percent).
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blood group: Historical background
The discovery of the Rh system by Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener in 1940 was made because they tested human red cells with antisera developed in rabbits and guinea pigs by immunization of the animals with the red cells of the rhesus monkey Macaca mulatta.…
blood group: Transfusion
…of the antigens of the Rh system, since it is essential to know whether they are Rh-positive or Rh-negative. Rh-negative indicates the absence of the D antigen. Rh-negative persons transfused with Rh-positive blood will make anti-D antibodies from 50 to 75 percent of the time. Antibody made in response to…
human genetics: Blood types
…known of these is the Rh system. The Rh antigens are of particular importance in human medicine. Curiously, however, their existence was discovered in monkeys. When blood from the rhesus monkey (hence the designation Rh) is injected into rabbits, the rabbits produce so-called Rh antibodies that will agglutinate not only…
Melvin Calvin
…the chemical factors in the Rh blood group system. Genevieve was a juvenile probation officer, but, according to Calvin's autobiography, "she spent a great deal of time actually in the laboratory working with the antigenic material. This was her first chemical laboratory experience but not her last by any means."…
erythroblastosis fetalis
Two blood group systems, Rh and ABO, primarily are associated with erythroblastosis fetalis. The Rh system is responsible for the most severe form of the disease, which can occur when an Rh-negative woman (a woman whose blood cells lack the Rh factor) conceives an Rh-positive fetus. Sensitization of the…
Rh factor
Palomar College - Rh Blood Types
National Center for Biotechnology Information - The Rh blood group


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Henry Hyde,  comte de Clarendon, PC ( - ) est un aristocrate et un homme politique anglais. Il occupe de hautes fonctions au début du règne de son beau-frère, le roi Jacques II.

Jeunesse
Il est le fils aîné d'Edward Hyde ( comte de Clarendon, et de sa deuxième épouse, Frances Aylesbury. Il est donc frère d'Anne Hyde et oncle maternel de la reine Mary II et de la reine Anne. Lui et son frère Laurence Hyde,  comte de Rochester sont tous deux élevés à Anvers et à Bréda par leur mère .

Sous Charles II

Peu de temps après le retour de sa famille en Angleterre, en 1660, il épouse Theodosia Capell, fille d'Arthur Capel,  baron Capel et Elizabeth Morrison, et sœur de Mary Capell, duchesse de Beaufort. Elle meurt en 1661 et, en 1670, il se remarie avec Flower Backhouse, fille de  et d'Anne Richards, et veuve de William Bishop et de Sir William Backhouse (parent de son père) héritière du manoir et la maison de Swallowfield Park, Berkshire, où il reconstruit la maison. Plus tard, elle est première dame de la chambre de la reine Anne de Grande-Bretagne. La reine Anne a par la suite éloigné sa tante, sans doute influencée par sa meilleure amie, Sarah Churchill, qui détestait Flower, qu'elle appelait "la folle". Hyde porte le titre de courtoisie de Lord Cornbury, depuis 1661. Il est membre du Parlement pour le Wiltshire, jusqu'en 1674.

En 1662, il est nommé secrétaire particulier de la reine Catherine de Bragance, dont il devient le chambellan en ; il a peut-être regretté sa nomination au cours des dernières années, alors que la reine et lui-même étaient aux prises avec un procès presque interminable pour les arriérés de son indemnité. John Evelyn en 1664 l'a aidé à planter Cornbury Park. Il a parlé au nom de son père lors de sa destitution en 1667; et après sa chute, Lord Cornbury devient un opposant du parti de la Cour et du Ministère de la Cabale et attaque George Villiers,  duc de Buckingham et Henry Bennet,  comte d'Arlington. À la mort de son père en 1674, il devient comte de Clarendon. En 1680, l'influence de son beau-frère le duc d'York en fait un conseiller privé. À peu près à la même époque, il est nommé gardien de Somerset House et trésorier et receveur général des revenus de la reine. À cette époque, il a souvent des problèmes d'argent.

L'amitié du duc d'York lui permet d'être intégré avec son frère Lawrence dans le groupe que les communes, au début du mois de , déclarèrent au roi comme des personnes enclines au papisme. Désormais loyal à la Cour, il est en mesure de rendre visite à Arthur Capel,  comte d'Essex (frère de sa première femme) en 1683 dans la tour de Londres, et au règne suivant, au duc de Monmouth, et plaida la cause d'Alice Lisle quand elle avait été condamnée par le juge George Jeffreys.

Sous Jacques II
En 1685, le beau-frère de Henri, le roi Jacques II, le nomme Lord du sceau privé. Quelques mois plus tard, le poste est mis en commission et il est nommé Lord lieutenant d'Irlande.

En Irlande
Richard Talbot,  comte de Tyrconnell, a été convoqué à Londres au moment du départ de Clarendon pour Dublin (). Le , le nouveau Lord-Lieutenant arrive à Dublin. Il trouva son autorité éclipsée par celle du commandant en chef absent. Robert Spencer,  comte de Sunderland a fait part à Clarendon de son intention d'introduire les catholiques dans le système judiciaire et administratif irlandais, ainsi que dans l'armée irlandaise. Clarendon met en garde les évêques et les prédicateurs contre le sentiment offensant des catholiques et admet les catholiques comme conseillers et officiers de l'armée; et il presse leur admission dans les corporations de la ville. En , Tyrconnel revient avec les pleins pouvoirs en tant que commandant en chef. Clarendon s'accroche à son poste .

Tyrconnell transforme l'armée; et en , il se rend en Angleterre pour obtenir la permission du roi de légiférer pour remplacer l'Act of Settlement de 1662. Clarendon envoie de nombreuses protestations au roi et à la reine pendant l'absence de son rival. Alors que son frère Lawrence (maintenant comte de Rochester) voit diminuer son influence, il en vient à la conclusion qu'il ne reste aucun espoir de conserver son poste en Irlande sauf par l'intermédiaire de la reine. Environ trois semaines après le renvoi de Rochester (), il reçoit sa lettre de rappel de Sunderland. Tyrconnell, qui prend la place de Clarendon, a un entretien avec lui le . Le , Clarendon est arrivé à Neston dans le Cheshire, emportant avec lui les livres de compte des magasins .

Disgrâce
Henry et son frère, le comte de Rochester, sont tombés en disgrâce auprès du roi et démis de leurs fonctions. Le sceau privé est donné le  à un catholique, Henry Arundell,  baron Arundell de Wardour, et Clarendon se retire quelque temps dans la vie privée. Il a un projet de mariage pour son fils aîné, maintenant Edward Hyde (3e comte de Clarendon), et de l'argent à gagner pour relever ses domaines. Il s'est livré à des spéculations allant de la recherche de charbon dans la forêt de Windsor au trafic avec les colporteurs écossais. Une pension lui est accordée par Jacques II vers le début de 1688 .

Il informe les évêques de la Tour de Londres au sujet de leur caution, et Jeffreys lui demande d'utiliser ses bons offices auprès de William Sancroft. La reine, au conseil de laquelle il a été placé en 1681, lui demande de l'aide. Le , au lendemain de sa réception amicale, Clarendon trouve le roi lui-même, soucieux des préparatifs hollandais en vue de l'invasion, et de "voir ce que feront les hommes de l'Église d'Angleterre". Il devient plus résolu et, le , lors du conseil convoqué par le roi pour entendre sa déclaration concernant la naissance du prince de Galles, il refuse de s'asseoir à côté du père Edward Petre et demande à être présent à titre de pair.

Neuf jours après le débarquement de Guillaume d'Orange, son fils Lord Cornbury abandonne le roi (le ), un tournant très difficile pour Clarendon. (Mary, épouse de William, est la nièce de Henry). Dans le conseil des pairs convoqué par le roi à son retour pour discuter de la question de la convocation d'un parlement libre (), Clarendon s'est opposé à la politique royale. Le  décembre, il se rend à Salisbury pour faire la paix avec William. Le , il a un entretien avec William à Berwick, près de Hindon, dans le Wiltshire, et lui offre son soutien. Il assiste à la conférence de Hungerford le  et suit l'avancée du prince jusqu'à Henley où il obtient le  une permission d'absence. À la demande du prince, il le retrouve à Windsor le  et lui présente son frère Rochester. C'est lors de la conférence tenue à Windsor que Clarendon aurait suggéré de confiner le roi Jacques II à la tour; tandis que, selon Gilbert Burnet, il propose sa relégation à Breda. Il a lui-même déclaré que, sauf lors de la réunion de Windsor, il n'avait jamais assisté à aucune discussion sur ce qui devrait être fait du roi, mais qu'il était contre le renvoi du roi. William lui-même l'informe que le roi s'est enfui.

Jacobite
Clarendon adopte une ligne tory, rejetant l'hypothèse Whig selon laquelle le roi Jacques a abdiqué et que la couronne est passée à Guillaume III et Marie II. Il parle à cet effet au parlement et il refuse de prêter serment au nouveau gouvernement. William prend mal que Clarendon l'ait présenté comme hostile à l'Église d'Angleterre. Clarendon est en contact avec Richard Graham,  vicomte Preston, un jacobite. Le , la reine Mary II ordonna l'arrestation de son oncle. Le lendemain, il se trouve dans la tour de Londres. Il y reste, pas spécialement bien traité, bien qu'il soit autorisé jusqu'à un certain temps à accompagner sa femme jusqu'au . Après sa libération, le complot reprend. Lorsque Lord Preston est arrêté le  sur la Tamise, l'une des lettres découvertes sur lui était celle de Clarendon au roi Jacques. Preston nomme Clarendon parmi ses complices. Le , il est de nouveau envoyé à la Tour et y reste plusieurs mois. En juillet, il est autorisé à sortir sous la surveillance de son gardien et sa libération sous caution a bientôt suivi .

Retour à la vie privée
Le reste de la vie de Clarendon se passe dans la tranquillité de son domicile, troublé seulement par son procès presque sans fin avec la Reine Catherine, la douairière. Cornbury est, à cause de difficultés financières, privé de nombreuses peintures rassemblées par son père et d'au moins une grande partie de sa bibliothèque en 1697, ou peu de temps avant, qui sont vendues à Rochester, bien que pour épargner sa fierté, la vente soit gardée secrète jusqu'à sa mort. La publication (1702-1704) de la première édition, en trois volumes, de  par le premier comte est essentiellement l'œuvre de Rochester; mais Clarendon s'y intéresse et, en 1704, il présente à John Evelyn les trois volumes imprimés. La reine Anne ne le recevrait pas à la cour, en tant que jacobite "irréductible", mais elle lui paya une pension.

Clarendon est décédé le . Son journal (1687-1690) et sa correspondance, avec les lettres de son frère cadet Rochester, parurent pour la première fois en 1828; il est édité par Samuel Weller Singer à partir de manuscrits de William Upcott . Il possédait une belle collection de médailles et est l'auteur de l'Histoire et des antiquités de la cathédrale de Winchester, poursuivi par Samuel Gale, Londres, 1715 .

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Naissance en juin 1638
Naissance à Westminster
Décès en octobre 1709
Décès à Westminster
Décès à 71 ans
Membre de la Royal Society
Lord du Sceau privé
Lord-lieutenant d'Irlande
Membre du Conseil privé d'Angleterre
Comte de Clarendon