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CHAPTER VIII - BY VERONA, MANTUA, AND MILAN, ACROSS THE PASS OF THE SIMPLON INTO SWITZERLAND
I had been half afraid to go to Verona, lest it should at all put me out of conceit with Romeo and Juliet. But, I was no sooner come into the old market-place, than the misgiving vanished. It is so fanciful, quaint, and picturesque a place, formed by such an extraordinary and rich variety of fantastic buildings, that there could be nothing better at the core of even this romantic town: scene of one of the most romantic and beautiful of stories.
It was natural enough, to go straight from the Market-place, to the House of the Capulets, now degenerated into a most miserable little inn. Noisy vetturíni and muddy market-carts were disputing possession of the yard, which was ankle-deep in dirt, with a brood of splashed and bespattered geese; and there was a grim-visaged dog, viciously panting in a doorway, who would certainly have had Romeo by the leg, the moment he put it over the wall, if he had existed and been at large in those times. The orchard fell into other hands, and was parted off many years ago; but there used to be one attached to the house - or at all events there may have, been, - and the hat (Cappêllo) the ancient cognizance of the family, may still be seen, carved in stone, over the gateway of the yard. The geese, the market-carts, their drivers, and the dog, were somewhat in the way of the story, it must be confessed; and it would have been pleasanter to have found the house empty, and to have been able to walk through the disused rooms. But the hat was unspeakably comfortable; and the place where the garden used to be, hardly less so. Besides, the house is a distrustful, jealous-looking house as one would desire to see, though of a very moderate size. So I was quite satisfied with it, as the veritable mansion of old Capulet, and was correspondingly grateful in my acknowledgments to an extremely unsentimental middle-aged lady, the Padrona of the Hotel, who was lounging on the threshold looking at the geese; and who at least resembled the Capulets in the one particular of being very great indeed in the 'Family' way.
From Juliet's home, to Juliet's tomb, is a transition as natural to the visitor, as to fair Juliet herself, or to the proudest Juliet that ever has taught the torches to burn bright in any time. So, I went off, with a guide, to an old, old garden, once belonging to an old, old convent, I suppose; and being admitted, at a shattered gate, by a bright-eyed woman who was washing clothes, went down some walks where fresh plants and young flowers were prettily growing among fragments of old wall, and ivy-coloured mounds; and was shown a little tank, or water-trough, which the bright-eyed woman - drying her arms upon her 'kerchief, called 'La tomba di Giulietta la sfortunáta.' With the best disposition in the world to believe, I could do no more than believe that the bright-eyed woman believed; so I gave her that much credit, and her customary fee in ready money. It was a pleasure, rather than a disappointment, that Juliet's resting-place was forgotten. However consolatory it may have been to Yorick's Ghost, to hear the feet upon the pavement overhead, and, twenty times a day, the repetition of his name, it is better for Juliet to lie out of the track of tourists, and to have no visitors but such as come to graves in spring-rain, and sweet air, and sunshine.
Pleasant Verona! With its beautiful old palaces, and charming country in the distance, seen from terrace walks, and stately, balustraded galleries. With its Roman gates, still spanning the fair street, and casting, on the sunlight of to-day, the shade of fifteen hundred years ago. With its marble-fitted churches, lofty towers, rich architecture, and quaint old quiet thoroughfares, where shouts of Montagues and Capulets once resounded,
And made Verona's ancient citizens
Cast by their grave, beseeming ornaments,
To wield old partizans.
With its fast-rushing river, picturesque old bridge, great castle, waving cypresses, and prospect so delightful, and so cheerful! Pleasant Verona!
In the midst of it, in the Piazza di Brá - a spirit of old time among the familiar realities of the passing hour - is the great Roman Amphitheatre. So well preserved, and carefully maintained, that every row of seats is there, unbroken. Over certain of the arches, the old Roman numerals may yet be seen; and there are corridors, and staircases, and subterranean passages for beasts, and winding ways, above ground and below, as when the fierce thousands hurried in and out, intent upon the bloody shows of the arena. Nestling in some of the shadows and hollow places of the walls, now, are smiths with their forges, and a few small dealers of one kind or other; and there are green weeds, and leaves, and grass, upon the parapet. But little else is greatly changed.
When I had traversed all about it, with great interest, and had gone up to the topmost round of seats, and turning from the lovely panorama closed in by the distant Alps, looked down into the building, it seemed to lie before me like the inside of a prodigious hat of plaited straw, with an enormously broad brim and a shallow crown; the plaits being represented by the four-and-forty rows of seats. The comparison is a homely and fantastic one, in sober remembrance and on paper, but it was irresistibly suggested at the moment, nevertheless.
An equestrian troop had been there, a short time before - the same troop, I dare say, that appeared to the old lady in the church at Modena - and had scooped out a little ring at one end of the area; where their performances had taken place, and where the marks of their horses' feet were still fresh. I could not but picture to myself, a handful of spectators gathered together on one or two of the old stone seats, and a spangled Cavalier being gallant, or a Policinello funny, with the grim walls looking on. Above all, I thought how strangely those Roman mutes would gaze upon the favourite comic scene of the travelling English, where a British nobleman (Lord John), with a very loose stomach: dressed in a blue-tailed coat down to his heels, bright yellow breeches, and a white hat: comes abroad, riding double on a rearing horse, with an English lady (Lady Betsy) in a straw bonnet and green veil, and a red spencer; and who always carries a gigantic reticule, and a put-up parasol.
I walked through and through the town all the rest of the day, and could have walked there until now, I think. In one place, there was a very pretty modern theatre, where they had just performed the opera (always popular in Verona) of Romeo and Juliet. In another there was a collection, under a colonnade, of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan remains, presided over by an ancient man who might have been an Etruscan relic himself; for he was not strong enough to open the iron gate, when he had unlocked it, and had neither voice enough to be audible when he described the curiosities, nor sight enough to see them: he was so very old. In another place, there was a gallery of pictures: so abominably bad, that it was quite delightful to see them mouldering away. But anywhere: in the churches, among the palaces, in the streets, on the bridge, or down beside the river: it was always pleasant Verona, and in my remembrance always will be.
I read Romeo and Juliet in my own room at the inn that night - of course, no Englishman had ever read it there, before - and set out for Mantua next day at sunrise, repeating to myself (in the coupé of an omnibus, and next to the conductor, who was reading the Mysteries of Paris),
There is no world without Verona's walls
But purgatory, torture, hell itself.
Hence-banished is banished from the world,
And world's exile is death -
which reminded me that Romeo was only banished five-and-twenty miles after all, and rather disturbed my confidence in his energy and boldness.
Was the way to Mantua as beautiful, in his time, I wonder! Did it wind through pasture land as green, bright with the same glancing streams, and dotted with fresh clumps of graceful trees! Those purple mountains lay on the horizon, then, for certain; and the dresses of these peasant girls, who wear a great, knobbed, silver pin like an English 'life-preserver' through their hair behind, can hardly be much changed. The hopeful feeling of so bright a morning, and so exquisite a sunrise, can have been no stranger, even to an exiled lover's breast; and Mantua itself must have broken on him in the prospect, with its towers, and walls, and water, pretty much as on a commonplace and matrimonial omnibus. He made the same sharp twists and turns, perhaps, over two rumbling drawbridges; passed through the like long, covered, wooden bridge; and leaving the marshy water behind, approached the rusty gate of stagnant Mantua.
If ever a man were suited to his place of residence, and his place of residence to him, the lean Apothecary and Mantua came together in a perfect fitness of things. It may have been more stirring then, perhaps. If so, the Apothecary was a man in advance of his time, and knew what Mantua would be, in eighteen hundred and forty-four. He fasted much, and that assisted him in his foreknowledge.
I put up at the Hotel of the Golden Lion, and was in my own room arranging plans with the brave Courier, when there came a modest little tap at the door, which opened on an outer gallery surrounding a court-yard; and an intensely shabby little man looked in, to inquire if the gentleman would have a Cicerone to show the town. His face was so very wistful and anxious, in the half-opened doorway, and there was so much poverty expressed in his faded suit and little pinched hat, and in the thread-bare worsted glove with which he held it - not expressed the less, because these were evidently his genteel clothes, hastily slipped on - that I would as soon have trodden on him as dismissed him. I engaged him on the instant, and he stepped in directly.
While I finished the discussion in which I was engaged, he stood, beaming by himself in a corner, making a feint of brushing my hat with his arm. If his fee had been as many napoleons as it was francs, there could not have shot over the twilight of his shabbiness such a gleam of sun, as lighted up the whole man, now that he was hired.
'Well!' said I, when I was ready, 'shall we go out now?'
'If the gentleman pleases. It is a beautiful day. A little fresh, but charming; altogether charming. The gentleman will allow me to open the door. This is the Inn Yard. The court-yard of the Golden Lion! The gentleman will please to mind his footing on the stairs.'
We were now in the street.
'This is the street of the Golden Lion. This, the outside of the Golden Lion. The interesting window up there, on the first Piano, where the pane of glass is broken, is the window of the gentleman's chamber!'
Having viewed all these remarkable objects, I inquired if there were much to see in Mantua.
'Well! Truly, no. Not much! So, so,' he said, shrugging his shoulders apologetically.
'Many churches?'
'No. Nearly all suppressed by the French.'
'Monasteries or convents?'
'No. The French again! Nearly all suppressed by Napoleon.'
'Much business?'
'Very little business.'
'Many strangers?'
'Ah Heaven!'
I thought he would have fainted.
'Then, when we have seen the two large churches yonder, what shall we do next?' said I.
He looked up the street, and down the street, and rubbed his chin timidly; and then said, glancing in my face as if a light had broken on his mind, yet with a humble appeal to my forbearance that was perfectly irresistible:
'We can take a little turn about the town, Signore!' (Si può far 'un píccolo gíro della citta).
It was impossible to be anything but delighted with the proposal, so we set off together in great good-humour. In the relief of his mind, he opened his heart, and gave up as much of Mantua as a Cicerone could.
'One must eat,' he said; 'but, bah! it was a dull place, without doubt!'
He made as much as possible of the Basilica of Santa Andrea - a noble church - and of an inclosed portion of the pavement, about which tapers were burning, and a few people kneeling, and under which is said to be preserved the Sangreal of the old Romances. This church disposed of, and another after it (the cathedral of San Pietro), we went to the Museum, which was shut up. 'It was all the same,' he said. 'Bah! There was not much inside!' Then, we went to see the Piazza del Diavolo, built by the Devil (for no particular purpose) in a single night; then, the Piazza Virgiliana; then, the statue of Virgil - our Poet, my little friend said, plucking up a spirit, for the moment, and putting his hat a little on one side. Then, we went to a dismal sort of farm-yard, by which a picture-gallery was approached. The moment the gate of this retreat was opened, some five hundred geese came waddling round us, stretching out their necks, and clamouring in the most hideous manner, as if they were ejaculating, 'Oh! here's somebody come to see the Pictures! Don't go up! Don't go up!' While we went up, they waited very quietly about the door in a crowd, cackling to one another occasionally, in a subdued tone; but the instant we appeared again, their necks came out like telescopes, and setting up a great noise, which meant, I have no doubt, 'What, you would go, would you! What do you think of it! How do you like it!' they attended us to the outer gate, and cast us forth, derisively, into Mantua.
The geese who saved the Capitol, were, as compared to these, Pork to the learned Pig. What a gallery it was! I would take their opinion on a question of art, in preference to the discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Now that we were standing in the street, after being thus ignominiouly escorted thither, my little friend was plainly reduced to the 'píccolo gíro,' or little circuit of the town, he had formerly proposed. But my suggestion that we should visit the Palazzo Tè (of which I had heard a great deal, as a strange wild place) imparted new life to him, and away we went.
The secret of the length of Midas's ears, would have been more extensively known, if that servant of his, who whispered it to the reeds, had lived in Mantua, where there are reeds and rushes enough to have published it to all the world. The Palazzo Tè stands in a swamp, among this sort of vegetation; and is, indeed, as singular a place as I ever saw.
Not for its dreariness, though it is very dreary. Not for its dampness, though it is very damp. Nor for its desolate condition, though it is as desolate and neglected as house can be. But chiefly for the unaccountable nightmares with which its interior has been decorated (among other subjects of more delicate execution), by Giulio Romano. There is a leering Giant over a certain chimney-piece, and there are dozens of Giants (Titans warring with Jove) on the walls of another room, so inconceivably ugly and grotesque, that it is marvellous how any man can have imagined such creatures. In the chamber in which they abound, these monsters, with swollen faces and cracked cheeks, and every kind of distortion of look and limb, are depicted as staggering under the weight of falling buildings, and being overwhelmed in the ruins; upheaving masses of rock, and burying themselves beneath; vainly striving to sustain the pillars of heavy roofs that topple down upon their heads; and, in a word, undergoing and doing every kind of mad and demoniacal destruction. The figures are immensely large, and exaggerated to the utmost pitch of uncouthness; the colouring is harsh and disagreeable; and the whole effect more like (I should imagine) a violent rush of blood to the head of the spectator, than any real picture set before him by the hand of an artist. This apoplectic performance was shown by a sickly-looking woman, whose appearance was referable, I dare say, to the bad air of the marshes; but it was difficult to help feeling as if she were too much haunted by the Giants, and they were frightening her to death, all alone in that exhausted cistern of a Palace, among the reeds and rushes, with the mists hovering about outside, and stalking round and round it continually.
Our walk through Mantua showed us, in almost every street, some suppressed church: now used for a warehouse, now for nothing at all: all as crazy and dismantled as they could be, short of tumbling down bodily. The marshy town was so intensely dull and flat, that the dirt upon it seemed not to have come there in the ordinary course, but to have settled and mantled on its surface as on standing water. And yet there were some business-dealings going on, and some profits realising; for there were arcades full of Jews, where those extraordinary people were sitting outside their shops, contemplating their stores of stuffs, and woollens, and bright handkerchiefs, and trinkets: and looking, in all respects, as wary and business-like, as their brethren in Houndsditch, London.
Having selected a Vetturíno from among the neighbouring Christians, who agreed to carry us to Milan in two days and a half, and to start, next morning, as soon as the gates were opened, I returned to the Golden Lion, and dined luxuriously in my own room, in a narrow passage between two bedsteads: confronted by a smoky fire, and backed up by a chest of drawers. At six o'clock next morning, we were jingling in the dark through the wet cold mist that enshrouded the town; and, before noon, the driver (a native of Mantua, and sixty years of age or thereabouts) began to ask the way to Milan.
It lay through Bozzolo; formerly a little republic, and now one of the most deserted and poverty-stricken of towns: where the landlord of the miserable inn (God bless him! it was his weekly custom) was distributing infinitesimal coins among a clamorous herd of women and children, whose rags were fluttering in the wind and rain outside his door, where they were gathered to receive his charity. It lay through mist, and mud, and rain, and vines trained low upon the ground, all that day and the next; the first sleeping-place being Cremona, memorable for its dark brick churches, and immensely high tower, the Torrazzo - to say nothing of its violins, of which it certainly produces none in these degenerate days; and the second, Lodi. Then we went on, through more mud, mist, and rain, and marshy ground: and through such a fog, as Englishmen, strong in the faith of their own grievances, are apt to believe is nowhere to be found but in their own country, until we entered the paved streets of Milan.
The fog was so dense here, that the spire of the far-famed Cathedral might as well have been at Bombay, for anything that could be seen of it at that time. But as we halted to refresh, for a few days then, and returned to Milan again next summer, I had ample opportunities of seeing the glorious structure in all its majesty and beauty.
All Christian homage to the saint who lies within it! There are many good and true saints in the calendar, but San Carlo Borromeo has - if I may quote Mrs. Primrose on such a subject - 'my warm heart.' A charitable doctor to the sick, a munificent friend to the poor, and this, not in any spirit of blind bigotry, but as the bold opponent of enormous abuses in the Romish church, I honour his memory. I honour it none the less, because he was nearly slain by a priest, suborned, by priests, to murder him at the altar: in acknowledgment of his endeavours to reform a false and hypocritical brotherhood of monks. Heaven shield all imitators of San Carlo Borromeo as it shielded him! A reforming Pope would need a little shielding, even now.
The subterranean chapel in which the body of San Carlo Borromeo is preserved, presents as striking and as ghastly a contrast, perhaps, as any place can show. The tapers which are lighted down there, flash and gleam on alti-rilievi in gold and silver, delicately wrought by skilful hands, and representing the principal events in the life of the saint. Jewels, and precious metals, shine and sparkle on every side. A windlass slowly removes the front of the altar; and, within it, in a gorgeous shrine of gold and silver, is seen, through alabaster, the shrivelled mummy of a man: the pontifical robes with which it is adorned, radiant with diamonds, emeralds, rubies: every costly and magnificent gem. The shrunken heap of poor earth in the midst of this great glitter, is more pitiful than if it lay upon a dung-hill. There is not a ray of imprisoned light in all the flash and fire of jewels, but seems to mock the dusty holes where eyes were, once. Every thread of silk in the rich vestments seems only a provision from the worms that spin, for the behoof of worms that propagate in sepulchres.
In the old refectory of the dilapidated Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, is the work of art, perhaps, better known than any other in the world: the Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci - with a door cut through it by the intelligent Dominican friars, to facilitate their operations at dinner-time.
I am not mechanically acquainted with the art of painting, and have no other means of judging of a picture than as I see it resembling and refining upon nature, and presenting graceful combinations of forms and colours. I am, therefore, no authority whatever, in reference to the 'touch' of this or that master; though I know very well (as anybody may, who chooses to think about the matter) that few very great masters can possibly have painted, in the compass of their lives, one-half of the pictures that bear their names, and that are recognised by many aspirants to a reputation for taste, as undoubted originals. But this, by the way. Of the Last Supper, I would simply observe, that in its beautiful composition and arrangement, there it is, at Milan, a wonderful picture; and that, in its original colouring, or in its original expression of any single face or feature, there it is not. Apart from the damage it has sustained from damp, decay, or neglect, it has been (as Barry shows) so retouched upon, and repainted, and that so clumsily, that many of the heads are, now, positive deformities, with patches of paint and plaster sticking upon them like wens, and utterly distorting the expression. Where the original artist set that impress of his genius on a face, which, almost in a line or touch, separated him from meaner painters and made him what he was, succeeding bunglers, filling up, or painting across seams and cracks, have been quite unable to imitate his hand; and putting in some scowls, or frowns, or wrinkles, of their own, have blotched and spoiled the work. This is so well established as an historical fact, that I should not repeat it, at the risk of being tedious, but for having observed an English gentleman before the picture, who was at great pains to fall into what I may describe as mild convulsions, at certain minute details of expression which are not left in it. Whereas, it would be comfortable and rational for travellers and critics to arrive at a general understanding that it cannot fail to have been a work of extraordinary merit, once: when, with so few of its original beauties remaining, the grandeur of the general design is yet sufficient to sustain it, as a piece replete with interest and dignity.
We achieved the other sights of Milan, in due course, and a fine city it is, though not so unmistakably Italian as to possess the characteristic qualities of many towns far less important in themselves. The Corso, where the Milanese gentry ride up and down in carriages, and rather than not do which, they would half starve themselves at home, is a most noble public promenade, shaded by long avenues of trees. In the splendid theatre of La Scala, there was a ballet of action performed after the opera, under the title of Prometheus: in the beginning of which, some hundred or two of men and women represented our mortal race before the refinements of the arts and sciences, and loves and graces, came on earth to soften them. I never saw anything more effective. Generally speaking, the pantomimic action of the Italians is more remarkable for its sudden and impetuous character than for its delicate expression, but, in this case, the drooping monotony: the weary, miserable, listless, moping life: the sordid passions and desires of human creatures, destitute of those elevating influences to which we owe so much, and to whose promoters we render so little: were expressed in a manner really powerful and affecting. I should have thought it almost impossible to present such an idea so strongly on the stage, without the aid of speech.
Milan soon lay behind us, at five o'clock in the morning; and before the golden statue on the summit of the cathedral spire was lost in the blue sky, the Alps, stupendously confused in lofty peaks and ridges, clouds and snow, were towering in our path.
Still, we continued to advance toward them until nightfall; and, all day long, the mountain tops presented strangely shifting shapes, as the road displayed them in different points of view. The beautiful day was just declining, when we came upon the Lago Maggiore, with its lovely islands. For however fanciful and fantastic the Isola Bella may be, and is, it still is beautiful. Anything springing out of that blue water, with that scenery around it, must be.
It was ten o'clock at night when we got to Domo d'Ossola, at the foot of the Pass of the Simplon. But as the moon was shining brightly, and there was not a cloud in the starlit sky, it was no time for going to bed, or going anywhere but on. So, we got a little carriage, after some delay, and began the ascent.
It was late in November; and the snow lying four or five feet thick in the beaten road on the summit (in other parts the new drift was already deep), the air was piercing cold. But, the serenity of the night, and the grandeur of the road, with its impenetrable shadows, and deep glooms, and its sudden turns into the shining of the moon and its incessant roar of falling water, rendered the journey more and more sublime at every step.
Soon leaving the calm Italian villages below us, sleeping in the moonlight, the road began to wind among dark trees, and after a time emerged upon a barer region, very steep and toilsome, where the moon shone bright and high. By degrees, the roar of water grew louder; and the stupendous track, after crossing the torrent by a bridge, struck in between two massive perpendicular walls of rock that quite shut out the moonlight, and only left a few stars shining in the narrow strip of sky above. Then, even this was lost, in the thick darkness of a cavern in the rock, through which the way was pierced; the terrible cataract thundering and roaring close below it, and its foam and spray hanging, in a mist, about the entrance. Emerging from this cave, and coming again into the moonlight, and across a dizzy bridge, it crept and twisted upward, through the Gorge of Gondo, savage and grand beyond description, with smooth-fronted precipices, rising up on either hand, and almost meeting overhead. Thus we went, climbing on our rugged way, higher and higher all night, without a moment's weariness: lost in the contemplation of the black rocks, the tremendous heights and depths, the fields of smooth snow lying, in the clefts and hollows, and the fierce torrents thundering headlong down the deep abyss.
Towards daybreak, we came among the snow, where a keen wind was blowing fiercely. Having, with some trouble, awakened the inmates of a wooden house in this solitude: round which the wind was howling dismally, catching up the snow in wreaths and hurling it away: we got some breakfast in a room built of rough timbers, but well warmed by a stove, and well contrived (as it had need to be) for keeping out the bitter storms. A sledge being then made ready, and four horses harnessed to it, we went, ploughing, through the snow. Still upward, but now in the cold light of morning, and with the great white desert on which we travelled, plain and clear.
We were well upon the summit of the mountain: and had before us the rude cross of wood, denoting its greatest altitude above the sea: when the light of the rising sun, struck, all at once, upon the waste of snow, and turned it a deep red. The lonely grandeur of the scene was then at its height.
As we went sledging on, there came out of the Hospice founded by Napoleon, a group of Peasant travellers, with staves and knapsacks, who had rested there last night: attended by a Monk or two, their hospitable entertainers, trudging slowly forward with them, for company's sake. It was pleasant to give them good morning, and pretty, looking back a long way after them, to see them looking back at us, and hesitating presently, when one of our horses stumbled and fell, whether or no they should return and help us. But he was soon up again, with the assistance of a rough waggoner whose team had stuck fast there too; and when we had helped him out of his difficulty, in return, we left him slowly ploughing towards them, and went slowly and swiftly forward, on the brink of a steep precipice, among the mountain pines.
Taking to our wheels again, soon afterwards, we began rapidly to descend; passing under everlasting glaciers, by means of arched galleries, hung with clusters of dripping icicles; under and over foaming waterfalls; near places of refuge, and galleries of shelter against sudden danger; through caverns over whose arched roofs the avalanches slide, in spring, and bury themselves in the unknown gulf beneath. Down, over lofty bridges, and through horrible ravines: a little shifting speck in the vast desolation of ice and snow, and monstrous granite rocks; down through the deep Gorge of the Saltine, and deafened by the torrent plunging madly down, among the riven blocks of rock, into the level country, far below. Gradually down, by zig-zag roads, lying between an upward and a downward precipice, into warmer weather, calmer air, and softer scenery, until there lay before us, glittering like gold or silver in the thaw and sunshine, the metal-covered, red, green, yellow, domes and church-spires of a Swiss town.
The business of these recollections being with Italy, and my business, consequently, being to scamper back thither as fast as possible, I will not recall (though I am sorely tempted) how the Swiss villages, clustered at the feet of Giant mountains, looked like playthings; or how confusedly the houses were heaped and piled together; or how there were very narrow streets to shut the howling winds out in the winter-time; and broken bridges, which the impetuous torrents, suddenly released in spring, had swept away. Or how there were peasant women here, with great round fur caps: looking, when they peeped out of casements and only their heads were seen, like a population of Sword-bearers to the Lord Mayor of London; or how the town of Vevey, lying on the smooth lake of Geneva, was beautiful to see; or how the statue of Saint Peter in the street at Fribourg, grasps the largest key that ever was beheld; or how Fribourg is illustrious for its two suspension bridges, and its grand cathedral organ.
Or how, between that town and Bâle, the road meandered among thriving villages of wooden cottages, with overhanging thatched roofs, and low protruding windows, glazed with small round panes of glass like crown-pieces; or how, in every little Swiss homestead, with its cart or waggon carefully stowed away beside the house, its little garden, stock of poultry, and groups of red-cheeked children, there was an air of comfort, very new and very pleasant after Italy; or how the dresses of the women changed again, and there were no more sword-bearers to be seen; and fair white stomachers, and great black, fan-shaped, gauzy-looking caps, prevailed instead.
Or how the country by the Jura mountains, sprinkled with snow, and lighted by the moon, and musical with falling water, was delightful; or how, below the windows of the great hotel of the Three Kings at Bâle, the swollen Rhine ran fast and green; or how, at Strasbourg, it was quite as fast but not as green: and was said to be foggy lower down: and, at that late time of the year, was a far less certain means of progress, than the highway road to Paris.
Or how Strasbourg itself, in its magnificent old Gothic Cathedral, and its ancient houses with their peaked roofs and gables, made a little gallery of quaint and interesting views; or how a crowd was gathered inside the cathedral at noon, to see the famous mechanical clock in motion, striking twelve. How, when it struck twelve, a whole army of puppets went through many ingenious evolutions; and, among them, a huge puppet-cock, perched on the top, crowed twelve times, loud and clear. Or how it was wonderful to see this cock at great pains to clap its wings, and strain its throat; but obviously having no connection whatever with its own voice; which was deep within the clock, a long way down.
Or how the road to Paris, was one sea of mud, and thence to the coast, a little better for a hard frost. Or how the cliffs of Dover were a pleasant sight, and England was so wonderfully neat - though dark, and lacking colour on a winter's day, it must be conceded.
Or how, a few days afterwards, it was cool, re-crossing the channel, with ice upon the decks, and snow lying pretty deep in France. Or how the Malle Poste scrambled through the snow, headlong, drawn in the hilly parts by any number of stout horses at a canter; or how there were, outside the Post-office Yard in Paris, before daybreak, extraordinary adventurers in heaps of rags, groping in the snowy streets with little rakes, in search of odds and ends.
Or how, between Paris and Marseilles, the snow being then exceeding deep, a thaw came on, and the mail waded rather than rolled for the next three hundred miles or so; breaking springs on Sunday nights, and putting out its two passengers to warm and refresh themselves pending the repairs, in miserable billiard-rooms, where hairy company, collected about stoves, were playing cards; the cards being very like themselves - extremely limp and dirty.
Or how there was detention at Marseilles from stress of weather; and steamers were advertised to go, which did not go; or how the good Steam-packet Charlemagne at length put out, and met such weather that now she threatened to run into Toulon, and now into Nice, but, the wind moderating, did neither, but ran on into Genoa harbour instead, where the familiar Bells rang sweetly in my ear. Or how there was a travelling party on board, of whom one member was very ill in the cabin next to mine, and being ill was cross, and therefore declined to give up the Dictionary, which he kept under his pillow; thereby obliging his companions to come down to him, constantly, to ask what was the Italian for a lump of sugar - a glass of brandy and water - what's o'clock? and so forth: which he always insisted on looking out, with his own sea-sick eyes, declining to entrust the book to any man alive.
Like GRUMIO, I might have told you, in detail, all this and something more - but to as little purpose - were I not deterred by the remembrance that my business is with Italy. Therefore, like GRUMIO'S story, 'it shall die in oblivion.'
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In today's world, there seems to be more people who claim unverified Cherokee ancestry than actual Cherokees who can prove their ancestry. People have these family traditions or stories that are passed down from generation to generation and even though they have never been able to verify these stories, they just keep on telling them. Most seem to believe their story is unique, therefore, it must be true. Nothing could actually be further from the truth. Real Cherokees hear these same stories over and over, and after a while, it gets maddening. Today, I thought I would share some of the most common themes in stories of unverified Cherokee ancestry.
Some degree of great grandma was a Cherokee princess.
Some degree of great grandpa was a chief.
An ancestor escaped the Trail of Tears.
An ancestor passed for white.
An ancestor was abandoned on the Trail of Tears as a baby/child.
An ancestor was rescued from the Trail of Tears by a soldier.
An ancestor's records were destroyed in a courthouse fire.
An ancestor destroyed their "Indian papers" to hide their ancestry.
An ancestor refused to "sign the roll".
An ancestor looks Indian in their picture.
The family received a letter telling them to claim their Indian land.
I have no idea how or why most of these stories got started in families, but to Cherokee genealogists, these are known as common myths. The minute we hear any of these things, we start seeing red flags. Unlike a lot of novice researchers who are only researching their family, we have researched lots and lots of families so we know these stories rarely if ever prove to be true.
So, if you are looking for a Cherokee ancestor because of one of these stories, you might want to re-evaluate the real reason you are doing your family genealogy. Do you just want to chase the trail of a "Cherokee" that might not exist or do you want to learn the truth about your ancestors, no matter who they were? Just something to think about.


I'm Not a Hypocrite. I Just Play One on TV.
From the Associated Press story that appeared in today's New York Times.
I'll pull your leg if you pull my finger.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.
Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity.
However you parse it, if this sort of reasoning idiocy brings Newt any comfort, I think it's pretty clear that Republicans have no business nominating him to run for president. Unless they prefer that the president be someone who can't be trusted to tell the truth.
It's always great when lunatics on the Right demonstrate their ineptitude and blatant xenophobia as clearly as Virgil Goode, a Republican representative from Virginia. It justifies so many of my liberal convictions.
He objects to the decision of Keith Ellison, a recently elected Democratic U.S. representative from Minnesota, to use the Koran when he is sworn in next month. Apparently some voters in Virginia wrote to complain to Goode — who knows what for, except perhaps to put ignorance, idiocy and irrelevance to paper. Goode rewarded them with a heart-warming personal response in which he incongruously rails against illegal immigration and advocates severe restrictions on legal immigration. According to the Times, some intern somewhere must have screwed up, because the good Congressman's mailing list accidentally included a guy from the Sierra Club — who had written the Congressman about an environmental issue in Virginia, not a representative from Minnesota. This is apparently the guy who made the letter public.
Goode says Ellison's decision to make his oath on the Koran is unamerican. I guess what he's saying is that America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave, but rather the land of the Christian and the home of the white man.
"I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped," he wrote.
Not that we should make it our business to specifically screen Muslims out of immigration proceedings, but Goode seems to have completely missed the mark here anyway. Keith Ellison is from Detroit. And while that may seem like a foreign country to many people (trust me, I grew up nearby), he can trace his family history in the United States back to the 18th century.
It may have escaped his notice that the Constitution allows for people of all religious stripes to run for Congress. Further, their swearing in does not include the use of a religious text. It's only at the public ceremony that a book is used.
And why should we care if it's the Koran or The Lord of the Flies? The Hebrew Bible and Mormon texts have been used in the past.
Goode's attempt to conflate wrong-headed anti-Muslim sentiment, fueled by anti-terrorism rhetoric, with immigration issues is little more than an admission of his gross ignorance and incompetence.
So, bravo! to the intelligent voters of Virginia's 5th district for electing this loser to Congress. I hope he gets them everything they deserve.
Virginia Democrats, don't despair: There are some decent folks in Minnesota who are willing to vote in a competent person to represent their interests to the U.S. Congress. You may want to move up north and cast your lot with them.
It's a good day for Democrats.
Still, I can't help but wonder if it's more due to the success of Democratic campaigns or the failures of the Republicans. I'm not sure that it matters, frankly. The next two years are going to be tough with a blue Congress and a red Administration.
I certainly hope the Democrats win the senate by gaining seats in Virginia and Montana. However, no matter what happens, I'd rather see them stay red than be mired in recounts. Despite whatever sweeping changes we think we may be seeing in this mid-term election year, VA and MT are like splashes of cold water reminding us that this country is still rather sharply and evenly divided.
Mid-term elections are more fascinating to me than presidential election years.


CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - An early morning crash has knocked out power to six customers in Cape Girardeau.
The crash happened shortly before 4 a.m. at the intersection of West End Boulevard and College Street.
Police say a vehicle clipped a utility pole downing electrical lines.
No one was hurt in the crash, but police closed West End due to the downed lines.
Six customers in Cape were without power.
An Ameren crew worked to restored power.


Yesterday, Cape Town's world champ surfers Jordy Smith, Mikey February and Frank Solomon joined Wesgro to unveil the new #ItsAllStillHere tourism campaign.
The campaign – which kicks off with three short, sharable videos – profiles the Cape's top surfing talent, natural beauty, and world class surf conditions. It acknowledges that our region has suffered its worst drought in history, but shows how we've got through the crisis and that our extraordinary destination is "all still here".
Each video features an internationally acclaimed local surfer explaining their personal relationship with water, and how the recent drought affected not only them, but the province as a whole. The message across all three videos is a clear call to action: Cape Town and the Western Cape is a leading destination for responsible tourism, and adventure tourism, with some of the best surfing conditions on the planet, and is open for business.
In the films, our surf spots give a taste of our world-class attractions and scenery, and show that our breath-taking adventure tourism experiences are all still here – waiting for tourists from around South Africa and the world.
"When Frank approached us with this idea of using globally recognised local surfers to help tell the Western Cape story, we saw a great opportunity to tie in a positive message about water," commented Judy Lain, Wesgro's Chief Marketing Officer for Tourism.
Jordy Smith is hailed as South Africa's top surfer and most successful – currently ranked fourth in the world and finishing runner-up on the World Surf League table twice. Despite being on the road to compete year round, he is locally based and a proud ambassador of Cape Town and the Western Cape.
Mikey February, the first Cape Town surfer to make it onto the World Surf League when he joined the world's top 34 surfers on the tour this year, is already making his mark on the international circuit. He grew up surfing the waves in Cape Town and the Western Cape and his story is truly inspirational.
Instrumental to the success of the videos produced was Sledgehammer Studios – who managed to capture each surfer in their home environments despite the short run times, and Sacha Specker – a local videographer and photographer who generously provided additional footage of all 3 surfers.
Wesgro is funded by the Western Cape Government, the City of Cape Town and the Department of Economic Development and Tourism (DEDAT).


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Невена Карановић (Ниш, 1961) српска је лекарка, кардиолог и политичар.

Студирала је на Медицинском факултету при Универзитету у Нишу, где је магистрирала 1997, и докторирала кардиологију 2001. Од 1988. до 2004. је радила као кардиолог на Клиници за кардиоваскуларне болести у Клиничком центру у Нишу. Била је један од оснивача партије Г17+, а у Народну скупштину улази након ванредних парламентарних избора у децембру 2003. Била је вршилац дужности Министра здравља у 2006, након оставке страначког колеге Томице Милосављевића

Биографија
Невена Карановић је кардиолог и прва жена која се бавила уградњом пејс-мејкера (1996) и инвазивном кардиолошком дијагностиком (2000) у Србији .

На Медицинском факултету Универзитета у Нишу је дипломирала (1985) и завршила специјализацију из интерне медицине(1995). Радила је на Клиници за кардиоваскуларне болести Клиничког центра Ниш (1988-2004), као кардиолог у коронарној јединици и шеф одељења за пејс-мејкере. На Медицинском факултету Универзитета у Нишу  одбранила је магистарски рад под називом "Хипертрофија леве коморе код болесника на дијализи" (1997) и докторску дисертацију под називом "Прогностички значај резидуалне исхемије процењене стрес-ехокардиографским тестом рано после акутног инфаркта миокарда" (2001). Била је стипендиста "-{Wellcome Trust}-"-a (2003) за лабораторијско истраживање у области атеросклерозе на Институту за Биохемију и молекуларну биологију Универзитета у Лондону (-{Institut of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London}-). На основу резултата свог научно-истраживачког рада у области кардиологије, 2011. године изабрана је у звање научног сарадника (реизабрана 2015).

Невена Карановић била је члан НВО Г17 Плус и један од оснивача политичке странке Г17 плус (2002). После парламентарних избора, 28. децембра 2003, изабрана је за народног посланика у Скупштини Републике Србије (јануар—март, 2004), а затим и за помоћника министара здравља за организацију здравствене службе и здравствену инспекцију (март - октобар 2004). Октобра исте године, Влада Републике Србије је поставила за заменика министра здравља/државног секретара. Ову функцију је у Министарству здравља обављала у три мандата владе, све до 6. септембра 2011. године, када је поднела оставку због преласка на другу дужност.

У оквиру Министарства здравља Републике Србије, Невена Карановић је водила неколико великих националних пројеката, међу којима и пројекте успостављања мреже центара за примарне перкутане интервенције у акутном инфаркту миокарда (у Нишу, Ваљеву, Ужицу, Лесковцу и Зајечару) и успостављање Клинике за кардиохирургију у Клиничком центру Ниш, због чега је награђена највишим признањем које додељује Скупштина Града Ниша - наградом "11. јануар" (2011).

Образовање из области јавног здравља, реформе здравственог система, финансирања у здравству и здравственог менаџмента, стекла је на едукацијама и тренинзима у организацији признатих институција у овим областима (EU Observatory on Health Systems and Politics; Imperial College London, London, UK;
ЈAICA, Kourume, Japan). Новембра 2007. године Невена Карановић је изабрана у звање доцента на Факултету за пословне студије Мегатренд универзитета за област менаџмента, а септембра, 2011. године, у звање ванредног професора. На овом универзитету покренула је и водила постдипломске студије менаџмента здравствених установа. Другу докторску дисертацију, под називом "Утицај едукације из области менаџмента на перформансе здравствених установа", одбранила је 2015. године на Факултету за пословне студије у Београду, чиме је стекла звање доктора економских наука.

Од 2015. године запослена је на Институту за рехабилитацију Београд. Удата је и мајка Кристине и Катарине.

Признања

Добитник је, 2011. године, највећег признања Града Ниша - Награде "11. јануар", за допринос у успостављању кардиохирургије у Клиничком центру Ниш.

Дела

Аутор је и коаутор 212 публикација из области медицине (кардиологија и нефрологија), менаџмента и корпоративне друштвене одговорности за здравство.

Извори

Спољашње везе

 Невена Карановић, државни секретар у Министарству здравља

Рођени 1961.
Политичари из Ниша
Српски лекари
Српски политичари
Народни посланици Скупштине Србије
Г17 плус
Професори Универзитета Мегатренд
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Pence tells Congress to 'buckle up' and get ready to enact major change
Erin Kelly, USA TODAY
PHILADELPHIA — Vice President Pence told Republican members of Congress on Thursday to "buckle up" and get ready to work with the new Trump administration on everything from repealing Obamacare to confirming a "strict constructionist" to fill the Supreme Court.
"My friends, this is our moment," he told lawmakers at a GOP congressional retreat in downtown Philadelphia.. "We got this far because President Donald Trump marshaled a movement unlike any movement in American history."
Pence, a former congressman and Indiana governor, said the challenges facing Congress and the White House are large and urgent.
"President Trump and I will forge a strong working relationship with the Congress and with all of you to enact the laws that will serve the American people," the vice president said, promising not to "bypass" Congress as he accused the Obama administration of doing. "We're all one party and we're all striving to achieve the same objective."
In addition to writing a new health care law to replace the Affordable Care Act, Pence said the administration's top goals are boosting military spending; improving and expanding America's highways, bridges, airports and public transit systems; and cutting government regulations. Congressional leaders have been talking about a nearly identical agenda at their retreat this week.
Pence, who will be attending the March for Life anti-abortion event in Washington on Friday, said he he was especially happy that Trump signed an executive order restoring a ban on giving U.S. funds to international groups that provide or discuss abortion services. Pence will become the highest-ranking government official to speak in person at the annual march.
"Just this week, this pro-life president reinstated the Mexico City policy banning public funding of abortion," he said. "As another pro-life American, I couldn't be more proud."
Pence said he was glad to be back in Pennsylvania, which gave Trump an upset victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 election.
"We owe Pennsylvania a debt of gratitude and thanks," he said. "We also have to return the favor. We need to repay the hard working people of Pennsylvania and people everywhere who yearn for a better future."
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., called Pence "the epitome of a happy warrior" as he introduced the vice president at the retreat.
"Mike Pence is the glue that keeps us all together focused and fixed on our shared timelines and challenges," Ryan said. "He makes all of us better."
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In speech to GOP lawmakers, Trump continues to insist Mexico will pay for wall


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Place stick blender in the oils and tap it on the bottom of the bowl to "burp" it and release any air bubbles.
Pour the lye water over the shaft of the stick blender. Carefully blend your oils and lye water until the mixture comes to a very light trace.
Add in the fragrance/stabilizer mixture, stirring by hand.
Pour approximately 2 cups of the batter into your clean measuring cup and set aside. This will be used for the cupcake icing.
To the remaining batter add the Sparkle Light Gold Mica/oil mixture. Continue mixing with stick blender until you reach a light/medium trace and then pour evenly between all cupcake liners.
To the remaining bowl of soap batter add the Sparkle White Champagne/oil mixture. Continue mixing with stick blender until you reach a heavy trace. This will be piped onto the cupcakes as icing so it needs to hold its shape.
When soap batter has reached this consistency begin filling the Decorator Pro. Pipe frosting onto all cupcakes and top with colored salts.
After 24-36 hours, carefully unmold the cupcakes. Allow the soap to cure fully for 4-6 weeks.
Package as desired and label accordingly.
"After I pipe the frosting on, do I need to spray it with 91% alcohol do avoid soda ash? If I don't spray it will it have soda ash on it?"
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Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov visited Yerevan on April 21-22, meeting with Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan, who stated that "by launching large-scale military operations against Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan once more proved that Karabakh cannot have anything common with Azerbaijan." Sargsyan also highlighted that Azerbaijan's actions have pushed the negotiation process into the distant future. In turn, Lavrov said that if the parties could develop common principles, which could serve as a basis for the preparation of legally binding documents, it would not only play a crucial role in restarting the negotiations, but also serve to contain the risk of new clashes. Lavrov reaffirmed that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has no military solution.
During his visit, the Russian foreign minister also met with his Armenian counterpart, Edward Nalbandian, who emphasized that calls and exhortations are not enough to make Azerbaijan sober up, and that concrete steps are needed to induce Azerbaijan to take a constructive position. The interlocutors stressed the importance of the agreements reached in 1994-1995, pertaining to the establishment of the ceasefire regime. The ministers also discussed cooperation between Armenia and Russia in the political, military-technical, economic, humanitarian and other spheres, as well as issues of cooperation under the framework of the UN, CSTO, EAEU, CIS, OSCE, CoE and other international organizations.
Before his visit to Yerevan, Lavrov had discussed the current situation around Nagorno-Karabakh in Baku on April 7. Simultaneously, late in the evening of April 7, Sargsyan received Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev. The Armenian president said that Armenia expects "targeted statements and certain actions" from the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and ally states. Sargsyan also declared that the refusal of some Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) partners to participate in the meeting of EEU Heads of Governments in Yerevan definitely tarnished the reputation of the organization.
Another frequently discussed topic during the weeks following the escalation of the conflict was the sale of Russian arms to Azerbaijan. Sargsyan voiced this concern during his meeting with Medvedev, arguing that "the fact that the Azeris have used weapons that they have acquired recently from Russia with full force resonated strongly in Armenia. It is quite understandable since at the public level in Armenia, Russia is perceived as the closest ally and friend." These concerns were voiced also in Berlin during Sargsyan's joint press conference on April 6 with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Sargsyan stated that "Russia is indeed our strategic partner and we are in the same security structure – CSTO, and it is naturally painful for us when Russia sells arms to Azerbaijan".


Every day is Chinese New Year at Wan Jun, a cheery shop packed to the rafters with a riot of colourful trinkets and treasures sourced from the Far East. Step inside and you'll be transported straight into an enchanting Hong Kong market bazaar.
Sitting on Newport Court, in between bubble tea shops and restaurants, Wan Jun was originally a costume shop until its owner was asked by customers to start stocking Chinese goodies, other than clothes. Today, Wan Jun is one of London's best-kept secrets for authentic Chinese gifts and craft items.
Chubby ornamental buddhas jostle for shelf space alongside giant vases, painted lamps, fragranced incense and pretty jewellery, while Chinese dragons, parasols and lanterns dangle playfully from the ceiling.
Wan Jun also stocks a stunning array of apparel including traditional hats, cheongsam dresses and silk slippers. And, of course, no self-respecting Chinese shop would be complete without the obligatory waving lucky cats – which, of course, Wan Jun have in abundance.


My name is Doug. I am not an engineer. If either of those statements disqualifies me from being a member here, please tell me. If there is a more appropriate forum to post my question, please direct me.
I am seeking help with predicting the final shape of a helix made by welding together segments of 6 inch diameter steel pipe if I predetermine the length of each piece of pipe, the cut angle between the pieces and the pipes rotation between angle cuts.
I would like to make a shape that starts with a small rotational diameter and fast climb rate and finishes with a larger rotational diameter and smaller climb rate.
I want to anticipate the finished shape based on a cut list instead of a gut feeling.
The simplest way is to design the helix on a CAD software like auto cad or solid works. This can be sliced at intervals (6 inches if you want). The slices can be dimensioned using the software. The rest is welding of which you know better.
Thank you Mr. Ramani and Mr. Italiya for reading and responding to this thread.
The extent of my computer skill is that I can type using all my remaining natural digits.
The sum of my math skills would be comparable to typing with a single foreshortened digit... ever so slowly.
I can accurately describe this projects goal and objectives and provide a list of tasks that I think, based on experience and intuition, will produce a helical shape. This construction method is error prone and leads to extensive use of my shops welding delete button.
The projects goal is: Replace the pole that supports a Barn Owl nesting box.
The project objectives are: Create a new support pole with a total above ground height of 20 feet, made from 6 inch diameter 10 gauge wall thickness steel pipe, that has the finished shape of a hemihelix with a perversion. The two spiral sections will each be made from a 15 foot piece of pipe and have a finished height of 10 feet each when measured from end to perversion. I want each spiral section to make 2 & 1/2 rotations between end and perversion. The completed pole should resemble an hour glass shape with pointed top and bottom and slender mid section.
The task list describes how to cut 21 pipe segments of 6 differing lengths and with angle end cuts that vary between 8 and 16 degrees. I'll use a proprietary method to accurately adjust the rotation between the angle cuts faces on each end of each piece of pipe. I fear however that erroneous assumptions scurry, like a Mus (Mus), undetected through my proposed script.
The construction process is tedious, but not difficult. Mistakes compound, and are stumbled upon rather than prevented. Field-fit adjustments help but can not overcome the unexpected twists of a best-guess cut list. Any custom fit on one spiral could be difficult to repeat on its mirror spiral.
I find myself griped like a claw, between metal fabrication ability and math/computer skill inability. I am reticent to ask anyone to spend their valuable time on a project that they will neither witness directly nor derive tangible benefit from.
I fear this shape prediction project is screwed between the proverbial Rock-and-a-Hard-Place conundrum.
I can but rely on the kindness of computer savvy strangers.
Thank you Mr Ramani. I'll try.
Is the "Tinkercard | Create 3D digital designs with online CAD", mentioned by Mr. Italiya a free CAD design tool or does one have to purchase the product in order to use it?
It's free tool. Also there are other available but never tried.


If you have taken a decision to stop using such a social network like Pinterest, it would be wise to delete Pinterest account. In such a case, you will be sure that no one will access your account and sensitive information. This guide will show you how to delete Pinterest account step by step. Actually, there is nothing difficult in doing it and you should simply follow the guidelines.
First of all, you have to open the browser and access the following website: https://www.pinterest.com/.
On the main webpage of Pinterest, you will get to see a sign up form in the center. However, you need to click on the "Log in" button that is placed on the right.
Then, you will have to log in to your Pinterest account. On the page that you have got to see, you should enter your email address in the first field and your password in the second field. After it, you should click on the "Continue" button.
Following it, you will have to click on the menu button, placed in the right-upper corner.
The following webpage is the place where you can actually change the settings of your Pinterest account. You need to scroll down a bit until the bottom of the account basics section of your settings.
Once you have done that, you will notice the "Deactivate Account" button there. You should click on that button in order to close your Pinterest account.
Following it, you will see a window where you have to specify the reason of why you are leaving. You should just check the box near an appropriate option.
Then, you should decide whether you want to close your account permanently or temporarily.
If you click on the "Deactivate my account" button, you will be still able to access the account.
If you click on the "Permanently close my account" button, your account won't be able to be recovered.
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Hot Reads: No Shortage of Options for Dawson on the D-Line
By Brandon Vogel
Nebraska defensive line coach Mike Dawson wasn't taking the bait following the Huskers' practice on Saturday. Lobbed the usual set of "who is standing out" type of questions that every coach gets this time of year (but particularly during his first availability of the spring), Dawson chose to play things down the middle.
"All the guys are pretty even right now," he said. "We just finished the second day of pads, so I'm not ready to say, 'This is great, this isn't great.' I think the guys are all kind of figuring me out, figuring out my group, figuring out Coach [Erik] Chinander's system and obviously how Coach [Scott] Frost wants us to practice."
That approach may not be just one of preference, but one of practicality. Dawson said he has not started penciling anyone in for specific roles at this point, and the players on the defensive line are learning every position across the front. "I think that it's better if you know what the guys next to you are doing," he said.
That, too, might be more of a reflection of where things are going on the defensive line than where they stand. When you look at the roster and consider how the Huskers will presumably play, you're left looking at what could be a pretty versatile group of defensive linemen.
UCF, like a lot of teams currently, spent much of its time in the 3-4 front asking its nose tackle to play like a traditional nose tackle and its defensive ends to play like traditional defensive tackles. Now look at the roster.
Among the presumed top group of defensive linemen, redshirt freshmen Damion Daniels (6-2, 310) is the easiest to categorize. He's a nose tackle. (For what it's worth, the only player listed at 'DT' on the d-line on the official roster.) The two players who primarily filled that role last year, senior Mick Stoltenberg (6-5, 305) and sophomore Deontre Thomas (6-3, 280), could fit in the middle again, but have the versatility to be defensive ends in this scheme. I think you could argue that Stoltenberg––who was tasked with packing on weight last season, and has generally done everything that's been asked of him, sometimes to his own detriment––is most naturally a run-stopping defensive end in this scheme, but given his experience and leadership probably takes the bulk of the nose tackle snaps unless Daniels really makes a push. Thomas is talented enough to find snaps where they're available.
Juniors Carlos (6-2, 295) and Khalil Davis (6-2, 290) are athletic enough to do it all up front as well, but, in my mind at least, naturally trend towards defensive ends in 2018. Senior Freedom Akinmoladun, once Nebraska's next great pass-rushing hope, will probably be asked to be more of a run-stopper now, and I think he'll be good at it. You can keep going down the list and most of the guys have the size and skillset to challenge for snaps at the spot with the most broadly-defined duties, defensive end.
Like a lot of others, I'm really high on Ben Stille (6-5, 255) after he put together a really good debut season under trying circumstances. Redshirt freshman Chris Walker (6-8, 275) comes over from the offensive line, and is an intriguing player to watch. Defensive line in this system can often feel a little like drudge work, but Walker's approach to doing that type of work might get him on the field.
Pure pass rush may fall more to the linebackers, though there are a few intriguing hybrid options available to Dawson. Husker fans have been anxiously waiting for junior DaiShon Neal (6-7, 275) to make his presence felt, and this might be his chance. It's worth noting that Oregon was in on Neal as a recruit at a time when Chinander was the Ducks' outside linebackers coach. Junior Alex Davis (6-5, 255), listed as linebacker, has much the same opportunity in 2018.
I feel like that may barely scratch the surface of all of the potential options available to Nebraska's defensive line in 2018. Everyone knows that success on defense (and offense for that matter) starts up front.
It's too early to know exactly how the Huskers pieces all fit on the front, but there's plenty of flexibility there. Just ask Dawson.
The Grab Bag
The Big Ten lands two games on this "Best Games of 2017" list, and UCF makes an appearance as well.
This is interesting: A recent change to state law might help Colorado and Colorado State keep pace with rising assistant football coach salaries.
On a slow Sunday I ended up watching pieces of the college 3X3U tournament, and came away with many of the same thoughts as Andrew Joseph outlines here.
ICYMI: Recruiting analyst Greg Smith had a slew of updates from Nebraska's junior day (with more on the way). Catch up on those here.
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Significant improvements in NHS stroke care, new study finds
Patients are receiving significantly improved NHS stroke care, an independent report published today has revealed.
The fourth annual report, commissioned by NHS England, states that patients are getting much quicker access to the vital tests and treatment they need when they have a stroke, greatly improving their chances of recovery.
On the key indicators for stroke care, significant quality improvements have been made including on waiting times and specialist care. Improvements highlighted in the report since the first report four years ago include:
Brain scanning times have improved with the numbers of patients scanned within 12 hours with more than 9 out of 10 (93.5 per cent) scanned within 12 hours, up from 84.6 per cent.
Four out of five patients are assessed by a stroke specialised consultant physician within 24 hours.
Almost nine out of 10 of eligible patients are receiving a clot busting drug thrombolysis, up from around seven in 10 two years ago. The numbers treated within one hour have risen from 53.2 per cent to 62.3 per cent.
Nine out of 10 patients received a joint health and social care plan on discharge in 2016/17, compared to only seven out of 10 in 2013/14.
Stroke is a devastating disease for patients and their families, and is estimated to cost the NHS around £3billion per year, with additional cost to the economy of £4billion in lost productivity, disability and informal care. Rapid assessment and treatment is known to save lives and improve chances of recovery.
Professor Tony Rudd, National Clinical Director for Stroke at NHS England said: "Stroke can be devastating for patients and their loved ones and so it is fantastic to see the excellent progress which has been made over the last four years. Real improvements have been made, not just in identifying and managing those with key stroke risk factors, but in waiting times for tests and new revolutionary treatments being provided.
"We are not complacent about stroke care – it remains the fourth biggest killer in England and we recognise that there is a great deal more still to do. The data published today provides us with a very high standard which we can continue to improve from to make stroke care even better for patients."
The number of stroke survivors in the UK is set to rise to over two million people and the NHS in England is working closely with the Stroke Association and other key organisations to develop a very clear plan to continue to improve stroke services across the country, which will include joining up our ambulance services, hospital services and community services to reduce the death rate, disability rate and increase the number of people that return to independent living.
NHS England also announced in April that they would commission mechanical thrombectomy to benefit 8,000 patients a year, which can significantly decrease the risk of long-term disability and also save millions of pounds in long term health and social care costs. Work remains underway to make this possible in the coming years.


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Related: May-December celebrity couples who found love. Akira wrote a long statement in English and Japanese on his Instagram, and fans were touched by his sincerity. With a smile, she always accepts me for who I am, and I constantly feel nothing but appreciation for her kindness. It pushes me to be better and I truly want to make her happy. Despite only having dated for less than a year, Gillian and Michael pledged their love to each other in an intimate ceremony last May.
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When Crash Landing on You released its very first episode on Netflix in late December , no one had any idea that it'd be the absolute hit that it is today. Fans from all around the world followed the lives of 2 star-crossed lovers, South Korean heiress Yoon Se-ri and North Korean army officer Ri Jeong-hyeok and watched their love story unfold over the 16 episodes that were aired.
The romantic drama became so critically acclaimed that it was the second highest rated K-drama in cable television history, beating out other popular K-dramas like Mr. Sunshine and Days My Prince. When the show started gaining traction in early , fans became even more interested in the life of the lead actress, Son Ye-jin. Some had seen her work in past K-dramas before, while others saw her as a fresh face in the industry.
Well, we're here to unpack some of the things you might not know about this Crash Landing on You actress. The year-old actress always knew she wanted to be in the acting industry, even when she was younger. She studied film at the Seoul Institute of the Arts, a prestigious school that's the alma mater of many other popular Korean actors as well. In an interview with Section TV, Entertainment News in , she gushed about how she was just "an ordinary high school student" that preferred to indulge in ddeokbokki Korean rice cakes rather than studying hard to get good grades.
It's been known and become extremely usual how Korean celebrities tend to hide their relationship while they date fellow actors or idols. Since such things could lead to scandals in the Korean entertainment industry, but in the end, most celebrity couples managed to keep their love life under wraps for years despite the rumors and speculations from their fans.
And sometimes, they confirmed the relationship through marriage! Some celebrities would host a press conference on their wedding day to share the joyful news, yet some others prefer to release a series of pre-wedding pictures or a hint of their love celebration through their agency. All was done to get their fans' blessings.
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Why is celebrity dating in Korea so different from the West? Take for example in Hollywood, a romantically linked celebrity couple either personally confirms their relationship, or they just go about their way and try to date like everyone else. For celebs, one of easiest and perhaps most obvious way to avoid prying eyes is to go on a trip abroad to literally escape everybody. For other stars who are not official, they keep everyone guessing and are completely careful about being photographed together.
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His Instagram comments lately are filled with fans shipping the duo after they enjoyed their on-screen chemistry. While the actors' are yet to address the frenzy, Min-ho has been single for a while now. The actor last dated Suzy Bae. The singer-actress and the popular South Korean actor dated for three years before they parted ways. While fans still miss the power couple, did you know which of the two stars took the initiative?
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