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For the past year the Saudi-led coalition has been using US-supplied cluster bombs in Yemen
This week marks one year since the Saudi–led coalition began using cluster munitions in populated areas in Yemen. The coalition is comprised of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.
Today, at a News Conference on Yemen (Yemen: Embargo Arms to Saudi Arabia) held by Human Rights Watch at the UN in New York, Ms. Megan Burke, Director of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines-Cluster Munition Coalition, strongly condemned the use of cluster munitions in Yemen and urged the Saudi–led coalition to immediately halt the use. Ms. Burke also called on the UN Security Council to express its concern and request an investigation into this use in Yemen as it has done for cluster munition use in South Sudan and Sudan.
Ms. Megan Burke, ICBL-CMC Director talks about use of cluster bombs in Yemen at HRW News Conference. UN, New York, 23 March 2016 @HRW
On the 8th of January, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his deep concern about the use of cluster munitions in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, stating that "The use of cluster munitions in populated areas may amount to a war crime due to their indiscriminate nature."
Members of the coalition such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco and United Arab Emirates are known to have stockpiled cluster munitions used in Yemen. United States and Brazil have supplied cluster munitions to coalition members.
As a result of repeated cluster munition use, thus far it has been confirmed that 13 people have been killed and 31 people injured in Yemen, of which only one casualty was confirmed to be a fighter/military.
Cluster munitions have been banned by 118 countries precisely because of their indiscriminate nature and their disproportionate impact on civilians. In December 2015, 139 countries, through a UN resolution, expressed their strong concern about the use of cluster munitions in different parts of the world and urged all states outside of the Convention to join as soon as possible.
The Netherlands, President of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, expressed concern over the use of cluster munitions in Yemen and called on all countries in the coalition and the Yemeni government to react to these allegations in a concrete, open and transparent way.
All States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions and others should publicly condemn the use of the internationally banned cluster munitions in Yemen and help to prevent further tragedies caused by these indiscriminate weapons.
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WHAT IS A POEM?
Before we take a look at some specific elements of poetry, it'd be helpful to briefly attempt to define just what a poem is.
What exactly makes a poem different, for example, from a piece of prose? Or song lyrics, even?
The truth is that when we get down to it, poetry isn't all that easy to pin down. Even poets themselves disagree about what constitutes a poem. What chance, then, do our struggling students have?
Luckily, some broad, general characteristics can be agreed upon. In this article, we will look at these common features of poetry and how we can best instil an understanding of these in our students.
COMMON FEATURES OF POETRY
● It looks like a poem – if it looks like a poem and reads like a poem, then the chances are pretty good that it is, indeed, a poem. Poetry comes in lines, some of which are complete sentences, but many of which are not. Also, usually, these lines don't run out to the margins consistently, like in, say, a novel. All this gives poetry a distinctive and recognisable look on the page.
● It often has some underlying form holding things together – while this isn't always true (in some free verse, for example), a lot of poetry conforms to a prescribed structure such as in a sonnet, a haiku etc.
● It uses imagery – if the poet is worth his or her salt, they'll endeavour to create images in the reader's mind using lots of sensory details and figurative language.
● It has a certain musicality – we could be forgiven for thinking that poetry's natural incarnation is the written word and its habitat, the page, but the printed word is not where poetry's origins lie. The earliest poems were composed orally and committed to memory. We can still see the importance the sound of language plays when we read poems out loud. We can see it, too, in the attention paid to musical devices incorporated into the poem. Devices such as alliteration, assonance, and rhyme, for example. We will look at many of these later in this article.
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THE PURPOSE OF POETRY: WHAT IS POETRY FOR?
Of all the forms professional writers can take, the professional poet most often finds themself struggling to make ends meet financially. Poetry can be challenging to understand and require a lot of effort from the reader. Students can be forgiven for wondering exactly what the point of this difficult-to-write and difficult-to-read genre that is apparently used to torture the less literary-minded during their school years.
It may be a hard sell to some of our more reluctant students, but there is a point behind all this word-smithery.
Poetry's purpose is essential to help us understand the world around us. It endeavours to show us things anew that we may have previously taken for granted. It offers us new perspectives on the familiar.
Poetry's purpose is to enable us to see the world with fresh eyes again, like those of a child. In doing this, it helps us understand our world more profoundly.
THE STRUCTURE OF POETRY
We've mentioned already that though poetry's origins lie in the spoken word, it does take a very recognizable shape when put down on the page. This is mainly due to the overall organization of the lines on the page, often in the form of stanzas.
THE STANZA
Though some modern forms of poetry eschew traditional poetic conventions such as rhyme schemes and meter etc., the stanza still plays a vital role in the overall look of printed poetry.
But, just what exactly is a stanza? – your students may well ask.
Stanzas are the poetic equivalent of a prose paragraph. They are a series of lines grouped together and separated from other groups of lines or stanzas by a skipped line.
Stanzas come in various lengths, dependent either on the poet's whim or the conventions of a particular poetic form. Various technical vocabulary is often used to refer to stanzas of specific lengths. Here are the most common of these,
Stanzas of:
● two lines are called a couplet
● three lines are called a tercet
● four lines are called a quatrain
● five lines are called a cinquain
● six lines are called a sestet, or occasionally a sexain
● seven lines are called a septet
● eight lines are called an octave
POEM STRUCTURES: TYPES OF POETRY AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS
When exploring the elements of poetry, we must appreciate there are many different types of poetry, some of which we will look at below. But, regardless of the specific type of poetry in question, most likely, a poem will fit into one of these three overarching types of poetry: lyric, narrative, and descriptive.
Lyric Poetry
Lyric poetry concerns itself mainly with the poet's emotional life; that is, it's written in their voice and expresses solid thoughts and emotions. There is only one voice in a lyric poem, and we see the world from that single perspective. Most modern poetry is lyric poetry in that it is personal and introspective.
As its name implies, narrative poetry is concerned with storytelling. Just as in a prose story, a narrative poem will most likely follow the conventions of the plot, including elements such as conflict, rising action, climax, resolution etc. Again, as in prose stories, narrative poems will most likely be peopled with characters to perform the actions of the tale.
Descriptive Poetry
Descriptive poetry usually employs lots of rich imagery to describe the world around the poet. While it most often has a single poetic voice and strong emotional content, descriptive poetry differs from lyric poetry in that its focus is more on the externalities of the world rather than the poet's interior life.
We have mentioned that poetry often hangs on the conventions of specific underlying structures. Let's now look at some of the more common subtypes and their defining characteristics.
SUBTYPES OF POETRY
Sonnets are predominantly concerned with matters of the heart. If you see a sonnet's recognisably blocky form on a page, there's a good chance the theme will be love. There are two common forms of sonnets: Shakespearean and Petrarchan. They differ slightly in their internal structure, but both have 14 lines. Let's take look at some more of the internal characteristics of both forms:
Petrarchan
● Comprises two stanzas
● The First eight lines pose a question
● 2nd stanza answers the question posed
● The rhyme scheme is: ABBA, ABBA, CDECDE
Shakespearean
● Comprises 3 quatrains of 4 lines each
● Ends with a rhyming couplet which forms a conclusion
● The rhyme scheme is: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
Haiku is a disciplined form of poetry that originates in 17th-century Japanese poetry. Usually, it is concerned with nature and natural phenomena such as the seasons, weather etc. They are often quite meditative in tone.
However, there are no fundamental rules regarding themes; the only actual demands here relate to structure:
● They are written in three-line stanzas
● 1st line contains five syllables
● 2nd line contains seven syllables
● 3rd line contains five syllables
Due to their short length and limited requirements, these are usually a lot of fun for students to write. They can serve as an excellent introduction for students to attempt to write poetry according to specific technical requirements of a form.
Elegies are a type of poem that don't really come with specific structural requirements but still constitute a recognisable form of poetry. What makes an elegy an elegy is its subject, that is, death. Elegies are poems of lamentation – the word elegy itself comes from the Greek word elegeia which means to 'lament'.
● A poem of reflection on death or on someone who has died
● Usually comes in three parts expressing loss:
○ grief
○ praise for the deceased
○ and, finally, consolation.
Favorites of school children everywhere, the most defining characteristic of limericks is their renowned humor. Given their well-deserved reputation for being funny and, on occasion, crude, it's easy to overlook the fact that beneath the laughs lies quite a tightly structured verse form.
● five lines in total
●Distinct verbal rhythm
● two longer lines of usually between 7 to 10 syllables
● two shorter lines of usually between 5 to 7 syllables
● one closing line containing the 'punchline.'
● Rhyme scheme is AABBA
Ballads are a type of narrative poetry closely tied to musical forms. Ballads written as poetry can often easily be adapted as song lyrics. While ballads don't have tight formal constrictions like some other forms of poetry, there are enough in the way of distinguishable features to identify them as a form.
● Tells a story, often using simple language
● Often romantic, adventurous, or humorous
● Arranged in groups of 4 lines or quatrains
● Often uses alternating 4 and 3 beat lines
● Rhyme scheme is usually ABAB or ABCB
Another poetry form that traces its origins to Ancient Greece, odes were initially intended to be sung. Nowadays, though no longer sung, the term ode still refers to a type of lyrical poem that addresses and often praises a specific person, thing, or event.
● The author addresses a person, thing, or event
● Usually has a solemn, serious tone
● Explores universal elements of the theme
● Powerful emotional element, often involving catharsis
Odes written in the classical vein can follow very strict metrical patterns and rhyme schemes. However, many modern odes are written in free verse involving irregular rhythm and without adherence to a rhyme scheme.
These long narrative poems recount heroic tales, usually focused on a legendary or mythical figure. Think of works of literature on a grand scale, such as The Odyssey, The Cattle Raid of Cooley, or Beowulf.
● Employs an objective and omniscient narrator
● Written in an elevated style
● Recounts heroic events
● Grand in scale
Though we refer to these devices here as 'poetic devices, the devices below are not the exclusive domain of poetry alone. Many of these are to be found in other writing genres, particularly other creative forms such as short stories, novels, and creative nonfiction.
Many of these devices originate in poetry's roots as a spoken literary form. They rely on the musicality of words, their rhythm and rhyme. They focus on various sound effects that can be created by the carefully chosen word.
Other devices are more concerned with imagery. They forge connections between various ideas and conjure pictures in the readers' minds. Together, these devices lift poetry into the realm of art.
The following devices are organized into two sections. The first section, titled Sound Devices, deals with the following devices: alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, and rhythm.
The second section Figurative Language deals with metaphor, personification, and simile. These are not meant as an exhaustive list but to give an indication of the possibilities for these elements of poetry. You can find many more examples of these in our article on figurative language.
Students will benefit from learning the definitions of each of these devices over time. While it is essential that they learn to recognize their use in the poetry of others and learn to appreciate the effects these devices can create, it is equally important that the students get a chance to have a go at creating their own examples of these devices in their own writing.
It is only by trying their hand at employing these devices in their own work that students can really internalize how these devices operate. So, in the section below, we'll first look at a working definition of the poetic device, then an example to illustrate it in action, before offering simple exercise students can undertake to gain more practice with it themselves.
Meaning: This device involves the repetition of the initial consonant sound of a series of words, often consecutively. Alliteration is most easily explained to students by looking at a few simple tongue twisters, such as Peter Piper or She Sells Seashells.
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter
But, the bit of butter Betty Botter bought was bitter
So Betty Botter bought a better bit of butter
Exercise: Challenge the students to write their own tongue twisters using alliteration. You may wish to give them a topic to write on to start. For example, younger students may well enjoy writing about animals. They may even wish to employ the sounds animals make in their tongue twister, e.g. The slithering snake slid sideways through the grass… Once they have written their poem see if they can identify any other elements of poetry within it.
Assonance
Meaning: Similarly to alliteration, assonance involves the repetition of sounds in a series of words, often consecutive words. However, rather than repeating the initial sounds, assonance focuses on the repeated internal vowel sounds.
We can find many examples of assonance in poetry and song. Here's an example from the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe: Hear the mellow wedding bells
Exercise: Assonance is often referred to as 'vowel rhyme'. It is very common in many forms of popular music, especially rap. Challenge your students to find examples of assonance in the music they listen to and share them with the class. They may also want to try their hand at writing their own examples too.
Consonance
Meaning: Consonance is the consonant-focused counterpart to assonance. It involves the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words, distinguished from alliteration, where the initial sound is repeated.
Example: The crow struck through the thick cloud like a rocket
Exercise: As there are many similarities between the devices of alliteration, assonance, and consonance, it would be a good idea to give the students opportunities to practice distinguishing between them. An excellent exercise to achieve this is to have them first identify examples of each device from a verse in a poetry anthology before challenging them to come up with original examples of each on their own. The students can then use the examples they have identified as models to create their own.
Meaning: Onomatopoeia refers to the process of creating words that sound like the very thing they refer to. For many students, the first introduction to onomatopoeia goes back to learning animal sounds as an infant. Words such as Oink! Chirp! Woof! and Meow! can all be thought of as onomatopoeic. Be sure to examine these elements of poetry with your younger students first.
Example: Aside from animal noises, the names of sounds themselves are often onomatopoeic, for example:
Thud!
Exercise: Encourage students to coin new onomatopoeic words. Instruct them to sit in silence for a few minutes. They should pay close attention to all the sounds they can hear in the environment. When the time is up, have the students quickly jot down all the noises they heard. They should then come up with an onomatopoeic word for each of the different sounds. For example, if they could hear people indistinctly talking in the corridor, they might come up with the word 'rabbalabba' to describe the sound they heard. As an extension, they could try using their freshly-minted words in sentences.
Meaning: Rhyme refers to the repetition of sounds in a poem. Various types of rhyme are possible; however, in English, we usually use the term rhyme to refer to the repetition of the final sounds in a line or end rhyme. Letters are often used to denote a rhyme scheme. A new letter is ascribed to each of the different sounds. For example, in the following example, the rhyme scheme is described as ABAB.
The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.
[From Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost]
Exercise: Even though a lot of modern poetry no longer follows a strict rhyme scheme, it is still helpful for students to be able to recognize various rhyming patterns in poetry. A good way for them to gain more experience with rhyme schemes is to give them copies of several different poems and ask them to describe the rhyme scheme using letters, e.g. ABAB, ABABCC etc. Once they have completed this task, they can then be challenged to write a stanza or two of poetry employing each rhyme scheme identified.
Meaning: Rhythm in poetry involves sound patterning. A lot of classical poetry conforms to a systematic regularity of rhythm, referred to as the poem's meter. This involves combining stressed and unstressed syllables to create a constant beat pattern that runs throughout the poem. Each pattern of beats is called a foot. There are various possible combinations of stressed and unstressed syllables, or feet, and these patterns have their own names to describe them. While exploring all of these in this article is impossible, we look at one of the more common ones below.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
[Iambic pentameter, i.e. five metrical feet of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables]
Exercise: A valuable way of tuning in students to meter is to have them mark the stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. The iambic pentameter is a good place to start. This pattern is found in many of Shakespeare's plays. It is also frequently used in love sonnets, where its rhythm reflects the beating of the human heart and reinforces the idea that love comes 'from the heart'. Once students have become adept at recognizing various meters and rhythms, they should have a go at writing in them too.
Figurative / Connotative Language in Poetry
Meaning: Metaphors make comparisons between things by stating that one thing literally is something else. Metaphors are used to bring clarity to ideas by forming connections. Often, metaphors reveal implicit similarities between two things or concepts.
Example: We can find lots of examples of metaphors in our everyday speech, for example:
She's an old flame
Life is a rollercoaster
Exercise: When students can comfortably identify metaphors in the poems of others, they should try their hands at creating their own metaphors. A good start is challenging them to convert some similes into metaphors. Not only does this give students valuable practice in creating metaphors, but it also helps reinforce their understanding of the differences between metaphors and similes while giving them a scaffold to support their first attempts at producing metaphors themselves.
Meaning: Unlike metaphors that make comparisons by saying one thing is something else, similes work by saying something is similar to something else. They commonly come in two forms. Those that make a comparison using 'as' and those that make a comparison using 'like'.
She is as strong as an ox
She sings like a nightingale
Exercise: As with the exercise for metaphors, it'd be helpful to practice for students to convert metaphors they identify in poetry into similes, reinforcing their understanding of both in the process.
Meaning: Personification is a particular type of metaphor where a non-human thing or idea is ascribed to human qualities or abilities. This can be in the form of a single phrase or line or extended in the form of a stanza or the whole poem.
The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done –
"It's very rude of him," she said,
"To come and spoil the fun."
[From the Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll]
Exercise: To help students practice distinguishing between metaphors, similes, and personification, gather a list of jumbled-up examples of each from various poems. Students can then sort these accordingly. When they have completed this, task them to devise an original example of each.
The elements of poetry are many, and while the elements explored above represent the most important of these, it is not an exhaustive list of every element. It takes lots of exposure for students to become comfortable recognizing each and confident in employing these elements in their writing.
Take every opportunity to reinforce student understanding of these elements. Poetic elements are often employed in genres outside of poetry such as in stories, advertising, and song – waste no opportunity!
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This was my first experience in a sea kayak and I was in doubt as to whether such a long thin vessel would be able to keep me afloat.
Paddlers were: Neil; Eric; Lisa; Jim; Shane; Nola and myself – Geraldine.
I was co-opted to write the trip report as I was first and only one to fall in. Although I didn't technically capsize, my bum missed the kayak.
The Loch was fantastically still and looking across the water as the mist and cloud spilled over the mountains like white custard sauce over a xmas pudding. There was a sense of beauty to a day not often associated with the month of February.
After going through some safety information, we set off, careful to avoid the fishing lines. Sea kayaks require impressively large turning circles. Under Neil's expert tutelage, we practiced the simple act of edging which can make such a difference.
For me the stillness of the water gave me the chance to address a nagging fault that causes me to veer off to the right. Having the opportunity to observe my stroke lengths and for want of a better term, foot pressure. I soon got to the root cause of all my kayaking related woes. Paddling in a straight(ish) line from island to island helped me to gain more speed, a little more grace and much more confidence.
We enjoyed lunch on the wallaby island under the 'no landing sign' – we honestly didn't see the sign until we were leaving.
Lisa kindly allowed Nola and I a chance to try out her sit on top kayak, which was very comfortable.
There is one essential item that needs to be added to your emergency kit, that being a toilet roll should your peace be rudely interrupted by an intrusive drone buzzing you overhead.
A wonderful day, great company, free car parking and good weather. What is not to love about kayaking?
My grateful thanks to Neil for facilitating the day.
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The art of living and dying well
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Is there such thing as a better death? This is the question posed by Australian oncologist and award-winning author Ranjana Srivastava in a fascinating article reproduced here
This is an edited version of an article that first appeared in The Guardian.
It isn't until my patient dies that I calculate we have known each other for 10 years, the time it took for her recurrent cancer to extinguish her life. I use the word 'extinguish' deliberately, for her two young children should have had her for longer. Her devoted husband sends me a peaceful photo of her from the hospice and details of her funeral. I choke – and tell myself that I have a full clinic of patients.
Sometime later, I call him.
"I am sorry she's gone. How are you?"
Time to talk: Dying matters
Assisted dying: should the law change?
"To be honest, relieved." His voice sounds definite and strong.
Why didn't we recognise the warning signs? I wish I had an answer for my dead patient's husband
The response takes me completely by surprise, evoking a curious mix of admiration and resistance. I think I was expecting to hear he is devastated; that after a thousand appointments, his days have fallen quiet; that he can't get over questions about the randomness of life. I know him well enough to ask about the children. I never met them but they were always part of my equation of keeping her well for as long as possible.
"They're back at school, doing OK. They've expected this for a long time."
In that moment, I know that they'll be all right. As her health alarmingly deteriorated, I'd worried about its ultimate effect on him. What happens to survivors consumed by a loved one's illness? What moves in to fill the void? In this instance, a deep sense of peace and closure.
Though her death was inevitable, many of us had shed tears. After a decade of shared lives, I realise this is our final conversation and now I want to relay our sorrow without somehow diminishing his sense of relief.
"I want you to know how much we admired her strength and your devotion to her. You did everything you could."
My voice cracks. He thanks me softly and we hang up.
An ancient truth
The next minute I am hurrying up the stairs to rescue my perturbed resident from an irate patient. He's in his 80s and the situation is best summed up by the resident. "He can't believe he is dying and his family isn't helping, either."
I reach the bedside of the angry patient and disbelieving relatives seeking to re-prosecute the case of his progressive cancer and my 'failure' to find a viable treatment. I draw pictures, share results and patiently explain how further chemotherapy is dangerous and why it's inappropriate, even unethical, to enrol him in a clinical trial in his bed-bound condition. But I can also see my words falling on deaf ears, which means that the end-of-life care he needs isn't going to eventuate.
Desperately, I ask, "What would you like me to do?"
"To make me better, obviously."
The palliative care nurse sighs. I am reminded of a saying from the Mahabharata, a 3,000-year-old Indian epic.
"What is the most surprising thing in the world?" a celestial figure asks a nobleman.
The nobleman replies, "Day after day, man sees countless people die but still he acts and thinks as if he will live forever."
A better death
Being an oncologist is to have a window into how people from different walks of life contemplate their mortality – but in a society that struggles to view any death as 'good', it is also an unmistakeable opportunity to share what at least constitutes a better death.
Acceptance is foremost. Some of my most remarkable patients have accepted early that they have not been singled out by misfortune, that suffering, in different shapes, is the course of humanity. I once told a terminally ill patient how much I regretted her predicament. "But we all die. My time came a bit earlier and it's nobody's fault," she replied with an equanimity that became the hallmark of her short life. She showed me how this vital understanding insulates us from excessive bitterness and rage while leaving open the possibility of doing everything we can to remain well and live a life of meaning.
The elements of a meaningful life may sound like a topic fit for armchair philosophers rather than the majority of us who have a hard enough time fitting in work, bills and care-giving duties. However, I routinely see how 'ordinary' people create meaning by deliberately practising forgiveness, kindness and generosity. I've often thought that the chemotherapy unit is one of the kindest places in the hospital; here, patients find the energy to bring lovingly baked scones and handmade cards to say thanks, and give encouragement, even though we all know the system periodically fails them. Others bear with delayed procedures, unexpectedly generous and genuine in their concern for patients who are even sicker.
Among their own substantial worries, I am always touched by how many patients ask after my children or care for my wellbeing. These simple and inexpensive gestures leave a legacy of goodwill for takers, but they also enrich the giver.
Family and friends – a crucial role
Modern life is governed by an individualistic philosophy but, when it comes to dying well, the role of family and friends is crucial. Illness – and with it the decline of our former proud and independent selves – can be ably tempered by loved ones who value us outside of our visible success and career accomplishments. When we feel diminished, they are best placed to reassure us that we are more than a title or a salary.
No-one can replace the family as the most potent reminder to the dying that their memory will be safe and cherished, and that it's OK to let go. I see many people wanting to help their loved one achieve a better death but not knowing how. Those who succeed say that a key step is self-awareness. A reluctance to contemplate one's own mortality makes it doubly hard to accompany others on the journey, and we would all do well to occasionally pause and reflect on the things that really matter.
Part of my job is to encounter surviving relatives in all kinds of places – at the pool, while buying groceries and in the clinic, when another family member is diagnosed with cancer. When I was younger, I used to wonder how anyone ever got over loss but the older I get the more I discover the infinite capacity of the human spirit to rise again.
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Survivors grieve in all kinds of ways. One family brings a monthly picnic to grandpa's grave, another scatters the ashes in the Ganges or the Atlantic, and another will need a lot more time. But I am consoled to find that reconciling to a death is possible without diminishing a person's significance, something even the most heartbroken of us would do well to remember.
No individual could possibly have all the wisdom needed to live well and die peacefully, but to be an oncologist is to be granted access to the collective wisdom of patients. Many of my patients told their story because they wanted others to learn. They knew that they were dying but they would be thrilled if their lives provided a meaningful template for the rest of us trying to make sense of life and death.
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4 hours, 14 minutesThe total flight duration from London, United Kingdom to Greenland is 4 hours, 14 minutes..
Greenland is not a place you have to worry about crime. According to the statistical website, Numbeo, Greenland rates as low for crime and high for safety.
Located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans is the world's largest island, Greenland. Ironically, it is also the least populated country in the world, with about 57,728 people as of July 2016. … The Central Intelligence Agency reports that 16.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line in 2015.
Visas are not required for trips to Greenland.
The Greenlandic language is roughly divided into four dialects: South Greenlandic, West Greenlandic, East Greenlandic and the Thule dialect. West Greenlandic is the official language which all children learn in addition to Danish and English.
The total flight duration from United States to Greenland is 6 hours, 36 minutes.
In short, Greenland is more fascinating and beautiful than I ever thought it would be. And while it's still much more "wild" and remote than some of the more popular destinations I've traveled to, Greenland is still quite tourist-friendly and easier to travel to than you probably think.
A vacation to Greenland for one week usually costs around kr9,938 for one person. So, a trip to Greenland for two people costs around kr19,876 for one week. … If you're traveling as a family of three or four people, the price person often goes down because kid's tickets are cheaper and hotel rooms can be shared.
Thanks to more comfortable weather, the best time to visit Greenland is a smooth and bright summer. A period from June through August is ideal for flightseeing, watching the midnight sun, enjoying hot springs or watching giant whales.
There are no direct flights between the U.S. and Greenland. In 2007, Air Greenland briefly flew a route from Baltimore to Greenland's Kangerlussuaq Airport, but dropped the route in 2008.
GETTING THERE There are only two airlines that fly to Greenland. … It flies year-round from Reykjavik Domestic Airport to both coasts of Greenland — Kulusuk on the east, Nuuk on the west. Air Iceland can also hook you up on seasonal flights to Narsarsuaq, Ilulissat and Kangerlussuaq.
A 15-minute flight may cost you $500, and a no-frills hotel room might cost over $400 per night, depending on where you are.
The official languages of the island are Greenlandic (also known as Kalaallisut, an Inuit language belonging to the Eskimo-Aleut language family) and Danish (a Scandinavian, or North Germanic, language); English is also spoken. … The large majority of people live in one of the island's 18 municipalities.
Greenland is one of the coldest countries in the world since almost the whole year the temperatures are below zero degrees Celsius (32˚F). Greenland is surrounded by seas that are either permanently frozen or chilled by cold currents. Fjords separate the inland ice areas with the seas.
While both – Iceland and Greenland – are expensive destinations, traveling to Iceland is actually quite a lot more affordable than traveling to Greenland. This is mainly because of the more expensive flights to Greenland and transportation within Greenland.
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Getting to Greenland Because Greenland has no roads or trains between towns, you'll want to fly directly to the city you wish to visit. No flights go directly to Greenland from North America, so the simplest option for tourists from this side of the globe involves going through Reykjavik, Iceland.
Most people travel by plane to Greenland. There are currently two airlines that offer tickets to Greenland on a regular basis. Air Greenland operates routes to Greenland from Copenhagen and Reykjavik and Air Iceland from Reykjavik in Iceland.
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STAUNTON DISTRICT TRAFFIC ALERT FOR DECEMBER 21, 2020 – JANUARY 1, 2021
STAUNTON – The following is a list of highway work that may affect traffic in the Staunton transportation district during the coming weeks. The Staunton District consists of 11 counties from the Alleghany Highlands to the northern Shenandoah Valley: Alleghany, Bath, Rockbridge, Highland, Augusta, Rockingham, Page, Shenandoah, Frederick, Clarke and Warren.
Scheduled work is subject to change due to inclement weather and material supplies. Motorists are advised to watch for slow-moving tractors during mowing operations. When traveling through a work zone, be alert to periodic changes in traffic patterns and lane closures.
*NEW* or *UPDATE* indicates a new or revised entry since last week's report.
Mile marker 9 to 25, eastbound and westbound – Alternating lane closures for maintenance of various bridges, Weekdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. through December 25.
PRIMARY ROADS
Various roads – Flagger traffic control for tree and debris removal, drainage work, shoulder repairs and brush cutting. Weekdays (except holidays) from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Route 661 (Midland Trail) – Flagger traffic control between Route 683 (Callaghan Circle) and Route 719 (Bellegray Lane) for maintenance of Ogle Creek bridge, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. through January 1.
Route 696 (Selma-Low Moor Road) – Temporary signals control traffic 24/7 between I-64 and Route 616 (Rich Patch Road) during bridge replacement at Karnes Creek. Estimated project completion in fall 2021.
Various roads – Flagger traffic control for pipe replacements, ditch work, tree removal, shoulder repairs and brush cutting. Weekdays (except holidays) from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Various roads – Flagger traffic control for brush cutting. Weekdays (except holidays) from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY
No lane closures reported.
*UPDATE* Route 11 (Lee Highway) – Northbound single-lane closures for utility work between Route 11 bypass interchange and Route 631 (Old Buena Vista Road), 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. through December 31. No lane closures on holidays.
Various roads – Mobile traffic control for mowing. Flagger traffic control for pipe replacement, ditch work, tree removal, shoulder repairs, pavement patching and brush cutting. Weekdays (except holidays) from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Various roads – Mobile traffic control for mowing. Flagger traffic control for grading, pipe replacement, ditch work, tree removal, pavement patching, shoulder repairs and brush cutting. Weekdays (except holidays) from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Various roads – Flagger traffic control for tree removal, pavement patching and shoulder repairs. Weekdays (except holidays) from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Route 636 (Spruce Street) – Shoulder closures for utility work near intersection with Route 621 (Airport Terrace Road), 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. through December 31.
Route 637 (Maple Sugar Road) – Shoulder closures for utility work about 1.1 mile south of Route 640 (Blue Grass Valley Road), 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. through December 30.
Various roads – Mobile traffic control for mowing. Flagger traffic control for pipe cleaning, tree removal, pavement patching, ditch work and adding stone to unpaved roads. Weekdays (except holidays) from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
AUGUSTA COUNTY
*UPDATE* Mile marker 219 to 220, northbound – Right shoulder closures for sign work, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through December 23.
*NEW* Exit 221, southbound – Overnight alternating lane closures along ramp to I-64 for bridge inspections, Monday and Tuesday nights (December 21-22) from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.
*UPDATE* Mile marker 223 to 222, southbound – Alternating lane closures for inspection of bridge over railway and Augusta Woods Drive, Sunday through Tuesday nights (December 20-22) from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.
*UPDATE* Route 11 (Lee-Jackson Highway) – Southbound shoulder closures between Route 1402 (First Street) and Route 1409 (Mitchell Lane) for utility work, Monday to Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through January 14.
*NEW* Route 250 (Churchville Avenue) –Shoulder closures for tree removal operations between Route 722 (Vinegar Hill Road) and Route 801 (Hangers Mill Road), December 21-January 1 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Route 250 (Churchville Avenue) – Traffic diversion in place for Bell Creek bridge replacement between Route 732 (Franks Mill Road) and western intersection with Route 840 (Old Churchville Road). Detour uses temporary bridge and portion of Route 732. Work zone speed limit 35 miles an hour. Estimated project completion summer 2021.
Route 608 (Cold Springs Road) – Flagger traffic control between Route 610 (Howardsville Turnpike) and Route 1511 (Flory Avenue) for maintenance to South River bridge, Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. through December 25.
*NEW* Route 612 (Laurel Hill Road) – Lane closures between Route 818 (Dunsmore Road) and Route 1921 (Adams Lane) for utility work, December 21-25 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Route 616 (Humbert Road) – Shoulder closures between Route 865 (Rockfish Road) and Route 608 (Battlefield Road) for utility work, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. through February 26.
Route 634 (Patton Farm Road) – Shoulder closures between Route 610 (Howardsville Turnpike) and Route 639 (Wayne Avenue) for utility work, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. through February 25.
Route 635 (Barterbrook Road) – Overnight mobile lane closures for inspection of traffic signals between Route 1404 (Sunset Boulevard) and Route F217 (frontage road), 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. through December 24.
Route 732 (Franks Mill Road) – Traffic pattern change for Bell Creek bridge replacement near intersection with Route 250 (Churchville Avenue). Part of Route 732 serves as detour for Route 250 traffic. Work zone speed limit 35 miles an hour. Estimated project completion summer 2021.
Route 792 (Indian Mound Road) – Temporary lane closures for utility work between Route 612 (Laurel Hill Road) and Route 790 (West Amber Road), 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. through December 23.
*UPDATE* Various roads – Mobile work zones in the Swoope, Craigsville, Verona, Moscow, Fishersville and Mint Spring areas for mowing, pothole patching, brush cutting and grading non-hard surface roads. Weekdays (except holidays) from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. through January 31.
Mile marker 242 to 249, northbound and southbound – Overnight left lane closures for soil and rock testing in median, Sunday through Thursday nights from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. through December 23.
*NEW* Exit 245, northbound – Right shoulder closures for sign work along off-ramp to Route 253 (Port Republic Road), December 28-January 8 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
*NEW* Mile marker 248 to 249, northbound – Overnight alternating lane closures for maintenance of Route 720 overpass, 8 p.m. Monday to 7 a.m. Tuesday (December 21-22).
*NEW* Route 11 (Valley Pike) – Shoulder closures for tree removal operations between Route 808 (Big Spring Drive) and Route 806 (Lacey Spring Road), December 21-January 1 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
*NEW* Route 11 (Lee Highway) – Shoulder closures for sign work near intersection with Route 721 (Fellowship Road), December 28-January 8 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
*NEW* Route 33 (Market Street, Harrisonburg) – Alternating eastbound lane closures for maintenance of I-81 bridge, 8 p.m. Monday to 7 a.m. Tuesday (December 21-22).
*NEW* Route 33 (Spotswood Trail) – Overnight alternating lane closures for traffic signal inspections at various locations between Route 687 (Massanetta Springs Road) and Route 981 (Rockingham Pike), Monday through Wednesday nights (December 21-24) from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m.
*NEW* Route 253 (Port Republic Road) – Overnight alternating lane closures for traffic signal inspections at intersections with Route 276 (Cross Keys Road) and Route 689 (Spaders Church Road), Monday through Wednesday nights (December 21-24) from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m.
*NEW* Route 340 (Stuart Avenue, Elkton) – Overnight alternating lane closures for traffic signal inspections at intersections with Blue and Gold Drive, Spotswood Avenue and Shenandoah Avenue, Monday through Wednesday nights (December 21-24) from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Route 801 (Holsinger Road – Shoulder closures for utility work between Route 42 (Timber Way) and Route 800 (American Legion Drive), 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. through December 22.
PAGE COUNTY
Route 211 – Shoulder closures for sign work between eastern and western intersections with Route 211 Business at Luray, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through December 23.
Route 211 – Single-lane traffic between Route 615 (Egypt Bend Road) and Route 646 (Oak Leaf Road). Westbound traffic uses median crossover to share eastbound bridge over Shenandoah River South Fork. Work zone speed limit 45 miles an hour. Traffic restrictions are for westbound bridge replacement with estimated completion in summer 2022.
SHENANDOAH COUNTY
*NEW* Mile marker 280 to 281, northbound – Shoulder closures for sign installation, December 21-23 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
*UPDATE* Mile marker 285 to 284, southbound – Shoulder closures for sign installation, December 21-23 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Route 55/48 (John Marshall Highway) – Alternating lane closures for utility work between Route 633 (Red Bud Road) and Frederick County line, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through January 10.
Route 623 (Coal Mine Road) – Road closed just east of Route 606 (Moores Ford Road) for Cedar Creek bridge replacement at Frederick County line. Follow posted detour. Estimated project completion June 2021.
Various roads – Flagger traffic control for utility tree trimming, Monday to Friday (except holidays) during daylight hours.
Route 55/48 (Wardensville Pike) – Alternating lane closures for utility work between Shenandoah County line and West Virginia line, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through January 10.
Route 277 (Fairfax Pike) – Overnight lane closures or lane shifts as needed between Route 647 (Aylor Road) and Route 641 (Double Church Road). Shoulder closures 24/7. Traffic restrictions are part of roadway reconstruction project with completion in late 2022.
Route 522 (Front Royal Pike) – Northbound left lane closures near intersection with Route 645 (Airport Road) for pipe, curb and gutter installation, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through December 31.
Route 623 (Fromans Road) – Closed for bridge replacement at Cedar Creek just west of Route 622 (Cedar Creek Grade) at Shenandoah County line. Follow posted detour. Estimated project completion June 2021.
*UPDATE* Route 641 (Double Church Road) – Flagger traffic control between Route 1450 (Driftwood Drive) and Route 1049 (Buckingham Drive), Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Traffic restrictions are for utility work and roadway reconstruction through November 2021.
*UPDATE* Route 1085 (Stickley Drive) – Closed just south of Route 277 (Fairfax Pike) for utility work and roadway reconstruction. Detour using Route 1012 (Town Run Lane). Road scheduled to reopen Monday, December 21.
Vegetation management may take place district wide on various routes. Motorists are reminded to use extreme caution when traveling through work zones.
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Mexico's drug trafficking violence gets U.S. attention
Almost overnight, Mexico has jumped to the top of the U.S. diplomatic agenda – at least momentarily overshadowing Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is visiting Mexico this week, paving the way for a scheduled visit next month by President Obama.
It appears that part of the attention comes from a heightened awareness of the cross-border threat of drug-related violence. The rhetoric got especially charged in recent months as Spring Breakers were warned to avoid Mexico (The ATF, in an odd move for an agency whose role seems mismatched for such statements, warned students to avoid Mexico – and then later softened their stance). The U.S. Joint Forces Command, meanwhile, identified Mexico as one of the two most critical states in danger of failing due to the havoc created by the region's drug cartels.
To be sure, the violence appears to have taken a particularly savage turn over the past few years. Missing in some of these assessments, however, is that the backlash comes from the Mexican government's own success in attacking the country's drug cartels over the past eight years. Dismantling long-standing drug trafficking organizations, unfortunately, creates instability . Drug trafficking was a major problem during the 1990s but it may not have attracted this much attention because the drug groups operated with comparatively minimal meddling from the government. This created a false sense of order.
With so much attention on the violence in Mexico lately (I can't seem to turn on the radio or read a news media source without hearing about it), Mexican authorities have lashed back. In recent weeks, they have pointed out that the U.S. demand for drugs is fueling the drug trade. They have accused the U.S. of not doing enough to curb the flow of firearms south of the border into the hands of drug traffickers. Mexican president Felipe Calderon also suggested that the U.S. do a better job of attacking drug corruption in its own agencies.
Things have gotten testy, and the visits by U.S. diplomats are clearly meant to soothe the bickering and focus on the cross-border collaboration efforts. Whether this actually translates to a reduction in the violence is unclear, especially when we consider the unabated demand for drugs in the United States. Instead, stability may be more dependent on the ability of Mexican drug groups to re-negotiate their roles in a way that gives us all the illusion that the underlying problem has been fixed.
Read a story here in The New York Times, about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitting that the U.S. shares a responsibility in Mexico's problems. Here's another one by The Washington Post.
Here is an essay by Mexican scholar Enrique Krauze who argues that Mexico is not a "failed state" at risk of "imminent collapse."
Here is a story in The San Diego Union-Tribune about how Mexican drug trafficking groups get their guns from the U.S.
Blog essay by Anna Cearley, former border reporter
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But as in this sum there were inalienable
Rentes to the amount of...... .......................
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And...........
There only remains of redeemable Rentes
And........
7,320 metallic roubles, 11,794,911 paper. 327,520 metallic,
Which, by the annual increase of the Sinking Fund, by means of redeemed Rentes, will likewise be reduced in 20 Years. There will then remain only 11,794,911 inalienable roubles, which, with the 26,000,000 mentioned above, belong almost wholly to Publick Establishments. The Loan in metallic inscriptions, made by means of the House of Baring and Hope, is for 40,000,000; but only 26,750,000 roubles have been carried to the account of the 30,000,000 assigned to the diminution of the paper money.
....... 97,925,460 paper.
We have already redeemed of the Loan a capital of 701,700 roubles. Of the produce which the Commission has drawn from, we burnt in 1820, and we are going to burn for 1821, 46,851,394 roubles. The Commission for the Sinking Fund keeps the remainder at its disposal. Up to January, 1821, we have burnt............... 191,109,420 roubles, And we are about to burn ...... 44,968,230
We have redeemed in all...........
The 30,000,000 fixed annually for the use of the Loans made with the object of diminishing the paper money, are not only sufficient for the purpose, but there remain at the disposal of the Commission more than 40,000,000, to be employed to continue this operation in the way that shall be thought most agreeable. The third part of the Debt comprehends those which are calculated to satisfy the wants of the different branches of the Administration, after the establishment of the Sinking Fund. They amounted, during the last 4 Years, to the sum of 1,305,000 roubles in metallic currency, and 17,495,000 roubles in assignats, which you have seen in the Accounts which have been presented.
Last Year, the Government thought it necessary to carry to the account of the Treasury, about one third of the Loan of 40,000,000 metallic currency, which had been opened at 13,250,000 roubles, Which raised them to And...........
14,555,000 metallic roubles, 17,495,000 paper roubles.
But, according to the principle which had been established, the Government secured the payment of the interest of the Sinking Fund, in assigning for these two objects, the requisite sums above 30,000,000 necessary for the use of the former Debts.
In this manner, the whole of our Debts on the 1st of Jan. 1822, is: Dutch Debt................ ..... 48,600,000 florins. Debts in Russian Money, both Debts in Russia, on terms which will render them perpetual......
22,920 roubles.
58,028,136-937 e.
In metallic money
......................... 236,077,650
In assignats
Of which there are
And..........
...296,047,85 r.
48,481,920 silver, ....................196,932,960 paper money.
The capital of which the Commission disposes this Year, for the redemption of the latter, amounts to........... 65,000 silver roubles, And....... 5,632,000 paper money. Which is more than the necessary proportion. The Account of the Commission will prove to you, Gentlemen, that the fees which it receives from the Treasury are punctually paid, and that it disposes of them conformably to the orders which have been given to it.
Bank of Assignats.-This Bank is limited, as you know, to the exchange of the Notes which, injured by use, cannot any longer remain in circulation, and which it replaces either by new Notes or by copper Coin. It is equally charged with the making of the new Notes necessary for the purpose which I am about to mention; and, finally, it is charged with the recovery of certain sums which Individuals owed to the former Boards.
You will be satisfied, Gentlemen, by the Accounts which will be presented to you, that the prohibition of any new issue of paper is strictly observed.
Last Year I announced to you, and the Accounts of the Bank will have shown to you, that, after having substituted for the former Notes those which circulate at present, we had in circulation about 639,460,270 roubles.
In spite of all the measures taken by the Government to make known to all Persons the term fixed by the Ordinances to exchange the old Notes, many of them were found in the hands of the poor and indigent classes of society. The Government did not wish that the Bank should profit by their negligence, and the Emperor, therefore, ordered all to be paid which should be presented during the Year 1821. To the 1st of January, 1822, there was withdrawn 1,437,200 roubles; the whole mass issued amounts to 640,897,470 roubles; and, as we are going to burn, at the end of this Session, 44,968,230 roubles, there will remain in circulation about 595,926,240 roubles.
Loan Bank.-The Loans which this Establishment has made, in the course of the Year 1821, by order of His Imperial Majesty, amounts to 16,000 roubles in gold; 27,000 in silver; and 9,073,689 roubles in paper.
The greater part of these Loans has been advanced to Manufacturers, for the support of their Establishments. The capitals belonging to this Bank will be solely devoted to the support of industry. The net profit which it derived during the last Year from its operations was 6,322 roubles in gold; 138,782 in silver, and 2,227,624 in paper.
Commercial Bank; instituted for the support of the Commercial Class. This Establishment has last Year rendered important ser
vices, by facilitating the operations at a time when our commerce most imperiously required that assistance. Its beneficial influence has not only been felt in the Capital, but has been spread to all the Cities most engaged in commerce. The Offices which it established at Riga in course of the last Year, and at the commencement of the present at Astrachan, will extend the circle of its activity. Its Capital, which at the time of its institution amounted only to 17,000,000, now amounts to the 30,000,000, fixed by the Manifesto of 1817. The deposits, both at the Bank and at its Branches, including what remained from 1820, have amounted, for repayment, to 49,481,000 roubles, and, at interest, to 126,874,000 roubles.
The total sum at its disposal, in addition to its own Capital, amounts to 205,000,000.
The Bank and its Branches have effected the following arrange. ments: they have advanced, in sums for repayment, 18,818,000 roubles; they have assigned, from one City to another, 30,663,000: they have restored sums, placed at their disposal, with the intention of deriving interest from them, to the amount of 92,804,405. They have discounted, by Bills of Exchange, the sum of 228,619,000. They have advanced, upon deposits of merchandize, 7,890,000. They have discounted, in Bank Notes, 20,350,000; and in Foreign Bills of Exchange, 3,035,000. The whole of their operations have amounted to 309,357,000.
The advances upon commodities have exceeded by 2,600,000 those made in 1820; and the discount on Bills of Exchange presents a surplus of 58,000,000.
Of the Paper Money protested, there is an amount of 1,403,751 which has not been paid. The majority of it is found to be counterfeited. The Government, however, knows and will prosecute the Forgers. By all that we can learn, the Bank will not experience considerable losses owing to these Persons. These losses will be amply compensated by the profits which the Bank has made, and which amount to 3,204,385 roubles. The total of returns into the Funds of this Establishment, and the Publick Offices, in 1821, amounts to 1,178,454,398 roubles in paper, and 9,165,739 roubles in silver.
Such, Gentlemen, is the situation of our Credit Establishments. It proves that our system of Publick Credit is built on a solid basis, and that we cannot entertain a doubt of the advantage which it will confer upon the State.
The sacred word of the Sovereign, to whom Russia is indebted for this new benefit; the punctuality with which the sums set apart for this service are paid; the rigorous observance of the rules which fix their application; become, when combined, the essential guarantees of our system of credit. Debts formerly contracted are at length perfectly ascertained; each of them has been arranged, upon rules agreeable to
the Creditors of the State, and the means have been provided for satisfying them.
Our system of Credit, in consolidating itself, offers the means of providing for expenses which might exceed the ordinary resources of the Treasury, and gives greater facilities to its operations.
The extreme necessity of having recourse, on ordinary occasions, to new issues of Bank Paper, so injurious to private and publick interests, cannot, henceforward, conflict with the existence of our system of credit. The paper money, arrested in its progress towards depreciation, has acquired a greater value; we neither expect nor desire a sudden rise. By diminishing the mass of paper from 836,000,000 to 596,000,000, we might have obtained a more sensible amelioration; but the distressing situation of our commerce has relaxed the progress towards such salutary results.
The consolidation of our system of credit leaves us the choice of the means by which we may, in a short time, sce the accomplishment of our wishes. We can before-hand predict their success. Our Funds, appearing in general circulation, have not only been secured against loss, but have risen in value. Such are the happy effects of a regulated system of credit. Those which we have still a right to expect will follow the progressive march of time, which alone can prepare and reorganize them.
REPORT of the Minister of Finance to the Extraordinary Cortes of Spain.-8th October, 1822. (Translation.)
URGED by the duty imposed upon me by the functions which I exercise, I am about to communicate with the Cortes upon one of the most important points on which it has to deliberate, and which has offered one of the chief reasons for its extraordinary convocation.
The Finances, which are the soul of States, and without which every branch of the Administration would be paralyzed and destroyed, are about to be presented to the consideration of the August Congress, under their true point of view. The Cortes will be made acquainted with their present state, will discover the extent of the resources which the Government possesses, together with that of the debts which it has to discharge, and, without the inconvenience of correcting the vices and defects which may be remarked, will employ itself in facilitating those plans which may be necessary, in order successfully to meet the publick necessities, and to relieve the Nation from the Factious Bands which infest its Frontier Provinces. I will briefly explain to the Cortes the state which the Publick Finances presented at the close of the Session of its first ordinary Legislature, or the end of the second economical Year; the dispositions of the Government with respect to
the same branch in the third Year; and, finally, the precise increase of the Taxes necessary for discharging the Expenses of the Publick Service, up to the end of June, 1823; as well as the means by which, in my opinion, that increase, in addition to the Estimates voted by the Cortes, may be met. I must claim the indulgence of the Cortes in giving me a patient hearing, and supplying by its wisdom any defects in my mode of explanation; and I beg that it will direct its attention to the frankness and precision with which I will attempt to exhibit to them the former and the present state of the Publick Finances.
It would be useless for me to present even a sketch of their history during the first economical Year, a work which has already been performed by the Ministry, in the Memoir read before the Cortes on the 5th of March. It is sufficient to say, that, of the Taxes voted for the first Year, there was experienced a deficiency of 181,442,774 reals, 25 maravedis, and that, at the end of the same Year, there was also an arrear in the Estimates of the Ministry, of 107,451,582 reals, 1 maravedi.
With this deficiency and arrear, we entered upon the second economical Year. It was met, it is true, by 116,257,292 reals 4 maravedis of balances, viz. 31,440,773 reals 13 maravedis, of the Years anterior to the 1st of July, 1820, and 84,816,518 reals 25 maravedis, of that corresponding to the first economical Year; but the collection of the second Year being compared with the estimate made by the Finance Committee of the contributions and revenues of the State, as stated in the Journal of the Cortes, there appeared the enormous deficit of 322,060,935 reals 31 maravedis. The data on which this result is formed are to be found in the circumstantial Account of the Treasurer-General and Accountant, which was presented to the Cortes. So remarkable a difference is doubtless not extraordinary, considering the high value at which the produce of the Revenues of Monopoly, Stamps, Registers, and other branches, were estimated, and the circumstance of having admitted into the Account an item which has proved to be imaginary. I must nevertheless state to the Cortes, that this diminution from the estimated value (which in some branches has proved lamentably large) is in a great measure owing to the want of sufficient zeal in the Officers, and even, in some instances, to their sinister operations; for our Enemies make war upon us in a thousand different ways, and they have not forgotten that, to deprive us as far as possible of resources, is a most powerful means of attack. The Government zealously exerts, and will continue to exert, every vigilance on this subject, and will act rigidly and inflexibly towards the guilty; but it cannot go beyond its powers, which are circumscribed within a narrow circle.
With regard to the repartition for the second economical Year, the Accounts of the Distribution drawn up by the Treasurer-General and Accountant, and the Abstracts made in my Office, and the others sub


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Metro Rankings: Feb. 21, 2011
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Hill-Murray holds on to No. 1 in final rankins for season
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Minnetonka, the defending Class 2A champion, will have a steep challenge when it faces St. Thomas Academy in The Opener on Nov. 23.
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package com.publicuhc.ultrahardcore.core.commands;

import com.google.common.base.Joiner;
import com.google.common.base.Optional;
import com.publicuhc.pluginframework.routing.annotation.CommandMethod;
import com.publicuhc.pluginframework.routing.annotation.CommandOptions;
import com.publicuhc.pluginframework.routing.annotation.OptionsMethod;
import com.publicuhc.pluginframework.routing.annotation.PermissionRestriction;
import com.publicuhc.pluginframework.routing.converters.OnlinePlayerValueConverter;
import com.publicuhc.pluginframework.shaded.inject.Inject;
import com.publicuhc.pluginframework.shaded.joptsimple.OptionDeclarer;
import com.publicuhc.pluginframework.shaded.joptsimple.OptionSet;
import com.publicuhc.pluginframework.translate.Translate;
import com.publicuhc.ultrahardcore.addons.FeatureManager;
import com.publicuhc.ultrahardcore.api.Command;
import com.publicuhc.ultrahardcore.api.Feature;
import com.publicuhc.ultrahardcore.core.features.PlayerFreezeFeature;
import org.bukkit.command.CommandSender;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

public class FreezeCommand implements Command
{

    public static final String FREEZE_PERMISSION = "UHC.freeze.command";
    public static final String ANTIFREEZE_PERMISSION = "UHC.freeze.antifreeze";

    private final FeatureManager featureManager;
    private final Translate translate;

    @Inject
    private FreezeCommand(FeatureManager features, Translate translate)
    {
        this.translate = translate;
        featureManager = features;
    }

    private boolean isValid(Optional<Feature> featureOptional, CommandSender sender)
    {
        if(!featureOptional.isPresent()) {
            translate.sendMessage("freeze.not_loaded", sender);
            return false;
        }

        if(!featureOptional.get().isEnabled()) {
            translate.sendMessage("freeze.not_enabled", sender);
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    @CommandMethod("freeze")
    @PermissionRestriction(FREEZE_PERMISSION)
    @CommandOptions("[arguments]")
    public void freezeCommand(OptionSet set, CommandSender sender, List<Player[]> args)
    {
        Optional<Feature> featureOptional = featureManager.getFeatureByID("PlayerFreeze");

        if(!isValid(featureOptional, sender)) {
            return;
        }

        PlayerFreezeFeature feature = (PlayerFreezeFeature) featureOptional.get();

        if(set.has("a")) {
            feature.freezeAll();
            translate.broadcastMessage("freeze.all_frozen");
            return;
        }

        Set<Player> players = OnlinePlayerValueConverter.recombinePlayerLists(args);

        if(players.isEmpty()) {
            translate.sendMessage("supply one player name", sender);
            return;
        }

        Collection<String> immune = new ArrayList<String>();
        for(Player player : players) {
            if(player.hasPermission(ANTIFREEZE_PERMISSION)) {
                immune.add(player.getName());
                continue;
            }
            feature.addPlayer(player);
            translate.sendMessage("freeze.freeze_tell", player);
        }

        if(!immune.isEmpty()) {
            translate.sendMessage("freeze.immune", sender, Joiner.on(", ").join(immune));
        }

        int count = players.size() - immune.size();
        translate.sendMessage("freeze.frozen", sender, count);
    }

    @OptionsMethod
    public void freezeCommand(OptionDeclarer parser)
    {
        parser.accepts("a", "Freeze all online players and any new connections");
        parser.nonOptions().withValuesConvertedBy(new OnlinePlayerValueConverter(true));
    }

    @CommandMethod("unfreeze")
    @PermissionRestriction(FREEZE_PERMISSION)
    @CommandOptions("[arguments]")
    public void unfreezeCommand(OptionSet set, CommandSender sender, List<Player[]> args)
    {
        Optional<Feature> featureOptional = featureManager.getFeatureByID("PlayerFreeze");
        if(!isValid(featureOptional, sender)) {
            return;
        }

        PlayerFreezeFeature feature = (PlayerFreezeFeature) featureOptional.get();

        if(set.has("a")) {
            feature.unfreezeAll();
            translate.broadcastMessage("freeze.all_unfrozen", sender);
            return;
        }

        Set<Player> players = OnlinePlayerValueConverter.recombinePlayerLists(args);

        if(players.isEmpty()) {
            translate.sendMessage("supply one player name", sender);
            return;
        }

        for(Player player : players) {
            feature.removePlayer(player);
            translate.sendMessage("freeze.unfreeze_tell", player);
        }

        translate.sendMessage("freeze.unfrozen", sender, players.size());
    }

    @OptionsMethod
    public void unfreezeCommand(OptionDeclarer parser)
    {
        parser.accepts("a", "Unfreeze all players");
        parser.nonOptions().withValuesConvertedBy(new OnlinePlayerValueConverter(true));
    }
}

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The 'JS Bank Polo Tournament' 2016 was held in Islamabad in the month of October. The venue of this prestigious tournament was the exclusive Islamabad Club Polo Ground, which was graced by a large number of Polo enthusiasts, diplomats and corporate executives.
The tournament took place between 4 teams including JS Bank's own Polo Team. However the final played between PBG VS Khunda was a nail biting thriller as PBG in the end won by 1 goal as a result. The tournament was concluded with an award ceremony, where a beautiful trophy was presented by the Administrator of Islamabad Club Mr Nadeem Hassan Asif to the winning team.
JS Bank is considered as amongst the fastest growing banks within Pakistan's banking landscape with the support of its vast experienced management. The bank now has an online network of 277 branches and presence in over 138 cities across Pakistan. JS Bank is part of JS Group, one of Pakistan's most diversified and progressive financial services groups controlling and operating market-leading financial services companies in Pakistan across sectors including commercial banking, insurance, asset management and securities brokerage.


Yesterday was one of those days. Normally I'm up before the alarm rings at 5:00 AM, but after a restless night I slept until the alarm went off. For some reason I didn't go out the back door, instead I walked in to kitchen to put on a pot of coffee.
That's when my day really began. As I reached the end of the hall I could see Mom at the front window peeking outside and trying to open the curtain. At that moment I knew it was going to be one of those days.
I asked Mom if she wanted some coffee, which she did, then I asked if she wanted breakfast and again she did. So I made her some coffee, went out and retrieved the paper and made her some breakfast. With Mom's hunger needs satisfied I went out side to enjoy a cup off coffee. After about ten minutes, needing a refill, I came back inside only to discover Mom had eaten about two bites of her breakfast and then quietly crept back to her room. Well OK, it was about 5 hours early for her to get up so it didn't surprise me that she went back to bed. I cleaned her leftovers off the table and put them in the fridge for later. That ended up being a pretty darn good move. For some reason Mom only stayed in bed for about ten minutes and came out hungry and looking for food again. At that point she actually seemed pretty sharp and she stayed up a couple hours reading the paper. It seemed today would be good day. Boy, was I wrong.
I had an appointment in town so one of the girls stayed with mom while I was gone. She went back to bed and got up again a couple times during my outing and was sitting in her rocker by the window when I came in. I hadn't been in the house two minutes and she tried telling me about, something, what I didn't know. I had no Idea what she was trying to say. I heated her up some coffee and after a few minutes of probing her for information I found out she was telling me about an article that I had written in the daily paper. It's been 20 years since I'd done anything like that, but she didn't believe me and kept telling me her thoughts. Finally frustrated, she shuffled off to bed. I didn't know it, but this was just the tip of the iceberg compared to what was coming.
Since Mom had been up about four hours longer than normal, I figured she would take a nap. Oh no, not today. She was only in her room about ten minutes this time. She shuffled over to her rocker and picked up the paper. I asked her if she was hungry and would like something to eat. Wrong question. She looked up from her paper, glared at me and snarled, "it's about super time isn't it"? I told her dinner was about two hours away and this time I asked if she'd like a snack. Wrong question again. She s snapped at me again and informed me sternly that she would wait for supper. Things went pretty smoothly after that, well until dinner was over.
Once dinner was over the real fun began. First it was her Mother had been here and just left. Then it was aunt Laura's house was just around the corner, she had been there, went inside and it was empty. Next it was " where's my car"? Followed by "it's almost winter, it's time to go home". So that's not so bad. Well it ended up as a four hour circle of the same questions over and over again. At one time as Paula and I were explaining that her mother had passed away 19 years ago, Mom became angry and said " NO, NO, NO, NO, I just talked to her"!
Finally around 10:30 Mom asked us how she had gotten here today. We again explained that she has lived with us for a year now. With that she said, "OK, then I'm going to bed". And it ended as quickly as it started.
It has taken me a few days to write this post, but as a side note, Mom slept 22 hours the next day. It took me almost all day to get her out of bed once for dinner.
I always read your posts and always gain a little insight to some of the things I experienced with my father. Your ability to share yours with all of us I think helps greatly to understand something that is very difficult to understand. Thank you for finding the words that I cannot.
Thanks for the kind words Dana. Writing helps me deal with it too.


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Saad, trouble is blade choice is very subjective. Everyone has their own choice of weight, control, speed, flexibility etc. You haven't given an indication of your level of ability or style of play. My guess is that you are an attacker as both those are fast blades. It is always best to see if you can find a friendly person at your local club who may have one of those blades and is willing to let you try to see if you like the 'feel'. Sorry to be unhelpful but the best option will be the one you like the feel of best when using it. The only other thing you can do is to read the reviews others have left or contact a company that sells them and ask their advice (although they may just be bias towards the most expensive!). They both get good ratings on the revspin.net database, why not just go with the cheapest, trust you have a good deal and then train hard so you and blade get the best out of each other. It is the training that will help you improve.
Thanks Nigel this is helpful...... I am just an intermediate tournament player and i am looking for some improvement to become a professional as i am playing this game since 2014 and still can't built up my confidence..
DHS301 is the same blade which I play with. It's fast but not too fast, still has a wooden feeling and is great for all-round game. But it also depends what rubbers you pair it with.


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Бріжит Латріль-Годен  — французька фехтувальниця на рапірах, олімпійська чемпіонка 1980 року, срібна призерка Олімпійських ігор 1976 року, бронзова призерка Олімпійських ігор 1984 року.

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Французькі фехтувальники
Фехтувальники на літніх Олімпійських іграх 1976
Фехтувальники на літніх Олімпійських іграх 1980
Фехтувальники на літніх Олімпійських іграх 1984
Фехтувальники на літніх Олімпійських іграх 1988
Французькі олімпійські чемпіони
Французькі срібні олімпійські медалісти
Французькі бронзові олімпійські медалісти
Чемпіони літніх Олімпійських ігор 1980
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Q: Process Landing Page to Update Salesforce Data Extension Here is my use case :
When a customers clicks on a CTA "call me now" (in an email), he lands on a landing page (created using marketing cloud - cloud pages).
On this landing page, thanks to ampscript, the field "callback_detail__c" in the data extension Task_Salesforce takes the value "immediate_callback".
Here is the ampscript used in the email that contains the CTA "call me now":
%%[
    var @rows, @row, @rowCount, @numRowsToReturn, @i
    var @subkey, @WhoId, @callback_detail__c
    var @link

    set @numRowsToReturn = 0
    set @subkey = _subscriberkey
    set @rows = LookupOrderedRows("ENT.Task_Salesforce", @numRowsToReturn, "WhoId, callback_detail__c ", "WhoId", @subkey)
    set @rowCount = rowcount(@rows)
    set @link = 'http://cloud.mail.papernest.com/creneau_rappel'

]%%

Here is the ampscript used in the landing page :
%%[ var @subkey, @rows
set @subkey = Requestparameter("_subscriberkey")
set @rows = Lookup("ENT.Task_Salesforce", "WhoId", "WhoId", @subkey) ]%%

%%[var @result
set @result = UpdateSingleSalesForceObject ('Task', @subkey, 'callback_detail__c', 'immediate_callback')
]%%

But, when the lead lands on this landing page, nothing happens, the field callback_Detail__c does not take the value "immediate_callback".
Why is it not working?

A: Firstly, there shouldn't be space between function name and parentheses:
%%[var @result
set @result = UpdateSingleSalesForceObject('Task', @subkey, 'callback_detail__c', 'immediate_callback')
]%%

Also keep in mind that updateSingleSalesforceObject does not update the data extension directly, but uses Marketing Cloud Connector to update the record directly on a Sales Cloud object. The way you phrase your question, it sounds to me you expect the data extension to be updated directly.
There is up to 15 minute latency between a record is updated in Sales Cloud and the corresponding synchronised data extension is updated. If you wait before checking the data extension, the value will eventually be updated.

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