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by Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Essays: First Series (1841)
The wings of Time are black and white,
Pied with morning and with night.
Mountain tall and ocean deep
Trembling balance duly keep.
In changing moon, in tidal wave,
Glows the feud of Want and Have.
Gauge of more and less through space
Electric star and pencil plays.
The lonely Earth amid the balls
That hurry through the eternal halls,
A makeweight flying to the void,
Supplemental asteroid,
Or compensatory spark,
Shoots across the neutral Dark.
Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine;
Stanch and strong the tendrils twine:
Though the frail ringlets thee deceive,
None from its stock that vine can reave.
Fear not, then, thou child infirm,
There's no god dare wrong a worm.
Laurel crowns cleave to deserts,
And power to him who power exerts;
Hast not thy share? On winged feet,
Lo! it rushes thee to meet;
And all that Nature made thy own,
Floating in air or pent in stone,
Will rive the hills and swim the sea,
And, like thy shadow, follow thee.
ESSAY III Compensation
Ever since I was a boy, I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation: for it seemed to me when very young, that on this subject life was ahead of theology, and the people knew more than the preachers taught. The documents, too, from which the doctrine is to be drawn, charmed my fancy by their endless variety, and lay always before me, even in sleep; for they are the tools in our hands, the bread in our basket, the transactions of the street, the farm, and the dwelling-house, greetings, relations, debts and credits, the influence of character, the nature and endowment of all men. It seemed to me, also, that in it might be shown men a ray of divinity, the present action of the soul of this world, clean from all vestige of tradition, and so the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love, conversing with that which he knows was always and always must be, because it really is now. It appeared, moreover, that if this doctrine could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours and crooked passages in our journey that would not suffer us to lose our way.
I was lately confirmed in these desires by hearing a sermon at church. The preacher, a man esteemed for his orthodoxy, unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment. He assumed, that judgment is not executed in this world; that the wicked are successful; that the good are miserable; and then urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the congregation at this doctrine. As far as I could observe, when the meeting broke up, they separated without remark on the sermon.
Yet what was the import of this teaching? What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men, whilst the saints are poor and despised; and that a compensation is to be made to these last hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day, — bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne? This must be the compensation intended; for what else? Is it that they are to have leave to pray and praise? to love and serve men? Why, that they can do now. The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was, — 'We are to have _such_ a good time as the sinners have now'; — or, to push it to its extreme import, — 'You sin now; we shall sin by and by; we would sin now, if we could; not being successful, we expect our revenge to-morrow.'
The fallacy lay in the immense concession, that the bad are successful; that justice is not done now. The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of confronting and convicting the world from the truth; announcing the presence of the soul; the omnipotence of the will: and so establishing the standard of good and ill, of success and falsehood.
I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day, and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics. I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced. But men are better than this theology. Their daily life gives it the lie. Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the doctrine behind him in his own experience; and all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate. For men are wiser than they know. That which they hear in schools and pulpits without after-thought, if said in conversation, would probably be questioned in silence. If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
I shall attempt in this and the following chapter to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation; happy beyond my expectation, if I shall truly draw the smallest arc of this circle.
POLARITY, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the heart; in the undulations of fluids, and of sound; in the centrifugal and centripetal gravity; in electricity, galvanism, and chemical affinity. Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle; the opposite magnetism takes place at the other end. If the south attracts, the north repels. To empty here, you must condense there. An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as, spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; upper, under; motion, rest; yea, nay.
Whilst the world is thus dual, so is every one of its parts. The entire system of things gets represented in every particle. There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea, day and night, man and woman, in a single needle of the pine, in a kernel of corn, in each individual of every animal tribe. The reaction, so grand in the elements, is repeated within these small boundaries. For example, in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that no creatures are favorites, but a certain compensation balances every gift and every defect. A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature. If the head and neck are enlarged, the trunk and extremities are cut short.
The theory of the mechanic forces is another example. What we gain in power is lost in time; and the converse. The periodic or compensating errors of the planets is another instance. The influences of climate and soil in political history are another. The cold climate invigorates. The barren soil does not breed fevers, crocodiles, tigers, or scorpions.
The same dualism underlies the nature and condition of man. Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good. Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse. It is to answer for its moderation with its life. For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something. If riches increase, they are increased that use them. If the gatherer gathers too much, nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing, than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves. There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down the overbearing, the strong, the rich, the fortunate, substantially on the same ground with all others. Is a man too strong and fierce for society, and by temper and position a bad citizen, — a morose ruffian, with a dash of the pirate in him;—— nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters, who are getting along in the dame's classes at the village school, and love and fear for them smooths his grim scowl to courtesy. Thus she contrives to intenerate the granite and felspar, takes the boar out and puts the lamb in, and keeps her balance true.
The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne. Or, do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius? Neither has this an immunity. He who by force of will or of thought is great, and overlooks thousands, has the charges of that eminence. With every influx of light comes new danger. Has he light? he must bear witness to the light, and always outrun that sympathy which gives him such keen satisfaction, by his fidelity to new revelations of the incessant soul. He must hate father and mother, wife and child. Has he all that the world loves and admires and covets? — he must cast behind him their admiration, and afflict them by faithfulness to his truth, and become a byword and a hissing.
This law writes the laws of cities and nations. It is in vain to build or plot or combine against it. Things refuse to be mismanaged long. _Res nolunt diu male administrari_. Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist, and will appear. If the government is cruel, the governor's life is not safe. If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will not convict. If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in. If the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is resisted by an overcharge of energy in the citizen, and life glows with a fiercer flame. The true life and satisfactions of man seem to elude the utmost rigors or felicities of condition, and to establish themselves with great indifferency under all varieties of circumstances. Under all governments the influence of character remains the same, — in Turkey and in New England about alike. Under the primeval despots of Egypt, history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him.
These appearances indicate the fact that the universe is represented in every one of its particles. Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature. Every thing is made of one hidden stuff; as the naturalist sees one type under every metamorphosis, and regards a horse as a running man, a fish as a swimming man, a bird as a flying man, a tree as a rooted man. Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type, but part for part all the details, all the aims, furtherances, hindrances, energies, and whole system of every other. Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world, and a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life; of its good and ill, its trials, its enemies, its course and its end. And each one must somehow accommodate the whole man, and recite all his destiny.
The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little. Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity, — all find room to consist in the small creature. So do we put our life into every act. The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil; if the affinity, so the repulsion; if the force, so the limitation.
Thus is the universe alive. All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength. "It is in the world, and the world was made by it." Justice is not postponed. A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life. {Oi chusoi Dios aei enpiptousi}, — The dice of God are always loaded. The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears. If you see smoke, there must be fire. If you see a hand or a limb, you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind.
Every act rewards itself, or, in other words, integrates itself, in a twofold manner; first, in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly, in the circumstance, or in apparent nature. Men call the circumstance the retribution. The causal retribution is in the thing, and is seen by the soul. The retribution in the circumstance is seen by the understanding; it is inseparable from the thing, but is often spread over a long time, and so does not become distinct until after many years. The specific stripes may follow late after the offence, but they follow because they accompany it. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
Whilst thus the world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted, we seek to act partially, to sunder, to appropriate; for example, — to gratify the senses, we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character. The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem, — how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, &c., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless; to get a _one end_, without an _other end_. The soul says, Eat; the body would feast. The soul says, The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul; the body would join the flesh only. The soul says, Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue; the body would have the power over things to its own ends.
The soul strives amain to live and work through all things. It would be the only fact. All things shall be added unto it power, pleasure, knowledge, beauty. The particular man aims to be somebody; to set up for himself; to truck and higgle for a private good; and, in particulars, to ride, that he may ride; to dress, that he may be dressed; to eat, that he may eat; and to govern, that he may be seen. Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature, — the sweet, without the other side, — the bitter.
This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted. Up to this day, it must be owned, no projector has had the smallest success. The parted water reunites behind our hand. Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things, power out of strong things, as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole. We can no more halve things and get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have no outside, or a light without a shadow. "Drive out nature with a fork, she comes running back."
Life invests itself with inevitable conditions, which the unwise seek to dodge, which one and another brags that he does not know; that they do not touch him; — but the brag is on his lips, the conditions are in his soul. If he escapes them in one part, they attack him in another more vital part. If he has escaped them in form, and in the appearance, it is because he has resisted his life, and fled from himself, and the retribution is so much death. So signal is the failure of all attempts to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not be tried, — since to try it is to be mad, — but for the circumstance, that when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man ceases to see God whole in each object, but is able to see the sensual allurement of an object, and not see the sensual hurt; he sees the mermaid's head, but not the dragon's tail; and thinks he can cut off that which he would have, from that which he would not have. "How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied Providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!"
The human soul is true to these facts in the painting of fable, of history, of law, of proverbs, of conversation. It finds a tongue in literature unawares. Thus the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason, by tying up the hands of so bad a god. He is made as helpless as a king of England. Prometheus knows one secret which Jove must bargain for; Minerva, another. He cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them.
"Of all the gods, I only know the keys
That ope the solid doors within whose vaults
His thunders sleep."
A plain confession of the in-working of the All, and of its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral. Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old. Achilles is not quite invulnerable; the sacred waters did not wash the heel by which Thetis held him. Siegfried, in the Nibelungen, is not quite immortal, for a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the dragon's blood, and that spot which it covered is mortal. And so it must be. There is a crack in every thing God has made. It would seem, there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares, even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted to make bold holiday, and to shake itself free of the old laws, — this back-stroke, this kick of the gun, certifying that the law is fatal; that in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.
This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe, and lets no offence go unchastised. The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path, they would punish him. The poets related that stone walls, and iron swords, and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners; that the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the field at the wheels of the car of Achilles, and the sword which Hector gave Ajax was that on whose point Ajax fell. They recorded, that when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night, and endeavoured to throw it down by repeated blows, until at last he moved it from its pedestal, and was crushed to death beneath its fall.
This voice of fable has in it somewhat divine. It came from thought above the will of the writer. That is the best part of each writer, which has nothing private in it; that which he does not know; that which flowed out of his constitution, and not from his too active invention; that which in the study of a single artist you might not easily find, but in the study of many, you would abstract as the spirit of them all. Phidias it is not, but the work of man in that early Hellenic world, that I would know. The name and circumstance of Phidias, however convenient for history, embarrass when we come to the highest criticism. We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or, if you will, modified in doing, by the interfering volitions of Phidias, of Dante, of Shakspeare, the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.
Still more striking is the expression of this fact in the proverbs of all nations, which are always the literature of reason, or the statements of an absolute truth, without qualification. Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction. And this law of laws which the pulpit, the senate, and the college deny, is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs, whose teaching is as true and as omnipresent as that of birds and flies.
All things are double, one against another. — Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure; love for love. — Give and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it. — Nothing venture, nothing have. — Thou shalt be paid exactly for what thou hast done, no more, no less. — Who doth not work shall not eat. — Harm watch, harm catch. — Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. — If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. — Bad counsel confounds the adviser. — The Devil is an ass.
It is thus written, because it is thus in life. Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature. We aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good, but our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will, or against his will, he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a thread-ball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains in the thrower's bag. Or, rather, it is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain, or to sink the boat.
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. "No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him," said Burke. The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it. The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut out others. Treat men as pawns and ninepins, and you shall suffer as well as they. If you leave out their heart, you shall lose your own. The senses would make things of all persons; of women, of children, of the poor. The vulgar proverb, "I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin," is sound philosophy.
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear. Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet as water meets water, or as two currents of air mix, with perfect diffusion and interpenetration of nature. But as soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbour feels the wrong; he shrinks from me as far as I have shrunk from him; his eyes no longer seek mine; there is war between us; there is hate in him and fear in me.
All the old abuses in society, universal and particular, all unjust accumulations of property and power, are avenged in the same manner. Fear is an instructer of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. One thing he teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears. He is a carrion crow, and though you see not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere. Our property is timid, our laws are timid, our cultivated classes are timid. Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property. That obscene bird is not there for nothing. He indicates great wrongs which must be revised.
Of the like nature is that expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity. The terror of cloudless noon, the emerald of Polycrates, the awe of prosperity, the instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along, and that a man often pays dear for a small frugality. The borrower runs in his own debt. Has a man gained any thing who has received a hundred favors and rendered none? Has he gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbour's wares, or horses, or money? There arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment of benefit on the one part, and of debt on the other; that is, of superiority and inferiority. The transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbour; and every new transaction alters, according to its nature, their relation to each other. He may soon come to see that he had better have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbour's coach, and that "the highest price he can pay for a thing is to ask for it."
A wise man will extend this lesson to all parts of life, and know that it is the part of prudence to face every claimant, and pay every just demand on your time, your talents, or your heart. Always pay; for, first or last, you must pay your entire debt. Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement. You must pay at last your own debt. If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. Benefit is the end of nature. But for every benefit which you receive, a tax is levied. He is great who confers the most benefits. He is base — and that is the one base thing in the universe — to receive favors and render none. In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.
Labor is watched over by the same pitiless laws. Cheapest, say the prudent, is the dearest labor. What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon, a knife, is some application of good sense to a common want. It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener, or to buy good sense applied to gardening; in your sailor, good sense applied to navigation; in the house, good sense applied to cooking, sewing, serving; in your agent, good sense applied to accounts and affairs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself throughout your estate. But because of the dual constitution of things, in labor as in life there can be no cheating. The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen. These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives. The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative. The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.
Human labor, through all its forms, from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe. The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that every thing has its price, — and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get any thing without its price, — is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states, in the laws of light and darkness, in all the action and reaction of nature. I cannot doubt that the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics which sparkle on his chisel-edge, which are measured out by his plumb and foot-rule, which stand as manifest in the footing of the shop-bill as in the history of a state, — do recommend to him his trade, and though seldom named, exalt his business to his imagination.
The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice. The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute and whip the traitor. He finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit, but there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spoken word, you cannot wipe out the foot-track, you cannot draw up the ladder, so as to leave no inlet or clew. Some damning circumstance always transpires. The laws and substances of nature — water, snow, wind, gravitation — become penalties to the thief.
On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. The good man has absolute good, which like fire turns every thing to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm; but as the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached, cast down their colors and from enemies became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors: —
"Winds blow and waters roll
Strength to the brave, and power and deity,
Yet in themselves are nothing."
The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet, but when the hunter came, his feet saved him, and afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him. Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. As no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it, so no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men, until he has suffered from the one, and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same. Has he a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to entertain himself alone, and acquire habits of self-help; and thus, like the wounded oyster, he mends his shell with pearl.
Our strength grows out of our weakness. The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed. A great man is always willing to be little. Whilst he sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. The wound cicatrizes and falls off from him like a dead skin, and when they would triumph, lo! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies. In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
The same guards which protect us from disaster, defect, and enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud. Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions, nor is shrewdness in trade a mark of wisdom. Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
The history of persecution is a history of endeavours to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob. A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason, and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars. The inviolate spirit turns their spite against the wrongdoers. The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison, a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities, as to individuals, when the truth is seen, and the martyrs are justified.
Thus do all things preach the indifferency of circumstances. The man is all. Every thing has two sides, a good and an evil. Every advantage has its tax. I learn to be content. But the doctrine of compensation is not the doctrine of indifferency. The thoughtless say, on hearing these representations, — What boots it to do well? there is one event to good and evil; if I gain any good, I must pay for it; if I lose any good, I gain some other; all actions are indifferent.
There is a deeper fact in the soul than compensation, to wit, its own nature. The soul is not a compensation, but a life. The soul _is_. Under all this running sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being. Essence, or God, is not a relation, or a part, but the whole. Being is the vast affirmative, excluding negation, self-balanced, and swallowing up all relations, parts, and times within itself. Nature, truth, virtue, are the influx from thence. Vice is the absence or departure of the same. Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade, on which, as a background, the living universe paints itself forth; but no fact is begotten by it; it cannot work; for it is not. It cannot work any good; it cannot work any harm. It is harm inasmuch as it is worse not to be than to be.
We feel defrauded of the retribution due to evil acts, because the criminal adheres to his vice and contumacy, and does not come to a crisis or judgment anywhere in visible nature. There is no stunning confutation of his nonsense before men and angels. Has he therefore outwitted the law? Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also; but should we not see it, this deadly deduction makes square the eternal account.
Neither can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss. There is no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom; they are proper additions of being. In a virtuous action, I properly _am_; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon. There can be no excess to love; none to knowledge; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. The soul refuses limits, and always affirms an Optimism, never a Pessimism.
His life is a progress, and not a station. His instinct is trust. Our instinct uses "more" and "less" in application to man, of the _presence of the soul_, and not of its absence; the brave man is greater than the coward; the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man, and not less, than the fool and knave. There is no tax on the good of virtue; for that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence, without any comparative. Material good has its tax, and if it came without desert or sweat, has no root in me, and the next wind will blow it away. But all the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had, if paid for in nature's lawful coin, that is, by labor which the heart and the head allow. I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn, for example, to find a pot of buried gold, knowing that it brings with it new burdens. I do not wish more external goods, — neither possessions, nor honors, nor powers, nor persons. The gain is apparent; the tax is certain. But there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation exists, and that it is not desirable to dig up treasure. Herein I rejoice with a serene eternal peace. I contract the boundaries of possible mischief. I learn the wisdom of St. Bernard, — "Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault."
In the nature of the soul is the compensation for the inequalities of condition. The radical tragedy of nature seems to be the distinction of More and Less. How can Less not feel the pain; how not feel indignation or malevolence towards More? Look at those who have less faculty, and one feels sad, and knows not well what to make of it. He almost shuns their eye; he fears they will upbraid God. What should they do? It seems a great injustice. But see the facts nearly, and these mountainous inequalities vanish. Love reduces them, as the sun melts the iceberg in the sea. The heart and soul of all men being one, this bitterness of _His_ and _Mine_ ceases. His is mine. I am my brother, and my brother is me. If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbours, I can yet love; I can still receive; and he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves. Thereby I make the discovery that my brother is my guardian, acting for me with the friendliest designs, and the estate I so admired and envied is my own. It is the nature of the soul to appropriate all things. Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue, — is not that mine? His wit, — if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.
Such, also, is the natural history of calamity. The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth. Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case, because it no longer admits of its growth, and slowly forms a new house. In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming, as it were, a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates, and of no settled character in which the man is imprisoned. Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday. And such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day. But to us, in our lapsed estate, resting, not advancing, resisting, not cooperating with the divine expansion, this growth comes by shocks.
We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out, that archangels may come in. We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, 'Up and onward for evermore!' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new; and so we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards.
And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts. The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character. It permits or constrains the formation of new acquaintances, and the reception of new influences that prove of the first importance to the next years; and the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower, with no room for its roots and too much sunshine for its head, by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener, is made the banian of the forest, yielding shade and fruit to wide neighbourhoods of men.
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We've been praying for Tricia, the young wife and new mother, who has Cystic Fibrosis and put off having a double lung transplant when she learned she was pregnant. Tricia got to see her baby yesterday for the first time. And her husband says that this is the Best Post Ever. I think he might be right.


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Q: Is it possible to query with list of objects using JPA like foreach tag? Let's say I have a query like this:
Query object
public class myObject {
    private String code;
    private String name;
}

query method
@Query(nativeQuery = true,value = "...")
findByAcodeAndBname(List<MyObject> queryObject);

Pseudocode of the query
 select a.code, b.name from tableA a
  left join table b on a.column = b.column
 where a.code = ${} b.name = ${}

Since it could cause performance issues just simply using foreach code in Java to do the query, how do I map every pair of a.code and b.name using native JPA query like mybatis foreach tag? Or is it posssible?

A: I think you don't need native query here, because the costs of querying data from the database and transfering it over network are higher than any related Java operations.
Instead of native query you can use JPQL query, e.g.
@Query("select new com.tsypanov.domain.HasIdAndNameDto(e.id, e.name)" +
    " from ManyFieldsEntity e " +
    "where e.name = :name")
List<HasIdAndName> findAllByNameUsingDto(@Param("name") String name);

Here we call constructor of DTO from JPQL query passing the fields from our entity. The DTO class must have the specified constructor:
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public class HasIdAndNameDto {

  private final Long id;
  private final String name;

}

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HomeOur ProductsGifts2021 The Queen's Beasts Completer £5 Copper-Nickel Coin
2021 The Queen's Beasts Completer £5 Copper-Nickel Coin
Refiner / Mint The Royal Mint
Country of Origin Great Britain
Year minted 2021
Weight (grams) 28.28
Dimensions 38.61mm
The 2021 Queen's Beasts coin, composed of copper and nickel, is a UK £5 coin issued by The Royal Mint. The design explores the history of heraldry and is a celebratration of Her Majesty The Queen's remarkable reign.
Finished to 'Brilliant Uncirculated' standard, this coin has a superior finish to the coins in your change. It is beautifully presented in bright fold out packaging which contains information on the significance of these ten fantastical creatures.
This coin would make an ideal gift to inspire a love of history.
The 2020 1 ounce Britannia gold coins provided by Sharps Pixley and issued by the Royal Mint, are now made in 24-carat and are also issued in fractional sizes of one-half, one-quarter, and one-tenth of a troy ounce, with face values of £50, £25, and £10 respectively.

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Feb 18, 2013 Ξ Comments are off
Danica Patrick Makes History At Daytona
Filed under Automotive, Nascar, News
Danica Patrick, with her Daytona Pole Award – image: Stewart-Haas Racing
Love or hate the marketing machine that is Danica Patrick, there's no denying that she's managed to accomplish quite a bit in her racing career. To date, she's the only woman to ever win an IndyCar race, the first woman to lead the field in the Indianapolis 500 and the first woman to earn a NASCAR Nationwide Series pole. To her resume, Patrick can now add one more first: the first female driver to earn a pole position in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series.
On Sunday, Patrick turned a lap of 45.817 seconds, at 196.434 mph, at the Daytona International Speedway. That was fast enough to put her on the inside of row one for the Daytona 500, arguably the most significant race on the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule. What's more impressive, perhaps, is that Patrick beat veteran drivers in what is only her second Sprint Cup start at the track.
Patrick's teammates at Stewart-Haas racing also ran well, with Ryan Newman fourth-quickest and Tony Stewart fifth-quickest. Since Sunday's qualifying set only the front row, all we know for sure is that Jeff Gordon will be beside Danica Patrick on row one. The remainder of the 43 total starting positions will be set during Thursday's Budweiser Duel races, which consist of two 150-mile events.
While Patrick's run is impressive, the Stewart-Haas driver has struggled in traffic. The switch to the Generation Six cars for 2013 won't make things any easier, as the number of crashes racked up to date have shown that successful drafting will require new techniques. Any chance of winning the race will require Patrick to stay out of trouble for the duration of the event, then partner with other drivers for a charge to the front.
Patrick has always been a reasonably strong qualifier, but can she pull out a win in the Daytona 500? We'll find out on Sunday.
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Q: Getting started with Magento I would like to getting started with Magento 1.9 as a developer. I supposed that Magento had a GitHub repository that I can download the source base, but I could find it.
Where can I find a documentation explaning how to build Magento and setup it on a developer enviroment?

A: The best way to install magento , go to the magento official site , open download, search the latest version of magento 1.x ( now it is 1.3.10) . Download zip , unzip it apache2 web server directory ( example var/www/m2).
Go to apache2 folder, open sites-avaliable , copy 000.default.conf file, rename it to mage.test.conf(name of yours url), in this file change pathes to yours. After go to etc, open file hosts, add new host with the next info , if it is localhost use : 127.0.0.1 mage.test.
Then if open terminal and insert
sudo a2ensite mage.test.conf
sudo restart service apache2
Go to the mage.test in yours web-browser. And you will see setup wizard.

A: Here's a mirror of what would have been in the Magento 1 github repo:
https://github.com/OpenMage/magento-mirror


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Ted Hughes Commemoration in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Minute after minute, aeon after aeon,
Nothing lets up or develops.
And this is neither a bad variant nor a tryout.
This is where the staring angels go through.
This is where all the stars bow down.
Ted Hughes. 'Pibroch'.
I received an invitation to attend the unveiling ceremony of a memorial stone to Ted Hughes by Seamus Heaney in Westminster Abbey. I set off at 3pm and realised half-way to the station that I had forgotten the invitation card at home so had to go back to pick it up.
Walking past the Houses of Parliament I saw the Home Secretary Theresa May coming out in her car. The abbey always looks really awesome in the floodlight. I entered through the arch and the East Cloisters which were really dark and atmospheric. It was quite an experience walking through the dimly lit cloisters with tombstones on the floor until I reached an area that had been cordoned off where people gathered slowly. A glance upon the floor revealed a tombstone marked Aphra Behn, the Restoration dramatist. I spotted Simon Armitage and got up from where I was sitting upon the stone benches along the walls to talk to him about his work on 'Sir Gawain & the Green Knight' and its relation to the eighteenth chapter of The Holy Quran but then changed my mind and sat back down thinking, perhaps, that this was not the occasion for such talk. As always everybody always knows each other or seems to, so I have a habit of taking out my book to read. I read a bit of Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life by Adam Feinstein before we were ushered in through a door leading to Poets' Corner. There was a lady to my right who asked how or if I had a Hughes connection. I had read Plath first but then really discovered his work at college after Birthday Letters came out. She remarked that she was a librarian at Cambridge University where she had seen him read in the seventies upon which the lady to my left observed that she was from Cambridge too. I spotted Andrew Motion and Hughes' widow Carol dressed beautifully in opal, she laid flowers from the garden at Court Green (their house in Devon).
Sitting in Poets' Corner among so many countless tombs and memorials to writers, poets, historians and theologians and just being present in Westminster Abbey is always a spiritually uplifting experience. The intensity of historical presence is overpowering. The Urdu poet Parveen Shakir wrote a poem on this sense of being overwhelmed by history in her poem 'Westminster Abbey'. All the seats had the Order of the Service placed upon them. Dr John Hall, the Dean said "We have come to Poets' Corner, where the word is celebrated. Here Geoffrey Chaucer lived and died, and was buried in 1400. Here William Caxton set up his printing press in 1476. Here writing in English and its publication were first achieved."
"Buried here is all that could be buried of Edmund Spenser and John Dryden, Tennyson, and Browning. They are remembered; their words live on." Lord Evans of Temple Guiting read from Hughes' letter to Plath of 1 and 2 October 1956 scientifically arguing in favour of reading aloud. Hughes says that was how all reading was done until the invention of Caxton's press. It is an incredible passage to read. This was followed by a reading of Hughes' poems 'Full Moon and Little Frieda' 'Anniversary' and 'Where I Sit Writing My Letter' by Juliet Stevenson. The acoustics of the abbey offering a resound. Then Heaney who I saw for the first time delivered an address, beginning with a quotation from Beowulf and remarking upon Hughes' natural use of the alliterative Anglo-Saxon meter in, for example, the first line of 'The Thought Fox' and in 'Fern'. But, he said, he did not intend to lecture on Hughes' uses of language and meter. This was followed by him unveiling the memorial stone, Daniel Huws' reading of 'In Memory of Ted Hughes' by the poet R. S. Thomas and Heaney's readings of 'Some Pike for Nicholas' 'For the Duration' 'That Morning'.
The Order of Service contained some interesting points about Poets' Corner: Chaucer was buried here not because he was a great poet but because he had served as the Clerk of Works to the palace of Westminster, Joseph Addison first referred to 'the poetical quarter' in The Spectator and the first written use of the title that is known was in a poem of 1733 'Upon the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey'.
In all about 300 people attended. As everyone walked past the plaque I glanced at the names on the chits upon the chairs, lots of lords and ladies and one 'Mrs T. S. Eliot' who I've never seen and didn't catch this time either. There were refreshments afterwards for those with a blue ticket. I did have 2, one white and one blue but I'm certain it wasn't the blue one so I made my way back. There were carol singers at Westminster station singing 'Ding dong merrily on high':
So we found the end of our journey.
So we stood, alive in the river of light
Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.
Ted Hughes. 'That Morning'.
Ted Hughes Commemoration in Poets' Corner, Westmin...


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'The Leftovers' Season 3 Trailer: The End is Near, Will Arrive on April 16, 2017
Posted on Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 by Jack Giroux
A family trip to Australia sounds great to most people. Now, visiting Australia with the Garvey family on HBO's The Leftovers? That sounds more like an emotional roller coaster, one we can't wait to get on when the drama returns for its third and final season this April. We now have our first look at the Garvey family and others — shockingly — not looking too happy in the first preview for season three.
Below, watch The Leftovers season 3 promo.
A majority of season three takes place in Australia, where Kevin Gary Jr. (Justin Theroux) goes to see his father (Scott Glenn). Co-creator Damon Lindelof has previously said he wants to show more of Kevin Garvey Sr.'s past, so maybe we'll get some of that in season three. Carrie Coon, Margaret Qualley, Kevin Carroll, Regina King, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler, Chris Zylka, Janel Moloney, and Jovan Adepo are also returning.
You can see a few of them back in their old roles in this promo for The Leftovers:
Season two of The Leftovers did a fantastic job of infusing some laughs into the misery. Playing The Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby," a wonderful tune, over a bunch of worried, sad faces captures the tone of The Leftovers. All you do is worry during this show. There's also a sense of confusion, horror, and sadness to the series, and this promo gets that. Just look at the use of sound, that shot of Kevin Garvey Sr., and the message in the sky towards the end of the footage. All in all, this is a great first tease of the final season of The Leftovers, which Lindelof spoke to us about last summer:
The big thing we gotta figure out for season three is: Where are we going to end it? What's the last episode of this series going to be? We'll design the entire season basically building up to that moment. I think there was a very purposeful circularity between seasons one and two, with the 'wherever you go, there you are' theme of it all. We decided to end the second season very similar to the first season. The Garveys felt like they could pickup and go to this place the Departure didn't happen, but lo and behold, the same exact thing happened. The only safe place is the place you're surrounded by the people you love. We can't do that again, and not just because the audience is expecting it, but because we were telling a story about geography in season two, while season three is going to be something else entirely.
The Leftovers, based on co-creator Tom Perrotta's book, returns on April 16, 2017.
HBO's 'Watchmen' Teaser: "I Guess We Have Ourselves a Reckoning"
'Watchmen' Videos Tease The Black Freighter, The Show's Alternate America Setting, and More
Jason Reitman's 'Ghostbusters' Sequel Casts 'Captain Marvel' Youngster Mckenna Grace
'False Positive', a New A24 Horror Movie, Will Star Ilana Glazer, Justin Theroux, Pierce Brosnan
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New book reveals anger and battles in the Republican Senate during the first impeachment trial
From the outside, Donald Trump's first impeachment trial appeared to be a smooth-running machine within the Republican Party, with the exception of some opposition from Romney, who ultimately voted guilty, and Collins, who voted to hear the evidence. Other than the two "meaningless," Republicans have sided entirely with Trump, and we haven't heard a word of dissent. Now, though, a serious book by serious reporters reveals the outrage and battles within the Republican Senate, even among activists like Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, in defense of a man they all knew was guilty.
in "Unverified: The Untold Story Behind Donald Trump's Failed Congressional ClaimsScheduled for release on October 18, Politico's Rachel Baide and The Washington Post's Karon Demirjian reveal a behind-the-scenes look at both impeachment, but the focus in this post is the shocking level of anger (over Trump) and the infighting that continued during the first impeachment It's safe to say that every Republican senator knew that calling Ukraine was an unaccountable act, and the goal was to get out the other side with Trump still in power — and most importantly, without losing a Senate majority in 2020.
From Huffbove review:
"Out of a hundred senators, you have zero who think there is no trade-off. Nobody. Cruz reportedly said at one point, contradicting what Republicans said publicly about the accusations at the time.
Senator Lindsey Graham was also angered by Trump's legal team after they fumbled in answering a senator's question about calling new witnesses. Trump's lawyers said it was simply too late to do so, a line Graham feared would lose Republican votes.
"We're FCKED. We're spoiled!" Graham, a senior Trump ally, reportedly said afterward as he walked into the GOP's coat room, a private room adjacent to the Senate floor.
Respecting the limits of fair use, we will note that Trump defense attorney Alan Dershowitz argued that if Trump believed his re-election was in the public interest, it was perfectly acceptable to make the trade-off. Senators Roy Blunt and Ted Cruz were so offended by the defense that they demanded that Trump release his defense team immediately.
McConnell has stayed above all by saying it's not about Trump. It was about maintaining a majority in 2020. Ironically, partly because Republicans allyed so hard in such a ridiculous situation that Trump lost and McConnell lost his leadership position.
Senator Murkowski of Alaska was very upset with McConnell when McConnell said publicly that the Republican Senate's position was perfectly in line with Trump's defense, that there was no "space" between them, and that Murkowski told reporters she was "disturbed" by McConnell's comment (as it should be, was This assertion is totally against impeachment as juror). McConnell sent an angry email to Murkowski.
The book itself refers to Murkowski:
For Murkowski, the party has turned into a stray herd of arctic musk ox: eight hundred pound beasts that form a protective circle around their young, with their horns turned outward and hooded inside. To her frustration, Republican leaders were constantly telling their rank and file: "You've got to get a circle. You've got to spin together to protect each other here" — which, of course, means going around to protect Trump. Murkowski thought just like a musk ox.
From the outside, everything "looked" perfect, even when Romney told the caucus that if they were trying to persuade him not to hear the evidence, they would push him away. It sounded "united," but to the very moderate former GOP presidential candidate. But it just shows that Republicans are really good at putting on a show to the outside world while shouting at the difficulty of total submission to Trump and even McConnell.
Ted Cruz, "Not a single senator thinks this was a trade-off" and Trump, "One impeachment hoax." This is the modern MAGA party in a nutshell.
JasonMiciak believes that a day without learning is a day not lived. Political writer, essayist, author and lawyer. A Canadian-born dual citizen, he spent his teenage years and college in the Pacific Northwest and has since lived in seven states. He is now enjoying life as a single father to a young girl writing from the shores of the Gulf Coast. He loves crafting his flower pots, cooking, and is currently studying philosophy of science, religion, and the non-mathematical principles behind quantum mechanics and cosmology. Feel free to contact for chats or any concerns.
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Recently heard a news story that "Keep Calm and Carry On" was really not circulated that much during the blitz, but a nice infographic nevertheless.
Glad to see the "skills graphs" are considered a mistake.
Only tangentially touched on, but the real motivator? An empty chair is zero revenue for that hour. I have found that some systems remind patients way too far in advance. I can't believe "you have an appointment in 3 weeks" is effective at reducing missed appointments.


The Falls and Crossings courses at Magnolia Grove were named by Golf Digest's "Places To Play" as two of the nation's Great Value courses, and both courses were listed in America's Top 50 Affordable Courses. The property at Magnolia Grove includes creeks, marshlands, and lakes, with each of the 54 holes carved from a thick forest of hardwood and pine.
The Crossings Course hosts the annual Mobile Bay LPGA Classic and is a shotmaker's-type layout that doubles across railroad tracks. It occupies hillier terrain than the Falls, with several pulpit greens elevated well above fairway levels.
The slightly shorter Falls Course features large, heavily contoured greens and massive, cloverleaf bunkers. On the 10th, a 570-yard par five and possibly the best strategic hole on the course, a waterfall cascades across stair-steps just beneath a contoured green that falls eight feet from front to back.
Most of the holes on the Short Course, recently named the best par-3 course in America, call for forced carries over marsh to liberally sloped, bulkheaded greens and are equal to any of the one-shotters on the full-length courses.
The rates for the Crossings and Falls courses vary by season, but begin at $65 (carts are $17), while the Short Course rate is $18 (carts are $11).
Love the price with my military discount! Great course!!!
Played the Falls. Really beautiful course! Lots of elevation, as others have mentioned. Seems that each hole is its own entity. As you would expect, a great design with super shot values!
Played on RTJ special rate. Awesome course played one month prior to the LPGA Mobile Bay Classic.
I really enjoyed Magnolia Grove. It was in good shape considering the conditions (cold and wet). The elevation changes provided a pleasant visual experience without negatively affecting your golfing experience. I would definitely play this course again.
OK, biased because when we played it had just stopped raining in the morning and no one else came out to play. We literally saw no more than 10 other golfers all day. Needless to say pace was perfect! And the hospitality was great since we were the only customers. The course played pretty well considering we came in after 2 days of rain; drained very well. And the course is beautiful. Value is good, but it should be known that the rates have increased. Still not expensive when considering the quality of the courses - many courses this nice could charge (and get) twice the rate the trail courses charge. In fact, Ross Bridge is a trail course which charges about $130, which is nearly double the normal Trail course rate, and gets it with no issue. However, the rate, which starts at $65, was higher than that when we played. It's June hot in southern Alabama, and rain comes more often than not in the summer. $65 should be the max from Memorial Day to Labor Day... Still no complaints bigger than that. Great venue!
Great Course. One of the Best RTJ Trail courses. Challenging, yet not over complicated. Beautiful Scenery.
bring your" A "'game when you come,played the falls it was outstanding!!


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What Lies Are You Telling Yourself Regarding Your Health?
Several people I know have not had a checkup at the doctor's office in years. They have no idea what the state of their health is and yet, they say they are perfectly fine. Now, I'm not advocating going to see a doctor. If you're in pretty good health, you don't really need to. The problem I see with most people are that they are simply lying about their health and fitness.
Many of them are obese too. This includes some of my family members back in the Ozarks. What may not show, especially when one is young, will end up manifesting itself later in life. Low level inflammation will seethe for years, creating havoc over one's body, like a slow death.
Eventually systems will start to break down. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, loss of cognitive function (including Alzheimer's disease) and other systemic issues arise. One day you appear to be healthy and the next day you're in the hospital having suffered a stroke.
Making the right lifestyle choices will help to slow or eliminate many health problems. Knowing where you're at is important as well. Getting blood work that includes testing for inflammation is critical. Insist on it.
Mostly, be truthful to yourself. If you really want to be youthful and vibrant your whole life, then make the right lifestyle choices that will ensure that. Old age is not the reason why many people don't want to live past 100 or even to it. It's the problems of an accumulated and unhealthy lifestyle that most people are wary of as they reach old age (if they do).
It's time for you take healthy actions, so stop lying and respect your body.


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Outlook.com to stop supporting linked accounts
Though the world is beautiful, it is far more dangerous. In today's digital world the instances of online identity theft, phishing, and other scams are rapidly rising. More and more people are becoming victims to these nefarious acts. With linked accounts, the chances increases even more. How? People easily sign in to their favorite email account, supporting 'Linked Account' feature and then switch to any other linked account without entering a password. This handy feature can be used by bad guys like hackers to break into your online bank accounts or steal your credit card information. Realizing this potential of the cyberpunks, Outlook.com email service has decided to stop supporting its linked accounts feature.
Microsoft instead will encourage user to use Email aliases instead.
Microsoft's Eric Doerr explains:
"There are a number of people who have more than one email address and want to manage these multiple email addresses from Outlook.com. Linked accounts were introduced in 2006 as a way to quickly switch between different accounts each with their own email address. Over the next couple months, we will stop supporting linked accounts and instead help people move to a more robust and secure way of managing multiple email addresses: aliases."
In the days to come, Microsoft let users know about the update and what should be done when they remove support for the linked accounts on their Outlook.com service. Meanwhile, to make this transition easier, Microsoft has added a couple of new features. Users can forward all emails from secondary account to primary account or the secondary account can be configured as a "send-only" address.
In my opinion, the decision from Microsoft comes shortly after the company introduced two-factor authentication for Microsoft Accounts. Rather than being linked to secondary accounts, the Two-factor authentication requires a Microsoft Account be standalone!
Date: June 18, 2013 Tags: Outlook.com
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Megyn Kelly's Secret $5 Skincare Empire Has NBC Furious!
(ET, ) - She said she was leaving 'Megyn Kelly Today' to spend more time with family—but NBC's Sassy host may actually have bigger legal troubles to worry about.
Megyn Kelly, the 47 year old host of the mega-popular Megyn Kelly TODAY has shocked us all after announcing her departure from the show after 2 record-breaking seasons. According to sources, sponsors pay millions to advertise their products with NBC, but we're now learning their sponsors (and NBC, too) are FURIOUS with Megyn. Why? Because she failed to disclose her massive skincare empire to NBC, which is actually a HUGE competitor to the show's sponsor L'Oreal - because Kelly's product is half the price and twice as effective as their competing product. According to sources, NBC made Megyn Kelly decide on which direction she was going to focus on in the future. Being so turned off by the reaction of NBC and their Power Move, she has decided to pursue her new skincare line and dream.
The project Megyn is referring to is her wildly popular anti-aging skincare line Youthful Beauty Cream Beauty Cream. The host has spent the past two years developing a line of highly potent and effective anti-aging products that she claims are the solution for those who don't want to resort to plastic surgery.
Her product Youthful Beauty Cream sold out within ten minutes when first launched and it seems the world cannot get enough of the benefits and results.
Megyn even admitted that plastic surgeons are furious with her after noticing a large decline in patients since Youthful Beauty Cream was launched on the market.
Having a crowd of angry plastic surgeons is a glowing endorsement for Youthful Beauty Cream, but Megyn has been proactive in getting Youthful Beauty Cream into the hands of those who need it.
While working on 'Megyn Kelly TODAY' she gifted her fellow co-hosts with Youthful Beauty Cream products and made sure every guest was given a sample of the cream. Since then she has cultivated a huge celebrity clientele who are regularly reordering the products.
Countless aging celebs admit they avoided surgery and look 10 years younger using Youthful Beauty Cream.
While Youthful Beauty Cream is selling out around the world, Megyn didn't want our readers to miss out on experiencing the benefits of Youthful Beauty Cream for themselves.
Megyn is offering our lucky readers the chance to try Youthful Beauty Cream for FREE!
If you want to remove your wrinkles and get that youthful glow back into your complexion, make sure you use Youthful Beauty Cream every day. This product is designed to give you incredible anti-aging results.
Because of the high demand of Youthful Beauty Cream, Megyn can only offer a limited amount of free samples so you'll need to act quickly to take advantage of this amazing offer.
Lacey Johnson, age 53 submitted this photo of her results with Youthful Beauty Cream. You look great, Lacey!
"The Youthful Beauty Cream is the absolute best wrinkle removing product I've ever used. I thought my days of looking young were long gone. I can't thank you enough for this!"
"I've been trying to get rid of my eye bags for almost 10 years. Youthful Beauty Cream got rid of them in a week. Thanks so much!"
"Ive only been using the Youthful Beauty Cream cream for 2 weeks, and I love it!!!!!!!! I have seen a visible change in my skin, best of all my husband complimented me on my skin after just 2 weeks!!!!! He thought I had foundation on, and I did'nt that is just fabulous!!!!!!!!"
"I have been using Youthful Beauty Cream and I am incredibly impressed with the results! My skin is brighter and it is very apparent that my skin is more hydrated and dewy."
I saw Megyn Kelly presenting Youthful Beauty Cream on CNN a while ago and am still using the cream. I've been using the products for about 6 wks. Honestly, this is unbelievable, all I have to say is WOW.
probably I'm a bit older than most of you folks. but Youthful Beauty Cream worked for me too! LOL! I can't say anything more exciting. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hey Christine, i just placed my order. I can't wait to get my Youthful Beauty Cream!! Thanks, Aimee xoxoxo.