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Alexander is the original film score of the film Alexander (2004), scored by Greek electronic composer Vangelis. It received the Public Choice Award at the 2005 World Soundtrack Academy.

Overview
The film, directed by Oliver Stone, portrays the life of Alexander the Great in an epic style that is also reflected in the score. Alexander was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon who expanded the Hellenistic civilization with his conquests on the 4th Century BC; Vangelis, himself a Greek, was already famous for his scores to Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner and Conquest of Paradise. He was directly approached by Stone.

"I tried to remember how it was to live at the time, to be there. At the same time, I must speak the music language which is understandable today, because we're addressing thousands, millions in the audience." - Vangelis in documentary Vangelis Scores Alexander

"You could say that I composed it from memory, which is the most important thing in all of us... when you close your eyes, and make yourself available, you can really remember, and imagine certain things. And all of those ethnic, musical flavors will come to you. It's a universal music language." - Vangelis on ethnic music from Alexander's time

Release
The CD was released in each market with one of three different covers. In some markets, a bonus track (not used in the film) was included, titled "Bizarre Bazar".

Charts
At the Billboard New Age Albums chart peaked at #5 position. In Portugal reached #28, Belgium #96, and France #97.

Composition
Vangelis composed, arranged, and produced the music on his synthesizer since September 2003, and took almost a year to score due to re-editing of the film. He recalls "with Alexander I started working immediately, because Oliver needed music for his shooting. So some of the music, for the dances, for instance, I composed before the scenes were shot, working with the choreographer and so forth". He gave it to Nic Raine, who orchestrated it and conducted the result, with violinists Vanessa-Mae and Dominique Lemonnier, harpist Maria Bîldea, the Epris Polyphonic Ensemble, tenor Konstantinos Paliatsaras, singer Irina Valentinovna Karpouchina, with around 200 players in the orchestra. According to Vangelis, 40% of the album is live while 60% synth.

The soundtrack features a combination of synthesisers, acoustic instruments and percussion with the choral lines, such as "Titans" and "Drums of Gaugamela". The "Eternal Alexander" and "Tender Memories" are more reflective tracks with an exotic oriental flavour, beginning with a folk tune, and feature a chorus, symphony orchestra and guitar. "Gardens of Delight" and "Roxane's Dance" for example feature violin, harp and percussion.

Vangelis recorded double amount of music than was released on CD, however, not all film music was included or had the same editing like in the album, or was later released. The one track that wasn't heard in the movie at all, "One Morning at Pella", showed up in the "Final Cut" version of the movie.

Reception

The soundtrack has received mixed reviews. James Christopher Monger of Allmusic observed that "what begins as a Blade Runner-esque wash of atmospheric, keyboard-driven subtlety quickly deteriorates into a thick wall of stock heroic motifs, swelling brass, and thunderous percussion", and gave the soundtrack two-and-half stars out of five. David Coscina of Film Score Monthly considered the soundtrack disappointing due to lack of full and expansive harmonies; "Titans", "the main theme from the film and the main harmonic body of this piece is a simple IV-I progression with little to no deviation in its melodic content from the basic triadic chords", concluding "if there were some interesting textures that compensate for this shortcoming, then I could find some merit in his music. But the antiquated synthesizer sounds only make the listening experience all the worse", and scored it one star out of five.
Christian Clemmensen of Filmtracks.com praised the soundtrack for "a continuation of Vangelis' trend towards seeking the perfect harmony between synthetic and orchestral elements", "can be divided into two sections: that in which Vangelis unleashes the ensembles and his electronics in a massive bombardment of rhythm and theme, and those in which he attempts to provide realistic source-like underscore for the erotic and/or Eastern sequences", concluding "on its attempts to insert a synthetic element into music for this general historical period, Alexander succeeds better than Zimmer's Gladiator ever did", scoring it five stars out of five. Messrob Torikian of Soundtrack.Net gave the album 4/5 score, concluding "strong themes, haunting melodies, and the ever present feeling of a vast army always on the march make the album immensely enjoyable".

Jennifer Ravensdale of Sputnikmusic in review summary concluded "always exemplifying the moment, yet constantly struggling to create an identity for itself", and scored it 3/5. Peter Simons of Movie Music UK concluded that "a few good tracks save the album from being a complete waste, but they hardly outweigh the simplicity of the composition and the annoyance of the endlessly repeated percussion", and scored it 2/5. James Southall of Movie Wave rated the album 3/5, saying "Vangelis pulls out every imaginable cliché, but somehow the album features a not inconsiderable amount of highly-entertaining music".

Adrian Edwards of Gramophone noted that "Eternal Alexander" and "Tender Memories" could become the "most frequently aired themes", concluding that "a number of tracks segue from one to another, carrying the mood through and avoiding the fragmentary nature of soundtrack listening. A huge array of credits testify to a job well done".

Track listing
All songs composed and arranged by Vangelis.
 "Introduction" – 1:32
 "Young Alexander" – 1:36
 "Titans" – 3:59
 "The Drums of Gaugamela" – 5:20
 "One Morning at Pella" – 2:11
 "Roxane's Dance" – 3:25
 "Eastern Path" – 2:58
 "Gardens of Delight" – 5:24
 "Roxane's Veil" – 4:40
 "Bagoas' Dance" – 2:29
 "The Charge" – 1:41
 "Preparation" – 1:42
 "Across the Mountains" – 4:12
 "Chant" – 1:38
 "Immortality" – 3:18
 "Dream of Babylon" – 2:41
 "Eternal Alexander" – 4:37
 "Tender Memories" – 2:59

Certifications

References

2000s film soundtrack albums
2004 soundtrack albums
Vangelis soundtracks


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Le Châtiment d'Hermès est la douzième histoire de la série Les Centaures de Pierre Seron. Elle est publiée pour la première fois du  au  du journal Spirou.

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Synopsis

Hermès, jaloux de la renommée des exploits d'Ulysse et Aurore auprès des dieux de l'Olympe, soumet Ulysse à une série d'épreuves.

Personnages
 Aurore et Ulysse, deux centaures cherchant à rejoindre l'Olympe.
 Hermès, le messager des dieux.
 Hector et Achille, prêt à en découdre devant les murailles de Troie
 Athéna, la déesse de la guerre et de la sagesse.

Historique
La réalisation des planches s'est étendue de 1983 à 1985 d'après la signature de Seron figurant au bas de celle-ci.

Publication

Revues
L'histoire a été publiée du  2493 du  au  2494 du  du journal de Spirou sous le titre Les Centaures.

Album
L'histoire est publiée dans l'album éponyme (MC Productions en 1988, réédité chez Jourdan en 1991) qui comprend également Le Visiteur, La Dent couronnée et Les Hommes des bois. L'album porte le numéro 1 mais il s'agit en réalité du  de la série publiée si l'on tient compte des différents éditeurs.

Liens externes

Histoire des Centaures
Histoire publiée dans Spirou
Histoire publiée pour la première fois en 1986

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It's a New Year and that means New Cows!
2018 is here and I am back in studio! 2017 was a great year for paintings with our highest number of commissions to date. Now a new leaf has been turned and it's time to get back to the drawing board, and this year's Lauren's Cows resolution is to try and focus on rarer cattle breeds. Those lovely animals that don't get the publicity they deserve. So while I stretch, seal and prime my canvases I've started putting together some preliminary sketches for the first painting.
Which leads me to resolution no. 2 - to get some more footage from behind the scenes!
So here we are- the first time lapse of 2018! 10 points if you can guess the breed! And please let me know what other cattle breeds you'd like to see painted this year!


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To allow you to easily use the tool within your organization, it is provided as a separate file in Microsoft Excel that you can download from the HIPxChange site.
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To address this gap, we developed the DRG Categories Tool to create a manageable number of DRG categories but still retains some interpretability in terms of individual clinical service lines (e.g. medical vs. surgical) and case complexity (e.g. complicated vs. uncomplicated). Using data from a 100% sample of 2012-2013 Medicare claims from the state of Wisconsin, MS-DRGs for version 36 and earlier were manually grouped by the joint likelihood of readmission and discharge to SNF, or into other relevant categories (e.g., rehabilitation). This DRG mapping to HIP DRG categories can be downloaded at www.hipxchange.org
This mapping will be updated on an occasional basis to account for new or expired DRGs. The mapping retains expired DRGs for working with historical data.
This project was supported by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health's Health Innovation Program (HIP), the Wisconsin Partnership Program, and the Community-Academic Partnerships core of the University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (UW ICTR), grant 9 U54 TR000021 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (previously grant 1 UL1 RR025011 from the National Center for Research Resources). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or other funders.
The HIP DRG Categories Tool was developed by researchers and clinicians (Principal Investigator: Maureen Smith) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Health Innovation Program.
We suggest using the following citation for this toolkit: Health Innovation Program DRG Categories Tool. Health Innovation Program. Madison, WI; 2018. Available at http://www.hipxchange.org/DRG.
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March 10, 2021 News + Opinion » Health Care
Despite a Large-Scale Prison Outbreak, Scott Resists Vaccinating Inmates
By Colin Flanders @CFlandersVT
Published March 10, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. | Updated March 23, 2021 at 9:29 p.m.
David Junkin
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott announced on March 2 that correctional staff would be among those next in line for a coronavirus vaccine. But he had a different message for their charges, saying inmates, "like the rest of us," would need to "wait their turn."
For many, it was already too late. That same evening, the state revealed that an outbreak at the Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport had spread to more than 120 inmates, the most inside a Vermont prison since the pandemic began.
"This is a significant and critical event," interim Corrections Commissioner Jim Baker said at a press conference, "and it's requiring all hands on deck."
The outbreak has once again demonstrated the vulnerability of prisons to the coronavirus and has renewed pressure on the Scott administration to give priority to inmates as it rolls out the long-awaited vaccines. State officials have so far resisted, citing a moral obligation to preserve life by protecting those most likely to die of COVID-19. But prisoner advocates say Vermont has made repeated exceptions to this rule without offering a good reason to keep inmates off the list. The state has a duty to protect those in its care, advocates say, and the Newport situation shows the perils of further delay.
"These are people that cannot keep themselves safe. They cannot choose to isolate themselves in ways that the rest of us can," said Brenda Siegel, a southern Vermont activist who has long advocated on behalf of the prison population. "Their sentence did not include COVID-19. One hundred percent, this outbreak is on Phil Scott. He had the tools and the power to prevent this, and he chose not to."
When state leaders released an initial draft of their vaccine rollout plan last November, people in group living settings such as nursing homes and prisons were among those first in line. But the Scott administration removed inmates from the list after learning that the federal government would be sending fewer doses than anticipated.
Since then, Vermont's vaccination plan has targeted two main groups: those most likely to die — the elderly and people with chronic medical conditions — and those most likely to get infected, beginning with health care workers and emergency responders. The state has expanded criteria for both of these groups in recent weeks as the vaccine supply has grown; by month's end, eligible Vermonters will include teachers, corrections officers, childcare providers and people above the age of 16 with certain chronic conditions.
While some states have excluded inmates from their plans entirely, Vermont has instead treated them like the rest of the population, allowing them to get vaccinated if they meet the age requirements. Only 37 people within Vermont's in-state prison system have been vaccinated so far, but officials say many more will soon be eligible due to chronic conditions. People ages 16 and older with chronic conditions can start signing up this week.
Advocates say the state's plan lacks the necessary urgency. "For too long, the governor has ignored the fact that incarcerated Vermonters are at heightened risk of harm," James Lyall, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, said in a statement last week. "That approach is dangerous and inhumane."
Health experts warned at the start of the pandemic that prisons would be hotbeds for the coronavirus, and data compiled by the Associated Press and the Marshall Project, a journalism nonprofit focused on criminal justice, have confirmed that theory. More than 380,000 prisoners — one in every four — have tested positive nationwide, a rate four times higher than the general population.
Similar disparities have played out in Vermont. More than 410 of the state's 1,250 inmates overall have tested positive. One hundred and eighty-five cases are attributed to an August outbreak among Vermont's out-of-state prison population housed at the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Mississippi, a state that is also not giving priority to inmates.
But the Newport outbreak has spiked Vermont's in-state case count, too, and roughly one in every five in-state inmates has now tested positive — nearly 10 times the rate of the general population.
"Every time I hear the governor say [in] the last number of months that you can't join people from other households, I wonder how people who are less in control of their situation — people who are incarcerated or people who are in homeless shelters — can possibly comply," said Michael Fisher, chief health care advocate at Vermont Legal Aid, who sits on the panel charged with forming the state's vaccination plan. Fisher said the state has a "special responsibility" to inmates and should vaccinate them at the same time as correctional staff.
It wouldn't take much: Vermont would need to use just 7 percent of its weekly vaccine supply to get a shot in the arm of every one of its 1,070 inmates.
Explaining why the state hasn't taken that step, Scott said last Friday that giving priority to inmates would require that the state divert doses from people with chronic conditions. At that same press briefing, however, he said vaccinating teachers would not come at the expense of the most vulnerable. "This is an extra supply that we found that we had that we weren't anticipating," he said.
"My whole body hurts." Scott Favreau tweet this
Asked to explain those seemingly conflicting stances, Scott deflected, pointing out that dozens of other groups have lobbied the state for a place higher on the list. "Every category, every situation, every profession — we have dozens and dozens and dozens of people who want to be put in the front of the line, even before the offender population," he said.
"We work on data and science," he added, "and the data doesn't prove the fact that [inmates] are more susceptible [to dying] than anyone else."
Vermont is the only state not to report any inmate COVID-19 deaths to date. But advocates and families of inmates argue that the state isn't considering other groups — such as teachers — by the same criteria, leading them to believe that the Scott administration is allowing politics to influence its decisions.
"Inmates are, in a lot of the population's eyes, less important," said Marny Lewis, whose husband, Michael Lewis, is incarcerated at the Newport prison.
The Scott administration has argued that Vermont can still shield prisons while conserving doses by immunizing prison staff, since that should theoretically cut down on the ways in which the virus can enter the facility; the Department of Corrections has restricted access to prisons throughout the pandemic by reducing contracted services and suspending all in-person visits. A total of 81 prison workers have been infected since the pandemic began, including 16 in the recent Newport outbreak.
"Once we take care of that, we should be able to clear up the problem," Scott said.
Scott's decision to prioritize correctional staff over inmates clashes with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is encouraging states to vaccinate both groups simultaneously because of their "shared increased risk of disease." The defend-the-perimeter approach also has clear limitations. The state will not be mandating that corrections employees be immunized, and experience from other sectors suggests that some will turn down the vaccine. That means prisoners could still come into contact with unvaccinated workers who are unwittingly carrying the virus, raising the chances of an outbreak. Acknowledging as much last Friday, Scott said no approach was foolproof. "Even the vaccine itself isn't 100 percent effective," he said.
The benefit of vaccinating prisons extends beyond the facilities themselves, advocates say, because the prison population is constantly in flux.
"Individuals could get picked up on a furlough violation and be put in the facility for a week," said Chittenden County State's Attorney Sarah George, who for months has been calling for inmates to be vaccinated.
When they are released, they then run the risk of bringing the virus back into their communities. A study from the Prison Policy Initiative, a research nonprofit devoted to reducing mass incarceration, found that outbreaks in jails and prisons across the country contributed to nearly 500,000 additional infections within the greater community between just May and August 2020, with both prison staff and inmates contributing to the spread.
"The best answer is to vaccinate everyone," said Fisher, the Vermont Legal Aid attorney.
It's hard to know whether corrections leaders share that view. Baker, the interim commissioner, refused to say at a press conference last week whether he had pushed the governor to vaccinate all inmates, saying only that he was "advocating all the time" for the prison system. He said more and more prisoners would be vaccinated in the coming weeks.
Corrections officials say the Newport outbreak has slowed in recent days; another round of testing last Thursday revealed only eight additional cases. But inmates remain concerned for their safety.
On Monday, a St. Johnsbury defense attorney filed emergency motions seeking the release of two clients due to the danger posed by the outbreak. And several family members who spoke to Seven Days last week said their loved ones have shared troubling accounts of the scene inside the prison.
"My husband's scared to death," said Marny Lewis, noting that he has so far managed to avoid getting infected. "It's basically a cesspool of COVID-19."
Others haven't been so lucky. "My whole body hurts," Scott Favreau wrote in an email to his mother late last month after testing positive. "My throat is sore. My head hurts so bad I want to smash it off something."
Another mother — who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution against her infected son — said she had initially supported the Scott administration's vaccine rollout plan, viewing it as a levelheaded approach. But the outbreak has shown her it was a mistake not to vaccinate prisoners first, she said, and state leaders' refusal to change course after the fact has left her with only one takeaway.
"I hate to say it," she said, "but I think that these people just don't matter very much to them."
The original print version of this article was headlined "'Cesspool of COVID-19'"
COVID-19 Infection Rates Continue to Rise in Vermont, Northeast
By Anne Wallace Allen
Vermont's Vaccination Strategy, Turns of the 'Spigot' Pose Risks in New Pandemic Phase
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Scott Releases Vaccine Timeline, Aims to Have State Largely Reopened Around July 4
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As Vaccination Pace Quickens, State Shifts Teachers, High-Risk People to Front of Queue
Vermont Could Receive First COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Early Next Month
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When I started to write From Italy With Love, all those months ago, I'd never even sat in a Ferrari let alone driven one … and to be quite frank, never thought I would. All that changed one glorious morning in The Cotswolds when I dove this beautiful babe, a Ferrari 360. For petrol heads it does 0-60 in 4.3 seconds, has a top speed of 190 mph and a 3600cc 8 cylinder engine. For the less petrol heady, among us, I can just tell you its bloody lovely to drive, which confirms the view that one of the best things about writing is the research.
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MNA Disaster Response Helps in S.C.
Photo: MNA's Arklie Hooten surveys the site of a dam breach in Lexington, S.C.
When a flood devastates your life, you don't forget it. Sherry Lanier knows this well.
As the Mission to North America (MNA) disaster response facilitator, Lanier has witnessed the havoc that floods wreak and the ways that natural disasters create channels for the Gospel.
When she addressed a women's retreat for Grace Presbytery in southern Mississippi in 2014, Lanier knew she was speaking to women whose lives had been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Knowing what these women had endured, Lanier asked if they would consider assembling some "flood buckets," relief kits filled with supplies used to clean flooded houses immediately after a storm.
The women of Grace Presbytery went to work and in less than a year assembled 75 buckets, which they planned to present to Lanier at MNA's new disaster response warehouse in Rome, Georgia.
But before the presbytery could send the buckets, unprecedented storms, caused in part by Hurricane Joaquin, pummeled South Carolina, bringing historic rainfall and damage. The flood buckets Grace Presbytery prepared for storage suddenly became a crucial part of the work in South Carolina, so members of First Presbyterian Church in Gulfport, Mississippi, loaded the kits into a trailer and drove them straight to Lexington, South Carolina.
Grace Presbytery's response to Lanier's request and the message from First Presbyterian demonstrate the impact MNA's disaster-relief work has on a community. A decade ago MNA Disaster Response coordinated volunteers throughout the Gulf Coast in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. Now the churches that received assistance in 2005 want to help their brothers and sisters in need farther north.
MNA Disaster Response is coordinating relief efforts at four sites in South Carolina and raising funds to help Watershed Fellowship, which sustained catastrophic damage. Volunteers are working to "muck out" houses, removing everything in the house that was damaged by the floods.
Every flood bucket opened is another opportunity to offer the hope of the Gospel in times of desperate need.


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The opioid epidemic is taking lives and tearing families apart across our state and the country.
More people die in North Carolina of an accidental drug overdose–usually an opioid–than from any other cause of accidental death.
Visit More Powerful NC to learn how communities across the state are taking action to take back their communities from the devastation of the opioid crisis.
Nearly every person in North Carolina has been touched in some way by addiction. Whether it's through personal experience, or that of a family member or a friend, the opioid epidemic has hurt people all across our state.
Five people die from opioid overdoses every day.
More people die from opioid overdoses than car crashes.
More than 2,000 North Carolinians died of an opioid overdose in 2017 – a 32 percent increase over the previous year.
Between 1999 and 2017, more than 13,169 North Carolina residents have lost their lives to unintentional opioid overdoses.
The number of unintentional overdose deaths in 2017 was nearly 17 times higher than in 1999.
The number of unintentional opioid overdose deaths has more than doubled in the past decade.
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North Carolina has responded to the opioid epidemic with three recent laws drafted by Attorney General Josh Stein's office and sponsored by Representatives Greg Murphy and Craig Horn, Senators Jim Davis and Tom McInnis, and other members of the North Carolina General Assembly.
The Strengthen Opioid Misuse Prevention (STOP) Act
The STOP Act (2017) aims to reduce the number of people who become addicted to prescription opioids. The Act:
Sets a 5-day limit for an initial prescription for acute pain (7 days for pain following surgery) to reduce the number of people who become addicted to pain medications and reduce the number of unused pills sitting in medicine cabinets
Requires prescribers to check the Controlled Substances Reporting System database before prescribing opioids to reduce adverse drug interactions, duplicative prescriptions and doctor-shopping
Requires electronic prescribing of opioids to cut down on prescription fraud
The Synthetic Opioid Control Act
The Synthetic Opioid Control Act (2017) helps law enforcement authorities go after fentanyl traffickers by ensuring that all derivatives of this deadly drug are classified as controlled substances under state law.
The Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Enforcement (HOPE) Act
The HOPE Act (2018) gives law enforcement authorities tools for addressing the opioid epidemic. The Act:
Ensures that our drug trafficking laws cover trafficking in the deadly drug fentanyl
Gives law enforcement quicker access to the information they need to investigate diversion of prescription drugs from legal to illegal uses
Protects patient safety by strengthening laws against theft of drugs by healthcare workers and first responders
Expresses the General Assembly's intent to provide greater funding for drug treatment and recovery services
To confront this epidemic, we need cooperation among law enforcement, medical prescribers, the public health community, and the treatment and recovery community. Prevention, treatment and enforcement are critical.
Prevention should educate both the people who misuse prescription drugs and the doctors and dentists who overprescribe them.
Our state particularly needs proven programs directed to young people to help them avoid risky behaviors. Illicit or non-medical use of painkillers is the highest for youth and adolescents.
Teens and young adults report that prescription drugs are easy to access and seem safer than other drugs. More than 20 percent of North Carolina's 11th graders have taken prescription drugs without a doctor's prescription.
After just a few days on an opioid, some patients' brain chemistry begins changing to create an addiction. We must educate North Carolinians about the dangers of these medications if they are unneeded.
Learn more about prevention strategies and how you can get involved at More Powerful NC.
Because addiction can happen so quickly and has become so common, effective treatment is critical. Expert research shows that medication-assisted treatments address addiction and promote recovery – especially when paired with therapy and community support.
Unfortunately, there simply aren't enough treatment programs around the state. Funding is wholly inadequate. That's something we must value more and solve.
Learn more about treatment and recovery, and how you can get help for yourself or someone close to you at More Powerful NC.
We need to effectively enforce our criminal laws on this issue. It is critical that we aggressively pursue the dealers and traffickers who push heroin on people with opioid addictions. Heroin is much cheaper and more readily available than prescription opioids. And it's even more deadly.
Someone who has substance use disorder has a chronic illness. Jail time is not the best way to treat addiction. At four times the cost, prison is less cost-effective than treatment.
Helping someone treat their addiction is better for the person, their family, and their community. While in treatment, the person can live at home, provide for their family, get healthy, work, pay taxes, and contribute to society.
Naloxone, or Narcan, is a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose. Across North Carolina, it's been administered 6,000 times by community members and first responders to save lives. We must work with law enforcement to make sure police departments and sheriff's offices have access to this life-saving drug.
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3. Pipet 50µl hyb solution with probe onto long edge of slide.
4. Cover with long cover slip, avoid air bubbles (gives high background).
5. Incubate overnight (12hrs) at room temperature in humid chamber (moist paper towel in bottom of relatively airtight container).
6. To remove coverslip, submerge slide in 2X SSC/0.2% SDS.
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7. Wash 5 min in 2X SSC/0.2% SDS at room temperature.
8. Wash10 min at room temp with 2X SSC/0.1% SDS.
9. Rinse slide 10 seconds in ddH20.
10. Dry with compressed air.
11. Store in dark until ready to scan.
12. Scan in Array Scanner II in both channels (make sure scanner has had at least 40 minutes to warm up).


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Kelley, Fulton & Kaplan 18.02.2016 Foreclosure in Florida
Foreclosures and delinquent mortgages hit impressive lows in 2015, both nationally and locally. South Florida saw major declines in both ratings, yet the area still lags behind national trends.
CoreLogic reported that the region saw greater declines in foreclosure rates than the nation as a whole from November 2014 to November 2015. The percentage of Broward County homes in foreclosure decreased by 2.01 percent, dropping from 4.56 percent to just 2.55 percent. Miami-Dade also saw a decrease of 1.68 percent. In Palm Beach County, the drop was more significant, from 3.49 to 1.95 percent.
These falling rates can be largely attributed to a stronger economy. Although the state of Florida still has a higher rate of foreclosure than the national average of 1.17 percent, this past year was certainly a step in the right direction. Assuming the economy continues to recover, South Florida residents can remain hopeful that matching the national average is on the horizon.
Mortgage Delinquency Rates
Also revealed in the report is a considerable drop in mortgage delinquency rates in the area, determined by the amount of loans which are a minimum of 90 days delinquent. The rate of delinquent mortgages in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties dropped 3.21, 2.79 and 3.42 percent, respectively. Palm Beach County still holds the lowest delinquency rates out of the three counties, with 4.75 percent. Though it's a vast improvement, it still remains above the national average of 3.25 percent.
The area has the strengthened economy to thank for these improvements, as well. Additionally, stricter lending standards have also aided in dropping these rates. With stricter standards, borrowers who are likely to end up in delinquency are rejected early on.
These dropping rates are great news for homeowners. This trend promises a rise in property values that South Florida has been long awaiting. However, not everyone is out of the woods yet. If you're struggling with a foreclosure or mortgage delinquency, set up a consultation with a Foreclosure Attorney in Boynton Beach today so that you can enjoy a bright future, too.
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Three weeks from the date of this session, those little candy beggars will coming knocking on your and your insured's door. From a liability standpoint, would it be better to turn the light off and go someplace else to avoid any liability issues?
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In This Article Geographic Methods: Life Writing Analysis
Conceptual Groundwork
Collaborative Life Writing Analysis
Innovative Life Writing Methods
Anthologies and Classics
Pamela Moss, Kathryn Besio
Life writing analysis emerged in recent years as a term used to describe that set of qualitative research methods that tell stories in concrete, innovative ways while retaining the rigor of theoretical insight and conceptual framings. Life writing analysis includes methodological approaches centered on autobiography, autoethnography, biography, oral history, and narrative analysis. It also includes collaborative writing strategies and story telling as a method of inquiry. In geography, the growth of life writing analysis can be traced to and situated within feminist attempts to tell stories without losing the entanglements of living the everyday. The rise of qualitative methods in the 1990s provided geographers with research techniques and approaches that could grasp in more nuanced terms people's paths, vicissitudes, and prospects in life. There was a collective recognition that people did not live their lives in a vacuum, removed from the world around them. People were embedded in their social and physical environments and researchers sought to characterize both the ways in which people were involved in those surroundings and how they navigated relationships, arrangements, and organization of social, cultural, and economic connections to the world. Although ethnography offered a way to contextualize people's lives, particularly lives in non-Western contexts, interviews turned out to be by far the most popular way to access lives. Interviews, structured and unstructured, in the same language and in translation, elicited information from people about some particular aspect of their own life. Yet it was left up to the researcher to pull fragments together in order to capture experience while providing context. For some researchers, interview fragments were not quite enough to be able to understand the complexities of how people actually lived their lives. Finely tuned efforts to investigate the specifics of a singular topic sometimes obscured both significant dimensions of people's lives and connections people used to traverse within and across multiple aspects of everyday life. Geographers, especially feminist ones, sought different ways to research people's lives, ones that could delve into both the complexity and situatedness of living a life.
Life writing analysis is situated within a set of concepts that form a base from which to enter into a discussion of its effectiveness as a research method. Concepts include experience, self, subject, subjectivity, interpretation, representation, discourse, and materiality. Feminist writing within and outside geography influenced the shaping of the way that life writing analysis is taken up. Scott 1991 is a classic piece that demonstrates how experience itself needs to be subjected to scrutiny. Personal experience is not necessarily the center of life writing analysis and is not a taken-for-granted idea or empirical fact. Experience links the self and the social, leading to the idea that the personal is a site of exploration of identity in life writing (Miller 1991). Longhurst 1994 uses this idea of the personal to show how understandings of self usually embrace some facet of stability, even if fleeting, so as to make sense of how individuals maneuver through various sets of relationships comprising experience. Similarly, the subject and subjectivity are important in life writing analysis. Bondi 2014 and Moss 2014 provide accounts of how the tensions between patterned sets of relations (structure) and the capacity to act autonomously (agency) shape situations where individually they are called upon to act. In thinking about life writing analysis as a research method, there is a strong connection to interpretation as part of qualitative research generally. In a plea to get beyond the restrictions of interpretation, Besio and Butz 2004 challenge the representational significance of autoethnography and the role that it plays in effectively using these microscale stories for political purposes. Moving beyond both interpretation and representation opens up space for countless theories to inform, shape, and influence what is being politicized as a part of subject formation in, for example, approaches to decolonization (Tuck 2010), queer living (Holman Jones and Adams 2016), and disability (Moss 2013). Discourse matters in life writing analysis in that ideas, notions, and scripts organize behaviors, such as in the good immigrant, the healthy body, and the efficient worker, which figure prominently in how one makes sense of the everyday. Mills 1997 provides an overview of what discourse is and what it does. Materiality, including both the things that make up a life (for example, bodies, nonhuman life, practices, inanimate objects) and the economic conditions giving rise to a particular point in time and space, also influences how one thinks, talks, and writes about one's life. These ideas are taken up in a handful of chapters in a collection on feminist materialisms in Alaimo and Hekman 2008, including the chapters Bordo 2008 and Tuana 2008.
Alaimo, Stacy, and Susan Hekman, eds. Material Feminisms. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
This volume is an edited collection on how feminist thinking approaches materiality. Although not about life writing, there are chapters in it wherein the authors write lives from a feminist materialist theoretical orientation. The chapters can be useful in providing some conceptual background toward applying materialist notions to empirical contexts, including life writing.
Besio, Kathryn, and David Butz. "Autoethnography: A Limited Endorsement." Professional Geographer 56.3 (2004): 432–438.
DOI: 10.1111/j.0033-0124.2004.05603011.xE-mail Citation »
Using Besio's research with northern Pakistani women who have limited textual discursive powers, Besio and Butz outline their concerns about the uses of autoethnography, stemming from Besio's positionality vis-à-vis the muted but nevertheless political voices of the women with whom she researched.
Bondi, Liz. "Feeling Insecure: A Personal Account in a Psychoanalytic Voice." Social & Cultural Geography 15.3 (2014): 332–350.
DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2013.864783E-mail Citation »
Bondi uses autobiographical vignettes to explore the concept of ontological security, drawn from R. D. Laing's psychotherapy. She links experience with emotion to show how the personal can shed light on the complexity of concepts that are used to write lives.
Bordo, Susan. "Cassie's Hair." In Material Feminisms. Edited by Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman, 400–424. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
Bordo writes autobiographically about her care for her daughter's hair. This chapter is a good example of how to address cultural and racial difference analytically, using an everyday practice of hair care and more specifically the practice of braiding.
Holman Jones, Stacy, and Tony E. Adams. "Autoethnography is Queer Method." In Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research. Edited by Kath Browne and Catherine J. Nash, 195–214. London: Routledge, 2016.
Holman Jones and Adams maintain that there is a theoretical affinity between autoethnography and queer theory in that both draw out the personal aspects of daily life. They define autoethnography as an analytical orientation rather than a method, and queer theory as a "shifting sensibility" rather than a paradigm. This shift brings to bear the relational and performative achievements of what counts as queer, self and identity.
Longhurst, Robyn. "The Geography Closest in—the Body . . . the Politics of Pregnability." Australian Geographical Studies 32.2 (1994): 214–223.
This piece brings the issue of embodiment into writing about the personal, or what Longhurst calls the "geography closest in." The theme of embodiment resonates through much of literature in life writing analysis.
Miller, Nancy K. Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Miller's Getting Personal was influential in setting the agenda for using one's own life as a departure point for analysis in geography. Her essays are still salient in framing the connections between the personal and the social, cultural, and political.
Mills, Sara. Discourse. New York: Routledge, 1997.
This slim volume is a must-read for anyone thinking about discursive elements in life writing analysis. Mills's use of accessible language to describe the ins and outs of discourse makes good reading for graduate courses.
Moss, Pamela. "Becoming-Undisciplined through My Foray into Disability Studies." Disability Studies Quarterly 33.2 (2013).
DOI: 10.18061/dsq.v33i2.3712E-mail Citation »
Moss uses various forms of autobiographical writing to bring out different points in the making of her life as a disabled academic. Although a little long, it is worth the read, for this piece meticulously demonstrates how writing one's life is informed by theoretical premises.
Moss, Pamela. "Some Rhizomatic Recollections of a Feminist Geographer: Working toward an Affirmative Politics." Gender, Place & Culture 21.7 (2014): 803–812.
DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2014.939159E-mail Citation »
Moss uses the concept of limit experience from Michel Foucault to draw out how discourse and materiality shape the contexts within which academics live their lives. She uses autobiographical vignettes to demonstrate how "coming undone" generates academics as subjects.
Scott, Joan W. "The Evidence of Experience." Critical Inquiry 17.4 (1991): 773–797.
DOI: 10.1086/448612E-mail Citation »
This is a pivotal piece in conceptualizing experience as something that is constitutive rather than taken for granted. A must-read for anyone interested in life writing analysis. Available online for purchase or by subscription.
Tuana, Nancy. "Viscous Porosity: Witnessing Katrina." In Material Feminisms. Edited by Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman, 188–213. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
This chapter draws out the links and connections—both conceptually and empirically—among relationships between discourse and materiality in writing the lives of people affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Tuck, Eve. "Breaking Up with Deleuze: Desire and Valuing the Irreconcilable." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 23.5 (2010): 635–650.
In an innovatively written piece organized around the phases of a breakup, Tuck contrasts her conceptualization of damage-centered research with the political value of an ontology premised on the generative and affirmative aspects of living. In doing so, she draws attention to the materiality of what decolonization means in practice.


Feeling slightly under the weather is never good and it always seems to hit on the most inconvenient day. There's nothing quite as frustrating as falling ill on a weekday when you need to go to work!
For some of us, we have to soldier on regardless of how bad we are feeling. This is often the case for business owners who can't waste time with a sick day or those of us who are self-employed and can't afford a day not working.
Not feeling too great but need to head out to the office? Don't worry; just read on for some great tips that will help you survive at work while feeling under the weather.
Of course, there will be some instances when you shouldn't go into work no matter how busy you are or how much you need the paycheck. For instance, if you are suffering from an infectious health condition, you should stay at home so that you don't pass it onto anyone else. If you feel slightly faint and weak, it's best to stay at home as you might end up passing out and injuring yourself in the office. According to the website of Barros McNamara, you won't be able to complain for an injury or accident at work that was caused this way, as you would be the one at fault and not your employer. So, if you think that your illness might put you or someone else at work in danger, it's always necessary to stay at home until you are starting to recover.
Most of the time, you will feel worse in the morning as soon as you wake up. That's just because your body will feel groggy until it has woken up properly. One way you can give it a little boost and help it wake up quicker is to drink something caffeinated, such as a strong cup of coffee. It's also important to drink plenty of water throughout the day as well so that you stay hydrated. When you are ill, your body needs plenty of liquids to stay hydrated so that it can do its best in fighting off the germs that are causing the illness. Not only that, though, but keeping your liquid levels high will help you feel a lot more awake throughout the day too.
There will no doubt be some medication available for you to take, and it will really help you if you do. There's no point going to your doctor if you have a cold as you can just get some over-the-counter cold and flu medication. Most of the time, this comes as powder in sachets that you can dissolve in warm water and drink. You can take paracetamol or aspirin instead if you prefer. All of these types of medication will help ease the symptoms of a cold. Once you start to feel the symptoms ease up, you will be able to concentrate on your work a lot better and will feel slightly more human again. If you don't fancy relying on so many medicines, you might want to search for some natural remedies. For instance, drinking hot water with honey and lemon in can help to reduce the symptoms of a cold.
Got a busy day ahead? If you aren't feeling 100% then it's worth trying to make it a little less busy if at all possible. You won't be quite as energetic as you usually would be while you are ill, so it's worth cancelling all your appointments and meetings that aren't super urgent. I'm sure that everyone who you have arranged to meet with will understand if you aren't feeling too well. After all, we've all been there before! So, try to clear your diary so that you can try to have an easy day in the office. You can always find the next convenient time and date for your meetings using scheduling apps such as the ones on this list.
We all have little bugbears that really rub us up the wrong way at work. For most of us, coworkers who constantly complain is one of the main ones! Unfortunately, when we are ill, one of the things that we do is complain about it. But before you do start to moan about being ill at work, you should consider how your colleagues will feel about it. You might really start to get on their nerves! So, try and keep your complaining down to a minimum, and that way you might find that you get a lot more sympathy from them.
Being stuck in a stuffy office all day isn't going to do your health any good, even when you are fit and healthy. Now that you are feeling unwell, staying inside will be doing you no favors at all. So, you should try and leave the office for a quick walk as much as possible. All of that fresh air will do you the world of good. It's also important to go outside for your lunch, even if that means just walking over to the nearest bakery to pick up a sandwich. The walk will wake you up and certainly improve your mood!
Once you are able to leave work, you should think about going home and straight to bed. Your body will need lots of rest so that it can recuperate and get ready for the next day ahead. You should find that it's easy to get a good night's rest while you are slightly ill, because your body will need as much deep sleep as it can get. By the time you wake up in the morning, you'll, hopefully, be fighting fit again and ready to get back to work with a lot more energy!
Surviving at work isn't too hard – you just need all these tips to get through the day!


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Regarding the announcement here, if I have a CT100, CT30, or GE TSTAT-300, will I be able to reuse the thermostat remotely through Alarm.com if I cancel service and resubscribe later?
No, the thermostats could not be used with a new account.
Alarm.com has ended support going forward for these discontinued models because they are discontinued and missing capabilities necessary for upcoming thermostat features through ADC. This applies to all new accounts.
You may continue using any of these thermostats on accounts created prior to 5/20/2018.
If you cancel service and resubscribe or if your service is suspended due to overdue payment and you later sign back up for service, unfortunately the CT100, CT30, and GE TSTAT-300 cannot be used remotely through Alarm.com.
Speaking of thermostats where is the new Alarm.com 2018 thermostat that was "Our new, smarter thermostat will be available in spring 2018." according to the alarm.com website? I don't find it anywhere.
Still no new information on the ADC T3000 "Smarter" thermostat. The availability of spring 2018 was definitely premature. As of this time, there is not an ETA on availability although the product is being worked on.


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ID Medical are sponsoring Mersey Care NHS Trust's Young Achiever Award! Read all about the award and the winner here.
ID Medical, the UK's leading multi-disciplinary healthcare recruiter, proudly sponsored Mersey Care NHS Trust's Positive Achievement Awards 2013, held at Aintree Racecourse on Friday 8th November with over 400 guests and 140 nominees in attendance.
As part of its lasting commitment to supporting Trusts and commending the outstanding achievements of NHS staff, ID Medical presented Shameem Zia Gissa with the 'Young Achiever Award', an award which pays tribute to Michael McNally, a Finance Cadet whose young life was sadly cut short in 2011.
This award celebrates the achievement of an inspirational young person (aged 14 to 24) who has made an outstanding contribution to the life of a service user or the work of the Trust.
Harjit Nandha, Mental Health division manager at ID Medical is pictured presenting Shameem Zia Gissa with her Young Achiever Award. Shameem, a clinical psychology student, took on the task of developing a booklet for Muslim carers and families to overcome the possible inequalities experienced by Muslim people with learning difficulties.
Harjit commented: "I felt extremely privileged to present Shameem with the Young Achiever Award.
"With 1 in 4 people in the UK experiencing a mental health problem, ID Medical understands the importance of having the sustained presence of highly specialised and committed mental health professionals to deliver high quality care to patients experiencing mental health difficulties.
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Augmented reality offers an exciting future for Hollywood blockbusters
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Zack Snyder Just Released Proof His Snyder Cut Of Justice League Exists
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The Weather Channel - Hurricane Florence Augmented Reality
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Justice League Is Almost the Most Expensive Film Ever (But Should It Be?)
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"It Will Be an Entirely New Thing": Zack Snyder's $20M-Plus 'Justice League' Cut Plans Revealed | Hollywood Reporter
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Zack Snyder's 'Justice League' cut confirmed for 2021 release
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Q: Calculation within the subquery, substract an amount from a different table I have been working on this query for over a day now.
From the Total column in the first query (Calls) below, I need to add or subtract the Amount number from the second table (CallsIncrease) only to the months within the date range (from StartDate to EndDate where the skill equals the skill in the query).
I tried to create a field first with the Amount to subtract for each month, to then use it to subtract from the total.
I tried different versions of the the sub-queries below:
Expr1: (
  select amount
  from (
    SELECT CallsIncrease.Skill, Sum(CallsIncrease.Amount) AS Amount
    FROM CallsIncrease
    GROUP BY CallsIncrease.Skill
  )
  where [skill]=(select [skill] from CallsIncrease)
    And [callmonth] Between (select [startdate] from CallsIncrease)
      And (select [enddate] from CallsIncrease)
)

Expr1: (
  SELECT Sum([%$##@_Alias].amount) AS SumOfamount
  FROM (
    SELECT CallsIncrease.Skill, Sum(CallsIncrease.Amount) AS Amount
    FROM CallsIncrease
    GROUP BY CallsIncrease.Skill)  AS [%$##@_Alias]
    GROUP BY [%$##@_Alias].skill
    HAVING ((([%$##@_Alias].skill)=forecast.skill))
)

The SQL for the Calls query:
SELECT
  CDate(DateSerial(Year([ForecastDate]),Month([ForecastDate]),1)) AS ForecastMonth,
  Forecast.Skill,
  Sum(Forecast.NormalizedData) AS Total
FROM Forecast
GROUP BY CDate(DateSerial(Year([ForecastDate]),Month([ForecastDate]),1)),
  Forecast.Skill
HAVING (((Sum(Forecast.NormalizedData)) Is Not Null));

Calls Query:
ForecastMonth   Skill               Total
01-Jan-08   Generalist English      56541
01-Jan-08   Generalist Spanish      868
01-Jan-08   Public Safety English   26837
01-Jan-08   Public Safety Spanish   401
01-Jan-08   Total                   34584
01-Jan-08   Utilities English       48332
01-Jan-08   Utilities Spanish       1605
01-Feb-08   Generalist English      52176

Calls Increase Table:
ID  EventID             Skill        StartDate  EndDate     Amount
1   9/5/2008    Generalist English  01-Jan-08   31-Aug-08   1800
3   7/10/2010   Generalist English  01-Jan-08   30-Jun-10   -3000
4   12/1/2011   Generalist English  01-Jan-08   30-Nov-11   2500
5   3/1/2013    Generalist English  01-Jan-08   28-Feb-13   200
6   12/1/2011   Generalist Spanish  01-Jan-08   30-Nov-11   80
7   7/1/2010    Public Safety Eng   01-Jan-08   30-Jun-10   -4700
8   3/10/2009   Utilities English   01-Jan-08   28-Feb-09   7000

I really hope this all makes sense, any help would be really appreciated.

A: I came up with the following horrendous mess.  There is some hope that your DBMS's query optimizer can do something reasonable with it, in part because it avoids correlated subqueries.  Indeed, there is even some hope that your DBMS will accept the query more or less as written.
SELECT
  MonthlyForecast.Month AS ForecastMonth,
  MonthlyForecast.Skill AS Skill,
  (MonthlyForecast.Total + COALESCE(Adjustment.Amount, 0)) AS Total

FROM

  (SELECT
      CDate(DateSerial(Year([ForecastDate]),Month([ForecastDate]),1)) AS Month,
      Forecast.Skill AS Skill,
      SUM(Forecast.NormalizedData) AS Total
    FROM Forecast
    GROUP BY [Month], [Skill]
    HAVING Total IS NOT NULL
  ) MonthlyForecast

  LEFT OUTER JOIN

    (SELECT
        ForecastMonths.Month AS Month,
        CallsIncrease.Skill AS Skill,
        SUM(CallsIncrease.Amount) AS Amount
      FROM
        (SELECT DISTINCT
          CDate(DateSerial(Year([ForecastDate]),Month([ForecastDate]),1)) AS Month
          FROM Forecast
        ) ForecastMonths
        JOIN CallsIncrease
          ON ForecastMonths.Month
            Between CallsIncrease.StartDate And CallsIncrease.EndDate
      GROUP BY
        [Month], [Skill]
    ) Adjustment

    ON MonthlyForecast.Month = Adjustment.Month
      AND MonthlyForecast.Skill = Adjustment.Skill
;

For what it's worth, the need to compare specific dates to a date range is a significant complicating factor, both for designing the query and for running it.  There are other ways to handle that problem than the one I've used above, but I'm doubtful that any of them yield a simpler query.

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Speaker, Storyteller and Lincoln-ologist/Fixer upper & rental houses
Posts Tagged 'Herndon's Informant's'
Offer to help others who cannot return the favor
Abraham and Tad Lincoln
"Lincoln chopped wood for widows and orphans. When he saw travelers bogged down, he stopped to help them." Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life
"Ab Trout, a poor barefooted boy, was chopping wood one cold winter day. Lincoln came up and asked what he got for the job, and what he would do for the money. Ab said, 'One dollar' and pointing to his naked feet said, 'A pair of shoes.' Abe told him to go in and warm up and he would chop a while for him. Lincoln finished the work, and told him to go buy the shoes." William Herndon, Herndon's Informant's
"Lincoln defended the son of the widow Armstrong, in a murder case. Lincoln saved her boy from the gallows. The only possession she had in the world was 40 acres of land, which she offered to give to Lincoln as payment. 'Aunt Hannah,' he said, 'you took me in years ago when I was poor and homeless and you fed me and mended my clothes, and I shan't charge you a cent now'." Andrew Carnegie, Lincoln – The Unknown
Phil made me feel exceedingly comfortable when I first joined Toastmasters. I felt a little awkward at the meetings because I didn't know anyone. But Phil, a longtime member, took care of that. He was always one of the first persons in the meeting room and every time I would walk in, he loudly announce, "Here's the professor. How are things going at the university?" It made me feel exceptionally welcome, and put me at ease, even though I was not a professor, but merely a researcher, at the university. Nonetheless, I gracefully accepted the comical promotion that Phil gave to me.
Fast forward five years. Phil falls down and breaks his leg. He goes through surgery and spends weeks in rehab. I visit him virtually every day at the rehabilitation clinic. We wile away the hours chatting, playing checkers and putting puzzles together. Phil, still at the top of his game, at 95 years old, in short order makes friends with the staff and other patients.
Mental note to self: There's a lot to learn from Phil.
My Sworn Enemy – The Thorny Bush
One of my worst enemies is a thorny bush that blocks a sidewalk which students use
Janette Scott facing down evil plants
to walk to a high school near my house.
I'm pretty sure that it is possessed by the devil. If not cut, branches with huge thorns grow through a fence and force students to walk around it or risk cuts to their arms and legs. It's even more dangerous at night because you can't see the branches.
Twice a year, wearing a long sleeve shirt and leather gloves, I fight back against the devil brush branches, like Janette Scott in The Day of the Triffids. I cut the branches and carefully load the large branches into the bed of my truck. The thorns can go right through my gloves, and haul them to a large trash can in the alley behind my house. The last time I did it, I accidently stepped on one of the branches and a thorn pierced through the sole of my shoe and into my foot. Yikes!
I chalk it up as a war injury in my never-ending battle with the sinister thorn bush.
I often do house repairs for neighbors and friends who need help. I'm pretty good at it since I often repair my rental houses. Just last week, Cynthia, an older friend and former neighbor, who had just returned from mouth surgery, called and said,
"Terry, my toilet is leaking. Can you take a look at it?"
"Sure, I'll be right over."
I grabbed my tool box, stopped by Ace hardware to buy a toilet repair kit, and drove over to Cynthia's house.
I ring the doorbell.
"Hi Terry. Thanks for coming."
"You're welcome. How's your mouth feeling?"
"Okay, but sore. I still can't speak too clearly yet."
"Did you just say, 'Okay you bore. I steal cans of peak to clean ear pets?"
"Sorry. I was just rattling your cage. Show me where the leak is."
She leads me to the bathroom.
As I suspected, the fill valve was broken and leaking. I replaced the valve and the flange too, for good measure. It worked like new.
"Can I pay you something?"
"No thanks. I'm the Lone Ranger. Justice is the only reward I desire. If you need anything else, give me a call."
"Okay. You helped me a lot. Thanks kemo sabe."
I gallantly drive away with music from the William Tell Overture playing on my cd player. I feel as pleased as punch.
I often get so wrapped up in my own life that I can't see that other people have problems too. Imagine that! Even a minimal effort on our part to help someone, can have a huge impact on another person's life.
Love Completely Without Complete Understanding
Sometimes it's not readily apparent how to help others, yet we can still act.
Like when my mom was near the end of her life. I feel I could have done better, but at least I always tried to be at her side when she needed me the most.
As Norman Maclean said in A River Runs Through It and Other Stories,
"Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, but what, if anything, is needed? Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. But we can still love them – we can love completely without complete understanding."
Upcoming Pesentations:
April 14, 2018. "Publish or Perish." Pen to Podium Toastmasters. Hardesty Center, 1100 S. Alvernon. Tucson, AZ, 9:00 am.
June 5, 2018. "How Abraham Lincoln Used Stories to Touch Hearts, Minds and Funny Bones." Arizona Society for Professional Hypnosis. Scottsdale Senior Community Center,1700 North Granite Reef Road, Meeting Room 7, Scottsdale, AZ, 6:30 pm.
October 20, 2018. How Abraham Lincoln Used Stories to Touch Hearts, Minds and Funny Bones. Prescott Valley Public Library (7401 E. Civic Circle), 1:00 – 2:00 pm. Prescott, AZ.
Like Abe Lincoln, Be Prepared with a "Quip" or a Bit of Humor
Emulate Abraham Lincoln: Make Each Day Count
The "Secret" Daily Affirmations of Abraham Lincoln
Always greet everyone, no matter what they look like
Employ an Affable Lincolnesque Persona
Be a Generous Listener, as Abe Lincoln Was
Deflect Criticism with Self-deprecating Humor
Always Say "Yes"
Be a Master of Disaster – Ponder the big picture
Nourish humor and tell stories, so people say — "I felt like I had known him/her my whole life and we had long been friends."
Awaken the Sleeping Giant Within – The Abe Lincoln Way
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Sunday, June 26th, 2016
"You, who are on the road, must have a code, that you can live by;
And so become yourself, because the past is just a good bye."
— Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
We all operate our lives by a "code of conduct," yet we generally never put pen to paper and jot down our code. Our code operates behind the scenes, in our subconscious mind, guiding our every action.
The same held true with Abraham Lincoln, who never spoke of affirmations, or a code of conduct, but like our own, they were imprinted in the recesses of his mind.
In my attempt to distill the essence of who Lincoln was, I examined extensive observations of Lincoln by his family, friends, and acquaintances. From these "historical snapshots," I unearthed the preeminent notions that rattled around inside of Lincoln's head. The compass if you will, that directed him on his "hero's journey," all the way from his modest beginnings in rural Kentucky to the White House.
Here then, are the affirmations that Lincoln utilized in every situation, and with each person he met.
For each affirmation, I cite quotes from Lincoln's contemporaries, or from Lincoln himself, to elucidate the idea.
Channel Your Inner Abe Lincoln
1) Always greet everyone, no matter what they look like
"He greeted me cordially as though we had known each other for a long time. There was no strangeness about him. He knew men on the instant." William O. Stoddard, journalist.
"He approached, extended his hand, and gave mine a grasp such as only a warm-hearted man knows how to give." New York journalist.
"Mr. Lincoln shook hands with me in his kindly way, and the direct simplicity and naturalness of his bearing were then and still remain the exact impression upon me of his daily manner. There was a natural courtesy and real interest shown toward me." Charles Zane, law student
2) Be prepared with a "quip of the day"
"No matter how busy or how deeply engrossed in his work Me. Lincoln might be, whenever anyone came in he would greet him with a pleasant or humorous remark, and before he left would inevitably tell a joke or anecdote. Sometimes he told the same story to four or five different person." John H. Littlefield, law clerk, Lincoln-Herndon Law office
"If a friend met or passed Lincoln (on the streets of Springfield), something would remind him of a story, and tell it he would." William Herndon, Herndon's Life of Lincoln
"In the midst of the most stirring and exciting — nay, death-giving — news, Mr. Lincoln has always a story to tell." Adam Gurowski, State Department
"Mr. Lincoln's wit and mirth will give him a passport to the thoughts and hearts of millions." George Goutwell, Secretary of Treasury.
3) Employ an affable persona – be gentle, kind and courteous
"He was liked by every person who knew him. He made himself useful in every way that he could. If the water-bucket was empty he filled it; if wood was needed he chopped it; he was always cheerful and in a good humor." Caleb Carman, New Salem resident
"Mr. Lincoln quickly gained the confidence of strangers, and, if they were much with him, their affection as well. I found myself strongly drawn to him from the first, and this feeling remains to me now. He had genuine kindness of heart." Horace White, journalist
"There was such a blend of dignity and gentleness in his (Lincoln's) voice and words, that there came a degree of relief to the tension of my first impression (of him)." Henry C. Bowen, editor of the New York Independent and organizer of Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech (from Lincoln at Cooper Union by Harold Holzer).
4) Listen to friends, keep open communication channels
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships," Lincoln letter to Joseph Gillespie, 1849.
"Wherever he moved he found men and women to respect and love him. One man who knew him at that time says that 'Lincoln had nothing, only plenty of friends.' " Josiah G. Holland, author
5) Inner guidance – stay close to the "cave of the winds"
"The name of the man had come to stand for what he was. In the 'cave of the winds' where he saw history in the making he was far more a listener than a talker. The high adventure of great poets, inventors, explorers, facing the unknown and the unknowable, was in his face and breath, and had come to be known, to a few, for the danger and bronze of it." Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln
"In traveling on the circuit, he was in the habit of rising earlier than his brothers of the bar. On such occasions he was wont to sit by the fire, having uncovered the coals, and muse, and ponder, and soliloquized, inspired no doubt by that strange psychological influence which is so poetically described by Poe in 'The Raven.' " Lawrence Weldon, lawyer
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." Oscar Wilde
6) Note your own flaws, share them with others
"Self-deprecating humor came naturally to Lincoln; once after being called 'two-faced,' he quipped, 'If I had two faces, why would I be wearing this one?' " Francis B. Carpenter, portrait painter, 1865
"While riding a train, I was once accosted … by a stranger, who said, 'Excuse me, sir, but I have an article in my possession which rightfully belongs to you.' 'How is that?' I asked, considerably astonished. The stranger took a jackknife from his pocket. 'This knife,' said he, 'was placed in my hands some years ago with the injunction that I was to keep it until I found a man uglier than myself. I have carried it from that time to this. Allow me now to say, sir that I think you are fairly entitled to the property.' " Abraham Lincoln, as told to Francis B. Carpenter, portrait painter, 1865
7) Constantly improve – push the envelope of your comfort zone
"The way for a man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can." Abraham
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
8) Offer to help others who cannot return the favor
Ab Trout, a poor barefooted boy, was chopping wood one cold winter day. Lincoln came up and asked what he got for the job, and what he would do for the money. Ab said, "One dollar" and pointing to his naked feet said, "A pair of shoes." Abe told him to go in and warm up and he would chop a while for him. Lincoln finished the work, and told him to go buy the shoes. William Herndon, Herndon's Informant's
Lincoln defended the son of the widow Armstrong, in a murder case. Lincoln saved her boy from the gallows. The only possession she had in the world was 40 acres of land, which she offered to give to Lincoln as payment. "Aunt Hannah," he said, "you took me in years ago when I was poor and homeless and you fed me and mended my clothes, and I shan't charge you a cent now." Andrew Carnegie, Lincoln – The Unknown
9) Look for the big picture
"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it." Abraham Lincoln.
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Institute Address, 1860
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have." Abraham Lincoln, 1854.
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." Abraham Lincoln, Speech to 140th Indiana Volunteers, 1865
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." Abraham Lincoln, 1858
10) Nourish humor and tell stories, so people say, "I felt like I had known him my whole life and we had long been friends."
"In ten minutes I felt as if I had known him all my life. He had the most wonderful faculty I have ever seen in a man to make one feel at ease." Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln
"He talked in so simple and familiar a strain, and his manner and homely phrase were so absolutely free from any semblance of self-consciousness or pretension to superiority, that I soon felt as if I had known him all my life and we had long been close friends. He interspersed our conversation with all sorts of quaint stories, each of which had a witty point applicable to the subject in hand." Carl Schurz, Union General
"From the first moment of my interview with him I seemed to myself to have been acquainted with him for years. For while he was among the most solid of men I ever met he was among the most transparent." Frederick Douglass, author and orator.
"I really think that Mr. Lincoln's propensity for story-telling has been exaggerated by his enemies. I had once the honor of conversing with him, or rather of hearing him converse, for several minutes, and in all that time he only told four little stories." Sarah Jane Lippincott, author
Lincoln Affirmation Card
Upcoming Presentations:
November 30, 2016. "Uncommon Friendliness: Abraham Lincoln's Miraculous Formula to Squeeze Every Drop of Inspiration and Illumination Out of Each Day." Breadkfast Lions Club. Radisson Inn. Tucson, AZ.
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Overcome obstacles and doubts by doing more than anyone expected
Give yourself permission to feel frustration, then relax and let it go #tmoy #storytelling
A feather is better than a hammer to win an argument #tmoy #storytelling
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A Light Heart Lives Long #EurekaMoments 6
Act Out Characters to Make a Story Sizzle (video)
Turn frustration into creative energy #LifeLesson 7
Disarm Hostility with Friendliness #LifeLesson 8
You Only Live Twice – Life Provides Second Chances LL #9
Donald Trump vs. Abe Lincoln – #LifeLesson10
Failures Can Be Transformed into Strength – #LifeLesson 11
Is it better to remain silent, or to speak up and confirm you're an idiot? LifeLesson #12
Convert Affliction to Anecdote – Utilizing the Stories from Your Hero's Journey
Virtue Is Its Own Reward
Boldness had Genius, Power and Magic In It
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