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It is always interesting and entertaining to learn something new about yourself. What's even more interesting is learning and understanding the psychology behind the way we behave, treat others, and express ourselves.
We have put together a list of 20 of the most surprising psychology facts which can help you to better understand yourself, and those around you.
1. If you developed a friendship with someone and you were between the ages of 16 and 28, that friendship is more likely to be robust and long lasting.
2. Women, on average, prefer men with deep husky voices. According to research, this is because they seem more confident, and non-aggressive.
3. If you know someone who always gives great advice, it's because they have been through the most problems.
4. Someone with sloppy handwriting is usually highly intelligent. The writing is messy due to how fast they think.
5. Our emotions don't affect how we communicate, or what we say. In fact, the opposite is found to be true: the way we communicate can influence our mood.
6. How someone treats the staff at a restaurant can reveal a lot about their character.
7. People who have a strong sense of remorse, and tend to feel guilty, are better at understanding the thoughts and feelings of others.
8. Men aren't funnier than women, and they don't have a better sense of humour: they simply make more jokes, and don't care whether people like their humor or not.
9. Shy people might say little about themselves, but what they do say makes others feel like they know them very well.
10. Women have 2x the amount of pain receptors on their bodies as men, AND they have a much higher pain tolerance.
11. Listening to music on a higher frequency makes you feel calm, relaxed, and euphoric.
12. If you can't stop your brain from going into overdrive at night, try getting up and writing them down. This will organize your thoughts and help to set your mind at ease so you can sleep.
13. Good morning and good night text messages activate the happiness centers in the brain.
14. Doing things that you are afraid of will make you happier.
15. Women can keep a secret for an average of 47 hours and 15 minutes.
16. People who try to please everyone are often the ones who feel the loneliest.
17. The happier we feel, the less sleep we need.
18. When you hold someone's hand, you feel less pain and worry.
19. Intelligent people tend to have less friends in their social circle than most. The smarter the person is, the more selective they are with those they consider friends.
20. Marrying your best friend reduces the risk of divorce by 70%, and is more likely to last a lifetime.


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Snow White, Prince Charming, the Evil Queen, Jiminy Cricket, Rumplestilskin and Emma Swan come together for a special Sunday afternoon!
By SUE SCHNEIDER / Photo Editor
Posted: March 7th, 2012 / 12:44 PM
Once Upon A Time Disney/ABC discovered a hit ABC show called ONCE UPON A TIME from Co-Creators and Executive Producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz (LOST fame). The PaleyFest 2012 (The William S. Paley Television Festival) on March 4th honored ONCE UPON A TIME with a special daytime presentation of the show and the stars in an interactive panel to the many fans that love this delightful show.
ONCE UPON A TIME follows some of our favorite fairytale stories, but not in the way of remembering the stories you read as a child. Who doesn't root for Snow White to get her Prince Charming? If you're a fan of the show, you know that the stories jump from Fairyland to Storybrooke, the land that the Evil Queen took everyone to.
Walking into the press tent were the stars of the show, which included: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Robert Carlyle, Lana Parrilla, Josh Dallas, Raphael Sbarge, Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, and Executive Producer Steve Pearlman.
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4/06/15 Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) Disability Advisory Committee NEDA and WWDA attended the annual forum of the AEC Disability Advisory Committee.
06/15 Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) Advisory Group PWDA represents ACDA on the National Reference Group.
11/06/15 Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration: 'Inquiry into Domestic Violence in Australia' PWDA, for and on behalf of ACDA, presented evidence to the Senate Hearing into Domestic Violence in Australia as follow up to the written submission provided to the Inquiry in Sept 2014.
17/06/15 National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA): CEO's Forum Workshop ACDA member organisations attended CEO's Forum Workshop; and participate in ongoing meetings.
22/06/15 Department of Health: Office of Hearing Services, National Information Forums ACDA member organisations attended Information sessions (held Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne) regarding interface between the NDIS and the Hearing Services Program.


Today is a busy day. It is full of things that must get done and people that must be seen. With the help of God, I can be peace in every encounter. With the help of God I can be a holy presence in every conversation. With the help of God I can place the thumbprint of the divine on every assignment. With God's help I will be the best version of myself today.
Offer space in a busy day for the God who has already gone before you into it, and trust in the help that will come.
As the eldest child in my family, I enjoyed the "power" that came with being in charge when mom and dad left us home to run errands. My mom would always leave us with these words, "Remember: Lucas is in charge, so do what he says!" It felt good to be the KING and I ruled over my subjects as a firm, yet kind dictator who was able to put down any potential rebellion by declaring, "Mom said I'm in charge and you have to do WHATEVER I say!" Those were the good ole days!
The wonders that Jesus is performing and the power of the words he is proclaiming are impacting the people in ways that the religious leaders had not expected. They have to question his authority! How does this simple carpenter do the things he does and how does he know the things he knows? How could the religious leaders of the day hold onto their own authority if this guy keeps showing the people what the living, breathing power of God can do?
Living God, our world tempts us with the promise of power, but as followers of Christ may we be conduits of the true power that comes from loving and knowing God. May we follow the example of Christ, who gave up power so that our relationship with God could be restored. Amen.
Go now into the world confident that you are not alone, and at peace knowing that God will be with you wherever you find yourself this day.
Lucas Dorion is the Associate Coordinator for Alabama Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. He lives in Hoover, Alabama with his wife, Emily, and two children, Nash and Sarah Cate.


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Jamie Oliver Brand In Trouble
By David Richards| 20 Feb 2018
Appliances, Finance, Industry, Kitchen, Latest News
Jamie Oliver who has stamped his name on several appliance brands in Australia, and who spearheaded a Woolworths brand campaign last year is in trouble with UK media reporting major problems for his restaurant empire.
Oliver who is linked to Tefal and Philips appliance and has a range of cooking products currently on sale at retailers in Australia is set to close more of his restaurants.
At the weekend London's Sunday Telegraph revealed his two-site Barbecoa chain was on the brink of collapse, and that other restaurants that his name is attached to are struggling.
Peter Backman, whose consultancy business monitors the eating out market in Europe, says the Jamie Oliver brand is "not as strong as it once was".
"At the outset, the restaurants were closely aligned to his personal brand but now he is no longer as much in the spotlight and there is more competition at a time his celebrity pull does not necessarily have the same impact."
This contention is arguably given weight by the closure last year of the eponymous Jamie magazine.
Oliver sold the rights to the title to publisher Hearst in 2016. Hearst promptly appointed a new female editor and relaunched the magazine with the aim of targeting the "urban female foodie" market, putting Oliver back "at the heart of the magazine".
The celebrity chef was also late last year forced to close 13 of their Italian Kitchen restaurants and beg for rent cuts at 11 more as it struggles with debts of A$150M
Analysts believe that there are numerous problems with Oliver's brand that experts believe could undermine his hopes of a quick turnaround.
According to the Sunday Telegraph Oliver burst on to the scene at the turn of the century under the guise of the cheeky Naked Chef.
One person with knowledge of Oliver's businesses believes the star chef has been given "bad advice" in regards to Jamie's Italian.
"I think he has got people around him who have probably overleveraged his brand and been too ambitious at a time when they should have been more thoughtful," the person says.
Jamie Oliver Ltd, which is the artistic and literary arm of his empire, registered £15.3 million in sales in 2016, leading to a pre-tax profit of £3.9 million. The directors – again including Jamie Oliver – paid an interim dividend of £2 million in 2016.
There are hopes the restructuring deal for Jamie's Italian agreed earlier this year will help right the business amid the UK's hostile trading environment. In 2016 it signed 19 franchise partners in 26 countries, suggesting Oliver may continue to look overseas for fresh success.
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David Richards has been writing about technology for more than 30 years. A former Fleet Street journalist, he wrote the Award Winning Series on the Federated Ships Painters + Dockers Union for the Bulletin that led to a Royal Commission. He is also a Logie Winner for Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism with a story called The Werribee Affair. In 1997, he built the largest Australian technology media company and prior to that the third largest PR company that became the foundation company for Ogilvy PR. Today he writes about technology and the impact on both business and consumers.
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After nine years on rue d'Hauteville, LAN has opened its new offices at 47 rue Popincourt in the 11th district of Paris. The repurposed former parking lot features a two-storey interior and rooftop terrace, which offers a panoramic view of Paris.
The garage at 47 rue Popincourt has followed the changes in Paris' own DNA. The parking lot has been repurposed into an office building. A new cycle has now begun. The building has been taken over by architects, who have always had a passion for the "typological reclassification of spaces."
A new cover for the new edition of the Paris Haussmann catalogue, published for the exhibition at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in 2017, co-curated by LAN and Franck Boutté Consultants.
LAN, in association with Clément Vergély Architectes and the landscape architect Topotek, has just completed plot B, comprised of plots B6 and B7-B8 of the Paris-Saclay campus, a highlight of the Grand Paris project. There are a total of 900 dormitories, serving 1,082 students.
There is no other place and no other company more adapted to the "MAKE A" project than the Maillon Theatre. "MAKE A" is a true manifesto aiming to democratise furniture production without going through the traditional distribution process, and empowering the consumer, who becomes co-designer.
The nursery located on rue Saint-Blaise in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, has just been delivered.
LAN is seeking an architect to join and strengthen our current team for the design and development of a large-scale cultural project.
Invited by the Stockholm Architect Association on January 17, Umberto Napolitano gave a lecture on a recurrent theme in LAN's projects: "Forms in Movement."
Invited by the Cité de l'Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris, on December 3, Umberto Napolitano presented his conference "Form Follows Form Follows Form."
On 21 November 2018, Umberto Napolitano gave a lecture at the ETSAM (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid) for the Dual practices conference cycle.
Rosa Vanina settles into the kitchen on rue Popincourt to prepare her Sicilian specialties for lunchtime at LAN.


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South Africa: Listing security on exchange
South Africa: Listing security on exchange outside South Africa, tax implications
A rehauled of the South African exchange control rules is expected to have tax implications with a proposed effective date of 1 January 2021.
The South African exchange control rules currently provide a framework that permits and facilitates the migration of South African securities listed on an exchange as defined and licensed in terms of the Financial Markets Act. This migration, however, is permitted within applicable parameters, one of which being that the migration is not permitted without prior approval from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).
Over the coming months, the SARB is to implement a "new capital flow management system" that will permit all cross-border financial flows (except for a list of risk-based capital flow measures).
The 2020 Draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill proposes to introduce a new measure that would effectively provide such transfers would trigger a deemed disposal in the hands of the person that holds the domestic security that is being migrated and listed on the exchange outside of South Africa. The disposal would be equal to the market value of the security (an "exit charge") on the day when the security is listed on the exchange outside South Africa. In other words, the market value of the security at the time of the exit would be treated as the base cost of that security in the future, if the security is held as a capital asset. If the person holding the security remains a South African tax resident, then that taxpayer would be liable for income tax on further gains when the security is subsequently sold.
Read an August 2020 report [PDF 145 KB] prepared by the KPMG member firm in South Africa
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Halarachne americana, the Caribbean monk seal nasal mite, was a species of mite that inhabited the nasal cavity of the Caribbean monk seal. Following the extinction of the Caribbean monk seal in 1952, the mite was unable to adapt and subsequently went extinct.

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University is about more than just lectures, labs, and late-night study sessions. During your time at UBC, you will have many opportunities to meet people from all over the world and experience new things. You can build a solar car with friends, visit Silicon Valley on a field trip with other students and influence your learning envinronment by participating in student societies and clubs.


India's "first" case of Bitcoin misappropriation has resulted in a law enforcement officer's arrest over a 2015 drugs case.
Police in India have arrested a narcotics detective in what the country's press is calling its "first" misappropriation case involving Bitcoins.
Satyendra Kumar Singh, who in 2015 seized wallets containing 470 BTC as part of a drugs bust with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), is currently in custody facing charges of illicitly accessing the funds.
Having signed off on an authorization to unblock the wallets using NCB headed paper, Singh became subject to an internal investigation after it became known that no authorization was given from other sources.
"After the accused got bail from the Gujarat high court in 2016, the NCB sought a report [sic] on the status of the Bitcoin accounts and learned [sic] that Singh had authorized the unfreezing of the accounts in July 2016 through a signed and stamped letter on an NCB letterhead," local news source Times of India quotes a crime branch official.
It thereafter transpired that Singh had struck a collaborative deal with one of the accused as part of the theft.
The events are reminiscent of the complications arising from corruption investigators as part of the Silk Road investigation, in which law enforcement officials were similarly accused of misappropriating Bitcoins.
India's government has issued repeat warnings about cryptocurrency in recent months, stating that legal protections for users were not in place, while startups in the space complained of a rise in bad actors misleading novice investors.


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Approximately 200 fans out to see Tebow on Tuesday
PORT ST. LUCIE — Tim Tebow was back at work at his new job Tuesday morning.
The former University of Florida quarterback had his second day in the New York Mets' Instructional League workouts, this time before a much smaller crowd and media contingent.
Approximately 200 fans — a third of Monday's crowd — and 30 media members watched Tebow run bases, do outfield drills and hit.
While the fans, many wearing Gators gear, are looking for anything positive to cheer for, Mets instructors just want to see the 29-year-old Tebow improve each day.
"Guys are here to get better, plain and simple," said Ryan Ellis, a Mets instructor and former St. Lucie Mets manager. "It's more individualized here during instructional ball. So what we do is grab guys who have shown a lot of promise — not only this year but the last few years — hone in on what they need to do and individualize it and go from there."
Tebow certainly isn't the typical player, though. He hasn't been working his way through the Mets system, so the team doesn't have much — if any — of a scouting report other than what scouts saw during Tebow's showcase in August.
"It's hard," Ellis said. "You just watch and make your adjustments from there. We're not quick to make quick adjustments with anybody, no matter who it it. What we do is watch, gather the information about it and come up with the best plan we can for him.
"We want to see improvement and everybody's improvement may be different. Maybe a hitter may improve on his approach, maybe he learns how to pull the ball a little more, maybe he stays back on the ball a little bit. It's really different for everybody and that's how we've been treating it."
Fortunately for the Mets, Tebow's goal for the next few weeks mirrors his own.
"Just practice. Being able to get coaching, work, improve, see pitches, hit, throw — everything," Tebow said. "Just go through it, get back into it. Then we'll be getting into games, and I'll be able to get a feel for that. Just to put in the work and try to see progress every single day."


Life would not be the same without falling in love. Everybody gets smitten by the love bug from time to time. Nothing beats that extraordinary feeling you get when you are falling for a new love interest. You find yourself riding on a wave of excitement while you anticipate the next 'phone call or the next flirty text message. All your thoughts and ideas, all your plans are centred on that one person. Before long, you realise you are pinning all your hopes on a future with that one special person. Then something in the dynamic between you changes. What on earth can you do when your dreams are cruelly snatched away from you?
The ending of a relationship is usually more painful for one partner, the one who is dumped. It is hard to believe it is happening when you feel certain you have not done a thing wrong. Knowing that your partner no longer wants you is one of the most painful things you have to face. Everybody knows that a relationship can end just as suddenly as it began. The chance of getting hurt is a risk you take each time you fall in love. Just how do you get back on your feet again after suffering heartbreak? There are ways.
It is hard to face the painful fact that the one you love will not be returning to you. There will always be at least one friend or somebody else you know who thinks they are helping by giving you false hope. It is likely they have no idea how cruel they are being without meaning to be. This is the most difficult obstacle on your road back to happiness. You must remind yourself daily to resist the temptation to send just one last text, especially if it could be viewed as needy or recriminatory.
Easier said than done, especially if your lover openly criticised you in some way before or during the break-up. Remember it is not unusual for the person who is merrily moving on to a new love to make a few harsh or callous comments to you. It is sometimes deliberate and sometimes not. Either way, you must stop over thinking.
Take break to get to know your needs. Every relationship changes people in subtle ways.
Find somebody unconnected with you or your lost love. This is where our cheap love life readings come in. When you are dealing with heartbreak, it is great to get a reading and learn a little of what is going on around you in the spirit world on the same time and even get a look into your future.
You will know when you are ready to move on and a reading can help to point you in the right direction.


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Title: Penelope
Subject: Odysseus, Ulysses (novel), W. Somerset Maugham, Classical civilisation, Circe
Penelope, Bronze, by Emile-Antoine Bourdelle
In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope ( ; Greek: Πηνελόπεια, Pēnelópeia, or Πηνελόπη, Pēnelópē) is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps her suitors at bay in his long absence and is eventually reunited with him.
Her name has traditionally been associated with marital faithfulness,[1] and so it was with the Greeks and Romans, but some recent feminist readings offer a more ambiguous interpretation.[2]
2 Role in the Odyssey
3 Iconography
4 Latin tradition
6 Ancient sources
7 Secondary sources
The origin of her name is believed by Robert S. P. Beekes to be Pre-Greek and related to pēnelops (πηνέλοψ)[3] or pēnelōps (πηνέλωψ), glossed by Hesychius as "some kind of bird"[4] (today arbitrarily identified with the Eurasian Wigeon, to which Linnaeus gave the binomial Anas penelope), where -elōps (-έλωψ) is a common Pre-Greek suffix for predatory animals;[5] however, the semantic relation between the proper name and the gloss is not clear. In folk etymology. Pēnelopē (Πηνελόπη) is usually understood to combine the Greek word pēnē (πήνη), "weft", and ōps (ὤψ), "face", which is considered the most appropriate for a cunning weaver whose motivation is hard to decipher.[6]
Role in the Odyssey
Yea, Verily, thou art Odysseus
Penelope is the wife of the main character, the king of Ithaca, Odysseus (Ulysses in Roman mythology), and daughter of Icarius and his wife Periboea. She only has one son by Odysseus, Telemachus, who was born just before Odysseus was called to fight in the Trojan War. She waits twenty years for the final return of her husband,[7] during which she devises various strategies to delay marrying one of the 108[8] suitors (led by Antinous and including Agelaus, Amphinomus, Ctessippus, Demoptolemus, Elatus, Euryades, Eurymachus and Peisandros).
On Odysseus's return, disguised as an old beggar, he finds that Penelope has remained faithful. She has devised tricks to delay her suitors, one of which is to pretend to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes and claiming that she will choose a suitor when she has finished. Every night for three years, she undoes part of the shroud, until Melantho, one of twelve unfaithful serving women, discovers her chicanery and reveals it to the suitors.
Because of her efforts to put off remarriage, Penelope is often seen as a symbol of connubial fidelity and we are reminded several times of her fidelity. But due to Athena's meddling, who wants her "to show herself to the wooers, that she might set their hearts a-flutter and win greater honor from her husband and her son than heretofore", Penelope does appear before the suitors (xviii.160–162). As Irene de Jong comments:
As so often, it is Athena who takes the initiative in giving the story a new direction ... Usually the motives of mortal and god coincide, here they do not: Athena wants Penelope to fan the Suitor's desire for her and (thereby) make her more esteemed by her husband and son; Penelope has no real motive ... she simply feels an unprecedented impulse to meet the men she so loathes ... adding that she might take this opportunity to talk to Telemachus (which she will indeed do).[9]
She is ambivalent, variously asking Artemis to kill her and, apparently, considering marrying one of the suitors. When the disguised Odysseus returns, she announces in her long interview with the disguised hero that whoever can string Odysseus's rigid bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads may have her hand. "For the plot of the Odyssey, of course, her decision is the turning point, the move that makes possible the long-predicted triumph of the returning hero".[10]
There are debate as to whether she is aware that Odysseus is behind the disguise. Penelope and the suitors know that Odysseus (were he in fact present) would easily surpass all in any test of masculine skill. Since Odysseus seems to be the only person (perhaps excepting Telemachus) who can actually use the bow, it could merely have been another delaying tactic of Penelope's.
Odysseus and Penelope by Francesco Primaticcio (1563)
When the contest of the bow begins, none of the suitors are able to string the bow, but Odysseus does, and wins the contest. Having done so, he proceeds to slaughter the suitors—beginning with Antinous whom he finds drinking from Odysseus' cup—with help from Telemachus, Athena and two servants, Eumaeus the swineherd and Philoetius the cowherd. Odysseus has now revealed himself in all his glory (with a little makeover by Athena); yet Penelope cannot believe that her husband has really returned—she fears that it is perhaps some god in disguise, as in the story of Alcmene—and tests him by ordering her servant Euryclea to move the bed in their bridal-chamber. Odysseus protests that this cannot be done since he made the bed himself and knows that one of its legs is a living olive tree. Penelope finally accepts that he truly is her husband, a moment that highlights their homophrosýnē (ὁμοφροσύνη, "like-mindedness").[11] Homer implies, that from then on, Odysseus would live a long and happy life together with Penelope and Telemachus, wisely ruling his kingdom and enjoying wide respect and much success.[12]
Gold intaglio ring, Syria, last quarter of the 5th century BCE (Louvre Museum)
Penelope is recognizable in Greek and Roman works, from Attic vase-paintings—the Penelope Painter is recognized by his representations of her—to Roman sculpture copying or improvising upon classical Greek models, by her seated pose, by her reflective gesture of leaning her cheek on her hand, and by her protectively crossed knees, reflecting her long chastity in Odysseus' absence, an unusual pose in any other figure.[13]
Latin tradition
Latin references to Penelope revolved around the sexual loyalty to her absent husband. It suited the martial aspect of Roman society representing the tranquility of the worthy family.[14] She is mentioned by various classical authors including Plautus,[15] Propertius,[16] Horace, Ovid, Martial and Statius. The use of Penelope in Latin texts provided a basis for her ongoing use in the Middle Ages and Renaissance as a representation of the chaste wife. This was reinforced by her being named by St Jerome among pagan women famed for their chastity.
^ J.W. Mackail, with Penelope in the Odyssey (Cambridge University Press, 1916), epitomizes the traditional view of the dutiful Penelope.
^ Marylin A. Katz, Meaning and Indeterminacy in the Odyssey (Princeton University Press, 1991)
^ R. S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 1186.
^ Γλῶσσαι.
^ Zeno.org lemma relating πηνέλωψ (gen. πηνέλοπος) and · ὄρνεα (predators) ποιά. ὅπερ ἔνιοι .
^ For the mythology of weaving, see Weaving (mythology).
^ Odysseus spends ten years in the Trojan War and ten years travelling home.
^ Homer. The Odyssey, Book XVI, in The Iliad & The Odyssey. Trans. Samuel Butler. p. 628. ISBN 978-1-4351-1043-4
^ , Irene de Jong. (2001). A Narratological commentary on the Odyssey, p. 445. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-46844-2
^ Bernard Knox. (1996). Introduction to Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey p. 55.
^ Austin, Norman (1975). Archery at the Dark of the Moon: Poetic Problems in Homer's Odyssey. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 231.
^ Lawall, Thalman, Patterson, James, Spacks. "The Norton Anthology: Western Literature."The Odyssey". New York, London. 1984.
^ But compare, for an unusual exception, the seated aulos player on the "Ludovisi Throne.
^ Mactoux, Marie-Madeleine (1975). Pénélope: Légende et Mythe. Paris: Annales Litteraires de L'Universite de Basancon. pp. 129–30.
^ Nixon, Paul (1968). Plautus. London: William Heinemann Ltd. She is mentioned in the opening lines of the play Stychus
^ Propertius (2004). Complete Elegies of Propertius. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. see Elegies 2.6; 2.9 and 3.12. Propertius was one of the few Latin authors to mention Penelope's weaving ruse.
Ancient sources
Homer, Odyssey
Ovid, Heroides I
Lactantius Placidus, Commentarii in Statii Thebaida
Finley, M.I. The World of Odysseus, London. Pelican Books (1962)
The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood, retells the story of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope.
Seth L. Schein, ed. (1996). Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays. Princeton University Press.
del Giorgio, J.F. The Oldest Europeans A.J. Place (2006). It underlines Penelope's power and her role in a cataclysmic time.
Richard Heitman (2005). Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey. Michigan University Press, Ann Arbor.
Felson-Ruben, Nancy (1994). Regarding Penelope: from Character to Poetics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Sarada Devi - the mystery behind the mystic woman
At five she decided whom she was going to marry
But when he did not come to fetch her even after she reached puberty, she went out to be with him
This despite the fact that she had heard that he had gone mad
When on the first night together, instead of erotic love being expressed, her husband prepared to worship her as "jagat janani" or Devine Mother, she accepted his devotion gracefully
Their marriage was bereft of any romantic physical intimacy
They bore no children, therefore
And when he died, she did not throw away the symbol of a married Bengali woman. She continued to wear her shakha,pola,bala
Not only that, she took on another role, giving "diksha" or the mantra to the many followers of her husband, most of whom were men
He left her nothing, not even a pension and yet, she had no word of complaint when she went back to her home in Joyrambati and had nothing to eat or wear, that could hide her shame. The same torn sari, tied up wherever there was a tear, is all she had
Suffering did not tell on her face, but broke the heart of many of her 'sons' who volunteered to look after her till she died
Sarada Devi, or what she is better known as Ma Sarada Devi, has been uplifted to the status of the spiritual mother by the religious order which sprouted out of Bengal, The Ramakrishna Mission. Indeed, she was the wedded wife of the temple priest, Sri Ramakrishna, at Dakshineswar, in the mid-1800. Ever since his passing away, and over some time, the order of sannyasins, started by no other than our own Swami Vivekananda, made a quick move - they placed her on a pedestal which perhaps she well deserved for the kind of person she was and appeared to be, in the eyes of the Order as well as many others across the world.
This write is not to analyse the devotion she might have had towards her husband. Rather, it attempts to look critically at Sarada Devi, from the three states of being – the body, the mind and the spirit in order in the hope of coming to some conclusions vis-a-vis her and these states of being.
Women's bodies have been looked at for centuries as property belonging to the parents or the husbands, sons of the woman. It has been taken for granted that because, she may be physically weaker she needed protection. But really the hidden story is different. Indeed, it is her sexual self, her child bearing capacities, which have been clothed in the garb of protection, and taken custody of, to ensure that she moves from the hands of her father, to the hands of her husband and then to the hands of her sons, as if she were a commodity wearing a chastity belt over her whole being, mostly her physical body.
Yet, that body is hers only - Its language, expression, desires, longings, pains, the celebration are only hers to experience, because that body belongs to her.
In the light of the above, can we say that Sarada Devi had none of these factors that defined her body too? Had she no requirement to fulfil its needs as all of us do? Or are we to say that she was beyond these temporal dimensions that mark a 'common' woman? We can't say that, because, she had shown some mental indications which show us that albeit at a tender age of five, she did choose whom she is going to marry, when he did not return to fetch her, she went to meet her husband. She was grown up and like other women may also have had the desires that are common to all of us, as also a sense of duty to be with her husband. This serves as an indicator that she 'knew' there was more to being a wife. And she was willing, or else why would she have gone, knowing or having heard that he had gone mad? But, we are always wrapped in a haze of lack of information on this quarter. Rather, the strategy used is what has been used frequently on women, time and again, the plan, never to talk of those desires and thus, perforce, push her to a status which is more comfortable for men to associate her with, by forcing upon her a state of a demigoddess and add a prefix, Ma, before the name, so she is also safely clothed in another over rated 'motherhood' state. By doing this, the male bastion, and in connivance with them, society and other women, who have got used to being looked at through the eyes of one half of society, stamps out two things immediately – (a) not acknowledging that she was human (b) discounting the body of a woman with desires and a voice of its own.
This is the first conclusion. It has been the habit of men to discount the body of a woman and thereby overrule any desires attached to it, by pushing it into the domain of "motherhood" and idolising it to the extent that the woman may herself forget that her body has any other desire, except that of motherhood. Her duty now is to bring up the next generation of men and women, the latter to again follow her example. In the absence of motherhood, she is either cast as barren or made to wear the garb of a demigod in order that she may never be looked at as a woman in the first place with desires.
The same connivance ails Sarada Devi too, although as we move ahead we will realise that her own sense of being, was far higher than what she could be comfortable boxed into - What shall we then say about her, when we see that she is willing to accept her husbands' engagement with her, as if she were a goddess? Did she receive some kind of ego message from such an act? I think not! For after the puja and the private ceremony was over, she had quickly settled to a life of a wife, as they existed in poor homes of a temple priest of those times in 1800, especially this one, who at one level the elite in Bengal dismissed as a schizophrenic, and others adored as a spiritual and godly man. Was it not hard on herself to live in a small room, with a mother in law on the top floor, cooking all day long for a line of men or followers who came to visit her husband? Was it not a difficult time for her to manage a life, so close to her husband and yet so far away? Here again, what were her feelings, is it possible to get all her happiness from the world, and be only in close proximity of her beloved?
We are not aware of what went on in the mind except that she seemed to be a perennial flow of good feeling and love for all. I question this, because, I don't hear her own voice but I read what others want to say of her. Has history obliterated even a simple cudgel between husband and wife, or her dissatisfaction with the hoards of young boys who came at all times and expected that they would be fed by the 'mother'? Was the kitchen fire her only companion and if so, what were the conversations between them? Again, you feel the desperation, an uneasy unrest at how to keep up an image, society can and will delete all information that prove otherwise. In doing so, they wipe out an entire human being, who is gendered female, and force a ghost of an image, they can deal with.
In protest, I draw my second conclusion: (a) either history has wiped out Sarada Devi's feelings and her right to her own body and its expression in whatever language or voice it so wanted to speak out in or, (b) she had the enormous capacity to bear the circumstances of her life and that brings us to the realisation that perhaps she was in a state of acceptance at all times about the goings-on in her life, nevertheless.
The ability to bear and accept the circumstances of one's life is beyond psychology. As long as we are in the body or the mind, dissatisfaction dogs us at every twist and turn, sometimes doing a fox trot, at other times, locked in confusion and at still others deliberating the need to 'trust' existence, etc. Etc, but once it moves beyond these two domains, all the argument dissolve in 'just Being'. This is a heightened state of being, whose path of arrival is through the dense jungle of mind and body dynamics. It belongs to the domain of the spirit, which ensures that one is already empowered within and therefore can generate the skills required to bear and yet, go beyond the normal hubbub of life and its happenings. 'To be of the world, but not of it', is often quoted at the closest resemblance to that state of being. The person is so fortified; they rise above it all and enjoy a state of autonomous existence, although, for the rest of the individuals around, externally they see the person as the same. I believe that Sarada Devi, was in this heightened state of being, already, even before she chose her husband. Her trials and tribulations, her forbearance, only play out once she is with her husband and thereafter, after he is no more in his body.
Ma, the term used to describe a woman who has borne a progeny or one who is forced into that box is too normal a state of being, indeed, too ordinary, for an autonomous being.
We see the world and all around us, in exactly the capacity we have in your vision of the world. Therefore, I question again as I arrive at the last conclusion, has history been unjust to a woman, who far exceeded their vision of her? Do we need to relook at Sarada Devi, in a different light? Is there no need to enquire further on who she really was, beyond what we are told already? Must we also join and silence the voices of a mind and body and submit with mute devotion, the written word, without trying to re-write a history that has been obliterated?
Granted the assumption then, Sarada Devi was indeed an autonomous being, yet, this conclusion has not been arrived at by a thorough study of a life, intricately hidden, in a mesh or words that push the bar up over her existence and force her to be seated on a pedestal she probably never wanted to be on. And if she were as I draw an empowered being herself, the footpath would as clearly be as good as a golden pedestal.
Justice must be done and not denied any more.
This article expresses my thoughts on the subject. On 12th September, 2012, I attended the Opening Ceremony of Ma Sarada Kutir, in Vrindavan, India. The history of this place known as Kala Kamli Kunj, marks the beginning of Sarada Devi, giving diksha or matra to Jogen maharaj in 1886. Thereafter, she went on to initiate many others. The present Kutir, has broken the taboo associated with the Ramakrishna Mission, that being, the path of a spiritual life is only ordained to those who have taken a vow to sannyas. In this Kutir, there are rooms available for 'travellers on the Path' who can take a booking on single occupancy only basis, to spend time alone, for spiritual practices of their own. This is a breakthrough because, it now goes on to express that the Order has accepted, that the normal householder can be a highly spiritual person, just like Sarada Devi herself. To make further enquiries or to book for a stay, write to: rkmvrnd@gmail.com,
To know more on the ceremony and the history of the Kala Babu Kunj which it what Ma Sarada Kutir was known formerly, read: http://www.rkmsvrind.org/English_Invitation_Kala_Babu_Kunj.pdf
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To know more on Sarada Devi read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarada_Devi
Labels: Dakshineswar, feminist, Jayrambati, Kolkata, Ma Sarada Kutir, sannyasi, Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ramakrishna Sevashram, Sri Sarada Devi, Vrindavan
very interesting and thought provoking post, Julia... and its not just her... what do we actually know about many of our women saints but what we have been told through the words of men?
Hi Anuradha,
Yes you have a point there, certainly. There is a cover drawn over these facts as if they did not exist at all. Thanks for reading and your comment.
Prithiraj Sengupta said...
Dear Julia Devi,
"It has been the habit of men to discount the body of a woman and thereby overrule any desires attached to it, by pushing it into the domain of "motherhood" and idolising it to the extent that the woman may herself forget that her body has any other desire, except that of motherhood."
If I become critical, should I say, is it for your comfort and sense satisfaction or your fear of the unseen beyond the boundaries of the body that made you pull a character at your level of understanding. There are certain vibrations(or love), which are much higher and sweeter than the bodily pleasures. There are people who can sacrifice even their bodies to hold onto those vibrations. Every large steps in man kind, either the fight for independence or achieving anything that is great arouse from that intensity of love. Do you mean a mother's love for a child, or a wife's love for her husband are physical alone? There is a kind of protecting force in those love. The wife protects the husband spiritually(or righteously) and the husband protects the wife and look after her needs.
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2022 Ford Explorer The best-selling SUV of all time is the Ford Explorer. To confirm that fact is a date that since its launch in 1991, nearly 8 million Ford Explorers have been sold.
Today, the current model that is in showrooms remains the best-selling three-line SUV on the market – despite its debut in 2011 and competing with many new entries. If you're shopping for a new mid-size SUV for 2021, Ford hopes the Explorer will make your way in.
It offers three rows of seats and plenty of room to haul cargo, and is equipped with many of the connectivity and safety features that are on most buyers' wish lists.
The base model and the XLT come standard with the turbocharged four-cylinder engine and rear-wheel drive, but all-wheel drive is optional.
Optional on the Limited is a hybrid powertrain, and the top-spec Platinum and ST models come with a twin-turbo V-6. Overall, the Explorer is a decent choice, but rivals like Kia Telluride, Hyundai Palisade, and Mazda CX-9 offer a lot more polish.
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Ford has made some changes to the mid-size crossover for 2021, such as making the heated seat standard on the XLT, offering heated steering as an optional feature on the model, and including an eight-way power-adjustable front passenger seat.
On Limited, ST, and Platinum models. The Sport Appearance package is now available on XLT trim, and it includes 20-inch aluminum wheels covered in Carbonized Gray paint.
In addition to the upgraded wheels, this package also features a mesh grille with Carbonized Gray accents as well as unique underbody cladding, dual exhaust outlets, Light Slate-colored interior seats, fake slip plates, and more. The new cargo operator is optional on the XLT, Limited, and ST models; Platinum trim accepts this feature as standard.
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The conclusion is that the exterior of the new Ford Explorer is not that different from the previous model.
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Looking at the previous versions the Base, XLT, and Limited trim comes with a 300 hp 2.3-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, and that motivates the Explorer with authority.
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In comparison, the 400 hp Explorer ST delivered 25 mpg in our tests, which beat its EPA rating by 1. We also tested the all-wheel-drive four-cylinder Explorer.
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Today, at the Computex 2017 tech expo, Microsoft and Qualcomm announced details of new Always Connected PCs on the way from ASUS, HP and Lenovo, built on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 'Mobile PC Platform'. Despite using ARM-based processors, these new laptops and 2-in-1s will run the full version of Windows 10, with the ability to run x86 desktop applications through emulation.
"There is a new generation of users that need to be connected to the cloud at all times," Microsoft said today. "They are students, creators, freelancers, small businesses, and enterprises. This means sharing experiences across screens and leveraging the latest network technology like gigabit LTE and eSIM. We are collaborating with our ecosystem on a shared vision."
To help realize that vision for Always Connected devices, Microsoft announced that it's been working not only with Qualcomm, but also with Intel, and a range of manufacturer and carrier partners, "to provide seamless eSIM connectivity".
Embedded SIMs make it easier for users to switch between carriers and data plans without having to deal with the fiddly process of swapping physical SIM cards in their devices. Imagine, for example, being able to visit another country and simply being able to visit the Windows Store to purchase a chunk of data from a local carrier - rather than having to rely on costly international data roaming from your own carrier, or going to a brick-and-mortar store to buy a local SIM to insert into your laptop.
Microsoft announced eSIM support from a range of global carriers for its Always Connected PCs today, including:
BT/EE
Oberthur
GigSky
In addition to HP, Lenovo and ASUS, Microsoft also said that other hardware partners - including Dell, Xiaomi, Huawei and VAIO - "are committed to this new category of Always Connected PCs using eSIM technology".
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Muhammad Al-Arian writes: The current crisis will not end like the global financial crisis
A few weeks after the Coruna virus epidemic, the world's most powerful central banks have once again swept to the heart of crisis management, how they emerge from this emergency – and how they will affect their political independence, tasks and reliability – are not related to what they do as far as what is happening around them. .
After a golden age in which central banks devoted themselves to controlling inflation and at times taming volatile trade cycles, their reputation was tarnished by the 2008 global financial crisis and the recession that followed.
But the violent policy of "doing what it takes" finally helped them win this war, but the prolonged and excessive dependence on them – the result of the failure of most developed countries to move towards a more comprehensive policy – made them lose their peace.
In the current crisis, which will shape the life of the generation, the central banks went to apply all possible tools, and employed emergency interventions in record time that exceeded even the steps taken during the global financial crisis and its aftermath.
What they have already done is surprising, including lowering interest rates, embarking on large-scale securities purchase programs, reopening emergency financing windows, and creating new windows.
The scope of this response is also unprecedented.
The "Federal Reserve" currently expanded its budgets to $ 6 trillion, which is an increase of $ 2 trillion in less than a month. It also took exceptional steps to ease the regulations, with the aim of helping banks play an important role in relief efforts.
He also continues to work closely with the Treasury, venturing in areas previously considered prohibited, either because of the risks involved or the possibility of its dangerous deviation.
As the old example says, "good is doing evil," so much as violent interventions are welcome in containing severe economic damage, no one denies the costs and risks that come with it.
These risks are not only economic and financial but also institutional and political, which include the following:
Firstly, the Federal Reserve exposes itself to risks that go out of its control by exposing its budget to various sectors of the economy, either directly or in partnership with the Treasury, and includes extreme credit risks that come from default and bankruptcy.
Secondly, by "generating massive liquidity" to support markets, central banks can unwittingly contribute again to strengthening investor behaviors that have always caused asset valuations to separate from underlying economic fundamentals.
Indeed, the stock market rose in response to the Fed's excessive activity, and the result will be continued reduction in liquidity risk and deepening unhealthy dependence between central banks and markets, along with increased risks of financial stability in the future.
Third .. The central banks drifting to overthrow the crisis management, and making many decisions in the midst of "the fog of war", means that the chances of them making mistakes are very high, and the chances of them changing their positions.
Fourth .. By attracting more attention to the trillions of dollars that are being used to avoid market collapse, the "Fed" has opened the door to itself again to accusations that it tends to the side of the financial sector, and at the same time, a destructive and unfair view is spreading on social media, which is that The central bank cares more about the richest 1% of the welfare of the people as a whole.
The risks will multiply the longer the time before the economy is reopened, and the longer the closure continues, the greater the threat of liquidity problems turning into bankruptcy, and the more questions about the "Fed's" ruling on matters and its efficiency, which will lead to renewed risks in the market at a time when the "Fed" places huge resources To support the economy.
Unfortunately, these risks will not end once the period of exceptional crisis management has passed, but will extend to the next two phases, which are reopening the economy and the political scene after the crisis.
With time it becomes clear that reopening the economy will not be immediate or general, as everyone had hoped, but rather that the chances of reopening the economy, whether at the local level or in the global economies, will raise a new set of challenges for central banks, governments, companies and families.
Next, we will need to navigate a scene that includes more than just dismantling the intense overlap between public and private sector activities, and we may face an environment of more slow supply and demand responses.
With the expected shift in corporate focus from efficiency to flexibility, we should expect that many global companies will redistribute their supply chains even if this means sacrificing costs, and this process will accelerate the trends already prevailing to reduce globalization.
All of this will, at least in the short term, lead to a decline in productivity with a high risk of the emergence of "zombie" companies – that is, unable to pay their obligations or whose revenues are less than their expenses – as a result of the enormous financial support provided by governments and central banks, and at the same time continue High indebtedness companies, as well as governments.
Both trends may put more pressure on the "Fed" to avoid raising interest rates in the coming years.
On the demand side, households may avoid risks, and may not respond to the stimulus policies that will follow the current relief phase, and the longer the crisis period and the harder it becomes to restart the economy, the more likely it is to repeat a frugal generation like the Great Depression generation.
It is important to mention that the optimal response of central banks to all these uncertainties is not stagnation, but rather to continue to work hard to analyze scenarios and communicate internally and externally and to continue contingency planning and feedback and adjust the path whenever necessary, and to avoid the mistakes of the global financial crisis, these efforts should support an approach It includes a "whole government" that combines catalysts and a set of structural reforms aimed at combating downward pressures on productivity and growth potential.
Otherwise, central banks may again succeed in winning the war against recession, but they will be part of a system that fails to achieve sustainable inclusive growth peace.
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Frederick George Coppins  (25 October 1889 – 20 March 1963) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was born in England and served with the Royal West Kent Regiment before the First World War. He then emigrated to Canada, settling in Winnipeg.

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He was 28 years old, and a corporal in the 8th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 9 August 1918 at Hatchet Woods, near Amiens, France, Corporal Coppins' platoon came unexpectedly under fire of numerous machine-guns. It was not possible to advance or retire and there was no cover. Corporal Coppins, calling on four men to follow him, leapt forward in the face of intense machine-gun fire and rushed straight for the guns. The four men with him were killed and he was wounded, but going on alone, he killed the operator of the first gun and three of the crew and took four prisoners. Despite his wound, he then continued with his platoon to the final objective.

Later life
After the war, he returned to Winnipeg. He enlisted as a special constable during the Winnipeg General Strike.  Within hours of his appointment, he charged his horse into a gathering of strikers and was dragged off his horse and severely pummelled.

Coppins played a minor role in the 1930 film All Quiet on the Western Front, as a German machine gunner.

A record exists for his enlistment in World War II at Angel's Camp Calaveras Co. California aged 50 but it is unknown what role he played. He later moved to California where he died. He is interred at the Chapel of the Chimes columbarium in Oakland, California. Coppins' medals are located in a collection at the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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External links
 Frederick George Coppins digitized service file
 Legion Magazine
 Canadian Forces biography
 Canadian veterans biography
 Canadian Great War biography
 List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients

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From October 24, WhatsApp will not run on older iPhones. WhatsApp has given such information while giving new software update. The company has said it will stop supporting iOS 10 and iOS 11 devices.
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The spirit is harmony, flow, and completion.
All Diseases Are Rooted In The Spirit
The following is a comprehensive interview with Jeffrey Yuen regarding his public lecture on the topic entitled "All Diseases Are Rooted In The Spirit".
By Arminta Wallace, Irish Times
Jeffrey, before we get into the nitty-gritty of your spring lecture topic for 2012, I'd love to ask you something I've been wondering about for a while now. Given that you're so busy with your work in the US, and also that you're invited to teach all over the world, how is it that you find time to come to us in Dublin every year? After all, we're a pretty small pin on the international map!
Well, first of all I like the Irish! And second, Paul (McCarthy of ACCM) feels I have something to contribute to the Chinese medical community in Ireland — and I enjoy doing that. I think that's also part of my mission, to be able to be of service.
You've chosen a special series of topics for these Irish sessions, haven't you?
"That's right. The channel systems. In Chinese medicine, you have a group of meridians or channels. Each channel is supposed to target a particular level of health and balance. In modern acupuncture training you don't learn all the channel systems; Paul sees that as a deficit, so he asked me to come and teach the remaining systems. This will be the last of those sessions. It will be about the Eight Extraordinary Vessels: one of the most revered channel systems, historically, within acupuncture.
The weekend of teaching is primarily aimed at acupuncture practitioners, although of course it's of interest to everyone who has an interest in healing. But the topic for your public lecture this year is both fascinating and controversial. "All Diseases Are Rooted In The Spirit." Could you begin by explaining where that title comes from?
"It's a quotation from the Ling Shu. That's a set of scroll on the subject of acupuncture, from the time of the warring states in Chinese history. Or what's called in Western history the axial period, from 800 BC to 200 BC, when many cultures came up with a large number of philosophical ideas, independently but around the same time. It begins by saying that one should always use acupuncture rooted in the spirit. But, of course, you have to define what "spirit" means before you can start."
A very tricky business. How do you define it in this context, Jeffrey?
"What is meant is the person's point of reference at the time they come in to see the practitioner. What are they feeling in terms of their own self? That's their spirit. Their sense of calm. Their sense of measure – also, their sense of fear. So what is their presence at the time you're treating them? If they come in with a state of fear, it's part of your role as a clinician to guide them out of that fear, because fear itself is going to be detrimental to the healing process.
So what you're NOT saying, when you say, "all diseases are rooted in the spirit", is that we all somehow cause our own illnesses?
"No. It's not like everyone's responsible for their own disease, per se, in that they caused it. But that they do have the power to work with themselves in changing the dynamics of their lives. In other words, a great part of the solution lies within the person themselves."
What we're talking about, then, is the individual's capacity to heal themselves with some guidance from the practitioner — rather than the practitioner "prescribing" a course of treatment, which the person simply accepts in a passive way . . .
"The important thing, really, is to not try to infer what we know about the condition on to the patient. Once you give a disease a label . . . say you have a common cold. There's already a certain expectation that it's going to take a certain amount of time to heal myself of this cold, and if I seek medical intervention this is the type of medication I would be given. We expect that if we get this medication, we'll get this result. Many of us already believe that. So when we go to the doctor, they say; "You have a cold. It's a bacterial infection. Here is a prescription for antibiotics." As a consumer, that's what you expect them to give you because it's advertised on television and so on. We've been almost hypnotised into the process.
So what healing is all about, in that scenario, is that the clinician is the person who guides us along the way. And the knowledge that we learn in medical school corresponds to the roads that we believe people need to follow if they're going to heal — or, in some cases, if they're going to not heal. Because sometimes, some of these roads are going to be dead ends. We don't see people getting better of that particular disease label.
But there are other roads. A diagnosis does not have to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's like, if I go on a tour with you I can show you the things I think you should see: but you can also wander off by yourself and follow a different path, which might be a much more interesting path for you. We don't all need to travel on the big highway of life."
What a wonderfully liberating idea. This definition of "spirit", then, isn't a particularly religious definition? People don't need to be wary of it, that it's going to involve them in some religious subtext?
"No. That's a misconception. To me, "spirit" simply means a state of peace. Someone is spiritual — even if they're not religious — if they're in a state of peace. Say a patient comes in to see me. I'm trying to feel, are they at peace with their condition? Because if so, they already have a sense of what their condition means to them. So what I'm trying to do is give them guidance for how they can maintain that state of peace.
My general way of seeing patients is, I tell them to come back and see me four or six weeks later. Some people say, "Well, shouldn't I be coming back to see you, like, once a week? Or every other day?" And I would say, "Well, if you want to come and see me every other day, or once a week, it must mean that you feel the disease has a greater control over you. You feel you need the reassurance — that I'm going to tell you that you're doing better.
The idea is that if you give yourself the chance to heal, your body does heal. But if you worry about, can I heal on time, or am I healing now, you're creating a situation that's making it hard for you to really heal. We can never fully understand why we heal: we can only understand how we heal. From a scientific point of view they can tell you how certain wounds are healing, and the physiological process and so forth. But why does it heal? That's the spirit — an intrinsic way by which the body heals itself."
Jeffrey, it seems counter-intuitive to talk about people being "at peace" with their illness. More often they seem to be at war with it, or angry with it, or overwhelmed by it.
"Well, that's because their illness is a reflection of their life. When I say "at peace", I mean do you feel that you have a situation in your life that you can control? If you feel you can't control it, you often seek external solutions — and that means you are potentially relegating the healing process away from yourself. According to the classic acupuncture texts, the person has the intrinsic ability to heal themselves. For example, if I have a low back pain I might be angry at that pain because it's preventing me from going to work — preventing me from doing a lot of physical things. But it might be a relationship that I have with work that I really don't want to go there every day. Maybe I have a lot of responsibility in my life right now that I'm bearing the weight of. So, you see, already it's coming from a sense that I'm not at peace with my life. And so the back pain is just the body giving me the attention that I need to pay to my life. If I solve the fact that I don't like my job, or I don't like these responsibilities, maybe the back pain will go away — and more importantly, I'm finding a state of peace when I get rid of those things. Because those are the things that eat away at us all the time.
For example I believe that a lot of people have cancer, and that they have rid themselves of it prior to it being diagnosed. We have cancer cells all the time; and maybe during a traumatic moment in our lives, there's a part of us that felt like we died. That's a breeding ground for cancer to manifest. But then you pick yourself up, and something wonderful happens in your life, and that dull pain that you forgot about that you didn't go and get checked – maybe if you had got it checked, doctors would have found cancer cells. So now you're in a better place in your life, and a state of peace, and you go to your doctor for a regular check-up. And they find nothing."
So it may be better, for our well-being, not to know certain things?
We set ourselves up, a lot of the time. You read the paper, and the paper informs you about some type of terrible condition and all that. If you can't stand reading it, well then you shouldn't be reading it – because the more you read about it, the more you allow it to disempower you. A lot of people do that when they have a disease. They go on to the Internet, or read a lot about it, and a lot of times it's putting into their minds: "These are the facts. These are the conclusions. This is the path that you have to follow". And that doesn't necessarily give us a good measure of peace in our lives.
In the end, what you're saying is that to be truly effective, a healing therapy must involve some kind of personal transformation. . .
"It comes back to the idea that we're treating the self — treating the individual. But if the person is not at that time in their life where they can make some of these important changes, that's what we're working with. We're always working with the individual. They may have a very serious disease, but the fact that we use the word "serious" means that already our mindset is locked on to it. Or the patient's mindset is locked on to it. That's the position that we have to work from.
To me, the understanding of the word "spirit" is like a breakthrough in your own consciousness. Changing the way you think about yourself and how you deal with illness. It's not an indictment. It's not saying that I've caused this illness. It's more an invitation to think about our lives. Are we following our mission? Some people would say spirit is, what is your purpose. Is this person fulfilling their purpose? We go through life every day, we do what we do, and we're not really feeling the sense that there is a mission out there — something that really animates the spirit and animates who we are. We're just going through the motions."
What extraordinary practical wisdom there is in these ancient texts, Jeffrey — so long as we have someone wise, like yourself, to interpret them for us, and make them relevant to our 21st-century lives. Our society doesn't appear to be a very wise one. I wonder what it will be called, when historians look back a thousand years from now?
"Actually I think we're at the threshold of another axial period. I think this is part of that awakening of human consciousness. There's a change going on in the earth. You've probably noticed in Ireland — certainly in the States, we hardly had a winter this year. There's a change going on, and I think that has to ripple back to the human condition. I think it's really about an awakening of our consciousness so that we won't be so dependent on progress, on technology — but maybe, in a small way, looking back to see what we're capable of. Becoming independent rather than more dependent."
Healing Approach Based on the Early Roots of Daoism: Shamanism
Jeffrey, once again we are really happy that you are coming to talk to the Dublin community: not just to your acupuncture students, but to everyone who is interested in exploring a Daoist approach to healing and wellness. Even so, many people may be surprised by the topic you've chosen for this year's lecture: Shamanism and the Early Roots of Daoism. This might appear to be something of a departure for you – but actually it follows on from a one-year shamanism programme which you've been teaching in New York this year.
FULL INTERVIEW
Empowering the Self to Confront Illness
It's always good to talk to Master Yuen — who always has something interesting, challenging and often — literally — life-changing to say. This year, his weekend workshop on Chinese Medical Aromatherapy at the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire — plus his public lecture on the topic of "Empowering the Self to Confront Illness" — promises to be fascinating from start to finish.


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Thomson's gazelle facts – Speed, habitat, diet & more
By Editorial Team / Interests, Safari, Wildlife
Several captivating animals call the expansive Serengeti-Masai Mara ecosystem their home. From the water-based hippos and crocodiles to the land-loving giraffes and plentiful ungulates, the biodiversity is magnificent.
The Serengeti is also home to the small, white-bellied Thomson's gazelle. Informally known as a "Tommie", the deer-like animal is named after researcher Joseph Thomson. Thomson's gazelle's scientific name is Eudorcas thomsonii.
These adorable animals move in large herds, with their population numbers exceeding 200,000 in Africa . Yet it's always a treat to spot them. Here are some interesting facts and details about the most common type of gazelle in East Africa to help you better appreciate them.
What Does a Thomson's Gazelle Look Like?
If you spot a relatively small gazelle with white rings around its eyes and black stripes running from a corner of the eye to the nose – then you've probably seen a Thomson's gazelle.
The sandy brown coat features a distinctive black band across the flank, with a light band evident above. Their black tails stem from the top of a white patch on their rump. The white fur continues to hug the underside of their bellies.
The male gazelles are slightly heavier than the females and boast bigger highly ringed horns than the females. A male can weigh up to 29 kilograms, and the females are a bit lighter at 24 kilograms.
Grant's Gazelle vs. Thomson's Gazelle
Thomson's gazelle is often confused with the Grant's gazelle. Both gazelles have a white belly and black stripe. However, there are a few key differences to note between the two.
Overall coloration
The Thomson's gazelle is largely distinctive by the thick, dark stripe across its side. While some Grant gazelles also have these stripes, they are not as distinguishable.
Facial markings
The facial markings are a better guide in determining the difference between the two. Both of the gazelles have a thick, black stripe that extends along the side of their face, starting at the nose. Thomson's gazelle ends at the eye, while the Grant's gazelle continues a little further.
The Grant's gazelle also has a noticeable white band on top of the black stripe which is slightly more prominent than on the Thomson's.
Their size
This detail is easier to spot when the animals are in their herds. The Grant's gazelle is noticeably larger and more graceful than the smaller, stockier Thomson's. Although, the young are more difficult to differentiate.
The rump markings
Another prominent marking on both gazelles is the white patch of fur on their backside. The biggest difference is that Grant's gazelle's patch is larger and covers the region above their tail. The Thomson's white patch stops at the root of their tail.
Even the tails are different. The Grant's gazelle has a thin, white tail, and the Thomson's gazelle has a dark and fluffy tail.
When in doubt, look at the butt!
Thomson's Gazelle Habitat
By now, you may have fallen in love with the adorable, dynamic gazelles and you want to see them live in action. These nimble animals thrive in wide-open spaces and plains. This suits their lifestyle and diet.
The Serengeti region of Tanzania is the most populous area of Thomson's gazelle. While they prefer short, dry grasslands, they are also known to migrate to taller grasslands and dense woodlands.
Thomson's Gazelle's Diet
Thomson's gazelles are herbivorous and their favorite food is short grass. As mixed feeders, they adapt to the different seasons.
During the wet season, they munch on fresh grasses. In the dry season, they snack on the dehydrated grasses when possible, although they also browse foliage from bushes, forbs and clovers.
You'll notice that Thomson's gazelles have a concentrated population at the beginning of the rains when the grass is plentiful. They follow larger herbivores who munch on the grass, cutting the tall grasses down. When the season becomes drier, the herds tend to spread out in order to find more food.
Thomson's Gazelle Speed
Living in the open plains, Thomson's gazelles are quick on their feet. Although small in stature, they can reach an impressive speed of 70 kilometers per hour, with some sources suggesting a faster 90 kilometers per hour. This allows the speedy creatures to escape predators and live another day.
When the Thomson's gazelle kicks into survival mode, they can accelerate from 0 to 90 kilometers an hour in 18 seconds.
This astounding pace, which is half that of a cheetah's peak pace, makes the Thomson's gazelle one of fastest land animals in the world. Unlike the cheetah, the gazelle can hold its speed for a lot longer.
A Thomson's Gazelle's Predators
Are you wondering what eats gazelles? It may surprise you to know that, even though they're so quick on their feet, the list of predators is fairly extensive.
In the wild, they need to keep their eyes open for the typical African predators such as cheetahs, lions, leopards and hyenas. They can also become victims of a hungry crocodile or African rock python. To escape these predators, the gazelles move in a zigzag pattern to throw them off.
Sadly, Thomson's gazelles have another predator group that have contributed to their 65% population decline between 1970 and 2000 – humans.
Not only is their habitat decreasing as human populations grow, Thomson's gazelles are also victims of hunting. They are often found on farmlands where they feed off of the short grass. Unfortunately, they make themselves an easy hunting target in the process.
Thomson's Gazelle Population and Gestation
Considering the number of predators that hunt the Thomson's Gazelle, their lifespan is quite impressive. Living between 10-12 years in the wild, the Thomson's population remains quite strong.
Once the gazelles reach sexual maturity, between 19-21 months, they are able to conceive. Their gestation period is only six months, which is shorter than other ungulates such as the common eland.
The females will give birth to a single calf at the end of gestation period and the baby will live the first few weeks in a special, secluded space.
If the food supplies are abundant, then they may conceive again within a few weeks of giving birth. Another factor that adds to their consistent population is that mating and birth can take place throughout the year.
The East African gazelles live in herds that typically include 100 individuals, however, they can reach up to several hundred individuals during the rainy season.
The rainy season is also the time that the male gazelles graze extensively and expand their breeding territories. The female gazelles form migratory groups and enter these various territories.
The males mark their territory with a dark secretion that they emit from their preorbital glands.
Males typically respect these territorial lines and don't move across boundaries. They will even stop chasing a female if she moves into neighboring territory.
Interesting Thomson's Gazelle Facts
The Thomson's gazelle may be the smallest of their species, though their size certainly doesn't affect their complexity. Here are a few fascinating facts about the charming gazelles.
These speedy little creatures are the fastest gazelles in the world, and fifth fastest land animal.
The gazelles sleep for short periods of five minutes at a time for a total of an hour during a day.
A Thomson's gazelle uses the crypsis camouflage technique which allows them to remain unobserved by a predator a short five meters away.
Thomson's gazelles are more silent than their other gazelle counterparts, choosing to communicate mostly through visual awareness by contracting the skin of their body. This highlights the black stripe on the side of their bodies.
They move in a noticeable "bounding leap" called stotting or pronking. This movement startles their predators and showcase strength.
Their social movements include groups of individuals, averaging a range of five to 60.
The Future of Thomson's Gazelle
Although it would seem that the Thomson's gazelles have a strong population count, the truth is otherwise. Between the loss of habitat and increase in hunting, the Thomson's gazelle population has been on a steady decline. So, don't be fooled if you see them in the masses when exploring the Serengeti.
The African Wildlife Foundation works tirelessly to conserve this magnificent species. These endeavors include setting aside space for wildlife to providing agricultural training.
Want to witness these magnificent creatures in their natural habitat? Then you can book a tailor-made safari in the Serengeti region. This experience will bring you face-to-face with Thomson's gazelle along with plenty of other local wildlife.
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