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#ifndef _MFnCurveSegmentManip
#define _MFnCurveSegmentManip
//
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// rights reserved.
//
// The coded instructions, statements, computer programs, and/or related
// material (collectively the "Data") in these files contain unpublished
// information proprietary to Autodesk, Inc. ("Autodesk") and/or its
// licensors,  which is protected by U.S. and Canadian federal copyright law
// and by international treaties.
//
// The Data may not be disclosed or distributed to third parties or be
// copied or duplicated, in whole or in part, without the prior written
// consent of Autodesk.
//
// The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement,
// including the above license grant, this restriction and the following
// disclaimer, must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole
// or in part, and all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies
// or derivative works are solely in the form of machine-executable object
// code generated by a source language processor.

// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
// AUTODESK DOES NOT MAKE AND HEREBY DISCLAIMS ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
// WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTIES OF
// NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
// OR ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE, OR TRADE PRACTICE. IN NO
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// REVENUES, DATA, OR PROFITS, OR SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR
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//
// CLASS:    MFnCurveSegmentManip
//
// *****************************************************************************
//
// CLASS DESCRIPTION (MFnCurveSegmentManip)
//
// Function set for a base manipulator - the CurveSegmentManip.
//
// *****************************************************************************

#if defined __cplusplus

// *****************************************************************************

// INCLUDED HEADER FILES

#include <maya/MFnBase.h>
#include <maya/MFnManip3D.h>
#include <maya/MObject.h>

// *****************************************************************************

// DECLARATIONS

class MPoint;

// *****************************************************************************

// CLASS DECLARATION (MFnCurveSegmentManip)

/// CurveSegmentManip function set (OpenMayaUI)
/**
MFnCurveSegmentManip is the function set for curve segment manipulators.
*/
#ifdef _WIN32
#pragma warning(disable: 4522)
#endif // _WIN32

class OPENMAYAUI_EXPORT MFnCurveSegmentManip : public MFnManip3D
{
	declareDagMFn(MFnCurveSegmentManip, MFnManip3D);

public:
	///
	MObject		create(MStatus *ReturnStatus = NULL);
	///
	MObject		create(const MString &manipName,
					   const MString &startParamName,
					   const MString &endParamName,
					   MStatus *ReturnStatus = NULL);
	///
	MStatus		connectToCurvePlug(MPlug &curvePlug);
	///
	MStatus		connectToStartParamPlug(MPlug &startParamPlug);
	///
	MStatus		connectToEndParamPlug(MPlug &endParamPlug);
	///
	MStatus		setStartParameter(double startParameter);
	///
	MStatus		setEndParameter(double endParameter);
	///
	double		startParameter(MStatus *ReturnStatus = NULL) const;
	///
	double		endParameter(MStatus *ReturnStatus = NULL) const;
	///
	unsigned int	curveIndex(MStatus *ReturnStatus = NULL) const;
	///
	unsigned int	startParamIndex(MStatus *ReturnStatus = NULL) const;
	///
	unsigned int	endParamIndex(MStatus *ReturnStatus = NULL) const;

protected:

private:

};

#ifdef _WIN32
#pragma warning(default: 4522)
#endif // _WIN32

// *****************************************************************************
#endif /* __cplusplus */
#endif /* _MFnCurveSegmentManip */

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Here's a way you can help the environment in a small way… say no to a cup insulator sleeve the next time you get coffee-to-go.
You say, "I don't want to burn my hands!" Well, take a moment at the shop to let the coffee cool. You can't drink it that hot, anyhow! Use the extra time to pray, to enjoy looking at the people in the line or to read the newspaper.
If everyone would do this, thing of the cumulative difference it would make!
Mmmmm. We don't have these devices here. Maybe our coffee cups are made thicker or something.
You are ABSOLUTELY right… In fact bring your own mug to the coffee shop. I can't imagine not carrying mine.


Calcium Calcium is a dietary calcium supplement which is used for the treatment of hypocalcemia or low blood calcium levels. It is also used to treat osteoporosis, heartburn, indigestion, and hyperphosphatemia in patients with chronic renal failure. Cholecalciferol Cholecalciferol is indicated for the treatment of vitamin D deficiency, bone disorders such as rickets, osteoporosis, osteomalacia, hypoparathyroidism, and other conditions where vitamin D3 is deficient which include celiac disease, Crohn's disease, and liver problems.
Calcium Calcium supplements calcium in the diet. It also prevents absorption of phosphate from the gastrointestinal tract in people with kidney disease. Cholecalciferol Cholecalciferol is a steroid hormone that regulates calcium and phosphorus absorption, bone mineralization, and vitamin A assimilation. In the body, vitamin D3 is converted into its active form calcitriol. Calcitriol acts by increasing the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, bone resorption, and renal tubular reabsorption of calcium. It also promotes intestinal absorption of calcium. Thus, calcitriol increases the levels of serum calcium.
Calcium The common side effects of calcium are constipation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, flatulence, indigestion, increased thirst, and abdominal pain. Cholecalciferol The cholecalciferol side effects include loss of appetite, increased urination, increased thirst, mental/mood changes, muscle weakness, constipation, and unusual tiredness.
• Avoid alcohol consumption while using Calonat D3, as it may impair the absorption of calcium.
• Patients who have a history of renal impairment must use the drug cautiously. The drug should be avoided if the patient is allergic to the ingredients present in the drug.
• Calonat D3 must be used cautiously in case of heart diseases, vitamin D deficiency, stomach ulcers and kidney malfunction.
• Pregnant and lactating mothers should seek doctor's advice before using Calonat D3 tablet.
• Drugs such as steroids, diuretics, antiepileptics may interact with Calonat D3 and increase the risk of hypercalcemia. Therefore, continuous monitoring of vitamin D levels in the blood is recommended to reduce the risk.
• Discontinue Calonat D3 medication if it is not possible to stand for 30 minutes or sit upright after the medication.


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Helping Your Child Handle Emotions and Mood Swings
Chronic illness and disabilities can affect everyone in your family. Here's how to help your child manage his feelings.
Thomas Johnson worries a lot. For an 8-year-old, he's in excellent health and is at his happiest playing soccer. He's also extremely well behaved around his younger brother Mark.
Mark, age 5, doesn't speak. He's autistic and has mood swings. "He's actually high functioning," said their mother, Amy, who spends a lot of time taking Mark to doctors. "Mark's just starting to speak, but it's hard for us to understand what he's saying. It's like when an infant starts babbling; only the mom can make out most of the words."
"What's hard on us are the mood swings," she continued. "We're still trying to get a clear diagnosis of what's wrong. In the meantime, it's taken a toll on all of us."
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Illness can shake up a family, and children are especially vulnerable. Whether they're the ones with the disability or if it's a sibling or a parent, it's essential to talk to your child about his emotions. "We're all seeing a therapist to help us function," Amy said.
Thomas often feels neglected because his mom spends more time with his brother. "My husband and I try to schedule time for Thomas," Amy explained. "We have a neighbor look in on him when I take Mark to doctor appointments. And we try our best not to miss his soccer games."
Children who live with a parent or sibling with a chronic illness often feel guilty that they're not sick. "They also become anxious that they can become sick, too," said Amy. "We spoke to our therapist about that and also the school."
Telling teachers and school administrators about issues at home is essential. "Thomas' teachers understand why he sometimes comes to school upset," said his mom. "His brother could set him off and, while he's learned how to let go of those negative emotions, some days are harder than others."
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Amy counts herself as lucky. She works part time; so she can spend time taking Mark to see different doctors. She also is active in her kids' schools. Thomas and Mark go to different schools. "We moved Mark to a school for kids with special needs, and the support system is so much better than at the regular public school," she said. "The public school just doesn't have the means or know-how to support a kid like Mark."
Mark's school has monthly counseling meetings for the parents. "We meet and discuss our feelings," Amy said. "I kind of feel like I belong to a club, a club for parents of special needs kids. People who don't have kids with special needs just don't understand the family dynamics and what we go through."
One of Thomas' friends has a brother with Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder characterized by repetitive, involuntary movements and vocalizations. His friend was extremely embarrassed being seen in public with his brother. Through counseling for him and his parents, they all learned coping skills.
Thomas and Mark have also learned skills to manage their emotions. Their parents set the following rules that can apply to others who have a similar situation:
Make sure that when one child is talking, everyone is listening.
Try to have the child come up with positive solutions.
When someone is angry do the following: count to 10, color, write down your feelings, squeeze a stress ball, role play, or take a walk together.
Offer encouragement.
The Johnsons don't always have perfect days. But by following these coping skills, and thanks to the support system they've built with family, friends, doctors, and teachers, Thomas and Mark are better able to handle their emotions.
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China's scientific community confronts 'rogue science'
Fears are growing in China over lack of oversight and transparency for major weather modification project in Tibet and other boundary-pushing projects
A cloud-seeding rocket launched to ease the drought in Bayannur, Inner Mongolia in July 2018. Scientists are testing such technologies to alter rainfall patterns (Image: TopPhoto/Alamy)
Lili Pike, December 19, 2018
November began with Chinese scientists advancing the world's largest weather modification project and ended with a Chinese researcher's claim to have produced the first gene-edited babies. Both of these futuristic announcements were met with a fierce backlash in China. Over 100 scientists signed a statement criticising the gene-editing experiment for sacrificing ethics in the blind pursuit of progress. Meanwhile, a group of meteorologists publicly questioned the government's investment in "Sky River", a sweeping artificial rain project that remains theoretical.
These rare outcries from China's scientific community have exposed flaws in the governance of cutting-edge scientific experiments, which loom large as the country looks to science and technology breakthroughs to address its environmental and social challenges.
Diverting water in the sky
The root of the Chinese character "to govern" (治) is water. For rulers over the centuries, controlling floods in the southern Yangtze River Basin and managing drought in the northern Yellow River Basin has long been central to political legitimacy and stability in China. With climate change projected to increase the intensity of droughts throughout China and widen drought-affected areas in the north-west, among other regions, Chinese scientists have faced greater pressure to manage water supplies.
Through the South-North Water Diversion project, first envisioned by Mao Zedong in the 1950s, the Chinese government has built two major canals channelling an additional 27.8 billion cubic metres of water north every year (about 3% of the Yangtze's annual discharge volume). However, a third route, which would divert water from the Yangtze's tributaries to the Yellow River at their headwaters on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau has stalled due to engineering challenges.
To avoid the hassle of moving water on land, scientists have looked to the sky for inspiration. The "Sky River" project is considered part of the third route, except the water transfer would happen in the atmosphere, rather than through canals.
Back in the early 1990s, MIT scientists used the concept of "atmospheric rivers" to describe water vapour transport bands they identified in the troposphere. China's Sky River project proposes large-scale manipulation of these bands of water vapour using cloud-seeding techniques that could manufacture rainfall.
According to Wang Guangqian, president of Qinghai University and the leader of the Sky River team, the project seeks to increase rainfall at the headwaters of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers where "cloud resources are abundant". Without intervention, these weather systems would typically move to the southern Yangtze basin where rainfall would naturally occur. By cutting off the migration of rain clouds in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau using cloud-seeding, the team hypothesises they could supplement the flow of the northern Yellow River.
The Qinghai-Tibetan plateau could get more rainfall under the proposed Sky River project [image by: lijia970329]
Manufacturing rain
In 2015, Tsinghua University, Qinghai University, and the province's meteorological bureau set the Sky River project in motion, forming a research partnership, according to ScienceNet.
Sky River quickly gained political support: it was featured in Qinghai province's 13th Five-Year Plan and received 53 million yuan (USD 7.7 million) of funding from the provincial government and Qinghai University. Tsinghua also committed one million yuan (USD 145,000) a year.
The project also received national level funding and support. In 2016, the Ministry of Science and Technology accepted the project as a "technological innovation project with international significance". Subsequently, it was designated a national key research project, according to Wang Guangqian.
The team has been experimenting with techniques to seed clouds over large geographies. One method uses chambers that burn and send silver iodide particles into the atmosphere to seed clouds. One of the project's researchers told the South China Morning Post, "[So far] more than 500 burners have been deployed on alpine slopes in Tibet, Xinjiang, and other areas for experimental use." The researcher described how "sometimes snow would start falling almost immediately after we ignited the chamber. It was like standing on the stage of a magic show." The project intends to build tens of thousands of these chambers.
Backlash from the science community
China has engaged in localised cloud-seeding for over 50 years, but implementing such an extensive project would be an unprecedented intervention. According to plans released in 2016, the project hopes to increase rainfall in the medium- to long-term by five billion cubic metres – nearly one fifth of the water transferred through the existent South-North canals. In the 13th Five-Year Plan period alone, the team plans to boost rainfall in the Sanjiangyuan region of the Tibetan plateau by half that amount. Wu Guoxiong, an atmospheric scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, doubts that it is possible to reach those levels of artificial rainfall: "Artificial rain is still in the experimentation phase, so far the best results have increased rainfall by 10-20%."
Criticism escalated last month when China's Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation announced that it was developing monitoring satellites and rockets to aid the Sky River project. The company said they would launch two satellites by 2020 and complete a network of six by 2022.
Scientists lambasted the high-profile technology investment. Lu Hancheng, a professor at the National University of Defense Technology's Institute of Meteorology and Oceanography, told ScienceNet, "This is an absurd fantasy project with neither scientific foundation nor technical feasibility. That it got support to launch is incomprehensible. Public funds should be cherished." Other experts commented that meteorologists, who they say have not been included so far, should have been consulted.
In an interview with China.com Wang Guangqian, emphasised that the project is still at an early stage. He also said the project has gone through serious review with meteorologists involved. Government funding has been spent judiciously, he maintained, saying that the satellites would be used for other purposes beyond the Sky River project.
Governance scheme needed
The project may be far from operating at full-scale; however, critics say China's scientific experimentation can rapidly escalate from concept to implementation without proper safeguards. This was the case with the recent gene-editing experiment. The scientist did not submit his work for peer review or file the experiment as a clinical trial with the government before implanting genetically modified embryos in real human subjects, a step that scientists globally have considered out of bounds.
The gene-editing experiment was undertaken by a biophysicist without experienced in human clinical trials. Similarly, the Sky River team has been criticised for being composed primarily of hydrologists not meteorologists.
Beyond the importance of a project's scientific basis, Chen Ying, senior research fellow on the governance of geoengineering at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that projects also need to be reviewed more holistically. She said that Wang Guangqian, the Sky River project leader, has focused on water resources without considering governance issues. "Technology is the foundation, but even if the technology is feasible, it doesn't mean the project should be carried out. You need to comprehensively and objectively evaluate economic, ecological, ethical and other effects," she said.
Cross border impacts?
Experts interviewed by chinadialogue said that the risks involved in the Sky River project remain unclear due to insufficient research. The cloud-seeding chambers in use are reportedly clean enough to operate in conservation areas, but they emit carbon dioxide. The larger effects of altering the region's climate are not well-documented, but the project could affect local and transnational ecosystems given it will take place at the source region of Asia's major rivers.
Both Chen Ying and John Moore, a British scientist at Beijing Normal University who leads China's national geoengineering research, said that unlike past small-scale cloud seeding, the Sky River project could be considered a form of large-scale geoengineering, the alteration of natural systems to fight climate change. "If the full-scale project were shown to be feasible and could achieve what they want, I would say it's climate engineering. But I am highly sceptical that it is at all feasible from a scientific perspective," said Moore.
Geoengineering scientists understand the risks and would not rush into outdoor experimentation, Chen Ying said, but it is necessary to remain alert to scientists who don't understand geoengineering inadvertently pursuing similar experimentation. Governance mechanisms are required in order to avoid this, she said.
Researchers at Oxford University proposed a set of global principles governing geoengineering, including public participation, independent assessment of impact, and most importantly, "governance before deployment". However, these have yet to be adopted as international law. The only international rule that exists is a guideline for geoengineering field experimentation established under the UN Conference for Biological Diversity (CBD). The guidance permits small-scale field studies "subject to a thorough prior assessment of the potential impacts on the environment". China, as a party to the CBD, is held to this guideline.
Theory into practice
One outcome of the recent controversies is that the Chinese and international scientific communities have become more outspoken. Already, public pressure has had an effect. He Jiankui, the scientist behind the gene-edited babies, is under investigation and China's vice minister of science and technology said his scientific activities would be suspended. As for the Sky River project, after the meteorologists' criticisms, it has taken a step toward greater transparency. Wang Guangqian said that the public is welcome to visit the project's Qinghai lab.
From the spread of diseases to adapting to climate change, scientists will come under increasing pressure in the 21st century to push the boundaries of their fields, inevitably straining existing governance mechanisms. In his interview, the Sky River project leader reflected the impulse to act saying, "We don't want to just publish theoretical papers, we want to apply our papers to the earth".
Lili Pike is a researcher for chinadialogue and the executive producer of the Beijing Energy Network's podcast, Environment China.
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Major Autotask Release Extends the Power of its Open Platform
EAST GREENBUSH, NY - Autotask Corporation, the world's leading provider of hosted IT business management software, today announced the latest features and functionality that will be available to users around the world later this week. The release includes significant enhancements to Autotask's multi-browser platform, workflow automation engine, client portal usability, service-level agreements, reporting tools, quote and expenses API, and a new Daily Alerts feature to help optimize service delivery and improve customer retention.
Multi-Browser Support
The August release expands Autotask's support of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari browsers for its Home, CRM, Service Desk, Projects, Contracts, Timesheets and Directory modules, ensuring users can access Autotask from virtually any device connected to the Internet.
"As we announced at Autotask Community Live in May, multi-browser support is key to our strategy of creating a robust IT business management platform that is open to the way our customers want to do business," said Mark Cattini, Autotask CEO. "Open on the front end to the computers, mobile devices and browsers they use to access Autotask. Open on the backend to give users greater choice in integrating the tools, services and partners they use to deliver products and services to their clients."
The workflow engine, which is central to Autotask and allows users to automate and optimize critical business processes, has been extended to the service desk and sales opportunities modules and includes even more granular triggers based on time and/or note type entries, more refined service level agreement targets, a broader range of conditional operators, and offers more flexible action, update and notification options.
Expanded API
Autotask's application programming interface (API), which currently supports integrations with dozens of leading remote monitoring and management (RMM), backup and disaster recovery (BDR), email protection, CRM and other business applications, has been extended to enable deeper workflow integrations with a broader variety of quoting software and accounting packages.
"Improved automation, easier integrations and greater flexibility are exactly the things our customers and prospects ask for, and exactly what they need to be successful in a competitive technology marketplace," said Kevin Donovan, senior vice president of global sales and services at Autotask. "This new release significantly increases our users' ability to shape their businesses in a way that makes sense for their market, for their customers and for their bottom line."
New! Daily Alerts
Autotask Daily Alerts is an entirely new feature that provides automated oversight of a user's business and offers a level of service delivery intelligence that was previously unavailable. The Daily Alerts function proactively mines users' system data and checks the status of a wide variety of business conditions – from pending contract expirations, to device discovery, to inactive resources and client accounts and more. When a suboptimal condition is detected, Daily Alerts automatically notifies users of potential problems and provides links and other information to help quickly resolve open issues.
Client Portal & Taskfire®
Both the Client Access Portal, which facilitates clear and easy two-way communication between IT service providers and their clients, and the Taskfire co-managed service desk for clients with significant internal IT resources, have been upgraded with advanced filtering and expanded ticket search capabilities, an improved user interface and significant improvements in speed and performance.
"The scope of this release is significant, and reflects our capacity and commitment to invest in the success of our users," said Patrick Burns, Autotask's Director of Product Management. "It strikes a strong balance between new product innovations and improving our existing platform, and builds a stronger product experience for everyone."
The new features will be instantly available to users in North America on Tuesday, August 30 and in the rest of the world on Thursday, September 1. No updates or downloads are required. Customers who would like more information about these and other new features may access the August 2011 Product Release Notes and register for complimentary new-features webinars by logging into www.autotask.net. Non-customers are encouraged to call +1 518 720 3500 Ext. 1 or visit www.autotask.com/contact_us/request_demo.htm to request an online demonstration at their convenience.


German idioms are a great way to learn new words as part of short phrases and expressions that you can immediately apply in everyday life. Today, I've collected 11 German idioms around the theme of summer, holiday, heat and sun. Ready? Los geht's!
When you want to say that something isn't even barely enough, you can use this German idiom to say that it is like "a drop on a hot stone", i.e. it immediately evaporates.
"Balkonien" is the magic place where Germans go on vacation ("Urlaub") when they can't afford (or don't want) to travel farther then their own four walls. In short, it refers to what is called a "staycation" in the English-speaking world and comes from the word for balcony: "der Balkon".
In German "per Daumen reisen" literally translates to "travel via thumb" and describes the act of hitch-hiking, i.e. sticking out your thumb in the hope that someone will take you along the road.
This idiom literally translates to "What I don't know doesn't make me hot." and the English equivalent would be something like "ignorance is bliss." In other words, if you don't know about something you can't fret about it. Logical, isn't it?
When you want to say that something is commonly available in huge quantities you can say that it is like "Sand am Meer" (like sand at the beach). "Es gibt gute Bücher wie Sand am Meer, aber ich habe nicht viel Zeit zum Lesen." An English English equivalent would be "like dime a dozen".
"Baden" is the German verb for bathing and "die Menge" refers to a crowd of people. Hence, "bathing in a crowd" means to have direct contact with a lot of people. "In der Menge baden" doesn't necessarily imply physical contact but simply immersing oneself in a social setting through conversation, etc.
The German verb "tanken" means "to fuel" and we use the idiom "Sonne tanken" (literally: "to fuel up with sun") to describe the act of sunbathing, escaping the German rains for a sunny holiday or any other way of replenishing our notoriously low levels of sunlight.


Many known sound localization algorithms are based on processing signals received by multiple, spatially separated sensors, e.g. microphone arrays. The advantages of single-channel sound source estimation are the lower costs for a single microphone and the possibility of developing very small gadgets. In this work we developed an accurate speaker localization strategy in the horizontal plane using the signal of only one microphone.
Based on a set of measured head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) from a dummy head and a statistical model of speech, an estimation of the sound direction has been carried out. High-dimensional spectral features (STFT coefficients) are taken and the direction of the sound source is evaluated with Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) using a maximum likelihood (ML) framework. An evaluation of the developed method in a synthetic test environment yields excellent results and leads to a promising approach which can be further investigated in future research.


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Day Three: Gritty Dravid's 33rd Ton Helps India Save Follow-On
Posted: July 24, 2011 by thecognitivenomad in Cricket, India in England 2011
Tags: rahul dravid
Chandrasekhar Jayarama Krishnan
Head of Cricket, CouchExpert
Some of the most gripping Indian batting performances remind you of a Rube Goldberg device: a deliberately over-prepared unit that makes simple survival seem like siege warfare – more so because of self-inflicted errors.
On a ground where run-scoring, when the conditions suit, can appear to be a child's play, the script called for the middle order crumble to leave a battling Dravid, as witnessed on many an occasion before, fight using every drop of his blood. The script might also contain a valiant fourth innings heroic from Laxman, if the stars take the same respective positions in the skies as they have on those memorable games in the past.
It could have gotten worse had Strauss and Swann, both excellent slip fielders, held on to their chances during the second session. Stuart Broad, who was busy corroborating the selectors' decision to play him in the XI, had caused the damage by then.
After getting rid of the openers, he removed the man all eyes were on, and ensured that the 38 year old will continue to carry a highest score of 37 at the home of cricket, at least until the next, and possibly his last, innings at the Lord's. But he wouldn't have been too pleased with the chances the slip cordon put down, chances that hardly seemed presumptive of innocence.
Rahul Dravid's innings was the lone bright spark in an otherwise disappointing batting display by India
But what Broad did was keep his lengths constantly full – a ploy that yielded him three crucial wickets. His self-proclaimed role as an enforcer, all these days, seemed uncalled for. With Gambhir being beaten by swing, Mukund playing on and Tendulkar reaching out to a delivery outside off stump to give Swann another catch to his name at second slip, Broad put an end to the debate over his place in the playing XI in style, along with the Great Indian Dream.
Earlier, Tendulkar's entry, after the dismissal of a promising Mukund – who'd played so well for his 49, had the crowd (and possibly even the English camp) lingering in perpetuity. His counter-attack after the commencement of Session Two could so easily have unravelled those strings of nervousness tied across the moment that was built by the diffusion of millions of hopes focusing around a single thought. The thought wasn't so much about victory or loss as it was about that 100th ton.
For once, as elusive as it has always been for him across these years, the focus shifted to Dravid, who quietly surpassed Ricky Ponting to become Test Cricket's second highest run getter of all time, second only to the man who has often overshadowed him during his illustrious, but unglamorous career. The flick past mid-wicket off Swann's bowling to reach this milestone will certainly be etched in the memories of those who've embraced a larger outlook on the sport.
The Lord's – what a befitting venue for this unassuming cricketer to cross a very memorable milestone! This isn't a moment millions might have prayed for, for the majority would have hardly envisioned this statistic.
With very little support received from the rest of the batsmen, Dravid witnessed wickets tumbling at the other end as Broad went on to add another to his scalps to make his tally four after he got rid of Praveen Kumar. Tremlett had removed the Indian skipper and Harbhajan prior to this, thereby landing the Indians in deep waters.
At a stage of his career where he is closer to 39 than 38, Dravid plethora of 33 tons may seem worth a lot more than their weight in gold considering that his record overseas has always been superior to his statistics at home, a trait unheard of among Indian batsmen.
A man who has always stood up for the needs of the team, often involving himself moving out of his comfort zone – right from opening the innings in an Australian tour to keeping wickets at the Lord's to allow MSD to have a crack at the English batting – the Wall has stood tall and stamped his authority over all these years in proving his worth as a team player, and still boasting the second greatest record in test cricket.
Meanwhile, England will look to capitalize on India's meagre first innings total, against a toothless Indian attack lacking Zaheer Khan. There's plenty of cricket to be played and contrary to the thought presumed earlier, this Lord's test could well have a result up its sleeve.
It is going to be a cracker of a 4th day.
Day Two: Irresistible KP Puts England In Charge
Day Four: Ishant and Prior Dazzle


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Consider installing a sprinkler system. Fire suppression systems may make you a more attractive customer for a homeowners insurer. If you've gone to the expense and trouble of installing such a system, you should be rewarded for your efforts.
Prevent losses from break-ins with home security systems, such as special lighting and burglar alarms. Insurance companies encourage their policyholders to adopt these measures and may offer a premium discount for having some sort of home security system in place.
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written by John Yeager November 11, 2007
John M. Yeager, Ed.D, MAPP, is Director of the Center for Character Excellence at The Culver Academies in Culver, Indiana. John consults with Dave Shearon, and Sherri Fisher at www.FlourishingSchools.com, an organization that integrates best practices in education with cutting edge Positive Psychology research. He co-authored the recently published book, Smart Strengths: Building Character, Resilience and Relationships in Youth. Full bio.
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One of the goals in life is to achieve "authentic happiness", to aspire to feeling genuinely complete. As part of the balance of life, we constantly go through a loss and rebirth process in our quest for well-being. Several years ago, one of our students was killed in an automobile accident. Richard (name has been changed) was a very special young man who was loved by all who knew him in our school community. He was in a student in my Foundations of Health Behavior class and we had just completed an exercise on "character strengths observations" several days before his passing. His parents asked me to say a few words at his memorial service:
Love is patient; love is kind
and envies no one.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
never selfish, not quick to take offense.
There is nothing love cannot face;
there is no limit to its faith,
its hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things
that last forever: faith, hope, and love;
but the greatest of them all is love.
~ 1 Corinthians 13 ~
Richard loved. A staple of the classes I teach revolves around students reflecting on different traits that they might consider to be their signature strengths and how they can enact those traits to live an authentically happy life. Of the twenty four characteristics, student thoughts typically range from a "love of learning" to- "perseverance/industry/diligence" to "kindness and generosity" to "playfulness and humor". Yes, you would expect that Richard had acquired the aforementioned traits. Yes, these virtues were already healthfully packed in his tool box of life skills. However, when I asked my sophomores to share their strengths with others in class, Richard also added "appreciation of beauty and excellence" and "loving and allowing oneself to be loved" to his list. It was the first time in three years of conducting this exercise that a student had clearly articulated the "gift of love" in an open forum.
We are all imperfect beings with different desires, motive and appetites and, I would assume for most of us, that we want "to love and to be loved." The consummate love relationship (based on Yale's Robert Sternberg) is based on three tenets: Intimacy, passion and commitment. Intimacy – When you spoke with Richard, you felt like you were the only person the room. Passion: Every human interaction that Richard was involved in revolved around a fervor and enthusiasm that would be hard to be matched by the most ardent person – whether it be a game of "Halo", a square pass on the soccer field or a class discussion. Commitment: Richard was committed to making others feel loved. His faithfulness and devotion to this cause reminds us of Martin Buber, the noted German theologian's "I-Thou" relationship. In the vast acronyms of Culver, we can sometimes feel described as three letter objects. We are not things or objects, and Richard made sure in all his interactions, that we were made to feel as subjects, as fully functioning human beings.
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He has helped us in his life and in his death – albeit a bit difficult to imagine it at this time, to renew our commitment to being the authors of this dance with each other – be it in the classroom, living units, dining hall, playing fields or stage. We are all vitally interconnected and this is more evident at this moment than at anytime.
Alice Von Hildebrand cites one of Gabriel Marcel's plays: "'Your death is my death' It is true when we lose someone we love, something dies within us. And this is both painful and fearful." However, the inverse can be said that "your life is my life. And hence, something is born again in us.
Richard, in his life and in his death has, in many ways, become a landscaper of our terrain at Culver. He influences the void many of us feel at this time, in our search to feel and be complete. We may always search for this, but Richard's "gift" to us is that he helped make our lives a bit more complete. His rebirth into eternal life shakes many of us to the depths of our being. It has helped us experience the emotions of being fully human. Richard's loss has helped us to renew our commitment to "loving ourselves and loving others."
Hemingway said it best in A Farewell to Arms: "The world breaks everyone then some become strong at the broken places." We must all unite and help each other to become stronger at this one broken place – and this can happen through our shared identity. This can only be done through "faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love."
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Angus November 11, 2007 - 11:29 am
Beautifully written and thought John. It must have been hugely helpful for all.
The Corinthians poem is great and it has always been the best hallmark of Christianity as of so many religions that love is the bottom-line.
Best aye
Rabbi Dennis S. Ross November 12, 2007 - 11:00 am
I appreciate your touching words that include the reference to Martin Buber's I-Thou. As I explored in my book, God in Our Relationships: Spirituality between People from the Teachings of Martin Buber, the fullness of I-Thou demonstrates God's presence as Buber's Eternal Thou.
Dave Shearon November 17, 2007 - 10:43 pm
Thanks, John. Great post. Your work at Culver helps your students connect with their strengths in so many ways.
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Schriver, Pentagon Asia policy lead, exits building
By: Aaron Mehta December 12, 2019
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Randall G. Schriver speaks to reporters on the 2019 Report on Military and Security Developments in China at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 3, 2019. (DoD photo by Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith)
WASHINGTON — Randall Schriver, the defense department's top policy official for Asia, has left the Pentagon.
Schriver, who has served as assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs since Jan. 2018, is exiting the government to return to private life, according to chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman.
Schriver received generally positive reviews from regional partners, who viewed him as a traditional Republican voice on defense issues. Schriver previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2003 to 2005, and as chief of staff and senior policy adviser to Richard Armitage, then deputy secretary of state, from 2001 to 2003. He was also president and CEO of the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank with the goal of creating "a more secure Asia by 2049," according to its website.
In the last year, Schriver spearheaded a reorganization of the Pacific policy team. Previously, there were three deputy secretary of defense offices for the region: one on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia; one on Southeast Asia with India, members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Australia and New Zealand; and one on East Asia, tracking Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, China and Taiwan.
Schriver reorganized the Southeast and East Asia portfolios, breaking down regional barriers to align nations like Australia and Japan that have strong ties. More importantly, he stood up a brand new office — a DASD for China, the only single-nation focused office among the 21 regional DASD teams. Schriver told Defense News in October that the new office should serve as a "stabilizing force" in overall relations between China and the U.S., while also helping to "drive alignment on China across the department."
His exit leaves another hole in the OSD-Policy team, led by undersecretary John Rood. David Trachtenberg, the deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, retired in July, while Robert Karem departed as ASD for International Security Affairs last October; both those roles are being filled by acting individuals. Currently, six of the 21 DASD positions are unfilled; Reed Werner, the DASD for South and Southeast Asia, just took office.
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A recent review article in Veterinary Sciences examined many factors of tick biology, including the changing geographic distribution of tick populations and the impact of this change on associated tickborne diseases.
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Babesiosis, caused by over 100 different Babesia species, is especially significant for cattle and humans. Human babesiosis cases are expected to be seen in Canada due to the increased number of Ixodes scapularis ticks, and new Babesia species are now seen in regions not previously known to have babesiosis.
Anaplasma phagocytophilum is the causative agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA), equine anaplasmosis, and febrile diseases in ruminants, cats, and dogs. Reports of HGA in the United States increased by a factor of 12 between 2001 and 2011.
Co-infections are common in individuals exhibiting disease from an Ixodes tick vector. Ten percent of individuals infected with Anaplasma also had antibodies to B burgdorferi or Babesia microti.
In the United States, Amblyomma americanum ticks have expanded both north and west as white-tailed deer populations have increased in these regions. All life stages of this tick species can feed on humans and deer, increasing the potential for transmission of Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Ehrlichia ewingii, the most common causes of human monocytic ehrlichiosis.
In the rest of the world, other Amblyomma ticks serve as vectors for multiple species of Ehrlichia, including new genetic variants classified as Candidatus Neoehrlichia species in Europe and Asia. For veterinarians, heartwater disease, caused by Ehrlichia ruminantium, is an increasingly important reportable disease of ruminants in Africa and the Caribbean.
Rhipicephalus microplus and Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks in China and Amblyomma americanum in the United States are known vectors of closely related viruses causing severe fever and thrombocytopenia. In the United States, this virus is known as heartland virus.
Bourbon virus was recently discovered in the United States.
Powassan virus is reemerging in North America.
Tickborne encephalitis viruses are broadening in range throughout Europe as reforestation and movement of dogs allows the range of their vector, Dermacentor reticulatus, to expand into Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland.
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus is spreading to multiple countries in the Mediterranean, likely due to the transportation of its tick vector, Hyalomma marginatum, by birds from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe to Central Europe.
Practitioners in both veterinary and human medicine must remain aware of the changing geography of ticks and associated vector-borne diseases. The discovery of the Asian tick H longicornis in New Jersey and Virginia should be an important reminder of the fact that "ticks and tickborne pathogens do not recognize international boundaries." Thus, "a robust international disease monitoring network" is needed to protect both human and animal health from both known and emerging tick-borne diseases.


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what remains gallery is defined by a constantly changing appearance and as such is not bound to real space.
Primarily it is an idea. Within this idea, we work with objects, relics and ideas themselves, all of which are derived from the sphere of art and culture, and all of which already function as independent pieces of art. Name-dropping is certainly a keyword here. When a wellknown artist exhibits some- thing, what they are exhibiting is of secondary importance. The material is already afflicted by their name. From this perspective, we developed our first what remains gallery show out of an Akram Zataari installation. At that point, we took material left over by Liam Gillick, Lutz Bacher, Scott King and Duncan Campbell at the conclusion of an exhibition at the Kunstverein in Munich. When later exhibited by ourselves, this material was nothing more than a collection of names and relics. We created a temporary space which was transformed through this 'name afflicted material' into a space loaded with meaning. Outside of the institution of Kunstverein, all these relics are brought into a new context, a context within which no one would normally come into contact with art.
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Confederate Monuments and Civic Values in the Wake of Charlottesville
By Dell Upton, University of California, Los Angeles
The political climate in the United States since the election of Barack Obama has brought to public view a virulent strain of white supremacy that is deeply embedded in American history and culture. The last presidential election seems to have given white supremacists permission to be more open. The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August are only the most conspicuous of many such incidents, but they have stimulated yet another discussion of the fate of Confederate monuments and other symbols in the civic sphere. It is important to understand that this is only the most recent eruption of a long argument that goes back to the time of the Civil War. African Americans have been part of this struggle since Reconstruction, even though many other Americans have only recently become aware of it. Much of the current public debate is characterized by misconceptions, obfuscations, and misleading emphases that serve to confuse the issues. It might be useful to examine some things that this conflict is not about as a way to understand what it is about.
1. This is not a question of preserving or erasing history. History is intangible and complex and is told and retold as an ongoing story. Public monuments point to some aspect of history that the public (ostensibly—more of this later) considers worthy of commemoration and they interpret that aspect of history from a particular point of view.
This is a debate about which aspects of history ought to be celebrated in the civic realm. In American politics and custom, symbols in public space—monuments, flags and other emblems—are assumed to enjoy the general approbation of the population and to represent common values. This is a fiction. Most monuments are the projects of small numbers of interested parties. Currently, however, there are checks and balances. It is very difficult to erect a new monument in any public space. Endless rounds of public comment and design review are required. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries no such constraints existed. The Confederate monuments were erected by people who were able to exert their will unchallenged, without the voices of African Americans or even of most whites being heard. The Charlottesville statues were erected by the smallest group possible: one man. Paul Goodloe McIntire purchased the sites, chose the subjects, and paid for the statues.1 His Stonewall Jackson statue, which stands a few blocks from the Lee statue that received most of the publicity in August, was built on the site of a row of sturdy early-nineteenth-century houses whose only fault was that they were occupied by African Americans. They were demolished and the Jackson statue, with its base representing winged allegorical figures of Faith and Valor carrying a shield based on the Confederate battle flag, replaced them.2 (fig. 1)
Fig. 1. Charles Keck, Thomas Jonathan [Stonewall] Jackson, 1919-24, Courthouse Square, Charlottesville, Va. Detail of base.
Although statues in civic spaces are read as expressing common sentiments, this was not the case for the Confederate statues (and some others, of course). Confederate monument builders overrode public sentiment that ranged from indifference to hostility. Kirk Savage has chronicled the struggles to erect even the best-known of monuments, such as Robert E. Lee's statue on Monument Avenue, Richmond. Repeated requests for funds were ignored, and African Americans, especially, resisted pleas for their support.3 The state Confederate monument in Montgomery, Alabama, was first proposed in the late 1860s, did not get underway until 1886, and was not completed until 1898. Although the monument stands next to the state capitol, neither the governor nor the mayor bothered to attend the dedication ceremony. The construction of the Confederate monument at the North Carolina state capitol was impeded by opposition from a Fusionist (Republican-Populist) dominated legislature in 1895. One legislator argued that "the memories of the war should be buried out of sight." He advocated "digging a hole and burying all monuments."4
2. This is not a debate about commemoration of the Civil War per se. The monuments in question were erected between the late 1860s and the 1920s, with most built after 1890. The first monuments were placed in cemeteries and purportedly expressed simple grief over the dead. They were erected under the auspices of Ladies' Memorial Associations, which were ostensibly apolitical groups. The leadership of women and the siting in cemeteries were meant to disguise their political meanings as signs of continued allegiance to the Confederacy.5 After the end of Reconstruction and federal supervision, the monuments moved to the metaphorical public square and became more openly pro-Confederate. As a speaker at the dedication of the Montgomery Confederate monument declared, "there was no need to deify the New [South] by degrading the Old" or to celebrate the return to the United States by disavowing the Confederacy.6
Then as now, these monuments were surrogates for another kind of discussion, one about race and citizenship in the post-slavery nation. Confederate monuments offered a reading of the war that disguised but did not deny its origins in slavery. They depicted the war as a tie, one in which whites on both sides emerged with honor and with principles intact, while slavery and African Americans were ignored. This is the [white] "brother against brother" fiction. It is stated most explicitly on the Unity Monument (1923) at Bennett Place outside Durham, N.C., where the final Confederate surrender took place.7 Twin Corinthian columns representing the Union and the Confederacy support an entablature labeled "Unity." (fig. 2) The inscription reads in part, "This monument . . . marks the spot where the military force of the United States of America finally triumphed and established as inviolate the principle of an indissoluble union. It marks also the spot of the last stand of the Confederacy in maintaining its ideal of indestructible states—an ideal which[,] preserved to the American union by virtue of the heroic fight[,] grows in strength from year to year." Claims that "state sovereignty" or "states' rights" were causes of the Civil War were after-the-fact interpretations intended to paper over the central role of race. The original ordinances of secession explicitly stated that the Confederacy was formed to defend slavery and white supremacy. Some of the ordinances complained about states' rights when it involved northern states' refusal to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
Fig. 2. W. H. Deasy, designer; Milburn and Heisler, architects, Unity Monument, 1923, Bennett Place, Durham County, N.C.
Moreover, among most of the present-day proponents of the monuments, the Civil War per se is a distant and poorly understood phenomenon. As the historian Thomas J. Brown has noted, the current defense of the monuments (and before that, the Confederate flag) is rarely based on the Lost Cause ideology that was widely taught in the South until quite recently and that inflected the teaching of the Civil War and Reconstruction nationally even when I was in public school in the 1950s and 1960s.8 Most defenders don't even know what the Lost Cause was. I spoke in Columbia, S.C., earlier this year and a man who was pro-monument arose in tears to ask whether the Vietnam War couldn't be considered a lost cause as well. He was obviously unfamiliar with the historical meaning of the term Lost Cause in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century South. Instead, defense of the monuments is now framed as a defense of white ethnic heritage. In the South, the Confederacy is widely seen as the whites' equally honorable complement of the African-American civil rights movement.
But what if the debate were about the Civil War? Does that justify the retention of the monuments? Another argument that we sometimes hear is that the statues of the Lees, Jacksons, and Davises are one thing, since they led the rebellion, but the common-soldier statues are another: they are merely signs of mourning for the war dead. There are two responses this argument.
First, as Kirk Savage has shown, these "common-soldier statues," of which the Civil War memorials are the first of a now common type, were a way to deflect attention from the issues of war to the abstractions of duty and valor.9 (fig. 3) They underpin the current assumption that the military and military service are unquestioned goods whatever the cause. Those defenders of the statues who are not white supremacists are often motivated by an abstract reverence for all soldiers. This was the view of my questioner in Columbia. One way to think about this would be to ask, would I accept a statue to the personal bravery of the British troops who fought in the American Revolution? Of the Japanese aviators who died at Pearl Harbor? Of (real) Nazi soldiers? Of the September 11 highjackers? I ask this not as a version of the Hitler default ("my opponent is just like Hitler") but as a kind of thought experiment. If we think of a sliding scale on which respect for personal valor lies at one end and respect for a cause lies at the other, at what point on that scale would I think that the evil of the cause outweighed the valor of individual troops? For me, the defense of slavery and white supremacy, rebellion against legitimate national authority, and responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people stand on the far side of that point.
Fig. 3. United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Monument, 1909, Courthouse Square, Charlottesville, Va.
Second, one often hears that ordinary Confederate soldiers were not slaveholders but were simply defending their homes. This was not an issue during the Civil War and it was not one when the monuments were built. In the Lost Cause ideology, women were the defenders of the home, and there are numerous statues to women of the Confederacy, many of which depict them as Penelopes awaiting their Ulysses. (fig. 4) Men were defending the racial-political order and the common-soldier statues were part of the same campaign that built the monuments to Confederate leaders. This is clear if we read the inscriptions that many carry: "They gave their lives and fortunes for Constitutional liberty and state sovereignty" (Salisbury, N.C.); "The Sons of Veterans Unite in This Justification of Their Fathers Faith" and "They Gave Their Lives in a Just and Holy Cause" (Oxford, Miss.); "Defenders of the Rights of the States" (Charlottesville; Centerville, Ala.); "Those Who Die for a Right Principle Do Not Die in Vain" (Tupelo, Miss.); "The Rights of the Southern Confederacy" (Williamsburg, S.C.); "Defenders of State Sovereignty" (Tarboro, N.C.; Fort Mill, S.C.).
Fig. 4. Women of the South, 1911, Macon, Ga.
3. This is not ultimately a conflict over monuments. It is a conflict over the values that we wish to endorse in the contemporary public realm. Monuments are the focus of current debates, but before that it was the Confederate flag. And before that it was the monuments that are now being challenged again. And before that it was the question of whether the federal government should pay for the reburial and grave marking of Confederate dead.
4. This is not a controversy about art or its censorship. The monuments were not intended as public art—art for a public setting—in the sense that we normally understand the phrase. They are political statements whose meaning was clearly understood by their targets. They were part of a campaign to reaffirm white supremacy during a period that the historian Rayford Logan called "the nadir" of American racial politics, one that took many forms, including Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement, the rewriting of state constitutions to deny citizenship to blacks, and legal and extralegal terrorism. They stood as affirmations that the American polity was a white polity.
African Americans were never confused about the meaning of these statues. At the ceremonies marking the unveiling of the Robert E. Lee monument on Monument Avenue in Richmond, an old black man declared "The Southern white folks is on top—the Southern white folks is on top!" The editor of the local black newspaper wrote that "He [the black laborer] put up the Lee Monument, and should the time come, will be there to take it down."10 In Charleston in 1887, the Ladies' Calhoun Monument Association erected a statue of John C. Calhoun, a vociferous defender of slavery and proponent of secession, on a modest pedestal in Marion Square. It had been thirty years in the making. Calhoun overlooked the newly renamed Calhoun Street, formerly Boundary Street, the major black business street. It is also the location of Emanuel A.M.E. Church, the church home of Denmark Vesey, organizer of an 1822 slave rebellion, and scene of the 2015 murders. Mamie Garvin Fields, an African-American woman from a genteel family who was raised in Charleston in the 1890s, recalled that "Blacks took that statue personally. As you passed by, here was Calhoun looking you in the face, and telling you, 'Nigger, you may not be a slave, but I am back to see you stay in your place.'" In response "We used to carry something with us, if we knew we would be passing that way, in order to deface that statue—scratch up the coat, break the watch chain, try to knock off the nose—because he looked like he was telling you that there was a place for 'niggers' and 'niggers' must stay there. Children and adults beat up John C. Calhoun so badly that the whites had to come back and put him way up high, so we couldn't get to him."11 The new statue was installed in 1896, standing atop an eighty-foot column.12 (fig. 5) Its inscription cryptically records that it replaced an older statue "which proved unsatisfactory." Following Charlottesville, a long-standing campaign to remove the statue (which was recently conserved) has revived.
Fig. 5. J. Massey Rhind with Renwick, Aspinwall, and Renwick, architects, John C. Calhoun, 1894-96, Marion Square, Charleston, S.C.
5. This is not a discussion of the destruction of monuments. Some may have aesthetic value and deserve to be preserved on those grounds. Some, for example, were made by renowned sculptors such as Charles Keck (Stonewall Jackson, Charlottesville) or Jean-Antoine Mercié (Lee, Richmond). If so, they belong in art museums, which are full of aesthetically pleasing images of unsavory people. They'd be quite at home there.
What should be done with the rest, most of which are ordinary and many of which were mass produced? Some may belong in local or state history museums as artifacts of the past. Another possibility would be to move some of them to a site in the newly designated, long-overdue Reconstruction-Era National Monument in South Carolina. Removal from civic space (and maintenance) and destruction are two different issues. A suggestion that I favor would be to gather as many of them as possible in a Dead Rebels Park. I envision such a park not as a pleasant landscaped space like some of those in eastern Europe that house the statues of disgraced leaders, but as a display of rows upon rows of statues akin to the ceramic warriors at Xi'an. In its sheer magnitude such a display would be a very powerful and thought-provoking image.
At the same time, the idea that some might be destroyed should not worry us. Some works of art are meant to be temporary from the start. Others are treated even by their patrons as disposable, not as holy relics. The first Charleston Calhoun statue, by the well-known sculptor A. E. Harnisch, was sold for scrap when the second one replaced it.13 We destroy many other artifacts. We pulp outdated history books, although we usually keep one or two copies for historical interest. We burn old flags. And we don't preserve every building.
Many people who clearly understand the meaning of these monuments want to leave them in place but to "contextualize" them. I think there are two problems with this argument. First, the statues are already contextualized by their presence in civic spaces. Second, as someone who works with the material world, I believe that the physical is always more compelling than the verbal. For example, when we visit a restored building, we can hear or read as much as we like about the faults of the restoration, but we will carry away an image of the physical object as our memory of the building. Similarly, a label that tells us that X was really a bad guy or served an evil cause is not going to remain with us as vividly as our mental image of the great man on his pedestal.
If we do decide to contextualize, there is, in my mind, only one fair way to do so. Since these monuments express the positions of a few people who erected them without benefit of critique, critique them now. One of the sore points for those who attempt to erect contemporary monuments on African American subjects is that while the Confederate monuments went up without effective opposition, theirs are subject to endless second guessing by politicians, commissions, boards, and the general public. In particular, whites assume the prerogative to decide what is fair, what is accurate, and what is potentially offensive in African American monument proposals. This is the definition of white privilege. If the Confederate monuments are left in place, descendants of the African-Americans who lived in the locality at the time of their construction should be allowed to annotate and alter the monuments as they see fit, with no second guessing or complaints about accuracy or fairness or viewer discomfort.
Whatever the disposition of the Confederate monuments, it seems clear that for reasons of justice, equity, and civic values, they must first of all be removed from civic space. Their white-supremacist character is more important than their age, their aesthetic quality, or any other attributes that are offered in their defense. After they are gone from the public sphere, then we can take time to discuss their fates on a case-by-case basis.
All photos by the author.
Dell Upton is a historian of architecture, material culture, and cities. He is chair of the Department of Art History at University of California, Los Angeles. He focuses both on the United States and on the global scene and his books include Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic (2008) and Architecture in the United States (1998), a volume in the Oxford History of Art series, as well as Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (1986); and Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans (1996). He has had a longstanding interest in African-American history, architecture and material culture, and early in his career in studied landscapes of slavery. In recent years, he has been more interested in the urban and rural landscapes of the post-emancipation period. What Can and Can't Be Said, a study of civil-rights and African-American history monuments in the South, was recently published in 2015. He is also working on a revised and enlarged edition of Architecture in the United States.
1 Aaron V. Wunsch, "From Private Privilege to Public Place: A Brief History of Parks and Park Planning in Charlottesville," Magazine of Albemarle County History, 56 (1998): 80-90.
2 Daniel Bluestone has excavated and recounted this story in Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation (New York: Norton, 2011), 220-26.
3 Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), 136-39.
4 Quoted in Catherine W. Bishir, "'A Strong Force of Ladies': Women, Politics, and Confederate Memorial Associations in Nineteenth-Century Raleigh," North Carolina Historical Review, 77 no. 4 (Oct. 2000): 238. Eventually the funding bill passed the House 60 to 38, after having squeaked by in the Senate by one vote. Thanks to Catherine Bishir for calling my attention to this incident, and for her comments on an earlier draft of this essay.
5 Caroline E. Janney, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008), 6-7, 40, 142.
6 Quoted in Dell Upton, What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift and Monument Building in the Contemporary South (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), 31.
7 Although Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Va., on April 9, 1865, Confederates in other parts of the South continued to fight. The final surrender, which involved the largest number of troops (over 89,000), occurred at Bennett Place on April 17, 1865.
8 Thomas J. Brown, "The Confederate Battle Flag and the Desertion of the Lost Cause Tradition," in Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial, ed. Thomas J. Brown (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), 37-72.
9 Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), 162-208.
10 Savage, Standing Soldiers, 151, 153.
11 Mamie Garvin Fields with Karen Fields, Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir (New York: Free Press, 1983), 57.
12 "The Calhoun Monument," Charleston News and Courier, Oct. 25, 1895, p. 9.
13 "Sold As Old Metal," Charleston Evening Post, Aug. 8, 1896, p. 5.
Roger L | Jun 09, 2020
Excellent and eloquent. Pleasure to read for someone "on the fence"
Reggie Bartlett | May 03, 2019
This article has not aged too well, seeing as to what had happened to the statues in Durham and UNC, Mr. Dell may talk the academic talk, but his fellow iconoclasts with the construction cables walk the walk.
Also, the City of Charlottesville was also ruled to not have the right to remove the statues of Lee and Jackson, per Virginia state law. So the Unite the Right rally, and subsequent ANTIFA agitators who inflamed the situation rioted for nothing.
Paul Fletcher | Oct 01, 2017
What it means to be educated is to know the various perspectives, especially from those who where most devastated by historic events.
Jennifer Reut | Sep 29, 2017
Very glad to have this as I embark on a piece on memorials to the enslaved outside the U.S., as well as to distribute to my colleagues in landscape architecture.
Allan Kohl | Sep 28, 2017
Several questions:
1. All of the statues of Robert E. Lee show him as a Confederate general, always in uniform, often riding forward triumphantly on his horse Traveler. Lee was probably the South's most skilled commander; despite initial reservations, he served the Confederacy for four years, leading the Army of Northern Virginia to its greatest triumphs on the battlefield, and to its ultimate defeat at the hands of an equally tenacious Ulysses S. Grant, who had the advantage of superior manpower and resources. But Lee assumed many other roles during his life. As a military engineer, he worked for years to mitigate Mississippi River flooding. As an officer in the United States Army, he fought valiantly in the Mexican-American War. As an educator, he served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and after the Civil War became President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), a position he held until his death. There he worked tirelessly to modernize the school's curriculum, all the while urging his students to be loyal American citizens and put the war behind them, as he was attempting to do himself. So why don't we ever see a statue of Lee as an educator (since he spent more than twice as much of his life in this role than he spent leading Confederate armies)?
2. After the death of Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville, James Longstreet became Lee's most trusted subordinate general. Longstreet served faithfully throughout the War, and was wounded in action during the Battle of the Wilderness. But after Lee's surrender, Longstreet strove to reconcile North and South, working for the United States government as a civil servant, administrator, and diplomat in the administration of his old friend and fellow soldier in the Mexican-American War, Ulysses S. Grant. So why don't we see Longstreet represented as one who sought to heal the wounds of the War Between the States?
3. Millions of soldiers in Hitler's Wehrmacht fought valiantly to defend their homeland from foreign invaders. Tens of thousands are commemorated in cemeteries like the one at La Cambe in Normandy, last resting place for many who resisted the D-Day invasion. These spaces are marked by large, dark-colored crosses, and figures of mourning parents. Many of these soldiers were brave men, loyal to their leaders and comrades, steadfast in adversity – even though some may have harbored misgivings about what their government was doing in their names. So should anyone ever put up heroic statues of men in Nazi uniforms?
4. Is it possible to show respect for those who fought against the United States, often with great courage and devotion – the Redcoats at Bunker Hill; the Mexican cadets at Chapultepec; the Japanese defenders of Iwo Jima and Okinawa – while at the same time firmly rejecting the causes and governments for which they fought?
No answers -- only questions . . .
Charles Hodges | Sep 26, 2017
Dell Upton is one of the most brilliant and eloquent students of America's past and his talents are sorely missed in Virginia where he passed through in the 1970s. This is a very thoughtful piece make no mistake. I think Dell missed some very basic things about the now legendary Charlottesville white supremacy fest. What occurred in Charlottesville had either absolutely nothing or nothing to do with the statue of Robert E. Lee. The attitudes displayed by the right there are in my estimation representative of about 0.02 percent of the total U.S. population. Every single decent Southern White person and many Northern people too cringed at the association being made between Lee and Neo-Nazis and similar groups. By not taking down the statue and instead putting the $300,000 estimated to be the price of moving the statue you would have a nice positive down payment for a young African American artist to make a Civil Rights exhibit or statue to embellish Emancipation Park. The only thing associated with Emancipation Park presently is a say 18 inch square brass plague mentioning slave auctions routinely held there. This plague sits on a sidewalk.
In item 5 lead paragraph in the heat of the moment (who did not emote in July?) Dell says:
By implication from various other statements made. It appears that Dell thinks the sole purpose of these statues was to intimidate African Americans. I find this notion more or less ridiculous. For a culture that lost 1 out of every 4 adult males aged between 18 and 50 as either killed or wounded these statues were primarily made to honor war dead and their leadership. Lee on Monument Avenue goes up on the 25th Anniversary of the Civil War. The Southern Poverty Law Center presents a graph showing various peaks and valleys in when the Confederate statues go up asserting they go with Jim Crow Laws etc.. They note additionally there was a brief peak in statue building during the modern Civil Rights Movement headed by Martin L. King. Unfortunately that paranoid inference corresponds almost exactly with the Civil War Centennial (1961-1965). A quick check on WIKI shows that most Confederate Statues go up at roughly the same rate and time as Federal Monuments in the North with the Southerners slowed down by lack of cash especially right after the war. So to really access somehow a great evil conspiracy it would make sense to carefully plot out the dates of statues in the North too to remove bias. Some clever person can show these dates North and South on the same graph. Of course I could be wrong but I also studied when French, English, and German WWI statues go up. This latter group all stopped statue building in the late 1930s due to WWII. Having lived in Europe it seems to this author that the more horrific the war dead count is the more of a need to honor the soldiers and their leaders are. The per capita kill ratio for the Southern Confederacy totally skunks all other I just mentioned. I do not think the Southerners felt they needed to apologize to local African Americans for celebrating their heros but I do not think this was meant to twist the dagger to intimidate them either. Apparently African Americans were nonetheless intimidated and we all wish things had been fairer and more balanced between the races. While none of us can go back into the past and redress that balance we can strongly support Civil Right statues and celebration of African American heroes. If we completely take down the Southern White heroes now as the new statues go up we are simply arguing that two wrongs make a right. Why can't we have both White and Black heroes in our fair cities? In any case, in Virginia at least Martin Luther King Day is celebrated on a Friday and Lee-Jackson Day is celebrated the very next Monday so everyone regardless of race and bias enjoys a 4 day weekend.
Now back to Dell's item 5 above in the same rather contentious little lead paragraph Lee and Jackson are openly described as "unsavory people" which is sort of a moralistic or if you prefer self righteous condemnation of the Confederacy's two favorite heroes. For openers a fair statement would be that obviously is a matter of opinion. Let's take a short look at a few opinions of Lee.
(1) Sir Winston Churchill once remarked, 'Lee was the noblest American who had ever lived and one of the greatest commanders known to the annals of war.'
(2) Theodore Rooselvelt said, "The world has never seen better soldiers than those who followed Lee, and their leader will undoubtedly rank without exception as the greatest of all the great captains that the English-speaking people have brought forth.
(3) Dwight Eisenhower writes to a man shocked to see a picture of Lee on the wall while visiting so he wrote back on August.9, 1960: Dear Dr. Scott: Respecting your August 1 inquiry calling attention to my often expressed admiration for General Robert E. Lee, I would say, first, that we need to understand that at the time of the War between the States the issue of secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Men of probity, character, public standing and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted. General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history. From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee's calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation's wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained. Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall. Sincerely, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Following from the above in a recent conversation with a Millennial they asked me if I knew, "of any other country that had statues of traitors?" My answer was, "every time you see a stature of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, or Benjamin Franklin you were looking right at a statue of a well documented traitor." Meanwhile most people see Jackson and Lee primarily as great soldiers, great Southern soldiers yes, but now accepted as Great American Generals. Their battles are still studied today in every military college in American and not a few in Europe.
So no Dell these are not unfortunately unsavory people by any stretch of the imagination. They belong on pedastils for their genious alone. Any other take falls into the category of cheap shots, reverse discrimination, mildly nauseating self righteous holier than thou Neo-Puritanism, but most of all shallow trendy and short sighted petty politics.
john | Sep 23, 2017
While I agree and appriciate Dell's essay, he leaves a disturbing final conclusion.
Dell states:"Whatever the disposition of the Confederate monuments, it seems clear that for reasons of justice, equity, and civic values, they must first of all be removed from civic space. Their white-supremacist character is more important than their age, their aesthetic quality, or any other attributes that are offered in their defense. After they are gone from the public sphere, then we can take time to discuss their fates on a case-by-case basis."
Disagree.
"Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant" -- H L Mencken
The idea of removal without some historical review is not appropriate. Let each City Council schedule appropriate hearings, let the public learn who,what why, where, etc...is associated with the civic artifact. And then take appropriate action. We need to keep our democractic rule of law/ review even under the most offensive "art"
Craig Morrison AIA | Sep 22, 2017
Thanks to Prof. Upton for so effectively presenting the context of these objects. Beautifully done!
Marvin Trachtenberg | Sep 21, 2017
I agree with all of the above. No one could have made these points better. Upton's essay should reach the wider public.
Edward R. Bosley | Sep 21, 2017
Superb. Thank you for expressing so eloquently what many of us have keenly felt, known or suspected.
Travis McDonald | Sep 21, 2017
Great article and very timely. We are having one of our "Salon Talks" at Poplar Forest soon on Monuments/Memorials, planned about six months ago when it was a civil discussion. Two years ago I started clipping articles on this subject, long before the subject reached the tipping point. I have about a 6" stack of articles, mostly from local and Richmond papers. The subject made me think of your work on Civil Rights Monuments, and a memory of visiting some of those with you.
Thanks for this great piece, I hope you're doing well.
Debra | Sep 16, 2017
Excellent article. Thanks.
Duncan Mackintosh | Sep 15, 2017
Succinct, timely and well written. Thanks and hats off to Dell Upton!
Margaret Peters | Sep 15, 2017
Excellent discussion. Would that many who lead the public discourse would read, inwardly digest and act upon these wise and scholarly words.
Robert Walsh | Sep 14, 2017
Thank you! This is the most insightful writing I have encountered with respect to this issue. I intend to assign this to my students currently studying American Urbanism.
Kathryn Smith | Sep 14, 2017
Thank you for this excellent essay. So many conversations going on now and this seems to distill many thoughts and struggles we as historians and preservationists are having.
A. David Wunsch | Sep 14, 2017
This is very clear, eloquent, and well put.


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