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WWE CROWN JEWEL 2022 HITS & MISSES: Lashley vs. Lesnar, Usos vs. Brutes, Belair vs. Bayley Last Woman Standing, Paul vs. Reigns, more
BY FRANK PETEANI, PWTORCH.COM COMTRIBUTOR
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WWE CROWN JEWEL 2022 HITS AND MISSES
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BY FRANK PETEANI (@FrankPeteani), PWTORCH.COM CONTRIBUTOR
Announcers: Michael Cole and Wade Barrett
Brock Lesnar defeats Bobby Lashley
Brock Lesnar cost Bobby Lashley the U.S. Championship several weeks prior to this show, so the idea is for Lashley to get revenge. Lashley took the WWE Championship from Lesnar earlier in the year at the Royal Rumble, but Lesnar regained it the last time they were in Saudi Arabia in an Elimination Chamber match. Lashley couldn't finish the match due to injury. Lesnar since lost the championship to Roman Reigns and came up short in his attempt to regain it. All of that said, a lot was on the line heading into what many always viewed as a dream match (despite already having a one-on-one at the Rumble).
I liked the brawling to start as it fit the story told on TV and overall, I thought the match went well. I thought for a second we were getting the Bret Hart pin over Roddy Piper at WrestleMania 8 when Lesnar went off the turnbuckle, but nonetheless we got Lesnar just leveraging Lashley via leaning back. The finish felt abrupt, but I wonder if there was an injury on Lesnar's end. Lashley attacking Lesnar post-match and getting a negative reaction was interesting, but also not terribly out of place since Lesnar is universally over especially in Saudi Arabia.
The match wasn't over-the-top great, but I'll grade it a mild hit for the time it lasted.
Hit or Miss: Hit
WWE Women's Tag Team Championship: Damage CTRL (Dakota Kai & Iyo Skye) defeat Alexa Bliss & Asuka to regain the championship
Before the match, Alexa & Asuka were interviewed by Byron Saxton, who emphasized they're defending their championship only five days after winning it. Talk to the Mountie at the Royal Rumble in 1992 and Christian in 2011, and countless others Byron. It's happened. That said, a seed of doubt was planted in our heads about their ability to retain the titles.
Well, the doubt was warranted although it took interference on the part of Nikki Cross who attacked her former partner and championship co-holder Alexa. The referee was tied up with Asuka and Skye. There seemed to be a delay in Nikki getting out there because Alexa could have hit Twisted Bliss on Kai and been done with the match.
The match was fine. There's still too many interferences and distraction finishes in WWE. I wonder now if Bayley is going to win the Raw Women's Championship so Damage CTRL can win "all the gold in one show." That's the only way it makes sense to have had Kai & Skye lose the titles on Raw only to regain them here. I'll be nice and give the match a hit.
Steel Cage Match: Drew McIntyre defeats Karrion Kross
I'm sorry but I still hate that a way to win a steel cage match is to escape through the door or go over the top. I'm not naïve to not understand why, but I still hate it. Why would I try to climb the cage? Why wouldn't I just kick my opponent in the balls and walk out the door? Pinfalls and submissions are fine. That said, another gimmick match with Karrion Kross is upon us. My 10-year-old daughter told me Karrion Kross is not that scary. Pay attention to that comment WWE. What you're selling isn't being bought.
Sorry but I'm just going to complain about everything in this match. Scarlett distracts Drew from going for the Claymore Kick. I can't stand this part of WWE's playbook where wrestlers are easily distracted by outside forces. Who cares about her Drew? Then, after hitting the Kross Hammer, why would Karrion try to climb the cage? Walk out the door bro! Why isn't Scarlett ejected from ring side when she maces Drew and the outside official? Why isn't the outside official replaced after getting maced? Why is Scarlett allowed to lock the door and take the key?
I understand the finish. Locking the cage on Drew backfired so that protects Karrion in losing. They still want Karrion to have credibility. It all makes logistical sense. The problem is people see through WWE. Karrion is not a good wrestler. They're trtying to keep Drew occupied and I understand that, but this is bringing him down. I don't know what you do otherwise. The match was slow and plodding and had a lot of Triple H's fingerprints on it. He always loved a deal like this. Go back and watch his matches if you don't believe me. At least it wasn't terribly long, but I think you know my grade.
Hit or Miss: Miss
Judgment Day (Finn Balor & Damian Priest & Dominik Mysterio) defeat The O.C. (A.J. Styles and Gallows & Anderson)
The Judgment Day is in a better place overall and a feud with The O.C. is perfectly fine. It's not what I'm clamoring to watch every week but given the history with Gallows & Anderson and A.J. Styles as well as Finn Balor there's decent background to this. Dominik is doing a nice job overall with his change in attitude, but I don't buy him. He wants to be Eddie Guerrero? Go watch the 1997 version of Eddie and then talk to me about a heel with a recent changed attitude. Watch his match with Rey Mysterio (then "Misterio, Jr.) at Halloween Havoc from that year and then we'll talk.
This match was fine. It had a house show feel to it, but that's the deal with these Saudi shows. Then we got the finish. Rhea Ripley attacks A.J. allowing Finn to set up for the Coup de Grace and pinfall. I'm sorry but these interference and distraction finishes are getting out of control and now we've had three matches in a row as such. Again, it makes sense if they want to keep things going between these sides. I question how much people want to see more matches between these teams, but I digress. They're likely setting up an eventual big one-on-one between A.J. and Finn. Let's not discount Beth Phoenix coming back into the fold with her husband Edge and doing a mixed tag since Rhea "dedicated her look to Beth." (Jeez would they do an intergender WarGames match?) I'll give the match a hit, but I'm not going to back down from being annoyed about multiple interference/distraction finishes.
Braun Stroman defeats Omos
The tale of the tape was a cool touch to talk about before this darling of a match.
I can't believe this was possible. I'm going to give this match a hit. Wow. It didn't overstay its welcome and, in my opinion, the right guy went over and clean. That tells me Omos's goose is cooked and rightfully so. He may have looked decent in this match and even dominated Braun, but overall, the guy has shown you nothing other than his nostrils when the camera looks up at him. I mean no offense to the man personally, but you need to show something when you're a big man. It doesn't have to be five-star wrestling ability that Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks strive for every night. Braun may be limited in his own right, but he's passable in the ring and is useful overall. Fans like him.
Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship: The Usos (Jimmy & Jey) defeat The Brawling Brutes (Ridge Holland & Butch)
This Butch name has gotta go. Go back to Pete Dunne, now. Anyway….
There's not a lot to talk about with this match. It was straight-forward and well worked, and the right team won. There's no way the Brutes were going to win. They have something with Holland and Butch (Pete Dunne) moving forward, but not enough to end the long reign of the Usos who head towards Smackdown to face long-time rivals New Day. It's ok to have a predictable match or two on a card. This was one of those matches.
On an unrelated side note, it's crazy to think there was a time where Pete Dunne had stellar matches for the NXT UK Championship, a title he held for nearly two years.
Last Woman Standing (TLC & Golf Cart) Match for the Raw Women's Championship: Bianca Belair defeats Bayley to retain the Raw Women's Championship
This is one of those deals where I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. There were several spots in the match that could be called "dramatic" but we've seen these table, ladder, and chair spots so many times that at least for me, I'm desensitized to them. That's another thing, they might as well have called this a TLC match. I understand it's no DQ, but let's talk about that for a second. Why does Last Woman or Man Standing HAVE to be no DQ? The only difference between a match like this and a standard match is the method by which the winner is determined. It's like Triple Threat matches being no DQ. Why? We've already seen a ladder match between these women which wasn't all that good. They worked hard here and got creative, but it didn't do anything for me. I didn't feel any drama, or "oohs and aahs" the way these matches are supposed to make you feel.
Attempted vehicular homicide by Bayley was a choice too by the way.
Here's another few things. I thought Bayley would go over so Damage CTRL could win all the gold on the same show. What was the point of flip flopping the tag team championship off and back onto Dakota and Iyo? If the match was no DQ, why didn't they help Bayley win the match? On a show with three interference/distraction finishes you would think one of them would happen here. Bayley can't get another title shot for a while now having lost two big ones in a row. I'm sorry there are just too many issues with this match to give it a hit.
(It wasn't terribly bad, but I just can't give it a hit in good faith)
Bray Wyatt Appearance
It thought it was cool that Bray acknowledged he came from a prestigious wrestling family. That's one of the good things of Triple H's management, allowing wrestlers to discuss themselves honestly. The story of creating himself into a monster made sense to me. I don't know about this Uncle Howdy bit yet though, but it's one of those ridiculous things I'm waiting to see play out. We got a little something out of this, but not much more than what we've gott.
Undisputed WWE Universal Championship: Roman Reigns defeats Logan Paul
I didn't believe for one second that Logan Paul was defeating Roman Reigns and ending his two-plus year run as Universal Champion and six-month run as undisputed champion. They sure did a good job making you believe it could happen with the "one lucky shot" deal. At 49 years old and watching wrestling since I was 13 it didn't do anything for me personally, but objectively I liked how they built this up even though Logan had no business getting a world championship match.
I have to say I'm impressed by Logan and how quickly he's picked up wrestling. Whether you personally like him or not, and he certainly has unlikable tendencies, he feels like he belongs in a WWE ring. The match fit the story told which was Reigns not taking Logan seriously, and the near falls were dramatic and somewhat believable (again, we know where this was going). One thing which is a minor quibble. Logan needs a little more schooling in how to do the super kick! Take care of that Shawn. Anyway, I got a kick out of Logan taking the phone from his entourage and doing a selfie while doing a splash off the top tope onto a prone Reigns on the announce table. Oh and yeah, there was a Buckshot Lariat my friends!
I'll have to marinate on the Bloodline and Jake Paul getting involved but I suppose that was a forgone conclusion since Logan announced he was bringing "backup" with his brother. It's not like there was egregious interference and Logan doing the dive on the Usos was cool.
For those offended that the "most protected wrestler" having "trouble" with a guy who's had one singles match, it's called an improbable story. The long-term champion wasn't taking his challenger seriously. He was caught off guard and found a way to win. It happens in wrestling and it's enjoyable from time to time. Everyone has acknowledged that Logan has picked this up quickly. Watch the original Rocky. It's a fun ride, as was this. It's not going to happen all the time. Kick back with a drink or your vice of choice and enjoy this for what it was.
Misses 2
There are seven hits but by no means was this a great show. It was enjoyable while it lasted though. I wasn't offended terribly by the matches even though there were multiple interference/distraction finishes. There are plenty of talking points and issues I'm looking to see resolved as we head towards next week's television.
That being said, the hits have it, this report is adjourned. See you in three weeks for Survivor Series: WarGames.
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Rod November 6, 2022 at 11:09 am
One good match on the show (Bayley/Bianca) and of course that's one that gets a miss. How do you put a "hit" on Omos/Strowman? That was pure garbage. Omos is a lumbering stiff who can't do anything.


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El Luxemburgo celta existió durante el período que va desde aproximadamente el año 600 a. C. hasta el 100 d. C., cuando los celtas habitaban lo que ahora es el territorio del Gran Ducado de Luxemburgo . Su cultura estaba bien desarrollada, especialmente a partir del siglo I a.C., como puede verse en los restos del extenso sitio de Titelberg en el extremo suroeste del país y en los impresionantes hallazgos en varias tumbas y necrópolis en el valle del Mosela y sus alrededores.

Los celtas habitaron grandes áreas de Europa desde el Danubio hasta el Rin y el Ródano durante los siglos VI al I a.C., un período al que a veces se hace referencia como La Tène después de descubrirse de un sitio en Suiza donde se encontraron restos celtas en 1857. Fue alrededor del año 100 a.C. cuando los Treveri, una de las tribus celtas, tuvo un período de prosperidad. Construyeron varios asentamientos fortificados u oppida cerca del valle del Mosela en lo que hoy es el sur de Luxemburgo, el oeste de Alemania y el este de Francia .

En el territorio que hoy en día cubre el Gran Ducado de Luxemburgo, hay evidencia de habitantes primitivos que se remontan al Paleolítico o a la Antigua Edad de Piedra, hace más de 35.000 años. Los artefactos más antiguos de este período son huesos decorados encontrados en Oetrange.

Sin embargo, la primera evidencia real de civilización es del Neolítico o quinto milenio antes de Cristo cuando comenzaron a aparecer las casas. Se han encontrado rastros en el sur de Luxemburgo en Aspelt, Weiler-la-Tour, así como en Grevenmacher y Diekirch. Las viviendas estaban hechas de una combinación de troncos de árboles para la estructura básica, muros de mimbre revestidos de barro y techos de caña o paja.  Cerca de Remerschen se ha encontrado cerámica de este período.

Aunque no hay muchas pruebas de comunidades en Luxemburgo a principios de la Edad de Bronce, varios sitios que se remontan al período entre los siglos XIII y VIII a.C. proporcionan pruebas de viviendas y revelan artefactos como cerámica, cuchillos y joyas. Estos incluyen Nospelt, Dalheim, Mompach y Remerschen

La cultura Hallstatt
El descubrimiento en 1846 de un cementerio prehistórico en Hallstatt, Austria, reveló artefactos distintivos desde el Neolítico hasta la temprana Edad de Hierro, desde el 600 al 450 AC. Se consideran la primera prueba de la civilización celta y sirvieron de modelo para hallazgos similares que se produjeron en otras partes de Europa en zonas habitadas por los celtas. En Luxemburgo también, las pruebas de este primer período proceden principalmente de tumbas bastante modestas como las encontradas en Niederanven. Sin embargo, las tumbas encontradas en el sudeste de Luxemburgo en Grosbous, Flaxweiler y Altrier, que datan de entre 450 y 250 a.C., contenían hallazgos mucho más ricos.

A juzgar por los objetos descubiertos en Altrier, la tumba de alrededor del 450 a. C. debe haber sido la de un cacique de alto rango. Contenía un estamno etrusco de bronce, una espada de hierro, una fíbula adornada de bronce y coral (broche) y un brazalete de oro. La tumba de Grosbous, que forma parte de un pequeño cementerio, es particularmente interesante ya que el cadáver había sido colocado en un carro de dos ruedas proporcionando indicaciones de cómo los celtas construyeron tales vehículos.

Principales sitios celtas
La civilización celta estaba en su apogeo alrededor del 300 a. C.,  antes de la conquista romana en el 54 a. C. La mayoría de las pruebas de ese período se han descubierto en tumbas, muchas de ellas estrechamente relacionadas con Titelberg, un sitio de 50 ha que revela mucho sobre las viviendas y la artesanía de la época.

Titelberg
Titelberg es el sitio de un gran asentamiento celta u oppidum en el extremo suroeste de Luxemburgo cerca de Rodange y Differdange. Aunque había estado habitada desde aproximadamente el 300 a. C., al siglo I a. C., la comunidad había alcanzado un alto nivel de urbanización y era casi seguro que era la capital del pueblo de los Tréveros. Fue, con mucho, el más grande de los asentamientos de los Tréveros en ese momento, sin duda como resultado de su proximidad a dos de las vías de comunicación celtas más importantes, una desde el sur que conectaba el Ródano con el valle del Mosela y el norte, la otra conduce a Reims y al oeste. Otro atractivo era el mineral de hierro que se podía extraer en las inmediaciones y, de hecho, se fundía cada vez más para producir cuchillos, lanzas, espadas y utensilios y equipo de cocina.

Con una superficie de unas 50 ha, la meseta de Titelberg de forma ovalada que se eleva 100 m sobre el río Chiers tiene aproximadamente 1 km de largo (NO a SE) y 500 m de ancho. La prueba de los cimientos de numerosas viviendas, un espacio público con fines religiosos o políticos, y las murallas de 9 m de altura que aún hoy se encuentran en la entrada SO, demuestran claramente la importancia del oppidum que, hasta la conquista romana, parece haber sido la sede de los caciques tréveros.

Uno de los hallazgos más importantes en Titelberg ha sido una gran cantidad de monedas celtas que provienen no solo de los propios tréveros, sino también de varias otras tribus celtas, lo que indica que se había convertido en un centro de comercio que mostraba signos de urbanización. Se han excavado instalaciones para acuñar monedas cerca de la zona residencial y parecen haber sido utilizadas durante un período prolongado, tanto durante el período puramente celta como bajo los romanos, cuando los celtas comenzaron a adoptar la cultura romana.

También se han encontrado en el sitio un gran número de fíbulas celtas y galo-romanas. En una multitud de formas y tamaños diferentes, estos broches de bronce, a veces con bisagras, se usaban como broches ornamentales o para sujetar prendas.

Inicialmente, los romanos convirtieron las viviendas celtas en casas con cimientos de piedra. Pero hacia finales del siglo I a.C., los romanos establecieron su centro de interés en Tréveris, que también se convirtió en la nueva capital de los tréveros. De hecho, los romanos desmantelaron las murallas y redujeron el oppidum a un vicus que, sin embargo, continuó habitado durante otros 400 años.

Clemency
Una cámara funeraria celta que mide 4,30 m por 4,20 m, la tumba gala más grande jamás encontrada, fue descubierta en 1987 en Clemency . Por las ofrendas en la tumba, era obviamente el lugar de entierro de un noble celta. Las ofrendas ncluían al menos diez ánforas de vino, una palangana de bronce itálica, una lámpara de aceite de Campania, una parrilla de hierro y unas 30 vasijas galas. También había una chimenea de una fundición de hierro en la cámara atestiguando la asociación del difunto con la producción de hierro.

Nospelt
Las tumbas excavadas en Kreckelbierg, al noroeste del pueblo de Nospelt, contienen una impresionante variedad de artículos que incluyen jarras de vino, artículos de cerámica, espuelas, cuchillos, lanzas y una lámpara que testimonia la nobleza de los enterrados. Se cree que las tumbas podrían pertenecer a los jefes del asentamiento de Titelberg. Algunos de los artefactos, incluido un ánfora alta, procedían de lugares tan lejanos como el Mediterráneo, lo que muestra el alcance del comercio con otras regiones en ese momento.

Kehlen
Una necrópolis del siglo I fue descubierta a principios de la década de 1970 en la meseta de Juckelsboesch entre Mamer y Kehlen. Un hermoso cuenco de vidrio azul oscuro estaba entre las ofrendas que se encontraron allí.

Goeblange
En 1993, el Museo Nacional de Historia y Arte excavó tumbas celtas que datan del 50 a. C. al 30 a. C., que se habían descubierto en 1966 alrededor de 1 km al NE de las ruinas romanas en una zona conocida como Scheierheck. Las tumbas fueron sin duda el lugar de descanso de los aristócratas, cuatro hombres y una mujer, a juzgar por los artefactos que se encontraron allí. Estos incluían: 1 jarra de vino con forma de ánfora, 4 botellas, 7 platos, 5 ollas, 7 tazones, 5 tazas, 1 plato plano, 1 copa, 1 cuerno para beber, 1 cuchillo de hierro, 2 hojas de lanza, 2 espuelas, 3 broches de bronce, 1 par de tijeras y restos de cremación, incluidos los de un jabalí.

Feulen
Las 133 tumbas descubiertas en Feulen en 1996 datan del siglo II a. C. hasta la época galo-romana . Han revelado numerosas fíbulas, armasy herramientas de hierro, y una gran colección de cerámica, incluidas dos ánforas.

Crisis del siglo III a.C.
Durante el siglo del 250 al 150 a. C., el área entre el Rin y el Mosa experimentó una reestructuración drástica debido a que alguna crisis ocurrida en la zona cercana a Hunsrück. Después de esta crisis, la población regresó a las tierras bajas y formaron las tribus galas conocidas por los textos clásicos.

Los tréveros
La tribu celta en lo que ahora es Luxemburgo durante y después del período de La Tène se conocía como los tréveros. Aunque de lengua celta, afirmaban ser descendientes de los alemanes para reforzar su reputación guerrera.  En general, los tréveros tuvieron más éxito que la mayoría de las tribus galas en la cooperación con los romanos que completaron su ocupación en el 53 a. C. bajo Julio César. Dos revueltas del siglo I d.C. no dañaron permanentemente sus cordiales relaciones con Roma, y los tréveros se adaptaron fácilmente a la civilización romana.

Referencias

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 Gaspar, Nicolas: Die keltischen und gallo-römischen Fibeln vom Titelberg: Les fibules gauloises et gallo-romaines du Titelberg, Luxemburgo, Musée national d'histoire et d'art, 2007, 325 p., .
 Metzler, Jeannot: Das treverische Oppidum auf dem Titelberg : zur Kontinuität zwischen der spätkeltischen und der frührömischen Zeit en Nord-Gallien, Luxemburgo, Musée national d'histoire et d'art, 1995, 789 p.,
 Metzler, J., / Metzler-Zens, N. / Méniel, P. et al. (Hrsg. ): Lamadelaine - une nécropole de l'oppidum du Titelberg. Dossier d'Archeologie du Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art IV. Luxemburgo 1999.
 Rowlett, RM / Thomas, HL / Rowlett, ES-J ..: "Stratified Iron Age House Floors in the Titelberg", Luxemburgo. En Journal of Field Archaeology. Vol. 9, núm. 3, 1982, 301–312.
 Thomas, HL, Rowlett, RM, Rowlett, ES-J .: "El Titelberg: una fortaleza de la época celta y romana". En Archaeology 28: 1, 1975, págs. 55–57.
 Thomas, HL, Rowlett, RM, Rowlett, ES-J .: "Excavaciones del Titelberg. Luxemburgo ". En Journal of Field Archaeology 3: 3, 1976, págs. 241-259.
 Shaw, Matthew L .: The North Smelter en Titelberg - Reciclaje de bronce post-imperial en la Galia belga Universidad de Missouri-Columbia. 2007.
 Weiller, Raymond: "Monedas encontradas en las excavaciones de Missouri en Titelberg". En Horizontes y estilos: estudios de arte y arqueología en honor al profesor Homer L. Thomas, ed. Paul Åström, págs. 269–289, Paul Åströms Förlag: Jonsered. 1993,

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Volume 690: debated on Thursday 11 March 2021
Royston Smith
(Southampton, Itchen) (Con)
What steps his Department is taking to allow cruises to safely recommence during the covid-19 pandemic. (913244)
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
(Robert Courts)
Domestic cruises will restart alongside domestic tourism and indoor hospitality. International cruises will be considered within the global travel taskforce.
The cruise sector is worth more than £10 billion to the UK economy and supports more than 88,000 jobs. Southampton is the cruise capital of northern Europe, with 500 cruise ship visits per year, each one generating £2.5 million for the local economy. Cruises are covid-safe and they are ready to go, but they need three months' notice to become operational. Will my hon. Friend work with his colleagues in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to ensure that the Prime Minister's road map includes cruises, so that operators have the confidence to start booking passengers?
Robert Courts
I completely agree with my hon. Friend about the impressive steps taken by the cruise industry in its covid-19 framework, which was published in October 2020. He is right to celebrate the immense financial and employment contribution of the cruise industry to the UK, including to the Southampton, Itchen constituency, for which he speaks so powerfully. I am pleased that domestic cruises in England will be able to restart under step 3 of the road map, which will be no earlier than 17 May. The restart of international cruises will be considered through the global travel taskforce report on 12 April. My hon. Friend is right that travel advice remains a matter for the FCDO, but he can be absolutely sure that my officials and I will continue to engage with that Department.

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1866-1906: The Persistent Pistol
In 1938, well-known diplomat and author Sir Harold George Nicolson [1886-1968] published a strange story told to him by a friend. This story was included in an essay about the topic of coincidences; and Nicolson gave just the name 'Leopold' for the friend who told him the story.
Otto von Bismarck grapples with his assailant [Picture source here]
As Nicholson tells the story, the statesman Prince Otto von Bismarck of Prussia [1815-1898], was attacked by a lone gunman named Ferdinand Cohen-Blind on May 7, 1866, and famously fought the assassin to a standstill even as the gunman was still trying to shoot him. In all, four shots had been fired... two missed, one hit Bismarck's shoulder, and one had penetrated his lung; despite this, the "Iron Chancellor" was up walking and working again just six days later. According to Nicolson's friend Leopold, the revolver used in the assassination attempt had been given to Bismarck afterwards as an odd sort of souvenir of the adventure.
Twenty years later, in 1886, Leopold's father was staying with Bismarck [Nicolson says they were related by marriage] as were a number of other guests. They had just had luncheon, and Bismarck and the men had retired to the smoking-room to relax while the ladies were being given a tour of the rooms and historic objects in the house by the Princess Bismarck. As this tour reached Bismarck's study, the men could hear the Princess as she announced: "and this is the pistol which Blind used in 1866." A moment later, the gun went off. Luckily no one was hurt; but Bismarck's fury was not to be ignored, as he expressed his outrage that anyone would touch the revolver... and no must be allowed to touch it ever again! And yet, the weapon was not disposed of; it remained on display in Bismarck's study, protected from idle hands by the threat of his possible anger -- and quite effectively too!
It was in 1906 that Nicolson's friend Leopold himself was staying at Bismarck's home with some cousins. The day was rainy, and some young people had come over for luncheon, after which they also toured the house. Leopold showed them various things throughout the house, and then came to Bismarck's study where he showed them the revolver. Leopold told the visitors the story of how the revolver had been accidentally triggered twenty years after the 1866 assassination attempt while his father was visiting, showing them how it had been handled... when the gun once again fired, lodging the sixth bullet from Blind's gun in Leopold's bicep.
A Coincidence?
It's a good story; however, there are two problems to note about the account. First, the earliest publication of the story that I can find in any form is Nicolson's 1938 essay in his book Small Talk, which is 32 years after the gun theoretically fired the third time: so there's a lack of timeliness in the reporting. Second... the initial story is historically inaccurate.
On May 7, 1866, Blind shot at Bismarck five times, not four. The first two shots missed Bismarck, but alerted him to the threat; the third was fired and missed as Bismarck ran at Blind and grabbed him by the neck and right hand; and the last two were fired point-blank after Blind swapped the gun to his free left hand, one bullet grazing Bismarck's shoulder, and the other ricocheting off of one of Bismarck's ribs! Bismarck later liked to say it ricocheted because of his natural toughness and strength... but more likely the bullet was slowed by the various items Bismarck was wearing at the time, and so couldn't penetrate deeper into his body.
Sometime after the assassination and Blind's death (he committed suicide the same night as the assassination attempt), his confiscated possessions were auctioned off by the police. A friend of Bismarck's named Delbrück bought the gun at the auction, and then presented it to the Prince as a gift. As a matter of fact, Bismarck eventually owned two such guns, as there were two separate assassination attempts on him; he bought the second gun from the government for a pittence after the second attempt on his life. Bismarck apparently kept both guns on a side-table in his study... and also apparently never really examined them too closely.
One evening, eight years or so after Blind had attempted to shoot Bismarck, Blind's firearm fired again. Bismarack had members of the parliament visiting that evening, and a deputy named Herr von Unrun-Bomst had picked up Blind's gun to look at it... and the last bullet in the gun fired somehow, grazing the stomach of Jordan-Deidesheim (who was described as being exceptionally large and, therefore, a likely target). I must say, I'm astounded by the lack of gun safety in the Bismarck household!
So by 1874, all six of Blind's bullets had already been fired and were accounted for. So, clearly, Nicolson's story of a twenty year repeat cycle of gunfire is just an invention based on the actual fact that one bullet fired off years later... though it's likely impossible at this point to guess if the story was created by Nicolson himself or an actual friend of his named Leopold.
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"Do the right thing even when no one is watching." That was always one of my father's axioms. It is a philosophy of being responsible and accountable to your own personal standard and having a standard that is independent of the setting. "The right thing" is something you know in your heart.
In telemedicine, we have a responsibility to get certain things exactly right every time. Security is critical! We are entrusted with safeguarding your personal information and your electronic health data. It is a responsibility that is not only vital to our company but a sacred responsibility to our customers. We have our servers hosted on the most secure cloud servers in the world at Armor (http://www.armor.com). This is a company that goes the extra mile to provide top-notch security for your data. They are responsible for the infrastructure of our servers, while we are responsible for the data put into those servers. Our team at iHeartDoc is up to date on the latest threats and phishing/social engineering schemes that are a daily threat to data security. Your electronic protected health information (ePHI) is safe in our HIPAA compliant, HITRUST certified servers. Our security team undergoes regular audits and remediation analysis to ensure the most secure environment possible for your data. Your data security is our responsibility.
As a physician, I often tell patients that the most important aspect of a doctor-patient relationship is trust. If you can't trust your doctor, you need to find another doctor. The same goes with any company providing telemedicine or keeping your health data. If you can't trust that company to "do the right thing even when no one is watching", you need to find another company you can trust.
My daughter is a senior in high school. She is busy completing her college applications and the most common question is "Why (insert school name here)? It is a classic question that puts the prospective student on the spot. Do you know enough about your prospective school to say what specifically appeals to you? Do you know enough about yourself, to know what is important about a prospective school? I think that question is a basic question that must be answered for any important decision. Why?? It certainly applies to a paradigm change like telemedicine.
Why would you use telemedicine as a patient? That question is pretty easy for most patients to answer. Do you like the experience at your doctor's office? Is the parking easy? Is the wait reasonable? Do you get a valuable exchange for the time, energy, money and general hassle that going to a doctor entails? Was it worth it? Would you prefer to meet with your doctor from the comfort of your home or your office? If you have chronic medical conditions, how much time have you spent waiting on a short provider visit, how much money have you spent, how much time off work or away from your friends and family have you lost waiting for a few minutes from your healthcare provider? Telemedicine provides a solution for many patients. You can send your data about your health from your app, smartwatch or mobile device. You can connect to your provider from the comfort of your home or office. You can forget about the hassle of parking and finding your way around a hospital or medical office. You can skip the hours spent waiting. You can connect on your terms as a patient. It can't replace an in-person visit but it can certainly supplement that visit for many patients. Telemedicine makes a lot of sense for patients.
For a provider, the question of "Why Telemedicine?" is harder. Doctors and nurses are creatures of habit. They don't easily change habits that have served them well for years. Changing a paradigm of care is certainly a big thing to ask of a healthcare provider. Most are as busy as they can stand. They don't have enough hours in the day to do the work they are asked to do now. Why would they want to learn to work in a different way? The answer is found in almost every survey of healthcare providers today: Doctors and nurses are not happy with the way healthcare is delivered today. Their job satisfaction is at an all-time low. They are asked to see more patients, spend less time with each patient, and get paid less for each visit each year. The paperwork and EMR time is increased and the time "being a doctor" is less and less. The answer for most is to work harder. That just leads to longer hours and less job satisfaction. I would propose that the real answer is to work smarter and more effectively. One of the most valuable (and least valued in my opinion) aspects of today's healthcare system is the concept of physician time. The goal should be to maximize the most expert care by a physician for the treatment of the sickest patients and to allow routine preventive care that moved outside the hospital years ago, to move outside the doctor's office today. Telemedicine makes sense for chronic and preventative care. It can be performed by nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants as well as physicians. It can time shift appointments to a time that works for both the patient and the provider. The sickest patients still need to come in for an in-person appointment but the chronic, preventative care that is reviewing data from lab work, and tests, counseling about lifestyle modification, and asking questions searching for the early symptoms of disease, can all be done over a high definition mobile connection. Telemedicine frees up the provider's schedule to see those patients that require an examination while allowing quality care to be performed remotely by several members of the care team. Much of that remote care is currently provided over the phone, is unreimbursed, and still carries a malpractice risk. Telemedicine allows a higher level of care for those visits and a much more personal connection and a higher level of satisfaction for both patient and provider.
Why Telemedicine? It is moving healthcare into the 21st century using advanced mobile technology to supplement the patient-provider connection, not replace it. We will look back one day and wonder how we worked in healthcare the way we currently work.
I researched FaceTime and Skype and discovered that neither were secure enough for a medical use. They could fairly easily be hacked. I looked around at the video conferencing apps and products that had been around for a decade or more to connect businesses remotely to their home office. I found that they too were not secure enough for medical use and that most companies that had tried to create a telemedicine product out of their video conferencing app had found that a medical appointment was a little different than a discussion of the latest product release. Several large communication companies had tried and failed at finding the right way to do telemedicine. I began to think that this was an idea whose time had come and I was in a unique position to do something different.
I also had spent years looking at lists of heart rates and blood pressures from patients. They came into my office with legal pads filled with their home readings over days, weeks and sometimes months. Many patients with hypertension have fairly good BP readings at home but very high readings in our offices. The dreaded "white coat hypertension" was reliant on accurate patient-derived data from home, but dismissed data derived by a trained medical professional in the office. I had noticed the trend of patient health tracking via Jawbone's Up band, Fitbit, and the at the time soon to come Apple Watch. I saw that trend as transformative. The patient would collect their own health data and be able to share it with whomever they wanted. I wanted to give the patient the ability to be the collector (and owner) of their own health data but to put that data in a format that would make sense for a doctor reviewing it in a telemedicine conference. Adding that data information to a remote telemedicine visit would allow a doctor to actually treat a patient just like they did in the office. That formative idea was Housecall.


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Muslims raise $1 million for Brampton Hospital
(June 18, 2014) – The Muslim community has raised $1 million for the Brampton Civic Hospital.
"By the Grace, Mercy, Blessings and Guidance of God Almighty we have finally reached the end of the $1 million fund-raising campaign for the Brampton Civic Hospital with the last and quickest fundraiser ($130K) on May 26," Dr. Hamid Slimi of the Muslim Friends of Osler told IQRA. "I had the honour to surprise and announce to the hospital staff and volunteers that we did it."
The Muslim Friends of Osler is an initiative that started from William Osler Health System Foundation's South Asian Roundtable and members were appointed to the group to obtain support for the hospital from the Muslim community in the area.
The Muslim Friends of Osler made a $1 million pledge in 2007 to the William Osler Health Centre Foundation towards the construction of the new Brampton Civic Hospital.
"Praise be to God, and thanks to the Muslim congregations of Brampton and North Mississauga and thanks to our donors and volunteers who subscribed to this vision," said Dr. Slimi. "Insha Allah, on June 19 we will have the $1 million cheque presentation celebration."
Brampton Civic Hospital is part of the William Osler Health System which is one of Canada's largest community hospital corporations serving the growing and diverse communities of Brampton, Etobicoke and surrounding areas in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
Osler's hospitals include Etobicoke General, Brampton Civic and the soon-to-be redeveloped Peel Memorial which together provide a comprehensive range of acute care, ambulatory and ancillary health services. Osler's emergency departments are among the busiest in the province and its labour and delivery program is one of the largest in the GTA.


In the age of smartphones, no longer do we need to struggle to describe where something is located. Most of us have maps in our pockets that would have made Lewis and Clark leap with joy, not to mention making their trip a lot shorter. With Apple Maps, you can just directly text someone the location of a particular business, or in the event that the location doesn't correspond to a business, you can drop a pin anywhere on the map.
When viewing a business or landmark in Maps, tap the "Share" button in the upper right corner.
In the share menu, select the Message option to text someone the location.
Type the name of person you want to text. If they're already in your contacts, their name should automatically fill in. Click Send and you're done.
In the event there's no business at that location, you can also drop a pin anywhere on the map. To do this, simply press and hold on the spot you want to mark. A purple pin should drop on the location.
Click the bubble above the pin and find the same Share button as before, then follow the same process to share it.


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Vote for Me, Not My Facebook Account
Abby	 January 2, 2009 September 30, 2014
People who work in politics have always had to worry about what they did before they worked in politics. But the sheer size and popularity of Facebook— 140 million active users, at least 139.99 million of whom have been photographed drunk at a college party—present budding politicians (and budding political operatives) with a dilemma: How do they keep those pics from showing up on the front page?
Clearly, the safest way to protect yourself is not to have a Facebook account in the first place—or, alternatively, not to do stupid things. But neither of these pieces of advice is very practical. The whole point of being young, after all, is to do stupid things, and the whole point of Facebook is to record these acts for posterity. So here, as a public service, are some tips for those who feel they must be on Facebook and occasionally also feel the need to, say, feel up a cardboard cutout.
Read the whole story on Slate.com.
Published January 2, 2009 September 30, 2014
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What is perceived to be the single greatest threat to biodiversity?
What is the #1 greatest threat to biodiversity?
What are the main threats to biodiversity?
Which one is the greatest threat to loss of species?
What are the greatest threats to biodiversity and conservation?
What is the #1 cause of biodiversity loss?
What is the greatest threat to Philippine biodiversity Why?
What is biodiversity and threats of biodiversity?
What is the single greatest threat to biodiversity? A. Overharvesting of commercially important species. … Disruption of trophic relationships as more and more prey species become extinct.
The greatest of all threats to Earth's biodiversity, however, is deforestation. While deforestation threatens ecosystems across the globe, it's particularly destructive to tropical rainforests.
Changes to how we use the land and waters. Both our lands and our seas contain many different ecosystems, and these are affected by business actions. …
Overexploitation and unsustainable use. …
Climate change. …
Increased pollution. …
Invasive species.
Habitat loss poses the greatest threat to species. The world's forests, swamps, plains, lakes, and other habitats continue to disappear as they are harvested for human consumption and cleared to make way for agriculture, housing, roads, pipelines and the other hallmarks of industrial development.
Five main threats to biodiversity are commonly recognized in the programmes of work of the Convention: invasive alien species, climate change, nutrient loading and pollution, habitat change, and overexploitation.
IT IS AMAZING: How does meat consumption affect climate change?
Ecologists emphasize that habitat loss (typically from the conversion of forests, wetlands, grasslands, and other natural areas to urban and agricultural uses) and invasive species are the largest causes of biodiversity loss, but they acknowledge that climate change could rival them as the 21st century progresses.
The continuing habitat degradation and forestland conversion are major threats to Philippine biodiversity. These are attributed primarily to large-scale and indiscriminate logging and mining, burgeoning human population, overharvesting of resources, and infrastructure development.
Threats to Biodiversity. The greatest threat leading to the loss of biodiversity is the human race. As our population grows together with our need for food, water, industry, transportation, and home comforts, it takes over natural ecosystems and replaces them with unnatural ones.


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•	Maintain current information on community resources and applicable laws and provide assistance to families and individuals in accessing community resources.
•	Attend staff meetings and trainings as required.
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•	Provide intensive support in a manner that promotes self-reliance and stability in areas including but not limited to: program outreach and recruitment, job coaching, soft skills coaching, financial literacy and life skills development, job retention and advancement services, goal planning, linkage to other services and resources, monitoring service delivery, advocacy for and with clients, evaluation, and effective disengagement.
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•	Minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent with a minimum of one year of case management experience, including maintaining accurate and complete case files and coordination of services with other agencies. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
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•	Moderate computer and phone use.
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•	Local driving in various traffic and weather conditions to provider's facilities or homes using personal vehicle.
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Still rockin' - Lynyrd Skynyrd takes one last ride
The Johnny Van Sant-led Lynyrd Skynyrd will perform at Darien Lake on July 13. (Photo courtesy of Lynyrd Skynyrd)
By Michael Farrell|Published Mon, Jul 9, 2018 |Updated Mon, Jul 9, 2018
After decades of keeping the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd alive with a rotating carousel of players, original member Gary Rossington and the band are returning on its "Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour" at 6 p.m. July 13 at the Darien Lake Amphitheatre. Here's a quick look at where the band has been and what to expect at the show.
You know Lynyrd Skynyrd from: Cultivating a sound and image associated with Southern rock 'n' roll; sing-along hits like "Freebird" and "Sweet Home Alabama;" and its perpetual existence atop classic rock radio countdowns.
Noted lineup: The 1977 "Street Survivors" edition, featuring Ronnie Van Zant (lead vocals), Steve Gaines (guitar), Allen Collins (guitar), Gary Rossington (guitar), Billy Powell (keyboards), Leon Wilkeson (bass), and Artimus Pyle (drums).
Current tour's lineup: After a plane crash in 1977 took the lives of Van Sant and Gaines — and time has taken Collins, Powell and Wilkeson — different versions of it have continued in name only. The current "Farewell Tour" features original member Rossington, surrounded by Johnny Van Zant (vocals), Rickey Medlocke (guitar), Mark "Sparky" Matejka (guitar), Michael Cartellone (drums), Johnny Colt (bass), Peter Keys (keyboards), Dale Krantz Rossington and Carol Chase (backing vocals).
A rebel yell before farewell: Rossington and Johnny Van Sant — Ronnie's younger brother — are ready to retire its long-running tribute to the substance and spirit of Jacksonville, Fla.'s cherished rock outfit. Its catalog has influenced generations of Southern rock musicians, inspired a variety of memorable film scenes, and served as impetus for tailgate drinking and drunken song demands from coast to coast. It's been a wild run, but its remnants should live on.
What to expect: Popular American imagery (complemented by flames) on T-shirts and flags. Wild hoots and waving Zippo lighters. Hundreds of swaying dudes unironically shouting for "Freebird"— and that's just on the Darien Lake lawn. As for the band, the current collection of Rossington-directed hired guns will deliver the hits to drive the fans wild, as well as honor the act that once was. That version of Skynyrd left a prolific succession of Mason-Dixon-defining rockers that have reverberated for decades. Add those to the country-touched barrage sure to come from openers Jamey Johnson, Charlie Daniels and Marshall Tucker, and the night has the makings of a live revue so Southern-centric, it could make the late Jefferson Davis dance.
The show: Lynyrd Skynyrd with the Marshall Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels Band and Jamey Johnson, 6 p.m. July 13 at the Darien Lake Amphitheatre. Tickets are $30-$200 (ticketmaster.com).
Michael Farrell – Buffalo News contributor Michael Farrell is a freelance writer, novelist, and graduate of St. Bonaventure University.


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Stanford 'neglecting its front-line workers' in COVID-19 vaccine rollout, doctors say
Maura Dolan
A worker in Scotland prepares a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (Associated Press)
Stanford Medical Center doctors who are completing their residencies and fellowships staged a protest Friday, saying they were passed over during the first wave of COVID-19 vaccinations even though they work directly with patients who have the highly contagious disease.
A few dozen of the residents and fellows carried signs at the demonstration outside a door where the Palo Alto hospital was staging a photo opportunity for journalists covering the initial vaccinations. One protest sign read: "I saw 16 Covid patients in the last 24 hours ... More than Double the amount of residents getting the vaccine."
Some doctors took to Twitter to protest the vaccine distribution plan.
"Disparities in distribution of the vaccine can be seen at a micro-level at Stanford today," tweeted Dr. Christine Santiago, an internal medicine resident. "I worry that the situation we see at Stanford is a harbinger of population-level inequities of vaccine distribution for our underserved communities."
Another Stanford resident, who asked to remain unidentified because of fear of retaliation, said only seven of about 1,300 residents and fellows were slated to receive the vaccine during an initial distribution of 5,000 doses. Some critical care and infectious-disease doctors also were passed over, the resident said.
On the other hand, some attending physicians who have been working from home and have not seen a COVID-19 patient in person since the pandemic began were slated to receive the inoculations, the resident said.
"Stanford hospital is neglecting its front-line workers in their vaccination plans," the resident said. "The 5,000 vaccines went to [attending physicians] and many non-front-line workers, including those who have been working from their couches and haven't touched an N95 [mask] for the past nine months."
Dr. Niraj Sehgal, Stanford's chief medical officer, apologized to the doctors who were not included.
"Despite our best intentions to thoughtfully map out a principled vaccine plan to include our residents, fellows, and faculty, it's clear there were several unintended missteps," Sehgal said in an email this week. "Please know the perceived lack of priority for residents and fellows was not the intent at all."
Sehgal said the hospital was anticipating receiving more vaccine doses next week. "We're increasingly confident in getting everyone vaccinated, including all of you," Sehgal said.
The physician resident who spoke to The Times said the problem appears to be an algorithm that missed front-line responders when the vaccination plan was formed.
Residents and fellows, who are working to complete their medical education, tend to be in their 20s or 30s, an age group that is considered relatively safe from COVID-19's most serious effects. But the resident said in an interview that patients in their 30s at Stanford have died of the disease, and some residents and fellows live with their parents, who are at higher risk.
"My resident colleagues have been getting COVID," the resident said. "We've been given no direction or promise as to when we will be vaccinated. It feels like a slap in the face after 10 months of long, relentless work."
Some other physicians, including full-fledged doctors who work in intensive care, also did not make the vaccine list, the resident said.
A representative for the hospital said Stanford Health Care took "complete responsibility for the errors in the execution of our vaccine distribution plan."
"Our intent was to develop an ethical and equitable process for distribution of the vaccine," said spokeswoman Lisa Kim. "We apologize to our entire community, including our residents, fellows and other front-line care providers who have performed heroically during our pandemic response."
She said Stanford would immediately revise the distribution plan.
Donald Trump's impeachment trial delayed by Senate until February
Donald Trump's impeachment trial will be delayed for two weeks after Senate leaders on Friday agreed a deal that will give President Biden time to begin his legislative agenda. House Democrats had on Friday vowed to send an article of impeachment charging Mr Trump with "incitement of insurrection" to the Senate next week, setting on course the second Senate trial for Mr Trump, the only US president to be impeached twice, and the first to face trial after leaving office. But Senate leaders agreed on Friday evening to delay the trial to give Mr Biden time to install his new cabinet and prepare key legislation. Democrats in the House, led by Nancy Pelosi, still intend to deliver the charge on Monday but Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, said the proceedings would pause until the week of February 8. The extra time will also allow the prosecution and defence teams time to exchange written legal arguments. Mr Schumer said: "During that period, the Senate will continue to do other business for the American people, such as cabinet nominations and the Covid relief bill, which would provide relief for millions of Americans who are suffering during this pandemic." Earlier, Democrats had effectively rejected a request from Republicans to delay the start of proceedings to give Mr Trump time to prepare his defence. Mr Schumer had declined to give a timetable for the proceedings but the chamber's rules dictate that the trial must begin very soon after the article of impeachment arrives. "There will be a trial," Mr Schumer said. "It will be a full trial, it will be a fair trial".
Norman Ornstein, a political scientist and emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has been critical of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) over the years, but he recently told The New Yorker's Jane Meyer that he was pleasantly surprised by how the senator has responded to former President Donald Trump in the wake of the deadly riot at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6. McConnell's comments have been "more forthright than I expected," Ornstein said. "Good for him!"Still, he doesn't consider the split with Trump a "genuine moral reckoning," Meyer writes. "There is no way that McConnell has had an epiphany and will now change his fundamental approach," Ornstein said. "He will always act ruthlessly when it serves his own interest."Other sources agreed, telling Meyer that McConnell's partnership with Trump was always self-serving. "Three years ago, I said he'd wait until Trump was an existential threat to the" GOP and "then cut him loose," Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), who has known McConnell for decades, said. "He's been furious with Trump for a long time. Many who know him have talked about how much he hates Trump." It was the promise of Republican judicial appointments that kept McConnell on board, Yarmuth said.McConnell also kept quiet for weeks while Trump pushed unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election because the Georgia Senate runoffs were still at stake, a former Trump administration official told Meyer.Chistopher Browning, a historian, suggested that McConnell was mostly freed up by Trump's defeat, which "opened an escape hatch" for him. "If Trump had won the election, Mitch would not be jumping ship," he said. Read more at The New Yorker.More stories from theweek.com 7 brutally funny cartoons about Trump's White House exit McConnell is already moving to strangle the Biden presidency Biden reeled in a record-breaking $145 million in 'dark money'


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Life Lessons From Mrs. Doi
By Susan B. Weiner
WHEN I first met Mrs. Doi, I had no idea that this short, slender nisei (second generation Japanese-American) woman would have such an impact on my life.
A counselor at my high school in Rochester, N.Y., recruited Mrs. Doi as my tutor in 1971 when I decided to study the Japanese language as an independent study during my senior year. President Nixon's "Ping-Pong diplomacy" with China had interested me, but the tonality of the Chinese language scared me off.
On a language-instruction record I borrowed from the public library, Japanese sounded easy to pronounce. I imagined Japan as a land of kimonos and skyscrapers, an intriguing mix of tradition and modernity. Moreover, study of Japan offered me a chance to carve out a niche of my own, to distinguish myself from my classmates.
Mrs. Doi and I studied Japanese children's textbooks, and she told me stories that made the Japanese language come alive, like how her mother in Stockton, Calif., couldn't decide the correct way to count eggs in Japanese. Does an egg fall into the category of "pieces" counted in ko or does it simply use the generic tsu? The Japanese attach different suffixes to numbers depending on the shape or nature of the objects they count. I also learned about Japanese dialects from hearing that, as a child, Mrs. Do i laughed at her mother for talking funny on the telephone to friends from their hometown.
I think Mrs. Doi wished that her daughter Mimi would show the same interest in Japan. Early on, she suggested Mimi and I meet for one class. Mimi smuggled a textbook out of her house, and we practiced a Japanese dialogue to dazzle her mother.
"Watakushi wa Mimi desu," Mimi delivered her self-introduction perfectly. But the novelty of the language - so unlike the French or Spanish I had already studied - was too much for me. I panicked and failed to feed Mimi the lines she waited for.
If Mrs. Doi noticed Mimi's and my awkwardness, she never said anything. As a child of very critical parents, I took great pleasure in her encouragement. She patiently corrected my mistakes, never calling me "stupid" as my parents would have. I did my homework and showed up on time for every lesson.
During my senior year, Mrs. Doi and I met at the high school, but during the summer and when I visited during college vacations, I went to Mrs. Doi's home. Her small neat house held a different world for me. With its pale walls and matched furniture, it looked much more peaceful than my house, where bright Oriental rugs warred with multicolored furniture upholstered in different fabrics and with an eclectic display of antiques from around the world.
I felt like quite the adult when Mrs. Doi helped me off with my coat and hung it in her front-hall closet. I'd never been treated as an honored guest before. At home, I hung up my own coat - or Mom yelled at me.
After our lessons, sometimes we talked about more-personal matters over a cup of green tea, so different in taste from the orange juice or soda I usually drank. I was surprised the first time Mrs. Doi drank from her cup before pouring for me. But she explained that in Japan the hostess tests the tea before serving others.
Mrs. Doi spoke to me in a way no other adult ever had, like one grown-up to another. Sitting upright in her chair, with her hair neatly braided and coiled on top of her head, she told me in her soft voice about the wartime detention camps for Japanese-Americans. I was shocked. My gentle Mrs. Doi, an enemy? She was allowed to leave the camp for college in the Eastern United States, where there were no "dangerous" concentrations of Japanese. I was curious about that experience but felt it impolite to probe .
Mrs. Doi confided that she and her nisei husband had met and fallen in love American-style before they entered the camps, but they went through the formalities of an omiai (a traditional arranged marriage) to please their parents.
Mrs. Doi had accompanied her husband when he worked in occupied Japan, the source of the dishes in the china cabinet behind the table where she and I studied. They had spotted the dishes in the PX and looked for a nisei soldier to loan them money. They didn't ask the hakujin (Caucasian) soldiers, only the nisei. As her hakujin listener, I felt strange. Did she look upon me as an alien, too? I felt so close to her that I preferred to think of myself as an honorary Japanese-American.
When Mrs. Doi told me her stories, I almost felt like her daughter. And before I went off to college she taught me how to cook rice the Japanese way, washing off the talc and letting the rice sit for an hour to absorb the water. Years later, my husband thought it was strange the first time he saw my rice pot sitting on the burner without a flame. But he likes the taste of my rice.
In my junior year of college, I told Mrs. Doi I was going to Japan. She warned me, "Be careful if a man asks you to asobu." Asobu usually means to play, as children play with toys, but way down in the dictionary entries comes "make merry, visit the red light district, have a fling." Her motherly concern touched me.
Even after the Dois moved from Rochester to Seattle, we stayed in touch by mail, exchanging letters and postcards. I felt sure that Mrs. Doi cared about me.
When I got engaged, it seemed natural that my fiance and I visit the Dois in Seattle on our trip to see my mom's family in Vancouver, British Columbia. It wasn't just that Seattle was a manageable drive from Vancouver. It felt as if the Dois were part of my family with the right to check out Allan before the wedding.
By the time we visited the Dois, I had finished my PhD in Japanese history and had held a business job for a couple of years. So I wasn't surprised when Mrs. Doi's husband suggested that we call them by their first names - Jim and Mary. But I just couldn't do it. I couldn't upset my Japanese instinct to honor my teacher instead of treating her like a pal.
During the 20 years since my first Japanese lesson, I've studied with many outstanding teachers. But they can't begin to replace Mrs. Doi's tender care.
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of selected methods in signal and system theory with applications to problems in communications, stochastic processes and optimal filter theory. The authors take a consistent functional analysis and operator theoretic approach to linear system theory, using Banach algebra and Hardy space techniques. The themes connecting all the chapters are questions concerning the consequences of the causality constraint, which is necessary in all realizable systems, and the question of robustness of linear systems with respect to errors in the data.
The first part of the book contains basic background on the necessary mathematical tools and provides a basic foundation of signal and system theory. Emphasis is given to the close relation between properties of linear systems such as causality, time-invariance, and robustness on the one hand and the algebraic structures and analytic properties of the mathematical objects, such as Banach algebras or Hardy spaces, on the other hand. The requirement of causality in system theory is inevitably accompanied by the appearance of certain mathematical operations, namely the Riesz projection and the Hilbert transform. These operations are studied in detail in part two. Part three relates the mathematical techniques that are developed in the first two parts to the behaviour of linear systems that are of interest from an engineering perspective, such as expansions of transfer functions in orthonormal bases, the approximation from measured data and the numerical calculation of the Hilbert transform, as well as spectral factorization.
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Our Cultural Center and Museum is open the first Saturday of each month from 10 am to 3 pm. The museum boasts a permanent display of artifacts uncovered during improvements made at University High School.


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By Lisa Guenther
I learned a new word this week. "Indianthusiasm," a term coined by author and professor Hartmut Lutz, describes people (often German) who have an exaggerated, ahistorical, romantic infatuation with North America's First Nations people.
This was just one gem among many in Canadian author Drew Hayden Taylor's short documentary, Searching for Winnetou. Winnetou is a fictional Apache warrior dreamed up by German Western novelist Karl May. May wrote all kinds of fantastic adventures for Winnetou and his German buddy, Old Shatterhand, in the American southwest. They hunted bison in the desert. Winnetou even killed grizzlies with nothing more than a knife. In the film, people call Winnetou the German Superman.
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Germans are crazy about Winnetou. Each summer 200,000 to 300,000 people attend Winnetou-themed plays in Northern Germany, held in an outdoor amphitheater. Taylor, a playwright, noted the production values are outstanding. Costumed actors ride horses and shoot guns. The set and costumes look great. They even have a trained bald eagle.
It doesn't end there. The books became films. And these days German hobbyists spend weekends, weeks, even months living like traditional First Nations people (or at least some facsimile of it). They camp out in tipis and do beadwork. They hold pow-wows.
Taylor sprinkles sly humour throughout the film. Upon finding tacky wooden teepees, he jokes, "I recognize this tribal teepee architecture — Eastern Ikea Nation."
What does this have to do with agriculture? While there are some big differences between German appropriation/appreciation of First Nations culture and the general public's perception of farming, there is a striking similarity. Some people outside of agriculture have an idealized, not entirely accurate, perception of farming's history. Same with the German hobbyist view of First Nations history and culture.
But in both cases, it's not that either group is completely ignorant of the cultures and communities they are romanticizing. They have bits of knowledge. Some have quite a lot of knowledge, in fact. Others, not so much.
What's the problem with putting farmers or First Nations on a pedestal anyway? Well, it's pretty easy to knock people off that pedestal if they don't meet expectations, or if expectations change.
Holding on to perceptions
In an interview about the film, Taylor mentioned that some Indian enthusiasts hold so tightly to those romantic perceptions that they're disappointed by the fact that most First Nations people drive vehicles instead of riding horses these days. It was that comment that piqued my interest, given the judgement heaped on farmers for employing modern agronomic methods.
Still, in some ways, the roots of Indianthusiasm are quite different from agenthusiasm. Winnetou was created around the time Germany became a nation, and this might be part of the reason he's such a beloved projection of German ideals. Adolf Hitler was a Winnetou fan as well, which ushered in the darkest bit of the Indianthusiasm movement. Hitler was so enamoured with the Lakota people that he declared them honourary Aryans.
Indianthusiasm survived Hitler and the war. It really picked up steam once East Germany was under Soviet control. Germans wanted an escape from government control.
The hobbyist movement also snowballed as cities grew. Germans began looking for an escape from the city, a way to be more connected with the natural world. I think that's a feeling many urban agenthusiasts would relate to.
Beyond all that, anyone talking to consumers about agriculture could take a page from Drew Hayden Taylor's playbook. Although he's funny, he doesn't descend into mocking people. He's never mean or scolding and always fair to the people he talks to for the film. That approach helped him build rapport with people, have meaningful conversations, and find out all kinds of fascinating things about the German hobbyist movement.
To watch the film online, go to the CBC Docs website 'Searching for Winnetou' or do an Internet search for "Drew Hayden Taylor documentary."
Lisa Guenther
Lisa Guenther is field editor for Grainews based at Livelong, Sask. You can follow her on Twitter @LtoG.
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