All I want to do is talk to a live operator. What do I do?
Why do I not reach the Inland Empire 511 System when I dial 511?
Why didn't IE511 tell me about the incident that slowed my trip?
How do I use the system if I am hearing-impaired?
How do I use the system if I am speech-impaired?
What does IE511 provide traffic information for?
Which public transit agencies are included in IE511?
Why was I transferred to the wrong public transit agency?
How do I prevent being transferred to an agency that I do not want?
What if I don't know which public transit agency I need?
How do I give my feedback on the IE511 service?
The system does not provide a live operator to help you with the phone system. You may say "Help" while using the system and receive recorded help information.
All transit agency call transfers during business hours are to a live operator. If you need transit information after hours, you can always go to the Bus/Rail Trip Planner at IE511.org.
We have made every attempt to ensure that 511 is usable by as many people as possible, however, the system might be having difficulty understanding your voice.
There could be background noise that prevents the system from recognizing your request.
SOLUTIONS: Please speak as clearly as possible and try to minimize any background noise. If this is still unsuccessful, 511 also offers a touch-tone system that you can use. Just press "0" at each menu, and the system will list the options with a corresponding number to press. Remember, you need to press "0" at every new menu to hear the touch-tone codes. Once you've learned the touch-tones, however, there is no need to press "0" to hear the list of choices; just enter your selection. The number to enter will correspond to the order that the menu options are presented. For example, if you are in the Transit menu and want to access the list of San Bernardino County transit operators, you will hear it listed as the second item. By pressing "2" immediately you will gain access.
The system may be experiencing an unusually high volume of calls when you called, so the best advice is to call back. We are monitoring call volumes, and if we need to increase system capacity, we will do so.
Your telephone company currently does not provide access to 511. We have tried to make sure we have included all cell and landline carriers in our operations. The landline carriers include AT&T and Verizon. Cell carriers include AT&T, MetroPCS, Nextel, T-Mobil and Verizon. If you still can't connect to 511 using one of these providers, contact them directly. In the meantime, you can dial 1‑877‑MYIE511 toll free.
You are calling from a centralized phone system such as a Private Business Exchange (PBX). PBXs are systems that allow for four-digit calling within your business. Therefore, you may need to take a few simple steps to program your PBX to allow for 511 calling. If you need assistance with any programming questions, please call your PBX vendor.
You are calling from a cable or internet phone service. The Federal Communications Commission does not require cable providers or internet-based phone services to implement the 511 shortcut. You can dial 1‑877‑MYIE511 toll-free.
511 receives the majority of its incident information from the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and Caltrans. This information is reported as it is updated by both the CHP and Caltrans. Sometimes, you will experience an incident before it is reported on the system.
Occasionally, there are more incidents on a single highway than we can report. 511 only plays the top five incidents in terms of severity.
Sometimes there is just too much traffic. This is reported as congestion and travel times are given.
Hearing-impaired callers can dial 711 and access all of the IE511 transportation information. 711 is the national three-digit number for access to Telecommunication Relay Services (TRS). Callers dial 711 and ask the operator to connect them to the 511 service. Once connected, the 711 operator acts as a go-between, relaying callers' requests for travel information to the Inland Empire 511 system and then providing system responses back to the callers. Click here for more accessibility information.
Speech-impaired callers can use the touch-tone back-up system to access all of the Inland Empire 511 transportation information. To use touch-tone selections, just press "0" at each menu. The system will list the menu options with a corresponding number. You simply press the number that matches your choice. Every time you reach a new menu or choice, you must press "0" to hear the touch-tone options, but once you've learned the touch-tones, there is no need to press "0" to hear the list of choices; just enter your selection. The number to enter will correspond to the order that the menu options are presented. When you use the touch-tone system, press keys slowly and firmly. Click here for more accessibility information.
The number one way to move through the system faster is to interrupt. After you have listened to the introductory message, you can "barge in." Once you know what questions will be asked, you can answer them as soon as the system starts asking them. You DO NOT need to wait for the system to finish the question before answering. For example, you can say the name of your starting point once you are in Freeway Traffic section. You do not need to wait for the system to ask for your starting point.
Another trick to better navigate the system is to use the menu shortcuts. Shortcuts are requests, made after the introductory message at the Main Menu is complete, that bypass the menu structure and take you directly to the feature you requested. See the phone menu page for the specific shortcuts.
The IE511 service provides traffic information for all freeways in Southern California. This information is organized into segments from intersecting freeway to intersecting freeway. For example, traffic along the 60 freeway is provided in segments from the I-10 to the I-215, the I-215 to the 91, the 91 to the I-15, and so on. You will be asked to identify the freeway you are requesting information for, your direction of travel, and the segment from intersecting freeway to intersecting freeway.
View the traffic map to see the freeways for which traffic information is available. The only areas that do not have traffic information are colored gray. These areas are not available because there is no detection equipment installed in the roadway that would allow congestion reporting. We still report incidents on those roadways.
It's possible that the voice recognition system may have misunderstood your selection. The best solution is to call 511 back. It's a free call, and it will only take seconds to make your selection again. If you select an agency and hear the system read back a different agency name, then before you are transferred to the transit agency, say "Stop" or "Go Back" to stop the transfer and make your choice again.
When you request a transit agency, 511 will confirm your request by repeating the agency name it thought you said. Listen to the name, and if it does not match your request, say, "Stop" or "Go Back". The system will then provide you with another opportunity to say the transit agency you want.
From the Transit menu (accessed by saying, "Transit" from the Main Menu) say, "I don't know." The system will respond with, "What city will you be traveling from?" Provide the city name, and 511 transfer you to the transit agency that serves that city. If you are not within the Inland Empire, we will be unable to transfer you.
Since transit agencies have different operator hours, it's best that you become familiar with the hours of your preferred agency so you know when to call. If you need transit information after hours, you can always go to the Bus/Rail Trip Planner at IE511.org.
The best way to give feedback is to use the contact form on this website. An alternate way to give feedback is to say "Comment" when using the phone service. The system will prompt you to leave a recorded message. Periodically, we will offer phone surveys on the system as a way to get feedback.


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The Feenstra Group of companies are niche Commercial Developers & Investors, and also specialises in Strategic Facilities Management and Student & Inner-city Accommodation. The professionals associated with the Feenstra Group have proven knowledge of, and demonstrable experience in all facets of the property market. The Chairman, Pieter Feenstra has been active in the property market in South Africa for the last 30 years. We leverage our network of internal experts, strategic partners, alliances and preferred suppliers to deliver measurable results to our clients. We have developed "centers of excellence" in several areas to help our clients reduce costs while improving service levels.
Pieter's career commenced as a consulting structural engineer. He was also the founder of TFMC which is nationwide and has regional offices in all provinces. Pieter formed the Feenstra Group which focuses on Commercial, Student accommodation, Inner city and Residential real Estate development. The Feenstra Group has won a number of International and south African awards.
Johan has been in the property industry for the past 18 years. His career started at Quanticost Quantity Surveyors in Fourways as a quantity surveyor, after which, he qualified as a professional quantity surveyor in 2003. He furthered his career as property development manager at RMB Properties in Sandton in 2004. Johan then joined Peermont Global Hotels, Casinos and Resorts as senior property development manager and was shortly thereafter promoted to group business development manager. Johan is currently pursuing his career at Feenstra Group in Pretoria, where he was recently appointed Director.
Adel graduated at the University of Pretoria in 2002. In 2011 was appointed as Financial Manager at Feenstra Group and has since been appointed Director at Feenstra Group.
Conrad completed his studies at TUT in 2005. Pieter Feenstra and Conrad Kgwadi created a joint venture called CBD Residency which focuses on student accommodation and inner city housing.


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Review: Pacific Rim
Screenplay: Travis Beacham, Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day
Synopsis is here:
For me Pacific Rim works because its director,Guillermo del Toro, knows how to economise storytelling. The film rattles along at great speed, but we never lose sight of anything. We feel more to be done to fill in the gaps, and yet throughout, the dynamics between characters are solid, the set pieces never feel extraneous (in fact the detail is often gorgeous) and the absurd story still manages to stay intact. Tropes and iffy dialogue are a plenty, yet the execution of it all side-swipes such issues like an elbow rocket.
For a film that is effectively Robots (Jaegers) smashing the scales off Monsters (Kaiju) it sweats out reference out of every orifice. Anime fans may mention Evangelion, Sci-fi fans can spy Godzilla. Gamers could smile at the Shadow of the Colossus feel, while guys like me may very well find themselves transported back when they first watched (and fell in love with) Independence Day (aged 12). The wealth of pop culture that seeps through scene after scene I found astonishing.
But its how all these references are stitched together which I found so appealing. The template is telling. Yet the beauty of the visuals, the spunk and energy of the performances and the boisterous thuds and clunks of mecha on flesh held my interest. Del Toro's strength here is in taking a platter of well known aspects and rearranging them to feel fun again. The action loses the hyper active editing; we can see what's happening. The length of the film is much shorter than some of the more hyped movies released besides it. It simply says what it needs to and doesn't push for time to give the pretence of "epic" storytelling. The film feels big on its own regard, because of the films eye meltingly gorgeous design.
But while I found the look of the film often breath-taking (it ranks with Avatar for me as some of the best CGI), the actors that helped me suck up some air and kept me fighting the good fight. Charlie Hunnam gives an earnest display as Relight Beckett. Idris Elba channels Richard Crenna in First Blood and chomps at scenery. Rinko Kikuchi bypasses some of the issues that have kept some of the other female characters from being anything interesting (thank god for the screenplay giving a damn). Meanwhile Charlie Day's performance is not only welcomed by the fact that I've been binging on It's always Sunny in Philadelphia, but by giving a performance that strangely reminds me of Rick Morris in Ghostbusters. That can only be a pleasant thing.
But Pacific Rim is full of such pleasant things and I don't need my blockbusters to reinvent wheels when released (say that three times). But I do want that sense of fun that can be found. Pacific Rim doesn't feature the comic book anxieties and origin stories that have almost become a mainstay during the summer period. It also doesn't rely on name brand nostalgia to make an appearance of being decent. There's none of the grubby "humour" that litters the likes of Transformers and thank goodness. Del Toro's ability to see his blockbuster ideas through the prism of a small kid is important here. Pacific Rim manages to capture some of that imaginative feeling before cynicism set in. All Transformers seemed willing to give you is Megan Fox giving you a blank stare and a humping Robot.
Posted by Afrofilmviewer at 05:04 Labels: Evangelion, First Blood, Ghostbusters, Godzillia, ID4, Independence Day, Jaegers, Kaiju, Monster, Monsters, movies, Pacific Rim, Reviews, Shadows of the Colossus, Transformers

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This house / villa of 95 m² (about 1021 ft²), built in 1900, on 2 levels, with a land size of 1155 m² (about 0,29 acres) comprises 4 rooms including 3 bedrooms, 1 shower room and 1 toilet. It is provided with a living room of 27 m² (about 290 ft²), with a garage and with a cellar. Heating : individual fuel oil. Others : fireplace.


If you are able to read this letter, I am relieved. I have been worrying about you- you the children of our children's children – because today's humans, your ancestors, are endangering your future by destroying the natural systems your lives will depend upon. When I watch how other species care for their young – from gorillas to penguins to whales – I see how willing they are to give their very lives to secure a safe future for the next generation. Yet we humans, at least affluent Americans, seem more concerned with having a lot of stuff in our big houses then making sure that you will have the basics for a healthy life - clean air and water, healthy forests, rich soil to grow food, abundant river and sea life, a hospitable climate.
My biggest concern for your well-being is climate change. Our weather is becoming more and more destructive and unpredictable. Droughts and wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and mudslides, melting glaciers and rising seawater are threatening communities around the globe. Thousands have already been killed or displaced. You would think that humans would be learning our lessons and building a sustainable path toward the future. But I'm worried, because even with the signs so clear there is not yet a united effort to work urgently for change. Many of our political leaders even claim that climate change is a hoax. That's another crisis we face in 2015 - we are loosing our democracy to bribery and greed. These politicians no longer work for the people; they work for the gas and oilmen.
By 2040 you will know if those of us who care about you have made a difference in turning the tide. Have we been successful in building a new economy that provides for everyone while working in harmony with natural systems? Some say they don't know what to do. But it's pretty simple. We have to stop burning fossil fuels. It's beginning to happen. In the US, coal is finally on the way out, but again there are many misguided in thinking that natural gas is our friend. It's not. Right here in Pennsylvania fracking is destroying rural communities and forcing toxic chemicals into the ground that is poisoning our water supplies. In our cities, refineries and factories spill toxins into our air and rivers.
I thought of you when I weatherized my home for greater energy efficiency, when I signed up for buying 100% renewable from the electric company, and when I installed solar panels on my roof. I think of you now as I convert my home to all electric power, so that I can cut off my natural gas line for good. And I think of you, too, as I go about choosing my first all-electric car, now that my hybrid is almost 13 years old, so that I never have to buy gasoline and oil again.
My hope is that you are reading this letter in a world where humans have learned to live at peace with each other and with nature, to cooperate and share with respect for all life. When I go into the woods and meadows, I look with awe at the beauty of this world. It's my love for nature, for animals, for my children that give me the will to change my life and work for a sustainable future. The work of planet-saving will likely not be finished by 2040, but I hope by then that you humans of the future will have found our place on this planet, not as exploiters, but as lovers of life. And live with great joy in your hearts.


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Please read Trinity's Parent/Student Handbook for school and preschool before applying. A recent copy can be found in the school office. Thank you.
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Krishinda joined the Bouncing Bulldogs organization in 1990 as a jumper and currently serves as an associate head coach, bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience to the entire organization. She has traveled extensively across the United States and around the world promoting the sport of jump rope. Krishinda graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an undergraduate degree in Exercise and Sport Science. She also received a Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Duke University.
Caroline joined the Bouncing Bulldogs organization as a jumper in 1996. She has traveled nationally and internationally, teaching, competing, and promoting the sport of jump rope. Caroline now serves as an associate head coach for the team, bringing extensive knowledge from her experiences in jump rope as well as her background and experience in the field of health education, fitness, and exercise physiology. Caroline holds a Bachelor's degree in Physical Education and Exercise Science from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a Master's degree from Appalachian State University in Clinical Exercise Physiology. She currently works in clinical research at Duke University Medical Center.
The fact that I'm interested in this field is a direct result from being in the program.
Tim joined the Bouncing Bulldogs organization as a jumper in 1994 at the age of five. During his time as a jumper, Tim won numerous individual awards in addition to being a part of several regional, national and world champion teams. As a jumper and associate head coach, he has traveled across the United States as well as to numerous countries teaching, competing, demonstrating and promoting the sport of jump rope. Tim graduated from Hillside High School in Durham, NC and attended North Carolina State University where he studied nutrition and taught Group Exercise classes.
My goal as an associate head coach is to apply my knowledge and expertise in teaching kids of all ages and backgrounds.


Mr. G. H. Burvill (63) retired on September 3 as Assistant Director of Agriculture after 44 years with the Department of Agriculture. He joined the Department as a cadet in 1927.
One of Western Australia's best-known agricultural scientists, Mr. Burvill has had an important influence on many aspects of the State's farming industries over more than 30 years.
He has an unequalled knowledge of the State's soils, climate and agriculture.
Department of Agriculture, Western Australia (1971) "Assistant Director retires," Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4: Vol. 12 : No. 6 , Article 37.


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Walker Percy and the Atticus Finch Question
The great Southern writer had the wisdom and courage to admit that the cultural Stoicism of men like his beloved Uncle Will suffered from a tragic flaw and was "no longer good enough for the South."
October 4, 2015 Dr. Randall B. Smith Uncategorized 0 Print
In a 1956 article in Commonweal magazine, "Stoicism in the South", author Walker Percy wrote of "a momentous change which has taken place in a single generation": namely, that
until a few years ago, the champion of Negro rights in the South, and of fair-mindedness and toleration in general, was the upper-class white Southerner. He is their champion no longer. He has, by and large, unshouldered his burden for someone else to pick up. What has happened to him? With a few courageous exceptions, he is either silent or he is leading the Citizens' Councils.
Percy's reflections have taken on a special poignancy recently, I would suggest, in light of the public reactions to Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman.
"The Most Extraordinary Man I Have Ever Known"
Few characters in American literature have inspired the respect-bordering-on-reverence reserved for Atticus Finch. Peggy Noonan wrote recently in The Wall Street Journal of a friend who told her: "I can't bear to lose Atticus. I'll just cling to Gregory Peck and pay no attention to what the author is publishing. They just keep taking away my heroes." Later she said of Harper Lee: "I'll never forgive her." Ms. Noonan says of Atticus Finch that:
part of his power as a figure of literature—as a figure of American life—is that he wasn't only on the right side, he was on the right side in the right way. He was for my generation the perfect father figure: calm, reliable, full of integrity and always there—the kind of father anyone would want and few would have.
I know of a man with the name "Atticus" tattooed on his leg. Asked why he replied: "Because Atticus Finch is the greatest man I know."
It is as though an entire generation of white American children had felt reading or watching the movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird what Jean-Louse "Scout" Finch would have felt in that remarkable scene where the Reverend Sykes tells her, "Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'." How, then, is it possible that Jean-Louise could later in life find that man, her father, the great defender Atticus Finch, had become a member of one of the notoriously racist "Citizens' Councils"?
To Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker, this merely shows that "this is exactly the kind of bigot that Atticus has been all along." The sub-title of Peggy Noonan's article suggests more modestly that "A fictional hero turns out to be as complicated and flawed as the real ones." Gopnik's statement seems unhelpful, for it allows no distinction between Atticus Finch and the hateful Bob Ewell, or between Atticus Finch and the lynch mob he faces down on the steps of the jail. And yet if we agree with Peggy Noonan that Atticus is "flawed," we also want to know how. So too, saying the U.S. budget is "complicated" is true, but merely stating the fact won't help us solve the problem or even understand it any better.
For this reason I suggest we return to the reflections of Walker Percy, a man who had to face similar flaws in his own "Atticus Finch," the great hero of his youth, his Uncle Will. Walker Percy and his mother had been taken in after his father's suicide by his uncle, Will Percy: a man whose house had become a center of arts and civic life. William Faulkner was a frequent guest. So was the black poet Langston Hughes. Indeed "Uncle Will," Percy informs us, "was regarded in the Mississippi of his day as a flaming liberal and nigger-lover and reviled by the sheriff's office for his charges of police brutality [against blacks]." Of him Walker Percy was to write: "he was the most extraordinary man I have ever known."
And yet Percy was also as saddened by what he came to understand about his Uncle Will's racial attitudes as any reader of Go Set a Watchman has been about Atticus Finch's. Percy was forced to admit in the introduction he wrote for his uncle's memoirs, Lanterns on the Levee, that his uncle's views "on race relations, for example, diverge from my own," and "and have not been helpful, having, in my experience, played into the hands of those whose own interest in these matters is deeply suspect."
How does one think about a man who was so noble in so many ways, but who turns out to have had an especially tragic flaw? Was it the result of something deeply hateful in his character? Or rather a certain lack of vision and understanding: a failure to see that a set of values and principles that had worked well enough in one set of historical and cultural circumstances might not do so forever?
The Risks of Self-Righteous Censure and the Ideological Illusions of Innocence
One thing that Walker Percy teaches us is not to be too self-righteously dismissive too quickly. It's not merely that men like his Uncle Will or the Atticus Finches of the South were "complicated," so too was the situation in the South. We should ask how much of our eagerness to dismiss our forebears publicly can be attributed to mere ideological posturing? Walker Percy had little regard for "the Northern ideologist": that is, "the ritualistic liberal who sacrifices the human encounter for the abstract liberal passion, who prefers the company of Jews and Negroes not because of the personal qualities of this or that Jew or Negro, but because they are Jews and Negroes, because of the ritual value of the gesture." He was equally critical, however, of the Southerners who touted "states' rights" which, although it "once signified a healthy sense of local responsibility," had become a partisan slogan signifying something quite different: "When a politician mentions states' rights, it's a better than even bet that in the next sentence it will become clear what kind of states' rights he is talking about. It usually comes down to the right to keep the Negro in his place."
Worse yet, however, thought Percy, was the tendency on both sides of the partisan divide to dispense itself from full responsibility for the problem by using the other as a scapegoat.
The North, after all, freed the slaves and afterwards the Northerner wore an aura of righteousness which he would still be wearing if only the slaves' descendants had stayed in the South. Who would have supposed that a hundred years later Northern cities would have large, undigested, and mostly demoralized black ghettos…. The South, on the other hand, has always managed to comfort itself by pointing to the hypocrisy of the North — not realizing that it is a sorry game in which the highest score is a tie: 'Look, they're as bad as we are!'
And yet apart from all the fighting, "the embarrassing fact" remained, insisted Percy, that "the Negro is not treated as a man in the North or the South, and if you think the North is better, ask James Baldwin."
We too might ask ourselves, with some embarrassment, whether after decades of enforcing politically correct speech codes the plight of black people of any of the other disadvantaged groups we say we want to help in American society is really any better than it was before we developed our current hypersensitivity to people's every word and gesture as crucial signs of their ideological orthodoxy.
Gopnik recounts a scene near the end of Go Set a Watchman in which Jean-Louise is sitting with Calpurnia, her beloved nanny, the woman who took care of her for years after the death of her mother.
"Cal," she cried, "Cal, Cal, Cal, what are you doing to me? What's the matter? I'm your baby, have you forgotten me? Why are you shutting me out? What are you doing to me?"
Calpurnia lifted her hands and brought them down softly on the arms of the rocker. Her face was a million tiny wrinkles, and her eyes were dim behind thick lenses.
"What are you all doing to us?" she said.
"Did you hate us?" Scout asks, and Calpurnia shakes her head no.
"This is credible," writes Mr. Gopnik, "but the scene, and the book, would have been stronger if she hadn't."
The scene Adam Gopnik wishes Harper Lee had written fits nicely with his own preconceived meta-narrative about life in the South and about the relationship he thinks must have existed between blacks and whites. It is, one might say, a "convenient narrative." There is just one problem: it's too pat, too easy, to be honest to the complexity of the situation.
It is comforting for a certain sort of person raised in the North, as I was, to imagine that black people in the South always hated and despised the members of the white upper class. We are very comfortable watching a movie like Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained because we like to imagine that all wealthy Southerners were like the character played by Leondardo DiCaprio: unscrupulous, uncaring, disgusting, a man who deserved to be fed to the dogs. And we are not entirely uncomfortable thinking that any black man who would have lived inside the house devoted to the service of such a man must have been a disgusting traitor to his race. We rejoice at the end when the entire house is dynamited, killing all inside, as Django, the bounty hunter-killer, rides off with his sweetheart by his side. Shane is better precisely because the man of violence knows he can never enjoy such innocence. The violence of Django Unchained offers a faux cultural catharsis for the injustices that continue to plague our cities and the murder of hundreds of black men gunned down in the streets every year, not by white plantation owners, but by fellow citizens, many of them black.
The virtue of Harper Lee's scene is that it doesn't merely feed our desire for comforting narratives. It shows a complexity that Mr. Gopnik wishes weren't there: namely, that Calpurnia really loved these children at the same time as she bemoaned the injustices of the society of which she was a part. Calpurnia was as complex as the South.
A Yankee's Introduction to the "Complicated" South
Years ago, I made my first sojourn into the South and found myself being called a "Yankee" for the first time in my life. I had always assumed that we were all "Yankees" up here north of the Rio Grande. I can remember being taken to the wedding of the daughter of a Louisiana sheriff: a "big man," both in girth and in his position within the local community. His daughter had gone to a prestigious local Catholic girl's school and had been raised in large part, I was informed, by a black nanny. At his point, I made some reference to the movie Gone with the Wind and how I supposed young women in the South treated their nannies. I was told in no uncertain terms from someone outside the family who did not come from wealth that a young woman of this sort would "never, ever sass back to her nanny" or she knew "she would get a wuppin'," first from her nanny and then from her mother. Indeed, at the wedding, the nanny sat in the front row with the family and stood with the rest for the wedding photos. The mother of the bride had several photos taken with just her and their "Calpurnia" and joked to those who didn't know her: "Meet my sister!"
Now before the reader too quickly concludes that I was being taken in by one of the "good" whites, or that I was entirely comfortable with all this, let me add that it was also explained to me by the same person on this same trip that the nanny and her family and nearly all of the other blacks in town lived over there, on that side of the tracks. They had their own community with its own social hierarchy. "They wouldn't want to live over here," I was told. Later, I was to discover that the children of upper and middle class black families were not allowed to play with the children of families their parents considered "poor, white trash."
It seemed that no one in town was supposed to mix with the poor, white trash. If the category is unclear to you, think of Bob Ewell and his daughter Mayella from To Kill a Mockingbird. This introduction to Southern culture caused me to re-think why Tom Robinson might say of Mayella Ewell that he "felt sorry for her." We see Atticus wince at this, knowing how it would sound to the poor, white trash members of the jury. "You, a black man, felt sorry for her?" asks the prosecutor Mr. Gilmer incredulously.
My first extended stay in the South also forced me as a Northerner to confront the uncomfortable fact that there were, even by the late 1980s, dozens of black mayors serving comfortably in the South and even a black governor, while there were very few in the North, and those who were in office always seemed to exist under a cloud of suspicion and a continual state of controversy. "If you think it's better in North," says Walker Percy, "ask James Baldwin." "Was it better?" I had to ask myself. But then again, to say that perhaps it wasn't worse in the South was no great prize.
What it suggested, though, was that perhaps some Southern communities were building upon a legacy of mutual respect — albeit a mutual and very separate respect — that I had not been aware existed, given the comforting narratives of Southern intolerance I had imbibed as a child growing up in the North. The problem, I thought, was them, not us. We had fought a war to bring their oppressors to heal. So why weren't blacks in the North more grateful to us? Why were they rioting in our streets? Detroit, Chicago, Boston, and New York weren't Birmingham, Atlanta, and Houston, after all. Were they?
Gopnik believes that because "the particular kind of racial rhetoric that Atticus embraces (and that he and Jean Louise are careful to distinguish from low-rent, white-trash bigotry) is a complex and, in its own estimation, 'liberal' ideology," thus "there is no contradiction between Atticus defending an innocent black man accused of rape in 'Mockingbird' and Atticus mistrusting civil rights twenty years later. Both are part of a paternal effort to help a minority that, in this view, cannot yet entirely help itself." "And so, beneath Atticus's style of enlightenment," contends Mr. Gopnik, "is a kind of bigotry that could not recognize itself as such at the time."
There is a certain amount of truth in that statement, but not yet enough. Were Southern whites like Will Percy or Atticus Finch really guilty in their paternalism? And if so, were they the only guilty ones? Are there perhaps others whose style of "Enlightenment" results in them not recognizing their own bigotry?
Was there no paternalism in the North, for example: no sense that one was entitled to gratitude for having helped lower class blacks get a "leg up on life"? And were Southerners the only ones who reacted badly when unelected federal judges ordered busing to integrate the schools? Or did Northern whites not react much as Southern whites had done before them?
Walker Percy writes with sadness that his Uncle Will, had he been alive during the 1950s, would have found most members of his own class "not exactly embattled in a heroic Göterdämmerung, not exactly fighting the good fight as he called it, but having simply left, taken off for the exurbs, where, barricaded in patrolled subdivisions and country clubs and private academies, they worry about their kids and drugs." Didn't Northern cities empty out to the suburbs as well? Is Detroit the shell of what it once was because whites stayed to face with Stoic resolve whatever challenges fate had in store? Or precisely because they did not?
Bigotry and Busing — Community and Caring
Adam Gopnik thinks Jean-Louise Finch a bigot for saying about Brown vs. Board of Education: "Well, sir, there they were, tellin' us what to do again." Were there no Northerners who resented being told what to do by unelected federal judges, clearly acting beyond their Constitutional authority? It's at least arguable that the modern judiciary's disposition to think it can bring about large-scale cultural transformations through judicial fiat has been inspired by the illusion that every new decision is another Brown v. Board of Education. This even though the Court's decision in Brown had little effect on the schools, and it wasn't until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed legislatively that the country saw real state-by-state change. Robert Frost once wrote that "Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better." Might it not also be true to say that "Legislatures are the right place for democratic governance; I don't know where it's likely to go better"?
And consider the issue: busing, breaking up traditional community schools in order to send children elsewhere for education and socialization. Now think back on Harper Lee's depiction of the "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama, with its collection of colorful personalities: the Barber Sisters (Miss "Tutti" and Miss "Fruitti"); Walter Cunningham, Jr., who covers his entire dinner in molasses; Miss Stephanie Crawford, the town gossip; the always-odd but much-beloved "Dill," patterned, it is said, on Harper Lee's childhood friend Truman Capote; and of course the ultimate outsider, Arthur "Boo" Radley. "The poor, the sick, the miserable, and the mad" as Walker Percy would say elsewhere.
Scout doesn't want poor Boo's identity revealed to the lady gossips in town. It would be like "killing a mockingbird" that hadn't done no harm to anybody. Imagine what someone like Atticus might think about busing in a host of outsiders into that town with all its lovable, yet peculiar, sometimes downright ugly personalities. We can love the oddness in our own families, but that doesn't mean we're willing to have them put on display for others.
Atticus can teach his own son a lesson about a racist woman like Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, dying and trying to kick an addiction to morphine, by making his son read to her each day for a month. But he could scarcely do so with someone else's child. Indeed, it's not without reason that one of the most troublesome characters in the book is Scout's first grade teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, new to the community and upset that Scout has been reading at home with her father. "Your father doesn't know how to teach," she informs the young girl and forbids her to read with Atticus at night.
In his wisdom, Atticus demands that Scout show respect for the new teacher, saying: "We could not expect her to learn all Maycomb's ways in one day," and then takes the occasion to impart another important lesson: "You never really understand a person until you "learn to look at things from his point of view," he tells his daughter, "until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." And yet despite the teacher's wishes, he and Scout continue to read together at night just as before.
Will Percy had a house in which classical literature, music, and poetry figured prominently in the life of young Walker Percy and his best friend Shelby Foote. An entire room was given over to their airplane models. Civic leaders stopped by to discuss politics, and nearly every major literary figure of the South stopped through. Langston Hughes read his poetry; Faulkner stopped in to play tennis.
Can anyone imagine either of these men — the one fictional, the other real — reacting with apathetic detachment while their children were bused to another school in another town in accord with the educational plans of a federal bureaucrat?
"Paternalism" Good and Bad: What Kind of Father?
As for the accusation of "paternalism," Walker Percy grants in "Stoicism in the South" that "words like paternalism and noblesse oblige have become dirty words these days." "But is it a bad thing," he wonders, "for a man to believe that his position in society entails a certain responsibility toward others? Or is it a bad thing for a man to care like a father for his servants, spend himself on the poor, the sick, the miserable, the mad who come his way? It is surely better than watching a neighbor get murdered and closing the blinds to keep from 'getting involved'" — a clear reference to the circumstances surrounding the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in New York City. "It might even beat welfare."
That last line was a quick stiletto thrust up under the ribs. We Northern liberals do love our welfare, don't we? It allows us to pay the government to do the charitable work for the poor we ourselves are too busy making money to do. The poor? Inner-city schools? Black youth? Don't we pay taxes to take care of all that?
Will Percy had his problems, but at least he was a man who believed that his position in society entailed a very definite "responsibility toward others: the poor, the sick, the miserable, and mad that came his way," not to mention taking into his own house the widow and orphaned son of a family member consumed in the "scandal" of suicide (imagine the gossip!), making room in his house for artists and financing the only theater in their small town. He nurtured the talents not only of his nephew, Walker Percy, and his friend, the historian Shelby Foote, but of many others such as Hodding Carter, whose famous newspaper Will Percy helped found. How many of today's ideologically pure liberals, hypersensitive to every possible sign of variance from the ideological orthodoxy of the times, can say the same? There are many forms of "paternalism" — many ways of thinking about the kind of pater or "father-figure" one wants to be.
Walker Percy came to believe that the ultimate problem with the aristocratic gentleman of the South was that his brand of Stoic "fatherhood" always implied a distance, a degree "above," a matter of respect that had to be preserved. His Uncle Will Percy's Stoic paternalism was of a sort based on an aristocratic, hierarchical vision of society — with certain people of "distinction" and "character" at the top: a cultural "elite."
The "nobility and graciousness" of the Old South, says Percy, was not primarily Christian in character; rather it "was the nobility and graciousness of the Old Stoa." Yet, this Stoicism, because it "was based on a particular hierarchical structure," argues Percy, "could not survive the change" — the change that had, as his Uncle Will once put it, put "the bottom rail on top," whereby "a lower-class, itchy-palmed breed … had dispossessed the gentry who had in turn been the true friends of the old-style 'good' Negro."
Thus as it worked to "ennoble" and "empower" the lower classes, the Stoicism of the South tragically sowed the seeds of its own destruction. "Its most characteristic mood," says Percy, "was a poetic pessimism which took a grim satisfaction in the dissolution of its values — because social decay confirmed one in his original choice of the wintry kingdom of the self. He is never more himself than when in a twilight victory of evil…. His finest hour is to sit tight-lipped and ironic while the world comes crashing down around him.
Think of Atticus Finch sitting quietly and calmly in front of the jail with Tom Robinson inside as the lynch mob descends. Did he really suppose that by the force of his personality alone, some calming words, and perhaps because of his position within the community, he could ward off the passions of this mob of "poor, white trash"? It was fortunate for him (and more so, for Tom Robinson) that young Scout runs out of the bushes to stand helplessly and innocently by his side. Perhaps viewers will recall the scene:
Scout:
I said, "Hey," Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment getting along?
Don't you remember me, Mr. Cunningham? I'm Jean Louise Finch. You brought us some hickory nuts one early morning, remember? We had a talk. I went and got my daddy to come out and thank you. I go to school with your boy. I go to school with Walter; he's a nice boy. Tell him 'hey' for me, won't you? You know something, Mr. Cunningham, entailments are bad. Entailments…
Atticus, I was just saying to Mr. Cunningham that entailments were bad but not to worry. Takes a long time sometimes…
What's the matter? I sure meant no harm, Mr. Cunningham.
At this, the men dispersed. What strength and dignity of position could not achieve, weakness, humility, and expressions of mutual recognition did.
How different things might have been had these Stoic gentlemen taken as their model of fatherhood the Christian notion of God the Father: the one who deigns to unite Himself to our suffering. "Mercy, misericordia in Latin, implies "suffering with." It is a love that unites itself to the suffering of the beloved. It is a love that is both incarnational and sacramental: that sees itself as an instrument of a self-emptying love. Its model is the Virgin Mary, who in her humble fiat, "Let it be done to me according to your word," made possible by her cooperation with God's grace a love with the power to change the world. Its model is John the Baptist who, after a lifetime's struggle against the hypocrisy and sinful structures of his day, said to God's Redeeming Love Incarnate: "I must decrease so that He can increase."
"What the Stoic sees," writes Percy," is the insolence of his former charge," and "this is what he can't tolerate, the Negro's demanding his rights instead of being thanked for the squire's generosity." For "it was not the individual, after all, who was intrinsically precious in the Stoic view — rather, it was one's own attitude toward him, and this could not fail to be specified by the other's good manners or lack of them. If he became insolent, very well: let him taste the bitter fruits of his insolence."
The nobility of [the southern Stoic gentleman], wrote Percy, "was the nobility of the natural perfection of the Stoics, the stern inner summons to man's full estate, to duty, to honor, to generosity toward his fellow men and above all to his inferiors — not because they were made in the image of God and were therefore lovable in themselves, but because to do them an injustice would be to defile the inner fortress which was oneself."
Seeing all men and women as made in the image of God, by contrast, means we can never keep them at a comfortable distance. Being in the image of God means that we are called upon to unite ourselves to them in love and with a mercy that shares their suffering. Understanding that all men and women are made in the image of God and are made for union with God also relativizes all merely human social hierarchies. "The Stoic has no use for the clamoring minority," writes Percy, "the Christian must have every use for it." For the Christian, "the urban plebs is not the mass which is to be abandoned to its own barbaric devices, but the lump to be leavened."
A Leaven in Society?
And yet, this last comment should force us to think more about the kind of "leavening" Catholics are currently providing, especially in light of studies such as Charles Murray's Coming Apart that document the tragic consequences for the lives of America's underclass of the "sexual revolution" initiated by the college-age, bourgeois-bohemian sons and daughters of America's upper classes. It should force us to think more about the kind of "leavening" we're providing, especially in light of the "crony capitalism" that seems to have become widespread in the culture.
Walker Percy writes of his Uncle Will that his attitude toward the "sexual revolution" would have been that: "Fornicating like white trash is one thing, but leave it to this age to call it the new morality." "Nor would he be shocked," says Percy, "by the cynicism and corruption, the stealing, lying, rascality ascendant in business and politics — though even he might be dismayed by the complacency with which they are received: 'There have always been crooks, but we've not generally made a practice of reelecting them, let alone inviting them to dinner.'" What sort of moral witness does contemporary Catholicism provide? Whom do we invite to dinner? Whose approval do we seek?
In the closing lines of that famous 1956 essay "Stoicism in the South," Percy noted with sorrow that:
The Stoic-Christian Southerner is offended when the Archbishop of New Orleans calls segregation sinful (or discusses the rights of labor). He cannot help feeling that religion is overstepping its allotted area of morality. In the comfortable modus vivendi of the past, he had been willing enough to allow Christianity a certain say-so on the subject of sin … He is therefore confused and obscurely outraged when Christian teaching is applied to social questions. It is as if a gentleman's agreement had been broken.
The archbishop Percy is referring to was the famous Archbishop Rummel who, already in the 1940s, admitted black students into his seminary; had the "white" and "colored" signs removed from every Catholic parish; and in 1953, a year before the Supreme Court's decision in Brown, wrote the first of two strong pastoral letters to be read out at mass in every parish in the archdiocese exhorting the faithful that "there be no further discrimination or segregation in the pews, at the Communion rail, at the confessional and in parish meetings, just as there will be no segregation in the kingdom of heaven."
Subsequently, in 1956, the year of Walker Percy's essay, Rummel announced that he intended to desegregate all the Catholic schools in the archdiocese. The reaction? As one historical account has it:
Tempers ran hot. Most parish school boards voted against desegregation. Rummel didn't budge. A year earlier, he had closed a parish when its people objected to their newly assigned black priest. But to compound the archbishop's troubles, many parents had moved their children from public to Catholic schools, hoping to avoid desegregation. Members of the Louisiana legislature threatened to withhold then-available public funds for Catholic schools if Rummel went ahead with his plans.
In the final lines of his essay, Walker Percy wrote this:
So far, Archbishop Rummel has been answered only by having his name booed by the Citizens' Council and by having a cross burned on his front yard. The secular press is silent; the [Southern aristocrats] are silent if they are not booing; many of his Protestant colleagues are silent; more sadly, his own flock wavers. But sooner or later the archbishop must be answered. And the good pagan's answer is no longer good enough for the South.
So too in our own day, when a few brave Catholic bishops dare preach against the evils of abortion and euthanasia, the secular press remains silent, even in the face of the recent Planned Parenthood videos; many of their Protestant colleagues and fellow bishops remain silent; and most tragically of all, the flock wavers, with many of today's Catholics feeling, as did the Catholics in Walker Percy's day, that when a bishop calls support for abortion sinful (or discusses the rights of labor), a certain "gentleman's agreement has been broken." How much have things really changed?
Walker Percy had the wisdom and courage to admit that the cultural Stoicism of men like his beloved Uncle Will suffered from a tragic flaw and was "no longer good enough for the South." Will this generation of Catholics have the wisdom and courage to admit that the lifestyle liberalism of today's cultured elite and the autonomous individualism which stands behind both the abortionists at Planned Parenthood and the crony capitalists at America' largest corporations, are no longer good enough for the nation?
We like to think that we're not like the crowds of Catholics who booed and demonstrated against Archbishop Rummel in 1956. But are we so different? Are we so anxious about the Atticus Finch question because we're worried that something was lacking in him? Or that something very much the same may still be lacking in us? If he and men with the nobility of Walker Percy's Uncle Will didn't have the wisdom and wherewithal to respond to the challenges posed to them by the Gospel in their day and age, can we be so sure that we are showing the wisdom and wherewithal to respond to the challenges of ours?
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Dr. Randall B. Smith is Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, where he teaches courses on Moral Theology, History of Theology, Faith and Science, and Faith and Culture. His books include Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide (Emmaus), Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris (Cambridge), and From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Body (Emmaus), due out in October 2022. He is also co-author of Why Believe? Volume 2: Answers to Life's Questions (Augustine Institute). Prof. Smith is the author of numerous articles in academic journals, but he also publishes a regular bi-weekly column for "The Catholic Thing."
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He looked back at me once he was done and burst out laughing. "Typical Melissa." So, why do I bring this up?
Well, I found the shark missing from Shark Street, guys. Everyone, meet the silvertip shark (Carcharhinus albimarginatus).
Now, it doesn't mean it's a giant shark by any means; maximum length is 10 feet (3 meters). Both the grey reef shark and silvertip shark live in similar habitats, except the silvertip shark has a more fragmented distribution through the Indian and Pacific Ocean.
They're mostly encountered off island coasts and in coral reefs, stalking out prey (which includes bony fish, eagle rays, cephalopods and smaller sharks). These sharks usually win when competing for food with other sharks. Don't worry, silvertips, I get it. If someone wanted to steal my rightly earned chocolate chip cookie, I'd fight them too.
They don't spend all their time in the shallows, however. These sharks are known to dive down up to 2,600 ft (800 m). This doesn't keep them safe from the commercial fishery that targets them for their meat, fins, jaws, teeth and cartilage (for cartilage pills), however.
Once again, I reiterate: there are no medicinal cures from shark products. Shark cartilage will not keep cancer at bay, guys. And this sort of misinformed thinking has caused local population declines.
Let's change the subject: shark babies! They are viviparous, and females can give live birth to anywhere from one to eleven pups in the summer months. Like most sharks, they are slow-reproducing.
Due to them frequenting coral reefs, these sharks can come in close contact with humans (especially divers). If you're lucky enough to see one, enjoy it. They're assessed as Near Threatened (NC) by the IUCN!
so... shark street. can we make that a thing?


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From North to South, from national governments to the Commission: EU Institutions and Member States are in agreement that a reform of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is high on the political agenda. One aspect of such a reform is the integration of the Fiscal Compact into the EU legal framework, which the Member States committed to in the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (TSCG). With a French Government that is pushing for reforms, a German government that is finally in place, and a proposal for a directive drafted by the EU Commission on the table, it is likely that the topic will gain importance.
POMFR: What form of government for the European Union and the Eurozone? (Fabbrini et al, eds.; Hart Publishing 2015).
City University London, 23 June 2016. Deadline for abstract submission: 25 March 2016.
Radboud University Nijmegen, 3 June 2016. Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 March 2016.
Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, 30-31 May 2016. Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 April 2016.
Center for Transnational Legal Studies, London, 1 April 2016. (Free) registration needed.
Lund, 21-22 April 2016. (Free) registration needed.
University of Nancy, 28 April 2016. Registration needed.
University of Rome – Tor Vergata, 22 January 2016. Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 September 2015.
University of Oxford, 25-26 September 2015. No deadline for registration.
Utrecht Journal of International and European Law. Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2015.
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While the Eurozone crisis started as banking crisis which turned into a sovereign debt crisis simultaneously leading to the crisis of the monetary union, the first measures taken (bilateral loans to Greece, the EFSF, the ESM, the ECB's SMP and later OMTs, the Six-Pack and the TSCG) were primarily meant to stabilize and contain the ongoing crisis. The Banking Union, however, completed through the recent agreement on the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM), is a further, forward-looking step. More than to contain, it is meant to prevent crises of the kind just experienced. It has rightly been described as the most ambitious integration project since the creation of the single currency as it leads to its members transferring the control of their biggest banks to the supranational level.
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The moment has come to deliver on this blog's promise of looking beyond the realm of the English language. For this POMFR post, I would like to present a recently published Festschrift which contains a number of contributions of interest to EU lawyers capable of reading German.
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So far, this course has focused on writing research manuscripts.
such as the literature review, grants, and letters of recommendation.
right now, some of them may be things to put in your repertoire for the future.
In this module, I'm going to talk about writing a narrative review article.
a graduate student or young investigator to tackle.
it gives you a chance to dive into the most recent literature in your field.
organizing a large amount of information and of course, writing.
Review articles can also help your career.
citations because they are helpful to other scientists.
What's the goal of a review article?
The idea is to synthesize the recent, primary literature on a topic.
There's a huge proliferation of papers these days.
Nobody can keep up with the entire primary literature.
that somebody can go to your paper and get a good sense of the field.
A review article summarizes what we know and what we dont know on a topic.
research question, and that can be a great resource for others in the field.
Just so you are aware, there are three basic types of review articles.
I am going to address the non-systematic review, also called the narrative review.
But I want you to be aware of the other options.
on a particular research question, even possibly unpublished studies.
There are also what we call meta-analysis.
informally pool data across different studies using statistics for data pooling.
more technical than I want to get into in this module.
When writing a narrative review article, you start by searching the literature.
You will likely start with a broader search to get a sense of what's out there.
But then you are going to need to narrow your focus.
Otherwise, there will just be too many papers to read.
Your review needs to have a clear thesis or theme.
This is the key to a good review article.
I'm going to review breast cancer, those topics are too broad.
or statistical techniques for microarray data.
Or the history of microarray technology.
exercise or between breast cancer and alcohol.
The topic has to be narrow and focused enough to make it tractable.
Early in my career, I wrote a literature review on eating disorders in athletes.
was small enough that I was able to cover this literature in a single review.
When we talked about the writing process, I told you about the pre-writing step.
For review articles, the importance of pre-writing is magnified.
You have to find a way to get organized or you will never finish writing the review.
There's just to much information.
I typed notes from each paper as I read the papers.
subsections of the paper, early in the process.
So that I could organize my notes, by section and by subsection.
your references and notes, such as endnote and Mendely.
is going to take way more time than the actual writing of the review.
So focus on that pre-writing step.
I recommend writing the article in sections, each with their own headings.
That helps to organize the review and also makes life easier for readers.
of eating disorders in different sports, and for men and women separately.
If you have a tangential information, you could put that in sidebars.
I had case reports on individual athletes who suffered from eating disorders.
box off to the side, if it's hard to integrate it into the text.
Finally, write for a broad audience.
People may be reading your review article as an introduction to the field.
So don't abbreviate too much.
And don't assume prior knowledge.
easy to read style, using all the writing tips you've learned in this course.
which I recommend that you write last.
where the first papers on eating disorders in ballet dancers were published.
I talked about this as an interesting way to introduce the topic.
from eating disorders in the general population.
The nature of the disease may be fundamentally different in athletes.
prevalence, risk factors, outcomes, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
that have a nice logical structure.
and diagnostic criteria, measurement, prevalence, risk factors, etc.
within each of those sections with separate subheadings.
how studies could do better in the future to fill in the gaps.
give specific recommendations for what researchers should do going forward.
eating disorders in male athletes has been sorely understudied.
I also suggested a specific type of study design.
That might be able to more accurately identify eating disorders in athletes.
thought should be the priorities in research going forward.
Then, of course, you have the references, for example, my review had 173 references.
prevalence, risk factors, sequelae, prevention and treatment strategies.
And the sections of my paper lined up exactly with these goals.
then measurement issues, then prevalence, then risk factors, and so on.
within each of these larger sections.
injuries, detriments to performance, mortality and comorbidities.
maybe one to ten relevant papers that needed to be synthesized.
then coming up with a good, logical organizational structure.
If you can do all that, then writing the review is much easier.
Here are some other examples of reviews.
Here, I'm quoting a review on CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing.
in on the history of the technology, so this review was focused on history.
Here were the sections of that paper.
an introduction to the technology, and then they go back decades in history.
of how CRISPR-Cas9 actually works.
what the technology might be used for in the future.
due to the big outbreak in West Africa that occurred in 2014.
shed after someone has recovered from Ebola and isn't sick anymore.
were worried about new cases cropping up and rekindling the epidemic.
that's not essential in a narrative review, but something you could include.
the risks of transmission from various modes.
Such as sexual transmission and mother to child transmission.
of sexual transmission from survivors, the risk is pretty low.
transmission through saliva or tears of survivors.
So more research would be needed on those areas.


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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Earns 20 Emmy Nominations
See the full list of nominees here.
Nicole Rivelli
As the line between TV and movies grows blurrier, so does the difference between the Emmys and the Oscars. Once the sad summer step-child of the awards season, the Emmys have become a star-studded event all their own—and every year, the competition gets stiffer.
This year, a few stellar series are poised to sweep the categories. Game of Thrones was nominated a whopping 32 times, while The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel nabbed 20 nods. Succession, Killing Eve, When They See Us, and more shows also got several nominations each.
Here, a full list of the nominees for the 71st Emmy Awards. Tune into Fox on Sunday, September 22 to find out who takes home the statues—and for some good old-fashioned television.
Better Call Saul (AMC)
Bodyguard (Netflix)
Game of Thrones (HBO)
Killing Eve (BBC America)
Ozark (Netflix)
Pose (FX)
Succession (HBO)
This Is Us (NBC)
Barry (HBO)
Fleabag (Prime Video)
The Good Place (NBC)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video)
Russian Doll (Netflix)
Schitt's Creek (Pop TV)
Veep (HBO)
Chernobyl (HBO)
Escape at Dannemora (Showtime)
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Frustration sitting in traffic when you are running late.
Anxiety surrounding awaiting a diagnosis from a recent medical test.
Heartbreak when loved ones move across country.
Watching a sunrise peek across the morning sky.
Listening to the laughter of a joyful child.
Experiencing the blessing of a helpful hand.
The first set, we might call the reality of life, the second set, we would call the divinity of life. These are the moments of our lives that throw us into the doldrums and pain, and moments that remind us of the holy and peace. Our Scripture passage for this Sunday called "Transfiguration Sunday," connects with both at the same time. It is the passage in which Jesus goes to the top of a mountain and he is transfigured into dazzling white. Peter, James and John, who are with him, watch and are amazed at what they see and they want to pitch a tent, never to leave this sacred situation. But soon enough the moment is over and they are thrust back into first century life, immediately hearing the cries for help from a father whose son is possessed by an evil spirit.
As we listen to this passage we are reminded of the faith life which thrusts us from moments of divinity to situations of humanity. It is the relationship with the vertical and the horizontal, how we connect with the holy and the secular.
Many years ago, in seminary, a friend of mine and I were working at a church together. We were tasked by our senior pastor to preach a dialogue sermon on the transfiguration. Needless to say, we thought all of our book knowledge and theological training would get us through this dialogue sermon where we each tried to represent either the horizontal or the vertical portions of the text. But what we found is that it was much more difficult to separate the two than what we initially expected. Because the reality of our lives of faith is that we are constantly incorporating one into the other. Our frustration running late in traffic is infused with looking around and seeing the beauty in the sunrise above the skyline. The anxiety surrounding awaiting a medical result is calmed by the assurance of the cycle of life as a grandchild laughs in the waiting room. Or the loneliness in moving away from family is tempered by the helping hand that offers a welcome meal to a new neighbor.
Friends, we live in the faith that calls to take the life we have and see the blessing of the holy within it. We don't have to pitch a tent to hold on to those holy moments, we can find them as we go back into the world and be part of sharing the good news of Jesus Christ. So embrace every moment as one where the divine could live.


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Q: How to make my two button menu into tabs that show two different html pages below a header

body{
 background:url(background.jpg);
 background-size: cover;
}

h1{
 font-family: 'Dancing Script', cursive;
 font-size: 5em;
 color: white;
 text-align: center;
 margin-top: 25px;
 margin-bottom: 20px;
}

h2{
 font-size: 18px;
 color: white;
 text-align: center;
 font-family: 'Tajawal', sans-serif;*/

}
hr{
 border-color: white;
 margin-left: 200px;
 margin-right: 200px;
}

img{
 float: center;
 width: 20%;
 height: 20%;
 text-align: center;
 margin-top: 50px;
 margin-bottom: 50px;
}
 li{
  display: inline;
  text-align: center;
  font-family: 'Tajawal', sans-serif;
 }

.btn-group{
 display: flex;
 justify-content: center;
 margin-top: 10px;
 margin-bottom: 50px;

}

.btn-group button {
 align-items: center;
    background-color: rgba(135, 138, 138, 0.1);
    border: none;
    color: white; /* White text */
    padding: 10px 24px; /* Some padding */*/
    cursor: pointer; /* Pointer/hand icon */
    float:  /* Float the buttons side by side */
    box-shadow: 1px;
    margin: 0 auto;

}

.btn-group button:not(:last-child) {
    border-right: none;  Prevent double borders
}

/* Clear floats (clearfix hack) */
.btn-group:after {
    content: "";
    clear: both;
    display: table;
}

/* Add a background color on hover */
.btn-group button:hover {
    background-color: rgb(49,52,56);
    border: 1.5px solid rgb(49,52,56);
}

.btn-group button:focus {
 background-color: rgb(49,52,56);
 outline: rgb(49,52,56);
 border-color: rgb(49,52,56);
 border: 1px solid rgb(49,52,56);

}

.btn-group a{
 color: white;
}

.btn-group a:hover {
 text-decoration: none;
}

/**/

/* Style the tab */
<!DOCTYPE html>

 <title>Portfolio</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-rwoIResjU2yc3z8GV/NPeZWAv56rSmLldC3R/AZzGRnGxQQKnKkoFVhFQhNUwEyJ" crossorigin="anonymous">

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dancing+Script" rel="stylesheet">

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tajawal" rel="stylesheet">

Portfolio

<button class="tablinks" onclick="openMenu(event, 'home')"> Home</button>

<button class="tablinks2" onclick="openMenu(event, 'portfolio')">Portfolio</button>

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So far I have made two square buttons into a horizontal bar below my header. I have hyperlinks added to the buttons, but I want to make them tabs so the header does not move and you can cleanly scroll between the two pages with no load time. I will post html and css. Thank you for the help. I have tried using js and css but neither seem to make what it do what I want

A: As i can see you're using bootstrap 4. So the best way to do what you want is using nav tabs. Check bootstrap documentation. Here is the example:

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For a super British Christmassy twist on your classic cinnamon buns we have replaced the traditional all cinnamon filling with mincemeat. Yes, it can be done and it is rather nice, too.
Use a jar of mincemeat as filling then roll and shape as normal - see below.
(If using active dry yeast (granules), pour the warm milk into a bowl, sprinkle in the yeast and whisk together. Cover with clingfilm and leave in a warm place for about 15 minutes to become bubbly. Pour into the bowl of a food mixer fitted with a dough hook).
Start the machine and add the cooled, melted butter. Allow to combine with the yeast for 1 minute or so, then add the sugar. Allow to combine for 1 minute.
In a separate bowl, weigh out 400 g/3 cups of the flour, add the cardamom and salt and mix together. Start adding the flour and spices into the milk mixture, bit by bit. Add half the beaten egg. Keep kneading for 5 minutes. You may need to add more flour – you want the mixture to end up a bit sticky, but not so much that it sticks to your finger if you poke it. It is better not to add too much flour as this will result in dry buns. You can always add more later.
Once mixed, leave the dough in a bowl and cover with a dish towel or clingfilm. Allow to rise for around 30 minutes or until it has doubled in size. Dust a table top with flour and turn out the dough. Using your hands, knead the dough and work in more flour if needed. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough to a 40 x 50 cm/16 x 20 in. rectangle.
Spread the filling across the dough in an event, thin layer.
To make traditional swirls, simply roll the dough lengthways into a long roll and cut into 15-16 pieces, place on a lined baking tray, and leave – covered – to rise for another 20 minutes.
Heat the oven to 200 degrees Celcius (fan). Brush the buns lightly with beaten egg, then bake for 6-9 minutes or until golden and done. Watch it, they can burn easily and different ovens vary in temperature.
If you prefer a loaf, roll up into a thick log then slice lengthways so you have two half rolls. 'Plait' the two halves, cut side up, and place in a lined bread tin.The loaf baking time depends on your oven. Turn it down slightly and watch that it doesn't brown too much.
While the buns are baking, make a simple sugar syrup: In a saucepan, heat 50ml water with 100g sugar until bubbling and completely melted. You can also use golden syrup and just melt it a big in a saucepan.
When the buns come out of the oven, immediately brush lightly with the syrup, then add pearl sugar (nibbed sugar) (if using) on top of the buns and cover with a damp tea towel. The tea towel stops the buns from going dry. We also like these just sprinkled with icing sugar which gives a nice, frosted feel.


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On a visit, Jesus sees bracelets with WWJD. What does that mean? he asks. What Would Jesus Do? they respond. I wouldn't wear that, he says.
How can you judge what we wear? they ask. Jesus ponders something Biblical to say. He remains silent, knowing they won't get it.
Cat got your tongue? they ask. Don't you recognize me? Jesus finally says. They look at him. Were you in my frat? one asks.
Why you just standing there? the burly guy asks. Jesus shakes his head, cheeks turning repeatedly. Laughing, the group slaps high fives.
You really don't recognize me? Jesus says. Get outta here poser, they yell.
Would Jesus really say that? he asks.
The guys close in on Jesus, but he quietly picks up a WWJD bracelet. Give me my bracelet, one demands. Over my dead body, Jesus replies.
Jesus turns the bracelet to stone. You'll pay for that, one says. No you will, Jesus says as he parts the stunned crowd and walks away.
oh yes, Jesus knows best after all.
Just when I thought it couldn't get funnier, then comes the next piece.
as he parts the stunned crowd... love it!
the R is really the key in WWJRD. Hypocrites love to appropriate J but he has always eluded.


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text:
Q: About 3-dimensional quadratic space
3.3 Theorem.
  Assume that every $3$-dimensional quadratic space over $K$ is isotropic.
  Let $\phi$ be a regular $n$-dimensional quadratic space.
  Then
  $$
        \phi
  \cong \langle \delta, 1, \dotsc, 1 \rangle
  \qquad
  \text{where $\delta = \det(\phi)$}.
$$
  In  particular, two regular quadratic spaces are isometric if and only if they have equal dimension and determinant.
  Moreover,
  $$
        \hat{W}(K)
  \cong \mathbb{Z} \times K^\bullet / K^{\bullet 2}
  \quad\text{and}\quad
        W(K)
  \cong Q(K).
$$
Proof:
  Since $\langle \alpha, \beta, -1 \rangle$ is isotropic this space splits off a hyperbolic plane and thus $\langle \alpha, \beta, -1 \rangle \cong \langle \gamma, 1, -1 \rangle$.
  By the cancellation law $\langle \alpha, \beta \rangle \cong \langle \gamma, 1 \rangle$.
  Comparing determinants we see that for any $2$-dimensional form $\langle \alpha, \beta \rangle \cong \langle \alpha \beta, 1 \rangle$.
  Using this and proceeding inductively we get
  $$
        \langle \alpha_1, \dotsc, \alpha_n \rangle
  \cong \langle \alpha_1 \dotso \alpha_n, 1, \dotsc, 1 \rangle.
$$
  This proves the first assertion.
  The second is an immediate consequence.
  We leave it to the reader to verify that
  \begin{align*}
          (\dim, \det)
  &\colon \hat{W}(K)
   \to    \mathbb{Z} \times K^\bullet / K^{\bullet 2}
\\
          (e,d)
  &\colon W(K)
   \to    Q(K)
\end{align*}
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This is excerpt from W. Scharlau: Quadratic and Hermitian Forms,
page 38.
For defination of $e, d$ and other maps use
page 35.
First of all I don't understand why they use specific three dimensional space as $\langle \alpha, \beta , -1  \rangle$ .
Now since we know the above space is isotropic we can split it into hyperbolic plane. Also after that by cancellation law we get $\langle \alpha, \beta \rangle \cong \langle \gamma, 1\rangle$. After that how do we know from looking at the determinant that $\langle \alpha, \beta \rangle \cong \langle \alpha \beta, 1 \rangle$? After that how do we get isomorphisms by the maps $(\dim,\det)$ and $(e,d)$?


Found out we are expecting another little boy in February 2019!
We visited Washington three times, once to welcome Marc's newest little niece into the world!
Celebrated six years of marriage by driving to North Carolina to hike around the Smoky Mountains and explore Asheville.
The year has been sweet. There have been times of trying, difficulty, and stretching; times where we have felt like we are being pushed beyond our limits in every way, but every time the Lord's grace has sustained us–usually not through removing the difficulty, but teaching us to fight for joy in the midst of it all. God has been so kind, so generous, and so patient with us, despite our persistent foolishness. It's all grace. Praise God for Jesus!
We look forward to our 2019 with hearts that are eager to grow even more, to experience the Lord in fresh ways, for our family to grow from three to four, and for us to finish school and return to the beautiful PNW!
Jack's first encounter with snow!
Jack about to burst open the pinata for the gender reveal of our next baby. It's a boy!


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