text:
Last edited by Clean Up Bot
Benson John Lossing
History of the American Revolution
by Benson John Lossing 1 edition
Seventeen hundred and seventy-six ; or, the war of independence
Biography of James A. Garfield
by Benson John Lossing 1 edition - first published in 1822
Outline History of the Fine Arts
by Benson John Lossing 3 editions - first published in 1840
Evenings' entertainments, or, The country visit
The lives of the presidents of the United States
Seventeen hundred and seventy-six
Biographical sketches of the signers of the Declaration of American independence
Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution
Pictorial field book of the revolution. pts. 2-4
The twelve stars of our republic
by Edwin Williams , Benson John Lossing 1 edition - first published in 1850
The pictorial field-book of the revolution
by Benson John Lossing 18 editions - first published in 1850
The pictorial field-book of the Revolution; or, Illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the ... War ..
The pictorial field-book of the revolution ; or, illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the war for independence
The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution ; Or, Illustrations, by Pen and ..
Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American ..
A pictorial history of the United States
Eminent Americans, comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women, who have made American history
Our Countrymen...
Our countrymen, or, Brief memoirs of eminent Americans
Eminent Americans: Comprising Brief Biographies of Leading Statesmen ..
Eminent Americans
A history of the United States
A pictorical history of the United States
Pictorial Field Book Of The Revolution (2 Volumes)
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial
Mount Vernon and its associations
The pictoral field-book of the revolution
Life of Washington
The pictorial field-book of the revolution: or, Illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the war for independence.
The Pictoral Field-book of the Revolution: Or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History ..
A history of the United States for families and libraries
THE DIARY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, FROM 1789 TO 1791.
by Benson John Lossing, Various 1 edition - first published in 1860
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea
The life and times of Philip Schuyler
Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington
by George Washington Parke Custis, Mary Randolph Custis Lee , Benson John Lossing 1 edition - first published in 1861
The Diary of George Washington, from 1789 to 1791: Embracing the Opening of ...
by George Washington , Benson John Lossing 1 edition - first published in 1861
The league of states
Continental money
M'Fingal: An Epic Poem
by John Trumbull , Benson John Lossing 1 edition - first published in 1864
The home of Washington and its associations
A Common-school History of the United States: From the Earliest Period to ..
A common-school history of the United States
Pictorial History of the Civil War (Notable American Authors)
by Benson John Lossing, Benson John Lossing 1 edition - first published in 1866
The home of Washington and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial
Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America
The Hudson
A primary history of the United States: For schools and families.
Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812
The pictorial field book of the Civil War in the United States of America
The pictorial field-book of the War of 1812
The pictorial field-book of the war of 1812, or, Illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the last war for American independence
Lives of celebrated Americans
Scenes in the War of 1812
Lives of Celebrated Americans: Comprising Biographies of Three Hundred and Forth Eminent Persons
Washington and the American republic
Lives of the signers of the Declaration of American independence
The home of Washington
The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial
Memoir of Lieut.-Col. John T. Greble, of the United States Army
A history of England, political, military and social
A grammar-school history of the United States
The American Historical Record
A Grammar-school History of the United States: From the Discovery of America ..
A Memorial of Alexander Anderson, M.D., the First Engraver on Wood in America: Read Before the ..
An outline history of the United States, for public and other schools
Our Country: A Household History for All Readers, from the Discovery of ..
An outline history of the United States
Centennial history of the United States
Hull's surrender of Detroit
The American centenary
A centennial edition of the history of the United States
Our Country: A Household History for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the One ..
A school history of the United States
History of American industries and arts
The story of the United States Navy for boys
Unser Land: Geschichte Der Vereinigten Staaten; Ein Familienbuch Fur Leser ..
Harpers' popular cyclopædia of United States history from the aboriginal period to 1876
A History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent to the Present Time
A family history of the United States
The story of the United States navy
A history of England, political, military, and social, from the earliest times to the present
A biography of James A. Garfield
A biography of James A. Garfield, late president of the United States
History of New York City, embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
History of New York City: Embracing an Outline Sketch of Events from 1609 to 1830, and a Full ..
The two spies: Nathan Hale and John André
The two spies
Accessible book, History, Biography, Dictionaries, United States, Description and travel, Politics and government, Homes and haunts, Presidents, Signers, United States War of 1812, Biography. [from old catalog], Non-Classifiable, Novelty, United States. Navy, Big Bethel, Battle of, Va., 1861, Cities and towns, Encyclopedias, Internet Archive Wishlist, Military life, Pictorial works, Protected DAISY, Travel, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States. Army
United States, America, Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate), Mount Vernon, Virginia, Central America, Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.), Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.), North America, South America, Amérique centrale, Amérique du Nord, Amérique du Sud, Detroit (Mich.), Fairfax County, Great Britain, Hudson valley, Mount Vernon (Estate), Mount Vernon (Va.), New York (State), Ohio, Southern States, Washington D.C., États-Unis
George Washington (1732-1799), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), John Trout Greble (1834-1861), Martha Washington (1731-1802), Benjamin Franklin, Benson John Lossing (1813-1891), Harrold Edgar Gillingham (1864-1954), James A. Garfield (1831-1881), James A. Garfield (1831-1881,), John André (1751-1780), John Hancock, Martha Washington (1732-1802), Mary (Ball) Washington Mrs. (1708-1789), Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789), Mary Ball Washington Mrs. (1708-1789), Nathan Hale (1755-1776), Philip John Schuyler, Philip John Schuyler (1733-1804), Thomas Jefferson, Washington family, William Hull (1753-1825)
Revolution, 1775-1783, Civil War, 1861-1865, War of 1812, 1861-1865, 1857-1861, 1860, 19th century, American revolution, Surrender to the British, 1812
Are you sure you want to remove Benson John Lossing from your list?
Benson J. Lossing
Benson J[ohn] Lossing
Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891.
Lossing Benson John
Benson Lossing
B.J. Lossing
B. J. Lossing
Ben J. Lossing
March 31, 2017 Edited by Clean Up Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
September 30, 2013 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
August 7, 2012 Edited by JonathanH Edited without comment.


text:
Q: How to automate (from command-line) the installation of a Visual Studio Build Tools build environment, for C++, .NET, C#, etc Note: I have already read How can I install the VS2017 version of msbuild on a build server without installing the IDE? but this does not answer with a totally GUI-less script-only install.

Along the years, here is what I noticed:

*

*I download a project from Github ; or open an old project of mine (say from 4 years ago)

*run msbuild.exe theproject.sln

*oops, I don't have the right Visual Studio version / .NET Framework version / the right SDK is missing (example situation here among many others)

*then spend X hours browsing on websites like https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019, install a package, then notice it's not the right one (msbuild still fails), download another package, install it, etc.

*at the end you have downloaded 8 GB of packages, waited for the download, waited for the install, for the reboot, and you're still not sure it works

*your computer is now a mess with 5 different versions of SDKs installed at the same time that probably collide with each other (did version Z overwrite/uninstall version Y or not?)
This might be a solution to avoid this problem:
How to install the required MS build tools from command-line? (I don't want to use any IDE, I want to script everything)
If it was possible, I would just, once for all create a build.bat file for every project, that would be something like:
msbuildget --package=VC14 --installdir=c:\buildtools\vc14     # automatically download and install
C:\buildtools\vc14\bin\msbuild.exe myproject.sln

or
msbuildget --package=.NET-35 --installdir=c:\buildtools\net35
C:\buildtools\net35\bin\msbuild.exe myproject.sln

How to do this?
With this method, even if you open a 6-year old project, you should be able to build it.

A: I've just spent a good while trying to figure this out. I ended up with this:
.\vs_buildtool.exe --passive --wait --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools;includeRecommended

Note the use of includeRecommended to avoid adding components individually. includeOptional is also available. You can also use e.g. --includeRecommended flag to include recommended for all workloads (see here).
Or to install using winget:
winget install -e --id Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.BuildTools --override "--passive --wait --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools;includeRecommended"

Hope this might be of use to someone else

A:
How to automate (from command-line) the installation of a Visual
Studio Build Tools build environment, for C++ version X, .NET C#
version Z, etc

First, you should note that, all the workloads or packages need to be installed and they will be integrated into Build Tool, what you need is the workload Component ID of them.
You can refer to this document to obtain the related Component ID of buildtool.
Besides, this document also list the command line installed instructions. And the order is the same as the build tool.
Suggestion
You can try the below script:
// This is for desktop development and also add the net framwork 3.5
vs_buildtool_xxx.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktopBuildTools^
                     --add Microsoft.Net.Component.3.5.DeveloperTools^
                     --add Microsoft.Net.Component.4.5.2.TargetingPack^
                     --installPath C:\BuildTools

C:\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe myproject.sln

And you can add any more workloads or packages by commamd -add with the related Component ID.
If you want to build c++ project, you can try the following example:
vs_buildtool_xxx.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools^
                     --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64^
                     --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.140^
                     --installPath C:\BuildTools

C:\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe myproject.sln

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.140 means that VS2015 build tool for C++.

Important note: using command line is quite different from the vs_installer UI. When you click the c++ build tool in vs_installer UI, you could see that it will install related components automatically.

These components are listed under Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools workload and you can choose whether or not to install them.
However, it is not to specify that the workload will install all of them.
When you use command line, it will not install any related components automatically, so you should add them one by one manually.
For c++ projects, you could use these commands to install it:
vs_buildtool.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools^
                 --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools^
                 --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64^
                 --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.18362^
                 --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CMake.Project^
                 --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.TestTools.BuildTools^
                 --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ASAN^
                 --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.140

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


How to convert AVI to FLV. Converting AVI videos to Adobe Flash. AVI to FLV video converters.
Search for avi to flv converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Audio Video Interleave movie to Flash video.
We have found 38 software records in our database eligible for .avi to .flv file format conversion.
Common AVI movies might be converted to Adobe Flash videos in FLV format in almost any modern video conversion software.
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned avi to flv. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.


text:
Tech » Gaming
China's Tencent fires more than 100 for fraud, embezzlement
More than 10 were transferred to China's public security organ
Tencent has been hit hard by a regulatory crackdown on video games by Beijing. PHOTO: AFP
Chinese tech giant Tencent said Monday it had fired more than a hundred employees for violating company policies, with some referred to police and later found guilty of bribery and embezzlement.
The Hong Kong-listed company is the world's top video game maker and the owner of popular super-app WeChat but has struggled under a broad regulatory crackdown on China's tech sector initiated in late 2020.
In a statement, the firm – which in November posted its second consecutive quarterly decline in revenue – said it had found more than 100 employees guilty of violating its anti-fraud policy.
More than 10 were transferred to China's public security organ, it added, accusing them of "bribery or occupation".
"In response to the problems of corruption and fraud within the company, Tencent's Anti-Fraud Investigation Department continued to strengthen its crackdown and investigated and dealt with a series of violations with common problems," the firm said.
"The number of cases and personnel investigated and dealt with throughout 2022 has increased compared with 2021," it added.
Those accused were found to have embezzled company funds and accepting bribes, it added, with a number referred to police and some found guilty in court.
A number of those fired and accused of corruption were part of the company's PCG arm, which oversees the its mammoth content output from news to sports and movies.
But they also span Tencent's other businesses, including cloud computing and fintech.
Most notably, one employee was found guilty of "accepting bribes from non-state employees" and sentenced to three years in jail, the company said.
Company CEO Pony Ma told an internal staff meeting last month that the level of corruption at the firm was "shocking", state media reported.
Tencent has been hit hard by a regulatory crackdown on video games by Beijing, which saw hundreds of firms pledged to scrub "politically harmful" content from their products and enforce curbs on underage players to comply with government demands.
But the firm was last month granted its first license for a video game in 18 months, ending a dry spell that had hampered the profits world's top game maker.
KPL management sends legal notice to sponsor for unpaid amount
World 'dangerously unprepared' for next crisis: Red Cross
Google's MusicLM will let you create music from text prompts
China's big AI play: New ChatGPT-style bot set to disrupt industry
Philips cuts 6,000 more jobs after sleep device recall

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Additionally the download manager may offer you optional utilities such as an online translator, search bar, online backup, pc health kit . Fastread & FastUSBread: Utilities for reading algorithm data and memory from Hardlock LPT/ USB devices ( 109k).
Windows startup programs - Database search. Pdf cracker registration key Smart- Serials - Serials for Pdf Password Remover 3. کرک های جدید SolveigMM Video Splitter Business 7. The FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, an international football tournament contested by the men' s national teams of the member associations of FIFA once every four years. Vista XP SP1 SP2 SP3 MESE OSR2 OSR1 95 NT4 NT 3. 0 : s/ n: B5K7ij49p2 A1Monitor v2.
10 DOS 6 Tricks Secrets Tips Tweaks Hacks Fixes Updates Upgrades games chess. Please try again iends, Now i share a tool to break PDF password.
It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July. The culture of Mexico reflects the country' s complex history is the result of the gradual blending of native culture ( particularly Mesoamerican) with Spanish culture other immigrant cultures. The Raptors looked like a team suffering from shell- shock early on against the Hawks. The download manager is part of our virus malware filtering system certifies the file' s reliability.
0 : Key: 261942 A1- Image screensaver v4. MDGx AXCEL216 MAX Speed Performance Windows.
Pdf cracker registration key Pdf cracker registration key Pdf cracker registration key DOWNLOAD! Free pdf password remover v3 1 registration key.
Free pdf password remover v3 1 registration key. 1 full and with without limitations. Jun 07, · Mercury Motherboard V2.
1 : s/ n: G4458 A1 Wallpaper Pro v1. 9 daz free download donwload bokep 3gp gratis untuk hp- adds. Masalah dengan password file PDF yang anda miliki ( lupa password, tidak tau passwordnya apa dll ) nahh. Jaleco aims to offer downloads free of viruses and malware.
SmartPCFixer™ is a fully featured and easy- to- use system optimization suite. PDF Password Remover v3. 13 بهمن 97 کرک اصلاح شده Schrodinger Suites - 4 قرار داده شد.
Cette politique de confidentialité s' applique aux informations que nous collectons à votre sujet sur ( le « Site Web» ) et les applications FILMube et comment nous utilisons ces informations. If you' re frustrated with the time it takes your Windows 10/ 8/ 7/ Vista/ XP PC to boot then it seems to be running slowly you may have too many programs running at start- up - you have come to the right place to identify ntinues from Part 11. 1 With Serial Number Ini akan sangat membantu anda dalam menghapus proteksi ( protected ) or password yang di berikan ke file PDF tersebut.
اطلاع رسانی. 1 Full Version, is a tool that enables you to remove passwords from protected PDF documents. 1 unlock with serial key. It was the first World Cup to be held in Eastern Europe the 11th time that it had been held in Europe.
12 بهمن 97 کرک اصلاح شده Keysight Advanced Design System ( ADS) x64 قرار گرفت. Hardlock Envelope Emulator. A A- Z Puzzle Maker v1. 0 اضافه شد.
Rar 5ef903689f windows 7 loader v2. 7 بهمن 97 سایت و سرور فایل دانلودلی در سامانه ثبت. Find Serial Number notice: PDF Password Remover. Please use this thread to discuss anti- virus anti- spyware firewall software.
PDF Password Remover is a small application to decrypt PDF file with owner/ master password. Free pdf password remover v3 1 registration key. With it defrag disk, remove cache files, update windows, fix errors, you can clean windows registry download dlls. Excel Pasword Remover - How to Remove Password on Excel / / / 1: 09 CloneDVD 2.
It can directly remove PDF restrictions on editing copying, printing more. Politique de confidentialité FILMube. This feature is not available right now.
By default Epubor software shall be able to discover your purchased Adobe DRM protected EPUB PDF books automatically you can see them in. Adobe DRMed Books. During the 300- year rule by the Spanish, Mexico became a crossroad for.
0 Pi865d7 Vga Driver For Windows 7. How to Recover Aadhar PDF Pin Code Password- खो या हु आ आधा र PDF का पा सवर् ड 1 मि नट मे ं पता करे - Duration: 6: 18. Find Serial Number notice: PDF Password Remover serial number PDF Password Remover activation key, PDF Password Remover all version keygen, crack - may give false results no results in search terms.
PDF Password Remover could also be available for download on the author' s website. At an estimated cost of over $ 14. First inhabited more than 10 the cultures that developed in Mexico became one of the cradles of civilization. Store & share your files with Learn more about our services ( video).
This release was created for you, eager to use Pdf Password Remover 3. 0 : s/ n: D9a72gKL39. Free pdf password remover v3 1 registration key. If you are having issues with certain software, a new.
0 Activation key Patch Keygen serial Crack CloneDVD - CloneBD senyum karang ada aplikasi untuk membuka pasword PDF jadi ga usah pusing- pusing lagi ya. Our intentions are not to harm Pdf software company but to give the possibility to those who can not pay for any piece of software out there.
Online Product Registration: Thank you for taking the time to register. Your feedback helps us develop products geared to your needs. Having trouble on one of our sites or our mobile app?


text:
A recognizer which uses the amazon [lex](https://aws.amazon.com/de/lex) api to determine the intent of a text

## Setup

1. register at [luis](https://aws.amazon.com/de/lex). You need an amazon account for this.
2. create an app
3. follow the [getting started](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lex/latest/dg/what-is.html)
4. Get the required details
5. Follow the example below or lookup the complete one int the examplesproject

## Example

add the region, alias, name secretKey and accessKeyId as properties in the Bot.properties

e.g. for the example

lex.aws.region      = eu-west-1
lex.aws.secretKey   = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
lex.aws.accessKeyId = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
lex.bot.alias       = FlowerOne
lex.bot.name        = OrderFlowers

     // setup bot
    MyBot bot = new MyBot();
    // register LuisRecognizer  with bot
    bot.register(new LexRecognizer());
    // register bot with ConsoleConnector
    new ConsoleConnector().register(bot);

See the hello lex example in the examples project for more details

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


"Why am I like Texas?" said the unmarried Miss Star, to a bashful wooer "who did not spark up," as they say. "Because I am a LONE star." - "Then," said Gideon, brightening up, "let me propose annexation."
Click here to learn more about the annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States.


Hardened high carbon chrome vanadium steel blade, 19 gauge. Ground and tempered to precise tolerances. Smooth hardwood handle. Blade is securely riveted and locked in place with a strong nickel plated ferrule. Extremely flexible blade, often used to slice off rough spots in tire casings. Blade measures 4" x 13/16" x 0.042".


20 years ago this month, i moved to NYC.
i had big dreams in my heart of performing musical theatre on broadway.
i kept working at it, though.
and now, i am truly blessed to be a working actor and model; while being first and foremost a mother and a wife.
yesterday, i had an opportunity to book a job; all i had to do was show up.
and the dramatic irony was that i couldn't.
with M's Cystic Fibrosis she requires multiple treatments a day.
missing them is not an option, so i respectfully declined.
and while i am so angry at this disease our sweet baby girl has, i have never been more empowered to spread awareness and help find a cure for this life shortening illness.
stop the world — i wanna get off!
okay, well, maybe for just a pause?
we all have busy lives, with highs and lows.
but with M's added health stresses and her intense maintenance routine that is required to help her stay healthy, it's become a larger juggling act that i just can't seem to master.
i drop a ball and pick it up, but all the while i've dropped another one and another and another.
we got some disturbing news regarding her latest x-ray.
she's showing progression of the disease. her airways in her lungs are becoming somewhat thicker with mucus.
her digestive system, primarily the pancreas, also gets clogged with mucus so she must swallow pills before she eats to help her body digest food.
this is why her airway clearance, or as we like to call it, "shakey-shake" is so incredibly important.
this is why we get so upset when she fights us on her treatments.
needless to say, C and i were devastated.
feelings of helplessness sank down deep into our hearts, and our stomachs were sick with angst.
we have this beautiful bright little child but yet there is this silent disease taking over from the inside.
a while back i had written about a program called Casey Cares which helps families with medically fragile children and in our case, children with critical and/or life threatening diseases.
it took us months to fill out the paperwork because we didn't want to face the reality that she is considered eligible, but when we finally did, we received a wonderful gift: tickets for our whole family to enjoy the day and meals at Hershey Park.
we were ecstatic. little C's birthday was coming up, what better way to reward him for being an integral part to M's treatments?? he urges us to do them, he helps with connecting the tubing, the hoses and turning on entertainment, of course.
this is why you donate.
i promise people are grateful for others' generosity, as we are.
thank you Casey Cares for giving our family a pause from our everyday reality.
thank you for letting me stop the world, my world, even if it was for a day.
and anyone who tells you it isn't hard, is totally lying.
but the rewards of parenting are priceless, and they make up for those awful moments of intense anger and extreme frustration, combined with overwhelming chaos.
there are moments when your son brings you a perfectly picked, carefully selected handful of sweaty dandelions, and your heart just sings.
or when a butterfly dances above your daughters head full of curls and she giggles in the utmost delight — it's pure bliss.
and when your little boy cups his baby sister's face in between his hands to explain to her the importance of being safe, you are rewarded with the confidence that you've guided them into being strong, independent empathetic little know-ers.
you are rewarded that you're doing it right.
but then life happens and you forget about those special moments and you lose your temper and yell, or get sad over a silly argument with a loved one and cry, and it takes a chubby hand to caress your check and say, "don't be sad mommy, i'm here for you" to bring you right back.
but what about the rewards for a parent of a special medical needs child?
we spent the month of april watching M get sicker and sicker. her appetite lessened and her usual perky ways became more irksome and spiritless. her persistent cough quickly turned deep, rattling, and ominous.
when she's not sick, she needs to do her airway clearance treatments twice a day — each time taking about 30 minutes. that's not including the cleaning and sterilization of the nebulizer cups and having a power struggle with a 2 year old.
at this point, now that she had a cold, these treatments were increased to four times a day.
have you ever tried putting a straight jacket on a 2 year old?
putting the vest on her is exactly like this. and she must keep it on and have it shake her with compression for 20 minutes.
i felt like i was a complete loser as a mother. failing my daughter what her little body desperately needed. i tried so hard to show i had it all together — working crazy hours, taking care of the kids, the house, my husband, myself…i fell short everywhere. and all i could see was everything that i did wrong.
a wise aquintence said it's easy to see what you've failed at in the day so to change the view. focus on what you have achieved.
so this was my driving force to keep going. it became my mantra.
but then she spiked a fever.
i woke up on a thursday morning to a phone call from her doctor.
"no, this is a cystic fibrosis exacerbation, so she would most likely need to be in there for 10-14 days. come in as soon as you can.
it was as if he punched me in the stomach so hard that i couldn't breathe. i lost all ability to make any words for a response to him.
this moment ranks right up there with diagnosis day.
and i never thought that could be possible.
momma always told me there'd be days like these.
but in the center, i just stood.
phone ringing. message after message, who do we owe more? but one call that particularly stands out is from the speciality pharmacy.
since our insurance changed in the beginning of the year, we haven't been able to get M's super expensive medicine. she nebulizes something called, pulmozyme, every evening. it's a mucolytic agent, which thins her mucous to help her body to get rid of it easier in conjunction with her cpt or chest therapy. it comes refrigerated with reusable ice packs and all.
so the stress of our dwindling monthly supply, as it nears the end with no reorder in sight, is mounting.
the machine we use daily to sterilize the nebulizer parts is humming away on the counter, and at this particular moment, unbeknownst to me, is leaking.
all over the counter and floor.
while paw patrol plays in the background, my son is begging me to check the email for the tracking of his pocket racers, but they are on backorder.
he has now loudly proclaimed that i'm not paying any attention to him, that i do not love him and that i love M, more.
my email is pinging away with hot bookings from one of my agents. this is fabulous, but being that i can't even go potty without two crying kids following me around, sending emails back to them is impossible.
my text messages are ringing, it's my mom asking me about babysitting or gymnastics drop off, i can't remember which, to be honest.
M is screaming horrible dramatics because she wants a popsicle or a "nee nee." whatever she can get. both, to which i am adamantly saying "no." this has brought her to the point of pulling down my yoga pants.
i want to pull my hair out and scream.
or bang it against a wall — i am not picky.
all i hear is the plastic menchies spoon scraping against the elmo bowl. i even found a piece of a sweetened, delicious strawberry at the bottom.
i don't hear the cries, the whines, the rings and dings. the dripping from the wabi sounds like a waterfall one would hear at a spa, while getting a luxurious massage. a tornado of activity and stress around me like a swirl and i was the eye of the storm. calm and cool.
my mom just bought me a bracelet this week. i've been begging her, or C, for it. a mantra band, actually. i asked for "choose love" to be printed on it. a reminder for myself, that in these exact times of frustration, of trying my absolute hardest and still drowning in life's stresses, to choose love.
ha! for what? for whom? geeze, i actually argued with my own brain in this moment. choose love for wanting to scream my head off?
choose love for wanting to run away?
choose love for hating this disease my child so unfairly has?
i know most of this craziness is typical mom life stuff.
we all deal with this. though, maybe we all need to talk about it more instead of "pinterest-ing" our lives as such perfectness…but the added challenges with CF tick me off! they make me go off the handle.
so i looked down and saw the words.
so i chose to love those soggy cheerios and i chose to love myself.
i ignored everything around me. i gave myself a gift of 60 seconds and focused on one thing.
i love these kids so much, that i won't let this overwhelm me.
then, like that; i was snapped back to reality.
a huge puddle of the floor from the sterilizer and silence from the living room — our cable has been turned off from lack of payment.
and i still had crying children.
so i sunk down to the floor, to my knees, and hugged my kids.
…in the longest, loving hug i have ever given. and i got in return not one, but two amazing hugs that i have ever received.
the lights. the music. the wonder.
i've never done exceptionally well this time of year, for many reasons.
one: i am a fantastic procrastinator, so there goes having anything actually completed so i may enjoy the time.
thus, i spin and spin not making any sense of progress.
plus when your family lives in all sorts of places, the dinner table gets smaller, not larger.
don't let me fool you, if you see me on facebook, or at wegman's chatting over the bananas, i might seem fine and dandy. but it's easy to play that role.
honestly, i've always been pretty happy, that being nothappy is just weird to me.
i've been writing for over a year now, and i thought that by doing so, it would help me with the isolation a caregiver feels. all that a mother feels.
i thought by writing, i would have a better handle on my emotions.
these days, i am so angry with the day to day necessities of this stupid disease, i find myself loathing the very things that make her well.
for instance, between dropping little c off at school and senior c at work, it would have been great to grab a coffee and stop somewhere to let M play around.
but, instead, i needed to circle the airport, i mean the hospital's overflowing parking garage to fight a losing battle for one measly space.
do we walk bundled up, outside in the cold air or in the warm but germ-y hospital.
this was all for a trip to the hospital pharmacy since wegman's doesn't carry the latest prescription ordered by her team.
they added another medicine to our regimen. another 15 precious minutes.
i am angry at that!!
any time we have as a family, any time i have as a momma, most is spent doing something to take care of this disease.
i am angry at that.
i am quite the contrary.
i am angry that my 20 month old baby girl knows to say "enzymes!" before she wants to eat.
i am angry that she knows how to swallow them.
amazed at the same time.
but angry she has been put into this situation at all and will be for the rest of her life.
i am angry our cf clinic knows us by our voices when we call.
i am angry little M still fights me something fierce doing her vest and nebs daily.
i am angry that once she starts a cold the incessant fears and worries creep sink deep into my heart and brain.
i am angry that her little dry cough she has had the last week has made her throw up more times than it should, due to her gagging on the extra mucous that's in her little body.
i am angry that i need to be mindful we are not excluding little C from anything, as M's 'way of life' progresses.
i am angry this has made me so selfish.
but isn't any mother when it comes to her child's health?
i don't want this for her. any of it.
but, i will put on lip gloss and fluff my curly hair.
i will go through the motions required for this time of year, because i have children.
and hopefully i will actually feel the magic.


text:
Q: tuple of datetime objects in Python I want to write a function that returns a tuple of (start,end) where start is the Monday at 00:00:00:000000 and end is Sunday at 23:59:59:999999. start and end are datetime objects. No other information is given about day, month or year. i tried this function
def week_start_end(date):
 start= date.strptime("00:00:00.000000", "%H:%M:%S.%f")
 end = date.strptime("23:59:59.999999", "%H:%M:%S.%f")
return (start,end)

print week_start_end(datetime(2013, 8, 15, 12, 0, 0))

should return (datetime(2013, 8, 11, 0, 0, 0, 0), datetime(2013, 8, 17, 23, 59, 59, 999999))
but the function returns tuple with dates (datetime.datetime(1900, 1, 1, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(1900, 1, 1, 23, 59, 59, 999999))

A: I think  using datetime.isocalendar is a nice solution. This give the correct outputs for your example:
import datetime

def iso_year_start(iso_year):
    "The gregorian calendar date of the first day of the given ISO year"
    fourth_jan = datetime.date(iso_year, 1, 4)
    delta = datetime.timedelta(fourth_jan.isoweekday()-1)
    return fourth_jan - delta

def iso_to_gregorian(iso_year, iso_week, iso_day):
    "Gregorian calendar date for the given ISO year, week and day"
    year_start = iso_year_start(iso_year)
    return year_start + datetime.timedelta(days=iso_day-1, weeks=iso_week-1)

def week_start_end(date):
    year = date.isocalendar()[0]
    week = date.isocalendar()[1]
    d1 = iso_to_gregorian(year, week, 0)
    d2 = iso_to_gregorian(year, week, 6)
    d3 = datetime.datetime(d1.year, d1.month, d1.day, 0,0,0,0)
    d4 = datetime.datetime(d2.year, d2.month, d2.day, 23,59,59,999999)
    return (d3,d4)

As an example:
>>> d = datetime.datetime(2013, 8, 15, 12, 0, 0)
>>> print week_start_end(d)
(datetime.datetime(2013, 8, 11, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2013, 8, 17, 23, 59, 59, 999999))

And should help you with your problem.


Home > Cricket > Kumar Sangakkara better than Sachin, Ponting and Kallis?
Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka's vetertan batsman recently became the fastest man to score 12000 runs in Test Cricket. He overtook the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis and Rahul Dravid. Along with that, Sangakkara also scored his 11th doube ton in Test match cricket which is just one short of the the greatest of them all, Sir Don Bradman.
When we call Kumar Sangakkara as the great Sri Lankan batsman of all time, when his records suggest that he is the world's best Test batsman. Scoring 12000 runs in Test cricket was once considered a dream which Brian Lara almost got close to. Sachin Tendulkar broke his record and went on to become the leading run scorer in Test cricket. However, Sachin Tendulakar took 200 matches for the record. My question to all cricket fans is simple. What if Brian Lara had played 200 matches? Ok, forget Lara, what if today's present Kumar Sangakkara play 200 Test matches. His average in Test cricket is 58 which surpasses the greats like Sachin, Ponting and Kallis comfortably.
Why is that Kumar Sangakkara is so underrated? Because he has been a flat track bully and scored runs only in the subcontinent? Ok, If I agree to the fans point of view, scoring runs in subcontinent was even possible for Sachin and Dravid but wasn't Kumar Sangakkara consistent of scoring tons and tons of runs, be it in subcontinent conditions? There is absoultely no hatred against Sachin or others, but what Kumar Sangakkara has acheived in Test match cricket, I am afraid he won't be able to get that kind of recognition which Sachin Tendulkar got.
In cricket, when people say greatest batsman of all time? Some say Don Bradman, some would say Sachin Tendulkar, few of them would say Brian Lara. I want to add another option to this list and I would say "Kumar Sangakkara". His dedication to cricket and a gentlemanly approach to the game makes him different from others. I don't think he would go on and play 200 Test matches but if he ever did, he would easily and with a huge margin beat Sachin Tendulkar's record of the highest Test runs.


Western Digital just released a faster, new two-bay network attached storage (NAS) system, which is available diskless or with hard drives up to a total of 12 TB for Mac or Windows. The WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra has been upgraded to 1.3 GHz dual-core Marvell ARMADA 385 processor, 1 GB of DDR3 memory, and uses WD Red hard drives. The previous model (without Ultra in the name) has 512 MB memory and a 1.2 GHz processor.
With WD SmartWare Pro, PC users can customize when and where their content is saved, while Mac users have full access to Apple Time Machine for personalized backup. You can even automatically back up your data to a separate My Cloud NAS device, or any supported cloud service like Amazon S3, ElephantDrive or Acronis. Combined with 256 AES volume encryption, you can securely store files across your entire network, regardless of OS. Additionally, users can attach USB 3.0 hard drives to the USB expansion ports for even more storage.
Several data management and security features allow users to select a preferred method for managing and protecting their movies, photos, music and digital files. Drive management options include RAID 0, RAID 1; JBOD and spanning modes, while data protection options include NAS to NAS, USB, cloud or LAN/WAN backup. The My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS comes preconfigured in RAID 1 mode to help protect data right from the start and is easily configurable into other data protection modes.
With simplified file and folder sharing, users can send customized, private links that allow recipients read/write access to particular files on the user's My Cloud EX2 Ultra. Whether on a photo shoot, or editing at home, saving creations at full fidelity and sharing with your entire network is a breeze. The My Cloud EX2 Ultra features an intuitive dashboard, so user accounts can be created, features customized and storage can be monitored with ease. With MyCloud.com web access, or the My Cloud mobile app, users can access their media and manage users from any internet connected device. With WD Sync, users can automatically synchronize their media and files across their computers and their My Cloud device with the confidence that their computer content is up to date and accessible from all devices.
My Cloud EX2 Ultra includes advanced data serving options including an integrated FTP and WebDAV server, backup server, P2P download server and Microsoft Active Directory support. Additionally, users can download and run a host of third party apps, including, Plex, Milestone Arcus surveillance, aMule, Icecast, Joomla!, Anti-Virus Essentials, WordPress, SqueezeCenter, and more. Users can also stream videos and photos to connected TVs, media players, gaming consoles and other DLNA/UPnP devices with the included Twonky 7.2 DLNA-certified 1.5 media server, and built-in iTunes support.
The WD My Cloud mobile app currently is available for download for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play.
WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra is compatible with Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows Vista, OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion as well as DLNA/UPnP enabled devices.


text:
Possible Hysterectomy Complications and Side Effects
More in Sexual Health
Reproductive Health Issues
Hysterectomy & Alternatives
Uterine Conditions
Lisa Fayed
Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD on November 01, 2019
Doru Paul, MD, is board-certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, and hematology.
Doru Paul, MD
Hero Images / Getty Images
Complications of hysterectomy.
Hysterectomies are the most common gynecologic procedures performed in the United States and may be performed for a number of reasons, ranging from fibroids to chronic pelvic pain to gynecologic cancer.
Still, many women who are advised to have a hysterectomy are naturally worried about the potential complications and side effects of the surgery, and how their bodies will respond after the removal of their uterus.
As with any surgery, there are certain complications that may arise with a hysterectomy, including:
Infection and fever
Blood clots in the leg that can travel to the lung
Anesthesia-related complications with the lungs or heart
Nerve or tissue damage
Bowel obstruction
Formation of a fistula
A fistula is an abnormal pathway between two organs, such as the bladder and vagina (called a vesicovaginal fistula).
A woman's medical history may make her more or less prone to developing these complications. For instance, obese women are more prone to infection and blood clots than normal-weight women.
The reason behind the surgery is another risk factor for developing complications. For example, fistula formation (albeit uncommon) is more likely to occur in women undergoing a hysterectomy for cancer versus women undergoing a hysterectomy for benign gynecological conditions like pelvic organ prolapse.
The type of hysterectomy a woman is undergoing also affects her risk.
For example, in comparison to a vaginal or laparoscopic hysterectomy, with an abdominal hysterectomy, there is an increased risk for complications like infection, bleeding, blood clots, nerve damage, and bowel obstruction.
An abdominal hysterectomy also usually requires the longest hospital stay and recovery time.
With a laparoscopic hysterectomy, there is usually less pain and a lower risk of infection; however, there is an increased risk of injury to the bladder.
There is also an increased risk of a rare, but very serious complication, called vaginal cuff dehiscence, with a laparoscopic hysterectomy.
Vaginal cuff dehiscence refers to the separation of the incision site where the uterus was removed from the upper part of the vagina.
There are several potential side effects that may occur after a hysterectomy.
The physical side effects of undergoing a hysterectomy include pain (usually for a few days) and vaginal bleeding and discharge (often for several weeks). Constipation is also common, and some women experience difficulties with urination or nausea or vomiting.
In addition, if the ovaries are removed, women who have not yet entered menopause will no longer menstruate (called surgical or induced menopause).
As a result, women may experience a range of menopausal symptoms, such as:
Keep in mind—women whose ovaries are not removed may still experience early menopause if blood flow to the ovaries is compromised.
An Overview of Menopause
Emotional side effects may also occur after a hysterectomy. While most women feel satisfied that their symptoms (e.g., pelvic pain or vaginal bleeding) are now gone,  some women in their childbearing years may feel anxious or depressed about the loss of fertility.
If you are feeling sad or worried after your hysterectomy, please get in touch with your doctor. You may benefit from talking to a therapist and/or taking a medication for depression or anxiety.
Sexual side effects are also a possibility. Fortunately, research shows that most women who were sexually active before surgery experience the same or better sexual functioning after surgery.
That said, sexual functioning after a hysterectomy is really a complicated topic. Every woman is different, and there are so many factors to consider, such as:
The reason behind having the surgery (cancer versus a non-cancerous condition)
The level of support provided by a woman's partner
Mood problems that existed before the surgery
A hysterectomy is a common and generally safe surgical procedure. Complications though, and perhaps unforeseen emotional reactions, do occur. If you are experiencing any new and/or bothersome symptoms, please be sure to contact your doctor.
Clarke-Pearson DL, Geller EJ. Complications of hysterectomy. Obstet Gynecol. 2013 Mar;121(3):654-73. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182841594
Committee on Gynecologic Practice. Committee opinion no. 619: Gynecologic surgery in the obese woman. Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Jan;125(1):274-8. doi: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000459870.06491.71
Hilton P, Cromwell DA. The risk of vesicovaginal and urethrovaginal fistula after hysterectomy performed in the English National Health Service--a retrospective cohort study examining patterns of care between 2000 and 2008. BJOG. 2012 Nov;119(12):1447-54. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2012.03474.x
Schindlbeck C, Klauser K, Dian D, Janni W, Friese K. Comparison of total laparoscopic, vaginal and abdominal hysterectomy. Arch Gynecol Obstet. 2008 Apr;277(4):331-7.
Foust-Wright CE, Berkowitz LR. (Updated January 2019). Patient education: Vaginal hysterectomy (Beyond the Basics). Sharp HT, Eckler K eds. UpToDate. Waltham, MA: UpToDate Inc.
Gibson CJ et al. Mood symptoms after natural menopause and hysterectomy with and without bilateral oophorectomy among women in midlife. Obstet Gynecol. 2012 May;119(5):935-41. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31824f9c14
Danesh M, Hamzehgardeshi Z, Moosazadeh M, Shabani-Asrami F. The Effect of Hysterectomy on Women's Sexual Function: a Narrative Review. Med Arch. 2015 Dec;69(6):387-92. doi: 10.5455/medarh.2015.69.387-392
Everything You Should Know About Hysterectomy Surgery
What Happens: Before, During and After Hysterectomy Surgery?
Here Are Some Facts to Understand If You're Considering a Hysterectomy
What Does My Cervix Actually Do?
Will You Go Through Menopause If You Have a Hysterectomy?
What Happens After a Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy Surgery?
Important Questions to Ask Before Hysterectomy Surgery
Why You May Need to Have a Hysterectomy
Different Types of Hysterectomies
The Pros and Cons of Hysterectomy to Treat Endometriosis
Common Causes of Sexual Dysfunction in Women
How Will My Body Change After a Hysterectomy?
The Symptoms and Treatment of Different Uterine Conditions
Fibroid Tumors are Non-Cancerous Uterine Growths
When to Be Concerned About Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding
Watching for the Complications of an Enlarged Uterus


text:
Under 30: Writing & Publishing in the Pandemic
May 21, 2021 at 5:44 pm • 0
Srishti Chaudhary is one of the few writers who can claim to have published 2 books and multiple short stories before turning 30! She writes about Indian girls and women and their struggle with their dreams, like in her short story 'I Want to Be Miss India' that tells the story of a young girl and a seemingly impossible dream! She talks to us about what it takes to become a published author so young and what the pandemic will do to Indian literature:
What got you interested in writing?
Growing up I was a big reader and reading so many great books also made me want to write something like that. For as long as I can remember I have wanted to be a writer and tell stories!
You're one of the few young writers that has published books with major publishing companies before turning 30. Any tips for young writers out there?
Just write that book and keep persevering. Don't be afraid to put your work out there, but also don't think that just because you did, it will work out! Writing and publishing takes years for most people, and you have to remember it's a marathon not a sprint! Just read, write, publish, repeat and don't think about the rest.
Do you think the pandemic is going to affect the styles and habits of Indian writers and readers? Perhaps push the dystopian/ apocalyptic genre since it feels real now?
Yeah perhaps, but the opposite could work as well- I, for one, want to escape this nightmare and don't look forward to the word corona or pandemic being mentioned in stories or movies.
How do you work towards making your writing style inherently Indian – since many writers draw inspiration from foreign writers, many may face issues writing in the Indian context. Do you face this struggle, and if so, how do you deal with it?
This is one thing I don't struggle with – I feel I can't write unless it's in this inherently familiar indian way. It just doesn't feel real to me. Sometimes I'm making a conscious effort to use more words and phrases from my native language, and use references that are local.
How do you think writing can help spread positivity right now?
Perhaps it can help us make sense of the madness around us. At least for me, writing feels like I'm getting back the control, that there is still something which is in my hands. Stories of love and positivity of course have the power to lift the spirits.
What would you say to anyone who is using the pandemic to discover the serious writer in them?
Well done! There is enough time, what with being home and extra time people might have on their hands. Start with reading a lot, and if there is the will, writing will follow too!
What do you think are the obstacles young Indian girls face in achieving their dreams?
So many! Growing up they are always presented with an idealized version of themselves – the girl who learns housework, doesn't break rules, studies well, follows the book. Society constantly reminds them things they can and cannot do. I feel as a girl you have to fight double, struggle much more – that's also what makes girls so resilient, but that resilience is thrust upon them.
One book you would recommend to everyone in the world?
Harry Potter- I can't help it, it's just my favorite!
Read about young, feisty Mina and her will to succeed against all odds in Srishti's 'I Want to Be Miss India'
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedinShare on Google+	Romance is one of the most well-sold genres of...
A Note from Ankur Warikoo
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedinShare on Google+	Ankur Warikoo's first book, 'Do Epic Shit' has...
Team Juggernaut19 NovemberNovember 190
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedinShare on Google+	COVID spotlighted the question that is at the back of...


text:
Albert K. Lawler
ALAWLER@beckerlawyers.com
New York University School of Law, J.D.
Fordham University, B.A.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Becker & Poliakoff Expands New York Office With Six Lateral Hires, Establishes New Tax Litigation Practice
Albert Lawler is a member of the firm's Business Litigation, Real Estate, and Corporate practice groups. He specializes in contracts, real estate, employment matters, business organization and dissolution, creditor's rights, bankruptcy and commercial litigation.
He also represents franchisers and franchisees in the formation of business entities.
After law school, Mr. Lawler was an associate counsel in the New York State Department of Housing and Community Renewal, serving as an Administrative Law Judge in hundreds of cases on behalf of the State of New York in litigation involving state regulation of the housing industry, and acting as a legal advisor to the Department. Later, he practiced real estate law, handling numerous co-op conversions, commercial leases and transactions, in addition to litigating complex commercial cases. Notable cases included Phelps Dodge vs. Occidental Petroleum Company, a multi-state environmental breach of contract case, where he supervised a team of associates in all aspects of discovery. Most recently, Mr. Lawler was a partner at Lawler, Mahon & Rooney, LLP, concentrating on contract law, real estate and commercial litigation.
Get in touch with Albert K. Lawler


text:
Antisemitism and Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric Mar Poland's Presidential Election
Photo credit: Czarek Sokolowski/AP
Incumbent President Andrzej Duda defeated Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, 51%-49%, for a second five-year term. While the presidency is supposed to be non-partisan, the contest clearly pitted the nationalist populist Law and Justice party, which supported Duda, against the pro-European liberal supporters of Trzaskowski. Duda was the early favorite, but the race tightened as election day neared. In response, Duda's campaign turned negative, including the use of antisemitism and homophobia, supported by the state media.
Appeals to antisemitism referenced restitution claims and the international Jewish community, not the very small Jewish community in Poland. State TV ran claims – both as news and as commentary – that Trzaskowski would "sell out" Poland and take money from Polish families to pay "Jewish interests." Duda himself disparaged the LGBTQ community, repeating at a campaign rally the comments of a Law and Justice MP, "LGBT are not people, they are an ideology." He also referred to the campaign for LGBTQ rights as an "ideology" that was "more destructive" than Communism," a hard-hitting judgment in a country that is deeply anti-Communist across the political spectrum.
OSCE election monitors noted that "the incumbent's campaign and coverage by the public broadcaster were marked by homophobic, xenophobic and anti-Semitic rhetoric." Duda seemed to acknowledge that he and his campaign had gone over the line, and said during his victory speech, "It was a very sharp campaign, probably too sharp at times. If anyone is offended by my words, please forgive me. And give me the chance to improve in the next five years."
Two opposing interpretations can be made. Populism, aided by antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, prevailed. Other incumbent nationalist populist governments may conclude that they should double down on illiberalism during electoral campaigns. Adam Michnik, Poland's foremost liberal commentator, said, "Andrzej Duda's victory will be understood by his voters, and first of all by those in power, as a permission for the kind of politics that Law and Justice has been pursuing for almost five years, and that is a policy of the destruction of the democratic system, of isolating Poland in Europe, of homophobia, of xenophobia, nationalism and of using the Catholic Church as a tool. I would not even rule out a situation in which, if this policy is continued and we see an attempt on the free media, culture and science, there could be another Maidan," (referring to the violent pro-Europe protests in Ukraine in 2014.)
Alternatively, Trzaskowski's surprisingly strong challenge with a liberal program could be interpreted by those same governments as a cautionary signal. Turnout was at a near-record high of 68%, which analysts ascribed to mobilization for Trzaskowski, mostly in urban areas. That historic turnout was achieved despite the context of COVID-19, including the first election date being postponed due to the pandemic.
Antisemitism Globally


Does Your Easy-Going Partner Care Enough?
I really enjoy contributing to quick-read articles that might give someone just a hint of an idea about how to do things differently and, hopefully, more effectively in their relationships. Sometimes it is just the presentation of an alternative option that is enough to stick in someone's consciousness and prompt a shift in their relationship behavior. I was recently featured in an article on Romper about how to assess for easygoing versus indifferent in a relationship. Click here to read the full article!
For more information on how I help people develop healthier relationships, please click here.


text:
Reverend Dr. Hans ZOLLNER, SJ
President of the Institute of Anthropology. Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Dignity and Care of the Pontifical Gregorian University (former Centre for Child Protection) and professor of the Institute of Psychology.
Fr. Zollner, SJ, was born in 1966 in Regensburg (Germany). He holds an S.T.D. and is a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist.
From 2003 he has been full professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University's Institute of Psychology.
He has been the founding president of the Centre for Child Protection (est. 2012) at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
Fr. Zollner, SJ, was a member of the scientific working group of the "Round Table on Sexual Violence against Minors" of the Federal Government of Germany in 2010-2011.
Fr. Zollner, SJ, was chair of the organizing committees for the symposium "Towards Healing and Renewal" on sexual abuse of minors (February 2012) and for the world congress "Child Dignity in the Digital World" (2017); he was a member of the organizing committee for the summit on Child Protection in the Vatican (2019).
Since 2015, he is honorary professor in the Department of Theology and Religion of the University of Durham (England).
Fr. Zollner, SJ, was appointed as a consultor of the Congregation for the Clergy in 2017.
In 2018, Pope Francis appointed Fr. Zollner, SJ, for a second term to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
The ISC prepares the final event of its 2021 conference: Prevention Post Pandemic
The International Safeguarding Conference's 2021 conference focused on the issue of Prevention Post Pandemic is ongoing, and its final event is drawing closer.
The ISC Launches its 2021 conference On Prevention post Pandemic
In light of what has happened globally, this conference aims at creating the space for collaborative professional development and fruitful sharing about how to deal with the consequences the pandemic has had on safeguarding children, young people, and people at risk.
The Centre for Child Protection becomes an Institute
The Pontifical Gregorian University's Centre for Child Protection takes on a new guise and institutional framework, intensifying its commitment to the work of protecting minors and vulnerable people from sexual abuse.
Cardinal Parolin: reaffirmS the dignity of Our Smallest ones
The Vatican Secretary of State sent a message during the meeting promoted by our Safeguarding Partner Telefono Azzurro that focused on the theme "Dignity of children and adolescents at the time of Covid". The Cardinal stressed the need for "a more incisive approach in the education of our younger generations."
May 5: Fighting Child Abuse on and offline
"Governments, the non-profit sector, institutions, academia and civil society should join efforts and commit to protecting the dignity of children and adolescents worldwide."
XV Plenary Assembly addresses the realities, challenges, and directions for the Commission, Safeguarding, and the Church
The XV ordinary Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors took place in Rome and online from April 19-22, 2021.
Brazil Seminar: Creating Concrete structures to prevent and heal child sexual abuse
Teresa Kettelkamp on the event: "Each one has a history, a problem, a moment in life when they were violated. It is necessary to give identity, to know the name, to listen, more than to talk."
TutelaMinorum President Cardinal O'Malley to open Brazilian Bishops' Safeguarding Seminar
TutelaMinorum President Cardinal Sean O' Malley will give the key note address this Thursday in a church leadership Safeguarding formation seminar for the Brazilian Bishop's Conference. The three day seminar, entitled "Healing Wounds" preceedes the annual assembly of the Bishops Conference, the largest episcopal conference in the Church.
After her family was torn apart by child sexual abuse, Dr. Jennifer Wortham invested her expertise and faith in helping CSA victims and survivors from all cultures and religions
Zollner: Day for victims of abuse an important moment for the Church
"Prayer is a fundamental expression of the Christian faith, but action is also needed".
National Board In Ireland for Safeguarding Children launches video series on Theology of Safeguarding
The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland has commissioned 9 videos from theologians, scripture scholars and ethicists on the Theology of Safeguarding.
Balancing confidentiality, transparency and accountability
The ongoing work of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (TutelaMinorum) continues to bring together experts from around the world, providing renewed attention to strengthening the Church's response to the sexual abuse crisis faced in every part of...
Safeguarding begins in Homes and Schools
In 2017, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in collaboration with the Centre for Child Protection of the Pontifical Gregorian University, hosted a global seminar on safeguarding and education, with a particular focus on Latin America.


It wasn't long before I was in crisis. A deep chasm had opened up between what I was preaching and the way I was leading our congregational development. My attitude toward the men and women I was gathering in the congregation was silently shaped by how I was planning to use them to succeed, with little thought to feeding their souls with the bread of life. I found myself thinking competitively about the other churches in town, about how I could beat them at the numbers game.
I never wavered in my theological convictions, but I had to get a church up and running, and I was ready to use any means to do it: appeal to people's consumer instincts, use abstract principles to unify enthusiasm, shape goals through catchy slogans, create publicity images to provide ego enhancement.
Tournier was a Swiss physician who at midlife shifted his medical practice from examining rooms and surgeries to his living room. He left a medical practice that was focused entirely on the body and embraced a healing vocation that dealt with the whole person - body, mind and spirit. He wrote many books, and I have read them all. They were not great books - anecdotal in style, personal in story - but an appealing spirit of discerning grace permeated everything he wrote.
Driving the 20 miles home my wife and I were commenting appreciatively on the lecture, when she added, "Wasn't that translator great?" I said, "What translator? There wasn't any translator." She said, "You're kidding me. He was lecturing in French, and you don't know 20 words of French. Of course there was a translator." And then I remembered her as she stood just behind Tournier's shoulder, unobtrusive, and translating his French into my English. She was so modest that I forgot she was there.
And there was something about Tournier himself. During the lecture I had a growing feeling that what he was saying and who he was were completely congruent: his long life in Switzerland and his lecture in Baltimore were the same. Just as the translator was "assimilated" to the lecturer, her English words carrying the meaning and spirit of his French words, so his words were at one with his life - not just what he knew and what he had done, but who he was.
The transparency of the man was a memorable experience. There was no dissonance between word and spirit, no pretense. Later on I remembered what T. S. Eliot had said about Charles Williams. Some people are less than their works, some are more. Charles Williams cannot be placed in either class. To have known the man would have been enough, to know his books is enough. He was the same man in his life and in his writings. That's the sense I had that day with Tournier. He wrote what he lived. He lived what he wrote. He was the same man in his books as he was in person.
This was the day that the word contemplative entered my vocabulary, giving shape to the way I wanted to live my life. I use the word contemplative with considerable apprehension, fearing that you will associate it with the kind of living that's done best in monasteries or in mountain retreats or in desert caves. I'm apprehensive that you'll disqualify yourselves on the grounds that you work in a noisy office or live in a dysfunctional family or don't have much interest in that kind of life.
Although many connect the word with a quiet life of withdrawal, I need a word to designate those times when we sense that a life is being lived well, that a conviction is held honestly, without contrivance. My concern is spiritual theology, and I need a word to identify what is distinctive in the Christian life in contrast to much of what is muddying the word "spirituality" in America. I'm looking for a word that defines the way Christians - every butcher, baker, candlestick-maker Christian - can live to the glory of God. I want to free the word contemplative from its captivity in Buddhist and Trappist monasteries and reclaim it for people like ourselves.
Last summer, our ten-year-old granddaughter, Lindsey, was staying with us for a couple of weeks. Two Carmelite nuns were planning to visit us after she left. The nuns were spending a few days in the mountains of Salt Lake, and the forest fires were really bad just then. So they called and asked if they could come a few days early. I said certainly they could. When Lindsey heard that the nuns might overlap with her visit, she said she didn't want them to come. "All the nuns do is go 'Hmmm . . . hmmm . . . hmmm.'" So much for stereotypes.
As it happened, they didn't come, and when we told them what Lindsey had said, they laughed and said they should have come early and given her a good, healthy dose of the utter and relentless earthiness of nuns.
If there's a single word that identifies the contemplative life, it is congruence - congruence between ends and means, congruence between what we do and the way we do it. So we admire an athlete whose body is accurately and gracefully responsive and totally submissive to the conditions of the event. When Michael Jordan played basketball, he was one with the court, the game, the basketball and his fellow players. Or take a musical performance in which Mozart, a Stradivarius and Yitzak Perlman all fuse indistinguishably in the music.
Gerard Manley Hopkins's sonnet "As kingfishers catch fire" is as fine an evocation of the contemplative life as any I know.
Hopkins piles up a dazzling assemblage of images to fix our attention on this sense of rightness, of wholeness that comes together when we realize the utter congruence between what a thing is and what it does: kingfisher, dragonfly, a stone tumbling into a well, a plucked violin string, the clapper of a bell sounding - what happens and the way it happens are seamless. He then goes on to us men and women - "each mortal thing" - bodying forth who and what we are.
Hopkins doesn't talk about achieving this congruence. He talks about its being achieved in us. What the plucked string and the dragonfly and the kingfisher do as determined by biology or physics happens with us when Christ lives in us, Christ living the Christ way in us, in the truth of our lives, playing through our limbs and eyes to the Father. I love that final image: Christ plays in ten thousand places, lovely in limbs - your limbs, my limbs - lovely in eyes - your eyes, my eyes: the contemplative life, living the Christ life in the Christ way.
The words of Jesus that keep this in focus are "I am the way, the truth and the life" (John 14:6). Only when we do the Jesus truth in the Jesus way do we get the Jesus life. But this isn't easy. It is easier to talk about what Christians believe, the truth of the gospel formulated in creeds and doctrines. We have accumulated a magnificent roster of eloquent and learned theologians who have taught us to think carefully and well about the revelation of God in Christ through the Holy Spirit. It is easier to talk about what Christians do, life as performance, the behavior appropriate to followers of Jesus codified in moral commandments and formulated in vision statements and mission strategies. We never lack for teachers and preachers and parents who instruct us in the mores and manners of the kingdom of God. None of us here are likely to pretend perfection in these matters, but most of us are pretty well agreed on what's involved.
But what counts on my agenda right now is the Christian life as lived, lived in this sense of congruence between who Christ is and who I am - being in Chicago right now at this busy, heavily trafficked intersection of the kingdom of God, Christ playing in my limbs and my eyes.
Right now there is a happy resurgence of interest in spiritual matters both in and outside the Christian community. Why just now? The reasons are complex, but this seems obvious to me: people are fed up with leaders and friends who talk learnedly and officiously about God but show little evidence of being interested in God. People are fed up with leaders and friends who tell them what to do, talk at them about what to do but show very little interest in who they are. The ideas about the truth of God don't seem to be connected to a relationship with God. Maybe this depersonalization of God and us has achieved a critical mass, and more people are not liking what they are noticing - that there are a lot of people talking about God but seldom to God, that there are a lot of people who are talking at us but seldom to us.
Suddenly there's this stampede of interest in what is popularly called spirituality. For those of us who are involved vocationally in the Jesus way and the Jesus truth, it's encouraging to observe this resurgence of interest in what is at the heart of the gospel, this gospel that we teach and preach and give witness to: a life made whole, healed from the inside out like the paraplegic's (Mark 2); a life newborn from above like Nicodemus's (John 3); a life like the Samaritan woman's with "a stream of water gushing up to eternal life" (John 4) - women and men from all walks of life wanting to have life and have it abundantly (John 10). Some of us have been at this business a long time, working with men and women to bring "every thought captive to obey Christ" (2 Cor. 10:5), to present our minds and bodies as a living sacrifice to Christ (Rom. 12:1, 6:13).
I just mentioned this stampede of interest in spirituality. But Baron von Hügel, a great writer on these subjects a century ago, held firmly that nothing significant is ever accomplished in a stampede. Von Hü, was right. We can't do anything during the stampede. So what responsibilities do we pastors and teachers have to people in the stampede, responsibilities to give witness and guidance to living the life of Christ, not just thinking about it, not just reading the rules pertaining to it?
I propose that each of us take the opportunity to rope a few steers, pull them out of the general mayhem, get them into a corral and quiet them down. And after the stampede adrenaline is drained out of their bloodstream, we can go to work. I don't know what your corrals look like - classrooms, sanctuaries, writing desks, kitchens, board rooms, whatever. Any one of them is a suitable context for getting a hearing and demonstration regarding the contemplative life, the Christian life maturely lived, a life in which Jesus is taken seriously as the way to live and the truth to be lived (John 14:6).
Sooner or later in this life we get invited or commanded to do something. But in that doing, we never become the subject of the Christian life nor do we perform the action of the Christian life. We are invited or commanded into what I call prepositional participation. The prepositions that join us to God and God's action in us within the world - the with, the in, the for - are very important, but they are essentially a matter of the ways and means of being in on and participating in what God is doing.
These ways and means are the second basic in the Christian life that are also counter to most things American. Ways and means must be appropriate to ends. We cannot participate in God's work but then insist on doing it in our own way. We cannot participate in the building of God's kingdom but then use the devil's tools and nails. Christ is the way as well as the truth and the life. When we don't do it his way, we mess up the truth and we miss out on the life.
Philosopher Albert Borgmann, a Montana neighbor of mine, is our most eloquent and important spokesman in exposing the dangers of letting technology determine the way we live, dictating the means by which we, in his phrase, "take up with the world."
Borgmann is not antitechnology. In fact, he's very respectful of it. He just doesn't want it to ruin us, and it is ruining us. In great and thoughtful detail, he brilliantly answers the question Walker Percy raised in several novels: "How does it happen that we know so much and can do so much and live so badly?" This is the concern motivating the contemplative life, and it is a concern of spiritual theology: to focus attention on the way we live, the means that we employ to embody the reality and carry out the demands of Jesus who became flesh among us.
Two areas are conspicuously in need of attention these days regarding ways and means, areas in which we're doing the right thing the wrong way. And because we're doing it the wrong way, the wheels are coming off the wagon. The two areas are our approaches to congregational life and to scripture.
The congregation is not about us. It is about God. God calls a people. Jesus named 12 disciples to be with him. The Spirit descends upon 120 praying men and women filling them with itself. The people we gather with for worship each Sunday and work with as salt and light are not of our choosing. God calls and forms this people, whom the Hebrew prophets are bold to designate "the people of God," and St. Paul was unembarrassed to call "saints."
The operating biblical metaphor regarding worship is sacrifice. We bring ourselves to the altar and let God do to us what God will. We bring ourselves to the eucharistic table, entering into that grand fourfold shape of the liturgy that shapes us: taking, blessing, breaking, giving - the life of Jesus taken and blessed, broken and distributed; and that eucharistic life now shapes our lives as we give ourselves, Christ in us, to be taken, blessed, broken and distributed in lives of witness and service, justice and healing.
But this is not the American way. The major American innovation in the congregation is to turn it into a consumer enterprise. Americans have developed a culture of acquisition, an economy that is dependent on wanting and requiring more. We have a huge advertising industry designed to stir up appetites we didn't even know we had. We are insatiable. It didn't take long for some of our colleagues to develop consumer congregations. If we have a nation of consumers, obviously the quickest and most effective way to get them into our churches is to identify what they want and offer it to them. Satisfy their fantasies, promise them the moon, recast the gospel into consumer terms - entertainment, satisfaction, excitement and adventure, problem-solving, whatever. We are the world's champion consumers, so why shouldn't we have state-of-the-art consumer churches?
Given the conditions prevailing in our culture, we have the best and most effective way ever devised for gathering large and prosperous congregations. Americans lead the world in showing how to do it. There's only one thing wrong. This is not the way that God brings us into conformity with the life of Christ. This is not the way that we become less and Jesus becomes more. This is not the way in which our lives become available to others in justice and service. The cultivation of consumer spirituality is the antithesis of a sacrificial, "denying yourself" congregation. A consumer church is an anti-Christ church. It's doing the right thing - gathering a congregation - but doing it in the wrong way. This is not the way to develop a contemplative life, a life in which the Jesus way and the Jesus truth are congruent, where "kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame."
Scripture is not about us, either. It is about God. God has revealed God's self to us in scripture so that we might know and respond to God, understand where we are in God's creation, what it means to be called into a life of God's salvation. We do not primarily read scripture in order to develop a better self-image, or to discover the hidden treasures in our lives. Scripture is not about us. Basically, we are listening to God revealing God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
We do, in fact, find ourselves included. We are addressed, we are invited, we are commanded, we are promised, we are immersed in a world where God rules and saves and blesses - us. But there are no secrets here on how we can rule and save and bless. We are not the subject and we do not supply the action.
So what is the way in regard to scripture? How do we receive this text? Here's how: by listening and responding and submitting. "Let it be to me according to your word" is the way I read this text. Our reading of this text is a personal listening to a personal God. We listen to God speak our lives into being. We listen to the story that provides a narrative shape and meaning to a life of following Jesus in the conditions of the world. It is a prayerful, relational, obedient listening. But that's not the American way of reading. Too many of us read only for information, for know-how, to better ourselves, to prepare for a job, for a profession. When we need a break from that, we read for diversion, for entertainment.
American spirituality has an indiscriminating love of technology. We like getting things done, no matter how. Use the fastest and most efficient means at hand, but get it done. Fastest and most efficient almost always means impersonal. People ask questions, act stubborn, make mistakes and get in the way - so bypass the personal. Under the influence of technology, we have acquired the habit of reading the scriptures technologically, scripture depersonalized into information used to get things done more quickly.
But we don't get a say in how God runs this world, this grand creation, this globe-circling salvation, this heart-stopping beauty. We don't get a vote in the work that's set for us each day, the work of witness, compassion and justice - healing the sick, working for peace, welcoming a stranger, having babies, burying the dead.
And we don't get a say in how we do it. Our scriptures train us in this how; skill and attentiveness are required in order to read scripture the way it is written, which is personal and submissive. This entire area of ways and means requires far more attention and practice than we are used to giving it. How we say and do whatever it is we are saying or doing is on par with what God does and the work we do at his command.
The contemplative life, growing toward congruence, is slow work. It cannot be hurried. It is also urgent work and cannot be put off. Life is deteriorating around us at a rapid pace, and the life at the center, the gospel life - with the elements of congregation and scripture as major pieces - is being compromised, distorted, degraded at an alarming rate. In the American way, slow and urgent are not compatible. They cancel one another out.
But in the Christian way, they are joined together. Urgent as this is, there is no hurry. Impatience cancels out contemplation. Patience is prerequisite. Formation of spirit, cultivation of soul, developing a contemplative life, realizing congruence between the way and truth - all this is slow, slow work requiring endless patience. Human life is endlessly complex, intricate and serious. There are no shortcuts to becoming the persons we're created to be. We can't pump contemplation on steroids.
Talking at length about the contemplative life under American conditions seems just absurd. It seems such a fragile way of life in this culture of massive technology, arrogant leadership, pushing and shoving, insatiable consumerism. Contemplation? Kingfishers and dragonflies? Stones . . . tumbled over roundy wells? It's so inefficient, so ineffective. Yet Jesus tells us to do it this way.
Rick Bass, a very good writer, is another Montana neighbor of mine. Besides being an excellent writer, Bass is a fervent environmentalist. Environmentalists care deeply about this creation, which is a good thing, but a lot of them are also pretty mean-spirited, angry, even violent - verbally if not physically. Bass is small of stature, elf-like, energetic, and laughing, it seems, most of the time. There's not a polemical bone in his body. He hosts parties for the loggers and the miners, working for common ground, developing a language of courtesy and understanding.
Bass wrote an essay recently that I consider required reading for anyone who cares about the contemplative life, immersed as we are in this impatient, shortcut addictive culture. He writes that when confronted with a complex and difficult task, he used to imagine himself laying down one brick after another, brick by brick by brick, to eventually accomplish his aims. But he's recently changed his metaphor from bricks to glaciers. A glacier is the most powerful force the world has ever seen. Literally nothing can stop a glacier.
A glacier is formed by the falling of snow that collects over a period of time. As the snow deepens, the weight compresses, ice forms, then more snow, then more ice, year after year - and nothing happens. Nothing happens until that glacier is 64-feet thick. Then it starts to move and nothing can stop it.
Bass notes that one theory about the origin of glaciers is that they are "the result of a wobble, a hitch, in the earth's rotation. . . . Glaciers get built or not built, simply, miraculously, because the earth is canting a single one-trillionth of a degree in this direction for a long period of time, rather than in that direction." And then this comment: "When I am alone in the woods, and the struggle seems insignificant or futile, or when I am in a public meeting and am being kicked all over the place, I tell myself that little things matter - and I believe that they do. I believe that even if your heart leans just a few degrees to the left or the right of center, that with enough resolve, which can substitute for mass, and enough time, a wobble will one day begin, and the ice will begin to form, where for a long time previous there might have been none. Keep it up for a lifetime or two or three, and then one day - it must - the ice will begin to slide" (The Roadless Yak, Lyons Press).
Or, to replace his metaphor with ours: we'll see Christ playing in ten thousand places, lovely in limbs, lovely in eyes not his, to the Father through the features of men's and women's faces.
Copyright (2006) CHRISTIAN CENTURY. Reproduced by permission from the November 29, 2003 issue of the CHRISTIAN CENTURY.


text:
Lion News August 2020
News / August 2020 / Beirut Explosion Strikes Similarities to 2013 West, TX Incident, Says CSB
Beirut Explosion Strikes Similarities to 2013 West, TX Incident, Says CSB
Posted on August 11, 2020 by Lauren Scott
Last week, the Chairman of the US Chemical Safety and Hazardous Investigation Board (CSB) released a statement reflecting that the massive chemical explosion in Beirut, Lebanon on August 4 may have similar characteristics to the West Fertilizer Plant Explosion of 2013.
Although the explosion is still under investigation, news sources report that the incident in Lebanon's capitol city may have been caused by prolonged storage of ammonium nitrate without the proper safety measures. This industrial chemical is commonly used as a fertilizer and is the main component of many types of mining explosives.
2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate were allegedly stored in a shipping container at Beirut's cargo port for over six years when it erupted in smoke and flame last week, leaving at least 154 dead and thousands more injured.
Video Credit: CBC News: The National
CSB's Call to Action
CSB Chairman Katherine Lemos points to several similarities between this incident and the equally devastating West Fertilizer Plant Explosion. On April 17, 2013, a fire and explosion in West, Texas killed 15 people, injured more than 260 others, and caused widespread community damage. After a thorough investigation, CSB determined the incident was caused by inadequate storage and handling of ammonium nitrate.
Since 2013, Federal agencies have made changes to the way companies can handle, store, and ship the potentially hazardous chemical. These regulatory changes include increased inspections by OSHA and new guidance on emergency planning issued from EPA.
In her statement, the chairman says incidents such as those in West, Texas and Beirut are preventable and argues for even more regulatory changes to keep employees, cargo, and our communities safe.
Read the full statement here.
Beirut, Beirut explosion, chemical accident, chemical explosion, CSB, EPA, hazardous materials, hazmat, hazmat news, Lebanon, OSHA, West Texas explosion


$10 admission (cash at the door). Not suitable for children or pets.
Rimbaud (SYLVI ALLI) The Dream Ego in pursuit of intoxicating states of spirit possession!
The Dreamers (BRANDT STICKLEY, MEMORIE EDEN, HANK PETERSON) A family of spirits in kinship with Rimbaud.
Krunk (WENDY ALLEGAERT) Rimbaud's Inner Critic, the dour Rational Cynical Intellect as Clown.
Tubehead (LD McCLURE) An unconscious oracle who falls in love with Krunk!
Raven (WES MARTUSEWICZ) The spirit of the Poetic Imagination has a direct line to the Voice!
The Voice (KATESSA HARKEY) A disembodied entity vocalizing Rimbaud's completed poems.
Designed and directed by Antero Alli.
A TURBULENCE OF MUSES is a Symbolist play of chiefly nonverbal players representing diverse aspects of one entity, the poet ARTHUR RIMBAUD, undergoing a systematic derangement of all the senses towards the creation of poetry.