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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell...
The holidays are always chaotic and my birthday is in December, Frank and the boys have January birthdays so really from early December to late January it is crazy around here. Add to that the craziness of November where we had Thanksgiving and a trip to Florida. Add to THAT the van drama, the unemployment drama, the bathroom drama and more unemployment drama and all of the craziness with graduation and I have not had a truly sane moment since around March of 2009. Maybe.
Right now, I feel like I am being pulled in a million different directions with anyone and everyone making demands of me and I am getting nothing in return. In the last eight weeks we have driven 20 hours round trip to Florida, we've done 6 hours round trip back and forth to Charlotte, I did a cleaning gig that was almost 2 hours away and so that was 4 hours round trip, I did a day trip to Wilmington last week that was 5 hours round trip. And you know what? I HATE ROAD TRIPS!
I baked a boatload of desserts over Christmas and for Nick's birthday yesterday and I don't like baking! I made an Italian feast yesterday after I had made a ginormous Italian feast for Christmas Eve (where I told EVERYONE that I did not want to)...and really, for those of you who think it's great that I know how to cook let me just say this...I cook because I HAVE to not because I WANT to! Big difference! I am blessed that cooking comes easily to me but really, I've been doing it since I was a child so the thrill is gone. Long gone.
I have not had hardly any time to myself in I don't even know how long. All I want is a day, ONE FREAKIN DAY, alone in my house. Is it ever going to happen? Apparently not. Today was supposed to be that day but Nick's plans got canceled, Frank forgot to do some paperwork so he didn't leave for work until around 11 and then I went and had lunch with a friend and even though we had a great time visiting, by the time I got home, Nick was still here and then not long after I got here, Michael got home. I had to do some prep work for a writing class tomorrow and then go to Staples, then to our weekly bible study group and now we're home, having a late dinner and I'm trying to get him wound down and ready for bed. By the time that happens, Frank will be home from band practice and want to talk which will keep me from going to bed. By the time I actually GO to bed, I will have to medicate myself so that I can actually fall asleep and get a couple of hours of sleep in before he comes to bed and snores until I want to kill myself.
So what it all boils down to is I am being deprived of my privacy, my alone time, my ME time and all I am getting is people coming at me from every angle to tell me what they think that I HAVE to do: make this, go here, take this class, show me how to do this, I want THIS for dinner, buy me that...it never seems to end. All I'm asking for is a little peace and quiet before someone is visiting me in a padded cell.
Is that really too much to ask???
3 comments:
- Ruth said...
Oh honey I totally know how you feel...there's a group I'm a member of online that goes on a cruise every year, the last two years I've had to skip because we couldn't afford it (last year was a real wrench, a week from San Diego to ALASKA right before my birthday!) The next one is NYC-Nova Scotia in September, not sure if I can go this time but I'd totally invite you to hide in my suitcase if I could. ;-) It sounds like you need it!
Mama needs a spa day, 'nuff said!
- January 6, 2011 at 10:04 AM
- Rachele said...
Take a day. Seriously. It's very important to re-energize. figure out how to do it and make.it.happen.
I've been there. Heck, I'm almost there now with sick kids since before Christmas.
- January 6, 2011 at 11:39 AM
- Lin said...
You need to find some time for YOU. Even if it is one hour a day locked in your bedroom with nobody allowed to bother you. DEMAND it. Don't ask for cooperation. And make their lives freaking HELL if they dare to interrupt it. I find being a little scary keeps the family at bay. ;)
Hang in there, pally. You aren't crazy--you are the MOM. Welcome to hell.
- January 6, 2011 at 9:32 PM


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Neepawa's Salvation Army thriving at new location
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Photos by Eoin Devereux. Pictured is Neepawa's Salvation Army Thift Store, as it appears at its current location in the old Co-op building.
By Eoin Devereux
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It's almost been a full year since Neepawa's Salvation Army moved into its new location within the former Co-op building on Mountain Avenue. And while the transition into the larger space hasn't come without a few hiccups, Neepawa and Area Salvation Army manager Amanda Naughton-Gale said that overall experience has been extremely positive.
"We are so impressed with the year so far. It's really exceeded our expectations. We've been busy since day one and we continue to be busy. Lots of stuff going in and lots of stuff going out. It's been such a great transition for us," stated Naughton-Gale. "The amount of clothing and winter items and even summer items have really allowed us to, obviously meet the needs of the community, but also meet the needs of some of our clients. We've got so much more variety and we can put out so much more then people are able to get the things they need, almost immediately."
More space
The new space that the organization moved into late in 2017 is 6,000 square feet (sq. ft.), with 3,000 sq. ft. specifically for retail. That was 1,300 sq. ft. more than their previous location at 309 Davidson Street. Naughton-Gale noted that it took them a little bit of time to figure out the flow of the building. She acknowledged their processing room has been altered about five times over the course of the last 12 months, but now it's set up in a way that works for everyone.
For employees, the move has been positive, as it has required the hiring of additional staff. In total, there are five employees working either on a full-time, part-time or on a casual basis. That's nearly double what was required at the previous location. Naughton-Gale added that they've also had a great response to their volunteer list, as anywhere from 16 to 20 regular volunteers come in and help them out.
Other benefits
As for the other aspects of the Salvation Army's campaign aside from the thrift store, Naughton-Gale said the additional space has allowed for the exploration and expansion of those other important services.
"Already, the business of the store has allowed us to provide different services. So my focus now is more on the family services side, as opposed to the thrift store side. I'm now more able to focus on the needs of our clients and really see how we can help people. So, one of those things that we did this year was gather community partners together to see what they saw as our role in the community. And from that, we've been able to pick up a couple of things that should be priorities," said Naughton-Gale. "Another thing we're moving ahead on is the food explorers program. That sees kids from the ages of 9 to 11 to participate in a seven-week course that teaches them how to cook. How to easily do things at home. That's an example of other programs we've been able to move on because of the new location."
Currently, a customer appreciation day has been scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 1. Naughton-Gale hopes everyone will come down and help them celebrate the successful conclusion of their first year in the new location.
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Telepathic Dogs?
Have you ever noticed that dogs seem to know exactly what you are thinking?
Smash knows when I am ready to head back home during a walk even before I pull the leash that direction.
Do dogs really know what you are thinking? Do they pick up on body language, smells or do they really read thoughts?
This book describes an experiment where dogs were monitored by cameras while their owners were away. The dogs went to the door to wait for them when their owners simply had an intention about coming home.
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Crackdown on Executive Stock Option Tax Shelters
On February 22, 2005, IRS announced a settlement initiative for taxpayers using an illegal tax shelter, known as the "executive stock option scheme" in which employee stock options were transferred to entities controlled by family members and then sold for cash.
|The Scheme
The scheme essentially involved the "sale" of employee stock options or restricted stock rights to an entity controlled by the taxpayer's family, in return for a promissory note payable in 30 years. The entity would then sell the stock for the fair market value and the tax on the transaction would be deferred until the promissory note became due 30 years later.
Note: This scheme could apply to a wide variety of appreciated assets and is not just limited to employee stock options or restricted stock.Tax laws require executives to include in income and pay tax on the difference between the amount they pay for the stock and its value when the stock option is exercised. Corporations are entitled to a deduction for the compensation when the options are exercised. Thus, instead of realizing compensation income taxed at ordinary income tax rates upon exercise of the employee stock option, taxes were deferred during the term of the promissory note.
The basis structure of the tax shelter works like this: Taxpayer sells stock with a basis of $1.00 for $1,000,000 to an entity controlled by his family. If the taxpayer exercised the option, he would have received compensation income taxable at ordinary income rates.
The entity "buys" the stock by issuing a promissory note due and payable in 30 years. The entity then sells the stock for $1,000,000, thus avoiding gain on the transaction. The entity has use of the $1,000,000 in cash without the payment of tax for 30 years.
Note: The company also must defer the compensation deduction it receives when the taxpayer exercises his stock option for 30 years.
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IRS has identified at least 42 corporations that were involved in the scheme and had unreported income of more than $700 million.
According to IRS Commissioner, Mark Everson, "These transactions raise questions not only about compliance with the tax laws, but also, in some instances, about corporate governance and auditor independence. These deals were done for the personal benefit of executives, often at the expense of shareholders.
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Corporate executives who engaged in these transactions will have until May 23, 2005, to accept an IRS settlement offer. The offer also extends to corporations that issued the options to executives and directors as part of their compensation. IRS Announcement 2005-19 outlines the details of the settlement offer.
Under the terms of the settlement, taxpayers must report 100 percent of the compensation, pay interest and a 10 percent penalty. This is one-half of the maximum 20 percent applicable penalty. Employment taxes must also be paid.
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Peace have always been a band with something to say. In 2013, following the release of debut album 'In Love', guitarist Doug Castle appeared on BBC radio show Pienaar's Politics to discuss protest music. "Spreading a message of love is more important than spreading a message of hate," he told the show's host. On second album 'Happy People', they spoke out about issues relevant to their fans' lives, like grappling with physical insecurities ("I wish I had perfect skin/I wish I was tall and thin" on 'Perfect Skin') and society's accepted ideas of gendered behaviour ("If you're not macho then try to be funny/If you can't fuck or fight then I hope that you're hungry" on 'I'm A Girl').
Brit-pop-championing indie quartet Peace continue their upward trajectory, audaciously proclaiming kindness to be the new rock & roll on their confident third album. Following tours for their 2015 sophomore set, Happy People, the baggy-influenced Birmingham rockers took a much-needed break from the public world, sequestering themselves for nearly two years in a National Trust farmhouse in rural Herefordshire to reflect and write new material. A transatlantic trip in 2017 to the similarly pastoral hamlet of Woodstock, New York to work with producer Simone Felice (Bat for Lashes, the Lumineers), resulted in the pleasingly unfiltered and buoyant collection Kindness Is the New Rock and Roll.
With their last album, Peace transcended their small indie band status after playing some of their biggest shows to date. But rather than releasing a quick follow-up, Peace went away. Now back, can they pick up where they left off? Beginning with 'Power', an anthemic blend of rousing lyrics and sun-drenched guitars, Peace continue the positivity on the grand title track, spreading the love with a gospel choir.


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Where does the self begin? The Freudian answer is that the ego makes an investment in itself, which thus centers a self. Shakespeare calls our sense of identity the "selfsame"; when did Jack Falstaff become Falstaff? When did Shakespeare become Shakespeare? … Our recognition of genius is always retroactive, but how does genius first recognize itself?
What Is Genius?
Harold Bloom
In employing a Kabbalistic grid or paradigm in the arrangement of this book, I rely upon Gershom Scholem's conviction that Kabbalah is the genius of religion in the Jewish tradition. My one hundred figures, from Shakespeare through the late Ralph Ellison, represent perhaps a hundred different stances towards spirituality, covering the full range from Saint Paul and Saint Augustine to the secularism of Proust and Calvino. But Kabbalah, in my view, provides an anatomy of genius, both of women and of men; as also of their merging in Ein Sof, the endlessness of God. Here I want to use Kabbalah as a starting-point in my own personal vision of the name and nature of genius.
Scholem remarked that the work of Franz Kafka constituted a secular Kabbalah, and so he concluded that Kafka's writings possess "something of the strong light of the canonical, of that perfection which destroys." Against this, Moshe Idel has argued that the canonical, both scriptural and Kabbalistic, is "the perfection which absorbs." To confront the plenitude of Bible, Talmud, and Kabbalah is to work at "absorbing perfections."
What Idel calls "the absorbing quality of the Torah" is akin to the absorbing quality of all authentic genius, which always has the capacity to absorb us. In American English, to "absorb" means several related processes: to take something in as through the pores, or to engross one's full interest or attention, or to assimilate fully.
I am aware that I transfer to genius what Scholem and Idel follow Kabbalah in attributing to God, but I merely extend the ancient Roman tradition that first established the ideas of genius and of authority. In Plutarch, Mark Antony's genius is the god Bacchus or Dionysus. Shakespeare, in his Antony and Cleopatra, has the god Hercules, as Antony's genius, abandon him. The emperor Augustus, who defeated Antony, proclaimed that the god Apollo was his genius, according to Suetonius. The cult of the emperor's genius thus became Roman ritual, displacing the two earlier meanings, of the family's fathering force and of each individual's alter ego.
Authority, another crucial Roman concept, may be more relevant for the study of genius than "genius," with its contradictory meanings, still can hope to be. Authority, which has vanished from Western culture, was convincingly traced by Hannah Arendt to Roman rather than Greek or Hebrew origins. In ancient Rome, the concept of authority was foundational. Auctoritas derived from the verb augere, "to augment," and authority always depended upon augmenting the foundation, thus carrying the past alive into the present.
Homer fought a concealed contest with the poetry of the past, and I suspect that the Redactor of the Hebrew Bible, putting together his Genesis through Kings structure in Babylon, struggled to truncate the earliest author that he wove into the text, in order to hold off the strangeness and uncanny power of the Yahwist or J writer. The Yahwist could not be excluded, because his (or her) stories possessed authority, but the disconcerting Yahweh, human-all-too-human, could be muted by other voices of the divine. What is the relationship of fresh genius to a founded authority? At this time, starting the twenty-first century, I would say: "Why, none, none at all." Our confusions about canonical standards for genius are now institutionalized confusions, so that all judgments as to the distinction between talent and genius are at the mercy of the media, and obey cultural politics and its vagaries.
Since my book, by presenting a mosaic of a hundred authentic geniuses, attempts to provide criteria for judgment, I will venture here upon a purely personal definition of genius, one that hopes to be useful for the early years of this new century. Whether charisma necessarily attends genius seems to me problematic. Of my hundred figures in this book, I had met three—Iris Murdoch, Octavio Paz, Ralph Ellison—who died relatively recently. Farther back, I recall brief meetings with Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens. All of them impressive, in different ways, they lacked the flamboyance and authority of Gershom Scholem, whose genius attended him palpably, despite his irony and high good humor.
William Hazlitt wrote an essay on persons one would wish to have known. I stare at my Kabbalistic table of contents, and wonder which I would choose. The critic Sainte-Beuve advised us to ask ourselves: what would this author I read have thought of me? My particular hero among these hundred is Dr. Samuel Johnson, the god of literary criticism, but I do not have the courage to face his judgment.
Genius asserts authority over me, when I recognize powers greater than my own. Emerson, the sage I attempt to follow, would disapprove of my pragmatic surrender, but Emerson's own geniuswas so large that he plausibly could preach Self-Reliance. I myself have taught continuously for forty-six years, and wish I could urge an Emersonian self-reliance upon my students, but I can't and don't, for the most part. I hope to nurture genius in them, but can impart only a genius for appreciation. That is the prime purpose of this book: to activate the genius of appreciation in my readers, if I can.
These pages are written a week after the September 11, 2001, terrorist triumph in destroying the World Trade Center and the people trapped within it. During the last week I have taught scheduled classes on Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop, on Shakespeare's early comedies, and on the Odyssey. I cannot know whether I helped my students at all, but I momentarily held off my own trauma, by freshly appreciating genius.
What is it that I, and many others, appreciate in genius? An entry in Emerson's Journals (October 27, 1831) always hovers in my memory:
Is it not all in us, how strangely! Look at this congregation of men;—the words might be spoken,—though now there be none here to speak them,—but the words might be said that would make them stagger and reel like a drunken man. Who doubts it? Were you ever instructed by a wise and eloquent man? Remember then, were not the words that made your blood run cold, that brought the blood to your cheeks, that made you tremble or delighted you,-did they not sound to you as old as yourself? Was it not truth that you knew before, or do you ever expect to be moved from the pulpit or from man by anything but plain truth? Never. It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.
It still burns into me: "did they not sound to you as old as yourself?" The ancient critic Longinus called literary genius the Sublime, and saw its operation as a transfer of power from author to reader:
Touched by the true sublime your soul is naturally lifted up, she rises to a proud height, is filled with joy and vaunting, as if she had herself created this thing that she has heard.
Literary genius, difficult to define, depends upon deep reading for its verification. The reader learns to identify with what she or he feels is a greatness that can be joined to the self, without violating the self's integrity. "Greatness" may be out of fashion, as is the transcendental, but it is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.
Meeting the extraordinary in another person is likely to be deceptive or delusionary. We call it "falling in love," and the verb is a warning. To confront the extraordinary in a book—be it the Bible, Plato, Shakespeare, Dante, Proust—is to benefit almost without cost. Genius, in its writings, is our best path for reaching wisdom, which I believe to be the true use of literature for life.
James Joyce, when asked, "Which one book on a desert island?", replied, "I would like to answer Dante, but I would have to take the Englishman, because he is richer." The Joycean Irish edge against the English is given adequate expression, but the choice of Shakespeare is just, which is why he leads off the hundred figures in this book. Though there are a few literary geniuses who approach Shakespeare—the Yahwist, Homer, Plato, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Moliére, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dickens, Proust, Joyce—even those dozen masters of representation do not match Shakespeare's miraculous rendering of reality. Because of Shakespeare we see what otherwise we could not see, since we are made different. Dante, the nearest rival, persuades us of the terrible reality of his Inferno and his Purgatorio, and almost induces us to accept his Paradiso. Yet even the fullest of the Divine Comedy's persons, Dante the Poet-Pilgrim, does not cross over from the Comedy's pages into the world we inhabit, as do Falstaff, Hamlet, Iago, Macbeth, Lear, Cleopatra.
The invasion of our reality by Shakespeare's prime personages is evidence for the vitality of literary characters, when created by genius. We all know the empty sensation we experience when we read popular fiction and find that there are only names upon the page, but no persons. In time, however overpraised, such fictions become period pieces, and finally rub down into rubbish. It is worth knowing that our word "character" still possesses, as a primary meaning, a graphic sign such as a letter of the alphabet, reflecting the word's likely origin in the ancient Greek character, a sharp stylus or the mark of the stylus's incisions. Our modern word "character" also means ethos, a habitual stance towards life.
It was fashionable, quite recently, to talk about "the death of the author," but this too has become rubbish. The dead genius is more alive than we are, just as Falstaff and Hamlet are considerably livelier than many people I know. Vitality is the measure of literary genius. We read in search of more life, and only genius can make that available to use.
What makes genius possible? There always is a Spirit of the Age, and we like to delude ourselves that what matters most about any memorable figure is what he or she shared with a particular era. In this delusion, which is both academic and popular, everyone is regarded as being determined by societal factors. Individual imagination yields to social anthropology or to mass psychology, and thus can be explained away.
I base this book, Genius, upon my belief that appreciation is a better mode for the understanding of achievement than are all the analytical kinds of accounting for the emergence of exceptional individuals. Appreciation may judge, but always with gratitude, and frequently with awe and wonder.
By "appreciation" I mean something more than "adequate esteem." Need also enters into it, in the particular sense of turning to the genius of others in order to redress a lack in oneself, or finding in genius a stimulus to one's own powers, whatever these may emerge as being.
Appreciation may modulate into love, even as your consciousness of a dead genius augments consciousness itself. Your solitary self's deepest desire is for survival, whether in the here and now, or transcendentally elsewhere. To be augmented by the genius of others is to enhance the possibilities of survival, at least in the present and the near future.
We do not know how and/or why genius is possible, only that—to our massive enrichment—it has existed, and perhaps (waningly) continues to appear. Though our academic institutions abound in impostors who proclaim that genius is a capitalistic myth, I am content to cite Leon Trotsky, who urged Communist writers to read and study Dante. If genius is a mystery of the capacious consciousness, what is least mysterious about it is an intimate connection with personality rather than with character. Dante's personality is forbidding, Shakespeare's elusive, while Jesus' (like the fictive Hamlet's) seems to reveal itself differently to every reader or auditor.
What is personality? Alas, we use it now as a popular synonym for celebrity, but I would argue that we cannot give the word up to the realm of buzz. When we know enough about the biography of a particular genius, then we understand what is meant by the personality of Goethe or Byron or Freud or Oscar Wilde. Conversely, when we lack biographical inwardness, then we all agree that we are uncertain as to Shakespeare's personality, an enormous paradox since his plays may have invented personality as we now mostreadily comprehend it. If challenged, I could write a book on the personality of Hamlet, Falstaff, or Cleopatra, but I would not attempt a book upon the personality of Shakespeare or of Jesus.
Benjamin Disraeli's father, the man of letters Isaac D'Israeli, wrote an amiable volume called The Literary Character of Men of Genius, one of the precursors to this book, Genius, together with Plutarch's Parallel Lives, Emerson's Representative Men, and Carlyle's On Heroes and Hero-Worship. Isaac D'Israeli remarks that "many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear." Every genius has forerunners, though far enough back in time we may not know who they are. Dr. Johnson considered Homer to have been the first and most original of poets; we tend to see Homer as a relative latecomer, enriching himself with the phrases and formulas of his predecessors. Emerson, in his essay "Quotation and Originality," slyly observed, "Only an inventor knows how to borrow."
The great inventions of genius influence that genius itself in ways we are slow to appreciate. We speak of the man or woman in the work; we might better speak of the work in the person. And yet we scarcely know how to discuss the influence of a work upon its author, or of a mind upon itself. I take that to be the principal enterprise of this book. With all of the figures I depict in this mosaic, my emphasis will be on the contest they conducted with themselves.
That agon with the self can mask itself as something else, including the inspiration of idealized forerunners: Plato's Socrates, Confucius's the Duke of Chou, the Buddha's earlier incarnations. Particularly the inventor of the Hebrew Bible as we know it, the Redactor of the sequence from Genesis through Kings, relies upon his own genius at reimagining the Covenant even as he honors the virtues (and failings) of the fathers. And yet, as Donald Harmon Akenson argues, the inventor-redactor or writer-editor achieved a "surpassing wonder," utterly his own. This exile in Babylon could not have thought that he was creating Scripture; as the first historian he perhaps believed only that he was forwarding the lost cause of the Kingdom of Judah. And yet he seems too cunning not to have seen that his invention of a continuity and so of a tradition was largely his own.
With the Redactor, as with Confucius or with Plato, we can sense an anxiety in the work that must have communicated itself to the man. How can one be worthy of the fathers with whom Yahweh spoke, face-to-face, or of the great Duke of Chou, who gave order to the people without imposing it upon themby violence? Is it possible to be the authentic disciple of Socrates, who suffered martyrdom without complaint, in order to affirm his truth? The ultimate anxiety of influence always may be, not that one's proper space has been usurped already, but that greatness may be unable to renew itself, that one's inspiration may be larger than one's own powers of realization.
Genius is no longer a term much favored by scholars, so many of whom have become cultural levelers quite immune from awe. Yet, with the public, the idea of genius maintains its prestige, even though the word itself can seem somewhat tarnished. We need genius, however envious or uncomfortable it makes many among us. It is not necessary that we aspire after genius for ourselves, and yet, in our recesses, we remember that we had, or have, a genius. Our desire for the transcendental and extraordinary seems part of our common heritage, and abandons us slowly, and never completely.
To say that the work is in the writer, or the religious idea is in the charismatic leader, is not a paradox. Shakespeare, we happen to know, was a usurer. So was Shylock, but did that help to keep The Merchant of Venice a comedy? We don't know. But to look for the work in the writer is to look for the influence and effect of the play upon Shakespeare's development from comedy to tragicomedy to tragedy. It is to see Shylock darkening Shakespeare. To examine the effects of his own parables upon the figure of Jesus is to conduct a parallel exploration.
There are two ancient (Roman) meanings of the word "genius," which are rather different in emphasis. One is to beget, cause to be born, that is to be a paterfamilias. The other is to be an attendant spirit for each person or place: to be either a good or evil genius, and so to be someone who, for better or for worse, strongly influences someone else. This second meaning has been more important than the first; our genius is thus our inclination or natural gift, our inborn intellectual or imaginative power, not our power to beget power in others.
We all learn to distinguish, firmly and definitively, between genius and talent. A "talent" classically was a weight or sum of money, and as such, however large, was necessarily limited. But "genius," even in its linguistic origins, has no limits.
We tend now to regard genius as the creative capacity, as opposed to talent. The Victorian historian Froude observed that genius "is a spring in which there is always more behind than flows from it." The largest instances of genius that we know, aesthetically, would include Shakespeare and Dante, Bach and Mozart, Michelangelo and Rembrandt, Donatello and Rodin, Alberti and Brunelleschi. A greater complexity ensues when we attempt to confront religious genius, particularly in a religion-obsessed country like the United States. To regard Jesus and Muhammad as religious geniuses (whatever else they were) makes them, in that regard only, akin not only to one another but to Zoroaster and the Buddha, and to such secular figures of ethical genius as Confucius and Socrates.
Defining genius more precisely than has yet been done is one of my objectives in this book. Another is to defend the idea of genius, currently abused by detractors and reductionists, from sociobiologists through the materialists of the genome school, and on to various historicizers. But my primary aim is both to enhance our appreciation of genius, and to show how invariably it is engendered by the stimulus of prior genius, to a much greater degree than it is by cultural and political contexts. The influence of genius upon itself, already mentioned, will be one of the book's major emphases.
My subject is universal, not so much because world-altering geniuses have existed, and will come again, but because genius, however repressed, exists in so many readers. Emerson thought that all Americans were potential poets and mystics. Genius does not teach how to read or whom to read, but rather how to think about exemplary human lives at their most creative.
It will be noted in the table of contents that I have excluded any living instances of genius, and have dealt with only three recently dead. In this book I am compelled to be brief and summary in my account of individual genius, because I believe that much is to be learned by juxtaposing many figures from varied cultures and contrasting eras. The differences between a hundred men and women, drawn from a span of twenty-five centuries, overwhelm the analogies or similarities, and to present them within a single volume may seem the enterprise of an overreacher. And yet there are common characteristics to genius, since vivid individuality of speculation, spirituality, and creativity must rely upon originality, audacity, and self-reliance.
Emerson, in his Representative Men, begins with a heartening paragraph:
It is natural to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal, it will not surprise us. All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and poetic; that is, their genius is paramount. In the legends of Gautama, the first men ate the earth, and found it deliciously sweet.
Gautama, the Buddha, quests for and attains freedom, as though he were one of the first men. Emerson's twice-told tale is a touch more American than Buddhist; his first men seem American Adams, and not reincarnations of previous enlightenments. Perhaps I too can only Americanize, but that may be the paramount use of past geniuses; we have to adapt them to our place and our time, if we are to be enlightened or inspired by them.
Emerson had six great or representative men: Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe. Four of these are in this book; Swedenborg is replaced by Blake, and Napoleon I have discarded with all other generals and politicians. Plato, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Goethe remain essential, as do the others I sketch. Essential for what? To know ourselves, in relation to others, for these mighty dead are among the otherness that we can know, as Emerson tells us in Representative Men:
We need not fear excessive influence. A more generous trust is permitted. Serve the great.
And yet this is the conclusion of his book:
The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world. The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know.
To realize all that we know, fictions included, is too large an enterprise for us, a wounded century and a half after Emerson. The world no longer seems young, and I do not always hear the accents of affection when the voices of genius call out to me. But then I have the disadvantage, and the advantage, of coming after Emerson. The genius of influence transcends its constituent anxieties, provided we become aware of them and then surmise where we stand in relation to their continuing prevalence.
Thomas Carlyle, a Victorian Scottish genius now out of fashion, wrote an admirable study that almost nobody reads anymore, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. It contains the best remark on Shakespeare that I know:
If called to define Shakespeare's faculty, I should say superiority of intellect, and think I had included all under that.
Adumbrating the observation, Carlyle characteristically exploded into a very useful warning against dividing any genius into its illusory components:
What indeed are faculties? We talk of faculties as if they were distinct, things separable; as if a man had intellect, imagination, fancy, etc. as he had hands, feet and arms.
"Power of Insight," Carlyle continued, was the vital force in any one of us. How do we recognize that insight or force in genius? We have the works of genius, and we have the memory of their personalities. I use that last word with high deliberation, following Walter Pater, another Victorian genius, but one who defies fashion, because he is akin to Emerson and to Nietzsche. These three subtle thinkers prophesied much of the intellectual future of our century that has just passed, and are unlikely to fade as influences during the new century. Pater's preface to his major book, The Renaissance, emphasizes that the "aesthetic critic" ("aesthetic" meaning "perceptive") identifies genius in every era:
In all ages there have been some excellent workmen, and some excellent work done. The question he asks is always:-In whom did it stir, the genius, the sentiment of the period find itself? Where was the receptacle of his refinement, its elevation, its taste?
"The ages are all equal," says William Blake, "but genius is always above its age." Blake, a visionary genius almost without peer, is a superb guide to the relative independence that genius manifests in regard to time: it "is always above its age."
We cannot confront the twenty-first century without expecting that it too will give us a Stravinsky or Louis Armstrong, a Picasso or Matisse, a Proust or James Joyce. To hope for a Dante or Shakespeare, a J. S. Bach or Mozart, a Michelangelo or Leonardo, is to ask for too much, since gifts that enormous are very rare. Yet we want and need what will rise above the twenty-first century, whatever that turns out to be.
The use of my mosaic is that it ought to help prepare us for this new century, by summoning up aspects of the personality and achievements of many of the most creative who have come before us. The ancient Roman made an offering to his genius on his birthday, dedicating that day to "the god of human nature," as the poet Horace called each person's tutelary spirit. Our custom of a birthday cake is in direct descent from that offering. We light the candles and might do well to remember what it is that we are celebrating.
I have avoided all living geniuses in this book, partly so as to evade the distractions of mere provocation. I can identify for myself certain writers of palpable genius now among us: the Portuguese novelist José Saramago, the Canadian poet Anne Carson, the English poet Geoffrey Hill, and at least a half-dozen North and Latin American novelists and poets (whom I forbear naming).
Pondering my mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds, I arrive at a tentative and personal definition of literary genius. The question of genius was a perpetual concern of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is the mind of America, as Walt Whitman is its poet, and Henry James its novelist (its dramatist is yet to come). For Emerson, genius was the God within, the self of "Self-Reliance." That self, in Emerson, therefore is not constituted by history, by society, by languages. It is aboriginal. I altogether agree.
Shakespeare, the supreme genius, is different in kind from his contemporaries, even from Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. Cervantes stands apart from Lope de Vega, and Calderòn. Something in Shakespeare and Cervantes, as in Dante, Montaigne, Milton, and Proust (to give only a few instances), is clearly both of and above the age.
Fierce originality is one crucial component of literary genius, but this originality itself is always canonical, in that it recognizes and comes to terms with precursors. Even Shakespeare makes an implicit covenant with Chaucer, his essential forerunner at inventing the human.
If genius is the God within, I need to seek it there, in the abyss of the aboriginal self, an entity unknown to nearly all our current Explainers, in the intellectually forlorn universities and in the media's dark Satanic mills. Emerson and ancient Gnosticism agree that what is best and oldest in each of us is no part of the Creation, no part of Nature or the Not-Me. Each of us presumably can locate what is best in herself or himself, but how do we find what is oldest?
Where does the self begin? The Freudian answer is that the ego makes an investment in itself, which thus centers a self. Shakespeare calls our sense of identity the "selfsame"; when did Jack Falstaff become Falstaff? When did Shakespeare become Shakespeare? The Comedy of Errors is already a work of genius, yet who could have prophesied Twelfth Night on the basis of that early farce? Our recognition of genius is always retroactive, but how does genius first recognize itself?
The ancient answer is that there is a god within us, and the god speaks. I think that a materialist definition of genius is impossible, which is why the idea of genius is so discredited in an age like our own, where materialist ideologies dominate. Genius, by necessity, invokes the transcendental and the extraordinary, because it is fully conscious of them. Consciousness is what defines genius: Shakespeare, like his Hamlet, exceeds us in consciousness, goes beyond the highest order of consciousness that we are capable of knowing without him.
Gnosticism, by definition, is a knowing rather than a believing. In Shakespeare, we have neither a knower nor a believer, but a consciousness so capacious that we cannot find its rival elsewhere: in Cervantes or Montaigne, in Freud or in Wittgenstein. Those who choose (or are chosen) by one of the world religions frequently posit a cosmic consciousness to which they assign supernatural origins. But Shakespearean consciousness, which transmutes matter into imagination, does not need to violate nature. Shakespeare's art is itself nature, and his consciousness can seem more the product of his art than its producer.
There, at the end of the mind, we are stationed by Shakespearean genius: a consciousness shaped by all the consciousnesses that he imagined. He remains, presumably forever, our largest instance of the use of literature for life, which is the work of augmenting awareness.
Though Shakespeare's is the largest consciousness studied in this book, all the rest of these exemplary creative minds have contributed to the consciousness of their readers and auditors. The question we need to put to any writer must be: does she or he augment our consciousness, and how is it done? I find this a rough but effectual test: however I have been entertained, has my awareness been intensified, my consciousness widened and clarified? If not, then I have encountered talent, not genius. What is best and oldest in myself has not been activated.
—from Harold Bloom, Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds


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Paying for college profile: Delissa Hernandez
When Delissa Hernandez enrolled at Augsburg College in 2010, she was the first in her family to do so. "I knew that if I didn't go to college, I wouldn't have much of a future," she said.
Her family couldn't help finance her education, but with her mom's encouragement, she was determined to do whatever it took. She applied to Augsburg at the suggestion of a coordinator of a college-ready program at her high school.
"I had planned to go to a community college, but I took the chance and applied to Augsburg and was accepted right away," she said.
Hernandez' financial aid package included a Minnesota State Grant, a Pell Grant, and TRIO and ALAS (Augsburg Latin American Students) scholarships. She helped pay by working as a tour guide and tech desk assistant at Augsburg — and as a paid intern at the Federal Reserve Bank. But she would not have been able to continue at Augsburg without more aid. She covered the balance with federal loans.
Hernandez said she especially appreciated receiving the TRIO scholarship in her junior and senior years. Provided by Augsburg to support students enrolled in a federally funded TRIO program, the scholarship was accompanied by some intensive education about personal finances, including debt re-payment.
Hernandez will have about $28,000 in debt after graduation. "Although my mom was not able to help me out financially, I am glad she was able to help me cope with stress that would come with borrowing loans." she said. (72% of students at our colleges graduate with some debt; the median amount for these students is $27,940.)
Although she expects it will take several years to pay off her loans, she says it's worth it. Hernandez has a few credits to complete and will graduate in Dec. 2014. She already has a job working at the Federal Reserve as an accountant and is now considering pursuing an MBA and CPA.
"I would tell other students to not let cost be your only factor," Hernandez said. "I was able to get lots of financial aid since I was a first-generation student, but I had to work hard. Looking at my costs compared to friends who went to a community college, I think I had the better deal."
"If I had to do it all over again, I would. Now I'll know that I'll be able to provide a better life for myself and my daughter. Even though I haven't fully graduated yet, I already see how worth it this investment truly is."


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It's only Wednesday here and it's already been quite a week.
For those of you who are tracking with this story, I've been lobbying hard for the Samoyed. Thus far I've been entirely unsuccessful. Last night over pizza and red wine (lest I lead you to believe that life here is all pepsi and pig fat) I tried again.
"Jesus used the most unlikely raw material to accomplish his ends," I said, taking a different tack after having talked for several minutes about the merits of dogs that stay playful well into old age. "I could mould her into a guard dog."
"Let me point out to you, yet again," Mike said, "that you are not Jesus."
But it has not been all fun and games (or pleading and pouting) over here this week. All sorts of representatives of the powers that be are in town, discussing weighty matters. We are getting a close-up look at a "strong state" on a collision course with the operational culture of a large development organization. It's not a pretty picture, but more on that later. Maybe.
I also have an update (quite a good one) on little orphan girl that I'll try and write up soon.
While Mike's been out trying to pour oil on troubled waters, I've been having Lao language lessons, and smiling my way through long official dinners, but mostly writing. And today, despite the third power cut this week (the electricity is still off as I write this), I reached a milestone. It's only one of many on this long journey, but it's an important one. Today I have a full second draft of the book I've been working on since we arrived here. I'm sure it's not ready to go to press, but I think it's stronger than the first draft. And that is great progress.
I ditched my prologue in this 2nd draft. I was listening to a recorded interview with Jane Friedman from Writer's Digest recently on red flags in memoir. She had some interesting things to say about the opening scenes of memoirs.
"You shouldn't put any speed bumps in the way of your readers in the first five pages," she said. She recommended that writers think very carefully about whether they need a prologue, and that they only use one to add context that the reader absolutely must know.
"Don't," she said, "use it as a plot device."
I quite liked the prologue in my first draft – I certainly had fun writing it. But the longer I thought about it, the more I thought Jane might have a point. The prologue I'd drafted wasn't essential context, I was using it as a plot device, and it was probably confusing enough to count as a speed bump to a reader unfamiliar with my story (which, let's face it, I hope most of them are otherwise this next book will sell, at best, a couple of hundred copies).
So I ditched it.
But while I don't want to put speed bumps in the book, I have fewer hesitations about putting them up on the blog. So here is: the prologue that got axed. May it rest in peace…
I didn't get really nervous until the day before.
Perhaps it should have hit me earlier.
When he sent me that first letter from Papua New Guinea saying that he wanted to get to know me better.
Or when he wrote six weeks later telling me that he'd like to come to Australia while I was there in January, if I thought that would be OK?
Or as I crafted my carefully light reply – "that could be lots of fun" – and then informed my parents that I'd invited someone I'd never met, or even spoken to, to join us for two weeks of precious family holiday time.
But I didn't get really nervous until the day before, and then it hit me all at once.
Who crosses an international border for a fourteen-day-long blind date – were we both insane? What if it was really awkward? What if it was just a big fizzle, like the last time I'd tried this? What if it turned out in the end that I had to break his heart? What if he broke mine? Would I even recognize him from the couple of photos I'd seen? And what on earth was I going to wear to the airport?
By the time I reached the arrivals lounge at Brisbane airport on Monday afternoon my palms were sweating and a whole rabble of butterflies were performing merry somersaults in my stomach.
I was anxiously early.
Customs was torturously slow.
For more than an hour I scanned the face of every male between the ages of twenty and fifty and tried to remember to breathe. Three times I moved, hesitant, towards total strangers only to stop short, ducking their puzzled gaze, a wave of heat washing up and cresting behind my eyes.
Then, suddenly.
There he was.


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At first glance it could be a bit tricky to distinguish the Azure from a Common blue (Enallagma cyathigerum) damselfly, but if you look at the antehumeral stripe (that's the long blue section on the thorax), the Azure's blue stripe is narrower than the black stripe beneath it, and there's an extra black line, a "spur" extending from the wing base towards the legs. The Common blue's antehumreral stripe is broader than the black stripe beneath it and there's no "spur" on the thorax.
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Victoria's worst serial killer who uses tarot cards "as a contemplative doorway" and "spiritual tool" in prison has won a Supreme Court bid to have four cards featuring bare-breasted women returned to him.
Paul Steven Haigh, 60, was jailed for life in Barwon Prison over the murders of six people in the late 1970s. He murdered a seventh person in 1991.
The practising pagan launched legal action against the prison for removing four cards from his Deviant Moon tarot deck in 2017, featuring "abstract, mystical illustration of an other-worldly female character displaying breasts", which the prison banned as "pornographic" or "objectionable".
In his judgment on Friday, Justice Timothy Ginnane said while a dispute about tarot cards hardly seemed worthy of the Supreme Court, it was an issue about prisoner rights.
"The parliament has given prisoners, even those convicted of the most terrible crimes, rights they can seek to exercise while in prison, one of which is the right to practise their religion," he said.
Justice Ginnane said the prison allowed for inmates to exercise their religions including Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity - and that Paganism was also included.
In late 2016, Haigh applied to the jail for three packs of tarot cards, which he argued was important in the practise of his religion.
Prison governor Brett Ryan refused the request in January 2017, stating Haigh's use of tarot cards could undermine the prison's security, potentially by causing unrest or manipulating vulnerable prisoners.
But Haigh complained to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, and his request was allowed.
The prisons operations manager complained about four of the cards featuring female characters with bare breasts.
Haigh argued without the cards, the tarot deck couldn't be used, and their removal was "an unlawful limitation on his right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief".
In return, Mr Ryan argued Haigh could use a different tarot pack.
But Justice Ginnane said it was not the role of the "judicial function" to stipulate how people practise religion.
"I consider that courts and administrators should be extremely wary about determining what is required for a person to practise their religious beliefs," he said.
The judge said that, on the assumed belief Paganism is a religion, the withholding of the four tarot cards which Haigh wished to use, "does engage his right of religious freedom and belief."


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The TSP654II boasts a lightning fast print speed of 60RPM (receipts per minute) (300mm/second). The TSP654II also features an improved Guillotine Cutter (2 million cuts), easy ?drop in and print? paper loading and a small footprint.
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The main objective of the Swamp School's Certified Wetland Delineator Program (CWD) provides a certification that identifies individuals who are highly skilled in the technical aspects of wetland delineation. This enables clients of certified delineator to make informed decisions when choosing to engage these individuals for wetland delineator services. A Certified Wetland Delineator (CWD) is able to reliably demonstrate that he or she can acutely depict areas of land that would be subject to the Clean Water Act and the Rivers and Harbors Act regulations as administered by the US Army Corps of Engineers and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
To become a Certified Wetland Delineator (CWD) you will be asked to participate in a wetland delineation methods program that will conclude with an in-person field practicum examination. The instructional portion of this program is offered online. The field exam is offered several times a year in various locations. The location of the field exam will be based in part upon the location most central to the majority of students enrolled in the program.
A prerequisite to this class is the successful completion of each of the three wetland criteria modules. These include:
You will need to provide all three certification numbers before you will be able to start this class. Your certifications must also be in good standing.
As a Certified Wetland Delineator (CWD) you will receive a certificate and an electronic seal that can be used for reports and proposals. This certification will remain valid for 5 years and is eligible for renewal with additional continuing education.
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Weekly assignments are to be turned in within the timeframe indicated for each assignment, normally ten days from the start of the lesson. Daily assignments in weeklong courses are due the next day. You must complete all class requirements by the official end date of the course. If you are unable to complete the class within that time frame you MUST notify the Swamp School in writing. Late work may be turned in after due dates but may be penalized. If you have not completed the course by the official end date, additional time extensions can be requested but may be subject to an additional fee. If you wish, you may transfer into the next scheduled session of the course, however, some or all of your previous coursework may not carry over to the new session and you may also be subject to a re-enrollment fee. The Swamp School reserves the right to modify this policy on a case-by-case basis. The student time commitment for the 12-week class represents about 3-4 hours per week to complete the course work.
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Mendelson's syndromemendelson's syndrome, mendelson's syndrome aspiration pneumonia
Mendelson's syndrome is chemical pneumonitis or aspiration pneumonitis caused by aspiration during anaesthesia, especially during pregnancy Aspiration contents may include gastric juice, blood, bile, water or an association of them1
- 1 Presentation
- 2 Risk
- 3 Treatment
- 4 Eponym
- 5 References
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Mendelson's syndrome is characterised by a bronchopulmonary reaction following aspiration of gastric contents during general anaesthesia due to abolition of the laryngeal reflexes The main clinical features are signs of general hypoxia, two to five hours after anaesthesia Such features may include cyanosis, dyspnea, fever, pulmonary wheeze, crepitant rales, rhonchi, and tachycardia with a low blood pressure Decreased arterial oxygen tension is also likely to be evident Pulmonary edema can cause sudden death or death may occur later from pulmonary complications
Historically it is said that a patient is at risk if they have:2
- Residual gastric volume of greater than 25ml, with
- pH of less than 25
However these are indirect measurements and are not factors that directly influence aspiration risk2
Patients with a high risk should have a rapid sequence induction High risk is defined as these factors:2
- Non-elective surgical procedure
- Light anaesthesia/unexpected response to stimulation
- Acute or chronic, upper or lower GI pathology
- Obesity
- Opioid medication
- Neurological disease, impaired conscious level, or sedation
- Lithotomy position
- Difficult intubation/airway
- Gastrointestinal reflux
- Hiatal hernia
The risk may be reduced by administering a non-particulate antacid eg Sodium Citrate or an H2-antagonist like Ranitidine
It is named for Curtis Mendelson34
- ^ ГАРябов, СИНДРОМЫ КРИТИЧЕСКИХ СОСТОЯНИЙ Аспирационный пневмонит синдром Мендельсона, http://surgerycomnet/critical/4/4_3html
- ^ a b c Levy, DM 2006 "Pre-operative fasting—60 years on from Mendelson" Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain 6 6: 215 doi:101093/bjaceaccp/mkl048
- ^ Enersen, OD "Whonamedit - Mendelson's syndrome" Whonamedit A dictionary of medical eponyms Retrieved 2011-04-22
- ^ Mendelson, CL 1946 "The aspiration of stomach contents into the lungs during obstetric anesthesia" American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 52: 191–205 PMID 20993766
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Mike Filloon: a Bakken update; the Red Queen is just a fairy tale. The article is pretty much all about northeast McKenzie County, which I consider the very heart of the Bakken. I predicted last year that 2012 would be the year operators moved from Mountrail to McKenzie. It turns out northeast McKenzie County will be as big as (or bigger than) the Sanish/Parshall in Mountrail. From Mike's article:
Reporting earnings tomorrow: OKE, OKS, QEP, STR, VLO, WMB (all after market close?)
- 20589 is one of the best wells here, if not the best well in the Basin. It is notable that Whiting produced this result while using lower amounts of water and proppant.
- 20589, 4,815, Whiting, Tarpon Federal 21-4H, Twin Valley, t10/11; cum 251K 8/12;
Reporting earnings tomorrow: OKE, OKS, QEP, STR, VLO, WMB (all after market close?)
Coming off the confidential list on Tuesday:
- 21112, 1,358, MRO, Aisenbrey 21-25H, Big Bend, t7/12; cum 29K 8/12;
- 21686, 286, OXY USA, Kubik Trust 2-18-19H-143-95, Murphy Creek, t5/12; cum 41K 8/12;
- 21874, 540, Zavanna, Tony 1-3H, Stony Creek, t8/12; cum 16K 8/12;
- 22176, 1,261, Whiting, Marsh 34-9PH, Dutch Henry Butte, t5/12; cum 45K 8/12;
- 22216, drl, WPX, George Evans 11-2HD, Van Hook,
Putting things into perspective: From the WSJ, putting a face on welfare spat. From Teegue, the Pugh clause.Bakken Operations
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- Operators: Petro-Hunt (3), Zenergy (2), Enduro
Fields: Eagle Nest (Dunn), Eightmile (Williams), Mouse River Park (Renville)
- Comments: Another day with no Newfield or OXY USA permits; Enduro again, targeting the Madison, probably
- 21955, 2,972, BEXP, Cvancara 20-16 3H, Alger, t9/12; cum --
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Sadili Oval through its Court of Dreams project and Girl Power Clubs Africa programme has been working closely with young children and teenage girls in various schools in Nairobi, mainly Kibera slums. Different life skills are embedded across sports sessions where each week a particular theme is focused on. In line with this year's official theme for the Day of the African Child, throughout this week Sadili Oval's staff have been holding sessions with schools within the two programmes discussing with them human rights issues.
what child abuse entails and where to report cases of abuse. I must say our social educators have a wonderful way of keeping young people engaged during such sessions. They composed a beautiful song in Swahili about children's rights and the pupils, particularly those of Olympic Primary School, kept singing the song way after the session was over!
As is the norm at Sadili Oval, sport was not left out. Our coaches also helped to keep the children engaged by teaching them to play tennis and other games.
Girl Power Clubs Africa, founded in 2007 by Dr. Elizabeth Odera, is a leadership program that provides girls in various schools in Nairobi with a chance to learn life skills through sports and learn to make decisions that affect their lives and their communities positively. The Court of Dreams on the other hand follows the journey of children between 3 and 12 years, the age in which one can leave a positive influence in a child forever. This programme is unique as it involves work on the complete child, with tennis and life skills training, and children are rewarded in both areas.
It goes without saying that the future of the African continent lies in the hands of the African child.For all the challenges Africa still faces, it is a vibrant and promising continent full of incredible young people. Together in solidarity we join with countless others across Africa and across the world as we embrace these children and advocate for their rights.


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(4,12) Circular-Signal-Set constellation has been proposed for 16 APSK and its optimum ring ratio has been given by maximizing minimum Euclidean distance between mapped signal points in high channel SNR. But in order to get the best performance in low SNR, the optimum ring ratio should be calculated by using its symbol error rate (SER). Thus, we analyze its symbol error rates theoretically for several detection schemes, which are the ideal coherent detection, the envelope amplitude/coherent phase detection, and the envelope amplitude/differential phase detection.Multiple-symbol differential detection (MSDD) based on the maximum likelihood (ML) criterion is proposed for APSK and its decision metric is given through the likelihood function, which is derived with no assumption. The SER performance of 16 APSK with this detection scheme shows better than that by using the approximated metric given in the past literature. To reduce the complexity and the computational efforts in the receiver
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