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Forgotten Faces
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"For Ireland, our heart and soul is in Europe, and we are staying."
"For Ireland, our heart and soul is in Europe, and we are staying"
Interview with Ambassador Mr. Michael Collins
"The heart and soul of Ireland is the people of Ireland," Ambassador Michael Collins says in the beginning of our interview. The heart and soul of Ireland is welcoming, friendly, and laidback. That is how I was greeted when I arrived at the Irish Embassy for the interview. The atmosphere is different from other embassies I dealt with, and it´s obvious right away that the people who work here love their country and have a deep respect for the man they work for. Michael Collins accomplished a lot during his career. He participated in the peace process that established the St. Andrews Agreement in 2006 and was named "Diplomat of the Year" while serving as Ambassador in the U.S. Talking to someone with such an impressive background can feel intimidating, but Ambassador Collins is easy to talk to, and more so, fascinating to listen to. The conversation revolves around the Northern Ireland conflict and the current situation of Ireland in the light of Brexit.
The Heart and Soul of Ireland is the people
Collins: The people of Ireland define us. They are us, and they represent the character of our country. Ireland has very deep roots. The heart and soul of Ireland is an accumulation of our cultural, our historical and our political experiences. Ours is a rich history, it´s a complex history. At times, it´s tragic history. It's also a history blessed with many successes.
The Ireland we have today is a blending of all that and of today's modernity. Many Germans see Ireland in very traditional terms, but Ireland is also a country which is today a very liberal European democracy. Ireland is obviously and proudly very Irish place. But it is also a very European place. That sense of Ireland wanting to be a part of the European family is very strong. You could see that again in the recent European elections. There is very steady and strong support for Europe, and it has become even stronger.
Collins: It doesn´t take a great deal for an Irish person to talk about 800 years of British rule in Ireland and the years until we achieved our Independence in 1922. There were several occasions over the centuries when Ireland sought its right to be an independent country. However, when Ireland gained its independence, Northern Ireland choose not to be a part of united Ireland. Therefore, today Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.
The division of Ireland has, of course, caused many difficulties. There were troubles in the 1950s which became more extreme starting in 1969. Thereafter, we had 30 years of conflict which saw the loss of some 3,500 thousand people in Northern Ireland alone. There were also some 40,000 casualties. That is a lot of people and a great deal of loss and pain in a small place. In 1998 the Good Friday Agreement was signed which brought peace to Northern Ireland.
Collins: The agreement was very difficult to achieve and, of course, no agreement was possible while the killing was still taking place. We had to have the IRA cease fire in 1994 as a necessary element to allow people to sit down together. International involvement and support through the American Administration, in particular, was crucially important leading to the eventual appointment of Senator George Mitchell to chair all-party talks. The agreement we reached involved quite a lot of compromise for everybody The sad part is that it took 30 years for it to happen, but we are very proud of the fact that, ultimately, and somehow against the odds, we did achieve an agreement that has been working, however imperfectly and however incomplete. As a result, we have experienced a period of sustained peace in Ireland over the last two decades.
Involvement in the peace process
Collins: Working with then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, I was deeply involved in the St Andrews Agreement of 2006, which addressed many issues not fully covered by the Good Friday Agreement. In 2002, the Good Friday Agreement was in difficulty following the collapse of the power-sharing Executive government in October that year. At that stage, I was responsible for relationships with London and Northern Ireland. The Agreement collapsed because there was a serious lack of trust and lack of confidence in Northern Ireland. We spent four years trying to address these issues, which included the necessary decommissioning of IRA weapons and the cessation of IRA activities. People needed reassurance that peace was a reality. The St Andrews Agreement allowed the Good Friday Agreement to be restored and the power-sharing Executive government in Northern Ireland to function again in May 2007.
Collins: We are not only proudly Irish but also proudly Europeans. Brexit for us is a very difficult development. We did not ask for Brexit. Our country is doing very well economically, but Brexit poses risks to our economy. We are almost back to full employment in Ireland after difficult years.
We are also naturally concerned that Brexit could see a return to a border on the island of Ireland – and that would be a disaster for us. The Irish Government and our European friends have been very clear that we don´t want a border reestablished on the island of Ireland. That is why we negotiated and agreed with the UK what is the " backstop". The backstop is a vital part of the Withdrawal Agreement, which is the basis on which the UK was supposed to leave the European Union.
The backstop assures that the border on the island of Ireland will never become a hard border again. This border is 500 kilometers long and goes from the northwest of Ireland to the northeast but since the 1990s that border has not existed. There was never a border for people. Irish and British people could always travel between North and South in Ireland and between Britain and Ireland – no passports, no controls. Since 1993, we have had the Single Market of the EU. So, as a result of that, there is no border for goods. Then, in the years after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and the consolidation of peace, we were able to remove all the security infrastructure. So, when you go to Ireland today, there is no border. We need an insurance policy to keep the border nonexistent as it is now – that insurance policy is called the backstop.
We all know, of course, that when the UK leaves the EU, it is only the beginning. We then have to agree on what the future relationship is going to be. That is very important for the UK, Europe, and Ireland. We have a very unique relationship with the United Kingdom because of our shared history. And we have a very important trading relationship with the United Kingdom. We need to have a future relationship with the UK which protects all of that.
Collins: Sometimes people don´t realize that we have a very different view of Europe than the British. At the moment, 90% of people in Ireland support the European Union. That is a lot of people. We believe in Europe. We believe that the EU is the best means that we all have to assure peace and guarantee the wellbeing and prosperity of Europe and its peoples. For Ireland, our heart and soul is in Europe, and we are staying.
Website: Embassy of Ireland, Germany
More Ireland: Pat Finucane Center
Esther Vivian Kay2019-06-15T00:42:29+02:00
Editorial Note: Europe & European Union
"The links between welfare and democracy are a matter of political will"
"Until we can acknowledge that there is hurt and blame on all sides, we can ever really move on."
Muslim Europe: "There was a moment when there was a possibility of something else."
"They are arriving because they have no choice"
"Brexit is one of the biggest heartbreaking moments in my life."
"My ideal Europe is one in which we care about each other even though we are from different countries"
Democracy is a principle worth fighting for
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it"
Editorial Note: Sexualized violence and abuse
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Der Hauptstromkreis, auch als Laststromkreis bezeichnet, wird mit dem Laststrom der Verbraucher beaufschlagt und stellt einen Teil einer elektrischen Schaltung dar. Er wird aus den Hauptgeräten und den Hauptleitungen gebildet. Dabei werden die Hauptgeräte vom Hauptstrom in einer bestimmten Reihenfolge durchflossen:

 Elektrische Sicherung
 Hauptschalter
 Hauptschütz
 Motorschutzschalter
 Verbraucher

Die elektrischen Leitungen und Kontakte in Laststromkreisen müssen so dimensioniert sein, dass die auftretenden hohen Ströme sicher beherrscht werden. Hierfür werden häufig Leistungsschütze mit entsprechenden Leistungskontakten verwendet. Diese werden nach der zu übertragenden Leistung ausgewählt. Für die Leitungen ist ein zur Stromstärke passender Querschnitt erforderlich.

Von den Hauptstromkreisen sind die Steuerstromkreise zu unterscheiden. Steuerstromkreise beinhalten die notwendige Logik zur Steuerung oder Verriegelung der Hauptstromkreise. Steuerstromkreise sind häufig Teil der Schaltungen rund um eine speicherprogrammierbare Steuerung. Ebenso zählen Notausstromkreise meist zu den Steuerstromkreisen.

Literatur
 Hans-Günter Boy, Klaus Bruckert, Bernard Wessels: Die Meisterprüfung Elektrische Steuerungs- und Antriebstechnik. 10. Auflage, Vogel Buchverlag, Würzburg, 1995, ISBN 3-8023-1556-1.
 Joachim Weinert: Schaltungszeichnen in der elektrischen Energietechnik. 4. Auflage, Carl Hanser Verlag, München und Wien, 1981, ISBN 3-446-13436-0.

Weblinks
 Hauptstromkreise Smart Wire
 Beispiel Haupt- und Traktionsstromkreis

Elektrische Schaltung

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← Letter to Bishop Henry, August 1, 2007, regarding the Winnipeg Statement
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Notes on Gregory Baum; By Their Fruits you Shall Know Them. By Monsignor Vincent Foy
Posted on March 23, 2014 by www.msgrfoy.com
It was a scandal to many Catholics that the arch-dissenter Gregory Baum was invited to speak at Regis College, Toronto, on January 17, 1996. The scandal was amplified when it was announced that he would also speak at the Newman Centre in Toronto on May 13, 1996. In an effort to prevent this I compiled the following notes on Gregory Baum. The effort was ineffective, though there was a demonstration of loyal Catholics outside of the Newman Centre protesting the appearance there of Baum. In my opinion Gregory Baum has done more than anyone else to weaken the Catholic Church in Canada, through false ecumenism, theological errors and his opposition to the encyclical "Humanae Vitae." — Msgr. Foy
Notes on Gregory Baum
By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them
by Msgr. Vincent Foy
Our oldest Toronto priest, Monsignor Ralph Egan, 95, spends his days in prayer and in sending Catholic prayer books and reading material to all parts of the world – free. He often quotes St. Anthony Mary Claret: "If you can't send a missionary, send a book." Of course he meant a good book. He is the founder of our Toronto St. Maximilian Kolbe group which distributes free Catholic literature. He understands the value of orthodox reading. He has told me that he keeps his strong faith through prayer – and by avoiding ever reading the dissenters or listening to dissent. He was quite aghast when I told him that Gregory Baum was going to speak at Regis College in Toronto on January 17. To honour the work of Msgr. Egan and in response to some requests I have compiled some notes on the teaching and conduct of Gregory Baum, marxist and "ex-priest". In my opinion he has done more to help destroy the Church in Canada than any other person.
Communism and Marxism
He is commended in the Canadian Tribune (official communist publication) in 1963 for asking at an Anglican Congress "whether the ideals of Marx were not aims for which the Church should have worked."
His name led a list welcoming Rabbi Feinburg (considered Canada's leading Fellow Traveller) back from Hanoi in 1967.
In the "Christian Century" for April 6, 1966, p.429, he described how Catholic theologians could work together to change what had until now been considered immutable Church teaching.
In 1965, when Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the doctrine of transubstantiation in the encyclical "Mysterium Fidei," Gregory Baum accused the Pope of stressing Trent as against Vatican II, of wishing to slow down the movement of renewal (The Canadian Register, Sept. 25, 1965).
Gregory Baum has repeatedly called for a "magisterium of the theologians."
The Hierarchical Church
Gregory Baum has consistently attacked the Church teaching on the hierarchy and authority of Pope, Bishops and priests.
In a compendium of views on "The Future Church," Gregory Baum said: "Bishops and popes will not be dressed as feudal lords. They will simply be brothers who have something to say. They will have authority because they express what their brethren really believe . . . In the future Christians will not look down on their fellow citizens who differ from them nor will they regard it as their duty to convert them." (The Telegram, Toronto, July 1, 1967)
In 1970, at a World Congress on the Future of the Church, attended by about 800 theologians, most of them Catholics, Gregory Baum said: "Theologians must stop defining the Church's teachings by looking at Scripture and tradition and then trying to apply what they find to the world . . . Catholics have learned to look at the Church as a Christian movement in which they participate on the terms defined by their own conscience . . . Father Baum said that one consequence of the new view that secular values are a source of theology is that people have learned to 'de-mythologize' the Church and the authority of the high officials."
On November 24, 1995, Pope John Paul II insisted that "Catholic theologians may not openly dissent from Church teachings or propose ideas contrary to official doctrine. It seems necessary to recover the authentic concept of authority . . . theology can never be reduced to the 'private' reflection of a theologian or group of theologians. The vital atmosphere for theologians is the Church."
In the words of Msgr. George Kelly ("The Battle for the American Church," p. 448,9): "Gregory Baum argued that Rome's grip on the Church can be loosened by careful violation of law. In Baum's view freedom from Rome's law can be obtained by seizing it in the knowledge that violations will go unpunished. Baum points to the success of religious orders and Catholic universities standing up to Rome without suffering any sanction . . . the procedure of several American dioceses admitting Catholics in second marriages to Holy Communion receives Baum's approval because no harm comes thereby to Church unity, with Rome only 'mildly disapproving.'"
In the National Catholic Reporter for November 10, 1972, Gregory Baum wrote: "With courage and the right kind of discretion, bishops and local churches could deal with their problems even without total approval from the papal offices – without the slightest rupture with the Pope."
Devotion to Mary
In the early sixties I attended a dinner at Osgoode Hall under the auspices of the Catholic Lawyers' Guild. Gregory Baum spoke on the exaggerated "cultus" of Mary in the Catholic Church. He said there was no evidence of devotion to Mary before the fourth century. At the time I had been reading a section of "Mariology" edited by Fr. Juniper Carol, O.F.M. on "The Origins and Cultus of Marian Cult." It gave numerous examples of devotion to Mary in the first three centuries. I was convinced that Fr. Baum was deliberately lying.
The attack on the Church's teaching against artificial contraception has been at the core of the dissenters' attempts to destroy papal authority. "To repudiate the teaching on contraception . . . throws open the possibility of repudiating all of these other positions (divorce, sterilization, abortion, euthanasia) as well. The skein simply unwinds." (B.A. Santamaria). The Scottish Bishops, in their statement on "Humanae Vitae" said of the claim of dissenters that the papal decision (Humanae Vitae) did not demand assent: "Such an assertion is destructive of all that Catholics understand by the teaching authority of the Church."
In his attempts to undermine the authority of the Pope, Gregory Baum has concentrated on destroying the credibility of the Church's immemorial teaching against the practice of contraception. He is quite aware that in the measure in which he succeeds, the Church dies.
I point out here only a sampling of his attacks on God's law:
In 1964 Gregory Baum contributed to a Herder and Herder book called "Contraception and Holiness," "a balanced and perceptive declaration of Christian dissent." Another contributor was Stanley Kutz, C.S.B., a Baum disciple, soon to leave the priesthood.
In 1965 he joined 37 American Catholic scholars in signing a statement calling for a "qualified endorsement of contraception" and "a change in the Church's traditional position on birth-control.
In 1966, in a feature article in the Toronto Globe and Mail he said, "Catholics May Use Contraceptives Now.
In 1967 in an article in the Globe and Mail (April 23), after the majority opinions of the "Roman Catholic Birth Control Commission" had been leaked to the press, he said: "The publication of the texts will help many, many Catholics make up their own minds with a better conscience." He said, "Some of the bishops will be quite annoyed that they were not at all informed of these developments."
In 1967 in the Toronto Star (May 6) he says that a liberalizing in his Church's attitude is inevitable not only in regard to birth control but to divorce and mixed marriages as well. He said Pius XI was pushed into writing "Casti Connubii" in 1930 by "Belgian theologians" and "It is my personal conviction that Pius XI made a mistake and that in a very few years we will accept the teaching of the Anglican Bishops in 1930."
In 1968, after the encyclical "Humanae Vitae" was published, he said: "The Pope's decisions went against the majority report of his own study commission, against the almost unanimous voice of the Lay Congress held in Rome last year, against the wishes of many bishops expressed at the recent meeting of the Synod, and against the weight of contemporary Catholic theology. The Pope rejected the Christian experience of vast numbers of Catholics and the witness of other Christian Churches . . . Catholics who cannot accept the papal teaching on birth control need not leave the Catholic Church. Nor do they become hypocrites by staying in the Church. If they have formed deep convictions on the morality of birth control, they may dissent from the official position and follow their own tested conscience." (Globe and Mail, August 1, 1968).
The objections raised here against Humanae Vitae were precisely those given by some Bishops and "periti" at Winnipeg in the following month. If it had not been for the black shadow of Baum over Winnipeg, his influence over some Bishops, the Canadian theological establishment and pressure groups, the Winnipeg Statement of the Canadian Bishops on "Humanae Vitae" would not have refused to endorse the teaching of the encyclical as it did. It would have been an enthusiastic endorsement of the Church's Charter of life and love, and the Church in Canada would not now be in a precipitous decline.
Although he did not criticize the Winnipeg Statement of the Canadian Bishops in which their concept of conscience was open to criticism, when they did issue a Statement on Conscience which was in accord with Catholic doctrine he publicly criticized it. (December 1973).
On Human Sexuality
In the 1960's, Gregory Baum was supportive and involved with a psychotherapy group with headquarters in three houses on Admiral Road in Toronto. A number of priests, nuns and Catholic students joined the group set up originally to explore alternatives to marriage. It gave great concern to Father John Kelly, President of St. Michael's College. An article in The Telegram (Feb. 27, 1968) stated "Father Kelly continues to worry about the way promising priests, student priests and nuns join the group and begin to ease away from their religious duties." More unsavoury details could be given.
When the "Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics" was issued by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on December 29, 1975, Gregory Baum criticized it severely. He said: "The concept of sex only within marriage was no longer adequate. Even if marriage is the ideal, this does not mean that there is no responsible context of sexual relations for mature single people, the widowed and the divorced." In response, Archbishop Pocock declared: "Rev. Gregory Baum's recently published reactions to a Vatican document on sexual conduct are contrary to official Catholic doctrine and may not be followed as either the teaching or the practice of the Catholic Church." Father Baum was suspended from hearing confessions.
Gregory Baum was a consultor with Charles E. Curran and Richard McCormick, S.J., on the book "Human Sexuality." Among other things, it said: "The final word on mate swapping has not been said." It claimed that there may occasionally arise exceptions to the prohibition of adultery, and "premarital intercourse may be justified if it represents a loving relationship and some measure of mutual commitment before sexual involvement." This study was condemned by the American Bishops (Origins, June 9, 1977).
Some insight into his rejection of Scripture as a basis for certainty or belief is given in a book: "The Credibility of the Church Today. A Reply to Charles Davis." A review of the book says "One is driven to think it is so uncertain what Our Lord actually said and did, that the immense claims made for scripture as the touchstone for Christian Churches can hardly be maintained." (Douglas Woodruff in Catholic Truth, Spring, 1969). One writer described the book by saying: "Fr. Baum's reply to Davis seems to be much the same as Fr. Loisy's to Harnack." (John McKee in "The Enemy Within the Gate", Lumen Christi Press, 1974, p.27).
He has repeatedly condemned the Catholic teaching on the inerrancy of Scripture.
In conducting laicization cases of Toronto priests, I called Gregory Baum a witness only once. I realized that he promoted the concept of a temporary or "existential" priesthood – i.e., it may have been relevant yesterday but not necessarily today.
In the Daily Star of April 23, 1966, in an article entitled "Exodus," Baum said he was not alarmed at the large numbers of priests and religious departing from their vocations. He said: "By assigning the laity a higher place in the Christian Church, the whole matter of the role of the clergy has to be re-thought."
In its issue of January 14, 1978, the Catholic Register reported that "Gregory Baum, noted Canadian theologian and outspoken critic of the Church, married a former nun in a private ceremony recently in Montreal . . . the bride is Shirley Flynn, who left her religious order about 15 years ago." He had previously cancelled an application for laicization. According to Canon 2388 of the Code of Canon Law in force at that time, he was automatically excommunicated. I do not know his present status. He is not a Catholic theologian except by his own definition of the term. In 1980, when Hans Kung was declared not to be a Catholic theologian, a group of "60 American and Canadian Catholic theologians, including Baum, issued a declaration that they would continue to regard Kung as a Catholic theologian."
The above notes are a superficial glance at some of the teachings and activities of Gregory Baum.
I have not touched on his errors in his books, in Concilium, his column in the Catholic Register in the sixties called "The Church To-Day", the Ecumenist, Compass, Commonweal, the Homiletic and Pastoral Review (in the sixties), Catholic New Times, of which he was a co-founder, and in his widely circulated tapes.
I have not examined his influence at Vatican II, his penetration of religious orders and communities, e.g., the Basilians and the Society of Jesus, his major role in the destruction of the Catholic Family Movement in Canada, his work through surrogates, his indirect influence on the Statements of the Canadian Bishops on contraception and divorce vs. civil law, his indirect influence on teaching at St. Augustine's Seminary, his indirect influence on the Winnipeg Statement, his part in the decline of the Church in Quebec through his teaching, influence over some Quebec Bishops and support of theologians in their uprising against the encyclical "Veritatis Splendor."
Nor have I considered his widespread influence through societies, groups, national and international congresses and protests of rebellious theologians. Cardinal Heenan had the good judgement to ban him from speaking at a Catechetical Convention in London.
In conclusion, the reason why I believe Gregory Baum should not have been permitted to occupy the Catholic podium at Regis College in Toronto on January 17, 1996, is that he consistently advocates immorality and teaches error.
These are the reasons why I believe Catholics should respectfully request our Archbishop not to permit Gregory Baum to speak at the Newman Centre in Toronto. A flyer is now widely circulating which reads: "Remembering Vatican II – Memories of the Council from one who was there – a lecture by Professor Gregory Baum, Peritus at the Council, Theologian, writer – Monday, May 13, 1996, 8:00 p.m., The Oak Room, of the Newman Centre of Toronto. The lecture is Free and Open to the Public."
Those who wish to voice their concerns may write to:
The Newman Centre,
Roman Catholic Chaplaincy,
University of Toronto,
89 St. George Street,
Toronto, ON, M5S 2E8
It would be a marvelous gift to the people of Canada if the CCCB were to set up a commission to study the influence of Gregory Baum on the Church.
We need all pray. In the words of a breviary intercession of to-day's Office:
"Christ nourishes and supports the Church for which He gave Himself up to death. Let us ask Him: Remember Your Church, Lord."
(Msgr.) Vincent Foy
Retired Priest
Archdiocese of Toronto
Feast of St. Francis de Sales,
Patron Saint of Journalists
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E-Cigarette and Vaping Market Size And Forecast
E-Cigarette and Vaping Market size was valued at USD 10.02 Billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 73.96 Billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 27.67% from 2021 to 2028.
The market is expected to gain traction over the forecast period, owing to increasing product demand from millennials. The availability of a variation of e-cigarette options is boosting to further fuel product adoption. The Global E-Cigarette and Vaping Market report provides a holistic evaluation of the market. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of key segments, trends, drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, and factors that are playing a substantial role in the market.
Global E-Cigarette and Vaping Market Definition
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Some e-cigarettes look like standard cigarettes, cigars and many of them look like USB flash devices, pens, and other items. Large tobacco companies have flourished by introducing these devices through various brands that cater to different requirements, thereby enhancing the product quality and level of customization. Moreover, emerging e-cigarette technologies, such as pod systems and quonk mods have increased their popularity in recent years.
Global E-Cigarette and Vaping Market Overview
The market is growing as the devices have become more efficient in terms of battery life and the availability of various flavors, attracting a large number of customers. The cost-effectiveness of these devices has further stimulated product adoption in the market. The rising price of traditional cigarettes is anticipated to further encourage the demand for e-cigarettes and vape devices in the forthcoming years. The market is driven by the growing awareness among the young population owing to various medical studies that term e-cigarettes as a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes. Moreover, the customization options offered by vendors and continuous improvement toward new product development have positively anticipated in propelling the growth of the global E-Cigarette and Vaping Market.
There are certain barriers and constraints faced that will hinder the overall market growth. The factors such as many of the flavoring and moisturizers contain in e-liquid have been licensed from F&D management but they haven't been permitted for inhalation which may cause serious health problem to consumers and side effects of e-cigarette use such as vomiting, coughing, lung damage, and slow brain development are the potential restraints hampering the overall growth of the global E-Cigarette and Vaping Market. Nevertheless, the advancements in technologies such as pod devices have increased the sale of vaping devices. Furthermore, vendors are coming up with various device configuration, and untapped potential in emerging markets offer favorable growth opportunities.
Global E-Cigarette and Vaping Market Segmentation Analysis
The Global E-Cigarette and Vaping Market are segmented on the basis of Product, Distribution Channel, Battery Mode, and Geography.
E-Cigarette and Vaping Market, By Product
• Rechargeable
• Modular
• Disposable
Based on Product, the market is bifurcated into Rechargeable, Modular, Disposable. The rechargeable segment is estimated to witness the highest CAGR during the forecast period. Rechargeable devices can be used for a lengthier duration by turning the cartridges containing e-liquid. Moreover, these devices cost fairly less.
E-Cigarette and Vaping Market, By Distribution Channel
• Retail
• Online
Based on Distribution Channel, the market is bifurcated into Retail and Online. The online segment holds the largest market share during the forecast period. The factors that can be attributed to the benefits of online marketplaces, in terms of convenience, competitive pricing, access to a wider variety of products, are encouraging people to purchase e-cigarette and vape online are fueling the demand for this segment.
E-Cigarette and Vaping Market, By Battery Mode
• Automatic E-cigarette
• Manual E-cigarette
Based on Battery Mode, the market is bifurcated into Automatic E-cigarette and Manual E-cigarette. The Automatic E-cigarette segment holds the largest market share during the forecast period. E-cigarette devices have evolved over the years, becoming smaller and safer. These devices offer customization options that help users combine different parts to alter the flavor and the amount of vapor generated from the device.
E-Cigarette and Vaping Market, By Geography
On the basis of regional analysis, the Global E-Cigarette and Vaping Market is classified into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Rest of the world. North America holds the largest market share. The young population has largely adopted vaping devices as a safe alternative to tobacco, the growing popularity of vaping devices will boost the market in the North American region.
The "Global E-Cigarette and Vaping Market" study report will provide a valuable insight with an emphasis on the global market including some of the major players are Altria group Inc., British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco International, NicQuid, JUUL Labs Inc., Philip Morris International Inc., Shenzhen Kanger Technology Co., Ltd ., VMR Products LLC, and NJOY Inc.
Our market analysis also entails a section solely dedicated to such major players wherein our analysts provide an insight into the financial statements of all the major players, along with its product benchmarking and SWOT analysis. The competitive landscape section also includes key development strategies, market share, and market ranking analysis of the above-mentioned players globally.
Partnerships, Collaborations, and Agreements
• Philip Morris International announced a partnership with KT&G, a South Korean tobacco and nicotine corporation, in January 2020. The former company assisted KT&G in commercializing its smoke-free products outside of the country as a result of this collaboration.
• Jupiter Research, a business that develops inhalation and vaporization technology, was purchased by TILT Holding for $210 million in 2019. Jupiter Research was founded in 1986, with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Jupiter Research develops, designs, and manufactures sophisticated vaporization technology for e-cigarettes. With this transaction, TILT Holding intends to broaden its technological ecosystem and B2B reaches across the supply chain by leveraging Jupiter Research's capabilities.
Product Launches and Product Expansions
• Japan Tobacco Inc. introduced new tobacco capsule flavors in March 2019. The two flavors are a combination of pineapple, peach, and menthol.
• Japan Tobacco Inc. announced two new tobacco vapor products under the Ploom brand in January 2019: Ploom TECH +, a low-temperature tobacco vapor product, and Ploom S, a high-temperature tobacco vapor product. When compared to traditional cigarette smoke, both new products are said to emit substantially less odor and result in a significant reduction in the concentration of measured elements.
• British American Tobacco introduced two new e-cigarettes, the Vype iSwitch Maxx and Vype iSwitch, in five of its VIP stores in London in December 2018. To heat e-liquid, these innovative items use distiller plate technology.
• JUUL Labs, Inc. launched a marketing campaign in January 2019 to educate adult smokers about the negative effects of traditional combustible cigarettes and encourage them to transition to e-cigarettes and vape devices.
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What is the projected market size & growth rate of the E-Cigarette and Vaping Market?
E-Cigarette and Vaping Market was valued at USD 10.02 Billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 73.96 Billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 27.67% from 2021 to 2028
What are the key driving factors for the growth of the E-Cigarette and Vaping Market?
The market is expected to gain traction over the forecast period, owing to increasing product demand from millennials. The availability of a variation of e-cigarette options is boosting to further fuel product adoption.
What are the top players operating in theE-Cigarette and Vaping Market?
The Major players are Altria group Inc., British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco International, NicQuid, JUUL Labs Inc., Philip Morris International Inc.
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1 INTRODUCTION OF GLOBAL E-CIGARETTE AND VAPING MARKET
4 GLOBAL E-CIGARETTE AND VAPING MARKET OUTLOOK
5 GLOBAL E-CIGARETTE AND VAPING MARKET, BY PRODUCT
5.2 Rechargeable
5.3 Modular
5.4 Disposable
6 GLOBAL E-CIGARETTE AND VAPING MARKET, BY DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL
6.2 Retail
6.3 Online
7 GLOBAL E-CIGARETTE AND VAPING MARKET, BY BATTERY MODE
7.2 Automatic E-cigarette
7.3 Manual E-cigarette
8 GLOBAL E-CIGARETTE AND VAPING MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY
9 GLOBAL E-CIGARETTE AND VAPING MARKET COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
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10.2 British American Tobacco
10.3 Imperial Brands.
10.4 Japan Tobacco International
10.5 NicQuid
10.6 JUUL Labs Inc.
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10.8 Shenzhen Kanger Technology Co, Ltd.
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser launched Monday the city's annual "Summer Crime Initiative," a coordinated effort to reduce violent crime through strategic prevention and focused enforcement in specific areas across the District.
Every year, for nearly 10 years, the Metropolitan Police Department has identified five to six focus areas that have experienced a high density of violence and utilized all available resources, including collaborative outreach, to prevent violent crime in those areas during the summer months.
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How might we make low-income urban areas safer and more empowering for women and girls?
Phase: Research Missions: CONDUCT INTERVIEWS
An empathetic physician's perspective
Melinda is a family practitioner who focuses on treating humans. She's more concerned with understanding the problem then the number of patients she sees (she actually doesn't like the word "patient"). Through this perspective, she has been able to get others the help they really need. "Medicine can't cure everything, the human experience makes it much less terrifying"
Written by Beth McHugh
Updated on 16:20, Mar 17, 2014
Melinda is a determined and passionate women who decided to go to medical school at 28 after working at Planned Parenthood as an HIV/Aids test counselor. She realized that she can make a difference by asking the hard questions and really listening. Really getting to know someone.
We talked more about safety from a physician's perspective and some key points bubbled up:
1. Mental health issues
Her biggest concern with safety is the amount of people with mental health issues that go untreated or undiagnosed. "People not in touch with reality can make bad decisions" leading to violence and overall unsafe situations.
"Most of what you do in primary care is complicated by mood disorder or mental illness"
She also recalls in Pittsburgh when police shot 2 mentally ill people because they felt threatened. She feels first responders need more training in recognizing and handling mental health issues to get people the help they need. This will help the care givers as well.
This has surfaced in other research and it is concerning how much this is not a topic of normal conversation when it's so prevelant. How can we make it more socially acceptable to recognize mental issues and get help? How can we avoid categorizing people as "crazy" and instead start to understand?
2. An authority figure to help "save face" during arguments
When patients would get into heated arguments, she was able to diffuse the situation by intervening and asking one of them to come to her office.
This prevented the situation from escalating because they have a way to get out of it.
I wondered how this could work within communities. How can people within the community whom others respect help diffuse situations?
3. Coping skills/ impulse skills
"Many people have terrible coping skills. They live in crisis or on the verge of crisis and don't realize what's going on isn't about them."
Many of us grow up in families that teach us or we learn through good examples we see. Without this resource, how can others learn these skills?
BUT OVERALL: Treating others as humans to get them the help they need.
Through her work, she not only treated through medicine but tries to see into other peoples lives. She feels this is an important part of keeping people healthy. "So what if you help their cholesterol if they still have substance abuse"
Through listening and asking the right questions, she was able to build trust and get the help her patients really need.
"We need to realize people are dealing with their own experience. They just might be on the street with you".
An additional perspective....
While we both live in the same neighborhood in D.C., we had never met before and have a different perspective on our neighborhood's safety. Despite what the newspapers say, Melinda feels safe in the city. This definitely peaked my curiosity so we also discussed her personal experience further.
Melinda grew up in a small town in Iowa. She loved reading and wanted to escape out of this small town to experience the world she had learned so much about. Determined, she went behind her mother's back and got her passport and was off to France. She's also lived in Berkeley, Pittsburgh, and now DC.
She feels it has been her experience with the world that has helped her feel safe.
"Not knowing much about the world makes you feel afraid".
While she focused more on her travel, I also felt she learned even more about the world through her professional experience. That experience has opened her eyes to the reality behind violence and is able to separate herself from this. It's not about her, it's about them.
She looks at others as humans.
Beth McHugh
Meena Kadri
17:12, Mar 17, 2014
Great share, Beth!
Thanks Meena! Learning a lot through this phase and excited about putting this research to work in the next phase.
And here's a friendly tip: update your OpenIDEO profile so folks can dig who they're collaborating with. Think skills, experience, passions & wit! Looking forward to seeing more of you across conversations on this challenge...


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March 29, 2019 April 2, 2019 News From The Past
The Ghost of Copper Hole – A True Story
On a cold dark September night in 1881 William Roberts is walking back from a boozy dinner in Church Stretton. As he staggers up a bank towards an old mineshaft a chill creeps over his skin and he glances around. He sees a glowing white spectre floating towards him up the hill. His breathing speeds up, the sound of his beating heart pounds louder and louder in his head, and he breaks out into a cold sweat. What happened next would send the town into hysteria, spark a frantic body hunt, and make headlines around the globe as the story went viral.
Sunday May 17th 1874
It's night-time and a weary traveler arrives at Church Stretton railway station. She's carrying two tired looking boxes –one of them broken around the lock , and she places them on the ground.
She inquires about train times and walks off. A few of the locals spot her and she's a familiar face, but one that had been away for some time. They watched as she strolled up the bank to Hazler Road. This was last time they ever saw her alive.
Nearly seven years later, October 1881, it's dark, it's late and local cider mill owner William Roberts is on his way way home. He's been at a boozy dinner, a meeting of rent payers, in Church Stretton. Bleary eyed he's now plodding up Hazler Road, back to Soudley two miles away.
Sensing he's being followed he glances back and he sees a woman a little distance away following him. He stops and waits to let her catch up, and she continues walking, but doesn't seem to make up any ground. Neither could he hear any footsteps, just the rustling of her dress.
Every time he stops to let her pass, the same thing happens. William Roberts loses his nerve he picks up a rapid pace and runs to the top of bank
Stopping to catch breath, and to see where the woman was, he looked back and was startled to see she was gliding towards him . She comes to a halt just yards way, removes the cotton bonnet from her head and holds it up to him, stunned all he could do was watch.
This ghostly figure then slowly moved away, passing straight through a hedge and disappearing into a large mound of dirt known locally as the copper hole – a disused mine shaft, filled in, just a few years previous.
Petrified, William Roberts turned and bolted home. When he arrived he was as pale as the apparition he'd just seen – but this wasn't just any apparition, he recognised its face – it was that of woman who he'd last seen some years ago…a woman who'd famously and mysteriously vanished leaving two boxes at local the train station, a woman who was last seen alive not far from the copper hole…It was Sarah Duckett!
William Roberts woke with the vision of the ghost of Sarah Duckett firmly planted in his mind.
He'd been thinking about it all night, and the more he thought the more convinced he was that he knew what had happened to her seven years previous. The ghost had let him to the answer.
He now firmly believed that Sarah Duckett had been murdered on that Sunday in 1874 and her body thrown into the disused pit known as copper hole…the spot that the ghost had vanished into.
Not long after her disappearance, it had been filled in. This must mean only one thing, he thought…her body is still down there!
He grabbed his coat and he rushed out of the door to spread the news of this revelation – and there were plenty willing to hear it.
Word spread fast. The taverns, shops, and the streets were filled with excitable chatter.
The Britannia Inn on High Street. There's a good chance Roberts would have visited this pub.
As people heard his story, others came forward with their own sightings of strange spectres they'd spotted by the hole.
Meetings were had and Roberts launched a campaign to dig out copper hole and discover the truth – but it would cost money and people were happy to pay.
Digging commenced. The story hit the papers across the whole country, and the world, as word spread about this Shropshire community that had been whipped into a frantic state of excitement.
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Visitors arrived from miles around to see what was happening. And Roberts was on hand to tell all.
He set up his stall down the road. Gate and beer money was collected for the benefit of those digging. He greeted tourist in the manner of a showman, colourfully telling them the story of Sarah Duckett's disappearance, and apparent reappearance before his own eyes just days before hand.
Roberts' description of the ghost and Sarah Duckett. Shrewsbury Chronicle – Friday 30 September 1881
He would then announce "all in to begin" Before marching the party up the bank. On reaching the shaft the strangers would gaze down into the large circular, and ever deepening, muddy pit.
The papers described how the gentleman would peer in, shake their heads with murmurs of "deary me". The young ladies would approach with evident dread, and craning their necks would utter "How dreadful" it was.
Wellington Journal – Saturday 08 October 1881
Deeper and deeper they dug, and even harder they toiled but as the days went on still nothing was found, interest waned, and the digging soon turned to derision.
Fresh evidence?
But just as the mystery threatened to remain unsolved forever – a new revelation showed itself in the form of a letter which dropped through the door of a local trader on Church Street. Signed by "One Who Knows" it claimed to reveal the true location of the body of Sarah Duckett.
Staffordshire Sentinel – Tuesday 11 October 1881
The trader on church street unfolds a piece of paper that had just been handed to him.
It had been nearly two weeks since William Roberts had come face to face which what he believed was the ghost of Sarah Duckett..
In that time the excitement in the town had built, and reached fever pitch as volunteers dug deep into the copper hole to try and find the truth – but a body was ever found there.
The trader starts reading…
"You will fail to find the body of Sarah Duckett in the Copper Hole ; look in the cellar of the tollbar ; examine the part nearest the road, in the left-hand corner . SIGNED—One Who Knows."
All eyes turned to the old turnpike on Hazler Road.
Armed with this new information and he went to William Roberts and all eyes moved to the old toll house nearby the copper hole and the search continued there.
A Shropshire turnpike
News of the ghost of Sarah Duckett was still being published in newspapers across the country – along with reports of other sightings
An old man from the town was said to be walking home when she appeared and blocked his route causing him to faint.
A youth on horseback was so scared by the apparition that "putting spurs into the animal" he never drew rein until he reached the village of Leebotwood.
And a lady in the town had her nervous system shocked to the core when the ghost appeared appeared through the parlour window.
The search at the toll house proved fruitless.
But another letter appeared, delivered to a newspaper this time claiming to be from Sarah Duckett herself. She was apparently alive and well and living with her husband in Martley in Worcestershire. The note said she had no knowledge that her ghost was wondering about, and was of the opinion that she should have been consulted before liberties were taken with her spirit.
Knaresborough Post – Saturday 22 October 1881
With so many rumours and stories flying around it was time for someone to investigate thoroughly, someone who knew Sarah duckett, someone who people could trust to discover the real truth.
That person was the Rector of Eaton under Haywood.
The Reverend Holland Sandford.
Born and grew up in the area, it was his business to know everyone .
And he knew Sarah Duckett and her family very well. He saw it as his duty to clear up the matter and began to investigate. He spoke to her relatives who told him the last they'd heard of her whereabouts was seven years ago and that she was in the workhouse in Worcester..
He wrote to the officials there to find out.
While waiting for a reply he took a seat and wrote down everything he knew about her.
Sarah Duckett was born in Soudley, near Church Stretton in 1830. One of three daughters, her parents were George and Anne Duckett. George was a stone mason but died when Sarah was just 8 years old – he fell from a chimney in Rushbury. Life was tough and his widow, Anne, sold part of her property to ease the situation. In 1873 Anne died. Reverend Sandford advised the daughters, Sarah, Anne and Elizabeth to sell the rest of the property and they did. Sarah took her £70 pound share and announced her intention to travel the world.
She put £30 of it into a savings bank at Church Stretton, and asked Reverend Sandford to look after £25 which he reluctantly accepted. Sarah then headed to Liverpool – and after a few letters back and forth all trace of her disappeared..
It's believed she went to Australia on a steamer ship.
Lord Warden Steamer that Sarah is said to have travelled on.
Just under a year later, Sunday 17th May 1874 a train pulls into Church Stretton station carrying home Sarah Duckett. She gets off the train, she's carrying two tired looking boxes – one of them broken around the lock, carrying little of any value, and she places them on the ground.
From his investigations he discovered, that four people saw her in the town that night. Two or three days later she was seen a few miles away at Longville in the Dale – and no doubt would have past the copper hole to get there. But by June she was destitute and in Worcestershire, where she was received into the workhouse.
The final part of her tail came in a letter to the Reverend Holland Sandford from the Martley Workhouse.
It said in that 1876 just two years after being taken into the workhouse, she was moved to the infirmary suffering from acute rheumatism but made a speedy recovery.
1902 Map of Martley Workhouse
She was apparently in high spirits as she left the ward.
She walked down stairs with her bundle of clothes in hand and was just wishing the nurse goodbye…when suddenly she slumped to ground.
The nurses rushed to her side but she was lifeless.
Five years later Reverend Holland Sandford wraps up his investigation
His findings are published in the Wellington Journal on the 5th November 1881 just 4 weeks after Mr Roberts claimed he saw her apparition following him up Hazler Road, before disappearing down the copper hole sparking hysteria in Church Stretton and nationwide interest.
But one question remained…
Unlike Mr Roberts who got to the bottom of the disused pit – the reverend couldn't get the bottom of where Sarah Duckett was buried.
She died with apparently no friends or family around her to claim her body.
Nobody knew, or would say where it went, with some speculation that it ended up at the local anatomical school. A terrifying reminder of why people hated the workhouse.
Wellington Journal – Saturday 05 November 1881
This isn't the only evidence of what happened to Sarah Duckett.
To backup the findings of the Reverend Sandford I have traced a copy of Sarah Duckett's death certificate and here it is below…
Sarah Duckett's death certificate
But she left other traces of her life behind. In the Shropshire archives I have made a link never before spotted.
Sarah Duckett's signature (or mark) is on a document in the archives. Her signature, along with her mothers and sisters', is on a document confirming a sale of part of their property. This came about when Sarah's father died and her mother had to raise money in order to keep the family going.
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But the Victorians were a superstitious lot, and sightings of the ghost continued for years.
The truth of the ghost of the copper hole, and the true whereabouts of Sarah Duckett's body, is a story that to this day remains a mystery…and one, it seems, that will never be laid to rest.
Illustrated Police News – Saturday 25 November 1882
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Q: No instance for MyClass arising from a use of `throwError' I have a problem with typing. I started to study Monad transformers with this article. Then I little changed them example. Now, my code is:
data PwdError = PwdError String

type PwdErrorMonad = ErrorT PwdError IO

isValid :: String -> ErrorT String PwdErrorMonad Bool
isValid s
    | length s < 5 = throwError "password is short!"
    | otherwise = return True

Now, I have the error:
No instance for (Error PwdError) arising from a use of `throwError'
In the expression: throwError "password is short!"
In an equation for `isValid':
    isValid s
      | length s < 5 = throwError "password is too short!"
      | otherwise = return True

Could you help me to compile this program?

A: You need to make PwdError an instance of the Error typeclass.
The following should be sufficient, though I haven't tried to compile it:
instance Error PwdError where
  strMsg = PwdError

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Chee Conquers His Autobiography
Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there.
Mark O'Donnell
Born July 19, 1954
M. O'Donnell
My Book World
Chee, Alexander. How to Write an Autobiographical
Novel: Essays. Boston: Houghton, 2018.
This collection of essays is a staggering one. In the way that fiction writers link short stories, Chee links essays to explicate how he works as a fiction writer. His metaphors are simple yet profound. His advice is wrenched from the heart, and yet at no time does he allow sentimentality to interfere with his message. The entire collection—like a group of short stories, like a novel—possesses a narrative arc that is subtle, inching readers toward the climax, easing into a quiet denouement. The book seems nonlinear, but Chee glides readers from a few youthful months spent in Mexico becoming fluent in Spanish, to his older youth in college with Annie Dillard as a professor, to his maturation into an astute, caring professor of creative writing, to the publication of his first novel and how it explores and ultimately exposes the biggest secret of his life.
The Publishing Triangle, a long-established organization for LGBTQ writers based in New York, recently awarded this work the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction. I hope, as a tour de force, it will win even more accolades in the coming months or years. Chee is a remarkable writer, and anyone who takes a seminar from him ought to feel fortunate.
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There are two kinds of marriages—where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Clifford Odets
C. Odets
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My Journey of States-40 Idaho
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Born October 30, 1885 Hailey, Idaho
Died November 1, 1972 Venice, Italy
E. Pound
MY JOURNEY OF STATES is a series in which I relate my sixty-year quest to visit all fifty states in the U.S. In each post I tell of my relationship to that state, whether brief or long, highlighting personal events. I include the year of each state's entry into the union and related celebrations. I hope you enjoy my journey as much as I have. This is the fortieth post of fifty.
Idaho (2008, 2010, 2015)
Some places you visit because you know people who live there. In teaching graduate students at Texas Tech summer school, my partner Ken introduced one of his female students to a young English professor who was teaching creative writing at the same time (I believe this to be true). The couple later married, and the professor was instrumental in getting me into the MA program at TTU. Before I could finish my degree, Ann and Daryl moved to Boise, and years later, after Ken and I retired, we visited them at their home, once in summer and once in autumn.
Boise is a well-kept secret, with a fine university. A river running through it (couldn't resist), in fact, a cultivated green belt for athletes, zoo-goers, museum attendees, and fresh-air breathers of all kinds. A great center for cinema, especially the Egyptian Theatre. A breeding ground for writers and authors. Most of all, a humane population. One night, after the four of us had attended a play at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater, the crowd strolled toward a huge parking lot. I figured, as in Texas, that there would be a huge push—cars streaming in all directions—to scramble to the closest exit. I was astounded when, as we reached a certain nexus, a four-way stop, each line of drivers took his or her turn heading for the exit. Ken and I asked if that was normal, and our friends quietly insisted it was. A state that uses a saying like "Drive Friendly" could sure learn something from that genteel bunch of Idahoans. Ken and I confessed that if we'd only encountered the place ten years earlier, we might have retired there. Of course, it just could have been a bunch of talk.
Idaho was the forty-third state to be admitted into the Union on July 3, 1890. Its state bird is the Mountain Bluebird, and it boasts a population of 1.7 million people.
HISTORIC POSTCARDS AND TRUNK DECALS
If you missed earlier My Journey of States posts, please click on a link:
1-Kansas 13. New Jersey 25. Michigan 37. N. Hampshire
2-Oklahoma 14. Delaware 26. Wisconsin 38. Maine
3-Texas 15. New York 27. Minnesota 39. Rhode Island
4-Louisiana 16. Connecticut 28. Iowa
5-Missouri 17. Colorado 29. Hawaii
6-Illinois 18. Arkansas 30. Georgia
7-Indiana 19. California 31. S. Carolina
8-Ohio 20. Florida 32. N. Carolina
9-Pennsylvania 21. Mississippi 33. Alabama
10-West VA 22. New Mexico 34. Kentucky
11-Maryland 23. Tennessee 35. Massachusetts
12. Virginia 24. Arizona 36. Vermont
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I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
Tony Kushner
T. Kushner
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Anna Burns's 'Milkman' Is Stunning Novel
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
Adam Johnson
Born July 12, 1967
A. Johnson
Burns, Anna. Milkman. Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2018.
This winner of the UK's Man Booker Prize is a stunning read. From the outset, one is struck by this Irish writer's Joycean style or even point of view. The novel is ostensibly set in Northern Ireland of the 1970s. Her stream-of-consciousness prose includes the practice of keeping her characters anonymous. The narrator calls herself middle sister, one of several female siblings, and refers to them as First Sister and so forth. Other characters include Milkman, the real milkman, and Somebody McSomebody. Such a practice paints a society of strict norms, in which everyone is judged by whom they associate with or don't associate with, why one isn't married to a particular man by a certain age. The practice keeps the reader at a distance, viewing this particular time period of strife with as much objectivity as possible. The novel might have been reduced by pages if the author had chosen real names instead of hyphenated characters like maybe-boyfriend being repeated hundreds of times, yet after establishing its own pace, the prose swoops in and snatches the reader up. At times you cannot put down the book. The narrator is her own Stephen Daedalus, striving to know her world, but also afraid to find out too much. Finding out too much might get her killed. A must read for 2019 and always.
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. White
NEXT TIME: My Book World | Milkman by Anna Burns
My Journey of States-39 Rhode Island
To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment.
Galway Kinnell
Born February 1, 1927
Died October 28, 2014
Sheffield, Vermont
G. Kinnell
MY JOURNEY OF STATES is a series in which I relate my sixty-year quest to visit all fifty states in the U.S. In each post I tell of my relationship to that state, whether brief or long, highlighting personal events. I include the year of each state's entry into the union and related celebrations. I hope you enjoy my journey as much as I have. This is the thirty-ninth post of fifty.
Rhode Island (2003)
I must admit that Rhode Island is one of the fifty states through which I made one of those pass-through visits, as I did with Delaware. However, I feel a literary connection with the state because of one writer, Edith Wharton. If Ken and I had had time, we most surely would have visited her former residence, Land's End, located in Newport and portrayed in her novel, The Age of Innocence. I visited her other home, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts three times over the period of a decade, and so, upon my return to the state Newport shall be my first stop.
Rhode Island became thirteenth of the original thirteen states, in 1790, and its official name is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Historical Postcards
3-Texas 15. New York 27. Minnesota
NEXT TIME: My Book World | Milkman by Anna Burns, Booker Prize Winner
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
June Jordan
Born July 9, 1936
NEXT TIME: My Journey of States-39 Rhode Island
In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers—to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.
Shirley Ann Grau
Born July 8, 1929
THIS: I haven't posted for over five months for the reasons I stated at the end of January. First, my longtime partner of forty-three years, Ken Dixon, was diagnosed with a BIG spur on his C5 vertebra which was crowding his spinal cord in a BIG way. In order to knock it off in the least invasive way, the surgeon came in from the front, and removed C6 to get at the spur and screwed in a spacer between 5 and 7, filling it with bone debris that has and will continue to make new bone material. The surgery and recovery went well, but being in charge of everything made me a very busy boy. The procedure, a corpectomy reduced his pain and stabilized his blood pressure, yet he continues to work with other professionals solving the riddle of vertigo. He's back in the studio for limited sessions.
THAT: I spent the entire month of June at a dandy place in the Texas Hill Country known as Hacienda Maria, what I refer to as a mini-villa that one can lease from the Native American Seed company of Junction, Texas. Just rural enough to enjoy the pastoral nature of the country roads, it was also a short six miles into town to buy groceries or mail a letter. ¶ I was able to read ALOUD my 550-page manuscript twice, literally finding my voice for the book. I made and entered in the computer numerous corrections, attempting to smooth out clunky language, as well as other problems which I shall not go into here. Anyway, I probably accomplished four months of work in one, putting me closer to finishing the monster.
MORE THIS: I plan to post regularly again, continuing my Tuesday/Thursday posts of A Writer's Wit, advice other writers have offered either about their work or the writing process in general. On Wednesdays, I shall continue my series, My Journey of States, until I have finished with all fifty! And finally, on Fridays, I offer profiles of new (or vintage) titles in My Book World series.
THE LAST OF THAT: A year ago I deleted my Facebook page primarily because I was disgusted with their cavalier approach to running a business. During that time, their corporate leaders have done even more to make me glad I dropped out. Personally, I believe the organization will have to shut down and do a FB 2.0 to build a more secure Web site from the ground up. Until it's improved at least, I remain a departed client. HOWEVER, I do miss seeing what's happening with family and friends. Drop a line, plee hee heez. ¶ I also deleted my Twitter account. I never was able to garner more than two hundred fifty followers, and, because I'd made the mistake of following some political operatives instead of sticking to purely literary interests, I was having to read a lot of negative stuff. It wasn't my followers' words but those of people "commenting." Negative. Negative. Negative. My only social media presence is now on LinkedIn, and if anyone can tell me how to make the most of THAT, I'd appreciate it. WHEW! I've said more than I wished to. I look forward to seeing and hearing from you as I regain my Internet presence.
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.
Tracy Letts
T. Letts
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
From Siddhartha By Herman Hesse
H. Hesse


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Oxford Named Best University in the World
Why is Oxford the Best University in the World?
Oxbridge UK University Rankings
First published:24 October 2018 Last updated:1 June 2020
The Times Higher Education World Rankings are amongst the most coveted university league tables in the world and following the release of the 2020 edition, it was the University of Oxford who topped the table for the fourth year in a row.
But how did they get there? Oxford's success can be attributed to a number of factors - teaching, research, citations and international outlook - as well as its long and storied history which dates back to 1096.
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Oxford graduates are sought after from companies all over the world, valued for their communication, leadership and problem-solving skills. The majority of Oxford alumni are in employment or in further study after graduating, while "8% were doing something else such as taking time out to travel".
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TORONTO – January 10, 2019 – Today Mark Cohon, Chair of Toronto Global, and Janet Ecker, Vice-Chair of Toronto Global, issued the following statement:
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