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A Storied Life
February 13, 2011 August 16, 2017 christophernorthjr
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Scheherazade, symphonic suite for orchestra, Op. 35: III. "The Young Prince and the Young Princess. Andantino Quasi Allegretto"
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsako
Aaron Copeland
Medieval Town by Water
After a painting by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (original painting destroyed by fire)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_Town_By_Water.png
Ezra Pound in one of his saner moments said, "Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand." Books work magic, it is not clear how, not to me anyway, but that is the nature of magic, perhaps the definition of magic itself, something marvelous that defies definition. Reading, or appreciating art of any kind, does not make us better people; some of the worst people that have ever lived had very profound artistic sensibilities. They read the best books, listened to the best music, were moved by the best paintings and sculptures. This ability to appreciate the sublime added depth to their experience of life, but it did not make them good people. It enriched their experience; it did not impact on their humanity. Of course it can also be said that many of the most humane people that ever lived had this same experience of the sublime. It may be that those that brought virtue to their experience of the sublime experienced and understood more fully and more deeply, but that is something that cannot be known with any certainty.
When I look at the painting above I wonder what the original looked like. I am saddened that it has been destroyed because I find the copy so moving. Perhaps the painting that lives in my imagination is not only finer than the copy, but finer than the original as well (as far as that goes, the copy may be finer than the original for all that anyone can know). There was an article in the Boston Globe, "Well worth not reading," about the books we imagine based on the blurbs on the back cover, or the cover illustration, or a sampling of the text. It is about the books we have encountered but have not read. I am not sure I like this article as much as I imagined I would when I began to understand its premise, though I do think there is truth to it. It is a bit unsettling perhaps for someone who teaches others to read books to contemplate the advantages of not reading them, but it must be owned that there are many books that I have read that did not live up to the expectations created by the first impressions they made. I am glad though that I gave them the opportunity to speak their piece.
The music suggests our first experience with stories, the fairy tale story of the princess and the prince, and the audience for stories, the common man. Though Scheherazade's princesses and princes often behaved as princesses and princes should, those of the Brothers Grimm and other tellers of folk tales often behaved as though their origins were a bit more humble. When as children we read fairy tales that involved royalty we often looked at those "royals" as though they were just like us that there was not much difference between the pauper and the prince and at some level this is what lies at the heart of any good story, it is what makes the story attractive. It may not be a belief that we and they are the same but it is a belief that we and they share a common humanity and we have something to learn from how they encounter the world.
A portrait of Samuel Johnson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Johnson_by_Joshua_Reynolds_2.png
The painting above is of Samuel Johnson, one of the English Language's finest professional readers. In the painting he is reading intently, but according to the blurb accompanying the painting this was in part to dispel the image of "blinking Sam," it was to offer a "counter-narrative" to one that was current at the time. But it makes one wonder, or at least it makes me wonder, why do we read? Because Samuel Johnson was who Samuel Johnson was it also makes me wonder why we analyze what we read? Is literary criticism something readers do to understand a text or does it superimpose the reader's vision on that of the writer? What makes some readers more "authoritative" readers than others, that is, why do we give more weight to the judgments drawn from the reading done by some than to that done by others?
There was a series of articles recently in the New York Times (I looked at these three, "The Will Not to Power, but to Self-Understanding," "Translating the Code Into Everyday Language," and "From the Critical Impulse, the Growth of Literature") about literary criticism and its usefulness. The articles addressed meanings of literary texts and the like, but the main conclusion they all seemed to come to was that criticism contributes to a literate culture in that it provides a platform for discussing literature, its deeper meaning, and its impact on the culture at large. I enjoyed all of the articles but I was intrigued by Elif Batuman's applying Freud's method of interpreting dreams to the interpretation of literature or at least that aspect of Freud's thinking that recognized the complexity of dreams and the multiplicity of possible meanings that they contain. According to Batuman this same dynamic is at work in our analysis of stories.
Farmer Sitting by the Fire, ReadingVincent Van Gogh
Watercolor, Charcoal, watercolour, heightened with white
Etten: October, 1881
Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo, The Netherlands, Europe
F: 897, JH: 63
http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Watercolor/1816/Farmer-Sitting-at-the-Fireside,-Reading.html
The painting above is of a farmer sitting by his fire reading a book. This suggests that the printed word can work its magic not only on those that do not read for a living, but those who earn their living from occupations very different from those of "professional" readers. Farmers of course, at least good farmers, are always reading the literature of their trade so it shouldn't surprise us that farmers read. But when they are reading the literature of their trade they are reading for information, not for enchantment. What are the respective values of each kind of reading, is one better than the other or do each provide their own unique kind of value? At the level at which each works they teach us how to profit from living, on the one hand how to earn a living and on the other how to spend a life in a way that is meaningful and not just productive.
Elderly Man at a WindowYves Trevedy
http://www.artinconnu.com/2008_04_01_archive.html
The paintings above and below are of an old man reading and of a young man reading. They are both engrossed and as one might expect the old man is farther along in his book than the young man, the old man is finishing his book while the young man is starting his. The old man is alone with a single book while the young man has an assortment of books propping up the book he is reading. There are perhaps some obvious metaphors that could be drawn but I'll let others draw them. What I find attractive about these paintings is the intensity that each reader brings to the reading that he is doing. The young man is described as a student in the painting's title and perhaps he is reading in the same fashion the farmer reads his agricultural journals, but perhaps not. The old man has his back to the window and to the beautiful landscape that is life as it truly is. Is the man turning his back on reality or is the reality he finds in his book more real than the one outside his window? In my experience all reading teaches and the books that capture my imagination the most intensely make the world outside my window more real and more understandable. As Pound suggests reading makes me and the world outside more intensely alive and more intensely real and comprehensible.
The Young Student
Ozias Leduc
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_zoom_e.jsp?mkey=1361
John Connolly in his book The Book of Lost Things says, "The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers, David's mother would say. Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of attention only for as long as they remained fresh, which was not very long at all. They were like the street urchins hawking the evening editions all shouty and insistent, while stories – real stories, proper made-up stories – were like stern but helpful librarians in a well-stocked library. Newspaper stories were insubstantial as smoke, as long-lived as mayflies. They did not take root but were instead like weeds that crawled along the ground, stealing the sunlight from more deserving tales." It might be that the books we read for information are short lived, they do not deliver anything magical, they are a pragmatic bunch that teach us what we need to know to keep the pantry stocked, but the truths they tell are only true for a short time, relatively, and will in all likelihood be soon replaced with other truths.
The truths contained in stories often help us unravel the mysteries that surround who we are; they help to teach ourselves to ourselves. There was a review by Sarah Bakewell in the New York Times about the lives of great philosophers, "Lives of the Philosophers, Warts and All". The book points out that most philosophers led very muddled lives and that no matter how profound their insights, the art of living well and happily remained elusive. I am not sure that stories succeed any better at explaining life or simplifying day to day existence, but they do teach us that everyone has problems and that what really matters more than solving our problems is living with integrity while pursuing those solutions.
The film is about storytelling or more precisely perhaps being a storyteller. Ms. Shafak tells us that others try to tell her the kinds of stories she should tell, but she does not want to tell those stories. She suggests that as a writer she is pursuing in stories the same things I am as a reader of stories, she wants to explore what makes people from different backgrounds behave as they do. Modern storytelling has become a bit obsessed with the relationship between the characters in a story and the writers that create those characters; that J. D. Salinger, for example, must be a lot like Holden Caulfield, that novelists and storytellers of all stripes are actually engaged in a kind of autobiographical masquerade. When in fact most of the best storytellers from the past made little use of their personal lives. One reason some critics today do not believe Shakespeare could have written Shakespeare is because the stories Shakespeare told were so far removed from his life experience, that somehow because he had never been a nobleman he could not possibly comprehend what it was like to be one. Storytellers that cannot imagine the inner lives of characters different from themselves cannot amount to much as storytellers, their insights, like mine are all local. If I as a reader can enter the inner lives of characters different from myself as I read about them, why can't storytellers do the same as they write about them?
The painting below is of an emperor of China who was also a literary critic. It is not unusual for a monarch to be engaged in literary pursuits, the first Queen Elizabeth wrote poetry and translated Latin texts, like Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy. Alexander the great had Aristotle for a teacher. Some learned more from the literature they studied than did others, but it is difficult to imagine that even those who learned the least were not enriched by what they read. If stories do nothing else they take away our excuses. When we read we make judgments about the characters and the things the characters do. This suggests that we have an inner sense of what is just and recognize injustice when we see it; that we understand the need for compassion and recognize cruelty when we see it; that we understand the quality of mercy and recognize hardness of heart when we see it. Some of these conclusions we are led artfully to see due to the skill of the storyteller, but the fact that these virtues are so much more likely to be found in the stories we read than the vices suggests that there is something true about these virtues that resonates in all of us.
Cao Pi, Emperor of Wei (Emperor of China and Literary Critic)
Yan Li-pen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cao_Pi_Tang.jpg
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Beholders of Ocean
January 2, 2011 August 16, 2017 christophernorthjr
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The King of the Fairies
Alan Stivell
A Man with a Quilted Sleeve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tizian_078.jpg
There is a story by Lord Dunsany called "Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean." It is about an idyllic place, a place of safety and comfort where no one is content, or at least very few are. On the one hand I suppose this is a story of discontent and the harm that it can do, but on the other, the more significant hand perhaps, it is about forsaking comfort and the illusion of contentment for what provides true satisfaction to the soul and spirit. In the story it is the ocean that everyone that leaves is seeking, but it could be anything. This suggests a question that each ought consider. Where is contentment found and what does it look like?
The song, The King of the Fairies, is by Alan Stivell. He is credited by some with re-popularizing the Irish Harp, though he does not play it on this selection. I first heard of him while taking a course on the Irish Renaissance while I was in college in 1975. Stivell is from Brittany, or the Irish province of France. The music of Stivell and others like him fed and cultivated my interest in Celtic myth and folklore, of which Arthur, the Irish story The Tain, and the Welsh stories of The Mabinogion were a part. These stories share a world in common, one in which the natural and the supernatural interact with one another and in which magic and wizardry are somewhat commonplace. In the Arthur stories Merlin is a difficult character to reconcile to the Christianity of the time when they were written down. He is a wizard and wizards are of the devil, but he is also a wise and trusted councilor and everyone in the stories trusts him, even as they are calling him a "son of the devil." The stories also revolve around heroic characters and the adventures that befall them. They are exciting reading.
The painting is, according to some, of Ariosto (others say it is a self-portrait). Ariosto's epic Orlando Furioso is also an important story for me because it caters both to my enjoyment of comedy, satire, and farce and the heroic stories mentioned earlier. It has been recently translated anew into English by David Slavitt. The characters in the story have an epic pedigree and they act as would be expected based on that pedigree. But this pedigree and the order of knighthood in general are also mocked and hence the irreverent humor. It too is exciting reading.
Earliest known portrayal of Thomas Becket's murder in Canterbury Cathedral.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Becket_Murder.JPG
The paintings above and below are from medieval illuminated manuscripts. The one above depicts the assassination of Thomas a' Becket. The one below depicts an episode from one of the King Arthur stories. These images evoke the political intrigue of the Middle Ages and its conflicts between Church and State (some things do not change) as well as the heroic tradition of its story telling. There is a passage in the "Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales where Harry Bailey (though he has not yet been identified by name) says to the pilgrims "We are all free men." The Canterbury Tales is a book written at the end of the 14th century, barely a hundred years since the final version of The Magna Carta was issued, and it is the first instance I am aware of (though I would not be surprised to learn there are earlier instances) where the commons claim equality with the church and aristocracy and in truth I am probably reading this line within a 21st century context and perhaps Harry does not see himself in as free a light as I do.
I wonder, though, at times if the equality that Harry speaks of is the beginning of a new tradition, a more realistic tradition, that is a bit at odds with that of Medieval Romance. There was an article in The Guardian over Christmas about science fiction, "Stranger than science fiction," that wonders if our present interest in science fiction is not an attempt to escape the limitations of realism, that is "stuck" with things as they are and often offers few suggestions as to how to live harmoniously with things as they are, other than pretending perhaps that things as they are aren't so bad. Science fiction also offers us a kind of story telling that is not just "lifelike" but often much larger than life and it is this something larger that readers also find attractive, they want to loose themselves in a world that is more heroic than mundane. The article suggests that it is important to identify the kind of story in which we would like to live or ought to live. The world of the 21st century offers many stories that though they may not be in conflict with each other are often more interested in selling us something, from products to points of view, than they are with helping us learn to live with ourselves, with others, or the world around us.
'King Arthur fighting the Saxons' – illustration taken from the Rochefoucauld Grail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rochefoucauld_Grail.jpg
Leading up to Christmas there were also some articles in The Guardian about favorite Christmas stories. Two caught my interest; they were about The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis and The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper ("Season's Readings: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis" and "Season's readings: The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper"). I read and enjoyed these stories as an adult and their use of myth and folklore (Greek and Roman myth by Lewis and Welsh myth by Cooper) nourished an interest I have always had in myth and folklore and the power of the stories that they tell. The Cooper story especially, with its use of motifs from The Mabinogion fed my interest in things Arthurian. But these were not the stories that provoked my interest initially.
The Nightingal
Edmond Dulac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Dulac_-_The_Nightingale_2.jpg
Above and below are illustrations from children's stories. Like the illuminated manuscript images above, these help create a world, a magical world, that evoke the stories they illustrate and pique the imagination. Also as was true with some medieval illuminations they help tell the story to those who cannot yet read. When I was in the seventh grade my school gave students the opportunity to purchase books through the Weekly Reader and the Scholastic Book Service. One of the books that I bought was Eleanore Jewett's book The Hidden Treasure of Glaston. I do not remember much of the book but its opening made a strong impression as well as its use of the Grail legend. The story revolves around a young boy whose father has left him with the monks of Glastonbury (one of the alleged resting places of King Arthur). His father is a knight who has been implicated in the murder of Thomas a' Becket and must flee the country. The boy, though, is bookish and lame and a disappointment. I empathized with the boy (something we must all do before we can truly enjoy a story) and was fascinated by the Arthurian elements.
The Mermaid and The Prince
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Dulac_-_The_Mermaid_-_The_Prince.jpg
But what does this have to do with anything like beholding oceans? I suppose because both my parents were mathematicians I did not think that literature was anyplace I ought to end up. My father was also an aerospace engineer who brought home pictures and articles on space vehicles and rockets. I remember looking at artists' conceptions of the Apollo spacecraft and the Lunar Excursion Module while watching the Mercury launches on television. Nonetheless I was attracted to a different ocean. If we are to be happy we must find our own ocean and pursue it as best we can and hopefully one day we will behold it. For me the ocean I behold is a sea of stories.
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Why Medieval
Dr. Richard Scott Nokes
Dr. Richard Scott Nokes writes a blog, "Unlocked Wordhoard," that I enjoy. He posted the above video to explain his interest in Medieval Literature and how that interest came about. Sharing a similar interest I found the video attractive but the important point it raises is not about the Middle Ages or even about literature, it is about finding whatever it is in us that motivates us, that gives us joy and satisfaction. We all need to consider what it is we are going to spend our lives doing. On the whole it is a pretty good thing if we can find a way to get someone to pay us for doing what we would do for free. If we must earn a living why not find a way to enjoy ourselves while earning that living.
Elif Batuman in the introduction to her book The Possessed writes, "I stopped believing that 'theory' had the power to ruin literature for anyone, or that it was possible to compromise something you loved by studying it. Was love really such a tenuous thing? Wasn't the point of love that it made you want to learn more, to immerse yourself, to become possessed?" This resonates with me as a teacher of stories, but it also resonates at a different level. We all need to find whatever it is for us that we can spend a lifetime loving, and whatever it is, it must be substantial enough to reward a lifetime's effort.
As a teacher it is important that I communicate to students who have little interest in what I teach the passion that motivates me to teach what I teach. It is not all about emotions, but than there is perhaps more to passion than emotion. Richard Feynman was at least as passionate about physics and the logic that is its foundation as I am about stories and their logic. Poltarnees may be a high and difficult mountain to climb, but it is wonderful thing to behold the ocean.
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Wishing Our Way Home
July 6, 2009 July 14, 2009 christophernorthjr
The Knight's Dream
Antonio de Pereda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antonio_de_Pereda_-_The_Knight%27s_Dream.JPG
Lucinda Williams is singing about undoing the past, wishing things could be done over differently and seeing that they can't hoping that perhaps there can be a bit of forgiveness. In the chorus she sings "If wishes were horses I'd have a ranch" and that sentiment captures a lot, not just of lost love but of a great many human activities that have not gone as planned or never got off the ground because there was never much more to them than wishing. Often it is easier to aspire than to achieve. Aspirations are romantic and often a bit adventurous, but achievements are hard work, at least the worthwhile ones are.
The painting captures another aspect of dreaming and wishing. The knight is sleeping at a cluttered table. It seems that the objects on the table are reflections of his dreams. There are a couple of books, one of which is open and both of which are old. That they are set aside and that two objects, skulls, have been set on top of them suggests the books are not what currently occupy his interest. There is at least one musical instrument and some sheet music. These might suggest entertainment or a musical education.
There is also a globe and other objects that might represent conquest, like the miniature clock tower that could suggest a conquered city. There are of course the jewels and cash, representative of the spoils of war perhaps, along with a gun and what look like bits of armor, the tools of conquest. There is also behind the books an object that looks a bit like a bishop's mitre that might suggest religious connections of one kind or another, either of complicity or a different kind of conquest. And of course there is the angel. Is the angel there to inspire or protect? But the knight is dreaming and perhaps, were he awake, the table would be empty. I think the painting suggests that there are some dreams better left unfulfilled.
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap
George Caleb Bingham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boone_Cumberland.jpg
Education is a kind of dream or wish for many and for teachers the desire to teach something of value is a constant struggle between aspirations and accomplishments. There are many different ways that people learn. The painting of Daniel Boone suggests one way in which people learn, they are given guidance. (I think it is interesting that the woman on the horse evokes images of the Virgin Mary on her way to Bethlehem, though I am not sure that that means anything.) The people Boone is leading need to know how to get somewhere and as a result they have not just a desire to learn from Boone, but a need. Where the pupil understands the need to learn a thing, that pupil will perhaps follow without asking too many questions or engaging in disruptive behavior.
The painting might also suggest the limitations of this kind of teaching. Those following Boone have learned how to find their way to a specific place, and perhaps those paying attention will remember also how to find their way back should they decide to return, but they have not been taught how to discover anything on their own, only to follow directions. They need someone to lead them, they cannot lead themselves unless in addition to guiding the party Boone is also instructing them on how to find their bearings in the wilderness, how to find, or if the need arises, to make a trail and to survive on what the wilderness provides in the way of food and shelter. If I make my living as a guide, I want to keep those I guide a little bit ignorant so that they will always need my guidance and will not learn to guide themselves, or worse, become my future competition. As a teacher it is my goal to make myself obsolete, at least to this year's students.
A Medieval Baker with His Apprentice
The Bodleian Library, Oxford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_baker.jpg
The apprenticeship system is still a preferred method for teaching another a trade. It was also, at one time, how one learned a profession. In Gulliver's Travels we learn that Gulliver became a medical man by being apprenticed to a medical man who taught him how to doctor. Abraham Lincoln did not go to law school; he apprenticed himself to a lawyer. In light of the fact that, for the most part, the faculties of medical and law schools are themselves practicing doctors and lawyers might suggest that these professions are still learned through a kind of apprenticeship.
Part of an apprenticeship involves watching a master of the craft practice the craft, which is not unlike following Daniel Boone through the Cumberland Gap, the master leads and the apprentice follows. But there is more to an apprenticeship, the apprentice eventually does what the master does under the master's watchful eye. There are mistakes that the master points out, not always in a kindly fashion, that the apprentice must correct.
A number of years ago I remember hearing Daniel Pinkwater on NPR. He was talking about his experience in art school and his apprenticeship of sorts to a sculptor. The sculptor taught him how to cut a piece of marble, something that is almost impossible to do if done incorrectly but very easy (or so Mr. Pinkwater suggested) if done correctly. One day his teacher asked him to cut a piece of marble down to a certain size. But before Mr. Pinkwater began the teacher pointed out that this is special kind of marble and needs to be cut differently. Pinkwater worked for hours trying to cut the stone with no success until another sculptor entered the room and asked him what he was doing. Pinkwater said he was cutting the marble, to which the other sculptor replied why are you doing it like that?
It turned out that it did not matter that the marble was a special kind of marble, all marble is cut alike. When Pinkwater confronted his teacher the teacher replied it is not enough to know, you have to know that you know. We are not so easily fooled when we know we know what we know. There is a scene in the book The Chosen where the Rabbi teaches a sermon at the dinner table. In the sermon he gives a piece of misinformation and it is his son, Daniel's responsibility to catch his father in the mistake. Daniel knows that when the sermon is done his father is going to ask him (Daniel) to not only identify the mistake but to correct the mistake. Daniel is in a sense apprenticed to his father, because it is expected that Daniel will eventually take over as Rabbi. This is another effective way of teaching and helping the student to know that he knows, though it may be unwise as a practice in the public schools.
When I was younger I was a big fan of Carl Sagan, I still am. He explained science in a way that was both interesting and inspiring. I did not become a scientist but he created in me an interest in it that has never gone away. His television program Cosmos reached many people and explained in ways that were relatively easy to understand how science and the universe worked. Sagan used television as a teaching tool and as a result he taught many. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the current host of the PBS series Nova, was asked who inspired him to go into science. He said that was an easy question to answer and after giving a few biographical details identified Carl Sagan as his greatest influence. Tyson then told a story about Sagan.
As a graduating senior Tyson was accepted to Cornell University, where Sagan taught. Shortly after being accepted by Cornell Tyson received an invitation from Sagan to come and take a tour of the campus. Sagan offered to not just take Tyson on a tour of the campus but to show him the laboratories where the faculty and students conducted their research. This is another way of teaching. Sagan was at the time an important enough figure that he did not have to spend this time with a high school senior, but he did. This sets a different kind of example. Tyson concluded his story by saying that whenever a prospective student asks him something, he stops what he is doing and tries to answer. Ultimately we do what we do, whatever it is that we do, because someone took an interest in us and thought it important to guide us into the craft or profession and to show us the ropes.
There was an article this week in The Guardian. It was written by the children's laureate, Anthony Browne. I was surprised that there existed such an office as children's laureate anywhere. The title of the article is "Creativity in schools: Every story needs a picture" In the article Browne discusses creativity and picture making. He is concerned that too many students, and adults, tell themselves they cannot draw. He thought schools were doing more to discourage picture making than to encourage it. He then talked about the "shape game" which involves one person drawing a shape on a piece of paper and others adding to the shape in order to create or redefine a picture. It is sort of like the game that folks interested in stories play where one person starts a story and others continue it. He thinks more time should be spent playing the shape game or something like it.
He was especially troubled on a visit to a school highly regarded for its success in guiding students through the various standardized tests. The students could read well and they could write competently, but they couldn't draw and their imaginations seemed to him to be underdeveloped. It troubled him that none of the students recognized the Mona Lisa probably one of the most famous paintings ever made. Browne acknowledged the need for students to master skills but he is troubled that in teaching the skills we are often quenching the imagination. Skills are necessary if we are to continue doing what we are doing today, but without imagination we will not shape the future, that will be done by those who can first imagine what it could look like.
Hitomi Memorial Hall Tokyo on October 26, 1986
The song comes from the Disney film Pinocchio. As most know Pinocchio is a puppet who wishes to be a boy. He is instructed to wish upon a star. There may be dreams that are achieved by wishing on stars but most require, as did Pinocchio's dream, a lot of hard work. When I wish upon a star I wish good things for my students, I wish for the skills that will help me lead my students to those good things. But as the earlier song says, "If wishes were horses." Wishes are not enough. Sometimes we wish for things that it are not in our power to provide or to achieve. But there are doable wishes that with effort can be attained.
Teaching others is a wish with an outcome over which I have some but not complete control. I can work at developing my skills, at keeping an open mind to new ways of doing things, but I cannot will my students to desire what I have to offer. Some can be motivated to change their minds but probably not all. It is a complicated thing. I feel that in saying that I cannot reach all, I am giving up on some, that I have to believe in all of the students and in their ultimate success, but this can be a dangerous road to go down, it can lead to discouragement and even to forsaking the craft. It is important not only to know our limitations as individuals but also to recognize that others have choices as well.
The desire to teach, the wish, the dream to teach is romantic, it is adventurous, but the wish and the dream by themselves do not teach anyone. There is work that must be done, exciting work, but work nonetheless. There is a bargain that is made in any classroom. The teacher promises to work as hard as she or he can but the students must work as hard as they can to make their teacher obsolete.
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Omarr Conner (born November 22, 1984) is a former American football quarterback who played for the Mississippi State Bulldogs in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.

Conner played wide receiver in 2003 before taking over the starting quarterback job in 2004. Near the end of the 2005 season, he moved back to wide receiver when Michael Henig won the quarterback job. Conner returned to the quarterback job when Henig was hurt in 2006, leading the Bulldogs to an overtime win over UAB with a 25-yard touchdown run. Conner himself was injured in a loss to West Virginia but returned to action late in the season when Henig was hurt again.

Conner finished his career with 3,070 passing yards. His four-touchdown performance against Murray State in 2005 is tied for the second most in school history.

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Felani killing: Parents seek closure as judicial process drags on in India
Yesterday (January 7, 2023) marked the 12th death anniversary of Felani Khatun, whose killing stood out among the at least 1236 Bangladeshis who lost their lives at the hands of the Indian Border Security Force between 2000-2020 (Odhikar). On January 7, 2011, fifteen-year-old Felani Khatun was gunned down by the BSF when she, along with her father, was returning home from India through Anantapur border along Phulbari upazila of Kurigram. Felani and her father were not cattle smugglers, the usual victims of India's trigger happy border guards (although opening fire unless they pose a threat is also illegal under Indian law). In fact, she used to work as a domestic help in New Delhi. The little girl was obviously unarmed and represented no threat. The image that went viral of her body stuck on the barb-wire border fence, shot in the act of climbing past it, disturbed the conscience of people on both sides of the fence. Read more: 11 years of Felani Killing: wait for justice gets longer A case filed against the BSF in an Indian court with the cooperation of Indian human rights activists remains pending in the Indian High Court. Twelve years on, a sense of despondency has gripped the parents of Felani in their search for justice. Though the judicial proceedings in the case have been delayed due to Covid-19, they still expressed their hope to stop the border killings through the establishment of justice. Felani's death triggered a huge global outcry as the photo of her body hanging upside down went viral. The BSF men handed over the body a day after her killing. Following the outcry on both sides of the border, BSF started an internal investigation into the incident and submitted a chargesheet against its constable Amiya Ghosh, who fired the fatal shot. It was the first such instance for a killing in the Bangladesh portion of India's massive border. Read more: Border killing: Photo exhibition held on Felani's home premises However, a special court constituted by the BSF acquitted Amiya Ghosh of the charge in August 2013. Later, in the wake of widespread criticism of the acquittal, BSF decided to revive the murder trial. Yet another judicial court upheld the previous verdict and acquitted Amiya Ghosh again in July 2015. Following this, Felani's father Nurul Islam with the help of the Indian human rights organisation Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) filed a writ petition with the Supreme Court of India. The Supreme Court bench, headed by the country's chief justice, show-caused several Indian bodies including the Home Ministry, in this regard. Read more: Justice eludes Felani's family Talking to UNB, Felani's father, Nurul Islam, said, "My daughter was killed by the BSF member in front of my eyes while crossing the border but I did not get justice in the last 12 years. The date of the trial proceedings was deferred several times. Now, I demand capital punishment for Amiya Ghosh and I hope the governments of the two countries reach an agreement to revive the judicial process and complete it." Jahanara Begum, mother of Felani, said, "I was in India when my daughter was killed. My soul will not rest until justice is done for my daughter's murder." After twelve years, the family is in need of closure, and although the border killings have dropped significantly, the stated objective of both sides to bring them down to zero is still some way off. Looking at the number killed each year since the turn of the century, it is tempting to suggest that the Felani killing's aftermath had some restraining effect on BSF jawans freely exercising a shoot-to-kill policy along the 4096-kilometre border with Bangladesh that is conspicuously absent from the standard operating procedure followed for its other international borders with various other countries. Read More: Border killings not expected: Shahriar Alam Bangladeshi deaths in BSF firing peaked at 155 in 2006, and remained above one hundred in 2007. Triple figures were nearly breached once again in 2009 (98), and fell to a still very high 74 in 2010. Then right at the start of 2011, Felani was killed. There would be just 30 more such deaths that year. Although the 50 mark would be crossed again for the first time in ten years in 2020, they have been pulled back again. Although their final figure isn't in yet, watchdog Ain o Salish Kendra counted 'at least 16 deaths' in 2022. SM Abraham Lincoln, public prosecutor of Kurigram district who has stood by the family through the entire period, said despite the showcause notices, no hearings have been held as yet on the writ petition by a bench of the Indian Supreme Court. "Even if it is delayed, the friendly relations and peaceful borders between the two countries will be established through justice," he hoped. Read More: BGB, BSF agree to cut border killings.
Cattle trader shot dead 'by BSF' along Lalmonirhat border
A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) members along Burimari border in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Bipul Hossain 23, of the upazila. According to locals, a group of cattle traders including Bipul tried to bring Indian cows through Patgram border in the early hours of Sunday. Read more: Bangladeshi shot dead 'by BSF' along Lalmonirhat border Bipul sustained bullet when BSF opened fire at them, Omar Faruq, officer-in-charge (OC) of Patgram police station. He succumbed to his injuries on the way to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital, he added. Read more: Another Bangladeshi man shot to death by BSF along Satkhira border
Bangladeshi man found dead along Lalmonirhat border
The body of a 28-year old Bangladeshi man, allegedly shot dead by Indian Border Security Force(BSF), was found at the Indian side of Patgram border in Lalmonirhat on Thursday. The deceased was identified by family as Sahadat Hossain, a cattle trader and son of Idris Ali from Auliarhat village at patgram upazila. Read more: Cattle trader tortured to death in Lalmonirhat, BSF blamed His family and some locals claimed he was shot dead by BSF members when he entered to the border area to bring cows with some traders. Lieutenant Colonel Towhidul Islam, Commander of Lalmonirhat BGB battalion 15, said the Bangladeshi man was found lying 120 gauge inside the Indian border and said BSF has been asked about it officially. Read more: 2 Bangladeshis shot dead in BSF firing along Lalmonirhat border, locals say Sahadat's father Idris Ali said ," My son was shot dead by BSF. I have seen picture of his body with bullet wounds."
India's BSF says 5,500 CCTV cameras to be installed along borders with Bangladesh, Pakistan
Chief of India's Border Security Force (BSF), Pankaj Kumar Singh, has said that they will install 5,500 CCTV cameras along the borders with Bangladesh and Pakistan. "The central government has sanctioned Rs 30 crore for this procurement," he said on Wednesday while addressing the annual press conference in Delhi, reports the Hindustan Times. Read more: BSF hands over body of Bangladeshi farmer after 15 days through Feni border The fund has been sanctioned for surveillance cameras, drones and other monitoring gadgets, the BSF chief said. "We have got around 5,500 CCTV surveillance cameras and some other gadgets and the Union home ministry has sanctioned a Rs 30-crore fund for this procurement," Singh said. Soon, he said, the CCTV cameras will be installed in the front areas – at the borders with Bangladesh and Pakistan. Read more: BGB, BSF agree to cut border killings While terming the use of drones from across the border as a "major challenge", for which they do not have a fool proof solution yet, Singh said that BSF has developed "low-cost" technology solutions for monitoring infiltration, drone activity and other crimes at the Indian border. "We have tried to enhance the surveillance in border areas in a big way. This entails use of surveillance cameras and drones on the western and eastern theatres (Pakistan and Bangladesh fronts respectively)," the BSF chief was quoted. India and Bangladesh share 4,096km land border.
BSF hands over body of Bangladeshi farmer after 15 days through Feni border
The body of a Bangladeshi farmer, who was shot and tortured to death allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the Feni border on November 13, was handed over to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Tuesday. The body was handed over through Bilonia Land port in Feni. Md Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge of Parshuram police station, said it was sent to Fenir Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy. Read more: BSF hands over body of Bangladeshi cattle trader The deceased was Meshbar, 47, son of Mafizur Rahman of Uttar Guthuma village under the Parshuram upazila. Victim's wife Morium and locals said the BSF picked him up from his cropland while he was harvesting paddy on November 13 afternoon. Morium alleged that the BSF members punched, kicked and beat him when he tried to resist them. At one stage, sound of firing was heard there. Later, the members of BGB and BSF held meetings for three times over the matter, but the BSF denied the allegation of picking him up. Read more: BSF hands over body of Bangladeshi teenager after 5 days The body of the farmer was found lying on the 'Zero Line' between the countries on November 16.
BGB, BSF agree to cut border killings
Bangladeshi and Indian border guards will patrol vulnerable border points jointly while they will take additional precautionary measures to lower the number of casualties, officials said Thursday. In a meeting, they also decided to reduce the number of injuries and stop assaulting unarmed citizens. The decision was taken during a four-day regional border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) that ended in Kolkata on Wednesday. The frontier conference between the BGB Regional Commanders (Rangpur and Jessore Region) and Frontier Inspector Generals (South Bengal, North Bengal and Guwahati Frontier) of BSF began on November 13. Read more: BGB-BSF DG-level border conference begins in Dhaka Commander of BGB's North-West region, Rangpur, Brigadier General A B M Nowroj Ehsan had led an 11-member Bangladesh delegation, while BSF South Bengal Frontier Inspector General Dr. Atul Fulzele had led a 12-member Indian delegation in the conference. During the conference, BSF South Bengal Frontier Inspector General Dr. Atul Fulzele referred to the existing cordial relationship between the two border guarding forces and emphasised on the joint efforts of both forces to implement an effective 'Integrated Border Management Plan (CBMP)'. Brig Gen Ehsan highlighted the importance of following the Joint India-Bangladesh Guidelines-1975 and effectively implementing the CBMP to resolve the border issues and also cited the role of both the border guarding forces in maintaining peace and order along the border. Read more: BGB-BSF border conference underway in Jashore During the conference, both sides agreed that increased joint patrolling by BGB and BSF will prevent smuggling along the border. They also decided to exchange information between the two forces immediately to take effective action against those involved and apprehended in order to eliminate various types of cross-border crimes, especially smugglings of yaba, phensidyl, various types of drugs, narcotic tablets, gold, arms and cattle.
Bangladeshi farmer's body found along Feni border; BSF blamed
The body of a farmer was recovered on Wednesday three days after members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) had picked him up from his cropland along the border at Parshuram upazila of the district. The deceased was identified as Meshba Uddin, son of Mafizur Rahman of Uttar Guthuma village under the upazila. The victim's wife Morium, locals and police said the BSF picked him up from his cropland, saying that he was a member of a smuggling group while he was collecting paddy on Sunday afternoon. Morium alleged that the BSF members punched, kicked and beat him while he tried to resist them. At one stage sounds of three rounds of bullet were heard there. Local government representative Nizam Uddin said members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and the BSF held meetings for three times on Monday over the matter, but the BSF from their side denied the allegation of picking him up. Read more: BSF kills Bangladeshi cattle trader in Chuadanga, says BGB Arifur Rahman, commandant of the BGB-4 battalion, said they came to know through locals that the BSF left the body of the farmer in Indian territory, which is around 100 yards away from the border fence. "We came to know that the BSF took away him from his cropland when he was working there on Sunday afternoon," he said. Syeda Shamsad Begum, upazila nirbahi officer, said the BGB and police were jointly working to
Bangladeshi farmer 'tortured by BSF' near Chapainawabganj border
India's Border Security Force (BSF) member have reportedly tortured a Bangladeshi farmer entering the Shingnagar border in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj. The victim is Eslam Ali, 70, of the upazila. BGB-53 Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Mohammad Suruj Mia said the farmer was working in the field within 15 yards of the border zero line on Wednesday noon when the BSF members enter the border and tortured him. Locals rushed the farmer to Shibganj Health Complex and then to Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) as his two hands were broken. On information, BGB men visited the spot with the farmer's son. Read: Another Bangladeshi man shot to death by BSF along Satkhira border "A letter has been sent to the BSF strongly protesting the matter," said the officer. Meanwhile, local UP member Serajul Islam alleged that BSF often enters Bangladesh and tortures the farmers here.
Another Bangladeshi man shot to death by BSF along Satkhira border
The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) gunned down a Bangladeshi man near the Khaitala border in Satkhira Sadar early Sunday. Although there has been no official acknowledgement from the Indian side, a Border Guard Bangladesh commander confirmed the matter. The incident occurred around 4am in the Koijuri area on the Indian side of the border. The victim has been named as Hasanur Rahman, 25, of Kushkhali village. Hasanur's father Haider Ali said, "My son crossed into India a few days ago to visit a relative because he did not have a passport. While he was returning home early Sunday in the same way around, alongside a few other companions, a BSF patrol from India's Koijuri Camp opened fire on them. Hasanur was critically injured in the shooting." Later, Hasanur's companions managed to drag him to Bangladesh territory and admitted him to Satkhira Sadar Hospital around 6am. As his condition worsened, he was referred to Khulna Surgical Hospital where he was declared dead upon arrival at 7am, according to the father. Read: BSF kills Bangladeshi cattle trader in Chuadanga, says BGB Satkhira-33 BGB commander Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Al Mahmud said, "When BSF was asked about Hasanur's death, they denied the firing. We have invited them for a flag meeting. Once we have the meeting, we will learn more about the death." Although it was learnt that there has been no word back from BSF on when or where the meeting might take place. At about the same time in a different part of the country, BSF shot and killed Muntaj Hossain alias Jahangir, 32, at the Boldiya border in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga. The killing was confirmed by a BGB official, who said Muntaj was a cattle trader - hence in BSF's eyes, a cattle smuggler. His body still remains across the border on Indian territory. The BSF circulated a statement to the media regarding the Chuadanga killing, trying to portray their personnel's discharge of two rounds from his Insas rifle as an self-defence. It is the first time this year that two Bangladeshis have been killed by BSF in a single day. Ain o Salish Kendra data till September showed that the BSF had killed 18 Bangladeshis till the start of last month in 2022. The declared aspiration of both countries to bring the contentious issue of border killings i.e. Bangladeshis getting killed by the Indian border force along the over 4096-km international border they share 'down to zero', remains a pipe dream.
BSF kills Bangladeshi cattle trader in Chuadanga, says BGB
Indian border guards shot and killed a Bangladeshi man at Boldiya border in Damurhuda upazila of the Chuadanga district early Sunday. The killing was confirmed by a Bangladesh Border Guard official. The Bangladeshi man, said to be a cattle trader, was identified as Muntaj Hossain alias Jahangir, 32, from Boldiay School Para. Read: 2 Bangladeshi youths killed in BSF firing along Lalmonirhat border Lt Col Shah Mohammad Istiaq, director of BGB-6 battalion, said that the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) fired around 5am am when Muntaj went to India to bring cattle through border opposite the No 82 main pillar, leaving him dead on the spot. He said the body is still on the Indian side of the border separated by barbed wire fence. AHM Lutful Kabir, officer-in-charge of the area's Darshana police station, said they were aware of the matter, but have no details.
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Q: Optimal rate of convergence for nonparametric estimators in Sobolev space Given a regression model on interval $[0,1]$
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The regression function $f$ is from Sobolev space
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Is the optimal convergence rate with respect to $L_{2}$-norm $N^{-q/(2q+1)}$
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A: Yes, this is the classical Pinsker's theorem for Sobolev ellipsoids. Your rate is slightly off; also you need to restrict to $L^2$-balls. Part of the theorem says that, for $R > 0$,
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$$
where $\inf_{T_n}$ denotes infimum over all estimators measurable with respect to data. Pinsker actually gave an linear shrinkage estimator that achieve the minimax risk exactly. Pinksker's estimator is, however, nonadaptive---it requires the smoothness parameter $q$ to be known. Later Stein gave a SURE block-threshold estimator that is adaptive over all $q>0$.
Wasserman's All of Nonparametric Statistics should outline these results.

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This gives them time to maintain for a sum and potentially complement their chances of getting a mortgage, whilst securing the property they nonattendance. There are of course nuances to all aspects of this, so here are 5 key things to deem nearly rent-to-own agreements.
Please note: rent-to-own contractual agreements are largely unregulated, hence specifics may rearrange from confessing to freshen and in subsidiary countries. Please check considering your local Consumer Affairs office past deciding to do its stuff and obtain professional advice as required.
A press on must be paid regarding the signing of the taking a new settlement, the detail of which should be deliberately examined by an independent real estate valuation. These can adjust considerably but as a general belief to be is on and 3/4 of typical buyers amassing.
How market changes do affect to the process of SEO ?
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The entire process of SEO do depend upon the market factors. It is really important for SEO to involve the market factors. When the massive change is been taken place in the market then it do affect to the process of SEO. For making a home page, you cannot really put in a banner or an advertisement or an image along with a few words.You should ensure that you are using keywords while trying to link back to your home page in the website.
Never bother to link back your website with the services that only claims to submit the web portal with more than thousands of directories and search engines. And most importantly with such services, your website will be linked back to FFA or Free for All sites.One of the prime SEO mistakes webmaster perform is that they never know how they are linked back to their website.
Due to market changes the process of SEO does not able to accomplished the decided goal which do generate adverse effect. So when the process of is carried out then all the factor which do have huge impact for the accomplishment are to be involved. If links are not the same, then achieving page one rank will become tough for you. So, ensure that the link for your webpage and the set up are same. A lot of things will hurt the web site. Well all accept the content, I must say the quality content.
A lot of quality content will never hurt you till you match this up with the improper tagging or keyword use. Thus, matching up the unique content, with right keywords and tags and free flowing building is must.The balance of all can help you to rise in the search engine result web pages. Content is King but with the new algorithms used by the Search Engines the quality of the Content and the relevancy of it has become paramount.They even go so far as to look at neighboring pages to see if they are relevant to the search criteria as well.
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While it might be a watch, it is going to have numerous elements that are accessible on SmartPhones as of now. By this, the client will have the capacity to search the web and utilization applications. How can this become possibly the most important factor for web index optimization.The Apple SmartWatch will be another significant gadget out there that will be utilizing voice order controls. This progressions up the hunt terms that are utilized by clients of the gadget, as they are currently going to be utilizing their voice to hunt down things through web indexes as opposed to writing.
Why search engine optimization technique is specialized for improving website's performance?
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Treat the valuers visit in the similar mannerism you put together for a discharge adherence into property valuation. clean taking location the lawn, manage to pay for the exterior a lick of paint if hurt and restore everything that is obviously blinking taking into consideration fence palings.
Provide the inner an intensive tidy and de-clutter paying special interest to high fee areas within the sky of the kitchen and toilet. positive, closing nights filthy dishes shouldn't impact your homes fee, however, you by using yourself do one inadvertent in a primary manner.
Some of your dwellings maximum beneficial features won't be all of sudden obvious eventually auxiliary wiring, large insulation or underfloor heating. That's why it's far vital to be re hand taking into account the valuer arrives for that excuse that you could narrow out these noteworthy extras that could complete some its price.
Similarly, in case you recognize pretty much-tallying plans for the location behind the nearby Rotary club is helping to assemble an adding youngsters playground in a park as regards your avenue, conform to the valuer recognize. undergo in mind, the valuer isn't shopping for the property consequently.
It is now not important to sell your flaming to them. supply them melody to attain their process. It's no longer simply residence-proprietors shadowing the valuer that may be exasperating. Take the intimates pooch to a buddy's habitat for an hour or.
If it's a hot daylight tilt apropos the gap conditioning, maybe have the pool filter and spa admin. This does not simply behave the valuer that all is in operating order, it in conjunction with showcases regardless of the region has to have enough money. A great valuer will test out local income figures in the future at their real discern.
The cost of authentic valuations sydney becomes in the distance ahead in the situation of builders battle customization of the residential way of alive thing re the lines of the purchaser's requirements.
For example, some investors may nonattendance landscaped terraces or verandas associated subsequent to their apartments, upgraded kitchens, specifically meant internal stairways in duplex apartments, well ahead of air paint and flooring, or subsidiary adherent defined changes.
This leads to an escalation in the ultimate price charged to the buyer. Before making their exact house get conformity of decisions, investors should conduct an analysis of these drivers to acquire a fair valuation of the property that interests them.
Careful psychiatry and homework can plus to bigger returns, easy to get the bond off to liquidity and more lucrative investments. The atmosphere and cost of materials during construction, size, current rates of labor, frontage and new mammal attributes such as roof covering.
Zenith of the building, type of opening, waterproofing and plinth level, furthermore hobby the price of a particular property. Valuations along surrounded by house agents modify wildly, but a raft of websites now manages to pay for your admission to the easy to use of detailed.
Data that was taking into consideration than the put a terminate to of agents and mortgage lenders. The loud names all receive their data from the Land Registry and the Registers of Scotland, consequently, the effects are many of a muchness.
It's yet worth frustrating a few even though, as some info gets missed and they update at oscillate era. Newly-sold homes normally take pursuit searches a few months after the mixture is finished. Frustratingly, most sold-residence sites just list a price and if it was a flat or residence.
The postpone could speak to a derelict bedsit or an immaculate three-bedder once an Aga, walnut floors and landscaped garden – and beyond no specifying of how the sale amount parallels to the asking amount either.
When there is a need for the legal steps that is very essential for them to perform the right steps?
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However, because of the Agency's error, Mr. Y had had the benefit of a number of years of occupation paying rates on a rateable value of £2,500 rather than the correct figure of £12,000. The Director said that Mr. Y had provided the Adjudicator with the actual costs he has incurred in writing to the Agency. Although Mary has rejected the offer of payment the Director said, as well as offering his sincere apologies for the Agency's poor. would be pleased to consider any further claim itemized costs incurred as a direct result of their mistakes.
When this is said that to work under the guidance of the experts Valuations SA and country property values then the whole process is very essential and effective for the people to carry forward the legal steps in the very profitable ways. In January 2000 he confirmed that three of the units in the center had by that time closed down; the developers had been carrying out major works next to and above the premises with much disruption to the business.
So it is very positive for people to do the needful steps in the precise behavior for the need of house which is their key property. That had led to a loss of business in the following week. Mr. Y provided details of how he had set up the business end of the partnership's trading accounts for the years up to 30 June 1999. These showed that up to and including the year ending on 30 June 1998 the partnership had traded at a loss. In the 1999 year, the partnership made its first net operating profit of £536.


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Q: In C++ Win32 app how can I determine private bytes, working set and virtual size I'm writing some code for educational purposes and I'd like to be able to print these memory usage values out from a windows console program written in C++.

A: Took a bit of fiddling to get from those links to exactly what I wanted but here it is. (Most of the difficulty was getting it to work in Mingw32.)
// -*- compile-command:"g++ mem.cpp -lpsapi -g -o mem.exe"; -*-

// Shows the memory: private bytes, working set and virtual size for a process

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <psapi.h>

// MingW32 doesn't have this struct in psapi.h
typedef struct _PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX {
  DWORD  cb;
  DWORD  PageFaultCount;
  SIZE_T PeakWorkingSetSize;
  SIZE_T WorkingSetSize;
  SIZE_T QuotaPeakPagedPoolUsage;
  SIZE_T QuotaPagedPoolUsage;
  SIZE_T QuotaPeakNonPagedPoolUsage;
  SIZE_T QuotaNonPagedPoolUsage;
  SIZE_T PagefileUsage;
  SIZE_T PeakPagefileUsage;
  SIZE_T PrivateUsage;
}PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX, *PPROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX;

void PrintMemoryInfo( DWORD processID )
{
    HANDLE hProcess;
    PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX pmc;

    // Print the process identifier.

    printf( "\nProcess ID: %u\n", processID );

    // Print information about the memory usage of the process.

    hProcess = OpenProcess(  PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION |
                                    PROCESS_VM_READ,
                                    FALSE, processID );
    if (NULL == hProcess)
        return;

    if ( GetProcessMemoryInfo( hProcess, (PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS *) &pmc, sizeof(pmc)) )
    {
        printf( "\tWorkingSetSize: %u\n", pmc.WorkingSetSize );
        printf( "\tPrivate Bytes: %u\n", pmc.PrivateUsage );
        printf( "\tPagefile (peak): %u (%u)\n", pmc.PagefileUsage, pmc.PeakPagefileUsage  );

    }

    CloseHandle( hProcess );
}

int main()
{
    DWORD id = GetCurrentProcessId();

    PrintMemoryInfo(id);

    return 0;
}


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Members who have left legacies to the Society or financial benefit to the Society
Chris Philips(1928-1977)
At the age of only 24 Chris became ATV's first transmission controller but TV lost its allure and he became a theatrical agent and then set up his own fireworks business. Chris retired to Worcestershire in 1983. He had trouble in tracking down various plants and started a database on where the plants could be bought. Hearing of the Nottingham Group's Hardy Plant Directory he came to HPS and asked if they would be interested in backing the publication of a book he planned to call The Plantfinder. Jack Elliott, Chairman, at that time agreed and HPS benefited significantly from supporting the early publications.
Charles William Neville (1922-2004)
Charles was born in Oxford, the eldest of four children. He was educated in Oxford and after War Service he pursued a successful career in the Scientific Civil Service. He was a member of the team participating in the Hydrogen Bomb Test on Christmas Island. On retirement he divided his time between his workshop and his garden. His passion was hellebores and many were sent to the HPS Oxford and Bucks Branch. He derived great pleasure from his garden, although in his final years he was not able to look after it as he would have wished. He remained a bachelor all his life.
Jane Sterndale-Bennett (1942-2005)
Jane was one of England's foremost gardeners. Jane, with her husband Barry and three children, moved to White Windows her Hampshire garden in 1980 and shortly afterwards she joined the HPS. When Miss White died unexpectedly just before an AGM in 1987 Jane was one of the team who went to her house to rescue the Society's records. She was at the heart of the Society for the next 20 years becoming Newsletter Editor, Events Organiser, Vice Chairman and Chairman for five years from 1996 to 2001. Her skill as a lecturer led to her representing the Society all over the world.
Veronica Mabel Moss (1921-2006)
Veronica was from gardening stock; her name was inspired by a Hebe border. She married Eric Arthur Frederic Moss in 1944 and they had five children. Veronica worked as a nurse and a secretary when not being a full-time mother. They lived in Surrey until 1974 when they moved to Devon. She was a member of The Hardy Plant Society from the 1960s and went on the Committee in the 1980s when the Society was reorganised, and was involved with the Southern Counties Group.
Stephen Taffler (d 2005)
Steve worked and trained as commercial photographer but fell in love with variegated plants. He would spot the slightest form of variegation at 100 yards. He was particularly fond of ivies and started the British Ivy Society. He was a member of the HPS for 38 years and started the Variegated Plant Group and ran it for many years, first as secretary, and then Chairman and he also edited their journal, The Sport. Together with his wife Gill he was the Society's archivist for 20 years.
Kenneth John Black (d 2008)
Kenneth Black lived in North London where he was a gardener, probably with Enfield Borough Council. He is known to have particularly liked dahlias. He was probably an early member of the Society and chose to leave it a substantial legacy.


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Sophie Ryckeboer-Charrier, née le  à Vron, est une footballeuse française évoluant au poste de défenseur.

Carrière

Carrière en club
Sophie Ryckeboer-Charrier joue au SC Abbeville de 1979 à 1981 avant de rejoindre l'AS Étrœungt où elle reste jusqu'en 1985 ; elle y est finaliste du championnat de France 1981-1982. Après un passage en Belgique au Cercle Bruges KSV de 1985 à 1987, elle évolue au FCF Hénin-Beaumont de 1987 à 1989, s'inclinant en finale du championnat de France 1987-1988. Elle termine sa carrière à la VGA Saint-Maur de 1989 à 1990.

Carrière en sélection
Sophie Ryckeboer-Charrier compte quarante-et-une sélections en équipe de France entre 1980 et 1990.

Elle reçoit sa première sélection en équipe nationale le , en amical contre la Suède (match nul 2-2). Elle joue son dernier match le , en amical contre les Pays-Bas (défaite 0-1).

Après sa carrière sportive
Elle est devenue professeure de sport au collège Jean Racine à Saint-Georges-sur-Loire.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Footballeuse internationale française
Joueuse du FCF Hénin-Beaumont
Joueuse de la VGA Saint-Maur
Naissance en novembre 1964
Naissance dans la Somme
Sportif né en Picardie