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Рулант Саверей (*Roelant Savery, 1576 —†) — нідерландський художник, гравер часів Золотої доби голландського живопису.

Життєпис
Походив з родини художників. Народився в Куртре (Кортрейку) у 1576 році. За походженням був фламандцем. У 1585]] році родина вимушена була тікати від релігійних переслідувань до Гарлему. Спочатку в Амстердамі навчався у свого брата Якоба Саверея. Потім став учнем відомого художника Яна Брейгеля Старшого.

У 1604 році на запрошення імператора Священної Римської імперії Рудольфа II перебирається до Праги. Тут виконував численні замовлення Рудольфа та його наступника імператора Маттіаса. У 1606–1608 роках відвідує Швейцарію та Тіроль, де вивчає тамтешні рослини. У 1616 році перебирається до Амстердаму, а вже 1618 року переїздить до Утрехту. В Утрехті у 1619 році стає членом гільдії Святого Луки.

У 1620-х роках стає одним з найвідоміших майстрів  натюрморту в Утрехті. Втім, внаслідок захоплення алкоголем втратив значну частину замовлення. У 1638 році оголосив себе банкрутом. Помер у 1639 році в Утрехті.

Творчість
Був один з засновників анімалістичного жанру в нідерландському живописі. Під час перебування у Празі змальовував мешканців імператорського зоопарку — пеліканів, страусів, верблюдів. Особливо уславився картиною, де зображені вимерлі птахи додо — маврикійського дронта («Додо». 1626 рік).

Картини Саверея відзначені впливом Яна Брейгеля Старшого та Гілліса ван Конінгсло, також в них помітний стиль характерний для маньєризму.

Художник виконав кілька десятків картин із зображенням Орфея і Райського саду, надавши цим улюбленим сюжетам магічний характер. Створюючи пейзажі ретельно вимальовував тварин і рослини.

Див. також
 Офорт
 Живопис бароко

Джерела

 K.G. Boon, " Roelandt Savery te Praag ", dans Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, IX, no 4 (1961), p. 145–148.
 Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007, pag.928.

Посилання

Нідерландські натюрмортисти
Померли в Утрехті
Художники XVII століття
Уродженці Кортрейка
Фламандські живописці бароко
Голландські живописці Золотої доби

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Q: bootstrap row > column selection issue What I want to do is remove the last child border from this column, but it doesn't work. Here is the code:

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    margin-top: 3rem;
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 2.6rem;
    padding-left: 2rem;
    border-right: 2px solid $color-light-blue;
}

.softdev-per:nth-last-child(){
    border-right: none;
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all I want to do is to remove the last child border-right but it doesn't work.

A: :nth-last-child() expects an expression inside parentheses, you're most likely looking for just :last-child
From MDN

:nth-last-child( <nth> [ of <complex-selector-list> ]? )

Comment from author:

its working without bootstrap row column , but it doesn't work when I
add row column from boostrap .

it is because you need to set the last-child in .col-lg-3 instead of .softdev-per,
something like this:
.col-lg-3:last-child .softdev-per{ /* code */}

A: i fixed the problem by adding a class inside column then select it with css with :nth-last-child(1) , and it worked .
like this :

 .softdev-percentage:nth-last-child(1) .softdev-perc{
    border-right: none;
    }

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Gordy Soltau
Soltau on a 1952 Bowman football card
Wide receiver / placekicker
(1925-01-25)January 25, 1925
October 26, 2014(2014-10-26) (aged 89)
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1950 / Round: 3 / Pick: 30
San Francisco 49ers (1950–1958)
3x Pro Bowl (1951–1953)
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Gordon Leroy Soltau (January 25, 1925 – October 26, 2014) was an American football player who played wide receiver for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers. He joined the Navy and served during the Second World War. After the war, he attended the University of Minnesota, where he played football and became one of the school's legendary players. He joined the 49ers in their first year in the NFL playing both wide receiver and place kicker. In 1952 he led the NFL in scoring. He was All Pro in 1952, 1953 and 1954. Soltau was instrumental in the formation of the NFL players association. He is now enshrined in the San Francisco 49ers Hall of Fame.
On October 26, 2014, Soltau died at the age of 89.[1]
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The Julian monastery and university are located away from the hustle and bustle of the city of Taxila-Sirsukh, on a cool, dusty mountain top, about 100 meters above the surrounding country. Juliyan is no different from Mohra Morado's settlements, and Mora Morado is only over one kilometer away.
At the end of the fifth century, after the invasion of the White Huns, the settlements recovered shortly before they were abandoned. Therefore, these patterns are better preserved than Mohra Moradu's patterns, but unfortunately, they are of poor quality. The main stupa was badly damaged, but it was surrounded by twenty-one beautifully decorated Buddhist pagodas. The monastery was restored after the invasion of the White Huns and was used about 530 years later, but it is not clear when it was abandoned.
Near the tequila ruins, Punjab is a stupa and an ancient Buddhist monastery known as Morado. Nestled in the valley, this ancient monastery is surrounded by beautiful mountains and offers stunning views. This monastery is located where monks can meditate peacefully and peacefully. The city of Sirsukh is close to this monastery, about 1.5 km away. This place belonged to the Kushan era and was built in the second century AD and then refurbished in the fifth century.
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The Kushan Empire was founded in the first year of South Asia in the first century AD when it was the reign of Prince Khusan Kujula Kadphises. From 1994 to 1915, under the command of Mr John Marshall of Abdelkader, the ruins of the Mora Pony were excavated. The ruins of the Morado Pony include Stupas and a Buddhist monastery. The main pagoda here is built on a foundation with a height of more than 4.75 meters. Behind this larger stupa and the larger stupa, the stupa is dedicated.
The second city of Taxila is known as Sirkip, which was founded by the king of bacteria Dimitrios, Dimitrios in 180 BC. The area was invaded in the 18th century and rebuilt by Menander. The shelter of Taxila reflects the multicultural nature of the Greek kingdom of India, including not only Punjab but also Gandhara (aka Kabul and Swat Valley), part of the Archaic and the Ganges Valley.
The main road in Sirkap is a straight line that divides the 1,200-meter-long town into two halves. Private homes are built from rubble buildings with lime or clay stickers. Usually, they have a small playground, a second floor and a flat roof. In India, after the earthquake between the winter and the Persian Indian period, many houses were rebuilt, the walls were stronger and the foundations were deeper.
The museum began construction in 1918 and was completed in 1928 and opened to the public. The North Exhibition Hall was built by the Pakistani government. Visitors from Pakistan and around the world come to visit the traces, collections and performances of ancient civilizations. There are 4,000 items in the museum, from 500BC to 600BC. There are about twenty stupas.
These types of membranes are in the same state as found during drilling; some of the membranes have been fixed to provide an actual feel. There should be three main religions, namely Buddhism, Hinduism and Jain. The museum houses Buddhist stone carvings. All of this was discovered from Taxila in archaeological work. The locals used Gandhara art as a family handicraft and made some Buddhist portals and stone statues, while Taxila is known for its stone carvings.


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Discontentment Can Be a Spiritual Virtue
by Jeremy Howard | Nov 19, 2021 | Blog
During the Civil War, a Union soldier inscribed the words to a song of uncertain origins on the wall of his prison. "I am a poor wayfaring stranger. Traveling through this world below…" The Libby Prison Hymn, as it was known for a time, was credited to this soldier even though the song was widely circulated already at this time. Regardless, the words are powerful and there is a haunting, plaintive sense to it that perfectly compliments the lyrics so that it is still widely covered in modern times, from Johnny Cash to Neko Case to Jack White. This song has traction and staying power. No doubt in large part to the way in which we all can identify with this feeling of separation from our home.
The concept of home is hard to define and it can evoke very different emotions. For some, it is a feeling and a sort of knowing; an indefinable state of being that is confirmed only by a deep sense of belonging, of contentment and satisfaction. It is the place where you are best understood. Where shared meaning and experience create a sense of security. The problem is that even this idyllic sense of home is fickle, elusive, and at best, transitory.
There are many people for whom shared experience and meaning are the shared experience of trauma that creates a sense of meaninglessness. To talk of home with any intonation of nostalgia evokes only panic, tightness in the chest, and a deep sense of anxiety. Home as a positive construct is not a universally shared experience, but I think it is universally desired. I believe this is with purpose. It is the vacuum created by the fall that consumes all and devours all unless filled with the only being large enough to fill it.
I have spent my life on the move. I simultaneously experience nostalgia for West African tropics, South Dakota winters, Lesotho mountain campfires, and paddling out into the surf on South Florida's eastern coast. Each one of these places and the experiences I have had there has created a temporary sense of belonging. Even so, there has always been a sense that I am a guest. Like an Airbnb that is great for a weekend, but would be miserable to live in permanently. It's all some semblance of home or at least it was at one point, but what it lacks is permanence.
For the Christian, whether our shared experiences are traumatic or idyllic, we really shouldn't feel at home. We are travelers in a world in which we don't belong. We are temporary diplomats of a country we have not seen or experienced except the distant sense of standing in the presence of the God who inhabits all time and eternity and Who is our home. The Christian is not to feel at home in a world that is hostile to its Creator.
Like nesting dolls, we are eternal, housed in temporal cases and living on a temporal planet in a universe that will melt with intense heat and dissolve. No wonder we feel restless. No wonder we long for the eternal. No wonder we lack the words to describe what we are looking for. We have never experienced or inhabited what we know to be home, but the spark of the eternal that is Christ in us, calls out to that reality in a deep and almost primal spiritual reality.
What it is, is divine discontent and what it is not, is a longing for martyrdom or a premature "shuffling off of the mortal coil." It is possible to be fully engaged in the matters of earth, of family, career, friends, and ambitions, but with an eternal focus that cultivates a distaste for the miasma of death, decay, sickness, and disappointment that comes with our time on earth. I want to live with eternity in mind. I want to walk with my eye to the horizon, like Reepicheep in Lewis', The Voyage of the Dawntreader, who moved with one purpose throughout his life which was to reach Aslan's country, and when I crest that final wave, to be home.
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Historical dictionary of German Theatre
Composer, theorist. Wagner's influence on staging and architecture was substantial, largely within the context of his vigorous opposition to nearly everything he encountered in 19th-century theater practice. His operas were in large measure "music dramas" (he called them a "dramatic poem set to music"), inferring a rejection of conventions found in Italian operas but also of realism in spoken drama. The Italian predilection for arias, separated by choral passages, separated further by recitative passages, was to Wagner an abomination. He demanded instead the use of a leitmotif ("leading motive") to unify the stage proceedings, because such melodic components could be used to distinguish separate features of the drama. The sound of a leitmotif from the orchestra, for example, could signal a character's concerns even if he were not on stage.
Wagner's analogous interest in overall unity of staging effects prompted him to reject the kind of "realism" found in much French drama at the time, which he found quotidian in the extreme. He called for a prevailing idealism on stage in its place. He insisted on seamless Handlung (plot line or action) that could entrance audiences, transporting them into a realm of "sublime unity" with performers, in what he termed an "artistic community." Formulas, domestic intrigues, withheld information, chance encounters, sudden recognitions, and other devices he found antithetical to the creation of sublimity. In other words, Wagner wanted all aspects of performance to work toward a common goal, under the omnipotent hand of the director, responsible for creating the Gesamtkunstwerk, or "total work of art." In effect, Wagner's extraordinary emphasis on illusionism required precise synchronization of music, lighting, and set changes, so the demand for a powerful director to coordinate such synchronicity was nearly ineluctable. Yet the director as consummate artist was only one of many influences Wagner had on subsequent German theater practice.
Wagner's premise of illusionism—the kind that transported audiences into the mythic, manifesting itself in his "ideal" theater structure—ultimately came into existence in the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Furthermore, the popularity of his operas forced many court and municipal theaters throughout Germany to emulate the Festspielhaus. Wagner's operas demanded such unprecedentedly elaborate technical apparatus that most theaters, in order to present them, had to renovate their facilities. That often meant tearing down the old house and replacing it with an altogether new structure. The result in most cases, since both spoken drama and opera were customarily presented in the same facility, was beneficial for spoken drama. The installation of electric lighting, hydraulic stage elevators, counterweight rigging systems, and stage revolves became fairly commonplace in many well-established court and municipal venues.
The practice of dimming houselights for Wagner's operas carried over to spoken drama, creating a convention unforeseen and even contradictory to what Wagner had envisaged. Audiences for spoken drama, instead of being transported into a mystic realm, were transformed into voyeurs by the last decade of the 19th century. Family dilemmas and social problems in plays by Gerhart Hauptmann, Hermann Sudermann, and Henrik Ibsen came under a kind of clinical scrutiny in performance—and such problems were the last thing Wagner wanted to present on the stage. Wagner was most interested in mood, atmosphere, and what he called a "state of spiritualized clairvoyance" within the audience, allowing them to empathize and identify totally with the character. Wagner wanted to arouse the audience's emotions, not engage its critical faculties. Wagner's goals met their principal resistance two generations after his death in the anti-illusionistic theories and practices of Bertolt Brecht.
In the aftermath of World War II, increased attention was paid to Wagner's virulent anti-Semitism. Wagner published numerous anti-Semitic diatribes during his career (he was a prodigious writer of essays and books, in addition to writing the lyrics for his operas). His frequent targets were Jewish musicians, who he claimed were a deleterious "foreign" influence upon German culture. Wagner's first published attack on Jews appeared in 1850, in which he claimed that the German Volk found the music of Giacomo Meyerbeer (Jakob Liebmann Beer, 1791-1864) and Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) somehow "distasteful" because it was shallow and artificial, with little connection to truly ethnic German sensibilities. What Wagner demanded was the complete assimilation of the Jews into mainstream German culture—though the burden of that effort he placed squarely on the shoulders of Jews themselves.
In subsequent essays—the 1878 "What Is German?" for example— he accused Jews of merely imitating Germans; if the practice continued, Wagner asserted, Germans themselves would lose their identity as a distinct "race." Wagner nevertheless had several Jewish friends and colleagues, notably Hermann Levi (1839-1900), whom Wagner chose to conduct the premiere of it, although he wanted Levi to be baptized before conducting it. Wagner's widow Cosima (1837-1930) encouraged anti-Semitic interpretations of Wagner's operas, and during the National Socialist period, the Bayreuth Festival came under the jurisdiction of the English-born Winifred Wagner, widow of Wagner's son Siegfried. She was a friend and longtime supporter of Adolf Hitler, whose yearly pilgrimages to Bayreuth became well-publicized state occasions in the late 1930s. Joseph Goebbels frequently employed Wagner's music in radio broadcasts, desirous as he was of identifying his music with their regime. Certainly Wagner's anti-Semitism accorded with that of the Nazis, but the stature of Wagner as proto-Nazi remained questionable. Wagner had been a democrat and a strong supporter of the 1848 revolution, after all. His widely published and frequently quoted preachments against Jews, however, provided useful fodder for the Nazis and their claims as "saviors" of German culture.
Historical dictionary of German Theatre. William Grange. 2006.
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Thank you for all your lovely messages on my last post. I have been absent over the last week as I've been celebrating my 30th birthday (gasp....) in Wales.
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A traditional money chest was hand crafted in China in the late 1800's. Pine and ash, the original finish and exquisite hand painted lacquer scene in the door panel have wonderful antique patina.
There are just enough mars and wear for a little character, preserved long ago with clear varnish. There is no key for the lock, inside are tiny drawers. Corners have tiny finger dovetail joints.
Used by a merchant for cash and receipts, there are handles for carrying this historic tabletop furniture. Size is 19 1/2" wide, 13" deep and 23 1/2" tall.
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A Still Easier Language?
Copyight © 2002 Sylvan Zaft. Here is the twentieth chapter of Esperanto: A Language for the Global Village. You may make electronic copies and paper copies for your personal use, and you may freely distribute verbatim copies which include this notice provided that you do not charge for these copies. You may not post this material to any site. You are invited to insert links to this site. For any other use, including publication, you must first get permission.
Some have suggested that we could devise a plan for a language which would be easier to learn than Esperanto. Here is a list of some of the changes that have been suggested.
* Get rid of the plural ending –j. Chinese gets along nicely without a plural ending.
* Replace the three third person singular pronouns, the words for he, she and it, with a single pronoun that is not gender-specific. Hungarian has this feature.
* Get rid of the Esperanto word for the (la). Russian has no word for the.
* Get rid of the r-sound. This is an exceedingly difficult sound for the more than one billion native speakers of Chinese to pronounce. Many Americans find that they cannot pronounce the trilled r-sound which, according to some authorities, is the only correct r-sound in Esperanto.
* Get rid of the accusative ending –n. Instead make all verbs neither transitive nor intransitive in their bare form. Create a special particle to indicate that a direct object, stated or implied, follows. Verbs will be transitive whenever they are used with that particle. (Hebrew has such a particle. Spanish has such a particle which is used in front of nouns that signify a person.) Create a second particle which indicates that the verb is being used as an intransitive verb. This method would save all the work of learning the transitivity status of each verb.
* Establish a rule making it wrong to use a new root when a reasonable combination of existing roots could do the job. Instead of saying something like "telephone", for instance, say something like "farspeaktool." The Germans do this with one of their words for "telephone" Fernsprecher (far-speaker).
No doubt there are many other possible proposals for a language that might be even easier to learn. By introducing simplifications like these, someone could create a plan for a language that could be learned in, say, fifty fewer hours.
It might be asked, why has this not been done?
In fact it probably has been done. Thousands of plans for new languages have been developed and proposed. Some of these plans are for languages that would be more difficult to learn than Esperanto but others, certainly, are for languages which would be easier to learn. However, of all of the thousands of plans for new international languages only Esperanto has come fully alive with an international community, its own extensive literature, a good number of periodicals, and regular gatherings numbering up to thousands of individuals.
Long ago the English philologist J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, pointed out that it was possible to devise a simpler language than Esperanto but not without giving up a great deal of "the individuality, coherence and beauty, which appear in the great natural idioms, and which do appear to a considerable degree (probably as high a degree as is possible in an artificial idiom) in Esperanto…." Tolkien had studied Esperanto's structure and grammar as a professional linguist and had "read a fair amount written in it." Tolkien endorsed Esperanto.
Whether a person finds something beautiful or not is a matter of taste. I have listened while two Spanish teachers made fun of the way French sounds. They spoke some French sentences with excellent pronunciation and obvious disdain and then spoke some Spanish with excellent pronunciation and obvious affection. Other individuals believe that French is a very beautiful language. No doubt there are people who disagree with Tolkien's aesthetic judgment regarding Esperanto.
Similar differences of opinion would no doubt apply to other features of a language besides the way in which it is pronounced. Tolkien, speaking of Esperanto as a whole, gave a high rating to its aesthetic qualities. He said that Esperanto was easy to learn and had fine aesthetic qualities. He admitted that plans for a simpler language had been devised but that that language was "hideous."
In Esperanto we have a trade-off. It takes a little longer to gain a good working knowledge of Esperanto than it would a hypothetical simpler language but a good deal of aesthetic value is gained thereby. Much in the way of flexibility in word order is gained. Much in the way of being able to place subtle emphasis by taking advantage of this flexibility is gained. In my opinion the cost-benefit ratio is favorable. Of course, in the opinion of some others the cost-benefit ratio is unfavorable.
Aesthetics is not just trimming when it comes to human affairs. It is central to the quality of human life. Whether we speak of music, painting, literature, sports, chess, movies, photography, clothing, science, mathematics, architecture, automobile design and so on, the aesthetic side of our common concerns is of great importance.
Sports reports in the paper talk about "a beautiful play", "a beautiful catch", "a beautiful run." They talk about "winning ugly", when a team wins a game but has not played beautifully. Brilliancy prizes are given for aesthetically valuable chess games. Mathematicians value elegant solutions to problems. Scientists like Einstein were led to their theories partly because they were beautiful.
Aesthetic value is one of the considerations we take into account in selecting cars, houses, boats, lovers, spouses, solutions to mathematical problems, scientific theories, music, movies and so on. It may very well be one of the considerations we take into account in selecting a language. For at least a considerable number of people the aesthetic value of Esperanto is one of its features which has attracted people to it.
This aesthetic value does not only lie in literary works but also in the ordinary use of the language. The way Esperanto has been constructed permits ordinary users to be creative in making up new words. We saw how this is done in Chapter Ten. Claude Piron has collected a large number of spontaneous words created in ordinary conversations by Esperantists. These coinings took place when people who had different native languages were speaking with one another in international get-togethers. Piron gives a number of examples in his little book in Esperanto, La Bona Lingvo.
A number of Esperantists were in Vienna and had been following some directional signs with arrows on them. They decided to go back. A German among them said, "Ni malsekvu la sagojn." (p. 42) The closest I can come in English would be, "Let's unfollow the arrows." In English this would be unnaturally cute. In Esperanto it is concise, natural and original, a very concise way of saying, "Let's go in the opposite direction to that shown by the arrows."
Also in Vienna a Slovene, describing someone, said, "Li similas Orson Welles—Jes, eĉ voĉe." In English this would be, "He's like Orson Welles—Yes, even voicely." Try to put this "voicely" into good English.
A Dutchman remarked in Zagreb "Vortelekti vere estas vortkompari." These four words mean "To choose words is truly to compare words." As far as syllables go the two sentences are almost equally long. However, the key element vort (word) comes in a place of emphasis at the beginning of the compound words which are infinitives, vortelekti (to wordchoose) and vortkompari (to wordcompare): "Wordchoose truly is wordcompare."
In Poitiers, France, a Frenchman remarked about a man who was acting in an avuncular manner to a child, "Ĉu li oĉjas?" We could translate this as "Is he uncle-ing?" However oĉjo is not the word for uncle. Onklo is. Oĉjo is a diminutive form of onklo just as "mommy" is a diminutive form for "mom." What this three-word question is really getting across is this: "Is this man behaving like a really affectionate, beloved uncle would to the child?"
Of course languages like English and French and the other great national languages are wonderful for getting across nuances of meaning, but they do this in different ways than Esperanto does. English does this by making available an enormous number of synonyms, each of which carries a slightly different nuance. English also does this by making available an enormous number of idiomatic expressions. Esperanto achieves this end by permitting its users to combine any of its word elements to create new words. In English, French and Esperanto those who have mastery over the language can express themselves with great creativity. This, of course, is true for the other languages as well.
And this creativity necessarily involves aesthetic values.
The aesthetic qualities of the language may be what has kept Esperanto alive.
It would be easy to devise a plan for a yet simpler language. However, there is no guarantee that such a language would work in real-life situations. Esperanto has been used by large numbers of people for a century now. It has attracted people to learn it, and people who have learned it have used it in correspondence, in travel, in translating works of literature, in creating new works of literature and in marriages.
Just as a vast number of people are said to love their native language, so a great many Esperantists love their common language. Some of them love it so much that for them Esperanto's value does not lie in the future when they envision it as being adopted for general international use. It lies in the present moment as the language of a small but flourishing, unique international community
Chapter 21 The Propagandists and the Raumists


We lose fat in two ways: burn fat with exercise, and burn fat with muscle. As we increase our muscle, we burn more fat.
It's a wonderful cycle to get caught up in! Work out, lose fat, build muscle, burn more fat. Other than doing your exercises routinely, there are foods you can eat to help build muscle tissue. Let's take a look at what sort of super foods will help build muscle.
As we age, we lose muscle, especially when we reach the age of forty and over. But, muscle is important. It helps to strengthen our framework. The same calcium that strengthens the bones also builds the muscle that the frame is attached to.
Muscle weighs more than fat. It's important to realize that especially when you are losing weight. If the scale comes down slowly, don't worry. You are sculpting a more beautiful, healthier body with lean muscle. And, that lean muscle needs more energy to operate. That's one reason why muscle burns fat for energy. Yes, even when you are not lifting dumbbells, your muscles are at work burning fat for you. What more could you ask?
Building muscle requires a nutritious diet. Muscle needs protein, calcium, and a host of other nutrients to grow. That is where super foods come in.
The high-protein Super foods are great for building muscle because they give you what you need in one swoop without having to worry about nutrients you might be missing. Combine a few super foods and you'll get what you need to build strong, healthy muscles all on one plate.
Eggs provide protein. Eating an egg for breakfast not only helps with protein intake for the day but also decreases your cravings throughout the day. If you're worried about cholesterol, go ahead and just eat the egg whites. You'll still get all the protein you need.
You can put flax seed meal in your yogurt, add them to your cereal, throw them in your smoothie, or sprinkle on a salad. This seed is full of protein and omega-3 fatty acids. Be sure to chose the meal as the nutrients are released by the grinding process. Also, keep the flax seed meal in the refrigerator to preserve them.
Let's choose the lean variety. Steak is full of protein that is perfect for muscle building. All steak is not created equal. Choose sirloin or top round. You may want to choose organic grain-fed beef to ensure there are no additives you prefer to avoid.
It's a tasty and inexpensive alternative to chicken. Turkey is succulent when cooked right and also very little saturated fat. All that lean protein is great for your muscle building efforts.
You want to build muscle but avoid bad fat. Nuts can help by providing a healthy source of fat along with plant protein. Eat a variety of nuts as snacks to fill you up and increase your protein intake. Be sure to choose nuts without added sugars and salt. Get nuts that are as close to natural as you can.
Muscle strength and health is important at every age—young and old. It is never too late to start building muscle to increase your strength, your health, and to lose those extra pounds. Eat a diet that's rich in these muscle building super foods, and look and feel better!


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Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) data refers to metrics related to intangible assets within the enterprise. Research shows that intangible assets comprise an increasing percentage of future enterprise value. While there are many ways to think of intangible asset metrics, these three central factors together, ESG, comprise a label that has been adopted throughout the United States financial industry. They are used for a myriad of specific purposes with the ultimate objective of measuring elements related to sustainability and societal impact of a company or business.
8 steps for developing a responsible investment strategy to help combat Climate change
How we deal with climate change
Every business and asset will be affected by climate change and collective action is needed to mitigate or adapt to it. This will be the case even if society successfully transitions toward a climate neutral economy, and, as envisaged by
the Paris Accord, succeeds in keeping future temperature increases this century 'well below' two degrees Celsius. Unfortunately, our analysis suggests that we are currently likely to miss these targets and that more action is necessary.
The impacts of climate change run through all the elements of our responsible investment strategy. How can we make sure that a proper assessment of risks and opportunities is reflected in investment decisions? How can we help finance measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change? How can we deal with the fact that many consequences of climate change will only materialize over a medium- to long-term time horizon? And how can we help to encourage changes that better enable financial markets to effectively deal with climate change, and approach it as both a risk and an opportunity?
TodoVale has defined a holistic strategy to reflect climate change in its investment approach and we are committed to action in eight areas:
1. Net-zero portfolios by 2050
2. Scenarios
3. Strengthen ESG integration
4. Benchmarks
5. Finance the transition to a climate neutral economy
6. Drive change through advocacy
7. Engagement
8. Selective exclusions
Process Integration
Active Ownership
Investment should not only be motivated by profit, but also by social and environmental goals. One aspect does not preclude the other. Rather, both tend to go hand-in-hand.
We believe that proactively integrating sustainability risks and opportunities, expressed in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors in our investment decisions will help us to do our job well on a long-term basis (ESG integration). ESG integration – across asset classes, and alongside traditional financial metrics and state-of-the-art risk management practices – helps us to achieve superior risk-adjusted, long-term financial returns.
How we integrate ESG in our investment processes
Our focus on responsible investment has led us to view ESG factors as key considerations to be included when assessing individual investments.
At TodoVale, we define ESG integration along four basic requirements: training, data, investment process and active ownership. These four requirements not only help us to integrate ESG factors in the investment decisions, but also to understand and monitor where we or our asset managers stand in terms of capabilities.
We follow a strict interpretation of this strategy. We only apply it to asset classes where sufficient ESG information is accessible, and portfolios offer frequent turnover and sufficient variety of issuers so that taking into account ESG factors can actually influence investment decisions. Although often considered a separate responsible investment tool, we include active ownership practices as part of our ESG integration approach.
The four basic requirements
We work closely with our internal and external asset managers to make sure the following four basic requirements for ESG integration are reflected in their investment approach:
Raising awareness and teaching investment professionals how to use ESG factors
Make ESG data, research and analysis accessible to investment decisions makers
Reflect ESG information in the way portfolios are constructe
At TodoVale we are convinced that the purchase of an asset marks the beginning, not the end of responsibility
ESG in investment practices
Every investment involves risk and opportunity. Our aim is to generate maximum return through the risk we are willing to take, and TodoVale has always invested its premiums according to this principle. Over the years, we have developed a sophisticated framework for managing our portfolio. Traditional tools used to assess risk and return are based on information that can be easily quantified, and aggregated from balance sheets or income statements. Unfortunately, this type of reporting does not always provide a complete picture. Our focus on responsible investment has led us to view ESG factors as key considerations to be included when assessing individual investments. We work closely with our internal and external managers to make sure that the following four basic requirements for ESG integration are reflected in their investment approach:
Training: Raising awareness and teaching investment professionals how to use ESG
A large number of ESG factors can potentially affect risk and return; the channels through which such factors can exert influence are at times complex and vary from sector to sector. All other things being equal, it is riskier to own equity or bonds of a company that, for example, produces excessive greenhouse gas, treats its employees poorly or does not provide information on how it pays its directors, than it is to have exposure to a company that does not do such things. Likewise, it is more rewarding to invest in a company that helps society, benefits the environment and is well governed, or to invest in a real-estate asset that attracts tenants by minimizing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
It is important for portfolio managers to receive adequate and regular training to help them understand the economic importance of ESG. That is why all TodoVale's investment professionals receive responsible investment training.
Information: make ESG data, research and analysis accessible to investment decisions makers
To reflect ESG issues in investment decisions, portfolio managers need access to relevant information in the form of ESG analysis, ratings, and data. At TodoVale, we have integrated ESG information into our systems and can retrieve information about ESG performance of our portfolios at our fingertips. In addition, our in-house portfolio managers and analysts have direct access to the ESG research and analysis sourced from specialized providers.
Process integration: reflect ESG in the way portfolios are constructed
The process by which ESG considerations are reflected in decisions to buy/ sell, or overweight/underweight a certain security or asset needs to be clearly understood. This process should be documented and consistently applied.
Each manager and team will have to define an approach that fits a specific investment strategy. For a description of the tools, policies, and procedures that we apply to make sure that ESG factors are indeed fully integrated in the investment process and in day-to-day investment decision-making, please consult the TodoVale white paper.
Active ownership: the purchase of an asset marks the beginning, not the end of responsibility
Asset managers are expected to execute proxy votes actively, based on best-practice policies addressing ESG issues, and to integrate relevant
ESG issues in discussions with companies in which we invest, either as part of regular meetings or through separate channels. Read TodoVale's proxy voting policy here.
How we integrate ESG on an asset class level
We apply the four basic requirements for successful ESG integration to all our active credit mandates.
ESG consideration applied to private loans and infrastructure debt investments.
Listed equities
Active mandates fully integrate ESG along our four basic requirements.
Passive and quant strategies selectively use ESG benchmarks or tilts, all others are in scope for proxy voting and engagement only.
We fully reflect the four basic requirements for successful ESG integration in our private equity investment process for primary fund investments, secondary investments, and selected co-investments.
Implementing ESG in real estate is based on three pillars which take into account local best practice and provide a global framework to assess potential acquisitions, as well as the existing portfolio, along the entire value chain.
Supranational, Government and Government Guaranteed Bonds
Disciplined ALM practices and, in some cases, insurance regulation require TodoVale to hold substantial amounts of minimum-risk assets denominated in local currency to back local liabilities. TodoVale does not generally manage any multi-currency sovereign bond portfolios that would allow for ESG factors to influence issuer selection. Accordingly, this asset class is in scope for engagement only.
Mortgages and Hedge Funds
We are currently investigating ESG integration approaches for the mortgage and hedge fund asset classes
ESG in manager selection
Today, roughly 60 percent of our investment portfolio is managed externally. This outsourcing process provides TodoVale access to the world's best asset managers; currently our assets are managed by over 40 internal and external asset managers.
We work closely with our external managers to ensure they consider ESG and climate-related aspects consistently in their investment processes.
A dedicated manager selection team is responsible for appointing the most suitable manager for each portfolio. In our due diligence for all asset classes in scope, we confirm the manager's alignment to our responsible investing principles. This includes reviewing the asset managers' ESG considerations in their investment decisions and monitoring, their views on how ESG factors affect risk-adjusted performance, as well as their commitment to responsible investing, particularly with regard to climate change. Once an asset manager is selected, we use a thorough review process to track performance and development.
More information about our process for selecting and reviewing the performance of internal and external asset managers can be found in our White Paper.
1. Introduction and purpose
We work with our customers, brokers and other distribution partners to ensure responsible and sustainable business practices and to protect reputation, while promoting best practices in managing environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks.
Our aim is to promote international best practice standards that help ensure that potentially adverse ESG impacts are adequately managed.
Society is facing increasingly interconnected and complex ESG challenges. The insurance industry cannot be a bystander and where appropriate, it must play its role in addressing these challenges as a manager of risk. Failing to do so, can have a damaging effect on society, stakeholder trust and the reputation of the insurance industry and its customers. That is why we work with our corporate customers and brokers to better manage ESG risks and strive to promote best practices in managing these risks.
Engaging with customers
We integrate our commitment to corporate responsibility and the UN Global Compact in our underwriting and business decisions. We believe it is better to engage with customers to understand their business and operations, and work together to ensure responsible and sustainable business practices are in place.
This enables us to make better-informed decisions on how we can support customers in developing best practice.
Our risk-profiling methodology
Using our proprietary risk-profiling methodology, we have prioritized five key areas of concern: thermal coal; banned cluster munitions and anti-personnel land mines; and governance, human rights and environmental risks in dam construction, mining, and oil and gas activities.
For each of these areas of concern, we have drawn up an issue brief that sets out our position and best practices. We also provide guidance and training for underwriters and other relevant stakeholder groups, and have established ESG risk assessment and referral processes.
Being a responsible investor
We believe that proactively integrating ESG factors in our investing will help us to do our job well on a long-term basis. ESG integration – across asset classes, and alongside traditional financial metrics and state-of-the-art risk management practices – helps us to achieve superior risk-adjusted, long-term financial returns.
This document serves to outline TodoVale's approach in addressing ESG issues in both underwriting and investing.
What is responsible investing?
At TodoVale, we define responsible investing (RI) as an investment process that incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into its approach. RI enables clients to align their investments with global megatrends that are changing the investment landscape. Issues such as increasing regulation, the growing need for risk mitigation and a heightened social conscience can be more effectively addressed by integrating ESG factors into the investment process.
Why is responsible investing important?
ESG can allow firms to foster a meaningful change in the global economy, and in the communities in which we live and work. We believe that ESG analysis leads to more effective investment solutions that address global challenges and create sustainable value for our clients.
The integration of ESG factors is used to enhance traditional financial analysis by identifying potential risks and opportunities beyond technical valuations, providing data on issues such as potential reputational risk or identifying firms which are adapting to meet new market challenges. It is important to note that the main objective of ESG integration remains financial performance.
Is there a difference between socially responsible investing and ESG integration?
Socially responsible investing (SRI) and ESG are often treated as one in the same, however, there are some key differences between the two and the impact they have on the investment process.
ESG refers to the practices of an investment that may have a material impact on the performance of that investment. The integration of ESG factors is used to enhance traditional financial analysis by identifying potential risks and opportunities beyond technical valuations. The main objective of ESG integration remains financial performance.
Socially responsible investing (SRI)
SRI goes one step further than ESG by actively eliminating or selecting investments according to specific social/sustainable guidelines. The underlying motive could be religion, personal values or political beliefs. SRI strategies use ESG factors to shape the objectives of the strategy and/or apply negative or positive screens on the investment universe.
Responsible investment is a young industry that lacks widely-acknowledged and precise norms, guidelines and definitions. So far, there is an understanding that responsible investment is a generic term that refers to a wide range of approaches that integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in the investment process. Responsible investment can take on a variety of forms and should help to identify and to mitigate investment risks.
What does ESG mean at TodoVale Investment Managers?
As a responsible investor we want to manage ESG risks and opportunities when investing on behalf of our clients, and we have identified certain sectors we will not invest in above a specified threshold. Consequently, sectorial exclusions on controversial weapons, palm oil, soft commodities and coal are applied across all assets.
Going beyond this, we apply our ESG standards to our responsible investing (RI) and ESG integrated open ended funds, which will also be available to institutional clients on an opt-in basis.
These standards help us to manage ESG risks and focus on material issues such as climate change, health and social capital, while also considering severe controversies as well as low ESG quality.
As a result of these ESG standards, the following sectors and areas are excluded from our RI and ESG integrated funds:
White phosphorus weapons
Severe breaches of United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) principles
Low ESG quality companies
The TodoVale ESG standards form one dimension of our ESG integration approach, which also include ESG corporate analysis and scoring, and common views on thematic engagement and voting.


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Alumni Update: Gianmarco Fiacconi, Entertainment Business Management
Graduated From: Entertainment Business Management Diploma (2010)
Gianmarco graduated from the Entertainment Business Management program in 2010 and since then, he has been dedicating his time to playing with two bands. He plays drums, co-manages and books gigs for a 50's and 60's cover band, The Dreamboats and plays drums for another band called White Cowbell Oklahoma.
The Dreamboats was created while Gianmarco was studying at the Institute and the band currently books over 70 shows a year across Southern Ontario.
Gianmarco joined White Cowbell Oklahoma shortly after graduating. Since joining the band, Gianmarco has had the opportunity to record and tour Canada and Europe extensively. He is looking forward to a six week European tour with White Cowbell Oklahoma in October 2013 and to more shows with The Dreamboats once he returns.
On the side of The Dreamboats and White Cowbell Oklahoma, Gianmarco teaches music lessons in his free time.
Check out The Dreamboats and White Cowbell Oklahoma websites for tour dates and latest news!
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  File "/usr/share/pyshared/simplejson/__init__.py", line 286, in dumps
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  File "/usr/share/pyshared/simplejson/encoder.py", line 226, in encode
    chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/simplejson/encoder.py", line 296, in iterencode
    return _iterencode(o, 0)
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/simplejson/encoder.py", line 202, in default
    raise TypeError(repr(o) + " is not JSON serializable")
TypeError: <function context_today at 0xaaa7064> is not JSON serializable

please help me to sort this issue,
EDITED
when it changed to fields.date.context_today()
then error comes as below
  File "/home/bellvantage/Documents/openerp-7.0/openerp-7/openerp/addons/bpl/bpl.py", line 1059, in on_change_division
    workers_list.append({'worker_id': record.id,'start_date': fields.date.context_today()})
TypeError: context_today() takes at least 3 arguments (0 given)

A: Looks like context_today is a method, not a value. You need to call it:
tea_list_data.append({'worker_id': record.id, 'worker_emp_no': record.emp_no,
                      'is_selected':True,'date': (fields.date.context_today())})

A: Here fields.date.context_today is a method, so you need to pass argument, so it will be look like,
tea_list_data.append({'worker_id': record.id, 'worker_emp_no': record.emp_no,
                                  'is_selected':True,
                                  'date': (fields.date.context_today(self,cr,uid,context=context))})

A: its worked with
workers_list.append({'worker_id': record.id, 'start_date': time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'), 'selected':True})


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Good and Evil in Wuthering Heights
10 Nov 2017—Essay Samples
Emily Bronte published Wuthering Heights in 1847, at the tender age of twenty-eight. Few novels of any era have taken hold of the public's imagination with such a firm grasp. Even those who have never read the book are probably familiar with the idea, if not the character, of Heathcliff. The novel has been transformed into musicals, films and even a hit song for the then sixteen year old British songstress, Kate Bush. Nothing, however, compares to the book. Whether we can separate the authoress from her accomplishment is debatable. The fact is, given Emily's young age, her relatively sheltered upbringing, and the times in which she wrote, the novel is astonishing quite apart from its significant literary merit. That it is a romance--albeit of the highest order--is obvious. The novel is also, however, an examination of Heaven, Hell, the Fall, questions of origin and the nature of good and evil. Religious references abound--not surprising for the daughter of a clergyman--but her world view is far from the simplistic one of traditional Christianity. Good and evil, as are heaven and hell, seem inextricably intertwined in this wild setting. Rather than being two opposing forces, each resides in us. The real evil is committed when we go against our true selves, as Heathcliff and Catherine do. This may be seen, perhaps, most clearly in Bronte's depiction of place, and in the characters of the two lovers, Catherine and Heathcliff.
The myth of Emily Bronte is almost as potent a story as is her novel; one of four (surviving children) of the widowed clergyman, Patrick Bronte; a secluded childhood in Haworth parsonage on the edge of a cemetery in Yorkshire; a dissolute brother (a portrait of the four children painted by Bramwell famously shows his features blotted out) and two sisters, both of whom wrote. (The youngest, Anne, is unjustly overshadowed by her older sisters. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is excellent, containing an undoubtedly painfully accurate depiction of Branwell's dissolution.) The gloominess of the Bronte upbringing has been overdone. Their childhood was filled with imaginative games and it is obvious that their father encouraged intellectual pursuits and debate. The fact, for example, that Emily uses a knowledge of the property law when fashioning Heathcliff's revenge (Isabella's land falls to him as her husband) speaks to at least a passing acquaintance of the outside world.
There can be no doubt, however, that Emily's experience was prescribed. How then, to explain Wuthering Heights and its depiction of such a grand passion? A case might be made that a young girl of an intense disposition, and with an acute and highly developed imagination, might well have yoked together her religious fervor (her poems attest to this), her passion for the moors and the perfectly ordinary sexual yearnings she might likely have felt, and created the characters of Catherine and Heathcliff. His name, after all, suggests someone who has been hewn from the rockface and, as is well known, he acts as a force of nature in the novel, ungoverned by the niceties of polite society to which Catherine is briefly, and disastrously, drawn.
Before we approach these two, we need to look at a more elemental character of the novel--the landscape. As with the human characters, it is impossible--or, at least, misguided--to affix the single appellation of either "good" or "evil" to either the moors or to Wuthering Heights or to Thrushcross Grange. Not merely because it anthropomorphizes the landscape--although Emily Bronte in a sense does that by naming Heathcliff as she does; he is the human embodiment of the land--but because the author sees the land as both good and evil, Heaven and Hell. Thus, Thrushcross Grange, for example, is not depicted as a place which, in contrast with the gloomy Wuthering Heights, is "good" although it is certainly less wild; on the surface at any rate. The more cultured, mild-mannered Lintons do succeed, however, in transforming Catherine from a wild girl into something approaching a young lady:
The mistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of reform by trying to raise her self-respect with fine clothes and flattery, which she took readily; so that, instead of a wild, hatless little savage jumping into the house, and rushing to squeeze us all breathless, there lighted from a handsome black pony a very dignified person, with brown ringlets falling from the corner of a feathered beaver, and a long cloth habit, which she was obliged to hold up with both hands that she might sail in. (Wuthering Heights,p. 53)
This alteration in a more straightforward romance would be seen as "good" and Edgar Linton, as the gentle knight parfait. This is Bronte territory, though, and the opposite may also be said to be true. The circumstances of Cathy's stay at Thrushcross are such that she "falls" there, and is gripped by what might be seen almost as the hounds of hell— "Run, Heathcliff, run!" she whispered, "They have let the bulldog loose, and he holds me!" It is at this point that Cathy is in effect cast out of her heaven; the heaven of being with Heathcliff on the moors. Again, Bronte is not so simplistic that she does not make us see how inviting Thrushcross Grange could be to a girl surrounded by the mad Hindley, and the morose Joseph. And Edgar, too, is seen throughout the novel as both loving and kind. We can almost convince ourselves, as Cathy in effect does, that Edgar is a better match for her. But when we come back to the landscape, and Cathy's feelings for it, we know better. In Chapter Nine, as she is explaining to Nelly both her acceptance of Edgar's proposal and her resistance to it, Cathy utters one of the great speeches not only of the novel but in English Literature:
I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy...I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton that I have to be in heaven...(WH, p.83)
It seems that Cathy's defection to Thrushcross Grange is indeed a fall, into her own hell, and one largely of her own making. A different sort of woman would have made Edgar a happy wife, as Cathy knows all too well. The evil, here, Bronte seems to be saying, is to disregard your own nature and to try and turn it into something it is not.
In this sense, the moors, and even Wuthering Heights for all the misery associated with it, may be viewed as good, insomuch as they are honest. Wuthering is a Yorkshire word "descriptive of the atmospheric tumult" - the wild winds - to which the house is exposed in stormy weather. The continuous battering by the winds has stunted the trees around Wuthering Heights, and the house itself has survived only because it is built of rugged stones and huge, rough, wooden beams. But it does survive, a constant in the wildly fluctuating fortunes of its tenants, and even Heathcliff in the end cannot bring himself to destroy it:
I get levers and mattocks to demolish the two houses, and train myself to be capable of working like Hercules , and when everything is ready, and in my power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished!... I could do it and none could hinder me. But where is the use? I don't care for striking: I can't take the trouble to raise my hand. (p.339)
Just as Thrushcross Grange has its darker side, Wuthering Heights is associated--for the two lovers, at least--with the moors and with their passion for each other. During Cathy's illness, she makes specific to Nelly her identification with the place she shares with Heathcliff:
... 'Why am I so changed? Why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills. Open the window again wide: fasten it open! Quick, why don't you move?' 'Because I won't give you your death of cold.' I answered. 'You won't give me a chance of life, you mean,' she said sullenly. (WH,p.132-33)
There are numerous Miltonic overtones in this section--Cathy refers to herself as "an exile, and outcast, thenceforth, from what had been my world." She speaks of an "abyss" and in her outcry "Why am I so changed?" she echoes Satan's words to Beelzebub in Paradise Lost "If thou be'est he; But O...how changed." Everything Cathy says speaks to being exiled from the Heaven, or good, that the moors, along with Heathcliff, represent. As harsh as the landscape can be, there is a beauty there that Cathy, and later her daughter, recognize as being "Heaven".
Similarly, if the setting of the novel may be seen to embody elements of both "good" and "evil" in an unusually complex and sympathetic manner, so too do Cathy and Heathcliff. Few characters in English literature are drawn in as uncompromising a way. Although the religious references are many, leading us to believe that Emily Bronte's vision of the book exceeded that of writing a simple romance, the characters are far from being mere allegories. Indeed, if they were to be seen as such then it would be as allegories of being human. Frailty and strength, the capacity to both love and hate, reside in us all as they do in Heathcliff and Cathy. Bronte rejects the idea of creating characters who embody "good" or "evil" (as even the genius Dickens tended to do, especially with his feminine characters; and even as Emily's sister, Charlotte, did with the insipid, but undeniably virtuous, Jane Eyre.)
If any character were to be seen as evil then, of course, Heathcliff would be our first choice. He is undeniably brutal and vengeful, and it is a dangerous temptation, although a common one, to see him as the "rough diamond" favored by contemporary romance novelists. (Contemporary novelist, Alice Hoffman has taken the character of Heathcliff and modernized him, having the character of "Cathy" return to live with him only to discover that the violence of his passion is too overwhelming to live with.) Bronte seems to have wanted to create a male character as suffused with the forces of nature--and as undiscriminating in how he applies them-- as the landscape around him. In fact, he may well have been created from the earth for we, or anyone else, knows. In a novel where most of the parents are rarely seen, or die young, Heathcliff has no parents at all. Indeed, Mr. Earnshaw, who has rescued the foundling, sets the tone for Bronte's exploration of good and evil when he says:
'See here, wife! I was never so beaten with anything in my life: but you must e'en take it as a gift of God; though it's as dark almost as if it came from the devil. (WH, p.36)
This uncertainty as to whether Heathcliff comes from God or the devil continues throughout the novel. In Chapter 13, the poor, silly Isabella who has married Heathcliff despite the clearest signs--he hangs her dog just before they elope-- that she is making a grave mistake, writes to Nelly:
The second question, I have great interest in; it is this— Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil? I shan't tell my reasons for making this inquiry; but I beseech you to explain, if you can, what I have married...(WH, p. 144)
And in Chapter 33, Nelly comments that "conscience had turned his heart to an earthly hell." (WH, p. 341)
Bronte takes a great risk by introducing Heathcliff to the reader not as the abused, orphan child but as the cruel adult he has become. However, if we look closely at the description of Wuthering Heights we see a correspondence between it and its owner (unlike the sympathy the asinine Lockwood imagines may exist between him and his landlord):
...one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving the alms of the sun. (WH, p.2)
As we learn later, the winds that blow through Heathcliff's life are cold and powerful indeed-- Hindley's cruelty, Joseph's unbending religiosity, Cathy's betrayal of his affection --all do their bit to distort Heathcliff as the winds do the thorns. In addition to the early link between Heathcliff and this inhospitable landscape, there are obvious religious overtones to this passage. The thorns of the crucified Christ and the tree on which Judas hung himself sit side by side. Savior and outcast, "good" and "evil". Bronte never lets one stray too far out of reach of the other.
In Chapter 9 there is a sign that Bronte regards Heathcliff as possessing a basic, if not goodness, then humanity. Hindley, drunk, is terrorizing his young son, Hareton, by shaking him over the banister. Distracted for a moment, Hindley drops the child:
There was scarcely time to experience a thrill of horror before we saw that the wretch was safe. Heathcliff arrived underneath just at the critical moment; by a natural impulse, he arrested his descent, and setting him on his feet, looked up to discover the author of the accident. (WH, p.77)
Thwarted of his long-desired revenge against Hindley, Heathcliff immediately regrets his action-- Bronte would not be true to her creation if he did not--but it was a natural impulse that prompted Heathcliff to save the child. And it is that natural impulse, the one that lays below the contrived impulse to wreak revenge on his tormentors, which we need to believe in and which Cathy certainly responds to.
At the heart of the Judeo-Christian ethos is love and while Cathy and Heathcliff's love is more carnal, more mystical, plain wilder than most Christians are comfortable with, it is that love which Bronte seems to see as redemptive. While both Cathy and Heathcliff can be heartless, selfish and destructive, the evil is not in that but in their denial of their passion for each other. Pride sinks its teeth into them as surely as the Lintons' bulldog does into Cathy's ankle and in a novel filled with falls, pride seems an appropriate vice.
In many ways, Cathy and Heathcliff seem like mystics, anxious to shed their earthly confines in order to join together in a union which combines the carnal and the holy. At the end of their lives, both choose starvation as a means to hasten their ends and starvation has long been favored by holy men as a way to produce visions:
I shall love [Heathcliff] yet; and take him with me: he's my soul. And...the thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I'm tired, tired of being enclosed here. I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it and in it. (WH, p. 165)
Heathcliff, too, yearns for a world beyond the confines of Wuthering Heights:
I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it. They have yearned towards it so long, and so unwaveringly, that I'm convinced it will be reached--and soon--because it has devoured my existence: I am swallowed in the anticipation of its fulfillment. (WH,p.341)
Heathcliff's "long fight" which he prays will soon be over is, of course, to be re-united with his other self, Cathy. The near mystical ecstasy with which they anticipate their re-union is undoubtedly religious in their fervor. Bronte appears to find nothing wrong in linking this love between two people, whose earthly behavior has never been exemplary, with that of the love for God. Love is the ultimate "good" and heaven whatever place which will accommodate it. Thus, at the end of the novel, when Lockwood returns, he sees no hint of disquiet; on the contrary, God's in His heaven and all is right with the world:
I lingered round [the graves], under the benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. (WH, p. 355)
Bronte's vision extends, like her characters, beyond the prim, prescribed world of the average Victorian. Like the moors which she loved, and on which the freezing winds and the harebells co-exist as best they can, she created a world in which good and evil do the same. To adopt the odious style of a modern romance for a moment, love blossoms in a house which previously, in Isabella's words, knew nothing of "the common sympathies of human nature". Wuthering Heights, the place, withstands great passions of whatever stripe; perhaps may even be said to transcend them. So too do Bronte's characters transcend the limited appellations of "good" and "evil". Human beings share with the moors the capacity to do, and to be, both. Find more interesting papers at PhDify.com
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