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'Gurujana' is a musical tribute to 15th–16th century Assamese polymath Srimanta Sankardeva
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'Gurujana' is a musical tribute to 15th–16th century Assamese polymath Srimanta Sankardeva
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Goa Khabar : "Gurujana is a tribute to 15th–16th century Assamese polymath Srimanta Sankardeva."
Sankardeva is called Gurujana (elder brother) by the people of Assam and other parts of Northeast India", said Director Sudipto Sen. He was speaking at an interaction with the media and festival delegates organised by PIB at IFFI 53 in Goa today.
Sudipto Sen added that Sankardeva emerged not only as a Bhakti Saint but also as a phenomenal writer and musician. He also helped devise a new literary language called Brajvali.
Director Sudipto Sen at the 'IFFI Table Talk' at the 53rd IFFI, Goa
The celebrated filmmaker observed that he felt that there is a lack of awareness that, our country had seen a reformist resurgence in the form of the 'Bhakti' movement a few centuries even before the European Renaissance.
Sharing the inspiration behind making Gurujana Sudipto Sen said, "I felt I needed to take Sankardeva's message to not only India but across the world. I have given him a musical tribute through this non-feature film.
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'नर्गिसी' या डाऊन सिंड्रोम असलेल्या व्यक्तीच्या संघर्षावरील इराणी चित्रपटाने 53 व्या इफ्फीमध्ये जिंकला आयसीएफटी -युनेस्कोचा गांधी पदक पुरस्कार
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कोस्टारिकाच्या व्हॅलेंटीना मॉरेल दिग्दर्शित 'आय हॅव इलेक्ट्रिक ड्रीम्स' या स्पॅनिश चित्रपटाला 53 व्या आंतरराष्ट्रीय भारतीय चित्रपट महोत्सवात सर्वोत्कृष्ट चित्रपटासाठीचा सुवर्ण मयुर पुरस्कार
दाक्षिणात्य मेगास्टार चिरंजीवी यांना 53 व्या इफ्फीच्या सांगता समारंभात 'भारतीय चित्रपटसृष्टीतील उल्लेखनीय चेहरा-2022' चा पुरस्कार प्रदान


During my writing career there are a few things that crop up which get in the way. Family, unsuspected circumstances and plot bunnies. As a writer yourself you'll probably experience them yourself . However today I am only here to talk about one of those items and it's the one that find me the most; Plot Bunnies.
Now I know that some of you will be wondering what a plot bunny actually is, so here's the definition for you.
For me it's more of an idea that appears while I'm working on something and won't go away until I have at least got down the basics.
1. Your Phone; probably my biggest asset as a writer is my phone because no matter where I am I can pick it up and add a note to evernote which syncs with my laptop ready for when I get home. Perfect.
2. Notebook; I carry around a notebook with me at all times too. My phone might die or if I am somewhere where phones aren't meant to be used (doctors waiting room, work etc.) then I can still jot down the idea before it escapes my memory!
3. Paper; Although I have a notebook sometimes at work it is MUCH easier to just grab some paper jot the idea down and stuff it in my pocket. I actually have an array of notes that I need to sort through. Try to avoid this method unless you really have too!
4. Plot Bunny Catcher; I created this set of worksheets to aide in the transfer of the plot bunny catching. Use these worksheets by jotting down all the information you have on your idea and then keeping it in a folder ready for when you can start the project. Just sign up to receive access to the Novelista Collective and download immediately! It's free!
5. Memory; Unlike me if you can commit to keeping the idea in memory I salute you. This is what some of the big authors do, but honestly not something I could do myself so for now I'll just keep my ideas in my plot bunny catcher and ready, waiting for my to write.
What do you use to stop plot bunnies coming your way? Leave them in the comments below!


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Humphreys' Frigate 1922
Barque circa 1920
HMS Detroit
HMS Surprise
English Smack 1905 - 1910
Tea clipper Thunder
HMS Detroit corvette model before restoration. Model was originally purchased at the downtown Toronto Eaton's store in 1902. Damage to the spars, gun-port lids, sails and rigging will be repaired without altering the aged and original look of the model.
Commissioned by King George III to commemorate the capture of Fort Detroit, HMS Detroit's career in the Royal Navy was cut short as she was almost immediately captured by an American fleet under the flag of Oliver Hazard Perry on September 10, 1813 during The Battle of Lake Erie near Put-In-Bay. She grounded and was wrecked in 1841 when an attempt to send her over Niagara Falls as a public "spectacle" failed miserably.
Image of the repaired model. The gaf-sail and bowsprit areas were rebuilt and a couple of spars were replaced while matching the existing ones. Some rigging had to be replaced, almost all is still original. Most of the gun-port lids were missing and she received a new set. Sails were left as is, since the owner appreciates their aged and dark appearance. Apart from the aged look though, they've also become terribly fragile and brittle. Most likely due to the effect of heat and humity on all natural hemp and cotton materials.
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AllAccess – Creating Accessible Public Space is a new program dedicated to making Ontario's public spaces more accessible for everyone.
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Chef Shuffle Oct. 23, 2008
Bellanca Out at Le Cirque
Photo: Jennifer MacFarlane
News from the 'bag: "A huge shake-up is in play at Le Cirque, where chef Christophe Bellanca is no longer in the kitchen, having parted 'mutually' with owner Mauro Maccioni, the latter tells us." Cedric Tovar and Franklin Becker are said to be candidates; Maccioni is looking for a chef "who will get us three Michelin stars."
Update: The official statement from Le Cirque: "Chef Christophe Bellanca is no longer with Le Cirque. The Maccioni family was happy with Bellanca's work and parted ways with the chef mutually. The Maccionis are currently seeking a replacement, and Sirio is confident they will find a talented chef in the near future. Once a decision has been made, we will be in touch with more information. In the meantime, a core team of highly trained and experienced chefs is overseeing the kitchen."
Christophe Bellanca Out at Le Cirque; Tovar, Becker Among Candidates to Replace Him [Feedbag]
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Franklin Stevens Jr.
Franklin Stevens, Jr., 69, of Fort Wayne passed away on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne. Born in Marion, he was the son of the late Frank and Audra (Powell) Stevens. He served his country in the Army National Guard and retired from American Electric Power Company. Among his many loves were camping, woodworking, and NASCAR. He is survived by his wife of over 49 years, Joyce; children, Robert (Danette Emerick) Stevens of Hoagland and Laura (Darrin) McCormick of Fort Wayne; siblings, Garry (Donna) Stevens of Fairmount, Mary Lou (Charles) Fisher of Marion, and Diana Clemons of Swayzee; grandchildren, Kristina (Donald) Chambers, Derrick (Kaiti) Cooper, Heather (Carlin) Hargrow, Cody Cooper, Austin McCormick, Shannon Stevens, and Elijah McCormick; and five great grandchildren. He was also preceded in death by his brother, Richard Carper. Funeral service is 2 p.m. Monday at E. Harper & Son Funeral Home, 740 St. Rd. 930 E., New Haven with calling one hour prior to service. Calling is also 1 to 5 p.m Sunday at the funeral home. Burial in IOOF Cemetery, New Haven. Preferred memorials are to America Cancer Society.
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Filmmaker John Landis says that he advised his son, Max Landis, against remaking his own horror cult classic An American Werewolf in London.
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Prida Rala
Bajoran-Cardassian Female
Played by User ID 18
Story Character
Born on Bajor at the height of the Cardassian Occupation, Prida Rala was a figure of hate and ridicule in her early years. The daughter of a Cardassian military officer and his Bajoran comfort woman, Prida was born in the darkness of tunnels and caves in the Kendra Valley following her mother's escape and subsequent capture by a cell of the Shakaar Resistance group. Believed to be a collaborator, Prida Leku was held captive by the group, nursing her young child in the process, until they were able to verify her story; how she had come to be a comfort woman in order to protect the life of her family and friends who had been involved in a bombing of a Cardassian munitions depot just over a year before the birth of her child.
When her story had been corroborated by a captured Cardassian soldier, Leku and Rala were released. Retreating to the homestead of one of the cell members who had taken a shine to Leku, the pair were able to live in relative secrecy for the child's formative years. Unlike many Cardassian children who had been born under similar circumstances, Leku adored her child, and brought her up to understand her Bajoran heritage. When the Cell was put at risk by the capture of three members, the rest of the cell and their families bought passage off of Bajor and, by some miraculous twist of fate, Prida Rala and her family were able to flee to the safety of the only power that the Cardassians had not been able to defeat in living memory – the United Federation of Planets.
Many weeks later, when their ship arrived in the Trill system, the occupants were granted refugee status by the Federation and could begin a new life for themselves with the freedom that the Federation afforded them. For Prida Rala, only 11 at the time, the Federation was like nothing she had encountered before. Gone was the hostility she so often saw and felt at the hands of those that did not understand her history, instead she was made to feel special and her skills could flourish in a Federation school. It quickly became clear that she had an aptitude for cultural history and politics, studying the origins of the Federation and its many member worlds. Three years later, when she was nearly fifteen years old, the news that her kind had been waiting for finally came; the Cardassian occupation of Bajor was over. Under intense pressure from all sides, the Cardassian government had pulled all their forces from the planet, leaving it a wasteland compared to fifty years before when it had been a beautiful world. Many Bajorans took the opportunity to return home, but Prida Rala had expressed an interest in something better for herself and, sometime later, with the backing of her mother and some new friends they had made, the youngster sat the exams for entrance to Starfleet Academy. Although she failed the first time, she set about pushing herself harder so that the next time she would not be so unlucky. When she re-sat the exams a year later, the sixteen-year-old was successful and travelled to Earth to begin her training in Starfleet.
Once there, Prida really began to grow as an individual. During her first year, she spent a lot of time immersing herself in cultures she had never dreamed of meeting, becoming close friends with people from many different species. To many, she was unique; while there had been Bajorans and even a Cardassian at the academy before her, she was the first daughter of two worlds and that made her intriguing to those around her. She continued to excel in her studies, and, under the guidance of her lecturers, she was identified as having an aptitude for strategy, as well as diplomacy and political studies. When it came time to choose her majors, the Cadet began down a path that would lead her back to her home world. But not before tragedy struck.
In her third year at the Academy, the Alpha quadrant was plunged into war as the Cardassian Union joined with a new, powerful species from the Gamma Quadrant known as the Dominion. All Cadets who had shown great enough aptitude were granted postings in the field to make up troop numbers in the face of the growing conflict. As a major in strategic operations and political studies, Prida was given the privilege of serving on the staff of Admiral William Ross aboard Starbase 375 during the initial stages of the conflict. Serving from the side lines, she saw the devastating toll that war with Cardassia was having on moral, especially after the capture of Deep Space 9, the Bajoran station that had been under the command of Starfleet forces. Her hatred of her father's species grew with each passing day, and her affinity with the Bajoran people made her determined to one day return home.
After months of demoralising losses, Starfleet Command finally approved a plan to go on the offensive, and it was a plan that Prida was particularly invested in when it became clear that Captain Sisko of the Defiant was launching an audacious bid to retake Deep Space Nine. At the Admiral's side aboard Starbase 375, Prida received quite an education as she watched and listened to the more experienced officers involved in the operation – it was strategy and politics at their finest. Eventually, the battle was won thanks to the timely intervention of the Klingon fleet and, in celebration, Prida joined the Admiral in his first trip back to the station just a few weeks later.
As the war began to unfold, there was no rest for the wicked and Prida was transferred to the USS Atlantia, a Nebula-class starship commanded by the experienced Captain Mitchell Hanson. Under Captain Hanson's tutelage, Prida's knowledge of strategy (and the tactics of other species in particular) helped the ship survive several engagements. It was soon deemed that she had done enough in the months since she had left the Academy that she would not be required to sit her final year. Instead, the youngster was granted a battlefield commision to the rank of Ensign. As a commissioned officer, the young woman really began to assert her influence, often acting as a strategic advisor to the Captain during engagements, even stepping up to tactical in the wake of an injury to the ships Chief Tactical Officer during battle on the Cardassian border.
As the war reached its conclusion, Atlantia participated in the final battle of Cardassia, a battle that very nearly became a costly failure and would have been a disaster for the quadrant had it not been for the timely switching of sides by the Cardassians. With the war at an end, Ensign Prida watched the signing of the peace accords with great interest. But, with the conflict over, the services of strategic operations officers were even more sought after as Starfleet vessels poured into Cardassian territory to help with the rebuilding efforts. With Atlantia leading the efforts in the Almatha sector, Ensign Prida was faced with the unenviable task of dealing with the demons of the past. On more than one occasion, Prida faced great resentment from the Cardassians working alongside her because of her heritage and this only caused her dislike of the Cardassians to grow.
Prida was granted shoreleave in late 2376 to visit her homeworld and take part in the celebrations following Bajor's admittance to the Federation at long last. Strong allies were now family as a new day dawned for her people.
In 2379, five years to the day since she had joined the USS Atlantia, Ensign Prida was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade and accepted a posting on board DS11 in the Gamma Quadrant. There, she would become integral to the strategy behind the exploration initiatives in the region. As Strategic Operations Officer for the sector, the Lieutenant planned many different excursions and assignments for different vessels as exploration of the unknown region continued at great pace. Such assignments brought masses of new data pertaining to new species and as a Strategic Operations Officer, it was her responsibility to ensure she could brief her superiors on any and all species they encountered.
A promotion to Lieutenant came in 2385, as a response to yet another dramatic event. It was discovered that a Romulan sun would soon become a supernova, destroying the planets Romulus and Remus as well as dozens of others, and killing at least nine hundred million Romulans. After a series of tense negotiations, the Romulan Star Empire requested aid from the United Federation of Planets, and Admiral Jean-Luc Picard convinced Starfleet to mobilize a massive rescue armada — "ten thousand warp-capable ferries" — to aid in the evacuation efforts. Lieutenant Prida Rala transferred to Earth to help in the coordination of this massive operation, specifically looking for the planets which could house millions of refugees. A humanitarian mission of such scope, despite the political pressures from several worlds on the outer rim of Federation space, was exactly the kind of work she had joined Starfleet to do.
The armada was being constructed at Utopia and in orbit of Mars when, on First Contact Day, multiple A500 synthetic androids at Utopia Planitia, suddenly went rogue. They lowered the deflector shields protecting the shipyards and the planet itself and hacked the Martian defense net. Moments thereafter, numerous synth ships began targeting the rescue armada, the Utopia Planitia Shipyards, and the Mars Orbital Facility. The satellite network surrounding Mars was turned against the surface and the synths began bombarding the surface, igniting flammable vapors in the stratosphere and causing massive damage to the planet's infrastructure.
Prida could do nothing but watch from her office at Starfleet Operations whilst Starfleet dispatched a task force to Mars at high warp in response to the attack, but they were unable to prevent the destruction of almost the entire surface of the planet. Though initial reports of the task force estimated over three thousand had been killed, the death toll was eventually revised to 92,143 in total. It was a devastating attack at the heart of the Federation, made worse by the fact that it could not be determined how or why the synths went rogue.
With the destruction of the Romulan rescue armada, the operation was in tatters. Admiral Picard submitted a plan to replace the lost ships with mothballed vessels from Beta Antares Shipyards and the 40 Eridani Starfleet Construction Yards. Instead of pushing forward with a revised operation, the Federation abandoned its promise to aid the Romulan evacuation, a decision that shocked Picard, and caused dozens of resignations. With their department on the verge of collapse, Prida and three others remained, tasked with seeing what aid, if any, they could render under the new guidelines issued by Starfleet Command. The task was difficult, and eventually abandoned as the team was disbanded and Prida found herself with some unexpected shore leave. After taking almost a year of leave, Prida watched on in horror once again as the disaster that had been predicted unfolded much sooner than anyone had anticipated.
In mid '87, the Hobus Star, located deep into Romulan Territory, did indeed go supernova, causing a massive shockwave that destroyed several key planets, effectively decimating the entire Empire. Pride jumped at the chance to get back into the action and was reassigned to the USS Thesis which was involved in several early relief missions along the former Neutral Zone until the Romulans ordered Starfleet forces assisting them to leave Romulan space. With relations at an all-time low, and the Empire in tatters, Thesis was reduced to border patrols and escort duties that felt like a return to the 2360's when the Empire first came out of isolation. In just shy of two decades since the war, the quadrant had changed beyond recognition.
The Cardassian Union and the Federation were becoming close friends and tensions were rising with the Klingons, who were desperate for a return to the old ways and thus, had begun a conflict with the Gorn. The Romulan Empire had been replaced by the Free State, yet factions continued to vie for power in different sectors of Romulan space. All the while, Starfleet exploration operations had become limited, and in less scope than before as the great union of planets threatened to tear itself apart from within.
Thankfully, by the time her tour on the Thesis had come to a close, Starfleet seemed to have come to its senses once again. With exploration back on the agenda thanks to a new Federation President, new vessels were being created with a focus on visiting worlds beyond Federation borders once again. After taking some advice from her commanding officer on the Thesis, Prida finally took the first steps on a new career path as she put her skills to use in a different area. She applied for the vacant executive officer position on the newly constructed USS Komorkis, an Insignia-class starship, transferring before the ship left spacedock.
An excellent standard of living and a healthy lifestyle on Bajor for the entirety of her life has helped Prida maintain a fresh faced complexion, but it is clear for all to see that she is no normal Bajoran. She may have the standard nose ridges and wear a beautiful pair of earrings like her mother but her pale grey skin and cranial and neck ridges clearly mark her out as one of hundreds of Bajoran-Cardassian war orphans. A relatively tall, slender woman, Prida has been described by many as having a beautiful, classy and elegant look to the way she presents herself – she has a quiet, sultry voice to accompany her feminine charm and dresses in outfits that accentuate her features.
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A few months ago, we all moved from our community table to upstairs (we posted about it here and here), which created a need for more office furniture. Elsie asked me to build her a desk. I said I would, but I didn't tell her what kind. I wanted it to be a surprise. I knew I wanted it to be bright and colorful, and I wanted to use colored resin. This post isn't really how I built the desk, but how I created the resin part. You can do this to an existing desk you want to remodel/update. For about 80 bucks, you can dramatically change the look of a table or desk! And it's so fun to do!
I had so much fun doing this project (another favorite.) I think Elsie likes it too.
-thin wood strips (you don't need anymore than 1/4" x 1/8") I used ripped 1/8" ply, but even balsa wood would work, which can be cut with a utility knife!
Step One: I built the desk to fit the space Elsie had in her office. From this point on, you can do what I did to your piece that you want to modify. I painted a primer coat, then the gloss yellow. I applied 3 coats of yellow, sanding between each coat. I wanted this thing to be ultra glossy. I put spare blocks of wood under the legs so I could get a good pull of the brush all the way to the bottom of the leg. I hate when a little pool of paint forms against an edge or something. I want it to look perfecto!
Step Two. From here on, there are so many options and directions you could take. I wanted the desk top to have a separation of color with simple geometric shapes. That's where the strips of wood came into play. I glued the strips down with wood glue. You can make any pattern you want and use any color. Just those two elements give this project so much potential! I want to make another one! OK, so I glued the strips down, and when I did, there was some overhang, which I cut off after the glue dried.
Step Three: After I had the strips positioned and trimmed down and sanded, I carefully attached painter's tape around the perimeter of the desk top. This step creates a reservoir for the epoxy. The height doesn't really matter as long at it is above the wood strip. For the love of all that is good, make sure the tape is secure. You don't want epoxy to run through! Using tape with paintblock technology would be the best bet. I creased the corners of the tape so the epoxy would have a sharp corner when I took off the tape.
Step Four: At this point, you want to make sure your table is level. The ground must have been way off, because I had all kinds of shims stuck here and there to get the desk level. After this step, you will need to refrain from cutting anything in the vicinity of the desk. You want the area to be dust free so no particles fall onto the epoxy while it dries. Follow the directions that come with the epoxy. You may want to skimp on the stirring time. Don't do it! You'll be glad you spent the time to stir and mix correctly. Read the directions. I stirred about a quart of epoxy at a time, so I had to do a couple for each color. To add color, all I did was stir in about a tablespoon of glossy interior Valspar (after I mixed and stirred the epoxy according to directions.) It was a total experimental move, but it worked. So there you go.
The epoxy is self-leveling, meaning, if you just poured it over the flat surface and left it alone, it would spread before it dries. I helped it along by pushing the epoxy around with a folded piece of paper. That also helped it get into the corners. I also found that if I had to pour a couple of different mixtures of the same color, they mixed just fine, even if I didn't measure the exact same amount of color for each. I mixed and poured each color till the epoxy was level with the dividing wood strips. I used up all of the epoxy I had on hand, so I stopped there (Elsie wouldn't get off my back about the desk, so I was in a hurry to finish it. :)) If I had more epoxy on hand and a couple more days, I would have mixed one final batch without color and poured it over the entire top, just to make an extra smooth surface. But I love how it turned out. I think it has a lot of character and fits Elsie's taste pretty dang good.
This is SO great! The colors and shapes are awesome, and I love the simple step-by-step instructions! Thanks for sharing!
It looks so nice. Very good idea!
This is so, so cool. My favorite project you've done Josh!
I'm not going to lie Josh, you tottally Louis Vuitton-ed Elsie's desk!
Do you think it could be a good options?
This would be great in a kitchen!
I love the result, and this is a technique that could benefit to so many projects!
love the contrast of the table with the rug!! you guys make the coolest things!
Exactly what I was thinking—so clever!
Wow! I really love the finished result and it goes perfectly with the whole room decor!
Wow what a project! Epoxy makes me nervous but it turned out beautifully!!
I absolutely adore this table!! We are in desperate need of a new desk and I would love a fun, colorful option like this. How to epoxy table tops take to heavy items like computers, speakers, etc.?
I thought Epoxy was spelled Apoxy. OY!
This table is so colorful..love the epoxy effect…will have to bookmark this for future..
I love the desk but I keep staring at the mini statement wall and shelves behind it! Such a great office setup!
I love this so much! It makes me want to epoxy everything!
Can we talk about the shelves in the background?? Are they suspended from the ceiling and hooked to the walls or what? Love everything about this corner.
I'm loving this project!! My husband uses epoxy to build spacecraft, I'm inspired to bounce some ideas around with him for a sweet piece of furniture of our own! Glad you guys are investigating this really cool material.
You made such colorful table! This is a great solution for interior!
It looks really great! I like knowing that tape can be used to block off the edges of the table!
I kind of adore this.
Seriously, you guys have the best DIYs on the Internets! LOVE!!!!
Very cool – red and yellow always remind me of ketchup and mustard together!
The new office space is coming along very nicely.
Wow! I really like this project and it turned out great!
And love the shelving ideas behind.
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Club News 2019
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A little about our Founder Miss Kathleen Moore:
Miss Kathleen Moore was born in London and joined the New Zealand Refrigerating Company in London as a confidential clerk in 1914. Miss Moore went on to become the first woman to hold the position of head salesperson at the company. She later managed the London office and in 1928 transferred to their Christchurch headquarters. After a severe illness in 1931, Miss Moore joined the staff of Ford Motors in Christchurch, selling cars to women. She moved to Wellington and organised the Women's Division of Dominion Life Assurance.
In 1939, Miss Moore began her relationship with Soroptimism. While visiting in London she met and received great support from Elizabeth Hawes, the then President of the Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. On her return, Kathleen called a meeting of prominent women in Wellington to discuss the idea of forming a Soroptimist Club. This took place on 23rd February 1939.
On 16th March 1939 a motion was carried that a Soroptimist club be formed. Miss Kathleen Moore became the first President. The other officers were:
Mrs WE Suckling (Optician), Vice President
Miss T.R. Smith (Assistant Lecturer), second Vice President
Mrs Ellen Castle (Apartment House owner), Secretary
Other members of the Executive were:
Mrs E Buele (Secretary in an Architect's office)
Miss D. Mowat (Accountant)
Miss E. Mainwaring (Handicrafts, Art needlework)
Mrs J. Kemp - Saint (Furrier)
Mrs J. Yaldwyn (Assistant Teacher, Private School)
Miss E.M. Black (Florist)
Miss C.Hooper (Dental Clinic Matron).
Other charter members included, Mrs V.A. May (Welfare Organiser), Mrs J.M. Williams (Librarian –Municipal Library), Miss Pauline Smith (Hairdresser), Miss D'este (Photographer), and Dr Elizabeth Bryson (Consulting Physician).
The club met for some months and in August 1939 had 30 members. It operated for 8 months and during this time members set up a refugee relief committee and planned employment opportunities for people escaping from Europe. One idea proposed was the establishment a coffee shop, to be run by the refugees. But it was debated there were New Zealanders in need of work too so the idea was abandoned in October 1939.
It was decreed at a meeting on 7th September 1939 that the club 'maintain neutrality in all national affairs and to avoid all discussion on political, sectarian, religious and racial questions'. A charter entrance fee of £7 was dispatched to Miss Elizabeth Hawes, the Liaison Officer, of the Soroptimist International Association in London. And on 16th November 1939 the club was formally chartered. At that time the club had 38 members.


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Dentsu Aegis Network acquires digital performance agency abaGada, and launches iProspect in Israel
Published on: 20th April 2015
Dentsu Aegis Network today announces the acquisition of abaGada Internet Ltd (abaGada) - a fast growing digital performance marketing agency in Israel. abaGada will become part of Dentsu Aegis Network and transition towards operating as iProspect - Dentsu Aegis Network's global digital performance agency. The acquisition establishes iProspect's network in Israel in addition to expanding Dentsu Aegis Network's breadth of media and digital capabilities in this dynamic and innovative market.
Established in 2010 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, abaGada has quickly grown to become a leading digital agency in Israel, a market recognised as an incubator for technology advancements and digital product development. Offering a full range of multilingual marketing services including advanced Pay Per Click (PPC) management, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Optimisation (SEO), Display, as well as social and creative solutions, abaGada's main clients include Google, KIA, Bezeq International, and Issta.
abaGada's CEO and co-founder, Eyal Chen, will continue to lead his successful business and dynamic team of 22 employees in his new role of CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network, Israel, reporting into Thierry Jadot, CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network, France & Middle East.
"This acquisition marks another important step in the continued growth of Dentsu Aegis Network and the reach of our digital capabilities," said Thierry Jadot, CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network, France & Middle East. "With advanced services, a high level of technology products and expertise delivered to globally renowned brands and partners, abaGada is a highly successful business that is both strategically and geographically suited for our global network."
"Bringing abaGada into iProspect enables us to scale our brand presence in the crucial high tech Israeli marketplace, adding another dimension to our global digital capabilities. We look forward to welcoming Eyal and the whole abaGada team to iProspect," said Ben Wood, Global President of iProspect.
Eyal Chen, CEO of abaGada said "We are looking forward to joining Dentsu Aegis Network and offering our digital marketing services and technology to more global brands. Our dynamic team will act as the conduit between the innovative Israeli market and Dentsu Aegis Network's and iProspect's global network, whilst continuing to provide our clients with the highest value in digital marketing."
Kirsten Doddy
Global Head of Corporate Communications
Dentsu Aegis Network
E: Kirsten.Doddy@dentsuaegis.com
Part of Dentsu Inc., Dentsu Aegis Network is made up of eight global network brands - Carat, Dentsu, Dentsu media, iProspect, Isobar, mcgarrybowen, Posterscope and Vizeum, and supported by its specialist/multi-market brands including Amnet, Amplifi, Data2Decisions, Mitchell Communications (PR), psLIVE and 360i. Dentsu Aegis Network is Innovating the Way Brands Are Built for its clients through its best-in-class expertise and capabilities in media, digital and creative communications services. Offering a distinctive and innovative range of products and services, Dentsu Aegis Network is headquartered in London and operates in 110 countries worldwide with over 23,000 dedicated specialists.
About abaGada
abaGada is a leading digital marketing agency, founded in 2010 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel. AbaGada's technology and expertise enable it to offer a wide range of digital marketing services for leading local and international brands, with focus on digital media strategy, search marketing and social media advertising solutions.


Standard Oil is one of the most storied companies in American history.
In many senses, it is a success story that is straight out of the American dream. John D. Rockefeller built what would eventually become the world's first multi-national corporation on humble beginnings, manoeuvering his way through the Cleveland oil-industry and eventually to the top of it.
Rockefeller entered the business in 1863 at a time when Cleveland's refining sector was suffering from a surplus of production capacity. By 1970, however, Standard Oil was officially incorporated, the consolidation of a partnership between Rockefeller, Samuel Andrews, and Henry FLagler, and was running the largest refineries in the area.
By 1880, the Standard Oil Company would have at least 90 percent of the American oil market firmly in its grasp.
Rockefeller's strategy was viciously simple; first, he established Standard's foothold in the oil market through horizontal expansion in the refining sector. It was from this foundation that the company would begin to expand vertically, eventually creating a corporate entity the likes of which the world had never seen.
Standard Oil's unprecedented size and dexterity brought with it unprecedented benefits. The company's significant holding's in various railways, for instance, entitled it to discounts that were simply beyond the reach of competitors. But the company's size also allowed for a streamlining of production and logistics operations that provided the advantage in terms of overhead costs.
The company introduced a new notion of efficiency into the oil industry through its then-innovative practice of recycling waste material for re-use and even profit. While competitors would pollute streams with their waste products, Standard developped means of recycling the waste material into fuel for its industrial facilities.
But Standard Oil's success brought with it greater scrutiny from both Federal authorities and competitors, and it is this initial scrutiny that led the company to what might be its most significant innovation, one that would be copied many times subsequently, the trust. In early 1882, Rockefeller and his colleagues organized their wide-ranging businesses under the direction of a single board of trustees.
The cunning strategy had been introduced as a response to various State and Federal attempts to enforce anti-trust laws. Standard Oil was unafraid to push those boundaries from the outset, however, and this can be seen as early as 1872 when the Pennsylvania State legislature revoked the charter for an organization by the name of the South Improvement Company. Rockefeller had joined the company that year, in an attempt to secure rebates on shipping fees, as well as compensation for shippments of competitors. The intervention of the State legislature assured, at least in this instance, that no oil was ever shipped under the terms of the Rockefeller-South Improvement agreement.
Having elicited and engaged the authorities on multiple occasions may have paid off in the formof unheard of profits and power, but it also made the company a preferred target when the Sherman anti-trust law was passed in 1890. The Sherman law is considered the origin of anti-trust legislation, as it sought to restrict the means by which companies could trump their competition through the use of consolidation.
It was the Sherman law that would eventually be the mechanism through which Federal authorities were able to break the company into 34 different parts, many of which survive as the oil industry's biggest concerns. By 1911, however, Standard Oil's share of the market had been knocked down rather drastically to between 60 and 65 percent, and while still enormously profitable, had perhaps been showing signs of giving way to newer companies, companies that had been inspired by its own pioneering tactics over the previous decades. Those companies include what would eventually become Royal Dutch Shell ($RDS.A), Texaco, and Union Oil.
The fragmentation of Standard Oil in its time was considered a significant blow to any company who would engage in such practices, but the Justice Department's victory in 1911 has shown itself to be, at times, very incomplete.
For instance, two of the company's components emerged in the form of Jersey Standard, the precursor to Exxon (XOM) , and Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony), which in 1963 would be renamed Mobil. Following the breakup of Standard, both companies set out on a similar path as their predecessor, making acquisitions and expanding into all manner of businesses with synergistic potential.
In the 1930's, Jersey Pacific had refining operations in Indonesia, but was lacking a marketing network. It was a need that Socony was willing and able to accomodate with its own choice of marketing outlets. The 50-50 joint venture that resulted from this partnership, Standard Vaccuum Oil Co., would go on to operate in 50 countries around the world before its eventual dissolution in 1962.
But Standard has left behind it a number of well-known and successful descendents; Standard Oil of Ohio would later on become BP (BP) , Standard of Indiana would become Amoco, a partnership between Standard Atlantic and the company Richfield would result in ARCO, Standard California and Kentucky would go on to form Chevron (CVX) , the Ohio Oil Co. is now known as Marathon Petroleum (MRO) , one of the world's biggest independent refiners, and the Anglo-American Oil Co. still exists as Esso UK.
The companies left behind by Standard Oil still dominate large swathes of the market, and have over the years shown themselves more or less able to adapt to and evolve with changing markets, technologies, and economic conditions. But while Standard is no more, the precedents it set during its existence have left their mark on the industry, as they were instrumental in shaping a consensus over its goals, as well as the means to be used to achieve them.


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Artist Nan Goldin Arrested in Protest Outside Governor Cuomo's Office in NYC
The activists are calling on the governor to establish overdose prevention centers to combat the growing opioid epidemic.
by Hakim Bishara and Jasmine Weber August 28, 2019 September 11, 2019
Protesters outside of Governor Cuomo's office on August 28 (all photos by Jasmine Weber for Hyperallergic)
Today, August 28, the New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested artist Nan Goldin outside of Governor Andrew Cuomo's office during a protest calling on the governor to establish overdose prevention centers across the state. At least one additional activist from the group was also arrested.
The protest amassed over 200 participants, chanting "Cuomo lies, people die!" as they marched. Many held signs mourning individuals who had died from an overdose. Others blocked the entrance to the governor's office, including Goldin.
Flowers scattered at the scene, along with signs demanding Governor Cuomo approve the creation of overdose prevention centers in New York
In May 2018, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio announced plans to bring safe injection sites to NYC, but the city must first gain approval from the State Department of Health, which operates under Governor Cuomo. There was a similar protest outside of the governor's office in November of 2018. Explaining their choice to return this morning, Andres Baez, a retention adherence specialist for Housing Works, told Hyperallergic: "We will continue doing advocacy, and we will continue doing this until the governor meets our demands […] One thing this governor loves doing is delaying, delaying, delaying."
"Since you have refused to disperse, you will be placed under arrest under the charge of disorderly conduct," blared the NYPD speakers as activists were shepherded into a prisoner transport vehicle.
Goldin, best known for her photography, has been an outspoken drug policy advocate since 2017, when she founded PAIN Sackler to call out the art world for its close financial relationship with the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma. The group demands Purdue give at least 50% of its profits to organizations working to solve the opioid crisis, and that the Sacklers use their personal funds to do so as well.
Protesters chanted "We'll be back!" before they dispersed.
Yesterday, NBC News reported that Purdue Pharma and members of Sackler family have offered to settle more than 2,000 lawsuits across the United States for a sum between $10 billion and $12 billion. The possible deal is currently being discussed between Purdue Pharma and 10 attorneys general and plaintiffs from the scores of cities that have sued the company. The New York Times reported that the settlement proposal involves the Sacklers relinquishing their ownership of Purdue Pharma on top of paying $3 billion of their own money towards the settlement. The settlement would include a bankruptcy filing that would turn the company into a "public beneficiary trust," which allows profits to go to plaintiffs. Advocates from Housing Works told Hyperallergic that today's action was independent from the news of the possible settlement.
Signage reading "Governor Cuomo: While You Hide, People Die."
Following the arrests, protesters gathered in close quarters, sectioned off by police barricades and chanting "We'll be back!"
Update 8/29/19 4:54pm: A total of 13 activists, including Nan Goldin, were arrested yesterday, August 28, on charges of disorderly conduct for blocking the entrance to the New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's office. The activists were released after being held for seven hours in jail. "[Governor Cuomo] promised our advocacy community that he would OK a pilot program for five Safe Consumption Sites [SCS] across New York after the elections last year. He has failed to act on that promise," Megan Kapler, a member of PAIN Sackler, told Hyperallergic. "We will continue to fight for this cause in New York, and next week in Philadelphia where there is a federal case against Safehouse — a SCS that was meant to open last year as a response to Philly's devastating Opioid crisis," she added.
Week in Review: Nan Goldin Arrested at Protest, Artists Protest at Hudson Yards
A Protest Against Purdue Settlement Transforms Courthouse Landscape Into a Graveyard
PAIN Sackler Activists Throw "Blood Money" and Stage Die-in Outside Purdue Pharma's Bankruptcy Hearing
Tagged: Andrew Cuomo, Nan Goldin, New York, NYPD, PAIN Sackler, Purdue Pharma, Sackler Family
Hakim Bishara
Hakim Bishara is a staff writer for Hyperallergic. He is also a co-director at Soloway Gallery, an artist-run space in Brooklyn. Bishara is a recipient of the 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation and Creative Capital...	More by Hakim Bishara
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The Culture Jeff Luhnow Created For The Astros
Jared Wyllys Contributor
I am a freelance baseball writer and contributor to Forbes.
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 24: President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Jeff Luhnow of ... [+] the Houston Astros talks to the media during the press conference during the World Series Workout Day at Nationals Park on Thursday, October 24, 2019 in Washington, District of Columbia. (Photo by Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
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As always, it's the fans who get jobbed. In this case, mostly the people of Houston.
The people who, just over two years ago, lined the streets in their city that not long before were nearly washing away in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey to celebrate the first-ever Astros World Series title. They got no bonuses or rings for being there, only a chance to extol the guys who did.
And now, because it turns out the Astros cheated, they will never get to remember for themselves or regale future generations with the story of the 2017 team without a touch of bitterness. Instead of being remembered as a championship that helped a city heal, their title now feels empty.
This is because of the culture Houston's general manager Jeff Luhnow helped foster.
A culture where players stole signs beyond the wink-and-look-the-other-way methods baseball guys have used for generations. The Astros had cameras, lookouts, maybe buzzing bandages, and trash cans.
A culture where an assistant general manager shouts profanity-laced taunts at female reporters and the organization responds first by trying to label the reporter who called them out a liar.
A culture where credentialed reporters in the Baseball Writers' Association are barred from the clubhouse — a practice that is against the current collective bargaining agreement — rather than allowing them to do their jobs.
And a culture that seems to have infected others. Alex Cora, the bench coach in Houston in 2017, took the managerial job in Boston in 2018 and led the Red Sox to a World Series championship. Cora is also likely facing his own harsh punishment because the Red Sox also stole signs once he got there.
None of this happens without someone at the head of it all who makes it possible, in one way or another. The Astros are what they are largely because Luhnow helped make them that way.
But in Luhnow's statement released Monday in the wake of commissioner Rob Manfred's punishments for his ball club, Luhnow couldn't bring himself to act like a leader of substance or fortitude and take full ownership:
Zero in on that second paragraph. Particularly this sentence:
"The sign-stealing initiative was not planned or directed by baseball management; the trash-can banging was driven and executed by players, and the video decoding of signs originated and was executed by lower-level employees working with the bench coach."
He's thrown his players under the bus. He's thrown low-level employees — probably not the kind who can float away from a thing like this with their golden parachutes — under there too, along with his former bench coach in Cora who helped them win that 2017 World Series.
Luhnow has also insulted the intelligence of anyone who has paid a modicum of attention to the Astros saga since the news first broke in early November.
He expects it to be believed that he didn't know what was going on. That cameras were being set up in his ballpark that he didn't know about. That a table with a laptop was set up in the tunnel running from the home dugout to the clubhouse used by players to help steal signs (and openly shown in the team's World Series DVD) and he didn't know about it. That an elaborate program of cheating was going on under his nose. And he didn't know about it.
If he's telling the truth, those are horrible oversights and he's a fool. If he's not, he thinks his audience is too stupid to see through his bunkum.
This is not to say that no one else is to blame. The owner might share in it, though he is thus far free of personal punishment besides the tarnished reputation of his team. The players share in it, though it looks as though they are going to be free to go on playing uninterrupted by suspension. The low-level employees Luhnow alluded to were involved, but only Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch are gone at this point. Manfred, for what it's worth, chose to focus on those two for their role in fostering the Astros culture that led to all that happened.
There are other issues in baseball right now, too — like an Angels employee who helped Tyler Skaggs get the drugs that cost him his life, or the potential contraction of over 40 minor league teams, or the questionable integrity of the balls being used during games — but for now, the sign-stealing scandal is the one that is potentially going to change the way baseball is played.
Sign-stealing of this degree might prove to be more wide-reaching than Houston and Boston, but even if it doesn't, Luhnow has helped to forever alter the sport of baseball. The paranoia among players and managers that he helped create will lead to teams relaying signs electronically and ultimately digitize one of the more human parts of the game: the silent conversation of fingers and head nods between pitcher and catcher.
More than that, the culture Luhnow helped create will further disillusion the fans already attending in lower numbers year by year and devoting more of their attention to other sports or no sport at all. There is no good entertainment in watching cheaters win.
That's where, once again, the fans ultimately lose the most, the ones in Houston most of all. For them, their World Series is tainted. For all fans, thanks to the way Luhnow ran his team, their sport feels like it is too.
Jared Wyllys
I have covered baseball for several years at places like Sporting News, Chicago Magazine, and NBC Chicago, along with Forbes. First year BBWAA member in 2019. Follow me ...


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Deaf, Dumb and Blind
The New York World/February 17, 1889
And Yet Laura Bridgman Has Accomplished Almost Miracles
Nellie Bly Visits the Most Remarkable Woman
How Her Mind, Although Hidden as in a Sealed Tomb, Was Finally Reached – Every Sense but Touch Destroyed When She was Two Years Old – She Now Reads, Writes and Converses with Her Fingers – The Strange Story of Her Childhood – Dickens Marveled at Her Accomplishments – A Glance at the Institution for the Blind.
Boston, Mass., Feb. 13 – I came to Boston to see bete noire of my childhood days. I have seen her and she has made me feel tenfold the force of that early lesson. "If she can accomplish so much," I thought, while gazing on her, the most afflicted of all creatures, "What can I not do?" and I came away from her filled with new strength, new resolution.
Almost my first recollection of disagreeable things was the necessity of learning the alphabet and of conquering words of two syllables. I am positive I said "I can't" oftener than I repeated my letters. Every time I said "I can't" I was told this little story:
"There was a little girl who could not see nor hear nor speak. Several years she lived in great unhappiness, and then a wise man found her and was anxious to teach her some way to understand, that she might know all about the world and books and people. She was very good and never said 'I can't' but had great patience and perseverance, and not only learned to read and to speak with her fingers but to sew and knit and do many useful things. That little girl could not see her letters, could not hear them spoken, could not speak them, but she never said 'I can't.' "
I do not think the story had the desired effect, for it always made me think it all the more reason why I should enjoy to the utmost those privileges of sight and speech and hearing of which she was deprived, and leave to her the study and work which alone she could enjoy.
After a while I heard no more discourses on my bete noire, but I remembered her as I remembered the old woman who lived in a shoe and the bears who ate the children up for calling an old man "bald head." I shall never forget my astonishment when first I glanced through a volume of Dickens to find that my bete noire was not a freak of the superlatively good imagination conjured to shame little girls into doing that for which they had no inclination. From him I learned that she was a living, breathing creature, and had accomplished all the wonderful things credited to her. My dislike for the deaf and dumb blind girl who did so much changed to admiration, and I was filled with wonder. Her history had more charms for me than the story of the "Arabian Nights." From that day to this I have eagerly read every word which has been written about her, and now I have seen her.
I suppose Charles Dickens aided in telling the world the wonders of this afflicted being by his lengthy description of her and her accomplishments in his very true but most abused "American Notes." They say that forty years ago her name was a household word, and that her education was followed by the most eager and general interest. The story of her life is never tiresome, and will always bear repetition.
Laura Bridgman's History.
Daniel Bridgman and his wife, Harmony, owned a farm in Hanover. N.H. There they lived the usual life of farmers – quiet, unpretentious and God-fearing. On Dec. 21, 1829, there was born to them a little delicate daughter, subject to severe convulsions, who was destined to make their name live forever. She was christened Laura Dewey Bridgman. When eighteen months old her health improved, and, by the time she had completed two years—as if to make up for what she had suffered—she was more intelligent and active than children of that age ordinarily are. She had learned to lisp a few words and knew some of the letters of the alphabet. A month after she had passed her two-year mile-post, when she had known about six months of health, scarlet fever entered the family and all the children—two older sisters and Laura—were afflicted.
The two sisters died, but Laura, as if strengthened to endurance by her eighteen months suffering, clung to life when everyone thought it impossible for her to live. For seven weeks she was unable to swallow any solid food; yet she lived. Then both her eyes and ears suppurated and discharged their contents, but deaf and blind, she still lived. The sense of taste and smell also died, but living brain, although almost enclosed in a dead casket, refused to die. For five months she was kept in a darkened room. A year passed before she could walk unsupported. Two years elapsed before she was strong enough to sit up all day.
Only One Sense Remained
At five years of age she was virtually born again. Her four and a half years of untold suffering totally effaced the recollection of her six months' health, and all she had learned in that short time was forgotten. Her mind remained unimpaired, but there was no way to communicate with her. She was blind; she could not hear a cannon fired by her side, and because of her deafness she was dumb. One sense alone remained – she could feel. By the sense of touch she followed every motion made by her mother. So she learned to sew, to knit and to braid.
Certain signs she learned to understand. Pushing meant go; pulling, come; a pat on the head, approval; on the back, disapproval. She cannot be better described than was done by Charles Dickens in his "American Notes:"
"There she was, before me, built up, as it were, in a marble cell, impervious to any ray of light or particle of sound; with her poor white hands peeping through a chink in the wall, beckoning to some good man for help that an immortal soul might be awakened."
Her Salvation
So she lived until eight years of age, when Dr. S. G. Howe, Director of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, in South Boston, heard of her. In company with Mr. Longfellow and several other gentlemen he took a trip to the White Mountains. His main object was to visit Laura Bridgman's parents in New Hampshire to persuade them to entrust the child to his care. He succeeded in his purpose and she was taken to the institution Oct. 12, 1837.
The first lessons this child received were very interesting. Dr. Howe had the names of common household objects, such as knife, spoon, fork, chair, table, etc., printed in raised letters, such as are used for the blind. Then he had the objects also labeled with the same names. First he gave her the word "knife," and made her feel it as the blind feel letters in reading. Then he gave her a knife and let her feel the word labeled upon it. This he did with all the other articles, until he thought she knew the difference. Then taking the labels from off all the other articles, he would give her a label and get her to put it on the article it designated, or, giving her the article, would get her to put it on the table. Then he would give her the word "table." He would let her work around until she would understand to put it on the table. In this way he taught her that objects had names and how to apply them.
When proficient in this practice he had type made and taught her to spell and form the words she had learned with them. She learned it readily and eagerly, and it was a great step in advancement. Yet Dr. Howe said that all this Laura learned as a dog learns tricks from his master. It was limitation without understanding. They undertook then to teach her the manual alphabet—commonly called the deaf-and-dumb alphabet. The teacher formed each letter, which Laura now knew from her type, with the fingers, but of one hand only. By resting her hand easily on the teacher's Laura caught the movements and so learned to use them herself. When she did right they patted her head, when she did wrong they knocked her elbow.
Dr. Howe said he knew the very moment that Laura first understood—when being taught the manual alphabet—that by this means she could communicate with the world. He said the knowledge of understanding came in an instant, and her face filled with an unspeakable radiance that he could never forget. I think that look of—yes, heavenly happiness, repaid him for all his tender patience with his protégée. Can one imagine the delight Laura Bridgman must have felt when in her sealed casket she found by the movements of her fingers she could communicate with the world; that she could express the thoughts and ask the questions which had gathered there unanswered since her birth? Is it surprising that her hungry soul would eagerly grasp every new word and never forget it; and that she never tired of conversation? Her progress was marvelous, and she was soon able to read books for the blind and to write letters to her parents, whom she could not see or hear. Think what a pleasure it is to us to communicate with our friends who are very far away. Think, then, if we were among them and unable to see or hear or speak, what would be our rapture when we could communicate with them from a distance more terrible than all the miles we could count.
The Blind Woman of Today
And this is the wonderful creature I came to Boston to see.
Mr. Anognos, the director of the Perkins Institute, was very kind, and assured me that he would take pleasure in introducing me to Laura Bridgman. I followed him out through the long halls of the building, passing blind pupils, who avoided us as deftly as though their sight were perfect; through a beautiful gymnasium to a street, on which faced from the grounds of the institution four cottages.
"These cottages," explained Mr. Anognos, "bear the names of four men who did much work for the blind—Fisher, Brooks, May and Oliver. Dr. Fisher was the first man in America to establish a school for the blind. In 1827 he began this great benevolent work, and 1829 this institution was incorporated. In these cottages the matron, teachers and girls live. The boys are kept in the main building.
The matron, Miss Moulton, answered the director's ring and the object of my visit was explained to her. We sat down in a very pleasant room, where everything was the model of cleanliness and comfort. The matron left us and soon returned with Laura Bridgman on her arm. Mrs. Moulton told Laura who was present and she cordially shook hands with us both. As Laura sat down beside Miss Moulton on the sofa she gave a little gasping sound like a choked laugh and then spelled something on her fingers.
"Laura says she wants you for her banker," Miss Moulton translated to Mr. Anognos. "She has got so much money."
"Very well," replied Mr. Anognos, and then he left us alone together.
Laura Bridgman is almost sixty years old. She looked very fragile as she sat before me on the sofa. Miss Moulton says that although Laura's appearance would indicate that she is delicate, she always enjoys the best of health and is never ill. There is nothing extraordinary-looking about Laura one way or the other. Her head is finely developed, over which her light brown hair, now mingled with a few white threads, is parted in the middle and combed very smoothly back. The ends are braided in fine plaits and twisted around the back of her head. Her face is small and somewhat wrinkled, her mouth very small, her lips thin and colorless and her nose slender and straight. She wears blue glasses, which effectually hide what unpleasant things there might be about her ever-sleeping eyes. She has the primness of a dear little old maid and many of the same movements.
The house dress she wore was made of a soft brown woolen material, with velvet collar and cuffs and pockets. White ruching edged the sleeves and collar, the latter being fastened with a little gold breast-pin. Altogether she looked as exact as if she had dressed to sit for a photograph, yet that is her ordinary or working apparel. She always dresses herself and keeps her wardrobe in order, so her neatness is of her own doing.
A Strange Interview
My little conversation with her was carried on with the aid of the matron. Laura lightly rested her hand on the matron's while the latter spelled to her with the finger language what I said. Then when she spelled with her fingers, the matron lightly tapped Laura's wrist to show her that she was attentive. After receiving the answer in this way the matron translated it to me. Laura made many little sounds when she wished to attract the matron's attention so she could talk.
First Laura asked if I could make the manual alphabet with my hands.
I replied, "No."
Then she asked if I would like to see some lace she was making. I replied that I would, and she got up and went swiftly from the room with a pretty, noiseless, gliding motion. Her hands were held out a little in advance of her, but had one not known of the afflictions they would never have learned of them from her movements. She returned with a small black box and resumed her place on the sofa. She made a slight noise by catching her breath, and Miss Moulton tapped her wrist as a signal that she was all attention. Laura said with her fingers: "This lace is for a lady in California. She sent money for me to make it."
I took the lace from her outstretched hand and examined it curiously. It was probably four inches deep and made of No. 80 white cotton. The pattern was very difficult and pretty and was done—as is all Laura's work—perfectly. It would require a very skillful woman even with perfect sight to make such lace.
If she drops a stitch and the matron puts it on, Laura can tell instantly if the thread is on right or wrong. What is hardly perceptible to the sight is very plain to her dainty touch.
I expressed a desire to obtain a sample of her work, which was told her. She caught her breath with a little happy sound—it pleases her to have her work appreciated—and told the matron that she had none now, all having been sold, even this she was making. She makes samples of lace which visitors are eager to buy as mementos of her skill. She has a great desire to be useful and delights in the idea of earning money and accumulating it.
She always gives her autograph with every mat she sells, with the price marked on it. To feel that, with her indescribable afflictions, she is useful and capable is bliss to her.
She is very anxious to entertain visitors, and so she asked if I wished to see her clock and have her tell the time. Again she glided away, with that soft, swift movement, movement, to return with a small box containing a clock little larger than a watch. She took it out of the box and placed it in my hand, then, making a slight sound, she drew the matron's attention, and asked her what I thought of it. After I had expressed my opinion as to its beauty, she said:
"I have a watch. It is being repaired. This was given me in place of it. Notice—it has no crystal, that I may feel the hands and tell the time. Would she want me to tell the time?"
I answered "Yes," and she gently felt both hands and quickly told the exact time—10:30.
I gave her a dollar bill, and she clapped her hands softly in pleasure when I told her I wanted her to make me a sample of lace. She was much concerned, however, and hastened to assure me that she had sold what she was now making, and, as her promise was given, she must do it first. Then she would be pleased to make some for me; nor did she forget to ask that I write my name and address on a card for her, so she would be sure to send the lace to the right place.
She sells her photographs to visitors who want them, and she asked if I cared to have one.
I had hardly said "yes," when she went to get them and trustfully handed me a package to select from. Thirty cents, she said, was the price. I gave her thirty-five cents. She felt the money, then with a little hurried noise informed the matron that I had given her five cents too much. She can tell money from the touch as quickly as I can by sight.
Another rush from the room and upstairs. This time she had gone to her purse and returned with the right change. She now offered to write her autograph for me, and for the purpose she brought from the next room a sheet of note paper and a covered pad. The pad she placed on her knee, and with a lead pencil wrote her name and "a motto," as she said. This pad has slight grooves in it which keep her lines straight. She places two fingers on the groove and quickly makes the letters, pushing her fingers close to the pencil, so that she will not run one letter on to another. It did not require any more time for her to write her autograph than it does for anyone else. After it was written she tore the paper across and gave me the part written on, which is here exactly reproduced.
Suddenly a thought came to her and she asked what she was "doing in her photograph."
The matron told her and she seemed much pleased.
She Admires The English
Laura Bridgman is to some extent an Anglo-maniac. She is very fond of English people and never tires talking to them about England. She receives many visitors with whom she converses on the topics of the day or anything of general interest or follows any of the subjects suggested by them. I don't think there is any one in America who can claim to have received as many calls from distinguished people. Everybody of note who has lived these last fifty years in America, or visited here, has been pleased to call upon Laura Bridgman. She understands it, too.
Mr. Anognos tells me that once the secretary of some state, I have forgotten who and what, called upon Laura. He was a distinguished man and so Mr. Anognos introduced him as the Hon. Mr. Etc., Laura lifted her head slightly and answered with pride:
"Very many distinguished persons call upon me."
Her duties at the institution are not few, because she is desirous to be useful. She is never idle, though lacking little of sixty years. She rises early when the others do. She does all the dusting in the Fisher cottage, where she is living this year. Every year she is changed from one cottage to another, so that the responsibility of those in charge—who must be her tongue—is equal. The matron says no one could dust better and that Laura never knocks down any little bits of china which decorate the room, or photographs. She attends to her wardrobe, knits lace, crochets mats and all sorts of such work. It is also her duty to assist in the workroom where the blind pupils are taught to sew. Her duty is to thread all the needles and to examine the work, which she does very carefully with her all-seeing fingers, and what one with sight would probably pass as 'pretty good" she carefully undoes and makes the worker do it over until perfect. She threads the needles by placing the eye on her tongue and deftly rolling the thread into it.
She has a great deal or correspondence but no longer keeps a diary. When President Garfield died she wrote a long letter of condolence to Mrs. Garfield without any one prompting or suggesting the idea to her. She also wrote Mrs. Beecher a letter of condolence.
Her Enjoyments
I endeavored to learn her greatest pleasure in life. I can safely say her highest pleasure is conversation. Probably the next highest is the attention of people. She enjoys so much to go out to tea and to receive invitations to visit people's homes. She is always pleased to assist the teachers in the institution. She also enjoys music, which she says she hears through her feet. It is the vibration she detects.
She is well educated and is constantly thirsty for a knowledge of the doings of the world which she is in and yet so far removed from. She spends much of her time in reading the Bible and a dictionary, and likes to have books and magazines and newspapers read to her. Any subject that it is thought might bring her sadness by realizing her isolation is carefully avoided. They all say that Laura does not realize what she has missed in life. She is always cheerful, happy and affectionate to her nearest friends.
At her meals she sits on the matron's right and eats after the manner of any cultured person, but is rather inclined to favor the spoon as a conveyance of food. She never recovered her sense of smell and has very little of taste. She is fond of chicken broth and liquid foods. Vinegar, salt, or anything sour or bitter she will not taste.
No woman in society is more fond of dressing, and none can be more particular about her apparel than Laura. For her own gowns she is inclined to silks and soft materials. Sealskin or any kind of fur, or textures of the broadcloth quality, almost give her a chill, they are so unspeakably horrible to her. She has never conquered her childish fear of dogs and cats, and the touch of them fills her with horror.
Laura Bridgman's diary and all her writings, which are considered very valuable from a scientific point of view, are kept in the archives of the institution. Those who are interested in such studies as the human mind may be pleased to know that it is proven by Laura Bridgman's case—her now-told recollections of her early childhood—that she thought before conversation was possible. Another interesting fact was proven—that she had no innate idea of God or a Supreme Being. She has dreams the same as anyone else, but she never dreams that she can see or hear or speak. If restless at night she will talk in her sleep with her fingers.
Laura became converted to religion, and after a while, through talks with a companion, changed her religion and was baptized in the faith of her parents, that of the Baptist Church. In December, 1887, Laura Bridgman's semi-centennial was celebrated at the institution. She had passed fifty years there, and, as she expressed it when once she spoke of death, she "hoped to die there and be buried in a white casket." Many prominent people were there, among others Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the widow of Dr. Howe, who gave Laura a language and raised her from a state little better that a brute's. Laura received many presents on the occasion. A very pleasant address written by her was read to those assembled by Mrs. Howe. Part of every summer and fall Laura spends with her mother at Hanover, N.H.
Laura is an ardent politician. She is a Republican, and enjoys very much conversing with gentlemen on the subject. She told me that Mr. Will Carleton called on her the other day, and told her that he would send her a poem for a valentine. She was very much delighted with his promise.
Anecdotes of Early Life
Some of the questions she asked when she was being educated were very amusing. One day when she was visiting a minister called and her hostess explained that the minister had "come to Boston to marry a couple." Her face expressed great disgust, and she quickly spelled on her fingers, "fool." She thought he had come to be married to a couple of wives!
A scholar had the mumps. Laura learned the name of the disease. She caught it, but on one side only, so when someone said to her, "You have the mumps," she replied, "No, I have the mum." When she wanted lean pork at dinner she asked for "poor pork." The figure of a little dog and monk which belonged to her in the parlor she always placed facing the wall. When asked why she said: "To have them see the pictures on the wall."
One time she was told by her teacher to go to the school-room and "get my pencil. I don't know which desk it is on." She returned with the pencil and told the teacher that she could not find the which. When told that spiders ate flies she asked, "What for; to keep them out of the molasses?" When learning geography she bounded Chelsea, and found it was north by Reading. "Who lives in Reading?" she said, making a sign of reading in a book and laughing. "Tomorrow will be March," she said one day. "Will it be the once day of March?"
When told the name of Cape Cod she asked, "To eat?" Read a question to her once, "If you can buy a barrel of cider for $4, how much can you buy for $1?" "How did the man who wrote the book know I was here?" She thought the "you" referred to her personally. When urged to do the question she replied, "I cannot give much for cider because it is very sour."
She had a sum about a pole which was partly under water. "Did the man see the pole?" she asked. Still she doubted, and she asked "Is this a story?" meaning an untruth. When forgetful she said, "My thoughts waste." One day, when moving her hands through the air, she wanted to know if by doing so she "cut the air." When asked what direction a river run she said, "Why do you say run? The river has no feet." She was very anxious to know if "brains and thoughts were the same, and how people know about brains?" When told that her feet were her horses and asked what was the driver she said, "My soul drives," and then changed it to "Think drives." When told about God she asked how they were sure that He lives in heaven. She told her teacher once that she would not talk to her in heaven because she would "be so busy seeing strangers." When told about the manner of Christ's death she asked "Why did not Christ escape?"
At Laura's anniversary Capt. R. Bennett Forbes, of Milton, a representative of the Perkins family, contributed a very interesting reminiscence connected with Laura's history:
"A friend reminds me that Thomas Carlyle impudently said, 'What great or noble thing has America ever done?' It was replied: 'She has produced a girl born deaf, dumb and blind, who, from her own earning, has sent a barrel of flour to the starving subjects of Great Britain in Ireland.' I had the pleasure of carrying the flour to Ireland in the Jamestown in 1747."
A Glance At The Blind School
After leaving Laura Bridgman I spent some time with Mr. Anognos in inspecting the school where the blind are taught to be useful. He made a remark that made me view the school in a different way than I ever had before.
"It is not an asylum," he said, "but a school to teach the blind to be useful and self-supporting."
As this article is not about the school but concerns one particular pupil, I will not attempt to describe what I saw, which to do justice would require columns. We visited the reading-room where little girls were running their sensitive fingers over raised letters and reading as fast as anyone with sight. There was the appearance of boarding-school about the children, but there was no offensive badge of charity. Every child looked hearty and happy and no two wore the same garb. The class in geometry had the blind teacher.
The slates and types used by the blind children to work their arithmetic questions on are very interesting. They are boards full of little square cavities. One end of the type stick set in different positions in the square cavity signifies two and four and six and eight, and the other end of the type means the odd numbers. That's as much as I could understand. How those sightless children can learn to do sums with those "fifteen puzzles" is more than I can understand.
At the end of every hour's study the pupils have recess, which they are compelled to spend out in the open air. It is very funny to watch the boys run for their sleds and coast down the sloping grounds. They just yelled as loud as all boys do and were just as happy. The girls were very happy in skating on a slippery place and falling down and getting up to try it over. By looking at them one could see little difference between their actions and those of children who see.
The institution, if I remember rightly, has forty-eight pianofortes and several organs, and the children are taught vocal and instrumental music as freely as their letters. Mr. Anognos opened several doors for me to see the little girls whose exercises we could hear outside. One place we heard a very pretty, promising voice, and when I looked in and saw the sightless eyes uplifted and heard the musical notes swell from the white throat a great pity flooded my heart as it did the first time I heard the sweet lay of a little bird that had been made blind to make it sing.
We visited the printing office where all the music and books are published. It is in the charge of a blind man. The workshops for the boys are very interesting, especially the tuning department. They say that no one can equal a blind man in tuning a musical instrument. No one else has the same fineness of touch and discernment of hearing. This department does a great deal of piano tuning for the citizens of Boston.
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It seems that I'm joining the ranks of the many who want to combine GTD and the 7 Habits approach by Stephen Covey. When I first approached GTD, one of my concerns was which next action to pick, see for example my use of priorities in Flashpoint. This was however not the most critical point at that point, it was rather how to slice projects into small, actionable items to actually get something done. nn nnNow that I'm getting better at creating next actions and projects (Nitch is working really well!), making the right choice among the actions comes back as an issue. For a while, I have been using ToDo items in DateMan as "themes of the day," but this overlaps with my use of ToDo items for the hard landscape for that day. nn nnWhich brings me to the 7 habits. After re-reading Covey's book, the approach to first define your roles, and then your weekly goals with daily adjustments makes an awful lot of sense. I'm still thinking whether goals can be expressed straight in terms of a set of GTD projects, but overall, integrating this approach into Nitch should be easily doable.


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Djokovic's unforced error on vaccinations
Alfonso January 7, 2022 3 min read
It has been a bad week for the vaccine hesitant. Their unofficial figurehead, Novak Djokovic, the world number-one tennis player, faces deportation from Australia for failing to comply with requirements that visitors be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 unless they have a valid exemption. Italy passed a vaccine mandate for the over-50s. Across the Alps, the French president said he wanted to emmerder, or "piss off", the unvaccinated by further curtailing their social lives, rather than sending them to prison. Emmanuel Macron, if you will pardon his French, has a point.
Nudging is always more effective than brute force. The day after Macron's salty language was published, 66,000 people in France got their first jab; three times the daily average. Governments should not have to order the general public to undergo what amounts to a medical procedure. Threatening prison or mandatory vaccines also risks hardening sceptics' positions. For an even more hardline anti-vax minority, impervious to data that show vaccines have damped the coronavirus's severity, no amount of persuasion will work. Their personal choice to remain unvaccinated, which has repercussions for wider society, ought also to bring ramifications for them. Limiting their ability to socialise strikes a balance.
Rafael Nadal made a similar point. "Everybody is free to take their own decisions, but then there are some consequences," said the Spanish tennis star, on hearing of Djokovic's travails with the Australian Border Force, which alleges Djokovic did not provide evidence to properly support a medical exemption. Djokovic is appealing. Australia has tight immigration rules at the best of times. Its coronavirus rules are not new or a secret. They must apply to all, no matter how famous or talented. Before the ABF intervened, the Australian public were rightly outraged that Djokovic may have been able to skirt restrictions that they had to abide by. Thinking he could fly unvaccinated across the world to a major sporting event in a country that has a 77 per cent vaccination rate and win, at least in the court of public opinion, was an unforced error by Djokovic.
Undoubtedly, Tennis Australia shares blame for the chaos. It allowed Djokovic to assume he could travel by originally granting him an exemption on unspecified grounds through two medical panels. It should have better communicated federal immigration rules. The ABF is now investigating whether other players entered the country on dubious grounds.
More widely, sporting bodies could better persuade athletes to be vaccinated, through stick and carrot. Some sports have a significant minority of players who remain unvaccinated, perhaps because they believe youth and fitness confer superpowers to fight the virus, or over (baseless) concerns that vaccines could compromise performance. Quite aside from the risks that long Covid poses, neither argument allows for how personal choice may harm others.
This year was bound to prove a reckoning. When Djokovic won the 2021 Australian Open, the vaccine rollout was just beginning. Now, apart from in exceptional circumstances, those in the developed world have had ample opportunity to get jabbed, with 9.33bn doses administered.
Djokovic will no doubt be emmerdé in his immigration hotel as he awaits court on Monday — in front of a judge rather than an umpire. There may be some truth to his supporters' claims that he has been made a high-profile example of. But, to channel Voltaire, il est bon d'emmerder de temps en temps pour encourager les autres.
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