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'godfather' Sal Fish, iconic 'Ironman' Ivan Stewart are co-Grand Marshals for upcoming golden anniversary of BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 500
May 30-June 3 in Ensenada
'godfather' Sal Fish, iconic 'Ironman' Ivan Stewart are co-Grand Marshals
for upcoming golden anniversary of BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 500
Start/Finish line area in front of Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center in heart of Ensenada;
Round 2 of four-race 2018 SCORE World Desert Championship to be televised internationally
ENSENADA, Baja California, Mexico – Originally announced as a single person, SCORE has confirmed that legendary Hall of Fame former SCORE owner Sal Fish has agreed to join Hall of Fame retired racer Ivan Stewart as co-Grand Marshals for the 50th BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 500.
Fish, the 'godfather' of desert racing who ran SCORE from its Baja start in 1974 for 38 years through the end of the 2012 season joins the Iconic 'Ironman' Stewart to share duties for the special golden anniversary race that they both have been such a major part of over the years.
Fish, who will turn 79 on May 2 and Stewart who will turn 73 on June 4, will both be active parts of the celebration of the popular early summer race when it is held this year from May 30-June 3 in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. The race will be Round 2 of the internationally-televised four-race 2018 SCORE World Desert Championship.
All four 2018 SCORE races will be held on Mexico's magnificent Baja California peninsula for the third consecutive year.
ANOTHER GOLDEN YEAR
Following last year's epic celebration of the 50th BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 1000, this year's SCORE World Desert Championship includes the special tribute to the 50th BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 500. Like all SCORE races, there will be classes for cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles and quads.
The SCORE Baja 500 is one of the top motorsports events in the world. It was started originally in 1969 by the NORRA organization. Mickey Thompson and his SCORE International organization were invited by the Mexican government to take over the event in 1974. Sal Fish ran and later owned and produced the SCORE Baja 500 for 38 years until he sold SCORE to Roger and Elise Norman in December of 2012.
The first Baja 500 organized and produced by SCORE was held on July 26, 1974 as the first of over 150 SCORE Baja races.
Ensenada is the heart and soul of the SCORE Baja 500 as the popular summertime race will start for the 45th time there and finish for the 41st time there.
BFGoodrich Tires, the SCORE official tire for over 40 years, has also posted a $25,000 contingency bonus for the overall winner of the golden anniversary race.
SAL—THE ONE-AND-ONLY
Gracious as always, Fish returns to SCORE for another celebration after being Grand Marshal of last November's epic 50th BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 1000.
Fish joined founder Mickey Thompson in 1974 and immediately began to make SCORE and the sport more visible, especially on the international stage.
Fish broadened the exposure of the legendary SCORE Baja 1000 until it became the premiere desert race in the world, now covered by national and international television as well as journalists from a dozen countries.
Fish developed TV coverage of the old SCORE Off-Road World Championships at the old Riverside International Speedway and created a number of highlights that made it a unique spectator event including creating the concept of "heavy metal" and "mini metal" divisions.
The marquee SCORE Trophy-Truck division, for high-tech unlimited production trucks with upwards of 900 horsepower, was another innovation when Fish introduced the division in 1994.
The rewards of the SCORE position were varied. Hanging in his Malibu home-office is the copy of a resolution introduced in the California State Assembly by Assemblyman Richard Katz of the 39th District. The assembly honored Fish for "contribution to the sport of international off-road racing" and commended him for "his exemplary record of public service."
Another early decision that helped raise the stature of the sport came when SCORE joined with the late Walt Lott and Lott's High Desert Racing Association (HDRA) to produce a combined championship series of races unparalleled in the world. Together, Fish and Lott organized the major manufacturers into an advisory committee, which served to recommend technical and safety rules to the organizers, assist with public relations and communicate to participants. The combined HDRA/SCORE series ran from 1985-1991.
SCORE purchased HDRA outright, forming one organization in 1993.
Ever the visionary, Fish secured the Laughlin (Nevada) Tourism Council, in association with the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority and Las Vegas Events, as the title sponsor of the SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge, held from 1995 through 2012. He also brought the LVCVA and LVE to SCORE for the annual SCORE Terrible's Primm 300, which started in 1996 and ran through 2009.
Fish also produced the monumental once-in-lifetime Tecate SCORE Baja 2000 to help commemorate the advent of the new millennium in the year 2000, running the legendary race down the length of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico–from Ensenada to Cabo San Lucas.
In 2007, Fish produced the monumental 40th anniversary of the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. Festivities began in Tijuana, the actual start was in Ensenada, Baja California, and it finished in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur.
SAL AWARDS
Fish was honored in December 2003, receiving the inaugural BFGoodrich Tires Motorsports Person of the Year award for his many contributions to the world of motorsports.
Fish also brought SCORE to the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Government in 2004 and 2005. SCORE provided significant logistical and operational support for the ongoing DARPA Grand Challenge for autonomous robotic ground vehicles, a massive DARPA research project designed to assist the U.S. Military.
In 2005, Fish was the first recipient of a new Off-Road Lifetime Achievement award presented by Advanstar Communications at the Off-Road Impact Show in January.
In 2006, Fish was voted into the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame, headquartered in Reno, Nev., and in 2003 he was enshrined into the Baja Legacy Hall of Fame, located at Horsepower Ranch near Ensenada, Mexico.
In February of 2010, Fish was honored for the third consecutive year by the Mexican Federation of Motorsports. During an elaborate formal awards presentation in Mexico City, Fish received the prized Silver Helmet Award for the third time.
Fish was also honored with a special Community Achievement Award and Charter Life Membership in 2005 by the Laughlin, Nev., Chamber of Commerce.
Governments, Governors and Mayors from every area where SCORE has produced events have honored Fish with special commendations and keys to the city.
A feature-length documentary, directed by Dana Brown, called 'Dust To Glory', was produced in association with SCORE International. Released in April, 2005, it was a tribute to the legendary Tecate SCORE Baja 1000.
'IRON' MARSHAL
SCORE is also honored to have Stewart, the legendary desert racer known by his legions of fans as the 'Ironman', as the co-Grand Marshal of this year's race with Fish.
Racing since 1973, Stewart joined the Toyota factory team in 1983 for Cal Wells at Precision Preparation Inc. (PPI). He had a total of 84 career off-road race victories in stadium, short course and desert.
Stewart won a record 17 races in Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group's (MTEG) stadium series, a record 17 SCORE Baja 500 class wins (including 10 SCORE Baja 500 overall wins), three SCORE Baja 1000s, and five SCORE season class point titles, including SCORE overall point championships in 1990 and 1993.
IRONMAN SCORE TROPHY TRUCK
Stewart is one of the original desert racing stars that moved into the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck division for high-tech, 900 horsepower, unlimited production trucks when SCORE debuted the featured racing division in 1994.
In his final six years of racing (94-99), the Ironman won his SCORE Trophy Truck class nine times. He still stands tied for fifth in all-time SCORE Trophy Truck race wins after 127 total races in the 24-year history of the spectacular racing class. Stewart was a pioneer in the high-profile racing class along with champion drivers like Rob MacCachren, Walker Evans, Roger Mears, Larry Ragland, brothers Paul and Dave Simon, Jimmy Smith and Curt LeDuc.
Ahead of Stewart on the all-time SCORE Trophy Truck win list are SCORE legends Rob MacCachren, first with 15 race wins, brothers Ed and Tim Herbst, Larry Ragland and Robby Gordon who each has 11 SCORE Trophy Truck race wins.
Stewart is tied for fifth with nine SCORE Trophy Truck race wins with Andy McMillin and the team of Dan Smith/Dave Ashley.
He also won four SCORE World Championships at the old Riverside International Raceway and three MTEG stadium racing titles.
IRONMAN AWARDS
Stewart was a 2006 inductee in the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame. In 2009, Stewart was also inducted into the San Diego Hall of Champions Breitbard Hall of Fame.
Stewart retired from racing in 2000. He continued to be instrumental in off road racing, becoming a founder in the ProTruck Racing Organization.
Currently, Stewart continues to be a special spokesperson for Toyota. Since Stewart's retirement from racing, Toyota introduced the Toyota Tundra truck and soon afterwards produced a very limited number of trucks as the Ivan Stewart Ironman edition. These trucks featured a special Ivan Stewart signature package with Toyota Racing Development (TRD) wheels, grille, interior, and supercharger.
Ivan Stewart also became known in the video game circuit, lending his name and his style of stadium racing to a series of games entitled "Super Off Road. He wrote a book, Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Ultimate Off-Road Adventure Guide (Motorbooks, 2007). He also appeared in the live action video for kids/Real Wheels video, "There Goes a Race Car."
Stewart is from San Diego and still resides in the San Diego area.
SCOREscope
Below is the four-race 2018 SCORE World Desert Championship schedule. For the third consecutive year all four races are being held in Baja California, Mexico. Here is the complete 2018 SCORE World Desert Championship schedule:
32nd SCORE San Felipe 250, April 4-April 8, San Felipe, Mexico
50th BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 500, May 30-June 3, Ensenada Mexico
Tijuana 22nd SCORE Desert Challenge, Sept. 19-23, Tijuana, Mexico
51st SCORE Baja 1000, Nov.14-18, Ensenada, Mexico
Official SCORE Sponsors: BFGoodrich Tires-Official Tire and official race title sponsor, Monster Energy-Official Energy Drink, King Shocks-Official Shock Absorber, Polaris RZR-Official UTV, RACELINE Wheels-Official Wheel, VP Racing Fuels-Official Fuel, El Rey Network-Official Television Partner, Wide Open Excursions-Official Arrive and Drive Company, Crystal Bay Casino-Official Casino.
SCORE Official Partners: PCI Race Radios, 4 Wheel Parts, The Satellite Phone Store, Satellite Del Norte, Instant Mexico Auto Insurance, CETTO Vineyards.
Additional SCORE Associate Partners: Proturismo Ensenada, Baja California Secretary of Tourism, Baja California Sur State Government, Baja California Sur Secretary of Tourism, Mexicali Ayuntamiento, COTUCO Mexicali/San Felipe, Cruz Roja Mexicana, Corporate Helicopters, McKenzie's Performance Products, Advanced Color Graphics.
Tijuana SCORE Desert Challenge Special Partners: XXII Ayuntamiento de Tijuana, Baja California State Secretary of Tourism, Comite de Turismo and Convenciones, Comite de Marcadotecnia Turistica, Asociacion de Hoteles del Noroeste.
For more information regarding SCORE, visit the official website of the SCORE World Desert Championship at www.SCOREInternational.com.
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Q: Tycho fails to resolve packages from my own wrapper of plain Maven dependencies I am trying to create an Eclipse plug-in which has dependencies to plain Maven artifacts. I created the following project structure:
Parent POM
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I have followed the Tycho example itp02 but only using the third-party dependencies. As I understood the idea is to wrap all the dependencies in a bundle and use it as input for my bundle. I manage to build and install the Dependencies bundle correctly: A jar is created and it contains all the JAR files obtained from the Maven repository. But when I try to compile my bundle I get an error saying that the packages in my bundle manifest cannot be imported.
[ERROR]   Missing requirement: MyPlugin 0.0.1.qualifier requires 'package org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils 0.0.0' but it could not be found
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Internal error: java.lang.RuntimeException: "No solution found because the problem is unsatisfiable.": ["Unable to satisfy dependency from MyPlugin 0.0.1.qualifier to package org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils 0.0.0.", "No solution found because the problem is unsatisfiable."] -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.InternalErrorException: Internal error: java.lang.RuntimeException: "No solution found because the problem is unsatisfiable.": ["Unable to satisfy dependency from MyPlugin 0.0.1.qualifier to package org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils 0.0.0.", "No solution found because the problem is unsatisfiable."]

What am I missing?

A: It is not very clear from your description how your project is set up or the commands you used to build it.
However your "POM parent" seems to suggest you are attempting to build it all in one go. If that is the case, you cannot mix pom-first (maven-bundle-plugin) projects and manifest-first (eclispe-plugin) projects in the same build see [1]. You need to build and install the pom-first projects into your local maven repository first then you can build the manifest-first projects.
The second thing to check is that your have the correct dependency configured and that you have set pomDependencies=consider as in [2].
Finally, if that does not help, check that the jar file in your local maven repository has a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF with the correct "Export-Package" statements - specifically there should be a line for org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils.
[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/How_Tos/Dependency_on_pom-first_artifacts#It_is_not_possible_to_mix_pom-first_and_manifest-first_projects_in_the_same_reactor_build.
[2] http://git.eclipse.org/c/tycho/org.eclipse.tycho-demo.git/tree/itp02/build02/pom.xml

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Home/Headlines/President Buhari Inaugurates Projects In Ogun State
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday inaugurated five key projects in Ogun State, assuring Nigerians that two major Federal roads are under construction, the Sagamu-Benin Expressway and the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway would be commissioned before the end of 2022.
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The President expressed delight that the 14km Ijebu Ode-Mojoda-Epe Road commissioned by him has been reconstructed into a modern expressway by the State government.
He noted that the impressive road would complement the Sagamu-Benin Expressway that the Federal Government is currently reconstructing; also due for commissioning this year.
''Just across the road is the 42-kilometer Sagamu-Interchange-Abeokuta Road which the state Government has reconstructed and equipped with street lights.
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Letter: Council, Ulman ignored Wheatfield in redistricting process
Our community and our neighbors are frustrated that our voices were not heard and facts were ignored by the Redistricting Commission, County Council, and ultimately, Ken Ulman, the county executive.
The Wheatfield neighborhood has consistently worked with surrounding communities and local government to build a livable, viable community for current and future residents. Together with Montgomery Road Citizens for Responsible Growth, we helped bring senior housing to Route 103, worked with the VFW to obtain the land for Veterans Elementary School, and assisted to secure the funding and right of way for the elementary school.
Our community was represented at the Redistricting Commission meetings and public work sessions by 150 people on Nov. 7 and 75 people on Dec. 19 (two days before Chanukah and six days before Christmas). We also contacted and emailed our elected representatives by a 6:1 ratio over other communities.
None of us can recall any other time when after this level of community effort, people's voices and the facts they brought to the table were completely ignored by elected officials.
After such coordinated and collaborative efforts were dismissed, what hope does any other neighborhood or community in Howard County have that they will be acknowledged and taken into consideration by their elected officials?
We sincerely hoped things would have turned out differently. While we strive to create a county of civility, as with all good organizations, it has to start at the top. Unfortunately, that was not the case during this redistricting process.
Debbie Bures-Walker
This letter was signed by 58 other people.
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Lucknow University launches mobile application & other facilities for students & teachers
Governor Mrs. Anandiben Patel launched the mobile application along with a number of other facilities during the convocation ceremony of the university on Friday
November 29 | 2021
In an attempt to upgrade its infrastructure, Lucknow University (LU) has launched a dedicated mobile application and a number of facilities for its students and employees recently. Governor of Uttar Pradesh Mrs. Anandiben Patel launched the application among other facilities during the convocation ceremony of the university on Friday. Additionally, open-air gyms have also been set up on the campus of this state-level university.
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Facilitating an easier way to browse through the university website, fill examination forms and get the latest information among others, the University of Lucknow has launched a dedicated application for its students and employees now. With the help of this application, one can get all the latest updates from the university administration directly on their mobile phones. Moreover, three boys' toilet along with two toilets for women has been constructed in the university campus as well.
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When I trace back through my spiritual lineage I return to the Himalayas, to India, Nepal and Tibet and Bhutan. I am inspired by past present and future meditators, yogis and yoginis who devote their life to enlightenment, self realisation and helping others. Their teachings, and embodied wisdom offers insights that seed the growing practice of living mindfully, of breathing easy, of waking up.
In the spirit of gratitude, friends and I have since 2007 run special restorative classes, or 'rest gatherings' to raise funds for Himalayan region children living in India and Nepal. Funds go toward education, much needed environmental initiatives and the children's well being.
I have had the honour every few years since 2009 of personally delivering funds raised and also to live, learn and teach Yoga and English within two Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Nepal. Many of the monks and nuns from as young as five come from remote villages, inaccessible by roads, some having to walk for over a month to reach the monastery. Here they live as a community immersed in the study and practice of Buddhism, and other general school subjects such as English, Tibetan, mathematics and social studies.
What inspires me is that from such a young age the monks and nuns live with a genuine motivation to be kind and compassionate to all beings, inspired by great Lamas such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness the Karmapa.
I was last in Nepal November and December 2016 distributing funds for building materials, bedding and creating a small library for the young monks. Friends from Christchurch and I have now created 'YOGA COMMUNITY NEW ZEALAND" to raise awareness and much needed funds for the Monasteies community support efforts.
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When a person thinks of a pension, it will perhaps be their retirement plans, or the amount they have put away so far, which springs to mind. However, there's another aspect of pensions which Britons may want to consider.
That is where the money in pensions is being invested, and the impact these investments have on the planet.
There is around £3trillion invested in UK pensions, and campaigners have raised concerns regarding whereabouts some of the money is invested.
It's something which the Make My Money Matter campaign is striving to raise awareness about.
Creating a movement calling for the trillions invested in UK pensions "to build a better world", the campaign has three threads.
These cover conversation with individuals, with organisations, and with Government and industry.
Richard Curtis, the British screenwriter, producer, and film director, is the founder of Make My Money Matter, and he recently spoke to Express.co.uk about the campaign.
Part one of the exclusive interview was published last week, shortly after the launch of Make My Money Matter's recent Valentine's Day campaign.
During the conversation, he spoke about why he founded the campaign, as well as suggesting some steps people could take if having a sustainable and ethical pension is important to them.
However, the matter can seem complex, particularly amid fears of greenwashing.
This term was coined in 1986, and it is used to mean when companies or fund managers pretend products are more environmentally friendly than they actually are.
Asked about the difficulties members of the public could potentially have in finding out how sustainable their fund is, Curtis said he thought it was becoming "tougher and tougher" for companies to greenwash.
"I think there's different levels of engagement here, and the thing is that what's happening now is so many of the pension companies, by making this commitment to halving their carbon by 2030 and then being net zero by 2050, they're doing all the really hard work," he began.
"I think it's quite a lot to expect a normal person, particularly in lockdown and with snow, to look into it in great detail themselves.
"So I think one of the things is to check whether or not the company – you know, companies like Scottish Widows, Nest, Aviva – are making this commitment themselves, in which case you can depend on them to do that.
"If you are with one of those companies that hasn't made that comprehensive commitment, then you should ask, 'What's your choice? What have you got? Have you got a sustainable pension as well as a default pension? And if you have, can I please have the good one that you're doing?'"
Getting the word out about companies who are doing the right thing plays a role, Curtis suggested.
He added: "And if you're not with one of those companies, you should say, 'Well I know that you've got a variety of products. Can my company please be in the – what I would call, very simplistically – good half?'
Pensions: Make My Money Matter promote ethical investing
"The whole point is we are in a real time of acceleration here," Curtis said, adding: "I talk a lot to [former Bank of England Governor] Mark Carney and he's really working on these evaluation systems.
"So the greenwashers are finding it harder and harder to greenwash, because they're more and more going to have to declare where their money is."
What does Curtis think about the impact of the coronavirus crisis on sustainability and investments?
He says that during the pandemic, "a lot more" money has been moved into sustainable investment.
"I think that's really because there's this big issue of when the virus is over, or as we work through it, do we take five years to get back to where we were two years' ago? Or, do companies change their direction? And say, 'We have to start working in a different way'.
"And I think that that seems to me to be very much the mood."
Curtis adds: "I feel that companies have taken this as an opportunity to make sure that in the next 10 years, they are working towards sustainability, that they're not going to be caught out by scandals, that they're not going to be found out to be doing the wrong thing.
"Particularly their customers, and the people who work for them, are going to want to make sure that they're actually buying from and working for a company that is fulfilling the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals].
"So I think that coronavirus actually may end up having accelerated the rate of change with which companies align themselves with the SDGs, rather than companies just retrench.
"I think there is a feeling that we have to build back better."
Are we at a turning point – a stage where there's a movement which won't be going back?
"I've always been an optimist," Curtis responds. "My sense is that it is," adding that he has heard of a change in attitude at the very top levels of some big companies.
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The tissue paper pulled taut over the examining table crinkles as I cross my ankles and wait for the doctor to come in. It's a familiar pose, and I swing my legs to pass the time. The exam is short, mostly narrative on my part, trying to find the right descriptions for a lame foot that's no longer lame. The PA is young, blond, and one of three Emilys that I have met since I added the practice as my primary care contact. I give as much context to the story since the culprit of today's visit doesn't show up on command. I try to piece together the events and describe.
It started with a twitch, progressed to stiffness, then began to affect my gait. Then it stopped. Then it happened again.
Periodically over the course of three or four weeks.
I take off my shoe and she runs a metal stick from heal to ball. It's the other end of the hammer she will tap onto my knees, both of which perform on command. Yes, it feels the same on both sides.
Three months before the wedding, my husband-to-be and I joined his family for their yearly vacation at the New Jersey shore. A week earlier, Eric's mom Trena organized a shower, and before that I had wrapped up a week-long writing conference and signed the contract for a full-time teaching position. After a week at the shore, we planned to head up through Pennsylvania for a brief stopover with friends, then finish in the Finger Lakes, country of Riesling and pungent artisanal cheeses. With our October wedding manageably small and mostly planned, I had no worries about deadlines or dresses. When we found a simple band of white gold in a jewelry store in the middle Ocean City, across the street from brightly colored boogie boards and bracelets bound with sailor's knots, it was one more thing to cross off the list.
The kitsch and commerce of Ferris Wheels and mini-golf was balanced with evening ice cream, and vintage photos. One morning, Eric, his father David and brother Andy and I stuck prescription strength sea-sickness patches behind our ears and met a commercial boatman who took us on a three-hour tour to catch bluefish, or bass, or stripers, whatever the humidity and haze had to offer. One after another, we threw up over the gunwale.
Most days, we joined the kids, Alex and Samantha, dragged the rented wagon up the street and across the beach, set up blankets, built sand castles, and took the occasional plunge. With my hands around Eric's neck, we jumped the waves or let them crash over us, finding balance by linking hands as we made our way back to the towels, reapplied lotion and settled into naps.
Sitting propped on the beach chair, I dug my feet under the sand. The surface heat melted through my toes to the cool, dark sand underneath. Eric sat next to me, reading a book. I pulled my feet back to the surface, wiggled the sand away, and then felt a small twitch in the smaller toes. Just the ones on my left foot. Almost imperceptible, so I started again to knead the sand, thinking movement would clear them of their awkwardness. I held my legs steady, out of the sand, barreling in with my eyes to the bones, and there it was again. A twitch.
Back at the house, I washed the ocean off in the shower. We had dinner and took the kids to the boardwalk. That night I lay next to Eric in our twin beds, my leg draped on top of the blue comforter, sailboats and sea creatures mechanically stitched into the fabric. The air conditioning blew coolly on me, and I asked Eric if he could see my toes twitch.
"Maybe you're allergic to sand," he said.
I thought he might be right. Another beach day years ago in Rhode Island, I had sat next to my father in socks and sneakers, the two toes he'd lost by then to diabetes covered and protected from the sand. Sand fleas or biting house flies hovered around, landing then biting exposed skin. Their black forms were easy enough to brush away, but they were obnoxious, stinging without leaving marks, without waiting to draw blood or leave venom. As if the insult of annoyance was enough for them. We couldn't stand it for very long, packed up and left. It was late in the season, but even so, I had never experienced sand flies before. Mosquitos sure, and one time at least in South Carolina I stepped on a jelly fish. Meat tenderizer, kept on hand back at the time share, was the suggested remedy.
In New Jersey, bug bites seemed a good culprit, especially since the twitches seemed to be confined to the beach. The episodes were temporary, seemingly isolated and inconsequential. Of all the hours we spent that week enjoying sea and shore, maybe twenty minutes were taken staring at toes and wondering about their curious, self-propelled dance. I'd have Eric massage the foot, but I couldn't tell any difference, either in sensation or timing. If it was muscular, I couldn't find the muscle responsible. Toes are tiny appendages, acting in concert with all the other bones and muscles of the body. But they seemed to fall back in line so easily, with hardly a reprimand. Maybe it was the beach.
Sometimes when I have the hiccups, I force myself to wait for the next one, thinking the anticipation of it will magically make them stop. It works sometimes. I'd watch my toes at night and lay as still as I could then will them to jiggle just so I could will them to stop. I tried to test the amount of control that I had over my body. Lying down, with movement so imperceptible, control seemed possible. But I couldn't scare these away, not with massages or slaps, sneakers or dress shoes.
I'm not sure when the toe tics turned into clenching or which exact step that I took was the one that first decided to fail. But this was an exaggeration. It didn't fail, just landed awkwardly, a slight drag. I doubted if anyone even noticed. We repacked the car, trading the muggy New Jersey air for upstate breezes and wine tasting. When the pieces drop on to the puzzle board, it's not too hard to turn them to fit a picture of claret sunsets and waterfalls, rather than broken legs and bandaged toes. Call it positive thinking, call it blindness, call it standing under waterfalls with the spray of cool water catching the curve of your cheeks.
By the time we got to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, to meet up with our friends Ryan and Jenifer, the occasional twitches had progressed to periodic clenching. When I walked, the foot wouldn't even itself out to step flat, so I couldn't settle into a rhythm, but wasn't exactly limping. When I put my foot down to step, I couldn't flatten it out. No pain and no regularity. Step, step, drag, step, step, drag. Step, step, step, no problem. Temporary. I don't know how much was actual tightening and impairment or just a mental perception that the foot wouldn't hold my weight, so the awkwardness was in my placement of it, not caused by any cramp. For ten steps, maybe fifty, maybe for hundreds of yards at any stretch—normal.
When we joined Ryan for a workout at his local gym, I stepped into the squat rack and had both a mental and physical break down. The same sensation was there—stiffness and clenching in my foot—not enough for others to notice as I walked. But I didn't think my feet would hold me, and that tentativeness was enough to make me afraid. I turned from the bar, which had maybe 100 pounds, a weight I could usually squat. It was a fairly convenient excuse, since I was timid about working out in this unfamiliar gym, intimidated by Ryan's expertise, and Eric's regular form. Tears again, but forgotten once we left the gym.
Another day we hiked through Valley Forge National Park, close to their home. In the tall grasses of late afternoon, we intruded upon a small herd of deer. I saw two does look at us wisely from across the wooded lair. The group of us—deer and human—stared and shifted, but eased into a thoughtful gaze. Ryan and Eric stepped ahead, and I waited a few steps back and watched the youngest fawn learn its legs and raise its white tail in retreat. We were searching after our scheduled dinner, unprepared to give up our humanness and fall into a forest story. Our colors were too obvious to camouflage our inferior legs.
It's only later that I recognized the mobility of the young deer as a contrast to my own. At the time there was no need to look for symbols, and no inclination to ponder too critically about causes or effects. Since I started hiking with Eric, I've always carried a walking stick. On less strenuous walks I wouldn't bother, and that day, the softly edged dirt of Valley Forge offered few obstacles, so I didn't have it. I can't even say that I struggled through despite myself, tight lipped and determined to keep going. That wasn't the case. The odd infrequency of the issue let me off the hook, and it was easy to slip behind the others and walk adequately without drawing attention to myself. Something between denial and grit and the luck of anomalies kept the tears in check.
Traveling through the wine country around Seneca Lake a few days later, we felt like butterflies floating from flower to flower, and at times the views alone were enough to get us drunk: bright sun, mile after mile of sculptured grape vines, cornstalks and fields of sunflowers. Lakes, glorious lakes. Even the clouds seemed content, or a hawk, or a man repairing the roof. I was able to pull the sunglasses over my face and let breezes turn my book's page, buzzed but thankful. I hardly minded that twitching toes and dragging feet would take away my balance. A frightened walker who teeters off the shelf of land could find solace in the slate of lake waters.
The campground was crowded and our site had no shade unless we slipped into the shadow of the RV that pulled in next to us. But as the sun went down, we cooked pasta with diced tomatoes or roasted hot dogs and watched the pit fire burn in orange spikes, keeping mosquitoes away and warming us. Mesmerized by coals and embers, I drifted, thinking how the charred remains somehow seem forgiving. Though the flames die down, and the wood disappeared, I felt somehow cleansed by the idea that beginnings and endings are so intricately linked, always with the potential for renewal. The heat and smoke escaped, transformed with equal kinetic energy potential. We threw a bundle of sage onto the flames, blessing our future marriage. I read Flaubert and watched the sage crisp under the heartier branches of the log's limbs. The next day we hiked up Enfield Glen.
The path up varied between rooted switchbacks and wide roadways. As we hiked around the lip of the waterfall, we stopped to watch a snake devour a frog, fascinated by the slowness of it. Really, this was a stop to help me correct my footing, retie a shoe. We paused long enough to collect my body and put my troubles on something else. Poor frog. But the hiccups continued, and between mental worry and physical hesitation, words turned to tears. Brief like a rain squall, the strained movement turned back to my regular steps, and we wound past the cascading falls, and took the path down into the gorge.
The August heat had dried up much of it and the land leveled out to a muddy riverbed, full of downed trees and glossy rocks. My foot held steady as Eric placated me with a song about the great battle of squirrels and rabbits in the year three thousand four. He would get used to doing this, making up ridiculous ditties to garner a smile or laugh, take my mind off treachery. Whether my knees ached or coyotes howled us into a run, he'd guide me down the mountain. I was beginning to see what marriage would be for us: partnership and song, sharing the load. We'd have four feet together. He carried me into the gorge, not because I was broken, but because I was loved.
We stepped through black muck, twisting branches, and what was recognizable as deer bones bleached away, somehow stuck in time. I noticed these tiny reminders of what the natural world seems to do so flawlessly: go on. Insects go about the business of laying eggs, feeding on plants or exposed flesh, dying without too much fuss. Skies turn gray, then black, then back to blue. Water ekes out of gorges a little at a time, the deluge masking the exactness of liquid carving water through dense stone over centuries. A man holds his fiancée's hand and tells her a story. Space and time make usforgetthe tactile and the immediate: gravel beneath feet, the whisper of pine needles; lightning scars and burls on mighty trees. A snake swallowing a frog, its feet twitching in the finality of a meal. Bones recently part of a muscular beast, now driftwood.
Later when I wrote about that hike, I disguised my foot troubles, choosing instead the ambiguity of circling raptors and slick black stones. The bones, which I described later as those of a fawn, would fit nicely into a poem about recognition of unnamable eeriness. I would have no trouble, with some pondering and a pen, showing deer bones and swallowed frogs as warnings, to position death next to life. When we turn our fears on the landscape we see omens, not beauty. Maybe my foot will doom me; maybe it won't.
The hiking that day wasn't lengthy or particularly taxing. Had I fallen down, broken bones, or bled, it would have warranted triage. We carried antiseptic, band-aids, gauze and tape. We could have sterilized a needle and sutured a gash on our own. What's the emergency if it goes away? Soon enough, I would come to love the phrase "remitting." It goes away. It will go away. It went away.
It wasn't that the doctor that September day was just an RPN or PA and not a specialist. It's not that she didn't ask the right questions, and it's not that my descriptions were faulty. Not every quirk of the body demands expensive testing; diagnosis can't necessarily be reached after examination and carefully triangulated deductions. I won't answer the questions that start with what if and trail off after a long sigh and metaphorical ellipses. Four years later, for my thirty-eighth birthday, I got a spinal tap, an MRI, and a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. The quirky beach toes and forest feet became another chapter, not the first, not the last.
Something besides denial was going on, but I can't name it. I can't name the thing that makes me line up all the weights and place them one by one on the scale. A dream engagement, a long-sought-after full-time job with an office down the hall from my husband, a successful writing conference, a book publication, wedding showers and fairytales. A field of sunflowers. Perfectly toasted marshmallows. Wine poured into my mouth by gods I didn't care to name. All these aligning one after another. And on the other side—a bum leg, quaking toes, half a limp. Nothing ever evens out. Tears come down wet, whether in fear, grief, delight, or gratitude. That summer, I let the leg anomalies slip off the scales and chose joy over terror.
Amy Nawrockiis the author of five collections of poetry, including Reconnaissanceand Four Blue Eggs, which was a finalist for the 2013 Poetry Prize from Homebound Publications. Her most recent work isThe Comet's Tail: A Memoir of No Memory. She is an associate professor at the University of Bridgeport and lives in Hamden, Connecticut.


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Next Stop, Security: Understanding What Makes Women Feel Safe In Public Transportation Stations
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While considerable research has been done on women's heightened fear of public transportation, little research has been devoted to the role of the built environment and its impact on women's perceptions of personal safety. This is particularly true in the United States which is significantly behind other countries on the issue of transit safety for women. This study, which focused on subway platforms, questioned the effectiveness of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) in alleviating these fears and, specifically, what women find to be important when assessing the perceived safety of an environment. An online survey was the method of data collection. Participants provided demographic and travel behavior information. They were also asked to rank the importance of eight common security tactics and strategies. Lastly, participants were shown photos from the Washington DC, Chicago, and New York City subway systems and asked to rate their level of satisfaction with their overall sense of personal safety, sightlines, and security hardware. Data analysis revealed that the design of the subway platform influences user's perception of personal safety. Female participants scored personal safety in the Washington Metro higher than the older Chicago and New York City subway systems. Respondents ranked "lighting" and "other passengers" as the first and second most important characteristics. Other common crime prevention tools such as security cameras and emergency phones were ranked fourth and fifth place, respectively. There were no significant differences in ranking between male and female participants. Research findings support the popular assumption among transit authorities that female passengers prefer the presence of police officers over any security hardware. The paper ends a recommendation to reduce the amount of finding dedicated to the purchasing of security hardware technology.
women; public transportation; fear of victimization
Evans, Gary William
Diciccio, Thomas J
Human-Environment Relations
M.S., Human-Environment Relations


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Biography – RITCHIE, ELIZA – Volume XVI (1931-1940) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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KATZMANN, MARY JANE – Volume XI (1881-1890)
b. 15 Jan. 1828 at Preston, N.S.
Responsible Government
From the Red River Settlement to Manitoba (1812–70)
Sir George-Étienne Cartier
The Fenians
Women in the DCB/DBC
Winning the Right to Vote
The Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences of 1864
Introductory Essays of the DCB/DBC
The Acadians
Exploring the Explorers
Canada's Wartime Prime Ministers
The First World War
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RITCHIE, ELIZA, scholar, educator, author, aesthete, philanthropist, and feminist; b. 20 May 1856 in Halifax, youngest daughter of John William Ritchie* and Amelia Rebecca Almon; d. there unmarried 5 Sept. 1933.
Having had a privileged upbringing and private education, Eliza Ritchie attended Dalhousie University in 1882–83, the year after women were first admitted as undergraduates. She studied for three more years in the "general" (no-degree) category preferred by mature women, along with one, and then two, of her older unmarried sisters, Ella Almon and Mary Walcot. In 1886 Eliza matriculated into the fourth year of the undergraduate course, and the following year she obtained a Bachelor of Letters with first-class honours in philosophy. Attending Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on a fellowship, she completed a doctorate in 1889 with a major in German philosophy; her thesis was entitled "The problem of personality." Ritchie was probably the first female graduate of a Canadian university to earn a phd. That year she taught briefly at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and in 1890 she moved to another women's college, Wellesley in Wellesley, Mass. She remained in the philosophy department there, first as instructor and then as associate professor, for almost a decade; her one absence was in 1892–93 when she went to further her studies in Leipzig, Germany, and Oxford, England. Her employment at Wellesley ended in the autumn of 1899, at a time when some faculty members had found themselves out of favour with President Julia Irvine and the college's new guard. Although Ritchie may have been dismissed, it is also possible that her departure simply coincided with the purge, especially since she would remain an admirer of the institution.
Ritchie never again engaged in sustained paid employment. Instead, she led a life of "studious leisure" and community activism. For several years she continued with her philosophical research, publishing in the Philosophical Review and the International Journal of Ethics a number of original articles on moral philosophy; her work shows a particular interest in the thought of 17th-century Dutch rationalist Baruch Spinoza. She also regularly produced book reviews on philosophical texts written in Italian, German, and French for the same publications, and she belonged briefly to the American Philosophical Association. By the middle of the first decade of the 20th century, however, Ritchie, supported by a family inheritance, had turned to promoting the appreciation of art and literature and advancing the status of women in her community.
Believing that the Maritimes should be to Canada what she considered New England was to the United States, "a centre for high thinking and for the fostering of art," Ritchie volunteered her services to Halifax's Victoria School of Art and Design (renamed the Nova Scotia College of Art in 1925), and in 1917 she joined Ella on its board of directors. In 1908 she was a charter member of the Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts, a forerunner of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and she served as vice-president of its governing committee in the late 1920s. She further assisted by making frequent contributions towards the purchase of works for the institution's collection. In 1906 she became head of the Provincial Exhibition's art department; during her tenure, which lasted almost continuously until 1917, the displays featured the work of local artists and collections lent by patrons and artists in central Canada, the United States, and England. Among her choice of works were not only paintings and sculptures, but also commercial art; Ritchie, however, drew the line at photographs and examples of "women's work," such as weaving, which she relegated to separate spaces. Ritchie worked towards "raising the standard of taste" by giving addresses on the history of European art in Halifax and Saint John; these talks helped secure funds to support art education. Reviewing a speech she gave on Italian masters for the Victoria School of Art and Design in 1905, the Halifax Morning Chronicle described her as "a graceful and fluent speaker, an artist in word-painting, with all an artist's cultured appreciation of the beautiful. Her lecture, spoken quite without notes, was a masterpiece of composition and eloquence." Ritchie pressed for the teaching of art in public schools, frequently advocated finding a permanent space for the Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts, and chose artworks to adorn Shirreff Hall, the stately women's residence opened at Dalhousie in 1923 [see Jennie Grahl Hunter Shirreff*]. She often travelled overseas to continue her own education. Indeed, between 1908 and 1930 she spent many of her winters abroad, either in Italy or in England.
Interested in literature, Eliza encouraged contemporary writers and readers. She supported the work of authors such as Archibald McKellar MacMechan, William Bliss Carman*, Lucy Maud Montgomery*, and Charles George Douglas Roberts* by editing the poetry anthology Songs of the Maritimes (Toronto, 1931); the collection included several of her own verses. Eager to disseminate literature, she urged the improvement of libraries for schoolchildren, working people, and college students. Among the deficiencies she identified in the Citizens' Library of Halifax were the lack of a children's department, insufficient reading space, and inadequate hours of operation for people who could only visit at lunchtime. She promoted the creation of a library in the house bequeathed to Halifax's Local Council of Women by Titanic victim George Wright, advocated the provision of libraries in public schools, and contributed to the enhancement of the collections of both Dalhousie University and the art school by making regular donations. To Dalhousie her gifts included not only contemporary works – in 1929, Virginia Woolf's A room of one's own, for example – but also valuable 16th- and 17th-century philosophical treatises; the art school's library was practically established through the generous donation of many lavishly illustrated books given by Eliza and her sister Ella. In 1924, having sent from Italy a book of reproductions of Marc Chagall's paintings, Ritchie declared, "We must not arrogantly condemn any type of art expression … for curious as modern art may seem to us at the first glance, yet there is oftentimes a big truth endeavoring to find expression by its means."
Ritchie firmly believed that ignorance bred indifference and that women's ability to fulfil their potential as citizens depended upon the educational, political, and work opportunities available to them. A liberal humanist, she held that women's participation in public life should be governed by "intellectual virtues," especially truth, tolerance, prudence, and moderation. Fearing that radicalism would undermine feminist ambitions, she favoured gradual change. Compared with many of her contemporaries, she was more indulgent in her views on young middle- and working-class women, a democratic approach to feminism that was undoubtedly inspired in part by her experience of living with college women. She was concerned about their opportunities, and worried about the difficulties faced by unenfranchised women competing in the workplace with enfranchised men. At a meeting of the Local Council of Women she argued in 1907 that domestic staff should be treated like employees, not servants; in 1909, during a local council debate over who should control young working women's leisure hours, she supported self-regulated clubs. In a 1912 lecture on the need to improve teachers' professional status, Ritchie lamented that teaching was a "stepping stone to something better" for men, but a source of mediocre subsistence for women.
Before and during World War I Ritchie was a leader of the campaign to achieve women's suffrage. Claiming that suffrage "would make political life purer, would lessen graft and give women a better opportunity in individual life" and that "the spirit of the age is democracy," she voted with the majority of delegates of the National Council of Women of Canada [see Ishbel Maria Marjoribanks] in favour of enfranchisement at the annual convention in 1910. Around this time she assumed direction of suffrage matters in Halifax's Local Council of Women, which she had joined while on a visit to her hometown in 1895 (her sisters Ella and Mary were also members), because she chaired the council committee that dealt with citizenship, among other matters. Later, Ella Maud Murray, her successor as convener of the citizenship committee, persuaded historian Catherine Lyle Cleverdon it was Ritchie's arrogance that had led her to take charge. During the 1917 session of the House of Assembly the local council in Halifax sponsored the drafting of amendments to the Nova Scotia Franchise Act and secured the support of women outside the capital through the activities of the women's suffrage department of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Ritchie was one of eight suffragists who met with the house's law amendments committee to present the case for enfranchisement. She also sent direct appeals by letter to women across the province to urge them to use their influence in favour of the legislation. The suffrage bill was given a fatal three-month hoist in April after being treated in the legislature with what she considered unfairness and condescension [see George Henry Murray*]. Revealing the democratic ideals that motivated her, Ritchie wrote in the Halifax Herald of 2 May, "It is not for any little group of 'intellectuals' in Halifax and a few other towns that we desire political freedom, we want the great mass of our people, men and women both, [to] be sensible of, and to exercise their responsibility for, the good government of the country." But by October, as president of the Nova Scotia Equal Suffrage League (also known as the Nova Scotia Equal Franchise League), she was worrying about the indifference of the potential female electorate: "It was time," she was reported as saying in the Morning Chronicle, "for the women of Nova Scotia to show that they were willing to share with men the burden of citizenship." Before women's suffrage in the province finally became a reality on 26 April 1918, Ritchie and her Halifax contemporaries were largely silenced by the enormity of the Halifax explosion of 6 Dec. 1917. During the war years they were also actively working for the reform of municipal politics. The two main issues were women's exclusion from school boards and the rules disqualifying married women from participating in civic elections. For women active in their communities, the right to vote at the provincial level, while desirable, seemed less relevant than their inability to influence school boards and municipal administration. Ritchie would not live to see women serving on the Halifax School Board.
Ritchie's activities in her later years focused increasingly on Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia College of Art. As a member and, in 1911, the president of the Dalhousie Alumnae Association (founded 1909), Ritchie spearheaded the establishment of Forrest Hall, the university's first, small residence for female students. She helped raise funds by charging admission fees for lectures on art that she gave in 1910 with a fellow art historian, the theologian James William Falconer, and on her own two years later. Ritchie devoted the whole of 1912 to preparations for the residence's opening, and resigned from most of her other obligations to become unofficial dean of women and to serve as Forrest Hall's warden from September 1912 until December of the following year. Believing that women's dormitories should be self-governing, she was lenient with the students. Bessie Hall, one of her charges, commented in 1914 that "dear old Dr. Ritchie knew better than to bring many rules to bear on us." She was made alumnae representative to the Dalhousie board of governors in 1919, the first woman appointee, and sat for two three-year terms; this was largely an honorary position since power lay with the executive, of which she was not a member. More important was her role as a member of the founding editorial board of the Dalhousie Review, a university quarterly that first appeared in 1921. She also regularly contributed book reviews and notices on works such as Frank Parker Day's Rockbound (Garden City, N.Y., 1928), and she wrote several biographical and literary articles in which she explored the ideas of truth, beauty, and rationality. She would remain an active editor of the journal for the rest of her life.
In 1927, after figuring prominently in various anniversary celebrations and fund-raising ventures, Ritchie was the first woman to receive an honorary lld from Dalhousie. She also did a little teaching there, taking on a segment of a fine-arts extension course of ten lectures in 1928–29, in collaboration with her long-time associate, J. W. Falconer, and Elizabeth Styring Nutt, the energetic principal of the Nova Scotia College of Art. Ritchie took advantage of her time on the campus to advocate the establishment of a university art museum. For her tireless efforts on behalf of Principal Nutt's school, she received an honorary diploma in 1931, as did friend and colleague Edith Jessie Archibald. Eliza remembered both the university and the art college with monetary bequests in her will and left her entire collection of some 500 books to Dalhousie.
In An appetite for life: the education of a young diarist, 1924–1927, her younger cousin, diplomat Charles Stewart Almon Ritchie*, confirmed both Eliza's scholarly preoccupations and her reputation as a freethinker. "She once told me," he claimed, "that being an atheist 'was like coming out of a darkened room into the light of day.'" She rejected superstitious and dogmatic thought, writing in the International Journal of Ethics, "If theology is more than superstition, if its arguments are valid, if its objects are verities, it can afford to court the most rigorous examination, and to give praise and cordial welcome to the inquirer who brings to its study the cool impartiality and searching thoroughness of the scientific spirit." Yet her loyalty to family and community meant that she remained a nominal member of the Church of England.
In her hometown she was known as "the most brilliant of Dalhousie's girl graduates," in Dalhousie University circles as "our most distinguished woman graduate," and in her immediate family as the only sibling who showed signs of the Ritchie "spark of genius." But in her activities in Halifax, the "superior and aloof" Eliza always shared the limelight with her sisters, the "charming" Ella and the "dynamic" Mary. Their overlapping and complementary interests created confusion about their work and accomplishments in the minds of many contemporaries, including obituarists, and mistaken attributions have been perpetuated by historians. For example, Eliza's honorary diploma from the Nova Scotia College of Art states that she had been a founding director in 1887, but this distinction belonged to Ella. That Eliza Ritchie was "a woman of inspiring example" was not, however, in doubt.
Judith Fingard
As part of the celebrations marking 100 years since the graduation of the first woman from Dalhousie University (Halifax) in 1985, the Eliza Ritchie Doctoral Scholarship for Women was established, and it was fittingly awarded for the first time in 1987, the centenary of Eliza Ritchie's graduation and the 60th anniversary of her honorary degree. In the same year, a small university residence named for her was opened.
Eliza Ritchie's phd thesis, "The problem of personality," was published in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1889. A copy is held in the J. J. Stewart Maritime Coll. at DUA, and it is also available in microform (CIHM no.13316). Articles by her appeared in the Philosophical Rev. (Ithaca), including "The ethical implications of determinism," 2 (1893): 529–43; "The essential in religion," 10 (1901): 1–11; "Notes on Spinoza's conception of God," 11 (1902): 1–15; and "The reality of the finite in Spinoza's system," 13 (1904): 16–29. Her articles in the International Journal of Ethics (Chicago) are: "Morality and the belief in the supernatural," 7 (1897): 180–91; "Truth-seeking in matters of religion," 11 (1900): 71–82; "Women and the intellectual virtues," 12 (1901): 69–80; and "The toleration of error," 14 (1904): 161–71. The Dalhousie Rev. printed the following of Ritchie's essays: "Goethe restudied," 1 (1921–22): 160–69; "Marjorie Pickthall: in memoriam," 2 (1922–23): 157–58; "Contemporary English poets," 3 (1923–24): 220–28; "Erasmus: a study in character," 6 (1926–27): 206–17; "William Hazlitt," 10 (1930–31): 368–75; and "Spinoza," 12 (1932–33): 333–39. Her work also includes two books, Songs of the Maritimes: an anthology of the poetry of the Maritime provinces of Canada, (Toronto, 1931), which she edited, and In the gloaming … ([Halifax, 1936]), a posthumously published collection of her poems.
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