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The staff members and priests of Madonna House were with me when I orally recorded this background of God's Little Mandate, which is here in written form. The Little Mandate was my original 'constitution,' the one I received from God, as it were. I kept it in my heart and have only one copy, written in pencil, which is as close to the original as I can remember.
The Biblical background of the Little Mandate is being written up by one of our priests. Or perhaps I should say that the Scriptures are being applied to it. However that is not the only reason my heart is moved to clarify how this Mandate came to be.
Some people seem to think that on one blessed day or evening or night, some angel or God or our Blessed Mother in some miraculous way dictated this thing to me. And that it came all of a piece, like a 'Hail Mary'! Since that is far from being the case, I am telling how it came to be.
It is not easy to do, for it means turning my spiritual footsteps back into a painful past. All during my life, however, I have had a modicum of God's peace which grew with the years. I also have had the strange and very quiet joy of God that somehow lays in a cradle of pain. How great the joy and peace, only God knows.
At my birth my mother said to me, "You are born under the shadow of the cross." She repeated those words to me when I was old enough to understand. Perhaps at the time she meant her giving birth to me in a Pullman car, which must have been a great cross to her. But they obviously were prophetic; the meaning of those words grows deeper by the day. Still, it is a blessing to be born under the shadow of the cross.
Some scenes of my childhood may show how and when this Little Mandate began. I am unable to give dates, years, and hence my age. I am just talking from the heart, and the scenes come on the screen of my memory like parts of a movie. They flash and are gone; they're clearly etched but fade quickly.
Let's go back to where I was a small child in kindergarten. Egypt, palm trees, a nun belonging to the Order of Our Lady of Zion and a big school at Ramleh, a suburb of Alexandria, Egypt. A statue of St. Francis in some kind of shrine, surrounded by bougainvillea or some other vivid red flowers. This is how it comes to me.
The young sister with rosy cheeks, in white religious garb, surrounded by us kindergarten kids, telling us the story of St. Francis. My running out and clapping my hands at St. Francis and saying, "I will be like you. I will be very poor, and the birds will eat out of my hands. And if anybody gives me bread, I will share it with the first poor child that I see on the road." The picture fades.
Now I am a little older. The thought of God is somehow always with me. But don't get the picture that I am one of those children full of saintly thoughts! No. He is around. He is my playmate. I talk to him, play with him. But that is not all the time. I was a very mischievous child and always 'in hot water' of some sort.
This day, having read the story of a young woman going on a pilgrimage, I decided to go on a pilgrimage myself. So I collected a long black skirt from someplace (factually it wasn't long, but I was small and so it was long on me) and a big black shawl and an icon that I put on my dress. Off I went through the streets of Petrograd, looking devout, I suppose, and funny, for quite a few people turned to look at me.
I reached the outskirts of Petrograd that day and was on my way to a country road, when the police found me. I must have been conspicuous. Anyhow, I was returned to my parents. Nobody upbraided me. Father only said, "You should have asked permission of your mother and me, or at least you should have had the charity to leave a little note as to where you were going." That ended the episode.
But in my mind it remained an unfinished business. Later, in my early twenties, the picture kept coming back, with the title, Unfinished Pilgrimage.
Next I see our family's little hunting lodge in Finland: Merri-Lokki, which in Finnish means Sea Gull. Early in the Revolution my husband Boris and I were locked inside it by the Communists and condemned to death by slow hunger. Some of the Finnish villagers at that time were Communist. All they left us were firewood and water, perhaps to prolong the agony.
We were very weak when we were eventually freed, after a battle between Communists and non-Communists not far from our house. I weighed 82 pounds. I had lost a lot of hair; there were bare spots the size of a 50-cent coin here and there on my head. I was swollen up, as people are when hunger lasts too long.
But before our release, there is this picture. I am weak, lying on the floor before the fireplace in Merri-Lokki. It is warm. I am dazed and probably dozing: half asleep, half awake, half alive, half dead. I say to God, "If you save me from this, in some way I will offer my life to you." These pictures are links in a strange chain that God was forging which I did not realize at the time.
Then Canada, America, and terrible, grinding poverty, a sick husband, a child. I work at Eaton's department store in Toronto. Then my fare to New York is paid by Father McCabe. He knows how little I can make in Canada, with the returning soldiers from the First World War taking the best jobs (and their families, of course, being entitled to this). There I work in a laundry and other such places.
I am poor. I am perhaps poorer than St. Francis. As I look back, some connection is being established by God between the little girl, the beautiful convent school and its kindergarten class, the white nun, palms, red flowers and that little girl saying, "I'm going to be poor like you and the birds are going to eat out of my hands."
No birds ate out of my hands in New York but I was terribly poor. I was hungry, but with a different hunger than in Merri-Lokki. There, nothing was available to eat. Here there was plenty of food but I had no money to buy it. The poverty of St. Francis was making love to me, though I wasn't aware of it.
Time marches on and the flashing pictures change. I am now an executive of the Leigh-Emmerick Lecture Bureau. I am making $20,000 a year and travelling to Europe. I have a governess for my son. I have a maid. I have a car. I have a nice apartment.
Everything seems to be going well, but it isn't. Marital difficulties arose in my life at the time. Suffice to say that I got a separation from 'bed and board' through the diocese of Montreal, where at the time the baron had his residence. Slowly this affair led to an annulment.
Then against a grey background that has only pictures of daily living, flashes suddenly another. I am in a lovely building in New York. The child is asleep, so is the governess; the maid who comes during the day is not there.
Suddenly I wake up from a very pleasant dream in my room and 'out of the blue' that room suddenly vanishes and I am back at Ma Murphy's boarding house. Three in a bed, six in a room, with only enough space between the beds for a wash stand holding an old-fashioned basin and pitcher. There are two chairs, an old dresser, and nails on the wall on which to hang our clothes. Laundresses do not have a big wardrobe.
So vivid, when I awoke, was this transition from my pleasant bedroom to Ma Murphy's boarding house, that I went to the kitchen, made myself a cup of tea without waking anyone, and started thinking. I remembered words which I had forgotten, my words to God when half dead, half alive, half awake, half asleep: I had promised to give my life to God in some manner.
At a certain point that night, while sitting with a cup of tea in the kitchen of my nice apartment in New York, a question came to me. Perhaps I asked it of myself: "Has God saved me from death in Russia so that I should return to bourgeois society, become rich again and give my soul a 'middle-age spread' and a lot of fat?" In truth the wording seemed to be: "Why have I saved you?" It came to me as if God were speaking to me and using the pronoun 'I'. Can God speak to people through their thoughts?
There remains this picture of the kitchen and the tea; I can even see the pattern of the cup. There is the stark electric light illuminating the kitchen. Everything is vivid.
From that day on, a certain uneasiness entered my life. But don't get any erroneous ideas. I was going around having quite a few outings and dancing and having a good time. I was earning good money. I was travelling to Europe. Life seemed to be a bowl of cherries and except for my marital situation, which was developing into a personal tragedy, outwardly none of those cherries were sour.
Yet, like background music barely heard, the question asked in the kitchen was repeating itself. Barely heard, passing through my heart and mind and soul like a little shadow passes over the sun, to be forgotten the next instant.
However, from the very beginning of my days as a refugee I remembered that part of dedicating one's life to God is sharing one's goods with others. There are letters in our archives from the Russian colony in New York and Canada, in Montreal especially, that testify to the fact that I put a lot of money into needy hands and helped to build a Russian Church in Toronto.
In that sense perhaps my life was a little dedicated to God. Surely, the little girl who clapped her hands at St. Francis and promised that if she got bread she would share it, did actually do so. I didn't see then that another link was being forged; it was just the natural thing to do.
But a strange restlessness took hold of me. I threw myself into the social world. Through the Lecture Bureau I was dealing with celebrities and those who wanted celebrities. I knew all the 'important people' in America who were interested in culture; those in Junior Leagues and men's clubs. I was young, passably good-looking and had my own problems along those lines.
Another picture comes: I'm dancing with a very handsome gentleman, whom grandmother would say was "paying me violent court," and having a lot of fun. Then in the midst of a dance, I really thought I heard Christ laugh. (I imagine my subconscious was girded to all the things that I'm trying to explain to you.)
It seemed that he laughed a beautiful laugh and said to me, "Do you think you can escape from me that way?" This startled me and I pleaded headache and had my friend bring me home. Can you imagine: upon arriving home and seeing his taxi depart, I went out and took another taxi to St. Peter's Church. It was always open as it served firemen, policemen, nurses and the like, and had Masses at night. There I prayed, because I was startled!
From that day on, this restlessness grew. For most of my life I had been a daily communicant but now I began to pray, which to me means reading the Gospel and meditating or contemplating. I began to go into private retreats at various convents. Still the restlessness increased.
I was not very happy. I asked myself, "What is it?" and, as usual, opened the Bible to obtain the answer. The page fell open to: "Arise, go, sell all you possess, take up your cross and follow Me." I closed the book and said, "This is all very fine for single people who have vocations to the priesthood or religious life, but it isn't for me. I have a son."
My uneasiness increased. I cut back on my social activities. My dreams became recurrent and were filled with the poor with whom I had lived: the laundresses, waitresses, factory workers, and the slums, the boarding house of Ma Murphy.
I went to Graymoor Monastery. Father Paul, the founder, was absent and I talked to Mother Laurana. She thought I should be a nun. She said there were canon laws that would take care of my son. I never took to canon law! She made me sign an application to the convent; references to it are in our archives. I both did and did not feel that this was an answer to my restlessness and my searching, my dreams and my vigils.
So I kept going back to the Book, and a strange phenomenon happened. No matter when I opened the Bible, it fell open at the same sentence: "Arise, go, sell what you possess, give it to the poor and follow Me." My Bible seemed to be jinxed.
To my friends I must have seemed peculiar at the time, because even at a party I would ask if they had a Bible or New Testament. Usually they had, and I would open it, thinking that perhaps my own book was rather set on that page. No matter whose Bible I took, and I even went to the public library and opened one there, it always opened at the same sentence.
There is such a thing as fear of the Lord, and this repetitious message made me think that he really meant business, but what kind of business? What did he want from me?
During those times I remembered the picture that had almost never left me at one point: Merri-Lokki, hunger, half dead, half alive, pain, half asleep, half awake before a good fire in the fireplace. And my promise, "If you get me out of here I shall give my life to you." Was he telling me how to give my life to him?
Back to Mother Laurana. The next time I went to Graymoor, Father Paul was there and he laughed and jokingly said to Mother Lurana, "You are an intelligent woman, but that was a stupid thing to do. " Then came a sentence that remained with me: "Catherine is predestined to do something else on her own." Those words stayed with me. From the very depth of my memory came a scene I had completely forgotten, brought back by these words of Father Paul.
Boris and I had fought the Communists; that is to say, I was a nurse and he belonged to the British Royal Engineers in the Arctic, in Murmansk. During a lull in the fighting, we decided to make a pilgrimage to the Island of Solovky, of which we have a picture hanging on the wall in Madonna House.
It was an island on which was an immense monastery with a big church. There, even in the Arctic, the monks had made the island 'bloom.' Three staretzi, or very holy monks, lived there, as I recall.
It was a type of contemplative monastery that allowed the members to go into hermitages or poustinias. They were real poustiniks; they were priests who could offer Mass in the poustinias. Only once a month the poustiniks came together, to participate in the holy Liturgy at the monastery church. Then they went back to their hermitages in the wilderness, and wilderness it was.
As Russian abbots usually do, the abbot himself received us, hospitably, with water to wash our face and hands, for he couldn't wash our feet, since it was cold and we wore mukluks. Then he announced to us that we had come on a very wonderful and unusual day.
It was customary at this monastery, after a holy man had lived 30 years in the poustinia, for the abbot to recall him to begin living in community at the monastery. One of these wise and holy men had been recalled that very day, and the abbot told us we could visit him.
We entered a simple cell and on a bench was sitting a frail old man, whose silvery grey hair stood out, making a halo around his head. His grey straggly beard fell low on his chest. His lined cheeks were pink and in the blue eyes of this old man I saw the eyes of a child. We chatted awhile and then asked for his blessing. The first to be blessed was Boris. The staretz blessed him beautifully and wonderfully, but didn't say anything extraordinary.
When I knelt for the blessing, his hands on my head brought warmth to my whole body and my heart jumped with joy. I felt very happy. He lifted my chin, looked into my eyes and said, "Child, you are predestined by God to do great works for him. You will suffer much but don't be afraid. Follow where he leads. Go in his footsteps." Then he blessed me with the usual long blessing.
We walked out of there, Boris and I. wondering what the words of this holy man to me meant. Can you imagine that I forgot them completely, and they only came back when Father Paul tore up my application to the convent of the holy Sisters of the Atonement? Such are the tricks that memory plays. Without my being aware, another link was forged.
Time went on and fear was replaced by awe. I recalled the girl who went on a pilgrimage but never finished it. There before me lay a pilgrimage of sorts, but unlike the first, this was an inner pilgrimage. I had to find out what it was that God wanted me to do. It got so that I couldn't sleep or eat very well and I had to do something.
In the meantime I was consulting priests about my restlessness, though not explaining things with the clarity I have now. One after another told me it was the temptation of the devil because my vocation was to care for my son George. I was mother and father to him. One suggested that I sprinkle my bed with holy water. I poured a whole quart of holy water on the bed and slept on the floor! Yet with all this, the uneasiness would not leave me.
Here I want to reiterate very clearly that this Little Mandate did not come to me dictated, or as a whole, but as I am telling it now. Get the picture: it could happen any place, any time, in the midst of a group, in my office, at lunch in a cafeteria. Suddenly a little light, a little added word would come to me. I used to write them down on scraps of paper, on the back of old envelopes, in some diary, maybe lost or forgotten now; though some of them are still here. It was a patchy thing.
When you are subjected over a period of years to that sort of fragmented communication, as if you take a piece of meat, hack off a piece and then another and another, what are you going to do? Make a stew or what? You don't know. The meat gets chopped into smaller pieces. The words all came that way, in the confusion and noise of traffic, amidst the life of the marketplace.
Today, looking back, I can say, grinning a little, that perhaps our Apostolate is in the marketplace and to the marketplace because God spoke to me in the marketplace! And He didn't speak in a nice continuous monologue but in patchy sentences, like dying people do. I have no other similes or ways of expressing it.
Added to that, my marital life was ebbing and flowing tragically. So all this was coming at me from God at that time when I was in my own little hell, shall we say. Words fail me to express this agony, this search, this pilgrimage, this restlessness that was almost a terror.
It was a pilgrimage of faith. God was giving me more faith or wishing to give me more faith. He was disturbing me and doing things utterly 'hippie' style, certainly not according to Hoyle's Book of Rules.
I've read all the books of the holy founders and foundresses. No, it was not clear like that! It was as if I were the man besieged by robbers, lying on some roadside or sidewalk, and God gave me the wine and oil of a little clarity. Or it was not yet clarity but his presence. At least the words soothed my wounds for awhile, until the pain of questing to make sense out of it came again.
God was pursuing me across the arches of time. In a sense, I wanted him off my back. I wanted to say, "Stop bothering me." But every time these negative attitudes came into my heart some little word would come from somewhere. God in His mercy was giving me clarification.
I was continuing the pilgrimage of the little girl in Petrograd. It was as if he wanted me to understand and was helping me on that pilgrimage. He was helping me find the right way at the crossroads, helping me not to get off the narrow path, helping me.
Then those biblical words enlarged themselves. After the words, "Arise, go, sell all that you possess and give it to the poor," the word "directly" came. I still had money, a salary, some bonds and stocks, and a car. I could have sold all this and given the cheque to the Propagation of the Faith, to the missions, even to the Welfare Department, in one swoop. But God in his mercy wanted to make me understand that I had to give it directly, personally.
I remembered that in Russia when the rich wanted to become a staretz (a holy, wise person) or a urodivoi (an intelligent person who becomes a beggar and assumes the face of an idiot to atone for the fact that Christ was called a fool), they gathered their money and distributed it directly to the poor, from hand to hand.
A friend of my father had done that. He had much money and turned it into gold and silver, went into the poor section and gave it away directly, from his hand into the hand of the poor.
Then came these words: "Take up My cross, their cross, and follow Me." I understood that he identified his cross with the cross of the poor. Not that it helped me to make a decision, but it was a gift of God.
If I remember correctly, I was in a station waiting for a train when the words, "being one with them, one with Me" came to mind. The rhythm of the train was like background music to the words: "going to the poor, going to the poor, being poor, being poor, being one with them, one with Me, going to the poor, being poor, being one with them, one with Me, one with Me." They seem to be connected with the movement of the wheels of a train.
Clearly I had to go to the poor. I had to retrace my steps, now voluntarily, into a land into which I had been propelled by historic conditions. It was a land I did not enjoy and that I wanted very much to get out of, and did: the land of poverty, a grinding kind of poverty in the New World. I had achieved that goal. I had escaped this land. But now God asked me to go back voluntarily for his sake. He kept showing me, haltingly, where and to whom I had to go.
All kinds of things began to happen simultaneously. I decided to resign from the Leigh-Emmerick Bureau: a stepping away from wealth. I would go back to Toronto and rent a house or maybe a few rooms and buy some furnishings. I would offer my services to Archbishop Neil McNeil, although I had no idea in what line they might be put to use. I was not ready to talk to him, though, about this whole upsetting thing.
The resignation from Leigh-Emmerick Lecture Bureau was not easy. At first I went to Montreal for awhile. There was the problem of appearing before the judge, something connected with the annulment. Emmerick followed me there and tried to get me to change my mind and come back.
But I was somehow firm in that idea. Because by now this whole spiritual thing was taking hold of me, this dialogue between God and me, or his monologue and my listening. But I did answer, so it could be called a dialogue.
Finally I made my way to Toronto. My son George was with me; he was 8 years old when I first talked to the Archbishop in 1929. I had given up a job with a big salary. I was obeying God's call, or beginning to, like a person gingerly putting their foot into a river to find out the temperature, before jumping in.
The archbishop gave me a job: he wanted a private survey of the inroads of communism. Having been away in New York, I was not very well known in the slums of Toronto and so was an anonymous face amongst the poor, although I knew high society, of course. The bishop paid me $50 dollars a month or a week, as I recall. I had a big lower apartment on Isabella Street and could rent rooms. George was going to school and I was doing the job of surveying.
I kept pondering over the first paragraph of the Mandate. By pondering I mean prayer, fasting, some vigils, but mostly trying to get into the depths of every word. What did the Spirit or the Lord himself through the Spirit really mean: "going to the poor, being poor, being one with them, one with Me"?
I was asking God to give me clear answers, and He very seldom does that, it seems, because he demands faith. But his mercy is so great that occasionally shafts of light come through.
Now at no time, not for an instant in all this agony of clarification, in this confusion, fear and pain, did I think of a group, or of being a foundress of anything! It never once crossed my mind. God kept absolute silence on that subject. Everything that transpired between him and me was on a personal basis, applying, as I saw it, to me alone. So I was seeking personal answers, never, I repeat, realizing a following.
The next step was: "sell all that you possess." I was in agony about that. It meant giving directly to the poor, being one with them, in the same place physically and geographically. Through being geographically and physically poor myself and with them, I would seemingly be one with Christ.
I was led to think about (in a sort of daydreaming state), of all places, Bethlehem and Nazareth. Since I was to return to the state of poverty, my only alternative would be to start at Bethlehem and allow this vocation to be born there.
What was Bethlehem in the context of this travail of my soul? It meant a cave. But if I were going to the modern poor, it meant the inner city, the ghetto, the slums. It meant I had to go and live in the poorest section of the city, on the same level as those who lived there. It meant that I should go back to menial, poorly paid jobs, becoming one with the poor and hence with Christ, by living exactly like them.
A tiny little accent of service intruded very simply into my living and loving and witnessing to Christ. For the little girl who clapped her hands before St. Francis and wanted to be poor like him, also had promised to share her bread with anyone she met. It occurred to me that I could do little things and thus give 'bread' to those I met.
If I worked as a waitress, for instance, during my hours off work I could gratuitously baby-sit or do a little housekeeping for poor, tired, sick mothers. I could nurse a little in a neighbourly way; not officially, lest my status be revealed and I be different from them. I envisioned myself doing what is called 'neighbourly services,' but as one of them, fully accepted, a poor working woman and doing these things.
That would be Bethlehem, the state of poverty. Factually I would be living in Nazareth, because that is what God, His mother and St. Joseph did. What little they had, they shared. They were not abjectly poor; they were working poor people. Mary must have baby-sat and nursed. Didn't she deliver a baby for her cousin Elizabeth?
One evening when I was meditating, I dropped into St. Basil's Church and these words came to me: "Little, be always little, simple, poor, childlike. " At least I associate them with a church. They brought me joy. Of course, I had to be little! The Baby in Bethlehem was little and the type of vocation that was opening to me demanded littleness and simplicity.
Obviously, if I were to live in the slums as one of the people, nobody there must know that I was a baroness and was educated. To most of the people, I would be "Katie the Polack." I have, as you know through the book Dear Bishop, which I wrote on another occasion when I went into the slums for the Church, a way of blending with the poor. My Russian accent was a tremendous help in this case.
It was not easy to be simple. I equated the word 'simple' with a true identification with the poor and therefore with leaving behind not only money and goods, but also my intellect. I could, of course, use public libraries but I couldn't have intellectual books in my room. I couldn't in any way betray this higher education, this more developed intellect, lest I alienate the poor from me.
To be simple is to go to the essence. I almost want to call it holy simplicity; it certainly is a gift of God. Nothing was yet clear. I was still the little girl in Russia trying to finish the pilgrimage she began. The inner me seemed to be journeying in a country without roads, or with many paths among which I didn't know which to choose.
Simplicity meant facing without rationalization the type of life I would have to undertake, and all its effects and results. I had to lay these out in utter simplicity, face them and say a fiat' or 'yes' to them.
Who can always be little? A child. So therefore that sentence: "Little, be always little, simple, poor, childlike." I had to be childlike in order to be simple and little. And because I was not a child, because I was a complex personality, I would have to become poor in another sense.
So at this point two ideas of poverty were working in my soul: one, physical and geographical; and one transcendent, very difficult to catch. I skirted around it like you skirt around a mystery, or skirt around a tower to find a door.
Being poor included inner poverty, a detachment from intellect. Not an abdication from thinking but an abdication from the tools of thinking: conversations, books, music. In the reality of daily living it meant accepting, for an indefinite amount of time — maybe a lifetime, the abdication of many things that appeared to be part of my personality and my needs. It meant a reliance on God exclusively.
I got glimpses through the Holy Spirit that it was a tremendously deep and difficult surrender that was asked of me. For I was not a little child. I was an intellectual and had other gifts. This demanded a giving over of one's inner self with a childlike trust.
That is why I coined this prayer, much later in my life: "Give me the heart of a child and the awesome courage to live it out.' Now, 'post-partum,' I know what it takes to do that. But even then I knew it was going to be the most difficult task of what God was telling me.
My devotion to the Child of Bethlehem helped me. He had surrendered his intellect, his God-like intellect. He had become a child. Nobody knew who he was, inside of himself.
Because God became a baby and then a carpenter, I knew that I had to surrender my intellect in some way, according to my little ability in comparison to His. It couldn't be used as it would have been if I had lived according to my real state of life.
So time passed on. As I got more light on God's calling, the more scared and the less sure I became and the more I wanted advice from priests. How glad I was, in one way, when they said, "This is from the devil and don't pay any attention to it."
What is very strange is that usually a priest's word soothes my soul. But not in this case. I listened to a lot of priests and in a way that I cannot transmit in words, I thought they were wrong. Now that created another tension. For who was I, a young woman, to stand up against all those good holy priests? Yet my soul was not at peace with their advice.
I was mulling over all these things while working on the survey of Communist infiltration amongst Catholics in Toronto that Archbishop McNeil had commissioned me to do. While doing the survey, I myself 'infiltrated' everywhere with what I call 'the chit-chat apostolate'! The Archbishop eventually gave my 95-page report to Father Lamphier who used much of it on his Sunday radio program, the "Catholic Hour" of Toronto.
Meanwhile, in a quiet, inconspicuous way I began to give away all that I didn't need of the wardrobe I had accumulated from the days of New York. Then a few of the paintings, and a little of the furniture, still inconspicuously. I wasn't ready for anything else. I was giving of my surplus, not of my necessity. I was just beginning to implement the first part of this tumultuous vocation.
Then came these sentences: "Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise! Listen to the Spirit, He will lead you." I had started an informal study club with six or seven interested people and we were studying the papal encyclicals, Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno. Quite unconsciously, I found myself repeating to the group, "Fundamentally, it all amounts to preaching the Gospel with your life: not only through your work but with your whole life."
In those days I had very clearly in mind the old division between priests and laity. I almost meant that it was officially left to the priests to preach the Gospel through their words, through their mouths. That part was entrusted to them by God, enhanced by the sacrament of the priesthood which made them Teachers of the Word. They were doers also, but especially teachers, for when they spoke from the altar, Christ spoke.
People began to ask me what it meant to preach the Gospel with one's life, without compromise. I was Russian and had been brought up on the Bible, especially the New Testament, so I could apply it to this and that situation: economic, political and so on. I also turned to God and prayed.
Late one night I was home and again lying before a fireplace, much like in Russia. But this time I was very alive, not at all asleep and not hungry, except for knowledge: the type of knowledge one cannot get through books. I always believed that if you really want to know something about God, his will, or a mystery of the faith, you have to ask God very simply and then be passive. It will come.
Lying before this fireplace, I asked God to explain to me about this "Preach the Gospel with your life without compromise," but mostly about the part 'with your life,' because it bothered me. In the passivity of the Spirit, I waited for an answer, for the Gospel says, "Ask and you shall receive." I was sure that sooner or later I would receive it, because I asked it in the name of Jesus Christ and of the Father.
Clear like crystal, a thought came to me: "Listen to the Spirit, He will lead you." Now, to a Russian, that's a perfect answer! Then I stopped thinking, for when such answers come it's best to fold the wings of one's intellect, accept them and rejoice and glorify God.
Time marched on and the whole deal was lying fallow. I was visiting the poor, going to the Communist's homes, talking to people who had become Communists from the Catholic faith, writing reports. My days were occupied.
In the evenings I had a social life, much less than in New York and directed more toward the spiritual. Through those study clubs, lots of people who were interested in God, or began to be, visited me and we talked. There was music and fun and movies, but everything was toning down. No one among my friends noticed the change very much.
So we come to the next sentence: "Do little things exceedingly well for love of Me." It came out of nowhere and fitted in.
Then, "Love, love, love, never counting the cost.' Well, love bothered me from childhood. Here an image or two comes to me. During those months and years my thoughts often returned to my fatherland, to the words of my father and mother, of the Russian priests and people. I read Russian books.
I recalled a scene from my childhood, in Egypt or India. I was in a convent school and was 11 or 12 years old. We were having a retreat given by a Jesuit priest and the last talk was on the priesthood. This holy Jesuit loved his confreres very much and in language understandable to the young, he was explaining what a priest is. He hinted at their loneliness and the need that priests have for prayers.
Then he said a very strange sentence, since he was addressing such a young group. He said, "When you grow up, one day some of you will even offer your lives for priests." He probably meant religious life or contemplative life.
But with my literalness in regard to spiritual verities, I pondered this and asked permission to talk with the holy priest, since we were allowed a private interview. With my characteristic directness I said, "Father, why do I have to wait until I am grown up to offer my life for priests? I love priests. I want to offer my life now."
He looked at me over his spectacles and said: "It will require a lot of love, of a certain type. Only people who love terribly much can really offer their life. You are a little too young to know about that kind of love."
I replied simply, "Father, I want terribly much to offer my life. It is in my heart. I don't know about this type of love you are talking about (though I didn't say it that way; I was a polite girl). I don't understand many things, but I do love priests. I love God, I love priests, and priests are Jesus Christ. I want to offer my life for them now."
He sat there thoughtfully and asked if I really understood a little, and meant it. I said yes. So he told me to kneel down and repeat a very simple formula: "I, Catherine, want to offer my life for priests. I am a young girl and I am doing it as a young girl can. Please accept my offering." This isn't the exact wording but the essence.
One thing I know: in my soul I, Catherine Kolyschkine, aged 11 or 12, wanted to do it, with an inner feeling of great desire; and when I left I was joyous. I have never taken back this offering.
It brought me to think about love, the kind of love he was talking about. So I asked my mother about it: "How does one love God? How does one love priests?" She looked at me and smiled and said, "Infinitely. " I asked, "What does it mean, that love is infinite?" She said, "Without end and without measure. " Well, I couldn't go any further than that.
Another picture comes to me. I am at the sacrament of confession in Russia. The first question this old priest asks me is, "Child, how much do you love your enemies?" I was very puzzled. I didn't know I had enemies. So he said, "Maybe now you have none but in the future you will. Always examine your conscience as to how you love your enemies. For only if you love them well are you fulfilling God's commandment of love."
Here again the word love intrigued me, in an adolescent fashion. The love the Jesuit spoke of for priests, and the love for one's enemies, seemed awfully big. What my mother had said, "love without end," seemed immense. In my early youth I had in these ways met the word 'love.' So when the sentence "Love without counting the cost" came, it seemed natural.
One day after Mass, like a bolt of lightning, came the sentence: "Go into the marketplace and stay with Me. Pray, fast; pray always, fast." That was like a light in the dark and seemed to connect everything. The answer of the Spirit was there, telling me that I could only do this if I prayed and fasted. I felt joyous and unconfused. I relaxed.
I prayed more, and fasted. My soul began awakening to the fact that not everything had yet been clarified or understood. I went into a retreat and the last part of the Little Mandate came to me: "Be hidden, be a light to your neighbour's feet. Go without fears into the depth of men's hearts; I shall be with you. Pray always. I will be your rest." Very dimly I understood. By going to my Bethlehem and Nazareth, identifying myself with the poor and living their life, living the Gospel without compromise, loving always and remaining little, I would be hidden as Christ was hidden in Nazareth. I considered Nazareth to be the center of my vocation. Only by being hidden would I be a light to my neighbour's feet in the slums.
But the part, "Go without fear into the depths of men's hearts, I shall be with you" I did not understand at all. It became clear to me only much later when I noticed that people invited me into the depths of their hearts each time I fearlessly went there. I must admit that these fears are taken away only by an outward or inward sign of the cross: lo and behold, I meet Christ.
Now all this was written down and I went to Archbishop Neil McNeil with this 'mandate.' He listened very carefully and said, "Yes, this is from God. You are called to the lay apostolate. I will bless it." The ways of God appeared incomprehensible to me.
Later the archbishop said something which made me feel that he knew from the beginning that my vocation was not to be a loner in the slums, hidden in Nazareth for my span of life. Nor was I to have no preaching by word of mouth, lecturing or writing to do! Still, as I look now at my life, it is hidden. Yes, even yet it is both totally revealed, utterly public and exceedingly hidden.
Very humbly, and a little shyly, tremblingly, I give you this background. You see, it is not easy to take a lance and plunge it into one's own heart to show its beatings. It requires a sort of openness that I always speak about, so I have to live it. Though it is an agony, I feel my love must give this to you and not count the cost. I thank God and Our Lady and the Holy Spirit that I had the strength to say it. Alleluia!


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Spring Reflections
Posted on April 6, 2012
On this brilliant sunny day we see one of the very first signs of spring! While Pennie and I are driving back from Vergennes, we see the first osprey of the season with twigs in it's talons setting up a new nest on the far side of Otter Creek. Always an early sign of spring […]
Excerpts from our Naturalist's Log Book
Posted on March 4, 2012
July 21, 2011 Kayak, 9:00am: four people in individual kayaks. We launched from Otter Creek, then paddled upriver into Dead Creek. Visited the shoreline where we found flakes left over centuries by indigenous people as they banged away making stone tools and weapons. Fished with small seine net, caught several fish: 1 longnose gar (~10"), 1 baby […]
Opening Weekend 2012 coincides with Bridge Celebration!
Posted on March 2, 2012
http://www.champlainbridgecommunity.org/videos.html Take a few moments to view this video, shot by Allen Penfield Beach in 1929 and wonderfully edited by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in 2011 for the opening of the Champlain Bridge. Basin Harbor will be entering a float in this springs Grand Celebration parade. What a great partner for our opening weekend!

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REVIEW: Tykwer's "Run Lola Run" is a Clever, Original European
by Danny Lorber
The new German film "Run Lola Run" has an energy and spark that's way
too rare in movies these days. Written and directed Tom Tykwer, the
film's been conceived with ingenuity and startling cinematic savvy. Its
clever, wholly unique narrative concept instantly makes it one of the
more original, unpretentious European films seen on these shores in
"Run Lola Run" should be held as a paradigm for the type of film that
sets up a situation and then, simply, goes with it. Lola (Franka
Potente) is a hip, orange haired 24 year old Berlin punk girl whose
boyfriend, Manni (Moriz Bleibtreu) , has gotten himself into big
trouble. Hired as courier for a big time gangster, Manni's first
assignment is to pick up an illegally earned bundle of cash. When the
job is done, all he has to do is wait for Lola to pick him up. But while
buying a pack of smokes at a liquor store, Lola's vehicle is stolen, so
she is a no show. Manni is forced to take the subway home from the job
and a series of unlucky events lead to him accidentally leaving the bag
of cash on the train. By the time Manni calls Lola, he's at a downtown
pay phone with a huge problem. The vicious mob boss is going to meet him
in twenty minutes expecting to pick up the 100,000 marks and Manni
doesn't have the cash. Lola rushes out of her apartment with twenty
minutes to get to Manni and somehow pick up 100,000 marks along the way.
Its a frantic, impossible chase against time, as Lola finds herself
running not only to save her boyfriend's life, but also to confront her
own fate.
Protracted into an exhilarating 81 minute lightning bolt of film
blanketed by a brilliantly appropriate techno-pop score, "Run Lola Run"
surprises with a certain profundity about love while assaulting us with
one of the most fabulous visual and narrative schemes we'll see all
year. The movie's plot is played out three different times, hence the
first time Lola finishes her journey, things don't work out well. Then we see the
alternative reality take place - Lola does a couple of things
differently to change the results. Finally, after that second attempt
fails, a third reality is offered meaning she has one last chance to
save the day.
This narrative structure provides the film with an opportunity to imbue
itself with philosophical weight, it takes advantage of this with whimsy
and freshness. The movie exposes themes of happenstance - how little
decisions in the here and now are life altering in some way. While
Tykwer's focus is mostly based around Lola's travails, he also provides
us with hilarious, nifty little visual time lines of the resulting life
occurrences that happen to a number of random people that Lola bumps into, shares a
glance with, or pushes aside during her sprint through the town.
Tykwer has been forced to work hard to visually match his frantic plot,
and he totally succeeds. Using animation, video and especially
gloriously colorful 35mm imagery from a camera on a dolly, the film's
images are in synch with its techno soundtrack - there's an urgency and
youthful sexiness in "Run Lola Run" that is superior to almost any other
film in recent years that has tried to tap into such a vibe. The
self-consciousness utter insignificance that marred the otherwise
enjoyable and superficially similar American film "Go" is totally
avoided here. "Run Lola Run," despite its schematic narrative and tricky
structure never feels insignificant or vain.
Tykwer has cast his film perfectly, Potente is a joy as Lola. She's a
free-spirited, urban beauty with the type of hugely expressive face that
is perfect for the movies. She's filled with a certain adrenaline
throughout the film -- we never doubt her desperation. She's asked to
drop all the imbedded thespian eloquence and give a wholly physical
performance, and it's a real feat that she seems more human than the
majority of movie characters. It's a spectacular performance that's
brought to poignant fruition by the way she interacts with stressed out
Manni, played with great nervous energy by Bleibtreu.
In flash back scenes, we see the duo lying in bed, talking self
consciously and inquisitively asking about each others feelings about
their relationship. The dialogue here is perfectly apt in capturing
youthful ardor. Tykwer knows the dynamics between young lovers, he
avoids the passionate hyperbole that we


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Angelina, where did I mention allround ?
Anyway, let me spell it for you, once for good I hope: I am Vettel's fan (still) as I was Schummi's backthen!However I simply can not be such poised to refuse to admit that in 2012 appears to be more like Alonso's year rather than Vettel's !And, if, by the time of his first titles, back in 2005/2006 he was helped by a consistent amount of luck (let alone the rules changed to stop Ferrari and Michael), it is one eyed vision to sustain that such is also the case in 2012.


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We asked Jim McMillen, president of Landscapes in Bloom, to create lush planters that will last until spring. Here are his elegant creations.
Evergreens are a staple in winter pots, but here, their bushy habit is blended with tall branches and earthy tones. Jim started with a ring of cedar and pine around the edge of the container, then pushed the birch logs into the centre to create a focal point. Magnolia, seeded eucalyptus, mentola balls and Italian cotoneaster fill in any gaps. "It's like flower arranging, painting and art all mixed together," he says. Jim recommends taking a step back from time to time to see how the pot is taking shape.
Plant material list:
- Birch logs
- Magnolia tips
- Seeded eucalyptus
- Ontario cedar
- Red pine
- Decorative mentola balls
- B.C. hemlock
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We hear the local fishermen are bringing in "tuna" and there is now fresh tuna available down at the Harbor.
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Our equine dentist will be here July 20, 2014, at 9:A.M. – til done.
His rate this year is $210 each.
The weather here has been just superb, sunny 60*, grass is growing and we are getting spring fever, if it holds we will be opening the high ground campsites early. Hope to see you soon.
See both mustang training and Grace's rescue under stables. These are 2 of this winters projects. Along with new fencing on the paddocks and increased height of exterior fencing between 6′.5″ and 8′ some with bells woven into it. This to keep the elk and their entourage of wolves and mountain lions out. Will also serve to keep the bears and other RIF RAF out of the campground.
Sorry to our lamb and egg customers. The coyotes & dogs won. For the time being we have given up on these guys til we can better secure our fences and keep them from being eaten by coyotes and ravaged by neighbor dogs. Will repost them when we can try again.
The rain has finally got us. It has turned to mud in the camping area, and the fire pits are under water, so the tent camping is done for the year. Hope to see you in the spring. Have a good winter.
General information for horse campers. We have noticed a trend of campers coming along that "thought" they had their plans all made, only to find that the camp they planed on was a -pack in camp- not a -drive into camp-. Most State, Federal and County camps that are horse friendly are -pack in camps- sometimes several miles in and you need a permit to camp there.


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Scranton School District to assess maintenance needs
Scranton School District officials will assess how many maintenance workers are needed and whether some temporary employees should be hired to full-time positions.
During a committee meeting Monday, directors and union leaders discussed the use of the temporary employees, who have never been approved by the board and, until the start of the year, worked every day. They now work five days every other week, and some of the men have since filed for unemployment for the weeks they are not working.
The district's maintenance union filed a grievance on the use of temporary workers, and union President Paul Novajosky said he wants to work with the district to assess building needs.
A regular meeting followed Monday's committee meetings. From the regular meeting:
- Sumner Elementary Principal David Bieri spoke out against a proposed redistricting plan that would move his school's boundaries to the east. Sumner is currently surrounded by Tripp Elementary's attendance area. The plans, meant to address overcrowding in South Scranton, are still in the very early stages.
He said there is no need to change his school's boundaries, and when Tripp was built, its attendance area was carefully examined.
- A motion to decrease the number of mandatory observations principals must complete on each teacher failed in a 2-7 vote, with only board President Kathleen McGuigan and Vice President Mark McAndrew voting in favor. With the district moving toward a more lengthy observation model, the administration sought to decrease observations from four to two for nontenured teachers and two to one for tenured teachers. The decreased observations would meet state Department of Education standards.
- The board authorized the district to partner with the state for a five-year initiative to improve adolescent health through school-based HIV, sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy prevention education.
- There was no discussion of Superintendent William King being a finalist for a job in the Lehigh Valley. Directors had an executive session Monday night to discuss a report from an outside law firm about a complaint against Mr. King. Citing a personnel issue, directors have said they cannot disclose the nature of the complaint made by a female employee.
From the committee meetings:
- Mr. McAndrew proposed creating a policy on how to fill any future board vacancies. Mr. McAndrew's policy would include the board interviewing applicants on one night, and narrowing the field. A final vote would be taken on a different night.
Some directors said the process of narrowing the field should be done during an executive session. But because the applicants would be board directors who represent the public and not paid district employees, that would likely violate the state's Sunshine Act, which is the open-meetings law. Mr. McAndrew said the board would investigate any legal issues before the policy is made.
- A request for proposals for someone to sell advertising at Memorial Stadium will be broadened as a district advertising plan, which could include signs in gymnasiums. Replacing the turf at the stadium could also be sponsored, directors said.
- Principals and maintenance staff will be asked to conduct needs assessments of their buildings for possible capital improvement projects. Those needs could include air conditioning in the nine schools without it. Residents would have to vote whether they would want their taxes raised to pay for the projects. A ballot referendum could come as early as November.
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Eddie Murphy's Funny Friends Honor Actor
From Coming to America to The Nutty Professor, Eddie Murphy has become a comedic icon -- and on Nov. 14 on Spike TV, the funnyman's funny friends, including Chris Rock, Arsenio Hall and Tracy Morgan, pay tribute to the actor.
On Eddie Murphy: One Night Only, the scantily-clad Morgan reveals how Murphy showed how to be both funny and sexy, Murphy revives his impression of Stevie Wonder and Arsenio attempts to get the comedian to do a bit of stand-up.
Check out the hilarious clips from the evening and let us know: What's your favourite Eddie Murphy movie?
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|Numéro de publication
|Type de publication
|Numéro de demande
|Date de publication
|10 juin 1980
|Date de dépôt
|27 mars 1978
|Date de priorité
|27 mars 1978
|Autre référence de publication
|Numéro de publication
|James R. Hall, William P. Whallon, Jr.
|Cessionnaire d'origine
|The Bendix Corporation
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|Citations de brevets (4), Référencé par (37), Classifications (12), Événements juridiques (5)
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The present invention relates to electrical conductors. More particularly, the present invention relates to an electrical conductor having an integral electrical contact as a termination on at least one end thereof, said contact being suitable for mating with another contact. The present invention is also a novel method of making such a conductor.
Electrical conductors are well known in the prior art and have been in use for many years. Such prior art electrical conductors typically have a termination on at least one end thereof to connect the conductor with another electrical element. Such a termination typically has been obtained by coupling a separate piece (a contact) to the conductor. This disadvantageously necessitated the separate manufacture and inventory of separate contacts and the installation of such a separate contact to the conductor in order to couple the contact with the conductor. Installation of the contact additionally required the preparation of the conductor to couple it with the contact. The separate manufacturing and storing in inventory steps and the preparation of the conductor adds undesirable expense to the process of manufacturing a conductor. The preparation and assembly requires either the time of the workman or of the machine, both of which add expense to the manufacturing process. Furthermore, the connection between a conductor and a contact is itself undesirable in that it adds electrical resistance to the circuit, where a lower resistance is usually desirable.
Furthermore, the making and assembling of separate pieces entails a multiple inspection of the individual pieces separately and then assembled. The additional pieces provide additional sources of potential failures and unacceptable products.
Prior art electrical conductor terminations "contacts" are sleeve like members having a forward mating portion and a rear wire receiving portion. An electrical conductor having a plurality of wires is connected to the respective wires in another conductor by inserting each wire into the wire receiving portion of a contact and then connecting the mating end of each contact on one conductor to respective contacts on another conductor. One such electrical contact is described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,725,844 to McKeown et al for "Hermaphroditic Electrical Contact", a patent which is assigned to the assignee of the present invention. The contact described in that patent has acutely angled end surfaces for mating with a similar contact in electrical circuit relationship. Such a contact has limitations similar to the other contacts discussed above, in that the contact consists of several pieces, each separate from the conductor and assembly of the contact as well as the contact with the conductor is required. Further, the forward portion of the electrical conductor must be prepared for insertion within the sleeve.
The present invention is a novel electrical conductor having an integral electrical contact and a method of making the conductor. The novel conductor overcomes the undesirable features and limitations of the prior art conductors.
The apparatus of the present invention is especially suited for an electrical conductor in which a low manufacturing cost and a low electrical resistance is desired.
The electrical conductor (10) of the present invention includes a plurality of fine wire strands (21) which have their forward portions axially aligned and radially held together to form a "contact". The wires each have an acutely angled forward end portion (22). In one embodiment, (FIGS. 1-7) the "contact" is obtained by taking a multi-stranded insulated wire (10), removing the insulation (30) from the forward portion (F) to expose the strands (21), cutting the exposed forward end portions of the strands to provide acutely angled ends (22), straightening the exposed forward portions of the strands (21) into axial alignment, then securing the conductor with a sleeve or holder (40) by inserting the holder over the forward portion and crimping it in place. The entire assembly is then assembled within one of a pair of mateable housing (120 or 220) which protect the forward contact portion (F) and arrange the contacts in predetermined relationship.
In another method of making the conductor of the present invention (FIGS. 8-11), a plurality of wires (500), each having a single central conductor (510) surrounded by insulation (520) is prepared with the forward portion free of the insulation and the end angled. The wires in the forward portion are secured together, preferably by a sleeve (550), to form a contact with the wires of the contact being the same wires in the rear insulated portion.
In another embodiment of the present invention (FIGS. 12-17), a plurality of strands (600) without insulation are individually insulated, except in the forward contact portion, with a suitable insulating finish (610) such as magnet wire varnish or Kapton brand insulation. This electrically insulates the strands rearwardly of the forward contact portion while allowing the forward contact portion to remain exposed to connect the strands with another conductor in electrical circuit relationship.
Other objects and advantages of the present invention will be apparent to one skilled in the art in view of the following description and claims and the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an insulated multi-stranded conductor with the forward portion of the insulation removed to expose the conductor strands.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the conductor of FIG. 1 with a sleeve installed around the conductor in the forward portion.
FIG. 3 is a view of the conductor of FIG. 2 with the forward end portion of the stranded conductor cut at an acute angle.
FIG. 4 is a view of the conductor of FIG. 3 with the forward portion of the strands of the conductor straightened generally into axial alignment.
FIG. 5 is a partial cross-sectional view of an electrical connector assembly having two electrical connector halves which are mateable together, each half employing a plurality of conductors of the type described in FIGS. 1-4 shown prior to the assembly of the connector halves.
FIG. 6 is a partial cross-sectional view of several electrical connector assemblies (of the type shown in FIG. 5) mounted in connector housings or bodies.
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of a portion of FIG. 6, looking in the direction of line 7--7, showing after the mating of the connector bodies and assemblies of FIG. 6.
FIG. 8 is a partial cross-sectional view of an insulated wire or conductor having a single conductive strand.
FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the wire of FIG. 8 after being cut and the forward insulation is removed.
FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of a plurality of wires of the type shown in FIG. 9 and assembled into a conductor and secured together at each end with a sleeve.
FIG. 11 is a partial cross-sectional view of a cable assembly including a plurality of conductors of the type described in FIG. 10.
FIG. 12 is a perspective view of three uninsulated wires or conductors.
FIG. 13 is a perspective view of one of the conductors of FIG. 12 after coating with an insulating material.
FIG. 14 is a cross-sectional view of the conductor of FIG. 13, looking along the line 14--14 in direction of the arrows.
FIG. 15 is a fragmented view of a conductor made from a plurality of wires of the type shown in FIG. 13.
FIG. 16 is a fragmented view of a conductor made from a plurality of wires of the type shown in FIG. 13, similar to that of FIG. 15 with a different type of termination at one end thereof.
FIG. 17 is a cross-sectional view of an electrical connection between two conductors similar to the conductor shown in FIG. 16.
FIG. 1 shows an insulated conductor or wire 10 which has a central stranded conductor 20 with electrical insulation 30 surrounding the conductor in a rear portion R. The insulation in a forward portion F of the wire 10 has been removed to expose the stranded conductor 20, which typically has several spirally-wound strands of copper or copper-weld (carbon steel core with copper plating) or copper alloy or stainless steel. The best material is believed to be copper-weld for rigidity and conductivity and relatively low expense. Another material for the conducting wire 10 would be a stainless steel alloy core with an external coating of a material chosen from the group including gold, silver, rubidium, platinum, copper and copperweld.
FIG. 2 shows the insulated wire 10 of FIG. 1 with a sleeve or holder 40 inserted over the forward portion F of the central stranded conductor 20. The holder 40 is held in place by an inward crimp 42 where the sleeve 40 has been crimped into the conductor 20.
FIG. 3 shows the insulated wire 10 and the sleeve 40 of FIG. 2 with the forward end of the wire cut to an acute angle φ. The cutting of the spirally wound conductor 20, because of the spiral winding, results in individual strands 21 being of different lengths and each strand may have an end surface 22 with an angle which differs from the angle on the end surface on other strands. Preferably, all of the individual strands have an acutely angled, or tapering, end surface which assists in mating and in electrical characteristics. The acutely angled end surfaces are more fully described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,725,844 which is incorporated herein by reference.
FIG. 4 shows the insulated wire 10 of FIG. 3 with the individual wire strands 21 straightened into axial alignment in the portion of the strands forward of the sleeve 40. The wire strands 21 in a prototype or small scale production might be straightened manually with hand tools such as pliers; however, in high scale production the wire strands 21 would preferably be straightened using automated equipment to comb the wire strands into a straight, axial aligned configuration, then urged together radially to form a close bundle. The end surfaces 22 of the individual strands extend slightly differing lengths and have somewhat diverse angled end surfaces. The aligned strands are resiliently deflectable in the radial direction as they are adapted to be mated and unmated with a similar or identical type contact.
FIG. 5 shows portions of two wires or conductors 100, 200 prepared in the manner shown in FIGS. 1-4 and the accompanying description. The conductor 100 has a sleeve 110, which is mounted in a housing 120 and wire strands 130. The housing 120, which is made of a thermoplastic material or other suitable insulator, serves as protection for the wires before assembly and, after assembly into an electrical connection, serves to insulate the electrical connection from the environment. The sleeve 110 which is preferably metallic, also is insulated by the housing 120 from the environment. The housing 120 is provided with a forward bore 122, a rear bore 124 and a passage 126 connecting the bores 122, 124. The rear bore 124 is large enough to receive the holder 110 and the wire 100 even in the insulated region; the passage 126 is of a size small enough to prevent the holder 110 from passing through, but large enough to allow the wire strands 130 to pass therethrough.
The conductor 200 has a sleeve 210, which is mounted in a housing 220, and wire strands 230. The housing 220 is similar to the housing 120, having a forward bore 222, a rear bore 224 and a passage 226, except that the forward end of the housing 200 is of a smaller size than the bore 122 of the housing 100 to allow the external portion 228 to fit within the bore 122, allowing the mating of the strands 130 with the strands 230 to connect the conductors 100, 200 in electrical circuit relationship. When connected, the conductors 100, 200 form a single mated line or electrical connection.
The housing 120 thus has a larger sleeve portion at its forward or mating region and the housing 220 has a smaller sleeve portion at its mating region. The smaller sleeve portion is adapted to interfit within the larger sleeve portion upon mating.
FIG. 6 illustrates the use of a plurality of conductor assemblies 301-304 and 401-404 of the present invention. The conductor assemblies 301-304 are mounted to a body 300 and each include a conductor adapted to be mated with a conductor in respective conductor assemblies 401-404, which are mounted to a second body 400. The bodies 300, 400 have a plurality of generally parallel passages for receiving the conductor assemblies. For ease in manufacturing and lower expense, the bodies 300, 400 are preferably made of plastic, although metal or other materials might be used, as the conducting wires are insulated from the bodies by the sleeves which are nonconducting. As shown in FIG. 6, the conductor assemblies are arranged with alternating larger and smaller sleeves.
The body 300 has an undercut 310 and the body 400 has a forward projection 410 adapted to fit within the undercut 310 when bodies 300, 400 are mated.
FIG. 7 illustrates the mating of the conductor assembly 304 mounted to the body 300 with the conductor assembly 404 mounted to the body 400. The conductor assembly 304 includes a housing 305 which fits within a housing 405 of the conductor assembly 404. Wire strands 306 associated with the assembly 304 mate in electrical circuit relationship with wire strands 406 associated with the assembly 404.
FIG. 8 is a partial cross-sectional view of an insulated wire or conductor 500 which has a single central conductor strand 510 surrounded by insulation 520.
FIG. 9 is a view of the wire 500 of FIG. 8. The forward end portion of the wire 500 is cut to an acute angle φ and the insulation has been removed from a forward portion 540. If desired, the rearmost portion may also be prepared in a similar fashion; however, other methods of conductor termination might also be employed to advantage. The angle φ is preferably about 30°, although angles as large as 45° might be used to advantage.
FIG. 10 is a view of a plurality of wires 500 held within a sleeve 550 by crimps 560. The forward end portions 540 each with an exposed conductor and acutely angled end surfaces, extend beyond the sleeves 550 at each end of the wires 500.
FIG. 11 illustrates the use of a plurality of conductors 500, with the insulated medial portion assembled into a multi-conductor cable 570. Preferably, the cable 570 includes a metal conduit which is helically wound to provide a crush-proof, flexible encapsulation providing maximum protection for the cable with a minimum outside diameter, to protect against hostile environments. In more controlled environments, the multiple conductors might be assembled into the cable 570 by an electrical tape or other suitable securing material.
The holder 550 associated with each conductor 500 is mounted to a molded, multi-passage body 580 which has a plurality of parallel passages 581. Associated with each passage is a contact retention cone 582 which is positioned to secure the holder 550 in place within the passage 581 by engaging one side of an enlarged shoulder 552 of the holder 550. The other side of the shoulder 552 seats against a stop 583 associated with each passage. Such contact retention systems are more fully described in two pending patent applications, Ser. Nos. 728,820 (now U.S. Pat. No. 4,082,398) and 728,821 of N. C. Bourdon et al entitled "Electrical Connector With Front and Rear Insertable and Removable Contacts" and "Molded Electrical Connector Insert", respectively, both of which are incorporated herein by reference.
A sleeve 590 has been inserted over the other end of one of the conductors 550. The other ends may have similar terminations or a termination chosen from any of the suitable electrical terminations, depending upon the use of the cable 570.
FIG. 12 illustrates three uninsulated (bare) straight strands 600 of an electrical conductor which, considering both good performance and low cost, is preferably a high strength stainless steel (hard drawn 303 stainless steel). Other materials such as copper-weld-type steel or a carbon steel core, copper clad wire could be used, as could other metals and alloys which have low cost, good conductivity, high strength, resilient and with friable oxides. Such additional metals and alloys include berylium copper or other known materials.
The strands 600 have been cut to the desired length and have been cut with an acute angle φ on the ends. The φ is preferably 30°.
FIG. 13 is a view of one conductor strand 600 coated with an effective amount of an electrically insulating material 610, except in end portions E. The insulating material is preferably magnet wire varnish such as is sold under the trademark Kapton.
FIG. 14 is a cross-sectional view of the conductor strand 600 showing a thin coating of the insulating 610.
FIG. 15 is a view of a conductor 700 including a plurality of conductor strands 600 prepared as described in FIGS. 12-14 and assembled in axial alignment, with end surfaces extending approximately a uniform distance. A sleeve 710 has been inserted over the end portions of the plurality of strands 600 and held in place by a radial crimp 711 which secures the wires together in a tight bundle.
FIG. 16 shows a conductor 700 similar to FIG. 15. At one end of the conductor, a conventional electrical termination 720 rather than a brush-type contact is attached to the conductor 700 either by solder or a crimp (depending on the application). Additionally, an optional casing 730 of electrically insulating material has been applied around the bundle of wire strands between the sleeve 710 and the termination 720, eliminating in some instances the requirement that the individual strands of wire be separately insulated.
FIG. 17 illustrates a connection of a first conductor 810 with a second conductor 820 in electrical circuit relationship. The first conductor 810 includes a conventional termination 812, and a plurality of conducting strands 814 which terminate in acutely angled end surfaces 816, held radially together by sleeve 818. The second conductor 820 includes a plurality of conducting strands 824 which terminate in acutely angled end surfaces 826,827 at the respective ends. The end surfaces 826,827 are held radially together by sleeves 828,829 respectively. The sleeves 818,828 are held within a housing 830 which is adapted to hold the sleeves so that the end surfaces 816 are mated with the end surfaces 826, with an electrical circuit relationship established between the end surfaces 827 and the termination 812.
Other objects and advantages of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art in view of the foregoing description. The foregoing description accordingly should be considered as illustrative only and should not be interpreted to limit the scope of the present invention, which is defined by the following claims.
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An Aug. 13 riot in Sadr City, a Shiite slum neighborhood in Baghdad, shows the difficulty U.S. forces must confront with Iraq's radical Islamists. A U.S. helicopter flying close to an Islamic school blew off its flag, and locals responded with rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
Muslim anger at American caretakers obviously is stirred by radical leaders. The question is: What will Iraq's new Governing Council do about it?
The Governing Council is the interim local body appointed by the United States to begin the process of turning over to Iraqis a free Iraq. Despite claims from the autocratic Muslim Brotherhood and the socialist UN that it isn't democratic enough, the council's 25 members draw from Iraq's political, ethnic, and religious spectrum: 13 Shiites, five Sunni Arabs, five Sunni Kurds, one Assyrian Christian Arab, and one Turkman.
Shiite representatives on the Governing Council include a few too many radicals for comfort, including the secretary-general of the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood and a Shiite cleric named Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim. The council includes two more representatives from radical Shiite parties, along with two with ties to Iraqi Hezbollah-in all, seven staunch Islamists to lead a new Iraq.
Mr. Hakim is the brother of Ayatollah Mohammad Baqr al-Hakim, who heads the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, an Iranian-styled resistance group formed in Saddam-imposed exile in Iran 20 years ago. SCIRI also has an Iran-funded and armed militant wing known as the Badr Brigade, according to Elizabeth Kendal of the World Evangelical Alliance. Only recently returned to Iraq, SCIRI is now Iraq's largest and most well-organized political group. Its headquarters are in al-Najaf, where restive local Shiites in July pressed coalition forces to remove from office the Sunni mayor.
Iraq's Christian minority has long worried that Shiite radicals in a post-Saddam Iraq would agitate for an Islamic political agenda, including the imposition of Shariah law. While the Bush administration will oppose strict Islamic law in a democratic Iraq-and U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer has veto power over the council to back it up-the minority fears are not unfounded. Authority on the council gives SCIRI and others a podium for influencing (and intimidating) Iraqi media as well as masses-all in the name of democracy-to adopt an agenda, in its words, to "enforce the Islamic order."


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Tell me how my Ben Tate: So how about these free-spendin' Browns? While some national types will want to parse apart the $7 million given to Ben Tate this past weekend (Phil Dawson money!), Cleveland locked up a 25-year-old without much in the way of mileage on his tires. Sure, those tires have had trouble staying affixed for the last few years, but we're talking about a guy who thrived in a zone blocking scheme in Houston, who will now be given feature-back carries in a similar offense with chip on his shoulder and a chance to prove his worth. Plus, HE'S ONE OF US.
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Speaking of, this may deserve more in the way of an in-depth discussion, but there's something to be said about the front-loaded nature of these Browns free agent deals. The bulk of Karlos Dansby's money is up front; Donte Whitner's appears to be relatively similar. Same can be said for the two-year deal given to Isaiah Trufant and the four-year deal offered to Andrew Hawkins where $10.8 million (of the $13.6 million) will be provided to him in the first two seasons. I don't have the energy or desire to analyze what the Browns' situation looks like beyond 2016, but things appear to be mighty flexible. I would imagine this means good things for the Josh Gordons and Joe Haden's of the world.
Ouch: Talk about a bi-polar road trip. While you were counting sheep, the Cavaliers were shocking the world on a West Coast swing, coming up with wins against the Phoenix Suns and Golden State Warriors. Unfortunately for Cleveland and any remote playoff hopes, not only did they fall victim to the always dangerous Los Angeles Clippers, Kyrie Irving may be done for the season with a biceps injury. Brother left Staples Center on Sunday night with his left arm in a sling. Also not helping matters: This week's schedule brings both the Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder to The Q.1 Enjoy the road show, folks.
Ohio State: I'll obviously be pulling for the Buckeyes this weekend when they look to escape the first two rounds (Yes, they're the first two rounds—nothing the NCAA will change what normal—read: non-paid individuals—call them), but it will certainly be a tough road. If they can scrape past the Dayton Flyers, they'll be forced to tackle the zone defense of Syracuse. They may not score 40 points. Someone has to provide the Scarlet and Grey with a consistent scoring option—you can only live on Aaron Craft's defense for so long. The missed free throws certainly will not help. Here's a March Madness prediction: Several shades of red emanating from Thad Matta's high-definition face this weekend. Book it.
And just because… Cricket: A sport Brandon Weeden could actually be good at.
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