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Morals worth having
Stories, whether we mean them to or not, contain a moral. This doesn't mean that they're preachy, or that the author is setting out to deliver a message, but a moral is inherent in any properly told fiction.
The reason for this is structural: stories proceed on a certain internal logic, and the way people behave and events go in them reveals some fundamental assumptions. It wouldn't work to change assumptions halfway through: if you begin a story presenting a world of dog-eat-dog, and resolve the situation by having everyone suddenly become sweet and supportive for no good reason, or begin with a story about the virtues of old-fashioned family life and then produce a climax in which your hero starts acting like an Ayn Rand tycoon, then your readers will be frustrated, because the moral has been inconsistent. Similarly, a rambling story where the events don't follow a satisfying sequence can lead to readers wondering, 'Why are you telling me this?' - which can be viewed as a story that lacks a moral. The absence of a moral and the absence of a point can be inextricable.
A moral, in other words, is a one-sentence condensation of the overall worldview that has driven the story forward, a precis of the kind of world the author has shown us. It doesn't have to be a moral moral, so to speak; it can be an ethically neutral principle like 'The world is full of surprises.' It can be very simple - I'd say, for instance, that the moral of Bareback boils down to 'People are fallible'. Aesop's fables are useful examplars because the structure entirely revolves around making a point - but it's worth remembering that Aesop's morals generally express the principle 'people will take advantage of you if you don't use your common sense', or 'you can't trust what people say because they have ulterior motives'. (The Wolf and the Lean Dog, for example, could just as easily be taken as an incitement to do others before they do you as any kind of incitement to virtue.) I'm therefore using the concept of 'moral' as a structural concept rather than a philosophical one. It might involve ethics, but it doesn't necessarily; all it involves is worldview. A moral needn't be a revelation in itself, but what's important is that the moral should be consistent - and a moral that reader can stomach.
Stomaching it is important. There are some books I can't be having with because, basically, I don't buy the moral. Show me a square-jawed action hero torturing evil, evil bad guys with grim virtue because he needs the truth, damn it, and you've lost me, because the moral there is 'It's a dark world, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, damn it' - and I personally can't swallow any moral that involves the phrase 'damn it': 'damn it' is a refusal to think, a tendency to confuse action with honour and to demonise people while dreaming of being the one good man, and that kind of thinking ends in soldiers torturing civilians and policemen beating suspects. Other people will have other kinds of moral that they can't stomach (examples welcome), but if the story's worldview is too hostile to the readers, then that isn't the book for them.
There's one thing, though, that's a common failing in the morals of inexperienced writers and that I'll always counsel against as an artistic disaster as well as a moral one: pettiness.
A few years ago, I was at an event where various aspiring authors read their work aloud. It was a mixture of people; I knew some of the readers there (I can't remember if I was reading myself, but I think I was), others I didn't. In any case, one young man stood up - between eighteen and twenty-one, undergraduate age - and announced that he was going to read a story that showed two different kinds of behaviour that, I quote, 'piss me off'.
To which my instinctive question was, 'Why?'
The story itself was not very good. It involved a scene of sexual crossed wires between a man and a woman; the man was exploitative and predatory, the woman naive and sentimental, and both, clearly, were disliked by the author. There was nothing wrong with the subject in itself, but it immediately raised the issue of why he was bothering to write about characters he disliked. His preliminary speech gave the answer: he wanted to expose behaviour that he found annoying, in both sexes. The trouble was, he was shadow-boxing: wishing to show the behaviour as irritating, he had prevented himself from thinking about it sympathetically. If you can't sympathise with your characters - which is not the same thing as condoning them - then you can't write them convincingly. They become two-dimensional, and who wants to hear what two-dimensional people are getting up to? They aren't real. So my question remained: why was the personal irritation of someone who didn't sympathise with people worth immortalising in fiction? I'm sure he was capable of greater things than that.
The boy was young and inexperienced, so he may have become a better writer since, but no one I attended the reading with liked that story. The reason can be found in its moral, which was 'People are stupid and irritating.' That wasn't a moral worth delivering, because all it did was reveal a flaw in the writer's sympathies. Anger is a legitimate artistic motor, but anger carries principle with it: things should be thus, and I'm angry that they're thus instead. Anger invokes something other than mere dislike; it engages with the world, actively, aggressively, tackling things outside itself and calling for change. Irritation, on the other hand, is a small emotion, which separates you from others. Anger is about the world, irritation about you - and readers who don't know you personally won't be overly interested in your gripes, unless you've got something more universally applicable to say. Anger opens up, irritation shuts down. His moral, in short, was petty, and no one wants to hear a petty moral.
Pettiness is toxic to art. Art reveals the artist's mind, and in fiction, the artist strives to see into other people's. If all the artist wants to see is that other people have annoying habits, then his or her mind is closed off from the world, and that's not a place worth visiting. Going into a writer's fictional world and finding it powered by petty emotions is entering a room without windows: the view is not enjoyable. There has to be something there. It may require thought, effort, insight, hard work, but it has to be done, because nothing less is worthwhile.
This does not mean one should begin a story with a moral in mind. That usually leads to disaster, or at least, forced scenes, two-dimensional characterisation and heavy-handed point-making. A moral needs to be inherent in the structure, but that doesn't mean that the structure should beat readers over the head with a moral. It's better to write the story as it needs to be written, and let it follow its own logic. The point at which the concept of a moral becomes useful is when you're redrafting. If something doesn't feel quite right, the moral is a useful lens through which to look at it. Inconsistency can be the result of a change of moral; a sense of pointlessness can indicate the lack of one. It is, in short, a tool you can ues to guide you in the right direction towards a streamlined, coherent story that says something worth saying.
Heavy stuff for a Monday morning :).
I remember one (unpublished) SF story I read where the moral seemed to be that the way to deal with terrible events was to cover them up and pretend they hadn't happened. Er, not for me.
Yes, it's interesting how a weird moral can create problems. I remember being at a writing group where someone produced a story about a violently bigoted Ulster Unionist who hated his daughter's boyfriend for being Catholic. The resolution was that he found the man wasn't Catholic after all - which seemed to suggest the moral 'Don't assume someone is a dirty no-good Papist without firm proof.' Boy, did that story cause an argument...
But if it's too heavy for a Monday, try this: a website with some lovely pictures of puffins. Puffins!
Odd that you should mention Ayn Rand, because reading some of her doorstop novels (Atlas Shrugged, etc) became one of those eye-opening moments, not just because of her philosophy, whatever its virtues and flaws, but in revealing to me how powerfully a system of belief and morals can be handed to the reader through fiction. Part of why stories can affect us so strongly, down where it's soft and sensitive and squishy and fragile, is because we often lower our defenses when it comes to reading (or many types of media/entertainment, for that matter). When we open a book, we're not just cracking open the pages, but our mind as well, inviting that author in with their ideas. We leave ourselves vulnerable in the hopes that we might gain something from the story, whether it's a new perspective, a warning, a lesson, something added to our lives. So when that "hidden gem" turns out to be something, as you said, petty or worthless, or maybe even destructive, we spurn it and wonder why we wasted time on this particular author or story. That's one of my biggest goals in writing, is to never leave the reader feeling they've wasted time reading one of my stories.
Mm, I've just been trying to struggle through The Fountainhead. I have to say I'm finding it pretty poisonous. I'm resolved to finish it, but I have to keep taking rests because there's only so much hatred I can stand in one sitting. I think I'm reading it mostly because it makes me feel combative: I want to be able to say that I did read her book all the way through and still thought she was wrong, as it's never a good idea to declare you disagree with someone without having heard them out. (Though if I'm going to read Atlas Shrugged I want somebody to pay me.) But she's a good examplar of how strong an agenda fiction can be pushing. It's a good way, as well, of reminding yourself that a work of fiction is always the work of one mind, and subject to the opinions of that mind. She's a particularly interesting example because she herself asserted that the way she lived her life and her fiction were both deliberate expressions of the same principle: she pretty much invited author-book comparisons. (Not to her credit, based on what I've read.) But fiction is always someone's work, and comes out of a mind stocked with all sorts of things.
Fiction sometimes tells the artistic truth, and sometimes it tries to convince you of a truth that isn't real - that's where propaganda comes from. I think that's why people can react so intensely to a fiction's principle: like you said, you make yourself vulnerable to it when you read, and if you feel it's somehow malign, the recoil can be quite violent.
Much better to keep your mind as open as possible when you write, I think. Good art is always convincing; you don't need propaganda to be persuasive.
Puffins! Neat. Do they catch all those fish at once, or, if they don't, how do they hold onto the catch while catching more? A conundrum.
The Fountainhead...good luck with that one. I made the mistake of telling a friend of mine that I tried to avoid men who read Rand, men that liked "Fight Club" a little too much, and adults that hide from life in their parents' basement. This friend had never read Ayn Rand. She thought my "rules" were funny and so decided to read Fountainhead. I now have a Rand-quoting friend. She completely missed the point that I was not recommending Ayn Rand's views!
"Pettiness is toxic to art." I will nod to that, but toxic can be used to advantage given the right tonic.
And, reader's aside: Hello! I really enjoyed Benighted.
Hello and thank you!
Rand-quoting? Oy vey. Have you tried showing her 'The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult'? (http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html) Or the movie The Passion of Ayn Rand? (Very good film in its own right, actually, good performances.) Rand is a weird author. It's not that she preaches artistic liberty, free will and self-respect; those are good things. It's the way she abuses language. She takes a term that no one can quarrel with, redefines it to suit herself and then concludes that people must agree with her opinions because they approved of the concept before she redefined it. Like 'humanity'. One of those writers who can hate almost every human being in the name of loving humanity, because 'humanity' to her means an idealised image of it that only a few people can live up to. Which isn't what the word actually means. She gets to hate people and claim she loves people because she's messing with words. Very dishonest. Kind of like her villains, actually.
She's kind of hard to discuss, because she anticipates criticism: she has a reasonable ear for common appeals to virtue, and puts them in the mouths of her deepest villains. The result is that if you condemn her work you end up sounding like Ellsworth Toohey. But the Toohey camp don't take common viewpoints and subject them to a reductio ad absurdum; it's more a fictionalised ad hominem attack. They link together reasonable and wildly evil points as if they naturally followed from one another, but actually they don't - which takes some untangling because of her writing style. Her reasoning doesn't so much march inexorably forward as charge, shields raised on all sides, at such a pace that a dissenting reader is left running to keep up, panting 'That conclusion doesn't follow from the previous one' to a warrior logic too deafened by its own war-cry to hear him.
She has this odd black-and-white concept of idealism - have you noticed that, however different her characters supposedly are, they all understand the ideal in exactly the same way? They perceive it dimly or clearly, accept it or reject it, but it's always the exact same thing. She worshipped Victor Hugo, who also wrote about idealism, but Hugo understood that idealism is filtered through personality. Look at the characters in Les Miserables; there's Enjolras, her favourite, the cold man of action, but there's also Jean Valjean, for whom idealism means always putting others before himself, and Javert, for whom idealism means dogged justice. Totally different, but all idealists. Not so with Rand. Her people have no idiosyncrasies, no quirks, no traits that are not directly related to whether they are embodying good or bad principles. Heroism is not just the essential criterion by which people may be valued, but the only means by which they may be perceived at all. Every minor character is part of the struggle one way or another; if they aren't fighting on her terms, then like Spielberg's tyrannosaur whose vision is based to movement, Rand literally cannot see them.
Which leads to the weird sense that all her 'individuals' are just like one another. One bit that always stuck in my logical craw was the Stoddard temple and the sculpture of Dominique. To Rand, it goes without saying that the heroic architecture of Roark and the heroic sculpture of Mallory will be aesthetically suited to one another, and that the best model for Mallory's sculpture will be the heroic form of Dominque Francon. The possibility that two artists might share ideals but express them in individual styles that jar visually, even while they harmonise philosophically, is not considered; still less the notion that a woman might be philosophically in tune with two men while not being their physical ideal. For anyone, that's a wish-fulfillment idea, but for an artist, it's just bizarre.
But I think the real problem with Rand is that she just doesn't know what she's talking about. She writes about people with the earnest disgust of someone who never found much to like in her fellow-creatures, and assumes that anyone who says they do must be lying to cover an agenda. That doesn't sound to me like someone who actually understands the emotions she's condemning. That, and happiness. How often do her characters enjoy their lives? Do they ever buy something with their wealth that they can enjoy uncomplicatedly? Eat a delicious meal? Feel a good mood without needing to relate it to a philosophical war? I think she was never happy; she certainly couldn't convey it. People I know who used to like Rand say they ran out of interest in her when their own lives got a bit happier and they realised that it would be no fun to live like her characters, because her characters never enjoy themselves.
She claims to be all about the spirit of life, but doesn't like living things unless they're conquering other living things. Life to her means buildings and machines, inanimate things, and a frantic self-defence or stark indifference that keeps you separate from the world in case it contaminates you. A writer is not in favour of life when the world only exists to be guarded against or conquered, when individuals are isolated fighters contemptuous of almost everything. It's absolute negativity, dressed up as positivity because she's mauled the terms. It's death calling itself life.
I don't think she's an idealist. I think she's a fantasist, who felt some grim desire to make her fantasies into ideals to justify them. You notice how every single good character looks like her ideal type? She seems to have a genuine belief that a short man or a stocky woman is a kind of slur on mankind by their very existence. Free will, it ain't. Fantasy, it is.
Sorry if this was too ranty; I'm trying to clear some of the poison out of my system, and the lady's too dead to get her feelings hurt reading this.
(pant, pant)
Here's a nice website with a picture of some cute mice, to vary the tone:
I don't agree that all successful stories have morals to them. Often writing is sucessful because it doesn't come down on any message and instead provides an ambiguous set of meanings...Post a comment
I agree though that structurally stories do lend themselves towards morals.
And also I agree that for authors to express morals is not a bad thing and that pettiness is annoying.
Petty novels can be really enjoyable however (though your example sounds absolutely terrible).
I am a big fan of Michel Houellebecq and his novels are both petty and have no definite moral.
And he must be good because he is a international bestseller!!
To be honest tho it is less the pettyness that is the problem and more the petty expression of it. If things are expressed well then they become larger than they are, and so pettiness can become something more complicated and moving when expressed well. I am thinking of Walking On Glass by Iain Banks here.
I don't know anything about Rand apart from I've heard of her (and rather sexistly assumed she was a man!!) But I must object to:
I don't think she's an idealist. I think she's a fantasist, who felt some grim desire to make her fantasies into ideals to justify them.
This is really well put and in ranting mode I can imagine that I would be as dismissive of people as you are being here. But surely no one has the right to say what are fantasies and what are ideals. I mean, to every one of us all conflicting ideals seem to be fantasies but to their owners our ideals seem to be fantasies.
Either all ideology is fantasy or none of it is. I think we can respect peoples views despite not subscribing to them. To some death calling itself life is the ideal of life. I don't like it either but thats how it is.
To assume that her feelings can't be hurt after she is dead is to assume that there is no life after death. To people who follow many ideological systems that would be fantasy.
To you it is clearly ideal, or that even stronger form of ideal: fact. Unequivocal. There is no life after death.
I suspect you're right, though I sit on the fence on such issues because we cannot prove either side.
I do think though that it is fine to rant about people in a negative way, whether or not they are alive or dead. Arguably though it is less moral to do so when they are dead because they no longer have the right to reply (until, possibly, the after life).
That said I did like the way you said that the terrible writer from your example could perhaps have become a good writer. Thats agnosticism applied to writers and talent, and I like to see that, though I am often not a good enough person to give people the same curtosy and respect.
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Molecular Biology of the Cell
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"There's good news about hot flashes," says Susan Love, MD, a breast cancer expert and author of Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book.
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The Otter Tail County Chapter works with the Midwest Survivors Network to implement defibrillators in schools, churches, police cruisers, and ambulances. Chapter leader Randy Fischer, who oversees the operations of ambulance service in the Otter Tail area, has long been involved with AED access programs and SCA awareness. He has also been a leader in the CPR/AED field, including the coordination of Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) training for paramedics, paramedic students, physicians, and nurses.
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2019 TOPICS IN EMS: Time Critical Calls - Medical Conference
Saturday February 9, 2019
Critcial Care Course February 7 & 8th, 2019
All are invited to attend our 5th Annual Topics in EMS Medical education conference and SCAA survivor and rescuer conference in Fergus Falls, MN on February 11, 2017.
The 2016 Topics in EMS Conference is focusing on 'Time Critical Calls', including the latest in cardiac arrest research and treatment. Following the conference and prior to the banquet, we will be holding the 'Cardiac Sprint', a cardiac arrest management competition that has teams of EMS professionals competing against each other in a timed scenario. This should be a fun event for both participants and spectators!
If you'd like to attend, or have other questions regarding the event, the conference, the SCAA, MNSCASN, or other resources, please feel free to contact me anytime. Email email@example.com or call 320-241-3971 or 320-589-7421. Additional information and registration for both events can be found at emsed.eventbrite.com.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivors & Rescuers Banquet
EMS Education by RWF Enterprises, Inc.
Saturday, February 14, 2015 from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM (PST)
Fergus Falls, MN
Front Row, (L to R): Tim Hoffman, Bruce Atterberg, Gene Johnson, Garry Frankel, Jerry Griffin, Izzy Mastel. Back Row (L to R): Wayne Schneider, Art Stortrom, Larry Kimball, Tom Renville, Kevin Kent, Bruce Wizik, Ruth Nodsle, Al Bertke, Julia Werk, Dan Kerkvliet, Bill Timmerman, Bill Breth, Dr. Owen Thompson.
19 sudden cardiac arrest survivors attend banquet and "re-birthday" celebration in Fergus Falls
Long-term survival after sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is possible. Nineteen SCA survivors from across the region gathered to share their stories at the first annual Survivors Banquet and Re-birthday Celebration at the Bigwood Event Center on Saturday February 15, 2014.
The longest-term survivor in attendance was Dr. Owen Thompson, who suffered a SCA in 1991. "We owe the continued rising survival rate to increasing technology, but more importantly to EMT and ambulance companies willing to invest in having the new technology ready and available," said Thompson. "We need to continue to get more and more AEDs (automated external defibrillator) into rural communities."
Gene Johnson, President of the Minnesota SCA Survivors Network, originated the group ten years ago. "We had to scrape across the entire country ten years ago to find 42 SCA survivors. Today there are 22 in this room alone." Nationally 15,000 to 20,000 people survive SCA each year, with the odds of surviving at seven percent. "Survival rates are improving dramatically," Johnson continued. "But we have to keep pushing. As you can see long-term survival IS possible."
"I've never felt better," said Bruce Atterburg, SCA survivor from Battle Lake, MN. Atterburg went down while playing basketball at 7 am on March 4, 2011 at the Battle Lake high school gym. Fellow players Dr. Ted VanErp, Reverend Ed Borchert, and EMT Bryan Hodenfield recognized what was happening, applied CPR, and shocked him with an EAD. Ringdahl ambulance transported him to Fargo. "By 10:15 am I was sitting up in a hospital room with a new stent in my heart feeling like nothing ever happened," said Adderburg. "The true heroes in this situation were the three guys who saved my life and the school for purchasing an EAD."
On October 23, 2012 Dan Kerkvliet was on duty at the post office in Morris, MN. One of his co-workers called 911 and reported that an employee was choking. Officer Shane Nelsonof the Morris Police Department was at the Court House nearby and was the first to respond to the 911 call. He recognized upon entry that Kerkvliet was in cardiac arrest and ran to his squad care to retrieve an EAD. A single shock from the EAD restored pulse and respiration to Kerkvliet who has made a full recovery and is feeling great.
IzzyMastel from Jamestown, North Dakota experienced a SCA while watching a movie with his family on March 9, 2013. Quick thinking from his wife, who started CPR, and his son-in-law Ross, who called 911, contributed to saving his life. EMTs arrived on the scene within minutes and shocked him with an AED. Mastel came to and was told what was going on. Paramedic Juanita Gorder was on duty and rode in the transport to Bismarck. "We had to shock him three more times on the way to Bismarck," said Gorder. "The weather was horrible, too, so it took longer than it normally would, but we made it." Mastel was released from the hospital a week later and underwent heart surgery last fall. He reports feeling great now.
The recognition banquet, hosted by the Western Minnesota chapter of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association, was organized by Randy Fischer, who also serves as the Operations Director of Ringdahl EMS and CEO of RWF Enterprises and Stevens County EMS in Morris, MN. "We have an opportunity to improve survival of SCA by engaging the public, business, healthcare organizations, and private advocates to stress the importance of early access to 911, early CPR, early defibrillation, and early advanced life support care by EMS and local healthcare systems," said Fischer.
Ringdahl EMS and Stevens County EMS in conjunction with the SCAA-Western MN Chapter, are providing a FREE Hands-Only CPR and AED classes at five of their locations in Minnesota and North Dakota as part of EMS Week 2012.
The ambulance companies are providing instructors, refreshments, and equipment to train the public in Hands-Only CPR and how to use an AED. Their "How To Save A Life" program has trained over 5,000 people in the last four years.
We hope to train many more on Wednesday May 23, 2012 in: Fergus Falls, MN at Ringdahl Ambulance - 214 East Junius Ave.
Pelican Rapids, MN at Ringdahl Ambulance - 41 1st St SW
Morris, MN at Stevens County EMS - 209 S Hy 9.
Jamestown, ND at Jamestown Ambulance - 502 1st Ave S
Lisbon, ND at First Medic Ambulance - 1100 Oak Street
In addition, Ringdahl EMS and Stevens County EMS have donated a new Philips OnSite Automatic External Defibrillator and will give it away to a lucky participant at one of the class locations. To be eligible, you must LIKE US on facebook, attend the training on May 23, 2012 at one of the five locations, sign up at 7:00 PM for the drawing, and you MUST be present at 8:00 PM for the drawing to win. Even if you do not win the AED, you still win because you learned a life-saving skill and may just save someones life! Everyone should learn CPR and how to use an AED.
Does your ambulance or EMS agency want to participate in this event? Contact SCAA - Western MN Chapter for more information and our assistance in promoting your CPR and AED FREE training to the public.
STEVENS COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE TEACHES PEOPLE "HOW TO SAVE A LIFETM" Innovative 30-minute program designed to teach people CPR, increase AED awareness. In just 30 minutes you can learn what to do in the first critical minutes of an emergency that might save your life or that of a friend, co-worker or family member. Stevens County Ambulance and EMS Training in conjunction with the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association is offering our How To Save A LifeTM presentation free of charge to interested organizations, businesses and groups. To schedule the presentation for your organization contact Stevens County Ambulance & EMS Training at 320-589-7421 or call Josh at 320-241-3971. Stevens County Ambulance & EMS Training is also making $100 grants available to chamber members to assist with the purchase of an AED. Businesses and organizations that call during the month of May to schedule the How To Save a LifeTM presentation are eligible for this funding. So call today and learn how to save a life!
Otter Tail County Wants You!
The City of Elizabeth Fire Department, in conjunction with Ringdahl ambulance services in Fergus Falls and Pelican Rapids, are requesting funding through an Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) project. We would like you to send a letter of support for the project.
If funded we will engage in additional meetings to develop, implement, and choose the requested equipment for the agencies and develop training schedules. The grant request is entirely funded through private donations, grants, and cash which will require $0.00 from your local fire department, city, police department or first responder agency to participate in the grant.
Contact: Gary Wilde or Randy Fischer for more information if needed.
Letters of support - City of Elizabeth Fire Department AFG REGIONAL project grant application - EMS cardiac arrest survival project.
This regional grant includes agencies in western Otter Tail County and a portion of Wilken County around the Rothsay area. It includes 14 EMS agencies in Fergus Falls, Elizabeth, Rothsay, Pelican Rapids, Vergas, Dent, Underwood, Battle Lake, and the Otter Tail County sheriff's department.
The project intends to increase cardiac arrest survival rates through improved equipment, training, and development of standard consistent approaches across multiple emergency services.
Equipping Fire, Police, sheriff, and ambulance EMS responders with cardiac monitors, AEDs, cardiac response kits, mechanical compression units, and specific EMS training and approaches that have been successful at increasing survival rates of out of hospital cardiac arrests from less than seven percent to over 20 percent. The direct impact could be an additional 2.1 lives annually saved by implementation of this project in our identified region.
PLEASE send a letter TODAY supporting our Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) REGIONAL grant request, mail to:
CLICK HERE for a sample letter that you can simply place on your letterhead and include your name and edit as you like. Sign and send ASAP.
Letters can also be written on your own and sent to the following address:
RE: Elizabeth, MN Fire Department REGIONAL GRANT for EMS cardiac arrest survival project
R. David Paulison, Administrator
500 C Street, SW
Washington, DC 20472
Fax: (202) 786-9938
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214 E. Junius
P.O. Box 462
Fergus Falls, MN 56538
Phone: (218) 731-8216
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Large Victorian house opposite railway station. Ideally situated for the town centre and Beverley Minster. Tasteful and warm friendly atmosphere. We have successfully met the stringent criteria set by the AA to allow us to reopen safely.
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Battlefield 3
It's a testament to Battlefield 3's fundamental multiplayer design that it's still enjoyable even with so many odd and irritating changes. Sadly, the same can't be said for the rest of the game.
Battlefield 3Publisher: EA
Rated: Mature
Players: 1 player
URL: www.battlefield.com/Battlefield3
Price: $59.99
Platforms: Xbox 360 (reviewed), PS3, PC
Developer: DICE
Release Date: 2011-10-25
Battlefield 3 is the first "official" Battlefield game for consoles. A distinction I've always found confusing since the Bad Company games didn't seem all that different from their predecessors. But if such a distinction must be made, then I hope we see a Bad Company 3 before we see a Battlefield 4 because this entry in the franchise represents a step backwards in almost every way.
The campaign commits the biggest sin that a shooter campaign could commit: it's boring. It takes the Call of Duty-style scripted event to a whole new level of passivity. Over the course of the game, you'll ride in a jet plane but never fly it; you'll carry a mortar, but never shoot it; you'll get in multiple jeeps, but never drive them; you'll even parachute out of a cargo plane, but you don't get to pull the ripcord or even look down as you fall. The game ignores every opportunity that it has to let you do something other then just shoot. Every potentially memorable moment is so forcibly on-rails it's infuriating. I was genuinely shocked when I was allowed to control a tank, and even then, I couldn't go too far off the beaten path or the game would kill me. Literally.
What's extra egregious about this lack of interactivity is that you can do all those things that I just mentioned in the multiplayer. So the game does allow for a variety of actions, it just never takes advantage of its own potential.
The story is confusing and the characters are forgettable. The happy-go-lucky crew from the Bad Company games are gone, replaced with ultra serious soldiers telling an ultra serious story of modern terrorism, though the between-mission cut scenes are so bad that it's hard to take any of it seriously. The story begins with you being interrogated by two guys from Homeland Security. It's a convenient framing device for providing exposition, though every conversation just reiterates plot points that you already learned in the previous level. The awful dialogue doesn't help, neither does the fact that you don't know why these men are questioning you. When you talk about finding nukes and one of the men compares it to seeing UFOs, it comes off as pointlessly antagonistic. Their good cop/bad cop routine would be laughable if they didn't act so deathly serious. The result is a bunch of cut scenes that lack context, drama, and suspense. They're just as boring as the rest of the campaign.
The co-op mode is new to Battlefield and mostly forgettable. It's modeled after the Spec Ops mode of Modern Warfare 2, a batch of standalone missions meant to be played by two people. Sometimes you're both on foot, and sometimes you're in a vehicle with each player given a specific role, like pilot or gunner. The lack of any story is a good thing here, but these missions suffer from the same gameplay flaws as the campaign.
The level of detail in the world is incredible but that makes it harder to see the enemy from a distance. Combine that difficulty with some AI that's too accurate -- able to headshot you from long range through a fog of smoke -- and you get firefights that are frustrating rather than fun. The levels are also very linear; the openness of some of them is deceptive since you'll get slaughtered if you move out of cover. Finally, there are only eight co-op levels. DICE seems to expect you to replay them over and over again, but they get old fast.
Which brings us to multiplayer, unarguably the main reason that most people will buy this game. Thankfully, it's a good reason, though not a great one. This is a dense multiplayer game. There's a lot to learn and unfortunately the single player is so scripted that it doesn't teach you any of these systems. The horrible mid-battle menus don't help. When navigating a menu uses almost every button on the controller, something is clearly wrong. Flicking up with the right control stick scrolls through one set of options (spawning), flicking left/right scrolls through another set of options (classes), and the bumper buttons scroll through a third set of options. The face buttons are then used to select from all three sets of options at the same time. It's an awkward system, and it makes changing equipment on the fly difficult enough that you'll actively avoid it.
Another awkward new feature is that your primary weapon automatically changes when you switch sides in battle. This is something DICE did in the Medal of Honor multiplayer, but it made sense there since the two sides (US Army and Taliban) were so fundamentally different that it would be strange if they had the same guns. There's no logical reason for it in Battlefield 3. It just adds an annoying adjustment period to the start of each battle: I unlocked a scope attachment for my machine gun and now it's gone; I unlocked a laser sight attachment and now it's gone, etc. It feels like a way of artificially prolonging the unlocking process by forcing players to unlock the same attachment multiple times for different guns. It lessens the sense of reward that such unlocks should provide since I know my reward will be gone the next round. Of course, it's not gone forever; it's unlocked permanently, but only for every other round.
The game modes are relatively unchanged. It's nice to see Squad Rush and Squad Deathmath available from day one, since these modes were added as DLC for Bad Company 2. Team Deathmatch seems like an odd mode for a Battlefield game at first, but it provides a nice change of pace from the more organized team modes, Rush and Conquest. Rush is the only mode that's been significantly changed. In it, one team must defend a set of MCOM stations while the other team is tasked with destroying them. Previously, you could damage the MCOM stations with any explosive device, so players would commonly snipe the stations with tanks or rocket launchers. Now, the attacking team must set a charge directly on the station; the MCOM is otherwise invincible. This admittedly makes things fairer, but also makes for less crazy, less memorable, and less fun moments. I can't have friends set gobs of C4 on a UAV and then fly the little thing into the station on a suicide run. You don't see that kind of outside-the-box thinking in Rush anymore. It's too organized.
There's also a distinct lack of destructibility in the multiplayer maps. I'll pepper a wooden fence with bullets and it'll remain standing. Shooting a rocket at a building is more likely to leave a big black mark than a hole. When buildings do crumble, they instantly kill everyone inside, no more loud creaking to warn you, giving you a few seconds to make an exciting mad dash to the closest exit. Many of the subtle things that made Bad Company 2 so much fun are missing in Battlefield 3.
But the changes aren't all bad. The ability to select your own squad can single-handedly turn a bad game into a fun game, since so much of Battlefield 3 relies on squad teamwork. The gun attachments help make your gun feel more personal, more tailored to your preferred style of play. The ability to spawn into empty vehicles helps get you closer to action faster. The new gadgets are fun and effective, especially the radio beacon that serves as a mobile spawn point. Best of all, combining the Assault and Medic classes encourages team play since the Assault can no longer run around refilling their ammo indefinitely.
Overall, the multiplayer is a slow burn. It's worth your time only if you invest your time. It's around level 10 that things start to turn around. By then you'll know the maps pretty well, and you'll have unlocked enough guns, gadgets, and attachments to feel like you can actually customize your loadouts. Until that point, however, it's a drag.
Battlefield 3 represents a kind of turning point for the franchise. EA has heavily marketed the game as a Call of Duty killer, and DICE seems to have taken that as a decree to hew closer to Call of Duty in every aspect of its design: a linear campaign filled with scripted moments, a two-player centric co-op mode, and a multiplayer that emphasizes the gun over other gadgets and vehicles. But Battlefield is not Call of Duty, and the more that it tries to imitate, the less it can innovate. It's a testament to Battlefield 3's fundamental multiplayer design that it's still enjoyable even with so many odd and irritating changes. Sadly, the same can't be said for the rest of the game.


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Several posts ago entitled – AURALITE: A GIFT OF LIGHT FROM A READER – I talked about how one reader, Atty. B, gave me a wonderful that I also need at that the time the gift was given to me. In that particular post, I mentioned that another reader has given me a very wonderful gift. The gift that was given to me is a Stupa!
AC contacted me because she wanted to get the WISH FULFILLING AND BUDDHA'S BLESSING MANTRA PENDANT, this led to a series of email conversations and she really did give me an impression of being a very kind person. In one of her emails she inquired about getting a Stupa as somebody in the temple that she attends to offered this to her. I told her owning a stupa is such a wonderful blessing, especially if this was blessed by a high-ranking lama like Lama Zopa Rinpoche. She ended up acquiring the Stupa and what's more her very kind heart and generosity prompted her to get one more for me to be given as a gift!!!!!
As mentioned before, receiving amulets or holy objects as a gift does not make it holier or more powerful, but the act of receiving a gift makes the object comes with an auspicious chi brought about by the giver's generosity.
Even if I put her generosity aside simply having a Stupa is such a wonderful blessing, and words won't be able to convey how happy and blessed I feel to have receive that gift from AC. I can't imagine how much blessings I'll receive because of the Stupa. In fact, I'm sure even my friend and reader, DU, who was the middle person to get the Stupa from AC and to give it to me will definitely have received some blessing simply because she held it and having it in her possession.
I thought I'd show my gratitude to AC by asking my Guru Lama whether I can invite a Vajrapani Ruel(1), which is considered as one of the most powerful if not the most powerful amulet in Buddhism, in behalf of AC and I'm really happy that my Guru Lama agreed and told me to go ahead with it. AC herself has expressed gratitude in advance for the Vajrapani Ruel(2), which has had enjoyed some personal testimonies already.
But why am I so excited about the Stupa? Not only because it was a gift from a reader but also because it is a Stupa!!! I think I should make myself clearer. Allow me to tell you first what is a Stupa and what are the blessings that it can bestow.
A stupa, which is pronounced with long U sound, is almost similar to a pagoda but is more mound – like and/or hemispheric structure that contains one or more Buddhist relics. A big stupa will usually contain a relic from a high-ranking Buddhist monk, usually a green, or red, or white, or yellow pearl – like object produced by high-ranking lamas when they are cremated. Surprisingly, people who are holy only produce these pearl – like objects. A layperson may produce this also and becomes an indication of the goodness of the person's heart.
It is believed that Shakyamuni or the Historical Buddha's body was cremated and the ashes were divided into equal parts and which was put inside 8 different stupas. Two additional stupas were further made for the temporary casket that was made for the Buddha and for the left over embers. However, these stupas were not identified.
All stupas represent the Buddha with his crown of enlightenment and in meditative lotus seat position.
The ubiquitous Five Element Pagoda, which is a very famous and effective cure for the Five Yellow Killing Star or the #5 Flying Star is actually patterned after a stupa and not a pagoda. Pagoda was used to make it more familiar with the majority, because a stupa is somewhat limited to Buddhists. The difference between a stupa and a pagoda is that a stupa houses relics and is considered a very holy structure. A pagoda may or may not be a religious or spiritual structure, and while it may house holy images, it doesn't have relics.
Building a stupa is not an easy matter. Obviously, in modern times you'll need the skill of an architect and an engineer, but it is impossible to build a stupa without the leadership of a monk who is familiar with building one. There are a lot of empowerment ceremonies, Buddhist texts transmissions and ceremonies for one to build a stupa. And the most important component is the presence of a relic. In the absence of a physical relic, the Four Dharmakaya Relic Mantras, which are considered as a first class relic because it is said that it was the Buddha himself of wrote those particular mantra are put inside the stupa. All small and multiple – produced stupas, like AC's gift for me, will have the Four Dharmakaya Relic Mantras. It is highly considered immoral to own a physical relic for oneself. Because it should always be shared thus it is always put inside a stupa or hidden in temples. Most Buddhist temples will also have the stupa easily accessible so people can circumambulate around it, if space is of a concern, thee stupa is put on top of the structure so that everyone who passes under it will be blessed.
The different kinds of stupa are:
- Relic Stupa, and it is the relics of the Buddha, or human Bodhisattvas (like monks) are interred here. These relics are considered first class relics.
- Object Stupa, where in the relics that are interred are the things used by the Buddha or monks. For example, their prayer wheels, mala, clothes, shoes, etc. These items are considered second-class relics.
- Symbolic Stupa, these kinds of stupas are built to symbolize various Buddhist aspects. For these kinds of stupas, the Four Dharmakaya Relic Mantras are interred.
In Tibetan Buddhism, these different kinds of Stupas are further, sub – categorizes into the 8 different types, which is called the Eight Great Deeds Stupas, which are base on the different events in Shakyamuni Buddha's life.
The Eight Great Deeds Stupas are the following:
- LOTUS BLOSSOM STUPA, which is also known as the BIRTH STUPA, or STUPA OF HEAPED LOTUS, or BIRTH OF THE SUGATA STUPA.
- ENHLIGHTENMENT STUPA, which is also called as the STUPA OF THE CONQUEST OF MARA.
- STUPA OF DESCENT FROM TUSHITA HEAVEN, which is also called as the STUPA OF DESCENT FROM THE GOD REALM.
- STUPA OF GREAT MIRACLES, and is also known as the MIRACLE STUPA, or STUPA OF CONQUEST OF THE TIRTHIKAS.
- STUPA OF RECONCILIATION OF THE SANGHA, which is also known as the STUPA OF RECONCILIATION.
- STUPA OF COMPLETE VICTORY, which is also VICTORY STUPA.
- STUPA OF MANY DOORS, which is also called as the STUPA OF MANY GATES or STUPA OF TURNING OF WHEEL.
- STUPA OF NIRVANA, which is also called as the STUPA OF PARINIRVANA.
Much later, another kind of Stupa came out of Tibetan Buddhism, which is the Kalachakra Stupa. It has nothing to do with the Buddha's life as represented by the other Stupas, but rather it is a symbolism of the tantric practice of Kalachakra. This particular stupa is said to be able to double the protective energies of the other Stupas as enhanced by a Kalachakra symbol.
The image below will show the images of the different Stupas, but it has to be noted that these are just the basic image, for example as Lotus Blossom Stupa may look a little different from one another. The stupa that AC gave me is a Stupa of Nirvana.
Simply seeing, being around or owning a stupa will give you a lot of blessings, more so if one circumambulate or prostate around it. Allow me to share some of them here:
- Blessing of happiness.
- Karma Cleansing or Purification of Defilements.
- Gift of Dharma Blessing. (My own journey in learning the Dharma started when I came across a Stupa. After that I was granted the blessing of having access to the Dharma and studying it. Dharma is basically deeper Buddhist teachings.)
- Eradication of Sufferings.
- Purification of the Mind.
- Gift of a Better Next Life.
More than the above mentioned benefits it also helps establish peace and harmony.
It is said that when a wind touches or passes through a stupa it temporarily becomes a holy wind, and has the ability to give blessing those who are 'touched' by the wind, even if they don't believe in Buddhism.
Simply receiving a stupa as gift brings you numerous wonderful blessings, and giving it as a gift earns you not just numerous wonderful blessings but also a lot of good karma merits!
I took the liberty of copy – pasting below the text from a talk given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche about the stupa. But before that I again would like to thank AC for the wonderful gift and for the wonderful blessings that comes with it! It's more than just a Buddhist gift; it's a gift of good life!!!!


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