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Tuesday October 11, 2005 12:10 am
Wi-Fi Gets Added to Dictionary
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Wireless / WiFi
Nice - the term "Wi-Fi" has officially made it into the dictionary. If you need a definition, here you go:
abbreviation - Wireless Fidelity, a group of technical standards enabling the transmission of data over wireless networks.
verb - convert or adapt for Wireless Fidelity compatibility : what type of electronics will be immune from being Wi-Fied?
It's always great to see emerging technologies make enough of an impact to gain mainstream recognition.
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I wonder if we could get the word XBOX in the dictionary… Seriously, I don't see the point in adding it to the dictionary. It is well known, and it might be one day replaced by another standard.
Xbox would be useless to add as it is a video game system, not a technology of any sort. Words get outdated, doesn't mean that they shouldn't be added to the dictionary. That's what its there for in the first place, to find meaning of works.
Its an abreviation, not a word. Does not compute. Why not teach the public on regular vocabulary as the majority seem to be lacking.
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Shaken Baby Syndrome - Exams and Tests
Shaken baby syndrome can be difficult to diagnose. The diagnosis can be complicated by:
- Vague symptoms. Irritability, sluggishness, vomiting, and a poor appetite that are often symptoms of shaken baby syndrome also occur with common illnesses, such as the flu, ear infections, stomach flu (gastroenteritis), and kidney infections.
- The lack of visible signs of injury, such as bruises or broken bones.
- One or both parents not knowing that their baby was abused.
- Caregivers not admitting when they have harmed a baby. They may make up stories to explain why a child has signs of trauma.
- Caregivers not seeking medical care right away after they have injured the child. This commonly occurs because the caregiver wants to avoid responsibility and hopes symptoms will go away after the child rests.
Doctors may suspect shaken baby syndrome when the adults are vague or misleading about what has happened to the child, especially when symptoms are severe and indicate intentional head injury. Diagnosis is confirmed by:
- A medical history with a detailed time line of symptoms. This history includes noting changes in the child's behavior and when they occurred. This information helps doctors figure out when an injury was likely to have occurred.
- A physical exam to look for signs of injury and increased blood pressure.
- Tests to help doctors identify injuries
that are commonly associated with shaken baby syndrome.
- A computed tomography (CT) scan generally is the first test that is done to determine the presence of brain injury. Scans may be repeated to monitor the condition of the child's brain.
- A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test may be used along with a CT scan. Images from this test may help doctors understand more about a child's injuries, such as when they are likely to have occurred.
- A lumbar puncture (LP) allows a doctor to look for blood in the fluid around the child's spinal cord. The fluid may also be examined for signs of infection that may indicate meningitis as a possible cause for a child's symptoms.
- X-rays are taken to check for broken bones. X-rays may be repeated 2 weeks later because breaks in bones are sometimes not seen until they begin to heal (healing begins 7 to 10 days after a break). The types of X-rays usually taken are:
A child may have blood tests to rule out other conditions, such as rare blood disorders and metabolic conditions, or to check for internal injuries.
Each state has its own reporting procedures for child abuse or neglect, which includes shaken baby syndrome. In general, a doctor who suspects shaken baby syndrome must notify local child welfare officials and law enforcement agencies. The person who is suspected of injuring the baby is then questioned and evaluated along with anyone else who provided care for the child. Any other children who were cared for by the suspect may be examined. Older children may be interviewed. Children age 3 years and younger may have skeletal X-rays taken.
The authorities' primary goal is to protect the baby and other children in the home from further injury. The person who caused the injury may be legally charged and tried for assault.
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Hurricane Sandy cost the U.S. some $70 billion in direct damages and lost economic output. This is, obviously, a lot of money — Sandy was the second most expensive hurricane in U.S.
If it isn't torrential downpours, then it's too dry. If there's one thing U.S. farmers can count on, it's bad weather and, perhaps as a result, many of them don't think humanity is to blame for the long-term shifts in weather patterns known as climate change.
July 16, 2013 — Improving crop yields using sustainable methods could cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 12% per calorie produced according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
July 15, 2013 — A new study estimates that global sea levels will rise about 2.3 meters, or more than seven feet, over the next several thousand years for every degree (Celsius) the planet warms.
MEXICO CITY, Jul 16 2013 (IPS) - Jungles, forests, mangroves, swamps and lagoons are natural carbon storehouses or "sinks" in the Caribbean regions of Mexico. But now studies are being conducted to measure their capacity for absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Jul 15 2013 (IPS) - If the studies conducted by the International Code Council (ICC) are true, then by 2025, Caribbean countries will witness a significant increase in Category 4 and 5 hurricanes from the present level of 1.4 annually to four.
After Hurricane Hazel, which killed dozens of people in 1954, Torontonians made strong decisions through their local and provincial governments – such as banning development from flood plains and creating conservation authorities – that proved extremely effective in preventing a repeat of the ma ...
Global warming threatens to put many species on thin ice. But changing temperatures seem to have sparked new life in a group of Antarctic sea sponges.
Reefs, dunes and marshes are key to protecting lives and property against storm surges and long-term sea-level rise.
NAIROBI , Jul 14 2013 (IPS) - REDD – reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation – would seem to be a mitigation strategy that perfectly matches Africa's needs.
PROGRESO, Mexico , Jul 12 2013 (IPS) - Towns on Mexico's Caribbean coast are behind schedule on the design and implementation of plans to face the challenges of climate change, in spite of the urgency of measures to reduce vulnerability
A study has shown that the speed of evolutionary change is far outstripped by the rate of global warming, meaning many creatures will face extinction
The father-son duo of Chris and Mat Hope have published a study in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Climate Change with the counter-intuitive finding that the relative costs of climate change are higher in a world with slower economic growth.
Climate model projections show that the Arctic Ocean will be completely ice-free by the summer by 2060. However, the record lows in sea ice extent of 2007 and 2012 demonstrated that these projections were too optimistic and some scientists think that we might see and ice free Arctic within this ...
Whether farmers believe in climate change or not – 66 percent do – their actions show that they are adapting to global warming, according to panelists at a July 8 discussion on campus.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 286 people were killed in the US in 2012 by West Nile virus, which is carried by mosquitoes. Many bird species eat these mosquitoes and other insects that can be agricultural pests. Rising temperatures are threatening these wild ...
The fate of the world's forests on a warming planet has long been one of the great unanswered questions about climate change.
TUCSON, July 10 (UPI) -- Many species would have to speed up their evolution by 10,000 times to adapt to the rapid climate change expected in the next 100 years, a U.S. ecologist says.
July 9, 2013 — Many vertebrate species would have to evolve about 10,000 times faster than they have in the past to adapt to the rapid climate change expected in the next 100 years, a study led by a University of Arizona ecologist has found.
Maybe Mayor Michael Bloomberg would have gone through the troubling of putting together a 430-page report outlining a $19.5 billion plan to save New York from the threat of climate change had Hurricane Sandy not hit last year and inflicted some $20 billion in New York City alone.
The politics of climate change are a lot like the politics of gun control, at least in the sense that President Obama meant when he asked in April 2013 how Congress could fail to deliver gun control legislation when 90 percent of the American public wants it.
NADI, Fiji ---Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction, says Fiji's work to address flooding in Nadi provides an example for developing countries on integrating management of disaster and climate related risks.
July 8, 2013 — Green spaces, trees and bodies of water are must-have design features for future development in Sydney's suburbs after researchers found that by 2050 global warming combined with Sydney's urban heat island effect could increase temperatures by up to 3.7°C.
July 8, 2013 — A new study led by Florida State University researcher Stephanie Pau shows that tropical forests are producing more flowers in response to only slight increases in temperature.
Invasive animals are a scourge the world over, and on many islands they have decimated local plants and animals.
LOS ANGELES, July 3 (UPI) -- Climate change may affect the evolution of bacteria at the base of the ocean's food chain, selecting certain strains for survival, a U.S. study indicates
July 4, 2013 — Fossil fuel companies have been funding smear campaigns that raise doubts about climate change, writes John Sauven in the latest issue of Index on Censorship magazine.
Biofuels' impact on global food security can be lessened by linked food and energy policies, says a panel of independent experts that is also calling for more research and development.
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 3 (UPI) -- Climate extremes experienced in the decade 2001-2010 were unprecedented, the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, says in a report.
Monitoring a forest in New Hampshire provides clues to how important trees, such as maples, respond to changed conditions due to global warming
July 2, 2013 — Climate change may be weeding out the bacteria that form the base of the ocean's food chain, selecting certain strains for survival, according to a new study.
July 1, 2013 — One out of 10 people on Earth is likely to live in a climate impact hotspot by the end of this century, if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.
LOS ANGELES, July 3 (UPI) -- Climate change may affect the evolution of bacteria at the base of the ocean's food chain, selecting certain strains for survival, a U.S. study indicates.
The European Union (EU) has spent the past 10 years nurturing a €15-billion (US$20-billion) industry that makes transport fuel from food crops such as soya beans and sugar cane in the hope of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions.
UK's first national adaption plan sets out economic opportunities of increasingly more extreme weather, as well as the risks
The Earth experienced unprecedented recorded climate extremes during the decade 2001-2010, according to the World Meteorological Organisation.
A public lecture on "The conservation of agro-biodiversity as a response to climate change" was held last Friday at the George Price Centre for Peace and Development in Belmopan City.
June 27, 2013 — Human influences through global warming are likely to have played a role in Australia's recent "angry" hot summer, the hottest in Australia's observational record, new research has found.
June 27, 2013 — Arizona State University researchers have discovered for the first time that temperature determines where key soil microbes can thrive -- microbes that are critical to forming topsoil crusts in arid lands.
On Tuesday, President Obama announced a Climate Action Plan to address the enormous and growing costs of climate change.
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President Barack Obama announced a sweeping plan to tackle climate change today (June 25), outlining measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote the development of clean energy technologies.
GLAND, Switzerland, June 25 (UPI) -- An international conservation group says climate change threatens many species thought to be safe, which may leave them out of important conservation actions.
June 24, 2013 — Some open-minded people can be swayed to support government intervention on climate change -- but only if they are presented with both the benefits and the costs, a new study suggests.
In terms of the impact of climate change, Bangladesh ranks top the list of the world's most vulnerable nations. Its coastal zones, which make up about 30 percent of the total arable land in the country, are the worst affected areas.
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The stock market today killed the idea of "turnaround Thursdays"...
The Dow fell 225.39 points Thursday, one day after the benchmark fell 113 points, its first triple-digit decline since June 28. With Thursday's drop, the Dow hit its first back-to-back triple-digit decline since June 19-20, when it plummeted nearly 560 points over the two days.
June's rout was spurred by comments from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) following its June meeting. At the time, the central bank said it would taper QE this year should the economy and job market continue to improve.
The current swoon, however, stems from way more than the Fed...
Why Did the Dow Fall Today? 5 Reasons
Taking the blame for Thursday's slide...
- Before the opening bell, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) reported earnings and same store sales that missed expectations. The company posted a Q2 profit of $4.07 billion, or $1.24 a share, compared with $4.02 billion, or $1.18 a share a year earlier. Revenue came in at $116.9 billion. Expectations had been for EPS of $1.25 on revenue of $118.09 billion. The world's largest retailer also lowered its earnings and sales projections for the rest of 2013. Shares slumped almost 3% on the gloomy guidance. "The Wal-Mart earnings report is as big a macro indicator as (GDP)," Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx Group, told Reuters. "It shows that (consumer spending) isn't that strong yet-inflation is rising, wages are not, unemployment is still pretty high and that's not a recipe for a strong retail environment."
- Meanwhile, after the closing bell Wednesday, networking leader Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) signaled it was yet again reining in spending. Despite reporting an 18% jump in fiscal fourth quarter profit, the Silicon Valley tech giant said it is cutting 4,000 jobs. CEO John Chambers blamed the decision on a dismal global economic recovery. "What we see is slow, steady improvement, but not the pace we want," Chambers said on a conference call. Investors' first chance to react to the news was Thursday, and they sent the shares down more than 7%.
- The yield on the 10-yield Treasury note spiked as high as 2.82% Thursday, a level not seen since July 28, 2011. The upward move has many market participants focusing on the timing of the Fed's tapering and calling for a 3% yield in the very near future. Worries the Fed might start turning off its market-friendly spigot as early as September has certainly spooked equity investors.
- Investors also reacted Thursday to an unexpectedly weak reading on manufacturing in the crucial New York region. The Empire State Manufacturing Index slipped to 8.2% in August, down from 9.5% in July. Economists were looking for a 10% rise. The drop suggests that while business conditions for New York manufacturers continued to improve over the past month, it did so at a slower pace than the month before.
- Foreign markets also responded wildly to U.S. market woes that started Wednesday, and weighed on the stock market today. Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 2.1% to 13,752.94, and the Chinese Hang Seng Index ticked lower by 0.01% to 22,539. The Euro Stoxx 50 slid 0.56% to 2,836, the London FTSE 100 plunged 1.3% to 6,502, and the German DAX dropped 0.76% to 8,374.
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Playing Devil's Advocate here. [[TL;DR: Top-tier players have feelings too!]]
It's very possible that the man you are replying to isn't even in a 'elite' guild as you mean it. The current misconception of "elite" brings of images of people downing final bosses in the first week, but this notion is just wrong. To be an elite guild all you have to do is attempt and down hard modes while they are still current. And the number of guilds doing that is staggering compared to the "elite" guilds of BC, and even more extreme when compared to vanilla. So when you say that "Elite" guilds and players are a small part of the population, you are mistaken.
There are many people who wish a challenge, and normal modes are not a challenge for them, nor their guilds (myself included). However when you have only a few hardmodes left in current content, and you hear that there will not be new ones for you to try for another good 3-4 months possibly, its frustrating.
I do understand where you're coming from. I never got to experience AQ40/Naxx/Sunwell, but that doesn't mean that the top tier doesn't have a right to experience the content.
Let me finish with this. I have stopped raiding because my guild has stopped doing hardmodes. I want to raid, i really do, but ToC normal is non-challenging. We clear it in an hour, and then stop raiding for the week on 25mans. I learn this, and although I think it is good for the game (see my comments below) I am dissapointed as it means I won't get back into the content i truly enjoy untill at least february.
Finally, he never said that 'casuals' (another overused and outdated term) didn't deserve to see the content, he just said, in essence, that he is frustrated because it will be a long time untill he will see the content he enjoys. I guess i could have just said the last sentence... but i already typed the above and I ain't gonna delete it =D.


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Mass Effect 3 Rage! Just Rage! Blarhargargh!
Soooooo yeah…is there anyone who hasn't finished ME3 yet? I'm going to say that this is somewhat spoilerish so just skip over all this if you don't want to see it. Enjoy the rage!!!!!
Also there are few petitions online. The first one is just for signatures. I would suggest signing it. Here is the link.
The other is actually raising money and currently sits at over $50,000. It's going to children so it's a good cause and it raises awareness. Here is the link. Back to the scheduled rage!
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Sacrificing story for gameplay? Biiiiiiiiiittttttccchhhh….Absolutely not! Great video detailing some of the PR issues of Bioware and EA though. Enjoy!
Commander Shepard Is Dying! On The User Rating On MetaCritic
Much like Modern Warfare 3 and Portal 2 before it, Mass Effect 3 is getting destroyed on the user ratings over at MetaCritic. I understood this type of trolling for MW3. I felt MW3 was the original MW with no advancement other than Elite. Truth be told though, I'm not the target market for MW. I'm not saying that Bioware and EA don't deserve criticism for the handling of Mass Effect. This is hate for the sake of hate. I just want to point out the following to the people who are hating the game. You bought it. You hate it but you bought it. You can bitch and moan all you like but you still gave your $60 for a game that you think is utter sh$t. So who is winning?
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Just like turning off the lights when you leave a room, there are other small eco-friendly adjustments you can make that will help you go green.
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Coca-Cola's first-quarter profit fell nearly 8 percent as the world's biggest beverage maker faced a stronger dollar and sold less soda.
The Passamaquoddy are aiming to become one of the biggest maple syrup operations in Maine, and bring some hope to a tribe with high joblessness and poverty.
CocaCola and PepsiCo, which report earnings this week, struggle to adapt to changing beverage tastes, but Chipotle Mexican Grill is doing just fine.
U.S. producer prices recorded their largest increase in nine months in March as the cost of food and services rose.
Oprah's new foray into Starbucks tea has plenty of precedent. Here's a look at a few examples of collaborations that go beyond mere celebrity endorsements.
Ally Financial's IPO cuts the government's stake in the company in half to about 17 percent, as the Treasury captures nearly $2.4 billion in proceeds.
Look for giveaways and special offers on or around April 15 from several restaurant and retail chains nationwide.
To slim down for summer without spending money on a gym or overpriced diet meals, enlist your smartphone, stock your larder wisely and just get moving.
Low-cost leader Walmart is using its massive size to drive down the price of many organic food items to make them more affordable for low-income customers.
Gas prices are expected to hold steady through the summer driving season, but food prices are expected to increase by as much as 3.5 percent this year.
Single-serve pods are all the rage in DIY coffee brewing. Keurig Green Mountain is the king, but other companies are profiting too, some in surprising ways.
Toyota is recalling 6.39 million vehicles globally for a variety of problems spanning nearly 30 models in Japan, the U.S., Europe and other places.
For Idaho Candy owner Dave Wagers, making candy the old-fashioned way in a venerable building in downtown Boise is a labor of love -- and a sweet success.
Only two of nine midsize SUVs got the highest rating in crash tests done by an insurance industry group.
Tyson Foods is recalling 75,000 pounds of chicken nuggets sold at Sam's Club warehouse stores, after customers found small bits of plastic inside.
A group of Milwaukee residents wants to revive part of that proud history by buying Pabst Brewing from a California executive in hope of returning the brand to its birthplace.
The way you store your perishables can save you thousands of dollars per year. Use these tips to keep your food fresh and your wallet full.
The steady decline in soft drinks sales has been ongoing for years -- and the trend only worsened last year, as soda sales fell 3 percent, a report finds.
Jakeabob's Bay was a thriving eatery on the Jersey shore where patrons took in gorgeous sunsets. But Jakeabob's won't live to see the second summer after Superstorm Sandy.
With fewer than half the restaurants of KFC, Chick-fil-A outsold the former chicken champ by almost a billion dollars last year.
McDonald's may recently have struggled to lure customers, but it still does far more business at each location than its key rival -- Burger King.
Mexican restaurants in the U.S. are being squeezed by a sudden jump in the price of limes, an essential ingredient, which has led some eateries to alter recipes.
Candy giant Mars is opening its first new plant in 35 years to churn out millions of chocolates and other sweets every day -- to meet Americans' rising demand for confections.
Taco Bell begins airing ads that feature everyday men who happen to have the same name as Ronald McDonald, the mascot known for his bright red hair and yellow jumpsuit.
Taco Bell's new breakfast menu, to be unveiled Thursday, probably won't rattle McDonald's as the destination for hungry commuters.
On the outskirts of Phoenix, the Hayden Flour Mill is bringing back some of Arizona's agricultural roots and a part of America's food history he worried had disappeared.
Quizos and Sbarro file for bankruptcy reorganization, hoping that fiscal makeovers will turn the tide. Both quick-service chains will live on, but they may not be the same.
Walmart says it has rolled out an online tool that allows shoppers to compare its prices on 80,000 food and household products to those of its competitors.
Darden Restaurants has another soft quarter, but plans to spin off or sell Red Lobster and new menu items at Olive Garden don't seem to be enough.
Digital entertainment topped this week's news: used video games at Walmart, a new sitcom for Netflix and a price hike for Pandora's ad-free service.
Sales at Darden's struggling Red Lobster chain dropped by 8.8 percent, as reported this month. But another factor weighing on Red Lobster is higher shrimp costs.


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Public interest attorney Maria Mier '08 co-wrote an editorial in The Courier-Journal and The Lexington Herald-Leader reflecting on civil rights and Martin Luther King's legacy in Kentucky. The article was co-written with John Johnson, Executive Director of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights.
Mier and Johnson write, "As we honor King on this holiday, we must recognize him for what he
truly was — a freedom fighter seeking to upend the unjust status quo.
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My boyfriend loved the German beer, I loved the food.
Defiently come again.
We went on a quiet Wednesday evening, looking for maas and an oompah band. Instead there were several guys watching football, not the greatest atmosphere, especially when they turned the cheesy euro pop music off to listen to the football too.
However, it was certainly an authentic experience from a food and drinks perspective. Paulaner, draft, served in a maas (litre glass) with a side of bratwurst, creamy mash and sour kraut. Although some tipsy calculations suggested that the beer was actually more expensive when purchased by the litre rather than the pint...those crazy Germans!
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Went here last night to watch Germany defeat Turkey in the euro 2008. £5 cover charge which i found a bit steep, but all in all, the staff were very friendly and effecient, although the lederhosens i saw could do with a launder!
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Past and Present Perspectives on the Texas Missions
Gilberto M. Hinojosa
Ever since Franciscan friars planted the first missions on Texas soil in the late 1600s observers of these institutions have projected their personal and professional biases on their historical reflections. Each recorder has laid claims to objectivity, proporting to relate events "as they really happened." But despite his or her assertions, unavoidably each has adopted a perspective that determined the criteria used to select some facts over others, to emphasize particular motives, and to convey one or another impression of the overall picture. Inevitably all scholars inject their biases into their historical accounts, and the best they can do is to admit and state them candidly to their readers. While some historians of the missions have assumed this responsibility, others have not, although their work reveals their perspective nonetheless.
The very first historians of the Texas missions were friars themselves, and generally they tended to discount the complaints of all the participants except those made by their fellow religious. The padres produced in-house histories that pictured government officials as interested only in reducing the state's expenditures while increasing their personal fortunes. According to the friars, settlers wanted mission lands and Indian servants and the Indians were too backward to appreciate the labors of the padres. From their perspective, they (the missionaries) were dedicated to spiritual ideals, even when these were unobtainable.
But the padres were not the only ones to unsheath the pen; officials and settlers also recorded their observations. The authorities and the non-religious civilians competed with the friars for the land and labor resources and consequently had few words of praise for the missionaries. In their reports military captains and the governors often chastized the padres for meddling in governmental affairs. Settlers too, filed many complaints virulently accusing the friars of shameful exploitation of the Indians. These highly critical accounts reached not only Mexico City but also the peninsular governmental agencies.
Yet these reports could not outdo the records produced by the missionaries, not in content, nor in volume. Monumental works by Friars J. Manuel Espinosa, Juan Domingo Aricivita, and Diego Bringas circulated widely and eventually saw publication. These testimonials exemplify the missionaries zeal to immortalize the great and the martyred among their brothers in religion and their need to pay homage to even the lesser brethren. Many shorter historical sketches by other friars can be found in the archives. All of these accounts by historian-padres portray the labors of their fellow missionaries as divinely inspired and judge everything that interfered with the great task of saving souls of pagans as the work of satan.
Government officials saw other forces at play in Texas. In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, under the influence of the Bourbon Reforms, the military governors argued that New Spain's frontier needed more settlers and soldiers, not more neophytes in quasi-monasteries. In proposing a new Indian policy that deemphasized the role of the missions, Assistant Inspector Antonio Bonilla, author of A Brief Compendium of the history of Texas, reviewed past economic strategies in the province and actually blamed the Franciscans for retarding the development of Texas.
As expected, a number of Franciscans rose to defend their brothers. The most famous of these defenders was Fray Agustin Morfi, whose "History of Texas" has influenced subsequent works on the missions immensely. Because few records have survived the ravages of time and because many historians have examined the extant documentary evidence very uncritically, Morfi's "History" and other chronicles by the friars have been taken as completely accurate descriptions of the missions long after the controversies that inspired those histories were forgotten.
In the American period, United States scholars did not contribute much to the historical understanding of the missions until this century. Influenced by the Black Legend, American historians at first tended to down play any Spanish contribution, particularly if made by clergymen. It was not until the late 1800s when Hubert Howe Bancroft began collecting, reproducing, and studying documents from the Spanish period that attention was given to mission history. Bancroft and his group of researchers in the History Company employed the then relatively new "scientific" techniques in the field as they unearthed and "objectively" analyzed the vast source materials available for studying the American Southwest and Mexico.
An heir to that tradition, Herbert Eugene Bolton made invaluable contributions to the history of the missions. He began his career at the turn of the century at the University of Texas at Austin where he discovered the rich archival resources that shed much light on many forgotten episodes. Bolton penned several important works, including his 1915 Texas in the Eighteenth Century and his later Athenase de Mezieres, both of which remain fundamental studies on the colonial period. Perhaps reacting against his American colleagues, Bolton developed deep sympathies for the Spanish viewpoint, although he veered away from this slightly as he studied Indian relations. In any event, Bolton's pro-Spanish perspective remained strong, a welcome balance in a sea of overt anti-Spanish historical treatment.
Bolton's essay on the mission as a frontier institution immediately became a landmark theoretical piece. The significance of this essay and of all his works for the history of the missions lies more on the impact of these institutions than on how they worked. Bolton and his followers, including William E. Dunn, who researched the Apache missions in Texas, were interested in the role of the frontier within the larger picture of imperial objectives. In this context they saw the mission as an instrument of the settlement of a buffer zone threatened by foreign powers.
The actual internal operation of the missions was left for others to research. Scholars such as Mattie Austin Hatcher, J. Villasana Haggard, Nettie Lee Benson and Carlos Eduardo Castañeda who dug through the University of Texas at Austin archives filled in the mosaic of the Spanish past in that far northeastern province. Castañeda produced what is perhaps the most outstanding history of the province's colonial past, Our Catholic Heritage in Texas. In this work, Castañeda built on and advanced Bolton's earlier work, researching many forgotten aspects of the area's history, including the therefore neglected San Antonio mission story.
Castañeda and all of these authors published very scholarly and generally fair works. They valued a strict fidelity to their sources, and to that extent they often showed a bias for the viewpoint of those who had written the documents they researched. Castañeda, for example, worked from the friars' reports and thus presented their version, a fact sometimes lost, given the author's vast and impressive coverage. He was not alone in taking this point of view. Local chroniclers Frederich Chabot and Edward Huesinger who added to the mission portrait, adopted the same bais. Nevertheless, the contributions made by Castañeda and his contemporaries were significant and inspired other scholars, archivists, and translators to continue enriching Texas' historical studies.
Twentieth century Franciscan scholars have also reexamined mission history and have followed the perspective taken by Castañeda and set by the friars in the eighteenth century. Operating since 1931 in their former San Antonio missions, these modern religious historians have been more sophisticated than their brothers in the 1700s, but not any less candid or argumentative. Yet they have produced solid, standard works, which have survived time. Father Marion Habig's Alamo Chain of Missions and Father Benedict Leuteneggar's Guidelines for a Texas Missionary, one of many of his translations, are indispensable for studying the work of the friars and for the area's overall history. These scholars' underlying assumption that the missions were beneficial for the Indians is basically identical to the perspective that colored the original reports of the friars who sought to "civilize" the natives.
The Indians did not record their acceptance or rejection of the missions, but scholars researching areas of the Southwest other than Texas have concluded that these institutions were detrimental to the natives' welfare. In The Conflict Between the California Indians and White Civilization Sherburne Cook studied the decimation of the Indians, documenting the results of the changes in their dietary, cultural, and work traditions and in their general living habits. Anthropologist Edward H. Spicer, in Cycles of Conquest, described the disruption of native societies in north-central Mexico caused by the imposition of Spanish culture on Indian religion, social organization, law, dress, behavior, and family life. While the pro-Indian sympathies of these researchers led them to sketch a harsher portrait of the area's Spanish past than the one drawn by other twentieth century historians, but the bleak picture resulted from a new and legitimate scholarly interest: the cultural change produced by the meeting of peoples with very different lifestyles and economic goals.
Ethno-historians in Texas have also paid attention to these issues. Thomas N. Campbell has been focusing on native cultures, with particular interest in the pre-Spanish cultures. His work on the Coahuiltecans and the Rio Grande missions constitutes an invaluable contribution to Texas history. Another ethno-historian, Mardith Schuetz has provided perhaps the best description of life in the San Antonio missions. Her findings are rather similar to Cook's, although she is not as critical of the padres. Her study outlines the process of Hispanization of the mission population, and to that extent confirms the ultimate success of the original objectives of the mission system.
Incorporating the ethno-historian perspective to some extent, Elizabeth A. H. John has focused on Spanish-Indian relations beyond the mission walls where most of the native population resided. John's scope in Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds includes East Texas French and New Mexican trade enterprises as well as Texas topics. Her attention to Indian interests sheds considerable light on Spanish policy-making, which heretofore had been considered as unaffected by native concerns. John's pro-Indian viewpoint, along with Campbell's and Schuetz', did not necessarily result in anti-Spanish and anti-clerical histories.
Indeed, treatment of the Texas missions has generally been only mildly critical of work of the friars. Works by writer-historians such as William Coroner, Adina De Zavala, Chabot, and Heusinger have actually been romantically admiring. This perspective has inspired great effort for the preservation of the missions, although it has not always contributed greatly to our understanding of them.
Despite the great effort of the pro-Indian historians, the view of the Indian is still missing from the Texas mission picture. Perhaps understandably, this perspective is largely absent from the Spanish record and can only be inferred at the great risk of violating traditional historical methodological standards. To portray those left out of prominent governmental records historians need to employ demographic techniques such as those used by Scheutz and Cook and trace the bits and pieces of information utilized by social historians.
Undoubtedly the historians that provide those much-needed insights on the Texas missions will have their own biases, much like the missionaries, government officials, archivists, historians, anthropologists, and ethno-historians have had theirs. There is no possible way to be completely and anesthetically objective. What is imperative is that all who reflect on the past recognize and admit their own perspectives so that these biases do not get in the way of our understanding the past. Only in that manner can the historical mosaic of the missions be clearly presented.
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