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Exploring Ireland's Health Care Services
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Associate Professors Jeanette Rossetti & Kathleen Musker
The primary purpose of this program is to provide participants with the opportunity to explore a variety of healthcare services in Ireland. During this program students will learn about the history of Ireland's health care system and the variety of Ireland's health services. This will include specialties of nursing, public health, and health studies. Students in the College of Health and Human Services and beyond will find the focus of health care services applicable to their academic interests, as well. With a student centered learning approach the co-directors of the program will gear assignments and learning activities to the specialty interests of the program's enrolled students. In addition, students will be exposed to the cultural opportunities that the beautiful country of Ireland has to offer.
For the complete PDF please click Exploring Irelands Health Care Services 16.pdf
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PROGRAM ACADEMIC CREDIT: For satisfactory participation in the program, participants will receive 3 semester hours of undergraduate or graduate credit in one of the following NIU courses.
NURS 350 Exploring Ireland's Health Care Services 3 semester hours
Description: Qualified students pursue an in-depth study into particular problems or areas of nursing.
Prerequisite: Written permission of school chair.
INTL 301 Study Abroad Programs* 3 semester hours
Description: Course work undertaken as part of an approved university study abroad program. May be counted toward the satisfaction of general education requirements if approved as the equivalent of an authorized general education course.
IDSP 501: Study Abroad Programs* 3 semester hours
Description: Course work undertaken as part of an approved university study abroad program. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 semester hours.
*INTL 301 and IDSP 501: Students from majors other than Nursing and Health Studies or students who have already received credit in NURS 350 or NURS 630 may choose to enroll in INTL 301 (undergraduate level) or IDSP 501 (graduate level).
HONORS CREDIT: Qualified students may also elect to receive Honors credit for any study abroad course(s) with the approval of the NIU faculty or instructor responsible for the course. For more information please contact the University Honors Office.
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APPLICATION: Click Exploring Ireland's Health Care Services or visit the NIU Study Abroad Office website at https://niu.studioabroad.com (and search for "Ireland" or the Exploring Ireland's Health Care Services program) to begin the online application process for this program. The online process provides guidance on requesting information, advising, or applying for the program. More detailed instructions can be found on the https://niu.studioabroad.com website or by contacting the Study Abroad Office at (815) 753-0700 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
$200 APPLICATION FEE/DEPOSIT: A $200 application fee/deposit is required of all applicants. The $200 is broken down into $100 for the non-refundable application fee and $100 for a program deposit. Both the application fee and the deposit will be applied to the total balance of the program cost. The $100 deposit is refundable only if the participant withdraws prior to the withdrawal deadline indicated on the program materials or for medical reasons verified by a physician if the withdrawal takes place after the withdrawal deadline.
The $200 application fee/deposit will be charged to NIU students' NIU Bursar's account. (Checks and money orders cannot be accepted from NIU students.) Non-NIU students must submit a check or money order in the amount of $200. More detailed instructions regarding the application fee/deposit can be found on the seminar application website.
IMPORTANT – All applications will be categorized as "Pending – No Deposit" until the $200 application fee/deposit has been received (or, in the case of non-NIU students, once a check has been received). The Study Abroad Office will not consider or process applications without the $200 application fee/deposit. In order to reserve your place in the program you must submit the $200 deposit within 14 days of application. After 14 days applications without a deposit will be inactivated.
• Priority Deadline for NIU Nursing and Health Studies (NUHS) students: April 1, 2016
• All other NIU students and non-NIU students: April 8, 2016
*Late applications are strongly discouraged will be only be considered on a case-by-case basis.
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Students must be in good academic and disciplinary standing at the time of application. Students who are on academic or disciplinary probation are not eligible to participate in study abroad programs. Applicants must participate in the entire program and satisfy NIU undergraduate or graduate admission and course requirements.
Students cannot have any encumbrances against their NIU records. Any encumbrances placed on a student's records by NIU (i.e., the Graduate School, Undergraduate Admissions, Bursar's Office, Accounts Receivable, Registration and Records, Health Services, Parking Services, etc.) must be cleared before a student is granted admission to a study abroad program.
For undergraduate students to be admitted to the program, an applicant's official transcript must be on file in the NIU Study Abroad Office. Students who are currently enrolled at NIU, or who have previously enrolled at NIU, do not need to request an official transcript; the Study Abroad Office will make this request on behalf of the applicant. Students who want to participate in the program and earn academic credit from NIU who have not previously enrolled at NIU, or who are not currently enrolled at NIU, should ask the Registrar at their institution to forward an official transcript as soon as possible to the Study Abroad Office. (Student-issued transcripts and photocopies are not acceptable.) Questions relating to the admission requirements or transcripts should be directed to the Study Abroad Office.
Students who desire to obtain graduate credit must either be admitted to a graduate program within the NIU Graduate School, or be admitted to the status of a "student-at-large" (SAL) within NIU's Graduate School. For students to be admitted to the program for graduate credit, the applicant's official transcript must be on file in the NIU SAO. Students who are currently enrolled at NIU, or who have previously enrolled at NIU, do not need to request an official transcript. However, students who will participate in the program in order to earn academic credit as an SAL (students who have not currently enrolled, nor are previously enrolled at NIU) must provide a transcript from the baccalaureate institution and from any institution at which graduate credit has been earned. This document must be provided to the SAO before a student can be admitted as an SAL to the program. (Student issued transcripts and photocopies are not acceptable.)
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Program FeesNIU PROGRAM COST: The program cost pays for the following cost related services:
1) Accommodations and Continental breakfast daily OR lunch on days with guest speakers or academic site visits, along with a welcome and farewell dinner and two other dinners during the program.
2) Program-related land transportation
3) Admission fees to cultural and historical sites visited as part of the daily schedule
4) International Student I.D. Card
5) NIU undergraduate or graduate credit
6) NIU major medical insurance
*Price subject to change pending currency exchange fluctuations.
All prices quoted are subject to change. The information contained in the program documents and forms is presented in good faith and is believed to be correct as of the date presented. Northern Illinois University reserves the right to amend, modify, revise, or delete any information appearing in these documents, including but not limited to the cost of the program.
Non-NIU students should consult with their home institutions regarding additional costs that may apply to study abroad. Non-NIU students are responsible for any study abroad charges imposed by their home institution.
• Airfare
• Cost of acquiring a passport (approximately $135, including 2 passport pictures).
• Passport size photos.
• Additional costs associated with obtaining a visa for non-U.S. passport holders.
• $40 Undergraduate application fee for non-NIU undergraduate students.
• Breakfast AND/OR lunch and most dinners (see included meals).
• Independent travel and visa costs associated with independent travel.
• Expenses for free-time pursuits.
• Expenses and purchases of a personal nature.
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Applicants withdrawing from the program after this date will also be held accountable for any funds obligated to overseas vendors and agents on the applicant's behalf. This provision is in effect even if the applicant has not submitted the $200 deposit or additional payments, and if the applicant is applying for financial aid.
If the applicant must withdraw after April 1, 2016 for medical reasons, funds obligated on their behalf to overseas vendors can only be refunded if:
1) The request is submitted to the Study Abroad Office in writing and accompanied by a signed statement stating that travel is not advised from a physician on the physician's letterhead; and
2) NIU is able to obtain refunds from overseas vendors and agents.
CANCELLATION OF THE PROGRAM: The Study Abroad Office reserves the right to cancel this program if the minimum required enrollment is not attained. If, prior to the commencement of the program, a U.S. State Department Travel Warning is issued for Ireland, all applicants will be notified promptly of the warning and the possibility of cancellation of the program. If, during the course of the program, a U.S. State Department Travel Warning is issued for Ireland, students will be promptly notified of the warning and the advisability of canceling the program.
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PASSPORT: --IMPORTANT--All participants are required to possess a valid passport by May 1, 2016. Important Note: U.S. passports must be valid SIX months beyond the intended stay overseas. Individuals who do not currently possess a valid passport should apply for one immediately upon acceptance into the program. Passport applications can take anywhere from two to six weeks to process therefore you must not delay in applying for your passport. Information on applying for a passport as well as expediting a passport application can be found at http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports.html. Foreign passport holders may need special visas for travel and are responsible for obtaining all necessary visas.Back to top
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St Michael's is the oldest girls' school North of the Orange River. It was founded by Bishop Webb in 1874, and in the same year, the first Mother Superior, Sister Emma, and five volunteers arrived in Bloemfontein to become the…
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First and foremost, SMS is a school where huge emphasis is placed on academic excellence with a 100 % pass rate for 36 consecutive years. We also look at the quality of results: SMS obtained a 100 % Bachelors pass (University admission) twice in the past three years. Our learners perform well in various academic competitions provincially and nationally.
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My mistress says you mustn't stare into the fire lest the devil look out at you from the flames. "He'll see into your soul," she says.
My mistress says a great many things about the devil.
But before cockcrow, when my mistress is still abed and I'm sitting on my heels coaxing the embers into life with my breath, I stare into the fire with no fear of the devil. The devil, I think, wakes up when my mistress does.
Before then, the house is quiet and my face is warm with the fire I'm making. I stare into the coals and the new little flames licking blue and yellow around the kindling, and I don't see the devil or the mouth of hell. I see summer and yellow sun, and in the smooth flames curling around the wood, I see clear water flowing through rushes the way it did in the stream when I was a little girl.
I've just long enough for a memory of splashing in the stream with my big sister, Rose, before the rafters tremble with the sound of my mistress stirring above.
Cook limps heavily into the kitchen and casts a baleful eye at the upstairs room. "There'll be weeping today, you mark me," she says, and busies herself with the pots.
It's a big house, this, for my mistress's father was five times Lord Mayor of Lynn and an alderman of the Holy Trinity Guildhall, too. The mistress doesn't let it be forgotten, not by the servants nor by the goodwives of the town, for all that she's a religious woman.
"She'll be wanting you," Cook says.
I lean forward to give the fire one last breath, although it doesn't need it. For one more instant, it's summer and I'm with Rose and the sun is warming my face.
Then I rock back on my heels and stand, letting the cold air settle around me. I heave the bucket of water I've brought in and start up the stairs.
I'm halfway up when the weeping begins.
"Ah, sweet Jesu," my mistress calls out, and then she is crying in earnest, great heaving sobs. "My sweet Lord," she cries.
I hover on the stairs. Up or down?
"Johanna!" My mistress shrieks my name from her room and up I scurry. I've been here long enough to know the consequences if I don't.
I open her door with my foot, swinging the heaving bucket into the room. She's sitting on her bed, her face in her hands, the tears coming fast. The water from my bucket goes into the hand basin with only a river or so spilled out, and then her foul-smelling night bucket is in my hands and I'm on the stairs again.
"Come back, you stupid girl."
I stop. Even when she's full of the passion that Our Lady Mary suffered for her poor son, my mistress notices things. You'd think she'd be blinded by her tears.
"The fire, Johanna."
I set the buckets down and creep into the room again. I had thought to come back for the fire later, when I brush her hair and pin up her headdress--after the weeping has abated. But my mistress likes to be warm and toasty while she shares Our Lady's pain.
The bellows crouch beside the fireplace. I mend the coals with the tongs, then blow them into flames with the bellows. Already, while my mistress was sleeping, I've brought up the coal. Also, I've scoured the bottles and pots left from yesterday. And brought in the water for Cook and for me, lots of water, fetched from the Common Ditch, a long walk through the ooze and muck of the streets in the chill damp of the morning.
My mistress feels such compassion for Our Lord, she cries and cries at the thought of him on his rood. You'd think she could spare some compassion for me. Almost June and still the mornings are cold as midwinter.
She interrupts her weeping to say, "Don't dally before the fire, you wicked girl. The devil creeps into the souls of those who dally."
She should know.
I escape down the stairs to haul the iron pots of water to the fire for washing. Linens today.
When I lived by the river, off in the Fens, after my mother died giving birth to a baby who didn't live to see the sunrise, my sister Rose did the washing. Back then, I really did dally, kicking my heels in the stream, weaving sedges together to make birdcages, trying to catch silvery minnows with my bare hands, fashioning pipes of reeds. I thought I was working, but Rose was doing it all. Now that she's married to a farmer, she knows even more about work.
Dame Margery thinks she's overburdened, what with the Lord's suffering on her shoulders, but she knows nothing of burdens. Cook and I and poor little Cicilly know about burdens. Cicilly has a cough, so Cook and I have conspired to let her sleep longer. Just so she's visible by the time the mistress sweeps downstairs.
Since our household broke up at Michaelmas--Rose going off with her farmer, my father going to harvest the bishop's fields, and me going into service for Dame Margery here in town--Cook has been all the family I have. Cook and Cicilly. Piers, who does the men's labor, treats me too ill to be family. He grabs my braids and sometimes my skirts in a way I don't like at all. Besides, he smells.
But Cook can laugh. She's a sly one, Cook is, when her joints aren't making her limp and groan.
"Come, Johanna," she says. "Here's her morning meal to be taken up. Enough for her and whatever saint is visiting today."
It's when I'm up the stairs, handing her the trencher, that my mistress changes my life again, for the second time in a year.
"God has told me to go on pilgrimage to Rome," Dame Margery says. "I'll need a maidservant. Cicilly's too young; Cook is too old. You'll go with me, Johanna."
My mouth drops open. A pilgrimage to Rome? With my mistress?
"The Lord doesn't hold with idleness. Get on about your duties," she says, her mouth full of bread.
I tear down the stairs as fast as I can.
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I'm not very familiar with medieval history, but Barnhouse definitely brought the time period alive. You can see and hear and smell everything right along with Johanna, both the good and the bad. As Johanna travels with the pilgrims, you get to experience medieval Europe through the eyes of a young girl, who must serve the party but still tries to preserve her own independence as much as she can.
Johanna struggles with her faith throughout the book in very realistic and age-appropriate ways. In a world and time where being a good and devout Christian is of great importance, she tries hard to keep her thoughts and actions kind, despite the many injustices being done to her. As she gets into increasingly difficult situations, she starts to feel like God and the saints have abandoned her. As she deals with all of this, the book never feels preachy. It simply allows you in to Johanna's thoughts as she tries to figure things out on her own.
The Book of the Maidservant was one of the best books I've read in a while. It's a wonderful work of middle grade historical fiction: realistic and educational while remaining very interesting and relatable.
Full review originally posted on my blog, PidginPea's Book Nook (link in my profile).
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Apple Mac OS X Leopard review
So the wait is finally over, Apple's latest Operating system is here and you've got the decision to make as to whether you should upgrade or run for cover until you are forced to do so. Should you upgrade? Pocket-lint braved the install.
Unlike Microsoft's move from Windows XP to Windows Vista, Apple's move to Leopard from Tiger isn't as bold. That's not to say there aren't a stack of new features jam-packed in the new OS, but the good news is that it's very much business as usual.
This business as usual is good in our mind because it means that there isn't likely to be the backlash Vista has experienced from Windows users across the globe.
So what do you get for your £80? Well 300+ new features, but the key ones include a new-look dock, complete with Stacks, a download folder if you use Safari, Spaces, Time Machine, Quick Look, Parental Controls, Boot Camp and some speed and performance improvements to Mail, iChat and other Apple apps.
So that's what you get, but are the new features any good? Lets run through the list above:
The Dock
Realising that people want more and more applications on the dock at the bottom of the screen, Apple have overhauled the dock to allow you to now stack applications in folders. Called Stacks they sit on the right hand side of the dock bar and allow you to group files or applications in folders that you've created. It's pretty handy and something that if you find you've got lots of browsers or photo applications on your dock (like we have) then you can now tidy them up. Scrolling over the image springs up the stack and then you can choose from there. In keeping with the stacking system, Apple has also created a download folder which automatically puts your downloads into a folder rather than clogging up your desktop. Apple has also updated the look of the dock making it more 3-dimensional. It's nice, but at times can look a little confusing with the blue light to show an application is running not as clear as the black arrow on Tiger.
Like Dashboard this is yet more space for you to lose applications. The idea is that you can have up to 16 desktops working at once and assign applications to open in certain spaces so you, yep that's right, don't get a "cluttered" desktop. The system works well, but you can, very much like Dashboard, forget which space which application is running. In an attempt to make it easier you can shortcut straight to a space via control and the screen number or by pressing F8 and then seeing them all at a glance. You can also move application windows around between screens just by dragging them over. Why would you need it? Well we've found that it's good for stuff that you are doing in the background, like download files or having your iTunes window up without getting in the way of your work space. However we don't like that you can't contain the Alt-Tab use to a single space like you can in Linux.
Time Machine
Probably one of the biggest new features of Leopard is Time Machine a backup system that ensures you don't loose all your files. Taking the idea from Microsoft's System Restore, the application will save your entire system to a backup drive of your choice and then every hour, every day and every week will work to make sure that you have a backup. In practice it's a serious bit of software that allows you to travel back in time on your computer and sort anything out. It's both powerful and impressive.
Quick Look
Quick look is an evolution of image preview, except now instead of just giving you a quick glance of images it gives you a quick glance of virtually all content files like word documents, images or text files. Where its comes in handy is when, using an improved "Finder" you can view files in a folder in CoverFlow just like you do album art in iTunes or on your iPod and therefore see roughly whether it's the right document before you open it with the full application. You can even view it full screen, which is nice.
Parental Controls
While some might see it as very Nanny State, Apple thinking of the kids has implemented a number of features under a parental control tab. What this means in practice is that you get easy admin setup so you can treat your kids like your office most likely treats you, i.e., give them access to certain programs, websites and the like. The feature also includes the ability for that account to be only accessible at certain times of the day and the ability to log what websites the user has looked at. Parents will no doubt love it.
Boot Camp
If you've got an Intel Mac then you can now officially create a partition and run Windows on it. For those who've been using the beta, there isn't any real noticeable difference here, but it does mean that you can be sure that you'll get support. Additionally it is also considerably easier to set up and you won't have to worry that your machine is going to blow up because you are part of a beta programme. You will however need a copy of Windows to install.
So should you upgrade? At £80 there is plenty here to justify the expense and unlike going from Windows to Vista the experience isn't anywhere near as bad or confusing.
In the couple of days we've been playing with the new OS we've had no issues with any applications not working and noticed a minor speed increase in applications opening, which is always nice, and more emphasis on warning you something is about to happen in the same way as Vista does. It's not as forced on you and you can easily turn it off, but it's clear Apple are trying to make it easier for new users.
However, the more we've played with the new features the more we've grown to like some of them. Time Machine is especially good.
Spaces is the most interesting from a daily usability point of view and if you can spend some time setting it up works very well. Perhaps not as well as within Linux, but it will help ensure you stay clutter free.
A thumbs up.
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Down by the river on a bright summers day, Big and Little Nutbrown Hare are lazily looking at all the colors around them. Its so hard to decide which ones they like best! Big Nutbrown Hares favorite blue is the blue of the sky, while Little Nutbrown Hares favorite green is the green of the leaves. But which of the many lovely shades of brown will the Nutbrown Hares decide is the best of all?
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Chapter OneEarly Life
Grant once said, "My family is American, and has been for generations, in all of its branches." He could trace his lineage to Matthew Grant, who left England and settled in Massachusetts in 1630. Grant's grandfather Noah served in the Revolutionary War from Connecticut and then afterward drifted around Pennsylvania before calling Deerfield, Ohio, his home in 1799. There Noah lived with his second wife, Rachel, and their seven children. Among them was a son named Jesse, Grant's father, who was born on January 23, 1794, near Greensburg, Pennsylvania. When Jesse was eleven, his mother died, and his father felt he could not properly take care of his children so he sent them elsewhere to live.
Eventually Ohio Supreme Court Judge George Tod and his wife took in Jesse and gave him the security and encouragement he so desperately needed. At sixteen Jesse chose to become a tanner and apprenticed in Kentucky at a factory owned by his half brother Peter. Shoes and saddles seemed to be his calling, but Jesse also had a strong desire for education and spent his evenings reading.
A few years later he returned to Ohio and worked in Deerfield at a tannery owned by Owen Brown. Jesse also resided with Brown and his family and became close with their son John, who was very outspoken about his antislavery views and later gained notoriety as a fiery abolitionist in Kansas. John Brown is more well-known for leading an unsuccessful raid on the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, a few decades later in 1859. Jesse echoed Brown's feelings and claimed it was the reason he left Kentucky in 1820 for Point Pleasant, Ohio, about twenty-five miles southeast of Cincinnati, near the mouth of the Big Indian Creek at the Ohio River. He said, "I would not own slaves and I would not live where there were slaves and not own them."
There Jesse worked for a man named Thomas Page, who told him about John and Sarah Simpson, who with their children lived ten miles away in Bantam on their six-hundred-acre farm. They built their home on land they purchased from Page after arriving from Pennsylvania. Twenty-six-year-old Jesse felt a desire to settle down and find a wife. During trips to purchase hides near the Simpson farm, he found other reasons to visit. One of them was their daughter Hannah, and another was Mrs. Simpson, an avid reader who graciously shared her books with him. The more he visited the Simpsons, the more Jesse became smitten with Hannah, and he began to see her on a regular basis. One of Grant's biographers described Hannah in this way: "Her slim figure, above medium height, was always erect, her delicately chiseled brunette face forever composed." Another biographer said she was "a plain, unpretending girl, handsome, but not vain."
Jesse and Hannah courted for several months before marrying on June 24, 1821, at her father's home. The newlyweds moved into a one-story frame house in Point Pleasant, next door to the tannery where Jesse worked. Life was fairly simple for the young couple. During the day, Jesse tanned and scraped hides, while his wife kept the house and attended church on Sundays. She came from a family of devout Methodists, and although Jesse had no religious affiliation, he liked this about Hannah. After they married, he sometimes attended church with her. Jesse also kept up with his reading and enjoyed talking politics with other men in Point Pleasant. He even penned an occasional piece for the local newspaper about slavery and other national affairs.
Life changed for the Grants when their first child was born on April 27, 1822. Weighing almost eleven pounds, he had dark red-brown hair and fair skin. The baby remained nameless for about a month until his mother was well enough to travel. Then Jesse took the family to Bantam where the Simpsons gathered to name the newborn. Among the suggestions discussed by the naming party were Albert and Theodore; John Simpson came up with the name Hiram, and Sarah offered Ulysses since it was the name of the prominent Grecian general who conquered the Trojans with a wooden horse. It was on her mind since she had just read François Fénelon's The Adventures of Telemachus. The names were placed into a hat, and Hannah's youngest sister Anne drew the slip of paper marked Ulysses. Jesse thought the best course of action was to satisfy both in-laws, so he named his first son Hiram Ulysses Grant.
Soon afterward his parents decided the name Hiram was not very appealing; so they called him Ulysses or "my Ulysses," as Jesse often referred to the boy. His childhood friends often teased young Grant by calling him "Useless."(He much preferred his first name, as proven by his early schoolbooks, inscribed "Hiram U. Grant.")
When he was a year old, the family moved to Georgetown, Ohio, where Jesse set up his own tannery near the town square. They lived in a two-story brick home, and Jesse continued to pursue his interest in politics and writing newspaper articles. The Grants prospered there, and within two years another child, Samuel, was born. By all accounts Grant was a happy child and early on displayed a fascination with horses. At the tender age of two, when a circus came to town, he showed no fear in climbing on top of a pony, and thrilled the audience by riding the animal around a ring several times.
Grant had a number of childhood friends. One of them, James M. Sanderson, described the future general as a "little short fat fellow." Sanderson recalled that when Grant was five, he "usually went with boys older than himself because he passed for a boy 3 or 4 years older than he was." Early on Grant displayed an aptitude for mathematics, or what Sanderson called "mental arithmetic." Furthermore, Sanderson said, when they were in school, "the teachers used to give us a lot of them [math exercises], one after another, every day during the term. Most of us hated them and would make all kinds of excuses to get out of the exercises, while young Grant was anxious to have the teacher fire them at him. His mind seemed exactly fitted for such problems at a moment's notice." This skill stuck with him and at West Point it was one of the few subjects in which he excelled. Grant attended the local schools in Georgetown, but eventually his father sent him to live with relatives in Maysville, Ohio, for the winter, where he enrolled in an academy run by two male teachers, Richardson and Rand. After that he attended another school in Ripley, Ohio.
As he grew older, Grant participated in the typical childhood pleasures of boys his own age: fishing in the summer, skating in the winter, and even though he was not a very good athlete, playing ball. Grant also liked to swim and was known to "out-swim boys larger and stronger than he." One thing he detested was hunting. The idea of killing animals appalled him; this probably stemmed from his dislike of the tannery operated by his father.
The Grant family rapidly grew in size, and by 1839 there were three boys and three girls. Jesse was forced to build onto the house, and since Grant was the oldest child, he had his own room. Outside his bedroom window was his father's tannery, which Grant abhorred. The smell emanating from the tanned hides turned his stomach. He hated working there, and for that matter, he despised household chores.
It was a different matter when it came to horseback riding, many years later Sanderson still marveled at how Grant
seemed perfectly fearless of horses and would sometimes ride at breakneck speed with only a bridle on the horse's head. Otherwise, he didn't care much for hunting, but he loved to shoot at a mark and when he was about 15 was a good marksman, having won a badge one year at a Fourth of July celebration. One of the quietest boys I ever knew and yet he was well liked by every boy in Georgetown who knew him. Something about him made the boys respect him.
His interest was always horses, and he was known to go into the stable and crawl beneath them. One time a neighbor told his mother that she feared the young boy might be injured by a horse hoof. But Hannah simply responded, "Horses seem to understand Ulysses."
Grant loved horses even more as he got older, and he developed extraordinary skills of gentle discipline and command over them. At the age of seven he was driving a team, and soon, to his father's delight, he took over much of the hauling for the tannery and plowing on the farm. Two years later he bought his own horse and developed a reputation as a skilled rider to the point that locals brought him their own horses to break and train. There is an oft-told story that reflects Grant's infatuation with horses: at eight years old he wanted to purchase a colt owned by Robert Ralston, who lived on a farm west of Georgetown. Jesse agreed that his son could have another horse and trusted him to negotiate the price with Ralston. The farmer was asking twenty-five dollars for the colt, which Jesse felt was too high. He told Grant to try and negotiate a lower price. Apparently the excited boy told Ralston: "Papa says I may offer you twenty dollars for the colt, but if you won't take that, I am to offer twenty-two and a half, and if you won't take that, to give you twenty-five." Years later when he recounted the story, Grant closed with: "It would not require a Connecticut man to guess the price finally agreed upon."
Thanks mostly to his mother, religion played an important part in Grant's childhood. The Reverend John P. Newman, a family friend, verified this some years later:
[Grant was] brought up in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Methodist preachers were welcomed at the Grant house for over forty years. Ulysses had to care for their horses. He remembered that the horses were good ones and that their owners always insisted on their having plenty of oats. Many a time he was sent out by his father to take the saddlebags and put up the horses. Once a preacher was to move from the neighborhood in which the Grants lived. He was to take his family and furniture in a wagon for 200 miles and wanted someone to drive for him. Applying to the General's father for a driver, the old gentleman detailed Ulysses, then a lad, for the work. Afterward the preacher reported to the boy's father that never in his life before had he had such a good and silent driver.
By the 1830s, Grant's father had become an outspoken member of the Whig Party, which promoted national growth and development. Normally Jesse would have stood out in Georgetown since most of its residents considered themselves democrats, but an economic downturn resulted in a distrust of the party, and when Jesse ran for mayor in 1837 as a Whig, the voters elected him.
As for Hannah, she was most interested in maintaining a household and raising the children. She was known to be gracious, modest, and reserved, but rarely displayed open affection toward the family. When asked about this later on, Hannah responded that "nothing you could do would entitle you to praise. You ought to praise the Lord for giving you the opportunity to do it." When their firstborn became famous, both Hannah and Jesse were constantly interviewed by newspaper reporters. One of them asked Hannah if she were proud of her children. "Yes," she responded, "they are pretty good, take them on the whole, but it's no easy thing to bring up a family." Another reporter asked how her firstborn was as a baby. "Well, very fair," she recalled, "though I don't know as he was any different from the rest of them, but people seem to think I'll say so now. He was always a steady, serious sort of boy, who took everything in earnest; even when he played he made a business of it."
Later in life when Grant spoke of his father, he seemed to suggest that they were often at odds. He said little about his mother. Jesse bragged often about his son and recounted stories that were likely to have been a bit exaggerated. For instance, when describing his son's perseverance, he told the following:
Self-possession was always one of his leading characteristics. An example of this occurred when he was about 12 years of age. He drove a pair of horses to Augusta, Kentucky, twelve miles from Georgetown, and was persuaded to remain overnight, in order to bring back the two ladies. The route lay across White Oak Creek. The Ohio River had been rising in the night, and the back water in the creek was so high, when they came across it in returning, that the horses were swimming and the water was up to their own waists. The ladies were terribly frightened and began to scream. In the midst of the excitement, Ulysses, who was on a forward seat, looked back at the ladies, and with an air perfectly undisturbed, merely said: "Don't speak. I will take you through safe."
Then another time Jesse told about his son's compassion toward others:
Ulysses had a very peaceable, equable disposition and had no inclination to quarrel, but he would not be imposed upon. On one occasion, when he was quite small (and he was small for his age), he rescued an inoffensive boy, who worked for us, from a trick which a large number of companions were about to perpetrate upon him. The whole crowd then made for Ulysses, and he came home for a gun to defend himself. But he was never known to pick a quarrel with anyone.
As Grant reached adolescence, tension clearly existed between father and son. Because Grant was the firstborn, Jesse assumed that the tannery business would be a natural occupation for his son. He could not have been more wrong. One of Grant's biographers points out that the "Tannery practices repelled him so much that he could not stomach seeing any blood on his plate, preferring his meat to be cooked until it was nearly burnt." One day he begrudgingly told Jesse, "Father, this tanning is not the kind of work I like. I'll work at it though, if you wish me to, until I am 21, but you may depend upon it, I'll never work at it after that." His father then told him, "No, I don't want you to work at it now, if you don't like it, and mean to stick to it."
If Grant was not going into the family business, he needed some direction. He suggested to his father that either farming or becoming a river trader were worthy occupations. Jesse disagreed and wanted his son to have a formal education, which he never had. What Jesse had in mind was to try to secure an appointment for him at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and he did so without his son's knowledge. In actuality Jesse had sent him to the schools in Maysville and Ripley to prep his firstborn for the required entrance examination. But securing a slot to take the exam proved problematic.
Chapter TwoThe West Point Years
When Grant returned home from attending school at Ripley on Christmas holiday in 1838, he discovered that his father was trying to get him into West Point. A letter arrived from Whig Senator Thomas Morris, who represented Ohio. Jesse read the letter out loud to his son and declared, "Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive the appointment."
Not sure what he meant, Grant replied, "What appointment?"
"To West Point," his father responded. "I have applied for it."
The two stubbornly exchanged words with Grant declaring, "But I won't go." Jesse wouldn't back down and convinced his son to give in.
"I really had no objection to going to West Point," Grant recalled later on, "except that I had a very exalted idea of the acquirements necessary to get through. I did not believe I possessed them, and could not bear the idea of failing."
Before Grant could even enter the gate, he needed to secure a congressional appointment, and as it turned out, Morris had given away one of the slots meant for him to Democratic Congressman Thomas Hamer. Four boys from Georgetown and the surrounding area were graduates of West Point, and Jesse desperately wanted his son to be the fifth. Standing in the way was Hamer's appointment slated for the son of Dr. Bailey, a neighbor of the Grants. Bart Bailey had been appointed in 1837, but he could not pass his exam, so he resigned and went to a private school. Bailey tried again the following year and was reappointed. But before the next examination, he was dismissed again. (The elder Bailey was embarrassed for his son and tried to keep the failure a secret, but Grant was told the truth from Bart's mother.)
Now it was up to Jesse to secure the open nomination for his son from Congressman Hamer. Although they were once members of the same debating society, their differing political affiliations made them rivals, and Jesse hated the idea of writing him directly. So Jesse thought he could avoid Hamer by securing an appointment directly from the War Department—they immediately rejected him. With nothing else to do Jesse swallowed his pride and wrote Hamer. As it turned out he was about to leave Congress and responded to Jesse on the last day of his term: "I received your letter and have asked for the appointment of your son, which will doubtless be made. Why didn't you apply to me sooner?"
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Skip to comments.Smithsonian in uproar over intelligent-design article
Posted on 01/31/2005 12:15:48 PM PST by Grey Rabbit
WND EVOLUTION WATCH Smithsonian in uproar over intelligent-design article Museum researcher's career threatened after he published favorable piece Posted: January 29, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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The career of a prominent researcher at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington is in jeopardy after he published a peer-reviewed article by a leading proponent of intelligent design, an alternative to evolutionary theory dismissed by the science and education establishment as a tool of religious conservatives.
Stephen Meyer's article advocates the theory of intelligent design. (Photo courtesy Discovery Institute)
Richard Sternberg says that although he continues to work in the museum's Department of Zoology, he has been kicked out of his office and shunned by colleagues, prompting him to file a complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.
Sternberg charges he was subjected to discrimination on the basis of perceived religious beliefs.
"I'm spending my time trying to figure out how to salvage a scientific career," Sternberg told David Klinghoffer, a columnist for the Jewish Forward, who reported the story in the Wall Street Journal.
Sternberg is managing editor of a nominally independent journal published at the museum, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. His trouble started when he included in the August issue a review-essay by Stephen Meyer, who holds a Cambridge University doctorate in the philosophy of biology.
Hans Sues, the museum's No. 2 senior scientist, denounced Meyer's article in a widely forwarded e-mail as "unscientific garbage."
According to Sternberg's complaint, which is being investigated, one museum specialist chided him by saying: "I think you are a religiously motivated person and you have dragged down the Proceedings because of your religiously motivated agenda."
Sternberg strongly denies that.
While acknowledging he is a Catholic who attends Mass, he says, "I would call myself a believer with a lot of questions, about everything. I'm in the postmodern predicament."
The complaint says the chairman of the Zoology Department, Jonathan Coddington, called Sternberg's supervisor to look into the matter.
"First, he asked whether Sternberg was a religious fundamentalist. She told him no. Coddington then asked if Sternberg was affiliated with or belonged to any religious organization. ... He then asked where Sternberg stood politically; ... he asked, 'Is he a right-winger? What is his political affiliation?'
The supervisor recounted the conversation to Sternberg, who also quotes her observing: "There are Christians here, but they keep their heads down."
The complaint, according to the Journal column, says Coddington took away Sternberg's office, which prevents access to the specimen collections he needs. Sternberg also was assigned to the close oversight of a curator with whom he had professional disagreements unrelated to evolution.
"I'm going to be straightforward with you," said Coddington, according to the complaint. "Yes, you are being singled out."
Meyer's article, "The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories," cites mainstream biologists and paleontologists from schools such as the University of Chicago, Yale, Cambridge and Oxford who are critical of certain aspects of Darwinism.
Meyer a fellow at Seattle's Discovery Institute, a leading advocate of intelligent design contends supporters of Darwin's theory cannot explain how so many different animal types sprang into existence during the relatively short period of Earth history known as the Cambrian explosion.
He argues the Darwinian mechanism would require more time for the necessary genetic "information" to be generated, and intelligent design offers a better explanation.
The Journal notes Meyer's piece is the first peer-reviewed article to appear in a technical biology journal laying out the evidential case for intelligent design.
The theory holds that the complex features of living organisms, such as an eye, are better explained by an unspecified designing intelligence than by random mutation and natural selection.
Klinghoffer notes the Biological Society of Washington released a statement regretting its association with Meyer's article but did not address its arguments.
Klinghoffer points out the circularity of the arguments of critics who insisted intelligent design was unscientific because if had not been put forward in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
"Now that it has," he wrote, "they argue that it shouldn't have been because it's unscientific."
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
...and obviousely we can't have anyone working here who has an agenda!
Real scientists don't confuse theory with fact. It's too bad there are so many scientists who no longer keep an open mind.
Any editor that publishes unscientific grey literature ought to be criticized and questioned. Since It incorporates NO testable hypothesis, ID will remain philosophical in nature and should not be published in scientific journals.
The origional design may not have been vunerable to disease and malfuntion.Those came from environmental effects.(after the fall of man)
Explanation: the eye was created---end of inquiry. In fact, ID would have us abandon all scientific inquiry.
If ignorance isn't bliss, then I don't know what is.
If it has an agenda, it's not science.
What part of science don't you understand?
Since It incorporates NO testable hypothesis..."
Michael Behe writes "intelligent design in biology is not invisible, it is empirically detectable." This is a disputable point, but it is a valid scientific claim. Behe claims that design is observable. If design is not observed then the proposition is refuted. Unfortunately, observing design is not like observing a rhinoceros or an elephant. You can't just point at something and say "there! that's design." Design must be measured in a subtle way. For any given biological system you must determine if completely random events could have brought it about. If you can show that no number or combination of random events could produce that system, then you can infer that the system was designed. The problem is that the potential combination of random events approaches infinity, so the design inference only approaches certainty but never attains it. Fortunately for those who support the intelligent design hypothesis, no scientific claim can be proved beyond all doubt. The nature of a scientific hypothesis is that it attains a high degree of probability for being true, but never certainty.
Well the global warming alarmists do have somewhat testable hypotheses, they just are not conclusively tested. Just because research follows the scientific method does not make it true.
ID is a theory?
Is this a straw man? "Completely random events"--where does this come from?---not evolution.
"First, he asked whether Sternberg was a religious fundamentalist. She told him no. Coddington then asked if Sternberg was affiliated with or belonged to any religious organization. ... He then asked where Sternberg stood politically; ... he asked, 'Is he a right-winger? What is his political affiliation?'"
Yep. Can't have one of those Republican, conservative, religious types moving into our neighborhood! You know what THOSE people will do to the property values.
How biased, stereotypical, and insufferable these holier-than-thou types are!
And then they have the gall to label Christians "know-nothing, bigots."
Boy, these people hate Christians...
You must be incredibly brilliant to judge the universe, how it works, and how it was created so succintly. I'm quite impressed.
Someday I'm afraid this cute little post of yours is going to burn in your mind.
Evolution is merely the scientific THEORY that describes the FACT that life has changed over the millenia. I.E. life "Evolved" and it is a very confirmed fact, and the "theory" merely describes the "fact".
By using the device of Evolution, life has continually operated and adapted itself for 2+ billion years.
I must put fuel in my car, but life finds it's own fuel. I must repair my car, but life repairs itself during a lifetime by immune systems, and it repairs itself over the ages via Evolution.
If I want a new car, I must purchase another one built from the ground up by an Intelligent human, and it will "die" within a generation or so. But life reproduces itself, with no direct hands on required by its original creator.
Looking at life and how it functions via Evolution, is like a vehicle that will adapt itself for changing conditions from submarine, tank, sports car, SUV, motorcycle, and airplane. Said vehicle will find it's own energy, and is virtually immortal because it will reproduce on it's own.
That's not just an Intelligent Design. That's a Brilliant Design, and it's a shame that some Christians have such a simpleton view of the world that they believe that God was incapable of creating it.
Right. Specific examples: the knee and the lower back.
What new theory? There's not a new scientific theory that challenges evolution. If there is I haven't read about it.
Indirect Darwinian paths as postulated by anti-IDers are, more often than not, open-ended. Thus we see that the lack of falsifiability and testability is not limited to IDers alone.
Questioning the faith-based religious dogma which is the theory of evolution can be hazardous to your scientific career. You must march in lock step with the scientific establishment or you will be outcast or destroyed. Disturbing...
"What part of science don't you understand?"
The part where the Zoology chairman is so concerned about science that he asks about Sternberg's RELIGIOUS PREFERENCES, and then his POLITICAL LEANINGS!!
Sounds like the makings of 'good' (sarcasm) science to me.
Disturbing, but predictable.
This is the kind of reverse logic that gets intelligent design nowhere. Proving one theory invalid, does not prove another to be true. Instead of spending all the time and effort finding flaws in evolution, IDers would be wise to present logical and rational evidence that all we se was created by a designer. Despite my readings I have yet to see any
The nature of a scientific hypothesis is that it attains a high degree of probability for being true, but never certainty.
Universal facts and truths are few and far between. A fact is only that which can be directly observed. Facts are confined to particular spatial and temporal scales. Microevolution is a fact, in that we have seen changes in the allele frequencies of organisms from one generation to the next. There is much evidence for macroevolution, but we cannot say it is fact until we can observe it directly taking place. This is much more difficult than it sounds as the concept of species is still in debate with recent genetic information. You will not convince many unless someone unearth Gods design blueprints or uncover some kind of actual evidence.
Your ignorance is showing. The "known hoaxes" number about 2. And the other factoids of evidence for Evolution number in the many thousands.
Christians bringing up 100 year old evolution hoaxes is equivalent to trashing Christians by talking about Jim Jones and the murders at Jones Town.
We can trade examples of evolution hoaxes and false prophets all day, but I don't think you want to start that fight.
Its a very strange story. Wasn't on-topic for that journal and if what I hear is true, journal's customary peer review process was not followed.
I think the article is biased in that the whole context is not being reported. The adminsistrator was concerned that Sternberg was inserting religious doctrine (an agenda) into a scientific enterprise---sounds reasonable to me.
This is exactly why ID is not "scientific". They have nothing, except to poke holes (most are invalid) in Evolution.
This is the same technique that french author used to "prove" that the US was responsible for 9/11. By poking "holes" in the known facts of what happened that day.
Such hole poking sells books, and sways minds. The french guy is a best seller, and ID has swayed lots of minds that don't have the imagination to believe that God was smart enough to have created Evolution.
Are you an engineer who can design something that lasts as long, reproduces itself with out skilled labor (old joke), builds fantastic machines, creates art, reaches for the stars and continues to question it's own very existence??? And don't go starting arguments between engineers and scientists! :-)
Could be that MAN brought this all on himself. Matter of fact I believe the Bible, at the very least, hints of that. God gave you volition and if you want to make love to another man, don't bitch when you get AIDS. (not you personally)
And if what he says is true, I can understand why. If Coddington did this:
"First, he asked whether Sternberg was a religious fundamentalist. She told him no. Coddington then asked if Sternberg was affiliated with or belonged to any religious organization. ... He then asked where Sternberg stood politically; ... he asked, 'Is he a right-winger? What is his political affiliation?'
then Coddington's attorney's have rightfully told him to keep his mouth shut because Coddington is in violation of the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act.
I don't know if he said those things but if he did it is a case of technofascism gone wild.
Thus, Meyer has proved the existence of God.
Was'nt this the same Smithsonian that didn't believe the Wright Brothers had flown at Kitty Hawk?
As late as the 18th century, it was common knowledge that human flight was impossible. Now Meyer thinks Evolution is impossible, simply because he can't figure it out.
Meyer is a flightless bird called a "Dodo".
Narby, intelligent design is a fact of life. You guys are gonna have to accept that and modify your arguments. Allele frequencies are changed by bioengineers rather often these days.
Instead of asking those specific questions, it should have been: "Is there any agenda here other than good science?"
You're assuming the Creator intended your physical body to live forever. Seeing how arrogant some people can become in just one little short life span (not directed at you), which is nothing more than the blink of an eye, I'm not surprised that the Creator didn't intend that.
I suppose these IDers think that the CIA created the HIV virus (back in the day before gene splicing technology existed).
After all, it's impossible for HIV to have just EVOLVED from another virus. [/sarcasm]
Your argument is with the Constitution. Coddington has no right to inquire about a public employees religion or political leanings and if you think he does you are on the wrong website.
I found it highly interesting that he would use a man's religion and his politics as a weathervane as to whether this man should be disregarded and destroyed at the very outset.
To deny that there is Political Correctness (read: bigotry) in the 'scientific' community is to deny the obvious.
Much as I expected, thanks for the article. I imainge now the Michael Behe's of the world will be referencing this article ad nausea despite its questionable admittance. Its amazing how selective the memories are of the IDers.
"After all, it's impossible for HIV to have just EVOLVED from another virus. [/sarcasm]"
It's when the little bugger evolves into something with wings, gills, or little padded feet that I'm interested in. Until then, I'm not worried about it's adaptation. (thanks orionblamblam)
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My Heart Makes Songs On Lonely Roads
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To comfort me while you're away,
And strives with lovely sounding words
Its crowded tenderness to say.
Glimmering against the forward dark,
Your face I see with pride, with pain
So that one time I did desire
Never to see that face again.
But I am glad that Love has come
To bind me fast and try my worth;
For Love's a powerful Lord and gives
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Wooden-frame houses, square with some-sort stuff
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This Health & Safety workshop is brought to you by Māori Television, Te Māngai Pāho and Ngā Aho Whakaari in association with Screensafe NZ and Minter Ellison. The focus will be on the unique demands of working on Māori productions. Health & Safety workshops have been held throughout Aotearoa. But this workshop is specifically aimed at Māori in the screen industry. Legally, everyone must comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. However, the incentives for striving for high health and safety standards go beyond the legal obligations – morally and economically poor health and safety can have serious ramifications in the screen sector. The screen sector is unique in that all of us bring our own experience and skills to a workplace (a company structure) that may only exist for a short period of time. This is quite different to companies that are formed with the intention to exist for many years. Under the new Act, this has implications that are discussed further in Section 4. Furthermore,we are passionate individuals with a strong work ethic and desire to create great productions. We also want to come home safe each day (or night) after work and need to take health and safety seriously. Obstacles can stand in the way of good health and safety, from the pressure of production or deadlines, to financial constraints and the complexity of the screen sector and production process. A safe environment and positive safety culture is both beneficial for the health and safety of each of us and also makes for a better production
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We are in planning for our 20th year with exciting guests representing the best of the world's screen industry, promoting Māori works and supporting workers across the spectrum. In the pipeline are the pitching competition, 'hands-on' technical workshops,master classes introducing new technology, 'must-know-information' sessions as well as great films. Plus Ngā Aho Whakaari are introducing the glittering Māori Media Ball with awards to recognise the great and the best in the Māori screen industry. More soon……
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Māori broadcasting has lost yet more of the founders our industry.
TVNZ's former head of Maori and Pacific programming, Whai Ngata, died last week. At his tangi in Ruatoria he was described as the "Godfather" of Māori broadcasting.
Whai Ngata was a journalist when there were perhaps five in the country. He, Derek Fox and Purewa Biddle set up Te Karere, coming straight from Radio NZ to set up the bulletin for the day. It began as 2-minutes long.
Derek Fox told of how their two desks in the middle of the TVNZ newsroom were like an island, they were the only Māori. They and others such as Wena Harawira and Erana Keelan Reedy told of the on-going fight for resources and crews. And then there was the hate mail. But they had a bulletin to put to air so they just did their jobs.
In 1986, Whai Ngata joined the late Ernie Leonard to establish TVNZ's Māori Programmes department.
Waka Huia regarded as Whai Ngata's baby began in 1987, after Ernie Leonard pondered all that would be lost if the planes carrying kaumātua to Te Māori crashed on the way. Presented completely in te reo Māori, Waka Huia travels across Aotearoa to interview and preserve the knowledge of Māori elders.
At this time Te Karere and Waka Huia were virtually the only Māori heard on New Zealand's television.
In 1994 Whai Ngata became Head of Māori Programmes responsible for Māori and Pacific programmes.
In the 90s, he completed the English-Māori dictionary begun by his father Hori Mahue Ngata and family. Hori Ngata died on February 1989, before it was completed, but Whai finished it.
In 1993, Ngata's English–Maori Dictionary was published. It won the Award for Best Non-Fiction Book at the 1994 Montana Book Awards.
In 2007 Whai Ngata was made an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit, for services to broadcasting and television. His work changed the face of New Zealand broadcasting forever.
Whai Ngata died aged 74 after a long illness and is survived by his mother Mihihara, wife Geraldine, three sons and his beloved mokopuna.
'E kapo ki te whetū, e kapo ki te marama,
e kapo ki te ata o tō raukura, ka riro ki paerau ki tō te huinga o te kahurangi ka oti atu koutou e.'
E te tōtara haemata o te wao, e te kākā tarahae o te motu,
e te manu hononga o te pae e te Ahorangi e Ranginui,
kua tānuku te tihi o Tauwhare o Rangitoto,
e ka tānuku koā te toka i te moana i te tokatū moana
a ki ngā tai ki ngā ngaru, ā ki ngā hau,
haere, haere, haere atu rā.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of 83 year old Dr Ranginui Walker.
A fearless advocate of Māori rights and the Treaty of Waitangi he challenged the status quo with clear and critical thinking.
He made Pākeha New Zealanders question themselves, their attitudes, their institutions and the government. But he also made Māori question their own acceptance and compliance with institutional racism.
From Whakatohea Ranginui Walker was an educator, a historian and a social commentator. His column in the NZ Listener were later published as part of the book Ka Whaiwhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End. This book should be required reading for all New Zealanders.
He was secretary and later chairman of the Auckland District Māori Council. In 2003 he was appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal.
The Nga Tamatoa movement grew out of a young Māori leaders conference he organised.
In 2001, Ranginui Walker was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
He remained a commentator and keen critic throughout his life giving of his time freely, particularly to Māori reporters, providing insight and commentary on issues, events and politics which impacted on Māori society.
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Tēnā koutou o te ao pāpāoho me nga ringa rehe o te ao kiriata. Ko tenei te mihi a Hine Raumati me Tane Rore a te Poari ki a koutou katoa. Kia huri o tātou whakaaro ki a rātou kua wehe atu ki te pō moe mai koutou. A ka tika kia hoki ki te ao tūroa ki a tātou te hunga ora e kawe tonu ngā kaupapa, ngā tīkanga me te reo rangatira a oū tātou mātua tūpuna tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, a tēnā tātou katoa.
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