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Quotations and Commentary
Edited by L. James Hammond
© L. James Hammond 2003
Walden or, Life in the Woods
1--"[I] require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives."
--"I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways....The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor."
--"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of."
--"Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that....The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling."
--"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
--"What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can."
--"Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others still are entirely unknown."
--"At the present day, and in this country, as I find by my own experience, a few implements, a knife, an axe, a spade, a wheelbarrow, etc., and for the studious, lamplight, stationery, and access to a few books, rank next to necessaries, and can all be obtained at a trifling cost."
--"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meager life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich in inward."
--"There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically....The philosopher is in advance of his age even in the outward form of his life. He is not fed, sheltered, clothed, warmed, like his contemporaries. How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men?"
--"When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now, his vacation from humbler toil having commenced."
--"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line."
--"I sometimes try my acquaintances by such tests as this,—Who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee? Most behave as if they believed that their prospects for life would be ruined if they should do it."
--"Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect."
--"It is desirable that a man...live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety."
--"We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion....The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same."
--"In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high."
--"We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow in a rock for shelter. Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it. Who does not remember the interest with which when young he looked at shelving rocks, or any approach to a cave? It was the natural yearning of that portion of our most primitive ancestor which still survived in us."
--"Formerly, when how to get my living honestly, with freedom left for my proper pursuits, was a question which vexed me even more than it does now [I] used to see a large box by the railroad, six feet long by three wide, in which the laborers locked up their tools at night; and it suggested to me that every man who was hard pushed might get such a one for a dollar, and, having bored a few auger holes in it, to admit the air at least, get into it when it rained and at night, and hook down the lid, and so have freedom in his love, and in his soul be free. This did not appear the worst, nor by any means a despicable alternative. You could sit up as late as you pleased, and, whenever you got up, go abroad without any landlord or house-lord dogging you for rent. Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this. I am far from jesting."
--"If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man—and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages—it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it....An average house in this neighborhood costs perhaps eight hundred dollars, and to lay up this sum will take from ten to fifteen years of the laborer's life....If we suppose him to pay a rent instead, this is but a doubtful choice of evils. Would the savage have been wise to exchange his wigwam for a palace on these terms?"
--"The farmer is endeavoring to solve the problem of a livelihood by a formula more complicated than the problem itself. To get his shoestrings he speculates in herds of cattle. With consummate skill he has set his trap with a hair spring to catch comfort and independence, and then, as he turned away, got his own leg into it."
--"When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him....Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them....I know one or two families, at least, in this town, who, for nearly a generation, have been wishing to sell their houses in the outskirts and move into the village, but have not been able to accomplish it, and only death will set them free."
--"The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten."
--"[I] found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually."
--"Economy of living [is] synonymous with philosophy."
--"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."
--"This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once."
--"I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment."
--"No nation that lived simply in all respects, that is, no nation of philosophers, would commit so great a blunder as to use the labor of animals."
--"For more than five years I maintained myself...solely by the labor of my hands, and I found that, by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living. The whole of my winters, as well as most of my summers, I had free and clear for study."
--"When formerly I was looking about to see what I could do for a living...I thought often and seriously of picking huckleberries; that surely I could do, and its small profits might suffice,—for my greatest skill has been to want but little,—so little capital it required, so little distraction from my wonted moods, I foolishly thought....But I have since learned that trade curses everything it handles."
--"I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do."
--"While my townsmen and women are devoted in so many ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits....As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full."
--"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve."
--"Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it. A robust poor man, one sunny day here in Concord, praised a fellow-townsman to me, because, as he said, he was kind to the poor; meaning himself."
--"I never heard of a philanthropic meeting in which it was sincerely proposed to do any good to me, or the like of me."
--"All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad and does me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it....Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world."
2--"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."
--"I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up."
--"I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did."
--"Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour."
--"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
--"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail."
--"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow."
--"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip."
3--"Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?"
--"To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written."
--"The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them."
--"One who has just come from reading perhaps one of the best English books will find how many with whom he can converse about it? Or suppose he comes from reading a Greek or Latin classic in the original, whose praises are familiar even to the so-called illiterate; he will find nobody at all to speak to, but must keep silence about it."
--"Our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins....We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects. We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were. We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper."
--"We boast that we belong to the Nineteenth Century and are making the most rapid strides of any nation. But consider how little this village does for its own culture....We have a comparatively decent system of common schools, schools for infants only; but excepting the half-starved Lyceum in the winter, and latterly the puny beginning of a library suggested by the State, no school for ourselves....It is time that villages were universities, and their elder inhabitants the fellows of universities, with leisure—if they are, indeed, so well off—to pursue liberal studies the rest of their lives....In this country, the village should in some respects take the place of the nobleman of Europe. It should be the patron of the fine arts. It is rich enough. It wants only the magnanimity and refinement."
9--"When I first paddled a boat on Walden, it was completely surrounded by thick and lofty pine and oak woods....The hills which form its shores are so steep, and the woods on them were then so high that, as you looked down from the west end, it had the appearance of an amphitheater for some kind of sylvan spectacle. I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreaming awake, until I was aroused by the boat touching the sand, and I arose to see what shore my fates had impelled me to."
11--"There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the 'best men', as the Algonquins called them....Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development."
--"The wonder [is] how you and I, can live this slimy, beastly life, eating and drinking....We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled."
--"The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it."
--"He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him day by day, and the divine being established. Perhaps there is none but has cause for shame on account of the inferior and brutish nature to which he is allied."
17--"One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the Spring come in....The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!....Walden is melting apace....Walden was dead and is alive again."
18--"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
"Life Without Principle"
--This essay appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863, shortly after Thoreau's death. It was originally designed as a lecture, and Thoreau had read it many times in lecture halls. It begins with a theme that is familiar to readers of Walden: we shouldn't spend our lives earning money, we should live for something higher than merely "making a living." It ends with a different theme: newspapers and politics distract our attention from higher things, and obstruct us from living a good life.
--"The world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. An Irishman, seeing me making a minute [that is, a note] in the fields, took it for granted that I was calculating my wages. If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for—business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business."
--"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!"
--People generally believe that the work they do is useful; they can't accept the idea that their work is useless: "Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now."
--Those who most deserve pecuniary rewards, don't receive them. Money goes to those who, in some sense, prostitute themselves: "The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward....If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly. Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man. The State does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely."
--Part-time work, occasional work, such as Thoreau himself did, is sensible, but full-time work isn't: "If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living."
--Why this eagerness to make money? Poverty isn't as bad as the means people use to avert it: "Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off."
--After a few satirical paragraphs aimed at the gold-seekers in California and Australia, Thoreau turns his attention to newspapers: "I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters."
--Don't preoccupy yourself with news: "I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality....We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. Read not the Times. Read the Eternities."
--Americans boast of their freedom. But are they really free? "America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant."
--We seem to have forgotten that money and work and economics are merely means: "We are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufactures and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end."
--The nation doesn't need commerce and wealth, it needs ideals: "The chief want, in every State that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants."
--Thoreau was preoccupied with nature and books and private life; he wasn't politically-inclined, though he was an impassioned abolitionist. "What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that, practically, I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all."
--Politics and economics aren't distinctively human, they're merely the animal and vegetable part of living: "Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body. They are infra-human, a kind of vegetation."
--In Thoreau's opinion, as in that of many others, journalists are the most powerful force in society. Politicians do little but follow public opinion: "The poor President, what with preserving his popularity and doing his duty, is completely bewildered. The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence."
Selections From Thoreau's Journals
Introduction and Notes by R. H. Blyth; Tokyo, Daigakushorin
--"Even in the present short selection, it will be clear that as Thoreau grew older, there was a gradual decrease in poetic and intuitive power, corresponding somewhat to that of Wordsworth. In Wordsworth it was theology that represented the stiffening of the mind, the ebb of poetic life. In Thoreau it was science—not so much the scientific spirit, as the mechanical collection of mere objective facts, that smothered the poet in him."
--"Few [men], if any, are as deeply religious as he."
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--"As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is never isolated, or simply added as treasure to our stock. When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before."
1839--"Drifting in a sultry day on the sluggish waters of the pond, I almost cease to live and begin to be....I am never so prone to lose my identity. I am dissolved in the haze."
1840--"Nature never makes haste....The bud swells imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion, as though the short spring days were an eternity....Why, then, should man hasten as if anything less than eternity were allotted for the least deed? Let him consume never so many aeons, so that he go about the meanest task well, though it be but the paring of his nails....The wise man is restful, never restless or impatient. He each moment abides there where he is, as some walkers actually rest the whole body at each step, while others never relax the muscles of the leg till the accumulated fatigue obliges them to stop short."
1841--"Nature always possesses a certain sonorousness, as in the hum of insects, the booming of ice, the crowing of cocks in the morning, and the barking of dogs in the night, which indicates her sound state. God's voice is but a clear bell sound....I thank God for sound; it always mounts, and makes me mount."
1842--"The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin of relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk."
1851--"Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear."
The Selected Journals of Henry David Thoreau, edited by Carl Bode
3/15/41--"A great cheerfulness have all great wits possessed, almost a profane levity to such as understood them not, but their religion had the broader basis in proportion as it was less prominent. The religion I love is very laic. The clergy are as diseased, and as much possessed with a devil, as the reformers. They make their topic as offensive as the politician."
11/19/43--"Our summer of English poesy, which, like the Greek and Latin before it, seems now well advanced toward its fall, is laden with the fruit and foliage of that season, with all the bright tints of autumn; but the winter of age will scatter its myriad clustering and shading leaves."
5/1/51--"When I observe how the mass of men speak of woman and of chastity—with how little love and reverence—I feel that so far I am unaccountably better than they. I think that none of my acquaintances has a greater love and admiration for chastity than I have."
5/12/51--"By taking the ether the other day I was convinced how far asunder a man could be separated from his senses. You are told that it will make you unconscious, but no one can imagine what it is to be unconscious—how far removed from the state of consciousness and all that we call 'this world'—until he has experienced it....If you have an inclination to travel, take the ether; you go beyond the furthest star."
11/14/51--"In the evening went to a party. It is a bad place to go to—thirty or forty persons, mostly young women, in a small room, warm and noisy. Was introduced to two young women. The first one was as lively and loquacious as a chickadee; had been accustomed to the society of watering places, and therefore could get no refreshment out of such a dry fellow as I. The other was said to be pretty-looking, but I rarely look people in their faces, and, moreover, I could not hear what she said, there was such a clacking—could only see the motion of her lips when I looked that way. I could imagine better places for conversation, where there should be a certain degree of silence surrounding you, and less than forty talking at once....These parties, I think, are a part of the machinery of modern society, that young people may be brought together to form marriage connections....I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman half an hour simply because she has regular features. The society of young women is the most unprofitable I have ever tried."
1/17/52--"It appears to me that at a very early age the mind of man, perhaps at the same time with his body, ceases to be elastic. His intellectual power becomes something defined and limited. He does not think expansively, as he would stretch himself in his growing days. What was flexible sap hardens into heart-wood, and there is no further change. In the season of youth, methinks, man is capable of intellectual effort and performance which surpass all rules and bounds."
4/12/52--"I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest....I would preserve purity in act and thought, as I would cherish the memory of my mother."
9/1/53--"There are two kinds of simplicity—one that is akin to foolishness, the other to wisdom. The philosopher's style of living is only outwardly simple, but inwardly complex. The savage's style is both outwardly and inwardly simple."
4/8/54--"Some poets mature early and die young. Their fruits have a delicious flavor like strawberries, but do not keep till fall or winter."
8/2/54--"My attic chamber has compelled me to sit below with the family at evening for a month. I feel the necessity of deepening the stream of my life; I must cultivate privacy. It is very dissipating to be with people too much. As C. says, it takes the edge off a man's thoughts to have been much in society. I cannot spare my moonlight and my mountains for the best of man I am likely to get in exchange."
10/29/57--"I think that men generally are mistaken with regard to amusements. Everyone who deserves to be regarded as higher than the brute may be supposed to have an earnest purpose, to accomplish which is the object of his existence, and this is at once his work and his supremest pleasure; and for diversion and relaxation, for suggestion and education and strength, there is offered the never-failing amusement of getting a living—never-failing, I mean, when temperately indulged in. I know of no such amusement—so wholesome and in every sense profitable—for instance, as to spend an hour or two in a day picking some berries or other fruits which will be food for the winter, or collecting driftwood from the river for fuel, or cultivating the few beans or potatoes which I want."
4/3/59--"Men's minds run so much on work and money that the mass instantly associate all literary labor with a pecuniary reward. They are mainly curious to know how much money the lecturer or author gets for his work. They think that the naturalist takes so much pains to collect plants or animals because he is paid for it. An Irishman who saw me in the fields making a minute in my notebook took it for granted that I was casting up my wages and actually inquired what they came to, as if he had never dreamed of any other use for writing."
12/31/59--"A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as his brain. We exaggerate the importance of exclusiveness of the headquarters. Do you suppose they were a race of consumptives and dyspeptics who invented Grecian mythology and poetry? The poet's words are, 'You would almost say the body thought!' I quite say it. I trust we have a good body then."
"Thoreau," by R. W. Emerson
--"I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility converted in a moment to the belief that this was the man they were in search of, the man of men, who could tell them all they should do. His own dealing with them was never affectionate, but superior, didactic, scorning their petty ways—very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses, or even at his own."
--"He knew how to sit immovable, a part of the rock he rested on, until the bird, the reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume its habits, nay, moved by curiosity, should come to him and watch him."
--"It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own. He knew every track in the snow or on the ground, and what creature had taken this path before him. One must submit abjectly to such a guide, and the reward was great. Under his arm he carried an old music-book to press plants; in his pocket, his diary and pencil, a spy-glass for birds, microscope, jack-knife and twine."
Henry David Thoreau, by J. W. Krutch
1--"[Thoreau's] first book [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] had been printed at his own risk in an edition of one thousand copies and when, four years later, fewer than three hundred had been sold he had taken over the remainder with the wry comment: 'I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.'"
2--"John Thoreau, the father, was a quiet, gentle man....John's wife, Cynthia, was, on the other hand, a bustling, strong-minded woman."
--"He hated killing, and in Maine he went with the moose hunters only as 'chaplain' and 'conscientious objector'. But, as he once humorously confessed apropos his vegetarianism, 'I am only half converted by my own arguments for I still fish.'"
Like Thoreau, Leonardo was scrupulously kind to animals, a vegetarian, and asexual. (Traces of homosexual feelings can, however, be found in both Thoreau and Leonardo.) Perhaps the cause of these traits, in both cases, was a dominant influence exerted by the mother during infancy.
--"Henry remained...dependent upon his family both spiritually and in practical affairs, so that it might, indeed, be argued that he never cut his mother's apron strings. Despite various comings and goings...he spent a good part of his life under the parental roof and it was in the house of his mother, who survived him, that he finally died."
--"Emerson's portrait of his friend and onetime handy man sums up his sense of Thoreau's unapproachability in the famous admission that he would as soon have attempted to take an elm by the arm."
--"When Emerson observed...that at Harvard all the branches of learning were taught, Thoreau was to reply: 'Yes, indeed, all the branches and none of the roots.'"
3--"Three years after he ceased to be a schoolmaster he was called 'the only man of leisure in the town.'"
--"When Emerson invited him to come and live in the house as handy man as well as member of the family, he came—on April 26, 1841—to stay for two years."
--Thoreau: "'I love my fate to the very core and rind, and could swallow it without paring it, I think.'"
--"The relations between [Emerson's second wife and Emerson] were not warm and the philosopher lived with her what he himself called a 'bachelor existence.'"
Emerson certainly wasn't sensual and earthy, as Montaigne was, but neither was he cold and asexual, as Thoreau was. Emerson was married twice and had three children.
--Thoreau: "'Woman is a nature older than I and commanding from me a vast amount of veneration—like Nature. She is my mother at the same time that she is my sister, so that she is at any rate an older sister....I cannot imagine a woman no older than I.'"
5--Thoreau: "'I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in the world, and in the very nick of time too.'"
Thoreau foresaw that nature would soon be displaced by civilization, and no one ever enjoyed nature more than Thoreau did.
--Thoreau: "'I know of no more startling development of the morality of trade and all the modes of getting a living than the rush to California affords. Of what significance [is] a world that will rush to the lottery of California gold-digging—to live by luck.'"
6--Thoreau: "'It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received...there is no appreciation of the order of truth with which it deals....There is [no book] so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular...."Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth." "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven"....Think of repeating these things to a New England audience!'"
This passage reminds one of Kierkegaard. Thoreau's religious views were, however, very different from Kierkegaard's. Like Emerson and Carlyle, Thoreau rejected Christianity.
--Thoreau: "'What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered.'"
One suspects that Thoreau's sexual feelings were displaced and sublimated into a love of nature.
--Thoreau: "'Each man's mode of speaking of the sexual relation proves how sacred his own relations of that kind are. We do not respect the mind that can jest on this subject.'"
If Thoreau had lived after Freud, he would not have been able to interpret his sexual peculiarities as "sacredness"; Thoreau lived in the age of innocence.
7--On his deathbed, "Thoreau talked with the same curious combination of earnestness and fun which had always been his. Sam Staples, who had been his jailer long ago when the poll tax went unpaid, called upon him...and reported to Emerson: 'Never spent an hour with more satisfaction. Never saw a man dying with so much pleasure and peace.'"
Thoreau was remarkably sanguine and cheerful throughout his life. He occupied himself with the pencil business and with the surveying business; both businesses were pleasant and profitable, but they didn't prevent him from taking long walks every day, or prevent him from reading and writing. He was often alone, yet he also enjoyed the company of family and friends. He was free from religious doubts and scruples. He wasn't troubled by poverty or by ill health, though he died at forty-five. His cheerfulness, however, should be ascribed to temperament as well as to external circumstances.


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"Deadliest Catch" star Neal Hillstrand is getting his family fishing vessel dragged into his divorce proceedings with his wife ... but this story doesn't have anything to do with tugboats.
According to divorce docs, obtained by TMZ, Neal agreed to fork over $10,000 to his estranged wife, Sugayle Marie Hillstrand, if he and his brothers ever sell their boat.
The docs show Neal has one-third ownership in "Time Bandit" -- along with his brothers, Captains Johnathan and Andy -- and he's bound to cut a check to his ex if his family ever unloads the fishing boat made famous in Discovery's reality TV series. As best we can tell, "Time Bandit" is currently not up for sale.
Neal filed for divorce Oct. 29, and docs show he gets the former couple's $340,000 house, plus a 1969 Chevy Malibu. She gets their 2 SUVs, a 2012 Sierra and 2006 Envoy.
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Athletes, coaches, and families hoping for a return of football and many other high school sports got a huge boost on Friday with the release of new youth sports guidelines from the California Department of Public Health. In keeping with recent decisions by the state to remove "tier" considerations for the re-opening elementary schools in favor of a more attainable "case rate" goal, the guidelines clear the way for football, baseball, softball, soccer, water polo, cheerleading, and other outdoor sports to return.
Previously those sports needed counties to drop into the red or orange tier to begin practice and competition–an unattainable goal for Los Angeles County, which has not done so since the beginning of the pandemic. The new guidelines require that the adjusted case rate drop to 14 for those sports to begin. That hasn't happened yet, but LA County (and Long Beach for purposes of determining sports' status) was at 17.6 per 100,000 on Friday, and falling rapidly.
If LA County falls to 14 per 100,000 next week, as some health experts think it may, it would mean the almost immediate return of practices and games for all high school sports except for basketball, wrestling, volleyball, and badminton. That's a major change considering that it was just last Wednesday that Long Beach hosted its first high school sporting event in 11 months.
"We're still a little ways away, but there's light at the end of the tunnel," said Moore League secretary Lisa Ulmer. "We're almost there. We know how valuable sports and competition is to these kids' well-being, both socially and emotionally as well as physically. We're just asking our community to continue to adhere to the guidelines to keep those numbers going in the right direction for the kids."
It's going to be a busy three and a half months for Ulmer and the local high school athletic directors, who will have to coordinate an enormously complicated return of a full year's worth of sporting events, crammed into about a third of the school year. To give a sense of how quickly things could move, the CIF Southern Section released guidelines for high school football practice.
If a county moves into the acceptable case rate on Tuesday of the upcoming week, its high schools could hold enough practices to be playing football games on March 12, a schedule that would allow for a team to play six games.
The LBUSD has been one of Southern California's most committed districts to sports and its student-athletes, allowing outdoor conditioning practices well before even some private powerhouses were, and Ulmer said the district will continue to advocate for its kids.
"We'll continue to do everything we're allowed to do," she said. "We're really excited about this new opportunity for our students, and we'll have games going as soon as it's safe by the 14 threshold and we're allowed to by the Long Beach Health Department and our district."
A number of hurdles and complications remain, aside from waiting with bated breath for the case rate to drop a few more points. The state guidelines "strongly encourage" weekly testing for student-athletes, and California governor Gavin Newsom has pledged to pay for that program statewide. It still leaves major questions about how to implement the logistics of the program, and it's understandable that local jurisdictions would be wary about promised state support. The CDPH guidelines allowing for these returns were several months late, after weeks of Newsom stating that they were just days away, for example.
There's also the question of getting the city's athletes cleared, academically and medically. Anyone participating in a sanctioned high school sport has to have a 2.0 GPA and has to have received a physical. Grades have slipped across the state under distance learning, posing one challenge, and the city's poorest neighborhoods continue to struggle with medical access.
"If there are any doctors who want to help with the return of sports, they could volunteer a couple of days from 2 to 6 p.m. at Jordan and Cabrillo, that would be huge," said Ulmer. "Some of our students are struggling to get appointments for physicals and it's slowing them down."
Stay tuned for more updates next week about case rates and how the city's high schools will go about bringing back high school sports.


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I passed my 44th birthday on flights of American Airline from Las Vegas to Beijing. It is my first time to celebrate my birthday in the sky. On the 30000 feet height, I summarized my first half of life. When facing opportunities, my give and take each time built the current me. I did made mistakes ever to miss good opportunities. But I am still struggling well. Looking forward, I may not have as many opportunities as before, so I can't afford miss any anymore. Be confident and be alert!
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The Bulls injury report is now looking like a CDC warning. Not only are Derrick Rose (knee still), Kirk Hinrich (calf) and Yoakim Noah (plantar fasciitis) still hurting, Luol Deng is so sick he may not travel to Brooklyn for Game 7. He's that knocked out says Tom Thibodeau.
Later Friday afternoon, Deng reported that he had undergone a spinal tap and was tweeting from a hospital emergency room!
Now I'm back in the ER where I may have to spend the night... I want my teammates and Bulls fans to know I would NEVER miss a game bc of flu
— Luol Deng (@LuolDeng9) May 3, 2013
He added that if he is cleared, he hopes to play in Game 7. Deng was the NBA leader in minutes per game in regular season and is once again the league leader in the playoffs.
Other than that, beat writers tweeted that Thibodeau told them, Hinrich is feeling better and will be a game time decision Saturday night. He will travel with the Bulls. Taj Gibson and Nate Robinson (who threw up during the game) are feeling better. Noah appears to be doing well. And there's no change in the status of Derrick Rose.
On that last subject, Nick Friedell of ESPN Chicago...
Thibs said he's been gotten no indication that Rose will play tomorrow. Doesn't sound like any return will happen in Game 7.
— Nick Friedell (@NickFriedell) May 3, 2013
Meanwhile in Brooklyn, P.J. Carlesimo said his team was healthy. Everyone is expected to be available. With Andray Blatche's calf improving rapidly (along with his play), Carlesimo likes what he's seen out of the Lopez-Blatche tandem.
PJ says he feels better about Andray Blatch's calf injury. That Brook/Blatche combo has done some good things in this series.
— Stefan Bondy (@NYDNInterNets) May 3, 2013
In fact, Devin Kharpertian reports that over the course of the series, the Nets have out-scored the Bulls 115-74 in 49 minutes with the two bigs on the court.
- Carlesimo has 'ton of confidence' - Mike Mazzeo
- Game 6 Notes: An update on Blatche/Lopez, Humphries appreciation, & more - Devin Kharpertian - The Brooklyn Game
- Preview: Bulls vs. Nets Game 7 (Video) - Ben Couch - Brooklyn Nets


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Review: SWAMP THING 1×07 – "BRILLIANT DISGUISE"
[Editor's Note: This review may contain spoilers]
Director: Alexis Ostrander
Writers: Andrew Preston and Rob Fresco
Starring: Crystal Reed, Will Patton, Derek Mears, Andy Bean, Henderson Wade, Maria Sten, Jennifer Beals, Selena Anduze, Kevin Durand and Michael Beach
Reviewed By: Steve J. Ray
Abby and Alec/Swampy get closer to uncovering the mystery of the darkness, decay and the Rot that's invading Mirais.
This episode is very, very clever. The title "Brilliant Disguise" could mean many things. At first glance, it could allude to the fact that Swamp Thing's connection to the Green allows Abby to see the soul of the man, as opposed to the face and body of the monster… that's definitely one interpretation.
The truth is though, as the episode progresses, we get to learn that many of the characters have secrets of their own, making everything we've known about them – or what we thought we knew – crumble like an ancient facade… as if they'd been in disguise all along.
Like I said… clever.
At the end of the season opener I felt really sorry for Andy Bean. Here he was, the leading man in a new series, only to get shot, blown up and burned alive before the episode even ended. Yet, due to clever writing and direction, the creators of this show have discovered fresh, and ever more inventive ways of having him pop up every, single week.
Episode seven's solution to the Bean/Sprout dilemma is the sneakiest yet, and is so well handled that I now genuinely see both Alec and Swampy as one and the same. The genius part is that everyone watching, and a certain Ms. Arcane, feel the exact same way.
Crystal Reed is awesome! There, I said it. Abby has always been one of the most believable, real and sympathetic characters in comics, in my humble opinion. Warner Bros. have cast an actress who isn't just playing Abby Arcane, she IS Abby Arcane. A character you can root for (sorry), care about, but really shouldn't mess with. This lady may be sensitive, but she's one tough cookie.
As a fan of the comics I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. The Green has already chosen it's champion by changing Alec Holland into Swamp Thing, but the Rot has a champion too. I believe we got a peek at him in Abby's nightmare back in episode four.
Will Alec and Abby prevail? Or will she just have to tap out and say, "Uncle?"
The pace of the episode is often quite slow, but as it's mainly a character development piece, this can be forgiven.
They say that the truth shall set you free. If that is the case, then I'm scared about what's been set free in the swamps of Louisiana. Avery Sunderland is as dark and corrupt a soul as one could imagine, but I believe that there's someone out there who's darker… and he's coming.
Maria, Lucillia and Matt's veils have been lifted, and the revelations about the three of them from episode six are tame in comparison to what we learned about them this week.
Swamp Thing has, yet again, proven to be one of the most intelligent, layered and complex dramas on television. There are only three episodes left, and I'm well and truly addicted. As the blurb on the covers of the Swamp Thing Comics of the mid 80s quite rightly stated; this is Sophisticated Suspense.
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A director on the brink of success and his girlfriend spiral through their flaws and past sins in writer/director Sam Levinson's two-hander "Malcolm & Marie," now on Netflix. John David Washington and Zendaya star in the drama that's been criticized for how it takes aim at film critics, but that's only part of the conversation, and a part that feels like it's not supposed to make the man spewing his own issues with the way people talk about him and his art look all that great. Malcolm (Washington) is largely a self-centered asshole, the kind of guy who makes everything about him, even the life story of Marie (Zendaya), and then refuses to give her credit for it. He can't stand it when someone he purports to love isn't 100% supportive of his work, is it surprising that reviews by strangers drive him somewhat insane? It's definitely not a great look for Malcolm and Levinson's insecurities that Levinson takes aim at a specific publication and its critic who gave his "Assassination Nation" a bad review, but my issues with "Malcolm & Marie" go deeper than the way it attacks modern film criticism. I'm almost impressed by the way it insulates the film from bad reviews as fans will just claim critics are being sensitive. Nice play, Levinson.
Malcolm is happy. He's drinking, dancing, and singing along to James Brown in the gorgeous Malibu house that the production company has provided for them. He's also ranting about readings of his work from the jump, complaining about critics who place racial and political context into art in a haphazard, insincere way. He's not entirely wrong about all of it, but there's an aggression in his tone and prowling around his kitchen that reveals it as mostly insecurity, and I believe that's the way Levinson wants us to read it too. He says truly pretentious things like "I'm not elitist, I'm a filmmaker" as if being an artist makes him exempt from criticism while Marie seethes and smokes. She's been here before. But she prods him a bit too, pointing out that the 'apolitical' filmmaker is making a movie about Angela Davis and noting that she doesn't know who William Wyler is either. And then Marie reveals why she's upset: Malcolm didn't thank her. He made a movie partially based on her life and couldn't even be bothered to give her credit in public.
The first 25 minutes of "Malcolm & Marie" are a strong, standalone short film. They're mostly sharply written and Zendaya and Washington add what feels like history between the lines. I was totally with it. But I'm not convinced we learn anything more in the following 80 minutes that we didn't in the first 25. Oh, there are some great monologues—Zendaya nails each of hers in a way that almost holds the entire film together—but Levinson allows the focus and pacing of the film to get away from him. The whole thing starts to feel increasingly like the voice of a writer and not two separate characters living real lives.
Levinson and his stars do hit on interesting themes now and then, like how we use other people, especially when it comes to male artists using the women they've known. Malcolm seeks to hurt Marie by revealing all the other people he amalgamated into the heroine of his film, but it really shows how he's an artist who takes more from the women in his life than he gives. The biggest problem with Levinson's script is that he starts to circle the same drains over and over again. Are these fights intentionally repetitive? Perhaps. The point may be that couples often have to hammer home the same points, but that doesn't necessarily make for interesting drama. Worst of all, Levinson misses the rhythm. These aren't fights, they're monologues. There's a difference. And the structure adds to the overly scripted feel of it all. It starts to all sound as insecurely crafted as Malcolm's critical complaints.
So why watch this fractured couple? Mostly for performance, although it should be noted that Levinson's regular director of photography Marcell Rév keeps the 35mm black & white look of the film captivating and it's fluidly edited by Julio C. Perez IV. Washington gets to break out a few new emotional registers we haven't really seen before and is at his best when he's allowing Malcolm to be truly awful, a man who takes out his own insecurities on everyone around him. However, this is Zendaya's movie, and she proves again that she can add depth to everything she does. As is often the case on "Euphoria," her quietest moments are her strongest, conveying the feelings of someone trying to decipher if the hurt she now feels means the end of a relationship or if this is just another bad fight.
Two-handers are inherently difficult, and there will be people who argue that "Malcolm & Marie" would have worked better on a stage. I don't think that's the issue. I think Levinson and his team found a way to make this feel cinematic. They just didn't quite crack how to make it feel genuine.
Now playing on Netflix.
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Chaos, a 3 year old cat, is the beloved family member of his two young owners who are both students and live on a very limited income. They don't have any children, and Chaos is like a baby to them.
Chaos's owners became distressed when they noticed that he had trouble urinating and rushed him to the nearest veterinary hospital where he was diagnosed with a urethral obstruction. When they learned the cost of the surgery Chaos needed, they were faced with a very difficult decision. Without surgery, Chaos wouldn't survive, but there was no way that his young owners could afford his surgery. Fortunately, Chaos's owners learned about the FACE Foundation. FACE was able to help fund Chaos's life-saving surgery, and he is now recovering at home, safe and sound.


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AUSTIN – Last month, the Texas Public Safety Commission (PSC) and Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw presented 12 Lifesaving Awards and four Director's Awards at the PSC meeting in Austin. Additionally, a Texas Ranger and a Driver License employee were recognized for their distinguished DPS careers with the William P. Clements Excellence Award.
"To have the opportunity to recognize the hard work and bravery of our commissioned officers, DPS staff members and the Texans who call this state home is a privilege, and we are proud of these men and women for their public service and their selflessness," said Director McCraw. "Every day, these individuals make a difference in their communities and exemplify what it means to be great Texans."
Watch a video with clips from the PSC meeting.
The William P. Clements Excellence Award is named in honor of the former governor and his commitment to excellence in government. Texas Ranger James B. Holland, Company B-Decatur, and Customer Service Representative Mary Ann Araiza, Driver License Division-Weslaco, each received a 2018William P. Clements Excellence Award. The award honors a commissioned and non-commissioned employee for their exceptional performance of duties throughout the course of their DPS careers.
Holland has been employed with the department for 23 years and has served the past 10 years as a Texas Ranger. He has been assigned to the Unsolved Crimes Program since 2015. In 2016, Holland provided assistance on eight cold case homicides. His efforts resulted in six of those cold cases being solved, the arrest of three confessed killers and the recovery of the remains of two young women who had been missing for nearly 20 years. In December 2017, the Florida Division on Law Enforcement requested that Holland interview a convicted murderer who was also suspected of committing a murder in Florida. The suspect was a career criminal suspected in multiple homicides who had never confessed to law enforcement officers. In May 2018, within hours of interviewing the suspect, Holland was able to elicit 26 murder confessions. Over the course of several months, he interviewed the suspect and obtained an additional 64 murder confessions for crimes that occurred in 19 states. As a result of these interviews, agencies across the country have been able to match cold case murders to this suspect's confessions.
Araiza began her career in November 1991 as a Driver License Technician; in November 2012, she reclassified to a Customer Service Representative (CSR). Over the course of 26 years, she has volunteered for numerous additional duties and special projects. In 2015, after completing a two-week facilitator training class, she participated in a mass New Hire Training, where she creatively helped modify the 12-week curriculum, which included instrumental changes to make the learning process more engaging. She was selected by regional administration for the Employee Engagement Program, where she served as liaison from 2015-2016. As the liaison, she traveled throughout the South Texas Region to interview and talk with fellow CSRs about their work environment and career growth opportunities. In 2017, she was the recipient of the Regional Commander's Award for exemplifying the highest levels of responsibility, creativity, determination, diligence, initiative and loyalty, while providing a positive influence on others.
The following awards were also presented:
- Captain Shawn Stephenson and Lieutenant Jeff Evans, Aircraft Operations Division-San Antonio, and Sergeant Steven Tippett, Texas Highway Patrol-New Braunfels, eachreceived a Lifesaving Award, and Cody Buckaloo, Game Warden, Texas Parks and Wildlife, received a Director's Award.On Oct. 8, 2018, Stephenson, Evans and Tippett were called to assist with water rescues along the Llano River near Junction in the Texas Hill Country. Flood waters had completely consumed a nearby RV Park. The aircrew began searching near the RV Park and quickly located a victim stranded in a group of trees. Utilizing a rescue collar, the victim was successfully pulled from the trees and transferred to safety. The team then received information about two additional victims, and they called upon Buckaloo to assist. The team conducted two extractions with Buckaloo acting as rescue swimmer, and they were able to rescue two individuals and a pet dog. As the aircrew returned to refuel, Tippett arrived and took over the duties as rescue swimmer. The team received word of another victim being swept away in the river. Travis County Star Flight was attempting this rescue. Stephenson, Evans and Tippett began to support Star Flight in their efforts; however, due to communication problems, Star Flight was unable to perform the rescue. Trooper Whitney Gardner saw the victim being swept passed an area known as Yates Crossing and assisted in directing the aircrew to the location where the victim was struggling to stay above water. The aircrew made two rescue attempts by lowering Tippett into the water; however, due to debris and the victim's exhaustion, she was unable to hold on long enough to be extracted. Stephenson repositioned the helicopter further down the river to get ahead of the victim, while Evans lowered Tippett into the water. Just as Tippett entered the water, the victim approached his location and went under. Tippett reached under, pulled her out and successfully attached the rescue device. It was determined the victim spent approximately five hours in the river and traveled 23 miles before being rescued.
- Sergeant James Arnwine, Texas Highway Patrol-Sweetwater, received a Lifesaving Award. On July 30, 2018, Arnwine was at the Scurry County Law Enforcement Center following up on an investigation when he was made aware of a medical emergency in the lobby area. An individual — who was at the Law Enforcement Center conducting business — suddenly fell back, struck his head on the floor and started having a seizure. Snyder Police Officer Joshua Reeves responded to the lobby area, where he found the subject unresponsive and no longer breathing. Reeves immediately called for an ambulance and began to render aid. Arnwine responded to the emergency call, where he found the subject bleeding from his head and without a pulse. The officers began CPR while alternating chest compressions until he became responsive. They continued to render aid until EMS arrived and transported the subject to a local hospital where he made a full recovery.
- Trooper Robert McGrath, Texas Highway Patrol-Eastland, received a Lifesaving Award. On Aug. 1, 2018, McGrath along with Deputy Bryan Butler responded to a welfare call at a residence in Eastland County. McGrath and Butler arrived at the subject's residence and observed a vehicle was running. As McGrath pulled in and exited his unit, he noticed a water hose extending from the exhaust into the cab of the truck through the closed back sliding glass window. He immediately pulled the hose from the tailpipe to eliminate carbon monoxide from continuing to enter the truck. The pair attempted to gain entry into the vehicle, but the doors were locked. As McGrath approached the passenger side window, he noticed the subject slumped over the center console. The windows were up, and the subject was not responding. McGrath utilized his asp baton to break the passenger side window and unlocked the doors, which allowed Butler to open the driver's door and retrieve the subject from the truck. Upon moving the subject away from the vehicle, he began taking in breaths of fresh air and appeared somewhat coherent. McGrath continued checking on the condition of the subject, encouraging him to talk and take deep breaths. Medics arrived on the scene and transported the subject to a local hospital where he made a full recovery.
- Trooper Laura Pearman, Texas Highway Patrol-George West, received aLifesaving Award. On July 6, 2018, Pearman was dispatched to a crash on IH-37 in Live Oak County where a subject was seriously injured after being struck by an SUV. It was determined that two separate crashes had occurred within seconds of one another. The injured subject was a driver in the first crash, and upon his quick exit from his vehicle, he was struck by another vehicle as the driver of that vehicle swerved to avoid the first crash. Pearman arrived to find the injured subject lying in the fetal position; he was barely breathing, bleeding from multiple injuries and in-and-out of consciousness. As Pearman assessed the subject's condition, she observed a bone protruding from his shin and blood flowing out. Pearman carefully turned the subject on to his back and applied a tourniquet to the upper area of his leg to stop the bleeding. The subject was stabilized and flown by Halo to a Corpus Christi Hospital where he recovered from multiple broken ribs and a punctured lung.
- Trooper Jesse Perez and Trooper Matt Ruiz, Texas Highway Patrol-San Antonio, each received a Lifesaving Award. On Nov. 6, 2018, Perez and Ruiz were advised by the San Antonio Police Department radio of a stabbing at a Shell gas station. As the first unit to arrive on the scene, Perez and Ruiz observed a male subject with multiple stab wounds to his body. The subject was bleeding heavily from a gash to his right arm. Despite holding a towel over the gash, the subject continued to bleed excessively at the wound site. Perez instructed the subject to lay down on the ground, and upon doing so, Perez was able to successfully deploy his tourniquet into the proper area of the arm to stop the bleeding. Ruiz took notice of a second substantial stab wound in the subject's abdomen area and applied pressure to address the additional bleeding. Local police, fire and EMS arrived at the scene and transported the subject to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.
- Christopher Martin, Lynn Burttschell and Jason Dush, Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM)-Headquarters Austin, along with Jack Doebbler, TDEM-Austin, each received a Lifesaving Award. On May 15, 2018, Texas DPS TDEM staff members — Martin, Doebbler, Burttschell and Dush — were attending a Texas Emergency Management Conference in San Antonio. While Martin was speaking to a conference attendee, the attendee suddenly collapsed. Burttschell, a certified paramedic, was nearby and began to assist Martin, also a certified paramedic, with the medical emergency while someone was directed to call 911. Dush and Doebbler received the emergency call, grabbed medical gear and responded to the scene. The subject was in cardiac arrest, and Burttschell began chest compressions, while Dush prepared the subject for the defibrillator and subsequently administered a shock to the heart. Doebbler prepared an IV and managed the equipment throughout the incident. Burttschell continued to coordinate chest compressions, ensuring the rotation of individuals every two minutes for maximum effectiveness. Martin continued assisting with airway management, while Dush administered medication through the IV to stabilize the heart. By the time the San Antonio Fire Department arrived on the scene, the subject had gone from having no pulse to a steady rhythm and was breathing on his own. He was transported to a hospital for further medical treatment and was later released.
- Thomas Haire, Donovan Haire and Justin Tobey each received a Director's Award.On Oct. 21, 2018, DPS Trooper Zachary Akers was dispatched to a single vehicle crash involving a possible intoxicated driver. As Akers arrived on the scene and met with witnesses, he observed a subject fleeing into a wooded area. After a pursuit on foot, the subject refused to comply with Aker's commands and actively resisted. During the altercation, Akers felt a pop in his right knee, which caused him to fall to the ground; he was unable to get back up. Akers called out to witnesses who were still at the scene for help. Thomas and Donovan Haire ran over to help and immediately took action to help Akers. The two men gained control of the subject — Thomas was able to place handcuffs on him, while Donovan held him down. Once the subject was secured in handcuffs, Justin Tobey — another civilian at the scene — helped Donovan keep the subject secure, while Thomas assisted Akers back to his patrol unit. Justin, Thomas and Donovan kept control of the subject until backup arrived. Akers was treated for his injuries, which were not life threatening.


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Tired of all of the vegetarian chili recipes saying issues like 'gentle, low fat, and colorful?' That's not what chili is about; It's about consolation food and having one thing warm to eat together with your freshly baked cornbread on a cold day. This chili is spicy, 'meaty' and scrumptious. Serve it to your non-vegetarian associates, and so they'll suppose you started consuming meat once more.
The first time Mama made chilequiles, she informed me to look at how she made them so I would know how you can make them when I received older. She mentioned they were much easier to make than enchiladas because you do not need to dip the tortillas in oil one at a time, then dip the tortilla in the sauce, add the cheese and onions, after which roll up the tortilla and put it in the baking dish; after which repeat this process … Read more


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IndependenceIT has announced an update to its Cloud Workspace Suite (CWS) platform. CWS version 4.2 brings deeper integrations and connectivity into public cloud architectures, including Azure, and delivers increased controls for managing resource allocation by IT service providers.
Cloud Workspace Suite is a workspace-as-a-service (WaaS) application that allows channel partners such as independent software vendors (ISVs) and managed service providers (MSPs) to provide a virtual desktop and software choices to their customers.
Version 4.2 brings the power of Microsoft Azure cloud services directly into the WaaS service. Azure cloud services can be provisioned directly through CWS, with components such as compute resources, networks, storage and virtual machines accessible through a component-style implementation. By using these components as building blocks for the Azure services, CWS partners can work with Azure by using the automation platform from Azure, without leaving the CWS environment. This speeds up the provisioning of services and reduces the need for learning to navigate and automate the Azure environment on their own.
Compute provisioning and auto-scaling in the new version are also improved. By categorizingcustomers based on needs, compute resources can auto-scale to meet the demands of more advanced computation workloads.
Along with more flexible and granular controls on the hardware resources, application entitlements have also been refined. IndependenceIT already had an extensive application catalog where customers could opt into applications as services, getting automatic delivery and enabling of cloud provisioned software such as Office and Goldmine. IndependenceIT Elite Partners and enterprise IT managers can now customize the application catalogs so that their service offerings can be delivered more effectively to verticals and can prevent customers from getting overwhelmed by the number of application choices. Currently, there are over 1,000 applications available to CWS users.
"Our partners realize that the ability to customize their solutions on Cloud Workspace Suite software platform is an important competitive advantage, helping them to remove the barriers to gaining the full value WaaS," said Seth Bostock, CEO, IndependenceIT. "Version 4.2 is another leap forward and addresses key limitations that are found in legacy alternatives. Our partners have validated these most recent enhancements and understand the value they provide."
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Every dental health specialist will tell you to replace your toothbrush after 3 or 4 months if you use it twice a day. Despite this widely known fact, most people don't heed this advice. However, you should keep in mind that a new toothbrush head plays a significant role in both your oral hygiene and overall wellbeing.
It is, therefore, necessary to maintain the freshness of your toothbrush by having it replaced as recommended or even sooner depending on how damaged or worn out it is. Here are just some of the reasons why a fresh toothbrush is so essential.
1. Prevents Gum Damage
Toothbrushes are made of bristles that are first cut to the same size then domed on the tips to prevent the jagged edges from injuring your gums and scraping off the enamel when brushing. The more you use your brush, the more the domes wear off, exposing the rough, jagged edges.
Using a toothbrush with worn-out bristles will cause the bristles to injure your gums and may even result in gum recession and sensitivity. To avoid this, you need to get a new toothbrush after the recommended three months or when you notice that the bristles have started wearing out. Keep your toothbrush fresh, and you won't have to worry about gum injuries every time you brush.
2. Efficiency
With continuous use, the bristles on your toothbrush get weak and lose their firmness. As such, they get bent on the surface of your teeth when you brush, making the toothbrush unable to remove plaque as well as penetrating in between teeth effectively. As a result, you are left with partially clean teeth and exposes you to the risk of cavities and halitosis.
A fresh toothbrush is in the best condition to perform its oral cleaning duties as intended. You can effectively clean your teeth as the bristles are still firm enough to penetrate between teeth and remove stuck food particles. By using a fresh toothbrush, you can be sure of your oral hygiene and fresh breath.
3. Keeps Away Bacteria
Toothbrushes are a haven for germs and bacteria, and also encourage the growth of fungi. After all, recent studies show that your toothbrush can harbor as much as 10 million bacteria.
It collects these micro-organisms every time you brush or from the surrounding environment and then harbors them for weeks, causing them to build up. Bacteria can also get on your toothbrush when you flush the toilet with the lid up if you keep it in the washroom.
These bacteria can significantly affect your oral health and even cause you to become ill as you re-introduce them into your body every time you brush.
To prevent bacteria build-up, ensure that you regularly clean your toothbrush and allow it to air dry. You can do this by removing debris stuck between the bristles and thoroughly rinsing it before and after use.
Also, you can use toothbrush sanitizers or soak it in hot water for more effective cleaning. Avoid sharing your toothbrush to prevent spreading illnesses and store it properly in an upright position after use.
A fresh toothbrush is mandatory if you are looking to keep your oral health and general wellbeing in top shape. Ensure you clean your toothbrush regularly and allow it to air dry to prevent bacteria and fungi, and also get a new one as recommended.
You can set a reminder on your phone or sign up with programs that deliver them every 3-4 months. This way, you won't forget to change your toothbrush when you need to, and your teeth and gums will thank you for it.


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New GST Rules: Purchase of New Build Residential Property
New GST Rules: Purchase of New Build Residential Property
From 1 July 2018, if you buy a new build residential property or subdivision of potential residential land, you will be required to withhold an amount representing the GST and remit it to the ATO.
Why the change?
Basically, it boils down to non-compliance by property developers. Prior to 1 July 2018, it was the responsibility of the property developer to remit the GST component of any sale to the ATO. As a result of a high level of non-compliance by property developers, where developers were collecting the GST, dissolving their business and as a result not remitting the required GST to the ATO.
If you're a seller:
- Determine if what you're selling is subject to the GST changes.
- Calculate the GST amount applicable on the sale.
- Notify the buyer.
- Calculate and remit any GST to the ATO after taking into account any credit for the amount sent to the buyer.
If you're the buyer:
- Contact the ATO advising them a contract of sale has been entered into that requires GST withholding.
- Confirm to the ATO settlement has taken place.
- Remit the GST portion of the sale transaction to the ATO.
What Next:
If you enter into a contract of sale and your unsure whether the changes apply, please contact us in the first instance so that we can discuss your individual situation.
The ATO has advised they will be issuing penalties for non-compliance.


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If you're like me, then you first heard of Marie Kondo from "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life." Emily Gilmore adopts the famous KonMari method and ends up in jeans and a t-shirt due to getting rid of almost everything she owns because it does not bring her joy. This is a very loose understanding of Kondo's signature method to decluttering your home, and one that is explored deeply in her Netflix show, "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo."
Kondo's show dropped on New Year'sDay, which was perfect for those of us who had glitter to clean off the floor but just couldn't seem to get off the couch. Each episode followed the same formula of Kondo entering a home, excitedly declaring that she loves mess, and then teaching her method to the homeowners, and we were able to pick out a few helpful tips that should jumpstart your tidy new year.
1. The KonMari Method: For these tips to work, we need to deconstruct Marie Kondo's KonMari method. She recommends breaking out your tidying into five categories: clothing, books, documents, komono (miscellaneous), and sentimental items. She strongly suggests doing everything in this order as well. Komono, or miscellaneous, includes things like your kitchen, bathroom, toys, the garage, etc.
2. Be thankful for your home: Before getting started, Kondo likes to sit on the floor in a main room or an entryway and greet the home. She asks that the homeowners join her in thanking their home for providing shelter and a place to build their life. Whether you are tidying up your bedroom in your parent's house, your dorm, that dingy studio you pay too much for but love, or your first home, you should thank the structure for being there for you. She feels like doing this before tidying helps center you and makes you more aware of your home and belongings.
3. Put everything in a big pile: Whether you are tackling clothing, kitchen utensils, or photographs, Kondo asks that you pull everything from that category and put it in a big pile. For example, this can allow you to see how many items of clothing you have, which will help you become more aware of what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of. When it's all in a big pile, you can see that you accidentally bought four of the same sweaters because you loved it so much but kept misplacing it. Let the pile show you what you need and what you don't.
4. Keep only things that spark joy: Joy is everything to Marie Kondo. In each category, she asks you to pick up every single item and see if it sparks joy. The way she describes this feeling is adorable and I hope one day to feel as much joy from picking up a sock as she does. This may seem silly and tedious, but it brings up a good point: Why keep something just to keep it? By starting this process with clothing and working your way through the category, Kondo believes you will be in tune with what brings you joy, which will make parting with sentimental items easier.
5. Stand things up: Once you've gone through all of your items in a category, it's time to find them a home. Everything should have a home because it makes it easier to put away instead of just tossing it on the floor or counter. For clothing that is not hung up, Kondo outlines her preferred method that involves folding your items into thirds and standing them up next to each other in drawers instead of laying them flat. This allows you to see every t-shirt and pair of jeans immediately upon opening the drawer so you don't have to go digging around and unfolding things.
6. Tiny boxes: Tiny boxes may be the key to Marie Kondo's success. Everything needs a home, and by putting tiny boxes into drawers you are able to create more organized spaces for your belongings to live in. This is particularly useful in the kitchen for utensils and other items. However, it can also be helpful to keep items such as underwear, bras, and socks organized in drawers in your bedroom.
7. Organize by size: When things cannot be propped up so you can see them immediately, organize like items by size. This helps you know exactly where to look in the closet or drawer and makes it easier to put something back. Half the battle of tidying up is keeping things that way when you are done. By giving everything a home, you are helping yourself win the battle of keeping your space clean and organized.
*Bonus Tip: Just go to sleep: Marie Kondo admits that even her house gets cluttered sometime. So what does organizing guru do when she gets overwhelmed? She just walks away or goes to bed. Tidying is a process and does not have to be a marathon. Each episode of "Tidying Up" takes place over the course of a month. Taking your time and walking away if it becomes too much is absolutely fine.