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Physical Disorders Having Mental Origin
( Originally Published 1908 )
"All good things are ours, nor soul helps flesh more than flesh helps soul." — BROWNING.
THE mind is the capital city where the consumers dwell, those law-makers and manufacturers of thought and nervous impulses. The body is the outlying country. If the country parts are well tilled and cared for by the farmers or makers of healthy physical conditions dwelling in this outlying country, the consumers in the capital city are able to secure what they need to satisfy the wear and tear incident to mental effort or nervous stress of whatever sort. A sound body waits on a sound mind, and the material for repair of the nervous system is furnished by the digestive tract. The converse of this statement has long been known to be almost equally true. The mind, acting through the sympathetic and vaso-motor nerves, affects the secretions of the internal organs, especially of the stomach and bowels, it acts on the kidneys and the heart, on respiration and perspiration, and influences the amount of blood flowing through the arteries. Digestion may be retarded or hastened by the condition of the mind; and the assimilation of food and the elimination of waste products may be disturbed, to the ex-tent, that if a state of unrest or unhappiness obtains, such as may be occasioned by worry, sorrow, anger, or depression, from whatever cause, a loss of balance between the mind and the body follows, even though the body is sound. All this results in unnatural and unhealthy conditions for both. In a word, an unhealthy mind reacts deleteriously upon an otherwise healthy body.
It has been the practice to regard the body as the part mainly at fault in chronic disorders, with the exception of a few classified diseases, and treatment for relief has been instituted usually from the standpoints of the physical. A great many people are unhealthy nevertheless because of their disturbed attitude mentally to-ward life and living. That these mental states have existed right along no one questions, but that they have not been fully appreciated, and treated with intelligence by those presumably qualified to do that work, is also equally true. The majority of all ailments are doubtless due to physical causes, and many to inheritance; but there have been an ever-increasing number of people whom physical measures have failed to relieve or have only partially restored. The physical and mental balance both must be cultivated and maintained if life is to go on well, and end happily. The head as well as the body parts must be considered, in cases of illness, for the chances are that both need patching up and not one end at a time. The physical and organic ailments of the body have been and are still the province of the physician and surgeon, and these ailments arise from physical causes, we will assume, for the greater part. Spiritual and ideal conditions have been and are still within the province of the clergy, broadly speaking. But we have a mental-habit field, below the spiritual and above the physical, an open field for both clergy and physicians. The mental attitude of people toward life and living is quite as susceptible of treatment, and is quite as important a subject, as the care of the body. How to deal successfully with this mental-habit field, is a question that it being threshed out industriously at the present time.
Young people are generally healthy, if born of healthy stock; and youth is optimistic. The bodily machine being new, it stands the wear and tear it is put to, as well as the abuse; and we hear little complaint from beginners who have but recently entered the world's arena; — at least for a term of years, unless circumstances have been such that the young life has had to shoulder the burdens of older years from the start and has been undone mentally and physically in consequence.
Although this statement is true in the main, we some-times see the worry habit in children, developed in connection with their lessons at school, or other tasks. Every child is an individual, and what one child can do in a given time should not be made the measure of ability for another child. Mental aptitude and physical endurance differ as much in children as in grown people. A highly organized child with over-sensitive nerve centers will soon acquire the habit of worry, if urged or criticised in regard to work. A child should be led to do as well as he is able in a given time, but he should never be nagged or allowed to worry because he works with less aptitude than another. The thing to measure is the effort on a child's part, and not the result attained.
Nervousness is essentially a mental state. But all nervousness has a cause that possibly may be understood and controlled. The temperament of children can be successfully influenced by training and example. A child abnormally sensitive, who is regarded as excitable or nervous, can be brought to exercise mental control, but it takes time and patience to do it, — to educate any mind into control of abnormally sensitive nerve cells, --not much longer, however, than it does to perfect any other attitude or mental attainment that is worthy of cultivation. The temperament of a nervous child becomes amiable and lovable if the child is handled rightly; and grown to manhood, this child is loved quite as much for his temperament as for his intellectual attainments. In fact, temperament in its influence upon people, as an element of success, is worth quite as much as a merely well-trained brain. More than one man in active life has come to realize that it is his defect in temperament and not his lack of ability or education that costs him the success of his life.
A child should be made especially happy at meal-times, because happy nervous impulses influence digestion favorably. This is accomplished by a good story, if it starts a laugh which ends in a blush or a nerve thrill that tingles in the toes. Laughter sets the digestive juices flowing as its effect upon the appetite goes to show, while the parent's look that blanches a child's cheeks stunts both his moral and physical growth. The laugh that causes a blush of pleasure has in it constructive physical and constructive nervous force. The growing nerve centers in a child should be fed on emotions that tone up and not upon those that depress, and upon influences that stimulate its entire being. It is a good plan to begin the day with a laugh started at the breakfast table. Nutrition, as well as tonic nervous impulses, — both constructive forces, — are carried in greater volume to every cell in the body under happy or stimulating atmospheres, and the whole system rings with applause as a result, just as a theatre is heard to ring, when a vast audience, raised to the point of enthusiasm over something well and beautifully done, clap their hands in approval.
A lad twelve years of age, a sensitive boy, because of his delicate inherited organization, was found to lie awake after he was put to bed. No cause could be found for this. He was given only a light supper and was sent to bed early, as all growing children should be. His mind evidently worked far into the first half of the night. One day his uncle, a physician, said to him, "When the sun goes down the day is done, and the night is yours in which to sleep. Don't carry to bed with you the thought of anything you may not have said or done well during the day. You are to get up every morning and make a fresh start. I love you all the more because you are imperfect. If you were perfect in the beginning you would have nothing to work for except money, and that does not always make happiness, and it is happiness, lad, you are after, — the distinctive qualities and mental poise that make happiness for you now, and especially as you grow older. Fire your sunset gun as the government does, when the day is done, and haul your flag. Next morning set it again. Go to bed to sleep." Some time afterwards, this boy said to his aunt, in an appreciative way: " Tante May, Tante May, since uncle said the day was over when the sun set, I can sleep like anything." This lad had evidently been reviewing the result of each day's work, and perhaps worrying over some part of what he had said or done or failed to do. When told that the day ended with the going down of the sun, and that each succeeding day he was to begin anew, and that he was loved all the more because of his present imperfections, which he would some day conquer, he quietly rested his head upon the pillow and fell asleep.
This life is man's school, — conditions, his tools. In his aim after perfectness he often fails from shortness of vision, from unripeness, and from weakness, which can only become strength by the exercise of just such faculties as are now his modes of expression. If those who "miss the mark," which is the most intelligent understanding of "sin" (another name for imperfection), would so construe it, and count instances of missing the mark as "target practice" which will result finally in a perfect aim, all that demoralization resultant upon an accusing con-science would disappear.
A mother having four children wore a heavy black dress and veil because of the loss of one of the children. She forgot that the living children were equally dear to her. One day her children begged her to wear bright colors, saying her "clothes hurt them," but she did not realize how much they meant by what they said, until on a later day one of them took a pink bow from a doll's dress, a poor faded affair, and pinned it quietly to her waist. Those who wear black because of the loss of dear ones forget the effect the black may have on others living, who are equally dear. Grief is only intensified by this custom, and the attention of thousands is drawn in this way to a person whose face and manner can but act de-pressingly upon all. A crape veil often works serious mischief to both the spirit and the body. People have been known to grow faint at the sight of the thing. " Why should we wear black for the guests of God"? The wearing of mourning may be a mark of respect or love for those who have departed, but it serves also to intensify grief, and draws the attention of others to our sorrow, to no good end; while it may cause suffering to many. It would certainly help the happiness of the world if this fashion of wearing black could be put aside. If it is worn for self-protection, as some assert, a more hopeful color might be selected and that would do quite as well, perhaps. The change that a funeral represents should be looked upon as the end of a beautiful life, and the beginning of another life even more beautiful. Since every one has to move on, wouldn't it be better, if we cannot rejoice, because of personal loss, to avoid intensifying, at least, a result that cannot be helped. Children are very susceptible to external impressions or influences. It is possible for habits of introspection, or worry, or fault-finding even, to be acquired in youth, by some children at least, if left to their own way of thinking, or because of what they see or hear their elders say or do. If the mother's voice is low-pitched the child's will become so. If the father is nervous and excitable and goes storming about the house because of disturbing trifles, his children are likely to become something more than disturbing trifles in time, and have their father to thank for it. Children are great imitators, as some of us know to our sorrow or amusement as the case may be. A child with a stick in her hand stood before her sawdust doll. She was heard to say, "If you don't mind you will get a damn-darn beating." I wonder which one of her parents this child was quoting or imitating.
Some of the causes for mental unrest and wretchedness among maturer minds are apparent to the average observer. Altogether too rapidly people are losing sight of their capacity to enjoy little things. As the writer has said, "The south side of a red apple gave pleasure in childhood, now it takes the echoes of a Krupp gun to create an impression, such is the spirit of unrest and sensationalism." As children we play with toys, — the tin horse, the tin cart, the tin soldier, and the paper tent. As "grown-ups" we play with a real horse, a real cart, and live in a real house. Pray tell us why this change in the size of the toys should make so many of us miserable. This world was given us to work in and play in, it is a pretty place, but thousands of people under existing conditions seem to make a nightmare out of ordinary life and living. People find fault with the weather and make themselves miserable by doing so. Of what use is such fault-finding? Why not learn to like a rainy day? We have them. The flower by the roadside blooms a thing of beauty; perhaps it has just as hard a time as any of us getting along there in the dust and dirt where the soil is poor, the rocks are bare, and moisture scant. The poor horse gets only his board for his toil, and yet he never complains. Too many people are afraid they are going to be measured by the size of the roof they are under. The plane of life upon which people find themselves should be dignified by their attitude toward it. Imitation instead of emulation is the habit of too many people. The luxuries of life have become the necessities of life. False pride and vanity are too often in evidence while real pride seldom shows its head. With six days in the week devoted to competition and a little more than an hour in the one day that is left devoted to spirituality, delivered at arm's length, usually, is it any wonder that many lose sight of the great purpose for which life is worked out and lived through.
Under the stress of modem competition one-half of mankind overpowers the other half, and then has them to take care of as invalids. Women compete with men under the laws made for men, although women are rated but half as strong, physically, as men. Laborers will some day be classified, and every life will be preserved for whatever there is in it; every one, no matter what his limitations, can do something useful.
When men worked in the fields and women in the homes there was mutual dependence, and life went on more simply and steadily than it does now. The frugal, abstemious ways of living that obtained in earlier days were certainly more natural than is now the case, and the minds of the people were generally more at ease. Wealth was more evenly distributed then. With potatoes in the cellar and corn in the barn there was no such vital question as to where the next meal was coming from. A day's indisposition was not necessarily a nightmare. People are crowding into the cities, where there is rent to pay and where food costs money, instead of the labor necessary to plant it and get it out of the ground. If more beginners had the experience that world winnowing affords, they would stay on the land. Wages have advanced, but the cost of living has advanced, and existence, for those who have no resources except what their daily toil affords them, is much more exacting than it has ever been before. The man who happens to have a business mind, or has been trained in a business way, has by far the best chance at the "loaves and fishes" as the world of money is distributed today.
Aside from this question of daily necessity among the weak, and the working people generally, which is responsible for much of the unhappiness experienced, a lack of mental poise exists, quite as serious, though not as frequently met with, among the well-to-do and the rich.
It is not stress of life then, or actual want, that causes all the mental misery seen and felt, and so some of it must be accounted for on other grounds. The poor man's wolf is an ugly customer, but we see poor men at every turn in the road who are not afraid to face that customer. Perhaps, after all, lives lived through have much in common, whether they be lives of the rich or of the poor. There may be the same amount of character, or lack of it, to contend with, the same weariness attending endless festivities, that might be expected to follow years of toil, the same amount of care or sorrow, and finally the same amount of pain. Who knows? Or the causes may lie deeper still, for happiness must come from within. We get back what we give out. Browning says, "Man is not yet; he is becoming." In the evolution of the world, the work is done both by those who are struggling at the bottom of all creation, and by those who fall on the firing-line, — who are pushed on from behind. Man is on the up-trend all along the line the world over.
Much of the old orthodox religions no longer satisfies the modern mind or supplies the mental needs of the present. There are rare preachers whose sermons are messages of uplift; whose statements are hopeful and helpful spiritually and through them the perplexing and rough places in daily life are smoothed and blessed. Scaring a man to death, as the ministers used to do forty years ago, doesn't work today. The writer distinctly re-members the effect Thursday evening prayer-meeting had on him. It resulted in a hole, big enough to get into, back of his father's barn. When the Angel Gabriel blew that trumpet of "hisen," he and his brother knew where they could be found.
The depression concerning "sin," depression amounting often to anguish, calls for treatment; either through enlightened views concerning the moral government of God, or through psycho-therapeutical treatment, that will displace the hobgoblins of a crude theology, — a theology which forgot to include the Fatherhood of God and His absolutely benevolent plan concerning the rise (not fall) of man. The church conducted as an ethical culture society cannot altogether fulfil its mission. The church must be brought to the people through the power which it demonstrates, and this will also bring the people to the church.
Certain mental habits are among the mental causes for physical disturbance, in maturer minds especially. Worry stands first, and then follow, fear, anger, over-sensitiveness, introspection, retrospection, looking forward (fear of the future), irritability, pessimism, depression, melancholia, hysteria, epilepsy, and many others depending upon the individual, and the circumstances that promote these disorders. These harpies of the mind play havoc with the mental machine, they interfere with rational thinking, and in extreme cases have been known to jar and fret the brain cells until they become worn out with their own friction. This is what is meant by the expression "Worried to death." Nerve cells are over-sensitive or stable in proportion to the size of their nucleus or center. The excitability or inhibition of a nerve depends upon the power it has of responding to a stimulus or withstanding a shock. This varies with the individual. Two boys are born of the same father and mother. They go through a railroad accident; one comes out whole, the other comes out nervously unstable, because of mental shock. , His nerve centers, the storehouses of energy, spill their force on the slightest provocation, instead of discharging it only as needed and in the amount required, as when one moves an arm. Both boys saw the same sights, and neither one was physically hurt. Both have the same "ingrediences" in their make-up; they are two-thirds of what has been and are one-third of what is, but no one can tell just how the "cake" is coming out in the baking. The vaso-motor spasm due to "shock " produced but little change in one of them, while for the other, the un-stable condition resulting, is prolonged, and if not strengthened by mental-moral training, may prove constant. Physical courage, or a stable nervous system, is a great invigorator, while timidity tends to destroy the energy of the nervous system. Shocks may be either mental or physical. Both mental and physical shock produce the same results which differ only in degree and duration. A blow on the head produces a vaso-motor spasm, or a contraction of the nerves that regulate the flow of blood through the arteries. This is how the physiologists explain shock. If the blow is severe enough, we get concussion of the brain or even contusion of the brain, and unconsciousness. Mental shocks produce vasomotor spasm in the same way, the degree and duration depending upon the cause. Fear and worry acting through the vaso-motor nerves affect the caliber of the blood-vessels. Under fear, the person afflicted turns pale, as those nerves contract, and if the depressing influence persists, as for example a sense of guilt, the irritated nerves continue to hold their grip. And that grip may never let go until the shock that produced it is released. Under the stimulation of hope and expectation or praise, the vaso-motor nerves relax, the color returns, and the blood and lymph flow freely. The same result follows play, laughter, music, or the sight of color such as the sunset affords, when the sun, with a blush of pleasure, bids us "good night," because of what he has seen the good people of the world accomplish, while the earth is turning around once. Worry and fear, acting through the sympathetic nervous system, affect the secretions of the mouth, stomach, liver, pancreas, and intestines. So the digestive secretions are diminished, the appetite fails, and the stomach nerves, because of the indigestion induced, become irritated. A sore feeling stomach results with nausea, or vomiting even may cap the climax. The appetite will frequently improve if meals are eaten under congenial conditions, when every one is having a good time. Worry and fear are banished for that hour because of our enjoyment and the sight of generous hospitality. Bilious attacks, which evidence irritation of the stomach mucosa, may follow mental disturbances, or it may be that the secretion of bile becomes affected. Constipation, either spastic, — due to spasm of the intestines, — or due to diminished intestinal secretion, is often a concomitant of mental disorder. A faulty assimilation of food and a deficient elimination of waste products are factors in ill health. Chronic rheumatism, a result of these two disturbances in part, at least, is nothing more or less than an exhibition of waste material floating in the blood cur-rent; something that dieting and a decent frame of mind will cure. By dieting 1 do not mean starvation, but thorough munching and the adaptation of food to fit the physical condition and occupation of the patient. If the normal capillaries (smallest blood-vessels above one-fiftieth of an inch in diameter under normal mental and physical conditions) cannot pass along morbid material floating in the blood current, they certainly cannot do so when the vaso-motor nerves, under negative mental influences, contract the blood-vessels. Things get into our bodies in but two ways, either through our minds or our mouths. There are but five ways by which they get out, — by the bowels, kidneys, breath, sweat, or through mental processes that liberate. The pessimist is generally sallow-skinned and constipated. He is under constant negative mental influences, because he allows himself to imagine that nothing in this world is quite as it should be. He probably thinks everything is going to the devil, but happily for the rest of us there are some who doubt this.
"The difference betwixt the optimist
Cold, damp hands and feet are often due to mental depression, which causes a relaxation of the vaso-motor nerves. Anger frequently brings on headaches. Anger floods the brain with blood, and if the arteries are brittle, as they often are in old age, — for a man is just as old as his arteries are old, — the rise in the arterial tension may result in rupture of the vessel, when apoplexy follows, due to hemorrhage. Attacks of anger hasten the deterioration of the arteries. Anger brings on attacks of hysteria and epilepsy. In this way anger, discharging the pent-up nervous force, has been known to cause death. Out-breaks of anger are comparable to a severe thunderstorm, with destructive, blinding flashes of lightning. The shock resulting from an attack of anger may last two or three weeks.
There is a cyclical recurrence in many forms of mental disturbance, showing that the nervous system is periodically aroused by some unseen cause. The exciting cause of a nerve storm may be either physical or mental. The "blues," so-called, are the outcome of periodical poisoning, due to indigestion probably, and the indigestion may have sprung from over-excitement, or other morbid mental condition, such, for instance, as worrying over fancied sins. Epilepsy in some cases can be controlled by mental training especially when mental disturbances precede the attacks. Hysteria is essentially a mental state, and in its effect upon the body, acting through the sympathetic nervous system, has been known to produce a condition closely simulating tuberculosis. A woman, a teacher by profession, had been vomiting almost daily for a year. She had lost twenty pounds in weight, and she coughed throughout much of each night. She had a daily rise in temperature, but no increase in the pulse rate. She re-signed her position and returned home to enter a hospital. The vomiting had begun when she was given an order by her superior officer with which she did not wish to comply. The case was diagnosticated as one of chronic hysteria. Hysterical persons see the world through irrational lenses — their point of view is wrong. The best and most effectual treatment is by direct suggestion. After receiving some wholesome advice, that was neither coddling nor criticising, this woman regained her health and strength, and has worked regularly.
During the recent financial crisis a prominent financier lost twenty pounds in weight, although eating regularly but with perhaps less zest than formerly. He was examined by his physician and pronounced physically sound. The week following this examination he gained three pounds in weight and has since improved rapidly. His was an instance of loss of weight due to depression, resulting from anxiety connected with money matters. The depression was maintained by solicitude because of his rapid loss in weight without assignable physical cause. When told by his physician that he was sound, his depression was relieved, and his digestion improved. The vasomotor spasm, due to mental shock, no longer checked the flow of his gastric secretions, or blood current. His case illustrates the effect of negative auto-suggestion, followed by the beneficial 'effect of a direct statement, optimistic in character. But auto-suggestion works affirmatively as well as negatively. A well-known American general, whose arm had been shot away below the shoulder years ago, appealed to his physician for relief from nervous irritation and discomfort in the stump of the amputated limb. It had become irritated by the jostling of people at receptions. The general was known to believe in God. He was told that whenever any one hit his arm, he was to say to himself, and mean it in good faith, — " God bless you." His adviser was convinced that the stimulating effect of praise passing over the nerves to the point of irritation would have a soothing, healing influence upon the nerve tissues. The general was told to direct his thoughts toward the injured member whenever he made his affirmation. He did so, and in less than four months' time he is reported to have said he wished some one would knock against that arm, he wanted to bless him.
A woman afflicted with constipation consulted her physician. She was one of the over-sensitive kind. Her father desired her to attend church with him but she did not enjoy doing so. Every Sunday morning the church question was an issue. She always became nauseated at these times. Later, when advised by her physician to attend the church of her choice, and to keep out of the room where her father was accustomed to sit, whenever the "injured innocence" atmosphere he created there by his mental attitude depressed her, she promptly recovered from her constipation. This was a case of spastic constipation (?) brought on by the young woman's mental state under certain circumstances. While still afflicted she had been treated for a year by a physician who did not understand the cause of her trouble. His failure was not to his discredit, for she made no statement to him in regard to her home life. Another young woman, a doctor's daughter in good health, and physically well except for constipation, was referred to a specialist in stomach and intestinal disorders. He treated her without success. She did not tell him that she had lost her lover. Finally she espoused the idea of harmony as taught by the church, when promptly she recovered from her constipation. Mental disturbance had been the cause of it. We must not infer from these citations that constipation can be cured ordinarily by mental treatment alone, but it is fair to conclude that the mind as well as the body must be considered when one is dealing with chronic disorders. Incompatibility of persons is nothing but inharmony. A person who has mental poise can soon strike the note that harmonizes with the note of another person, and it does not matter whether or not the effort is a conscious one on the part of both. When both parties are aware of a difference between them, and are willing to make the effort to get in tune, they can quickly succeed. A party of five traveling together were found to have inharmonious relations. It was agreed they should not speak of anything that disturbed them at the time it happened, but wait for twenty-four hours. At first they all covered sheets of paper filing exceptions and making notes. In-side of five days they were all laughing at each other, the exceptions were never argued, and from that time on they got along famously.
Worry belongs to the mental-habit field. It is neither a physical condition to be treated with drugs, nor one to be relieved by spiritual teachings, unless the person afflicted can overcome the habit by faith and prayer. Worry is a form of nervousness, and nervousness is a mental state. A person may have attained the spiritual level and yet be a worrier to the extent that renders life miserable, not alone for the person afflicted but for all intimately associated with him.
A railroad conductor consulted a physician. He had been discharged from the railroad on account of nervousness. On the physician's examination he was found to. be physically sound. When asked what he was "fussing" over, he replied, — "I suppose I have been worrying for fear some one getting on or off my train would get hurt." When asked if any one ever had been injured in this way, in connection with any train he had charge of, he replied in the negative. He was told that his nervousness was due to worry, that worry was a mental condition and not a physical state, and that there were no drugs for nervousness of this kind. He was told he must learn to dismiss worry from his mind, as he would stop any other habit, mental or physical, that detracted from his usefulness or happiness. He was given one hundred yellow-eyed beans, and was told to put one, every morning, in a little box in the corner of his bed-room, and then say, "Worry is in the bean and the bean is in the box." He was not to forget where he left the worry, in the bean, any more than he would be expected to forget where he left his hat. He was to walk away with the feeling that the worry was not in his head, but out of it. Before the hundred beans were exhausted he was free from his nervousness or worry and had been restored to his place on the road. Another good way to eliminate these habits from the mind is to have a regular place where they can be left. An old chair bottom in the corner of the room will serve the purpose. The person afflicted is to go to that place and deliberately deposit his worries there as he would boxes or bundles. This practice persisted in becomes a useful resource. The funny side to the procedure helps solve the trouble.
It may not be necessary to cultivate a substitute-habit in the strong man, for dismissal will suffice. In others, it is only by patient practice that the mind can be freed from worry; and the attempt must be kept up until the brain recognizes and yields to the newer impulse. One does not learn to play the piano by sitting down before it once. We go down, to be sure, before new shocks, and for a limited time we are more or less influenced by them, but if our powers of resistance have been strengthened by training, we promptly rally, when the better impulses and better feelings hold sway. It is possible to train the mind to a point at which one's inside nature simply refuses to get "on edge," or if it does, like a stove cover it can be turned down, no matter what the provocation. The mind can be discharged from the consideration of any vexatious subject, and the attention given to the enjoyment of any other. Mind cure is simply the acquiring of control over impulses, emotions, or habits that demoralize. It substitutes other habits, if necessary. The person gains mental poise, and leans towards optimism. The mind liberates the nervous mechanism and vital fluids of the body so that all the functions, both physical and mental, are performed normally. Whether the condition recognized as a chronic disorder or disease is due to mental or physical causes, one cannot always easily determine. If the person suffering is willing to cultivate one or two new habits for the old ones he suspects, although he may not be able to see that they are the cause of his trouble, he will often be surprised at the outcome. He may find that this is all that is required to cure him of the chronic ailment from which he has been seeking re-lief by the usual methods, in vain. It is useless to expect permanent results from one habit taken up with, if the old bad habit is still indulged. The first essential of cure in cases of bad mental habits is a willing mind.
The best time for training the mind to control itself is in childhood, but few of the middle-aged people of today were fortunate enough to have had mental discipline of this sort; most of us were not trained at all, but were left to battle with our habits, or with the "old adversary" as Deacon White used to say. He is reported to have taken a fall out of this old wrestler more than once when out in the pasture with his oxen, hauling wood. Confronting a bad habit often intensifies it. It is better perhaps to turn away and leave the adversary behind, in spite of Deacon White's experience. A good way to banish habits that detract from happiness is to discuss with our neighbors and friends the questions of conquering them, and the best way to do it. By such discussion one strengthens his own powers of resistance and at the same time helps his friend. Even if one does not believe in all his friend may say, or in all one hears, it pays to preach and listen, if the preaching points to something better than the thing one is doing. They who keep themselves occupied with wholesome mental and physical activities keep their spirits steady, — only empty vessels rattle.
Many people live to mature life without any earnest spiritual effort, or any expectation of developing the spirit. They lay claim to belief in eternal life, and look for the gradual development of the divine spark in themselves, but they so crowd their daily lives with superficialities that they have little time or room for the consideration of spiritual truths. They depend entirely for happiness upon what they can get out of material things, and upon the purchasing power of money. The man who makes material things the end of life, instead of a means to an end, makes a miss of it.
Every man is the gardener of his own life. In the first years youth untrained rushes on and on, leaving half his fields untilled. These waste fields grow up to weeds, — worry, fear, anger, over-sensitiveness, hysteria, introspection, depression. Later, if he is wise, he turns back and ploughs and plants again, that all life's garden may be seen a thing of beauty, — a completed garden in full bloom when life draws near to its close. Appreciation, responsiveness, good temper, mental poise, optimism, frugality, dignity, faith, — these are the virtues he forgot in the first planting of the garden. When our fields have been reclaimed, the men and women who come to us or care for us, those who pass through our garden, can always gather a buttonhole bouquet, at least, and the memory of the meeting and the passing will always remain delightful, as the memory of some beautiful landscape, viewed in the fall of the year when the trees are full of color.
As we grow older, it becomes us to grow graceful in spirit, and this can be done by bringing our minds to the point at which the inner self must not become irritated. One who learns the art of self-control, or mental poise, remains calm and lovable under all conditions. His presence and his influence are desired by all during his declining years. To grow old with a distressed spirit that creates an atmosphere of unrest in one's life, which is in turn imparted to those about us, is to make a failure of the last years of life.


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3. Heather Graham – Adrift in Manhattan
4. Asia Argento – The Last Mistress
5. Neve Campbell – I Really Hate My Job
6. Anna Faris – The House Bunny
7. Amy Smart – Mirrors
8. Mena Suvari – Stuck
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10. Angelina Jolie – Wanted
11. Penélope Cruz – Elegy
12. Jessica Morris – Role Models
13. Willa Ford – Impulse
14. Carly Pope – YPF
15. Jenna Jameson – Zombie Strippers
16. Jess Weixler – Teeth
17 Moran Atias – Mother of Tears
18. Vera Farmiga – Never Forever
19. Maria Bello – Downloading Nancy
20. Amy Adams – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Let's break this down: Mischa Barton – hmm, barely remember her, don't care. Sophie Monk (pictured) – okay yeah, I can see how she made the list. Heather Graham, already showed her kitty in Boogie Nights. Asia Argento – is she ever not naked? Neve Campbell – old, already been in Playboy… Wait, Anna Faris in House Bunny? That movie was rated PG-13. On that note, the MPAA says nothing about Wanted having nudity in it. Bottom line, if it doesn't have at least a nipple, IT'S NOT A F-CKING NUDE SCENE. What are we, Amish?
And how the hell does Jenna Jameson make the list? She's a porn star. Unless she's getting buttf-cked by a unicorn, pictures of her naked aren't news. They also included Carly Pope of Young People F-cking. Cute, but know who else was in that movie? Diora Baird. Diora Baird's breasts could cure cancer. And she's not on the list. Jesus Christ. The people that compiled this should never be allowed to see tits again, because they're obviously not capable of appreciating them. Certainly not like I do, ladies. That's why I've got this pipe and magnifying glass, you see.
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>>On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Peter Marron <email@example.com> wrote: … >I've started doing similar work for the ORC reader. I guess that I'm glad that I'm not completely alone here. >> >>Firstly although that page mentions InputFormat there doesn't seem to be any way (that I can find) >>to perform filter passing to InputFormats and so I gave up on that approach. >> >There is. You just need to set hive.optimize.index.filter to true. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4242. This is a little confusing. When I look through the code for the use of this configuration I see that it's effectively used in two places. Firstly it's used on line 55 of file PhysicalOptimizer.java to add a "IndexWhereResolver" Secondly it's used on line 766 of file OpProcFactory.java to set a filter expression But I don't see any point where the predicate is passed to the InputFormat class. I guess that you're saying that there's some way that the InputFormat can retrieve the predicate once it's been stored. But it's not clear to me how I do that. >> >>That said, we really need to create a better interface that allows inputformats to negotiate what parts of the predicate they can process. Ah, yes, sorry. I really want to be able to remove part of the predicate and subsume the filtering into the InputFormat class. There's little point in me going down this route if I can't do that. >> >>-- Owen >> Thanks for prodding me into looking at the code, because now I see a big problem. To recap what I really want to do is to be able to effect filtering on the case where I do a select * from table; query. This is the only query that I'm interested in because it seems to run without any Map/Reduce overhead (either locally or in the cluster) it's effectively just performing some HDFS calls and that's what I desire. What I really want to be able to do is to issue a query like this: select * from table where <predicate> where I filter out the predicate and do the filtering in the InputFormat and then hive effectively sees the query select * from table; and runs it directly (no Map/Reduce) and I'm a happy bunny. Now, as I say, I can't see any way to effect this in the InputFormat directly. If I use a storage handler then I am in "non-native table" terrority and I can't LOAD my tables with data. However I have just noticed that line 111 of file IndexWhereProcessor.java seems to suggest that indexes are only ever user when the query is going to run Map/Reduce. Is this so? So I seem to be in the position where I can't use InputFormat, StorageHandler or Indexes. What can I do? Is there any way to filter the query without having to run Map/Reduce? Any suggestions welcomed. Peter Marron Trillium Software UK Limited Tel : +44 (0) 118 940 7609 Fax : +44 (0) 118 940 7699 E: firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>
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By David Alexander
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Senate Budget Committee delivered a sobering message to top U.S. defense officials on Tuesday, saying the Pentagon will have to reduce spending beyond the $487 billion already proposed if the United States is going to deal with its $15 trillion debt.
The warning from Democratic Senator Kent Conrad prompted an emotional exchange with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, a fellow Democrat and former budget official, who said the panel would damage the country's security if it tried to solve the U.S. debt crisis by reducing only discretionary spending like defense.
"We're going to have to have additional savings if we're really going to deal with the debt threat facing the country," Conrad told Panetta, who appeared before the committee to present President Barack Obama's defense spending plan for the 2013 fiscal year that starts October 1.
Panetta, a former head of the White House budget office and the House of Representatives budget committee, told Conrad the panel needed to consider raising revenues or reducing mandatory spending on entitlement programs, which include the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly and disabled and the Social Security pension program.
"If you're not dealing with the two-thirds (of the budget) that is entitlement spending, if you're not dealing with revenues and you keep going back to the same place, frankly you're not going to make it," Panetta said.
"And you're going to hurt this country, you're going to hurt this country's security, not only by cutting defense, but very frankly by cutting discretionary spending that deals with the quality of life in this country," he said.
Obama's spending plan for the 2013 fiscal year beginning in October includes a base defense budget of $525.4 billion, about $5.1 billion less than approved for 2012.
The budget for wars abroad is $88.5 billion, a 23 percent drop from 2012, primarily due to the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and a drawdown in Afghanistan. The Pentagon's top budget official told lawmakers it cost about $850,000 a year to maintain a soldier in Afghanistan.
The proposed defense budget also begins to implement the $487 billion in cuts to projected spending over the next decade as required by an August deal between the White House and Congress. It calls for the military to cut more than 100,000 troops over five years and also slows many weapons purchases.
The budget does not include an additional $500 billion in cuts over 10 years that will be required beginning in January 2013 unless Congress takes action to avert them. The second round of cuts is required because lawmakers failed to reach a deal by the end of 2011 on an extra $1.2 trillion in federal spending reductions.
Panetta has repeatedly warned that the second round of cuts would be devastating to the military and has sought to draw a line at the defense reductions already proposed, which were built around a new U.S. military strategy.
General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the budget panel on Tuesday that additional cuts would force the Pentagon to reformulate its strategy and the United States "would not any longer be a global power."
While acknowledging the need to look at boosting revenue and reducing mandatory spending, Conrad told Panetta and Dempsey the Pentagon could not expect to escape any further budget cuts.
"As I've listened here this morning I hope the conclusion is not that there's no additional savings that can be derived from defense, not another nickel, because I don't believe it," he said.
"I don't think we're going to, at the end of the day, have an alternative here," Conrad said. "In fact if we don't find a way to come together around a comprehensive plan to have additional savings, what's ultimately going to happen here is it's going to be forced on us."
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The National Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Strategy: 2015 Update reflects the consensus of a broad-based alliance of more than 30 not-for-profit health and safety organizations and professional associations. The updated document expands upon the proposals set forth in three prior versions, and recommends that more wide-ranging intervention and treatment policies be adopted nationwide to reduce prescription drug abuse and improve consumer access to high-quality health care. CLAAD's policy positions are established through a consensus process, in which at least 80 percent of the participants must represent not-for-profit organizations. This rule of governance ensures that the public interest drives CLAAD's priorities, as opposed to the interests of individual stakeholders.


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William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States. Harrison first gained national fame as a war hero, defeating American Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 and earning the nickname "Tippecanoe" (or "Old Tippecanoe"). Harrison died exactly one month into his term, making his presidency briefer than any before or since. He was also the first U.S. president to die in office.
- The strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
- Letter to Simón Bolívar (27 September 1829). Quoted in James Hall, A Memoir of the Public Services of William Henry Harrison, of Ohio (Philadelphia, PA: Key & Biddle, 1836).
- ...there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
- Letter to Simón Bolívar (27 September 1829). Quoted in The Life of Major-General William Henry Harrison: Comprising a Brief Account of His Important Civil and Military Services (Philadelphia, PA: Grigg & Elliot, 1840)
- It is necessary, therefore, to watch, not the political opponents of the administration, but the administration itself, and to see that it keeps within the bounds of the Constitution and the laws of the land. The executive of the Union has immense power to do mischief if he sees fit to exercise that power. He may prostrate the country. Indeed this country has been already prostrated. It has already fallen from pure republicanism to a monarchy in spirit if not in name.
- Speech at Fort Meigs (11 June 1840). Quoted in A B Norton, The Great Revolution of 1840: Reminiscences of the Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign. (Mount Vernon, OH and Dallas, TX: A B Norton & Co, 1888). p.186
- ...all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer
- Speech given on October 1, 1840
- Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
- Final words. Quoted in Jebediah Whitman, "A Memorial to Our Dear Departed President (New Ark, DE: Printed by the Author, 1841).
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- The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
- …it is preposterous to suppose that a thought could for a moment have been entertained that the President, placed at the capital, in the center of the country, could better understand the wants and wishes of the people than their own immediate representatives, who spend a part of every year among them, living with them, often laboring with them, and bound to them by the triple tie of interest, duty, and affection.
- I have determined never to remove a Secretary of the Treasury without communicating all the circumstances attending such removal to both Houses of Congress.
- There is no part of the means placed in the hands of the Executive which might be used with greater effect for unhallowed purposes than the control of the public press.
- The people of the District of Columbia are not the subjects of the people of the States, but free American citizens.
- It may be observed, however, that organized associations of citizens requiring compliance with their wishes too much resemble the recommendations of Athens to her allies, supported by an armed and powerful fleet.
- Fellow-citizens, being fully invested with that high office to which the partiality of my countrymen has called me, I now take an affectionate leave of you. You will bear with you to your homes the remembrance of the pledge I have this day given to discharge all the high duties of my exalted station according to the best of my ability, and I shall enter upon their performance with entire confidence in the support of a just and generous people.


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Time is running out for Emmanuel Adebayor
EMMANUEL ADEBAYOR has warned that if things do not improve quickly at White Hart Lane, the season could "be dead" for Tottenham.
The Togo international starts a three-game ban for his sending-off against Arsenal when Spurs entertain West Ham tomorrow.
A creditable 0-0 draw in Lazio on Thursday partially masks a run of just two wins in eight games and Adebayor is worried about the consequences if things do not pick up quickly.
"We're all frustrated about the way things are going," he said. "But what is not clicking, I don't know.
"Hopefully it will start clicking as soon as possible, otherwise we will find ourselves in difficulty.
"My friends tell me to keep positive so I don't really want to think about how bad it could be. But worse than this, I think we'd be dead.
"Things are looking bad but we just have to find a way to get through this.
Hopefully it will start clicking as soon as possible, otherwise we will find ourselves in difficulty
"And on a personal level, it's looking like one of the bad seasons . I'm just going to have to turn things around."
That said, Adebayor insists his family are settled in London and he is going nowhere in January despite some rumours to the contrary.
By the same token, Gareth Bale has no desire to leave White Hart Lane...yet.
"It would be nice to experience other leagues and other cultures," he said. "I have always said I am not afraid to go abroad. "
West Ham boss Sam Allardyce has backed his side to take advantage of Tottenham's tiredness from their European travails and land a result at White Hart Lane tomorrow.
"At the moment we have the team to get a result wherever we go," he said.
"If Tottenham hit top form it will be very difficult to get anything. But it is hard to produce the same level that you did in Europe so that's always difficult for a manager."
q President of the Italian FA, Giancarlo Abete, has sent an official letter to Football Association chairman David Bernstein to condemn the "disgraceful attack" on Tottenham fans in Rome and apologise on behalf of "the whole Italian football family".


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All installations of the Service Manager install the Tomcat and MySQL applications using the same basic set of parameters. Although the defaults provided by the installation process are designed not to interfere with existing installations of either product, check these parameters before installation to ensure that you do not experience any problems.
A value must be assigned to all settings that are defined in the
configuration file. This is different than passing these settings
into the command-line, which may default to
true when not passing in a value. Glib is used
for option handling, and specifically
g_key_file_get_boolean() to parse boolean
values. This means that
false and
0 represent boolean
true and
1 represent
true. For example:
Passing a value to
config.properties may look
like this:
Or to the command-line, like either of these:
$ ./mysqlmonitor-installer.bin --log-use-syslog $ ./mysqlmonitor-installer.bin --log-use-syslog 1
The common parameters are divided into those applying to the location of the MySQL server, the Tomcat server, and the connection properties for the MySQL server (Repository Configuration):
Tomcat Server port: The default port that the Tomcat server uses when listening for connections. If you change this option, make the same change to the equivalent port number specified during the Agent installation. The default value is 18080.
If you do not have a web server running on port 80, you
can use this well-known port rather than
18080. Since port
80 is the default for a web server,
you can then open the dashboard without specifying a
Tomcat Shutdown port: The port used by the management scripts that is used to shut the Tomcat server down when you need to stop the Service Manager. The default value is 18005.
Tomcat SSL Port: The standard port used to connect to the Service Manager when you want to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypted communication. The default value is 18443.
MySQL Server selection
Using the bundled MySQL Server is preferred, but you may also choose to use your own MySQL Server to store repository data for the MySQL Enterprise Service Manager. The MySQL Server can be located on the same machine as the MySQL Enterprise Service Manager, or on a different machine. If you use your own MySQL Server, it must already be running when you start the installer.
Configuring the MySQL Enterprise Service Manager repository to use a database that you plan to monitor will be problematic, because the MySQL Enterprise Service Manager statistics will interfere with your setup. Using the same host will function normally, although some monitored statistics are host specific.
The requirements for the MySQL Server are:
MySQL 5.1.43 or higher.
Partitioning enabled.
InnoDB Storage Engine enabled. MySQL Enterprise Monitor operation relies on the InnoDB-related configuration options being set high enough to handle the monitoring traffic. For example, the bundled MySQL server includes the settings:
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 512M innodb_log_file_size = 256M innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 2 innodb_support_xa = 0 innodb_file_per_table innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct = 20 innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog = 1
Using too-low settings for the repository data could
result in errors such as
Session is
closed! in the Tomcat log file.
Configure the MySQL server with suitable credentials to
allow MySQL Enterprise Service Manager to create the database, tables and
other settings. The user should have
ALL privileges on the MySQL Enterprise Monitor
repository, which is stored within the database
mem, or you can provide full access to
all tables. Also, ensure you have the
OPTION. For example, you might create a suitable
user using the following
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'service_manager'@'localhost'
password' WITH GRANT OPTION
Repository Configuration (MySQL Server)
Repository Username — if you are connecting to an
existing MySQL database, specify the username and password
that you configured with access to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor
repository. If you install the bundled MySQL database,
choose a username and password for the MySQL Enterprise Service Manager,
and that user is created automatically during
installation. In normal use, you do not need to access the
repository database directly, but it might be required to
resolve a service
request. The default value is
Repository User password — the password to use to connect to the MySQL database. Set it to a secure password so that the repository data is secure.
Use SSL when connecting to the database — adds a
mysql.use_ssl=true to the
config.properties file. The
repository database must be configured for SSL
connections, as described in
Building MySQL with SSL Support. You can add
this line yourself to enable SSL connections after
installation. You can also manually add any of the
following items to
to customize the SSL connections to the repository
mysql.verify_server_cert (default is false) mysql.trust_cert_keystore_url (no default) mysql.trust_cert_keystore_type (no default) mysql.trust_cert_keystore_password (no default) mysql.client_cert_keystore_url (no default) mysql.client_cert_keystore_type (no default) mysql.client_cert_keystore_password (no default)
These items correspond to similarly-named JDBC connection properties that are described in Driver/Datasource Class Names, URL Syntax and Configuration Properties for Connector/J.
The information that you configure during installation is recorded
within the
configuration_report.txt file
within the installation directory for the Service Manager, with
any passwords obscured. (Thus, be sure to record all passwords
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WASHINGTON — Joseph Zias, 43, an anthropologist with the Israel Department of Antiquities, has become one of the world's leading experts on crucifixion. He spends endless hours exhuming small bone fragments and studying them for the tales they tell about the diseases, medical treatments and religious practices of their previous owners.
Recently, his investigations have centered on the only remains yet discovered of a crucified man: Yehohanan, a Jew in his late 20s, from a wealthy family, who may have been convicted of a political crime and was crucified some time in the 1st Century. His bones, complete with a heel bone pierced by an iron spike, were discovered in 1968 and recently given exhaustive analysis by Zias and Eliezer Sekeles of Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem. Their investigation provides a new vista on this cruel method of execution that lies at the heart of Christian history.
Gives Up Accounting
Originally from Ypsilanti, Mich., Zias worked as an accountant for three years before going to Israel in 1966 as a volunteer on a kibbutz. The numerous archeological digs in the area made him "see the light"--he painlessly renounced accounting, returned to the United States and earned a master's degree in anthropology from Wayne State University. He later studied anatomy for a year at the Hebrew University medical school in Jerusalem.


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William Cowper
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
William Cowper
by George Romney
pastel, 1792
22 1/2 in. x 18 1/2 in. (572 mm x 470 mm)
Purchased, 1905
Primary Collection
Sitterback to top
- William Cowper (1731-1800), Poet. Sitter in 7 portraits.
Artistback to top
- George Romney (1734-1802), Portrait painter. Artist associated with 160 portraits, Sitter in 5 portraits.
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Cowper sat for this portrait at the house of the poet William Hayley, who was a friend of the artist Romney. Hayley wrote a posthumous biography of Cowper.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Alex Kidson, George Romney 1734-1802, 2002 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 30 May - 18 August 2002), p. 221
- Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 128
- Piper, David, The English Face, 1992, p. 163
- Rogers, Malcolm, Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, 1993 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 August to 23 October 1994), p. 73
- Ross, Josephine, Jane Austen and her World, 2017, p. 73
- Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery: An Illustrated Guide, 2000, p. 107
- Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery, 1997, p. 107
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 149
- Woof, Robert; Hebron, Stephen, Romantic Icons, 1999, p. 19
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- Late Eighteenth Century Prints and Drawings (17 April 2004 - 5 September 2004)
- George Romney (30 May 2002 - 18 August 2002)
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Batavia is celebrating its bicentennial this year, and The Clermont Sun is publishing a series of historic vignettes. Author Ron Hill is past president of the Clermont County Historical Society, was editor of the Society's newsletter for 17 years, and edited two of the Society's books and wrote another. He is a member of the Cincinnati Railroad Club.
By Ron Hill
The second railroad to serve Batavia was the Cincinnati and Portsmouth. It was a narrow-gauge steam railroad organized by Henry Brachmann in 1873. A narrow-gauge line, 3′ between rails, was cheaper to build than a standard gauge, 4′ 8 ½″. After bankruptcy in 1877, it was reorganized as the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth Railroad.
The route entered Clermont County at Clough Pike and curved northward to Mt. Carmel and then east through Summerside, Glen Este and Willowville to Olive Branch. It then went south to Amelia. From there it went east to Hamlet and Bethel before entering Brown County. Construction began in 1876, and the first train ran to Mt. Carmel in 1877. The line was completed to Georgetown in 1886. The line never made it to Portsmouth, because the Cincinnati & Eastern Railroad, later called the Norfolk & Western, reached there first.
In 1901, Andrew Comstock bought the line and modernized it. He changed the gauge to standard, filled in the culverts, straightened curves and electrified it. He built a modern electric generating plant at Olive Branch and a lake to provide cooling water for the plant. Not only did the electric plant provide power for the railcars, it also provided electricity for the hamlets along the railroad, including Batavia.
A park, called Highland, was built adjacent to the lake. The lake later was called Allyn after the mother of one of the CG&P officials. Highland Park was made into a resort, with boating, sports fields, picnic tables and a pavilion.
Taking a trolley to a park was a popular day's excursion for many people before the days of the automobile. The railroad dropped visitors off on the west side of the lake at a station near the power plant. They then crossed a swinging bridge to get to the picnic grounds, which were adjacent to Amelia Olive Branch Road. The first electric car reached Georgetown in 1902. The site of the power plant was also the point where the Batavia Branch line left the main line and dropped down the hillside to Batavia.
The Batavia branch was built in 1903. It Crossed the Lake Allyn dam and followed Old Route 74 down the hillside to the East Fork River valley, where is followed the N&W tracks toward Batavia. It then passed under those tracks and ended near State Route 74 at the depot.
The Clermont County Historical Society does not have a picture of the original depot, but based on pictures of the other depots built by the CG&P at the time, it was a small wooden structure. In 1917, it was replaced by a 18′ x 40′ concrete block building with 5′ cornice.
The building had three apartments, ticket office, waiting room and electrical room from which Batavia received her day current. You passed thru the building to reach the trolley car. No signs of the depot remain, as it was destroyed when the N&W RR realigned its tracks.
Because of the steep grade of the Batavia Branch and the Mt. Washington Hill, the CG&P used steam engines to pull their freight trains. In 1917, the CG&P had to stop service several times because of a coal shortage due to WW l. The closure of the power plant affected the electricity in the hamlets that the railroad served. The Batavia Branch was abandoned in 1934.
Only a single car of the trolley type served passengers in Batavia. Since there was no way to turn the trolley at Batavia, it was necessary to have a trolley that could be driven from both ends. A trip from Batavia to Cincinnati required a person to change cars from the Batavia Branch to the Main Line at Highland Park. At Carrel Street, near Cincinnati, a passenger had to change cars to the East End Trolley to reach the heart of the city, because the CG&P did not have track rights into downtown Cincinnati.
A 1903 timetable shows that the CG&P dispatched 15 trains eastbound from Carrel Street Station each day except Sunday. Seven of these trains only went as far as Hamlet. The same timetable reveals that the trolley made 10 round trips a day between Batavia and Highland Park Station. The first left Batavia at 6:13 a.m. and the last at 7:28 p.m. The ride up the hill took 15 to 20 minutes and cost 5 cents.
The right or way of the CG&P Railroad can still be seen from Old State Route 74 near Olive Branch. Just east of the intersection of Shayler Road and Old State Route 74, if you look west, you can see a large stone trestle that was on the CG&P main line. Lake Allyn is now a camp for handicapped children. Behind the camp, the foundation of the power plant is still visible.


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One of Sacramento's oldest art galleries is hidden in plain sight.
The entrance is down a neatly paved alleyway in Curtis Park. Neighbors know it as "The Dragon House."
"There is no theme. Just a fantasy," says artist and homeowner Carolyn Belmore.
Dragons, tigers and hundreds of mythical creatures cover the side of Belmore's home. The canvas to this masterpiece is a failed construction project: poorly installed Stucco.
"The installers didn't do a good job, it pealed and we had dry rot," Belmore said. Carolyn and her husband spent a fortune on the bad stucco job back in the 1970's, but unfortunately there was no warrantee.
Belmore and her husband started looking for a solution to the construction disaster. The two were on a limited income back then and needed an affordable fix.
"I liked tile, but tile was expensive. Then I thought maybe clay. So I took a couple of classes and that's when I met Ray," Belmore said, adding she knew very little about clay tile at the time so she enlisted the help of Ray Gage, a World War 2 army vet, retired art instructor and kind of an expert in clay tile.
"He taught in Elk Grove for many years. A lover of art," says Steve Gage, Ray Gage's son. Ray passed away in 2003. The "Dragon House" was his biggest art project.
"You can see the traditional work that he would have done," Steve said.
With Ray's expertise and Carolyn's drive, the two worked to create a story with the tiles that can only be told by those who view it.
"It's not based on anything factual so anyone can make up a story," Gage said.
It took a mix of science and art to form each one of the handmade tiles, but trial an error often came into play.
"I would make a mistake and sometimes l like it so much I tried to duplicate it," Belmore said.
Carolyn would often spend hours by herself creating the tiles in her kiln and her husband helped with much of the stain glass. Placing the finished pieces on the wall required a large stencil pained on the wall and lots of grout.
"When I first started it was just two ladders and a board. I was up 12 feet. I got dangerous so i got scaffolding," Belmore said.
From disaster to art, this artwork took devotion of an art student and the guidance of a teacher to complete. The home is now covered inside and out with tile and glass. Belmore doesn't mind people looking at the home, but enjoys her privacy.
Out of respect for her, we are not giving the exact address of the "Dragon House."


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The 2008 Republican presidential nominee and current Arizona Senator John McCain will make an appearance on next season's "Parks and Recreation," and he tweeted a photo of himself alongside the show's star Amy Poehler late on Thursday. The hit NBC comedy will be entering it's fifth season this fall. Knowing Poehler character, she would have probably preferred Condoleezza Rice, but I'm sure she was still stoked for McCain.
Had a great time shooting @ParksandRecNBC today w/ Amy Poehler - I think it's an Emmy! lockerz.com/s/226504782— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) July 19, 2012


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Catholic World News
Would-be assassin Agca requests Fatima meeting with Pope Benedict
April 22, 2010
Mehmet Ali Agca, who wounded Pope John Paul II in a 1981 assassination attempt, has requested a meeting with Pope Benedict when he travels to Fatima next month. Agca's assassination attempt took place on the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, and Pope John Paul later placed a bullet fragment in Our Lady of Fatima's crown during an apostolic journey there.
"Such an encounter is not on the schedule," commented Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office.
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Good practices
UN Women prepares summaries of good practice examples of achieving gender balance from across the United Nations. Including system-wide, UN Secretariat and individual entity initiatives, these highlight innovations, and provide ideas and guidance. Some examples include:
UN Children's Fund: Special measures for gender equality
In 2010, UNICEF implemented targeted recruitment practices and gender-focused internal policies that foster and reinforce gender balance. These require the inclusion of at least two qualified female candidates on all shortlists for advertised vacancies. A female candidate must be hired over a male candidate when knowledge, skills and expertise are deemed equal. Additionally, a policy of "external male approval" stipulates the justification, in writing, of the hiring of an external male candidate over shortlisted internal candidates. Recruitment panels are also gender-balanced; training in diversity and gender-sensitivity is provided to members.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Flexible working arrangements
In 1999, UNHCR introduced a measure to allow female staff to reduce their working hours to 75 per cent of the workday on full pay status following maternity leave until their baby is one year old, to assist them to continue breastfeeding. In 2010, this policy was amended to introduce a choice for female staff members who became mothers to take one day off per week plus two additional hours off during one of the remaining working days of the week to allow for more in caring for an infant.
UNHCR revised its policy on flexible working arrangements in 2010 to make these more accessible, and began encouraging managers and staff to make use of them whenever operational requirements permit and personal needs require. Although the number of employees who use flexible working arrangements is still low, at 0.8 per cent of men and 3.6 per cent of women in 2011, usage increased over 2010 with a positive trend favouring women.
UN Secretariat: Senior manager compacts and human resources management scorecards
Senior manager compacts, with a series of performance targets are reviewed annually by the Management Performance Board, which reports its findings to the UN Secretary-General. It also notifies each senior manager of accomplishments and shortcomings, and publishes detailed assessment results on the UN iSeek platform. Each senior manager must submit an action plan to address his/her weaknesses. Innovative approaches are shared to strengthen individual as well as organizational performance.
The 2011 compacts, co-signed by the Secretary-General and reviewed by the board, include the objective "to ensure the responsible management of human resources," with a performance measure linked to female representation.
Two of six indicators in the UN Secretariat's Human Resources Management Scorecard measure progress towards gender parity at different staff levels.


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We are looking for an estimate of the size of your Caravan, Motorhome, Camper Trailer, Tent etc. once it has been set up or fully extended (outside to outside)... excluding your vehicle.
Caravans, Motorhomes, Camper Vans, Camper Trailers
Please include your tow/draw bar in the estimate.
Widths are generally around 4 – 5 metres (13.12 – 16.4 feet).
Note: Include annexes of pullouts in width.
|Average Lengths:
|4 – 12 metres (13.12 – 39.37 feet)
|7 – 14 metres (22.97 – 45.93 feet)
|5 – 7 metres (16.40 – 22.97 feet)
|Fifth wheelers
|7 – 14 metres (22.97 – 45.93 feet)
|Camper Trailers
|5 – 8 metres (16.40 – 26.25 feet)
Note: Do not include the size of the tent pegs
|1 person
|1 × 2.5 metres (3.28 × 8.20 feet)
|2 person
|1.5 × 2.5 metres (4.92 × 8.20 feet)
|3 person
|3 × 2.5 metres (9.84 × 8.20 feet)
|4 person
|4.5 × 2.5 metres (14.76 × 8.20 feet)
|5 person
|6 × 3 metres (19.69 × 9.84 feet)
|6+ person
|7 × 4.5 metres (22.97 × 14.76 feet)
Please be advised that Site sizes vary from park to park and within each park. Sites will be allocated based on the measurements provided during the booking process and it is the responsibility of the guest to ensure estimates are as close to accurate as possible.
If you are unsure, we would prefer you to overestimate or give us a call on 1300 738 044
Unpowered grass site. Car parking on site. Suitable for caravans, motorhomes, camper vans, camper trailers and tents. One car space onsite.
Site sleeps up to 6
Maximum of 6 adult(s)
Maximum of 5 children
Maximum of 6 people accommodated
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Plus enjoy all the park facilities and fun activities on offer at BIG4 Bathurst Panorama Holiday Park, as well as the many things to see and do around Bathurst.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS Deposits and Payments - A credit card payment for the full amount of your stay is required on booking. The Park will process the charge against your credit card and send confirmation to the email address supplied. Reception hours are [8am to 5pm]. Guests arriving outside these times must contact park reception during reception hours to make alternate arrangements. No arrivals will be accepted after 9pm [Park noise curfew]. Guests who fail to arrive on the designated day or who arrive after reception hours and have not made alternate arrangements will forfeit the full cost of their reservation. Special requests are on request basis only and are not guaranteed at the time of booking. Please contact the Park for confirmation. A credit card must be produced in the name of the person staying at the Park on check in. Any damage caused may be charged against that card. A minimum stay of [7] nights applies during high season, a minimum of [4] nights at Easter, a minimum of [3] nights on long weekends and a minimum of [2] nights on other weekends. Adult's rates apply to persons above 15 years. Children rates apply to guests aged 2 to 15 years. There is no charge under 2 years. With the exception of medically certified guide dogs, dogs are not permitted. Check out time is 10am. Late check outs can be arranged at an extra charge where available. Check in time is from 2pm. We reserve the right to refuse a booking at any time from any person reasonably believed to: • Not be the person named on the booking request • Not be the person named on the credit card or not be authorised to use the card • Not be able to pay for any charges • May cause damage to the property of the Park or other guests • May exhibit socially unacceptable behaviour • Be younger than 18 years and not accompanied by a responsible person over that age • Be concealing a dog or other unauthorised animal We reserve the right to eject guests from the park who are deemed by management to be behaving in a socially unacceptable way; causing damage; disturbing other guests; using unacceptable language or otherwise breaking Park Rules. No refund will be given and charges will apply for any damage caused. BIG4 Holiday Parks of Australia Pty Ltd is not the owner of any particular BIG4 Holiday Park. BIG4 Holiday Parks facilitates this booking service and is not responsible for the provision of services, standard of facilities or payments received. All bookings are made directly with the individual owner of this BIG4 Member Park and therefore BIG4 Holiday Parks will not accept any claims for refunds or credits
Changes and Cancellations – Changes and cancellations for stays during high season, school holidays or weekends must be made more than [28] days prior to arrival. If a cancellation is within [28] days of arrival the deposit is forfeited. Cancellations at other times can be made up to [2] days prior to arrival. All cancelled bookings will incur a $10 cancellation fee before any money is refunded.
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Full ensuite and concrete slab site. Suitable for caravans or motorhomes up to 4.9 to 8.2 metres (17 to 27 ft) in length. Onsite ensuite includes shower,…
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Slab site suitable for caravans, motorhomes, camper vans, camper trailers and tents. Power and water. Car parking on-site.
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How to Score Paper?
When working with thicker paper stocks, it's often necessary to score materials before you can fold them. So what is scoring? Scoring creates a line in the paper which guides the fold. By learning how to score paper, you can reduce cracked and sloppy creases and give your materials a professionally finished look. There are a few different methods used to accomplish this. Here's how to score paper:
First, use a dull knife and a ruler. Press the ruler down firmly at the place you want to fold. Then take the knife and draw a line, staying right next to the ruler. You want to press down firm enough to create a valley in the paper deep enough to allow the paper to fold easily.
Another option is to use a bone folder. This is used in the same way as described above, simply replacing the knife for a bone folder. These are found in craft stores, usually in the paper crafts section, next to the card-making supplies.
For a more professional look, you can add a scoring blade to your paper trimmer. Many rotary trimmers offer interchangeable blades that can score and perforate your papers as well as add decorative edges. A great device for this is the Swingline SmartCut 12″ Dial-A-Blade Plus. This device is perfect for scrapbooking, card-making, and other paper crafts. Without changing the blade cartridge, you can switch between straight and wave cuts as well as scoring and perforating.
Larger scoring jobs require dedicated scoring machines. Some paper folders include this as an option. You can choose between devices featuring a rotary scoring wheel or a pressure crease. Rotary scoring machines work similarly to trimmers including a scoring blade. You pull the scoring device over the page to create an indentation, allowing you to fold easily. Compression scoring machines offer higher quality results but take longer to complete. As the name implies, they press a crease into the paper instead of impressing a line.
Now that you've heard about how to score paper, here are a few tips for when you do: First, be aware that thicker papers will need a wider score. When making your mark, know that a correct score will result in a ridge on the inside of the paper. This minimizes the stretch of the paper fibers. If you're making your scores by hand, it's worth noting that this is difficult in very high humidity. When folding cardstock, your documents will have a more professional look if the final crease is parallel to the paper grain (if there is one).
If you go through all the work of scoring your paper before you fold it, make sure you burnish the finished product to further seal your crease. Burnishing is simple and only adds to the finished look of your project. Simply take a firm, dull implement, such as a pen, and use it to press firmly on your crease. The thicker the paper you use, the more important it is to burnish. And that is how you score paper.
Having a scorer makes it easy to fold your documents and not crack the paper during theprocess. There are a lot of scorers you can buy, so how do you know which one is right for you? This article will fill you in on the five things to consider when making your selection. 1.) The machine&rsq... (Read More)


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ICC in Partnership with the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival: Future Projections
As part of the Toronto International Film Festival's Future Projections series, the ROM is pleased to present two unique film installations. When The Gods Came Down To Earth, by Toronto filmmaker Srinivas Krishna, combines images of ancient Hindu mythology with modern mass media techniques, and runs day and night on the ROM's exterior Bloor Street plaza. The Butcher's Shop, by filmmaker Philip Haas, is an intimate 7-minute film that recreates a Renaissance-era painting on one screen, and imagines the painter's artistic process on another screen; it will play inside the ROM.
When the Gods Came Down to Earth Film installation by Srinivas Krishna ROM Plaza, Free The ICC, in collaboration with TIFF's Future Projections program, presents a new work by acclaimed director Srinivas Krishna, featuring beautiful filmed vignettes of several Hindu gods, combined with special effects and animation, and an original musical score. The piece will run day and night outside the ROM for the duration of TIFF.
Sponsored by the Hal Jackman Foundation.
The Butcher's Shop Film installation by Philip Haas Spirit House, Level 1, Free On two large screens, a narrative unfolds inside a butcher's shop in Bologna, Italy, circa 1582. On one screen is the scene shown in the painting; on the other is the opposite side of the shop, where Carracci has set up an easel to paint the two butchers at work. Philip Haas' film is a meditation on Carracci's painting, work and life, and the depiction of meat and human flesh in art. It runs for the full duration of TIFF during regular museum hours.
Re-imagining the Gods Panel Discussion Signy & Cléophée Eaton Theatre, Level 1B Free with ROM admission Srinivas Krishna, director of When the Gods Came Down to Earth, will speak on his project, with Dr. Kajri Jain, expert on South Asian visual culture and Indian calendar art, which inspired Krishna's work. Moderated by ROM Curator of South Asian culture, Dr. Deepali Dewan.
For more information, please visit: www.rom.on.ca/icc


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The March Gold Street Music folk concert, the last of the season, will kick off at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 5. The venue for this month's music is a change from the usual: this month's concert will be at Holy Trinity Church.
Performers will be The Shape Note Singers (Lena Simmons, Jill Matheson, Jon Pollard, and John Robertsn), Dale Wygat, Honky-Tonk Angels (Erin Hanson, Melina Sheilds, and Maridon Boario), Chicken Ridge Rowdies (Paul Disdier, June Hall, and Bob Banghart), Beth Leibowitz and Jacque Farnsworh, and Collette Costa
The tickets are $5 at the door. For more information, call Frederick at 523-6999 or Elva at 463-5413.
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It's going to be many interesting gadgets on CES 2013. Canopy promised a whole new world of smartphone control with its Sensus iPhone case in the fall, and they just show it out now on CES. It delivers 10-point touch input across the back and sides that lets apps add interaction without blocking the screen -- think of the PlayStation Vita's back touch and you've got the idea. That theoretically sounds great for gamers, but we'd like to see how well it works outside of a dedicated console.
In practice, the case isn't much different in dimensions to a standard protective iPhone case, if a little chunkier along the base. The whole thing locks in to the iPhone 4's connector. although there's still another port to charge through there. The case also has integrated apps attuned for the blind, with Braille entry possible using all those multiple touchpanels. We've got a quick tour of how it all works after the break and you can expect to land this summer, where pricing will be somewhere between $59 and $99.