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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
I do want to say here that I began reading Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan trilogy (now there's a fourth I need to get my hands on) while in Naples in July and it absolutely crushed me. I read the books in Italian, reveling in the multisensory way she captured Napoli. I read in a fever, actually having to put the books down for a couple of days because they were causing me such emotional upheaval. I recommend them highly. My friends who have read them in English say they are wonderful, so kudos to the translator.
I still have my heart set on a project--journal article at least--about Massimo Troisi and Neapolitan gesture as a form of resistance. Let me finish the dissertation and then we'll see.
Thanks for continuing to read. A presto!
Friday, May 9, 2014
Speaking of Naples, we bought our tickets! I'm actually more excited than worried, which is quite unexpected and pleasing. Already there is stress around who to say with, when to go to Procida, when to go to Calabria, but really, rompipalle, this is the stress of privilege, so be grateful! We'll be in SoIt (doesn't quite have the ring of SoCal, but I like it) for just under three weeks. It will fly by. I look forward to a change of air, fetid air as it may be.
What should I eat, I mean, do first?
That's not a rhetorical question.
Also, quick non-sequitur: after posting legions of photos of La Bimba on this blog, it's time to post one of La Giaconda. Check out that punim/faccia!
Monday, March 24, 2014
It has been too long
Also, we are thinking about traveling to Naples this summer and I have mixed feelings about it. I haven't been back since the end of 2009/start of 2010. That was not an easy trip. I'm working through some PTSD from my time in Naples and though I would love to revisit old stomping grounds, I have my misgivings. So I thought returning to some fun or at least funny memories might help get me excited about the prospect of drinking in and eating up the city I once called home.
I met The Husband ten years ago. I find that astonishing. He has been adjusting slowly, slowly to life in California. It hasn't been easy. The language, the culture, the way people like to make plans in advance, the Chinese food, so many things. He has let go of one or two Neapolitan ideas like no bathing after eating, and has let me in on some ones I'd never heard of in Naples, like only one person changes the baby's clothes at a time because, lo sai, like the hat on the bed, only when you're kaput do two people change your clothes.
There's so much to report but my eyes are closing. I'm on spring break, La Bimba, who is almost eight, EIGHT, is not, so maybe I'll have a chance to write some more.
If anybody's out there, say hi. Un bacione.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Anybody there?
Friday, July 3, 2009
De Jorio's La mimica attempts to return both subjectivity and agency to the Neapolitan common man and woman. His text performs solidarity with the ordinary Neapolitan, defending him as philosophical and complex, while exploiting foreign interest in the Neapolitan picturesque [32]. His representation of contemporary Neapolitan life as centuries-old culture finds contemporary expression on the Comune di Napoli website, "unlike other cities which are in themselves museums, display cases for their art but with no real heart, Naples is famous for the character and drama of its everyday life which is played out by the people who have lived and worked in the historic centre for centuries" [33]. It appears that the show does go on.
Today, Neapolitans appear to re-objectify themselves as a contestatory move: we are exactly what you say we are. And above all, we are not you. When deploying negative stereotypes lodged against them from the outside, Neapolitan self-deprecation is a performance that defines Neapolitan identity as wholly other. Because Africa is the repository or the site of total difference in the European imaginary, Naples becomes Africa. This total difference then becomes a point of pride: to be different is to be special, to stand out. For Kendon, the performativity of Neapolitan gesture is limited to its Austinian work: "a means by which promises were made, blessings accomplished, wishes expressed, contracts agreed to" [34]. He calls the "culture of the basso popolo of Naples in the 19th century" a performance culture (following Hibbitts) [35]. In my experience with the Naples of the early 21st century, the performativity of gesture, dialect, use of proverbs, and self-deprecating reappropriative language, appears to have a wider function, one that may have been in operation when de Jorio was writing: a performance of otherness-as-exclusivity independent of claims to superiority or inferiority.
Shirley Hazzard, an Australian writer who has lived off and on in Naples since the 1950s, writes in her essay "City of Secrets and Surprises" that visitors to Naples "do not take kindly to the devotion Naples inspires in all who know it well. Most galling perhaps is our very acquiescence in the charges: Yes, quite true, the streets are unswept, the museums inconvenient, the services unreliable...Indeed, Naples is often indefensible" [36]. Hazzard goes about defending the city anyway, turning, like De Jorio, to the city's Greek past. She refers to Naples as Greece's "northernmost colony" [37] and as "a city of secrets"[38]: "Naples always has something of an air of having survived calamity: it is one theme of her story" [39]. Her Naples is devoid of people, a ghost town of buildings, landscapes, and presepe figures. She writes in a throwback Romantic style, marveling over the city's apparent contradictions, its "dilapidation and magnificence"[40], its histrionic nature: "Glimpses of the arcane, the grotesque, the diabolical will never fail to startle and estrange--compounded, as in most great cities, by modern violence and disaffection. but few days will pass without some fresh discovery of dignity, delicacy, and endurance--where you are not humbled and exalted by acts of human fellowship and inexpressible grace" [41].
Thomas Belmonte's Broken Fountain, an ethnography of a poor Neapolitan neighborhood (or rather, palazzo complex), stands at the opposite pole that then inevitably makes contact with Hazzard's. Belmonte performs a general indictment of poverty within a Marxist critique using Naples as his case study. His remarks on Neapolitan theatricality represent an at least partial misreading of Neapolitan collectivity: "The theatrical quality of life in the poor quarters, the loud, gesticulating style and the aggressive hubris of the individual, is the Neapolitans' collective commentary on the instability of the socioeconomic and honorific settings upon which they must stage their lives" [42]. Following Fanon, Belmonte labels his subjects the "damned of the earth:" "The damned of Harlem and the South Bronx, the damned of Calcutta and Naples, the damned of Singapore and San Salvador and Manila..."[43]. Belmonte places the poor of Naples alongside the poor of other big cities, and he attends to the specificities of the Neapolitan situation. "In a cultural sense, they [the poor of Naples] are at once excluded and highly selective. By preference they speak and pass on to their children their own language and are content to learn some fragmentary standard Italian in a few years of primary school" [44]. Belmonte concludes his study as his subjects may have done: that at the end of the day, despite conditions and circumstances, they only have themselves to blame:
"At Fontana del Re in a corner strewn now with rubble, beneath the bruised, shattered visage of a lion, the eroded figure of a sculpted stone sea shell recedes into a wall. 'This was our fountain,' they told me. 'Oh you should have seen it, Tommaso. The water played night and day. In summer, the children scampered in it. At night, falling asleep, you heard it, and it was like music.' The young men told me it was they who had destroyed it. As children, many years before, with iron rods, they had gone every day to hammer and smash it, until they were satisfied and there was nothing left to break. Thereafter, whenever I passed that ruined corner, I tried to imagine what the fountain had once been like, and thought and wondered and sorrowed, the more as I understood how it came to be broken" [45].
Hazzard has spent a half century intermittently in Naples; Belmonte spent one year. The two writers represent the admirer of picturesque on the one hand, and the sorrower over the "ruined corner" on the other. De Jorio represents a middle way. But what do today's Neapolitans think "siamo africani" means in the 21st century? I sent via email the following questions to several Neapolitan friends to find out [46]:
Quando abitavo a Napoli, sentivo spesso il commento, "noi napoletani siamo africani." Che significa questo secondo voi? Poi per quanto riguarda le serie di invasioni che fanno parte della storia di Napoli, siete d'accordo che i napoletani (voi, le vostre famiglie, i vostri amici, il popolo) si sentono (o si sentivano in qualche periodo storico specifico) sudditi della nazione italiana? Come descrivereste il concetto napoletano di cittadinanza, di un senso civico?
Marcello, who grew up in the Colli Aminei district of Naples, has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Naples, and moved to the US in his early 30s, responded at great length. He understands "siamo africani" in several ways: [1] as representing a certain historico-geographical truth that Naples "in the most authentic and original sense of being a true mediterranean city, belonging to the most ancient 'cultural core' of the mediterranean basin, an echo from a distant time where a North African could have said similarly, 'I am a Greek' or 'I am a Roman' and been telling the truth;" [2] a contemporary disparaging usage that "speaks of the deep cultural divide between Italy and its southern regions;" [3] a way for the northerner "to summarize everything that is 'wrong' with Naples, its being dirty, inefficient, corrupt and, above all, incorrigible;" and [4] a contemporary Neapolitan's "last, desperate act of self-affirmation."
Marcello's fourth explanation relates to the central thesis of this paper, that contemporary Neapolitans wield "siamo africani" as a way to identify themselves as Neapolitan. Interestingly, Marcello extends this idea to all negatively construed traits, whether conceived of as circumstantially or culturally determined: "Being intelligent people, they know that they are 'guilty on all counts, guilty of all the sins they are accused of and, as a last resort, many have chosen to 'be proud of it' whatever 'it' is and no matter how negative this 'it' is, just as an act of 'sfregio.'" Like Belmonte, Marcello locates the blame for their circumstances with the Neapolitans themselves [47].
Marcello recognizes Neapolitan identity as embodying a mixture of disdain for their failings and pride over their accomplishments. Paradoxically, this pride also encompasses precisely that which they disdain. Marcello blames that undiscriminating pride for his people's inability to improve their living conditions. Another friend, Diana, from Naples' newer Zona Ospedaliera, said, "Even during the Neapolitan revolution, they couldn't quite get it together to make a revolution."
Gianni, 32 years old, grew up in the Fuorigrotta district, and currently lives in Pozzuoli, echoes Marcello's idea of Naples as forming part of the larger Mediterranean world, and then offers this overtly polemical explanation:
"Noi napoletani siamo africani...cosa vorrebbe dire? Che siamo neri? Che siamo poveri? Siamo vittime di qualche carestia, di qualche pandemia? Oggi, A.D. 2009 questa espressione non ha ragione di esistere: la città è lo specchio della società cha la popola, almeno credo. Basta, quindi, col considerarsi cittadini di serie B, basta col considerarsi vittime e basta col trovare sempre un capro espiatorio cui addossare tutti gli atavici malanni della nostra città: il terremoto, il colera, la criminalità, la politica corrotta. Certo, sono problemi reali, gravissimi, che hanno tenuto e tengono tuttora la città sotto scacco, ma non devono essere una scusa per perpetuare ogni tipo di inciviltà, per rimanere seduti, immobili aspettando che qualcuno dal cielo ci faccia dono della sua celeste manna, guaritrice di ogni male, aspettando che da sola "l'Africa si avvicini all'Italia".
Gianni's exasperation, like Marcello's and Belmonte's, lies with this idea that Neapolitans are responsible for their politically, economically, and socially degraded situation, sharing Francesco Trinchera's view: "I have always heard that a people gets more or less what it deserves" [48]. The content of the associations with Africa are by now well-known. But if one shifts the focus from sociopolitical reality to the realm of culture, this blame is converted into an affirmation of otherness that comprises the core of napoletanità. What I have been arguing is that is is precisely this alterity that matters in the iteration of "siamo africani."
To my follow-up question about Neapolitan civic responsibility, Gianni replied:
"Per ciò che concerne il concetto di senso civico ho una mia particolare teoria. Credo infatti che tale concetto ci sia stato lasciato in eredità dai colonizzatori greci. Provo a spiegarmi costruendo un parallelismo tra la polis greca, nucleo fondamentale attorno a cui si è sviluppata la cultura ellenistica, e la casa, la famiglia napoletana. Per i napoletani la casa, la propria casa, la famiglia, la propria famiglia, ha il valore che per i greci aveva la polis:"il centro del mondo", al di fuori di essa il nulla. Esempio, forse un po' azzardato, il "basso": l'interno è quasi sempre pulitissimo, immacolato, ma basta mettere il naso appena fuori di casa per notare delle situazioni di totale degrado, anzi molto spesso lo spazio esterno alla casa-polis è una sorta di sversatoio. Tutto ciò che non faceva parte della polis non contava, tutto ciò che è al di fuori della casa, non conta."
Somewhat like Banfield's "amoral familism" and Belmonte's adjustment of it, Gianni describes Neapolitan culture as bound up in the family unit with hardly a glance toward a broader sense of community. And like de Jorio, he traces this lifestyle to the Greeks. Gianni's basso example functions as a spatial metaphor for my argument: whatever lies outside (the home, a sense of self) has nothing to do with the inside; it does not penetrate or, rather, whatever of it penetrates becomes immediately absorbed as already having been there. Marcello reminds me of the proverb, "Francia o Spagna, basta ca se magna:" whether struggling to put food on the table or sitting pretty on the piano nobile of a Vomero hill palazzo, whether provided for by the government, the camorra, or the family, one continues to live as a Neapolitan. "Stereotypes work in this way (synchronically, in contrasting pairs of good and bad images) as instructions in how to behave, or in how to expect people to behave: either one will be confronted by a happy Neapolitan mandolin player, or by a violent and duplicitous camorrista" [49]. In contemporary Neapolitan discourses of napoletanità, both extremes are in evidence. This absorption of every quality leveled at it, makes napoletanità paradoxically impenetrable; every external threat becomes an empty one. And it demonstrates its flexibility. Neapolitan culture is not a stagnant miasma, another accusation like those leveled at African cultures, but rather an extraordinarily adaptable one whose mode of adaptation is to enfold stereotypes into practices and make it all come out Neapolitan.
During my nearly four years on the ground in Naples, I heard Neapolitans from every walk of life complain about each other, about their neighbors or the general populace. They would complain about littering then throw their empty cigarette pack on the ground. They would curse an aggressive driver and then cut off a pedestrian. They would yell about about yelling. Sometimes this was maddening, sometimes it was charming, sometimes I hardly noticed. At a certain point I gave up trying to figure out why the Neapolitans acted in this apparently contradictory manner. What I became interested in is how this mixture of disdain and pride functions as a passive-aggressive mode of maintaining a culture always under threat, like any traditional culture, like any culture that has not been entirely seduced by an ideology of progress. All of Italy functions in this way to an extent, e.g. the notoriously draconian bureaucracy is a national phenomenon. In essence, I am arguing that regardless of the content or from where it is lodged, Neapolitan identity is based on an expression of pure difference: north, south, American, Italian, Vomero, zona ospedaliera, we are not like you. To offer a schema of this process: first, there is the simultaneous acceptance of foreign assessments of the popolo napoletano; second, the act of accepting itself becomes a performance of otherness; and third, the particular content of the otherness is reiterated until it becomes part of the culture, its folkways, like the images of Totò and Vesuvius that hang in every bar alongside Pulcinella figurines and various corne. So, "siamo africani" like "siamo zozzosi, brigandi, calorosi, pittoreschi" operates as a marker of difference, and difference punto e basta elides with napoletanità.
One example: In the film Totò'truffa 62, Neapolitan actor-legend Totò demonstrates how Neapolitans mobilize Africanness. In full blackface and with a giant nose ring, Totò pretends to be the Ambassador of Catongo and says into a telephone: "In casa bubu? In casa bubu? Mbutu? Mbutu? Non buttare niente. E' peccato! Non buttare... Cosa vola, cosa buole? Ta ta ta bum bum zu, bubu bubu juju." He then says to the object of his scam of his accomplice, played by Nino Taranto, also in blackface with nose ring, "Questo animalo da che sta in Italia ha imparato parlare in napoletano. Dice pure pommarola in gop. Nel catongo ce ne uno solo [people with the last name Rossi]. Tutti gli altri sono neri. Vedi lui e' nero, tutto nero. Ci sono anche i gialli ma i gialli sono i peperoni," In this scene, the juxtaposition of blackness/Africanness with napoletanità functions as a performance of shrewd otherness. When the "real" ambassador arrives with his adjutant (two black men without nose rings), Totò and Taranto escape dressed as Che Guevara and his wife. Totò has played Tarzan, a Turk, a Sheik: all of these representations of Otherness are folded into his Neapolitanness. Totò belongs to Naples—the clever fool who fools everyone.
The statement "siamo africani" speaks volumes about how Neapolitans deal with and iterate difference. They are Neapolitan because they are different from other Italians, north or south, even different from "Neapolitans" from the provinces or from the adjacent quartiere. The persistence of the dialect and gestural language, regardless of its roots in Spain, Portugal, France, Greece, or its physical necessity due to crowded, noisy streets, marks an anti-assimilatory move. Within the broader Italian national imaginary, napoletanità is a cultural commodity, it is "ours" even as the Neapolitans are "them." Indeed, Neapolitans are taken as "us" for their art, their theater, and film and as "them" for their camorristi, garbage crises, scippi: un posto incantevole che fa schifo.
Andrea de Jorio's La mimica defends Neapolitans against critiques of their backwardness as it recuperates ancient history and lodges it in the very bodies of everyday Neapolitans. What is reflected in Marcello's and Gianni's comments, on the other hand, is how everyday Neapolitans today engage in acts of reappropriation in defense of themselves and protection of their cultural heritage. And in this, they succeed. I would go as far as to say there is no city in the western world with as much resistant, local, cultural specificity as la bella Napoli.
32 De Jorio's work, it may be said, straddles, "the valorization of nature and classical ruins that characterizes the picturesque in the late eighteenth century [as it] makes way for the valorization of natural man: the primitive, the savage, and above all the folk" (Moe, The View from Vesuvius, 66).
33 http://www.comune.napoli.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/EN/IDPagina/1345
34 Kendon, xcviii.
35 Kendon, footnote 60, xcviii.
36 Hazzard, Shirley, and Francis Steegmuller. The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. (49).
37 Ibid, 50.
38 Ibid, 51.
39 Ibid, 52.
40 Ibid, 54.
41 Ibid, 57.
42 Belmonte, Thomas. The Broken Fountain. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. (135).
43 Ibid, 139. See also pages 107 and 124.
44 Ibid, 140.
45 Ibid, 144.
46 I am still receiving answers to these questions and here provide a hopelessly scant survey of two.
47 What I do not address in this paper but which begs mention is the fact that Marcello, and later Gianni, both enact this method of defining Neapolitan behavior as other to them. They position themselves as exceptional Neapolitans, which I would claim is part of the extreme othering move I have been describing: Marcello and Gianni would not say "siamo africani" in any context, but their distancing from a particular element of napoletanità produces yet another form of Neapolitan identity based on alterity.
48 Quoted from his "The Neapolitan Question: Ferdinand Bourbon and Lucien Murat" in Moe, The View from Vesuvius, 145.
49 Dickie, 21.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
part IV
Massimo Troisi, the late Neapolitan actor devoted to napoletanità [27], makes comically explicit the synecdochic function of Neapolitan gesture:
"Veramente c'abbiamo un lavoretto. Allora mio marito ha detto, va bene. Se si tratta di lavorare di meno tanto di guadagnato. Chist' ha detto no. Forse non ci siamo capiti. Ho detto che teng' per voi un lavoretto. Mio marito ha detto, un lavoretto, scusate lo dice la stessa parola, lavoretto, si lavora di meno. Chist' dice no, non ci siamo capiti. Teng' per voi un lavore...Non guardate a me. Guardate 'a mano" [28].
In this skit, Troisi is playing a Neapolitan woman, who talks about the trouble she has with her husband. In this scene, Troisi's hand (open palm, palm down, moving in a circular motion as if polishing a table top) represents the nature of the job being offered to the husband (an under the table job). But in saying, "Don't look at me. Look at my hand," the hand becomes more than the truth behind the words; the hand is the gesturing person. Gesture scientist David McNeill writes that the hand that gestures is symbolic: "The hand is not a hand,"[29] but rather that which it is mobilized to express. I would argue that the Neapolitan hand that gestures is symbolic, not only of the thoughts or feelings of the gesturer, but also of the gesturer's cultural identity: it is not just any hand, it is a Neapolitan hand, the "spokeshand" for Neapolitan selfhood.
Contemporary Neapolitan gestural practice and the use of the dialect continues to keep the outsider on the outside: "The Neapolitan dialect seems to be metaphor itself...Among street vendors, especially, metaphors are heard that are so witty and clever that not only foreigners, but even our own provincials do not understand anything"[30]. Everyone, even a provincial from one kilometer outside the city, is an outsider, and thus the Neapolitan "I" is never them. Private life may be lived in the public sphere on hot summer nights among the inhabitants of the bassi, and public fighting may be a theatricalization that serves to keep public order [31], but in my view, these practices serve primarily to keep the stranger estranged.
27 Troisi's theater group was called La Smorfia after the Neapolitan book of numbers, as well as being a reference to making funny faces. In his films and interviews, he spoke in Neapolitan dialect and produced exaggerated (even for a Neapolitan) gestures. Troisi was absorbed into Italian culture as "one of us" even as he forcefully presented himself as Neapolitan.
28 Troisi, Massimo, Lello Arena, and Enzo Decaro. "L'annunciazione." La Smorfia, 1977.
29 McNeill, David. Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992.
30 De Jorio, 271.
31 "De Jorio notes that, with the crucial participation of bystanders, quarrels often become transformed into an event which everyone enjoys, including the litigants themselves. This process may well have developed as a means of social control, keeping quarrels in check and preventing them from becoming dangerous." Kendon, ciii.
Friday, June 12, 2009
"Francia o Spagna," Part III
Andrea de Jorio's Neapolitan Pride Project
In his chapter "L'Europe finit à Naples," Nelson Moe devotes considerable space to a discussion of writings on Naples, characterizing them as swinging "between visions of Arcadia and the apocalypse" [18], between Europe and Africa. Between 1750 and 1885, Stendahl, Renan, Sade, Staël, Dickens, Goethe, as well as many Italians from the north and south, all weigh in on Naples, either demonizing it for its alleged barbarity or glorifying its picturesque quality.
Andrea de Jorio came from an elite family of the island of Procida and was Canon of the Cathedral of Naples. His interest in gesture, archaeology, and Neapolitan folklore developed during a period of strong philosophical interest in gesture (Diderot and Condillac in mid 18th century France, Engel in late 18th century Germany) and folkloristic-archaeological inquiry into Naples. De Jorio wrote in an atmosphere of support for archaeological research, support that initiated in the Napoleonic period and continued with the Bourbons once they were restored to the throne in 1816.
De Jorio became interested in compiling a detailed guide to Neapolitan gesture while acting as a tour guide for foreign visitors to Naples' archaeological museums and sites. As a docent at the Real Museo Borbonico, de Jorio found that comparing the gestures of the ancients found on the Greek painted vases with those of modern day Neapolitans lent insight into how they should be interpreted. "For some years we have had the idea of describing the gesturing of the Neapolitans, so widely praised as it has always been, and of explaining, as well, its perfect resemblance to that of antiquity" [19]. The Neapolitans he refers to are the "commoners," the street vendors and their clients whom he describes as characteristically vivacious. The "foreigners" are those on the Grand Tour, interested in antiquity and Neapolitan folklore.
"...the questions that foreigners are always asking we Neapolitans about the meaning of one behavior or another, as well as affection for our native land, has increased our determination to its fullest to illustrate, as far as we can, even the apparently disreputable aspects of the very interesting customs of our country that are, in reality, full of philosophy, and could be said to be Roman, Greek, Natural. Indeed, we remain very unhappy that our manner of expressing ourselves with gestures, so noble in its origin, so charming, joyful and pleasing in its performance, so useful and sometimes so necessary for its effects, should be unhonored and neglected still" [20].
Here, de Jorio works to transform or unmask the "apparently disreputable" as having noble roots and philosophical function. I regard this move as a precursor to the current strategy of Neapolitan identity formation, one that casts its net more widely to encompass any and every marker of difference.
As a member of the elite, de Jorio simultaneously recognizes and ignores class distinctions, mobilizing the "we" to confirm that there is one Neapolitan popolo. The commoner is noble, and we, the elite, are commoners [21]. Writing before the articulation of the Southern Question, but in conversation with travelers on the Grand Tour, de Jorio's rhetoric does not fall neatly within either anti-southern discourses of southern elites nor glorifying discourses of the visitor to Naples. There is nothing of the Franchetti belief that southerners cannot help themselves; Neapolitans, from de Jorio's point of view, do not appear to be in need of any help at all.
De Jorio completed La mimica in 1832. His study, a "close reading" of body position, orientation, direction, and dynamics, works under the contention that the common Neapolitan folk preserved ancient culture in their bodies; the human body "as much a historical document as a charter or a diary or a parish register" [22]. Kendon writes that de Jorio's book acts as a defensive treatise, one that aims to show that the common people of Naples "are worthy of respect" [23]. Kendon also notes that de Jorio "appears to have regarded gesture as a mode of expression shaped by local custom" [24]. In other words, the consistent, tenacious, and resilient gestural practice of everyday Neapolitans generates a positive identity and resists pressures to conform to Italian national and international codes of self-presentation.
Though de Jorio hoped his book would serve as a practical guide for archaeologists and artists, he appears to have been most interested in defending his popolo against accusations of barbarity. He writes,
"Finally, we have never intended to enter into quarrels with those superficial writers who too often like to impute ignorance to our low people. If they mean that they are ignorant of mathematics, astronomy, the dead languages, etc., they speak the truth; but if ever they maintain that our low people are lacking in natural philosophy, in talent, in spirit, they are in error. Therefore, in the course of the work, and as far as circumstances permit, in regard to the material itself, we have aimed to show the mistake for which they may be blamed" [25].
Again, it appears that de Jorio was committed to elevating the ordinary Neapolitan in the eyes of the dismissive, often repelled foreigner, because he recognized that the barbarism associated with such ordinary people blemished the image Naples in general (and might negatively affect the reception of his work as well). Schneider writes, "Having studied the classics in England, France and Germany, they [the Grand Tour travelers] made the journey to Southern Italy, as to Greece, in search of an unspoiled antiquity; but the recent histories and societies of the living peoples of these places marred the experience" [26]. This is precisely the circumstance that de Jorio sought to redress in his book. By tilting the perspective on the behavior of the lazzarone from barbaric to noble, he moves to transform the uninformed visitor's scorn into educated respect.
But de Jorio is also making a proprietary move: by reading the gestural content of ancient images found in Naples and its surroundings, de Jorio was able to locate their value in the bodies and culture of everyday Neapolitans, stripping the foreign archaeologist of his expertise: only a native can understand; the outsider remains outside. By transmuting the barbarous into the noble, de Jorio's ethnographic project insists upon a complexity of Neapolitan cultural practices that defies any accusations of primitivism.
De Jorio's project was to redefine rather than deny foreign accusations of Neapolitan barbarity and backwardness. By tracing the gestures of the ancients forward to the bodies of his "street vendor" contemporaries, de Jorio, in a sense, reappropriates negative stereotypes to produce a positive version of Neapolitan identity.
18 Moe, The View from Vesuvius. 61.
19 De Jorio, 4.
20 De Jorio, 6. It appears possible that de Jorio's effort to elevate the Neapolitan masses by linking them to the ancient Greeks may amount to a cult of napoletanità, not entirely dissimilar to the later Fascist move to equate modern Italy with ancient Rome: "The cult of 'romanita'' remembered the glories of Ancient Rome through everyday practices such as the Roman salute and the omnipresence of Roman iconography on stamps, coins, and public buildings" (Andall, Jacqueline & Derek Duncan. "Memories and Legacies of Italian Colonialism." Italian Colonialism: Legacy and Memory. J. Andall and D. Duncan, eds. Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2005, (10)). It is precisely the focus on "everyday practices," whether salutes or idiosyncratic gestures, that leads me to this idea.
21 This reminds me of Marco Purpura's recent discussion of Gianni Amelio's comment, "siamo tutti albanesi."
22 Thomas, Keith. "Introduction." In A Cultural History of Gesture. Edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991, page 2.
23 Kendon, lv.
24 Ibid, lxv.
25 de Jorio, 10. De Jorio performs a similar defense of the Neapolitan dialect. Under the section titled Dimunitivo, he writes, "Let us tolerate peacefully the contumely with which some foreigners believe they denigrate our language, calling it a language of children because of the copious number of diminutives with which it abounds. Rather, let us celebrate the glory of speaking an idiom that is so rich and capable of expressing with a single word both the object and its quantity" (183). He also cites Galiani's Vocabolario delle parole del dialetto Napoletano, che piu' si socostano dal dialetto Toscano, con alcune ricerche etimologiche sulle medesime degli Accademici Filopatridi. Opera postuma supplita, ed accresciuto notabilmente (96).
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Bradley Feuer, DO, JD, LHRM, FCLM, FACFEI, DABFE, DABFM, FACOFP
Designated Institutional Official, Palm Beach Consortium for Graduate Medical Education
Assistant Clinical Dean, Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Assistant Regional Dean, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences
Anthony L. Pearson-Shaver, MD., MHSA, FAAP, FCCM
Program Director, Pediatrics
Alberto Marante, M.D.
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Pediatric Residency Program
The Palm Beach Consortium for Graduate Medical Education (PBCGME) offers a three-year program in Pediatrics accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), in transition through the Single Accreditation System to accreditation through the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). A hospital dedicated to providing both graduate and undergraduate medical training, Palms West Hospital and the Children's Hospital at Palms West provides 204 beds, and serves as a training site for the emergency medicine residency programs at St. Lucie Medical Center and Aventura Hospital & Medical Center, the family medicine residencies at Largo Medical Center and St Lucie Medical Center, and the anesthesiology residency at Kendall Regional Medical Center.
Palms West Hospital has 29 private pediatric beds, a pediatric oncology center and an eight bed pediatric intensive care unit staffed by a team of pediatric critical care specialists. The units house the latest in pediatric equipment and are designed with rooms for the research and education of the house staff. The patient environment is enhanced by the addition of playrooms and child life services. The hospital also has an active obstetrical service and a level II NICU staffed by a team of neonatologists. The pediatric department has a generous staff of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists. This allows the residents the opportunity to work one-on-one with the various subspecialists in daily patient care. The hospital also boast a pediatric emergency department staffed with board certified pediatric emergency physicians and a team specially trained for the special medical needs of children.

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About the Artist
American abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis (1923–1994) is regarded as one of the 20th century's leading interpreters of light and color. With studios in Switzerland, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tokyo, Francis was the first post–World War II American painter whose reach was truly international. Throughout a long and prolific career, Francis created thousands of paintings, as well as works on paper, prints, and monotypes. His work refers to New York abstract expressionism, color field painting, Chinese and Japanese art, French impressionism, and his own Bay Area roots.
This Sam Francis corkboard place mat gift set features two reproductions from the artist's famed Fresh Air series of the early 1970s.
- Set of 2 cork place mats
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A few weeks ago I went to visit my sister Abby and her new husband. To play with their dog, Earl, to drink too much coffee, and to try my hardest to capture the early days of their marriage as best I can.
One day, they will hardly believe how young they were. They will look back on their first kitchen table, first couch, first porch. They will smile and sigh.
A thousand details will be forgotten about these first days together. But these photos will help to conjure a few, I hope. And maybe one day, years and years down the road, on a cozy afternoon when they pull out an album full of old memories, they will get to relive what it felt like to be new.


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I am so fortunate for a wide variety of reasons, but I am most keenly aware of it when I learn something entirely new. I feel a childlike amazement in that moment, an excitement that is better than chocolate! My most recent discovery: Auvergne.
What? Where is that, you might ask. Yes, that is right, it is a region that you may have neglected, certainly have not visited, or maybe did not even know was there, but you need to know about the cool culinary treasures that derive from this region. For one, Le Puy Lentils, love love love (yes, we have them at the shop & they are amazing topped with some of Chef Jenny's house cured salmon), but that is not all. Who doesn't love Forme D'Ambert? Blu D'auvergne? That's right, now the name sounds familiar, I bet. Well, in addition to some of the best blue cheese around, you can get some fantastic and super interesting wines.
The wines of Grosbot-Barbara are unique and delicious, and not to be missed. Not to mention that the wine maker is one of the most memorable people on this planet. Dennis Barbara took over wine making from M.Grosbot in a somewhat unusual way, chosen form a number of applicants by the previous owner who had no heir to whom to leave his property. Dennis admitted that he wanted to be a winemaker for a long time, but when M. Grosbot called him to ask if he wanted to take over, he said, "well, I have to think about it." The commitment, the work, the challenges are serious ones, but he very quickly smiled and jumped at the opportunity. He admits he was lucky to be selected.
Dennis has a broad and contagious smile, he is tall and thin, and deeply philosophical. He is dancing even when he stands still. His energy is dynamic and joyful, and his wines bespeak all of his wonderful brilliance and character. There is a word that comes to my mind, and that is abundance. Abundant in all senses, and in the most charming way.
We tasted through twenty wines during a four course lunch that his wife graciously and generously prepared for us. The food was spectacular and the wines delicious, each one bringing the food to new heights. There are too many for me to describe here or you would delete this before you finished reading my analysis, but I can tell you that the wines are interesting, exciting, and great food wines.
He works with Tressallier and Chardonnay for his whites, Gamay and Pinot Noir for his reds. Mostly familiar with the exception of Tressallier, which was interestedly more widely planted in Burgundy than Chardonnay at one time not that long ago. In fact, the appellation, which only received its AOC designation in 2009, was producing highly esteemed wines in the 13th and 14th centuries, and were favored by the aristocracy during that time. Like many things, fashion changes and now these wines are overlooked, but I am going to do my best to change that, and you can help me! The wines remain a good value because of their somewhat obscure origins, so you can get a fantastic bottle of wine for a lot less.
All of his wines have a delicate quality, powerful but with freshness on the nose and on the palate, the wines sing and will charm you with their alluring subtle nuanced flavors and wonderful acidity that are a reflection of his care in production to allow the grapes to be true their character and the terroir of this unique region to shine through.
It was such a treat to visit Dennis and Melanie in their home, and even more of a thrill to see where and how he makes his wines. You can samples these and others from my travels this weekend at the shop. Babs will have them open for you and Jenn will serve up some delicious paté and some delicious cheeses for you to try along with the wines (it is almost as if you are here with me!).


text: A lighthearted but searching and intelligent exploration of the concept and lore of walls, from dry-stone structures to honeycombs and tin cans. Succintly phrased in sprightly verse (``There are brick walls and thick walls and walls owned by cats,/and deep underground there are cave walls, with bats''), supplemented with labels (``arch''; ``picture rail'') and remarks of the appealing Humpty-Dumpty-like figures that people Baron's carefully limned settings, plus the good egg himself, who adds an extra comic note to every spread. The idea is developed with imagination and in surprising depth, touching on structural strength, the old and new, diverse uses and surfaces, and even inhabitants, like toads or slugs. With much intriguing detail-- and a particularly intriguing title spread of a many-cornered wall that, in Baron's artful perspective, makes a straight line across the pages: excellent nonfiction, sure to amuse. (Nonfiction. 5-9)


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Monday, May 2, 2011
The highlight of my day on Monday? Finding a word worth 57 points against my Uncle Jon! :) We play Words with Friends and I was getting antsy that he was beating me until "begin" got me ahead again.
Whew. Can't have Uncle Jon beating me. I'd never hear the end of it. :)
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
In preparation for my move into the main room of the condo, I decided to get rid of the old player piano. My reason for keeping it: it was pretty. My reasons for getting rid of it? One, I no longer had room for it. Two, I had no idea how to play it the normal way. Three, I no longer have the strength in my ankles to pump the player piano feature.
So I called Dan the Piano Man, who loved tinkering with it when he came to tune it a few years back, and he came to give the piano a new home where it would actually, you know, be used. :)
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Look at that pitiful face.
I put Riley's "I have issues" t-shirt on for a reason. The main one being that he does, in fact, have issues. Poor guy has been more anxious and marking more lately. I say poor guy to keep my perspective so I don't kill him for such activities, and opted to call the vet for advice rather than take matters into my own hands. :)
He actually has had issues in the past with infections, so the vet thought he'd better see him to make sure nothing was wrong. Riley hasn't been to the vet, or away from my side for that matter, since 2006, so this was no small thing.
To say I was nervous for him was an understatement.
But when sweet Susie came to take him to the vet all dressed up in the "I have issues" t-shirt, Riley went like an old pro. I watched him through the window pee on every blade of grass he could find, then he jumped right up into her vehicle like it was the happiest day of his life.
I think he could have been a little more leery without me to make me feel better, but whatever. :)
Thursday, May 5, 2011
This is Riley the next day, happily relaxing in bed with me once again. As it should be. :)
The vet called and it turns out the tests showed it was all behavior and anxiety. So we're adjusting his antidepressants and I'm keeping my Bissell Pet Cleaner out and in use. I was without him for a grand total of one half hour the day before and I decided that it was the worst half hour ever. So I've resigned myself to loving my antidepressant-taking dog just the way he is. Even in those moments he pees in my house and I want to send him to the pound.
Because seriously, people. Look at that face. Couldn't you forgive him about anything?
Friday, May 6, 2011
Today you get a random photo of my kitchen towel because I am running out of things to take pictures of.
So, tell me. Is there anything around here you're curious about and would like to see? Let me know in the comment section and I'll oblige because we are quickly coming to a day when every day of Gitz Bits will be random shots of Riley the wonder dog…
Saturday, May 7, 2011
My alma mater, the University of Northern Iowa, had graduation ceremonies this past Saturday, and First Lady Michelle Obama was the commencement speaker.
Not bad for a little Iowa town, eh?
I was smarter this time than when the Dalai Lama was here and actually checked to see if it was being televised. It was, and she did a beautiful job speaking to the students… it was a great perspective on family and careers and following your heart.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
This picture was my best part of Sunday. My friend Shannon sent it to me from a greenhouse they were at and told me this species of butterfly in the middle of the flowers is called "Sara."
She said it stayed perfectly still, just like I do. :) And I loved that in some alternate universe sort of way, I was there with them while they picked out flowers on a lovely Sunday afternoon.
Thanks for once again sharing my week with me! Click on the button below if you want to go to Jessica's site and check out the other participants showing off their weekly photos as well:


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Recently, I had a conversation with a friend of mine about some of the things I write about here on Money360. Even though she's struggling with some serious debt issues, she told me flatly that she didn't want to take most of the advice given on Money360. When I asked her why, she breathed in deep and told me the following (paraphrased):
I don't want to be a "frugal" person. I don't want to be the person who is no fun because I'm always chasing every dime and I'm always vetoing the fun things to do. I don't want to be the person that leaves out cheap toilet paper for guests. I don't want to just sit at home every night cackling as I count my pennies. I want to have a life.
First of all, it's clear from these statements that my friend puts a great deal of value on how she appears to others. She desires an active and vibrant social life, to the point where it would seem that it's one of the central values in her life. She wants to spend a lot of time with her friends and family – the people she cares the most about.
Hand in hand with that central desire is a desire to not alienate them through penny pinching. She aims to keep the people in her social circle happy and she wants to be involved in whatever things come along.
Both of those things are completely fine – in fact, they're a healthy part of an extroverted personality (in moderation, of course). The problem here is that having a social life and being frugal are far from contradictory, as my friend likes to believe.
Let's look at each of the comments.
I don't want to be the person who is no fun because I'm always chasing every dime.
The statement here implies that she thinks she won't be enjoyable for others to hang out around if she chases every dime. In response to that, I would simply say that most of the benefits of frugality come from choices made when no one else is around. Buying light bulbs isn't a social event, nor is setting up an emergency fund. Grocery and household supply shopping isn't a social event, either. Yet those are the times when many of the money-saving choices are made.
If your social experience is a key value for you, don't cut back on it. Instead, focus on the multitude of things going on in your life that aren't subject to social constraints.
I don't want to be the person who is no fun because I'm always vetoing the fun things to do.
Simple. Don't veto the fun things to do.
In fact, why not be the one who suggests fun things to do? In your spare time, think of some things that would be genuinely fun for the people in your social circle and then do some research on how to do them inexpensively. Then, when it comes time to plan a social event, pipe up with your idea. Not only will it be cheaper than throwing yourself into something without any forethought, but if you put your mind to it at other times, you're likely to come up with some brilliant ideas to boot. You actually won't be the downer – instead, you'll be the person who comes up with the good ideas.
I don't want to be the person that leaves out cheap toilet paper for guests.
Then don't leave out cheap toilet paper for guests.
If you have multiple bathrooms in your home, designate one as the bathroom that guests use and stock it with the finest toiletries. Then, use the other bathroom yourself and use generics in there. It's a room that's just yours – no one else will ever use it. Since the guest bathroom will likely be used less than the one you regularly use, you'll buy a lot more of the inexpensive stuff than the expensive stuff, trimming your budget quite easily.
Again, it's all about what's a personal value to you, and being a good hostess is an important value to her.
I don't want to just sit at home every night cackling as I count my pennies.
Then don't sit at home every night cackling as you count your pennies.
There are countless things to do all over the place that don't require a major outlay of money. Take a serious look around your community. Look at the community calendar. Find out about the many things your city's parks and recreation department has to offer.
Frugality is not about sitting at home and counting your pennies. It's all about figuring out what exactly you want out of life, then doing exactly that while minimizing the cost of it. The pieces of your life that aren't part of that picture of exactly what you want out of life are the parts you can trim.
If you value your social life, then focus on your social life. The rest of your life are the areas where you can cut. If you have a calendar that's full of social activities every night, do you really need cable or a land telephone line? If you thrive on your friends and family, why not think ahead and come up with things that are a blast and save all of you a few bucks over the regular price of admission? And on those rare occasions when you are home, you don't really need a flat panel television and thousands of dollars' worth of decorations when the core value of your life is outside the home. Decorate tastefully and take your time with it to find bargains on things you actually want.
Being social is not the opposite of being frugal. They often go hand in hand.


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I'm going on a field trip this coming Tuesday with representatives from all three agencies to Mt. Umunhum… the fourth largest peak in the Santa Cruz mountain range. (Umunhum is an Ohlone Indian word that means hummingbird, and it's pronounced a lot like M&M.) This mountain was the site of another Nike missile station and featured a 7-story-high concrete blockhouse that supported an EIGHTY-FIVE TON long-range search antenna "sail" for detecting Russian bombers from over the horizon. It also held a huge IBM computer system inside of the concrete cube.
Below is a short video made in 2011 about the cleanup of the old Nike station on Mt. Um (as they call it down there). It bears a lot of similarities to The Invisible Peak but I swear I only first saw this last month!
Barbara Boxer's letter calling for the cleanup:
Mid-peninsula Openspace District Status report on the cleanup:
The great news is that the Umunhum cleanup and restoration is complete! I'm not sure yet how many millions of dollars were spent to accomplish this, but I'll report back with this information and more after our trip next week.


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Back to All Events
Earlier Event: December 25Christmas Day Service
Later Event: March 1Ash Wednesday
NJLC Events
Come join us!
At NJLC, we are out and about in our community! We host a variety of events throughout the year, and we enjoy participating in our town's celebrations. Keep checking back for more information throughout the year!
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church (NJLC) is an ELCA congregation located in northern Loudoun County, Virginia in the town of Lovettsville.
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church | 12942 Lutheran Church Road, Lovettsville, VA 20180, USA


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Part F - HIV/AIDS Clinical Training
The AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Program of HRSA's Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) delivers HIV/AIDS clinical training via a network of regional and national centers. AETCs train providers to counsel, diagnose, treat, and medically manage people with HIV disease, and to help prevent high-risk behaviors that lead to HIV transmission. Regional (multi-state) AETCs carry out the bulk of hands-on and distance-based learning. National AETCs support the regions and deliver cross-cutting assistance, including web-based resources, multicultural training, evaluation, and online and phone-based clinical consultation.
- Use the Ryan White Community Map to find a RWHAP recipient.
Resources 9
Guidelines and Manuals
HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)August 2019
State-specific resources to assist providers in navigating health coverage requirements that may impact the prescription of hepatitis c treatment.
AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC)September 2018
Online training platform to meet the core competency knowledge for HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, and ongoing treatment and care to healthcare providers in the United States.
Webinars and Training
HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)August 2019
Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcements from HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP).
AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC)July 2018
Table that links HRSA HAB performance indicators to an array of clinician training resources developed by HRSA programs.
AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC)July 2017
An evidence-based online curriculum for healthcare providers and trainers of health care providers on HIV/HCV co-infection among people of color.
HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)April 2019
HRSA/HAB administers the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, the largest Federal program focused exclusively on HIV/AIDS care.
Clinician Consultation CenterJuly 2018
This AETC clinical training program provides expert clinical consultation in HIV/AIDS care, prevention and treatment.
I-TECHFebruary 2018
Training and TA in the international context to build the HIV/AIDS workforce's skills.
AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC)January 2018
HIV clinical training resources and and collaborative support for the AETC Program.


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Part of Extra Life this year we'll be doing a community stream, and will be raffling off two of my cosplay prints! My two prints and one of @Occuli 's art prints will be part of a raffle! Donate anywhere from $10-24.99 and you get an entry into this raffle! There will be three winners, and will choose which print in order they are drawn.
Hope you get a chance to check out our stream! Saturday 10am to 4pm PST at twitch.tv/rtnewvancouver
Here are my two prints that are up for raffle:


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If you have been to a sporting event recently, chances are it was held under a MakMax roofing structure. From stadiums and grandstands, to bowls clubs and aquatic centres, the team at MakMax are renowned for their capabilities and knowledge when it comes to sporting & leisure cover.
For our umbrella offerings, we service these sectors as well as a variety of others including theme parks, golf clubs, RSL's and racing tracks.
Popular choices include Pavilions, St Tropez designs and, of course, our standard range. Add colours and branding to stand out and customise them with links and different sizes and shapes. You can also accessorise with heating, lighing, planter boxes and/or blinds. For more information on how we can help you, contact us today.
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Franchises for Sale in Kootenai County, ID
Discover business opportunities, in or around Kootenai County, with well-established brands, who are looking for people like you to help them grow.
As of the 2010 United States Census, Kootenai County, located in the Gem State, had a total population of 142,783 people. This makes Kootenai County the sixty-seventh-most populated city in the state of ID.


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Motor Boat Stands & Safety: Summer Survival Tips for the Water
It doesn't matter how many times you have taken your motor boat out on the water, it is always a brand new experience. You should never ease up on things like safety, neither for you nor for your boat. The same amount of care that you put into protecting your boat with motor boat stands and Brownell engine racks for marine engines when it is out of the water, should be put in to providing a safe and sane experience for you and your passengers when you are out on the water. Whether you have kids and a family out with you or if it's just you and some friends hitting the lake or fishing in the bay, follow these simple boating tips and keep safe boating practices at all times to minimize your chances of having an accident.
Motor Boat Safety Checklist
Before you get your boat out on the water or start-up that engine, it pays to take some time to go over a simple checklist. Basic things, such as checking the fuel levels and adding fuel whenever necessary, as well as letting someone know where you are going and when you expect to return, are so important to successful boating. You should also take a good look at your engine. Hopefully you have maintained it seasonally and as-needed, placing it on Brownell engine racks and knowing where to buy boat stands that will protect your investment.
When you look at your motor boat engine, make sure to:
- check for any leakage of fluids, such as oil, coolant or fuel in the bilge
- look to see if there is any excess water in the bilge area as well
- check the fuel levels and fill it back up safely if the levels are low
- inspect the fuel system on outboard engines for leaks or gas odors
You should also check to make sure that all of your lights are functioning and make sure that there aren't any loose electrical wires or conductors that are corroded or disconnected. Always test out your radio and communication devices to make sure that they are in good working condition and run your blowers to remove any vapors or fumes from the bilge before you even start your engine. A good habit to get into is to connect your vehicle and boat keys to a floating bobber in case they go overboard. Check out the local reports for weather, as well as any sea, boating or fishing forecasts just in case. Go over your emergency plan with your passengers and show them where your personal flotation devices and fire extinguishers are located.
What You Need to Bring
In addition to checking out your engine to make sure that everything is in good working order, there other things that you need to bring whenever you go out on the water. Just like making sure that you have the proper size, type and amount of motor boat stands and engine racks for marine engines when you have your boat out of the water, you also need to make sure that you have everything in order in case you need it. If you need to know where to buy boat stands or Brownell engine racks, all you need to do is contact us by calling 508-758-3671 to find an authorized dealer near you.
Some of the things that you need to have can include:
- your boat registration and certificate
- insurance policy paperwork for towing
- a personal flotation device for each passenger
- fire extinguisher that is charged and functioning properly
- complete emergency and survival kit that is fully stocked
Other Safety Tips for Smart Boating
Make sure that each and every passenger has a personal flotation device. Children need to wear one at all times while out on the boat and on the water. Make sure you know what the law is in the state that you are boating in so you won't be out of compliance with rules, regulations and laws. Adults should be wearing their personal flotation devices at all times too, however there aren't any laws that require it.
Make sure that you always stay aware of your surroundings so you won't run into any vessels, rocks or other potential dangers. Keep an eye on your gauges, including the fuel, temperature and voltage. This will help you to have a safe experience and identify any potential problems as quickly as possible. Make sure that you have another operator available who can take the helm if you become tired or sick. Ensure that this person is abstaining from alcohol consumption prior to and during the outing.
To learn more about Brownell engine racks and motor boat stands or to find out where to buy boat stands and engine racks for marine engines, give us a call at 508-758-3671. Check out our online boat stand selector to help you determine the right size and number of stands you need to protect your boat when it is out of the water.


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Where will your next great deal come from?
And when? Galaxy helps you replace the uncertainty of such questions with clear answers that work to your full advantage.
Leasing or selling commercial property is a strategic endeavor as much as a technical exercise. That's why clients often turn to us to analyze their business needs and occupancy requirements before identifying or evaluating locations.
Throughout this process, you'll find that we communicate clearly, keep an eye on every detail and make ourselves available to you "on call" to address any questions or concerns. And when it comes time to complete the transaction, we can represent you too.
The map above shows a sample of the 600-plus transactions that Galaxy has managed for companies across the U.S. Click on any of the sample locations to learn a little more (or zoom in any location by clicking the "+" link on the left side of the map).
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President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped their longtime friend Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky celebrate her 70th birthday Saturday night in Ventnor, NJ.
Of course MMM, a former Congresswoman and ex-TV journalist, who actually turned 70 Thursday, is also the mother in law of Chelsea Clinton who attended the party along with her husband Marc Mezvinsky.
The party took place at the palatial estate of real estate developer Michael Karp, at a home formerly owned by casino mogul Steve Wynn.
Both Clintons strolled the boardwalk for a bit and posed for pictures with one family thrilled to meet the powerful pair.


text: JDW was commissioned to extend and refurbish a 70s red brick bungalow. The project consisted of a totally modern and contemporary conversion of the existing building, with sharp white render and modern composite windows. While the two additional wing extensions to the building were clad in Siberian Larch, framed with modern zink rainwater goods and aluminium bi-fold doors.


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Club Atlético Colón
|Full name
|Club Atlético Colón
|Los Sabaleros[1]
|5 May 1905[2]
|Estadio B.G. Estanislao López,
(Cementerio de los Elefantes),[3]
Santa Fe
|Eduardo Vega
|Dario Franco
|Primera División
|Club home page
Club Atlético Colón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkluβ aˈtletiko koˈlon]), commonly referred to as Colón de Santa Fe [koˈlon de santa ˈfe], is a sports club from Santa Fe, Argentina. The football team plays in the first division of the Argentine football league system, the Argentine Primera División. Other activities hosted by the club are basketball, boxing and field hockey.
The club was founded on 5 May 1905, as "Colón Football Club" by a group of friends that were enthusiastic about football. The name of the club was inspired in Genoese conqueror Christopher Columbus ("Cristóbal Colón" in Spanish), whose biography was being studied by one of the boys at the time.[4] Colón started playing in the local league of Santa Fe ("Liga Santafesina") in 1910, winning the first tournament contested in 1913. The team also finished undefeated at the end of the season. Colón would win the tournaments of 1914, 1916, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1937, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947.[citation needed]
On 9 July 1946, the club inaugurated the Estadio Estanislao López, named "Eva Perón" by then. In 1955 this would be renamed to its current name. Colón affiliated to the Argentine Football Association in 1947. In 1959 the team was relegated to Primera C, where it lasted until 1964. That year Colón achieved a victory over Pelé's famous team Santos by 3–2. One year later, Colón won the Primera B championship, thus promoting to the Primera División for the 1966 season. Colón proclaimed champion after defeating Nueva Chicago by 2–1 in Santa Fe.[4] Medina and Oberti scored the goals. The line-up was: Tremonti, Néstor Cardozo, Raúl Cardozo, Gisleno Medina, Sebastián García, Jorge Sanitá, Luis Tremonti, Orlando Medina, Néstor Canevari, Alfredo Oberti, Alejo Medina.[5]
The first game played by Colón in Primera was v Chacarita Juniors on 6 May 1966. After the first season in the top level Colón finished 16th,[6] but the following year the structure of Argentine football was changed so as there were two championships each season, the Metropolitano and the Nacional, with entrance to the latter originally only available to the higher placed Metropolitano teams. Colon did not qualify for the Nacional until 1968, although the squad did then managed a 6th place finish.
Colón finished 2nd in their group in the 1972 Nacional.[7]
In 1975 the team made a good campaign in the Metropolitano, finishing in 6th place. This got better two years later, when Colón finished 5th in the Metropolitano, although the team then struggled in the Nacional. In 1978 Colón reached the knockout stages of the Nacional but was beaten in the quarter-finals by Independiente.[citation needed]
Colon was relegated from the Metropolitana in 1981 having won only 6 games that season It was to take 14 years for Colón to return to the top division (for the 1995–96 season). During the intervening period the team came close to promotion on a number of occasions, and lost Promotion Play-off games in 1988–89 to arch-rivals Union 3–0 on aggregate, and in 1992–93 Colón lost the championship play-off, being defeated by Banfield and then failed to qualify through the secondary play-offs.[citation needed]
After a few mid-table finishes Colón was placed 2nd in the 1997 Clausura tournament, which is team's highest placed finish to date. As River Plate won both titles that season, a play-off was required between the two runners-up.[8] In December 1997 Colón defeated Independiente 1–0 to qualify for the Copa Libertadores 1998.[8]
South American Tournament Qualification
Colon made their South American debut in the Copa CONMEBOL 1997 against Universidad de Chile. They subsequently reached the semi-finals where they lost to fellow Argentine side Lanús.[citation needed]
They made their debut in South America's most prestigious club tournament (Copa Libertadores) the following season. Their first game in the group stage was a 1–2 home defeat to River Plate, although they were still to qualify for the knockout stages. After beating Olimpia on penalties they were again drawn to play River Plate, but were defeated 5–2 on aggregate in the quarter-final.[citation needed]
In 2003, they qualified for their 3rd different continental competition (Copa Sudamericana), and they defeated Vélez Sársfield before losing to Boca Juniors.[9]
The club's current stadium is the Estadio Brigadier General Estanislao López, which holds 33,500 spectators. The ground was inaugurated in 1946, and received a renovation in 2002.[3]
- Primera B: 1965
- Copa de Honor de Primera B – "Juan Domingo Perón"[lower-alpha 1]: 1950 [11]
- Liga Santafesina de Fútbol (15): 1913, 1914, 1916, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1937, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947 [4]
Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Current squad of Club Atlético Colón as of 20 April, 2016 (edit)
Sources: [1]
Manager: Dario Franco
- Ondino Viera (1969)
- Enzo Trossero (1995–97)
- Jorge Fossati (2001–02)
- Gerardo Martino (2005)
- José del Solar (2005)
- Julio César Toresani (2006)
- Julio César Falcioni (2006–07)
- Leonardo Astrada (2007–08)
- Antonio Mohamed (2008–10)[12]
- Fernando Gamboa (2010–11?)[13]
- Mario Sciaqua (2011?–12)[14]
- Roberto Sensini (2012–13)[15]
- Rubén Forestello (2013)[16][17]
- Diego Osella (2014)[18][19]
- ↑ "Club Atletico Colon Squad 2011". Eurorivals.net. Retrieved 22 December 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Colon". Teams. Football Argentina. Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "ESTADIO BRIGADIER GENERAL ESTANISLAO LÓPEZ". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 8 April 2016.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Historial del club" at Colón official website Archived 8 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Argentina second level 1965 on RSSSF
- ↑ Argentina 1966 on RSSSF
- ↑ Osvaldo José Gorgazzi (21 June 2006). "Argentina – First Level 1972". RSSSF. Retrieved 25 November 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ian King (21 January 2011). "Argentina 1996/97". RSSSF. Retrieved 31 July 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Boca Juniors – Colon : 2–1 Match report from Scorespro.com
- ↑ "Argentina: Torneo de Honor 1ra. "B" AFA 1950" by Jose Carluccio at Historia y Futbol website, 17 May 2009
- ↑ Argentina – Second level cups at RSSSF
- ↑ Rex Gowar (21 September 2010). "Soccer-Huracan, Colon follow Independiente by changing coach". Reuters. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 11 August 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Dan Edwards (29 September 2010). "Fecha Eight – Move Along, Nothing to See Here Folks". The Argentina Independent. Retrieved 11 August 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Rupert Fryer (21 February 2012). "Argentina Clausura 2012 Week 2: Defeat To All Boys Leaves Colón Searching For New Man". southamericanfootball.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "R. Sensini". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 8 April 2016.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Tras dejar San Martín (SJ), Rubén Forestello es el nuevo técnico de Colón". Canchallena (in Spanish). 29 June 2013. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Mario Sciaqcua asume otra vez como técnico interino en Colón". Canchallena (in Spanish). 8 October 2013. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Diego Osella, nuevo DT de Colón: "Cada partido será una final"". Canchallena (in Spanish). 3 January 2014. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Renunció Diego Osella en Colón". El Litoral (in Spanish). 11 November 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2016. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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You classify yourself as a scientist, so you are indeed obliged to challenge and attack bad science whenever you encounter it within the context of your career. In an academic setting, there's an obligation to uphold the principles governing that field of study. But I think you already understand that. What you're asking is if there's an obligation to do this all the time, whenever you casually encounter someone whose worldview contradicts what your educational experience has taught you. I would argue there is not — except in situations in which not doing so will have a direct impact on people outside of the conversation itself.
Let's say your best friend believes in unicorns. He likes to read about unicorns and talk about unicorns and expresses a desire to eventually own a unicorn ranch. As a scientist (and a normal person), you'd most likely have a desire to try to convince him that this belief is unfounded — at least once, and maybe every time you see him. But you're not obligated to do this on principle. People reserve the right to be wrong about things, particularly when that wrongness has no tangible consequences. The degree to which you "confront" random people who disagree with you is always your choice, but — if you're remotely concerned about being nonabrasive and nonpedantic — the less you do so, the better for everyone, including yourself.
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Friday, February 28, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
all about animals
the theme at school for this month is animal
the other day little bb's homework was to learn and talk about animals from different countries.
the little globe that i got for him as christmas present came in really handy.
little bb has loads of fun spinning the globe,
finding the animals and their home country...
then we tried to match the animals with their names on the cards...
100% hit rate for his first attempt
and i just knew that it is too good to be true
the hit rate diminished quite rapidly thereafter *laugh*
this monday,
i went for my first story reading time at little bb's school.
as a parent volunteer, i am supposed to spend around an hour,
reading a book to the class.
i must say i was quite nervous as i arrived at school that morning.
little bb's english class teacher led me to a room and explained to me what
i was supposed to do.
and she told me that little bb was very excited about me going to school...
she said the first thing he said to her when he got to school was,
"my mommy is coming to school"!
to be in line with the theme of the month,
we looked for books about animals.
the first one i took out from the book shelf was
polar bear polar bear what do you hear? by eric carle
a great book and great author (by now, little bb can tell him as the author for his books)
the only thing (worry) was not entirely sure about the sounds made by some of the animals in the book, like the sound made by a peacock, by a walrus, by a zebra...
the teacher told me not to worry,
as the kids would be just as happy and excited if i made funny sounds.
oh well, so this book it is!
little bb's class was divided into small groups of 8
and i was to read the same book to each group.
i waited anxiously for the children to come out from their classroom.
the first little someone from the first group heading my way was little bb!
the look on his face already brightened me up...
he looked happy, excited and at the same time has that "cannot believe mami is at school during class time" look...
as the group sat down, little bb kept telling his friends "this is my mommy!",
the children seemed to enjoy the book and most of them were engaged enough to answer questions i asked... (or at least they look happy)...
it was a very enjoyable experience
i love being with little bb and his classmates/friends
i love getting to know more names of his classmates
i love seeing the curious and innocent little faces
i love their reaction (or no-reaction from some of them *smile*)
i love their reaction (or no-reaction from some of them *smile*)
and i finally got to put a face to a name which little bb keeps mentioning recently
so confirmed that there is really such a girl in his class
as sometimes we are not entirely sure whether all the things he said are true!
i guess kids at this age are becoming more aware of people and things around them
and most of the time what he told us did happen / are true
as opposed to last school year when he usually mixed different incidents and people up
which ended up telling us a completely different story
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
teacher potato
so after dinner last night,
little bb said he wants to play teacher and student in mami's room (my-zakka-room-turned-baby-room for him... actually a bit surprised that he still calls it as mami's room....)
it's a little game of ours which we take turns to be teacher asking questions and student answering questions politely.
we brought two little chairs into the room for the students to sit down.
"me teacher, you and dadi students"
he went inside and sat on my big chair
while somotu and I waited outside to be called upon.
he then shut the door and shouted "come in".
we knocked and opened the door, said good morning teacher and asked if we could be seated.
with a serious face, holding a piece of paper, little bb started asking us questions,
"whats your name"
"how old are you"
"where do u live"
suddenly, he ran to the desk and took out the potato man he made awhile ago.
he placed it on the teacher's chair and said, "teacher potato"
just like that, he ran away
leaving somotu and i in the room
feeling puzzled.
we looked at each other and giggled...
actually we started giggling and poking at each other as soon as we went inside the door and saw his serious face...
Sunday, February 23, 2014
happy birthday didi!
had a wonderful and lovely day
it was didi's 5th birthday party
and this year,
his has chosen the theme of ninjago (didn't know about this ninja of ice until now)
the theme was brought to live through the magic hands of dear joanna....
what a clever way to make a balloon stand!
the party on the rooftop was wonderful!
clear blue sky for a change
cool breeze with rays of sunshine
it was the perfect weather for the party!
it was didi's 5th birthday party
and this year,
his has chosen the theme of ninjago (didn't know about this ninja of ice until now)
the theme was brought to live through the magic hands of dear joanna....
what a clever way to make a balloon stand!
little bb loves these homemade cupcakes....
the little picky eater had two!
the party on the rooftop was wonderful!
clear blue sky for a change
cool breeze with rays of sunshine
it was the perfect weather for the party!
we all had lots of fun and laughter
as for little bb,
it was his first successful cycling experience with the tricycle!
he finally managed to move forward!
after feeling more comfortable with the tricycle,
he started driving his *passenger* (a hedgehog softie of sansan) around...
it was really amusing to watch him drive around his passenger
with much care and telling us that he has got a "passenger!"
taking his job very seriously, he kept making sure his passenger was sitting comfortably and safely...
kind sansan even came over to help make the passenger comfortable..
at one point, someone took his passenger and he got all upset.
after awhile the passenger landed in his hands again.
only this time, with a serious and careful look, gave me his passenger and
asked me to "keep 住"
every now and then, he would stop by with the tricycle to make sure the safety of his passenger
and asked me to "渣好d!"
he even brought his passenger to the food table to have some "mum mum"!
so funny!
and here comes our star of the day!
(amazing backdrop made from scratch by joanna!!!)
happy birthday day!
kai ma hope to celebrate your birthday every year
(until the time comes when you are too old and too cool a boy to spend your day with
the oldies! *smile*)
Saturday, February 22, 2014
daddy and son
his latest favorite bedtime story....
and mine too....
the page that he giggles the most is when
darth vader says to luke who is blowing bubbles through the drinking straw,
"stop making bubbles".
cuz he likes too.
Friday, February 21, 2014
when vanity strikes
i may possibly be one of those few people who only knew about the
recent craze over a korean tv series.
heard about it through a friend who is following the series
but didn't really pay attention as i don't watch tv.
then a few weeks ago,
feeling a sudden urge to get new lip colors for the lunar new year,
i went to check out the lip colors at the counter.
while i was checking out the colors,
there was a non stop stream of girls looking for a particular color.
some were quoting the name of the tv series.
some were quoting the color
some were quoting a number
and repeatedly the sales said "all sold out"
(and one can tell the sales are very tired from answering the same questions).
so i asked what was all that about...
and it was the famous #52.
there was even a waiting list for it!
no kidding! a waiting list for a lipstick!
i didn't get myself on the waiting list cuz it's not a color for me...
but it was very amusing to see the craze.
i didn't get that
but i got a bunch of other things....
kinda scary!
this is what happen when i haven't shop for *too long*!
though i must say the lip colors are quite nourishing and carry a scent that i like.
and the nail colors,
loving them all!
Sunday, February 16, 2014
noah's ark
spent a great day at the noah's ark with little bb's classmates
the place was better than what i had expected..
very educational, spacious and age appropriate for them.
will definitely be going back again.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
*milk* + granola
Monday, February 10, 2014
by jennifer trask...
created with bones, antler, ribs....
read this from her site,
"certain kinds of uselessness free our minds… the wonder of things in themselves confirms the goodness of being…. One of the great unacknowledged forces of domestication today may be a hunger for abundant uselessness"
cited from george gessert.
i often find myself in this "uselessness" state of mind...
i like dreaming
i like wandering to places not known to others in my mind
i like doing "useless" things
i like sitting and doing nothing in my little hideaway
with the above words, i have now found confirmation that it is perfectly fine to be "useless".
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fourth week of advent
The liturgical color of Advent is blue; the night sky just before the dawn. As our Advent pilgrimage draws to a close, let us pray now - harder than ever - that God's love might be born in our hearts, in our homes, and in every corner of God's good earth.
Four Candles for Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love
"I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." + John 13:34-35
Holy God, through ancient scripture, you whisper in our ears: "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear." May your perfect love be born in our lives during this season of waiting and watching, so that we might have the courage to set out, hand-in-hand with you, and love this beautiful, broken, trembling world back to life. Amen.
Over the course of the week, with as much courage as you can muster, declare these affirmations of faith:
Monday: "I believe in a Word that punctures the shadows of despair, flooding everything with light and hope: that word is LOVE."
Tuesday: "I believe in a Word that pulls peace out of violence, life out of death, and laughter out of mourning, crying, and pain: that word is LOVE."
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Thursday: "I believe in a Word that reaches into suffering and loneliness with comfort and care: that word is LOVE."
Friday: "I believe in a Word that speaks a whole new creation into being, calls each one of us by name, and asks us to take part in heaven come to earth: that word is LOVE."
If you want, the Virgin will come walking down the road pregnant with the holy saying, "I need shelter for the night, please take me inside your heart, my time is so close."
Then, under the roof of your soul, you will witness the sublime intimacy, the divine, the Christ taking birth forever, as she grasps your hand for help, for each of us is the midwife of God, each of us. + St. John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Cheers to Stefan Perneborg for capturing this flower as it proclaims the hope and mystery of Advent!


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Despite finishing my university time for year 2 back in June, it wasn't time to kick back and relax for the summer holiday until last week. On successful completion of all the academic components of the second year, each of us had to complete a fortnight's placement in a hospital operating theatre, followed by the remaining 2 weeks of the driving course.
The aim of this hospital placement was practical consolidation of the skills we had learnt in our second year skills module, most notably cannulation and intubation, but also placement of LMAs (another type of airway, generally easier to insert than the tube used during intubation), and the running through of fluids if we hadn't done many of these during our placements on the ambulance throughout the year. We needed to do the cannulations and intubations in hospital before we are given the opportunity to do them with our PPEds out on the road next year. Paramedics used to have to achieve a specific number of each skill before they could be let loose on the public on their own, but this wasn't the case for us. Our LAS tutors recognised that when in theatre, lots of the patients are candidates for LMAs as opposed to being intubated, which dramatically decreases the number of 'tubes' (intubations) available for us to try. Furthermore, in many hospitals, there are medical students competing for the same skills as we are, and preference is generally given to them.
The night before my placement started I was really nervous; the thought of going to a place completely different to anywhere I had ever worked before, with a whole set of new people I had never met before was incredibly daunting. Our year group had also heard horror stories of scary anaesthetists at other hospitals who shouted at students for no reason and didn't let them assist with the procedures they were there to do. I decided to get an early night rather than ponder on such thoughts; I had been informed I needed to get there early on my first day anyway so I could be shown around and told where to work, so the sleep would do me good.
When I arrived on the Monday morning I introduced myself to the staff on reception and told them why I was there. It wasn't difficult to guess who I was as I stood in front of them in my obvious green uniform. They directed me to the changing room and showed me where the scrubs were that I would need to wear. It took me ages to find a size that fitted me, they were all either too small or ridiculously big and baggy, making me look like a bit of a clown. As if I didn't feel silly enough, I also had to wear a surgical cap! Once I was all dressed up, I got a guided tour of the department, invaluable to me as my sense of direction is generally pretty poor. The lady showing me around pointed out each operating theatre and advised I go round to meet the Operating Department Practitioners to find out which patients would need intubating that day, or whether I could assist with the cannulations. All patients required this skill as the intravenous route was used to give the drugs to put them to sleep.
I spent most of my first day trying to be in the right place at the right time. I kept going from theatre to theatre to see if there was anything I could do, but I had either just missed an opportunity or the patient wasn't appropriate for my skill level for one reason or another. It wasn't until very late in the afternoon that I finally got the chance to do something; one of the anaesthetists had seen my wandering around the department and said she had two intubations coming up next. There was a medical student who needed the practice too, so she said we could do one intubation each. I asked to watch the other student's attempt; unfortunately for him he the intubated the oesophagus rather than the trachea, and rather than give him another chance, the anaesthetist took over. I was really nervous about having a go as the other student asked to watch my attempt, but I was lucky enough to get a very good view of the vocal cords, ideally where we want to be able to watch the tube passing through, and intubated the trachea correctly. I got this first skill signed off in my paperwork and decided to go home for the day, leaving on a high.
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Kotahi Mano Kāika, Kotahi Mano Wawata (One thousand homes, One thousand aspirations) is the iwi strategy that leads the charge to reinvigorate our language within Kāi Tahu homes and communities. It is a 25 year strategy which aims to have at least 1000 Kāi Tahu households speaking te reo Māori by the year 2025.
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