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Crash Course In Resilience
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
—Wendell Berry
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
—Victor Frankl
Not long ago, a rocket took off from a Florida launching pad taking Americans to the moon. The moon shot signified to many that Americans could do anything we set our minds to.
Today, in another part of Florida, toxic oil is washing up on beaches. Hundreds of miles of Gulf Coast have been devastated, and people whose resilience was tested by Hurricane Katrina are being tested even more severely today. There are good reasons to believe many more of us will have our resilience tested in coming months and years.
Future historians may see this time as a turning point for Western civilization. In the popular zeitgeist, there is much discussion of end times. Millennialists await the Rapture. New Agers point to prophecies that 2012 will mark the end of the world (but perhaps the beginning of another one).
The End Of Cheap Oil
More secular folks also warn of big changes ahead. Concern about energy supplies is one reason. Author and energy analyst Michael Klare says we have already extracted the oil that's easy to get; from here on, we're into the "Age of Tough Oil," and the human, environmental, and financial cost of each additional barrel of oil will be higher than the last.
Fossil fuels contain millions of years of stored sunlight. A liter of oil, according to Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins, is the energy equivalent of five weeks of hard human labor. In a society that relies on fossil fuels for transportation, food, warmth, and light, the loss of an abundant and inexpensive form of high-quality energy is no small thing. There simply isn't anything else out there quite like it, and many geologists believe we are at, or close to, the peak production of this powerful source of energy.
The U.S. Military agrees:
"Assuming the most optimistic scenario for improved petroleum production through enhanced recovery means, the development of non-conventional oils (such as oil shales or tar sands) and new discoveries, petroleum production will be hard pressed to meet the expected future demand," says the Joint Operating Environment 2010, published by the United States Joint Forces Command.
This is not to say that oil will suddenly become unavailable. It does mean getting the oil we depend on will exact a higher and higher toll on people and the environment. Just look at the devastation caused by tar sands development in Canadian forests, the oil spills in the Gulf and now Michigan, and the impact on people as far flung as the Niger Delta and the Amazon.
It also means oil prices are likely to continue rising, especially if the economy starts to expand again, and with China and India's new energy purchasing power.
Even if we could get ever-increasing quantities of fossil fuels (by using even more coal, for example), we have the problem of climate change. World leaders meeting in Copenhagen failed to come to terms with the biggest threat humans have ever faced—the possibility that runaway climate change could make the Earth uninhabitable.
Scientists point out that the amount of carbon already in the atmosphere will cause further disruption before the climate stabilizes, and no one knows where it will stabilize—whether the new climate will be anything like the one we count on to water our crops, maintain stable coastlines, and provide adequate supplies of drinking water.
The Economy
On the economic side, corporations have come through the global financial crisis they instigated with bigger profits than ever. But the Main Street economy of real goods and services, with jobs for ordinary people, remains stalled. Decades of tax cuts to the wealthy and the outsourcing of manufacturing have hollowed out the real economy. Our infrastructure is breaking down after years of maintenance deferred by governments starved of tax dollars.
Our military is overextended, too, in its mission to ensure U.S. access to oil and other resources. The costs to wounded and traumatized members of the military and those who care for them, to civilians caught in the battles, to taxpayers, and to future generations have yet to be calculated.
We now have diminished resources to respond to the intertwined economic and energy crises. And our democratic institutions are so compromised by big-money interests—and the media, think tanks, and politicians they control—that these foundational issues aren't even on the political agenda.
This set of crises may be severe enough to throw our way of life into chaos and decline. We don't know. In quiet conversations, many admit that they are learning to grow food and wondering how their children will survive life on a very different planet.
For some, of course, the chaos is already here. If you are a fisherman on the Louisiana Coast, a young job seeker in Detroit, a laid-off steelworker in the Ohio Valley, or a wounded Marine just back from Afghanistan, you may already be living in chaos. Some impoverished communities have been in crisis for decades.
The political Right frames the turmoil people are experiencing as a reason to hate immigrants, liberals, or people they say are "moving ahead of you to the front of the line."
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Building Community Resilience
But in communities everywhere, you'll find people who are working instead to bring people together. They are building their own resilience, and that of their families and communities, so they are better able to withstand the hardships that are already here and those that may be coming. These are not futile attempts to bring back a way of life that is on its way out. Nor is this the bunker mentality of survivalists who look to save themselves regardless of what happens to others. Instead, these are creative, common-sense, low-tech approaches to meeting people's needs now while planting the seeds of a more sustainable world for everyone.
Food is the most popular example. Across the country, a local food movement has taken off. More and more people are planting backyard gardens, building greenhouses, raising chickens and bees, and starting farmers markets—not just because fresh and local is delicious and cool. These efforts are, in some places, a response to the lack of fresh and healthy food in urban and rural "food deserts." Food self-reliance is one way people are seeking security and community in an uncertain world.
Those looking for a more direct response to the dual crises of climate change and peak oil are turning to the Transition Town movement. Started by Rob Hopkins, a permaculture activist in the United Kingdom, this movement has spread to hundreds of communities in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden, and more than 70 communities in the United States (where hundreds more are, in Transition parlance, "mulling" it over). People are joining who might not have signed up for an environmental or social justice project, but do want to build greater resilience to make it through tough times. Each Transition initiative is autonomous; each is engaged in studying what it means to move to a post-petroleum world; and most are creating spaces for skill-sharing, food production, and various experiments in resilience.
Other efforts do not explicitly link themselves to concerns about peak oil and climate change. But the goals of community resilience and a sustainable future are often in the background as people start up bicycle repair co-ops, neighborhood energy projects, building materials re-use centers, DIY skill-sharing gatherings, swap meets, and eco-villages. Like Transition initiatives, these projects meet immediate needs, raise spirits, and increase people's chances of thriving during hard times.
Does working locally mean giving up on national policy change?
Community resilience projects can actually help build the political will to move society in more sustainable directions. They remind us that we can make history—starting where we live—and not just be subjected to the decisions of those in power.
As we learn to work together, learn what works, and learn that we have power, we are better able to insist on larger-scale change.
And we need that political clout to divert highway dollars to bicycle paths and efficient mass transit, and to put a halt to sprawl and build smart, walkable communities instead. We may even be able to bring back the American can-do spirit that made that moon shot possible. The new Apollo Alliance aims at making the transition from oil-addicted to clean and sustainable through massive investment in clean energy, green jobs, and energy efficiency.
Three Places to Start
Where do you start to build resilience? The YES! team identified three concepts that we believe can guide a no-regrets approach:
1. Build skills. Many transition initiatives start with learning and teaching skills that are valuable to yourself and others, and that can be practiced without harm to people or nature. If you can repair something, make something, or grow something, offer first aid or do low-tech mechanics, raise farm animals or rig up a solar oven, you can meet some of your immediate needs and swap with neighbors.
Many people had these skills in our grandparents' generation. Consider drawing on elders to teach the practical skills they know, perhaps swapping for the skills young people know.
Also essential are the interpersonal skills that help people work together to get things done and to resolve conflicts.
2. Learn to live within local means. Work toward replacing products and services brought in from long distances with things you can do, make, harvest, or repurpose locally. Consider introducing small-scale animal husbandry, nut and fruit trees, and food processing facilities. Develop local, clean sources of energy. Help restore natural systems so they can be productive and resilient into the future. Use resources frugally and efficiently, and design things to last and to be reused or repurposed.
Include culture and entertainment, and provide opportunities for local artists and performers.
Set it up so people with little cash are included from the start. Develop means to barter, swap, and share. This will help restore your community's economy, keep the flow of wealth local, and include the unemployed and low-wage workers.
This is a good time to look around and notice who your neighbors are, and to begin building systems of mutual support. This collaboration doesn't need to be framed by dire warnings about the collapse of civilization. It can be as simple as sharing tools, planting a garden together, or holding a neighborhood potluck. If you start by reaching across class and race lines and across "culture war" divides, you will build a strong foundation for action. When things get difficult, the person who can offer the most may be the guy you argue with about politics but who knows how to fix things. Or it could be the young woman who knows how to bring people together in a song, or the grandmother who remembers how things used to be made by hand.
3. Imagine, adapt, celebrate. Building your personal resilience will increase the chances that you can help loved ones and the broader community during difficult times.
Get physically fit and healthy, and minimize dependence on high-tech medicine and pharmaceuticals.
Get out of debt.
Hone your ability to observe and think for yourself—turn off the pundits, talk to your neighbors, and make up your own mind.
Build a tolerance for uncertainty. A spiritual practice or a calming practice can help you remain centered in times of rapid change.
This may be a time of change, but it needn't be a time of despair. After all, the enormously expensive (and destructive) way of life we have been living did not bring much happiness or health. By putting life-giving values first, we could well find more rewarding ways of living.
You can begin building more joyous ways of life by making the resilience work itself come alive. Encourage imagination and creativity. Have parties. Create liberated spaces. Celebrate at the drop of a hat. Communities throughout the world share music, dance, and storytelling, in secular and sacred contexts. From Appalachian square dances to Mardi Gras parades, from Native American Sun Dance to holy communion, gatherings and celebrations are the glue that hold a community together.
No Regrets
We don't know what the future holds. Maybe in our lifetimes, nothing much will change. Although it's unlikely, maybe offshore drilling, tar-sands oil, energy efficiency, and coal mining will keep our fossil fuel-based economy chugging along, and climate change will be mild enough that we can adapt.
A Hand-Built Home, and 9 Other Resilient Ideas
The "no regrets" actions in this issue are worth taking in any case. They are already helping rebuild abandoned communities, like Detroit, as well as those newly devastated by foreclosures and joblessness. They minimize our reliance on natural resources found under other people's soils and in other people's rainforests, thus reducing the need to maintain the world's most costly military empire. They contribute to an economic renewal based on systems that provide things people actually need, instead of throwaways that we only want because of ads. And these initiatives will make us healthier, more connected to other people and to the Earth, and probably happier. There is nothing here you would regret doing. You can think of this as an insurance policy that pays you premiums.
If things do fall apart, taking these actions could mean that people in the future will find the seeds of a new future already planted, literally, in the form of diverse crop strains and livestock, bees, and fruit and nut trees. Local renewable energy sources may not be able to support an energy-extravagant lifestyle, but they may be enough to light the nights, warm us through winter, and keep people in communication with one another and with the vast knowledge commons humanity has built over generations.
We may not have high-tech derivatives trading and landings on the moon. But people may develop greater wisdom along with skills for meeting family and community needs, for getting along, and for exchanging fairly, so that everyone's gift is welcomed, and everyone has enough.
With that as a foundation, the decline of the industrial/oil era need not mean catastrophe. Instead it could mean we work together to build a wiser era, rooted in place and founded in community.


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Code reviews are hard. That's because it's really hard to take someone else picking at your code the first few times it happens. I've had a hard time accepting criticisms in code reviews, and I know how important it is to have them and to listen.
My advice is to think about how you would feel on the other side of the table and act accordingly. Be as nice as you can about it, or the guy will reject everything you say out of spite.
It's also a good idea for your company to invest some money into training resources for this guy. Maybe a good book about style and maintenance issues, like Code Complete. Maybe let him ride a more competent coder's coattails for a bit, doing maintenance on some solid code. I learned a lot that way.
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The 100-year-old Los Angeles man who backed into a crowd of school children and parents shouldn't have been behind the wheel — at least that was what we took away from his daughter's comments.
No doubt, it's a difficult conversation to have with elderly drivers, but there comes a time when they ought to give up their keys.
Preston Carter, who reportedly turns 101 within days, was leaving a grocery store parking lot Wednesday when his Cadillac jumped a curb and struck a crowd of parents and children who had just gotten out of elementary school. Eleven people were injured, including nine children, four of them seriously.
Carter was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. But his daughter, Rose Jenkins, is quoted by NBCNews.com as saying that for a year now, she had wanted her father to stop driving.
"I think this is a wakeup call for him and I don't think he will be driving any more," Jenkins said, according to the NBC story.
It's tragic that 11 people had to be injured before that wakeup call took place.


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Joeydeacon necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 33 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking to rebrand our company and as such are looking for new logo, letterhead & businesscard design
Design to be simple, modern, classic & proffesional
Benokes Civil Engineers Ltd
Desired Color Scheme
Open to suggestions
Desired Style
Modern & eyecatching, yet proffessional
Accepted File Formats We would require high quality for digital printing: Photoshop, AI all layers, GIF, JPG, BMP, PDF, Vector
We are a new company with big ideas. We are looking for a design that is both modern and proffessional looking.
Business cards are of huge importance to us as 1st impressions make a huge difference in this sector
Not sure if I want the Ltd on the logo - lets see what it looks like first
Background colour to be white
Details for the business card are
Name - Dean Bentley
Position - Director
Address - 11 Moat Close, Bramley, Rotherham, S66 3ZH
Telephone - 01709 540720
Mobile - 074971 081131
Fax - 05601 504216
E-mail - email@example.com
On the business card telephone should be refered to as T etc.
We are looking for a modern yet timeless design, being either the fully company name (Benokes Civil Engineers Limited) or initials (BCE).
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In Earth defence Force, you save the globe by blowing up huge bugs and big robots, which lay waste to Japanese urban environments. At the game's Tokyo Game Show booth, LEGO master builder Yoshikazu Saitou has recreated Earth defence Force in brick form.
Don't expect an EDF set to hit your local LEGO shop anytime soon, but hopefully Saitou's work provides enough of a blueprint to make your own.


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Wild Animals Personalised Clocks
This really fabulous bedroom or nursery clock has a white centre surrounded by wild animals on a white background. It is educational too as the colourful boarder has the names of the wild animals written on it so that your child can learn to identify them.
Can be personalised with up to 11 letters in the name
11" (28cm) in diameter
The design is printed and the print then laminated onto a wooden base to make a clock, after which they are personalised by me, by hand.
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The force is strong with this one. You've played along with 60 songs. Your fingers must be bleeding by now. The gods of rock envy you.
You just chordified 15 songs. Indiana Tones, that's what you are. A true trailblazer of tracks.
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Wow, you played your very first song! May this be the first step of many on a journey into music and chords. This one's for you.


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In preparation for the data collection and analysis in LHC Run 2, the LHCC and Computing Scrutiny Group of the RRB requested a detailed review of the current computing models of the LHC experiments and a consolidated plan for the future computing needs. This document represents the status of the work of the WLCG collaboration and the four LHC experiments in updating the computing models to reflect the advances in understanding of the most effective ways to use the distributed computing and storage resources, based upon the experience gained during LHC Run 1.
The paper tries to give an overview of technology and market trends in computing. The final goal of this exercise is to provide essential input for the budget and resource planning of the CERN computer centre. These CERN technology and market investigations are done in a general way, but need to take into account the boundary conditions coming from the High Energy Physics community and the CERN infrastructure.
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Lotus plays down Grosjean exit rumours
Lotus insists Romain Grosjean's future with the team is safe despite the departure of team boss Eric Boullier.
Grosjean enjoyed a close relationship with fellow countryman Boullier and there were claims in French media his time at Lotus could now be in doubt. But the team has been quick to play down these rumours, hinting a long-term deal could soon be on the cards.
The chief of Lotus team owner Genii Capital, Gerard Lopez, insists it is the management stable Gravity and not any individual in the team who brought Grosjean to Lotus, meaning there is no concern or doubt over the Frenchman's future.
"It is us who brought Romain from GP2, and his career was launched by Jean-Paul Driot, who is a friend and a partner," Lopez told French radio station RMC.
"Then the choice of the lineup for F1 was done with Eric Boullier, but it's still us who decided. And Gravity is 100% ours.
"For me, Romain is one of the best drivers in F1 today, and I think we will soon be able to announce something for the very long term."


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Workshop for Renters in Foreclosure
Are you a renter in foreclosure? ¿Renta Usted una casa que va a ser embargada? ¡El Centro de Justicia Pública le invita a un taller gratis!
Did you know that when a residential property is sold at foreclosure, most renters have the right to continue renting until the end of the lease or at least 90 days?
Free Workshop on December 14, 2011, at 6:00 pm
The Public Justice Center
1 N. Charles St., Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21201
Baltimore, MD 21201
At the workshop, attorneys and paralegals will provide general information and individualized advice on how to:
- Contact the bank or the court to assert your rights
- Negotiate a "cash-for-keys" deal with the bank
- File a Motion in court to protect your rights
- Obtain the return of your security deposit, and more!


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As America slowly pulls itself out of a recession, high unemployment levels remain in many areas. But there is at least one industry in the U.S., one I am most familiar with, that is growing and has a shortage of workers: trucking.
Many industry analysts project the current shortage of truck drivers at 130,000 nationally, and growing. The truck driver shortage will continue to grow due to a number of reasons, primarily a large number of upcoming retirements and the fact that more drivers will be needed to haul more goods as the economy rebounds. More than 70 percent of freight in the U.S. is delivered to retailers and manufacturers by truck. Just about everything you buy, consume, use or wear is delivered by a truck driver.
Building a strong pipeline of skilled workers must be a priority for businesses; our future growth and success depends on it. That is why Schneider National recently joined forces with Olive-Harvey College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, to take a major step toward reversing this trend and replenishing the ranks of commercial drivers and transportation professionals in Illinois.
Truck driving jobs today are not what they once were, when drivers were gone for weeks at a time driving uncomfortable trucks. In fact, 75 percent of Schneider National's drivers get home at least weekly. Schneider's drivers also operate state-of-the-art trucks with in-cab technology that provides Internet access and detailed directions to pick-up/delivery locations at the touch of a finger.
In six to eight weeks, students at the City Colleges of Chicago can go from unemployed or underemployed to great new careers that offer complete benefits, retirement plans and steady paychecks -- earning $50,000 or more per year in a short time. For a relatively small investment of time and tuition, students can earn credentials for a job that is in high demand, can never be outsourced and has room for advancement. (See the video below profiling Kenneth Washington, a recent Olive-Harvey graduate and a new Schneider driver.) Many drivers move on and become small business owners by purchasing their own truck and leasing with a trucking company such as Schneider as an owner-operator. A new job that is in high demand with a great chance for immediate placement after graduating, benefits, great pay and the opportunity for advancement to a small business owner... now that's the American Dream.
Our partnership with community colleges is growing and we are excited to be part of something new. Schneider National, along with other transportation leaders, is currently working with City Colleges of Chicago to create a new standard in quality transportation training and education. The new Transportation, Distribution & Logistics Center at the City Colleges of Chicago will be a prototype for training in our industry. Preparing students for careers in ground, air and rail transport, multi-modal distribution and logistics, it will be the first comprehensive education center for the transportation industry in Illinois.
Industry experts working in the field, including Schneider National, will visit the new center to help teach and train students. Industry partners are also well positioned to offer tools and equipment that might be a challenge to come by otherwise. For example, Schneider has donated a truck for student practice. These investments will ensure lesson plans stay current and match the needs and conditions of the industry. Students will learn skills that can be used in multiple career pathways.
As an industry, we cannot sit back and wait for these opportunities to be handed to us. We must get out there and work with community colleges to ensure we have the workforce we need to thrive and grow. We must also have the facilities and programs needed to offer continuing education to our workers so they can move up the career ladder.
There are hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs available in trucking today. We need these private/public partnerships to help put Americans back to work so they can provide for themselves and their families.
To learn more about Schneider National's job opportunities, visit www.schneiderjobs.com or call 1-800-44-PRIDE.


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The Southeastern football team has added 35 soon-to-be freshmen to the roster for the 2011 season as announced on Tuesday.
National Letters of Intent began arriving on Feb. 5, but with icy conditions closing not only the SE campus, but a large number of high schools in the region, the in-flow of paperwork was slow.
The class is fairly well divided on both sides of the ball with 19 defensive players joining the fold, while 15 offensive players and one special team addition.
Nine of those new additions will help bolster the Savage storm secondary, while five offensive newcomers will add depth to the offensive line.
SE is coming off a 3-8 season that saw the Storm catch some bad breaks, losing four of its eight games by a touchdown or less.
Below is Southeastern's 2011 recruiting class as of Feb. 8:
Name Pos Ht. Wt. Hometown/previous school
Jeremy Akomeah LB 5-11 210 Mansfield, Texas/Mansfield HS
Brandon Allen S 6-1 180 Mansfield, Texas/Summit HS
Jacob Beachum DT 6-0 240 Mexia, Texas/Mexia HS
Victor Berry ROV 5-11 185 Rowlett, Texas/Rowlett HS
Logan Bradshaw DE 6-2 235 Round Rock, Texas/Round Rock HS
Cam Brown CB 5-11 165 Dallas, Texas/South Oak Cliff HS
Da'Yon Denmon LB 6-0 235 Del Valle, Texas/Del Valle HS
Chris Fisher OL 6-1 255 Broken Bow, Okla./Broken Bow HS
Gasteneau Fisher OL 6-2 260 Cedar Hill, Texas/Cedar Hill HS
Ronnie Green RB 5-10 175 Cedar Hill, Texas/Cedar Hill HS
Derius Griffin OL 6-2 255 McKinney, Texas/North HS
Storm Griffin S 6-1 175 Argyle, Texas/Argyle HS
Billy Hashaway RB 5-10 190 Pittsburg, Texas/Pittsburg HS
Jared Heim P 5-9 170 Tomball, Texas/Tomball HS
Dorian Hooks DE 6-1 245 Texarkana, Texas/Texas HS
Tanner Jackson WR 5-11 185 Elgin, Okla./Elgin HS
Darnell Jones OL 6-3 245 Duncanville, Texas/Duncanville HS
CJ Kirk RB 5-10 185 Ft. Worth, Texas/Keller Central HS
Jordan Mayfield WR 5-10 180 Dallas, Texas/South Oak Cliff HS
Drew McKinney WR 6-1 185 Dallas, Texas/Wilson HS
Martice McNeil WR 5-10 170 Arlington, Texas/Seguin HS
Terrance Nelson ROV 6-1 185 Texarkana, Texas/Texas HS
DJ Perkins CB 6-0 180 Dallas, Texas/South Oak Cliff HS
Cory Perrymon ROV 6-1 180 Little Rock, Ark./Rowlett HS
Darius Pope OL 6-1 295 Dallas, Texas/Skyline HS
Zach Ray QB 6-4 210 Blanchard, Okla./Blanchard HS
Keiondrick Scott S 6-1 185 Terrell, Texas/Terrell HS
Nick Sioson QB 6-1 200 Georgetown, Texas/Georgetown HS
Keaton Smith DE 6-1 220 Lone Oak, Texas/Lone Oak HS
Zach Smith LB 6-0 215 Carrollton, Texas/Newman Smith HS
Barry Ward CB 5-11 175 Arlington, Texas/Lamar HS
Colton Ward OL 6-2 260 Broken Bow, Okla./Broken Bow HS
Clay Waters DE 6-5 220 Collinsville, Texas/Collinsville HS
Tanner White DT 6-3 265 Weatherford, Texas/Weatherford HS
Matt Wisdom ROV 5-11 190 Afton, Okla./Afton HS


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Tails of a Healer
Animals, Reiki and Shamanism
Eleven years in the making, Tails of a Healer: Animals, Reiki and Shamanism features 45 true and heartwarming stories about animals and their role in the life and evolution of animal communicator, Reiki and shamanic energy healer Rose De Dan.
This inspiring collection of tales, featuring dozens of black and white photographs by the author, is brought together here in one place for the first time.
"What I do for a profession may seem exotic, but the emotions and perceptions portrayed in these stories are universal. I share my experiences because I think people are hungry for validation of what they already know at a deep level, namely, that there is more to this world than meets the eye. It is my hope that this book will help people regain the sense of wonder and awareness they enjoyed as children—and the belief that they, too, can connect with animals and the world in magical ways."—Rose De Dan
Available at: Amazon.com, Kindle Books, and Barnes & Noble.com.
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"A Collection of Love Stories"
Overall, readers will feel the deep connection Rose has for all the animals she encounters. Tails of a Healer is really a collection of love stories."
—Phylameana lila Desy, Guide to Holistic Healing at About.com
"A Gem!"
Tails of a Healer: Animals, Reiki and Shamanism is jam-packed with animal stories that delight the senses, tickle the imagination, and transcend the mundane into the realm of mystery. Author Rose De Dan is not only a gifted healer, shamanic practitioner, and Reiki Master; she is also a master storyteller. The true-life tales in her book will make you laugh and sometimes cry. They'll make you think and they'll fill you with wonder. Most of all, De Dan's stories will teach you about the fine art of bridging worlds—between animals and humans, between heart and mind, between body and soul, and between consensus reality and the deeper levels of reality that nurture and sustain us all. Tails of Healer is a gem!
—Cat Saunders, Ph.D., Author of Dr. Cat's Helping Handbook: A Compassionate Guide for Being Human
"Wonderful Healing Journey!"
Tails of a Healer: Animals, Reiki and Shamanism beautifully chronicles Rose's wonderful healing journey with the animals! She has a wonderful way of weaving her personal healing journey into the journeys of the animals that cross her path. Stories of Reiki for animals intertwine with stories of Shamanic ceremonies and traditions.
—Kathleen Prasad, Co-Author of Animal Reiki: Using Energy to Heal the Animals in Your Life
"Healing and Enlightening!"
Tails of a Healer takes you deeply into the world of telepathic animal communication and shamanism. It is a rich mix of intimate animal stories that are both healing and enlightening. Rose De Dan has packed this book with wisdom and heart. Prepare to be opened.
—Mary J. Getten, Author of Communicating With Orcas: The Whales' Perspective, winner of 2007 Nautilus Book Awards Animals/Nature
"Touchingly Told!"
"During my first attunement, I felt the energy coursing through my hands so strongly that I was completely cured of any skepticism I might have harbored…"
Working as a freelance graphic designer has not kept Rose De Dan from traveling many unique paths on her journey through the modalities of chiropractic, acupuncture, Reiki, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, and eventually to her practice at Wild Reiki and Shamanic Healing. Tails of a Healer: Animals, Reiki and Shamanism explains not only De Dan's path to fulfillment, but relates stories of those who have come in need of her powerful hands and loving heart. Each 'tail' is touchingly told with enough insight and soul to transcend the boundaries between man and animal.
The cast of characters begins at home with four disarming cats, a large Irish Wolfhound mix, and a hooded rat, who share quarters with Rose. However, the book itself shows concern for all animals and is broad-sweeping in its scope. Some of the chapters discuss the plight of "factory farm" animals, the best commercially produced food available, handling feral cats, and helping a beloved, dying animal make a peaceful transition. Often the book reads like a gripping dialogue between man, animal, and the universe, reminding us that there is more than routine and mechanics that makes us truly function in the world and that there is indeed a connectivity between all things.
At the core of this book is De Dan's special skill for communicating with the other living creatures on the planet. She is a Reiki Master and a mesa carrier trained in the Peruvian shamanic tradition, equipped for treating ailing and distressed animals ranging from family pets to the zoo. Incident by incident, De Dan reveals how they establish effective and enriching levels of communication, if only we would listen.
De Dan explains that her "profession may seem exotic, but the emotions and perceptions portrayed in these stories are universal. I share my experiences because I think people are hungry for validation of what they already know at a deep level…"
Her approach is one of service to the animal community—a liaison for those of us who cannot speak the language. As a shamanic initiate, she attended a workshop led by Don Manuel Quispe, a renowned shamanic teacher from Peru. She found his words especially meaningful, bringing great shifts in perception: "Personal power has to be of service to your people and yourself. Share, otherwise it will isolate you."
Tails of a Healer is a memoir of sharing and healing.
—The U.S. Review of Books
Readers Comments
"Uplifting and refreshing"
I was delighted to find that Tails of a Healer is even more than I was expecting based on the outside cover, which in itself made obvious that the book was something I'd not only enjoy but also learn from. It works on several levels: Most obviously, it's a fascinating linear biographical account of a most interesting woman who's had some even more interesting (to say the least!) experiences, most with animals as the "cat'alyst."
That said, each short chapter stands alone brilliantly, and you can flip through the book at random to find inspirational material for your meditation practice (for that matter, you'll be inspired even if you don't meditate). Through Rose's eyes, I feel like I have a better sense than ever about the inner lives of our critter friends. Finally, time and time again, it's an uplifting and refreshing look at the timeless cycles of birth and death.
The writing is self-aware but not self-absorbed, wry and engaging while unflinchingly direct, and always grounded in wisdom and compassion. Whether or not you've had experiences parallel to De Dan's (and few people have), you'll find the lessons she's learned from hers useful as you continue on your own journey through this wild ride called life.
Tails of a Healer: Animals, Reiki and Shamanism has been the most amazing read – the passionate stories about animals brought tears to my eyes. I recently doubted whether I could be an Animal Energy Healer, and reading this book gave me clarity and confidence in myself. It inspired me to read that the author had experienced troubles of letting go or had self doubt. I have read a lot of books where the practitioner does not show such honesty or talk about these situations they may have gone through. Tails of a Healer keeps it real and helped me realise that it is only natural to feel these things at times.
"Too good to put down!"
I just finished your book, and had to tell you what a beautiful and wonderful read it was, and how glad I am that I stumbled across it. Although my day job is in the corporate world, my passion is animal rescue work, specifically working with the feral cats in Tucson. Your stories really rang true for some of our experiences. I shared your book with my best friend and cat rescue partner and she was up all night reading last night, said she couldn't put it down either. Thank you!
"Warmth and compassion for animals"
All of my family have said that I have a bond with both wild and domestic animals. My niece has turned my love for animals towards obtaining second degree Reiki. She sent me your book and I am devouring it. You practice such warmth, understanding and compassion towards animals that I have cried at the energy that you use so lovingly. I must tell you that your energy comes through the book. My 18 year old cat, Mort, has taken to resting on it. Thank you for your energy for the animals. They are such blessings in our lives.
Rose brings us on along on her journey of growing as a healer. This glimpse into reconnection with animals and the world around us brings tears of laughter, sadness and understanding. She reminds us to go back to childhood basics where anything is possible and we can appreciate all of the life that continues around us, no matter how busy we may be.
This book is not just for those interested in reiki or healing, or even just animal lovers, although if you fall into one of those categories then it is a must read. I congratulate Rose on this, her first, and guaranteed successful book! Her stories and photos are awesome!
"Tails of a Healer is a book that you can keep coming back to."
This book has a special energy!
I am reading (and very much enjoying) Tails of a Healer for the second time around. It has been a few years since I first turned the pages of this magical little book and I am pleased to say that this time around is just as good—or even better!
It is amazing to feel the amount of heart and soul that Rose puts in to her narratives. She easily manages to make me laugh out loud at something witty or humorous regarding her experiences with all creatures great and small, or has me bowing my head with tears running down my face from one of her stories that tugs at the heart strings.
Tails of a Healer is a book that you can keep coming back to and keep learning from over and over.
"A must-read"
Rose De Dan has created a masterpiece of observation and insight into the mysterious world of shamanism. In prose so lyrical that it could be considered poetry, the reader lives each moment as if it were her own. Tails of a Healer: Animals, Reiki and Shamanism is a must-read for the trained shaman and well as for the reader who simply wants to be entertained."
"Writing with warmth & integrity"
I started reading Tails of a Healer while on breaks from the Reiki I class I took with Rose De Dan this past May. I had the chance to read an article or two and decided that I needed to finish the entire book, prompting me to order it from Amazon for my Kindle. Rose writes how she teaches; honestly, warmly, respectfully and with integrity. Many of the insights and stories Rose chooses to share in this book will seem familiar, mostly because all of us, whether we're into Reiki or not, have experienced joy, love and ultimately, loss. However, as a complement to beginning the journey as a Reiki practitioner, it is without compare.
"A small treasure"
Tails of a Healer is a wonderful collection of anecdotes from the heart. Rose De Dan's vivid descriptions and easy way with words make you think you could sit down for lunch with her. There are many lessons in this book, and some of the chapters I'll read over and over and keep learning something new. We don't just meet dogs and cats, there is an orangutan, and even a dragonfly introduced. She explains things well, so if you know little or nothing about shamanism you will still enjoy the read, but you'll probably end up wanting to learn more. This book is a small treasure.
Every so often, a book comes our way that we want desperately to share with everyone, to make sure that everyone reads it. This is just such a book. These tales are evocative, joyful, sad, a full range of the emotions we – and our animal friends – experience. A must-read for all shamans, healers, and animal lovers! De Dan, with her beautiful prose, takes into the heart of what she does as a healer, and shows us how we too may be healers.
My own quick story to share – my puppy will chew pretty much anything in sight. I had left the book on the end table near the couch, and rather than chew it all up, the puppy gently took it in his mouth, and once he'd brought it down to the floor, proceeded to lick it. It's as though he knew that inside were wonderful tales of creatures just like him, creatures who needed love and healing. If you don't buy another book, be sure to check this one out. You won't regret it!
"This book inspired me"
I just wanted to say "Thank you." I have just read your book, Tails of a Healer. I have learnt a lot from this book and it has inspired me. My mum bought this book for me as I had just started an Animal Healing course, I am really enjoying it and I will only hope that I have some of the great experiences that you had!"
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"The Wheel"
As the wheel of the year cycles and the season turns from summer into fall and from fall into winter, the sky turns darker and the pattering sound of leaves falling heralds the death of one season and the advent of another. It is a time of transition and I find myself experiencing and assisting, in a shamanic capacity, with the difficulty that we all face in letting go.
Death, as many of us are aware, comes not as the end but as a beginning to another part of the cycle. Yet no matter how much we hold this thought consciously, when we experience the loss of one we love, no conscious knowing can assuage those feelings of sorrow.
Our society recognizes loss and has ritual processes that we call funerals for humans. But sometimes these are not enough. What happens when your loved one is not a human relative or companion, but an animal? It is apparent in the greater numbers of people turning to ceremony and ritual, that something important is missing from our modern, supposedly civilized lives.
Today, I conducted a ceremony for a friend, to honor her loved equine companion of 22 years. A few weeks ago, I conducted a similar ceremony for a client's beloved cat companion.
Both ceremonies were beautiful representations of the strong bond and connection that can exist between different species. I felt honored to have been chosen to conduct these loving releases and learned much in doing so. Animals often share our lives selflessly, and the one refrain I hear over-and-over again from them is that they have no fear of death—they worry more about how much we worry about them.
My connection to She Walks gives me some insight into the spirit world. During the course of these ceremonies I have felt nothing but positive energy surrounding these transitions, and the same goes for all the actual deathbeds at which I have been privileged to assist. I have seen rainbows in the smoke of the fire ceremonies, been brushed by love and memories as the smoke curled around me, and been embraced by the spirit of one who has passed over.
Animals are so accepting of the cycle that we fear so much. At one death despacho (a ceremony for honoring the dead) I was assembling the despacho in ritual when a small bee flew into my hair. I assumed he would extricate himself and fly off, instead he died and fell into the despacho (strong shamanic drum roll, please). Needless to say my client wished to know the significance of this. So I asked the spirit of the bee, and his reply was, "Summer has ended, the cycle is turning, it is a good day to die." These were words both my client and I needed to hear, and I try never to consider the source too small to teach me something important.
On a day-to-day basis I watch people struggle (as I myself struggle) with letting go, and with emptying out as they strive to be better vessels for the energy we call Spirit. While this transition may take a different form than the loss of a loved one, it still involves the emotions of fear and grief that we experience in the face of any change. Whether it is our death, the death of a loved one, or a stage in our evolution on this plane, transition means we leave some aspects of ourselves behind, but expand to encompass others. Shapeshifting in a very real sense.
So this year I shall embrace the change of the cycle as we proceed into the winter season, welcome it with ritual and ceremony, and acknowledge my place and connection to the wheel of life.
Originally published in The Kaleidoscope Journal, December 1998
©Rose De Dan, All Rights Reserved
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
The Rabbit Hole 3
The Wheel 6
Two Dogs 9
Winged Trust 12
Motherhood from the Heart 15
Transitions 19
As the Stomach Churns 22
Beacons of Light 27
Cookie Cutter Practitioners? 30
Chronicles from the Canyonlands 34
Bat the Cat 36
Light and Shadow 38
Building an Interspecies Bridge 42
Little Miss Hiss 46
Just Let It Happen 50
Shaken Not Stirred 53
Back and Forth 56
The Three Worlds 59
The House That Love Built 65
Guns and Mesas 71
At the Edge of Two Worlds 76
A Shaman's Legacy 80
Freedom from Fear 86
The Wisdom of the Animals 89
Hotter Than Sex 93
Unheard Voices 97
The Dance of LIfe 99
Love Neverending 102
The Food of Love 107
Shells on the Shore 112
To Serve and To Heal 117
Grassroots Flashpoint 126
Through Their Eyes 130
Tibetan Buddhist Blessings 134
Animal Think 139
Close Encounters 143
When You Care Enough 146
Comfort and Joy 153
The Animals Are Waiting 157
Wake Up, the Looters Are Here! 164
Gracie the Cat and Fireworks 168
Gracie the Cat Star 170
Gracie by Morning Light 172
It Takes A Cat to Create A Village 174
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A guiding light that radiates out of you onto the
pages you write. The earths voice.
Truly feeling the need to get your book, Tail of a Healer.
Why I had not known of you yet, shame that is.
Going to follow you!
I had a big change 2012, found that I had a
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I would love to share my drawings with you!
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A truly authentic look at connections made between animals and Rose. Every story drew me in further and resonated inside me…..here is your path. By the end of the book I had decided I too must become a healing practitioner…the world needs many more like Rose! I am blessed to have found her.


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Greg Gartner charts course for Gartner Studios.
Stillwater, MN, January 16, 2014 --(
)-- It began in 1998 with Gartner Studios founder Greg Gartner's vision to capitalize on the growing trend of desktop publishing by producing a line of creative, quality paper products people could buy in stores and take home to personalize. Working from his spare bedroom with an initial line of self-print Christmas cards, one employee and zero venture capital, Greg Gartner rapidly grew the company, driven by, as he says, "a spirit of innovation -- looking at established product categories not through the rear view mirror but through the windshield."
Today, Gartner Studios is a leader in the print and social stationery, greeting card, wedding, licensed digital design, party goods, and specialty food industries, offering more than 18,000 products through more than 15,000 mass market, boutique, and specialty retail stores in North America.
From his headquarters in a renovated historic post office building in Stillwater, Minnesota, Greg Gartner continues to drive company's worldwide growth through in-house design and product development, a global sales force, and manufacturing conducted through vendor partnerships in the U.S. and overseas.
As Greg states, "Opportunities come where you make them. Our growth has come through our philosophy of developing and dominating a market niche. This involves having the best product development people in the world, and staying on top of trends. Our chain of distribution is also vital, so we excel in taking care of our retail customers -- shipping on-time and creating products that sell."
Acquisition growth has also taken the company in new directions, including boutique stationery and giftware design powerhouse MARA-MI, and trend-forward office products retailer russell+hazel.
Since 2007, the company has dominated the wedding products marketplace with their BRIDES® Wedding Collection, created in partnership with Conde Nast BRIDES Magazine and sold at Michaels stores nationwide. Additional high-profile partnerships include entrepreneurial retail giants like Martha Stewart. The company also worked with Food Network "Ace of Cakes" star and celebrity baker Duff Goldman to create the Duff Goldman by Gartner Studios line of cake baking and decorating products.
In 2013, Greg is taking the company's assets further into the digital realm, including the Gartner Digital Design Licensing Program -- offering Gartner's broad library of digital designs to major retailers and photo platform providers, to be used in photo cards, greeting cards, invitations, announcements, photo collages, borders, banners, posters, photo book designs and themed slideshow movies. Art content is available for all consumer platforms, including online, social, kiosk, and mobile.
Also launched is the company's best-in-class, template driven Personalization Tool, that can be linked to or integrated with retail partner websites to let customers create personalized cards and products using Gartner's innovative designs. Consumers can choose from a selection of fonts, design colors, paper types and card shapes, with real-time editing and preview, to create a truly personal expression -- delivered directly to their doorstep.
As a testament to Greg's vision and leadership, Gartner Studios was selected by Inc. Magazine as one of the Top 500 fastest growing private companies in America. Greg Gartner was also selected as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award winner for the Upper Midwest, and Twin Cities Business Entrepreneur of the Year in the Retail category.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday he will use the power of the pen and persuasion to help all Americans take advantage of the nation's economic growth.
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama joined higher education leaders to announce more than 100 new commitments to expand college opportunities.
More than 100 colleges and universities, and 40 businesses and organizations, announced new commitments to serve hundreds of thousands of low-income students across the country seeking a post-secondary education, the White House said in a release.
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He pledged to work with Congress to accomplish the goal, but would act on his own if Congress were deadlocked.
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Speaking specifically to young people, Michelle Obama said she encourages them "to take charge of their futures and complete an education beyond high school."
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Michelle Obama said students who overcome circumstances such as absentee parents, or crime- or drug-infested neighborhoods, "have developed skills like grit and resilience that many of their peers will never be able to compete with -- never. And when they get out into the world, those are the exact skills they will need to succeed. And they will succeed."
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Last night on Dancing with the Stars, the remaining contestants celebrated the best year of their life. Now, hosts Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke-Charvet prepare to make this year suck just a little bit for one contestant. As always, we'll learn who is safe, who is in jeopardy, and who will dance no more.
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The first four couples to learn their fate are Aly Raisman and Mark Ballas, Zendaya Coleman and Val Chmerkovskiy, Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough, and Ingo Rademacher and Kym Johnson.
No surprises for these fan favorites – all four couples are safe!
This week on Dancing with the Stars, the 10 remaining contestants dedicate their song selection and dance to the best year of their life. Cue the water works, cute kids, and temporary fiance, please! Also, the contestants perform a 15-second solo during their routine.
As always, at the top of the show, the stars and pros descend the Dancing with the Stars staircase, which gives us our first glimpse at costumes, dance order, and Mark's weekly make out session with the camera. Oh no! Pro dancer Gleb Savchenko comes down the stars alone. Where is our beloved Lisa Vanderpump?
Lisa was diagnosed with a "viral infection with fever and swollen glands" after fainting last week. "She sat out rehearsal. She's getting some rest right now," host Tom Bergeron explains. "We'll leave it up to her whether she's going to dance tonight."
Dancing with the Stars hosts Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke-Charvet are ready to reveal the first "official" elimination for season 16. As always, we'll learn who is safe, who is in jeopardy, and who will dance no more.
First, Jacoby Jones and Zendaya Coleman are named king and queen of the Dancing with the Stars prom. With over two million Twitter followers, Zendaya's queen status was a given, but I thought for sure #bachelornation would rally behind Sean Lowe. Lo and behold, it appears as if there's a new shirtless bachelor in town! Woot!
By the way, Zendaya and Val Chmerkovskiy and Jacoby and Karina Smirnoff are also SAFE!
It's Prom Night on Dancing with the Stars, which means big hair, cheesy back stories, and Sean Lowe dressed as Huckleberry Finn. Oh boy. This is going to be a very long two hours. Host Tom Bergeron says, "This is no April Fool's joke – it's really prom night," and waste of space Brooke Burke-Charvet adds, "And yes, I really wore my hair like this."
Nobody cares, Brooke.
To go along with the theme, a prom king and prom queen will be crowned on tonight's results show. The winning male star and female star, which will be decided by Twitter, will each receive two bonus points to add to their original scores. I fully expect Zendaya and Sean to take those honors. We shall see.
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Viennese Waltz: The combination of counting music and pretending to be hot for Mark Ballas proves to be too much for Aly to handle this week. She thinks all of the pressure is going to make her head explode.
Well, at least she'd be somewhat interesting, then. While Aly and Mark's dance seems to be technically okay, Aly's movements always come across as cold and forced to me.
Here we go! Dancing with the Stars hosts Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke-Charvet are ready to reveal the first elimination for season 16. As always, we'll learn who is safe, who is in jeopardy, and who will dance no more.
The first four couples to learn their fate are Ingo Rademacher and Kym Johnson, Sean Lowe and Peta Murgatroyd, Wynonna Judd and Tony Dovolani, and Victor Ortiz and Lindsay Arnold.
Victor and Lindsay are the couple in jeopardy. The audience boos loudly, prompting Tom to say, "And our audience is already an ugly mob."
The second week of Dancing with the Stars is always very telling.
The stars and pros have several weeks to get that first dance together. Then, the stars have only five days to learn dance number two, and it usually shows. For some, however, just getting that first dance out of the way is all it takes to ditch the nerves and get their dance on. This week's scores and votes will be combined with the votes and scores from last week's season 16 premiere, and then we'll say goodbye to one star on tonight's results show.
Jive: Sean and Peta's lifeguard and beach babe inspired jive is corny and under whelming. I find that I'm way more fascinated by Peta's high-rise bathing suit than I am by Sean's
anything footwork. A color-coordinated Catherine is in the audience again. Sean's Bachelor fan base will keep him going for a few weeks, but he has absolutely no shot at taking home the trophy.
Sequins! Spray Tans! (Semi) Stars! Season 16 of Dancing with the Stars!
Hosts Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke-Charvet introduce us to this season's stars. We have two country singers, a boxer, a soap star, a Lisa Vanderpump, two comedians, a Disney kid, a Bachelor, a gymnast, a figure skater, and a football player.
Rehearsal: Kellie, the roller-skating waitress turned American Idol hopeful turned award-winning country music singer/songwriter, is cute, funny, and spunky. And a natural dancer. Kellie says that she kids around a lot but definitely wants to take Derek's balls, err, the mirror ball home with her. Though, since Derek is the Dancing with the Stars golden boy, there isn't much difference.
Cha Cha Cha: The hips, the tassels, the legs, OMG. Kellie has an amazing body and knows how to move it.
It's that time again – you know what time! Time for the official Dancing With The Stars cast photos. This one is especially exciting as it features my lady love Lisa Vanderpump looking sassy and sumptuous.
Below are the official Cast & Partner Photos. Be warned, sexiness galore. Ok, well maybe…
Sean Lowe is still rumored to be joining the cast and partnering with Peta Murgatroyd, but no photos have been released yet!


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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A Tour of the Underwater World (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870.
Frontispiece of 1871 edition
|Jules Verne
|Original title
|Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
|Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou
|Voyages Extraordinaires
|Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date
Published in English
|Preceded by
|In Search of the Castaways
|Followed by
|Around the Moon
The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's periodical, the Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation. The deluxe illustrated edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou.[1] The book was highly acclaimed when it was released and remains so; it is regarded as one of the premiere adventure novels and one of Verne's greatest works, along with Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth. The description of Nemo's ship, the Nautilus, was considered ahead of its time, as it accurately describes many features of modern submarines, which at the time were very primitive vessels.
A model of the French submarine Plongeur (launched in 1863) was displayed at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, where it was studied by Jules Verne,[2] who used it as an inspiration[3][4] for the novel.[5]
The title refers to the distance traveled while under the sea and not to a depth, as 20,000 leagues (80,000 km) is nearly twice the circumference of the Earth.[6] The greatest depth mentioned in the book is four leagues. This is more easily understood by the actual title of the book, which, by literal translation, should say "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas" (not "Sea"). The book uses metric leagues, which are four kilometres each.[7]
During the year 1866, ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster, which some suggest to be a giant narwhal. The United States government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist and narrator of the story, who happens to be in New York at the time, receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition, which he accepts. Canadian whaler and master harpoonist Ned Land and Aronnax's faithful servant Conseil are also brought aboard.
The expedition departs 34th Street Pier in Manhattan aboard the United States Navy frigate Abraham Lincoln and travels south around Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean. After a long search, the ship finds the monster and then attacks the beast, which damages the ship's rudder. The three protagonists are then hurled into the water and grasp hold of the "hide" of the creature, which they find, to their surprise, to be a submarine very far ahead of its era. They are forced to wait on the back of the submarine boat until morning when they are captured and brought inside the vessel, where they meet its enigmatic creator and commander, Captain Nemo.
The rest of the story follows the adventures of the protagonists aboard the creature—the submarine, the Nautilus—which was built in secrecy and now roams the seas free from any land-based government. Captain Nemo's motivation is implied to be both a scientific thirst for knowledge and a desire for revenge upon (and self-imposed exile from) civilization. Nemo explains that his submarine is electrically powered and can perform advanced marine biology research; he also tells his new passengers that although he appreciates conversing with such an expert as Aronnax, maintaining the secrecy of his existence requires never letting them leave. Aronnax and Conseil are enthralled by the undersea adventures, but Ned Land can only think of escape.
They visit many places under the ocean, some real-world and others fictional. The travelers witness the real corals of the Red Sea, the wrecks of the battle of Vigo Bay, the Antarctic ice shelves, the Transatlantic telegraph cable and the legendary submerged land of Atlantis. The travelers also use diving suits to hunt sharks and other marine life with air-guns and have an underwater funeral for a crew member who died when an accident occurred under mysterious conditions inside the Nautilus. When the Nautilus returns to the Atlantic Ocean, a pack of "poulpes" (usually translated as a giant squid, although in French "poulpe" means "octopus") attacks the vessel and kills a crew member.
Throughout the story Captain Nemo is suggested to have exiled himself from the world after an encounter with the forces that occupied his country that had devastating effects on his family. Not long after the incident of the poulpes, Nemo suddenly changes his behavior toward Aronnax, avoiding him. Aronnax no longer feels the same and begins to sympathize with Ned Land. Near the end of the book, the Nautilus is attacked by a warship of some nation that had made Nemo suffer. Filled with hatred and revenge, Nemo ignores Aronnax's pleas for mercy. Nemo—nicknamed "angel of hatred" by Aronnax—destroys the ship, ramming it just below the waterline, and consequently sinking it into the bottom of the sea, much to Aronnax's horror, as he watches the ship plunge into the abyss. Nemo kneels before the pictures of his wife and children and is plunged into deep depression after this encounter. For several days after this, the protagonists' situation changes. No one seems to be on board any longer and the Nautilus moves about randomly. Ned Land is even more depressed, Conseil fears for Ned's life, and Aronnax, horrified at what Nemo had done to the ship, can no longer stand the situation either. One evening, Ned Land announces an opportunity to escape. Although Aronnax wants to leave Nemo, whom he now holds in horror, he still wishes to see him for the last time. But he knows that Nemo would never let him escape, so he has to avoid meeting him. Before the escape, however, he sees him one last time (although secretly), and hears him say "Almighty God! Enough! Enough!". Aronnax immediately goes to his companions and they are ready to escape. But while they loosen the dinghy, they discover that the Nautilus has wandered into the Moskenstraumen, more commonly known as the "Maelstrom". They manage to escape and find refuge on a nearby island off the coast of Norway, but the fate of the Nautilus is unknown.
Themes and subtextEdit
Captain Nemo's name is an allusion to Homer's Odyssey, a Greek epic poem.[citation needed] In The Odyssey, Odysseus meets the monstrous Cyclops Polyphemus during the course of his wanderings. Polyphemus asks Odysseus his name, and Odysseus replies that his name is "Utis" (ουτις), which translates as "No-man" or "No-body". In the Latin translation of the Odyssey, this pseudonym is rendered as "Nemo", which in Latin also translates as "No-man" or "No-body". Similarly to Nemo, Odysseus must wander the seas in exile (though only for 10 years) and is tormented by the deaths of his ship's crew.
Jules Verne several times mentions Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, "Captain Maury" in Verne's book, a real-life oceanographer who explored the winds, seas, currents, and collected samples of the bottom of the seas and charted all oceans. Verne would have known of Matthew Maury's international fame and perhaps Maury's French ancestry.
References are made to other such Frenchmen as Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, a famous explorer who was lost while circumnavigating the globe; Dumont D'Urville, the explorer who found the remains of Lapérouse's ship; and Ferdinand Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal and the nephew of the sole survivor of Lapérouse's expedition. The Nautilus seems to follow the footsteps of these men: she visits the waters where Lapérouse was lost; she sails to Antarctic waters and becomes stranded there, just like D'Urville's ship, the Astrolabe; and she passes through an underwater tunnel from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean.
The most famous part of the novel, the battle against a school of giant squid, begins when a crewman opens the hatch of the boat and gets caught by one of the monsters. As the tentacle that has grabbed him pulls him away, he yells "Help!" in French. At the beginning of the next chapter, concerning the battle, Aronnax states, "To convey such sights, one would require the pen of our most famous poet, Victor Hugo, author of The Toilers of the Sea." The Toilers of the Sea also contains an episode where a worker fights a giant octopus, wherein the octopus symbolizes the Industrial Revolution. It is probable that Verne borrowed the symbol, but used it to allude to the Revolutions of 1848 as well, in that the first man to stand against the "monster" and the first to be defeated by it is a Frenchman.[citation needed]
In several parts of the book, Captain Nemo is depicted as a champion of the world's underdogs and downtrodden. In one passage, Captain Nemo is mentioned as providing some help to Greeks rebelling against Ottoman rule during the Cretan Revolt of 1866–1869, proving to Arronax that he had not completely severed all relations with mankind outside the Nautilus after all. In another passage, Nemo takes pity on a poor Indian pearl diver who must do his diving without the sophisticated diving suit available to the submarine's crew, and who is doomed to die young due to the cumulative effect of diving on his lungs. Nemo approaches him underwater and gives him a whole pouch full of pearls, more than he could have acquired in years of his dangerous work. Nemo remarks that the diver, as an inhabitant of British Colonial India, "is an inhabitant of an oppressed country".
Verne took the name "Nautilus" from one of the earliest successful submarines, built in 1800 by Robert Fulton, who later invented the first commercially successful steamboat. Fulton's submarine was named after the paper nautilus because it had a sail. Three years before writing his novel, Jules Verne also studied a model of the newly developed French Navy submarine Plongeur at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, which inspired him for his definition of the Nautilus.[8]
The breathing apparatus used by Nautilus divers is depicted as an untethered version of underwater breathing apparatus designed by Benoit Rouquayrol and Auguste Denayrouze in 1865. They designed a diving set with a backpack spherical air tank that supplied air through the first known demand regulator.[9][10][11] The diver still walked on the seabed and did not swim. This set was called an aérophore (Greek for "air-carrier"). Air pressure tanks made with the technology of the time could only hold 30 atmospheres, and the diver had to be surface supplied; the tank was for bailout.[9] The durations of 6 to 8 hours on a tankful without external supply recorded for the Rouquayrol set in the book are greatly exaggerated.[10]
No less significant, though more rarely commented on, is the very bold political vision, which was revolutionary for its time, represented by the character of Captain Nemo. As revealed in the later Verne book The Mysterious Island, Captain Nemo is a descendant of Tipu Sultan, a Muslim ruler of Mysore who resisted the expansionism of the British East India Company. Nemo took to the underwater life after the suppression of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, in which his close family members were killed by the British. This change was made at the request of Verne's publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, who is known to be responsible for many serious changes in Verne's books. In the original text the mysterious captain was a Polish nobleman, avenging his family who were killed by the Russians in retaliation for the captain's taking part in the Polish January Uprising of 1863. As France was at the time allied with the Russian Empire, the target for Nemo's wrath was changed to France's old enemy, the British Empire, to avoid political trouble. Professor Pierre Aronnax does not suspect Nemo's origins, as these were explained only later, in Verne's next book. What remained in the book from the initial concept is a portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish national hero, leader of the uprising against Russia in 1794, with an inscription in Latin: "Finis Poloniae!" ("The end of Poland!").
Margaret Drabble argues that Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea anticipated the ecology movement and shaped the French avant-garde.[12]
Theodore L. Thomas in 1961 said that "there is not a single bit of valid speculation" in the novel and that "none of its predictions has come true". He described the depictions of the diving gear, scenes, and the Nautilus as "pretty bad, behind the times even for 1869 ... In none of these technical situation did Verne take advantage of knowledge readily available to him at the time". Thomas said, however, that despite poor science, plot, and characterization, "Put them all together with the magic of Verne's story-telling ability, and something flames up. A story emerges that sweeps incredulity before it".[10]
Recurring themes in later booksEdit
Jules Verne's wrote a sequel to this book: L'Île mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island, 1874), which concludes the stories begun by Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways. While The Mysterious Island seems to give more information about Nemo (or Prince Dakkar), it is muddied by the presence of several irreconcilable chronological contradictions between the two books and even within The Mysterious Island.
Verne returned to the theme of an outlaw submarine captain in his much later Facing the Flag. That book's main villain, Ker Karraje, is a completely unscrupulous pirate acting purely and simply for gain, completely devoid of all the saving graces which gave Nemo—for all that he, too, was capable of ruthless killings—some nobility of character.
Like Nemo, Ker Karraje plays "host" to unwilling French guests—but unlike Nemo, who manages to elude all pursuers, Karraje's career of outlawry is decisively ended by the combination of an international task force and the rebellion of his French captives. Though also widely published and translated, it never attained the lasting popularity of Twenty Thousand Leagues.
More similar to the original Nemo, though with a less finely worked-out character, is Robur in Robur the Conqueror—a dark and flamboyant outlaw rebel using an aircraft instead of a submarine—and its sequel Master of the World.
English translationsEdit
The novel was first translated into English in 1873 by Reverend Lewis Page Mercier. Mercier cut nearly a quarter of Verne's original text and made hundreds of translation errors, sometimes dramatically changing the meaning of Verne's original intent (including uniformly mistranslating French scaphandre — properly "diving apparatus" — as "cork-jacket", following a long-obsolete meaning as "a type of lifejacket"). Some of these mistranslations have been done for political reasons, such as Nemo's identity and the nationality of the two warships he sinks, or the portraits of freedom fighters on the wall of his cabin which originally included Daniel O'Connell.[13] Nonetheless, it became the standard English translation for more than a hundred years, while other translations continued to draw from it and its mistakes (especially the mistranslation of the title; the French title actually means Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas).
In the Argyle Press/Hurst and Company 1892 Arlington Edition, the translation and editing mistakes attributed to Mercier are missing. Scaphandre is correctly translated as "diving apparatus" and not as "cork-jackets". Although the book cover gives the title as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the title page titles the book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas; Or, The Marvelous and Exciting Adventures of Pierre Arronax, Conseil His Servant, and Ned Land a Canadian Harpooner.
A modern translation was produced in 1966 by Walter James Miller and published by Washington Square Press.[14] Many of Mercier's changes were addressed in the translator's preface, and much of Verne's text was restored.
In the 1960s, Anthony Bonner published an essentially complete translation of the novel for Bantam Classics. A specially written introduction by Ray Bradbury, comparing Captain Nemo and Captain Ahab of Moby-Dick, was also included.
Most of Mercier's errors were again corrected in a fresh re-examination of the sources and a new translation by Walter James Miller and Frederick Paul Walter, published in 1993 by Naval Institute Press in a "completely restored and annotated edition".[15] Its text tapped into Walter's own 1991 unpublished translation, later made available to Wikipedia readers. In 2010 Walter released a fully revised, newly researched translation with the title 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater — part of an omnibus of five of his Verne translations titled Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics and published by State University of New York Press.
In 1998 William Butcher issued a new, annotated translation from the French original, published by Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-953927-8, with the title Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. He includes detailed notes, an extensive bibliography, appendices and a wide-ranging introduction studying the novel from a literary perspective. In particular, his original research on the two manuscripts studies the radical changes to the plot and to the character of Nemo urged on Verne by the first publisher, Jules Hetzel.
Adaptations and variationsEdit
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The national origin of Captain Nemo was changed in most feature film realizations; in nearly all picture-based works following the book Nemo was made into a European. However, he was represented as an Indian by Omar Sharif in the 1973 European miniseries The Mysterious Island. Nemo is also depicted as Indian in the 1916 silent film version of the story and later in both the graphic novel and the film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In Walt Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), a live-action Technicolor film adaptation of the novel, Captain Nemo is European, bitter because his wife and son were tortured to death by those in power in the fictional prison camp of Rura Penthe, in an effort to get Nemo to reveal his scientific secrets. This is Nemo's motivation for sinking warships in the film. Also, Nemo's submarine is confined to a set circular section of the Pacific Ocean, unlike the original Nautilus. In this version, he is played by British actor James Mason, with an English accent, with no mention being made of Indians.
Finally, Nemo was depicted as Indian in a Soviet 3-episode TV film Captain Nemo (1975), which also includes some plot details from the "Mysterious Island", Jules Verne's sequel to the novel.
See alsoEdit
- ^ Dehs, Volker; Jean-Michel Margot; Zvi Har'El, "The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography: I. Voyages Extraordinaires", Jules Verne Collection, Zvi Har'El, retrieved 2012-09-06
- ^ Payen, J. (1989). De l'anticipation à l'innovation. Jules Verne et le problème de la locomotion mécanique.
- ^ Compère, D. (2006). Jules Verne: bilan d'un anniversaire. Romantisme, (1), 87-97.
- ^ Seelhorst, Mary (2003) 'Jules Verne. (PM People)'. In Popular Mechanics. 180.7 (July 2003): p36. Hearst Communications.
- ^ Notice at the Musée de la Marine, Rochefort
- ^ "(20000 leagues) ÷ (diameter of earth) - Wolfram Alpha". wolframalpha.com. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
- ^ Part 2, Chapter 7 "Accordingly, our speed was 25 miles (that is, twelve four–kilometer leagues) per hour. Needless to say, Ned Land had to give up his escape plans, much to his distress. Swept along at the rate of twelve to thirteen meters per second, he could hardly make use of the skiff. Leaving the Nautilus under these conditions"
- ^ Notice at the Musée de la Marine, Rochefort
- ^ a b Davis, RH (1955). Deep Diving and Submarine Operations (6th ed.). Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey: Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd. p. 693.
- ^ a b c Thomas, Theodore L. (December 1961). "The Watery Wonders of Captain Nemo". Galaxy Science Fiction. pp. 168–177.
- ^ Acott, C. (1999). "A brief history of diving and decompression illness". South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal. 29 (2). ISSN 0813-1988. OCLC 16986801. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ^ Margaret Drabble (8 May 2014). "Submarine dreams: Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas". New Statesman. Retrieved 2014-05-09.
- ^ "How Lewis Mercier and Eleanor King brought you Jules Verne". Ibiblio.org. Retrieved 2013-11-15.
- ^ Jules Verne (author), Walter James Miller (trans). Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Washington Square Press, 1966. Standard book number 671-46557-0; Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 65-25245.
- ^ Jules Verne (author), Walter James Miller (trans), Frederick Paul Walter (trans). Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: A Completely Restored and Annotated Edition, Naval Institute Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55750-877-1
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- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, p.d. trans. by F. P. Walter prepared in 1991.
- 20,000 Leagues under the Sea at Project Gutenberg, obsolete translation by Lewis Mercier, 1872
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, audio version (in French)
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