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Transcend even the sagacity of a spaniel. Yet keeping in view all the aid which these limited facilities have the power of imparting, some of the discoveries and exercises of her intellect are still, in a measure, unaccountable.
As the abodes which from her earliest recollection she had inhabited were circumscribed and humble, it was supposed that at her first reception into the Asylum she would testify surprise at the comparative spaciousness of the mansion. But she immediately busied herself in quietly exploring the size of the apartments, and the height of the staircases; she even knelt, and smelled to the thresholds; and now, as if by the union of a mysterious geometry with a powerful memory, never makes a false step upon a flight of stairs, or enters a wrong door, or mistakes her seat at the table.
Among her various excellencies, neatness, and love of order are conspicuous. Her simple wardrobe is systematically arranged, and it is impossible to displace a single article in her drawers, without her perceiving and restoring it. When the large baskets of clean linen are weekly, brought from the laundress, she selects her own garments without hesitation, however widely they may be dispersed among the mass. If any part of her dress requires mending, she is prompt and skilful in repairing it and her perseverance in this branch of economy greatly diminishes the expense of her clothing.
Since her residence at the Asylum, the donations of charitable visitants have been considerable in their amount. These are deposited in a box with an inscription, and she has been made to understand that the contents are devoted to her benefit. This box she frequently poises in her hand, and expresses pleasure when it testifies and increase of weight; for she has long since ascertained that money was the medium for the supply of her wants, and attaches to it a proportionable value.
Through her habits are peculiarly regular and consistent, yet occasionally some action occurs which it is difficult to explain. One morning, during the past summer, while employed with her needle, she found herself incommoded by the warmth of the sun. She arose, opened the window, closed the blind, and again resumed her work. This move-
Publisher: The Juvenile Miscellany. Vol IV, No. 11. Press of Putnam and Hunt, Boston.
Date: 1828
Format: text
Digital Identifier: AG54-JB-0010
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
"Intelligence is a natural phenomenon -- just as breathing is, just as seeing is. Intelligence is the inner seeing; it is intuitive. It has nothing to do with intellect. Never confuse intellect with intelligence, they are polar opposites. Intellect is of the head; it is taught by others, it is imposed on you. You have to cultivate it. It is borrowed, it is something foreign, it is not inborn. But intelligence is inborn. It is your very being, your very nature"
One day, a courtesan of unearthly beauty appeared at the Emperor’s court. Her skin was like silk and porcelain, and her eyes gleamed like polished onyx. Her body exuded an enchanting scent, and her robes were immaculate. She quickly endeared herself to the Emperor and his concubines; her unequaled grace was matched by a glittering wit and astonishing intellect, and though she appeared to be no older than twenty, there was no question that she could not answer. There seemed to be no limit to her knowledge and strange wisdom, and she was well-versed on every topic, from astronomy to Buddhist teachings. So profound was the Emperor’s fascination with this woman that he kept her by his side, day and night. One night, the Emperor and his court attended a performance of poetry and music at the serene Seiryoden. A strong gust of wind suddenly tore through the Leaping Tiger Garden into the performance hall, shaking the bamboo reeds and extinguishing the lanterns. The room was plunged into darkness, save for a warm, golden light that emanated from within the mysterious woman’s robes. She was aglow like the rising sun. Enthralled, the Emperor declared to his ministers that this woman must be an incarnation of the Buddha, and he named her Tamamo-no-Mae. Deeply in love and profoundly devoted, the Emperor exchanged weighty vows with his favored mistress, and showered her with gifts and affection.
Within months, the Emperor became ill. He was listless, his sword-hand faltered, his skin took on a grey cast, and his muscles began to sag. Horrified, his ministers went to all the priests and soothsayers in the land, begging them for answers. They had none. The ministers appealed to the people, begging them to raise their voices in prayer. The people loved the Emperor, and sent their prayers to the Gods. The Emperor’s condition did not change. Finally, the renowned astrologer, Abe no Yasuchika, divined the cause of the Emperor’s infirmity: Tamamo-no-Mae. She was not born of woman; her true form was that of a hundred-year-old, forty-two-foot-tall, two-tailed fox demon. Disguised as a beautiful courtesan, the demoness hoped to slowly kill the Emperor, and then take his place. Knowing that she was exposed, Tamamo-no-Mae fled the palace.
Horrified, the Emperor sent the greatest warriors in the land, Kazusa-no-Suke and Miura-no-Suke, to pursue and slay his former mistress. The creature was wily and elusive, and after many weeks of hunting, the warriors began to fear that they would be unable to bring the demon to justice, thus shaming themselves and their families. They vowed that they would commit suicide if they failed in their quest, and they prayed to the Gods for assistance. That night, a beautiful woman appeared to Miura-no-Suke in his dreams. Her lovely face was marred by weeping, and she begged the warrior to spare her life. He refused, and cut the woman down. Upon waking, he realized that the dream was an omen – they would find and kill the foxwoman this day – and the warriors resumed their hunt with renewed enthusiasm. The hunters spotted the fox on the Plains of Nasu, and Miura-no-Suke fired an arrow into her heart. She fell, and her body transformed into the Sessho-seki, the Killing Stone.
Tamamo-no-Mae’s scent is soft skin musk, brushed by white tea leaf, rice flower, black locust flower, white sandalwood kodo soke, dry ginger, benzoin gum, and Amacha.
7/26 Hands.
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain." -Carl Jung
Tesla design models have influenced our intellects with clean power, high safety ratings and a wide array of 21st century technologies. Tesla, the purveyor of premium electric cars utilizes supercar acceleration and cat-like reflexes to also appeal to our lust for power and the primal urge to control and direct it. The Model 3 will begin pricing at $35,000 which is roughly half the cost of a base Model S. The base car will accelerate 0-60 mph in less than 6 seconds, enjoys an electric range of at least 215 miles per charge, seats five comfortably and provides storage from front and rear trunks. Expect deliveries yearend 2017.
For nearly 50 years, biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to
harnessing the sun’s power. She designed and built the first successfully solar-powered house
in 1949 but was perplexed by the knotty scientific challenge of developing a reliable and
economical way to store captured solar energy. She was also beset by rampant sexism and
fought pitched battles with her boss and colleagues — all men — at MIT’s Solar Energy Fund.
Despite these obstacles, Telkes persevered, helping to build another experimental solar-
powered house in 1971. Upon her death in 1995, she held more than 20 patents.
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
From Geoffrey Farmer’s "The Intellection of Lady Spider House" at the Art Gallery of Alberta
"Down a dark dead end Farmer calls the Alley of Immigration, there is an opportunity to peer through a black curtain for perhaps the most bone-chilling moment of the experience: an encounter with David Hoffos’s lifelike projection Marianne Sitting, from the Scenes from the House Dream series. The woman sits on the floor, tapping her toe, checking her watch and – wow – looking directly at you, it seems." The Globe and Mail,Oct. 30, 2013
In Memory of
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler
Born at Aarau in the Canton of Argovie, Switzlerland
Oct 6, 1770
Having filled with honor both in his native and adopted country
offices of high trust and responsibility,
Died in Philadelphia
Nov, 20, 1843
In the most of his labors as Superintendent of
The United States Coast Survey
and
Standards of Weights and Measures
both great national work from their origin entrusted to
and conducted by him with distinguished reputation and success.
Strict integrity and love of truth with strength
and activity of intellect, characterized him as a man
whilst his various scientific writing as well as
the national works projected by him are alike
memorial of his laborious life and of his contribution
as a man of scientific instruction and improvement
of his fellow men.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The first superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler was a Swiss-born and educated mathematician who came to the United States in 1805. His contributions to the Lewis and Clark expedition involved corrections and alterations to the maps and calculations of longitude and latitude made by the Captains. He was born in Aarau, Switzerland, 6 October 1770, and was educated in nearby Bern. He attended the University of Bern intending to study jurisprudence, but met Johann George Tralles, a German mathematician, who inspired Hassler to study science and mathematics.
In 1793, Hassler traveled to Paris to study astronomy under some of the foremost scientists in Europe at the time. He returned to Switzerland five years later, when the French invaded his country. He held several public offices during the French occupation, including the attorney general for Switzerland. However, in 1803, the French took control of geographically related surveys, and Hassler decided that he could not work under them. He and his family emigrated to the United States in 1805, settling in New York.
In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Hassler professorial position at the United States Military Academy at West Point on a recommendation from the Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin. Hassler taught mathematics, but apparently did not develop a good rapport with his students. He only taught the brightest students, and did not spend time with those who had less aptitude for math. In 1809, the Secretary of War William Eustis told Hassler that the government did not approve of civilians teaching at the Military Academy. Hassler resigned his position on 14 February 1810. He took another position as a Professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics at Union College in Schenectady, NY, in March, 1810. He again found that teaching did not well suit his tastes, nor did his style of teaching effectively inspire his students to study.
In 1812, congress appointed Hassler the superintendent of the first United States Coast survey. They sent him to France and England to collect supplies for his endeavor. The English, however, detained Hassler, thinking him an enemy spy. He returned to the United States in 1815, at which time the survey formally began. Two years later, dissatisfied with his work, Congress suspended the survey. Hassler tried his hand at farming in upstate New York, and then traveled to Richmond to privately tutor the children of wealthy families. He also started writing textbooks which included Analytical Trigonometry, Elements of Geometry, Systems of the Universe, and Elements of Arithmetic. He also compose an article for the publication of the American Philosophical Society, Transactions, in 1828. In that piece, he defended his methods for the Coastal survey. Many respected scientists read the article and approved of his methods, and wrote to express their support for his leadership of the project.
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson appointed Hassler as the gauger for the United States, determining the standards for weights and measures for the country. Two years later, Hassler resumed his work as the superintendent of the Coast survey. He served in both of those capacities until his death on 20 November 1843.
Information from:
"Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler." www.dean.usma.edu/math/about/history/hassler.htm. 19 October 2003.
White, James T., ed. "Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler." Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. New York: Appleton and Co, 1887-89. www.famousamericans.net/ferdinandrudolphhassler. 2001 "
www.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/biddle/biographies_ht...
' t h e y ' by jem on [ finally woken ]
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T H E Y suck, devour, and ingest your essential powers, the inner strength, thanks to which you are human. T H E Y devour poeple, but leave them looking perfectly healthy on the outside. T H E Y suck out just the insides, leaving an ashen [Nothing]ness inside. T H E Y suck out fantasy, inspirations and intellect, as if it were everyday food or a refreshing drink. T H E Y are able to adjust to circumstances better than any other living creature. It's impossible to avoid T H E M; T H E Y are everywhere. It's T H E Y who fixed things so that in the eternal war between the darkness and the light a soulless gloom always wins. T H E Y discovered the near truth, which is worse than the blackest lie. If the human race really is doomed to extinction, it will be solely thanks to T H E M.
A hundred times I tried to logically refute T H E I R existence. But I reached the opposite goal -- I unarguably proved that T H E Y really exist. The simplest proof -- an argument ad adsurdum. Let's say T H E Y don't exist. There is no such subspecies of live creatures whose sole purpose is to kanuk people, to take away their intellectual and spiritual powers; that kingdom of sullen, flat faces doesn't exist.
Let's say none of that exists.
Then how can you explain humanity's structure, all the world's societies, all human communities, their aspirations and modes of existence? How can you explain that always and everywhere, as far as you can see, one idiot rules a thousand intelligent people, and they quietly obey? Whence comes the silent gray majority in every society? Would a person who wasn't kanuked think of vegetating in a soulless condition and say that's the way everything should be? Why is it always enough to arrest a thousand for the just cause of a million to be doomed? Who raises and sets all governments on the throne, who hands the scepter to Satan's servants -- to all sorts of Stalins, Hitlers or Pol Pots? How do thousands, even millions of people disappear in the presence of all, and the others supposedly don't even notice? How does humanity manage to forget its history and repeat that which has already caused catastrophe more than once? Where does everyone's intelligence and memory disappear to at such moments? What instills the tendency in a human to betray the seekers of justice, knowing perfectly well that they are seekers of justice? Where does that secret desire come from, when a person is up to their neck in sh!t, to use all his strength to drown another who's still trying to scramble out? How could censorship, whose sole purpose is to hide the truth, exist in a human society that hasn't been kanuked?
Why doesn't a single theory answer these simple questions? Why do all the great philosophical systems, all the Hegels and Kants together, fail to explain these basic things? Why?
Maybe that's the way, and just that way, that man unavoidably is? Maybe all of these horrifying things aren't the province of theory, but rather axioms that you'll neither prove nor disprove? Maybe a soulless doom is programmed into all of us from the start? Every nation has the kind of government it deserves, and so on?
I cannot bear assumptions like that, assumptions that acrimoniously belittle people. I can't bear them! But an investigator must be calm and objective, must rely only on facts.
Children deny those revolting assumptions. The very existence of children. A foolish boy who tries to boss the neighborhood kids around will be ridiculed immediately. There is no silent gray majority in the world of children. You could arrest a thousand, a million children, but as long as at least one remains alive and free, there will be a child's view of justice in the world, there will be someone to shout that the king is naked. An unspoiled child tries to be more like the stronger or smarter ones, not to pull them down. No, no, a human isn't born a kanukas!
The ruination takes over later, when children are taught to rat on others, when they learn it's not worth ridiculing the kid with pretensions to be a little king, since he's the boss's son. When someone convinces them (convinces without presenting any arguments) that it's imperative to participate in the idiotic play of life, even knowing it's idiotic. Convinces them there is no choice -- either float in the ship of fools, or drown.
How can you explain all of this, supposing T H E Y don't exist?
ERGO: T H E Y EXIST.
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_excerpt from ' v i l n i u s_ p o k er ' a novel by _ l i t h u a n i a n _ a u t h o r _ r i c a r d a s_ g a v e l i s .
Also known as Brain Demons, Cerebriliths use their psionic powers to feast on the intellect of mortal men.
John Higgins, DG Intellect Trade Association, visiting the ESA stand, 19 July 2010, Farnborough Airshow.
Women: by curves of emotion
~ .James Joyce
All the photos this week were taken at, or around the Ottawa Convention Centre.
Manufacturer: Grenadier
Line: AD&D "Solid Gold" line
Set: Dwellers Below
Figure: Intellect devourer
Base markings: none
Release date: 1980
Sculptor: Andrew Chernak
Painter: Spooktalker
Date painted: 2009
It is not often that I get to actually meet one of my Flickr friends. Nocturnal.Intellect is actually someone I have know from the Yahoo 360 days when she used to blog and I actually read. She used to live in the Phoenix area and comes back every year for a visit. We had a chance to get together in Scottsdale before she and Dean headed out on a few days of sightseeing.
In Memory of
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler
Born at Aarau in the Canton of Argovie, Switzlerland
Oct 6, 1770
Having filled with honor both in his native and adopted country
offices of high trust and responsibility,
Died in Philadelphia
Nov, 20, 1843
In the most of his labors as Superintendent of
The United States Coast Survey
and
Standards of Weights and Measures
both great national work from their origin entrusted to
and conducted by him with distinguished reputation and success.
Strict integrity and love of truth with strength
and activity of intellect, characterized him as a man
whilst his various scientific writing as well as
the national works projected by him are alike
memorial of his laborious life and of his contribution
as a man of scientific instruction and improvement
of his fellow men.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The first superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler was a Swiss-born and educated mathematician who came to the United States in 1805. His contributions to the Lewis and Clark expedition involved corrections and alterations to the maps and calculations of longitude and latitude made by the Captains. He was born in Aarau, Switzerland, 6 October 1770, and was educated in nearby Bern. He attended the University of Bern intending to study jurisprudence, but met Johann George Tralles, a German mathematician, who inspired Hassler to study science and mathematics.
In 1793, Hassler traveled to Paris to study astronomy under some of the foremost scientists in Europe at the time. He returned to Switzerland five years later, when the French invaded his country. He held several public offices during the French occupation, including the attorney general for Switzerland. However, in 1803, the French took control of geographically related surveys, and Hassler decided that he could not work under them. He and his family emigrated to the United States in 1805, settling in New York.
In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Hassler professorial position at the United States Military Academy at West Point on a recommendation from the Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin. Hassler taught mathematics, but apparently did not develop a good rapport with his students. He only taught the brightest students, and did not spend time with those who had less aptitude for math. In 1809, the Secretary of War William Eustis told Hassler that the government did not approve of civilians teaching at the Military Academy. Hassler resigned his position on 14 February 1810. He took another position as a Professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics at Union College in Schenectady, NY, in March, 1810. He again found that teaching did not well suit his tastes, nor did his style of teaching effectively inspire his students to study.
In 1812, congress appointed Hassler the superintendent of the first United States Coast survey. They sent him to France and England to collect supplies for his endeavor. The English, however, detained Hassler, thinking him an enemy spy. He returned to the United States in 1815, at which time the survey formally began. Two years later, dissatisfied with his work, Congress suspended the survey. Hassler tried his hand at farming in upstate New York, and then traveled to Richmond to privately tutor the children of wealthy families. He also started writing textbooks which included Analytical Trigonometry, Elements of Geometry, Systems of the Universe, and Elements of Arithmetic. He also compose an article for the publication of the American Philosophical Society, Transactions, in 1828. In that piece, he defended his methods for the Coastal survey. Many respected scientists read the article and approved of his methods, and wrote to express their support for his leadership of the project.
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson appointed Hassler as the gauger for the United States, determining the standards for weights and measures for the country. Two years later, Hassler resumed his work as the superintendent of the Coast survey. He served in both of those capacities until his death on 20 November 1843.
Information from:
"Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler." www.dean.usma.edu/math/about/history/hassler.htm. 19 October 2003.
White, James T., ed. "Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler." Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. New York: Appleton and Co, 1887-89. www.famousamericans.net/ferdinandrudolphhassler. 2001 "
www.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/biddle/biographies_ht...
From Encyclopédie, 1751-1772, by Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
The first encyclopaedia, formed by contributions from the great intellects of the Age of Enlightenment, Diderot’s Encyclopédie was an unorthodox and advanced work that challenged religious authority and natural law. Covering each and every branch of human knowledge, including the printing of books themselves, it is one of the great early works of free thought and still acts as a great reference source today.
Encyclopédie : ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences : des arts et des métiers / par une société de gens de lettres ; mis en ordre & publié par M. Diderot... & quant à la partie mathématique, par M. d'Alembert....
Paris : chez Briasson... [et al], 1751-65
Cadbury Research Library r f AE25.D5-1751
In Memory of
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler
Born at Aarau in the Canton of Argovie, Switzlerland
Oct 6, 1770
Having filled with honor both in his native and adopted country
offices of high trust and responsibility,
Died in Philadelphia
Nov, 20, 1843
In the most of his labors as Superintendent of
The United States Coast Survey
and
Standards of Weights and Measures
both great national work from their origin entrusted to
and conducted by him with distinguished reputation and success.
Strict integrity and love of truth with strength
and activity of intellect, characterized him as a man
whilst his various scientific writing as well as
the national works projected by him are alike
memorial of his laborious life and of his contribution
as a man of scientific instruction and improvement
of his fellow men.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The first superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler was a Swiss-born and educated mathematician who came to the United States in 1805. His contributions to the Lewis and Clark expedition involved corrections and alterations to the maps and calculations of longitude and latitude made by the Captains. He was born in Aarau, Switzerland, 6 October 1770, and was educated in nearby Bern. He attended the University of Bern intending to study jurisprudence, but met Johann George Tralles, a German mathematician, who inspired Hassler to study science and mathematics.
In 1793, Hassler traveled to Paris to study astronomy under some of the foremost scientists in Europe at the time. He returned to Switzerland five years later, when the French invaded his country. He held several public offices during the French occupation, including the attorney general for Switzerland. However, in 1803, the French took control of geographically related surveys, and Hassler decided that he could not work under them. He and his family emigrated to the United States in 1805, settling in New York.
In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Hassler professorial position at the United States Military Academy at West Point on a recommendation from the Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin. Hassler taught mathematics, but apparently did not develop a good rapport with his students. He only taught the brightest students, and did not spend time with those who had less aptitude for math. In 1809, the Secretary of War William Eustis told Hassler that the government did not approve of civilians teaching at the Military Academy. Hassler resigned his position on 14 February 1810. He took another position as a Professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics at Union College in Schenectady, NY, in March, 1810. He again found that teaching did not well suit his tastes, nor did his style of teaching effectively inspire his students to study.
In 1812, congress appointed Hassler the superintendent of the first United States Coast survey. They sent him to France and England to collect supplies for his endeavor. The English, however, detained Hassler, thinking him an enemy spy. He returned to the United States in 1815, at which time the survey formally began. Two years later, dissatisfied with his work, Congress suspended the survey. Hassler tried his hand at farming in upstate New York, and then traveled to Richmond to privately tutor the children of wealthy families. He also started writing textbooks which included Analytical Trigonometry, Elements of Geometry, Systems of the Universe, and Elements of Arithmetic. He also compose an article for the publication of the American Philosophical Society, Transactions, in 1828. In that piece, he defended his methods for the Coastal survey. Many respected scientists read the article and approved of his methods, and wrote to express their support for his leadership of the project.
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson appointed Hassler as the gauger for the United States, determining the standards for weights and measures for the country. Two years later, Hassler resumed his work as the superintendent of the Coast survey. He served in both of those capacities until his death on 20 November 1843.
Information from:
"Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler." www.dean.usma.edu/math/about/history/hassler.htm. 19 October 2003.
White, James T., ed. "Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler." Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. New York: Appleton and Co, 1887-89. www.famousamericans.net/ferdinandrudolphhassler. 2001 "
www.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/biddle/biographies_ht...
The attraction of Catholicism on a purely human level is encompassed by a rich tradition of philosophy, art, ethics, literature, theology, poetry, mysticism, and charitable service. How could one not be compelled by the kindness Mother Teresa or the winsome joy of St. Francis? Who could refrain from delighting in Gerard Manley Hopkins or being awed by a powerful intellect such as that of St. Thomas Aquinas or St. Augustine?
Surpassing this, however, is the Catholic Church's bearing witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church claims to be the church that Jesus Christ founded. That is a big claim with which a person of any intellectual honesty must wrestle. She proclaims redemption from one's sin and a promise of hope and everlasting beatitude.
The word "solace" does not capture the experience of knowing and loving Christ and being connected to Him with His saints through the church He founded and at the helm of which he placed St. Peter. This is something utterly apotheotic.
The Church is often criticized for the supposed rigidity of her doctrine and morals. However, truth be told, the only verisimilitude of her doctrine to walls is, as Chesterton observed, that they are the walls of a playground. Her moral and doctrinal teachings circumscribe the limits of a world in which authentic freedom is realized and enjoyed without frustration or compunction. All is grace, said St. Therese of Lisieux.
This is not to say that the Church is without her challenges or that to be a Catholic is not without its own frustrations. But these are of a different kind. A Catholic is frustrated when fellow Catholics and Catholic parishes approach the faith self-centeredly or as they would any other area of life. That is, when they do not come to recess, to keep with Chesterton's comparison. One's faith is not to be approached with the banal attitude one takes toward hygiene or the superficial collegiality characterized by Super Bowl parties.
Frustrating indeed are hierarchical malfeasance, chummy-feel-good travesties of the Holy Mass, the fact of Catholics' indistinct practice from others on matters of contraception or divorce, and the like. Admittedly, when fellow Catholics do not recognize the dignity that is theirs by virtue of their baptismal calling, when they do not embrace the high adventure of being Catholic, it is disconcerting, especially for a convert to Catholicism such as I am.
The challenge for the Church now, especially in the West, is to reinvigorate in its members a sense of joy in being called by God to new life and accepting the challenges of being Catholic. Baptized Catholics must learn the faith anew.
Secondarily, the Church must once again -- and as always -- proclaim the Gospel to non-Catholics and do this in a way that is sensitive to today�s religious pluralism. The peculiar situation of our time is that lay Catholics must be the ones to do the preaching: in the office, the home, the clinic, and the clique. And they must do it with not only their voices, but with their lives and their hearts. Evangelization, proclaiming the Good News, must be accepted as one's Christian duty and carried out with the fervency of one who is trying to save another's life.
Christian life is a gift, and gifts are meant to be shared especially with the poor, the suffering, the lonely, the reprobate, the apathetic, and above all, anyone who is searching.
how often does your heart (feelings, emotions) over rule the logic of your rational head (mind, intellect)?
Hush
Real name: Thomas Elliot
First Appearance: 2003
Abilities: Thomas Elliot is a neurologist possessing a genius level intellect.
Born a child of wealth and privilege, young Tommy Elliot became close friends with Bruce Wayne. A short time later, Bruce’s parents met an untimely demise at the whim of a mugger’s bullet. Tommy discovered that Bruce had inherited the entire Wayne family fortune. Jealous of his affluent friend, Tommy crafted a scheme to earn his own fortune. He severed the brake lines to his parents’ car, sending the vehicle caroming off the side of the road. Tommy’s father was instantly killed, but his mother managed to survive. Tommy eventually came into possession of the fortune that he so desperately wanted, but he had to wait years, watching his mother suffer and ultimately succumb to cancer. Twisted by his own avarice, he inwardly blamed Bruce Wayne for his perceived “good fortune” – a mentality that would one day fuel an elaborate plot to destroy Bruce Wayne altogether.
Description: Typed transcript of letter from Florence Nightingale to Julia Ward Howe. Page 4 of 4. Written from Sapton near Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Full Text: ... affection when one sees old age -still it is good for us to be here, meaning on this little round-about, for we do love, and for that one can well suffer something. I suppose too the fire of declining intellect and strength is to burn away the wood and hay and stubble, purify the gold and silver, and leave the precious stones, which will not burn, alone. Oh, that old boyd [boy], it is like being chained to a galley-slave, which laughs at one, while one must work and struggle and despair and work again, and he says, I am master after all.
I do not know how to thank Dr. Howe for his most interesting and welcome letter and illustrations of Mesmerism, thanks and thanks a thousand that in the midst of his many occupations, and of the delights of his successes over that same dead and unpromising body in his pupils, a little time should have remained to him to think of me. I shall never forget so kind a thought. Could the excess of human charity and philanthropy induce him to write to me again, it would be giving me intense pleasure, when he has a little time, but you see I have nothing interesting to send him in return. You do not know how pleased I should be to see anything that you have written, dearest friend, nor how gratefully I should receive those poems of yours you promised me, when your friends come to England. Any friends of yours will be welcome at our house ever, but as a prognoctis and fore-shower of the happy time which shall see your faces there again -coming events cast their shadows before them, I shall think whenever we may receive friends of yours. Ah would that I could accept your invitation to come to America, but that is too good to be true- if I had gone too, I could not have come here, so everything is for the best, and so we shall be able to say some day, I suppose, to every thing, even to our own false steps. But I am afraid to look at the clock, for I do think it must be half past nine (we drink tea before 6 ) and the dog must have been chained to the foot of the stairs and every other soul and Christian dog asleep this hour - and you, my dear friend, I am sure must be asleep too, so only two words more to say, what I could not say in many ways, many more, how truly and earnestly I am ever your gratefully overflowing and affectionate
Florence Nightingale.
... The picture you draw of my coming to you is too tempting - would that it could ever take place, but I comfort myself with thinking that a spirit we have once known can never be lost to us; once make a true tie with it, and it can never be broken, and it does not much signify then where you meet it again, if in this little class of our great School-room or in the next . Forgive my stupidity and let me know that you do not forget me . My affectionate remembrances to Dr. Howe and the baby, tell her she could have talked at Lea Hurst, if she would, I know.
Date: 1845
Creator: Florence Nightingale
Format: letter
Digital Identifier: AG28-1-6
Biographical note: Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was an author, lecturer, poet, activist, abolitionist and leader in the Women's suffrage movement. Born in New York City to affluent parents, Ward Howe was well educated but expected to be a wife. In 1843 Ward Howe married Samuel Gridley Howe the founding director of Perkins after meeting him at a tour of the school. Despite conventional expectations that she not live a public life she initially published work anonymously before becoming a social activist that wrote, spoke, and worked for many social causes. She is commonly known for writing the words to “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and in 1908, she became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts. In 1988 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Source: Hale, Jen. (2022) ”Julia Ward Howe”. Hale, Jen. “Julia Ward Howe” Perkins Archives Blog, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown MA, October 26, 2022
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
Chassis: Xray T2 008 EU 6cell
Tyres: VTEC
Body: R9-R
Motor: LRP Vector X11 9.5T "Stock Spec"
ESC: Xerun 120A
Lipo: Intellect 2S 5000mA 50C+ 7,4V
Radio: Futaba 3PM
My first experience in 1/10 onroad, i had a mini inferno before with lots of power (dynamite 9200KV, 2S lipo, carbon chassis and deck, ...) but now it's time for some competition... :)
Manufacturer: Grenadier
Line: AD&D "Solid Gold" line
Set: Dwellers Below
Figure: Intellect devourer
Base markings: none
Release date: 1980
Sculptor: Andrew Chernak
Painter: Spooktalker
Date painted: 2009
Mourning over and due respect shown for the death of Betty Windsor and ahead of the coronation of her hereditary successor is as good a time as any to reflect on the Crown.
Putting aside the status of the Monarch of the (cough, cough) United Kingdom and the Realms, King Charles III has styled himself as: His Majesty Charles the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of his other Realms and Territories, King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. Indeed, all of this is so archaic that The Firm still feels the need to Style old mate as Carolus in the long dead Latin — Chas or Chuck to we peasants!
Conflict of interest! Cast your mind back to Charles I of England. He lost his head over the appointment by God business. Have we learned SFA? George Santayana famously noted (sic) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect and it is well to examine with your intellect whether to claim appointment by God then go to war in defence of the same deity isn't a bit of a problem. Logically if God falls, like the loss of ravens from the White Tower, then poof, so goes the monarchy.
I simply refuse to get into the silly arguments about the Koh-i-Noor and Cullinan baubles. As the property of others and theirs to give away to Victoria and her eldest son, title would seem to have been surrendered long ago. Of course, anyone might return a gift. It seems that history has not treated these stones well and they are diminished in their stature by the hands of man in their cutting. Sending back a used trinket ought to be seen as an insult!
Adopting Charles III as King of Australia is doubly problematic. Sure, the 17th and 18th century Acts relating to succession were patched up with a bit of race tape in 2013 to give the girls a go, but Australia is still constrained to have a Head of State descended from what is essentially a white family of former Germans who aren't Roman Catholics but must be members of the Anglican Church! Our own people, our first human population cannot, under our own laws, become the Head of State of their own country. Shame!!
So, here in the Treasury in the North Tower of the Uppsala Cathedral are reminders to maintain the chastity of our intellect. The crowns of King Johan III and his wife Queen Catherine for all their gold, garnets, sapphires, pearls and emeralds didn't save them from the human condition. We waste our talent and diminish our culture by slavish adherence to the superstition of regal superiority. Reflect on the Crown; give it a break!
A nootropic that actually works? For me, absolutely, which wasn’t something I was expecting from a botanical. 40-50 intellect tree seeds consumed over several hours produced an on-focus clarity and a mental acuity which were unmistakable. I have no idea why the psychoactive properties of these seeds are not more widely known.
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Fear not the hook-rays of the light of life,
The basic structure of matter,
The basic form of wave communication.
Watch quietly and receive the message.
You will now experience directly the revelation of primal forms.
Check out this year's Intellect reunion poster. The photo was taken last year and the very talented Brian Asher created the poster. Cool beans huh?
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[GRAY SKINNED PHOTO - A MONOTONOUS FEELING]
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Gray is the color of intellect, knowledge, and wisdom. It is perceived as long-lasting, classic, and often as sleek or refined. It is a color that is dignified, conservative, and carries authority. Gray is controlled and inconspicuous and is considered a color of compromise, perhaps because it sits between the extremes of black and white. Gray is a perfect neutral, which is why I use it as a background color.
Squared in bars of meta protruding from the cemented ground, l was in the ditch of temporary lost thinking. I figured the essence of the significant color. On my head says: When I photographed myself in color, I photographed my clothes. But when I photographed myself in Black and white, I found the photograph of my soul!
#photography #pictureperfect #memyselfandi #selfie #gray #monochrome #barsgalore #emo #sideview #deepthoughts #underthehotsun #thismoment #carvingmemories #emo
For nearly 50 years, biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to
harnessing the sun’s power. She designed and built the first successfully solar-powered house
in 1949 but was perplexed by the knotty scientific challenge of developing a reliable and
economical way to store captured solar energy. She was also beset by rampant sexism and
fought pitched battles with her boss and colleagues — all men — at MIT’s Solar Energy Fund.
Despite these obstacles, Telkes persevered, helping to build another experimental solar-
powered house in 1971. Upon her death in 1995, she held more than 20 patents.
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the Sutzkever Family
Abraham (Avram) Sutzkever was born on July 15, 1913 in
Smorgon, Belarus to Hertz and Rayne (nee Feinberg)
Sutzkever. During WWI, the family was deported with other
Jews from the war zone by the Russian authorities, and
settled in Omsk, Siberia. After his father’s death there,
his mother moved the family to Vilnius, Lithuania in 1921.
Vilnius was a Jewish cultural and intellection center and
the site of both the Mefitze Haskole Library and the
Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO). Abraham flourished
in this atmosphere. He attended a Polish Jewish high
school, and in 1933 joined a writers and artists group,
Yung-Vilne (Young Vilna), where he met fellow writers and
poets. He then moved to Warsaw, where his first volume of
Yiddish poems, 'Lider,' was published in 1937. In 1939,
he married Freydke, and the couple moved back to Vilnius
where his second volume, 'Valdiks,' was published in
1940.
In 1941, German forces entered Vilnius, followed by
Einsatzgruppen mobile killing squads. In the first months
of the occupation, tens of thousands of Jews were killed.
Abraham and Freyde initially tried to flee east to areas
still under Soviet rule, but were blocked and forced into
the newly-formed ghetto. There, in the ghetto hospital,
Freydke gave birth to their first child, a son. Nazi
policy did not allow Jewish women to give birth, and the
baby was killed. Abraham’s mother was killed not long
after in one of the many aktions that took place until the
end of the year. In January 1942, the aktions stopped, and
Vilnius entered a more stable period. Throughout, Abraham
continued to write and to actively participate in the
cultural life of the ghetto, including a ghetto theater and
a youth club literary study group
In 1942, Nazi officials began plans to loot Jewish
cultural property in Lithuania, and established a sorting
office to review material from YIVO and other sources to
either be sent to the 'Institute for Study of the Jewish
Question' in Frankfurt or to be destroyed. Jewish ghetto
inmates, including Abraham, were tasked with sorting these
works, which included such items as the diaries of Theodore
Herzl and and letters by Sholem Aleichem. Rather than
comply, a group which came to be known as the Paper Brigade
was formed, headed by Zelig Kalmanowitz, Dr. Hermann Kruk,
and Chaikel Lunski. worked to smuggle the material out and
hide it in various locations throughout the ghetto. After
the war, these works were retrieved, and the bulk of it
sent to the United States, where YIVO established a new
headquarters.
In the summer of 1943, just before the final liquidation
of the ghetto, Abraham and Freydke managed to escape and
join the partisan units under Soviet command in the Naroch
Forest. In time, all-Jewish units were formed, and Abraham
joined one which was under the command of Moshe Judka
Rudnitski, whith whom he participated in several missions.
While he fought with the partisans, his poem 'Kol Nidrei,'
which described the killings in Ponary reached Russia. It
was read aloud at the Central House of Writers in Moscow,
and so moved the audience that a public appeal grew to
save him. Soviet authorities authorized his resuce, but
the first plane to try to reach him in the forest crashed.
From the metal fragments of the plane, they made a
suitcase, which Sutzkever filled with his poems and the
other works he had brought from the ghetto. A second plane
arrived in March 1944, this time successfully transporting
him and Freydke to Moscow. There, he continued to write,
including a chronicle of his experiences in the Vilna
ghetto, and a poem detailing the experiences of a group of
Jews trying to survive in the sewers of Vilna. The couple
spent the remainder of the war in Russia.
In July 1944, Vilnius was captured from the Germans by the
Soviet and Polish armies, allowing Avraham and Freydke to
return. They initially hoped to recover the hidden
cultural material and participate in the rebuilding of
Vilna, but the political climate under the Soviets was not
conducive to this, and they focused instead on helping to
smuggle the material out. In 1946, Avraham was asked to
testify about Nazi atrocities that he had witnessed in
Lithuania at the Nurmeberg war crimes trIals. After brief
stays in Poland and Paris, they immigrated to Palestine in
1947. There, he began a literary career and continued his
advocacy for the Yiddish language. He founded the literary
quarterly 'Di Goldene Keyt,' and encouraged Jewish
communities to foster the Yiddish language and traditions.
In the 1970s, he published what many consider to be his
greatest work, the series 'Lider Fun Toghukh.' In 1985, he
was awarded the Israel Prize. He died January 20, 2010,
preceded in death by Freydke in 2002. They are survived by
two daughters.
Date: 1943
~ Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. ~
- Dean Koontz
~ The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. ~
- Meryl Streep
Groningen, 28-01-2009.
Chaim Potok – De hand van de golem. ’s-Gravenhage, BZZTôH, september 1995 (4), 159 pagina’s. Juni 1995 (1). Oorspronkelijke Amerikaanse titel The Golem’s Hand, vertaald door Marianne Verhaart.
Wanneer de negenentachtigjarige timmerman Leo Shartov na een huwelijk van dertig jaar zijn vrouw verliest, gaat hij na een aantal maanden van besluiteloosheid in de buurt van zijn dochter wonen. Zij is onlangs met haar man verhuisd naar een woning die nodig moet worden opgeknapt omdat zij een kind verwacht. Leo biedt aan de kamer te verbouwen die voor de nieuwe baby, zijn eerste kleinkind, gebruikt zal worden.
Terwijl Leo gestaag vordert met zijn werkzaamheden, komen lang onderdrukte herinneringen uit een ver verleden naar boven, herinneringen aan de tijd dat hij een belangrijke rol speelde in het stalinistische Rusland. Zijn dochter weet niets van die tijd. Ze weet niet dat de eigenlijke wortels van haar vader in een tijd liggen dat hij optrad als de rechterhand van Stalin – dat hij zijn handen ooit heel anders gebruikt heeft dan ze van hem gewend is.
Maar als Leo op een nacht alleen is met zijn pasgeboren kleinkind, neemt hij haar in zijn armen en begint haar de waarheid over zijn leven te vertellen…
Mijn mening vind je op Dit is Suzanne leest.
Chaim Potok op Wikipedia (Engels)
Chaim Potok | De familie Slepak
My Books set.
I've always had a thing for glasses - even though my sight is actually fine - so I thought I would try out a cute librarian meets flamenco dancer look, matching the glasses and hair with my baby blue Dotti party dress that swayed around my hips and barely covered my bum as I had a dance in the living room!
Presidium Gurgaon’s masters of debate and reasoned expression have won the Inter School
BEHES Debate championship. They have qualified for national level Finals. Their
intellect, reasoning and quick-witted replies gave them a well deserved win.
More than 200 students from schools all over Delhi, participated in the championship
and Presidians outshined them and won a total of 14 medals-6 Gold, 5 Silver and 3
Bronze. They proudly claimed the Championship Gold trophy and the Overall Best Speaker
trophy.
The winners are:
1. Prarthita Nath of Grade XII, won a Gold medal, the Overall Best speaker trophy and
her team won the Championship trophy.
2. Nuti Yadav, from Grade XII, won Gold medal and her team won the Championship trophy.
3. Kshirin Rao, from Grade XII, won a Silver medal and her team won the Championship
trophy;
4. Naisha Kamboj, from Grade VIII, won Gold medal.
5. Arahant Vishnu Saini, from Grade VII, won a Gold medal.
6. Ayush Rahul Savdekar, from Grade VI, won a Gold medal.
7. Raghav Sharma, from Grade IV, won a Gold medal.
8. Laiba Rahman, from Grade XI, won a Silver medal.
9. Joeell Singh, from Grade IX, won a Silver medal.
10. Bhavika Gupta, from Grade VIII, won a Silver medal.
11. Ria Bhargava, from Grade VII, won a Silver medal.
12. Pari Shukla, from Grade VII, won a Bronze medal.
13. Megha Chauhan, from Grade XII, won a Bronze medal.
14. Aakriti Sidhu, from Grade IX, won a Bronze medal.
15. Prisha Sinha, from Grade VII, won a Bronze medal.
16. Nischal Parwani, from Grade VII, won a Bronze medal.
Congratulations to our young debaters and their mentors.
#BeWhatYouWantToBe
#Presidium
Embassy of Brazil in London on January 20th, 2012
This event was hosted by UKTI and Intellect and focused on the trading opportunities existing between the UK and Brazil in the hi-tech sector. The slides I used during my own presentation can be found here:
I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
I loved both quotes. Galileo has a very keen intellect and excellent observational powers and we tend to forget these days that he was both a Scientist and a deeply religious man at the same time - I doubt that many people could tell you what hes actually famous for if you asked let alone tell you about his complex relationship with the church.
And yet the man is a wonderfull example of what it is to server 2 masters, Galileo loved the bible and god and yet could not deny what he saw around him - and he took up arms against the church and its tradition and it cost him dearly and yet his faith in God was constant.
Perhaps that why hes a favorite of mine - he refused to deny what he knew was true; that the earth and the planets revolved around the sun; even after being forced to recant by the inquisition - what more can you say about a man who when finally forced to submit states his recantation and yet under his breath still refuses, muttering Eppur si muove (and yet it moves) despite the recantation he had been forced to make by the church he still could not bring himself to hate.
Oh and I liked this photo as well, for me the cross and the candle have always been 2 of the most powerfull images of Christianity - theyre almost a perfect representation of 2 parts of the trinity when you think about it - the father and the son (god is light of the world and the cross.. well you get it) And it worked well.