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One of the few books of its kind, Acting Up and Getting Down brings together seven African American literary voices that all have a connection to the Lone Star state. Covering Texas themes and universal ones, this collection showcases often-overlooked literary talents to bring to life inspiring facets of black theatre history.
Capturing the intensity of racial violence in Texas, from the Battle of San Jacinto to a World War I–era riot at a Houston training ground, Celeste Bedford Walker’s Camp Logan and Ted Shine’s Ancestors provide fascinating narratives through the lens of history. Thomas Meloncon’s Johnny B. Goode and George Hawkins’s Br’er Rabbit explore the cultural legacies of blues music and folktales. Three unflinching dramas (Sterling Houston’s Driving Wheel, Eugene Lee’s Killingsworth, and Elizabeth Brown-Guillory’s When the Ancestors Call) examine homosexuality, a death in the family, and child abuse, bringing to light the private tensions of intersections between the individual and the community.
Supplemented by a chronology of black literary milestones as well as a playwrights’ canon, Acting Up and Getting Down puts the spotlight on creative achievements that have for too long been excluded from Texas letters. The resulting anthology not only provides new insight into a regional experience but also completes the American story as told onstage.
The stage was set for conflict: The First Congress of the Republic of Texas had arbitrarily designated the Rio Grande as the boundary of the new nation. Yet the historic boundaries of Texas, under Spain and Mexico, had never extended beyond the Nueces River. Mexico, unwilling to acknowledge Texas independence, was even more unwilling to allow this further encroachment upon her territory.
But neither country was in a strong position to substantiate claims; so the conflict developed as a war of futile threats, border raids, and counterraids. Nevertheless, men died—often heroically—and this is the first full story of their bitter struggle. Based on original sources, it is an unbiased account of Texas-Mexican relations in a crucial period.
As Mexican soldiers fought the mostly Anglo-American colonists and volunteers at the Alamo in 1836, San Antonio's Tejano population was caught in the crossfire, both literally and symbolically. Though their origins were in Mexico, the Tejanos had put down lasting roots in Texas and did not automatically identify with the Mexican cause. Indeed, as the accounts in this new collection demonstrate, their strongest allegiance was to their fellow San Antonians, with whom they shared a common history and a common plight as war raged in their hometown.
Timothy M. Matovina here gathers all known Tejano accounts of the Battle of the Alamo. These accounts consist of first reports of the battle, including Juan N. Seguín's funeral oration at the interment ceremony of the Alamo defenders, conversations with local Tejanos, unpublished petitions and depositions, and published accounts from newspapers and other sources. This communal response to the legendary battle deepens our understanding of the formation of Mexican American consciousness and identity.
Alexander Edwin Sweet (1841-1901) is Texas's own "Sifter," whose humorous columns appeared in the Galveston Daily News in the late 1870s and early 1880s. In his wickedly funny, tongue-in-cheek sketches, readers learned of an astonishing variety of frontier phenomena, some familiar, others downright odd. For example, there was the typical nineteenth-century custom of New Year's Day receptions for bachelor guests only, with refreshments consisting largely of strong drink and equally strong fruitcake. Imbibing a bit more cheer at each stop, according to Sweet, the bachelors brought the last prospective sweethearts they visited New Year's greetings as incoherent as they were heartfelt.
At times Sweet parodied the Yankee image of the typical Texan, whom he described as "half alligator, half human," eating raw buffalo and toting an arsenal of weaponry like a "perambulating gun-rack." But he also did as much as any writer to establish and enlarge upon the national image of Texas and Texans. Even the irascible red ant and the other "critters" in Sweet's column were Texas big and Texas-fabulous!
In 1881 Sweet co-founded Texas Siftings, a humor magazine that moved from Austin to New York to become one of the most popular periodicals of its kind in the United States. From Texas Siftings, from Sweet's two published books (one called by John Jenkins in Basic Texas Books the "best volume of 19th century Texas humor"), and from many never-before-collected newspaper columns, editor Virginia Eisenhour has assembled an Alex Sweet sampler that presents the very best of the timeless humorist's work. The result—Alex Sweet's Texas—clearly demonstrates why the New York Journal pronounced Sweet "second to no living writer in freshness, originality, sparkling wit, and refined humor." A century later, that wit still sparkles and is guaranteed to delight Texans present as it once did Texans past.
"And Other Neighborly Names"—the title is from a study by Americo Paredes of the names, complimentary and otherwise, exchanged across cultural boundaries by Anglos and Mexicans—is a collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas. The approach builds on the work of the folklorists who have helped give the study of folklore in Texas such high standing in the field-Mody Boatright, J. Frank Dobie, John Mason Brewer, the Lomaxes, and of course Paredes himself, to whom this book is dedicated.
Focusing on the ways in which traditions arise and are maintained where diverse peoples come together, the editors and other essayists—John Holmes McDowell, Joe Graham, Alicia María González, Beverly J. Stoeltje, Archie Green, José E. Limón, Thomas A. Green, Rosan A. Jordan, Patrick B. Mullen, and Manuel H. Peña—examine conjunto music, the corrido, Gulf fishermen's stories, rodeo traditions, dog trading and dog-trading tales, Mexican bakers' lore, Austin's "cosmic cowboy" scene, and other fascinating aspects of folklore in Texas. Their emphasis is on the creative reaction to socially and culturally pluralistic situations, and in this they represent a distinctively Texan way of studying folklore, especially as illustrated in the performance-centered approach of Paredes, Boatright, and others who taught at the University of Texas at Austin. As an overview of this approach—its past, present, and future—"And Other Neighborly Names" makes a valuable contribution both to Texas folklore and to the discipline as a whole.
Winner, Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization Of American Historians, 1988
American Historical Association, Pacific Branch Book Award, 1989
Texas Institute of Letters Friends Of The Dallas Public Library Award, 1987
Texas Historical Commission T. R. Fehrenbach Award, Best Ethnic, Minority, And Women's History Publication, 1987
This is the story of a New Englander who came penniless to Mexican Texas in 1833 and within the next decade helped to bring his adopted country through the turbulent disorders of settlement, revolution, political experimentation, and statehood.
Within a year of his arrival, Anson Jones was successfully practicing medicine, acquiring land, and resolving to avoid politics; but then the Revolution erupted and Jones became a private in the Texas Army, doubling as surgeon at San Jacinto. Military duty done, he resumed medical practice but some acts of the First Congress so irked him that he became a member of the Second and began a political career that lasted from 1837 to 1846 during which he served successively as congressman, minister to the United States, Texas senator, secretary of state, and president of the Republic of Texas. Anson Jones took his own life on January 9, 1858.
Told with imagination and insight, Herbert Gambrell's account of the life of Anson Jones is also a colorful and concurrent biography of Texas and its people.
Addressing Native American studies past, present, and future, the essays in New Indians, Old Wars tackle the discipline head-on, presenting a radical revision of the popular view of the American West in the process. Instead of luxuriating in the West's past glories or accepting the widespread historians' view of it as a shared place, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn argues that the American West should be fundamentally understood as stolen.
Cook-Lynn says that the Indian Wars of Resistance to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century colonial effort to seize native lands and resources must be given standing in the face of the ever-growing imperial narrative of America--because the terror the world is now witnessing may be the direct consequence of events which began in America's earliest dealings with the natives of this continent. Cook-Lynn's story examines the ongoing and perennial relationship of conflict between colonizers and indigenous people, and it is a story that every American must read.
Cook-Lynn understands that the story of the American West teaches the political language of land theft and tyranny. She argues that to remedy this situation, Native American studies must be considered and pursued as its own discipline, rather than as a subset of history or anthropology. She makes an impassioned claim that such a shift, not merely an institutional or theoretical change, could allow Native American studies to play an important role in defending the sovereignty of indigenous nations today.
How does a prison achieve institutional order while safeguarding prisoners' rights? Since the early 1960s, prison reform advocates have aggressively used the courts to extend rights and improve life for inmates, while prison administrators have been slow to alter the status quo. Litigated reform has been the most significant force in obtaining change.
An Appeal to Justice is a critical tudy of how the Texas Department of Corrections was transformed by Ruiz v. Estelle, the most sweeping class-action suit in correctional law history. Orders from federal judge William W. Justice rapidly moved the Texas system from one of the most autonomous, isolated, and paternalistic system to a more constitutional bureaucracy. In many respects the Texas experience is a microcosm of the transformation of American corrections over the second half of the twentieth century.
This is a careful account of TDC's fearful past as a plantation system, its tumultuous litigated reform, and its subsequent efforts to balance prisoner rights and prison order. Of major importance is the detailed examination of the broad stages of the reform process (and its costs and benefits) and an intimate look at prison brutality and humanity. The authors examine the terror tactics of the inmate guards, the development of prisoner gangs and widespread violence during the reforms, and the stability that eventually emerged. They also detail the change of the guard force from a relatively small, cohesive cadre dependent on discretion, personal loyalty, and physical dominance to a larger and more fragmented security staff controlled by formal procedures.
Drawing on years of research in archival sources and on hundreds of interviews with prisoners, administrators, and staff, An Appeal to Justice is a unique basis for assessing the course and consequences of prison litigation and will be valuable reading for legislators, lawyers, judges, prison administrators, and concerned citizens, as well as prison and public policy scholars.
Hailed as a model state history thanks to Thomas E. Sheridan's thoughtful analysis and lively interpretation of the people and events shaping the Grand Canyon State, Arizona has become a standard in the field. Now, just in time for Arizona's centennial, Sheridan has revised and expanded this already top-tier state history to incorporate events and changes that have taken place in recent years. Addressing contemporary issues like land use, water rights, dramatic population increases, suburban sprawl, and the US-Mexico border, the new material makes the book more essential than ever. It successfully places the forty-eighth state's history within the context of national and global events. No other book on Arizona history is as integrative or comprehensive.
From stone spear points more than 10,000 years old to the boom and bust of the housing market in the first decade of this century, Arizona: A History explores the ways in which Native Americans, Hispanics, African Americans, Asians, and Anglos have inhabited and exploited Arizona. Sheridan, a life-long resident of the state, puts forth new ideas about what a history should be, embracing a holistic view of the region and shattering the artificial line between prehistory and history. Other works on Arizona's history focus on government, business, or natural resources, but this is the only book to meld the ethnic and cultural complexities of the state's history into the main flow of the story.
A must read for anyone interested in Arizona's past or present, this extensive revision of the classic work will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers alike.
A clearing in the ponderosa pine forest called Volunteer Prairie met the military's criteria for a munitions depot—open terrain, a cool climate, plentiful water, and proximity to a railroad—and it was also sufficiently inland to be safe from the threat of coastal invasion. Constructing a depot of 800 ammunition bunkers, each the size of a 2,000-square-foot home, called for a force of 8,000 laborers, and Flagstaff became a boom town overnight as construction workers and their families poured in from nearby Indian reservations and as far away as the Midwest and South. More than 2,000 were retained as permanent employees—a larger workforce than Flagstaff's total pre-war employment roster.
As Westerlund's portrait of wartime Flagstaff shows, prosperity brought unanticipated consequences: racism simmered beneath the surface of the town as ethnic groups were thrown together for the first time; merchants called a city-wide strike to protest emerging union activity; juvenile delinquency rose dramatically; Flagstaff women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers, altering local mores along with their own plans for the future; meanwhile, hundreds of sailors and marines arrived at Arizona State Teachers College to participate in the Navy's "V-12" program. Whether recounting the difficulty of 3,500 Navajo and Hopi employees adjusting to life off the reservation or the complaints of townspeople that Austrian POWs-transferred to the depot to ease the labor shortage-were treated too well, Westerlund shows that the construction and maintenance of the facility was far more than a military matter.
Navajo Ordnance Depot remained operational to support wars in Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf, and today Camp Navajo provides storage for thousands of deactivated ICBM motors. But in recounting its early days, Westerlund has skillfully blended social and military history to vividly portray not only a city's transitional years but also the impact of military expansion on economic and community development in the American West.
It is 1842—a dramatic year in the history of Texas-Mexican relations. After five years of uneasy peace, of futile negotiations, of border raids and temporary, unofficial truces, a series of military actions upsets the precarious balance between the two countries. Once more the Mexican Army marches on Texas soil; once more the frontier settlers strengthen their strongholds for defense or gather their belongings for flight. Twice San Antonio falls to Mexican generals; twice the Texans assemble armies for the invasion of Mexico. It is 1842—a year of attack and counterattack.
This is the story that Joseph Milton Nance relates, with a definitiveness and immediacy which come from many years of meticulous research. The exciting story of 1842 is a story of emotions which had simmered through the long, insecure years and which now boil out in blustery threats and demands for vengeance. The Texans threaten to march beyond the Sierra Madres and raise their flag at Monterrey; the Mexicans promise to subdue this upstart Texas and to teach its treacherous inhabitants their place. With communications poor and imaginations fertile, rumors magnify chance banditry into military raids, military raids into full-scale invasions. Newspapers incite their readers with superdramatic, intoxicating accounts of the events. Texans and Mexicans alike respond with a kind of madness that has little or no method. Texas solicits volunteers, calls out troops, plans invasions, and assembles her armies, completely disregarding the fact that her treasury is practically empty—there is little money to buy guns. Meanwhile, in Mexico, where gold and silver are needed for other purposes, “invasions” of Texas are launched—but they are only brief forays more suitable for impressive publicity than for permanent gains.
Still, the conflicts of threat and retaliation, so often futile, are frequently dignified by idealism, friendship, courage, and determination. Both Mexicans and Texans are fighting and dying for liberty, defending their homes against foreign invaders, establishing and maintaining friendships that cross racial and national boundaries, struggling with conflicting loyalties, and—all the while—striving to wrest a living for themselves and their families from the grudging frontier.
Attack and Counterattack, continuing the account which was begun in After San Jacinto, tells from original sources the full story of Texas-Mexican relations from the time of the Santa Fe Expedition through the return of the Somervell Expedition from the Rio Grande. These books examine in great detail and with careful accuracy a period of Texas history that had not heretofore been thoroughly studied and that had seldom been given unbiased treatment. The source materials compiled in the notes and bibliography—particularly the military reports, letters, diaries, contemporary newspapers, and broadsides—will be a valuable tool for any scholar who wishes to study this or related periods.
Austin, Texas, entered the aviation age on October 29, 1911, when Calbraith Perry Rodgers landed his Wright EX Flyer in a vacant field near the present-day intersection of Duval and 45th Streets. Some 3,000 excited people rushed out to see the pilot and his plane, much like the hundreds of thousands who mobbed Charles A. Lindbergh and The Spirit of St. Louis in Paris sixteen years later. Though no one that day in Austin could foresee all the changes that would result from manned flight, people here—as in cities and towns across the United States—realized that a new era was opening, and they greeted it with all-out enthusiasm.
This popularly written history tells the story of aviation in Austin from 1911 to the opening of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in 1999. Kenneth Ragsdale covers all the significant developments, beginning with military aviation activities during World War I and continuing through the barnstorming era of the 1920s, the inauguration of airmail service in 1928 and airline service in 1929, and the dedication of the first municipal airport in 1930. He also looks at the University of Texas's role in training pilots during World War II, the growth of commercial and military aviation in the postwar period, and the struggle over airport expansion that occupied the last decades of the twentieth century. Throughout, he shows how aviation and the city grew together and supported each other, which makes the Austin aviation experience a case study of the impact of aviation on urban communities nationwide.
Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2015
The Texas of vast open spaces inhabited by independent, self-reliant men and women may be more of a dream than a reality for the state’s largely urban population, but it still exists in the Big Bend. One of the most sparsely settled areas of the United States, the Big Bend attracts people who are willing to forego many modern conveniences for a lifestyle that proclaims “don’t fence me in.” Marcia Hatfield Daudistel and Bill Wright believe that the character traits exemplified by folks in the Big Bend—including self-sufficiency, friendliness, and neighborliness—go back to the founding of the state. In this book, they introduce us to several dozen Big Bend residents—old and young, long-settled and recently arrived, racially diverse—who show us what it means to be an authentic Texan.
Interviewing people in Marathon, Big Bend National Park, Terlingua, Redford, Presidio, Alpine, Marfa, Valentine, Balmorhea, Limpia Crossing, and Fort Davis, Daudistel and Wright discover the reasons why residents of the Big Bend make this remote area of Texas their permanent home. In talking to ranchers and writers, entrepreneurs and artists, people living off the grid and urban refugees, they find a common willingness to overcome difficulties through individual skill and initiative. As one interviewee remarks, you have to have a lot of “try” in you to make a life in the Big Bend. Bill Wright’s photographs of the people and landscapes are a perfect complement to the stories of these authentic Texans. Together, these voices and images offer the most complete, contemporary portrait of the Texas Big Bend.
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Interviewer: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia, what is it? What causes it and what can you do about it? We'll cover the basics of this terrible birth defect next on The Scope.
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Interviewer: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia, also known as CDH. You might not have ever heard of it but it's likely more common than you thought. It's estimated about 1 in 3,000 children are born with it, which puts it with diseases you've heard about like spina bifida, which is one in 1,000 or even cystic fibrosis, which is about the same, one in every 3,000. Dr. Stephen Jay Fenton, the pediatric surgeon is also an expert in congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Thanks for taking time to talk about this somewhat unknown disease. Is that a fair assessment?
CDH Life Expectancy
Dr. Fenton: It's obviously well known to us. We take care of it often but I think maybe some of it is secondary to the survivability. I mean it isn't something where kids will live as long as some of the kids with cystic fibrosis. So there are not as many families out there that are dealing with these types of kids. There is about 40 percent to 50 percent mortality rate associated right off the bat with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
So now the children that survive, most of them will go on and live normal lives as a kid but it's something that's dealt with in the neonatal period primarily and not later on in life and so that might bring a little less notoriety to it.
As far as cystic fibrosis there's a lot more kids although it's one in 3,000. There are a lot more kids with cystic fibrosis kind of walking around out there. Some of it may be who is the champion for it, whether there's celebrities that are champions for cystic fibrosis or whatnot. I mean I think that might play a part as well.
What Is CDH?
Interviewer: Yeah. So a pregnant woman is told her baby as CDH. What does that mean for the child?
Dr. Fenton: First of all, we should just kind of talk about what it is which is basically a hole in the diaphragm. And the diaphragm is the muscle between the abdomen and the chest. And what happens is this hole develops early in the development of the child and causes bowel or solid organs to herniate up into the chest.
When it does this it arrests the lung in an earlier stage of development. And so what ultimately happens is not a matter of the intestines or liver, let's say, being up into the chest but it's actually result of very hypoplastic or underdeveloped lungs as well as thickened pulmonary arteries. And that's really the big consequence of a CDH.
Interviewer: I see. It's not a physical hole you see though in the stomach. It's all internal, right?
Dr. Fenton: It's all internal. Yeah, you would never see it on the child. The only thing you really see on the child is that their belly looks really, really flat and it looks much flatter than normal because some of their abdominal contents were up in the chest.
Interviewer: So if I'm understanding correctly what happens is because of this membrane is not there, the organs move up and is that what stunts the growth of the lungs?
Dr. Fenton: Exactly.
Interviewer: There's just no space for them to grow.
Dr. Fenton: That's exactly right.
Interviewer: Is this something that can be detected before the woman gives birth?
Dr. Fenton: Oh, yes. Yeah. The great majority of these are detected prenatally, during the screening ultrasound let's say. So ultrasound is very good at detecting the herniation.
Interviewer: So give me an idea of the degrees then. How many children are born and it's not super serious. It's something that can be... or is it always super serious?
Dr. Fenton: Yeah. Very, very rarely. Every now and then I would say we get a child maybe one or two, every couple of years that come in and are great. Most kids though come in with a pretty big defect and because of the size of the defect they have very underdeveloped lungs and have something called pulmonary hypertension which is also a consequence of the underdevelopment of the lungs and they're sick.
They require ventilatory support so they need to be on a ventilator. They require medications sometimes to help with their blood pressure and how well their heart is working. And they also require medications to try and help open up the pulmonary arteries in order to reduce what we call pulmonary hypertension which is really something that we did as challenge immediately after birth.
CDH Repair in Infants
Interviewer: As a surgeon then, what do you do to try to solve this problem?
Dr. Fenton: Well, the surgery is a major step but it's not the first step as far as these are concerned. Once the kids are born, the key is really to stabilize them from a medical standpoint. So we want to try and help them breath, but we want to do it in a way that won't cause long term damage to the lungs. So we want to kind of do this gentle ventilation if possible and sometimes that can be very difficult because they require quite a bit of support.
We also want to make sure that we're supporting them from a cardiac standpoint. So we need to make sure that their heart is working well, that their blood pressure is normal. And then we need to work them up for any further anomalies. And then once they've stabilized their pulmonary hypertension is under control, we feel like they've been stable for at least 24 hours then we repair them. And this does require surgery, so we do make an incision in the abdomen and we go in and we go find the hole and there's really kind of three options that we can do to fix it.
So one is the hole really isn't that big and we're able to bring the two edges together without tension. When we can do that, then we just close it what we say primarily. But most of the time the holes are bigger than that and we can't close it without tension. So in that case we can either put a synthetic patch in, something that has called it a dual mesh. It has cortex on it so it protects the lung on one side and kind of allows tissue to grow into it on the other side. And that will allow us to close the hole without tension.
One of the things that we do here at Primary's is what we call a muscle flap. The abdominal is made of three muscles to the side and we actually take the internal-most muscle and rotate it inward and sew it in. So it's what we call a biologic fix, meaning that it's actually part of the baby that is helping repair the hole. And we like that because we found that it reduces the risk of it coming back. So reduces the risk of recurrence and then it also grows with the child.
Interviewer: Okay. So after the repair is done, the organs are back where they belong. What's the recovery process at that point?
Dr. Fenton: So it's still quite a bit. Now I usually tell parents they should plan on their child being in the hospital for three to four months.
Interviewer: Will the lungs ever fully develop properly?
Dr. Fenton: Yeah. Well the lungs actually continue to grow until the child is around eight years of age. So with support, and if we've been able to use gentle techniques to the point where the lungs aren't damaged, then they should be able to grow to the point where the child can live a pretty normal life. Now some of them are so severe that they will have some pulmonary consequences later on in life. They might still require some oxygen. They might not be able to exert themselves as much without being tired.
Now I think something that is important is that these kids are kids that should be followed for a long period of time. So they will still have some consequences of pulmonary hypertension. So it's not a child that after their repair and after they leave the hospital, we don't see. They're actually children that are still followed by specialists.
Interviewer: Do you have any thoughts for parents or families that found out that this is a birth defect that's in their family?
Dr. Fenton: I guess the biggest thing to say is that they can be well supported. Even though it's not known commonly throughout the community, it is something that we treat very often at Primary Children's Hospital. There are a lot of specialists that deal with this not just from the surgical standpoint but from the lung standpoint, from the neonatal standpoint, etcetera. And they can come and see these specialists and get the support, that information that they need that will help them not only through the difficult time prenatally but also through the time immediately after birth and then throughout the child.
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UR laser lab targeted for closure by U.S. Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy has proposed a gradual shutdown of the University of Rochester's Laboratory of Laser Energetics, a facility at the center of the region's research and commercial interests in energy and optics.
In a summary document of a 2019 departmental budget request, the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration proposes "a three-year ramp-down in NNSA support for the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics, including the aged Omega Laser Facility." The UR lab currently gets about $70 million a year from NNSA, representing the bulk of its funding.
The proposal was first reported by Physics Today. The National Nuclear Security Administration did not respond to a request for comment.
More:OMEGA laser figures in 2 scientific discoveries
LLE Director Michael Campbell called the news "unfathomable," particularly since DOE officials were at the lab just last week to discuss a proposal for a new agreement with the lab, to begin in October. He said he is confident the local congressional delegation, both Democrats and Republicans, will be able to secure the funding needed to continue.
LLE is a smaller counterpart to two massive government-owned centers, the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in northern California and Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. Its primary purpose is to work on the preliminary steps toward achieving nuclear fusion with energy gain, an elusive breakthrough that would have enormous implications for both civilian and military purposes.
Robert McCrory, who retired last year as the lab's director, said the UR lasers are fired about 1,500 times per year by hundreds of researchers from dozens of institutions around the world.
Compared to the larger facilities, he said, "We're 80 percent of the shots and 12 percent of the budget."
Just within the last month, the lab's OMEGA laser figured prominently in two important scientific advances about a new state of water and a theory about the magnetization of the young universe.
Scientists often do early work at LLE at 250 East River Road, where laser shots are significantly less expensive, before doing more in-depth research at the larger labs.
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"Most of the experiments at the National Ignition Facility succeed because they do preliminary experiments here," McCrory said. "If this (closure) were to happen, it would be a disaster. ... This needs to get turned around."
The lab, founded in 1970, is also a key component of the high-tech Rochester economy. It employs more than 300 scientists and has spun off many more into private enterprise, largely in the optics and photonics field.
More than 500 people have earned doctorates through work done at the lab, according to UR, including about 200 from other universities. Accessibility to students, Campbell said, is a key feature of the OMEGA laser.
From 2014: UR's Laser Lab is 'The Science Factory'
"If you looked around all the optics people around town, you’d find lots of people who came through the laser lab," said Tom Battley, executive director of the Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster and New York Photonics. "It’s a center that cultivates unbelievable talent, and that’s part of the Rochester optics ecosystem."
In March 2016, UR reported the LLE had an annual local economic impact of $51.7 million, including $44.3 million in salary and benefits to students and researchers as well as $7.4 million of local purchasing.
Sydor Technologies, a local manufacturer of light source-based diagnostic instruments, got its start 14 years ago through a licensing agreement to commercialize a high-tech camera that had been developed at the laser lab.
"We do a lot of work for the laser lab," said Jim Sydor, chairman of another company, Sydor Optics. "But for the Rochester community in general, it has brought a lot of scientists from all over the world to do research. It’s a unique piece of science we have here in Rochester and it would be a shame to close it down."
As for the characterization of OMEGA as "aged," Campbell said a DOE official called to formally apologize after the budget document came out.
"It's blatantly false," he said. "It's a completely nonsensical statement, and anyone who has used (OMEGA) can tell you that."
Instead, Campbell and McCrory said it represents a change of priorities in the Trump administration, away from the science underlying nuclear technology and toward extending the life of the current weapons arsenal.
"This administration just hasn’t gotten its arms around science yet," Campbell said. "I hope it does, but it hasn’t yet."
In January 2015, the directors of Lawrence Livermore, Sandia and Los Alamos wrote a joint letter to the National Nuclear Security Administration, urging investment in the high-energy work done at UR and elsewhere as part of an effort at sustaining the existing nuclear stockpile.
McCrory called the budget proposal, released last week, "a real sneak attack."
"They always protect their own labs, and the people who make these decisions come from these labs," he said, referring to the Lawrence Livermore and Sandia labs. "So you're taking a couple of foxes and putting them in the henhouse."
LLE has in the past counted on advocacy from its local congressional delegation, including U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-Fairport.
"The laser lab is a critical component of our nation’s national security and a prime example of our region’s worldwide leadership in scientific research," Slaughter said in a statement. "I lead the effort to get this funded every year and have already started reaching out to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to fight this devastating cut."
"The President’s budget includes funding for many essential programs in western New York, although (it) has cuts that I do not agree with for many other important programs like the Laboratory of Laser Energetics," Collins said in a statement. "I’ve been a strong supporter of the LLE and the groundbreaking research it produces from the hundreds of scientists that are dedicated to its mission."
"Turning out the lights on Rochester’s laser lab is a horrible plan," Schumer said in a statement. "It would not only slash (the jobs of) the 340 high tech engineers and scientists who work there, but it would jeopardize the safety, security, and reliability of our nation’s nuclear weapon arsenal. Simply put, I will do everything possible to prevent the administration’s wrongheaded effort to cut funding for the University of Rochester's laser lab."

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After watching the film called ‘Act of War’, I again felt that countries’ do not stand for justice but only pursue their national interests. The reason why Hawaii was so desirable to the United States was the imperialistic characteristic that America had at that time. Even a small island or land is into the consideration of taking over. In detail, the Americans wanted to use the land as their military base and a strategic spot for expanding their imperialism to Asia. The fact that American continent was far away from Asian and European continent, made them realize that in order to empower their global power they need to first dominate the closest countries, even a small land that they consider it trivial. By taking over quickly, a lot of aspects of Hawaiian culture got distorted
Many Native Hawaiian people have lost touch with their culture. Many people around the world don’t know about the unique Hawaiian culture. People in America don’t know a lot about these unique Hawaiian arts either. Many of the old Hawaiian traditions were lost because foreigners took over the Hawaiian islands and banned many Hawaiian traditions that have been going on for decades. This loss of culture was devastating for the people and was hard to gain back after almost being completely eliminated. To teach new generations about the old Hawaiian culture, this research paper will detail what it was like years ago. It will also explain why the Hawaiian culture and traditions should be reinstated. This paper will explain how the traditions
The Colonization of Hawaiian Identity The idea that identity can be measured, reduces the complexity of a person’s social identity to their biology and functions to shape race narratives in a way that leaves the indigenous people at a disadvantage. A continuous battle over sovereignty and claims to land continue today as many struggle with meeting the strict blood quantum regulations required. The attempt to define Hawaiian identity without having it come from the Native Hawaiians themselves, is rooted in settler colonialism and a misunderstanding of Hawaiian kinship that continues to be perpetuated by legislation.
The United States has inflicted imperialism on the island Hawaii on January 17, 1893. They did this by overthrowing the government which was a monarchy and its ruler was Queen Liliuokalani. Then by overthrowing the sugar planters who overthrew the Queen, President William Mckinley was able to obtaining the territory for the U.S after the Spanish-American war. The U.S wanted to obtain Hawaii because of its monopoly on Sugar and its Sugar exports to The United States. The United States wanted to obtain the territory also to get rid of taxes on them and the business, and wealthy people were losing their ability to manipulate the government and wanted it as a naval base like pearl harbor.
The Hawaiian Islands has this image of being the perfect vacation destination for people all around the world. The island’s welcoming “aloha” culture is very popular and spoken of around the world. Yet, lately not only native Hawaiians live there, many tourists visit all year long and many families and businessmen decided to move and live there as well. This makes the island diversified and multicultural. Through the years, many waves of immigrations took place and more non-locals began living in Hawaii.
Who can speak for a people? I will attempt to shed some light on these questions, using the writings this week of Sahlins, Obeyesekere and Borofsky. I feel the most important question of the three is who can speak for a people, in this case, the Hawaiian people. In this week’s reading, How “Natives” Think, Marshall Sahlins is focused on the question of whether the Hawaiian people were “victims of magical thinking and their own traditions” (p. 1) when they perceived Captain Cook “as a manifestation of their returning year-god Lono” (p. 1).
Hawaii’s culture is about 1500 years old. The culture started when Polynesians voyaged to Hawaii and settled there. Hawaiian culture is based on three main aspects. Food such as broiling pig, taro and banana. Dance including the hula or as it was traditionally called Kahiko and warfare/weapons examples including the Koa and different forms of training and attach techniques. These three aspects will come to be the backbone of Hawaiian culture.
Even though people have no direct connection with one another, they could find similarities and differences within each other by observing individual’s life. In the memoir, The Red-Headed Hawaiian by Chris McKinney and Rudy Puana, a life of Rudy has been described from his childhood to his adulthood. The journey of Rudy Puana starts with cultural identity and ends in cultural identity, in which Hawaiian and haole culture became obstacles as well as solutions to his problem. Throughout Rudy’s educational period, he experienced mistreatment, hardship, and recoveries from the undesirable conditions. His life is especially different from other life as well as from my life.
“That year the islands were plunged into upheaval when pineapple grower Sanford Dole used American military forces to overthrow the governing Hawaiian monarchy under Queen Liliuokalani. Dole established a republic on the islands in 1894 and in 1900 all Hawaiians were made United States citizens.” (Encyclopedia)
During this time, the Hawaii had earned a new leader, known as Queen Liliuokalani, who viewed the majority of Hawaii’s problems caused by the foreign interference of the United States. Moreover, in the year of 1893, the planters had felt as if in order for the conflict of the “McKinley Tariff”
Kumulipo is a Hawaiian chant that describes the story of creation along with a genealogy of Hawaiian royalty. This story was brought to Hawaii by the marriage of two people, Pi 'ikea and ‘Umi. During the time of the formation of this myth Hawaiia was under the authority of a corrupt monarchy, and the dominant religion on the island was Roman Catholicism. It was first printed in 1889, at the time it was in possession of the ruling king, Kalakaua. The story of creation is told by a series of 16 chants, many containing multiple parts. Through those 16 chants it is revealed that Po’ele was Kumulipo’s wife and they had a child named Pouliuli. According to the story, this is how the creation of the world began. The origin of man was connected to
The United State’s annexation of Hawaii in 1898 led to the gradual destruction of the Hawaiian culture and the almost-extinction of native-born Hawaiians. The majority of the Hawaiian natives opposed the annexation of Hawaii and wanted to maintain their sovereignty. Although the Japanese could have taken over the Hawaiian islands if the United States had not, the annexation of Hawaii by the U.S. was unjustified because of the treatment of the monarchy and natives, the infringement of the natives’ self-established culture and government, and the natives’ overwhelming opposition to the U.S’s involvement in Hawaii.
There are two kinds of people, the people who persist and try without giving up, and the people who make up excuses for why they aren't doing anything. In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, and the biography “The Red Headed Hawaiian” by Chris McKinney, the characters and people show culture by going back on what they know, and their traditions. In these two stories, it takes about how Jing-Mei and Rudy Puana are trying to find confidence and having to adapt to a new culture. Rudy Puana in “The Red Headed Hawaiian” struggles with trying to adapt to the new culture of the mainland, while also keeping his Hawaiian culture. The culture on the mainland is more family oriented, with family dinners every night.
The Immorality of the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy Throughout the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy in 1893 and the annexation of the islands as a territory, to the statehood granted in 1959, the United States has committed immoral and unnecessary actions against the indigenous people of Hawaii. Queen Liliuokalani had been freshly bestowed the position of reigning sovereignty in 1891, after the current king Kalakaua had passed away and the second-in-line, W.P. Leleiohoku, had already died. She was the first and last ruling Queen of the Hawaiian monarchy, and she was displeased with the state of the monarchy after her brothers rule. The monarchy had lost power under Kalakaua after he had been forced to sign the Bayonet constitution, a

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Volunteers for the local AARP Tax-Aide have started training on how to prepare taxes. Last year about 350 people took advantage of the free service; this year the same number or more are expected.
"We have people come from Alabama and Philadelphia," says Sandra McMullan, who is the local coordinator for the initiative.
However, because leaders in Washington did not agree on tax changes until the start of the new year, the IRS is being delayed and will not accept any returns until January 30th. Despite the delay for filing, Barbara Matthews, who's a local H&R Block Office Leader, says now is a good time to at least do the needed paperwork.
"It won't go to the IRS until January 30th, but you can get it prepared," says Matthews. "You'll know what the result is and what your refund is and it will be in the first batch of returns that the IRS will accept."
This could mean that the people who file first could get their returns first.
For small business owners and others who have complex returns there may be additional filing delays. That's because some of the forms, which the IRS prepares that are used by those taxpayers, are not ready. In fact, some of those forms are not expected to be ready until late February or maybe early March.
Aside from delays, this year's tax results could affect individuals' health care costs.
"The state exchanges will open in October 2013," says Matthews. "Everyone has to have health insurance by the first of 2014. What these state exchanges will do is use the information on the 2012 tax return, the one that you're getting ready to file now, to see if you possibly qualify for a government subsidy that will help you pay for your health insurance premiums."
At this time the deadline to file taxes is still April 15th.
Starting February 5th the AARP Tax-Aide initiative in Meridian will provide free tax preparation. The service is open to anyone throughout the tax season on Tuesday and Thursdays from 9 AM until 1 PM. Reservations are required. To schedule an appointment call (601) 482-0512.
This Saturday, January 19th, H&R Block offices in Meridian will sponsor Open House events from 11 AM until 1 PM. The public is invited to stop by the offices and get their tax filing questions answered.


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IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG – AT 9:27 A.M. ET: We cannot independently verify this, but John Hinderaker, at Powerline, is reporting the following:
It is being reported that Democratic Party operatives are evicting court-appointed Republican poll watchers from polling places in Philadelphia. Specifically, this reportedly has happened in Ward 32, Div 13; Ward 43, Div 14; Ward 56, Div 1; Ward 56, Div 22; Ward 32, Div 28; Ward 32, Div 28; Ward 12, Div 17; Ward 39, Div 1; Ward 24, Div 9; Ward 18, Div 25; Ward 43, Div 14; Ward 29, Div 18; Ward 65, Div 19; Ward 20, Div 1; and Ward 6, Div 11. The idea is to kick out the Republicans, then stuff the box with ballots marked for Obama. This is how some of these precincts have achieved 99 to 100% turnout in past elections.
The story is, as they say, developing…
UPDATE: The New Black Panthers are out, too, “guarding” the same voting location where they were criminally prosecuted for voter intimidation in 2008.
COMMENT: We assume the Romney legal forces are on the case. Don't expect much help from the Obama Justice Department. We'll follow this.
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Mysterious are the ways of politics. Why did the BJP ask its time-tested leader Yediyurappa to give up the chief ministership of Karnataka? Why did it ask Basavaraj Bommai, inheritor of a rare tradition of corruption-free politics, to become the new CM?
It cannot be that the BJP has suddenly turned against corruption. Notice that it paid attention to Father Yediyurappa’s request that his two beloved sons be given high positions in state and central governments. Notice also that the loving father took his sons to Delhi in a chartered aircraft. In our country, even politicians marked for the waste basket live in royal style.
The glories of corruption dazzled people so demonstrably under Yediyurappa that his own BJP comrades got worried. A group of influential party MLAs had started feeling that things were getting bad enough to harm the party. The internal campaign they began must be the main factor behind the fall of a leader considered invincible. Only BJP leaders can punish a BJP leader.
It is ironic that the drama unfolded in Karnataka even as the Prime Minister declared that dynastic politics was the greatest threat to democracy. The Prime Minister’s stock in trade is exaggeration. He knows what everyone knows: That Indira Gandhi, the embodiment of dynastic politics, failed to get her dynasty entrenched. If she had succeeded, Rahul Gandhi would be sitting on the throne, instead of struggling as he does to find a name and habitation for himself. Even the magic of Jawaharlal Nehru could not make dynastic politics the threat Modi says it is.
We need to look at countries like Syria to know what dynastic politics is. Its President, Bashar al-Assad, is re-elected whenever elections are held. Currently, he is in his fourth term, having secured 95 per cent of the votes. (The other 5 per cent must have been left out to make things look nice.) Modi faces no such problems. Even well-argued books by reputed researchers pose no problems for him because that is seen as no more than part of functioning democracy. Debashish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane have written ‘To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism’. The title speaks for itself.
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Politicians cannot create public opinion. Based on observed events, public opinion forms on its own. This is why Modi’s efforts to belittle Nehru have been as ineffective as his attempts to cast himself in larger-than-life moulds. India’s democratic culture is rooted in people’s awareness of democracy’s fundamentals. These fundamentals have been part of our routine of life ever since the Constitution was framed and the state started functioning under its terms and conditions.
Let it not be forgotten that the Prime Minister condemned dynastic politics from a platform conspicuously avoided by all other political formations in the country. It was the Constitution Day event in the Central Hall of Parliament and it was boycotted by 14 opposition parties including the Trinamool, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Left parties besides the Congress. Even on a topic accepted by almost all political formations, Modi is unable to get public support from groups outside his own.
The threat to democracy is not from dynastic politics as the Prime Minister says. The real threat is from one-leader politics. It is not accidental that the Modi Cabinet is similar to the astronomical model in which the earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the centre of the universe. Copernicus was ridiculed and threatened when he said the earth went round the Sun.
India has its own Copernicuses who are ridiculed for speaking the truth. But the truth remains unaltered. The earth does go round the Sun. Karnataka goes round the BJP. The burning brightness of the Sun is so powerful that we cannot look at it. The fire that burns at the core of the BJP is so blinding that we cannot really see what is going on. We are happy that a good man emerged from the fire to sit on Karnataka’s CM chair. Will anything more come out of the fire?


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During major foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks, one approach to limit viral transmission is to vaccinate at-risk livestock in a ring around infected premises. The size of the ring required depends on a range of factors, and researchers have developed a mathematical model that determines the best vaccination strategy given this uncertainty. They predict that implementing this model could save nearly $70 million in outbreak costs, strengthening the case for considering vaccination to help control future outbreaks.
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I'd not listened to this in well over 10 years, back before some American decided that dance music should be called "electronica", and before a ginger-haired spikey-bearded toss-bag that I used to be acquainted with nicked my copy at a party sometime early last decade. The git.
Next task - digging up the 40 minute uninterrupted "Blue Room" single. I escaped so far into that as a "young adult" that I nearly lost myself...
Ultraworld was just a collection of raw gametes kicking around the fertilisation chamber relative to the perfectly formed majesty of UFOrb. A perfect album. The next one was rubbish, mind, aside from a subtle Whistle sample. Not that I heard it more than once (and a little "off my head" at that, I'm afraid)
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The band will play alongside fellow ’90s superstars Salt-N-Pepa, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson and Naughty by Nature. To celebrate, New Kids on the Block recorded a throwback song, "’80s Baby," with these acts.
The Denver concert will take place at the Pepsi Center on June 7, 2019.
Tickets go on sale Friday, October 12; American Express card members can purchase tickets starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday, October 9, through 10 p.m. Thursday, October 11.
Purchase tickets at Altitude Tickets, Live Nation or 303-893-8497.

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Poker is a card game that has a long history and has been played all over the world. It is a highly competitive and exciting game, but it can also be very beneficial for players, both professionally and personally.
The mental benefits of playing poker are numerous and include improving a variety of skills, such as decision-making under pressure and self-confidence. In addition, it can help reduce stress and improve physical health.
Learning to Play Well
Getting good at poker involves developing a wide range of strategies and tactics, and it can take a lot of practice to master them all. Some of the key skills that professional players possess are patience, reading other players, and adaptability.
Being patient is a vital skill to develop when it comes to poker, as you will have to sit around for hours waiting for a hand to come your way or for a situation to improve. This can be frustrating for newbies who are used to playing quickly and rushing into situations, but it is important to learn how to sit back and wait for the right time.
Learning to be Patient
It can be easy to get frustrated and lose control of your emotions when you are in the midst of a hand. However, the most successful poker players know that a little patience can go a long way in the game and in life.
One of the best ways to develop this skill is to go through a series of hands until you are comfortable with how you have performed. By learning to be patient, you will be able to handle any situation that arises in the future.
Understanding the Pot Odds
Poker has a lot of similarities to betting, and calculating the odds of winning the pot is a crucial part of the game. It’s important to understand how much you need to bet in order to win the pot, and how many other people are willing to bet before you make your decision.
This is especially true if you are playing against a large number of people at the same time. For example, if you are playing in a $1/$2 cash game with a large amount of aggressive players, it is important to be aware of how the other people at the table are playing.
Another great way to develop this skill is by practicing against a computer program that calculates the odds for various hand combinations. This will allow you to develop a strategy that is specific to your own unique situation.
The most successful poker players have a high degree of self-confidence, and they are able to accept losses when they occur. This is because they know that the good times will return, and they understand that failure is just a bruise on a person’s body, not a tattoo on their soul.
Practicing poker will also help you to develop other important skills, such as reading other people’s behavior at the table and being able to adapt to different environments. These skills can be applied in other areas of life, such as career decisions or negotiating with others.

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Job creation remains a huge challenge in Africa, says the 2013 edition of the economic report on Africa launched on Monday evening in Abidjan by the African Union (AU) and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
The report, which focuses on the theme, “Draw the biggest profit for African-based products: Industrialization in service of growth, employment and economic transformation,” said job creation remained a huge challenge because of the recent growth in Africa, supported by basic products, had weak capacity to create job.
The continent continues to face high unemployment rates, particularly among young men and women, and there are few opportunities to absorb the new entries on the job market.
More than 70% of Africans earn their living by executing precarious job because of the fact that economies continue depending strongly on production and the export of primary products. Investments remain concentrated on the extractive industries with high capital intensity, with few links with the rest of economy, says the study.
The largest part of young men in Africa is still at school but big job opportunities are still few particularly in poor countries. In countries with weak revenue, only 17% of working young men have a full-time paid job.


All hail Kari Lehtonen, without whom the Dallas Stars would have never even had a chance on Sunday night.
The Los Angeles Kings set the tone early with a fluky goal by Jeff Carter just 25 seconds into the first period, when a knuckling backhand founds its way over the shoulder of Lehtonen -- who seemed to have never seen the puck. The Stars goaltender would stand tall after that, however, stopping 30 shots through two periods as the Kings completely controlled the flow of play for much of the game.
The Stars were plagued by poor passing throughout the game, unable to create any sort of extended forecheck and never able to string two passes together in order to put up some sort of sustained offensive attack.
A laserbeam of a pass from Alex Goligoski would spring Jamie Benn, however, and the Stars' big center buried a deft backhand under Jonathan Bernier to inexplicably tie the game in the second period.
Lazy passing would be the Stars' undoing, however, as a lazy pass in their own zone led to the go-ahead goal by the Kings, with Brad Richardson lifting a shot over Kari Lehtonen to give Los Angeles a 2-1 lead early int he third period. Just over a minute later, Justin Williams' rebound goal would apparently put the game away for good.
This game was all about missed opportunities by the Stars, who had several chances in tight without ever getting a shot on goal, and egregious turnovers that directly led to some bad goals against. This was very similar to the last game between these two teams, where the Stars stole a 2-0 game on the back of a career performance by Lehtonen.
This was a game where the Kings looked very much like one of the best teams in the NHL, while the Stars appeared to very much be a team on the bubble while searching for direction. The passing was just part of the problem, as the Stars continuously struggled with getting the puck cleanly out of the zone.
To the Stars credit, there was a concerted and passionate effort after the Kings scored to go up 3-1. A hard working shift in the offensive zone led to a power play goal by Ray Whitney, and play was almost exclusively in the Kings' zone for the latter half of the third period. Too many mistakes proved too tough to overcome, however, as the Stars were unable to connect on several big chances in the final minutes of the game.
We'll have more on this game tomorrow but in the meantime, enjoy the rest of your Easter Sunday.


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Life is tough, and oftentimes, it throws situations at you that you have no control over. It is not an uncommon thing to be a victim of circumstances. But, it is when victimhood seems to be the only position a person holds that points toward a psychological problem called victim mentality.
Even when faced with impossible issues, most people believe that there will be light at the end of the tunnel. They believe that things will get better with time and whatever has happened is only temporary.
But an individual who suffers from a victim mentality tends to think that the whole world is out to get them. They are convinced that nothing good can happen to them because it never has, and it’s almost like the entire universe is conspiring against them.
Defining Victim Syndrome
Victim syndrome is another term used for victim mentality along with victim complex. Although serious, this is not a condition that can be clinically diagnosed. Nevertheless, it can bring a person’s morale down and be quite debilitating to them.
An individual who always takes the stand of the victim and is convinced that they had no fault in anything that may have happened to them is said to have a victim complex. Alternately, this ‘fault’ is always put onto a spouse, partner, parents, friends, colleagues, etc.
These individuals want acknowledgement for their suffering and feel that nothing is in their control. This condition may root in past trauma that was suppressed and not given space to be dealt with properly. It may also be an acquired personality trait from family members, sexual abuse trauma, or the result of certain coping mechanisms.
Thus, individuals believe that nothing good can come of the circumstances and choose to take a victim’s position and seeth in negativity rather than take a stand for themselves. It not only affects the mental health of the individuals concerned but also affects those around them.
Is Victim Complex The Same As Martyr Complex
The two can often be confused, but they are not the same. Individuals who have martyr complex sacrifice themselves and go out of their way to get things done for others and feel resentful afterward.
A victim mentality, on the other hand, takes everything personally and absorbs comments that weren’t even directed at them. They generally shrink from taking up any sort of responsibility and thus will not do anything for others.
What Causes Victim Syndrome
Victim mentality or syndrome does not crop out of nowhere. It is often rooted in past trauma or other issues that severely impact the mindset of an individual. Following are a few known causes of the same.
Trauma is something that can only be best defined by those who have felt it. It can be different for each individual and have various outcomes. But one thing that trauma leaves behind is a mental scar.
Individuals may develop a victim mentality as a coping mechanism against trauma that left them feeling powerless or trapped.
Being betrayed by someone you placed your trust upon can not only be heartbreaking but also impact your mental well-being. If betrayal is something that repeatedly happens to an individual, they will develop victim syndrome and refrain from placing their trust in anyone in the future.
This is quite common among individuals who have undergone abuse of any kind. Abuse often leaves an individual feeling powerless and strips away an sort of agency that they may have had. The extreme sense of helplessness, shame, and being defiled may lead to a victim complex.
Children who do not receive proper care and love during their formative years often use a victim mentality to cope with the fact that no one cares for them. It may begin as an act of getting attention and may be carried on throughout their life to gain the affection and sympathy of others.
Children often imitate what they see around them. This means that growing up with parents or guardians who constantly act as victims may cause them to develop a victim mentality and believe that everything is hard for them. This is also called learned helplessness.
Signs to Check for A Victim Mindset
How do you know if you or someone you know may be suffering from this condition? Answer the questions given below and add a score of 1 every time your answer is yes.
- Believe that the entire universe is against you?
- End up blaming someone else for how your life is?
- Feel stuck in your life?
- Approach things with a negative attitude?
- Feel like someone is attacking you when they offer negative feedback?
- Feel powerless in coping with the problems in your life?
- Attract a company that blames others or constantly complains about their life?
- Feel better or a sense of relief when you feel bad for yourself, or others give you sympathy?
- Refuse to look for solutions and reject help?
- Self sabotage yourself or talk yourself down?
- Are you constantly angry, frustrated, and resentful?
- Can you critically evaluate yourself and actively make changes in your life?
If your score is anywhere between 6 and 12, you suffer from a victim’s complex. It is nothing to be ashamed of and can be dealt with.
Don’t Want to Be a Victim Anymore?
Now we are not saying that you should never feel sorry for yourself or seek out sympathy every once in a while. Doing those things are perfectly normal ways of getting through life.
But when being a victim becomes your entire personality, it is problematic not only for you but for those around you as well. Understanding that you have a problem is always the first step towards healing.
To overcome victim mentality, you should
- Prioritize yourself and learn to say no to things you do not want to be a part of.
- Set firm boundaries and get over the fear of blame.
- Begin taking personal responsibility for yourself, your actions, and others.
- Do not think of yourself as a suffering individual. Do not look at victim mentality in a connotative sense.
- Show compassion to yourself as that is the best way to get over past trauma.
- Make a list of actions that can lead to self-improvement.
- Change your narrative and be the author of your own story.
- Educate yourself about the condition.
- Seek out professional help.
With problems that affect one’s mental wellbeing, the key is to treat the issue with kindness. Having a victim mentality mindset is not a permanent condition and can be treated with support and compassion.
Taking charge of your own life, eliminating negative thinking, victim role, and self-pity can go a long way. Accept responsibility for your actions, practice self-confidence and self-compassion, and do not feel guilty for having such a mindset.
If you or someone you know suffers from this condition, we hope this article helped you come to terms with and identify the situation. However, if the condition seems to be affecting your wellbeing in an uncontrollable manner, do seek out professional help.

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The use of sputum eosinophil count in asthma clinics is rapidly expanding as it has been reported as being a useful indicator of the worsening of asthma symptoms and that its normalisation reduces asthma exacerbations and admissions. Without additional steroids, levels of sputum eosinophils have been shown to be highly variable in severe asthmatic patients. Furthermore, precise patient phenotyping is increasingly becoming important as our understanding of the physiopathology of severe asthma widens. We introduced sputum differential cell counting in our severe asthma clinic, with a view to first reducing sputum eosinophils below 3% by augmenting anti-inflammatory therapy, and attempting steroid withdrawal once patients became sputum eosinophil negative (E−). To date, 264 patients have been investigated for sputum eosinophils, using induction with nebulised sodium chloride if necessary and suitable. This paper presents our yearly update of the anti-inflammatory (steroid) therapy of the first successive patients with at least two successful sputum counts (current n=71), specifically investigating patients’ management in the light of their positive sputum eosinophil levels at baseline assessment. Twenty patients were sputum eosinophil positive (E+) on their initial visit and 25 had reduced eosinophil levels (p=0.001) on a subsequent visit, including 14 becoming E−. Nineteen were offered a trial of steroid augmentation:
11 patients with a trial of IM triamcinolone (all patients had subsequent reduced eosinophils levels, 9 becoming E−, p=0.003);
5 patients with increased oral prednisolone treatment (four patients with reduced eosinophils levels, one becoming E−);
3 with increased inhaled steroid therapy (all with reduced eosinophil levels, 1 becoming E−).
66% of patients with uncontrolled sputum eosinophilia were treated with an increase in anti-inflammatory maintenance therapy. Sputum eosinophil levels decreased for 95% of these as already reported, but only 11/19 achieved full control of sputum eosinophilia with 2/11 failing to normalise eosinophils despite IM triamcinolone (representing a population of confirmed steroid resistance. Sputum eosinophil negativity used as a surrogate marker for asthma control has been shown to be an essential tool in identification and management of patients with asthma at risk of deterioration and admission.

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With the birth of their first child only three months away, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, make a few special visits.
The couple recently visited a charity that helps female sex workers, One25, in Bristol, England today. There, the pregnant duchess was photographed writing personalized messages of encouragement to the women, on a banana.☺
However, that wasn’t the only place that the royal duo visited. Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan also did a small tour of the city, stopping by the Bristol Old Vic theatre and the Empire Fighting Chance, that help children’s and teenagers’ lives through boxing.
As mentioned before Duchess Meghan Markle, despite being pregnant, has no intention of slowing down her “royal duties”, even if it is as cold as it today in Bristol.
You go Meghan!✊


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"JIS DESH MEN GANGA BEHTI HAI" is the strange story of the progress of a strange pilgrim.
Thousands of men, women and children go to the Ganga every year, and return home with heaven in the hereafter made certain ! But not this strange pilgrim. If he goes to the Ganga, he returns with Ganga locked in his heart. And then, symbolically speaking, wherever he goes the Ganga goes with him. For the man and the river it is the glorious act of reaching out far and wide, and, seeking entry into men's souls.
Raju, a simple hearted "child" of the soil, with a song on his lips and the queen among rivers in his heart, sings his way into the souls where for centuries the monster of hate and crime has resided. It is for him the greatest of all pilgrimages, his carrying the holy river into the hearts and souls of men. Such is our pilgrim, the hero of "JIS DESH MEN GANGA BEHTI HAI".
It is the story of his love for a dacoit girl; his conflict with the killer whom he treats as a wayward child of Mother-India; his adventures as an inspired "accomplice" of the same killer.
It is also the story of the great moment of truth when the killer himself calls the payment of his debt to Society, when the aggressor and victim come face to face, with nary a feeling of hate or degrading guilt. It is the story of a moment athrob with the total good of more than fifty centuries ! Fifty centuries of the growth of Indian civilisation to which the Ganga alone has been the witness !
It is an epic, almost oceanlike in its sweep, and, one may only skindive into its utmost depths. This you will surely do when you set out with Raju on a unique voyage of discovery in the realm of the passions of love and hate.
To believe, you will have to see and feel for yourself. Such is the nature and demand o all grandeur, all beauty. To see and to feel for yourself.

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