#Robert D. Putnam

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悟已往之不谏

这是一种公民主动参与公共事务，表达对集体福利的关心、履行公民权利和承担公民义务的自主行为。这个优良的社会传统，是国家民主制度的宝贵资源，必须倍加珍惜并培育传承。 中元节会馆按传统举办普渡，不少理事和会员都来热闹一番，祈福求平安。邀了家离会所不远的三叔来参与，顺便跟秘书处拿了入会申请表格，让三叔和堂弟堂妹成为正式会员。 新会员申请须介绍人，一般都是现有的理事或会员，同时申请者得证明自己的祖籍。对于像新加坡同安会馆这样的社团来说，出生证上籍贯栏目的“福建”显然还不够，得去先人墓碑上拍照佐证，因为传统上墓碑除了注明省籍，还会进一步说明家乡地。相信在籍贯身份上面对跟同安会馆类似问题的社团，本地还有不少。 为了加强乡亲之间的情谊，同安会馆最近安排在某个周六，拜访了新加坡儒林张氏公会及禾山公会，自己身为理事之一也随行。儒林张氏公会是由张姓同安人组成的社团，禾山则在原同安县厦门岛上的一地，拜访两…

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"First, social capital allows citizens to resolve collective problems more easily. Social scientists have long been concerned about "dilemmas" of collective action. Such dilemmas are ubiquitous, and their dynamics are straightforward. People often might all be better off if they cooperate, with each doing her share. But each individual benefits more by shirking her responsibility, hoping that others will do the work for her. Moreover, even if she is wrong and the others shirk, too, she is still better off than if she had been the only sucker. Obviously if every individual thinks that the others will do the work, nobody will end up taking part, and all will be left worse off than if all had contributed."

— Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

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Mrs. Frederic S. Claghorn (left) and Mrs. George J. Hauptfuhrer Jr. meet at the Chestnut Hill home of Mrs. Joseph S. Rambo (right) to complete plans for Oct. 30 gala being sponsored by women's division of Eastern Pennsylvania Multiple Sclerosis Society at Academy of Music.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Sunday, October 12, 1969).

DANCE HONORS PRINCESS GRACE

Dance honors Princess Brace Princess Grace of Monaco will be guest of honor at a "champagne dance" on Thursday, Oct. 30, at the Academy of Music Ballroom. Mrs. Joseph S. Rambo, of Chestnut Hill, is honorary chairman of the gala being sponsored by the Eastern Pennsylvania Multiple Sclerosis Society to raise funds to support research in finding the cause and control of this disease.

Festivities will begin with cocktails at 5 P. M. followed by dancing to the music of Romig, Lewis and Carney orchestras.

CHAIRMEN LISTED

Mrs. William E. Milhollen, Mrs. William A. Roth and Mrs. A. Ardley Henkels, are cochairmen.

Assisting the chairmen in arrangements for the Oct. 30 dance will be Mrs. Lloyd M. Coates, Mrs. George Morris Dorrance, Mrs. Frank B. Axelrod, Mrs. Frank Garofolo, Mrs. Morris R. Shaffer, Mrs. Alan D. Ameche, Mrs. Kershaw Burbank, Mrs. Murray Firestone, Mrs. F. Howard Goodwin Jr., Miss Ann Jane Callan, Mrs. Margaret K. Con-Ian, Mrs. Sydney Daroff, Mrs. Michael Daroff and Mrs. Edward Dudlik. Also, Mrs. Frederick H. Le vis Jr., Miss Marian Hayes, Mrs. W.Thacher Longstreth, Mrs. George J. Hauptfuhrer Jr., Mrs. Paul R. Kaiser, Mrs.Frederic S. Claghorn, Mrs. Russell Levin, Mrs. William Levinson, Mrs. Donald LeVine. Others are Henry S. McNeil, Mrs. Walter J. Maiden, Miss Patricia Lockhart, Mrs. Charles Nicholson, Mrs. Elizabeth Orr, Mrs. B. Arthur Pinney, Mrs. William Putnam, Miss Mildred Rinker, Mrs. Henriette Wallace, Mrs. Stanley A. Welsh Jr., Mrs. Michael A. Walsh, Mrs. Thomas A. Wood Jr., Mrs. Douglas H. Worrall Jr., Mrs. Vernon D. Wright, Mrs. Charles Wilson, Mrs. Robert G. Wilder.

"OPENING NIGHT" IS THEM OF BALL

"Opening Night" is the theme of the sixth annual West Park Hospital Ball to be held Saturday evening at Radnor Valley Country Club.

The ball is sponsored by the Women's Auxiliary of the Hospital and is cochairmened by Mr. and Mrs. Aaron N. Cohen. Proceeds will benefit the hospital building fund campaign and a new cardiac unit.

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Who would you put in an American statue garden? Assume no limit for how many

all the best presidents (i won't name them all but just to list a few: washington, adams, j. q. adams, jefferson, madison, monroe, fdr, teddy roosevelt, lincoln, etc), franklin, alexander hamilton, friedrich list, henry clay, henry carey, samuel adams, ethan allen, thomas young, john jay, james wilson, gouverneur morris, christopher columbus (tbh i'm tempted to include figures like leif erikson and prince madoc because even though they were never americans, like columbus, there is a mythopoetic/cultural value), lafayette, john winthrop, cotton mather, nathanael greene, friedrich wilhem von steuben, nathan hale, johnny appleseed, emperor norton, robert e. lee, william tecumseh sherman, daniel boone, lewis and clark, sacagawea, davy crockett, emerson, thoreau, walt whitman, longfellow, hilda doolittle, emily dickinson, nikola tesla, einstein, eli whitney, abigail adams, edgar allen poe, john brown, herman melville, butch cassidy, wyatt earp, doc holliday, wild bill hickok, sundance kid, john henry, andrew carnegie, nathaniel hawthorne, washington irving, horace mann, john dewey, wernher von braun, j. robert oppenheimer, john marshall, wiliam penn, junipero sera, john d. rockefeller, clara barton, fanny wright, thomas edison, alexandar graham bell, ezra pound, kerouac, william faulkner, steinbeck, hemingway, dolley madison, john muir, annie oakley, lovecraft, eleanor roosevelt, john browning, samuel colt, elvis presley, claude shannon, henry miller, kanye west, stanley kubrick, john von neumann, thorstein veblen, edward bellamy, henry ford, cornelius vanderbilt, betsy ross, black hawk, sitting bull, tecumseh, hart crane, h. l. mencken, tennessee williams, charles sanders peirce, william james, quine, hilary putnam, richard rorty, charles hartshorne, walt disney, mark twain, etc.

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The 2022 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced the Final Ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards®, an award they’ve been presenting  in various categories since 1987 (see http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/)

Works appearing on this Ballot are Bram Stoker Award® Nominees for Superior Achievement in their Category, e.g., Novel.  Congratulations to all those appearing on the Final Ballot.

THE 2022 BRAM STOKER AWARDS® FINAL BALLOT

Superior Achievement in a Novel • Iglesias, Gabino – The Devil Takes You Home (Mullholland Press) • Katsu, Alma – The Fervor (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) • Kiste, Gwendolyn – Reluctant Immortals (Saga Press) • Malerman, Josh – Daphne (Del Rey) • Ward, Catriona – Sundial (Tor Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel • Adams, Erin – Jackal (Bantam Books) • Cañas, Isabel – The Hacienda (Berkley) • Jones, KC – Black Tide (Tor Nightfire) • Nogle, Christi – Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media) • Wilkes, Ally – All the White Spaces (Emily Bestler Books/Atria/Titan Books)

Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel • Dawson, Delilah S. – Camp Scare (Delacorte Press) • Kraus, Daniel – They Stole Our Hearts (Henry Holt and Co.) • Malinenko, Ally – This Appearing House (Katherine Tegen Books) • Senf, Lora – The Clackity (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) • Stringfellow, Lisa – A Comb of Wishes (Quill Tree Books)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel • Aquilone, James (editor) – Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary (Moonstone Books) • Gailey, Sarah (author) and Bak, Pius (artist) – Eat the Rich (Boom! Studios) • Manzetti, Alessandro (author) and Cardoselli, Stefano (artist/author) – Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt (Independent Legions Publishing) • Tynion IV, James (author) and Dell’Edera, Werther (artist) – Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4 (Boom! Studios) • Young, Skottie (author) and Corona, Jorge (artist) – The Me You Love in the Dark (Image Comics)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel • Fraistat, Ann – What We Harvest (Delacorte Press) • Jackson, Tiffany D. – The Weight of Blood (Katherine Tegen Books) • Marshall, Kate Alice – These Fleeting Shadows (Viking) • Ottone, Robert P. – The Triangle (Raven Tale Publishing) • Schwab, V.E. – Gallant (Greenwillow Books) • Tirado, Vincent – Burn Down, Rise Up (Sourcebooks Fire)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction • Allred, Rebecca J. and White, Gordon B. – And in Her Smile, the World (Trepidatio Publishing) • Carmen, Christa – “Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell” (Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror) (Wicked Run Press) • Hightower, Laurel – Below (Ghoulish Books) • Katsu, Alma – The Wehrwolf (Amazon Original Stories) • Knight, EV – Three Days in the Pink Tower (Creature Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction • Dries, Aaron – “Nona Doesn't Dance” (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts) (IFWG Australia, IFWG International) • Gwilym, Douglas – “Poppy’s Poppy” (Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Vol. V, No. 6) • McCarthy, J.A.W.  – “The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body” (A Woman Built by Man) (Cemetery Gates Media) • Taborska, Anna – “A Song for Barnaby Jones” (Zagava) • Taborska, Anna – “The Star” (Great British Horror 7: Major Arcane) (Black Shuck Books) • Yardley, Mercedes M. – “Fracture” (Mother: Tales of Love and Terror) (Weird Little Worlds)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection • Ashe, Paula D. – We Are Here to Hurt Each Other (Nictitating Books) • Joseph, RJ – Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted (The Seventh Terrace) • Khaw, Cassandra – Breakable Things (Undertow Publications) • Thomas, Richard – Spontaneous Human Combustion (Keylight Books) • Veres, Attila – The Black Maybe (Valancourt Books)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay • Cooper, Scott – The Pale Blue Eye (Cross Creek Pictures, Grisbi Productions, Streamline Global Group) • Derrickson, Scott and Cargill, C. Robert – The Black Phone (Blumhouse Productions, Crooked Highway, Universal Pictures) • Duffer Brothers, The – Stranger Things: Episode 04.01 "Chapter One: The Hellfire Club" (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre, Netflix, Upside Down Pictures) • Garland, Alex - Men (DNA Films) • Goth, Mia and West, Ti – Pearl (A24, Bron Creative, Little Lamb, New Zealand Film Commission)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection • Bailey, Michael and Simon, Marge – Sifting the Ashes (Crystal Lake Publishing) • Lynch, Donna – Girls from the County (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Pelayo, Cynthia – Crime Scene (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Saulson, Sumiko – The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry (Dooky Zines) • Sng, Christina – The Gravity of Existence (Interstellar Flight Press)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology • Datlow, Ellen – Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Tor Nightfire) • Hartmann, Sadie and Saywers, Ashley – Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology (Dark Matter Ink) • Nogle, Christi and Becker, Willow – Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds) • Ryan, Lindy – Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga (Black Spot Books) • Tantlinger, Sara – Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror (Strangehouse Books)

Superior Achievement in Non–Fiction • Cisco, Michael – Weird Fiction: A Genre Study (Palgrave Macmillan) • Hieber, Leanna Renee and Janes, Andrea – A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts (Citadel Press) • Kröger, Lisa and Anderson, Melanie R. – Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult (Quirk Books) • Waggoner, Tim – Writing in the Dark: The Workbook (Guide Dog Books) • Wytovich, Stephanie M. – Writing Poetry in the Dark (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in Short Non–Fiction • Murray, Lee – “I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press) • Pelayo, Cynthia – “This is Not a Poem” (Writing Poetry in the Dark) (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J. – “A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television” (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More) (McFarland and Company) • Wood, L. Marie – “African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore” (Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students) (Conjure World) • Wood, L. Marie, “The H Word: The Horror of Hair” (Nightmare Magazine, No. 118) (Adamant Press)

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lovely @capitaen tagged me to list 10 characters from 10 fandoms, so off we go:

Die Drei Fragezeichen - Mathilda Jonas

Little Shop of Horrors - Audrey Fulquard

Gravity Falls - Dipper Pines

Only Murders In The Building - Oliver Putnam

Good Omens - Anthony J. Crowley

Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer - Dr. Robert „Der Nichtraucher“ Uthoff

Star Trek - Commander Data

Fleabag - Fleabag

Die Wilden Hühner - Melanie Klupsch

(this might be a little very bit niche) The Stranger Times series - Vincent Banecroft

i tag @your-friendly-sleep-demoness @charliethe2nd @wonderous-lawnmower @all-chickens-are-trans and everyone who wants do this this :D

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AN ARRAY OF DISPOSITIONS

The last posting referred to certain points this blog has made through the years.  More specifically, those points describe the political/cultural landscape that the political scientist, Daniel Elazar, describes.[1]  Here is how this blog (with some editing) reported on Elazar’s contribution, back in 2011:

Daniel Elazar's study of American political dispositions identified these three subcultures. They are the individualistic, the moralistic, and the traditional. The origins of these distinctive cultural dispositions can almost be traced to the earliest colonial period. Highly affected by the economic diversity that sprang up from the colonies in the northern, New England region to the plantation-based economies of the southern colonies, the subcultures of each of the three regions [New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern] reflected the social realities emerging from these diverse economic conditions.

Robert Putnam found these diverse political ideas, ideals, and beliefs surviving in the nation’s more current times.[2] Elazar claims that the distinct cultural dispositions stretched westward in mostly three parallel layers of states. The trend is not perfect; for example, while the traditional subculture of the south moved westward, its expansion was limited to the former Confederate States [and ends at the western border of Texas].

Mostly stretching westward from first the mid-Atlantic colonies and then the resulting states, overall, the individualistic subculture is the most dominant today as it mirrors the marketplace perspective. [This blog has made the argument that that dominance was first exerted in the years just after World War II replacing a more moralistic bias that prevailed.]  Today, the nation’s political culture is well ensconced in the natural rights construct that is dominant in our nation's school curricula. Why? Because it best reflects the nation’s capitalist biases.[3]

This general description, as presented in this blog, was further supported by the thoughts of the Spanish-American philosopher, George Santayana.[4] He argued that American history saw a religious outlook among Americans that began with a strict Calvinist belief that evolved into a more genteel transcendental perspective. Those competing moral views helped develop or at least co-existed with the above described three distinct political subcultures.

To be clear, none of these perspectives held or hold total allegiance among the American population at any time.  That includes the thinking and feelings of Americans today.  For example, the Republican Party base today is described as holding a Christian nationalist perspective among its MAGA[5] advocates.  Readers can pass judgment as to the validity of that claim.  But to the extent it is true, one can classify such thinking as a form of parochial/traditionalist thought.

[1] Daniel J. Elazar, American Federalism:  A View from the States (New York, NY:  Thomas Y. Crowell, 1966).

[2] Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone:  The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000).

[3] Robert Gutierrez, “Individualistic Political Subculture,” Gravitas:  A Voice for Civics, July 18 or 19, 2011).  This posting is no longer found in the blog’s archive feature.

[4] George Santayana, “The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy,” in The Annals of America, vol. 13 (originally published in 1911) (Chicago, IL:  Encyclopaedia Britanica, 1968), The Annals of America, vol. 13, 277-288.

[5] Make America Great Again.

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: J. D. Robb Kindred In Death.

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What makes for a good life? According to the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, the simple answer is relationships. In this episode, author and psychiatrist Dr. Robert Waldinger explains why building strong connections with other people helps us to have...

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IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953) – Episode 155 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“Where are you? What do you look like? What am I supposed to be looking for? I know you are out there hiding in the desert. Maybe I’m looking right at you and don’t even see you. Come on out!” Doesn’t the song go, “Who are you? Who, who, who, who?” Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they set their eyeballs with relish on Jack Arnold’s It Came From Outer Space (1953).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 155 – It Came From Outer Space (1953)

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A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.

  Director: Jack Arnold

Writers: Harry Essex; Ray Bradbury (film treatment)

Produced by: William Alland

Music by: Irving Gertz, Henry Mancini, Herman Stein (all uncredited)

Cinematography by: Clifford Stine

Editing by: Paul Weatherwax

Costume Design by: Rosemary Odell (gowns)

Makeup Department:

Joan St. Oegger (hair stylist)

Bud Westmore (makeup artist)

Jack Kevan (makeup execution) (uncredited)

Art Department: Joseph Hurley (conceptual artist) (uncredited)

Visual Effects by:

David S. Horsley (special photography)

Roswell A. Hoffmann (special photographic effects / visual effects optical printing) (uncredited)

Selected Cast:

Richard Carlson as John Putnam

Barbara Rush as Ellen Fields

Charles Drake as Sheriff Matt Warren

Joe Sawyer as Frank Daylon

Russell Johnson as George

Kathleen Hughes as Jane

Virginia Mullen as Mrs. Daylon (uncredited)

Dave Willock as Pete Davis (uncredited)

George Eldredge as Dr. Snell (uncredited)

Bradford Jackson as Bob – Dr. Snell’s Assistant (uncredited)

William Pullen as Deputy Reed (uncredited)

Robert Carson as Dugan (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing as Sam (uncredited)

Alan Dexter as Dave Loring (uncredited)

Whitey Haupt as Perry (uncredited)

Casey MacGregor as Toby (uncredited)

Dick Pinner as Lober (uncredited)

George Selk as Tom (uncredited)

Robert ‘Buzz’ Henry as Posseman (uncredited)

Kermit Maynard as Posseman (uncredited)

Ralph Brooks as Posseman (uncredited)

Ned Davenport as Man (uncredited)

Calling all “Monster Kids!” The Grue Crew tackles the sci-fi, 3-D, Jack Arnold classic, It Came From Outer Space. This one’s got it all: groovy alien eyeball monster, body-snatching shenanigans, coming-at-ya 3-D fun, and… The Professor from Gilligan’s Island. What else do you need? The Grue Crew discusses all this and much more.

At the time of this writing, It Came From Outer Space is available for streaming from the Classic Sci-Fi Movie Channel, the Classic Horror Movie Channel, and multiple PPV sources. The film is also available as a Blu-ray disc from Universal.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Daphne, is The City of the Dead (1960), released in the US as Horror Hotel and featuring Christopher Lee.

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com

To each of you from each of them, “Thank you so much for watching and listening!”

Check out this episode!

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“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered,” Paine wrote

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered,” Paine wrote, “yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dear-ness only that gives every thing its value.”

“Historians credit the Battles of Trenton and Princeton with saving the Revolutionary cause.”

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Notes: https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/01/a-brief-publication-history-of-the-times-that-try-mens-souls/

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/buildings/section4

424 Comments “This is no time for laxity. This is the time to be the best Americans we can be.’The preceding were excerpts from 'Putting the Jan. 6th Committee Report in the Context of America’s Democratic Story' in Bulwark by Gary Hart is a former United States senator from Colorado and the author of, most recently, The Republic of Conscience (2015).                                           See link https://www.thebulwark.com/putting-the-jan-6th-committee-report-in-the-context-of-americas-democratic-story/ “

Dec 26 “To me, this Letter is *history*, not "military history." Military history tends to edit out who's doing the fighting and what they were fighting for. It gets bogged down in tactics and strategy, terrain and weaponry. In the service of history, in modest doses, it's important, but on its own? On the whole I think that military history is to history as the military is to the civilian government.”

Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America Author(s): Robert D. Putnam Source: PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp. 664-683 Published by: American Political Science Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/420517

https://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/POLS293/articles/putnam1.pdf

“...Coursera offers an online class on beginners civics called Civic Engagement in American Democracy”. It is taught through Duke University, and if memory serves me, the course is free, unless you want a certificate. I believe it starts today

At least two of these are available

FREE online

... thanks to that horrible techie thing (shrub) called the interwebs... that manages to connect all of us and Heather. :-)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/civic-engagement-american-democracy

https://www.thecivicseason.com/events/civic-engagement-in-our-democracy-online-course/

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“Read David Fischer's "Washington's Crossing," a definitive work on this subject.  The common belief is that the ragged remnant of an army snuck up on the garrison at Trenton and defeated the Christmas-loving Germans who were hung over from celebrations of the preceding two days.  In truth, the tide was already turning, and the Hessians were tired and stressed not from drink but from the ceaseless vigilance required to protect themselves from aroused local partisans who resented their presence and their habits of stealing everything that wasn't nailed down.  The attack, carried out in the teeth of a bitter Nor'easter, convinced the Continentals, ragged as they might have been, of what many of them already believed, that they were hardened soldiers capable of victory.”

Let's hope enough of us still carry the resolve to fight to the last measure against oppression and tyranny.”

“Our soldiers during that winter long ago were so poorly equipped that many suffered and died from exposure... yet they persevered and fought battles against much better trained and equipped foes.   Afterwards, they retreated to Valley Forge and in winters afterward to Morristown.   Like right now, the cold was penetrating and constant but accompanied by deep snow.   They endured it and went on to fight and win more battles until with the help of the French the tide turned decisively against the British years later at Saratoga.   It took a long time with constant effort and sacrifice.  This is how it was and still is...”

“General Howe, shacked up with a lovely lady in NYC, called off the British assault and engaged in the Christmas party scene. By contrast, General Washington, with the remnants of his army—cold and underfed—faced the certainty that his remaining soldiers would go home on January 1st when their enlistments expired.He decided on an incredible Hail Mary. His troops would cross the Delaware on Christmas Eve and attack the fearsome Hessian mercenaries in Trenton. Thanks to Marbleheader Glover they got the boats and arrived in Jersey territory later than anticipated. Surprise was their best hope. [Colonel Rahle, the Hessian commander, had been handed a spy’s report of Washington’s attack, but, during the drunken festivities, failed to glance at it.]The ragged American soldiers attacked, the Hessians were defeated—with 900 prisoners—and, astonishingly, not a single American soldier was killed.If Washington hadn’t succeeded in his astonishing Hail Mary, the American revolution may have ended on January 1st. [Thomas Paine’s wrote The Crisis, which was a rousing carrion call that was read to the troops before their extraordinary victory.]“

“On the wall of 10, rue de l'Odéon, Paris, there's a big plaque to say that that's where he lived and wrote.  Here's a translation:  

"Thomas Paine 1737-1809:  English born, American by adoption, French by decree, lived in this building from 1797 to 1802. He placed his passion for freedom at the service of the French Revolution, was a member of the Convention and wrote the Bill of Human Rights. When opinions are free, the strength of truth always prevails.”

READ MORE https://opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/americon-lp-thomas-paine/thomas-paine/

“David McCullough’s “1776”; is a chronicle of just that one critical year in our history. There were several times Washington’s army was near defeat and collapse. Had the British been just a little more aggressive, a little more assertive, all would have been lost.

The other book is Howard Fast’s “Citizen Tom Paine,” about the eloquent, literary firebrand who expressed the consciousness of the American Revolution in his pamphlets.”

“ And let’s remember this: There was a small pox epidemic at the time. British troops were vaccinated. George Washington, who had survived the disease in his early years, KNEW the importance of vaccination. His “regulars” were required to be vaccinated from small pox, but the independent militias (like ones from Tennessee) refused vaccination. The disease devastated those ranks. . . Some things never change.”

“The flag you are referring to Mark is the Gadsden Flag. It’s a great flag adopted in 1775 and used by the Continental Marines, who did indeed find it honourable. The timber rattlesnake is unique to the US, a symbol that helped distinguish the colonists from Europe. Ben Franklin, a founding father of legendary honor used the rattler symbol in the first political cartoon in an American newspaper!Here Franklin describes the symbolism:There was painted a Rattle-Snake, with this modest motto under it, "Don't tread on me." She has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders... The Rattle-Snake is solitary, and associates with her kind only when it is necessary for their preservation ‘Tis curious and amazing to observe how distinct and independent of each other the rattles of this animal are, and yet how firmly they are united together, so as never to be separated but by breaking them to pieces.”

“_ _A storm not unlike what began this past Friday began as the Continental Army, which included a couple of my ancestors, formed to board the boats and ferries. We have to assume that fortunate for the future of the World that storm was not as severe. But, enough rain to render some of the gunpowder too wet to fire.Following the victory the captured Hessian POWs were marched off to Lancaster, home to a lot of German-speakers already, then later to Virginia to while away the war. These Hessian troops were rent-a-soldiers. Highly regarded as well-disciplined, effective fighters in Europe, King George III rented them from his cousin Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel to assist in the ongoing troubles with his own subjects in the Colonies. When Washington captured Trenton and its "airfields", a bolt of lightning struck in Europe similarly to Ukraine's standoff of the Russian Army attack on Kyiv back in February-March.Suddenly, the Colonies were to be reckoned with. The 19 year old Marquis de LaFayette (both recently orphaned and married), middle-aged Prussian Army officer Baron Frederich von Stuben, ex-pat Moses Hazen, previously a member of Roger's Rangers in the French & Indian War returned from Canada to lead "Congress' Own" 2nd Canadian regiment, Lithuanian Tadeusz Kościuszko (Ko-CHEWz-ko) joined in as a Colonel to Combat Engineer (leading to the Army Corp), and Tuffin Armand, Marquis de la Rouerie to forge our Cavalry and Francois Teissedre de Fleury from the French Army. Benjamin Franklin, of course, had a hand is 'encouraging' 3 or 4 of these volunteers. Within months of Trenton and Princeton, Washington had a few more experts to help train and focus the brave volunteers from the Colonies. Personal Note: What a difference 60 years can make. I have to presume the Hessian POWs were treated well enough and were pleased enough our Eastern lands to return home as the vanguard of the 'time-share' salesmen, who fledgling Midwest States would dispatch to Europe in the 1800s to recruit "hard-working German" laborers and farmers to populate their new States.”

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I finally finished Bowling Alone today. It was due back to the library yesterday XD It was so interesting! I'm glad I read it, and there are several quotes queued up. But it was very dry! I couldn't read a lot all at once.

For the most part, Putnam did a really good job of trying not to over-attribute or make guesses that didn't take confounding factors into account without surmising what some of those confounding factors would be. I really appreciated that.

But in the afterward, he makes the claim that virtual learning in the beginning of the pandemic proved that learning is not as effective virtually and that grades plummeted.

And like, I'm not even going to say that I think he's wrong per se, but it felt really weird, and, not going to lie, a bit disingenuous that after all the efforts he made not to make grand sweeping statements, this one wouldn't come along with comments on how this experiment into virtual learning happened during a global traumatizing event when parents had to scramble to find ways not to leave their children at home alone and whatnot. Talk about there being a lot of extenuating circumstances to effect results.

Today, I get so much more work done when I get to work from home than when I'm in the office, but do you think that was the case in the first six months of a global pandemic when we were scrambling to figure out how to make this all work, were stressed and scared at the unknown, and had no adjustment period?

Big yikes there.

It was only the afterward that he seemed to get negligent about that, but given that this afterward came 20 years later to address something as big as the internet... I dunno. Not the best way to make your last impression XD

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Sharing - We're Increasingly Disconnected and That Has Consequences

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Sharing - We're Increasingly Disconnected and That Has Consequences

The article below talks about many of the same things I’ve written about before, including some of the same studies. Things like the fact that our social connections were already declining before the pandemic:

When we were suddenly thrust into isolation in 2020, social ties were already fraying. The book Bowling Alone came out 2 decades earlier. Author Robert D. Putnam lamented the decline in “social capital,” the value we get from connections and our sense of community support. The Atlantic ran a story called “Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore” months before any of us heard of COVID-19.

The rest of the article talks about the detrimental impacts of less connection to the people in our lives, our communities, etc., and some ways to help build those back. Things like reaching out, doing more than doom, scrolling your social media feeds, leaving thoughtful comments, interacting with your friends and family, etc.

It’s worth a read. Connectivity is an essential part of maintaining our physical and mental health.

https://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20220916/increasingly-disconnected-consequences

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We're Increasingly Disconnected and That Has Consequences

Sept. 16, 2022 – You introduced your pc residence from work “for two weeks” in March 2020 and stayed residence for two years. Faculties went digital. Membership conferences obtained canceled. Gyms closed.Family and friends grew to become off-limits. Bear in mind avoiding different individuals on the road?It’s gotten higher for the reason that outbreak, however we’ve remained in relative isolation far longer than anticipated. And that’s just a little unhappy – and unhealthy for us. Seems avoiding a virus can hurt your well being, as a result of togetherness and connection are foundations of our well-being.“We as people are engineered by evolution to crave contact with different people,” says Richard B. Slatcher, PhD, a professor of psychology on the College of Georgia. “This has been referred to as the ‘have to belong,’ and it’s up there as a primary want with meals and water.”Is smart: Primitive people who banded with others had been extra prone to discover meals, defend one another, and survive to move alongside their genes, he says. After we had been all of a sudden thrust into isolation in 2020, social ties had been already fraying. The e book Bowling Alone got here out 2 many years earlier. Writer Robert D. Putnam lamented the decline in “social capital,” the worth we get from connections and our sense of group help. The Atlantic ran a narrative referred to as “Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore” months earlier than any of us heard of COVID-19.The pandemic sped up these emotions of isolation. Even after getting vaccinated and boosted, many people really feel we’re not connecting as we wish. And for some, politics has deepened that divide.Ought to we care? Sure, say the consultants. Social relationships are strongly linked to well being and longevity. A well-known examine printed in 2010 in PLOS Medicine concluded that social connections had been as vital to well being as not smoking and extra impactful than train.That overview, which drew on information from 148 research, discovered that individuals with stronger social relationships had been 50% extra prone to survive over the 7.5-year follow-up (that's, not die from such causes as most cancers or coronary heart illness), in comparison with these with weaker ties. Proof continues to return in. The American Coronary heart Affiliation published a statement this August saying social isolation and loneliness are related to a 30% elevated danger of heart attack and stroke.“Given the prevalence of social disconnectedness throughout the U.S., the general public well being impression is sort of important,” Crystal Wiley Cené, MD, chair of the group that wrote the assertion, mentioned in a news release.The group mentioned information helps what we suspected: Isolation and loneliness have elevated in the course of the pandemic, particularly amongst adults ages 18 to 25, older adults, girls, and low-income individuals.Your Shrinking CircleWithin the first yr of the pandemic, there was a slight uptick in loneliness and psychological misery and a slight lower in life satisfaction, in keeping with a 2022 examine within the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. For about 1 in 4 individuals, social circles shrank, says examine creator Emily Lengthy, PhD, “even after lockdown restrictions had been eased.” When your circle shrinks, you are likely to hold these closest to you – the individuals who most likely are most such as you. You lose the range in opinion and perspective that you simply would possibly get chatting with somebody in your pickleball league, say, or perhaps a stranger. “Our publicity to various individuals, existence, and opinions dropped considerably,” says Lengthy. Many people have seen ties with others weaken or sever altogether over disagreements about COVID restrictions and vaccinations.This occurred with acquaintances, once-close friends, or relations as their views on hot-button matters got here to the forefront – matters we might have averted prior to now to maintain the peace.A few of these relationships will not be rebuilt, Lengthy says, although it’s too early to say.Learn how to Make Higher Connections On-lineMany people jumped on-line for our social interplay. Did Zoom and Instagram and Fb assist us join?Certain, in a manner.“It could be tougher at instances, however individuals can set up significant relationships with out being bodily shut,” says John Caughlin, PhD, head of the Communication Division on the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who research “computer-mediated communication.” All of it relies on how you employ it. Late-night “doom scrolling” isn't relationship-building. However you may forge new or stronger connections through social media for those who’re “treating one another as individuals,” he says. Right here’s a method: Don’t faucet a lazy “like” on a put up, however as an alternative go away a considerate remark that provides worth to the dialog. Possibly chime in along with your expertise or provide phrases of help. Give a restaurant suggestion in the event that they’re touring.However keep in mind that social media grew to become a minefield in the course of the pandemic, Caughlin says. Folks blasted out their views on staying residence, vaccinations, and masks. You rapidly discovered who shared your views and rethought your relationship with others.It’s tempting to view social media as a scourge. However that will simply be our inherent panic-button response to newish know-how, Caughlin says. Surprisingly, total analysis – and there was lots – has proven that social media has little impression on well-being, he says.A current meta-analysis from Stanford University on 226 research from 2006 to 2018 regarded for a hyperlink between social media use and well-being. What they discovered: zero. Some research present a hyperlink between social media and nervousness and melancholy, true, however which may be as a result of those that have depression or nervousness usually tend to spend extra time on social as a strategy to distract themselves. Make Somebody Glad, Together with YouDoes this sound acquainted? You are likely to sustain with buddies as a social media voyeur fairly than, say, calling, texting, or assembly face-to-face. If that sounds such as you, you’re not alone.However for those who reverse course and begin reaching out once more, it’s probably that each you and the opposite individual will profit. New analysis from the American Psychological Association on almost 6,000 individuals discovered that when somebody reaches out to us – even when it’s with a fast textual content – we deeply respect it. The examine was not solely in regards to the pandemic, however researchers say that the outcomes may assist individuals rebuild relationships, particularly in the event that they’re not assured about making an attempt. On the identical time, Slatcher, the Georgia professor, notes that extra display time “isn't the answer” to loneliness or separation.“All of the work on the market has proven that social media use isn’t related to individuals being happier or much less depressed,” he says. In line with Slatcher, the 2 key components of constructing and sustaining relationships are:- Self-disclosure, which suggests sharing one thing about your self or being weak by letting others know private info. - Responsiveness, which merely means reacting to what somebody is saying, asking follow-up questions, and perhaps gently sharing one thing about your self, too, with out taking up the dialog.These occur in individual on a regular basis. On social, not a lot.“Each women and men really feel happier once they really feel emotionally shut with one other individual, and that’s tougher to do on-line,” Slatcher says.Seems the strongest connections – these greatest to your well-being – occur whenever you put the cellphone down.A Shocking Shiny Spot in Pandemic ConnectionWe felt extra divided than ever in the course of the pandemic, one thing affirmed by Pew research. By some measures, People have the bottom ranges of social belief since World Conflict II, says Frederick J. Riley, government director of Weave: The Social Cloth Challenge at The Aspen Institute. If neighbors inside a group don’t belief one another, they will’t belief society at massive. But it surely’s not all unhealthy information.Researchers have seen connections inside communities get stronger in the course of the pandemic, Riley says. These are the individuals who run errands for aged neighbors, donate provides and garments, arrange family-friendly meetups, construct group gardens, and extra.The “we’re all on this collectively” mindset arose early within the pandemic, Lengthy and colleagues discovered. A meta-analysis in 2022 in Psychological Bulletin discovered that there’s been extra cooperation amongst strangers. This can be as a consequence of better urbanization or dwelling alone – distance from our close-knit crew forces some to cooperate with others once they wouldn’t in any other case.This, too, is wholesome: A way of belonging in your group, or “neighborhood cohesion,” as a 2020 study from Canadian researchers factors out, has been linked to a decrease danger of strokes, coronary heart assaults, and early loss of life. It additionally helps with mental health. You possibly can faucet into this by, say, volunteering at your baby’s college, attending spiritual providers, becoming a member of a fitness group, or going to festivals in your metropolis. These ship a way of id, increased vanity, and may decrease stress and make you're feeling much less lonely, the examine authors say. It additionally fosters a way that we will make significant change in our cities. Actually, we’ve all been arguing lots nowadays – gun management, abortion, politics. Riley says deeper points, similar to a way of group security and creating a greater place for youths to develop up, assist us transcend these hot-button points.Sharing targets brings individuals collectively, he says, and that’s fueled by that innate urge for connection and togetherness.“I'm actually optimistic for what the longer term will maintain,” he says. “We’ve been on this place earlier than, and it’s the individuals in native communities exhibiting that anybody can get up and make the place they reside in higher.” Source link Read the full article

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