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Aging in Reverse

Their transformation is similar to the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in which (spoiler) an elderly Brad Pitt becomes younger and younger until he turns into a baby. This is why the creature is sometimes referred to as the Benjamin Button jellyfish.

Smaller than a pinky fingernail, these jellyfish reabsorb their tentacles and sink to the ocean floor into a cyst-like state when they get sick or damaged, according to Londons Natural History Museum. Within 36 hours, they transform into a polyp before turning back into a jellyfish. This process is known as cellular transdifferentiation. Essentially, the jellyfish create brand-new bodies, and they can recreate this process over and over again, making them immortal.

Most people picture jellyfish as floating balloons with tentacles trailing behind them, but thats their second stage of life. Before turning into the sea creatures were familiar with, jellyfish are larvae that attach themselves to rocks and other ocean elements. Then they turn into polyps before becoming baby jellyfish. The ability for Turritopsis dohrnii to decay and then become new jellyfish from the polyp stage is one of the most amazing discoveries of our time, scientist and Australian Marine Stinger Advisory Service Director Dr. Lisa-ann Gershwin told BBC Earth.

The immortal jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, can revert to an adolescent phase after reaching maturity, theoretically living forever. pic.twitter.com/sdgppe8KqH

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Experts believe the species initially lived in the Mediterranean Sea before traveling to other parts of the world via cargo and cruise ships, which pump ballast water in and out during their journeys. These tiny jellyfish likely got caught up in the process, probably experienced some stress along the way, and were able to reverse their life cycles when they reached their new destinations. They are very small and can be hard to see, which may have also helped them spread into various populations around the globe.The good news is that they dont adversely affect their environments like some invasive species do.

However, their extraordinary ability doesnt make the little jellies impervious to certain threats, such as fish and turtles who enjoy making them into tasty meals. Sea slugs and crustaceans also prey on them. They cannot escape death entirely.

Luckily for us, these sea creatures potentially have the ability to advance human medicine. Japanese scientist Shin Kubota, who has studied these jellyfish for decades, made a bold claim, telling the New York Times, Turritopsis application for human beings is the most wonderful dream of mankind. He added that once the scientific community figures out exactly how the jellyfish are able to age in reverse we will evolve and become immortal ourselves.

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This spending is inevitably going to stoke demand. Inflation is already running at above 9pc in the US and showing little sign of coming under control. And, unlike in Europe, price rises are being driven by higher demand, not restricted supply.

While European prices have been jacked up by the Ukraine war, that is not true of the US. It is self-sufficient in oil and gas, and also in grain (it is actually a major exporter of wheat).The war has not made any difference to the US.

Instead, inflation was sparked by Biden and the Fed: the Presidents wild spending, doling out $2,000 cheques to everyone, and the Feds willingness to finance it with freshly printed money. If the government pours another $739bn of stimulus into an economy already at full employment and with inflation running rampant, the Fed wont have any choice but to raise interest rates more aggressively or else let prices run completely out of control.

The second problem is Bidens new plan imposes a huge new round of taxes on business. The new minimum tax is actually a disguised increase, since it will be imposed on companies regardless of standard deductions for investment, R&D or any other mainstream expenses or reliefs.

On top of that, Bidens plan imposes a new 1pc levy on share buybacks, a measure the American Left has for years campaigned for. You can argue for or against it in fact, with high corporate taxes, buybacks are an efficient way of returning money to shareholders but there is no question it will take more money off companies and cause huge damage to Wall Street, which relies on companies to put cash back into the market.

Add it all up, and the new Inflation Reduction Act imposes a huge increase in corporate taxes. The result? Investment will be damaged, the supply side of the economy will shrink, and that will make inflation even worse.

Finally, despite claiming to reduce the deficit, the plan will send debt soaring upwards. As Rishi Sunak would have discovered if he had remained as chancellor, increasing corporate taxes sounds easy but the money generally does not materialise. Companies work around them or go elsewhere.

Biden will unleash the spending, but the planned revenues will never turn up, and the deficit will rise and rise. The US debt-to-GDP ratio has already hit an alarming 137pc of GDP, and may start to get towards Italian levels (currently 148pc of GDP). With the worlds reserve currency, the US can probably get away with that. But there is no point in pretending it will control inflation that is not what debt does.

On taking office, President Biden inherited an economy that was already overheating from his predecessors wild spending, and was still struggling to cope with the supply crisis left over from the pandemic. His vast stimulus package has sparked the worst bout of inflation in four decades, as many economists warned it would at the time.

Now he plans to double down on that catastrophic mistake. His Inflation Reduction Act will do nothing to control prices but it will crash the global economy all over again.

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Burns Hargis, Jay Helm and Stacy McMahan to be inducted into Spears Hall of Fame

(STILLWATER, Oklahoma, Aug. 9, 2022) Oklahoma State Universitys Spears School of Business will honor three alumni OSU President Emeritus Burns Hargis, Jay Helm and Stacy McMahan with their induction into the schools Hall of Fame on Nov. 11 at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center.

The annual Spears Business Hall of Fame banquet recognizes graduates with distinguished professional careers who have given back to their communities and displayed exemplary leadership skills. Hargis, Helm and McMahan will be honored as inductees into the Spears Schools Hall of Fame, the highest honor awarded by Spears Business.

Also, business school alums Alex Evers, Jimmie J Mays, Matt Scovil and Brittany Surine will be honored as Outstanding Young Alumni at the banquet.

This years Hall of Fame honorees have distinguished themselves in business and public service, said Dr. Ken Eastman, dean of Spears Business. It is our privilege to recognize them for their achievements and for the positive distinction they have brought Spears Business and OSU. Our four younger alums have already crafted exciting careers for themselves and we know that more great things lie ahead of them.

Hargis served as OSUs president from March 10, 2008 until retiring July 1, 2021, leading the university to unprecedented heights during his leadership. Transplanted to Oklahoma during his sophomore year of high school, Hargis enrolled at OSU in 1963. He took legendary department head Wilton T. Andersons basic introduction to accounting class and loved it, so much so that he became an accounting major. He graduated with a bachelors degree in accounting in 1967 and then went to graduate law school at the University of Oklahoma in 1970.

Hargis practiced law in Oklahoma City for 28 years, where he worked with the firm of McAfee & Taft. In 1997, Hargis joined the Bank of Oklahoma, where he rose to become the vice chairman. He was a president of the Oklahoma County Bar Association, former president of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Hargis was also a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Oklahoma in 1990.

Then in 2008, he became the 18th president of OSU. As president, he created a campus culture of collaboration, innovation, wellness, mutual respect and success. During Hargis presidency, OSU set historic enrollment and fundraising records, with pledges and cash surpassing the Branding Success campaigns $1 billion goal, nearly two years ahead of schedule.

The funds have provided student scholarships, faculty endowments and funding support for much-needed facilities like the new building for Spears Business and other vital programs.

Other activities which Hargis was instrumental included his service as vice-chairman of the Oklahoma State Election Board, member of the Oklahoma Constitutional Revision Commission and as chairman of the Oklahoma Commission for Human Services. He is a former member of the Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and was appointed to the OSU/A&M Board of Regents in 2002 but left the board in 2007 when the opportunity to become president of OSU presented itself.

Hargis also served as an OSU Board of Governor-Former and Board of Governor-Former Trustee. OSU honored him with several awards, including the 1991 OSU Distinguished Alumni, 2008 School of Accounting Distinguished Alumni, and the 2021 OSU-Tulsa Icon A Stately Affair honoree. Hargis was also the recipient of the Journal Records Legacy Award 2020. Hargis was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2009.

Hargis and his wife, Ann, were active across campus, interacting regularly with OSUs diverse student body. As strong proponents of wellness, they led OSUs initiative as Americas Healthiest Campus andcreated Petes Pet Posse, a nationally unique pet therapy program, which led to the creation of the Ann Hargis OSU Center for Pet Therapy.

As members of OSUs Heritage Society and the Proud and Immortal $2.5 Million club, the Hargises are leaving a long-lasting legacy of scholarships and professorships from their Ann and Burns Hargis Endowed Professorship to their Rosalie Burns Hargis Family Fund to their University Leadership Scholarship.

Helm is chairman of American Residential Group, a commercial real estate firm engaged in the development and management of multifamily residential properties throughout the Sun Belt region with a focus in Oklahoma and Texas.

A native of Missouri, Helm moved to Tulsa with his family at 15 years old and graduated from Tulsa Edison High School. He chose to attend OSU, where his love for the Cowboys and the state of Oklahoma flourished. A member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, an experience that deepened his passion for OSU, he graduated in 1970 with a bachelors degree in business administration and immediately threw himself into supporting OSU as a football and basketball booster.

After graduation, Helm went to work for the Hardesty Company managing the home building division. After a few years, he made the move to Midland Mortgage, now known as MidFirst Bank. Prior to forming American Residential Group in 1997, he served as managing partner for Lincoln Property Company in the Oklahoma and Arkansas regions.

In 2001, Helms passion for broad and equal access to quality public higher education was recognized by Gov. Frank Keating and he was appointed to the OSU/A&M Board of Regents, serving twice as chairman. He served for 12 years until he was appointed to the State Regents for Higher Education in 2013 by Gov. Mary Fallin. He served the State Regents, including as chairman, until his retirement in 2022. He now serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees for OSU Medical Authority and chairman of the Board of Trustees for the OSU Medical Trust.

He has been honored several times by his alma mater. In 2009, he received the OSU-CHS Distinguished Public Service Award, and in 2014 he made the Spears School Tributes: 100 for 100 list. In 2017, he was selected as an OSU in Tulsa Icon for his contributions to the university. He is in the Proud and Immortal Club for helping support OSU in many areas, including multiple endowed scholarships. Helm has also endowed a professorship in the accounting department at OSU-Tulsa.

Helm and his wife, Fayenelle, have been married 43 years and have one daughter, Christian Helm Leikam; a son-in-law, Robert Kip Leikam, Jr., and two grandchildren, Nellie and RK.

McMahan is a native of Guymon, Oklahoma, and credits her success to her upbringing on the family farm where a strong work ethic was instilled. In January 2020, she was named the chief financial officer for International Justice Mission, a Christian nonprofit focused on human rights and justice to stop human trafficking and slavery. She previously worked as CFO of nVent Electric, CFO of the Spectranetics Corporation until it was acquired by Philips and as CFO of MSA Safety Inc.

She graduated from OSU in 1984 with a bachelors degree in finance. At OSU, McMahan was a member of the Business Student Council, Phi Kappa Phi honor society, Omnicron Delta Kappa, Presidents Leadership Council and she was recognized as a Top 10 Freshman.

McMahan started her career at an Oklahoma City bank in the late 1980s, but took the opportunity to attend grad school, earning her MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1989. Over the past 30-plus years, she has succeeded in numerous roles during her business career. She served over 20 years in the life science industry at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly and Company, where she spent eight years working internationally in Australia, England and Belgium.

In April 2018, she returned to OSU to speak at the Spears Schools CEO Day. She shared with students to be energetically curious, be generous, and that the higher up you move in the company, the less it becomes about you and the more it becomes about the success of your company.

McMahan and her husband, Jerry (also an OSU alum), make their home in Alexandria, Virginia. They have three adult daughters, two sons-in-law and one grandson.

In 2001, the Outstanding Young Alumni award was established to recognize alumni who have provided significant service and achievement early in their professional careers. This year, four outstanding individuals will be honored.

Evers graduated from OSU with a bachelors degree in management information systems in 2013, and within a month the owner of a Stillwater karate school asked him if hed be interested in purchasing the business. Using his knowledge of the business, and his years of experience from working as general manager of the Stillwater and Tulsa locations throughout college, Evers bought the school only two months after graduating.

Within a year, Stillwater Martial Arts had doubled in size. In 2018, he announced the opening of Family Martial Arts in Enid. In 2021, he sold Stillwater Martial Arts but he stays involved in the Stillwater community. Evers plans to open an Edmond Family Martial Arts location in August. He graduated from Leadership Stillwater, was voted as a Top 10 Leader Under 40 in Stillwater and Enid, and he continues to hold free self-defense and bully proofing seminars for the Stillwater Public Schools.

Evers is on the Stillwater Chamber of Commerce Boards of Directors, and also won the Small Business of the Year Award for Stillwater Martial Arts in 2018. In 2015, he completed the test for his 4th degree Black Belt and in 2020 he earned his 5th degree Black Belt.

Mays is a 2005 OSU graduate with a degree in hotel restaurant administration (now known as hospitality and tourism management). When asked where his passion for hospitality comes from, he says, I was indoctrinated from birth. He grew up in Waurika, Oklahoma, where his family has operated Bills Fish House, a catfish restaurant, since 1962. His childhood was spent in the kitchen and front of the house, learning all aspects of the business.

After graduating from OSU, Mays moved to Oklahoma City in 2008, opening Caf 7 Delicatessen & Pastaria with the help of one of his OSU professors, Paul Sorrentino. Soon after the opening of Caf 7, his fraternity brother, Chris Kana, joined him as a partner. In 2010, they opened a second Caf 7 in downtown Oklahoma City. In the years that followed, they opened Venue 7, Caf 7 Catering, Roosevelts Gastropub and The Hamilton Supperette & Lounge. This past summer they opened Dados Pizza in Oklahoma City.

Mays serves on the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Restaurant Association, and as chairman of the Hirst Hospitality Awards, an event that celebrates the best and brightest of the hospitality industry in Oklahoma and raises money for scholarships for students in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. He also currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Oklahoma Hospitality Foundation.

He lives in Edmond with his wife, Lauren, and their three daughters, Remy, Noelle and Charlotte.

Originally hailing from Wisconsin and growing up in Tulsa, Scovil attended OSUs Spears School of Business for his bachelors in international business and marketing and his MBA. He also earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa John Rogers College of Law. During his masters study, he was honored to be a Leslie Scholar/participant in the MBA Scholars program, as well as an active member in the MBA Student Association.

As co-founder and CEO of Medefy Health, one of Americas fastest growing health tech companies, Scovil is dedicated to helping everyday people navigate the complexities of American healthcare. His work at Medefy has helped garner the No. 1 spot on the Cowboy100 list of fastest growing OSU alumni companies, a Webby national award for best tech site, a featured speaker at the Spears Business CEO Day, and the recent honor of being named the 2022 Oklahoma Venture of the Year.

When hes not working, Scovil enjoys being a part of Tulsas tech startup scene, where he mentors local startups, is an active member of Founders Club and has past associations with great Tulsa technology programs like BetaBlox, 1MC and the Forge. In addition, he regularly volunteers at Life.Church, and has past volunteer associations with Realations Group Home, Night Light Tulsa/City Lights Foundation, the Laura Dester Shelter, and the Community Foodbank of Eastern Oklahoma.

Scovil lives in south Tulsa with his wife, Betty.

Surine has spent the past 17 years at ISN, a global leader in contractor and supplier information management led by several OSU alums. She currently is a senior vice president at ISN, overseeing the companys Client Services and Business Development operations in the U.S., Latin America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and APAC (Australia and Asia Pacific).

Surine moved to Stillwater when she was 11 years old and was immediately immersed into the Cowboy culture. Upon graduating from OSU in 2005 with a bachelors degree in business administration from OSU, she joined the ISN team in Dallas.

Over the past 17 years, Surine has held various business development, management and leadership roles within the organization. While the majority of her career was focused on leading sales and account management teams serving customers in the oil and gas, manufacturing and technology industries, she has also spent time overseeing other departments within ISN focused on customer relationship development, service and support.

Surine opened ISNs London office in 2011 and spent four years living in England, leading ISNs operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

She lives in Dallas with her husband, Kurt, a fellow OSU alum, with their three children.

For more information about the Spears School of Business Hall of Fame, please contact Kelsey Hutton at 405-744-1550

or kelsey.hutton@okstate.edu.

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Author: St. Nikolay Kavasilas

Word one: Life in Christ is realized through the sacraments of divine baptism, holy anointing and communion

36. Since before the Cross it was impossible to find forgiveness of sins and deliverance from punishment, what righteousness can be thought of at all? It is inconsistent, I think, that before they are reconciled, they should fall into the place of friends, and while still in fetters, should be proclaimed victors.[8] After all, if that lamb[9] had finished everything, what was the point of what happened next? Since those types and images [ ] were able to bring about the blessedness thus sought [], therefore already truth and works are in vain. However, until the enmity is destroyed by Christs death and the middle ground is overthrown [ ], and until peace and righteousness dawn in the Saviors times, and in general until all these things take place, what place will they have before that sacrifice, if not the place of Gods friends and righteous?

37. The proof of this is this: then we were united to God by the law, and now by faith and grace, and if there is anything else connected with them. It is clear from this that then it was slavery, but now adoption and devotion achieve the communion of men with God, because the law is for slaves, and for friends and sons grace, faith and boldness.

38. From all this it became clear that the Savior is the firstborn from the dead [ ] and none of the dead can live to immortal life until He rises. Likewise, the sanctification and justification of men depended on Him alone. This, therefore, was also pointed out by Paul, writing: the forerunner for us entered the holy [ ] Christ[10] (Heb. 6:20).

39. For He entered into the holy place, offering Himself to the Father, and brought in those who wished, joining His tomb, not dying like Him, but at the holy table, anointed and fragrant, in an unspeakable way they announce Him Himself as having died and resurrected. And so, bringing them through these gates, He leads them to His Kingdom and to a coronation.

40. These gates are far more exalted and more perfect [] than the heavenly gates. They would not open to anyone who had not previously entered through those doors, and these are open even when those are closed. Those can bring out those who are inside, but these only bring in, they dont take anyone out. It is possible for them to be both locked and finally unlocked, and through these the curtain and the middle were completely destroyed and destroyed.

41. It is no longer possible to rebuild the fence and erect gates that would divide the worlds from each other by a wall. At this the door was not merely opened, but the heavens were also opened,[11] says the marvelous Mark, showing that there was no longer any door, nor walls, nor curtains of any kind left. For He Who reconciles, unites and reconciles the upper world with the lower [ ], by destroying the middle of the fence, cannot deny Himself, says the blessed Paul.[12] Because those doors that were opened because of Adam, when he didnt stay where he was supposed to stay, of course it was clear that they were going to close. They were precisely opened by Christ Himself, Who had not committed sin, nor could he sin, because His righteousness it is said abides forever. Whence it necessarily follows that they were to remain open and lead to life, and from life there should be no way out for anyone. For I have come, says the Savior, that they may have life (John 10:10).

42. This is precisely the life which the Lord brings: that those who come through these sacraments participate in His death and become partakers of His sufferings, and without this no one can escape death. For it is impossible for one who is not baptized with water and the Spirit to enter into life, neither can those who do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood have life in them. We will look at this further.

43. What is the reason why only the sacraments can put life in Christ in our souls. To live in God is impossible for those who have not died to their sins, and to kill sin they could only with Gods help. Men are bound to do this: after we have become righteous and voluntarily suffered defeat, it is utterly impossible and far from our ability to renew the struggle when we have become slaves to sin. How could we become stronger after being enslaved? Even if we become stronger, no slave is above his master. Since, therefore, he who was to reject this debt and retain this victory, being righteous, was a slave to those over whom he should have prevailed in the struggle, and God, who is mighty to do so, was under no obligation to anyone, therefore no one took up the fight, and sin lived, and the true life was impossible to shine upon us the victorious reward on the one hand is for him who has to pay the debt, and on the other it is for him who has the power therefore there had to be one, and the other to join together, so that they both have the same nature of the one who goes to the battle and of the one who can conquer.

44. So it happened. God appropriated the struggle for men by becoming man. Man overcomes sin, being clean from all sin because he was God. Thus nature is freed from shame and crowned with a victorious crown, for sin is broken.

45. Although of the people none had conquered and none had fought, yet they were freed from the fetters. This was done by the Savior Himself for those to whom He made it available, giving each person the power to kill sin and become partakers of His feat.

46. Since after that victory, instead of being crowned and triumphed, He suffered beatings, death, and the like to the end, as Paul says, for the joy that was set before Him He endured the cross, despising the shame (Heb. 12:2), what happened ?

47. He did no wrong, but received such a sentence. He committed no sin, and had nothing to call a slanderer too shameless. And wounds, suffering, and death were from the beginning designed for sin. How did the Bishop allow this, being philanthropic? It is not fitting, then, for goodness to console itself with ruin and death. Therefore, immediately after the fall, God allowed death and suffering not so much as a punishment for the sinner, but as a cure for the sick.

48. Since for what Christ had done no such punishment should have been awarded, and the Savior had not in Himself any trace of infirmity to be taken away in order to receive any medicine, the power of that cup is directed to us, for to put sin to death in us, and the wounds of the Innocent One become the punishment of those who have sinned in many things.

49. Since the punishment was wonderful and far greater than the equivalent of human evils, this punishment not only freed from the accusation, but provided such an abundance of goods that it led to an ascent to heaven itself and communion with the Kingdom of God there. It includes those of the earth, the hostile, the chained, the enslaved, the vanquished. That death was dear, therefore, and it is impossible for men to fathom how much, although, on the Saviours assumption, it was bought by the murderers for too little to cover His poverty and dishonor.

50. Suffering what belongs to slaves, to be sold, he earns dishonor, because the gain honored dishonor upon us [ ], and that for so little means that he accepted to die gratuitously and for nothing. for the world; willingly died without committing any injustice, neither against life nor against any state, preparing for His murderers also gifts far greater than desires and hopes.

50. But why do I say this? God died. Gods blood was shed on the Cross. What could be dearer than this death? Whats more shocking? What did human nature so sin that it was awarded such a ransom? What could this wound be that needed the power of such a medicine to cure it?

51. It is clear, therefore, that sin is atoned for by some punishment, and that of those who have sinned against God, those who suffer a worthy punishment will be freed from condemnation. The subject of punishment, however, could not be called upon for that for which he deserves a sentence. There is no man who, being perfectly pure, would himself suffer for others, so that no one could bear the corresponding punishment either for himself or for the whole human race, even if it were possible for him to die a thousandfold. For what does this most shameless slave deserve to suffer, who has ruined the kings countenance, and shown such audacity against his majesty?

52. That is why the sinless Lord, having suffered much, died. He bears the wound by taking upon Himself the protection of men, being human. He frees the human race from punishments and gives freedom to those who are chained, because He Himself does not need it, being God and Lord. And why true life enters us through the death of the Saviour, that is what we are about to say.

53. On the one hand, the way in which we draw him into our souls is this: initiation into the sacraments [ ], washing, anointing, enjoying the holy table. In those who do this, Christ indwells and dwells, unites, joins [] and banishes sin from us, invests His life and nobility [] and makes us partakers of His victory. Goodness of goodness! Those who wash are girded and those who partake of the dinner glorify.

54. Why does Christ crown those who wash, those who are anointed with oil and those who participate in the supper. Why and for what reason are the victory and the crown at the font, the ointment and the table, which are the fruit of labor and sweat? For though we do not fight or toil, in doing these things we glorify that feat, admire the victory, and bow down before the trophy of victory, and for that decisive feat [ ] we show unspeakable gratitude []. Those wounds and paint and death we appropriate for ourselves, and as far as possible we draw them to ourselves by tasting of the very flesh of the Dead and Risen One. Because of this, of course, we also enjoy those goods that correspond to death and exploits.

55. If anyone, surrounding a captured and awaiting punishment tyrant, praises and crowns him, honors tyranny and himself prefers to die after his fall, speaks against the laws and complains against justice, does this without shame and without hiding his malice, but speaks boldly, testifies and proves it, what judgment shall we pass on such a one? Shall we not render him the same as the tyrant? It is absolutely certain.

56. Contrary to all this, if one admires the noble, rejoices in the victor and weaves wreaths for him, raises shouts of victory and shakes the theater, faints with pleasure before the triumphant, gently embraces his head, kisses his right hand, and thus greatly exults from the general, and from the victory he has brought, that as if he himself should have crowned his head, will he not receive a share of the victors rewards, judged by prudent judges, as he I think will join in the punishment of the tyrant? If we reserve to the bad what is due, by exacting punishment for their intent and thoughts, it is not quite right to deprive the good of what they deserve.

57. If we add to this that he who won that victory does not himself need the gifts of victory, but rather prefers to see the splendor of the theater around his supporter, and considers it the reward of his struggle that his friend should be crowned, how is it not is it fair and not acceptable that he should adorn himself with a wreath, though he has not shed the sweat and endured the hardships of war?

58. This is exactly what the baptismal font, the supper, and the judicious enjoyment of the ointment can do for us. Consecrating ourselves [], therefore, we punish the tyrant, despise him, and deny him, and the victor we praise, admire, worship him, and love him with all our souls, so that with the love that surrounds us like bread we are satisfied , like ointment we anoint ourselves and like water we pour ourselves over.

59. It is evident that if he entered into this war for our sake, and that we might conquer, Sam suffered death, so that there is nothing inconsistent and nothing disagreeable about the crowns of victory being reached by these sacraments. For we show the possible disposition [ ], and hearing of this water, that it has the power of Christs death and burial, we strongly believe, willingly come forward, and immerse ourselves. He because he does not give little and what he honors us with is not little welcomes those who come after death and burial, not giving a crown, not by giving glory, but with the Victor Himself, with Himself crowned.

60. Coming out of the water, we carry the Savior Himself in our souls, in the head, in the eyes, in the very entrails, in all the members, pure from transgression, freed from all corruption, as he rose, as he appeared to his disciples, and as he ascended , as he will come again, demanding this treasure back.

61. Thus, after we are born and sealed with Christ, He himself guards the entrances of life, lest we bring in any foreign species. By means of that by which, by taking in air and food, we maintain the life of the body, by this He penetrates into our souls and joins to Himself these two doors: the one as myrrh and fragrance, and the other as food. Because we inhale Him at the same time, but He also becomes food for us. And so, mixing and combining himself fully with us in every way, He makes us His body, and becomes to us what the head is to the other members. Therefore and through Him we participate in all good things, because He is the head, and from the head they necessarily go to the body.

62. This is precisely what we should admire, because we do not share with Him either in the wounds or in the death, but He Himself took them, but then, at the crowning, then He makes us His partakers.

63. This, therefore, is indeed a work of unspoken philanthropy, which is not far from reason and expediency [ ]. Because after the Cross we are united with Christ. Until He suffered, we had nothing to do with Him. Because He is Son and Beloved, and we are defiled, and slaves, and enemies in consciousness [ ]. After he died and the ransom was given to us, and the devils prison was destroyed, we entered into such liberty and adoption, and became members of that blessed Head. Hence, whatever belongs to the Head belongs to us.

64. Now, therefore, through this water we become sinless, we join His gifts through the ointment, and through this table we live one and the same life with Him. In the future we shall be gods with God [ ], heirs of the same with Him, we shall reign with Him in the same kingdom, if only we do not voluntarily blind ourselves and tear the kings tunic in this life. We must only strive for this in this life, so that we preserve the gifts [ ], preserve the charisms [ ] and not tear down the crown that God has woven for us with much sweat and labor.

65. This is the life in Christ which is contained in the sacraments. It seems to me that it is clear what human zeal can do for him. Therefore, he who wishes to speak about this should first consider each of the sacraments separately, and then it would be consistent to consider each action according to virtue [ ].

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[8] Literally, crowned (note trans.).

[9] That is, the lamb from the Old Testament Passover (note trans.).

[10] Cited by the author (trans. note).

[11] Mark 1:10.

[12] 2 Tim. 2:13.

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And they all went into raptures, amazed, but reciprocally credulous.

not yet What must I do?,

He half put out a hand, but she stirred a little and he withdrew it, leaning back in his chair and gazing with half-shut eyes into the flame. You cant see a fairy, you know, he said quietly.

At the last I shall die.

Oho said the old soldier. Whence hadst thou that song, despiser of this world?

He half put out a hand, but she stirred a little and he withdrew it, leaning back in his chair and gazing with half-shut eyes into the flame. You cant see a fairy, you know, he said quietly.

flightsat which they laughed not a littleand at which Sancho would have been no lesout of countenance had not himaster once more assured him it waall enchantment. For all that hisimplicity never reached so high a pitch that he could persuade himself it wanot the plain and simple truthwithout any deception whatever about itthat he had been blanketed by beingof flesh and bloodand not by visionary and imaginary phantomsahimaster believed and protested.The illustrioucompany had now been two dayin the inn; and ait seemed to them time to departthey devised a plan so thatwithout giving Dorothea and Don Fernando the trouble of going back with Don Quixote to hivillage under pretence of restoring Queen Micomiconathe curate and the barber might carry him away with them athey proposedand the curate be able to take himadnesin hand at home; and in pursuance of their plan they arranged with the owner of an oxcart who happened to be passing that way to carry him after thifashion. They constructed a kind of cage with wooden barslarge enough to hold Don Quixote comfortably; and then Don Fernando and hicompanionsthe servantof Don Luisand the officerof the Brotherhoodtogether with the landlordby the directionand advice of the curatecovered their faceand disguised themselvessome in one waysome in anotherso ato appear to Don Quixote quite different from the personhe had seen in the castle. Thidonein profound silence they entered the room where he waasleeptaking hihirest after the past fraysand advancing to where he wasleeping tranquillynot dreaming of anything of the kind happeningthey seized him firmly and bound him fast hand and footso thatwhen he awoke startledhe waunable to moveand could only marvel and wonder at the strange figurehe saw before him; upon which he at once gave way to the idea which hicrazed fancy invariably conjured up before himand took it into hihead that all these shapewere phantomof the enchanted castleand that he himself waunquestionably enchanted ahe could neither move nor help himself; precisely what the curatethe concoctor of the schemeexpected would happen. Of all that were there Sancho wathe only one who waat once in hisenseand in hiown proper characterand hethough he wawithin very little of sharing himaster

Whats the matter? asked Piglet

Oho said the old soldier. Whence hadst thou that song, despiser of this world?

Now, you see, said the fisherman, I can look back and remember all that--and Cambremer, too, he added, after a pause. By the time Jacques Cambremer was fifteen or sixteen years of age he had come to be--what shall I say?--a shark. He amused himself at Guerande, and was after the girls at Savenay. Then he wanted money. He robbed his mother, who didn,

As soon as they had arrived at the door of Anna,

Nothing more since the privateersman was run in, said Captain Acton.

With foes ahead, behind us dread,Beneath the sky shall be our bed,Until at last our toil be passed,Our journey done, our errand sped

Johns face grew thoughtful. It would kill him to do it.

He half put out a hand, but she stirred a little and he withdrew it, leaning back in his chair and gazing with half-shut eyes into the flame. You cant see a fairy, you know, he said quietly.

The truth isanswered Sanchothat I have never read any historyfor I can neither read nor writebut what I will venture to bet ithat a more daring master than your worship I have never served in all the dayof my lifeand God grant that thidaring be not paid for where I have said; what I beg of your worship ito dresyour woundfor a great deal of blood flowfrom that earand I have here some lint and a little white ointment in the alforjas.

Again, those terribly dull evenings in some unknown town Do you know anything more wretched than the approach of dusk on such an occasion? One goes about as if almost in a dream, looking at faces that one never has seen before and never will see againlistening to people talking about matters which are quite indifferent to you in a language that perhaps you do not understand. You have a terrible feeling, almost as if you were lost, and you continue to walk on so as not to be obliged to return to the hotel, where you would feel more lost still because you are at home, in a home which belongs to anyone who can pay for itand at last you sink into a chair of some well-lighted cafe, whose gilding and lights oppress you a thousand times more than the shadows in the streets. Then you feel so abominably lonely sitting in front of the glass of flat bock beer that a kind of madness seizes you, the longing to go somewhere or other, no matter where, as long as you need not remain in front of that marble table amid those dazzling lights.

not yet What must I do?,

Whats the matter? asked Piglet

At the last I shall die.

Again, those terribly dull evenings in some unknown town Do you know anything more wretched than the approach of dusk on such an occasion? One goes about as if almost in a dream, looking at faces that one never has seen before and never will see againlistening to people talking about matters which are quite indifferent to you in a language that perhaps you do not understand. You have a terrible feeling, almost as if you were lost, and you continue to walk on so as not to be obliged to return to the hotel, where you would feel more lost still because you are at home, in a home which belongs to anyone who can pay for itand at last you sink into a chair of some well-lighted cafe, whose gilding and lights oppress you a thousand times more than the shadows in the streets. Then you feel so abominably lonely sitting in front of the glass of flat bock beer that a kind of madness seizes you, the longing to go somewhere or other, no matter where, as long as you need not remain in front of that marble table amid those dazzling lights.

not yet What must I do?,

The truth isanswered Sanchothat I have never read any historyfor I can neither read nor writebut what I will venture to bet ithat a more daring master than your worship I have never served in all the dayof my lifeand God grant that thidaring be not paid for where I have said; what I beg of your worship ito dresyour woundfor a great deal of blood flowfrom that earand I have here some lint and a little white ointment in the alforjas.

ll put the words out of my head--I swear I will. Only cure me, and

It is needless, of course, to say that this searching walk was in vain. Whatever lay white in his road he rushed at, and in his gizzard he cursed the vast number of pieces of white paper which did somehow, as though distributed by innumerable malicious Greyquills, attract his eye and retard his progress whilst he turned them over.

Good heavens cried Monsieur de Bourbonne, interrupting his nephew, surely you have not been such a fool as to tell that woman about your father,

What, been abroad, I suppose?

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Very goodhave what time you require, Dantes. It will take quite six weeks to unload the cargo, and we cannot get you ready for sea until three months after thatonly be back again in three months, for the Pharaon, added the owner, patting the young sailor on the back, cannot sail without her captain.

Then what has brought matters to a head?

perhaps. The hope of causing you a regret will soothe my agony,

Have you found the Yellow Sign?

Hm, but you are hasty folk, I see, said Treebeard I am honoured by your confidence but you should not be too free all at once There are Ents and Ents, you know or there are Ents and things that look like Ents but aint, as you might say Ill call you Merry and Pippin if you please nice names For I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate A queer half knowing, half humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and Ive lived a very long, long time so my name is like a story Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to

Very goodhave what time you require, Dantes. It will take quite six weeks to unload the cargo, and we cannot get you ready for sea until three months after thatonly be back again in three months, for the Pharaon, added the owner, patting the young sailor on the back, cannot sail without her captain.

back was turned, and seized the opportunity to go to the chimney-piece and set upon it a little red morocco case with Rastignac

back was turned, and seized the opportunity to go to the chimney-piece and set upon it a little red morocco case with Rastignac

perhaps. The hope of causing you a regret will soothe my agony,

Mr. Middleton wrote assa polemist against Romanism, and hence he took especial painssto apply[144] these factssto that system of Christianity exclusively. Such an application issmanifestly unjust, since baptism wassfully corrupted before the formal establishment of the Papacy, and many corrupt elementssare yet retained in Protestantism. Mr. Middletonsssuggestion that men were debarred from the use of holy water assa punishment isssustained by the following from ?schines. In hissspeech against Ctesiphon he said:

Then what has brought matters to a head?

Is it not enough to know that they are servants of the Enemy? answered Gildor Flee them They are deadly Ask no more of me

You never look at it.

Oh, my goodness says IConstellation, says you? Noits a State.

AntinI could not find my houseit had been sold and pulled down. Speculators had built several houses over my gardens. Not knowing that my wife had married Ferraud, I could obtain no information.

To which Don Quixote very deliberately and phlegmatically repliedFair damselat the present moment your request iinopportunefor I am debarred from involving myself in any adventure until I have brought to a happy conclusion one to which my word hapledged me; but that which I can do for you iwhat I will now mention: run and tell your father to stand higround awell ahe can in thibattleand on no account to allow himself to be vanquishedwhile I go and request permission of the PrincesMicomicona to enable me to succour him in hidistress; and if she grantitrest assured I will relieve him from it.

That wouldnt be at all the thing, the Red Queen said verydecidedly: so Alice tried to submit to it with a good grace

Hm, but you are hasty folk, I see, said Treebeard I am honoured by your confidence but you should not be too free all at once There are Ents and Ents, you know or there are Ents and things that look like Ents but aint, as you might say Ill call you Merry and Pippin if you please nice names For I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate A queer half knowing, half humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and Ive lived a very long, long time so my name is like a story Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to

Mr. Middleton wrote assa polemist against Romanism, and hence he took especial painssto apply[144] these factssto that system of Christianity exclusively. Such an application issmanifestly unjust, since baptism wassfully corrupted before the formal establishment of the Papacy, and many corrupt elementssare yet retained in Protestantism. Mr. Middletonsssuggestion that men were debarred from the use of holy water assa punishment isssustained by the following from ?schines. In hissspeech against Ctesiphon he said:

When he got up, he was lame and could hardly limp asfar as the stable

YOUR FRIEND Burgess,

Is it not enough to know that they are servants of the Enemy? answered Gildor Flee them They are deadly Ask no more of me

We promise deliberate resistance to the tidal wavessof fashion, to the 'booms' and panicssof thepublic mind, to all the formssof weaknesssand of fear.

Such were the singular circumstances in connection with the Resident Patient and the Brook Street Doctor. From that night nothing has been seen of the three murderers by the police, and it is surmised at Scotland Yard that they were among the passengers of the ill-fated steamer Norah Creina, which was lost some years ago with all hands upon the Portuguese coast, some leagues to the north of Oporto. The proceedings against the page broke down for want of evidence, and the Brook Street Mystery, as it was called, has never until now been fully dealt with in any public print.

When he got up, he was lame and could hardly limp asfar as the stable

YOUR FRIEND Burgess,

back was turned, and seized the opportunity to go to the chimney-piece and set upon it a little red morocco case with Rastignac

I do. La Grange has made it. He produced a scale of pure gold day before yesterday. That nugget was manufactured gold.

At any rate, her voice had lost much of its harshness as she asked: But what about the wild animal that broke into the school an' tore the teacher's clothes fair off his back an' chased him up the road? That's the thing that scared him so he quit the school ferever. Now, Willium, what did you have to do with that?

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CLOVER Living descendants of Henrietta Lacks a Halifax County resident known as the mother of modern medicine visited Clover on Sunday on what would have been the eve of Lacks 102nd birthday.

Lacks relatives honored her memory with a wreath-laying ceremony at her gravesite, followed by a traditional church service at St. Matthew Baptist Church, the place where Lacks was baptized.

It is more than an honor and a privilege to be in this same place, this same church where my great-grandmother and great-grandfather learned to worship the Lord, Veronica Robinson said with joyful reverence.

Lacks is best known for her immortal HeLa cells cells that were able to live and self-replicate after she died of cervical cancer on Oct. 4, 1951, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Henrietta Lacks descendants Bria Baptiste, Ava Flood, Jewel Carter, Victoria Baptiste, Alfred Carter Jr., Lacks only living son Lawrence Lacks Sr. and Veronica Robinson pose for the crowd Sunday as they prepare to lay the wreath on her grave in Clover.

Dr. George Otto Gey was able to culture Lacks cells to develop the HeLa cell line which continues to be utilized in medical research to this day.

Halifax County Board of Supervisors member Bryant Claiborne contextualized Lacks legacy for those in attendance.

Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine. But do you know whose cells he used? Claiborne queried.

Halifax County NAACP President Barbara Coleman-Brown framed Lacks legacy as a medical miracle.

Henrietta Lacks was unique, Coleman-Brown said. Her cells cannot be replicated. So, this was a gift from God. The congregation met her remarks with jubilant concurrence.

The Rev. Alfred Chandler delivers remarks at the laying of the wreath Sunday morning at the grave of Henrietta Lacks.

Coleman-Brown expressed gratitude that the Lacks family chose to celebrate their famous ancestors birthday right here in Halifax County.

For the first time, it is being celebrated in her hometown, she said.

Lacks grandson, Alfred Carter Jr., shared although he lives in Baltimore, This is home. I feel like its home.

Forced to perform without their organist, the St. Matthew Baptist Church choir sings hymns a capella, accompanied only by the rhythmic clapping of the congregation.

Carter revealed that his mother was Lacks youngest daughter in 1951 when Lacks died. His mother was only 2 years old at the time, and feeling like she missed the chance to know her famous parent she dedicated much time and effort to learning as much as she could about Lacks.

In order for you to go somewhere, you have to know where you come from, Carter said.

He humorously added, My mother used to drag me down here every summer.

Lacks legacy continues in more than one way. Representatives from the Hometown Initiative spoke about their mission to erect a statue in Lacks honor in South Boston, indicating that the group needs donations to continue their efforts.

Lacks family representative Shyrea Thompson promotes the Lacks Familys Cervical Cancer Awareness #TealTakeover initiative to end cervical cancer Sunday morning with descendants Bria Baptiste and Ava Flood.

Lacks family representative Shyrea Thompson spoke alongside descendants Bria Baptiste and Ava Flood to explain the #TealTakeover initiative of the HELA100 organization. This project will promote testing for cervical cancer among Black women with the ultimate intention to end the disease that claimed Lacks life.

In honor of Lacks and to promote the #TealTakeover initiative, her descendants who attended the Sunday event all wore the color teal.

The celebration of Lacks birthday will continue at 10 a.m. Monday with a fundraising event in support of the Hometown Initiative at Constitution Square in South Boston.

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Sagitta, the Arrow, is the smallest of the constellations named by the ancient Greek chronicler Aratus (fourth century BCE). His account is brief: Theres further shot another Arrow/But this without a bow.

Despite its diminutive size, the arrow is hard to miss. Its stars are relatively bright, and it lies surrounded by the three most luminous stars in the summer sky, the aptly named Summer Triangle.

Most stargazers dont give Sagitta a second glance. Its not difficult to see why. The more prominent constellations nearby, not to mention the convoluted glow of the surrounding summer Milky Way, overshadow the pint-sized constellation.

However, the constellation is associated with a solemn ritual that we still practice. The rite is performed with religious fervor every four years but Im getting ahead of myself.

Where were we? Sagitta. Yes.

After the sky gets completely dark, look east and almost straight overhead for Vega, the brightest star of high summer, in the constellation Lyra. Deneb is down and to the left. It is the head star of the northern cross, also known as Cygnus, the Swan.

Completing the triangle to the right is the star Altair, easily recognizable because of the two fainter stars flanking it.

Sagitta is inside the triangle nearest to Altair. Its four brightest stars really do look like an arrow.

The two close stars on the right seem to form the notch that fits into the bowstring. Some early star maps reversed the direction of the arrow to represent the two-pointed projectile used by the Roman army.

Most of the stories about the constellation come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. For example, Germanicus Julius Caesar describes the constellation as one of the arrows wielded by Cupid, the god of erotic love.

Germanicus is best known as the father of Caligula, the fourth Roman emperor of the Julian line, the grandfather of Nero, the fifth and last Julian emperor, and the older brother of Claudius, the third emperor.

The honorific title Germanicus was added to his name in 9 BCE because of his fathers victories against the tribes of Germany. Germanicus followed up his fathers successes with three successful German campaigns himself.

He was also something of a scholar. In 4 CE, he retold the set of constellation myths detailed in The Phenomena, written by Aratus, a Greek writer of the fourth century BCE.

(The work by Aratus was, in turn, a poetic interpretation of an earlier Greek work, now lost, by Eudoxus of Cnidus. The road these old stories travel can be long and winding.)

Germanicus reinterprets Aratuss work to satisfy the tastes of contemporary Romans. He described Sagitta as one of the love darts used by Cupid to make people fall in love, although lust might be a more appropriate term.

Even the gods were not immune to Cupids arrows. Intoxicated by Cupids love dart, Zeus, the king of the gods, fell in lust with Ganymede, a young shepherd.

It didnt help matters that Ganymede was a handsome young man. Homers Iliad describes him as the loveliest born of the race of mortals.

In the guise of an Eagle, Zeus swept down and kidnapped the unfortunate boy while he was placidly tending his sheep on Mount Ida.

Zeus offered the erstwhile shepherd several inducements to become the gods lover and wine pourer.

One of those perks was immortality. The lowly shepherd was to become a god.

Hera, Zeuss wife, was used to Zeuss frequent infidelities, but the offer of immortality was over the top. Hera had viewed Zeuss many lovers as rivals on many occasions, but the offer of eternal life turned the usual brief dalliance into a never-ending relationship.

And thus it was that Ganymede, used and abused by the gods, was transformed from shepherd to wine pourer to the constellation Aquarius, where he retains his immortality but little else.

The story seems to tell us to be wary of Cupids arrow, which bears the dubious gift of unadorned erotic passion. True love must bind erotic love with spiritual and emotional affinity.

In the writing of Pseudo-Eratosthenes (first century CE), Sagitta is the arrow that Apollo, the god of learning and the arts, used to slay the fierce, one-eyed Cyclops.

The tale turns on the fate of Asclepius, the son of Apollo and a mortal woman.

Asclepius developed extraordinary skills in medicine. He was so proficient in the healing arts that he could bring dead people back to life.

He became so good at raising the dead that Hades, the god of the Underworld, began to notice a dearth of wraiths entering his dark kingdom.

He asked Zeus to slay the ill-starred Asclepius. Without hesitation, Zeus dispatched the physician with one of his deadly thunderbolts.

Apollo could not control his rage. Zeus had murdered his son. He could not vent his anger on the more-powerful Zeus, so he directed his wrath at the Cyclops, who manufactured Zeuss thunderbolts. An arrow of great size did the trick.

As punishment for the loss of his thunderbolt supplier, Zeus sentenced Apollo to a years servitude as a shepherd in Thessaly. Before he left, Apollo hid the arrow in Hyperborea, a mythical paradise, a land beyond the North Wind, somewhere far north of Greece.

Hyperborea was a land of perpetual sunshine, but that was not its main selling point as a hiding place. What made it a paradise was that it was the only place in heaven or on earth that was beyond the reach of the gods.

After Zeus released Apollo from his servitude, he retrieved the arrow. Demeter, the goddess of the harvest, carried it through the air and placed it in the sky for us to see to this very day.

The most common story, told by the Roman poet Hyginus in the first century BCE, has to do with that star of myth, legend, and Disney movie, the fabulous Hercules.

Hercules was the defender of the long-suffering Prometheus among his many brave deeds.

When the king of the gods, Jupiter, took over the universe, he gave Prometheus the task of creating human beings and equipping them with the tools they would need to survive on earth.

Prometheus belonged to the defeated race, called the Titans, whom Zeus and the other gods had overthrown to take over the universe. In retrospect, Zeus must have regretted giving the job to a vanquished enemy.

Without asking Zeus, Prometheus gave humans a most precious but potentially dangerous gift. He stole fire from the heavens and taught humans how to use it.

Jupiter was so angry that he took the fire back to the heavens. Prometheus had learned to love his creations so much that he risked Jupiters vengeful wrath and stole it back.

Hyginus tells the story of the theft this way:

Thus, when the other gods were away, he came to Jupiters flame, and hiding a small part of it in a fennel-stalk, he seemed not to run, but to fly, joyfully shaking the fennel-stalk, so that the enclosed air might not extinguish the flame with its vapors in the narrow space.

Jupiter was so enraged by the second theft of fire that he devised a cruel and horrific punishment. He chained poor Prometheus to a rock, and every day he sent a vulture to eat the liver of his screaming victim.

Every night, the liver grew back. Every day the vulture returned. Prometheus had nothing to look forward to but eternal agony.

Luckily, Hercules came to the rescue. The hero was the son of Zeus and a mortal woman. He owed, I suppose, great loyalty to his father, but his human side pitied the agonized Titan and honored him as the father of humanity. Consequently, Hercules freed Prometheus and killed the vulture with an arrow from his mighty bow.

Of course, you can see Sagitta as four tiny stars in the smallest of the constellations. However, the story of Hercules and Prometheus reminds us that the constellation is also an emblem of those characteristics that make us most human compassion, loyalty, generosity, and honor.

Four decades back, I built my largest telescope. As is the custom of many young telescope builders, I gave the telescope a name Prometheus because, like the ancient hero, it steals fire from the sky.

But I am not the only person who honors the memory of Prometheus. As Hyginus wrote over two millennia ago,

And so, to this day, following the practice of Prometheus, the custom was established that runners in athletic contests would run brandishing a torch.

And so, to this day, the Olympic torch burns brightly every four years, and humanity again becomes the guardian of the Promethean flame.

Tom Burns is the former director of the Perkins Observatory in Delaware.

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What happens after death? Scientists say that physical death is the end of life. Religions believe that our souls are immortal, but where we go depends on what we have done in life. In the midst of all this, there are some who They claim to return from the other side to tell about it,

In TIC Toc, the unbelievable testimony of a woman who claimed to be dead for a while caught the attention of netizens. Over the course of two videos, the old woman remembers him near death experienceWhich started when he had a severe allergic reaction in his bathroom:

,I felt strange, but very strange. I went to the bathroom and it was a monster, it was all swollen; I said this is a terrible attack, from an allergyUnknown woman called back.My husband immediately took me to the hospital, I came and died. I couldnt speak because my throat was swollen all around, He added.

This is where his testimony moves from the accidental to the supernatural. As she explains, she had to go into cardiac arrest because of an allergic reaction that doctors couldnt save: I was dead for a few minutesHowever, in those few minutes, Grandma claims to have experienced it all her life, down to the smallest detail.

,I left my body, I swam, I went out the window, the woman continued, her eyes replaying an impossible landscape. What she claimed was the Grand Canyon, a geographical mark AmericaThe woman claimed to have gonea series of incredible experiences, between them meeting ones own great-grandmother,a Hungarian; Sorry an Austrian, she wouldnt want me to get confused, which he had not seen since childhood.

,life happens to you Your choice starts at an incredible pace, in a movie in full swing and you see everything, assured the grandmother, repeating one of the common descriptions told by those who claim to have returned from the dead. Once in her body, the old woman had only a simple reflection to leave. was: everything you do is importantstupid things too,

Hundreds of stories circulate on the Internet and orally about near-death experiences. Hearing and reading these stories over and over again in the common imagination has ended up shaping a narrative that usually consists of the following elements: the presence of a flashing light, the sensation of leaving ones body, or a state of maximum relaxation.

but, Are these experiences real, or are they imaginary? Apparently, a scientific study managed to conclude that this chain of events is not a hallucination, but can be organized by the brain itself. research published in the journal Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesentitledGuidelines and standards for the study of death and remembered experiences of death, includes a review of all scientific literature published on the subject to date.

Based on this, the researchers reasoned that when the heart stops, brain cells are not irreversibly damaged within minutes of lack of oxygen, but rather They may be running for an extra timeso the memories that people bring back from these experiences They will still be the fruit of a brain in performance, even if that persontalk of death,,

,Few studies have explored what happens when we die in an objective and scientific manner, but our findings provide an interesting thread that may explain awareness of the phenomenon in humans and avenues for future research. can pave., Understand Sam Parnialead author of the study and director of critical care and resuscitation research at the New York School of Medicine.

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Can you imagine what its like to be a junior doctor? The gruelling shifts, the lack of sleep, the terror that, as you take the plunge from lecture hall to hospital ward, youre responsible for the lives and deaths of others? Austin Duffy would like to help you try.

The oncologists third novel, The Night Interns, draws on his own exposure to the process more than 20 years ago which, he says, is just imprinted in my head so vividly compared to other more recent stages of my career, where Ive gone through a lot more dramatic stuff and had all sorts of intense experiences. But theres obviously something about that initial year.

Part of that something, as he describes it, is that while newly qualified medics have theoretical knowledge, they are suddenly confronted with the reality of trying to put it into practice, pitched into the unfamiliar surroundings and hierarchies of the hospital environment: You cover these vast hospitals at night, and youre wandering around with people who youre in college with; you know them, they know you, and youve got each other to help you along, but its not like theyre in any better situation. Its that moment where youve got a real foot in both camps: youre not quite a fully-fledged doctor, even though you are on paper, and youre not quite a total civilian, either. And on the medical side, youre at the very bottom of the totem pole.

In The Night Interns, which revolves around a trio of junior doctors, Duffy tries to capture the vulnerability and the isolation that he remembers despite the fact, he says, that he had a pretty good internship. The result is a tense, claustrophobic narrative, filled with strip-lit corridors, bleeping pagers, absent consultants and catastrophically ill patients, its sharply observed details set against a backdrop of the protagonists unstable emotions. In short, Duffy followed one imperative as he wrote the book: I wanted the reader to be on call.

Duffys imagination was fired by the description of young men caught up in a system over which they have no control

A clue to the intensity he wanted to achieve comes via a novel that, incongruous as it may seem, inspired him: the French writer Hubert Mingarellis A Meal in Winter, which follows three German soldiers working at a concentration camp who come across a Jewish escapee in the surrounding forest. Duffys imagination was fired by the description of young men caught up in a system over which they have no control although, he is at pains to point out, hes drawing no comparisons between the two situations: Ones a murderous regime, the others trying to help people and trying to make people better, but there was something about that dynamic that made me think, Oh my God, this reminds me of being an intern.

Duffys days of being at the bottom of the totem pole are long behind him. Nowadays, he works as a consultant at the Mater and is an associate professor at UCD; he specialises in immunotherapy and spends much of his time setting up clinical trials to enable patients quicker and better access to new and experimental drugs, a process that he ruefully notes is slower than it should be in Ireland. Im not a real scientist, he tells me, not at all. I can speak the lingo, and sort of fake it but last year he was honoured by the National University of Ireland for his exceptional research into the treatment of liver cancer.

His day job, then, doesnt sound like it would leave either much clock-time or headspace for writing fiction not to mention the fact that he also has a young family, is a keen runner and plays the saxophone. But Duffy disagrees: indeed, he sees his career as a huge advantage, and not just because it pays the mortgage. At work, he does something that he loves, and that stimulates him, and he even finds the time pressure a spur to keep at it, writing before he leaves his house in Howth every morning, then on the Dart, with maybe a quick diversion to a coffee shop if hes running ahead of schedule. If he has to take one of his children to football practice in the evening, he sits in the car with his laptop. Im very focused: when I sit to write, Im not really looking out the window, he says, which must be a terrific understatement. Does he feel impatient, I wonder, when he sees writers talking about their perfect writing set-up or the difficulty of carving time out for work? Listen, everyones got their own way, he replies, with immense tact.

He began to write when he was working in New York, living in hospital accommodation, basically a box with no internet or TV. With few personal commitments, he saw an advert for a weekly class at the writers studio, having long nursed the ambition and dibbed and dabbed throughout his 20s, including some forays into the usual awful, sentimental crap stuff.

I was very sceptical about creative writing classes, he recalls. But I figured I needed something external to just sort of get me going. And it worked perfectly, you know, it really did, it got me reading all these different writers that I would never have read. I met some people, and it was serious and good. And from that moment, Ive basically written every day.

Beyond the necessity of compartmentalising his timetable, I ask him, does he see links between his work as a doctor and his writing life?

He met his wife, artist Naomi Taitz, in New York and the couple subsequently moved to Washington before returning to Ireland in 2017, a year after the publication of his first novel, This Living and Immortal Thing, which centred on an ex-pat Irish research oncologist searching for a breakthrough. His second, Ten Days, followed last year and was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the McKitterick Prize.

Beyond the necessity of compartmentalising his timetable, I ask him, does he see links between his work as a doctor and his writing life? Is it, in fact, an ingrained cultural misunderstanding that we separate the arts and the sciences so forcefully? I dont think theres a sharp dividing line at all, he replies. Obviously, there are different techniques involved. But youre kind of trying to get at the same thing in both. In science and medicine, youre trying to get to a sort of an objective truth: does drug x work, or does it not? Youre doing an experiment basically, youre trying to find out why is x causing y? Youre getting at that through experimentation and a different methodology than you would use, obviously, in art, but in art, youre also looking for some form of truth.

I ask him a cheeky question. The Night Interns features some truly horrible medical professionals at the top of the tree. How has he guarded against becoming one himself if indeed he has? He bursts out laughing. I wouldnt survive for very long! I think those people, like the villain in the piece, you dont see many of them around anymore. I think that is a genuine cultural change of the last 20 or 30 years. Im sure theres still things that go on. But I do think consultants, in general, are nicer. Im obviously going to say that, right?

Duffy points to the rates of personnel leaving the healthcare system for countries such as Australia

The Night Interns is not a novel of the pandemic, but it arrives at an interesting time, when the public has been made even more aware than previously of the strain on medical professionals: the images of nurses and doctors in heavy-duty protective gear for hours on end, working tirelessly to get to grips with an unfolding public health emergency, will take a long time to fade from the memory.

One of the questions the novel raises about the internship system is whether putting junior staff through such punishing initiations really correlates to whether they will become good doctors; Duffy points to the rates of personnel leaving the healthcare system for countries such as Australia, and although hes cautious about comparing one country against another, he also thinks it can be instructive. Burnout is a major concern, he says and was even before Covid hit.

Our strength is our people, and not just doctors or nurses, but all of the interactions that you get within the Irish health system.

Encountering the trainee doctors and nurses on his return from America, he says, their calibre really hit him: Theyre just fabulous. And The Night Interns will leave its readers in no doubt that they need protecting and preserving.

The Night Interns, by Austin Duffy, is published by Granta Books

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