The document is a tribute to Howard Martell, who served 20 years in the US Navy. It describes how Martell grew up in New London, Connecticut and joined the Navy at age 19, serving his country unselfishly. Over his two decades of service, Martell earned several honors and awards for his dedication and professionalism. The tribute highlights how Martell exemplified the best of the American spirit of service and patriotism through his Navy career.
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Tim de Haan werkt aan de digitale dienstverlening van het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag. Ook is hij namens het NA coördinator van het eerste Wikipedian-in-Residence project van Nederland. In de afgelopen jaren is hij nauw betrokken geweest bij het beschikbaar stellen van collectiedata als open data www.gahetna.nl/opendata.
This slidedeck is also available on Wikimedia Commons: http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCN_2014/Programma/Terugblik_Wikipedian-in-Residence_KB_en_NA_en_de_mogelijkheden_met_Wikipedia_in_de_toekomst
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In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That marks our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
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Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high.
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My first quiz at bcqc pune.
A quiz i did for my college festival in march 2010 in Coimbatore.
P.s - The repeats weren't repeats back then! and the questions that were repeats was jus to fill in the blank spaces! :P
cheers have fun ! \m/
Journal Assignment 2
Journal Assignment
Fredrick Douglas’ “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro”
Background
In the early republic the annual Fourth of July oration was an important moment of commemoration, celebration, and reaffirmation in which Americans paid tribute to the heroes of the American Revolution and the ideals of American freedom and liberty. Citizens of all walks of life would gather together in their local communities to listen to orations delivered by
prominent statesmen
such as John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, and Horace Mann. A typical Fourth of July Oration would wax poetic about the virtues of America, often praising the Founders in grand terms and asking current Americans to live up to their
illustrious role models.
Former slave
Frederick Douglass’
July 5, 1852 oration “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” stands in stark contrast to the typical Fourth of July Oration. Not only did Douglass look different than the typical Fourth of July orator, but his message was very different. “The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not me,” Douglass told his audience. “The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes of death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” Throughout the speech Douglass compared and contrasted what the Fourth of July means to white Americans (freedom) and what it means to African-Americans (slavery) and concluded, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham.”
Douglass was already a famous abolitionist and speaker, but his fiery and dramatic calling out of American hypocrisy in his Fourth of July oration solidified his place as one of the greatest American orators of all time.
Directions
Answer the following questions:
Why did Douglas suggest by inviting him to speak on the Fourth of July the audience may have been mocking him?
Cite two examples of how the meaning of the Fourth of July differed for whites and African-American slaves?
What does Douglas mean by “stripes of death”?
How could Douglas have made such a speech yet still felt that the Constitution was a “glorious document” of liberty?
Speech
Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too Ñ great enough to give frame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for,.
Terugblik Wikipedian-in-Residence en mogelijkheden met Wikipedia in de toekomstOlaf Janssen
De Koninklijke Bibliotheek en het Nationaal Archief waren de eerste Nederlandse erfgoedinstellingen die een Wikipedian-in-Residence in huis hebben gehaald. Het afgelopen jaar heeft deze huiswikipediaan (Hay Kranen) een brug gebouwd tussen de rijke collecties van beide instellingen en het hergebruik van deze content op Wikipedia. Tim de Haan (NA) en Olaf Janssen (KB) laten zien hoe het project o.a. de kennis, vaardigheden en bewustwording over ‘Wiki en erfgoed’ binnen en buiten de instellingsmuren heeft vergroot en hoe de content van beide instellingen wereldwijd breder toegankelijk en herbruikbaar is gemaakt. Aan het einde blikken ze vooruit hoe de KB en het NA ook in 2015 met Wikipedia kunnen blijven samenwerken.
Olaf Janssen is Open Data coördinator bij de Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Den Haag. Ook was hij namens de KB coördinator van het eerste Wikipedian-in-Residence project van Nederland. Hij was nauw betrokken bij de beginjaren van Europeana en was een van de oprichters van The European Library.
Tim de Haan werkt aan de digitale dienstverlening van het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag. Ook is hij namens het NA coördinator van het eerste Wikipedian-in-Residence project van Nederland. In de afgelopen jaren is hij nauw betrokken geweest bij het beschikbaar stellen van collectiedata als open data www.gahetna.nl/opendata.
This slidedeck is also available on Wikimedia Commons: http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCN_2014/Programma/Terugblik_Wikipedian-in-Residence_KB_en_NA_en_de_mogelijkheden_met_Wikipedia_in_de_toekomst
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Skaidrių ruošimas - asist. Dainius Jakučionis, VU Medicinos fakultetasDainius Jakučionis
Konferencijos "Šiuolaikiškas medicinos dėstytojas" metu skaitytas pranešimas. Konferencija vyko 2016 04 22, VU Medicinos fakultete.
Pranešimą skaitė:
asist. Dainius Jakučionis, VU Medicinos fakultetas
Paskaitos konspektas - https://goo.gl/wkCsDv
Konferencijos įrašas: https://youtu.be/PpRj_Ig0GPM
Daugiau informacijos rasite: www.mededukologija.wordpress.com
WW2 underground newspapers on Wikipedia using DBPedia , 12-2-2016, The HagueOlaf Janssen
Presentation about my project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nl:Wikipedia:Wikiproject/Verzetskranten) describing and interlinking all 1300 Dutch resistance newspapers from WW2 on Wikipedia using DBpedia.
Given during the 6th DBpedia International Community Meeting on 12-2-2016 in The Hague (http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/TheHague2016)
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That marks our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high.
On this Juneteenth 2020, amid recent social justice unrest across the nation and the world, I feel inspired to write about my experience and perspective as a black Naval Officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve...
My first quiz at bcqc pune.
A quiz i did for my college festival in march 2010 in Coimbatore.
P.s - The repeats weren't repeats back then! and the questions that were repeats was jus to fill in the blank spaces! :P
cheers have fun ! \m/
Journal Assignment 2
Journal Assignment
Fredrick Douglas’ “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro”
Background
In the early republic the annual Fourth of July oration was an important moment of commemoration, celebration, and reaffirmation in which Americans paid tribute to the heroes of the American Revolution and the ideals of American freedom and liberty. Citizens of all walks of life would gather together in their local communities to listen to orations delivered by
prominent statesmen
such as John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, and Horace Mann. A typical Fourth of July Oration would wax poetic about the virtues of America, often praising the Founders in grand terms and asking current Americans to live up to their
illustrious role models.
Former slave
Frederick Douglass’
July 5, 1852 oration “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” stands in stark contrast to the typical Fourth of July Oration. Not only did Douglass look different than the typical Fourth of July orator, but his message was very different. “The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not me,” Douglass told his audience. “The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes of death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” Throughout the speech Douglass compared and contrasted what the Fourth of July means to white Americans (freedom) and what it means to African-Americans (slavery) and concluded, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham.”
Douglass was already a famous abolitionist and speaker, but his fiery and dramatic calling out of American hypocrisy in his Fourth of July oration solidified his place as one of the greatest American orators of all time.
Directions
Answer the following questions:
Why did Douglas suggest by inviting him to speak on the Fourth of July the audience may have been mocking him?
Cite two examples of how the meaning of the Fourth of July differed for whites and African-American slaves?
What does Douglas mean by “stripes of death”?
How could Douglas have made such a speech yet still felt that the Constitution was a “glorious document” of liberty?
Speech
Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too Ñ great enough to give frame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for,.
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Howard martell article 2012 A reflection of Service to the Great Republic
1. The Boy next Door... The best of the Great Republic. You sleep easy through the night
because of him... and millions like him. A Tribute!
2. Preface / Introduction
This is tribute to Howard Martell who served a higher calling one to country and he unselflessly
gave 20 years so there could be a better future!
3. Table of Contents
1. The boy next door... the best of the Great Republic. You sleep easy through the night because of
him... and millions like him. A Tribute!
4. The Boy next Door... The best of the Great Republic. You sleep easy through the night because of him... and millions
like him. A Tribute!
The boy next door... the best of the Great Republic. You
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The boy next door... the best of the Great Republic. You sleep easy through the night because of
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Author's program note. When was the last time you considered the state of our Great Republic and
did anything -- anything at all -- to sustain and improve it?
If you cannot immediately say and cannot recall what you did, if you have nothing but rancorous
thoughts and feelings about our continuing great experiment in the governance and well being of
mankind, then stop and focus your full, undivided attention on this article and its subject: Howard
Hector Martell, Jr. For this day, like every other day over the past 20 years, Howard Martell has
served us... you, me, the Great Republic, all of us able to live life as we wish because of him and his
colleagues in every great service of our great nation.
To set the stage for this story, to provide the essential sound, I have selected music from one of the
greatest public affairs programs ever -- "Victory at Sea." It is a documentary television series about
naval warfare during World War II that was originally broadcast by NBC in 1952-1953. The stirring
music was composed by Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett. Rodgers, well known for a
string of iconic Broadway musicals, contributed 13 "themes"; short piano compositions a minute or
two in length. Bennett did the scoring, transforming Rodger's themes into a variety of moods, all
designed to touch your heart and fire your imagination. The result was pure magic.
Find out for yourself. Go now to any search engine. Listen to a few of the "themes" to get you
started. I like "Hard Work and Horseplay", "Theme of the Fast Carriers" and, of course, "The Song
of the High Seas." However, to honor Howard Martell, listen to "Guadalcanal March." It is the
essence of what a grand march should be... the kind of march Howard has so well earned... I'm
playing it now as I write.
New London.
New London, Connecticut is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United
States. It is located at the mouth of the Thames River which locals demand you pronounce to rhyme
with "James", unlike the great river of London, England which rhymes with 'hems". The folks in
New London insist upon their rendering; after all, they were part of the victorious Revolution that
tossed the Brits out -- and their eccentric pronunciations. As you hear this said, you begin to grasp
the fact that New London is not merely a place of picturesque aspects; just what meets the eye.
Rather, it is a place where young boys glimpse the great sea at hand, so beckoning, and dream
dreams of faraway places and what life can be.
Howie Martell was such a boy.
He was born June 27,1973, attended local schools, graduating from Griswold High School. People
remember him, if they remember him at all, as shy, uncertain; a boy who would smile at you... but
only after you had smiled at him. Teachers with many students to instruct would remember him
indistinctly and call him "average." But such an appraisal would have been incomplete, inaccurate,
failing to capture his essence, for this boy was a dreamer of great dreams... and New London, for
centuries the home port of audacious mariners, offered him the means to live them, mere dreams no
longer.
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known, placing his future in the hands of strangers who would, in due course and short order,
become comrades, a word civilians may know but so seldom understand. And so Howard Martell
entered the service of the Great Republic, discovering a destination more important than any of the
48 countries he came to visit. He found himself... and became a man.
From this point, his resume tells the story... it is all USN, the resume of a man who studied hard,
knew his business -- the Great Republic's business -- and was esteemed by superiors who always
found him ready to assist, eager to learn, and above all trustworthy and responsible.
In the process a man was shaped who was the complete Navy professional, respected by all, able to
be, as events required, a man who could lead, a man who would be loyal, a man you wanted on your
team, because he (and this touches the heart of this man) always stood for the success of his team,
never just his own. As people came to know him, they saw this... and admired the man who put
collective success above mere personal gain. Thus the Navy took Howard Martell, once a shy boy no
one could quite remember, to its heart. He received one deserved honor after another... Navy Good
Conduct Medal... six times... Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal... four times... Global War
on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal... Iraq Campaign Medal... two times. And most telling of all a
plaque from his fellow First Class Petty Officers who thereby saluted one of their own. He was
indeed the complete Navy man... a man who twenty years before had made the right decision.
The need for service in the age of selfishness.
It is a truism that older citizens will engage in endless rodomontades which detail the innumerable
outrages perpetrated by the young against society. How they are ill-educated, lazy, unkempt,
unclean of body and language. How they cannot be depended upon... how they flout all established
behavior, video game obsessed wastrels who cannot be trusted and will never amount to a hill of
beans. Thus goes the jeremiad; you can catch a whiff of it whenever two adults of fifty or so gather.
From the very start of the first civilization each man steps into this argument in his maturity, as
easily as he dons casual clothes. It is one of the perqs of aging, and no senior citizen will ever give
up this sacred right to pontificate. I shall not give it up either and so I give you some pungent
thoughts on the matter of service, a concept that alternates between being an afterthought and the
salvation of the nation. What we require is calm reflection and sensible policies on the matter. And
so I choose to use my words not to grumble but to exhort... to touch a shy boy or girl reading this
article and help them both select the responsible path, the path trod by Howard Martell and
generations of young people before... the path of service... and the abiding need of the Great
Republic for... you!
Young friend, our way of governance, our core beliefs, the very future of our noble enterprise is not
only challenged, but at risk. You have a choice -- mindless dissipation and decay, or personal
development and redemption through the bestowal of your time, mind and heart to the pressing
affairs of the Great Republic. In short, you can ignobly remain part of the problem, or become
infinitely more valuable as part of the solution.
There is nothing neutral about this decision. It is of the greatest possible consequence and can only
be made by you. A great idea, the greatest notion of statecraft ever propounded, the Great Republic
itself awaits your verdict, hopeful, expectant, confident. Howie Martell made the right choice. Will
you?
... And now it is time to end Howard's military career with all the pomp and circumstance he has
earned... and which a grateful Navy can provide.
Stand forward Petty Officer First Class Howard Hector Martell, Jr.. For your service, your nation,
your friends, family and comrades mean to honor you before the world in due recognition for what
you have so abundantly given... above all the gift of loyalty and fidelity to a great institution so
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like him. A Tribute!
needed by this great nation.
And so through each of the hallowed retirement traditions all Naval personnel know so well... until
this event, at once festive and solemn, reaches the Shadow Box. This is a symbol of a sailor's many
career accomplishments and recognitions. Shadow boxes contain a U.S. flag folded into a triangle,
ribbons and medals, insignia and revered devices. They act as a reminder of ranks earned by the
retiree and the awards received. It is a mark of the highest honor and cherished accordingly. Yours,
Howard, comes complete with the unqualified gratitude of the nation you have served so well... none
better... and the sincere thanks of us all. May God grant you sunshine and a fair wind to your many
ports of call still to come.
Envoi.
End this article by returning to any search engine and playing the "Victory at Sea" theme. It remains
glorious.
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like him. A Tribute!
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