Chapter 0623: Border City's Familiar People
Supporting Taro Star, within the Kun Zhuo Celestial River was the only non-drifting planet. Ning Cheng immediately stood up when he saw the planet within the Starry Sky Wheel's Starry Sky Positional Chart.
He was somewhat familiar with this planet; rather, this was the only familiar planet within the Kun Zhuo Celestial River for him. Moreover, he also had a connection with the Celestial Lord of this star, called Mu Pu. Mu Pu and Ning Cheng shared a grudge with each other because of Mu Pu's son, the scarlet-robed young noble, died at his hands. Later, when Ning Cheng reached Orchid Borough Star's Revolving Jade City, the feud between him and Mu Pu deepened even further when he saved Lan Ya.
However, because that place was still within Orchid Borough Star, that fellow could not act against him openly; at the same time, he also could not act against Mu Pu at that time. Now that he arrived outside of Supporting Taro Star, Ning Cheng naturally immediately thought of Mu Pu. Ning Cheng realised that this place should be somewhere close to the Rootless Black City, and might even be the first stop for the cultivators coming from the Rootless Black City. The cultivators who want to step into the actual starry sky would most likely arrive here first.
Thinking till here, Ning Cheng immediately felt excited. When Rui Baishan accompanied the cultivators from the Graceful Star Mainland, they should have also come to this planet. That also meant that his sister Ruolan should have also reached this place with Rui Baishan.
Ning Cheng had just walked out of the room when he found Shi Qionghua standing up and following him out.
Ning Cheng immediately stopped, holding Shi Qionghua's hand, he spoke up in a pleasantly surprised voice, "Qionghua, are you all right?"
However, Shi Qionghua remained silent, she neither spoke nor took her hands back.
Ning Cheng immediately understood that although Shi Qionghua had recovered significantly, she still hadn't gained consciousness and acted in purely out of her subconscious. Because she had remained by his side for a long time, so the moment he stood up, Shi Qionghua also automatically stood up.
"Qionghua, I will definitely help you recover." Ning Cheng held Shi Qionghua's hand and spoke with conviction. In any case, he would do everything in his power to heal Shi Qionghua.
Shi Qionghua only stared at Ning Cheng with a calm expression over her face, without any ripples.
Ning Cheng gave out a sigh in his heart. Pulling Shi Qionghua a little closer, he spoke up softly, "Don't wander too far away from me from now on."
"Master, has Mistress woken up?" Chasing Bull saw Ning Cheng coming out and quickly came forward to ask.
"I'm going to put away the Starry Sky Wheel, so you should also enter the Miniature World." Ning Cheng spoke while dodging Chasing Bull's question.
He had long since returned to his original appearance. He also knew that Chasing Bull should have already made some headlines at the Immortal Jade Star, which means that some of the cultivators most likely had guessed some of the treasures that he might have acquired. Therefore, he did not want to expose himself needlessly because of a stupid bull.
Ning Cheng held Shi Qionghua's hand and stood outside a big city while gazing at it for a long time. This was the largest city within the Supporting Taro Star and the most significant gathering place for cultivators within the Supporting Taro Star.
Although this city looked grand, compared to the Lucky Heaven City, the Eternal Heaven Starry Sky City or any other top-notch starry sky city, the difference was like heaven and earth. It did not give off that kind of mystifying feeling and felt slightly more lofty and towering compared to ordinary True Cultivation Cities.
However, what made Ning Cheng's heart a bit more emotional was the name of the city. This city actually had a very familiar name, Border City[1].
Numerous cultivators arrived and departed through the Border City's entrance. However, Ning Cheng did not see any cultivator in the Heaven Seated and above realms amongst them. Even cultivators with three Celestial Wheels were not many. Most of the cultivators had only one or two Celestial Wheels. At the same time, most of the population comprised of ordinary cultivators without any Celestial Wheels. Of the rest of the cultivators, most were in the Domain Realm or the Plundering Life Realm; however, each of them had strong starry sky aura surrounding them. From this, one could make out that most of these people lived and wandered the starry sky all year round.
Because Shi Qionghua had sealed away her vitality, her Celestial Wheels had long since disappeared, while Ning Cheng simulated two Celestial Wheels behind him. At the Border City, cultivators with two Celestial Wheels were already considered as powerhouses. Gently pulling Shi Qionghua's hand, he passed through the gates. As for the guards, instead of cross-examining the two, they actually bent down slightly at their waist.
Ning Cheng gave a sigh in his heart. Strength prevailed everywhere. Although his power could be considered as the lowest within the Eternal Heaven Starry Sky City, in this place, it was enough to stand high above most of the population.
"Stop……" The guard's obtrusive call caused Ning Cheng to look back subconsciously.
Looking back, he saw five or six starry sky wanderers stopped by the guards at the entrance. He then heard the guard speak up, "The smell of blood on you all is too thick. You will need to stay out of the city for a few days before you are allowed inside."
Ning Cheng's Spiritual Consciousness had long since noticed the smell of blood coming from these starry sky wanderers, indicating that these wanderers had just returned after a brutal slaughter within the starry skies. However, when these seemingly ferocious-looking starry sky wanderers faced the guards' reprimand, they could only bow their heads down and retreat outside of the city instead of resisting.
Ning Cheng's Spiritual Consciousness followed them out and saw a row of makeshift shelters on the west side of the city's exterior. These shelters had many cultivators that had returned from experiencing slaughter within the starry skies. They had to stay here, outside of the town, temporarily till the smell of blood dissipated from them.
A familiar face flashed past Ning Cheng's Spiritual Consciousness, almost causing Ning Cheng to call out Zhuzhu's name. He immediately pulled Shi Qionghua out of the city and quickly headed towards the makeshift shelters.
Soon Ning Cheng arrived outside an unadorned and straightforward cave. He reached out and touched the restriction covering the entrance.
A somewhat tired-looking female cultivator came out and looked at Ning Cheng in doubt before shifting her gaze to Shi Qionghua. However, she quickly realised that the two cultivators were far stronger compared to her and hurriedly bowed before speaking, "Can I ask why the two seniors have come to seek out this junior."
Ning Cheng felt sure that he had not perceived things wrong. The woman in front of him looked a lot like Yi Zhuzhu. Moreover, the degree of similarity between the two had already reached the 90% mark. If she were Yi Zhuzhu, she would have no reason not to recognise him. In any case, both he and Luofei treated her like their little sister, so there was no reason for her not to remember him, did she?
The only other possibility was that this woman shared some unusual relationship with Yi Zhuzhu. Thinking back to how Yi Zhuzhu's parents were forced out of the Receiving Heaven's Stone, this woman most likely was Yi Zhuzhu's mother.
"Are you Yi Zhuzhu's mother?" Ning Cheng had just thought of this when he immediately asked.
When the woman in front of Ning Cheng heard those words, her eyes immediately turned red before she fell to the ground, "Junior Chang Manyin is indeed Zhuzhu's mother. Senior, do you know where my daughter is? Please, Senior, tell me……"
Ning Cheng raised his hand slightly, and Chang Manyin stood up involuntarily. He somewhat lamented the fact that when Yi Zhuzhu's parents had come to the Receiving Heaven's Stone, they were already in the late-stages of Crucible Transformation Realm. However, even after all these years, Yi Zhuzhu's mother had only reached the Plundering Life Realm. From this, he could easily make out that she definitely faced a lot of difficulties while cultivating.
"When you left the Receiving Heaven's Stone, Zhuzhu was held captive in the basement of a rest stop on the Receiving Heaven's Stone. When my wife Luofei and I came to the Receiving Heaven's Stone later and learned about this, we rescued Zhuzhu and killed all your enemies. Currently, Zhuzhu is with Luofei. I came back this time to head back to the Rootless Black City to see them." Ning Cheng, on seeing Chang Manyin's anxious expression, quickly explained.
Since Chang Manyin was in this place and she hasn't seen her daughter, then it also suggested that Yi Zhuzhu and Ji Luofei had not come to Border City yet.
"Many thanks, senior, for showing such kindness…." Chang Manyin immediately knelt down again while speaking.
Ning Cheng quickly stopped Chang Manyin and asked with a somewhat eager tone, "I'd like to ask about the female cultivator who was forced out of the Receiving Heaven's Stone together with you that year. That female cultivator's name was Yan Ji. Do you know where she is currently?"
"You're Ning Cheng?" Chang Manyin immediately blurted out.
Ning Cheng immediately understood that Yan Ji had most likely had told Chang Manyin about him. Hearing that response, he quickly nodded and replied, "Yes, I am Ning Cheng."
Chang Manyin was not a fool. When Ning Cheng affirmed that he was truly that Ning Cheng, she immediately understood why this cultivator had tried to save her daughter, Yi Zhuzhu. Apparently, it was because the couple had helped Yan Ji. Sure enough, virtue has its reward, while evil has its retribution.
Chang Manyin, on knowing that her daughter was safe, felt as if the mountain pressing over her heart for all these years had finally crumbled. She immediately spoke up with a relieved voice, "Junior Apprentice Sister Yan Ji had much better qualifications compared to us husband and wife. When we reached Border City, she quickly advanced to the Domain Realm. Then following a successful crossing of the thunder tribulation, she managed to advance to the Celestial Novice Realm. After stepping into the Celestial Novice Realm, Junior Apprentice Sister Yan Ji finally decided to leave the Border City. She should have gone to the Second Revenant Star."
Ning Cheng felt relieved to hear that Yan Ji was doing ok. In any case, he knew about the Second Revenant Star. It was the premier star within the Kun Zhuo Celestial River. If one wanted to head outside of Kun Zhuo Celestial River, then one would have to go through the Second Revenant Star. Either that or control a top-grade flight-type weapon like him.
"In that case, you can come to the city with us." Ning Cheng did not continue asking about anything else.
Although he wanted to pass through Border City quickly, he had to first purchase a clear route map from the Supporting Taro Star to the Rootless Black City, before finally heading to the Rootless Black City. With the speed of the Starry Sky Wheel, Ning Cheng estimated that he would only have to travel for around ten days from the Supporting Taro Star to the Rootless Black City. Maybe it might not even take ten days, he might just reach his destination in only a few days.
"This junior is waiting for her husband to return. He and his team had not yet returned from the starry sky." Chang Manyin quickly spoke up. She wanted to take the initiative to speak with Shi Qionghua; however, Shi Qionghua remained silent, so she did not dare to initiate a conversation with Shi Qionghua.
Previously, Ning Cheng did not want to use his Spiritual Consciousness to probe the female cultivator in front of him. However, as they conversed, Ning Cheng realised that Chang Manyin had an exceptionally well-concealed injury.
Ning Cheng took out a medicinal pill and handed it to Chang Manyin and spoke, "This is a medicinal pill for healing internal wounds. It should be able to help you heal all your internal injuries."
Chang Manyin felt even more shocked when she heard Ning Cheng speak about her injuries. Even ordinary Celestial Shatterer Cultivators couldn't notice her injuries without actively probing her with their Spiritual Consciousness, and yet this Ning Cheng in front of her had actually seen it. Even Yan Ji with her heaven defying qualifications did not have such keen vision. Didn't this also imply that Ning Cheng was also a lot stronger compared to ordinary cultivators?
"Many thanks, senior." Chang Manyin quickly received the medicinal pill and thanked him.
Ning Cheng was just about to ask her to stop calling him as a 'senior' when he saw Chang Manyin quickly rushing out without even swallowing the medicinal pill in her hand.
A moment later, Ning Cheng saw her supporting a middle-aged man covered in blood. His aura felt highly unstable, apparently due to the severe injuries.
"Brother Jin, what happened to you?" Chang Manyin's voice sounded so anxious that she immediately put the medicinal pill, still in her hands, directly into the middle-aged man's mouth.
Once the medicinal pill dissolved in his mouth, the middle-aged man looked at Chang Manyin in shock and asked, "Manyin, what kind of medicinal pill is this?"
"Not bad, it's even a Grade 3 Celestial Pill. And yet you dare say that you never took anything else?" As the voice ended, another cultivator descended near to Chang Manyin and the middle-aged man.
"Song Tong, my husband got hurt again because of you, right? How many times have we said that we have not done anything that you accuse us of doing. Why do you want to pester us, husband and wife, again and again?" Chang Manyin's tone turned hoarse due to the stirrings of her emotions.
[1] The actual Chinese characters are 边城, which is 'Bian Cheng' in English words, that translates to Border Town/City. Somewhat similar to Ning Cheng's name.
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Another Pivot on Impeachment
With Democrats stepping slowly away from claims that President Trump's call with the Ukrainian president is an impeachable offense, the press once again is relying upon unspecified, unimaginable, and surely nonexistent evidence of presidential misconduct.
- October 16th, 2019
We are living through a phantasmagoric psychodrama generated by the dishonest national political media. This is the media whose Joe Scarborough of MSNBC did not show some of President Trump's responses to his enemies because of "concern" for the president's family, as he "seems to have lost his mind." This is a new frontier in American journalism, where a television news commentator who hates the president wishes to spare the president's family a rerun of his entirely rational denunciations of his enemies.
The House of Representatives began considering impeachment because an anonymous Democrat and former political associate of former Vice President Joe Biden received a hearsay account of a conversation between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, in which Trump encouraged the newly elected leader to find out if Biden and his son had done anything inappropriate in Ukraine. The president quickly made the transcript of the conversation public.
Partisan Democrats and formerly sensible commentators have portrayed Trump's request as a demand for incriminating evidence on Biden, failing which he would not resume U.S. aid to Ukraine. In other words, this was a solicitation for a benefit of value to Trump's 2020 reelection campaign. The reference to a resumption of aid was 500 words earlier in the transcript, and not connected at all to the Biden question.
When Biden was mentioned, it was to request to know what happened—a neutral request for the facts. Yes, Trump said the appearance of the former vice president's son $50,000-a-month sinecure as a director of a Ukrainian gas company, along with the elder Biden's boast of having a Ukrainian prosecutor fired, was "horrible." And so it was. But there may be uncontroversial explanations. If the Biden allegations are unfounded, Americans will want to know. If the facts are corrupt in themselves, Americans—and Democrats especially—will want to know that, too.
Scrambling for Scapegoats
In reality, the whole episode is nonsense, a farce. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) won't hold a vote on a formal impeachment inquiry because she couldn't win the vote. If there were such an inquiry, where the Republicans called and examined witnesses and subpoenaed documents, it would collapse as quickly as the Russian collusion fraud did when former special counsel Robert Mueller stumbled through his congressional inquiry.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)—who is usually lying when his lips aren't moving and always is when they are—says we will not be hearing from a non-whistleblowing leaker, to give his hearsay evidence of a conversation that any person in the world can read and see has no legal implications whatever. But the investigation indomitably continues. It is like the last government of the German Third Reich, meeting in the week following the death of Hitler on the few thousand acres they still governed on the Danish border, discussing agriculture and immigration.
With no evidence of wrongdoing by the president, the Trump-hating media is now scrambling after Rudolph Giuliani, formerly one of the nation's toughest prosecutors, as if they can pin something on him while he acted as the president's private attorney. With Hunter Biden in hiding, this ludicrous mockery must end. Pompous commentators who don't like Trump but have learned to live with their underestimation of him cannot go on indefinitely with wagging heads and furrowed foreheads, discussing the president's "crisis."
Seeing Past the Illusion
Fox News, which is generally well-disposed to the president, published a poll last week that 51 percent of Americans believe the president should be impeached and removed from office.
Fox's polls aren't very accurate, though their news coverage and comment are quite professional. But this one is bunk. Between 40 and 50 percent of Americans may wish there was a reason to remove Trump, or hope that he won't be reelected. That figure is insufficient to change congressional votes on an impeachment resolution, given that about 45 percent of the country is militantly pro-Trump and probably 10 million others will hold their noses and vote for his substantive performance despite his stylistic foibles.
But a substantial part of the anti-Trump vote is a levitation, sustained by the unprecedented hostility and dishonesty of almost all the national political media, which has been confirmed in independent studies by Harvard University and the Pew Research Center and others.
Not all the hostile media is shrill. My rational and moderate friend of many years, Fareed Zakaria (CNN), wrote in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on October 11 that he now favors "an impeachment inquiry" because Trump's "efforts to pressure the new Ukrainian government, including his phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky, were profoundly wrong;" and because of Trump's "far more troubling . . . refusal to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry."
Implicit in this explanation is the retreat away from the Trump-Zelensky telephone call, which is effectively conceded not to be probative evidence of any impropriety. Instead, Democrats are returning to the justification that impeachment is warranted based upon unspecified, unimaginable, and surely nonexistent evidence of presidential misconduct. The pitiful squeak that is meant to be a clinching argument is Trump's refusal to cooperate with an impeachment inquiry based on an illusion.
The Democrats are stuck with this clunker. Maybe Pelosi wanted to humiliate the young Marxist congresswomen and Schiff and the porcine Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), who chairs the House judiciary committee. Maybe she wanted to get this out of the way now before it caused the Democrats more embarrassment, and before the long-awaited indictments of a number of prominent members of the previous administration for its unconstitutional confection and promotion of the Trump-Russian collusion fraud. It is not for me to read Pelosi's mind, but she must have had some reason to let this anemic, spavined cat out of the bag. But this cat can't purr and has no whiskers, let alone claws. In Monty Pythonese, "It's a dead Cat!" (and it won't even bounce).
The Democrats' presidential nomination candidates are a rag-tag of extremists, kooks, dolts, and bumbling geriatrics, (Hillary was back last week with her autocue squib that Trump's "an illegitimate president"). But it is a national party because it has tens of millions of traditional supporters who are reasonable people. Their aversion to Trump enabled most of them to endure the bone-crushing defeat over the Russian fiction. The allegation a few weeks ago of a 30-year-old act of sexual misconduct by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which had most of the candidates screaming for his impeachment in the 24 hours before it was exposed as a completely unfounded charge, must have caused unease to many thoughtful Democrats.
But when this stinker implodes, after they have got the faithful to the edges of their chairs and exhumed John Dean and Carl Bernstein, the bloodless assassins of Richard Nixon, and the full gallery of their unctuous homelists and pietists who demean the occupation of commentator, sensible Democrats will disembark. The best way Democrats can serve their party now is to try to get a plausible semi-moderate like Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, no world-beater but Walter Mondale in drag-she can lose with honor and dignity, and turn off the CNN-MSNBC-main network hate machine.
Trump can't be removed from his office; he deserves and will gain reelection on his record; the Democrats will be back-both parties always are. But the sooner the country tunes out this dishonest, evil media putschism, the better for the whole country, especially the national political news outlets themselves.
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What are the principles of moral reasoning?
There are many different principles on which to draw in moral reasoning about specific environmental problems. This lesson reviews three basic pairs of principles: justice and sustainability; sufficiency and compassion; solidarity and participation.
What do we gain from literature?
When students study Literature, they learn to appreciate words and their power. They travel to other realms and times through the texts they read. They understand about their own culture and others'. Importantly, they learn to consider multiple perspectives and understand the complexity of human nature.
What is moral reasoning example?
Moral dilemmas are challenging because there are often good reasons for and against both choices. For instance, one could argue that it is okay to kill one person if it would save five, because more people would be saved, but killing itself is immoral.
Is guilt a symptom of PTSD?
People who develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also commonly experience guilt. 1 In particular, individuals who have endured traumatic events may also begin to feel what's known as trauma-related guilt.
What is survivor guilt quizlet?
Only $2.99/month. Survivor's Guilt. feeling bad about living through a disaster or war when others did not.
What is Preconventional moral reasoning?
During the preconventional level, a child's sense of morality is externally controlled. Children accept and believe the rules of authority figures, such as parents and teachers, and they judge an action based on its consequences. People now believe that some laws are unjust and should be changed or eliminated.
Why do you think Survivors often feel guilty night?
Those who survive may transform their feelings of guilt into a sense of increased meaning and purpose. They may also use survivor guilt as a way to cope with the feelings of helplessness and powerlessness that can occur in traumatic situations.
What is the summary of the moral logic of survivor guilt?
The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt Is the sense of responsibility soldiers feel toward each other irrational? High on that list of emotions is guilt. Soldiers often carry this burden home — survivor guilt being perhaps the kind most familiar to us.
Which statement best summarizes the central idea of the moral logic of survivor guilt?
What is the central idea of "The Moral Logic Of Survivor Guilt?" Survivors often feel guilty about those who did not survive. "Virtue is concerned with emotions and actions." To have a good character is to "hit the mean" with respect to both.
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Viral video shows large house party in Chicago amid coronavirus pandemic
by: WGN Web Desk
Posted: Apr 26, 2020 / 01:40 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 27, 2020 / 01:35 PM CDT
CHICAGO (WGN) — Video of a house party Saturday night reportedly on the West Side has gone viral and caused concern among residents.
The video, uploaded by Tink Purcell, has reached over 50,000 shares in less than a day.
Chicago police could not confirm the location of the party, but many residents have told WGN it took place somewhere on the West Side.
On Sunday afternoon, CPD did issue the following statement.
"We are aware of a video circulating on social media depicting a large house party inside of an alleged Chicago residence. While we cannot authenticate the nature or location of the gathering, we want to remind everyone of the social distancing requirements in place. CPD will disperse crowds in violation of social distancing requirements, and if necessary, issue citations or as a last resort, enforce via arrest."
The top comment in the Facebook video mentions how there are too many people at the party. WGN received several tips from viewers expressing their dismay.
"This upsets me because everyone is thinking about themselves and not others that they may be spreading it to," said Chicago resident Jayna Lynn. "Death just doesn't seem like something to be serious about to most during this pandemic."
The virus has disproportionately affected the South and West Sides with the African American community making up 46% of death in the city.
For the latest Chicago News, go to WGNTV.com.
(Information from WGNTV.com)


5 Famous Cases of Eminent Domain Abuse
By Purdy & Bailey, LLP
What Is Eminent Domain?
Eminent domain is the government's right to purchase private property to complete a public project.
Ideally, the government will offer you an amount that reflects or exceeds the value of your property. The offer should compensate for the fact that you had no plans to let go of the land or building they want.
Unfortunately, eminent domain has a history of being abused and causing serious problems for property owners. The government does not always respect their rights, and many argue the system is inherently flawed in several ways.
Call Purdy & Bailey at (858) 360-7080 or contact us online today to schedule a courtesy case review with an experienced San Deigo attorney.
According to a report by the Institute of Justice, cities begin 80 public projects per year that use eminent domain to take property from residents or business owners. "Our cities and states have become like real estate speculators, securing land owned by their own citizens on behalf of politically connected private interests," said one of the organization's officials, Scott Bullock.
Here are a few examples of eminent domain abuse in the United States:
In the mid-90s, a widow inherited her husband's commercial building in Las Vegas. He left this property to her so rent from tenants could fund her retirement. But the city claimed the area was blighted (i.e. poorly maintained) to justify its use of eminent domain, despite the fact that no one was actually sent to evaluate the area or building. The woman lost her property because she failed to attend a hearing she didn't know about.
In 1999, Chrysler built a new manufacturing plant in Toledo, Ohio. The city borrowed a loan and granted Chrysler millions for the project, partially due to Chrysler's guarantee that it would employ nearly 5,000 employees. Because it was a fully automated plant, Chrysler only ended up hiring 2,100 people. In the process, Toledo declared neighborhoods of 83 well-maintained homes a slum in order to justify eminent domain and relocate the property owners, as well as 16 businesses.
In the early 2000s, a real estate company in Hurst, Texas expanded its private mall to over 127 homes. The city used eminent domain to remove the homeowners, but a handful of them resisted the offers and filed lawsuits. The judge overruled their claims and forced them off of their land.
In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut could seize private property for larger private development projects that would theoretically "create jobs and increase tax revenues." Susette Kelo and other property owners had sued New London for taking their land, but the court decision emphasized that the constitution made no mention of "literal public use" as a requirement for seizing private property. According to the court, the constitution allows for a much broader interpretation of "public purpose" (i.e. the promise of economic growth in a community).
In 2019, the Iowa Supreme Court allowed the Iowa Utilities Board to condemn privately owned farmland and displace families in order to construct the Dakota Access pipeline. The court did, however, reject the 2005 Supreme Court decision because the trickle-down effects of economic development were not enough to justify New London's use of the eminent domain. The court argued that the pipeline, in contrast, served the public in a clearer and more impactful way than the private office buildings in the New London case.
Many of the people in these cases who resisted the government's attempts to seize their land were severely ill, and lawsuits have blamed their subsequent deaths on their forced relocation.
While the constitutional purpose of eminent domain is to improve communities and provide benefits for the public, the government has demonstrated its willingness to prioritize corporate interests in the name of economic development.
Residents and small businesses, therefore, face a steep road of fighting for their property rights on their own—unless they secure experienced legal representation.
Don't Give Up on Your Property—Call Us Today
If you have been served a notice informing you of the government's plan to take your land or real estate, you still have options. At Purdy & Bailey, LLP, we have an in-depth understanding of what it takes to end the threat of eminent domain. With 50+ years of combined legal experience, we are not afraid to take on big corporations and private interests in order to defend our clients' rights.
Let us put our skills to work for your case. Call (858) 360-7080 or contact us online to get started right away.


Unique program helps UofL's adult learners earn their degrees
By Shelbi Glover -
Earning a college degree can be challenging for non-traditional learners who balance a job, family duties and their course work.
Joseph Hans, a student in the College of Education and Human Development, has plenty of first-hand experience with those challenges.
"I attended UofL for two semesters straight out of high school in the mid-1980s. The less said about that time, the better," said Hans.
It's a story many students know well — the temporary break made permanent as life gets in the way.
And life did get in the way. Hans got married, started a family, learned new skills on the job and took UofL classes on and off for many years.
It was a struggle. But he never gave up.
A turning point came in 2011 when Hans finished his general education requirements and turned to CEHD's Matt Bergman for help on what to do next.
Bergman told him about CEHD's organizational leadership and learning degree, which provides college credit for workplace experience. Hans was elated to learn that he could receive up to 45 hours towards his degree.
"I liked the overall approach. The professors were real-world practitioners, the students were all adult learners and the classes used off-campus facilities and after-work hours," said Hans.
Now, Hans is on course to graduate cum laude in August at the age of 51. He is employed by Humana, where he says his managers have been more than willing to accommodate his busy schedule.
Hans credits his perseverance not only to his personal drive, but also to those who encouraged him.
"The standout professors, in my experience, in the program include Cathy Avdevich, Matt Bergman, Ray Klein, and Erin Mires. Amber Roberts, currently the program advisor, was also a huge help in getting me back in this past fall."
After he earns his degree, Hans hopes to obtain a full-time marketing position with Humana.
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Tag: Niagara Square
Millard Fillmore's downtown Buffalo addresses
When our 1880 map of Buffalo was first printed, Millard Fillmore had died only six years earlier and was someone who would have been a familiar city father among the people of Buffalo.
As appeared in The Buffalo Sunday News, 1912.
After moving as a teen with his father from central New York to East Aurora, Fillmore taught high school and was admitted to the bar. He was elected to the state Assembly, and after three terms, moved to Buffalo, where his burgeoning law practice could thrive. He moved to Buffalo in 1832, the year Buffalo became a city. Fillmore helped write the charter.
As Fillmore was elected to Congress, then to state comptroller and then, eventually, to vice president, he lived in the home pictured above on Franklin Street between Huron and Mohawk.
Even for several years after leaving the White House in 1853, the Fillmores continued to live in the same Franklin Street home.
In a city sadly filled with parking lots where important buildings once stood, the house where Millard Fillmore lived while elected vice president was razed in 1929 to "make room for a parking station." The Franklin Street YWCA Headquarters was built on the spot in 1952.
In 1858, Fillmore moved to a grand mansion a block south on Niagara Square. The larger Fillmore residence became the Castle Inn Hotel after his death in 1874.
Millard Fillmore's final home, about 30 years after his death, during its time as the Castle Inn.
That building was demolished in 1921 to make way for the Statler Hotel – which was the largest hotel in the country when it was built.
During the years that Fillmore lived in Buffalo following his presidency, he continued to follow the tradition of the time and not return to business. Instead, he became intricately involved in the affairs of building many of the great institutions of the growing city.
Aside from helping write the city charter, Fillmore also was one of the founding principals of UB, the Buffalo Historical Society, the local SPCA, the homeopathic hospital that eventually bore his name and dozens more endeavors.
But now, and even in his own time, many of Fillmore's accomplishments have been heavily overshadowed by his stance on slavery. While he was personally against slavery, he didn't feel the federal government had any jurisdiction in eliminating it. Moreover, as president, he signed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which greatly hampered the ability for slaves to escape to freedom.
Fillmore's Niagara Square home made national news when Buffalonians showed their displeasure with the ex-president.
At the start of the Civil War, Fillmore solidly backed President Abraham Lincoln, even commanding a section of volunteers too old to fight at the front lines, but trained to protect Buffalo in the case of an attack.
Fillmore, however, lost confidence in Lincoln and eventually backed Democrat George McClellan for president, with the understanding that McClellan would have worked to reunite the country, even if it meant slavery would survive.
When Lincoln was assassinated, homes and businesses in Buffalo and around the nation were covered in black bunting and American flags. Fillmore's house on Niagara Square was a notable exception. Pro-Republican newspapers around the country reported that in reaction to Fillmore's lack of decorum, a mob flung ink (or in some reports mud) on his home. Many of these reports were gleeful, a few just crude. But the partisan reports were "fake news" 150 years before the term was coined.
The Buffalo Morning Express – not a backer of Fillmore's – explained that the national press misunderstood a metaphor printed in another local paper and that mud that was flung was in the columns of the newspaper, not onto the columns of the Fillmore estate.
Despite there not having been any actual mud or ink thrown at Fillmore's house, black bunting and a new American flag hung on his home's exterior by the time the Lincoln funeral train arrived in Buffalo and he laid in state at St. James Hall on April 27, 1865.
Posted on August 29, 2018 March 21, 2020 Categories Buffalo Neighborhoods, Buffalo's Pop Culture HeritageTags Castle Inn, Millard Fillmore, Niagara Square
Presidential hopefuls who visited Buffalo, ended up in footnotes of history
In 1900, William Jennings Bryan leaves his train to "thousands of howling, hurrahing men—insane with enthusiasm, some said they were—to make those who saw the whole believe that never had Buffalo such a grand demonstration for a political candidate." (Buffalo Stories archives)
William Jennings Bryan speaks at the Broadway Market, 1900. (Buffalo Stories archives)
As soon as this evening, one of the two candidates for president will be written into the headlines of history — and the other will be written into the footnotes. On this Election Day, we take a look at some of the candidates who have come this close to the White House through the years, and the time they've spent here in Western New York.
1900: William Jennings Bryan
As he campaigned against President William McKinley, Congressman (and later Secretary of State) William Jennings Bryan filled the streets of Buffalo's East Side as thousands jammed into the Broadway Market and surrounding streets to hear Jennings speak.
Buffalo Courier, 1900. (Buffalo Stories archives)
"On the East Side it seemed as if the whole populace had turned out to shout and cheer for Mr. Bryan," wrote the Courier. It was estimated that 25,000 heard him at the Broadway Market, and another 8,000 heard an address at a convention hall. Another 40,000 lined the route between the two places.
1936: Alfred Landon
Kansas' governor came to Buffalo in his bid to unseat Franklin D. Roosevelt after Roosevelt's first term in office.
Alfred Landon waves his hat to Buffalonians lined up in Shelton Square and along Main Street in August, 1936. Today, this spot has One M&T Plaza to the left, and the Main Place Tower and Mall to the right. (Buffalo Stories archives)
Landon rally at Offermann Stadium. The ballpark was one block east of Main Street at Michigan Avenue. The spot is now occupied by Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts. (Buffalo Stories archives)
After parading through the streets, Landon stopped at the Statler Hotel for a tea put on by Buffalo's Republican women. That night, Landon held a rally under the lights at Offermann Stadium, which was the home of the Bisons from 1924 to 1960.
1952: Adlai Stevenson II
Stevenson was the man who took on Gen. Dwight Eisenhower for the Oval Office being vacated by Harry Truman in 1952. He then ran against the incumbent President Eisenhower in 1956.
Named after his grandfather — who was vice president during Grover Cleveland's second term — Stevenson was governor of Illinois and was later named ambassador to the United Nations by President Kennedy.
Adlai Stevenson signs a campaign poster from the back of his train in Niagara Falls. Stevenson spoke to about 1,000 people just outside Niagara Falls New York Central Station.
1964: Barry Goldwater
The Arizona senator joined his running mate, William E. Miller, in the congressman's hometown of Lockport for a September 1964 campaign stop.
Buffalo Stories archives
It was declared "Bill Miller Day" in Lockport in honor of the candidate for the vice presidency. The crowds were compared favorably to four years earlier, when John F. Kennedy — then a senator and candidate for president — barnstormed through Niagara County, including a speech in Lockport.
One difference — despite the crowd's being made up of people who knew, loved and were proud of their neighbor and his accomplishments — as many as 100 Niagara County sheriff's deputies were there to keep order and protect the candidates. The stop was only 10 months removed from the assassination of President Kennedy.
1968: Hubert Humphrey
Vice President Humphrey picked up the mantel of the Democratic Party following President Johnson's announcement that he wouldn't run for re-election, and then the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Humphrey visited Buffalo many times during his time in the senate and during his time as vice president.
Hubert Humphrey speaks with anti-Vietnam War protesters, standing on Delaware Avenue, just off Niagara Square in front of the Statler Hotel in September, 1968. (Buffalo Stories archives)
Posted on November 8, 2016 December 1, 2017 Categories Buffalo Neighborhoods, Buffalo's Pop Culture HeritageTags Adai Stevenson, Alf Landon, Barry Goldwater, Bill Miller, Broadway Market, Hubert Humphrey, Niagara Square, Offermann Stadium, Shelton Square, William Jennings Bryan
Buffalo in the '30s: FDR campaigns in front of City Hall
Only weeks before he was to be elected to his second term as president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited Buffalo to dedicate the city's new federal building on Niagara Square.
President Franklin Roosevelt addresses the crowd at Niagara Square, Oct. 17, 1936. (Buffalo Stories archives)
The Oct. 17, 1936, Buffalo visit was Roosevelt's first as president — although he had visited Buffalo countless times during his four years as New York's governor. The courthouse was a federally funded New Deal project and was designed primarily by Buffalo architect E.B. Green.
The Depression was on the mind of the president and the thousands who turned out around Western New York to greet him and his train as he spoke in Buffalo and in Niagara Falls.
"I need not compare the Buffalo of today with the Buffalo as I saw it the last time I was here," Roosevelt said in Niagara Square. "You will recall, I am sure, those years when I had the privilege of being the chief executive of this state. Already in 1930 the problems of unemployment and depression had become severe and you will recall also that it was in 1931 that I, as governor, called the Legislature of the State of New York into special session to provide relief for the distressed unemployed of the state and New York was the first state in the Union to definitely accept the responsibilities of seeing to it that as far as the state's resources could prevent it, none of its citizens who wished to work would starve."
The ceremony took place in front of the building which has been known as the Michael J. Dillon Courthouse since 1986. Federal offices started to move from Niagara Square to the former Thaddeus J. Dulski Federal Building (now the Avant) in the late 1960s. The remaining federal courtrooms moved across Niagara Square to the Robert Jackson Courthouse in 2012.
The president's dedication was carried on radio stations WKBW, WBEN and WBNY.
This print was backwards in The News archives, and has appeared backwards in print at least twice through the years. Here it appears with the proper orientation—with the Statler Hotel to his left, and the new courthouse out of frame to the right.
This brief clip was not from Roosevelt's Buffalo speech, but it was typical of his talks throughout the 1936 campaign.
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Roosevelt arrived in Buffalo at 10:30 p.m. the night before his speech, and left at 11:33 a.m. after the downtown Buffalo dedication and a speech at Hyde Park Stadium in Niagara Falls. The president slept in his special railcar, "The Pioneer," as it sat on the tracks of the New York Central terminal, surrounded by 25 New York Central Railroad Police.
The day after the president's visit, an interesting side note about the campaign was the subject of an editorial in the Courier-Express, discussing the media presence of President Roosevelt and his opponent, Kansas Governor Alf Landon.
It is not late for the Democratic organization to show its fine sense of sportsmanship in campaign tactics. Hitherto it has pitted the perfect radio voice of Mr. Roosevelt against the more limited oratorical personality of Mr. Landon, proving Mr. Roosevelt a far superior air attraction than the less unctuous Kansas governor. If the election were to be decided on mere rhetorical counts, the Chanticleer of Democracy undoubtedly would have the edge.
Mr. Landon, however, is really a rather nice looking man with a smile of his own, not overwhelmingly ingratiating, of course, like Mr. Roosevelt's but still fairly easy on the eyes. The impression is that Mr. Landon, who does not broadcast as well as Mr. Roosevelt, might perhaps screen as well.
These considerations have reference to the campaign movie recently made at Hyde Park House, featuring the Lord High Chief Executive in a story designed to show a typical day at his home. The cameras ground, the sound trucks maneuvered, Franklin the Fair flashed smiles as he sat at his desk — in a word, politics went Hollywood. No release date was set for the attraction at the movies but it certainly should be billed soon now.
What box-office following both candidates may have, if both are offered on their visual merits to the movie fans, could only be conjectured; but at least Mr. Roosevelt's undisputed radio advantage over Mr. Landon might thus be cut down in the interest of good emotional sportsmanship.
Posted on October 6, 2016 December 3, 2017 Categories Buffalo Neighborhoods, Buffalo's Pop Culture HeritageTags FDR, Franklin D Roosevelt, Niagara Square, WBEN
What it looked like Wednesday: The City Hall site, 1913
Nearly single handedly, and through the pig-headed will of his convictions, Judge Samuel Wilkeson essentially invented Buffalo.
Buffalo News archives
Wilkeson was born in Pennsylvania and first came to Buffalo as a soldier defending the village as it burned in 1813. Following the war, he made his home in the village as it was being rebuilt. As a trader in various items like salt and whiskey, Wilkeson understood the importance of a good port — and knew for Buffalo to grow, the harbor had to be improved.
Despite having never seen an artificial harbor in his life, in 1820, he started overseeing the construction of a new harbor in Buffalo. Two years later, with the widening and sandbar removal almost done, he argued that the planned Erie Canal should terminate in Buffalo, not in Black Rock as argued by future Niagara Falls pioneer and Secretary of War Peter Porter. Buffalo was chosen and the fate of the pioneer village was sealed.
The canal was completed in 1825, and the following year, Wilkeson built his stately home on Niagara Square. After holding a handful of elected offices and judgeships, Wilkeson was elected mayor of Buffalo in 1836 — four years after the city was incorporated.
But Buffalo was still barely a city.
"Buffalo was a pioneer settlement of rough hewn houses on the edge of a dense forest when Samuel Wilkeson had a vision of the important part the square was going to play in the upbuilding of the city," wrote Roy W. Nagle, one of the great collectors of Buffalo's history from the 1930s through the 1970s.
It was from this house that Wilkeson waged a national and international war against slavery — denouncing human bondage of any kind as un-Christian. He helped in efforts to colonize freed American slaves in Liberia, and the Florida plantation he owned and managed from Buffalo was one of few in the state which didn't operate using slave labor.
The future of this "Father of Buffalo's" home was decided when Judge Wilkeson's granddaughter, who lived in the home until her death in 1903, called for its demolition in her will.
Most of Buffalo's still-surviving fine old mansions had met with a fate she did not want to befall her lifelong home. Mrs. Wilkeson wouldn't allow the place to become a boarding house or lodging house.
Shortly thereafter, one of Buffalo's oldest homes was razed, and Buffalo's first gas station was built on the spot.
Note St. Anthony's church to the left, which is still-familiar outside the back door of city hall. (Buffalo Stories archives)
When Buffalo's current city hall was built in 1929, designers lined up the building's pillars with those of the Wilkeson House.
Posted on September 21, 2016 February 7, 2017 Categories Buffalo Neighborhoods, Buffalo's Pop Culture HeritageTags Buffalo City Hall, Niagara Square, Samuel Wilkeson, What it looked like Wednesday


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Title: THE LAST TEN SECONDS
Author: Simon Kernick
If you are looking for a tightly paced battle against time then this British author should be your first pick. 'The Last Ten Seconds' is another nail-biting, race against time by Simon Kernick. The fifth book in the Tina Boyd series.
The book opens up with a scene where an undercover cop Sean Egan is bleeding on the floor, counting the last seconds of his much-awaited death, surrounded by bodies in an abandoned building.
This violent confrontation began 36 hours ago when 'The Night-Creeper', a brutal and ruthless psychopath serial killer, who has been terrorising the streets of London for the past two years was finally arrested by DI Tina Boyd.
Though Tina and her team apprehended the serial killer, Andrew Kent, the suspect kept pleading for his innocence in no avail till he recalls that he has a cast-iron alibi for one of the five murders he's been accused.
Though everything is on point and seemed seamless, Tina felt a tinge of dissatisfaction. Somewhere deep down, she felts that something is off and that she failed to put a pin on it. And Tina will not stop at any cost till she unravels the larger forces in the play.
Sean Egan, an undercover cop, who has infiltrated one of the ugliest gangs which are run by some real bad boys of London. Sean is on a personal mission and somehow finds himself being involved in the abduction of Andrew Kent who is in the police custody and is being escorted to the hospital.
The reason for Sean going on an unsanctioned undercover operation was because of his past. The gang he infiltrated had a hand in his brother's death some 12 to 15 years ago. Sean joined the gang just for some unfiltered vendetta which leads him in too deep and making him do things he shouldn't as a cop. Sean is okay with it though and is willing to go far further in the name of vengeance.
Similar to Tina in ethical terms, Sean wants to get to the truth while working on the ground and wants to get rid of the burden of his brother's death, once and for all.
"Will Andrew Kent be ever retrieved back by Tina to unwind the mysterious death in the serial killing…?"
"Sean is a man on a mission. Will he ever be able to avenge his brother's death…?"
"Will Tina and Sean ever realise that they are holding the same card from opposite ends…?"
"Is there a deeper conspiracy disguised as a case of serial killings…?"
To know more… Do Read… 'THE LAST TEN SECONDS"… by… Simon Kernick.
MY OPINION: Simon, as always has successfully delivered another nail-biting thriller, standing with the reputation of best-selling thriller writers in the Kingdom. The book is tightly packed with action and a pile of murders that will make for a good neck workout.
The story proceeds from the eyes of two different people, Sean and Tina. The action and thriller in the book are so impulsive and realistic that it will keep sending chills down your spine, non-stop.
The character building, particularly of Sean and Tina is jaw-dropping. However, with many other side characters, you'll get a chance to exhale your long-held breath.
A couple of incidents that came with many other characters don't tangle convincingly. They just add to the page count. It does bother much and won't be a major hindrance that will stop you from moving ahead with a string of curiosity to know what happens next.
Overall, a really fast-paced, thrilling book which is definitely above any airport reads.
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Pulis to experience defeat on his Selhurst Park return
On Saturday Tony Pulis will coach against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park for the first time since he quit the Eagles on the eve of the English Premier League and one thinks that he will not enjoy his first visit to his old stomping ground.
Crystal Palace, now under the leadership of former Eagles winger Alan Pardew, is one of the English Premier League's form teams, which is not an apt description for the West Bromwich side that is causing Pulis sleepless nights as it struggles to stay away from the dreaded relegation zone.
West Bromwich has lost to not one but two English Premier League strugglers in recent weeks and both defeats occurred at The Hawthorns and involved the Baggies conceding lots of goals. First, Queens Park Rangers – the English Premier League's worst away team – walloped West Bromwich 4-1 at The Hawthorns. Second, the English Premier League's bottom side, Leicester, came back from 0-1 and 1-2 to beat West Bromwich 3-2 and breathe new life into its fight against the drop.
Tony Pulis has decided that the way to get West Bromwich out of its English Premier League slump is to slam his players publicly, airing views that managers use keep behind closed doors. It will be interesting to see if Pulis gets the right response but one is not betting on it happening on Saturday.
Never did Newcastle and Pardew look like a good fit but the man who scored the goal that sent Crystal Palace to the 1990 English FA Cup final has looked right at home since he took over from Neil Warnock as Eagles boss. Crystal Palace has accrued 25 points from its 12 English Premier League games under Pardew, a points-to-games ratio that is better than every team other than Chelsea. Yes, Crystal Palace's form under Pardew is that of a genuine championship contender.
888Sport are offering odds of 1/1 2.00 +100 1.00 1.00 -1.00 that Crystal Palace wins its fifth English Premier League match in a row by defeating West Bromwich. Not even the Pulis factor is sufficient to put one taking those odds.
BetVictor is listing odds of 13/20 1.65 -154 0.65 -1.54 0.65 about Saturday's English Premier League game between Stoke and Southampton at the Britannia Stadium going under two and a half goals and that rates as the next best betting opportunity on the coupon.
Eighteen of Stoke's 32 English Premier League matches have gone under two and a half goals, including eight of its 15 home games. But those numbers are nothing compared to those of Southampton. Twenty-two of Southampton's 32 English Premier League matches have gone under two and a half goals, including 11 of its 15 away games – both of those statistics are divisional highs. And the reverse English Premier League fixture resulted in a 1-0 win for Southampton in October.
Finally, one would not touch Liverpool with a 10-foot pole at its odds to beat Aston Villa in Sunday's English FA Cup semi-final at Wembley Stadium but Arsenal looks like a safe bet to get the better of Reading in the first tie 24 hours earlier. One has no concerns about backing Arsenal at odds of 29/100 1.29 -345 0.29 -3.45 0.29 with several bookmakers, including Coral and Totesport, to lead Reading at the end of normal time.
Arsenal is England's form team having won each of its last eight matches across all competitions since it lost the plot at home to Monaco in the UEFA Champions League. Reading may claim that it has been distracted but its English FA Cup date with Arsenal but even that would not excuse its run of five English Championship games without a win. Arsenal has been making better sides than Reading look second rate in recent weeks and, provided that the Gunners do not produce a Monaco-like performance, they should beat the Royals easily.
Tips Summary
Palace to beat West Brom
18th April 15:00 GMT
Odds: 1/1 2.00 +100 1.00 1.00 -1.00
Where to Bet: 888Sport
Stoke v Southampton Under 2.5 goals
Odds: 13/20 1.65 -154 0.65 -1.54 0.65
Where to Bet: BetVictor
Arsenal to beat Reading
Odds: 29/100 1.29 -345 0.29 -3.45 0.29
Where to Bet: Coral, Totesport
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Dr Knezevic - Featured in The Ophthalmologist Magazine By Macy Eye Center on January 06, 2023
It's true that building a successful career takes time. We spend years in college, medical school, residency, and possibly fellowship training. Despite the lengthy process, young ophthalmologists don't have to wait another decade to reap the rewards of hard work.
Contrary to popular belief, being a veteran in your field isn't the only measure of success. Rather, there are multiple levels of success for young physicians, many of which derive from an astute sense of self-direction and determination.
Since coming out of fellowship and working in practice, I have learnt many timeless and invaluable practices that have fueled my own career moves. I believe that all young ophthalmologists can master the art of career strategy by being intentional with their first moves.
Path one: maximize surgical volume
Unless you are pursuing a non-surgical career, you will have a surgical growth phase as you transition from trainee to attending. This transition can prove especially challenging for young ophthalmologists who only perform a few surgeries a week. Maximizing surgery volumes not only helps ease this transition but also, as identified by Habib and colleagues, leads to fewer complications; for example, when measuring the relation of phacoemulsification procedure volume with patient health outcomes (1). Similar trends have been identified when researching final visual acuity in high-volume versus low-volume surgeons (2). Related studies point to similar findings in coronary angioplasty, colorectal surgery, and various cancer-related surgeries. It is clear that performing more procedures can sharpen skill sets and develop crucial surgical experience (3).
This is a true win-win scenario for ophthalmologists and their patients. As practitioners' experience and skill sets grow, surgery will no longer feel as daunting and stressful, but enjoyable and rewarding. Successful patients' health outcomes will increase as ophthalmologists improve their practice, which in turn helps to accelerate a trusted and established professional career in the field.
Path two: maximize now
This move is catered towards young ophthalmologists who value stability and want to settle into their profession quickly. Typically, physicians find a sense of settlement after completing a residency or fellowship, or by finding the right job in the right city. Although settling down looks different for everyone depending on individual needs, the fastest way to achieve stability is by joining a large and established practice, a university, or a big healthcare system. A solid routine can provide practitioners with a contented and comfortable lifestyle, one in which everything falls into place.
Inevitably, the question is pressed: what now? Although work remains an integral part of day-to-day life, it is also important to schedule time off. Celebrating success and achievement in the form of a vacation not only provides well-deserved relaxation but can also motivate a practitioner to pursue the next stage of their career. Taking time off gives practitioners the opportunity to re-evaluate their next steps without the weight of professional pressure. So… why not take that dream vacation?
Path three: maximize later
Cultivating your ideal career takes time, but the payoff may be better than you expect. With education, training, and medical technology being as advanced as ever, surgeons – at all levels – are empowered to become more efficient and better skilled workers. Under the right guidance and with wise career moves, young ophthalmologists have the opportunity to advance in their careers and achieve their professional goals.
When discussing this path, it is helpful to use the "look down the hallway" test. When you look down the hallway and see your colleague sitting in the corner office, do you picture yourself in that same position one day? This analogy assumes that, although your job won't seem ideal in the near future, you have the ultimate goal – spanning anywhere between one and 10 years – firmly set. This path renders somes aspects of the job, such as salary, hours, pathology type, and vacation, as secondary to the larger goal set in your mind.
When using this analogy, you must visualize what your "hallway" looks like. Is it a road leading to your own private practice? Is it pursuing an academic career? Is it working in med-tech? Or is it something that encapsulates your own idea of "success?" Maybe your ideal mix of surgery, medicine, and pathology type doesn't even exist yet and is out there for you to build on your own.
There may be jobs that combine each of these moves into one position. If you find one, grab it and hold on tight. Most people will have to be patient but also dedicated. Learn from your surroundings and apply wisdom from your senior colleagues into your own career strategy.
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