Layton welcomed the wind of change in Quebec

NDP leader, Jack Layton has welcomed "by the wind of change" sweeping through Quebec, as the support of his party is climbing in the province at the polls.

"My friends that something happens in Quebec." There is a wind of change you can feel along the St. Lawrence, "Layton said to an enthusiastic crowd of about 1,200 people at a rally in Laurier — Sainte-Marie, currently held by the Bloc québécois leader Gilles Duceppe."

Speaking of backdrop of a giant orange Fleur-de-lis, Layton is committed to provide a "puff of fresh air" in Canadian policy and that change is necessary "because things are broken in Ottawa."

Jack Layton said that he was ready to lead the country.

"I am ready to be your Prime Minister and I fully understand what it means," he said.

Jack Layton has also promised to give Quebec a "genuine voice" in cabinet.

"We can prove to those who are cynical that they are wrong." That it is possible for Québec to be strongly represented in Ottawa. Not within an opposition party. but a part of the Government. ?

The leader of the NDP said some accused of being "too nice of a guy for life policy" add "as if it was a weakness" to be close to people.

"My friends, I cannot promise you that I will be less nice," he said, promising to continue to fight and to work tirelessly for Canadian priorities.

An online survey carried out by the cultures which cannot be assigned a margin of error because the method does not for random sampling, suggested that the NDP has the support of 36 percent of respondents in Quebec, compared to 31% for the Bloc Québécois.

A survey of Nanos, meanwhile, showed that the NDP gaining support at the national level, but the size of the sample for Quebec was too small to produce results with an acceptable margin of error.

Polls have led both Conservatives and Liberals to launch announcements of the new attack against the leader of the NDP.

"This is not the first people to put a target on my back and I can bob and weave and someone else", he said.

Earlier in Toronto, Jack Layton said that his party has "worked hard to connect with the main concerns of Quebecers."

"I believe that Quebecers have seen the same old, same old politics spent each year in Quebec and are started that, perhaps, we want to be at the forefront of change," said Layton.

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How to change civil war photography war

Photography had for over 20 years before the civil war, but his began shortly before the conflict broke. Photography during the civil war had far-reaching effects on the public perception on everything, from their leaders of the nature of warfare. Images of daily life are represented for the first time in the civil war.

We've all seen photos of the civil war: black and white images of the bearded Union generals or Confederate colonels on one side of the camera, press officer posing corpses on the battlefield or common soldiers to a camp tent stacked.

Looking back 150 years to beginning of civil war in this month, what impact photography of the war have? On the people who lived during the time? What tell us these images today about the soldiers and their families?

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Historians say that the war in various ways changed photography. It allows families a memory representation of their fathers or sons have, as they were away from home. Photography improves the image of the political figures such as President Lincoln, who joked as we know, that he actually would have been re-elected without the portrait of him by photographer Matthew Brady.

Intense images were public battlefield horrors for the first time at exhibitions in New York and Washington, many later reproduced by stitches in newspapers and magazines of the time presented.

"Mr. Brady done has something at home to bring us the terrible reality and seriousness of the war." If he not brought bodies and put them in our gardens and along the streets, he very like it, has done something "wrote the New York Times 20 October 1862 on Brady's New York only have one month after the bloody battle of Antietam."

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Photography had for over 20 years before briefly before conflict broke the civil war, but new techniques and marketing led to his flower. Bob Zeller, President of the Center for civil war photography in Abilene, Texas, says the invention of the Tintype, which was a metal image, and the Ambrotype, printed on glass, allowed for the mass production of small photographs by families in wood, or glass cases held.

"It was their most visceral, on the next link to your love," Zeller said. "For friends or women at home the only was the Ambrotype was, you had."

These pictures were taken from small town photographer and travel camp photographer, which combined crowned 1861 erupted 5,000 at the time of war, said Zeller. More than a million of these pictures were produced during the war.

Officers had so good their photos and often, they passed the men as a morale booster. New ways to make photos reproduce gave birth to cards. The library of Congress has an exhibition of soldiers portraits produced the April 12 "The Last Full Measure," based on a private collection called.

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The second type of photo was the carte de visite. The carte de visite or CDV, was also primarily a portrait photo, unless it was with a lens, wet plate negatives, which meant that you could create unlimited number of copies. Prints were made on egg white paper, according to the Center. These portraits of generals, statesmen and other celebrities, actors were mass produced and issued such as trading cards.

Some of the civil war photographers, including Brady, were in the last years criticized, because it seems that they were dead bodies create more graphic images. But Zeller said it was not more frequently occurs. Given the fact that each author need a whole wagon in the value of equipment and chemicals, he told their own set of challenges, this post-battle photographers.

"Every time they had to they back up bottles of chemicals and plate, moved," Zeller said. "Every time, when they stopped, it had to be flat." Photographers fought also fly, which attracted were photo chemicals, ether, which made them woozy and the stench of death.

"How could they look at the scenes of bodies and be calm enough to set up their equipment and try reality show, there is an unsung heroism,", said Alan Trachtenberg, former Professor of American history at Yale University. "It takes courage to do."

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Trachtenberg said military leaders on both sides intelligence was also photographers on enemy positions, roads, bridges and railways to win.

Images of daily life are represented for the first time in the civil war, men playing cards, instruments or cleaning equipment. Black soldiers and slaves were presented for the first time after New York University Professor Deborah Willis.

"The placing on the market of images significant in identifying these black soldiers found their place in the war was", said Willis. "they were acting as soldiers and workers." "The fact is, that she also saw places, as if it looking for hope."

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How does it change civil war of modern medicine

Despite his barbaric reputation medical care helped during the civil war dawn, a new era of modern medicine. Techniques developed in response to sick and wounded soldiers to advances in pain management led. The civil war saw the birth of organized triage, which directly influenced the modern ambulance system.

In the American civil war, often gets credit for ending slavery and redesign the Federal Government in this country. But the war between the States has another, often overlooked legacy: it may have started a new era in modern medicine.

When soldiers never unprecedented number of injuries and diseases, anesthesia became a speciality. The fields of plastic and reconstructive surgery exploded. And doctors developed new ways for the treatment of an increase in nerve injuries and chronic pain, mark the beginning of contemporary Neurology.

At the same time, a visionary surgeon named Jonathan Letterman said forever changed from the river of medical treatment in the hospital, George Wunderlich, Executive Director of the National Museum of civil war medicine in Frederick, MD.

Now, continue to 150 years later, Letterman's medical care in a variety of situations, from bomb attacks in Afghanistan to heart attacks in American grocery stores affect basic principles.

"Civil war medicine was every bit as barbaric as it be made out, and surgeons were not washing their hands has", Wunderlich said. "But it was a million times more modern than almost everyone thinks." "And there are a lot of lessons that we can learn from today still."

Medically, the United States was shockingly ready when the civil war in the spring of 1861 started, said Michael Rhode, Archivist at the National Museum of health and medicine in Washington, D.C. had passed almost 80 years since the end of the American Revolutionary War, the country's last great war. And the new conflict happened on a much larger scale.

Scientists had to come up with the theory that germs cause disease yet in the meantime. Doctors did not know that they should wash their hands before dismembered limbs. As soldiers from small towns in large groups along came, it was newly exposed to pathogens, who had never before their bodies. But there were no antibiotics and no antiseptics.

For every civil war soldier, the injury or gunshot wound died as a result, more than two died of dysentery, diarrhea, or diseases caught others.

"what it caused had no idea," said Rhode. "The theory was that some miasma or bad airs is." "But no, it's not a miasma if a man wiping his surgical knives on a boot strap with horse dung on it is."

Medicine has come a long way since then. Injuries resulting in amputation 150 years ago now to X-rays, the setting of bones and a period of four to six - week recovery showcase returning to battle.

In the course of the war teaching doctors forever, as health care changes, both on the battlefield and in addition some.

For example, there was a growing sense of cleanliness to reduce fatalities. Gaps in understanding of neuroscience and other fields and specialists doctors, the soldiers still treated their lines of research even after the end of the war.

Then, was close to the source of damage as still Letterman, which creates a as a medical director for the Union army well organized system of maintenance, which began with triage and was followed by rapid transportation to a number of clinics, hospitals and specialists. Have replaced although Wunderlich said technological advances with helicopters and jets, horse and carriage, remain these types of protocols today indispensable.

As the civil war ended and soldiers returned home, she kept their expectations for fast and efficient treatment in all situations. When a wounded man in the battle of Gettysburg could be picked up, can should fall everyone not finally quick help to get from a ladder on the road?

As a result, the end of the war saw systems in many major cities ambulance at the beginning. Letterman's ideas also directly influence the nature and manner of today's 911 call system work. And the National Museum of civil war medicine the surgeon has used ideas to train hundreds of thousands of doctors have been sent to Afghanistan.

The war "was a watershed, the really all medicine where it could go there never fully back to the way before being changed to the point," Wunderlich said. "All these changes come about, and people were not prepared to go back."

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