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- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:30 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3836
Re: Day 25
Rations two biscuits, half a loaf of corn dodger and two spoonfuls of molasses, for our Christmas present, but I will attend to my box today.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:30 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3836
Re: Day 25
There was a hole under his arm large enough to put your fist in.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:30 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3836
Re: Day 25
It was a relief to a great deal of suffering.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:29 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3836
Re: Day 25
One of my regiment died last night.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:29 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3836
Re: Day 25
The most barbarous country would hardly treat a prisoner thus.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:29 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3836
Re: Day 25
Thinking of our friends at home, enjoying themselves, and the condition we are in.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:29 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 25
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3836
Day 25
Christmas Day, 1863, and still in the Confederacy.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:28 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 24
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2225
Re: Day 24
There is a great deal of stealing among the prisoners, and starvation is the cause of it all.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:28 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 24
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2225
Re: Day 24
Culberson and myself go on watch tonight.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:27 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 24
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2225
Day 24
24th. Webb and Gallagher, two of my company, watched my box last night.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:27 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 23
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3133
Re: Day 23
Three of us who received boxes got one of the guards to bring us in an armful of wood for us to cook our tea and coffee, and we paid him three dollars in Confederate money, which is equal to thirty cents in our money.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:27 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 23
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3133
Re: Day 23
I sent two and they must have received them, or I would not have received the box.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:27 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 23
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3133
Re: Day 23
It is very strange I do not get a letter from home.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:26 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 23
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3133
Re: Day 23
I must be a little careful with what I eat.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:26 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 23
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3133
Re: Day 23
Probably been eating too much.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:26 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 23
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3133
Day 23
23d. I don't feel very well this morning.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:25 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 22
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2675
Re: Day 22
I think it is the best thing I ever ate.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:25 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 22
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2675
Re: Day 22
How I do enjoy to go to my box and take a piece of boiled ham.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:25 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 22
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2675
Re: Day 22
I forgot to say I received a ham and two dried beef tongues.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:25 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 22
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2675
Day 22
22d. Prison rations I care very little for at present.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:24 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4265
Re: Day 21
If I don't do that, it will be all stolen from me in one night.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:24 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4265
Re: Day 21
And of course I have to pony up with them.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:23 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4265
Re: Day 21
Three or four of us belonging to the one company are going to keep watch over it by turns.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:23 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4265
Re: Day 21
I wish I had enough to give them all some.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:23 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4265
Re: Day 21
Gave some to three or four of the sick boys who are close to me.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:23 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4265
Re: Day 21
How good it tasted.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:23 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4265
Re: Day 21
I had some tea this morning.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:23 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4265
Re: Day 21
Mine is safe.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:22 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 21
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4265
Day 21
21st, Some of those that received boxes yesterday had some of the things stolen from them last night.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:18 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 20
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5046
Re: Day 20
It came in time for a Christmas present and more appreciated than any I ever received.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:18 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 20
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5046
Re: Day 20
My box contained one large sweet cake, tea, coffee and sugar, salt, pepper, writing paper and envelopes, two pairs of drawers and shirts, which I needed badly, stockings and several other things very useful in a place like this.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:18 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 20
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5046
Re: Day 20
The other poor fellows gathered around us to see the good things from home.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:18 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 20
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5046
Re: Day 20
A happier set of fellows never walked into Pemberton than we, with the boxes.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:18 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 20
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5046
Re: Day 20
So I carried the box over to the prison on my shoulder.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:18 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 20
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5046
Re: Day 20
He took a book from my box called "The Collegians of Ireland," but I said nothing, for if I did, he would not let me have it at all.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:17 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 20
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5046
Re: Day 20
He took everything out that he thought unlawful to pass into our hands.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:17 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 20
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5046
Re: Day 20
We had to open them in the presence of the officer and two of the guards.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:17 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 20
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5046
Re: Day 20
About twenty of us went over to the quartermaster's storehouse and sure enough the boxes were there.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:17 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 20
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5046
Re: Day 20
Oh! how glad I was when I heard that name!
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:17 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 20
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5046
Re: Day 20
Among the list was my name.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:16 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 20
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5046
Re: Day 20
While he was reading off the list, you could have heard a pin drop.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:14 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 19
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3123
Re: Day 19
The guards say they will all die as there is no care taken of them after the amputation.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:14 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 19
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3123
Re: Day 19
While we were talking, one of the guards came up and said he was on guard at the hospital day before yesterday and was a witness to twelve amputations in four hours, three dying.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:14 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 19
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3123
Re: Day 19
The rebel guards say that there are five or six amputations every day now in the hospital, and it gives the young doctors a chance to practice in that line.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:14 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 19
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3123
Re: Day 19
Not enough change the last three or four days to mention.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:13 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 19
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3123
Day 19
19th. Prison rations about the same.
- Thu Mar 25, 2021 4:43 am
- Forum: Tres hombres en un bote
- Topic: Day43
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2343
Re: Day43
–Ah, maldito idiota –le oyes murmurar. Después sientes un tirón brutal y todo tu lado se suelta. Dejas la maza en el suelo y te diriges al otro lado para decirle lo que piensas de todo el asunto, y él, al mismo tiempo, empieza a rodear la tienda en la misma dirección para explicarte su punto de vist...
- Thu Mar 25, 2021 4:37 am
- Forum: Tres hombres en un bote
- Topic: Day43
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2343
Re: Day43
idiota lo escuchas murmurar para sí mismo / en voz baja / luego se produce una carrera furiosa y tu borde se rompe salvaje, cruel; feroz arrastrando, tirando; imbécil dejas un mazo de madera y empiezas a caminar / la tienda / y hablar con él que piensas de todo esto / el caso / al mismo tiempo, comi...
- Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:43 pm
- Forum: Tres hombres en un bote
- Topic: Day43
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2343
Re: Day43
"Ah, the bally idiot (–Ah, idiota)!" you hear him mutter to himself (lo escuchas murmurar para sí mismo /en voz baja/); and then comes a savage haul, and away goes your side (Después sientes un tirón brutal y todo tu lado se suelta; savage — ; haul — ). You lay down the mallet and start to...
- Sat Mar 13, 2021 10:49 pm
- Forum: Engineering
- Topic: Chip manufacturing
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2072
- Sat Mar 13, 2021 10:49 pm
- Forum: Engineering
- Topic: Chip manufacturing
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2072
Chip manufacturing
Learn how are microchips made.
- Fri Mar 12, 2021 4:03 pm
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 31330
Re: Idioms
low-key
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If you say that something is low-key, you mean that it is on a small scale rather than involving a lot of activity or being made to seem impressive or important.
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If you say that something is low-key, you mean that it is on a small scale rather than involving a lot of activity or being made to seem impressive or important.
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 4:34 pm
- Forum: Diary Russian2
- Topic: Day 11
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3804
Re: Day 11
Всё это ужасно в высшей степени, но мы можем ожидать мало чего.virtualmod wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:43 am The whole thing is atrocious in the extreme, but we can expect little else.
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 4:23 pm
- Forum: Diary Russian2
- Topic: Day 11
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3804
Re: Day 11
and what seemed worse than all the rest, was the almost satanic rule that if a prisoner was caught resting his eyes upon the glad scenes of nature through a window, he must be quickly translated from the earth by a ball of a musket. и что, кажется, хуже чем всё остальное, это почти сатанистское пра...
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 4:17 pm
- Forum: Diary Russian2
- Topic: Day 11
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3804
Re: Day 11
Я видел мужчины черпают бобовой суп в свои туфли, из-за отсутствия чашки или тарелки любого вида, чтобы положить это.virtualmod wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:42 am I have seen men draw their bean soup in their shoes for want of a cup or plate of any kind to put it in,
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:07 pm
- Forum: Diary Russian2
- Topic: Day 10
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2455
Re: Day 10
то, это - во время дня, когда солнце испускало свои ласковы лучи над нами и таким образом передавало достаточно тепла нашим телам, чтобы мы не дрожали.virtualmod wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:42 am it was during the day when the sun would shed its kindly beams upon us and so impart sufficient warmth to our bodies to keep us from shivering.
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:01 pm
- Forum: Diary Russian2
- Topic: Day 10
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2455
Re: Day 10
The nights are very cold, and there being nothing but gratings in the windows, the men were obliged to walk the whole night long to keep from freezing, and if they can meet with the friendly embrace of slumber at all, Ночи очень холодные, и нет ничего, кроме решеток в окнах, мужчины должны были гул...
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 2:44 pm
- Forum: Diary Russian2
- Topic: Day 9
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3188
Re: Day 9
Это может быть и, вероятно, является одним из основ войны.virtualmod wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:41 am It may be, and probably is, one of the essentials of war.
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 2:43 pm
- Forum: Diary Russian2
- Topic: Day 9
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3188
Re: Day 9
Как их храбрость, героизм и постоянство почитаемые, так будет и с осуждением злых умыслов и ярости их преследователей.virtualmod wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:41 am As their bravery, heroism and constancy are admired, so will it be with condemnation of malice and fury their persecutors
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 2:36 pm
- Forum: Diary Russian2
- Topic: Day 9
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3188
Re: Day 9
Households in coming time will gather about the fireside and talk of their friends and ancestors who ended their days in so much wretchedness because of their attachment to the Union. Домочадцы в приходящем (будущем) времини соберутся у костра и расскажут о своих друзьях и предках, которые закончил...
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 2:33 pm
- Forum: Diary Russian2
- Topic: Day 9
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3188
Re: Day 9
Thousands who have been in Libby will rehearse the story of their misery, want and woe to others; so that the echo will scarcely die out at the remotest period of the present generation. Тысячи, которые побывали в Либби, будут пересказывать рассказ о своих несчастьях, нуждах и горе другим; так что ...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:37 pm
- Forum: Student Lobby
- Topic: Student Boris's corner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2483
Re: Student Boris's corner
Here is the link to sound flash cards Flash cards Try to do 15 flash cards per day, you can enter a memorizing word in the field or replay it in your memory, do what is more convenient to you, you have to choose an answer Again, Hard, Not hard, Easy. Mention exercises in your diary here. See you in ...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:06 pm
- Forum: Student Lobby
- Topic: Student Boris's corner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2483
Re: Student Boris's corner
In principle, even without knowing a grammar or knowing it bad, you can say a lot using so-called template phrases. We will learn some of them in this lesson. Let's tell what we have in our room, in our house and in our life I have [something] about my room I have a desk, I have a chair, I have a pe...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:58 pm
- Forum: Student Lobby
- Topic: Student Boris's corner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2483
Re: Student Boris's corner
Many people do not even assume they already know a large number of English words, without even learning English. Here is the link to the well-known English words that are presented and ingrained in almost every language in the world. https://easy-english-study.com/forum/learning-english-together-f26...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 7:50 pm
- Forum: Student Lobby
- Topic: Student Boris's corner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2483
Re: Student Boris's corner
Nice, very good! Excellent. Let's improve your writing at first, then we will add more listening lessons with time. I want to post something about mistakes, since many English learners fear very often when they do mistakes. Many learners think they may look like kindergarten children and all people ...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 2:58 pm
- Forum: Dual-language Book
- Topic: mudhakarat
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4227
Re: mudhakarat
The nights are very cold, and there being nothing but gratings in the windows, the men were obliged to walk the whole night long to keep from freezing, and if they can meet with the friendly embrace of slumber at all, الليالي شديدة البرودة ، ولم يكن هناك سوى حواجز شبكية في النوافذ ، اضطر الرجال إلى...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 2:56 pm
- Forum: Dual-language Book
- Topic: mudhakarat
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4227
Re: mudhakarat
Thousands who have been in Libby will rehearse the story of their misery, want and woe to others; so that the echo will scarcely die out at the remotest period of the present generation. الآلاف من الذين كانوا في ليبي تتكرر قصص مأساتهم , وعوزهم وويلهم للآخرين ؛ بحيث نادرا ما يموت الاثر في أبعد فترة ...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 2:52 pm
- Forum: Dual-language Book
- Topic: mudhakarat
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4227
Re: mudhakarat
18th. 400 of us were removed this morning to Libby, weak and hungry. 400 منا تم نقلهم هذا الصباح إلى libby ضعفاء وجوعي. The very name of LIBBY has became synonymous of terror. أصبح اسم LIBBY ذاته مرادفًا للإرهاب. It carries tyranny and oppression in its simple sound إنها تحمل الاستبداد والظلم كما ي...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 2:31 pm
- Forum: Dual-language Book
- Topic: mudhakarat
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4227
Re: mudhakarat
17th. Rations this morning consisted of about one-half pound of bread and four ounces of beef to each man for the next 24 hours; الطعام هذا الصباح يتكون من نصف رطل من الخبز وأربع أونصات من لحم البقر لكل رجل خلال 24 ساعة القادمة. men are thinking of home and friends and anxious to be paroled or exch...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 2:27 pm
- Forum: Dual-language Book
- Topic: mudhakarat
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4227
Re: mudhakarat
15th. Quite cool here and feel the loss of my overcoat and boots. بارد جدا هنا وأشعر بفقدان معطفي وحذائي. 16th. Took the cars this morning for Richmond; we arrived here at 3. 00 P. M. Men are tired and hungry; أخذنا السيارات هذا الصباح لريتشموند ؛ وصلنا إلى هنا الساعة3 ليلا الرجال متعبون وجائعون. M...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 2:23 pm
- Forum: Dual-language Book
- Topic: mudhakarat
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4227
Re: mudhakarat
14th. Marched from Jefferson through Sulphur Springs to Culpepper, distance about twenty miles; got some biscuit and raw bacon, which men ate with great relish. سرنا من جيفرسون عبر ينابيع الكبريت إلى كولبيبر ، مسافة عشرين ميلاً تقريبًا ؛ حصلنا على بعض البسكويت ولحم الخنزير المقدد النيء البارد ، الذ...
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 3:17 pm
- Forum: Student Lobby
- Topic: Student Boris's corner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2483
Student Boris's corner
Have a good day! I want you to post a short essay about yourself and your aims here. It will help us to pick up an individual plan for you. I'd like to see answers to the next questions in your essay. 1.How long you have been studying English? 2.What kind of skills you have now? Are you able to expr...
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 9:22 am
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 31330
Re: Idioms
be on board with
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To be in agreement with or be willing to do something
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To be in agreement with or be willing to do something
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 2:03 pm
- Forum: Learning English together
- Topic: Voice of America words
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3125
Voice of America words
able above accept accident accuse across act activist actor add administration admit adult advise affect afraid after again against age agency aggression ago agree agriculture aid aim air air force airplane airport album alcohol alive all ally almost alone along already also although always ambassa...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 11:10 am
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 31330
Re: Idioms
hit me ----------------------------------------------------------------------- It refers to something that had a big emotional impact on you. For example, if you watch a very upsetting story on the news, you might say to a friend “That really hit me hard”. It means that you felt strongly affected by...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 9:12 am
- Forum: Tres hombres en un bote
- Topic: Day14
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1487
Re: Day14
I'm not sure if we can use "bofetadas" here. Slapping in the face (bofetadas, пощечина) means "Golpe fuerte dado en la cara con la palma de la mano". Usually girls do it to express jealous, angryness. Here we have "slapping or smacking someone upside the head", "st...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:40 pm
- Forum: English songs
- Topic: Movies
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3939
Movies
It’s a wonderful life It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas family fantasy drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet The Greatest Gift, which Philip Van Doren Stern self-published in 1943 and is in turn loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dicken...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:44 pm
- Forum: Sport
- Topic: Walking Workout
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2574
Re: Walking Workout
What I like the most about it is that I don’t have to plan anything separate for separate days. It’s all ready to use. Leslie’s workouts include:- A 14 minute mile walk – with new walk moves combinations. In it you learn new patterns to shake up those under-used muscles. A 12 minute mile walk – you ...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:43 pm
- Forum: Sport
- Topic: Walking Workout
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2574
Re: Walking Workout
Walk at Home can be called number one indoor walking program which makes you walking-fit in your own home. It is based on the basic idea that if you can walk, you can work out all your muscles. There is nothing complicated to learn and no fancy equipment needed. ‘WAH’ is all about a great workout an...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:34 pm
- Forum: Sport
- Topic: Walking Workout
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2574
Walking Workout
Leslie Sansone is an internationally recognized fitness expert and creator of the Walk at Home fitness program. Her philosophy is simple: Our bodies were made to move, and we can Walk our way to health and wellness! Leslie holds eight fitness certifications from organizations including The American ...