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Stories from people who were children during World War II and the objects in this exhibit animate the past and inform us of a time when war took over daily life. "Retrospect is a very interesting thing," says Ruthie Kallnder. "At the time I don't recall any of the information we got as being propaganda," but the government tried to influence children to make "necessary" sacrifices. Propagandists made the war a battle between good and evil, democracy and fascism. They also asked children to share in the war effort. In response, many children took on more responsibilities. Ruthie explains that boys and girls felt "if that's what it was going to take" to win they "were willing to do it." The memories of the people in this exhibit and their wartime actions show the power of propaganda's messages and its lasting affect on their lives. Propaganda posters, children's books, and classroom assignments demonstrate how propagandists reached children and involved them in the national war effort.
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When the 28-year-old Charles Darwin first opened his 'evolutionary' notebook in 1837, he deployed the title of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin's medical treatise, Zoonomia (1794-6). By then, Erasmus -- poet, doctor, inventor, leading light of the Birmingham Lunar Society -- had drifted into comparative obscurity; best remembered as the eccentric genius whose work The Loves of the Plants (1789) had been notoriously parodied as The Loves of the Triangles.
Erasmus was never forgotten by his more famous grandson, however, and throughout Charles's career, Erasmus's writing and thinking acted as both catalyst and antagonist to Charles's burgeoning evolutionary ideas, on such subjects as heredity, variation and sexual selection. Forty-two years later, Erasmus was also the subject of Charles's own venture into non-scientific writing – a biography of his illustrious grandfather.
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Posted 23 December 2012 - 07:16
Just stop by a field full of cows and suck the cows off yourself. easy peasy
Raw milk is milk from cows, sheep, or goats that has not been pasteurized to kill harmful bacteria. This raw, unpasteurized milk can carry dangerous bacteria such as Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria, which are responsible for causing numerous foodborne illnesses.
Posted 24 December 2012 - 15:21
I know you probably meant it as joke but That is ill advised...
They used to place these close to the fire or inside a pot of boiling water to heat them up.
You could even put a pail that farmers milked cows with over a fire to pasteurize the milk.
And all it takes is the Cow to wade through a pond where defecation happens or lay down in cow pies for the contamination to happen.
Posted 24 December 2012 - 15:36
What a bunch of bull poop, when I was young in PR we used to buy fresh milk all the time from the farmer, sometime I even helped the dude, you ahve noclue how good milk tastes fresh from the cow and before we ruin it for "health" reasons.
Posted 24 December 2012 - 18:24
Me and My Grandfather Milked Cows and always heated the milk. I have milked over 100 cows in my lifetime and would always clean the teet before milking, but you can't just go up to a cow and drink. What if they laid down on Poo ?? I am almost 40 years old and have done a lot , but one thing I will tell you is not take the chance of getting sick when it can be easily avoided.
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It's been quite a year for leadership lessons. Any number of the major world events for 2012 could serve as a showcase for how to, or not to, be a great leader…..the London Olympics, Hurricane Sandy, Facebook IPO, Rover Curiosity lands on Mars. Great leadership seems to grow from great vision, but basics like having a plan and respecting the competition are also key. Here is a round-up of some of the top leadership lessons from 2012.
- (Inc.com Dec 2012) 5 Biggest Leadership Lessons from 2012
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- (CBS Moneywatch Apr 2012) Leadership Lessons from Blackberry's Demise
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Eighteenth Century Fiction contains the complete text of 96 works of English prose fiction from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. All of the most widely-studied texts are in the database, alongside others long neglected or unavailable. First editions have been used unless considered unreliable. Authors include Burney, Defoe, Fielding, Haywood, Johnson, Lennox, Manley, Richardson, Frances Sheridan, Smollett, Sterne, and Swift.
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Jacob Namminga, one of our radiation safety advisors, spoke to me via Skype about today's sampling trip in a rural area of Japan, to the north west of the Fukushima nuclear plant. We'll be reporting the details of our findings once they are compiled and have been checked, but I asked Jacob to provide some reflections on what today's trip was like. This is what he had told me. We are staying in a place in Yonezawa, 45 km from Fukushima city called the Smile hotel. It has a giant yellow smiley on it, which under the circumstances is a bit surreal. We have Internet, the electricity is working. We have it rather easy compared to some of the people here who are refugees, having had to leave their homes and who are living just a few kilometers away. We brought a lot of food in from Osaka and try to eat that and avoid local foods and especially milk. No tap water, no ice cubes. We went to a community center the other day, a sports hall where 500 refugees were staying. There were mattresses and cardboard boxes that the people were arranging to try to make their own space. But they have no privacy; they all sleep in one common area. Of the 500 people there, I was told about 200 were refugees from the tsunami, and 300 were refugees from the radioactivity. One woman heard we were from Greenpeace and approached asking if we had any information about how safe Fukushima city was. She said she did not trust the information from the authorities. We had not done our own mesurements yet, and I wasn't able to give her any definite information, but it was very clear she was scared. It's not the Japanese way to be angry, everyone is quite calm, almost passive: but they are afraid. As we found out today, the radiation levels are high in Fukushima city -- our measurements confirmed levels that have been reported in newspapers and by the government -- in some places so high that you would get your "maximum annual dose" (if you believe in such things) in about 8 days. It's a bit strange to see people biking and going about their business. There is food available in the supermarkets but many empty shelves. This morning before we left we were in a little shop and they were taking away all the milk and replacing it. At 9am we set out from Yonezawa, and drove for one and a half hours toward the region we wanted to make our measurements. We do not stay in the high radiation areas longer than necessary in order to minimize our own dosages. It was a beautiful day today with lots of sun. My face is actually a little red -- though that's from solar radiation, and not the radioactivity from the plant. We kept our measurement gear on, but we had to turn off the audio bleeps on the Geiger counter, its constant sound was driving us nuts. The alarms of the devices can't be turned off, and in particularly high radiation areas they'd all go off. There was one place we hit such a high reading that we didn't even stop there. It was windy and dry, and the dust and snow can carry radioactive particles. So if you step out of the car and get dust or snow on you, you might bring radioactive particles into the car and you don't want that. We moved on quickly. We met the police at a blockade about 35 km out from the Fukushima nuclear plant, and they let us do measurements. Cars were still going in and out that didn't appear to be relief workers or firemen -- it may be people are getting permission to go in and get their belongings, but I'm speculating. It was not busy, but it wasn't deserted: there were still people going in and out. My biggest impression of the day was that this is a truly beautiful place – the mountains are breathtaking, and if you don't look at the Geiger counters, it's quite a nice place to be. But you look at the Geiger counters and you realise there's a danger, and that you can't see it with your eyes.
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This is all very interesting, but what were the actual readings? How about all the way back in Osaka? I live in a city near Nagoya called Toyohashi an...
This is all very interesting, but what were the actual readings? How about all the way back in Osaka? I live in a city near Nagoya called Toyohashi and am wondering if I should be leaving and going back to Canada. I'm not sure whether I'm getting the correct information here or not, and whether everything is getting downplayed in Japan. It doesn't seem the international community is so interested anymore, but I am. I live here and alot of people I care about live here. Thanks for any additional info you can provide.
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Can you guys provide some real numbers instead generalities? Specifics are what the world needs right now, not more ominous vagaries.
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Got readings on radiation plume from japan courtesy EPA radnet. EPA now heavily compromised by nuclear industry; now cannot access data from site; I a...
Got readings on radiation plume from japan courtesy EPA radnet. EPA now heavily compromised by nuclear industry; now cannot access data from site; I am blocked now. Levels spiked 10:30 am Rapid City South Dakota: 201 gross beta rate count; Bismarck North Dakota, 66 gross beta rate count, Pierre South Dakota 153, Idaho falls 85 gross beta rate count. Background levels between 10 and 20. I cannot get any coherent information on health and genetic consequences of low level radiation exposures. Do know now why there are three eyed frogs in Minnesota. Also human genetic mutations to stillborn at Chernobyl, four Corners New Mexico Uranium miners (native americans were worked in hot zones without protection during WWII), and Iraq,Bosnia-herzegovina, and Afghanistan with persian gulf veterans bearing deformed children. Ask www.psr.org and Rosalie Bertell at www.iicph.org for more information on health consequences of exposure. I don't trust gov't sources, period. Lyle Courtsal also www.psr.org,www.umrc.net
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Thank you so much for doing this. I have been watching the reactor crisis with a sense of disbelief from the beginning. There is clearly a coverup goi...
Thank you so much for doing this. I have been watching the reactor crisis with a sense of disbelief from the beginning. There is clearly a coverup going on and apparently the government and the media don't care to know the truth.
Greenpeace is doing the Japanese people and the world a great service here. It's a brave and critically important effort, and I congratulate you and the team in Japan for your courage and sense of duty to the planet.
I will be following the reports from the team closely as they come in.
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Eat miso, sea-vegetables, garlic, turmeric, veggies high in beta carotines, reishi or cordyceps mushrooms and anti-oxidants to prevent damage from rad...
Eat miso, sea-vegetables, garlic, turmeric, veggies high in beta carotines, reishi or cordyceps mushrooms and anti-oxidants to prevent damage from radiation. This site should be providing real data if there is a crew on the ground...
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How far down would a melt down go? Could it generate an below the ground nuclear chain reaction that could explode in a deep strata and further affect the instability of the plate to generate another earthquake/ another large rapid wave of ocean water?
Why was the tsunami damage at the reactor less than the
the northern region but appeared to cause so much damage to the buildings that had been in operational mode at the time?
How much borate would be needed to be added to protect the unaffected fuel rods?
Why did the report of 13 neutron ray events after the march 11 not get much coverage. How serious is the observation of the neutron rays?
Why is is so cold?
Are there any particles in the upper atmosphere connected to this event aiding in ppt formation and reducing the net solar reaching the earth- or is this too far fetched?
Thank you for being there!
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SOS! We need desperately to know readings for Tokyo/kanto. This is so much important as the population is around 36 million! We desperately need to kn...
SOS! We need desperately to know readings for Tokyo/kanto. This is so much important as the population is around 36 million! We desperately need to know!!
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I applaud GP for providing -- for now -- non-government, non-establishment, extra-nuclear industry information on radiation level in Japan.
I applaud GP for providing -- for now -- non-government, non-establishment, extra-nuclear industry information on radiation level in Japan.
Our family lived in Japan for 4 years, we love Japan. Our family and friends have children and they're worried about their immediate and long-term health. Our younger friends are concerned about their reproductive health.
Of course, the Japanese government and the nuclear power industry that enables phenomenal economic growth worldwide, will not tell Japanese people to evacuate -- the country is not suitable for sustainable habitation. This is the crisis: the truth. I feel for the Japanese people who lack the resources to relocate their families away from this situation.
As time passes, 1 month, 6 months, a year, and this meltdown has not been contained, how difficult will it be for Japanese parents to tuck their babies into bed, kiss them goodnight, and know that they have no clue as to how much poison their babies are eating, drinking, and breathing every day? How sad must it be for them to wait, wondering in expectation that unknown dosage may soon
For this reason, I will contribute something (not much) to GP to promote its work in informing and empowering Japanese parents.
Thank you.
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Please tell me--what were the rdiation levels in Yonezawa?
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I family there. It appears to be normal...
Please tell me--what were the rdiation levels in Yonezawa?
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I family there. It appears to be normal but what you can't see is there.
Thank you
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MURRAY, UT (4/13/2009) – Heart disease patients who are subsequently diagnosed with depression are at greater risk for heart failure, according to a new study by cardiac researchers at Intermountain Medical Center. The study is the first of its kind to investigate the influence of depression after heart disease on the likelihood of developing heart failure. Researchers also found that taking antidepressant medications to ease depressive symptoms did not appear to mitigate this risk.
"Our data suggest that depression is an important and emerging risk factor for heart failure among patients with coronary heart disease," said Heidi May, PhD, MSPH, an epidemiologist at Intermountain Medical Center and lead author of the study. "Interestingly, when we stratified patients with depression by whether they received antidepressant medication or not, the incidence of heart failure didn't change. This finding may indicate that antidepressants may not be able to alter the physical or behavioral risks associated with depression and heart failure, despite a potential improvement in depressive symptoms."
The study will be published in the April 21, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. More than 13,700 patients at Intermountain Medical Center who were not diagnosed with heart failure and depression and who were not prescribed antidepressant medication at the time they were diagnosed with coronary heart disease were studied. Of these, one out of 10 was later diagnosed with depression.
Researchers found that a depression diagnosis following coronary heart disease was associated with a two-fold increased risk for the incidence of heart failure. This risk remained, but was slightly lower after adjusting for other cardiovascular risk factors (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, age). The incidence of heart failure among patients who were not depressed after being diagnosed with coronary artery disease was 3.6 per 100 compared with 16.4 per 100 for those with a post-heart disease depression diagnosis. The increase in the risk of a heart failure diagnosis was evident at the start of follow-up for those with a diagnosis of depression post-coronary heart disease, according to Dr. May.
This prospective study represents an important area of inquiry given the widespread burden of heart failure and depression, both of which can severely limit daily functioning and contribute to high rates of healthcare utilizations. Furthermore, previous studies have shown that depression in patients with heart failure increases the risk of hospitalization and death. Depression among heart disease patients has also been found to be predictive of future cardiovascular events, such as a heart attack and even death.
For those with available medication records, patients subsequently diagnosed with depression were stratified by use of antidepressant medications. No difference was found between depressed patients using or not using antidepressants.
"Our findings indicate that it may be important for clinicians to keep in mind that although a patient's depressive symptoms may improve, the risk for harmful cardiovascular outcomes related to depression might not," said Dr. May. "Patients need to be carefully screened for depression so that interventions that alter some of the risk associated with depression can be used and the related risk of heart failure and other cardiovascular events can be diminished."
There are a number of other risk factors associated with depression and heart failure, including smoking, hypertension, diabetes, and being overweight. Prior studies have reported that patients with depression are also less likely to practice good health habits or adhere to treatment regimens (e.g., taking medications properly, following a recommended exercise program, keeping scheduled appointments).
Study participants were drawn from the cardiac catheterization registry of the Intermountain Heart Collaborative Registry at Intermountain Medical Center, one of the leading heart hospitals in the country.
Dr. May believes future studies are needed to further explore the association of depression and heart failure, as well as other cardiovascular outcomes.


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Dog Days of Summer
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Celebrating the Pawsitively Incredible Science of Dogs!
Saturday, August 9 (11am - 4:30pm)
Included with General Admission - DOGS ARE WELCOME!!
Dogs are performing feats of amazing science every day. Join us in celebrating our furry best friends and their people at our Dog Days of Summer Festival. Delight and explore the science around the things that dogs do and love; from training, sleeping, and exercise, to play and nutrition. Be inspired with demos and activities that include, keynote speaker Rich Avanzino - Maddie's Fund President, demos from the United States Coast Guard, and Canine Circus, plus a doggie spa, pet portraits, fashion show, raffles and much more! Get ready for a day of doggone fun!
- Planning on bringing your pooch?
Please note, all waiver forms must be signed before your dog can join the fun! Also, our planetarium and main exhibit spaces will be "dog-free" areas on the event day. If you plan to see shows, we advise to not bring your dog to the Center. Dogs will not be permitted to be left in cars.
- Dog-Friendly Full Moon Hike
Saturday, August 9 (7:15pm – 9:15pm)
Bring your dog and hike under the beautiful full moon through the redwoods from twilight to moonlight on a relatively easy 3 mile hike 2-3 mile hike. After the hike, stay and explore other amazing objects in the night sky through our telescopes (weather permitting) or tour the Telescope Makers Workshop. Hike will take place rain or shine.
Keynote Speaker
Rich Avanzino, President of Maddie's Fund®
Considered the "Dog Father" of the no-kill movement, Rich Avanzino has had a major influence on companion animal welfare over his 37 years in the industry. As President of Maddie's Fund®, he focuses the family foundation's $300 million endowment on revolutionizing the status and well-being of companion animals through grant giving, hands-on animal care, research and education. Formerly, President of The San Francisco SPCA (SF/SPCA) from 1976-1999, Rich led San Francisco in becoming the first City and County in the nation to offer an adoption guarantee for every healthy shelter cat and dog. In 1998, he revolutionized animal sheltering with the opening of Maddie's® Pet Adoption Center, the first facility in the country in which cats and dogs awaiting adoption were housed in cozy home-like settings rather than cages. The radical design set a new national standard for sheltering practices and has been widely emulated.
- Event Sponsorship provided by Maddie's Fund®
- Tenting generously sponsored by Steven Montes Special Events
- Raffle prizes and products generously sponsored by Pet Food Express
- Dog clothing provided by Unleashed by Petco®
Presenters & Times
- Rich Avanzino, Maddie's Fund®
Time: 1:30pm - 2:15pm
Are you one of the 3 million who will help make the U.S. a No-Kill Nation by 2015? Meet the "Dog Father," hear the story of Maddie, and together explore the simple steps we can all take to achieve his goal to be a healthier and happier society and attain world peace.
Maddie's Fund® is an animal welfare organization whose mission is to revolutionize the status and well-being of companion animals.
- Canine Fashion Show:
Clothes generously provided by Unleashed by Petco®
Times: 12:45pm - 1:15pm | 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Does Fido or Mitzi have what it takes to strut their stuff? Celebrate your furry best friend by walking them down our red carpet runway in a one-of-a kind doggie fashion show! Let your dog show off in canine fashions provided by Unleashed by Petco®.
- Barb Blastic, Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)
Time: 11am - 11:30am
Science provides fascinating details about how your dog experiences the world and how we all learn. Dogs love to explore, forage and use their noses to find the prize. Join Barb Blastic from Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF) to learn how to harness your dog's senses to win his attention and interact with your dog using his favorite things in the world. Training family dogs has come a long way in the past few decades! One of your dog's top motivators in the world - his nose - is your ticket to teaching him how to stop chewing up every magazine on your coffee table and fraying the edges of Aunt June's heirloom carpet. We will show you creative ways to engage him with long lasting food puzzle toys. See how you can use clicker training and shaping to teach your dog virtually any behavior imaginable.
- Francis Metcalf: Dog Trainer, Canine Circus
Time: 3:15pm - 3:30pm
Learn how to build your dog's brain, confidence and physical strength through tricks and training. Francis Metcalf of Canine Circus will show how to expand your trick training repertoire, improve your training skill and coordination, and perfect your control around other dogs. Canine Circus School makes the science of behavior fun!
- Christopher Hartman: U.S. Coast Guard Canine Demonstration
Times: 11:30am - 11:50am | 2:45pm - 3:05pm
Learn the history, current capabilities, and mission of USCG canines! Watch a short explosives detection demonstration followed by Q&A.
Exhibitors - All Day
Doggie Spa
- Wags n' Wellness: Dog Massage & Gait Analysis
Wags 'n Wellness offers holistic approaches to acute and chronic conditions as a complement to veterinary medicine. Through the use of massage, acupressure, herbs, and nutrition, we seek to support the body's ability to heal and reduce the dependency on pharmaceutical drugs.
- All About the Dogue: Dog Grooming
All About the Dogue will demonstrate a positive approach to grooming your four legged-companion - including combing, nail trimming and other gentle and loving doggie spa techniques.
Dog Activities
- Maddie's Fund®: Pet Adoption
Stop by and meet some wonderful, adoptable, furry companions with Maddie's Fund®. Learn how to take care of your pet and why adoption and no kill shelters can change the world.
- Citizen Canine: Socializing Your Dog
What is your dog's reaction to other dogs and new surroundings? Dogs of different ages require a variety of training to ensure that all new interactions are happy ones. Citizen Canine will give you the tools you need to successfully socialize your pup, whatever their stage in life.
- The Dog Squad: Training Your Dog
Communication with your pet is essential so that your pet clearly understands you and visa versa. The Dog Squad will teach you how to communicate effectively with your pet so that your dog understands clearly what you want and expect.
- The Furrtoghrapher: Pet Photography
Commemorate this fabulous event and outing with your dog with a picture of your most beloved family member. The Furrtographer, aka Josh Norem, is an award-winning Bay Area Pet Photographer who was named Best Dog Photographer in 2014 by readers of Bay Woof Magazine, and was named Best Pet Photographer for the past two years by the Bay Area A-List. He's a longtime dog-lover, animal rescue volunteer, and loves nothing more than making Bay Area pets look amazing! Photos will be taken at the photo booth throughout the day.
- CPR, Etc.: First Aid/CPR
Learn hands-on lifesaving skills to help you protect your pet this summer and all year long!
Canine Exhibitors
- Pet Food Express: Canine Food and Products
You are what you eat and your dog's health begins with it's diet. Discover how to give your pet the best nutrition and expand their pallet with some tasty and healthy treats.
- East Bay Guide Dog Raisers Club: Guide Dogs for the Blind
Service dogs are crucial for improving the lives of the visually impaired. Be inspired and learn more about these dedicated trainers and their faithful pups.
- East Bay SPCA: Dog Tricks
Nearly all pets deserve a loving and happy home. Studies show that pets improve the health of their people. Learn more about how to stop pet homelessness and people loneliness through adoption and how to expand your pack. Also, see some neat dog tricks!
- Unleashed by Petco®: Dog Fashion
Your dog deserves to be just as stylish as you are. Keep your dog fashion-forward and adequately accessorized with the latest trends.
- Oakland Dog Owners Group: Dog Park Advocates
It can be hard to know which parks are dog-friendly and where you can let Rover roam freely... Grab a map and explore new parks in your neighborhood!
- Veterinary Surgical Centers, Berkeley: Minimally Invasive Dog Surgery
What do you do when your pup isn't feeling well? Learn about monitoring your dog's health and methods for alleviating common health issues.
Food Vendors
- Top Dog: Gourmet Hot Dogs
- Jamba Juice: Fresh Juice Smoothies
Donations Generously provided by:
- Steven Montes Special Events: Dog Days of Summer Spin and Win Raffle!
- Pet Food Express: Donations for Raffle Prizes
- Unleashed by Petco®:Donations for Raffle Prizes
- Ziwipeak: Donations for Raffle Prizes
- Holistic Hound: Donations for Raffle Prizes
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When I was using Windows 8 Developers Preview I did disable the Metro theme,with the registry edit. But Microsoft removed this option in Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows 8 Release Preview.
And if it was still possible I would disable the Metro theme as I am not using the Metro start menu. And I also think the Metro theme slows things down. Windows 8 is not as fast as Windows 7 anyway.
What Microsoft should have done is left it like it was in Windows 8 DP. So we could have disabled the Metro theme with the registry edit or Metro Disabler. But Microsoft have removed this option in Windows 8 CP and Windows 8 RP.
But if I had my choice I would disable the Metro theme.
And I am using Classic Shell because I like the Windows XP start menu and start button. That you don't even get on Windows 7.
And on Windows 8 the Metro start menu is inadequate for mine and most peoples needs.Using the Windows 7 or Windows XP start menu makes things easier. Andrea Borman.
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If you arm the police I kind of suspect that one of the things you'll get the situation they have in the US where suicide by cop has become fairly common.
Has anyone been watching the TV series set in Liverpool, 'Good Cop'? That started with a situation where two cops were deliberately lured into a situation where they were set upon and one was beaten to death. I watched the first episode and found it very disturbing, I also thought it was a bit unlikely . . . sadly I was wrong.


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We have no intention of trying to pass this custom '58 Corvette kit car off as an authentic '58 Vette-Rod, though it could easily fool most passersby. The details in the meticulously sculpted body lines, the shapelier dimensions in comparison to the real-deal roadster, and the recent trend of converting classic Corvettes into modern-powered, late-model, hybrid performers all help to substantiate this Street Rods Only halo car.
Mike Walker, proprietor of the Macon, Illinois, custom-fabrication shop, has been in the business of building customized street rods for 25 years, from wild Willys, '32-'37 Fords, '35, '49, and '57 Chevys, and a little bit of everything else mixed in between. Among the wild creations rolling out of his garage, several have been client-customized, first-generation Corvettes. Working on the fiberglass-bodied, lightweight roadsters gave him a certain buzz, and the more he worked on them, the more he realized the potential for greater and more creative avenues he could follow with the American sports car. And so he began negotiations with the Mastretta brothers.
If you haven't heard of the Mastretta brothers you simply haven't been reading your issues of Corvette Fever close enough. In our August '06 issue, we answered a reader's inquiry concerning a mysterious Corvette kit car featuring a unique Mexico-built body produced during the late '90s. Our research (with help from Rich Lagasse) discovered that the Mastretta brothers from Mexico had graduated from Texas University with engineering degrees, returned back home, and began a lucrative business in custom fabrication. Using detailed CAD illustrations and high-tech computer equipment, the two Mastretta brothers began producing '58 through '60 Corvette bodies. While their innovative body designs were sold throughout North America, the Mastrettas also fabricated the chassis, suspension geometry, and platform underpinnings for their retro creations. Complete, rolling, revamped Corvettes began rolling out of their shop shortly thereafter, with the fabled "Mexican Vette" moniker.
Unfortunately, the Mastrettas were only able to assemble a total of 20 complete vehicles as the costs of producing a complete vehicle in-house were too prohibitive for the small company. In lieu of manufacturing complete cars, they chose to begin selling off their custom bodies. Several companies throughout the States purchased the Mexican Vette bodies. While a few private companies' misdealings with customers had no direct connection to the Mastrettas' south-of-the-border Vettes, people's opinions of the Mexican Vettes began to sour. Clients lost deposits, companies vanished, web sites were shut down, and a long list of grievances caused many of the enthusiasts to simply turn their backs on the idea of suitable Corvette kit cars. Sales slumped, and the Mastretta brothers decided to pursue other ventures and sell off their interest in the Corvette kit car industry.


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KENTUCKY (7/11/13) – SurfKY News would like to share with you what has happened on this day in history.
•Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII 480 years ago.
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•Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel 209 years ago.
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Drama, Family
Raised as brothers, intense teammates and competitors on the soccer field, the gregarious, swaggering Julio and the more wiry and focused Daniel "Gato" have remained virtually inseparable ever since the newborn Daniel was found abandoned in a trash heap in their La Ceniza slum. The opportunity of their lives arrives when a football scout invites them to tryout for the city's top professional team, just as a tragic act of violence threatens to tear them apart and prevent them from achieving their dreams.
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6 Ways to Have Healthy Holidays
The holidays bring their own set of challenges: too much food, too many parties, too much stress, too little time. Stay on the healthy track with these tips.
Embrace Fast Food
When your holiday calendar is chockablock with family obligations, school recitals, secret missions to the mall, etc., something has to give. Enter "fast" food. But convenience doesn't have to come in a takeout bag. One trick recommended by registered dietitian Keri Gans, author of The Small Change Diet ($15, amazon.com), is to keep a rotisserie chicken on hand. Then "bake a potato in the microwave, steam fresh or frozen vegetables, and you have a meal," she says. If you must—and undoubtedly the time will come when you will need to—cruise through a drive-through or do takeout, know which are the smartest choices: the grilled-chicken sandwich instead of the burger, soft tortillas instead of crispy tacos. See a full rundown of healthy fast-food choices.


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Awkward Wedding Dresses
You'd be surprised that our jobs aren't all about sitting around and gawking at beautiful dresses (okay, that's a big part of it), but sometimes we come across awkward gowns like these ones. Enjoy!
Octo-DressThis is what happens when you take your beach wedding theme too far.
The Carmen Sandiego LookDoes anyone else see the resemblance?!
The GawkerIdeally you want a dress that offers a wider range of movement without a...wardrobe malfunction. Oh yeah, and one that keeps his eyes *up here.*
Graffiti GownI can see graffiti art as a great trash the dress session, but for the actual wedding? It makes me cringe.
Peek-a-Boo BrideThe number one reason dresses like this one could be considered inappropriate: You're taking photos with family and young kids...
Hat HauteIf you need four people with poles to hold your wedding dress (or hat), it's probably not the one.
Scantly CladOk, so this definitely doesn't count as a dress, but she has a veil and garter. So she's gotta be a bride, right? What a gentleman of him to hold her bouquet; she has so many other things to worry about...
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Heart-to-heart discussion marks meeting of Mrs. Robert Pfoh, (Farmingdale) Area Chairman of the Nassau Heart Association's annual door-to-door Heart .SundayAppgaJ, with Alfred Payne, Community Chairman for Bethpage. Purp6se'of*tli6 ftmu^raMwg drive, set for Sunday, February 25, 1973, is to raise funds to support programs leading to the prevention, control and treatment of all forms of heart diseases. More than 100 top business and union executives from Nassau and Suffolk Counties gathered January 4 at the Old Country Manor, Hicksville to solidify their favorable support for the construction of the Bayville-Rye Bridge and launch a public iri-formation campaign, 1 "All were hi agreement the bridge is vital to the future Of Long Island from the standpoint of both the area's economy and relief of its- traffic congestion," •^I^^^A^AUirech^piA^- Vice President for T r a n s p o r t a t i o n and Chairman of the "Sound Bridge for a Sound Future"- Task Force, said. The purpose of this meeting, Albrecht said, was to discuss preparation of formal statements being prepared by those present as well as a broad cross-section of the business community. These statements will be presented at the public hearing on January 15 at C.W. Post College. Charles Murcott, President of Lumex, Inc. in Bay Shore, said, "The construction of a bridge ., from Bayville to Rye will permit manufacturers of. ^commercM*^r15tiact^^tiir my case, medical and hospital equipment and supplies) who sell their goods throughout the United States to reach their markets more efficiently and economically than is presently possible." He added that he will be in a better position to meet competition from manufacturers who are not required to pass their goods__thrdugh ^tfeie, jcostJy bottleneck of -New York City. * Murcott pointed out that Long Island, with its excellent labor force and living conditions, will become more attractive to a variety of manufacturers who sell their wares throughout the United States. David Richardson, Secretary-Treasurer of the 60,000-member Building and Construction Trades Council said, "Purely because of convenience and relief from traffic congestion for pleasure driving and job commuting, our people want the Bayville-Rye Bridge completed as soon as possible. Milton Hendrickson, President of the Nassau / Suffolk Contractors Association spoke in favor of the bridge a s . .. "a means of reducing maintenance costs and additional radial corridor highway construction / by eliminating millions of trips annually over the already congested roads into New York City." The Contractors Association represents employers of more than 40,000 workers and contributes $150 million annually to the Long Island economy. Representing the tourist industry, Ihe Hamptons Association, the Montauk Chamber of Commerce, and the North Fork Association endorses the Bayville-Rye Bridge. These, groups poinded' that tourism, the secpitti largest Md&stry in fiew York State, contributes 20 percent of the New York Sales Tax annually. Albrecht summarized that the intention of this campaign is to highlight these significant facts in support of the need for the bridge: 1. Almost everything. Long Island people eat, wear,the cars they drive, the fuel they heat with, their Boats, their furniture, all arrive by truck. Long Islanders are currently paying higher prices for goods shipped to the Island because of freight rate, ^charges caused . by ^travelling through the New York City 2. Long IslandcFrs (Continued on page 6) Hon. John Benoit Nassau District Court Judge John Benoit, 52, a, longtime resident of Levittown, died of a heart attack at his home at 3565 Fams Court on January 5,1973. Judge Benoit was elected as District Court Judge in 1969 and was under consideration by Gov. Rockefeller for a promotion to the Nassau County Court at the time of his death. He was born in Malboro, Mass. and graduated from Duke University and Brooklyn Law School. After serving as a Staff Officer in the U.S. Merchant Marines during World War H, he moved to Levittown in 1951 and opened his private practice. He handled mainly criminal cases and became active in local politics. In 1953 he became a Republican Committeeman and in 1959%he was elected to the Hempstead Town Council and served in that capacity until 1967. He was also chairman of the Levittown Republican Committee from 1959 thru 1965. Past- President of the Nassau County Criminal Court Bar Association, he received that organization's annual Norman F. Lent Award for outstanding judicial work in 1971. Active in other organizations, he was a member of the Nassau County Bar Assoc, and the Nassau County Lawyers Assoc. He was also a honorary life member of the Levittown Optimists Assoc. The Levittown Chamber of Commerce presented him with their Most Distinguished Citizen Award in 1969. Judge Benoit is survived by his wife, Phebe; his three daughters, Margaret Esposito, Jessica Daniels and Beverly Benoit; his brother Henry, and two grandchildren. Burial was held on Monday, January 8, 1973 at Pinelawn Memorial Park.Pinelawn.
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Exploitation auteur Jack Hill wrote and directed this wild, often satiric girl-gang movie, whose story is loosely (make that very, very loosely) based on Othello. The Silver Daggers are a gang of young hoods who control an inner-city high school, where they sell drugs and sex to the student body and fight anyone who gets in their way. The Daggers have a ladies' auxiliary, The Dagger Debs, who rumble just as hard as the men, but one day chief Dagger Deb Lace (Robbie Lee) meets her match in Maggie (Joanne Nail), a new kid who won't back down. When a scuffle lands Maggie and the Debs in jail for the night, Maggie comes to Lace's rescue, and Maggie becomes Lace's new right-hand woman. However, fellow Deb Patch (Monica Gayle) is jealous of Maggie's friendship with Lace, and begins spinning a web of deceit to destroy Lace's trust in the new deb. In the midst of the infighting, the Silver Daggers find their turf challenged by a rival gang who pose as a community action team, and the Debs join forces with a revolutionary political group. Kitty Bruce, Lenny Bruce's daughter, plays Doughnut, one of the Debs, and Marlene Clark plays a Mao-spouting revolutionary leader. This exploitation cult item gained a new life in 1996, when Quentin Tarantino, a big fan of director Hill, sponsored a theatrical re-release through his company Rolling Thunder Pictures.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem Howl (1956), celebrating his friends of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time.
As a young teenager, Ginsberg began to write letters to The New York Times about political issues such as World War II and workers' rights. When he was in junior high school, he accompanied his mother by bus to her therapist. The trip disturbed Ginsberg — he mentioned it and other moments from his childhood in his long autobiographical poem "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956)." While in high school, Ginsberg began reading Walt Whitman; he said he was inspired by his teacher's passion in reading.
In 1943, Ginsberg graduated from Eastside High School and briefly attended Montclair State University before entering Columbia University on a scholarship from the Young Men's Hebrew Association of Paterson in 1949. While at Columbia, Ginsberg contributed to the Columbia Review literary journal, the Jester humor magazine, won the Woodberry Poetry Prize and served as president of the Philolexian Society, the campus literary and debate group.
In 1948 in an apartment in Harlem, Ginsberg had an auditory hallucination of William Blake reading his poems "Ah, Sunflower", "The Sick Rose", and "Little Girl Lost" (later referred to as his "Blake vision"). Ginsberg was reading these poems at the time, and he said he was very familiar with them; at one point he claimed he heard them being read by what sounded like the voice of God but what he interpreted as the voice of Blake. He had at that moment pivotal revelations that defined his understanding of the universe. He believed that he witnessed then the interconnectedness of the universe. He looked at lattice work on the fire escape and realized some hand had crafted that; he then looked at the sky and intuited that some hand had crafted that also, or rather that the sky was the hand that crafted itself. He explained that this hallucination was not inspired by drug use, but said he sought to recapture that feeling later with various drugs.
Also in New York, Ginsberg met Gregory Corso in the Pony Stable Bar, one of New York's first openly lesbian bars. Corso, recently released from prison, was supported by the Pony Stable patrons and was writing poetry there the night of their meeting. Ginsberg claims he was immediately attracted to Corso, who was straight but understanding of homosexuality after three years in prison. Ginsberg was even more struck by reading Corso's poems, realizing Corso was "spiritually gifted." Ginsberg introduced Corso to the rest of his inner circle. In their first meeting at the Pony Stable, Corso showed Ginsberg a poem about a woman who lived across the street from him, and sunbathed naked in the window. Amazingly, the woman just happened to be Ginsberg's girlfriend during one of his forays into heterosexuality. Ginsberg and Corso remained life-long friends and collaborators.
It was also during this period that Ginsberg was romantically involved with Elise Cowen.
Also in San Francisco Ginsberg met members of the San Francisco Renaissance and other poets who would later be associated with the Beat Generation in a broader sense. Ginsberg's mentor William Carlos Williams wrote an introductory letter to San Francisco Renaissance figurehead Kenneth Rexroth, who then introduced Ginsberg into the San Francisco poetry scene. There, Ginsberg also met three budding poets and Zen enthusiasts who were friends at Reed College: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Lew Welch.
Wally Hedrick — a painter and co-founder of the Six Gallery — approached Ginsberg in the summer of 1955 and asked him to organize a poetry reading at the Six Gallery. At first, Ginsberg refused, but once he'd written a rough draft of Howl, he changed his "fucking mind," as he put it. Ginsberg advertised the event as "Six Poets at the Six Gallery." One of the most important events in Beat mythos, known simply as "The Six Gallery reading" took place on October 7, 1955. The event, in essence, brought together the East and West Coast factions of the Beat Generation. Of more personal significance to Ginsberg: that night was the first public reading of "Howl", a poem that brought worldwide fame to Ginsberg and to many of the poets associated with him. An account of that night can be found in Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums, describing how change was collected from audience members to buy jugs of wine, and Ginsberg reading passionately, drunken, with arms outstretched. A taped recording of the reading of 'Howl' that Ginsberg gave at Reed College has recently been rediscovered and appeared on their multimedia website from 9am PST 15 February 2008.
Ginsberg's principal work, "Howl", is well-known for its opening line: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...." "Howl" was considered scandalous at the time of its publication, because of the rawness of its language, which is frequently explicit. Shortly after its 1956 publication by San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, it was banned for obscenity. The ban became a cause célèbre among defenders of the First Amendment, and was later lifted after Judge Clayton W. Horn declared the poem to possess redeeming social importance.
Though "Beat" is most accurately applied to Ginsberg and his closest friends (Corso, Orlovsky, Kerouac, Burroughs, etc.), the term "Beat Generation" has become associated with many of the other poets Ginsberg met and became friends with in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A key feature of this term seems to be a friendship with Ginsberg. Friendship with Kerouac or Burroughs might also apply, but both writers later strove to disassociate themselves from the name "Beat Generation." Part of their dissatisfaction with the term came from the mistaken identification of Ginsberg as the leader. Ginsberg never claimed to be the leader of a movement. He did, however, claim that many of the writers with whom he had become friends in this period shared many of the same intentions and themes. Some of these friends include: Bob Kaufman; LeRoi Jones before he became Amiri Baraka, who, after reading "Howl", wrote a letter to Ginsberg on a sheet of toilet paper; Diane DiPrima; poets associated with the Black Mountain College such as Robert Creeley and Denise Levertov; poets associated with the New York School such as Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch.
Later in his life, Ginsberg formed a bridge between the beat movement of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s, befriending, among others, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Rod McKuen, and Bob Dylan.
Allen Ginsberg gave what is thought to be his last reading at The Booksmith in San Francisco on December 16, 1996. He died on April 5, 1997, surrounded by family and friends in his East Village loft in New York City, succumbing to liver cancer via complications of hepatitis. He was 70 years old. Ginsberg continued to write through his final illness, with his last poem, "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgias)", written on March 30.
Ginsberg is buried in his family plot in Gomel Chesed Cemetery, one of a cluster of Jewish cemeteries at the corner of McClellan Street and Mt. Olivet Avenue near the city lines of Elizabeth and Newark, New Jersey. The family plot, located toward the western edge of the cemetery at the far end of the walk from the third gate along Mt. Olivet Avenue, is marked by a large Ginsberg and Litzky stone, and Ginsberg himself and each family member have smaller markers. Though the grave itself and the cemetery are neither picturesque nor otherwise notable (Ginsberg's grave is located near the rear fence of the flat cemetery, which is in the midst of an industrial area). Although it has not become a major place of pilgrimage, there is a steady trickle of visitors as indicated by a handful of stones always on his marker and the occasional book or other item left by other poets and admirers.
Likewise, he continuously attempted to force the world into a dialogue about controversial subjects because he thought that no change could be made in a polite silence.
The day prior to the scheduled march, the Hell's Angels attacked the front line of a smaller scale protest where a confrontation between police and demonstrators was brewing. The Hell's Angels came in on motorcycles and slashed banners while yelling "Go back to Russia, you fucking communists!" at the protesters. The Hell's Angels then vowed to disrupt the larger protest the next day.
Ginsberg traveled to Barger's home in Oakland to talk the situation through. It is rumored that he offered Barger and other members of the Hell's Angels LSD as a gesture of friendship and goodwill.. In the end, Barger and the other Hell's Angels that were present came away deeply impressed by the courage of Ginsberg and his companion Ken Kesey. They vowed not to attack the next day's protest march and furthermore deemed Ginsberg a man who was worth helping out. It was shortly after the Tompkins Square Park riots that he was involved in a fracas with the Mentofreeist group and was assaulted by its leader, Vargus Pike, who was arrested. He was later released when Ginsberg, sporting a black eye, refused to press charges.
In 1965 Ginsberg was deported from Cuba for publicly protesting against Cuba's anti-marijuana stance; ironically Ginsberg admired Castro along with many other quasi-Marxist figures from the 20th century. Ginsberg's expulsion was also said to have come after he had described Che Guevara as "cute".
The Cubans sent him to Czechoslovakia, where one week after being named the King of a May Day parade, Ginsberg was labeled an "immoral menace" by the Czech government because of his free expression of radical ideas, and was then deported. Many important figures from Communist Bloc countries such as Vaclav Havel point to Ginsberg as an important inspiration to strive for freedom. According to biographer Jonah Raskin, despite his often stark opposition to communist orthodoxy Ginsberg held "his own idiosyncratic version of communism".
In addition, the character of Ginsberg in Jack Kerouac's On the Road is named Carlo Marx, a possible reference to his early beliefs.
Also, in writing about sexuality in graphic detail and in his frequent use of language seen as indecent he challenged—and ultimately changed—obscenity laws. He was a staunch supporter of others whose expression challenged obscenity laws (William S. Burroughs and Lenny Bruce, for example).
Ginsberg claimed throughout his life that his biggest inspiration was Kerouac's concept of "spontaneous prose". He believed literature should come from the soul without conscious restrictions. However, Ginsberg was much more prone to revise than Kerouac. For example, when Kerouac saw the first draft of "Howl" he disliked the fact that Ginsberg had made editorial changes in pencil (transposing "negro" and "angry" in the first line, for example). Kerouac only wrote out his concepts of Spontaneous Prose at Ginsberg's insistence because Ginsberg wanted to learn how to apply the technique to his poetry.
An important figure when considering inspiration for "Howl" is Carl Solomon. The full title is "Howl for Carl Solomon." Solomon was a Dada and Surrealism enthusiast (he introduced Ginsberg to Artaud) who suffered bouts of depression. Solomon wanted to commit suicide, but he thought a form of suicide appropriate to dadaism would be to go to a mental institution and demand a lobotomy. The institution refused, giving him many forms of therapy, including electroshock therapy. Much of the final section of the first part of "Howl" is a description of this.
Ginsberg used Solomon as an example of all those ground down by the machine of "Moloch." Moloch, to whom the second section is addressed, is a Levantine god to whom children were sacrificed. Ginsberg may have gotten the name from the Kenneth Rexroth poem "Thou Shalt Not Kill", a poem about the death of one of Ginsberg's heroes, Dylan Thomas. But Moloch is mentioned a few times in the Torah and references to Ginsberg's Jewish background are not infrequent in his work. Ginsberg said the image of Moloch was inspired by peyote visions he had of the Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco which appeared to him as a skull; he took it as a symbol of the city (not specifically San Francisco, but all cities). Ginsberg later acknowledged in various publications and interviews that behind the visions of the Francis Drake Hotel were memories of the Moloch of Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927) and of the woodcut novels of Lynd Ward. Moloch has subsequently been interpreted as any system of control, including the conformist society of post-World War II America focused on material gain, which Ginsberg frequently blamed for the destruction of all those outside of societal norms.
He also made sure to emphasize that Moloch is a part of all of us: the decision to defy socially created systems of control—and therefore go against Moloch—is a form of self-destruction. Many of the characters Ginsberg references in "Howl", such as Neal Cassady and Herbert Huncke, destroyed themselves through excessive substance abuse or a generally wild lifestyle. The personal aspects of "Howl" are perhaps as important as the political aspects. Carl Solomon, the prime example of a "best mind" destroyed by defying society, is associated with Ginsberg's schizophrenic mother: the line "with mother finally ******" comes after a long section about Carl Solomon, and in Part III, Ginsberg says "I'm with you in Rockland where you imitate the shade of my mother." Ginsberg later admitted that the drive to write "Howl" was fueled by sympathy for his ailing mother, an issue which he was not yet ready to deal with directly. He dealt with it directly with 1959's "Kaddish".
He studied poetry under William Carlos Williams, who was then in the middle of writing his epic poem Paterson about the industrial city near his home. Ginsberg, after attending a reading by Williams, sent the older poet several of his poems and wrote an introductory letter. Most of these early poems were rhymed and metered and included archaic pronouns like "thee." Williams hated the poems. He told Ginsberg later, "In this mode perfection is basic, and these poems are not perfect."
Though he hated the early poems, Williams loved the exuberance in Ginsberg's letter. He included the letter in a later part of "Paterson." He taught Ginsberg not to emulate the old masters but to speak with his own voice and the voice of the common American. Williams taught him to focus on strong visual images, in line with Williams' own motto "No ideas but in things." His time studying under Williams led to a tremendous shift from the early formalist work to the brilliance of his later work. Early breakthrough poems include "Bricklayer's Lunch Hour" and "Dream Record."
Carl Solomon introduced him to Antonin Artaud ("To Have Done with the Judgement of God" and "Van Gogh: The Man Suicided by Society"), and Jean Genet (Our Lady of the Flowers). Philip Lamantia introduced him to other Surrealists and Surrealism continued to be an influence (for example, sections of Kaddish were inspired by André Breton's "Free Union"). Ginsberg claimed that the anaphoric repetition of "Howl" and other poems was inspired by Christopher Smart in such poems as "Jubilate Agno." Ginsberg claims other more traditional influences, such as: Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, and even Emily Dickinson.
Ginsberg also made an intense study of haiku and the paintings of Paul Cézanne, from which he adapted a concept important to his work, which he called the "Eyeball Kick". He noticed in viewing Cézanne's paintings that when the eye moved from one color to a contrasting color, the eye would spasm, or "kick." Likewise, he discovered that the contrast of two seeming opposites was a common feature in haiku. Ginsberg used this technique in his poetry, putting together two starkly dissimilar images: something weak with something strong, an artifact of high culture with an artifact of low culture, something holy with something unholy. The example Ginsberg most often used was "hydrogen jukebox" (which later became the title of an opera he wrote with Philip Glass). Another example is Ginsberg's observation on Bob Dylan during his hectic and intense 1966 electric tour, fuelled by a cocktail of amphetamines, opiates, alcohol, and psychedelics, as a "Dexedrine Clown." The phrases "eyeball kick" and "hydrogen jukebox" both show up in "Howl", as well as a direct quote from Cézanne: "Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus."
Many of his early long line experiments contain some sort of anaphoric repetition, or repetition of a "fixed base" (for example "who" in "Howl", "America" in "America"), and this has become a recognizable feature of Ginsberg's style. However, he said later this was a crutch because he lacked confidence in his style; he didn't yet trust "free flight." In the 60s, after employing it in some sections of Kaddish ("caw" for example) he, for the most part, abandoned the anaphoric repetition.
Several of his earlier experiments with methods for formatting poems as a whole become regular aspects of his style in later poems. In the original draft of "Howl", each line is in a "stepped triadic" format reminiscent of Williams (see "Ivy Leaves", for example). He abandoned the "stepped triadic" when he developed his long line, but the stepped lines showed up later, most significantly in the travelogues of The Fall of America. "Howl" and "Kaddish", arguably his two most important poems, are both organized as an inverted pyramid, with larger sections leading to smaller sections. In "America", he experimented with a mix of longer and shorter lines.
"Lightning's blue glare fills Oklahoma plains, the train rolls east casting yellow shadow on grass Twenty years ago approaching Texas, I saw sheet lightning cover Heaven's corners... An old man catching fireflies on the porch at night watched the Herd Boy cross the Milky Way ''to meet the Weaving Girl... How can we war against that?" (From Iron Horse, 1972)
Empty Mirror: Early Poems (1961)
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The launch edition of Alfa's mini supercar has landed in Geneva...
Posted: 06 Mar 2013
There's one pretty spectacular number attached to the Alfa Romeo 4C. It's not the 240bhp 1750TBi direct injection turbo engine. Or that the company's only drip-feeding 1000 special launch editions to market. Or the £50-odd grand pricetag. Or the 155mph top speed. It's its 895kg weight.
Because it's so light, the relatively diminutive output doesn't really matter - in power-to-weight terms, it has 268bhp per ton. That's more than the lightest Porsche Cayman S (246bhp per ton), and even a base model 911 Carrera (253bhp per ton), albeit £20,000 cheaper than the latter. Add that to a mid-mounted engine, 4.5-second 0-62mph time and it really promises fireworks.
Designed by Alfa boffins, with Dallara on aerodynamic duties, and bolted together in the Maserati plant in Modena, the Alfa's a feast of super-tech lightweightery. There's a hand-made carbon tub underneath, with front and rear frames made from aluminium, skinned in something called SMC, which is a lightweight form of GRP.
Alfa boss, Harald Wester, tells us: "It really is a mini supercar". Marco Tencone, design chief at Alfa (as well as Maserati and Lancia) also told us that just as the 8C generated excitement through big power, the 4C does the same thing through agility, thanks to its mid-engine and light weight. The aim in styling the 4C was to evolve the recognisable characteristics of the 8C, and to adapt them for the different proportions.
Tencone says, "We wanted it to look technical, like a cloak over the mechanical arts. The unpainted carbon parts - air vents, diffuser and light surrounds - are like the frame coming through the skin."
And the best news is, this isn't some limited-numbers halo jobbie. As Paul Horrell reported last year, Alfa did the sums about build method and price on the basis of selling 18,000 of them over the lifetime of the car. That means there won't be just one version. A cabrio must be included in the list, as it's an easy conversion when the tub's carbon.
We'll be driving it late this summer, but in the meantime brim your eyes with our exclusive pics.


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I got told today by a fellow worker that the tv series is in the making csi ankhmorpork,
Surprisingly only hearing about it now as no recent topics.
so its a catchup question is it in the making ? what about good omens ? unseen academicals ?
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Price Paid: $185
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Weight: 2.5lbs
Price Paid: $185
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Price Paid: $130
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