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Thus, I won't have a lunch break until January 3.
Thus, I won't be blogging until at least January 3.
So, I'll have to include not only today's installment of the Chesterton Advent Calendar (explanation here) but also those for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as well.
23 December
Fortunately, however, being happy is not so important as having a jolly time. Philosophers are happy; saints have a jolly time. The important thing in life is not to keep a steady system of pleasure and composure (which can be done quite well by hardening one's heart or thickening one's head), but to keep alive in oneself the immortal power of astonishment and laughter, and a kind of young reverence. This is why religion always insists on special days like Christmas, while philosophy always tends to despise them. Religion is interested not in whether a man is happy, but whether he is still alive, whether he can still react in a normal way to new things, whether he blinks in a blinding light or laughs when he is tickled. That is the best of Christmas, that it is a startling and disturbing happiness; it is an uncomfortable comfort. The Christmas customs destroy the human habits. And while customs are generally unselfish, habits are nearly always selfish. The object of the religious festival is, as I have said, to find out if a happy man is still alive. A man can smile when he is dead. Composure, resignation, and the most exquisite goo dmanners are, so to speak, the strong points of corpses. There is only one way in which you can test his real vitality, and that is by a special festival. Explode cracker in his ear, and see if he jumps. Prick him with holly, and see if he feels it. If not, he is dead, or, as he would put it, is "living the higher life." —Illustrated London News, 1908
24 December
Almighty God to all mankind on Christmas Day said He:
"I rent you from the old red hills and, rending made you free.
There was charter, there was challenge; in a blast of breath I gave;
You can be all things other; you cannot be a slave.
You shall be tired and tolerant of fancies as they fade,
But if men doubt the Charter, ye shall call on the Crusade –
Trumpet and torch and catapult, cannon and bow and blade,
Because it was My challenge to all the things I made." —A Christmas Song for Three Guilds
25 December
The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap,
His hair was like a light.
(O weary, weary were the world,
But here is all aright.)
The Christ-child lay on Mary's breast
His hair was like a star.
(O stern and cunning are the kings,
But here the true hearts are.)
The Christ-child lay on Mary's heart,
His hair was like a fire.
(O weary, weary is the world,
But here the world's desire.)
The Christ-child stood on Mary's knee,
His hair was like a crown,
And all the flowers looked up at Him,
And all the stars looked down —A Christmas Carol


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1. Role play (formal): I tried a role play activity once in English class, but now I am going to try it in chemistry. My plan is to turn my students into ions and see if they can role play out the process of acid-base dissociation. If they act it out correctly, I will know that they are on the right track for understanding the concept!
2. Scavenger hunts (formal): Stole this idea from Paul. The students will have a question sheet, with the questions arranged in a specific order. When they find the answer (posted in the classroom), there will be a word on the back of the answer card. If all of the questions are answered correctly and in the correct order, the words collected will make a statement. This is going to take some serious prep time, so I have my fingers crossed I will get to it this term (but it might be something to try after March break).
3. Self-assessment (formal): I am going to have my English students assess themselves on how well they think they did in their debate. Also considering a modified version of this for chemistry labs.
1. Relay races (formal): Students solve multi-step problems in groups, each person taking a different role. They do this at the board (several groups at once), so I can watch how easily they get through the problems, and which ones they have the most trouble with.
2. Thumbs up, down, sideways (informal): I use this as a quick read of how comfortable students are with a concept.
3. Jeopardy (formal): I use this as a form of test review.
Evaluation of two methods
Hi formative assessment gang,
Sorry I was not able to make it to the meeting last week. Here are a couple things that worked for me since the January meeting. The second is one I adapted from Paul's biology parts of a heart.
Cue card statements
- Wrote mathematical statements on cue cards (instead of questions). Then, asked "why" this statement was true. For example: "The x-intercept occurs when the y coordinate is zero. Why does the x-intercept occur when the y-coordinate is zero?"
In small groups, the students talked about the concept, explained the reasoning to each other (sometimes there was debate), and gained a deeper understanding of each particular concept.
Cue card charades
- Wrote concepts (one word or a small phrase) on cue cards (enough for one for each student and numbered in order) (Example: I did the parts of a parabolic graph so the cue cards looked like: 1. vertex, 2. y-intercept, 3. x-intercepts, 4. factored form, 5. general form, 6. vertex form, 7. parabola, 8. axis of symmetry). The numbers were written on the board (Just # 1-whatever). Each student also uses a piece of paper to write the numbers on (#1-whatever). Now for the game part:
Student with #1 cue card stands and has to get his word or phrase across by explaining what it is. They are not allowed to use any words on the cue card. They are not allowed to gesture, use numbers or letters or symbols.
Each student writes the word they think it is on their own paper.
Continue until all cue cards have been explained.
Then each student comes to the board and writes the correct word/phrase from their cue card next to the appropriate number.
Everyone checks their own work, and any incorrect answers can generate some more conversation.
* This really led to a deeper understanding of the concepts.
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By Pat Carlson
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December 9, 2014
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP20) began it's second week of talks in Lima, Peru with enthusiasm followed by displays of impatience. COP20 is the last stop on the way to a hoped for binding agreement to be finalized in Paris in 2015.
UNFCCC Secretary, Christiana Figueres, in a show of unprecedented jubilation, opened the day saying talks were moving forward in a "spirit of optimism" with "good news everywhere on any issue."
All climate change negotiations are based on the core principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities" (CDR) stated in the original UNFCCC treaty. When the U.S. Senate ratified the UNFCCC treaty in 1992 it was an admission of guilt for polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases (GHG). The GHG emissions caused global warming at the expense of developing nations like China and India. The CDR principle is the justification used to redistribute wealth from rich to poor and over time has been used to blame every catastrophe known to man on developed nations.
Ms. Figueres is elated because she's about to see the goal of making the guilty pay come to fruition.
Meanwhile, in another area of the conference center, young people protested a fossil fuels side event featuring speakers from the coal and oil industries. The youth protesting accused these industries of being "criminals" committing "ecocide…stealing the future of our children and all life as we know it" because "Earth cannot breathe in any more carbon."
These young people believe all fossil fuels should remain in the ground cutting "emissions at the source." They want these industries to be "banned" from climate change negotiations. Their protest displayed an impatience that negotiations were not going far enough.
Another person very satisfied with the progression of negotiations was the head of the U.S delegation, Todd Stern saying "it's a positive atmosphere here" with parties "working well together in a spirit of good will." This was the first press conference held by the U.S. since COP20 convened. Mr. Stern opened his remarks saying the U.S. came to negotiations in a strong position having just made a deal with China and committing $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
Taking questions from the press, Mr. Stern made some startling admissions saying reducing U.S. emissions 17 percent by 2020 "has been a kind of central pillar focus in the White House and the administration in terms of driving policy." He then credited the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regulations being heaped on the U.S. energy sector as achieving most of these reductions.
To further his point about the administration's success in reducing GHG emissions, he said when the Waxman-Markey (American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, H.R. 2454) bill failed trying to give Americans a cap-and- trade program, there's been "substantially more in terms of initial reductions [made] than we would have done" under the bill.
Mr. Stern also stated the U.S. supports CDR but with the consideration that some developing countries like China, India and Brazil now have economies more advanced than in 1992. Taking responsibility for U.S. emissions under CDR seems contradictory from an administration that has never taken responsibility for any of it's mistakes in failed policies.
Mr. Stern also seemed quite positive there would be a final Paris agreement. When asked how the administration would get such an agreement through Congress, he said they may or may not submit the Paris agreement to Congress. "We will submit to Congress any kind of agreement that requires that kind of submission…some agreements do and some don't." He said the Copenhagen Accord was an agreement that did not require Congressional approval.
What he didn't say was the Copenhagen Accord reached during COP15 was nothing more than a last minute document at a failed conference used to propel negotiations forward to the next COP.
According to Commissioner of the European Union EU, Miguel Arias Cañete, the majority of delegates at COP20 believe they are "negotiating a legally binding" agreement. If there is a final Paris agreement containing any legally binding element, it be must be ratified by the U.S. Senate.
The last event of the day was a press conference held by American youth from the Sierra Club and Chinese youth from Climate Action Network applauding their governments for their commitments in the agreement made between the two countries last month. But they want even more from their governments in efforts to reduce GHG emissions. The two female college students from the U.S. said "we are are taking responsibility" referring to CDR by encouraging colleges to divest themselves of fossil fuels.
These young people are fighting to prevent an eminent crisis, the survival of the planet and they're growing impatient waiting for the adults to solve the problem. They feel their futures are at stake.
The elitists are ecstatic all the while knowing the truth as they see more and more power and money being shifted to move the world to a new, transformed global economy.
It's very sad these young people have been caught up in the lie.


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Friday, January 20, 2012
Remembering Robert Anton Wilson
I was still living in San Pedro, on the Los Angeles harbor's edge, when I wrote RAW and asked, if I drove up (a good five hour's drive from LA to Capitola/Santa Cruz, where he lived), could I interview him? He'd read some of my stuff about his writing at alt.fan.rawilson, and the writer Eric Wagner told him I was cool, so RAW said yes. We made a date. I was nervous, and in the two weeks before driving towards the Bay Area, filled maybe eighteen pages of a spiral notebook with questions, being careful not to ask anything anyone had previously asked in the fifty or so interviews I'd read with him. I had emailed him only some of the topics I wanted to discuss, and he wrote back, saying "I can't wait to talk about this stuff with you."
We - my wife and I - buzzed his number at the gate and he let us in, and one of the crew members of what would be the documentary film Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson, greeted us at the door and led us down a short hall (I remember seeing a room to my left completely filled from floor to ceiling with books, and regret I didn't get to peruse his collection) and there were cameras and microphones, and The Man himself, seated at his couch. I'm pretty sure at that moment I went into an altered state. I'm resolutely not a celebrity worshipper. There are only a few people in the world who, if I met them in public, I'd have to try and tell them how their work changed my life, and would you please sign this piece of paper? There are/were maybe five people for me like that, and he was one.
I was very nervous but he put me at ease quickly. I met the crew for the film: young very hip intellectual types who were interested in, besides RAW: jazz and progressive ideas. Because what I said was being recorded for possible use in the film, I signed a waiver. RAW was making the filmmakers laugh, and he turned to me and apologized that he'd fallen recently and had broken a tooth and was going to get it fixed, but he would sound sort of funny when he spoke. All around the living room, on every surface, were gifts that friends and fans had given him, mostly books.
I don't know who took this photo, but this is pretty close to how
he looked when I interviewed him. He died at 4:50AM on January
11th, 2007, in his home, among family and friends.
There was a brief lull, so I spoke up and asked him, "Are you ready?" He said let's go! I started my microcassette recorder, and here's the transcript from how the interview started, and as the goddess and the Green Horned Man are my witnesses, I'm typing it out exactly as he answered it:
Me: I gave you a list of some of the things I wanted to talk about, but didn't mention humor. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about humor first.
RAW: That's a great theme.
Me: It seems to me that humor, humorists, comedians, and satirists aren't given enough credit for their intelligence in our culture. It reminds me of the popular discourse about, say, Beethoven, Picasso, or Orson Welles: "Oh sure they're artistic, but I don't consider them intellectuals like Einstein or Chomsky." Do you see this too? And if so, why?
RAW: Well, that's an interesting question. The first thing I think of is the Academy Award has never been given to a comedy as far as I know. If they did it was only once. Comedies never even get nominated! The idea is that to be serious you've got to be grim. And I think some of the greatest writing in - I'm talking about my own field - some of the greatest writing in the world is comic writing: Jonathan Swift, Voltaire, Rabelais, James Joyce, Ezra Pound...Ezra Pound is much funnier than he's given credit for...
I think the thing is that comedy arouses some of the same joyous feelings as orgone or pot. And these are the feelings our society most dreads. They're literally ashamed of them. A lot of comedians say when they're successful, "I killed them!" They mean they broke down our resistance to having a good time. There's a critical mass...I've known some professional comedians. The critical mass beyond which when the audience has reached that point of laughter, they'll laugh at almost anything. You can stop telling jokes and start reading the phone book and they'll laugh at that, too. It's a contagious thing, but that's because it's so repressed and you need a lot of pressure to unleash it. I think that's why people get drunk: it's to unleash their laughter. Unfortunately, it unleashes their violence, too. You get the laughing drunk followed by the fighting drunk. Followed by another homicide case. It's a Dionysian thing. And our society is very anti-Dionysian. What's the main association with Dionysus? Drugs and orgies. That's what our society is most terrified of. You can kill as many people as you want, but for god's sake don't look like you're having a good time! About anything.
That's why Hannibal Lecter is the greatest villain ever. It's like he has a magnetic field around him. Everyone either hates him or loves him. Most of them hate him. The ones that hate him the most - I think - are the ones that secretly love him the most. I once admitted I love him because he's so shameless. Without his bad habits, of course...That's the thing about Hannibal: he's fascinating because he's not only a villain but he's not a pathetic villain. The villains that people love all have a touch of pathos about them, like the Frankenstein monster, the Wolfman who doesn't want to turn into a werewolf but has to because he's under a curse. They've all got something sympathetic about them. Hannibal Lecter has nothing sympathetic about him whatsoever. There's no excuse for him. And he knows it and he doesn't give a damn. (Laughs) There's this polarity. He's incarnate evil. And enjoying himself thoroughly! He eats the best food, dines at the best restaurants, wears the best clothes, knows everything. He's a walking encyclopedia of music, art, science...How can you help hating him? I mean if you're a normal, well-adjusted citizen. And Anthony Hopkins plays him with so much charm that they can't help feeling, even while they're hating him they're strangely attracted, which scares the hell out of them.
Yes, that's RAW: give him a question and he can really take off, almost like a Coltrane solo: take a theme and just riff madly off it, linking ideas, following harmonies and ideas suggested by previous ones, trying to stay interesting by making the improvisation informationally dense, and landing on your feet by the end of the solo. He did this with me for four hours, with many breaks to sit on his balcony and look at the wine-dark Pacific, smoke.
And he was stoned the whole time, because his post-polio syndrome had really began to take its toll by then: an awful proportion of the nerves in his legs had died, he'd feel 20 degrees colder than what the thermometer read, he felt pain constantly, and he mostly used a wheelchair to get around.
The movie crew left after I'd been there for a couple of hours. Gradually, the interview turned into a discussion, and we riffed back and forth with each other about the sociology of science, avant garde classical music, how delighted he was that Lily Tomlin and George Carlin had been subscribers to his futurist newsletter Trajectories, the influence of J. W. Dunne, pragmatism in using intellectual models, ethnomethodology, Vico, film and Jungian archetypes, James Joyce, Freud, reading tabloids like they're cultural anthropology, and Pound. Among other things. I think he appreciated that I'd actually read Pound and had prepared some good questions for him. By the third hour he made me feel like his equal, and seemed to genuinely like listening to me riff on ideas about authors he said he hadn't read.
The only unpleasant moment during my whole time with him was my question, "How well do you think you've been understood?" He seemed to darken, then stared at me for what seemed like ten minutes but was probably only 20 seconds, and said, "Next question!" I almost panicked. Had I brought up the one sorest of sore spots? Had I ruined the entire afternoon? I had discussed aspects of this question with other Wilson scholars, and indeed, we wondered why this genius was not a bigger deal in the sociology of intellectuals.
I nervously laughed a bit, and asked my next prepared question, and he brightened immediately and it was as if I had never asked that Offending Question.
Since then, I have come to understand that the apparent lack of understanding of his work by the literati was indeed a very hurtful thing for him. I had asked the question in all innocence and earnestness, never intending to be snarky or provocative. I felt painfully naive later.
After four or so hours, I'd exhausted my questions and felt like I'd taken up too much of his time. It was agreed we'd go for two hours, and we'd been there at least four. But he still wanted to talk, so we chatted about stuff, my recorder off. I wish I had recorded everything, including the stuff he said on breaks on the balcony, because he was ALWAYS fascinating! He had an uncanny gift for combining elegant intellectual thought with human feelings, history and the hidden aspects of culture, all with a tinge of humor - from whacky to ironic - all at once.
Before we left, he asked us if we'd be so kind as to open a can of soup and heat it up for him, and my wife gladly did. As we were leaving I thanked him for making me feel so at ease in my nervousness, and he asked, plaintively, "What's there to be nervous about?"
He insisted on getting in his wheelchair and leading us to the door as we left, and he said something in what I took to be Hindi. I didn't understand any of it, and he explained it was a Buddhist saying about taking things as they come, as I recall. It all struck me as incredibly kind.
My wife and I went to a pub and discussed our day in the presence of the smartest, most interesting, and most alien-like sage we'd ever met or were likely to meet. I think I really had the orgone flowing at that point, and it lasted for hours.
16 comments:
- Royal Academy of Reality 1132 said...
Great stuff. I love the comparision of Bob's riff's with Coltrane's solos. I'll have to ponder that. It also with how both Bob and Coltrane evolved over their careers. You really presented a great picture of hanging out with Bob.
P.S. A possible theme for a future piece: I think you mentioned somewhere an interest in Led Zeppelin. In Rolling Stone Dave Grohl suggested Zeppelin laid the groundwork for the popularity of Tolkien. Interestingly, the Hebrew letter cheth when spelled out adds to 418. The Hebrew letter teth adds to 419. Tolkien's initials J. R. R. T. also add to 419. I once say a t-shirt that said "4:19 - Got a minute?"
P.P.S. What do you think of E-Prime these days?
- January 20, 2012 at 7:52 AM
- michael said...
Without being totally aware of it, I've found that I think of E-rime as being an underrated restrictive device, sorta like what the oulipeans do, but with a much deeper epistemo/ontological theory behind it. I try to keep the "spirit" of it, if not the letter; other times I'll write a passage and then say, "What if I make this entire paragraph conform to E-Prime? On another level, the use of the "to be" copulae are used consciously, w/the knowledge that writing can act like a spell, and it's sorta like owning a gun. Other times I find I'm constantly seeing new implications of, not only E-Prime, but other word-magic that works subconsciously. What a can of worms...worms that turn into spitting cobras or brightly colored candies.
Thanks for the analogous chain of kabbalah/Tolkein/Zep, but now it's in the open!
re: the Coltrane analogy: it seems that cannabis-mind coupled with a profoundly dense encyclopedic mind and a finely seasoned sense of humor informs these rollicking chains of jazzy free-associations on a theme...
- January 20, 2012 at 1:15 PM
- Royal Academy of Reality 1132 said...
I had not heard of the oulipeans before. Your comments about writing acting as a spell connects with the Tolkien/Zeppelin thread and "Let the music be your master. Do you heed the master's call?"
This leads back to 'Traning -
I. Years with Miles
II. Monk apprenticeship
III. Giant Steps/Kind of Blue
IV. The Quartet
V. Further
& Bobbing for the Golden Apple -
I. Years of reading Joyce, Pound, Korzybski, books for Playboy.
II. Discovering Crowley, Illuminatus
III. Tragedy, Schoedinger's Cat, etc.
IV. Ireland, Swift, Prometheus Rising, etc.
V. E-Prime, Damned Old Crank, etc.
- January 20, 2012 at 2:04 PM
- Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson) said...
Not be be pedantic, but when did your interview with RAW take place?
I like Eric's comparison of Coltrane with RAW, and your comparison of a Coltrane solo with a RAW answer. I once say Kim Stanley Robinson give an excellent talk at a science fiction convention, and somebody asked him if he records his talks to be transcribed later. Robinson said no, it's like jazz, it loses something if it's not spontaneously in the moment. But I'm sure glad you recorded your interview!
I love the bits of Tolkien in Led Zep's lyrics.
- January 21, 2012 at 8:37 AM
- Royal Academy of Reality 1132 said...
I also like listening to the Who when reading The Two Towers. John's bass playing sounds like an ent whistle.
Of course, I listen to Elvis when reading The Return of the King.
- January 21, 2012 at 9:28 AM
- michael said...
@ Tom: 2/18/03
@ Tom and Eric: The Tolkein is, as I understand it, almost completely Robert Plant's dealio. Lately he's been touring with folkie/bluegrassy Allison Krause, and says that people don't recognize him much anymore. "I'm just an old hippie," he said in a recent interview.
- January 21, 2012 at 1:53 PM
- Sue Howard said...
Amazing read - thanks for sharing it. I'd love to hear more, and if you ever get around to putting it in a book, say - I'd buy it in a nanosecond.
- January 21, 2012 at 5:17 PM
- FLY AGARIC 23 said...
"Poets should never be too long out of touch with musicians"--Ezra Pound, Literary Essays, pg. 437.
I met both Rob Plant and Tim Tolkien(J.R.R's great nephew) on different occasions(2009/2001) in Stourbridge (a small town in the West Midlands where I was born) after Erik's book--which I still have not read--and this thread here, I come to associate the link between 'Plant and Tolkien' in my Universe, as having a geographical aspect that gives context to include the broader themes of Led Zepp and the works of J.R.R
Tim Tolkien created a monument to actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke, just 2 miles down the road from Stourbridge,
"The memorial takes the form of a giant filmstrip, the illuminated cut metal panels illustrating scenes from some of Sir Cedric's best-known roles, which include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Shape of Things to Come, and The Ghost of Frankenstein. It was unveiled in November.
"And yet I see beyond that point,
For there is counterpoint and counterpoint
And counterpoint, and dimensions dimension
It is music like music--Sun Ra.
- January 21, 2012 at 8:50 PM
- michael said...
@Sue: How kind!
@Fly: I think I know what you mean about art and artists and private associations with geography or topography. I grew up in LA and read very many books set in LA, not to mention seeing films in which I recognize the location shots. For a time I lived in San Pedro, where Bukowski was writing, and met him in a bookstore. I was born in Pasadena, and know the stretch where Parsons blew up his mansion. When I drove through parts of Hollywood, it felt Raymond Chandler-y, although some areas were James Ellroy. Michael Connelly's hero Bosch lived in a boat in the marina not far from where I rode my bike. On and on...Thanks for chiming in!
- January 21, 2012 at 10:18 PM
- FLY AGARIC 23 said...
I envy American's for their rich literary geography and tradition, I have yet to find a novel set in Stourbridge or many modern literary landmarks from around the area where I was born. Indeed the thrill of Ellroy, Connelley and other crime masters seem to reflect the atmosphere of large cities, large governments, and thrive in the American 'Urban' wilderness.
p.s I thought Bosch lived in the hills and Terry McCaleb on a boat in the marina?
- January 22, 2012 at 5:10 AM
- SatoriGuy said...
Great post Michael. I always enjoy reading about what RAW was like as a person and how he interacted with his admirers. It seems like he appreciated his readers and was genuinely kind to people in general.
All to often it seems that successful public intellectuals and writers tend to develop a certain misanthropy over time. Possibly, as a byproduct of the lonely and financially tumultuous process of becoming a writer. However, it's probably a testament to RAW's philosophy and self-work that he came like a kindly buddhist sage in the face of financial hardship and the struggles of aging.
Also, I've wondered as well why RAW has been misunderstood and dismissed in mainstream literary circles. I find myself compelled to tell anyone and everyone who will listen about RAW ideas and books. I'm sure I come off as an obsessed fanboy to my friends but goddamnit the world would be a better place if everyone read RAW! lol
- January 22, 2012 at 7:40 AM
- michael said...
@Fly: you're right. It's been awhile. McCaleb who had the heart problem, FBI dude, lived at Cabrillo Marina, which was near where I lived and rode my bike. Bosch lived in a house on stilts off Woodrow Wilson in the Hollywood HIlls, which is very near where Mama Cass had wild parties where all kinds of people wandered in, had sex, did drugs...including Charlie Manson. I think I've read too much: the world of Ed Sanders, Roman Polanski, and certain novels, plus my actual experiences being in those places can, with time, get mixed up and sort of dreamy...I've always liked the terms "urban wilderness" and "asphalt jungle" and "concrete and glass corridors," etc, re: the labyrinthine metropolis.
I was talking to a friend not long ago about Pynchon's Inherent Vice, and there's a scene where he's driving the 405 south past LAX, and the jets are landing and taking off, flying low near the freeway, and the sky looks a certain way, and I'd driven that very stretch many times. It is like that, aye.
- January 22, 2012 at 2:02 PM
- michael said...
@Satori Guy: I wonder also about writers and their temperaments, and I used to wonder if writers were born that way, but then thought that was too deterministic, and there plenty of good writers who do not seem jaded or misanthropic. Then I thought it's the life of writing that makes a lot of 'em uncomfortable in their own skin and/or with the world. Then I realized it's probably a combination of "all the above" plus the writer's developed character and their attempts to take responsibility for their choices as humans, not only as writers.
RAW said there was a proverb from the Middle Kingdom that went something like "One should be a Confucian in good times, a Buddhist in bad times, and a Taoist in old age."
I think I'll aim for that. Right now: Buddhism for me...
I too have felt baldly fanboyish when waxing the merits of reading RAW. The cultivation of uncertainty seems a hard sell and may only resonate with a small percentage of the reading population; part of he reason RAW may not have been "understood" was this enigmatic pragmatic philosophical stance? We're in a world in which, to quote the Colbert character, "Pick a side! We're at war!" seems too true...I've been thinking a lot about Levi-Strauss's anthropology and his "savage mind" that, basically, has a lot to do with counting to three and that's it. Often everything is either/or. And how presumptuous so many citizens in what's commonly called the "First World," with their amazing gadgets and comforts, and info-dense lives...and they still seem like Levi-Strauss's "savages" in their thinking.
I mean: look the political Mind behind "Left and Right: a Non-Euclidean Perspective," gathered in RAW's Email To The Universe, p.127. Compare that Mind to the mind of the current electoral assumptions and concomitant circuses.
This is just one example, I think, of RAW as avant.
Thanks for the good vibes, man!
- January 22, 2012 at 2:20 PM
Reading this interview some months ago was the main prod for me to dive into RAW. I'm very grateful.
On a slightly different note, do you have any personal recommendations of texts that discuss magic?
- January 18, 2013 at 3:56 PM
- michael said...
I'm very pleased to have been some sort of catalyst. Other people have done the same for me.
I'm sure you're aware of the wealth of other interviews with RAW collected over at rawilsonfans.com
re: magick texts (I assume this is what you meant; the "k"added generally signifies a difference between what, say, Crowley was an Adept as and what David Copperfield is an Adept at): the first thing I thought of was: have you seen Monsters and Magical Sticks: There's No Such Thing As Hypnosis, by S. Heller?
My intuition says: try it. If you're all over this, have you dove right into 777? Have you looked at the books of Lon Milo Duquette?
- January 18, 2013 at 10:51 PM
I wasn't but I'll check those interviews out right now.
I've read some Crowley but most of my familiarity with him has been via RAW. I'll try 777 next.
I've gone through Carroll's Liber Null and Hine's Condensed Chaos, but I suppose I'm just looking for greater breadth/more insights than the chaos approach as presented by them.
Ahh glad you recommended the Heller/RAW book, I just picked up Uncommon Therapy by Jay Haley!
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"Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools."
King James Version (KJV)
6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. 7Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. 8Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. 9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 10Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. 11Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 12For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
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For many years, local business owners and individuals have come together to celebrate what is really great about Plover and the surrounding areas. This one day, 100% sponsored event has gone through a number of name changes such as Downtown Plover Days, Golden Sands Festival, and Freedom Fest. However, we feel we have finally settled on a name that really captures what the event is all about; bringing businesses and individuals together to Celebrate Plover.
For an entire year, a small committee works with local business owners and individuals to raise funds for this annual event that is enjoyed by thousands of people. The day's events include youth activities, live music, food and beverage, market place, outdoor business expo, volleyball tournament, and is capped off with one of the best fireworks displays in central Wisconsin. The event is 100% supported by volunteers, donations, and sponsors. All proceeds are put back into the event or donated directly to public use areas of Plover.
One of the best parts of Celebrate Plover is the activities we offer for the youth in our community. Due to our amazing sponsors, all of these activities are offered FREE of charge! In 2017, all youth activities are sponsored by McCain Foods located in Plover, WI. With their generous sponsorship, we are happy to offer the following activities: Rocket Bouncer, Tiger Bouncer, Butterbean Boxing, Velcro Wall, Screamer Slide, Boulder Dash and Boot Camp Obstacle Course. Additionally, TC Hatter is returning this year with his juggling and magic show!
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Colorado National Monument Association publishes an annual calendar featuring a variety of images taken in the monument. Twelve (12) full-pagephotographs are required, as well as approximately 30 smaller grid images.
For the 2010 calendar, we would like to feature a variety of Monument topics.
Wildlife: This can include our larger mammals such as big horn sheep or bobcats, and smaller ones such as rock squirrels. Pictures of birds and lizards are popular; butterflies always add color.
Plants: Spring flowers and blooming shrubs are excellent; but don't forget that old twisted juniper. Fall colors are also important.
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The KNX UK networking meetings are now well-established as a forum for open discussion about how we can create better, smarter systems for end users. They give us space to explore new ideas away from the pressure of sales targets and project deadlines.
So where more fitting for the November meeting than the National Space Centre at Leicester. It is the UK's largest attraction dedicated to space exploration and space science. Before the meeting started, our members had a guided tour of the centre and it has to be said that it was hard to tell the difference between our party and the school groups when it came to awe and excitement.
Looking at the relatively low-tech exhibits like one of the only three Soyuz spacecraft in the west makes you wonder at the bravery of early astronauts, especially when you consider that we probably have more computing power behind us when we design a smart building.
The meeting heard about BIM (Building Information Modelling) from Ian Ellis from Siemens, who spoke openly about how his firm is preparing. BIM is the process that sees construction industry professionals collaborate on a range of data that comes together in a federated digital project model that is being rolled out in stages. The next stage, BIM Level 3 - with a notional 2025 target - will enable the interconnected digital design of different elements in a built environment and will extend BIM into the operation of assets over their lifetime. It will support the accelerated delivery of smart cities, services and grids and is expected to save owners of built assets billions of pounds a year in unnecessary costs. It needs to be on your radar.
Overall, we were reassured that BIM compliance will be no issue for integrators, with manufacturers already offering off-the-shelf objects or file groups in ifc format (ie BIM compatible) for their products that can be inserted into a BIM model. The over-riding sentiment at the KNX UK meeting was that it's about time everyone else woke up to the benefits of collaboration! It works, and it delivers results. .
Bernhard Huessy from Nomos Systems had travelled from Switzerland to meet leading KNX users in the UK and find out more about the work we are doing. He shared his insights into the proliferation of data in the modern world, how we can best use it. Nomos has developed a software engine capable of controlling connected devices regardless of their communication protocols, standards or propriety software engine by elevating software and hardware to a single communication layer, and Bernhard is a natural fan of KNX.
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Subject: Re: [ecasound] Toruble with audio recording
From: Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey_AT_boosthardware.com)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 20:14:55 EEST
u.jochum_AT_arcor.de wrote:
> This sounds very interesting! But to check those control settings I
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NY Lawsuit withdrawn (by INOC) and NJ Lawsuit dismissed
Indian National Overseas CongressWithdraws $100 Million Libel Law Suit filed against Kataria et al, aimed at exposing truth about Sonia Gandhi.
Finallythe truth has prevailed.
In abizarre turn of events, Karasik& Associates, attorneys forIndian National Overseas Congress, asubsidiary of Indian National Congress,headed by Sonia Gandhi, in INOC v. Kataria, et al. served a Notice of Discontinuance in theabove-named action to Justice Emly Jane Goodman of the Supreme Court of NewYork on September 29, 2008. TheNotice of Discontinuane tantamounts to an unconditional surrender by theCongress Party and could be construed as a victory of Dharmicforces. In actuality, thehearing in this case, originally, was scheduled to be held October 2, 2008.
Theprominent Law Firm of Kornstein,Veisz, Wexler & Pollardrepresented Narain Kataria, ArishSahani and Indo Caribbean Council. The stipulation between the attorneys of thetwo parties was agreed to, signedand stamped in the Court on October 2,2008. Prior to this last month a similar case filed by INOC in New JerseyCourt against Sunanda Thali, Satyanarayana Dosapati,Naresh Sharma, and Mahatma GandhiInternational Foundation, Inc., was summarily dismissed by the Judge who foundthat the Plaintiff had no locus standi in filing such a frivolous case.
It is a matterof great happiness for all NRIs,particularly Hindus, that thefamous adage from Vedic literature Satya Mev Jayate (Truth shall alwaysprevail, once again, prevailed in New York and New Jersey Courts, on the Birthday of Mahatma Gandhi!
In thisconnection, it should be noted thatthe INOC had filed these two lawsuits on the alleged grounds that Kataria, Sahani et al had defamed President of IndianNational Congress, Sonia Gandhi, by bringing out a full page advertisements inThe New York Times, dated October 6, 2007. Some extracts from that advertisementare as follows:
"UN'sdeclaration of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday on October 2nd as theInternational Non-Violence Day is commendable. However, instead of a true Gandhian delivering his messageof peace and non-violence, SoniaGandhi who is not a representative of Gandhian values is chosen.
"Sonia MainoGandhi is NOT related to Mahatma Gandhi. She is attempting tomisappropriate his name for political mileage and international legitimacy.
"Sonia isknown to be vindictive and undemocratic. Her party uses various mechanisms, such as tax raids,direct threats to subjugate opposition. ("Know your Sonia" by Dr. SubramanianSwamy, visiting Harvard Professor)
"Due to herparty's pro-terrorist policies, Indiahas second highest number of terrorism victims after Iraq. Her Government is requesting clemency to Afzal Guru, the mastermind of attack on IndianParliament. In pursuit of Muslim vote bank,she has created soft borders and turned a blind eye towards Islamicfundamentalism.
"Her husbandRajiv Gandhi is alleged to have received payments from KGB. According toSchweizer, Illustrierte, Rajiv has a secret Swiss Bank account of 2 billiondollars. Her son Rahul projected as next Prime Minister of India, was detained by FBI with largeunaccounted cash at Boston Airport in 2001. (Swiss magazine Schweizer, Illustrierte 11/1991,Indo Asian News Service).
"Her party wasinvolved in the UN Oil for Food Scam that helped Saddam Hussain. She wasinvolved in numerous scams, scandalsand controversies. Before entering India, she was an au-pair with modestmeans. Since then, she and herfamily members have amassed millions through questionable means. (KnowYour Sonia by IndiaFirst Foundation)
The purpose ofthese cases, it is believed, was to silence the voice of the critics of SoniaGandhi through her surrogates,stifle the voice of freedom, makedefendants financially bankrupt,frighten them into submission, andsuppress the truth.
It is alsoworthwhile to mention here that these two cases had generated an inquisitiveinterest in media, a sense of unityand brotherhood among Indian Diaspora,particularly Hindus and Sikhs, whohad organized fund raisers and established Hindu Support Fund to defray attorneys' fees and other related expenses to be incurred in these cases.
It is a matterof great satisfaction and joy that the Right of Free Speech guaranteed underthe First Amendment of American Constitution has been upheld by the judges andthe sinister designs of enemies of freedom of speech,actuated by the malicious desire to muzzle the voice of free speech, truth,and vilify the defendants, have been nipped in the bud.
For further information,please visit: www.HinduSupportFund.com.
Narain Kataria
IndianAmerican Intellectuals Forum
41-67 Judge Street (5P)
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Learn Kinyarwanda
If you want to get to know a country's culture learn its language. I'm sure you heard that or similar sentences many times and no wonder, because it's true! There are so many things hidden in the language – history, social customs, relations between different groups, local humour and much more.
Learning a language is a fascinating journey, especially if the language is not similar to your mother tongue or uses a different alphabet. Today, we would like to encourage you to learn a few phrases in Kinyarwanda. A language spoken in Rwanda. Here is a taste of the language which might come handy when travelling to Rwanda. We have also included a few helpful links, if you would like to learn and expand your knowledge on the language.
Gira Amahirwe! (Good luck!)
For the start, watch this video and learn pronunciation of basic phrases in Kinyarwanda.
Below are basic phrases that you may find helpful in the beginning:
Good morning: MwahRahMootZAY (Mwaramutse)
Good afternoon: MweeReeWay (Mwiriwe)
How are you? AhMahKooRoo? (Amakuru)
I'm fine: MAYzay NAYzah (Meze neza)
Thank you: MooRahKohZay (Murakoze)
Yes: YAYgo (Yego)
No: Oya (Oya)


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Drawing with Edges
Drawing with Edges
We will start with some warm up exercises.
1. Using the cheek of the pencil, (that is holding the pencil so the side of the medium is against the paper) we will draw swayback shapes back and forth.
2. Using the cheek of the pencil draw gray bars that are dark at one end and light at the other.
3. Switching to the tip of the pencil drawing bubbles.
4. Using the tip of the pencil draw cross hatching.
Exercise: We will draw some cubes and box shapes with different values of grey and a variety of edges some edges are to be sharp and some to be soft and fuzzy. Use the cheek of the pencil for the soft edge, use a blending stub or finger to rub the edge fuzzy. Use the tip of the pencil for sharp edge.
If time allows: Students are to draw a robot with different edges some soft and some sharp. The robot is to be a member of their family characterized as a robot doing a favorite activity. Give the robot metal look with shading, seams, bolts, lights, dials, antenna, one or two pieces of clothing. Draw some part of the environment like dad robot at his desk or sister robot at computer or brother robot at soccer.
Students will draw something from their backpack or from pocket. Focus on the edges; some and sharp some soft.
|Example of warm ups.
|Example of Drawing What I Had On Hand.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey on Monday condemned what it said were "disproportionate" Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, insisting that a recent reconciliation pact doesn't preclude it from speaking out against the country's actions.
Israel responded hours later, calling Turkey's condemnation "baseless" and vowing to defend its civilians.
The Israeli military carried out a series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip late Sunday, targeting Hamas positions in response to a Palestinian rocket attack that hit an Israeli border town.
"The fact that our ties with Israel have normalized does not mean that we will remain silent in the face of such attacks that target the Palestinian people," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"On the contrary, we will continue to (defend) the Palestinian cause," it said, calling Israel's actions "against international laws and especially against consciences."
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon responded: "The normalization of our relations with Turkey does not mean that we will remain silent in the face of its baseless condemnations."
"Israel will continue to defend its civilians from all rocket fire on our territory, in accordance with international law and our conscience. Turkey should think twice before criticizing the military actions of others," he said.
Turkey and Israel reached an agreement last month to end a six-year rift caused by an Israeli naval raid on a Turkish aid ship trying to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza. Ten Turkish activists were killed in the raid.
Turkey's parliament last week approved the reconciliation agreement under which Israel will pay $20 million in compensation to the victims within 25 days. Under the agreement, individual Israeli nationals also wouldn't be held criminally or financially liable for the incident.
Earlier, police detained five people who tried to break into the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul to protest the Gaza airstrikes.
State-run Anadolu Agency said the five entered a business center housing the consulate early Monday and were detained by police who were called to the scene.
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Among President Barack Obama's executive actions on gun control Wednesday was a pledge to address "unnecessary legal barriers" in health care privacy laws that he said may be preventing states from reporting people with mental illnesses to a federal background check database.
Under federal law, people with significant mental illnesses can't own guns, according to attorney Lindsay Nichols.
"Those include individuals who've been committed to a mental hospital. It also includes individuals who've been determined by a court to be a danger to themselves or others," said public interest lawyer Lindsay Nichols.
But, she said, this database is incomplete. The Government Accountability Office reported in July that the database has 1.2 million records in it, well short of the approximately 3 million it should contain.
That, Nichols said, is because many states choose not to share some or all of their records with the federal government. Some states cite the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act—HIPAA—or other privacy laws for their reasoning.
But Nichols said that's an excuse. States that don't share records are led by politicians who oppose gun control.
California shares more mental health records with the federal government than any other state, accounting for about a quarter of the database. The state also has its own laws about who should be excluded from owning a gun due to mental illness.
"Our laws are more restrictive in California," said Charles Dempsey, a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department's mental evaluation unit.
His officers respond to calls about mental health crises. In many cases, the person in question is put on a 72-hour involuntary mental health hold.
"The city averages approximately 600 mental health holds a month," Dempsey said. "Every time there's a mental health hold and the person's accepted by the hospital, that paperwork is [sent] to the Department of Justice."
And that's enough to be restricted from buying a gun in California. The state sends those names to the federal database.
President Obama is hoping more states will follow California's model. On Wednesday, he suggested giving states additional financial incentives to share the information.


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History &
Our Lady of Loretto Parish
Father Patrick Ronayne arrived to establish the parish of Our Lady of Loretto on July 29, 1951. He was appointed by Cardinal Stritch who offered him the opportunity to establish a new parish, in a new subdivision not yet incorporated. Fr. Pat (as he was affectionately called) submitted three names to the chancery office and the first one was selected. His first choice being "Our Lady of Loretto." It is the name by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is patroness of aviators and homes. The parish is close to Chicago Midway airport. Also the House of
Loretto which is alleged to be the home of the Holy Family in Nazareth before it was transported by Angels to Italy, seemed appropriate for a community of homes called Hometown.
The first Mass was celebrated in the Hometown Fire House on September 30, 1951. During the winter the fire trucks were backed out of the fire house and kept running to keep the engines warm, should there be a fire call.
The first Christmas mass was celebrated in a storefront of the new shopping center in 1951. The rectory was used for daily masses and the first baptisms took place in the chapel at St. Gerald's. On Good Friday 1952, the first services to be held in the still uncompleted Quonset church were said. There were no tiles on the floor and no pews; but the
Stations of the Cross were said. The only approach to the church was over muddy ground by way of wooden pallets. Ground breaking for the new school began in April of 1953 and was opened in January 1954 with 6 classrooms and an all-purpose room. In 1954, Confirmation was held for the first time in the parish with Cardinal Stritch as celebrant.
In November 3, 1968, Fr. Heaney laid the cornerstone of the new church complex and on May 30, 1969, the new Our Lady of Loretto was formally dedicated by John Cardinal Cody, archbishop of Chicago.


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Forum Post: Catfishing in the Kalamazoo
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Welcome to the wonderful World of spilled bitumin.
Who is Chris Wahmhoff? If you follow the environmental movement, you may already have some idea of who Chris Wahmhoff is. At this time he might be best known as "the guy that rode his skateboard into that Enbridge pipeline in Michigan." Around Michigan, he's known for a lot of other things as well, his role in Occupy Kalamazoo, his role in an important protest/action against fracking that took place during an MDNR's land auction a year ago, his devotion to helping others, his energy and honesty, and of course, his consistency in fighting for economic justice, protesting big banks, helping MI families fight eviction and doing hundreds of other things to educate people, raise awareness and improve the lives of others. I have had the personal good fortune of knowing Chris through his work in the Michigan environmental movement and various other causes that he has thrown his heart and soul into. I also was fortunate enough to be able to interview him immediately following his action against Enbridge, to speak with his girlfriend Lisa Lalegio and to talk with other members of MICATS (Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands) in order to be able to write this piece and those that will accompany it. If you want to understand why Chris Wahmhoff chose to put his life on the line by skateboarding into that pipe, it's important that you first understand who he is and what he represents.
In July of 2010 the lives of thousands of people who live, work and play in the Marshall, Michigan area were changed forever. As more than a million gallons of tar sands oil, technically known as dilbit or diluted bitumen, poured into the once thriving waterways of the Kalamazoo River, these Michigan residents became the first humans ever, to experience the devastating consequences of a tar sands oil spill of this size and nature. For those who are not aware, dilbit (the technical name for tar sands oil) is not the same type of oil that humans have been spilling and leaking into other areas of the country, like the Gulf of Mexico and along the East coast. It is a thick, dirty oil which cannot flow readily through a traditional pipeline. The toxic chemicals used to dilute the "oil" in order to make it liquid enough to move through the Enbridge pipeline were the first thing released into the air, when the spill first occurred along the Kalamazoo River. Nearby residents almost immediately began to experience a wide range of severe medical conditions, from difficulty breathing to red, angry rashes, many had seizures for the first time in their lives and in some cases, permanent illness and even death occurred. 3 years later, many local residents continue to experience diverse medical symptoms, ranging from mild to severe, especially in areas directly impacted by the spill.
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/14/why-i-spent-my-35th-birthday-in-an-enbridge-pipeline-exclusive-interview-with-chris-wahmhoff-part-1/#ixzz2Z3tktsLJ
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Breaking News
Kashmir Times. Dated: 10/11/2018 3:08:18 PM
New Delhi, Oct 10(Agencies): Actor Tanushree Dutta`s lawyer on Wednesday submitted a 40-page document to the Mumbai police and state women`s commission to support her recent complaint lodged at Oshiwara Police Station.This compilation of documents contains Dutta`s earlier complaint to police lodged in 2008 and subsequent correspondence to other film bodies including Cine And TV Artistes` Association (CINTAA) and others.Back in 2008, Tanushree`s father Tapan Kumar Dutta had filed an FIR when she allegedly underwent the ordeal and her car was attacked while exiting the sets of `Horn Ok Pleasss`.The 40-page compilation includes details of the 2008 complaint which talks about the dance sequence in the film which Tanushree was not happy with. It also noted that choreographer Ganesh Acharya was not ready to change the steps involved, which later resulted in the cancellation of the shoot.After the shoot got cancelled, media persons rushed towards Tanushree for her reaction when she was leaving with her father and her secretary.Dutta`s father, in his 2008 complaint to police, explained how media persons vandalised their car. Subsequently, an FIR was registered against two video journalists and 15-20 other unnamed reporters and cameraman under relevant sections of creating a ruckus, manhandling and threatening.However, this complaint didn`t mention any harassment by Nana Patekar, Ganesh Acharya or others involved in the case.Tanushree has alleged that Patekar had misbehaved with her on the sets of `Horn Ok Pleasss` in 2008 while shooting for a special dance number for the movie.As a retort, Patekar slapped Dutta with a legal notice and demanded a written apology from her.
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