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Yone Noguchi: Accomplishments & Roles
Review Article
by Hiroaki Sato*
I always notice that when the Japanese expand and even impose ideas on others, it is the time when they have none of them.
Through the Torii, Yone Noguchi
In the past 100 years there have been two Japanese poets who achieved some distinction by writing poems in English: Noguchi Yonejirō or Yone Noguchi (1874-1947) and Nishiwaki Junzaburō (1894-1982). Their books were taken up for review in the countries where they published them, the United States and Britain. Further, in the case of Nishiwaki, Ezra Pound, upon reading his poem, "January in Kyoto," in 1956, famously wrote, "Junzaburo has a more vital english [sic] than any I have seen for some time,"[1] and followed this pronouncement with a suggestion that Nishiwaki be nominated for the Nobel Prize (as he duly was). As a result, Japanese writers have tended to make extravagant claims for Noguchi and Nishiwaki.
The recent publication, by Associated University Presses, of Selected English Writings of Yone Noguchi, Vol. 1, Poetry, in 1990, and Vol. 2, Prose, in 1992,[2] both edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani, a professor of English at Kent State University, in Ohio, gives us an opportunity to appraise the works of a man who at one time is said to have been counted among "the three poetic saints of the Orient," the other two being Nâidu and Tagore.[3]
The two volumes also allow us to consider the kind of "advertiser of Japanism" (Nihon-shugi no sendensha)[4] that Noguchi was and, although Hakutani virtually ignores this aspect, why Noguchi ended up as "one of the most bitter and shrill exponents of Japanese conquest."[5] (Nishiwaki, in contrast, became one of a handful of Japanese writers who chose to keep quiet during the war years.)
Reading Noguchi's first two books, Seen & Unseen or, Monologues of a Homeless Snail (1897),[6] and The Voice of the Valley (1897), both published in San Francisco, one thinks not so much of Willa Cather's comment in her review of them―"he has more true inspiration, more melody from within than many a great man."[7] Rather, one recalls Frank Norris' description, in his novel The Octopus, of "a Japanese youth"
who wore spectacles and a grey flannel shirt and who, at intervals, delivered himself of the most astonishing poems, vague, unrhymed, unmetrical lucubrations, incoherent, bizarre. . . . The Japanese youth, in the silk robes of the Samurai two-sworded nobles, read from his own works―"The flat-bordered earth, nailed down at night, rusting under the darkness," "The brave, upright rains that came down like errands from iron-bodied yore-time."[8]
The description occurs where Norris lines up a gallery of "fakirs" whom a Mrs. Cedarquist, "a fashionable woman, the president or chairman of a score of clubs," continually brings to her society―"now a Russian Countess, with dirty finger nails . . . now an Aesthete who possessed a wonderful collection of topaz gems . . . now a widow of some Mohammedan of Bengal or Rajputana, who had a blue spot in the middle of her forehead . . . now a decayed musician who had been ejected from a young ladies' musical conservatory of Europe," and so forth.[9]
But how do we know this Japanese youth is Yone Noguchi? Because the lines quoted are from Seen & Unseen. "The Invisible Night" begins:
The flat-boarded[10] earth, nailed down at night, rusting under the darkness:
The Universe grows smaller, palpitating against its destiny:
My chilly soul―center of the world―gives seat to audible tears-the songs of the cricket. . . .
and "The Brave Upright Rains" begins:
The brave upright rains come right down like errands from iron-bodied yoretime,[11] never looking back; out of the ever tranquil, ocean-breasted, far high heaven―yet as high but as the gum tree at my cabin window.
Without hesitation, they kill themselves in an instant on the earth, lifting their single-noted chants―O tragedy! Chants? Nay, the clapping sound of earth-lips. . . .
Norris probably knew Noguchi in person as well. He was associated with Les Jeunes, a group of literary bohemians (or aesthetes) in San Francisco which was led by Gelett Burgess (1866-1951), and Burgess not only printed some of Noguchi's poems in The Lark, the magazine he edited and published, but also published Seen & Unseen with his own introduction. Burgess was a humorist who invented "goops" for his magazine―"characters in pictures and text . . . boneless, quasi-human figures divided . . . into two types: sulphites, independent thinkers, and bromides, platitudinous bores."[12] Indeed, Burgess had, for the outlet for his group's writings and drawings, "no more serious intention than to be gay"[13] and shut it down after two years of existence, in 1897, though Norris had high hopes for the group itself.[14]
This bit of background is needed to see what is most likely to have lain behind the publication of the first book of poems written in English by a relatively new user of the language. Even though Noguchi is said to have begun studying English at age eight or nine, it must be assumed that his English was not far advanced when he arrived in San Francisco, in December 1893, at age 19, despite his confidence. As he recalled 20 years later, on the first day of his arrival in that city, "Nobody seemed to understand my English, in the ability of which I trusted."[15] And his English education in the few years that followed does not seem to have been of the kind that would enable a foreigner to master the language quickly.
Noguchi's first (and probably main) associates were Japanese. When he associated with Americans, it was principally as a "schoolboy" (a house boy) at private homes or as a dishwasher at hotels. Though he was taken in by the poet Joaquin Miller (1841?-1913) as a handyman, in 1895, and lived with him for three years, Miller evidently was an anti-intellectual. He did not keep any books except his own, and his own books were "nailed high up near the ceiling," perhaps "for decoration."[16] Furthermore, he told Noguchi that "he had no lesson or teaching to give [him], or if he had any, it was about the full value of silence."[17] Clearly, residency with Miller was not conducive to swift, careful acquisition of the English language, either.
This is not to deny that Noguchi wanted to write poems, even if his various later recollections on this score, like most such recollections, cannot be entirely relied upon. In his introduction to Seen & Unseen, Burgess reports finding Noguchi to be "a recluse and a dreamer . . . watching . . . the writers of this new world, to see if the old words can live in the Western civilization; and if the sheeted memories of the Past may be re-embodied in our English tongue." But his English needed help. Burgess puts it kindly:
In the editing of these poems, I have collaborated with Mr. Porter Garnett,[18] whose sympathetic assistance has lightened a responsibility, that only our regard for Yone Noguchi might authorize; and if our hints and explanations of idiom and diction have aided him and if our hands, laid reverently upon his writings, have in some places cleared a few ambiguous constructions, how generously has he repaid the debt![19]
And what was it that Noguchi gave in return? Exoticism. In truth, much of Burgess' introduction is a gentle―or shall we say, humorous―parody of the novel ideas and expressions that Noguchi struggled to bring forth through "an unfamiliar tongue."[20]
. . . So much for the subjective aspect of his visions of Nature. . . . But of those dreams within the Dream, of the "Being"-fruit of his "Nothing" orchard, of his rivulet's unknown chatter,―how many shall understand? For his is the voice of the Occident[21] speaking from the iron-bodied yore-time, where there is place without Place, and though he would give the Word to the word, not less, not more than the Word itself,―these, to many heedless ears, shall be but the unintelligible frogs' rainsongs,―the tear-cries of the crickets on the lean, gray-haired hill. And with his own whimsical despair, we may say, "O Homeless Snail, for my sake, put forth thy honorable horns!"[22]
Here, it is worth recalling that Noguchi grew up in an environment pervaded by Buddhism. His family continued the ancestral tradition of sending at least one son out to be a Buddhist monk, with one of his older brothers having taken tonsure very young. He himself for a while studied at a school sponsored by the Jōdo Shinshū sect. After leaving his home town and arriving in Tokyo, he stayed in a school dormitory of the Zōjō temple. Equally important, one of his maternal uncles was a famous Buddhist scholar monk, Shaku Taishun.[23] In fact, a Buddhist scholar might find mere English renditions of routine Buddhist phrases and expressions where Gelett Burgess and his friend thought Noguchi had "lifted the veil of convention and discovered fresh beauties and unexpected charms in our speech"[24]―where, for that matter, Willa Cather found "true inspiration."[25] In the introduction to Seen & Unseen at any rate, one almost sees the amused face of a genial literary con.
In his second book The Voice of the Valley, Noguchi's language is a little less unwieldy. Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909),[26] in his introduction, gamely characterizes it as "the most literal English that ever was uttered."[27] Here are lines from "Song of Day in Yosemite Valley":
The Shout of Hell wedded to the Silence of Heaven completes the Valley concert, forms the true symphony―
The Female-light kissing the breast of the Male-shadow chants the sacred Union!
I, a muse from the Orient, where is revealed the light of dawn,
Hearken to the welcome strains of genii from the heart of the great Sierras―
I repose under the forest-boughs that invoke the Deity's hymn from the Nothing-air.[28]
And lines from "I Hail Myself as I Do Homer":
O Poet, begin thy flight by singing of the hidden soul in vaporous harmony;
Startle thy lazy noon drowsing in the full-flowing tide of the sunbeams nailing thy chants in Eternity!
The melody breathing peace in the name of Spring, calms tear to smile, envy to rest.
Ah thou, world of this day, sigh not of the poets who have deserted thee―aye, I hail myself as I do Homer!
Of course, asked to write an introduction, most of us strain to praise. Yet, one wonders why Stoddard, an accomplished poet and writer, went as far as calling Noguchi "a word-builder of startling originality and power."[29]
With his third book, From the Eastern Sea, published in London and Tokyo, in 1903, Noguchi's language becomes remarkably conventional, accessible, and varied, suggesting a skilled editorial hand, perhaps that of Léonie Gilmour, the mother of his future American son, Isamu. Even so, Nitobe Inazō (1862-1933), a Japanese-born educator and a greatly more experienced user of the English language, had to refer, in his introduction, to the fact that Noguchi was writing "in a foreign tongue" and ascribe the causes of his occasional "inarticulateness" and "incoherencies" partially―he was kind―to it.[30]
Noguchi's incomplete mastery of English―which under normal circumstances is to be expected with practically all users of a foreign language[31]―most likely persisted to the end. William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919), apparently the last non-Japanese asked to contribute an introduction or an afterword to Noguchi's poems, said of The Pilgrimage, published in Japan, in 1909: "He has progressed very considerably in the use of the English language, approximately as an Englishman or an American would use it."[32] This was not exactly a wholehearted affirmation of Noguchi as an English poet.
It was another Japanese, the geologist and world-traveler Shiga Shigetaka (1863-1927), who dropped all flattery and pretension and made the most astute assessment. Writing the afterword to the Japanese edition of From the Eastern Sea, he observed:
It appears that your name is extremely well-known in Europe and the United States. Nonetheless, it is not because you are thoroughly familiar with the English language, nor because you are skilled in English poems. The truth is that you particularly catch the eyes and ears of Westerners, first, because you, a Japanese, compose poems in English and, second, because in doing so you express the Oriental sentiments most notable in Kumoi Tatsuo in the mannerisms of Whitman. In brief, your English poems are found to be novel among Westerners because of their racial novelty and the novelty of the sentiments expressed. . . .
Kumoi Tatsuo (1844-70) was a chauvinist samurai, who was beheaded when he tried to topple the Meiji government to restore the old regime, failed, and was captured. A friend of Noguchi's uncle, Shaku Taishun, Kumoi wrote kanshi, poems in Chinese―a common practice among the educated Japanese in those days.
Shiga concluded his words with a warning:
You are only twenty-seven or -eight of age and your future is greatly promising. Above all, you must aim to be a great man in maturity and, without becoming content with temporary honor, work hard from this moment, striving to leave a name imperishable for a thousand years in the history of English literature. [Kumoi] Tatsuo . . . has left nothing for the history of Japan, let alone for the history of the world. It is merely that because his poems are inept (they are, yes, inept when viewed in Chinese literature), because they meet the taste of those without a discerning eye as readers, a handful of students, who just want to feel good, recite them. You must draw your own conclusion from Tatsuo's example.
Kamei Shunsuke, a knowledgeable student of Noguchi who quotes this afterword in his book,[33] reports that From the Eastern Sea caused a "sensation" in London.[34] It may indeed have. Still, it is highly doubtful that this and the two earlier books were the kind of books for which Kaneko Mitsuharu made this claim: "[Noguchi's] pieces were epocally new types of poems even in England and the United States. Many appreciate him as the forerunner of free-verse poets, and not a few English and American writers opened new ways [of writing] because of him."[35]
Even if you forget for the moment that Kaneko was speaking of his former professor, this particular claim is puzzling because he lived in foreign countries for extensive periods himself and knew the difficulty of mastering foreign languages. Unfortunately, similarly unthinking comments continue to be made.
The last poem Noguchi wrote in English may have been the one called "Two Thousand in the Valley of Death." It was the translation of the poem he wrote on May 30, 1943, at the news of the annihilation of Japanese soldiers on the Aleutian island of Attu and he did the translation at the request of the news service Domei for worldwide broadcasting.[36] For this essay I was unable to obtain either the translation or the original, but the poem was one of the many he wrote to "support and glorify the war" and in tone and spirit must resemble "Slaughter the U.K., U.S.: They Are Our Enemies," one of the few such poems I have managed to read. It may be translated:
"Slaughter the U.K., U.S.: They Are Our Enemies" fills the town,
and I shout it myself, shout it till I become hoarse, shout it, crying, in tears.
Because they are the countries that nurtured me for twelve years of my youth.
An ungrateful act you say, but I must choose the fate of my country;
the flourishing of the past is a dream for the moment.
The U.K. and U.S. of the old days were countries of justice,
the country of Whitman,
the country of Browning;
but now they are licentious countries fallen into the trap of wealth,
immoral countries indulging in dreams they shouldn't see. . . .
Some say heaven is punishing their lawlessness, we aren't slaughtering the truthful U.K., U.S.
Some say, in my U.K., U.S. days I made many friends,
and some, now dead, didn't have to hear my "Slaughter 'Em."
You don't know what a happiness this happiness is for you.
My friends who are still alive will say to me,
This is a war between nations; our friendships are too sacred to be torn apart. . . .
Don't be a fool, the hundred-million-with-one-heart[37] doesn't approve of such a prayer, you have to be thorough, be thorough,
I'll slaughter you with a single stroke, along with all the friendships![38]
Written in January 1942, when Japan was agog with victories in initial battles against the United States and Great Britain, this poem, awkward in diction and syntax and altogether infantile in content, comes with Noguchi's own preface called "Declaration of War":
Life is an eternal declaration of war.
I hear that Mohammed held a sword in one hand and a twig of roses in the other. Now Japan, the hundred-million-with-one-heart, relying on a death-defying commando's resolve and fervor, is ready to break through and conquer the thorns of reality in its mighty dash toward the perfection of an ideal. Upholding the divine rescript from the genealogical line unbroken for ten thousand generations, eternal as heaven and earth, Japan is trying to share its future prosperity with all the races of Asia, an act of which those with no poetry in their hearts and no understanding of nature, the beauty of human sentiments, and justice are incapable.
War and peace are one and the same thing. I have devoted my entire life to poetry, but why I, faced with the grave crisis of my country, support and glorify the war is self-evident. My joy of having been given life in Japan and witnessing today's incomparable grandeur―I cannot express my gratitude for it without tears.[39]
As a result of his fervid support of the war, Noguchi was put on the list of writers charged with "war responsibility" that was printed in Shin Nihon Bungaku, the magazine founded to promote a "democratic" and "progressive" literature.[40] Following the charge, the sculptor-poet Takamura Kōtarō (1883-1956), for one, "exiled" himself internally, and Noguchi himself admitted to his son, Isamu, that he "had made a terrible mistake in supporting his country during the war."[41]
Although the question of "war responsibility" fizzled in the end perhaps because the aim of this literary indictment was too amorphous and sweeping, Noguchi's active support of Japanese military causes should not be ignored. Not that most of us today, for one reason or another, forget or neglect to look into the overt and covert maneuverings that went on among Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan for preserving or expanding "interests" in China before the Pacific War. Rather, Noguchi's action constituted an important aspect of his promotion of "Japanism." It is in this that Yoshinobu Hakutani's two-volume assemblage leaves much to be desired.[42]
Noguchi, who arrived in San Francisco in December 1893, headed back to Japan in September 1904[43] (for several months from the end of 1902 to early 1903 he was a visitor in London). The ostensible reason for the return was to report on the Russo-Japanese War then under way for the New York daily Globe, but the inner reasons were not immediately clear. In the United States he had had some literary successes if only as "a beautiful Japanese boy who wrote quaint English";[44] also he had left an American woman, Léonie Gilmour, pregnant.[45] Yet, instead of returning to the States when the war was over,[46] he settled down in his homeland, marrying a Japanese woman in 1906 and becoming later that year the dean of the English Department newly created at Keiō University. The next time he left Japan in any case, it was as a full-fledged "advertiser of Japanism." In October 1913 he went to London at the invitation of Oxford University to give a series of lectures.
Years later, Noguchi suggested in various articles that his early resolve to posit Japanese "spiritualism" against the overwhelming material wealth of the United States (or "the West" as symbolized by it) had to do with his decision to go back to Japan. Once he made that resolve, the constant need to "contrast [himself] with the Westerners" in a foreign country became oppressive.[47] In Geijutsu no Tôyô-shugi, published in 1927, he explains the origins of his spiritual conflicts:
I crossed over to a foreign country at a time when Japan, unlike today, was not regarded by various foreign countries as strong and powerful. The Westerners in those days did not even know the difference between Japan and China, at times thinking that Japan and Korea were the same country. I was laughed at, cursed at, and even beaten up by them in their land.[48] As a representative of the Japanese, I tasted the pain and climbed their gallows. Their world was a world of material prosperity. I decided that it was entirely natural that materially destitute human beings were despised in such a world. I must compete and fight with them. . . . If so, with what kind of weapon should I war with them? I would never be able to hope to win if I competed with material. I would have to challenge their material with spirit. It wouldn't work unless I extolled our spiritual life, struck at their weak point, and defeated them. That was my strategic plan. Thus was born my Orientalism in the United States.[49]
Whether or not such recollections were to be believed, his strategy, if his modus operandi was based on it, was flawed.
To be sure, one set of cultural manifestations can sometimes dominate another; but it must certainly be doubted whether such dominance can be attained by setting up spiritualism as the antithesis of materialism. It would be like pitting Zen meditation against a fleet of bombers. More important, the kind of spiritualism―Japanism, Orientalism―that Noguchi envisioned to find upon his return to Japan he found only in things that were all too conventionally Japanese: the hokku (haiku), Nō, ukiyo-e, and even geisha.[50] And he had to establish spiritualism in them in a hurry, for before he ventured out to the United States at age 19, his knowledge of them was either negligible or non-existent. In that hurry he often failed to achieve a full understanding even though he seems to have found "simplicity" and other catchy things convenient for "advertisement."
Of the reams of writings he did on ukiyo-e, his son Isamu had this to say, correctly: "I've found it difficult to read [them] because he tries to be a poet or literary man discussing something else. I'm, therefore, not much interested in his writing on art in the descriptive sense."[51] Here, let us look at the way he presented the hokku to Westerners.
Hakutani's selections include basically two articles Noguchi wrote on hokku: "What Is a Hokku Poem?" which was originally published in the London magazine Rhythm in January 1913[52] and later used, with some added paragraphs, as the preface to Japanese Hokkus that was dedicated to William Butler Yeats[53] and "The Japanese Hokku Poetry," his lecture at Magdalen College in January 1914 that was later included in The Spirit of Japanese Poetry.[54] In both instances, what comes across is Noguchi's eagerness to contrast Japanese poetry with Western poetry. Most of his observations on the hokku are misguided or misleading.
In "What Is a Hokku Poem?" he cites a famous piece by Hattori Ransetsu (1654-1707): Ume ichirin ichirin hodo no atatakasa, "One plum blossom, and another: warmer that much,"[55] and says: "I declare myself to be an adherent of this 'hokku' poem in whose gem-small form of utterance our Japanese poets were able to express their understanding of Nature, better than that, to sing or chant their longing or wonder or adoration toward Mother Nature." In this piece Ransetsu surely shows a gentle sensitivity to a seasonal change, but in the haikai (humor) canon, its merit lies in the seeming minuteness of the attention given.[56]
The claim for "adoration toward Mother Nature" is similarly dubious with the second piece cited in the article, which is by Takarai (or Enomoto) Kikaku (1661-1707): Meigetsu ya tatami no ue ni matsu no kage, "Full moon: on the straw mat the shadow of a pine."[57] Recalling his "silent" encounter with Kikaku's descendant on a moonlit night when he was young, Noguchi says this hokku spurred his "poetical development," adding rhapsodically: "Really it was my first opportunity to observe the full beauty of the light and shadow, more the beauty of the shadow in fact, far more luminous than the light itself, with such a decorativeness, particularly when it stamped the dustless mats as a dragon-shaped ageless pine-tree." Noguchi is not entirely wrong, but again the haikai merit of this piece lies in its artistry: pointing to a shadow to praise a full moon.
In "The Japanese Hokku Poetry," Noguchi shifts his focus, turning his attention to the "wistfulness and delicacy [of hokku] not to be met with in the general run of English poetry."[58] But one of the hokku he cites to demonstrate this, which is by Yosa Buson (1715-83)―Kindachi ni kitsune baketari yoi no haru, "A fox transmogrified as a noble this spring dusk"[59]―is surely out of place, and another, by Matsuo Bashō (1644-94) ―Furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto, "An old pond: a frog jumps in the water the sound"[60]―does not draw "a picture of an autumnal desolation reigning on an ancient temple pond whose world-old silence is now broken by a leaping frog."[61] Bashō's piece, like Buson's, describes a vernal scene.
"Hokku poems are," Noguchi says, "unlike the majority of English poems, the expression of the moods or forces of the writer's poetic exertion, and their aim, if aim they have, is hardly connected with the thing or matter actually stated." (Whatever happened to the "adoration toward Mother Nature"?) And if unintelligibility occurs as a result, "poetic unintelligibility is certainly better than the imbecility or vulgarity of which examples abound, permit me to say, in English poetry."[62]
In the expanded version of "What Is a Hokku Poem?" Noguchi says: "what our Hokku aims at is, like the haori or silk or crepe, a usefulness of uselessness, not what it expresses but how it expresses spiritually."[63] This emphasis on spirituality is inevitably extended to the assertion: "Japanese poetry, at least in the old Japanese poetry, is different from Western poetry in the same way as silence is different from a voice"[64]―like "a silent bell of a Buddhist temple,"[65] preferably. It is said that when in one talk in London, he picked up a poem by a Miss Lizette Woolworth Reese and proposed that he, "'as a Japanese poet,' would sacrifice the first three [of the four] stanzas to make the last sparkle fully,"[66] one in the audience rose to say that if Noguchi's dictum had been followed, England would not have Milton or Shakespeare, and Noguchi remained silent.[67]
Reading the arguments on hokku that Noguchi made in the belief that "Japan can do something towards the reformation or advancement of the Western poetry,"[68] one can't help remembering what Gelette Burgess had said in his introduction to Seen & Unseen. One might illustrate the "intangible delicacy" of Noguchi's poems, he said,
by one of the Ho-ku's or "inspirations" of his own "high qualified" Ba-sho, meaningless but wisdom-wreathed syllables, ―elusive phrases, ―like opiate vapors changing to the changing mood.
"Alas, lonesome road,
Deserted by wayfarers,
This autumn evening!"[69]
As an "advertiser" of Japanese poetry, Noguchi was flawed because he was trying to sell an ill-digested notion. Hokku are neither nature poems (whatever the term may mean) nor silent (of course not). That Noguchi's understanding of the genre was inadequate for the task he set for himself is clear in a series of 84 "hokkus" he presented to Yeats: most of them do not have the faintest resemblance to the classical hokku he promoted.[70] Worse, he did not practice what he preached: most of his poems, in English or in Japanese, were as verbose as the Western poems he condemned.[71]
As various of his writings show, Noguchi was perfectly aware of these contradictions. Nevertheless, he persisted in the dichotomous world view that he had adopted early on, in the end gladly throwing himself into the infantile world of war propaganda.
* Director, Research & Planning, JETRO NEW YORK.
[1] A fuller quotation from Pound's letter to his translator Iwasaki Ryōzō appears in Hosea Hirata's book, The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburō (Princeton University Press, 1993), p. xvii.
[2] Hereafter these volumes will be referred to simply as Poetry and Prose.
[3] Hazumi Fuitsu, Rondon no Kiri Egaki / Ushinawareta Nihon no Geijutsu Seishin (Rokuyūkan, 1992), p. 9. Sarojinï Nâidu (1879-1949), accorded the sobriquet "the Indian Nightingale," was also a prominent politician. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) became, in 1913, the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize. The Japanese for "poetic saint" is shisei. I do not know whether grouping these three poets as stated was something that only the Japanese did or something people of the Occident did.
[4] The characterization Noguchi gave himself in an article, Geijutsu no Tōyō-shugi. Quoted almost in its entirety in Hazumi, pp. 106-113. Noguchi seems to have used the words Nihon-shugi and Tōyō-shugi, "Orientalism," interchangeably throughout his life.
[5] Dore Ashton, Noguchi: East and West (Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), p. 12. The book is about his famous son, the sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
[6] Some say this book was published toward the end of the previous year, 1896. Here I follow Hakutani's dating.
[7] Her review is reprinted in full in The World and the Parish, Volume Two: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 (University of Nebraska Press, 1970), pp. 579-580. The review appeared in the February 8, 1898 issue of Courier.
[8] Frank Norris, Novels and Essays (The Library of America, 1986), p. 825. I was led to this passage by the entry on Noguchi in The Oxford Companion to American Literature: Fifth Edition, edited by James D. Harris.
[9] Ibid., pp. 824-825.
[10] Norris says "flat-bordered," instead of "flat-boarded."
[11] Norris puts a comma after "brave," says "came" instead of "come," omits "right," and hyphenates "yoretime."
[12] The entry on "goops" in The Oxford Companion to American Literature.
[13] The entry on "The Lark" in The Oxford Companion.
[14] In a short essay entitled "An Opening for Novelists," he said, "'The Lark' was delightful―delightful, fooling, but there's a graver note and a more virile to be sounded. Les Jeunes can do better than 'The Lark.'" Norris, pp. 1113.
[15] The Story of Yone Noguchi in Prose, p. 214.
[16] Ibid., p. 230.
[17] Ibid., p. 219.
[18] Unlike Burgess, Garnett no longer seems to merit encyclopedic mention. He, along with Burgess, published Seen & Unseen.
[19] Poetry, p. 57.
[20] Ibid., p. 57.
[21] Did Burgess mean to say "the Orient"?
[22] Ibid., p. 58. The poem "Like a Paper Lantern" has a line: "O for my sake, put forth thy honorable horns!"
[23] Kamei Shunsuke, Nationalism no Bungaku (Kōdansha, 1988), pp. 210-211.
[24] Poetry, p. 57.
[25] Kamei, for example, has taken a look at the first line of "Where Is the Poet?" and spotted what must be a direct translation of a Japanese phrase. The line―very long, yes―reads: "The inky-garmented, truth-dead Cloud―woven by dumb ghost alone in the darkness of phantasmal mountain-mouth―kidnapped the maiden Moon, silence-faced, love-mannered, mirroring her golden breast in silvery rivulets." The phrase "inky-garmented" has to be, as Kamei suggests, a translation of sumizome, the dark robe worn by a Buddhist monk or for mourning. Kamei, p. 234.
[26] Though Hakutani provides no notes or dates, I assume this Stoddard is the one who wrote books such as Poems, edited by Bret Harte, Mashallah!, and A Cruise Under the Crescent, although when Hakutani says Noguchi met him, he may not have been living in California.
[27] Poetry, p. 77.
[28] Here, Noguchi may have had in mind the Japanese word kokū, "void."
[29] Ibid., p. 77.
[30] Ibid., p. 90.
[31] Modern exceptions such as Vladimir Nabokov and George Steiner were brought up in strictly bilingual or trilingual circumstances.
[32] Poetry, p. 161. The Pilgrimage was Noguchi's fifth book of poems.
[33] Kamei, pp. 237-238. In addition to a chapter in this book, called "Yone Noguchi no Nihon-shugi," Kamei has written an article on the relationship between Noguchi and American poets, as well as a booklet entitled Yone Noguchi, An English Poet of Japan. For this essay I was unable to obtain either the article or the booklet.
[34] Ibid., p. 236.
[35] Noguchi Yonejirô, Kawaji Ryūkō, Senke Motomaro, Satō Sōnosuke, edited by Kaneko Mitsuharu et al. (Shinchōsha, 1969), p. 18.
[36] See Hazumi Fuitsu's book cited earlier, p. 202.
[37] A slogan. As is often pointed out, the Japanese population at the time was 70 million.
[38] Included in Hazumi, pp. 181-182. The ellipses are part of the original.
[39] Ibid., pp. 180-181.
[40] Odagiri Hideo's explanation of the charge is printed in full in Hazumi, pp. 178-180.
[41] Isamu Noguchi's remark, Poetry, p. 42. Sotoyama Uzaburō, editor of collections of essays on Noguchi, tells the apocryphal story that General MacArthur was a lover of Noguchi's poems and sought to meet him, but Noguchi declined. Hazumi, p. 183. Faubion Bowers, who was aide-de-camp to MacArthur for the first two years of the Occupation, thinks that's well-nigh impossible. There were a legion of Japanese who sought to meet MacArthur, but MacArthur did not really try to meet any Japanese, except perhaps the emperor.
[42] Anyone who does not know anything about Noguchi's role during the war is likely to be surprised by his son Isamu's comment quoted in the preceding paragraph.
[43] A different chronology says 1905 but I have chosen this year on account of the reference to the Russo-Japanese war that follows.
[44] Ashton, p. 12.
[45] Is it possible that he left the United States because of anti-miscegenation laws? If Noguchi ever made reference to it, I haven't seen it. None of the authors I have consulted suggests that as a reason.
[46] One can imagine Noguchi doing so in 1905 to report on President Theodore Roosevelt officiating the peace treaty between Russia and Japan at Portsmouth―say, for a Japanese paper.
[47] Geijutsu no Nihon-shugi, quoted in Hazumi, p. 113.
[48] In Hakutani's selections, one such incident is described which occurred on his first day in San Francisco: "I was standing before a certain show window (I believe it was on Market Street), the beauty of which doubtless surprised me; I was suddenly struck by a hard hand from behind, and found a large, red-faced fellow, somewhat smiling in scorn, who, seeing my face, exclaimed, "Hello, Jap!" I was terribly indignant to be addressed in such a fashion; my indignation increased when he ran away, after spitting on my face." Prose, pp. 213-214.
[49] Quoted in Kamei, p. 221.
[50] In The Pilgrimage he has a poem called "Kyoto," which is about maiko. Poetry, pp. 148-149.
[51] Poetry, p. 44.
[52] Prose, pp. 99-105.
[53] Poetry, pp. 165-171.
[54] Prose, pp. 67-78.
[55] Noguchi's translation: "One blossom of the plum― / Yes, as much as that one blossom, every day, / Have we of Spring's warmth." Prose, p. 100. Some interpreters object to putting this piece in the category of spring because Ransetsu's own headnote says it describes "plum blossoms in winter."
[56] So some commentators find this piece artificial and vulgar.
[57] Noguchi's translation: "Autumn's full moon: / Lo, the shadows of a pine-tree / Upon the mats!" Prose, p. 102.
[58] Prose, p. 69.
[59] Noguchi's translation: "Prince young, gallant, a masquerading fox goes this spring eve."
[60] Noguchi's translation: ("The old pond! / A frog leapt into― / List, the water sound!"). The parentheses are part of the translation.
[61] Prose, p. 74.
[62] Ibid., p. 73.
[63] Poetry, p. 165.
[64] "Japanese Poetry," Prose, p. 59.
[65] Ibid., p. 73.
[66] Ibid., p. 61. This talk is "Japanese Poetry," cited earlier.
[67] Hazumi, p. 160. I should note that Hazumi's judgment is that Noguchi was right in responding with silence.
[68] Prose, p. 59.
[69] Poetry, p. 58. The original: Kono michi ya yuku hito nashi ni aki no kure, which may be translated: "This road: no one taking it as autumn ends."
[70] And he mixes in translations of classical tanka without saying so.
[71] He began his speech, "Japanese Poetry," by saying: "I come always to the conclusion that the English poets waste too much energy in 'words, words, words.'" Prose, p. 57.


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A highly successful 2010 was spent touring her debut LP Me Oh My, described by Word magazine "As cymbals clash and keyboards whirl, imagine PJ Harvey's rawness tangling with Super Furry Animals' prog and a vocalist who forgoes folk soft asides for delicious black humor." Cate then ended the year contemplating and conjuring up her sophomore release. Cate entered the studio with the nucleus of a record existing in her head, lyrical ideas swam in ether as did fully formed arrangements, but it wasn't until she began recording that these disparate ideas were drawn together andher circus tent of a record rose from the gravel ground. Drawing on her experiences from that heady 12 months, Cate created a collection of pop nuggets that sounded like they'd fallen off the back of a broken carousel, imbued with the playfulness of Faust, Syd Barrett and the tropical melodies of Os Mutantes and stitched together with a foreboding silken lyrical thread. Existential word play abounds and fuzz fused guitar lines tear through like an angry bee in a CAN as Cate muses on matters of the heart and the magnetic pull of the ocean.

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April 20 update: Heather Canyon opened at 11:31 AM from A-Zone to 1/2 Moon Bowl Wednesday. We'll continue to evaluate and control daily, and open when conditions allow.
With the unusual wintery weather we've received this spring, including more than four feet of snow the first week of April, the snow continues to reload and the avalanche hazard continues to be a concern. Similar weather and snow conditions exist and it is above the permit area that we have the most concerns. All of that must be taken into consideration when determining whether the canyon should be opened.
I hope it opens by April 30, as I said this was the year I'd brave Heather. Fingers crossed.
It's not hard to find the telemetry and forecast if you know what you're looking for, but please update your NWAC links.Meadows: Thanks for the reminder. There are actually three different links to the NWAC telemetry on the conditions page - and they all have been updated to the new URL address now.
Thanks for doing the work to get Heather open, I'm really hoping to get some soft snow days in Heather over the next couple weeks... if it doesn't open that will probably mean no more skiing for me this year (unless we get more powder days). JMeadows: We hope the conditions allow us to open the canyon as well.
So because the avalanche danger is outside the permit area, the Forrest Service is not allowing Meadows to do what's necessary to make the canyon safe for skiing? It that's the case, it's sure frustrating thinking of all the joy they've robbed people of this spring.Meadows: It's a complex issue which unfortunately can't be swiftly addressed. Two large events that run past the chair in one season are highly unusual for our history with Heather and Clark Canyons. If you look beyond our 40 year history with this area, avalanches of this magnitude are not uncommon. We're hopeful the conditions will improve and we'll be able to open the canyon before the season ends.
Thanks for the update, and for putting in the effort. Hope we can get back in the Canyon this spring, as I'm sure you'll have a bumper corn crop this year.Meadows: With the sun and warming the corn will grow!
How has the scouring effect of the avalanches affected the base in Heather? If it gets warm will there be enough snow left in the main run-outs to ride down on? It sounds like it's plenty deep in the debris field down by the lift.I've ridden Killington in Vermont in April/May a bunch. Sometimes there's a 5 foot wide, hundreds of foot long strip of snow to get you back to the lift. And lots of mud.Meadows: Certainly there is a lot of debris particularly at the bottom of the canyon. Saturday's rain and then this cold weather is having a bigger affect on surface conditions in the canyon currently, which is why it continues to be under evaluation. FYI: Heather opened from A-Zone to ½ Moon today at 11:31 am as things corned up!
Fresh tracks on heather for 420Awesome hopping the wind rills on half moonThanks ya'll
Will Heather be open for some fun tomorrow (Friday)?Meadows: It is day-to-day based on the surface conditions right now. It's likely, considering Friday's forecast for sunshine, but check our conditions page or twitter for updates (twitter.com/mthoodmeadows)
Any pictures of the March 10th and March 30th slides available anywhere?Meadows: Slides of both are available on this blog posted in early April and in March. You can scroll down to see the April blog or select "March" on the sidebar to find the March posting. Very impressive pictures displaying the awesome power of nature!
Thank you Ullr, and Ski Patrol, for getting Heather open Saturday, awesome spring day, and perfect corn. Enough already Ullr, you can stop blessing us any time now...I'll never forget the entrance to Heather's bottom station from this years bizarre snow pack avalanche results. Dropping down and not climbing the hill, WOW!
A Big thanks to meadows for putting in the effort/money to get heather open. Heather is really what seperates meadows from all the other oregon ski areas. How about keeping it open for the 2 weeks in may? Thanks. Meadows: It was great getting Heather going. Our bonus days in May will offer Mt. Hood Express, Cascade Express and Buttercup.
Will the heather chair be open for the bonus days in May, or is this weekend the last chance to get into Heather? I'm guessing upper won't be open this weekend, but could open the following weekends with warm weather inbetween to settle the avy danger. Please?JMeadows: The bonus days lift schedule is Mt. Hood Express, Cascade and Buttercup. The canyon was open from A-Zone down Saturday, and that's likely for Sunday as well.
The fact that Heather opened Friday 4-29 seems a lttle odd considering the recent slide activity.http://www.nwac.us/forecast/avalanche/current/zone/13/•Mt Hood Meadows--Thursday-ski patrol noted another recent large natural slab avalanche on the Wy'east face above the ski area, likely releasing late Tuesday or Tuesday night from this higher elevation E-NE exposure slope. Control results from hand charges and artillery Wednesday morning saw extensive slab avalanches up to 1.5 ft with good propagation and firm to hard slab characteristics above about 6K. Control on Thursday morning indicated smaller 6-12 inch slabs at higher elevations but increasing wet slabs below about 5000 ft where several 1-2 ft wet slides were triggered by skiers and boarders. Control on Friday morning resulted in pretty good avalanche activity as well, with explosive releases on E-NE exposures producing 2-2.5 ft slabs above 6-7000 ft, ski cut releases to 6 to 10 inches, and increasingly weak and moist snow developing on lower elevation terrain (both sun and shaded)Meadows: The NWAC site offers some great insight and information. Thursday's opening of the canyon was due in part to that recent slide activity.
Epic day to say goodbye to Heather on Sunday, just a perfect day!I finally had to ask the top op at Heather what the excavation and tree removal was for, he siad the new HSQ is going in this summer. I've known it was in the master plan, but no official word from MHM yet; why?Meadows: We will be announcing the new lift this fall as the focus (and excitement) returns to the mountain. It's not a secret, but we feel more people will want to hear about the details as the season approaches.
Can you give some details on the new lift now? Meadows: We'll provide in depth information later this summer, but briefly, it's similar to our other Poma high speed quads. The base will be much closer to the North lodge and the top will extend a little higher than the current stadium lift providing direct access to HRM, Shooting Star, and the Heather lift. More to come!
Newton Creek had allot of avalanche debris last Wednesday, not sure when it came down, it has been about a month since I was last there.This was bigger than last year (which is the first year I had seen any here)Pictures:http://www.pbase.com/photos123/image/134451558/original
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For the first time in a few years, the Phillies are coming into the season as a pretty healthy bunch. With these guys, do we really need a doctor?
Roy Halladay has hit the free agent market not with the same demand he would have had a few years ago. Although he does not demand the big bucks he would have had back in his prime, is he still out of a job here in Philadelphia? With fresh young arms like Jesse Biddle coming up from the minors, would a Roy Halladay signing just add to the list of lousy and unnecessary general managerial moves by Rueben Amaro Jr.? Halladay is a 36 year old pitcher with declining physical health. At the end of last year Halladay demonstrated to us that he still had some fuel left in the tank, but is it enough to last a year or more depending on how his contract negotiations play out? Personally, I think the Roy Halladay that pitched at the end of last year is the Roy Halladay of the future. Averaging 6.97 runs allowed per game last year, what would allow me to think there will be change? Yes, the beginning of the year was atrocious, but even after the surgery, we knew it would be unlikely to see the Roy Halladay of 2010 and 2011 step onto the mound at Citizens Bank Park again. With the banged up shoulder, Halladay had to go back and tinker with his form. It is hard to expect that within one offseason, he will have mastered his new form. With him still getting his form down as the season progresses, it almost throwing away money unless he proves he can pitch well with his new form on a consistent basis. Nothing he did at the end of last year proved to me that his form is consistent and that having him in the rotation is any better than a minor leaguer like Biddle. Halladay never proved to the fans or the organization that he was needed to be on the mound every fifth day. Since we know we are not getting that same pitcher with the ability to strike fear into players hearts, is it even worth the gamble?
Chances are that Halladay will want something close to 2 years, 20 million dollars. With all the contracts being given out by the Phillies to aging players with declining physical health and playing ability, another one is not necessary. Amaro is trying to build a World Series team for 2014, not 2015, 2016, 2017, etc. In three to four years, once the veterans begin to retire, the Phillies are going to be left with a pretty depleted team filled with young players that did not get much playing time. Why Amaro does not let the youth play together on Opening Day baffles me, but each year he fills positions that can be filled with youth, with aging stars. A recent example of this is the Marlon Byrd signing. A young star of the future in Darin Ruf has been patiently waiting his opportunity to play on Opening Day and now when his time has come, Amaro pulls off an unnecessary deal to bring more veteran leadership to the team. If a Halladay deal is made, that would just add to the point I am making in that Amaro is stalling the potential of this team. The only logical reason for a Halladay signing in my opinion is if the Phillies are hoping that on his Hall of Fame plaque, he will be wearing a Phillies hat instead of a Blue Jays cap.
Without a doubt, the Halladay trade was a great deal and he was a stud here in Philadelphia, winning a Cy Young award in his first year. In that first year he also pitched a perfect game and a postseason no hitter in the same season. Most pitchers would be thrilled if they retired with a Cy Young award, a perfect game and a no hitter under their belt. Halladay knew of the hype coming in and he exceeded what we expected of him. If it was not for this past year with the shoulder injury, we would be sitting here criticizing Amaro for not signing Halladay yet. Last year, he exposed flaws none of us thought he had. He let the fans see the human side of Doc Halladay. For the first time, there is a wound the Doc cannot fix.


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Click here to watch. Heather Nedohin, Michelle Englot, Rebecca Atkinson, Amber Holland, Heather Smith-Dacey, Jennifer Jones and Kelly Scott chat with media following Draw 12 of the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
The current Scotties Tournament Of Hearts began to assume a fairly familiar stance on Wednesday morning. Four-time champion Jennifer Jones and her Winnipeg team climbed alone to the top of the heap
Suddenly, it's a real horse-race. With seven teams operating within a game of one another at the top of the Scotties Tournament Of Hearts heap.
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Snow removal puts state $6 million in hole
A Department of Transportation plow truck treats the road way at the Interstate 93 and Interstate 293 split in Manchester on Tuesday. (DAVID LANE/UNION LEADER)
The state budgeted about $39 million for winter maintenance but expects to spend about $45 million. Last winter totaled about $32 million for "a relatively mild winter," department spokesman Bill Boynton said Tuesday.
"As always is the case, we don't know how the winters are going to play out," Boynton said, noting last month ranked as the worst month in 20 years on a winter severity index that measures the effect of weather on maintaining roads.
Before Tuesday's storm, Concord already had 72 inches of snow this winter, 17.2 inches above normal.
At the same point last year, the city saw 48.9 inches compared to a normal 54.8 inches, according to the National Weather Service.
A fleet of 310 state plow trucks and 437 hired trucks cleared 4,600 miles of state-maintained roads Tuesday. A statewide storm typically costs about $565,000 for an eight-hour shift without overtime, including staff, equipment and salt. An eight-hour overtime shift runs $609,000.
Some crews in southwest New Hampshire were called out at 10 p.m. Monday.
Last winter's budget had more than $7 million left over, with some of that money devoted to tasks such as tree trimming and guardrail work in the summer, Boynton said.
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I am writing this letter to urge Westporters to re-elect Jonathan Steinberg as our State Representative.
Jonathan has worked on many town initiatives over the years ranging from RTM member, Chairman of the Downtown Plan subcommittee, and Co-Founder of Westport Cinema Initiative, to name just a few.
As our State Rep he has focused on issues that are critical to our town and region:
He has fought for education reform that is reasonable without imposing new mandates on well-performing districts like Westport. He focused attention on students, emphasizing expanding pre-kindergarten, reading-readiness and helping teachers address different student learning styles.
Strong environmental advocacy including shoreline preservation and participation on Genetically Modified Organisms Taskforce
As a member of the Transportation Committee, he has worked with Fairfield County legislators on both sides of the aisle to fight for our fair share of state transportation funding to support our roads, bridges and rail lines which bear the brunt of traffic through the New England corridor. He has maintained communication with the Commissioner of CDOT to help prioritize local projects
I believe that Jonathan has been a sensible voice of moderation on so many issues that are important to me and others in Westport and our region. He deserves our support to return to Hartford to pursue those goals.
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It's an old faded picture, a man you've probably never heard of who is now long gone. Yet, Steve Nichols, will never forget him.
"He taught me if I would outwork the man beside me, I could be anything I wanted to be. He taught me to believe in myself" says Nichols.
That was the second time a man believed in Steve Nichols.
"They said I would never succeed and that I would be a menace to society but a really good man said that was a lie" recalls Nichols.
It's hard to believe that the former runaway and reform shooler is about to open up his third office.
"This is our third move in 14 years. The Lord keeps blessing us and we keep growing" says Nichols.
You see, Steve Nichols is one of the largest road builders and dirt movers in the ArkLaTex. Those are all of his trucks working on a stretch of I-49; a $15 million project and he just finished a bigger one last year.
"A 6 mile section of Highway 1 was a $24 million job that we prayed for and landed it" says Nichols.
This all started in 1999 that was encouraged by the man in the faded pictures and a wife that believed in him. Steve had gotten his life right and had a good job and just went to help a friend rebuild after the 1999 eastern tornado.
Nichols says "when I repaired that, people started asking me to do this and that for them."
Nichols had the willingness to get dirty.
"What got us here was I was willing to bury your dog, that's what got us here" says Nichols.
It paid off, Speciality Trackhoe is not just big, it's good.
Nichols says they "have a reputation and even their competitors send him business."
Still, it hasn't always been easy. Steve and Jennie lost their 5 year-old daughter. They named their cabin in Colorado, Dixie, but mostly it's been an amazing ride; one that might not have happened had not a man in a cowboy hat stepped in to tell a troubled young boy "yes, you can."
"This was not supposed to happen. I'm standing at a place only God could predetermine and all I've done is keep walking forward. I still don't know where it is going, I just know when He opens the door, I'm going through it" says Nichols.
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Front row, from left: Randi Lynne McIntosh, Kylie Figgins, Amber Blackaby, Susie Wright. Second row: Sienna Price, Jamie Nugent, Walker Lea, Zach Walters, Kenton Wells, Alexis Tolbert. Back row: Ame Vanorio (assistant coach), Caleb Vanorio, Aaron Teegarden, Derek Burton, JaQuan Franklin, Daniel Fleharty, Marcia Hatfield (head coach).


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Peachtree Corners Rotary Club Student of the Month. Each week the Peachtree Corners Rotary Club recognizes a student from the Norcross cluster. They rotate the schools so each school has a chance to nominate their Student of the Month. This past week the student was from Pinckneyville Middle School.
Student of the Month Proclamation:
WHEREAS Pinckneyville Middle School student Griffin Evans has been nominated by his teachers as being an exceptional student, who is conscientious, kind and considerate. Among capable, talented students, Griffin excels. Griffin always gives his best to his schoolwork, even though he is involved in many other activities such as Future Problem Solvers, band (a trumpet player), travel baseball, basketball and tennis. Griffin also participates in community service through Perimeter Church.
Griffin embodies the IBMYP characteristic of "principled" because he always does what is right even when no one is looking. Griffin is a great model of what good citizenship is, and he will be a positive leader in his future endeavors.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert Mann, do hereby proclaim Griffin Evans as a Peachtree Corners Rotary Club Student of the Month.
The Peachtree Corners Rotary Club meet each Monday at 12:00 p.m. at the Carlyle House in Norcross, visit the club's website for additional information.
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The center fielder just underwent surgery on his right knee, following an injury-plagued year in which he underperformed when on the field -- and he has an $8.5 million club option for next season. The Indians have until three days after the conclusion of the World Series to either pick up that option or pay a $500,000 buyout. It seems highly unlikely -- given Sizemore's injury woes the past three seasons -- that the Indians will exercise his option. sbnation
There's your center fielder and leadoff hitter, if he doesn't break. Seems like a good opportunity for a one-year, incentive-laden contract, while keeping Torres as a backup.


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Ted Miller: Ranking the Pac10 quarterbacks
The cupboard is full of talented QBs this year in the Pac10. I don't have a problem with where Miller ranked Tuel because of all the talent. My only complaint would be that Tuel may be a little better than Prince right now, but hasn't proven on the field yet and that is why Miller ranked him lower. By the end of the year I think he will move up in the rankings. After reading what Miller wrote about Tuel you would think he is the next coming (And I do). Loads of potential.


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The Rams stole the show from Seattle in Week 13 with a stunning overtime upset of the Niners that moved their record to 4-0-1 in the NFC West.
The Cardinals announced Tuesday that they are putting running back Ryan Williams on injured reserve with a left shoulder injury, officially ending his season. Coach Ken Whisenhunt had said Monday that Williams' injury would put him out for the remainder of the year.||||||| Williams' injury, the result of a hard hit during Thursday night's loss at St. Louis, was another blow to an already struggling running game. Arizona was already without Beanie Wells until at least Thanksgiving weekend because of a severe turf toe injury. The Cardinals rank 31st out of 32 NFL teams in yards rushing per game at 63.4. Only Oakland's 60.8 is worse.
The Arizona Cardinals' already embattled running game has taken a severe blow with the announcement that Williams is out for the season with a left shoulder injury that will require surgery.||||||| The Cardinals already are without Beanie Wells until at least Thanksgiving weekend because of a severe turf toe injury. The hard-luck Williams missed all of his rookie season a year ago with a torn patella tendon. He injured his shoulder on a hard hit during last Thursday night's loss at St. Louis.
Williams had 14 carries for 33 yards in Thursday's 17-3 loss to St. Louis.||||||| Williams' 164 yards are 30th in the league, and is average of 2.8 yards per carry is 44th among the 49 players with at least 6.25 attempts per game.
Williams was injured Thursday night when he took a hit to the helmet at the end of a run against the St. Louis Rams.||||||| Williams gained 12 yards on the play early in the fourth quarter before being hit by Darian Stewart. Williams slammed his helmet down after reaching the sideline.
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Richard Bachman will play in Vancouver Tuesday night, said Glen Gulutzan after practice in Calgary on Monday morning. "You look at our little run here that we've been on and there was that game in Chicago that Richard Bachman was a part of to get us going...He's 7-3 with a .916. You look at our schedule down the road and we'll probably rely on Kari quite extensively for a lot of the time. This is maybe a day, with travel, it sets up good to play Bacher."


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If you passed by the Texas State Technical College campus in Abilene Thursday morning – you were no doubt greeted by what appeared to be a grisly scene.
TSTC students spent the morning running through a mass casualty incident drill. Students had to practice retrieving would-be victims from crashed cars while coordinating with various first responders. They also had to practice putting the victims on stretchers and loading them into ambulances or a helicopter.
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I do my own oil changes at a friend's shop in between the dealer's annual low mileage oil change. Everytime I do an oil change the due date for the next oil service automatically moves ahead one year, can't remember if the mileage resets on its own but I'm certain about the date.
This has actually thrown off my dealership when I bring the car in for its annual oil service because the car is showing a date one year away. For example, my car normally has an annual cycle that falls on September. It should show September 2012 and it did show September 2012 after the dealership completed an oil change in September of 2011. When I completed one myself mid-year the date moved forward to September of 2013.
Somehow the CBS knows that an oil change has been done and automatically moves the date forward.
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The reasons behind our love for chocolate are too many to count, but for starters: we live in CH, where event the mass produced store-bought chocolate is delicious! Whether we are chopping up a bar for a quick batch of cookies, or melting it on a double boiler to be folded into yet another scrumptious recipe, here's another heavenly treat courtesy of blogger and photographer from House to Haus.
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- pinch of salt.
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In a double boiler, or a bowl set over barely simmering water, begin melting the chocolate, water and espresso. Stir occasionally, making sure the mixture doesn't get too hot, and remove from heat just as it begins to looks smooth. Continue stirring until all of the chocolate has melted and the mixture smooth. Set the bowl aside.
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LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. —
What do Twinkies, needy children, and Christmas have in common?
For Laurel Countians, the three came together unexpectedly last weekend, resulting in more than $15,000 being raised for the annual Shop with a Cop effort.
Recent closings of Hostess bakery stores in the Laurel area sent the public into a panic that a long-time snack favorite — Twinkies — would be a thing of the past.
That's when local businessman, Larry Parrott of Parrott's Auto Mart, offered to auction off a pack of the popular sweet snack to generate funds for the Shop with a Cop program.
"We put it on Facebook and it just went from there," said Laurel County Sheriff John Root.
The Twinkies eventually sold for $500 to Mountain Valley Insurance Company, Root said. But in the meantime, other people jumped on the bandwagon and began making donations directly to the Shop with a Cop program.
"We had a lot of people who just made donations. They ran from $1,000 to $10," Root added. "The hospital staff had the largest donation of $2,000. The physicians donated $1,000 and two other employees donated $500 each."
Some donations were made in memory of fallen police officers, Root said, and others just gave willingly from the heart.
"We had a $10 donation from a little boy who gave his birthday money. People really opened their hearts and some of the people who made donations really don't have it to spare," Root said. "It is hard economic times. A lot of people have lost their jobs, gas is high, food is high, and people are having it rough. But that's one thing I can say about Laurel County. People are always willing to give."
Those donations will boost the number of children being helped at this year's Shop with a Cop on Saturday, December 15 from the normal 100 participants to more than 350.
"We (Shop with a Cop program) already had a little money that was going to be used for the kids. But when this was posted on Facebook, everyone started making donations. I would have been tickled to have gotten $5,000. To nearly triple the number of kids you can take shopping is more than I expected," Root added. "There may be even more than that. That $15,000 is just what has come through the sheriff's office."
The Shop with a Cop program allots $100 per child with $70 going toward clothing and $30 for toys. The children selected for the program are referred by the school youth and family resource centers and their officers.
"We hope it gets bigger and bigger every year," Root said. "We know there are a lot of children out there who don't get much for Christmas, and this makes Christmas special to them."
To make contributions, contact the London City Police Department at 878-7004, Kentucky State Police at 878-6622, or Laurel Sheriff's Office at 864-6600.


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Being a mom is tough, and being a dad isn't much easier. They have their own struggles to get through and many times, moms cannot really comprehend what it's like to be a dad. For example, I can't imagine feeling the pressure of being the sole provider like the Hubster is. He goes to work every day knowing that we depend on him fully to meet our financial needs. Aside from his work day, the Hubster is also heavily involved with the kids at home. So while he does get a break from the kids during the day, in the afternoons and evenings, he is right there with me wiping up the baby's butt and cleaning up after both kids.
To do so, he relies on Huggies wipes just as much as I do, though I'm pretty sure he relies on them more because they are convenient and because he uses about 10 wipes every time he changes the baby's diaper.
The hubster credits the acceptance of the baby crying and managing his time in handling every day stress. He also suggests that dads take to "dad forums" to join in on conversation with other dads and ask questions as fatherhood issues come up. Listen to what else he had to say:
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Poncho de Anda will be available for a LIVE bilingual chat via the Huggies Latino Facebook page this week! He will share his thoughts on raising his young children in a bilingual home, maintaining their Latino cultural connections while living in the United States, share fun family stories and of course, how he and his wife cope with diaper changing, everyday messes and more!
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The Steelers playoff loss to the Broncos at Mile High was a tremendous disappointment by any measure. Lots of factors went into the defeat, but when you take the good, bad, and the ugly into account, the game in many ways served as a Microcosm for the entire season.
Dedicated cynics can gripe about the 4 point difference, but the Pittsburgh Steelers finished strong vs. the Cleveland Browns for many reasons.
If we were to "add style points" and plot the course of the Pittsburgh Steelers 2011 season there would be a lot more zig-zags than their 11-4 record suggests. The Steelers would do well to take advantage of their upcoming game vs. the Browns to change that.
The Steelers had a golden opportunity to leap ahead of Baltimore and New England by beating the 49ers. Taking advantage of that opportunity came down to the decision to play Ben Roethlisberger or not and Mike Tomlin quite simply made the wrong decision and then was unwilling or unable to adjust.
The Pittsburgh Steelers and the San Francisco 49ers are two of the NFL's most storied franchises. Click here for a look at some of their marquee match ups from the Noll, Cowher, and Tomlin eras.
Justice is supposed to be blind... If it were only that way in the NFL. James Harrison's hit on Colt McCoy was illegal, but the Goodell's punishment is precident smashing. Watch video (if you can get there before the NFL's lawyers force You Tube to take it down) comparing Harrison's hit with the last pre-wistle hit to draw a suspension 25 years ago.
After the Bengals photo finish losses to the Steelers and Ravens, Marv Lewis thought his men were ready to compete for the AFC North crown. Alas, when the Bengals reached gut check time at Heinz Field they flinched, and the Steelers pounced upon them with a passion.
The Steelers victory over the Kansas City Chiefs wasn't pretty at all, but if nothing else it should leave the team with a very important lesson.
Hopefully all of us have a lot of non-football reasons to give thanks on this special day. Steelers Nation has many things to be thankful for, but Antonio Brown's development tops this list.
It was inevitable. It was going to happen sooner or later. Against Cincinnati Hines Ward found himself standing on the slidelines watching. For the first time since early 2000, something other than injury had forced spectator status on number 86. Click here or above for a look at what Hines Ward has meant to the franchise, where he stands among the franchise greats, and how he's handling his demotion.
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February 2, 2013
The 23rd African American Celebration through Poetry is Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, 1-4 p.m. at the West Oakland Branch Library, 1801 Adeline St., in Oakland, (510) 238-7352. All are welcome and if anyone didn't hear of the event in time to be a part of the featured program, we do have an open mic at the end of the program.
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The increase in hunger strikes in state prisons throughout the United States, inspired by the courageous examples of Ohio and California prisoners, show we don't fear death or persecution, but minimizing losses is a part of wise strategy. We struggle to win. Unnecessarily losing some of our best minds to indeterminate isolation won't help this purpose.
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As the highest ranking African-American in the House, Congressman Clyburn can advocate for the interests of members of the Congressional Black Caucus and our constituents.
May 15, 2010
We lost the great Lena Horne this month on Mother's Day, May 9. She was 92, her birthday June 17, 1917 – her funeral Friday, May 14. I found out recently that Ms. Horne was at the March on Washington with sisters Mahalia Jackson and Dorothy Height.
December 17, 2009
The 10 Black members of the powerful House Finance Committee are still being applauded this week by the Black press and Black leaders nationally for boldly boycotting a committee meeting in order to force a $4 billion allocation to benefit the Black community. They plan to escalate protests if lawmakers continue to ignore the suffering of their constituents, including advertising discrimination against Black newspapers.
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Our beloved Mother Mary Ann Wright passed last month; she was 87. She was soft-spoken when not in the pulpit or behind her bullhorn holding church at her multiple food giveaway sites. I marveled over this woman who'd done so much to comfort the poor, a woman loved by all who knew her.
November 30, 2008
In selecting Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., as its new chair, the Congressional Black Caucus chose one of its most progressive members who, days after Sept. 11, 2001, was the only person in Congress to vote against authorizing the use of force in Iraq.


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Tens of millions of Americans drive cars on thousands of miles of roads every day. Automobiles are a critical part of many people's lives and businesses, and as such, they have taken their place at the center of American culture.
Due to the immense volume and widespread use of automobiles in the US, however, there is an enormous volume of car accidents every year. Millions of car accidents occur every year, with thousands of fatalities, as well as billions of dollars of property damage. It has, in fact, been postulated that somebody dies of a car accident every thirteen minutes.
What Can Be Done About Car Accidents?
Due to the enormous breadth and high volume of car accidents, car accident claims play a significant role in the legal industry. Encompassing everything from personal injury claims from bodily harm done in an accident, to property damage claims even when people aren't hurt, the automotive sector of the legal community is a huge business.
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The car accident business can also extend beyond the civil sector into the criminal sector. Criminal charges can be pressed against individuals who are driving illegitimately, such as under the influence, or on a suspended license. Car accidents, by their very nature, are complex and variable. Different attorneys handle different aspects of car accident law.
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