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Back to the open carry question: you can expect more attention than you want, some places. Law enforcement type, for one, with questions spoken or unspoken about why the hell you are doing it. Nervous civilians afraid of guns for another. Curious children (mostly but not exclusively little boys) wanting to see the weapon. And last but definitely not least, the "Oh, so you're tough, eh?" kind.
That doesn't even take into account retention issues or the well-known "Who's an armed bad guy going to take out first?" argument.
I don't see the point of open carry by a civilian except when hunting or fishing, working on his own land, etc. The only non-LEOs I see doing it except for business (like the gun shop employee above) are people wanting to make an impression and/or a point. That's immature judgment in my book.
I carry concealed whenever I'm outside my apartment. Nobody needs to know that, and I don't receive undesired attention from strangers.
"Don't let macho be your epitaph."
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i see alot of folks carry openly i see nothing wrong with it i can for one get to my gun faster if its open on my belt then in my sock. but i really only asked the question to see if my pistol licsens from indiana was honord their and it is and i really only plan to open carry when im horseback riding in national forsest and on my farm
Ill open carry every now and then, just to do so.
Oh dern....
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[QUOTE=CaseyChadwell;1173889]May I ask what restaurant? I open carry a lot of the times and I always have my cowboy hat on...maybe we crossed paths and didn't even know it...
And if it was me it was either a 1911 or a Springfield xd...I live in Trimble/Carroll county but I travel all over the state during the week with my second job.
And I'm deffinately a little odd looking. [/QUOTE
Were you in ashland, Bob Evans? I not against open carry, I just thout to myself ,concield would not bring as much attention, but again I have carried open in town when I was younger. We are talking KENTUCKY, right...
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Neuropolarbear cannot imagine what is inconvenient about the use of credit cards.
This is most likely because he uses the highly efficient wallet and the highly efficient pants-pocket in preference to the purse.
Neuropolarbear cannot imagine what is inconvenient about the use of credit cards.
This is most likely because he uses the highly efficient wallet and the highly efficient pants-pocket in preference to the purse.
I love it when the reviewers really GET the paper, what we are trying to do and why it is important!
If asked to pick the top two good things that I discovered about grant review when I first went for a study section stint, I'd have an easy time. The funny thing is that they come from two diametrically opposed directions.
The first amazing good thing about study section is the degree to which three reviewers of differing subdiscipline backgrounds, scientific preferences and orientations agree. Especially in your first few study section meetings there is little that is quite as nerve-wracking as submitting your initial scores and waiting to see if the other two reviewers agreed with you. This is especially the case when you are in the extreme good or bad end of the scoring distribution.
What I usually found was that there was an amazingly good amount of agreement on overall impact / priority score. Even when the apparent sticking points / points of approbation were different across all three reviewers.
I think this is a strong endorsement that the system works.
The second GoodThing I experienced in my initial service on a study section was the fact that anyone could call a grant up off the triage pile for discussion. This seemed to happen very frequently, again in my initial experiences, when there were significantly different scores. In today's scoring parlance, think if one or two reviewers were giving 1s and 2s and the other reviewer was giving a 5. Or vice versa. The point being to consider the cases where some reviewers are voting a triage score and some are voting a "clearly we need to discuss this" score. In the past, these were almost always called up for discussion. Didn't matter if the "good" scores were 2 to 1 or 1 to 2.
Now admittedly I have no CSR-wide statistics. It could very well be that what I experienced was unique to a given study section's culture or was driven by an SRO who really wanted widely disparate scores to be resolved.
My perception is that this no longer happens as often and I think I know why. Naturally, the narrowing paylines may make reviewers simply not care so much. Triage or a 50 score..or even a 40 score. Who cares? Not even close to the payline so let's not waste time, eh? But there is a structural issue of review that has squelched the discussion of disparate preliminary-score proposals.
For some time now, grants have been reviewed in the order of priority score. With the best-scoring ones being take up for discussion first. In prior years, the review order was more randomized with respect to the initial scores. My understanding was the proposals were grouped roughly by the POs who were assigned to them so that the PO visits to the study section could be as efficient as possible.
My thinking is that when an application was to be called up for review in some random review position throughout the 2-day meeting, people were more likely to do so. Now, when you are knowingly saying "gee, let's tack on a 30-40 min discussion to the end of day 2 when everyone is eager to make an earlier flight home to see their kids"...well, I think there is less willingness to resolve scoring disparity.
I'll note that this change came along with the insertion of individual criterion scores into the summary statement. This permitted applicants to better identify when reviewers disagreed in a significant way. I mean sure, you could always infer differences of opinion from the comments without a number attached but this makes it more salient to the applicant.
Ultimately the reasons for the change don't really matter.
I still think it a worsening of the system of NIH grant review if the willingness of review panels to resolve significant differences of opinion has been reduced.
One of the erroneous claims made by Steven McKnight in his latest screed at the ASBMB President's space has to do with the generation of NIH funding priorities. Time will tell whether this is supposed to be a pivot away from his inflammatory comments about the "riff raff" that populate the current peer review study sections or whether this is an expansion of his "it's all rubbish" theme. Here he sets up a top-down / bottom-up scenario that is not entirely consistent with reality.
When science funding used to be driven in a bottom-up direction, one had tremendous confidence that a superior grant application would be funded. Regrettably, this is no longer the case. We instead find ourselves perversely led by our noses via top-down research directives coming from the NIH in the form of requests for proposals and all kinds of other programs that instruct us what to work on instead of asking us what is best.
I find it hard to believe that someone who has been involved with the NIH system as long as McKnight is so clueless about the generation of funding priorities within the NIH.
Or, I suppose, it is not impossible that my understanding is wrong and jumps to conclusions that are unwarranted.
Having watched the RFAs that get issued over the years in areas that are close to my own interests, having read the wording very carefully, thought hard about who does the most closely-related work and seeing afterwards who is awarded funding... it is my belief that in many, many cases there is a dialog between researchers and Program that goes into the issuance of a specific funding announcement.
Since I have been involved directly in beating a funding priority drum (actually several instruments have been played) with the Program staff of a particular IC in the past few years and they finally issued a specific Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) which has text that looks suspiciously similar to stuff that I have written, well, I am even further confident of my opinion.
The issuance of many NIH RFAs, PAs and likely RFPs is not merely "top-down". It is not only a bunch of faceless POs sitting in their offices in Bethesda making up funding priorities out of whole cloth.
They are generating these ideas in a dialog with extramural scientists.
That "dialog" has many facets to it. It consists of the published papers and review articles, conference presentations, grant applications submitted (including the ones that don't get funded), progress reports submitted, conversations on the phone or in the halls at scientific meetings. These are all channels by which we, the extramural scientists, are convincing the Program staff of what we think is most important in our respective scientific domains. If our arguments are good enough, or we are joined by enough of our peers and the Program Staff agree there is a need to stimulate applications (PAs) or secure a dedicated pool of funding (RFAs, PASs) then they issue one of their FOA.
Undoubtedly there are other inputs that stimulate FOAs from the NIH ICs. Congressional interest expressed in public or behind the scenes. Agenda from various players within the NIH ICs. Interest groups. Companies. Etc.
No doubt. And some of this may result in FOAs that are really much more consistent with McKnight's charge of "...programs that instruct us what to work".
But to suggest that all of the NIH FOAs are only "top-down" without recognizing the two-way dialog with extramural scientists is flat out wrong.
Datahound showed is that there are something on the order of 5,000 PIs that lose their last bit of NIH funding (as PI) in a given year.
What I want to see from McKnight is some clear identification of the deserving, amazing, super star impactful scientists who are in this situation.
This would go a long way toward is being able to assess his various claims for why these people (and surely he has a substantial list in mind- tens at the least?) are not funded.
Looks like both Oregon and Alaska passed initiatives to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
Oregon's initiative.
(1) A person commits the offense of use of marijuana while driving if the person uses any marijuana while driving a motor vehicle upon a highway.
(2) The offense described in this section, use of marijuana while driving, is a Class B traffic violation.
a related item that I like because it calls for research:
(4) On or before January 1, 2017, the commission shall:
(a)Examine available research, and may conduct or commission new research, to investigate the influence of marijuana on the ability of a person to drive a vehicle and on the concentration of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol in a person's blood, in each case taking into account all relevant factors; and
(b) Present the results of the research to the Legislative Assembly and make recommendations to the Legislative Assembly regarding whether any amendments to the Oregon Vehicle Code are appropriate.
weird exception:
(13) "Marijuana extract" means a product obtained by separating resins from marijuana by solvent extraction, using solvents other than vegetable glycerin, such as butane, hexane, isopropyl alcohol, ethanol, and carbon dioxide.
aha, found this part:
SECTION 57. Homemade marijuana extracts prohibited. No person may produce, process, keep, or store homemade marijuana extracts.
so you can't make solvent extractions for home use but you *can* make vegetable glycerine extractions. Weirder. If the idea is to keep people from doing dangerous stuff with explosive solvents, this would be solved short of prohibiting "keep, or store homemade marijuana extracts", no?
In case you are wondering, vegetable glycerine extracts can be used in vape pen / e-cig type devices.
(b) Nothing in this chapter is intended to allow driving under the influence of marijuana or to supersede laws related to driving under the influence of marijuana.
Steven McKnight is simply intoxicated with his first taste of a social media imbroglio.
...inclusion of the volatile word [riff-raff] in the C3 essay prompted widespread attention. For this, I am simply delighted. This was my first brush with social media, and I can clearly see its power.
My next two essays, for the December and January editions of ASBMB Today, will deal with this flaw head-on. Trust me — I will take off the gloves and fight bare-fisted in those two essays.
I'm sympathetic. We all get a little giddy the first time we spark a social media dustup that gets all sorts of people talking about us and our pet opinions. Doesn't make him any more right in his opinions, but whatever.
What really interests me is his choice of a sports-analogy that is more apt than he realizes.
In the state of Texas, tens of thousands of young kids begin competing in organized football during elementary school. The enterprise is highly inclusive and exceedingly diverse. By the time these kids get to high school, they know a lot about the sport and have begun to develop skills. In high school, however, a weeding-out process begins. Not all kids make the junior varsity and varsity teams, and not all kids — even if they make the team — are apportioned equal playing time. As things progress to college, the weeding-out process becomes all the more acute. Playing on Friday nights as a high-school athlete in Texas is lots of fun with broad participation. Playing on Saturdays as a college athlete may be equally fun, but only the most competitive kids are on the field. The final weeding-out step comes when players are drafted by the National Football League — 32 teams sport 53-man rosters, meaning that only 1,696 young men are eligible to suit up for Sunday football. These are the best of the best athletes and are rewarded accordingly....I think of science in this same way.
Emphasis added.
Naturally this is just a re-hash of the baseball player analogy that Comradde PhysioProffe loves to deploy on these pages and it has a lot of truth in it.
I wrote a post once upon a time that is relevant to this issue. HIGHLY relevant.
He was recruited by a number of colleges, but some wanted to convert Moon to another position as was the norm for many major colleges recruiting black high school quarterbacks.[9] Moon decided to attend West Los Angeles College in 1974-75 where he was a record-setting quarterback. After Moon showed his ability at West L.A., only a handful of four-year colleges showed interest in signing him. Offensive Coordinator Dick Scesniak [University of Washington], however, was eager to sign the rifle-armed Moon.
...oh, for chrissakes! People. This was the 1970s!!! Oh yeah, that's right. I remember those days. Black players can't be quarterback, you see. Don't have the right shoulder structure, it's a genetic thing doncha know. Plus, they aren't as good at all that, you know, quarterbacking stuff....
Come to think of it, I seem to recall some weebag Div I hockey player (who never ended up going anywhere professionally) writing some paper about how black people's hip structure precluded them from skating very well. (Or, skating like gangbusters and then fixing, oh, knees and hips for a living as an orthopedic surgeon)
Sorry. Back to the point. Oh yes. Warren Moon. Back to the Wikipedia:
Throughout his CFL career, Moon amassed 1,369 completions on 2,382 attempts (57.4 completion percentage) for 21,228 yards and 144 touchdown passes. He also led his team to victory in 9 of 10 postseason games. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Edmonton Eskimos Wall of Honour. In 2006, he was ranked fifth on a list of the greatest 50 CFL players presented by Canadian sports network TSN.
Not to shabby for a guy thought physically and mentally incapable of playing the quarterback position because of his skin color, right? Pretty decent.
What? What's that you say? There's more? Oh, riiiiigghht. That Warren Moon. The one who next jumped to the NFL and played from 1984-2000 as one of the more exciting quarterbacks to take the field,
Combining his NFL and CFL stats, Moon's numbers are nearly unmatched in professional football annals: 5,357 completions in 9,205 attempts for 70,553 yards and 435 touchdowns. Even if his Canadian League statistics are discounted, Warren Moon's career is still exceptional: 3,988 completions for 49,325 yards, 291 touchdown passes, 1,736 yards rushing, and 22 rushing touchdowns. During his NFL career, Warren Moon was named to nine Pro Bowl games (1988-1995, 1997).
I'm just getting going...
Alright. There's really not much point in going on and on to list Owens and Ashe and Gibson and the Williamses and Ribbses and Woods and Jones and all the other great athletes who thrilled (or continue to thrill) us with their class, competence and courage. Little point in detailing for each case where and when the operating rules of their sports (official and/or de facto) would have (or did..or still do) prevent them from excelling because of their skin color. Not much profit in describing how the overt bigotry of "they can't do it" papered over the fear that someone might be better than the rest of us. Silly to talk about the moral repugnance of categorically closing off the open field of play to some people just to benefit ourselves or those more like ourselves.
Because, you know, we're beyond all that sort of thing now. And...this is a blog that is supposed to focus on science. And the conduct of science. Which is objective. The only goal is the discovery.
To spell it out for Dr. McKnight and his fellow travelers....
Science is not a pure meritocracy. In the recent past when current generations were getting their start academic science was even less of a pure meritocracy. People who didn't look the right way, choose parents in the right way, express external dangly bits in the right way....all sorts of people who might have come to the table with the right brain equipment were systematically excluded. Denied from the competition before it even properly got started.
This still goes on. The "weeding-out" process that McKnight refers to (sports and science alike) is affected by bias. Opportunity is afforded to not the purest demonstrable talent. The pool of talent is chosen by the coaches. If they don't think a black kid can play quarterback, they will do their damndest to convert him to some other position so as to keep his "talent". How many Warren Moons did we never get to see on the field taking snaps?
As the man said, I think of science in this same way.
The coaches are the lab heads. The grayer bearded and bluer of hair. The gatekeepers are supported by their peers in review, in conference program committee and on hiring committees. Just as assuredly as coaches are supported by their owners, boosters, loyal alum, etc who have definite opinions on what a quarterback should be.
Somewhat less categorically, the coaches of sports and the coaches of science have individual biases as well. Show early signs of talent or even just effort.... and the coach gives you more playing time, calls the plays to you and lets you take the crunch-time shots. Sometimes the favored player is clearly inferior but the coach likes them for some reason (often enough because it is their own child) and wants to give them the best shot. Sometimes specialist talents are not used effectively simply because the coach can't see it or doesn't know how to work this talent into the mix so as to benefit the team (and that specialist talent's development).
I see this all the damn time in my now considerable hours spent watching my kids and their teammates play various sports.
And you know what? It is JUST like a dynamic that goes down in larger academic labs.
It is JUST like a dynamic that goes on in scientific sub-fields.
And McKnight's vision of who the "riff-raff" are and who the real scientists are cannot help but be similarly biased. We can't speculate on the nature of McKnight's biases...who knows, he may think that women or African-American or Asian scientists are the bomb and that standard old American white-guys like himself are a played out demographic*. I don't know**.
But what I do know is that whatever his concept of who is in the "riff raff" pool, he is biased and wrong. How can he not be? Most any individual person is going to be biased. That is why we use grant-selection and faculty-selection processes that depend on a committee of people. So as to hedge our bets against the bias of the individual attitude.
So I welcome this discussion McKnight would like to have. I look forward to further "bare-fisted" assertions of his position.
Because you know what? I know guys like this. I know what they are.
And I'm here to tell you. This guy is going to reveal further depths of his indefensible, personal-bias based and just-plain-wrong attitudes about who the best scientists are. In doing so, he will undercut support for anyone who might be nodding along with his truthiness at present. And that will be a good thing.
*I do actually know at least one highly accomplished privileged older white guy scientist who has expressed a sentiment like this and appears to believe it. Just for the record.
**HAHAHAHAHA, of course, I do know. This guy is going to get caught saying some horrible racist and/or sexist thing along the lines of Jim Watson's finest statements. There is no possible other way this can go down. It's a rule of nature.
It looks like Sally Rockey, Deputy Director in charge of NIH's Office of Extramural Research since 2005, is looking to depart the NIH.
The NU Presidential Search Screening & Selection has identified 4 finalists for the next president of the university. They are:
— Univ. of Nebraska (@u_nebraska) November 3, 2014
3. Dr. Sally Rockey, deputy director for extramural research at the National Institutes of Health
— Univ. of Nebraska (@u_nebraska) November 3, 2014
show that she is on the short-list to become the next President of the University (system) of Nebraska. Other shortlist candidates are a state level commissioner of higher education, a State University President and a State University (system) chancellor.
In the US some State University systems (i.e., multiple campuses which act as semi-autonomous Universities) call their campus heads President and the System-wide leader the Chancellor whereas other systems reverse these titles. This job appears to be the system-wide leadership position. This explains why there are two system-level leaders in the hunt.
It also may influence your opinion on the appropriateness of someone who has been a research administrator her whole career being in the running for such a position. Obviously she is being looked at as some sort of Federal grant rainmaker/expert to upgrade the amount of money that enters the University of Nebraska system from the Federal government and possibly other sources. I cannot imagine why else such a person, with no related experience heading a University or University system would be on the shortlist otherwise.
The main point of this news can be summed up in this handy figure from Jimmy Margulies, New Jersey Record, who was commenting on a different topic. The point remains, however.
The NIH is a sinking ship. I suspect that the folks at NIH realize this and the ones who have opportunity to cash in on their authoritah! by finding a nice top level administrative gig at one of the supplicant Universities will do so. The have-not Universities which find themselves in the most difficulty obtaining NIH funding will be desperate to land a rain-maker and even the "have" Universities may see this as a good investment. Especially if you have an IC Deputy Director or better, you can argue that they have significant administrative experience within an organization not entirely unrelated to academics. It should be an easy sell for a search committee to make the argument for NIH insiders to be considered for University President positions, Deans of Research and the like.
Is it a smart move? Well yes, if you think that their will be some benefit to their insider status. If you think that the replacement figures and holdovers will take the calls of these NIH emigres and listen to the concerns of their new University.
UPDATE: This news account explains that an attempt to close a Nebraska open-records law was made when the previous President of the UN system resigned.
As the law stands now, candidates may be kept private until the search for a president is narrowed to a pool of at least four applicants, all of whom must be disclosed. The bill would have allowed search committees to keep confidential presidential, vice presidential and chancellor candidates until they've narrowed the pool to one finalist.
Proponents of the bill say a closed search would allow for a better pool of applicants, including those who may otherwise be hesitant to apply and jeopardize their current position by publicly seeking another one. Opponents say the current law allows for students, faculty, the general public and the media to meet, investigate and learn about the candidates.
Hadley introduced the bill on behalf of the University of Nebraska's Board of Regents after President James Milliken announced last month that he would be leaving Nebraska to become chancellor of the City University of New York.
The best known Klingon proverb
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
is proof that before they were warriors, the Klingons were academicians.
heard this a few days ago on the country station.
Thanks for sending me to look for it on YouTube MyTChondria, the video adds punch.


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Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Apr 17th 1885 – Sept. 7th 1962, was the daughter of writer and army officer Wilhelm Dinesen and Ingeborg Westenholz.
She was a Danish author also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen wrote works both in Danish and in English. She is best known, at least in English, for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into highly acclaimed, Academy Award-winning motion pictures. In Denmark she is best known for her works Out of Africa and Seven Gothic Tales.
In 1913 Karen Dinesen became engaged to her second-cousin, the Swedish Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, after a failed love affair with his brother. The couple moved to Kenya, where in early 1914 they used family money to establish a coffee plantation, hiring African workers, predominantly the Kikuyu tribespeople who lived on the farmlands at the time of their arrival. About the couple's early life in Africa, Karen Blixen later wrote, "Here at long last one was in a position not to give a damn for all conventions, here was a new kind of freedom which until then one had only found in dreams!"
The two were quite different in education and temperament, and Bror Blixen was unfaithful to his wife. She was diagnosed with syphilis toward the end of their first year of marriage, which although eventually cured (some uncertainty exists), created medical anguish for years afterwards. The Blixens separated in 1921 and were divorced in 1925.
During her early years in Kenya Karen Blixen met the English big game hunter Denys Finch Hatton, and after her separation she and Finch Hatton developed a close friendship which eventually became a long-term love affair. Finch Hatton used Blixen's farmhouse as a home base between 1926 and 1931, when he wasn't leading one of his clients on safari. He died in the crash of his de Havilland Gipsy Moth biplane in 1931. At the same time, the failure of the coffee plantation, due to the worldwide economic depression and the unsuitability of her farm's soil for coffee growing, forced Blixen to abandon her beloved farm. The family corporation sold the land to a residential developer, and Blixen returned to Denmark, where she lived for the rest of her life.
Blixen died in 1962 at Rungstedlund, her family's estate, at the age of 77.
This is wonderful! The idea of the open pages works really well – very evocative of her as a writer and of course her beloved Africa.
Thank you Christina for your lovely comment – much appreciated :o)
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Wow, great image, Kira and equally great backstory.
Thank you very much Steve – I'm glad you enjoyed it :o)
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Great artwork with lovely tones and textures Kira, and very interesting story of this lady's life….thoroughly enjoyed reading it :))
Thank you very much Liliana – I'm glad you enjoyed the story which I had to cut short. What a fascinating but not easy life she had. And such a great talent. She only needed people to give her a few words and she would spin the most fascinating story from those words. She was a true storyteller.
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Stunning image Kira
Thank you so much Larry – I really appreciate your kind comment and the fav :o))
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Thank you very much banrai :o)
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Great work Kira, well done.
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Thank you very much David (and i didn't make it for B – and i wont fall apart if you don't accept it :o))
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Oh, you really outdone yourself this time! Love the music and the history lesson it just makes this so much more enjoyable! Full marks, my friend!
Thank you for that lovely comment Taschja – I'm so glad you enjoyed the story too – had to cut it short but if you want more it's on Wikipedia.
Kira xx
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Thanks a mill Christine – posted my txs in group forum too
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Wow Kira, what a fantastic piece! Love your concept of a book, works perfectly. So much work has gone into this creation, well done!
Well – it seemed the natural thing to do since she was all about books.
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Smukt Kira! Det ville hun ha elsket!!
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cbd, have a great day. Jumped in yesterday at $35.50, miight get more opp Friday. One scenario is that this was expected and traders could be covering oil. I can't see global oil at $70 longer term. Agree that this could be a good buy opp. We do know that OPEC is not going to be a factor in the future, wonder how that changes the dynamics of price, US costs are the main factor it would seem. Guessing that the cos don't show much downside on Friday, could be temporary, will see.
Thinking more about global deflation. Seems inflation will come from labor costs, commodities, housing which is driven by mortgage rates, food, which seems is energy affected, and health costs, not sure what we do about all of us older folks. Throw in technology which reduces costs across all the sectors, my guess is we don't see inflation pressure for a long time. And would bet technology continues to trump other factors. Maybe Greenspan was at least right about tech although he got most other things wrong.
Saw a blurb, GasFrac Energy Services is drilling a Utica well that will be fracked with a propane gel, no water. No idea of the economics. Think they are a Canadian co.
Maybe discussed, but why the drop this a m, out of sync with other MLPs???
Looks like the ECB is joining the deflation fight. We could have low global rates for years. Probably end badly but too far off, assets inflate in the process.
Easy answer in energy investing now is to buy the infrastructure cos. They will do well at $80 or $100. Only have to look at the nat gas business, at $4 and it's still going strong. Saw where the Uinta's breakeven is $80 and that's with a $20 diff to WTI, reduce it by $15 and you have a $65 breakeven, which competes with the top tier plays. The e and p s will pay for more pipe.
Apache cuts capex 25% and forecasts 8 to 12% prod growth over five years.
Investors acted like yesterday was the bottom for this downdraft, not sure it is. Will know in a week or sooner. Not betting on it. Think the Saudis just want to see where the market settles and that could take a while.
If oil stays where it is, in 16 the hedges run out, they pay a 40 cent div and keep production flat again. Sounds like a 4% return to me, when they promised a 5% yield and maybe 8% growth,13% total return. If prices don't recover the whole industry will be cutting capex. Saw an analysis that most of the oil shales require $100+ oil to make a 10% unlevered return. May take a while to test that thesis. Companies are cutting capex but still showing growth with hedged production. Seems 15 could be fairly weak if the Saudis don't cooperate, which today I don't think they will. They are going to bite the bullet to find equilibrium, could get ugly.
No conspiracies here, oil has dropped 30% and they stumbled with their growth plans. The dividend increase is meaningless. No reason to buy over other companies, Apache just announced 8 to 12% production growth next year. Seems it should get a $100k per b value in a $90 oil price scenario, $10 per share minimum. At $80k per barrel $7. Not sure it will snap back as much as others if oil does rebound. At the previous growth of mid to high single digits, $15+. A company can't afford to not execute in this environment. Guess you could collect your div for a while until they get the issues resolved but it seems there are other companies are still growing.
If you want a yield bet in energy with growth buy Chevron, almost a 4% yield now and they have 1.5 mm acres in the Permian, the biggest ownership, 700k in the Marcellus and 600k in the Utica. And a bunch of world class global assets. Wth DNR you get no growth and a 4% yield.
DNR has micro issues as this analyst points out. Not saying it won't be a good buy at some point but to think they got ahead of the curve on reducing capex seems weak. Could end up being a good move but if oil pops back to $90, the production issues are still there. Much better places to get yield and there's no growth now.
"Overall there wasn't much more clarity given [at Analyst Day], whether operationally or financially, and as such the uncertainty at Denbury has increased significantly while the macro remains troublesome as well," analyst Jason Wangler said.
They aren't stupid, they just didn't execute, you seem to forget that production was down this quarter, far from the 8% annual growth they had talked about. This is more than the drop in oil. Doesn't make sense to me to raise the div when prod is flat and prices are down 30%. If oil doesn't recover in 16, then they will basically keep prod flat again and just have enough to cover the div. Imo, they are masking the operations issues with the drop in prices, the departure of two top operations execs is not about commodity prices. Haven't owned DNR is a while but if you believe prices are coming back, I do, DNR will not be at the top of a list of oil co buys. Again, think it was kind of ridiculous raising the div when you rang the alarm on prices and you're not executing. Smacks of desperation on part of CEO, throw investors a bone to give him time to execute. Finance guys in the top job of an e and p are always suspect.
Almost bought tod#$%$y, I'm going to try to w#$%$it out #$%$nother down dr#$%$ft. Suspect OPEC does nothing #$%$nd the he#$%$dlines will not be good, but re#$%$lly don't think #$%$nything they do will h#$%$ve #$%$ long l#$%$sting effect. The $90 price still feels right long term. Should be interesting.
Flipped through the slides, oil drops and they blame the change in strategy on that. Seems they aren't executing. This is good franchise imo but they need a new CEO. Not sure they get out of the hole without a change in leadership. With all of the shale ops, don't see a logical buyer ex maybe LINE and they have there own problems.
Looks like Birdog's PWE is really cheap. $4 billion EV, $2 billion mkt cap, guiding 100kbo/d, 69% liquids, $40k per barrel. Pays a double digit yield. DNRs at $100k/b. 5% yleld vs 12%.
cbd, I almost was tempted today at
Half listened to Charles Biderman on CNBC, Trim Tabs, he monitors flows in the market. His thesis is the market is going higher because there is more money chasing fewer shares, has nothing to do with the economy, qe, profti ratios. A smart guy and there may be something there. Too simplistic for the "smart" money guys to adopt.
Throw in cash taxes and they have $1.70 per share of free cash flow after the $550mm capex, which keeps prod flat. From a value perspective, this seems a good bet at $10. Oil prices in the short term could get uglier.
CS downgrade DNR, target to $16 from $19. They still project nearly $1.1 billion in cash flow, around $3.15 per share, half of it goes to capex and $175mm to the div. Will be interesting to hear what they say about the new "plan", if they have one. Still seems it puts them in play. You can get a 5% yield while you wait and if you think oil has bottomed. I don't see how it stays in the $70s longer term. Still seems the MLP form would be the best for a yield play.


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The Clipse's Pusha T recently opened up about former manager Anthony "Geezy" Gonzalez accepting a 32-year jail sentence for drug trafficking last year.
Pusha credits Gonzalez's woes for motivating him to stick to music.
"My former manager's and some good friends' incarceration forced me to make the most of music. I don't want their incarceration to be in vain. Now, there's no way I could even speak to them like, 'I'm home'–they're like, 'You're home? And I'm here for the next tons of years? Come on, get it going.' We owe our family and friends the opportunity to see something better materialize because everything with us went bad." (Complex)
Last week, Clipse's Malice also weighed in on the legal problems.
"The thing with Tony — it was so surreal," Malice explained in an interview. "You always hear you're going to end up dead or in jail if you sell drugs, but I don't think any of us thought it would happen to our fam. I thought we knew something the rest of the world didn't. Ironically, in a weird way though, I literally seen it about to happen…it was intuition I guess. We were all in Miami. Out of nowhere I ask my man Tony if he's good. I told him it would break my heart if he were ever in jail. He reassured me he was good. Everything was fine. The whole crew went down the next day. Our homies were supposed to come back on a later flight than us, but they got word that the authorities were waiting for them at the airport. They never made it back to Virginia. At least not as free men." (Village Voice)
Malice's former manager was one of seven individuals indicted on multiple drug charges in April 2009.
The suspects include the owner of a former club that allegedly served as the drug ring's base. They are charged with distributing more than a ton of marijuana and more than 100 pounds of cocaine. An unidentified police officer is listed in the indictment as a co-conspirator. According to the indictment, the officer fed information about the ongoing investigation to the club's owner. (Daily Press)
In January 2010, Gonzalez came to terms with his three decade-long jail bid.
The sentence comes after Gonzales, 34, struck a deal with prosecutors in November. He was facing an 82-count indictment for drug trafficking and allegedly distributing more than 100 pounds of cocaine. During sentencing, a remorseful Gonzales said, "I just want to say that I'm sorry to my family and I'm sorry to the community." Although Gonzales took full responsibility for the charges he was still sentenced to 32 years, which is the minimum sentence based off federal guidelines. At press time neither Pusha T nor Malice were available for comments. (XXL Mag)
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Reading School Board getting closer to final budget vote
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The Reading School board is still ironing out its budget in the face of a $12 million budget gap.
The board met Monday night to keep working on the final budget.
Some things on the table include eliminating pre-K, slashing all middle school sports, and staff cuts.
Another meeting is planed for Wednesday.
The board plans to pass its final budget on Friday.
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A lacklustre rail budget snapped the two-day gains of the BSE barometer Sensex, which shed 30 points today as investors remained cautious ahead of the budget.
Amid weak global advices, Sensex opened nearly 100 points down and continued to remain range-bound as wary operators remained cautious ahead of the expiry of February contracts on Thursda- and the budget day after.
Finally the 30—issue bellwether closed 30.35 points or 0.19 per cent down at 16,255.97 after touching a high of 16,328.44 and a low 16,187.44. The Sensex had shot up 254.56 points or 1.74 per cent on the previous rail budget day.
The wide-based NSE Nifty also lost 11.45 points to 4,858.60, after moving between 4,880.55 and 4,834.65.
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee kept passenger fares and freight rates unchanged but reduced freight rate for kerosene foodgrain, and fertiliser, which will bring down inflation.
Though Mamata ruled out privatisation, she invited private investment in railways and promised to clear such proposals within 100 days. However, the market was upset as she did not increase wagon order rate, which fuelled concern that the budget may rollback stimulus measures, and thus arrested the rally in the rail-related stocks.
Angel Broking chairman Dinesh Thakkar said, "The railway budget is a non-event from the market perspective even though it is overall positive in its intent and future direction. The budget is devoid of any major populist measures and focused on developing and improving rail infrastructure, including inviting investments through public-private-partnerships."
Similarly, shares of Engineers India shed 1.86 per cent during the day to a low of Rs 1,920.80. It later closed at Rs 1,929, down 1.45 per cent on BSE.
Analysts said as the rail budget was on expected lines, sector-specific shares witnessed heavy profit taking.
Besides, the KK Birla group company Texmaco, which is in the business of wagon manufacturing, dropped 4.69 per cent to end at Rs 142.25. During the intra-day trade the scrip had plunged 8.37 per cent to a low of Rs 136.75.
Further, rail infrastructure developing firm Kalindi Rail was down 5 per cent, the maximum permissible single day plunge for the scrip, to Rs 183.50 on the BSE.
Other major losers include Hind Rectifiers (4.79 per cent), BEML (1.73 per cent), Stone India (5.02 per cent),
Meanwhile, sectoral stocks which bucked the trend are Container Corporation of India (1.19 per cent at Rs 1,198.65), Gateway Distriparks (0.89 per cent) and Simplex Castings (0.61 per cent).
Presenting the budget for 2010-11, railway minister Mamata Banerjee asked business houses to build partnerships with the Railways that employs about 14 lakh people.
A special task force will be set up for early clearance of such projects, Banerjee said, adding that Railways will start six water bottling plants in places like Ambala, Farakka, Nasik, Thiruvananthapuram and Amethi to provide clean and cheap drinking water to passengers.
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Pro Activ • 3-Step System • Skincare - Face
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jessicapereira1691 on 3/11/2014 11:18:00 AM more reviews by jessicapereira1691
Age: 19-24 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium Hair: Brunette Eyes: Blue
I wanted this to be the product to get rid of my acne once in for all. I tried this product back in 2009, and it did nothing to my acne, and I felt so disappointing. They advertised all these people with severe acne and moderate acne and magically after a few months of using Proactiv there acne was cleared, I had moderate/mild acne and did nothing. A few years later in 2013 I tried it again because they said the ingredients were different and stronger, and yet again it did nothing. So disappointing with this product, will never try again. Waste of money and it didn't even help control my acne. They make all these promises and it does not work they need to do more research on this product.
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Priyasingh on 2/20/2014 7:44:00 AM more reviews by Priyasingh
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Medium Brown Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
Ive been dealing with acne problems almost all my life. From the time I turned 14 Ive had some really bad acne problems. I remember being teased in school all time being called mean things all the time. It was very hurtful. My mother got me all kinds of creams and lotions but none of them actually worked.They all came with the same claims that we will get rid of acne in 15 days or 30 days but none of them had any effect on me. The same happened in college as well. But then the story changed,I had a friend who had really bad acne. In fact, our acne troubles made us best friends LOL! Then during summer holidays she was going to try out this 3 step acne treatment. I laughed in her face and wished her luck. But she kept telling me its working and i kept laughing. After holidays when she came back, I was shocked! Her face was so clear. It was really hard to believe. I immediately ordered for my kit as well. Ive been using it for one and half months now and my acne is almost disappeared. I was so happy I couldt wait to write a review. I want to thank this company so much for making this lovely product. Thank you Thank you. It is not just a kit,its a miracle kit.
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lenlen9 on 2/12/2014 3:07:00 PM more reviews by lenlen9
Age: 30-35 Skin: Acne-prone, Tan Hair: Brunette Eyes: Brown
This did not work for me at all. I have moderate acne that flares up every now and then and this system didn't even make a dent to it. The only thing it managed to do is dry my skin up and the acne is still there even after several months of use. Only Retin-A worked for me but it's a hassle because it's prescription only however I'm going to stick to what I know works. This was a huge waste of money! I gave it one star because I had such a difficult time cancelling my shipments and even though it was "supposedly" cancelled and I wasn't getting any more shipments, I still got billed for it. I have had to contact my credit card to dispute the charges. Real predatory if you ask me.
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auxxyy on 2/5/2014 2:51:00 AM more reviews by auxxyy
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Very Oily, Medium Hair: Brunette Eyes: Brown
These works great for me with the green tea moisturizer, definitely a better system than proactiv plus, which I also used.
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danaaaa on 2/3/2014 7:04:00 PM more reviews by danaaaa
Age: 19-24 Skin: Other Hair: Other Eyes: Other
The only product that has worked amazing for my skin. I havn't had the best skin for years now and now after using Pro Active I can leave the house with absolutely no make up on and feel fine!
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JessieAnneH on 2/1/2014 9:21:00 PM more reviews by JessieAnneH
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Medium, Neutral Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine Eyes: Brown
Hello fellow beauty enthusiasts,
I am going to share my journey with Pro Activ with you, and how it has literally been damaging my skin for 4 years and i didn't even know it until recently.
I do not have acne, but i do get break-out on my T-Zone once every few months
I started using Pro Active when i was in 8th grade. My mother noticed i was getting a really bad break out on my fore head. So she ordered it, and i loved the results. I only got one- two blemishes literally every 3-4 months, which was amazing. So i continued to use it through out high school. As i approached senior year of high school, it seemed as if it was not working any more. When i examined at my skin it looked horrifying, and not with breakouts or blemishes ,but bigger pores and damaged looking skin. It has literally been deteriorating the health of my skin. I have done research that there are toxic ingredients in many facial cleansers including Pro Active. One main ingredient, Benzyl Peroxide is good for acne, but not particularly good for the skin overall. Yes this is such a controversy these days because it may help acne or break out. In the long run the people may be displeased using such products like these, like myself.
I do have oily skin that breaks out, but not acne. I am not telling people with acne not to use it, but know that there are unfortunate consequences that happen when using this product over a period of time. Also individuals like my self who do not have acne to begin with should not even consider buying it.
For over a year now i have been starting to use more healthy, non-fragrance, and non-toxic facial routine. I will just say that i have found products that work even better for my skin! I don't break out and my skin even has a healthy glow to it now!
Remember your skin soaks in 60% of what you put on it, make sure that ingredients are good for you!
I wish every one the best for their skin!
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Tuney07 on 1/24/2014 3:22:00 PM more reviews by Tuney07
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Medium Hair: Brunette Eyes: Brown
As many of you considering to try Pro Activ, I struggle with acne almost on an everyday basis. I decided to try it and at first it worked decently and I even got compliments on how my skin was improving. Fast forward a few months and it started drying my skin out along with acne flare ups. I went to one of the kiosks to ask questions about the dryness at my local mall and the lady sold me the pro Activ moisturizer with SPF and also tried selling me other stuff but I only bought moisturizer.
For some reason my skin still didn't improve and after using it for a year I felt like it just kept getting worse and worse as if it stopped working for me. I had to let it go and go back to my beloved neutrogena products.
I wouldn't recommend Pro Activ but if you're interested in trying it out, go for it just keep in mind that the infomercial makes it seem affordable but that's only for a 25 day trial. The 50 day trial kit that I bought twice cost around $50-$60 something for the cleanser, toner and lotion. That's kinda pricey if you have to keep repurchasing every couple months. There are some ppl who have benefitted from this stuff such as the lady who worked at their kiosk. Her skin was beautiful and she said she had been using it for 10 yrs. I just think their ingredients may be a bit too harsh. It might work better for severe acne. I do enjoy some of the acne free products such as their sulfur mask. It's a dupe for the pro Activ refining mask. Do your research before getting sucked in and save $!
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suukyi on 1/24/2014 3:07:00 PM more reviews by suukyi
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Fair Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
The lady at the Clinique counter didn't lie to me when she said that Clinique's 3-step acne set works better than Proactiv.
I've used the Clinique product for about 5 weeks, and it didn't completely get rid of my acne.
I guess my acne can be described as moderate to medium. I always get a pimple or two, and every month there's a time when the amount grows to 3-5 zits.
Then, I switched to Proactiv. My acne became worse than I did when I didn't use any products at all. I should have simply used stuff more gentle and nicer to the skin than Proactiv.
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Bailey4213 on 1/24/2014 2:53:00 PM more reviews by Bailey4213
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Cool Hair: Red, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Blue
I used this for close to a year or so, and it did nothing for me. It didn't prevent any breakouts or help heal them. The worst thing about this product is I think it is formulated so that if you don't use it for a day or two your skin breaks out so that you have to continue to use it. Plus, we cancelled it & it just keeps coming. I have so much extra that I'm most likely going to sell it on eBay. Plus this stuff burns really bad, just overall a terrible product. I recently switched off of it & my skin freaked out at first but is now a million times better then before . It's just a hyped-up rip off.
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Sarahjh123 on 1/15/2014 3:55:00 PM more reviews by Sarahjh123
Age: 19-24 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Green
Proactive did wonders for me! I realized the key ingredient (benzoyl peroxide) is what works for my skin. Salicylic acid (used in most products I tried in the past) makes my acne worse. I use the spot mask over night also and loved it! It helped quickly get rid of any occasionally break out. Proactive did clear up my acne, however I did get small occasionally break outs during my time of month. My biggest complaints are the price and I did notice scars were left behind (which never happened to me) after using proactive, not sure if that was proactivs fault though. I wouldn't repurchase anymore, only because I found AcneFree (the severe kit) works amazingly for me. It is the best similar to proactive system for a great price. It also isn't as drying. I highly recommend you to look into AcneFree before you purchase the proactive system.
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Posts Tagged 'birthdays'
Tools of the Trade
November 17, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
I've heard that during the middle of writing The Civil War you bought all the dip pens left in the United States.
My favorite pen-point manufacturer had all but gone out of business—Esterbrook. I was running out and fairly desperate. On Forty-fourth Street just east of the Algonquin Hotel, on the other side of the street, there used to be an old stationery shop, all dusty and everything, and I went in there on the chance he might have some. He looked in a drawer. He had what I wanted—Probate 313. I bought several gross of those things, so I've got enough pen points to last me out my life and more. Another problem is blotters. When I was a kid and when I was writing back in the forties on into the fifties, you could go into any insurance office and they had stacks of giveaway blotters for advertising.
What precisely is a blotter?
This is a blotter [pointing] and if you haven't got one you're up the creek. You use the blotter to keep the ink from being wet on the page. You put the blotter on top and blot the page. I was talking about blotters in an interview, what a hard time I had finding them, and I got a letter from a woman in Mississippi. She said, I have quite a lot of blotters I'll be glad to send you. So I got blotters galore. Ink is another problem. I got a phone call from a man in Richmond, Virginia who had a good supply of ink in quart bottles. I got three quarts from him, so I'm in good shape on that.
Do you reckon you're the last writer to be using dip pens in the United States?
There's probably some other nut somewhere out there doing it.
—Shelby Foote, the Art of Fiction No. 158, 1999
Shelby Foote was born on November 17, 1916, and died in 2005, six years after this interview was published. Though he was a prolific novelist, he remains best known for his three-volume history of the Civil War.
His is one of my favorite Writers at Work interviews, and not coincidentally it's probably one of the longest—Foote's three (!) interlocutors find him in a loquacious and expansive mood, such that almost whenever he opens his mouth he seems to speak in wry, eloquent, discursive paragraphs. He declaims on everything from pajamas to the Ku Klux Klan, and he appears to have known more or less every writer of relevance; his anecdotes include the likes of Faulkner, Hemingway, O'Hara, Kubrick, and Walker Percy, among others.
He also relishes the role of gentle, aging eccentric, as evidenced in the passage above. I've just spent an embarrassingly long while trying to find the name of the defunct stationery shop he references—no luck. I can report, though, that the Esterbrook Probate 313 is readily available for all your dipping needs, even as blotter paper seems now entirely relegated to the realm of LSD paraphernalia.
The Esterbrook Pen Manufacturing Company, founded by Richard Esterbrook in 1858, was once the oldest and largest manufacturer of steel pens in the United States. A midcentury brochure ("INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ESTERBROOK STEEL PENS") notes that the company once turned out more than two hundred million pens a year, "used in every civilized country in the world." The factory went under in 1972.
"You have to communicate sensation," Foote said of the writer's mission,
the belief in what life is, what it's about, and you do it through learning how to handle a pen. That's the reason why I have always felt comfortable with the pen in my hand and extremely uncomfortable having some piece of machinery between me and the paper—even a typewriter let alone a word computer, which just gives me the horrors.
Ways of Witnessing
November 5, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
Geoff Dyer and John Berger, 1984.
I read Berger's Ways of Seeing and then started to read more and more of him, and I found it all very stimulating and exciting. He was doing something that I hadn't come across before in English writing—bridging the gap between criticism and fiction and so on. All with that level of political engagement that was absolutely de rigueur back in the early eighties. He was my favorite writer, and I interviewed him for Marxism Today. —Geoff Dyer, the Art of Nonfiction No. 6, 2013
John Berger is eighty-eight today—I'd been curious for a while about his interview with Geoff Dyer, so I finally did the obvious thing and Googled it. Lo and behold: the December 1984 issue of Marxism Today has been digitally archived by unz.org, with the Dyer-Berger exchange complete and unabridged. The interview, "Ways of Witnessing," sits among such fare as "Hopes, Dreams & Dirty Nappies" ("What can utopias do for mothers and mothers do for utopias?") and a column called "Video Viewpoint" ("Perhaps 1984 will be remembered in some small footnote as the year in which video tapes started to live up to the claims several people, mostly video producers to be sure, had been making… "). The cover story: "Santa's Dramatic Intervention."
At the time, Berger was soon to release And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, but he doesn't discuss the new book much. Instead—as you might anticipate given the venue—he and Dyer talk a lot of leftist shop: "My reading tended to be more anarchist than Marxist-Kropotkin and all the anarchist classics," Berger says. And on why he never became a card-carrying Communist: "I had reservations about the party line in relation to the arts."
Dyer would've been twenty-six when this interview came out; there's not a lot of his voice here, and certainly none of his humor comes through. But you can sense, maybe only because of his later comments, his eagerness to please Berger, or at least to convey the scope of his intellect. Toward its midpoint, the conversation turns to romanticism, and here it's somewhat less arid: Read More »
God, Satan, Waugh
October 28, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
Evelyn Waugh was born today in 1903. You can read his Art of Fiction interview here, but there's also, courtesy of the Spectator's seemingly endless archives, this unverified bit of trivia from a letter to the paper sent in 1971:
Sir: Colin Wilson, your reviewer of Graham Greene's autobiography A Sort of Life quotes from a supposed remark that Evelyn Waugh made to Greene—'You know, Graham, you've made more money out of God than Wodehouse made out of Jeeves.'
I believe there are other versions of this story, although I cannot now remember who told me mine.
A few years ago, while in New York, I was but a stone's throw from the Algonquin Hotel, Mr. Waugh and Mr. Greene were staying in the hotel. Late in the night Mr. Waugh popped into Mr. Greene's room where a publisher's party was still going strong to celebrate another Greene book. At some point during this party Evelyn Waugh announced: 'You know, Graham, you've made more money out of the Devil than I've made out of God.'
Apocryphal or otherwise, the story does contain a more typical Waugh bite than the Jeeves analogy.
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The Brain of the City
October 22, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
I once heard Jasper Johns say that Rauschenberg was the man who in this century had invented the most since Picasso. What he invented above all was, I think, a pictorial surface that let the world in again. Not the world of the Renaissance man who looked for his weather clues out of the window; but the world of men who turn knobs to hear a taped message ... electronically transmitted from some windowless booth. Rauschenberg's picture plane is for the consciousness immersed in the brain of the city.
—Leo Steinberg, "Reflections on the State of Criticism," Artforum, March 1972
Since 1964 The Paris Review has commissioned a series of prints and posters by major contemporary artists. Contributing artists have included Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Bourgeois, Ed Ruscha, and William Bailey. Each print is published in an edition of sixty to two hundred, most of them signed and numbered by the artist. All have been made especially and exclusively for The Paris Review. Many are still available for purchase. Proceeds go to The Paris Review Foundation, established in 2000 to support The Paris Review.
This print is by Robert Rauschenberg, who died in 2008; he would be eighty-nine today. His print came in an edition of 150 that has, alas, sold out, but there are many others available here.
To Suit the Occasion
October 20, 2014 | by Robert Pinsky
In the spring of 2000, The Paris Review published an issue dedicated to poetry—dubbed, in fact, the Poetry Issue—including a series of prompts for poets and an essay by Robert Pinsky, who was then the U.S. Poet Laureate. Pinsky is seventy-four today; an excerpt of his essay, "Occasional Poetry and Poetry on Occasions," follows.
What does it mean that so many distinguished and gifted poets responded to the somewhat goofy games and assignments suggested by The Paris Review for this issue? Not just willingly, but with spirit, they have composed poems to strange titles like "An Empty Surfboard on a Flat Sea" and "Lavatory in a Cathedral," written commentaries on worksheets—written, in other words, to suit the occasion.
Occasions have elicited poems throughout history: coronations, birthdays, weddings, victories, executions, seductions (successful and unsuccessful), births, and deaths have their genres and great examples. Poems responding to specific circumstances have ranged from the agonized majesty of Yeats's "Easter 1916" to the humblest good-humored verses produced for benign laughs at the office retirement party or a family anniversary. Donne wrote "the Anniversaries" on assignment and Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" is the most gloriously entertaining in-group, after-dinner speech in the language.
Does this play of talent in response to occasions and assignments tell us anything about the art of poetry? Many poets have been unwilling or unable to write on assignment, in response to circumstance but even their work has been used after the fact—quoted in speeches, inscribed in stone, read at the graveside or after the victory. (Anyone who writes or studies poetry can remember being asked for something suitable to be recited at a wedding or a funeral.)
Occasional poetry is a reminder that poetry is related to speech a little bit in the way dance is related to walking: it is more playful, as well as more serious. Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath. Read More »
A Complete Guide to Flinging in Oscar Wilde
October 16, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
I wonder if you could talk a little bit about your life as a gay man.
It's been a somewhat checkered career as a gay man. I was never totally successful. I think it started in high school, when in grade ten or eleven I developed a fascination with Oscar Wilde. Some of my friends shared this fascination so we used to dress like Oscar Wilde and memorize his aphorisms and construct conversations in the lunchroom, as if we were Oscar Wilde and his friends.
—Anne Carson, the Art of Poetry No. 88, 2004
I also had an early fascination with Oscar Wilde, though mine hasn't, to my knowledge, led to an exciting double life. In high school, as I read through Wilde's plays and then some of his prose, I came to recognize a pattern: his characters were always flinging themselves onto sofas. That was the only word Wilde ever used for it, fling, and he used it inordinately, constantly; the more I looked for it the more it turned up. No one in Wilde's domain, it seemed, could get any thinking or moping done without first flinging oneself onto the nearest possible surface—cushioned, ideally, but not necessarily—and lighting a cigarette or bursting into tears. Over and over again, his lords and ladies had no recourse but to fling. They never pitched, cast, heaved, hurled, or tossed.
I didn't object to this, as melodramatic as it was. In fact part of me aspired to such melodrama: I imagined that in adult life I would be confronted with one impasse after another for which the only cathartic response would be to fling myself onto a couch, weeping, smoking, or both. I was looking forward to it—if anything, I disappoint myself today with how rarely I'm compelled to do flinging of any kind. Little did I know that, as a teenager surging with hormones, I was at peak flinging age, with my best flinging days right there for the taking.
To this day, though, I associate the verb with Wilde; he left his mark on it, or it left its mark on him. Since today's his birthday, I found his collected works online and made sure I hadn't been deluding myself. Lo and behold, an amateurish concordance confirms that fling is everywhere. Herewith, then: your comprehensive guide to flinging in Wilde. Consult it in moments of emotional strife, perhaps just before or after your own bouts of flinging, and know that you are not alone. Read More »