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A judge gives life to an extraordinary new law designed to remedy the state's long history of prejudice in capital trials.
If we still want to have a sound and sober national conversation about race and justice, if we still are eager to use a single case as a totem for what we perceive to be wrong or unjust about the criminal justice system, perhaps we all would be better served by paying attention to what's happening in North Carolina to a man named Marcus Robinson than we are by paying attention to what's happening in Florida to a man named George Zimmerman.
State "Stand Your Ground" self-defense laws, like the one about to save Zimmerman, may be today's fashionable example of a way in which the law is manipulated to achieve a particular result (by design, these ALEC-infused "affirmative defenses" allow more people to kill more people without being punished for it). But compared with the country's long history of racial bias in jury selection, compared with all the death penalty cases that have been rigged in this fashion over the years, the new "justifiable homicide" laws have only begun to do their work.
On Friday morning, at his bail hearing, Zimmerman solemnly apologized, live on national television, to the family of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed young man he shot to death on February 26 in Sanford, Florida. Around the same time, 700 or so miles up the road, a state court judge in Fayetteville, North Carolina, was publishing an apology of sorts of his own: a 168-page order, an instant must-read for anyone who cares about crime and punishment, that vacated Robinson's death sentence and re-sentenced the convicted murder to life in prison.
Actually, Cumberland County Senior Resident Presiding Judge Gregory A. Weeks' order was more of an indictment than an apology. In meticulous detail, he explained why Robinson, who is black, deserved relief under the state's Racial Justice Act, a laudable legislative effort designed to vindicate the rights of capital defendants whose trials are marked by racial bias. Weeks was convinced by the evidence that prosecutors had used peremptory challenges at Robinson's 1994 murder trial to systematically remove blacks from his jury pool.
An apology. An indictment. And also a warning. Judge Weeks wrote: "In the first case to advance to an evidentiary hearing under the RJA, Robinson introduced a wealth of evidence showing the persistent, pervasive, and distorting role of race in jury selection throughout North Carolina. The evidence, largely unrebutted by the State, requires relief in his case and should serve as a clear signal of the need for reform in capital jury selection proceedings in the future."
A peremptory challenge occurs before a criminal trial when the prosecutor or defense attorney unilaterally dismisses a potential juror from the pool without having to provide any factual or legal justification for doing so. Rule 24 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, for example, states that each side in federal capital case gets 20 peremptory challenges. It's a lower number for non-capital cases. In North Carolina today, as well as when Robinson was tried, each side gets 14 peremptory challenges in a capital case.
For nearly a century of American history, there was no significant racial component to peremptory challenges because there were virtually no black or other minority jurors. Scholars believe that blacks began serving on juries only in 1860. By the end of the bloodiest decade in American history, a Reconstructionist Congress in 1869 gave blacks the right -- in the District of Columbia anyway -- to hold public office and serve on juries. (For an excellent look at this issue read this Yale Law Journal article by James Forman, Jr.)
What some prosecutors decided to do, almost as soon as blacks began to serve on juries, was to disqualify them from specific cases by using peremptory challenges. Black jurors were peremptorily precluded from sitting in judgment on black defendants and black jurors were peremptorily precluded from sitting in judgment on white defendants, especially those charged with killing or injuring black victims. More or less, and in some venues more often than others, it was this way in America for decade upon decade.
Let's now jump ahead to Batson v. Kentucky, a 1986 United States Supreme Court decision which made it easier -- but still not easy -- for black defendants to successfully challenge their convictions based upon race-based peremptory challenges. Convicted defendants still had to produce evidence of bad intent on the part of prosecutors in a case-specific context. Justice Thurgood Marshall, in a concurrence, wrote that "the inherent potential of peremptory challenges to distort the jury process by permitting the exclusion of jurors on racial grounds should ideally lead the court to ban them entirely..." But the Batson Court ruled:
The defendant first must show that he is a member of a cognizable racial group, and that the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges to remove from the venire members of the defendant's race. The defendant may also rely on the fact that peremptory challenges constitute a jury selection practice that permits those to discriminate who are of a mind to discriminate. Finally, the defendant must show that such facts and any other relevant circumstances raise an inference that the prosecutor used peremptory challenges to exclude the veniremen from the petit jury on account of their race.
Once the defendant makes a prima facie showing, the burden shifts to the State to come forward with a neutral explanation for challenging black jurors. The prosecutor may not rebut a prima facie showing by stating that he challenged the jurors on the assumption that they would be partial to the defendant because of their shared race or by affirming his good faith in individual selections.
Nearly 20 years later, the Supreme Court upheld the essence of Batson in a contentious case out of Texas styled Miller-El v. Dretke. You can't understand the significance of Judge Weeks' ruling without reading Miller-El. The 6-3 majority opinion is a testament to the scurrilousness of prosecutors and to the lumbering judicial response to systemic racial bias. Even in 2005, Miller-El reminds us, the United States Supreme Court was publicly arguing with a lower federal court about whether a rigged capital trial warranted meaningful judicial relief.
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Given Tunisia's hot and humid climate, people perspire easily. Consequently, deodorant is a necessity for many consumers. This product type is commonly used by working women, youth and sports players. The new product developments which are concerned with anti-spot mineral ingredients like Tahiti Efficacite by Colgate-Palmolive and Nivea Dry Impact by Beiersdorf AG, are attracting demand from those who are looking for more natural-positioned deodorants and deodorants that will not stain clothes.
Euromonitor International's Deodorants in Tunisia report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data 2008-2012, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. Forecasts to 2017 illustrate how the market is set to change.
Product coverage: Deodorant Creams, Deodorant Pumps, Deodorant Roll-Ons, Deodorant Sprays, Deodorant Sticks, Deodorant Wipes.
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Table 2 Sales of Deodorants by Category: % Value Growth 2007-2012
Table 3 Deodorants Premium Vs Mass % Analysis 2007-2012
Table 4 Deodorants Company Shares 2008-2012
Table 5 Deodorants Brand Shares 2009-2012
Table 6 Deodorants Premium Brand Shares 2009-2012
Table 7 Forecast Sales of Deodorants by Category: Value 2012-2017
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Table 9 Forecast Deodorants Premium Vs Mass % Analysis 2012-2017
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Here's a nice variation on the classic Waldorf salad. The use of apples and carrots makes it sweet, colourful and appealing to youngsters. You can omit the nuts and add grapes, raisins, or a sprinkling of sunflower/pumpkin seeds if you like.
- 2 red apples peeled ,cored and sliced
- 100 g celery chopped
- 100g grated carrot
- 2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
- Mayonnaise
- 1 lettuce
- Lemon juice
After chopping the apples, coat them in a little lemon juice to stop them browning.
Mix all the ingredients, except the lettuce, with some mayonnaise.
Serve on a bed of shredded lettuce.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Healthy Indiana Plan medical savings accounts are getting mixed reviews as Gov. Mike Pence seeks federal approval to use them to expand Medicaid in this state.
The first of two public hearings on Pence's proposal to use HIP to complete a Medicaid expansion for Indiana residents earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level drew both opponents and supporters Wednesday. A second hearing is scheduled Friday.
Representatives of hospitals in Indianapolis, Lake County and rural Rush County say HIP would achieve the Medicaid expansion and reduce the amount of indigent care they must provide to uninsured patients.
However, Democratic state Rep. Sheila Klinker of Lafayette says some single men and women haven't been able to enroll in HIP and aren't getting the health care they need.


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how to negotiate price of plastic surgery?
is this even possible? ive heard of people talking down the price in small towns but it seems like if you go with "the hot doctor" they wont budge on price - cheapskates! i think plastic surgery should be no different than buying a car, after all they are charging us just as much! you should be able to negotiate the price especially since the fixed costs (anesthesia, o.r. etc) is pretty low and the surgeons fee is pretty much all profit in the surgeons pocket. i dont like that my doctor doesnt give me any kind of discount because i am a very loyal customer. just doesn't seem right.
even car dealers "throw in the floor mats for free" hehehehe :D
Negotiating the price of plastic surgery is like negotiating your taxes - just don't happen :p
That's not true actually. I've heard of people negotiating the price. Although that was in the suburbs I'm almost sure if you try to negotiate the price with the best plastic surgeons in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and other major cities that won't happen. They usually already have a waiting list months long so they have no incentive to budge on the price. When I heard people getting a discount it was because of a getting more than one procedure so the surgeon offered a break in price. The doctor will need to be getting either repeat business or doing more than one surgery at once usually to have any motive to come down on the price. Good luck!
Sweetie everything is negotiable :D
Why don't you ask? It never hurts to ask. What's the worst a plastic surgeon can say to you, NO?
Don't ask for a discount just ask for a price slightly less than whay they gave live you. Remember You don't get what you don't ask for.
This is especially true if you're getting a couple procedures that are related i.e. arm lift + lipo, rhinoplasty + chin implant, and so on. Usually then you are able to knock the price down.
Well honestly I don't get the whole fuss on why doctors can't be more generous. Unlike a car dealer that has a fixed price they bought it for the so-called doctor's fee or surgery fee is all profit. For them to say they can't budge on price is gibberish! In small towns I'm sure they will but I just don't know who these plastic surgeon think they are in the big city that feel they're too good be good to a loyal customer!
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|Our season is not dead, says Tonbridge Angels assistant Alex O'Brien
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TONBRIDGE ANGELS assistant manager Alex O'Brien has explained why Saturday's home clash against Boreham Wood is a massive game.
The Angels sit in a respectable 12th place in their inaugural Blue Square Bet (Conference) South campaign with 34 points from 26 games.
But they were knocked out of the Kent Senior Cup last night as Dartford proved to be too powerful as Tony Burman's side fought back from 2-0 down to win 4-2 after extra time on a bitterly cold night at Longmead Stadium.
Tommy Warrilow's side opened the scoring through Chris Piper's thirteenth minute finish, before winger Nathan Korenteng drove home the second three minutes after the break.
But Jack Pallen swiftly pulled a goal back for the Darts, who forced extra time when Richard Graham scored, before Graham and Lee Burns scored inside extra-time to earn the Darts a lucrative home tie against League One neighbours Charlton Athletic in the semi-final.
Tonbridge Angels last won the Kent Senior Cup back in 1975 and reached the final in 2007, when Warrilow's side lost to Bromley.
O'Brien said: "Dartford are doing well, aren't they, with Cup runs and money. I'm not going to swallow too much about that. I'm just going to get on with that we've got two league games, Boreham Wood and (away to) Staines Town so that's what we've got to do.
"We're in a fantastic league that we've done everything we could to get into and now we're in it we're going to enjoy it and we've got big games coming up.
"We're back to the bread and butter. We're eleven points off the play-off's and eleven points off the drop zone so the season's not dead for us.
"It's going to turn into a tight league. There's going to be a play-off spot that everyone's going to fight for and we've got to win that game and get on with it and dust ourselves on and then we've got (a trip to) Staines the following Tuesday, so we've got big games.
"We're not going to be down in the dumps. We've got two massive games coming up."
Star striker, Jon Main, returned to action as a 51st minute substitute against Dartford last night, but O'Brien hinted that the former AFC Wimbledon marksman, who last started a game for the Angels back in September, is likely to start on the bench on Saturday.
He said: "It's a little bit too early to be honest because he trained once last week.
"He was meant to have 10-15 minutes last night and he ended up having 69 minutes and we'll have to asses him on Thursday and then see if he can get some more minutes on Saturday.
"It's about building up his fitness and his sharpness and also his confidence."
Meanwhile, the club have confirmed that up to two under 16's can be admitted for £1 each if accompanied by an adult paying full admission for this match and also the home match against Maidenhead United on 10 March.
Visit Tonbridge Angels' website: www.tonbridgeangels.co.uk & www.tonbridgeangelsonline.co.uk
Tonbridge Angels v Boreham Wood
Blue Square Bet South
Saturday 4th February 2012
Kick Off 3:00pm
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Definitions for bypass
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word bypass
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
by′pass`(n.; v.)
or by′-pass`
(n.)a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
Category: Civil Engineering, Transportation
a surgical procedure in which a diseased or obstructed hollow organ is temporarily or permanently circumvented.
Category: Surgery
Ref: Compare coronary bypass.
a secondary pipe or other channel connected with a main passage, as for conducting a liquid or gas around a fixture, pipe, or appliance.
Category: Civil Engineering
Category: Electricity and Magnetism
Ref: shunt (def. 7). 9
(v.t.)to avoid by following a bypass.
Category: Transportation
to cause (fluid or gas) to follow a secondary pipe or bypass.
Category: Civil Engineering
to neglect to consult or to ignore the opinion or decision of:
I bypassed the manager and took my complaint straight to the owner.
Origin of bypass:
Princeton's WordNet
beltway, bypass, ring road, ringway(noun)
a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
shunt, electrical shunt, bypass(verb)
a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
bypass, short-circuit, go around, get around(verb)
avoid something unpleasant or laborious
"You cannot bypass these rules!"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
a road that goes around sth
the Hoover Dam bypass
an operation that redirects the flow of blood or food
a heart bypass
to go around a place
a road that bypasses the city
to ignore or avoid a rule
finding ways to bypass the new law
a road that passes around something, such as a residential area
a circumvention
a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture
an electrical shunt
an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass
to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
to ignore the usual channels or procedures
A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety. If there are no strong land use controls, buildings are often built in town along a bypass, converting it into an ordinary town road, and the bypass may eventually become as congested as the local streets it was intended to avoid. Shopping centres and some other companies often are built there for ease of access, while homes are often avoided for noise reasons.
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Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'bypass' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3423
Anagrams of bypass
pass by
Translations for bypass
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
a road which avoids an obstruction or a busy area
Take the bypass round the city.
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- die UmleitungGerman
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- dérivationFrench
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- فرعی لارهPashto
- variantePortuguese
- drum ocolitRomanian
- обходной путьRussian
- obchádzkaSlovak
- obvozSlovenian
- obilaznicaSerbian
- förbifartsled, omfartsledSwedish
- ถนนเลี่ยงเมืองThai
- çevre yoluTurkish
- 旁道Chinese (Trad.)
- обхідна, об'їздна дорогаUkrainian
- مختصر راستہUrdu
- đường vòngVietnamese
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I accidentally invented a device to collimate any light source into a concentrated beam... what should I do with it?
umm... , I don't think so. collimating the light from a 100 watt bulb would give you collimated light from a 100 waTt bulb, not a laser. lasers are collimated, yes but not all collimated light IS A lasers (all dogs are animals but not all animals are dogs) Any light can be collimated any form of radiated energy can be in fact and perhaps you have stumbled onto a better method of doing so. I hope you have, good luck with it.
I am extremely interested in your design, I have been working on a similar device. I have a very large concave mirror, it is about 1 meter in diameter, 1 square meter of light hitting earth = ~1000 watts. Exactly like a large magnifying glass if used with the sun will instantly ignite most items. If you could collimate the light from the focal point you could potentially make a laser. It could be used as a weapon: Imagine a giant concave mirror in space (if to heavy maybe a fresnel lens) if it could be collimated you would indeed have a true Archimedes death ray, of course I would prefer forwarding humanity instead. We could use this to beam energy to a specific point anywhere within line of sight. It could be very useful for heat/energy in remote parts of the planet or even for space exploration.
A laser is not a collimated beam of white light.
I am not sure why I said laser, I know quite well the definition of laser. I should have said something similar to a laser. It would just be a collimated beam of light. I am still thinking this is not possible. Quite a while back I made a (quite amature) solar pumped ND: YAG laser using the same 1 meter mirror. Similar to the one listed here: http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/print/vol...
More here:
So I'll be opening up the design, publishing it in full on my website along with a bunch of other stuff in the coming months.
I'll post a link here when that happens.
Question 1)
As long as you can get it all into a light pipe or similar then, according to my simulations, this device will collimate it, yes.
However trying to do anything with light sources that large might be a bit tricky...
Probably better to go with bulbs, as small and powerful as possible.
Question 2)
Sure, just whack a couple lenses on the beam to focus and recollimate it.
You have a link for the RPC system?
My device, if it works at all, would be arbitrarily scalable.
One of the origins of the saying.
If an old grey haired scientist tells you can do it, you can do it.
If an old grey haired scientist tells you can't do it, he is wrong.
I say he should go for it too.
You have a link for the RPC system?
My device, if it works at all, would be arbitrarily scalable.
You have a link for the RPC system?
My device, if it works at all, would be arbitrarily scalable.
If an old grey haired scientist tells you can do it, you can do it.
If an old grey haired scientist tells you can't do it, he is wrong.
Build a prototype test it and get it to work then patent it.
Lazars are lousy weapons so don't worry about that.
I did mean to imply that this device will make light coherent, just that it would form a laser-like beam of varying wavelengths of light.
any help appreciated.
It's possibly something I'd want to patent, but am thinking if effective it would make quite a good ultra cheap opensource 'laser' cutter, which could be of use to people.
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I'm not sure we (myself included) said this was impossible, just difficult :-) You will get some beam spread (you quote 1-2 meters/km, or 1-2 milliradians), so the intensity will still fall off proportional to 1/r2, but with a small proportionality constant.
I'm curious as to whether what you've really done is to reinvent the Winston cone. Take a look at that article (and look up the many users of Winston cones in Google Scholar) and see if it relates to your work.
By the way, the reason I didn't mention Winston cones when we were discussing your project, is that I didn't think of them as "collimators," but just as light collectors you hook up to a phototube :-/


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Friends of fraudFebruary 05,2013Like many advocates of financial reform, I was a bit disappointed in the bill that finally emerged. Dodd-Frank gave regulators the power to rein in many financial excesses; but it was and is less clear that future regulators will use that power. As history shows, the financial industrys wealth and influence can all too easily turn those who are supposed to serve as watchdogs into lap dogs instead.
There was, however, one piece of the reform that was a shining example of how to do it right: the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a standalone agency with its own funding, charged with protecting consumers against financial fraud and abuse. And sure enough, Senate Republicans are going all out in an attempt to kill that bureau.
Why is consumer financial protection necessary? Because fraud and abuse happen.
Dont say that educated and informed consumers can take care of themselves. For one thing, not all consumers are educated and informed. Edward Gramlich, the Federal Reserve official who warned in vain about the dangers of subprime, famously asked, Why are the most risky loan products sold to the least sophisticated borrowers? He went on, The question answers itself the least sophisticated borrowers are probably duped into taking these products.
And even well-educated adults can have a hard time understanding the risks and payoffs associated with financial deals a fact of which shady operators are all too aware. To take an area in which the bureau has already done excellent work, how many of us know whats actually in our credit-card contracts?
Now, you might be tempted to say that while we need protection against financial fraud, theres no need to create another bureaucracy. Why not leave it up to the regulators we already have? The answer is that existing regulatory agencies are basically concerned with bolstering the banks; as a practical, cultural matter they will always put consumer protection on the back burner just as they did when they ignored Gramlichs warnings about subprime.
So the consumer protection bureau serves a vital function. But as I said, Senate Republicans are trying to kill it.
How can they do that, when the reform is already law and Democrats hold a Senate majority? Here as elsewhere, theyre turning to extortion threatening to filibuster the appointment of Richard Cordray, the bureaus acting head, and thereby leave the bureau unable to function. Cordray, whose work has drawn praise even from the bankers, is clearly not the issue. Instead, its an open attempt to use raw obstructionism to overturn the law.
What Republicans are demanding, basically, is that the protection bureau lose its independence. They want its actions subjected to a veto by other, bank-centered financial regulators, ensuring that consumers will once again be neglected, and they also want to take away its guaranteed funding, opening it to interest-group pressure. These changes would make the agency more or less worthless but that, of course, is the point.
How can the GOP be so determined to make America safe for financial fraud, with the 2008 crisis still so fresh in our memory? In part its because Republicans are deep in denial about what actually happened to our financial system and economy. On the right, its now complete orthodoxy that do-gooder liberals, especially former Rep. Barney Frank, somehow caused the financial disaster by forcing helpless bankers to lend to Those People.
In reality, this is a nonsense story that has been extensively refuted; Ive always been struck in particular by the notion that a congressional Democrat, holding office at a time when Republicans ruled the House with an iron first, somehow had the mystical power to distort our whole banking system. But its a story conservatives much prefer to the awkward reality that their faith in the perfection of free markets was proved false.
And as always, you should follow the money. Historically, the financial sector has given a lot of money to both parties, with only a modest Republican lean. In the last election, however, it went all in for Republicans, giving them more than twice as much as it gave to Democrats (and favoring Mitt Romney over the president almost three to one). All this money wasnt enough to buy an election but it was, arguably, enough to buy a major political party.
Right now, all the media focus is on the obvious hot issues immigration, guns, the sequester, and so on. But lets try not to let this one fall through the cracks: just four years after runaway bankers brought the world economy to its knees, Senate Republicans are using every means at their disposal, violating all the usual norms of politics in the process, in an attempt to give the bankers a chance to do it all over again.
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What is wi-fi? The ability to hook up to the internet wirelessly. Also known as a wireless network.
Do I need wi-fi or 3g? If you want internet or if you want to get a book without hooking it up to a PC or MAC.
Does my cell phone or tablet have wi-fi? Most likely yes. Most cell phones and devices are wi-fi enabled meaning you can use their internet features (transfer books, files, photos and more) after connecting to a wi-fi network. A wi-fi network is usually enabled on wi-fi routers, wi-fi modems or other less common devices like wi-fi repeater or wi-fi access points.
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What is 4g? Even less devices have 4G. It's actually 3G but usually faster. They're still working on 4G to make it faster.
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1 Tue
St Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea, Cappadocia
Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ
2 Wed
Cosmas Archbishop of Constantinople
George the New Martyr of Georgia
Juliana the Righteous
Theodota, the Mother of the Holy Anargyroi
Theagenes the Hieromartyr, Bishop of Parios
Nilos the Sanctified
Theopistos the Martyr
3 Thu
Holy Prophet Malachias (Malachi)
Righteous Akakios the Wonderworker
Righteous Peter of Atroas
Righteous Thomas of Lesbos
4 Fri
Synaxis of the the Seventy Apostoles
Eustathios Archbishop of Serbia
Righteous Apollinaria the Senator
Theoctistos the Righteous of Sicily
Righteous Euthymios of Vatopedi
Righteous Euthymios of Vatopedi
5 Sat
The Holy Martyrs Theopemptos and Theonas. Our Righteous Mother Syncletiki
Apollinaria of Egypt
Prophet Micaiah, son of Imlah
6 Sun
Theophan the Recluse
7 Mon
8 Tue
Our Righteous Father George of Hozeva
Atticus and Cyrus, Holy Patriarchs of Constantinople
Emilianos the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzikos
9 Wed
St Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow
Eustratios the Wonderworker
10 Thu
Dometian, Bishop of Melitene
Theosebia the Deaconess, sister of Basil the Great & Gregory of Nyssa
11 Fri
12 Sat
13 Sun
Maximos the Righteous of Kapsokalyvia, Mount Athos
14 Mon
15 Tue
Our Righteous Fathers Paul of Thebes
John the Cave Dweller
Pansophios the Martyr of Alexandria
16 Wed
Veneration of the Precious Chains of the Holy and Apostle Peter
Righteous Hierodeacon Makarios of Kalogeras
17 Thu
Anthony the New of the Berropas Skete
George the New Martyr of Ioannina
Theodosios the Emperor
18 Fri
Sts Athanasios and Cyril, Archbishops of Alexandria
Zenia the Martyr
19 Sat
Macarios the Great of Egypt, Macarios of Alexandria Arsenios of Corfu, Mark Eugenicus, Metropolitan of Ephesus
20 Sun
Zacharias the New Martyr of Patra
21 Mon
22 Tue
Anastasios, the Persian Righteous Monk-Martyr
Timothy the Apostle of the 70
23 Wed
24 Thu
Vavylas the Holy Martyr
25 Fri
26 Sat
Symeon the Elder of Mount Sinai
27 Sun
Translation of the Holy Relics St John Chrysostom
Dimitrios the New Martyr of Constantinople.
Peter the Righteous of Egypt
28 Mon
Our Righteous St Ephraim the Syrian
James the Righteous
Palladios the Hermit of Antioch
29 Tue
Translation of the Sacred Relics of Ignatius Bishop of Antioch
30 Wed
The Ecumenical teachers Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom
Athanasia the Martyr & her 3 daughters
Theophilos New Martyr
31 Thu
Holy and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cyrus and John
Holy Women Martyrs Theodote, Theoktiste and Eudoxia
Our Righteous Father Arsenios Of Paros


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1) I am so very very grateful for warm yummy morning coffee
2) I am so very very grateful for a new friend in "M". I do actually feel like she and I could become great friends
3) I am so very very grateful for my wonderful husband for splitting the night with Little One last night who was up coughing with a cold
4) I am so very very grateful for the wet sloppy morning kisses I get smothered in…. I don't think anyone has ever missed me so much in less than 24 hours. :)
5) I am so very very grateful for insight… and foresight…
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1) I am so very very grateful for warm yummy morning coffee
1) For challenges! Keeps me on my toes! And them I'm proud of myself when I can stay focused on properly aligning my values with my actions.
2) For the "keep at it" spirit so many people possess. It's inspiring and keeps me trucking along!
3) That even though it's a dark and dreary one today, the day feels filled with promise and hope
4) For the power of the bootcamp intentions…. they keep popping up in my mind throughout the day!
5) That I am going to get to see my sister this Sunday! She is great!
6) For my best friend S. She is my rock solid! I can't wait to dual family vacation with her!
1) That Sweet husband went on baby duty after 1:00 a.m. ... I was so tired and baby just was not sleeping…
2) That We tackled the living room and took down the tree and all the decorations.
3) For the feeling you get from an orderly space
4) For the feeling you get from a clean slate, a new year, new goals and the potential for intention!
5) For the sweetest, sloppiest, wettest, first this in the morning kisses a mommy could ever ask for!! :) xx!
1) For a good sleep courtesy of Little One
2) For the Bootcamp goal… I love what I have come up with a written and if I can stick to it, By January 30th, I will be such a happy woman.
3) For the great people here on 43things who are encouraging and supportive and just all around cool.
4) That my husband may have a new offer today… a really good one!
5) For organizing the closets with DH yesterday
6) For making a plan of action with regards to the house and what needs to get done!
7) For a quick trip to the aquarium and an AWESOME sushi dinner out! Haven't done that in a while! Yummy!
8) For a good talk with my husband the other night that provided some relief from worries and stressors.
9) For emotional, spiritual and mental growth…. the physical growth around my waist line over the holidays is NOT included! :)
1) For a cathartic moment at 1:30 a.m. (moments rather)
2) For a BRAND NEW YEAR!
3) For the hour Darling Husband is giving me to reflect and write before he has to do some work
4) For my cute, sweet sweet baby… I love his sweet kisses in the morning and his cuddly little cuddles
5) For feeling a weight has lifted off of me!
1) For this amazing year getting to know my little baby
2) For learning a new and incredible depthless love
3) For making it through a tough move with an infant to a place I didn't want to go
4) For being able to get comfortable with sacrifices
5) For my husband's amazing example of love and forgiveness
6) For my unending pursuit to be the Wonder Woman I know I can be
7) For such good girl friends. I am damn lucky I have these women
8) For the new people I've met in town and how nicely they embraced us
9) For learning to be more forgiving of myself
10) For coming out of a self esteem dump!
11) For losing the baby weight plus some!
12) For the upcoming year and the promise for so much good! I'm so excited.
13) For taking advantage of the museum of natural history and the aquarium memberships! What a great deal!
14) For the indoor play gym that wears out my little guy
15) For family who mean well :) knowing that they do love us.
16) For getting my teeth back in gear with a great dentist!
17) For a good immune system fighting off colds and stomach flus quickly!
18) For all the people who work at the stores that provide us with good, healthy foods to eat. I appreciate the time they spend, ordering and stocking shelves and keeping things fresh and in order.
19) For my husband being a sweet cute funny man
20) For my husband being a funny, supportive, caring, affectionate Daddy!
21) For nice friends here on 43things
22) For the maintenance of this website so I can continue to accomplish goals in an organized place
23) For the site giving me hope for change for the future
I could just keep going on and on…
1) For my health
2) For the beautiful people in my life
3) That I have a undying passion to feel good and help make my family feel good
4) That my mom continues NOT to get worse!
5) For remembering that when we judge other people it doesn't leave much time to love them….
1) For the new year coming up…. I always feel like the clean slate helps motivate me.
2) For 43things… I can't want to revamp my list and construct the new me for 2013
3) For my beautiful son who teaches me patients on a daily basis… poor bubba can't sleep again… teething like a madman
4) For his cute little drunk sailor walk… I can't believe he is walking!!
5) That 2012 has been a great year and 2013 will be also!
6) For spending time with family pretty uneventfully and coming out the other side of Christmas pretty unscathed!!
1) That the house is germ freeish .. or we are all feeling better
2) That I had finished my holiday shopping early because I was sick alllll week and would NEVER have been able to get it done at the last minute like I usually do! Here's to sticking to my goals!
3) For the good "faker" lazy man's chicken rice soup we made last night
4) For a good cute husband who puts up with me when I'm a PIA :) I acknowledged that last night through a bunch of laughter
5) That the baby is still sleeping and letting me catch up on my goal list today. It's so nice to have a little quiet time to myself.
1) That my husband could stay home from work yesterday and today to take care of Little One while I recover from a SERIOUS stomach bug or food poisoning… he stepped in and took over with the same amazing care I would give him :) makes me so happy….
2) For my health when I have it… so appreciate not being sick… so grateful for my efficient immune system that kicks the crap out of stuff pretty quickly
3) That I got sick before Christmas and after Hanukkah so it didn't ruin any of our celebrating
4) For water to replenish
5) For my Little One's smile and cuteness… I've missed him so much as he has been entirely with Dadda while I get better…
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Gold plated base metal link multi strand necklace with yellow clay beads, dyed simulated orange howlite, amethyst, chrysoprase details and crystal accents
Material: Gold plated base metal, nickel plated base metal, clay, simulated howlite, amethyst, chrysoprase, and crystal
Brand: Tova
Origin: Imported
With Tova, Canadian designer Michelle Luterman combines crystals, beading, fabrics and various metals into eye-catching jewelry that is equal parts one-of-a-kind accessory and abstract artistic expression. Think green, pink, yellow, and turquoise beaded statement necklaces with spike metal accents; glittering "navy daisy" collar necklaces constructed from silver beads of varying shapes; rough-cut agate earrings; and signet rings enameled with cupcakes. Tova isn't strictly about eclecticism and asymmetry, offering just as many straightforward beaded bracelets and demure "mini" drop earrings as bold and bright-colored clustered pieces. Whatever the occasion, Tova has just the baubles you need to complete your unforgettable look.


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Frances D. Feltz, 78, 332 Second St., Stevens Point, died Wednesday, March 21, 2001, at St. Joseph Hospital in Marshfield.
A Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Peter Catholic Church. Burial will be in Guardian Angel Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Pisarski/Dzikoski Funeral Home. St. Peter Rosary Society will combine with the general rosary at 7 p.m. Sunday.
Mrs. Feltz was born Jan. 26, 1923, in Stevens Point, a daughter of the late Vincent and Theresa (Chilla) Stockfish.
She was married to Emil Feltz on Feb. 19, 1944, at St. Peter Catholic Church.
She was a member of St. Peter Rosary Society Rose 22.
Survivors include her husband; one son, Terence, Milwaukee; four daughters, Linda Feltz, Mukwonago, Karen (Roger) Lenhardt, Wales, Geralyn (Jack) Bernstein, Germantown, and Sharon (Curt) Wagner, Milwaukee; two brothers, Stanley (Lillian) Stockfish, Milwaukee, and John (Mary) Stockfish, West Allis; and eight grandchildren.


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Will decides to have the glee club perform "The Rocky Horror Show" for the annual school musical after learning of Emma's newfound love for the cult classic. Despite Sue's usual scheming, the members of New Directions inject their distinctive style to the show's timeless tracks. Meatloaf and Barry Bostwick guest-star. Musical performances include "Science Fiction Double Feature", "Damn It, Janet", "Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?", "Sweet Transvestite", "Touch a Touch a Touch a Touch Me", "There's a Light (Over At the Frankenstein Place)" and "Time Warp".
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The CAPCOA Climate Change Forum is upon us, down at the Jukebox Marriott on Fourth.
"The California Air Pollution Control Officers Association (CAPCOA) will host the CAPCOA Climate Change Forum at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis Hotel on Monday and Tuesday, August 30-31, 2010. Leaders from federal, state, and local levels of government will join stakeholders from green businesses, energy and technology providers, universities and research institutions, and community groups for two days of sessions focusing on how California can successfully work to advance its position as a pioneer in the fight against climate change. Over 75 speakers have been assembled for an intense program spotlighting issues from "Energy Independence Through Clean & Renewable Energy" to "Green Business Strategies" to "Land Use and Sustainable Communities."
Oh look, here comes Air-ianna:
The California Air Pollution Control Officers Association's Climate Change Forum
WHEN: Monday, August 30, 2010
Registration & Breakfast 7:15 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Sessions 8:15 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Expo Hall Reception, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Registration & Breakfast 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Sessions 8:30 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
55 4th Street, San Francisco (4th between Market and
WHERE: Mission)
– Van Jones, Senior Fellow, Center For American
Progress & Senior Policy Advisor, Green For All
– Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder & Editor in Chief,
The Huffington Post
– Chris Field, Director, Department of Global Ecology,
Carnegie Institution of Washington
– Alec Loorz, Founder, Kids vs. Global Warming
– Hunter Lovins, Founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions
– Mary Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources
– Jared Blumenfeld, Administrator, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 9
– Joel Makower, Chairman & Executive Editor, Greener
World Media, Inc.
– Highlighted Speaker Alec Loorz at 8:30 a.m. on August
– Keynote Speaker Van Jones at 12:00 p.m. on August 30
– Keynote Speaker Arianna Huffington at 8:35 p.m. on
August 31
– Keynote Speaker Chris Field at 12:00 p.m. on August
WEB: www.capcoaclimateforum.com
The event is hosted by CAPCOA, and co-hosted by the California Air Resources Board and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Condé's Townsend: The Old Days of Magazine Publishing Are Over
Print can thrive, but only as part of broader content initiatives.
The notion that print is dying is "naive," Condé Nast CEO Charles Townsend told an audience Friday at the Paley Center for Media in New York City, though the executive stopped short of saying that print could survive on its own as a standalone entity.
"The sensibility that print is cratering is just nuts," Townsend said. "There's nothing in the way of growing these businesses, but you can't do it without a really substantial digital presence. It's really managing a brand as opposed to a magazine."
During a question and answer panel with Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive at the Paley Center's Media Council, which serves as a forum for dialogue on major issues facing the world's media industries, Townsend discussed the future of magazine media in the digital space with an often optimistic forecast.
Prior to the recession, Townsend said "the print business was absolutely on fire." He added that companies like Condé Nast were showing between 12 to 15 percent topline growth in print, but noted that changing market pressures, as the industry frequently hears, has led to a shift in the way magazine publishers do business.
"Then you get to the moment of the recession, the deep recession, and what did we all do? We lost 40 percent of our topline revenue [and] that was an incredibly painful experience, but we pulled out hundreds of millions of dollars in costs," he said. "In terms of margin management, we came through the recession in an incredibly healthy position. Post recession is all about digital, but not at the expense of print as the pre-recessionary sensibility was."
Townsend said Condé Nast has emerged from the recession "lean, trim and ready to play," and that in 2010 and 2011 the company experienced topline expansion of 5 to 7 percent for its print business, with Web assets growing between 32 to 33 percent.
"The post recessionary moment is really the introduction of alternative platforms that takes the pressure off of the print business, but doesn't replace the print business," he said. "Our print business continues to grow post-recession, but this year is a miserable year. Not because of Condé Nast or any other media company, but because of the anemic U.S. economy—nobody can escape the problems the U.S. economy imposes on us."
Townsend said Condé Nast's Web business has grown at half the rate expected so far this year, by about 15 percent topline growth, and print has also been trending upward despite the current fiscal climate.
"Even in this worst moment that any of us can remember with the U.S. economy, the print business continues to grow and the margins are sharper—the growth profit margins are mouth watering," he said. However, he added, with "net margins, we try to run at 10 percent [but] we're going to fall short of that on the print side, but we are still an expanding business. When this economy recovers, and it must for all of us, the print business is going to be on fire."
The print business model will now be complimented by a variety of assets, said Townsend, including, digital and mobile, among others. In November, the company will also announce that it is increasing rate-bases for several of its titles due to growing digital tablet circulation, which Townsend estimated to be around 1 million, or close to 10 percent of total circulation.
"Heretofore it's been an add-on—now it's an intrinsic part of our rate-base," he said. "We characterize ourselves a media company and not as a magazine publisher."
When asked by Leive what the industry could have done differently over the last several years, Townsend pointed to pricing models and content distribution as a large mistake that magazine publishers made.
"This industry suffers from giving its content away—why did we ever give subscription circulation away for a buck a month?" he said. "We created a habit that has almost been impossible to break. Now with bundling we can [provide] digital content, archival content, e-books, e-access to events, mobile content and print—now we have a chance to play ball with consumers on the basis that most every other segment of the entertainment industry has figured out how to do."
Mobile will be "a big piece of our future," said Townsend, that is driven by the demand of the customer and not that of advertising interest or that of the company's. While this area is promising, it is not without difficulty—Townsend estimates that in print and on the tablet there is an $87 CPM range, and an $8.50 CPM on the Web.Â
Charles H. Townsend on the Publishing in the Digital Age from The Paley Center for Media on FORA.tv


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On Italo Calvino
On the morning of Friday, September 20, 1985, the first equinoctial storm of the year broke over the city of Rome. I awoke to thunder and lightning; and thought I was, yet again, in World War II. Shortly before noon, a car and driver arrived to take me up the Mediterranean coast to a small town on the sea called Castiglion della Pescáia where, at one o'clock, Italo Calvino, who had died the day before, would be buried in the village cemetery.
Calvino had had a cerebral hemorthage two weeks earlier while sitting in the garden of his house at Pineta di Roccamare, where he had spent the summer working on the Charles Eliot Norton lectures that he planned to give during the fall and winter at Harvard. I last saw him in May. I commended him on his bravery: he planned to give the lectures in English, a language that he read easily but spoke hesitantly, unlike French and Spanish, which he spoke perfectly; but then he had been born in Cuba, son of two Italian agronomists; and had lived for many years in Paris.
It was night. We were on the terrace of my apartment in Rome; an overhead light made his deep-set eyes look even darker than usual. Italo gave me his either-this-or-that frown; then he smiled, and when he smiled, suddenly, the face would become like that of an enormously bright child who has just worked out the unified field theory. "At Harvard, I shall stammer," he said. "But then I stammer in every language."
Unlike the United States, Italy has both an educational system (good or bad is immaterial) and a common culture, both good and bad. In recent years Calvino had become the central figure in Italy's culture. Italians were proud that they had produced a world writer whose American reputation began, if I may say so, since no one else will, in these pages when I described all of his novels as of May 30, 1974. By 1985, except for England, Calvino was read wherever books are read. I even found a Calvino coven in Moscow's literary bureaucracy; and I think that I may have convinced the state publishers to translate more of him. Curiously, the fact that he had slipped away from the Italian Communist party in 1957 disturbed no one. Then, three weeks short of Calvino's sixty-second birthday, he died; and Italy went into mourning, as if a beloved prince had died. For an American, the contrast between them and us is striking. When an American writer dies, there will be, if he's a celebrity (fame is no longer possible for any of us), a picture below the fold on the front page; later, a short appreciation on the newspaper's book page (if there is one), usually the work of a journalist or other near-writer who has not actually read any of the dead author's work but is at home with the arcana of Page Six; and that would be that.
In Calvino's case, the American newspaper obituaries were perfunctory and incompetent: the circuits between the English departments, where our tablets of literary reputation are now kept, and the world of journalism are more than ever fragile and the reception is always bad. Surprisingly, Time and Newsweek, though each put him on the "book page," were not bad, though one thought him "surrealist" and the other a "master of fantasy"; he was, of course, a true realist, who believed "that only a certain prosaic solidity can give birth to creativity: fantasy is like jam; you have to spread it on a solid slice of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing, like jam, out of which you can't make anything." This homely analogy is from an Italian television interview, shown after his death.
The New York Times, to show how well regarded Calvino is in these parts, quoted John Updike, our literature's perennial apostle to the middlebrows1 (this is not meant, entirely, unkindly), as well as Margaret Atwood (a name new to me), Ursula K. Le Guin (an estimable sci-fi writer, but what is she doing, giving, as it were, a last word on one of the most complex of modern writers?), Michael Wood, whose comment was pretty good, and, finally, the excellent Anthony Burgess, who was not up to his usual par on this occasion. Elsewhere, Mr. Herbert Mitgang again quoted Mr. Updike as well as John Gardner, late apostle to the low-brows, a sort of Christian evangelical who saw Heaven as a paradigmatic American university.
Europe regarded Calvino's death as a calamity for culture. A literary critic, as opposed to theorist, wrote at length in Le Monde, while in Italy itself, each day for two weeks, bulletins from the hospital at Siena were published, and the whole country was suddenly united in its esteem not only for a great writer but for someone who reached not only primary school children through his collections of folk and fairy tales but, at one time or another, everyone else who reads.
After the first hemorrhage, there was a surgical intervention that lasted many hours. Calvino came out of coma. He was disoriented: he thought that one of the medical attendants was a policeman; then he wondered if he'd had open-heart surgery. Meanwhile, the surgeon had become optimistic; even garrulous. He told the press that he'd never seen a brain structure of such delicacy and complexity as that of Calvino. I thought immediately of the smallest brain ever recorded, that of Anatole France. The surgeon told the press that he had been obliged to do his very best. After all, he and his sons had read and argued over Marcovaldo last winter. The brain that could so puzzle them must be kept alive in all its rarity. One can imagine a comparable surgeon in America: only last Saturday she had kept me and my sons in stitches; now I could hardly believe that I was actually gazing into the fabulous brain of Joan Rivers! On the other hand, the admirer of Joan Rivers might have saved Calvino; except that there was no real hope, ever. In June he had had what he thought was a bad headache; it was the first stroke. Also, he came from a family with a history of arterial weakness. Or so it was said in the newspapers. The press coverage of Calvino's final days resembled nothing so much as that of the recent operation on the ancient actor that our masters have hired to impersonate a president, the sort of subject that used to delight Calvino—the Acting President, that is.
As we drove north through the rain, I read Calvino's last novel, Palomar. He had given it to me on November 28, 1983. I was chilled—and guilty—to read for the first time the inscription: "For Gore, these last meditations about Nature, Italo." "Last" is a word artists should not easily use. What did this "last" mean? Latest? Or his last attempt to write about the phenomenal world? Or did he know, somehow, that he was in the process of "Learning to be dead," the title of the book's last chapter?
I read the book. It is very short. A number of meditations on different subjects by one Mr. Palomar, who is Calvino himself. The settings are, variously, the beach at Castiglion della Pescáia, the nearby house in the woods at Roccamare, the flat in Rome with its terrace, a food specialty shop in Paris. This is not the occasion to review the book. But I made some observations; and marked certain passages that seemed to me to illuminate the prospect.
Palomar is on the beach at Castiglion: he is trying to figure out the nature of waves. Is it possible to follow just one? Or do they all become one? Or do they all become one? E pluribus unum and its reverse might well sum up Calvino's approach to our condition. Are we a part of the universe? Or is the universe, simply, us thinking that there is such a thing? Calvino often writes like the scientist that his parents were. He observes, precisely, the minutiae of nature: stars, waves, lizards, turtles, a woman's breast exposed on the beach. In the process, he vacillates between macro and micro. The whole and the part. Also, tricks of eye. The book is written in the present tense, like a scientist making reports on that ongoing experiment, the examined life.
The waves provide him with suggestions but no answers: viewed in a certain way, they seem to come not from the horizon but from the shore itself. "Is this perhaps the real result that Mr. Palomar is about to achieve? To make the waves run in the opposite direction, to overturn time, to perceive the true substance of the world beyond sensory and mental habits?" But it doesn't quite work; and he cannot extend "this knowledge to the entire universe." He notes during his evening swim that "the sun's reflection becomes a shining sword on the water stretching from shore to him. Mr. Palomar swims in that sword…." But then so does everyone else at that time of day, each in the same sword which is everywhere and nowhere. "The sword is imposed equally on the eye of each swimmer; there is no avoiding it. 'Is what we have in common precisely what is given to each of us as something exclusively his?"' As Palomar floats he wonders if he exists. He drifts now toward solipsism: "If no eye except the glassy eye of the dead were to open again on the surface of the terraqueous globe, the sword would not gleam any more." He develops this, floating on his back. "Perhaps it was not the birth of the eye that caused the birth of the sword, but vice versa, because the sword had to have an eye to observe it at its climax." But the day is ending, the wind-surfers are all beached, and Palomar comes back to land: "He has become convinced that the sword will exist even without him."
In the garden at Roccamare, Palomar observes the exotic mating of turtles; he ponders the blackbird's whistle, so like that of a human being that it might well be the same sort of communication. "Here a prospect that is very promising for Mr. Palomar's thinking opens out; for him the discrepancy between human behavior and the rest of the universe has always been a source of anguish. The equal whistle of man and blackbird now seems to him a bridge thrown over the abyss." But his attempts to communicate with them through a similar whistling leads to "puzzlement" on both sides. Then, contemplating the horrors of his lawn and its constituent parts, among them weeds, he precisely names and numbers what he sees until "he no longer thinks of the lawn: he thinks of the universe. He is trying to apply to the universe everything he has thought about the lawn. The universe as regular and ordered cosmos or as chaotic proliferation." The analogy, as always with Calvino, then takes off (the jam on the bread) and the answer is again the many within the one, or "collections of collections."
Although the three estates, high, middle, and lowbrow, are as dead as Dwight Macdonald, their most vigorous deployer, something about today's literary scene, combined with Calvino's death, impels me to resurrect the terms. Presently, I shall demonstrate.↩
Although the three estates, high, middle, and lowbrow, are as dead as Dwight Macdonald, their most vigorous deployer, something about today's literary scene, combined with Calvino's death, impels me to resurrect the terms. Presently, I shall demonstrate.↩