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Recent Acquisitions
January 13th, 2013 by jimm wetherbee in Announcements, Recent Acquisitions
Books |
African American Men in College edited by Michael J. Cuyjet and associates LC2781 .A39 2006 |
Black Haze: Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-letter Fraternities by Ricky L. Jones LJ51 .J66 2004 |
China: Its Environment and History by Robert B. Marks GF656 .M37 2012 |
Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West edited by Nicolas S. Witschi PS169.W4 C66 2011 |
Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw PS366.A88 P74 2011 |
Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity by Mahmood Mamdani JV412 .M36 2012 |
Events Management edited by Peter Robinson, Debra Wale, and Geoff Dickson GT3405 .E96 2010 |
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael Watkins HD57.7 .W38 2003 |
Foundation by Isaac Asimov PS3551.S5 F59 2004 |
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations that Changed the World by Ian Stewart QA21 .S834 2012 |
The Janissary Tree: A Novel by Jason Goodwin PR6107.O663 J36 2006 |
Latinos In U.S. Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity, and Acceptance by Jorge Iber, et al. GV583 .L37 2011 |
The Lifeboat: A Novel by Charlotte Rogan PS3618.O436 L54 2012 |
The Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart QH323.5 .S742 2011 |
The Myth of Voter Fraud by Lorraine C. Minnite JK1994 .M66 2010 |
Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America by Sara Dubow RG600 .D83 2011 |
Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art by Christopher Moore PS3563.O594 S23 2012 |
Shakespeare's Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion by Lynn Enterline PR2903 .E58 2012 |
Southern Workers and the Search For Community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina by G.C. Waldrep III HD9857.S6 W35 2000 |
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by our Genetic Code by Sam Kean QH431 .K24 2012 |
The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown by Richard L. Hasen KF4886 .H39 2012 |
Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America by Diana Furchtgott-Roth HQ1426 .F885 2012 |
Videos and DVD's
84 Charing Cross Road a Brooksfilms production; a David Jones film; screenplay by Hugh Whitemore; produced by Geoffrey Helman; directed by David Jones PS3515.A4853 Z54 2002 |
The Heritage of Flamenco R.T.V.E. y Productora Andaluza de Programas, S.A.; guion y direccion, Ricardo Pachon GV1796.F55 H47 2004 |
A Man For All Seasons screenplay by Robert Bolt ; produced and directed by Fred Zinnemann PN1995.9.H5 M36 2007 |
Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor produced by ITN Factual for A & E Television Networks ; produced, directed, and written by Nick Davidson DS778.M3 M36 2005 |
Library Observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 13th, 2013 by jimm wetherbee in Announcements
On January 21st, the Library will be opened from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.


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Darkness.I loved you at your darkest.Found you in the shadows and made you relinquish your sadness.I saved you from yourself, ended up needing help from my own madness, taking care of you, forgot about me in this whole wound mess.Here I stand regardless, standing on a cliff, no harness, nurturing my inner artist, feeling awfully careless and increasingly guarded–– scared of feeling brokenhearted, putting off getting it started, incase I'm unprepared and it's uncharted.I'm lost in this here; my darkest.© Rocio Belinda Mendez
Proliferation.You swam in the ocean of my psyche; I wonder if it was the waves, or the depth that swallowed you.You poisoned the aqua almost instantly; I wonder if it will ever manage to be distilled.You dived in and out without consent; I wonder if my strength was intimidating.My endless scope became limited, when the weight of your impact was removed.The little left, scorched itself into clouds–– I'd lost my substance abruptly.Months of warm, clouded judgment elapsed, until I found an iced silver lining.––I fell from the sky in pieces, it must have been for months.I regained myself, slowly but surely; now, The Pacific Ocean emulates me.Growth is dependant on change–– I am a testament.© Rocio Belinda Mendez
A love story.[Part 1]She adjusts her hair in the mirror, and runs down the stairs––the love of her life is waiting nervously, he runs his fingers through his hair.She stops at the last step, and can't hide her smile anymore––his eyes widen as he sees her; he looks down shyly to the floor.She giggles to herself, and walks closer to where he stands––He looks at her as he takes a few steps and extends both of his hands.She takes them softly in her own, and the feeling is suddenly mutual.They need each other from that moment on. It's inevitably crucial.[Part 2]10 years later they lay asleep, holding hands over the sheets––He wakes up gently smiling. Grazes her feet as he watches her sleep.He blows air on her face softly, and she lets out a few adorable sighs––He lays on his side and caresses her face until she opens her eyes.She whispers "hello" with a wink, as she begins to stretch out her arms––he gives her a kiss
SynchronousA little girl waltzes to a tune in her head.A young boy begs the streets for some bread.A mother waits in a hospital room full of dread.A groom smiles at his wife-to-be as they wed.An old lady pulls the last bit of her thread.A homeless man stares at a stores comfy bed.A boy loves a girl; she loves a woman instead.A teenager writes a suicide note to be read.A drunk man doesn't see the truck up ahead.A once minor virus, begins to spread.A billion single tears are being shed.An army of first-time soldiers are being lead.A colourblind man see's a lady in red.A heartbeat begins, after being pronounced dead.© Rocio Belinda Mendez
Bosque.There once was a girl in a flowing pink gown striding alone in the forest.Miles and miles from her home town, picking flowers in natures own florist.She wanted time alone to grow on her own, and feel the Earth beneath her.She started off strong, but as time went on she became weaker and weaker.Hours became days, days became weeks, and soon a month was complete.Little Lilly lay across the soil in what seemed to be her deepest sleep.A decade later a young, sad man entered this abandoned space.Searching for somewhere to call his home, he stumbled across this place.One night before he drifted off to sleep –– he saw a flowing pink flower.He picked it from the soil, and to his surprise felt a surge of vibrant power.He dropped the flower on the ground. It began to hover and fly.Confused and startled he merely gawked, as it sparkled in the sky.A beautiful woman floated to the floor, pink petals raining down.The young man fell in love instantly! –– With the
Seconds.Every second that passes there's a child who becomes an adult. They lose their innocence and find their power.Every second that passes there's an adult who becomes a child. They lose their care, and find their freedom.So many seconds…© Rocio Belinda Mendez
Images.It's night, there's snow falling and a crisp air that coerces a smile.You're holding hands, and it's the only warmth you'll ever need."I'm falling for you."––The words drip from your cold parted lips."I'll catch you."A kiss is shared as a snowflake falls between both your mouths.Moist and soft, reminiscent of a dream ––you're elated.Vined fingers and honest gazes; so much love captive here.Mental images activated.Saving...Saved √© Rocio Belinda Mendez
FateMoira is special, her favourite pastime is observing strangers as they go about their day, everyone looks like a replica.She never speaks loud enough to be heard, she's addicted to the silence.She keeps to herself, no one understands her form of communication.Today is Wednesday at 1:04 PM and she's leaning on a tree, contemplating the crowd.She whispers, "I love you" as she sees a man walking in the bustling streets of New York.Masses of people ignoring one another, trying to get to their destination; a tracing blur.Such commotion and distraction yet she cant stop staring.Everyone rushing in this emphatic environment, and he strolls without a care in the world.The crowd dissipates and he's in pristine focus.The sea parts slightly and their eyes find each other."I love you" she whispers once more.She turns around and walks to her bus stop––wondering what he likes to eat for breakfast.He stops close by, behind a tree and observes her for a few minutes
Silent Echo.Your silence says it all.All the words you've never said say more than you'd ever be able to string into a sentence.I hear the answers to the questions that haunt me in the absence of your dialogue.Your words, darling, have no meaning; they lost their signification when they became predictable.I can't bear to listen to your easy words, instead let your back do the talking as the space between it, and myself expands.This facile manner of communication is deafening.The quietude echoes over your actions;your silence says it all.© Rocio Belinda Mendez
Two SidesOh. It broke.Don't worry, we can fix it!Why bother? It'll just break again.But then we can make it stronger!It won't make a difference.Well, we have to fix it if it's broken, right?Not unless we stop using it.But we have to use it!We do?We do!It's useless fixing it though; it never stays quite right.Then we'll just have to make sure it does this time, won't we?You know you're just setting yourself up for failure.We'll see. You know we're going to end up using it.And a week after we start using it, it'll break. Again.We just have to learn how to use it properly.And what is this "properly"? Have we been using it dangerously this entire time?Well, no, but—Exactly. It's not us. It's them.You know, you shouldn't blame it on others.Whatever.Why do you never care about it?Why do you care so much about it?
Nothing to WriteI have nothing to write today.I sat down with a thought and a pen,Flourishing with the ideaThat few things are as definiteAs death, taxes, and the loss of symmetry in freshly tweezed eyebrows.But soon, the words ceased with a skid,And the punchlines came flat.Here I am,Sitting before the brisk view of the red Arizona mountainsWith the sun in my hair and the sky in my smile,Still completely dumbfounded and void of inspiration.Perhaps I'll type a soliloquyOn the philosophy of a cactus,And on how the sweetest fruitsAlways seem to grow on sharp, dry, government-protected plant-life.Maybe a sketch will form in my brainOf a sonnet on the juxtapositionBetween the hummingbird's humAnd the highway's roar.The sidewalk burns of scorching summer,And the heavy heat deflates a sigh that sings my frustrations.There is no poem to be seen and no prose in the winds.There is absolutely nothing to write today.
People might arguePeople might arguethat the world wide web causes people to no longer carebut who are they to judgewhen they haven't stayed up all nightdesperately trying to convince a stranger out of suicide?Fingers frantically flying across the keyshoping somehow to make a differencePeople might arguethat it closes you offbut who are they to judgewhen sometimes the only place people can findhopefriendshipcomfortis on a screenwhere they cannot be judged by their appearancePeople might arguethat it is evilfull of hateBut they do not realizesometimes the hateis still therewhen the screen is turned off
sixhe plucked six white rosesfor meand even though they'll diein a week,it's matchless to any other gifti've received
DryCutting myself drybecause of you.
UnspokenFor the loveI never shared.For the thingsI'll never tell.For all the secretsBig and small.For the timesI ignored the calls.For all the wordsI left unspoken.I'm now drowningIn my emotions.
I Plucked A Feather From A Sleeping Angel's WingI plucked a feather from a sleeping angel's wingSo that I could fly.I waved my arms from the edge of the highest hill,But didn't ascend to the sky.So carefully I plucked another breathlessly,And with one in each hand tightly boundI strove in vain but the results were the same:My feet stayed on the ground.So I plucked the rest in deepening exasperation(Leaving that poor angel completely bare),And flailed my arms madly in silent desperation;Feathers scattered everywhere.I sat down and cried looking to the sky,Wondering why I couldn't fly on the wings of a feather,Then the angel awoke and behind me he spoke"They weren't bound together."
.pour love allover, then strikea match;the fire willburn itself out,but the ruinswill smoulder
.i laid in the flowers andi listened to them hum,i think i loved your handsthe most, even when theyflayed me to the boneand i don't think i'msupposed to talk about -the devil, he said i'velived one hell of a life,you see, just read myname out backwards,and god ain't nothingbut a dog, so don't youeven go wasting your time(i left my conscience pining outside the door)
Love is...LoveIs likeA roseSo delicateSo beautifulBut adornedWith sharpThornsLoveIs likePoisonA poisonThat kills youSlowlyAnd there isNo antidoteLoveIs likeGlassFragileBut itsShardsCan killYouIn a briefMonent...
tattooeda trail of tattooserupt from my fingertipsand wrap themselves around youI want to paint youwith colors I createdand stain your skin with my lips
fivemaybe if i tear out myveins, replace them withflowers, stitch myself up withlace and ribbons, i'll be pretty
threemy wrists are leaking again;i've spilt my guts, but youmopped them up without evencringing. i don't thinkthe stains will come out.not this time.
Art In WordsDeep strokes of pencilTell the pain of yesterdayLightly slathered paintReveals the beauty insideColors of each dotted pixelExplain a unique moodArt is one wayOf expressionWhen wordsCan't formIt tells the storiesOnly the artist knows,And for viewersTo guessIn their ownPerspectives
Little BrothersMy brother wanted to die todayHe told me so himselfHe cried and said that he was doneWith his life, this living hellI never said a single word,Just held him and his tearsTold him it would be alrightThat I wanted him hereMy brother's in the ER today.Doctor said he swallowed pills.Now I cried and asked him whyHis pained gaze gave me chills.We never told mom or dadIt was our secretI picked him up and drove him homeWe said we'd always keep it.My little brother is dead todayI found the toppled chair and ropeHe was only twelve years oldFar too young to have no hopeIt was all my fault, you knowI always shut my mouthNever told a single soulHis mentality was headed southMy baby brother is dead and goneBecause of my mistakeI should have spoken upThis was not his fate.For all the friends and family out thereWho've had someone like himPlease, please tell someone nowOr face what could have been.
tenI've politely declined deathfor maybe the seventh timebut he's a rather persistentfellow; he never lets myfingerstray toofar fromthe trigger
Death's Lovely AngelI feel his hand over my throat,His cold and bony fingers.He's finally got his grip on me,Still my struggling lingers.I stare into the blank black eyes,I suddenly grow calm.He's here to help me from my pain,This is what I wanted all along.He releases my soul from within me,And holds me to his chest,He carries me across the sky,My spirit finally at rest.Death's lovely angel,Has rescued me from pain,I was taken away from it all,with nothing left to remain.
Please Come Back.I'm sorryfor putting those bruises on your waistI held on too tightlybecause I was so afraidof what would happenif I were to let go.
Delusional Angel.Delusional Angel.Twist my mind up, influence me.It's all a dream darling, don't think it real.We're just passing through; or is life passing through us?Wrap yourself around me, love––hold me through the storm.Do you feel that beating, love?––it's in sync with the universe.Life is but a moment; surging through eternity.This, right now is but a coinciding instant.We have survived the world, lovely. Do you see it?Remember me in the morning dear, tonight is absolute.Pale pink lips and sweet bits.Sketches and coffee spots.Full moons and breaking points.Vinyl vibes and genuine conversation.Red wine and lipstick streaks.Kisses and contemplation.© Rocio Belinda Mendez


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Eugene Delgaudio Delivers Empty Pizza Boxes to Congress |
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The petitions that Mr. Delgaudio allegedly delivered to Congress must be printed on virtual paper, because the stacks of pizza boxes supposedly housing them are so light that they seem almost weightless when carried (0:06-0:12), and bob and sway when Mr. Delgaudio rests his hand upon them (1:29-1:46). Watch the video, right.


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S. 1: Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act
Veto Sustained 62/37
Sen. Shelby [R-AL]: Yea
Mar 4, 2015 2:20 p.m.Senator from Alabama
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S. 1: Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act
Veto Sustained 62/37
Sen. Shelby [R-AL]: Yea
Mar 4, 2015 2:20 p.m.On the Motion to Table H.R. 240
Motion to Table Agreed to 58/31
Sen. Shelby [R-AL]: Not Voting
Mar 2, 2015 5:56 p.m.Cloture on H.R. 240: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015
Cloture Motion Rejected 47/43
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This collection lets you create the ultimate entryway system. Our lockers are ideal for organizing and stowing everything from toys and backpacks to shoes and sports gear. A personalized metal name tag can be added to the door.
- 16" w x 15" d x 68.5" h
- Locker is made from particle board, MDF and birch veneer edging.
- Features two adjustable shelves and one fixed shelf.
- Door may be reversed to open in either direction, and features magnet closure.
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- Built from particle board, MDF and birch veneer edging.
- Nameplate is made from iron and finished in Pewter Black.
- Adjustable levelers provide stability on uneven surfaces.
- Overall: 16" w x 15" d x 68.5" h
- Door (1): 14.25" w x 68.5" h x 0.75" thick
- Nameplate (1): 7.75" w x 2" h
- Fixed Shelf (1): 14.5" w x 14" d x 0.75" thick
- Adjustable Shelf (2): 14.5" w x 13.5" d x 0.75" thick
- Interior (above fixed shelf): 14.5" w x 14" d x 34" h
- Interior (below fixed shelf): 14.5" w x 14" d x 33" h
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Adrian Twin Over Twin Bunkbed
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The Adrian is more than just any ordinary bunk bed. The bunk separates into two matching twin beds, allowing the Adrian to grow and evolve along with your family. The warm brown tone of the finish mixed with the bead board panels on the head and foot boards creates a timeless look for kids to young adults.
- Poplar solids
- Birch veneers
- Accommodates standard twin mattresses
- Converts to stand alone twin beds
- 80.5" W x 42" D x 72" H
- 213.4 lbs.
Assembly: Ready to Assemble
Collection Name: Adrian
Color: Brown
Height: 72 in.
Length: 80.5 in.
Size of Bed Mattress: Twin
Weight: 213.4 lb.
Width: 42 in.
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KBW analyst Sanjay Sakhrani on in a report on Friday that the increased putback exposure "is a negative headline as it now represents 7% of the company's tangible book value as of 4Q12." The analyst added that "while COF provided updated color around the sale of the Best Buy portfolio, we think it still remains difficult to quantify the impact to earnings with any specificity at this time."
Sakhrani on Feb 19 estimated that the Best Buy card sale would lower Capital One's annual earnings by $0.15 to $0.25 a share.
"Overall, while the announcements are not a positive, ultimately we believe that the stock currently trades at depressed levels and COF remains an Outperform rated stock," Sakhrani wrote.
The analyst's price target for Capital One's shares is $65.00, and he estimates the company will earn $6.30 a share this year, with EPS rising to $6.33 in 2014.
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Striker Jonathan Stead could be heading for the Sunderland exit door after Black Cats boss Roy Keane admitted he would listen to loan offers for the player.
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Parenthood isn't for everyone, say the writers in this new collection of essays.
Writer/director Henriette Mantel was at a reading for fellow comics when a familiar theme took root.
"They were all reading these essays about their kids," said Mantel, who has no children. "Everyone was laughing, 'Ha, ha! I know!' and I turned to my friend and said, 'What about me?'
"He said, 'Go write your own.' "
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"Yes, there is a little sadness around" not having kids, she writes in that essay, "The Morning Dance." "But there's also a little sadness around the fact I may never get to go to the moon. Jeez, you can't do everything in this lifetime."
Her essay opens "No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood" (Seal Press), a new anthology she edited that includes pieces by comic heavyweights Margaret Cho, Nora Dunn and Merrill Markoe, among others.
"The traditional rules for having children are long gone," Mantel writes. "Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid."
At a time when women are running Lockheed Martin (Marillyn Hewson), Yahoo (Marissa Mayer) and Germany (Angela Merkel), one would think that having children would represent just that: a choice — one choice among thousands that we trust women to make for themselves, without our prying or judgment.
A variety of reasons
Mantel said that has not been her experience. "There's such a stigma around not having them," she said. "If you're a woman who has hit 40 and you don't have kids, people wonder why."
Her book offers a few of the countless reasons.
Sue Kolinsky writes about giving childbearing the old college try in "In-Fertile Ground," which begins with her first attempt to get pregnant: "The next morning I awoke with a smile and a craving for pickles and ice cream. I thought, 'Wow! Does it really happen that fast?'
"No," she learned. "Unless you're 17, living at home, with a book report due."
Two years and 15 failed artificial inseminations later, Kolinsky decided to focus her energies elsewhere.
Betsy Salkind, who has worked as an activist for child protection legislation and volunteers with troubled teen girls, believes that the globe has enough children to support.
"This sense of some mandate to reproduce seems rather outdated to me," Salkind writes in "Why I Didn't Have Any Children This Summer." "When God said be fruitful and multiply, there were only two people."
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'GRANDEUR' is not a word I pull out very often, but it certainly applies to Untermyer Park in Westchester County. Who knew? I didn't know, until recently, that there's a lavish, beautifully designed, meticulously maintained historic garden in Yonkers, on property once owned Samuel Untermyer, a prominent New York lawyer, and his wife Minnie. They bought a 99-room pile called Greystone, and the riverfront acreage surrounding it, from Samuel J. Tilden in 1899. The house is long gone and won't be coming back, but the splendiferous gardens, happily, have.
In 1915, Untermyer hired William Welles Boswoth, a Beaux Arts-trained landscape designer, who proceeded to create a 3-1/2-acre walled garden based on the Indo-Persian 'paradise garden' model, with Neoclassical elements like a Corinthian temple with a mosaic floor, a dramatic flight of steps down to the river inspired by the Villa d'Este near Lake Como, and a Romantic folly, the Temple of Love, on a promontory overlooking the Hudson.
The park opened to the public about three years ago, after decades of neglect. The last weekend in October, I visited with my friend Mary-Liz Campbell, a Rye, NY-based landscape designer. Not only in trees, but in berry-full shrubs and bountiful container plantings, we found all the autumn color that seems to have gone missing in NYC this season.
A great deal has been accomplished in a few years, but there's still lots of clearing and planting to be done in the outer reaches of the site. Go here, to Margaret Roach's indispensable blog, A Way to Garden, for an in-depth interview with Timothy Tilghman, Untermyer's first full-time gardener in 75 years (!)
Untermyer Park is open 7AM-sunset, year round.
IT BEGAN when my daughter moved into a Prospect Heights brownstone with a struggling pine tree in a barrel out front. Each time I visited, I eyed the dead branches, wishing I could take a pruner to the thing and tidy it up. One day, I couldn't stand it anymore. I told her, "I'm going to prune that pine. If your landlord says anything, tell him your mother is an itinerant urban gardener who goes around pruning people's shrubs unbidden."
While my East Hampton house is rented out, I've been getting my gardening jollies catching up on maintenance in the yards of my buildings in Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill. I ride around with a wooden box of garden tools in the back of my car — a hand rake, lopper, pruner, shovel, gloves, trash bags. When the urge to garden strikes, I'm ready. But I can see how this could get out of hand. Last week, I was walking along a Park Slope sidewalk and saw a lovely Japanese maple in a cobalt pot in someone's front yard. It was full of weeds. My fingers itched to reach over the iron fence and pull them out, but I restrained myself. One recent morning, in Philadelphia to visit my son, I went out in my pajamas at 7AM and pulled 2-foot-tall weeds out of cracks in the sidewalk in front of his building … and the building next door.
Soon, I'll have my half-acre to play with. In the meantime, I stealth-garden on other people's property and enjoy what they're doing with their window boxes, tree pits and containers. They're doing a lot; it's an encouraging sign of the times.
Below: March of the pots, a trend I've spotted this year for the first time. This is good news. In decades past, they might well have been stolen.
Above: Window box explosion in Philadelphia's Queen Village neighborhood. Below: Ivy and seasonal containers decorate a carriage house in Old Kensington.
Below: Orange cosmos and white gaura have burst through the iron fence around this apartment building in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, seeding themselves in cracks in the sidewalk.
Below: A proudly tended Brooklyn tree pit with petunias and variegated hosta.
DON'T YOU JUST HATE when a blogger starts off a post by apologizing for a long silence, then runs down a list of excuses ranging from being busy with 'real' work to computer and/or camera troubles? I mean, like, who cares? Just get on with it.
This hypothetical blogger could have other issues as well. Sheer laziness, perhaps. Concern that people are sick of seeing photos of the same old place again and again (and who could blame them?) Or simply living life instead of blogging about it, which may be a good thing.
For the record: the month just passed was a productive one at The Hole (a friend's suggestion for a name for my new house, borrowed partly from the name of the road it's on, and in the absence of anything less pejorative, or anything else at all, I'm growing to like it). I busied myself with small improvements to house and garden, prepping for my July renters — installing a washer/dryer, planning for a new deck come August, hanging pictures on the walls.
The great room, below, is kind of great.
The living/sitting/dining room, below, looks pretty much the same…
as does the kitchen…
The master bedroom is shaping up.
The guest room is rather sweet (and extremely difficult to photograph).
Out in the yard, the vegetable beds remain unplanted, the shed unrenovated. Though I do have a spectacular weed…a verbascum taller than I am.
I've done a bit of planting, not a lot; that will come in the fall. I discovered a local couple who sells hosta and ferns — big healthy ones — for $3 and $5, out of their backyard. Who says the Hamptons is a rip-off? For me, being able to grow hostas at all, thanks to a 6′ tall stockade fence the deer have yet to breach, is a remarkable thing.
I'm in Brooklyn for July, with a planned return trip to Rancho La Puerta (my 12th, I think) mid-month. It's all good, and I'll make no excuses for that.
THE MONTH OF MAY hasn't been so much merry as schizy (though there have been some undeniably merry moments). I spent the first two weeks of the month saying goodbye to my former home, a vintage cottage in East Hampton, N.Y., enjoying its deck and outdoor shower every chance I got. I gazed into the woods, wondering how I was going to survive without that particular view.
I had one last yard sale, then moved my remaining "staged for sale" furnishings from the cottage to the other house I bought last year — a mid-20th century L-shaped bungalow, below — a quarter-mile away. A few days later, I sold that beloved first cottage, five years and a day after buying it in 2009, and six months after putting it on the market.
It was the first time I ever sold a property (I still own a few; see my About page). Did it feel momentous? Nah. I had experienced all my emotion in anticipation, it turned out. Closings are non-events, I've realized. No ceremony, no festivity — just attorneys and a title company rep passing papers back and forth to be signed. No one says congratulations; you're lucky if get hello and goodbye. Afterwards, I ran to the bank, and then — except for sharing a bottle of champagne with a friend — pretty much forgot about the whole thing. It's out of my hands now. If the garden on which I worked so hard and long reverts to nature — well, so be it.
Below, views of my "new" house and landscape, as it looked earlier this month:
Now I'm all of a piece — all my things in one house, responsible for only one garden and one Town of East Hampton tax bill. Most significantly, my focus and attention is now in one place. I've furnished the rooms comfortably, and I'm doing the best I can to control the indoor climate in my unheated, un-cooled house, alternating space heater and fan as weather demands.
I made a conscious decision to make no decisions for a while — to call no contractors, no deck guys, no guys at all. There are big jobs ahead: replacing the deteriorating deck and installing windows in a long hallway where now there are boarded-up holes, to name two major priorities. But I'm not ready to move on anything quite yet.
Meanwhile, I've been enjoying my new borrowed view, of dogwoods in the neighboring yard, above, and the rhododendrons have come out, spectacularly, to greet me.
A RECENT THREE-HOUR WORKSHOP at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, taught by renowned urban forager Leda Meredith, was a revelation. Among the startling things I learned is that one can actually eat some of the weeds I've been battling for years in my East Hampton garden. But "edible" is a subjective term. When I returned to find agepodium podagraria (goutweed) and garlic mustard in full spring resurrection, I immediately tried munching on them, and quickly spit them out.
Meredith, author of the new book Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plums to Wineberries(Timber Press) admits you can't grow vegetables (except mushrooms) in deep shade, but she provided ideas for making the most of what sun you've got in hopes of getting a few tomatoes and cukes: use 'cheats' like foil-covered reflectors to increase light, and plant in lightweight containers you can move to follow the sun, though that seems like it could become a full-time job.
Useful rules of thumb: if we eat the seed-bearing part of a plant (e.g. cukes, green beans), it needs more light. If we eat roots or leaves (green leafy vegs, carrots, some herbs), you can get away with less. The most aromatic herbs (basil, oregano, thyme) are Mediterranean in origin and need abundant sunight. The likes of coriander and parsley, not so much.
Meredith, a former professional dancer who now leads foraging expeditions, teaches workshops, and blogs about food preservation, local eating, and foraging, reminded us that you can eat the leaves of beets and carrots, and eat wild edibles like field garlic, ramps (wild leeks), fiddleheads and May apples (I actually have the last two in my East Hampton garden as well).
But most of her presentation focused on things that are not going to supplant Greenmarket produce in my diet: hog peanut, a twining ornamental; wild angelica, hopniss, American spikenard, wild ginger, pink purslane, and even a narrow-leaved hosta (lancifolia), to name a few. "Saute the hosta like spinach," she told us. You can eat the early chutes of Solomon's Seal, and the leaves and flowers of violas and pansies, too.
All very interesting, and kudos to Meredith for pioneering the use of these plants as edibles. It's good to know about things that won't poison you if disaster strikes, or Whole Foods is closed.


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WHILE the country's scientists and engineers churn out astonishing discoveries and devices, its economic policies look out of date. South Korean researchers have found new ways to clone human stem cells; the cars in Hyundai Motor's new Alabama plant are flipped this way and that while being painted. Economic officials, meanwhile, are still cloning mercantilist foreign-exchange policies from the 1970s, while the central bank does somersaults in an effort to explain its currency and interest-rate policies.
South Korea's economy is slowing sharply. Seasonally adjusted, industrial production was 1.7% lower in April than in March. Private consumption is only slowly recovering from a burst credit-card bubble in 2002-03. The government's consumer-expectation index for May, published on June 9th, showed a second consecutive monthly fall. The finance minister now says that this year's GDP growth target of 5% looks "impossible". Poor stuff, for an economy next door to booming China.
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The central bank has been slow to correct the problem. The Bank of Korea (BoK) has been preoccupied with slowing the appreciation of the won, by intervening heavily last year in currency markets. Intervention is understandable, given South Korea's dependence on exports. Yet the central bank has also worked furiously to offset the effects of this policy at home, by vacuuming up the extra currency it has printed in order to prop up interest rates.
A policy puzzle
This is odd, given the need to boost domestic demand. The core inflation rate (ie, excluding food and energy prices), at 2.5%, is at the bottom of the BoK's target range. So with demand and confidence still weak, further cuts in official interest rates, now 3.25%, would make sense. But the central bank is holding rates—as it did on June 9th, for the seventh month running. Many onlookers think it will keep rates steady while it pursues two other objectives that have little to do with economic stability.
One of these concerns capital flight. The country still maintains controls on capital outflows, requiring South Koreans to get permission for most transfers greater than 10m won ($10,000). Many have been flouting these rules, for example by snapping up property in America and passing off the investment as educational expenses for children studying abroad. Some control-dodgers may be trying to escape potential taxes under the populist president, Roh Moo-hyun. Others are simply unimpressed by Mr Roh's other economic policies. The central bank seems to be propping up interest rates in the hope of stemming outflows.
But why try to restrict these outflows so much? The country hardly seems at risk of a currency crisis. Its banking system has recovered nicely from the 1997-98 Asian meltdown. The central bank has more than $200 billion in foreign-currency reserves, the fourth-largest stockpile in the world and enough to pay for nearly a year's-worth of imports. Nor is the economy burdened with a load of short-term debt denominated in foreign currency, which caused so much trouble for Asian countries in 1997-98. So there seems to be little reason to stop South Koreans investing some of their savings abroad.
No such restrictions apply to the state. It has set up a new unit, modelled on Singapore's Government Investment Corporation, to invest some of its huge reserves in higher-yielding foreign assets. Instead of maintaining overly high interest rates, hoarding foreign exchange and investing it abroad, it would seem far more sensible to loosen monetary policy and boost domestic demand—and let South Koreans invest directly in foreign assets if they wish.
The central bank's other fear is that cutting interest rates will spur property-price inflation. This also seems at odds with the state of the economy. Domestic demand could use a boost—in particular, consumers are still understandably reluctant to take on fresh debt. If lower interest rates did manage to boost home prices, people might feel richer and spend more.
Some economists believe that the central bankers are afraid to let home prices rise because it is inconsistent with South Korea's egalitarian bent. "It is almost as if the Bank of Korea is part of the Roh administration," says one private-sector economist. Others point out that economic officials in Seoul, as elsewhere in Asia, are preoccupied with exercising control. "Look at [the Bank of Korea's] currency interventions and foreign-exchange reserves," says an analyst in Seoul, "and you can clearly see the obsession."


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Streetcar-Plus Transit Study Gets The OK
by Julia Zorthian | Aug 7, 2014 7:18 am
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The third time proved to be the charm as lawmakers voted to accept $760,000 in federal money to study how to improve getting around New Haven.
The vote took place Wednesday night at a City Hall meeting of the Board of Alders.
The alders voted to accept the $760,000 grant to conduct a two-year study of how to improve city transit, from buses to trains to a potential trolley.
The city almost didn't get the grant. The offer for the grant was to expire Sept. 30. Twice alders turned it down, when opponents charged the former DeStefano administration designed it to focus just on creating a potentially expensive trolley or streetcar primarily to serve downtown and East Rock, ignoring less wealthy areas of the city. The alders (then called "aldermen") had voted down accepting the federal money and creating a requisite local match for the study once in 2011 and again in 2012. The new Harp Administration redrew the proposal this year to try again working with alders to broaden the scope.
This time, the application for the grant expanded the study's proposed breadth to the entire city, and proposed outcomes to any form of transportation. It also set up a way for neighborhood people to weigh in during the process.
So when Board of Alders President Jorge Perez asked Wednesday night for further discussion about the motion to accept the grant, not a single alder spoke up.
The motion to move forward with the study and add $90,680 in city money— which, along with $100,000 from the state Department of Transportation (DOT), makes up the 20 percent needed local match — passed unanimously.
The motion included an amendment creating an advisory committee for the study consisting of members of each community management team from across the city. City transit czar Doug Hausladen, who had voted in favor of the study twice previously as an alder, also led efforts to solicit citywide input about transportation before undertaking the study so the proposal would include more than a few select wards.
After the meeting, various alders congratulated Hausladen on the vote's outcome, including downtown Alder Abby Roth, whose ward has a heavy concentration of public transportation options. Hausladen said it was "heartwarming" to receive unanimous support and confidence from Mayor Toni Harp and the Board of Alders.
The Advisory Amendment
The chair of the alders' City Services and Environmental Policy Committee, Sal DeCola, read the amendment out loud in the Aldermanic Chambers before the vote. The amendment stated that "No funds (local, state, or federal) may be used for this purpose until after an advisory committee with members of the community management teams has been established."
Perez, who led the opposition against the original streetcar study proposal in 2011, said a chief concern in the past about accepting the grant was that the study did not include people across the city throughout the process.
With one volunteer from each of the 12 community management teams, Perez said, the advisory committee will work as a sounding board for the team completing the study. Since they live across the city, the community members will know which streets should not be one-way, for example, and can provide input.
When asked whether he would have voted in favor of accepting the grant had the amendment not been added, Perez said no.
"I wanted [the plan] to have an advisory board that was representative of the entire city," Perez said. "I wanted to have input from different parts of the city along with the so-called professionals and experts."
Moving Forward, Mode TBD
New Haveners travel primarily by car, according to a DOT survey conducted last month, with about 43 percent of 236 respondents reporting using an automobile and about 28 percent public transportation. (Click here to read a story about concerns over the local CT Transit bus system, which has become a transportation option of last resort, not choice, in New Haven.)
Hausladen and Perez agreed that the city needs buses that run more frequently or streets with better traffic flow. Hausladen said evaluating ways to improve current transportation methods, and possibly add new ones, would ultimately be both more cost-effective and more environmentally friendly.
And he said the possibilities for solutions are widely varied.
"The beauty of the study is we don't have any preconceived solutions," he said. So while an enhanced bus service is an option, so is bus rapid transit (which operates buses like a metro system, often with separate lanes) and even urban circulators, or streetcars.
Hausladen and Mayor Harp have also called on DOT to equip CT Transit buses with GPS devices so riders can track real-time schedules.
The study will evaluate the current state of transit, as well as each alternative method possible with specific standards developed for each mode. Then the results will be sorted from a high-dollar to low-dollar analysis, presenting the city with a number of different options and cost-benefit analyses for each one.
In addition to considering new systems of transit, the study will look to best connect the existing modes, such as bus lines with train stations and shuttles.
Click here for a look at the advantages and disadvantages of launching a trolley system.
Hausladen emphasized the importance of the study and pointed to Harp's classification of transit as a human rights issue.
"Jobs are great," Hausladen said, "but if you can't get to them, what good are they?"
Perez echoed the necessity for New Haven to invest in strategizing about the city's methods for movement.
"If you look at cities that are growing, that are prospering," Perez said, "they are cities that look ahead and plan."
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posted by: shadesofzero on August 7, 2014 7:29am
Glad to see this got pushed through, finally. One thing you can say about the Harp administration is that it seems to be building consensus a little better than the DeStefano side did—probably because she seems to connect better with the less affluent wards.
I might've missed it, but I didn't notice any start date and/or duration of the study in the article.
posted by: robn on August 7, 2014 7:33am
I'm skeptical about streetcars because they lack the flexibility of busses. The only argument I've heard is that their nostalgia increases ridership.
The bus system could be dramatically improved by simply adding peripheral loops to the antiquated hub-and-spoke system (essentially turning the hub-and-spoke into a radial grid). This would dramatically cut down bus users transit time.
posted by: meta on August 7, 2014 10:03am
Street cars or no, I agree with robn. The bus system should be improved also by adding GPS with a smartphone app (I know it's supposed to be coming, but at a snail's pace) and running more frequent, later, and broader weekend service.
posted by: Bradley on August 7, 2014 10:29am
One potential benefit of streetcars is that permanence of the tracks can encourage developers to build projects that take advantage of the system. This clearly happened in Portland, Oregon, although I don't know that it would happen here with the proposed design.
More fundamentallly, the issue with either streetcars or an expanded bus system is economic. The farebox rarely covers more than 40% of a system's operating costs and none of its capital costs. Anonymous will probably note (correctly) that cars are also heavily subsidized. But we still need to figure out how to pay for the public transit system we want. Some may propose a gas tax increase. While I would support this, the odds of elected officials at the state or federal level agreeing to do so fall in the slim to none category.
posted by: LookOut on August 7, 2014 10:31am
we have the buses - just run that more efficiently and on time to places that people want to go. The streetcar idea is interesting but in all cases that it has been tried, it spends huge $$$ and generates only limited ridership. Not what we need.
posted by: Esbey on August 7, 2014 11:16am
Robn's point about the flexibility of buses over streetcars is especially strong if the streetcar rides in mixed traffic, without its own dedicated lane. A bus can pull around a double-parked car, but a streetcar is stuck on its tracks behind the obstruction. In practice, Robn's point is very important and in many ways the mixed-traffic streetcar is the worst of all possible worlds.
The frustration is that middle-class folks and tourists are very fond of streetcars and will ride them, whereas they associate buses with poverty, drunk patrons and the like. With private cars, people care a lot about "style" and will pay many thousands of dollars extra to get a car of a particular style and status (even if it is clearly less practical.) Cities are doing somewhat the same thing with mixed-traffic streetcars—they are objectively worse but they make people happy and so more folks ride them and (perhaps, maybe not) they attract development along the route.
The better solution would be to make buses "more cool" for a wider range of riders. Higher speed, fixed schedules (e.g. even 15 minutes through the day), traffic-light priority, GPS tracking, better signage, no lawyer-ads spray painted on the windows?
posted by: anonymous on August 7, 2014 11:16am
LookOut, my impression is that newly-opened light rail and streetcar systems throughout the US far exceed their ridership projections.
They also may be the only way to make our overall bus transportation system more sustainable in the long term. When you improve circulation downtown, and attract additional passengers, you can make the bus system more efficient throughout the entire city.
Think about cities with good bus systems - they also all have excellent rail systems, or are building them (e.g., the 15-mile light rail line extending from Downtown Los Angeles to Downtown Santa Monica, opening next year).
How about moving passengers from the "Yale Shuttle" and on to a new streetcar and bus system that provides high quality service to all neighborhoods in our city?
posted by: middle on August 7, 2014 11:51am
FYI: busses is the plural of "buss" which means "kiss"
buses is the plural of bus, that thing that people ride in
"Busses" do have more flexibility than streetcars but probably not the kind we need for transportation…
posted by: DingDong on August 7, 2014 12:07pm
I think Chris Murphy recently supported a gas tax increase—-which is why he is becoming one of my favorite politicians: someone really willing to do the mature, responsible thing, even if's not going to win a ton of votes or get his name in the headlines.
posted by: ILivehere on August 7, 2014 1:22pm
No one affluent would get on a bus. The street cars would not have to be subsidized because they would be for people who have plenty of money but frankly find the bus gross.
posted by: accountability on August 7, 2014 1:55pm
Congratulations to Mayor Harp and the leadership of the Board.
This action sets a solid example of leadership through consensus and listening. She's turned what was a profoundly flawed and deeply divisive proposal into a project that can help lay the foundation for stronger transportation infrastructure in the city.
Now the study has to get done, and done right, but this is long overdue.
posted by: Noteworthy on August 7, 2014 1:56pm
Re-Packaging a Bad Idea Notes:
1. Putting a pig farm on the town green but calling it a farmer's market, does not make the concept any less noxious.
2. The goal is trolleys - broadening it and getting always useless and ignored public input whitewashes the real goal.
3. Does anybody believe that if there is an available job, an employee will not find a way to get to it? Suggesting otherwise is really stretching the truth. Deluxe transporation is the new human right? And so is $500,000 HANH apartments minus bidets.
4. The cost of the study is an engineer's xxx dream - $1 million of taxpayer money - for a study. That's what - 5,000 hours? And maybe they'll write the report from the beaches of Bora Bora.
5. New Haven is broke and so is the state. Aside from wasting $190K of our direct tax money - the outcome of this million dollar boondoggle will be tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in more expense and debt that neither has the real, un-gimmicked ability to pay.
Congratulations - this is a testament that no bad idea ever dies. It's just reincarnated and elevated into a human right. What's next? A mall on I-95 after burying it with our own Big Dig?
posted by: meta on August 7, 2014 3:07pm
@ ILivehere: I live here too and am what might be considered "affluent". I ride the bus pretty regularly when I can't ride my bicycle or scooter. The buses are not gross, but people might think that because of the ignorant stereotypes that are assigned to the people of lesser means or of color that ride them most frequently.
In more advanced, cultured, and liberal societies, mass transit is heavily subsidized and actually preferred among the most affluent because it is convenient, cheap, and reliable. It also doesn't carry the stigma that mass transit does here- maybe because the car-centric culture has been hammered into the American psyche since GM bought up and destroyed the streetcars.
posted by: anonymous on August 7, 2014 3:13pm
Noteworthy: A lot of people actually rely on the bus. Many are too young, too disabled, too poor, or too old to drive. Either you don't understand that transit investments are critical (just like roads and bridges), or your contempt for a huge cross-section of our population, possibly to include you some day, is showing.
posted by: Noteworthy on August 7, 2014 4:35pm
Anonymous Notes:
1. You misinterpret what I said - we have public transportation. It's pretty good. If it needs to be improved, ask the riders what they want. Then deliver it. We don't need to spend a million dollars on a study to tell us to run the buses more often or on more routes.
2. Your either/or proposition is un-noteworthy and a false choice - I have no contempt for anyone except politicians who embrace every shift of win, every wift of a new idea without fully, clearly, and properly funding what they have already bitten off in terms of budget for pensions, health, debt and current transportation needs. The idea that there is an endless pool of money and taxpayers you can just kick and get more money out of them in the name of the "new human rights" is a crock and it's irresponsible.
3. It's time to quit doing things just because the feds throw a bunch of money at something.
posted by: anonymous on August 7, 2014 7:45pm
Noteworthy: So, you are saying that even though every other major city in the world of New Haven's size spends millions of dollars in federal money per year to plan for and design the layout of improved transportation systems (and then build them, in most cases), what New Haven needs is somehow different?
posted by: robn on August 7, 2014 8:14pm
A million bucks is a lot of money and the city better have an airtight list of deliverables including hard data sets and other information that's actionable (meaning deploy able by our planners and generally scalable and doable by an EPC contractor.)
posted by: Nathan on August 7, 2014 11:30pm
While long term analysis and planning are important, $760,000 would have purchased a great deal of GPS units and monitoring systems for existing buses. It is a shame the federal funding will not be used for such obvious and immediate improvement in bus service.
posted by: anonymous on August 8, 2014 8:02am
Robn: The State/Feds put $500M+ into a busway for a stagnant city just north of us. What makes you think they wouldn't put up half that to invest in transit in a growing city that actually has the potential to provide more jobs to CT residents?
posted by: Noteworthy on August 8, 2014 2:29pm
A lot of state money went into the Magic Busway. It costs $1,000 per inch to build. Just because Malloy/State DOT and the Feds were stupid once, doesn't mean they'll be stupid again. Get real…this is the crowd that can barely solve the VA crisis; lose emails at the ACA and the IRS and despite years of having pending energy legislation - still can't pass an energy policy out of Congress. Then again…
We do get a congresswoman who proposes to tax soda though.
Who exactly do you think funds the feds anyway?


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