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The Chieftains: Live Concert Ticket
The Modell Performing Arts Center • Baltimore, MD
Sunday, March 2
What you get
- Choice of Three Ticket Offers
- Live Music from The Chieftains
The Chieftains helped popularize traditional Irish music and have collaborated with Van Morrison, Luciano Pavarotti, the Rolling Stones, and others. See this legendary Irish band perform live at the Modell Performing Arts Center in the Lyric Opera House in downtown Baltimore. Your ticket allows you to celebrate classic Irish music in either the dress circle, grand tier, or balcony on Sunday, March 2 at 7 p.m.
Choose from the following ticket options:
• $30 ($59 value) for one Balcony ticket on March 2
• $36 ($69 value) for one Dress Circle ticket on March 2
• $36 ($69 value) for one Grand Tier ticket on March 2
Fine printREFUND POLICY: This event is nonrefundable. No full or partial refunds are given to customers who miss the event. In the event of a cancellation, your voucher will be fully refunded • Limit 6 per customer • Each voucher is good for 1 person • The deal is valid only for tickets on the date[s] of the event as listed and may not be exchanged or redeemed for any other dates • Groups wishing to sit together must purchase their vouchers together; seating is fulfilled with no specific priority • Purchaser may change the name of the individual retrieving tickets up to 24 hours in advance of event via the LivingSocial website event details section; no name-changes or alternate pick-ups permitted without notice at venue • Entire value must be used in a single visit
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A transaction card comprises an optical card created using CD-ROM technology which can be read and erased but not reprogrammed. The optical transaction card is programmed (i.e., written to) at bit increments representing, in total, the stated value of the card; and, is then decremented by erasing the incremental bits during use. Once bits have been erased, they cannot be reprogrammed.
1. Apparatus for representing value in user transactions comprising:
a fixed plurality of first bit locations comprising a plurality of encoded bit locations encoding machine-readable value information, said machine-readable value information comprising more than one denomination value category and at least one value increment comprising a linked list of value increment entries for each said denomination value category, and any remaining unencoded bit locations being unencoded and being marked as used bit locations; and
a plurality of second bit locations encoding machine-readable identifier information;
wherein the encoding of said machine-readable identifier information and said machine-readable value information cannot be altered.
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9. A method for providing information for a transaction value to bit locations in a writable medium comprising the steps of:
encoding a plurality of first bit locations with machine readable value information, said encoding comprising writing a denomination value and creating a linked list of denomination entries for said denomination value, and repeating said writing of denomination values and creating linked lists for a plurality of denominations until said transaction value has been encoded;
encoding a plurality of second bit locations with machine-readable identifier information;
determining if any bit locations remain unencoded; and
marking as used any remaining unencoded bit locations.
10. A program, storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform the method steps for providing information for transaction value information to bit locations in a writable medium, said method steps comprising:
encoding a plurality of first bit locations with machine readable value information, said encoding comprising writing a denomination value and creating a linked list of denomination entries for said denomination value, and repeating said writing of denomination values and creating linked lists for a plurality of denominations until said transaction value has been encoded;
encoding a plurality of second bit locations with machine-readable identifier information;
determining if any bit locations remain unencoded; and
marking any remaining unencoded bit locations as used.
This invention relates to the field of electronic transactions, and more particularly relates to optical transaction cards which use CD-ROM technology to represent cash or other value for use in computer-aided value transactions.
Transaction cards have become a preferred media for monetary, or other value, transactions due to ease of use, portability, and self-contained loss limits in the case of theft or accidental misplacement of one's card. Assigning the card a fixed �face value,� which is decremented with use, not only limits the amount sacrificed due to loss or theft, but also allows users to maintain budgets, particularly when used by children. Transaction cards have gained widespread acceptance for telephone usage, wherein the �currency� of the face value is minutes of long distance calling; for toll payment, such as the �E-Z Pass� program on New York State toll roads; for gas purchases, generally from a fixed group of merchants (e.g., Mobil gas stations), etc.
The types of transaction cards which are presently available include the category of magnetic cards (as shown at 10 in front-view FIG. 1A and back-view FIG. 1B with magnetic stripe 12 disposed on the back of the card), which have encoded information provided in a magnetic stripe, and so-called �smart cards� (20 of front-view FIG. 2A and inside-view FIG. 2B) which have on-board processors, 22, memory locations, 23, and interface logic, 24, to ensure integrity and reliability. While the magnetic versions are generally much less expensive to produce, their drawbacks include the fact that, in most instances, the magnetic medium can be reprogrammed to illegally add value to a �spent� card. In addition, the magnetic media suffers from vulnerability to accidental erasure through incidental exposure to electrical or magnetic fields. Magnetic card programming equipment and readers represent other sources of error in the use of magnetic cards since their reliability is not optimal.
Disadvantages of the smart card implementation include the expense of the memory, logic, and processor components, and the attendant processing needed for creating each card. Smart cards have been developed with security measures to minimize the risk of counterfeiting cards or altering the programming thereof. Those security measures are, however, limited to the security algorithms which are built into the card and to the security measures which are part of the host card-programming application, and which also add further expense to the production and maintenance of smart cards.
At present, cash cards and smart cards have been limited in their usage to dedicated transactions. For example, a telephone calling card cannot be used to ride a subway, and vice versa. Each merchant or group of closely-related merchants requires the use of a specific card which is monitored (i.e., decremented) by a proprietary system. Therefore, while a user may find transaction cards to be conveniently portable, carrying a dozen such cards can become more burdensome (though still less risky) than carrying cash or a credit card.
What is a desirable objective, therefore, is to provide a transaction card in a medium which would be both cost effective and secure.
Another objective is to provide a transaction card which could be used for a variety of non-related transactions.
Yet another objective of the invention is to provide a transaction card which is not prone to accidental erasure.
Still another objective of the invention is to provide a transaction card which can be programmed and read with reliable and inexpensive equipment.
These and other objectives are realized by the present invention wherein the transaction card comprises an optical card created using CD-ROM technology which can be read and erased but not reprogrammed. The optical transaction card is programmed (i.e., written to) at bit increments representing, in total, the stated value of the card; and, is then decremented by erasing the incremental bits during use. Once bits have been erased (or otherwise marked as �used�), they cannot be reprogrammed.
The invention will now be described in greater detail with specific reference to the appended drawings wherein:
FIGS. 1A and 1B provide illustrations of the front and back views, respectively, of a prior art magnetic cash card;
FIGS. 2A and 2B provide illustrations of the front and inside views, respectively, of a prior art smart card with on-board processor;
FIGS. 3A and 3B illustrate views of an optical transaction card in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 4 depicts the information encoded into the optical stripe on an optical transaction card in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 5 provides a schematic illustration of an optical card-generating system in accordance with the present invention; and
FIG. 6 provides a representative process flow for the programming of the stripe in an optical transaction card.
In accordance with the present invention, an optical transaction card, such as depicted as 30 of FIGS. 3A and 3B, is programmed at every available bit location, thereby leaving no room for unauthorized programming. The face of the card, as shown in FIG. 3A, may have the same human-readable information that prior art transaction cards bear, including the name of the financial institution, the name of the party to whom the card has been issued, a unique card number, and an expiration date. For security reasons, less than all of the foregoing information may be included on the card, and may or may not also be incorporated into the machine-readable encoded information provided on the card, as further discussed below. On either the front or the back of the card, as depicted in FIG. 3B, a machine-readable optical stripe will be provided, horizontally (as shown) or vertically (not shown). The optical stripe is preferably located along an edge of the card, for ease of presentation to an optical reader; but, may in fact be incorporated anywhere on either or both faces of the card.
The information which is programmed onto the optical stripe 40 of the transaction card, as shown in FIG. 4, includes a header segment, 41, for encoding certain preferred header information as detailed below, and a �body� segment comprising one or more linked lists, one for each denomination value, entry 42, followed by a linked list, 43 comprising entries entry(a) through entry(x), of denomination entries for that value. The one or more linked lists encode the incremental entries cumulatively representing the face value of the card. The card may have a series of denomination value/linked list pairs representing, for example, hundreds, tens, ones, and hundredths (i.e., pennies) in U.S. dollars.
All fields and entries are encrypted and are written on the optical card in two different locations for protection. One or both of the redundant locations will be erased at a merchant location during a transaction. The use of the present invention is the subject of related patent application, Ser. No. 09/213,919, entitled �METHOD FOR USE OF TRANSACTION MEDIA ENCODED WITH WRITE-AND-DESTROY ENTRIES�, which was filed on Dec. 17, 1998, and is assigned to the present assignee. The integrity of the optical card depends upon the fact that every entry has been written to, even if the entry does not represent part of the header or an increment of the optical card value. By writing to all locations, the programming equipment leaves no unwritten space for a counterfeiter to use in entering amounts not authorized by the financial institution. Writing all information twice, the familiar redundancy used in many CD-ROM applications, provides integrity from the standpoint of reliability of the programming/writing equipment.
The header segment includes fields for the following: the identity of the issuing agency/financial institution; locale information including the country and currency which the incremental �body� entries represent; the date of recording or programming of the card; a unique sequence or serial number, which may be the same or different from that optional card number printed in human-readable format on the card face; and, the total amount which the programmed bits represent. The unique serial number, or sequence number, can be used for tracing cards and for invalidation of a card by the issuing financial institution in the event that an optical card is reported lost or stolen, as further detailed in the aforementioned co-pending application.
In the �body�, the fields include a denomination value entry, 42, followed by a linked list of denomination entries, 43 comprising entry(a) through entry(x). Each denomination entry is accompanied by a link to the next entry. All denomination entries, entry(a) through entry(x-1), encode some increment of the card value, with the exception of the final entry, entry(x). Entry(x), the last entry, is written as NULL to indicate that there are no further links and, assuming that the order of entries is respected when erasing, that the value of the card in that particular denomination has been spent. Multiple linked lists may be provided, as noted above, for different denominations and/or different currencies.
The programming of a transaction card may be conducted at the issuing financial institution or at a remote site (e.g., an ATM) which is temporarily or permanently linked, by modem or other communication means, to the financial institution. FIG. 5 provides a schematic of CD-ROM programming/writing equipment for use in generating the inventive cards. Card 50 bears the optical media, stripe 51, which is written by a laser mechanism 52. The laser writing mechanism is affixed to a stepping motor, 53, which advances the write head to the locations on the optical media as directed by the computer interface. It is to be noted that the equipment could provide the encoding onto a location of the card itself or onto a stripe which would subsequently be attached to a card, the latter providing a lesser degree of security against counterfeiting.
Upon authorization by the financial institution, which may involve account or balance look-ups, the optical card programming equipment of FIG. 5 begins the FIG. 6 process flow. At step 60, the card header is written, followed by writing of a denomination value, at step 61. Once the denomination value is written, the linked list of denomination entries is created by writing a denomination entry, at step 62, and writing a link to the next entry at 63. Based upon a determination made at decision box 64, as to whether any more denomination entries are needed, steps 62 and 63 are repeated until all of the needed value of that particular denomination has been written to the denomination entries. Once a determination has been made that no further denomination entries are required, a �no� answer at 64, the last entry is written as null, at step 65. After a given denomination has been encoded into the optical stripe, the system checks, at step 66, to see if any other denominations are to be included on the stripe. If another denomination is required, Steps 61 through 65 are repeated for each required denomination which is to be represented by the transaction card (e.g., dollars and cents in U.S. dollars). Once all denominations have been encoded, as determined with a �no� response at step 66, the system checks at step 67 to determine if any unwritten bits remain on the writable area of the stripe. If any unwritten bits remain, they are written at step 68, until all bits are written, a �no� response at decision box 67, at which time the system exits at 69. The system can be programmed to write to two locations for each entry, for the desired redundancy, or can repeat the process flow through step 66, prior to ascertaining step 67 if any unwritten bits remain.
The invention has been described with reference to several specific embodiments. One having skill in the relevant art will recognize that modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
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Well, that is back in our sticks and bricks home. Bob arrived home about an hour before me, I stopped to go to church at the Bandera First United Methodist Church. When we got up this morning we talked about trying to make it back to San Antonio in time for breakfast with everyone after church. However, we decided we couldn't make it back in time since I didn't get up until almost ...


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Del Frisco's
Del Frisco's has a sophisticated ambiance and friendly service. The exceptional menu offers great cuts of beef, including Filet Mignon and Prime Ribeye. If you're not in the mood for beef, there is also a nice selection of fresh seafood as well as a delicious selection of side dishes and appetizers. Pair your meal with a glass of wine from their impressive list.
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By Deputy Assistant Secretary for Children, Youth and Families Kathy Betts
Throughout the tenure of the Patrick-Murray Administration, we have heard consistently from Commonwealth residents across the state that the needs of children, youth and families receiving services from state agencies could be better coordinated. The Administration has always been, and remains, deeply committed to ensuring that families who need it receive the support required to ensure the health, well-being and growth of children in safe communities.
We have heard from a diverse range of stakeholders – including families we serve, staff at our agencies, and advocates – about the need for a more integrated and coordinated system of services that strengthens families. The consensus is that state agencies and their community partners need to further develop a respectful approach that is holistic and responsive to each family's unique needs while remaining strengths-based, community-focused, and committed to healthy development of the children and families involved.
The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) has continued to think carefully about the evolving needs of families and how effective we are in serving those needs. The challenges families face are varied and complex, and our agencies and partners help make a positive difference in the lives of the families and children we serve.
We've learned a lot from the feedback families have provided. From ongoing discussions, we know that Massachusetts families value our services and programs. We also know that there are opportunities for improvement, particularly in the way we engage and support families, as well as how families engage and utilize our services and programs. We have heard the need for family-centric model that serves the whole child and family in a well-coordinated and effective manner, ensuring that the right support is offered to families at the right time.
With our legislative partners, EOHHS has formed a Children, Youth and Families Advisory Committee to help us develop a plan for strengthening services. We will be looking at what other states have done to improve service delivery and will hold stakeholder forums to hear suggestions for improvements.
The Patrick-Murray Administration wants to hear from you. If you have ideas and suggestions about how we can improve services for children, youth and their families, or want to share your personal experience with us, we invite you to attend the next in our series of public meetings, which will be held in Boston on November 28. If you cannot attend but would like to send feedback, write to us at: email@example.com
For more information visit the EOHHS Children Youth and Families web page www.mass.gov/hhs/childservices. Following are details about the next public forum:
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5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
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In his eulogy, President Obama put Nelson Mandela in the company of three other heroes: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln.
What did these men have in common? Three were assassinated, and all four are icons of resistance to white rule over people of color.
Obama's heroes testify to his belief that the great moral struggle of the age is the struggle for racial equality.
For the neocons, the greatest man was Winston Churchill because he stood up, almost alone, to the great evil of the age — Nazism. But what did Churchill think of Obama's hero Gandhi?
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace ... to parlay on equal terms with the representative of the Emperor-King."
What did Churchill think of ending Western white rule of people of color? Here he is in 1937: "I do not admit ... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia ... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race ... has come in and taken its place."
In short, Churchill's convictions about the superiority of some races and civilizations, and their inherent right to rule what Rudyard Kipling called "the lesser breeds without the law," was and is the antithesis of what Obama believes.
Any wonder Obama shipped that bust of Churchill that "W" kept in the Oval Office back to the British embassy? Any surprise Obama failed to show up at the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, who sent the fleet to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentina?
The point: Obama's vision of an ideal world and Churchill's are irreconcilable.
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Best product to deliver trace minerals to Citrus?
I have two potted Citrus trees (lemon and lime) and every now and then they start showing yellowed leaves and sometimes leaves with yellow veins etc. Occasionally I mix some azomite in water and give them that or a little epsom salt. Is there something better?
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Oops, your right..Ha..Shows you how tired or blind I was.
In the over 20 years I have been growing citrus trees, I have never seen anything organic do the job the way my potted trees need...
In fact, the sea weed and emulsions killed my plants in the past..The mix would become compacted and rotted over time and never really doing anything for my tree..They would turn even more yellow.
I hope you find something and if you do, please share.
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LOOKING for: where'd alba go?!
Back in the day, when I could drink something filling in place of a meal, I happened upon ALBA, a 70-calorie, high protein drink mix, cheap compared to Slim-Fast. It would fit right in with my Simply Weight Loss plan, but I can't find it! DD found some at Wal-mart and gave it to me for Christmas several years ago, but doesn't remember seeing it since. She said it was in the same area as Carnation Instant Breakfast. Has anyone seen my ALBA? chery-va
I just recently saw Alba at Safeway. As I recall it was not where the chocolate mixes were maybe by the diet foods but not sure. I used to buy Alba as a nonsugar chocolate mix, I didn't associate it with high protein and I thought it only had 50 calories but that had to be 40 years ago. Check out the low-carb mixes, they tend to be low calorie, low fat, high protein and I think cheap compared to slimfast. Of course, you have to supply yourown water. I like to mix it into yogurt; or into water with orange flavored metamucil when I think I should have more fiber. It was surprisingly good, well, not like a milk shake but better than I expected and hunger stays gone for hours. Good luck finding the Alba.
Also found your post! I still had a couple of boxes of Alba-all 3 flavors, on my shelf-for a couple of YEARS ... there was a close-out @ Albertsons in Delray Bch Fl @ that time & I bought a whole bunch @ a very low price. (They may have restocked since then, I just haven't looked).
Well - I started dieting again & began using my 2 boxes I still had left ... wanted to share with you:
- I learned about Alba when I was in Weight Watchers in Atlanta in the '90's - it was to be used as a milk exchange & if you added milk to it that took care of the 2 milks required for the day !!! Good deal
- Just by happenstance when I was mixing my Alba with my malted-like mixer - 1 speed only - (I also add 1/3 c of dry milk) for 3 minutes (like making instant pudding) - it comes out like the consistency of pudding &/or whipped cream ... & tastes like a Shake from McDonald's etc
p.s. also found www.hometownfavorites.com when Google 'Alba'
p.s. I just found & bought Alba last nite at Publix in Delray Beach, FL
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Here is a collection of the all-time best famous Fruit poems. This is a select list of the best famous Fruit poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Fruit poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of fruit poems.
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A sunny day's complete Poussiniana
Divide it from itself. It is this or that
And it is not.
By metaphor you paint
A thing. Thus, the pineapple was a leather fruit,
A fruit for pewter, thorned and palmed and blue,
To be served by men of ice.
The senses paint
By metaphor. The juice was fragranter
Than wettest cinnamon. It was cribled pears
Dripping a morning sap.
The truth must be
That you do not see, you experience, you feel,
That the buxom eye brings merely its element
To the total thing, a shapeless giant forced
Green were the curls upon that head.
Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages,
Or one man
Crossing a single bridge into a village.
This is old song
That will not declare itself . . .
Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Twenty men crossing a bridge
Into a village.
That will not declare itself
Yet is certain as meaning . . .
The boots of the men clump
On the boards of the bridge.
The first white wall of the village
Rises through fruit-trees.
Of what was it I was thinking?
So the meaning escapes.
The first white wall of the village . . .
The fruit-trees . . .
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Bear fruit red and green
Again as if flower further open
Hill at if remain guest
Place here cornel cup
When bearing fruit it's red and green,
As if the flowers were budding again.
If a guest remains on the hill,
Set a cup of cornel here.
I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning:
The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a finger-nail held to the candle,
Or paring of paradisaical fruit, lovely in waning but lustreless,
Stepped from the stool, drew back from the barrow, of dark Maenefa the mountain;
A cusp still clasped him, a fluke yet fanged him, entangled him, not quite utterly.
This was the prized, the desirable sight, unsought, presented so easily,
Parted me leaf and leaf, divided me, eyelid and eyelid of slumber.
I bear a basket lined with grass;
I am so light, I am so fair,
That men must wonder as I pass
And at the basket that I bear,
Where in a newly-drawn green litter
Sweet flowers I carry, -- sweets for bitter.
Lilies I shew you, lilies none,
None in Caesar's gardens blow, --
And a quince in hand, -- not one
Is set upon your boughs below;
Not set, because their buds not spring;
Spring not, 'cause world is wintering.
But these were found in the East and South
Where Winter is the clime forgot. --
The dewdrop on the larkspur's mouth
O should it then be quenchèd not?
In starry water-meads they drew
These drops: which be they? stars or dew?
Had she a quince in hand? Yet gaze:
Rather it is the sizing moon.
Lo, linkèd heavens with milky ways!
That was her larkspur row. -- So soon?
Sphered so fast, sweet soul? -- We see
Nor fruit, nor flowers, nor Dorothy.
This much, O heaven—if I should brood or rave,
Pity me not; but let the world be fed,
Yea, in my madness if I strike me dead,
Heed you the grass that grows upon my grave.
If I dare snarl between this sun and sod,
Whimper and clamour, give me grace to own,
In sun and rain and fruit in season shown,
The shining silence of the scorn of God.
Thank God the stars are set beyond my power,
If I must travail in a night of wrath,
Thank God my tears will never vex a moth,
Nor any curse of mine cut down a flower.
Men say the sun was darkened: yet I had
Thought it beat brightly, even on—Calvary:
And He that hung upon the Torturing Tree
Heard all the crickets singing, and was glad.
O month whose promise and fulfilment blend,
And burst in one! it seems the earth can store
In all her roomy house no treasure more;
Of all her wealth no farthing have to spend
On fruit, when once this stintless flowering end.
And yet no tiniest flower shall fall before
It hath made ready at its hidden core
Its tithe of seed, which we may count and tend
Till harvest. Joy of blossomed love, for thee
Seems it no fairer thing can yet have birth?
No room is left for deeper ecstacy?
Watch well if seeds grow strong, to scatter free
Germs for thy future summers on the earth.
A joy which is but joy soon comes to dearth.
My snowy eupatorium has dropped
Its silver threads of petals in the night;
No signal told its blossoming had stopped;
Its seed-films flutter silent, ghostly white:
No answer stirs the shining air,
As I ask, "Where?"
Beneath the glossy leaves of winter-green
Dead lilly-bells lie low, and in their place
A rounded disk of pearly pink is seen,
Which tells not of the lily's fragrant grace:
No answer stirs the shining air,
As I ask, "Where?"
This morning's sunrise does not show to me
Seed-film or fruit of my sweet yesterday;
Like falling flowers, to realms I cannot see
Its moments floated silently away:
No answer stirs the shining air,
As I ask, "Where?"
O HOLY SPIRIT of the Hazel, hearken now:
Though shining suns and silver moons burn on the bough,
And though the fruit of stars by many myriads gleam,
Yet in the undergrowth below, still in thy dream,
Lighting the monstrous maze and labyrinthine gloom
Are many gem-winged flowers with gay and delicate bloom.
And in the shade, hearken, O Dreamer of the Tree,
One wild-rose blossom of thy spirit breathed on me
With lovely and still light: a little sister flower
To those that whitely on the tall moon-branches tower.
Lord of the Hazel, now, O hearken while I pray.
This wild-rose blossom of thy spirit fades away.
A CABIN on the mountain side hid in a grassy nook
Where door and windows open wide that friendly stars may look.
The rabbit shy can patter in, the winds may enter free,
Who throng around the mountain throne in living ecstasy.
And when the sun sets dimmed in eve and purple fills the air,
I think the sacred Hazel Tree is dropping berries there
From starry fruitage waved aloft where Connla's Well o'erflows;
For sure the enchanted waters run through every wind that blows.
I think when night towers up aloft and shakes the trembling dew,
How every high and lonely thought that thrills my being through
Is but a ruddy berry dropped down through the purple air,
And from the magic tree of life the fruit falls everywhere.
Because of the fullness of what I had,
All that I have seems poor and vain.
If I had not been happy, I were not sad--
Tho' my salt is savorless, why complain?
From the ripe perfection of what was mine,
All that is mine seems worse than naught;
Yet I know, as I sit in the dark and pine,
No cup can be drained which has not been fraught.
From the throb and the thrill of a day that was,
The day that now is seems dull with gloom;
Yet I bear the dullness and darkness, because
'Tis but the reaction of glow and bloom.
From the royal feast that of old was spread
I am starved on the diet that now is mine;
Yet, I could not turn hungry from water and bread
If I had not been sated on fruit and wine.
To Archimedes once a scholar came,
"Teach me," he said, "the art that won thy fame;--
The godlike art which gives such boons to toil,
And showers such fruit upon thy native soil;--
The godlike art that girt the town when all
Rome's vengeance burst in thunder on the wall!"
"Thou call'st art godlike--it is so, in truth,
And was," replied the master to the youth,
"Ere yet its secrets were applied to use--
Ere yet it served beleaguered Syracuse:--
Ask'st thou from art, but what the art is worth?
The fruit?--for fruit go cultivate the earth.--
He who the goddess would aspire unto,
Must not the goddess as the woman woo!"
Millions busily toil, that the human race may continue;
But by only a few is propagated our kind.
Thousands of seeds by the autumn are scattered, yet fruit is engendered
Only by few, for the most back to the element go.
But if one only can blossom, that one is able to scatter
Even a bright living world, filled with creations eterne.
Ne'er does he taste the fruit of the tree that he raised with such trouble;
Nothing but taste e'er enjoys that which by learning is reared.
What shall be done for sorrow
With love whose race is run?
Where help is none to borrow,
What shall be done?
In vain his hands have spun
The web, or drawn the furrow:
No rest their toil hath won.
His task is all gone thorough,
And fruit thereof is none:
And who dare say to-morrow
What shall be done?
Deep desire, that pierces heart and spirit to the root,
Finds reluctant voice in verse that yearns like soaring fire,
Takes exultant voice when music holds in high pursuit
Deep desire.
Keen as burns the passion of the rose whose buds respire,
Strong as grows the yearning of the blossom toward the fruit,
Sounds the secret half unspoken ere the deep tones tire.
Slow subsides the rapture that possessed love's flower-soft lute,
Slow the palpitation of the triumph of the lyre:
Still the soul feels burn, a flame unslaked though these be mute,
Deep desire.
"The worlds in which we live are two
The world 'I am' and the world 'I do.'"
The worlds in which we live at heart are one,
The world "I am," the fruit of "I have done";
And underneath these worlds of flower and fruit,
The world "I love,"--the only living root.
O garden isle, beloved by Sun and Sea, --
Whose bluest billows kiss thy curving bays,
Whose amorous light enfolds thee in warm rays
That fill with fruit each dark-leaved orange-tree, --
What hidden hatred hath the Earth for thee?
Behold, again, in these dark, dreadful days,
She trembles with her wrath, and swiftly lays
Thy beauty waste in wreck and agony!
Is Nature, then, a strife of jealous powers,
And man the plaything of unconscious fate?
Not so, my troubled heart! God reigns above
And man is greatest in his darkest hours:
Walking amid the cities desolate,
The Son of God appears in human love.
The sick grapes on the chair by the bed lie prone; at the window
The tassel of the blind swings gently, tapping the pane,
As a little wind comes in.
The room is the hollow rind of a fruit, a gourd
Scooped out and dry, where a spider,
Folded in its legs as in a bed,
Lies on the dust, watching where is nothing to see but twilight and walls.
And if the day outside were mine! What is the day
But a grey cave, with great grey spider-cloths hanging
Low from the roof, and the wet dust falling softly from them
Over the wet dark rocks, the houses, and over
The spiders with white faces, that scuttle on the floor of the cave!
I am choking with creeping, grey confinedness.
But somewhere birds, beside a lake of light, spread wings
Larger than the largest fans, and rise in a stream upwards
And upwards on the sunlight that rains invisible,
So that the birds are like one wafted feather,
Small and ecstatic suspended over a vast spread country.
In some summers there is so much fruit,
the peasants decide not to reap any more.
Not having reaped you, oh my days,
my nights, have I let the slow flames
of your lovely produce fall into ashes?
My nights, my days, you have borne so much!
All your branches have retained the gesture
of that long labor you are rising from:
my days, my nights. Oh my rustic friends!
I look for what was so good for you.
Oh my lovely, half-dead trees,
could some equal sweetness still
stroke your leaves, open your calyx?
Ah, no more fruit! But one last time
bloom in fruitless blossoming
without planning, without reckoning,
as useless as the powers of millenia.
(Capri, Piccola Marina)
Timeless sea breezes,
sea-wind of the night:
you come for no one;
if someone should wake,
he must be prepared
how to survive you.
Timeless sea breezes,
that for aeons have
blown ancient rocks,
you are purest space
coming from afar...
Oh, how a fruit-bearing
fig tree feels your coming
high up in the moonlight.
Look how she stands, high on the steep facade
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The GNOME 3.9.4 development release was made available this week with many changes to its desktop stack ahead of the official GNOME 3.10 release in September. With this release, GNOME is in better shape when running with Wayland.
GNOME 3.9.4 brings with it now a Photos application that is similar to other desktop photo programs for managing local/online photos and offering other basic tasks for photo management.
The Clutter tool-kit for GNOME has improved state tracking and short circuiting, Wayland back-end improvements, and improved gesture recognizers. The Cogl OpenGL component also has EmScripten support, lots of Wayland back-end work and updated compositor support, a new fence API, improved blend state tracking, HSL color conversion APIs, and much more.
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See attached photograph. Is this mold? I am seeing these white spots on exactly two floor boards in a basement (none of the other floor boards have a single white spot). At first glance it looks like paint to me but after looking closer I'm not so sure. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
But the fact that it's so clearly limited to one board might mean it's simply some drywall residue or the like. Or maybe mould was growing on that one board before it was put down as subfloor.
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The man Modesto police hired to search part of San Francisco Bay with sonar now believes he found Laci Peterson's body in mid-March.
But the officer who led the search disputed published reports Sunday that divers saw the body of Peterson, the pregnant Modesto woman reported missing Christmas Eve.
Peterson's body washed ashore near Richmond on April 14, a day after the remains of her unborn son were discovered about a mile away.
The Modesto Police Department had hired Gene Ralston of Idaho to search the bay with side-scan sonar. He now believes that what he saw March 13 was Peterson's body, based on where she was found.
"Piecing all the information we have now, I believe it probably was Laci Peterson," Ralston said.
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Modesto Police Chief Roy Wasden was quoted Sunday in The Oakland Tribune as saying that searchers were frustrated that the weather did not allow divers to retrieve the body in March.
That quote was taken out of context, Cloward said.
"The chief made a comment saying we had been out there many times and came off the bay frustrated because of high winds and high weather," Cloward said. "As far as a body being found out there, the chief never made that comment."
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The object divers saw in a deep channel March 13 was four miles from where Peterson said he was fishing.
Ralston said his side-scan sonar, which produces a clearer image than regular sonar, detected something that day. Divers using an underwater camera took a closer look, he said.
"It appeared to be a body, but we never got a close look at it," he said. "Wind-generated waves made it too dangerous to take a closer look at it."
When they returned a week later, the object was gone, Ralston said. He said the churning created by large ships using the channel could have moved the object.
Police have said they might return to the bay to look for more evidence in the Peterson case, and Ralston said he'll be there.
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... later in the afternoon so we did what anyone who just got into the USA does...our laundry. Okay so maybe it's not very exciting but we are trying not to smell bad here! The nice thing about laundry mats is they are fully equipped with wifi and plugs and TVs so really it's kinda nice to do laundry and relax. We found a place to spend the evening and hunkered down for the ...
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Happy Birthday, Mark!
... despite the cold weather coming. Laura, the owner, remembered us from our last visit and, as always, made us feel like family. We seriously had the best dinner ever (even better than our first visit) and our waiter surprised Mark with a candle in a chocolate tort for dessert! We reminisced on all of his past birthdays we had celebrated together and how each year brought even more exciting things: from ...
What a great adventure!
... awesone, by a large river - and off the trail. The ground was soaking wet, but the new MSR NX3 did not allow anything in! Finally a dry night.....so happy to be rid of the Big Agnes UL 3!! Woke up late, headed back to the town, to eat breakfast....and after eating breakfast, the bike would not start! A local repair shop was nice enough to charge up the battery for us, and I disconnected the front head light - to save battery life. The local guys directed me to a ...
Heading for Home
... and started to make our way over to Bangor to do some shopping before heading home. Before we got to Ellsworth, I saw that B17 that had been flying around when we were out in Frenchman Bay. It was on the runway near the road and I had to stop and take some pictures. They let me walk right up to the bomber and take some pictures.
We stopped at our usual coffee shop, then ...


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1 bedroom ground floor flat to rent Main Road,Gilwern,NP7A lovely fully refurbished 1st floor flat in the heart of Gilwern town. This flat has all ammenities surrounding including the famous fish bar and local pubs. Just a few minutes walk away from the canal. More details ›
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4 bedroom link detached house to rent Old Rectory Close, GilwernSower Estates is pleased to present for let this spacious and modernised home with beautiful views located in Gilwern, Abergavenny. More details ›
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