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Vol. VIII. Letters and Social Aims
X. Greatness
fate, save by the victims fault, is low,
For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,
So guilt not traverses his tender will.
dignity abides with him alone
Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,
Can still suspect, and still revere himself,
In lowliness of heart.
is a prize which we are all aiming at, and the more power and goodness we have, so much more the energy of that aim. Every human being has a right to it, and in the pursuit we do not stand in each others way. For it has a long scale of degrees, a wide variety of views, and every aspirant, by his success in the pursuit, does not hinder but helps his competitors. I might call it completeness, but that is later,perhaps adjourned for ages. I prefer to call it Greatness. It is the fulfilment of a natural tendency in each man. It is a fruitful study. It is the best tonic to the young soul. And no man is unrelated; therefore we admire eminent men, not for themselves, but as representatives.
It is very certain that we ought not to be and shall not be contented with any goal we have reached. Our aim is no less than greatness; that which invites all, belongs to us all,to which we are all sometimes untrue, cowardly, faithless, but of which we never quite despair, and which, in every sane moment, we resolve to make our own. It is also the only platform on which all men can meet. What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly not those in which he was degraded to the level of dulness or vice, but those in which he rose above all competition by obeying a light that shone to him alone. This is the worthiest history of the world.
Greatness,what is it? Is there not some injury to us, some insult in the word? What we commonly call greatness is only such in our barbarous or infant experience. T is not the soldier, not Alexander or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but wisdom and civility, the creation of laws, institutions, letters and art. These we call by distinction the
these, and not the strong arm and brave heart, which are also indispensable to their defence.
For the scholars represent the intellect, by which man is man; the intellect and the moral sentiment,which in the last analysis can never be separated. Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid racestorpid for agesby Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa? What of Menu? what of Buddha? of Shakspeare? of Newton? of Franklin?
There are certain points of identity in which these masters agree. Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears. The man in the tavern maintains his opinion, though the whole crowd takes the other side; we are at once drawn to him. The porter or truckman refuses a reward for finding your purse, or for pulling you drowning out of the river. Thereby, with the service, you have got a moral lift. You say of some new person, That man will go far,for you see in his manners that the recognition of him by others is not necessary to him.
And what a bitter-sweet sensation when we have gone to pour out our acknowledgment of a mans nobleness, and found him quite indifferent to our good opinion! They may well fear Fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim; but he who rests on what he is, has a destiny above destiny, and can make mouths at Fortune. If a mans centrality is incomprehensible to us, we may as well snub the sun. There is something in Archimedes or in Luther or Samuel Johnson that needs no protection. There is somewhat in the true scholar which he cannot be laughed out of, nor be terrified or bought off from. Stick to your own; dont inculpate yourself in the local, social or national crime, but follow the path your genius traces like the galaxy of heaven for you to walk in.
A sensible person will soon see the folly and wickedness of thinking to please. Sensible men are very rare. A sensible man does not brag, avoids introducing the names of his creditable companions, omits himself as habitually as another man obtrudes himself in the discourse, and is content with putting his fact or theme simply on its ground. You shall not tell me that your commercial house, your partners or yourself are of importance; you shall not tell me that you have learned to know men; you shall make me feel that; your saying so unsays it. You shall not enumerate your brilliant acquaintances, nor tell me by their titles what books you have read. I am to infer that you keep good company by your better information and manners, and to infer your reading from the wealth and accuracy of your conversation.
Young men think that the manly character requires that they should go to California, or to India, or into the army. When they have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology, sinewy, out-of-doors men, with a taste for mountains and rocks, a quick eye for differences and for chemical changes. Give such, first a course in chemistry, and then a geological survey. Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals; others in ornithology, or fishes, or insects; others in plants; others in the elements of which the whole world is made. These lately have stimulus to their study through the extraordinary revelations of the spectroscope that the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is. Then there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea, and must go thither if he has to run away from his fathers house to the forecastle; another, longs for travel in foreign lands; another will be a lawyer; another, an astronomer; another, a painter, sculptor, architect or engineer. Thus there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born, who, as his genius opens, aims slower or faster to dedicate himself to that. Then there is the poet, the philosopher, the politician, the orator, the clergyman, the physician. T is gratifying to see this adaptation of man to the world, and to every part and particle of it.
Many readers remember that Sir Humphry Davy said, when he was praised for his important discoveries, My best discovery was Michael Faraday. In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing Professor Faraday deliver, in the Royal Institution in London, a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism,by which he meant
and he showed us various experiments on certain gases, to prove that whilst ordinarily magnetism of steel is from north to south, in other substances, gases, it acts from east to west. And further experiments led him to the theory that every chemical substance would be found to have its own, and a different, polarity. I do not know how far his experiments and others have been pushed in this matter, but one fact is clear to me, that diamagnetism is a law of the
to the full extent of Faradays idea; namely, that every mind has a new compass, a new north, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind;as every man, with whatever family resemblances, has a new countenance, new manner, new voice, new thoughts and new character. Whilst he shares with all mankind the gift of reason and the moral sentiment, there is a teaching for him from within which is leading him in a new path, and, the more it is trusted, separates and signalizes him, while it makes him more important and necessary to society. We call this specialty the
of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Swedenborg called it the
not a thought shared with others, but constitutional to the man. A point of education that I can never too much insist upon is this tenet that every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and that it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path, with more or less variation from any other mans. He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it; learns to be at home with himself; learns to watch the delicate hints and insights that come to him, and to have the entire assurance of his own mind. And in this self-respect or hearkening to the privatest oracle, he consults his ease I may say, or need never be at a loss. In morals this is conscience; in intellect, genius; in practice talent;not to imitate or surpass a particular man in
way, but to bring out your own new way; to each his own method, style, wit, eloquence. It is easy for a commander to command. Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, he makes no mistakes, but works after her laws and at her own pace, so that his doing, which is perfectly natural, appears miraculous to dull people. Montluc, the great marshal of France, says of the Genoese admiral, Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man. And a kindred genius, Nelson, said, I feel that I am fitter to do the action than to describe it. Therefore I will say that another trait of greatness is facility.
This necessity of resting on the real, of speaking
private thought and experience, few young men apprehend. Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will leave out their thought, or proper result,that is, their net experience,and lose themselves in misreporting the supposed experience of other people.
Indeed I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course. I have observed that in all public speaking, the rule of the orator begins, not in the array of his facts, but when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,when these shine and burn in his address; when the thought which he stands for gives its own authority to him, adds to him a grander personality, gives him valor, breadth and new intellectual power, so that not he, but mankind, seems to speak through his lips. There is a certain transfiguration; all great orators have it, and men who wish to be orators simulate it.
If we should ask ourselves what is this self-respect, it would carry us to the highest problems. It is our practical perception of the Deity in man. It has its deep foundations in religion. If you have ever known a good mind among the Quakers, you will have found
is the element of their faith. As they express it, it might be thus: I do not pretend to any commandment or large revelation, but if at any time I form some plan, propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. Very well,I let it lie, thinking it may pass away, but if it do not pass away I yield to it, obey it. You ask me to describe it. I cannot describe it. It is not an oracle, nor an angel, nor a dream, nor a law; it is too simple to be described, it is but a grain of mustard-seed, but such as it is, it is something which the contradiction of all mankind could not shake, and which the consent of all mankind could not confirm.
You are rightly fond of certain books or men that you have found to excite your reverence and emulation. But none of these can compare with the greatness of that counsel which is open to you in happy solitude. I mean that there is for you the following of an inward leader,a slow discrimination that there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment. And the path of each, pursued, leads to greatness. How grateful to find in man or woman a new emphasis of their own.
But if the first rule is to obey your native bias, to accept that work for which you were inwardly formed,the second rule is concentration, which doubles its force. Thus if you are a scholar, be that. The same laws hold for you as for the laborer. The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. Let the student mind his own charge; sedulously wait every morning for the news concerning the structure of the world which the spirit will give him.
No way has been found for making heroism easy, even for the scholar. Labor, iron labor, is for him. The world was created as an audience for him; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. Read the performance of Bentley, of Gibbon, of Cuvier, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Laplace. He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous. Let us get out of the way of their blows by making them true of ourselves. There is so much to be done that we ought to begin quickly to bestir ourselves. This day-labor of ours, we confess, has hitherto a certain emblematic air, like the annual ploughing and sowing of the Emperor of China. Let us make it an honest sweat. Let the scholar measure his valor by his power to cope with intellectual giants. Leave others to count votes and calculate stocks. His courage is to weigh Plato, judge Laplace, know Newton, Faraday, judge of Darwin, criticise Kant and Swedenborg, and on all these arouse the central courage of insight. The scholars courage should be as terrible as the Cids, though it grow out of spiritual nature, not out of brawn. Nature, when she adds difficulty, adds brain.
With this respect to the bias of the individual mind add, what is consistent with it, the most catholic receptivity for the genius of others. The day will come when no badge, uniform or medal will be worn; when the eye, which carries in it planetary influences from all the stars, will indicate rank fast enough by exerting power. For it is true that the stratification of crusts in geology is not more precise than the degrees of rank in minds. A man will say: I am born to this position; I must take it, and neither you nor I can help or hinder me. Surely, then, I need not fret myself to guard my own dignity.
The great man loves the conversation or the book that convicts him, not that which soothes or flatters him. He makes himself of no reputation; he conceals his learning, conceals his charity. For the highest wisdom does not concern itself with particular men, but with man enamoured with the law and the Eternal Source. Say with Antoninus, If the picture is good, who cares who made it? What matters it by whom the good is done, by yourself or another? If it is the truth, what matters who said it? If it was right, what signifies who did it? All greatness is in degree, and there is more above than below. Where were your own intellect, if greater had not lived? And do you know what the right meaning of Fame is? It is that sympathy, rather that fine element by which the good become partners of the greatness of their superiors.
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility. No aristocrat, no prince born to the purple, can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint. Why is he so lowly, but that he knows that he can well afford it, resting on the largeness of God in him?
I have read in an old book that Barcena the Jesuit confessed to another of his order that when the Devil appeared to him in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say, with the old Hebrew prophet, Seekest thou great things?seek them not; or, what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him, the greater he appeared,
Plus on lui ôte, plus il est grand.
Scintillations of greatness appear here and there in men of unequal character, and are by no means confined to the cultivated and so-called moral class.
It is easy to draw traits from Napoleon, who was not generous nor just, but was intellectual and knew the law of things. Napoleon commands our respect by his enormous self-trust, the habit of seeing with his own eyes, never the surface, but to the heart of the matter, whether it was a road, a cannon, a character, an officer, or a king,and by the speed and security of his action in the premises, always new. He has left a library of manuscripts, a multitude of sayings, every one of widest application. He was a man who always fell on his feet. When one of his favorite schemes missed, he had the faculty of taking up his genius, as he said, and of carrying it somewhere else. Whatever they may tell you, believe that one fights with cannon as with fists; when once the fire is begun, the least want of ammunition renders what you have done already useless. I find it easy to translate all his technics into all of mine, and his official advices are to me more literary and philosophical than the memoirs of the Academy. His advice to his brother, King Joseph of Spain, was: I have only one counsel for you,
Be Master.
Depth of intellect relieves even the ink of crime with a fringe of light. We perhaps look on its crimes as experiments of a universal student; as he may read any book who reads all books, and as the English judge in old times, when learning was rare, forgave a culprit who could read and write. It is difficult to find greatness pure. Well, I please myself with its diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption. It is some guaranty, I hope, for the health of the soul which has this generous blood. How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom, now that the mists have rolled away, we have learned to correct our old estimates, and to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit. Diderot was no model, but unclean as the society in which he lived; yet was he the best-natured man in France, and would help any wretch at a pinch. His humanity knew no bounds. A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him and wished to dedicate it to a pious Duc dOrléans, came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and Diderot, pitying the creature, wrote the dedication for him, and so raised five-and-twenty louis to save his famishing lampooner alive.
Meantime we hate snivelling. I do not wish you to surpass others in any narrow or professional or monkish way. We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it in boys, and sometimes in people not normal, nor educated, nor presentable, nor church-members,even in persons open to the suspicion of irregular and immoral living, in Bohemians,as in more orderly examples. For we must remember that in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting, and yet the opportunities and incentives to sublime daring and performance are often close at hand. We must have some charity for the sense of the people, which admires natural power, and will elect it over virtuous men who have less. It has this excuse, that natural is really allied to moral power, and may always be expected to approach it by its own instincts. Intellect at least is not stupid, and will see the force of morals over men, if it does not itself obey. Henry VII. of England was a wise king. When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against him, was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.
It is noted of some scholars, like Swift and Gibbon and Donne, that they pretended to vices which they had not, so much did they hate hypocrisy. William Blake the artist frankly says, I never knew a bad man in whom there was not something very good. Bret Harte has pleased himself with noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates of the ranches and mines of California.
Men are ennobled by morals and by intellect; but those two elements know each other and always beckon to each other, until at last they meet in the man, if he is to be truly great. The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the path of the electric light. So does intellect when brought into the presence of character; character puts out that light. Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of the Olympian genius.
It is more plainly seen in the correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick of Prussia. Voltaire is brilliant, nimble and various, but Frederick has the superior tone. But it is curious that Byron
writes down
to Scott; Scott writes up to him. The Greeks surpass all men till they face the Romans, when Roman character prevails over Greek genius. Whilst degrees of intellect interest only classes of men who pursue the same studies, as chemists or astronomers, mathematicians or linguists, and have no attraction for the crowd, there are always men who have a more catholic genius, are really great as men, and inspire universal enthusiasm. A great style of hero draws equally all classes, all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such examples in this country, in Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and the seamens preacher, Father Taylor; in England, Charles James Fox; in Scotland, Robert Burns; and in France, though it is less intelligible to us, Voltaire. Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class that we have seen,a man who was at home and welcome with the humblest, and with a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the admiration of the wisest. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
These may serve as local examples to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites, and which makes him require geniality and humanity in his heroes. What are these but the promise and the preparation of a day when the air of the world shall be purified by nobler society, when the measure of greatness shall be usefulness in the highest sense, greatness consisting in truth, reverence and good will?
Life is made of illusions, and a very common one is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, if I lived in New York or Philadelphia, Cambridge or New Haven or Boston or Andover, there might be fit society; but it happens that there are no fine young men, no superior women in my town. You may hear this every day; but it is a shallow remark. Ah! have you yet to learn that the eye altering alters all; that the world is an echo which returns to each of us what we say? It is not examples of greatness, but sensibility to see them, that is wanting. The good botanist will find flowers between the street pavements, and any man filled with an idea or a purpose will find examples and illustrations and coadjutors wherever he goes. Wit is a magnet to find wit, and character to find character. Do you not know that people are as those with whom they converse? And if all or any are heavy to me, that fact accuses me.
Why complain, as if a mans debt to his inferiors were not at least equal to his debt to his superiors? If men were equals, the waters would not move; but the difference of level which makes Niagara a cataract, makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to communicate. With self-respect then there must be in the aspirant the strong fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men of all classes warm to him as their leader and representative.
We are thus forced to express our instinct of the truth by exposing the failures of experience. The man whom we have not seen, in whom no regard of self degraded the adorer of the laws,who by governing himself governed others; sportive in manner, but inexorable in act; who sees longevity in his cause; whose aim is always distinct to him; who is suffered to be himself in society; who carries fate in his eye;he it is whom we seek, encouraged in every good hour that here or hereafter he shall be found.
Note 1.
This essay is drawn largely from the concluding lecture of a course given at the Meionaon in Boston in the autumn of 1868. Greatness is a heading which occurs thoughts on the journals from 1840 onward, but of course the thoughts on this subject were drawn upon for many lectures that had not the name.
In July, 1872,
Mr. Emerson spoke at Amherst College on the Greatness of the Scholar, and probably somewhat earlier at Middlebury College, Vermont, on the same theme. The essays on The Scholar, The Man of Letters, Aristocracy and Manners very probably have matter drawn from the lectures on Greatness, and that here given is only a portion of the lecture as delivered. [
Note 2.
Journal: The moment a great man fails us as a cause, it is only to become more valuable and suggestive as an effect. [
Note 3.
Journal, 1857: Every great man does in all his nature point at and imply the well-being of all the institutions and orders of the state. He is by inclination (though it may be far remote in position) the defender of the grammar-schools, the almshouse, the Sabbath, the priest, the judge, the legislator and the executive arm. Throughout his being he is loyal. [
Note 4.
The following passage in the lecture is here omitted:
The main question of any person whatever is, Does he respect himself? Then I have no option. The universe will respect him. Greatness requires self-respect and it must be constitutional, indicating natural courage.
The sentence which follows in the text suggests the stoic attitude of his friend Thoreau. [
Note 5.
In the lecture this sentence and quotation followed: Thus self-respect is ever refining, ever retreating to an inward and higher self.
O what is Honor? T is the finest sense
Of justice that the human mind can frame,
Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim
And guard the way of life from all offence
Suffered or done.
Note 6.
Mr. Emersons journals were mainly records of the oracles which came to his listening ear in his wood walks, and thoughts which the events and conversation of the day had suggested, but the outward circumstances usually have to be inferred. [
Note 7.
These were the words of Miss Mary Rotch of New Bedford, and they made deep impression on Mr. Emerson, when in 1834 he was invited to preach for a time in that city. His cousin, the Rev. David Greene Haskins, relates in his little book, before referred to, that when Mr. Emerson praised Swedenborgs writings to him he asked whether he was a Swedenborgian. This Mr. Emerson would not fully allow. On my asking him how, then, he would define his position, he answered, and with greater deliberateness and longer pauses between his words than usual, I am more of a Quaker than anything else. I believe in the still small voice and that voice is Christ within us. This was probably in the year 1839. [
Note 8.
In the last pages of the essay on New England Reformers, in the second volume of
Mr. Emerson wrote of the Law alive and beautiful which works over our heads and under our feet . Work, it saith to man, in every hour, paid or unpaid, see only that thou work, and thou canst not escape the reward: whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought: no matter how often defeated, you are born to victory. The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. [
Note 9.
Journal: Do you, as wise man, while some play at chess, some at cards, and some at the stock exchangedo you play at Cause and Effect. [
Note 10.
This sentence followed in the lecture: The man whom we have not seen is the rapt lover in whom no regards of self degraded the adorer of the laws.
The paragraph in the text is treated more fully in Aristocracy, in
Lectures and Biographical Sketches.
The following is from the lecture sheets:
The persons generally most praised and esteemed are not those whom I most value; for the world is not receptive or intelligent of Being, but of Intellect. But heroes are they who value being. Being cannot be told, but is left alone, not only because little appreciated, but that its influence is silent and quiet. The world is awed before the great and is subdued without knowing why. [
Note 11.
Whenever Heaven sends a great man into the world, it whispers the secret to one or two confidants.Lecture sheets. [
Note 12.
When it is remembered that the Self-Reliance which Mr. Emerson taught is on the sublimated self, the individual giving passage to the universal Soul, it is seen that both positions, the haughty courage of the hero and the renunciation of all choice by the saint, are one. Each loses himself to save himself. [
Note 13.
This sentence followed in the lecture: Does any one say, Who cares for these conceited minorities?the study of greatness! of the masters! the great are exceptional. Yes, but every man is exceptional. [
Note 14.
This passage appears somewhat differently in the journal of 1864:
says of the three obituary notices of Thackeray by Dickens, Trollope and Kingsley, only Dickenss is equal to the subject; the others strain to write up, and fail. It was said lately of Goethes correspondence with the Duke of Weimar that the Dukes letters are the best. The experience is familiar day by day, that of two persons, one of character and one of intellect, character will rule and intellect must bow. It is interesting in Goethes case because of his patronizing tone to all the world. [
Note 15.
Here, perhaps, belongs a sheet from the lecture: The first fact is the long hidden one, that the world is as we are. If we bring to it a sound body and mind, it is full of joy and power, and is plastic like wax in our hands; if we come to it morbid and vicious, it torments and tyrannizes over us. [
Note 16.
The human and hopeful feeling towards mankind appears here:
I wish such statements only as are friendly and respectful to every man. Every law, custom, revolution is agreeable to me which treats him kindly and considerately. I wish him magnified. Let ages and nations look to their own. Every age has its object and symbol. So has every man. Why not then every epoch of our life its own; and a man should journey thro his own Zodiac of signs. I wish the days to be great.
The following sheets, which once did duty in the lecture Success, may be added here:
For events are, not as the brute circumstance that falls, but as the life which they fall upon. The atoms of matter are plastic enough, for they are of us and we of them, and carbon and azote, mountain and planet, play one tune with man and mind.
Why we can reach so far to the planets and sun with our short arms, is because we have a pocket edition of the whole. Your brain is timed with the sea-tide, has agreements with the sun.
Understanding and love are the powers of a reasonable creature; and the last exists to be communicated; and is the only thing that is really in our power to bestow; and is moreover the noblest good that can be given; and deserves the greatest retribution that can be made. And our principal care must be to confer it wisely or well,to confer it only on that which deserves it all, and can repay it. We thought we were equals of Jove, when we learned to be Stoics; but here is a new greatness. The passages of affection in life are an enlargement once for all. Nobility lies under it. It is an exchange of nobleness. We are easily great with our friend. In unlocking to us another heart and mind, it unlocks our own heart and mind in a wonderful manner. [
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The Blue Note
Monday, January 3
Better Than: You had any right to expect
The bad news always comes first with Lauryn Hill. And so. Initial advertised start time: 8 p.m. Revised start time as of this evening: 11. Mood at 10:05: anxious. (Two different Blue Note folks use the words "hopefully," "start," and "eleven" in a sentence while I'm taking off my coat.) PA announcement at 11:05: "Lauryn will be on really soon." ("Is that five minutes or less?" someone shouts; "10 minutes?" comes the answer.) 11:23: a DJ shows up to "set a nice mystical mood." (Which involves lots of Bob Marley.) 11:42: the band appears, crowding the tiny stage, and starts idly vamping. 11:50: The couple next to me, who I learn have been sitting there since 7:15, leaves in disgust, explaining that they have a train to catch, the male half noting diplomatically that "That's how Lauryn is." 11:57: Lauryn steps onstage. I feel terrible for those poor people who left, both because they missed the show, and because the show itself was actually fantastic.
You know this about Lauryn Hill already, of course: the relentless lateness, the defiant aggro-rock scrambling of her beloved solo + Fugees back catalog (typical banter: "See if you recognize this one!"), the physically painful rasp now seemingly omnipresent in her voice. Only two out of three tonight, though: Her voice sounds great, actually, clear and brash and lethal, shifting from the straight reggae crooning of "Forever Loving Jah" (more Bob Marley) to the rap-metal swagger of "Lost Ones" to the simmering torch-song theatrics of "When It Hurts So Bad," directing the band to lay out as she adds a wailing a capella coda that leaves her nowhere to hide and no reason to. There's a mic in her right hand and a black handkerchief in her left; she dabs at her face nearly every second she's not singing. "If I had a bikini I would still be sweating this much," she notes, as someone in the front row continually waves a napkin at her, semi-helpfully. "It's the lights."
Once you accept that you're probably not going to get these songs as you originally heard/loved them, you're free to marvel at the audacity of Ms. Lauryn Hill in 2011: the breathless rant of "Ex-Factor," say, basically performed twice in full, the second time with way more psych-rock wooziness. Hill is a tough bandleader, constantly hectoring both the soundman (poor Lucas, name-checked mid-song roughly 50 times tonight) and the players themselves: "Where we going? Where we going?" she demands as one keyboardist takes a deranged prog-rock solo during "To Zion." But the maelstrom doesn't overwhelm her the way it apparently did at other shows, even with the much smaller and less sonically forgiving venue, and eventually she starts singing the songs more or less the way you originally heard/loved them: From "Fu-Gee-La" on, the crowd's on its feet (a rarity at the Blue Note) as she blows through "Ready or Not," "Killing Me Softly," and a climactic "Doo Wop" with aplomb.
It's around 1:45 a.m., and there's a feeling that we all avoided disaster here: The show could've started way later, and bypassed "intimate" and headed straight for "incredibly loud and painfully incoherent." But instead, the immense frustration of the wait behind us, the dominant memory is the unremitting joy driving "Fu-Gee-La," Lauryn beaming and clearly enjoying herself in a way she hasn't seemed to in quite a while. She always makes you work for it. At last, she's started rewarding you when you do.
Critical Bias: The last time I saw her, at Wingate Field in 2007, didn't go quite as well.
Overheard: Lots of grumbling up until midnight, lots of elation from there on.
Random Notebook Dump: On "To Zion": "This is a song I wrote while I was in the shower, about my now 13-year-old son. It was the only privacy I could get at one point."
Set List:
Forever Loving Jah
Lost Ones
When It Hurts So Bad
Final Hour
To Zion
How Many Mics
I Only Have Eyes for You/Zealots
Ready or Not
Killing Me Softly
Turn Your Lights Down Low
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- 11-24-12, 10:32 AM Thread Author #1
Unable to erase a file
Since the last few days , I am facing this issue.
I am unable to erase some pictures , which i have received via #BBM . When I try to erase , I get an error saying "The file is currently in use"
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- 11-24-12, 02:29 PM Thread Author #3
I have ended that chat , to check it out.
yes, it is possible to erase it using PC . but the issue is why not with the BB??
My memory card also gets corrupted frequently - 11-24-12, 02:37 PM #4
Unable to erase a file
Its a glitch that happens occasionally. I sometimes have to uninstall Facebook to get rid of an un-deletable notification.
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Formerly on Bold 9900 (BL Ultimate Hybrid RC22 on Claro Argentina .1098) - 11-24-12, 02:57 PM Thread Author #5
Buy a new memory card. The one I'm using has been through two WM phones, four 9800s (three bad, one good), two 9810s (one bad, one good). The only thing I've ever had to do was copy the files off the card, reformat it, then copy the files back on. I've done that once, maybe twice, in the entire time.
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Knockout power?
What do they measure knockout power in the game? Do they measure by how much strength you have or your punching offense or what?
Combo of the two I'd assume.
Id say combo of both plus Defensive rating for whether its a kick or punch, plus their strength.
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Newport to Pacific City--please help! Need food recommendations.
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Hello, fellow hounders! Husband and I will be making a brief (3-day) trip to the Oregon coast at the end of July, and I need your help. We'll be staying either in Neskowin or Pacific City, and will be cruising around between PC and Newport on 101. I grew up in Eugene, and spent many summers on the coast, but that was long ago (anyone else old enough to remember the Pixie Kitchen?).
I've been looking at the boards, and have gotten some ideas for Newport (Sharks, Saffron Salmon, Local Ocean), but for the rest...?
We like pretty much any kind of cuisine, aren't picky as to atmosphere, just want well-made food. This is much appreciated, and we'll be sure to let you know how it went!
One more thing: my folks used to get these amazing fresh pickled shrimp--anyone know where I can pick up some?
Saffron Salmon
859 SW Bay Blvd, Newport, OR 97365
In Pacific City the only place worth eating, IMHO, is, if you "just want well-made food", The Delicate Palate for dinner and Grateful Bread for breakfast. We also like "The Side Door" in Gleneden Beach (for dinner, not lunch). A superb breakfast in Lincoln City is at The Beach Dog. And a side remark regarding lodging if you haven't decided. You get closer (more ocean front instead of ocean view) lodging at Neskowin at The Chelan (rented on the web site Grey Fox). It has been our "go to" place for 40 years, but as they are condo units, vary from unit to unit. Now I only recommend upstairs units. Grey Fox can help you with choosing those (their web site has pics of each unit)..
Side Door Cafe
6645 Gleneden Beach Loop, Gleneden Beach, OR 97388Beach Dog Cafe
1266 SW 50th St Ste C, Lincoln City, OR 97367Delicate Palate
35280 Brooten Rd, Pacific City, OR 971350-
re: lbsowen
Thanks, Ibsowen. And thanks for the lodging rec--it's tough to find places in Neskowin, but it's my favorite place on the coast.
re: fudjunkie
I just re-read your post also. I'm originally from Eugene too (Go Axemen!) and as kids the family went to "Terry a While" in Yachats until we discovered The Chelan at Neskowin about 40 years ago. Living now in Seattle but make it back to Neskowin 3 times a year. I remember Pixie Kitchen when it was on 101. And Surftides was the more fancy place the grownups would go to. The Otis Cafe is off the highway quite a bit in the town of Otis. Massive amounts of food at Otis, but the quality only about average except their homemade bread...... that's great.. I remember those pickled shrimp too, I can even picture the jar they came in. They used to be sold out of more of a "fish stand" on the east side of the highway, but I can't find them anymore.
I've had good dinners at the Side Door In Gleneden, the Blackfish Cafe in Lincoln City, and plain grilled or broiled seafood and fish at Kyllo's in Lincoln City (don't get anything more than that, drinks and cold seafood there, though).
Closer is the Otis Cafe, a good and popular stop for breakfast and lunch. They also do dinner, but I haven't had as good meals for dinner there, worth checking out, though. I would give it another try for dinner next time I am around there. They bake their own bread and make almost everything from scratch, great huge cinnamon rolls for breakfast too.
Also, if you are staying in Neskowin, check out the Drift Creek Falls hike, a short (shy of 3 mi r/t), easy (paths) hike in old growth coastal forest with an amazing pedestrian suspension bridge near a 75 foot waterfall:
I have also had a good lunch at the Wildflower Grill in Lincoln City, but I have had not as good breakfasts and dinner there. YMMV.
In Newport I like Local Ocean and the Chowder Bowl at Nye Beach (not at all fancy but a great chowder and salad bar meal when that's all you want). I also have had some good lunches at Canyon Way in Newport. I have heard good things about Saffron Salmon in Newport, but I have not been there.
Side Door Cafe
6645 Gleneden Beach Loop, Gleneden Beach, OR 97388Saffron Salmon
859 SW Bay Blvd, Newport, OR 97365Wildflower Grill
4250 N Highway 101, Otis, OR 973680-
re: JillO
Thanks, lots of good ideas. And thanks for the hiking tip--we love to hike, so this will definitely be part of our trip!
re: fudjunkie
I re-read your original post, and I think that it is possible that Pixieland was where the Otis Cafe is now.
Here's some memories for ya:
...and I think that the North Lincoln County Historical Museum (located in the historic Taft district of Lincoln City at 4907 SW Highway 101. Hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. Minimal admission charge.) has some memorabilia from local tourist spots, including the Pixie Kitchen, if you want to visit your youth (yeah, in a museum, not that you're old or anything - hey it was there in the 80's no? I was out of college by then...trust me, you're not old ;o)
Wow, guys, you're making my day.
JillO, thanks for the links. That brings back memories! My youth in a museum and my music on the "olidies" station <sigh> ;o)
Ibsowen, thanks for all the great info; the Chelan was booked, so we ended up reserving at the Neskowin Resort (also through Grey Fox). My folks used to go to the Adobe in Yachats until they found Neskowin (used to rent an A-frame at the north end of town). Hopefully I'll find those pickled shrimp. If so, I'll let you know where. Go Fighting Irish (sorry, South Eugene)!
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Am very familiar with the Lincoln City, Depoe Bay, Newport areas and agree with much that has been said. For casual food, the Side Door in Gleneden Beach, Saffron Salmon, and the Canyon Way Bookstore in Newport are my faves...the latter, especially for lunch. You can get a decent bowl of chowder at Tidal Raves or Gracie's Sea Hag in Depoe, but I would have much else there. The Blackfish Cafe in Lincoln City is pretty nice for lunch. Unmentioned, but clearly the top of the class for a fine dinner in a pretty dining room with a great view is the Bay House in Lincoln City. This is the only really first-class restaurant in the area. If you want a great B&B right on the ocean in Depoe Bay, check out the Channel House...absolutely top drawer!
Canyon Way Bookstore & Restaurant
1216 SW Canyon Way, Newport, OR 97365Side Door Cafe
6645 Gleneden Beach Loop, Gleneden Beach, OR 97388Saffron Salmon
859 SW Bay Blvd, Newport, OR 97365Bay House
5911 SW Highway 101, Lincoln City, OR 973670-
re: josephnl
Joshephnl and I have agreed to disagree regarding the Bay House in previous posts. Fudjunkie, you will remember the name from the past, and it was another place our parents liked to go back in the day, but we have been too disappointed in the last year or two to return. I put it in the same league as Tidal Raves, great view, but the food isn't that good, and overpriced.
Bay House
5911 SW Highway 101, Lincoln City, OR 973670-
re: lbsowen
Has any other CH been to the Bay House recently? Would love to hear another opinion. When I was last there a bit over a year ago, it was still quite good...not outstanding, but it never was, but in my experience has always been good. Obviously, Ibsowen has had a different experience...so is there anyone out there who could give us a recent opinion?
Bay House
5911 SW Highway 101, Lincoln City, OR 973670
re: josephnl
Has anyone tried Restaurant Beck at the Whale Cove Inn in Depoe Bay? Just heard something nice about it, and am wondering if any CH has been there.
Restaurant Beck
2345 S HWY 101, Depoe Bay, OR 973410-
re: josephnl
Just tried Restaurant Beck last Friday for the first time. Fabulous. Everything we had was well executed and perfectly seasoned. The (only) waitress was super friendly, patient while we deliberated and never hovered or rushed us. Our reservations were at 7:30 which was perfect to watch the sun set from the dining room overlooking Little Whale Cove. The four of us wondered why we hadn't heard more about this restaurant and if it is being kept a secret for some crazy reason. A sample menu is posted on their website and is a good representation of the sort of dishes we were offered. Next time we're doing the chef's tasting menu.
My husband and I tried Bay House 2 years ago for our anniversary and were extremely disappointed. They just seem to try too hard by cramming dishes with layers of flavors instead of letting the ingredients speak for themselves. I just remember the homemade mint ice cream that they had covered with a variety of berries and some sort of cookie. It's house-made ice cream! Leave it alone!! I also remember my duck breast which must have sat under the salamander too long as the edges of the slices were curling up and overcooked. Years ago it was the go-to special occasion restaurant on the coast but I think they have a ways to go before re-earning that honor.
Bay House
5911 SW Highway 101, Lincoln City, OR 97367Restaurant Beck
2345 S HWY 101, Depoe Bay, OR 973410
I have been going to Neskowin for years and also recommend the Chelan units. For hiking, try the cascade head trails (3 rocks trail), just south of Neskowin. And for a pre-hike breakfast, go to Otis Cafe. Incredible - from the homemade molasses bread and sourdough. The amazing buttermilk pancakes have a deep yeasty flavor and are perfectly cooked. Avoid the hangtown fry - not enough oysters. For lunch, the tuna melt is the best I've ever had. And the fresh fish sandwich (snapper, halibut, fresh catch) is wonderful, with a lightly floured, lightly fried piece of fresh fish. The pies are to die for - the strawberry rubarb is terrific and I don't even like rubarb. The apple crunch pie was oozing with moist apples and cinnamon.
North of Neskowin you can find the Cape Lookout trail - pretty easy with spectacular views. Stop in Pacific City - either Grateful Bread for breakfast or Pelican Pub and Brewery for lunch. It has the BEST clam chowder on the Oregon Coast, trust me. The rest of the food is pleasant; the beer menu is local and extensive and the views of the ocean are great. But get the chowder.


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Visualization: taxonomy and dependencies
I'm working on possible visualizations for a large taxonomy my company
uses to describe our products. To give a quick example, say we sell
watches. There are lots of possible "facets" like brand, size, material,
etc. Each of the facets have values, so the brand facet would have
values like fossil, rolex, etc. Many people across the company can add
descriptive data about a product as it moves through our supply chain.
There is also a smaller set of users who manage this taxonomy. Those
people need to create, manage and view what we're calling
"dependencies". This is where my visualization challenge is.
A dependency in this case means "the selection of one facet value can
change the possible values of another facet". What my team is trying to
do is to come up with a visualization that will allow a user to interact
with a large data set easily and view the various relationships between
facets as well as established dependencies.
I'm having a very tough time finding any research or examples for a
situation like this. Can anyone help? I hope I've done a decent job
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To: | "'brian coyne'" <email@example.com>, "'CQ CONTEST'" <firstname.lastname@example.com> |
Subject: | Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ Contest Certificates. |
From: | "Randy Thompson K5ZD" <firstname.lastname@example.com> |
Reply-to: | firstname.lastname@example.com |
Date: | Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:06:15 -0000 |
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Brian, You are right that it is expensive to print and mail certificates to thousands of people per contest. However, it is worth it when we get excited emails from new contesters happy to have won their first award. I think we can all remember getting our first few certificates and hanging them proudly on the wall. Hard for a pdf file to match that! We have discussed providing a way for contest participants to opt out of receiving a certificate. Perhaps they have a box of them or just don't want to cause us the expense. The logical place to do this is by a new field in the Cabrillo file. So far, the people who maintain the Cabrillo file "standard" have not been interested in adding a new tag. Perhaps some more support would encourage them to change their mind. Should there be one new tag that says "don't send certificates or plaques or anything"? Or should be there be two? One for no certificates and another for no plaques/awards? Or could it be as simple as a convention that says if there is no address provided then don't send anything? 73 Randy, K5ZD PS - Hoping for good conditions and lots of certificate/plaque winners in the CQWW in just 8 days! > -----Original Message----- > From: CQ-Contest [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of > brian coyne > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 9:19 PM > To: CQ CONTEST > Subject: [CQ-Contest] CQ Contest Certificates. > > On the morning of the ssb contest the mailman delivered two certificates > from CQ, always nice to get them. One was for CQWW CW 2011 the other for > CQWW SSB 2011. > > Looking at that mail got me to thinking about the expense incurred by CQ > Mag in sending us these for free. Two A4 envelopes two lots of postal > charges, the logistics of stuffing the envelopes, taking them to the > mailing centre not to mention the task of hand signing them when there > must be many hundreds if not into the thousand of these certificates for > both contests. All businesses benefit from cost reducing measures and CQ > organisation is no exception to that. > > I would venture that the majority of entrants have facilities to print e- > certificates, perhaps something could be included in the cabrillo header > or the soabox to the effect that an e-certificate will be acceptable. > > Just my thoughts anyway. > > 73 Brian 5B4AIZ / C4Z. > _______________________________________________ > CQ-Contest mailing list > email@example.com > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest |
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I just started playing with the program, so all the little options I am not sure of yet. I run 1400x1050 as my lowest resolution on any 1 PC monitor (excluding the car), so it doesnt seem big to me.
But It does export an SWF. If you use Firefox, you can use the get media form to get the swf directly, and paste that into the address bar. I know FF auto-resizes it so if your screen is smaller, it should shrink it.


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Check out some of the est Olympic photos from Day 9. Be sure to check back since we will b e updating them throughout the day.
Track and field: American runner LaShawn Merritt will be looking to repeat his win in the 400-meter.
Track and field (medal events)
Men's 400 final, 1:30 pm
Men's 400 Hurdles final, 12:45 p.m.
Women's steeplechase, 1:05 p.m.
Women's pole vault final, 11 a.m.
Women's Shot Put final, 11:15 a.m.
Gymnastics (medal events)
Men's rings, 6 a.m.
Men's vault, 7:41 am
Women's bars, 6:50 a.m.
Beach volleyball
Men's quarterfinals, TBA
Men's volleyball
United States vs. Tunisia, noon
Men's water polo
United States vs. Hungary, 7:30 am
Men's basketball
United States vs. Argentina, 2:15 pm
Women's soccer
Semifinals, 9:00 and 11:45 am
Other events/medals: Cycling (men's sprint); Equestrian (team jumping); Sailing (Men's 49er, 470, Laser; Women's 470, Laser Radial); Weightlifting (men's 105kg); Wrestling G-R (60kg, 84kg and 120kg); Sailing (Men's 49er, 470, Laser; Women's 49er, 470, Laser Radial); Shooting (men's 50M rifle 3; men's trap)
Track and Field – Qualifying Rounds; Men's Volleyball – United States vs. Tunisia (LIVE); Men's Water Polo – United States vs. Hungary (LIVE); Cycling – Track Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Equestrian – Team Jumping Gold Medal Final; Synchronized Swimming – Duet Qualifying Round; Canoeing – Sprint Qualifying Heats, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Gymnastics – Individual Event Gold Medal Finals: Men's Still Rings, Men's Vault and Women's Uneven Bars; Track and Field – Gold Medal Finals: Men's 400M, Men's 400M Hurdles and Women's Pole Vault; Beach Volleyball – Quarterfinal; Men's Diving – Springboard Qualifying, 8 p.m.–Midnight
Track and Field – Gold Medal Finals; Cycling – Track Events, 12:35 p.m.–1:35 a.m.
Men's Basketball – United States vs. Argentina (LIVE); Women's Soccer – Semifinals (LIVE); Women's Boxing – Quarterfinals (LIVE); Women's Field Hockey – United States vs. South Africa (LIVE); Men's Volleyball – Qualifying Round; Men's Weightlifting – Gold Medal Final; Men's Shooting – 50M Three Positions Gold Medal Final and Trap Gold Medal Final, 1 a.m.–5 p.m.
Beach Volleyball – Quarterfinals (LIVE); Men's Basketball – Spain vs. Brazil (LIVE); Wrestling – Greco Roman Gold Medal Finals; Table Tennis – Team Semifinals, 6 a.m.–3 p.m.
Men's Boxing – Quarterfinals, 2 p.m.–5 p.m.
Men's Basketball – Qualifying Round, Britain vs. China (LIVE), Spain vs. Brazil (LIVE), Argentina vs. United States (LIVE), 1 a.m.–4 p.m.
Women's Soccer – Semifinals, 9 a.m.–9 p.m.
Track and Field – Qualifying Rounds; Men's Volleyball – Qualifying Round; Synchronized Swimming – Duet Qualifying Round; Beach Volleyball – Quarterfinals, 9 a.m.–2 p.m.
Track and Field – Gold Medal Finals; Gymnastics – Individual Event Gold Medal Finals; Men's Diving – Springboard Qualifying; Men's Boxing – Quarterfinals, Midnight–2:30 a.m.
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Men's Basketball Australia vs. Russia, 1 a.m.; Tunisia vs. Lithuania, 3:15 a.m.; France vs. Nigeria, 6:30 a.m.; Britain vs. China, 8:45 a.m.; Spain vs. Brazil, Noon.; Argentina vs. United States, 2:15 p.m.
Beach Volleyball Men's quarterfinals, 10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.
Boxing Women's Flyweight (51kg); Women's Lightweight (60kg) and Women's Middleweight (75kg) quarterfinals, 5:30 a.m.; Men's Lightweight (60kg); Men's Middleweight (75kg) and Men's Super Heavyweight (+91kg) quarterfinals, 12:30 p.m.
Canoe (Sprint) Men's Canoe Single 1000 heats, semifinals; Men's Kayak Single 1000 heats, semifinals; Men's Kayak Double 1000 heats, semifinal; Women's Kayak Four 500 heats, semifinal, 1:30 a.m.
Cycling (Track) Men's Sprint semifinals, finals; Women's Omnium: flying lap, 20km points race, elimination race; Women's Sprint quarterfinals, race for 5th–8th places, 8 a.m.
Diving Men's 3–Meter Springboard Prelims, 11 a.m.
Equestrian (Jumping) Team Jumping: round 2, (medal), 6 a.m.
Field Hockey Women's Prelims (2 matches), 12:30 a.m.; Women's Prelims (2 matches), 5:45 a.m.; Women's Prelims (2 matches), 11 a.m.
Gymnastics Men's Rings final; Men's Vault final; Women's Uneven Bars final, 6 a.m.
Sailing Men's 49er, 470, Laser (medal race); Women's 470, Laser Radial (medal race), 4 a.m.
Shooting Men's 50–meter Rifle 3 Positions qualification and final; Men's Trap qualification (Day 2) and final, 1 a.m.
Women's Soccer Semifinal, 9 a.m.; Semifinal, 11:45 a.m.
Synchronized Swimming Women's Duets free routine, 7 a.m.
Table Tennis Women's Team semifinal, 2 a.m.; Men's Team semifinal, 6:30 a.m.; Men's Team semifinal, 11 a.m.
Volleyball: Women's volleyball Prelims (2 matches), 1:30 a.m.; Prelims (2 matches), Men's Volleyball 6:45 a.m.; Prelims (2 matches), Noon.
Track and Field Men's 800 round 1, Discus qualifying; Women's 100 Hurdles round 1, 1500 round 1, Shot Put qualifying, 2 a.m.; Men's 400 final, 400 Hurdles final; Women's 200 round 1, 400 Hurdles semifinals, 3000 Steeplechase final, Pole Vault final, Shot Put final, 11:00 a.m.
Men's Water Polo Prelims (2 matches), 2 a.m.; Prelims (2 matches), 6:10 a.m.; Prelims (2 matches), 10:20 a.m.
Weightlifting Men's 105kg group B, 7:30 a.m.; Men's 105kg group A (medal), 11 a.m.
Wrestling (Greco–Roman) Men's 60kg, 84kg and 120kg qualifications, 1/8 finals, quarterfinals, semifinals, 5 a.m.; Men's 60kg, 84kg and 120kg repechage rounds, bronze and gold medal contests, 9:45 a.m.


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3 CD set from the Knickerbocker Arena in Albany, NY from March 24-25-26, 1990. Don't let the title fool you - the music on this new set (the fourth in a series of multi-track gems from The Vault) is anything but sleepy.
Recorded when the Grateful Dead was on one of those rolls (the hot 1990 spring tour, which also featured the band's famous first encounter with Branford Marsalis), this set is culled from three nights in New York's state capital, the Dead's first appearance at a venue that became a Deadhead favorite.
This is a kind of composite "dream show" and then some, with a "first set" assembled from highlights of the first two nights, followed by the entire second set from 3/25, and a bonus chunk of night #3, set #2. Among the tunes appearing for the first time on a live Dead album are "Dupree's Diamond Blues," "Just A Little Light," "Row Jimmy," "Blow Away" and "The Wheel." Appearing for the first time anywhere are Brent Mydland's "Never Trust A Woman" and the ever-popular "Mud Love Buddy" Jam. All this and much more, with the band in peak form, beautifully mixed from the multi-track master tape by producers Phil Lesh and John Cutler.
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2 Dupree's Diamond Blues
3 Just A Little Light
4 Walkin' Blues
5 Jack-A-Roe
6 Never Trust A Woman
7 When I Paint My Masterpiece
8 Row Jimmy
9 Blow Away
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1 Playing In The Band
2 Uncle John's Band
3 Lady With A Fan
4 Terrapin Station
5 Mud Love Buddy Jam
6 Drums
7 Space
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1 Space
2 The Wheel
3 All Along The Watchtower
4 Stella Blue
5 Not Fade Away
6 We Bid You Goodnight
7 Space
8 I Will Take You Home
9 Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad
10 Black Peter
11 Around And Around
12 Brokendown Palace
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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas There was a tragic end Tuesday to the search for a missing man in north Harris County.
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The horse was hit by a car and did not survive. No people were injured in the accident.
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Chips and Salsa - fresh, homemade salsa |
$5.00 |
Chi-Chi Dip - (aka hummus) served warm with pita wedges, tomato, cucumber and red onion | $8.25 |
Tzaziki Dip- a cool cucumber- yogurt dip served with pita wedges, tomatoes and feta |
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Brunswick Stew - Award winning combo of chicken, tomatoes, potatoes, okra, lima beans, corn and seasonings. |
Veg Chili - Red kidney beans and bulgar wheat with tomatoes, green peppers, onions and spices. |
Vegetable Delight - Just what a homemade vegetable soup should be - stocked with 8 veggies and topped with parmesan cheese. |
Gazpacho - A chilled, spicy tomato soup with crisp cucumbers, onions and green peppers. Served with a dollop of sour cream or yogurt upon request (summertime only). |
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Ellen Salad - Traditional Felafel served over our tabouli on a bed of spinach with cherry tomatoes and cucumbers, served with lemon tahini on the side. | $7.00 | $8.75 |
Sammy Salad - Crumbled bleu cheese, chopped walnuts, sliced green apples and tomatoes on a bed of spinach, served with herbed oil & vinegar on the side. | $6.00 | $7.75 |
Greek Salad - Mixed greens topped with sliced mushrooms, diced tomato, green pepper, black olives, feta cheese, red onion and pepperoncinis, served with herbed oil & vinegar on the side. | $6.75 | $8.50 |
Chicken Salad - Homemade chicken salad on a bed of mixed greens with cherry tomatoes, cucumbers and crumbled bacon on top. | $7.00 | $7.75 |
House Simpleton - Mixed greens, chopped carrots, red cabbage, cherry tomatos and cucumber slices. Served with your choice of dressing. | $5.00 | $6.75 |
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Gourmet Hamburger - seven ounces of lean, ground, seasoned beef grilled to your specifications on a multigrain roll with lettuce, tomato and red onion |
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Add cheese | $8.50 |
Add cheese & bacon | $9.25 |
Stir Fry - broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, green peppers and onions tossed in a spicy homemade peanut sauce and served over rice or pasta | $12.00 |
Add chicken | $14.00 |
Cheese Tortellini - ricotta stuffed tortellini tossed with a fresh homemade cream sauce | $10.25 |
Quesadilla - mozzarella and cheddar cheese, diced tomatoes and a finely chopped mix of onions, green peppers and pepperocinis folded in a grilled flour tortilla | $8.00 |
Crabcake Sandwich - almost all crab meat grilled golden and served on a multigrain roll with a side of lettuce and tomato, Tartar or cocktail sauce | $11.00 |
Grilled Salmon BLT - fillet of salmon with lettuce, tomato, crispy bacon and a zesty aioli on your choice of bread | $11.00 |
Club Sandwich - double stacked turkey & bacon, layered with lettuce, tomato and mayo on your choice of toast | $8.50 |
BBQ Sandwich - pulled pork served mild or, if you prefer spicy, choose our family's recipe, on a multigrain roll with lettuce, tomato and a side of cole slaw | $8.00 |
Chicken Salad Sandwich - our special homemade chicken salad served with bacon, lettuce and tomato on your choice of toast | $7.50 |
Smoked Turkey Breast Sandwich - tender smoked turkey on your choice of toast, served hot or cold with lettuce, tomato and mayo | $7.50 |
Add mozzarella and sauteed mushrooms | $8.00 |
Add cheese, mushrooms & bacon | $8.75 |
Turkey Reuben - grilled turkey with sauerkraut, swiss cheese and russian dressing served on grilled rye bread | $8.50 |
Chicken Gyro Sanwich- grilled chicken breast, homemade tzaziki, feta cheese, fresh onions, tomatoes and crisp lettuce wrapped in a grilled flour tortilla | $9.50 |
The Linwood - a grilled chicken breast with bacon, melted swiss cheese, mayo, lettuce and tomato on a multigrain roll | $9.00 |
Grill 3- one slice each of cheddar, swiss and mozzarella grilled on your choice of toast | $5.75 |
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Camper's Special - grilled bean & grain burger mixture wrapped in a grilled flour tortilla with sautéed onions, green peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, Chi Chi and topped with melted mozzarella and cheddar cheese, served with a side of Lemon Tahini | $12.00 |
Vegetarian Lasagna - Black bean cakes, fresh mixed greens, onion and cheddar cheese wrapped in a grilled flour tortilla and served with a side of hot sauce. | $13.00 |
Black Bean Quesadilla - our delicious black beans, mozzarella and cheddar cheese, diced tomatoes with a finely chopped mix of onions, green peppers and pepperoncinis in a grilled flour tortilla | $9.00 |
Without Black Beans | $8.00 |
Sammy's Stuffed Potato - a baked potato stuffed with mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts and sunflower seeds, topped with melted cheeses and a dollop of sour cream, served with your choice of soup | $8.00 |
Veggie Club - fresh cucumber, red onion, mushrooms, lettuce, tomato, mayo and mozzarella cheese stacked on your choice of toast | $8.25 |
Apple Cheddar Melt - sliced green apples sprinkled with sunflower seeds and topped with melted cheddar cheese on your choice of toast, served open-faced with mayo and mustard | $7.25 |
The Blade Runner - sautéed broccoli, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, garlic and sliced tomatoes combined with melted feta and cheddar cheese on sun-dried herb focaccia bread | $9.75 |
The Adventurer - black bean cakes, fresh mixed greens, tomato, red onion and melted cheddar cheese wrapped in a flour tortilla with a side of our homemade salsa | $9.00 |
Grill 3- one slice each of cheddar, swiss and mozzarella grilled on your choice of toast | $5.75 |
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Tempeh Stir Fry - grilled tempeh, broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, green peppers and onions tossed in a spicy homemade peanut sauce and served over rice or pasta | $14.00 |
Without Tempeh | $12.00 |
Spinach Foldover - sautéed spinach, diced tomatoes, sliced mushrooms, red onion and Chi Chi folded in a grilled flour tortilla and served with a side of Lemon Tahini sauce | $9.50 |
Black Bean Quesadilla - our delicious black beans, mozzarella and cheddar cheese, diced tomatoes with a finely chopped mix of onions, green peppers and pepperoncinis in a grilled flour tortilla | $9.00 |
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Black Bean Cakes - a delightful blend of black beans, rice and green peppers (spicy) - fried and served in a pita with fresh lettuce, tomato, cucumber, red onion and our homemade salsa on the side | $9.00 |
Felafel- a mid-eastern dish made with chick peas, wheat germ, onion, garlic and spices - deep fried and served in a pita with fresh mixed greens, cucumbers, red onion and our Lemon Tahini sauce | $9.00 |
Apple Cheddar Melt - sliced green apples sprinkled with sunflower seeds and topped with melted cheddar cheese on your choice of toast, served open-faced with mayo and mustard | $7.25 |
Tempeh Burger - grilled tempeh flavored with tamari, topped with sautéed mushrooms and onions on a multigrain roll* | $9.50 |
Bean & Grain Burger - a mixture of chick peas, rice, onions and seasonings grilled and served on a multigrain roll* with lettuce and tomato and Lemon Tahini sauce | $8.50 |
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PBJ - peanut butter and strawberry jelly on your choice of bread, toasted or untoasted | |
Grilled Cheese - cheddar cheese grilled on your choice of bread | |
Quesadilla - melted cheddar cheese inside a grilled flour tortilla | |
Spaghetti a bowl of noodles topped with homemade marinara sauce and parmesan cheese | |
Chicken Tenders - breaded all white chicken breast tenders |
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French Fries - cut fresh daily | $3.00 |
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Onion Rings - hand breaded in our seasoned flour mix | $3.50 |
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Sweet Potato Fries | $3.00 |
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Black Beans & Rice - home cooked beans served over rice with chopped onions | $3.50 |
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Tabouli - a tangy Mediterranean "salad" made of bulgar wheat marinated in olive oil, lemon juice, onion and garlic | $3.50 |
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Baked Potato - served with choice of sour cream or plain yogurt and butter | $4.50 |
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Chocolate Mousse - homemade and memorable |
Pecan Pie - delish |
Chocolate Brownie - warmed with a scoop of vanilla ice cream |
Apple Crisp - big enough to share |
Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake - satisfying (even if you have no diet restrictions) |
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Bottled sodas (caffeine free): cream soda, ginger ale, grape, orange & root beer |
Juices: apple cranberry orange pineapple |
Fountain sodas: Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite & Minute Maid Lemonade |
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Also Offering: Orangina unsweetened regular iced tea caffeine free unsweetened rasberry iced tea regular milk chocolate milk |
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Amstel Light Blue Moon Budweiser ($4.00) Hornsby Cider Amber Draft Hornsby Cider Crisp Apple Legend Brown Ale Leinenkugal Sunset Wheat Miller Lite ($4.00) Red Hook ESB Shiner Bock Starr Hill Northern Lights Sierra Nevada Pale Ale |
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The Impressionists were particularly experimental in their landscapes where color and brushwork were concerned. Their dynamic surfaces of brilliant, rapid strokes captured the fleeting effects of light on form—such as a shimmering river surface—with a new spontaneity. Such an approach shocked conservative critics who saw their paintings as sketches or "impressions" rather than finished works. The Impressionists favored pure, unmixed color and, in particular, pioneered the application of color to shadows in search of a greater naturalism. Their exploration of light and atmosphere was reflected in their careful study of changing seasonal effects.
The Impressionist landscapes in the Bloch collection highlight the importance of the outlying areas of Paris as subjects for these artists. Equipped with easels and pre-mixed oil paints, the Impressionists painted outdoors, exploring the fields and rivers around the capital. In contrast to previous generations of French landscape painters; they focused on signs of modernity in the landscape. Oftentimes they represented factories, as in Armand Guillaumin's Landscape, Île de France. Frequently they painted scenes of leisure, and particularly boating scenes, as in Gustave Caillebotte's Boat Moored on the Seine at Argenteuil. They also painted views of urban life in the vibrant, modern city of Paris.
The landscapes here reflect the prestigious provenances of the Bloch paintings. Claude Monet's Snow at Argenteuil once belonged to Louisine and Henry Havemeyer, the greatest American collectors of Impressionism in the early years of the twentieth century.
Camille Pissarro's Rue Saint-Honoré, Sun Effect, Afternoon belonged to the famed actor, Edward G. Robinson.
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The city-owned sports center has been viewed as both a boon and a hindrance
Cupertino--Many Cupertino residents, particularly supporters of the new library project, view the aging sports center facility as a millstone around the city's neck, a weight that has drained crucial money from the new library. For them, the code-deficient building represents the city's punishment for rushing into the purchase of a private structure built long before current regulations concerning handicapped access and seismic safety were in place.
The city's government sees the matter differently. It has long held the goal of creating a gathering place for the community and believes the sports center acts as a key component in establishing just such a space around Memorial Park. Together with the new senior center, the park, and the Quinlan Center, the sports facility offers citizens of Cupertino an opportunity to congregate and recreate, according to city representatives.
This comes at a cost, however. The city has already settled one lawsuit over the building's lack of compliance with regulations related to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
A paraplegic Cupertino resident sued the city in 1999 to increase accessibility for the handicapped. As a result of that suit, the city installed a temporary lift that allows a wheelchair to go from the main lobby to the tennis courts.
Though these improvements were made to increase accessibility for handicapped members, the structure still does not meet either seismic or accessibility standards. For those reasons, the city currently regards the center as a major threat of litigation.
The city bought the sports center from the De Anza Racquet Club on April 1, 1990, for $7.9 million. It would cost the city $1.7 million to correct the code violations alone, but the building also needs remodeling to fix damage and restructure it for use as a public facility. For instance, the new building will not include a bar and will have more space for fitness equipment and activities.
In March of last year, the city council decided to stop putting money toward constant improvements and repairs to the building, opting instead to demolish the building and start from scratch.
Because of the constant threat of legal action, the city felt compelled to include the complete rebuilding of the sports center on its list of capital improvement projects in the 2001-'02 budget approved on June 18. The city had shelved numerous other projects to free up money for the new library, but retained the new sports center, which will cost an estimated $4 million.
"The sports center's time has come--actions need to be taken," said Rick Kitson, the city's public information officer.
After reviewing its options in regard to the facility, the city decided that raising an entirely new structure offered the best use of city funds.
"For the 30 year horizon, it made no sense to do anything other than build a building that was going to serve the community's needs for the next three decades," said Therese Ambrosi-Smith, the city's director of parks and recreation.
The matter has the city treading lightly. Smith originally balked at the idea of allowing The Courier to tour the center, fearful that publicity could bring more lawsuits with it, but eventually acquiesced.
"There's a certain amount of concern just because we're looking at changing things as fast as we can, and I don't think we want to generate any new complaints," Kitson said.
"That will take money away from what we have to get done," Smith added.
However, many residents have publicly questioned the necessity of owning a sports center. Citizens involved in the new library project point out that 71 percent of Cupertino voters supported a new library building with a construction budget not to exceed $22 million. The decision to buy the sports center, while it had a public hearing, never went before the voters during an election. The same goes for the decision to spend $4 million to rebuild it.
Dorothy Stowe, a member of the library steering committee, asks why the city needs to stay in the fitness business when the Northwest YMCA sits just a few blocks away from the sports center.
"I'm a believer that the city shouldn't duplicate efforts and buildings," she said.
The city has spent a great deal on parks and recreations in the past decade, according to Stowe, and she asserts: "We should be able to spend $22 million to improve our minds."
The lean budget the council approved sets aside $19 million to fund the new library building. Supporters of the project cite figures from the county that show the amount will produce a library that falls well short of the space an independent study recommended for the building. Many believe the new library will operate at capacity as soon as it opens its doors.
The city council has responded by pledging to work with architects for the project to wring every last bit of functionality from the project's constrained budget. Council members also emphasized that the city has no other option but to rebuild the sports center and could not remove the project from its budget.
When the council approved the new budget, most members also recognized the need to find more money for the library project. Council member Richard Lowenthal moved to approve the budget, adding as a condition that the council should hold a special study session to examine new funding possibilities for the library.
That session will take place sometime in late August, according to Kitson. The city has floated several ideas to raise money for the library, including the sale of city property and requesting corporate donations, but has not yet made any concrete decisions.
Former Cupertino Mayor Nick Szabo has suggested the city should consider supplying additional funding for the library through a general obligation bond, much like the city of Saratoga did. However, the measure that Cupertino voters approved specified that the money for the new library would come from the city's general fund, thus the city council has rejected the idea of a bond.
"Whether they would change their minds for the increment that we're looking at here, I don't know," said Carol Atwood, the city's director of administrative services. "As far as the May study sessions, they did not want to pursue a general obligation bond."
The tug of war between the two capital improvement projects reveals a major pitfall of government: the need to balance the desires of different constituencies, while at the same time following the law down to the letter. "This is not an either/or business," Kitson said. He believes residents will appreciate the sports center when the new building is constructed.
According to center's manager, Don McCarthy, it already has around 800 long-term members, and he and Smith think a new facility would only increase those numbers. They point down the block to the new senior center and suggest that a fully accessible facility would make it easier for seniors to come to the sports center for exercise.
Kitson added that residents would appreciate having a low-impact public facility on the site, instead of retail or office space. He reports the previous owner had even discussed turning the property into a trailer park.
Rather than put off the reconstruction of the sports center to ensure the maximum amount of funds for the new library and possibly risking another lawsuit, those involved feel the city should move forward as quickly as possible.
"At this point, the most prudent possibility is to get on with it," Smith said.
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