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if the clock isn't going and it wont save, it'll probably be that the internal battery is dead so you'll need a new game probably.
It sounds like the berry glitch to me.To fix the clock link it up to colleum.Or greenleaf/redfire.
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i agree with potato_chips! that happened to my cousin and his emerald game. when he went to the game store and ask what was wrong, the guy behind the counter said "that the game was probably damaged on the inside because u kept taking it in and out of your game system"
i realy dont because from the time i bought the game it was already dameged so i think it is from the game store and i will go there and try to change it

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Scientists have cloned three calves that carry a foreign gene. The success, described in today's Science, opens the field for herds of transgenic cows that could produce copious amounts of milk rich in therapeutic proteins.
The standard way to create an animal with an extra gene is to inject the DNA into a fertilized egg. But most times the gene is not expressed and so the adult animal doesn't produce the desired protein. An alternate strategy is to first add the gene to the nucleus of a cell that development has specialized, then tuck that nucleus into an egg whose own nucleus has been removed. Last December, scientists succeeded in modifying sheep fetal cells this way to carry the gene for Human Factor IX, which some hemophiliacs take to aid blood clotting.
Now the same cloning technique has been applied to cows, which give much more milk. The researchers--James Robl, a developmental biologist and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Steve Stice at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts--inserted a marker gene fused with a gene for resistance to the chemical neomycin into a culture of connective tissue cells called fibroblasts. Then they added neomycin to kill cells that hadn't taken up the gene combo. Those that survived developed into embryos, 28 of which were implanted into 11 cows; three gave birth to genetically identical calves, all of which carried the neomycin-marker gene.
Robl and Stice, in collaboration with the biotech company Genzyme of Cambridge, Massachusetts, have already created embryos that contain the human gene for albumin protein, which helps restore the blood's osmotic pressure after blood loss. "Albumin is at the top of everyone's list" of genes to clone into a cow," says Stice. A single cow could produce 80 kilograms of the protein a year, he says.
"This is very exciting study," says Randall Prather, a developmental biologist at the University of Missouri at Columbia. The neomycin strategy allows researchers to make sure that the gene is functioning properly before it's inserted into a cow, he says.


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A small article published by CNN on November 14, 2013 could have easily fallen through the cracks of acknowledgement for many readers who are unaware of the severity of human trafficking. However, the anti-human trafficking advocacy world caught it. After investigating a film company out of Toronto for over three years, law enforcement agencies from all over the world came together to make nearly 350 arrests and free over 380 children from sexual abuse and trafficking.
Of the 348 arrests made: forty were teachers, six worked in law enforcement, nine were pastors and priests, and some were doctors and nurses, according to CNN's "Police: Sex abuse arrests in Canada began with probe of company." The common misconception by citizens unaware of the world of human trafficking is that "thugs" and "pimps" are the brains and driving force behind human trafficking. Sadly enough, it is these businessmen, doctors, police officers, teachers, priests, and other trusted members of society that are the ugly face of human trafficking.
Human trafficking is considered a modern-day slavery that typically involves physical and emotional bondage or force to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. Unlike typical media where victims are often shown as young females, trafficking victims can be of any nationality, age, gender, or race. According to material presented by Second Chance and The Lucas County Human Trafficking Coalition, 40% of Toledo women involved in the sex trade were commercially exploited before they were 18 years of age. The following experiences occurred at least a year before they were exploited to this percentage of them:
Furthermore, trafficking victims are prevented from obtaining help or escaping the situation through power and control by the trafficker. Traffickers use tactics such as sexual abuse, isolation, emotional abuse, intimidation, coercion and threats, economic abuse, physical abuse, denying/blaming/minimizing, and false privilege to keep victims brainwashed. According to the Rescue and Restore Campaign by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, there is simply not enough awareness in our communities to combat this human trafficking.
So what can we do to help?
If citizens of every community learn to recognize the signs of human trafficking, it will undoubtedly enable a greater number of victims to be identified. Education, then, has become a very important part of preventing human trafficking. According to Celeste Rollins, student at Lourdes University and volunteer with Second Chance, "The biggest thing we need to do is awareness. It's no longer that you have to travel in numbers, because they [the traffickers] travel in numbers." As the film company just detailed above demonstrates: it's not just the "thug" on the side of the controlling human trafficking. It's the innocent parties, the businesses, and even high school adolescents who are behind this modern slavery.
One of the easiest ways to recognize human trafficking is to know what to look for and how to ask the right questions. For example, a possible trafficking victim may be: accompanied by a controlling person, is not allowed to speak on their own behalf, does not control their own schedule, money, I.D. and travel documents, is transported to or from work, lives and works in the same place, has debt that is owned to an employer, is unable to leave their job, has bruises, depression, and fear, and is overly submissive. If you notice any of these signs, simple questions to ask the victim include:
While it is not the point for citizens of a community to put themselves into danger while pursuing a trafficking victim, these identification and questioning techniques can be used in a variety of public situations. Not every trafficking victim is kept locked in their home; many traffickers take their victims out into public places such as malls and restaurants where they can easily be recognized if citizens know what to look for.
If you have the slightest belief that yourself, someone you know, or someone you identified out in public is a victim of human trafficking, you are asked to immediately call the 24-hour National Human Trafficking Resource Center at 1-888-3737-888. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center can help you determine if you have encountered a human trafficking victim, find local resources for victims, and communicate with local social service organizations that can help victims begin to rebuild their lives.
In the Toledo area there are three local organizations that focus on preventing and combating trafficking and helping the victims. The Daughter Project is a long term group home for trafficked youth in Northwest Ohio. Second Chance is a program that provides trafficked victims with short term housing, assessments, case management, and helps to connect victims with other local organizations. The Lucas County Human Trafficking Coalition is directly partnered with the Resource and Restore Campaign founded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement and coordinates anti-trafficking efforts within the Toledo community. Through these local organizations, every human trafficking victim in the Toledo area will be able to find help and be connected with resources.
For many of us it is difficult to believe that something as violent and offensive as human trafficking is happening frequently under our own noses. Human trafficking does not only happen in a run-down hotel in the bad parts of town. Human trafficking often occurs in the rural "safe" areas, the local mall, and even out of your own home. The best way to stop and prevent trafficking is to be aware of what is going on around you. If you're a parent, make sure you check up on your children when they say they are going to a friend's house or a party. Young adults, be aware of what is going on around you when you're walking to your car after a late shopping trip. Awareness and education by all citizens is the first step to combating human trafficking. If we're persistent, our combined efforts will eventually create a safer Toledo for generations to come.
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MBI Publications
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E. Jung and S. Lim
Simulations of the Whirling instability by the immersed bounday methodSIAM Journal of Scientific computation (2003)
E. Jung and S. Lim
Subcritical bifurcation of a rotating elastic filament in a viscous fluid by the immersed boundary methodProceedings of the second MIT conference on computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics (2003)
E. Jung and S. Lim
A three-dimensional mathematical model of valveless pumpingBulletin of Mathematical Biology (2005)
E. Jung, E. Jung, S. Lim, S. Lee and W. Lee
Computational models of valveless pumping using the immersed boundary methodComputer Methods in Applied Mechanics and EngineeringVol. 197 No. Series 25-28 (2008) pp. 2329-2339
S. Lim, A. Ferent, X. Wang and C. Peskin
dynamics of a closed rod with twist and bend in fluidSIAM Journal on Scientific ComputingVol. 31 No. 1 (2008) pp. 273-302
Y. Kim, S. Lim, S. Raman, O. Simonetti and A. Friedman
Blood flow in a compliant vessel by the immersed boundary methodAnnals of Biomedical Engineering (2008) (Submitted)
E. Jung, S. Lim, S. Lee and W. Lee
Computational models of valveless pumping using the immersed boundary methodComputer Methods in Applied Mechanics and EngineeringVol. 197 No. Series 25-28 (2008) pp. 2329-2339
AbstractMathematical models of valveless pumping can be represented by either a closed loop system or an open tube system. In this paper, we present a three-dimensional model of valveless pumping in a closed loop system. We also present a two-dimensional model using an open elastic cylinder contained in a rigid tank. In both models, we take the periodic compress-and-release action at the asymmetric location of the soft tube and observe the existence of a net flow and the important features of valveless pumping that have been reported in the previous models or experiments. The innovative idea of this work is that we explain the existence of a net flow by introducing the concept of the signed area of the flow-pressure loop over one cycle, which represents the power in the system. The direction and the magnitude of a net flow can also be explained by the sign and the amount of power, which is work done on the fluid by the fluid pressure and the elastic wall over one period, respectively.
S. Lim, A. Ferent, X. Wang and C. Peskin
Dynamics of a closed rod with twist and bend in fluidSIAM Journal on Scientific ComputingVol. 31 No. 1 (2008) pp. 273-302
AbstractWe investigate the instability and subsequent dynamics of a closed rod with twist and bend in a viscous, incompressible fluid. A new version of the immersed boundary (IB) method is used in which the immersed boundary applies torque as well as force to the surrounding fluid and in which the equations of motion of the immersed boundary involve the local angular velocity as well as the local linear velocity of the fluid. An important feature of the IB method in this context is that self-crossing of the rod is automatically avoided because the rod moves in a continuous (interpolated) velocity field. A rod with a uniformly distributed twist that has been slightly perturbed away from its circular equilibrium configuration is used as an initial condition, with the fluid initially at rest. If the twist in the rod is sufficiently small, the rod simply returns to its circular equilibrium configuration, but for larger twists that equilibrium configuration becomes unstable, and the rod undergoes large excursions before relaxing to a stable coiled configuration.
Y. Kim, S. Lim, S. Raman, O. Simonetti and A. Friedman
Blood flow in a compliant vessel by the immersed boundary methodAnnals of Biomedical EngineeringVol. 37 No. 5 (2009) pp. 927-942
AbstractIn this paper we develop a computational approach to analyze hemodynamics in the aorta; this may serve as a useful tool in the development of noninvasive methods to detect early onset of diseases such as aneurysms and stenosis in major blood vessels. We introduce a mathematical model which describes the interaction of blood flow with the aortic wall; this model is based on the immersed boundary method. A two-dimensional vessel model is constructed, the velocity at the inlet is prescribed based on the information from the Magnetic Resonance Imaging data measured in the aorta of a healthy subject, and the velocity at the outlet is prescribed by driving the pressure level reproduced from the literature. The mathematical model is validated by comparing with well-known solutions of the viscous incompressible Navier���??Stokes equations, i.e., Womersley flow. The hysteresis behavior in the pressure���??diameter relation is observed when the viscoelastic material property of the arterial wall is taken into consideration. Five different shapes of aortic wall are considered for comparison of the flow patterns inside the aorta: one for the normal aorta, two for the dilated aorta, and two for the constrictive aorta.
Y. Kim and S. Lim
The role of the microenvironment in tumor invasion2009 Proceedings of the Fourth SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry (2010) pp. 84-92
AbstractFibroblasts and myofibroblasts in the tumor microenvironment are important players in tumor growth and metastasis because of their unique ability to coordinate events which increase cell proliferation and invasion especially in breast cancer. It has been experimentally shown that fibroblasts play an important role in promoting tumor growth. Our study illustrates a model in which tumor cells are able to communicate with these fibroblasts/myofibroblasts through proteinases for active invasion toward stroma near breast ducts.
S. Lim and E. Jung
A three-dimensional model of a closed valveless pup system immersed in a viscous fluidSIAM J. Appl. Math.Vol. 70 No. 6 (2010) pp. 1999-2010
Abstract: We present a three-dimensional model of flow driven by pumping without valves (valveless pumping) in a closed loop system in which the closed loop of tubing is immersed in an incompressible viscous fluid. This closed tube consists of two parts, an open cylindrical soft tube and an open rigid tube, smoothly connected to one another. At an asymmetric location of the soft tube, a periodic compress-and-release action with a time delay between actions is taken to create a net flow. Numerical results show that the magnitude of average net flow and flow direction inside the tube depend on the pumping frequency, the amplitude of periodic forcing, the compression duration, the length of the soft tube, and the elastic properties of the tube. Fluid viscosity is also found to influence net flow. The immersed boundary method is used to investigate the interaction between the tube and the fluid and to study the valveless pumping mechanism. (A correction to the this article has been appended at the end of the pdf file.)


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It all begins much the same way every other starting zone does: with a fly-over of the zone. There is no narration yet in the beta, but there will be before launch.
Your adventure begins before the Greymane Wall fell, likely years before the events of Cataclysm. Perhaps even before Wrath of the Lich King. We're not entirely sure, but the beginning of the starting zones do take place at some point in the past.
It starts with you still as a human. You have not been infected with the worgen curse yet, and the worgen are only just starting to appear in the city, which is currently under complete lockdown. Liam Greymane is leading the Gilnean city guards, patrolling the area to find any of those Light-damned werewolves that were roaming about.
Oh. There they are.
Meet Gwen Armstead. No, she is not holding that rapier correctly. Yes, she is fully aware of that fact.

 "I don't even know how to use this weapon... but I reckon if I stand here looking menacing, the worgen might go somewhere else."

 Gwen is a character you'll be seeing often throughout these quests.
The Merchant Square is overrun, and Liam gives you orders to begin the evacuation and meet up with his father. On the way there, you meet your class trainers for the first time. They are minor characters, but even they have a role in the story of these starting zones. The warrior up front is Sergeant Cleese, the warrior trainer. He's not standing in some safe building somewhere. He's right up in the action.
Meet Genn Greymane and Lord Godfrey. Both characters will make appearances throughout the worgen starting zone. Genn is, of course, the King of Gilneas.
Though Godfrey opposes the idea, Genn Greymane asks you to seek out one person he would never have considered allying with under better circumstances. Meet Lord Darius Crowley, leader of the Northgate Rebels. Not all Gilneans supported the construction of the Greymane Wall, especially since it not only cut them off from the world, but oftentimes members of their own families. Darius was even in command of the forces opposing Genn in a civil war over the construction of the wall.

 Lord Darius Crowley understands the worgen threat very well. He also sets aside his issues with Genn for the greater good of Gilneas. The rebels and the loyalists need each other to survive.
Darius sends you to find a stash of heavy artillery the rebels smuggled into the city and were hiding away for the day they might overthrow Genn. Plans have changed and they intend to use that artillery to push back the worgen. You go to retrieve the cannons, but are jumped by a freshly-turned worgen. Fortunately, you are rescued.

Meet Lorna Crowley, the daughter of Darius Crowley. Boomstick in hand, hounds at her sides, rose in her hair. Unlike Gwen, she knows how to use that weapon. Are you in love? We are.
The worgen only grow more numerous, and it takes every Gilnean man and woman to just hold them back and cover the retreat.
Genn has one last request before the rebel cannons are used to level the district. You need to rescue grand alchemist Krennan Aranas. Not only is he brilliant, but he saved the king's daughter from dying shortly after birth.
Darius, Liam and Genn talk strategy. Liam and Genn will lead the Gilneans out of the city proper and into the outskirts.
Darius, however, will remain behind with you and the rebels. You will draw the attention of the worgen. All of them.
After drawing the worgen to the Cathedral, Darius prepares for the final showdown.
In the midst of battling back the worgen, you succumb to the curse. Flash forward a number of years. You are a worgen locked in stocks. The king himself comes forward to prevent you from being executed. The alchemist you saved gives you a potion to suppress the curse ... and you can now see what happened to the kingdom the years you spent as a feral worgen.

 Here you see Liam Greymane, reduced to drunken fool who could not stop his city from falling to the worgen, passed out on a bench.
Just some Duskhaven scenery here.
What's this? An assassinated Duskhaven watchman? That can't be good.
... Yeah, definitely not good.
Liam leaps into action to fight off the encroaching Forsaken army. Yes, he's shirtless. He fights with nothing but his rifle and a stockpile of empty bottles of rye.
Run away, little girl! Run away!

 Not because of me you wuss. Run away from the Forsaken!
Using the Forsaken's own catapaults against them, getting behind enemy lines and aboard their ships.
The defense is going pretty well.
Oh crap.
The earth simply gave out, swallowing everything up. Gilnean, forsaken, all of it. You rush to save as many drowning watchmen as possible.
Yet again, it is time to retreat. You go forth to find the outlying residents of Duskhaven, including Lorna Crowley. Lorna refuses to come out of her home due to the strange wolf-like apparitions in her fields. You go out to meet this ghost, and he informs you that he means no harm. In fact, he was sent to protect Lorna. He was sent by Goldrinn, one of the Ancients.
Let's ignore that whole Goldrinn thing for awhile, shall we? We have more important things to do. We need to inform the royal family of the evacuation.
Evacuating ... in style!
The forsaken are tailing the evacuees, so you recruit the help of a local ettin to hold them off. He doesn't know he's helping you, but does it really matter? Help is help.
Shortly after reaching Stormglen Village, you meet this unusual character. She knows what is wrong with your people, and she believes she can help. She sends you into the Blackwald, where help awaits.
Isn't the sunshafts addition pretty?
Not to mention friendly faces. Lord Darius Crowley still kicks ass, even with a placeholder cube on his head.
You are sent to retrieve Goldrinn's Fang, also known as the Scythe of Elune. With it, your people can attempt to bring the curse under control again, or at least keep your humanity long term.
During this ordeal, King Genn Greymane reveals that he, too, is suffering from the worgen curse. The grand alchemist has been helping him keep it a secret. After this reveal, many of the lords are ... unhappy with their feral leadership, including Lord Godfrey. Luckily, you're pretty awesome and assassinate most of them, forcing Godfrey to see things your way. You are rewarded with a hat.
Our band of heroes moves forward, no longer on the run. They are making a push on the Forsaken encampments on their lands. Lorna Crowley and your various class trainers are there to help.
You free Gilnean slaves.
You murder forsaken taskmasters.
And you prepare to take back Gilneas City.
Your countrymen rally and charge forth!
You surround Sylvanas ...
But she uses her abilities as a banshee to push all of you back, just long enough to line up a shot. She fires a poison arrow at Genn, but...
Liam takes the arrow in the heart, saving his father and king.
Sylvanas escapes. You race through the city with Tobias Mistmantle, one of Darius's men, to find Sylvanas and listen in on what she's planning.

 Her plan, of course, is to plague Gilneas into oblivion against the wishes of the warchief. That's always a good time.
You hijack a bat and fly over the surrounding area to get an idea of the forsaken's numbers. Their numbers are great, to say the least.
Luckily, the Gilneans now have allies of their own.
And those allies let you go on joyrides in their glaivethrowers.
And for now, this is the point where the starting experience ends. It's a bit of a cliffhanger, but that's what happens when you're playing a beta. There is surely more to come later on.
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Forget salaries, expense accounts, or keys to the executive washroom. Employee loyalty is won or lost over the cleanliness of the bathrooms and the amount of sticky goo on the carpet. One in three workers surveyed recently said they had accepted a job - or quit one - because of the most basic working conditions. The respondents' chief complaint by far: the state of the indoor atmosphere (the gripes being about either hot-as-the-tropics heating or Antarctic air-conditioning).
Corporate managers searching for new office space think mostly about rent and whether the layout and location will work for their companies, says Johnny Winton, president of Coral Gables, FL-based Blumberg Capital Partners, which commissioned the survey. "They're not really thinking ... 'Will my employees be OK working in this environment?' "
Julie Buckner knows what Winton is talking about. The 40-year-old Valley Village resident is a veteran of what she dubbed "the office temperature wars."
"I always run hot," she says, recalling how she tricked her coworkers at several local public relations firms by surreptitiously powering up the air-conditioner.
When her officemates began to shiver, she says, "My M.O. was to tell them, 'You must just be imagining that it's getting colder.' "
Buckner now runs a consulting firm from her guest house, favoring an office decor that includes candles and cut roses. She has one employee, but Buckner's hand rules the thermostat, generally keeping it at 64 to 68 degrees.
Blumberg's survey of 500 workers was the first of its kind, Winton says. The company develops and manages high-end commercial office buildings in Florida and Texas. "We thought that the office building itself could have some major play" in an employer's ability to attract and keep workers, Winton says.
Apparently it does. More than three-quarters of those polled in December said the overall condition of their offices affected how they viewed their employer and whether they were likely to stay in their jobs. And, 30 percent said they worried that unhealthy or unsafe conditions in their building might make them sick.
A worker's focus on disagreeable office conditions may be more a symptom of a larger problem than the sole cause for a defection, says Amy Lyman, cofounder of the Great Place to Work Institute, a San Francisco-based consulting company. People don't quit just because the bathrooms are dirty, she says, but because employers that don't keep the bathrooms clean don't respond to other worker concerns as well. The bathroom message is that "these are not high-trust environments," she says.
Apart from extreme temperatures, filthy bathrooms were among the most commonly cited problems in the survey, along with outdated furniture or decor, persistent foul smells, leaky ceilings or windows, worn carpet, and rodents or insects.
For employees of some companies, such as Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc., the office is a sprawling complex with manicured outdoor areas, cafeterias with extensive menus, light and airy working spaces, sports complexes, daycare, and more. Winton says the survey results should encourage other companies to follow suit - or at least pay more attention to the basics. Like vermin. Buckner has few fond memories of the down-at-the-heels San Francisco building where she worked in 1996. Much of the building was vacant, or so she thought, until she heard rats scurrying above the acoustic ceiling tiles.
"The tiles were always slightly askew," she recalls, "and every once in a while you could see their feet or tails come through." Her first rat sighting was quite alarming, she says, "but like all things, you get used to it."
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BA First class honours, English, Sussex, 1998; MA, C20th Eng Lit, Sussex, 1999; PGCertHE, Middlesex, 2007; Cert Leadership, Enterprise & Citizenship, Middlesex, 2007; DPhil Creative and Critical Writing, Sussex, 2009. FRSA, 2008. Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Royal Holloway, 2008-10.
Dr Sarah Wardle joined Middlesex University in 2003. She was previously a tutor for Sussex and Kent universities. She read Literae Humaniores at Lincoln College, Oxford, and chaired the Conservative Association in Trinity, 1989. In 1999 she won the Poetry Society's Geoffrey Dearmer Prize.
She is a British Council Writer, former Poetry Society/Poetry Review New Poet of the Year, has been shortlisted for a Forward prize, been poet-in-residence for Bedgebury National Pinetum, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the British Council Berlin, and Transport for London at Embankment Station, has led writing workshops for NBFA Assisting the Elderly and the Royal Hospital Chelsea, has been Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Royal Holloway, and is lecturer in poetry at both Middlesex University and Morley College.
Sarah has written four books of poetry, all published by prestigious international poetry publisher Bloodaxe Books:Fields Away (2003); Score! (2005); A Knowable World (2009); and Beyond (2014).
She has read at leading literary festivals and broadcast her work on national and international radio and television. She has a chapter on 'Lyric voice: 'the music of being human'' in Poetry and Voice, ed. Stephanie Norgate (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), has given papers at conferences and had poems, papers, articles and book reviews published in anthologies, journals, magazines and newspapers, including Poetry Review and The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement and The Times Higher Education Supplement, The Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Independent and The Observer. Her work has been widely reviewed since 1999, including in Poetry Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
She has recently written and submitted to publishers and producers a long prose poem sequence, children's verse, short fiction and verse drama, and for a decade and a half has written and published book reviews and journalism. Information about Beyond (Bloodaxe Books, 2014) can be found via the following link, where her filmpoem -- starring Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville -- can also be viewed, A Poetry Political Broadcast (2010), produced and directed by Benjamin Johns and which genders poetry as female and depicts it as a feminine rationality in decision-making processes, like that which Athene represents at the close of The Oresteia: http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1780370970
A recent interview Sarah did for BBC Radio 4's Today programme can be found at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2459255
Poetry writing; poetics and literary criticism; poetry of the Romantic and contemporary periods; the psychology of creative writing; memory writing workshops with the elderly and old age health; poetry writing and adult and child cognitive and affective health; poetry writing and teaching in writing residencies; writing workshops and social enterprise; student-led writing-workshop work placements, student employability and curriculum development; coursework, examinations and work placements and options for university assessment; children's picture book verse; filmpoems; verse drama; book reviewing; memoir; short fiction; screenwriting; work-based writing; discourse and professional register; rhetoric; the history of women's writing and the history of women's education; feminisms and femininities; female discourse, female writing and male canonical forms; poetry and the female gaze; female characters in classical and contemporary verse drama; feminine rhetoric, political activism and female participation.
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Sarah's first two Bloodaxe books formed part of her School's RAE submission. Her main REF submissions for her School are:
Beyond (Bloodaxe Books, 2014). Although this book has not yet been printed, many of its poems have already been published in internationally distributed journals, with one having appeared in The Spectator ('Night Watch', 28 November, 2009) and three forthcoming in The Spectator ('Finding', 'The Passage' and 'On Lambeth Bridge'), one in South Bank Poetry ('The Listeners' in Issue 13), five poems in Poetry Review ('Keeping Going' in Vol. Spring 2010; 'Chinese Calligraphy' in Vol. Spring 2012; and 'Single', 'Full English' and 'Freeman' in Vol. Autumn 2013) and five poems having appeared in The Times Literary Supplement ('Twelfth Night' and 'Drift' in Vol. 12 November, 2010; 'Country Life' in Vol. 22 April, 2011; 'Management Logic' in Vol. 3 June, 2011; and 'National Speed Limit' in Vol. 12 April, 2013) with a sixth forthcoming in The TLS ('Freshers'), as well as one poem having appeared on the site of British charity NBFA Assisting the Elderly ('Give' in spring 2012). The poet was the highlighted guest reader and read from some of the poems in this book at the University of London's Institute of English Literary London Conference in July 2012 at Senate House.
A Knowable World (Bloodaxe Books, 2009). This book was reviewed in Poetry London, Poetry Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian (24 January, 2009) and The Sunday Times (12 April, 2009). Poems from A Knowable World appeared prior to its publication in magazines and journals, including two poems in Earls Court ('Solitude', 'Christmas in October'), one in The Interpreter's House ('To My Grandmother'), three in The London Magazine ('Turquoise', 'Peace', 'Magnetic Resonance Imaging'), one in Magma ('Escape Route'), three in Poetry Review ('Found Audience', 'Healing', 'Snow From Ebury Ward'), one in Read This Magazine ('Psychiatrists Ask Questions') and six in The Times Literary Supplement ('Exchange', 'Life-Life Balance', 'After Ralph Vaughan Williams', 'Subject', 'Is', 'Leave'). One of the poems, 'Hotel Gordon', was translated into Scots and both were part of a diversity project for 'The Language of Equality': The Mayor's Annual Equalities Report 2006/07 (Mayor of London). The first six poems of the book were broadcast from the London Poetry Festival on Channel S Television UK, while 'Sarah, wife of Abraham' was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2009. In addition, some of the poems were written as part of a writing residency in September, 2005, at the British Council, Berlin, and one of the poems was anthologised in the international anthology, Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English, ed. Eva Salzman and Amy Wack (Seren, 2008). In terms of social impact, the poet read widely from it after publication for not only festivals, but also British charities including Survivors' Poetry, Poet in the City and Rethink; the book was featured in mental health magazines, Time Together (Issue 3) and Equilibrium (Issue 19); the collection was mentioned on Mind charity champion Alastair Campbell's blog, and one of the poems and an author interview appeared on http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk; and a consultant psychiatrist and academic, Professor Femi Oyebode, who is also a Nigerian poet and scholarly author of Mindreadings: Literature and Psychiatry (2009), reviewed Wardle's book in The British Journal of Psychiatry (2010).
Authored Books:
Wardle Sarah, Beyond (2014), Bloodaxe Books: Tarset.
Wardle, Sarah, (2009) A Knowable World, Bloodaxe Books: Tarset.
Wardle, Sarah, (2005) Score!, Bloodaxe Books: Tarset.
Wardle, Sarah, (2003) Fields Away, Bloodaxe Books: Tarset. [shortlisted for the 2004 Forward Prize for Best First Collection]
Poems published in newspapers, journals and magazines since 1997, including in:
Evening Standard
The Guardian
The Herald (Glasgow)
The Independent
The Independent on Sunday
The Interpreter's House
The Liberal
The London Magazine
The Mayor's Annual Report, 2006-2007
Oxford Magazine
Oxford Today
PN Review
Poetry News
Poetry Review (over twenty poems published here)*
Read This Magazine
South Bank Poetry
The Spectator
The Times Higher Education Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement (over a dozen poems published here over a decade)
*Won Poetry Review's New Poet of the Year Award, 1999.
Anthologies in which Sarah's had work include:
Szirtes, George, ed., (2011) Ten Poems About London, Candlestick Press: Nottingham.
Baron, Michael, Croft, Andy, and Swann, Jenny, eds., (2010) The Night Shift, Five Leaves: Nottingham.
Salzman, Eva, and Wack, Amy, eds., (2008) Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English, Seren: Bridgend.
Turnbull, John, Satterlee, Thom, and Raab, Alon, eds., (2008) The Global Game: Writers on Soccer, University of NebraskaPress: Lincoln NE.
Oldfield, Sybil, and Shaw, Gwenyth, eds., (2007) The Old Familiar Faces: Poems on the Experience of Ageing, Oldfield & Shaw: Lewes.
Schneider, M., and Wood, D., eds., (2006) Images of Women, Arrowhead: Darlington.
The Poetry Society, ed., (2004) Poetry on a Plate, Salt: Cambridge.
Astley, Neil, ed., (2004) Being Alive, Bloodaxe Books: Tarset.
Stothard, Peter, ed., (2003) The Forward Book of Poetry 2004, Forward: London.
Astley, Neil, ed., (2003) Bloodaxe Poems of the Year 2003, Bloodaxe Books: Tarset.
Forbes, Peter, ed., (2003) We Have Come Through, Bloodaxe Books: Tarset.
Oswald, Alice, Oswald, Peter, and Woof, Robert, eds., (2002) 'Earth has not any thing to shew more fair', Shakespeare's Globe & The Wordsworth Trust: London.
Lumsden, Roddy, and Ironside, Hamish, eds., (2001) Anvil New Poets 3, Anvil: London.
Book reviews and papers:
Chapter, 'Lyric Voice: 'the music of being human'' in ed. Norgate, S, Poetry and Voice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012).
On Julia Copus, The World's Two Smallest Humans; Beverley Bie Brahic, White Sheets; Gerry McGrath, Rooster; David Herd, All Just; in Poetry Review (2012) Vol. 102:4, Winter.
On John Donne's 'The Flea' on Birkbeck website's Writers' Hub: Poets Reading Poets.
On A Choosing: Selected Poems, Liz Lochead; A Story I Am In: Selected Poems, James Berry; Selected Poems, Christopher Reid; in Poetry Review (2012) Vol. 102:1, Spring.
On Hare, Hugh Dunkerley; in The London Magazine, Dec 2011/Jan 2012.
On Profit and Loss, Leontia Flynn; Claiming Kindred, D.M. Black; Close Quarters, Justin Quinn; Imaginary Menagarie, Ailbhe Darcy; Speech Lessons, John Montague; in Poetry Review (2011) Vol. 101:4, Winter.
On Paper, Scissors, Stone, Kit Fan; Swallow, Claire Potter; Sidereal, Rachael Boast; in Poetry Review (2011) Vol. 101: 3, Autumn.
On You, John Haynes; in New Welsh Review (2011) Summer.
On Family Values, Wendy Cope; in The Guardian (2011), 23 April.
On The Mirabelles, Annie Freud; in The Guardian. (2011), 19 February.
On Leaving Fingerprints, Imtiaz Dharker; The Water Table,Philip Gross; Ornament of Asia, Alice Kavounas; Picasso, I Want My Face Back, Grace Nichols: Watering Can, Caroline Bird; in Poetry Review (2010) Vol. 100:1, Spring.
On The Tethers, Carrie Etter; in New Welsh Review (2010),Vol. 88, Summer.
On Long-Haul Travellers, Sheenagh Pugh; The Treekeeper's Tale, Pascale Petit; in New Welsh Review (2009), Vol. 84, Summer.
On The Hat, Selima Hill; Gloria: Selected Poems, Selima Hill; in Poetry Review (2008), Vol. 98:3, Autumn.
On Very: New and Selected Poems, Annemarie Austin; Pure Lizard, Sujata Bhatt; Singing in the Dark, Alison Brackenbury; From me to you: Love Poems, U.A. Fanthorpe and R.V. Bailey; in Poetry Review (2008), Vol. 98:2, Summer.
On Windrush Songs, James Berry; Beasts of Nalunga, Jack Mapanje; The Barking Thing, Suzanne Batty; Local Honey, Robert Saxton; in Poetry Review (2007/8), Vol. 97:4, Winter. 'Judgement and Development: the creative rewards of critical awareness', published conference paper in the National Association of Writers in Education's Writing in Education, No. 38, Spring, 2006.
On The Prodigal, Derek Walcott; School of the Arts, Mark Doty; Stolen Love Behaviour, John Stammers; To a Fault, Nick Laird; Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems, ed. Rod Mengham and John Kinsella; in The Observer (2005), 20 March.
On Creative Writing in Health and Social Care, ed. Fiona Sampson, and Creative Writing with Child and Adult Victims of Abuse, ed Jacki Pritchard and Eric Sainsbury; in the National Association of Writers in Education's Writing in Education (2005), Spring.
'Why Study Living Writers?' an essay for Living Writers in the Curriculum: A Good Practice Guide, ed. Vicki Bertram and Andrew Maunder (2005), for the English Subject Centre at Royal Holloway.
Conference paper on 'Inspiration at the interface: corporate responsibility and the ethics of equal diversity' for Middlesex University Business School's International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, National Liberal Club, June, 2005.
'Past Master Choice' on Emily Bronte in Orbis, 131.
On Anabranch, Andrew Zawacki; In the Salt Marsh, Nancy Willard; The Soho Leopard, Ruth Padel; in PN Review (2005).
On Being Alive, ed. Neil Astley; in The Observer (2004), 28 November.
On The Universal Home Doctor, Simon Armitage; Walking the Animals, Carola Luther; In the Wake of Home, Christian McEwen; Walking out of the World, Matthew Mead; in PN Review (2004), 161.
On The Burial at Thebes (new translation of Antigone) Seamus Heaney; The Shadow Knows, Adrian Mitchell; Heavy Water: A Poem for Chernobyl, Mario Petrucci; Selected Poems, 1963-2003, Charles Simic; Snow Water, Michael Longley; The Soho Leopard, Ruth Padel; Notes from the Divided Country; Suji Kwock Kim; Newborn, Kate Clanchy; round-up of new poetry in The Observer (2004), 8 August.
Conference paper on 'The writer as critic' for the National Association of Writers in Education Conference, York, October, 2004.
Article on Tottenham Hotspur writing residency in the National Association of Writers in Education's Writing in Education, Summer 2004.
Article on 'Poetry and football' in The Times Higher Education Supplement (2004), 25 June.
'Reflections on Memory and Identity', published conference paper in the National Association of Writers in Education's Writing in Education, Summer 2004.
On The Singing, C.K. Williams; In the Country of Birds, James Sutherland-Smith; The Book of Stones, Adam Schwartzman; The Now of Snow, June Hall; Hare Soup, Dorothy Molloy; in The Observer (2004), 28 March.
On Public Property, Andrew Motion, in The Observer (2002), 15 September.
On New Poetry: On Love and War, Vernon Scannell; The Light Trap, John Burnside; Source, Mark Doty; The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson; Marriage, David Harsent; The Little Book of Judas, Brendan Kennelly; Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead, Kathleen Jamie; in The Observer (2002), 2 June.
On Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine, in Times Literary Supplement (2002), March 29
On Cohabitation, Kate Bingham; At Home in the Dark, Greta Stoddart; in Poetry Review (2002).
Article in 'Close-up' series in Poetry News (2002).
On Dragons, Matthew Francis, in Poetry Review (2001/2002), Winter.
On Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-2000, Gjertrud Schnackenburg, in Poetry Review (2001/2002), Winter.
On Stravaigin, Liz Niven; Dead Redhead,Tracey Herd; Cowboy Hat, Peter Knaggs; in PN Review (2001), Nov.
On Celtic Cadence: Misery Hill, David Wheatley; Thumb's Width, John Redmond; The Nowhere Birds, Caitriona O'Reilly; in Thumbscrew (2001), Autumn.
On The Back and the Front of It, Connie Bensley, Poetry Review (2000/2001) Winter.
On The Asylum Dance, John Burnside, in Times Literary Supplement (2001) Feb 9
On The Book of Love, Roddy Lumsden, in Poetry Review (2000), Summer.
On The Man in the White Suit, Nick Drake, in Poetry Review (1999/2000), Winter.
Print reviews of Sarah's work include in:
The Glasgow Herald (2003); Tribune (2003); The Sunday Telegraph (2003) ; Mslexia (2003); The TLS (2003); The Evening Standard (2004); The Guardian (2004); The Independent (2004); The Ham and High (2005); Poetry Review (2006); The Guardian (2009); The Sunday Times (2009); Poetry Review (2009); The TLS (2009); Poetry London (2009); The British Journal of Psychiatry (2010).
Festivals, Broadcasts, Filmpoems:
Sarah has read at leading literary festivals from the Cheltenham Festival of Literature through the Guildford Book Festival and Manchester Poetry Festival to the Hay Festival of Literature. Other speaker events include the University of London's Institute of English Literary London Conference and the Institute of Public Policy Research Festival of Englishness. She has broadcast her work on radio and television, including on BBC News, BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, and on Sky Television, as well as done international broadcasts in Ireland, Australia and the USA. As well as others having made filmpoetry using her work, Sarah wrote a filmpoem, A Poetry Political Broadcast (2010), which was produced and directed by Benjamin Johns and stars Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville.
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updated 04:10 pm EST, Fri November 13, 2009
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published, all anonymously and some perhaps without her knowledge.
- God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts. Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles.
- Letter to Abiah Root, 29 January 29 1850
- My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
- Letter to Samuel Bowles (August 1858 or 1859), letter #193 of The Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, assoc. ed. Theodora Ward, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958
Collected Poems, ed. Fall River Press, 1993
- GLEE! the great storm is over!
Four have recovered the land;
Forty gone down together
Into the boiling sand.
Ring, for the scant salvation!
Toll, for the bonnie souls,—
Neighbor and friend and bridegroom,
Spinning upon the shoals!
How they will tell the shipwreck
When winter shakes the door,
Till the children ask, "But the forty?
Did they come back no more?"
Then a silence suffuses the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the children no
further question,
And only the waves reply.
- p. 5. Life.
- IF I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
- p. 6. Life.
- MUCH madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'T is the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,—you 're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.
- p. 9. Life.
- I NEVER hear the word "escape"
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation,
A flying attitude.
I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars,—
Only to fail again!
- p. 22. Life.
- SURGEONS must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the culprit,—Life!
- p. 25. Life.
- IT tossed and tossed,—
A little brig I knew,—
O'ertook by blast,
It spun and spun,
And groped delirious, for morn.
It slipped and slipped,
As one that drunken stepped;
Its white foot tripped,
Then dropped from sight.
Ah, brig, good-night
To crew and you;
The ocean's heart too smooth, too blue,
To break for you.
- p. 30. Life.
- I TOOK my power in my hand
And went against the world;
'T was not so much as David had,
But I was twice as bold.
I aimed my pebble, but myself
Was all the one that fell.
Was it Goliath was too large,
Or only I too small?
- p. 33. Life.
- MINE enemy is growing old,—
I have at last revenge.
The palate of the hate departs;
If any would avenge,—
Let him be quick, the viand flits,
It is a faded meat.
Anger as soon as fed is dead;
'T is starving makes it fat.
- p. 38. Life.
- IT 'S such a little thing to weep,
So short a thing to sigh;
And yet by trades the size of these
We men and women die!
- p. 50. Life.
- DROWNING is not so pitiful
As the attempt to rise.
Three times, 't is said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that abhorred abode
Where hope and he part company,—
For he is grasped of God.
The Maker's cordial visage,
However good to see,
Is shunned, we must admit it,
Like an adversity.
- p. 50-51. Life.
- WHO has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to mine,
His furniture is love.
- p. 54. Life.
- UPON the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law entitled him.
As nature's curtain fell
The one who bore him tottered in,
For this was woman's son.
"'T was all I had," she stricken gasped;
Oh, what a livid boon!
- p. 56. Life.
- FATE slew him, but he did not drop;
She felled—he did not fall—
Impaled him on her fiercest stakes—
He neutralized them all.
She stung him, sapped his firm advance,
But, when her worst was done,
And he, unmoved, regarded her,
Acknowledged him a man.
- p. 60-61. Life.
- IT might be easier
To fail with land in sight,
Than gain my blue peninsula
To perish of delight.
- p. 69. Life.
- HOW happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And does n't care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.
- p. 97. Nature.
- NEW feet within my garden go,
New fingers stir the sod;
A troubadour upon the elm
Betrays the solitude.
New children play upon the green,
New weary sleep below;
And still the pensive spring returns,
And still the punctual snow!
- p. 108. Nature.
- THE PEDIGREE of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.
- p. 110. Nature.
- THE GRASS so little has to do,—
A sphere of simple green,
With only butterflies to brood,
And bees to entertain,
And stir all day to pretty tunes
The breezes fetch along,
And hold the sunshine in its lap
And bow to everything;
And thread the dews all night, like pearls,
And make itself so fine,-
A duchess were too common
For such a noticing.
And even when it dies, to pass
In odors so divine,
As lowly spices gone to sleep,
Or amulets of pine.
And then to dwell in sovereign barns,
And dream the days away,—
The grass so little has to do,
I wish I were a hay!
- p. 112-113. Nature.
- PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn
Indicative that suns go down;
The notice to the startled grass
That darkness is about to pass.
- p. 118. Nature.
- IT makes no difference abroad,
The seasons fit the same,
The mornings blossom into noons,
And split their pods of flame.
Wild-flowers kindle in the woods,
The brooks brag all the day;
No blackbird bates his jargoning
For passing Calvary.
Auto-da-fé and judgment
Are nothing to the bee;
His separation from his rose
To him seems misery.
- p. 120. Nature.
- LOVE is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.
- p. 167. Love.
- THERE is a word
Which bears a sword
Can pierce an armed man.
It hurls its barbed syllables,—
At once is mute again.
But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some epauletted brother
Gave his breath away.
Wherever runs the breathless sun,
Wherever roams the day,
There is its noiseless onset,
There is its victory!
Behold the keenest marksman!
The most accomplished shot!
Time's sublimest target
Is a soul "forgot"!
- p. 170-171. Love.
- HEART, we will forget him!
You and I, to-night!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.
When you have done, pray tell me,
That I my thoughts may dim;
Haste! lest while you're lagging,
I may remember him!
- p. 172. Love.
- I NEVER saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.
I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.
- p. 188-189. Time and Eternity.
- I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
I reason, we could die:
The best vitality
Cannot excel decay;
But what of that?
I reason that in heaven
Somehow, it will be even,
Some new equation given;
But what of that?
- p. 192. Time and Eternity.
- NO rack can torture me,
My soul 's at liberty.
Behind this mortal bone
There knits a bolder one
You cannot prick with saw,
Nor rend with scymitar.
Two bodies therefore be;
Bind one, and one will flee.
The eagle of his nest
No easier divest
And gain the sky,
Than mayest thou,
Except thyself may be
Thine enemy;
Captivity is consciousness,
So's liberty.
- p. 198-199. Time and Eternity.
- A DEATH-BLOW is a life-blow to some
Who, till they died, did not alive become;
Who, had they lived, had died, but when
They died, vitality begun.
- p. 204. Time and Eternity.
- OUR journey had advanced;
Our feet were almost come
To that odd fork in Being's road,
Eternity by term.
Our pace took sudden awe,
Our feet reluctant led.
Before were cities, but between,
The forest of the dead.
Retreat was out of hope,—
Behind, a sealed route,
Eternity's white flag before,
And God at every gate.
- p. 213-214. Time and Eternity.
- THAT such have died enables us
The tranquiller to die;
That such have lived, certificate
For immortality.
- p. 228. Time and Eternity.
- THE DISTANCE that the dead have gone
Does not at first appear;
Their coming back seems possible
For many an ardent year.
And then, that we have followed them
We more than half suspect,
So intimate have we become
With their dear retrospect.
- p. 229. Time and Eternity.
- BLESS God, he went as soldiers,
His musket on his breast;
Grant, God, he charge the bravest
Of all the martial blest.
Please God, might I behold him
In epauletted white,
I should not fear the foe then,
I should not fear the fight.
- p. 234. Time and Eternity.
- IMMORTAL is an ample word
When what we need is by,
But when it leaves us for a time,
'T is a necessity.
Of heaven above the firmest proof
We fundamental know,
Except for its marauding hand,
It had been heaven below.
- p. 234. Time and Eternity.
- SO proud she was to die
It made us all ashamed
That what we cherished, so unknown
To her desire seemed.
So satisfied to go
Where none of us should be,
Immediately, that anguish stooped
Almost to jealousy.
- p. 240. Time and Eternity.
- FAME is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate,
Whose table once a Guest, but not
The second time, is set.
Whose crumbs the crows inspect,
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the Farmer's corn;
Men eat of it and die.
- p. 257-258. The Single Hound.
- THE BLUNDER is to estimate,—
"Eternity is Then,"
We say, as of a station.
Meanwhile he is so near,
He joins me in my ramble,
Divides abode with me,
No friend have I that so persists
As this Eternity.
- p. 261. The Single Hound.
- THERE is a solitude of space,
A solitude of sea,
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be,
Compared with that profounder site,
That polar privacy,
A Soul admitted to Itself:
Finite Infinity.
- p. 265. The Single Hound.
- NATURE is what we see,
The Hill, the Afternoon—
Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee,
Nay—Nature is Heaven.
Nature is what we hear,
The Bobolink, the Sea—
Thunder, the Cricket—
Nay,—Nature is Harmony.
Nature is what we know
But have no art to say,
So impotent our wisdom is
To Her simplicity.
- p. 268-269. The Single Hound.
- SOME Days retired from the rest
In soft distinction lie,
The Day that a companion came—
Or was obliged to die.
- p. 271. The Single Hound.
- THE SWEETS of Pillage can be known
To no one but the Thief,
Compassion for Integrity
Is his divinest Grief.
- p. 299. The Single Hound.
- THE FACE we choose to miss,
Be it but for a day—
As absent as a hundred years
When it has rode away.
- p. 312. The Single Hound.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson. Little, Brown and Co., 1960
- Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires a sorest need.
Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory
As he defeated — dying —
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!
- "Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see —
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
- "Hope" is the thing with feathers —
That perches in the soul —
And sings the tune without the words —
And never stops — at all —
And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard —
And sore must be the storm —
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm —
- I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — Too?
- How dreary — to be — Somebody!
How public — like a Frog —
To tell one's name — the livelong June —
To an admiring Bog!
- 288: I'm Nobody! Who are you?; In some editions "June" has been altered to "day".
- The Soul selects her own Society —
Then — shuts the Door —
To her divine Majority —
Present no more —
- Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —
I keep it, staying at Home—
With a Bobolink for a Chorister —
And an Orchard, for a Dome—
- God preaches, a noted Clergyman —
And the sermon is never long,
So instead of getting to Heaven, at last—
I'm going, all along.
- This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me —
The simple News that Nature told —
With tender Majesty
Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see —
For love of Her — Sweet — countrymen —
Judge tenderly — of Me
- I died for Beauty — but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb,
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room —
He questioned softly "Why I failed"?
"For Beauty," I replied.
"And I — for Truth, — Themself are One —
We Brethren, are", He said —
- 449: I died for Beauty —
- Dreams — are well — but Waking's better,
If One wake at Morn —
If One wake at Midnight — better —
Dreaming — of the Dawn —
- Love — thou art Veiled —
A few — behold thee —
Smile — and alter — and prattle — and die —
Bliss — were an Oddity — without thee —
Nicknamed by God —
Eternity —
- I heard a Fly buzz — when I died —
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air —
Between the Heaves of Storm —
- Because I could not stop for Death —
He kindly stopped for me —
The Carriage held but just Ourselves —
And Immortality.
We slowly drove — He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility —
- Since then — 'tis Centuries — and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity —
- My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —
In Corners — till a Day
The Owner passed — identified —
And carried Me away —
And now We roam in Sovereign Woods —
And now We hunt the Doe —
And every time I speak for Him —
The Mountains straight reply —
- We outgrow love, like other things
And put it in the Drawer —
Till it an Antique fashion shows —
Like Costumes Grandsires wore.
- A Grave — is a restricted Breadth —
Yet ampler than the Sun —
And all the Seas He populates
And lands he looks upon
To Him who on its small Repose
Bestows a single Friend —
Circumference without Relief —
Or Estimate — or End
- To Whom the Mornings stand for Nights,
What must the Midnights — be!
- A Vastness, as a Neighbor, came,
A Wisdom, without Face, or Name,
A Peace, as Hemispheres at Home
And so the Night became.
- 1104: The Crickets sang
- Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —
- Could Hope inspect her Basis
Her Craft were done —
Has a fictitious Charter
Or it has none —
Balked in the vastest instance
But to renew —
Felled but by one assassin —
Prosperity —
- Not with a Club, the Heart is broken
Nor with a Stone —
A Whip so small you could not see it
I've known
To lash the Magic Creature
Till it fell,
Yet that Whip's Name
Too noble then to tell.
Magnanimous as Bird
By Boy descried —
Singing unto the Stone
Of which it died —
Shame need not crouch
In such an Earth as Ours —
Shame — stand erect —
The Universe is yours.
- More than the Grave is closed to me —
The Grave and that Eternity
To which the Grave adheres —
I cling to nowhere till I fall —
The Crash of nothing, yet of all —
How similar appears —
- If Aims impel these Astral Ones
The ones allowed to know
Know that which makes them as forgot
As Dawn forgets them — now
- Who has not found the Heaven — below —
Will fail of it above —
- I took one Draught of Life —
I'll tell you what I paid —
Precisely an existence —
The market price, they said.
- Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
- Quoted on the web sans source. Not in the complete Poems. A 2006 self-help book attributes it verbatim to Dave Sim (see below) sans source. A 2009 reprint of Poems: Second Series mentions it in the introduction sans source (thus probably taking it from the unsourced web quote). No earlier attributions found.
- Compare to a quote sourced to Dave Sim: "Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon." (Cerebus #65, 1984)
Quotes about Dickinson[edit]
- How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers". The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.
- Woody Allen, Without Feathers (1975)
- Her poetry is the diary or autobiography — though few diaries or autobiographies compare with it for intentional and, especially, unintentional truth — of an acute psychologist, a wonderful rhetorician, and one of the most individual writers who ever lived, one of those best able to express experience at its most nearly absolute.
- Randall Jarrell, "The Year in Poetry," Harper's (October 1955); republished in Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980) [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981, ISBN 0-374-51668-5], p. 244
- Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility.
- Camille Paglia, in Sexual Personae (1990) p. 624
- Emily Dickinson is the female Sade, and her poems are the prison dreams of a self-incarcerated, sadmomasochistic imaginist. When she is rescued from American Studies departments and juxtaposed with Dante and Baudelaire, her barbarities and diabolical acts of will become glaringly apparent. Dickinson inherits through Blake the rape cycle of The Faerie Queene. Blake and Spenser are her allies in helping pagan Coleridge defeat Protestant Wordsworth.
- Camille Paglia, in Sexual Personae (1990) p. 624
- Richard Chase declares, "No great poet has written so much bad verse as Emily Dickinson." He blames the Victorian cult of little women for the fact that "two thirds of her work" is seriously flawed: "Her coy and oddly childish poems of nature and female friendship are products of a time when one of the careers open to women was perpetual childhood." Dickinson's sentimental feminine poems remain neglected by embarrassed scholars. I would maintain, however, that her poetry is a closed system of sexual reference and that the mawkish poems are designed to dovetail with those of violence and suffering.
- Camille Paglia, in Sexual Personae (1990) p. 637
External links[edit]
- Dickinson on Poets.org Biography, related essays, and reading guides, from the Academy of American Poets
- Works by Emily Dickinson at Project Gutenberg
- Dickinson Electronic Archives
- Emily Dickinson International Society
- Dickinson article from the online Literary Encyclopedia|
- Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson at Poetseers
- "Her own words shed new light on Emily Dickinson": CNN Review of Open Me Carefully
- Emily Dickinson - The Complete Poems
- The poems of Emily Dickinson read aloud in RealAudio


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Liraglutide decreases carotid intima-media thickness in patients with type 2 diabetes: 8-month prospective pilot study
1 Biomedical Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
2 Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology, Palermo, Italy
3 Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
4 Division of Endocrinology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, 8.138 Medical Research Building, 301 University Boulevard, 77555-1060 Galveston, TX, USA
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2014, 13:49 doi:10.1186/1475-2840-13-49Published: 22 February 2014
Liraglutide, a long-acting glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analog, has several non- glycemic properties, but its effect on carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), a recognized marker of subclinical atherosclerosis, is still unknown.
A prospective study of 8 months duration in 64 patients with type-2 diabetes and no prior history of coronary artery disease evaluated whether adding liraglutide to metformin affects carotid IMT, measured by color doppler ultrasound.
After 8 months, fasting glucose decreased by 2.1 mmol/l and HbA1c by 1.9% (p < 0.01 for all). Liraglutide reduced total-cholesterol and triglycerides by 10%, and LDL-cholesterol by 19%, whereas HDL-cholesterol increased by 18% (p < 0.01 for all lipid changes). Carotid IMT decreased from 1.19 ± 0.47 to 0.94 ± 0.21 mm (p < 0.01). Yet, changes in carotid IMT did not correlate with changes in any other variable studied.
Liraglutide decreases carotid IMT after 8 months treatment independently of its effect on plasma glucose and lipids concentrations.
Trial registration
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01715428.


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TAK codec (Any news, seems silent for some time)
TAK codec (Any news, seems silent for some time)
Sep 13 2012, 05:06
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Hi Guys,
Thomas seems going silent for a period of time, any news or other developers working on TAK related GUI or something like "TAK drop"?
Also want to ask, any media player can DIRECT decode the HDCD signal inside TAK yet?
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Oct 4 2012, 23:10
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TBeck, something to think about: (Note I'm attempting not to argue either way on releasing your code, after all it's yours)
IIRC (do I?) you expressed a bit of shock when Saratoga published here his quick-and-dirty reverse engineerign of the TAK bitstream, similar to the surprise at an (apparently) functional decoder @ ffmpeg.
My only point being that many of the people who enjoy reversing are disturbingly good at doing it - without code. Much less with - regardless of condition.
You mentioned your other time consuming projects as well as your desire to clean up your existing code before publishing. If I understand correctly a strong motivator in your eyes at this point for publishing would be to ensure a fully compliant decoder.
Might I propose that handing off the source code (if that is your true desire) and answering any arising questions from the ffmpeg developer via email would take much less of your time than actually cleaning the pascal code itself.
Creature of habit.
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