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April 15, 2010"While our present, oppressive, quietly intimidating samizdat milieu can produce rich literature, as in Stalin's era, it soon needs to be addressed, or we will be deconstructed through "commercial correctness" into a new Dark Ages."
Interview with scholar-activist Stephen Volk, author of "The American Poerty Holocaust," a book about how Socialists and Communists, led by the Jewish critic Louis Untermeyer, changed the literary sensibility of America.
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Build is the key word. We have 2,000 years of poetic heritage to keep building and improving on. This is so very exciting! This is why I put acrostics and never-before used devices, such as compounding and parallelism, into my magnum opus, The Vatican Sonnets.
But modern poetry acts as if nothing existed before itself (just try and have this attitude in mathematics) - throw out the forms, the innumerable literary devices, the musicality, the spiritual and beautiful and noble subject matter, the rich Christian allusions and truths - and now "progress" to the merely observable, merely material, subjective "rights of man" infusion into what is really prosaic content with a typographical form and jagged appearance calling itself poetry and, generally, promoting licentiousness while dehumanizing. It is not poetry. It's like looking at a steering wheel in an auto salvage yard and calling it a car...
He is severely underrated, while modern poets like Untermeyer, Sandburg and Frost are, through the liberal culture industry and its Marxist goals, severely overrated, if they can be rated at all.
The Pageantry of Man by Stanton Coblentz - I have the 1934 copy inscribed to his wife on her birthday, as she inspired it - is an epic poem which took him 2 1/2 years! A great American work which should be taught. (But, at this point, the Dept. of Education and its dumbing down socialist agenda, as revealed by Charlotte Iserbyt, will have to be dismantled first.)
And then there are his many books of essays, poems, and anthologies, which represent the timeless as opposed to the "progressive." Anyone teaching and writing poetry should have these as lifetime references...
Untermeyer saw that his socialist comrade, Sandburg, was identified with Abe Lincoln to overshadow Markham's once-famous Lincoln and Other Poems. Who today teaches Markham or Coblentz in the classroom? And those poets actually worthy of being taught and read today are listed in the various essay books by Coblentz, all of which are listed in an appendix of my The American Poetry Holocaust.
"In the deeper sense, the contemporary attitude toward poetry reflects the general outlook of an age so effete that it has lost all sense of values, all idea of spiritual reality, all belief in an ultimate meaning either in man or in nature, all faith in entities not to be weighed or measured or photographed. For the current mood of negation belittles poetry very much as it belittles the human spirit. Yet to one who casts his eyes across the long vistas of the past, and realizes all that poetry has brought by way of meaning, stimulation and upliftment, there comes a ray of encouragement, and an assurance that eventually the day of self-immersed aesthetes with their crossword puzzles will be over and poetry once more will shine of its own importance in the sunlight...."
In modern poetry and prose literature, as in all areas of life, collectivism breeds mediocrity. Never have we had more excellent book covers on such a mass of mediocre literature. Standards of real literary excellence receive nearly no remuneration or acknowledgment; while the latest Kitty-Lit scrawl easily commands a $100,000 advance.
This is a war on culture, when you think that 150 years ago fourteen year-olds were not only reading, but debating, in Greek and Latin. Too, one of the goals of modern poetry is collectivism; as a result, we have a shocking dearth of individual heroes in modern poetry and prose.
This literary work was to be displayed at the International London Book Fair but was censored! No one would let it be displayed! And this happened with several of my books at several international book fairs!
I concluded we were now living in an age of a North American samizdat mentality - samizdat originally the underground writings in Russia from which Solzhenitsyn put together his Gulag Archipelago. But should this surprise anyone, when the same responsible for Russian socialism are also responsible for North American socialism? No. All my books did not and would not carry the materialist-naturalist world view in modern poetry transferred into most fiction.
The result was to see, repeatedly, a quiet, behind-the-scenes book censorship, which made Hitler's overt book burnings look like a Girl Scout campfire. While our present, oppressive, quietly intimidating samizdat milieu can produce rich literature, as in Stalin's era, it soon needs to be addressed, or we will be deconstructed through "commercial correctness" into a new Dark Ages.
These are the organized forces leading to the spirit of anti-Christ. "Forces" is a very good choice here as the actual translation in the Book of Daniel is "god of forces." But as Hillaire Belloc pointed out in his 56 articles on distributist economics, negative forces can include not just socialism and communism but secularized, amoral, corrupt capitalism and big business.
And there is overlap, as high capitalists become socialists when they control the market and eliminate their competition. At the time of this interview, socialism is leading into communism. As in Hinduism and Freemasonry and the military, socialism and communism emphasize collectivism and denigrate the individual.
As [Frankfurt School's] Theo Adorno's [John Lennon] Beatle said, "I am he as you are he and you are me and we are all together." Collectivism. It eliminates the responsibility and accountability of the individual and his or her actions to God. In godless socialism and communism, the false messiah of the state takes the place of the true Messiah, Jesus Christ.
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I would like to comment on Stephan Volk's "As [Frankfurt School's] Theo Adorno's [John Lennon] Beatle said, "I am he as you are he and you are me and we are all together." Collectivism. It eliminates the responsibility and accountability of the individual and his or her actions to God."
I don't interpret Lennon's words as propagating socialist-type collectivism. In my opinion, he is simply paraphrasing a teaching of Jesus the Christ that we are all brethren, we are all one. Anything you do unto your neighbour, you also do unto yourself. We are all, collectively, in one boat called Planet Earth and we are all collectively responsible for her and humanity. All the earth changes going on now and in the near future are a lesson in point. Although I believe their primary purpose is to cleanse the Earth for a new start on a new level of awareness and consciousness, the changes are also an example of "as you sow, so you shall reap". In Hindu this is called karma, but one can also call it the Law of the Circle, indicating that everything we do shall come back to us at some time or other. This law leaves God blameless for what happens in our lives and us accountable only to our own higher selves (soul) when reviewing/rating our life performance on this world stage after death. Disempowering religions have replaced this truth with the concept of sin and a punishing God, whereas in truth God is only love (lover and beloved in one).
Jay said (April 15, 2010):
find todays commentary on poetry narrow minded,
even stupid.
All this ranting about Satan -
do you see "him" as a person? Is God also a person?
A "poetry" abounding in God and Moral values, would hardly be poetic, and not "objective" at all.
If there were any God, he should inspire the poets to write better, maybe he is not interested in poetry, so he has left the job to Satan.
It seems that God is to blame.
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This is a very real memoir, rather than a collection of funny things that happen in Jane Lynch's life. She chronicles difficulties in her life as well as all the happy accidents that got her where she is today.
This is a very good read that goes fairly quickly and is surprisingly uplifting given some of the struggles Lynch faces in the beginning. An honest and frank memoir, this book ironically meshes hope and optimism alongside cynicism and humor.
A memoir by Jane Lynch best known now for her role in the TV show Glee. Jane tells her of her life growing up in a suburb of Chicago and then moving to LA, NY, etc. Was a good read overall. Jane seems to have had numerous troubles with her identity and not being liked by others. She shows us how she started to get into acting and did improv work as well as small acting parts in the Chicago area. How she lived in LA for a while and always seemed to be friendless and afraid. How she began to get career breaks and her part on Glee. Also she tells how she met her wife and started a family of her own.
This book is interesting in many ways. Jane Lynch thought she was ugly when she was young and that her sister was very cute. She shows pictures. They look exactly the same. She is an alcoholic who gave up her drink of choice, Miller Lite, on her own but then spent years in AA because she couldn't give up her nightly Nyquil and smoked pot once. She felt like a friendless failure even though she had as many friends as she wanted and a successful career. She was an alienating diva who made fun of others (her inner Sue Sylvester). When she finally got to the last part of the book talking about her time on Glee and her marriage the writing got better. Maybe the problem was the ghostwriter, Lisa Dickey, whom she credits with creating a "rock solid" outline for the book. Felt out of place as a child, check. Relationship problems, check. Substance abuse, check. Perhaps she felt more comfortable filling out the outline a little more when she got to the present.
I'm not surprised that at once this book is both uplifting and depressing. It's depressing because really the journey that Jane Lynch took to stardom was much like others who have written these memoirs, she got lucky, ran into the right people at the right times.
Of course as it's obvious from the breadth of roles she's done, from Dr. Reid's Mom on Criminal Minds, a definite serious role, to Sue Sylvester on Glee, a not so serious role (by the by, bummer that there was no Criminal Minds mention in the book, that was the first place I saw her and it's still my favorite of her roles by a long shot) that yes, she prepares and is a very well versed in her craft as well. But there are a lot of people who are very great at what they do, but if they don't get that lucky break (running into the right person or declining or accepting the right job that landed in their lap) then what good is their smarts and preparedness and talent.
Still, with the title being Happy Accidents, unlike the other author memoirists at least she doesn't pretend like happenstance didn't have something to do with her success.
And the book is uplifting too. I didn't mean to write so many words on the depressing part. Although more than once she says in multiple ways that her stories (in AA or in the rest of her life) aren't as interesting as others stories, she's had a ton of life experiences. And just because it's not Lindsey Lohan or Brittney Spears life experience doesn't mean that others can't glean a lot of important lessons. Including just the fact that really no one can tell you anything that can help. you sorta have to keep going as best you can and learn the lessons that you need to learn.
Really quite boring, especially for an alleged alcoholic. I enjoy Jane Lynch. I find her smart, brilliant, talented, and funny. But "happy accidents" do seem to descibe her seminal moments, and that's not very interesting.
Also, the requisite Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis is missing.
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The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations that Matter is a conversation about deep conversations; a meditation on how to structure and share meetings that matter. The book discusses the World Café process, one of a family of dialogue tools for collaborative problem-solving, collective understanding, and social change.
...authentic conversation is our human way of thinking together. It has been since our earliest days, when our ancestors gathered around fires in council to resolve differences and discover ways to confront dangers to their survival.
Council was one of the earliest structures used to focus the work of thinking together in conversation. The World Café stories in this book offer another intentional conversational structure for thinking together - one based on simple design principles that can enhance our capacities to think more holistically, embrace diverse perspectives, and create actionable knowledge across traditional boundaries.
So what is a World Café?
In a nutshell, it's a series of interlocking small-group conversations on questions that matter. Participants split up into groups of four, and talk through the question(s) at hand for roughly half an hour. Sketching, doodling, and taking notes on your table is encouraged, to leave seed material for the next round. After the half hour is up, most of the people move on to a new table - but one "table host" stays behind, who (along with doodles left behind) provides a bridge between the old and new groups. Repeat, discuss, ponder, bond.
Sounds simple? At one level, it is - no complex tools are required, and the basic process is easy enough to describe. But getting a group of people together is relatively easy. Getting them to talk deeply is hard, and it's more than a matter of goodwill - drawing forth meaning, providing a space where diverse opinions are respected, and making the whole process fun are skills which come with experience and insight.
In his wonderful book The Great Good Place (1989), sociologist Ray Oldenburg focuses on the importance of informal gathering places for the development of innovative ideas, democratic practice, and community life throughout history...According to Oldenburg, the third place is a locale that exists apart from the "womb" of private family space and the "rat race" of the workaday world. Such places - including cafes - provide neutral ground where people of diverse perspectives and backgrounds can come together in an inclusive way. They offer hospitality. They are upbeat, and at times, playful...As Jaida N'ha Sandra puts it in The Joy of Conversation (1997), a fascinating history of salons and their role in social innovation, the point of creating hospitable space is to encourage the quality of conversation for which salons have become famous as incubators for new thinking.My main reservation about the book is that it talks more about the value of authentic conversation than about practical blueprints for creating such conversations. This is not a how-to manual.
That being said, there are many practical elements in the book, including a handy World Café Hosting Guide which summarizes how to make the process work (a concise version is online). The Related Resources and Bibliography are also useful, as is the World Café web site.
There's a deeper lesson here on focus vs effectiveness. Most of us have felt frustrated at slow group discussions, and many meetings really do waste time. But when you're privileged to be with a group of highly competent people who genuinely care about solving the issues at hand, stepping back and listening deeply can teach you many lessons: of knowledge, of respect, of seeing through the eyes of friends and peers, of developing the patience to let a more complex picture of the truth emerge, and of the hopes, fears, goals, and inner beauty of others and yourself.
And at a very practical level, scaling up conversations and collaborative efforts past small, tightly-knit groups is a key challenge for effectively working together as citizens, especially as volunteers not subject to a command-and-control hierarchy. Used well, systems like World Café and Open Space Technology can reliably increase group productivity - and be immensely enjoyable in the bargain.


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Green shirts and Guinness drafts dotted the sold-out crowd for the Dropkick Murphys' Upstate Concert Hall stop, promoting their eighth studio album, Signed and Sealed in Blood. The band have raised more than $400,000 to aid victims of the Boston Marathon bombings by donating proceeds from merchandise and raffle tickets sold on tour. The tragedy hit home for the band, who originated from nearby Quincy. In addition to their tour fundraising, they also recorded a charity track titled "Rose Tattoo" with Bruce Springsteen.
Midway through their set, the band fooled the crowd into thinking that Springsteen was actually there. The letdown was only temporary, though, as the rowdy nature of the band picked spirits back up.
The set kicked off with the "The Boys Are Back," a single off of their new album. Immediately, the crowd started chanting the lyrics in an Irish drinking-song style. Without a pause, they played "Prisoner's Song," also on the new record and, at the end, lead singer Al Barr said, "This is like being in Massachusetts," while the crowd chanted "Dropkick Murphys." In reply, the band continued to deliver one fast punk beat after another. Almost everyone was clapping and singing along in time.
"Can you beat Long Island?" Barr asked, before the band played "The Warrior's Code," compelling the crowd to start the entire first verse of the song. This crowd knew every album and every song religiously. "We truly have the best fans in the world," said Barr.
Later, longtime lead singer and bassist Ken Casey stepped up and said, "If you don't know this next one, you're a retard." The band jumped right into "I'm Shipping Out to Boston," and the crowd exploded.
Toward the end of the set, Dropkick Murphys gathered as many fans as they could fit on the stage. Everyone standing next to the band was smiling and chanting along with the music. They played "End of the Night" from Signed and Sealed in Blood to signal their closing, but knew they couldn't stop there. A rowdy sing-along of AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds" and their own "Citizen CIA" off of The Warrior's Code closed things out.
Notable opening acts included Canadian Irish-punk band the Mahones, who began playing 23 years ago. The five-piece band have a similar sound to the Dropkick Murphys with instruments including accordion, harmonica and mandolin. The crowd cheered and chanted along when they played "Whiskey in the Jar." The Mahones were extremely well received and got everyone fired up for the main event. Before the Mahones were rock band the Dirty Drunken Bastards. It was a good night to be Irish.


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Q. Where do you go if you want to eat cheap?
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A. I happen to love Newbury Street for shopping although it does tend to have your more high end designer shops as well as small intimate cafés and restaurants. The Copley and Prudential Malls are not far off, offering more to the general consumer.
Q. Where is the 'hip' place to live?
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Actually There is Some Free
Last week the record companies announced that they had
been successful in staving off those awful P2P sites, the
bastard sons of the original Napster, where people go get
music for free. This announcement was similar in tone and
based in the same kind of reality as the Bush administrations
constant mantra that real progress was being made in liberating
As you must be aware, the record companies big idea was to
drive consumers, like cows in the slaughter-yard, to legitimate
online music stores, of which there are many: Theres iTunes,
and then there are a couple dozen others that dont really
matter. The way they decided to do this was to selectively
sue people who their investigators found are using the free
P2P services, and then publicize the lawsuits through press
releases and advertising campaigns. In particular, college
students are targeted, and a typical wave of lawsuits (the
suits usually come in groups of several hundred at once) involves
suing a couple dozen kids at a couple dozen colleges, and
then trying to get all the public-relations juice possible
from local and national press outlets.
Ive represented a number of these kids, and when I tell them
that they arent really being sued for damages, they seem
perplexed. If the record companies were really after damages,
I tell them, they sure as hell wouldnt be suing college
kids! The reality is that the record companies are suing
kids so they can tell people theyre suing kids. And
last I checked, theyd sued about 20,000 of em.
Despite all of the grief, the publicity, the court decisions,
and despite their claims of victory, the record companies
dont seem to have accomplished much except to make people
hate the record companies more than they already did. Which
is quite an accomplishment, when you think about it. While
legitimate online sales of music have grown appreciably,
this probably has more to do with people trending away from
compact discs, the way they did from vinyl 20 years ago. The
P2P sites are still up and cranking. P2P downloads still outnumber
legitimate downloads by double-digit multiples. You can
still find most anything on the P2P networks if youre patient
and clever, and as long as people participate in them, the
P2P networks are indestructible.
But lets say youre, well, a little averse to being sued
by the record companies, even though the chances of that are
miniscule. Maybe you know somebody who got sued, maybe you
dont like risk, even a dinky little risk. Maybeand this
is not an insignificant maybeyou have the righteous belief
that music should generally be paid for, and that paying for
music is right and fair, because at least some of the money
will wind up in the pockets of musicians and songwriters.
This is not an irrational or counter-revolutionary belief,
and there is evidence that occasionally this actually does
happen. Hypothetically speaking.
But youre not keen on spending a ton of dough on music, either.
And youre really not keen on buying music with all kinds
of digital restrictions: like you can only make x number
of copies from your download; like you can only listen on
your computer; like you can/cant put them on your iPod/MP3
player; or like when you stop paying your subscription fee,
your music library disappears.
Harken! There is legitimate music out there for free. It may
not be exactly what you think youre looking for; it might
be a lot better. And most of it you can get as straight MP3s,
no strings attached.
Many, if not most, smaller independent labels are giving away
at least one song from their current albums. Surf a little
bit and youll find them. Last week, I stumbled on the Web
site for the venerable classical-jazz-blues label Telarc (Telarc.com).
Holy Moly! Theres a download page there to die for, and many
of the MP3s are at the near-CD quality 320 bps bit rate. Many
indie bands, as well, post songs for download on their Web
sites, their MySpace.com sites, or their PureVolume.com sites.
Look around and youll find them.
Bigozine2.com is a strange little Web zine out of Singapore,
and every week they serve up a gourmet selection of bootlegs
and radio broadcasts that have never been commercially available.
Not exactly legal, but then this is music you cant legitimately
buy anywhere at any price. The great unreleased 1991 Band
album with Jules Shear, Neil Young live in Vancouver in 1970,
Springsteen live three months ago on the BBC, some unspeakably
weird and wonderful Japanese bluesevery week its like getting
a present, and its all high quality and killer-B stuff. Free.
The controversial Russian site AllofMP3.com has everythingev-err-ee-thingfor
sale for about 10 cents a song. Its supposedly legal (for
now) under Russian law, and some of the money does apparently
get to songwriters and labels. It has at least the feel
of legitimacy, you can choose the format and the quality of
your downloads (consumer choice? What a concept!), its fast,
efficient, easy and its an absolute blast to buy from.
You dont have to be a tech-head. You dont have to be necessarily
smart. Try it. Crack open a beer, log on, and go fishing.
Chance are in an hours time youll have a prodigious library
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Daily Record Draft Picks columnist John Holl at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday will share insights into his travels tasting beer from breweries around the country at a meeting of the Morris Area Society of Homebrewers. Held at the Morris Tap and Grill in Randolph, Holl, author of the "Great American Craft Beer Cookbook," will also offer tips on cooking with beer and pairing meals with beer. More information: www.mashnewjersey.com.
Sharing the world with raptors
"Sharing The World With Raptors" is the topic of discussion at 1 p.m. in the Denville Library Saturday. The Raptor Trust will teach attendees about species of hawks and owls common to New Jersey. Registration is required at http://www.denvillelibrary.org/events. The library is located at 121 Diamond Spring Road.
Shoot for the stars
It's Astro Day at the Morris Museum on Saturday. Families are invited from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. to participate in telescope training, enjoy astronomy programs and lectures, take part in Planetarium shows and space-related craft activities and more. Then, from 7 to 9 p.m., the Morris Museum Astronomical Society has open night sky observing hours, weather permitting. Museum admission is $10 for adults and $7 for children. The museum is at 6 Normandy Heights Road in Morris Township. More information: 973-971-3700; www.morrismuseum.org; email@example.com.
Church honors law enforcement officers
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You may think you walked into the wrong place, as I thought. It's not that the Highland doesn't look sufficiently restaurant-like; rather, it looks like you've entered an Italian joint from your parents' childhood. Which already probably projects the Highland into its own future. It opened in 1936.
Twenty years is an eternity in this business. Three-quarters of a century is freakish. But another anachronistic phenomenon comes into play here once you're seated and studying the menu. You feel like you've been here before—been here often enough that your server's easy familiarity was earned by those repeated visits. Why else would anyone be so friendly?
Read the online reviews and you'll learn it's the nature of the place. Nothing in the experience of my recent visit proved otherwise. It was a Sunday evening, going on 7. Downtown Pittsfield was sepulchral, with open-for-business lights peeking only from an occasional convenience store. .
It was a sweet transition from icy streets to warm, padded booths, heightened by sharing the meal with a friend I've known for more than four decades, whom I see too rarely. Having shared several trips to Yankee Stadium during our teenhood, a meeting in a retro Italian restaurant with life-sized photos of baseball heroes on the walls was fitting.
I predict a big comeback for calf's liver someday, and only because it's been out of any culinary spotlight I know of for decades. But it's here on the dinner menu, a $10 entrée served with mashed potatoes and salad. I passed it up this visit only because I've had it here before, a few years ago, and I doubt that the preparation has lost any of the crispness that heralds a tender inside.
It took but moments for John to make up his mind. "Italian sausage and peppers with spaghetti," said he, settling back with a smile. The $10 dish was exactly as expected—no experimentation here. It was peaceful and filling.
The Highland already had been in operation for more than 20 years when Italian immigrant Leon Arace became chef. In the early 1970s he bought into the business, and, 20 years after that, he and his three sons became sole owners. Those sons—Pasquale, Gerardo and Dario—still own and operate the place and, as Pasquale observes, the emphasis remains on homemade food at affordable prices.
"I've been here 15 years," said Linda, who was managing the floor the night of my visit. "My husband, Richard, who's over there behind the bar—he's been here even longer. And some of the girls who work here have been here for even longer than that."
I asked about a signature dish and our server recommended pretty much anything in which spaghetti is involved. "If you like pork, the tenderloin is nice," she added, and so I opted for that one, a $12 dish, and, yes, I wanted onions on my home fries as well as on my salad. I mean, who wouldn't?
Ah, I see. Someone bitched on a blog about getting automatic onions. But note that the majority of the online reviews are confessions from Highland-addicted writers, who agree with my editor (a Pittsfield native) not only that the look of the place is deceiving, but often so is the look of the food: a blah-looking veal parm, for instance, has the breading and tenderness down to a science.
My pork cutlet was similarly disposed. It looked disappointingly ordinary, but proved as tender and juicy as could be. It broke no ground in terms of flavor or presentation, and included applesauce from a jar and the sort of home fries you'd find on any good diner grill, but the effect—comforting, homey—transcended the prosaic plate.
This is the point of the Highland. "Oh, if they try to make anything different from the way it's been, folks complain," said Linda. "We get people who come in after being away for years and years and they tell us they're so happy the food's still the same." The salad is mostly iceberg lettuce, and there you are. I won't cavil. If ever there's a restaurant that has a right to serve iceberg, it's this one.
You can get a hamburger for under $3, a hot dog for a buck and a half. Most of the sandwiches—there are more than three dozen to choose from—come in under $5 and include filet of sole, pot roast, veal parm and Italian sausage as options. French fries are $2.50 extra, and an order of onion rings will set you back five, but this a la carte approach allows you to lunch economically on sensible portions.
On the dinner side, no appetizers are listed as such, although an antipasto is available for $9. The so-listed Italian dishes include veal scallopini or parmigiana, southern-fried chicken (southern Italy?), sautéed chicken livers, broiled mushrooms with spaghetti and many more—and each of the ones I listed is $10.
Under entrées you find roasted chicken, turkey or Yankee pot roast ($9 each), a $6 hamburger plate (fries and cole slaw included), chicken croquettes or baked pork sausages ($8), and, for the big-budgeted, a strip steak or filet mignon at $14 each. A buck more for added mushroom sauce.
The dessert list includes a slew of homemade pies that we were already too full even to sample, and I've been admonished that this was a mistake. They haven't changed the recipes in a half-century, my editor notes, and he insists that the pies put the confections from fancier places to shame.
Would pie have been too much? By the time our entrées arrived, John and I already had traveled to a place where a sense of past and future no longer exist. I used to think that was a place called limbo or the result of really fine sex, but now I know it's a vintage Italian restaurant in Pittsfield.


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Windsor's Alex Weis, shown an a game earlier this season. The Wizards are a No. 6 seed in the Class 4A playoffs and will host Standley Lake.
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Following an 8-2 regular season and its second-straight Northern Conference championship, the Windsor High School football team was given the No. 6 seed Sunday.
The Wizards will host No. 11 Standley Lake (8-2). The Gators finished third in the 4A Mountain League behind Monarch and Broomfield.


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EQT doubles net income in final quarter
Higher prices and the growing use of natural gas for power generation are stoking EQT Corp.'s optimism about 2014.
The sanguine assessment from executives was given Thursday as the company posted earnings in the fourth quarter that were double what it made in the same period a year ago.
The October-December quarter was helped by extreme and prolonged cold snaps this winter that increased demand for natural gas. The strong demand helped to push up prices for EQT's Appalachian gas, executives said in a call with analysts.
The trend could continue in the coming months because of increasing demand for gas from power generators to produce electricity and the need to replenish reserves that were depleted as people turned up the heat this winter.
The company has not given profit estimates for 2014. It has said it plans to spend $2.4 billion on capital projects — most of it for its production company. That should help grow production 24 percent in 2014, the company said.
EQT also said Thursday that it increased its proven reserves to the equivalent of 8.3 trillion cubic feet, up from the 6 trillion it estimated a year ago. Nearly 2 trillion of that came from the Marcellus shale.
The Downtown gas driller said Thursday it made $115 million, or 76 cents per share, from October through December. That was up from $48 million, or 32 cents a share, in the same period a year ago. Sales increased to $493.4 million from $406.2 million.
The results benefited from the $720 million sale of its distribution company to Peoples Natural Gas Co. in December. But EQT also reported a jump in profit for the production and pipeline divisions it kept. Those operations made nearly $62 million, or 41 cents a share, in the quarter. That was up from $33 million, or 22 cents a share, in the same period in 2012.
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Scientists at innovative energy company Joule have engineered ancient bacteria to produce carbon-neutral ethanol using just the sun, waste carbon dioxide and non-potable water. It's amazingly efficient, beating other ethanol sources like corn and wood chips by a huge margin and could eventually be cheaper than oil. Bloomberg's Ramy Inocencio reports from Hobbs, New Mexico:
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Tell Congress: Hands off our pets!
By Gina Spadafori
April 11, 2009
Christie wrote about this earlier. Hat tip to several readers for the link to this video. Remember: E-mail is not as effective as faxes, phone calls and snail mail. This nonsense has got to be stopped. Here's where to find your Congress critter.


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November 27, 2015
On Sep 23, 1975 Hurricane Eloise scored the first direct hit by a major hurricane in the Fort Walton Beach – Panama City area in the 20th century. 125 mph sustained winds (955 mb pressure) were recorded at landfall with a 155 mph gust at Panama City (twenty years later, Cat 3 Opal had 115 mph sustained winds at landfall in a similar area).
Tides were recorded 12 to 16 feet above normal. Heavy rain was confined to near the center of the fast moving hurricane, but considerable beach erosion occurred. No deaths in Florida or Alabama directly resulted from Eloise, although two heart attack deaths were recorded.
As Eloise roared north during the day Sep 23, severe winds created damage through most of southeast Alabama.
Several people were injured in Geneva county; a 100 mph wind gust was recorded northeast of Ozark; a tornado in Pike county ripped up numerous pecan trees; another tornado near Auburn littered nearby I-85 with dozens of trees; and several outages of power were reported in southeast Alabama.
As Eloise interacted later with a stationary front in the mid Atlantic states, major flooding resulted with loss of life.
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Federal Reserve Analyst: Fed Banks Are Private
Posted By Washingtons Blog On November 22, 2011 @ 6:00 am In Federal Reserve,Think Tank | Comments Disabled
I've documented numerous times that the 12 Federal Reserve Banks are private.
For example, I noted [1] last month:
Given that the 12 Federal Reserve banks are private – see this [2], this [3], this [4] and this [5]- the giant banks have a huge amount of influence on what the Fed does. Indeed, the money-center banks in New York control the New York Fed, the most powerful Fed bank. Indeed, Jamie Dimon – the head of JP Morgan Chase – is a Director of the New York Fed [6].
San Francisco Fed research analyst David Lang has just confirmed this once again:
[Question]: "I had a really quick question, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco specifically, is that formed as a private corporation itself?"
David Lang: "Ah yes it is actually. yes our state chartered banks, banks under a charter share that and we pay a dividend on those shares."
Hat tip Intel Hub [7].
Article printed from The Big Picture: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog
URL to article: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/11/federal-reserve-analyst-fed-banks-are-private/
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[1] noted: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-and-occupy-the-fed-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin.html
[2] this: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/07/the-federal-reserve-admits-that-its-12-banks-are-private-not-government-entities.html
[3] this: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/07/federal-reserve-attorneys-fed-banks-are-not-agencies-but-independent-corporations-with-private-boards-of-directors.html
[4] this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwIZ4syCFLc
[5] this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UqcY8lGUUE&feature=player_embedded
[6] Jamie Dimon – the head of JP Morgan Chase – is a Director of the New York Fed: http://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/org_nydirectors.html
[7] Intel Hub: http://theintelhub.com/2011/11/19/san-francisco-federal-reserve-employee-admits-fed-is-a-private-corporation-that-pays-dividends-to-shareholders/
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The Swannanoa Valley Museum will host a hike starting at 8:30 a.m. Saturday to Mitchell Falls in Yancey County. The 25-foot-high waterfall is where Dr. Elisha Mitchell fell to his death in 1857 while trying to prove the mountain, which now bears his name, is the highest in the Eastern United States.
Local expert Wendell Begley will lead the 6.5-mile, moderately difficult hike along an old logging road surrounded on wilderness. There are several stream crossings and short bushwhacking section requiring the use of a rope.
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[2079] Intraoperative Pathologic Consulation by Telepathology: An Accuracy Study of 104 Analysis Performed by the Eastern Quebec Telepathology Network
Emilie Perron, Bernard Tetu. CHUQ-Hotel-Dieu de Quebec, Quebec, QC, Canada; Centre Hospitalier de Baie-Comeau, Baie-Comeau, QC, Canada; Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada
Background: In 2004, Quebec ministry of health and Canada Health Infoway supported the creation of the "Eastern Quebec Telepathology Network" aimed at providing uniform diagnostic telepathology services in a huge territory (408,760 km2 and 24 hospitals). The objective of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of the first frozen sections performed by telepathology and to assess the time required to perform the analysis.
Design: We performed a retrospective review of the first 104 consecutive intraoperative frozen sections evaluated by telepathology. The real-time gross evaluation was performed using a macroscopy station (PathStand 40, Diagnostic Instruments, Sterling Height, USA) and two videoconferencing devices (PCS-XG80DS Codec, Sony, Minato, Tokyo, Japan). Those equipments were obtained from Olympus Canada.Inc (Markham, Canada). The slides were scanned at a 20X magnification on a Nanozoomer 2.0 HT (Hamamatsu Photonics, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan). The visualisation was at a 1680 x 1050 pixels resolution with the mScope v.3.6.1 (Aurora Interactive Ltd., Montreal, Canada) software. The diagnosis given to the surgeon and documented in the intraoperative pathology report was compared with the final pathology report. In the cases of a discrepancy, the frozen section slides, the paraffin slides and the scanned slides were reviewed to determine the reason for the error.
Results: Of the 104 cases, 102 cases were either concordant or with no clinically significant discrepancies (8 diagnoses were slightly discrepant because of differences in terminology in the same category of interpretation). Therefore, the percentage of agreement was 98%. Two significant discordant cases were reported: a change from a negative margin to a low grade intraepithelial lesion and the finding of a micrometastase in a lymph node. The average time from the arrival of the specimen to the intraoperative diagnosis was 20 minutes and it took an average of 8 minutes once the frozen section slide was ready until the diagnosis.
Conclusions: The Eastern Quebec Telepathology Network allowed to maintain a quality intraoperative frozen section service in a hospital where no pathologist was available on site. Telepathology allows greater flexibility in practice, avoids unnecessary travel and facilitates a better organisation of work in a vast territory with a shortage of pathologists.
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Polish composer scores English-language Danish tale
Multiple award-winning Polish composer Zbigniew Preisner is to compose the score for Thomas Vinterberg's highly anticipated science-fiction fable It's All About Love, which is in the final stages of post-production in Copenhagen.
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Horner's Spring Pole Lathe Unveiled
We unveiled the horner's spring pole lathe at the Honourable Company of Horner's 2012 Annual Meeting, which was held at the Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania earlier this month.
What makes this a horner's lathe is the ability to do what we modern lathe turners call "outboard turning." That is, to have an object that is being turned swing around without hitting the bed of the lathe; in this case, that object is a horn. This human-powered lathe can also do typical turning of spindles and other parts that would have been turned for furniture or staircases and such.
Do come back to our website often as we will be posting a video of horns and horn butts being turned in the near future. We will also discuss the various parts of the lathe.
American Heritage Wheelbarrow
We have introduced a 19th century design utilizing known earlier techniques in joint construction combined with practical iron work to allow for easier side(s) removal.
The use of a 20 inch diameter wheelbarrow wheel will push or pull a heavy load over rough terrain much easier than smaller diameter wheels. All the wood selected is for durability in weather and use including all white oak frame, steam bent hickory wheel with 1/4 inch thick iron rim, mahogany flooring and sides. The wheelbarrow is very strong and has two coats of barn red over primer finish. The handles have a hook shape at their ends for ease in pulling. The rails protrude well forward of the axle to aid in tipping a heavy load. Iron reinforcement at ends of legs and rails also serve as wear protection. The steel axle is a full 1/2 inch diameter with a 1 inch wearing surface easy to keep greased so is is quiet and long lasting.
This is not a lawn decoration but a reach back to the past design that is practical for the home farmer. With the American Heritage Wheelbarrow one can enjoy working with planting or harvesting, hauling chopped wood or fertilizer with properly designed tool.
Each wheelbarrow is individually hand made in the old fashioned way and because of cost shipping is best picked up at my workshop in New Jersey.
Price is $650.00 plus 7% NJ sales tax.
We hand-build 18th century travel furnishings and field equipage to your specifications.
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All items are made from original examples I have seen and documented and employ construction details of the original. Iron keyed locks are used on chest lids and drawers. Hand forged iron work is made to our specifications by Jeff Miller (Flintlock Forge).
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- Wooden chests with dovetail or lap joints, forged iron or rope handles, snipe or strap hinges, painted or not
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- Sundry small items such as lidded pine Tavern Tankards, Tape Looms, and curly maple Lanterns
Garden Wheelbarrow shown less a Splint Basket (available special order) featuring 18" diameter wheel for easy pushing and white oak wood throughout. Note sweep of the rails and chamfer detail. — $475 (painted)
Many other variations possible, including the heavy duty version below. Call to discuss options and prices.
Recent projects completed for Valley Forge National Historic Park. Heavy duty White Oak Wheelbarrow and Scissor Leg Table with standard one inch thick top. Both pictured on location. (photos courtesy VFNHP)
Harpers Ferry National Historic Park will use these recently completed carts for demonstrations at the arsenal.
This wheelbarrow is exceptionally sturdy, constructed of dense and weather resistant white oak: the same wood used in wooden ship structural timbers. Built for decades of use. Balanced and comfortable to use, this design is much more efficient than conventional modern designs.
Forged iron (and steel) hardware. Removable sides. Mortice & tenon construction throughout. Shown below in an unpainted version (without sides) and finished, ready for use.
This ingenious spring pole lathe is operated by a foot treadle and provides ample power for turnings up to about 16″ in length. Durable timber frame construction easily disassembles by means of wedge keys and allows for portable transportation. Iron hardware.
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Imagine your department as a chain, starting at the top with a well anchored fire chief and working its way down one link at a time. This analogy isn't too far from the truth when looking at most departments. The only difference is that some are longer chains while others may only be a few links long. The old saying "you are only as strong as your weakest link" definitely applies. The real question is…. "what kind of link are you?" Are you strong and supportive of those under you or weak and flexible? Do you align with the links above you or try to chose your own direction? With my limited experience using chains, I know that twisted chains tend to fail when they are put under stress.
Many of the problems within a department can be blamed on problems within the chain of command. While weaknesses at the bottom of a chain (firefighter) can cause problems, weaknesses in the upper tiers are guaranteed to end in disaster. When there are problems at any level it can immediately be identified on a fire ground however, the day-to-day weaknesses hide these issues until they fester and become infectious to the entire department. The sad realization is that the issues remain hidden because we all choose to ignore them. Even the newest member to the department can see the signs of a weak chain. Does the senior staff fully support the decisions of the chief? Do the company officers fully support the decisions of the senior staff? When I was in the military there was a strict unwritten rule that complaints go up the chain never down. How often do we see a breach of this concept? Chief says I want A, B, & C done, Battalion chief tells the shift chief wants A, B, & C done but he doesn't agree with A & B, followed by firehouse discussion with a company officer who says they disagree with C. This entire process caused every link from the top down to lose strength.
Many people interject the argument that being a "yes-man" destroys integrity and creates a mindless department. While blindly following orders can lead to "helpless" departments, the challenge process must be professional and respectful. If I don't agree with something the professional thing to do is send my concerns up the chain along with possible solutions. Without the accompanied solutions the possibly valid issue gets dismissed as whining. Failure to handle the problems correctly often leads to complaints being ignored and subsequent "trash talking" down the chain of command. If you truly want to have the strongest chain possible, stop undercutting the stability of the links above and below you. Whether at the top, middle, or bottom of the chain….your department needs you to be as strong as you can be. Don't be the weakest link and the reason your chain fails!


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Hi everyone, I need some advice on leather or fenders. I am going to order a custom made Crates endurance saddle, made by Riders Choice.
They will make it anyway I want, as it is custom made.
I am used to English leathers, and hate hard, stiff western fenders. Plus I want to add wide endurance stirrups.
The company offered to make 2" wide straight Fenders/leathers, sort of like on Australian saddles.
I need to know about the wide Aussie style leathers, what are the pros or cons, and what does anyone suggest I do...pictures of the saddles:
English style
Western style
Should I get the western or English style, and regular english leathers about 1" thick, or 2" thick Ausie style?
I want to order it next Monday...thanks!