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Drafting beyond the ending
On Rachel Blau DuPlessis
but nothing includes everything, or dominates over everything. The word 'and' trails along after every sentence. Something always escapes … — William James
To say that Rachel Blau DuPlessis has built her entire poetic project on the logic of the provisional and the contingent is no exaggeration. And reader, make no mistake — she has married us to this process. In the School of DuPlessian Midrash every seam and suture is exposed as a subject of instigation cum investigation. Investigation, in Drafts, is not simply a prod to the ethical; it's heuristic: in teaching us how to read Drafts, Drafts teaches us how to read. (So maybe it's chiasmatic, too?)
After nearly forty years of teaching, most of it at Temple University, DuPlessis retired in 2011. She has become emerita, an honorific that savors a little of the ironic since the "merit" of her position has always been to question both merit and her own position within the larger system of signification and circulation that is poetry, scholarship, life. According to Wikipedia (yes, Wikipedia),"emerita does not necessarily indicate that the person is retired from all the duties of her previous positions; she may continue to exercise some of them." DuPlessis is fully exercising these duties — call them poetic commitments — as she nears completion of Surge, the final volume of Drafts, which will bring the series to 114 poems.
Had she done nothing else but write such groundbreaking studies as Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers; H.D.: The Career of That Struggle; Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908–1934; and the trilogy of genre-bending works The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice, Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work, and the forthcoming Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry, she would have secured her reputation as a major voice in modernist and contemporary literary studies.
But of course, there are the poems.
In the labyrinthine spirit of Drafts, the essays gathered here provide interweaving, overlapping points of entry into the poems. Vectors, swarming. There is no school of RBD as such, either poetical or scholarly, yet many of us have studied there all the same.
Ron Silliman's bold assessment of the longpoem's genealogy and legacy travels mainly via a breakdown of Zukofsky's production of "A" as it traces the implications of the Grid for Drafts. His daring conclusion reads DuPlessis's Collage Poems as asemic centerpiece of the entire work, an act that moves the periphery to the center and compels us to re-read, yet again, the logic of the poem's structure.
As Eric Keenaghan attests in his provocative and deeply personal engagement with DuPlessis as mentor and poet, her legacy has less to do with legacy as such as with modes of reading and transmitting. His essay is in part a memoir about coming of age as a scholar and what it means, specifically, to be a gay scholar, committed to recovering repressed or ignored traditions. In the spirit of his subject, Keenaghan runs and sustains the considerable risk of writing what, after Duncan, he calls his own "RBD Book." Tracing the complex network of connections linking Oppen, Duncan, and DuPlessis, he attends to the nuances of "of" while delineating the fraught dialectics of "I and we" in a study that is both homage and critique.
Libbie Rifkin takes up the complications of the Oppen-DuPlessis nexus, exploring how gender, the New Left, Jewishness, poetics, and two wars — the Vietnam and the Iraq — inform their epistolary and poetic relationship. In particular, she seeks to account for how Oppen's masculine poetics of clarity — his resolve to hew only to the demonstrable, the irreducible — becomes in DuPlessis's work a feminine commitment to the mesh and weave of experience. This piece is excerpted from a longer essay in Contemporary Literature (51, no. 4) that examines Oppen's jittery response to Denise Levertov as well.
Paul Jaussen makes an eloquent intervention by reading Drafts as a life-poem whose production coincides with the emergence of the Internet and the whole raft of new media. For Jaussen, Drafts embodies this dramatic shift in communication technologies, negotiating its own design in often precarious ways by inviting contingency to play a major authorial role.
The materiality of the caesura in Drafts is at issue in C. J. Martin's essay. Martin sees caesura not as erasure but as a practice of disfigurement that makes room in the poem for refuse and debris. In the same way, the Notes to Drafts ought not to be read as dutiful exercises in citational diligence, but as a whole other layer of redactive incursion that deepens the poem's dialogical dynamics. If redaction acts as a kind of prosody, then the latest volume of Drafts — The Collage Poems — signal an exit from language into another medium. Martin's generous contribution includes a review of Pitch: Drafts 77–95 that focuses on "Draft 85: Hard Copy," DuPlessis's mirror text/response to George Oppen's "Of Being Numerous."
Catherine Taylor's essay examines how Drafts employs the dynamics of recursivity to explore new forms of social life which blend the interpersonal with the global. Taylor's reading locates some of the poem's central tensions in the way its uses deferral and suspension to convey the duration of lived experience. This procedure resists the culture of instantaneity by grounding the poem within the moment of the event, where the historical horizon is made visible.
Daniel Bouchard's overview of the major ligaments in Drafts investigates the tensions in a large scale work between the encyclopedic and the micrological. Bouchard reads the interplay between the little and the enormous, the hinges and the gaps, that mark Drafts as an "endlessly unrolling scroll." For him, Drafts is less elegy than nekuia, a voyage to the land of the dead, that is, a tour through the debris field of memory and history.
For Thomas Devaney, Drafts poses two significant problems for its readers: one practical, the other ethical. Practically, how does one begin to enter such a capacious poem? The larger struggle has to do with how the ethical scope of the project locates itself between poetry and social critique, including the crucial opening of modernism to feminism. Indeed, one way into this massive book is via the poem's deep structures, that is, to read Drafts as a series of turning points. The very heart of the book, "Drafts 49:Turns & Turns, an Interpretation," assumes the implicit challenge of this position. That the poem's midpoint is structured as a turn indicates that the formal and the ethical hinge not on turning points only, but on a greater pivot between both continuous turning points and dialectical counterpoints that span the entire book.
Harriet Tarlo ranges widely back and forth over Torques, the third book of Drafts, asking what has changed in the poem's tone and direction from its beginnings, different, as well as what remains continuous. In particular, she identifies a growing darkness to the work, the concomitant growing influence of the Objectivist poets, and a growing tension and richness between complex and simple uses of language in conjunction with each other. Torques, she notes, is a poem marked by "thwarted intentions and desires." It gives "a darkened page to meet a darkened world."
My own contribution positions Drafts within the secular Judaic mode of inquiry pioneered by Walter Benjamin. It asks whether midrashic poetics, as practiced by DuPlessis, can be regarded as occupying the role of advocacy represented by the enigmatic angel of history, a figure who does more than merely bear witness to the storm of progress, but actively constructs new alignments of meaning out the scattered wreckage of the debris field.
In her reading of "Draft 52: Midrash," Naomi Shulman traces its argumentative dialogues at the boundaries of the critical and the poetic. As an intertextual conversation with Theodor Adorno's statements about the possibilities of poetry after the Shoah, "Draft 52" institutes itself as a communicative and memorial space over and against an imagined elaboration of Adorno's bases for an ethical interdiction of the poetic. The poem's foregrounding of its own critical arguments contests any conventional acceptance of Adorno's claim that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric," asking that we reconsider the stakes of a space that conjoins commemoration of the victims of extraordinary violence and the reflection of our daily existence.
Taking up the fraught status of Drafts as an "epic," Bob Perelman explores what it means for a woman, especially one whose scholarship has proven pivotal for H.D. studies, to assay this Alpine, that is to say, Poundian, territory. As he ably demonstrates, DuPlessis has moved far beyond Pound to create a model of the epic that is entirely new, while at the same enrichingly "modifying Pound's still-exciting obsession that poetry mean something and do something in the world we live in."
Alan Golding reads DuPlessis's contestatory relationship to Pound as something both "foundational and to be moved away from, complexly enabling and an object of resistance." In arguing that Drafts' project is to investigate history without reducing it to a scheme, he shows how DuPlessis overturns or writes through The Cantos at three specific sites: gender, authority, and reading. Key to her strategy for placing a female signature to an epic-length, serial poem is the use of endnotes as "an intrinsic rhetorical feature."
Chris Tysh, who, with Jean-Paul Auximiery, has been translating Drafts into French, provides another look at Pitch. In her view, the poem occupies a crucial middle ground between a poetics of negation and a giddy Olsonian maximalism. Tysh sees Drafts as a poem productively haunted by itself. In this way, midrash and citation keep pushing the poem back and forth between mimetic urgency and the risks and rewards of making itself uncanny.
All of which is to say, both by way of overview and prelude, that the imminent ending of Drafts is as enticing an aspect of the poem as any since it challenges us to rethink the question of how poems end.
There is no reconciliation
Jacket2 features a review of Brandon Downing's Lake Antiquity by Luke Bloomfield, and a gallery of recent collages by Downing.
Look and look again
Twelve New Zealand poets
I once heard a story about a biology teacher who asked a student to look closely at a fish, then write a description of it. The student took a good look at the fish, then wrote down everything he could think of to say about it.
After the student had brought back his description, the teacher told him to look at the fish again, and to write another description of it. This time the student took it home and went into real depth about everything he could find out about that species of fish, as well as this particular specimen.
After he had brought back his second description, the teacher told him to look at the fish again and write another description of it.
By now the student must have been starting to get the point.
1. I say that I "once heard" the story. Actually I heard it from Richard von Sturmer, who told it to a group of us when I was doing his evening class on Japanese poetry a few years ago. Richard spent a decade working at the Zen Center in Rochester, New York, so he certainly knows a lot about how to observe things intensely. He made us do the same exercise in class with an object of our choice.
2. Now that I come to think of it, Richard didn't simply attribute the anecdote to an anonymous teacher. He told us that it was a story about Louis Agassiz, the great Swiss naturalist, and specified (as I recall) that what Agassiz actually said was, "Look." Then, "Look." And finally, "Look."
3. Actually, if you want to take it a bit further, you'll find this very same story at the beginning of Ezra Pound's ABC of Reading (which is presumably where Richard got it from in the first place):
No man is equipped for modern thinking until he has understood the anecdote of Agassiz and the fish:
A post-graduate student equipped with honors and diplomas went to Agassiz to receive the final and finishing touches. The great man offered him a small fish and told him to describe it.
Post-Graduate Student: 'That's only a sunfish.'
Agassiz: 'I know that. Write a description of it.'
After a few minutes the student returned with the description of the Ichthus Heliodiplodokus, or whatever term is used to conceal the common sunfish from vulgar knowledge, family of Heliichtherinkus, etc., as found in textbooks of the subject.
Agassiz again told the student to describe the fish.
The student produced a four-page essay. Agassiz then told him to look at the fish. At the end of three weeks the fish was in an advanced state of decomposition, but the student knew something about it. [1]
No doubt you've deduced the analogy I'm trying to draw by now. "It's not a ... subtle point you're making," as Greg Kinnear says to Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets. No, not at all a subtle point.
1. If one were to try to give a quick overview of New Zealand poetry today, there are a number of important and prominent names — mostly published by the major university presses — who would spring immediately to mind. This is, I suppose, the kind of view-from-a-distance perspective very ably provided by Robyn Marsack and Andrew Johnston's 2009 Carcanet anthology Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets. (You can find them all listed here, if you're curious.)
2. If one wanted to look at the subject again, in a bit more depth, quite a lot more names would come up: some senior poets a little faded from the public eye, but still eminent; up-and-comers of various shades; an assortment of travelling bards and troubadours; nests of Academic poets. This is roughly the view attempted by the three Auckland University Press anthologies (Classic, Contemporary and New NZ Poets) edited by Jan Kemp and myself between 2006 and 2008. Our canon would thus grow to eighty-odd poets — many of them, admittedly, now deceased.
(You can find more details about these books and the larger set of materials they were drawn from at the AoNZPSA [Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive] site.)
3. The third view, the one I'm trying to represent here, would disclose a far more complex picture: an immensely varied undergrowth of experimentalists, zealots, eccentrics, and prophets of various stripes: amateurs (in the very best sense of the word), people often highly respected in other fields, but dabbling with an alchemist's fervor in the murky waters of modern poetics and poetry.
Attempting to map this constituency would be a far more difficult task than either of the two projects above (though I have to acknowledge that no one has yet got closer to that objective than Paula Green and Harry Ricketts in their excellent 2010 Vintage book 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry).
The aim of my own small sampling of twelve poets, then, is to avoid the easier choices and instead opt deliberately for the less visible: the undersung — as one might call them — since it's my contention that each of the writers included here deserves to be far better known.
None of these twelve poets is included in the Carcanet anthology, but some of them do feature in the AUP anthologies — as well as the AoNZPSA (not to mention that immensely useful Green / Ricketts compendium):
One of them, John Adams, works as a judge, but has recently taken a year off to do a masters of creative writing in poetry at Auckland University;
Another, Raewyn Alexander, is an artist and fashion designer as well as a poet and novelist;
Another, Dr. Jen Crawford, tries to combine being a fulltime academic with her own disquieting brand of poetic perfectionism;
Another, Dr. Scott Hamilton, works as a freelance political activist, chronicling his activities on his very popular blog Reading the Maps;
Another of them, the Rev. Leicester Kyle, was an Anglican priest turned poet and ecological activist who died in 2006 before his work could gain the hearing I still strongly believe it deserves;
Another, Aleksandra Lane, is a young Serbian poet turned Kiwi surrealist;
Another, Thérèse Lloyd, is an art gallery administrator who's studied poetry at both the IIML in Wellington and the Writer's Workshop in Iowa;
Another, Dr. Richard Reeve, after finishing a PhD dissertation on Heidegger, is presently studying to become an environmental lawyer;
Another, Michael Steven, combines his job as an industrial electrician with his vocation as a poetic craftsman and translator;
Another, Apirana Taylor, is a popular and internationally acclaimed Māori poet and storyteller;
Another, Richard Taylor, is a chess master as well as a devotee of the cutting edge in contemporary poetics;
Yet another, Richard von Sturmer, teaches on Zen retreats as well as working as an educational administration.
I've made no attempt to popularize or soften the character of the poems presented here. Of course it's impossible to be truly representative of the character of each individual poet's work in such a small space, any more than one can hope to represent more than a few of the complex crosscurrents of writing in New Zealand at present, but I've done my best (in each case) to provide a sample which may help to lead sympathetic readers onwards.
One of the contributors, John Adams, asked at an early stage of the editing process:
Jack, for an international audience, I wonder if "snicker …" should have an explanatory note that "taniwha" refers to ancient gods/ancestors traditionally recognised by Māori, New Zealand's indigenous people. And maybe explanation that the first part of the title refers to an incident where the Māori demi-god, Maui, disguised as a lizard, was betrayed by the snicker of a fantail (piwakawaka) whilst he attempted to conquer death by entering the body of his fearsome goddess grandmother, Hinenuitepo, in order to extract her heart. The piwakawaka found the sight so ridiculous that mirth could not be contained and Maui was crushed between the thighs of the goddess.
He goes on to speculate that "perhaps these things should be left as mysteries for those who don't have the background — or maybe they should be discarded for an international audience?"
I don't believe that it does any harm to include such information, but I'm not sure that it does much good, either. One of the interesting things about writing in New Zealand, about New Zealand subjects, is that we are constantly being told that our work "won't export" — due, for the most part (allegedly), to the large number of Māori terms included in the local brand of English.
It's true that Ibsen's first readers were forced to encounter his work in German translation, due to a lack of familiarity with the Norwegian language, and that a good many misunderstandings were the result, but I think that people will always take the trouble to study the intricacies of a foreign culture if they think the reward will be worth it.
In other words, if we make a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to our door — if we write well and interestingly enough, readers will bother to hunt out our works, however rooted in the local and particular they may be. Native Spanish speakers continue to have a good deal of difficulty with the Indian dialect included in Augusto Roa Bastos's classic Paraguayan dictator novel I the Supreme (not to mention the Qechua in the work of his Peruvian contemporary José María Arguedas) — but it hasn't stopped their books from reaching an audience of millions.
(If, parenthetically, one were to posit director Peter Jackson as our own NZ Ibsen, our one internationally acclaimed and instantly recognisable artist, then the analogy becomes a rather disquieting one. Maybe we don't want to be branded quite so irrevocably as the fitting backdrop for the ahistorical fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and (now) The Hobbit …)
So, if these twelve poets can be said to represent anything in particular as a group, then I hope they stand for the variety, excitement, and passion of at least some of the poetry being produced in New Zealand today. Beyond that, none of them is particularly easy to classify, and none of them seems readily interchangeable with any of the others.
I've accompanied each set of poems with an image by one of my favorite New Zealand artists, Emma Smith. There's a lyrical emotiveness about Emma's work — imbued as it is with strands of mythology and folklore — which I think matches well with the poets I've chosen.
One motive was certainly to give as consistent as possible a tone to this otherwise rather diverse troupe of poets, but I have to admit that I also wanted to avoid touristic clichés about the beauty of the natural landscapes hereabouts: don't imagine for a moment that we clean green New Zealanders are not just as capable of dumping toxic waste in a stream or overfishing an ocean as the greediest Humvee-driving consumers anywhere. Hobbiton / Wellington — Middle-Earth / Aotearoa? I fear not …
Albany, Auckland, New Zealand
August–September 2011
1. Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934; London: Faber, 1961), 17–18.


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This case is a scary reminder of how far the NLRB and its judges will go to fine protected concerted activity.
The distinction between employee and contractor continues to beguile employers and is ripe for problems under wage-and-hour laws.
Employers often treat employees with family medical issues with kid gloves. They not only worry about potential liability under the ADA, but also the FMLA.
While we wait for the law the catch up to society's opinion on LGBT rights, federal agencies are doing the best they can to modernize these laws.
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Box-store bikes seem to get universal disdain in bike forums - I've seen them referred to as "bicycle-shaped objects". Curious if anyone reading this has one?
I don't, I have a Giant Cypress DX, just curious.
Box-store bikes seem to get universal disdain in bike forums - I've seen them referred to as "bicycle-shaped objects". Curious if anyone reading this has one?
I don't, I have a Giant Cypress DX, just curious.
I have a Diamondback I got from a sporting goods store. It was inexpensive, has proven to be reliable, and is easy to ride and comfortable. I found it a good choice for someone who hadn't ridden in two decades. I recently got a Trek FX, which is a fine bike and better suited for the longer-distance, faster rides I now am able to do. But I'm certainly keeping the DB, as it's great for bopping around town, running to the library or coffee shop, things like that.
I own a Schwinn Trailway which is a "comfort hybrid" sold at Target (there's actually a thread about it here: Cheap Hybrid Brag: Schwinn), I believe it's also sold at Walmart under a different name. I bought it the day after my old mountain bike was stolen to "bridge the gap" so to speak. Honestly though, it's was a great buy. I really enjoy the bike, I've ridden the hell out of it and plan to continue to do so (it's currently pressed into service as a grocery-getter.) Despite many warnings about the big box store employees, it was assembled reasonably well. I think I had to adjust the brake cables and that's it. It's got around 800 miles on it so far without any major issues. In terms of value per dollar spent I think it would stand up well against anything.
I used to own a Walmart bicycle ... and I miss it. It was surprisingly good. I put a huge amount of kilometres on it in all sorts of weather, with very little in the way of repairs.
I bought a Schwinn Mesa a couple of years ago, to set up for use as a winter bike. It has a decent frame and the wheels have held up. Fork, stem, seatpost, brakes, all that has been OK. But the entire drivetrain: chain, cassette, crankset, bottom bracket, both derailleurs, were practically junk and only lasted a few hundred miles. That's the problem with those bikes, some things can be inexpensive and still be functional, others need to be of better quality or you'll have nothing but problems. They put the cheapest components on those box store bikes that exist, and by the time you change it all out for decent stuff, you could almost have bought a better brand of bike. Of course, if you don't really plan to ride very much, the box store bikes are fine and dandy.
Here's a "bicycle shaped object" I found online recently. I believe they sell retail a lot cheaper than what this guy wants.
Men's Bike | Bicycles | Gumtree Australia Port Adelaide Area - Largs Bay | 1040124399
Bought this below from Walmart for $99 in 2005 when my daughter got her first bike to ride with her on the bike trails. It sat around in the garage getting very little use. She got bigger, got a bigger bike, but didn't ride much. She's very tall and when she hit 12, she wanted to try to ride my bike. She rode it around in the yard, it was left out in the rain, left out in the snow over winter, and was in very bad shape with frayed cables, didn't shift, and last spring she wanted to ride around the yard and the chain was completely frozen with rust. I soaked the chain with PB Blaster and got it loose to where she could ride it around the yard.
In late summer, I was looking for something that was sustainable with exercise. A few coworkers ride so I decided to disassemble everything, clean, and adjust everything the best I could with limited knowledge. I ended up riding this $99 Walmart bike with frayed cables, stretched rusty chain, and worn out sprockets for 580 miles an hour at a time daily from August through the beginning of November. If I would continue to ride, I was going to buy a "good" bike in the spring and I bought my Giant Escape.
It still sits in the garage and the only thing I've done with it aside from adjusting everything was put 2 new tubes in it. My daughter rode 12 miles on the trail with me in April on it.
I don't like the term "bike shaped object". This is a bike. If I replaced the 8 year old frayed cables, rear sprockets (I probably can't do that), and chain, it would work just fine. As was mentioned in another post above, by the time you replace everything that is worn out, you could buy a decent bike. Or, if you figure a Walmart bike could last a few years, you could just keep purchasing the same bike when it's worn out. I figure maybe 3 years of more use than I gave mine, which would put me at 18 years of replacing the entire bike for the price I paid for my Giant.
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Ride no faster than your Guardian Angel can fly!
I now have my '82 Fuji on the road and am working up to group rides with the local bikers, but so far I'm very pleased with my B.S.O.
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My husband's bike is a Walmart BSO, the very cheapest of mountain bikes, a Roadmaster Granite Peak with gears but without shocks. It was assembled well and tightly and he added bar end handlebars. He rides it maybe 20 miles a week most weeks and we live in a very low humidity, very high dust area. Its first mechanical problem has only come up now after 18 months, a crank arm coming loose. It was good enough to get him back into riding. But then, he is tall enough to ride a general size Walmart frame.
My not-Walmart but not bike-branded bike does not have an expensive bell, but it does have an outside striker and it does make a single 'ding!' sound.
Does anyone have any experience with the Costco bikes? They look like they might be better than the Walmart bikes. My son will be able to ride his first bike soon, and my wife is thinking of joining us on bike rides - but she insists on a cheap bike because she doesn't see herself cycling otherwise. I've started looking at craigslist and will start hitting garage sales soon, but if I don't find anything reasonable I will have to consider a big box store bike.
My wife has a Schwinn cruiser style bike that collects dust since we got her a much nicer bikes direct bike. I had an old Huffy on my deck for a few years. I was waiting to see how long it would take to rust through, but we ended up getting rid of it to make room for a table and chairs. I had replaced the Huffy with a Schwinn hybrid "road" bike (with flatbars) that I rode for a year, it wasn't too bad.
The Costco bikes we have had for at least 4 years now, probably 5. No issues. They get used every summer at the cottage. They are kept inside during the winter, probably never left out in the rain. I have never had to do any maintenance on them, except pump up 1 or 2 tires. Aside from the scrapes from transporting once or twice on that stupid bike rack I had before I got a real bike rack, they're pretty well flawless.
The only work I ever did to it was having the bb replaced with a sealed cartridge type unit. I figured that would be much lower maintenance than the type it came with.
Sure, I rode a 21 mile commute daily on a GMC Denali for a couple of years and I still have it for bad weather. There's nothing wrong with the bike. I have seen department store cruisers and mountain bikes self destruct after a few hundred miles however.
When I was truly broke I had enough Canadian Tire points to buy one of their bike on sale.
This is the bike:
Supercycle Tempo 700C Road Bike | Canadian Tire
They call it a road bike,but it had a triple and straight bars like a hybrid. Worked well enough.
My son is now riding it and coming from a mountain bike he is very very happy.
I did have to take it to the LBS at one point, the bottom braket had seized up. They knew right away, apparently not an uncommon occurance.
Otherwise, it has been fine.
But I did long for a drop bar and a steel frame. It was a little stiff for really long rides.
My fiancée has a Thruster branded 'fixie' (really, it is a flip-flop hub) single speed bike. It's the black one. He loves it. He rides it far further and more often than he did his entry level road bike.
I'm no expert, but it seems well made. The frame is nicely put together and it is very stable. He can ride quite a ways no hands. The frame has 'track ends' and sadly, no attachments for any sort of cup holder or rack. The thing is lighter than my bikes direct Windsor and my old 80s Schwinn. The wheels came true, too. The frame stickers were literally stickers and I peeled them off because I could.
The components are a little odd and somewhat chintzy, but again, they seem sturdy enough. I figure we'll just replace them if and when they break.
We bought it off the interweb so I can't speak for assembly other than the front wheel was screwed together way too tightly.
Just one of those dirty pinko commies some people worry about.
@LuckySailor: Thanks!
This seems to be a good thread to ask the question: Is anyone aware of a cheap single speed (step through frame) with regular brakes? BD has this:
Town Bikes | Classic, Stylish City Bikes | Urban Bikes | Commuter Road Bikes | Windsor Essex from bikesdirect.com
but it has a coaster brake - a no-go from my wife's point of view.
I rode my Trailway until the BB wore out (had issues from the start, really) and the shifting stopped responding well. And then for some time after. I still have it, as the SO was using it to commute after her Trailway turned to total crap, but now that she has her own Fuji, it is likely going to find a new home here soon.
BB = Bottom Bracket
Yes, I have a garbage-picked discount store Huffy MTB. Not for any serious riding, but just quick trips to the corner store, etc. Total investment is $25 for tires/tubes. I could probably replace the brake cables because they're frayed on the ends. I haven't even bothered to detail-strip it to the bare frame because I have other bikes that are 'in process'...
'75 Fuji S-10S bought new, 45k+ miles and still going!
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Huffy MTB - for trips to corner store
MTB of questionable lineage aka 'Mutt Trail Bike'
I have a Trailway. Mine has never had any bb issues. Shimano 105 drivetrain, front shocks, solid aluminum frame. Put a solid seatpost and trekking bars on it along with lights, fenders, back rack and Walky dog attachment. I ride it almost daily, both street and also singletrack. No muss, no fuss, no problems. I'm keeping mine!


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Unless pull-on underwear fits snugly enough to contain leaks, even the most absorbent core will be ineffective. While Abena uses an elasticized crotch to deal with this issue with good to great results with the Abri-Flex, some manufacturers choose to outfit their pull-ups with inner leg cuffs instead (basically the diaper extends an inch or so down the leg to prevent leaks). Attends Super Plus Absorbency Protective Underwear (Est. $35 for 60 pairs), is among the brands with this option. XPMedical.com notes that they are discreet for wear under clothing, and they have tear-away panels for easy removal. User feedback is limited, however, though fairly positive -- earning ratings averaging around 4-plus stars scattered among the different sizes and packaging options offered at Amazon.com. Most call them effective for their price. One caveat is to make sure to select the Super Plus version as standard Depends underwear lack the leg cuff feature.
Tranquility is another brand that uses inner leg cuffs to contain leaks, and if you need maximum absorbency for overnight use, Tranquility Premium Overnight Underwear (Est. $55 for a pack of 64) looks like a top choice. Tranquility underwear comes in a range of sizes, from X-small to XXL-plus, and the larger sizes (medium and above) are rated for a 34-ounce capacity, though we've not seen that independently verified. Regardless, user feedback indicates that this brand of disposable underwear delivers what it promises.
User reviews for Tranquility Premium Overnight Underwear are ample and highly positive. We spotted more than 300 at Amazon.com for the various sizes, and it earns a rating of 4.6 stars -- with most granting it a perfect 5-stars. Some reviewers that rate the underwear lower say it wasn't as absorbent as they hoped, but these are in the distinct minority. Other low-ratings revolved around ordering issues and the like. Tranquility Overnight also winds up in the top of the charts at online retailers that sell them, though often without terrific supporting documentation. Be that as it may, sites like MagicMedical.com, rate them as best in terms of absorbency and offer them their recommendation.
For those with milder incontinence issues, or for daytime use, Tranquility also offers a lighter weight product, Tranquility Premium DayTime Pull-On Underwear (Est. $15 for 18 pairs). These are exactly like the Overnight version, notes retailer NationalIncontinence.com, but in a thinner, less absorbent version. It's rated for a capacity of 25-ounces, but, again, we've not seen that verified in testing. User reviews are far less plentiful than for Tranquility Overnight, but no less positive -- typically 4.5 stars or better over the various sizes and packaging options offered at Amazon.com. Speaking of sizes, Tranquility Premium DayTime Disposable Underwear is not available in smaller sizes, just medium to XXL-plus.
Not everyone dealing with incontinence needs to wear pull-on disposable underwear, let alone full adult diapers. For minor issues, incontinence pads, which can be worn with either specialty underwear or snug-fitting regular underwear, could be all you need.
Among these products, we saw some good feedback for Abena's Abri-San Premium line of incontinence pads, which comes in a wide variety of sizes and capacities for different needs. At the small end of the scale, the Abri-San Premium 1 (Est. $14 for a pack of 56) holds just 6.7 ounces, while the largest Abri-San Premium 11 provides more than 114 ounces of absorption. The mid-sized Abena Abri-San Premium 5, also known as the Abena Abri-San Premium Midi, splits the difference, absorbing up to 40 ounces. According to XPMedical.com, the Midi is "incredibly discreet under clothing," while the somewhat larger Abena Abri-San Premium 7 (Est. $25 for a pack of 30), also known as the Super, "provides nearly the same protection as a full brief, without the hassle of tapes."
Incontinence pads are also available from many of the same makers that produce adult diapers and briefs. If you are looking for a brand that can be purchased from most local retailers, incontinence pads from names like Depend and Attends may be a consideration. However, feedback indicates that those with moderate to severe incontinence are better off using a premium pad such as one from Abena, especially if it is appropriately sized to best deal with the user's needs. The range of discreetness and absorbency levels available across the Abena Abri-San Premium line of pads make it an easy choice as our Best Reviewed incontinence pad.
For those who need even more protection than standard disposable diapers or underwear can deliver, incontinence boosters should be a consideration. Boosters are like incontinence pads, but without the absorbent backing. Rather than being used on their own, they are designed to be used with a disposable brief or pull-up for maximum absorbency.
According to The New Diaper Primer on IncontinentSupport.org, the best booster is the Tranquility's TopLiner Booster Pad (Est. $30 for a pack of 100). These booster pads increase the absorbency of your adult diaper or pull-up underwear. Capacities from just under 6 ounces to just over 14 ounces are available. They are designed to fill first, making it possible to get though a day or night without having to change the primary garment.
Elsewhere in this report:
Best Reviewed Adult Diapers: There are many types and brands of incontinence products to choose from. These are the options, and the ones that owners and experts say are tops.
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I'm sorry :( Unfortuantely I have no advice. This would be best asked in a real estate forum. I have no idea what I'd do in your situation.
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish" - Mother Teresa
Thank you so much ladies. I was trying to talk DH into rentint it out ourselves and I listed it on craigslist and had a ton of interest, which surprised me because our former property manager said it might take months to get new tenants. DH was super nervous about that though. I happened upon a listing in the same area of a similar property through a realty group I hadn't heard of and he is going to be our new property manager! We'll probably have it rented again soon. Phew. I was just in a little bit of a panic the morning I posted this. lol
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Mom to Hannah, Sarah, Luke Jr, and Joshua born February 2, 2012!!!
NARPM is the National Association for Real Property Managers. There are a lot of shady property managers out there, but NARPM members strive to hold themselves to a higher standard. If you can't find a property manager through a good personal referral, I'd try NARPM.


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text: Water Protection Bill Five Things That Happened Before W.Va. House Passed the Water Resources Protection & Management Act By Aaron Payne • Mar 6, 2014 Daniel Walker Listen Listening... / 1:33 There is little doubt that the bill aimed to protect water resources in the state, in response to the Jan. 9 spill of MCHM into the Elk River by Freedom Industries, has been the most closely watched and widely discussed bill of the session. Although the Senate passed SB 373 less that two weeks after its introduction, its passage in the House took far longer--a result of a triple committee reference that offered a chance for roughly 60 delegates to offer amendments to the bill. Delegates also labored over 20 amendments on the bill's Third Reading Wednesday night before deciding to send the bill back to the Senate. Here's a few highlights from Wednesday night's floor session leading up to SB 373's passage: Senate Takes on Late-Term Abortions, Water Protection Bill Heads to House Floor, & WVU President Gee By Dave Mistich • Mar 4, 2014 The Senate Health and Human Resources Committee amends and passes a House bill that would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks. The House Finance Committee removes an amendment to the water protection bill that would force the state Bureau for Public Health to monitor the health those affected by the January 9 spill by Freedom Industries. West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee speaks about his appointment as permanent chief of the school and his vision for its future. Water Resource Protection Bill Passes Final House Committee Reference By Aaron Payne • Mar 4, 2014 The House Finance Committee removed several of the sections added by the other House committees in the water resource protection bill. One of which was related to medical monitoring which the committee determined was a redundancy because Dr. Letitia Tierney from the DHHR explained during the meeting her office plans to pursue testing whether it is in the bill or not. Senate Amends Water Protection Bill By Ashton Marra • Jan 27, 2014 Martin Valent / West Virginia Legislature Senators offered amendments Monday to Senate Bill 373, relating to water resources protection. Senate Judiciary Chair Corey Palumbo offered new exclusions as well as substantive amendments:


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Freedom Writers Foundation
They began writing anonymous journal entries about the adversities that we faced in our everyday lives. They wrote about gangs, immigration, drugs, violence, abuse, death, anorexia, dyslexia, teenage love, weight issues, divorce, suicide, and all the other issues we never had the chance to express before. They discovered that writing is a powerful form of self-expression that could help us deal with our past and move forward. Room 203 was like Anne's attic or Zlata's basement, it was their safe haven, where they could cry, laugh, and share their stories without being judged.
They decided to call themselves the Freedom Writers after learning about the Freedom Riders who fought against segregation during the Civil Rights Movement. When they began writing these entries as a simple English assignment, they had no idea that they would one day be collected and published in a book, The Freedom Writers Diary.
Since their graduation, they have kept our promise of trying to change education. They continue to share their story and mentor students and teachers.
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Friday Night: Great wine, great friends, and great weather! Nothing beats it!
Perfect Northern Virginia Weekend Getaway: Poplar Springs Inn Spa and Manor House Restaurant
This time last Saturday, I was crawling out of the most plush sheets and pillows at the Poplar Springs Inn and headed down to the cozy lounge for some early morning coffee and fresh breakfast pastries.
After a long Friday at work, we drove just 30 miles South down Route 28 to find a gorgeous 200 acre property with an early 1900s mountain stone mansion turned into an upscale lounge and restaurant with an attached 22 room inn and spa. We arrived around 8pm and had a 5 star meal with Chef Kenneth Hughes in The Manor House Restaurant before heading to bed for our early morning spa appointments.
Even though the Inn was booked full on Friday night, I was one of the early risers on Saturday morning. I actually was able to spend about an hour alone reading the paper (when's the last time you did that?) and enjoying a hot cup of coffee while looking out over the picturesque fall foliage.
I found a plush spa robe in my closet and headed down to the Poplar Springs Inn Spa for 4 hours of spa appointments. When I checked in, the spa staff asked me to pick from a selection of aromatherapy scents that would be used as a component throughout my services. I was whisked back for the most relaxing 90 minute make-you-fall-asleep massage. After the massage, I was directed to my aesthetician and spent the next hour with her while completely hydrating my skin.
After the services, I was offered to spend a few minutes relaxing in the hot tub or sauna before meeting Melissa, the spa director, for my manicure and pedicure - served with a glass of chilled white wine!
By this time, it was almost 1pm and Melissa offered us the Spa Menu to have lunch delivered in the spa lounge overlooking the pool once our treatments were over. I ordered the Poached Lobster Salad which is probably the best thing I've ever eaten. EVER. It was Melissa's recommendation to order it - and when someone works on-site and makes a recommendation, it's best to take it!
After our Poplar Springs Inn Spa treatments, Melissa surprised us with tickets to the Virginia Gold Cup with the Poplar Springs Inn team and owners. They had a really fancy set up with their chef on-site creating gorgeous displays of jumbo shrimp, carved meats, lamb chops -- and of course, complete with top shelf adult beverages.
I never even knew about this little hidden gem that is SO close to home. Even if you only make it out for a date night at The Manor House Restaurant - or even brunch on Sunday morning, it is definitely worth a gorgeous drive through the countryside to find it!
You can stay connected with The Poplar Springs Inn on Facebook or spend a day at their Wellness Retreat on November 15th. Thank you to Melissa and The Poplar Springs Inn team for inviting us out to spend a wonderful weekend getaway with them!
Luise Estelle co-founded Astoria Laser Clinic and Med Spa in Tysons Corner after having been a veteran in the Spa and Beauty Industry for more than 20 years. Luise had previously been in sales and marketing for Neiman Marcus and Dior. Her past experiences instilled in her the brand standards of successful corporate beauty companies. "This has taught me the importance of providing the BEST service and making the impossible possible for every person that walks through my door."
Describe yourself in three words:
Compasionate, hardworking, and competitive.
What do you consider your greatest professional achievement?
Coming to the U.S. from Germany and to find the best and newest procedures in the beauty industry.
What are your professional goals for the next six months?
To grow my business and be the best in servicing clients in the Northern Virginia area. We specialize in Laser and Med Spa treatments that are trending in the US, and particularly in Europe. European spa treatments have always taken a lead in the industry, and I'm excited to share them with the customers in Northern Virginia.
How does your company stay connected through social media?
Social media is a great marketing tool for my business. We use social media to create events and to let the public know about special pricing and current beauty and spa trends.
What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
At this time in my life I am exactly where I like to be! I love the Spa Industry in making women look and feel their best. I do take days out in the year in the year to travel, I like to work hard and I always reward myself by going on little getaways with my husband.
What website do you visit every day?
Facebook, LinkedIn and web-sites related to my field to get ideas for promotions.
What is your favorite drink- and where can you find it in NOVA?
Martinis! …and beer, which can be found anywhere in Northern Virginia – just as long as I have good company to share with!
What are your favorite people/places/things in NOVA?
This is not in Northern Virginia but I love all of the museums in Washington DC - there is so much to learn!
What is your goal for retirement?
I do not believe that I will ever completely retire, maybe slow down and work less. Every day I receive new energy and learn so much from seeing people. I probably take longer vacations to Europe to see my family.
Do you have any advice for women who would like to start their own company?
Failure does not mean stop trying and a "No" does not always mean "No"! Find what you love to do, become an expert in that field and work harder than you ever worked before in your life.
This is a great time in the U.S. to start a business. Everything is changing fast and there is always a new opportunity waiting right around the corner!
September Girls Night Out & Meet Up
We had a wonderful time on Thursday night at our Girls Night Out & Meet Up at Hyatt Fairfax in Fair Lakes! Check the pictures below -- and you can see the full album on our Facebook page. Be sure to tag yourselves and go ahead and RSVP for our next upcoming events! We have a book club meet up at The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner and also our annual charity event in November -- this year benefitting Autism Speaks.
Another wonderful Girls Night Out event at Parallel Wine Bistro in Ashburn! The full photo album is up on our Facebook page. Please tag yourselves!
Special thanks to Parallel Wine Bistro for hosting us - and to Alimond Photography for the great candid shots!
Yesterday, I was invited to take a hard hat tour of the brand new Springfield Town Center. Springfield Town Center is scheduled to celebrate their grand opening on October 17th. The old Springfield Mall has gone through a $250 million renovation and significant rebranding effort to erase the stigma of what used to be.
Springfield Town Center offers a 1.3 million square foot shopping destination that will host top brands including: Macy's, TopShop, Victoria's Secret, Michael Kors, J. Crew, Sephora, H&M, Forever 21, Chico's, Pandora, White House | Black Market, Nordstrom Rack and LOFT.
Dining collection at Springfield Town Center includes Maggiano's Little Italy, Yard House, Chuy's, Wood Ranch BBQ & Grill, and Nando's Peri Peri.
Regal Cinema has built a 12-screen luxury theater experience at Springfield Town Center. What's luxury about a movie theater? How about powered recliner seating and a cocktail lounge!
Family focused amenities include a dedicated children's court with a library of books, puzzles, and games designed with soft seating for story time and other events AS WELL AS a children's play area in the food court.
I was impressed by the new indoor/outdoor food court with seating for 600, complimented by a gorgeous fireplace. I can't wait until it opens! I'll definitely share more information about grand opening events as I receive them.
We have friends in the neighborhood who put their super active son in dance class because it's the only the only activity that keeps him in focus and moving for an hour straight - so I decided to check it out some classes for B too. Who knew there were SO MANY dance studios and schools in the area?!
A friend of mine connected me with Gretchen Vogelzang from Greater Washington Dance Center to help me understand what classes to select and what to look for when choosing a dance studio to join. Gretchen had a few key elements to look for:
What's their philosophy?
"The best thing you can do is to visit the studio in person and talk to the owner. Listen to how they describe their studio. Are they passionate or is this just a business to them? Do they put the children's needs and safety at the forefront of their message? Do they love children? (Seriously… do they love children?!?) Or are they more interested in the status of the studio and it's accomplishments?"
This is Serious!
"ANYONE can open a dance studio. Experience, knowledge and teaching ability are not governed. There is no licensing needed. When you think about the physical demands of dance training and combine that with a young, developing body the possibilities of sustaining an injury that could impact the child for life are very real.
As moms, we know all bodies are not the same! Alignment, flexibility, stature, strength vary greatly. An instructor who has no real knowledge of anatomy and kinesiology will not be able to understand these differences, and alter their teaching approach accordingly. Are there any cross-training opportunities for my child? Yoga, Pilates, Workshops, Intensives, Guest artists, Trips. You want to know the studio is up-to-date with their dance training efforts, and that they feel it is important to bring in artists or trainers from different fields to help your child receive a well-rounded movement education. Flooring is also key. Is it a state-of-the-art sprung floor? It should be!"
Smoke and Mirrors
"Beware of the smoke and mirrors! Boasting about awards is one way studios will entice you to join. The more important question to have answered is "What is the process of developing a successful dancer?" We have all seen the horror of over-the-top coaching on the television show "Dance Moms." Yes, they have an award-winning team, but at what cost?
Observing some dance classes may be a good window into this process. Do the children fear the teacher? Is the teacher warm, but firm in guiding the dancers through the class? Does the teacher simply bark general instructions or does the teacher actually give individual corrections? How comfortable are you with the way the teacher treats the children?
Gretchen's final tip: The goal is to find a dance studio where your child can learn proper technique safely, be happy -- and your child can shine! Regardless of what they ultimately end up doing (professional performer or heart surgeon) they need the opportunity to become the best dancer they can possibly be. And, the bonus will be all of the wonderful skills they will develop – physical, mental and emotional - which they will carry with them throughout their life.
To connect with Gretchen Vogelzang and her team at the Greater Washington Dance Center, visit their web site or follow on Facebook.
Yesterday, we headed out to the Belfort Furniture BIG Back to School Ice Cream Social. Although it was not the best weather outside, B had a great time in the moon bounce, meeting the Belfort mascot Bucky, and listening to story time. It didn't hurt that they also were giving away free ice cream :)
With so much rain on Saturday afternoon, it was a perfect day to spend reading and enjoying this picture perfect cup of coffee at one of my favorite coffee shops (and it has a wine bar!) in Northern Virignia -- Northside Social in Clarendon. Be sure to try the homemade chocolate espresso biscotti!
We had such a blast last night as we hosted Margarita Monday at Coyote Grille in Centreville! It was our first mini meet up in the Centreville area and we had a fantastic group of women come out for a night of networking, mingling, and fun! Check out the full photo album on our Facebook Page.
Special Thanks to Tatjana and her team at Coyote Grille for hosting such a fun event! Event photography courtesy of Pretty in Pic Photography and Carrie's Family Photography.
Did you miss out on the fun? Check out our upcoming events!
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The Typo3 Association is warning users with accounts at Typo3.org of a possible misuse of stored data.
In a mail sent to its account owners, Typo3 reports an unauthorized person posed as an administrator to gain access to sensitive data stored there by registered users. The company emphasizes that this was not an attack, and there is no current evidence that Typo3.org has been hacked by a known or unknown software bug.
According to the company, the attacker has been identified and legal action is being taken, yet there is still the risk that user account information may have been passed on to third parties. Typo3 recommend users with one universal password to change it when visiting other websites.
Typo3 has reacted to the leak by requiring account users to log on with a new password and its developers are working to improve security. Until this is achieved, access to the community areas has been blocked. More about the problem is explained on the T3O FAQ page.
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Frank Karlitschek will continue to lead the open source ownCloud project
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS released
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New initiative will address security and interoperability concerns around container technology.
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Developers can use RHEL as a development platform without a subscription fee.
Microsoft Brings the Linux Command Line to Windows
Windows users will soon have native access to the Bash shell.
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