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Get ready for an evening of Mexican pop and world class Salsa when Billboard Latin Music Award winner Marco Antonio Solis and Tropical Album chart topper Gilberto Santa Rosa pay a visit to the Nassau Coliseum on Sat., Aug. 30 at 8 p.m. This will be their only New York appearance.
Marco Solis, Antología and Los Bukis
Will Marco Solis crank out traditional Ranchera music, or strum a few Grupero chords for Coliseum goers next month? With a string of successful albums dating back to the mid-70s, the productive composer and producer will probably cover both and a whole lot more. His current release, Antología, on the Fonovisa label, is a four-disc set containing 72 songs, all written and sung by Solis. Included in the anthology are "Mi Eterno Amor Secreto," "Acepto Mi Derrota," "El Milagrito," "Deséame Suerte" and a bonus DVD.
There is one more thing. Where Paul McCartney had the Beatles, Mick and Keith the Stones and Roger and Pete, the Who, Marco Solis also had his own band of remarkable musicians, called Los Bukis. Solis made Latin music history with his cousin Joel and Los Bukis. But after a parting of the ways, Marco has taken it on the road as a solo act. You do not have to worry, though. He will be in good company at the Coliseum.
Gilberto Santa Rosa, the charts and a stack of recordings
Also on the bill with Marco Antonio Solis will be "El Caballero de la Salsa," or the "Gentleman of Salsa," Gilberto Santa Rosa. With more hits on Billboard's Tropical Album charts than anyone, that title has been well earned. No doubt, fans will be moving and grooving to premier Salsa and Bolero out in Uniondale when Santa Rosa hits the stage.
Born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Santa Rosa has recorded 26 albums, including 1980's Homenaje a Eddie Palmeri, a favorite among enthusiasts. His latest collection, aptly named Gilberto Santa Rosa, has 13 tracks full of emotion. Some of the gems include "Estas Ahi," "Derroche," "Si Yo Fuera Tu" and "Si Te Vas, Te Vas." It should be interesting when Marco Antonio Solis and Gilberto Santa Rosa share the Coliseum spotlight. For many, this may be the first and only chance to see and hear these superlative voices together in concert.


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21 Elkhart County same-sex couples issued marriage licenses
For same-sex couples getting licenses at the county clerk's office in Elkhart, being granted marriage means legal security, the end of a long wait for equal rights and the recognition of their families.
Same-sex marriage licenses were slow to take off in Elkhart County, with only six issued to local couples by noon Thursday.
That number more than tripled by the time the county clerk's office closed Thursday afternoon.
Twelve same-sex couples in Elkhart and seven in Goshen were issued marriage licenses Thursday. With the two licenses issued yesterday, 21 licenses total have been issued to same-sex couples in Elkhart County.
Arthur Williams and Frank Beebe, together 17 years, were one of the the last two couples to leave the county clerk's office in Elkhart.
For them, marriage means legal rights opposite-sex couples might take for granted.
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They'll have more legal security if something happens to them, and they hope Williams will be covered by Beebe's work benefits now.
"I don't think they can deny it," said Beebe, who works at a Shipshewana RV factory. "We'll see what happens."
Whether or not the attorney general's appeal for a stay is approved, Beebe believes change is coming. Williams said when the Supreme Court struck down federal laws against same-sex marriage, it became a state-by-state decision.
"Now each state has the right to allow us to live our lives," he said. "About time Indiana steps up to the twentieth century."
Jerilynn Adkins and Jennifer Hayes, who have been planning their wedding for a while, left the office shortly after Beebe and Williams.
They'd thought about having a ceremony before, Adkins said, smiling, but now that ceremony will mean a legal marriage.
She was annoyed, though, that she and Hays had to rush to the courthouse for their license before their window closed. The state attorney general issued an emergency request for a stay that could temporarily keep Indiana counties from issuing licenses to same-sex couples, and couples have been hurrying to get their license before the stay is granted.
"We should get the same rights. It should be that easy," Adkins said. "I should be able to plan my wedding date to the day I want."
She and Hays have been together for eight years, since Adkins' children were one and three years old.
"It's not like we're together a week and wanted to get married," she said. "Straight couples can do that. We're a family."
Holding the marriage license and smiling, Adkins skipped away from the courthouse next to Hays.
"This is a great thing," Hays said.
The county clerk's office is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. Couples can apply for marriage licenses at that time.

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Just before Memorial Day, a friend who teaches in a Catholic high school wrote to me on Facebook that he and his daughter had just watched "Black Hawk Down," Ridley Scott's 2001 war film about the Battle of Mogadishu because she was studying Somalia. They really liked it. He then suggested that I ask my Facebook followers to share their favorite war movie and why.I was stymied. Favorite war film? How can you have a favorite war film? These movies all recreate the very violence of the war … [Read more...]
Catholics in Media to award "The Monuments Men", "Cesar's Last Fast" and "CBS Sunday Morning" on June 1
Do consider coming to our annual awards event this year on June 1! The invitation is above. For tickets click here on Catholics in Media Award Tickets (and for advertising opportunities). Participating in the Mass overlooking the Pacific Ocean is beautiful.Cesar's Last Fast is a feature documentary film about the private sacrifice and spiritual conviction behind Cesar Chavez's struggle for the humane treatment of America's farm workers, and the impact of Chavez's legacy. The film is built … [Read more...]
Stephen Colbert to replace Letterman on 'Late Show'
CBS announced today that when David Letterman retires in 2015, Stephen Colbert will replace him.Colbert's "The Colbert Report" is one of Comedy Central's best shows, right up there with Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show." In fact, Colbert worked as a "correspondent" on Stewart's parody of a news show before getting his own political, ultraconservative, talking-head satire pulpit in 2005.Colbert has always shamelessly admitted he is a practicing Catholic and, as far as I know, … [Read more...]
25 year-old nun blows away the judges on "The Voice" Italy singing Alicia Keys' "No One"
You all know by now that I love "The Voice" and now an Ursuline Sister in Italy has blown away Italian judges on their version of "The Voice."Here's what The Daily Mail has to say about Sr Cristina getting all four judges to turn around.Brava, Sr Cristina!The Daily Mail:Dressed in full religious regalia Sister Cristina Scuccia, who hails from mafia hotspot Sicily, managed to get all four chairs to turn around during her blind audition.She was joined by three … [Read more...]
My interview with director Nancy Tong on the INNetwork
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What are Cinema Divina & Media Mindfulness? Find out on our Webathon page
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Pope Francis speaks to journalists about his name, wanting a church that is poor, and role of media
This morning Pope Francis revealed why he chose the name Francis and then spoke encouraging words to 5,000 members of the press who have been covering the events of the last weeks since Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI announced his retirement.Joshua McElwee of the National Catholic Reporter has been in Rome covering the conclave and wrote the following this morning: Pope Francis: I would love a church that is poor.In another post NCR added the complete text of the … [Read more...]
Sr. Rose on the IN Network: the new pope ….
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What happens when all of your socks go missing? Check your dog. CNN reported on Aug. 4, 2014, that x-rays showed a large mass of unknown origin in a three-year-old Great Dane's digestive track. Surgery revealed that the dog had consumed more than 43 socks. The event was so unusual it won the animal hospital a prize.
The three-year-old Great Dane was in obvious distress all day. He was observed vomiting and retching for the better part of 24 hours. A call to the vet determined it was a medical emergency. Off to DoveLewis Animal Hospital in Portland, Oregon they went. The abdominal radiographs were clear. There was a large foreign mass in the giant canine. Surgery was the only option. As the surgeon explored the mass, it seemed like he was doing laundry. Socks, 43 ½ to be exact, were removed from the dog. That is enough socks for a family of four. Even the surgeon at the animal hospital was surprised—and emergency vets do not shock easily.
The case was so unusual that it was entered into the Veterinary Practice News "They ate what" contest. It took third place and awarded the non-profit animal hospital with $500. They will use the money to help cover the vet bills for patients who cannot pay. The big dog stayed overnight at the hospital and was released the following day.
This is not the first time the Great Dane has taken a liking to footwear. The other incidents were not severe. So far, no more socks have gone missing. But, if they do, the owners will know where to look.


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Omarion releases his new music video for 'M.I.A.' featuring Wale. The music video features an appearance from Brave formerly of girl band RichGirl, looking sexy as ever. The music video also showcases the signature MMG swagger of smooth vehicles, great locations and swerve close up scenes. Wale does not fail in producing a vibrant verse and bring it to life in the visuals.
Omarion's "Care Package" Ep Will release on November 29th, most likely a precursor to his Maybach Music debut.


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The war between Israel and the Muslim terrorist group, Hamas has reached a new level with the continued interference of the Obama administration that in turn has angered Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in telling President Obama and his administration to back off and to stop second-guessing him on how he is dealing with Hamas.
Netanyahu's anger was conveyed by GOPUSA on Saturday, who cited a report by the Associated Press (AP) in which Netanyahu told the White House to stop trying to force a truce with the Hamas terrorists on Israel.
Part of the fostering anger stems from Secretary of State, John Kerry's proposal in calling for negotiations on Hamas demands, including opening border crossings into Gaza and relaxed boating restrictions off the Gaza coast. In addition, its language reportedly upgraded Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, to an equal plane with Israel, something that is annoying Netanyahu.
In the news report, reported by AP National Security Writer Lara Jakes, Jakes said that an Israeli official stated that the Israeli government viewed both Hamas and Qatar as having violated the commitment given to the U.S. and the U.N. It has also expected the international community to take practical steps as part of a "strong and swift response," especially regarding the return of the abducted soldier.
Jakes said, "In a phone call with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, Netanyahu vented his anger, according to people familiar with the call."
"Netanyahu told Shapiro the Obama administration was "not to ever second-guess me again" and that Washington should trust his judgment on how to deal with Hamas, according to the people," Jakes reported. "Netanyahu added that he now "expected" the U.S. and other countries to fully support Israel's offensive in Gaza. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter by name."
Hamas does not intend to give up on its battle against Israel and has stated its intentions of destroying Israel, something the mainstream media has not widely reported other than a few days ago when NBC News quietly altered an article blaming Israel for a strike on the Gaza Strip's main hospital but failed to tell it's readers, on Monday.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a prominent Hamas leader and who abandoned the Islam religion and is now a Christian told Fox News television and radio host, Sean Hannity on Wednesday that no concessions by Israel will stop the Islamic organization from its stated aim to destroy Israel and anyone that gets in their way.
Yousef told Hannity, "They don't have political boundaries to their ideology. They want to destroy Israel… they want to destroy anyone who does not believe in their ideology. Hamas doesn't care about the lives of Palestinians, as well as Israelis."
In 2010, Yousef told WND, "If they can establish this in a peaceful manner, that's fine. But they are required by the Quran to establish this global Islamic state on the rubble of every civilization, every constitution, and every government. This is not a doctrine of some freak Muslim...it's the doctrine, the requirement, of the god of Islam himself and his prophet, whom they praise every day."


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we should post some kind of announcement with rules
what rules do you want and i will include them if they are good enough
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we should post some kind of announcement with rules
what rules do you want and i will include them if they are good enough
rule #1: Smogon Sucks, NO EXCEPTIONS
i was thinking making it more a guideline on how to be a not-shitty poster rather than rules
rule one: Smogon sucks. If you are to ever discuss it, no form of praise for the site can be included. PD is a loving community, except when it comes to Smogon. So don't say anything about how cool it is...because it's not
Automatic death!
Rule two: (Thought I bring it back) Never rep DSX for whatever reason.
Rule 3: flaming lucario is old and sucks
That should be self-evident.
you can only have two smileys or less a post.
Ill let someone else say this.
If you (In general) dont see it, then may you be struck with a chop to the neck. :/
cl, i wasn't kidding. it's really annoying if its not a long post. two smileys is pretty reasonable and makes it not annoying. plus, you didn't use the real smileys before, you used the gay smileys.(=D) *shudder* so gay.
ok fine. it'sannoying to me tho.and i don't see many people who aren't noobs on any forum/ whatever use more than two smileys at a time. i didn't know that many people would get so easily offended. so i'm changing my rule to:
use as many fucking smileys you want, making your post look altogther worse for the most part except in some occasional incedents.
Thanks for the heads up. :)
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wtf? is this really that funny? hahahahahahahahahhaahhahahahaha. D: only one smily see?
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Both teams opened up the season on Tuesday and each stand at 0-0-1. Westmont scored first on a goal from senior midfielder Aolani Rueff in the 29th minute.
But the Wildcats stormed back with a nifty goal by sophomore midfielder Alexa Fryer, as senior Jordan Dolbin picked up the assist on Baker's first goal.
The match entered halftime knotted up at 1-1 and the next goal wasn't scored until the 75th minute when Baker's Ashley Sampson slammed home a goal with an assist by freshman Liz Todd.
The Wildcats didn't have much time to celebrate the go-ahead goal, as the Warriors tied it up again in the 79th minute, as sophomore Kaci Mexico drilled one past keeper Rachel Theobald and Ashley Correa recorded the assist.
The game slowed down a bit in the two overtime periods, as Baker took no shots in either overtime and Westmont managed just one in the first overtime and four in the second.
The Warriors outshot Baker, 19-6, and had nine shots on goal to four by the Wildcats. Six different Wildcats took a shot on the day.
Baker will next hit the pitch on Friday, Aug. 24 as they take on No. 24 University of Science and Arts (Okla.) on the road and then follow that up with a match against No. 11 Oklahoma City on Saturday. Aug. 25 at 5 p.m.


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Born in 1908, Mama Espinosa has spent a great portion of her life helping less fortunate people around her enjoy a better life.
Come and visit her and her hospitable family at Mama Espinosa's, just south of the PEMEX station at the sharp 90' corner of Highway 1.
Mama Espinosa's Restaurant serves up her famous lobster burritos, fine local seafood and traditional Mexican fare. And if you get in late, be sure to ask about their accommodations. Six clean rooms are available, but advance reservations are advised. Mama Espinosa's is very popular for weary traveler's driving up and down the peninsula.
"El Rosario (The Rosary) - As recently as the mid-1960s, El Rosario was portrayed as "the end of the line". Roads to the south could only be described as primitive. Mail service and the weekly bus from Ensenada proceeded no further. The completion of the Tran peninsular Highway in 1973 was to alter El Rosario's place in the sun. Rather than end, the town is now more properly looked upon as the beginning; for here the new highway starts its lengthy journey through the interior mountains and deserts of the peninsula.
El Rosario was also the point of beginning for Baja's Dominican friars, for it was here that they established their first mission in 1774, only two years after they took over administration of the peninsula's missionary activities from the Franciscans. It was to be the jumping-off point for the founding of eight additional missions between there and the international border.
The original mission site was up-river from the center of town. In 1882, it was moved about one and one-half miles downstream. A sign in front of the site notes, "1434 Christian Indians registered between 1774 and 1817. These were supported from products of desert, sea, cattle, sheep, goats, and plantings of cereals imported by the Spaniards". Many of these Indians were soon to die in the epidemics which accompanied the Spanish wherever they went".
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The following interview was published in The American Poetry Review, March 1997.
At the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS with Robert Hass.
Robert Hass is our Poet Laureate consultant in poetry. He was born in San Francisco, took his undergraduate degree at St. Mary's College and his graduate degrees at Stanford University. He reads from Field Guide, his first book, and Human Wishes. His other collections are 20th Century Pleasures, The Essential Haiku, and he has worked with many translations which we will find out about.
Grace: Last night you said that imagination makes communities.
Robert: Yes, I said that.
Grace: Now what did you mean?
Robert: Well I said that in connection with a poem from Field Guide (title "Concerning the Afterlife...the Indians of Central California Had Only the Dimmest Notions") What I had in mind. ...I wrote that poem I guess, it must have been the early 70's... One of the things I was thinking about during the years of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, was the way in which our imagination of Western polities, I guess is the word, has gone wrong so I set myself the task of trying to read through some of the thinkers like Hobbs who give us our ways of thinking about government.The first thing that struck me about our democratic capitalist ways of thinking about societies is that they always begin in the idea of some Robinson Caruso figure, some male appropriating, changing property and then building up into notions of men in competition with each other over the world's goods which then of course Adam Smith picked up and said, "Ah, but this is a magical system. Everything turns out fine. Prices get set. People gets the best goods" and so on. It's an imagination of the world in which it's guys competing with each other over goods.
Grace: Yes, you said markets make networks.
Robert: That's right.
Grace: But imagination which is more human makes the community 'spirit' I guess.
Robert: I would say it a little differently. The market makes networks, but I think real markets in fact do make communities. Because people don't behave according to rules of economic rationalities.
Grace: Real markets are the product of the kinds of thought forms which you advocate
Robert: They are products of affection and imagination. You know the kind of stuff you do when you have a clean exchange with somebody. Makes a certain kind of relationship. The first real philosopher of the market system, Jeremy Bentham said the perfect participant in the market is a man perfectly rationale, perfectly selfish and perfectly free. That's not how we behave nor would it be desirable to behave that way.
Grace: It's not a bad thing to have you in Washington, you know. And you claim you might be able to lobby for American writers and for the mind and heart. Not a bad thing I think.
Robert: A recent poem which makes this point is "Iowa City." It goes on a bit. But it makes this point from another angle altogether. You know, it's going make it sound like poetry has a moral purpose and I don't really think it does. So I won't make a speech except to say we live in families, not on islands. That's where human polity starts. We live among other creatures. "Iowa City, early April" was written when in Iowa. I never lived in the Midwest before and so that was a record of that experience.
Grace: I live in West Virginia so I'm grateful for your meditative nature poems. I'm very glad you mention that new poem because it's a very good demonstration of something I feel about your work which was with us even in the beginning. Field Guide was certainly much with the deer, the serenity, even in tumultuous times -- the early 70's, you had this extreme quieting at the center in that book and it was an absorption in nature with that attention to detail which we see in your later work. Also there seems to be less self in your poems now and more of everything else. Do you agree?
Robert: In that poem, yes.
Grace: Your work has moved that way.
Robert: I think that's true. I mean of course everything anybody writes is drenched in the self because language is but you can try to use it to represent what doesn't belong to the self entirely.
Grace: When the experience is totally mine and not Robert Hass's, I guess that's what I mean. Which is quite a miracle I think. "Iowa City...." will be part of a new book we don't know about yet. We don't even the title.
Robert: That's right. I wish I knew the title.
Grace: Last night at your reading, your premier, you said, 'out of self-delusion comes poetry' and you talked about 'this precious delusion'. Where is that referenced in your own work.
Robert: I was quoting Czeslaw Milosz. From a wonderful poem of his. He's an astonishing poet of the century now in his 80's and in the most recent book Facing the River he includes a poem which I translated with him called "Report" in which he checks in with the higher powers about what it's been like to be a poet. It begins presenting a report..it goes on to say we learn too much about the bizarre nature of man...possessed by self delusion..He goes on to say 'out of self delusion comes poetry' and poetry confesses the flaw.
Grace: But in spite of our pettiness, he says we go on and make that beautiful sound which you call singing.
Robert: I left out the middle part which is the most fun and we shouldn't manhandle the poem this way.
Grace: And this is a very good poem also for you to use as a signature of your own work. Not only as translator but because you have certainly been identified as a poet who is not a nihilist, who is certainly not going to acknowledge death, death, the death of death and this has brought you much wonder from critics and comments because your own work is so much in praise of our life and our poetry and the berries and deer. I have been reading Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed," a little know play... Lazarus wakes ups and laughs at Caesar and laughs because he knows there is no death and of course he's not treated really well about that. And in a way your poetry laughs at people who will be talking about that "dark other" as wall we hit. Have you gotten scored, or rapped on the knuckles for that laughter?
Robert: To some extent I have, I guess. I always feel as I've been misread when that's so. What I think about praise or dispraise of existence in poetry I guess is that to do either, to praise or dispraise, truly,( can you still use that word in post-modern culture?)
Grace: When you're the Poet Laureate of the United States you can. You may make it fashionable again.
Robert: I think that to praise or dispraise, to enchant or disenchant, both of which functions art has-- you have to include a lot of the one if you're going to do the other. I think poetry that says yes has to swallow great goblets of darkness; and poetry that says no has to say no in the face of the fact that there must be reasons why the poet has chosen to continue to live in order to say it. I always think in this connection of Monet because I read that his water lily paintings were begun as a response to reports he had read of the dead in the trenches in the first world war.
Grace: Have you used that in a poem?
Robert: No I haven't used it in a poem. I mean, I think it's already there. It doesn't need to be. But the reason those paintings seem to us so supremely great and not wallpaper is that they are full of the dead. They're full of all those, all those colors, full of the colors of the bodies in the trenches as he imagined them. Poetry that praises the world has to have immense ballast. Milosz is a poet who, all his life I think, has functioned in his having survived terrors that his compatriots didn't survive. There is a terrible doubt, or a terrible feeling, that to praise the world in any way is to conspire with death and suffering... That it's obscene to praise life which is so full of suffering and yet over and over again he praises. Anyway that theme is interesting.
Grace: It is yours also.
Robert: A kind of wonderful example of a poetry that doesn't quite praise or dispraise is the haiku form which I've been attached to for a long time. And I read some of these poems last night at the Library . Those are my translations of poems of Basho who is a 17th Century poet and one of the great initiators of the haiku form. The interest, Grace, of trying to translate these poems is to make their syntaxes simple and efficient as it seems to me to be in the Japanese, though I learned the only Japanese grammar I know from trying to figure how these little magical pieces work.
Grace: From the characters?
Robert: Well I just got interested. You know I read haiku as other people did and thought 'God these are amazing and I wonder what they actually look like' so I just went out and got Japanese grammars and dictionaries and started to try to
Grace: Break the code
Robert: Break the code, so I never really learned the language except the common vocabulary of these poems so I just set myself the task of decoding one a day to see how they were put together. And after awhile I accumulated enough of them so I thought it might make a book. Here's Basho:
Even in Kyoto
Hearing the cuckoos cry
I long for Kyoto
Robert: I don't know if I should comment on that poem. The cuckoos is a migratory bird of course, and it visits the islands of Japan in springtime and for years it was the subject of poetry. You heard the cuckoo in the springtime in Kyoto and knew it was Spring. So the poems are really a kind of sentimental ideal of pure presence and Basho says the truth about human desire very plainly." Even in Kyoto/ Hearing the cuckoos cry/ I long for Kyoto."
Another poem.
This road
No one goes down it
Autumn evening.
Robert: This comes from a very early travel journal that he did. One of his forms was to mix bits of both casual and highly formed sketch prose with haiku and this just evokes, you know, an empty road and an autumn evening. He suddenly notices he's the only one there and that's one way of reading it. "This road /No one goes down it/ Autumn evening." Another thing that's interesting about it... Once you look at the Japanese, you see that Basho, like other Japanese poets, with certain words anyway, has the choice always of whether writing the word in the phonetic symbols of the Japanese syllabary...The word for road is ---mechi--- so you can either use the characters for me and chi, or you can use the Chinese character, and in this poem he chose to use the Chinese character for road, ( mechi in Japanese,) is Tao in Chinese and it of course changes the poem visually. 'Can't do it in English. But you can do it by paying attention to what a deep metaphor any road that we take is. The American lonesome road from the blues will do." This road/ no one goes down it /autumn evening."
Grace: It's all you need to hear about loneliness.
Robert: This is another one we talked about last night. All the Japanese poets of course wrote poems about Mt. Fuji, the great subject. Here's Basho's:
Misty rain
Can't see Fuji
Grace: Was the word 'interesting' there?
Robert: Yes. Some years ago when I was a poet-in-residence at the Robert Frost farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, one of my tasks was to give a poetry reading in the barn and my young son who was then about five or six years old, wanted to go to the reading ; and I said 'if you're very good and sit quietly, we'll go to the town dump and see if we can't see some bears after the reading.' So I give the reading and I read some of these haiku translations and he sat up straight. My friend Charles Simic read and he liked those poems. He said 'I like Charlie's poems. They have rats with calculators in them.' He didn't say anything about liking mine but when got to the dump there were no bears. He was disappointed. I said we'd go get some ice cream, and we were driving back into the town in the dark and he leaned forward and said 'I think I made up a poem.' And I said 'let me hear it.' And he said
A night of July
Going to the Franconia dump
To look for bears.
Didn't see any.
Grace: Let me count those syllables. Is this Lief?
Robert: It's Luke, my youngest, who's now a young man.
Grace: Let us have one more haiku. You know this book , The Essential Haiku, is all you need for the rest of your life on your bedside table, a page a night because each one resonates so much. You can't really read that book in a hurry.
Robert: Well let me read without comment a few of them. They're very short.
As for the hibiscus
On the roadside
My horse ate it.
The oak tree
Not interested in
Cherry blossoms.
Seeing people off
Being seen off
Autumn in Kyso
It's not like anything
they compare it to
the summer moth.
This is very good sound. Let me find one of the better ones I wanted to read
Year after year
on the monkey's face
a monkey face.
Grace: I guess this moves us into the inevitable and that is your own attention to the thing itself which is the image. And I guess a couple of your themes. Critics talk of your 'unswerving faith' in the imagination and your belief in the image, in a thing. So it is natural that you would have gone to haiku it seems to me. It is your nature, it is your essence. It calls you. It is everything you believe in. It is the thing itself, instead of picture of a thing and I wonder if you would comment on that quality you have as a poet. I see the combination of the image and the imagination and I don't quite know how to make that relationship.
Robert: Yes, you know in contemporary thinking about poetry, of course, it's the big issue because if there is anything that defines post modernism I suppose it's radical skepticism, skepticism about whether there's a world we can know, with conceptual and ideological apparatus of the social worlds we're born into. I think if there's anything that characterizes contemporary art it's skepticism about those things. Lots of writers, especially minority writers have been unpacking the extent to which the languages we acquire already marginalize them. Gays and lesbians have been -- and thinkers sympathetic to the problems that come from this, whatever their own sexual orientation -- have been thinking about the ways in which the very nature of language already marginalizes any sexual relationship that doesn't look exactly like the ones that were approved by the churches in 1200. So there are millions of reasons to distrust the clear representation of the image and good reasons for distrusting them, and I think that one of the things that I love about haiku is that they work very hard to create the kind of aesthetic ideal.
Robert: I guess you'd say, in which one could use language as a clear mirror of the seeing of the world which of course only happens through work. You don't get to see that way if your head is full of brainless chatter.Yes, so that's the connection.At some level the common world has to be earned over and over and over again. It doesn't exist. Basho who would be -- in the whole history of writing, the great example of this -- when asked how you got to it he said through aesthetic madness. Which meant through imagination. There's no way there without that but, the idea whether there is one or not, our language can model a kind of attention that seems to both call the world into being, and call us into being by being there... That's an act of imagination. It's not necessarily the way things are. In fact it's not usually the way things are.
Grace: It's a hologram at best.
Robert: Yeah.
Grace: But it's how you see that.
Robert: There's a Russian critic of the 20's. There's a whole group of wonderful critics in the early years of the Russian revolution, most of whom got silenced of course later. This man named Ikenbaum said the function of art is to make the grass grass and the stone stone by freeing us from the automatism of human perspection.
Grace: The Poet Laureate of the United States Consultant in Poetry at The Library of Congress, I think we are going to have fun in Washington this year. In addition to being a translator, you are an essayist. And a teacher. Since you are at the University of California at Berkeley and you'll be teaching there two courses, this Fall. You'll be coming back and forth I guess ?
Robert: That's right, I'm commuting.
Grace: I am very interested in Twentieth Century Pleasures because when I read those essays what I loved about them was the way you moved into them. .. It could be in a bar with a dirty ditty that moved into the realm of thought that you wanted to explore; or else, a hiking trip where you got an allergic reaction, which I myself get; and I thought how important it is for us to connect the thought with the human being. It's just as simple as that. And just to put it out there. Just to put the human being up front, that hook works. I mean, and then whatever you think matters more to us. And I think that as you proceed with all of your life that is in your work, the humanness is never an abstract thought. Let's talk about more of your recent work. Let's go into spring because some claim that you can't tell it in California. In fact I have friend, Judith Hall, who's the editor of the Antioch Review, she's new to Sacramento and she said she thinks it might be Autumn but she's planting things in case. One can't tell in California, right?
Robert: In fact you can. It takes, it's a different set of signals. One of the experiences, I don't know if it's still true of growing up in California, but I think it's one of the things that made me want to be a writer-- is that in our school books when we were children were still printed in Boston and New York and so Dick and Jane got their boots on and went out into the snow and they went out and jumped up and down in piles of leaves; so I think all children growing up in California, and probably in Texas and Arizona and New Mexico and any place in the country that doesn't have northeastern weather, end up feeling like the real children are having the real seasons.
Grace: In yellow slickers
Robert: Some place else. So it's not that we don't have seasons, we have them deeply but they are somewhat different seasons and they don't have a traditional vocabulary.
Grace: It's not orthodox, your seasons.
Robert: Well I think one of the things about America art is that we haven't lived here long enough yet. One of the least true things Robert Frost ever said is that the land was ours before we were the land's. I think you know it takes a lot of, as in these haiku, suffering in a place, living in a place and making it art over generations and generations -- so thin -- human life drawing its images from those places and their actualities before they even know what they mean. I think we're still, if you look at Chinese literature or English or almost any European literature, we're still in a very early stage of our relationship to the continent partly because we have so many diverse weathers. Any way this 'weather' is in my poem" Spring Rain."
Grace: From Human Wishes
Robert: It comes from a group of poems called "Spring Drawings" which were written out of, not necessarily about, the California spring.
Grace: In "Spring Rain" you end being glad for beauty...' casual and intense, lasting as long/ as the poppies last.' How long do they last ?
Robert: How long do poppies last?
Grace: When you said that poem, I wondered how long they last for him. About, about a month.
Robert: Well it's interesting because the little bright orange poppies of California full size ...
Grace: We have them in West Virginia..
Robert: They last quite a long time. They can last two or three months. In fact in very unpromising circumstances. These poppies were those poppy tulips, you know.The one ones with sequels which look like artificial eye lashes or mascara brushes or something.
Grace: Yes, I do know those poppies but I thought you meant this to be ambiguous because they last so many different kinds of way. And this is Spring in California. The poem "Late Spring" is also in Human Wishes. People make a lot of your mention of food in your poems. But I think you talk about everything. I don't think that there is more food than flowers or birds in your work. I do remember, though, the green peppers on the white plate. So it is memorable. Your images of food are memorable. And I don't drink coffee but when I read your poetry I want coffee. So I guess it is powerful in a way I don't know. The book Human Wishes, is the latest work. The most recent book?
Robert: It's the most recent book of poems, yes.
Grace: Right before the one which is forthcoming . Educated in California. What was the title of your dissertation? I've been trying to puzzle it out and thinking ...hmmm...Blake and His Printing? What would it be? I was trying to imagine what could have caught your imagination when you were at Stanford getting a Ph.D.
Robert: You know it was a very political time and when I was thinking about doing literary scholarship, and what I wanted and needed to study, I wasn't really thinking about my poetry which is something I just did and so I did a dissertation about the idea of -- ideas about the ways which economic philosophy, so I was reading that hard man Thomas Hobbs on the Causes of the English Civil Wars --- so I wrote an essay on the ways in which the novel imagined the transformation of European societies in the 18th and 19th century.
Grace: How did it
Robert: I had a couple of ideas about it. One was, partly I didn't have ideas about it and I just wanted an excuse to think about the subject of how we got the kind of ourselves that we have, particularly then the economic ideas. I think my starting place was kill ratios, the obsession during the Vietnam War with making sense of it by quantify it. It was clearly, as Robert Mactamara has demonstrated and written about recently in ways that are, you know,
Grace: A little late
Robert: Late but moving. That way of thinking was a disaster. You know, it was very mistaken.
Grace: And you identified that in your dissertation.
Robert: Well, it was what got me thinking. Why do we believe that we have, that our real way of making sense of the world is quantifying outcomes, when so much of our behavior and so much of the reasons that we're alive don't have anything to do with that. So I was interested in the way, from this history, from the very beginning, the history of the novel took this subject on. I was interested in Robinson Caruso. And I was interested in why when Raskolnikoff killed somebody in Crime and Punishment, he kills a money lender and that money lender is a woman. I was interested in the fact that are so many orphans in the history of the novel. Of course a way of doing this kind of economic thinking in which people don't begin life in families. In order to have this solo competitor for the world's goods, you need to not represent the way people actually grow up.
Grace: Are you pleased with that at this day in your life. Do you look back at that work and think it's still valid.
Robert: Oh I look back at it and think that it was a useful part of my education but I guess, I wish I'd spent that time writing poems.
Grace: You know I think that it is going to stand you well in Washington. You will be able to hold your own in anything. The new Nobel Prize winner in economics ... Are you a little baffled by that theory he has? I mean I can't really articulate it very well but it's given to someone who changes thought in economics; and yet some of this is a little difficult for me to pin to the human condition, so it sounds as if your dissertation could be a contribution. You should be publishing it.
Robert: Take my word for it, it shouldn't be published! But you know that kind of economic imagination is really another matter. One of my colleagues at Berkeley, Gerard Debreu, is a Nobel Prize winner in economics ... and mostly the kind of thought they change is thought about the way people do economic modelings of economic behavior.
Grace: Yes.
Robert: The problem with our economics is not that we don't have very sophisticated and constantly changing ways of modeling market behavior and market activity -- The problem is that we think that we have one kind of economic system, the one in which people behave rationally in a market but in fact sitting right next to it is this other system in which people actually behave the way they do which doesn't have to do with calculating rational self advantage.
Grace: I can't wait for the essays, the essays that come out of fusing the imagination from your stay in Washington, I think we are going to get a whole new rush on theory because you are interested in politics, you're interested in the Federalist Papers, you're interested in Madison and I think maybe being here is going put you on a new platform for your writing.
Robert: It's going to be interesting.
Grace: You have been writing and working in the field for solidly 25 years or more, 30 years, every day of your life as a writer, not sometimes a banker, sometime a lawyer, so you must have seen what you consider a change in American Letters, in your own lifetime. Your own work has certainly changed. Even the line lengths have changed. What do you make of where we are right now, in American poetry. If you could say a sweeping generalization.
Robert: Well I think the generalizations that poets always make come to the same thing - which is that the generalizations aren't of much use. The sweeping generalizations that someone would have made when Emily Dickenson and Walt Whitman were alive would have been about how magnificent the poetry of Longfellow and Whittier were. We don't know in what closet the poems that are going to most deeply nourish our culture are. I don't know if you can every see clearly in the present.
Grace: That was general enough for me.
Robert: Because of all that has been going on in Congress with the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, I've heard lots of speeches in which people say the arts in America in trouble and I always think, they are? It's news to me. Do people really think that in the future they are really going to remember this as the age of Jesse Helms or the age of Toni Morrison? There are great writers working among us, doing great work. It's not by accident that the last four Nobel Prize winners, none of whom were Americans, live and work in this country. Three of the four are American citizens. This has been a place enormously hospitable to poetry. We've had, after how many years between contact and 1965, let's say, there was very little Native American poetry in English. Suddenly there is a really interesting body of new work in poetry and fiction from Native American people. In my part of the world there has been the sudden creation of the voice of Asian Americans.
Grace: That's right. And a Latin influx. A second immigration. It's incredibly influencing our work.
Robert: Yes. And there an interesting new generation of postmodern writers, experimental writers, mainly concentrated in places like New York and San Francisco. I think that there's a tremendous amount of liveliness in American writing right now.
Grace: Is that what you call postmodern - experimental?
Robert: Well I think there are different kinds of experiment but I would say that one quick way o thinking about postmodern work is that it always has an element of questioning the materials of the art, exploring questions around what the art can do.
Grace: And accumulating a lot of it, different kinds
Robert: There is dazzling work being done. I can name just a couple of writers and a couple of books for people who are interested in that sort of difficult, playful work at the edges. Work that's like jazz. Some of these writers are going to be coming to the Library to read right now. I recently saw an anthology of poetry and poetry about jazz. And one of the things that struck me about it was there were an enormous number of poems about jazz and jazz musicians.
Grace: Was that from University of Indiana?
Robert: Yes, but almost none of the poems were like jazz. They were about jazz.
Grace: You're right. Now who are the writers who are writing jazz, poetry like jazz.
Robert: One is a woman named Lyn Hejinian, whose husband is a jazz musician. If you want to see what this kind of writing is like at its most dazzling and demanding. She has written a book which I think is one of the most interesting in my generation. It's called My Life. It's a prose work, prose poetry I guess or in some borderland between prose and poetry. And the other is Michael Palmer. He's like those jazz musicians who play chords all around the melody, never quite playing, don't want to play the melody,and he's extremely interesting in that way. There are at the same time powerful writers working in the realist tradition. So any way I would say a couple of other things. That there are 900 books of poetry published in this country every year. Three a day. There are 400 poetry magazines on the Internet. I think part of the ground work for this interest got laid by the work that's been done by our cultural institutions including the NEA.
Grace: I know you do not write occasional poetry. However, you did honor Chief Justice Brennan recently with a poem, written since you were named Poet Laureate. How did that come about. I think it sounds like a nice official thing to do.
Robert: The American Civil Liberties Union asked me if I would write something for the occasion of their presenting a lifetime achievement award to Justice Brennan. I didn't think I could do it but I was looking at the deer moving through the winter woods in Iowa and thinking about what I admire about his prose and so I wrote "Jurisprudence" with the woods in New Jersey where Justice Brennan was born.
Grace: Can we have a final remark from you about American poetry?
Robert: Poetry is alive and flourishing in this country, and people will find out just by going into their book stores and looking at the poetry shelves.
Grace: And we're glad to have you as a spokesperson for it.


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"Once," the multiple Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical based on the surprise hit movie of the same name opens for a limited run this month at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. The show opens tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 4 and runs six days.
The show, which is still running on Broadway, has garnered eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and it also took home the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
Based on the surprise hit film, "Once" tells the story of an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant drawn together by their shared love of music. Over the course of one fateful week, their unexpected friendship and collaboration evolves into a powerful but complicated romance. Their story is brought to life on a minimalist set designed to look like a bar that is graced by a cast of gifted actor/musicians.
The show is based on the 2002 film sleeper, which was shot in 17 days and made for $150,000. It went on to gross $20 million worldwide becoming a critically acclaimed international smash. The movie won the 2007 Best Original song for "Falling Slowly," the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Music, and the soundtrack was nominated for two Grammy Awards.
The movie was transformed into a Broadway show, which opened two years ago this month and swept the awards circuit including being named Best Musical by the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards. The show is still running on Broadway and has since opened in London and Melbourne, Australia.
Tickets range from $26-$96.
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What exactly does a spider-pig do?
Even Mike Reiss, writer and producer for "The Simpsons" and contributor to "The Simpsons Movie" could not answer that.
He could, however, take blame for contributing to the increase of couch potatoes in the world today.
Reiss visited the College on Thursday, Jan. 19 for the College Union Board's Welcome Back Lecture. He spoke about his Harvard University background, his short-lived animated show "The Critic," the 20- episode "Queer Duck" and, of course, his work on "The Simpsons."
Reiss showed clips throughout the lecture, providing anecdotes of each situation, including one of his first-ever "Simpsons" clips featuring a cameo from Mary Poppins. Reiss claimed that he took the episode to Julie Andrews herself and she allegedly cursed him out.
Little did she know, "The Simpsons" would end up shaping both American and international cultures.
In 1989, Reiss and his fellow writers forecasted that "The Simpsons" would only last for six weeks, as most new shows often do. This year, Fox will air the show's 500th episode on Feb. 16.
Now of course, if "The Simpsons" actually aged, Reiss predicted that Marge would be collecting social security and Homer would have already been dead for five years.
The 23-year-old show has no end in sight, however, and continues to evolve. Lisa, for example, has gone from a vegetarian to a Buddhist, and Reiss said that if the show keeps going, "We will make her a cannibal, or go to Rutgers."
Another example of the evolution of a character is Smithers. After the first season, Smithers' race and sexual orientation completely changed.
"Smithers is the first man in history to go from black and straight to white and gay," Reiss announced, to which audience members laughed.
Aside from his writing, "Simpsons" fans may recognize Reiss from an actual episode.
The writer showed a clip of an episode from 1991, when Lisa developed a crush on her substitute teacher. Reiss based the character off of one of his own teachers and kept telling the artists that he wanted the substitute to have some sort of a deformity.
"The deformity was they made him look like me," he revealed. The audience instantly started laughing as they recognized the episode.
Reiss eventually left "The Simpsons" (not for that incident) and made his own show, "The Critic."
He showed a clip from "The Critic" where a Howard Stern reincarnated cockroach received the same birthing rituals as Simba. The clip caused many people to question why the show was ever canceled to begin with. Despite this rather entertaining clip, the show did not receive much praise and was canceled. The clip caused many people to question why the show was ever canceled to begin with.
Reiss went on to write 17 children's books, including, ironically, Christmas books.
"For those of you who haven't seen a Jew before, this is a Jew," he said, referring to himself.
Next up for Reiss was a return to "The Simpsons" and a new venture "Queer Duck," a rather self-explanatory animated series. The show is extremely popular, Reiss said, especially in Britain.
Reiss was also one of the writers behind "The Simpsons Movie."
As for this, he cannot believe that one of the most memorable moments for moviegoers was spider-pig. According to Reiss, the joke was written randomly for no reason and thrown in at the end of the creation process.
A single episode of "The Simpsons" takes from eight months to a year to produce, so it was understandable that Reiss was flabbergasted as to why a random joke put in at the end would be such a hit.
But perhaps lightning really does strike when least expected. Reiss knows this firsthand.


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Release Date: 2012-09-14 (NY)
Genre: Action/Adventure, Suspense/Thriller
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What do you get when you cross a hapless assassin who has trouble shooting the right person, another hitman with a metal plate in his head (an automatic bulletproof vest for the brain) and a paranoid mafioso-style boss in deep seclusion in the snowbound Carpathian mountains? The answer is SnowmanÂ's Land: an astute, aesthetically pleasing and Fargo-esque black comedy of errors; it isnÂ't just the Coen brothers who can have fun with the farcical fallout of professional killers who are not quite at the top of their game.
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Portion Of Dallas North Tollway To Close For Bridge DemolitionIf you plan on traveling on the Dallas North Tollway in the Plano area this weekend, or if you live there, the NTTA is going to close a portion of the road for a bridge demolition.
Animation Released of New Dallas North TollwayDrivers can now see what the Dallas North Tollway will look like when addition of a fourth lane is complete.
Get Ready To Slow Down On Part Of Dallas North TollwayThe speed limit is being lowered between Beltline and Frankford Roads to 55 mph during construction.
Chisholm Trail Parkway Speed Limit Could Be RaisedIt took 60 years to design and build the Chisholm Trail Parkway and 18 months of driver complaints to realize planners made a mistake.
Dallas North Tollway Closures SaturdayClosures at Thoroughfare B and Dallas Parkway scheduled December 19.
NTTA To Expand Toll RoadsOn Wednesday, the North Texas Tollway Authority board unanimously approved to move projects forward -- some already in the works -- to improve congestion.
A New Way To Display Mavs PrideThe Mavs TollTag is the newest in NTTA specialty TollTag lineup.
Rapid Growth Comes To Rockwall's RoadwaysAn area once isolated from the rest of North Texas is now much more accessible because of one toll road.
NTTA Lowers Speed Limits On Dallas North TollwayThe lowered speed limit is to help ensure safety for both drivers and workers during nearly three years of construction work.
DNT At I-635 Ramps Closed OvernightThe Dallas North Tollway (DNT) at I-635 ramps will be closed overnight for work on the LBJ Express project.
Snow Creates Slick Spots On DFW RoadsFluffy flakes of snow started falling across North Texas on Friday morning, but they quickly created slick spots on area roads. Drivers are urged to take it slow.
TXDOT, NTTA Shift Into Gear To Pre-Treat Area RoadsWith a winter storm blowing into North Texas later this weekend, crews hit the road to pre-treat highway interchange ramps, bridges, and overpasses to protect them against ice or other frozen precipitation.


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What is chickenpox?
Chickenpox is a common childhood disease. It causes an itchy, blistering rash and is easily spread to others.
Until 1995, chickenpox infection was very common. Almost everyone had been infected as a child. Now there is a vaccine available to prevent chickenpox. Two doses of the vaccine are recommended for children, teens, and adults.
What causes chickenpox?
The disease is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. It is passed from person-to-person by direct contact or through the air by coughing or sneezing.
Who is at risk for chickenpox?
Any child or adult who has never had chickenpox or been vaccinated against it is at risk for getting the disease.
Chickenpox is passed from person to person by direct contact or through the air by coughing and sneezing. It can also be spread by being exposed to the fluid from the blistering rash. Once exposed, symptoms usually appear within a couple of weeks. But it may take as few as 10 and as many as 21 days for the chickenpox to develop.
Chickenpox is contagious for 1 to 2 days before the rash starts and until the blisters have all dried and become scabs. The blisters usually dry and become scabs within 4 to 5 days of the onset of the rash. Children should stay home and away from other children until all of the blisters have scabbed over. It is important that people who are infected avoid those with weak immune systems, such as those with organ transplants, HIV, or those getting cancer treatment.
Family members who have never had chickenpox have a high chance of becoming infected when another family member in the house is infected.Most people who have had chickenpox will be immune to the disease for the rest of their lives. However, the virus remains dormant in nerve tissue and may reactivate later in life causing shingles. Very rarely, a second case of chickenpox does occur. Blood tests can confirm immunity to chickenpox in people who are unsure if they have had the disease.
What are the symptoms of chickenpox?
Symptoms are usually mild in children. But symptoms may be life-threatening to adults and people of any age with weak immune systems. However, each person may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- Fatigue and irritability one to two days before the rash begins
- Itchy rash on the trunk, face, scalp, under the armpits, on the upper arms and legs, and inside the mouth. The rash appears in several crops; it starts as flat red spots and progresses to raised red bumps that then become blisters.
- Feeling ill
- Decreased appetite
The initial symptoms of chickenpox may resemble other infections. Once the skin rash and blisters occur, it is usually obvious to a health care provider that it is chickenpox. If a person who has been vaccinated against the disease is exposed, he or she may get a milder illness with less severe rash and mild or no fever. Always consult your health care provider for a diagnosis.
How is chickenpox diagnosed?
The rash of chickenpox is unique. Diagnosis can usually be made on the appearance of the rash and a history of exposure.
How is chickenpox treated?
Specific treatment for chickenpox will be determined by your health care provider based on:
- Your overall health and medical history
- Extent of the condition
- Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- Expectations for the course of the condition
- Your opinion or preference
Treatment for chickenpox may include:
- Acetaminophen, such as Tylenol (to reduce fever). Children with chickenpox should NEVER be given aspirin.
- Skin lotion (to relieve itchiness)
- Antiviral drugs (for severe cases)
- Bed rest
- Drinking plenty of fluids (to prevent dehydration)
- Cool baths with baking soda (to relieve itching)
Children should not scratch the blisters because it could lead to secondary bacterial infections. Keep fingernails short to decrease the likelihood of scratching.
What are the complications of chickenpox?
Complications can occur from chickenpox. They are more common in adults and people with weak immune systems. Complications may include:
- Secondary bacterial infections
- Pneumonia (lung infections)
- Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain)
- Cerebellar ataxia (defective muscular coordination)
- Transverse myelitis (inflammation along the spinal cord)
- Reye syndrome. This is a serious condition marked by a group of symptoms that may affect all major systems or organs. Do not give aspirin to children with chickenpox. It increases the risk for Reye syndrome.
- Death
When should I call my health care provider?
If your symptoms get worse or you have new symptoms, call your health care provider. You should tell your provider as quickly as possible if you get these symptoms:
- A fever that lasts longer than 4 days or goes above 102°F (38.8°C)
- The rash becomes more red or warm and tender, and has pus
- A change in mental status, such as confusion or extreme sleepiness
- Having problems walking
- Stiff neck
- Having problems with breathing or a frequent cough
- Frequent vomiting
Key points about chickenpox
- Chickenpox is a common childhood illness. It is easily spread to others.
- There is a vaccine available to prevent chickenpox.
- Symptoms are usually mild in children. They may be life-threatening to adults and people of any age with weak immune systems.
- The rash of chickenpox is unique and the diagnosis can usually be made on the appearance of the rash and a history of exposure.
- Treatment helps reduce fever and itchiness of rash. Children with chickenpox should NEVER be given aspirin.
Next steps
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your health care provider:
- Before your visit, write down questions you want answered.
- Bring someone with you to help you ask questions and remember what your provider tells you.
- At the visit, write down the names of new medicines, treatments, or tests, and any new instructions your provider gives you.
- If you have a follow-up appointment, write down the date, time, and purpose for that visit.
- Know how you can contact your provider if you have questions.


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It's almost as if I'm talking to God.
I'm sitting across the table from John Lasseter, the driving force behind every painted rock, every piece of ugly crust pie, every tail-fin stalactite, every fizzling neon sign, every blooming cactus, every crack in the sidewalk in the new Cars Land, which is based, of course, on the movie he directed.
"This land is going to age beautifully," he said, as if he knew.
What Lasseter couldn't do – seemingly the only thing – was summon a longtime friend to join him for the day his creation came to life.
Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who died in October, was Lasseter's creative partner for 25 years.
"I wish he was here to see this," Lasseter said.
Watch a video tour, narrated by Lasseter, of Cars Land.
Back in the day – when Pixar (a Lasseter/Jobs creation) was an unknown film company embarking on its first feature, "Toy Story" – Jobs tried to explain the importance of filmmaking.
"In five years," Jobs told Lasseter, "my Apple computer will be a doorstop. If you do your job right with this film, it could last forever."
Friday at Disney California Adventure, everyone will be able to see what Jobs meant by forever. The movie "Cars" became Cars Land, which is destined to be part of our popular culture and an Anaheim destination until there are no more Anaheim destinations.
Thursday, Lasseter walked the streets of his fictional town, Radiator Springs, which isn't fictional anymore. He was asked if he thought about his new land from a child's point of view.
He smiled and explained that he's still that 7-year-old kid from Whittier, a "Disney geek" who grew up to be a Jungle Cruise ride operator and, eventually, to have the longest title – chief creative officer for Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studio and principal creative adviser for Walt Disney Imagineering – in the history of titles.
"To a 7-year-old kid, no one built this," Lasseter said. "It just is. When I walk into this place, I see happy faces. That's why we built it."
Five years ago, Lasseter set out to make Disney California Adventure into an "E-ticket thrill and E-ticket story-telling." His task was to get California Adventure "up to the level" of the other Disney parks around the world.
Even his son Ben – who is now a Jungle Cruise ride operator, just like the old man was – got into the creative process. Ben Lasseter was walking through Radiator Springs when it was little more than a construction site. Ben suggested that Dad should try to make that moment – when the sun sets and the neon lights come on – into a special occasion every night.
So Dad took Ben's advice. Like in the movie, the world stops at dusk, a song plays ("Sh-boom, Life Could Be A Dream") and the neon lights come on.
"When you see the lights come on, it is so breathtaking," Lasseter said.
Lasseter said he was compelled to create "Cars" after a trip along Route 66, the old highway linking Chicago to the West Coast that was supplanted by quicker routes.
"These towns were bypassed," he said. "At one time, the world came to you every day. Then, you're not needed anymore."
He learned from his Route 66 experience.
"The journey in life is the reward," Lasseter said.
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There are many snowflakes falling this February. Across the United States, we have had more snow than usual and winter is not even over yet. For many children, the snow has been delightful as they have had snow holidays. Youngsters have made snowmen and snowballs. They have also enjoyed sledding. However, for most adults, even those who love the winter, they see the record snowfall as a nuisance. After all, the snow makes driving dangerous as they roads become slippery due to the icy conditions. It is more difficult to take public transportation with the snow piled so close to the sidewalks. Going to work is quite an adventure for commuters with all that white stuff.
The outdoor chores that home and business owners must engage in is shoveling snow, which is good exercise. In Newark, New Jersey, one can hear the people shoveling the snow that just keeps coming and does not seem to stop. While there is a blizzard and the weather conditions are treacherous, there are various activities that we can do to fight off the cabin fever.
Here are some ideas to have fun indoors during the winter. Make the night of the blizzard a fun family movie night. You can also engage in creative activities such as crafts, drawing or painting. Those who want to keep their minds sharp can complete brainteasers.
Use music to forget the storm and simply relax. You can simply listen to your favorite songs, sing aloud and play an instrument. Gather the family together and have a karaoke contest.
Those who love to cook can make delicious baked goods in the oven. Eating these foods will give you the energy to shovel the snow the following morning after the storm.
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Canadian Pension Giant Expands In New York
Over on Park Avenue, steps away from the Waldorf and a few miles away from Zuccotti Park, there's a different kind of occupation coming together. This one's Canadian.
OMERS has taken over 20,000 square feet in 320 Park Avenue to accommodate investment staff from its real estate, capital markets, infrastructure and private equity team.
OMERS Private Equity has actually been on the ground for awhile, working out of a temporary office about 1/7th the size of the new place, since around 2009. The expanded office is part of a strategy to become even more competitive in bidding for U.S. assets. The OMERS PE staff in New York is already up to nine people, with a few more likely to come on board, according to Senior Managing Director Mike Graham.
Given its structure, as part of one of Canada's largest pension funds, OMERS PE definitely enjoys some advantages as a direct investor. It isn't constrained by the same investment periods as its competitors – meaning it can afford to be choosy with the assets it buys and the prices it pays.
Similarly, a difficult exit market doesn't keep the managing directors up at night, since OMERS PE can hold assets for an extended amount of time. Graham said one company has been in its portfolio for 16 years, rather than trying to "prep in three, ready in five." Graham said that potential appeals to management at companies intent on executing long-term growth plans.
Additionally, OMERS is in a position where it can provide elements like mezzanine finance, which can occasionally be a stumbling point for getting deals done.
One factoid that OMERS likes to throw out there is that for every dollar the pension fund spends on investment costs internally, it generates $25 in investment income, and for every dollar spent externally it generates $10.
That kind of success, and the success from other Canadian funds' co-investment activities has generated quite a bit of attention (our colleague Shira Ovide joked recently that the only way to get a large LBO done may be to bring on a Canadian partner), and over the past few months a number of U.S. plans have announced co-investment programs, hoping to tap directly into deals and avoid fees.
Graham said OMERS PE is more focused on its own direct deals rather than teaming up, though it has worked with other sponsors before. OMERS PE and Berkshire Partners took an equal stake in the $2.1 billion purchase of Husky International earlier this year. But OMERS already had an existing relationship with the firm, having already invested in Berkshire funds.
As to whether U.S. pension funds might find the same success as direct investors, Graham said one key component would be formulating a compensation structure to attract top investment talent. "Without a competitive compensation plan it's going to be tough," said Graham.


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CREW Sues DOJ for Refusing to Release OLC Memos
Washington, D.C. — Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court seeking to compel the Department of Justice (DOJ), Attorney General Eric Holder, and Assistant Attorney General Virginia A. Seitz to make Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinions available to the public as the law requires.
The government has relied on OLC opinions to justify a broad range of controversial policies, including extraordinary rendition, the use of torture, and the killing of Americans abroad. These opinions constitute unpublished statements of policy and interpretations of the law that have been adopted by the executive branch and its agencies. By effectively creating a body of secret law, OLC and DOJ are undermining our democratic government.
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"In light of recent revelations regarding the National Security Agency, it is of increasing importance that Americans know what the executive branch thinks it can and cannot do — and why," said CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan. "Our democracy is undermined when the government operates under secret law. All citizens have the right to know what the law is. We expect the judiciary — tasked with enforcing federal laws — will agree and force the administration to reveal its legal theories."
The Freedom of Information Act requires executive branch agencies, including DOJ, to make public "final opinions" and "statements of policy which have been adopted by the agency." Formal opinions from OLC are binding, definitive interpretations of what the law means. DOJ does not prosecute individuals who act in reliance on those opinions, even if those actions are later determined illegal. These opinions help shape government policies and dictate government actions, yet DOJ makes only a few available to the public.
In a July 3, 2013 letter to Assistant Attorney General Seitz, CREW asked that OLC opinions be released, but OLC refused, claiming the opinions are confidential, pre-decisional legal advice that can be withheld.
Sloan continued, "What is DOJ hiding? Why, exactly, shouldn't Americans understand how the administration interprets the laws governing our nation? Far from the most transparent administration in history, the Obama Justice Department seems remarkably similar to the Bush Justice Department."
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K.C. Beard is in his first season with the SMU men's basketball team. His responsibilities include film exchange and film breakdown. He also evaluates all film sent into the staff, supervises and coordinates the setup and teardown for practice, and schedules shootarounds and practice times for visiting teams. Beard also manages the new Crum Basketball Center video equipment and assists in all aspects of the program.
Beard joined the Mustangs after serving as the team manager with the Boise State men's basketball team in 2007-08. He helped with the Broncos as they went 25-9 while capturing the WAC regular season and tournament titles and advancing to the NCAA Tournament. At Boise State, he assisted in team travel, video editing, recruiting mail-outs, scout team, and other activities involved in day-to-day operations of the basketball program.
He graduated from Boise State in 2008 with a B.A. in business management and minor in Spanish. He previously attended Big Bend CC in Moses Lake, Wash., where he played basketball for one season. He has also served a two year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to south Texas.


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In Defense of Food Sovereignty: Stop Water Grabbing!
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Declaration of La Via Campesina in the Alternative World Water Forum
We, as peasants' and farmers' organizations from countries all over the world, members of La Via Campesina, met between the 12th and 17th of March 2012, for the Alternative World Water Forum in Marseille, France. Among others, the testimonies from Turkish, Brazilian, Bangladesh, Madagascar, Portugal, Italy, French, and Mexican delegates gave voice to the distress of "environmental victims", making known the plight of people affected by dam construction, by the shale gas and mining industries, by the grabbing, commodification, scarcity and widespread pollution of water, and by the repression and murder of activists who are defending water.
We demand that the right "of" and "to" water should be respected within the framework of food sovereignty. The right "of" water means continuous respect for the entire water cycle.
We state that the privatization and commodification of water and of any other common good (land, seeds, knowledge, etc.) are crimes against the planet and against humanity. Large-scale dams and hydro-electric projects grab and sequester water, taking no account of the needs, traditional practices and opinions of local communities, and totally disregarding the protection of ecosystems.
La Via Campesina at World Water Forum FAME RALLY
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The Voluntary Guidelines on the Tenure of Land Fisheries and Forests are complete
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(Rome, 13/03/2012) Last Friday, 9th of March in the evening, the Committee on Word Food Security (CFS) completed the intergovernmental negotiations of the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on theTenure of Land Fisheries and Forests in the context of National Food Security. With the successful completion of these negotiations after a participatory process lasting nearly 3 years, the CFS has shown clearly that it has the capacity to bring a wide variety of social actors to the debate and to seek solutions to one of the most difficult and delicate issues we face today, that of access to natural resources for food production/provision. More than 45 persons representing 20 civil society organizations attended the final round of negotiations.
The Guidelines contain valuable points that will provide backing to organizations in their long struggle to ensure the care and use of Resources and Natural Goods in order to produce more nourishing food, so helping to eliminate hunger from the world by addressing its root causes.Ensuring access to land, fisheries and forests is absolutely vital, not just to enable small food producers to nourish the world. Access to natural resources is a question of dignity and a matter of life and death for millions of peasant communities, pastoralists, indigenous Peoples and fisher folk. In many parts of the world, land-grabbing causes great suffering by displacing people and communities and destroying and confiscating their lands, further increasing the incidence of violent conflicts.
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Stop Water Grabbing!
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La Via Campesina Media Advisory
Representatives of small-scale farmers and family farmers member of La Via Campesina from Madagascar, Mali, Bangladesh, Mexico and several European countries will come to Marseille, France from March 12th to 17th. They will share their experiences on the struggle to defend small-scale farmers right over water. They will also present their solutions on how to cope with the water crisis.
La Via Campesina sees the water crisis in the world as a direct result of water grabbing by transnational corporations, such as bottling water corporations, tap water corporations, and large-scale agribusiness corporations. Their main objective is to take bigger profit by grabbing the rights of small-scale farmers and ordinary people over water for drinking and farming. Industrial agriculture model with the monoculture plantation, high chemical pesticide and synthetic fertilizers has been worsening the water crisis.
It is totally a failure to expect any solutions on water crisis from those corporations.
The farmer delegates of La Via Campesina in Marseille bring their concrete and genuine solutions to the water crisis that base on the agrarian reform, food sovereignty and agro-ecology. They will also actively take part in the alternative forum "FAME" with other social movements.
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by Greg Landry, M.S, Exercise Physiologist
Aside from all the health benefits of exercise, a good exercise program can also help you save money and possibly even make more money....and you can implement an effective, comprehensive exercise program with very little expense.
Research has demonstrated that people who exercise on a regular basis save thousands of dollars in medical expenses over a lifetime. Because exercise improves the immune system, exercisers usually experience fewer colds and other respiratory infections and thus have fewer "down days" and doctor bills. Exercisers also have fewer lower back problems, and the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and certain cancers is lower in exercisers!
Exercise also increases mental acuity, reduces fatigue, and improves the quality of sleep...leading to improved productivity and quality of life for most people.
A comprehensive exercise program consists of two components; aerobic and anaerobic. They work together to give you all the benefits you can derive from an exercise program.
- Aerobic exercise refers to exercises like brisk walking, jogging, swimming, aerobic dance, outdoor cycling, stationary cycling, rowing, stair climbing, etc. The benefits of aerobic exercise are numerous including increased caloric expenditure, increased metabolism, increased energy levels, decreased incidence of cardiovascular disease, etc.
The simplest, most liked, and usually least expensive of these is walking. Or, If you already have the required equipment such as a rower or stationary cycle, or access to a swimming pool, these would also be inexpensive options. If you're interested in buying exercise equipment, never buy it new! Free classified-type newspapers around the country are LOADED with ads for used exercise equipment! I've gotten some great deals by keeping an eye on those classified papers.
I recommend doing some form of aerobic exercise on a daily basis, preferably first thing in the morning. Forget this "twice a week" stuff! Our bodies were "designed" to be active on a daily basis! When we are, all sorts of wonderful things happen, including the fact that our metabolism soars!
Although you should try to average about 30 minutes per day, even if you can only do 10 minutes some days, that's a lot better than doing nothing! Get in the habit of exercising every day...just like brushing your teeth. Ideally, your heart rate should be in your "target range" for most of your aerobic exercise session. That can be calculated as follows... (220 - age) x .6 is your lower limit and (220 - age) x .8 is your upper limit. For example, if you're 40 years old, your lower limit would be 108 beats per minute (180 x .6) and your upper limit would be 144 beats per minute (180 x .8).
- Anaerobic exercise is the second component of a comprehensive exercise program and refers primarily to resistance exercise like weight training to tone and strengthen your muscles. Weight training is loaded with benefits such as increased metabolism, improved appearance, increased fat burning 24 hours a day, increased sense of well-being and confidence, decreased incidence of osteoporosis, etc.
Weight training can be done at a health club or less expensively at home. For less than $20 you can usually buy the dumbbells (small weights) needed for an effective home weight training program. You should weight train three days per week and it can be accomplished in 20 to 30 minutes.
My experience over the years is that most people try to "buy" a successful exercise program. They believe that if they "buy" the "latest and greatest" exercise gadget or if they "buy" the magical new supplements that burn five pounds of fat a day, or if they "buy" a health club membership, they can achieve their exercise goals. The fact is that an effective, comprehensive exercise program can be implemented with very little expense! Get started! :)
Be sure to check with your health care professional before making any changes in your activity habits.
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