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This is the second week of the Britten Centennial Celebration series of programs by the San Francisco Symphony (SFS), conducted by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT), in Davies Symphony Hall. Last night saw the first of three performances of a program that could have been given the title Britten and Friends. At the core of the program was a composition that Britten wrote for two of his closest friends, the tenor Peter Pears (who was also his life partner) and one of the best remembered masters of the horn repertoire, Dennis Brain. This was Britten's Opus 31 serenade, a setting of six English poems with extended solo work for the horn in the accompanying texture of a string ensemble. The remainder of the program accounted for Britten's friendships with two of the other major composers of the twentieth century, the American Aaron Copland and the Russian Dmitri Shostakovich.
Britten may well have chosen to call Opus 31 a serenade in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Nachtmusik sense of the word. The six poems he selected cover a span of settings from sunset to evening to night and, ultimately, to the deepest sleep of death itself (even if not in this specific order). Britten selected six poets (one anonymous), each with a distinctly different "writing voice;" and the serenade, as a whole, is distinguished by shifts in "character type" assumed by both tenor and horn as the score progresses across those six songs. The entire cycle is then framed by a quiet fanfare played on a natural horn, adventurously exploring intervallic relationships among a few of the upper harmonics that have no place in the equal-tempered chromatic scale. The "Epilogue" statement of this fanfare is played off stage, allowing the sense of the entire composition to fade into the darkness of the metaphorical night it has evoked.
The tenor for last night's performance was Toby Spence, singing with a thorough understanding of each of the six poems Britten had set. This involved a minimal amount of staging, particularly when he overtly delivered Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Blow, bugle, blow" text to Robert Ward (SFS Principal Horn, standing beside Spence for this performance), rather than facing the audience. Ward's own solo work was truly stunning, capturing each "character shift" expertly and always with a secure sense of pitch, dynamics, intonation, and sonority. If there would be any quibble, it would be that Spence's effectively understated delivery could have fared better with fewer strings; but, for the most part, MTT kept the dynamics effectively under control.
The intermission was followed by Shostakovich's final symphony, Opus 141 in A major, completed in 1971. While Shostakovich would live until August 9, 1975, he had been contending with a variety of debilitating conditions since 1958. His previous symphony, Opus 135, was actually an orchestral song cycle for soprano and bass, which he dedicated to Britten. The structure was probably inspired by Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (the song of the earth); and Shostakovich's selection of eleven texts all about death may have reflected Mahler's own superstitions about death. Many thus see Opus 141 as a more optimistic composition.
The symphony definitely has evidence of humor. The opening Allegretto recalls the fun Shostakovich could have with a circus-like rhetoric; and the persistent repetition of the call-to-arms (better known as "Lone Ranger") theme from the overture Gioachino Rossini composed for his Guillaume Tell (William Tell) opera always draws a chuckle or two from the audience. (For Shostakovich the real joke came at the end of the movement, when the clarinets steal that theme from the trumpets.)
Nevertheless, the symphony as a whole has many of the same nocturnal qualities that Britten had evoked in his Opus 31. Indeed, the final movement opens with one of Brünnhilde's motifs from Richard Wagner's Die Walküre, often called the "Annunciation of Death" theme, since she has come to tell Siegmund that he will die in the next day's battle. Thus, like Opus 31, this symphony is one of many different moods; and, through some excellent choices of tempo and dynamic levels, MTT captured the distinctive qualities of each of those moods as they unfold through the four movements of the symphony.
Copland's music began the program with a much lighter offering, his "Danzón Cubano," which he composed in 1942. This would have been while Britten was living in the United States. It is thus possible that Britten may have heard it when it was first performed in a two-piano version on December 9, 1942, when Copland played one piano and Leonard Bernstein the other. The orchestration performed last night, on the other hand, was not completed until 1946, quite some time after Britten had returned to England.
The music is free of the usual sorts of "Latin" idioms we expect from the rumbas and congas of Cuban nightlife before the Revolution. The danzón is a more stately form. Every now and then Copland allows that stately façade to drop, revealing some of the raunchier rhythms; but, since the music is basically a rondo, the formality always recovers. This music contrasted sharply with what would follow: a blazingly cheerful tropical sun before it is ready to set. However, MTT gave it a spirited account, after which those of us on audience side could settle into the deeper expressiveness of both Britten and Shostakovich.


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Aghori Maha Yakshini Mantra
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guru ji pranam guru ji kam se kam iss mantra ki koi vidhi bataien kya iski bhi koi vidhi nhi hai sirf banyan tree ke nichey baith kar 5000 bar jab karna hai bas dhanyawadReplyDeleteReplies
125,000 Jap kuch dino me karne haiDelete
one common question kya yah sambhav hai ki aap kisi sadhna ko pura karein phir result na milney par aap uss sadhna ko phir sey kar saktein hai dobara specially yakshini sadhna key sambandh mein agar baat ki jaye toh?ReplyDeleteReplies
Koi bhi Sadhana dobara ki ja sakti haiDelete
Sir is there any mantra to control the anger of any person....... I mean agar koi aapko abuse kar RHA ho ..... gussa kar RHA ho to kya him tyrant use shant Kara shaken.......ReplyDeleteReplies
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sir kya iss mantra ko 3:00 am pr start to kar sakte hai but subh hone k baad bhi ise bol sakte hai ya fir dusri raat ko vapas bolna padega manra ko?Delete
sir is mantra ko subh hone tak bhi bol sakte hai ya fir ise vapas shuru se bolna padega agli raat ko??Delete
These are fearsome mantras and only the advanced Yogi should do the Sadhana.Delete
Adurushy manta it is workingReplyDelete
jarurat hai maha yakshani yantra ki.ReplyDelete
aum hreem mahayakshini PARAATHRAYAI namh or
aum hreem mahayakshini PRATHATHRAYAI namh..
which is right ?
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Why weren't schoolgirls like this when I went to school? Soft white skin, pert young breasts, short plaid school skirts and eager to work on "special projects" at night. Summer Rose, as Tess, is what many men's fantasies are made of. And tonight, she will start to earn her allowance at the local bordello. I'm ready to give her a raise.
This video is primarily a sex film. There isn't much plot. But generally the sex is good. In fact, the scenes between Honey Wilder and Steve Drake are extremely hot. However, the women who play hookers are so good at acting (or maybe they aren't acting), that they remain too businesslike and aloof. The sex scenes with them are very mechanical and not interesting to watch.
There is one especially funny scene where Buck Adams plays a young man on his first encounter with sex and with hookers. His awkward movements are funny but Aurora soon helps him lick his lack of experience. I'm glad this video was homework for me.


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In the TV opener at the Fantasy Springs in Indio, CA, Rafael Marquez gloved up against Efrain Esquivias. The 38-year-old best known for having four wars with Israel Vazquez hasn't been busy of late, and he may not be busy after this. Esquivias had great luck with his right hand, and very much so in round nine. At 19 seconds elapsed, a lead right put Marquez down. He rose, but his legs were bad, and the ref pulled the plug on his night, and maybe his career.
Marquez, now stopped in back to back fights, went 159-530 to 283-730 for Esquivias.
The two men had kind words for each other after the bout. E said that he's loved Marquez for a long time, and still does. He said he wants Leo Santa Cruz, or any titlist at 122, next. Marquez to Jim Gray said he will think about retiring.
In the first round of this featherweight scrap set for ten or fewer, Marquez (ex bantam and super bantam champ; 41-8 with 37 KOs entering; from Mexico), who last fought in Oct. 2012, ate a few clean rights. The Mexican picked up the jab as the round progressed.
In the second, Esquivias (16-2-1 with 9 KOs entering; age 30; from CA) ate a few uppercuts. Marquez had gotten warm, and busier.
In the third, we saw blood on E's left eye. Marquez got a tiny bit buzzed by a right at 50 seconds to go. Marquez ate a few of those in this round.
In the fourth, the lead right landed again for E. Then Marquez landed his own right, but overall, E was having a confident round. Same in round five; Marquez looked pretty bad, actually. In the sixth, Rafa was eating again. They fought in tight, toe to toe, with Esquivias backing up the Mexican mostly.
In the seventh, E often landed a left hook while squared up, in tight. He throws it often, with his right foot a bit out in front of his left, interestingly. Rafa got cooking late in the round, and thought he had E stopped at the bell. False alarm.
In the eighth, E looked peppy, and Marquez wasn't able to maintain his late rally from the last round. Rafa got buckled late in the round, it looked like.
Down went Marquez, and the ref halted it, at the beginning of the ninth. A lead right sent Rafa on his butt. He got up, wobbly, and the ref said no mas.
Check back for a ringside report by David Avila.
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It looks like the end of the line for Rafael Marquez. No reason to hang your head Rafa. What a great career he has had. The fights with Vasquez are legendary. All great rides must come to an end.
The post fight interview from both men was all class. Nearly brought a tear to my eye. Lol.
after the first few rounds i thought raf was on some of his bros new "vitamins"
either way the year lay off didnt work out for him against a slick solid young fighter....
he should have fought a few tomato cans,
it is time to hang them up for sure, great career and SP is right what a class act interview by both...
they mentioned rm was sent to the hospital, hope all is well
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How Grasshopper CEO David Hauser Built A Company With No Money And Lots Of Trust
by Tim Jahn on May 28, 2010
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In this interview, I'm chatting with David Hauser, co-founder of Grasshopper, a Boston based company that provides a virtual phone system for entrepreneurs.
A special edition episode from Big Omaha
I caught up with David at the Big Omaha conference, which happened May 13-15, 2010 in Omaha, Nebraska. This episode is part of a series of special edition interviews I shot while at Big Omaha. The conference is all about highlighting entrepreneurs and the amazing work they're doing in Omaha and the surrounding Midwest regions.
I highly recommend this conference and consider it the best conference I've been to all year. The speakers provided tons of value in their presentations and the event was intimate enough (they cap attendance at 500 people) to allow you to build relationships with fellow entrepreneurs and truly connect with people.
David Hauser:
My name is David Hauser and my company is called Grasshopper. I started the company six years and a half years ago with my business partner and we've grown it to about fifty people now. I love doing it every day and we have a great time.
Tim Jahn:
What is Grasshopper exactly?
David Hauser:
Our core product of Grasshopper is a virtual phone system for entrepreneurs. Press one for sales, two for support, on hold music, transferring, all that stuff you would normally get with a PBX but with no hardware or software needed. Reasonably priced so any entrepreneur can afford it and have that professional image no matter what.
Tim Jahn:
What made you start that?
David Hauser:
It was a really simple problem; we didn't have a crazy business plan. Of course, we created a business plan after the fact. Both my business partner and I had the need for it in past companies and it didn't exist. We didn't want to answer our dorm phone or our house phone or cell phone and we decided we needed a better way. So we created it.
We built Grasshopper to fix our own problem and luckily we found that a lot of other people have the same problem. We've now served over 80,000 entrepreneurs since we started and continue to grow.
Finding what you want to do is not that hard. You need to find what you're passionate about. For us, it happened to be a specific thing we wanted to do. At the end of the day, we knew we wanted to serve entrepreneurs because it's a community we love and a community we love being involved in, so this was a way for us to do that.
In terms of getting started, we raised no money, had nothing when we started. We had enough money to buy the few servers we needed to get started and literally piece it together. There's a lot of challenges in doing that, like talking to vendors, trying to get them to buy into our business plan when we had no cash to give them. Telling them we need to buy lots of big Oracle software and stuff but we don't have any cash right now, so you have to trust us and buy into what we're doing.
So we had to find some great partners who really understood where we were going and what we wanted to do, and we got them to buy in.
Tim Jahn:
That's impressive, the whole idea of a trust based relationship. I imagine that's tough these days.
David Hauser:
I think it's the same as selling your business plan to anyone else, like a partner or the first employee. It's the same exact pitch: do you believe in what we're doing and do you buy in? For a vendor, that partnership could be very easy as their risk is very low. They're financing something over 3 or 6 months. Since their risk is very low, they're willing to buy in, but we had to go through a lot of vendors before we found the right people.
Tim Jahn:
What did you do before Grasshopper?
David Hauser:
I started a few other companies, so I've always had the entrepreneurial spirit. I started a company when I was in high school and continued from there, doing everything in between. From promoting parties in New York to selling bus trips for skiing and stuff. It's always just been what I did. To make money, I figured out ways to do it.
The entrepreneurial spirit has been in my family. My dad and my grandfather both ran their own companies, so I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I think the good thing is my dad never encouraged me to go into his business. He actually didn't want me anywhere near his business. He didn't think the business would survive very long and it wasn't a growing industry, so he said I should go do my own thing. He taught me that spirit of being your own boss and creating something and a community of really employees.
Tim Jahn:
I like what you said. You needed to make money so you found ways to do it.
David Hauser:
That's where entrepreneurs come from. It's not about going to school. You need to do something you love and make money at it. The people that say you just need to do something you love, that's silly. You have to make money. It's not about making tons of money, it's about making money so you can live a lifestyle you want to live while doing something you love. And each person's lifestyle is different.
The advice I like to give young entrepreneurs is go out and do something. It doesn't matter if the idea is right or wrong, just try something. You might fail at it, but if you tried it, you're going to learn something. And maybe the best thing you learn is what you actually want to do.
When we started, we thought we were going to be the biggest telecom or whatever, but those things don't matter. What we discovered is that we truly love serving entrepreneurs. And that's where the company has gone over time. If we hadn't started, we'd still be sitting there talking about it. My advice is always go out there and do something. Try it, maybe you do well, maybe you don't, but you're going to learn.
Tim Jahn:
You talked a bit about company culture in your Big Omaha presentation. How important is that to you, the idea of having a culture worth talking about?
David Hauser:
I think culture worth talking about is important and I think what's even more important is culture you want to be in. As a founder, you want to go to work every day and enjoy the people you're with, and the environment in. And not dread that.
I think a lot of people that come from large companies just hate that environment. I never wanted to create that. I wanted to create an environment that is fun, energizing, goal oriented. It's not all about fun, because that's not really interesting. It's about working hard and having fun. Having a culture that really promotes that has been a passion of mine for the past three years. And being able to talk about our culture proudly and say this is what we're about.
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15 minutes vs 90 minutes?
By gravax on Mar 11, 2009
Today we're not comparing lover performances around the globe... and certainly not from a Frenchman's perspective.
90 minutes is the average time spent per day by a smoker during an 8H work shift (as presented here).
15 minutes is the average time spent per day by a Facebook user. (Just heard this today listening to France Info, the French information radio, while driving to work.)
Now the strange thing is that some companies (definitely anchored in the long gone 20th century) block access to some social networking sites... but still let people take a walk out of the office to smoke a cig. Now while I don't smoke, I'm not suggesting companies stop letting their employees take a lung-destructive break... I'm more looking at it the other way.
Social networks (like Facebook) are becoming a part of life. Heck, they're becoming a part of work too! Here at Sun, we encourage our employees to use Facebook. We even use it professionally to communicate with our developer communities, and our customer communities.
What the retrograde companies are failing to see is that a whole bunch of brilliant students are coming out of university. And they've been used to stay in touch with their colleagues and peer bright minds through these networks. They won't give up that link easily. They will look for companies that let them stay in touch with their fellow alumni. Employers who fail to realize that will be missing out on the brightest minds, and their competitiveness will be lessened.
It's time to shift to the 21st century, people! Social networks are a fact! Your employees use them. They will spend some time on them. And it will make them more connected, more productive, more efficient. Don't fight it. Embrace it. In the end, digging your heels in the ground won't help. It will slow you down... your competition isn't slowing down.


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The Apple iPhone 6 release date is expected in the coming months and the hype surrounding the new iPhone has reached new heights. However, as detailed below, there are several improvements that must be introduced on the upcoming Apple iPhone 6.
As Gordon Kelly from Trusted Reviews pointed out on April 8, we know that the need for the iPhone 6 to have a significant increase of the screen size is a must for Apple in order to meet the needs of today's consumers. Furthermore, we believe that this alone will not be enough to convince the public and the new iPhone 6 should be a revolution in technology, so we wanted to unveil a number of features and improvements that should be featured on the next generation of iPhone.
The iPhone 5 and the iPhone 5s share a 4-inch screen with a resolution of 1136 × 640 pixels, which was the average of a smartphone size in 2012, but the increase in smartphone screen size has grown significantly in the past two years, and the current average size is about 5 inches and with a much higher resolution.
This demonstrates once again the consumer preferences for a larger smartphone, so an iPhone 6 launch with a larger screen would be a must for Apple. A report from BGR via Yahoo! News says that Apple's new iPhone 6 is expected to feature an entirely new design with a 4.7-inch display, but this has not been confirmed.
According to a document shared by Jay Yarow, there are seven aspects of the iPhone 5 (full range, including 5s and 5c) that customers would want to change with the arrival of the new iPhone and it is these that we present below:
The battery
Many rumors surrounding the iPhone battery 6 have arisen, but it is logical that if it finally has a larger screen, the battery must have a higher capacity.
Improve the Apple Maps application
With the arrival of the iPhone 5, Apple put an end to the native Google Maps application on its operating system and decided to launch its own map application. This received some improvements with the arrival of iOS 7, but it wasn't enough to convince users. Therefore, it is expected that the new iOS 8 comes with significant improvements in the Apple Maps application and will provide improved data and a more compelling user experience.
A bigger screen!
What at first appeared to be a treat for many, has now become a necessity. As we have seen before, consumers increasingly demand a smartphone with a larger screen, so Apple can not fail in this aspect. According to rumors, it seems clear that Apple will opt for a larger screen with the iPhone 6, which may be around 5 inches, and could even release two different versions: one 4.7-inch and one 5.5 inches.
With the arrival of the iPhone 5, Apple introduced the lightning cable and after almost two years it seems that users are not entirely satisfied with it. The reversible design is something that appeals to most users, however, it seems they break easily .
iPhone 6 customization options
The design of the iPhone and the current iOS software 7 does not offer many customization options to users, unless you have installed the jailbreak on your device.
Apple confirmed the purchase of a speech recognition company that brings new technology and new professionals to Apple. With this acquisition, Apple is expected to include significant improvements to the intelligent voice assistant Siri. Novauris, the company in question, has a voice recognition technology that goes beyond understanding a single word. Reportedly, it "identifies complete phrases from start to finish" rather than recognizing words in sequence.
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The new iPhone 5s is substantially more scratch resistant than the previous iPhone 5 thanks to its aluminum frame. But Apple got a patent related to the creation of an impermeable, waterproof screen. It is uncertain if this technology will be on the iPhone 6, but it seems clear that Apple needs to improve the strength and durability of the next iPhone.
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MEDINA — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a Parma man accused of unintentionally hitting two Montville Township homes with assault rifle bullets through woods in January.
R. Daniel Volpone, 45, pleaded not guilty in March to a charge of firing a gun over a public road, a third-degree felony punishable by up to three years in prison and $10,000 in fines.
Montville Township police arrested Volpone and a co-defendant, Mark Bornino, 53, on Jan. 16 after two families called 911 to report bullets piercing their homes.
One family said a bullet passed through a wall and lodged itself in a microwave oven moments after they had left the kitchen, and police said they heard bullets flying overhead when they arrived.
No one was injured.
Police reported they found the men firing the gun at targets without backstops in Bornino's backyard, 5544 Windfall Road, Montville Township — about a third of a mile away from the two houses through a patch of woods.
A Medina County grand jury indicted Volpone and Bornino on Jan. 29, and Bornino awaits an Aug. 12 trial.
Opening arguments are scheduled to begin in Volpone's trial Wednesday before county Common Pleas Judge Christopher J. Collier.
As part of the trial, the jurors are expected to visit Bornino's property for a "jury view." Collier said attorneys will not be permitted to speak during the jury view, but his bailiff will direct jurors to look in a certain direction to give them Volpone's perspective that day.
Collier compared the jury view to giving the jurors a three-dimensional photograph.
Volpone's attorney, David Sheldon, said he wasn't denying his client hit the houses. But he said he requested the jury view to show how his client couldn't see the houses below and hit them accidentally.
"He didn't know there were houses down there," he said. "It was an accident, an unfortunate one. We're glad no one got hurt."
Both men are free from the county jail on bond, and Collier barred them from owning firearms for the duration of their cases as a bond condition.
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World Building: Revised – Part 14
New to this project: Start with Part 1
Part 14: Ecosystems
It must have become clear, already, that in the building of our own private worlds we must take severe shortcuts. A stroll through science books and websites will prove that you could spend the rest of your life developing one small part of a world-wide system to support life on an alien planet. There just isn't time. We must choose our battles, so to speak, and select only those broad areas that are needed to be developed for our stories.
Let's look at ecosystems.
Dictionary.com says that an ecosystem is "A collection of living things and the environment where they live. For example, a prairie ecosystem includes coyotes, the rabbits on which they feed, and the grasses that feed the rabbits."
On your new world the ecosystem will have to be very simple. We'll start big and work down. Of course you can drill to any depth in your creation of a world, and your story line may require such an effort in one or two specific areas.
People need to eat. They need to drink. (Again, this assumes that you are making creatures enough like humans that your reader will be able to identify.) Water must be available. It doesn't have to be easy to get, or "universally" available on your worl—think Dune—but there has to be enough to keep people alive. Food falls into the same category. Unless you intend to feed people to your people—think Soylent Green¯they will need to eat plants, animals, and where available, sea creatures.
Plants need soil and water, animals need food—plants, grains, other animals—and the water, plants and animals need to be renewable.
Depending upon when in the history of your planet your story occurs, agriculture may make survival easier. The domesticating of food and work animals, and animals that hunt for their masters would come first. Next we would find animals that protect their masters, and eventually animals–think creatures like cats and dogs–which comfort their masters, or act as companions. Might some of these animals develop levels of intelligence to do more? Might they learn to speak? (Might they eventually become a threat?)
On a copy of the broad-scale map you've made, sketch in lakes, rivers, and streams. If you have mountains with snow, sketch in the path for run-off. Determine where grassy plains might be, or forests which can support animal life. If you have broad or inland seas, consider placing fishing communities near them. Once you know where the food and water is on your world, you will be able to more intelligently place your people.


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WWE will tape the Raw portion of this week's WWE Superstars and tonight's Raw Supershow tonight from the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Below is what is advertised for tonight's Raw:
- The return of COO Triple H
- Royal Rumble fallout
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We'll have full Raw Supershow coverage tonight at 8 PM EST here at WrestlingNewsWorld.com. Former WNW co-owner Ryan Gray will be in attendance, providing us with updates from the arena.


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FBI presses manhunt for robbers accused of shooting 2 Mississippi cops, killing one officer
MISSISSIPPI, MS - More than 100 law officers continued a nationwide manhunt for an armed bank robber suspected of shooting two Tupelo, Mississippi, police officers, one of them fatally, the FBI said Thursday.
The bank robbery in Tupelo turned into a shootout Monday afternoon, and the robber or robbers escaped and remain at large, the FBI said.
The FBI, local banks and business are offering more than $150,000 reward leading to the identification and capture of the bank robber, the FBI said.
The suspect was driving a gray sedan as he fled eastbound on Carnation Street in Tupelo, the FBI said.


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UW's Carlsen Named Pac-10 North Pitcher of the Week Washington freshman Jeff Carlsen has been named the Pac-10 Northern Division Pitcher of the Week, the conference office announced late yesterday.
Carlsen, a 6-foot-6 righty from Poulsbo, Wash., threw nine-inning, one-hit shutout over Washington State last Saturday, beating the Cougars, 8-0. Carlsen had a no-hitter through five and two-thirds innings before surrendering a single. He finished the game having allowed four walks while striking out six.
It was the first complete game of Carlsen's career and the first shutout by a Husky pitcher since 1995. It was also the first one-hitter thrown by a UW pitcher since Derek Carpenter threw a seven-inning one-hitter in 1994.
Oregon State catcher Ben Bertrand was named the division's player of the week. The first-place Huskies and second-place Beavers square off this weekend in a four-game series in Corvallis.


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AIGA announced the selections from its most recent 50 books/50 covers competition over the summer. Having missed that, though, the recent exhibition highlighting these books at the AIGA National Design Center offers a handy excuse to bring it up here.
It's a well-known competition, but did you know it's been running since 1923? Take a look at the winners and an almost endless plethora of other great time-wasting eye-candy (or "research" of you may like to rationalize it) in the AIGA Design Archives. If you've never visited, it's a great place to destroy your afternoon.
It took reading 44 pages of Intervenir/Intervene before I began to get a sense of what Dolores Dorantes and Rodrigo Flores Sánchez were up to. Recurring throughout these 44 pages—throughout the entire book—are shovels, shovel smacks to the face, lobelias—aha!. . .
As presaged by its title, contradiction is the theme of Peter Stamm's novel, All Days Are Night. Gillian, a well-known television personality, remains unknowable to herself. And Hubert, a frustrated artist and Gillian's lover, creates art through the process of. . .
It's a rare and wonderful book that begins and ends with violence and humor. At the start of Etgar Keret's The Seven Good Years, Keret is in a hospital waiting for the birth of his first child while nurses, in. . .
Last year, Han Kang's The Vegetarian was an unexpected critical hit. Now, it's just been published in the U.S. and has already received a great deal of positive critical attention. The Vegetarian was a bold book to attempt as an. . .
It's been almost a year since the publication of Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah, but despite being included on the 2015 PEN Translation award longlist, and some pretty vocal support from key indie presses, the book has. . .
Jorge Eduardo Benavides' novel La paz de los vencidos (The Peace of the Defeated) takes the form of a diary written by a nameless Peruvian thirty-something intellectual slumming it in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands. Recently relocated. . .
Anyone with any interest at all in contemporary Moroccan writing must start with Souffles. A cultural and political journal, Souffles (the French word for "breaths") was founded in 1966 by Abdellatif Laâbi and Mostafa Nissabouri. Run by a group of. . .
Randall Jarrell once argued a point that I will now paraphrase and, in doing so, over-simplify: As a culture, we need book criticism, not book reviews. I sort of agree, but let's not get into all of that. Having finished. . .
Like any good potboiler worth its salt, Fuminori Nakamura's The Gun wastes no time setting up its premise: "Last night, I found a gun. Or you could say I stole it, I'm not really sure. I've never seen something so. . .
Heiner Resseck, the protagonist in Monika Held's thought-provoking, first novel, This Place Holds No Fear, intentionally re-lives his past every hour of every day. His memories are his treasures, more dear than the present or future. What wonderful past eclipses. . .


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A Pilgrimage to Guadalupe
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As he seeks answers to life's deepest questions, a pilgrim experiences seemingly chance meetings with an atheist, a social activist, Catholic monks, and others. Through his interactions with these individuals, the pilgrim distills and clarifies a universal and liberating life philosophy.
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Ford Mustang will be visiting the Empire State Building to mark the 50th anniversary of its debut there when its 1965 prototype convertible was first displayed on the building's 86th floor observatory in April 16, 1964
"New York is one of the greatest cities in the world, and it's the place where the Ford Mustang story began 50 years ago," said Mark Fields, Ford chief operating officer. "We're thrilled to be visiting the architectural landmark that has been the heart of the Manhattan skyline for 83 years with the newest generation of the car that is the soul of Ford Motor Company."
Getting the car up there, however, will require a feat of careful planning and engineering since the Empire State Building's height of 1,454 feet makes it impossible for a portable crane to lift it up to the 86th floor. In addition, the spire makes it impossible to use a helicopter. As a result, the only other is to figure out how to get the vehicle in and out of an elevator.
"Like all good craftsmen, our team is measuring twice and cutting once to make sure we can get this Mustang up in the elevators," stated Mustang chief engineer DavePericak. "Like the team that did this in 1965, the current crew visited the Empire State Building before starting and took careful measurements of its new elevators and doors before cutting up the car."
He also noted that the new model is 7 inches longer and four inches wider than the original car. In addition, Ford's technicians will be required to reassemble the vehicle in only 6 hours before it goes on public display. Readers can view the new Mustang convertible on the Empire State Building observation deck for 54 hours April 16-17 from 8 AM to 2 AM.


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There are strange facts about those who held office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. Some of the facts have been criminal in nature …
Richard Nixon had a reputation for playing a very good game of poker. While serving in WWII, he funded his political campaign with his winnings, about $6,000.
As a gambling man, President Warren G. Harding also liked poker. He lost the official White House china in a game.
President Andrew Johnson admitted to being intoxicated during his inauguration. He gave his speech while under the influence.
President Theodore Roosevelt caused quite a controversy when he invited the first African - American person to visit the White House. Booker T. Washington was the first black person hosted at the presidential home.
President Rutherford B. Hayes banned alcohol from the White House.
President Richard Nixon's name will forever be linked to the place "Watergate." Nixon never visited Watergate.
President Millard Fillmore married his teacher from the New Hope Academy. He was 19; she was 21.
President Theodore Roosevelt loved athletics, to include swimming. He often swam the Potomac River -- without clothing.
President John Quincy Adams also skinny-dipped in the Potomac.
Prior to taking office, President Grover Cleveland served as a sheriff and a hangman. He oversaw two executions.
President Franklin Pierce was arrested for running over an old woman with his horse. The case was dropped due to insufficient evidence.
In 1912 President Theodore Roosevelt was shot by John Shrank just prior to a campaign speech. Shrank's bullet traveled through the speech, through an eyeglass case, and into President Roosevelt's right lung. President Roosevelt completed his speech in a blood-soaked shirt and was rushed to the hospital. He lost the election but not his life.
When President Herbert Hoover served, he insisted the White House servants be "invisible." Thus when he or the first lady entered a room, any servant in the room was forced to hide in a closet; they could only leave their hiding place when Mr. or Mrs. President left said room.
President Ulysses Grant was arrested for speeding around Washington D.C. in a horse and buggy while he was serving in office. He told the police officer, "Do your duty, my good man," and later paid a fine of $20. The horse was impounded.
President Franklin Pierce was an alcoholic who died of cirrhosis of the liver.
President Andrew Jackson taught his pet parrot to curse. It so disrupted his funeral with four-letter words it had to be removed from the service.
President Grover Cleveland had a law partner (Oscar Folsom) who died, and Cleveland became the guardian of Folsom's 11 year old daughter, Frances. When she was 21, Frances Folsom married Cleveland at the White House.
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Silk strapless trumpet dress with lace and beading detail on the bottom and top. It was purchased from Bridal by Elma Reis. Fully-lined and boned bodice. Not altered. Hidden zipper and buttons all the way down. Small train. Wore once briefly for an indoor photoshoot and then dry-cleaned.
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Scrabble word: REGENERATE
In which Scrabble dictionary does REGENERATE exist?
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Definitions of REGENERATE in dictionaries:
- verb - reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
- verb - amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit
- verb - bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- verb - return to life
- verb - replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue
- verb - be formed or shaped anew
- verb - form or produce anew
- verb - undergo regeneration
- verb - restore strength
- adj - reformed spiritually or morally
- To reform spiritually or morally.
- To form, construct, or create anew, especially in an improved state.
- To give new life or energy to; revitalize.
- To replace (a lost or damaged organ or part) by formation of new tissue.
- To become formed or constructed again.
- To undergo spiritual conversion or rebirth; reform.
- To effect regeneration.
- One who is spiritually reborn.
- A regenerated organ or part.
- Spiritually or morally reformed.
- Formed or created anew.
- Restored to a better state; refreshed or renewed.
- verb - to bring into existence
There are 10 letters in REGENERATE: A E E E E G N R R T
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Is there any utility available to convert ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso to alternate cd image file?
I do not know what you mean by "convert". You may want to use zsync to download alternative cd using desctop cd as a base:
zsync -i maverick-desktop-i386.iso http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/maverick-alternate-i386.iso.zsync
In that case zsync will download only those parts of alternate cd that are different from desktop one.
In short, no. The alternate CD has the compressed .deb packages & the installer from Debian, whereas the desktop CD has a squashfs image of an unpacked filesystem, which is copied over. The compression used is different, so rsync or zsync won't work well.
I don't think that is possible since they provide different installers, also that would require to recreate the install packages from the livecd image, which would be too complex.


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We recently posted 5 Key Skills for Using SMART Notebook. These are 5 skills you need to learn if you want to use a SMART Board and SMART Notebook. If you want to dive deeper, here are 5 more skills I'd consider for someone more familiar with the software. They are the slightly more advanced features of SMART Notebook, but not so advanced that they cannot be widely used in your lessons. For a great mix of tips for using SMART Notebook, you can register online for either our 20 Coolest Things (You Can Do with a SMART Board) or SMART Lesson Development. Both contain a new look at some basic features, as well as using the tools below, and integrating some web resources.
1. Page Recorder
To create a Page Recording, select the Properties tab, then choose "Page Recording", and "Start Recording." The recording doesn't actually begin until something is written on the Board, or an object is moved on the page. When the recording is stopped, a navigation bar will appear at the bottom of the screen. From this bar, you can rewind, pause, play, and stop the playback of everything you recorded. If you don't like your recording, cancel it by clicking the "X" in the top-right corner of the navigation bar. To keep the Recording as one of your Notebook pages, all you need to do is save your Notebook file.
2. Magic Pen
Select the Magic Pen icon. This has three uses:
- Invisible Ink:The ink will fade away in about 5 seconds
- Spotlight: Make a complete (or nearly complete) circle, and the spotlight feature will be enabled. Move the spotlight with the grayed-out region, change the size of the spot by dragging from the center of the spot.
- Magnifier: Draw a rectangle and it will become a magnifier (to move, select the lower region and move around; to zoom-in or out, drag from the center of the rectangle). This feature can be used inside or outside of Notebook.
- To activate either the Spotlight or the Magnifier, the shape must be drawn in a continuous pen stroke.
3. SMART Recorder
You can record all the actions performed on the computer. If there is a microphone attached to your computer, you can also record your voice explaining what is occurring.
- Press on the SMART Board icon
- Select Recorder
- Press on the button with the red circle to record the entire screen.
- Press on the drop down menu beside the record button to record a selected area or record a window
- After you press the record button, everything that you see on the screen or the SMART Board, and any audio picked up by your computer's microphone, will be recorded, until you press Stop (the button with the gray square)
- Once you press the stop button, you will be prompted to save your recording. Choose the file in which you wish to save your recording.
4. Video Player*
The SMART Video Player allows you to play videos already on your computer.
When playing a video in the SMART Video Player, you are able to pick up a pen and write over your video. As soon as a pen is activated, the video will pause. Use the Photo Capture button to capture a specific frame, with or without notes, to Notebook software. Other button options include using a cursor as a pen tool, changing the thicknesses of digital ink lines, viewing the video in full screen mode as well as looping the video clip.
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5. Pin Page & Dual Page
While in dual page you can lock, or "pin," the left hand page and continue moving through the notebook pages on the right had side. Right click on the toolbar at the top of the Notebook. Select the Pin Page button and add this to the toolbar. Once this button is added, select it to pin the Notebook page, select it again to un-pin the page.
View two SMART Notebook pages on the SMART Board simultaneously.
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Somewhere public, maybe join up with a riding group - go for a ride, stop for lunch, or meet an an outdoor concert.
Pack a picnic lunch and meet at a place with a view or a body of water .. step out of the normal scerario and let ourselves share as we take in the day. Not a busy place so we are distracted.
go for a ride for coffee, iced coffee with DARK chocolate :-)
Meet for a ride!! A bite maybe! Coffee/beer!
Spaziergang/-fahrt, Cafe/Eis, irgendwo am See oder aufm Berg und schön die Sonne genießen und plaudern
Love to play pool .. don't get to as much as i would like .. I love bowling, camping fishing, hiking .. music festivals .. etc. If it has to do with the outdoors i will most likely love it!
Something fun... Preferably adrenaline fuelled... Then if all goes well food
Your choice
I'm easy to please, so I don't ask for anything fancy. A coffee shop or little restaraunt would be nice. A movie is fine, but you can't talk much! Something that let's you get to know each other, but with no pressure.
i would want to meet at a resturant/bar outside. sit and chat and if all goes well go for a ride to another place and just hang out. its the first meeting so i wouldnt expect too much. just getting to know eacheother.
I love a man who takes the initiative to plan a nice date. Location is not as important as the company. The ideal first meeting would be a place where we could talk and get to know one another.
Early dinner, non formal attire, live jazz at a lounge
First date. I am not sure. I always enjoy surpises. I love beaches, lakes picinc's. Going for long rides on the highway.
Let's cruise for a pizza and a game of pool.
Maybe some lunch or dinner,, coffee or drinks,,w'll see
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Simon Callow to play yet another quirky character in new sitcom
Callow will portray an icorrigible pensioner in a three-part show based on Andrew Birch's cartoon strip 'The Rebel'
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It would be easy to make assumptions about Josephine Hart. Married to Maurice Saatchi, she is well heeled and well connected. Extremely well heeled, in fact – the couple have homes in Mayfair, Sussex and France. And extremely well connected. At the launch party for her new novel, The Truth About Love, I recognised pretty much everyone. But I didn't, I realised before rushing up to say hello, actually know them. Bob Geldof. Charles Dance. Princess Michael of Kent. The room – a chandeliered, walnut-panelled drawing room in a grand mansion round the corner from her home – had the quiet buzz of serious celebrity and serious money. This, you couldn't help feeling as you sipped champagne and tried not to feel like a child at the grown-ups' table, was exactly what people meant when they talked about "the establishment".


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With the groundhog, and the National Weather Service, reminding us there are still a few more weeks of winter, local yarn shops in the area are doing their best to encourage their patrons to keep warm by marking down some favorite yarns. Late winter is also a great time for new knitters to learn and practice their latest craft, and buying high-quality yarn at a discount is the perfect way to do it.
Below is a roundup of local yarn shops and their current sales or deals to receive discounts and prizes. Contact the store via telephone, website, or facebook to determine their hours and restrictions:
Woolly Lamb: This northwest side gem, opened for a decade and exclusively selling Bergere de France to its Chicago-area customers, is in the middle of a weekend-long 20% off sale throughout the store. For today and tomorrow, customers can continue to receive a 20% discount on Bergere de France, Berroco, and Cascade yarns, in addition to a selection of patterns and accessories as well. The Woolly Lamb is located at 6007 N Nina in Chicago.
Montoya Fiber Studio: Today is the last day to save 30% off of the regular price on a selection of yarns moved to the glass sale bins at the front of the store. Located in Evanston, Montoya Fiber Studio is a steady contributor to charities in the area and encourages their customers to use their yarns for charity projects. Montoya is making room for the spring yarns arriving daily.
The Nook: This needlework and snack shop in downtown Lisle is hosting a needle tasting with Knitter's Pride today, from 2:00p.m. to 6:00p.m., including discounts and door prizes. The needle tasting does include crochet hooks, and their back room has a large area of sale yarns called the Bargain Nook, always marked down by at least 20% off the original price.
Le Mouton Rouge: If you are in the far southwest suburbs, Le Mouton Rouge Knittery in Morris is giving away a door prize today, with an entry for walking through the door and an additional entry for every ten dollars spent in the store today. The store is open from 10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m. on Saturdays and is located right in the heart of downtown Morris.
String Theory Yarn Company: Out in Glen Ellyn, String Theory Yarn Company is hosting a trunk show today, courtesy of Happy Go Lucky Yarns. The trunk show is hand-painted by Julie, who is also an instructor at the store, and she produces her yarn in small batches specifially for her customers. The trunk show will be available for viewing and purchase in both large and small skeins from 10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m. today.
Initially Ewe: On February 25, Initially Ewe, located in downtown Western Springs, will be previewing Berroco items for their February 27 trunk show. From 5:00p.m. to 8:00p.m., Initially Ewe will be holding their Berroco trunk show, complete with refreshments and raffle prizes, with all special orders of the yarn receiving a 10% discount. The store is accessible by Metra, as it is located next to the Western Springs Metra station, for commuters with no car.
Yarns to Dye For: In honor of the Olympics and their patriotic sweaters, Yarns to Dye For in Frankfort is giving a 25% discount on all Kraemer Yarns through the end of February. In addition, the newsletter for the store offers monthly coupons available only to subscribers, with this month's coupon list including a $6 discount on any $50 purchase in the store. Visit the store's website to sign up for their newsletter.
The end of February is a great time to support local businesses while getting the knitting creative juices flowing. With over thirty yarn shops in the Chicago area, customers are bound to find a deal within a short drive or train ride from where they may be this weekend.
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Eastern Chat-tanager (Calyptophilus frugivorus) - HBW 16, p. 326
French: Konichon dominicain
German: Ostschmätzertangare
Spanish: Tangara Dominicana
Other common names: Lowland Chat-tanager
Taxonomy: Phoenicophilus frugivorus Cory, 1883, Villa Rivas, Dominican Republic.
Molecular data suggest that genus does not belong with this family. This species was originally described in genus Phoenicophilus, and subsequently placed in newly erected present genus. Often treated as conspecific with C. tertius, the enlarged species then consisting of four races, these sharing some characters, which makes clear separation into an E species and a W species difficult; treatment as two distinct species provisional, and further study required. Two subspecies recognized.
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- frugivorus (Cory, 1883) - Samaná Peninsula, on N coast of Dominican Republic.
- neibae J. Bond & Dod, 1977 - C mountains of Dominican Republic (E to Reserva Científica de Ebano Verde).
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Madeline Hart is a 5 and a half year old child with Autism. This is the story, in Maddie's words, of her 3 years with her teacher Jaclyn. Jaclyn is leaving our family, and this is our gift to her.
My daughter Madeline is Autistic. In the world of Autism, we create books called, "social stories" to help the children overcome difficult situations, accomplishments, etc. These books are written in Maddie's words. Enjoy!
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July 6
Hipster Noir at Its Finest: Jay Caspian Kang's The Dead Do Not Improve
Soon after the opening of Jay Caspian Kang's "hipster noir" novel, The Dead Do Not Improve, an aging hippie is shot and killed. Was it murder, or merely collateral damage from a gang shooting? And is her neighbor involved, or is he the target? It's a standard enough set-up, but this is anything but a standard detective story. Kang's literary fiction debut seems like something Thomas Pynchon might write, if he were twenty-something, Korean-American, and caught up in the Internet economy.
In a way, there are two books battling each other here. The novel begins as a straightforward detective story, populated by the Warby Parker-wearing, dot-com-working characters who represent modern San Francisco. This is turf that will be familiar to fans of Lisa Lutz, the author of an acclaimed series about a family of private investigators, and it is pure pop candy. But then, Kang turns from private eye to "private I," looking at racial identity and the nature of belonging, more like Colson Whitehead's acclaimed debut, The Intuitionist. As a result, The Dead Do Not Improve is both provocative and entertaining.
The story alternates between first-person accounts by Phillip Kim, a Korean-American MFA grad who writes love advice on a website for "bros" who have been dumped, and third-person views of Sid "Keanu" Finch, a surfing detective who watches his changing city with dismay for all the things we both envy and love to hate about San Francisco. There may be a conspiracy that involves a peculiar constellation of surfers and psychedelic ex-programmers who believe that the Internet will destroy us all. Kim may be a stand-in for Cho Seung-hui, the real-life Korean American shooter in the Virginia Tech massacre. It can get weird. Roll with it.
Kang is aiming for something deeper: an examination of what it means to grow up Korean-American, and the nature of that hyphen. He uses a more white-sounding name at his job because "Nobody trusts an Oriental with love advice." But then, in a hilarious and hopelessly profane exchange, Finch's partner, who is also a cranky Korean-American named Kim, describes "Koreans as the new Jews. When white people have to stop feeling guilty about you and start planning around you, it means you've arrived." That Kim was describing his perverse joy at finding two Korean names in a newspaper article on New York City's ten worst landlords.
The Dead Do Not Improve is a darkly funny, satirical look at what it means to be: a hipster, a surfer, a Korean-American, a San Franciscan, an American, a member of "Generation Y," and more. It's ambitious, certainly, but it trips along with a hip-hop sensibility that pulls the reader along. Early on, Kim talks about others have always projected onto him: "despite my most silent, most earnest wishes, people were never embarrassed to tell me about their latest adventures with kimchi." This book is Kang's revenge, and it is sweet. And salty. And bitter. And sour. And, yes, umami.
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1. The Baby Molester and I talked only twice. The first time, she knocked on my door and asked for four eggs. I remember being amused by the anachronism--what sort of person still asks her neighbor for eggs?--until I realized it had been years since I'd had a single egg in my refrigerator, much less two.
The second time she knocked, it was well past midnight on some blown-out Tuesday. I was clicking through Craigslist w4m's, my head swimming in a desperate, almost haikulike fog--"oh my loneliness / it rolls through the foggy bay / here it comes. Again!" When I heard the knock, I hurried to the door, anticipating some new girl, the sort of beautiful girl who, when her hair is wet from the rain, looks more like a planet than a girl. But it was just the Baby Molester in a peach slip. And one limpening sock. The light from an earth-friendly bulb cut through that electric hair, exposing a fragile, mottled quail egg of a skull. A look somewhere close to smugness hovered over her shiny face. She asked for a cigarette and, after an awkward pause, asked for two. She had a guest, she explained. I gave her five and really considered asking her some questions, but did not.
2. It was Kathleen who came up with the name Baby Molester. This was three years ago, at a concert in Golden Gate Park. I had just moved to San Francisco from New York. Staring down at the mass of dank heads, I asked Kathleen, "Who knew an entire city could be filled with ugly white people?" She said, "Calm down. This is a bluegrass festival." On a dirt patch by the stage, this old hippie was stomping up a cloud of dust. Two young girls danced at her feet, clapping like drunken seals. A woman, hopefully the mother, hovered nearby, forcing the sort of smile that is forced more in San Francisco than anywhere else in this country.
Later, at a dustier, abandoned stage, we saw her again. This time she was dancing with someone else's little boy. His red beret stayed on his head by some miracle of centrifugal force. His chubby, inscrutable face was contorted into the look of a young child who is contemplating whether to cry--the wide-open eyes, the twittering chin designed to stop even the most militant of spinster armies. Kathleen murmured, "There are so many reasons why a woman that age would feel the need to molest other people's babies." After a pause, she added, "And each one of them is heartbreaking." I murmured my agreement, said something devastating about the failure of the sixties, and spent the rest of the night feeling superior to the entire state of California.
Two weeks later, when I moved into my own apartment, the Baby Molester was sitting on the stoop. I called Kathleen and marveled at the smallness of the city. She said, "Yeah, it's a small city. But all cities are small, you know?"
I tried to not hate her for saying something so stupid. But, you know.
3. I confess: I slept through the whole thing. Through the gunshots, the police sirens, the ambulance, the detective who might have knocked on my door, the hushed discussions of the neighbors. And since there was no real reason to leave the apartment the next day, I did not witness any of the police tape or the shattered glass or the crime reporters or the wary gang members walking up and down the street just to make sure.
I learned about the death of the Baby Molester because I was bored and Googling myself. I had found nothing but the same shit I always find--a five-hundred-word essay I had written for a now-defunct blog about how Illmatic had helped me grieve for my dead parents (number 14 in search), a published excerpt of my ultimately unpublished novel (number 183 in search), a pixelated photo of me, fatter, reading at a bar in Brooklyn (number 2 in image search). I was once again humiliated to know that my version of "Philip Kim" could elicit nothing more than those three flags stuck in the landscape of all the other Philip Kims of the world. Desperate (again) to find something else, I added my address into the search with a litany of hopefully descriptive keywords: ASIAN, THIN, ATHLETIC, LONG-HAIRED, BROODING, CHEEKBONES.
My hope was that some girl might have watched me lean up against a tree or maybe light a cigarette or pet an agreeable dog or frown over a burnt cup of coffee and maybe she might have caught my eye and maybe she might have decided to post something cute and short in "Missed Encounters" or some forum like that, on the decent chance that I might, in fact, be trolling the Internet for her.
When I narrowed the search by Googling my cross-streets, a link appeared to a story in the Chronicle's crime blog: WOMAN SLAIN IN MISSION DISTRICT. The details were spare--the location, the age of the victim, the adjective "elderly."
I knew it was her. Our block is short and lined with lime trees, and every other old lady I've seen walking around is Mexican.
After some deliberation, I called Kathleen. She sounded weary and practical, and although it had been over a year since we had spoken last, she politely consoled me over the murder of my neighbor, citing statistics, the fragility of our lives. One day, you take the 31 to Golden Gate Park to dance with the children of people who see you as nothing but a testament to the exhausting reality of idealism. Sometime later, an illegal immigrant fires a gun on your street, and the bullet, by force of infinitesimal chance, or God, shatters your sole window and, deflected slightly by the impact, travels exactly to the spot where you have decided to put your head for the night.
She said, "Crazier things happen all the time. You know?"
I said, "That's retarded."
She said, "What?"
"You're being retarded."
"Why do you even care so much? You told me you talked to her twice."
"Why don't you care?"
"Because it's senseless and insane to worry about stray bullets. Think of the odds."
"Well, I have to care about it. I don't have your luxury."
"She lived next door to me."
She snorted.
A cautious distance colors us all banal. At least that's the tendency. I said someone was waiting for me and hung up the phone.
After twenty, thirty minutes on the couch, I was over it. I put on my pants and left the apartment.
4. Outside, the only remaining evidence was a shattered windowpane and a sagging, trampled perimeter of police tape. Someone had smeared a pinkish substance on the white slatting that framed the window. Upon closer inspection, the pink stuff appeared to be lipstick.
Across the street, a young couple stared woefully at the crime scene. They lived in one of the gentrifier condos. The guy was always making an effort to talk to the block's indigenous Mexicans. In two years, neither the guy nor the girl had ever said a word to me because their safety was not compromised by my presence. The girl was the sort of girl who looks best in jeans and a performance fleece. She had an extraordinary ass. The man owned, but rarely rode, a turquoise Vespa.
When he saw me walking down the steps to the sidewalk, the guy shrugged, but with meaning. Because I am a bit of a coward, I shook my head, approximating his meaning. My way of saying, "It's a damn shame." To those people.
5. I wandered around for a while before admitting there was nowhere to go, so I ducked into BEAN and took a seat near the bathrooms. I hated everything about BEAN--the unfinished ceilings, the Eames-wonderful chairs, the sanitary tables, the architectural cappuccinos, the barrel-aged indie rock. Still, I was always finding myself there, partly because it was a half block from my apartment, but also because I, demographic slave, am always finding myself in the places I hate the most.
I ordered a cappuccino and read the Chronicle's crime section. Someone got beaten badly on 26th and Treat. A pizza shop was held up in Oakland. Under a footbridge in the Tenderloin, police found a homeless man who had been stabbed to death. My mind drifted to some detective story I had read back in college, and although I could recall the author's name and the particulars of the story, I could not translate what any of it was supposed to mean. I did remember that the corpse in the story was not a corpse until it became a corpse again. And that at the end, through some trick of logic, which might or might not have been inspired by Schrodinger's cat, it turned out the corpse had never been a corpse at all. I remembered not really understanding anything, really, but I did remember a girl in the class who everyone called Pooch Cooch, and remembered Pooch Box wore white and pearl earrings, and remembered that I, absurdly, had felt sorry for her. And finally, I remembered that my confusion over the story had, in part, helped convince me to give up my scholarly ambitions.
As I was sitting in BEAN, amid the city's aesthetically unemployed, the memory of my stupidity still embarrassed me. Since college, I had read maybe two hundred, three hundred books and even tried my hand at writing a difficult novel. Did it not stand to reason, then, that I might have somehow, unknowingly, developed the skills to understand the meaning of the corpse? I really considered walking up the street to the used bookstore to have a crack at redemption, but I had spent two hours in there a few days back. The girl behind the counter had a perfectly symmetrical haircut and stared impassively at everyone who entered the store. Her recommendation shelf floated nicely between the listless ether of Joan Didion's female narrators and the histories of hardscrabble things: car bombs, prison gangs, crystal meth. How could I face her twice in a week?
I sat in my seat instead. Read the paper, jotted pretend notes to myself on a napkin. One read: "WILLIE MCGEE." Another read: "You say, I talk slow all the time." A couple hours passed like that. By the time Adam walked into BEAN, I had completely forgotten about the Baby Molester.
6. Adam was from my time in New York. We both entered Columbia's graduate creative writing program at the age of twenty-three. Neither of us really ever had anything to write about, but we held to the credo that all young, privileged men in their twenties should never ever discuss their lives in any meaningful way. Our stories were about boredom, porn, child geniuses, talking dogs.
We spent three, four years that way, telling the same jokes. Adam eventually picked up a variety of drug habits because he thought they would provide a grittier spin on the traditional American Jewish experience. They did not. As for me, all my morose, nameless narrators had two living parents, and, although people were always dying, nobody ever succumbed to stomach cancer or a car wreck. To all those raceless men, death was funny or it was strange, but it was never talked about, at least not directly.
When it became clear that the thriftily coiffed girls of the publishing industry were just not that into me, I moved to San Francisco to follow Kathleen. Adam had just started dating a hard-luck porn star in North Hollywood. A year and a half later, he showed up in San Francisco with his father's car and a new girlfriend.
At some point, it became clear we had to find work. Adam started teaching creative writing at a school for the criminally insane. I got a job editing content for a website providing emotional help for men recently abandoned by loved ones.
7. Adam sat down at my table without a word of welcome. It could no longer count as coincidence, us finding each other here. We talked about TV, fantasy football, breasts. Outside, the fog had condensed down to a drizzle. The baristas started up their chatter. One was worried the rain would drive the crackheads underneath the awnings, meaning she would have to perfectly time her trip to the bus stop. Another said she liked the rain because it reminded her of her favorite soul song. Adam took a bad novel out of his jacket and began to read. I took my laptop out of my bag and read through my dumb e‑mail. After a while, Adam asked, "What's good?"
"Odd word choice."
I pointed at the computer screen. "What could be good?"
"You on Craigslist?"
"Well, that's your problem. On Craigslist, things can be good."
The mention of Craigslist loosed a current of shame. I thought about the grainy, dimly lit women of the previous night--the camera angles that soften noses, the anonymous, truncated breasts, the loose attempts at dignity, the unabashed anatomy, the ball-crushing loneliness, the labyrinthine possibilities of hyperlinks; all of it reminded me that my neighbor had been murdered the night before.
I told Adam about it. He arched his eyebrows and asked, "Through the window, just like that, huh?"
"Yeah. I don't think it was a stray bullet, though. Somebody had taken the time to smear some pink shit all around the window."
"Fucking biblical, man."
"It wasn't blood."
"You said it was pink?"
"Like lipsticky pink."
Adam stuck his pinkie in his coffee and frowned. He said, "Easy explanation. Gang violence. Nortenos. That's their color."
"She was like a sixty-year-old white woman."
"Exactly. They want los gringos like us out of their neighborhoods."
"I feel it necessary to remind you that I'm not white."
"Did you read Mission Dishin' this morning?"
"Some dude got beat up. A tech nerd."
"I saw that."
"Up on Treat."
"I saw it."
"That's like eight dudes getting beat this month. And then your neighbor gets shot. You don't think there's something going on?"
I confess it made me feel a little important.
8. Adam went back to reading his book. An e‑mail from my boss arrived in my inbox:
FROM: bill TO: phil
phil. here are today's gold members. get back to me.
A spreadsheet was attached. Twenty-six names in all.
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Courtesy: Idaho Athletic Media Relations
|Vandals 12th
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Rylee Iacolucci fired a five-over 215 at the Talking Stick North Course but it only good enough for a tie for 32nd as the University of Idaho finished 12th in the Wyoming Cowboy Classic.
Iacolucci's 215 earned him a tie for 32nd over the par-70 course. Jared du Toit was one stroke back at 216 and tied for 35th, while Aaron Cockerill tied for 46th at 218. Ryan Porch tied for 63rd at 221, with Sean McMullen wrapping up the Vandal scoring with a 223 and a tie for 68th.
Oklahoma, led by medalist Michael Gellerman's 204, won the tournament with a nine-under 831. BYU and Colorado tied fro second at 838 with Utah fourth at 849. The Vandals had an 867.