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Wow! How obtuse can one person be? And what does it say about your followers when a leader has so little intelligence.
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I see stupid people… Oh its just the communist/progressives on MSNBC!
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Then do it! So far the GOP has been acting like a bunch of progressive cowards!
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January 14, 2013 at 12:56am
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January 5, 2013 at 6:59pm
The 2nd Admendment is NOT about hunting! It is about protecting ourselves from thuggish tyrants lik Prezzi Hussein, AG Holder, Fin-steen, Lootenburge, Screwmer… ect.
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January 2, 2013 at 9:03pm
Really! Why can't he tell Prezzi Hussein this regarding his marxist agenda!!!
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January 2, 2013 at 8:59pm
So basically let's all be victims and subjects of the government! Who says marxists can't manipulate stupid people.
December 16, 2012 at 12:46pm
Why is it the question is always about "control" and not about our God given right to protect ourselves and the lives of others!
December 15, 2012 at 11:38pm
6 adults denied the right to defend themselves and their students! Why do the hollywood communist thugs want to deny us our right to defend ourselves from their criminal thug friends and thier communist administration who will use this crisis to come down hard on law abiding gun owners.
November 12, 2012 at 6:36pm
So much for freedom of speech! Bet Mrs. Aceta would not have been suspended for saying something negative about President Bush. Sharon don't let them deter you from speaking the truth!
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October 13, 2012 at 5:51pm
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Take a hike out of my country and take your marxist drones w/ you!!! Enough of you hollywood communist!!!
October 13, 2012 at 5:42pm
Time to turn the Middle East into a glass parking lot! It's either us or them.
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Wow! And the "Race baiters", i.e. professional extortionist, call white American's racist and bigots when they vote for someone just because he is black and practice discrimination in their own communities by ostricizing their own whom disagree with them!
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Mr. Williams is exactly RIGHT! His dad must have taught him the same thing my dad taught me and that is "Listen to what people say but more importantly pay attention to what they do. That will tell you what they truly think." But if you listen carefully to BHO he is telling us that he is a black liberation marxist!!! If you have read any of karl marx or engel's philosophies you can hear them in OBH's speeches. However they have plenty of help from the RINO's, i.e. McCain and the Bush's!
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Yep! Thats right Van Boy! We won't quit until every communist/progressive/marxist/liberal/collectivist is eradicated from our great country! Strange you don't move to cuba or North korea.
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To "Time_To_End_The_GOP_12″ ~ As I agree w/ you on there is plenty of blame that the GOP should share for now I'll take "Progressive lite" over the heavy handed marxists in the White House and Senate! We simply need to get back to the original intent of the US Constitution and STOP the progressive agenda on both sides of the aisle!!!
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Just prior to the West side of Maryland Avenue getting doused, Vachier-Lagrave completed his challenge on the opposite sidewalk. He sat beneath the world's largest chess piece and awaited his fate.
Who knows? Maybe it's the secret to winning five games in a row. Caruana's case study certainly didn't hurt.
As you heard, much of the chess elite are getting drenched thanks to a single catalyst -- GM Anish Giri. MVL took the liberty of nominating five candidates instead of the normal three, but hey, 2700s get special treatment in lots of ways.
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As evening fell, all six players' paths converged at the World Chess Hall of Fame. The third installation of "The Burning Boards" by artist Glenn Kaino took place in a blacked-out room.
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Just after the next photo was taken, a funny incident occurred.
Just after Shahade delivered a pretty dovetail mate, she laughed hard enough to blow out her own king. "But it was mate on the board!" she joked.
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It's nice!!
Is it a draw if the smoke alarm goes off before checkmate?
Happy to see the severe tension broken by some good clean fun. Good sport awards to MVL and Yasser.
What a fun way to promote chess, which many people consider a staid game because of the seriousness and focus of the players. It is great to see the players relaxed, and enjoying the artist's concept, smiling, and laughing. We often only see the players before the games, when they are trying to get focused, and after the game, when they are either happy with the win or draw, or very disappointed in their play.
This pictoral album really dispays a lighter side to the players on their day off, and helps to humanize the game, and players. They can be cold and calculating at the board, and still enjoy their friendships off of the board, although I know there are some rivalries. This is part of what makes this great game of war, a war of the minds, where we can build friendships, and comraderie, in the midst of heated composition. I think this represents the best aspects of this game of thrones.
WOW. You've brought these amazing chess events to life! Plus, you've been part of the action. Congratulations! Can hardly wait to see Danny Rensch drenched! I hope he then nominates you for the challenge, Mike! Looking forward to seeing those videos!
creative concept!
Nice touch of MVL to give blac the opportunity to see the checkmate several moves in a row.
Awesome as usual Mike.
I can't believe MVL challenged me... We will see what I can come up with
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@melvin - Since the players were playing non-professionals, many of them did not play for a quick kill, since it would end their game. I'm sure he saw the mate.
Two of the chess professionals (who I will not name -- not players in the tournament) played versions of the four-move checkmate.
Nice update thx
Where's Topalov?
Pretty awesome. Not all are having a great event but all are still enjoying Saint Louis. The candle chess was pretty awesome.I'd like to see MVL vs Naka at tennis.
Nice article as always!!! thanks!!
It's quite obvious we chess fans are indebted to you and Peter, Mike, but you took the standard brilliant reports to a whole other level of splendor!
Thanks for that, and thanks for all the people (players included!) at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis for providing us with one of the most exciting chess tournaments of the past decade (IMO, though I've only been playing for two years, so my opinion doesn't hold much weight as I missed many great tournaments ).
There must be an error in the MVL "immortal Wax Game" as there was 15.Qf7#.
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Eleven-year-old Caroyln Hollis (right) receives a Movember mustache Saturday from part-time Amherst Veterinary Hospital employee and grade 12 student Renee Cole (left), who was recently accepted into Oulton's College two-year veterinary technician program, Saturday during the aforesaid animal health care facility's first open house since owner Dr. Tanya Sparling took over the hospital a year-and-a-half ago.
AMHERST-Passionate. That's the word that best describes Dr. Tanya Sparling and her dedicated staff's commitment to each and every animal that enters the Amherst Veterinary Hospital that she has owned for the past year-and-a-half.
"We've had a fantastic turnout today," exclaimed Sparling. "We have a teddy bear clinic, as well as face painting, that kids are having a lot of fun with. The adults are commenting that it is nice to see what is going on behind the scenes," she added.
Complete tours of the Amherst Veterinary Hospital were provided to anyone who was interested in learning more about the medically advanced animal health care facility that contains an animal pharmacy, three exam rooms and an x-ray room.
"Our laboratory is state-of-the art," stated Sparling. "Ninety-per-cent of our veterinary hospital's urinalysis is completed in house for faster results," she added.
One of the reasons that the Sparling and her staff are so passionate about animals is the fact that they are pet owners as well. Case in point, employee Natasha 'Tasha' MacIntosh utilized her own dog Carma, a Valley Bulldog, during the Ear Cleaning 101 demonstration. Other demonstrations included a live ultrasound demo, surgery videos, as well as talks on such topics as flea and tick treatments and nail trimming.
"I started working here as a volunteer in April of 2012," stated part-time employee Renee Cole, a grade 12 student who was recently accepted into a two-year veterinary technician program at Oulton's College. "I worked as a receptionist during the summer. Now I'm back to part-time. I work mostly out back doing maintenance, but, I have gotten to watch some operations and help with taking temperatures. I love it here it; I like the people I work with and I love the animals."
Another word that can be used to describe the aforesaid facility is compassionate: there is a separate entrance for pets requiring euthanasia as well as a comfort room.
"On behalf of the Amherst Veterinary Hospital, I would like to thank you all for coming out today," stated office manager Jen Carey. "Thanks to the staff as well."
"It's been a very enjoyable experience," stated Sparling. "I hope that our staff took something away from the open house as well, the first one since I took over a year-and-a-half ago. I'd like to have one every year or year-and-a-half," added Sparling.


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MIDLAND, MI — Two players who starred for the Great Lakes Loons in 2013 did the same on a larger stage Sunday when pitcher Julio Urias and shortstop Corey Seager played in the Major League Baseball Futures Game as part of MLB All-Star Weekend.
Seager started at shortstop and batted third for the United States team, which earned a 3-2 win. Seager was 0-for-1 at the plate and was hit by a pitch in the third inning.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the Los Angeles Dodgers will promote Seager to Double A Chattanooga after the All-Star Game. The Dodgers have given Seager permission to stay in Minnesota for Tuesday's All-Star Game to watch his brother, Seattle's Kyle Seager, play in the game.
Seager hit .352 with 18 homers in 80 games for Rancho Cucamonga.
Urias, 17, threw one inning for the World Team, throwing a 1-2-3 fifth inning, striking out Washington Nationals prospect Michael A. Taylor on four pitches — a 94-mph fastball, a 74-mph slider and two more 94-mph fastballs.
Urias is 1-1 this season at Rancho Cucamonga with a 3.44 ERA in 17 games, including 13 starts. In 52 1/3 innings, Urias has 58 strikeouts.


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CHICOPEE – The Chicopee girls soccer team guaranteed an improvement upon last year's 5-10-3 season when they won their sixth game over Longmeadow on Oct. 6. Six days later, the Pacers guaranteed themselves a playoff berth with a victory over Chicopee Comp.
But at no point this season have the Pacers settled for modest improvement. Instead, coach Kyle Thibault's team has only picked up steam as the season has progressed.
The Pacers won their fourth consecutive game Friday night at Szot Park, jumping on visiting Amherst Regional with early goals on their way to a 4-1 victory and earning another milestone for the season. With the win, the Pacers locked up the Central Division championship.
"When we come out ready to go and the intensity's high, we can hang with anybody. We just move the ball well, we play smart, we play simple, it makes it easier and they just get in a rhythm," Thibault said.
Chicopee came out with energy from the opening whistle, using its front-line speed to pressure the Hurricanes in the offensive zone. Junior Cassidy Fournier just missed scoring the opening goal of the game less than three minutes in, when a chip beat Amherst goalie Becca Carkhuff but skipped just wide of the post.
Less than five minutes later, Fournier's luck was better when she buried a pass through the box from Maggie Willette into the back of the net to put the Pacers ahead 1-0.
Chicopee didn't let its intensity level dip with a one-goal advantage, adding to the lead when senior Sam Maynard won the ball from an Amherst defender and took it in herself, finishing with a perfectly-located low shot into the right corner of the net to make the score 2-0 in the 23rd minute.
After the loss, Amherst coach C.J. Holt said the Hurricanes didn't turn in a poor performance, but Chicopee deserved the result.
"They kept track of our mistakes on the scoreboard tonight, they really did. We played really well I felt, but they capitalized on their chances and they created more chances with high pressure," Holt said.
It looked like the score would stay 2-0 at halftime, but just before the break Fournier struck again, taking a pass from sophomore Tamara Nicholson inside the penalty and scoring with one minute to play in the first half.
Fournier now has seven goals on the season, third on the team, but her total is especially impressive because for most of the season, Thibault played Fournier on defense.
"She's kind of played everywhere for me," Thibault said. "She's a smart player, she's fast and obviously and she can bury them in goal."
Friday's loss took away the slim possibility Amherst had at winning a share of the league title, but the Hurricanes have already earned their first playoff appearance in 10 years.
Holt said his team has the capability to beat the Pacers if the two were to face again in the postseason.
"We can play with them, we know we can play with them. Tonight was their night, those Chicopee girls played hard," he said.
The teams traded goals in the second half, as Tamara Nicholson scored her eighth goal of the season to make the score 4-0 before Amherst forward Lizzy Simon beat the buzzer with seconds left on the clock to earn one back for the Hurricanes and make the final score 4-1.
The Hurricanes will face league opponents Holyoke and Cathedral to finish the season.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The city of Birmingham is more than a month into its 2014 fiscal year, but the impasse between the Mayor William Bell and the City Council still continues, with no signs of cracking.
A week after the council's resolution asking Bell to allow a vote on the city's stalled $380.98 million budget continues to go ignored, Councilwoman Kim Rafferty proposes that the group ask the State Attorney General for guidance.
Rafferty proposes a resolution asking Attorney General Luther Strange for an opinion on the council's authority as it pertains to calling for a vote on the city's spending plan.
Rafferty's resolution is a follow-up to her resolution last week that asked Bell to allow the vote. With that request disregarded by Bell, Rafferty said it's time to move to the next step.
"As we now know, the Mayor has chosen to ignore the resolution of directive from the Council last week. I was prepared for this to happen," Rafferty said. "However, the next step for our current situation is to appeal to the Attorney General for clarity. That would delineate our next step and prove we are most focused in doing our jobs."
Today is day 37 day without a new budget for the 2014 fiscal year that began July 1.
The disagreement is mainly about Bell's request for more money than he originally included when he presented the budget in mid-May. The mayor wants extra cash for "Mow More," his new weed removal program, which was already set to receive $3 million.
Bell also insists upon having additional money for more 1963 civil rights anniversary activities. The council continues to say no altogether for more 1963 commemoration cash, but insists that its office retain $1.56 million in discretionary spending.
Rafferty's resolution last week asking Bell to allow a budget vote was unanimous but mostly symbolic. While the council remains united on its spending plan, it cannot order Bell to take action.
Bell so far has refused to move the budget items, and only the finance director can certify numbers in the budget. Finance Director Tom Barnett reports directly to Bell.
Bell's office continues to remain silent on the issue or answer questions about the stalemate. Instead of moving on the budget, Bell continues to submit spending requests item by item.
Rafferty and other council members said that process cannot continue and a solution must be found to force a vote on the budget. Still others have quietly advocated taking no further action on the budget fight until after the Aug. 27 municipal elections.
Councilman Steven Hoyt earlier offered a more aggressive strategy, saying the council should sue Bell, asking a judge to order action on the budget. Hoyt is chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee.
It would be up to the council to prove irreparable harm to the city if it continued to operate without a new budget.
Rafferty has said she's not against going to court, but wants the council to have legal guidance and clarity before taking that major step.
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a review of
Elaine Scarry, Dreaming by the Book
by Ellen Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University
[rpt. with permission from Poetics Today 24.1 (2003): 127-37]
Dreaming by the Book. Elaine Scarry. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999. 292 pp.
When I was a graduate student in the 1960s, I asked a neurophysiologist friend how my brain allowed me to understand what it meant for my love to be like a red red rose. "Hmph," he snorted, in scorn of my presumption: "I work on a single neuron in the squid." Even though he is also a prize-winning poet himself, he was not interested in speculating about how the phenomenology of understanding poetry might be instantiated in the brain. Accepting this rebuff, I contented myself with the formal theories of meaning that predominated at the time. Describing a theory as "formal," at least in generative linguistic circles, was and still is a shorthand way of saying that it makes no claims about how the components and processes hypothesized by the model might map onto either the processes of the human mind, as psychologists would describe them, or its physiology or neurology. Theories that do make such claims have recently come to be called theories of embodiment, and it is as a contribution to these theories and to their struggles against formalism that I value Elaine Scarry's book.
The formalist disengagement of levels of description is a methodological reduction that produces a distinction between form and function, usually with an assumption that the two will eventually be reconnected. The advantage of this approach is assumed to be that, even while the second goal is elusive, work can continue on the first. There is an unspoken trust that the explanation of the relationship will somehow emerge from the sheer density of the descriptive work in stage one, but there are always those who will try to hasten its coming. Reaching, immodestly, thus, for answers to the Big Questions about how human heads make meaning, some literary scholars in the 1960s invested in a heretical version of New Critical formalism called stylistics. In these studies,[1] the descriptive categories of linguistics were mobilized to describe formal differences among writers, and
This work had not gotten very far, however, when Stanley Fish (1980a [1973], 1980b) attacked the project with even greater scorn than my neurophysiologist friend had shown. Don't fool yourselves, he told these hyper-formalists, into thinking that you are discovering the connections between form and meaning. Your project is incoherent because it assumes two contradictory positions at once. It begins with an assumption that any intended meaning can be expressed in more than one form, since only if this is true could an author's style be truly a matter of choice. Yet, it must also assume that a given meaning can only be expressed by one form, since only if this is true can it be claimed, as the stylisticians did, that, in describing the author's formal choices, they have identified the intended meaning automatically and objectively.
Fish's critique of the stylisticians' assumptions was itself open to criticism,[2] but it was an important landmark in the ongoing struggle against reductionism in literary theory. It also served to bring into clearer focus the larger issue of determinism and choice in language and thought, already broached by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. (1967) and, in the 1970s, featuring centrally in the language theory of the Yale deconstructionists.[3] In Fish's own work on seventeenth-century poetry (1967, 1972), he did not make the mistake of claiming that he had discovered an objective method of arriving at the meaning of a text. He demonstrated, nevertheless, that he shared the stylisticians' underlying curiosity about how writers lead, even ensnare, readers by the form of their texts. Thus, although there were, no doubt, important differences among the American deconstructionists, the reader response critics,[4] and American critics such as Stanley Fish and Jonathan Culler, all confronted the exclusions enforced by the New Critical focus on the text itself, all revealing how hard it is to live with the constrained ambitions of formalism.
Also during the 1970s, some literary critics became bolder in their demands for the recognition of readers' distinctive experiences as part of the process of making meaning. This demand appeared, for example, in what seemed to many to be an ignorable fringe preoccupation of women: feminist criticism. But, soon, other groups widened the demand for an accounting for difference, a demand that could not be accommodated within a theory that ignored the social contexts and also the explicitly embodied reality of readers. The social critique of Michel Foucault (1969), in its insistence that the power structures of a culture can be read off that culture's evaluation and use of specific texts, argued for the recognition of bodily, class, and gender differences as the grounds for resisting power. An impressive diversity of academic voices was raised in the 1970s to speak of power sharing and the multiplicity of truths. In the practice of the anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1973), for example, in the history of science (see Arbib and Hesse 1986), and in the essays of the population geneticist R. C. Lewontin (1983) there were both a new recognition of the interconnectedness of systems not previously understood as causally connected and a respect for the complexity of those interrelations. It became increasingly possible to question the methodological reductionism that had insulated the study of material texts from the study of the biological producers and consumers of texts or that had generalized them into a single system called the text or discourse.
At the same time, social scientists and humanists began to hear from cognitive scientists about connectionist or parallel processing models of brain function.[5] As distinct from the computational model of mind (propounded by John von Neumann in the 1950s and defended, famously, by the linguist Jerry Fodor [1979] as "the only model we've got"), connectionist models do not, as the digital computer does, take the outcome of one computation as the input to the next. They do not, that is, depend on a linear and hierarchical sequence of ordered processes. Parallel processes within the brain make many computations on many kinds of input data simultaneously, producing competitive patterns of activity, some of which come to dominate the brain's activity, probably because they are the more stable ones and are mutually reinforcing in the production of useful results. Another way of saying this is that, in a connectionist model of the mind, individual neurons do their work by being appropriately connected to large numbers of similar units. They become appropriately connected over time, developing according to the growing experience of the individual brain. The patterns of activity that are reinforced and become established are those that work for the benefit of the individual organism. In the neo-Darwinist terms some cognitive scientists have borrowed, those patterns of neuronal activity that come to dominate are those that fit the organism for the jobs it has to do in order to survive.
Compared to what seemed to most humanists the blatant unsuitability of the binary or digital computational model to ground an understanding of how one reads poems, the connectionist models once again raised hopes that there might yet be a non-reductionist answer to the questions of how the material body (including its brain) produces and understands the unique texts we consider literary. Crucially, the binary models could not recognize just those kinds of shadings and gradations that interested literary readers. A description of the activities of a connectionist or parallel processing model, however, comes closer to describing the actual feel of one's common experience of thinking.[6] This model suggests that one's everyday sense of mental life as being somewhat fragmented, as proceeding from a mix of the habitual and the cognitively challenging, and as producing judgments of varying strengths with varying degrees of security is just conceivably related to the parallel jostling for attention and competition for supremacy which the connectionists hypothesize to be taking place among neurons and among groups of neurons under your hair.
When one begins to understand the complexity of the interactions of the human brain's thirty billion nerve cells and learns that the neuronal connections in the brains of even two cloned fruit flies are not identical, one begins to see why connectionist models of brain activity seem appropriate for what theorists of embodied difference want to explore. The way Gerald Edelman (1998: 42) describes the brain's organization would thus encourage a literary theorist to hope that a closer mapping between poem and brain may yet be possible:
Each brain has uniquely marked in it the consequences of a developmental history and an experiential history. The individual variability that ensues is not just noise or error. . . . It is an essential element governing the ability of the brain to match unforeseeable patterns that might arise in the future.If, in real brains, control is decentralized or distributed among a set of nonhierarchicalized nodes that can, by virtue of this three-dimensional and gradient capability, deal with unforeseen experiences, then it is conceivable that a cognitive science based on this new model would be able to map how experienced readers can understand a sentence such as "Do not go gentle into that good night." Perhaps we need not assume an unbreachable barrier between the way neurons behave and the way people behave. These revisionary sciences might be able to shed light on just how humans produce and understand previously unencountered and apparently ungrammatical or meaningless verbal formulations that are both related to already familiar meanings and are also significantly different‹just different enough to allow the speaker to say something newly valuable because it is different.
The challenge, then, to the computational model of mind parallels a broader challenge within the social sciences and the humanities to the hegemony of hierarchical thinking and converges interestingly with several post-poststructuralist theories of the embodiment of knowledge.[7] These latter are theories that attempt, each from its own direction, to help literary study recover from its inherited Cartesian dualism and also from the deep skepticism engendered by its overvaluation of the abstract mind. From Judith Fetterley's (1978) feminist claim that being a woman rather than a man makes a significant difference in how one reads "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" to George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's (1980) claim that language is patterned by (for example) the symmetry and verticality of our human bodies, studies of literature and language were waking up to the losses that had been incurred by the abstraction of interpretative strategies away from bodies and by the absorption of all meaning into textuality.
Elaine Scarry's 1985 book, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World, was crucially important to this recovery and to the struggle to find a way of talking about the analogical knowledge bodies provide. Its title is almost enough to make its claim. Our bodies, she asserted, know some things very well: pain, for example. From this foundation we might build a way of using language to analogize among bodily experiences and the ideas we trust, or want to trust, as truths. Scarry's 1999 book, On Beauty and Being Just, argues, then, if only by implication, that humans learn not merely from the pain of torture, the ugly side of the physical world; it is the material nature of human bodies that counts. Scarry now claims that the sensations of physical pleasure experienced in the presence of beauty share with extreme pain the ability to force the suspension of thought and revalue the habitually valued abstraction which is one of the outcomes of routine human mental processing. For Scarry, symmetry, something we know phenomenologically, both visually and kinesically, is the embodied version of justice. Knowing the one is knowing the second.
Again, in Dreaming by the Book, Scarry regales us with her own luscious language transformations, here, of the beauty of her garden and its birds, arguing against dissipating the power of experience itself by carelessly and overly rapidly transforming it into abstraction. Her accomplishment in these three books has been to warn against the loss incurred by the collapse of distinctions along the continuum from the idiocentric experiences of the individual through language to the abstractions of politics and ethics. By her decision to foreground the poetry and the powerful images both from books and from her own lived experience, and simultaneously to subordinate the references to research in cognitive studies, her book asserts that the local and particular must not be buried in theory. Grounded in J. J. Gibson's (1979) interactive approach toward vision, and learning from Stephen Kosslyn's (1980, 1995) recent work on visual imaging to move toward an understanding of the way the imagination depends on everyday visual competence, Scarry considers a group of hypotheses about how literary texts induce us to produce images with unusual vivacity. She thereby nourishes the goal of that chain of literary scholars before her that eventually it will be possible to fill in the dots between lines of poetry and human brains. The project of being able to describe how the architecture of the eye supports the ability of Homer to make us see visions is part of the larger one of asking how bodies (different bodies) analogize from what they know by virtue of having bodies and, ultimately, of understanding how humans fit into and fit themselves to the worlds they live in.
In electing to publish many separable claims about how authors make us see vividly, grouped and summarized as "five formal practices" (239), Scarry indicates, by her adjective formal, that she is more comfortable describing the texts than asserting their meanings. Thus, there is virtually no discussion here of the function of the vivacity that emerges from these formal practices. She nevertheless makes an important generalization about the way texts and brains relate, namely, that good writers are good because they construct their texts so as to recruit the brain's built-in abilities: "imaginary vivacity comes about by reproducing the deep structure of perception" (9). Good writers do not tell us what we need to understand; rather, they know how to tell us what we are able to understand.
Scarry herself worries (256 n. 6) that her argument may be circular, but the problem, I believe, is probably its very high level of generalization and the distance between the generalization and the details of the many examples. The strong version of her claim (which she does not in fact make), based on the connectionist model described above, would hypothesize that the structure of perception can be read from the ways the authors successfully mobilize aspects of it. This is an important claim for literary theorists interested in how the new cognitive sciences relate to their work, because it implies a potentially productive interdisciplinary bi-directionality. Not only might the theories of the cognitive scientists explain to the literary critic how poetry is understood, but, at the same time, the evidence of how literary texts are read should provide evidence to the cognitive scientists about the structure of the brain. Specifying how this works is a project for many hands, and Scarry's methodological decision not to report in detail on the cognitive research that has apparently prompted or confirmed some aspects of her own speculation makes this book unhelpful as a guide to the work that awaits those interested in filling out the hypothesis.
But if it is not a systematic guide, it is a richly suggestive one. For me, Scarry's most provocative conjectures are those concerning the relative ease or difficulty with which a reader can be led to envision what the author is imagining. The variety of suggestions here that human minds grasp some kinds of knowledge more easily than others because of the way those minds are constructed promises, when pursued, to provide just the kind of enrichment that will save the theory from circularity or vacuousness. It promises, that is, to add an important gradience and thus specificity to the claim that the structure of the mind is displayed by the ways writers call on readers to envision. It will also have implications for the perennial literary issues of change and of style and periodization‹just those issues over which Fish tangled with the stylisticians. One might ask how or even whether specific features in the historical and cultural context of a text and its author contribute to its ease of understanding.
Given this potential for understanding the relationship between cognitive and cultural construction, it is unfortunate that Scarry never acknowledges the importance of an individual's visual memory, stocked, as it must be, by both unique experiences and the cultural contents of one's surroundings. In discussing Homer's image of a "surging assembly" (119), for example, she praises the aptness of the poet's images of waves at sea and fields of grain in the winds. Today's readers, however, are surely just as familiar with surging assemblies from watching the nightly news and may, depending on where they live, have rather less-vivid images of the sea or of wind-bowed waves of grain. The question of how readers' reactions to texts differ depending on their own stores of visual memories is not even referred to here. This is particularly odd for someone who seems to be learning so much from her own personal visual life. It has long been known that the functioning of visual processes is influenced by the kinds of visual experience that have been available to an individual visual system as it develops.[8] It would be hard to argue, for example, that computer image morphing, now regularly used in animated advertising, has not encouraged new and easily imagined transformations for many readers. Scarry is clearly entitled to prefer flowers and birds to television advertising (see her Acknowledgments), but her bias has here handicapped her effort to learn about the evocation of visual experience.
Scarry also disappoints by her neglect of the intensive work already done on the way the modular systems of the mind/brain translate among themselves. Clearly involved in the success of the texts that interest her are the way different parts of the visual system are differently engaged by (for example) the language system. Although her own prose shows her to be highly sensitive to the power of language, she does not discuss what she surely knows about the rhetoricity of language, its limits and possibilities. She makes no distinction, for example, between the claim that the movement of light fabrics, a gauze curtain or a silk scarf, is relatively easy to imagine‹presumably because, given the light weight of the fabrics, any stored memory of a curtain (and less obviously) a scarf may itself already represent it in motion‹and the similar claim, as she sees it, that "wheeling" is an easy movement to imagine. The first may indeed be a question of visual memory, while the second may be also a matter of the lexicalization, in English, as a single verb, of just that symmetrical movement she claims is so easy to envision. Similarly, her remarks about the ease of imaging movement from verbal descriptions of stretching, folding, tilting, circling, and skating are empty without reference to the iconic nature of parts of speech. Many verbs refer to movement, and we know this from their morphology: consider the different images that occur to you when you hear the word rock and, then, rocking.
I suppose it is a sign of how stimulating her discussion of imagery is that I found myself producing additional examples or counterexamples throughout the book. One of the most striking in my memory is of a heavy object moving, arising in response to Scarry's claim for the ease of imagining light materials moving. In the last scene of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1979 [1860]), on the flood-swollen river, "some wooden machinery had just given way on one of the wharves, and huge fragments were being floated along." This large object, never clearly delineated, crashes into the rowboat in which the novel's protagonists are attempting escape, and they are killed. "The huge mass was hurrying on in hideous triumph." Although Eliot never even tries to help us imagine the exact shape of the machinery, the verbs float and hurry seem entirely sufficient to stimulate the required picture in my mind, even though they contain no semantic references to shape. I imagine the scene clearly, and Eliot seems to know that it does not matter if the shape I envision is different from the one she envisions.
If much remains to be done in the investigation of how phenomenological transformations or physiological translations among brain modules are accomplished (see Jackendoff 1987), we do not have to start from scratch. On the physiological level, for example, the interconnectivity among vision, language, and kinesis is an issue on which an enormous amount of work has been done in cognitive linguistics and in formal semantics. Word and image studies have already begun to answer questions of what can be well translated, what will be lost, and what added in the transformations. Cognitive cultural studies have begun to suggest that different people differ significantly in how they manage these translations and that these differences may be culturally encouraged.
But, as Scarry's choice of a nonacademic publisher signals clearly, I, as an academic literary theorist with a strong interest in cognitive science, am not her intended audience. Indeed, just those features of her approach which make her book less useful than it might have been to me, namely, her avoidance of the familiar terminology of such academic topics as inference and reference, grammar and rhetoric, word and image studies, and verbal and visual memory, surely make it readable to a wider audience. Scarry's niche is already constructed: she speculates, proposes, and occasionally shocks by her startlingly new connections. She stimulates academics to consider issues that do not fit into the academic containers we already have. Her detailed insights into her own experiences provide the data eventually to be connected to the abstractions of interpretive theory. Whether or not we agree with how she perceives things to be, they suggest an agenda for a great deal of work at many levels from the neurological through the functional and up to the most abstract.
In sum, Scarry seems to be trying, as many literary theorists have been, since Northrop Frye's (1957: 18) demand that literary criticism be more than a "history of taste," to reckon just how far we can engage with the discoveries of science without being distracted from cultivating our own gardens. To me, then, the value of her study lies in her rejection of reductionism and her encouraging us to notice small but significant phenomenological differences. Her hypotheses testify to a healthy respect for both the difficulty of and the necessity of accounting for the material complexity of the interactions of individual readers with valued cultural texts and with the various social/biological systems within which writers and readers grow. This is a book that literary theorists interested in the way human brains and bodies understand literary texts will want to read; and as my lightning summary of the concerns of literary theory over the past forty years indicates, that is more or less all of us.
Ellen Spolsky
Bar-Ilan University
Arbib, Michael, and Mary Hesse
1986 The Construction of Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Chatman, Seymour, ed.
1971 Literary Style: A Symposium (New York: Oxford University Press).
Culler, Jonathan
1982 On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).
Dolezel, Lúbomir, and Richard W. Bailey, eds.
1969 Statistics and Style (New York: American Elsevier).
Edelman, Gerald M.
1998 "Building a Picture of the Brain," Daedalus 127 (2): 3769.
Eliot, George
1979 [1860] The Mill on the Floss, edited by A. S. Byatt (London: Penguin).
Feldman, J. A., and D. H. Ballard
1982 "Connectionist Models and Their Properties," Cognitive Science 6: 20554.
Fetterley, Judith
1978 The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
Fish, Stanley E.
1967 Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost (Berkeley: University of California Press).
1972 Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press).
1980a [1973] "What Is Stylistics and Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things about It?" part 1, in Is There a Text in This Class? 6896 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
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Fodor, Jerry A.
1979 The Language of Thought (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Foucault, Michel
1969 L'Archéologie du savoir (Paris: Gallimard).
Fowler, Roger, ed.
1975 Style and Structure in Literature (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).
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1970 Linguistics and Literary Style (New York: Holt Rinehart). [End Page 136]
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1973 The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Harper Torchbooks).
Gibson, J. J.
1979 The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (Boston: Houghton Mifflin).
Groves, Philip M., and Kurt Schlesinger
1982 Introduction to Biological Psychology, 2d ed. (Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown).
Held, R., and A. Hein
1963 "Movement-Produced Stimulation in the Development of Visually Guided Behavior," Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 56: 87276.
Hirsch, E. D., Jr.
1967 Validity in Interpretation (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press).
Holub, Robert C.
1984 Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction (London: Methuen).
Jackendoff, Ray
1987 Consciousness and the Computational Mind (Cambridge: MIT Press).
Kosslyn, Stephen M.
1980 Image and Mind (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). 1995 "Topographical Representations of Mental Images in Primary Visual Cortex," Nature 378 (6556): 49698.
Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson
1980 Metaphors We Live By (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Lewontin, R. C.
1983 "Gene, Organism, and Environment," in Evolution from Molecules to Men, edited by D. S. Bendall, 27385 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Love, Glen, and Michael Payne
1969 Contemporary Essays on Style (Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman).
McClelland, J., D. Rumelhart, and G. Hinton
1986 "The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing," in Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition, vol. 1: Foundations, edited by D. Rumelhart et al. (Cambridge: MIT Press).
Mosteller, Frederick, and David Wallace
1964 Inference and Disputed Authorship: The Federalist (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley).
Mountcastle, Vernon B.
1998 "Brain Science at the Century's Ebb," Daedalus 127 (2): 136.
Scarry, Elaine
1985 The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (New York: Oxford University Press). 1999 On Beauty and Being Just (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press).
Sebeok, Thomas, ed.
1960 Style in Language (Cambridge: MIT Press).
Spolsky, Ellen
2001 Satisfying Skepticism: Embodied Knowledge in the Early Modern World (Aldershot: Ashgate).
2002 "Darwin and Derrida: Cognitive Literary Theory As a Species of Post-Structuralism," Poetics Today 23: 4362.
Suleiman, Susan, and Inge Crossman, eds.
1980 The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press).
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[1] See, for example, Sebeok 1960, Dolezel and Bailey 1969, Love and Payne 1969, Freeman 1970, Chatman 1971, and Fowler 1975.
[2] The only way Fish's criticism could be understood to have hit its mark would be if the meaning of "choice" were trivialized so that an author's "choice" (his or her freedom, indeed), meant simply that either of (say) two possible forms would work just as well, producing no difference at all in meaning. However, the same semantic dynamic that allows language change over time also allows a writer to use familiar words and phrases in new ways and thus to express fine distinctions by differentiating even very close synonyms. It is precisely the ability to exploit this possibility of language that distinguishes an interesting writer from an ordinary one.
[3] In the anti-Cartesianism of the deconstructionists, the issue of how the form of a text produced its meaning was made to disappear by the denial of the distinction between reader, context, and text. See Culler 1982 on Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller.
[4] See, for example, Suleiman and Crosman 1980 and Holub 1984.
[5] See Feldman and Ballard 1982 and McClelland et al. 1986.
[6] "Neurons can take on any one of a series of values over a continuum, transistors in digital circuits only a 0 or a 1" (Mountcastle 1998: 30).
[7] See Spolsky 2001 and 2002.
[8] The standard reference here is to Held and Hein 1963, demonstrating the importance of individual experience (and motion) to the development of the visual system. Other related experiments demonstrating the importance of experience are summarized in Groves and Schlesinger 1982.


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Whopper, MS> I have been in contact with the very entertaining GuyK at Charming, Just Charming. His old body has been falling apart recently, but his wit and enthusiasm has been undiminished. The question remains, will he make it to the famous Christmas Place or not. Looks like he goes to see Catfish about every weekend and his Jayco is always ready to go. He has an open invitation and everyone down here is waitng for three things. Turkey Season, Crappie spawning and our friend GuyK.


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The Lower Yuba can really be considered two rivers — the 12-mile stretch from the mouth up to Daguerre Point Dam and the section from Daguerre up to the Englebright Dam. The lower section is not much of a fishery anymore — a few trout here and there and some good shad and striped bass fishing in high water years but that's about it. Migrating species like salmon and steelhead negotiate the lower river quickly and are difficult to catch.
The few miles of the Yuba immediately above and below the Highway 20 bridge, however, support a prolific wild rainbow trout fishery and produces nice fish in the 13- to 20-inch range. In the fall, the river gets invaded with a bunch of 15- to 17-inch half-pint steelies but winter fish to 12 pounds are occasionally taken as well.
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The Tomcat is a "variable geometry" aircraft in that the wings can be extended at right angles to the fuselage for takeoff and landing and can be swept back for cruise. The ship can move through the sound barrier and achieve a speed of Mach Two — or roughly 1,400 miles per hour. It can operate up to 500 miles from its carrier base.
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The F-14 entered the Navy inventory in 1972.
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European Union negotiators agreed to an increase of 2 percent in the bloc's budget for 2012 a174.000 million, after more than 15 hours of discussions that ended in the early hours of Saturday.
The agreement was seen as a victory for governments lacking funds through the debt crisis of Europe, which had opposed the demands of EU lawmakers for an increase of more than 5 percent in the budget.
But some officials said the fund to limit the increase to the expected inflation next year could leave the block unable to pay their bills and threaten its credit rating of triple A.
"This is clearly an austerity budget, since most of the Member States are in the midst of a severe financial crisis," said Commissioner of the European Union Budget, Janusz Lewandowski, who initially proposed a 5 percent increase in expenditures for 2012.
"Now there is a serious risk that the European Commission to run out of money during the next year and therefore can not meet all financial obligations to the beneficiaries of EU funds," he said.
This could occur because although it was agreed to limit contributions to a budget of 129,000 million euros next year, the government yielded to the demands of the European Parliament to allow spending commitments on the block that rise to the 147,000 million euros.
"The commitments of today become tomorrow's payments, so that in fact they are playing a dangerous game," said an EU official.
Expenditure based on "real terms"
But Britain, which had made an intensive campaign to rein in spending in the EU, welcomed the agreement on Saturday, and Financial Services Minister Mark Hoban said the austerity of the union level is vital when states members struggle to tighten their belts.
"This is an excellent deal for Britain. We have stopped the momentum of inflation proposed by the Commission and European Parliament have met the Government's promise to freeze the EU budget in real terms," he said.
"Throughout this process, we argued that Member States facing tough decisions on spending at home, could not afford these unrealistic demands," he added.
Parliament won some concessions in the negotiations, as an extra supply of 100 million euros in aid to the Palestinian territories in 2012.
More than two thirds of the EU budget are aimed at farmers and subsidies for regional aid funds, which finance road construction, environmental cleanup projects and other activities.
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Triangle Lake senior Kiana Brown won a shootout with Prairie City junior Amy Black to lead her team to a 44-40 win in the quarterfinals of the OSAA Class 1A girls basketball tournament Wednesday at Baker High School in Baker City.
The Eastern Washington-bound Brown, the state's all-time leading scorer, poured in 29 points, making 8 of 13 shots from the field, including 3 of 4 from three-point range, and 10 of 13 free throws. It more than offset the performance of Black, who had 21 points and 10 rebounds.
Triangle Lake (24-4), which lost in the semifinals in 2012 and the quarterfinals last year, will face either Damascus Christian or Country Christian in the semifinals at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Brown made two three-pointers and scored 11 points during a 13-2 run to start the second half that opened a 30-16 lead.
Prairie City (17-8) rallied in the fourth quarter behind three three-pointers from Black, drawing within 41-37 on a free throw by Black with 1:09 remaining.
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Franklin Township School reached out to members of the military serving overseas this holiday season.
On Thanksgiving morning, 8-year-old George Furino and his mother, Olivia, watched a report on the "Today" show about an 11-year-old Floridian named Savannah.
Savannah came up with an idea to have other kids write letters to soldiers overseas. She formed a foundation called Savannah's Soldiers.
George thought about having Franklin Township School participate in the program. He and his mother approached the superintendent, who then discussed the idea with teachers. The entire school wrote letters.
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Successful people are confident in their work and enthusiastic about getting things done, they are inspiring, and they empower others around them to succeed – they are engaged in all aspects of their work and life. Independence High School students will be able to enhance their "training for success" by taking a Dale Carnegie Skills for Success course this fall. The eight-session course will be offered from 6-9:15 p.m. Mondays Oct. 20- Dec. 6 at the high school.
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The Dale Carnegie curriculum, which was developed with feedback from students, includes a minimal amount of lecture. Instead, the classroom time is highly interactive, with students participating in various exercises and speaking opportunities designed to help them gain confidence and develop better communication, leadership and interpersonal skills.
McGuinness said the program can help teens be better prepared to cope with the pressure and stress of life, and "live larger" with poise and enthusiasm.
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On the brink of elimination, the battled-tested Patriots came to play.
After being locked in to a tie ball game for most of the afternoon, Kody Shexnyder delivered the go-ahead RBIs in the fifth inning to lift the Patriots to a 10-2 victory over Mandeville-based LLOG Exploration and stave off elimination in the Southeast Regional Tournament at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium Sunday afternoon.
After stranding baserunners in each of the first three innings, the Pats offense put runs on the scoreboard in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to capture the win and keep their tournament hopes alive.
"We finally got hits with runners in position," Coach Johnny Curtis said. "We had hits early but they were right at them. It was the same story last night -- we had chances but we couldn't come up with the big hits. It was a good job by our guys re-focusing themselves and giving us a chance to keep playing in this tournament."
The Patriots and LLOG Exploration exchanged blows early on.
Patriots leadoff hitter Daniel Cabrera started the game off with a triple and came home in the first inning thanks to a throwing error by Max Bodker. LLOG returned the favor in the second when Holden Harwell delivered an RBI single.
A.J. Huff lifted a RBI sacrifice fly to left field put the Patriots ahead 2-1 in the third, only to have Hunter Roig come up with an RBI single in the bottom part of the frame.
Finally, the Patriots broke the game open in the top of the fifth. With two outs and trailing 1-2 in the count, Kody Shexnyder smacked a line-drive single into left field to give his team the 4-2 lead.
The Patriots offense returned to form an inning later as Jacob Bordelon had a bases-loaded RBI single, then Hunter Dale followed suit with a RBI sac fly to make it a 6-2 ball game. They piled onto their lead again in the seventh, as Mason Matherne, Bordelon and Dale again had RBI knocks as part of a four-run inning to ice the win.
"They (the Nos. 2, 3 and 4 hitters) took it personal," Curtis said of Matherne, Bordelon and Dale, who combined for eight of the team's 13 hits with six RBIs.
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"New" Retro!
Hi Roger!
Have you tried the new designed retro? Is there any difference in feeling from the "old" one? And compared to say... the glide, which you also use. I'm intrested in buying a 7.5.
Best regards
Hi mrpalmer,
I have an '08 Retro 7.5 m2, but I have not had the chance to test it against the '07 7.5 Glide.
My guess would be that the Glide will have a little more low end (deeper draft throughout the entire sail) but the new Retro 7.5 will be faster on the top end, give
a little better stability overall, and have a greater tuning range.
I've been working on ships pretty much non-stop lately, so I'm behind quite a bit on my
'08 testing. I hope to spend more time on the water next week prior to the Windfest in Hatteras at Frisco Woods 4/17-4/19 2008.
I will have new '08 Retros in 8.5/7.5/6.5/5.5 m2 sizes (plus some new Revo's and a full set of Huckers) at Windfest so come on out and try them.
Hope this helps,
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