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David on David action
How fun was David Wright on David Letterman?
Some other time, David Wright mentioned in an interview that after he spent his rookiehood toting around Cliff Floyd's gear, my #1 favorite Met Cliffy bought D-Wright a couple suits. I wonder if "D" was wearing one of them last night!
In honor of David Wright's All-Startastic appearance on Letterman, I present to you my very own:
Top Ten "David on David" Late Show Moments:
10. The David Wright laugh: "HEH HEH heh hee!"
9. David Wright on Ryan Howard: "We made a trade. I told him I'd give up the Home Run Derby if he gives us the NL East." (Gives? We all know the Mets are taking that title.)
8. D-Wright's knee-jerk reaction when asked about Willie Randolph? Mad props.
7. Our #5 confesses that the "over under" betting in the clubhouse had him at "2 or 3" for the Home Run Derby. How can you not love our team?
6. As to the effects of the Derby on our David? "I still can't pick my arms up from that day."
5. D-Wright gives us the "funny story" of his brothers' reaction to the bare-handed catch last season that we all went gaga over.
4. S.u.c.k-up. (And really, obscenity filter? You're gonna bleep out "s*ck"?)
3. David's response to the "tongue-athon": "It's something that I'm very concerned about. Obviously your tongue is important to you."
2. The double-take D-Wright gives (tongue included!) when Letterman asks–are the Mets a good team, or is the National League weak? Our boy has a sense of humor!
And the #1 Top David on David moment from last night's Late Show appearance is:
1. David Letterman's "Let me get this straight. I was a Yankee fan as long as they were winning."
Cue Paul Schaffer's music please!!
And if you haven't yet enjoyed the fun-filled video links in the post below, what are you waiting for, homey?
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Hey Zoe – Sterno here, Thanks for all the MIDDAY love – much appreciated. I'll try to get you into our "Say What" next Fri. Back live Monday – till then I'm going to sit on the couch like a lazy you know what.
Talk soon
PS (Shameless plug here) – the rest of you can catch the MIDDAY 1230-1pm EST MOn-Fri and Next Stop Shea all season long only on MEts.com (new ep every Thurs)🙂
I'm going to take a poll on the filter question on my blog. That's one of hundreds of inclusions in the profanity filter that we inherited from Six Apart, and obviously a tough one not to remove, though there would be a few words combined that we probably wouldn't want to see (I'm not a moderator so I don't look for everything).
Sounds like Letterman was great.
Gah! I still haven't gotten to see the whole Letterman appearance.
(I agree about the filter issue for the word in question.)
-The Baseball Collector
Some funny rumors in the NYC tabs today… Post says we're looking at Abreau and the News says a few White Sox starters are available for relief help. What do you think?
~Eddie @ Willie Ball
At the risk of sounding penny cautious, pound shy (is that even a saying?) I think we should see what we can get without giving up too much. We probably do need a new starter–our best guys are getting older, and our young guys aren't ready yet, and we're not sure what Banny will have when he's back.
The majority of me thinks: NO! We can't give up Milledge EVER! Don't you dare! But there's a tiny part saying: Well, he wasn't THAT amazing in the majors, he might not fit the clubhouse dynamics, and maybe if he's not around we can keep Cliffy!
I cried because I had no shoes, 'till I met a man who had no feet. So I said, 'You got any shoes you're not using'?"
– Air Jordan


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Sen. Manchin's gun law obsession
Well, Joe Manchin is at it again! He was on Fox News saying he is not giving up on his gun control legislation and is reworking it to try to get it past the Senate again. You see, the senator believes we need more gun legislation to control criminals, terrorists and crazy folks.
I guess Joe believes if we pass more gun laws that eventually the bad guys will follow them. However, nothing in his bill will make the bad guys follow the law. We presently have background checks and layers of gun laws. His additional law is a waste of paper and will only reduce the freedom under the Second Amendment of law-abiding citizens. I wonder what part of "shall not be infringed" Joe does not get.
He says 85 percent of West Virginians don't want guns in the hands of criminals-well, duh! I also bet 85 percent of us don't want more gun laws that will only reduce our Second Amendment right. While terrorists are blowing up our citizens, Joe is out there trying to restrict our right to bear arms pure and simple. I'll bet when the folks in Boston were told to lock down their homes and shelter inside most wished they had a weapon to protect their family from the terrorist at large.
If you think our senator just wants to make us safer forget it. He just wants to help President Obama disarm America, no other explanation makes sense. Look at the senator's voting record from Obama care to Planned Parenthood to gun control, Joe votes with the most extreme liberal-socialist Democrats 95 percent of the time. Look up his record yourself!
We West Virginians better not forget Joe's voting history. Mr. Manchin believes we will forget how he actually voted five years from now, cause he's a "good old boy," and if he gets into trouble all he has to do is get out his rifle and shoot an Obamacare sign even though he has voted 100 percent to keep the Obamacare law. Folks we have got to stop voting for Democrats and Republicans and vote for principles. I will not forget that Mr. Manchin is actually a progressive-liberal at best. These people are slowly destroying the basic beliefs and principles handed down by our Founding Fathers.
Fred Dailey
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by Anton Shilov
United Microelectronics Corp., a contract semiconductor manufacturer from
Currently the company has no plans to produce high-end central processing units using complex process technologies, but rather intends to use its bulk CMOS fabrication process to make low-power chips.
"Honestly speaking, if you try to aim for high-end silicon-on-insulator for desktop, that goal may be too high to reach. So we will do bulk CMOS and that automatically translates into low-power processors," said UMC chief executive Jackson Hu in an interview with EETimes web-site.
However, this does not mean that UMC has no plans for production of higher-end products. UMC is currently developing a silicon-on-insulator process, which should be introduced later this year on the 65-nm technology node.
"We believe that down the road, maybe at 32 nanometer, that SOI will become more important, and therefore from a technology development point of view we need to have that knowledge and experience," Mr. Hu said.
Currently it is uncertain whose microprocessors are going to be made at United Microelectronics Corp., however, the company that is highly likely to be interested in chip manufacturing is Via Technologies, who has been trying hard to penetrate the market of central processing units (CPUs) for years now, but without much luck so far. UMC's low-power process technologies may pose some interest for Via, whose main goal is to sell components for ultra low power platforms.
Other companies who may be interested in UMC's production capacities for microprocessors are Advanced Micro Devices, who needs to make chips for low-cost personal computers for developing nations under "One Laptop Per Child Program" and Sun Microsystems, who might be interested in leveraging its SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) technology. Besides, UMC may produce chips for fabless designers, who develop processors based on IBM Power or ARM Limited's ARM architectures.


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Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without
The best books usually come from recommendations made by friends! This book is no exception. A close friend handed the book to me last week. Author/researcher Tom Rath explores the way in which friends can enrich your life and how fostering friendships at work can make an organization even more productive. According to new research, finding friends at work can make employees feel more connected to their jobs and the ideal situation is where the people you work with are "like family." Having friends at work may even make your home life more fulfilling and have positive affects on your health.
I'm still thinking about the principles laid out in "Vital Friends." Each of your friends may play one or more of the roles as builder, champion, collaborator, companion, connector, energizer, mind opener or navigator. According to Facebook I have 50 friends, but the people I really connect with would fill a much smaller circle. I'm fortunate to have several close friends at work and I consider my spouse of 25 years to be my BFF.


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Sailing to Byzantium, William Butler Yeats
"Sailing to Byzantium" William Butler Yeats
The following entry presents criticism of Yeats's poem "Sailing to Byzantium" through 1998. See also, William Butler Yeats Criticism.
"Sailing to Byzantium," first published in 1928 as part of Yeats's collection, The Tower, contains only four stanzas and yet is considered to be one of the most effective expressions of Yeats's arcane poetic "system," exploring tensions between art and ordinary life and demonstrating how, through an imaginative alchemy, the raw materials of life can be transformed into something enduring. In "Sailing to Byzantium," the artist/speaker transforms himself into a work of art, and, in so doing, obscures the distinction between form and content and the artist and his work. "Sailing to Byzantium" is widely admired for its inventive, evocative imagery and masterfully interwoven phrases. Literary critic Frank Kermode calls the poem "a marvelously contrived emblem of what Yeats took the work of art to be."
Biographical Information
A leading figure of the Irish Literary Revival, William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1865 to Anglo-Irish parents. His father was a lawyer and a well-known painter. As a young man, Yeats was drawn to mysticism as well as the cause for Irish independence. Yeats was further politicized in 1889, when he met and fell in love with the beautiful Irish nationalist and actress, Maud Gonne, who had leading roles in his plays and to whom he addressed much of his early love poetry. Together with Lady Gregory, Yeats founded the Irish Theatre, later called the Abbey Theatre. Yeats's plays, which reflect his interest in Irish legends as well as his fascination with mysticism and spiritualism, include The Countess Cathleen (1892), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) and Deirdre (1907). In 1917, at the age of fifty-two, Yeats married Georgiana Hyde-Lees, with whom he shared an interest in spiritualism. They had two children, Anne and Michael. In 1922 Yeats was appointed to the Senate of the newly formed Irish Free State, where he served until 1928. He was awarded the Novel Prize in Literature in 1923, mostly on the merit of his plays. However, it is Yeats's later poetry, especially The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), The Tower (1928) (in which "Sailing to Byzantium" appears), and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), that made him one of the most influential and important twentieth-century poets writing in English. He died in France in 1939.
Plot and Main Characters
"Sailing to Byzantium," a lyric poem, has neither conventional characters nor plot. The poem consists of four open-form stanzas and features a speaker who may be thought of, as Richard Ellmann suggests, as "a symbol of Yeats and of the artist and of man." The action of the poem concerns the problem of immersing oneself in life and at the same time striving for permanence. The opening stanza describes a state of youth, a sensuous, sometimes violent, life with emphasis on productivity and regeneration ("That is no country for old men"), and then contrasts this sensuality with the intellectual and the transitory with the permanent: "Caught in that sensual music all neglect / Monuments of unageing intellect."
Acknowledging both his mortality and desire for transcendence, the speaker prepares his soul for the body's death by "studying / Monuments of its own magnificence" and "sail[s] the seas and come / To the holy city of Byzantium." In Byzantium, the speaker hopes to fuse the "sensual music" with the "monuments," that is, the passing pleasures with transcendent art. In 1931, Yeats wrote that he chose to "symbolize the search for the spiritual life by a journey to that city" because "Byzantium was the centre of European civilization and the source of its spiritual philosophy." In Byzantium, the speaker encounters a world of timeless art and spirituality, represented by sages and "God's holy fire" with flames and smoke twisting like a "perne in a gyre," an allusion to Yeats's cyclical theory of history and transcendence. The speaker wishes to lose his heart, "sick with desire / And fastened to a dying animal," and have his soul gathered "into the artifice of eternity" so that "Once out of nature I shall never take / My bodily form from any natural thing." In the last stanza, the speaker imagines himself transformed into a work of art that transcends the passing of time, a Byzantine work of art, a golden bird that is animate in that it sings to the Emperor, but inanimate as a work of art that will survive generations.
Major Themes
The source of several major themes in "Sailing to Byzantium" can be found in Yeats's 1925 work, A Vision (1925), in which he develops his cyclical theory of life, based in part on Yeats's understanding of the Hegelian dialectic and his reading of Blake's prophetic poetry. In "Sailing to Byzantium," Yeats used the concept of the spiraling gyre to suggest that opposite concepts—such as youth and age, body and soul, nature and art, transient and eternal—are in fact mutually dependent upon each other. Yoked together by the gyre and the poem itself, the mutually interpenetrating opposites—thesis and antithesis—resolve in such a way as to produce a synthesis that contains a larger truth. In "Sailing to Byzantium," the golden bird contains elements of transitory nature—namely, its music—with the transcendent qualities of timeless art.
The tension between art and life is an essential dichotomy in Yeats's poetry. Yeats envisioned the artist as a kind of alchemist, whose transformative art obscures the distinction between "the dancer and the dance," as he wrote in the poem, "Among School Children." For Yeats, only through imagination could the raw materials of life be transformed into something enduring. Thus "Sailing to Byzantium" has at least two symbolic readings, both mutually interdependent upon the other. The poem is both about the journey taken by the speaker's soul around the time of death and the process by which, through his art, the artist transcends his own mortality.
An important symbol in "Sailing to Byzantium" is the ancient city of Byzantium, which in the fifth and sixth centuries was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and the center of art and architecture. Byzantine art did not attempt to represent human forms, and so, for Yeats, Byzantium symbolized a way of life in which art is celebrated as artifice. Furthermore, Byzantium represents what Yeats, in A Vision, calls "Unity of Being," in which "religious, aesthetic and practical life were one" and art represented "the vision of a whole people."
Critical Reception
By 1928, the year he published "Sailing to Byzantium," Yeats was, in his own words, "a smiling sixty-year-old public man" with a senate career and the Nobel Prize behind him. With the publication of that poem in the volume The Tower, Yeats's contemporaries noticed a change of style and maturity, as the poems in that volume not only reflected Yeats's satisfaction with a long, fulfilling life but also, according to A. Norman Jeffares, a "sharpened apprehension, brought by Ireland's civil war, of approaching conflagration in the world, and, by approaching age, of ruin and decay."
Yeats's contemporaries generally agreed that his technique was stunning, but viewed his ideas on poetry and history to be eccentric. An early critic, T. Sturge Moore, told Yeats in 1930 that he found the first three stanzas "magnificent" but believed the fourth to "weaken to an ineffective and unnecessary repetition of 'gold' four times in as many lines, … implying that the contrast between artificial and natural forms is fundamental, which is obviously not the case." In 1931, Harriet Monroe, the publisher of the influential Poetry magazine, likened the emotional quality of the poem's language and imagery to that of Shakespeare's drama, especially the monologues of Lear.
Since its publication, critics have agreed that "Sailing to Byzantium" masterfully marries structure and content. For Yeats's biographer, Richard Ellmann, "Sailing to Byzantium" represents a poetic "climax" for Yeats, "creating richer and more multitudinous overtones than before." He writes that Yeats attempted "to evoke a symbol—in the poem as a whole and also in the symbolic bird spoken of in the poem—which would have a life of its own into which he could put himself." Not only does "Sailing to Byzantium" have "as many levels as the Empire State Building," writes Donald A. Stauffer, but its "lyrics are inexhaustible […] Every new reading adds a new pleasure or a new thought." James Lovic Allen likewise applauds the "consummate mastery of multiple-leveled symbolic structures" that demand reading "on both the spiritual level and the aesthetic level simultaneously." Since its publication, critics have recognized "Sailing to Byzantium" to be an important poem by a leading modernist poet.
Principal Works
The Wanderings of Oisin 1889
The Countess Cathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (poetry and plays) 1892
The Wind among the Reeds 1899
The Green Helmet and Other Poems 1910
Responsibilities 1914
The Wild Swans at Coole 1919
Michael Robartes and the Dancer 1921
Seven Poems and a Fragment 1922
"The Cat and the Moon" and Certain Poems (poetry and plays) 1924
October Blast 1927
The Tower 1928
The Winding Stair and Other Poems 1933
The Collected Poems 1933
The Variorium Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats [edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach] 1957
Byzantium 1983
John Sherman (autobiography) 1891
The Table of the Law (fiction) 1904
The Shadowy Waters (play) 1900
Discoveries: A Volume of Essays (essays) 1907
The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays (plays) 1908
Cutting of an Agate (nonfiction) 1912
Per Amica Silentia Lunae (nonfiction) 1918
A Vision (nonfiction) 1925
Autobiographies (autobiography) 1926
Harriet Monroe (essay date January 1931)
SOURCE: Monroe, Harriet. "Comment: 'Sailing To Byzantium.'" Poetry: A Magazine of Verse 37, no. 4 (January 1931): 208-13.
[In the following essay, Monroe considers ways in which she has "sailed to Byzantium" through her experiences with the theater and literature.]
"And therefore have I sailed the seas, and come To the holy city of Byzantium."
Because I am much preoccupied, perhaps rightly, with modern poetry, I must now and then sail the seas back into the past, and find once more the holy city where great poets have built their long-enduring pyramids and towers. That city is full of voices uttering magic phrases, and some of these float...
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Howard Baker (essay date winter 1941)
SOURCE: Baker, Howard. "Domes of Byzantium." The Southern Review 7, no. 3 (winter 1941): 639-52.
[In the following essay, poet-scholar Baker examines the symbolism of Byzantium, suggesting that for Yeats, Byzantium "stands primarily for modes of expression in which conscious design supersedes natural florescence." Baker maintains that Yeats uses the idea of Byzantium to argue that consciously-produced culture endures whereas nature-and ourselves-grow old and pass away.]
On receiving the Nobel prize, Yeats, who was sixty, observed the youthfulness of the poet and muse who decorated the medal presented to him, and he remarked to himself that when he was young his...
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Richard Ellmann (essay date 1948)
SOURCE: Ellmann, Richard. "'Sailing to Byzantium.'" In Yeats: The Man and the Masks, pp. 252-56. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1948.
[In the following essay, Ellman examines the poem's history, dramatic structure, and symbolism, and shows how the poem builds upon Yeats's earlier work and experiences.]
In 'Sailing to Byzantium' Yeats reached the climax of this period by creating richer and more multitudinous overtones than before. He attempted here to evoke a symbol—in the poem as a whole and also in the symbolic bird spoken of in the poem—which would have a life of its own into which he could put himself:
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Frederick L. Gwynn (essay date January 1953)
SOURCE: Gwynn, Frederick L. "Yeats's Byzantium and its Sources." Philological Quarterly 32, no. 1 (January 1953): 9-21.
[In the following essay, Gwynn explores the multiple meanings of Byzantium in "Sailing to Byzantium," "Byzantium," and A Vision, and identifies sources as diverse as Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Grimm's fairy tales, and Shakespeare's King Lear.]
"'Sailing to Byzantium,'" Ellmann points out, "is full of echoes of Yeats's other works, of his reading, and of his experiences. In a sense he had been writing it all his life."1 Ellmann gives us a half-dozen sources of phrases in the poem,...
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Harry Modean Campbell (essay date December 1955)
SOURCE: Campbell, Harry Modean. "Yeat's "Sailing to Byzantium." Modern Language Notes 70, no. 8 (December 1955): 585-89.
[In the following essay, the author refutes the interpretations of the poem as magical rather than religious and as an assertion of immortality through art as "fabricated thing," and suggests instead that Byzantium is Yeats's "devoutly religious version of the New Jerusalem" where "the poet, the 'dying animal,' is primarily concerned, not with the art, but with the spiritual life visibly represented by the art."]
The numerous analyses of Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium" seem to fall into two main groups: a minority of critics...
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Curtis Bradford (essay date March 1960)
SOURCE: Bradford, Curtis. "Yeats's Byzantium Poems: A Study in their Development." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association 75, no. 1 (March 1960): 110-25.
[In the following essay, Bradford examines Yeats's creative process by comparing early and later drafts of Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium."]
Yeats's interest in Byzantine art and civilization began in the Nineties and continued through his life. The first issue of "Rosa Alchemica" (1896) refers to the mosaic work at Ravenna ("mosaic not less beautiful than the mosaic in the Baptistery at Ravenna, but of a less severe beauty"),1 work which...
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L. C. Parks (essay date October-December 1963)
Source: Parks, L. C. "The Hidden Aspect of 'Sailing to Byzantium.' Études Anglaises 16, no. 4 (October-December 1963): 333-44.
[In the following essay, the author shows that "the form of 'Sailing to Byzantium' closely follows the form of a Rosicrucian initiation into an ideal order of reality" and that "by means of this poem, Yeats achieves his lifelong goal: a fusion of his esthetic with an occult idealism."]
Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"1 is deceptively plain and promises far more meaning than it will yield the unaided reader. I hope to make clear some of the hidden aspect of the poem by relating it to its genesis; that is, to its...
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A. Norman Jeffares (essay date 1968)
SOURCE: Jeffares, A. Norman. "The Tower: 'Sailing to Byzantium.'" In A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats, pp. 211-16. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1984.
[In the following essay, Jeffares identifies geographical, historical, literary, and religious sources and allusions found in "Sailing to Byzantium."]
Yeats's change of style and his maturity were probably not generally recognised until the publication of The Tower in 1928. This volume was a collection of poems which reflect the richness of his life: marriage, a family, senatorship of the Irish Free State, the Nobel Prize for poetry, A Vision published, the...
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David Eggenschwiler (essay date March 1971)
Source: Eggenschwiler, David. "Nightingales and Byzantine Birds, Something Less Than Kind." English Language Notes 8, no. 3 (March 1971): 186-91.
[In the following essay, the author argues that Yeats's bird of "hammered gold" in "Sailing to Byzantium" and Keats's nightingale represent more "different ideals of art" than prevailing criticism suggests.]
The nightingale of Keats's ode and the golden bird of Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium" are usually considered to be close kin. As ideals of unchanging art, opposed to natural creatures born for death, they seem to coincide in the dialectics of the two poems. Of course, they are not identical, for Yeats's...
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Stanley M. Holberg (essay date December 1974)
SOURCE: Holberg, Stanley, M. "Sailing to Byzantium': A New Source and a New Reading." English Language Notes 12, No. 2 (December 1974): 112-16.
[In the following essay, Holberg examines a new source of inspiration for Yeat's poem.]
In a note concerning the golden bird at the end of "Sailing to Byzantium," "such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make / Of hammered gold and gold enammeling," Yeats wrote: "I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang."1 In their efforts to define that vague "somewhere," scholars have turned to historical accounts of the palace...
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Simon O. Lesser (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: Lesser, Simon O. "'Sailing to Byzantium': Another Voyage, Another Reading." In The Whispered Meanings: Selected Essays of Simon O. Lesser, edited by Robert Sprich and Richard W. Noland, pp. 128-48. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977.
[In the following essay, the author argues against the generally accepted interpretation of "Sailing to Byzantium" that the "I" of the poem considers that "engrossment in poetry is the only, but a sufficient, recompense for the privations of old age," and against the critical approach of paying "as little attention as possible to the emotional content of literature and to our emotional responses to...
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Epifanio San Juan (essay due 1979)
Source: San Juan, Epifanio. "William Butler Yeats: "Sailing to Byzantium.'" Poetics: The Imitation of Action: Essays in Interpretation (1997): 56-77.
[In the following essay, San Juan presents how other critics have analyzed Yeat's poem and then goes on to offer his own analysis.]
In spite of the rigorous and systematic methods skillfully applied by critics and scholars in the interpretation of literary texts today, we have grown more sharply aware that all such methods possess intrinsic limitations. The neo-Aristotelians have of course candidly announced their pluralistic orientation in matters of theory. But in the realm of practice, the result seems far from...
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William H. O'Donnell (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: O'Donnell, William H. "Poems 1922-1926: 'Sailing to Byzantium.'" In The Poetry of William Butler Yeats: An Introduction, pp. 89-92. New York: The Ungar Publishing Company, 1986.
[In the following essay, O'Donnell considers "Sailing to Byzantium" as an attempt at escaping the decay of aging—the impermanence of mortal life—through a separate world of art.]
In "A Prayer for my Daughter" Yeats was concerned with physical threats from storm and warfare as well as cultural threats from the deterioration of traditional, aristocratic values. Those external threats continue to be an important concern in the poems that Yeats wrote in the mid-1920s,...
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J. L. Kerbaugh (essay date fall 1990)
SOURCE: Kerbaugh, J. L. "Yeats's 'Sailing to Byzantium' and 'The Tower': Dialectic of Body and Intellect." Yeats Eliot Review 10, no. 4 (fall 1990): 90-4.
[In the following essay, Kerbaugh compares the subject matter of two of Yeats's poems.]
The common subject matter of "Sailing to Byzantium" and "The Tower"—making one's soul, and coming to terms with old age and death and with the relationship between old age and art—explains clearly enough why Yeats printed the two poems side by side in The Tower, a matter which has nevertheless occasionally puzzled critics.1 Some question may remain, however, as to why Yeats printed...
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Jonathan Allison (essay date 1990)
Source: Allison, Jonathan. "The Last Line of 'Sailing to Byzantium': A New Source." Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies vol. 8, Richard J. Finneran, pp. 319-21. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1990.
[In the following essay, Allison examines the source for the last line of Yeats's poem.]
The source of the last line of Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium"—"Of what is past, or passing, or to come" (P 194)—is usually attributed to Blake or Shelley, though there are also several possible sources of the line in Shakespeare's plays.1 A more recent possible source, however, may be found in a lecture delivered by John...
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Michael Steinman (essay date winter 1994)
SOURCE: Steinman, Michael. "Yeat's 'Sailing to Byzantium.'" The Explicator 52, no. 2 (winter 1994): 93-4.
[In the following essay, Steinman examines how the source of Yeat's poem may have come from Shakespeare's King Lear.]
In "The Circus Animals' Desertion," W. B. Yeats asserted that his images "[g]rew in pure mind" (630). But the golden bird of "Sailing to Byzantium" may make us feel that "pure mind," although compelling, is not sufficient explanation. Where did that singing bird come from? Yeats's creative eclecticism, blending the morning's conversation with philosophical abstractions, makes the notion of one and only one source for any...
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Edward Larissy (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Larissy, Edward. "Yeats the Poet: Golden Wall." In Yeats the Poet: Measures of Difference, pp. 170-76. Hertfordshire, England: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994.
[In the following essay, Larissy regards "Sailing to Byzantium" as Yeats's metaphorical escape from Ireland, which he associates with youth and conflict. The author considers the poem to be influenced by Asiatic literary journeys by Byron, Blake, Keats, as well as by historical accounts of early Celtic experiences in Constantinople.]
'Sailing to Byzantium' (VP [The Variorium Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats] 407-8) offers an extreme version of bitterness towards Ireland: escape....
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William Franke (essay date summer 1998)
SOURCE: Franke, William. "The Dialectical Logic of Yeats's Byzantium Poems." Yeats Eliot Review 15, no. 3 (summer 1998): 23-32.
[In the following essay, Franke examines the symbolic unity of Yeats's two Byzantium poems, and demonstrates how the poems structurally and thematically rely on dialectical tension. In a dialectical perspective, the author argues, the distinctions between things break down as all forms flow beyond their boundaries and interpenetrate their opposites.]
Yeats is unusual, if not unique, among poets for having formalized his subject matter into an extra-poetic system.1 Although certainly poetry always remained his final aim, its...
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Further Reading
Campbell, Harry Modean. "Yeats's 'Sailing to Byzantium.'" Modern Language Notes 70, no. 8 (December 1955): 585-89.
Discusses critical responses to Yeats's poem.
Corbett, David Peters. "T. Sturge Moore's 'Do We or Do We Not, Know It?' and the Writing of 'Byzantium.'" In Yeats Annual No. 10, edited by Warwick Gould, pp. 241-49. London, England: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1993.
Provides a historical context for the poem, focusing on Yeats's correspondence with T. Sturge Moore.
Daalder, Joost. "Some Possible Sources for 'Sailing to Byzantium': A Reconsideration."...
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Unlike Romnesia, Obamasterics a Serious Malady
During the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama coined a catchy phrase to describe all the flip-flops in which his opponent had allegedly engaged during the course of his career. On virtually every issue, from health care to abortion, from taxes to so-called pay equity, from welfare to gun control, Obama said the GOP nominee suffered from "Romnesia."
In anticipation of the continued seductive tyranny that surely awaits us in the next four years, I would like to propose a new expression to describe the reaction of many of us to the policies coming in Obama's second term: "Obamasterics," defined as an appropriate level of hysterics caused by the ongoing authoritarian reign of the 44th President of the United States.
Unlike Romnesia, Obamasterics is not a joke, and it is not amusing. It is a very serious condition brought on by a fundamental understanding of the U.S. Constitution in an age of despotism. Quite simply, if you understand and support the Constitution, you are likely to suffer from Obamasterics. I know I do. To quote Thomas Jefferson, "I tremble for my country."
There are very real reasons to be frightened. As half the nation blindly accepts the notion that the office of President of the United States is some sort of autocratic position, the holder of which has virtually unlimited power to decree whatever he pleases, those of us who still cling to the notion of limited Constitutional government understand that Obama himself subscribes to the belief that, as the nation's chief executive, he has the authority to execute any edict that comes into his calculating Marxist mind.
Nowhere can Obamasterics be viewed more clearly than in our reaction to his determination to grab as many guns from law-abiding citizens as possible. Obama appointed that towering legal mind, Vice President Joe Biden, to "study" the issue of gun violence and come up with a set of solutions. At his first meeting on the subject, Biden announced, "The president is going to act. There are executive orders, executive action that can be taken. We haven't decided what that is yet. But we're compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required."
Of all the areas of the American economy this president has failed to stimulate in the last four years, the gun industry is the one big exception. Sales are booming. In fact, with Obama and his cronies in Congress threatening more meaningless firearms laws since the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting last month, Obamasterics already had a grip on gun owners – and rightly so.
But with those 52 words from Biden, the Obama administration has thrown down the gauntlet to gun owners and sent them into overdrive to defend their Second Amendment rights. In fact, one has to wonder if that is the idea. Remember when Biden was said to have inadvertently blabbed his opinion that same-sex marriage should be legalized? I never believed for a moment that the VP's statement wasn't calculated and timed to throw that issue like a bomb into the public debate.
The same could be said of Biden's statement about guns. It would not surprise me if the current run on AR-15, AK-47 and SKS rifles, as well as semi-automatic handguns and ammunition, will give these despots the additional excuse they need to go a step further and attempt to tax, regulate, ban, and/or eventually confiscate these weapons and the ammo they utilize.
"There are just too many of these dangerous weapons in the hands of untrained, untested civilians," the rationale will go, "to allow this situation to stand. Ever since Sandy Hook, people have been buying the same weapons used by this crazed killer. We must ask ourselves, why? And we must act!"
Get ready for the raw exercise of presidential power the likes of which we have not seen in our lifetime. A president with as little regard for the First Amendment as Obama has shown will certainly not think twice about trampling on our Second Amendment rights.
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"I think having an opportunity working on this car on a race weekend rather than a test is going to be really good for everybody," Burton said. "And then seeing how they race. Seeing how they respond in the race.
"We're going to try to jump to conclusions based on Thursday's practice. But the fact of the matter is, until Sunday is over, we're really not going to know. Going through that process to me is going to be a good time. It's going to be fun. I'm looking forward to that getting started. The mile-and-a-half tracks is the place where this car, I think, will excel."
Although the Gen-6 cars have been through numerous tests, this week marks the first real competition on a 1.5-mile track.
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"Las Vegas is a rough track and not very smooth anymore. There are just so many challenges and unknowns heading into Las Vegas, and that's what everyone is worried about. You can test all day long, but it isn't the same as racing. Until everyone brings their best effort to the track, you really don't know where you stand. We feel like we've had good tests, but things tend to be different come race time."


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The man had not been positively identified. Graham said the driver is believed to be a 22-year-old man from Waverly.
Graham said according to crash scene investigators and an eyewitness, the man's car, a 2005 Pontiac Sunfire, was traveling at a high rate of speed, northbound on St. Marys Pike when the car left the pavement, struck a mailbox, crossed the road, struck a telephone box and culvert.
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Graham said after striking the culvert the car went airborne, flipped once and landed on its wheels in the road at the St. Marys Pike/Valley Mills Road intersection.
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The result is that a few of those states now face the possibility of losing gun-related industries.
Texas had now joined a number of others states encouraging those industries to move to more gun-friendly locations.
At the same time Bee County shooting and hunting enthusiasts have seen their shopping options increase. As of last weekend, two retail outlets now offer guns, ammunition, scopes, magazines and other accessories in the county.
Gunsmith Nicholas Bauer, the latest business owner to jump into the retail business, said he would welcome gun and accessory manufacturers to Texas.
His store, Beeville Armory, opened on the U.S. Highway 181 Bypass Frontage Road just last weekend.
Already, companies like Colt and Strum Ruger & Co. are threatening to move out of Connecticut after that state passed tough gun control laws.
Magpul, a Colorado-based company that makes accessories for AR-15 rifles like the one Lanza used, is threatening to leave that state after legislators passed new restrictions on law-abiding gun owners.
PTR Industries, a Bristol, Conn. maker of high-end semiautomatic rifles, has announced its intention of moving out of that state.
That company will be taking 40 jobs with a $50,000 weekly payroll elsewhere.
Bold Ideas, a company that manufactures AR-15-type rifles under the name Colt Competition, has announced that it will be leaving Oregon to relocate in North Texas.
That companies are planning to move to Texas is good news to Jeff Massengill and Tammy Casciato. Their shop on Cagle Lane, Americana Arms, has been in operation for several months now.
Bauer said moving a gun manufacturing operation is a serious and costly endeavor, and some companies may rethink plans to move because of the costs.
He said if companies are allowed to operate where they are and still ship their products out of state, they might not relocate.
"I moved a lot of equipment across town, and I'm having to reset everything," Bauer said.
Also, companies which manufacture guns, ammunition and accessories tend to be loyal to their employees.
If Walmart or General Motors want to relocate a plant, they are not likely to consider the hardships to their employees. But a gun company will think before moving the jobs of skilled craftsmen, Bauer said.
"Jack Daniels whiskey is made in a dry county," Bauer cited as an example. Residents of Moore County, Tenn., must drive to another county to buy a product made in right in Lynchburg.
Bauer said gun companies in states where they will no longer be allowed to legally make their products will have no choice but to go elsewhere.
"I hope a whole mess of them come to Texas," Bauer said.
"I'd love to have them here," Massengill said about the prospect of Magpul moving from Colorado to Texas. The company has said it would rather not stay in a state where its customers are not allowed to purchase the products it makes.
"We have some fantastic companies in Texas," Massengill said. LaRue Tactical, a maker of precision AR-15-type rifles, is located in Leander, and Cimarron Firearms, which produces traditional western firearms, is located in Fredericksburg.
"I try to buy American," Massengill said. "I'd rather do business locally. By that I mean in the state."
For example, Americana Arms sells the Mossberg Maverick shotgun, which is assembled in South Texas.
Massengill said he talks to federal firearms licensed dealers all over the country on a regular basis. "We love Texas," they tell him.
One of the products American Arms now offers is an AR-15 lower assembly that sells for $169. He said it is simple for a gun owner to start with that part and assemble his or her own, customized AR-15.
Bauer also offers AR-15 lower assemblies, and he is able to make the custom product right in his shop.
"We do gunsmithing and custom building," Bauer said. "We do business all over the United States. The main idea of Beeville Armory hasn't changed," Bauer said. The only reason he opened a retail operation was to help pay the increased overhead of moving to a larger building.
"We keep a pot of coffee on," Bauer said. "We're gun guys. We're outdoorsmen. We like to connect with people like us."
Of course, the same could be said of Americana Arms. The steady stream of shoppers visiting the little store tucked away in a neighborhood just southeast of Beeville is proof of its popularity.
Massengill said he ships guns to other places in Texas and the U.S. But he does not ship handguns. He keeps those in stock for local customers.
A lot of Americana Arms' shoppers come from out of town because of his prices. He also works the big gun shows in Robstown and San Antonio, and Casciato said they will soon be working the shows in Austin.
Massengill also offers concealed handgun courses, a service which Bauer avoids.
Because Texas is becoming more popular among gun enthusiasts, both businesses expect to succeed in the national market.
Bauer admitted that the two shops overlap some in what they offer. But each business has something different. The owners continue to send business to the other store when a customer want something one of them does not have.
Bauer, for instance, refuses to charge a 3 percent fee for taking a customer's credit card. That might attract some customers to his business.
The owners of both shops expect lawmakers in other states to keep pushing gun and shooting-related businesses toward Texas.
They believe lawmakers who have no connection with shooting and hunting enthusiasts to keep right on passing ridiculous laws that only affect law-abiding, tax-paying gun owners of their states.
Bauer said the residents of those states are as much to blame as those who pass the laws.
"We vote for these lawmakers. We put them in office," Bauer said. "But people in these states can move to a freer location."
"Texas is a good example," Bauer said. "We have folks like Greg Abbott and Rick Perry working for us. They've done a lot."
Thanks to the state's lawmakers, Texas might end up attracting shooters and hunters in addition to the shooting industry manufacturers.
Gary Kent is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 120, or at email@example.com.


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The JABISS study was a nationwide sample survey conducted in Japan as a two-wave panel: before and after the 1976 Japanese House of Representatives election. The pre-election survey queried Japanese respondents about political disaffection, importance and performance issues, party support, group and leader affect, political participation and compliance attitudes, candidate support, social interaction, group memberships and political support, attitudes toward the February 1976 Lockheed incident, and respondent and household demographic and background information. Demographic variables include gender, age, marital status, income, religious preference, and highest level of education. The post-election survey asked respondents about mass media exposure and its effects during the campaign, informal campaign communications, political involvement, party perceptions and identification, candidate contacts and perceptions, the 1976 vote and past vote records, issue attitudes, quality of life, and cultural values. The name, "JABISS," is derived from the names of the Japanese-American group of five scholars who conducted the Japanese Election Study: "J" for Japan and Joji Watanuki, "A" for America, "B" for Bradley Richardson, "I" for Ichiro Miyake, "S" for Scott Flanagan, and "S" for Shinsaku Kohei.
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Flanagan, Scott C., Shinsaku Kohei, Ichiro Miyake, Bradley M. Richardson, and Joji Watanuki. JABISS: THE JAPANESE ELECTION STUDY, 1976. ICPSR04682-v1. Irvine, CA: University of California, Irvine, Center for the Study of Democracy [producers], 2007. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-02-27. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04682.v1
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: crime, cultural identity, cultural values, elections, family, foreign policy, foreign relations, households, Liberal Democratic Party, mass media, political affiliation, political attitudes, political awareness, political behavior, political corruption, political ideologies, political influences, political interest, political leaders, political movements, political organizations, political participation, political parties, political perceptions, political socialization, public officials, public opinion, quality of life, social welfare, socialization, trust in government, union membership
Geographic Coverage: Asia, Global, Japan
Time Period:
- 1976
Date of Collection:
- 1976-11-20--1976-11-28
- 1976-12-14--1976-12-19
Unit of Observation: individual
Universe: Adults living in Japan, old enough to participate in the 1976 Japanese elections.
Data Types: survey data
Data Collection Notes:
The PDF-version of the survey questionnaire is only available in Japanese.
Sample: National area probability sample.
Mode of Data Collection: face-to-face interview
Response Rates: The response rate was 72 percent.
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- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Original ICPSR Release: 2008-02-27
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Holsey read from a prepared statement and said she was unaware of what was to be discussed in the March 18 executive session until the closed meeting started. She claimed at the end of her statement that the meeting was in violation of the Texas Open Meetings Act.
"That closed session revealed that, I, councilwoman Liz Holsey was the item discussed," Holsey said. "The following is a partial account of the closed-door session, including staff members as well as counsel:
"I was questioned as to my political affiliation and my involvement in such. I was accused of causing the loss of an election because of statements made regarding loan activity. I was accused of prematurely making a news release and I was told that I couldn't make comments to newspapers, because the city could be sued.
"I was accused of polling votes. I was accused of causing harm to Goliad economic development because of disclosure of financial information. I was instructed to not provide the public any of the city's financial information, because the public would not understand me.
"I was instructed not to question city financials during public session, but to go to the staff privately with my questions. I was told to think about the questions that I ask in open council sessions and I was told that we all needed to get along.
"As I stated, this is a partial accounting of that closed-door session, which had me as its target. No other council member was questioned and no other council member had comments directed towards them. I was informed after the doors were closed that this was done because of my purported ethical violations. I sat through that session completely shocked and stunned. I kept waiting for the discussion of the real reason we were in executive session. Not until the whole event was over, did I realize I was the reason.
"Days later, I again asked for verification that that executive session was legal and I asked for written verification of the complaint of my alleged ethic violation. I received letters reciting verbiage, but no explanation of the legality of that session and no written complaint of any committed violation."
Holsey claimed in October that the Texas Rangers were investigating a threatening letter she received and insinuated Monday that the author of the letter may be on council or a city staff member.
"Since assuming my council position, I have received a threatening letter and now I was targeted behind closed doors," Holsey read. "Curiously, some of that phraseology in that letter was again stated in closed session. I have had sleepless nights and countless physical problems no doubt caused by wondering what may come next."
Holsey claimed the March 18 executive session did not adhere to protocol.
"Proper procedure was not followed and it is my opinion that the executive session with me as its target was brought forward in bad faith for the purpose of intimidation, harassment and to silence me," Holsey read. "Texas law provides penalties and remedies for the violation of the Open Meetings Act."
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"They haven't told us it's over yet," Taylor said to Holsey.
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- AnonymousMay 15, 2012 at 7:06 PM
I'm dating a gay guy now. He used to be well off before, but because of some unexpected events in his life, he lost his business and is now unemployed. He has a five year old daughter. When we dated, he was honest enough to mention these details to me. However, his socio-economic status bothers me a lot. Lately, he borrowed some cash from me to pay off some of his bills. I felt irritated but I just gave in. On the other hand, he showed me to his family the other day. I met his parents and his siblings too! I can feel his honest. But the thought of his financial difficulty draining on me is just a spoiler. I also support my family and pay my bills. And having him, I thought, would be another financial burden, so to speak. But I can sense his sincerity, and I would also feel guilty to leave him just because of his financial status. Lately, he has found a job in the city. But this is just a blue collar job that will not really suffice to his financial needs. I worry that if I pursue this relationship, it's just going to rip my finances too! His family ad daughter depend on him as well. I guess it's going to be my problem as well if I continue to hang on with him. But I can tell that he loves me. Or am I just blinded? Please let me know. Had he been stable with his finances, everything would have run so smoothly in here. ThanksReplyDelete
RESPONSE, PART ONE:ReplyDelete
For me, Anonymous, the root issue here is, you haven't been with your partner long enough to know whether or not he's taking advantage of you. Obviously, your relationship is still new, and you're not sure you can trust him to land on his feet so he doesn't go on using you.
Over the years, I've seen a good many gay men fall on hard times and count on family, friends, or partners to get them through it. That's not the problem. The problem, as I see it, is will these men continue to rely on others to help them financially, longer than they realistically should because they lose the interest or the gumption to land on their own feet?
Your direct question to me was, are you too blinded by all the good things going on between you to see what's really going on before it's too late and he financially ruins you? In the end, only you can answer that question for yourself, based on what's going on day-in and day-out, and what your gut tells you to do.
If Chris and I had been in this very same situation after we first met in 1992, I don't know if we'd still be together today. But, I hastily add, neither Chris nor I would have counted on each other to get out of a difficult financial situation.
Less than two years after we met, and less than a year after we moved in together, I left my job without having another one to go to (it's a long story). I was out of work for over six months and knew I was still responsible for paying my portion of our monthly rent, household expenses, and groceries. I collected employment insurance, I depleted my savings, and I spent a pension amount I was entitled to from the company I left.
Let me be clear. At no time did I count on Chris to make up my portion of what I was responsible for. I would never have asked him to kick in more rent, utility, or food money because I was short. I wouldn't have put our new relationship under that pressure. I would not have allowed him to think I was a deadbeat.
I'm not saying your partner is a deadbeat. But it seems to me he should have approached family members first, and used all other resources available, to help him financially before asking someone he met not long ago and is supposedly in love with.
What only you can decide is if what you've seen of your partner lately is the very rare occasion–something he's made a priority to rectify as soon as humanly possible–or if he's the type who will continue to use you over time. You don't want to pass up on the opportunity for a great relationship, if in fact that's what you have, but you don't want to feel taken advantage of either and risk your own financial ruin.
To your partner's credit, he's landed another job, even if, as you put it, it will not meet his financial needs. At least he knew he needed to get another job. This time will be a test for him. Will he continue to look for a new job that meets his complete financial needs? Will he keep looking for another part-time job to augment his income? Will he scale back his spending, and do without in the short-term, so he can make what he earns work for him? Or will he keep relying on other people, including you, to bail him out of his situation?
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RESPONSE, PART TWO:ReplyDelete
It's easy to go blind into a relationship and not see what's really going on because you love someone so much, and because you want it to work. You are not like that, and I give you a lot of credit. You know what feels right and what feels wrong, and that's why you asked for my advice. That tells me you'll know when the time arrives to cut your loses and move on.
Some people might tell you to dump the slug now before it's too late. But, from what you tell me, your situation isn't that straightforward. There's some great stuff going on between you and your partner, and relationships are difficult enough to find without throwing away something that could be very good and endure over time.
So here's a suggestion. Don't provide your partner with any further financial aid. Not a penny more. Tell him how you feel about him–that is, you love him, or you could come to love him–and be clear that you are not in a position to give or lend him anything more. If you stand your ground and your relationship lasts this test, then you'll know it was meant to be. If it doesn't–that is, your partner leaves you because you won't help him–then you'll know it wasn't what it seemed.
I recognize how difficult what you're going through is. It's important to know whatever happens–you stay together or you don't stay together–is meant to be. And if what you have now doesn't last, then that's only because something better for you is just around the corner.
In other words, if you and your current partner don't make it as a couple, that's all right. Better to learn sooner rather than later what you're dealing with so you don't get too sucked into it. You will land on your feet. There are lots of great gay men out there who will love you for who you are and not for bailing them out financially.
Thanks for your interest in my blog, for contacting me, and for trusting me enough to ask my opinion about this important matter. A lot of couples–gay and straight–don't make it because of money issues. If you get through this with your current partner, then your relationship was meant to be. If you don't, then it was never yours to begin with.
Respect yourself enough to follow what you know in your heart is right for you. I wish you good luck and lots of love in your life.
- AnonymousJune 25, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Hi could you still guide me in this topic? :) i have a lot of issues now with my partnerReplyDelete
Of course I can, Anonymous. I'd be happy to.ReplyDelete
But the issue of money is a big one in relationships, with lots of different manifestations. It might be easier if you sent me an email, explaining how money has become a problem for you and your partner.
I'll do what I can to help.
Hope to hear from you again.
Alternatively, Anonymous, if you feel more comfortable leaving me a detailed comment here, and you can fit what you want to say in a relatively small space, you can do that too. I'm happy to respond to you either way.ReplyDelete


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Devola sewer system discussion
On Tuesday, residents of Devola will have the opportunity to learn more about an alternate plan for a proposed sewer system for the community.
A town hall meeting, moderated by Commissioner Ron Feathers, will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Devola Volunteer Fire Department. Attending will be Washington County Commissioners, representatives of the Washington County Health Department, Washington County Engineer Roger Wright, Washington County Prosecutor Jim Schneider and John Grosse, the engineering consultant from Stantec.
"We want anybody and everybody to participate even if they are already sewered," Feathers said. "We want them to feel free to participate in this public discussion."
The commissioners were able to delay the start of any project until March. The study results and a plan of action are due to the OEPA at that time.
In 2010, during a months-long study of the community's drinking water, a high level of nitrates was found at one point, flagging the water as unsafe, Feathers said. A $2.6 million reverse osmosis facility was installed to clean the water.
Mark Wurtzbacher, 52, of 102 Milton Road, said he is opposed to the new sewer system. It was because of the new osmosis system that his most recent water/sewer bill doubled to between $60 and $70. He plans to attend Tuesday's town hall meeting.
"It's overkill," Wurtzbacher said. "I think Devola was targeted for the city of Marietta to add 300 customers to help pay for their expanded (wastewater treatment plant)."
He and his wife have lived in their home since 1993, and he said his properly maintained septic system is just as good as a sewer system.
"They are wanting to charge me $20,000 to give me something I already have for free," Wurtzbacher said of the cost to tie into the new system.
The town hall meeting will give residents the opportunity to voluntarily participate by having their systems inspected by the health department. Based on that data, the county will decided how best to proceed with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
Each inspection will cost less that $100, Feathers said.
Instead of thrusting a $6 million sewer project on Devola's residents, the county wants to study the problem and possibly find a more economical solution, Feathers said.
"Maybe there is a different remedy than a $6 million sewer system we're going to have to pay for the rest of our lives," Feathers said.