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I find myself hoping that Steven Van Zandt's next project is a time-management handbook, because the guy manages to accomplish more in any given year than most people do in a lifetime. I think I kind of hate him for that. Nevertheless, I'm seriously looking forward to his most recent effort: the '60s rock-band film Not Fade Away, directed by Sopranos guy David Chase, for which Van Zandt served as executive producer and music supervisor.
Both Chase and Van Zandt recently appeared on NPR's "Fresh Air" interview show, giving a lively interview that shed light on their creative partnership (listen to the audio here). Music is not just incidental to this film – the movie is basically a love letter to the music, and the "music supervisor" role filled by Van Zandt is as crucial to the film's success as the director.
After hearing them talk about the music included in the film (including tracks from the Beatles and the Stones, for which they apparently "didn't pay retail"), I thought I'd poke around and see if I could find a release date for the soundtrack album. Lo and behold, there it was on both Amazon and iTunes, just waiting for me to purchase and download it – and who am I to say no? You gotta love the instant gratification of digital music sometimes.
There is a lot to love about this soundtrack, even without having seen the movie yet. There's no Beatles or Who but it's a nice range of primarily 1960s artists from the Stones, the Rascals, and the Small Faces to Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, and even the Sex Pistols. "Bali Ha'i" from the South Pacific soundtrack seems a bit out of place here, but maybe after seeing the movie it will make more sense. Most of the songs are somewhat lesser-known: not "Satisfaction" but "Tell Me" and "Parachute Woman" from the Stones, for example. Despite not necessarily being "greatest hits," they sound great, and if you enjoy '60s rock you will enjoy these tracks. The slightly off-the-beaten-path nature of these tracks gives the album a freshness that it might not have had if all the songs had been overly familiar, too – as it stands, listening to it is one part nostalgia and two parts rediscovery, and that makes it fun.
There are also several tracks from "The Twylight Zones," which turns out to be the actors from the movie singing with an all-star backing band consisting of Van Zandt, Max Weinberg, Garry Tallent, and Bobby Bandiera. One of these, "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (previously recorded by the Cocktail Slippers), is a Van Zandt original; the rest are covers. Thanks to impeccable arrangement and production and of course a really great band, these tracks hold up well against the rest of the album and fit in nicely.
My one quibble with the album is the inclusion of a couple of back-to-back duplicate tracks, performed both by the original artist and by the Twylight Zones: "Bo Diddley" and "Train Kept A Rollin'." In both cases, the Twylight Zones' cover is fairly faithful to the original rather than providing an entirely new take on it, so it feels more like those games where you're supposed to look at two nearly-identical pictures and identify a certain number of subtle differences – "in picture A the wine bottle is corked and in picture B the bottle is open" and so on. But that's a minor thing that does not keep the album from being an entirely enjoyable listen.
Unlike most soundtrack albums, there aren't too many tracks here that I anticipate skipping over. Although if you catch me humming along merrily to bonus track "Surgical Supply Jingle" (listen to the Fresh Air interview for an amusing explanation of this one), you might want to tap me on the shoulder and suggest that I move on…
One final note: I'm very grateful that the mp3 release includes a digital booklet with fairly complete credits. The artists, songwriters, and publishing information are listed for every track, and the "Twylight Zones" band members are credited by name. I hate purchasing digital music and then not getting as much information as I would have gotten if I'd bought the CD, because I think artist credits are important. As a very nice bonus, the digital booklet includes entertaining and informative liner notes from former Rolling Stones manager/producer (and current Sirius/XM Underground Garage DJ) Andrew Loog Oldham. Credits and liner notes? This album brings back the good old days in more ways than one!


text: As a psychologist specializing in people problems in management and recruiting for the financial services industry in New York and London, she ran her own consultancy for 27 years. She was a board member for Esalen Institute's Soviet American Exchange program, where among other efforts, she promoted the first meeting of US astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts in France. She served for eight years on the New York Mayor Koch's Commission on the Status of Women. She lives in Harwinton with her husband Dr. Marvin McMillen.

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Who is looking out for Minot?
There's so much to be said. The price-gouging, greed, rudeness and the cell phone driving/texting ridiculous.
Who are the people who made Minot and lived here all those years? Well, many of them are gone because of the 2011 flood. The rest of them can't afford to live here.
What about the flooded homes that yet need to be cleaned up and to those who are going back or are back? Is anyone in the state government or Minot City Council looking out for them?
And, about oil. Yes, I use canola oil. I cook and bake with it all the time.
It seems like Minot forgot about Minot… infrastructure, oil and the roads, etc. About the flood…save Minot? What about those upstream or especially downstream that's where the river flows. Do we get any help? Or, at least a better forewarning?
I want to offer my home and my land to my friends who can't afford to live here. Then this native North Dakotan is outta here!


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The Thompson Guild will present The Kentucky Derby Day on Saturday, May 4, at Finger Lakes Casino & Racetrack on Route 96 in Farmington.
Held from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the pavilion, the event will feature:
· An elegant, four-course Southern buffet
· Derby hat and tie contests with prizes awarded
· Music
· Live thoroughbred racing, including a special Thompson Guild Presentation Race
Tickets are $30 per person, in advance. Checks payable to the Thompson Guild may be mailed by April 27 to the attention of Taryn Windheim at Thompson Guild, 350 Parrish St., Canandaigua, NY 14424.
Proceeds benefit the Guild's programs, which enhance the health system and benefit the community.
For more information about The Kentucky Derby Day, contact Windheim at (585) 451-1173.


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Mission Statement: Wayland Baptist University exists to educate students in an academically challenging, learning-focused and distinctively Christian environment for professional success and service to God and humankind.
We are located in Landmark Plaza in Sierra Vista, Fort Huachuca Army Base, and at 6235 E. Broadway in Tucson
Academic Advising is available Monday through Friday at all our campuses. Call to set up an appointment to visit with one of our advisors.
Evening, weekend, late afternoon and Internet classes make it very convenient for military personnel, working adults, and others to fulfill requirements for their degrees.
Your professional and technical training can often be accepted as hours toward the BAS degree. See us about personalizing a degree for you.
DANTES and CLEP testing can be utilized.
Four eleven-week semesters each year make it possible to accelerate degree completion.
Affordable tuition means your education at Wayland doesn't have to break the bank. We can help you with applications for financial aid to help offset the cost as well.
We offer education with a personal touch, where faculty and staff care about student success and work to make a degree possible for working adults.
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Poppet AND Spoolie info would be nice, but I'd accept only poppet, as that's my personal preference.
It may sound somewhat noobish, but What happens between the trigger pull, and the ball leaving the barrel?
EDIT, I'm referring to Electros, not Mechs/pumps/etc...
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A Christmas in the Sierras
Rick Merritt, SiliconValley Bureau Chief
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A handful of peers from Silicon Valley were among the 56 souls with whom I spent the Christmas holiday in an old ski lodge in the snow-crusted Sierras.
NORDEN, Calif. Two days before Christmas, the biggest storm of the winter season so far dumped six feet of snow on the Sierras. Luckily, the next day when I drove up to spend my holiday there, the roads were clear under sunny skies.
I reserved two nights at an old Sierra Club lodge where I had taken with my kids when they were teenagers. This year, the trip was a gift to me.
A young man from Vermont gave me a lesson in skating-style cross country skiing on a brilliantly sunny Christmas Eve afternoon. I enjoyed watching his graceful moves then struggled as my own rebellious muscles tried to hurl me along the trails.
Fifty-six souls spent their Christmas at the lodge that year, most from California and many from the San Francisco Bay Area. Many brought a bottle of wine to share over the family-style dinners.
After tales from our days on the trails, conversation often turned to work. I discovered several people like me were from Silicon Valley.
Tony was taking time off after a varied career, the last several years of which were at Hewlett-Packard. Like many HP-ers I have known, Tony said it is a great company and he found it hard to leave. But it has suffered from too many outsiders tinkering with its soul and badly needs an insider CEO, he said.
Interestingly, Tony said he has discovered a set of traits common to resistance of any new technology whether it is Windows 8 or smoke-free cookers in Africa. The Irishman who speaks fluent German is now taking time off to decide where to apply his talents to have the best impact on society.
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Dunkirk's July 4 one of the best
Editor, OBSERVER:
Since I haven't lived in the area for several years, July Fourth was the first time I've seen the fireworks at the Dunkirk City Pier since the mid-'80s. I have only one word to describe it: incredible!
I've been fortunate to see Independence Day fireworks in many different cities across this nation, including those in Washington, D.C., the past 15 years, but I can state unequivocally that none of them tops the display I witnessed that July 4 night! Everything about the event: the spectacular fireworks, bands playing, crowds gathering, waffles selling, shops on the pier. It was just perfect!
The city of Dunkirk and all of its inhabitants should be justifiably proud. You sponsor one of the greatest Fourth of July celebrations anywhere in this country. Thank you!
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| Kellogg Illustration Home | Gallery | Biographies | Pantograph | Drawing | Printing |
The Kellogg Illustration Collection: Whale Bones (Fossil and Modern)
The Department of Paleobiology in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History houses several beautiful collections of historical scientific illustrations. These collections represent a wide variety of paleontological subject matter one of which – the Kellogg Illustration Collection – depicts fossil and modern whale skeletal anatomy.
The collection comprises more than 350 drawings (final art and rough sketches) of over 60 species of whales. Sydney Prentice prepared the majority of the drawings, which were printed in four decades of publications by cetologist Remington Kellogg.
Selected pieces from this collection will be on display in the exhibition From Bone to Book in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' beautiful Folger cases in the National Museum of Natural History from Spring 2013 - Spring 2014.
Samples from the Kellogg Illustration Collection - see gallery for more images.
From an artistic standpoint, the primary importance of the collection is its exemplary record of the traditional, classic, and difficult to master pen and ink thick/thin line (or eyelash) technique. The collection showcases Prentice's work and, through preliminary sketches, provides valuable insight into the scientific and artistic processes that lead to the final published drawings.
Today, computer graphics programs, such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, and equipment, such as Wacom Cintiq monitors upon which one draws with a stylus, have to a large extent replaced pen and ink on paper – materials that in the 20th century monopolized the field of scientific illustration. The Prentice illustrations represent a scientific illustration technique that may be going extinct.
That said, flexible pens and ink are still available for purchase and cost very, very little; computer equipment and software are very expensive. Drawing in pen and ink is something all can enjoy and perfect with practice.
We sincerely thank the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee for generously supporting the conservation and exhibition of this collection; the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators for their Education Fund grant which facilitated the preparation of this website; St. John's College's Shupe Fund and Ariel Internship Program for funding Julia Coursey's 2010 and 2011 summer internships; and the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) Kellogg Fund and Walcott Fund for supporting the From Bone to Book exhibit.
We also thank Dave Bohaska, museum specialist (fossil whales)(NMNH) for helping us with a multitude of tasks, and Sarah Pelot, a long time volunteer and contractor, who initially organized, archivally cleaned and rehoused, and catalogued the collection.
Finally, we wish to thank Nicholas D. Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals (NMNH), for helping us understand the scientific aspects of the illustrations and for his interest and enthusiasm in regards to the care and promotion of this important collection.
This website was prepared by Mary Parrish, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and Julia Coursey, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico


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Sakutarō, Hagiwara
Hagiwara Sakutarō 1886-1942
Japanese poet, critic, and essayist.
Hagiwara Sakutarō is considered by many critics to be the father of modern Japanese poetry. He was among the first poets to break away from the traditional, strictly metered forms of Japanese poetry-tanka and haiku. He also established a new aesthetic in Japanese poetry in which he attained a sustained poetic lyricism by using colloquial Japanese speech in free verse poems. Hagiwara was deeply influenced by European nihilistic philosophies, and his poems, which often center on existential anxiety, are pervaded by melancholy and nostalgia.
Biographical Information
Hagiwara was born into a middle-class family in the provincial town of Maebashi, where his father was a successful physician. While in middle school, he took a keen interest in literature and began submitting traditional tanka poems to the literary magazine Bunko. He later withdrew from school due to poor health, and he made sporadic attempts to earn his high school degree into his twenties. At home, Hagiwara devoted himself to poetry and the study of Japanese and European literature. He also had an aptitude for music, and he studied the mandolin and guitar. By 1910, Hagiwara had become a regular contributor to several poetry journals. He spent several years living a somewhat Bohemian life, drifting between his hometown and Tokyo. During this time he explored his interest in Western philosophy and literature, and for a brief period he attended Christian churches. His lifestyle drew criticism from the Maebashi bourgeoisie, and his poetry includes many spiteful remarks about his native community. In 1916, he cofounded the magazine Kanjō with Murō Saisei, an author whose poems he greatly admired. The magazine featured a new style of modern Japanese poetry that was distinct from the highly intellectual poems that other magazines of the day were publishing. The following year Hagiwara published his first poetry collection, Tsuki ni hoeru. The collection, which introduced Hagiwara's extraordinary talent for using colloquial speech in a free verse style, gained wide critical acclaim and established his reputation as a significant new voice in Japanese poetry. He followed this success with several more volumes of poetry, criticism, and poetic theory. Despite his solid literary reputation, Hagiwara relied on his family for financial support throughout his life. In 1919, Hagiwara married Uedo Ineko, with whom he had two daughters. The marriage ended in divorce in 1929. His second marriage, to Ōya Mitsuko in 1938, lasted only eighteen months. Much of Hagiwara's poetry conveys the isolation and loneliness that he felt, and his later works, particularly the poems in his 1934 collection Hyōtō, are characterized by an increasingly despondent and nostalgic tone. He taught at the University of Meiji in Tokyo from 1934 until the year of his death. He died in 1942.
Major Works
Hagiwara's first poetry collection, Tsuki ni hoeru, had a wide and immediate impact on the Japanese literary community. Although the collection contains some traditional tanka, many of the poems are written in a colloquial vernacular in a loose, unmetered form. Hagiwara's success at elevating common Japanese speech to a poetic form was unprecedented. In this volume, commentators noted, Hagiwara essentially created a new aesthetic in modern Japanese poetry. In the preface to the work Hagiwara wrote, "Before this collection not a single poem had been written in colloquial language of this style, and before this collection the animation in the poetry one senses today did not exist." Critics also note that the poems in this collection were among the first in modern Japanese poetry to address questions of existential anxiety. In the title piece, "Howling at the Moon," Hagiwara likened the desperate psychological state of humanity to a lonely dog plaintively wailing at the moon. Throughout the collection, in poems such as "A Hanging in Heaven" and "An Ailing Face at the Bottom of the Earth," Hagiwara created characters who are ridden with despair. Hagiwara's second collection of poems, Aoneko, achieved even greater critical acclaim than his first. The poems in this volume reveal Hagiwara's personal interest in the nihilistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and the pessimistic ideology of Buddhism. The collection centers on abstract, metaphysical themes in which characters are nostalgic for times and places that they have never experienced. Hagiwara published a second "definitive" edition of the volume in 1936, in which he included the poem "The Corpse of a Blue Cat." The piece is a sad and nostalgic love poem in which time and memory are displaced. In it, the speaker says, "We have no past, no future, / And have faded away from the things of reality." Hagiwara's last major collection of poetry, Hyōtō (1934), received mixed critical reviews. In this volume, Hagiwara abandoned his innovative use of colloquial Japanese and returned to writing in a more formal language in metered verse. The poems in the volume are set in a more realistic context, and they convey an overwhelming sense of despair and bitterness. In the autobiographical poem "Returning to My Parents' Home," for example, Hagiwara recounted the anger and rejection that he felt after his first wife left him. In addition to his poetry, Hagiwara was widely respected for his volumes on poetic theory. His most noted work, Shi no genri (1928), laid out his conception of what he contended should be the principal aims of poetry. In aphoristic statements Hagiwara asserted that poetry should strive to convey transcendental themes and be critical of reality.
Principal Works
Tsuki ni hoeru [Howling at the Moon] (poems) 1917
Aoneko [The Blue Cat] (poems) 1923
Junjō Shōkyoku Shū [Short Songs of Pure Feelings] (poems) 1925
Shi no genri [Principles of Poetry] (criticism) 1928
Hyōtō [The Ice Land] (poems) 1934
Nekomachi [The Cat Town] (prose) 1935
Kyōshū no shijin Yosa Buson [Yosa Buson: The Poet of Nostalgia] (criticism) 1936
Face at the Bottom of the World, and Other Poems (poems) 1969
Graeme Wilson (essay date 1969)
SOURCE: An introduction to Face at the Bottom of the World, and Other Poems by Hagiwara Sakutarō, translated by Graeme Wilson, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969, pp. 11-32.
[In the following excerpt, Wilson discusses Hagiwara's contributions to modern Japanese poetry, noting the influences of European philosophy on his works and his success at integrating western and Japanese poetic styles.]
Hagiwara began writing during that critical period in the history of Japanese literature when western influences, almost overwhelming in the Meiji Era (1868-1912), were at last being so successfully assimilated as to permit the regrowth of that essentially Japanese spirit which characterized the succeeding Taisho Era (1912-26). By 1910 the seeds dropped from foreign flowers, not all of them Fleurs du Mal, into the loam of Japanese consciousness were coming up like cryptomeria. Wakon yōsai, that Meiji slogan stressing the need to meld "western learning and the Japanese spirit", was still a living inspiration; and Hagiwara, working in full awareness there of, achieved universality.
It is still sometimes said that the artist's function is to hold a mirror up to nature. The time when that remark was true, if ever such a time there was, is now long past. The photographers have taken over; the photographers who implement the lawyers' pettifogging mania for reasonable facsimiles. The artist's function is (and has, I fancy, always been) to hold up mirrors that transmit not the photographers' literal reality but the artist's individual, even his cracked, perception of the universe. His function in the world is, I believe, to create unreasonable facsimiles thereof. For artists, especially lyric poets such as Hagiwara, are not concerned with truths verifiable by photographs, by the due processes of the law, or by the disciplines of formal logic. They have those reasons reason does not know. Hagiwara was once asked to explain the meaning of an early poem. He replied by asking if his questioner considered beautiful the nightingale's song. On receiving the inevitable affirmative, he then asked what that bird-song meant.… For Hagiwara holds no mirror, cracked or commonplace, up to nature: mirrors need light. Instead, he turns a radar onto nature's hitherto unpenetrated darknesses, feeling out shapes invisible. The resultant images, shining, golden or greeny-silver, often indeed distorted, may, to a photographer's eye, seem odd; but they are authentic versions, visions even, of the truth. For Hagiwara was a native of that strange world where Dylan Thomas' question ("Isn't life a terrible thing, thank God") really needs no answer. And of that world his poems are a terrible, but a beautiful, reporting.
Hagiwara's earliest truly modern poems, of which the first examples appeared in magazines during 1913, show traces of the influence of Baudelaire and the French Symbolists. He has, in fact, been called "the Japanese Baudelaire" but, though there are obvious resemblances in their attitudes, Hagiwara's poetry (as distinct from his prose) contains none of the intellectualism of his predecessor. Similarly, those poems in which he shows most resemblance to Rimbaud are in the lighter lyrical field; and it is interesting to compare Hagiwara's "Elegant Appetite" with Rimbaud's Au Cabaret Vert, the latter the poem in which Ezra Pound considers Rimbaud's real originality to be found. Though Hagiwara's work rings with a certain natural pessimism and despair (themselves reflections of ill health, ill nerves and plain ill-luck), its tone was deepened by study of Nietzsche, Bergson and Schopenhauer. Not only his first book but also his middle-period poetry (notably the poems in "To Dream of a Butterfly" of 1923 and "Blue Cat" of the same year) exhibit that pure but desperate lyricism which German critics have called "the Keats' sickness". These poems do not argue: they sing. They are, in Japanese, songs of those very nightingales which, in T. S. Eliot's poem,
Sang within the bloody wood
When Agamemnon cried aloud
And let their liquid siftings fall
To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud.
As Hagiwara aged, his poetry began to lose its lyrical purity and, though it never sank to the level of logical argument, it did begin to organize its imagery into a sort of argument by visual analogy. At the same time he reverted to a more frequent use of the classical Japanese literary vocabulary (a vocabulary or, to be more precise, a syllabary derived from the Chinese), and his poems so acquired a clanging rather than a singing quality. These stylistic changes, of which "Late Autumn" is a good example, have been praised as marking Hagiwara's development, albeit belatedly, towards a more masculine manner. Such may indeed have been the poet's own intention, but I share Miyoshi's view that the change was a retrogression. I would not go so far as to echo that comment ("Even the powerful bow weakens in the end") which so annoyed Hagiwara, but there can be no doubt that his later poetry contains intellectual elements which adulterate, if they do not actually sour, his earlier pure lyricism. His prose writings demonstrate his reasoned (and, I think, rightly reasoned) antipathy to the styles of political poetry which, almost world wide, characterized the schools of the 1930s; but so far as these poets were poets and not political theorists or would-be politicians, Hagiwara shared their everdeepening sense of anger, sadness and despair. Some of his later poems such as "Useless Book" and "What I Don't Have Is Everything" are almost querulous. He became eventually so bankrupt of all hope that, in Auden's terrifying words (which might well have been his own), he moved towards the ultimate silence of death
Saying Alas
To less and less.
The reasons for Hagiwara's importance in the history of modern Japanese literature (and, indeed, in the whole history of Japanese literature) may be summarized under the following six headings: his use of novel forms, his use of novel language, his escape from the bonds of traditional metric rhythms, his entirely personal music, his astonishing personal vision, and his unprecedented achievement of sustained lyricism.
The earliest collection of Japanese poetry (the Manyōshū of 759) consists largely of tanka, but it also contains many poems in the longer forms of the chōka and sedōka. However, by the time that Ki no Tsurayuki wrote his catalytic Preface to the Kokinshū (the First Imperial Anthology of 905), the Japanese poetic tradition had already begun to crystallize into a tradition of pure lyricism. "Poetry", wrote Tsurayuki, "has its seeds in man's heart"; and this view of poetry as lyricism necessitating no breadth of learning in the lyricist has remained the main strand of the Japanese poetic tradition. Such a tradition demands precisely that intensity of feeling which is always most tellingly expressed in short forms; and for this reason the chōka and sedōka withered away. Though at various times in the subsequent development of Japanese poetry, poets struggled for the freedom of such other longer forms as the imayō, kouta, dodoitsu and jōruri, the five-line tanka remained the normal mode of expression. Some measure of freedom appeared to be offered by the development of linked verse (renga) in which often different poets would compose successive three-line and two-line groups: but, in the event, this breaking of the tanka into a three-line upper hemistich (kami no ku) of 5:7:5 syllables and a two-line lower hemistich (shimo no ku) of 7:7 syllables merely resulted in a yet greater compression of Japanese poetic form. For the upper hemistich embarked on an independent development to become that flower of Edo poetry, now shriveled to a tourist's gaud, the three-line haiku. Thus, at the time when contact was reestablished with the outside world in 1868, the main tradition of Japanese poetry was rigidly confined within the narrow courses of the tanka and the haiku. The notion of poetry as a vehicle for intellectual thought, the concept of the poetry of social protest, the didactic element in Chinese poetry; all these had perished with Yamanoue no Okura (660-733) from the Japanese tradition.
The first result in the poetic field of the Meiji reopening of windows on the west was the appearance in 1882 of Shintaishi (New Style Poetry), a collection of translations of early nineteenth century English poems edited by three Professors (significantly of philosophy, botany and sociology) at the University of Tokyo. The Preface sharply attacked the cramping brevity of traditional forms ("How can a consecutive thought be expressed in such tight forms?"); and three further collections (Shimazaki Tōson's Seedlings in 1887, Mori Ōgai's Semblances in 1889 and Ueda Bin's Sound of the Tide in 1905) pursued the same line of attack but broadened the scope of...
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Charles Dunn (essay date 1970)
SOURCE: A review of Face at the Bottom of the World, and Other Poems, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. XLIII, No. 3, Fall 1970, pp. 481-82.
[In the following review, Dunn offers a favorable review of Hagiwara's Face at the Bottom of the World, and Other Poems.]
This book includes forty poems by Hagiwara (1886-1942), in an English version by Graeme Wilson, who also provides a short but enthusiastic introduction. I think it is true to say that Hagiwara's poems were characterized by a freshness of thought, and a clarity of description, in which language not greatly differing from the ordinary was used to write about things that were blinding by original, and sometimes...
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The Times Literary Supplement (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: "Transmutations of a Westernizer," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 3618, July 2, 1971, p. 755.
[In the following review, the critic asserts that translator Graeme Wilson's use of traditionally western images distorts the meaning of the poems in Hagiwara's Face at the Bottom of the World, and Other Poems.]
Owing to some remarkable resemblances in tone and imagery Hagiwara Sakutarō has had the misfortune of being dubbed "the Japanese Baudelaire". In much the same way Chikamatsu Monzaemon became "Japan's Shakespeare" and Osaka (of all places) "the Venice of Japan". Such pairings compel invidious comparisons and are invariably unfair to the supposed Japanese...
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F. D. Reeve (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: Face at the Bottom of the World, and Other Poems, in Poetry, CXVIII, No. 4, July 1971, pp. 234-38.
[In the following review, Reeve offers a positive assessment of Hagiwara's Face at the Bottom of the World, and Other Poems and praises Graeme Wilson's translations of the poems in the collection.]
Having no Japanese and not trusting Amy Lowell's What's o'Clock? or other Imagist imitations of Japanese style, such as Richard Aldington's:
One frosty night when the guns were still...
I leaned against the trench
Making for myself hokku
Of the moon and flowers and of the snow
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Graeme Wilson (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: "Some Longer Poems of Hagiwara Sakutarō," in Japan Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1972, pp. 170-81.
[In the following essay, Wilson assesses critical appraisals of Hagiwara's works.]
The last few years have seen a steady enhancement, both within Japan and outside Japan, of the reputation of Hagiwara Sakutarō as the best poet there to have emerged during the last hundred years. His outstanding quality has, of course long been recognized by his more perceptive fellow-countrymen. "He was," wrote Miyoshi Tatsuji, "the greatest poet on earth. Such a poet could hardly be found in an hundred years." But that recognition has often been qualified by a basic feeling,...
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Makoto Ueda (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "Hagiwara Sakutaro," in Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature, Stanford University Press, 1983, pp. 137-83.
[In the following excerpt, Ueda discusses the conception of poetry that Hagiwara put forth in his Principles of Poetry and analyses his works within that critical framework.]
Hagiwara Sakutarō (1886-1942) is generally considered the most original of the poets who helped perfect the art of free-style poetry in modern Japan. Shi existed before him: Shiki, Akiko, and Takuboku, along with many other poets, tried their hands at that new verse form. But in two respects Sakutarō's contribution outweighs that of anyone else. First, his...
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Donald Keene (essay date 1984)
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Skip to comments.Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago
Posted on 09/30/2007 10:14:28 AM PDT by baynut
A carbon-rich black layer, dating to 12.9 ka, has been previously identified at 50 Clovis-age sites across North America and appears contemporaneous with the abrupt onset of Younger Dryas (YD) cooling. The in situ bones of extinct Pleistocene megafauna, along with Clovis tool assemblages, occur below this black layer but not within or above it. Causes for the extinctions, YD cooling, and termination of Clovis culture have long been controversial. In this paper, we provide evidence for an extraterrestrial (ET) impact event at 12.9 ka, which we hypothesize caused abrupt environmental changes that contributed to YD cooling, major ecological reorganization, broad-scale extinctions, and rapid human behavioral shifts at the end of the Clovis Period. Clovis-age sites in North American are overlain by a thin, discrete layer with varying peak abundances of (i)magnetic grains with iridium, (ii) magnetic microspherules, (iii) charcoal, (iv) soot, (v) carbon spherules, (vi) glass-like carbon containing nanodiamonds, and (vii) fullerenes with ET helium, all of which are evidence for an ET impact and associated biomass burning at 12.9 ka. This layer also extends throughout at least 15 Carolina Bays, which are unique, elliptical depressions, oriented to the northwest across the Atlantic Coastal Plain. We propose that one or more large, low-density ET objects exploded over northern North America, partially destabilizing the Laurentide Ice Sheet and triggering YD cooling. The shock wave, thermal pulse, and event-related environmental effects (e.g., extensive biomass burning and food limitations) contributed to end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions and adaptive shifts among PaleoAmericans in North America.
This happened 12,900 years ago and it's breaking news?
Is there a babelfish translation of this?
Bush's fault.
Bush's fault.
Wow! Great minds think alike!
Relatively speaking. /snicker
Stuff happens.
Saw a good program on History channel very recently about MegaDisassers, including impacts by comets and such and the residue left behind and other physical evidence of some pretty good hits..
This happened 12,900 years ago and its breaking news? Hell, that's not so bad -- it'll take longer than that for the MSM to get around to publishing any good news out of Iraq>
His ancestors were visionaries and worked hard at guaranteeing the demise of the democratic party today.
Don't underestimate the focus of the VRWC. LOL!
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Here's a good background article, gay state:
New Theory: Did a Prehistoric Comet 'Kill' North America?
They're coming to take me away.
We're only talking 10's of thousands of years here.
The MSM must seeing a bit of light. ; )
Another repeat by The History Channel...
Neanderthal women and children hardest hit.
Not this time if the "Ankle Goddess" is in charge! /s
Another repeat by The History Channel...
True.. I've seen similar stuff on pbs and elsewhere as well..
You forgot "of color"...
Al Sharpton earned a free spat at you for that lack of compassion shown. ; )
It is He3, the same He3 some think they can mine profitably from the moon. Why bother with the moon when it's right here in the Carolina Bays?
Nat King Cole conveyed it best in song with his tune "Smile".
He must have been a conservative minded soul.
Explorer: Mammoth Mystery [TV-G]
Sunday, October 7, 2007, at 10P
Also airs: Monday, October 8, 1A Wednesday, October 10, 8P Scientists have long debated one of the greatest mysteries of science: What caused the sudden mass extinction of mammoths 13,000 years ago? Now, Explorer: Mammoth Mystery gathers a team of investigators who may have found clues to why the mammoths, which reigned over the landscapes of North America for more than 1 million years, suddenly vanished. Could the clues point to the biggest cosmic impact humans have ever witnessed? http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/popup/200710072200.html
I don't think so.
Also Jimmy Carter is old, I don't think he's THAT old.
I don't think so.
Although Jimmy Carter is old, I don't think he's THAT old.
Disregard #27, the fingers are faster than their promoter!
Yoda translates: " Of extinct pleistocene megafauna the in situ bones, with clovis tool assemblages along, within or above it occur below this black layer but not. Hmmmmmm."
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Indeed it is a big deal. In geologic times, this happened yesterday! Some heavy hitters in the paleo business have gotten on board this train so look for the textbooks to be changing soon. VERY interesting stuff when you think about some of the ancient texts derived from oral "myths" possibly referencing some of these goings on.
Civ I don't know if you noticed, but the supernova/gamma ray burst/cosmic bombardment association seems to have disappeared -- or has it?
baynut, I ran through the article fairly quickly, so I many have missed something, but it still doesn't appear to shed any additional light on the origin of the Bays. I'll have to take another look at it this evening when I've got a little more time. Good post!
"After the year that has elapsed since the article was published, however, the authors no longer agree about the events theorized in their article. Firestone's reply is printed below. Topping declined to respond, pending new experimental data."
William Topping has responded, but not soon enough apparently to make the Mammoth Trumpet's cutoff, and if fact was never posted there. Found it HERE(much of his counter-rebuttal to Southon/Taylor's rebuttal has been included in the article this thread is based on).
I didn't read it closely enough to see where Firestone and Topping may have parted ways(if in fact they did); a little technical for an old salesman ;^)
Civ I don't know if you noticed, but the supernova/gamma ray burst/cosmic bombardment association seems to have disappeared -- or has it?Some years ago, there was a book in which the author put forward a model for K-T extinction due to supernova; I tried to get into it, but didn't find it compelling. I don't recall the author's name or the book's title, or anything that would be useful for this anecdote. Nuts.
Mark for later discussion.
The ORIGINAL ARTICLE(w/Topping) made several references to the liklihood(?) of a hit from a supernova. Conspicuously missing from the article cited for this thread along with another theory; that is, carbon dates, particularly associated with paleoindian dates, were quite possibly much too young -- by about 40,000 - 50,000 years. I gather that theory has been abandoned. Which MAY be why Topping is back in the references and cites in the article on THIS thread?
I was never very comfortable with that idea. I think they are on a better track with this current article. And, they seem to have some pretty good evidence.
No doubt; I honestly don't know enough about the "mechanics" of the theory to form an opinion on way or the other. That's why I pinged you to the article. From the looks of things, this may be the reason Firestone and Topping split the sheets -- at least for a while.
Did you happen to read Topping's COUNTER-REBUTTAL to see how well he defended their or HIS conclusions re the carbon dating "anamolies"?
There was a split; Bill Topping (I think that's his name) first turned in the direction of an ET cause, but at some point (perhaps as the "new guy" added members to the team) parted company. :') Not sure what you mean about 40K-50K too young for RC dates — the RC limit is around 50K, beyond which the level of 14C is too low. However, there were some 14C "spikes" which caused older stuff to appear younger, as the ratio was thrown off. That is discussed in the book. Other radiometric stuff is discussed as well. The earlier waves of bombardments are discussed quickly, but I suspect those will someday be fleshed out.
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[snip] As a factual matter there "is" a pattern to abnormally young dates in the Great Lakes region of North America. The sources for these dates were documented thoroughly, and clearly presented in the article. Among Paleo-Indian specialists (relatively few), this pattern is well-known. In addition, we discussed extinctions and mutations that are chronologically related, and based on evidence for prehistoric neutron flux most likely a direct result. "Depleted" Uranium 235 is caused by neutrons, and the excessive Plutonium 239 found in various Paleo-Indian artifacts also is attributable to "neutrons in prehistory" considering all available evidence. The genesis of 14C is neutrons (14N + n = 14C), and the fact that we have hard evidence for prehistoric neutrons necessarily means 14C had to have been produced both in situ, and in the atmosphere. [unsnip]
Redating North American sites
The 39,000 yr B.P. date proposed for the Gainey site is consistent with the prevailing opinion among many archaeologists about when the Americas were populated. It is also commensurate with dates for South American sites and with a Mousterian toolkit tradition that many see as the Paleoindian precursor. The proposed date for the Gainey site also falls closer in line with the radiocarbon date for a Lewisville, Texas, Paleoindian site of 26,610 ± 300 yr B.P.22,23 and radiocarbon dates as early as c. 20,000 yr B.P. for Meadowcroft Rockshelter.24 Since the Lewisville and Meadowcroft sites were likely exposed at the same time to thermal neutrons, we estimate that their dates should be reset to c. 55,000 yr B.P. and c. 45,000 yr B.P., respectively.
It is likely that Paleoindians occupied low latitudes during the full glacial and migrated to more northerly areas as the ice front retreated. Therefore the pattern of dates makes sense from the archaeologist's point of view. Dates for North American sites should generally be reset by up to 40,000 years, depending on latitude and overburden.
Geologists believe that before c. 15,000 yr B.P. the Wisconsinan glaciation covered the more northerly locations where Paleoindian sites have been found.25 The ice sheet would have shielded the landscape and any artifacts from an irradiation. (The Gainey thermoluminescence date of 12,400 yr B.P. is probably a result of the heat generated by the nuclear bombardment at that time, which would have reset the TL index to zero.) The modified dates for Paleoindian settlements suggest that the timetable for glacial advance sequences, strongly driven by conventional radiocarbon dates, should be revisited in light of the evidence presented here of much older occupations than previously thought."
THAT of course from 2001. I don't know if Topping and/or Firestone are still willing to defend his/their theory re the anomalous carbon dates, but some of that information has been included in the article at the head of this thread -- FWIW.
Ah, I see what you mean. Perhaps it was that issue that led to the split.
Impossible to say at this point.
Maybe Coyoteman will be able to get a look at the papers and share some insights.
I was never convinced by the explanation for radiocarbon dating problems in Great Lakes region posited by that early paper.
A subsequent article in the Mammoth Trumpet seems to be pretty convincing. This is: Update: Article Questioning Radiocarbon-dating Accuracy Draws Fire from Scientists.
The real meat of the article is Brief Comments on "Terrestrial Evidence of a Nuclear Catastrophe in Paleoindian Times," by Richard B. Firestone and William Topping, written by John R. Southon and R. E. Taylor. Firestone has a response following, but I think I would follow Southon and Taylor in this one. I don't know Southon, but Taylor has been at this for many years and is not known for going off on wild goose chases.
All of this is reinforced by the most recent article (Goodyear et al. 2007).
There still may be some problem with some radiocarbon dating in the Great Lakes region, but this article may hold the key to understanding just what that problem is.
The meteor or some other ET strike at about 12,900 years ago seems to be a good explanation for a lot of things.
I think these folks may be on the right track--they have a lot of data, and that's always a good start!
Yes indeed. So, from this I gather you would accept the notion that an impact/air burst from an errant space traveler could affect carbon dating? What little of the evidence I was able to understand seems to support that.
Another item; while doing some scouting around the web to see if there were other areas in the world affected by this event -- holy cow! Mega die-offs in much of the world of large critters INCLUDING the southern hemisphere, all at roughly the same time -- in all probability, a single event. This one was a biggie that seems to have been all but ignored until Firestone et al started making waves. Even at that it's been nearly 20 years since they began work on it, and about 6 years since their first publication.
Which all seems pretty odd when you consider this event occurred almost under our noses during what is generally considered historcal times. Some of our early ancestors actually lived through it! Must have been quite a show.
Yes indeed. So, from this I gather you would accept the notion that an impact/air burst from an errant space traveler could affect carbon dating? What little of the evidence I was able to understand seems to support that.
It just might affect some dates. There was an article some years back pointing out problems in just that area:
Lee, Robert E., 1981. Radiocarbon: Ages in error. Anthropological Journal of Canada 19(3): 9-29. Reprinted in Creation Research Society Quarterly 19(2): 117-127 (1982).Creationists have made a lot of hay by combining a couple of quotes (some 20+ pages apart) from this article into one quote, but it is possible the author was describing a real problem related to the ET event in that particular area. Creationists, of course, use this potential local anomaly to deny the efficacy of the radiocarbon method in general--but what do they really know about science, eh? (A little Canadian lingo there.)
Another item; while doing some scouting around the web to see if there were other areas in the world affected by this event -- holy cow! Mega die-offs in much of the world of large critters INCLUDING the southern hemisphere, all at roughly the same time -- in all probability, a single event. This one was a biggie that seems to have been all but ignored until Firestone et al started making waves. Even at that it's been nearly 20 years since they began work on it, and about 6 years since their first publication.
From the recent article (Goodyear et al. 2007), it sounds like they may really be onto something. The Younger Dryas could easily have been a large-scale event. I don't know that the original article's explanation is holding up as well.
Which all seems pretty odd when you consider this event occurred almost under our noses during what is generally considered historcal times. Some of our early ancestors actually lived through it! Must have been quite a show.
All of our ancestors lived through it! Otherwise, they wouldn't be our ancestors. :-)
The (Goodyear et al. 2007) article has a lot of quantitative data, and I think that theory is going to be hard to beat.
I know one of the co-authors and I'll see what I can pick up from him.
I did a quick search for recent articles with Al Goodyear and didn't find anything. Are you referring to the article from this thread, in which he played a part??? If not, a little help; I'd really like to see that.
All of our ancestors lived through it! Otherwise, they wouldn't be our ancestors. :-)
Ouch -- and we wouldn't be here!
I know one of the co-authors and I'll see what I can pick up from him.
Cool. Now I GOTTA hit the sack.
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Description: Vitellogenin in Pimephales promelas was used to assess estrogenicity of a local municipal effluent. Vitellogenin induction in male P. promelas increased in frequency and magnitude with increased exposure duration and was greater ("=0.05) than controls after 2 and 3 weeks of exposure. The level of vitellogenesis induced by effluent exposure was high compared to similar studies. A spring season evaluation followed. Biomarkers in P. promelas were used to assess the efficacy of a treatment wetland to remove toxicity and estrogenicity in final treated wastewater effluent. Comparisons were made with an effluent dominated stream and laboratory controls. Vitellogenin, GSIs (gonado-somatic indices), HSIs (hepato-somatic indices) and secondary sexual characteristics were biomarkers used in P. promelas models to assess aqueous estrogenicity. Biological indicators used to assess general fish health included hematocrit and condition factors. The estrogenic nature of the effluent was screened, concurrent with fish exposure, with GC/MS analysis for target estrogenic compounds including: 17-b estradiol, estrone, ethynylestradiol, Bisphenol A, nonylphenolic compounds, phthalates, and DDT. Plasma vitellogenin measured in P. promelas was significantly elevated (p < 0.0001) at the inflow site of the wetland and stream sites. GSIs for these exposures were less (a=0.001) at the wetland inflow site. At wetland sites closest ...
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Thresholds in avian communities at multiple scales: Relationships between birds, forests, habitats, and landscapes in the Ray Roberts greenbelt, Denton
Date: December 2000
Creator: Barry, Dwight
Description: Environmental management agencies make efforts to reduce pollution loading in streams and rivers by promoting vegetated buffer zones between human activity and water. Most of these efforts do not mesh water quality-based buffer zone width requirements with conservation and wildlife values, specifically, the use of these riparian forest corridors for wildlife dispersal between habitats in highly fragmented landscapes. Forest interior birds are of the most concern to management in riparian forests due to their population declines across much of their breeding range. This dissertation investigates the role that landscape-level and habitat-level factors play on the presence of breeding birds in riparian forests, particularly the landscape and habitat factors that are influenced by human-caused fragmentation. This study describes research at the Ray Roberts Greenbelt, Denton, Texas, that explores the relationships between the landscape and forest habitats of the Greenbelt with its breeding bird community. The major findings of this study are that bird communities in the corridor forests are associated with a greater array of factors than are bird communities in patches, suggesting that the birds of patch forests are somewhat insulated from landscape-scale effects. Also, habitat values can be maintained in corridors, but there does not seem to be a ...
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Ecological Enhancement of Timber Growth: Applying Compost to Loblolly Pine Plantations
Date: December 1999
Creator: Stuckey, Harold Troy
Description: This study explored the application of compost onto a small loblolly pine tree forest in northeast Texas. Its purpose was to determine if the application of various amounts of compost would provide for accelerated rates of growth for the trees. Soil parameters were also monitored. A total of 270 trees were planted and studied in a northeast Texas forest ecosystem. Compost rates of 5, 25, and 50 tons per acre with either soil or compost backfill were utilized and compared to a control without compost. Nonparametric and parametric ANOVA and Chi-Square tests were utilized. The results indicated that greater application rates retained greater moisture and higher pH levels in the soil. Compost applications also yielded a greater survival rate as well as larger tree height and diameter when compared to the control. The 25 ton/acre application backfilled in native soil achieved the greatest average in height and diameter when compared to the averages for the control plot. Greater growth differences for the 25S application can be attributed to additional nutrients coupled with a stable pH consistent with native soil acidity.
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Summer has arrived in Washington once again. The heat index is rising and more tourists arrive every day with their friends and family to view the nation's memorials and historical sites. When I walk along the National Mall, I see international tour groups and hear snippets of conversation in dozens of languages: French, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, and Chinese, to name a few. It's clear that the United States is open for business and ready to welcome visitors from all over the world!
The U.S. Department of State works hard to facilitate legitimate travel to the United States. We understand that keeping our borders secure while welcoming the world are not incompatible priorities. We also understand that every international visitor contributes to the growth of the U.S. economy. The Bureau of Consular Affairs, where I work, is responsible for the security and efficiency of the visa process. Over the past few months, I have been privileged to work with a team that has produced a new video, "Visit America: It's Easier Than You Think." The video is addressed to foreign travelers and combines imagery of the incomparable natural wonders of the United States, its vibrant cities, and diverse people, with an overlying narrative describing the straightforward steps to apply for a visa.
We are translating the video into several foreign languages to share with overseas audiences. In the meantime, we encourage you to link the video to your own travel blog, Facebook timeline, and Twitter feed.
For more information about the visa application process, please visit travel.state.gov.


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Hey just wanted to say, me and some buddies are going to xtreme paintball in I think its east windsor actually, so that would be connecticut lol. On Nov. 6th if you guys were interested. Were gonna be hosting a small school event with our highschoolers.
Xtremepaintball in Mass?
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Cool field run by a young couple. Its small but cool.
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Bikram yoga has had a profound impact on me since I began
Bikram yoga has had a profound impact on me since I began going regularly in February. I had been dabbling with different kinds of yoga for years, not finding the right setting or routine to make it stick. Bikram has changed all that. The heat helps me get out of my head, as Krista says, and the routine is comforting but never dull. And certainly never easy! The Bikram practice is like a mini-metaphor for life: some days are harder than others. Somedays, just showing up is the best you can do. On the best days, you kick butt in practice and walk out on top of the world. But always, when I make it through the challenge of a 90 minute Bikram session, I feel stronger, braver, wiser, and more open to the universe. I don't quite understand it and that's okay too. It's mystical, but it's real.

I discovered yoga in the late 90's in an attempt to heal
I discovered yoga in the late 90's in an attempt to heal severe tendonitis from years of swimming (and surfing). This was back in the day when the only class I could find was at the senior center. I was hooked immediately. Not only did my shoulder heal, but my surfing improved dramatically! I started looking for a yoga program specifically for surfing, but there weren't any, so I became certified as a yoga instructor myself and produced a (very well-received!) instructional DVD series called Yoga for Surfers. I was determined to share my passion for yoga and surfing! I ended up quitting my long-time job as an administrator at the University of California and plunged full-time into health and wellness. Now I teach my own style of yoga (an eclectic hatha blend, informed from my studies and practice of Kundalini, Asthanga, Iyengar and Vinyasa styles) at Yoga Works in Laguna Beach, CA. I also write frequently on yoga, health and wellness in various national and international publications. I'm also a contributing editor for Clean Eating Magazine, focusing on mind-body topics. One of my epiphanies was applying the priniciples of mindfulness to the act of eating! Now I teach people how to make peace with food through my Yoga of Eating programs. For more information, please visit www.PeggyHall.com and www.yogaforsurfers.com

Thank you for this. I had a heat crisis in Bikram, even
Thank you for this. I had a heat crisis in Bikram, even after practicing it for about a year, but I experienced many of the benefits you and Krista describe in your blogs. You (and Seane Corn) have reminded me that I need to get back to yoga--in either a hot room or not--and resume the practice of release and acceptance.

Kate's remarks resonate with me becasue I am her older
Kate's remarks resonate with me becasue I am her older sister. It's becasue of Kate and my daugher Sara's encouragement I began studying Bikram yoga almost one year ago. For me it's every thing that Kate writes about but most of all I love how clean, clear, strong and energetic I feel after my practice. As our 6:00 AM teachers in Minneapolis oftern remind us, this is the hardest thing you will do all day so make the intention to do your best to get through it and out of the way. Everything else will be easy compared to this. And it is true... my old fears and lack of confidence are left with my sweat on the matt to be washed away with a little soap and water. Getting spirituall and physically so clean has never been so rewarding!

Nice to hear from my sister Mary! In fact, Bikram has
Nice to hear from my sister Mary! In fact, Bikram has spread virally in our family ever since her daughter Sara showed up at a family gathering looking so glowing and strong & we all wondered what was up with her. It's a wonderful practice to share, and I am grateful for it every day.

Cliche is good word for how I felt reading this essay,
Cliche is good word for how I felt reading this essay, Kate. There is much we share, and many ways we are different, but your thoughts stimulated a recollection of the very cliched (if that's a made up word, so be it): "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear".
I'm also a yoga convert, and a recent one at that. Oh, I had tried a few classes, and even bought a couple of tapes (yes, tapes) a few years back. But, in spite of the fact hat I enjoyed the sessions and the spirituality of the folks I met along the way, I had let my practice lapse - much like my Catholicism. It was this show on Seane Corn that stimulated me to try again, and I'm so glad that I gave in to that impulse. It has been hard for me not to give in to the feeling that the time i have been away from yoga was foolishly wasted, but one day at a time (yup, also a recovering addict / alcoholic) I have found a growing peace and serenity in my practice that I hope to be able to carry over into my daily life.
At 66, some postures are quite daunting, and some I suppose I'll never master. But you know something, I honestly don't care, which is a foreign feeling for this "type A" personality, but one I'm enjoying very much. My focus is simply on doing what I can, growing where I can, heeding the maxim to "take what you need and leave the rest". I'm happy in my yoga practice, and I'm looking forward to even more learning from it in the future. Just today I signed up for the Wanderlust yoga and music festival in Vermont in late June. So like a convert, huh - just a bit over the top. But that's okay...for today.
Thanks to you, Kriista, your staff and to Seane as well for a great, inspiring show. And thanks to you, in particular, for sharing your yoga journey here. Namaste.

I am not a huge yoga aficionado, but when my three year
I am not a huge yoga aficionado, but when my three year old will watch my wife's Yoga DVD and try to raptly perform the rituals... I can not help but try to do them with her. Maybe, I'll be a convert, too.

As a frequent listener to "On Being" with moderator
As a frequent listener to "On Being" with moderator Krista Tippet, I also visit the OB website for more inspiration. When I read Kate's self describing comments, "A mid-50s, bookish, somewhat perfectionist, slightly workaholic sort of person who had begin to wonder..." and when she also referred to her Catholic girlhood, Kate could have been talking about me! As an on-again off-again Catholic and Hatha yoga student, I've just made a decision to give Bikram a try. Maria D. from Waterford, MI
Thanks for share it. I have
Thanks for share it. I have heard about Bikram Yoga and he has also historical event. Now it becomes grows their business all over the world.


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Live Music Notes - Lee Konitz at Jazz Standard
April 3, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: alto sax, bob haggart, bread crumbs, danilo perez, detriment, drums, funk groove, group improvisation, Jazz Alive, jazz blog, jazz repertory, jazz standard, lee konitz trio, matt wilson, melody, nod, Notes, rufus reid, sleep, stella by starlight, thelonious monk, tuesday evening, tuesday night, wbgo blog
I've been going to see more and more music these days, much to the detriment of my need for sleep. Tuesday evening, I decided to check out the Lee Konitz Trio with very special guest, Danilo Perez. The early set, anyway. I know my limitations.
Lee Konitz, at 80, is still making some amazing music. And as much as I get tired of hearing jazz repertory, I never tire of hearing Konitz play standards. Four songs in one set, three of which I recognized. All of which I enjoyed. Konitz has this way of never really playing the melody outright. Instead, he basically smashed the loaf into bread crumbs, and sprinkles them over the course of a 15 minute group improvisation. It takes a while to find it. And by the time you DO find it, you realize that the treasure is not at the end of the trail. It was the crumbs!
Kinda like that whole idea of jazz being more of a how than a what.
Tuesday night, the group (Konitz on alto sax, Danilo on piano, Rufus Reid on bass, and Matt Wilson on drums) played a strange, intermittent funk under "Stella by Starlight," then a less than foolish nod to people time - "I'll remember April." During the last song, I kept wondering if I was hearing a version of Thelonious Monk's "Bemsha Swing..." I wasn't. I was hearing the band play Bob Haggart's "What's New?"
If you want to find the answer to that question - what's new? - follow the bread crumbs to Jazz Standard. This band beats creative loafing any day.


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Marya Seaworth
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- Melisandre: "Do you love your wife?"
- Davos Seaworth: "I do."
- Melisandre: "Yet you have known other women."
- Davos Seaworth: "Don't talk about my wife."
- Melisandre: "I'm not. I'm talking about other women. Like me, Ser Davos."
- — Melisandre questions Davos Seaworth[src]
Marya Seaworth is the wife of Ser Davos Seaworth and mother of Matthos Seaworth. She does not appear on-screen in the TV series.
Davos saved up enough money through his smuggling to purchase a small plot of land. He then found a woman, Marya, kind enough to overlook his trade.[1] Salladhor Saan attended their wedding feast.[2] She gave him a son they named Matthos. Marya and Davos hoped that he would eventually save enough riches so he could quit smuggling.[1]
Season 2
Melisandre asks Davos if he loves his wife to which he replies he does. She asserts that he answers that way yet he has known other women and Davos tells her not to talk about his wife anymore. Melisandre says that she is speaking of other women like herself and asserts that Davos wants her.[3]
Season 3
After rescuing Davos, Salladhor Saan advises him to return to Marya so he can comfort her following their son's death, but Davos demands to be taken to Dragonstone to stop Melisandre. Salladhor agrees but jokes that, after Davos is killed, he will gather his bones so that Marya can wear them around her neck.[2]
Family tree
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|Matthos Seaworth
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Marya is the daughter of a common carpenter. She has seven sons with Davos: Dale, Allard, Matthos, Marc, Devan, Stannis (named after the king), and Steffon. While Davos went with Stannis' household to Dragonstone, Marya remained at the family keep in Cape Wrath to raise their two youngest sons. Of Marya's other five sons, only Devan survived after the Battle of Blackwater.
Marya is described as good-natured, plump woman with sagging breasts and a kindly smile.
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|Ser Davos Seaworth
|The Stormlands
|Current members:
|Marya Seaworth
|Deceased members:
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|House Baratheon of Dragonstone (formerly) · House Stark


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Lake Placid village to advertise clerk vacancy
LAKE PLACID – The village of Lake Placid will soon advertise its vacant clerk position.
Meanwhile, North Elba town Clerk Laurie Curtis-Dudley will no longer take minutes at village board meetings. She was brought in to perform the duty after Kathryn "Kook" McKillip was placed on administrative leave early last month.
Clerk vacancy
Trustee Scott Monroe asked for an update on the clerk situation at Monday's village Board of Trustees meeting. Mayor Craig Randall said the position will be advertised soon.
Randall said the village isn't likely to make any changes to residency requirements before a new clerk is hired.
"We may not have (the residency issue) resolved," Randall said. "Nevertheless, there's no reason not to post it."
Randall said at least one person has contacted the village about the clerk position. He said the individual wanted to know whether residency would be an issue.
"My response is, at the moment, it is an issue," the mayor said. "However, the option is, if you were the selected candidate, you would agree to move into the village within a six-month window of time. That would accommodate the current law that we've got."
In April, the board tabled a proposed local law that would have expanded the residency requirement. Currently, a 1982 law states that only people living within specific election districts, most of which are in the village, can be eligible for village employment. The proposed law would have allowed anyone who lives in Essex County to work for the village.
Some village workers, like fire drivers, are only required to live within the fire district, which includes most of the town of North Elba.
"Common sense says we're going to have to do something with that local law," Randall said.
Town clerk: no time
Curtis-Dudley has taken minutes at three village board meetings. She has been paid at a rate of $50 an hour.
Randall said Monday that Curtis-Dudley won't have time to take minutes going forward.
"We are working on someone to continue the project, should it be needed, and it perhaps will be," the mayor said.
Curtis-Dudley said she may be able to share the duty with someone else. Randall said he thinks something can be worked out.


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Topic: Archiving Blog Posts :: My attempt at a tutorial
I have been working on writing my own blog software for my blog at http://www.nu2rails.com because while wordpress is great it's a lot more than what I need in my blogger. While I was working I decided that I wanted to be able to create archives by month and year and after some thought I came up with the best way I could.
What I wanted:
1.) I wanted the first article created in a certain month to start he archiving for that month
2.) I wanted to add articles to the current months archive
3.) I wanted to easily be able to display a full list of archived months
4.) I wanted to make sure that archives from June/2008 wouldn't get confused with archives from June/2009 if the blog lasts that long.
What I didn't want:
1.) I didn't want an archive created if there were no posts for that month.
2.) I didn't want to have to manually create an archive each month
3.) I didn't want to have to make a whole bunch of unnecessary database calls
What I did:
First I generated a scaffold of and Archive model
ruby script/generate scaffold Archive month:string year:string
Then when that was all done I opened the migration that was created and added a column to the my Posts table (Where all my blog posts are stored) to reference a row in the Archives table.
I also added the "month" and "year" columns as indexes.
here is my migration:
class CreateArchives < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :archives do |t|
t.string :month
t.string :year
add_column :posts, :archive_id, :integer
add_index "archives", "month"
add_index "archives", "year"
def self.down
drop_table :archives
Once that was done I opened my archive.rb model and added an has_many association to the posts model
class Archive < ActiveRecord::Base
# Model Associations
has_many :posts
Then in the post model is where the magic happens. First thing was to add a belongs_to association to the archive model
belongs_to :archive
After that I wanted the creation of an archive or the addition to an archive automatic. So I made a small method that does just that.
def make_archive
if @a = Archive.find_by_month(Time.now.strftime('%B'))
self.archive_id = @a.id
@a = Archive.create(:month => Time.now.strftime('%B'), :year => Time.now.strftime('%Y'))
self.archive_id = @a.id
Then I simply added that as a before filter in the post.rb model file and bang... it worked.
Here is my full post.rb file so you can see how it's set up.
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
# Model Associations
has_and_belongs_to_many :categories
belongs_to :archive
belongs_to :user
has_many :comments
# Make sure all the info we need is there
validates_presence_of :title
validates_presence_of :body
# Before it saves let's see if there is an archive for this month, if not add one.
before_save :make_archive
# Method to add an existing archive or create a new one.
def make_archive
if @a = Archive.find_by_month(Time.now.strftime('%B'))
self.archive_id = @a.id
@a = Archive.create(:month => Time.now.strftime('%B'), :year => Time.now.strftime('%Y'))
self.archive_id = @a.id
And that's how I implemented the automatic archiving of my blog posts. I'm not sure that it's the most railsy way to do this but it's the best I could think of. I hope this helps someone and if there is a better way to do this I would appreciate letting me know as I'm still pretty new.
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