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Like a community that draws down its well faster than it can recharge, humanity has been living beyond its means. It has been over a month since Earth Overshoot Day (August 22), the day marking when humanity exhausted nature's budget for the year. The notion of Ecological Overshoot (when our collective demand on nature exceeds the biosphere's supply, or regenerative capacity) can sometimes seem abstract. When millions of citizens from economically wealthy nations can still go to fully-stocked stores and have relatively high living standards, it is easy to justify business-as-usual policies.
Yet recent headlines reveal overshoot's all-too-real consequences. In recent months we've heard about fish stocks collapsing and degradation of coral reefs due to overfishing and ocean warming; shortages and rapid price increases of commodities (like wheat and corn) due to water scarcity and extreme heat; deforestation; and literally drawing down our wells (see Footprint Briefs).
Some regions may be more vulnerable than others in the medium-term. For example, the Persian Gulf may be one of the hardest-hit regions in terms of fisheries decline due to climate change and acidification. The nations of the Mediterranean region nearly tripled their demand for ecological resources and services, and the region increased its ecological deficit by 230 percent, in the past fifty years (see story below on the launch of the new Mediterranean Ecological Footprint Trends report).
Fortunately, we are seeing heightened awareness of our Ecological Footprint and the economic implications of resource constraints and climate-altering carbon emissions, both in the public realm (see Walkable Footprint and the extensive international media coverage of Earth Overshoot Day) and among national and financial leaders (see Upcoming Events).
Amid Venice's bustling tourist activity, its iconic art, gondolas, and church bells, dozens of government representatives, NGO leaders and academics met this week to discuss the links between ecological and economic crises in the Mediterranean region.
Organized by Global Footprint Network and UNESCO, with support from the MAVA Foundation, the two-day international conference, "Securing Competitiveness for the Mediterranean," opened Monday (October 1) at UNESCO's Venice office. The Mediterranean's ever-widening ecological deficit and its economic implications is the main theme of the new Mediterranean Ecological Footprint Trends report, the result of a two-year study by Global Footprint Network and the focus of the conference. Representatives from more than 12 Mediterranean countries attended the event, which has already been covered by Le Monde, La Stampa and other media.
As the first nation to incorporate the Ecological Footprint into its National Plan, Ecuador is committed to maintaining its Ecological Footprint at a level within what its ecosystems can renew. Yet this commitment came about only after becoming aware of their growing Ecological Footprint. Fifty years ago, Ecuador had over four times as much biocapacity than they used. A growing population and increased consumption put the nation in ecological deficit. Now Ecuador's Ecological Footprint has exceeded its biocapacity. Ecuador's per capita Footprint over the past half-century has doubled, while the population has more than tripled. This means that many more Ecuadorans are sharing the available ecological assets.
National leaders recognized this as a threat to their long-term economic security and decided to make reversing this trend a national priority. It adopted a Presidential mandate to manage ecological assets by incorporating indicators such as the Footprint to track ecological supply and demand, and inform sound long-term decision-making.
It has been over a month since Earth Overshoot Day (August 22), the day marking when humanity exhausted nature's budget for the year. We continue to draw down ecological assets at a rate faster than can be replenished and accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere faster than can be sustainably absorbed.
The good news is that overshoot is receiving increasing attention. Earth Overshoot Day received extensive international media coverage. Read below for some of the highlights:
Latest Ecological Footprint methodology paper accepted for publication in Ecological Indicators
Every year, Global Footprint Network continues to improve the methodology for calculating the Ecological Footprint. The most recent Calculation Method paper has been accepted for publication in the journal Ecological Indicators: Integrating Sciences for Monitoring, Assessment and Management.
The paper documents the latest method for calculating the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of nations, resulting in the National Footprint Accounts (NFAs) of more than 200 countries and for the world overall.
A round-up of other Footprint and sustainability news from across the globe.
Launch of the E-RISC Report: "A New Angle on Sovereign Credit Risk"
November 19, London, Hosted by Bloomberg
UNEP FI and Global Footprint Network will launch their innovative report on sovereign credit risk. During this interactive event, hosted by Bloomberg, we will unveil the results of our recent project, which assesses the materiality of natural resource and environmental risks in the context of sovereign credit risk.
Arab Forum for Environment and Development Conference (AFED)
November 29-30, Beirut, Lebanon
AFED's Annual Conference will convene at Phoenicia Intercontinental Hotel in Beirut on November 19-20. The conference theme is the Arab region's Ecological Footprint. Global Footprint Network's Ecological Footprint Atlas, exploring resource constraints in the Arab countries from the perspective of the regenerative capacity of nature, will be revealed. This Atlas, along with AFED's report "Sustainability Options in the Arab Countries," will help promote the concept of ecological accounting and move towards their integration in decision-making in the region.
Global Footprint Network currently has several open job and internship opportunities. We are looking for leaders with a passion for global sustainability in a variety of capacities from research to project management. Please review the opportunities we have available and consider joining our team.
Director of Planning & Performance
Senior Economist
Research Scientist, Geneva
Senior Manager, External Affairs
Administrative Officer, Geneva
Project Manager, Oakland
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Gaylord banker details RS Fiber project
FAIRFAX – The Chairman and CEO of ProGrowth Bank (PGB) presented a project financing status update of the RS Fiber project Thursday at the Fairfax Auditorium.
Phil Keithahn of Gaylord, a Benson native, majority shareholder of Sterling Capital Advisors, Inc. (SCA) and PGB was recently hired as the financial advisor by RS Fiber Cooperative to obtain $40 million financing for the project that would provide fiber optic internet, telephone and television service to Sibley and Renville counties plus some parts of nearby counties.
Keithahn, a graduate of Carlton College and Harvard Business School, said he worked with large agricultural corporations for Wells Fargo Bank in the Twin Cities before trading the metro area for rural Minnesota.
"I learned living in a small town that rumors speak loudly but facts don't speak for themselves," he said. "My Dad told me respect people even if they don't believe the same things you do. I hope you join the project's Joint Powers Board and help this project become successful. Government USDA and FDIC funds could pay for 75 percent of the construction cost. If we get 50 percent or more (customer) penetration, the project will pay for itself. There is not a significant risk to taxpayers."
Keithahn has studied the project for hundreds of hours and called it "financially viable," teaming with Winona-based Hiawatha Broadband, a 20-year-old entity owned by the creator of Fastenal that set up fiber optic projects in Winona and is going into Red Wing, Hastings and other southeastern Minnesota cities.
"My findings will be validated by government lending agencies," Keithahn said. "The State of Minnesota is eligible for $60 million in federal economic development funds but has never applied for it. We plan to apply for $10 million of it for this project."
The projects finance team includes recent Oppenheimer retiree Ralph McGinley and New York investment banker Bill Loewenstein, Keithahn said.
The RS Fiber project would show positive cash flow two to three years after ramp-up, expected as soon as July 1, 2015. Construction would be complete between 2016 and 2018.
Cities and townships have until April 30, to approve joining the RS Fiber Joint Powers Board.
Winthrop City Administrator Mark Erickson said cities of Fairfax, Buffalo Lake, Stewart, Brownton, Gaylord, Winthrop, Gibbon, Green Isle and Lafayette and the townships of Bandon, Cairo, Kelso, Grafton and Transit have approved joining the board. The City of New Auburn is set to vote on joining the board next week, Erickson said.
Several farmers in nearby townships in Nicollet County asked about joining the project. Keithahn said customers who join the first phase of the project would get the lowest rates. The rates could average about $25 less per month than existing internet, telephone and television providers offer. Keithahn said business service rates would be much less costly, possible several hundred dollars a month less than existing providers charge.
For more information, visit www.rsfiber.coooper or rsfiber.com
(Fritz Busch can be e-mailed at email@example.com).

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There are still small issues that need to be addressed, but this was the big one. The next goal is to get a project page up along with some simple starting guides, take a breath and see where the project goes from there. My current site is still imperfect, but I consider it to be a good reflection of how I view responsive web design. As I mentioned in an recently, responsive web design goes beyond a responsive layout. Our designs need to address limited bandwidth and processing power associated with mobile devices.
My hope is this theme will continue to improve so that it can provide a viable option for bloggers who provide a fast, reading-centric experience for their visitors. Due to my limited schedule however, I need to rely on the community to help me push this project forward. If you have enjoyed this site and/or you would like to use this theme, I encourage you to do so. I also encourage you to help make it better for everyone else. So please, fork this theme and get in touch with me if you are interesting in contributing.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – David Price's personal Twitter controversy is over – until next spring.
The Tampa Bay Rays pitcher apologized Sunday via the same medium after some exchanges with fans and criticism of the TBS broadcast crew Saturday after he lost Game 2 of the AL Division Series at Boston.
Rays manager Joe Maddon isn't going to double back on the freedom of expression he believes is so important around his team, but that doesn't mean Price won't hear about it.
"Next spring training, when we have our media training, you're going to see this as a perfect example of what not to do," Maddon said Sunday after the Rays held an optional workout at Tropicana Field. Price, like a majority of Rays players, was not present.
But he did tweet:
"Last night got out of hand and I apologize for the things that I said on here. … if I offended you I am very sorry for doing so."
Price began reacting electronically Saturday night after the game in which David Ortiz hit two home runs among the seven runs and nine hits Price allowed. He already had expressed his displeasure to the media with the way Ortiz stood and admired his second homer, a towering drive over the right field foul pole.
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA: Price tweets up a storm after loss
Amidst some Twitter taunting from fans, Price tweeted:
"Trust me … I don't want sympathy … I got beat tonight … so be it … I'll bounce back. .. 3XALLSTAR … 2 time player choice … runnerup Cy … AND CY"
Then, he took on the TBS post-game studio crew, which includes former major league pitcher Dirk Hayhurst and writer Tom Verducci:
"Dirk Hayhurst … COULDN'T hack it … Tom Verducci wasn't even a water boy in high school … but they can still bash a player … SAVE IT NERDS"
Maddon says the lesson learned is more important than making any changes to the way the Rays operate.
"I don't want to take one isolated incident and try to turn it into something," Maddon said. "I think that's something we do nationally a little bit too often. I really hate to legislate behavior. I have a lot of faith in David. I think David did the right thing after he did the wrong thing. Sometimes, you've got to make a mistake in order to come out on the other side and be better. I believe in the future you're going to see better judgment."
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Blue Danube Trip
08 Apr 09
Day 1 (Wednesday, April 8)
I woke up around 03:00 and took the train to Oslo airport, where I met Daniel. We had a baguette as breakfast before boarding the plane to Salzburg.
When we climbed down from the plane in Salzburg we were met with a nice view of mountains and horse sh*t smell. The smell persisted throughout the day. Whenever we saw some horses in the city we said "that's why it smells like sh*t".
Daniel used his high-tech GPS to find the way to our hostel, Yoho International Youth Hostel. It was very nice, with keycard secured lockers and happy hour.
We started our sightseeing tour by walking to Altstadt (Old Town) where we saw the house where Mozart was born. We had a nice lunch in the center where I tried the schnitzel, and we started already drinking beer.
After this we went to Mirabell Gardens where we met a drunken Austrian guy who kept insisting that "Beethoven is first, Bach is second, and Mozart is third". We entered Mirabell Palace looking for the concert place, and we found it but it was quite empty there and we were wondering if the concert will actually take place.
We returned to the hostel to try the happy hour (where a beer is 2 Euros instead of 2.80 Euros), then we set to Altstadt again where we tried to get into Mozarteum where a concert was happening. But the staff did not allow us to get in, saying that the concert was not opened to the public. Even after we insisted that we saw posters of the concert we could not get in. Then we were joking about what would have happened if we came in beach clothes or drunk to the Mozarteum and ask to get in the concert.
Returning to Mirabell Palace we entered the concert hall, where we saw a nice classical musical concert with a small orchestra of only 2 violins, 1 contrabas and 1 fagott (tube-like instrument).
After the concert we walked to the hostel, stopping on the way to get a kebab. Daniel was out of luck as he didn't find a vegetarian option. At the kebab shop we were talking with 2 drunk soldiers (how come the only people who talked with us were drunk?).
At the hostel where we had more beers, after me failing to pronounce Stiegel (local beer brand) in proper German way.
Day 2 (Thursday, April 9)
Waking up at 07:00 (on vacation?), we took a nice breakfast in the Yoho hostel, and we rushed to the train station where we got on the train to Vienna.
There were lots of people on the train, and we sat by mistake on reserved seats. An Austrian woman with her daughter came and moved us from the seats. We had to listen to a lengthy conversation of the woman with an old man, out of which we understoon nothing. Daniel noticed two girls on the train which he later saw in Vienna and Bratislava, saying that it was a strange coincidence.
In Vienna we relied again on Daniel's GPS skills to find our way to Hostel Ruthensteiner, which had a nice atrium. A guy was sleeping in our room (around midday).
Leaving from the hostel dressed as business men (with suits) so we don't look like tourists, we took the metro to the Old Town and began exploring. We bought tickets to a classical music concert at Kursalon in the evening (student price, although I am not a student anymore).
We had a nice lunch (schnitzel again) and beers, and we went to Hofburg and then the Natural History Museum where we spent a few hours, also having a coffee.
From the museum we walked to Belvedere Gardens where we could not get in because all doors were locked and the wall was too high.
We went to Stadtpark where we had an icecream while waiting for the concert to begin.
At Kursalon we were amazed by the luxury and the nice decorations of the interior. Realizing that the guy we bought the tickets lied a bit (he said we will stay in front, but we actually stayed in the front row of the last three rows), we waited almost one hour for the concert to begin.
The concert was amazing, with many superb musical pieces like Blue Danube, Swan Lake, Don Giovanni and other great songs. At one point I almost cried because the music was so beautiful. There was also balet and opera pieces accompanying the orchestra.
During the intermezzo we all went on the Kursalon terrace just like in the old days, with people socializing and having a drink and a smoke.
Returning to the concert we had other great musical pieces.
After the concert we went to a salsa club in Stadtpark where we had a beer while listening to salsa music.
On the way to hostel I stopped to get a hot-dog, and after that we took the metro to the hostel. Around the train station there were so many kebab places that Daniel finally found a vegetarian one for him, and I was regretting that I got the hot-dog earlier. But it was good anyway.
Day 3 (Friday, April 10)
Waking up at 07:00 again we had a nice breakfast in the hostel, and we rushed to the metro station to get to the ferry. By my mistake we ended up in another harbour, and we lost the first ferry to Bratislava.
Having some time to burn until midday when the next ferry would leave, we went to get a coffee at Starbucks, while I explored the city a bit looking for a travelling bag. I entered a nice student bookshop where I saw lots of nice books but didn't buy any.
After the coffee we went to a pool (billiards) place to play pool (at 10:00 in the morning).
After the pool we went to a nice Chinese restaurant where we filled our bellies with lots of good food, even though we were trying to save space for the upcoming fancy dinner in Bratislava at UFO.
Finally getting on the ferry, we were amazed by the hi-speed and took refuge inside the boat. The trip to Bratislava took only one hour and 30 minutes (Vienna and Bratislava are the closest capitals in the world, 60 km).
Arriving in Bratislava we were welcomed by sexy girls advertising a tourist sightseeing tram. We decided to walk to our hostel instead. Trying to get Slovakian currency at an ATM, Daniel got instead Euros and we were shocked and did not know how to pay for a tram. But walking a bit we actually found Hostel Blues on foot.
At the hostel we met with Jonathan and we had some cheap and good beer while talking with the receptionist.
Finally ready for sightseeing we made a detour to McDonald's for a quick snack, while Daniel went looking for summer clothes.
In the Old Town we did a bit of exploring, and then we went to the castle hill where we saw a nice view of Bratislava. I got some souvenirs (wrapped a thousand times in paper) while Daniel had trouble finding the toilet (probably because of the language).
From the castle we returned to the Old Town were we had some beers in a nice bar, where Jonathan did not want to leave a tip to the beautiful waitress. We made a stop to a clothes shop were we bought some clothes, and to a supermarket.
Back at the hostel we got ready for dinner, and made a quick stop at the hostel reception for a beer on the terrace.
Leaving by taxi to UFO (also called Taste.A), we got on the elevator up, and first went to the terrace on top to enjoy the view and the sunset.
At the dinner we were met by an army of waiters, each with their own function. First a waitress unfolded the napkins and put them on our laps. Then a waiter came for the order, and another one for the wine. The prices were very steep (but comparable to Norwegian prices), and we got only starter and main course as opposed to the full 6-course meals recommended by the waiters.
With the dinner came lots of small surprises. First another waiter brought us a pre-starter, a potato-foam with bread. The second pre-starter, a tomato-foam with basilicum sauce, was brought by another waiter. Then the starter came, seared foie gras with ginger bread and honey sauce. The wine went down well with the main course, tournedos of veal tenderloin. Daniel had vegetarian pasta which looked very good. After the main course another waiter brought some chocolate with raspberry, and then we had an espresso. And after the bill being paid we got some muffins in a white bag as souvenirs.
We enjoyed the night skyline of Bratislava for a bit then we took a taxi to the hostel.
At the hostel we changed from our waiter shirts in some party clothes and drank some beers, and later we joined many of the hostel guests to club Charlie's. During the night we went to KGB but that pub was nothing special so we returned to Charlie's.
As traditional in Norway we went to get a kebab before going to sleep. Jonathan was so hungry that he went to get a second kebab.
Day 4 (Saturday, April 11)
Waking up around 08:00 all the showers were occupied by our Indian next-door neighbours who each took one hour in the shower. After finally getting in the shower, me and Daniel went to get a nice breakfast in the city, then we got ready to leave to Budapest.
At the Bratislava train station Daniel saw the same girls from the Salzburg train. We were suntanning while waiting for the train, and seeing more people from the hostel arrive at the station.
In the train there were some crazy Hungarian dudes who were screaming and did not let us sleep.
Arriving in Budapest we took some money from the ATM, and Daniel tried to change a big bill to small coins at a kebab shop, where we waited almost 30 minutes until the sales lady found someone to change the money.
Walking to the hostel, we took a tram without paying because all the ticket machines we found did not work.
Carpe Noctem Hostel is well hidded inside an old building, but apparently it is the number one hostel in the world (according to hostelworld.com ratings). We were met by a friendly staff who even introduced their names and explained to us all that we can see in Budapest.
Leaving to the city to do some sightseeing, we walked a lot on the Pest side, seeing the Parliament and other sights.
The quick snack at Cafe Montmartre was not enough so we had some traditional Hungarian food in a festival-like place in the center.
On the way to the hostel we stopped at a Puma store to buy some clothes and swimming suits, and where Jonathan was almost locked inside with the sales girl.
At the hostel the hosts prepared a special Easter night with pub crawling and special rules (have a drinking buddy to keep score, drink with your left and with the pinky of the glass, do not say 'drink' but 'consume', do not point, have a Kinder surprise toy on you all the time etc). This was being taken seriously and talking was being interrupted by people enforcing the rules and making the offenders dri.. consume alchool.
Leaving from the hostel on the pub crawl we walked from pub to pub getting more drunk on the way. At B. City the quota was 1 shot of palinka, one beer in 4 or less sips, and a shot of Unicum. A Hungarian guy was asking me why my drink buddy Manc was happy and I answered that she was happy because of the Unicum and he could not believe it. In this pub we could only talk with the person on the left, so everybody was turning in order to answer.
Some people were taking extra shots and beers to get more points. The toilets could not be used except in certain pubs or otherwise points were substracted.
Instant pub was the last I saw before taking Daniel to the hostel. The rule here was that you needed to say Jizz in my Pants on every sentence. I did see the next rules being followed, some of which were weird at best: tie yourself to your buddy, kiss a baby (!) (where the hell do you find a baby at midnight on a Saturday night pub crawl) and the game 'pass the ice cube'.
The taxi driver did not want to take Daniel, probably because he was not in the best stomach state. After walking with Daniel to the hostel, I tried to find a disco close to the hostel the dudes saw earlier but did not find it (later I found out that I was actually there but the place did not look promising).
I took a taxi to Kuplung to get Jonathan and together we went to club Play, which was a huge club with 7 Euros cover charge and 3 Euros per beer, and with airport scanner at the entrance. But we stayed there for only 30 minutes, after which we took a taxi to another club, and then getting back to the hostel around 04:30.
Jonathan fell out of bed during the night when the guy who was supposed to sleep in that bed returned, and I found out later that people took pictures of him sleeping on the floor.
Day 5 (Sunday, April 12)
Waking up around 08:00, it was almost no one sober or even awake in the hostel. I went to the train station to get some Euros changed to forint, not realizing that there was an ATM just next to the Exchange Office.
Then I went to a restaurant to get a kebab but was denied because it was too early, so instead I went to McDonald's where I ate only half of the food.
Returning to the hostel I was hanging out with the guests who were slowly waking up.
Daniel woke up around 12:00 and we went to the restaurant where I didn't have my kebab, having a great lunch with delicious food, while recounting all the events of the previous night.
Returning to the hostel we got Jonathan and we set on walking to Gellért Baths, with a quick kebab stop on the way.
Gellért Baths was a great place to hang out on a hot Sunday afternoon, with inside and outside pool and even a hot pool, and we got some sun tan outside.
Leaving from the pool we went on a sightseeing in Buda, climbing on the hill to enjoy the view and have some gulash soup and "buni", which Daniel thought it means "French fries".
After climbing down from the Buda hill we crossed the Danube into Pest, meeting an American couple from the hostel.
After quickly changing into nicer clothes at the hostel we took the tram to Jam Pub where we arrived a bit late. There we had dinner with Flora and her boyfriend, while listening to live Cuban music.
After the dinner Flora's boyfriend took us on a car trip through Budapest, crossing the Danube a few times back and forth Buda and Pest. In the end he dropped us at our hostel, where we packed and went to sleep for only a few hours.
Day 6 (Monday, April 13)
Waking up at 03:30 to get to the airport we saw some people returning drunk from clubs, and dancing without any sound in the living room in the hostel. We said good-bye to whomever was sober enough and left with a taxi to the airport.
We arrived at Torp around 08:30 on Monday morning, and I got quickly on the bus while the other dudes were busy in the tax-free shop. There was quite a contrast between the Norwegian weather and what we experienced on our Eurotrip.
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Spiced Chicken Soup
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 2 celery ribs, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped (about 1 tablespoon)
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 3 Italian red cherry peppers, seeded and finely chopped
- 1/2 lemon, peeled
- 8 cups low-sodium chicken stock
- 2 split skinless chicken breasts, bone-in (about 8 ounces)
- Smoked salt, if desired
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 4 Yukon gold potatoes, scrubbed well and chopped, skin-on
- 8 ounces cooked rotini pasta
- Lemon wedges, for serving
- Chopped fresh parsley, for garnish
In a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat, add the olive oil. Next, add the carrots, celery, garlic, bay leaf and onions. Saute until the vegetable begin to wilt, about 5 minutes. Next, add the cherry peppers and lemon peel and continue to saute for another 2 minutes. Add in the chicken stock and chicken pieces and sprinkle with smoked salt, if using, and pepper. Bring the soup to a gentle simmer and cook, about 30 minutes.
Remove the chicken to a plate and wait until the pieces are cool enough to handle. Either with 2 forks or with your hands, pull the meat from the bone and shred, taking care to remove any cartilage. Once all of the meat is pulled from the bone, add the meat back to the soup and discard the bones.
In the meantime, add the potatoes to the soup, cover and continue to cook and additional 15 minutes. Taste the soup again for seasoning, adding more salt and pepper, if necessary. Add in the noodles. Serve the soup in warmed bowls. Garnish with a squeeze of lemon and some parsley.
Recipe courtesy of Aaron McCargo Jr.
Cooking Tips
More Recipes and Ideas
Spiced Carrot Soup with Cilantro Crema
Recipe courtesy of Aria Kagan
Chicken Soup with Cornmeal Sage Dumplings
Recipe courtesy of Robin Miller
Chicken Soup with Matzo Balls
Recipe courtesy of Ron Ben-Israel


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Henry Edward Cross---AKA Harry Cross
Born: September 9, 1881, New Britain, CT
Died: April 3, 1946, New York City, NY, age 64
New York sports writer;
Attended Harvard College (Cambridge, MA), 1905
Waterbury American, Fall, 1905 - 1909,
New York Times, 1909 - 1920, 1924 - 1925
New York Evening Post sports editor, 1920 - 1924
New York Herald-Tribune sports writer, 1926 - 1941 (non-baseball), 1942 - 1945, NY Giants
Member of Baseball Hall of Fame committee, June 18, 1945 - April 3, 1946, death.
Expert in Baseball/football, boxing, curing, figure-skating, polo, rowing, and most all else, except golf & tennis. Member football writers association.
Harry Cross (Sportswriter. Born, New Britain, Conn., Sept. 9, 1881; died, New York, Apr. 3, 1946.) Considered to be one of the most authoritative writers of his era, Harry E. Cross was an expert on such sports as curling, figure skating, polo, and rowing, as well as baseball, football, and boxing. Except for golf and tennis, Cross was assigned to almost every major event. He left Harvard in 1905 to become a sportswriter with the Waterbury (Conn.) American and four years later went to The New York Times. During his nearly 12 years (1909-20) at The Times, Cross covered principally baseball and primarily the Giants. He was one of the first Times writers to regularly attend spring training. In 1920, Cross became sports editor of the Evening Post but returned to The Times for two years (1924-26). He then moved to the Herald Tribune, where he remained for more than 20 years (1926-46). Cross was briefly the sports editor at the Herald Tribune in 1927. He was the chairman of the New York chapter of the B.B.W.A.A. in 1944-45. Cross was also one of the early members of the Football Writers Association and covered many of the major college football games of the time. (The Bill Shannon Biographical Dictionary of New York Sports is an open database of sports biographies maintained by Jordan Sprechman and Marty Appel.)
New York Times' obituary, April 4, 1946, pp. 23----------------------Sporting News' obituary, April 11, 1946, pp. 16, col. 4.
L-R: Branch Rickey, Ford Frick, Harry Cross, Horace Stoneham.


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Training for strength / power
Anyone know of a good beginning level training routine focusing on developing strength and power?
I'm not concerned about the coolest lifts in the gym or building a beach body. I want it to focus on performance.
IF your starting off I would focus on basic lifts. Pull ups, bench or pushups, military press, dips and curls. You could also throw in a leg press machine.
That will get you strength and power, but this answer is based off the assumption your level is that of = > 0.
When lifting to increase strength, you typically want to go with high weight and lower number of reps. If you can do more than 7 or 8 reps easily, then add some weight. Always start with a warm-up set or two of lighter weights, but then go for heavy lifts. I like to finish with a lighter set to burn out as many reps as possible, but the majority of the workout is heavy. You'll also want a higher calorie, high protein diet. When I say high-calorie, I don't mean a bunch of junk food. I just mean you can't go starving yourself and expect to gain any size/strength.
First of all, which are you most deficient in - strength or power?
The very definition of power is: force x velocity
So, if you lack strength, I would concentrate on developing strength, first. That's the "force" aspect of the power equation.
It is very difficult to really maximize these two qualities simultaneously because both qualities are very taxing on the central nervous system.
So, I would begin with a focus on improving maximal strength. Personally, I actually like the approach of the Westside system for this - where you focus on two max effort days and two dynamic effort days. The max effort days allow you develop maximal strength and aids in improving nervous system maximal recruitment (i.e. "turning on") of muscle fibers/motor units. The dynamic effort days help train the nervous system to recruit ("turn on") those muscle fibers at a faster rate; thus, you are developing the "rate of force development."
Once you have built a foundation of strength, then I'd back off of the maximal strength and put it into maintenance mode. At this point, I'd focus on power through full-body, high-velocity movements such as plyometrics and Olympic lifts or Oly lift variations such as using dumbbells.
Another option is known as "contrast training" or "complex training." For this type of training, you would pair a strength exercise with a power exercise. The idea is that the nervous system would "turn on" more motor units (nerve + all of the muscle fibers that it stimulates) during the strength exercise and you'd get a greater neural effect for the plyometric activity. An example would be something like a heavy squat (reps x 3 or 5) coupled with an immediate set of 5 box jumps.
Now, the research suggests taking long breaks between the two exercises when contrast training - 3-4 minutes, I believe is what I have seen. However, most people that I have seen utilizing this training superset the two exercises. To me, it makes more sense to superset. Otherwise, I feel that you'll lose that neural stimulus that is gained from the heavy strength exercise if you allow the body a reasonably full recovery. I can present arguments for and against. But, I personally advocate a superset approach. A year from now, I may completely change my opinion. But, that's my approach for the time being.
So, those are some basic ideas.
I really appreciate the contributions I've gotten so far. Anyone have any online sources they can point me to as well?
Olympic lifts are hte way to go cleans, clean and press, clean and jerks, dead lifts, squats, bench press, shoulder press, dips, pull ups, chin ups, pushups... cant think of any more but those are things that i throw around
I was reading an article in the September 2009 issue of MuscleMag International and it was in regards to, basically, the same as your article here, except they called it "Rest-Pause Technique" and uses a fixed rest period along with the "3 reps" you're discussing.
This basically calls for you to use your 5-6-rep max and shoot for 2-3 reps followed by a 15-second rest and repeat 4 times; this makes 1 set. They call for 4 sets per lift. As the article states:
See the ZIP file below for some sample routines of what I'd done with my past bulk. As for abs, I'm not a fighter. I spend a total of 5 minutes a week doing abs and haven't had any problems with them. Focusing on heavy compound lifts, especially squats and deadlifts, are going to give your abs plenty of development.
BTW, gymcoach, I took your advice and added more compound lifts to the routines rather than an excessive amount of curls and other much less useful lifts.
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Another month passes by. How quickly they seem to be, autumn is almost upon us. The month to be, at least for parts of the northern american continent, is the time persistent gardening work will be underway. Planting the fall bulbs, moving spring blooming perennials and tidying up the beds are a few such to do's.
Autumn is a wonderful time, for me it is the sound of the airborne leaves that tumble in the wind, and the smells, who doesn't love the robust, earthiness of fall [yum…]. The best part of it all is the time gardens take a long nap, dreaming up wonderful things for spring.
If you are able to find wild mushrooms for this recipe, please give them a try, they are wonderful; a nice change of pace to the bright lightness of summery dishes. This recipe is hearty for cooler evening meals or a quick lunch in the garden, but still gentle in flavor if the weather makes us feel we are in that of July.
Mushroom Tart Recipe
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon sea salt
4 Tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled & cut into bits
4 Tablespoons vegetable shortening
3-5 Tablespoons ice water [depending on the humidity of your flour]
2 large whole eggs
½ cup cream
1 pound assorted mushrooms, sliced or quartered
1/4 cup shallots, diced
1 teaspoon fresh rosemary, finely chopped
2 Tablespoons unsalted butter
sea salt & freshly ground black pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 350ºF.
preparing the tart crust:
1. In a food processor, combine flour and sea salt.
2. Add chilled butter and shortening, processing until a coarse meal forms.
3. Pour in ice water and process until a ball of dough forms.
4. Place dough onto a work surface and knead until a smooth ball forms.
5. Wrap in plastic and chill for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
preparing the filling & custard:
1. Whisk cream and eggs together and season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
[Half of a teaspoon of salt was used.]
2. Sauté shallots in butter on medium heat until translucent.
3. Add mushrooms, cooking on high heat until browned, approximately 3-5 minutes
4. Sprinkle in fresh rosemary and cook for another minute to release flavor.
*If there is a lot of liquid from the mushrooms, discard.
5. Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to a twelve inch circle and line a 10-inch tart pan, pressing dough into the sides and removing access. Chill for 10-15 minutes.
6. Place the mushroom mixture evenly over the bottom and gently pour over with custard.
7. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until custard is set and edges are beginning to brown.
Serves 6-8.
*notes: For a crisper crust, blind bake the tart shell for 10-15 minutes. As pictured in the ingredient photo above, line the shell with parchment paper and pour in 1 ½ cups beans then bake to precook the tart dough. Beans are a great alternative to pie weights that are very costly. Just store the cooled bean and use only for this process.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience William Blake
The following entry presents criticism of Blake's poetry collection, Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (1794). See also, William Blake Criticism.
Written in the deceptively simple style associated with children's verse, Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of short lyric poems accompanied by Blake's original illustrations. The two sections, written over an interval of at least four years, juxtapose "the two contrary states of the human soul," as the combined text's subtitle states. "The Tyger," an individual verse from Songs of Experience, is one of the most widely recognized poems in the English language.
Biographical Information
Blake was born on November 28, 1757, in London, the second of five surviving children of James and Catherine Harmitage Blake. His father sold gloves, stockings, and haberdashery, maintaining the family in rather modest circumstances. Blake did not attend school as a young child but spent his time wandering freely throughout the city and the surrounding countryside, where he began experiencing the visions that would later inform his illustrations. His parents discouraged the child from relating his visions of angels in trees or God's face at the window, since, from their perspective, the boy was lying. They did, however, encourage Blake's artistic talent. At the age of ten he was enrolled in a drawing school operated by James Pars and four years later he began an apprenticeship with a master engraver. He briefly attended the Royal Academy after completing his apprenticeship, but soon began working full time as an engraver, producing illustrations for various books and periodicals. In 1782 Blake married Catherine Boucher, who signed her name with an "X" on their marriage license. Under her husband's tutelage she learned to read and write, eventually assisting him in drafting. The couple had no children. In 1784 Blake went into the printing business with his younger brother Robert and a local engraver, but the business failed three years later, after Robert's death. Blake then turned to copperplate etching and perfected the technique that would allow him to produce both illustration and verse on a single page, as he did for the Songs. In 1790 Blake left the city he associated with disease, pollution, and a wide variety of social problems, in favor of Lambeth, a rural area across the Thames where he began composing the poems of the Experience section of his work. The Blakes lived there for more than ten years before returning to London. Throughout his lifetime Blake was plagued by financial problems and was often at the mercy of overbearing patrons. He was primarily known as an artist rather than as a poet, in part because his illuminated texts were self-published and reached a very limited readership. Widespread distribution of his work did not occur until after his death. Blake died on August 12, 1827, while working on a set of illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy.
Textual History
The production of the version of Songs of Innocence and of Experience used in most modern editions took place over a period of thirty-five years, with Blake acting as his own publisher. According to most scholars, the first section of Blake's text, Songs of Innocence, was written and published in 1789. Blake later combined these poems with a second section entitled Songs of Experience. Blake called the combined edition, dated 1794, Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul and created a new illustration for the title page. Four of the songs originally assigned to the Innocence section—"The Schoolboy," "The Little Girl Lost," "The Little Girl Found," and "The Voice of the Ancient Bard"—were moved to the Experience section in the combined version. In addition, there is a great deal of variation in the order in which the poems appear in the surviving copies of both the Innocence section and the combined sections. The final poem of the Experience sequence, "To Tirzah," summarizes the entire work; it was added much later, possibly as many as twelve years after the appearance of the combined version.
Major Themes
The poems of the two sections deal with the opposition between the innocent, joyous perspective of the child and the more experienced, less spontaneous, perspective of the adult. Blake creates a dichotomy between wishes and desires on the one hand and duties and responsibilities on the other, always privileging the imaginative over the rational. Although children appear as the subject of individual songs in both sections of the work, their happiness or misery is determined by their relationships with the adults who maintain control over their lives, as in the contrasting poems "Infant Joy" from Songs of Innocence and "Infant Sorrow" from Songs of Experience. The group of poems associated with experience is replete with images of restriction and constraint, occasionally self-imposed, but more commonly imposed by parents or authority figures on the lives of the young. Although the poems of the two sections are obviously meant to serve as contrasting states of the human condition, the individual poems, even those associated with innocence, themselves contain discontinuities, as though in anticipation of the much harsher view of life outlined in the second sequence. Suspicion and mistrust of authority figures—parental, religious, or political—and the power they wield is an important theme throughout the work.
The contrasts Blake set forth in the Songs are echoes of English society's approach to the social and political issues of his era—a time characterized, on the one hand, by increasing desire for personal, political, and economic freedom, and on the other, by anxiety regarding the potential consequences of that freedom for social institutions. Several of the poems directly address contemporary social problems, for example, "The Chimney-Sweeper" deals with child labor and "Holy Thursday" describes the grim lives of charity children. The most fully-realized social protest poem in the Songs is "London," a critique of urban poverty and misery.
Critical Reception
Critical controversy surrounds the categorization of Blake's poetry in the Romantic period. Harold S. Pagliaro suggests that Blake not only participated in the Romantic era's preoccupation with mortality, but actually went beyond most of his contemporaries in embracing vulnerability to death. According to Pagliaro, Blake considered the world "death-laden, filled with intimidating foes, deadly Tygers, hypocritical smiles, and constricting social and religious systems that reduce life." The critic believes it was the aim of the Songs to meet the challenge presented by such a dismal world view. Some scholars, though, reject the notion that Blake was a Romantic poet at all, and instead situate his work within the tradition of an earlier literary period. Heather Glen contends that Blake's text is not, as is often claimed, an experimental work. "In presentation and subject-matter, Blake's Songs are closer to late eighteenth-century children's verse than to anything else in the period," writes Glen. However, Blake's verses differ from the usual children's poetry, according to Glen, in their failure to provide a strong authorial voice conveying the message young readers should glean from the poems. Jon Mee, acknowledging the work's originality, also maintains that the songs are modeled on earlier literature, but insists that they "often work by mimicking familiar forms and arousing expectations which they go on to frustrate." Martin Price contends that the association of the Innocence poems with verse for children has led some critics to dismiss them entirely or to treat them as ironic foreshadowings of the Experience poems, a position he rejects. He asserts that the poems of the first section are valuable in their own right and should first be examined in isolation from the second section. "Only when we grant Innocence its proper value does the full dialectical force of the two contrary states become clear," claims Price. Many scholars, including Glen, nevertheless defend the contention that the poems of the Innocence sequence contain an element of irony that undercuts their pastoral quality. Harold Bloom, too, refers to Blake's use of "innocence" as an "equivocal term" and suggests that the songs in the first section exhibit an "ambiguity of tone."
Controversy has also raged over the organization of the work and the relationship between the two sections. Many critics have studied the obvious dialectical pairings of individual poems, such as the contrasting versions of "Nurse's Song" or "The Chimney-Sweeper" in each section. Others see affinities between poems that do not have similar titles, such as the cluster "Laughing Song," "The Little Black Boy" and "The Voice of the Ancient Bard." Attempts to establish a direct correspondence across the board between the two sections have proven fruitless, however. Donald A. Dike maintains that "Blake was too fine an artist to pair off in detail all the poems in the sequences; to get what he was after, it was enough to do this with a few." K. E. Smith suggests that attempts to match up the individual songs are complicated by the fact that Blake himself changed the order of the poems several times, moving some from Innocence to Experience. Smith suggests that Blake was "constantly highlighting different paths through the innocent world," rather than pointing to one final, ideal arrangement of the poems.
Glen has examined those pieces—such as "London"—that deal with social problems and notes that the self-consciousness of Blake's poetic voice sets him apart from his contemporaries. The poem's speaker, in relating the deplorable conditions associated with urban life, "does not assume a position of righteous indignation: from the very beginning he recognizes his own implication in that which he sees." The result is not a moral attitude that exposes and protests against social problems, but rather a "profound uneasiness" on the part of both the poem's speaker and the reader. Mee also notes Blake's complex approach to social problems in the songs, contrasting "The Chimney Sweeper" with Mary Alcock's poem "The Chimney-Sweeper's Complaint." As Mee sees it, Alcock's "reader is not called upon to consider his or her role in the system of child labour," whereas "Blake's reader is directly implicated in what is happening." Scholars agree that, although Blake participated in the contemporary discourse on social problems, his approach was original and far less consoling for the reader than that of other writers.
Principal Works
Poetical Sketches (poetry and drama) 1783
The Book of Thel 1789
Songs of Innocence 1789
Tiriel 1789?
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (poetry, prose, and proverbs) 1790-1793?
The French Revolution 1790
America: A Prophecy 1793
Visions of the Daughters of Albion: The Eye Sees More Than the Heart Knows 1793
The Book of Urizen 1794
Europe: A Prophecy 1794
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul 1794
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Donald A. Dike (essay date December 1961)
SOURCE: Dike, Donald A. "The Difficult Innocence: Blake's Songs and Pastoral." ELH 28, no. 4 (December 1961): 353-75.
[In the following essay, Dike contends that although Blake writes in the pastoral tradition in Songs of Innocence, he does not portray an idyllic paradise that ignores social realities.]
Blake's Songs of Experience disclose the second, and more recognizable, of two contrary states of the soul to be one or another kind of bondage. The introductory poems identify the soul with Earth: a voluntaristic principle most vividly apprehended in the energies of springtime and the frank delights of love. But love, alas, is cramped and...
(The entire section is 9303 words.)
Martin Price (essay date 1964)
SOURCE: Price, Martin. "The Vision of Innocence." In Twentieth Century Interpretations of Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Morton D. Paley, pp. 36-48. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969.
[In the following excerpt, originally published in 1964, Price examines the poems of Songs of Innocence independently of the contrasting elements contained in Songs of Experience.]
William Blake's Songs of Innocence were engraved by 1789. Not until five years later were they incorporated into The Songs of Innocence and Experience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. Partly because...
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D. G. Gillham (essay date 1966)
SOURCE: Gillham, D. G. "Blake's Criticism of 'Love.'" In Blake's Contrary States: The Songs of Innocence and of Experience as Dramatic Poems, pp. 148-90. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
[In the following excerpt, Gillham discusses Blake's treatment of sexual love in the Songs as a way of demonstrating the common features of all modes of love.]
It is generally agreed that Blake wrote the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience at different periods: in 1789 and 1793, although the evidence that they were written at just this interval is by no means conclusive.1 Yet even if this interval in composition is...
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Heather Glen (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: Glen, Heather. "Blake's Criticism of Moral Thinking in Songs of Innocence and of Experience." In Interpreting Blake, edited by Michael Phillips, pp. 32-69. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
[In the following excerpt, Glen discusses Blake's treatment of social problems, particularly those involving moral and ethical issues, in the Songs.]
Songs of Innocence and of Experience are mostly concerned with what would usually be described as moral questions. Many of them—especially of Songs of Innocence—seem, at least superficially, to belong to the recognizable eighteenth-century genre of moral songs for children; and Songs...
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Harold C. Pagliaro (essay date summer 1981)
SOURCE: Pagliaro, Harold C. "Blake's 'Self-annihilation': Aspects of Its Function in the Songs, with a Glance at Its History." English 30, no. 137 (summer 1981): 117-46.
[In the following essay, Pagliaro discusses Blake's handling of the Romantic discourse on death at a time when religious and social certainties about mortality were dissolving.]
Viewed historically, the English Romantics were heirs to a state of mind that gave death a prominent place in individual consciousness, where it was not likely to be controlled by orthodox faith. For generations before them, various analysts—sceptics, devout theologians, scientists,...
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Heather Glen (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: Glen, Heather. "Poetic 'Simplicity': Blake's Songs and Eighteenth-Century Children's Verse." In Vision and Disenchantment: Blake's Songs and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, pp. 8-32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
[In the following excerpt, Glen traces the similarities between Blake's Songs and the verse appearing in the growing number of books intended for children in the eighteenth century.]
Those who are offended with any thing in this book would be offended with the innocence of a child & for the same reason, because it reproaches him with the errors of acquired folly.
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Harriet Kramer Linkin (essay date summer 1986)
SOURCE: Linkin, Harriet Kramer. "The Language of Speakers in Songs of Innocence and of Experience." Romanticism Past and Present 10, no. 2 (summer 1986): 5-24.
[In the following essay, Linkin analyzes the speech patterns of the narrators of the individual poems in Songs.]
Like the eighteenth-century grammarians who view discourse as a template of the human mind, Blake correlates syntactic structures with patterns of thinking.1 In Songs of Innocence and of Experience, individual patterns of speech—or idiolects—reveal how characters organize their thoughts.2 The many conjunctions marking the innocent chimney sweeper's speech or...
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Harold Pagliaro (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Pagliaro, Harold. "Into the Dangerous World." In Selfhood and Redemption in Blake's Songs, pp. 35-51. University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987.
[In the following excerpt, Pagliaro examines images of order and confinement in the Songs, particularly in regard to the power and control parents and other authority figures exercise over children.]
If life has no ordering principle, it cannot be sustained, but if the ordering principle is made to fix things too rigidly, life may be contracted to the very limits of individual self.1 To generalize the matter in the terms of the first two chapters, one might say that the...
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Harold Bloom (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Bloom, Harold. Introduction to William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, edited by Harold Bloom, pp. 1-28. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.
[In the following introduction, Bloom discusses Blake's exploration of the ambivalent nature of innocence.]
Of the traditional "kinds" of poetry, Blake had attempted pastoral and satire at the very start, in the Poetical Sketches, though the satire there is subtle and tentative. In Tiriel, satire and tragedy are first brought together in a single work by Blake. Songs of Innocence is Blake's closest approach to pure pastoral, but an even subtler form of satire seems to be inherent in these...
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Nelson Hilton (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Hilton, Nelson. "William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience." In A Companion to Romanticism, edited by Duncan Wu, pp. 103-12. Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
[In the following excerpt, Hilton offers an overview of criticism of Blake's Songs.]
'Read patiently take not up this Book in an idle hour the consideration of these things is the whole duty of man & the affairs of life & death trifles sports of time these considerations business of Eternity.' Blake's annotations to a volume he studied in 1798 (see Blake, ed. Erdman, p. 611, cited hereafter as E) can serve today to characterize the attention deserved and...
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K. E. Smith (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Smith, K. E. "Our Immortal Day: Songs of Innocence I." In An Analysis of William Blake's Early Writings and Designs to 1790 Including Songs of Innocence, pp. 153-83. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.
[In the following excerpt, Smith suggests various connections among the individual poems of Songs of Innocence.]
And there the lions ruddy eyes, Shall flow with tears of gold: And pitying the tender cries, And walking round the fold: Saying: wrath by his meekness, And by his health, sickness, Is driven away, From our immortal day.
—'Night' (E [The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, Ed. David V. Erdman,...
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Jon Mee (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Mee, Jon. "William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience." In A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, pp. 402-07. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2000.
[In the following excerpt, Mee discusses the relationship between Blake's work and the poetry of his contemporaries.]
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience certainly ranks among the most distinctive and individual collections of poetry in a century obsessed with originality and genius. It was not even published in a conventional way. Songs began life as an exercise in self-publishing, and never reached an audience in Blake's lifetime...
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Further Reading
Drake, Constance M. "An Approach to Blake." College English 29, no. 7 (April 1968): 541-47.
Offers suggestions for dealing with the difficulty of studying Blake's text in a classroom setting.
Fairchild, Jr., B. H. "Songs of Innocence and Experience: The Blakean Vision of George Lucas." Literature/Film Quarterly 7 (1979): 112-19.
Suggests that there are important connections between Blake's Songs and Lucas's film American Graffiti.
George, Diana Hume. "Experience: The Family Romance." In William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, edited by...
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (75 votes).
In short: Thanks for a great well organised race.In full: Wasn't sure what this would be like - not so much hilly as really draggy, lots of long slow hauls, followed by another one, and another one. How can a circular route be uphill all the way? Nice scenery, nice marshalls, good atmosphere, nice tech t-shirt, shame about the bananas but hey nothing is perfect! Will be back to do this one again next year. Date of review: July 11, 2010
In short: A cracking race - thanks to all involvedDate of review: July 11, 2010
In short: Not as flat as I'd hoped but very well-organisedDate of review: July 30, 2009
In short: Well organised, marshalls were great. Good mix of flat and undulating. In full: Thanks to Abbey Runners for a really good race. The marshalls were excellent - very chirpy and really kept you going in the not so flat bits!Date of review: July 16, 2009
In short: Tougher than I anticipatedIn full: But a really good course. Very scenic and the inclines were never too much but I did expect it to be a bit flatter. No matter, I'll be more prepared for next year. Good finish...funny how an inflatable arch makes it feel like an real event! Great support from marshals, plenty of water around the course and at the end and useful rucksack that will actually get used!Date of review: July 14, 2009
In short: Great mix of hills and flatsDate of review: July 14, 2009
In short: Some long hills but still quick in places.In full: Great turn out this year (around 700 apparently) so took a while for the field to thin out.A bit wet and muddy round the reservoir section - which was fun - cracking support from marshals and crowds gathered at the end.Just that hill to deal with just before the finish - cruel!Really liked the back-pack give away too!Date of review: July 13, 2009
In short: Thoroughly enjoyable raceIn full: I enjoyed this race. It was a good route which left me feeling satisfied. Undulating but not overly hilly. Nice touch with the souvenior rucksack. Big thanks to the organisers.Date of review: July 12, 2009
In short: Brilliant race - hillier than I expected! Top organisation!Date of review: July 12, 2009
In short: Harder than I remembered!In full: Very well organised & well marshalled race. The route is undulating with quite a tough final third. Nice souvenir. Plenty of water stops which were needed today! Thanks to Abbey Runners.Date of review: July 12, 2009
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Soba Noodle-Vegetable Salad
Recipe courtesy of Ellie Krieger
- Healthy Appetite with Ellie Krieger
This salad is very lightly dressed, so as not to compete with the strong flavors of the Sate's peanut sauce.
- 4 ounces soba noodles, or whole-wheat spaghetti
- 1 large shallot, very thinly sliced
- 1 1/2 cups shredded carrot
- 1 red pepper, julienne
- 1/3 cup shredded fresh basil leaves
- 1/3 cup shredded fresh mint leaves
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro leaves
- Dressing:
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon walnut oil (or canola oil)
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon finely minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon chili flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon lime zest
- 1 teaspoon lime juice
- 1/2 teaspoon fish sauce, or 1 teaspoon low-sodium soy sauce
- Salt
- 6 large Bibb lettuce leaves
Boil noodles according to package directions. Drain and cool. In a medium to large bowl, combine noodles, shallot, carrot, pepper, basil, mint, and cilantro. Combine all dressing ingredients, season with salt to taste, add to noodle mixture, and toss lightly.
Snap off Bibb lettuce leaves and wash and dry. To serve, scoop spoonfuls of noodle salad into the lettuce leaves.
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another philosophical question of the day...
you are a proud civilian. doing what you do to keep up with the bills. some months are better than others, but you keep sludging away because, quite frankly, not sending your mortgage payment in is not really an option. you struggle every day to keep the kids fed and sheltered. this is the hand you are dealt in life. you get no pity from others, as they each are dealing with their own battle with life's funny scenarios. god knows things could be better. maybe much better. but you fight on...because this is the life you have chosen.
to get your mind off things, you stroll through a wooded area...you spot a small crashed aircraft. there are no survivors. you notice right away there are duffle bags of cash all around the plane. and wrapped kilos of drugs. clearly, the aircraft was owned by drug runners smuggling money and drugs into or out of the country. no one is around. the plane had not been reported as downed.
what do you do? do you report the downed plane to the authorities? there are dead people in the plane, after all. they may have even been bad people...but do they deserve to rot away like this? they have parents. they may have had children. do they deserve a proper burrial? should the crash be reported?
if you did report the crash...the money is gone for good. or is it? its a lot of money to give up...but maybe there is a reward. do you keep some of the money? do you keep all of it? has the money been marked in some way by federal authorities? if you took some or all of the money...can you get caught with it? could you live with yourself happily spending drug money, even if its for a good cause, like feeding and clothing your family? what do you do?
what about the drugs? could generate it into a lot of cash if you knew the right people. but do you want to be affiliated with these kind of people?
one thing for sure. you will not be the only one who knows about the plane for long. someone, surely, must have seen it coming down. did it make a lot of noise? was there a lot of smoke? who else knows about this? can i really be the only one? is that a crack in the woods? is someone coming? time is running short. a decision has to be made right now. ask yourself...what would you do?


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About the Author: Matt Bonaiuto serves as a Consular Officer in at the U.S. Consulate Shanghai in China.
On Friday night, May 21, I went to the Ozomatli (pronounced Ao'zu'ma'te'li) concert at the World Expo, the first of the band's two Shanghai shows that weekend. The Grammy-winning band rocked out -- they are amazing live performers. The instruments they play -- ranging from bongos to saxophone to trumpet and guitars -- are as diverse as the band members themselves.
The 2010 World Expo in Shanghai is the first World's Fair, the modern term is "Expo," to be hosted by China. The Expo started on May 1 and will last six months. Well over two hundred buildings called 'pavilions' -- each representing a country, province, corporation, or theme -- dot a five plus square-kilometer space on both sides of the Huangpu River. From my vantage point at the concert, there was a sea of Expo-related LED lights across the river in Pudong, and several architecturally-striking national pavilions were also visible. Ozomatli played in a plaza called Exposition Square in the Puxi sector of the Expo, near glowing, post-modern pavilions sponsored by Chinese, American, and other enterprises.
The band was introduced to the enthusiastic crowd by two U.S. university students, who are volunteering at the USA Pavilion as "student ambassadors." The crowd appreciated their comedic repartee replete with jokes in Mandarin about the effects of Shanghai cuisine on their waistlines. The young duo's humor and their ability to speak Mandarin was a great warm-up for the energetic Ozomatli performance.
On stage, the band was flanked by giant USA Pavilion and U.S. Consulate Shanghai logos on 30-foot screens, with the band's name in our alphabet as well as in Chinese characters overhead.
Ozomatli sang in both English and Spanish, performing a high-energy, festive assortment of rap, hip-hop, salsa, R&B, and more. Even when it started to rain, the crowd continued to jump and wave, as some popped open their umbrellas. The band tossed towels to drenched but delighted fans. The audience happily heeded the band's advice to jump, jump, jump until their last song ended.
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Winter 2001
Volume 5 Number 2
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
The millennial year brought significant changes to the PTS campus.
Historic Miller Chapel received its third major renovation since its construction in 1833. Now handicapped-accessible via a new elevator and beautifully appointed with a Paul Fritts tracker organ (a gift of Mr. Joe R. Engle) and a Steinway piano (a gift of alumnus Sun Hee Kwak), it is again the center of the worship life of the community.
Newly constructed Scheide Hall (made possible by a major gift of trustee emeritus William H. Scheide in honor of the Scheide family) is now the home of the minister of the chapel, the director of music, and the director of student counseling, as well as of the three Seminary choirs.
New faculty included Dr. Richard Fox Young, the Elmer K. and Ethel R. Timby Associate Professor of the History of Religions, and Dr. Dana R. Wright, assistant professor of Christian education.
Joining the Board of Trustees were Nancy Oliver Gray of Spartanburg, South Carolina, Heather Sturt Haaga of La Cañada, California, and Joanne S. Martindale (alumna) of Dayton, New Jersey.
Also this fall we welcomed to the rank of tenured faculty Dr. Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger and Dr. Robert Dykstra. Both have been promoted from assistant to associate professor, and they each write about their current scholarly work in this issue.
All of which is simply to say that there is ever freshness in the air and evidence of renewed vitalities. Princeton Theological Seminary is alive and well.
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quote Nu Wa RocksI get your point, except in this case the Jetta is priced like a Porscheregardless of why you would want the drive... comparing a 7200 2TB drive with the 10K velociraptor or an SSD is like comparing a Volkswagon Jetta to a Porsche...
quoteaha, thats the one i was talking about. now even if you cut this drives capacity in half, you are greatly reducing the number of tracks. not halfway across, but even further out being the minimum. a terabyte drive with access times significantly reduced - now thats something to be a little impressed over.Shortstroking.
quote hiigaranShortstroking.i wonder if its possible to do that seagate tweak where you limit the maximum space available to attain speeds comparable to the 10K raptors. im sure you guys know what im referring to.
quote heftyIf you're looking for a 2TB HDD, correct me if I'm wrong but, you're looking for storage space not speed. If you want speed then go grab yourself a 32-64GB SSD, or make yourself a raid 5 or 10 with these drives.why does this review only compare it to crap HDDs?
throw in some 10k rpm HDDs and some SSDs. the review is too limited without these.
quote Nu Wa Rocksits still a good idea. its not to say that this drive is crap, but its a great way for someone to determine if its worth getting an SSD, 10K, or 7200. though, for anyone wanting a 2TB drive, i doubt theyd consider much else.How is it fair to compare it to a 10K drive or a SSD? The read and write won't be the same. You compare the drive to similar revolution drives. Get real...
quote heftyWe will when/if we get themthrow in some 10k rpm HDDs and some SSDs
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It seems like everyone including myself have been quite happy with MyWeigh 7001 which is around $35 - $40 including shipping - see "Old Will Knot" (http://www.oldwillknottscales.com/ or eBay) I think his ebay auctions are cheaper than his website.
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ugh the thing about platinum is if you chained something hard everyone will be like oh thats easy on platinum. like gligar larvitar(nt so much) etc
ugh the thing about platinum is if you chained something hard everyone will be like oh thats easy on platinum. like gligar larvitar(nt so much) etc
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I calculate stat values, I breed my way to perfection, and I care about natures. I catch my pokemon and throw them away like a piece of garbage if they are not worthy of my greatness, and I treat them like brainless drones instead of individuals. If you use this philosophy, copy and paste this into your signature. (Started by Swalot=yes)
So wise
[QUOTE=Erik Destler;8689017]New thread. Exciting.
Anyway, Chaining is exactly the same in D/P.
6. Synchronize attracts pokemon with the same nature as the pokemon with Synchroniz- Just curious a little off topic does this work in DP?
I've tried this on my friends Platinum, it's fun getting shiny eevees BD
Just trying to catch me a budew, it aint lookin good... <_<
My friend did trade me a shiny tyrogue, which is now a shiny hitmonlee :]
Got my first ever Pokeradar shiny today. A Buizel, female, level 23. I've found a shiny before, my Starly, but he wasn't in a shiny patch. This girl was, and boy, was I shocked!
I feel great now, 'cos now I know that it IS possible for me to get shinies through the Pokeradar! >D
I'm gonna chain around Stark Mountain tomorrow. I hope to get a shiny Torkoal or Skarmory. I probably won't, but hey. I can hope. :3
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Is it worth gettin platinum before it comes out in america?
can u chain in swamps or is it not possible..
is it worth getting platinum before it comes out in america for chaining
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So, is it any easier to chain pokemon in platinum then??
My first chaining attempt in Platinum is Swinub. I got a chain to 39, but lost it on what was supposed to be a good patch. My highest since then was a 35, which was broken for the same reason. Just started a new chain, hopefully I'll get a shiny Swinub as my first radar shiny.
EDIT: Took a small break from Swinub and started chaining Houndour. After a few days of failure, I finally got a 40 chain and nabbed 2 shiny Houndour before I broke the chain on purpose. Ended with 1 female and 1 male shiny Houndour.
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Lastest shiny - Pokemon Sun - 2204 SRs
So, is it any easier to chain pokemon in platinum then??
Here you go ( All credits to Halcyon)
It's a comparison of the patches shaking in D/P and Pt, made by Halcyon
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wow. Taht's awesome. But there is barely a difference in the blizzard conditions though
The most i've chained was 28 and that was starlys :s
Rhyhorn: I'm kinda very hard.
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I chained ditto and got i think in the twenties when i finally found a shiny!
While there is no difference between DP's Static and Pt's Static, there are differences in what Pokemon are affected by it.
Locations: Route 202, Route 203, Route 204(North and South), Valley Windworks
Others affected by Static:
Valley Windworks-Pachirisu, Mareep, Electrike(Swarm)
Locations: Route 205(South only), Valley Windworks
Others affected by Static:
Valley Windworks-Shinx, Mareep, Electrike(Swarm)
Voltorb(Swarm Only)
Locations: Route 218
Others affected by Static:
Locations: Route 222
Others affected by Static:
222: Magnemite, Magneton, Luxio, Flaaffy
Locations: Route 222, Fuego Ironworks
Others affected by Static:
222-Electabuzz, Magneton, Luxio, Flaaffy
Locations: Route 222
Others affected by Static:
222-Electabuzz, Magnemite, Luxio, Flaaffy
Locations: Route 222
Others affected by Static:
222-Electabuzz, Magnemite, Magneton, Flaaffy
Locations: Route 222
Others affected by Static:
222-Electabuzz, Magnemite, Magneton, Luxio
Locations: Trophy Garden
Others affected by Static:
Trophy Garden-Pikachu, Plusle(Daily Pokemon), Minun(Daily Pokemon)
Locations: Trophy Garden
Others affected by Static:
Trophy Garden-Pichu, Plusle(Daily Pokemon), Minun(Daily Pokemon)
Locations: Trophy Garden
Others affected by Static:
Trophy Garden-Pichu, Pikachu, Minun(Daily Pokemon)
Locations: Trophy Garden
Others affected by Static:
Trophy Garden-Pichu, Pikachu, Plusle(Daily Pokemon)
Locations: Valley Windworks
Others affected by Static:
Valley Windworks-Shinx, Pachirisu, Mareep
I finally managed to chain Eevee to 40. I'm almost certain I saw a shiny patch around the 32 mark in the second patch, but I was too scared to go to it. I decided I'd rather continue my chain than break it in the case I had mistaken.
Going to go SR now. Hopefully, I won't mess up--which I most likely will. I'm nervous! :P
edit: Caught one after the first reset! Up to 54 now. I'll just keep going until my chain breaks.
edit 2: Chain broke at 61. Love my Modest Eevee though! <3
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Well, yesterday I got my pinsir chain to 35 and decided to stop there and start resetting. I ended up using more than 130+ MR without seeing a shiny before I accidentally broke the chain @_@. Its possible that I missed the shiny patch, but I don't think so.
So today I decide to chain roselia since in the moring they have a 45% rate on route 230. I get the chain to 39 and then it breaks to a pidgey *facepalm*. I should have just left it at 39. I'm thinking about going back and chaining shinx or something so that I can get used to platinums shiny patch. That or go and chain on my pearl.
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Thanks a lot, This really helped me figure some stuff out.
God so many of you lucky people >__<
lol I have such horrible luck when it comes to chaining think the highest I got was 20 and I either stuff up or give up after 2 or hours. Yeeesh I actually have more luck when they randomly show up in the wild and thats pretty rare Ive only seen to date a shiny Cleffa, Swablu, Machop and Geodude :/
Was chaining Shinx yesterday and while building the chain up I stumbled on a shiny at 8 xD
I Srd about 50 times at 40 and didn't see one until I broke my chain on accident
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After six years, I'm done. The publishing world has changed, we all know it. So has the world of blogging.
Once upon a time, as recently as 2-3 years ago, a blog was crucial for outreach, for getting to know readers and other authors. Blogging meant putting oneself out there. No more.
Readers find books and authors via other algorithms. Via Amazon and Goodreads and who knows where. There is far less interest in the individual thoughts of individual authors like me.
I've loved this blog. It is precious to me. I've loved interacting with my readers and my friends. I will miss writing posts and reading your comments. But it's time to make a change. And change is good. I'll have more time to write regular old books.
Regular old books… Therein lies the reason I began this blog– to get my books read. Well, you're reading them. And I thank you.
This blog will become a website. I'll keep my blog posts archived. You can read them anytime! I plan to include a number of features and I'll post updates whenever I release a new book.
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I did notice that Rolling Stone took this as an opportunity make jabs at Macca once again. I do have some respect for Anthony Decurtis, but....I don't know why I read that magazine. It's not as if it's the be all and end all of rock journalism any more. (Although Wenner thinks it is) I just get sick of the personal jabs they make at Macca all the time.I agree mtm, Decurtis is normally OK, but he's copping out to the regular ROLLINGSTONE-anti-Paul agenda on this one. I dumped my RS subscription about 8 years ago. Their heyday was late 60s/early 70s, they're not even a shell of their former self anymore as far as real quality goes. There may be more than meets the eye going on here---it may be that that they're hacked because Paul doesn't bother giving them interviews anymore, or they don't like his terms.
quote:...George...did say in the liner notes to ATMP that he was tempted to remix that entire album himself and strip it of Spector's Wall of Sound.I WISH HE HAD!!! I never liked the production on it. [V]
quote:...Decurtis went on to say that ATMP, JL/POB, and Imagine were probably the three best Beatle solo albums, and they were all produced by Spector. (And later stated that the most moving song on LIBN was Across the Universe)...On the other hand, Spector's no idiot, he's done great things, and some of his LIB production was AOK. However, it seems obvious that Decurtis is deliberately slamming Paul---screw him!