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At that time of course I had thought Kalpana to be a complete *insert choice of invective here* but life is funny and since then it has thrown at me so many colourful characters that I have begun to think of her in the fashion of an old, partly senile but still affectionate relative, with something resembling fondness.
The fault no doubt lies with me, as it always does. I had mentioned in one of my letters to Raagu that people leave jobs because of bad bosses and a kind commentor had pointed out that it could well be the reason that my helps keeps showing me the slammed door. I think there is a grain of truth there. I am extremely moody and function in the style of a benevolent dictator, expecting my word to be treated as law and in return I am willing to shower all the largess of the world on their well-oiled heads. Well, one knows what happens to dictators, specially these days (Muammer, old chap, not partying too hard these days, are we?). Even long-standing, experienced hands are finding it difficult to dictate in peace. People just keep rising and uprising and throwing about coups carelessly. How is an honest dictator to earn his (or her) bread, I ask. People have no consideration these days.
Anyway, one needs to change with the changing times and all that nonsense and I have taken to the show-and-tell mode of pedagogy these days. Look at this dirt here, I say politely to my help, perhaps you ought to clean it like this and I jump at it grabbing my mop or broom or duster as I go along. This, as anybody in my immediate family will tell you, is very unlike me. What comes naturally to me is to fly into a massive rage followed by much spluttering in indignation and showering of spittle on the offending party. But we live and learn, kind reader, we live and learn.
Recently, I asked my cook what she thought of the new regime of cleanliness that I had personally displayed to her. I had cleaned corners that she did not know existed. I had scrubbed dishes such that their colour had changed like treacherous chameleons. I had uncovered a new layer of the marble tile in front of her amazed eyes.
So hey, I asked her, you go to another house to cook too, don't you. Don't they ask you to maintain this level of hygiene?
She looked at me and smiled conspiratorially. Arrey didi, she spoke, wahan toh itna ganda rehta hai ki main toh unke ghar mein paani bhi nahin peeti. Main toh sab kuchh aapke yahan hi khaati-peeti hoon. (It is so dirty that I don't even drink water in their house. I eat and drink only in your house.)
Glad she approves of my style of working. Sigh, changing world order.


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Three American hikers were arrested in Iran this past summer for spying after they accidentally crossed the border into Iraq. The men have been held in custody since late July.
The arrest of the hikers has solicited and immediate response from Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton who stated "We believe strongly that there is no evidence to support any charge whatsoever. And we would renew our request on behalf of these three young people and their families that the Iranian government exercise compassion and release them so they can return home."
The news of the three American detainees has increased the tension between the U.S. and Iran who have severed diplomatic ties, since the 1979 takeover of its embassy in Tehran.
The three captives are all graduates from the University of California Berkley. They had begun their hike in the hopes of reaching Ahmed Awa, a resort area of caves and waterfalls on the border. A statement on a Web site set up for the hikers, freethehikers.org, makes a plea for their release: "We hope the Iranian authorities understand that if our children and friends did happen to enter Iran, there can only be one reason: because they made a regrettable mistake and got lost."
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State forests' history a lot like the present
While rummaging through an old trunk recently, I uncovered an original copy of the "Official Report of Forest, Fish and Game Commission for New York – In the year ending September 30, 1901."
The report, bound in a handsome cover nearly six inches thick, was in very good shape and featured a variety of articles on subjects ranging from state forests, moose restocking efforts to reports on the protection of fish, fowl and state forest lands.
It's interesting to note the numerous forest, game and bird protection efforts that were underway more than 110 years ago, which still have parallels today. Similarly, there were concerns over the protection of state forests, which at the time contained far less than the current 3.7 million acres of land.
The report also detailed numerous threats posed by invasive species. It included illustrations with engraved plates that detailed "White Pine Killed by Bark Borers in 1900, Hard Pine Deformed by Work of White Pine Weevil, Salem, N. Y., Work of Coarse Writing Bark Beetle in White Pine, Work of Balsam Bark Borer in Balsam, Operations of Large Black Carpenter Ant."
A century later, threats posed by insects have been replaced by emerald ash borers, Asian long-horned beetles, hemlock wool adelgids and pine shoot beetles.
At the time, the report noted that, "the Commission desires to acknowledge … Prof. E. VanPelt, State Entomologist, who continues his series of papers on insects injurious to forests.
"Particular attention has been given by the Commission to the planting of trees on denuded tracts of land, where barren areas have been caused either by an unwise harvesting of the native timber crop, or by fire.
"Extensive experiments made by the Commission have shown that, at a remarkably small expense, these barren places can in time be replaced by a healthful and valuable forest growth of trees. There are many of these denuded areas on state lands."
Further illustrations detailed the planting of pine plantations on barren state lands.
The report also drew parallels with current efforts to add more land and more protection to the state Forest Preserve, as it stated:
"Attention is respectfully called to the appended reports of the Superintendent of Forests, the Chief Protector, the Superintendent of Shellfisheries, etc.
"The following recommendations are made for your consideration:
– That a constitutional amendment be provided for the application of scientific conservation forestry to state lands.
– That a constitutional amendment be provided to permit the leasing of small campsites within the Forest Preserve.
– That a constitutional amendment be provided which will permit the sale or exchange of detached parcels of land outside the Adirondack Park, not in the Catskill region, for land within its boundaries.
– That steps be taken, through the purchase of forest lands, to prevent the cutting of hardwood for commercial purposes, and especially for acid factories within the Adirondack Preserve.
– That spring shooting of wild fowl and birds of all kinds be prohibited."
The report noted that, "From the list of lands scheduled in this publication, together with additions made since its issue, it appears the area of the Forest Preserve is as follows:
Adirondack Preserve counties, acres
– Clinton, 20,105
– Essex, 231,764
– Franklin, 159,633
– Fulton, 21,426
The report continued with the following definition and classification of state lands:
"After a careful study of the subject it was decided that, in making the classification of the various kinds of land, it would be advantageous to classify under the same descriptive terms used by the State Comptroller in his circular letter of
Instruction to the town assessors; viz., forest, lumbered, waste, burned, denuded, wild meadows, improved and water.
"The advantage in this arrangement was that the assessment roll of each forest town, as required by law, is filed each year in this manner.
"Forest. Embraces all forest lands from which no timber has been removed except white pine which on many townships had been cut forty years or more ago, at a time when the lumbermen took this species only. Also, lands which were lumbered for spruce over eighteen years ago and on which there is now a good second cutting, because the lumbermen at that time did not cut below twelve inches.
"Lumbered. Under this head are included all lands from which the evergreens or softwoods – pine, spruce, hemlock and balsam – have been taken, but on which there is still a good forest covering of hardwood timber, the latter species generally forming over sixty-five per cent of the original growth. Some lands on which the lumbermen left the hemlock and balsam were also included in this class.
Waste. Includes wild lands on which there is a scattered growth of small poplars, scrubby hardwoods or stunted conifers.
Burned. Lands that have been burned over within a few years, and on which the timber was all killed; or ground covered with old, charred fire-slash.
Denuded. Sand plains; barrens; ground covered with ferns, huckleberry bushes and brier patches; abandoned farms and old clearings.
Wild Meadows. Grass lands, such as the Indian Plains on the South Branch of the Moose River; beaver meadows; and river flats on which wild hay is cut by residents of the vicinity."
Ownership, acres
– State, 1,163,414
– Private preserves, 705,914
– Individuals or companies, 1,356,816
– Total, 3,226,144
The Commission members also voiced disappointment with the condition of certain Adirondack lands.
"We were deeply impressed by the burned and barren condition of some of the prominent mountain tops and slopes, which are a source of disappointment to the large and increasing number of people who come here for summer enjoyment and mountain scenery.
"As a result of this denudation of the mountain slopes the brooks, where the speckled trout once found a natural home, have become in places a succession of mere pools separated by the dry rocky bed of the once unfailing stream.
"These unsightly areas are not due to any lack of soil or suitable forest conditions, but are the result of fires, which in the old days were often deliberately set, after the cutting down of the great stand of hemlock, from which only the bark was taken; in fact, it is a legend of the locality that the boys used to celebrate the Fourth of July and election by burning a mountain.
"From a close examination of some of these burned places it appears that nature does not reclothe them directly with valuable species. Ferns, pin cherries, and trees of inferior value come up first, to be followed after a lapse of time by an unevenly distributed growth of more valuable trees.
"A long period of years is often necessary for the slow change of composition of the forest, and the return of valuable species. First, poplar, with light seeds easily carried by the wind, and pin cherry, the seeds of which are probably carried by the birds, come in from a long distance."
Despite the apparent ecological damage resulting from the lumber industry, the report's authors attempted to impress members of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission with the true commercial capabilities of the state's forest products, when they added, "The combined product of the Adirondack and Catskill forests amounted in 1900 to 651,135,308 feet, or more than the entire Canadian lumber import of that year to the United States.
"As the figures may convey little or no meaning to persons who are not familiar with the lumber business, it may be well to explain, as done in a previous report, that this product would load 62,000 cars, making a train over 400 miles long.
"In the year 1900 the lumber industry of this state employed 8,616 men in the sawmills and lumber camps, the total wages paid amounting to $3,537,916.
"The total capital invested in the business amounts to $20,236,352. The pulp and paper mills employed 9,872 men, and paid out that year $4,958,433 in wages.
"New York leads all other States of the Union in the number of its paper and pulp mills, the capital invested in these plants amounting to $37,349,390."


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"Washington DC has the warmth of the north (east) and the efficiencies of the south."
Good points: Well informed, generally intelligent populace. Lots of cultural things to do. A clean, charming city. Fairly good mass transit inside the city.
Not so good points: Not a friendly place. Lots of rude foreigners. Expensive. Horrible traffic. Very uncomfortable year round (below sea level.) Lots of anti-white discrimination. Toxic work environments. Forget about mass transit outside of DC.
Overall: A better place to visit than live.
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Washington, DC - 9/28/2015
I've been in DC for 10 yrs now. It's a great place to live, if can afford it. I'm a Chicago native. I came to DC by way of Military.DC was my final duty station. After retiring. I decided to stay.DC is divided into 4 quadrants, (NE.NW,SE,SW). NW and SW are the more expensive areas. NE and SE are fast becoming more expensive. If you own property in DC and want to move out of the area. I would rent the property out, because NE and SE are quickly gentrifying, and real estate prices are going up in those areas. DC is very small. You don't get much space for your money. There is plenty to do here. Plenty of restaurants, festivals, museums, monuments, parks, and walkability. You are very close to Baltimore, Philly, Delaware, New york, Virginia Beach, Ocean City, Casinos, amusement parks, Williamsburg, etc,,. There is no shortage of things to do for all age groups. The transit system is very good also. The main drawback is the high expense of living in the city. It costs less to live outside the city. The traffic is horrible during rush hour and Friday afternoons and Sunday evenings. Avoid I-495 during the daytime if you can. There are lots of jobs. DC is where you wanna be if you want to advance in your Federal career.I've enjoyed it. I'm looking to move. I'm think Chicago, Dallas, Arizona, or Las Vegas. I'm doing my research now.[Comment on this Posting]
Climate is big downside - 6/22/2015
Hazy, hot and humid. Day after day.[Comment on this Posting]
All-Day Traffic Restricts Your Flexibility -- Espe - 8/23/2014
Washington is a nice place to live and work, for the most part. Expensive, but lots of options. However, for a retiree, the traffic really restricts your enjoyment. With so many people "telecommuting" the roads are full of cars all day long, as they go shopping, etc. There used to be some free time on the roads during the day, when most people were at work (you just avoided rush hours) but now the roads are jammed all day long. I'm looking for a medium-sized city with amenities and a lot fewer cars.[Comment on this Posting]
Walkability - 3/25/2014
Washington, D.C. has become more walkable in the past 5 years.[Comment on this Posting]
Living in the Capital is OK, but I want more than - 9/14/2013
DC is great if you want to work for the federal government and dream of a career in "public service." But if politics is not your passion or special interest, you may be disappointed by life in DC.[Comment on this Posting]
Sweltering - 7/22/2013
I think I should have been Canadian. The summers here are so unbearably humid that the Federal Government deemed employees working in the DC area receive Tropic Pay before air conditioning became standard in their buildings.[Comment on this Posting]
Washington - 8/8/2012
Great weather. Excellent for things to do, airports, diversity and culture. Economically plenty of jobs just difficult to get to them. Commute is terrible and cost of living is high.[Comment on this Posting]
Kuumba Learning Center - 7/5/2012
This school is terrible. 1. They claim to be year round. Not at all. They are closed so much I had to go on leave without pay. The closings follow Federal Holidays, DC Public School closings, and random unannounced closing. 2. They do not feed the children adequate food. My sons constantly came home hungry. Feeding growing kids beans and rice is not sufficient, especially when I am paying tuition. 3. They do not teach the children. They kept telling me that my sons could read and were doing so well. I pulled them out, in the middle of the school year and put them in public school. They were behind. My oldest wasn't even reading on grade level. Stay away![Comment on this Posting]
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Work work work - 5/31/2012
I grew up in the suburbs and have been living and working in DC for the past 7 years. The pace of life is very fast, and everyone seems to work a LOT.[Comment on this Posting]
Mandatory survey - 4/12/2012
Traffic is horrible in the metro DC area and only getting worse. The solution currently in work: HOT (high occupancy toll) lanes on the beltway. One can pay to get around the area on federal highways to avoid traffic congestion, playing more during rush hours. HOT lane construction is due to be complete this year or next, I believe.[Comment on this Posting]
City living - 2/24/2012
Some people refer to living 'inside the Beltway' as if it's a bad thing- but they don't know what they are missing. The worst of the traffic, for a start: if you live all the way inside the Beltway- in the city- you miss most of the DC area traffic (worst in the nation). But you also gain a lot. In 2 minutes I can be on a bus that will take me to nearly the front door of most of DCs best attractions. In 10 minutes I can be on the metro, which is clean and safe. I live on a street with plenty of trees and sidewalks, where neighbors sit out on their front porches and stop to chat in the streets- if the houses were bigger you would think you were in the suburbs. But at the end of the block there is a grocery store, CVS, library, post office, dry cleaner, video store, several restaurants that range from tiny cafe to tablecloths, and a range of small, independent shops. People actually sit and visit on the benches that line the streets. It's a real neighborhood- with all the opportunities of a big city: concerts, plays, museums, and events ranging from the political to the nonsensical. It is a beautiful city, and people really take advantage of it- walking, running and biking on the tow paths along the Canal, through Rock Creek Park, around the Memorials. There are formal and informal leagues for just about every sport you can imagine. And the food: every kind of food, from every corner of the world, at every price point. Big city benefits with a home town feel: DC definitely has it all![Comment on this Posting]
Rich People, Poor People...30 Years in DC Area - 10/22/2011
Someone rightly called the DC area a madhouse! It's tragic because DC is so beautiful. The physical comfort of the city is amazing, when I travel, I can't wait to get back, the lush greenery almost everywhere, the top quality roads and road system (even if traffic can be a nightmare at certain bottlenecks, and there's usually an alternate often scenic route when you know where you're going). There are cultural activities, but I haven't seen one ounce of local creativity.
Simply couldn't stand it when I arrived about 30 years ago. I saw the situation immediately. Because of the people, and now it's nearly unbearable. Other people frequently tell me the same thing, "newbies" long-time residents, and "natives": it's never been so divided, segregated and out-of-control competitive. People will dismiss you within seconds of meeting you.
They size you up in five minutes based on the suburb (or part of the suburb) where you live. In one upscale area, at a restaurant where I'll never return, people *frequently* approached me to blatantly ask me where I lived (where I went to school 30 years ago, etc.) They were not being nice. As if I had no right to eat in a restaurant in their suburb. ... It's totally divided: rich/poor, black/white, immigrant/non-immigrant, well-educated/not well-educated, GLBT/not GLBT, native/non-native, and on and on.
People are not just transient because of changes in government, it's because they can't stand the social isolation caused by this sickening stratification. All types of people...as soon as they retire (or earlier) they're "out of here" because of the hostility. It's not normal, and it can't be changed, no "adjustment period" is possible. ... The "native Washingtonians" try to be very exclusive, for what reason I do not know. Because the city has very little identity of its own, if any, they're compensating for insecurity, I guess. I mean, really exclusive, they will blatantly shut you out, even if you've been here for 30 years. It is truly mind-boggling. ...
It's not just about being stuck up or uptight, it's worse than that. ... The people are blatantly prejudiced, in every way imaginable ... Now, with a huge influx of people from all over the world (I'd say really in the last ten years, it's incredible) there are negligible efforts to create cultural activities to enjoy the diverse cultures. ... It seems impossible to create true community events. ... Visiting museums is fine and wonderful, but after that? ...the quality of a local art show was laughable.
Most people couldn't care less about supporting any local business, so it's dying ... I talk to people about all this frequently. Rich people go to New York or other major cities to shop.
Work is hell because of the lethal combination of the constant fight for political power (or the semblance of power) and prejudice. Women, in particular, are abused and not only in the workplace. A woman (and later a man) told me this is no place for a woman to live (alone). And they meant it. The combination of all of this makes life an ordeal for a single women, men take advantage of it.
The best thing about the area is that it's full of colleges and universities that have open access to their libraries.[Comment on this Posting]
JFK summed DC up best when he said... - 9/25/2011
"Washington DC has the warmth of the north (east) and the efficiencies of the south."
Good points: Well informed, generally intelligent populace. Lots of cultural things to do. A clean, charming city. Fairly good mass transit inside the city.
Not so good points: Not a friendly place. Lots of rude foreigners. Expensive. Horrible traffic. Very uncomfortable year round (below sea level.) Lots of anti-white discrimination. Toxic work environments. Forget about mass transit outside of DC.
Overall: A better place to visit than live.[Comment on this Posting]
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climate - 7/17/2011
The summers here are extremely humid.[Comment on this Posting]
Activities - 5/3/2011
lots to do[Comment on this Posting]
commuting nightmare - 3/21/2011
despite the many amenities in Washington, DC, the traffic is horrific[Comment on this Posting]
Lived here for a few years - 12/16/2010
DC's a beautiful city. The climate has it's highs and lows... literally. DC can have wonderful long springs, typically hot/humid summers (from late June thru September), pleasant falls, and a mild winter. The winter's will usually have there very cold moments but by mid march things are pretty nice. The district has amazing resources, many of which are free, and are available to those who are willing to seek them out (museums, shows, arts, etc). Bicycling in the city and region is extremely underrated. The city itself continues to add many bike lanes and there are several very long paved trails that are reasonably easy to access (e.g. Capital Crescent, Mt Vernon Trail, Custis, and to a degree the Anacostia Trail System). Generally the traffic is responsive to pedestrians and bicyclists unless you choose a moronic route such as riding down Mass Ave during rush hour. The large parks (e.g. Rock Creek, Glover Archbold)in the NW part of town offer quite the respite with many many miles of dirt and bridle trails (yes bridle trails). If you can easily access these trails you'll find that DC has some of the best trail running for a city on the east coast, no kidding. DC's generally pretty safe. I never feared random crime. The violent crimes tended to happen during the wee hours and generally in bad neighborhoods. In other words, a little common sense will go a long way regarding one's personal safety.
Call it gentrification, transitional, or just plain old change - the city has done this dramatically over the last 20 or more years. It's gone in sort of a wave from west to east and I'd say is currently at (as of 2010 that is) Georgia Ave in the upper NW to North Capitol in the nearer NW and over to H St in the NE. I'm sure others on here have referenced this. Needless to say, as with most redensifying modern cities - the city has witnessed the flexing muscle of the new socioeconomic caste system. All of the folks on the losing end have been pushed into PG County, Maryland unless they've tried to struggle along in the NE or SE neighborhoods across the Anacostia (though there are some nice pockets in those places such as Fort Lincoln, Hillcrest, etc.). And the newbies seem to be pretty darned well off and help push rents to exorbitant amounts. The quality and character of people in DC is hit or miss - there are some very intelligent and kind people here but there are some seriously lame people as well. Suppose that's too be expected when you've got all kinds and types stepping up to the federal trough. Full disclosure, I did not enjoy the majority of the people I met in this town. But many people love living here, so there's no reason to think you wouldn't enjoy it also.
If you must live in DC I'd recommend Mt Pleasant (if you can stomach renting in a group house or doling out a premium for your own place) or Cleveland Park - they're both safe, good transportation access, less idiotic environments and close to Rock Creek Park. If you're not going to be in the district itself but want to be close I'd recommend Takoma Park, MD or the Del Ray/Arlandria area of Alexandria, VA.
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Quick poll to see what everyone else is doing.
Tall glass? Gaiwan? Some other way?
I find that I'm pretty good with the tall glass method. The tea is ready to drink once the leaves have settled to the bottom. Add more water when you're getting close to the leaves.
When it comes to a gaiwan, however, I always end up unhappy (at least for now.) I tend to either over-brew the tea or under-brew it. I'm thinking I should let the tea brew with the lid off.
Tall glass seems so much easier. But I'd really like to work on my gaiwan technique. In fact, I should have entitled this thread "Please help. My gaiwan technique sucks."


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Loss and the Last Farms of Irondequoit
Spring's arrival leads one naturally to thoughts of gardening, which, being sort of like farming, leads in turn to contemplation of the history and current state of farming in Irondequoit.
- McNally
All agreed? Onward then…
From the Town of Irondequoit web site:
"…in 1839 when the town was founded, three quarters of the land was still untouched. However, by the end of the century, this step-child of Brighton was known as the garden spot of western New York, famed for its peaches, superb melons, and vineyards on the slopes of Irondequoit Bay, truck farms that produced celery, tomatoes, cucumbers, asparagus and numerous other vegetables."
Irondequoit's best-known export during its agricultural heyday was the Irondequoit Melon, a crop of which the gentlemen in the above photo are inspecting. I forgot to make a note of their identities, but I think we can reconstruct their conversation fairly easily…
Guy with glasses: "Y'know pal, the Irondequoit melon is widely considered the sweetest, best-quality melon ever grown. However, it's not without its weaknesses. For one thing, it's extremely soft, making it difficult to ship. It also rots quickly; to the point where it has to be sold within hours of picking."
Guy with no glasses: "You can say that again. The Irondequoit melon also has poor disease resistance and will literally cease to exist by the end of the 1930's after a sustained infestation of fusarium wilt."
Guy with glasses: "That's gonna suck."
I saw "Irondequoit Melons" for sale at Wegmans last summer, but after a few phone calls to local suppliers, I found that these are not the true Irondequoit, but close cousins. There are several varieties modeled after the Irondequoit, including the fungus-resistant "Iroquois", developed by a Cornell University grad student in the forties.
So, unfortunately, even Wegmans can't provide you with the real deal. Unless maybe you were to eat so many of their Iroquois knock-offs that you started tripping on vitamin A, and traveled through time and space to a melon field in 1931 Irondequoit.
Irondequoit was also known for its large orchards of excellent peaches. Here we see the former home of Hiram Pardee, located on (of all places) Pardee Road. The home is notable not only for its cobblestone construction, but also because on this property, Mr. Pardee is said to have produced the first commercial crop of peaches in Irondequoit.
In this 1913 photograph, we see young Gertrude Rudman with an apron full of peaches. The Rudman familiy owned an orchard of some 150 acres, and were known as the "Peach Kings of Western New York".
What a great title! Too bad for the Rudmans it's about to change hands…
Feast your eyes on the '09 harvest from McNally's High Point Orchards. They all said the days of the Irondequoit Peach Kings were gone. They were all wrong. Go ahead and call it a comeback.
So anyway, Irondequoit was once (by my estimation) the greatest farming community in the history of the world. No more. By the mid-twentieth century, most of the arable land in Irondequoit had been developed into residential neighborhoods. Many Irondequoit farms were also sacrificed to make room for our expressways.
Take, for example, the farm of Fred Maring (disclaimer: the photo above is not of the Maring family, but the farm shown was in the same neighborhood. I do what I can…). It once stretched along Brower Road from near the current location of Saint Cecilia's Church all the way to the bay. It included six acres of peach trees, and similarly large plots of strawberries, raspberries and other fruits. Grapes grew on the slopes of the creek/gully that runs alongside what is now Route 104W.
Maring's granddaughter, Eileen Farnan grew up on this farm and recalls a time when her grandfather and others in Irondequoit were able to make their living off the land. Produce could be sold to neighbors as well as to the many small grocery markets in the area. It sold quickly, because people bought in large quantities, eating what they could fresh, and canning the rest for winter. Year-round availability of fresh produce was not yet the norm, so you had to grab it while the grabbing was good.
Maring's farm was sold to the state in 1964 to make way for construction of the 590/104 interchange. What wasn't paved over is now dotted with homes. Eileen, who along with her husband Ken now owns the Barrington Cellars Winery in Penn Yan, keeps the memory alive.
From their website:
"… in 2000 we had a bumper crop of Peaches and decided to try some Peach wine-just as Eileen's Grandfather, Fred Maring, made in East Irondequoit, NY many years ago."
Those of you who drink wine are hereby granted permission, by the power vested in me as your blogger, to leave Irondequoit in order to visit Barrington Cellars. Support our farming diaspora in their exile.
I've done a bit of investigation, and have been forced to conclude that my southeast neighborhood, home to two small farms, is the last stronghold of commercial farming in Irondequoit. I would, however, love to be proven wrong. If anyone knows of any farms in our town that have escaped my notice, please let me know.
Case Farm
The Case farm, at the corner of Norton Street and Pardee Road, is owned by Gerry Case and his wife Betty. Gerry, 70 years old, has lived and farmed at this location all his life.
The farm is currently bounded by Norton Street to the north, residential neighborhoods to the south, Pardee Road to the east, and Densmore creek to the west. The Laurelton-Pardee Intermediate School grounds were originally part of the farm. The school hill, now a favorite of local sledders, was once an orchard of plum, peach and apple trees.
Another member of the Case family, Willie, owned an adjacent farm at the top of Pardee Road. His house, which still stands, is also of interest in that it is positioned at the highest point of altitude in all of Irondequoit.
The Case farm is similar to the old Irondequoit market gardens (like that of Orlo and Emma Benedict,above) in that it grows multiple crops on a relatively small plot of land, for immediate sale to a local market. The Cases grow squash, romaine and leaf lettuce, tomatoes, and lots of leeks – 35 tons of leeks last year in fact, most of which were sold to Wegmans.
Irondequoit's market gardeners long ago took to use of greenhouses as a way to get a head start on our short growing season, and to sell off-season produce.
The Case farm has expanded on that idea to the tune of 75,000 square feet of greenhouse. That's the most greenhouse space of any farm or garden center in the area, with the possible exception of the Garden Factory (but that's over on the other side of the bay, where my crystal ball goes fuzzy, so I can't say for sure).
Mr. Case has seen quite a bit of variation in local produce market trends during his time as a farmer. Years ago, the Rochester Public Market was an Irondequoit farmer's best outlet. Numerous local grocery markets purchased their stock there daily. As Wegmans and other large chains grew, competition drove small grocers out of business, decreasing traffic at the Public Market.
The Cases also once ran a roadside vegetable stand, but this became less viable as people's interest in buying just-picked local produce dropped off. Modernized grocery stores and "improved" agricultural and transportation methods were making it possible to have a wide variety of fruits and vegetables on hand all year round. This meant less emphasis on once-a-year bulk buying and canning.
To make up for the resulting shortfall in produce earnings, the Cases started to sell annuals/perennials about 20 years ago. Case's Garden Center opens between the first and tenth of May each year, depending on weather.
In recent years, the Cases have returned to the Rochester Public Market, as its popularity has increased among individual consumers. Vegetables are picked and stowed in coolers on Wednesday and Friday nights, for sale in his market stall on Thursdays and Saturdays.
Traffic at the market has increased to the point where 10,000 potential customers may be seen on a busy day. This, in combination with garden center business and some direct sales to large grocery chains like Wegmans have made it possible for the Cases to continue the career and lifestyle that they love.
The Organic Lady
As I mentioned earlier, there is a second small farm in my area. Unfortunately, I'm unable to present it to you in any great detail. The owners, an older couple, are not native English-speakers, and were uncomfortable carrying on an extended conversation. I don't even know their names. My son refers to them collectively as "The Organic Lady", which seems apt enough, as they do their growing the all-natural way.
Anyhow, if you drive down Helendale Road, you will see a very well-tended little farm enclosed in the space of a double-sized suburban lot. I suppose, given its size, it would be more accurate to call it a garden, but it's such a hard-core, productive operation that "garden" seems too small a word. I think I'll stick to "little farm".
To my certain knowledge, this little farm puts out potatoes, garlic, onions, peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, squash, beets, carrots, eggplants, pears and grapes. The produce is grown without chemicals, and can be purchased cheap at the end of their driveway throughout the summer.
The Organic Lady and her husband seem to be out in their field all day every day (except Sunday, I believe). Industrious. Tough as nails.
They told me they may have their daughter call me to answer my questions. When and if I get the low-down, I will pass it along. Until then, I'll just admire their setup, buy some vegetables, and leave them alone to get their work done.
Your Assignment
So, with a couple of notable exceptions, the once-great farms of Irondequoit are now gone. Kind of a bummer, but I wouldn't suggest that we wring hands over the loss. Change is inexorable, and there's no going back (except, again, if you're melon-trippin'…).
What I would like to suggest is that everybody who owns a patch of land in Irondequoit start a garden. There are many good reasons to do so.
Firstly (and this one might appeal only to think-too-much-about-a-bunch-of-nonsense philosophical types like me), it's a nice tip of the hat to our shared Irondequoit heritage. I personally like to keep a bit of the past alive in my present. It grounds me and helps me to feel at home, which isn't necessarily an easy feeling to achieve.
Secondly (moving from the notional to the concrete), Irondequoit gardeners enjoy a real geological advantage. The happy result of ancient local glacial activity and sedimentary processes is that soil quality throughout most of Irondequoit is above average.
Also, much of this area was swamp land for thousands (millions? I can never keep them straight…) of years before being drained off by early settlers for farming. That means thousands of years of vegetative decay, which means rich soil for your garden. Life springs from death, bearing a tomato sandwich.
Another bunch of reasons to grow a garden, in no particular order:
Don't let a small yard stop you, either. Space is not as great a limitation as one might think. I have a relatively modest quarter-acre backyard, but have so far managed to squeeze in a small vegetable plot, strawberry, blueberry and raspberry patches, rhubarb, three grape vines, two apple trees, a peach tree, a pear tree and a cherry tree (all trees dwarf, of courf).
So, there you have it. Do as I say. Happy spring and happy planting, Irondequoit.


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I've been looking into peer-to-peer lending as a possible "outside the stock market" investing option and like the idea of helping other people start businesses or get out of debt. What are your thoughts?
--Jen, Flagstaff, AZ
I'm happy to see this growing trend of out-of-the-box (or stock market, in this case), non-traditional investing options emerging. Over the past decade, and certainly following the market crash in 2008-2009, the public has increasingly demanded Wall Street alternatives and technological advances have helped deliver them. This is great news for many of us looking to grow or borrow money in a more feel-good and less impersonal kind of way.
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For the lenders (who are essentially investors), the main attraction is a return on investment that can be far above average (compared to other short-term investments) with relatively low risk. The other features are dependable monthly income and, maybe most importantly, the ability to invest directly in people and have a positive impact on the lives of individuals (who may be good people trying to get out of bad debt or entrepreneurs looking for seed money).
There are several companies today offering users a platform to participate in P2P lending. The two most popular ones are Lending Club and Prosper.com. Lending Club recently got a $125-million investment from Google -- which obviously believes in their potential appeal -- and has funded nearly $2 billion dollars in loans. Prosper.com seems to have experienced more growing pains and has funded around $500 million in loans. Earlier this year the company overhauled their leadership, partnered with a big-time venture capital firm, tightened their credit policy (due to a problem with borrower defaults) and updated their website in efforts to better compete in the rapidly expanding marketplace.
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Wagner, Richard
Richard Wagner 1813-1883
German dramatist, composer, and essayist.
The following entry presents criticism on Wagner from 1984 through 1999. For further information on Wagner's life and career, see NCLC, Volume 9.
Recognized as an outstanding nineteenth-century composer, Wagner also distinguished himself as a dramatist and theoretician whose works profoundly influenced modern literature. Wagner's many operas and innovative dramatic theories, as well as his powerful personality, have consistently elicited substantial commentary. Der Ring des Nibelungen (1853; The Ring of the Nibelung), his most widely acclaimed work, embodies many of his theories, including the use of cyclic structure, leitmotiv, and myth. Wagner's conception of Greek tragedy and interpretation of the pessimistic and materialistic philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Ludwig Feuerbach also inform his operas. Like the ancient Greek dramatists, Wagner combined myths, symbols, and various art forms to express human and social aspirations. His primary goals were to create a Gesamtkunstwerk, or unity of the arts, through a synthesis of music, poetry, and dance, and to portray the ideal human being.
Biographical Information
Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany. His father died when Wagner was six months old, and a year later his mother married the actor and artist Ludwig Geier, whose theatrical background influenced the young boy. Wagner was schooled in the liberal arts at the Dresden Kreuzschule, where he displayed a keen appreciation for Greek drama and, by the age of fourteen, had already attempted to write a classical tragedy. In 1828, Wagner began an independent study of harmony and composition. Three years later, he entered Leipzig University as a music student. By his early twenties, Wagner had already earned a reputation as an eccentric and egocentric musician. His marriage to the German actress Christiane Planer in 1836 was the first of a series of tumultuous affairs and liaisons that would deeply affect his art and life, and it was at this time also that Wagner's extravagance resulted in unmanageable debts that would continue to plague him. He had begun composing operas while a student, and in 1837 traveled to Paris, hoping to attract financial backing for future operas with a successful staging of Rienzi (published in 1842). Unable to find a producer, and as a result of his careless spending, Wagner was imprisoned briefly before moving to the Parisian suburb of Meudon. There he wrote Der fliegende Holländer (1843; The Flying Dutchman), the first opera for which he composed both the libretto and music. Between 1848 and 1853 Wagner served as the court choir director in Dresden, and during this period he wrote many of his most significant theoretical works on dramatic art and music. During Wagner's last creative period, in which he produced such operas as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde (1865; Tristan and Isolde), and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868; The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), his theoretical interests began to encompass political as well as aesthetic concerns. He saw himself as a hero who would redeem the materialistic and base through art. Attracted to socialism as a means of reform, he befriended the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin. During the 1849 Dresden uprising, Wagner was in the center of revolutionary activity that later prompted his escape to Switzerland. There he began writing the dramatic poem that gradually evolved into the work that most fully embodied his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, his masterpiece, The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's poetic texts for the Ring operas were published collectively in 1853, however, he did not complete the accompanying music until much later. In 1862, Wagner was pardoned for his revolutionary political activities and returned to Saxony. He found a sympathetic patron in King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who offered to subsidize his artistic efforts. Wagner then settled in Munich and concentrated on writing and composing. Estranged from his wife since his exile, Wagner embarked on a liaison with Cosima von Bülow, daughter of the pianist and composer Franz Liszt and wife of Hans von Bülow. They lived together openly for some time, and eventually married after the death of Wagner's first wife in 1866 and Cosima's subsequent divorce. In 1872, with the patronage of Ludwig II, Wagner supervised the construction of the innovative Bayreuth Festspielhaus, in which opera boxes were eliminated, musicians were relegated to an orchestra pit, and the best available stage machinery was installed. The premiere of the Ring cycle in 1876 inaugurated the first Bayreuth Festival, and by 1883, with the first production of Parsifal, a tradition of yearly performances had been established. Shortly after Parsifal ended its original run, Wagner, declaring it his last work, traveled to Venice, where he died of a heart attack.
Major Works
Scholars generally divide Wagner's operas into three categories: early, Romantic, and mature. The use of a librettist and the traditional Italian operatic style characterize such early works as Die Feen (composed in 1834; The Fairies), Das Liebesverbot; oder, Die Novize von Palermo (1836) and Rienzi. A somewhat later opera, The Flying Dutchman is recognized as a transitional piece between the early and Romantic phases, and is the first for which Wagner incorporated the mythic sources that became a hallmark of his Romantic and mature works. Due to their poetic themes, sensual appeal, and dynamic dramatic construction, Tannhäuser (1845; Tanhauser) and Lohengrin (1850) are considered Wagner's most Romantic operas. Tanhauser recounts the medieval legend of a knight's love for a beautiful woman, while Lohengrin portrays the saga of a mysterious lover whose identity must be hidden from the beloved. The most fecund phase of Wagner's theoretical writing also belongs to his Romantic period, with his principal aesthetic theories appearing in three works: Die Kunst und die Revolution (1849; Art and Revolution), Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (1850; The Artwork of the Future) and Oper und Drama (1852; Opera and Drama). In Art and Revolution, Wagner maintained that all art is a revelatory expression of communal joy, and asserted that it should be accessible to everyone. He considered classical Greek tragedy the most perfect art form; like the Greeks, he wished to inspire an intense emotional response that would be enhanced by the union of drama and music. In The Artwork of the Future, Wagner developed his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk. He contended that the artist should strive, through a synthesis of artistic forms, to represent perfected human nature, and he explained that the "music-drama," as he called his operas, was the most effective vehicle. In Opera and Drama, Wagner elaborated on his conception of music-drama. Since he found mythology continually relevant and universal in its ability to move an audience, he theorized that it was the most suitable source for dramatic themes. These themes were enhanced through the use of leitmotivs, melodic phrases associated with recurring ideas, characters, and verbal patterns, which could be combined, juxtaposed, and developed to provide structural unity and psychological nuances. The works of Wagner's creative maturity are crowned by The Ring of the Nibelung, which comprises four operas: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung. Written in reverse order beginning with Götterdämmerung and ending with Rheingold, the Ring cycle is primarily based on the Scandinavian Edda, a collection of ancient myth and legends, and the Volsunga Saga, a medieval Icelandic epic. Wagner's rendition of these tales depicts a struggle among gods, giants, men, and dwarfs, and is imbued with epic elements: characters of heroic proportions, the evocation of legendary action of national and historical importance, and supernatural forces. Another work of Wagner's late period, Tristan and Isolde is derived from the Arthurian legend of Tristan de Leonis, and displays Wagner's theme of redemption as well as the influence of Schopenhauer's philosophy of the denial of the will. Differing from the majority of Wagner's works in its depiction of history rather than myth, the comic opera The Mastersingers of Nuremberg nevertheless reflects the same dramatic principles. It features the figure of Hans Sachs who, critics note, resembles Wagner in his espousal of revolutionary musical ideas. The hero of Wagner's final opera, Parsifal evolves from the Arthurian Grail-seeker found in a version of the legend written by the thirteenth-century German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach. The work itself is considered one of Wagner's most prophetic, and links themes of love and death.
Critical Reception
Wagner's operas and aesthetic theories have consistently inspired great critical controversy. During his lifetime, Wagner was simultaneously rejected as a modernist whose operas and aesthetics were incomprehensible and untenable and hailed as a prophetic dramatist and composer whose works would revolutionize modern art. Several periodicals were founded exclusively to discuss his works, and by the early twentieth century, more than ten thousand books and articles had been written about him. Wagner's popularity steadily increased until World War I, when anti-German sentiment prevented the performance of his works outside his native land. In the 1930s and 1940s, Adolf Hitler's friendship with Wagner's daughter Eva and the use of his works as propaganda for the Nazi movement contributed significantly to the decline of the composer's international reputation. Criticism of this period noticeably reflects commentators' repugnance for Wagner's nationalism and anti-Semitism. While these subjects continue to elicit commentary, most modern literary scholars largely deem the parallels between Wagner and the Nazi movement extraliterary and focus instead on the works' dramatic qualities and philosophical sources. Through the end of the twentieth century, Wagner has been recognized as a foremost nineteenth-century dramatist and composer whose works have influenced myriad artists and artistic traditions, musical and literary.
Principal Works
Das Liebesverbot; oder, Die Novize von Palermo (opera) 1836
Rienzi (opera) 1842
Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (opera) 1843
Tannhäuser [Tanhauser] (opera) 1845
Die Kunst und die Revolution [Art and Revolution] (essay) 1849
Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft [The Artwork of the Future] (essays) 1850
Lohengrin (opera) 1850
Oper und Drama [Opera and Drama] 2 vols. (essays) 1852
*Der Ring des Nibelungen [The Ring of the Nibelung] (librettos) 1853
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Northrop Frye (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: Frye, Northrop. "The World as Music and Idea in Wagner's Parsifal." Carleton Germanic Papers 12 (1984): 37-49.
[In the following essay, Frye surveys the literary and mythological sources of Wagner's opera Parsifal, and associates the work's theme and music with the concepts of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy.]
On the subject of Wagner I have to speak as a pure outsider. I am interested in Wagner as a creative figure with an immense cultural influence, but I have never been to Bayreuth: I have seen very few Wagner operas, and the whole spectacular side of Wagner, the spears that freeze over the heads of the virtuous, the swans and doves and...
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David C. Large and William Weber (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: Large, David C., and William Weber. Introduction to Wagnerism in European Culture and Politics, edited by David C. Large and William Weber, pp. 15-27. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984.
[In the following excerpted introduction, Large and Weber consider the extensive influence of Wagner's music and thought in the social, political, and intellectual movements known collectively as 'Wagnerism.']
The name of a great artist may earn immortality, but such a name is not often adopted to form the title of a social movement. Much of what was extraordinary about the support for Richard Wagner can be seen most simply in the widespread use of the English...
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Thomas D. O'Sullivan (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: O'Sullivan, Thomas D. "The Perfect Wagnerite: Shaw's Reading of the Ring." English Literature in Transition (1880-1920) 30, no. 1 (1987): 39-47.
[In the following essay, O'Sullivan critiques George Bernard Shaw's interpretation of Wagner's Ring as a political allegory.]
George Bernard Shaw's The Perfect Wagnerite1 is generally recognized as a lucid, witty, and informative introduction to Richard Wagner's tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. Shaw's allegorical exegesis of the Ring has often been characterized as unbalanced, however, because of its heavy emphasis on political economy. Robert Donington, for example,...
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L. J. Rather (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Rather, L. J. "On the Quality of Wagner's Poetry and Prose." In Reading Wagner: A Study in the History of Ideas, pp. 32-58. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
[In the following essay, Rather chronicles Wagner's development as a prose writer and as a poet (particularly in regard to his Ring librettos). Rather concludes by noting Wagner's theories on the decline of language.]
Wagner's writings, including the nine volumes of collected works published during his lifetime, together with his voluminous correspondence and huge autobiography, constitute a formidable bulk of material, much of it still available only in German. William Ashton...
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M. Owen Lee (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Lee, M. Owen. Wagner's 'Ring': Turning the Sky Round, pp. 47-79. New York: Summit Books, 1990.
[In the following excerpt, Lee probes the mythic, musical, and psychological elements of Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried.]
DIE WALKüRE
act i: In a forest storm, Wotan's mortal son, Siegmund, finds shelter, not knowing that he has come to the house of the very enemy he has been fleeing from, Hunding. He is befriended by Hunding's wife, the gentle Sieglinde, but he keeps his name from her. Hunding, according to primitive rites of hospitality, will shelter the fugitive for the night, then fight him...
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Mark Poster (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: Poster, Mark. "What Does Wotan Want?: Ambivalent Feminism in Wagner's Ring." New German Critique 53 (spring 1991): 131-48.
[In the following essay, Poster addresses several sociopolitical interpretations of the Ring and argues that the work should also be viewed in terms of its representation of gender.]
In the four operas of the Ring cycle, Wagner presents a world in crisis and undergoing change but a coherent, rule-governed world nonetheless. Using as his raw material the medieval saga of the Nibelungenlied,1 Wagner works up a presentation of a world in which the central character, Wotan, ruler of this world,...
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Sandra Corse (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: Corse, Sandra. "The Voice of Authority in Wagner's Ring." In New Studies in Richard Wagner's 'The Ring of the Nibelung,' edited by Herbert Richardson, pp. 19-38. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.
[In the following essay, Corse demonstrates "how the voice of authority or power is created and subverted in the Ring," especially through the technique of quotation.]
The Ring cycle is a mass of quotations. The most obvious, of course, are the musical quotations, the series of musical reminiscences or leitmotifs. Almost as important, however, are the many instances in the text when characters quote, directly or...
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John Daverio (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: Daverio, John. "Wagner's Ring as 'Universal Poetry.'" In New Studies in Richard Wagner's 'The Ring of the Nibelung,' edited by Herbert Richardson, pp. 39-53. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.
[In the following essay, Daverio discusses the unifying structure and technique of the Ring operas.]
The text which serves as the point of departure for this essay is the 116th of the fragments published in the Athenäum (1798), a short-lived but highly influential journal founded by Friedrich Schlegel and his brother August Wilhelm. Although Friedrich Schlegel's name does not surface too often in discussions of music, he is...
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Ruth Koheil and Herbert Richardson (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: Koheil, Ruth, and Herbert Richardson. "Why Brünnhilde is the True Hero of the Ring Cycle: An Analysis of Her Psychological Development." In New Studies in Richard Wagner's 'The Ring of the Nibelung,' edited by Herbert Richardson, pp. 177-89. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.
[In the following essay, Koheil and Richardson present a reading of the Ring as "mythological psychology," viewing Brünnhilde as the central protagonist of the operas as she undergoes the process of ego development and sacrifice.]
The source of The Ring is myth. This means that although both humans and gods are characters in the drama, the...
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Peter Morris-Keitel, Alexa Larson-Thorisch, and Audrius Dundzila (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Morris-Keitel, Peter, Alexa Larson-Thorisch, and Audrius Dundzila. "Transgression and Affirmation: Gender Roles, Moral Codes, and Utopian Vision in Richard Wagner's Operas." In Re-Reading Wagner, edited by Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, pp. 61-77. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.
[In the following essay, Morris-Keitel, Larson-Thorisch, and Dundzila offer a feminist examination of gender in Wagner's operas, concentrating on the traditionally bourgeois-capitalist gender roles of Wagner's characters.]
"Our existing opera is a culinary opera. It was a means of pleasure long before it turned into...
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Jean-Jacques Nattiez (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. "The Theoretical Essays of 1849 to 1851." In Wagner Androgyne: A Study in Interpretation, translated by Stewart Spencer, pp. 12-42. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
[In the following essay, Nattiez defines Wagner's mythologized theory of the splintering and reunification of western art.]
Hardly had Wagner completed the full score of Lohengrin on 28 April 1848 when a whole new series of ideas began to clamor for his attention—The Nibelung Legend, the prose draft of "Siegfrieds Tod," an article on the Wibelungs, the prose draft of Wieland der Schmied, the essays. … [T]heoretical reflections...
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Theodore Ziolkowski (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Ziolkowski, Theodore. "Wagner's Parsifal between Mystery and Mummery; or, Race, Class, and Gender in Bayreuth." In The Return of Thematic Criticism, edited by Werner Sollors, pp. 261-86. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
[In the following essay, Ziolkowski provides background to Wagner's opera Parsifal and makes a thematic analysis of its libretto, while noting the "racist, sexist, and elitist" assumptions of the text.]
In the century since its premiere Wagner's Parsifal (1882) has been venerated by its admirers as a semireligious mystery and vilified by its detractors as ideological mummery. The trend toward...
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Herbert Lindenberger (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Lindenberger, Herbert. "Wagner's Ring as Nineteenth-Century Artifact." Comparative Drama 28, no. 3 (fall 1994): 285-310.
[In the following essay, Lindenberger identifies the Ring as "embedded in the world of its time," while acknowledging the importance of its poetic experimentalism and epic mode of narration.]
Suppose that Wagner had died in 1853, exactly thirty years before his actual death. At this point he would have left behind at least three operas that count for us as major works, The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, and Lohengrin. Most important for the ideas I hope to develop in this paper, he would also have...
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Marc A. Weiner (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Weiner, Marc A. "Introduction: Wagner and the Body." In Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination, pp. 1-33. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
[In the following excerpt, Weiner scrutinizes the racial implications of Wagner's depiction of the body in his operas.]
There is no anti-Semite who does not basically want to imitate his mental image of a Jew, which is composed of mimetic cyphers.
—Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
Gleaming or dripping eyes, a resonant or screeching voice, the bodily aromas of youthful love or the stench of sulfur and...
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Michael P. Steinberg (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Steinberg, Michael P. "Music Drama and the End of History." New German Critique 69 (fall 1996): 163-80.
[In the following essay, Steinberg appraises Parsifal as a cultural and ideological text concerned with the crisis of modernity and the redemption of humanity.]
This essay is about Parsifal. It is about Amfortas's wound, the efforts to close it, and the meaning of the claim that it has finally been closed. That closure involves also the closure of music drama, the redemption of Wagnerian form now raised to the level of pure ideology. The essay's three-part argument involves the...
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Leonard S. Zegans (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Zegans, Leonard S. "Richard Wagner's Cosmology: Self-Deception, Self-Realization, and the Destruction of Nature." In The Threat to the Cosmic Order: Psychological, Social, and Health Implications of Richard Wagner's 'Ring of the Nibelung,' edited by Peter Ostwald and Leonard S. Zegans, pp. 1-9. Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, Inc., 1997.
[In the following essay, Zegans explores the essentially Romantic cosmology of Wagner's Ring, which he argues emphasizes the struggle between human will and the natural order.]
Audiences arrive at a performance of The Ring with a special sense of anticipation. Most attend not only to hear...
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R. J. A. Kilbourn (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: R. Kilbourn, J. A. "Redemption Revalued in Tristan und Isolde: Schopenhauer, Wagner, Nietzsche." University of Toronto Quarterly 67, no. 4 (fall 1998): 781-88.
[In the following essay, Kilbourn discusses the theme of redemption via the "conjunction of love and death" in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.]
This discussion of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde shares with the previous three chapters the recognition of Wagner's propensity to invert and even subvert his materials: formally, logically, musically, and ideologically. And yet, in a seeming contradiction, the ultimate movement of Tristan is one of completion and resolution, in terms of...
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Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Hutcheon, Linda, and Michael Hutcheon. "'Alles was ist, endet': Living with the Knowledge of Death in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen." University of Toronto Quarterly 67, no. 4 (fall 1998): 789-811.
[In the following essay, Hutcheon and Hutcheon interpret Wagner's theme of redemption in the Ring in terms of a modern, psychological acceptance of death.]
Richard Wagner's best-known work, Der Ring des Nibelungen, is famous for many reasons: its music, its Germanic mythic allegory, its sheer length.1 Called a stage-festival play for three days and a preliminary evening, the...
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John M. McGlathery (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: McGlathery, John M. "Parsifal." In Wagner's Operas and Desire, pp. 235-67. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.
[In the following excerpt, McGlathery formulates a detailed explication of Wagner's final opera Parsifal with an emphasis on the work's representation of Parsifal's "triumph over desire."]
In his last opera, Wagner returns to the realm of magic and miracle. This time—more plainly than in Tannhäuser and Lohengrin—it is the world of Christian myth and legend. Parsifal indeed presents us with a community of knights of the Holy Grail, and is to that extent, at least, a drama of piety. Miracles, moreover, take place...
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John Tietz (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Tietz, John. "Conclusion: What Does the Ring Mean?" In Redemption or Annihilation? Love versus Power in Wagner's 'Ring,' pp. 141-63. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
[In the following excerpt, Tietz sees in Wagner's operatic cycle a thematic "tension between power and love in society," an emphasis on conflict, and a depiction of the ultimate dissolution of the world.]
With its great length, The Ring generates such tremendous momentum that it takes quite a while to conclude. There are in fact two long stretches of music in the final version of The Ring, but it could not plausibly have ended...
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Further Reading
Katz, Jacob. The Darker Side of Genius: Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1986, 158 p.
Documents Wagner's anti-Semitic views, while acknowledging that "very little in the artistic work of Wagner can be related to his attitude toward Jews and Judaism."
Sabor, Rudolph. The Real Wagner. London: André Deutsch, 1987, 312 p.
Assesses Wagner's life and personality through the use of wife Cosima's diaries, first available in 1976.
Williams, Simon. Richard Wagner and Festival Theatre. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994, 181 p....
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AMES, Iowa – Maple trees are a landscape staple valued for their shade and vibrant fall colors. Homeowners may notice growths, spots or sooty areas on the maple leaves during summer. Horticulturists with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach identify the leaf abnormalities and tell how to manage them. To have additional questions answered, contact the ISU Hortline at (515)294-3108 or email@example.com.
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Maple spindle galls are caused by tiny mites. Adult mites spend the winter under bark and other protective places on trees. In early spring the adults move to the developing, unfolding leaves and begin feeding. The leaf responds to the small irritation by rapidly producing extra cells that form the abnormal growth at the feeding site. The gall encloses the mite, which continues to feed and lay numerous eggs within the gall.
Reproduction is prolific and as the new mites mature, they leave the gall and move to other newly developing leaves to repeat the process. Only new leaves are capable of producing galls. Mite activity continues until mid-summer when it starts to decline. In the fall, adult mites leave the foliage and move to overwintering sites.
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There are black spots on my maple leaves. Is this a serious problem?
Tar spot is a common leaf spot on maples in the United States. Several fungi in the genus Rhytisma cause tar spot. Spots are black, slightly raised and up to 3/4 inch in diameter. The black spots resemble blobs of tar, hence the common name. Fortunately, tar spot does not cause serious harm to maple trees; the damage is mainly cosmetic.
The severity of tar spot can be reduced by raking and removing infected leaves from around the base of the maple tree in fall. In most cases, controlling tar spot with a fungicide is not practical.
The leaves on my maple tree are covered with a black, sooty material. What is it and is it harming the tree?
The black, sooty material is likely sooty mold. Sooty mold is caused by several different fungi. The fungi don't infect plants, but grow on the sugary honeydew excreted by aphids, scales and other insects. In Iowa, sooty mold is most common on maple, pine, linden and elm trees. While sooty mold can reduce plant vigor by blocking sunlight and interfering with photosynthesis, the damage is mainly aesthetic. It is not necessary to control sooty mold as it does not cause serious harm to healthy, well established trees.
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Arlington, Texas • Johnny Manziel tiptoed the sideline for a 23-yard touchdown on Texas A&M's first drive of the game.
The Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback known as Johnny Football and the 10th-ranked Aggies were just getting warmed up in the Cotton Bowl. There were plenty more highlights after that nifty run.
In his first game since becoming the first freshman to win the Heisman, Manziel set a Cotton Bowl-record with 516 total yards and accounted for four TDs as the Aggies capped their first SEC season with a 41-13 win over 12th-ranked Oklahoma on Friday night.
"There is too much talk about how you perform after the Heisman and about the layoff and all of that," Manziel said. "There wasn't anything holding us back. No rust, there was no nothing. We played as a unit. ... To go out and win 11 games and do what we've done, is impressive."
With first-year coach Kevin Sumlin and their young star quarterback, the Aggies (11-2) fit right in with the SEC after leaving the Big 12. They broke the SEC record with their 7.261 total yards this season (the first over 7,000 after 633 in Cowboys Stadium). They also averaged more than 40 points a game.
And they capped their debut season with an overwhelming victory in the only postseason game matching teams from those power conferences. It is the Aggies' first 11-win season since 1998, when they won their only Big 12 title.
The chants of "S-E-C!, S-E-C!" began after Manziel's 33-yard TD pass to Ryan Swope with 4 minutes left in the third quarter for a 34-13 lead. They got louder and longer after that.
"To come in and go against a Big 12 rival and do everything we wanted as a team, and send these seniors out with a win, we couldn't feel any better," Manziel said.
Texas A&M led by only a point at halftime, but scored on its first three drives of the second half on drives of 91 and 89 yards before Swope's score on a fourth-and-5 play.
Oklahoma (10-3), which like the Aggies entered the game with a five-game winning streak, went three-and-out on its first three drives after halftime.
The Aggies never trailed in their last six games. That included their win at SEC champion Alabama, which plays for the BCS national title Monday night.
SEC teams have won the last five Cotton Bowls, all against Big 12 teams, and nine out of 10. That included Texas A&M's loss to LSU only two years ago.
Manziel set an FBS bowl record with his 229 yards rushing on 17 carries, and completed 22 of 34 passes for 287 yards.
Oklahoma, led by quarterback Landry Jones in his 50th career start, had 401 total yards as a team.
Jones completed 35 of 48 passes for 278 yards with a touchdown and an interception. He won 39 games and three bowls for the Sooners, in a career that started on the same field in the 2009 season opener when he replaced injured Heisman winner Sam Bradford in the first college game played at Cowboys Stadium.
Already with a 24-yard gain on an earlier third down, the Aggies had third-and-9 on their opening drive when Manziel rolled to his left and took off. When he juked around a defender and got near the sideline, he tiptoed to stay in bounds and punctuated his score with a high-step over the pylon for a quick lead.
Officials reviewed the touchdown play, but it was clear by the replay shown on the huge video screen above the Cowboys Stadium field that Manziel stayed in bounds.
Manziel added a 5-yard TD run on a bootleg play in the second quarter, and capped the scoring with a 34-yard pass to Uzoma Nwachukwu with 9 minutes left in the game.
The first TD run was Manziel's school-record 20th of the season. He became only the fourth FBS quarterback with 20 TDs rushing and 20 passing in the same season.
The other 20-20 quarterbacks were Auburn's Cam Newton and Florida's Tim Tebow, who like Manziel are Heisman winners from the SEC, and Nevada's Colin Kaepernick.
Manziel set an SEC record with 4,600 yards in the regular season, and just added to that in his 13th career game.
Oklahoma needed drives of 16 and 18 plays to get a pair of field goals by Michael Hunnicutt (23 and 24 yards). Jones threw a 6-yard TD pass to Justin Brown just before halftime to make it 14-13.
Jones set Cotton Bowl records when he had 23 completions and 30 attempts (for 175 yards) by halftime.
Ben Malena (7 yards) and Trey Williams (30 yards) had the TD runs to cap the long scoring drives in the third quarter for the Aggies.
Manziel was picked off in the second quarter after his bootleg move and a throw that hit Malcome Kennedy in the hands in the end zone and deflected into the air. Javon Harris grabbed the interception.
The Sooners then crossed midfield before Jones had a pass intercepted by Dustin Harris and returned to the Oklahoma 48.
That A&M drive started with a little trickery, Manziel holding the ball down in his left hand while faking a throw with his right hand. He then pitched to Kenric McNeal, who threw a 20-yard pass to Mike Evans.
Malena then had a 23-yard run before Manziel's bootleg run for a 5-yard TD.
Oklahoma was in the Cotton Bowl for only the second time. It was the first bowl matchup between the former Big 12 rivals, but the 17th consecutive season they have played each other.
The Sooners had won 11 of 13 since Bob Stoops became their coach. That included a 77-0 Oklahoma win in 2003 that was the most-lopsided loss in Texas A&M history.
Sumlin was the A&M offensive coordinator in 2002 when the Aggies upset the top-ranked Sooners. The next year, Sumlin was hired by Stoops as an assistant, and he stayed there five seasons before going to Houston as head coach and then the Aggies.
No. 10 Texas A&M 41, No. 12 Oklahoma 13
Texas A&M 7 7 20 7 41
Oklahoma 3 10 0 0 13
First Quarter
TAM • Manziel 23 run (Bertolet kick), 12:21.
Okl • FG Hunnicutt 23, 6:38.
Second Quarter
Okl • FG Hunnicutt 24, 11:41.
TAM • Manziel 5 run (Bertolet kick), 6:14.
Okl • J.Brown 6 pass from Jones (Hunnicutt kick), 1:16.
Third Quarter
TAM • Malena 7 run (Bertolet kick), 10:26.
TAM • T.Williams 30 run (kick failed), 6:30.
TAM • R.Swope 33 pass from Manziel (Bertolet kick), 3:55.
Fourth Quarter
TAM • Nwachukwu 34 pass from Manziel (Bertolet kick), 9:03.
Attendance • 87,025.
TAM Okl
First downs 28 27
Rushes-yards 31-326 34-123
Passing 307 278
Comp-Att-Int 23-35-1 35-49-1
Return Yards 20 (-1)
Punts-Avg. 4-34.8 5-49.4
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0
Penalties-yards 7-60 7-47
Time of Possession 23:11 36:49
Individual Statistics
Rushing • Texas A&M, Manziel 17-229, Malena 8-56, T.Williams 6-41. Oklahoma, Clay 10-44, Dami.Williams 16-41, Millard 4-28, Bell 2-11, Shepard 1-6, Jones 1-(minus 7).
Passing • Texas A&M, Manziel 22-34-1-287, McNeal 1-1-0-20. Oklahoma, Jones 35-48-1-278, Bell 0-1-0-0.
Receiving • Texas A&M, R.Swope 8-104, Evans 7-83, Nwachukwu 3-81, Kennedy 3-28, Malena 2-11. Oklahoma, Saunders 9-63, Stills 7-67, J.Brown 7-57, Dami.Williams 5-19, Shepard 4-43, Neal 1-13, Clay 1-10, Millard 1-6.


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Tune in to VH1 tonight at 9/8c to see Travie McCoy of Gym Class Heroes perform with Estelle, Mary J. Blige, Kelly Clarkson and many more to honor America's top soul cities. Visit VH1.com for more information!
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Still want more from Paramore's article in the latest issue of Alternative Press? Click HERE to find another piece of bonus content from their interview with the band.
Now we're at a place where me and Jeremy…[Laughs] We kind of feel bad sometimes, because we like when she gets attention, because we can go places and people don't really know who we are. I'm like, "Oh, we can be normal!" But she's really good at handling her position." - Taylor York
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We're stoked to have The Swellers be part of the Glamour Kills Winter Sampler! It also features songs by our friends in The Wonder Years, Set Your Goals, Fireworks, The Ready Set, We Are The In Crowd and many more. Click HERE to download it for FREE!
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Australia! Sublime With Rome just announced the dates for their 2012 tour. It kicks off in Coolangatta and ends in Perth with a special stop at Bluesfest in Byron Bay in the middle. Mat McHugh will join the band on the shows.
4.04 Coolangatta, AUS @ Coolangatta Hotel
4.05 Brisbane, AUS @ The HiFi
4.06 Byron Bay, AUS @ Bluesfest
4.07 Sydney, AUS @ UNSW Roundhouse
4.09 Melbourne, AUS @ Palace Theater
4.10 Adelaide, AUS @ HQ Complex
4.11 Perth, AUS @ Metro Fremantle
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Here is the second video from This Providence's trip to Australia for the Counter Revolution tour with Panic! At The Disco, All Time Low, Yellowcard, Story Of The Year and others. Visit thisprovidence.com for more!
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Today is Sierra Kusterbeck from VersaEmerge's birthday. We hope it's a great one!
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Gym Class Heroes have just announced the dates for the 2012 Snowstorm Music Tour with T-Pain! Check them out below and stay tuned for ticket info.
02.07 Battle Creek, MI @ Kellogg Arena
02.08 Green Bay, WI @ Brown County Arena
02.09 Springfield, IL @ Prairie Capitol Center
02.10 DeKalb, IL @ NIU Convocation
02.11 Lincoln, NE @ Pershing Auditorium
02.12 Sioux City, IA @ Gateway Arena at Tyson Center
02.14 Rapid City, SD @ Rushmore Plaza Civic Center
02.15 Brookings, SD @ Swiftel Center
02.16 Des Moines, IA @ Val Air Ballroom
02.17 Waterloo, IA @ McElroy Auditorium
02.18 Fargo, ND @ The Venue
02.20 Billings, MT @ Shrine Auditorium
02.21 Missoula, MT @ Adams Center
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Click HERE to see a gallery of shots of Sublime With Rome at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas in Los Angeles where they filled in for Incubus.
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A few months back, Panic! At The Disco stopped by YouTube to play a special acoustic set for their staff. Now you can watch it, too! Here's their song 'Ready To Go' from the set and you can find links to the other songs below:
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
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Aircraft Guide 2011
As soon as its first owner departs from the manufacturer's delivery center, a new airplane technically become used (or pre-owned). For various reasons, however, 10 years after an aircraft's production date is generally considered the milestone separating "newer" used business aircraft from "older" ones.
In deciding which aircraft to cover, we went a bit past this 10-year mark to provide information on all business airplanes and helicopters manufactured since 1993. This means our list includes models manufactured well before that year, as long as they were produced as recently as 1993. The youngest of these models is 17 years old and still of interest to many users. Some models manufactured for many years before 1993 are included, too, because a long production run is indicative of a successful aircraft. In addition, we added the new models that we could reasonably expect to be certified and go into production soon.
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Your article that includes the Seastar ["Aircraft Guide," Buyers' Guide 2012] is most appreciated. However, there are several statistics that are incorrect and it creates the illusion that there is a small payload and an extremely short range.
We obtained our specifications and performance figures for the Seastar from aviation data supplier Conklin & de Decker. Conklin & de Decker estimated those figures based upon the limited information provided to it by Dornier Seaplane. The numbers we published, therefore, reflect the data the manufacturer supplied. To determine range for all turboprops, including the Seastar and the Viking Twin Otter, Conklin & de Decker assumed NBNAA IFR 200 nautical mile reserve fuel and all seats full (200 pounds each).--Jeff Burger, Editor
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