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Webb, Phyllis
Webb, Phyllis 1927–
Webb is a Canadian poet. Although her output has been small, her career is distinguished by her concise and comprehensive lyrics.
Helen W. Sonthoff
Phyllis Webb writes poems which reveal both the lacerating chaos of human experience and a deliberate cutting in to the hard core, the centre that may hold. Since one may not in the instant know whether pain is ultimately toward life or toward death, the experience of pain in these poems is not resolved in terms of the one or the other. The resulting balance communicates a kind of passionate tough-mindedness, an anguished will to completeness.
Many of Phyllis Webb's poems are luminous, sensuous, richly-colored, free in movement; some burst into a rollicking bawdiness or gaity. In all of them, from the most reckless to the most serenely lyrical, wit both releases and controls the emotion. Balance, in craft and in attitude, is as significant as it is in the poems which look for "seeds of meaning".
In these poems, fury, despair and bitterness are responses to the corruption and insignificance of man in a meaningless world…. This world threatens to shatter or smother whatever value man may hope for. If he retreats, he is trapped in a self too small, too dark to sustain life. If he walks out under the tormenting but blank and nerveless sun, his day is splintered, chaotic in its endless round and rage.
It is in this life and on this earth that Phyllis Webb seeks a vision one might claim "with tense impersonal unworth". If it does not exist here, it does not exist at all. The vision and the hope in these poems are that roundness may show wholeness, that light may be luminous, that darkness may be "a deep place where green begins". But there is always the other and terrible possibility, of meaningless circularity, withering glare, brutal and blank darkness. (pp. 15-16)
[In a early poem, "Sprouts the Bitter Grain",] it is not the brief longing at the end that balances the horror of the main part of the poem. The balance lies...
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John Hulcoop
Phyllis Webb's most recent and most complex book, Naked Poems, confirms a preoccupation with certain themes—love, poetry, and love as poetry—which was already evident in Even Your Right Eye (1956)…. The Naked Poems clarifies and perhaps finalizes a tendency apparent in the earlier volume towards reduction or refinement as Miss Webb's characteristic solution to certain technical problems arising out of her particular emotional and intellectual temperament…. This solution reflects the poet's attitude towards life. No moment is too short, no event too small, no experience too trivial, to merit the poet's attention. The poems are "small" not because the subject-matter is unimportant, but because the poet's eye sees precisely. Apparently casual and often brief, her glance is exacting and uncompromising. She refuses to magnify or over-state. (p. 29)
Introducing the "Naked Poems" … at a 1963 poetry reading in Edmonton, Miss Webb called them poems refined down to the "bone-essential statement." She said she was trying to establish "a kind of narrative line with a lyric intention". On the almost invisible "narrative line" she threads each "brief lyric" or "pearl poem" and in so doing reveals her self-confessed debt to Sappho and the haiku, and perhaps an unconscious debt to Browning whose experiments with the dramatic lyric opened up the form and left it charged with a potential which twentieth-century poets have fully exploited. The elusive but essential "narrative line" with its "lyric intention" accounts for the careful arrangement of poems in the new volume, and suggests how the five sections are to be approached and read. "Suites I and II," "A Suite of Lies" and "Some Final Questions" all have to be read en suite. It would be difficult to anthologize any single poem from a particular suite—for most obvious example, "Oh?"—and justify its autonomy or defend its meaning. But "Non Linear," the central of the five sections, suggests that the eleven poems contained therein do not stand in line, even though they have in common certain thematic material…. (pp. 30-1)
Implicit in [the] poems from the final suite of the Naked Poems is the identification of two processes, love-making and poetry-making, both of which are seen as making a "certain order". In "Non Linear", this identification is explicit and many of the poems are "about" poetry and love-making. Using the sea, perhaps the most important single symbol throughout Miss Webb's work, as an image of flux, of perpetual motion, she writes: "I hear the waves …/they are the root waves/of the poem's meter/the waves of the/root poem's sex." Root means source, essential point or part, and one suspects that the "root poem" is for Miss Webb what "central poetry" is for Wallace Stevens. (p. 33)
Phyllis Webb, in the Naked Poems, declares herself a daughter or an apostle of "the Priestess of Motion", of Flux, for which the "wave interminably flowing" is a perfect image…. The "brief lyric" cries uttered by the Priestess of Motion in her coming to a sexual-poetic climax in "the Act" of making love with the Logos, the godhead to whom she has dedicated herself, whose service is her vocation …—these are the "hieratic sounds", the cryptic letters of "a new alphabet" which "gasps for air" and is given room to breathe in the beautifully printed volume of her Naked Poems which was designed by Takao Tanabe.
This "new alphabet" with which Miss Webb spells out the language characteristic of her best poetry, can be seen in embryonic form in both her earlier volumes…. In the Naked Poems, the new alphabet, taken like a rib from a young old Adam, becomes the "bone-essential statement" with which the poet chooses to work almost exclusively. And though some of the poems she makes out of...
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Gail Fox
Nothing in my experience quite prepared me for the excitement I felt in reading Phyllis Webb's Selected Poems. But it was an excitement tempered by a real exasperation with the book's design…. [Often], I got lost in the book, and finally was forced to write simply about what I could remember. One does not read a poetry book straight through. But if John Hulcoop is right in his careful introduction, Miss Webb shows an important development in her poems. To acknowledge this development vis-à-vis such an inconsiderate design, seems almost impossible. But all this is, I hope, academic. In Selected Poems, Miss Webb's poetry blazes into life as terrifying as love, and as necessary. For these are poems that both shape "the world in the intimate/terms of self" and follow the "Flights of the mind from the/earth."
Miss Webb's concerns are the concerns of most poets: love, death, time, despair, "the remedy of art," but carried to such an intense degree, that one comes away feeling shaken and humbled. There is wit, resignation and a dark humour…. And there is much despair. A few poems even consider the "numerous methods of killing oneself." Some people would hold such themes to be mawkish, neurotic, or self-pitying…. [But] Miss Webb writes: "If there is agitation there is cause." The cause can be traced through selections from Trio, Even Your Right Eye, The Sea Is Also A Garden, and Naked Poems. (p. 70)
John Hulcoop writes that "frugal" is the "perfect word with which to describe the poetry in Naked Poems." I would argue that "frugal" describes most of Miss Webb's poetry. Although many of the earlier poems are long, they are wrought with impeccable grace and workmanship. There are no surpluses of words, no distracting ambiguities of feelings. The imagery is sharp, cutting, economical as a razor. (p. 71)
Gail Fox, "Books Reviewed: 'Selected Poems 1954–1965'," in The Canadian Forum, Vol. LII, No. 616, May, 1972, pp. 70-1.


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The Marquette General Hospital School of Emergency Medical Technology recently held a graduation ceremony for the students graduating from the 2011-2013 Paramedic Program. There were 23 graduates of this 18- month program that began in October 2011. The sites where the students attended courses were Marquette, Escanaba, Iron Mountain, Iron River, Baraga and the Keweenaw. These recent graduates will fill paramedic positions throughout the Upper Peninsula.


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Among the many benefits of educating girls in Africa is its potential for reducing population pressure, Camfed International Director Ann Cotton said at the Footprint Forum Conference public day. Girls' education has moved center stage from being viewed as a gender and equality issue to one that is increasingly seen as central to global security and the elimination of poverty, Cotton said. "Every child is born to a mother, and when a child is born to a mother who is not educated, that child is at a disadvantage from the start."
Educating girls also has a significant impact in reducing family size, an important issue in impoverished regions where access to basic resources can be a challenge. "In Zambia, in all of the schools in which we work, we've seen a reduction in pregnancy by 90 percent," Cotton said.
By funding the relatively minimal costs that it takes for a girl to acquire the school books and uniforms she needs to attend school, Camfed has enabled 400,000 young women to complete an education. Some 14,000 of those young women have gone on to be ambassadors for positive change in their countries and their communities.
"When change is coming from the outside, it is far less likely to be significant," Cotton told attendees. Girls who would have been resigned to a life of illiteracy and poverty are now influencing at the highest levels, speaking to organizations such as the World Economic Forum and the United Nations.
When Cotton researched the issue of why girls in Africa were not educated as widely as boys, she discovered it wasn't because of cultural attitudes, but because of poverty. "The opportunities are clearly profound, if we are not talking about attitudinal change, which is very difficult, but about the material costs of sending girls to school." Camfed's work is an example of how seizing on the right opportunities can enable widespread transformation, said Global Footprint Network President Mathis Wackernagel.


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John Bingham, president and CEO of Piaggio America, is known for his directness and candor. He joined Piaggio in 2010 and has since overhauled the image of the brand while focusing on the Avanti's coolness factor. Bingham, who began his career working for Renault and Rolls-Royce in the luxury car space, gave us some insight into his philosophy and discussed his reverence for honesty above all else.
Leadership is making sure that things will in fact be better when you wake up the next day. If you put your head under the pillow and pretend that everything is fine when it's not–guess what? When you finally pull your head out from under the pillow your problems will still be there.
I believe you have to be absolutely honest and open. Keep a clear focus on what the goals are in terms of getting the company to come out of the hard times and grow again.
For marketing and branding to be successful, you need a clear, key message. We decided to focus on four factors: speed, space, size and operating cost. All of our advertising and communication is focused on these areas.
Richard Branson is someone I admire hugely. When everyone said to him, "You can't do it," he said, "I'm going to try."
When the markets in North America and Western Europe were slow, Piaggio aggressively went after getting certification in new markets: Australia, Russia, China and Brazil.
During the market's tough times, it has been so bizarre to see companies having press conferences and saying everything is fine. Once, at a press conference in the middle of the recession, I said, "the market is truly horrible," and people actually began to applaud the honesty.
If it's horrible, it's horrible–so lay out your strategy to tackle horrible!
I lived in California for several years and like everyone else who moves away I miss the occasional In-N-Out burger. I don't normally eat fast food but they taste so good! There is one next to LAX and during a layover in Los Angeles you can actually hop on a parking garage shuttle which takes you almost directly to In-N-Out Burger, and you can get a burger and make it back to the airport in time to catch your next flight. Definitely beats airline food.
The market is still difficult but I am optimistic. People have cash. Companies have cash. But they are uncertain as to whether they should part with it just yet. Traditionally the aviation market follows the luxury car market, and that market is certainly bouncing back from the bad times.
I look for integrity, honesty and passion. This is what I value in those who work for me and also what I value most in the people I work for.
If you have a fear of failure, you probably haven't got it right in the first place. But if something does fail, go back and redouble the effort to get it right the next time.
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A shared letter to Senator Patty Murray, and Senator Maria Cantwell
This letter was shared with WashTech by the writer, and is posted here by their permission. The person did sign the letter when it was sent to the senators, but has asked to remain anonymous here. If you share these opinions, please express them to your own senators and congressman. – WashTech
Conversation: OUTSOURCING
Subject: OUTSOURCING
Dear Senator,
I am incensed that large American Corporations are shipping our jobs overseas — eg India. When we have a 10% unemployment rate these companies should not be getting tax breaks. They should be getting tax penalties. H1B1 visas should be frozen or reduced.
If you want a non humorous look at the situation watch the show 'Outsourced' on NBC. Go to NBC.com, search on "Outsourced" and watch the pilot. I love the Indian people, but they are being used and the American people are being abused.
If outsourcing is an honorable thing to do, why is it that these outsourced call centers pretend to be in the United States, using US names, and lying as to where they are actually operating from? If it were an honest, honorable thing to do would this be going on, the lying and deception? Why are the Indian people being 'forced' to adopt our names and hide their culture?
Microsoft advertised during this show as they are one of the worst offenders — not a surprise.
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The change in Shenyang didn't happen overnight, nor was it painless.rain shower. As anyone who has lived in a Chinese city knows, air pollution levels vary day to day, with weather and the direction of the wind. But even if Shenyang's skies were not always as bright as what I saw, it's clear the city's run of unending gray days is over. Residents told me the skies were much clearer than ten years ago.
The city's subway system is under construction, with the first line opening last year.began; wrecking crews worked day and night tearing down, block by block, the shell of the past.
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Wife of Orlando nightclub shooter arrested
VERBATIM: Fighting injustice is a 'moral obligation'
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Team USA falls to Australia 65-49
LONDON – The U.S. Paralympic Men's Wheelchair Basketball Team showed that they could hang with defending champion Australia on Sunday night in London, but ultimately lost the contest 65-49.
Team USA made a few scoring runs, hanging with the Australians for most of the game, before the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games gold medalists pulled away. The Americans are now 2-2 at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
It was another game in which shots were not falling for the Americas, with no athlete even reaching double digits in scoring. Joshua Turek and Jason Nelms, who each scored eight points, led a squad that ended the night shooting just 37-percent from the floor.
Coach Jim Glatch was disappointed with the team's missed opportunities.
"You know, those are inexcusable and we will talk about those in the team meeting, about focus and intensity and how we have to finish," coach Jim Glatch said. "We talk about that every meeting but there will be a little extra emphasis to get ready for Spain."
Glatch explained that the team has 10 "gold standards", one of which is not only trusting teammates but trusting yourself.
"Right now, I don't think the guys are trusting themselves," he said. "That's a problem, we have got to get them to trust themselves so that they can win basketball games like that."
Tonight's contest might not matter too much in the grand scheme of things, as both teams will still advance to knockout stage for a chance at a gold medal.
"We're approaching every game as if it's our last game," forward Trevon Jenifer said. "That's a game that we really wanted to win… That's our mentality."
Team USA was expecting a physical game, which is exactly what Australia brought to the contest. Team USA's response, however, was lacking in intensity according to guard Matt Scott.
"I don't think we were as aggressive as we should have been both offensively and defensively," Scott said. "I think we have some firepower that we didn't necessarily use and I think that this is going to be a learning experience that brings it out."
Team USA will face Spain on Monday at 9:15 p.m. local time. No matter the outcome, Team USA has already clinched a place in the quarterfinals but the match-up will be important in determining the seeding for the tournament bracket. If Team USA beats Spain, both teams will finish second in the group and Great Britain would be third.
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Rep: Same-sex marriage: part politics, part personal
MARSHALL – One of the most anticipated bills in years will soon be coming before the Minnesota House, and it has nothing to do with budgets, bonding or stadiums.
Democratic House leaders have scheduled a vote on same-sex marriage for Thursday. The announcement and pending vote comes two years after a GOP-controlled House voted to put a constitutional ban on gay marriage on the ballot, where it met a surprising demise. Despite the defeat of the constitutional amendment, same-sex couples are still prohibited from marrying under Minnesota state law.
It's not the first divisive issue to come before the Legislature, but it's arguably the most controversial.
"It definitely signals a change of direction in our state," District 16A House Rep. Chris Swedzinski said. "It's a very controversial bill. This has obviously had a lot of rigorous debate the last two years since it was put on the ballot."
Swedzinski, R-Ghent, said he will not support the bill, and while he admits same-sex marriage is not a light issue by any means, he said there are many others out there that shouldn't take a back seat.
"This is one of many issues on people's minds," he said. "From the people I've talked to, my constituents, first and foremost is, they're worried about jobs and the economy, especially with the tax increases that are being pushed through. Right now we're debating the energy bill that will cost taxpayers a billion dollars. We have so many issues on so many fronts."
Swedzinski said this is a bill that has both a political and personal spin, but he's not sure if the way legislators vote will have any effect on future elections.
"This is an issue that hits personally," he said. "It's about where you are from, your system of beliefs and how that translates into a vote. This is definitely a change in direction for our states, and a lot of people are concerned about what it means to this state in the long term."
"Unlike a lot of what goes on at the Capitol, this is about people and their personal lives," said Jake Loesch, communications director with Minnesotans United, the group fighting to legalize same-sex marriage. "This is about families, this is about couples and real Minnesotans who are asking to be treated the same way as everyone else."
The House needs 68 votes for the bill to advance to the Senate. Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton said he will support any bill that would allow gay marriage in Minnesota.
Loesch said Minnesotans United is optimistic the House will come up with votes needed for passage of the bill.


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You do need to let the dough ball come up to room temperature
Norma,What you said in the above quote is quite common, but when the dough is tempered it should be "at" room temperature, not tempered until it reaches room temperature. Tom Lehmann has addressed this issue so many times that he very often capitalizes the word AT for emphasis, for example, as he did in Reply 8 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,18798.msg183580/topicseen.html#msg183580. It may well be that Tom knows how hot it can get around a deck oven. But, even here in Texas, room temperatures this time of year and for the rest of summer can get quite high--far higher than one would want to approach during tempering of the dough.Peter
Ate the oldest Mellow Mushroom in existence last Thursday and I tasted cinnamon in the crust. My wife stated that they serve a cinnamon bread stick or pretzel at that location. I am starting to wonder if they may slip a little cinnamon into all their pizza dough in small quantities. Maybe below the taste level, but with the aromatic benefits.Thoughts?
So all that being said, I sit here awaiting my KASL flour from Publix (special order), because we eat at least 3-4 MM's per month, and frankly, it's probably cheaper to be a dope addict. Woody
Norma,If you look at the MM Nutrition Facts for the pretzels with cinnamon and honey, at http://mellowmushroom.com/public/nutritionfacts102411.pdf, you will see 5 grams of fat per serving (one-half order of three pretzels). Since there is no fat in the cinnamon or honey, that means that the 5 grams of fat have to be in the dough. As you know, the same dough is used by MM to make both pretzels and pizzas.I didn't think to mention it before, but we also don't know exactly how MM makes and freezes its dough balls. That can also affect the ultimate performance of the dough when used to make pizzas. It is unlikely that we will get the same results as MM in a home setting, or in your case at market, even if all the numbers for our clones line up with the MM Nutrition Facts, as was pretty much the case with many of the MM clone dough formulations I came up with after the hydration bake tests. The operating environments are too different. To get closer to a real MM dough and pizza, you would have to have access to more real MM pizzas, note the differences, and modify your dough formulation through tests until you are satisfied.Since you decided not to offer MM clone pizzas at market, is there a reason why you have resurrected your interest in that style?Peter
I had just been thinking about if my MM attempts were anything like a MM pizza in the texture. Maybe, I tend to over think things about the texture I achieved and really what the texture was when I had the pizzas from MM.
Norma,Here is why I said yesterday that I feel you nailed the MM bake/texture.....reply 1201. http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3940.msg169252.html#msg169252As you know, mine was made with a real MM dough ball and it is here...http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3940.msg167178.html#msg16717810-4 ?.....;-)Bob
Maybe, I dont even remember right, who knows. How many MM dough balls have you purchased and bake into MM style pizzas? Do they all bake the same in your home oven, if you tried more than one dough ball? Do the dough balls look any different to you in that they might have been thawed and fermented for more than one day? I can't recall if you local MM gets their dough balls fresh or are they frozen? I am still thinking did I really nail the MM bake/texture, although you think I did.
Yo Woody - what kinda price you gettin' on that KASL from Publix?
Norma,In the past, I have written from time to time about some of the differences between baking pizzas in a home setting versus a commercial setting. I have also written how someone, for example, a budding pizza operator, developed a dough formulation at home only to later discover that the pizzas baked up considerably differently in the person's home oven than in a commercial oven using the exact same dough. There have also been professional pizza operators who have taken dough from work to make pizzas at home and got materially different results when baked in their home ovens. For a couple posts on this subject, see Reply 4 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,11670.msg107561/topicseen.html#msg107561 and Reply 26 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,7951.msg68453/topicseen.html#msg68453. See, also, the thread by canadianbacon (Mark) at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3993.msg33307.html#msg33307. I think that most members who attempt MM clones do not expect, or they will eventually learn, that they can't exactly replicate an authentic MM pizza in their home ovens. They might do a little bit better if they have gas ovens than electric ovens, because of a more moist baking environment, but they are not going to get the same results as a Montague oven as used by many MM stores (http://montaguecompany.com/Ovens). If they end up unfulfilled, there is nothing that I can do to console them or help them overcome their grief.In my case, if the objective is to try to replicate a commercial dough formulation, I will always go with the numbers, even if they might sometimes be wrong, as we discovered a while back with the Pepe's dough. I am not a trial and error type. I want a benchmark (like a real MM dough in this case) staring me in the face at all times since I can't trust my memory about an MM pizza that I only had once--in August, 2011--and was followed by many more clones that no doubt blurred and muddied my memory of the original MM pizza. In your case, you will always have a better chance of replicating the MM dough and pizza because you at least have a commercial oven (which I believe is gas-fired) and you have all of the right ingredients, including bromated high-gluten flours. To the extent you can identify the differentiating factors between a real MM dough/pizza and your own versions, then you might try to determine how to breach the gap.Peter
Norma,Norma,Norma.....you silly goose. I keep tell'in ya you did good, kid! Don't make me come over there......I've made maybe 3 or 4 of 'em and they all look about the same. But ya know what..the poofy rim always looks waaay lighter in color when I check out the customers pies while at MM picking up a dough ball. They make theirs (cornicione) a 'lil bigger than ours too.Here in the Durham shop they are using frozen and every time they have looked like they were maybe "put up wet" or summ'in cause they have kind of a dry,whitish tint to them....a bit of cornmeal dusting too as you remember.Like I said Miss Norma, I got no problem with sending you another or two so if you wanna play jus pm that address that I told you I lost.Stay cool an have a great day at Market tomorrow.Bob


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To me, Morals=personal, ethics=business. They are equivalent terms for different spheres of behavior.
There is a philosophical puzzle that asks if you would divert a train with failing brakes that would otherwise kill 5 people stuck on the track to a different track knowing that doing so would only kill one person who happened to be on the other track? Most people would.
Strictly business wise, if it was legal, then yes even if it was unethical as long as it was legal. With regards to buisness, I'm trying to make money not freinds. I would also expect my oppenets to try and do the same to me. Outside of buisness or my livelihood, I defintly would not do anything unethical.
Scott, pretty well said. At the beginning however, it sounds like you're saying it is OK to be unethical with someone who is unethical towards you to which I would strongly disagree.
I could have conveyed myself better, but the first section relates strictly to the meaning of the word 'unethical' and making sure that Trevor and I are on the same page in relation to how he's using it, not that I agree with him.
I look at buisness like a sport, I'm going to do whatever I need to do to win within the rules no matter how it affects my opponents.
I think the distinction is a little more fundamental. In the simplest terms, morality is about principles that guide good choices. Ethics is about reasoning that guide good choices.There is a philosophical puzzle that asks if you would divert a train with failing brakes that would otherwise kill 5 people stuck on the track to a different track knowing that doing so would only kill one person who happened to be on the other track? Most people would. However, what if there was no alternate track but you could stop the train from hitting the 5 people by using your car to push the car (and the driver) in front of you into the path of the train knowing that man would certainly die but the five would live. Would you do that? If not, why? Aren't both the same - sacrificing one to save five? What if the guy in the car ahead of you was your brother? What if you knew he was a single father with 7 kids? What if you knew the guy in the car in front of you was a terrorist responsible for sabotaging the brakes on the train that was about to kill the five people?If you only have morals to work with, you would have to apply them consistently. You must always sacrifice one to save five. Period. It is ethics that allows you to make reasoned choices, to override your moral principles when the situation demands.
In this scenario, what would the word be to describe someone who feels they can't do anything? Whether it's their brother or the terrorist in the car ahead....one just doesn't want to manipulate such dangerous life bearing decisions, feels it is in the hands of their higher power...I know this is "faith". But in the context of morals/ethics, I'm just wondering where this fits.
I can pick up the phone and call my competitors and they will help. That is the difference.
IMO, such a person is probably trying to hide their inability to make a decision and/or act on it. Faith does not require you to sit by watch things happen.
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Philip Nel teaches courses in children's and young adult literature, and serves as the Director of the Program in Children's Literature. His books include Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature (UP Mississippi, 2012), Keywords for Children's Literature (co-edited with Lissa Paul, NYU Press, 2011), Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature (co-edited with Julia Mickenberg, NYU Press, 2008), The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss and His Cats (Random House, 2007), Dr. Seuss: American Icon (Continuum, 2004), and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels: A Reader's Guide (Continuum, 2001). Forthcoming: The Complete Barnaby (5 volumes, co-edited with Eric Reynolds, Fantagraphics, 2013-2017). More information.
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There are over 4,400 works of children's and young adult literature in the Juvenile Literature Collection housed in the Juvenile Reading Room at Hale Library. An additional 1,000-plus works are in Hale Library's Special Collections: many of these items belong to K-State's Cookery Collection (one of the top research collections of its kind in the United States); there are also numerous items in Special Collections by or pertaining to L. Frank Baum and Louisa May Alcott, as well as pop-up, movable, and toy books from the 19th through 21st centuries. Hale Library has hundreds of reference works on Children's Literature, including several scholarly journals.
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- ENGL 710. Children's and Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy (Carol Franko, Summer 2009)
- ENGL 710. The Golden Age of Children's Literature (Naomi Wood, Fall 2006)
- ENGL 710. Topics: International Children's Literature (Naomi Wood, Spring 2011)
- ENGL 710. Shakespeare & Children's Literature (Erica Hateley, Spring 2009)
- ENGL 720. Studies in a Major Author: Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain (Greg Eiselein, Spring 2005)
- ENGL 725. African American Children's Literature (Philip Nel, Spring 2014)
- ENGL 825. Seminar: Alcott and Twain (Greg Eiselein, Spring 2010)
- ENGL 830. Seminar: Golden Age of Children's Literature (Naomi Wood, Spring 2015)
- ENGL 825. Seminar: Film Adaptations of Children's Classics (Anne Phillips, Fall 2007, Spring 2013)
- ENGL 830. Seminar: Comics and Graphic Novels (Philip Nel, Fall 2009)
- ENGL 830. Seminar: Image, Text, Ideology: Picturebooks and Illustrated Works (Philip Nel, Fall 2003)
- ENGL 830. Seminar: The Invention of Childhood (Naomi Wood, Fall 2008)
What are the degree requirements?
|3 courses in Literature
|9 hours
|3 courses in Children's Literature
|9 hours
|3 elective courses
|9 hours
|1 seminar
|3 hours
|30 credit hour total
|30 hours
- language proficiency
- writing project
- oral examination
For more information on degree requirements and policies, please visit the department's Graduate Student Handbook.
For More Information
For application materials or for more information about the Program, contact:
Philip Nel, Director
Program in Children's Literature
Department of English
103 ECS Building
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-6501
office: (785) 532-2165


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2013-05-30 / Paxton News
American Legion sponsors June golf tournament
Paxton American Legion Post #306 will sponsor its annual charitable golf tournament at Bedrock Golf Club, Rutland, at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29. The $65 cost per golfer includes golf, cart and prizes, followed by a prime rib dinner provided by Ladds Restaurant at the Post quarters in Paxton.
Hole sponsorships are available for $50 each. Fore information and applications, call Tim Hackett at 508-755-1477 or Tom Savage at 508-797-7280.


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Fort Lauderdale, Florida–"Back by popular demand," PABLO MALCO FOUNDATION & PFUZION DANCE THEATRE, will be featuring the original production, The Hip-Hop Symphony. The Pablo Malco Foundation brings you this fabulous fun filled family production. The performance will be held at the Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale, FL. This event takes the stage on April 6th, 2013, at 7 P.M. For more information: email@example.com
The innovative Hip Hop Symphony Musical Production promises to be an exciting and entertaining event for all ages! The Hip Hop Symphony blends urban, hip hop dance and music with traditional, classical instrumentation. Experience hip hop dance and a symphony orchestra like never before as they take you on a cultural excursion that awakens your five senses.
To celebrate South Florida's vast cultural traditions the Hip Hop Symphony combines hip hop dance and music with classical music and instrumentation. The show features Thirteen versatile hip-hop and contemporary dancers, a 20-piece orchestra, a five-piece rock band and seven-piece choir joining forces to make a thrillingly unique and entertaining performance. Several tickets will also be donated to youth organizations that nurture at risk youth as a way to engage young people in theater productions and classical music.
Tickets are $25 - $60, and are available through the Parker Playhouse/Broward Center box office. 954-462-0222
The Parker Playhouse is located 707 NE 8th St., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304. SHOWTIME: 7 P.M.
This event is sponsored in part by: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Business for the Arts Broward, Broward Cultural Council, National Endowment of the Arts, Power2Give, The University Center for the Performing Arts, Raww Dance Studio, Aventura Dance Studio & Beat Models Inc.


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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
American Airlines to Equip A320s with ROPS
American Airlines is equipping its fleet of A320 family aircraft with Airbus' Runway Overrun Prevention System (ROPS) onboard cockpit technology.
Airbus said ROPS computes in-flight landing and on-ground stopping distances while comparing them to available landing distances in real time. The system produces audio alerts for pilots, acting as a situational awareness tool for pilots approaching the runway.
EASA first approved ROPS for the A380 in 2009, and the system is currently in service with about 70 percent of A380s operated worldwide. The company expects ROPS certification for the A320 later this year.
"Our pilots appreciate the operational benefits that this industry-approved cockpit technology will bring to their daily work," said Capt. John Hale, vice president of flight for American Airlines. More
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I am interested in selling an iBook G4 I have. It was purchased new in early 2005 as a way to get familiar with OS X and has been used very sparingly, which is why I'm selling it. It is in near perfect condition and the only place where it is blemished is on the bottom. I can honestly say a human finger has never touched the screen. I have everything: the disks, the power supply and cords, the manuals, the box, etc. It would make a nice Christmas, Hanukkuah, or Kwanza present for someone you love. I'm seeing these go for around $300 so I figure a Cleveland Fan discount for $250. PM if interested.
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Group C:
USA opens up against England, in what looks to be the controlling game of the group. Dodged a bullet with France and Portugal out there during the draw. Team USA has never played Algeria or Slovenia, so we'll see how the first meetings turn out.
Although this is a great draw, I hope the team doesn'g head into South Africa thinking an automatic move onto the round of 16. Any team in the World Cup has a good chance of pulling the upset, like USA has done in the past. Looks like the draw to make a deep run starting in June. Can't wait for it this year!


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Shaw had already begun to hum with new restaurants, and its vacant Victorians were filling up with families, when the chain-link fence around the decaying Howard Theatre came down at the start of a $29 million renovation, which was completed in 2012.
The additions of curving walnut walls, jumbo screens and a refurbished exterior have returned the 1910 theater - a centerpiece of Washington's Black Broadway that hosted Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne and Miles Davis when others turned them away - to its place as a star attraction.
The theater is now a destination for gospel brunches and performances by rising rappers. Look past the fancy cocktails and luxe banquettes, however, and you'll find one piece of the history left intact: the stage, the same one that hosted so many performances during the theater's golden age.
- Lavanya Ramanathan
Getting there: The Howard is a block from the Shaw-Howard U Metro station (at Seventh and S streets NW). Street parking is limited because the theater sits in a mostly residential area, but options include valet ($12-$20), a nearby self-park lot ($15) and valet drop-off with a shuttle to your car at the end of the night ($12).
What to do:On tap every weekend are Sunday gospel brunches featuring the Harlem Gospel Choir and a buffet-style brunch with such dishes as French toast, grits and macaroni and cheese ($35 in advance, $45 at the door).
Tickets are available through Ticketmaster and the Howard box office from 11 a.m. to midnight daily, beginning opening day.
-- Lavanya Ramanathan (April 6, 2012)


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2012 Trail Runner Trophy Series Standings - Page 3
Ultra Division
Women's ultra leader Michele Hartwig of Lakewood, Illinois, pulled into first (she is now tied with Burlington, Washington's Shawna Tompkins) after a first-place finish at the Coyote Springs 100. Hartwi says that despite record heat levels, 30- to 70-mile-per-hour winds and blistering sandstorms, she had a blast. "All of the obstacles of the day made my finish that much more rewarding," says Hartwig. Next up for the Illinois ultrarunner is Lean Horse and Mark Twain 100.
The men's division is also currently tied for first place: Jeremy Bradford of Denver, Colorado, and Nicholas Davis of Fort Collins, Colorado, both have 400 points after almost three months of racing. Davis, surprised about his current first-place standing, said the Badger Mountain Challenge 100 in Southeastern, Washington, is his season highlight so far. Davis, 23, was second in 21:59. He says, "It was a demanding race, with a lot of off-trail bushwhacking and frigid, driving rain in the early miles, but I used that as motivation to finish faster!"
Women's Leaderboard:
1. Michele Hartwig, 45, Lakewood, Illinois, and Shawna Thompkins, 40, Burlington, Washington (400 points)
2. Megan Hall, 23, Oak Harbor, Washington (300 points)
3. Beiyi Zheng, 48, Broomfield, Colorado (285.7 points)
Men's Leaderboard
1. Jeremy Bradford, 34, Denver, Colorado, and Nicholas Davis, 23, Fort Collins, Colorado (400 points)
2. Daniel Kuhlmann, 28, Tacoma, Washington (331.1 points)
3. Michael Miller, 50, Glendale, Arizona (300 points)
"What a great year this is starting out to be for trail running," says Bradford. "After a long cold winter of running the trails in and around Golden, Colorado, I couldn't be more excited that a new trail-racing season is upon us. I look forward to the many adventures that the trails will undoubtedly hold for us all this summer. Good luck to everyone racing in 2012."
For complete standings, to enter and just find out more about the 2012 Trail Runner Trophy Series presented by GORE-TEX, visit our Trophy Series page, by clicking here.


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Paulo Sahadi - Senior Production Manager
"With our DB2 10 testing so far, we have had quite a few surprises but all of them have been good. Every single SQL statement we have tested has been better or the same as our current optimal paths – we have yet to see any significant access path regression. We had to spend a lot of time tuning SQL with DB2 9, but we expect that to disappear when we upgrade to DB2 10."
Philipp Nowak, BMW DB2 Product Manager
"We are also excited about the new audit capabilities introduced in DB2 10. Unlike more traditional environments where DBAs get to explicitly create new DB2 objects, SAP environments often have tables being created by the system itself as part of a SAP transport mechanism. This makes it difficult for us to quickly audit new tables, as we have to ALTER the tables to enable the audit attribute and sometimes we have to wait weeks or months for a change slot. The new audit capabilities in DB2 10 will allow tables to be audited as soon as they are created, which is an obvious benefit for the business and will reduce costs and simplify our processes"
Guenter Schinkel - Postbank Systems AG
"Over the past several months, BMW has tested the new version of DB2 10 for z/OS, focusing on specific features and comparing these directly to the same features in DB2 9 for z/OS. One of the IBM design goals expected a general improvement in massive parallel SQL-insert performance, where we achieved close to 40% CPU improvement and significant elapse time reduction in direct comparison to DB2 9 for z/OS. For all of our critical tested selects statements, the version 10 optimiser chose the optimal access path, sometimes even improving previous access path choices in version 9. Overall, we are very pleased with the added functionality and architectural enhancements, and are looking forward to this exciting release."
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Last week was an interesting week in sports. It was also one that made me think about whether certain things that happen are not somewhat hypocritical.
Two big sports stories hit during the week and both were full of controversy and raised many an eyebrow.
The first came when it was reported that Louisville head coach Rick Pitino admitted to police that six years ago he had an affair with a woman in Louisville.
Last Thursday, the Senior Citizens Center echoed with the memories of childhood as author Charlotte Ann Kemper Atchison entertained the crowd with stories of growing up in Owen County. People broke out in laughter as Charlotte described how, as a curious little girl, she wondered what would happen if she quickly shut the screen door on her cat's tail. Would the tail bounce like a bowl of jelly or break in two? Much to her dismay, when the cat yowled in pain, Charlotte's momma administered a bit of pain to Charlotte's own tail.
The Owen County Bus Transportation Department would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to the New Horizons clinic workers who made our physicals go smoothly and timely.
The new facility is really something special for Owen County. It was spacious and well staffed. Their friendly atmosphere and pleasantness meant a lot to all of us.
I would just like to commend the staff at New Horizons Medical Center for the excellent care I received while a patient at our hospital.
Having been a nurse myself for over 20 years, I am not used to being the patient but I must say, I was impressed with New Horizons. We are so fortunate to have this facility in our community and more people should take advantage of it and support it.
So to everyone at New Horizons, keep up the good work you are doing to improve the health and well being of our citizens.
Tammy McDonald
Another successful year at the fair. The reason: So many people giving of their time and effort. Lots of people don't realize that so many of these people take their vacation time to have a successful fair for the people of Owen County and a lot of children that can't go somewhere else for fun.
And a special thanks for the memorial to Charles Wright. A special thanks to all that remembered him in every event. He was not there in body but I am sure he was there in spirit.
Betty Wright
Most of us remember the rhymes and doggerels of our childhood and growing up in Owen County brings memories of the games played with friends long ago. We played jump rope, hopscotch, kick the can, and marbles. Counting out rhymes like "one potato, two potato" designated which child would be "it" in a game of tag or hide-and-seek.
Editor's Note: Georgia Green Stamper is on vacation. This column first appeared in August 2008.
In August of 1956, Daddy observed that his tobacco crop needed another couple of weeks to yellow in the fields before cutting. If my mother and I wanted, he allowed as how he could slip away from the farm work for a few days, and we could join his sisters and their families on a short vacation trip to the Smokey Mountains.
There is a service that Owen County provides to its citizens that I suspect is not generally well known. The service is one whereby the county will provide transportation, to and from medical appointments, for its citizens, mostly – though not limited to – its senior citizens.
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The Owenton News-Herald is your source for local news, sports, events and information in Owen County and Owenton, KY, and the surrounding area.


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continuing on my Oolong exploration kick, I picked up a sample package of Distinctly Tea's "natural milk oolong".
brewed gongfu style. 95 degree C water. steeped for 45 seconds (after a flash rinse). My, oh my. pale yellow liquor, nice floral aroma, and the flavor came out as something I'm not sure how to describe. Floral, creamy, but with a note of astringency in it that worked well with the flavor. The mouth feel was also different - kind of coating, almost the same way as a good irish cream.
This will definitely be one to explore finer qualities of, and have in larger quantities than just a sample pack.


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So, we reached a key milestone in the Coplin household over the summer, my son has taken his first steps down his own path towards financial independence. Yes, much to the pain of my reluctant wallet, it is finally pocket money time.
I'll spare you all the details of the endless wrangling around how much (£2) and what we felt he needs to do in order to earn it (make his own "contribution" to the family). The point is, we decided it was time he started to learn the consequences of being responsible for his own spending.
The thing is though, teaching financial independence in a freemium, digital world is an incredibly different proposition to anything we have previously experienced (either as kids or even as parents even just a few years ago). In a world of tangible physical products which have a price point as a point of entry, it's easy to teach the lessons of "save for what you want and you'll enjoy it all the more" but in the friction free freemium world, this lesson is presented with a few problems.
Like any other 8 year old, my son loves apps, and there are a few really good freemium games that he really enjoys. You know the sort, these are often brilliant and compelling games that are free to download and let you acquire points within the game to buy attributes, power ups or just plain old items to bestow on your avatars or whatever. Typically a good freemium game will let you earn these points whilst also providing you with a short cut that means you can just buy the points and it's the proximity of this choice combined with the threshold of how much effort you need to put in to earning in order get the additional content you need that seems to be causing some cracks to start to appear in the whole freemium approach. Some freemium games providers seem to push it a bit too far, bringing the in-game upgrades consistently (and increasingly intrusively) closer while pushing the "free" part further and further out of reach.
Of course the key lesson I'm trying to impart to my son is that you have finite resources in your piggy bank and you want to buy a bunch of different items, and it's up to you to prioritise finite resources accordingly. This is tough for any kid (bloody hell it's still tough for me) but the freemium model lowers the friction of any purchase – in that it's really easy to buy what I want, I don't have to go anywhere, I don't have to exert any effort, I just click on a button and hey presto! Instant gratification. It's like locking the kid in a sweet shop, taking the lids of all the jars and just saying "Help yourself! Go nuts!, just remember you've only got a finite amount of money" I don't know many kids that would come out of that situation with any cash left (or even without over spending), regardless of how much they wanted anything else outside the sweetshop.
It's the combination of the proximity of the purchase and the lack of friction of the purchase that causes the problem. Kids are pretty instantaneous, occasionally impetuous and have yet to learn the long, hard boring lessons about patience and value. (And I admit that as an adult there are times when I am really jealous of that).
There's another related issue here about the value of "effort" – I had this conversation with my son which was basically, "look Dad, why would I spend all my free time earning 1,000 points when I can just buy them for 70p? After all, I'm getting pocket money now". 70p? I can't even buy a bag of crisps for that, it's a trivial amount of money but it's the principle that is infinitely more important. Ultimately it's an argument that I have a tough time responding to without resorting to that worst excuse of parenting "just because".
Ultimately I can cope with the latter argument, as a parent I'm used to the fact that I have to work hard to get my messages across, and that all I'm doing is to try not recreate the same "mistakes" my parents my made, (while acknowledging in the process that I'll be making plenty of new ones that my son will rail against with his kids) but it's the (lack of) transparency of the freemium model that worries me most and it is something that app providers (and platform providers) really need to give some thought to.
Of course, this year, there's been plenty of news coverage of kids racking up thousands of pounds of bills on their parent's credit card without anyone really being aware it was happening. Our own research showed that on average kids spend around £31m a month on apps or in app purchases without asking for permission! Thankfully people and organisations are evolving in how they both deal with that situation (give you the money back) and building systems and education that help parents manage and control spending, but I think there's another level of detail that we've not yet reached and it's one of individual app accountability and transparency of reporting that will help address the issues I've outlined here.
Don't mistake any of this for either a rant against the freemium model or worse, some miserable old git hankering after simpler times. I actually love the freemium model, I think it's a really important development in the software industry, but I just think we need to help our society evolve to understand how to make best use of it.
Frankly, I really don't care if my son wants to blow his "lavish" allowance on virtual cabbages that he can feed to his virtual pets, or on that gold laser powered jump suit that will look "A-W-E-some!" but I do want him to be able to make decisions easily. He should be able to look at his individual apps and see how much he has spent on each of them, not for me to have to trawl through credit card statements and app store emails to piece together the picture. It's the same kind of transparency and "business intelligence" we try to create for our enterprise customers to help them make "informed, business decisions" so why the hell wouldn't we want to do this for our consumers as well?
I get that app developers don't make much on a free or even a 69p game, but the freemium model will break if it forces the developers to drive monetisation harder by pushing the consumer further and further towards having to spend money in order to enjoy the game and then doesn't give them the capability to account for their spending. Ultimately, if that plays out, consumers (or their parents) will vote with their feet and just walk away and at that point, just what is the point of the freemium approach other than to obscure and, to an extent, trick the consumer around their spending?