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Teacher Board Member — Jan Ernst
Jan Ernst
Grades 3-4
Oak Harbor, Washington
Jan Ernst has taught third grade at Broad View Elementary, in Oak Harbor, Washington, for 23 years. She teaches in an inclusion classroom, which combines special needs students with their peers. Prior to teaching at the elementary level, Jan taught English at the alternative high school in Oak Harbor for seven years. Jan received her bachelor's degree in education, with a focus on language arts, from Central Washington University and did graduate work at Western Washington University.


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KYPS - Keep Your Plans Simple
KYPS is an acronym. An acronym is an abbreviation that represents a phrase or a string of words. In this case, KYPS = Keep Your Plans Simple. Snipers are a group of people who believe in keeping things simple. If you complicate things too much then that ever-popular Irishman named Murphy shows up to prove to you where you goofed up in a really BIG way. An example is:
You are on a mission with a very special piece of gear. This critter that weighs in somewhere between painfully heavy and barely transportable is critical to your mission. The problem is that it can NOT be exposed to moisture. It is so sensitive that you're afraid to let anybody sneeze near it or within a 100 yards of it. So there you are in the middle of a desert that hasn't seen a drop of rain since Moses walked the earth. Without this piece of gear, the Super-Duper XM-1000 Thing-of-a-bob, you can not complete your mission. If you fail to complete your mission 200 million liberals will die a slow and painful death in California. Along comes Mr. Murphy with his garden hose to create the most miserable downpour you have ever seen anywhere in the world. When he gets through raining on you, your gear and the SD XM-1000 it then that you remember KYPS. Instead of relying on the SD XM-1000 you know that you should have kept things simpler. This is why snipers don't use the SD XM-1000. EVER.
Simo Hayha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4) was a Finnish soldier who fought the Russians in the Winter War of 1939-40. Simo served as a sniper who killed over 500 enemy soldiers with his rifle and possibly another 200 with his submachinegun that he also carried. Simo was not a tall man nor was he big. The main thing about him was that he was practical and deadly. He believed in getting lots and lots of practice.
Carlos Hathcock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock) was a sniper in the U.S. Marine Corp. Hathcock was known to use a Remington bolt action rifle in 30.06 caliber and with armor piercing ammo. Hathcock is credited with killing 93 enemy soldiers. He served as a sniper in Viet Nam in the area of I Corp up near the Dong Ha River area.
So what was it that helped make these two men so deadly and so proficient? KYPS. Neither of these two snipers were known to have advanced degrees in ballistics or engineering. Based upon rumors and information that circles within the community of snipers, it is thought that both of these men put together their own shooting programs/plans that sort of shadowed the other one's.
Simo shot a rifle that used the 7.62 X 54R cartridge. Hathcock used the 30.06 cartridge. These rounds are not exactly alike but they aren't all that far apart either. So let's say that both of these rounds have a reach of 1K or 1,000 meters. Now that is a pretty good chunk of land to shoot over and actually hit a human target at the other end. So how does a sniper make his particular round effectively work for him?
It is believed that Simo took his maximum distance, dropped off a couple of hundred meters from the far end and gave himself something akin to a working maximum distance of 800 meters.
Hathcock took his 1K meter maximum and pretty much used that for his basic or working distance. So Simo is using 800 meters and 1K for Hathcock. Both guys are planning to shoot some pretty long distances and are wanting to be effective. So how do these 2 men KYPS when it comes to their rifles and ammo?
According to the rumor mill, both men halved their maximum shooting distances and used that number for their primary zero with their rifles.
In other words, Simo is believed to have zeroed his rifle for a distance of 400 meters. Hathcock is thought to have used about 500 meters for his zero with some scopes. Rumor also indicates that he used a 700 meter zero too with other scopes. When we talk primary zero or zeroing of a rifle we aren't talking about just hitting a target at that distance. What we are talking about is repeated practice over and over so that when Simo identified a target at 400 meters he aimed dead on it and fired. Hathcock would wear out a target at 500 meters by shooting it over and over. So how does this half distance shooting plan work?
Both men knew that once they had their primary zero then all they had to do was make minor adjustments when shooting at an enemy soldier. Both men knew that if the target was less than their primary zero all they did was "aim low on the target." If the target was further out than the primary zero all the men did was "aim higher up on the target." So what does this mean for people in survival shooting situations?
Let's say that you want to control an area out to a distance of about 500 meters. If you zero your rifle so that it is dead on at 250 to 300 meters then all you have to do is quickly adjust on the target and fire. If the target is close in, you aim at about the belt level or just above it on the target. The bullet, in most calibers, will be climbing upwards so your strike will probably be in the chest area. If you are shooting at a target beyond your zero range you aim up around the shoulder level of the target, allow for wind and shoot. In the case of most bullets, the strike on the target should again be chest high.
This most basic of shooting concepts works pretty much for iron sights and for scoped shooting needs too. But keep in mind that there are always exceptions to the general rules. If you have some sort of special or antique rifle, say a 45-90 or 45-70 like Tom Selleck shot in his movie "Quigley Down Under," this shooting plan may not work for you. So don't come back and yell about how your 1705 Blunderbluss doesn't work with this plan at 1K yards. Use some common sense here. Try this out with medium caliber diameter (.303 British, 8 mm Mauser, 7.62 NATO, .308 Winchester, .243 Winchester, 7.62 X 54R and maybe 30.06 cartridges) rounds or military type rounds like the .223/5.56. Do not expect this idea to work with 7.62 X 39 cartridges either because they just don't have the distance in most cases to make it out beyond 350 meters or so. Again, there may be some 7.62 X 39 cartridges that will lob out to 500 meters and that's good but that is the exception rather than the rule.
Because of the bitter cold in Finland, Simo was known to primarily use the metal sights on his rifle. Scopes in those days tended to ice up real bad and weren't that good. More than likely Simo's scopes would have been a 4 X or 6 X magnification. Where Simo made his rifle work was he would set up a kill zone and wait for an unsuspecting Russian soldier to walk into the kill zone. Simo then engaged his target at his convenience and at his preferred range for shooting.
Hathcock used a high power scope for most of his shooting needs. Sources indicate that his scope(s) would have generally been between 8 to 12 power of magnification. Also keep in mind that snipers never have just one scope. Most snipers have a primary scope and sometimes other scopes for different shooting needs. So, if I had to guess, I would say Hathcock used a 12 power scope on a bolt action rifle for the majority of his shooting needs.
I know from experience that U.S. Army snipers were issued 3 by 9 power Redfield scopes with the Leatherwood aiming system on them for day use. They also had a special Starlight scope for nighttime shooting needs. And supposedly there were also infrared scopes for the sniper rifles but they were never issued because they weren't as good as the Starlight scopes for nighttime use. The rifles used by the Army were XM-21s and they were an extremely high quality type of M-14 rifle with tighter tolerances to them and they shot the 7.62 NATO National Match ammo.
Now, go forth from here and try this KYPS idea for your shooting needs. Think over what you need to do and how to do it. When you pick your primary zero distance, practice it until you can repeatedly hit something about the size of a soda can or 3 by 5 inch index card over and over. Remember at the longer range distances to allow for wind. And when I say wind, I am talking about wind from the left, right, wind from behind you and wind coming straight at you too. Allowing for wind also means watching out for gusts too. If you're in an area where gusts occur, time your shots so that you make them when the gusts die down or are at least at a minimum. This is especially true for shots 300 meters and over.
Also, start off short and easy. Try KYPS shooting with like a 200 meter zero then see if it will work with targets at 100 yards and then at 300 yards. Develop your confidence in your shooting, these ideas and experience. And don't go trying for fancy shots or head type shots. You want to experiment on getting COM (Center of Mass) hits on a human silhouette type target. Once you are really good, then try for the more precision or head type shots. A good sniper can pretty much make precision or head type shots all day long from 0 to 300 meters once he gets it all together. Both the Russian and German snipers did these kinds of shots at Stalingrad and all the way through WW2. Once you master the 200 meter zero, go to a 300 meter zero and try hitting targets at 400 and 500 meters if you have the ranges that let you do that. Also come back in and hit targets at 25, 100, 150, 200 and 250 meters too.
So, a 250 to 300 meter primary zero should let you control all the way out to 500 meters should the need arise. But once again, this idea may not work with every rifle, every shooter or every cartridge. If this idea works, let us know here in this forum. Tell us what you're shooting, conditions and so on. Maybe Kevin can build a picture of calibers and rifles that this idea works with and is useful. Good luck and good shooting.
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SIDE NOTE: This last Sunday I took 2 police officers I know and my oldest son and showed them how this basic concept work on a short distance range. This range has 2 parts to it. The lower part is primarily for pistol and shotgun use and for tactical training. On this part of the range we actually zeroed a .223 caliber rifle for a distance of 25 yards. And, yes, we did use a scope for this training purpose.
After we got the zero perfected, we took the rifle up to the longer distance range which is a 100 yard course. Up there we took the rifle which was zeroed for 25 yards, aimed it higher up on a steel silhouette target. I had the 3 shooters, using the same rifle and sight zero, aim with the horizontal reticle going across at about shoulder high. Sure enough, the bullets kept striking the target at about chest high.
But keep in mind that the key here is to keep your plans simple. Survival shooting will not be about engaging targets at long distances, precision or trick shooting. It will not be about taking on gangs all by your lonesome. It won't be about being a lone wolf. More than likely, survival shooting will about planning ahead, picking your turf on which to conduct your fight, picking your targets very carefully and making sure you've had lots and lots of practice under your belt.
And as I have pointed out many times, "The more options you have, the better your survival chances will be. Survival is about options."
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Journal, Day Five
A few more books by New York poet friends of mine to round out the week. Before I get to them let me offer a correction. In yesterday's entry I put Hugh Seidman in the wrong school. He studied with Louis Zukofsky at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now known as the Polytechnic University. It was founded in 1854, and is the nation's second oldest private engineering university.
Calls from the Outside World by Robert Hershon (Brooklyn, New York: Hanging Loose Press, 2006. www.hangingloosepress.com).
Here is another poet whom I'm happy to call my friend, a bear of a man who wraps his arms around life and poetry with plenty of feeling and plenty of laughter. Hershon is one of the funniest, wittiest poets that I know, and he's also one of those rare ones who can hit you right in the heart. We met years ago when New York City was rife with small press book fairs, and I'm. proud that Hershon and his associates at Hanging Loose Press brought out my new book. Hanging Loose the magazine and Hanging Loose the press are 40 years old this year. Hooray! Look at the press Web site. And to celebrate, let's look into Bob's 12th book of poems.
These poems seem effortless, which only proves that lots of hard work has gone into making them. Hershon's verse-lines seem to float and to coil around each other, taking you delightedly where you don't know you're going to go until you're there, smack in the middle of the comédie humaine. I want to use words like "gusto" and joie de vivre to characterize his work, too. Nothing is lost on this poet, as this poem testifies:
Donna says olives are packed
in tall narrow jars so
all the olives can see out.
It's not the sort of thing
she would write down, she says
but if I write it down—
and I am clearly the sort of person who
would write it down and in fact
I have written it down—
I should give her credit. Well,
maybe I will and maybe I won't.
When I enter New York Hospital
to be carved upon by Dr. Fowler,
several people say "You might get
a good poem out of it, Donna did"
as though we were competing for
the most interesting scar.
I'll show this to her and she'll hand it
back without looking up. Not finished,
she'll say. But of course it is.
Maybe not.
The poem is about how poets (and olives) see the world—differently than most people, metaphorically perhaps (the olive as eye). It is also a delicious marital dance, with its back-and-forth's and visions and revisions. (Donna is the poet Donna Brook, Bob's wife.) That Hershon is to be "carved upon" by someone named "Dr. Fowler" is too funny to be true, but it probably is true.
In Hershon's world we meet men in chicken suits, men in gray suits at lunch who, caught in a sunbeam, seem divine ("Messiah on Varick Street"), a "Pressure-Sensitive" label over a urinal which reads, "By reading this you have licked my balls" ("A Pressure-Sensitive Label") and Hershon's hilarious meditation on it. The killer job is here, too, as in "My Passage Through Grub Street":
What luck, Marcella, to hook on as an editor
of Dog World after Cats magazine folded!
But take care—this might lead you to the
editorship of Modern Salamander or
Today's Hippo and when you try for the job
at Hammer and Tongs Journal, they'll say
Sorry, but you're in the bow-bow trades,
you couldn't write about fire and steel.
I speak as the former editor-in-chief of
Hosiery and Underwear Review. I once knew
more about socks than almost anybody . . .
Many of these poems are addressed to friends, a lot of them poets (whose identities I am not a liberty to disclose), and this too tells you about Hershon's zest for relationship. He talks to them (and to us) in a poetry-voice that is natural, easy, and fluid, without losing the poetry. But as I mentioned, nothing slips past his gaze, be it the waiter who "passes through the swinging / doors into the black kitchen / where a perpetual cigarette smolders / in a tin ashtray just for him" ("The Deuce by the Coat Rack") or the maitre d's comment in "Illusions of Paradise":
Crystal will be your server
said the maitre d'
(And silver my mount to glory!)
This is exquisite word-play, but only if you can remember that Silver was the Lone Ranger's white horse!
Hershon is a master of memory. In "A Short History of World War II" he speculates that he "will never / be acknowledged as the true / inventor of the Woody Woodpecker / laugh" and in "Ross Bagdasarian" recalls how that co-author (with none other than William Saroyan) of Rosemary Clooney's hit recording "Come on-a My House" "changed/ his name to David Seville and founded the Chipmunks." Now who were the Chipmunks? you are probably asking yourself. I know, but I'm not about to tell you that, either!
Even what he barely remembers (a couple of phrases of Yiddish), Hershon is able to parlay into a first-rate poem in "Everybody in New York," and uses even what is overheard: "The conversation consisting of / thud and fuck you / Something heavy hits the all / A picture shifts / Fuck you, she shouts, fuck you." ("Neighbors") Neighborhoods that have disappeared ("The Sun Never Sets on Sunset Park") lead to some Brooklyn archaeology:
When the anthropologists come
with their teaspoons
finding a new layer every six inches
I hope they can dig up the ruins of the
desperate restaurant which featured
Chinese-American-Norwegian Specialities
Oh, there are simply too many wonderful poems in this book for me to quote all of them. The last and longest one in the book, "Grover Cleveland High School, Class of '53," is the touching, affectionate knockout punch that is so juicy and funny that I won't ruin it by quoting bits and pieces of it here. You'll simply have to grab Calls from the Outside World and listen to it from start to finish.
Walt's Last Stand by Kip Zegers (Kanona, New York: Foothills Publishing, 2005; Foothills Publishing, P.O. Box 68, Kanona, NY 14856. www.foothillspublishing.com. )
There's a marvelous prose text that Kip Zegers has appended to his new book of poems, Walt's Last Stand, and there's nothing to stop us from reading it before we walk into the poems. In it he talks about teaching, which he has done at one of the best New York City high schools for over twenty years. The book begins with an epigraph from George Oppen, and Oppen has served as one of Zegers' poetic guides. "I found in Oppen," he tells us, "a book of wisdom, a sense of poetry, of writing as a thing-to-do, as something one might be moved to pass on." Kip's method is that of infinite patience, at least as he describes it here: waiting, listening, giving out the assignments, watching, listening:
And, in school, we begin a year. We will see what these new students can make of where they are. There is a girl in Creative Writing who will never, not in the two semesters, show interest in any writing but Romantic Fiction. There is a girl who, after a semester of flailing and blustering, says, "Wait a minute, this is scary, writing is hard." There is the boy for whom writing is a dead end, month after month, until suddenly the story of a love affair begins to leak into his notebook. What he writes is fiction, has point of view and style, and a teacher can tell from what is said in class that the stories are also true, and brave. There is the girl who begins with boring poems and then suddenly shocks and inspires the class. There is the student who discovers Pablo Neruda, and whose writing—already brilliant—takes off. There is the boy full of pain he cannot begin to handle or speak of, and his writing is empty. There is the girl who appears by accident of scheduling and enters poetry cautiously, then writes about a death and has begun the dance with words. There is the boy finding in the surfaces of his right hand, its cuts and calluses, the story of his life. And there is the teacher working on his own time at his own poems.
This is something that I plan to read to my own students in creative writing next month, when we too will begin, across town from Kip. As if this passage of prose weren't enough of a beautiful poem in itself, Zegers devotes a third of this book to poems about his students. I haven't seen anything like this before in American poetry, not the breadth or depth of it. This one sets the stage:
It was waiting to pour on 94th Street and inside
I was sweating from five classes. My words
wrung out of me, I'd tried everything
I'd try again on Monday, but this was better
than loading trucks. It was the same sweat,
but kids lived here and I was being paid to be
the grown up. I sat at my desk, Rm. 318
empty but still crowded, chairs warm,
faces gone to subways and the difficult streets.
I was waiting between is and was, moment and memory,
word and echo. full and finished
for the week. Slowly the pale room fell silent.
Outside the hall was sticky with spilled soda.
Thunder coming and rain streaking the glass behind them
two kids stood at a far window kissing,
stood as on a screened front porch
not looking out, their privacy complete.
School house in the rain,
place of chances, second chances, sweat.
It is the kids that Zegers keeps in his eye, who "lean back smiling, giddy, / and exhausted. Then they rise, doors open on a city / that does not even look at them except to stare." ("Go") "'I am here,' is what the young say in poems / and the faces they hold up to view," he tells us in "Faces." The girl with the notebook on the subway, "the white page untouched, being touched / with an urgency words begin to shape / in darkness beneath Lexington / as the lit train passes through"—how many times have we New Yorkers seen this on our commute? But there are also the ones that can't be accounted for:
and in June
he smiled: "Check this. I've never read one,
not one of all the books I've been assigned.
That's six years!" Whatever I said back is lost.
What I remember is the eyes
that did not blink away the moment
he was making in his mind.
("The Alien")
Finally there is the faith that the students whose names Zegers doesn't yet know "will emerge like riddles, like potholes,// like felonies, like fresh flowers,/ like new music I will have to hear and hear and hear." ("I Will Know It")
The other sections of Walt's Last Stand bring us touching and beautifully made poems of family and Zegers' hometown of Chicago, all as praiseworthy as the school poems, but I want to end with the title poem:
Walt's Last Stand
I walk in with "A Child Went Forth,"
a poem Whitman made
out of the oldest fear there is.
"I found this," I said,
"When the world
was nothing and the night
had opened
and called my secret name.
You can trust this poem."
These students consider the possibility.
They are, after all, going forth,
even as they sit in a circle.
A girl, a good kid, says, "you do realize
that while we were home reading this and
writing our own poems we could have been
out living, you know that, right?"
And what of Whitman,
who said he would wait for us,
somewhere, underfoot, in the air?
He became his words
that became pages printed
and reprinted. That they might speak
is what they are, and this
is as far as they can go alone.
The poem and the teacher can only walk up to the student and offer themselves. Poetry means nothing unless it communicates, unless it is picked up in that trust. Kip Zegers makes sure every time that his poems will do that.
Inventing Difficulty: Poems by Jessica Greenbaum (Eugene, Oregon: Silverfish Review Press, 2000; Silverfish Review Press, P.O. Box 3541, Eugene, OR 97403. www.silverfishreviewpress.com ) Winner of the Gerald Cable Book Award.
I love the title of this terrific first book. Isn't that what we do by writing poems, inventing for ourselves the difficulty of getting down on paper what is important to us, of putting it all together? Of course, that's what we do in life, too, and the notion is that the creation of obstacles, even those that we throw in our own path, enlarges us, strengthens us, liberates us during and after we have passed through those difficulties. That is one of Jessica's themes, perhaps, as are the vicissitudes of love that take us through a failed romance, into a marriage, and into the birth of a child. And let me quickly note here that she was a student of mine in the late seventies at the University of Texas. We have remained friends ever since.
There are so many dazzling moments in Inventing Difficulty that I simply want to stack up some of them to show what a passel of gifts Greenbaum offers us from line to line. In the title poem she writes that "Perhaps a songwriter's // responsible for wind's attachment to leaves, for the inseparable lyrics to earthly beauty we've memorized/ before birth and come here with, already on our lips." Wow! "It's simple / inventing difficulty. With any five lines on the white page / of morning, I can fashion a skeleton of my world: a woman/ fishing," she tells us near the end of it, and that life "keeps her inventing both path / and obstacle toward a reunion with happiness." Isn't that what we're working toward, fishing for—some degree of happiness, some quota of bliss?
That bliss is under a cloud in the next poem, "The Yellow Star that Goes with Me," whose title tells it all in a denatured pantoum whose repetitions of thirst, train, cold, shower, and crammed-in passengers evoke much more than morning rush hour in Manhattan. Sometimes there is a wish that all the complexity of city life could be wiped away ("We Want the Hurricane"), and the next poems record, wistfully, a broken love affair. "With Gulliver in Brooklyn" begins:
In the end I've had the life I own,
A massive pattern of imperfections, near misses,
Irreducible complications and debatable accomplishments
Which coerce each other, spiraling sideways,
So that I never know which way, if any,
I am advancing.
"Brooklyn Aubade" gives us a glorious panorama of the Brooklyn waterfront (from the Navy Yard side), offering a kind of consolation for the one who is gone but remembered.
On the "7:46" train back to the Long Island where she was born and grew up, the poet meets her shadow, "an easy stereotype from an alkie bar: / the dangling cigarette and surrounding / firemen, her face shiny as a scar," a bleach-blonde forty-something "all menthol / and James Cain": "she was also from these stops—from the family / who lived more poorly, / whose American flag waves / like a keep-out sign above their doorway."
"Back in the Cemetery" where she once took her lover's picture,
the oversize angel still weeps
by the stone of Frau Louise Moeller, 54,
and her little Oscar, just one month.
Finally, we are as much like stones as they,
as the marbleized idea
of the eroded bouquet in the angel's hand,
the original meanings we held for each other
now mottled, smoothed,
devolved into nearly disinterested symbols . . .
I like the playfulness of Greenbaum's "a, b, c, d, e," an essay on the first five letters of the alphabet that begins, "If the alphabet is the skeleton for our body/ of experience, how great the burden on // a, already hunched over with all / it carries and anticipates, always // about to announce b, / whose bones, like the whale boat's / whale-shaped ones, bear stowaways, / then push a belly up to c, / who calls ahead with open mouth / then dashes into echo. . . ." This playfulness and the meticulousness of her description remind me of another Brooklyn poet, Marianne Moore, without Moore's occasional fussiness.
It is a great pleasure simply to follow Jessica Greenbaum's eye as it picks out and picks up things. Two of the great rewards of this book are the longish poems called "Blown-Away-Roof" and "After Rereading 'Notes of a Native Son,'" in which she spies on her neighbors to our delight.
The last three poems in the book bring us to motherhood, and let me quote the final poem in its entirety. Its opening is staggering:
Conversation about Life, After Life
I stretched out against the sky (as you may have done)
and tried squaring my outline with the many points of stars.
My pattern fit the constellations in a general way, like fingers
to a mitten. I cut the scraps created by the disparity
and kept them in a bag beneath the bed. I had hoped to fashion
a chapeau or vest, and appear as my true self when time allowed.
What was I thinking? I have never been able to sew!
Spring, summer, autumn, winter. . . . Each year passed like four
wheels carrying a covered wagon. Once, eating a mango
over the sink, I remembered an unbelievably satisfying
conversationalist—we managed every morsel off the bone
with progressively more blunt, more accurate responses, out-
doing each other in a spiral of pleasurable honesty that bribed
conversation beyond and beyond, to its furthest possible
ending place. With each admission, our green canoes went over
another waterfall, coursing closer to each others' hearts.
Which we found, truthfully. They were calm and beautiful
like mountain lakes addressing and reflecting the sky
in endless conversation. Our perfect outlines lay on their skin.
I am ready for Jessica Greenbaum's next book. I hope she is getting ready to give it to us.
A Sail to Great Island by Alan Feldman (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress ). Winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry.
I first met Alan Feldman in 1966 on the cover of his first book of poems, The Household, published in mimeograph by the Columbia Review Press. There is a skinny, bespectacled poet atop a flight of stone stairs in what resembles a fort-like structure in—where?—Riverside Park? Fort Tryon Park? I still have my copy, and I'm still friends with Alan, whom I met in one of the bookstores on the Upper West Side. In fact, next week I'm driving up to Massachusetts to see him and his wife, the painter Nan Hass Feldman.
This is a poet whose work I've admired for years, and I was thrilled when I was able to bring out his book The Happy Genius (the reference is to Williams' poem of the same name) with SUN in 1978. It won the Elliston Book Award that year for the best collection published by a small, nonprofit press in the United States.
Alan sent me the manuscript of A Sail to Great Island, and I was happy to write the following blurb for it. I mean every word that I say, blurbismo aside:
Feldman has been building extraordinary and deeply moving poems for some forty years now, and it's high time a magnum of champagne was cracked across the bow of a new book with his name on it. Here is a master-maker who can offer us poems that dazzle us with their beauty as they ride us through the everyday real, or break our heart because they are so imaginative, so true. Alan Feldman is one of the best poets in America.
The "little house" of his book-boat sets sail immediately in these pages, and "keeps turning / to look at things," much as its owner does:
Could someone invent a really complete camera, for just the time
I'd like to come back to, from time to time,
("On the Mooring")
That's exactly what Feldman does in these poems, and what he has always done. On the cover of The Happy Genius he is a little boy in a family snapshot, ecstatic as he and the rest of the family watch a home movie. I would like to say that all of Alan's poems are home movies directed by somebody like Frank Capra, full of feeling and memory-images, but maybe better than Capra's sentimentality. A poet has got to be in love with the world if he hopes to do it any degree of justice in his work, and Feldman's poetry is a grand project of preservation. He saves what he loves.
"Listening to Keats" is a case in point. Driving along, Alan is listening to tape of some "honey-tongued young British actor" reading Keats that his daughter has given him. The tape triggers memories of Feldman's mother and her devotion to the British poet:
my mother—
dead lo these twenty years, once an English major—
weeping for Keats at the English Cemetery in Rome
when I was seven. I could read about it even now in her letters.
Keats, who sounds nothing like me. The mellifluous Keats
unbothered by the whine of trucks on the Massachusetts Turnpike . . .
Holding that wonderful juxtaposition of yesterday and today, the poem ends with Feldman feeling nearer to his daughter and his mother, "My mother, my daughter, and me, / passing trucks, going through the toll booths, // the dead Keats reading passionately, deathlessly."
Music and memory motivate a number of these poems, including "Pavane," the next one, the subject being Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess played by the poet's high school band. In Feldman's hands the poem becomes an elegy for his friend and band-mate Sue Meyer, who died at seventeen during her freshman year in college:
She must be a young favorite there in the world of the dead—
so level-headed, yet idealistic. If I could write to her,
answering the card with the Japanese print of men in the snow
that I keep inside New Directions 16, a volume she inscribed to me,
I'd begin, Sue, I think of you whenever I hear the Ravel piece,
as though it marks your grave (wherever in Michigan that is).
Maybe the most beautiful poem about music in A Sail to Great Island is Feldman's paean to the jazz pianist Bill Evans (an enthusiasm we both share):
Bill Evans Plays Never Let Me Go
Never let me go, says the piano,
then the five syllables are repeated
a little lower, maybe more sadly,
or with more acceptance that this plaint
is endless, fruitless, but it is the plaint
of love forever, whatever else changes,
and the five notes always sound different
the way the lover constantly is finding
new ways to ask what can't be answered.
The piano takes a break to think it over
all around the keyboard, as if it is free
to take a walk, anywhere away from
those five notes, but no, it's been walking
towards them. Never let me go,
it says cheerfully, tenderly, without reproach,
as if it knows that saying so is its true calling.
That's a Bill Evans poem I wish I'd written! Its clarity and simplicity are overpowering, and if one knows anything about Evans' playing, it is all the more wrenching.
Another standout poem in this book is "Contemporary American Poetry, which begins, "When her eye first gave her trouble, but when I did not yet know / this growth would spread through her brain, Mother sent me / Donald Hall's 'Kicking the Leaves,' torn from the Times. . . ." Feldman improvises what he thinks his mother was saying by sending him Hall's poem:
I will soon be leaving you. When you hear about my death
you will be staring at a blood red leaf against a raw blue
October sky through a film of tears, and you will be
an orphan. The price you will have to pay
for having been loved—essentially without qualification—
by me. I am leaving you now with this clipping,
this poem about leaves from the editorial page of the Times,
which I read daily, always with thoughts of you.
"How I resented this poem," the poet tells us, "which moved me terribly. . . ." Feldman finds the poem again in the college anthology that he uses, "one that puts old enemies, like O'Hara and Lowell, together / in an academy of poetry of the world to come." Now, older than the thirty he was when his mother sent him the poem, he understands that "The pleasure, if there is one, is knowing we have the dead / inside us, where they have to make peace, and never leave us."
Feldman gives us a sonnet sequence (he has been writing dozens of sonnets in recent years), sailing poems, a poem for his daughter's marriage, a retrospective on the 20th century: "The year I was born the atomic bomb went off. / Here I'd just begun, and someone / found the switch to turn off the world." I once thought that the best response of a critic would be to quote the entire book if he loved it, and that is my impulse, one that I will spare us both, dear reader.
You'll simply have to go out and find a copy of one of the best books of poetry published in 2004. It's not that long ago. There should still be some around.
Thanks to Nick Twemlow, who asked, and Emily White, who put it up for all to see. And, naturally, thanks to all of you who read it!—B.Z.
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CHICO, Calif. - Staff and volunteers for the Freedom and Elements Program were ecstatic Wednesday morning about the $15,000 donation from two Chico companies that might keep the camp going next year.
According to camp staff one out of 68 children is born with autism. The camp hasn't operated for three years because there hasn't been enough money.
Applause erupted when a giant check from Cleanrite-Buildrite was presented to the staff.
The company teamed up with Farmers Insurance and raised the money at a charity golf tournament. The program gave 13 students the chance to live out the college life at Chico State for three days.
The university allowed them to stay in the dorms, eat at the cafeterias, and explore their talents. Students organized and performed a musical for their friends and family.
Staff members said the money couldn't have come at a better time.
"It's really going to pay all of our bills for this year, and it will help us a little bit for kick starting next year's camp,"said Chico State professor and camp organizer, Rebecca Lytle. "So we are very excited to receive the check."
Staffers said camp expenses are about $10,000 each year. The camp also serves as a summer school class for teachers training in special education.
Organizers believe this camp is very important for autistic children. It's breaks away from their daily routine they are used to and improves on their communication skills.


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An unfinished highway overpass collapsed in one of Brazil's World Cup host cities, Belo Horizonte, on Thursday, killing at least one person and stoking local criticism of the rushed preparations for the global soccer championship. "Because of the World Cup they sped everything up to finish faster. That's why this tragedy has happened," said Leandro Brito, 23, a bank worker. The bridge — two miles from Mineirao Stadium — crushed a car and part of a passenger bus that were passing underneath. Read more at Reuters. Harold Maass
Chief Constable Ian Hopkins with the Greater Manchester Police gave an update early Tuesday morning about the explosion at the Manchester Arena Monday night at the conclusion of an Ariana Grande concert, confirming that 19 people died and 50 were injured.
The victims have been taken to six hospitals in the Manchester area, Hopkins said, and police are "treating this as a terrorist incident until we have more information." It's a "very concerning time for everyone," he added. "We are doing all that we can, working with local and national agencies, to support those affected as we gather information on what happened last night." He called on anyone with information to notify police, and urged the residents of Manchester to "remain vigilant." Catherine Garcia
British Prime Minister Theresa May has responded to the explosion at the Manchester Arena late Monday night, saying the government is "working to establish the full details of what is being treated by the police as an appalling terrorist attack."
May added that "all our thoughts are with the victims and the families of those who have been affected." Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn called the incident "terrible," and said his thoughts are with "all those affected and our brilliant emergency services," while Liberal Democrats leader Tim Farron sent his "deepest condolences to the victims and families in Manchester. As always, our emergency services have shown great bravery and strength." The Guardian reports that in the wake of the explosion, which left at least 19 people dead and 50 injured, campaigning for June's general election has been suspended. Catherine Garcia
Residents of Manchester are opening their homes to people stranded in the city following the explosion Monday night at the Manchester Arena.
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A representative for Ariana Grande said she is safe following a suspected terrorist attack at her concert Monday night in Manchester, England, which left at least 19 people dead and 50 injured.
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At least 19 people were killed and 50 injured Monday night in a suspected terrorist attack at an arena in Manchester, England, police said.
Singer Ariana Grande had just finished performing at the Manchester Arena when there was "a loud bang," concertgoer Erin McDougle told The Guardian. "The lights were already on, so we knew it wasn't part of the show." British Transport Police said it appears that an explosion hit the building's foyer at around 10:30 p.m., while the Manchester Arena said it happened "outside the venue in a public space."
This is a breaking news story and has been updated throughout. Catherine Garcia
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did my last long run yesterday, 10 miles. Felt great apart from my feet. My arches really ached and are still sore today. They have been a bit tender before after long runs but settled down and didn't bother me on subsequent runs. Am really, really worried this is going to flare up next Sunday and make it too painful to run
Can you elaborate a bit on your condition ?? How is your pronation, shoe type etc...
This sounds like Plantar Fasciitis:
You can do a lot to get through this (just google & youtube it). More importantly is what you do going forward. Probably need to take a look at your training, shoes, insoles and biomechanics.
Regards, Bez
Don't panic!
As you said yourself 'six days to go' so rest up. If you end up not running at all this week it won't matter.
There's nothing you'll do this week that'll effect you performance, all the training's done.
If it's gonna hurt it'll be afterwards by the sounds of it but to be honest you'll be hurting pretty much everywhere anyway.
Rolling the soles of your feet and arches on a foam roller or tennis ball helps relieve tightness in this area ... planta whotsit .. like Bez said.
Not sure if its plantar fasciitis as its my instep rather than my heel that aches. Am doing the foot rolling thing with a golf ball and also ice in a cup. Its frustrating that it has come on as I'm tapering rather than when I was doing higher mileage. Have just booked to see physio tomorrow, am not expecting an instant cure but at least should get a bit of treatment and advice.
Can't be any worse than waking up in a cold sweat a few nights ago after dreaming that I forgot my race number!!
i am a big underpronator with high arches and regularly aggrevate the 5th metatarsal that i broke when i was 14.
i have also been a riding instructor for 12 years- long story short, we use epsom salts mixed with hot water to alleviate bruises/sprains & to draw out toxins on the horses. when my feet flare up i mix 1 big handful of epsom salts with some hot enough to bear water and soak my feet for ten minutes, once a day for two days in a row. super cheap, a big pot of the salts is a couple of quid, really relaxing and totally works! i have no idea how it works, something to do with drawing away the nasties...
i really agree with the tennis ball rolling, that helps me too.
best of luck on sunday!
Honestly Kiki d it's better to have a niggle now because you've done all the miles needed to race. If it happened during you've have had to stop training to rest.
I'm pretty sure the physio will tell you the same thing (been in same situ acouple of weeks ago, pre-paris) and six days rest will do the trick
Be prepared to reassess your goals though. If you start and it hurts you may have to walk / run to finish. Annoying / disappointing doesn't come close but at least you'll live to race another day.
good luck
Looks like your doing all the right things at the moment to get through this. Keep rolling on the Tennis/Golf Balls and things will hopefully be fine. I got a similar pain after my first 20 miler, tennis balls and daily insoles helped me get out of this. (wouldn´t recommend insoles before the Race as it is too close but afterwards that could help)
And see what your Physio says....
Bezt of luck to ya
Ohh, and that dream, worst cold sweats ever when you wake up, dreamt that I was 1 hour late to the start, ouch......
Thanks for all the sound advice guys. As this is my first marathon i think a little bit of mild panic was creeping in. It helps just having a bit of calm rational thought from other runners. I will definitely try the epsom salts KW.
Thanks for your good wishes
In my list of 100 things NOT to do before a marathon have added item 101
Leave vacuum cleaner out. Get up in night to go to bathroom. Forget vacuum cleaner is in the way and stub toe...Doh!!!!!!!
Physio confirmed my self-diagnosis of plantar faciitis. Left worse than right, right foot a bit tender, left tighter and ankle stiffer. Physio has given me loads of exercises, banned me from running till Sunday. Text book advice she said would be don't run but she knows that at this stage it is not an option although I am now very concerned that by running I may do some long-term damage.
Fingers crossed that (now 5 days) of rest and intensive exercises will improve things enough to get me through
kd- hugest best of luck with it all. p.s check you out with the self diagnosis skills!
let us know how your FLM goes
Hi shouldav,
if you get to 20miles then you'll be fine (she says having no idea having never run more than 20!!!)
Good luck on Sunday.
I DID IT!!! Followed physio's advice to the letter, no running, loads of foot massage and stretching. ALmost pain free by Saturday. Completed the marathon in 4:14:35...and no pain in my feet either during or after....not quite what I can say about the rest of me, but who cares I ran every step of the way and am thrilled with my result. Moral..don't do long runs in trainers that have already done almost 300 miles. Look after your feet!
Hope it was a good day for you guys too whatever you were doing


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If you could travel between New York and Philly in 10 minutes, would you? What about going from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 20? It sounds crazy, but it's not so far-fetched, according to Forbes.
In 2013, Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla Motors, unveiled his idea for the hyperloop — a form of transportation that would move passengers from city to city at roughly the speed of sound via a network of vacuum tubes.
Two years later, three companies, all headed by teams of people close to Musk, are pushing to make the technology come to life. However, even with millions of dollars in funding at the ready, there's still a long way to go. Safety issues need to be addressed. The logistics of actually constructing the transportation network still need to be hammered out. And what effects, exactly, would moving at such high speeds have on the human body?
Space: Ballooning's Final Frontier?
Forbes' report says that, at least initially, the project would focus on moving cargo from one place to another (possibly even through underwater tubes), so perhaps that human body bit wouldn't come into play right away. But the rush to get the project moving is well under way, given that it would beat the pants off of air travel time and cost less than taking a train. Plus, since no carbon dioxide would be emitted by the capsules, it seems like it would be far more environmentally friendly than any currently existing form of getting around. (Note: The system would still be responsible for some carbon emissions, according to one expert, who believes the solar panels in Musk's original plan would need to be supplemented with coal power.)
Musk has also said he'll likely be funding a prototype track in Texas.
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Ranchi, Jan. 7: Political crisis returned to the state today after Jharkhand Mukti Morcha announced its decision to withdraw support to the BJP-led alliance government, acting on a threat it has been holding out since December last year to pressure Arjun Munda to hand over reins of the government to a JMM chief minister.
The Munda-led coalition government, with Sudesh Mahto's Ajsu as the third partner, is now reduced to a minority with 29 MLAs in an 82-member House (see chart).
Deputy chief minister Hemant Soren said his father and JMM chief, Shibu Soren, had been "asked by the party" to meet the Governor tomorrow and hand over a formal letter explaining their decision.
"There are some leaders in the BJP, particularly a parliamentarian from Santhal Pargana, who have been attacking our chief unnecessarily. We cannot compromise on the honour of our party chief when he is maligned by leaders of a coalition partner," Hemant said, alluding to one of BJP's most vocal critics of the coalition, Godda MP Nishikant Dubey.
"A coalition government cannot run like this. Therefore, we have decided to withdraw support," Hemant added after coming out of a four-hour-long meeting of the JMM's executive committee.
The BJP had been trying as late as this morning to avert a crisis ' chief minister Munda, accompanied by state BJP chief Dineshanand Goswami and human resource development minister Baidyanath Ram, met Shibu Soren at his Morabadi residence.
But they were unable to placate the chief of the JMM that had put out a seven-point charter at the top of which was a demand to hand over the chief minister's chair to the JMM for the remainder of the coalition government's term till December 2014.
Till late tonight, senior leaders of the BJP were closeted at a meeting at their Harmu Road office.
Earlier, Ajsu chief Sudesh Mahto met the chief minister along with party MLA and minister C. P. Chaudhary at his Kanke Road office where he apparently made it clear that he was ready to "give up" some of his portfolios ' the Ajsu holds sports and youth affairs, labour, rural development, panchayati raj, water resources, science and technology ' for the sake of the coalition.
Mahto then told newsmen that they had convened an "emergency" meeting on Wednesday to discuss the new challenges.
Hemant claimed that during the last two and a half years, his party had been neglected and there was total lack of coordination between coalition partners. Munda, he also claimed, had made no effort to resolve the issue.
"Tomorrow, we will be going to Raj Bhavan to hand over the letter withdrawing our support," Shibu Soren said.
But, neither of the Sorens revealed their next move, or more importantly, if they were exploring other options with the Opposition Congress.
Differences between the two allies began to grow after the JMM supported UPA in Parliament on FDI in retail ' JMM MP Kameshwar Baitha voted in favour of the UPA while Shibu Soren abstained. Thereafter, on December 7, the day of the Rajya Sabha vote, the JMM abstained.
Among the JMM's demands cited in their latest charter were a rotational chief minister ' the BJP denies there was any such agreement ' strict execution of tenancy laws, identification of local natives on the basis of 1932 land records to enable them to secure Grade III and IV jobs, release of grants for madarsas and a poor-friendly rehabilitation policy for various project affected people.
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Talented Peppermint makes a cool debut
The Caspar Fownes-trained Peppermint turned heads with a promising performance in the Class Four Friendship Bridge Handicap (1,000m) last Saturday at Sha Tin.
The three-year-old made his debut at odds of 11-1 and Brett Prebble allowed Peppermint to find his feet, had to shy away from an erratic Super Thunder inside the 600m, weaved a run around the tiring Passionate at the 300m before running home powerfully to be a clear second behind Fair Navigator - clocking a swift 22.26 seconds for the final 400m.
He is a New Zealand-bred son of the versatile Danehill stallion Keeper, a Group One winning sprinter-miler in Australia, who is making a name for himself in Hong Kong over the past few years with 17 winners from 22 starters, including Special Days, who achieved a peak rating of 123 for a win in last season's Group Three Centenary Vase.
Peppermint's maternal line is littered from top to bottom with winners at a sprint-to-mile distance, including his own dam Sadie Belle, a daughter of Exploding Prospect who collected five wins at a range of 1,200m to 1,400m. The first starter of three foals from Sadie Belle, Peppermint looks a nice prospect on both turf and dirt. He showed ability in three New Zealand trials for Lance Noble when striking soft track conditions. He also caught the eye in his trials and workouts at Sha Tin.
The Me Tsui Yiu-sak-trained Rumba King is another who is ready to put his best foot forward. The three-year-old - having his second start - still looked green, but finished off well for fifth in the same race.
In his first outing last month, Rumba King was detached from the field after running out abruptly following a bad check before closing off soundly for sixth behind Dane Patrol.
He is by the sire King Cugat, who was a multiple Group winner on both surfaces over 1,600m to 2,200m in the US and has sent out four winners from a limited nine foals, including the useful miler and Happy Valley performer Operation Secret.
Lesser graders Star Of Fame, from the Tony Millard yard, and the Tony Cruz-trained Floral Picasso made solid bids for fourth and sixth in the Class Three Macau-Taipa Bridge Handicap (1,400m) and also appear ready to turn the corner.
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Laser ablation sampling is presented as an alternative to dissolution procedures for elemental analyses of prototypical glasses using inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry. These glass samples were prototypes of vitrified waste products from the Savannah River Technology Center. The samples were not translated or rotated during laser sampling, but were repetitively sampled at a single spot using a KrF excimer laser with a 10 Hz repetition rate. The time-dependent mass ablation rate was measured and is discussed. Silicon, the major element in the matrix, was used as an internal standard, and excellent precision (sr= 1–3%) was obtained. Quantitative analysis was demonstrated using known prototypical glass compositions. Preferential vaporization was investigated by comparing measured elemental ratios using a nanosecond excimer laser (λ= 248 nm) and a picosecond Nd: YAG laser (fourth harmonic, λ= 266 nm).VL - 10 IS - 4 N1 -
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HVAC ductwork from an air conditioner hole in the wall
So I'm in a building from about the 70's that doesn't have central air. I wanted to close up all the windows and use a fan blowing outside air in from the hole in the wall the air conditioner usually goes. I'd like to have a couple of turns to absorb some outside noise. What I really want is to absorb midrange noise (about 200hz-600hz). High frequencies are easy to absorb as they don't go around corners well. But those midrange sounds and lower are much harder. Any suggestions? I've heard of mufflers being used to stop noise going from one room to another. I wonder how much airflow these things gobble up? I shouldn't need to bother with exhausting the air as there is about an inch clearance under our front door and other areas where the air can exit the apartment.
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A memorial garden will be dedicated at 11 a.m. this morning in honor of U.S. Army Specialist Jameson Lindskog, a Pleasanton resident and combat medic who died while providing first aid to other troops in his squadron during a firefight in Afghanistan two years ago, on March 29, 2011.
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Dedication at 11 a.m. today to honor Pleasanton soldier killed in Afghanistan
Original post made on Mar 29, 2013
Like this commentPosted by Snapshot
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on Mar 29, 2013 at 9:18 am
Jameson was and will forever be an American Hero who gave his life to save others. He will never be forgotten.
Even now, my heart aches for Donna at this great loss of her beloved son.
Praying that Spc Lindskog's family will find comfort at the dedication of the memorial garden tomorrow and in the years ahead.
God bless our troops.
Like this commentPosted by Cholo
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on Mar 29, 2013 at 9:44 am
Rest In Peace.
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on Mar 30, 2013 at 1:34 pm
God Bless You And Keep You Forever in His Arms.......


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For the cake
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 5 eggs, seperated
- 1⁄2 cup cocoa powder
For the filling
- 1 1⁄4 cups heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons whiskey or 3 tablespoons brandy
- 2 ounces coconut cream
- 2 tablespoons sugar
For the topping
- 1⁄4 whole fresh coconut
- dark chocolate curls
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- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Grease a 33 x 13 x 9-inch jelly roll pan.
- Lay a large sheet of wax paper or baking parchment on the work surface and dust it evenly with 2 tablespoons of the sugar Place the egg yolfs in a heatproof bowl.
- Add the remaining sugar and whisk with a hand-held electric mixer until the mixture thickens.
- Sift in the cocoa, then fold in carefully and evenly with a metal spoon Whisk the egg whites in a clean, greasefree bowl until they form soft peaks.
- Fold about 1 tablespoon of the whites into the chocolate mixture to lighten it, then fold in the rest evenly Scrape the mixture into the prepared pan, taking it right into the corners.
- Smooth the surface with a metal spatula, then bake for 20-25 minutes or until firm and springy to the touch Turn the cooked cake out onto the sugar dusted wax paper and carefully peel off the lining paper.
- Cover with a damp towel and let cool completely To make the filling: Whisk the cream with the whiskey or brandy in a bowl until the mixture just holds its shape, grate the coconut cream and stir in with the sugar Uncover the cake and spread about 3/4 of the cream mixture to the edges.
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He was a 19th-century explorer who risked his life to unearth a great secret - the source of the White Nile, a mystery since Alexander the Great first posed the question.
But new research shows that John Hanning Speke's place in history was eclipsed by a jealous, charismatic rival, who stole the limelight by convincing others Speke was unscrupulous, disloyal and devoid of emotion.
Previously unpublished documents cast fresh light on Speke, showing he was very different to the character portrayed by his travelling companion, Sir Richard Francis Burton, whose denigrating image has long been accepted by historians.
Tim Jeal, author of a new book Explorers of the Nile, has unearthed evidence convincing him Speke's feats were "diminished by what a very skilful, clever but ultimately cynical person had done to him".
Speke had, in fact, fallen hopelessly in love with an African woman in Uganda and showed astonishing frankness in giving tribesmen and women sexual advice.
He also showed bravery. Apart from fighting off spear-wielding Somalis, he saved a wife of a Bagandan king from being beaten to death.
Speke, Jeal believes, should be in the pantheon of the world's greatest explorers. It was he who, in 1863, became the first European to reach Lake Victoria and find its outlet, still accepted as the Nile's main source, demonstrating how the world's longest river flowed through a vast desert without being replenished for 1931km by a single tributary.
"Burton became painfully jealous of Speke for upstaging him by 'discovering' Lake Victoria on a solo excursion during their joint expedition to Lake Tanganyika. For over a decade after Speke's accidental death, Burton did his utmost to persuade the British public that the dead man had been a deluded nonentity."
Burton was hailed as the first European to find Lake Tanganyika, but Jeal said he was a "relatively unsuccessful explorer" whose discovery was made with Speke.
Burton's condescending assessment of Speke's character was so devastating that seven Burton biographies published in the past 50 years supported his ideas, Jeal said.
The author argues that, while Burton is justifiably admired as a linguist and swordsman and for his "staggering 50 books", including translations of works such as the Kama Sutra, Speke was "looked down on".
Only one biography has been published about Speke 40 years ago. What damaged Speke most, Jeal said, was "the claim that he was not merely self-absorbed, but cold".
Biographers said he was "inhibited and prudish", with suggestions he was a repressed homosexual.
The new material shows Speke as more tolerant and insightful about Africans than most explorers of his day. In contrast, Jeal said: "Burton's racism is often forgotten ... his attitude to Africans was deplorable."
Part of Speke's poor reputation is because his parents did not keep his letters. Also, it seems, historians never used the manuscript on which Speke based his book The Discovery of the Source of the Nile, despite its availability in Scotland's National Library.
Jeal found extensive passages that had been deleted by Speke or his publisher, John Blackwood.
In one, Speke asked his readers to "be prepared to see and understand the Negroes of Africa in their natural, primitive or naked state; a state in which our forefathers lived before the forced state of civilisation subverted it". Blackwood insisted that praise for the "naked state" be deleted.
Jeal's book includes previously unpublished accounts of Speke's unrequited love for an 18-year-old African woman called Meri - his "beautiful Venus". He was dismayed by her unsentimental honesty in telling him that her reason for being with him was so that she "might die in the favours of a rich man".
Speke's enemies, led by Burton, were preparing a savage attack on him at a debate in Bath. But Speke died while climbing a wall holding a shotgun. It was clearly accidental, despite Burton's claim of suicide to avoid "exposure of his misstatements in regard to the Nile sources". Burton was knighted, Speke was not.
* 6695km: Length of the White Nile, from its mouth in the Mediterranean to its source in Lake Victoria
* 9: The Nile and its tributaries flow though nine countries
* 105km: Separates the length of the Amazon (6800km) from the Nile, according to Brazilian researchers. Their conclusions are disputed.


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Make sure you decide how you're getting to the house before and after the babysitting job. Also, when the parents come home, they may have been drinking. If you're uncomfortable for any reason about getting into the car with the kids' parents, call your own. Make a secret conversational keyword between you. For example, "Mom, has Aunt Susie come to visit yet?" could mean "Mom, can you come and pick me up?"
The biggest emergency I dealt with happened the summer before 10th grade. The girl I was babysitting threw up all over! I learned an important lesson about babysitting: for those few hours, you're the parent. You can't walk away. You have a responsibility, no matter how gross it is. You can't call the parents and request that they come home; you have to clean it up. Make sure that before you start babysitting, you're willing to deal with the responsibilities that come with it.


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Welcome to the Haunted Old Mill Museum website. The Old Mill Museum, in Dundee Michigan is the newest location to offer public and private ghost hunts, or paranormal investigations in Southeast Michigan! The Old Mill Museum offers a very unique chance to investigate a building, very rich in history, and paranormal activity.
The Old Mill Museum is unlike other public ghost hunting locations, as it is still an active museum. By purchasing tickets to investigate, you will be given a tour of the building, with the history and the paranormal experiences throughout the building and the grounds. After your tour, you will be free to investigate the building, and grounds at your own pace, even the 2nd and 3rd floor museum!
The investigations run from 8pm-4am, the cost of investigations is $37, which includes your ticket to investigate, as well as a late snack/light meal, which will be served sometime around midnight. Drinks can be purchased at the gift shop, please do not bring drinks in. All tickets are non refundable, no rain checks, rescheduled dates or other reimbursement will be issued, with the exception of a reschedule or cancel by the Old Mill Museum.
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Speier signs with Red Sox
Former Dos Pueblos star gets big bucks to sign pro baseball contract
BOSTON, Mass. - Former Dos Pueblos High School star Gabe Speier has chosen pro baseball over UC Santa Barbara. According to Baseball America, the 19th round draft pick of Boston agreed to a 200,000 signing bonus with the Red Sox.
Normally 19th round picks do not receive anywhere close to that kind of bonus. Speier was expected to go higher in the draft plus he had the option of pitching for the Gauchos next year.
Speier helped the Chargers win back-to-back Channel League titles.


text: A young Latina who identified herself in a video as an undocumented immigrant approached presidential hopeful Mitt Romney at fundraiser in New York yesterday to ask him why he isn't supporting her DREAM. The woman began by asking Romney is he would support the DREAM Act as president and he replied by saying he had already [said publicly that he would veto it.](http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/01/mitt_romney_promises_to_veto_drea...) The woman interjected and asked him, "why aren't you supporting my dream?" "Because if someone comes here illegally," he started to say, before the the young woman cut him off again to explain she has a 4.0 grade point average. "That's wonderful," Romney said before his team ushered him away. The video was uploaded to YouTube by DRM Capitol Group, a Washington political consulting firm that identifies as the "lobbying arm of the Dream Act movement." The young DREAMer says Romney was extending his arm to shake her hand but pulled away when she said she was undocumented. "He pulled his arm away from me like I were to be a criminal," she says in the video. The woman in the video also goes on to say that Romney supporters told her to go back to Mexico as she was leaving. "I was actually born in Peru," she replied to Romney supporters.


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You may have family photo albums full of pictures with people smoking at all kinds of events, from kids' birthday parties to picnics. That's because smoking used to be OK everywhere — even in doctors' offices. All that changed as we learned more about the health problems it causes.
If you have asthma, smoking is especially risky because of the damage it does to the lungs.
Smoke irritates the airways, causing them to become swollen, narrow, and filled with sticky mucus — the same things that happen during an asthma flare-up. That's why smoking can cause asthma flare-ups to happen more often. Those flare-ups may be more severe and harder to control, even with medicine.
If You Smoke
You may have started smoking because friends do or because you grew up in a house where lots of people smoked. Some people try smoking because they are curious or bored. No matter why you started, if you're thinking about quitting, it would probably help your asthma.
Here are some other reasons to quit:
- Smoking can undo the effect of any long-term control medicine you're taking. It also can force you to use your quick-relief medicine more often.
- Smoking can disturb your sleep by making you cough more at night.
- Smoking can affect how well you do in sports or other physical activities.
- Worst of all, smoking can send you to the ER with a severe asthma flare-up.
If you decide to quit smoking, you don't have to go it alone. Get support from other people, like friends, family or other smokers who are also trying to quit. Ask your doctor about medicines or things you can do to crave cigarettes less. Your doctor wants to help you quit!
If Other People Smoke
Even if you don't smoke, you may still run into smoky situations in restaurants, parties, or even at home if one of your family members smokes. Secondhand smoke is a known asthma trigger. You'll want to avoid it as much as possible if you have asthma.
If you hang out with smokers or have a family member who smokes in the house, you are likely to have more frequent and severe asthma symptoms. You may have to take more medicine and your asthma may be harder to control. Finally, you may find yourself at the doctor's office or hospital more often because of asthma symptoms.
There's not much you can do about other people's behavior. But let your friends and family know that what they are doing is making your asthma worse. Ask them not to smoke in your house or car. It's your air, after all.
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