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Abilene Reporter News (Newspaper) - April 4, 1954, Abilene, Texas WARM VOL. LXXIII, No. 292 ®f)e Abilene Reporter "WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron SUNDAY Auocia^d Pre» (AP) ABILENE. TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL 4, 1954-SIXTY-EIGHT PaWT^IVE SËCTÏÔns' OSCAR WINNERS? McCarthy to Answer Murrow via TV Film NEW COLORADO CITY TRUSTEES—Dr. Oscar E. Rhode, left, and Johnny M. Moore, right, Saturday were elected to three-year terms on the Colorado City School Board. Defeated in the near record vote turnout was incumbent Dr. J. D. Williams, critic of Supt. of Schools Ed E. Williams. BOSTON. April 3 W—Sen. McCarthy (R-Wit) said today he has completed a filmed reply to television commentator Edward R. Murrow for showing on Murrow's CBS-TV show next Tuesday night. McCarthy said the film would show "that Murrow is (1) a liar, and (2) has been of great assistance to the Communist cause.'' He added he would make the film available to any television station that wants to show it. The senator's comment was made in the course of a brief news conference at Logan Airport as he arrived to speak tonight at a closed meeting of the Beacon Society, composed of Boston business and professional men. The film the senator referred to McCarthy Story on Page 13-A PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c C-City Voters Oust School Head Critic By JOHN DANILSON A near-record number of Colorado City voters ousted a school board critic of that city's school superintendent Saturday while Trent residents were voting for a mayor and two city commissioners, Runnels County was electing two county commissioners and many other West Texas points were naming county and city school trustees. Spirited contests resulted iu deadlocks in several communities, including Hamby where four school trustee candidates — three of them incumbents — found themselves each with eight votes apiece and ieeking the same spot. 2 Write-Ins Win At Aspermont a surprising display of write-in votes elected two men. each by larger tallies than the highest man who had filed for the ticket received. One of the. most competitive races in the area took place in the relatively small EJmdale community where eight trustee candidates sought three available places. James Freeman, veteran Taylor County school trustee and currently president of the county board, appeared well out In front of other candidates in his bid for re-election, according to incomplete voting returns Saturday night. More Elections Tuesday Election of school trustees will continue Tuesday in a number of towns, although a majority of the trustee elections were held Saturday. In addition, most municipalities, including 'Abilene, will hold city council or commission elections Tuesday. The hot Colorado City election was fanned into flames by last month's school board differences concerning renewal of the contract of Ed E. Williams, Colorado City auperintendent of schools. A near-record total of 922 voters elected Dr. Oscar E. Rhode and Johnny M. Moore to three-year terms with 566 and 545 votes respectively. Dr. J. D Williams, critic of Supt. Williams, was not elected. Dr. Williams, only incumbent on Saturday's ticket at Colorado City, last year had questioned the legality of Supt. Williams' contract renewal on the grounds that there was no call for a second to his motion to cancel the contract. Vote of Confidence Dr. Williams received 405 votes —almost double the number he received in 1951 when elected, but not enough in 1954. Public interest was stirred by the controversy* Jinx Powell, school board president at Colorado City, said that every board member had had the opportunity to •econd the motion. The vote could be considered a vote of confidence in Supt. Williams, since Rhode, who led the ticket, was popularly supposed to be friendly to the superintendent. The defeated Dr. Williams was considered to be a critic of the present school administration. Both Dr. Rhode and Moore were elected to public office for the first I time on Saturday. Dr. Rhode, 43, served as a major in World War II. He is past commander of the American Legion, and past president of the Lions Club and Chamber of Commerce. Moore, 34-year-old attorney, was formerly a member of the FBI, and served in Army intelligence in World War II. He came to Colorado City in 1927 and is g member of the firm of Thompson, Worrell and Moore. A. T. Caffey received 202 votes and Abbie Northeast, incumbent, received 32 write-in votes at Colorado City. Nortlicutt did not file for a place on the ticket. j Defeated candidates, who ran against Morgan and Medlock, were j John Pepper, Jr., who received 134 votes, and Mrs. Laura Duncan, who received 112. TYE TYE, AprU 3 (RNS) — Voters re-elected Elmer Mattingly, incumbent. and one new member, Walter Webb, as trustees of the Tye Independent School District here Saturday. Webb received 12 votes, and Mattingly, nine. Another incumbent, D. N. Warner, lost out when he received eight votes. A fourth candidate, Marion Hufstedier, received three votes. TRENT TRENT, April 3 (RNS) — J. M. Stowe and Orvln Robinson were candidates were Weyman Mason, named trustees of Trent Independ-1 * "r '* ent School District in balloting here Saturday. They won the posts over three others. Wray V'. William was elected mayor and Carl Edwards and H. H. McLeod were elected city commissioners. They were unoppsoed. Stowe received 70 and Robinson 51 votes in the trustee race while Odell Freeman received 33, Onis Graham 12, and W. T. Willis 14. A total of 92 votes were cast in the school election and 35 in the commission and mayor's race. BALLINGER BALLINGER, April 3 (RNSi — Two school trustees and two county commissioners were elected here Saturday. In all, 238 votes were cast for five candidates in the trustee race and three in the commissioner race. C. A. Bissett was re-elected trustee for the Ballinger Independent School District by 164 votes, and E. B. Underwood was elected to succeed Tom Agnew by 113 votes. Agnew received 80 votes. Other who got 75 votes, and Henry Carder, who received 27 votes. Herman Price beat Wesley Wood for county commissioner of Precinct One w'ith 144 votes to Wood's 93. E. E. King, sole candidate for ¡See ELECTIONS, Pg. 4-A. Col. 1-2 POLITICAL POT BOILS School-less Sylvester Elects 2 Trustees From Field of 12 SYLVESTER. Anril 3 (RNS) — One of Sylvester's most hotly contested school board elections In history' came to a boil Saturday in this small school district — which desn't have a school. Twelve candidates vied for the two school board posts in an election which drew a near record vote of 92, a close rival to a heavy Democratic primary vote. The district has a population of only a couple of hundred people. "I think nearly all of the qualified voters voted," Mrs. Floyd J. McCain, election judge, said. "There were very lew who didn't." Winners were Walter Douglas with 59 votes and Tommy Parsons with 33. Runners-up were A. C. Smith, who polled 17, and J. M. Lanning, who got 19 votes. Heat of the election centered around the fact that in the past two years Sylvester has lost first its high school and then its grammar school. Students have been contracted to Touchstone Elected Jones Commissioner ANSON, April 3 — J. E. Touchstone of the Noodle Community Friday was given approval of Jones County Precinct 4 voters for the post of eounty commissioner. Touchstone received 404 votes in the run-off Saturday while his opponent, Herman Steele, got 269. Jones County Judge Roger Garrett Jr., will probably appoint Touchstone now to fill the unexpired Roby and MeCaulley schools, but many parents of small children want the grammer school brought back to the district. A petition has been circulated around the largely-rural district, and so far parents of 45 children have signed, Mrs. McCain said. Two other schools of thought are for consolidating the district with Roby or MeCaulley or continuing contracting students to the two districts. Nobody has been pushing to reopen the high school, but "We do want our grade school back," Mrs. McCain said. She w as unable to say just which policy the two candidates stood for, but pointed out that both were fathers of small children. is his reply *to a telecast a few weeks ago in w'hich Murrow was critical of McCarthy and his methods of investigating alleged Communist infiltration. "It was not possible to give the complete picture of Murrow in 25 minutes," McCarthy said. "The time is too short to give all thè documentation necessary." He added, however, that he would follow it up and make available to those who want it the full documentation. McCarthy was greeted by cheers hisses--the cheers predominating— w'hen he entered the airport lobby after his flight from New York. Several persons reached out and shook his hands. As he left his plane he was heard to say that he "had to see John Fox of the Post first." Fox is the Post publisher. He bought the paper wdth the avowed purpose of fighting communism. Meeting with newsmen in an anteroom, McCarthy quickly flipped through a half dozen topics. Told that Otis Archer Hood, longtime chairman of the Communist Party in Massachusetts, had been arrested today on a charge of violating the state's 1951 subversion law, McCarthy said: "Oh. good. I know all about him. I'm glad to see him picked up. Each time they arrest one of the leaders of the Communist party it helps to pull their teeth." Asked to comment on the appointment of Samuel P. Sears, Boston attorney, as counsel for the Senate Investigating subcommittee in its special inquiry into McCarthy's controversy with the Army, the senator remarked: "I don't think I have met Sears." McCarthy was asked if he had heard a report that Sears had followed him over Wisconsin In 1952 attempting to raise funds for McCarthy's reelection. "He may well have," the senator said. "I don't know whether he did or not." McCarthy said be doesn't know Joseph N. Welch of Walpole, chosen to be counsel for the Army.at the Inquiry. Nor did McCarthy have com ment on the case of Army Pvt. G David Schine, former investigator for his subcommittee, who was de nied permission to enroll in an ad vanced criminal Investigation course at Camp Gordon. Ga. The case of former Maj. Irving Peress, who figured in the row be tween McCarthy and the Army, also came up. Newsmen asked Me Carthy to comment on the Army's action in turning the record over to the Department of Justice. "That was long overdue," the senator said. "But even at this late date it is good." Ike May Send U.S. • * Aid to Indo-China THEIR BABY LOST IN THE SEA—Mr. and Mrs. John McDonald, frantic with fear that their baby is lost m the pounding surf near their beach home in Hermosa Reach Calif I?!0.*.6?* °ti1fr asihe? race? UP and down the beach. The child. Michael, 19 months Id, had strayed from the fenced yard of his home a few minutes before. A passerby told po ice she saw the tot in the water. The boy has not been found and presumably was whoPlives nearby P" takGn by Jatk GaUnt* L°S An^e,cs Tim®s Photographer Parents Still Possess Hope For Lost Lad HEY, KIDS! BUGS BUNNY CALLING... Get your crayons or paints ready, youngsters, and you'll be all set to have the fun of entering the Reporter-News Bugs Bunny Easter Coloring Contest. The first sketch and story will appear in both morning and evening editions Monday. Watch the Monday paper and get in on the fun—and the money! HERMOSA BEACH. Calif., April 3 Lfl—The John McDonalds wran-dered, distraught, in their fenced-in hack yard today as the search continued for the body of their baby, believed to have toddled to his death in pounding surf near their oceanfront home. It was from the same back yard that 19-month-old Mike apparently escaped yesterday and made his way to the beach. Members of the family said the McDonalds have about given up hope and it Is ^'pretty well settled in their minds" that Mike drowned. "Mike could swim in his bathtub when he was only six months old," Mrs. McDonald recalled. "He forgot how' later, but every time he got loose he headed for the water. He loved It." After a sedative-induced sleep the McDonalds visited the beach today, but mostly they wandered in the back yard. Yesterday they stayed until nightfall, McDonald combing the beach restlessly for some sign of his son's body. He had to be restrained by his wife and county police, at times, from plunging into the waves. While swimmers nearby took advantage of a sunny day, crewmen of a county rescue boat dragged for the body today in and beyond the surf. Parr's Candidates Lead Duval Race SAN DIEGO, Tex., April 3 W George B. Parr apparently is still top-man in the rough and tumble politics of Duval County. Parr-backed candidates were out in front by a comfortable margin in a school hoard election in the Benavides Independent school district. The stakes w-ere smalL* three seats on the board. But the election wTas the first to be held here since state and federal agencies and citizens groups rose up to challenge the rule of the "Duke of Duval." It was billed as test of Parr's political strength. At Benavides, a complete count showed incumbent board members with a better than 2-1 majority over rival Freedom Party candidates. The count at Freer was incomplete and not expected to be known Oil Equipment Firm Moving Headquarters Office Here vacancy in the Precinct 4 post pany's present store building. caused by the death of Odell Rain water in February. THE WEATHER V. 8. BUTTERFIELD BUTTERFIELD. April 3 (RNSI— Jack Richards and John Keith were re-elected in the school trustee election here Saturday. Rigfcards polled 20 votes and Keith 12. ROSCOE DKPARTMENT OF COMMF.Kt B WEATHER HIRFAU ABILENE AND VICINITY — Con*lriarable cloudiness and continued warm Sunday and Monday. High tamperature both days 85 degree«. Low Sunday night near 80 NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST TEXAS Partly cloudy to cloudy and a arm Sunday and Mandav. FAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS: Considerable cloudiness and warm Sunday and Monday: chance.of a few widely ■cattered shower»; moderate to occasion»-ily fresh aoutheaet winds on the coast. IFMFKRAT t RKH ROSCOE, April 3 (RNS) — In the heaviest voting here In years, R. L. Morgan and L. L. Medlock, with 195 and 159 vote« respectively, were elected as Roscoe school trustees Saturday. E. W. Wiman received 222 votes while running for Nolan County •chool trustee. p M. 87 88 SS 88 86 S3 18 18 II Sat. - A M. Sat. 60 ..........., 1:30 ............ 65 ............ 2:30 ........... 61 ............ 3:30 ............ 8S ..........4:30 ............ 88 ........... I 30 ........... SO ............ 8:30 ............ 63 ...... 7:30 ............ 63 ............ 8:30 ............ TO ....... 9M 1» ............ 10:30 ............ 80 .......... H:30 ............ 83 ........... 13:30 — High and low temperature* for 24 hour» ended at 6:30 p.in ; 8» and 55. High and low temprraiuies same date last year: 66 and 48. Sunset last night 7'00 pm Sunrise today 6:24 a.m. Sunset tonight 7.01 pm. Barometer reading at 9 30 p m. 28 17. Relativ» humidity at 1:30 pm, S3 per cent. Highway Bid Opening let Bids will be tabulated April 13 at Austin by the Highway Department on highway projects 4n Taylor, Jones and Howard counties. The area projects will be among $14 million in road work—the largest package of projects ever offered at one time In the history of the Highway Department — on which bids will be opened April 13-14 at Austin. A joint Jones-Taylor County project calls for widening bridges on U. S. 277 and 83 from n$ar Stamford to 1.9 miles north of Anson, and from Abilene to the Jones County line, by sections. District Highway Engineer J. C. 'Jake) Roberts said Saturday night the bridges would be widened to 38 feet to conform to the already widened highway. The Howard County project is widening of U. S. 80 from Webb Air Force Base west of Big Spring, through town to the Cosden refinery east of there, a total of 6.2 miles. The highway, when completed, wili conform to the four-lane freeway pattern planned for U. S. 80 through this area, Roberts said. Houstonian Picked Library Group Prexy _ . _____ MINERAL WElG», April 3 Lf»— horn of Breckenridge, comptroller, ^i18* Klenorg C. Alexander, super- " ------ Dunlgan said key employes of yisor o£ sch°o1 librarians in Hous- 11 lte I m just movin* back t0 the company are stockholders, and! JjjiJ?**, 'J«an»mous1y elected pre- 14 families my old stomping grounds," Duni-lthat the firm operates its own re-liif," °J Jhe Texas LlbrarY Asso- 'tlrement plan. |Ciauon today. Dunigan Tool and Supply Co.. i with a 325-foot front facing on one of the state's largest oil field, Treadaway. It will be constructed equipment firms, is moving its of Norman brick, faced with Green headquarters from Breckenridge stone. Abilene. I The modernistic structure will This was announced Saturday by. ^ (ull olr.conditioncd and ,.e". Jam« II. Dunigan, president of tr,ny healed and w", h(1 furnish. % J n u u t »» j ed wi*h all-new furniture. Ground will be broken Monday _ , . . morning on a new' home office I rounded m 1919 Dunigan Tool He and a brother, E. J. Dunigan, Jr., drilled Taylor County's first producing oil well in 1929, southwest of Tye on the Hunter lease. They still had production in that area, in addition to oil properties elsewhere. E. J" Jr., now lives in Pampa. Shop Stays in Breck Dunigan said the machine shop building in the 1500 Block of South j Dunigan Tool and Supply Co. _ _____________________ Treadaway Blvd., facing east was organized in Breckenridge in , will still be operated in Brecken-across the street from the com- and set UP tbe Rr*t oil field ridge. until nearly midnight. But Parr said: "It's going as expected. The only question in my mind had been how much strength my opponents had gained." He said he believed as the vote wras counted at Freer, the ballots W'ould be in hfs favor. Freedom Party members said they were pleased at the showing they had made. Texas Rangers patrolled voting booths as crowds turned out. There were no election day incidents. The Parr-backed board members running for re-election stuck to their jobs in the midst of twin probes by the state and federal government into the school district's finances. Four members quit. The candidates for both factions agreed to have the ballots impounded as soon as they were counted. Running for re - election were Troy Carey, Paul Green and W.C. Kelley. Opposing were Bob Mayberry. Manuel Garza and F.J Sparkman. At Benavides. Carey poled 765 votes; Green 756. Mayberry got 300, Sparkman 302, M. Garza 319. Out of the first 100 votes counted at Freer, the six men were run ning about even. Cosily Dock Strike Ends repair shop in that city. It soon I Rose Construction Co. of Abilene expanded, establishing shops In will erect the building, which will VVestbrook and the Panhandle, both house offices for about 20 of Dunl-gan's headquarters employes. of which later were moved. The company carries a full line Nearer Operation's Center of oil country supplies, including "We think Abilene will be near- drilling and pumping machinery, er the center of our Qperations,". -The decision to leave Brecken-Dunigan ga\e as the reason for ridge was hard to make, but 1 tlie move. 1....... He said that about and six single employes will come gan said' here from Breckenridge. Dunigan wiH move also, probably before the others . make the transfer. Dunigan Tool and Supply Co.! now operates two machine shops, one in Breckenridge and oue In Odessa. The Odessa shop is the largest oil field repair shop in Tex-j as. * The company also has eight stores and three branch sales offices, I hey are located in Pampa, Fort Worth, Abilene, Houston, Midland. San Angelo, Graham, Mc-Carney, Odessa, Winters and Franklin, La. The Abilene store has been In ?,?e«ation for about two years, with! Cliff Ritchey as manager. The new building win include I 4.256 square feet of floor space,! Other officers of the company are F. A. Dunigan of Breckenridge, vice president; the president's son, Pat of Fort Worth, secretary-treasurer; M. A. Monaghan of Breckenridge, vice president and credit manager, and W. S. Gulla NEW YORK, April 3 W—'This port's longest and costliest water front strike ended today as wage-hungry longshoremen returned to work. The shipping industry estimated that the 29-day w'alkout cost the port a half-billion dollars and expressed fear some of the business diverted to other ports never would return. The National Labor Relations Board has called for a new bargaining election in a move to stabilize the long tempestuous water-front situation, but no date has been set. Leaders of the International Longshoremens Assn., independent. said they bowed to an NLRB tdict that unless the walkout ended "forthwith," their union would be left off the ballot. The ILA called the strike in a jurisdictional dispute with the ri- ] val American Federation of Labor union. It hoped to win recognition j as bargaining agent before the AFL made further inroads in its j efforts to control the docks. Decision Not Yet Made on Intervention By ROBERT S. ALLEN (World Copyright Post-Hall Syndicate.) WASHINGTON, April 4: President Eisenhower is gravely consid-ering taking emergency measures to avert a French disaster in Red-periled Indo-China. Final decision has not yet been made on such fateful intervention. Various military steps are being discussed by the President and his top Pentagon and State Department advisers. They involve the possible use of U. S. air and naval forces. Radford Favors Help Such measures are known to be favored by Admiral Arthur Rad-|ford. It has been an open secret for sometime that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff advocated giving this kind of combat aid to the desperately-pressed French. It was on Radford's recommendation that President Eisenhower authorized sending several hundred Air Force technicians to Indo-China in February. Most urgent decision facing the administration is what aid, if any, to rush to the heroic defenders of surrounded Dien Bien Phu. Fortress Doomed L'nless they get outside help, the vital fortress is virtually doomed. Reports from U. S. sources in (he war zone give the French onlv a forty-sixty chance of holding off the overwhelming hordes of Communist att8ckers. The latter have suffered an estimated 16,000 casualties in the past week's fightihgs, but Red commanders are continually throwing in new' units in suicidal assaults. These "human wave" attacks have steadily overrun French positions and exhausted the surviving defenders. Also, the Reds have been able to prevent supplies an reinforcements from reaching the lortress either on the ground or by air. Communist artillery has virtually driven French planes from the air. The French lost more than 35 combat and transport planes in the past week. At the same time, a french relief column of 5,000 troops encountered such heavy resistance that this effort to reinforce Dien Bien Phu had to be abandoned. Jeti, Bombers Needed Military authorities say privately only jet fighters and high - flying bombers in around-the-clock battering can provide the French with the assistance that alone can save Dien Bien Phu. The i rench has asked for such American intervention. General Paul Ely, French chief of staff, made the plea during his visit to Washington when he con! ?Te*d ?'ith Preside«t Elsenhower, , Radford, and other high officials. adm^n^s,ration is consulting our Allies on this momentous decision. ***** of sta*e Dulles has dis- AnV^i? ITla^er with ,he British, Australia and New Zealand. NEWS INDEX SECTION * McCarthy Story Oil ittws SECTION B City Eltction Industrial Weak City Hall Boat Editorials Book Page Amusements SECTION C Wedding Bells .... YWCA Calender Look in Mirror . . P-TA Calendar . . Fashionably Speaking Newcomers ....... Disaster Scrapbook . West Texas Pioneers Business Outlook SECTION D Sports ........ Farm news ....... 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Apr 5, 2013 at 11:13 am #1301334
Daryl and DarylBPL Member
@lyrad1Locale: Pacific Northwest, USA, Earth
I take a fish oil capsule each day for health. Looks like a good source of calories per ounce.
Twenty of them on my scale weigh .8 ounces and, according to the label, contain 200 calories.
Easy to eat. Just swallow them. No taste.
Anyone using these while backpacking?Apr 5, 2013 at 11:33 am #1973119
Bob GrossMember
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
You might want to consider why you take those for health purposes. I think they are fine for long-term use, but they don't do much for you in the short term. All I see from use is a long-term increase in good cholesterol (HDL).
–B.G.–Apr 5, 2013 at 11:48 am #1973125
Randy MartinBPL Member
@randalmartinLocale: Colorado
I think at some point you need to think about more than just counting calories. You need a broad spectrum of nutrients to fuel your body properly and that is best accomplished by consuming a variety of food.
For me personally that means bringing a shaker and some powdered greens like Green Vibrance http://www.amazon.com/Vibrant-Health-Green-Vibrance-Family/dp/B000NDME6C
and bringing some powdered Whey protein to aid in muscle recovery. Both light weight and nutrient dense (not necessarily calorie dense).Apr 29, 2013 at 10:29 pm #1981833
I take fish oil pretty much every day.
i think that would be pretty expensive to use 20-30 a day..
You also burp up nasty fish taste.. especially if you are taking a bunch
There is also speculation that the cap's contain mercury fwiw. and if thats true taking 20-30/day can't be good for yaApr 30, 2013 at 12:20 pm #1981990
Marko BotsarisBPL Member
@millonasLocale: Santa Cruz Mountains, CA
"i think that would be pretty expensive to use 20-30 a day.. "
Bring some Imodium along if you try that.
But seriously, ideas like this are why we UL backpackers get ridiculed on the outside. LOL
If you *really* care about you cal/weight ratio, maybe try some of the gels folks take on multi-day big wall climbs – at least you would be getting balanced nutrition.
Personally I don't mind my (one cap) burps. Ummmm! Salmon-y!May 1, 2013 at 12:19 am #1982159
"Personally I don't mind my (one cap) burps. Ummmm! Salmon-y!"
Yea i guess if you took two, ten times a day it wouldn't be too bad..May 1, 2013 at 3:50 am #1982169
James MarcoBPL Member
@jamesdmarcoLocale: Finger Lakes
Good thought. But as has been said, expensive. Olive oil, parified butter are about the same callories (~250 per ounce) and easy to add to foods. Parified butter squirted into cocoa, oatmeal, on baked foods, etc. works well. Olive oil in soups, stews, fresh baked bannocks, etc. goes as well without the "burps."
3 or 4 per day will help with cholesterol, if that is a problem.May 1, 2013 at 1:12 pm #1982303
"Good thought. But as has been said, expensive. Olive oil, parified butter are about the same callories (~250 per ounce) and easy to add to foods. Parified butter squirted into cocoa, oatmeal, on baked foods, etc. works well. Olive oil in soups, stews, fresh baked bannocks, etc. goes as well without the "burps.""
I think daryl was goin for more of the instant energy pops that you throw in your hipbelt for the day and eat as you hikeMay 3, 2013 at 2:02 pm #1982946
Steven McAllisterBPL Member
@brooklynkayakLocale: South West US
If you want the concentrated calories of healthy fat and the convenience of a small package, seems something like this would be more useful than the tiny fish oil capsules:
Spread on crackers or add to soup, pasta, instant mashed potatoes, …May 3, 2013 at 10:10 pm #1983062
Eric BlumensaadtBPL Member
@danepackerLocale: Mojave Desert
I take Omega Red fish oil and it is (supposedly) good for your joints. Now that I'm 70 with no knee problems I'd like to stay that way.
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Botches is an extremely attractive Grade II listed property that sits in a slightly elevated position overlooking its own stunning grounds. The property is beautifully maintained and offers a wealth of character and charm, incorporating exposed beams, impressive inglenook fireplaces, staircases, oak panelling and
flagstone flooring. Spanning over 5,000 sq ft and when including the outbuildings and pool you have a total of 6635 sq ft this makes for an ideal family home. When entering the property you are greeted by an impressive reception hall which in turn leads to further rooms; A stunning panelled dining room, drawing room with Inglenook fireplace and then a further more relaxed sitting room. The kitchen/breakfast room sits at the heart of the house and has ample work space and AGA, a utility room adjoins here and a further pantry and store room. To the first floor the master bedroom has a wonderful view over the garden and up to the fields, with a plethora of built in wardrobes and an en suite shower room. There are a further four bedrooms and two further bathrooms on this floor and a fifth bedroom which is currently used by the owners as the home office. Two bedrooms and a sitting room occupy the top floor.
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When John R. Whitaker, a family farmer in southeast Iowa, took lambs to market a few years ago, he would see four or five buyers bid for them. These days, he says, he's lucky to get two. The story is much the same in grains, he says, where a handful of companies make up the market in many spots around the Farm Belt. Such concentration in agriculture, Whitaker frets, is putting a big squeeze on already beleaguered farmers; he believes his lambs would fetch better prices if more buyers were competing. "It's not our hides it's coming out of," says Whitaker. "it's deeper than that."
Now, with an Oct. 2 deal to take private the nation's No.1 meat packer, IBP Inc., farmers like Whitaker are about to have even more to worry about. The deal, in which a private equity fund controlled by Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. would buy IBP for $2.4 billion, will nearly double the stake that grain processor Archer Daniels Midland Co. has in IBP to 22%. The result, say critics, will be a vertical integration that will dangerously increase the power of ADM, which has previously been found guilty of price-fixing. With strong positions in both the feed and slaughtering sides of the business, farmers could get stuck in the middle. Says Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.): "They may be cheering this deal on Wall Street today, but hard-pressed family farmers are not cheering one bit."
Farmers and farmland economists argue over whether consolidation is the force behind the record-low prices farmers fetch for commodities ranging from wheat to hogs. Indeed, bumper crops and weak global demand seem far more at fault. But few dispute that concentration in the Farm Belt would raise alarm bells in other industries. In the beef business, for instance, the nation's four largest packing companies, including IBP, account for about 81% of cattle slaughtering, up from 72% a decade ago and 36% in 1980, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Now, a parade of big deals could increase those concentrations. In hog processing, for example, just four firms control 56% of the market--up from 34% in 1980. Smithfield Farms Inc., a Virginia outfit with $5.2 billion in revenues, took the No.1 spot in hog processing in mid-1999 by buying Carroll's Foods of Warsaw, N.C. Then it strengthened its hand with its January 2000 purchase of Murphy Family Farms, a leader in supplying hogs. It came within a whisker last year of taking over Tyson Foods' pork group, but couldn't come to terms. The company argues that such concentration is good because it keeps consumer prices low. "We think it's wholesome," remarks Smithfield spokesman Jerry Hostetter.
JAIL TERMS. For farmers and ranchers--especially small ones with little market power--such deals raise the specter of anticompetitive practices. Price-fixing, an ugly issue that led to recently stiffened jail terms for a couple of former ADM executives, is far easier when fewer players are in the business. For smaller players, the result of reduced competition could be higher costs for feed and supplies and, arguably, lower prices for their goods. "I've seen what happens if you don't have competition: It's deadly," says Neil E. Harl, an economics professor at Iowa State University who runs an international center that helps former Soviet bloc economies move toward free markets.
Big agribusiness take note: There are plenty of folks in Washington who couldn't agree more with Harl. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman calls current levels of concentration "worrisome," and says that Congress should take a hard look at laws governing agricultural mergers. "I'm not sure our existing antitrust laws are very suitable to deal with these problems," says Glickman. Already, reviews by antitrust officials at Justice are getting stiffer: The department required substantial divestitures when it allowed Cargill, the nation's No.1 grain processor, to acquire the grain business No.3 player, Continental Grain Co., in 1999.
Agribusiness leaders are bracing for a fight. A spokesman for ADM denies that the IBP buyout would amount to a vertical integration, claiming the two companies don't impinge on one another's operations. He adds that ADM regards its stake as just an investment, even if the company has a seat on IBP's board. A spokesman for IBP insists the company will not be vertically integrated after going private. "IBP will still depend on independent farmers and ranchers to supply it," he adds.
For now, big agribusiness players seem only to have eyes for one another. But given the Farm Belt furor over the deals--and Washington's growing concerns--that may be about to change.


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Kim Junsu has brought his music and magic to Taiwan.
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Before the press conference, a sampling of Taiwan's famous foods including pineapple cake, bubble tea and more were prepared for the singer who sampled each fare.
Regarding his solo activities, Kim Junsu shared, "We performed as JYJ last year and I have returned in a year as a solo artist to Taiwan so it's a new feeling. I'm very happy and grateful by the warm reception. I promise to give a great performance."
On his thoughts as a solo artist, Kim Junsu said, "There's a lot of pressure but there's a lot of anticipation as well. The fact I had to perform alone and show my individual colors more was a bit burdensome at fist. It's true I still feel slightly awkward about it. I always rested with the two other members in our hotel and had conversations On my tour I think of the JYJ members often."
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For those of us who were born and bred below the Mason Dixon line, Country music seems to be our genre, something that we hold onto, something distinctly Southern.
Whitey Morgan & the 78's are looking to change that stereotype.
Hailing from Flint, Michigan, the band is a different kind of Country band (although Morgan would rather not label the band).
He takes his influences from his family who moved up from the South. "My family is from the South and that's what I do and where I came from," Morgan said. "Well who the hell do you think built all those cars? It's all those southern transplants up here."
Whitey Morgan & the 78's are looking to make a name for country music in the North. The band sings about driving, beers, and every other country staple within Southern music.
> His performance at Peachtree Tavern will not be his first visit to Georgia, but that doesn't mean the band's performance is going to be a cookie cutter concert.
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I recently completed my KT88 PPP amp. I am planning a revision 2. The new plan is to:
- Make the amp naturally more stable.
- Simplify the overall design.
- Introduced a balanced topology (with XLR inputs) to lower the noise floor.
What do you think of my overall new design? Anything you recommend I do different?
Spice projects a distortion figure of about 0.75% THD. This sound accurate?
Also, a 1:1 transformer on the input I heard helps reject noise better. What PC mount unit do you recommend?
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding your question, but your circuit is already balanced. Hence, I don't get your line item of making it balanced.
You could just cap couple the two inputs to the (+) and (-) of the XLR connector and be in business (I think).
For input transformers, I like the Jensen Transformers. Specifically the JT-11P-1HPC would do the job nicely.
A differential or balanced input will not lower the noise floor of the amp, though. It will help in reducing the effects of EMI (electromagnetic interference) provided that the induced EMI is common mode on the input.
This post is about my new balanced design, my old design in not (old design is below).
Does that clear it up?
Not really... Your schematics in Post #1 appear to be of Rev. 2. Is this not the case? At least the schematics in Post #1 show an amp with a balanced input.
The schematics in post 1 are my Rev. 2.
What do you think of my overall balanced design? Anything you recommend I do different?
Spice projects a distortion figure of about 0.75% THD. This sound accurate?
I planed for the second phase to go for XLR input while my Wadia 27 has XLR outputs.
I found some schematics on the internet who just use a differential input circuit, IMHO other words the simplest to have both symmetric or asymmetric and a phase inversion outputs. Then would use the driver (as in your current schematic) for the 2 * 2 KT88 or use a the phase shifter with symmetric connections. The question rises about the NFB ... what I would like to skip or connect them to phase shifter.
just my 2 cents to my planned project, what is in some regard very similar.
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The accuracy of the spice models will determine how accurate your THD figure is. I use the MATLAB script that Norman Koren has on his website. It seems to produce models that are accurate for DC and AC operation below clipping - provided I take the time and care to read the numbers off the plate curves accurately. The THD behavior at clipping doesn't seem to be accurately modeled. So my spice sims tend to give slightly optimistic figures for max power out and such.
Your schematic looks like a brute-force approach. It looks like two half-circuits rather than a differential circuit now that I look closer. I would suggest using a differential pair (long-tailed pair) for the input stage. This would give you a differential input, common-mode rejection, and such. Of course an input transformer would do the same. The CMRR of the Jensen JT11 is hard to beat.
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Great PC! 05/07/2013
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Honestly this is a great desktop PC for the price. I upgraded from a custom PC I built in 2005. It was state-of-the-art at the time but the i660 does circles around it.
Windows is extremely fast and smooth! I've been running HD videos and using other applications at the same time and not even a hint of lag. My old PC literally came to a screeching halt when I would try and load a 1080p video alone. Boot-up time is extremely fast as well.
I also use this PC to run various virtual machines. It handles this task very well!
I do like the fact that there is room inside to expand if you want to add internal hardware such as a second hard drive, DVD/Blu-Ray player, video card, etc.
While this is not a con about the machine itself, I do not like the fact that it came with Windows 8 instead of Windows 7. Windows 8 is just too much of a "tablet" operating system to be functional on a desktop PC. Not a problem though. I wiped the hard drive and installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Couldn't be happier.
While the internal sound card works fine at the core, the line-in has a slight latency. Thought it was a driver issue so I updated it but there is still latency issues. It's probably half a millisecond but enough to create issues for me. I play piano and record tracks. The latency inhibits my ability to play fluently. Half a millisecond may be small but makes a HUGE difference in the world of music. After much research, I've come to the conclusion that I'll either need to purchase a separate card or some kind of audio interface. That is a bit disappointing but manageable.
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I was sitting here thinking, it might be a good idea to put these questions out and see what answers come back. I am going to post this on the offshore board too as a compairison from offshore to inshore. How do these things affect fishing to make it good bad better or worse?
1) What affect does the moon phase have?
2) How does water temp changes affect feeding?
3) how does chloryphil affect?
4) How does air temp affect?
5) how does a front comming through affect, wheather it be a cold front or warm front?
6) How does barimetric pressure affect?
7) How does salinity affect?
8) How does wind speend and or direction affect?
9) How does water clairity affect?
10) How does a cloudy or sunny day affect?
11) How do tides affect, an extreme ebb or flood: a slack, flood or ebb tide?
12)Does weather affect if you use artifical or live bait? Color selection? Bait size? (this can vary greatly by species but just a general)
13)Do the SST and chloriphyl pay sites really make that much of a differance over the free site like Rutgers?
Do your research. It would take a book length or two to explain/answer all of the questions here. It takes years of experience to come up with some of the information.
you need to pick a species of fish ..... almost every species of fish reacts differently to every question you ask
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Here is what i know . None of it matters. If you don not fish during all of those conditions then you can not know how it affects them. Fish can be caught in all conditions. People have told me not to fish certain tides or the day after a blow. None of it means anything unless the fish was told. Like others have said pick a species or two and target them in all conditions.Some may be better or worse than others say..
As said different fish react differently. This is what has worked for me. Everyone is different keep that in mind. Because the 80's and early 90's involved some mind altering substances I took fishing notes for several years to help me duplicate my tactics from year to year. Many of your questions DO impact the bite. You can spend days on end reading up by using the internet. The best advise is not to read into it too much. Get out on the water and learn what works for that area and species. You cant beat experience. GET ON THE WATER AND FISH.
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Never mind all of that crap...just go fishing!!
I responded to your post on the offshore forum but since this one got a few responses I'll put it up here too since it is a wothy read. There is no way you could put the answer to those questions in forum post but read The Fisherman Ocean then ask what that book doesn't answer.
When is the best time to go fishing? When the fish are biting.
When is the next best time to go fishing? When you can.
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Obama: Gaddafi is on wrong side of history
Obama said bottom line is that he has not taken any options off the table at this point.
Washington: Libyan ruler Muammar Al Gaddafi has more firepower than the opposition, but he is on the "wrong side of the history" and should leave immediately, US President Barack Obama said on Saturday.
"I don't think anybody disputes that Gaddafi has more firepower than the opposition," Obama said at a White House news conference.
"I believe that Gaddafi is on the wrong side of history. I believe that the Libyan people are anxious for freedom and the removal of somebody who has suppressed them for decades now. We are going to be in contact with the opposition, as well as in consultation with the international community, to try to achieve the goal of Mr Gaddafi being removed from power," Obama said.
Obama said he continues to believe that not only the US but the international community has an obligation to do what it can to prevent a repeat of something like what occurred in the Balkans in the '90s; what occurred in Rwanda.
"It's going to require some judgment calls, and those are difficult ones. But we have sent a clear warning to the Gaddafi government that they will be held accountable, particularly when it comes to assaulting civilians," he said.
"And some of the rhetoric that you've seen, for example, the idea that when Gaddafi said that they'd be going door to door hunting for people who are participating in protests, you know, that implied a, sort of, lack of restraint and ruthlessness that I think raises our antenna. But, as I said before, what I've got to do is make that we're monitoring the situation and matching our actions with what we think will be helpful on the ground, and also sustainable," said adding that any action needs to be developed in consultations with the international community.
Obama said the bottom line is that he has not taken any options off the table at this point.
"I think it is important to understand that we have moved about as swiftly as an international coalition has ever moved to impose sanctions on Gaddafi. I am absolutely clear that it is in the interests of the United States, and more importantly in the interests of the Libyan people, for Mr Gaddafi to leave. And I have not foreclosed these options," he said.
Gaddafi he said, has a stash of weapons.
"He not only has some troops that remain loyal to him, but there have been reports that he's also been hiring mercenaries. Even with the financial freeze that we've imposed, he still has some assets. The rebel groups are just now getting organized," he said.
The US and the international community is going to have to continue to apply pressure.
"That's why I say we have not taken any options off the table at this point," he added.
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Hotels work behind the scenes and years ahead, to bring big events to town.
Conferences are great for the economy and the bigger the better. About half those attending them fly in from overseas, so what they don't have packed, they'll need to buy.
The shopping list could include pharmaceuticals, health products and presents for home; additional sight-seeing is usually no problem and they'll gobble up our best food and wine. Conferences sustain a myriad of jobs, including artists, beauty therapists and entertainers, and many others.
And, as well as benefiting the national economy conferences provide an economic fillip for individual cities and provinces.
"We're delighted the Novotel will be re-opening in Christchurch this August," says ACCOR New Zealand's area director of sales and marketing John Farrell.
"People are determined to hold conferences in Christchurch and we're able to accommodate that solidarity.
"New Zealand is a respected English-speaking destination - seen as an easy country to work in - but we're still just a tiny part of a huge international market for conference destinations.
"Auckland's waterfront and Queenstown's mountains are up against compelling attractions in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia.
"These places want that next conference in four years time just as much as we do, and they'll tout for it just as aggressively."
John says that - as with the 2011 Rugby World Cup event - the hard yards of pitching for a conference must be done years in advance, and behind the scenes.
Competing hotel companies generally unite to bring this kind of business to New Zealand. ACCOR works alongside Tourism New Zealand, city councils and competitors to this end.
"We'll help to pitch and even contribute resources to get that big conference," says John.
A non-partisan approach pays off for ACCOR, New Zealand's largest hotel operator which operates hotels including Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Novotel and ibis along wth several other international hotel brands.
"Even if a rival gets the conference it's likely to be good for us. Maybe they won't have enough 3-star beds and will need to on-sell business rather than lose the conference. Or, maybe they'll lack the 5-star suites for the managing director, or the guest speaker."
John says the successful conferencing hotel will need the highest of standards. Online facilities must be first-rate, perhaps enabling the live streaming of video and social media to hand-held devices.
Rather than being given a physical schedule when they arrive, the attendees now download a conference "app", providing all necessary information.
"Security is vital, obviously securing a site which may display new products competitors would love to see, but also securing online communications and disposal of documents.
"We go the extra mile, ensuring the client has anything they want.
"It could be allowing their chef to work alongside ours; a wish to see specific programmes every time they turn on TV sets; special logos on the pillow slips; or mini bars stocked with the company products."


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The End of History
Patricia says "I want to be a major poet!" I do too. What does ambition mean in this field, arguably a field of diminishing returns?
One afternoon a few weeks ago, I was sitting in an old friend's $25 million dollar apartment on Park Avenue, sipping a fabulous single malt. He's perhaps the biggest art collector in New York. He made is fortune on Wall Street and he collects amazing stuff and has an equally amazing place to store it all. Plastered on the walls and scattered across the marble floors everywhere were Gerhard Richters, Ed Ruschas, Louise Bourgeois, Yves Klein, Maurizio Cattelans, Tom Freidmans… you get the point.
After a few scotches, Glenn said to me, "So, Kenny. I used to love the works you showed when you were in the art world. Tell me, why did you leave to become a poet?" It was a good question and one which I asked myself many times. From 1987 until the mid-90s, I had a very good gallery career and could be considered by all measures a successful artist. I showed with a top gallery, made a handsome living from my work and regularly visited the types of apartments that I was sitting in at that moment. After some thought, I said, "Glenn, while I was a successful artist, I knew in my heart that I'd never be an important artist; I knew that, judging by the trajectory my career was taking, I'd never be able to change the history of the field. While other factors intervened — mainly the fact that I was simply dying to write — I was in poetry the chance to truly make a difference in the historical discourse. While the work itself was the determining factor — again, I needed to write and nothing was going to stop me — in art I saw career; in poetry I saw possibility." His face was blank and as he lifted his glass to his lips, he said incredulously, "So you went for history rather than money?" "Yeah," I responded. "I think that if you ask any artist, they'll tell you that a primary motivator to their becoming an artist would be to make history, not money. If one happens to make money along the way — as many artists do — all the better, but I think for many, the chance to change a field outweighs material gain." Really, he just couldn't understand what I was saying.
So, we find ourselves here in poetry, at the epicenter of nonmaterial gain. I think for some poets (and artists — though from this point forth I'll be speaking on to the direct concerns of poetry), history isn't of major concern. Kwame recalled a few posts back a dear friend of his who wrote for herself without any ambition; while he expressed his respect for her practice, he couldn't conceive for himself an ambitionless practice. Kwame has thrown his hat into the ring of history. And judging by his career, he's got a damn good shot at being a part of that narrative.
So how do we determine if what we're doing has any historical impact at all? I think this all depends on how we define the poetry world(s) that we choose to inhabit. Speaking for myself, I see that in the segment of innovative (or experimental) poetry, there's a tremendous amount of work to be done. Surveying the field, it appears to me to be wide open. Compared to the art world where, after Duchamp, anything can be art, there's a sense that in poetry world — even within more innovative camps — that certain things are poetry and that certain things are not. Coming from the art world, this strikes me as an untenable & unsustainable stance, both aesthetically and historically and one that is bound to implode any moment.
What's at stake here? I have a very close friend who has been called the most radical of the first generation Language Poets and we've had an ongoing discourse for the past fifteen years. It seems that when we get to talking, we always end up splitting on certain issues. No matter how "radical" you might have thought Language Poetry was, this friend of mine keeps clinging to the concept of "poetry" as validating concept. He can't consider anything that doesn't look like "poetry" to be "poetry." Beyond that, he's deeply opposed to my generation's idea of the unedited text. He feels that if it's not edited carefully, he's not able to consider it as "poetry." In addition, if a piece of writing is not readable word-to-word, then it's not "poetry." Again, such qualities are all tropes of the next generation's writing, conceptual writing, where the accumulation is more important than word-for-word content; where close reading is abandoned in favor of distant reading; where editing is anathema to language management; a concept where all words are weighed by the pound, rather than by their intellectual or literary merit. In short, it turns out that my Language Poet pal has some very conventional ideas about poetry.
Now, it's always been my feeling that Language Poetry put the period on the end of the modernist sentence. If you're playing an innovative game, after Language Poetry, there's no more deconstructive work to do. That project has finished. The next step then becomes a reconstructive project that sees language as a whole again — moving information — but, like certain strains of postmoderism, acknowledges the cracks in the newly reformed linguistic vessel. To put it in art world terms, Language Poetry is akin to Abstract Expressionism and we, the next generation finds themselves in, metaphorically, 1961 with the reconstructive idea of Pop Art as the next logical move. Extending the metaphor, historically the possibilities of the 1960s lay before us.
So, history. Is there work to be done? Indeed. I often use Brion Gysin's quote from 1959 that poetry is 50 years behind painting. And if we take that to be true and our ambitions steer us in this direction, then the possibilities of changing / impacting this field at this moment are absolutely staggering.
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Deconstruction made me think, how is poetic license available now. Can I begin another sentence? Will I want an idea to begin or end or continuing what can come next?
The Hood Company
I was walking along this sunny Sunday morning in Seattle wondering whether Kenneth had solved the poetry wars or had simply announced another bloodless abstraction antithetical to poetry when I looked up and saw a man and woman headed toward me, holding hands and pushing a lawnmower. They were causally but smartly dressed as if they were coming from a lazy brunch. Just as we were about to pass each other, the man shoved the mower onto a wide, very long parking strip where it instantly stopped in tall grass packed with dandelions gone to seed–any jiggling and they would fly away. The man and woman stood there staring at the machine. "You're doomed," I said. "Well, she said, "At least we got a lawnmower."
This made me think of Lorine Niedecker's poem….
"A lawnmower's one of the babies I'd have
if they'd give me a job and I didn't get bombed
in the high grass
by the private woods. Getting so
when I look off my space I see waste
I'd like to mow."
(from New Goose poems)
In this snippet of a poem, Niedecker pulls off a difficult heist. The entire poem is a supposed quote from one of her rural Wisconsin neighbors. This short speech documents how poverty wastes lives, and yet it also manages to gloat: our lives might be impoverished but we resist the constraints of the marketplace–no lawnmowers here. Instead of valuing the acquisition of private goods; the speaker, and by implication anyone who lives a life dedicated to poetry or the arts, value the possibilities of uselessness: "I see waste/I'd like to mow."
I've often thought this day-dreamy communion in the "high grass/by the private woods" is the source that poets draw from to change the art form. We submerge ourselves in real conditions, in a locale and its clan (say the Lower East Side, Orange County, or Jamaica), and in a symbolic tradition, (say a religion, spy movies, jazz, English literature, collecting robots, or visual arts). Out of this mix we manufacture poems that take their place in poetry and history, and influence what comes next. There is no end.
While writing this a loud voice starts shouting—but that's not true for all poetry. And another voice starts that tedious wondering about what is and is not a poem. As Kenneth points out: "Compared to the art world where, after Duchamp, anything can be art, there's a sense that in poetry world — even within more innovative camps — that certain things are poetry and that certain things are not."
What if because of the sheer number of poetic variants we can no longer define it? If all those variants claim to be poetry does that make poetry a borg, or the opposite of a borg? Instead of worrying about what it is, what if we realized that all the variants constitute one poem? This would be a similar to how post-human theorists view consciousness as a "society of mind" in which "a collection of autonomous agents each runs its "own program."
"In these models consciousness, far from seen as the seat of identity, is one modular program among many. It is distinguished by the continuous monologue it spins to create an illusion of a coherent and unified self. Alongside this monologue other modules are running their own programs, which often contradict the conclusions of the consciousness module." (N. Katherine Hayles, "The Posthuman Body: Inscription and Incorporation in Galatea 2.2 and Snow Crush)
In this particular poem Niedecker rejects ambition–the need to build a reputation based on subjectivity–the "private woods"–(A nod to John Clare's poems protesting against Enclosure?) and offers her poetry as a freed space, a commons. And yet for encouragement and comraderie, she depended on Zukiofsky, the epitome of a NY literatti, engaged in defining poetry and reputations–the recluse and the schmoozer were indispenable to each other.
Or sometimes we see those conflicting impulses in the same person: Cid Corman (friend of Lorine), driven to reject the American poetry scene to pursue poetry (with a cap P) in Kyoto (thus, ostensibly, in isolation, a "private woods") but simultaneously writing thousands of letters and going to some length to see that his poetry reached the mowed lawns of the West.
Hi Kenneth. When you say it's an untenable position "that certain things are poetry and that certain things are not" I think that's right on, and I'd agree that there are so-called "experimental" or "avant-garde" poets who are just as conservative or rigid, in their own way, as (for instance) any new formalist or personal-lyricist. Whether it's uncreative writing, or an exploration of inappropriate material (as in flarf, or jennifer knox or tao lin or linh dinh or gabe gudding), I find poets who are working directly against the rather fusty definitions of what makes a poem and what belongs in a poem the most interesting. I think the real exciting stuff happens not in the objection "that shouldn't be there!" but in the question "what the hell is that doing there." Granted, that's asking readers to be adventurous, but then, readers are.
I'll probably never get truly tired of reading a well-written poem, whether or not it is metered or could be a traditional lyric, or whatever, but there are so many other things to be done, and it's exciting to watch poets tilt at the taboos. It seems self-limiting not to wonder what would happen if this or that "bad idea" or "inappropriate" or "unpoetic" element entered in. Poetry's not a bronzed artifact, but a growing thing.
I'm digging the new blog format here, by the way. The back and forth between the contribs is a neat dynamic.
To claim that "anything is art" post-Duchamp, as if this were a definitive and monolithic stance shared by everyone in the art world seems spurious. Isn't that an ongoing conversation?–in art and in poetry. And isn't the conversation part of the excitement? I doubt flarf would be as interesting if the whole world could come to a boring consensus that flarf is the exact equivalent to the Ode to a Grecian Urn. Same goes for the toilet.
I teach an introductory poetry course filled mostly with students who are writing their first poems ever. Questioning what a poem is, and why, is a discussion that comes up with frequency in class. I find it hard to believe that either I or my students represent an avant-garde flank of poetry, yet we find a lot to argue about on the subject. No one ever comes up with a definition–who cares about that?–but if the question can challenge our practice–everyone's practice–so much the better.
Perhaps Goldsmith finds the very question–"what is a poem?"–offensive. If not, why object to the dialogue? It's didactic, not to mention oppressive, to insist that there's only one legitimate answer–even if that answer is "anything."
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, April 27th, 2007 by Kenneth Goldsmith.


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You are herecontent / US more unpopular in the Arab world than under Bush
US more unpopular in the Arab world than under Bush
From Glenn Greenwald:
From the Washington Post:
Two and a half years after Obama came to office, raising expectations for change among many in the Arab world, favorable ratings of the United States have plummeted in the Middle East, according to a new poll conducted by IBOPE Zogby International for the Arab American Institute Foundation.
In most countries surveyed, favorable attitudes toward the United States dropped to levels lower than they were during the last year of the Bush administration.
From the full report:
With the 2008 election of Barack Obama, favorable attitudes toward the U.S. more than doubled in many Arab countries. But in the two years since his famous "Cairo speech," ratings for both the U.S. and the President have spiraled downwards. The President is seen overwhelmingly as failing to meet the expectations set during his speech, and the vast majority of those surveyed disagree with U.S policies.
In five out of the six countries surveyed, the U.S. was viewed less favorably than Turkey, China, France—or Iran. Far from seeing the U.S. as a leader in the post-Arab Spring environment, the countries surveyed viewed "U.S. interference in the Arab world" as the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East, second only to the continued Palestinian occupation.
While the vehemence of Arab reaction to the U.S. was startling, the general sentiment echoed points made in AAI President James Zogby's 2010 book Arab Voices, in which he reflected on Arab opinions of both the U.S. and our foreign policies. "American democracy [seems] a lot like damaged goods to many Arabs… U.S. policy in the region has increasingly undermined Arab attitudes toward America as a global model."
Executive Summary
• After improving with the election of Barack Obama in 2008, U.S. favorable ratings across the Arab world have plummeted. In most countries they are lower than at the end of the Bush Administration, and lower than Iran's favorable ratings (except in Saudi Arabia).
• The continuing occupation of Palestinian lands and U.S. interference in the Arab world are held to be the greatest obstacles to peace and stability in the Middle East.
• While many Arabs were hopeful that the election of Barack Obama would improve U.S.-Arab relations, that hope has evaporated. Today, President Obama's favorable ratings across the Arab world are 10% or less.
• Obama's performance ratings are lowest on the two issues to which he has devoted the most energy: Palestine and engagement with the Muslim world.
• The U.S. role in establishing a no-fly zone over Libya receives a positive rating only in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, but, as an issue, it is the lowest priority.
• The killing of bin Laden only worsened attitudes toward the U.S.
• A plurality says it is too early to tell whether the Arab Spring will have a positive impact on the region. In Egypt, the mood is mixed. Only in the Gulf States are optimism and satisfaction levels high.
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There is no IT labor shortage in the U.S. There is no dearth of software developers. Instead, this shortage is reinforced through repetitious pronouncements by industry of the impending labor crisis, and is used as outsourcing ammunition. In reality, organizations outsource because of two simple and related factors:
- Business believes IT costs are too high and by outsourcing IT labor, cost is reduced.
- IT doesn't deliver value-add business software.
I take my vehicle to a certain mechanic. It's not the cheapest mechanic, but I go there anyway. Why? Because I'm willing to pay the 25% premium knowing that the job is going to get done right and I'm not going to be back at the mechanic with the same problem two days later. That's a big deal to me. But if the mechanic charging the 25% premium produced the same results as the shady guy down the road offering a 50% discount, I'd likely switch mechanics. Why pay a premium for inferior service? The same happens with software development. Historically, companies have not received the benefit that goes along with paying higher salaries. Why pay someone $90k to deliver crap when someone can be paid $45k to deliver the same crap? As developers, we can blame big business for outsourcing our jobs. Unfortunately, we have to blame ourselves for not producing.
I may be guilty of simplying a complex situation. Certainly, there are other credible factors that influence the outsourcing decision.
- Businesses may be wise to diversify their resource pool in a way similar to how a financial portolio is diversified. That makes sense.
- In some cases, specialized talent or skills are required. And that means finding and working with the most knowledgeable supplier.
But these are not the reasons why business is outsourcing IT. While an IT labor shortage is often the reason given, in reality IT is shipped out because the cost is high, and we don't deliver a product comparable to the price paid. Here are some simple numbers debunking the IT labor shortage myth, with sources cited.
- The percentage of math and computer science bachelor degrees awarded in 2003 was 5.2%, almost equal to the number in 1985 (6.0%) and greater than the numbers in 1995 (3.3%) and 2000 (3.9%).
- The number of annual Computer and Information Technology degrees awarded after the turn of the century have exceeded that of the most awarded before 2000.
- The number of Computer and Information Technology degrees awarded in 2006 was greater than the number awarded in 2001.
- The number of new undergrad majors declared in 2007 increased approximately 10 percent.
It appears there is no conclusive evidence suggesting either a current or impending IT labor shortage. There is no doubt that the IT boom of the late 90's influenced many people to major in IT, and is the direct cause of the spike in degrees awarded between 2002 and 2005. However, I'm not convinced that we've seen a lack of interest in IT as a major so much as I'm convinced that we've experienced an abnormal surge in graduates over a short period due to the dot com era. Recently, we've adjusted back to normal levels. Regardless, we are not experiencing an IT labor shortage because the evidence clearly shows there are more IT graduates in the U.S. today than ever before. And these graduates will be in the workforce for the next 25 to 30 years. While industry claims there is a shortage of programmers, what they really mean is that there is a shortage of cheap programmers. Again, why pay premium price for inferior results.
In fact, when comparing the numbers from IT with that of other disciplines, there are some striking parallels.
- The fastest growing occupations in the U.S. include health care (21.7% increase), IT (38% increase in computer software engineers through 2016, but a 4% decrease for computer programmers through 2016) and education (12% increase projected through 2016)()
- Trends in bachelor's degree conferred show that each of the three listed has not grown substantially between 1994 and 2005. However, IT does lead the way.
- Degrees awarded in both Healthcare and Education have not increased in alignment with the projected growth for those occupations. In fact, Education has been stagnant for years, and only recently has Healthcare returned to the levels seen in the mid-80's.
- Enrollment in degree granting institutions increased approximately 20% between 2000 and 2005. Therefore, if the percentage of degrees remains the same, or even increases slightly, we're still producing more IT graduates than ever before.
I don't find information that suggests IT is in any more dire straights than other occupations experiencing phenomenal growth. I certainly doubt we'll outsource Healthcare or Education, unless we also want to outsource the ill and our children. Instead, Healthcare and Education reform help address these situations. While we can argue as to the short term success or failure of these reform efforts, the long term affects are positive.
It might sound as if I'm sending conflicted messages in this post. I'm not. To be clear, I cannot blame organizations for wanting to outsource IT. I can easily produce numbers illustrating IT failure. They are not hard to find. I can blame organizations for lying about why they want to outsource IT. Isn't it quite possible that instead of outsourcing IT, we should instead consider IT reform and fix the mess we've created? Instead of feeling victimized and helpless, we can take the first steps toward reforming software development. The best path to reform is through providing a premium service that produces the value-add software business needs. We control our destiny.
Additional information on the IT Labor Shortage is also easy to find. Just Google IT Labor Shortage. Another rather lengthy article you might find interesting is Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage by Dr. Norman Matloff.


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It's been quite the week for Giants fans, including another brilliant Bumgarner start, some surprising offense and a little perfect game for Matt Cain. With all the big news stories everyone has heard about, I have forgotten to mention some important ones which somehow fell through the cracks.
Here are your "Quick Hits" of the week:
Brandon Belt: starting first baseman
In the first 36 games of the season, Brandon Belt started in only 18 of them. During the stretch, Belt hit a line of .239/.350/.343 with zero home runs, seven RBI and only six runs. He hardly contributed to the already struggling Giants offense.
Belt would lose time to Brett Pill and Aubrey Huff (who would also be struggling just as bad as Belt), while sometimes looking lost in the batters box.
Since May 17 (the 37th game of the year), Belt has now started in 18 of the 27 games at first base. Not left field, not bat boy – first base. Some of the starts had to do with Aubrey Huff landing on the disabled list with anxiety symptoms for two weeks, but Belt looks like he won the job.
Since his rough first half, Belt has hit .258/.383/.492 with three home runs (in back-to-back-to-back games), 17 RBI and eight runs in just 27 games.
Sure Belt is not producing at Miguel Cabrera's, Joey Votto's, or even Albert Pujols' pace, but hey, its an improvement. His season totals in 53 games are: a .248 batting average, a .360 on-base percentage and a slugging percentage of .415 – big improvements from the 63-game output of .225/.306/.412 in 2011.
Belt seems to be swinging a bigger bat these days, looking calm with runners in scoring position (as opposed to looking like a nervous baby giraffe every time someone was on base), actually hitting home runs like he was projected to, and he still plays some slick defense at first.
I know some of you may be thinking: "so what? Belt still wont be an all-star…"
Look, I know there are a lot of high expectation for the kid, but lets face it, he is in his third year of professional baseball. Outside of college (where he was a pitcher for crying out loud), Belt is still learning the ins and outs of perfecting a swing. A swing we all saw hit 23 home runs in 2010 in the minors.
I know the improvements he has made may be minimal, but the way I see it, any improvement at all is a step closer to the hitter we all expect him to be. In the mean time, watch him play, grow and develop into a pretty spectacular ball player.
Anyway, just keep an eye on him. It took him 48 games to hit his first homer of 2011, he has hit three in the five games since. Patience…
Ryan Theriot's new, unexpected role
That's right folks, Ryan Theriot has a very important role for the Giants this year: second base!
Coming into spring training, most of us knew Theriot would eventually overtake Emanuel Burriss' spot as the backup second baseman. Great. I guess that was good, he had just won a World Series title with the St. Luis Cardinals in 2011.
With Freddy Sanchez still fighting back injuries in rehab assignments, Theriot got the call to make starts at second base. At the beginning of the year, he didn't play like he had just won the winter classic. He was playing like he just picked up a bat for the first time.
In the first 20 games he played in (he only started in 13 of the first 30), he had a .179 batting average. A guy with a career .281 batting average over seven major league seasons, a low average like that was just confusing.
After a trip to the 15-day disabled list on May 9th, he came back and did this:
19 games started out of 20 Giants games
.321 batting average, .368 on-base percentage, 10 runs, eight RBI
.324 batting average of balls in play
Basically, he has turned things way around and has played solid defense at second base.
Also worth noting: in 39 games he has four steals in six attempts this year. In 132 games last year, he had four steals in 10 attempts.
So clearly Theriot (who had three hits and two RBI in last nights 7-4 loss to the Mariners) has made us all forget about the struggling Sanchez. Has anyone heard of him? When he is coming back? How his rehab is going?
I have only heard negative notes toward Sanchez's recovery, and quite frankly, I couldn't care less. Theriot is Sanchez. Sanchez is Theriot. Finkle is Einhorn. Einhorn is Finkle.
We have our second baseman, folks.
Blanco makes big catch, answers big question
Coming into this season, we all were safe to assume Nate Schierholtz was to be given a solid season's chance to start in right field.
But just like a little mosquito somehow finding our flesh every night while we sleep, afterthought Gregor Blanco made nagging strides to make our assumptions wrong.
I embarrassingly wrote a piece before the season to pick the most likely "breakout MVP" much like Ryan Vogelsong was last season, and Andres Torres was in 2010. They are the least likely candidates to put up big numbers for the the Giants.
This year, I picked Aubrey Huff to bounce back and re-break out. Stupid, I know.
In that post, I worte this about the possibilities of Blanco making the cut:
"Sure, Gregor Blanco can be 'that guy' as he got an invitation the camp as an outfielder, but because the Giants already have Nate Schierholtz, Angel Pagan,Melky Cabrera and Belt fighting for starting spots. The best he can come out of spring as is a fifth outfielder, a position the Giants don't really need.
So barring a serious injury of one of those guys listed above- and I have a feeling Giants fans would prefer a healthier season than last year – Blanco doesn't really have a good chance to breakout with the Giants."
Ha… Did I say that?
Since he was picked up for dirt cheap on the Giants, Blanco has made it clear he deserves a starting spot in right field.
Before joining the Giants, Blanco hit just two home runs and 52 RBI in 253 games with the Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Royals from 2008 to 2011.
In 55 games as a Giant, Blanco has not only saved a perfect game with one of the greatest catches in franchise history, but he has also been hitting well from the lead-off position while also providing speed on the base paths.
His on-base percentage, from the lead-off spot, is a sweet .368. He has eight stolen bases in 10 attempts (third most on the Giants behind Melky Cabrera and Angel Pagan), while scoring 36 runs. Blanco has scored 14% of the Giants total runs this season and I guarantee no soul in baseball predicted a season like this.
So there you go, a few bright spots I forgot to mention earlier, but this Giants team looks to be taking shape into a playoff caliber team once again. I love baseball.
Also, I'd like to shout out to my awesome dad and to all dads who are enjoying a wonderful father's day today. Let's hope the Giants can take the series against the mariners for all the Giants dads out there.
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could well be some connection to chemicals used in food processing or agriculture. harmones, steriods, antibotics, cultures, --you name it !
science needs to look at everything with a fine toothed comb.
science is just now beginning to understand genetics and gene function.
something may well be turning on the "kill everything & every one" gene.
if humanity is to survive we have to find out what the hell is going on.
if no one looks at the problem were going to have ever increasing numbers of murderous nuts coming out of the woodwork --with dire consequences.