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The guys continue their discussion of the dangerous fisher cat, the return of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, and famous Belgians
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And -- was talking about his experience Fisher cats. Fisher cats I've heard of. I've seen what I saw women neighborhood and I've heard them before the street it's just it's brutal we talked a lot about and sure enough the way here we go go to. For hole with the Massachusetts. Barely twelve year old boy attacked by Fisher -- Now rarely this kid I was at a house. Playing his child home. Any particular hospital condition not a -- immediately known in the -- but it. Now they're calling it a K a mystery while they don't -- -- believe it's a picture of -- but. Apparently enjoy tonight by assuming full. Quote animal came up the steps on the deck grabbed him by the leg. Up -- with the -- -- did not -- this. I don't know -- the boy we're still trying to get it -- -- -- still holding on his leg slammed the door so they suspected animal was a fox which. I don't think Fox's attack humans if they're rabid but normally they're very skittish animals right and it just sly as a fox. 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About six months ago whenever roses what was this photo map based I have plenty you know asks. Thank you for that next -- Where -- stand up and you know. Put out there I can say this much we're gonna continue to track the Fisher story. We got to continue to track route or is that you are antagonistic spirit now it's only a matter time before he falls off. What you have. All right so in honor of the US taken on -- and today it may be Canada's research in look at. So famous people from Belgium because I honestly didn't feel like there was a lot and there's some people here I was just amazed that there from Belgium. And the First -- I'm gonna give you hit it anyway what his nickname is. And that I wanna keep you can get it -- -- remember this guy read this nickname the muscles from Brussels. Knuckle here that's what I nowadays they reveal like holy cow what an aunt and AM beef cake you know I don't know what is it. The -- to -- beef cake now this junk -- -- all right Brussels. 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First the actors I -- those are -- are. -- -- -- And the creator of hit it. And yes I -- the budget different there's a bunch of scientists. The inventor of speak like I don't know what it is. The first bio chemist who nicely for cancer soap opera -- the and astronomer who invented the big event series I'll let -- -- George of them atop. My father whose government ministries and this guy moving little through -- from Belgium they're great narcolepsy in the crucial for thuggery. Can't forget about doctor doctor a little doctor evil doctor -- from -- but he has Belgian boy yet so yeah I was I was what fourteen year old hooker with -- -- -- -- I've beaten with parades past Summers and Rangel. You know live in the rough life. And there's a favorite people from Belgium police my top five. Stuff but I like it. -- 1 o'clock hour DJ -- is going to join us anytime to be determined based on what happens with the Bruins at any sort of free agent signings were targeting 130. 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It's Your Health
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The number of Canadians who are overweight or obese has increased dramatically over the past 25 years. Obesity is a risk factor in a number of chronic diseases. Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is important to reduce the risk of those diseases and improve overall health.
Although smoking remains the greatest threat to public health in Canada, poor eating habits, physical inactivity and their contribution to obesity are also critical public health challenges. Statistics Canada reports that two out of every three adults in Canada are overweight or obese.
The proportion of obese children has nearly tripled in the last 25 years. The increases were seen for both boys and girls and across all age groups except pre-schoolers. As well, more than half of Canadian children and youth are not active enough for optimal growth and development.
Many factors have contributed to the increasing rates of overweight and obesity. Changes in society, work and leisure have affected activity and eating patterns, leading to a rise in overweight and obesity. There has been a shift towards less physically demanding work, as well as an increased use of automated transport and passive leisure activities, such as television viewing and playing video games. Many children and youth have fewer opportunities to be physically active at school as physical education classes and time spent being physically active at school have been reduced. There are also fewer children and youth walking to and from school. Statistics Canada found a direct correlation between the amount of time youth spent watching TV and playing video games, and their likelihood of being overweight or obese.
Changes in our food environment, including consuming larger portion sizes and the availability of a wide variety of inexpensive food, have also made it challenging to maintain a healthy weight.
The body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) measurement are two tools used by health professionals to help assess your risk of developing health problems associated with being overweight and underweight. These tools are used with adults age 18 years and over, with the exception of pregnant and breastfeeding women. The BMI and WC may underestimate or overestimate health risks in certain adults, such as:
The BMI is a ratio of weight-to-height. It is not a direct measure of body fat but it is an indicator of health risk associated with being under- and overweight. Research conducted with large groups of people have shown that the BMI can be classified into ranges associated with health risk. There are four categories of BMI ranges in the Canadian weight classification system. These are:
To calculate your BMI and level of risk, use the link provided in the Need More Info? section or see your doctor.
The WC measurement is an indicator of health risk associated with abdominal obesity. Excess fat around the waist and upper body (also described as an "apple" body shape) is associated with greater health risk than fat located more in the hip and thigh areas (described as a "pear" body shape).
A WC measurement of 102 cm (40 in.) or more for men, and 88 cm (35 in.) or more for women, is associated with an increased risk of developing health problems such as Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and high blood pressure. As the cut-off points are approximate, a WC just below these measurements should also be taken seriously. In general, your risk of developing health problems increases as your WC measurement increases above the cut-off points.
Your age, family history and the presence of other health conditions, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure or high blood sugar levels can all interact with being overweight or obese to greatly elevate your risk of developing a wide range of chronic diseases. Poor eating habits, physical inactivity, and tobacco use not only contribute to the development of these conditions, they can further exacerbate their burden on your health.
If you are overweight or obese, you may be at risk for a wide range of serious diseases and conditions including:
Obesity is one of the leading factors in heart disease and stroke, as well as in Type 2 diabetes, which affects an estimated 1.8 million Canadians. If you are overweight, you are at high risk of becoming obese, which can more seriously affect your health.
Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada are committed to helping Canadians improve their health and well-being by promoting and supporting regular physical activity and healthy eating.
The Centre for Health Promotion is actively working with other levels of government, the private and voluntary sector on the issue of healthy living, which includes physical activity, healthy eating and healthy weights.
The Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion supports the nutritional health and well-being of Canadians by defining, promoting and implementing evidence-based nutrition policies and standards.
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The Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control works with stakeholders to provide leadership in chronic disease prevention and control across Canada and internationally.
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Telling Fortunes by Tea Leaves HTML version
"If thou wouldst learn thy future with thy tea,
This magic cup will show it thee."
Some readers may find an additional interest in divination by tea-
leaves, if they use a cup marked with the planetary symbols,
patented as the "Nelros Cup of Fortune." A short explanation of the
symbols, and the method of using this cup, will be helpful for those
who are not familiar with its signs. I am not suggesting the use of
the "Nelros" saucer, for the reason that its signs are somewhat
obscure, and students who have no experience in the science of
astrology would find it confusing, if used in addition to the cup, in which all needful signs are
As in the case of the ordinary tea-cup, the handle remains as the representative of the
consultant. The turning of it and draining of the moisture should be carried out in the usual
Immediately under the handle, and above the space given to the Sun, are seen a Diamond and
a Horseshoe. Next on the left are a Snake twisted round a stick, and a Spade, these being
placed over the space given to Saturn.
Following them are a Bell and a Club, seen over the sign of Venus. Next, an Eye and Envelope,
above the space given to Jupiter.
Then comes a Cross, with the sign of Pisces, the Fishes, these being over the sign of Mercury.
Next are a Winecup and a Spider above the space of Mars.
Followed by a Cat's Head and a Heart, above the Moon.
Each one of these signs round the brim has a symbolic meaning, though their meaning must
also be judged by the position they occupy in the cup.
Now, taking the signs round the brim of the cup, and connecting them with the planetary
symbols beneath.
Beginning at the handle is a Diamond, this being a token of wealth, which, with the sign of
the Sun below, indicates much prosperity, favors, and general well-being, the Horseshoe over
the Sun also betokening good luck and successful projects.


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Apple has announced details of the Snow Leopard Up-To-Date program. Anyone buying a Mac between June 8th and December 29th (that doesn't come equipped with Snow Leopard) can purchase the update for $9.95.
This will help eliminate the skewing of sales patterns that occurs when an upgrade to OS X is announced. First, the upgrade cost is only $29 and the Up-To-Date program further reduces concern of having to pay again for the latest software technology.[ Edited: 16 June 2009 06:48 PM by DawnTreader ]


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The Flextone Thunder Yelper Turkey Call features a patent pending design with double latex sound chamber that creates perfect soft and seductive yelps. The new hybrid call technology is a game changer for any serious turkey hunter. The Thunder Yelper is much easier to use than traditional mouth calls and will create yelps that no Tom can resist!
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Hair Wars! Which 'Sucker Punch' Star Wore Her Hair The Best? You Decide!
Abbie Cornish, Malin Akerman, Emma Roberts and Vanessa Hudgens all wore stunning beauty looks for the premiere of 'Sucker Punch'! Who looked the best? Tell us!
Vanessa Hudgens and Abbie Cornish hit the LA premiere of Sucker Punch on March 23 with their hair curled in cute up-dos. The lovely blondes Malin Akerman and Emma Roberts wore their hair straight. Who do YOU think had the best hair?
Emma, 19, looks like she had some trouble deciding how to wear her hair and makeup. She has her hair teased at the crown with her bangs tucked behind her ear. It would look really cute if she put this in a low bun — but instead she has her hair tied to the side. It looks a little off because her bangs and the rest of her hair are all on the same side. She should have switched it up for some balance!
Malin, 32, looks like just got out of bed and her beach-blonde locks just sit so beautifully over her shoulders. We're so jealous of her effortless look! Does she even use any product? She's so lucky!
Abbie, 28, pulled her hair back in a low bun and left her bangs out in front. Her bangs are a little short to be curled like this. Would have looked better if she kept her hair straight, or put it all up. As for Vanessa, 22, we love her luscious curls — and that cute tuck-in makes us think she should considering cutting it short!
Which Sucker Punch star do YOU think had the best hair? Vote now!


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An Education Initiative on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women. The Convention provides the basis for realizing equality between women and men through ensuring women's equal access to, and equal opportunities in, political and public life — including the right to vote and to stand for election — as well as education, health and employment. The Convention is the only human rights treaty which affirms the reproductive rights of women and targets culture and tradition as influential forces shaping gender roles and family relations. It affirms women's rights to acquire, change or retain their nationality and the nationality of their children. States parties also agree to take appropriate measures against all forms of traffic in women and exploitation of women.
U.S. ratification would give the United States far more leverage and credibility in the international community regarding women's rights issues than it has now, helping women and girls around the world. Despite differences in culture, religion, ethnicity and nationality, 185 governments have agreed to implement this treaty. U.S. absence from that list undermines the critical principle that women's rights are human rights; that they are universal across all cultures, nations and religions; and that they deserve guarantees through international standards.
President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton, and United Nations Ambassador Rice have joined women's rights and human rights advocates in declaring CEDAW ratification to be a priority. Still, too many Americans have never heard of CEDAW and are unaware of the myriad ways it could affect their lives and the lives of women and men worldwide. The impending discussion surrounding ratification efforts for the treaty is certain to generate conflicting claims, media coverage, advertisements and analyses, creating confusion and misinformation among citizens and policymakers.
During the upcoming debate surrounding CEDAW ratification, a well-crafted, coordinated effort to educate at all levels is critical. LCCREF is embarking on a concerted campaign to provide accurate information to citizens, the media and decision-makers for responsible US engagement on this UN treaty and to facilitate informed discourse, which is essential to sound decision-making in a modern democracy. To that end, LCCREF will:
- create a clear strategy for providing accurate information for the upcoming debate to US Government officials, Senators, and others who will weigh all alternatives in the upcoming debate; conduct outreach to policymakers on political developments and possible courses of action; collaborate on a communications strategy and plan (led by the Communications Consortium Media Center);
- provide strong coordination and management to bring together the leadership, expertise, and outreach represented by various groups that are part of this effort and to develop and implement the overarching campaign;
- provide leadership to the CEDAW Working Group, LCCR member organizations, and other individuals and groups involved in this effort; identify other organizations and individuals who could join this effort and develop plans for outreach to them;
- advise on a research review (to be undertaken by the International Center for Research on Women) that will compile up to date information about the impact of CEDAW internationally and form the basis for advocacy materials; and
- advise on legal analysis (led by the National Women's Law Center) to review the provisions of CEDAW and the previous RUDs package in relation to current US and international laws and norms. This can help inform the USG and policymakers about the potential impact of the treaty.


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How to Get What You Want by Peony Pinker
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März 2011
BeschreibungPeony wants a lot of things. She wants a dog, she wants her dad to stop being an agony aunt, and she really wants to get rid of her sister's horrible best friend Bianca. Then Mr Kaminski next door tells her the secret of how to get what you want, and Peony decides it's time to put a stop to Bianca at last. But can she get what she wants?
PortraitJenny Alexander is a well-established author of over 100 fiction and non fiction children's titles. Jenny has written prolifically on the theme of bullying, and has previously published non-fiction titles with A&C Black such as Going up! The No-Worries Guide to Secondary School and How 2 B Happy, a self-help book for children suffering from anxiety. The Peony Pinker titles are her first fiction titles for A&C Black.
Pressestimmen"The book seeks humour in the mismatch between the way Peony responds to life and the way those around her do, and Jenny has a wonderful grasp of contemporary language. Her characters ring true, without being stereotypical. Good writing can find a lively, Cornish 11-year-old in us all." Cornwall Today "A very funny, hectic story with well rounded likable characters" Primary Times
Untertitel: 'Peony Pinker'. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Erscheinungsdatum: März 2011
Seitenanzahl: 144 Seiten
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text: Fixed Income The European Bond Markets Today:Be Selective, Be Risk-Aware By Jørgen Kjærsgaard June 27, 2012 Continued uncertainty and volatility are forcing European bond investors to think on their feet. But there are ways to generate yield without taking excessive risk. For investors with global portfolios, we wouldn't recommend shunning Europe altogether, but we would advise quite a modest allocation. We think areas of value include euro high-yield corporates, which are priced more attractively than US high yield and offer better credit quality. (The average rating in Europe is one to two notches higher than in the US.) For investors who focus purely on Europe, it's important to position the portfolio according to where we are in the market cycle. As a crisis period gives way to the early stages of a rally, that's the time to start building up risk exposure. But we don't think we're going to reach that stage for some time. For now, we think return seeking should be tempered by the need to keep overall portfolio risk in check. We think some of the most attractive opportunities today are in the credit market. This is a time to be an active cherry picker, rather than having passive exposure to the overall market. The broad indices include a lot of issuers in the peripheral countries, as well as cyclical businesses. These types of bonds are offering some very high yield premiums over comparable governments, and they would likely perform well in a rally. But they also tend to be hit harder by bad news and market anxiety. So, in the current environment, we think investors should be more selective about where they seek yield. Investors who have European-only portfolios might consider a "barbell" strategy for their credit portfolios, focusing on conservative names on one hand and higher-octane names on the other. Defensive holdings might include assets like covered bonds from financial institutions outside the peripheral region (these are secured by assets, giving investors a high degree of protection). Another example is high-quality nonfinancial corporate bonds issued by robust companies that are based in non-peripheral countries, have high credit ratings (typically single A) and face little imminent risk of downgrade. The aggressive side of the portfolio would focus on attractive yields and upside potential (but still steering clear of the peripheral countries). As we discussed a few weeks ago, we see compelling opportunities in euro high yield. Examples include the more robust nonfinancial companies, such as some of the telecommunications providers, which have steady revenue streams and sound business models. As we'll discuss in a forthcoming blog, we're also very interested in some of the subordinated financial names outside the peripheral region. Where else is risk-taking most likely to be rewarded in Europe? We wouldn't expect interest-rate exposure on its own to be very lucrative this year. Yields of higher-quality government bonds are so low that investors are paid very little to take exposure. And there's not much scope for further rate falls, so the potential for capital gains is limited and the possibility of losses is rising. In terms of country selection, much of the market is either risky or expensive. In the peripheral countries, sovereigns are cheap (on average, Italian Treasuries offer yield premium of about 4.6% over German Bunds) and they would likely bounce back well in a recovery scenario. But at this point we feel that the risks in those countries are generally still too high to justify exposure. By contrast, Bund yields have been forced down so far by safe-haven demand that it's hard to justify buying them unless you expect a real economic disaster scenario. The Netherlands and Belgium are also expensive, but slightly better value, in our view. French government bonds currently yield quite a good premium—as much as 1.2% more than Germany—but we're uncomfortable about the uncertainties over France's economic and fiscal outlook in the aftermath of its recent elections. The views expressed herein do not constitute research, investment advice or trade recommendations and do not necessarily represent the views of all AllianceBernstein portfolio-management teams.


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Jason Chaffetz became the Chairman of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee in January 2015. He is currently serving his fourth term in the US House of Representatives. In the 114th Congress, he also serves on the House Judiciary Committee.
Jason and Julie Chaffetz have been married since 1991 and have 3 children. After finishing the 1988-89 football season as Brigham Young University's starting placekicker, he graduated with a B.A. in Communications. He spent 16 years in the local business community, where he specialized in corporate communications work and ultimately owned his own communications firm. Prior to running for Congress, he served as campaign manager and chief of staff to former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. from 2003 to 2005.
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Burger King has made eating even easier with this burger holder/human feed-bag
Fast food is a blessing for those who are too busy to make their own food -- but what about individuals who are so overwhelmed with things to do that they can't pause long enough to hold their hamburger in their hands and eat it? Burger King has them covered with this with their "hands-free Whopper."
The device, which straps around the human head and holds the Whopper at mouth level, was apparently made on a 3D printer, according to the website handsfreewhopper.com. It is to celebrate the company's 50th birthday. Appropriately, BK handed out 50 of the contraptions to their most loyal customers, using a database that the company maintains.
However, the program appears to only be available in Puerto Rico (that's why the video is in Spanish), and does not seem to be something that Americans can get in on just yet.


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The search for solutions to the Blues woes is exercising many rugby minds in the franchise.
Some look south down State Highway One and believe there can be magic bullets such as the Chiefs have loaded this season.
Others with a greater knowledge of the historical dramas within the Blues region predict more tortuous redemptive paths.
One area where the Blues are making advances is their high-performance scheme working with under-14 players through to the Blues development programme.
They have squeezed players out of the academy into work with the Blues; men like Liaki Moli, Gareth Anscombe, Angus Ta'avao and Steven Luatua.
That is just the tip of a flow of players that high-performance manager Nick Sheppard predicts will begin to emerge in the next 12 to 18 months.
Work in this area started in earnest in 2009 when Sheppard reviewed the pathways for would-be professional players' development.
His role was to look at talent identification, succession planning, player development and other areas to help the growth and development of young players.
"We had some gaps and holes in what we had been doing and wrapped the whole thing into an integrated model with Northland, North Harbour and Auckland," he said.
By the end of last year, the system was working strongly enough for Sheppard to produce a high-performance strategy plan to take the Blues through to the next World Cup.
His aim, and that of the franchise, is to increase the numbers and broaden the base of youngsters who can continue to pursue their aim of a professional rugby career.
Sheppard explained that the traditional selection model squeezed a small number of players out at the end.
Along the way there were many "choke points" for 13- to 17-year-olds throughout the Blues area and numbers fell away.
"When those players missed out on rep teams they started to ask whether they could be bothered.
"Selections were for the now, but not necessarily into the future," Sheppard said. "Lots of players got overlooked, but they might have been ones we wanted later on at the Blues."
So the Blues region was split into eight - two in Northland, two in Harbour and four in Auckland - with regional development coaches attached to each area.
"We figured there was no point in putting these guys into clubs if they were fighting over the scraps which came out of the seventh form," Sheppard said. "We thought the clubs would only be as strong as the numbers we could push through the 13 to 17 years age group.
"We got men on the ground to work alongside schools and also identify kids who we thought would succeed in the academy."
Sheppard and his men had to ask whether the schoolboys they saw were the future of local rugby and perhaps the All Blacks.
They did not necessarily want the dominant midfield back who bashed his way past smaller rivals or the whizzbang flanker of the day. They were looking for players with broad skill levels, strong training and work ethic principles. They used weekend development days to increase those skills and identify talent.
They began to track individuals' progress. Development officers worked alongside the school rugby coaches to support, mentor and help.
"Utopia would be that we end up with eight under-16 teams, one from each division in the franchise, playing in a Blues tournament as part of a celebration of rugby in the area," Sheppard said.
"We want to have kids in the game for longer, we want to build a wider path instead of narrowing the model."
The successful Blues under-18 side from 2010 and last year had pushed players into the New Zealand Secondary Schools side and the next phase for them would be an ITM Cup introduction.
"We will see some of those faces this year. They will not be the be-all and end-all, but they will be players people will sit back and say 'wow'.
"They are not yet ready for the Blues but they will be coming into that development group."
Those programmes had been run by Bryce Woodward and now Jeff Wilson, and about 25 players had been identified who had the potential to play Super rugby in the next few years.
Blokes like Sean Polwart, Ben Lam and Luatua were in the first wave of talent.
The ITM Cup was the perfect pitch for the next stage of their development.
"There is still a lag," said Sheppard.
"We are 18 months to two years away from having some graduate to the Blues."
In the meantime, players were saturated with as much rugby as they could handle. They were not pampered, they were pitched into club rugby to tangle with older players.
The academy youngsters were being encouraged to play for their clubs and provinces then the Blues - and perhaps beyond. If they felt content with their sporting path, it would be easier to retain them in the region.
"The wider the base grows and the more we become successful then the harder it will be to retain them," Sheppard acknowledged.
"That is the nature of the game, but we would rather have a wider base to choose from and be able to identify gold nuggets."
One of those may be Mangere College tighthead prop Ofa Tu'ungafasi, who has been with the New Zealand secondary schools team and the Blues academy and has made the NZ Colts and under-20 side.
He has signed on a 2014-15 Super 15 deal with the Blues. "We have watched him, seen his potential, got the feedback and believe he is the future. That is how the programme can work," Sheppard said.
He felt more comfortable making judgments about players' future when they were 19 rather than 16.
"Later is better to make an evaluation, but when you are donkey deep with NRL and ARL scouts - for example, 14-year-old twins have been signed up from Aorere College for the ARL - sometimes there's not much time,"said Sheppard.


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I have two simple questions to ask you.
1. What color and shape is a STOP sign?
2. What color and shape is a YIELD sign?
Pretty much everyone gets the first question right. Yes, a STOP sign is octagonal and red.
But most people get the second question wrong. They incorrectly think that a YIELD sign is triangular and yellow. Now the triangular part is correct.
But yield signs are red on the outside and white in the middle (with the word "YIELD" written in red).
In fact, while yield signs were originally yellow when they were introduced in the United States in 1954, they were changed to red over 30 years ago.
So, why do many of us still think yield signs are yellow? There are a few reasons I think. To begin, some of us still remember back to the 1970s when they were yellow. And in some towns, the old yellow signs weren't replaced until the 1980s or 1990s. And many "clip arts" of yield signs still use the yellow color.
But the fact is, if you see a yield sign on the road today, it will be red on the outside and white in the middle.
The reason why we think it's yellow is because we often see things as they used to be.
And seeing things this way represents a problem.
The problem is this -- my guess is that right now, you are a regular entrepreneur. But, you wish to become an ultra successful entrepreneur.
But, if you see things as they used to be, you will see yourself as a regular entrepreneur.
And, to become successful, you need to see yourself as an ultra successful entrepreneur right NOW.
That's right, if you can't envision yourself being successful, you won't become successful. The power of your mind is that strong.
By reading this blog post, it tells me that you are feeding your mind with education about becoming a successful entrepreneur. I genuinely commend that. But I want to make sure you're taking it to the next level, and really committing your mind to believing that you can accomplish your dreams.
It's a lot like the little red engine that could. If you continue to think you can do something, you will be able to do it.
So, in addition to feeding your mind with business education, spend time visualizing success in your mind. Think about what your life will look like when you have achieved the success you desire. Where will you be living? What car will you be driving? What will you wear to work? What will you be doing at work each day? And so on.
And as much as possible, don't just think about these things, but start achieving them. Dress NOW like you expect to dress when you have achieved success. Do the things at work each day that you see yourself doing as an ultra successful entrepreneur.
Earl Nightingale said, "The strangest secret is that we become what we think about most of the time."
Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated, "a man is what he thinks about all day long."
I think they were both right. So, make sure you think about what success looks like for you. And then keep thinking about it.
Happy Monday!
Or should I say "be careful folks, it's Monday."
Why would I say that?
Because statistics show that most heart attacks occur on Monday mornings.
And, migraines in children are most likely to occur on Monday mornings too.
What is this Monday morning curse?
Well, it's most likely the fear and pain of having to do something you don't want to do. Especially after enjoying a weekend where you were free to do what you wanted, having to face a week on the job or a week at school can be miserable.
That is if you don't like your job, or you don't like school.
Recently I watched the movie "The Invention of Lying" and one part that struck me was a woman in a business suit standing outside of her office building. To everyone who passed she said "I don't want to go in there today. I just don't. You know?" (the premise of the movie was that everyone told the complete truth).
If that's you -- if you don't love what you do everyday -- than you MUST CHANGE what you do. Most people have tons of excuses why they don't change, but that's all they are - excuses. Sure, change requires lots of courage, and it doesn't always work out, but change is the first step to progress. And it's the hallmark of successful entrepreneurs.
Now, if you come to work everyday excited like I do, I don't want you to pat yourself on the back quite so soon.
Are your co-workers equally excited? Are your employees and/or subordinates excited?
Part of your job as an entrepreneur is to make sure that everyone around you is excited and inspired everyday. That they don't dread coming to work. But are excited to work with you and the team to accomplish meaningful goals.
Very few great companies have just one person. Typically they start with the one entrepreneur who leaves their job because they are dissatisfied and want to achieve more. And then they recruit their team. And importantly, they infect the team with the same inspiration, and work with them to ensure that everyone comes to work everyday motivated and ready to achieve real results.
What are you doing to inspire your team?
I do lots of little things. Bagels on Monday morning. Brief team meetings each day to discuss goals. Company lunches once a week. Monthly goal setting meetings. Occasional moments of insanity (ranging from a funny joke to a funny video, etc.). Giving public acknowledgements for good work. Etc.
I hope your list of things is bigger than mine, because an inspired team will lead to more funding dollars (yes, investors love funding high performing teams), more customers, and more profits!
Most business owners crave media exposure.
Why wouldn't they?
If they get written up in the newspaper or magazine, or get featured on TV, they're sure to get a flood of new customers.
But what many entrepreneurs don't realize is that 1) you can get media exposure BEFORE you actually launch your company and 2) media exposure can help with raising money too.
Reporters are constantly doing stories and interviewing experts. If you have expertise that you will be using to start your company, you could be interviewed.
And in your interview, you can talk about your venture.
And while the interview may not get you a flood of new customers (if you're not yet selling a product or service), you may get lots of interest from investors, partners, distributors and prospective future customers.
Now the old way of getting press and getting interviewed was a lot of work. Mainly sending out media kits and press releases to tons of media sources.
But today, there's a much easier way to get PR by simply joining Reporter Connection.
You can join for free by clicking this link.
Reporter Connection works like this: every day, you'll receive a brief email with media opportunities ranging from interview requests from top magazines, newspapers and websites, to interviews on radio and TV shows.
If your expertise fits one of the requests, you simply fill out a brief form, and it gets sent to the reporter doing the story.
So join Reporter Connection today to start getting PR for your venture, and use it to gain funding and more current/prospective customers.
Finally, two other similar free PR services for you to check out are Help A Reporter, and PitchRate.
Both my parents were schoolteachers, and when I was born, my mother temporarily stopped working to take care of my brother (2 years older than me) and I.
So, to earn some extra income, my father got a second job selling vacuums at a local department store.
One day, my father noticed a sketchy-looking guy in the store. The guy was dressed strangely and was walking around and touching a lot of the merchandise.
So, my father called the security guard over. The guard came over and my father pointed out the strange man. "You should keep an eye on that guy; he looks like a real hoodlum," my father said.
"That hoodlum's my boss," replied the security guard.
Clearly my father was pretty surprised to find that out.
It turns out that the head security guard would occasionally dress up like a hoodlum and roam through the stores. Because he looked non-threatening to "real" hoodlums, he was better able to catch those hoodlums shoplifting items.
What the head security guard was really doing was putting himself in his customers' shoes. In his case, the customers were bad guys trying to steal.
For most of us, our customers are folks that we want to buy our products or services. Or folks that we want to invest in our businesses.
The key to our success is to put ourselves in our customers' shoes and/or to essentially spy on them like the security guard did.
We need to do this to learn critical customer intelligence: What are their hot buttons? What drives their decision-making? What have they bought or invested in previously? What are their goals and how do they hope that we can help achieve them?
Particularly when searching for investors, many entrepreneurs fail to see things from their customers' perspective. They think too much about what's in it for them. The key is always to find the win-win; the solution that allows your customers to win while you win too.
So, always spend time amongst your customers. And ideally, like the head security guard, you can blend in; so customers don't feel threatened, don't put up a guard, and give you the genuine answers you need to know.
Recently, my wife and I were reminiscing about the TV shows we watched when we were kids.
We started talking about shows like Laverne & Shirley, The Monkees, and Happy Days.
We thought it would be fun to watch these shows with our kids, so we went on Netflix and rented the first season of each of them.
The shows brought back a lot of great memories. Particularly Happy Days...as The Fonz is one of the great TV characters of all time.
One of the Fonz's lines really struck me. As you may remember, the Fonz used the phrase "Sit on it" to essentially tell others to "buzz off."
It's a pretty funny phrase when you think about it -- sit on it -- as it's not really that derogatory.
But, it turns out that in entrepreneurship, it is one of the most derogatory phrases you can possibly use.
Let me give you an example. The other day, I spoke to an entrepreneur (let's call him Joe) with a neat idea. But there's no possible way Joe's going to be successful.
Because I met someone with the same idea two years ago at an angel network meeting. And that entrepreneur raised money for the idea and has been working on it and improving it every day since then.
So, even if Joe is the better product developer, marketer, leader, etc. he can't succeed. Since his competitor now has a 2-year advantage over him.
The WORST thing you can do as an entrepreneur is to "sit on it" or sit on your ideas. Rather, you must act on them. If not, someone else will. There are simply too many other entrepreneurs out there.
The saying "the richest place in the world is the graveyard" is really applicable here. Why is it the graveyard? Because that's where the billions of ideas go that were in the heads of entrepreneurs who never acted on them.
If you have an idea for a new business, you must take the first step. Or you really can't call yourself an entrepreneur -- you're just a "dreamer." Sorry to be so blunt about this; but it's the truth.
So take the first step.
I believe the first step is to develop your business plan. The business planning process forces you to really think through your idea, prove it's viable (or not), and create an action plan for transforming your idea into reality starting now (not later).
So, if you've been sitting on an idea, STOP. Take action now. Don't let Fonzie say "sit on it" to you.
Let's say you've developed a new type of stethoscope.
Who should you approach to invest in your company?
Well, if you answered all of the above, you are correct.
But if you want the best bang for your buck…or the most investment dollars per time you spend raising money, clearly approaching doctors is your best route.
Doctors would clearly understand the benefits of your new stethoscope and be the most prone to invest in you.
Targeting doctors to invest in your product is classic affinity marketing, or targeting people based on their established buying patterns or trends. Classic examples of affinity marketing include a university-branded credit card marketed to the university's alumni. Or an insurance company working with a pet association to offer a pet insurance product.
You get the point. By targeting customers that have affinities (to their alma maters or pets in the above examples), you target folks that really understand and care about what you are offering.
In money raising, this is similar to "prospective customer financing," which is asking your potential future customers to invest in your company now.
I'm a huge fan of prospective customer financing, because not only do you gain investors, but loyal customers who also help market your business through positive word of mouth.
So, how do you execute on affinity fundraising or prospective customer financing?
To begin, the best way to raise this type of money is through Crowdfunding. As you'll learn in this Crowdfunding video, crowdfunding has tons of advantages. But in brief, crowdfunding will allow you to raise smaller amounts of money, and because it is neither debt nor equity, you avoid the legal and regulatory issues which will slow you down and cost you a lot of money.
Finally, let me give you some more examples of what to do:
Let's say your venture targets the bird market. Well, you should be going on social networks, forums and websites serving this market. Join the conversation. Become a valued member of the community. And then tell other members about your venture, that you are raising money, and how they can contribute.
Or, let's say your venture targets accountants. Do the same thing…..Find out where accountants congregate online. What accounting groups are there on LinkedIn? Where can you find them on Facebook? What accounting forums can you join? And once again, join the conversation. Become a trusted and valued member of the community. And then let your new friends know about your venture – something that will directly serve them – and how to contribute.
Once again, the best way to turn these affinity group members into investors is via Crowdfunding. So if you haven't set up your Crowdfunding account yet, watch this video now.
Winston Churchill once said, "If you're going through hell, keep going."
This quote is really applicable to entrepreneurs.
Mainly because rarely, if ever, does the process of starting and growing a company go smoothly.
There are often lots of mis-starts and mistakes and course correction is nearly always required.
The way I see it, the fact that things don't always go smoothly or work at first is a good thing. It weeds out the weak entrepreneurs, which provide more opportunity for profits for us stronger entrepreneurs.
There are lots of times when entrepreneurs must "go through hell." For example, when the entrepreneur is seeking capital, or looking for initial customers or distributors. Other things like hiring key team members or executing on a new marketing campaign can also be quite challenging.
But as Churchill pointed out, entrepreneurs must keep going. That's not to say that you should put your head down and try to bulldoze through whatever you're trying to accomplish. If things aren't going well, you need to consider alternatives.
Specifically, if something doesn't work at first, you must try, try again. But if it doesn't work a second time, you need to start rethinking and modifying your strategy.
Incremental changes often bring about significant results. And these incremental changes often result from trying something that didn't work at first, and continually modifying it until it does.
One example that comes to mind for me is raising venture capital. In my early days, I met with a lot of venture capitalists to try to raise money for my clients. And I encountered a lot of failure. Meeting after meeting after meeting, but no results. So, I started trying new things, and sure enough, after trying enough new tactics, I found ones that really worked.
(FYI, if you are currently seeking venture capital, I laid out these strategies in my Venture Capital Pitch Formula program - watch the video here.)
So, don't give up if you feel you are going through hell right now. Sure it's not fun. But if you keep going, chances are you'll come out a winner.
I talk to a lot of entrepreneurs.
Which I love to do. I love hearing cool, new ideas. I love hearing the passion. And I love figuring out how I can help them successfully go from point A to point B.
But one thing that frustrates me is seeing entrepreneurs making the same mistake over and over and over again.
And the biggest mistake I see is a lack of focus.
This lack of focus is best summed up by the ancient Chinese proverb -- "man who chases two rabbits catches neither."
In other words, if you try to pursue two entrepreneurial ideas, both will most likely elude you.
And I hear this all the time. Budding entrepreneurs telling me about their great idea. And then a moment later saying, "Oh…I have one other idea that I'm working on that I need to tell you about."
I don't usually say the Chinese proverb here, but I give my own line. Which is, "If you try to do 2 things, maybe you can do a B+ job at both. But in today's competitive market place, you need to do an A or A+ job to succeed. And to do that kind of job, you need to focus on just one opportunity."
The Chinese version is better.
As an entrepreneur, you are inherently creative. If you haven't launched your first venture, you must pick just one opportunity. Brainstorm and write down all of your ideas. And then judge them and figure out the one you want to pursue.
And once you decide you want to pursue that idea, forget the rest. Use all your creativity and brainstorming power on that one idea. Use it to figure out creative marketing plans, unique financing ideas, and ways to best lead your organization.
Entrepreneurs by definition work in a resource constrained environment (if resources weren't constrained, the entrepreneurs would be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company). So, when resources are constrained, you can't possibly divide the few resources you have into multiple opportunities. Rather, you absolutely must focus on just one opportunity, and put everything you have into achieving it.
So, make sure you focus all of your efforts on just one opportunity. And once you achieve success with that opportunity, you can focus on your other ideas and opportunities.
Last weekend, friends of ours invited me and my family to their country club.
It was a beautiful club, and unlike other clubs in the area, had a big lake where everyone swam.
But immediately after gazing at the beauty of the lake, something else caught my eye.
An old high diving board. I mean a really high one.
I knew my kids saw it too, so I turned to see their reactions.
My 8-year old daughter had a very calm reaction; for there was no way in her mind that she was going to jump off the board.
My 10-year old son, on the other hand, looked excited and nervous at the same time. Since he was already contemplating his dilemma.....jumping off it would be fun...but really scary.
As entrepreneurs, jumping off the high diving board is something we must do quite often. Sure, we are not physically climbing up a ladder and jumping into a pool of water. But we must often do things that are out of our comfort zone if we want to succeed.
What are some of these entrepreneurial "high dive" moments?
1. Starting your business plan. The first step in starting a business is always the hardest. It's committing to yourself that you're really going to go out on your own. Most folks dream about having their own company. But the first real step is putting your business idea down on paper as a business plan. (Note: for help with your business plan, watch this video.)
2. Getting advisors. When I interviewed Dr. Basil Peters, he told me that getting mentors and advisors is an entrepreneur's most controllable success factor. Yet, many entrepreneurs are afraid to find and ask advisors for help. Maybe it's the fear of uncovering what we don't know, or the fear of people we respect disagreeing with some of our ideas or assumptions. But if you want to succeed, you need these expert opinions and guidance.
3. Talking to customers. Many entrepreneurs don't speak to their customers early enough. They come up with ideas that they think will work. But they don't ask prospective customers if they will buy the products. Likewise, even when entrepreneurs successfully sell to customers, they are often fearful of asking for referrals.
4. Meeting with investors. A final entrepreneurial "high dive" moment that I wanted to mention is meeting with investors. This legitimately can be very frightening…it's scary when you're telling others about your entrepreneurial baby who have the ability to make (by funding you) or break you (by not funding you). Worse yet is the potential of the investors to be totally under-whelmed by you and/or your idea to an extent that you have to go back to the drawing board. (Note: to make sure you make every investor meeting a success, watch this video.)
As Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his first inaugural address, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." So jump off that high dive board, and achieve the success you deserve.
And as for my son….his first trip up the high dive ladder was slow and methodical. Then he stood at the edge of the board and thought for a while before his first jump.
After the jump, everything changed. When his head first emerged from the water, he had an enormous smile of joy, satisfaction and pride that he had faced his fears. And he must have gone off the diving board 20 more times after that!!!
My 10 year old son and 8-year old daughter tend to get along pretty well.
But, there's still times where they're at each others' throats.
The other day was one of those days.
So, my wife and I used our usual plan - divide and conquer.
The divide and conquer plan is pretty simple. She takes one of the kids. And I take the other.
The fighting stops instantly as our kids are separated, and each of our kids gets one-on-one time with one of their parents.
Now, even though we prefer to do things as a whole family, the plan works great. And either later that day, or the next day, we'll regroup and do something as a complete family.
The divide and conquer plan can also be used in your business. For example, clearly there are times when your whole company should meet to form company-wide bonds.
But many other times, you, as the leader, should divide. For example, you should spend time just with your marketing team. That team will then feel special. They will not be jockeying for attention against other parts of the company.
And you can use this time to really focus on that one area. To improve it. To set metrics for the team to perform against.
The leaders of sports teams divide and conquer all the time. A typical professional football coach will do lots of drills with his complete team. And then, like a business, will separate into functional areas led by specific coaches; like the linebackers coach, the wide receivers coach, the quarterbacks coach, and so on.
And then the head coach will circulate among each of these functional areas to add value, support them, and make sure they are getting in position to help the entire organization perform the best it can.
Divide and conquer is also a great technique if your business faces multiple challenges. It is typically most effective to overcome one challenge at a time. While multi-tasking often makes us feel that we are being productive, it often backfires with key tasks not getting done as quickly as they should.
So make sure that you constantly divide or separate your business challenges and functional areas, and conquer or devote the required time to nurture and solve them.
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the map that hangs by me (or, thomas hardy, or, blogging the MSA, part two)
It's neat to see someone you know is a very sharp critic give a smart talk (or to see someone whose poems you expect to like read new, good poems), but it's even neater in some ways to come across truly informative arguments from a critic you've never encountered at all. The best paper I heard in Long Beach by a critic whose name I'd never before seen was also one of the best, and most ambitious, arguments about poetry I've heard all year: the critic was Eve Sorum, and the argument had to do with the poetry of Thomas Hardy, the late-Victorian practice of cartography, and the debate about how to read English metres which was taking place while Hardy wrote his poems. Which poems? What debate? What maps? Huh? More below the fold.
Sorum starts with this poem of Hardy's, "The Place on the Map," a mysterious minor lyric in which the poet (or, in an earlier version, a schoolmaster) examines a map and remembers– well, something; it's not clear what– that took place at a seaside spot the map indicates. Whatever happened there, it put an end to the "weeks and weeks" of seaside love Hardy and his beloved enjoyed: "the map revives her words, the spot, the time,/ And the thing we found we had to face," which mysterious thing– suspected bigamy? suspected pregnancy? infidelity? the poem itself does not say– put an end to their heavenly time. (The poem may belong to the famous group of sad poems Hardy wrote after the death of his first wife, Emma; it's in the same book, though not part of the famous sequence.)
I'm not going to do justice here to Eve Sorum's argument, but I can say that it did what all the best arguments about poetry do– it took me deeper into the poem; like most of the best such arguments these days, it started way outside that poem, with the cartographers who are deciding how to make accurate maps of England, and with the debaters (among them Coventry Patmore) who are having an argument about whether English metre is "really" composed of feet with two or three syllables, or whether instead it's "dipodic," having feet (as in the scansion of classical languages) which often contain two strong beats.
Sorum convinced me that the poem's weird scansion– most of the stanzas have first lines of five or six feet, then seven, then three, then six for the rest of each stanza– mimics the movements, in the poem, between past and present, which is to say between territory and map (I hope I got that part of it right). These stanzas also try to turn the poet's movement between past and present (his movement within memory, in time) into the record of a place: they create a sort of "thematic map," which is to say that the poem itself is like a map, which is to say, too (though she didn't say this) that this poem of Hardy's really resembles, and may even be one source for, Elizabeth Bishop's much-quoted poem "The Map."
Sorum also thinks– and here I want to read more on the topic: I'm interested, but not convinced– that Hardy is experimenting with dipodic metre, crafting at least some of his lines in a way that (according to dipodic metre's advocates) speaks to the history of the English language, a way that keeps faith with that language, just as the man in the poem wishes he could keep faith with the beloved who vanishes into his past.
There are several versions of "dipodic metre," and several ways to take this argument. I'm not sure from Sorum whether the mode of English scansion Patmore advocated, and Hardy (if we believe her) contemplated, was the dipodic metre Annie Finch says Poetry Foundation blogger Patricia Smith uses really well (I think the latter is a way to hear ballads, whereas the former is a unit of analysis applicable to many stanzas and lines). I myself don't hear lots of two-beat units within most lines from this poem of Hardy's, whose hexameter conclusions remind me instead of his poem about the Titanic. Hexameters like Hardy's tend either to break in half, into trimeters, or to hold up as integrated units: which one, and when, can determine the sound of a poem. Moreover I'm not sure how much the maps in this poem, or the maps in the other poem she discussed, are informed by the history of maps. (I'm fascinated by maps these days; I'm writing about poems and maps myself, though not about Hardy.)
I am sure, though, that these arguments about how lines in a poem are like spots on a map, and how both are like Hardy's versions of memory and of metre, made me want to read more– more Hardy, of course, and more about Hardy (especially this book by Dennis Taylor, which true Hardy-heads have always already read), but also more of Sorum's own claims about how to read a poem, how other people hear the poems I read, and how everyone used to read English maps. There's not much more, from a critic, that I can ask.
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Hi Steve–thanks for bringing us back to the subject of poems! It sounds like this talk had some overlap of ideas, too, with your own interesting presentation on landscape in poems at ALSC. I've just been rereading Hardy.
The poem swings prettily easily into dipodic verse for me–(though as is often the case it takes a couple of lines to pick up–or pick up on–the momentum). Hardy is the king of nonce verse forms, but they all have their internal logic, and this no different–this scans quite regularly, with the stanzas all going (in dipodic measure):
3 strong beats (i.e., "For the wonder and the wormwood of the whole")
4 strong beats
2 strong beats
3 strong beats
As if he has in the first two lines divided up a heptameter, and in the second, divided up a pentameter line.
The Victorians–and the Georgians–were engaged in all kinds of interesting metrical experiments that got thrown out with the bathwater in the vers libre movement. Alas, much post-Victorian metrical poetry (at least in the US) has gone back to an almost 18th century rigidity.
Since I doubt dipodic verse is all that familiar to most people, I am tempted to do a separate post on the issue…
Hi Steve and Alicia, It's so good to see a post involving prosody here that I will plunge right into the thread…. By dipodic, I mean not anything to do with a number of stresses, but the alternation of strong and weak stresses in each line, so the line swings along as if on two different "feet." (this is the definition explored by Housman in the famous footnote to his essay "The Name and Nature of Poetry," where he makes great claims for the future of dipodic meter). A famous example is Gilbert and Sullivan's
I AM the VERy MODel OF a MODern MAJor GENerAL
(My bold isn't coming out here so I'll just say that the caps are in bold on the syllables AM, MOD, MOD, and GEN to indicate the stronger stresses)
Many strongly metrical poems can easily be heard as dipodic; Poe's "The Raven, " for example, can fall without much effort into a pattern of alternating strong and weak trochees:
WHILE i PONDered, WEAK and WEARy.
(Caps are bold on WHILE and WEAK to indicate the stronger stresses)
A more complex example, both because it doesn't make any metrical sense unless you hear the dipodic pattern, and because it also has a strong caesura in the middle, is Meredith's "Love in the Valley":
NEAR the FACE of DAWN, that || DRAWS aTHWART the DARKness
THREADing IT with COLour, || like YEWberRIES the YEW.
(caps are bold on NEAR, DAWN, DRAWS,and DARk, and on THREAD, COL, YEW, and YEW, to indicate stronger stresses)
The Gilbert and Sullivan song might be called iambic-dipodic, since it alternates strong and week iambs. The Meredith would be trochaic-dipodic, alternating strong and weak trochees.
At first I heard the Hardy poem as dipodic, but now I really don't think it is. If it were dipodic, it would have to be trochaic-dipodic, I think, like "The Raven." That scansion would work pretty well for this line:
SHE in FORMed me WHAT would HAPpen BY and BY.
(caps are bold on SHE, WHAT, and the first BY to indicate the stronger stresses)
But not well at all for this line:
COLoured PURPle, WITH a MARgin OF blue SEA.
(caps are bolld on COL, WITH, and OF to indicate the stronger stresses)
Dipodics is not the kind of meter that poets tend to vary much—it's too easy to lose track of the pattern—and a poet of Hardy's ear would not be likely to stress "of" more than "sea."
Good prosodists tend to subscribe to he Occam's razor principle of scansion—the simpler, the better—and I think in this case the simplest and most accurate scansion of "The Place on the Map" would be not dipodic at all but iambic. Hardy does use some fairly daring variations in the iambic meter. Each stanza has a pattern of varying line-lengths: a pentameter, a heptameter, a trimeter, and another pentameter. There are plenty of anapests, especially in the third and fourth last line of each stanza. But he doesn't do anything that breaks the iambic pattern. Iambic meter is the only scansion that makes sense of not only the two lines I just looked at—
She inFORM/ed me WHAT/ would HAP/pen BY /and BY
colored PUR/ple WITH /a MAR/ gin OF/ blue SEA
and also of all the other lines in the poem.
The paper you heard sounds fascinating in so many ways, but unless there are scansions there that will convince me otherwise (if there are, I'd love to see them and will happily change my mind), I think the dipodic part of the argument is not valid. Though Hardy did use some noniambic meters (among the most memorable, to my ear, the dactyls of "The Voice,") "The Place on the Map" is an iambic poem, as is most of his poetry. Generally, he was more adventurous in terms of form (how the stanzas are built in temrs of rhyme, line length, etc) than meter.
Thanks, Steve, for the intriguing post.…
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