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Monolith Looms Over Harvard
Foundations Of Civilization Shaken
March 2, 2003
I am informed by the Harvard Crimson* that the boys among the studentry recently fashioned a large penis from snow on the grounds of the university. Grave consequences ensued. A great squealing arose, as if a Victorian spinster had found a man under her bed. There was righteousness enough to gag Jonathan Edwards. Feminists made solemn asses of themselves. It was a splendid show and a good time was had by all.
The--I will avoid all the obvious plays on words--construction of the offending organ was the sort of tasteless, crass, immature, natural, and entertaining thing that college boys are supposed to do. I wish I had thought of it. The reasonable response would have been for the administration to take it down and go about their business of mismanaging the school.
But no. The feminists among Hahvad's girl chillun promptly got their knickers in a bunch over the chill appendage. (The frigid attacking the frigid.) (Wait. No, I promised I wouldn't do that.) But then, perhaps the uproar represented progress. These basilisks being what they are, I'm surprised they recognized the thing.As in all affairs involving feminism, language was the first casualty. One Amy Keel, class of '04, opined, "As a feminist, pornography is degrading to women and creates a violent atmosphere," which implies either that pornography is a feminist or that Amy wasn't paying a lot of attention in sixth-grade English. No, Amy, pornography does not create a violent atmosphere. She then proceeded to pull rank by claiming to be a "rape survivor." This is a show-stopper for feminists, for whom it is a stock in trade. They cherish rape as a tobacconist does tobacco. The least of them, which is all of them, can quote statistics showing that seven out of every three women have been raped in the last minute and a half. To doubt the veracity of such a traumatized girl would be terribly insensitive and few men will essay it. Which is the reason for the claim.
Now, I know nothing of Amy, except that she speaks estrogenated Marxigunch. Yet I notice that an awful lot of feminettes parade themselves as rape veterans, and brandish their status as a political broadsword. Given that they tend to be phenomenal liars, in such cases it might be prudent to respond, "Yes. No doubt. You can show me the police report, I suppose. Otherwise the skeptical might think you had awarded yourself a Purple Heart. We wouldn't want that."
(Their response would be, "It was so destructive to my self-esteem that I didn't report it." Then, often, they tell newspapers about it. I can hardly think of a better way to keep a secret.)Continuing her analysis of the snowy projection, Amy said, "Men think they have the right to force that on you. It's a logical extension." No doubt the sculpture was an extension of sorts, but logical? The adjective would not have occurred to me.Amy, with a roommate in support, assaulted the protuberance with the intention of deconstructing it. "A few people came out and crowded me with their bodies and one person shoved me away from the penis," she said. "It was gendered violence, because [their comments] were said in the context of our gender and accompanied by aggressive actions toward us."
As silly cant and boilerplate prudery, Amy's approximations of thoughts are amusing, but the undercurrent of prissy sexual fear depresses. When I was a college boy, the girls would have laughed, rolled their eyes and said, "Guys. What can you do with them?" and perhaps made invidious comparisons concerning their boyfriends. Then they would have wandered off and done something constructive. Study, even.
Understandably people get tired of "When I was a kid" wisdom. Yet there is a relevance. The girls of rural Virginia in 1962 were emotionally hardy, perfectly able to handle boys, seldom depressed, and couldn't have achieved neurosis with a birddog and a buzz saw. As far as I know, the word "self-esteem" didn't exist. Anorexia and bulimia hadn't been invented, and would have found no market. Within the limits of the shocks the flesh is heir to, girls were happy and psychically sound. So were boys.
What happened? Those who devote their young lives to looking in closets and being perpetually angry when they have no reason for doing so, who seem devoured by pointless anxiety actively courted, cannot be happy.Adolescence is not the exclusive province of the adolescent, though it loses its appeal in those beyond its proper ambit. Saith the Crimson, Harvard has a lecturer in Women's Studies called Diane Rosenfeld, who teaches Women, Violence and the Law. (Remember when Harvard was a university?) Said Diane, "The ice sculpture was erected in a public space, one that should be free from menacing reminders of women's sexual vulnerability Women do not need to be reminded of the power of the symbol of the male genitalia. My guess is that they are constantly reminded of it in daily messages."One imagines a long line of FedEx employees rushing up with the messages. The solemnity of the incorrigibly absurd is perhaps its own punishment. I hope so. But whence the "sexual vulnerability"? The sorrow of my life in college was the lack of such vulnerability. My guess is this. The sexual vulnerability of women springs not from rapists but from having been made by feminists into easy sexual game. When I was coming up, college girls could say "yes," and frequently did. But they didn't have to. They could choose whether, when, and with whom. The Pill existed, but society had not decayed to the point that a girl almost had to use it.The rules changed, but women didn't. Under the old rules, a male had to stick around if he wanted sex. Since he was going to be around for a while, he chose someone he really liked. Sex was a wonderful idea, and always a possibility, but not the heart of things.Under the new rules, the woman has to provide sex in advance to have any hope of anything else, because there is always someone else who will say yes. Among young males, the sex drive trumps everything if women let it. Today, waving the flag of liberation, they do. They still want respect, romance, commitment, and marriage. Yes, many will furiously deny it. Date them a few years later. But feminism and contraception have turned the tables not so much in favor of men, as in favor of sex over all else.The effect has been to commoditize women, to make them into, yes, sex objects. One day they will come shrink-wrapped.
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|Wednesday shootaround: Kevin Garnett not paying attention to Knicks' 'shenanigans'
|05.01.13 at 12:53 pm ET
NEW YORK — No one knows trash talking like Kevin Garnett.
He also knows how to tune it out like no one else, or at least not feed into publicly.
J.R. Smith said there wouldn't be a Game 5 Wednesday night in New York if he had not been suspended for Game 4, while Kenyon Martin is suggesting black formal wear at Madison Square Garden for the Celtics' funeral.
"I have not paid attention to none of the shenanigans," Garnett said before Wednesday morning's shootaround at Madison Square Garden.
Garnett says he knows what it will take to be successful in Game 5 — taking one possession at a time and not getting overwhelmed by New York's tenacious defense.
"It's not that hard, to be honest," Garnett said of the approach. "Taking one possession at a time is something you have to be conscious of, not individually but as a group. Understanding each possession and what it means, the importance of that possession. Small things are what's going to make this a do-or-die type of game.
"I think it's more, not for us to [instill] doubt, but it's important to show some type of barrier, if not willingness, in this whole game. We know we're playing on the road and we know they play really well here. I think the important thing is not to get down, to come out with some fire and play throughout with that fire."
Garnett appreciates some of the fire on the Celtics bench in the form of Rajon Rondo. Garnett said he's been huge in helping Avery Bradley and Terrence Williams while being an extra pair of eyes for him and Paul Pierce in the post.
"More importantly, he's talking to Avery, T-Will, the guys who play the point guard position, Paul and I about opportunity and being aggressive, giving the coaching staff a perspective. Doe is a very smart guy, very high IQ when it comes to a lot of different things. He's giving his take on what he sees out there as far as where he's at. But more importantly being a safety net for Avery right now. Avery goes through periods where it's difficult. It's going to happen. We've all been young before. Just being like a security blanket for Avery and anyone else who needs it."
Garnett has 34 rebounds in the last two games. What has been the secret to his success?
"I don't know," he said. "I haven't really [put] thought into it, to be honest. A lot of rebounding is timing. Tyson [Chandler] and I, Kenyon and I are down there battling for the ball. It's not one or two things that go into it, nor would I like to share, but the things that I have been doing are working for me and I'm going to stick with it.
"You don't have a choice whether you like it or not. It's whether you adapt or not. If you don't adapt, you know what end you end up on, and I don't want to end up on that end."
NEW YORK — The reality could hit soon and very hard for Paul Pierce and the Celtics if Boston doesn't win Game 5 here at Madison Square Garden.
Reminded at the Wednesday morning shootaround that he is entering the final year of his current contract next season and could be playing his last game in a Celtics uniform, Pierce was philosophical.
"I've always been a guy who says things happen for a reason," Pierce said. "I was a No. 10 [overall] pick [in 1998]. I did not anticipate that. I just always feel like through my whole career things everything is going to fall into the right place for me. So, I really don't give much thought until after the season. But I know, at the end of the day, whatever I do, whatever they do, it's going to fall into the right place for me."
Pierce is signed through next season for just over $15.3 million but it is not guaranteed. Pierce is aware that the team could trade him in the offseason if the Celtics want to clear space, and if another team acquires him and then dumps the contract.
"I've always said that I want to end my career as a Celtic but they are the ones [who decide]," Pierce said. "I have a year contract for next year but it's not guaranteed so the decision is in their hands. But, whatever they decision they make… Maybe if they trade me somewhere or I end up somewhere else, maybe it could be a situation where I come back for a one-day deal and retire as a Celtic.
"Right now, it's just year-by-year. I expect to play another year next year and then evaluate after that."
Meanwhile, Pierce isn't worried about what the Knicks are saying either. Reminded that Kenyon Martin suggested black formal wear to Game 5 for the Celtics' funeral, Pierce responded, "No reaction. It's basketball. I'm not going to be dead after the game."
|Tuesday practice notes: Doc Rivers treats Game 5 like another Game 7,
|04.30.13 at 2:19 pm ET
WALTHAM — It's a theme that began last weekend after the Game 3 loss to the Knicks. Every game the rest of the series is like Game 7. It worked in Game 4 as the Celtics won, 97-90, in overtime but the Knicks still lead the series, 3-1.
"Like I told them, what's the difference between being down 0-3 and being in a Game 7?" Doc Rivers asked rhetorically. "It's no different. It's an elimination game. The difference is your mindset. In a Game 7 you're thinking, 'Let's win it to win it.' When you're down 0-3, you never know. You may have a couple guys making vacation plans, thinking you can't do it. It's all about the mindset. And that's what I told our guys before the game the other night and that will be the message still. Each game you win, it is a Game 7. If you advance, you just advance to another game instead of to the next round. That's got to be our mindset."
Rivers knows veterans like Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry fully understand that message. The hope is that it's filters to players like Avery Bradley and Jeff Green Wednesday night in New York.
"You know, Game 7s are all out," Garnett said before Tuesday's practice. "It's just what they are. They're your last opportunity to survive and your mentality can't be anything different. We have no pressure at this point. It should be an all-out mentality and you should play with a free mind and an aggressive mind and take this thing one game at a time and see what happens. Other than that, we put [ourselves] in this position, and we can't [complain] about too much."
Did Sunday's Game 4 OT win instill more confidence in the group as they hit the road?
"Don't know," Rivers answered. "I'm hoping that we had confidence to begin with, but I honestly don't know. I think we are really looking forward to the next game."
What was clear to Rivers and his coaching staff from watching film is that another 18 turnovers Wednesday in New York like they had on Sunday will end the season. Aside from turning the ball over, the Celtics need to repeat their offensive flow of the first half, when they shot 50 percent and built a 19-point halftime lead.
"Well, we have to repeat it," Rivers said. "It's clear when we play a certain way, and that's in an attack mode, not settling offensively, moving the ball, getting in transition, we're hard to stop. It's also clear when we get into the half-court and slow the ball down we're not that hard to stop and that's obvious."
Other nuggets from Tuesday practice from Doc Rivers:
Second chance points. Frustrating for KG? "That's frustrating for him. And some of them were switches where we switch and Chandler is underneath with a guard. We got called for two face guard block outs, which is legal. And I think we have to explain that honestly to our official, because it doesn't look legal and I agree with them in that, but it actually is a legal position. We're telling our guards instead of backing up, turn around and face guard them and block them out that way. Your'e not going to get the ball, but they're not going to either. So that's something we're trying to do. but their guards got a lot of rebounds too. Shumpert hurt us on the glass. Jason Kidd hurt us on the glass too. So we can't give up the extra shots with the turnovers and the offensive rebounds and expect to win tomorrow on the road. We just can't do that. So we have to definitely fix the turnovers first and then the rebounds second.
On admiring KG for hard work it takes to get ready? "No, people have no idea what he goes through, and you can't unfortunately. But it really is watching him just in there now doing all the stuff that they're doing, the stretching. He just plays because he loves it, and it's will. A lot of guys would just not play anymore. The fact that he does and to the level that he does it, I mean he's a rebounding machine for us right now, and we need it." Read the rest of this entry »
WALTHAM — For Jason Terry and the Celtics offense, the hope is that Sunday's Game 4 is a sign that the fuse has been lit.
The veteran point guard was asked before Tuesday's practice if his 18-point performance on Sunday in Game 4 – which included a season-saving 9-0 run at the end of overtime – is a sign that his offensive game is coming around at the right time.
"I'm just feeding off the fact that I don't want to go home right now," Terry said. "I feel like we have a lot of basketball left with this particular group. If we win, we get another opportunity to come back here and play another game.
"We just know that if we can score 90-plus points, we're going to have an opportunity to win. We've doing a decent job defensively of holding them under their season average but offensively, we've struggled. We started to get a little bit of a breakthrough the last game. Hopefully, the floodgates will open and we'll have one of those performances."
Indeed, the Celtics scored 97 points in Sunday's 97-90 Game 4 win, though they needed 53 minutes to reach that figure.
"It's just staying persistent, staying in the moment and knowing every possession is critical," Terry said. "You can't turn the ball over. That's been a struggle for us this series. If we don't turn it over, we stay persistent and keep defending the way we are, we're going to have a great chance shot to win the game."
Is that Terry's veteran message to other Celtics?
"This is what I'm saying," Terry said. "This is my approach. If it feeds on to them, hopefully, it does. If it doesn't, I still have to go out and play like that for myself to be right."
Of course, Game 5 in New York will be a hostile environment. Some – like Kenyon Martin predicted on Monday – might call it a funeral for the Celtics season. It was Martin who suggested everyone at Madison Square Garden wear black for the occasion. Read the rest of this entry »
|Paul Pierce: 'I had a certain calmness' about Game 4
|04.28.13 at 9:17 pm ET
Paul Pierce wasn't preoccupied with "what-ifs" heading into an elimination game Sunday afternoon at TD Garden. What if the Celtics lost? Could this be the last game in a Celtics uniform for the captain who is signed through next season.
"To be honest, I was calm," Pierce said. "I had a certain calmness about the game today," Pierce said after scoring a team-high 29 points in a 97-90 overtime win against the Knicks that kept the season alive and sent the series back to New York for Game 5 Wednesday night.
Pierce played nine seconds shy of 50 minutes on this day that his Celtics career might have ended. He didn't want it to end like this, on his home court, blowing a 20-point third-quarter lead and missing a trademark iso shot that would've won the game in regulation.
'Yeah you know every game is tough in the playoffs," Pierce said. "We had a sizable lead, but we understood that they could make a run. They're a good team. But you know, we gotta limit their runs. We gotta be better, especially in the third quarter. That's been our Achilles heel in this series, and so hopefully we can look to improve upon that in Game 5.'
Pride is a word that gets thrown around a lot but the Celtics showed a lot of it in the fourth quarter when the Knicks had already gotten back into the game and could sense the kill. But Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry rallied the troops.
'Yeah, there was a lot of pride," Pierce said. "Us, as [leaders] of the team, we've got to instill it in these guys. You saw with the attitude before the game, we knew we were gonna come out with the force we did today, and it carried over into the game. And this crowd. You gotta give a hand to this crowd. They really gave us a boost. Everytime I look up there, you feel it, you see it, you hear it; there's just so much pride when you look around, the banners, the crowd and everything going on with the Boston Celtics history.'
|Doc Rivers on Jason Terry: 'He brings sunshine'
|at 6:24 pm ET
Doc Rivers knew Jason Terry was fired up and still ticked off from the J.R. Smith elbow on Friday night late in Game 3.
That fire and determination paid huge dividends on Sunday in a 97-90 overtime, season-saving win at TD Garden. Terry drained the go-ahead three with 1:32 left in overtime, as he scored the final nine points of Game 4.
Was it the elbow that Smith threw that got him fired up?
'He was definitely vocal," Rivers said. "Someone said it [Saturday]; maybe that elbow ' who knows? [Terry] said it changed the events for all of us. Definitely Jason Terry was angry that it happened. He let his teammates know yesterday and today. But he's just a fighter. I've told you that before. You know, I didn't know him until this year and I said it the other day: he's just one of those guys you want around your team, whether he's playing or not. He brings sunshine. There's guys ' I would say probably most of you guys, you bring those dark clouds every time I see you ' a couple of you don't. But the sunshine-bringers, that's who you want. And Jason Terry is one of those guys.'
Terry scored 18 points in 41 minutes off the Boston bench, both playoff highs so far.
'He was great," Rivers said. "You know, that's what he does. He's made so many big shots in his career; you knew in transition'¦It's amazing, you know, you guys don't get to see it but when you watch all the guys, and not just Jason Terry, but when you watch them practice on the floor on their own, they work on certain shots. And that's the shot, that transition three is something he works on all the time. And you knew once he got it what he was going to do. I thought it was interesting when you watch the play, I thought Jason Kidd knew it too. Because you could see him coming from the basket, from them playing with each other. So it was a big shot. And the other shot he made was big as well. So, that's what he does. That's good.'
Rivers said the go-ahead three wasn't the only huge shot Terry made in his 9-0 run.
'Yeah, yeah, but the five were big," Rivers said. "The three, and the two off the pick, those were huge. I'll take all of them, but the five, they were huge.'
Here is the rest of Doc Rivers' postgame press conference from Sunday.
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|OT save: Jason Terry leads the C's to win and Game 5
|at 4:05 pm ET
The Celtics live to fight another day.
Jason Terry nailed a go-ahead three with 90 seconds left in overtime and scored Boston's final seven points as the Celtics overcame blowing a 20-point third-quarter lead and beat the Knicks, 97-90, in Game 4 Sunday afternoon at TD Garden. With the win, the Celtics stave off elimination and will play the Knicks in Game 5 Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, trailing the series, 3-1.
In a season filled with a record 11 overtime games, Game 4 appropriately came down to an extra period.
Paul Pierce scored 29, Jeff Green added 26 and Kevin Garnett chipped in with 13 points and 17 rebounds for the Celtics, who blew a 20-point third quarter lead. Carmelo Anthony had 36 points while Raymond Felton added 27 for New York, which was playing without the suspended J.R. Smith.
For the third time in the series, the Celtics took a halftime lead but this time Celtics were overpowering in building their advantage. The Celtics shot 50 percent in the first quarter, as Pierce led the way with seven points and the Celtics led, 22-17 after one.
Pierce led the charge against the Knicks in the second quarter, scoring 10 of his 17 first-half points. Led by a pair of Pierce threes late, Boston went on a 19-6 run to end the second quarter and grabbed a 54-35 halftime lead. The Knicks were extremely sloppy in the first half, committing 13 turnovers.
Green was also huge in the second quarter, scoring nine of his 15 first-half points and helping Boston outscore New York, 32-18. It took four games but the Celtics produced their best half of offensive basketball, making 20-of-39 shots (51.3 percent).
Fouls became a huge issue in the third quarter.
Garnett, Green all picked up their fourth fouls in the first four minutes. The Knicks were in the bonus with 7:12 left in the third quarter. Still, the Celtics managed a 20-point lead at 59-39. But the Knicks – led by Raymond Felton – finally got hot from 3-point range.
Carmelo Anthony's jumper with 6:44 left in the third capped an 8-0 Knicks run and cut the lead to 12, 59-47. After a Green layup, the Knicks collected a loose ball rebound and Raymond Felton drilled a three, cutting Boston's lead to 11, 61-50.
Anthony was called for his fourth foul moments later and the Celtics regained momentum, building the lead back to 14. But Felton hit his third three with three minutes left in the quarter to pare the lead down to 10, 65-55. Anthony came out of the game with 3:35 left in the third and the Knicks down, 14. Without their MVP, Felton and Iman Shumpert led the Knicks on a 14-3 surge to end the third quarter, including a three with 0.2 seconds left in quarter as Boston led by just three, 68-65, heading into the final quarter. Terry hit another jumper with 50.4 second left to re-establish the three-point lead, 93-90.
After a Garnett free throw on an illegal defense call, Anthony hit a layup to cut the Boston lead to two. Pierce answered with a deep three with 9:40 left to put Boston up, 72-67. An Iman Shumpert steal of Pierce and layup with 7:16 left tied the game, 74-74.
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Consensus: Youths join gangs to acquire a sense of belonging
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Gangs all have some form initiation. The initiation sets the stage for what is to follow. The Chaves County Task Force agent said, "For a male, initiation usually consists of the prospective member being beaten up by the gang to prove his manhood in a process known as jumping in. The wanna-be gang member jumps into the center of a circle. For a girl, gang initiation is sexual in nature."
The criminologist added the process of rolling the dice to decide the number of people and the number of hits. "If you roll a 12, then 12 people participate."
The criminologist said that people of Roswell need to take notice. "We have a problem here, particularly among the young. Youths joins gangs because they want to get a sense of belonging. They need this. [auth] What do you do here if you're a kid and not interested in sports?"
He pointed to programs started in other cities where the city government or local businesses will allot wall space for kids to use their artistic talents. In Roswell the only outlet is tagging. He said cities like Los Angeles have recording studios that permit students to records songs they have written.
Although he applauds music programs and youth programs available in Roswell, the criminologist said that many of our young are not into jazz, band or classical orchestra; they want rap. Youth centers such as the Yucca Center have a fee.
He credits some criminal behavior among the young with poverty. "Many of these kids have to steal to get food. Mom and dad are involved with drugs and the kids suddenly find themselves acting as parents to younger brothers and sisters who they must feed."
The criminologist believes that besides providing sufficient entertainment for the young to give them an alternative to gang membership, education is the key to help the young break the cycle. "I'd rather pay to educate than incarcerate."
New Mexico Gang Task Force member Tamara Marcantel agreed. She said the solution must be a comprehensive community approach, which includes a series of steps — prevention, intervention, enforcement and re-entry initiatives.
Prevention is directed at the youth. It requires active education about gangs in the school system, educating to the community about the problem, providing people information to complete a risk assessment. Marcantel also pointed to poverty as a cause. "We must make sure that these children have their basic needs met, food, shelter.
"Intervention comes after prevention and may require law enforcement," Marcantel said. Intervention goes hand-in-hand with prevention, with a common goal to stop gang involvement before it has gone too far.
"Enforcement means enforcing the law. It means accountability. "The individual must take responsibility for his actions," Marcantel said.
Re-entry initiatives train people to join society after incarceration, providing jobs and education.
Marcantel provided a ray of hope for people of the state. "The figures on gangs and gang-related crimes are dropping in New Mexico, although I can't say with any certainty if this is because crimes are decreasing, or because the budget cuts the crimes are not being reported to us."
She added, "In New Mexico there is no mechanism for tracking gang-related crimes. This is not unique to New Mexico. It is a national problem."
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If kids join gangs for a sense of belonging, what does that say about the parents or parent who raised them. Self esteem and moral values start ar home.
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Dolan, Paul, Edlin, Richard, Tsuchiya , Aki and Wailoo, Allan (2007) It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it: characteristics of procedural justice and their importance in social decision-making. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 64 (1). pp. 157-170. ISSN 0167-2681
Standard welfare economic analysis evaluates all actions by their consequences. However, evidence from other disciplines suggests that the procedures by which decisions are made also affects the welfare of individuals. This paper outlines six characteristics on which judgements about procedural justice may be based. Using the example of health care rationing, we examine the importance of each characteristic using qualitative and quantitative methods. We further consider the importance of each of these characteristics relative to one another and examine whether they are important for consequential or non-consequential reasons.
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Dr. Sidney M. Gospe, Jr. is the Head of the Division of Neurology at Children's and holds the Herman and Faye Sarkowsky Endowed Chair in Child Neurology at the University of Washington. He has over 25 years of experience in the evaluation and care of children with neurological and neuromuscular disorders.
Dr. Gospe is a native of San Francisco and earned his BS and MS degrees from Stanford University. He then attended Duke University as a member of the MD-PhD program and completed his studies in 1981. His residency training in both pediatrics and child neurology was at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston (Texas Children's Hospital). Prior to his recruitment to Seattle Children's and the UW in 2000, Dr. Gospe was a member of the medical school faculties of the Albany Medical College and the University of California, Davis. At Children's, Dr. Gospe provides care to patients in the general neurology clinic and the neuromuscular clinic. He also conducts outreach clinics at several sites in Alaska. Dr. Gospe oversees the clinical, research and educational programs of the Division of Neurology. He has conducted basic neuroscience research in neurotoxicology (particularly regarding the effects of maternal exposure to toxicants on fetal brain development. His clinical research has focused on the natural history and genetic aspects of pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy.
Dr. Gospe has been my daughters doctor for over 3 years. He is wonderful, we love him. He listens, he explains, he's great.
Dr. Sidney Gospe evaluated my son Santhosh, during the period 2005 to 2008 @ Seattle Children's. We have been fortunate to be with Dr. Gospe. His soft, gentle, and honest feedback has motivated us to reach out to the doctor for repeated followups in our quest for a diagnosis. My assignment ended and I had to return abruptly back to India due to my illness. Dr. Gospe has remained in our thoughts for his professionalism, care, and deep insights of my son's illness. Unfortunately, after we returned to India, my other son also diagnosed with Peripheral Neuropathy, same as Santhosh. But we couldn't approach Dr. Gospe from India for treatment and checkups.
Dr. Gospe is knowledgeable, kind and gentle.
I travelled to Seattle from Kingston, Ontario Canada with my two children to see Dr. Sidney Gospe. We chose Dr. Gospe because of his extensive knowledge in seizure disorders and Pyridoxine Dependency.
I recommend this doctor to any parent who is dealing with a child who has neurological issues. Dr. Gospe is a very kind and knowledgable man and does everything he can to help. For us, it was well worth the long trip to see this specialist because there is no other neurologist that is comparable to Dr. Sidney Gospe. I felt confident that I was getting the correct answers and when he didn't know the answer to something he was honest about it and didn't pretend to know everything like many of the neurologists that we have seen in the past. We have seen many, many neurologists and Dr. Sidney Gospe is the best one we have ever encountered. You just can't go wrong with this incredible doctor.
Samantha Knapp
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Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child NeuPediatrics
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|Patriots Look Poised For Another Super Bowl Run
|Bruins Trade For Drew Stafford
|Black and Gold Bruins Turn Yellow On Parade Day
|Inconsistency Will Continue For Bruins Unless A Change Is Made
With the Red Sox season winding down, there's pretty much only one thing on the mind of Boston fans: who's going to manage the team in 2013?
According to Bobby Valentine, he's going to be back, and better than ever.
In an article on WEEI by Alex Speier, Valentine is answers queries about his job status by saying,
"My gut feeling is that they haven't told me yet," said Valentine. "There hasn't been any dialogue. We've talked, but [not about the job], which makes me think I'm coming back. I don't know."
Meanwhile, in the front office, general manager Ben Cherington seems to have other ideas regarding the Red Sox managerial position with the offseason approaching.
As reported by Peter Abraham, here is what Cherington said at the end of his interview with WEEI on Thursday:
"I'd always rather get the decision right than rush it," Cherington said. "But what we know we need to do is hit the ground running this offseason. One of the things that, as I look back on last offseason, that didn't go perfectly was simply the amount of time that we spent on the manager search and what that did to the rest of the offseason and I would like to spend less time on it this offseason, that's for sure."
Of course, Cherington quickly tried to clarify his statements on WEEI later that afternoon. It's not becoming to pseudo-fire your manager with less than a week left in your season (unless you're the Cleveland Indians, in which case you fire your manager with all of six games left, because that definitely helps set you up nicely for next season).
In attempting to explain himself to the Boston Globe, Cherington stammered,
"The only thing I can clarify is to tell you that I meant it in the most literal sense possible. We'd like to focus less of our offseason on who the manger is. I don't think that has anything to do with Bobby Valentine. It has to do with how we're allocating our time."
Well, I'll be darned if that doesn't leave me completely confused. I can't tell if that's a strangely roundabout endorsement of Valentine (since keeping him would, quite literally, be the most expedient managerial search possible) or simply another way Donald Trump might say, "You're fired."
Considering Valentine also mentioned there's "not much I would have done differently," I'd have to think Cherington has already made up his mind.
But hey, this is the Boston Red Sox after all. You know, the same team (by which I mean ownership group) that gave Cherington the reins to select their next manager, then went, "Ehhhh," and picked Valentine instead. Not to mention the same franchise that canned its most successful manager in history for one bad month and traded two "cornerstone" franchise players to gain financial flexibility for a largely mediocre 2013 free agent class.
So I guess maybe the better question for Red Sox fans is, Is it October 4th yet?
Tags: Ben Cherington, Bobby Valentine, John Henry, Larry Lucchino, Mercy


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So I walked into my local supermarket
to buy my weekly shipment of Kit Kat bars,
Cinnamon Toast Crunch,
and Ovaltine powder mix.
As I shake off the snow on my fake Timberland boots,
my skin,
coated in frozen animation,
thaws into warmth's teardrops from
the supermarket's 75 degree vents.
This moist sense of happiness was quickly interrupted
when I heard Wilson Phillips, "Hold On"
over the PA system.
Thankfully, the cutlery isle was just to my left.
So, now, I had plans!
But, before I could commit felony's song,
I saw her.
A Portuguese goddess
with a strut that can ruin a man's dignity.
She had Autobahn curves,
dark brown curls of hair & visuals,
and thick flesh meat that even Vegans would envy.
Her face lacked Maybelline coated misapprehension.
Thank God!
Cause I never did like clowns.
After staring longingly at her,
like a crack head with impulsive eyes upon a broken/unlabeled bag of baby powder,
she breezed past my stifled posture and clocked in to work.
She didn't even get a chance to smell my $500 cologne called "Piece of Me".
So with new-found urges to grab all my groceries,
like a burglar who really has to pee,
I rush to express checkout.
There she is.
Her register beeps in coupon lady's rhapsody,
while my register needs a cleanup on Isle 9.
Now it's my turn.
With girlish inner-screams of boy-band intensity,
I say, "Hi".
She scans my apples, while I scan her melons.
The melons that the customer ahead of me didn't want…
…they were on sale.
Go fig.
As if she read my mind,
she asks,
"Are you feeling warm now?"
"All I want is to be the heat in your moment",
which I almost said.
But, "Now I am", is uttered.
As she smiled with seductive demure,
she handed me my receipt
with her phone number on back.
As I left the market,
I began to get cold again.
These winds of change
became gusts of numbness.
I locked myself out of my heart.
I turned around to go back inside.
Only to discover,
she didn't have the key.
© Drake J. Eszes
Copyright © Drake Eszes | Year Posted 2010
A simple glimpse as fragile as rose petals
left her fragrance intoxicating my senses
Both fell into a state of mamihlapinatapei
Precipitous epiphany felt like koi no yokan
combined with doubts like La douleur exquise
Our eyes met with sensations of forelsket
Lost for words in the realms of yuanfen
as your vision became blurred with saudades
walking on leaving me in a state of kera sevde
I am alive but you left me feeling Ya'aburnee
These eyes of mine yearn for your presence
This heart of mine bleeds for your return
The Silent One
4 December 2015
Mamihlapinatapei – Yagan
A wordless, yet meaningful look between two people who both desire to initiate something, but both are too scared to initiate themselves.
Koi No Yokan – Japanese
The sudden knowledge upon meeting someone that the two of you are destined to fall in love.
La douleur exquise – French
The heartbreaking pain of wanting someone you can't have.
Forelsket – Norwegian
That overwhelming euphoric feeling you experience when you're falling in love with someone.
Kara sevde – Turkish
Meaning "black love" this is a lovesick term for when you feel that passionate, blinding love for another person.
Yuanfen – Chinese
A relationship by fate or destiny.
Ya'aburnee – Arabic
This phrase translates to "you bury me." This is the hope that the person you love will outlive you so you can spare the pain of living without them.
Saudade – Portuguese
The feeling of intense longing for a person or place you love but is now lost. A haunting desire for what is gone.
Copyright © Silent One | Year Posted 2015
The Old man of Merces
His wrinkled face bearing slaps of time
His eyes barren like a desert starved of rain
Glittering they must be during his prime
Crumbling body holding spirit in chain
His trembling hands resting on knees
Sinking and floating in thoughts deep
Oblivious of dry leaves falling of trees
Looking exhausted from lack of sleep
Unloved by loved ones abandoned by friends
His profile silhouetted like a ship aground
Tired of beleaguered life's twists and bends
Wishing his soul ascended the chariot Heaven-bound
A loveless life senseless for him
Agony and heartache ceaseless for him
The society appears as heartless for him
A longer living meaningless for him
My heart urged to stop by and greet
His souring thoughts from confines of chest release
The man with love and compassion treat
But alas my tongue isn't Portuguese
Each day in the morning cold
The snow-haired I found, resting on a boulder
Wearing a coat lusterless and old
With the muffler around neck hanging over shoulder
After absence of few months as I return
I find him no more on the boulder dozed
Like boiling waters in vapor turn
Seeing everything with eyes closed
With spirit in bondage and soul in chain
The picture of despair in a society blind
The symbol of affliction, anguish and pain
The venerable old man I failed to find
1 A small town in Sintra District in Portugal
Copyright © Mohammad Yamin | Year Posted 2010
Zwischen dem Morgen und der Nacht
fallen die Sterne in den Pazifischen Ozean.
Die ewige Sonne lässt die Wellen erklingen,
mit dem weichen Schaum leichten Schnees.
Die See singt Lieder des Vergessens,
von versunkenen Bäumen,
von leuchtenden Stränden,
von der Liebe.
Ich bin wie der Wind,
der den frischen und vollen Morgen berührt.
Der Ozean kennt viele Lieder.
Ich will keine verwundeten Wolken im Morgen zurücklassen,
um die Erinnerung nicht zu trüben.
Der Pazifische Ozean hat die Farbe von Azulejos,
den blauen Kacheln eines alten portugiesischen Hauses.
Die Wellen tragen meine Träume,
unvergessen, der Vergangenheit.
Die Möwen bringen mir die Zukunft,
mit frischer, ruhiger Stimme.
In stillen Nächten ertönt die Musik des Meeres,
dann stehen die Sterne auf, um erneut zu scheinen.
Between morning and night
the stars fall into the Pacific Ocean.
The everlasting sun lets the waves sound,
with the soft foam of light snow.
The sea sings songs of oblivion,
of submerged trees,
of luminous beaches,
of the love.
I am like the wind,
which touches the fresh and full morning.
The ocean knows many songs.
I do not want to leave behind wounded clouds in the morning,
not to cloud the memories.
The Pacific Ocean has the color of Azulejos,
the blue tiles of an old Portuguese house.
The waves carry my dreams,
unforgotten, of the past.
Sea gulls will bring me the future,
with a fresh, and quiet voice.
In silent nights the music of the sea resounds,
then stars arise to shine anew.
Entre la mañana y la noche
las estrellas caen hacia el Océano Pacífico.
El sol eterna hace sonor las ondas,
con la suave espuma de ligera nieve.
El mar canta canciones de olvida,
de árboles sumergidos,
de playas luminosas,
del amor .
Yo soy como el viento,
que toca la fresca y llena mañana.
El océano tiene muchas canciones.
Yo no quiero dejar nubes heridos en la mañana
para no empañar la memoria.
El Océano Pacífico es el color de los azulejos,
esos azulejos de una antigua casa portuguesa.
Las olas llevan mis sueños,
inolvidadas, del pasado.
Las gaviotas me traen el futuro,
con voz fresca y calma.
En noches tranquilas suena la música del mar,
y luego las estrellas se levantan para brillar de nuevo.
Copyright © Gert W. Knop | Year Posted 2010
Rio de Janeiro, a city by the shore:
Home to Ipanema, Carnival and dance folklore.
As a child, of you I read, from books that showed your Christ.
Arms outstretched, He guards your days and lights your sky by night.
And now I've stood beneath His feet and breathed the air you breathe.
I've viewed the famous Sugar Loaf, seen monkeys play in trees,
visited your fruit stands and drunk from a coconut shell.
I've searched for creatures hewn in stone that midnight vendors sell,
and on your soft and clinging sand, I thrust my toes deep in
and glistened under winter sun, brown sugar on my skin.
Along Copacabana, I jumped waves, enjoyed a beach
which, when they cross an avenue, all visitors can reach.
On weekends and on holidays, your several sea fronts teem
with hundreds, no with multitudes, of people who all seem
content to chat beneath umbrellas, lounging in the sun,
while on a road closed to all traffic, others like to run.
And on that winding promenade are folks, most clad in shorts,
thong-bikinied women, sundry shapes and shades all sorts!
Kids whiz by on roller blades; old or young may ride a bike.
Many simply merrily stroll, though dressed as for a hike.
And in your city's whole, the countless cars and bodies stream;
pedestrians and door-less shops, props in your waking dream.
with taxis veering left and right and people catching buses;
Cacophony of life your subways and your streets encompass.
Children on their mother's hands; boys in soccer shirts.
Men sip beers at sidewalk bars; girls scurry in their tight skirts.
Portuguese artisans laid the paths your people walk.
What tales immersed in history if cobblestones could talk!
More than a metropolis, you are yourself, unique!
And I have had the pleasure to have sampled your mystique.
For Bic Gi-Sa's Landscape and Towns Contest
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2010
Injustice is just an inconvenience until it is proven...
When the sun hit their helmets it startled the very souls of the natives
a signal upon their eyes that spoke like a siren of ill prophecy to the bone,
the armaments of a hell that hushed any hope of mythical tribal ties,
steel and steeds struck and trampled stone age traditions
and the Cross and Crown crushed the crowds that gathered for the Conquistadors,
arquebus bursts blew away bodies like brittle straw bundles
crossbows crippling the courage of Indians with crosscut arrows,
Spanish war dogs demonic in pursuit of pagan bowels
tearing into Incan and Aztec flesh with furious fangs,
Virococha and Quetzalcoatl were not to be found in the battles
but in the temple plazas the hot blood did spill into a new calander of rites,
the mita of a hundred generations meted out for an ecomienda of ceaseless serfdom,
men and women converted, not to a new class of faith, but a new caste of animal kingdom,
Men and women converted, not to a new class of faith, but a new caste of animal kingdom,
Captain we've lost three more this morning, the flux fever has finished their fight,
that's thirteen total since we disembarked from the Ivory Coast ladden like a whale with 375 of them...
The Dahomey warlords do not believe in the blood of their captives, nor pity their plight
the Portuguese, French and English store them like wet wood in the beach barracks
and here on the Sea Lion we lie them down like sweating corpses,
Toby, I've been shipping in this trade triangle for 18 years, pretending that its just business,
the stink and screams of human cargo are spoiling my soul, forcing slow tears,
the ocean used to look so blue to me, now it's just a rolling swell of suffering,
ring the bell three times for Neptune, before tossing them into the deep tide at twilight,
tell Jenson that I value his sea smarts, but that if I see him torment another human being
I will burn a hole through his throat with a fire iron and hang him from the front mast,
my conscience won't allow me to be a courier of insanity anymore,
every voyage begins with innocence, and all must end with admitting who and what you are...
Every voyage begins with innocence, and all must end with admitting who and what you are...
Today a man was freed who's back has the scars of a thousand cruelties,
abolition freed his will to the labor of liberty yet his soul cannot escape the field master,
blood stains upon unrefined cotton he has not forgotten in his sleeping cries,
his great grandmother spoke of stars in an African sky
his grandfather revealed traditions told quietly about ancient spirits,
when his Mother died under the sun he didn't ask why
and as his Father fought the overseer he knew what honor is,
by 1810 Denmark, Britain, and the United States of America had banned transatlantic slave trading,
Sierra Leone had become an industrious colony of former slaves,
by 1865 civil war in the United States dismantled slavery,
the 13th and 14th Amendments became the pillars of a new nation's days,
oh how fast the fields have grown,
so much more for our future to fathom,
I will beat you with it, choke you with it, and love you with it,
your beauty Avia, will survive in the legend of Goshen's price,
brutality is in the very bedrock here, within the law insanity kept,
yet it are the truly noble whom rise to death with confidence,
slay the symbols of captivity and you'll be set free,
Gentlemen, behold, the wild yet curious Laurentia, an unexplored beauty,
wonder not what good your purpose is, the soul knows what must be,
we will escape to the frontier where our love and independence have priority,
We will be the trustees of life's passions...
the world has awoken to our march, to our lightning it will listen,
Captivity can be the catalyst for self empowering revelations...
Injustice is just an inconvenience until it is proven...
men and women converted, not to a new class of faith, but to a new caste of animal kingdom,
Every voyage begins with innocence, and all must end by admitting who and what you are...
so much more for our future to fathom,
this whip is a relic of war -
I began composing this epic on July 3rd,
and completed the work on August 7th,
investing approximately 135 hours of intellect.
Also, I did not compose the 15th sonnet
prior to writing the preceeding 14 sonnets...Justin A. Bordner
Copyright © Justin Bordner | Year Posted 2016
Jarabe tapatío in the Plaza Castillo
Girls dance in the Mexican night
The floral bouquets of their dresses ablaze
A rainbow of colors so bright
But it wasn't so, such a long time ago
When dances had little such drama
So stay for a spell and you'll hear the tale
Of the lovely China Poblana
This Rajputi princess delighted the senses
So flawless in every way
In sari and shawl, just thirteen and small
She strolled by the seaside one day
Her biggest regret, she could never forget
That morning when she was taken
By pirates abducted, escaped but corrupted
And then by her betrothed forsaken
Sad and contrite, Meera fled in the night
Where a mission took her in care
With dear Father Xavier, she accepted our Savior
And passed all her evenings in prayer
But it was for naught, for again she was caught
By the Portuguese pirates once more
And despite being brave was sold as a slave
In Manila to serve as a whore
No one could foretell her of the fate that befell her
Or know that her tears were in vain
As the captain who bought her, saw in Meera a daughter
For his childless friends in New Spain
On the trip she was clad disguised as a lad
To hide from the sailors' desire
But when she arrived, her silks were revived
And she was dressed in her finest attire
In sari and shawl, this exotic doll
Made a stir in Puebla that day
Women were gawking, and couldn't stop talking
Of her Indian garments so gay
She started a fashion, to this day still a passion
Of Mexican feasts and folklore
For the dresses they wear to dance on the square
Are based on the garments she wore
And the name of the dress, you won't have to guess
And you won't have to wait till mañana
'Tis the self-same as her little nickname
They call it the China Poblana
They'll tell you forthwith of mysteries and myth
And the pious beautiful maiden
In holy nirvana she saw Christ and Madonna
'Twas the burden with which she was laden
The charros are dashing, the sequins are flashing
In Puebla they dance on the square
In each tap and each twirl, trips a Rajputi girl
But of this they are scarcely aware
And nearby in the temple, serene, white, and simple
In the sacristy, near a Madonna
Flowers are laid for the Indian maid
At the tomb of the China Poblana
N.B - In colonial Mexico a "chino or china" was any person from the orient.
Copyright © Roy Jerden | Year Posted 2013
Pampero you rush across the pampa's of Argentina
blowing fast and strong bending all before you.
Mighty and powerful you make your presence known
as you travel o'er the pampas in triumphant passage.
Ah Simoom you shift around the sand dunes
sucking up all moisture as you journey the Sahara,
creating vast clouds of blinding sand. Stinging
sands that cut like knives tearing at clothes.
Tramontane you blow so cold as you traverse
the Alps bringing with you freezing ice and snow.
And flick over to the Pyrenees where you dance
in delight as you blow hard and strong whipping up snow.
Wreckhouse you blow down the slopes of the Range mountains
of Newfoundland. Cleansing and refreshing as you bring
life giving rains to their slopes. Vibrant greens left by your path
as you go on to who knows quite where
Fremantle Doctor you are an afternoon sea breeze
coming in from the Indian Ocean you bring
welcome coolness across Perth with a salty tang,
but only in the summer months do you work your charms.
Plough winds breezing along in straight furrows
preceding thunderstorms forming clusters of rain.
No deviation in your path straight as a arrow
you bring lightning flashes that lit the skies.
Calima the dread of housewives as you bring
dust laden clouds to the shores of the Canary Islands,
coming south to southeasterly carried by the
Saharan air layer. The sooner gone the better.
Abrosolhos with your frequent squalls that traverse
in the months of May through to August known in
Portuguese as open eyes you flow between
Cabo de San Tome and Cabo Frio causing chaos.
written 2014
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Copyright © Shadow Hamilton | Year Posted 2014
Which nation of the world
Do I belong?
I belong to the nation
Of unity,
No transgression,
And freedom for all.
I belong to the nation
Of Equalities-
Equality between
Proletariat and aristocracy
Disabled and abled
Woman and man
Young and old
Black and colored
People and nation
Right and rule...
I belong to the nation of peace
Across the land, the sea and the sky.
And peaceful stretch to the arboreal.
And Peace of souls,
Of bodies
And minds.
My belonging
Is my strength-
The rhythm that keeps me growing.
Though I was born a Nigerian.
Not I neglects being call
American, Ghanaian, Portuguese
Chinese, Korean, Indian...
Though I'm by virtue
Of land mass
An African
Not do I dismiss
In unison unit
That type me Asian,
North American,
South American,
And Antarctica.
I belong to
A nation,
A voice...
One country,
One world.
Copyright © Abdulhafeez Oyewole | Year Posted 2013
All Porto geese
speak Portuguese.
Volodymyr Knyr
Copyright © Volodymyr Knyr | Year Posted 2014
The alley is like ink
Dark and fluid
I keep close to the walls
As I can see nothing
Everything is dank and dark
Except the moaning
I hear in the darkness
Someone is hurt
I heard a gunshot
A clear pop in the night
I am not a Good Samaritan
But help is needed
And I am the first responder
I soon stumble over a woman
Lying in a puddle of water
Bleeding from the chest
A sucking chest wound
The worst kind
I kneel down beside here
She tries to speak
But I cannot understand
What sounds like Portuguese
Please is all I can make out
I tear her clothing
And try to stop the bleeding
She's not going to make it
Too much blood
And not enough time
I try and perform last rights
And I see desperation in her eyes
Why now they scream
Why here they cry
I hold her hand
And close my ears
For the sound of death is deafening.
Copyright © Stephen Kilmer | Year Posted 2013
After all this time
Dare we go there?
Eventually we have no choice
Unknowingly the decision was made for us
So although I am a little sad this is adieu; until we meet again
*Gerald (suggestion of the word in Portuguese) & Jack (his persistency :)
Hope you are not disappointed*
Copyright © Wilma Neels | Year Posted 2013
A name reflective of its traditional kingship
is its identity, showcasing a cultural strength and heritage.
A huge trader with an Asian giant
is this land upholding the Kwanza like the Indian respect to its Rupee.
Indifference is shown to the culture of tipping;
substances like cigarettes can stand as replacement to cash.
The semba is a mother influence to many others like the samba of Brazil
and it has a zero tolerance approach
towards its public structures and security zones.
It is an epitome of the continent's blessing in wealth and resources
this land shakes hands with the black diamonds from beneath
but once bowed its head to the rule of the Portuguese.
Now standing as free as a large open space,
yet still humiliated by the shackles of the African curse.
Copyright © Funom Makama | Year Posted 2015
Absently Present
Enigmatic, inexplicable,
Feeding the inspiration
A presence filled absence
Craving, aching,
Firing the imagination
Vehement yet resigned desire
Written by: Ronald Zammit
Dated: 22.12.2014
Modern Style Cinquain: Word Count 1/2/3/4/1
Contest: Cinquain (theme: Longing)
Sponsor: Dr Ram Mehta
Placed: 3rd
Note: Suadade – a close meaning would be a feeling of missing someone or something but even deeper (Portuguese & Galician)
Copyright © Ronald Zammit | Year Posted 2014
A Friday of Gayness
Today I drove to Faro town I wanted a meal of tuna steak with
onions at the café I used to frequent fifteen years ago.
The place had gone upmarket and so had the prices one waiter
remembered me but not my wife and she took a dislike to him
said he was effeminate; the café has two parts, one with a wine bar
I mostly sat there. Oscar Wilde came in or someone looking as him,
he remarked of what he had observed during the day an intelligent
mind who could recite his own poems beautifully .
I decide to become gay too, to be frivolous and happy, but avoid
the sex thing the very thought made me shudder.
Alas, I had to drive my wife home I tried to translate some of
Oscar`s remarks into Portuguese, she didn`t think it was funny
But that was my fault telling jokes is not my metier so I was
back being my pedestrian self
Copyright © jan oskar hansen | Year Posted 2016
(The scene from Movie Ulzhan, Drama/German screened at 2007 Festival de Cannes)
( English Style)
I met, Shakuni, in a foreign land
He was a seller of precious words
He travelled a lot and the words he sold.
I met, Shakuni, in a foreign land.
Sold words like "Moksha" an Indian word
Meaning a peaceful death without bad deeds
I met Shakuni, in a foreign land
He was a seller of precious words.
I met Shakuni,in a foreign land
He was a seller of precious words
In words"O.K., Ciao," not interested
I met Shakuni, in a foreign land.
He liked "saudade", the Portuguese word
Meaning melancholy, longing andlove
I met Shakuni, in a foreign land
He was a seller of precious words.
I met Shakuni, in a foreign land
He was a seller of precious words
Sold "Dharma" duty and law combined
I met Shakuni, in a foreign land
Sold"Tarof" an Iranian word,
Meaning to refuse something of wishes
I met Shakuni, in a foreign land
He was a seller of precious words
Honorable Mention
Contest : The Troilet Movie scene of Andrea Dietrich
*Shakuni is a character in the Movie Ulzhan. Une Coproduction Franco-Germano-Kazakh.
*Shakuni is a villainous character in the Hindu Epic Mahabharata. Shakuni, a Sanskrit
word means a cheat, very skilled in playing dice.
Copyright © Dr.Ram Mehta | Year Posted 2010
(a feeling of missing someone or something, even deeper – Portuguese & Galacian)
In hope
I search for you
Deep down within my soul
My life engulfed with your absence…
Lives in
Realms of muse
Beyond a sad song's verse
Embracing the darkest of pains…
Written by Ronald Zammit
Dated: 22.12.2014
Traditional Style Cinquain – Syllable Count 2/4/6/8/2
Wander in my poem,
As if on the beaches of Copacabana.
Lay down on every one of its words,
as if on the warm, hazelnut sand.
Let the sun color your skin
and rest upon your back.
Forget who you are,
as I have been trying to do for so long.
For I have smelled you in my Santos coffee
And heard you laugh in the MPB accordions;
And my sight has never seen a shade of green and yellow
without your ambling silhouette.
Eu te vejo na cada esquina da rua.
What is to be done
when one is so happily wretched?
I write for there is more solace in writing
than in my unsettling contemplation;
For you dwell even in my logic,
Disturbing my every sense,
Disquieting my every silence,
leaving there no logic whatsoever;
My mind like São Paulo in rush hour;
My body in a state that no simile
can ever contain.
As you approach, like Sunday morning tropical rain,
No umbrella to hide under today,
no worthless poetry to write, no imploring words to say;
For my Arab tongue stutters
with Portuguese dismay,
as if censored in another
Freudian dream theory;
For after all,
no one dares to speak of arbitrary passion.
Wander in my poem,
as if on the beaches of Copacabana.
Let my verses melt in desire like moss on a stone.
Let me laugh at myself as I read through them
until this desire ceases to be my own.
Copyright © farah chamma | Year Posted 2013
Germinate the seed for ten weeks inside
Petunia grows in the ground with minerals
Pink petals and a stem
I say it is not a flower
It is Gregory
Petunia came from South America
A different culture cultivating plants
I don't speak their language; Spanish, Portuguese
So Gregory it is
My Master's degree is in botany
I have a PHD in flower
There is no petunia in religion or philosophy
None in the world according to me
According to my political affiliation and relations
There is Gregory
I water it and give it sun and take it for a walk
It continues with pink petals and a stem
One day it will grow into a fine young man
A president
Exactly as I planned
It will not just run a country
But a vegetative state
Exactly as I said
Copyright © Earl Schumacker | Year Posted 2014
At the VFW Post in Buang, Philippines they know Macarthur
Staggering off then
Swaggering back onto
These Philippines Islands and the
Wail of Hirohito
Drowning in chorus with the headsman's gush of
Bloodstained tears
Upon the occasion
Of Bataan
Then in repose off old Mactan, there still smiles
Lapu Lapu in his
Billion particles
Drifting a sea to the
Portuguese dance of
Forgotten melodies while
Sugarcane hills
Rise in symphony for Jose Rizal and the
Three hundred and some odd year smoldering hue of
Senior Legazpi
Clutching the
Sunrise brilliant over
For the sand still whispers to the
Prodigal bow of
Yamashita's gunboat and the
Mindanao lair of two old samurai
Forever glistening in the jungle deep as
God's Perfection crescendos to the
Infinitely indelible thought that
Broken in all man can make,
So when does Empire reek
It's savage
On the splendid meek
In lands long gotten over
Purchased souls as the
Old boys
Master around
Three dollar specials and the
Endless clink of San Miguels join
Hank Williams in an aging jukebox
Carefully laid for one night,
When all the glories of a thousand years are
Wonderfully recited in an
Afternoon when a
Sunglass wearing,
Corn-cob pipe-smoking,
"Look at me now" presence of a
Gangly man
Dashed ashore in the
Post mortem swelter of a
Gallant soldier's
September 2009 Jeff Troyer
Copyright © Jeff Troyer | Year Posted 2010
The pleasure of old age
This is good morning only been up twice in the night and not
Stumbled over furniture, his wife kept filling the house with
Unwanted things. When he protest she says he lacks artistic sense.
A good morning because he was able to empty his bladder
Without sounding like a cat on a hot tin roof - yes I know-
Whoever when young thought of the simple Act of evacuation?
The pleasure it is to do so without using
A suppository, the simple enjoyment of the thriving completed.
There is, especially when old, a certain sexual pleasure of
A body that functions, it can so easily go wrong, that extra
Glass of whisky, a glass of wine one should have left
Untouched on the table, with a cloth clean as a cerulean sky.
Today he would only have soup for Lunch and no red wine.
Better be on the safe and alive. But there are moments he
Thinks "what does it matters you are dying anyway; silly man."
God didn't give you extra time to read slimming magazines
But to be a connoisseur of Portuguese red wine, that is mild as
Spring and dreamy as a horse chewing hay in his stable when
It rains and the farmer has gone to Sunday mass.
Copyright © jan oskar hansen | Year Posted 2014
My trollop dwells on the coast of Brazil;
in clear, crude notes her lips speak Portuguese;
her lewdness makes the earth and sun stand still--
what a tragedy if she were a tease!
Beholding her rude face is what I miss;
surrounding her in a vulgar embrace
and kneeling down to give her a bawdy kiss--
all these would make my quickening heart race!
The distance between us, like a thick mist,
keeps us apart;--but I by heaven swear
that someday we'll have our clandestine tryst
yet and anon in the same hemisphere.
And if she's not 'gainst tarrying for me,
I'd give all to diddle her by the sea.
Copyright © Ngoc Nguyen | Year Posted 2014
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Pollastre - Catalan, ? - Chinese (Simplified), ? - Chinese (Traditional), Piletina - Croatian,
Kurecí - Czech, Kylling - Danish, Kip - Dutch, Kanaliha - Estonian, Manok - Filipino,
Kana - Finnish, Galiña - Galician, ??t?p???? - Greek, ??? - Hebrew, ???? - Hindi, Csirke -
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??? - Korean, Calis - Latvian, Vištiena - Lithuanian, ??????? - Macedonian,
Ayam - Malay, Kylling - Norwegian, ???? - Persian, Kurczak - Polish, Pui - Romanian,
?????? - Russian, ???????? - Serbian, Kuracie - Slovak, Kuku - Swahili, Kyckling - Swedish,
??? - Thai, Tavuk - Turkish, ????? - Ukrainian, Gà - Vietnamese, Cyw Iâr - Welsh,
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Copyright © SillyBilly theKidster | Year Posted 2010
Ms Jo Hanley-Dunne, Ms Jo Hanley-Dunne,
varnished and tarnished by Val d'Isere sun.
The sway of your hips, the power to stun
brings promise of love and nights filled with fun.
Oh dazzle me, Goddess, you Queen of the Slopes;
a Mistress of Moguls, oh show me the ropes.
You're someone who's keen and someone who copes;
you fill me with lust, you stimulate hopes.
I know that you cook with consummate ease;
I know that you dive, alone, if you please.
Your place in the sun is large, Portuguese,
and far from your yacht, you wind-surf the breeze.
So join me, dear Venus, off piste, on a run,
then tell me, my love, your heart, have I won?
Oh! Rapturous joy. My courtship is done.
I'm going to live with Ms Jo Hanley-Dunne.
For John Heck's Competition.
Copyright © Charles Clive | Year Posted 2012
Not under a Banyan tree
I drink coffee under an elm tree, one of many in the avenue; filtered sunlight
makes shifting pattern on the pavements, and the sun loses its cruel power.
A willowy woman walks into the only café where one can smoke, she likes to
drink coffee with her cigarette, her dog sits by the door looking in waiting.
A woman in her sixties who wears a long flowering dress, plenty of bracelets
and rings, too exotic to be Portuguese, is coming up the road. Married three
times, first to an army officer, from an aristocratic family, then to a Swiss
engineer, who built ski-lifts in the Alps. Her third husband is a poet and that
makes her sigh (downhill all the way dear) She frets about her daughter, who
is forty and not yet married. She had hoped her child would wed into
lofty society, but now she wishes her only offspring will find a man with
a steady job; not a cook or a waiter though, one must draw a line somewhere.
She has a glass of beer shows me her latest bracelet, bought this morning;
she smiles happy as a child as the sun goes on shining and leaves on elm trees
are deep, cooling green.
Copyright © jan oskar hansen | Year Posted 2011


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A Guide To Resident Evil's Endless Lore
Many stories have been told in the Resident Evil universe since the t-virus, Umbrella Corporation, and Raccoon City debuted in 1996. The Resident Evil lore hole is deep and maddening. The episodic Resident Evil: Revelations 2 starts tomorrow, and no one would blame you being confused! Let's clear things up.


text: From Jim Walczak, Your Guide to 4-Wheel Drive / Offroading. The cost of 4-wheel drives/SUVs and their related repairs are expensive. Although the tips provided in this article will not eliminate such expenses, they will help lower vehicle repair costs. We have all seen commercials on TV touting the "great vehicle service" provided by dealer service departments. They know your 4-wheel drive/SUV better than anyone else, they use original replacement parts, etc. etc ... But at what cost is such great service available? Well, usually at about $75-$95 per hour. In many instances, 4-wheel drive/SUV repairs can be completed for substantially lower hourly rates. Many independent garages employ ASE certified and licensed mechanics. These garages generally charge about $40-$50 per hour. To identify a good independent garage, be on the lookout for the names of garages that are recommended over and over by other 4-wheel drive/SUV enthusiasts. zSB(3,3) Next, visit a few of the garages, talk with the owner, and ask about the hourly rate charged for vehicle repairs. Inquire if the rate charged for the repairs is a "straight hourly rate" or a "book rate." A straight hourly rate involves the amount of time that it actually takes a mechanic to do a vehicle repair. On the other hand, a book rate involves the customer being charged an amount of time the book specifies a repair should take. For example, installing new front and rear brake pads on a 4-wheel drive/SUV could take one hour. Using a straight rate of $50 per hour, the repair would cost $50 for labor, plus the cost of the brake pads. The book rate might specify that it "should" take the mechanic 1.5 hours to do the work. Thus, the customer would be charged $75 for the labor, plus the cost of the brake pads. When using the book rate method, even if the brake job takes the mechanic only 55 minutes to complete, the customer is still charged for 1.5 hours of time. The book rate method of doing vehicle repairs generally benefits the garage and not the customer. If the garage owner seems to squirm when you ask about the billing method used for vehicle repairs, it is best to move on to other garages. Mechanic ASE certification, licensure, and the garage owner's response to billing practices will go a long way in your identifying the garage that has earned your business. In most instances, garages "mark-up" the price of parts used for vehicle repairs. Garages purchase parts at a wholesale prices and then mark-up the parts used for repairs. Although it is becoming rarer and rarer today, some garages will allow a customer to purchase the parts that will be used to repair their vehicle. Such garages will quote the customer on just the cost of labor to install the parts. It can be to a customer's advantage to get a quote on both the parts and labor prior to having their vehicles repaired. If the customer is so inclined, he or she can check on the cost of parts at retail parts stores such as Auto Zone, or Advanced Auto. In many instances, even better prices on parts can be obtained by getting on the Internet and searching under 4-wheel drive/SUV parts. When it comes to 4-wheel drive/SUV repairs, taking the time to ask some questions can really help to lower vehicle repair costs. Identifying a garage that specializes in repairing 4-wheel drives/SUVs and a mechanic who is at the top of his profession makes all the difference in the world! Kyle Busch is the author of Drive the Best for the Price: How to Buy a Used Automobile, Sport-Utility Vehicle, or Minivan and Save Money.


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Gardens dedicated to the rose have been around for centuries. Whether it was an amateur gardener embracing a rose theme or the royal monarchy growing rows and rows of roses as a means of embracing their bartering power, the rose garden has a fan following and has created some of the most popular gardening destinations in the world. Let's see where the top famous rose gardens exist and why they're favorite vacation destinations:
- France – La Roseraie du Val de Marne – the world's oldest existing garden devoted solely to roses was created in 1894 and contains a collection of roses and species specific to the time it was built.
- Japan – Flower Festival Commemorative Park – Two main rose gardens – the Rose Theme Garden and Royal Rose Garden – comprise this park containing 7,000 varieties and 30,000 plants.
- United States – International Rose Test Garden – is a hot bed of new rose varieties as it is the world's testing ground for hybrid roses.
- United Kingdom – Coughton Court – The Rose Labyrinth is the only British garden given the Award of Garden Excellence by the International Federation of Rose Societies
- Australia – Ruston's Rose Garden – Grounds containing 50,000 rose bushes and 4,000 varieties cover this garden that was created in 1924. The garden is open 363 days a year!
- United Kingdom – Hever Castle and Gardens – The childhood home of Anne Boleyn features a walled rose garden hosting over 4,000 rose bushes.
- Monaco – Princess Grace Rose Garden – A home to over 4,000 rose bushes, this garden celebrates the Princess's favorite flower and subject of her book "My Book of Flowers" which was published in 1980.
- Ireland – The City of Belfast International Rose Garden – This garden of over 30,000 rose bushes hosts and annual Rose Week every July where final judging of the international rose trials takes place.
- Spain – The Cervantes Rose Garden – A collection of 10,000 international rose bushes is displayed in this garden set on a hill in Barcelona.
- South Africa – Vergelegen Rose Gardens – Combined with a vineyard, this estate, who's name means "situated far away," hosts a themed rose garden focused on formal hybrid tea rose varieties.
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Michael Kors, Dennis Basso, Peter Som, Chado Ralph Rucci, Mulberry
Fluffy fur is on the peak of its popularity. Most designers prefer fox, arctic fox, raccoon and lama, but that certainly does not exclude the use of fur with short nap. Along with the models made of whole skins, lightweight knitted fur coats are also in fashion.
Donna Karan, Carmen Marc Valvo, Alexis Mabille, Anna Sui, Dennis Basso
Fancy fur coats made of karakul, mink and sheared furs are often decorated with a fluffy parts, for example, collars and hem trimmed from arctic fox, fox and lama.
St. John, Michael Kors, J Mendel, Iceberg, DKNY
In general, the length of fur coats in winter 2013 ranges from mid-calf to mid-thigh; the most popular length is up to the knee. Hip asymmetry is reflected in the works of some designers who have used unconventional cut to create their own models.
Roberto Musso, Moschino, John Richmond, Antonio Berardi, Nicole Farhi, Hermes
Combinations of different types and colors of fur are in trend. Combined models with the use of fabric and leather are relevant. To emphasize the form and feminine silhouette belts and wide straps are often used.
Anna Sui, Libertine, Christian Siriano, Narciso Rodriguez, Akris
One of the most fashionable styles is a coat without a collar with a V-neck, or almost without a collar. Not the most practical solution to our climate, but it is interesting and fresh.
Son Jung Wan, Simonetta Ravizza, Aigner, Betsey Johnson, Alberta Ferretti
Many designers offer a fur coat with short sleeves. These models look great with a fashionable long gloves.
Giorgio Armani, Dsquared, Dennis Basso, Chado Ralph Rucci, Bibhu Mohapatra
Models with cross strips are one of the collections' fashion trends, such fur coats are offered by many designers. This effect is achieved by using separate details of monophonic fur or natural colored strips. Also fur coats made from slices of the geometrical form are relevant.
Zang Toi, Versus, Alberta Ferretti, Betsey Johnson, Dennis Basso
Another collections trend become coats of rich colors: orange, pink, red and purple. Bright details from colored fur are very relevant. The natural color is also in vogue, including the complex one. This is especially true for fox fur.
Giorgio Armani, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Meadham Kirchhoff, Moschino Cheap and Chic, Iceberg
The real highlight and the trend of collections are multi-colored fur coats or coats with a color pattern. To enhance the effect, fur of varying lengths can be used in such models.
John Galliano, Dirk Bikkembergs, Giorgio Armani, John Richmond, Viktor & Rolf
In man's models the fur of natural colors dominates. Black and brown shades prevail. Length is mainly to a knee.


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Wow, wow, wow! I was blown away by this amazing review I received from Fern at Long and Short Reviews for Sudden Heat, the first story in my Love Under Fire trilogy. Here's a snippet!
"This is an excellent story. I loved how Ms. Agnew used the tension…Ms. Agnew is a master of pacing to my mind, it was fast enough that I didn't get impatient or feel like the story dragged, but was slow enough to build up to a real need, a want to see Melanie and Matt come together. Ms. Agnew is certainly an author I plan to read more of, and I can strongly recommend this book for readers who enjoy adventure and tension mingled in with their smoking hot, explicit sex scenes. I found Melanie and Matt both really well drawn and interesting characters, and the pacing of the plot was amazing. Definitely a book I'd reread and an author I plan to experience again."
You can find the full review here.
Many thanks again to Fern and Long and Short Reviews!
What is Sudden Heat about?
Where do you yearn to be in the face of danger? In the arms of a man bound to serve, to protect and to love…
Librarian Melanie Falconer knows too well the horrors of war. Military men, as far as she's concerned, are off the marriage menu. As maid of honor at her best friend's wedding, she makes a mall run and lands straight into the arms of seriously hot marine Matt Frasier, the best man. Matt has seen too much violence, and his heavy attraction to Melanie promises to soothe his soul and set his body on fire. Gunfire erupts, the game is on, and Melanie and Matt fight for their lives and the heat exploding between them.
You can find Sudden Heat at Ellora's Cave, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo.
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