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Encourage all undergraduate students who have been involved in research or original creative activity this year to submit their abstract morehttp://www.pacific.edu/About-Pacific/Newsroom/2014/March-2014/Call-for-abstracts-Pacific-Undergraduate-Research-and-Creativity-Conference-.html
On Saturday, May 9, 2015 the Conservatory of Music celebrated the graduation of 51 students during a Diploma and Hooding Ceremony in Faye Spanos Concert Hall. morehttp://www.pacific.edu/About-Pacific/Newsroom/2015/May-Aug-2015/Commencement-2015-at-the-Conservatory-.html
A holocaust survivor will teach area schoolchildren how to sing songs she performed at a concentration camp morehttp://www.pacific.edu/About-Pacific/Newsroom/2015/October-2015/Concentration-camp-survivor-brings-music-of-the-Holocaust-to-Stockton.html
On Monday, January 6th, AMTA announced that Jennifer Geiger has been elected by their membership to the Board of Directors as President-Elect. morehttp://www.pacific.edu/About-Pacific/Newsroom/2014/January-2014/Conservatory-Alumna-Elected-to-Leadership-in-the-American-Music-Therapy-Association.html
The Conservatory of Music students and faculty kept busy during the university's spring break, March 7th – 15th, with masterclasses, conferences, and performances. morehttp://www.pacific.edu/About-Pacific/Newsroom/2015/March-2015/Conservatory-keeps-busy-during-Spring-Break.html
Dr. Raphael Sanders will come to campus to give a clarinet master class for students on Thursday, 22 January 2015 . In addition to the master class, Dr. Sanders and Conservatory staff pianist, Patricia Grimm, will be performing a recital of music for clarinet and piano in the Conservatory Recital Hall on Friday, 23 January 2015 starting at 7:30 p.m. morehttp://www.pacific.edu/About-Pacific/Newsroom/2015/January-2015/Conservatory-of-Music-to-host-Clarinet-Master-Class-and-Recital.html
Dominik taught clarinet and chamber music at Pacific for 28 years. morehttp://www.pacific.edu/About-Pacific/Newsroom/2015/December-2015/Former-music-professor-William-Dominik-passed-away-Nov-6.html
Dr. Feilin Hsiao was recently was featured on The Academic Minute, a nationally-syndicated radio program from WAMC Northeast Public Radio, to discuss her research on advanced hearing devices that allow some people to hear and even create music for the first time. morehttp://www.pacific.edu/About-Pacific/Newsroom/2014/October-2014/Feilin-Hsiao-featured-on-NPR.html
He will leave Pacific August1 after six years as dean at Pacific. morehttp://www.pacific.edu/About-Pacific/Newsroom/2015/March-2015/Giulio-Ongaro-to-become-dean-of-the-College-of-Performing-Arts-at-Chapman-University.html
For 75 years, University of the Pacific has educated music therapists who have become leaders in their field. They will gather Saturday at a symposium to celebrate this legacy. morehttp://www.pacific.edu/About-Pacific/Newsroom/2014/March-2014/Music-therapy-symposium.html


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When I was growing up on my parents' dairy farm, we always had a large asparagus patch. I still love asparagus, but my husband and two children weren't that eager to eat it until I found this recipe. Now even my toughest vegetable critic, 4-year-old son Aaron, enjoys these savory spears. — Linda McKee, Big Prairie, Ohio
- 1-1/2 pounds fresh asparagus, trimmed
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 cup half-and-half cream
- 1/2 teaspoon chicken bouillon granules
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup shredded Swiss cheese
- 2 tablespoons crushed butter-flavored crackers
- In a skillet, cook asparagus in a small amount of water until crisp-tender, about 6-8 minutes; drain. Arrange spears in the bottom of a greased 1-1/2-qt. baking dish; set aside and keep warm.
- In a small saucepan, melt butter. Stir in flour until smooth. Gradually whisk in the cream, bouillon, nutmeg and salt. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened.
- Remove from the heat; add cheese and stir until melted. Pour over asparagus. Sprinkle with cracker crumbs. Broil 6 in. from the heat for 3-5 minutes or until lightly browned. Yield: 4-6 servings.
Originally published as Asparagus Mornay in Taste of Home April/May 1997, p25
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Reviewed Oct. 10, 2014 Edited May. 10, 2017
"I'm not one to pour cheese sauces over every vegetable dish I serve. Vegetables do not necessarily need to drown under a sea of cheese sauce. But I really LOVE this Mornay rendition. It tastes professionally made and is wonderful for company as well as family!"
Reviewed Feb. 6, 2014
"Very easy to make. A tasty way to eat asparagus."
Reviewed Sep. 19, 2010
"This was easy to make and very flavorful...just be careful with the broiler...the crackers "brown" quickly!"
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"This is onr of my favorite side dishes I have found on here! The sauce is delicious on pasta too!"

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"Electronic transmission of results from the local precinct to the central tabulation authority offers the possibility that election results can be known much more rapidly."
2005 - National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
"Systems in which ballots are counted electronically as they are submitted in the precinct can probably produce the most rapid results."
2001 - Congressional Research Service
"Prior to the Election, many speculated on how quickly election results would be tabulated due to the change to an electronic voting system. Every time the Secretary of State's office received a question about return time, the response always focused on the importance of accuracy versus speed. With that background, when the SOS election night returns were - for the first time in recent memory - released more quickly than the results compiled by the Associated Press, it was a pleasant surprise for all."
July 2003 - Cathy Cox, JD
"The new equipment will offer voters a speedier, more secure method of casting ballots than before... In the last election, Garfield County's final results weren't known until the following morning because of the time it took to count all the ballots. On Tuesday, Garfield County workers wrapped up the election by 9:45 p.m. Using the Hart InterCivic eSlate [electronic voting] systems, the results are tallied immediately by the machines but have to be transferred to a computer for official counts. 'You know the results of the election a few hours after the polls are closed,' said Arnie Dollase, a Republican election judge."
Aug. 9, 2006 - David Frey
"No, electronic voting machines do not provide more rapid election results than non-electronic voting machines. Mechanical lever machines provided end-of-day tallies in a few moments. Paper ballots cast in precinct-based optical scanners provide returns as quickly as e-voting machines. Speed, however, is not as important as accuracy. One type of failure of e-voting systems that we have seen often is the inability to extract election results, which has delayed reporting of tallies, in some cases for weeks."
June 18, 2006 - Teresa Hommel, JD
"Not necessarily. The impossibility of doing meaningful recounts in case of major screwups that require a do-over election, legal battles that may go on for long periods of time, and many other circumstances could make the results of electronic machines slower than conventional systems."
June 7, 2006 - Peter G. Neumann, PhD
"Problems with Alaska's new touchscreen voting machines slowed election returns Tuesday and caused elections officials to hand count and manually upload vote totals from several precincts across the state... 'We've got new technology. Particularly in rural Alaska, we're going from the paper ballot to cutting-edge technology and the entire process is being slowed down,' said Division of Elections Director Whitney Brewster."
Aug. 24, 2006 - Associated Press
"They should be [faster than a hand count], but often they're not. Machines breakdown routinely, thereby taking longer to report election results...
Essentially a speedy hand count is based on a sufficient number of poll workers per number of registered voters and the length of the ballot."
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Not for him, however, the well worn route of his predecessors, who have kept out of the limelight. The former commissioner of the Metropolitan police is busier than ever. As he approaches his 65th birthday Lord Stevens is heading two major investigations, has six directorships, is a regular on the lucrative after-dinner speaking circuit, pens a column in a Sunday tabloid, has written a successful autobiography and has just acquired his jet pilot's licence.
The only thing he seems not to have had time for is his role as peer. He has failed to speak in the Lords this year and has attended only 10% of votes.
While many admire Lord Stevens' undiminished enthusiasm for detective work, some former colleagues wish that he would follow previous commissioners and fade into the background.
John O'Connor, former head of the Flying Squad, who was at detective training school with Lord Stevens in 1966, said he is not surprised that his former colleague is still very much centre stage. "He is a very active and driven man and always has been," said Mr O'Connor who is now a security analyst.
However, Mr O'Connor is uneasy that as a retired police officer Lord Stevens is involved in two high profile inquiries - the inquest into Princess Diana, and football bungs. "How is he able to take the Diana inquiry? Why is a former officer leading the coroner's inquiry and why is it dragging on when it is clear to everyone what the findings will be?"
The "Stevens industry" - which has enabled him to get a part share in a plane and until recently drive a £70,000 Porsche convertible - shows no sign of letting up. As well as heading the two inquiriesand sitting on the board of six companies, he is chancellor of Northumbria University, chairs Interpol's strategy advisory panel, is patron of the North East to Romania charity and Conway 2000 which provides homes for people with mental and physical illness.
His column in the News of the World, reportedly worth around £60,000 a year, gives him chance to air his views on everything from terrorism to the death penalty and, according to his agent's website, he gets between £5,000 and £10,000 as a public speaker.
Sources at MI5 and MI6 are a little exasperated by his repeated appearances and requests for their files on the death of the princess. One Whitehall source quipped that his frenetic activity is little more than an attempt to get enough material for a new chapter for his autobiography, Not For The Faint Hearted, before it goes to paperback.
Lord Stevens, who admits to a fierce temper, has little time for such opinion. Asked in a newspaper interview whether the Diana inquiry was a waste of money and time that would find no evidence to support various wild murder theories, he replied: "This is a case where there is worldwide attention. This investigation has to be done.
"The conspiracy theories that are around could be extremely damaging if they are proven and if they are disproved they will at least be put to bed."
But the inquiry into the death of the princess is just one of Lord Stevens' interests. As chair of the small security firm Quest, he is also leading the football bung investigation, a contract reportedly worth just under £500,000. Working alongside former Mossad agents and terrorist experts, he is looking at commissions paid on the transfer of players over the past two years.
The outcome is eagerly awaited inside and outside football and many senior police officers who worked with Lord Stevens believe he is the man to get to the bottom of the murky world of football transfers. One told the Guardian that when you hire the former Met commissioner you get a thorough investigation and reliable, robust findings.
His work in Northern Ireland, where he concluded a complicated inquiry into collusion between the police and army and loyalist paramilitaries despite resistance from all sides, gives weight to his motto: "Never give up."
But others are not so sure that as chair of a private security company, Lord Stevens is best placed to get to the bottom of the bung allegations.
Mr O'Connor said: "What you really need is police officers and customs officers who have the power to go into bank accounts and who can force people to give evidence, not a private firm."
Lord Stevens' office dismisses claims that his prime motive is money, pointing out that 25% of the work he does is voluntary. His agent said: "There are many other things he could be doing instead which would be more remunerative."


text: Posted September 16, 2009 I'm a little confused about a statement made in the latest MCS decision (B-401472): "FAR sect. 17.207(f) further states that to meet the requirements of FAR Part 6, regarding full and open competition, the option must have been evaluated as part of the initial competition and be exercisable at an amount specified in or reasonably determinable from the terms of the basic contract. The option to extend the contract here under FAR clause 52.217-8 was not evaluated as part of the initial competition, so that the exercise of this option amounts to a contract extension beyond the scope of the contract, and therefore effectively constitutes a new procurement."It is clear that the agency did not exercise the option to extend services within the timeframe stated in the original contract. But I'm not sure if the GAO is saying (without specifically saying) that the extension was not authorized under 52.217-8, so this becomes a new procurement subject to Part 6 requirements. If so, no real disagreement. However, it appears that the GAO is taking issue with the idea that the agency exercised an "unevaluated option." I do not see how an option under the extension of services clause could be evaluated as part of the initial competition. Presumably, no one sets out with the intent of ever having to exercise the extension of services clause. As such, I've never seen pre-pricing of options specifically for the extension of services clause. I think the requirements of 17.207(f) are met because the clause already establishes that the services will be performed within the limits and at the rates specified in the contract subject to any adjustments due from changes in the wage determination; so the amount is "reasonably determinable from the terms of the basic contract" which would have been evaluated as part of the initial competition.Am I reading this wrong or is there something else I haven't considered? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Are you an iPhone owner still cursing Apple for foisting Apple Maps on you and wondering why this brilliant company with a history of technological innovation couldn't come up with something as good as Google Maps? Well, aside from things like Google having a big head start and lots more engineers working on it, we may now know another reason why: Apple isn't paying its engineers enough.
Last week Glassdoor released a report on the average salaries paid to software engineers at tech companies. As you can see from the chart above, Google engineers were paid the most, with an average annual base salary of $128,336, followed by those at Facebook ($123,626) and Apple ($114,413).
So, you see, Apple engineers are making a full $14,000 less per year than their Google counterparts. How can they possibly be expected to match Google Maps when they're missing out on the equivalent of a 2012 Toyota Yaris each year in salary? It's a miracle that app even knows which way north is.
Looking at this list, a couple of other things jump out at me, such as:
- Zynga engineers make over 6 figures; one more reason to hate FarmVille
- Microsoft is middle of the pack in terms of what they pay their engineers; based on the new ad campaign for Windows 8, they can't be paying top dollar for their marketing folks, either
- Hewlett-Packard is paying its engineers just a little more ($95,567) than the national average of $92,648 so, surprisingly, HP still has engineers. Who knew?
This list is based on survey data and Glassdoor doesn't break down engineer salary by experience level, so the results are a mix of whoever chose to provide their information. Also, it's only base salary and doesn't include bonuses, benefits or perks. Can you really put a monetary value on unlimited, free Five Hour Energy drinks or NASCAR-themed employee lounges?
But, regardless, the bottom line here - and you may want to be sitting down for this one - is that software engineers in this country make a lot of money. Is the room spinning?
It's important to keep in mind, though, that not everyone involved in making your awesome smartphone, tablet or Fart Cat! app is making this kind of money. The average annual base salary of workers in Foxconn factories - as we all know now, is a major Apple supplier - is only $4,800 per year. Heck, even IBM engineers make more than that.
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Boston Children's has launched the world's 1st program dedicated to offering hand transplants to children who qualify.
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Read the latest blog by a Boston Children's doctor, clinician or staff member.
There are many ways you can help children and their families get the care they need.
After a really long winter, it's finally spring! Here are a few tips to keep your child healthy at this time of year.
Get outside! We all need sunshine for our mental health and to help our bodies make Vitamin D. Go to the park, or just go for a walk. The exercise is good for you too!
Watch out for windows. Now is the time that people start opening windows--but if you have little children, they can be dangerous. Install window guards if you can. If you can't, open windows from the top and don't put furniture (like couches) in front of windows.
Plan your garden! Growing vegetables is a great way to teach children about science and nutrition--and growing vegetables can make children more likely to eat them. If you don't have a yard, a sunny windowsill can be a good place to grow a few things--or look for community gardens.
Plan your summer! Check out the City of Boston's Summer 2015 information at www.cityofboston.gov/BCYF/
Don't let allergies get you down! If your child suffers from allergies, keep the windows closed (and consider running an air conditioner). Have your child wash up and change when they come inside, and keep them out of the bedroom during the day (so that it's a pollen-free zone). Ask your doctor if medications would be a good idea for your child--and if your child has taken them and needs refills, give us a call!
We are grateful to have been ranked #1 on U.S. News & World Report's list of the best children's hospitals in the nation for the third year in a row, an honor we could not have achieved without the patients and families who inspire us to do our very best for them. Thanks to you, Boston Children's is a place where we can write the greatest children's stories ever told."


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Anyone ever have the timing chain service done??? how much did it cost you????
Anyone ever have the timing chain service done??? how much did it cost you????
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I don't recall there being a scheduled timing chain service. Is it making noise?
What car/SUV do you have? Try posting in that model's forum too for more responses.
Well...assuming many have been quoted from $1400-$1600 to replace the oil pump bolt I'd say it's probably more. Almost the same labor is involved but more parts....I'm
Sure it can be done cheaper by a VW shop (non-dealer) who's done it a handful of times already.
With that said, there aren't a lot of shops that have done many of these. As stated its really not needed unless its making noise.
I'm at 145k and no noise. You?


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Zwartjes, Daphne G.M. and Heida, Tjitske and Vugt, Jeroen P.P. van and Geelen, Jan A.G. and Veltink, Peter H. (2010) Ambulatory Monitoring of Activities and Motor Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 57 (11). pp. 2778-2786. ISSN 0018-9294
Heida, T. and Wentink, E.C. and Geelen, J.A.G. (2008) Effectiveness of deep brain stimulation in subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease – a somatotopic organisation. In: 4th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (ECIFMBE 2008, IFMBE Proceedings), 23-27 november 2008, Antwerpen, Belgium (pp. pp. 59-62).
Klerk, D.G.M. and Vugt, J.P.P. van and Geelen, J.A.G. and Heida, T. (2008) A Long-Term Monitor Including Activity Classification for Motor Assessment in Parkinson's Disease Patients. In: 4th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, 23-27 november 2008, Antwerp, Belgium (pp. pp. 1706-1709).
Moroney, Rachel and Heida, Ciska and Geelen, Jan (2008) Increased bradykinesia in Parkinson's disease with increased movement complexity: elbow flexion-extension movements. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 25 (3). pp. 501-519. ISSN 1573-6873
Heida, T. and Moroney, R. and Geelen, J.A.G. (2007) Parkinsonian movements in model and experiment. In: 8th world congres INS (International Neuromodulation Society) and 11th annual meeting NANS (North American Neuromodulation Society), 9-12 dec 2007, Acapulco, Mexico (pp. pp. 110-111).
Heida, T. and Holsheimer, J. and Geelen, J.A.G. and Veltink, P.H. (2005) Deep Brain Stimulation - the challenges ahead. In: 7th Meeting of the International Neuromodulation Society, 10-13 June 2005, Rome, Italy.
Manola, L. and Roelofsen, B.H. and Holsheimer, J. and Marani, E. and Geelen, J.A.G. (2005) Modelling motor cortex stimulation for chronic pain control. electrical potential field, activating functions and responses of simple nerve fibre models. Medical and biological engineering and computing, 43 (3). pp. 335-343. ISSN 0140-0118


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The Oakland Raiders got both running back Darren McFadden and safety Charles Woodson to participate fully in Friday's practice. They are listed as probable for the San Diego Chargers game this Sunday.
McFadden has the chance to play for the first time since the Thanksgiving match-up against the Dallas Cowboys. McFadden has been on the shelf with hamstring and ankle injuries this season. It has been a negative for him his entire career because he has never played in every game for a season. He is an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season so if he can play this week it will be one of his last two opportunities to showcase for a contract with the Raiders or more likely another NFL team. He has only carried the ball 103 times this year for 365 yards and four touchdowns.
Rashad Jennings remains the Oakland starting running back regardless of McFadden's status. Jennings has been the far superior back this season with 679 yards and six touchdowns. Last time both backs were healthy Jennings carried 17 times while McFadden only rushed five times. The Raiders rushing offense is ranked 6th in the NFL with more than 134 yards per game. Both Jennings and McFadden should see running room against a San Diego rush defense that allows almost 109 yards per game.
Safety Charles Woodson was able to practice in full on Friday despite his ribs injury. With Tyvon Branch and Usama Young on injured reserve, it is crucial for the Raiders to have Woodson on Sunday. The Chargers are fourth in the NFL is passing yards per game with 279.5 yards per game. Woodson returned a fumble 25 yards for a touchdown in the Raiders 27-17 win over the Chargers earlier in the year.
Defensive tackle Vance Walker is listed as questionable for the game. He has been dealing with a concussion and was able to practice on a limited basis Friday. He will continue to be evaluated and has some tests to pass before he can play. He will be a game time decision.Tags: Charles Woodson, Darren McFadden, Football, NFL, Oakland, Oakland Raiders, Rashad Jennings, San Diego Chargers, Vance Walker


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Is the Florida Redfish and the Red Drum the same fish?
Also, is it common for the Red Drum to NOT have a spot on its tail? If not, what kind of fish is this that looks like a croaker, but isn't a croaker?
maybe a whiting/kingfish
I would say yes!
Yes. No, but it does occur rarely. Kingfish aka whiting, aka sea mullet, aka channel mullet.
redfish,reddrum,bullred,channel bass,all the same fish.as for not having a spot,it could happen,as often i've seen them with multiple spots(upto 15) i guess there could be a couple swimming around without the spot.drum and croaker are in the same family and exihibit very similar responses to thier environment,including feeding at night,eating crusteaceans more than small fish,very strong for thier relative size,and when seen side by side they are kinda similar,tho the red will get much larger
Aside from coloration, mouth size and fin arrangement they (reds and croakers) are pretty much the same fish somewhere in the 8-12" range.


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We were not convinced of all the Apple TV rumors. We knew it was coming, but very obviously not in the way that the much hyped rumors about Apple TV said it would revolutionize the way we watch our shows and movies.
Instead Apple have kept the Apple TV as a hobby. But made it one quarter of its original size, and stuck an Apple A4 chip inside. Yes, the same chip as you have inside your iPhone 4. So it is, to some degree, now an iOS based device.
Apple also made the new Apple TV black (always a good move), and blindingly simple to use with a cosmetically revamped remote. Most of the simplification is in the user interface on the Apple TV itself where there are some tiny signs of iOS bits and bobs floating around. Most notably little dots with numbers in them to tell you how many episodes of your favourite drama you have available to watch.
There was also a half hearted introduction of some price point changes for shows and movies. And the rumored 99 cents to rent TV shows is now a reality. Even that is not enough to make some take the plunge though and Apple realize that.
Steve was upfront about it too, and said that only Fox and ABC had committed as TV content providers at the moment. But he expected more in future. I think he is right. In many ways the Apple TV is where the original iPod and iTunes were when they first impacted the music industry.
Apple, rightly see this as an important market place to cultivate as it is surely a tech battleground coming to all of our living rooms in the near future.
So Apple also dropped the price of the Apple TV to $99. At that price my first reaction was that the Apple TV is now less money to buy than an AirPort Express was a few years ago. And that entire device's functionality is just one of the bullet point features of the Apple TV with its new AirPlay capability.
The new Apple TV is said to be available next month. And I might just pick one up at that price. Along with my "iWatch" (iPod Nano!)
Current models of Apple TV will continue to be supported, but will not get the new functionality of this latest Apple TV. Not surprising as they now run very different operating systems. Obviously that is something Apple could relatively easily address. But that is very unlikely given their past form on supporting anything they consider to be a legacy device. And boy don't devices get old quickly these days!
Are you tempted by the new Apple TV? Or are you already an Apple TV addict? Have your say in the comments…


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I know theres no pictures in this , but i promise as soon as i get my list complete and get it order ill fill it up.
This is so far the list I have put together hopefully going to order it by the end of next week. Is there anything I'm missing that you could think of or add for a 1st time DSLR owner that shoots pretty much people, cars and when I go on my hikes in the woods. Also with my outdoor activities I was wanting something to help protect it and found an Armor case for a D80 would it fit?
I know it would probably be best to drive do to wolf camera and ask them but at times they tend to be a bit pushy on the buy part and there online deals seem tp be a lot better then the in store sales.
I post links to the Items I'm wanting IF you would let me know if I pretty much got what ill need.
This is that Armor case
This is the D 50 bundle im pretty sure I will buy.
Then lens
Camera for the wife ( something small and simple and girly which she should love)
Anything missing?
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Doctor Criminale (1992)
by Malcolm Bradbury
No current Talk conversations about this book.
Maybe a little dated (c. 1992). But an interesting view of the postmodern Europe from an early 1990's perspective.
Maybe a little dated (c. 1992). But an interesting view of the postmodern Europe from an early 1990's perspective.
The cover described the book as a "bracing comedy of ideas." That's what hooked me. I've always struggled with the idea of how to deal with ideas in fiction in a convincing, readable way. I thought this book might provide an answer. It didn't. The parts of it that dealt with ideas were few, and not the best. Most of it was a mildly amusing satire on academics and the pompous conferences they attend. Even these parts made me cringe in places: satire, when not fresh, can so easily become caricature. Thus the German delegates are all serious, the Italians are flamboyant and a bit ridiculous, the Africans are always laughing and wearing colourful clothes, etc. And the women all want to have sex with the main character, a literary journalist who shows no sign of being particularly charming or irresistible in any way. Perhaps, if you're writing a "bracing comedy of ideas", you think you have to throw in a little hanky-panky to keep the readers' interest up through all the discussions of Heidegger. But to me it felt a little sleazy, and detracted from the credibility of the story.
I guess I shouldn't read so much into book blurbs. "With grace and wit its author deconstructs fifty years of European thought and history" was another promise that caught my eye. But, again, he didn't. The part I did find successful was the point that thinkers must make compromises with history, and the perspective on postmodernism as being a kind of cop-out - having seen the thinkers of the past fall into the trap of following the wrong ideas (communism/fascism), postmodernists don't support anything at all. Ironic detachment and scepticism don't help the world at all. Better to have an idea, even if flawed, a la Criminale, than not to have any ideas at all. Better to construct something wrong than merely to deconstruct and not offer anything new.
The writing style was fine, if a little wordy for my liking. I hate when characters are sitting on a train reviewing the story so far and speculating at length about the motives of other characters. It feels as if I am being prodded: "look, look, you probably missed it, but this is what you should be thinking about at this point!" I think if the story is well told, the reader can be trusted to realise what the important questions are. Another slight irritation was the author's tendency to shoehorn Oscar Wilde type bons mots into the narrative, e.g. "Writers are sometimes inclined to let their work do the talking; photographers have to let their talking do much of the work." Or: "There are no travellers now, only tourists. A traveller comes to see a reality that is there already. A tourist comes only to see a reality invented for him, in which he conspires." A lot of these little flourishes were quite clever, really. But they irritated me because they broke the narrative spell: they made me forget about the characters for a few seconds, look up from the page and remember that I was reading a book by a man called Malcolm Bradbury who was trying quite hard to sound clever.
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Hi dave, having a nightmare with my vivaro, 53 plate. I had the gearbox changed (surprise-surprse) and the clutch and a few days later the van lost all power till 2400 revs in every gear and then the power is there!!! after reading threads on several sites I changed the mass air filter sensor today and it amde it a little worse so put old one back. My next move might be crankshaft/camshaft sensor as has been mentioned that this is connected to the gearbox and seems to tie up with the gearbox issue!!! was your turbo playing up or the mass air filter sensor, don't know which way to turn??????????????? please help......Paul
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hi, i working on a vauxhall vivaro,03 plate 2.0 tdi, just had a 2nd hand engine and turbo. customer then came back a month later with lacking of power. so checked it out, the first check was the turbo pipes for security and no split. all good. the engine wouldn't rev past 2000. thought it was in limp home mode, this normally store a fault so check on my computer and loads where there. cleared them down to see which one are permanant - just one 1806 airflow / EGR circuit.- removed egr and cleaned. checked operation all good- at this point engine now revved to 3600- so still a problem- ?
hi i wonder if you have any advice for me...
i have a vivaro 1.9 diesal van and have had very heavy black smoke coming out the back when i am driving ,, it gets sluggish and cuts out. i was told to clean out the egr valve which i was doing every other week until it got so bad i bought a new egr and fitted it and drove ok for 3 days, then the black smoke came again and got sluggish and cuts out and loss of power. i took the new egr valve off to check and it was black and oily just like the old one.... where is this black oily stuff coming from?? and how do i stop it?? or is it any other part doing this to the egr valve... i have had enough and its driving me mad....numerous mechanics dont seem to know. thanks mark.
i had problems with glow plug light coming on , loss of power, rubbish fuel usage. followed advice about unplugging mass air flow meter , and after improvement i bought a new sensor. best thing i have done.cant believe i hadnt noticed how bad van had been running until i changed it. i now have proper pull away, turbocuts in on time and means it !! i can actually accelerate up the steepest of hills without loss of speed , fantastic. would of cost over fifty pounds just to put van on diagnostic machine, with no guarantee of finding anything. so thanx to the advice , it has saved me a packet and given me a new van again.
I have had the same problems as everyone else here , no power till 2400 revs , warning light on , unplug the MAF sensor and most of the problems go away . I have but one question - I live in Germany , and my local garage is keen to sell me a Bosch MAF sensor . The cheaper versions available on Ebay , are they any good ? To be avoided ? Buying one for €50 instead of €220 plus is appealing , but not if they are a bag of sh§t ! Any advice greatly appreciated , thanks in advance .
To answer my own question - DO NOT buy an Ebay sensor ! Not new , just reconditioned, utter crap .The new one works a treat , cured all of the problems mentioned by every poster to date.
Hi all, had some work done on my vivaro 1.9 2005, and when picked upran like a bag of s***, no power below 2500 revs or there about,garage gave me a list of possible problems with all extra cost.Now to the point, read thread (Thanks for everyones input) and the connection boxon the mas air flow sensor had not been pushed all the way home,????pluged in in properly and van runs a dream, this proves the senserwas the problem, and garage denies causing a problem ????Hope this helps the next person....Cheers....
to add near end of conversation if getting oil getting to egr etc, easy spot down the r/h side of the engine it is most lokely that the seal inside the vacuum pump has failed and needs replaceing. (3 bolts and a pipe to fix)also sounds like my cam sensor to be replaced too.
Next port of call would be to check EGR Valve as on these are right after air filter box very easy to change or clean if i had one these vans which does not run well then they is a very good chance your EGR valve is dirty as they get absolutely full of black sut and jam preventing the valve from opening and closing, causing your van to loose power drive sluggish and rich on fuel. Even if I have no fault i always keep my EGR valve clean as the fuel economy is greatly improved. Changing my EGR valve added 10 miles a gallon (wow). A Good way to test your EGR Valve or for a tempory repair is to block the ports off with a metal gasket these can be bought here on eBay EGR Valve Blanking plates , If the vehicle runs fine with the ports blocked then it is the EGR valve that is at fault.see link to my guide for photos and diagrams reviews.ebay.co.uk/Vivaro-Cutting-Out-Problems-and...4Or Try www.Boschpumps.com or www.Boschpumps.co.uk for blanking plate or genuine reconditioned parts.Service manuals can be bought for five pounds from Vauxhall Vivaro Service Manual
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HI Guys, just a little input and comon fault with these vans.
I had loss of power and van went into limp mode, i took the air filter out which was black not good, then i took the whole aircleaner off only to find that a couple of wires had broken due to something rubbing, very obviuos when you take the aircleaner off, sorry dont know what the wires are for )they are 2 wire with plugs on the end, i just re joined them put everything back together with new air filter and all is fine, well better than before the fault if im honest.
I hope this helps someone save a few quid, i came here for info on mine but found the broken wires was my fault problem.
Just had the same problem as the OP.Loss of power at low revs then cuts in full after 2000 rpm.
Turned out to be the Maf sensor,the high pressure fuel sensor and the boost sensor.After replacing all these the van now revs through the range with no let up on power.
The boost sensor fault shows up as the orange management light coming on at 2500 rpm or under heavy load. ie, hills.Its the black box on the right hand side of the bulk head with two small pipes coming from it.Unplug the two pipes and join them together with a small bit of tubing.If the boost is better then its the sensor on the bulkhead and costs approx £27 to replace.Also check that the two small pipes are clear and also where they plug onto the engine remove them and insert a small stiff wire into the hole to make sure its clear.Mine was blocked solid.
Hope this helps others as this van can be a nightmare to fix with these faults.
Hello I own a 1.9ctdi sportive it is a 2006, unfortunatly I had to have recently a new engine at 69000 miles and it had been serviced regulary,so anyway after not being happy paying out nearly £1.500 for a proffesional rebuild etc it developed another fault. .ie.low revs would not pull in low gears and very sluggish,so i took it to the garage to my mate who does all my work on it and he checked it over with his machine,it came back with a fault but was saying turbo sensor so we replaced that for about £80 quid no good at all so back again now checking mass air flow filter replaced that at £80 no good still the same,so back again now checking egr valve cleaned it out and replaced,improved a little but still bad,so back again no faults showing so replaced egr valve for a new one £120 .Not happy at all now as spending and spending and still not right. So decided to give it one last go as he was really begining to get baffled with this,then i mentioned to him it seemed a hell of a lot worse when it had been raining heavy,so in it went again..fingers crossed..ok this time the machine was showing a glow plug fault so he said two had gone so he replaced all 4 to be on the safe side £50,then he decides to check this little plastic thing right at the front of the engine just behind the rad.he found it had water droplets in and the elements were pitted and corroded,he cleaned it up and put loads of electric transmision grease on it or something,hey presto its like a rocket again,well nearly....the plastic thing is some kind of sensor which governs all your fuel to the engine,so was obviously getting wrong readings thru being wet.....hope this helps try this thing first before you spend probably pointless cash on other things like i did....only for paying out for the new engine it would have gone for sale earlier as it was driving me nuts...cheers phil
check my post below see if it helps i had the same problem
hi all re no power.
the most common cause of this is the vacuum pump failing this will give the same symptoms of a blown turbo white smoke.
this will not come up on a diognostics check as it is a no elec item as is the turbo.
renault had a recall on the vacuum pumps some were mised.
dont sped £100s as a second hand vacuum pump is pennies.
the turbo waste gate on these is at a closed position at start up only opened by the vacuum pump no vac no tubo hope this helps some 1 in the future ex ren mech
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I had all the scary lights and limp mode for a few days as main symptoms but also had no temp guage working (no lights on bar scale) and rad fan staying on from startup to 10 seconds after shutdown, never even heard the fan before !!
Suspected temp sensor, ordered new one ebay tenner, meanwhile took it to my local independant MOT place for a diagnostic. "£40 please yes you have a problem, but we dont know what it is".
Ok still no fix, got temp sensor, fitted, still no guage and limp mode etc.
Was googling too much and getting worried about the costs that may be involved !!!
Decided to change fuel filter, needed it anyway and was going to change thermostat as even when hot rad hoses remain cool but heater is toasty.
Was playing around with temp sensor plug and it literaly fell off its connecting wires leaving a perfect break at the wire exit point but the plastic sheaf slid from the wires. Ahha !!!!!, had to push some copper strands tightly into the plug to make a good connection then affixed and insulated with some gunk, soldered the new wires onto the slightly cutback good existing copper and taped it all up. Reconnected and alls well again, no lights no fan.
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text: "Dakar" dress rehearsal: new Race Touareg 3 debuts in Russia Share Comments An important milestone on the way to the "Dakar": the new Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 will experience its competitive debut at the Silk Way Rally through Russia (11–18 September). The fascinating off-road marathon from Saint Petersburg to Sochi will be the big dress rehearsal and final test for the Dakar Rally through Argentina and Chile (01–16 January) where Volkswagen is striving to achieve the "hat-trick" with TDI diesel technology following its exploits in 2009 and 2010. The brand new Race Touareg 3, now with an output of 310 hp and sporting the attractive design language of the production model, will be piloted by the Dakar winners Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz (E/E). The three other Volkswagen crews, Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D), Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von Zitzewitz (ZA/D) and Mark Miller/Ralph Pitchford (USA/ZA), will compete in the predecessor model, the Race Touareg 2, in Russia and will receive the new vehicle generation for the Dakar Rally in January as well. "The Silk Way Rally is a task of enormous importance to us," says Volkswagen Motorsport Director Kris Nissen, "because it is the only competition we're tackling before the 2011 Dakar Rally and our aim of achieving the hat-trick there. We want to use the opportunity to not only test the material at this tough rally and to sharpen the senses of our drivers and co-drivers after an eight-month break in rally racing – but very clearly get our whole team to work together smoothly. After all, this is the 'Dakar' dress rehearsal for the engineers and technicians as well." Endurance run in competitive conditions: Race Touareg 3 is being put to the test After more than 10,000 kilometres of testing in Spain and Morocco the new Race Touareg has to prove its prowess in competitive conditions for the first time at the Silk Way Rally: the powerful 4×4 with a TDI engine is in for a competition covering nearly 4,600 kilometres of which about 2,100 are timed. "After a nearly eight-month break in rally racing the whole team has to find the right rhythm," says Carlos Sainz who won the "Dakar" in 2010 with Volkswagen. "Obviously, winning is always the goal – but this time we also want to demonstrate the progress we've made with the new car compared with the old one. So this event will be about two things: regaining our 'Dakar' speed and thoroughly testing the 'RT3' in competitive conditions." Demanding terrain for drivers and co-drivers as ideal preparation for the "Dakar" The ceremonial start at the Palace Square with the impressive Winter Palace in St. Petersburg kicks off the Silk Way Rally on 11 September in a historic setting. From the world's northernmost metropolis the first leg will lead to Staraya Russa and from there via Vyazma and Lipetsk to Volgograd. On the way to Sochi, the rally's final destination and venue of the 2014 Winter Olympics, stage destinations in Astrakhan, Elista and Maykop are on the agenda. The route with eight special stages across North Russia featuring the sandy massifs of Kalmykia and the rough foothills of the Caucasus is regarded as ideal preparation for the Dakar Rally thanks to its multi-faceted terrain. "Although the second Silk Way Rally has the same name as the first edition last year, it actually leads across a totally new route," says Timo Gottschalk, who navigates Nasser Al-Attiyah. "With the start in St. Petersburg and the finish in Sochi we're in for demanding terrain. There will be fast sections requiring high driving skills as well as many off-road and dune stretches. So we're expecting a very quick rally that'll be anything but easy." ***Image2:bottom*** Chance for revenge: Sainz/Cruz to tackle team-internal duels unbeaten Volkswagen is sending four driver/co-driver pairings with winning potential to the Silk Way Rally – the same duos who are scheduled to reach for the third consecutive "Dakar" title in January 2011 as well. Each of these duos is determined to show itself in top form before the desert classic and to fight for victory. This might even put an end to a string that has so far been unbroken: ever since Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz have been competing jointly for Volkswagen they have remained unbeaten: in addition to the 2010 "Dakar" victory, the track record of the purely Spanish pairing reflects exploits at the 2009 Silk Way Rally and the 2009 Rallye dos Sertões – three of the 13 cross-country rally wins achieved by Volkswagen to date. Another "Dakar" winning duo – the South African Giniel de Villiers and his German co-driver Dirk von Zitzewitz – is aiming for victory in Russia too. The 2009 "Dakar" winners who celebrated the first diesel-powered victory in the automobile classification of the desert classic with Volkswagen are equally hungry for success as the "Dakar" runners-up in 2009 and 2010: Mark Miller/Ralph Pitchford (USA/ZA) and Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D). "I've still got some unfinished business with the Silk Way Rally," says the Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah. "I've good and bad memories of it. The good ones: Timo and I were leading the rally some of the time. The bad ones: after a rollover we were forced to retire just before the end. That's why we've prepared ourselves even better for this competition. But the main focus is on the evolution of the Race Touareg 3 for which we want to gain as many findings as possible because our big aim is to win the 'Dakar' in January." 13 victories, 39 podium places, 113 stage wins: Volkswagen is set on continuing exploits With the Race Touareg 3 Volkswagen is set on continuing a unique success story. Volkswagen is the only manufacturer so far to have decided the automobile classification of the Dakar Rally in its favour with diesel technology. The statistics reflect 39 podium places in 28 rally runs – 13 of them wins. Since the launch of the Dakar Rally programme with the Race Touareg and the Race Touareg 2 in 2004 more than half of all stage exploits have gone to Wolfsburg: 113 out of 216 stage wins were clinched by a Race Touareg, with 37 stage wins having gone to the brand at the Dakar Rally itself – in six events so far.


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The polygonum bushes are also fresh and good, in such places.
Both the viviparous grass and the polygonum are found in England.
From a large polygonum water-hole which had recently become dry, a swarm of whistling ducks rose, probably scared by our approach.
Meissner records a similar augmentation in polygonum orientale.
Lumley went a few paces off to a bed of polygonum, the gloomy leafless bramble of the wilderness.
polygonum Persicaria (lady's-thumb), log-path, Chesuncook, 1853.
It feeds in the autumn on dock (Rumex), sorrel (R. acetosa), and knot-grass (polygonum aviculare).
In the highlands a kind of polygonum is used for this purpose.
Large flats of polygonum, and plains having rents and fissures in them, succeeded those I have already described.
polygonum grew around them, and I doubt not that after a fall of rain water would remain there some time.


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Is It Working?
Russell & Daphne's combined powers are irresistible!
Just give in, Sarah. :)
Russell & Daphne's combined powers are irresistible!
Just give in, Sarah. :)
OMG i just want to grab and run. They are so darn cute. Reminds of my tri who is in rainbow bridge. I forgot how irrestible they are when there pups. Just yummy. Sthis time i rescued a two year old, no regrets. He is so good and adorable, has a lot of issues but his cuteness out weighs it all.But pups are so cute. :)
They're cuter than a bag of crispy Cheetos and a tall glass of Diet Coke. OMG! Can't get enough of these babies. Looks like they're saying. Can I come in now, p–l—ee–ee–ee–ssseeeee!
Oh boy!!! I bet you gave in!!! They are too irresistable!
I have this overwhelming urge to open that gate & let those cuties roam free in the house. After all, how will they ever learn their paper shredding skills like the 'Jenny Super Shredder, Model 2011?'
Also, do you have any cats that need chasing? Toilet paper to drag around the house? These 2 look like they're ready for anything!
DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE, DOUBLE YOUR FUN – THERE WOULD BE NO GATE BETWEEN THEM AND ME !!! LOVE THEIR PAW PAWS ESPECIALLY RUSSELL'S – LOOKS LIKE HE IS PRAYING, "PLEASE LET ME OUT – i'LL BE GOOD !" CUTIES, INDEED !!!
I wouldn't even waste time taking the gate down. I would just pick them up!!!
OMG, they are too cute. I agree, just give in. lol
Let us in ma, we'll be good we promise;) Love the little paws!
Yes, it is DEFINITELY working !!! Cute-o-meter overload
Oh Sarah, you are so-o-o-o loosing this battle, times 2!! These are beatiful little babies, enjoy the life time of fun.


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He is weird in a very Sakayer way. I can't even begin to describe him. He speaks four languages fluently, plus he can fake another 10 (Korean included heehee). Mai mai mai mai… is supposed to be Thai. He shops 'til he drops; he worships brand names; he eats three-four servings of everything. And he can make the craziest funny song parodies. If you love me, then you give me a chicken for my grandson… Well, we think it's funny.
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Billy is the friend I love to hate. He calls during the most ungodly hours and talks about his feelings. A lot of times he calls for no reason at all. Much as I hate yakety-yakyaking with him on the phone, it seems unavoidable.
And he is probably the most narcissistic person for all time. He thinks everyone is interested in him. He thinks he can charm every girl (and guy) in town. He is delusional, hence, his favorite word: Deluded.
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Baby Jack: A Novel
by Frank Schaeffer
No current Talk conversations about this book.
Where do I start? I'm with Nathaniel Fick, who in his advance praise for this book, said he had to read it in private because "it wrapped me up emotionally and left me wrung out." A former marine himself, Fick oughta know. I've never been a marine and I've never suffered the loss of a child, but I recognize good writing. And this is GOOD! And less there be any mistake, this is NOT just another anti-war diatribe. No, this is a book about the kind of service and sacrifice that President-elect Obama might have had at least vaguely in mind when he mentioned the need for those things in his election night speech. The freedoms we enjoy in this country have been too long defended by the few. There is indeed a "culture war" being waged in the U.S., and nowhere is it more evident than within the ranks of our military, which is populated primarily by our poor and disenfranchised. BABY JACK is about that war, and about the vast gulf between lower class and the upper class - between those who serve and those who surreptitiously scorn the very people who defend their lives of entitlement and privilege. But this is not simply a thinly veiled political diatribe either. This is literary fiction at its finest, with characters you will remember for a long time: the parents, Todd and Sarah; the children, Jack and Amanda; the girlfriend, Jessica; and God. Yes, God becomes a character in this book about war and class struggle. And He is a God you never could have imagined. As a product of a family full of right-wing evangelists, Frank Schaeffer knows his stuff. He uses much, I am sure, from his own life in telling this story, and it all adds to the final impact. Is this a modern parable of the Christ? You decide. Before I go on eagerly to Schaeffer's newest book (a memoir called Crazy for God), I should probably also point out that this is not an unrelievedly serious tome. Although there are several powerful scenes here which will absolutely make you cry (especially if you are a parent),in its depiction of the Marine Corps and basic training at Parris Island, there are also scenes which will make you laugh aloud in recognition. No, I was never a Jarhead, but I went through basic training (Army) - twice - and can still remember the utter terror of being the trainee, as well as the cruelty, the craziness and the pride of finishing the job. Schaeffer, who has never served, credits his son, a former Marine, for the authenticity. But no one can take credit for the sheer beauty of this book other than Frank Schaeffer himself. I will recommend it highly. Well done, Mr S.
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Todd Ogden, an acclaimed painter with work in museums around the world and a seemingly successful thirty-year marriage to the Brahmin Sarah, is living and painting in his two-hundred-year-old Massachusetts farmhouse when his youngest child, Jack, chooses the Marines over college. Feeling puzzled and ultimately infuriated by his son's incomprehensible switch to "the other side," a situation only further aggravated by his disapproval of Jack's girlfriend Jessica, Todd ultimately turns his back on his son. Not long after the start of Gulf War II, Jack is deployed to Iraq and killed a week later, trying to end off an ambush.
From this point on, Baby Jack tells the story of the family Jack leaves behind, of his parents trying to survive as their marriage shatters, of Todd's own breakdown and after-the-fact attempt to understand his son's life — and of Jessica's perseverance and the baby to whom she gives birth after Jack's death.
Baby Jack is a powerful and moving human story of sacrifice and redemption, which takes its readers into a territory way beyond the everyday.
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Just wondering if any of you ever made puff pastry in hot and humid weather? If so, how did you do it?
im currenty in hong kong
choux is not a problem
combi oven 180 degrees celcius
then slowly turn down after it gets colored
keep going down in intervals of 20 degrees until its "crisp enough" <this part is personal preference... in asia people like SOFT puff.. europeans like crunchy puff>
and the ONLY thing that really gets into my nervs with hot humid climate is making macarons
holy @#@# lol
u need to prebake the almond powder stuff like 2 times and keep em as dryyy as possible
then after u pipe em out
u need to "wind dry emm" cuz if u just leave it out in any random place.. they get soaked up with water and get wasted like WHAM
then when u bake... u gotta bake a bit longer cuz.... ITS JUST TOO DAMN HUMID
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I'm with Wendy Cope when she says…
I think I am in love with A.E. Housman,
Which puts me in a worse-than-usual-fix.
No woman ever stood a chance with Housman,
And he's been dead since 1936.
(Serious Concerns)
His stock is definitely on the rise (there was Tom Stoppard's Invention of Love, and now an edition of his letters, which I would love to review, since, er, the book is priced a little out of my range!) I confess it was almost more fun to announce him as maybe my favorite poet when this would result in jaws dropping open at poetry dinners and a polite averting of eyes. (Or maybe that is still true? I'll soon find out.)
By favorite I don't mean Greatest or Best or even Most Influential. I just love everything he wrote. His criticism is as delicious to me as his poetry. Auden's famous sonnet suggests that Housman retreated into dry-as-dust scholarship to avoid passion, but Housman clearly gets an awful big kick out of criticism. His prefaces aren't just savage, they are gleeful. Manilius may be more famous for Housman's preface of his work now than as the 1st century AD author of Astronomica.
Some quotations from the title lecture of The Name and Nature of Poetry:
"Meaning is of the intellect, poetry is not. If it were, the eighteenth century would have been able to write it better."
(He goes on to praise Collins, Christopher Smart, Cowper, and Blake over, say, Pope. "And what other characteristic had these four in common? They were mad.")
And asked to define poetry: "I replied that I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat, but that I thought we both recognized the object by the symptoms which it provokes in us." And goes on to give his famous account of being unable to shave properly if a line of poetry strays through his mind, because his hair stands on end.
This is a favorite and not-too-anthologized poem of mine—Housman had a lifelong interest in astronomy (hence Manilius)—and here he puts it to wonderful, accurate use. For Housman, the night rises rather than falls. You almost need to picture a three-dimensional model of movements of the earth, the moon, and the sun here:
West and away the wheels of darkness roll,
Day's beamy banner up the east is borne,
Spectres and fears, the nightmare and her foal,
Drown in the golden deluge of the morn.
But over sea and continent from sight
Safe to the Indies has the earth conveyed
The vast and moon-eclipsing cone of night,
Her towering foolscap of eternal shade.
See, in mid heaven the sun is mounted; hark,
The belfries tingle to the noonday chime.
'Tis silent, and the subterranean dark
Has crossed the nadir, and begins to climb.
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Wonderful stuff. Yes, the new edition of the letters is really, really expensive – but fans of AEH will adore them – not so much for insights or gossip, which he almost inevitably abjured, but for the relentless insistence on matters of principle, even at his own expense.
You folks who are getting hooked on Housman – and Wendy Cope – might like to proceed to Gavin Ewart next!
I thought to myself, "What is 'expensive' when it comes to books?" So I checked. And let's clarify: it's over three hundred dollars.
I'm trying to think what I would do if that were, say, Wallace Stevens's or John Ashbery's letters. Gulp!
Yes, you'd think that for upwards of $300 they might throw in an ACTUAL letter by Housman…
Last week for some reason, in a kind of zeitgeist fashion, entirely unaware of his letters or his stock secretly on the rise, I was thinking fondly of how much I liked Housman and his land of lost content, and so looked him up, startled to find that Shropshire Lad appeared in 1896. Somehow I had mentally dated it at least 30 years later– the diction so fresh that many of his poems could easily have been written yesterday.
Alicia, you now have to tell us what you think of "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy."
Don, I can't second the recommendation that lovers of Housman proceed directly to Ewart– perhaps a detour at Landor? (Has anyone here spent time with Landor's prose works? I've always wanted to, but I just haven't.)
There are two Wendy Copes, the literary-historical parodist and the author of well-made light or comic verse about courtship from an urbane Englishwoman's perspective. Lovers of the former should probably read Ewart; lovers of the latter should certainly check out Sophie Hannah.
Steve, I think you're exactly right about the detour to Landor, whose poems, by the way, ought to be more easily available (if you have a thousand bucks, you can get them all on CD-ROM). As for his prose, I tried to engage in some of his many "Imaginary Conversations," but they have faded from my own imagination, unlike the best of his poems.
Re Ewart – ah, but notice I said to proceed to him from Wendy Cope, post-Housman – not to go directly from him.
Actually, I think you can probably stop dead in your tracks when you reach the end of Housman…
I–maybe I should say WE because it is a favorite of my husband's, who has about memorized it–ADORE Fragment of a Greek Tragedy. It is in the most perfect classical Translationeze. (Ange, you would appreciate it from you Greek classes.) Really, it has to be performed to be appreciated. Housman had a real flare for light verse and parody ("The shades of night were falling fast/ And the rain was falling faster,/ When through an Alpine village passed/ An Alpine village pastor")…
To me, Housman seems less "dated" now than many modernist experiments (I say this as a fan of Eliot), less a product of a specific time, that is, which makes sense because he was striving for a timelessness. It is kind of bizarre to think that The Waste Land and Last Poems both came out in 1922.
The accusations of "false pastoral" that dogged him from the appearance of Shropshire Lad have always seemed to me misplaced. All pastoral is "false"–it is the most pointedly artificial of the genres.
But really the closest contemporary heir of Housman is… Robert Creeley!
(I am actually serious about this claim, but will be explaining it, with any luck, at greater length in another venue a couple of months from now.)
I hate to see this thread fade away, so here are some teasers form AEH's letters, taken from Paul Johnson's review for the Literary Review:
"He could be sharp. He refused to be included in an anthology with Meredith 'as I am a respectable character and do not care to be seen in the company of galvanised corpses. By this time [1903] he stinketh for he has been dead twenty years.' He wrote: 'I do not want to write letters to a woman whose name is Birdie.' He wrote: 'Mr Thomas thanks me for "a poem", and prints two: which is the one he doesn't thank me for?' Here is a letter received by another anthologist called Moore of Burton-upon-Trent:
Permission to quote is one thing, permission to misquote is another. First you take certain verses of mine and disfigure them with illiterate alterations, then you ask me to let you attribute them publicly to me, and now, because I do not abet you in injuring my reputation, you think it rather hard. Why was Burton built on Trent?
But though he often refused permission to quote, he also declined fees and royalties. He wrote:
Vanity, not avarice, is my ruling passion; and so long as young men write to me from America saying that they would rather part with their hair than with their copy of my book, I do not feel the need of food and drink."
One certainly gets a taste of this personality in the letters printed in his brother's book, "My Brother, A.E. Housman", or whatever it is called… including some terrific "critiques" of his brother's poems, which are sharp and funny without ever being cruel. If I were at home, I'd take the book down and post some. Maybe when I get back to Athens in a week.
Again I say… won't someone ask me to review this and send me a review copy? Any takers? Poetry Foundation?
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Ladies Only 20th Anniversary Party
Join the NSMBA on Saturday, June 23rd to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of Ladies Only on Fromme Mountain. Meet at the water towers at 10 am and get primed for the group ride down the trail that started it all here on the Shore back in '92.
Original art work by Nigel Quarless.
The man himself on the new monster coaster on Lower Ladies.
Digger's unique approach to trail building spawned the free ride movement, paving the way for the Godfather and giving a generation of riders the canvas to push their limits. It was Ladies Only that created a 'North Shore style' that is today emulated around the globe. There has been no other more influential trail builder than Digger and it's your chance to join in the party and give thanks to the man who built the Shore from the ground up.
Some of Digger's recent work on the lower section of Ladies Only now dubbed Big Stupid.
The infamous heron pond claims victims on a daily basis. If Digger happens to be around when you make your way into the swamp, you'll make his day!
Joining us will be a number of riders from the NSX series as well as local pros to ride the revitalized Ladies Only. After party will be at the Narrows Pub starting at approximately 12:30pm. The NSMBA would like to thank artist Nigel Quarless for the donation of his art work to create the Ladies Only commemorative poster and of course Digger for his decades of pushing our limits.
A limited run of 100 t-shirts are available at On Top bike shop. Get in there!
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Austin Bans Electronics While Driving, Biking
The city of Austin bans the use of cell phones, mp3 players and other electronic devices while driving or biking.
Attorney Cleve Clinton says he's not surprised since more than 20 Texas cities -- including Houston -- already have bans on texting.
"But Austin, El Paso, and Corpus Christi are probably the only ones I know, at least of the larger cities, that have a ban that extends beyond texting to the use of a telephone or wireless device," Clinton tells KTRH News.
Brian Manley, assistant police chief in Austin, says the ban is needed to reduce accidents.
"The difficulties we have with congestion, any distraction increases the likelihood that you're going to be involved in a crash," Manley said.
However, California put a similar ban in place six years ago, and while studies have shown use of electronics while driving dropped, there was no significant decrease in the number of accidents.
Whether Houston passes a similar law or not, Clinton says you're just better off not doing it.
"For the likelihood of getting a ticket, but also practically, if you're involved in an accident there's a greater presumption of your negligence," he says.