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Special Collections
Observations on Poets and Poetry
From Books at Iowa 29 (November 1978)
Copyright: The University of Iowa
The Thomas Ollive Mabbott Collection at The University of Iowa covers adequately the recorded Mabbott interests and accomplishments. One may see there his work on Milton, Whitman, and Pinkney, and his more extensive work on Poe, including Volumes I, II, and III of the Mabbott edition of the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1969, 1978). The shelves contain copies of his articles on minor figures in English and American literature, and a file of the Numismatic Review he edited, as well as copies of the sale catalogues of his coin collection. They do not, however, exhibit anything of what was perhaps the most important of all the Mabbott accomplishments. Classroom teaching, like acting on the stage, leaves few written records; and T.O.M., who often referred to himself as a failed actor, was, as students testify, an inspired teacher.
As it happens, the collection does contain, in a series of letters and notes not yet open to the public, [see note a] a small sample of the Mabbott way with poets and poetry. Most of these letters were written in 1923 and 1924 when he was a new Ph.D. in charge of one of the sections in the Masters Program at Columbia University. The recipient was a senior at the University of Chicago, majoring in English literature and obviously reporting on poets studied at the time. [1] Some of the passages that follow are combinations of isolated statements, and the whole is arranged so that the general statements precede the more particular observations. Time and experience changed T.O.M.'s emphasis on some of the individual poets, but only deepened his commitment to poets and poetry. The following excerpts from these letters reveal an aptitude, shall we say, for the teaching of undergraduates he was shortly to begin.
[Ed. Note a: The collection is now open for research.]
Divisions of Poetry, and Standards
There are four divisions of English poetry -- supreme, notable, significant for an age, significant for a scholar. A man may go from the third to the fourth. Shakespeare, Homer, and Whitman belong to the first. The reader who does not read Greek will probably conclude that Shakespeare is the greatest because Homer becomes tiresome in translation. But then, I must go on to say, no one can criticize poetry who has not read the greatest poetry, the Greek, in the original.
Although my chief scholarly work has been on an American poet, I feel like making a clear-cut assertion that there is not a distinct literature apart from that of England. It is my belief that the most profitable study can now be only of the intertwined and inseparable literatures of the world.
I do not insist that one admire every kind of poetry, but I do protest against those who set up personal standards to which they think a poet must conform, unless it be a standard to which such varied things as the Labuntur anni of Horace, the best of the Spoon River Anthology, the "Resolution and Independence" of Wordsworth, and Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot obviously do conform.
I have heard a lot about the essential difference between the poetry of Poe and Coleridge, but I have never been able to see any difference that I thought essential. In fact, I am sure that what they have in common is what counts, and that is the essentially poetic quality. It is not only that I think "Kubla Klan," "The Eve of St. Mark" by Keats, and Popes "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady" great poems -- I think they have the same quality of greatness, and differ only in manner, which is not essential.
The only composition textbook I would have is Robert Henrys The Art Spirit. [2] This artist and teacher in his book presents revelations and directions for the students of art that are wise and useful for all teachers and students. The instructor who can say as he does that "our future freedom rests in the hands of those whose likeness will be in their dissimilarity" will not penalize a student for disagreeing with him, nor give the highest marks to those who parrot his observations. And I do so much agree with his initial statement: "Art when really understood is the province of every human being."
In an edition of Beowulf I would have a picture of the Frank's casket -- perhaps only that, but surely that. College professors are too quick to scorn pictures, coins, maps, all the means by which we put ourselves into any period. Brander Matthews could give you the spirit of the Elizabethans by some such statement as this: "The people of Shakespeare's time liked to see eyes put out on the stage." It wasn't that he knew so much about a period, but that he could grasp such marks of identification quickly. Of course, in all the process of learning and teaching one never knows what the vital thing will be. A story in Little Men influenced me! There was a boy in it who did not like flowers and so he had a weed garden. I remember thinking that, if he wanted to be a scientist, he'd have to study the weeds.
Thomas a Kempis
I have been reading the Imitation of Christ, that is the opening chapters, and find myself much illuminated by the constant use of the text, "the ear is not satisfied with hearing, nor the eye with seeing" -- it explains so much that I have long felt, and yet I cannot wholly feel that the best solution is an absolute renunciation of the world, which the author advocates. Yet it is one solution and if he is too ascetic for you (as you once wrote me) and for me, I don't think he was too ascetic for Thomas a Kempis. "We shall be asked what we have done, not what we have read," -- another text for the scholar to keep before him constantly!
William Dunbar
Dunbar 's "To the Princess Margaret" is itself didactic, for what it teaches is the harmony of the universe which we learn best from such things. To know the line "Born of a princess most serene" is to have a reason for living:
Younge tender plant of pulcritude,
Descendyd of Imperyalle blude;
Freshe fragrant floure of fayrehede shene,
Welcum of Scotland to be Quenel
Sweet lusty lusum lady dere,
Most mighty kyngis dochter dere,
Born of a princess most serene,
Welcum of Scotland to be Quenel
Christopher Marlowe
Marlowe is, besides Shakespeare, the only absolutely first-rate genius among the Elizabethans, though they numbered so many almost first-rate writers that one hates to say that. Yet in his own field -- the poetry of the most completely exuberant passion -- nobody, not even Sappho or Catullus, or Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet, has surpassed the speech of Faustus to Helen, she "who launched a thousand ships" and was
------------ fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;
nor has Vergil more dignified and magnificent lines than those in Mephistopheles' address on the whereabouts of Hell:
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd
In one self place; for where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be:
And to conclude, when all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Have you read Coriolanus ? That is a marvelous, sombre, proud, understanding play, and alone would prove W.S.'s importance to a really discerning critic, I think. Neglect of Coriolanus puzzles me. I fear nowadays few people read even Shakespeare through.
As for the sonnets -- there are no nightingales here. They are the fire of love, not merely the blaze of passion but the "flame within" Catullus mentions. Surely I have hitherto underrated the sonnets, partly because I am impatient of conceits, the straining for contrasting parallels which the Elizabethans so desired. But this defect of manner is of the age, not the man. The magnificent boldness of sonnet 35, line 2, "Roses have thorns and silver fountains mud," shows the master's hand. How we strive to be familiar in our verse and prove only low -- while Shakespeare forgives the mud for the silver shine of the waters -- and perhaps makes us feel a little the inextricable winding together of all the objects of reality.
John Donne
As for Donne, your comment that you enjoyed his work, when you put your mind to it, is only at first glance a condemnation of his poetical powers. The conceits, the subtleties, and indeed everything characteristic of what Dr. Johnson called the metaphysical school is, I think, rather at war with true poetry -- and with Donne, remember that he is a very uneven poet. But the interest taken in a writer should be apart from his excellence or lack of it in producing the poetic sentiment in his readers, and the exhibition of the human mind searching out strange thoughts is an interesting one. Treating Donne as a thinker might prove easier than anything else. But I suppose you have a subject on Donne! To be quite honest I think it is fortunate that I never had to write any literary papers, as nothing save source work and bits of criticism which are in themselves works of art, made a very definite appeal to me -- except in the recognition of what Poe terms "supernal beauty." You will like Donne's
Sweetest love, I do not go
For weariness of thee,
Nor in the hope the world can show
A fitter love for me;
But since that I
Must die at last, 'tis best
To use myself in jest
Thus by feignd deaths to die.
Yesternight the sun went hence,
And yet is here today:
He hath no desire nor sense,
Nor half so short a way.
Then fear not me,
But believe that I shall make
Speedier journeys, since I take
More wings and spurs than he.
Robert Herrick
Herrick's best work is somewhat akin to the best of Ben Jonson and has some of the Elizabethan flavor -- his worst, again like Ben's work, is a mere imitation of Martial, to whom I believe he is much indebted. I should rate him below Landor, whose sympathy with the Greeks was closer probably. Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a great admirer of the poet, and one should consider his finer lyrics and epigrams apart from the unattractive side of the man, in the belief that his occasional coarseness was due in part to the surviving medieval grotesque element of Elizabethan culture, in part to the false taste for classical obscenities which Ben Jonson did too much to encourage, and which may accompany very genuine piety. Herrick has a special place in my personal anthology because "The Night-Piece: To Julia" was the first poem I ever appreciated as a poem. Look at the first two stanzas here; I will picture you reading the last two in your book and thus we read it together:
Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire befriend thee.
No Will-o'the-Wisp mislight thee,
No snake or slow-worm bite thee;
But on, on thy way
Not making a stay,
Since ghost there's none to affright thee.
John Milton
Your reading in Milton must be turning your mind to the problem of the origin of evil, which is so fundamental that it can never be fully grasped by the human mind, but of course his making Satan the hero from the tragic point of view was just as necessary as for Shakespeare to heroize Macbeth. Aeneas is a hero in this sense, and Vergil made his hero a model from some points of view, which Milton never intended with Satan. Blake's symbolism, I think, called energy "satanic." In old age he said that he had seen the real devil and drew a most shocking picture of him with which Milton's Satan had little in common. Among the things that stand out in Paradise Lost is
Among the faithless, faithful only he.
That line has the greatest of all the Miltonic cadences and the glorious connotation -- the one angel who was not seduced, his courage, the hatred his faithfulness must arouse among the rebels stand out from all the poem in my memory. And is there anything more perfect than the last lines of Comus :
Mortals that would follow me,
Love Virtue; she alone is free.
She can teach ye how to climb
Higher than the sphery chime;
Or, if Virtue feeble were,
Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Thomas Chatterton
You do guess right about Thomas Chatterton -- there is a certain sympathy with him. But also there is a quite impersonal respect. Shakespeare, Milton, Byron -- so I rank them in order, but Chatterton, had he accomplished his promise, would have been among them and perhaps third rather than fourth. Of course that is a purely personal ranking -- but the admiration is just, I think. A survey of T.C. biographers will show you much of the incompetence of learned men!
As you know I regard the Bristol boy as a very important poet -- the only person to whom I would apply the word Shakespearean, and I have a very great regard for his work, which is neglected by the criticasters of this country sadly. Only the last of Comus is greater than the final stanza of
A Balade of Charitie
But ah! unhappy pilgrim, learn of me,
Scarce any give a rentroll to their lord;
Here, take my semicope, thou'rt bare, I see.
'Tis thine; the saints will give me my reward.
He left the pilgrim, and his way aborde.
Virgin and holy Saints, who sit in gloure [glory]
Or give the mighty will, or give the good man power!
John Dryden and James Mangan
I suppose Dryden does not appeal greatly to us today -- but "Alexander's Feast" is a splendid thing, and I recall a song, "Sylvia the fair in the bloom of fifteen," which is even more perfectly versified.
Mangan's "Dark Rosaleen," however, has the most effective use of the refrain that I know. It has more passion and less exaltation than Poe's "For Annie."
As you are carrying the Oxford Book of English Verse around with you this summer, read after "Dark Rosaleen" another Mangan poem. Read "The Nameless One" with its most powerful and most touching of all endings:
Him grant a grave to, ye pitying noble,
Deep in your bosoms: there let him dwell!
He, too, had tears for all souls in trouble,
Here and in hell.
Alexander Pope
I progress rather slowly with Pope's Iliad which does not possess for me the charm of novelty. I find myself tremendously in sympathy with Pope in some things, though, and believe his version of Homer conveys a better idea of the original than any prose version can do -- the prose versions I've seen are at their best biblical, and the Iliad is not that, whatever it is.
Samuel Johnson and William Beckford
The two prose things in the English language I should have hated most to miss are Vathek and Boswell's Life of Johnson. The only novel I've ever wished longer is Vathek. Richard Garnett has expressed my sentiments:
There are brighter stars in the literary firmament than Beckford, but few which can with equal propriety be likened to the evening star and the morning star. Nor is there, probably, any modern Oriental story except Vathek which might appear without disadvantage in the Arabian Nights with Aladdin on its right hand and Ali Baba on its left.
William Wordsworth
Did you ever read "The Sailor's Mother"? I never did before today, but thought it one of the finest examples of Wordsworth's success in giving great poetry in ordinary speech and from the stories of humble people. This poem, by the way, is an argument for reading Complete Poems. It does not appear in the Oxford nor in Arnold 's splendid selection. I wonder if you have seen it. On a wintry road the poet meets a proud woman begging an alms:
"What is it," said I, "that you bear
Beneath the covert of your Cloak,
Protected from this cold damp air?"
She answered, soon as she the question heard,
"A simple burthen, Sir, a little Singing-bird."
And thus continuing, she said,
"I had a Son, who many a day
Sailed on the seas, but he is dead;
In Denmark he was cast away:
And I have traveled weary miles to see
If aught which he had owned might still remain for me.
"The bird and cage they both were his:
'Twas my Son's bird; and neat and trim
He kept it: many voyages
The singing-bird had gone with him;
When last he sailed, he left the bird behind;
From bodings, as might be, that hung upon his mind.
"He to a fellow-lodger's care
Had left it, to be watched and fed,
And pipe its song in safety; -- there
I found it when my son was dead;
And now, God help me for my little wit!
I bear it with me, Sir; -- he took so much delight in it"
The close is like a stanza in Spenser's "Astrophel," extremely touching yet completely restrained:
That hearbe, of some, Starlight is cald by name,
Of others Penthia, though not so well;
And thou, where ever thou doest finde the same,
From this day forth do call it Astrophel;
And when so ever thou it up doest take,
Do pluck it gently for that shepheards sake.
Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper" with its "Old unhappy, far-off things/ And battles long ago" has in a few lines the essence of poetry, of course. Even Keats's "Charmed casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas..." has not quite the strange, sad, ultra-poetic quality of the Wordsworth, but no English poet has ever done the thing as well as Catullus.
Walter Savage Landor
Landor is a problem in a Romantic Period course, for as you know he lived an extremely long life -- printed his first book, I think, before 1800, and his last more than 60 years later. Never a popular poet, his even, high level of quality over all those years is amazing -- and as the only English poet who was ever really Hellenistic in spirit I have a very deep interest in him. As "Rose Aylmer" was a favorite poem with Charles Lamb, however, I would plan to treat Landor along with that group. And just to bring him into view, I indite here:
Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives,
Alcestis rises from the shades;
Verse calls them forth; 'tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.
Soon shall Oblivion's deepening veil
Hide all the peopled hills you see,
The gay, the proud, while lovers hail
These many summers you and me.
Kirke White
I have been reading the poems of Kirke White. Did you know that he added a stanza to Waller's "Go, Lovely Rose"?
Yet, though thou fade,
From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise;
And teach the maid
That Goodness Time's rude hand defies;
That Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
Mother Goose and Imperfect Rhyme
The secret of the charm of imperfect rhyme lies deep in our psychology. Is it not partly due to the occurrence of such apparently imperfect rhymes, as wander and gander, or substitutions for them where a word is obsolete? Poe and others have used such rhymes and the suggestion that they suggest the old times and so charm us has been made. But I think the charm lies deeper in old times known to people too unsophisticated to think of Chaucer or Spenser -- the old times of our own childhood, and the one kind of poetry almost wholly enjoyment, since never made a task, the songs of Mother Goose.
Byron and Swinburne
Byron said, "All the innovations of Romanticism have been vastly overrated" because he himself was not eminently successful in romantic pieces. Don Juan is his greatest work. My admiration for The Deformed Transformed is rather for the passion, and the insight it gives of Byron's school than for its other qualities, and I would hardly go so far as to call it his best work. It is his most revealing. Swinbume has a song and sings it well, but he takes thousands of lines to say what Byron says in four:
For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe
And love itself have rest.
George Moore's "Pure Poetry"
Of course Moore 's theories are interesting, though they will not always hold water. The result with Shelley is, as you see, the proof of this. I cannot accept "The Cloud" as a fine example of Shelley's "pure poetry." No one can limit poetry by any rules, and it is better to fit ourselves to appreciate many styles than to say "this is a worthless style because I do not like it." Of course the like or dislike of a very sensitive person is of great importance. I am glad to see he chooses "Meg Merrilies" from Keats. [3] When I first read Keats through, I said I considered it his best poem -- that it was what Wordsworth should have been at his best.
Moore is a good critic. I particularly agree with his statement that great artists "by one work may light up an abyss of soul," but there must be this magical and unique word. Shakespeare gives us the word, Balzac sometimes, Turgenev gives it with miraculous certainty. I feel I find, if not the word, felicitious passages in Recker in such lines from Hassan as
Shower down thy love, O burning bright, for one
night or the other night
Will come the Gardener in white, and gathered flowers
are dead, Yasmin.
Emily Dickinson and Blake
Emily is a fine poet for the intelligentsia, not only for her innovations in prosody, but for her attempts to pierce through to the unknowable. She did not, however, like Blake, have a profound spiritual doctrine to pronounce, nor could she produce such a piece as that amazing poem, "The Everlasting Gospel," where the run-on couplets seem to rush with the force of a steady river. Queer in many ways. Blake was a very great man in his humanity. In "The Divine Image" you recall the lines;
Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.
Maria Brooks
Some day there will be an edition of Maria Brooks' writings -- they are "honorable to literature" as Disraeli said of something he wrote. In her epic, Zophiel, there is a Song. These are lines which Charles Lamb thought "so fine no woman could have written them," the lines Southey thought worthy of Sappho herself. Written in Cuba, the poem seems to hold in it the fire of the blazing stars of that sky -- to feel the full effect one must imagine an evening balmy as a few nights are with us in June. Then it seems the perfect expression of a lonely heart -- unquestioning in its passionate devotion; the words of the singer gradually increasing in vigor from the description of the first lines to the utter abandonment, at the end, of everything else in a consuming flame of unselfish love.
Day, in melting purple dying,
Blossoms, all around us sighing,
Fragrance, from the lilies straying,
Zephyr, with my ringlets playing,
Yet but waken my distress:
I am sick of loneliness.
Absent still? Ahl come and bless mel
Let these eyes again caress thee,
Once, in caution, I could fly thee;
In a look if death there be,
Come, and I will gaze on thee!
Francis Thompson and Richard Crashaw
The prose of Francis Thompson is too little spoken of. He is perhaps too religious to be thought of by the casual reader as keenly critical. Actually he is most gifted in appreciation of the rare qualities of the highest lyricism, and of ecstatic religious feeling. When he finds these two qualities combined in a poet, as they are in the matchless Richard Crashaw, he shines and understands what so many modern critics overlook -- the really outstanding position of Crashaw among the metaphysical poets, rightly rating him above Donne for lyric quality, and as an ancestor, in a way, of Shelley. The criticism of Spenser is right, too -- of course the Four Hymns are worth half of The Faerie Queene, or maybe all of it, and Spenser's true feeling was for the lyric.
Thompson occasionally is absurd enough, as note his weak attempt to prove the greater spirituality of Christian over Greek and Latin poetry. One hears constantly of Thompson's work on Shelley, keen and lovely and enthusiastic. But it is only superior in length, not in quality, to much of his minor criticism of poetry. The comments of such a man on any poetry, even forgotten poetry, must be precious in the eyes not only of the religious mind, Catholic or Protestant, but of everyone who really cares for pure poetry-which is a holy thing.
Poets Loved Abroad
Byron, Poe, and Whitman -- a strange group -- all perhaps more loved abroad than at home -- have, I think, the greatest influence of poets of the modern language on the readers of other lands today.
Some of us, as we read the two earlier of these poets, are, like the Duc de l'Omelette in Poe's story, who "could not help imagining that the glorious, the voluptuous, the never-dying melodies which pervaded that hall, as they passed and filtered and transmuted through the alchemy of the enchanted window-panes, were the wailings and howlings of the hopeless and the damned!" Yet this transformation of the terrible into the beautiful, this turning of "infernal agonies," as Sir Philip Sid ney says, "into a beauty divine," if it be not, as Poe sometimes thought, the chief function of the poet, is certainly one of his functions. And if the beauty be indeed divine, who shall ask from what soil the lily sprang, if it is "the plant and flower of light."
Robert Browning
Do you know Paracelsus? It is a strange, difficult, compact blank verse affair -- a series of mental thinkings aloud, but no mean accomplishment in revealing the soul-struggles of the artist, the genius, the intellectual. To be a thing for its own sake, to despise even praise when it is bestowed upon the by-product of the great endeavor -- that is the theme. There is, of course, also a good deal of portrayal of the historical strange being whom Browning used to center his drama of the soul. I wonder at the size of Browning's audiences, or is it that there are many whose souls are greater than their mind's abilities, and who hail in him the sturdy and unconquered soul to whom their own is kin?
Browning, when a boy, used to visit a certain toad that would come to him and let him stroke its head -- Browning commented on the beauty and look of affection in his eyes. And when he was old he wrote a poem about that, "White Witchcraft." Does it not seem this one incident -- ex pede Herculem -- reveals the man, his interest in all things, even the ugliest, where love shines through?
Edward Coate Pinkney
My work on Pinkney is the thing most on my mind now -- minor figure as he is, there is a certain charm about some of his lines that enchants me -- for instance where Ponce de Leon, dreaming of success in his search for the Fountain of Youth, says to his love that his greatest joy will lie in the thought that "The sun has kissed no face/Forever fair as thine!" I have quoted to you before the glorious "Look out upon the stars my Love/And shame them with thine eves."
Poe was a gentleman because he was brought up to be one. Pinkney was a gentleman because his family for generations had been -- he was one of the few Americans with noble blood. Poe had weaknesses. Pinkney had none. He was rather a terrible person, but his faults were of strength, not of weakness. My real sympathies are with him, more than with Poe, and my heart beats to his measure in such lines as
On, on -- my heart is here,
My sword is at my side.
Edgar Allan Poe
The faults of the man and the mistakes of his life have been discussed and explained or condemned over and over again. They do not necessarily affect in any way our delight in the poems or our estimate of their worth. Poe's object was to obtain release from the sorrows of life through his song, and he did not regard his personal misfortunes as something that he must take with him into the realm of the imagination. The poetry has long outlived the errors of his mortality.
Nevertheless the reactions of readers to Poe's poetry are often dependent on their knowledge and opinion of the man himself. Some persons have always found him a most appealing figure. He was unfortunate and they like to weep over him; and they try to sentimentalize him, in some cases to deny his faults as the calumnies of his enemies. Others have a thorough dislike for the man which they extend to his verse. Every vivid personality annoys some people and self-conscious genius is not easy to get along with when accompanied by a desire to rebuke pretentious claimants to like power, and by a gift for saying bitingly true things.
If you dislike Poe because you are a cheerful soul and, like Emerson, can see nothing in "The Raven," are not interested in the dark side of the imagination, or are inexperienced in romantic discontent, you are out of sympathy with Poe's art and may as well lay his books down since, after all, every man to his own taste. If you dislike him because after a thorough consideration you find him not the kind of man you can sympathize with, again, do not bother with his books. But if you are out of sympathy because you think that he wrote while drunk, or beat his wife, or was cruel to his cat, or is too much slobbered over by certain writers who have printed their views about him, then give him a chance to appear through his poems, as lie really was, with a little of Time and Space under the forms of America and the years 1827-1849 rubbed away by the more lasting qualities of his art.
Favorite Poe Poem
You ask what is my favorite Poe poem. Such a question always brings an emotional answer from me, and my choice is "Eldorado," though I do not rank it first among his poems. It is Poe's comment on the California gold rush of 1849, where many who sought treasure found death. The attitude of facing life boldly is something more often thought of as Browning's than Poe's, but Poe's most admirable quality was his gallant devotion to literature "in sunshine and in shadow." That last stanza is as heartening as anything I know:
Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the valley of the Shadow,
"Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied,
If you seek for Eldorado."
The poem was obviously inspired by something Poe read in a chapter of one of his favorite books, Isaac D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature, about the harmless madmen, familiar to us from King Lear, who wandered about England begging, and were called "Tom o' Bedlams." D'Israeli quotes a Tom-o-Bedlam song. The seventh stanza reads
With a heart of furious fancies,
Whereof I am commander,
With a burning spear,
And a horse of air,
To the wilderness I wander;
With a knight of dreams and shadows,
I summoned am to tourney;
Ten leagues beyond
This wild world's end;
Methinks it is no journey!
D'Israeli adds, "The last stanza of this Bedlam song contains the seeds of exquisite romance; a stanza worth many an admired poem."
Walt Whitman
Of all the poets of the nineteenth century, Whitman has the most to say to the twentieth. If the American people could get Whitman into their consciousness and know Leaves of Grass, we'd see a greater nation.
Whitman himself developed slowly, and for all his sympathy with the normal, need not be supposed a more average person than Dante, or Goethe, or Shelley, or Milton, or Wordsworth, or Dr. Johnson, or Byron, or Shakespeare. The evidence for a homosexual tendency in Walt is of the same nature as that for one in Shakespeare -- and however one may dislike the tendency, the problem only incidentally concerns the reader of Leaves of Grass.
He says indifferently and alike How are you, Friend?
to the President at his levee.
And he says Good-day, my brother, to Cudge that hoes
in the sugar-field,
And both understand and know that his speech is right.
Many things shock an immodest person that do not shock a modest person. Whitman shocked some people, so does God.
Most of the followers of Whitman have been repelled by him at first, but one must lay aside all prejudices and read the Leaves of Grass -- at any rate the first hundred pages, and in the first edition if possible -- before condemning it on the basis of personal vagaries of the author. One needs neither to defend or commend him to those who read him. But one rather regrets anything which may prevent people reading an author who gives many of us who seek God a conception neither at war with science, nor negative of all reality. In a word Walt combines the virtues of stoicism with an enthusiastic acceptance of life. He himself, of many a smutched deed reminiscent," found life worthwhile for the sake of those he loved. He struck one of his finest notes in the last stanza of "Dirge for Two Veterans":
The moon gives you light
And the bugle and the drums give you music,
And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
My heart gives you love.
Sidney Lanier
Lanier's "Sunrise" has in it everything Browning and Shelley and Swinburne tried to do -- and sometimes did. I pick for your favorite the passage where, while the live-oaks, the marsh, and the sea lie waiting, he goes, before the dawn, in the darkness of night, to his beloved trees to hide in their "gospeling Blooms," to listen to their leaves:
Sift down tremors of sweet-within-sweet
That advise me of more than they bring, --repeat
Me the woods-smell that swiftly but now brought breath
From the heaven-side bank of the river of death,--
Teach me the terms of silence, --preach me
The passion of patience.
I share the ecstasy, but I myself wait for that great, Olympian-leisured entrance, "Good-morrow, Lord Sunl"
] ames Elroy Flecker and A.E. Housman
I have just finished poor Flecker's poems and now we must read Hassan. There is nothing else quite up to The Golden Journey to Samarkand," I think, but there is a richness in various places that pleases me. His war poetry is like the other crowd's -- only Housman could do that with dignity, passion, and "unreason" enough. Remember his
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.
Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and earth's foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,
And saved the sum of things for pay.
Old Songs
Willa Cather tells of the sorrow of an old song. I have just heard Hawaiians singing "Lay my head beneath a rose." There is here, in its simplest form, a cadence which is in the deepest way the soul of Mozart and Poe -- the most sorrowful cadence in the world.
[1] The letters were written to Maureen Cobb, afterwards Mrs. Mabbott, who has made the selection of excerpts for the present essay.
[2] Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art Generally, and on Appreciation, compiled by Margery Ryerson (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1923 and later editions).
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And lived upon the moors;
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And her house was out of doors.
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The 2013-14 U.S. pistachio crop could be 90 million pounds lighter than first estimated, and prices could hit record highs as a result.
About 460 million pounds of pistachios will be produced this season, down from an earlier estimate of 550 million pounds, according to a new estimate from Los Angeles-based Paramount Farms, which markets more than 60% of U.S. pistachios, said Andy Anzaldo, the company's general manager of grower relations.
Richard Matoian, executive director of the Fresno, Calif.-based American Pistachio Growers, said the Paramount estimate was a good one, though a more accurate estimate would not likely be available until early November.
Both the American Pistachio Growers and Paramount Farms issued the earlier estimates of 550 million pounds.
About 555 million pounds of pistachios were produced in the U.S. last year, Matoian said.
Given the high demand for pistachios worldwide, he said, the big expected drop this year could pose challenges for marketers. Even with a much bigger crop last season, shippers often had to scramble to meet demand.
"It will be even more difficult this year with the crop situation," Matoian said.
Paramount Farms' first priority, Anzaldo said, will be to supply its retail customers that are committed to promoting the company's Wonderful brand year-round.
The second priority, he said, is servicing Paramount's industrial customers and export markets in China and Europe.
Where supplies could come up short, Anzaldo said, is in Paramount Farms' third tier of customers — f.o.b. markets and exports to India, Russia and other emerging pistachio markets.
Strong demand should push per-pound prices over $5 this season, Anzaldo said.
"By the end of the year, wholesale prices should be at record levels."
A number of factors have contributed to the big volume loss this season, Matoian said.
Bursts of hot summer weather kept sizing down, he said. In addition, some orchards had an abnormally high number of blanks — fully formed shells with no meat inside.
Finally, Matoian said, many trees didn't have as many nuts on them as usual.


text: The Marshall Trade will go down as one of the best the Reds have ever made. Get a top-shelf reliever for 3 fringe MLB players (at best). Then re-sign said reliever at an extremely-reasonable rate for 3 additional seasons. Then said reliever might become closer due to Madson injury. Reds would be in terrible shape without Marshall this season and they gave up very little in the grand scheme to get him. Felt like it was a lot to us, but it really wasn't. And even beyond this season the trade looks great because Marshall will be a HUGE part of the bullpen at least through the 2015 season. Either as the set-up man or the closer. What a great trade.


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Nat Young isn't wasting any time showing he's worthy of his recent promotion to the Association of Surfing Professionals' World Tour.
At the Volcom Pipe Pro, a tune-up five-star World Qualifying Series event at Hawaii's Banzai Pipeline, Young recorded the only perfect 10 of the day Friday. The Santa Cruz native did it in estimated 15- to 20-foot waves while surfing against longtime World Tour surfer Tim Reyes, native Hawaiian Kahea Hart and Shane Beschen, the only professional surfer to score three perfect 10-point rides in an ASP competition.
Six seconds was all it took for Young, 21, to concoct a wave that earned him $1,000 as the "Electric Perfect 10" of the day. It was a rare double-tube ride on his first wave of his first Pipe competition. Yet Young is no stranger to the danger or the drama of the break, and his performance was polished and he looked in control.
"That was the best wave I've ever had out there," Young told www.aspworldtour.com. "The wave itself was just amazing. This is the first time I've ever done a comp here, so for me it's just practice. That's why I came, to get comfortable out here. I've surfed here a lot, I've been coming here every winter since I was 14, but I'm definitely intimidated out there. I was definitely nervous before my heat. To say I wasn't intimidated would be a lie.
"It just looked like a really good wave. I wasn't paddling in thinking it was going to be a 10. To get that opportunity right at the beginning was pretty nice. It was amazing. I kicked out and I was smiling. I could hear the beach (roar) after I came out, everyone cheering. It was nice."
John John Florence also drew a reaction from the crowd. The World Tour title contender who considers Pipeline his home break turned his heat into a 25-minute Florence super session, lassoing four incredible tube rides in succession for scores of 9.3, 9.53, 9.73 and 9.97. His top two scores delivered the highest heat total of the competition so far -- 19.7 points out of 20.
Florence, 20, is the top seed and defending champion of this event.
"That was a really fun surf session," Florence told www.aspworldtour.com. "Just being there and having no one out, it firing like this with wave after wave after wave ... it's a pretty special feeling. I think this is one of the better days of Pipe all (winter). It was really hard to come in."


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Former Sutton United star Andy Scott returned to Gander Green Lane as boss of Aldershot and immediately predicted big things for Paul Doswell's side.
After a 1-1 draw, where Jamie Taylor's first half opener was cancelled out by Tom Derry, Scott praised the hard-working ethic of his hosts.
He said: "It was United's first team and they are a strong outfit, as they were last year, and I am sure they will be challenging at the top.
"It's a tough league to get out of, Eastleigh showed that last year as they had to spend a lot of money to get out.
"Paul knows the league now, they've been knocking on the door for four or five years, and you'd like to think that sooner or later their time will come."
Scott added: "It's always nice to come back here, they look after you, and the work that's been done on the ground looks great."


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Report finds Philadelphia Traffic Court routinely fixed tickets for pols
A report on Philadelphia Traffic court has concluded that judges routinely granted preferential treatment to the politically connected, and that a ticket for the wife of a State Supreme Court justice was dismissed on the same day the justice personally visited a court administrator.
The report found that "preferential treatment of connected violators was so commonplace that it was broadly accepted by court employees."
The report found that the practice largely ended after a September 2011 FBI raid on several judges and court officials, but that until then, it appeared from interviews with employees that every judge on the court participated.
The report, prepared for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court by consultant William G. Chadwick, concluded that the primary reason for practice is "the intensely political environment of Traffic Court, where most employees are hired based on political connections and where party allegiance often determines employees' career paths."
Traffic Court judges are elected with party support, and do not have to be attorneys to run for the office.
Lynn Marks, executive director of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts said the report's portrait of Traffic Court operations is eye-opening.
"It's not a pretty picture," Marks said. "It shows how (the court) violates equal justice for all, and that's incredibly troubling. Actually, it's a disgrace."
The report identified U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, the chairman of Philadelphia's Democratic party as a frequent source of requests for special treatment. Brady denied the allegation.
"That's totally untrue," Brady said in a telephone interview. "I never requested special treatment, never talked to a judge or talked to anybody in traffic court."
Asked if someone might have been making requests on his behalf, Brady said, "If they were, I would absolutely fire them."
Brady said when constituents ask for help with a traffic ticket, he sometimes provides an attorney who's willing to work without a fee as a favor to the Democratic party.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on the Traffic Court review today.
The report found that in July 2010 a ticket issued to Lise Rapaport, the wife of State Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery, for driving the wrong way on a one-way street was dimissed.
The report said that McCaffery drove his wife to Traffic Court on the day of her hearing, and that McCaffery met outstide the building with William Hird, a court administrator whom the report said acted "as a clearinghouse for many external consideration requests."
A call to McCaffery was not immediately returned. The report said that in an interview McCaffery said he'd met with Hird only to request that an out-of-town judge be put on his wife's case "because it would be a conflict for a Philadelphia Traffic Court judge" to hear his wife's case. McCaffery is from Philadelphia.
The report says McCaffery contacted Hird because "he knew Hird from political campaigns."
Marks said the account of McCaffery's conduct is troubling.
"If the report is true, it shows that a justice of the supreme court used his power and authority to affect a government function on behalf of a member of his immediate family," Marks said, "and that's plain wrong."
It could also land McCaffery in trouble if the state Judicial Conduct Board decides takes action on the issue. If the board decides there was misconduct, it can bring charges which would be heard by the Court of Judicial Discipline, which can impose sanctions on the justice.
The report said a number of fundamental changes should be considered, including requiring that Traffic Court judges be attorneys, or eliminating the position of Traffic Court judge and employing non-elected hearing officers to handle most traffic offenses.
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text: A Wildcat, 'Team Skyler' showing a lot of fight By Mitch Vingle January 21, 2014 Story Share Courtesy photo Logan's Skyler Miller is battling acute myeloid lukemia. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- On Tuesday, while many of us fought the snow, Skyler Miller sat in his room and fought something more serious.Something much more serious.To be specific, he sat in his room, not at his Logan home, but at the Ronald McDonald House in Huntington.See, Miller is 15. He's been a promising athlete at Logan High. Yet he's not battling an opponent on the field or one on a court. He's battling leukemia. In fact, he's battling AML, acute myeloid leukemia.It's his second go-round with the disease. At 14, he had an ATV accident. When the doctors ran blood work at the time, they found abnormalities. They found AML.To say he's had a rough go ever since would be an understatement. Last year, a special Easter service was held for him in the waiting area of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Cabell Huntington Hospital. Yet he fought. And he fought."He had eight weeks of high-dose chemotherapy," said Logan basketball coach Mark Hatcher. "He played basketball, but his main sports were football and track. He runs a 4.5 [-second 40-yard dash]. Very fast. Was 170 pounds and could run all day long."When he played basketball, he was a defensive specialist. He could play man-to-man all game long."After the eight weeks of treatment and a loss of 50 pounds, Hatcher watched Miller's battle to return."He kept getting stronger," Hatcher said. "Most of his weight and muscle returned. He had trouble with endurance, but most of his weight and muscle returned."Then, at the beginning of January, his blood work came back. It wasn't good."Unfortunately, the leukemia is back in full force. It was a blow because it seemed Miller's hard work had paid off. His brother Zak, a senior returning starter for Hatcher, had convinced Skyler to play basketball again. Miller played some junior varsity and varsity hoops. Then came the news."When we found out, we started him against Nitro," Hatcher said. "He was able to start with his brother. His shoes were orange, the color of leukemia awareness."Skyler Miller, a 5-foot-9 sophomore guard, scored a few buckets, the last with 2:30 remaining to give Logan a 65-25 lead in an eventual 69-25 victory. When Miller was replaced, he received a standing ovation. Even Nitro's players, facing such a deficit, stood and clapped. Now, though, Skyler is sidelined. He's in that Ronald McDonald House. He's receiving chemotherapy treatments again. He's awaiting a bone marrow transplant, which will take place in Columbus, Ohio.He is, however, doing so with much love and support. When Logan played Point Pleasant in the King Coal Classic, money was raised and a check for $1,000 was presented to him. There has been a concert held on his behalf."All our kids," Hatcher said, "wear at least one orange shoestring. They call it 'Team Skyler.' " "It means a lot," Skyler Miller said on Tuesday. "At the [Nitro] game the support really showed up. When I ran out of the locker room everyone cheered. It showed how much I'm supported. It was awesome. It helps a lot."Miller said tests showed his mother, Kristi, is not a bone marrow match. The family is still awaiting test results on Zak, who could be a donor. If that's not a match, Miller said the Columbus hospital assured him the donor bank there has him covered.Hatcher said Miller's attitude has been terrific through the entire process. "He's just a great kid," said the coach. "He's a Christian kid who goes to church religiously, and did so even before all this happened. He's a good student and a good artist."In the hospital he even developed relationships with others, mostly younger, in the same situation. He had like 30 names of Logan-area people [with leukemia] on his shoes."Hatcher, by the way, has had his own struggles. He's facing charges after a fight broke out between his team and Chapmanville. The coach was diagnosed with kidney cancer two years ago. Also, Hatcher's brother, Chase, went through two bouts of cancer.The coach's heart, though, is with Miller."It's tough," said the coach. "Skyler and I had a pretty good relationship before he was diagnosed. Now, we have a tight relationship. I could relate because of me and my brother."The coach and the town of Logan have been on Team Skyler. Now, hopefully, the state will join in as well."He's doing really well," Kristi Miller said."There are still no side effects [to the latest round of chemotherapy]," Skyler said. "I've been in the hospital a week and a half and still no side effects."He knows, though, the fight isn't over. 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The Wall Street Journal rankled the University of Indiana coaching staff when it made the assertion that the 2012-13 Hoosiers were the biggest underachiever in NCAA Tournament history.
It made the proclamation after evaluating all the teams that had two top-five draft picks in the same NBA draft. The Hoosiers qualified after Victor Oladipo went No. 2 to the Washington Wizards and Cody Zeller No. 4 to the Charlotte Horcats/Bobnets.
Here's the graphic that was published July 1 in the Wall Street Journal:
While the 2002 Duke team and 1984 North Carolina team also were bounced in the Sweet 16, both teams rank higher than Indiana because the '01 Blue Devils, with Williams and Dunleavy, won a national title, as did the 1982 Tar Heels team that featured Jordan and Perkins.
Hoosiers assistant Tim Buckley, who has been beside coach Tom Crean since the start of their reclamation project in Bloomington in 2008, vehemently disagreed with that label.
"We're pretty proud of this group," Buckley said in a news conference Tuesday, per a report from The Indianapolis Star. "And we're disappointed as much as anybody else with not going further in the NCAA Tournament. Our fifth-place team (Michigan) in the Big Ten played for the national championship. That's how good this league was. And for us to do it night in and night out; I don't think we ever lost two games in a row.
"Someone point out to me what was underachieved from April 1, 2008, until we went through draft night. I'm going to speak to that because I know what everybody up here put into it, I know what everybody's family put into it, I know what every one of the players and their families put into it."
Crean also took to Twitter to defend his players.
With Victor and Cody's adjusted rookie scale, they combine for $8,490,360 this coming year. Thats b4 endorsements,etc. What a start!— Tom Crean (@TomCrean) July 9, 2013


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- Date: March 12, 2013
- Time: 10:43 p.m.
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Description of Incident: Broward Sheriff's Office detectives are hoping surveillance video will snag a purse snatcher from a robbery in Lauderdale Lakes.
Just before 11 p.m. March 12, a 48-year-old woman had her purse snatched as she exited her car at the Walgreens store near Oakland Park Boulevard and State Road 7. The suspect is described as a heavy black male, around 25-30 years, wearing a white t-shirt and black shorts. The suspect fled to a waiting vehicle, possibly a Mercury or Oldsmobile with a heavyset white female with dark hair in the driver's seat.
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Thanks, that was fun!
I saw this link at FSU. It is a very humorous interview--I had to laugh several times while I was reading it:
I thought some of the folks here might enjoy....
"The sexiest man on earth, is me" Ohhhh man ... looks like somebody needs to get Anton back down to earth.
Nice, honest, down to earth interview with a touch of humor.
I loved it!! What a guy!
Glad to see at least one skater has refused acting jobs.
Ptichka- I have never heard Garry Kasparov. Do you know who he is?
Gary Kasparov was the world chess champion in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the youngest champion in history, and very possible the best ever. While at the height of his strength, he had disputes with FIDE (the international chess federation) and split off to form a rival group, the Professional Chess Association, so for a while there were duplicate world championships.
He has been in the news most recently because of a series of matches that he played against a computer. IBMs Deep Blue program was the first that was able to beat a human chess master.
Yes, I did enjoy the interview! Tanya did a nice translation for us, and I have to admire the style of those Russian interviewers. They seem to ask questions designed to provoke answers that are a lot more impertinent than US editors allow, don't they.
Anton seems like a very funny guy. But that's what's so sexy about him, at least to me. The combination of emotional nature, looks and personality, AND a good sense of humor is devastating.
I actually don't really like this particular style of interviewing. IMO, an inerviewer should be a little more respectful; some of the questions this one asked would have been more appropriate when interviewing a teen pop star than an Olympic Champion. Also, Russian language has a familiar and a more respectful pronoun form (like tu vs. vous in French, or thou vs. you in Middle English); I don't like it when interviewers use the familiar form, as though they were talking to a child (more professional journalists will use the formal pronoun for the interview even if they use the familiar one in everyday life).Originally Posted by Julie O
The only thing I'd like to add to what MM already said about Kasparov is that he has now entered Russian politics as a very strong anti-Pitin voice. Here is an interview he gave which really goes into his political views, views on Russian future, his own cultural background ("I am born in Baku and I am half Armenian-half Jewish but my native tongue is Russian, my culture is Russian, my education is Russian"), etc. Indeed, when he says, "for many Soviet citizens in mid 80's the Kasparov-Karpov matches were sort of a symbol of fight between new and old" - he is not self-aggrandising or exagerating.
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Ptichka, your observation gave me food for thought. Do you think this interview was done for a tabloidy or teen-like publication? That might explain the format. I did think it had funny points--but I see your perspective. There wasn't much there for a serious figure skating fan-though I liked hearing that Elena kept the stuffed animals and gave any overflow to charity.
Elena is my favorite of the two for what I have read ("Second Mark" and a few articles). She seems more introverted and bookish like me. Anton is more of a regular guy hanging out with friends, becoming an entrepreneur-more extroverted in general.
I posted it because it had a light, non-consequential but diverting feel to it. But-it does verge on silly at points. Are there many tabloidy magazines in Russia now? I have always been interested in Russian culture and history and this has been easy to combine with an interest in figure skating.
This interview was published in "Novosti Peterburga" ("St.Petersburg News). It's a local newspaper, not a tabloid, but not a serious too. It doesn't publish rumours and gossips but is quite reader-friendly and is intended for a wide readership (middle-class). It focuses on local news of every kind and also has sections like "Health", "Sports", "Private Life", "Horoscope", Society column etc. Interview with Anton was publishes in "Private Life". Infromal style is quite typical for such interviews (most readers are not figure skating experts or fans).
There are rather many tabloids in Russia now, the best known being "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and "Moskovskyj Komsomolets". Both of them are daily papers and have a "special" issue every Saturday. They are ranked 2 and 3 in Top 5 of the most popular Russian newspapers.
Ptichka, I hope it's OK that I answered a question that was addressed to you
Last edited by Shanti; 07-18-2005 at 11:31 AM.
Shanti, I actually thank you for answering those questions. I haven't been living in Russia for the past 17 years, so I am naturally a bit out of the loop
Thanks very much, Shanti! All of that information is very interesting to me. I hope I can visit St Petersburg someday...(wish, wish).
(Thanks too, Ptichka)
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - The Miami Beach Commission again devolved into a political circus this week as it debated the fate of the city manager.
Local 10 believes Jorge Gonzalez did the right thing by resigning. But, commissioners cannot escape their own roles in the city's recent problems, from the corruption arrests of code inspectors and firefighters to police officers gone AWOL and joyriding.
Their sniping and personal attacks during commission debate is unbecoming public officials.
Manager Gonzalez has much to be proud of in his 12-year tenure, but as the boss, he had to fall on the sword.
And commissioners? At the very least, they were clueless to the problems. At worst, they contributed to them.
That's our take on things. Let us know what you think.
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I'm planning on running a non-traditional format tournament next summer. Here and now I'm practicing explaining the format. I'm trying to develop a concise explanation that tells you what you need to know. Tell me if this explains it to you:
We are discarding the traditional PDGA format where we would have ten to fourteen divisions dividing players up by age, gender and skill. Instead, we will take the entire registered field and sort it by ratings. For trophies and payout, the top fifth (or first quintile) of the players will compete against everyone in the top fifth. The second fifth (or second quintile) of the players will compete against everyone in the second fifth, and so on. The trophy-only pre-registration fee is $10. If you want to get in on the quintile payout, bring $20 or $40 to the tournament and you can pay in for that at the tournament.
Because this will not fit into a PDGA TD report, for purposes of competing for PDGA points, only, all pros will play Open and all Ams will play Advanced.
I'm thinking I'll start with that much on the website our players read, and then fill in some details when they ask questions. If I tell you that much, do you understand what is going on without your head starting to spin? This assumes that your head was not spinning before you started reading.


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New York -- The TJX Cos. turned in the strongest performance among the discounters in October, reporting a 7% comp sales increase on Thursday.
According to TJX CEO Carol Meyrowitz, the above-plan performance has prompted the retailer to raise its outlook for the third quarter and full year. "We believe the momentum we are seeing in all of our businesses … bode well for the holiday selling season," she said.
TJX sales for the period advanced 11% to $2.1 billion.
Costco posted a 5% rise in same-store sales, less fuel, which missed Wall Street's expected 5.6% gain. The wholesale club operator said that the strongest regions for the month were San Diego, the Northeast and the Midwest.
Target Corp. reported a 2.4% same-store sales rise in October, which was near the low end of the company's expected range, said Gregg Steinhafel, CEO. Its third-quarter same-store sales gain of 2.9% matched Target's internal forecasts, he said.
In other discounter same-store sales results:
- Ross rose 4%;
- Fred's dipped 0.8%;
- SteinMart rose 1.7%; and
- Alco rose 1.9%.


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Firefighters from Mendocino and Fort Bragg converged to save a two-story house in Caspar Tuesday evening.
Firefighters were called to 45310 Pacifica Drive just after 5 p.m.
As he arrived, Fort Bragg Fire Chief Steve Orsi saw fire coming out both ends of the attic area and called for mutual aid from Mendocino Fire Department. A water tender, a fire engine and a small crew from MFD arrived soon after the request.
Inside the lower floor, firefighters covered furniture and other belongings with tarps to protect them from smoke and water damage.
Orsi said that while the fire was contained in about 20 minutes, it took a long time to snuff all the hot spots.
"The top story was pretty much destroyed," he said.
He estimated that sparks from the chimney ignited the shake-shingled roof and the wind accelerated the fire.
Since the home is tucked back in the trees from Pacifica Drive, fire engines parked beside the long driveway and were shuffled forward as needed.
Sirens and high winds that blew smoke over Caspar brought curious residents out for a look.
Orsi thanked Mendocino Volunteer Fire Department for its help and said it was great working with Chief Ed O'Brien and his firefighters.
He also advised woodstove users to have chimneys cleaned regularly and be extra careful on windy days.


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What is the Common Core?
The Common Core State Standards are a set of rigorous standards that identify the English and math capabilities students need to be prepared for college and jobs. The standards were developed by a national consortium, in an effort led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers.
What are the main changes introduced by Common Core?
In English, students will be expected to work with increasingly complex tests; there will be a heavy focus on nonfiction; besides reading, classes will teach writing, speaking and listening. Teaching literacy will be a responsibility shared by non-English teachers. There will be a greater focus on academic vocabulary, critical reading, and building literacy in science, social studies and technical areas.
In math, Common Core encourages a deeper understanding of the main topics at each grade level, establishes a coherent progression of topics, balances conceptual understanding and fluency in procedures, and fosters reasoning and problem-solving skills.
How many states have adopted Common Core?
45 states, the District of Columbia and several U.S. territories have adopted the Common Core.
How will students be tested on Common Core standards?
Two groups are developing standardized tests that states may use. California and 25 other states will use the Smarter Balanced Assessments, and the remaining states will use tests developed by the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. Both tests will be offered online.
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Just heard Mark and Slick discuss it on the web broadcast of the Griz game, broke a bone in his hand....
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Just heard Mark and Slick discuss it on the web broadcast of the Griz game, broke a bone in his hand....
Your horse is dead, get off it already...
Just amazing. I don't remember a preseason like this.
On the good side, that gives Freddy a good chance to make a dent in the backup PG rotation.
This space for rent.
Last season, everything went really well until the ECFs. Looks like this season is going to be a struggle - especially early.
If we're at 0.500 around Christmas time, will the national media be writing us off as one-year wonders?
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
Maybe Pollard has spread the Kings' Injury Bug....
AKA Sactolover05
Just heard a little more detail from the broadcast - he broke a bone in his right hand. Not certain what exactly happened.
This is getting ridiculous...
Your horse is dead, get off it already...
Wow, there's a lot of injuries for the Pacers so far.
I'm wondering, if he's still out when the regular season starts, does Gill get the backup PG minutes or does Freddie? I hope it's Freddie.
I just don't trust Gill that much right now.
There's a reason that's the season we do not discuss.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
Looks like we may have a slow start to the season, but if we can keep our heads above water for November and the first half of December, we can be OK. Plenty of time to get in a groove.
Same hand he broke last year in training camp that caused AJ to miss all the preseason games.
All my favorite players are getting hurt, Foster, AJ. I am scared to watch tomorrow night's game.
Good to hear Artest have 35 pts tonight
Hey when is the preseason game that will be televised on FSNMW?Please let it be this week.
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
The preseason is over this week.
There are always 8 games, and we've played 6.
We play Chicago tomorrow, and then on Friday Denver comes to town to end the preaseson, and it's that game that FSN is carrying.
Game was on directv using Pacer in house cameras. Tomorrows maybe too , they play radio broadcast with in house cameras.
Jackson was instant offense in last 1st early 2nd scoring 9 points in 6 minutes.
O.K. cool
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
Back to the injury to AJ, do any of you guys think that the Pacers might sign a guy to play 3rd point guard for the month or two that AJ is gone?
I don't think the coaching staff is going to believe that Freddy could fill that role. Plus if one of the other two PG's on the team gets injured that Freddie would then become backup PG, I don't think so.
They could either keep a guy that's in camp or sign a guy from somewhere else.
"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
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I don't know about that. It seems that we may have a bigger need in the front court.Originally Posted by PacerFanInAZ
We still got alot of talent even though some of our better guys are hurt , not gonna worry yet
I'm getting concerned about the JB influence.
But seriously folks (rim shot), what the hell are we doing this preseason that's getting all of our players hurt?
The best exercise of the human heart is reaching down and picking someone else up.
It was a freak injury. He was just running through a screen and hit his hand on another player. I could not believe it was broken. He must have glass bones in that hand.
We already have Tins, AJ, Gill, Jones I dont think we need anymore backups. From the things they were saying last night I think we are going to keep Edwards because he is big.
Besides I dont see AJ as that much of a loss
Unlike previously said, the break last year was in his left, or off hand. This year it's his right, which means he won't be able to shrug it off like last time.
Damn shame, too, cause AJ looked great last night. I couldn't believe that dunk he had.
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
Asked afterward if O'Neal's absence contributed to Charlotte's win, Knight bristled.
"What about Primoz? They didn't have Shaq, but we didn't have Primoz," he said.
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LOS ANGELES -- Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner befriended Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw a year ago when the two were running early sprints on the field at Dodger Stadium. On Friday, Bumgarner topped Kershaw to pick up a rare victory.
The Giants rallied in the seventh and held on in a tight ninth inning, beating Kershaw and the Dodgers 4-2. The win was just Bumgarner's second since the All-Star break, despite a 2.47 ERA during that span.
"I was happy for Bum as much as anybody," manager Bruce Bochy said. "It was good to get him a win."
The Giants rarely come away with anything but disappointment after facing Kershaw, who was 11-4 with a 1.32 ERA against the Giants in 21 previous appearances. But Bumgarner kept the Giants in the game until they could rally.
In his first matchup with Dodgers rookie slugger Yasiel Puig back in June, Bumgarner gave up an opposite field home run and afterward said he couldn't believe Puig managed to reach the outside pitch. On Friday, Bumgarner went after the rookie slugger with a clear plan, busting Puig inside with a steady stream of fastballs. Bumgarner threw five fastballs to Puig in the first inning, striking him out on one that was clocked at 94 mph.
"It's worked out in my favor the last couple of times," Bumgarner said of the matchup. "That's one thing with this game. There are constant adjustments."
The Dodgers had two walks and two singles through the first three innings but failed to score. Bumgarner struck out two in the fourth and worked out of a tight spot in the fifth. With two outs and a runner on second, Bumgarner again fed Puig a couple of 93 mph fastballs and got a fly out to left.
Bumgarner was every bit Kershaw's equal through the fifth, but the Giants left-hander ran into trouble in the sixth. Michael Young reached on a grounder to deep short and the Dodgers went up 2-0 when Juan Uribe rocketed an elevated fastball into the left field seats.
Uribe was making his first start in the cleanup spot since June 28, 2010, when he hit fourth for the Giants in a game against the Dodgers. Juan Perez kept a third run from scoring when he made a spectacular diving catch on the left field warning track, and the Giants immediately set to work erasing the lead.
Hunter Pence and Pablo Sandoval opened the seventh with back-to-back singles and Joaquin Arias drove in a run with a single to left-center field. Kershaw had gone 13 starts against the Giants without giving up more than two runs, a streak that dated back to May 18, 2011. But Brett Pill put the Giants up 3-2 when he reached down and poked a two-run single down the right field line.
"You know you're going to get at least one pitch to hit," Pill said. "I just tried put the barrel on it and then you hope that good things happen."
The Dodgers put runners on the corners in the bottom of the seventh but failed to score. In the top of the eighth, Pence padded the lead with a solo homer to right-center of Chris Withrow, Pence's fifth homer in the last 10 games.
After big contributions from Jean Machi and Javier Lopez, Sergio Romo closed the Dodgers out in the ninth, getting the final out with runners on the corners.
"It got a little scary there the last couple of innings," Bochy said. "I've been happy with the way the guys are playing. They're fighting hard. They did last night, and they did tonight. This is the time of year you do find out about guys."
"I did talk to Brian a bit," Bochy said. "I wanted to make sure he knew I was happy that he was back pitching. I know it was a long road for him."
Wilson spent more than a year rehabbing after his second Tommy John surgery and signed with the rival Dodgers in August. On Thursday, in his first appearance against the Giants, Wilson pitched a scoreless 10th inning and picked up his second win.
"I used to face them in spring training," he told local reporters on Friday. "It was another team. You've got to get three outs. I didn't really put added pressure or any emotion into the inning. I go out there, do my job and get it over with."
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Saturday's game
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"Twentieth Century," a musical comedy by Ken Ludwig, and adapted from the classic Ben Hecht & Charles Macarthur comedy can be seen at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre through June 21.
The play is directed by Barbara L. Rhoades.
Set in 1933 on the Twentieth Century Limited train from Chicago to New York City, "Twentieth Century" is a story of 'Broadway ballyhoo meets Hollywood hustle.' The comedy centers around Oscar Jaffe (Tim Walsh), the desperate theater producer who will do anything to get the signature of his ex-lover and star actress Lily Garland (Grace Mannarino) on a contract for his latest play. He will lie, cheat, and even pretend to be dying to bring the star back from Hollywood to Broadway, and back to his side. Trying to make sense of the chaos are his long time assistants Webb (Natalie Dolezal) and O'Malley (Jerry Schaber). Also on board are Lily's new lover George (Lance King), Max (another ex-lover and producer, played by Stephen Kay) and Myrtle (Doreen Lazarus-Harris) a religious fanatic looney who has escaped from an institution. Tom Hill appears as Dr. Lockwood with Keri Lambert as his mistress Anita, Andrew Bores appears as Beard and the Detective, and James Harris and Cody Steele guide the train as Conductor and Porter.
"Twentieth Century" plays on CVLT's Main Stage at 40 River St. in Chagrin Falls' Theatre District, with performances on Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $18 regular, $14 students and seniors. The show is not recommended for children due to adult themes and suggestive language.
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I have noticed that Ajahn Brahm and Ajahn Munindo recite/chant the following lines before commencing with some of their talks:
Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Samma-sambuddhasa (3 times)
Buddham Dhammam Sangham Namo Swami (once)
I am quite familiar with the first part ("Namo Tassa ..."), but have not come across the last line ("Buddham Dhammam Sangham Namo Swami") before. What does it mean? It seems to me that it is an alternative to the familiar refuge prayer "Buddham Saranam Gacchami,..." but I'm not sure. Any responses will be appreciated.


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This unit fosters professional skills and awareness of professional issues in applied settings. Prior to their first placement, students are required to participate in placement preparation activities designed to enhance placement planning and student development. Following this, each student will be assigned a placement in an organisation, which will expose students to the workings of an organisation and the types of issues that arise in an organisational psychological context. The placement will be based on short and well-defined activities that students can complete for the organisation within a specified time period. The broad features of the activities will be negotiated with the organisation prior or upon commencing the placement, with final details being agreed to by the student, placement coordinator and the organisation within the first two weeks of the placement. The project/activity will be directly relevant to organisational psychology and will relate to a concern that the organisation wishes to address.
In line with professional standards for the training of provisional psychologists, students must demonstrate a satisfactory level of competence in both pre-placement preparation and placement completion. An ungraded pass will be awarded to the student for successful completion of the two assessment tasks.
Assessment task 1: Pre Placement Preparation:
- Participation in the Post-Graduate Assessment and Development Centre (PG-DAC) or alternative task and working collaboratively with Placement Coordinator/s to develop an individual Placement Development Plan (PDP).
- Attendance of a group placement induction session.
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- Successful completion of placement and required placement documentation.
- Participation in formal peer learning experiences.
Students must satisfactorily complete all components of both assessment tasks in order to obtain a pass for the unit. If there is uncertainty regarding the satisfactory completion of any of the components or if the student's competence is questioned, the Unit Chair(s) will review and determine the outcome. Failure to complete the requirements of any one component satisfactorily will result in the student failing the unit assessment. Failure of a placement unit may lead to enrolment in the course being revoked.
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FOLLOW LIVE: AL wild-card race: Scores, updates from Sunday's key games
The final scheduled day of the regular season is here, and there's a bit of potential chaos left to sort out in the American League wild-card race.
The Indians, Rays and Rangers are all still vying for two wild-card spots. And though Cleveland has a one-game lead over the other two teams, there's still a scenario that could play out where Terry Francona's team misses the playoffs. More on that in a moment.
First, though, let's take a look at the three teams and what they face on Sunday.
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Cleveland Indians, 91-70
How they got here: The Indians started September 4½ games out of the second wild-card spot, but they're 20-6 this month and are currently riding a nine-game winning streak.
Sunday's game: at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m. Eastern [PREVIEW]
Who's starting for the Indians: Ubaldo Jimenez (3.38 ERA, 9.26 K/9, 3.57 FIP)
Jimenez has been Cleveland's rock in the second half, rolling up a 1.86 ERA in a dozen starts after the All-Star break. In his lone start against the Twins this season, he allowed two runs and struck out 10 in a six-inning quality start.
Need to know: Outfielder Michael Brantley had his 11-game hitting streak snapped on Saturday, but he's still batting .363 in September; in Cleveland's nine-game winning streak, he has four games with multiple RBI.
FOLLOW LIVE: AL wild-card race: Scores, updates from Sunday's key games
Tampa Bay Rays, 90-71
How they got here: After an eight-game winning streak put the Rays in control of the wild-card race, they dropped back-to-back contests in Toronto on Friday and Saturday.
Sunday's game: at Toronto, 1:07 p.m. Eastern [PREVIEW]
Who's starting for the Rays: Matt Moore (3.23 ERA, 8.63 K/9, 3.98 FIP)
The Rays are 20-6 in Moore's starts this season. He spent about a month on the disabled list with elbow soreness, and has a 2.28 ERA in his five September starts since he was activated. Moore has great swing-and-miss stuff, but his control is an eternal issue.
Need to know: Youngster Wil Myers went through a bit of an August swoon (.209/.317/.314), but might have wrapped up the AL rookie of the year award with his September performance. He had two more hits Saturday and is batting .310 with 17 runs scored and 13 RBI this month.
FOLLOW LIVE: AL wild-card race: Scores, updates from Sunday's key games
Texas Rangers, 90-71
How they got here: The schizophrenic Rangers started September by winning just five of their first 20 games, but have rattled off six consecutive wins to pull into a tie with the Rays.
Sunday's game: vs. L.A. Angels, 3:05 p.m. Eastern [PREVIEW]
Who's starting for the Rangers: Yu Darvish (2.82 ERA, 11.87 K/9, 3.27 FIP)
The Rangers have won all three of Darvish's starts against the Angels this year, though he wasn't exactly stingy—the righthander allowed 27 base runners in those 18 innings. In his five September starts, Darvish has failed to make it out of the sixth inning three times.
Need to know: Outfielder Craig Gentry has caught fire at the right time and has been, arguably, the team's best hitter down the stretch. In his past nine games, he's batting .455 and has stolen eight bases while locking down the starting spot in left field. Before this hot stretch, he was hitting just .246 on the year.
What to expect Sunday
FOLLOW LIVE: AL wild-card race: Scores, updates from Sunday's key games
All three teams still control their own fate, which seems strange but because those three teams are fighting for two spots instead of just one, is true. The scenarios …
— Let's say the Indians lose on Sunday and both the Rays and Rangers win, which would create a three-way tie with 91-71 records. Because each team won a season series against the other in the group (Cleveland beat Texas, Texas beat Tampa Bay and Tampa Bay beat Cleveland), the teams were ranked by combined records against the teams in the group. Cleveland comes out on top with a 7-5 record against Texas and Tampa Bay; the Rays were 7-6 and the Rangers were 5-8.
The Indians chose to be Club A in MLB's three-team tiebreaker, which means they'd host the Rays (who chose to be Club B) on Monday at 4:07 p.m. ET. The winner of that game earns a playoff spot as the top wild-card seed. The loser of that game plays at Texas (Club C) on Tuesday at 4:07 p.m. ET, with the winner advancing as the second wild-card and the loser going home.
So even though the Indians hold the one-game lead heading into Sunday's action, it's still possible they could lose that game, then lose at home on Monday to the Rays and lose again at Texas on Tuesday to fall out of the playoffs completely.
— If all three teams win on Sunday, the Indians would clinch the top wild-card seed and the Rangers and Rays would play in Texas (the Rangers won the season series 4-3) on Monday at 8:07 p.m. ET as a play-in game to the wild-card playoff game.
— If the Indians lose and either the Rangers or Rays win, the Indians would be in, and home-field advantage for the wild-card game would depend on head-to-head records. If it's the Indians and Rays, the wild-card game would be in Tampa Bay (the Rays won that season series 4-2). If it's the Indians and Rangers, the wild-card game would be in Cleveland (the Indians won the season series 5-1).
Got it? Good. Now, enjoy what promises to be a great Sunday afternoon of baseball.


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The Greeks have a word for it — "thav-ma-sios" — which means "wonderful." And wonderful is what attendees will experience Oct. 21-23 at the 24th annual "Taste of Greece" festival hosted by St. Haralambos Greek Orthodox Church in Peoria.
Festival attendees will be transported to a Grecian Village featuring:
• Mediterranean cuisine such as souvlaki, moussaka, pastitsio, gyros, kalamari, roast lamb, salads, cheeses, bread and more, along with domestic and imported beer, wine and soft drinks.
• Coffee (American and Greek) and desserts, including loukoumades (honey-dipped doughnut holes made fresh right before your eyes), baklava, cookies and other tempting sweets.
• In the "agora" (marketplace), shop for gift items such as jewelry and art; purchase Greek food products, souvenirs ("worry" beads, blue-eye beads, Greek music CDs, T-shirts, caps and more); and buy fashionable accessories such as pashima shawls and comfortable gauze outfits that are perfect for the Valley's warm climate.
• Children, dressed in authentic Greek costumes, dancing traditional Hellenic folk dances.
• For children's fun, a fantasy fun playground of giant inflatable toys will be on site where they can jump, bounce and slide.
• The Loukoumades Eating Contest is new this year. Whet your competitive and gustatory appetites to see if you can stuff your face with as many of these desserts in the shortest amount of time. Door prizes will be offered.
A portion of the proceeds from this event will go to benefit the West Valley Child Crisis Center.
Festival hours are 5 to 10 p.m. Oct. 21; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. 22 and noon to 8 p.m. Oct. 23. St. Haralambos Church is at 7950 W. Pinnacle Peak Road, just east of 83rd Avenue in Peoria. For information, call 623-486-8665 or visit www.peoriagreekfest.com.
Admission is $2 for adults, children under 12 are free, as well as students and active military with proper ID.


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Stats aside, Brewers pitchers making 'progress'
PHOENIX -- No matter what the numbers say, Brewers manager Ron Roenicke still believes his club possesses an improved pitching staff.
Entering Tuesday's games, Milwaukee ranked 28th of the 30 Major League teams -- and 14th of the 15 clubs that play in the Cactus League -- with a 5.55 ERA in exhibition play. Many of the teams on the bottom half of the list spend spring in Arizona, where dry air, "high" skies and rock-hard infields can play against pitching.
"If I see progress, that's good for me," Roenicke said. "If I look at numbers, I'm not going to be pleased."
But, he said, "I see progress."
Such as?
"I think I'm seeing some things we like from 'Yo' [Yovani Gallardo], I'm seeing a lot of good things we like from Kyle [Lohse], though we know what happened with the inning [on Monday, when Lohse was having trouble with the mound]. [Wily] Peralta has been outstanding, except for when he loses command at times.
"But when these guys are throwing strikes and they're throwing down in the zone like they want to, they all succeed."
Right-hander Marco Estrada helped lower the Brewers' staff ERA on Tuesday afternoon by working six sharp scoreless innings in a 9-3 win over the Rangers, running his personal scoreless streak to 12 innings. He threw 80 pitches.
"I felt good, could have gone back out," Estrada said. "That's the most important thing, that my stamina is up."
One struggling pitcher of note is closer Jim Henderson, who surrendered four runs on four hard hits in an inning against the White Sox on Monday in a rally that could have been cut short at one run had right fielder Irving Falu made a tricky catch at the wall.
Henderson has surrendered six earned runs on eight hits in his first five spring innings, with three walks and four strikeouts. He has been trying to incorporate a changeup to his fastball-slider combination.
"He's not where he needs to be, so we're going to try to figure that out," Roenicke said. "Location and stuff. He's a very deceptive guy in the way he throws, and you still see 95, 96 [mph], and hitters say it looks like 100 [mph] because of the deception he has. He's still trying to figure it out."
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