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"Dont be fooled by the pics of the reception area"
You get what you pay for ... I got fooled with the pictures of the reception area which is nice in fact. My excitement only lasted till I reached the 8th floor and exited the elevator. It smelt of low maintenance right as the elevator doors opened. The carpet in the walkway pretty much prepared me on what to expect. Shabby room overall. The bathroom […] state was ok. The TV was a joke, max 10 channels in which may be 5 work with some clarity! The remote battery was dead. Pillows display their age and abuse. Yuck! Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Close to downtown"
The hotel is clean, but very, very run-down. That being said, the outside/pool area was very nice. I hope that it is renovated soon.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"it's so old!!"
So my boyfriend and I came out here for a football game when we landed we found out that our reservation has been cancelled at holiday inn so we were searching desperately fire a hotel that wasn't booked. We found this one and I didn't see any pictures or anything first but it was $155 for 2 nights, I figured it had to be a decent hotel.. when we arrived […] it seemed good, the lobby was nice the front desk agents weren't professional though but they were nice. We went up to the room old, like a motel 6 the small tvs were fuzzy we had circuits go out in the bathroom and there was no shower curtain, when I called for more towels they wanted me to go get them.. but It was clean there were no bugs and a roof over our Head . I probably won't be staying here again willingly but if I was stranded and this was the only place open I would. Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Groc. store inside hotel! shuttle serv 2 luv fld."
It was very pleasant; staff as well. Frig & micro so I could have the nice frozen meal I bought at the CONVENIENCE STORE INSIDE THE HOTEL! I bought ice cream for dessert at that same store. It is the hotel I will return to when I fly out again.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Okay for the money"
The phone didn't work in the room. I missed a flight. There was a dirty wash rag in the shower curtain, but other than that, it was fine. I should have just asked to switch rooms to a phone that worked.Genuine Expedia guest review
"stinky, dirty room"
not good. the hotel smells like it was hosting a cigertte convention. We reserved a 2 bed room and receicved a single bed, and the room smelled horrible. after another 10 minute wait at the desk we got another room, which smelled bed, and was not very clean. the ice maker didnt work, and it looked like some bad things had happened in the room across […] from us. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
The tv was ancient with crappy signal. There were no towels. The sheets had cigarrette burns even though it was a no smoking room.Genuine Expedia guest review
"Nasty hotel, wouldn't even recommend to my enemies"
There was no door on our bathroom, had to get new room. It was outdated, had no bed skirts, nasty bathrooms, bedding, carpet, the list look goes on. The pool was the only bearable thing.Genuine Expedia guest review
The tub/shower looked like it had sewage backup in it. It smelled musty, The shuttle was very accomodating. We only stayed 3.5 hours.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
Easy in and out.......Best mattress ever!Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Bad Hotel Stay"
The shower did not work. There was no phone or TV remote control in the room.Genuine Expedia guest review
"Overall enjoyable."
Older classic hotel, need of remodeling, but nice.Genuine Expedia guest review
"Staff nice, hotel not so much"
Friendly service, however only one person at reception, and it took forever to get checked in. Only one elevator was working so had to wait on that as well. Our room key wouldn't work due to faulty lock. We made three trips downstairs to get it fixed which were failed attempts. Finally they sent someone up with a machine to get us in. Not to fix it. […] So if we left room someone had to stay in room to let you back in. So overall crappy. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
"Good hotel, poor staff"
The hotel was nice, loved the pool and hot tub. When we arrived, we got our room key and went to our room to find out it was already occupied, no big deal got a new room. It was nice, it wasnt very cool though, we reported it and it was fixed while we were out that day. We had a smoking room, and guess what they had no ashtrays. The next day we went […] to the front desk to get towels ( they wont bring them to you) and apparently they were out of them too. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
Air conditioner not working. Furniture and carpeting were stained/dirty-looking. TV reception was bad. We were moved to another room. Better view, but was missing the iron, coffeepot was broken. The gym room equipment was poorly maintained. Carpeting was filthy so couldn't use floor equipment. Swimming pool was clean but the lounge chair pads were filthy […] or moldy looking. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
The room was clean but the halls had an odor, I had 2 queen beds yet I only received 2 paper thin bath towels, 1 hand and washcloth, no bath mat and curtains didnt fully close at night.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Not what we expected"
First of all, after checking in, we tried several times to enter the room, the cards did not work, having to change them twice to get additional cards to know avail door still would not open. Went to the desk clerk, she offered to open the door, it still would not open. Desk clerk offered three other rooms before we were able to gain access to one. Then, […] we decided to stay one additional night. The desk clerk informed us that the rate from Expedia was better, so we booked it through them only to find our card not working, no towels had been replaced, no new soap, no trash cans in the room, not one chair. Had to go back to the desk clerk three times to get towels, and a key new card to get into the room. After telling the desk clerk about the missing chair and waste baskets, we constantly received apologies from the staff, but no action was taken. We certainly not recommend this hotel. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
"Close to all must see sights"
During our stay at the Stering hotel, we were very unsatisfied with the hotel services. While staying there, over the course of a weekend we didn't received any hotel cleaning services. Not once did they come and take out the trash, make up our beds, and we did not receive any towels without command. This experience made the whole trip disappointing, […] and we will never stay there again nor will we recommend it to others. Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"we will stay there again"
when the fridge and microwave were not in our room, they fixed it right away and brought to our room. Loved the pool area!!Genuine Expedia guest review
"Dont stay here"
It was horrible. I arrived with my husband and son and they gave us a room with no bathroom. We asked for another room and the one that we received the air was not working, it was hot as heck. The floor was more comfortable than the bed. Overall I will not be staying here again.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Our experience"
We arrived at the hotel at 11pm after an 8 hour drive. The first room we were given had a turn of the century(1900 not 2000) 18 inch TV that did work. After calling the front desk, we were given the room right next door. We were forced to leave the curtains open because their design continuously prevented the flow of air from the AC. The bed was as […] hard as the sidewalk, so during the middle of the night I almost opted to sleep outside since the room was lit up from the curtains being open. Outside would have been an upgrade except for probable security pitfalls. Keep in mind that this hotel is located in the market center in Dallas. Upon arriving, I asked the front desk person if market was nearby. He asked me what type of market was I looking for. I really think he thought I was looking for a good rib-eye. We checked out the next morning. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
"awful hotel"
The carpet had stains. There was no remote for the TV. No coffee.Genuine Expedia guest review
"Disatisfaction of Room"
I'm not happy with my room I had to change rooms twiceGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Just a stop by"
Had a very enjoyable stay Could have bigger TV and vcr hook ups TV reminded me of the 60sGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Worse Dallas trip ever"
When we checked in the hot water was so hot you could not take a shower. Then I called the help desk over and over finally they moved us from 131 to 128 another room. Then I could not access WiFi to do my work. I had to drive to McDonalds. I bought some food that I could not heat up in the room no microwave. It was the worse experience I ever had in […] Dallas. I would not recommend nobody to stay there. Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Only if you need an airport shuttle"
We picked this hotel for the airport shuttle. The room didn't even have a piece of paper in it. The only place to eat was the expensive hotel restaurant or a Bar b que place next door which wasn't open at 5 PM. I would not recommend staying here.Genuine Expedia guest review
This place should not even be open!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a DUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Condition of Sterling Hotel"
The hotel needs some uplifts, but over all it is good for the price. I would stay there again.Genuine Expedia guest review
"over night stay it was great will come back here"
customer service was good....had a issue with internet being done but they made it all good.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Motel 6ish"
If you just need a roof over your head, it's cheap and they always have vacancy. But if you looking for a nice place to stay, don't go to the Sterling.Genuine Expedia guest review
Tiny bathrooms, one of our rooms was occupied, or recently occupied without being cleaned before they offered it to us. They asked if the room would work anyway instead of getting us a new room that had been cleaned. The drywall in the bathroom was falling apart. There was no continental breakfast. We should have just stayed at the motel 6 or the super […] 8, we probably would of had a better experience. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
"Smelly room"
What a smelly room that will never have me go again!Genuine Expedia guest review
"downtown Dallas"
it was fabulous!!Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Waste & Disgusting Hotel.."
Sterling Hotel, Dallas is di most stinking hotel we have ever stayed. we stayed for two nites, we change room to another still the same filtiness. the carpet stinks, no towels, TV not working, No conplementry breakfast at all and the furnitures need changing. I will stop here. Thx for asking.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Poor Quality"
The quality of the hotel was below a two star rating.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Close to Dallas business area"
Yea, so the hotel is from the 70's, but it was exceptable for an overnight stay, the bed was soft, the sheets were clean, the overall room was clean. The tv was old and didnt really have enough channels, but unless your there to watch tv its ok. The Pool was nice, it goes from 3 to 9 ft deep, thats rare to see these days! the desk clerk was nice when […] we checked in, when we checked out the girls was kind of squirrely, but nice. the little coffee bar in the middle of the hotel is nice, they had starbucks coffee, but you have to pay at the reception desk - weird? that night we went to the grill/bar to eat. overall its a nice little bar, the bartender is a good bartender but not such a good waitress. She was really nice and apologetic when she forgot half our order, but the pizza was really really good. she seemed overwhellemed with phone orders and about 6 people at the bar and 3 other tables, i almost wanted to get up and help her! She was super nice and i felt they should have had someone esle there to help her. So overall - if you have business anywhere near the dallas market area, its a nice good cheap place to stay... Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
the staff were not very friendly and did not know how to run the front desk. The halls were very dirty and my room was not cleaned very good. At 12:20 am a security quard tries to open my door but the chain was on the door, and starts saying that I was not suppose to be there. I had to go down to the front desk and ask what was going on. the fron desk […] forgot to update the guest list. I was so disappointed that I was suppose to stay 3 days but I checked out in 1 day. Bad place to stay. Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"This was once a fine hotel, now showing its age."
I reserved a room here because it was close to the location where I had a business appointment the next day. The exterior looks ok. The lobby is clean and well maintained. The elevators are scary. The doors bang loudly when opening and closing, making you wonder when they were last inspected. My room was on the 8th floor. The hall carpet was dirty. […] The carpet in the room was a lot better, but not clean. What would have been a nice view of the downtown Dallas skyline was ruined by the incredibly dirty window. The king sized bed was so extra, extra firm that I asked for a different room. In the second room, the bed was softer, but the maintenance man had to replace the flapped valve in the toilet. The TVs were small and the programming was extremely limited. This is a hotel mistake that I won't make again. Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"oldie by goody"
The hotel was old, but still had all the amemities and more. Small gift shop, bar, swimming pool and hot tub. The hotel location is a plus also between downtown and Irving. I would stay again if ocassion came up.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Not statisfied with the staff , room arranged"
I checked in this Hotel late in the evening. When I checked in I was very tired. So didn't informed anyone at the same time, I was supposed to check out early in the monrning. The AC unit was broken, Bath curtain was damaged, Lamp buttons were not working, Radios's not working, And the bath tub was defected. The staff was rude both in the eveningna […] nd the morning time. The iron stand was without the cover (Only Metal) Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
"OMG worst hotel experience ive evr had"
Let me just say that you will have a better experience at the motel 6! At least you know that you will be getting what you pay for!Genuine Hotels.com guest review
The hotel was clean the Sports Bar was wonderful great food my Steak was so tender and cooked to perfection. The lady working the bar was beautiful and very nice. The cook was wonderful also. The pool great and the Jacuzzi too.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Sterling Hotel"
The hotel itself was beautiful, however the rooms left a lot to be desired. Broken items. Chairs that were old , lamps that were broken. Small TV Maid service was not quite up to par.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Price VS Nice"
If it is about "price" for you, this is it. BUT...there is a tradeoff for you.Genuine Expedia guest review
"Don't tay Here!"
Door lock did not work; Wifi did not work; Water temperature was not dependable; Bed was way too soft; bad odor ... was like a motel 6.Genuine Expedia guest review
"run down hotel surrounded by squalor"
A once beautiful hotel now foul through neglect and want of cleanliness. The room was missing light bulbs and the smell of partying reeked through the halls. At best the staff was indifferent. I left my wallet in the room after check out and I had to make several calls because they would only explain why, for one reason or another,they couldn't help […] me and it was never returned. The neighborhood was full of pornography stores and the accompaning repulsive and morally wretched characters and activities. Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Ill never go back"
I was very tired of my 6 hr drive to Dallas I got to the hotel and I waited 25min in the lobby because there wasent anybody in the front desk. After my 25min wait I went to my room and I went straight to the bath room to take a shower but once i walked in the bathroom I saw a LIZARD (NOT PLAYING). I woke up early in the morning and ready for my shower […] and the shower head didnt work, heater also didnt work so all night it was freezing, their was no Hot water, and Blanket smelled bad..... I will never stay in this hotel again and will not recomend this hotel to nobody. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
The hotel shuttle only goes to the small airport and NOT DFW. There was no hot water for my morning shower. Food in the restaurant (bar) was poor. Overall a poor experience.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Do Not Stay Here!!!"
Hotel was in poor condition. Eleveators were not working properly and people were getting stuck in the elevator. The shower in my room did not have hot water. Informed the front desk at 8am that morning about the water, then again at 12, then again at 4, then at 5 i demanded to be transfered to another room. The chair at the computer desk in my room […] was broke. Wifi had very poor reception. Service at the Sports bar was terrible as well. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
First room bathroom wasnt cleaned. It still had a dirty wash cloth and half a bottle of hotel shampoo in it. 2nd room curtain was falling down and hair in bathtub. It was so gross. I would never recommend it.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
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Location is very good, close to everything. Hostel has discount coupons for for boats to 5 islands. But Stay In Lodge is one of the most dirty places we have stayed so far. If you have allergy to dust don't go there for any reason. Rooms give nearly no privacy, because in most of them windows are directed to corridor.
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Everything around was weird and uncomfortable. The corridor outside rooms was dark. Inside the room, the bed sheet was old, and there were some holes on it; also the pillows were so dirty, it seemed that the pillows have been using for many times. The worst was we couldn't use the WIFI in the STAY-IN LODGE. We complained twice when we stayed there; but in vain. They didn't tell us the reason, so we just bought the Internet for our phones. Seven nights without WIFI !!!! NOT RECOMMENDED.
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I grew up on the Westside of Chicago, in West Haven, near the United Center and went to high school on the west side at Providence St. Mel. I attended undergrad at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, then completed medical school and residency at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood. I wanted to stay in Chicago but have a new experience in medicine, so I came to Northwestern for Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship. Northwestern offered a new environment of medicine and great opportunities to do research. The people in the Pulmonary division were phenomenal -- intelligent, warm, fun educators that had achieved a balance of physician-scientist.
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I came to Northwestern with the goal of gaining a wonderful clinical education while dabbling in a little research before I ventured off into my career of clinician educator. When I entered my second year of fellowship, it was time for me to pick a research project. My mentors Drs. Sporn and Sznajder encouraged me to take on a basic science research project and I am so thankful they did. I experienced a whole new aspect of medicine that was intellectually stimulating and rewarding; a world that I never knew before and may have missed out on had I not challenged myself to do something different. Because this was my first time in the lab since college and I hadn't picked up a pipette since then, it was initially extremely challenging. But I pressed through the uncertainty, the nervousness, the fear, and discovered a new part of me. I thought clinical medicine would give me all that I needed, but thankfully I have discovered another aspect of medicine that creates additional excitement and brings more challenges.
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CHARLOTTE - Rusty Wallace touched on his early days trying to make it as a professional race car driver, the lessons he learned from NASCAR's pioneers and his relentless push to drive for Roger Penske in an energetic acceptance into the Hall of Fame.
Then Wallace, winner of 55 races and the 1989 championship, called Friday night's induction "the biggest day of my driving career."
Wallace was the headliner of the fourth Hall of Fame class, which included innovative mechanic and crew chief Leonard Wood, former series champions Buck Baker and Olivia native Herb Thomas, and former car owner Cotton Owens. Wallace and Wood are the only two living members of this year's class.
"The thing I learned, and I said it at the driver meeting in 2005 the day I retired and walked out, I said 'This is a privilege. This is a privilege to race in NASCAR. You don't have to do it, we're not making you do it. It's a privilege to race in NASCAR, and it's a blessing for me to be in this sport and do what I've done,' " Wallace said. "I just hope all the young drivers respect NASCAR as much as I respect it and go out there and say nice things about NASCAR and help build this sport."
Wallace has been a tireless ambassador for NASCAR, taking a hands-on role in promotion after winning his championship that continued into retirement. He's currently an analyst for ESPN.
"I feel so different, I feel so happy. I feel like my career has finally got a period on the end," Wallace said after the ceremony. "People are already acting different, they are acting kinder. They are calling me Mr. Wallace and treating me different."
Thomas was remembered as a hard worker who never forgot his farming roots during his induction.
Thomas, the first driver to win two NASCAR championships, died in 2000. A two-time champion at NASCAR's top level, he also finished second in points twice and ended the year in the top two in four consecutive seasons from 1951-54.
He won 48 races and ranks 13th on the career wins list.
Joel Thomas said his father returned to working on the family tobacco farm in Olivia after his retirement.
"He was always kind and fair to everyone, and wasn't afraid of hard work," Joel Thomas said. "He operated his own saw mill and almost 50 years later was excited to teach me how to run it. When Dad finally retired from racing in 1962, he worked on the farm with his family for many years. Those were wonderful years."
Wood, who was inducted a year after his older brother, Glenn, made a point to thank Ford Motor Company. The famed No. 21 Wood Brothers entry has a long association with the blue oval.
"If it wasn't for Ford Motor Company and my brother, Glenn, I wouldn't be up here," said Wood, who also listed every racer who has driven the No. 21.
Wallace found a twist in being inducted with Leonard Wood, who was the first person to congratulate him following his first career Cup win at Bristol.
"He stuck his hand in the window and said 'Kid, congratulations,' and I could hear his voice over the engine," Wallace said. "Leonard was the first guy to congratulate me for winning at Bristol and I'm going into the Hall of Fame with you."
Baker was introduced by Jeff Gordon, one of five active drivers chosen to introduce the nominees. Gordon talked about being a proud graduate of Baker's driving school, a tale also touched on by the late Baker's wife, Susan.
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When one person writes "this is what happened, this is what I know," any reader stands in for the absent "I" or "eye" of that text. This inescapable process of language, preoccupies Kearns in these brief but concentrated pieces.
Not merely an homage to Jack Spicer, but also a tribute to his Orphic conception of the serial poem, After Jack is a palimpsestuous attempt to achieve the dark art of nekuia, to encourage the means of poetic transmission and to divine the polyphony of both Federico García Lorca and Jack Spicer as their voices interweave, transform and become inexorably entangled with a fresh and undeniably peculiar, disturbingly profane authorial voice.
All Is Flesh collects in one volume Hugh Hazelton's English translations of Yannick Renaud's brilliant first two books of poems, Taxidermy and The Disappearance of Ideas, first published by Éditions Les Herbes rouges in Montreal.
Mashing up the lexicon of war with post-industrial consumerism, haute cuisine, couture, language, Eros and desire, Karasick's sixth book is at once dark and satirical, exuberant and amorously rigorous.
By Ken Norris
Composed like a dark novel-in-verse, Asian Skies is the unsettling story of the deficiencies of love that have produced our commodified and globalized world—a perhaps not-so-divine comedy of those who don't love enough—steeped in a clash of cultures wherein the third world seems willingly, even perversely, to offer itself up as a simulacrum of the first, while its otherness remains hidden, inaccessible.
Sharon Thesen's poems express the pleasure and magic of a language fully engaging the world, rewarding the reader with daily moments transformed into visions of grace.
By bill bissett
""Get thee to a nouneree."" Ophelia had been experiencing noun slippage, (and haven't we all?) And where is the nouneree? Do you know the way? With heightened and more sophisticated noun awareness, do we come closer to happiness, starring ourselves? Ophelia unfortunately didn't find the nouneree and perhaps thought it was the name of the river. Can you walk into the same nouneree twice? She jumped in. Lost lovesickness, now called co-dependency.
By Frank Davey
A careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence assembled by a youthful imagination blossoming during World War II.
By Frank Davey
These texts are part of Davey's ongoing work on the use of the sentence as the basic structural unit of poetry—to create poetic texts, as they have always been created, out of the materials of prose. They also constitute another of his forays into cultural commentary—in this case, disclosing how our engagement with globalized culture creates meaning as it "speaks through itself."
A composition of daily riffs during an autumn in Denmark and Italy; an album of verbal portraits by a husband and wife who see differently; and a series of tributes to other writers on special occasions.
By bp Nichol
Nichol's comics (1960–1980) informed his work in other genres as well as the work of other writers.
By Renee Rodin
Bread and _Salt_—what you bring for luck to a new house—is a joyous affirmation of vision and courage in hard times.
The recent deaths of her father and several friends at the time of a trip to Egypt have led the author to write about the essential relation between language and death.
The body is here fetishized by the creative power of desire to the point where the love of perfection crosses the boundaries of gender and polity.
By Weyman Chan
Here is Weyman Chan at his most fiercely ironic, tracing a lineage he interprets subconsciously and through the intricacies of its raw genetic material, with keenly biting language that echoes the rhythms of Qu Yuan in contemplation of his own mortality beside the flowing waters of impermanence:
I would prefer to jump into the river and be entombed in the stomachs of fishes than to bow while purity is defiled by vulgar pestilence.
Combining serial poetic technique with pop psychology how-to books, Dina Del Bucchia fashions punchy emotional guides in an age when illusory autonomy is achieved by "going viral" and through obsessive identification with celebrities. She tracks two otters at the Vancouver Aquarium who became famous for holding hands and were watched by millions on YouTube prompting us to meditate upon the media frustum through which we construct emotional realities.
By Frank Davey
A collection of prose poems on the hyperbolic absurdities of multiculturalism in action.
To the street that is a village, Daniel Zomparelli conveys a liveliness and wit that rhetorically towel-flicks its way from the sardonic bathhouse banter of ancient Rome to the cinematic musical machismo of the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, with each poem "translating" another chapter in his documentary of gay male culture in Vancouver, demonstrating, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, that the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
By Ken Belford
If language is an index of belonging, then Decompositions is the writing of an exile, a tribe of one. For Belford, poetry is a social process that explores linguistic and political particulars from a gaze that is opposite to the shelters of convention, the academy, the city, or the south. It is a writing that rules out the anticipation and doubt of traditional narrative. These are not safe poems, they resist more than they assure.
With breathtaking virtuosity, Garry Thomas Morse sets out to recover the appropriated, stolen, and scattered world of his ancestral people, retracing Captain Vancouver's original "voyage of discovery." and linking Kwakwaka'wakw traditions of the past with a modern poetic tradition in North America that encompasses the entire scope of relations between oral and vocal tradition, ancient ritual, historical contextuality, and our continuing rites.
By Ken Norris
Composed like a dark novel-in-verse, the second book in Norris's travel trilogy is an unsettling story of the deficiencies of love steeped in a clash of cultures between the third world and the first.
By Jeff Derksen
Proposes a social self that is able to recognize the ironies and restrictions we live in without returning to a garrison mentality.
By Gil McElroy
An active multiple streaming of apparently disparate sources: astronomy; theoretical cosmology and quantum physics; and the literary and visual arts.
By Jeff Derksen
This long poem blends and bends the lyric, procedural poetry, the travelogue and extended forms. Dwell lives in, or dwells on, the interaction of a restless subjectivity with the seemingly transparent, yet identifiable, social codes that encase us.
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Among its widely diverse poetic forms, the book constructs odes, elegies, sonnets and long poem sequences, as Norris travels from Maine to Santo Domingo, from Phnom Penh to Montreal, and from the shorelines of the Caribbean to the banks of the Mekong River.
The poems in this third volume of McFadden's Terrafina Trilogy —which began with Gypsy Guitar and There'll be Another —suggest the earth is an exotic way station, a hotel.
By Ken Norris
In Floating Up to Zero, Ken Norris introduces us to "a traveller from an antique land," though in this case that traveller's story is not Shelley's meditation on the vanity of ancient kings, but rather the poet's meditation on the here and now, on the present moment, precariously balanced between a certain frozen past and an uncertain fluid future. Meditative, incisive and light in their touch, these poems tell us: "The old star charts were perhaps a little out of date. That is, new stars had since been found, though sometimes they were only streetlights, mistaken."
beaulieu pushes the limits of poetry and poetics, challenging the status quo of the genre and the politics of language itself.
Explores through play and pun the intersection of multiple cultures, codes, idioms and constructs that have an impact on female identity.
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Unifying this book is the persona of the lover: as an intimate; as an interruption of the determinative self; as an unattainable weightlessness; and as the gravitational pull of the landscape itself.
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Composed in three sections, Glengarry is a return in writing to the landscape of rob mclennan's youth and a headlong rush into the fractures, slippages and buried surfaces of what the text leaves undisclosed to him.
By Ken Norris
The whole manufactured unreality of our world falls away in these poems, leading us both toward and away from being "at home" in the present.
By Colin Browne
Investigates the elements of the spiritual topography of the twentieth century and closely examines the conventional symbology passed on to the poet / map-maker by his ancestors.
One hundred poems of love and betrayal—all in the unmistakable McFadden style.
By Phyllis Webb
Astonishingly beautiful entrances into the personae of lost companions who reappear, animated by a voice in love with the music of their speaking.
By rob mclennan
What is harvested here are the signifiers for journeys: tickets, postcards, letters—recording unseemly haste, enforced idleness, losing one's way, and sometimes finding it again.
By Ken Norris
Selections from 19 groundbreaking books of poetry that draw together the very best of Norris's lyric poetry from a 25-year period, while offering the reader an indispensible panoramic view of the work of a poet at the height of his creative powers.
By Weyman Chan
The idea for this book, says Weyman Chan, is simple—approach the world as metaphor, and it will come to you. Subtitled "notes to myself," Hypoderm is a manifesto of observations, intimations and recognitions of mortality that get under the poet's skin—that remind the reader that poetry is documentation and speculation, not a sentimental fabrication of the rapture (rupture) of our "end times."
By Jamie Reid
This selection draws from brilliantly impressionist early poems, a middle period of poetry relating to the author's activist politics, and contemporary work suspended between the poles of the political and the lyrical, between the confrontation of the world of human affairs and the undeniable beauty of the earth and nature—the simple delight taken in life itself—with a clear understanding that the use of the word "natural" is almost always ideologically determined.
Wanda John-Kehewin is, as she describes herself, "a First Nations woman searching for the truth and a way to be set free from the past" – shoving aside that lingering sense of shame and stigma – taking the reader on a healing journey that reveals language to be an elusive creature indeed and one that gives new definition to what being "in the dog house" could be, if we as human beings listen carefully and learn to remedy our misunderstandings.
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By Ken Belford
Moving with nomadic grace across the terrain of his previous book, Decompositions, the poetic language of Ken Belford in Internodes shares similar roots, traversing decades at the speed of a search query – pressing onward through Hazelton, the Bulkley Valley, and the unroaded head-waters of the Nass River in the Damdochax Valley – and meanwhile coming to terms with a poetry that "is lived" on the rugged streets of Prince George.
By Fred Wah
is a door uses the poem's ability for "suddenness" to subvert closure: the sudden question, the sudden turn, the sudden opening—writing that is generated from linguistic mindfulness, improvisation, compositional problem solving, collaborative events, travel, investigation documentary.
Bowering responds to Rilke's Duino Elegies. In the intertextuality of these two great works can be found post-modern writing that is self-aware, where the other is discovered in the process of the writer writing.
By Gil McElroy
These poems map out zones of interaction which took place in the "surface of last scattering"—the first formation of matter in the universe.
By Ken Norris
Limbo _Road_—as divorce journal, meditation, travel poem—chronicles the search for the new beloved.
Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now gathers many of the poems from Daphne Marlatt's 1972 Vancouver Poems, somewhat revised or in some cases substantially revised, and follows them with "Liquidities," a series of recent poems about Vancouver's incessant deconstruction and reconstruction, its quick transformations both on the ground and in urban imagining.
By Des Walsh
This book of poems is a sustained adoration of the beloved that echoes the work of the troubadours. The unnamed Irish woman of this collection "the complicated jewel of the Burren Peninsula," leads the narrator on a spiritual quest from the streets of St John's to the seeminingly impenetrable evergreen thickets of Ireland. Recently released as a feature film, Love and Savagery is a lyrical story of impossible love. On the twentieth anniversary of its first publication and the astonishing occasion of its release as a feature film, Talon has published a new edition of Love and Savagery, celebrating the transformation of the essence of such a finely crafted book of poetry into a film that pays homage to its literary roots.
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Poems that tell stories on many different levels: through sound, visual images, political insights, non-narrative fusion and linguistic music.
Mêmewars is a book writing against itself.
Initially lacking a "subject," the book's metanarrative almost inevitably took the shape of an exquisite poetic autobiography that is at once both intensely personal and profoundly public. In it, among many other astonishments, we discover the deeply ambiguous roots of his father's favourite folksong; we catch a fleeting childhood glimpse of Bowering's young mother; a complete history of Cuba in the context of US foreign policy in Latin America that gives an entirely new, but older, meaning to the date September 11; and the roots of tragedy that led to the "Balkanization" of Yugoslavia.
By bill bissett
Through narrative, non-narrative, sound, song, meditation, metaphysical, spiritual, political and visual poems, bissett explores the fragility and incompletion of all narratives.
A compact and beautifully designed collection, nicely fleshed out with a broad selection of poems previously published only in journals and periodicals, not to mention its tantalizing sampling of new fare. Many will discover plenty to admire in News and Smoke.
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By Weyman Chan
Weyman Chan's poems elaborate his singular and solitary work on the renaissance of the contemporary lyric form.
By Gil McElroy
The language of poetics emerges into the light of the purely formalist and luminous "definitions" of things and their movements as they engage in the ceaseless metamorphosis of replication in all of their endlessly unfolding possibilities.
By bill bissett
His rejection of the limiting conventions of written language has allowed bissett to foreground the appearance of any linguistic event as a living performance.
Structured in three parts, On the Material is a meditation on language, geography, socio-economics and the body, moving from the glut of fossil-fuelled consumer excess to the materiality of a single book. The final section is a sequence of poems in memory of Stephen Collis's departed sister, Gail Tulloch, becoming a way for the poet to read back into the elemental heart of absence and loss—the "material" of the books displacing, and in some way recovering, how language holds the materiality of the physical world.
By Gil McElroy
Gil McElroy's new book of poems sets out to give shape to time from four different referents: the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line of the High Arctic where McElroy's father worked, the Julian calendar of classical antiquity, the structure of the Anglican lectionary and its cycle of daily and weekly scriptures (called "propers"), and Stephen Hawking's description of imaginary time.
The most important poetic works of Roy Kiyooka.
By Robin Blaser
Pell Mell, the middle voice, the syntax meeting its astonishments in its forward stride looking backwards, imagining an image nation where the heart is always torn, to pieces possessed by the other(s).
By bill bissett
bissett's deliciously comic interrogation of the socio-political events towering around us like so many boxes we need constantly to imagine our way out of, is counterpoised in this collection by a recurring dream of a future locked in a global war.
Phyllis Webb is a poet around whom archetypes tend to cluster: the reclusive artist; the distraught, borderline suicidal Sapphic woman poet. While on the surface she seems someone supremely disinterested in the public sphere, argues Stephen Collis in this brilliant and revealing new celebration of her work, her work sweeps into the wilds of politics, philosophy, economics and her slim books speak volumes. Webb's work points steadily towards the idea that the poem is not a commodity to be hoarded, but a response-ability to be shared, an aspect of the commons and our "common good."
By Frank Davey
This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our society's "popular narratives." A revealing and witty, exploded view of our culture.
25 individual talents come together in this groundbreaking collection for a rare literary event: the transition of a cultural identity primarily rooted in place to one that is rooted in a rapidly fragmenting, technology-based globalization.
Murakami approaches the urban centre through its inhabitants' greatest passion: real estate, where the drive to own is coupled with the practice of tearing down and rebuilding. Rebuild engraves itself on the absence at the city's centre, with its vacant civic square and its bulldozed public spaces. The poems crumble in the time it takes to turn the page, words flaking from the line like the rain-damaged stucco of a leaky condominium.
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bissett's metric performs a kind of absence of narrative intent that lets everyone and everything speak for itself. As bissett puts it, "eye dont have 2 invent th world iumalredee in it."
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A definitive and comprehensive selection of bissett's work.
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Poems of landscape, language and memory from Wah's earlier books.
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Selections from seven of this important poet and editor's long poems.
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Poetry distinguished by its attention to form and thought.
Poetry and prose with an instantaneous recognition of perceptions and thought.
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Selections from visual poetry to translations by one of the most important poets in the 20th century writing in English.
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An astonishing series of unique collaborative image-text projects, Sentenced to Light privileges its poetic and formal textual space outside most of the images that are its original twins and offers the reader a glimpse of the dialectic of larger conversations, the unpredictable, improvisatory bavardage that whispers between words and pictures in an intrinsically poetic space.
Working for decades in English and French in poetry, novels, and translations that investigate the relationship between language and female subjectivity, Lola Lemire Tostevin has hewn her own unique and intensely aesthetic path across the national literary landscape, earning her the reputation as one of Canada's leading feminist writers.
Tostevin's latest offering of poetry emerges from her deep-seated interest in the creativity of women who face advanced age and its ailments. Through study of exhibitions in galleries and museums, films and dance performances, and voluminous "bodies" of text, it became clear to Tostevin that aging not only serves women's creativity but also reinforces it, revealing many forms of strength in vulnerability.
Singed Wings invites the reader to peer into the interior world of Camille Claudel, whose intimate understanding of her subjects, from young girl to old woman, captured quite a different power than that of her lover, sculptor Auguste Rodin. Although Claudel was not able to fully realize her creative process into old age, many others did, including Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo, Betty Goodwin, Pina Bausch, and Agnès Varda, and it is in direct response to the vital creativity of these women that the poet finds the inspiration and determination to move her own art forward.
Spurred on by these groundbreaking precedents that displace the narcissistic, "shopworn" notion of the ideal woman described only in terms of desired female form, Tostevin allocates space where a writer facing her own aging process can use the experience to give it new shapes in language, positing that reimagining the various creative forms of women into language is a postmodern undertaking in an artistic milieu where postmodernism may turn out to have as many heads as the mythical Hydra.
When McClure's Specks was first published in 1985 by Talonbooks, it was a revelation in terms of its transcending the proprioceptive poetic methodology of Charles Olson and entering an Aristotelian realm of metaphysical questions that alchemically combined matters both scientific and mystical. With mind aglow in recognition of muscular imagination and the intelligence of the sensorium in all its unapologetic tonality, McClure's luminous journey leaps with the grace of Muhammad Ali and Fred Astaire, and tempts the reader into the mysterious abyss of dark energy that Federico García Lorca calls duende.
George Bowering's first book of poetry finally in print. With a preface by Robert Creeley and original line drawings by Gordon Payne.
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sublingual is perhaps the most highly structured yet of bissett's "textual visions." Its first seven poems construct a Genesis, beginning with a poem of birth—our pre- or sub-lingual first breath, a phenomenological gesture of recognition, of both being and belonging, in and of the world. Following this short creation story, the book continues to unfold in luminous and lucid delight.
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Canada's most linguistically innovative poet takes on the "linear binary traps" of conventional logic, history and politics.
By bill bissett
bissett has remained on a permanent world tour for over thirty years, writing this book while on a European reading circuit that included performances in London, Manchester, Cardiff, Dublin, Paris, Mainz, Trier and Berlin.
The Centre: Poems 1970–2000 begins with a long poem sequence that initiates McKinnon's engagement of and life in the north with new and unavoidably present recognitions. The "centre" in this sequence of ten long poems thus shifts from a nostalgic, idealized and elegiac rural singularity to a new relentless multiplicity of the urban, where the centre constantly threatens not to hold. The "centre" in these books becomes a multiplicity of urban attentions reproducing itself as an articulate awareness of a fractured and fragmented self in a wasteland where beauty appears only through glimpses of externalized objects of desire.
By Artie Gold
Born in 1947, Artie Gold appeared like a supernova within the constellation of Montreal Anglophone poets in the late 1960s. Intensely devoted to poetry, having already discovered the work of Frank O'Hara, John Wieners, and Jack Spicer in his teens, six books of his poems were published in each of the years 1974–79. Daunted by asthma, complicated by rapidly proliferating allergies and emphysema, he increasingly retreated from the world. At the urging of his friends, a Selected Poems was published in 1992, but only one further book appeared in print in 2003. Artie left the world on St. Valentine's Day, 2007. His eight published books of poetry collected here shine like a beacon of Northern Lights across the literary landscape of the late twentieth century.
Tearing down (intellectual) property's fencing, Collis's poems demonstrate that what we call, in less inspired moments, "allusion," "borrowing," or even (pretentiously) "intertextuality" is just what poetry itself proves time and again: our languages are common. Shared. Un-enclosable.
The Empress Has No Closure contains, as a centre-piece, the "Alefbet Transfers," a meditative, spacial explication of the 22 figures of the Hebrew alphabet.
Explores the possibilities of meaning production when language is pushed to its limits of normative semantic patterns. Includes a homolinguistic "trans'elation" of the Sefer Yetzirah.
Murakami's first book of poetry, written in the political and emotional wake of Vancouver's "Missing Women," this project investigates the troubled relationship between a marginalized neighbourhood's "invisible" populations and the city that surrounds them.
While many of the poems in The Monument Cycles speak to Vancouver as a whole, several focus specifically on the city's Downtown Eastside ("the poorest postal code in Canada"); they explore the poet's experiences working in this community and write toward possibility, remembrance, and the nature of truth and storytelling.
Bowering and Greg Curnoe became friends when their art was in its youth, and for 26 years they grew up parallel, inside each other's work.
Features the work of Blaser, Bowering, Brand, Carson, Derksen, Dudek, Dewdney, Friesen, Hartog, Kiyooka, Kroetsch, Marlatt, McCaffery, McFadden, McKay, McKinnon, Mouré, Nichol, Ondaatje, Robertson, Stanley, Tostevin, Villemaire, Wah and Webb.
By Jordan Abel
The Place of Scraps revolves around Marius Barbeau, an early-twentieth-century ethnographer, who studied many of the First Nations cultures in the Pacific Northwest, including Jordan Abel's ancestral Nisga'a Nation. Barbeau, in keeping with the popular thinking of the time, believed First Nations cultures were about to disappear completely, and that it was up to him to preserve what was left of these dying cultures while he could. Unfortunately, his methods of preserving First Nations cultures included purchasing totem poles and potlatch items from struggling communities in order to sell them to museums. While Barbeau strove to protect First Nations cultures from vanishing, he ended up playing an active role in dismantling the very same cultures he tried to save.
By Colin Browne
Poetry begins when the properties of things—and the correspondences among them—reveal themselves through language. Language is the veil that can pierce itself.
The poems in The Properties are a record of encounters between desire and the repressed or suppressed interstices of social, economic, political and unconscious forces. They're alert to correspondences, attentive to the lines of force to which the poet's family quietly assented in the contested place that is the Northwest Coast of North America.
Hip-hop artist Brinkman resurrects Chaucer's brilliant stories into visible and audible contemporary forms.
By rob mclennan
Thoroughly grounded in the media culture of television and film, mclennan's language casts a deceptively familiar veil over the breadth and depth of reading which inform this
By Colin Browne
In this extraordinary book, Colin Browne inverts the traditional ways we define and privilege forms of the English language; self-expression becomes prosaic, the recording of history poetic.
By Des Walsh
The Singer's Broken Throat is a collection of poems that trace a path through both physical and emotional landscapes. Each step of the narrative way is marked by an event of the heart, each image is a map of person and place. Des Walsh's fourth book of poetry echoes his extensive film and theatre work: the voices here are always dramatic and present, not passive and absent, even when the poems are elegiac in form and substance, even when their subject is historic. These poems disclose the fragility and wonderment of relationships, as well as remind us that we are all alive to each other inextricable from our frames in both time and space.
By Jeff Derksen
Based on the experience of city life, The Vestiges moves across the uneven geography of the present, linking historical moments when quarters of cities were squatted, when social change boiled and the future was up for grabs. In the context of our precarious present, the poem "The Vestiges," around which the book is built, "sets out to explore / what happens / to humans when they are reduced / to things by other humans."
By Hesiod
An adaptation of Hesiod's two great poems that paved the way for subsequent achievements of Greek philosophy, most notably those of Plato. Theogony tells of the first generations of the gods and Works and Days examines the twofold role of competition in life, what Hesiod calls "the bad strife" and "the good strife" and how they affect our daily struggles.
Three books in one: Heavy-Hearted in Havana, Sex with a Sixteen Year Old and Anonymity Suite Part II.
This Poem is an ironic investigation of contemporary culture and the technomediatic saturated world in which we're enmeshed. Composed in the style of Facebook updates or extended Tweets, and mashing-up lexicons of Stein, Zukofsky, Shakespeare, Whitman, financial meltdown, semiotic theory, Lady Gaga, Derrida, and Flickr streams, This Poem is a self-reflexive romp through shards and fragments of post-consumerist culture.
This Tremor Love Is is a memory book—an album of love poems spanning twenty-five years, from Marlatt's first writing of what was to become the opening section, A Lost Book, to its latest, most recent sequences.
By bill bissett
The quest in this latest fusion of song, sound, performance and visual poetry from bill bissett is for a human condition outside the perpetual terror of the 21st century.
By bill bissett
time is reelee abt how evreething is fleeting n how we deel with that n how deeplee we undrstand that awareness th jewels shine as our undrstandings th layrs n openings apertures n iris lens in or not n how manee narrativs reveel our paradoxikul n continualee shifting minds … a storee is what time is it … 4 ourselvs n our specees n how timeless th breth uv th galaxee n oftn ourselvs tho agen fleeting lyrik song chant philosophikal theologikul prsonal propheseez vizual n tanguld tangos … with th invisibul dansrs … n th 4tune tellrs shuffuling theyr decks how we yern 4 n letting go uv our games finding love n th chancs 4 savin th environment n our selvs [bill bissett]
To the Barricades continues Collis's "life" poem, "The Barricades Project," which also includes Anarchive (2005) and The Commons (2008). Both the anti-archive of the revolutionary record and the dream of a once and future "commons" upon which all can equally dwell continue to shape these poems where words are hurried bricks thrown up as "barricades" in language.
By Jeff Derksen
Written over the last ten years in a quartet of cities: Calgary, Toronto, New York and Vienna, Transnational Muscle Cars is the second book in Jeff Derksen's trilogy addressing place, culture and capital, and draws on a wide array of North American post-war poetics—the declarative aspects of New American Poetry, the pop cultural details of the New York School, the reflexive politics of the Language Poets, the personal politics of the Kootenay School of Writing—and on contemporary cultural and political theory, critical geography, urban theory, and architectural concepts.
In a world where the corporate iron fist clad in the velvet glove of the state has appropriated all that is authentic and authoritative in language, there seems little left for us to say to each other. Yet against the determination of borders, capital, criminalization and violence, stigmatized bodies also remember patterns, history, possibility and solidarity. Triage attempts an ordered, critical response to the surges of overlapping manufactured crises that perpetuate the conditions and symptoms of our public and private disentitlements.
This much anticipated volume is now available in paperback.
By rob mclennan
Presents us with cues and clues to the poet's compositional strategies.
Throwback Thursday: Research from 2006 on the "Chapters Effect" on Bookselling
Today, in an installment of Throwback Thursday more classic than kitsch, we turn our attention to the archives of the Master of Publishing program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. In 2006, Erin Williams wrote a project report entitled "The Chapters effect on British Columbia-based literary publishers," in which she outlined the history of Chapters-Indigo, its relationship to publishers and its place within the changing book industry, approaching these changes from the perspective of one independent literary press: Talonbooks (hey, that's us!).
Tuesday December 17, 2013 in Meta-TalonOne Reader's Response to Canadian Prairie Literature
Literature from and about the prairies has continually enriched Canada's cultural landscape. Today on Meta-Talon we explore a few Talon books whose beautiful work offers entrances to the prairie region and its sensibilities, whether through language and metaphor or unique takes on important but too-often forgotten historical moments.
Thursday December 12, 2013 in Meta-TalonInterview: Adeena Karasick on This Poem (NIX Magazine)
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Heart rate: What's normal?
By Mayo Clinic staffOriginal Article: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-rate/AN01906
- With Mayo Clinic physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist
Edward R. Laskowski, M.D.
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Edward R. Laskowski, M.D.
Dr. Edward Laskowski is certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, including subspecialty certification in sports medicine, and is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. He is co-director of the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center and a professor at College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic.
He has been on the staff of Mayo Clinic since 1990 and specializes in sports medicine, fitness, strength training and stability training. He works with a multidisciplinary team of physical medicine, rehabilitation and orthopedic specialists, physical therapists, and sports psychologists.
Dr. Laskowski is an elite-level skier and an avid hiker, cyclist and climber. He approaches sports medicine from the perspective of a physician and an athlete.
In 2006, President George W. Bush appointed Dr. Laskowski to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and he has received a Distinguished Service Award from the Department of Health and Human Services for his contribution to the Council.
Dr. Laskowski was a member of the medical staff of the Olympic Polyclinic at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and has provided medical coverage for the Chicago Marathon. He serves as a consulting physician to the National Hockey League Players' Association and is a featured lecturer at the American College of Sports Medicine's Team Physician Course.
Dr. Laskowski, a Cary, Ill., native, has contributed to Mayo Clinic's CD-ROM on sports, health and fitness, a website guide to self-care, and hundreds of Mayo Clinic articles and booklets in print and online. He is a contributing editor to the "Mayo Clinic Fitness for EveryBody" book, and he has presented lectures throughout the world on health, fitness and sports medicine topics. His teaching expertise has been recognized by his election to the Teacher of the Year Hall of Fame at Mayo Clinic.
"There are many myths and misconceptions about exercise and fitness in general, and also many traditions that don't stand up to scientific scrutiny," he says. "My goal is to provide the most up-to-date and accurate information on sports medicine and fitness topics in a way that you can practically incorporate into your life."
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Heart rate: What's normal?
What's a normal resting heart rate?
from Edward R. Laskowski, M.D.
A normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats a minute.
Generally, a lower heart rate at rest implies more efficient heart function and better cardiovascular fitness. For example, a well-trained athlete might have a normal resting heart rate closer to 40 beats a minute.
To measure your heart rate, simply check your pulse. Place your index and third fingers on your neck to the side of your windpipe. To check your pulse at your wrist, place two fingers between the bone and the tendon over your radial artery — which is located on the thumb side of your wrist.
When you feel your pulse, count the number of beats in 15 seconds. Multiply this number by 4 to calculate your beats per minute.
Keep in mind that many factors can influence heart rate, including:
- Activity level
- Fitness level
- Air temperature
- Body position (standing up or lying down, for example)
- Emotions
- Body size
- Medications
Although there's a wide range of normal, an unusually high or low heart rate may indicate an underlying problem. Consult your doctor if your resting heart rate is consistently above 100 beats a minute (tachycardia) or below 60 beats a minute (bradycardia) — especially if you have other signs or symptoms, such as fainting, dizziness or shortness of breath.
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- Sauer WH. Normal sinus rhythm and sinus arrhythmia. http://www.uptodate.com/index. Accessed June 28, 2012.
- Your guide to physical activity and your heart. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/#obesity. Accessed June 25, 2012.
- Valentini M, et al. Variables influencing heart rate. Progress in Cardiovascular Disease. 2009;52:11.
- Laskowski ER (expert opinion). Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. June 28, 2012.


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A 27-year-old Lakewood man pleaded not guilty this morning to charges he left nine puppies to die in a wooded area on Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Commissioner Meagan Foley released Christopher G. Merrick on his own recognizance following his arraignment in Pierce County Superior Court. Foley ordered Merrick not to own or care for animals while his case is pending. He is charged with two counts of first-degree animal cruelty, which is a felony.
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Lecture: Centuries of Hair (and Other Extremities)
Sunday, February 17 | 2:30 pmEast Building, Museum Auditorium
Free; ticket from Box Office required
Caroline Weber, associate professor of French at Barnard College, subtitles her lecture "A Short History of Fashion from Top to Toe." Anne Lemanski's sculptural work A Century of Hair 1900–1990 inspires a lively historical overview of extremities in fashion, with "extremities" understood anatomically—hair, feet, hands—and as hips, shoulders, and breasts. Images from ancient Etruria, Renaissance Venice, swinging London, and contemporary clothing industries illuminate Weber's talk. Lemanski's work is featured in the Museum exhibition 0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, opening March 24.
A reception and book signing follow the lecture.
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Bridgetown Tourist Attractions
Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados, got its name from a native Amerindian bridge which crossed the mouth of the Constitution River. Today two bridges cross the small ship basin.Bridgetown gained its prominence because harbors on Barbados are rare. Today this port is used by a few pleasure craft. The northern bank bears the street name The Wharf which reflects its importance in olden days. Ships tied up off shore and freight and passengers were transferred to rowboats which landed here.An artificial port has been constructed to the west of downtown to hold four or five cruise and freight ships.The town retains a busy colonial feel.
Tyrol Cot
While the Tyrol Cot house was constructed in 1854 by William Farnum, its claim to fame was that it was the home of Sir Grantley Adams from 1929. He was the first premier of independent Barbados and the only Prime Minister of the Federation of the West Indies. He was the founder of the Barbados Labour Party. The house became a site for meetings of Caribbean leaders.The interior contains the furniture and mementos of Sir Adams and his son Tom Adams, the second Prime Minister of Barbados. The property is restored and run by the Barbados National Trust.The architecture is a mixture of Italian villa exterior, tropical jalousie shutters, and an open interior to let the air circulate. It is built of cut coral stone with prominent quoins around the arched windows. Cot is short for cottage.
Tyrol Cot Heritage Village
On the grounds of Tyrol Cot are a collection of chattel houses now run as craft shops. There is also an 1820s stone and straw slave quarters, a blacksmith's museum, a carriage house and stables, and even an original outhouse which collectively form the Tyrol Cot Heritage Village.Most interesting are the chattel houses which are typical of the island. Their small size was dictated by several reasons. First, farm workers did not own the land on which they lived. If they changed employment, their house had to be small enough to move to the next estate. Chattel means a moveable article of property and the word applied to these houses. A second factor was that materials were imported by ship in standard sizes which dictated dimensions. Nonetheless, builders mimicked symetrical Georgian styles in miniature.
Red Clay Pottery and Fairfield Gallery
Family owned and operated Red Clay Pottery and Fairfield Gallery invites visitors to tour their studio and facilities which are in a converted sugar syrup-boiling house.
National Heroes Square
National Heroes Square (formerly called Trafalgar Square) is a small park between the Inner Basin of the Constitution River and the Parliament buildings. It has three sculptures.The obelisk-shaped cenotaph is a memorial to the Barbadians killed in the two World Wars.A statue of Lord Horatio Nelson which was erected in 1813, 36 years before Nelson's column was put up in London. Barbadians relished the fact that Nelson sailed to this island in 1805 only months before he was killed at Trafalgar off the coast of Spain.The third structure is a fountain to commemorate the first piped water in Bridgetown. It features dolphins on clam shells and was paid for by public donations.
Parliament Buildings
The grounds of Parliament along National Heroes Square has two wings. The wing with the clock tower houses government offices while the east wing houses the Senate and House of Assembly.These neogothic buildings were built in 1871, replacing earlier structures destroyed in the fire of 1860.The ground surrounded by an attractive cast iron fence are generally closed to the public.
Broad Street
The section of Broad Street from the Parliament Buildings to the imposing Barbados Insurance Society Building hints at the wealth once generated by the sugar barons of the island. Also called the Mutual Building it was built 1894-5 and has silver domes which top its bulky green towers. The whole building is in circled by a second-story veranda.Beyond the Mutual Building are St Patrick's Catholic Cathedral (1899) and the bus terminal.Those walking into town from the cruise ship docks should use Broad Street in at least one direction.
Da Costa Building
The well-proportioned pink Da Costa building (1898) mixes an elegant Georgian upper story with the wrought iron topped veranda of colonial architecture. Today the building serves as a merchant mall.
Queen's Park
To the east of downtown up St Michael's Row, the sizeable Queen's Park was once the grounds of the home (built 1786) of the commander of British Troops in Barbados.Today this restored Georgian-style building serves as a theatre and art gallery.To the east of the building is a children's playground around a giant Baobab tree. Some sources say this tree, about 18 m in circumference, came from Africa on a slave ship. Other sources report that the Baobab is over 1,000 years old and speculate that the seed floated over on its own.
Barbados Museum
Housed in a 19th century British military prison at St Ann's Garrison, the Barbados Museum's collections cover Barbadian history, Amerindian and African culture, plus European decorative arts such as glass, ceramics, and silver as well as a fine collection of antique maps, prints and paintings. There is also a natural history section. The museum contains a research library. The museum was founded in 1933. The museum runs special programs for children.
1627 and All That Show
1627 and All That is a weekly spectacle featuring folk dance, steel bands, plus a tour of the historic museum in which this dinner event is held. This show covers the history of Barbados from 1627 to the present.
Emancipation Statue
This statue of a slave with broken chains stands in a roundabout on the ABC highway. It commemorates Bussa who inspired the revolt against slavery which was abolished in 1834. Abolition was not the total end however since these "freed slaves" were then forced into a four-year apprentice program where they worked 45-hour weeks without pay in exchange for the rent of a tiny hut.The monument is by Barbadian sculpture Karl Broodhagen.
Independence Arch
Independence Arch which sits at the southern end of Chamberlain Bridge in Bridgetown was built in 1987 to commemorate 21 years of independence gained November 30, 1966. Reliefs of the flying fish and pelican, two symbols of Barbados, adorn the two pillars. Overhead the coat of arms repeats these animals plus the national flower (Pride of Barbados) and national tree (Bearded Fig) from which the island got its name. The motto is Pride and Industry.
St Micheal's Cathedral
The current Anglican Cathedral building was constructed in stone in 1789 as a replacement for the one destroyed by the hurricane of 1780. The firs wooden structure was built between 1660 and 1665. The church became the cathedral with the 1825 arrival of a bishop.The architecture is the standard English style, with round arches inset with pointed windows to provide a Gothic look. One interesting feature is the roof over the altar which is like an inverted boat prow.
Montefiore Fountain Square
While it is called the Montefiore fountain, there is no water to be seen. It was a drinking fountain in 1865 when given to the city by Jewish businessman John Montefiore in his father's memory. However, it was originally on Broad Street and only moved to its present position near the synagogue in 1940.
Bridgetown is home of the oldest synagogue in the Western Hemisphere. It dates from 1654, though the current structure was erected in 1833 replacing one destroyed by the hurricane of 1831. Tombstones in the adjacent cemetery date from the 1630s. The site was abandoned in 1929, but saved and restored by the Jewish community in 1983 and is now under the protection of the Barbados National Trust.The jewish community has been strong in Barbados because 300 Jewish immigrants from Brazil in the 1620s introduced sugar cane, which became the basis of the island's economy.The fully restored synagogue is open to visitors.
Public Library
One of the many neoclassical libraries funded by Andrew Carnegie, the Bridgetown library is worth a step inside to see simple exhibits on local history and plantation architecture.
Law Courts & Police Station
The Law Courts in next to the library in Bridgetown was an early site where the legislature met. The police building is adjacent to the courts.
Cool Runnings Catamaran Cruises
Cool Runnings Catamaran Cruises offers day trips and sunset excursions or private charter. Visitors can snorkel (gear provided) sunbath, or go for a walk along a beach. Day cruises include a lunch and sunset cruises include dinner.
Fish Market
Active in the early morning, workers clean and sell a variety of fish including flying fish. On the waterfront walk which leads from the cruise ship port to downtown, it warrants a stop, though workers are shy about having their photos taken.
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