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Texas ranks 47th in the nation when it comes to access to emergency care, according to a report card just released by the American College of Emergency Physicians. That's a big fat F for that category. The state ranked 38th overall (a "D ") in the report, which measures "America's emergency care e ... More >>
If you have Texas Blue Cross Blue Shield, the odds are good you have sat on the phone enjoying their hold music recently. Cat Jeanes, of Austin, has definitely gotten an earful of that happy snappy guitar that plays on the automated system, and she isn't alone, judging by the other complaints surf ... More >>
Purdue Pharma makes Oxycontin. In fact, Purdue has made $27 billion selling the drug since it was introduced in 1996. In case you weren't aware, Oxycontin is a powerful opiate painkiller -- it's twice as potent as morphine -- that is coveted by opiate-lovers in the drug-using community. Indeed: Ox ... More >>
Gov. Rick Perry has a hatred for the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) that comes as natural as breathing to him, but it seems hate only goes so far when there's $100 million in federal funding on the table. When U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius came to Texas a few weeks ... More >>
It's not available yet, but once the FDA finalizes its assessment of AquAdvantage salmon, the genetically engineered fish may find its way to your grocery store fish counter. And you may have no idea that the fish you're eating has been modified with growth hormone regulating genes. These genes al ... More >>
We've come along way from the plague years when HIV was a death sentence. We're living in the days when some believe a cure is on the horizon and when the tests to find out if you've contracted the disease are getting faster and more precise. It's becoming ever more clear that the key to dealing wi ... More >>
The feds see no evil as a belligerent strongman seeks control of America's food supply.
Memorial Hermann treats patients without insurance, tells them not to worry about the cost and then sues them for thousands of dollars.
As Igancio Alaniz lay beneath his ancient white Buick, trying to get his car restarted one evening in January 2012, he heard a click as his car popped into gear. A split-second before more than 3,000 pounds of metal smashed over his chest, Alaniz realized he was about to be run over by his own car. ... More >>
The Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association announced they will be endorsing Ben Hall in his challenge to incumbent Mayor Annise Parker in this year's mayoral campaign. This comes well after the Houston Police Officers' Union endorsed the incumbent mayor back in March and just weeks after a f ... More >>
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It's a Thursday afternoon and Dr. Khaled Jabboury greets a patient in the waiting room of his office at the West Houston Medical Center. The woman, though it's not immediately noticeable, is facing the toughest challenge of her life. As Dr. Jabboury has proven, she has come to the right place. For ... More >>
Update: A company spokesman with Novartis called this afternoon to address the rumors that Paula Deen has signed an endorsement deal with the pharmaceutical firm, which the company says are false. Novartis issued this statement: "The rumors that Novartis has signed a multi-million dollar spok ... More >>
The Texas Attorney General's Office says a drugmaker lied in order to push an antipsychotic on foster children. So why are kids as young as three still taking the drug?
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Texas' execution-bound inmates will soon know what it's like to be put to sleep.Pretty soon, in-deep-doo-doo Texans will be able to exit the planet in the same style as deaf, blind and arthritic-ridden Fidos and Fluffys. As was recently reported by the Wall Street Journal, the state of Texas ... More >>
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text: Lucaisapotamia does have a nice meter to it, but alliteration would be easier than rhyming. I'm sure there are real-world placenames of seven or more syllables, but I can't think of any right now. Mesopotamia has six. Transylvania has five. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Lucais du Belier <lucaisdubelier at pcsok.com> To: Northern Region of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc. <northern at lists.ansteorra.org> Sent: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 2:25 pm Subject: Re: [NR] Proposed Northern Regional Names I love the passion in our discussion of a new name for the northern region nd wanted to add some historical levity. When I was landed baron of Wiesenfeuer, I dreamt I was going mad with ower and planned on claiming the entire northern region for myself, and reate a new kingdom. I renamed the north to Lucaisapotamia, and titled yself as Grande Vizeaux. I was also renaming all of the branches in the orthern region such as Ulfganistan (or Wolfganistan), Valiahalla, Jean aul's Valley, Los Angelique, Finnacanopolis, Barnandkatsville, etc. Feel free to consider any of these names, but I am especially fond of ucaisapotamia. I'm sure my profile would look good on a coin. Lucais - his message has been scanned for viruses and angerous content by MailScanner, and is elieved to be clean. _______________________________________________ orthern mailing list orthern at lists.ansteorra.org ttp://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/northern-ansteorra.org

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NEW YORK – Chimpanzees going through a midlife crisis? It sounds like a setup for a joke.
I believe no ape has ever purchased a sports car, said Andrew Oswald, an author of a study on the topic published Monday. But researchers report that captive chimps and orangutans do show the same low ebb in emotional well-being at midlife that some studies find in people.
That suggests the human tendency toward midlife discontent may have been passed on through evolution, rather than resulting simply from the hassles of modern life, said Oswald, a professor of economics at the University of Warwick in England who presented his work Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Several studies have concluded that happiness in human adults tends to follow a certain course between ages 20 and 70: It starts high and declines over the years to reach a low point in the late 40s, then turns around and rises to another peak at 70. On a graph, that's a U-shaped pattern.
When Oswald learned that others had been measuring well-being in apes, it just seemed worth pursuing the hunch that the U might be more general than in humans, he said.
He and co-authors assembled data on 508 great apes from zoos and research centers in the U.S., Australia, Canada, Singapore and Japan.
Caretakers and other observers had filled out a four-item questionnaire to assess well-being in the apes. The questions asked such things as the degree to which each animal was in a positive or negative mood, how much pleasure it got from social situations, and how successful it was in achieving goals. The raters were even asked how happy they would be if they were the animal for a week.
Sounds wacky? Oswald and his co-authors say research suggests it's a valid approach. And they found that the survey results produced that familiar U-shaped curve, adjusted to an ape's shorter lifespan.
We find it for these creatures that don't have a mortgage and don't have to go to work and don't have marriage and all the other stuff, Oswald said. It's as though the U shape is deep in the biology of humans rather than a result of uniquely human experiences.
Yes, apes do have social lives, so it could still be something human-like that we share with our social cousins, he said.
But our result does seem to push away the likelihood that it's dominantly something to do with human life.


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IGBC Meets for Day #2
The winter meeting of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee enters its second day today, with conversation focusing on the increasing levels of bear/human conflicts in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Yesterday's agenda involved an update on the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan and a summary of the two fatalities in Yellowstone National Park from Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator Chris Servheen. Today's activities involve reports from the subcommittees overseeing bear recovery in the various geographic areas of the Pacific Northwest. IGBC officials point out that the levels of recovery and associated problems are distinctly different in each area, with the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem seeing the highest success in the bear's recovery.


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From the "Talks too much" studios...
SEC coaches
Follow the trickle down here: College sports is ruled by football. College football is ruled by the SEC. SEC football is ruled by elite coaches. Ergo, there is nothing in the game we love more important that coaching excellence.
We can all agree on that right? No questions? And we all agree that at $5 million, Nick Saban may be the best bargain not only in college football, but in all of sports, right? With that in mind, let's grade the SEC coaches, and compare them to a Clint Eastwood movie. Deal? Deal? (Side note: There will be two grades — the first for this year to date and the second for their time at the program)
Nick Saban — A+/A++++
Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa in 2007. Went to the SEC title game and the Sugar Bowl in 2008. Won it all in 2009 and '11 and is poised to do it again this year with the most complete team in college football. How good is Saban? Most of the rest of the SEC is resigned to the fact that the best way to topple his Alabama machine is for him to leave. So basically, Saban has made the SEC — the best college football conference in the country — WWII France, and everyone else is hoping he'll just go away to the NFL or something.
Eastwood movie: Unforgiven. Dude is a bad man, even teams that play Alabama tough and deserve a better fate need to remember, "deserve ain't got nothing to do with it."
Will Muschamp — A+/A
In his second year, Will Muschamp has done work. If the voting was held today, he'd be the SEC coach of the year and rightly so. A defensive guy with an elite defense, Muschamp and Co. get high praise for their handling and development of quarterback Jeff Driskel.
Eastwood movie: Fistful of Dollars. The super-power and uber-rich program that is Florida appears to be back (to be fair, 9er called from the get-go), and like Fistful of Dollars kind of started Eastwood's run, this looks like the genesis for Muschamp, who at the beginning of the season was an unknown with some provin' to do.
Dan Mullen — A/B+
If you think this grade is too high, ask yourself this: would you trade your coach for Mullen? Now know this: Mullen is an inspired and improbable upset of Alabama away from having Mississippi State in the national championship picture. Yes. Mississippi State.
Eastwood movie: High Plains Drifter. Mullen is doing work with the Bulldogs and appears to be content in Starkville (well as content as anyone can be that is). That said, here's saying his name will be bandied about for a slew of openings this offseason.
Kevin Sumlin — A-/A-
Sumlin has made the most of his left over strengths — having two NFL-ready tackles helps any offensive transition — and found a future star in his high-scoring offense with quarterback Johnny Manziel.
Eastwood movie: Sudden Impact. Sumlin and Manziel deserve big props for coming in and taking names from the get. Buckle up gang, Texas A&M is going to be a tough SEC hombre.
Steve Spurrier — B+/A
Spurrier's the man. He's so money. The bottom has fallen out the last couple of weeks, but name one team in this league other than Alabama that could lose its best offensive player for most of two big games and not be affected. His career A is well-deserved since he has reset South Carolina's records and goals.
Eastwood movie: There are so many, but we'll go with the Outlaw Josey Wales. Spurrier has always been infinitely quotable (our favorite remains when asked about the fire at the Auburn library he said, "It's a shame, too, because a lot of those books hadn't been colored in yet.") and excellent.
Hugh Freeze — B+/B+
Freeze has the Rebels eyeing a bowl game and out of the SEC West cellar. For a team that had lost 16 SEC games in a row until this year, that's doing working in year one.
Eastwood movie: For a Few Dollars More. You get the feeling that Freeze may be one more year from being "that" guy for a lot of programs.
Les Miles — B+/A
We love Les Miles. You know this. And his 'B' this year is as much about the Tigers' lofty expectations than any shortcomings this year, especially considering he had to suspend his best playmaker for the season in August.
Eastwood movie: Every Which Way but Loose. Underrated, tough and violent, and at times silly. Is there a better matching for an Eastwood film and an SEC coach than this? We almost went with the Outlaw Josey Wales because it's Eastwood's most quotable movie, and we all know that Les is supremely quotable.
James Franklin B+/B+
Franklin has Vandy on the cusp of history. The Commodores had a tough early schedule and survived it. They are 3-4 with a win on Saturday against winless UMass all-but-certain. They'll go into November with a manageable slate of at Kentucky, at Ole Miss, vs. Tennessee and at Wake Forest needing to split to qualify for back-to-back bowl games for the first time in program history.
Eastwood movie: Escape from Alcatraz. If Franklin, who was the head-coach-in-waiting, makes winning history at Vandy, he'll likely write his own ticket this offseason.
Mark Richt — B/B
Easiest grade on the whole board. Mark Richt is a good guy who is a good coach who has had a good career in Athens. The only question is whether that's going to keep being good enough.
Eastwood movie: Trouble with the Curve. Richt's grade was easy, the movie was not. We'll go with the touchy-feely new release (we haven't seen it) because the title fits Richt's career. If this were the 1990s and early 2000s, Richt's run would be more highly appreciated. Today, since the SEC has won six title in a row and the power-player that is Georgia is not among them, the SEC grading curve is steeper. And Richt's resume suffers because of it.
Derek Dooley — D+/C-
Toughest grade on the board for several reasons. As for this year, yes, the Vols' losses are to teams that are a combined 27-1. But, they looked ill-prepared after a bye week against Mississippi State. Yes, Dooley inherited a mess. But name one player on this team that has improved this season other than the offensive linemen (shoutout to Sam Pittman)?
Eastwood movie: Heartbreak Ridge. Every time we want to believe in Dooley and his Vols, they break our hearts and push us over the ridge. We almost went with City Heat because of the hotseat.
Gary Pinkel — D/B
The Tigers have been bad — home losses to Vandy are not acceptable even for newcomers — and the injury to quarterback James Franklin has been a big part of it.
Eastwood movie: The Gauntlet. Perfect right? Arguably the most forgettable Eastwood movie since he became a star for an forgettable season for the Tigers. But Missouri will realize the reward of running the SEC gauntlet when the roughly $28 million checks are passed out next May.
Joker Phillips — D-/D
Phillips improved his grade last Saturday. The Wildcats are cooked and Phillips is likely gone, but his team fought for 60 minutes against a superior Georgia team and that shows respect for the staff and program in general and the head coach in particular. That said, Phillips inherited a Kentucky program on the upswing and has turned its fortunes around.
Eastwood movie: The Dead Pool. The downward spiral in Lexington is as much about injuries (it seems like the Cats are on QB No. 2,305 and are one more injury from having a halftime drawing for some QB reps) and history (other than Bear Bryant, name one coach who moved up from the UK job).
John L. Smith — D-/C-
The interim replacement for Bobby Petrino endured a disastrous September. The Hogs had national title hopes, but will go to a low-to-mid-level bowl. It will be interesting to see where the Hogs set their sights for their next coach considering a) they had a head start on everyone else, and b) the off-the-field stuff is much more important in Arkansas' search this time around.
Eastwood movie: A Perfect World, a disappointing movie with a star-studded cast that started slowly and got better but still left you walking away feeling like it should have been more.
Gene Chizik — F-/C
This has been a debacle, and as we stand here we still don't believe Chizik should be fired. That said, Tuberville got got for better than this mess, and Chizik has to go to Tuscaloosa to end the year. Remember Saban sealed Tuberville's fate with a 36-0 spanking in 2008. This is Chizik's fourth year. If you look at 2009 as a B, 2010 as an A+, 2011 as a C and this as an F-minus, that leaves with an average bell curve, no?
Eastwood movie: In the Line of Fire. Title alone makes it match, but this is one of the best Eastwood movies and one of the few in which Eastwood is outperformed. The question is, is John Malkovich parallel Gus Malzahn or Cam Newton?
NFL Power poll
Time for our weekly check around the (cue Ron Jaworski) THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE.
(Side note: How cool would it be to hire someone with a renowned catch phrase to follow you around at a party or a tailgate and use their money quote. And if you could, who you got between Gary Coleman saying, "Whatcha you talkin' bout Willis?" or the Fonz using "Aaayyyy," or "Sit on it," or Fred Sanford using, "I'm coming Elizabeth" and "You big dummy.")
1) Atlanta: The Falcons are the league's lone unbeaten team. They are built for today's league — they can throw the ball (eighth in passing) and defend the pass (seventh in passer rating against) — and have a legit home-field advantage. We like the cut of their jib.
2) Houston: There are wins and losses and never the twain shall meet. There also are statement games, and the Texans delivered one with Sunday's 43-13 win over Baltimore.
3) Chicago: Holding Calvin "Megatron" Johnson to three catches is good stuff. Holding the Lions to seven points in better stuff. Becoming a Super Bowl contender with Jay Cutler at quarterback is big-time stuff. How underrated is Lovie Smith?
4) San Francisco: Yes, the 49ers defense may be a step better than Chicago's but the Bears' offense is two steps better than San Fran's.
5) New York Giants: The defending Super Bowl champs will be there until the end. This just in... those Manning kids are pretty good. Cue Fred — "You big dummy."
Game 7 letdown
Unless you're a San Fran Giants fan, Monday's Game 7 was a disappointment. So it goes.
But as we head to a World Series that will largely be skipped by most of the country, what can we glean from a Giants-Detroit Tigers showdown?
First, to be a contender you have to have a shutdown ace. The Tigers have Justin Verlander; the Giants have Matt Cain. (And before this season, the Giants actually were holding a pair of aces with Cain and Tim Lincecum, but that was before Lincecum caught a case of the stinky.)
Second, you need a middle of the order stud. The Tigers have Miguel Cabrera; the Giants have Buster Posey.
Third, you need a manager that can role with things and makes the magic happen. The Tigers have Jim Leyland; the Giants have Bruce Bochte (who is not to be confused with Bruce Banner or Bruce Boxlighter).
Finally, you need a few postseason breaks. The Tigers exploited a young A's team that gagged under the pressure and a Yankees team that couldn't hit its collective butt with either hand; the Giants got an epic performance from some cat named Marco Scutaro, who was the NLCS MVP even though he has a name made for Formula 1 racing.
What does it mean? Likely means Tigers win it all since Verlander can go three times if needed. But it's not like we'll be watching any way.
This and that
— In a polling of NBA GMs, the Miami Heat were picked to repeat as NBA champs. We can see that. And we are stoked to watch LeBron James play this year with the onus of winning a title off his back. Giddy-up.
— The SEC preseason hoops predictions from media members were released Monday. Kentucky was an overwhelming pick to win the league. That's not that surprising. Tennessee and Cuonzo "The Conz" Martin were picked fourth. The All-SEC first team was BJ Young of Arkansas, Florida's Kenny Boynton (who has been in school since 1989 — he was in the same recruiting class as Dwayne Schintzius we think), Nerlens Noel of Kentucky, Phil Pressey of Missouri and Tennessee's Jarnell Stokes.
— Rambo turned 30 this week. No not Sly Stallone — he's closer to 130. No, the "First Blood" movie that introduced us to John J. Rambo was released this week in 1982. Earlier this month we did the best movie trilogies. We'd have to give Sly Stallone the No. 2 spot on the list of actors with best multiple trilogies behind Harrison Ford. Well done Sly.
Today's question
Our question today comes from a post from Jomo on Monday:
"Jay- Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, Mike Vick, Joe Paterno, Kobe Bryant ( does anyone remember sexual assualt ), Mike Tyson, Ray Lewis ( involved in murder ), Barry Bonds, Roger Clemons, Pete Rose,
all falls from grace. Who goes on Scandal Rushmore ? is it based on endorsement ? public perception ? Ban from Sport ? or Who has made a comback ?"
We like this question enough that we brought it out of Friday's mailbag into the here and now.
Here's our serious sports scandal Rushmore (combination of serious crimes and sports stature): Paterno, Tyson, O.J., Vick
Here's our tabloid sports scandal Rushmore (combination of sports stature and overflowing voyeur interest in the case): Tiger, O.J., Paterno, Lance
Great question and feel free to participate.
Jay was named the Sports Editor of the Times Free Press in 2003 and started with the newspaper in May 2002 as the Deputy Sports Editor. He was born and raised in Smyrna, Ga., and graduated from Auburn University before starting his newspaper career in 1997 with the Newnan (Ga.) Times Herald. Stops in Clayton and Henry counties in Georgia and two years as the Sports Editor of the Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal preceded Jay's ...
The Eastwood bit is absolutely brilliant. I might have substituted Dirty Harry for the Unforgiven (picture Coach Satan mouthing "Go ahead punk. Make my day) to any SEC coach you care to name but especially to John Reeves's son-in-law. I would pay money to see that happen.
As for quotes, nothing can replace the other Great Satan's sayings. "You can't spell citrus without UT" or "FSU-Free Shoes U." The infuriating part is that he backs up them up.
When it comes to the Mount Rushmore of scandals, there should be a place for the 1919 Chicago Black Sox Scandal. Don't know how that plays out considering the plethora of modern miscreants but those guys earned a place there even more than Charlie Hustle. YOMV.
Okay, since this has not been discussed in the 5 at 10, I can tell my story based on JR's sports report on today's Morning Press from earlier today.
So I ran into this cute girl at my office break room who was wearing a UT golf shirt. So I asked her in my softest, sexiest, swave, bishonen voice, "Hey baby, can you show me your [p-word]"?
She smiles, unzips her pants, and whips out a picture of Tyler Bray.
::cue rimshot::
I like the Clint Eastwood/SEC coach comparsions. Could really careless about the World Series (for obvious reasons), and go Mocs.
Salsa —
Quite possibly. It feels like it is swinging that way, doesn't it?
Johnny P —
Thanks for the kind words. And yes, you can bellyache all you want about Spurrier's quotes and commentary, but dude backs it up big time.
The Black Sox thing is an excellent call. Almost killed baseball, and sweet buckets of Buster Olney breakdown, can you image if that happened in today's 24/7 media circus?
Run JMC —
Careful. Remember this is a family-oriented, interweb-based sports column.
Nice job giving credit where credit is due, however.
— 5-at-10
I know Jay. That's why I didn't use the actual word. But after hearing what he did post game, Dooley had every right to say what he did. So unfortunately, the Devil's writing staff tossed me that bone before they headed to work on Leno's show. :P
Glad you liked it none the less though.
Your Clint Eastwood play, cue Mr. Burns (hands pented) "Excellent."
That said, Dooley merits an F for the simple reason he cannot get the most of the talent at hand.
Ten Ring writes: "Every time we want to believe in Dooley and his Vols, they break our hearts and push us over the ridge."
Dooley did take the high ground in the opener against NCSU. Where he was pushed off the ridge was after a fine first half against Florida. Since that game, the Vols have not stormed any redoubt or even defended their own.
I must say there's no confidence here at the enterprises in Dooley any longer, and you've have displayed even less, so it's hard to understand how Dooley can break your heart.
Fair enough.
Bigguy —
That's the fundamental way we know Saban has us whipped. We're forced to use off the field jokes. (And yes, when we re-tell that one, we'll give you credit.)
FE to the C —
Thanks for the kind words.
And you make a fair point about continually getting your hopes up with Dooley. (Definition of insanity and all).
That said, maybe it's the traditional SEC fan in the 5-at-10, but we thought UT was going to play tougher just like we thought Auburn was going to beat Ole Miss and Vandy.
So it goes and welcome to the New World.
— 5-at-10
Jay, A new poster, "Muddog", tossed 2 good questions your way at 8:35 last night. Maybe you can get to them later today or Friday. Looking forward to seeing you Mon Oct 29 at the QB Club lunch meeting. Thanks.
Does Rambo still play for UGA?
Great Eastwwd flicks links. Grades are perfect.
I just drove through Knoxville. Radio callers are talking Gruden, Mullen, Strong, Spurrier. Predictable. Guess they agree with your grades.
Bill Curry moved up from KY to Ga. State.
Ten Ring, as you can see, I'm so frustrated with Tennessee that my despair spills sometimes upon unintended places. From such depths, I see little respite this year and probably the next.
5, where do you play Muhammad Ali's loss of his championship belts for his anti-war stance in the scandal Rushmore?
There is Bruce Bochte, former backup infielder for a variety of teams. And there is Bruce Bochy, former Astros and Padres catcher who is now manager of your National League champion San Francisco Giants.
It doesn't look like we'll get a Cain-Verlander matchup in the Series, which is too bad, because that has the potential to be a Smoltz-Morris Game 7 showdown type affair. And as much as I (and many others) loathe the Buck-McCarver pairing Fox has, it was really cool of them to replay Skip's audio from the 92 NLCS Game 7. "A double, a walk and an error, and the bases are full of Braves. Bream carries the winning run .... Two balls, one strike ... What tension ... the runners lead ... a lot of room in right center. If he hits one there, we can dance in the streets ... The 2-1 ...."


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What started off as a perceived deer problem within the city of Colville had some council members figuratively scratching their heads in confusion as they debated an ordinance that would make feeding wildlife, including waterfowl, illegal within city limits.
Drafted by City Attorney Jean Conger, the ordinance would have established the feeding of wildlife as a Class I civil infraction with the maximum penalty being a $250 ticket. The feeding of "other songbirds" and "other backyard birds" would also be permitted as long as it did not create an unreasonable disturbance affecting the rights of surrounding property owners and renders other persons insecure in the use of their property; does not become an attractant for rodents and other wild animals, and bird feeders must be placed at least five feet above the ground.
"I guess I am just a little confused by this," said council member Mike Birch. "This no wording as to what the feeding of wild animals means. So if I am growing flowers and the deer come into my yard and eat them, does that mean I am illegally feeding the animals?"
Council member Terry Foster and several other council members also had questions as to how the ordinance could be enforced. If council passed such a law, Colville City Police would be responsible for enforcing it.
How to enforce it?
"Would law enforcement be able to come on private property and check to make sure citizens were following the law?" questioned Foster.
Colville Police Chief Bob Meshishnek said that police are not allowed on private property without a search warrant. He pointed to several examples of how the law could be enforced: if someone was caught in the act of setting out feed for wildlife in their front yard, or if it created enough of a problem that residents called city police and complained about the high traffic of wildlife coming through their neighborhood because of someone setting out feed.
"We don't have the legal authority, the time, or the man power to go door-to-door checking on people to make sure they are not feeding wildlife," said Meshishnek. "But if it's the council's wish that such an ordinance be put into effect, we (city police) would do our best to enforce it."
The ordinance also stated that no persona, "shall purposely or knowingly leave or store any refuse, garbage, food product, pet food, forage product or supplement, salt, seed or birdseed, fruit, grain in a manner that would constitute an attractant to any wild animal or waterfowl."
Conger maintained that the ordinance was just a draft she had put together from pieces of other regulations from cities that closely match Colville for population and urban development. She said that it could be rewritten in a manner that is more conducive to the City of Colville.
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158w ago
- To follow-up on the
article where Sony PlayStation 3 hacker
stated "A solution for 3.60+ will be available soon, so no worries - people just need to be patient" comes some more Tweets today on JailBreaking 3.73 PS3 Firmware.
Below are some of the recent announcement
to view links]
on JailBreaking PS3 3.73 Firmware, as follows:
I will reply.. but I didn't read...
yes, file managers and FTP should work fine.
and I'm all for competition, no worries. I do this for fun, not for race or whatever. Also, 3.73 cfw is not possible
i dont know yet about emulators... All in good time. There s no rush
yes, that's the point, to run homebrew.. showtime should work fine. not tested yet.
Nope, completely software based.. I won't say anything more than that for now to avoid them blocking it before release.
The "kind of" meant I need to fix NPDRM algo for it to run. And no, this will not allow backup managers. And no, it's not a CFW
1 - I won't share it until it's ready to use (still a bit complicated + some missing components), 2 - don't update if you're on 3.55.
Updated my ps3 to 3.73... oh and THEN I jailbroke it! (kind of)
Here is to hoping this is indeed the working solution PS3 scene users have been waiting for, as previously
jumped the gun confirming the
PS3 Downgrade Success from 3.55 to 3.41 Firmware
and then Tweeted "sad news.. downgrade worked, but not reliable, only works with one of Xtse's ps3s, but can't reproduce it.. I'm going to look for another way. nope, it only works on one machine, even if same model, it doesn't work on it. No idea what's different about it..."
Since then,
has released a
PS3 Expedite Benchmark Tool and Engine Ports
, an
Eskiss PS3 Homebrew Game
and a
PlayStation Move Support
update for the Eskiss PS3 homebrew game though.
Finally, from IRC on the PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.73 hacking developments:
[KaKaRoTo] heri, docpaul showtime would work fine
[sandungas] kakaroTo, this means new tcl patches for mfw and some changes to manage 3.73 ?
[KaKaRoTo] ddoo, and no I didn't fix the npdrm algo, that's what I'm missing (hence the "kind of") but I'm not
working on that, that's someone else's job
[middleman] gonna debut it at ccc kakaroto or before?
[KaKaRoTo] ddoo, and even if npdrm signing worked.. how do you install your pkg on an OFW 3.73 ?
[heri] so KaKaRoTo, once the NPDRM algo is fixed, a release will come?
[KaKaRoTo] heri, another missing bit, but once that's fixed, yes
[KaKaRoTo] but I'll probably be off country for the next 2 weeks
[KaKaRoTo] so all work will have to be paused
[heri] oh, fair enough. we can all wait 2 weeks hey
we have waited months anyways
[KaKaRoTo] ddoo, that might work.. you could also just install your pkg on 3.55 then upgrade
[KaKaRoTo] ddoo, upgrading doesn't delete any of your packages
[KaKaRoTo] ddoo, issue is, you're lost if you didn't do it before upgrading
[ddoo] but they fail because the npdrm algo is spoted by the checks in 3.56+
[KaKaRoTo] heri, also note, I "announced" it because I was excited to see it work as expected
[KaKaRoTo] doesn't mean it's ready for release
[KaKaRoTo] ddoo, exactly
[heri] yeh thats what we were saying just before you came
[KaKaRoTo] so you need : 1 - npdrm algo fixed, 2 - a way to install stuff
[heri] you only announce when you are confident it works
[KaKaRoTo] 1 has been done by someone else (don't know if he'll share it), and 2.. well, I just did it
[KaKaRoTo] heri, well, I was testing on 3.60 and it worked, but yes, I did upgrade to 3.73 to test that it still
works just to make sure I don't tweet any false hopes
[middleman] but you cant run what you installed until 1 is fixed correct?
[KaKaRoTo] middleman, exactly
[middleman] interesting
[docpaul] nice, thx KaKaRoTo
* KaKaRoTo needs to hide now if he wants to get any work done
[KaKaRoTo] ttyl
In summary,
upcoming PS3 3.73 Firmware JailBreak will be able to install homebrew .PKG files but unfortunately PlayStation 3 backup managers will not work as they require lv1/lv2 patches that won't be included.
From ps3devwiki.com/index.php?title=KaKaRoTo_Kind_of_%C2%B4Jailbreak%C2%B4#Q.26A:
KaKaRoTo PS3 JailBreak Q&A
Q: Will I need special hardware (e.g. flasher, dongle, modchip etc.)?
A: No.
Q: Will homebrew work?
A: With NPDRM fixed, yes. Showtime would certainly be possible.
Q: Will recent games play correct?
A: Yes, its 3.7x, sure it plays all 1.00 - 3.7x games.
Q: Will PSN work?
A: Yes, its 3.7x, sure goes online without problems.
Q: Does it have Peek & Poke?
A: No. Peek & Poke require modifying lv1 and lv2.
Q: Do Backup manangers (e.g. MultiMAN, Rogero etc.) work?
A: No, see previously answer about Peek & Poke.
Q: Will my old homebrew still work?
A: No. All homebrew need the fixed NPDRM. Homebrew that relies on specific other patched functions/syscalls (e.g. Peek&Poke, BDemu etc.) will not work either, see previously answer about Peek & Poke.
Q: Does it gets us keys?
A: No.
Q: Does it gets us "CFW"/MFW?
A: No.
Q: Does OtherOS++ (Linux/FreeBSD) work?
A: No. Sony removed OtherOS feature after 3.15 and OtherOS++ relies on modifying the firmware. See previous "CFW"/MFW question.
Q: Will it allow downgrade?
A: No.
Q: Does it work on all PS3 models?
A: Yes. all current models.
Q: Are there brick risks?
A: No (standard disclaimer: It will be tested rigorously before release as you can expect from anything that KaKaRoTo has put his name on).
Q: Will this only work on 3.7x?
A: No. It was pretested on 3.60 and again confirmed on 3.73 before any public Tweet about it.
Q: What if Sony releases 3.74/3.80 before release
A: In that case it will be pretested on that version.
Q: So why are all the newssites hyping this that it does give CFW?
A: Because they don't read wiki's/blog's xD Besides, every minor news gets 'prolly CFW soon!' tagged by the bad ones.
Q: Is there a release date?
A: No, besides KaKaRoTo not able to work on it for 2 weeks, it also relies on (other people) fixing NPDRM.
The Road beyond... (or what can you and others do to expand the useability of it)
What is missing Prerelease (current state)?
Fixing NPDRM
Make PKG's install and run the SELFs.
What is missing after release?
Peek & Poke
lv1/lv2 dumping/patching
Backup Managers
Downgrade (already possible with Hardware flashing.
3.56+ keys / lv0 decrypted dump
Modifying firmware files
Finally, from
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he states the following in attempt to clear things up:
Hi all, I've been flooded with questions on twitter and I've read many posts on news sites and I've seen some stuff being said on IRC and I thought I needed to clarify a few things
First of all, I didn't expect to see my tweet front paged on all ps3 hacking news sites.. although I should have expected it.. but anyways, the "jailbreak" is not ready to be used, at all. I only tweeted that because I was excited having it working and I wanted to share my excitement with everyone. But this is a bit equivalent to the day I released that
script that created the very first CFW/MFW but it still took a couple of months before a real, easy, multiplatform and fully fledged solution was released : PS3MFW.
We are currently at the same state, I have the proof of concept, it works, but a solution that anyone can use where they just click a button and their PS3 gets jailbroken is still far from ready.
I've seen people say (and even write it in their front page news) that I'll release it in two weeks after I come back from vacation. That is not true and I never said that. What I said was that for the next 2 weeks, the project is on hold until I get back.. but when I get back, then I will continue working on it, and it will then take some more time before it's ready and released.
Some asked if it's based on what gitbrew was doing/suggesting or if I used someone else's exploit or work. No, this solution is my own idea and 100% my own implementation. However, the actual solution for the full jailbreak involves some components on which I will not work, and I expect/hope that someone else will provide the solution for that.
Some speculated it might be what I spoke about back in
which I later said I wasn't pursuing by lack of motivation.. and yes, you are right. The same hack I had in March is still valid today, I told a few people about it (rms, Mathieulh, an0nym0us, and a couple more), but no one was interested in pursuing it further and actually exploiting that flaw (mainly because it requires a huge amount of work to get a proof of concept working). 10 days ago (I started on the 11th), I got bored and decided to start poking at it again, and yesterday (a lot faster than I thought it would take), I got my first pkg installed on 3.73 firmware.
On twitter, I said "do not update if you are on 3.55″, I said that in response to someone who said he would update. Because of that, people speculated that you need to be on 3.55 first, and then install something before doing the upgrade. No, that's not it, that would be useless. The purpose of my solution is to jailbreak a ps3 that is already on 3.73 firmware and which had never been jailbroken before. I told people not to update because, first of all, it's not yet ready, and second of all, the 3.55 firmware gives you a lot more possibilities than what can be achieved on 3.73.
So what is this jailbreak? I won't say because I don't want Sony to block it in a firmware update (and yes, they potentially could) before it's even released (and yes, I will release it when it's ready). But I will explain this to you : in order to run your homebrew apps, you need two things. First, to be able to install them on the ps3, and second to be able to run it once installed. I did only one of these two things.
Some may say it's not a real jailbreak, but the way I see it, there are three 'jails' on the ps3, I broke the first one which prevents you from installing anything, so now you can install your .pkg, great, but it won't run, that's the second jail. The third jail is being able to modify the firmware (peek&poke).
The second jail (running apps) is something that can be done, but it's not my area of expertise (npdrm algo), so I will not be working on that. I am waiting for someone else to achieve it (some have succeeded but do not wish to release it, at least not for now) then I will release.
The third jail (modifying the firmware) is not possible with my method, this means that you will not have a "CFW", you will run your homebrew applications and games on an official firmware. This also means that without peek&poke support, none of the backup managers will work. So, again, my solution is piracy-free, and as always, I do not plan on working on a way to enable piracy (or even legal backups).
Overall, the purpose will be to allow people who are on 3.73 firmware to enjoy the homebrew games that were released, to play a bit with Eskiss, and to use Showtime for playing their movies. This should be more than enough for everyone.
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#346 -
- 147w ago
That's not entirely true, I'm following your posts and it is very interesting, still KaKaRoToKS did a great Job explaining ECDSA which was interesting.
Considering your statements you won't have to get any keys and thus it's still possible to run homebrew/backups on PS3 FW >3.55 by bypassing any key requirements with "devtools".
#345 -
- 147w ago
Actually the PS3 Scene are too concentrate to the Keys and too blind to see what is the best way about all that, we don't need any Keys, we have enough stuff and tool for that.
Look like that nobody read the my post about a possible 4.0 alternative... also this is more a leave the scene and check somewhere else.
#344 -
- 147w ago
Lets face it guys, might not be totally impossible but almost impossible at the moment. Meaning we wont see this scene moving forward anytime soon.
I'm packing my 3.55 in a corner, buying a new one soon, you never know. I'm not hoping anymore, it was obvious seeing the inertia of the scene that nothing was gonna happen for some time.
Maybe in a few years when PS4 will be here someone will find another way in.
#343 -
- 147w ago
Not without the proper keys. The Keys are the answer to everything, both good and evil.
#342 -
- 147w ago
Amazing post, about ECDSA.
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Life is sometimes like Harbour 60. Expensive and disappointing....
- Baelsette Sep 8, 2008 11:15 AM
We decided to give Harbour 60 a try for a friends birthday. For the money we spent ($600 per couple) I would expect to be "wowed!!"
We did order expensive wine which of course added to the insane cost of this meal but truly the steaks were just ok, not fantastic. Some of the sides were good, some meh and dessert tasted like it was purchased at loblaws.
I'm still blown away by the end price tag and the mediocre meal.
Wow. Thanks for the heads-up. I would have thought for that price, the steaks would be amazing. I was saving it for a special occasion. Good thing I have held off for so long.
I thought this was a suits-and-expense-account kind of place, not a special occasion destination for ordinary folks.
Everytime I read a negative review in here for Harbour 60 I shake my head and think, when will they ever learn? Forget these local copycats and go with the experts, go to Ruth's Chris. Never been disappointed there. If Harbour 60 was any good they'd have put Ruth's out of business or at least make Ruth's drop their prices to get their customers back. Hasn't happened.
re: TexSquared
I agree. Ruths is great for a chain restaurant but don't push it. Better steaks if you aren't just looking for butter can be found at Mortons, Harbour and even Barberians on a good night. Ruth's has it's place but it isn't at the top in our experiences!
re: deelicious
Have honestly never enjoyed an experience at Ruth's Chris. Dying to love it - commercials had my saliva glands working overtime. But the steak was just not as great as I had hoped. I would take a homemade Cumbrae's steak anyday over another failed Ruth's Chris experience. Luckily a few times were on expense account, so that took away a bit of bitterness.
But to each their own (I personally like my beef tasting like beef and not butter). It's a huge chain for a reason, am I right? Lots of people must love it.
I haven't ever been to Ruth's although I've been meaning to try it., My regular haunt is Hy's.
We had a few different cuts around the table, porterhouse, ny strip and filet. Nothing was awful, it simply wasn't wonderful and for that price it really should have wow'd! We all agreed........
I would like to try Barberians one night, it's on my list!
Anyways, I'm over the anger and am trying to move on! :-)
re: Baelsette
Baelsette, it would be interesting to learn which dessert/s you had that tasted as if they came from Loblaw's, especially since I have always thought that H60's coconut cream pie was really outstanding. As for the rest - overpriced wines ? yes ! meat good but not always great ? yes ! pleasant atmosphere ? yes, unless they sucker you into those absurd "gallery" tables - imagine paying $600 to eat in a busy corridor. I love Barberian's and think it is consistently good, with warm service. Ruth Chris, good for what it is. No steak in town can equal House of Chan's big filet on a good night - but the sides, other selections and atmosphere of course are wholly different. For the total experience at a reasonable price one has to head to Manhattan (Palm, Ben Benson, Keene's, Lugars and many others) or Vegas (Craftsteak, Prime, Nero's)
re: Bigtigger
I ate at the legendary "NERO's" inside Caears Windsor (Windsor, ON) last year.
Total rip-off, over-priced and very underwhelming.
And don't even get me started on their "Signature Steak Sauce!!!"
I would tend to agree that Harbour has Ruth's beat on a few fronts, but overall I don't either of them (or Morton's for that matter) can hold a candle to Jacobs & Co. Has anyone else been? The selection is almost too large, but I have yet to be disappointed with any choice.
Hey bigtigger,
we had a platter of various desserts. I'm not sure if it was on the menu or if of my friends just said to bring a mix.
There was a lemon tart which was nice, coconut cream pie, cheese cake, scoops of hagen daz ice cream (the waiter told us it was hagen daz) and a molten chocolate cake.
As there rest of the meal they weren't bad just were nothing special, tasted very generic.
i was there in the summer for a work meeting (of course). we're all health care professionals, so perhaps they were extra attentive? who knows.
my comments:
service: was phenominal. so polite and attentive.
apps: pretty good to very good. the carpaccio was tasty and is the only thing that really stood out. but nothing disappointed.
main: i had the filet mignon. it was excellent. grilled to perfection. very tasty cut.
sides: everything was very good. again, not disappointed
dessert: had their chocolate lava cake. was excellent. not worth the $15 tag i noticed, but was much better than most choco desserts i've had from other restaurants.
you kind of feel like you are surrounded by excess when there.
otherwise, it was really good and i was pleasantly surprised.
And this article verifies it:
Harbour 60 has the most prohibitive wine markups in town.
The one thing that I have no complaints about was the service. Very interesting article, thanks for posting.
According to today's Star article, Harbour 60 has also the 'most ridiculously high wine mark-up' in town. In some cases an unbelievable 500%!!! How arrogant of them to charge this sort of prices!!
re: Charles Yu
I'd like to see their restaurant booked out entirely by AA members for a week or two. The owners would need the paramedics!
re: deelicious
Yup! Should be fun! But then, most probably they'll mark up the Evian 500% as well!
re: Charles Yu
Barberians anyone?
re: Charles Yu
I bet they already do.
It is really too bad that the best steak in Toronto is at a restaurant that rips off the wine drinkers who enjoy better bottles.
re: deelicious
my only "defense" is that a great whine collection needs to be managed. you need someone who researches their wines, knows the wines, can store them properly, pair them with food, etc.
so there's an inherited cost with it.
does that mean a $200 bottle should be marked up to $500? likely not.
re: atomeyes
From $200 to $500, this I can take. In fact if one takes a Roederer Cristal Champagne ( around $250 retail ) as an example, most high end restaurants here in TO, from Scaramouche to Splendido actually mark it up exactly like your example ( around $485+ ). However, my issue is when an establishment like Habour 60, who for no other reason than plain GREED do mark ups of $200 wine to $1000 that really bothers me!
re: Charles Yu
Regular wait staff can learn enough about wine on their own, especially if it gives them a shot at the easy tips for not much work. There is only so much to learn; it is somewhat finite.
By having such a high priced cellar, there is likely to be a lot of wine sold 'over the hill', too old, sitting around for too many years. Those are the bottles they will push.
re: jayt90
Can "good" wine really be too old? Cheaper stuff has an improvement ceiling with age, but better wines generally improve with age. I would hope that Harbour 60's stock falls under the better category...especially at the prices they are charging!!
re: T Long
H60 is not known for their wine cellar, just their greed.
I agree that the best steak I have had recently was at H60 but their alcohol pricing is offensive.
Barberians on the other hand is known for their wine cellar although based on past experience their steak pales in comparison to H60 and other places. Could have been an off night. I haven't been there lately.
Even very good wine turns to vinegar eventually especially these days with newer wine methods.
re: T Long
Many expensive wines begin a slow, steady decline after 15-20 years improvement.
Harbour 60 may have some in that condition (I haven't seen their list) simply because the high prices tend to keep them in the cellar.
re: T Long
Also depends greatly on the grape. A bit apples & oranges, but the very best white Bordeaux (semillon) doesn't have the potential life span of the very best red Bordeaux (name the blend). Yes, of course good wine has finite life span. And, I assure you, there is nothing more heart-breaking than opening a great wine past its best before date.
I recommend bringing your own wine to any steakhouse in town. Look at the math. I've brought bottles of old Caymus or Dominus to Morton's that I've purchased in the 50-75 range, and with the 30$ corkage, compared with the 4-600$ list price, enjoyed a comparative bargain. You've got to push them on the sommeier service sometimes, though.
re: Snarf
Most steak houses won't let you bring your own for that very reason.
Phone and ask first. Generally they will tell you that they don't have the special licence which allows BYOB. Even if they do they will not let you bring anything they have on their list.
I find Toronto steak houses a bit of a laugh and simply will not go on my own nickle. If you see a 16 oz. New York on the menu for $45 the resto will have paid $13-14 for it. You can only get second or third rate New Yorks for $13 -14/lb.. Steak houses have all sorts of tricks to make cheap steaks taste a bit better usually in the form of added fat which cheap steaks lack and steak spice with or without MSG to perk up the taste buds.
For one quarter of what you would pay at a steak house you can have a bottle of wine and a better steak at home including garlic bread, pickles, salad, baked potato or fries. 75% of your bill is for the privilege of planting your tush for a little while in the same place 1000's have sat to be served by a wait person who will only remember you if you stiff him/her with less than a 20% tip.
re: garlicandwingnut
Barberians, Morton, and the Keg Mansion all have BYOW. In the case of The Keg Mansion, they also belong to Take Home The Rest. Okay, not my first choice for a steakhouse, but that info may be handy to others.
As my girlfriends and I have been discussing having a Girls Steak Night and the resto of choice is Barberians, I figure Snarf's suggestion just saved us somewhere between 50 and a hundred dollars. Yes, it'll likely be a long interview establishing what I have in my collection that they don't have in theirs, but all in all worth the time.
re: jayt90
Yeah, it's kinda like bringing a sandwich to a banquet, but whaddaya gonna do?
re: Googs
I just checked Barberian's wine list, and it is superb, but mark up seems to start at 3x, and goes up as the wine gets rarer. http://www.barberians.com/winelist.ph...
re: garlicandwingnut
Many restaurants do not tie the corkage fee to a requirement that the wine you bring is not on their list. It shouldn't matter, as older wine prices are influenced by the risk taking of cellaring, and they don't have to take it back if yours has gone off. A good idea to call when booking to see if they tie any conditions to the corkage fee.


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Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature
Throughout his life, Jorge Luis Borges was engaged in a dialogue with violence. Speaking to an interviewer about his childhood in what was then the outlying barrio of Palermo, in Buenos Aires, he said, "To call a man, or to think of him, as a coward—that was the last thing…the kind of thing he couldn't stand." According to his biographer, Edwin Williamson,1 Borges's father handed him a dagger when he was a boy, with instructions to overcome his poor eyesight and "generally defeated" demeanor and let the boys who were bullying him know that he was a man.
Swords, daggers—weapons with a blade—retained a mysterious, talismanic significance for Borges, imbued with predetermined codes of conduct and honor. The short dagger had particular power, because it required the fighters to draw death close, in a final embrace. As a young man, in the 1920s, Borges prowled the obscure barrios of Buenos Aires, seeking the company of cuchilleros, knife fighters, who represented to him a form of authentic criollo nativism that he wished to know and absorb.
The criollos were the early Spanish settlers of the pampa, and their gaucho descendants. For at least a century now, the word has signified an ideal cultural purity that, according to its champions, was corrupted by the privatization of the pampa and, later, by the flood of immigrants from Italy and elsewhere in Europe that took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Borges spent much of his twenties attempting to write a full-length epic poem that would mythologize this "innumerable Buenos Aires of mine," as he called it—a work that would, in Borges's words again, "converse with the world and with the self, with God and with death." He saw it as a way to reflect the city's essence, as Joyce had done with Dublin, a way to establish a lasting cultural identity that Argentina did not yet possess in the world. His aim, in part, was to enshrine the urban descendent of the criollo, with his ubiquitous dagger and supposedly honorable outlaw ways. Eventually he would abandon the project—Borges was never able to conquer the long form; and though his cultural vision, as it later developed, would be much broader, the romance of the criollo would continue to animate his imagination. Some of his finest fiction—including the stories "The South," "The Dead Man," and "The Intruder," to name just a few—was kindled by the dagger.
The deeply Argentinian nature of Borges's work is often camouflaged by his metaphysical preoccupations and far-flung literary references. But his involvement with Argentine history and politics, and his belief that the country's fate was entwined with his own, persisted almost to the end of his life. Politics was an emotional matter. His family wasn't wealthy but his bloodline was illustrious. Some of the most prominent streets of Buenos Aires are named after his ancestors, most notably Isidoro Suárez, his great-grandfather on his mother's side, a hero of the Battle of Junín in 1824 that would turn the tide in South America's war for independence from Spain. The battle was fought in the Peruvian Andes, with swords and lances. "No retumbó un solo tiro," not a single gunshot resounded, Borges writes in a poem to commemorate Suárez. This "clash of the lances" was of high significance to Borges, as was his great-grandfather's feat of running through a Spaniard "with his spear."
Borges's paternal grandfather was a colonel in the Indian wars who died in battle. Another ancestor led the vanguard of José de San Martín's army against Spain. "At last the blow/At last the hard blade ripping my chest,/the intimate dagger at my throat," wrote Borges in "Conjectural Poem." The narrator of the poem is yet another of Borges's famous ancestors, Francisco Laprida, who was murdered in 1829 on the orders of a gaucho chieftain or caudillo.
The poem is not a celebration of violent death but an anguished response to the coup of 1943 in Argentina that was sympathetic to the Nazis. Borges was outspokenly antifascist during those critical years. But his allegiances were split. Culturally he was a nationalist, politically a liberal. In 1934, a rising faction of right-wing nacionalistas attacked him for "slyly" concealing his Jewish ancestry. Borges answered the attack with an essay entitled "I a Jew" that mocked the nacionalistas' anti-Semitism and general bigotry. "I wish I had some Jewish forefathers," he would tell an interviewer later on—probably because it would have allowed him to take psychological possession of a bookish tradition he admired.
By the early 1940s, nacionalistas were marching in the streets of Buenos Aires, chanting slogans in support of the Nazis. During World War II, Borges was closely aligned with socialist and liberal writers. And during the most oppressive years of Juan Domingo Perón's government, in the early 1950s, he was assigned a detective to keep track of his moves and monitor his lectures, which were often caustically critical of Perón.
Yet in the conundrum of Argentine politics of those days, his liberalism was shot through with ambivalence. In principle, he favored a centralized, European-style democracy, but he worried that such "progressivism" amounted to "submitting to being almost–North Americans or almost-Europeans, always almost-others"—a threat to Argentina's precarious cultural maturation. He also knew from experience that, given free elections, Argentines would, more often than not, vote into power a tyrannical caudillo with no interest in cultivating an independent judicial system or other reliably democratic institutions. Perón, who was elected president in 1946 when Borges was forty-seven, was a prime example of this. "Our vernacular imitation of fascism," he called Peronism, with its roving bands of pampered workers, modeled on Mussolini's Blackshirts, who acted as street enforcers and unofficial thugs.
The conundrum led Borges to the misguided belief that what Argentina needed was an enlightened dictatorship that would train its citizens in the ways of true democracy, and then oversee free elections. His public support for the violently repressive juntas of Generals Jorge Rafael Videla in Argentina and Augusto Pinochet in Chile, in the 1970s, has left a permanent stain on his reputation. Without excusing it, one can comprehend it as an act of despair, as Argentina tumbled toward bankruptcy and civil war, and a seemingly endless succession of inept governments collapsed. At the time, no political faction offered anything resembling a solution.
While an official guest of Pinochet, in 1976, Borges spoke of the "sword of honor" that would draw "the Argentine Republic out of the quagmire" just as it had done in Chile. Referring to the underground guerrilla groups that were battling the junta in Argentina, he said he preferred "the sword, the bright sword" over the "furtive dynamite" of the enemy. While in Spain, he called Videla's junta "a government of soldiers, of gentlemen, of decent people."
Sheltered at this point by fame, blindness, and the private mythology of honor that he had been cultivating for fifty years, he seemed not to understand the extent of Videla's reign of terror. He made the mistake of lending the luster of his name to a more virulent version of the fascist state he had condemned in Perón. In place of the personality cult of Peronism, Videla's junta offered an impersonal justification of patriotic murder. Later, when censorship of the press was eased and Borges learned about the atrocities of the Dirty War, he regretted his support, calling the members of the junta "gangsters" and "madmen" who should be prosecuted for their crimes.
Professor Borges is the literal transcription of a course in English literature that Borges taught at the University of Buenos Aires in 1966. The course begins with Beowulf and ends with Robert Louis Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, a total of twenty-five classes. It's no surprise that Borges's discussion of the ancient Anglo-Saxon epics make up this book's most inspired chapters. With its harsh consonants and open vowels, and its unambiguous vocabulary of things that "correspond to fire, metals, man, trees," Anglo-Saxon was perfectly suited to the poetry of battle.
Borges had been reading English translations of the epics throughout his life, but when he was fifty-nine, he set out to teach himself Anglo-Saxon, a process he called "the pure contemplation of a language at its dawn." The epics provided him with a kind of literary ideal: concrete, precise, and suffused with the glow of the sword as a magical object. His reader's eye was keen, and interestingly unpredictable. He admires the "Finnsburh Fragment" over Beowulf, for instance, though it consists of a mere sixty lines, preserved from what surely was a much longer poem, and composed, perhaps, as early as the late seventh century. What moves Borges is the directness of the language that comes at the reader with an illuminated power, unobscured by kennings, a common literary mannerism of the Middle Ages. Kennings were a form of metaphor fashioned primarily from composite words: "whale road" for sea, for example, and "sea stallion" for ship, and "sword-storm" for battle.
At the heart of the "Finnsburh Fragment" is a Danish princess who has been married off to Finn, the king of Frisia, to avoid a war. The princess's brother, king of the Danes, comes to visit her at Finn's castle for the winter. They are attacked by the Frisians and the Danish king manages to hold them off, but kills his own nephew in the process, a tragedy (though the poet would never call it so) that suggests a future conflict with no obvious resolution.
Borges revels in the image of the hall of Finn aglow "with the shimmering of the swords, 'as if Finnsburh were in flames.'" This glow is not from a fire, as the king's guards originally suppose, but from the moon "'shining through the clouds' and onto the shields and spears of the Frisians who have come to attack." He notes an analogous metaphor in the Iliad that likens a battle to a fire—the comparison referring "to the glow of the arms as well as its moral stature"—and also the Scandinavian myth of Valhalla, "illuminated not with candles but with swords that shine with their own supernatural glow."
"Supernatural" is the key word. In Borges's ideal literary creation, the letters of the alphabet themselves would be supernaturally charged. The runic letters of Saxon, designed with their hard edges to be carved into the metal of blades and the wood of shields, possessed a special physical power. As for the origin of the word "runes," Borges tells his students:
The word run in Saxon means "whisper," or what is spoken in a low voice. And that means "mystery," because what is spoken in a low voice is what one doesn't want others to hear. So runes means "mysteries"; letters are mysteries.
Certainly this is the idea behind Borges's famous story "The Aleph," which is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. When the protagonist gazes at the Aleph in the story, the confusion of the universe becomes coherent and clear.
Borges calls himself a "hedonic" reader—he seeks pleasure in books, and beyond that, a "form of happiness." He advises his students to leave a book if it bores them: "that book was not written for you," no matter its reputation or fame. As a reader, he hunts for specific passages, or even just phrases, that move him. "One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author," he says. "Well, why not? It is a beautiful process."
Thus, in "The Battle of Brunanburh," a tenth-century epic that is included in the The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Borges singles out the tactile description of a crow, "with his beak 'as hard as a horn' that eats, devours, the corpses of men." Borges approvingly reminds us that, "in the Middle Ages, circumstantial details were never invented." They were either commemorated for their experiential truth, or not mentioned at all.
1 See Williamson's Borges: A Life (Viking, 2004), for a thorough, often incisive account of the writer's life. ↩
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ATV Trails:
Bluff Creek ORV Park: Located in Eddyville between Des Moines and Ottumwa, Bluff Creek ORV Park is 360 Acres of abandoned strip mine open to ATV's with 20 miles of trails. The terrain varys from steep hills to rolling hills. The trails wind through the trees and there is a trail that circles the entire park. The park also has 3 motocross tracks and primitive camping is allowed.
For more information contact: Iowa DNR by phone at (515) 281-5918 or Iowa tourism at (800) 345-4692
For Driving Directions visit google.com
Gypsum City OHV Park: Located near Fort Dodge Gypsum OHV Park is currently 300 acres with 15 miles of trails, but it is planned to be 1400 acres when finished. It also has a 1.5 mile motocross track.
For more information contact: Iowa tourism at (800) 345-4692
For Driving Directions visit Mapquest.com
Dirt Bike Tracks and trails:
Razors Edge Motocross: Located south of Omaha near Farragut, Razors Edge Motocross has a 3/4 mile motocross track, 3/10 mile supercross track and many practice tracks as well.
For more information contact: Razors Edge MX by phone at (712)385-8368 or (712)520-0053 or visit them on the web at www.razorsedgemx.com
River Valley OHV Park: Located near Council Bluffs the River Valley OHV Park offers 350 acres of dense forest near the eastern bank of the Missouri River with a network of looping and winding, ATV and Dirt Bike trails. Being so close to the river the area is prone to flooding, therefore the trails may be wet and need some maintenance early in the season.
For more information contact: Council Bluffs Department of Parks, Recreation and Public Property by phone at (712) 328-5612 or visit them online at www.cbparksandrec.org
Snowmobile Destinations:
Heritage Trail: Located near Dubuque the Heritage Trail is a 26 mile route through deep woodlands with sheer limestone bluffs on an old railroad grade that takes you from Dubuque to Dyersville.
For more information contact: Iowa tourism at (800) 345-4692
Brushy Creek State Park: Located southwest of Webster City just off Highway 20 on Co. Hwy P73 or Union Ave., Brushy Creek State Park offers over 45 miles of trail on 6,000 acres.
For more information contact: Iowa tourism at (800) 345-4692
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