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A Conversation with Carl Rakosi
by Steve Dickison
The nearly eighty-year publishing history of American poet Carl Rakosi begins in the early 1920s, with a number of poems in a college magazine, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, then in several national periodicals and "little magazines." An invitation from Louis Zukofsky to contribute to the "Objectivists" issue of Poetry magazine (February 1931) was followed by inclusion in An "Objectivists" Anthology (1932), published in France by George and Mary Oppen's small expatriate press, To, Publishers. He, Zukofsky, Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff would be known henceforth as the core group of "Objectivist" poets. Mr Rakosi dropped out of poetry publishing between 1941 and the mid-sixties, devoting himself to social work. Since his return to poetry, books of new and collected earlier work have been brought out by New Directions, Black Sparrow, the National Poetry Foundation, and Sun & Moon, among others. Still prolific as he approaches his 96th birthday, Mr Rakosi has had two recent books published in England by etruscan books: The Earth Suite (1997) and The Old Poet's Tale (1999)-the latter the first of three volumes planned for publication as his Collected Works.
On a brightly lit, warm Tuesday afternoon-late San Franciscan summer weather in September-we met at the poet's home, a modest flat in the city's Sunset District, where he lives with his friend Marilyn Kane. The note beside the doorbell on street level reads "C. Rawley / C. Rakosi"-Callman Rawley being the name under which Carl Rakosi practiced professionally, reserving his given name as his nom de plume. Elsewhere he's explained that during his early years no one in the Midwest could pronounce "Rakosi," and there were fears, too, that a foreign name would make it tough to get good work and make a living.
His apartment's main windows face west, looking out across the densely aligned rows of the neighborhood-nearly all smaller domestic buildings, single-family houses or stacked duplexes, like the one we're in-toward the Pacific, some blocks off. On the mantel are several pieces of elegantly sculpted wood and clay figures, which were made by his late wife, Leah. An impressive stereo system stands in the living-room-the core component of which, a McGregor pre-amp, Mr Rakosi tells me was added to the assembly last year. Sitting out are CDs of Webern and Schoenberg, and of John Field. Later, after our taping session, we'll sit down and listen to a few things, some favorites. Artie Shaw's "Concerto for Clarinet," a virtuoso showpiece written by Shaw and recorded in 1940, then several of Fats Waller's early songs on RCA with his small band, The Rhythm Stompers-"A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid," "I Wish I Were Twins," et al.
Our conversation took place on 21 September 1999, a week and a half after Mr Rakosi's reading to a capacity audience of 150 at the Unitarian Center on Franklin Street in San Francisco-the first event of The Poetry Center's 1999 fall season-and was taped, then transcribed that evening and over the following days, with minor edits. Things start off with a twist of Borgesian confusion, in my relating the coincidence of a recent meeting with another man the details of whose biography parallel Mr Rakosi's somewhat remarkably in outline.
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So, I thought that, basically, I have a bit of a game plan, and I'd just throw it out here, and we'd watch it fall apart.
Watch me tear it apart?
A week ago I had lunch with a gentleman who was Jewish Hungarian, he had lived in Chicago, in New Orleans, and he now lives in the Bay Area and practices as a therapist-
Oh, I thought you were talking about a different person.
-Well, I am, actually. I mentioned your name, and he corrected me: Rákosi, it's Rákosi. The Hungarian gets the accent on the first syllable.
That's right.
I was wondering about your early recollections of Europe, what kind of effect that might have had on your poetic life.
It's not so much "early recollections"-but the fact that my parents were European, I got from them essentially a European a sense of European culture, that is not American. And, that has remained with me-and I really don't want to leave it either. So, I suppose that makes me a little different from the other Objectivist poets.
My parents were highly acclimatized Hungarians. My father served in the Hungarian army, he was a Hussar, and I remember seeing Hussars-there were cobblestones in the streets in Baja, where I was brought up-I remember Hussars dashing by on their horses, and it was really very splendid. They had brilliant red coats, that the Hungarians slung over one shoulder, it was strapped. I've never forgotten that. Also, there was strife-there was no ghetto for the Jews in Hungary, but of course they tended to live in certain neighborhoods. And, neighboring neighborhoods consisted of Serbs, Serbians. So, one of my memories as a little boy-a very little boy-was that the Serbian kids attacked the Jewish kids, and they began throwing stones, heavy stones, at each other. I was only about three, four years old-it terrified me, I ran into the house to get out of it. Anyhow, that's part of me. And then my father, both parents, really loved Hungary-and that has stayed with me. Otherwise, why would I be much interested in Hungary?
Has your interest manifest itself in musical directions-Bartók? Kodály?
Oh, yes. Oh, sure. Kodály, in particular. Bartók is a hard nut to crack, particularly in the quartets. But yes, when I hear Hungarian music, my temperature goes up. Liszt, as much as anybody. Although Liszt gives credit for Hungarian music and his own music to the gypsies-so I don't fully know what original, authentic Hungarian music is. Bartók tried to express it, but he was a great innovator. And if Hungarian music was a little like his quartets, it's pretty tough. When it comes to his pieces called "Hungarian Folksongs" and so on, of course that retains the original Hungarian music.
You mentioned the poet [Sandor] Weöres in an earlier interview.
Oh yes, Weöres. I visited him, with my wife, in Budapest. He was the reigning Hungarian poet at the time, and even in translation-I don't know Hungarian well enough to really read much-it held up very well. He's a very impressive poet, great stature and dignity. Unfortunately, we had trouble communicating, because he didn't know English and I didn't know enough Hungarian to be able to do it. I hoped maybe we could do it in German, but we couldn't. His wife helped out, she knew some English. I gave a reading, you know, in Budapest to the PEN Club, a number of years ago-and they were charming. This is part of what still charms me about Hungarian manners. Prior to my reading, one of the sponsors, a lady, came to the hotel with a bouquet of flowers. I mean, that's very European, and I love it.
Maybe we could talk about music a little more. I remember a remark you made about Satie-maybe in the Day Book-that you, like Satie, had an affinity for "a harmony of unresolved chords." I'm wondering about that "un-resolution."
Well, that's what poetry in essence really is, a revelation-a discovery of the unknown, in a good piece of creative work, that's what it is. Now, I think Stevens understood this quite well. At the same time, what Stevens does-he moves it into an area of abstraction. Which has it's own interest, but it's not the direction in which I was ever interested in going. In fact I've fought against the perils, the attractiveness of abstraction, all my life.
I've thought that a fairly distinctive and peculiar aspect of your work has been its kind of insistence on focus-
Oh yes, oh always, focus. But, always, reality. There's not much sense of the real world in Stevens, for example. He has his own beauties, but. . . . Stevens had a very strong influence on me, at a certain time in my life-
Yeah, and I had to stop reading him. Because, I felt-my own individuality felt threatened. He's a powerful, powerful influence.
He's made a really strong impact on somebody like John Ashbery.
Oh, yeah. Except that I don't think-oh, that's intriguing-I don't think Stevens would have approved of Ashbery. Because Ashbery's whole point is appearing to be perfectly rational, and deliberately never coming to a focus, or to any kind of resolution.
So is that the "harmony of unresolved chords"?
I don't hear Stevens' music in Ashbery. He has his own. I'll tell you an interesting experience I had with Ashbery. [Robert] Duncan and I were very good friends, very close, and Duncan was invited to a little party on Fifth Avenue, an apartment on Fifth Avenue, by some wealthy Greek woman. Ashbery was, I think, a guest there at the time. That was my first meeting with Ashbery. There were two big tables, and we sat around-Duncan and I and Ashbery and a few others-at this one table, and Ashbery's a big talker. And Duncan was an even bigger talker. I noticed that the wine was passed around and Ashbery filled his glass all the way to the top so- he had to bend, he couldn't lift it otherwise he would have spilled some of it, so he had to bend down to drink it. And it was a wild and fast conversation between Ashbery and Robert. I didn't say a word, and Ashbery didn't pay the slightest attention to me. Well, after dinner we went into the living-room, and it was time to leave, so I walked over to Ashbery to say goodbye. And he says, "You're not leaving are you?" I said, "Yeah, it's time to leave." So he grabs me by the arm and pulls me to him, right close to his face-hey, wait a minute-and he recites a poem of mine, that had been written twenty years before, which he says he'd never forgotten.
[The wayfarer met the passerby
in death's champaign of flowers.
As the lint blew through their skulls
they spoke discreetly of the next world,
of the slobland to the left
and the awful coprolite above.
The words were impressive and muted.
Suddenly the one preoccupied
with his obsolete luetic eyeball
made a meaningless aside
in keeping with the serious scene.]
But I must say, I can't read Ashbery. He annoys me. Because, either you make a point-some point-or you don't try to make a point but at least you have some magic in your lines, you have some mystery and so on. He doesn't have it. It's gossip. I never could understand why-he won every prize, he continues to win prizes, I mean, academia loves him.
I noticed in the paper yesterday that Elliott Carter had his first opera premiered in Berlin, on Sunday night, at age 90-it's called What Next? Maybe it's something in the air, but I've just been running into various people of late that are in advanced years who are incredibly productive.
Oh, yeah. One of the absolute myths about old age is that one loses one's creative potentialities. It's an absolute myth. It's based partly on the medical-I suppose it's a fact, that you lose a lot of your brain cells, and you start losing them very early on, I think in your thirties even, and that you don't reproduce them in your old age. That may or may not be true, I don't know. -But I know from experience that it just isn't so, it's a myth. And it's such a deeply entrenched myth. I've run into problems with it in my own life. I used to be on the board of directors of the Jewish Community Center here in San Francisco. So, I'm a former social worker and psychotherapist, so I thought I would have something to contribute to the board, from my knowledge and experience-and I would have, too. Well, the board did not consist of senior citizens, they were young people in their thirties, forties-and they barely listened to me, and they paid not the slightest attention to what I had to say. The clear implication was, ok, we'll let this old guy talk, but let's get on with business.
You know, you worked as a social worker and a therapist, and-I think in Andrew Crozier's writing somewhere, I noticed that you were drawn to Otto Rank's work.
Yes, well that's interesting. Rank started out-he was an Austrian-he started out as a poet, and I read some of his poetry in German and found it very good, very good. But he gave it up and became interested in psychology and joined Freud's circle in Vienna, because Freud didn't stipulate that in order to be a psychoanalyst you had to be an M.D. In fact all but I think one or two of his circle were not M.D.s. Well, Rank was highly respected by Freud, became secretary of the Viennese Society for Psychoanalysis and went along with Freud, and then, from his own practice realized that Freud was all wrong. That you couldn't really change people by simply analyzing what you thought was in the way of their normal behavior, and just telling them what was wrong. He went at it in a different way. First of all he had to evolve his own concepts about how to do it-what was the nature of human nature. So he wrote a number of books that are still brilliant, terribly-in terrible language, very involved, very involved-but they in their brilliance reminded me a little of Nietzsche. And then he began to practice in Philadelphia-first in Paris, and then in Philadelphia. His approach was not to-he refused to start with any preconceptions with a new patient. He started from scratch, listened, and then might suggest something to the patient that could be helpful, or might not, but let the patient work it out himself. Not have the power and the drive coming from the therapist. He knew that was the only way-the only way a person would change is if he changes himself. An outsider can't change him. That's essentially the difference, the total difference with Freud. Freud did not have that concept, and when Freud found out what Rank was doing he just disowned him. Rank was always a realist when it came to the outside world.
Did you meet him?
No, I missed him, by one year-because, I was a student there.
You mentioned that, like Williams, you were both in "the helping professions," and I'm wondering about the discipline and practice of attention that takes place-whether one is a doctor or a therapist or a social worker dealing with an individual. That seems to me that it has to enter into, somehow, the kind of attentiveness and discipline that one has toward poetry.
Oh, I think you're right. I hadn't thought of it that way, but it's true-in all good therapy you have to be disciplined enough to keep your own needs out of it, certainly to keep your biases out of it, and to really stick with the patient . Really stick with him, and be loyal to him-
So that's like sticking with the poem despite not knowing where it's going-
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I find that you've written, very movingly I thought, about the circle of close friends that were writers in Wisconsin: Margery Latimer, Kenneth Fearing, and-the other fellow, the Armenian . . . Leo-
Leon. Leon Serabian Herald.
With so many writers, this initial time of coming into a circle of 'like minds' seems to be really essential to writing, this coming into a community of writers-
I'm not so sure of that. No, I'm not sure whether that's necessary. It just happened. And it was lovely, unforgettable-but I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's necessary.
Kenneth Fearing strikes me as someone who-he's a very compelling individual, and, for us looking back on the 1930s in particular, a lot of the contradictions seem to be bound up in a character like him. Where, here he was very close to New Masses magazine, and yet you've said that he was "essentially a-political"-
Absolutely. Nobody else seems to think this, but I knew him, he was my roommate. I was so sure that he was a-political because he used to make fun of me for being political. 'Cause I was always political. Yeah, he was an interesting fellow. He was a compelling person without being in the least assertive. He was a very early rebel. Not because he was trying to be a rebel-that's the way he naturally was. He would let his hair grow long, which at that time you just didn't do. He would wear anything. Yet he had a kind of personal magnetism about him which made people surround him and listen to him. They wanted to hear what he had to say. He was- At that time, you know, very few people were cynics-that was most extraordinary. Now, we're talking about the 1920s-you just didn't have cynics. People were very optimistic about life. He was a cynic- Well, gee, that was interesting. He was cynical about the communists. He was cynical about everything-except his friends. He was a good friend.
There's that wonderful remark before the McCarthy hearings-
Oh, yeah. He repeated that to me and I can still hear him say it. Here they were pestering him, one question after another. And this is interesting-he always elicited respect for some reason. I couldn't figure it out, but he did. They all respected him. And after being badgered for 20-30 minutes about was he or was he not ever a member of the Communist Party?-did he ever have any friends in the Communist Party?-and was he ever, ever, ever in the Communist Party?-and Kenneth shot back, "Not yet, Senator! Not yet!"
Do you think there's anything to be said for a sort of 'Midwesternism' among the writers of that time?
Oh, yes. Oh, you bet. In the early period-up 'til fairly recently-the Midwest was the heart of American industry. It hadn't moved south yet. There was a very homogeneous population in the Midwest. And you had, developed over the years, a kind of American psychology-behavior, manners, aspirations, and so on-which was distinctively Middlewestern. Now the best expression of that was Sherwood Anderson. You move over to New England, it's very different. The West didn't have anything at that time, that I can think of. The South did-the South was as different as it could be. That is, the Southeast. The Southwest hadn't developed much.
-Anderson was in Ohio. . . . Then there's that whole generation of poets afterward-people like Tom McGrath, Meridel LeSueur.
That's right. Yeah, they were both good friends of mine. Tom had an interesting- I was on a panel with the two of them at one time, out in, I think in South Dakota somewhere. And Meridel LeSueur-who had written some beautiful prose-began to talk about the people. She was always an avowed Communist. Anyway-"the people this," "the people that"-painting them as in glowing colors of course, the implication was. I said, "Meridel, what people? What people? I don't know any just people."
Did you know Meridel when you came back to poetry in the '60s? Was that when you connected with her, or-
Oh, no. Meridel was a great fan of Margery Latimer's. They were early friends. Oh, she adored Margery. And that's how the two of us got together, because, when I was in Minnesota-that's where she lives, or lived. She died a few years ago.
Some of those figures like her- Her reputation was very, very tied to that regional zone-she wrote, like, North Star Country, the book that was one of the WPA books, the history of that part of the world.
She was a lyrical prose writer. I liked her- I liked her personally too. She became almost a sacred figure to the young women in Minnesota. And I was glad to see that.
Was Mike Gold anyone that you ever ran into?
Oh, that son of a bitch. I sure did. Yeah, he was editor of-was it The New Masses or the old Masses? Anyhow, I had a few things in The Masses-I don't remember which-but, he was merciless in the way that as editor he wiped out poets who were simply lyrical and were not interested in just writing poems that adhered to the communist line. Just merciless. And he had a group of henchmen around him that did the same thing. I never met him personally.
I brought his name up because I think his novel, Jews Without Money, was a wonderful book.
Yeah, that book was good. Yeah, very good.
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Did you know Williams? Did you run into him at all?
No. I didn't meet him personally. But, at one time I applied for a Guggenheim, or I thought I would apply for a Guggenheim. So I wrote-I wrote Stevens, I wrote Williams, and I wrote Marianne Moore. Williams sent me a rhapsodic response, saying my work was exactly what he admired. It was just a wonderful letter. Stevens was a much better critic than Williams-much better. Stevens, he was sharp. He wrote back to say that, if he understood what I was really getting at, he thought that was what poetry needed at that time. It had to do with a sense of realism. But, he said, the Guggenheim people are just as capable of evaluating you as I am, and I see no reason for me to write about you. Marianne Moore totally rejected my application I would have sent in, on the grounds that- You know, at that time for a Guggenheim you had to give them a project. So, my project was to be the psychology of the poets. And she didn't think that was a worthwhile project to pursue. Well, in reading through Marianne Moore's correspondence many years afterwards, I discovered that she just hated my work-partly because Pound had extolled it so highly and compared me to [Kenneth Burke], who was really a first-class critic and scholar at the time. And Marianne Moore thought that was awful, that I would be compared to this guy. So I never got a Guggenheim.
So it was a number of years later then that you were able, on your retirement, to break away-
Yeah, it wouldn't have been possible until then. And it might not have happened, either, if Crozier hadn't written me. Because I thought I was dead to the world, to the outside world-and that nobody was or would be interested.
Andrew Crozier was a student at Buffalo-it was before it was SUNY, Buffalo. Charles Olson was there and attracted a lot of students from all around, and Andrew had come over from England, and did this detective work, and unearthed-
Well, Olson steered him to me. And that's when he began to collect-
I wasn't aware of that. And he stayed with it, too [see Poems 1923-1941, edited by Andrew Crozier, Sun & Moon, 1995]. The fellow that's publishing your new work, Nicholas Johnson, was he a student of Andrew?
No. Crozier was a student of Jeremy Prynne's, at Cambridge.
There's a way in which, I think of it almost as this kind of coincidence of a happy rescue, or something-that your work was discovered even before you had begun to reassert it, in a sense.
Well, I didn't know-I never met Olson, because Olson thrived during that whole period when I didn't even-I never read poetry, I didn't think poetry, and so on.
In a number of ways, these kinds of discoveries-you've been very, how does one say- I mean, certainly elements of luck and elements of help from various friends and allies, and unknowns out in the world. I recall the story of Margery Latimer leading you to Jane Heap and The Little Review, and Pound leading Zukofsky in your direction, to bring you into the "Objectivists" then-
No, that isn't the way it happened. No, Zukofsky and I appeared in [Pound's] magazine, The Exile. So Pound came to know the two of us at the same time. He didn't steer Zukofsky to me.
I see, it was the coincidence of being published together. You say somewhere that you were friends with George Oppen for sixty years before you ever met or had any correspondence. Was Reznikoff someone that you spent any time with?
No. Actually I had only one personal meeting with him, in which we really talked. That was at his home in New York. But, as I said elsewhere, he was a very quick, birdlike talker, and he talked and I listened. There wasn't much exchange there. So I came away from that-I don't know what to call it-visit with him, knowing quite a bit about him, but he not knowing nothing about me. But he was a very nice sweet person. Very sweet. I had a feeling that his wife really ran that household. That she merely tolerated him intellectually. Because she had a Ph.D. in English and taught at the University-in Massachusetts, Brandeis. Not only did she feel herself much superior to him on those grounds, but also she was, really, a foremost Zionist leader-a leader of the Zionist movement in this country. She was an important personage. And he was just a sweet, gentle poet. About Charles, by the way, it's interesting- I read with him at this national "Objectivists" conference in Michigan, in the 1970s. And, he too, at lunch-time students would just gather around him. There was something quite loveable about him, and they liked him. I myself thought he was a bad reader of his own work, at that time, because-his poems are very difficult to read well anyhow. Because they're not only short, they depend for their effect on tone inflection and a number of things in which voice was very important, in order to get it through, otherwise it's just dead. And I didn't think he could do it, at that time.
I wonder if his reading-my guess would be that there may not have been much if any opportunity for him to have done that, prior-
That's the conference to which Zukofsky refused to come. He sent a very curt reply: "Not interested." Indicating that he disliked the rest of us, he wanted nothing to do with us.
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You had mentioned earlier that you enjoyed jazz, and I was wondering where your tastes went in that direction, your affinities-
Yeah. Well, there's jazz that I admire because of the artistry, the way in which very ordinary, plain, and boring popular songs are made into creative things. The best example for me is Artie Shaw-and Bennie Goodman. Wonderful. But for sheer fun, for me, Fats Waller's the guy. Oh, I love Fats.
Did you have the opportunity-I know you lived in New Orleans, did you hear live music at that time?
Oh, all the time-it was on the street. Little bands would come out, march down the street. I lived in the French Quarter-I had a wonderful apartment in the French Quarter, I was single then. It was great. You'd hear-I didn't go to clubs, I don't know whether they actually had clubs at that time, for jazz. Jazz used to be played in whorehouses, actually-which I suppose is sensible.
When did you live in New Orleans?
I was there in the 1930s. When it was a much smaller city, and it was the most-by far-the most interesting city in the country. Far more interesting than San Francisco in those days-
I think it still is in some ways. . . . You feel, it's like there's a palpable sense that there were French here, there were Spanish here, the Indians were here, the Black people are still here-they all are-and the Cajun culture, all of it. There's that mix and blend which is so alive, and so part of it, that it's really like you're not within the U.S., in a certain way. You're in this little nation state of its own.
Exactly. It felt like a different country. Yeah, and at first I didn't care for the way the girls looked, and then it all of a sudden hit me-hey, these girls are beautiful. They, the women were-well, it was much more, for one thing in the 1930s it was sexually much more open than any other part of the country. Oh, by far- And the only problem for me was I couldn't keep up with the women and drink, they would drink me under the table. Yeah, I love New Orleans. One of the most interesting trips I took was down the bayou, all the way to the tip of the Mississippi. It was a narrow-the bayous are narrow and, having weeds around, real tropical looking. And on either side, the people lived on fishing. Anyhow, that was exciting. I mean, you felt as if you were in tropical Africa, just going down in a little boat, all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. And there I found little black boys fishing, so I joined them. I caught a little shark, and they fried him right there on the sand. It's just a different part of the world, really. But the Cajuns, I don't have any great admiration for the Cajuns. They're mean-at that time, I don't know what they're like now. But I remember, I went with another fellow to a small Cajun town, somewhere along the bayous there. And there was a dance going on, so-well, we walk in, these guys eye us real hard. So we want to dance, so we walk out to one of the girls to ask them to dance. Oh, man-that was a mistake. I mean they marched us out of there. Not friendly country.
That isolation has, you know, in many ways kept their culture intact-
Yeah, that's true. . . . Well, I appreciate your not going over old ground. I don't know of what interest this will be to students, however.
We'll see. You know, there's your remark at the very close of that earlier interview [see "Carl Rakosi, An Interview," Conjunctions 11] where you say to the question, "Do you have any advice for young writers?" -"Young writers don't need any advice." I think it's appropriate.
Note: Mr Rakosi's poem "The Wayfarer Met the Passerby" is quoted from his Collected Poems (The National Poetry Foundation, 1986), © 1986 by Callman Rawley.


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I hope to establish Big Treat restaurants all over Monrovia.
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keeps on rolling
of historic community come
to save a town from ruin
Bob McEowen
keeps on rolling
of historic community come
to save a town from ruin
Bob McEowen
keeps on rolling
of historic community come
to save a town from ruin
Bob McEowen
Bob McEowen
The streets of Blackwater
seem quiet as a late spring cold front settles over the central Missouri
town of 199. But small, telltale signs reveal a community hard at work
to ensure its own survival.
Downtown, people
slip in and out of the post office while shopkeepers open for business.
Bonnie Rapp is at her post as clerk at city hall. Mayor Bobby Danner
scurries along the brick sidewalks lining Main Street to check on a
construction project.
A visitor watching
these subtle activities might not realize it, but Blackwater is alive
with the bustle of community involvement.
just a little-bitty town, but there's a lot going on," says
Bobby, Blackwater's mayor since 1992.
Over the past decade,
Blackwater has become a destination for tourists in central Missouri.
Each weekend from spring through fall, visitors hunt for antiques in
the town's
shops and take in the sights, which include a restored one-room schoolhouse
and a museum dedicated to the history of rural telephone service. In
2002, upscale dining and lodging came to Blackwater with the opening
of the Iron Horse Hotel and Restaurant. Future plans include a new
city park and a replica 1880s railroad depot.
The picture wasn't
always this bright, though.
Established in 1887,
Blackwater once catered to travelers who arrived as trains stopped
at the foot of Main Street. A century later, the trains no longer stopped
and few travelers ventured the three miles from Interstate 70 into
By the late 1980s,
Blackwater's main industry, a rock quarry,
had closed. The downtown shops, once home to the largest antiques
wholesaler in the state, were locked and in disrepair.
"It was
about to fall down around our ears," says Bonnie, the town's
clerk since 1983. "There was just nothing here."
the time, Bobby Danner was fresh out of nearby Boonville High
School. When his parents bought a hotel in New Orleans, Bobby began
a life of wanderlust, dividing his time between Black-water and travels
around the world. His journeys, he says, gave him a greater appreciation
for home, but during visits to Blackwater he was increasingly struck
by the deterioration of the town.
"I came back
to Blackwater and the downtown was really a mess," he
says. "I would drive around the other way because it
would just look like a ghetto."
The town's
problems were not limited to downtown. In the 1980s, Blackwater installed
a new sewer system. Initially touted as innovative technology,
the system never worked properly and constant repairs nearly
flushed the city coffers down the drain.
Bobby decided
to do something. He ran for mayor at the age of 26 and convinced
his family to invest in Blackwater.
While the Danners
bought vacant storefronts and began to rehabilitate them, Bobby enlisted
other residents in a three-pronged crusade to resurrect Blackwater.
The city began to improve infrastructure, and community organizations
launched beautification and development projects. Meanwhile, private
citizens began to upgrade their own properties.
With no industry
and little sales tax base, tiny Blackwater didn't have
the means to do much. But the community found a way.
Blackwater received federal grants to replace its failed sewer system
and connect to the county water supply, ending decades of rusty water.
Other grants and tax incentives supported street paving and renovation
projects at homes and businesses.
The city joined forces
with the newly formed Blackwater Preservation Society to purchase bricks
to replace crumbling concrete sidewalks, while volunteers supplied
labor. To fund new 1880s style streetlights, the city clerk wrote
former residents and asked for donations. "They were $750 a piece," Bonnie
says. "We wanted six. We got 16."
would take more than streetlights to brighten
neighborhoods, though. Many yards were littered
with debris. One resident raised pigs under his
To force reluctant
homeowners to join in Blackwater's renaissance, the
city established zoning ordinances, something
practically unheard of in a town Blackwater's size. "The
zoning was a huge fight. It barely passed," Bobby
Although controversial,
the measure allowed Blackwater to create an atmosphere that could
entice visitors. Raising the standards for
appearance and home maintenance quickly began
to bear fruit. As people cleaned up their properties,
a new spirit of community developed.
that had almost quit even having meetings came to life again," Bonnie
recalls. "It began with the garden
club. The Lion's Club began having
blood drives. The 4-H was more active.
It seemed like everybody just put in more
energy to the organization that they belonged
Groups and individuals
stepped forward to participate in community renewal
in many ways. Whether it's the
memorial or community gardens and planter
boxes downtown, each improvement began
with someone's idea
and others pitching in to bring it to
"It is purely
a community effort," says Mark Danner, one
of four Danner siblings active in the
area. "Bobby provided a spark
to get the flame going, and then you
had a bunch of people to keep fanning
that flame."
One group central
to the town's revival was the
West End Theater. Founded by Blackwater
native and one-time Hollywood script
writer Jay Turley, the community
theater attracts busloads of visitors.
Turley died two years ago, but his
theater lives on. Proceeds from ticket
sales and meals served to playgoers
help fund community development projects.
While theater performances,
community fairs and festivals attract visitors
to Blackwater, the biggest draw of late
has been the Iron Horse. The restoration
of the town's old City Hotel was more than 10 years in the making but
the result is impressive. The 10-room
hotel welcomes guests from Easter through New Year's. Alongside the hotel,
the Iron Horse Restaurant is open Fridays and Saturdays (plus Wednesday nights
during play season at nearby Arrow Rock's
Lyceum Theatre) and seats up to
120 guests.
Not every little
town is blessed with upscale dining and lodging to
attract visitors, but Bobby says
any town can take steps to better
always something that can be done," he
says. "Any
town can put in gardens. Any
town can upgrade its sidewalks. There's always
something a town can do to
A wall full of community
betterment awards in Blackwater's city hall is
testament to what can be
accomplished with a little vision and a lot of hard work. Once near
ruin, this tiny mid-Missouri town has reversed its fortune.
to the efforts of its leaders, organizations and volunteers,
Blackwater is a better place
to live and do business. It's also a town with lots to
offer visitors and even
more to teach other towns seeking to improve.
"For our size town, I
think it's been wildly successful," Bobby
says. "From what
it was 10 years ago — when
buildings were falling
in and people were ashamed
to say they were from Blackwater — it's
a whole different town."
For more information, call (660)
846-4411. For information about the Iron Horse, visit www.ironhorsehotel.com,
or call (660) 846-3001 (hotel) or (660) 846-2011 (restaurant).


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Hondurans and Nicaraguans With TPS: Re-Register Now!
If you're a Honduran or Nicaraguan national in the United States with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), you have the right to extend that status. The new TPS period runs from January 6, 2012, to July 5, 2013.
(By way of reminder, TPS is a designation that the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security may give to people from foreign countries that are undergoing conditions that temporarily prevent the country's nationals from returning safely, such as war or natural disaster. It allows a temporary right to remain in the U.S., and to work, but does not lead to any sort of permanent status or a green card.)
If you wish to reregister, however, you'll need to act very soon. The reregistration period ends on January 5, 2012, which is right around the corner.
The reregistration process involves submitting an Application for Temporary Protected Status on Form I-821 and an Application for Employment Authorization on Form I-765.
You must fill out Form I-765 regardless of whether you actually use it to apply for an EAD (work permit). But if you don't want the work permit, you don't need to pay the I-765 fee, which is currently $380.
You do not need to pay the Form I-821 application fee, but must submit the biometric services fee (currently $85), or a fee waiver request, if you are age 14 or older.
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ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1- 2010 Final Qualitative Determination
A final qualitative analysis of all addenda to ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007 that were included in ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2010 was conducted. All 109 addenda processed by ASHRAE in the creation of ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2010 from ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007 were evaluated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for their impact on energy efficiency. DOE determined whether each addendum would have a positive, neutral, or negative impact on overall building efficiency.
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Four Seasons of Travel: 400 of the Worlds Best Destinations in Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall
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Spanning the globe with dozens of top places to go each season, National Geographics expert travel writers and photographers invite you to experience the worlds most tempting locales. Covering festivals, foliage displays, harvest celebrations,MoreSpanning the globe with dozens of top places to go each season, National Geographics expert travel writers and photographers invite you to experience the worlds most tempting locales. Covering festivals, foliage displays, harvest celebrations, summer and winter sports and activities, local markets, animal migrations, and more, this lavish, beautifully photographed book is both inspiring and useful. In-depth site descriptions, illuminating sidebars, and tons of insider tips will inspire you to plan your next getaway during a destinations showcase period—whether its Christmas in New York, complete with ice-skating at Rockefeller Center and neighborhood holiday markets- springtime in Japan, when cherry blossoms create clouds of pink around picture-perfect medieval castles- summer's midnight sun in St. Petersburg, Russia, during the city's annual White Night festivities- or autumn in Maine, when the highlight of Acadia National Park's Night Sky Festival takes you atop Cadillac Mountain to gaze up at a universe of sparkling stars.In addition, a dozen famed authors, actors, athletes, journalists, and others—including Alec Baldwin, Christopher Buckley, Cokie Roberts, R. A. Dickey, and Andrew McCarthy—offer personal reflections on some of their favorites places in the world during the best times to visit.Divided into chapters by season, each entry features authentic experiences recommended by locals and resident experts, showcased with stunning photography, evocative text, and detailed visitor information. Eclectic sidebars highlight entertaining snippets on the local culture and history, dont-miss experiences, great places to stay and food to eat, as well as other sights to see. This gorgeous book is rounded out with a series of top ten lists in a wide variety of themed categories, including the editors' picks of the world's most colorful spring markets, best places to get summer ice cream, scariest Halloween haunted houses, most glittering winter holiday lights, and more.


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BioWare has made available Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC on Xbox Marketplace. The 1.9GB DLC is available on the Live Marketplace and can be downloaded for free. The PC version isn't yet available – though it should be out soon. PlayStation 3 players will have to wait till July 4 to get their on the DLC.
As mentioned previously, the DLC doesn't change the end game, neither does it add any new gameplay but is supposed to expand the meaning of original ending. It'll be interesting to see what kind of closure BioWare aims to provide with this DLC. You'll need to load a save game from before the attack on the Cerberus Base and play through to the end of the game to see how the game spans out.
And once you've done that, let me know in the comments on your thoughts about the ending.


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Freeze, Brokerage Account
Feb. 24, 2011
In a cash account, an investor must pay for the purchase of a security before selling it. If an investor buys and sells a security before paying for it, the investor is "freeriding", which is not permitted under the Federal Reserve Board's Regulation T and may require the investor's broker to "freeze" the investor's cash account for 90 days. During this 90-day period, an investor may still purchase securities with the cash account, but the investor must fully pay for any purchase on the date of the trade. For more information on the 90-day freeze, please read our investor bulletin "Trading in Cash Accounts," and the cash account provisions of the Federal Reserve Board's Regulation T.


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iiNet has been chosen as the preferred NBN supplier for The Department of Police & Emergency Management in Tasmania.
The contract falls under the Networking Tasmania II agreement with the Tasmanian State Government.
The upgrade to NBN services, which will be rolled out over a three-year period, will see iiNet supply the Department with a managed connection service, providing safe and reliable internet and network connections between its Police Station's and the Tasmanian Government's core network.
iiNet chief business officer, Greg Bader, said, "The Department's decision to move to the NBN now, makes it an early adopter of Australia's newest transformational technologies. Like many of our business customers, the Department is thinking about how the NBN can provide business efficiencies today and in the future."
The upgrade is significant, with over half of the Department's police stations scheduled to access internet services through the NBN by 2014. This is the first state police and emergency management department to sign up to the NBN.
Tasmanian Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology, David O'Byrne, said, "We're keen to see how we can take full advantage of the opportunities the NBN offers, and give our police and emergency management officers the best technology available to support them in the work they do."
"iiNet worked with us to trial the upgrades while still providing backup DSL connections. This meant we could take advantage of the technology's speed and efficiency, while having the assurance of the backup network," the department's Deputy Director Corporate Services, Todd Crawford, said
The Department has a dedicated Tasmanian iiNet account team, led by Nathan Mollineaux. "The NBN is already proving to reduce the time it takes our staff to complete online tasks, has increased the efficiency and speed of sharing information and will ultimately allow our officers to be more mobile and spend more time on the ground in the community," Northern District Commander, Richard Cowling, said.
"The significant increases in network speed available with iiNet's services will enable us to achieve, over time, even greater efficiencies through the use of the NBN, particularly in regional Tasmania."
iiNet has been providing the department with network services since 2010 and has worked closely with them to ensure timely access to the latest technology.


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Lancelot Pro Font Family
When type historians look back on Jim Rimmer, they will consider him the last type designer who just couldn't let go of metal type, even though he was just as proficient in digital type. Lancelot is one definite case in point: A face designed and produced in digital as late in the game as 1999, only to spring onto the new millenium a couple of years later as a metal type cast in three sizes. That was Jim, a time traveler constantly reminding the craft of its origins.


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The Evening Associates of the Art Institute of Chicago invited guests to the fourth annual Night Heist benefit, the event of the year for young art-inspired Chicagoans. Guests enjoyed an evening of the surreal and extraordinary with exclusive after-hours access to the Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 exhibition along with stunning performances and live music. Guests then indulged in a surrealist menu of exhibition-inspired hors d'oeuvres and specialty cocktails by local celebrity mixologists including Danny Shapiro of Scofflaw, Wade McElroy and Jeff Donahue of Sportsman's Club, Paul McGee of Three Dots and a Dash, and Adam Seger of Hum Botanical Spirit.
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Performing Arts and Music
Put your talent on display. Students in our art, theatre and music departments are a close-knit community of musicians, artists and actors in the service of Jesus Christ. Whether your passion is set design, writing, painting, acting, photography, singing or playing an instrument, we give you the tools and the opportunities to fine-tune your craft.
We offer numerous majors and minors through our three main programs: music, theatre, and art and design. Students can also construct an interdisciplinary major such as business and music. Students who don't major in one of the performing arts can choose to enrich their lives by performing in our vocal and instrumental ensembles or in theatrical productions.
Note: Because of the pandemic, several performances will be presented virtually during the 2020-21 academic year.
Strike a chord. The National Association for Music Educators recently recognized George Fox University's Symphonic Band and Concert Choir as superior music ensembles, and our nationally accredited music education program has been acknowledged as one of the best in the country.
Music majors earn a bachelor of arts in music education or in music with concentrations in composition, performance, pre-teaching or general.
Bauman Auditorium, our acclaimed concert hall, is the site for many performances, including the Oregon Symphony, numerous concerts and student recitals. We also offer an annual concert series featuring our Bösendorfer Imperial Grand Piano.
Tell a story. The theatre department presents three main stage productions each year. Works range from ancient Greek theatre to contemporary scripts and musicals.
Our touring theatre troupe, the University Players, is a decades-long tradition at George Fox that brings thought-provoking drama to schools, churches and prisons.
The theatre department offers students opportunities to be involved with major productions from day one, including works that are written, directed and performed by students.
Art and Design
Dazzle the eye. Art and design students pursue painting, printmaking, ceramics, photography, digital art and many other media. We offer art majors in graphic design, interior design, illustration, studio arts and arts administration, as well as an art minor. Distinguished guest artists from around the country come to George Fox and work with our students.
Our two on-campus galleries, the Roger and Mildred Minthorne Gallery and the Donald H. Lindgren Gallery, host several shows each year.
Cinematic Arts
Lights ... camera ... action! Students in our cinematic arts major combine the liberal arts emphasis of communication arts with hands-on experience in video, film and digital media production. With concentrations in audio production, film and video production, film studies and animation, you design a program that fits your individual needs or interests.
All our cinematic arts programs are grounded in certain theoretical and general production courses. Areas of concentration are particular blends of course work that emphasize aspects of the cinema and media industry.


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JPSO seeks teen runaway with baby from Terrytown
Call the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office with information at 504-364-5300
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is looking for a teenage girl who they call an "endangered runaway."
The JPSO said 15-year-old Emily Gutierrez and her 8-month-old son, Christopher Gutierrez, were last seen at their home in Terrytown.
Family and friends told investigators that Emily has been threatening to runaway to Mexico to reunite with her child's father, 20-year old Armando Reyes.
After checking the home, investigators said it appeared that Emily took "very little to support herself and the needs of an 8-month-old baby."
Emily was described by authorities as standing 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 125 pounds with brown hair and green eyes. Her son was described as having brown hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office at 504-364-5300 or Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.
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The Tribeca Film Festival is going green.
"Shrek Forever After," from DreamWorks Animation and Paramount, will world preem April 21 as the fest's opening-night film.
Directed by Mike Mitchell, the 3D toon is the fourth and final chapter in the blockbuster franchise. Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas return to lead the voice cast.
"Shrek Forever" is the second animated 3D film to open a major fest. Last year, Pixar's "Up" was the opening-night film at Cannes.
"We have always sought to open our festival with films that are captivating and strike an emotional chord with moviegoers. 'Shrek Forever After' combines the very best storytelling and artistry, while showcasing the wonders of 3D filmmaking," Tribeca fest co-founder Jane Rosenthal said.
"Shrek Forever," produced by Gina Shay and Teresa Cheng, opens in theaters May 21.
In the final chapter, a domesticated Shrek finds himself longing for more adventurous days. Like it or not, his wish comes true when he's duped into signing a pact with a smooth-talking Rumpelstiltskin. Shrek wakes up in an alternate reality where ogres are hunted and Rumpelstiltskin is king.
"It is a great privilege and tribute to our entire cast and crew to have been chosen as this year's opening night selection," DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said.
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Using the same tactics he had in winning the Jim Murray Memorial Handicap three weeks earlier, Acclamation led all the way in capturing the $250,000 Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap on Saturday at Hollywood Park.
Giving both trainer Don Warren and jockey Christian Santiago Reyes their first victory in a Grade 1, the 4-year-old Unusual Heat colt out of the Silveyville mare Winning In Style took full advantage of his inside post and the scratch of Red Sun, who would have been a pace rival.
Owned by breeders Bud and Judy Johnston, the 3-1 third choice wasn't as dominant as he had been in the Murray – a record 7 ½ length victory on May 15 – but earned his most prestigious win by 1 ½ lengths over 14-1 shot Hyades.
In becoming the second horse to take both the Murray and Whittingham – joining Storming Home, who completed the parlay in 2003 – Acclamation ran the 1 ¼ miles on turf in 1:59.45.
"I rode him the same way I did last time,'' said Santiago Reyes through an interpreter. "The way the race came up, there wasn't much speed, so I hustled him out of the gate. He's just a good horse and he's real sharp right now. He was very strong the entire race.''
The win was the fourth in 19 starts for Acclamation, the first California bred to win the race since Lava Man in 2006. He has earned $497,048.
"We've gotten lucky the last couple of races where the speed has scratched and there wasn't a lot of speed to go with him, so we didn't have a lot of strategy except to go ahead and lead the way,'' said Warren. "I told him (Santiago Reyes) that he runs so well on the turn, that when you get to the middle of that (far turn) kick and go on wherever you are. Kick and go. Make a run for it right there.
"He loves this course. We'll see how he comes out of this race. There is the ($100,000) Sunset Handicap (at the Murray distance of 1 ½ miles) on the last day of the meet (July 18).''
Acclamation paid $8.20, $5 and $4. Hyades, who finished three-quarters of a length in front of 14-1 shot Brushburn, returned $11.40 and $8. The show payoff on Brushburn, a California bred who was looking for his third consecutive victory, was $8.60.
Loup Breton, the 8-5 favorite, was fourth, then came Battle Of Hastings, the 3-1 second choice, Unusual Suspect, Rendezvous, Scintillo, Porfido and Carry Gulch, who was pulled up with about a quarter of a mile to run. The stewards reported there was an issue with the 5-year-old's left foreleg.
Earlier, Cost Of Freedom gave trainer John Sadler a record fifth victory in the $100,000 Los Angeles Handicap with his second wire-to-wire win of the meet.
Able to assume control immediately under jockey Tyler Baze, the 7-year-old Cee's Tizzy gelding out of the Moscow Ballet mare Freedom Dance got the job done in 1:08.49 for the six furlongs.
The victory in the Grade III was the fourth in seven starts for Cost Of Freedom since he was claimed for $50,000 by Sadler for owners Gary and Cecil Barber on July 28, 2008 at Del Mar.
Two of the wins have been in graded stakes, including the Ancient Title, a Grade 1, on Sept. 27, 2008 at Santa Anita.
A winner of eight of 15 overall, the California bred has earned $666,105. Of that amount, $517,973 has been since the claim.
"He's back to his old self, huh?'' asked Baze. "He's just incredible. He's 100% right now and if they can just keep him like this for the rest of the year, it's on to the Breeders' Cup again.''
Cost Of Freedom nearly won the Breeders' Cup Sprint last fall at Santa Anita. He was third, a head behind winner Dancing In Silks, at 18-1 in his final race of 2009.
"What a neat horse,'' said Gary Barber. "The main thing is to keep him healthy. If everything goes right, we will shoot for the Breeders' Cup.'' The Breeders' Cup Sprint will be run on Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs.
In giving Sadler, who was in New York Saturday to saddle Dave In Dixie in the Belmont Stakes, his second consecutive Los Angeles win – the trainer won with Red Arrow in 2009 – Cost Of Freedom paid $4, $3 and $2.60. E Z's Gentleman, who finished three-quarters of a length back in second, returned $5.80 and $4.20. The show price on My Summer Slew, the longest shot in the field of seven at nearly 35-1, was $7.40.
M One Rifle, the 2-1 second choice, was fourth, then came Hiya Silver, Jiggly and Bet On Victor. Stoneside was scratched.
In the first of the day's stakes, Turning Top made it three consecutive wins, defeating Rosey de Megeve by a head in the $61,950 Redondo Beach.
Trained by Simon Callaghan for owner Michael Tabor, the 4-year-old Pivotal filly out of the Cadeaux Generaux mare rallied on the outside to win as the 6-5 favorite under jockey Brice Blanc.
The win was the fifth in 14 starts for the Irish bred and her second in as many races on the Hollywood Park turf course. She has earned $111,943.
A winner once in six starts in England before arriving in the United States, Turning Top paid $4.40, $3.20 and $2.60. The mile was covered in 1:36.53.
Rosey de Megeve, the pacesetter who battled back to be second after being headed by Value Stream, the race longshot at 10-1, paid $6.20 and $4.80. Value Stream, who swept to the lead at the top of the stretch, then faltered a bit near the wire to finish a neck behind Rosey de Megeve, returned $4.40 to show. Exquisite and Annihilation completed the order of finish. Czechers and Éclair de Lune were scratched.


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Medical Polymers Market is witnessing a strong momentum in healthcare sector with the increasing demand for upgraded pharmaceutical devices across the patient base. Growing prevalence of cardiac diseases, especially across geriatric population along with rising deployment of technologically progressed medical treatments is spurring the market demand. As mentioned above, Global pharmaceutical device market which leaves a linear influence on medical polymers demand is expected to magnify at a speedy rate of 6% in the years ahead. U.S held 45% share of the global pharmaceutical device market in 2015 and is anticipated to be one of the most lucrative zones partaking in medical polymers industry growth. As per a report by Global Market Insights Inc., "Medical polymers market is poised to exceed a revenue of 24 billion by 2024, at an annual growth projection of 9% over the period of 2016-2024."
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Biodegradable medical plastics, medical fibers &resins, and medical elastomers are the three categories of product prevalent in the industry. Biodegradable plastics medical polymer market will observe a tremendous growth rate of 15% over the forecast span.
Asia Pacific medical polymers market is poised to show an exponential growth chart with rapidly increasing healthcare infrastructure in China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Indonesia. The region is anticipated to grow at a rate of 10% over the period of 2016-2024, owing to rising population base and unmet medical needs in these developing countries.
Europe medical polymers industry is set to record a CAGR of 7% over the period of 2016-2024.
Medical polymers market finds a wide array of application in medical packaging and medical devices equipment sectors. Each of these applications will see an immense growth with respect to size and volume due to the fact that people are rapidly adopting the advanced medical treatments. Medical devices & equipment market is set to register a CAGR of 8% over the period of 2016-2024, having had more than 50% of the overall market share in 2015.
Growing government concerns over degradation of polymers have steered the product demand for bio-based and biodegradable polymers for packaging of the medical products. This fact is likely to show a substantial growth track to the global medical polymers market from medical packaging application to register an annual growth rate of 9% over the period of 2016-2024.
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North America medical polymers market is also expected to witness a significant growth roadmap with U.S. being the leading country contributing the maximum share. This region exhibits high awareness toward health & fitness, which in turn has favored the growth of medical and pharmaceutical industries. North America Medical polymers industry with revenue worth USD 4.5 billion in 2015, is expected to witness lucrative growth prospects over the coming years. Raised living standards and ability to spend more on medical care has attributed significantly to the market growth.
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Taking into consideration the competitive scenario, the companies are adopting major strategies including intensive research, product innovation, and strategic collaborations to expand their reach. The players are also focusing on significant integration in the value chain and upgradation of product portfolio. Major participants in medical polymers industry include DuPont, Dow Chemical, Evonik Industries, Bayer AG, and Huntsman.
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PUPILS from the Grove Primary School in Malvern played host to visitors from another world when the school held an Alien Day.
The children started their day like any other, but on the way back from reception, the pupils found an alien package and a letter from another world.
They had their faces painted, tasted alien snacks and wrote accounts of their weird and wonderful day.
The experience for the reception pupils was planned by their teachers to get the children's imaginations flowing.
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Jets assign 13 players to St. John's IceCapsby Staff Writer / Winnipeg Jets
The Winnipeg Jets announced today they have assigned 13 players to the Jets' American Hockey League affiliate, the St. John's IceCaps.
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The players assigned to St. John's include Alexander Burmistrov, Chris Carrozzi, Ben Chairot, Patrice Cormier, Jason Gregoire, Carl Klingberg, Julian Melchiori, Eric O'Dell, Will O'Neill, Edward Pasquale, Zach Redmond, Cody Sol and Ivan Telegin.
The Jets have also announced they have assigned Mark Scheifele to the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League.


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|Great potential, unrealized. An American joins the French Foreign Legion during WWI after his dismissal from West Point. Following the brutality of training, he is assigned to guard an archeological expedition in Morocco, where he pulls together a rag-tag outfit for the mission. Hackman proves once again the wide range of his acting abilities, surmounting the cliched and fairly sadistic plot. Shot on location in the Sahara Desert.
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Opinion: Why Rand Paul is Right on Syria
American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow John Bolton on the case against U.S. intervention.
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... I ... you know in advance for your goal was not winning that I think the last fifteen years of secretaries of defense with Senator Udall is not for ... me and I wanna go to war in Syria ... of course not everybody the percent of Americans will say no ... we say no ... we don't wanna go to war in Syria either ... it's not over yet as the president is not asking you to go to war ... to ask you to declare war ... he's not asking you to send one American troops to war ... he's simply saying we need to take an action ... they can degrade ... in that capacity ... of the man has been willing to kill his own people by breaking a nearly hundred year-old prohibition ... and will we stand up and be counted to say we won't do that ... welcome to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel that was a very testy exchange yesterday ... between Secretary of State John Kerry ... in Kentucky Senator Rand Paul on the merits of intervening ... in this area ... yesterday our Bret Stephens made the case for intervention ... and today we've got American Enterprise Institute senior fellow John Bolton here ... to make the APUs it case welcome and master plan to do it ... are you against any kind of intervention or just the kind of intervention then Secretary of State Kerry ... was describing ... well that exchanging displayed is a little bit like the Syrian civil war to mean neither side is acceptable ... in outlook that the fact is we don't know what intervention President Obama is actually proposing and I think that's a big part of the problem he says ... that he wants to ... vindicate his drawing ... of a red line ... but he also talks about his intervention being proportionate and limited ... and if that's in fact what he does he will not establish conditions of deterrence he will not ... persuade aside or more importantly the regime in ... Tehran to give up their nuclear weapons program so in that sense I'm very worried that because ... it goes pee on the loss of credibility the president has already experienced given ... March's ... that ... evidence of the use of chemical weapons by side it will implicate the entire United States ... and I think a limited response will simply tell Iran ... this got essentially free sailing ... toward nuclear weapons but if the US doesn't respond in a limited way or in a way that you might prefer a stronger kind of intervention ... what message does that send to US allies like Israel in the region ... it sends a message that we have a president whose word you can trust ... but I don't buy the argument that the president is the equivalent of the United States do not buy ... the president that sits behind a desk in the Oval office is not a cardboard cut outs of flesh and blood person among the flesh and blood person changes ... the message that comes out of the Oval office changes when Ronald Reagan replaced Jimmy Carter ... it made out of the night and day that was pretty close in the same is true in the case of whoever replaces Obama ... ok but we still have several years left of the second term of the Obama administration ... global view calmness Bret Stephens on the show yesterday he argued ... we don't have time to wait here ... and in fact ... that ... Israeli action against Iran is more likely if we don't intervene so again I ask you ... why we do not support with the president is asking for ... I think the Israelis should strike ... Iran's nuclear weapons program ... whether we intervene in Syria or not ... there's no way that Obama is going to use force against Iran and a weak response here or no response ... gives the Iranians ... exactly the same message ... I'm deeply worried about the next three and a half years I didn't vote for Obama in large measure for that reason but the American people didn't you know the saying ... you get the government you deserve so we've got twelve hundred days of danger that's a fact ... that is a fact Tehran's influence is also extending from Tehran now potentially to the Mediterranean ... again doesn't that argue for U S intervention now ... but if the intervention is weak it will send the wrong signal and every indication is from the president's own words which is all the evidence we have at this point ... a proportional limited response will not be enough ... ok American Enterprise Institute senior fellow and former investor United Nations John Bolton


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MACHESNEY PARK — The Harlem School District came together Tuesday to celebrate the installation of new, splendidly green turf in the high school's football stadium.
About 200 donors who contributed to the $624,000 needed to transform the field to artificial turf were invited to a donor appreciation event, and a large number of them sat in the bleachers.
Before the official program started, they enjoyed free popcorn, bratwursts and pork chop sandwiches.
Some families mingled on the plush turf, and children performed cartwheels along the yard lines.
The applause came once the officials took their seats on the track surrounding the turf.
"What a beautiful sight," Superintendent Julie Morris said of the field. "It took a lot of work by a lot of people. It shows to me that we have a community, a community of leaders, a community of supporters.
"Everybody seems to rally around the Harlem School District. For that, we appreciate everybody."
Officials say they have about $50,000 more to raise, but they're confident the money will come in the next month. They were able to raise the $624,000 between January and May.
The Harlem school system launched its "Harlem Field Turf Campaign: The New Green" in March.
Proponents have said the artificial turf will cost less to maintain. It's also supposed to allow for 25,000 more hours of field-use annually and decrease injuries.
They also envision a field that's enjoyed by the entire community, including community groups, gym classes, the marching band and cheerleaders.
"Obviously this is a big, big part of what we've been pushing," said John Huwe, representing the Harlem Fans Club. "It supports all of the teams. It supports all of the other students. This is going to support the entire community not just athletics."
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Huntington disease is a brain disorder in which brain cells, or neurons, in certain areas of your brain start to break down. As the neurons degenerate, the disease can lead to emotional disturbances, loss of intellectual abilities, and uncontrolled movements.
Huntington disease has two subtypes:
Huntington disease is a genetic disorder. It is passed on from parents to children. If a parent has Huntington disease, the child has a 50% chance of developing it. If the child doesn't develop the disease, he or she won't pass it along to his or her children. For 1% to 3% of people with Huntington disease, no family history of the disorder is ever identified.
At first, people who are beginning to show signs of Huntington disease exhibit nonspecific symptoms:
As the disease progresses, the following symptoms become more common:
In children, the symptoms often include Parkinson disease‒like features such as:
Because many of these symptoms can be caused by other diseases, a detailed physical and neurological examination is usually needed. Not surprisingly, a family history of the disorder is often the biggest clue that you may have Huntington disease.
Special blood tests can help your health care provider determine your likelihood of developing Huntington disease. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the head can evaluate the scope and scale of brain cell damage and loss of brain tissue. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan or a positron emission tomography (PET) scan may also be used.
If you have the Huntington disease gene, you will develop the disease at some point during your life. The age of onset of Huntington disease varies greatly from person to person, but most people develop it in their 30s or 40s.
Huntington disease is a rare disorder. More than 15,000 Americans currently have the disease, but many more are at risk of developing it.
You can't cure or slow the progression of Huntington disease, but health care providers can offer medications to help with certain symptoms.
Drugs like haloperidol, tetrabenazine, and amantadine are especially helpful for controlling the unusual movements caused by Huntington disease. Haloperidol and tetrabenazine can also help offset hallucinations and delusional thoughts. Depression and suicide are common among those with Huntington disease. Antidepressants and antianxiety medications may be prescribed to treat these symptoms.
As Huntington disease progresses, you will need constant assistance and supervision , because of the debilitating nature of the disease. People usually die from the disease within 15 to 20 years of developing symptoms.
If you have been diagnosed with, or are at risk for Huntington disease, it is critical to maintain your physical fitness as best you can. People who exercise regularly and stay active tend to do better than those who don't.
A number of studies are currently under way to examine possible therapies for Huntington disease. Talk with your health care provider about whether any of these therapies may be helpful to you or a loved one with the disorder.
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We have heard of cars and planes using biofuels, but we must admit that we never thought we'd hear of a bio-diesel powered flying car! Designed by Gilo Cardozo, the Skycar is a vehicle that has been attached to a paramotor that can actually fly! To prove its capabilities the vehicle will be chartering a voyage from London all the way to the Sahara!
The Skycar consists of a car frame attached to a paramotor. For those not familiar with the the concept of a paramotor, it is effectively a giant fan strapped to something (usually a person) that is powerful enough to propel them. In the case of the Skycar, this means that the motor is attached to a steel chassis which propels the vehicle forward. For lift, the car deploys a flexible wing, similar to a parachute, which can be folded into its trunk.
Such an inventive vehicle would not be possible were it not for advances in aerodynamics and technology. The Skycar's total weight will be around 1,500lb, and when airborne the car will have a top speed of 110kph and can fly for up to 300km. While on the road, the car can go up to 180kph and will run for 400 kilometres on a tank of ethanol. If something were to go wrong, the car can deploy a parachute while in the air.
The current model is fully functional and street-legal, and future models will feature a snappier design with an aluminum chassis. The vehicle's first flight will take it across the english channel, and next it will embark upon a 5,000 kilometer trek to Timbuktu. We wish them luck!
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NFL: Paul Tagliabue overturns suspensions of New Orleans Saints players
NEW ORLEANS -- Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue has overturned the suspensions of four current and former New Orleans Saints players in the league's bounty investigation of the club.
Tagliabue, however, found that the players' conduct was detrimental to the league. He says they participated in a performance pool that rewarded key plays -- including hard tackles -- that could justify fines.
But the former commissioner said Tuesday that "this entire case has been contaminated by the coaches and others in the Saints' organization."
Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma initially had been suspended the whole season, while Saints defensive end Will Smith, Cleveland linebacker Scott Fujita and free agent defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove received shorter suspensions.


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I have always tried to understand and advocate for "biblical politics." But what does that mean now, especially as we approach another major election? I was talking the other day to a Christian leader who has given his life to working with the poor. His approach is very grassroots -- he lives in a poor, virtually all-minority community and provides basic services for low-income people. He said, "If you work with and for the poor, you inevitably run into injustice." In other words, poverty isn't caused by accident. There are unjust systems and structures that create and perpetuate poverty and human suffering. And service alone is never enough; working to change both the attitudes and institutional arrangements that cause poverty is required.
To change injustice, you must confront politics. British abolitionist William Wilberforce, for example, didn't just call upon English Christians not to possess slaves, he wanted to end the slave trade, and that required a long political campaign. Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't content to just ask U.S. Christians not to personally practice discrimination against black people; he understood that the nation needed a civil rights law and a voting rights act. Both took leadership from the White House and votes in Congress. All these changes took politics to accomplish.
Another friend of mine recently told me that she had watched the powerful movie about Wilberforce, Amazing Grace, five times this year and was deeply inspired. I was too when I first watched the story of the Wesleyan convert who made ending slavery the mission of his life. But I've always thought that the movie focused too much on the man and not enough on the movement that swept the United Kingdom and made the political victory possible. Likewise, it was more than the inspiring rhetoric of King that propelled the civil rights movement. It was the Birmingham campaign, the dramatic events in Selma, and the march to Montgomery that focused the nation's attention and lead to important legislative actions.
It takes a movement to change politics. Change doesn't ever start in Washington, but if public momentum can be built among millions of people, it eventually arrives in the nation's capital. This is what the Bible teaches us. The scriptures reveal a God of justice, not merely a God of charity. Words such as oppression and justice fill the Bible.
The most common objects of the prophets' judgments are kings, rulers, judges, employers -- the rich and the powerful in charge of the world's governments, courts, economies, systems, and structures. When those who are in charge mistreat the poor and vulnerable, say the scriptures, it is not just unkind but also wrong and unjust, and it makes God angry. The subjects of the scriptures' concern are always the widow and the orphan, the poor and oppressed the victims of courts or unscrupulous employers, debtors whose debts need to be forgiven, strangers in the land who need to be welcomed. And the topics of the prophets' messages to the powerful are things like land, labor, capital, judicial decisions, employer practices, rulers' dictates, and the decisions of the powerful -- all the stuff of politics.
I believe that makes very suspect those who want to privatize most of these very public decisions, who claim to trust "the market" to work things out, who want to leave the powerful alone and the corporate elites unregulated and to relegate solving poverty to private charity, and who want to further reduce political accountability on those who rule the economy and society by "making government so small it can be drowned in a bathtub," as they proudly claim as their goal. The question should never be just about "big" or "small" government, but rather about effective and smart government that has the ability to hold both wealth and power accountable to the common good.
But biblical politics is never just about the candidates either, and some have made that mistake in recent elections. Putting one's hopes in political candidates and parties has only led to disappointment, frustration, and dangerous cynicism. There are systems and structures that undergird and shape the limits of the political agenda, and challenging those limits to get to root causes and real solutions is always the prophetic task. It is always movements that "change the wind," and only a change in the political wind can change political policies in Government.
People of faith at our best may be the ultimate independents, engaged in politics only because of those moral issues that command our attention and willing to challenge all political sides on behalf of them. Moral independents will change politics more than will religious partisans, who make compromises on behalf of electoral victories. Fighting for justice, not partisan political goals, is the core of biblical politics -- and that will continue to be our vocation at Helping Hands Rescue Centre. Have question you may call: 08033399821 or Write [email protected] Stay blessed.
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The belt conveyor with feed is used for transporting all types of unit loads in case of inclines or declines. The feed enables a smooth transition at the lower kink of the belt conveyor, e.g., at the interface with a roller conveyor.The standard belt conveyor is equipped with a drum motor (BM 8443), a gear motor is available as an option (BM 8433). Not suitable for reversing operation.