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El Nuevo Camino del Rio de San Antonio
Thursday, October 29, 2009
My photos this week are from a walk I took down the recently extended portion of the San Antnio Riverwalk, which goes north from the original downtown section, past the San Antonio Art Museum and on to the Zoo and the Witte Museum. I haven't done all of the new part yet (it's a very long walk), but will soon, while the weather's cool. Eventually the Riverwalk will also be extended south, presentng a hike-able, bike-able paved path along the rive all the way to Mission Espada, the furhermost of the old Spanish missions.
As to our poetry, here's the cast and crew for this week.
Gregory Orr
Origin of the Marble Forest
A Moment
Dark Night
The Vase
The Hinge
Looking Back
midgetly lurking vulture pigeons
Dana Gioia
The End of the World
Paul Mills
Cornelia DeDona
Dim Sum in Chinatown
W. S. Merwin
Unknown Age
My Hand
What the Bridges Hear
Long Afternoon Light
a great night for football
The Inn at Tamagawa Station
Cornelia DeDona
Golden Tilapia
John Ashbery
Lost Footage
The Red Easel
tough love
Paul Celan
Cornelia DeDona
What Color Do You Breathe
Janice Gould
The Day of the Dead
all together, now
Cornelia DeDona
Boogey Fever
Philip Larkin
Annus Mirabilis
Cut Grass
about the politics of grumpity crapity old men
I start this week with several poems by another poet new to me,
Gregory Orr
, from his book
City of Salt
, published in 1995 by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Born in 1947 in Albany, New York, Orr grew up in the rural Hudson Valley and, for a year, in a hospital in the hinterlands of Haiti. He received a B.A. degree from Antioch College, and an M.F.A. from Columbia University.
He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including
City of Salt
, which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Poetry Prize in 1995.
He is also the author of a memoir,
The Blessing
, which was chosen by Publisher's Weekly as one of the fifty best nonfiction books the year, and three books of essays.
Orr has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2003, he was presented the Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Culture and Violence, where he worked on a study of the political and social dimension of the lyric in early Greek poetry.
He teaches at the University of Virginia, where he founded the MFA Program in Writing in 1975, and served from 1978 to 2003 as Poetry Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review.
I really do like this poet.
Origin of the Marble Forest
Childhood dotted with bodies.
Let them go, let them
be ghosts.
No, I said,
make them stay, make them stone.
A Moment
The field where my brother died -
I've walked there since
Weeds and grasses, some chicory
stalks; no trace of the scene
I can still see: a father
and his sons bent above
a deer they'd shot,
then screams and shouts.
Always I arrive too late
to take the rifle
from the boy I was,
too late to warn him
of what he can't imagine:
how quickly people vanish;
how one moment you're standing
shoulder to shoulder,
the next you're alone in a field.
A Dark Night
How I long to pull the old man in;
he's thrashing out there in the water,
he's drunk and can't swim.
Then again, maybe it's a dog
and he'll claw and bite me
as I lean from the small boat
to haul him up.
The splashing
so near and those sounds -
are they growls
or a humans choaked sobs?
How dark it is, how far I am from shore.
The Vase
Boredom and terror, and the older
I get the more terror arrives
dressed as boredom, wearing
the same clothes I wear to work
each day.
Returning, I empty
my pockets into a large vase
in the hall; bits of lint, scraps
of paper, loose change, a piece of string.
The vase is taller than I am,
blazoned with white chrysanthemums
and green, exotic birds in flight.
The Hinge
On it the whole world turns
if the world is a door,
and if the world is not a door
how to explain the movement
seen in the butterfly's
stiff wings
as it flutters
on a purple bush,
or the arms of lovers
thrown open
on their equally precise
And the hinge
screams as it yields
though no one's there.,
though it's only the breeze.
Looking Back
Marble pillars
of palace
or temple -
so what?
I've seen them
tumbled by vines
And our beautiful
bodies -
how long
will they last?
Shallow valley
where we
lay down
crushing a circle
in tall grass.
Above it
our ghosts
in rowboats
among low clouds,
letting it down
of sunlight with
tiny golden hooks.
Feeling a little silly a few days ago, and not so deeply inspired when it came time to write my poem of the day.
midgetly lurking vulture pigeons
like midget
city vultures
for an Iowa-farmer
to swoop through
the city streets
in a brilliantly-red
biplane, dropping corn
for midget-vulture-pigeons
or a puffing-steaming
spewing pink popcorn
from its puffy-steamer
or a grimly-grimy
trawler crawling on
little ballooning-tires
from street to street
shaking pinkly-pretty
popcorn shrimp
from its net all for
midgetly-vulting pigeons
lackadaisically ledgly-lurking
or Mr. Theodore Roosevelt-Shrimp
primly passing
in his permanently pressed
plaid shirt and
given to him on his 63rd
birthday by the late Mrs. Shirley
the love of his Shrimply life
all this
those pigeonly midgeted vultureous
lazy ledged lurkers
could be awaiting from their ledgerous lair
or it could be for something else
who knows what they might be
as they lurkishly ledgisly perch
not me
Next, I have two poems from
Earth Songs
, an anthology of contemporary eco-poetry, published by Green Books in 2002.
The first poem is by
Dana Gioia
, a poet and critic who retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full-time. From January 29, 2003, until January 22, 2009, he was chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, our Federal arts agency, working to revitalize an organization that had suffered bitter controversies about the nature of grants to artists in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Gioia sought to encourage jazz, which he calls the only uniquely American form of art, to promote reading and performance of William Shakespeare and to increase the number of Americans reading literature. Before taking the NEA post, Gioia was a resident of Santa Rosa, California, and before that, of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
The End of the World
"We're going," they said, "to the end of the world".
So they stopped the car where the river curled,
And we scrambled down beneath the bridge
On the gravel track of a narrow ridge.
We tramped for miles on a wooded walk
Where dog-hobble grew on its twisted stalk.
Then we stopped to rest on the pine-needle floor
While two ospreys watched from an oak by the shore.
We came to a bend, where the river grew wide
And green mountains rose on the opposite side.
My guides moved back. I stood alone,
As the current streaked over smooth flat stone.
Shelf by shelf the river fell.
The white water goosetailed with eddying swell.
Faster and louder the current dropped
Till it reached a cliff, and the trail stopped.
I stood at the edge where the mist ascended,
My journey done where the world ended.
I looked downstream. There was nothing but sky,
The sound of water, and the water's reply.
The next poem from the book is by
Paul Mills
, the poet, performance artist, rock journalist, and civil rights lawyers, known, I think, early in his career as "Poez."
Straight out of the Pacific
grooves of rock that peak the clouds with ice
splinter into rivers running East.
Cloud-forests melting in July,
the Amazon at its source,
jungle of island-fringes a horizon
dividing water and sky: two azures,
evolving soft ephemera of trees
through which monkeys crash, birds cry out,
howls liquefy, great white egrets
coil downward into extreme sculpture.
Here is where he river begins to move
headlong at terrible speed
into the earth.
Thrilling with Andes snow
delivering rainclouds, fruit, vines, water,
the vast drainage of Amazon seeks every outlet
inlet and lake, and moves through it
sometimes will not move
sometimes like to drift in a still depth fringed
by insect-floating growth, peacock fish
slothlike green canopies of trees.
But will reach salt water.
Dying into the earth's future,
Amazonas - living with its trees a few million years
together in their best of times secretly.
Alert to floating damage, torn-off roots
the shaman steers crouched,
a human rudder,
then in a liquid wilderness of glints
steering us through needles of black palm,
knowing where the simple secrets grow
trance-inducing vines,
eyes like beetles running among leaves
where trees flower -
So that night we drank his drug of bark
growing in our ears the drumming
of millions of insects, nightjars, frogs,
seemed like a city's steady traffic hum
heard from an open skylight or a street,
all sound vacuumed from the trees
into a jet of planet-circling air,
as over mountains our small plane
broke through the seal of mist
into a wide entrance of green heat,
rivers coiled like empty asphalt tracks.
father and son
- steering words,
moving upstream.
Alligator eyes
caught red in flash-beams in the reeds.
Upstream to the coolness of our camp.
The moment being given to us again -
that we were here and saw the rim of the galaxy,
a shapely arc,
huts on the shores,
after-sunset handling of nets,
all of it blowing through us gusts of elation,
sharp joy -
the Milky Way,
slant of the Southern Cross,
riding in that boat against the wind
I have four poems this week from our friend
Cornelia DeDona
. They are from her new book,
Boogey Fever
. You can read more about this book, as well as her previous two books at
Born in Germany and raised in New York. Cornelia, or, Connie, has lived for the past 32 yrs. with her husband in Hawaii. She has traveled extensively both here in the U.S. and abroad. She is a "Friend" to the National League of American Pen Women and the Friends of the Library in Honolulu. She subscribes to Blueline Poetry, an online poetry forum, where she posts a poem a day. She is also a member of the Academy of American Poets.
This is the first of our four poems from Connie. The other three will appear later.
Dim Sum in Chinatown
We met at ten thirty
on a Sunday morning
for Dim Sum - a bit of heart,
in a busy
Chinatown restaurant.
The Yum Cha
(drinking tea)
took me back to China.
To a trip of a lifetime.
To an industrious
dynamic people with
backs bent in two
using simple tools
to rebuild modern cities
reeking of
inadequate plumbing
and garbage strewn
To discern
these proud inhabitants
of decay
from five star hotels
with a hazy blackened view.
Where east encounters west
and rich confronts poor
devoid of
birds and trees
to block out the sun,
face to face.
inside the debris
lies the heart
of these proud
people as
a wrapper
rice flour
with pork
Seems like I'm doing a lot of
M. S. Merwin
, maybe because he is great to read, especially good at finding the truth of things in very few words. The next several short poems are from his book,
The Shadow of Sirius
, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2008.
Unknown Age
For all the features it hoards and displays
age seems to be without substance at any time
whether morning or evening it is a moment of air
held between the hands like a stunned bird
while I stand remembering light in the trees
of another century on a continent long submerged
with no way of telling whether the leaves at that time
felt memory as they were touching the day
and no knowledge of what happened to the reflections
on the pond's surface that were never seen again
the bird lies still while the light goes on flying
My Hand
See how the past is not finished
here in the present
it is awake the whole time
never waiting
it is my hand now but not what I held
it is not my hand but what i held
it is what I remember
but it never seems quite the same
no one else remembers it
a house long one into air
the flutter of tires over a brick road
cool light in a finished bedroom
the flash of the oriole
between one life and another
the river a child watched
What the Bridges Hear
Even the right words if ever
we come to them tell of something
the words never knew
for sunlight
for starlight
so at this moment there my be words
somewhere among the nebulae
for the two bridges across the wide
rock-strewn river
part way around the bend from each other
in the winter sunlight
late in the afternoon more than half
a century ago with the sound
of the water rushing under them
and passing between them unvarying
and inaudible it is still there
so is the late sunlight
of that winter afternoon
although the winter has vanished
and the bridges are still reaching across
the wide sound of being there
Long Afternoon Light
Small roads written in sleep in the foothills
how long ago and I believed you were lost
with the bronze then deepening in the light
and the shy moss turning to itself holding
its own brightness above the badger's path
while a single crow sailed west without a sound
we trust without giving it a thought
that we will always see it as we see it
once and that what we know is only
a moment of what is ours and will stay
we believe it as the moment slips away
as lengthening shadows merge in the valley
and a window kindles there like a first star
what we see again comes to us in secret
We had four beautiful days in a row last week - the challenge, to think of what to do with them.
a great night for football
another blue-sky
no-cloud day, cool
and calm, third
in a row, traffic on
San Pedro flows
like a rush of white water,
a river of urban escapees
in a hurry to take in
what looks like the best
weekend in the past and probably
future twelve months
is off for several days
of hiking and camping
in the Guadalupe Mountains,
dry and remote, hanging out on the
Texas/New Mexico edge between
high desert and mountains
the promise of a great football
night enticing us, Dee and i just
have to decide who we want to see
crushed tonight - both our preferred teams
in the cellar, fresh meat for the bloody maws
of this year's Goliaths - no Davids in our stable,
no deadly slingshot, no hand of God directing our aim -
it's a win/don't win situation, they win,
our guys don't, serving, instead,
only to be slain, to be smashed,
to be strewn in bloody body parts between
goal posts....
to be examples, in a political/philosophical sense,
of the fate of weakness in this land of tough and ready,
this field of great hits and end runs, this grand
wail of stomp the muthafuckers till they bleed
through their toes
a great day today and a great night ahead,
a great night for sleeping in the desert,
a great night for dinner and drinks
and some nookie under a midnight canvas
of more stars then there is time to count,
a great night for football,
a great night for some good Friday evening's
entertainment watching our children
beat the crap out of each other
Though born in Japan in the eighteenth century, the hermit-monk
lived and wrote firmly in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. The following poem is from a collection of his works,
One Robe, One Bowl
, published in it's fifteenth printing in 2005 by Weatherhill of Boston and London.
The poems in the book were translated by
John Stevens
The Inn at Tamagawa Station
Mid autumn - the wind and rain are now at their most
A wanderer, my spirit is inseparable from this difficult
During the long night, dreams float from the pillow -
Awake suddenly, I have mistaken the sound of the river
for the voice of the rain.
Carrying firewood on my shoulder
I walk in the green mountains along the bumpy path.
I stop to rest under a tall pine;
Sitting quietly, I listen to the spring song of the birds.
Early summer - floating down a clear running river in
a wooden boat,
A lovely girl gently plays with a crimson lotus flower
held in her white hands.
The day becomes more and more brilliant.
Young men play along the shore
and a horse runs by the willows.
Watching quietly, speaking to no one,
The beautiful girl does not show that her heart is broken.
Since I came to this hermitage
How many years have passed?
If I am tired I stretch out my feet;
If I feel fine I go for a stroll in the mountains.
Following my destiny, for this body I have received
from my parents
I have only thanks.
Near a Kannon temple, I have a temporary hermitage;
Alone, yet the intimate friend of a thousand green poems
written on the surrounding foliage.
Sometimes in the morning I put on my priest's mantle
And go down to the village to beg food for this old body.
At night, deep in the mountains I sit in zazen.
The affairs of men never reach here.
In the stillness I sit on a cushion across from the empty
The incense has been swallowed up by the endless night;
Unable to sleep, I walk into the garden;
Suddenly, above the highest peak, the round moon appears.
Day and night the cold wind blows through my robe.
In the forest, only fallen leaves;
Wild chrysanthemums can no longer be seen.
Next to my hermitage there is an ancient bamboo grove;
Never changing, it awaits my return.
Once again, many greedy people appear
No different from the silkworms wrapped in cocoons.
Wealth and riches are all they love,
Never giving their minds or bodies a moment's rest.
Every year their natures deteriorate
While their vanity increases.
One morning death comes before
They can use even half their money.
Others happily receive the estate,
And the deceased's name is soon lost in darkness.
For such people there can only be great pity.
My hut, located in a distant village, is little more than
four bare walls.
Once I was a mendicant monk, wandering here and there,
staying nowhere long.
Recalling the first day of my pilgrimage, years ago -
How high my spirits were!
The autumn nights have lengthened
And the cold has begun to penetrate my mattress.
My sixtieth year is near,
Yet there is no one to take pity on this weak old body.
The rain has finally stopped; now just a thin stream
trickles from the roof.
All night the incessant cry of insects:
Wide awake, unable to sleep.
Leaning on my pillow, I watch the pure bright rays of sunrise.
Now here's the second of our four poems from
Cornelia DeDona
Golden Tilapia
Your muscles are
and lean
Your piercing blue eyes are
and see
It is morning.
The throw net
is draped
your left shoulder.
As you
wait for the
precise moment
to hurl the net.
The first throw
directs the next
and with each pass
more and more
are harvested
and released
onto the dew soaked grass.
In their final struggle
to stay alive
they arch
and flip back and forth
across the void
to escape back
into the cool dark water
beneath the lily pads.
However their fates are set
filleted without delay
resulting in
one last swim
in hot oil.
Here are two poems by
John Ashbery
from his book
Where Shall I Wander
, published in 2005 by HarperCollins.
Ashbery is a modern poet about whom much has been written. I don't see a need for me to add to it.
Lost Footage
You said, "Life's a hungry desert."
or something like that. I couldn't hear.
The curving path escorts us
to Armida's pavilion. The enchantress.
She had everything built slightly smaller
than life size, as you'll find
if you sit in the chair at that table.
And clean - everything is terribly clean,
from the crumbs casting long shadows
on the breadboard, to the gnats churning in the open window.
We can't mask the anxiety for long,
but we can produce good and cherishable deed
to be ransacked by those who come after us.
True, no one visits anymore.
I used to think it was because of him, now
I think it's because of him and us.
We grow more fragile at our posts,
interrogating vacant night. "Who goes there?"
And he goes, "Nay, stand and unfurl yourself."
I thought, in the corner, in the canyon,
in the cupboard, was something that seized me
in a terrible but approachable embrace.
All was silent except the pedals
of the loom. from which a tapestry streams
in bits and pieces. "I don't care how you do it."
I can see the subject, an eagle with Ganymede
in his razor-clam claws, against a sky
of mottled sun and storm clouds.
From that, much vexation.
The Red Easel
Say doc, those swags are of the wrong period
though in harmony with the whole. You shouldn't take it too hard.
Everybody likes it when the casual drift
becomes more insistent, setting in order the house
while writing finis to its three-decker novel. Only when the polaint
of hens pierces dusk like a screen door
does the omnipresent turn top-heavy. Oh really?
I thought they had names for guys like you
and places to take them to. That's true, but
let's not be hasty, shall we, and pronounce your example
a fraud before all the returns are in? These are,
it turns out, passionate and involving, as well as here to stay.
I'm tired of putting up with grumpy people. Might have to get grumpy myself.
tough love
i think i must be an exception
since it seems every person
i see over age 40 is pissed off
about something,
85 percent of my relatives,
republicans, democrats, sinners,
saints, welfare mothers, business
chiefs, main street, back street,
side street, Wall Street, blue collar,
white collar, pink collar, all of them
pissed about one thing or another,
often at each other, about each other
like the guy
in the chair ahead of me at the
barbershop, getting his ears
lowered, pounding Armando,
the barber, with a litany of
sonsabitches screwing him one
way or another, down on
everything and everyone
but his wife, that single exception
probably only because she was
in the chair next to me, within
hearing distance of the verbal
rampage, probably accustomed
to hearing it all, the reason she's
always pissed off at him and
everything that pisses him off
because that's the reason
she has to spend days and nights
listening to his monologue - oh,
would that it would be internal,
crap, crap, crap, always living
with it, all the better things, the
beautiful things of life, pushed
into the shadows by his unending
rush of crap, knee deep
in his drivel all the days and hours
of her
i understand - 15 minutes of listening
to him while i wait my turn in the chair
and i'm ready to go slap the shit out of him
myself - grow up, man,
it's not the world's fault you're a dipshit,
i'd like to tell him, it's because of your
dipshitting ways, so quit complaining
and put on a happy face, a smiley face
like mine, see me smile, that's
the way you ought to be living, don't
let things get to you, follow my lead,
be like me,
pass it on
The next poem by
Paul Celan
, from the book of poems selected and introduced by Robert Hass from the anthology
Poet's Choice - Poems for Everyday Life
. The book was published by HarperCollins in 1998. The introductions by Hass are especially well done and helpful.
Celan was a Jewish poet born in 1920 and educated in the traditions of German poetry. He lost both his parents in the concentration camps and barely survived them himself.
He struggled most of his life with the contradiction of writing in a language he loved that was also the language of his family's murderers.
He committed suicide in 1970 when he was 49 years old.
Hass praised the translation of this poem by
John Felstiner
, particularly the way Felstiner allowed the poem to slip back into German at the end, a symbol of the poet's lifelong struggle with the language.
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening
we drink it at middday and morning we drink it at night
we drink and we drink
we shovel a grave in the air there you you won't lie too cramped
A man lives in the house he plays with his vipers he writes
he writes when it grows dark to Deutschland your golden hair
he writes it and steps out of doors and the stars are all sparkling
he whistles his hounds to come close
he whistles his Jews into rows has them shovel a grave in the
he commands us ply up for the dance
Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night
we drink you at morning and midday we drink you at evening
we drink and we drink
A man lives in the house he plays with his vipers he writes
he writes when it grows dark to Deutschland your golden hair
Your ashen hair Shulamith we shovel a grave in the air there you
won't lie too cramped
He shouts jab this earth deeper you lot there you others sing up
and play
he grabs for the rod in his belt he swings it his eyes are so blue
jab your spades deeper you lot there you other play on for the
Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night
we drink you at midday and morning we drink you at evening
we drink and we drink
a man lives in the house your goldenes Harr Margareta
Your aschenes Haar Schulamith he plays with his vipers
He shouts play death more sweetly this Death is a master from
he shouts scrape your strings darker you'll rise then as smoke to
the sky
you'll have a grave then in the clouds there you won't lie too
Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night
we drink you at midday Death is a master aus Deutschland
we drink you at morning and evening we drink and we drink
this Death is ein Meister aus Deutschland his eye it is blue
he shoot you with shot made of lead shoots you level and true
a man lives in the house hour goldenes Haar Margarete
he looses his hounds on us grants us a grave in the air
he plays with his vipers and daydreams der Tod ist ein Meister
aus Deutschland
dein goldenes Haar Margarete
deil aschenes Haar Sulamith
Now, here's number three of the four poems by
Connie DeDona
in this issue.
What Color Do You Breathe
I exhale a blue language
of nouns and verbs.
My syntax
frozen, in the atmosphere
hidden, on a cloud high above
Mauna Kea.
In search of exclusive metaphors
while observing the Nene
as it forages for food, between
the cracks and crevices of black and gold
lava flows, hardened by decades of cooling.
Now joined by violet joy bushes
and a profusion of bright green tree ferns,
still erupting into red phrases
congealing into the deep blue pacific,
crimson orange tongues ablaze.
No way I can publish on the day before Halloween without a poem for the occasion. This one was written by
Janice Gould
and it is also taken from
Poet's Choice
Gould is a poet from California of European and Koykangk'auwsi Maidu ancestry. She lives in Santa Fe and has taught American Indian literature at the University of Santa Fe in Albuquerque.
The Day of the Dead
I wish it were like this:
el dia de los muertos
and we fill our baskets with bread,
apples,chicken, and beer,
and go out to the graveyard.
We bring flowers with significant colors -
yellow, crimson, and gold -
the strong, hungry colors of life,
full of saliva and blood.
We sit on the sandy mounds
and I play my accordion.
It groans like the gates of hell.
The flames of the votives
flicker in the wind.
My music makes everything sway,
all the visible and invisible -
friends, candles, ants, the wind.
Because for me life ripens,
and for now it's on my side
though it's true I am often afraid.
I wear my boots when I play the old squeeze-box,
and stomp hard rhythms
till the headstones dance on their graves.
Here's some thoughts I came up while not sleeping one night.
all together, now
i lack
the imagination
to convince myself
of the existence of any kind of god,
but i am willing to consider there might be
more than one realm of being -
an earthly dimension where we, as
moral, thinking flesh-creatures, are
for all the outcomes of our life, entities
of blood and bone accountable
to the moral and civil standards of our time,
for how we treat ourselves and others - no one
to blame or praise but ourselves
for the course of our
however we imagine the dream of it,
this first dimension could be
only a temporary flesh-life,
just a phase we go through, both
product and precursor of
some communal existence,
a collective consciousness of all living things,
from stones in the field who grow and diminish
through the passage of time, to the sizzle
of lightning in a thunderstorm at night,
to tiny creatures whose flesh-life is limited to minutes,
to all the creatures of the forests and fields and
jungles and seas, and, finally, to you and me
the life most know, maybe
only a small portion of the life-eternal
unknown to all but the very few
of our blood and gristle kind,
the great masters, the root-finders, who
follow the path that puts them
in the flow of time
and life
Here's my final piece by
Cornelia DeDona
for this week, the title from her new book
Boogey Fever
Boogey Fever
I feel brash like a samoan crab
my limbs splayed,
tan skin pelted by fine sand.
The air warm and humid, as I
prepare for the adventure.
Lavender Oakley's perched
lizard like on the bridge
of my nose,
starting at the Mokulua;
I race into the crush.
I manage to escape
where the eager jellyfish
wait - to cling to ankles and thighs.
Quickly now
up to my chest,
I press forward and sideways
to watch for the swell.
I listen
to the pulse and pummel
against the shoreline.
Riding a locomotive
over the crest of a wave
thrust back to shore
over and over again.
Occasionally caught in a tunnel of water,
I somersault with the board
in a turbulent washer - spinning through past lives.
It releases me plunging and bobbing into the present
with sand dredged pores - old cavities filled.
I take a deep breath and roll onto my stomach
and paddle back out to savor another set.
Until finally I return,
eyes shining, wrinkled and blue,
to collapse
on that hot sand
and straw mat.
I wrote this one in a moment of utter desperation last week.
i have seen the
and it looks like the past
on cars
on houses
fins on animals
puppy dogs
with ears trimmed
like fins
then starched to stand up
like little puppy-sharks
lurking in gray waters
on kitties
with pointy ears
and tails sticking straight out back
like a '57 Plymouth
fins on squirrels
chattering in trees
fins on opossums
that sneak over your fence at night
to eat your pomegranates
fins on birds,
sparrows and pigeons and buzzards
and hawks and eagles
with little fin-tufts
on their heads like jays and cardinals
fins on horses and moose and bison,
elephant, lizard, penguin and emu
furry fins, feathered fins, scaly fins,
fins of angora wool,
and even peach fuzz fins
even babies
genetically modified
to have pointy ears like Spock
laid the side of their heads
like werewolf ears
not so hairy
all animals have fins
but fish
who adopt a more streamlined
'62 Porsche look
all of it,
world government
and the patterns of nature
by Finns from Finland
the only music allowed
on the radio from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. -
by Finnish composer
the new patron saint of all music
as dictated by the world government
in Helsinki,
capitol now not just of Finland,
but everywhere...
the final
on everything
i have seen the future
and it is not good
i have seen the future
and it is too much like the past
i have seen the future
but that's all i have to say
about it
so now i'm
Next I have a couple of poems by
Philip Larkin
from his delightful little chapbook,
High Windows
, first published by faber and faber in 1974.
Larkin was born in 1922 and grew up in Coventry. In 1955, he became Librarian of the Brymor Jones Library at the University of Hull, a position he held until his death in 1985. He received numerous awards for his poetry, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the W. H. Smith Award.
Annus Mirabilis
Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(Which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the
And the Beatles' first LP.
Up till then there'd only been
A sort of bargaining.
A wrangle for a ring.
A shame that started at sixteen
And spread to everything.
Then all at once the quarrel sank:
Everyone felt the same,
And every life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank,
A quite unlosable game.
So life was never better than
in nineteen sixty-three
(Though just too late for me) -
Between the end of the
And the Beatles' first LP.
Cut Grass
Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death
It dies in the white hours
Of young-leafed June
With Chestnut flowers,
With hedges snowlike strewn,
White lilac bowed,
Lost lane os Queen Anne's lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer's pace.
Here's a little closing essay i wrote just a couple of days ago on the politics of politics.
about the politics of grumpity crapity old men
was exchanging
some political contentions
this morning
with a very conservative
young woman
who prefaced her remarks
by saying she was part
of the Reagan youth movement
of the 1980s, a matter of evident
pride with her though i find it strange
that people might show such
pride in not learning anything since
they were children - as for myself,
when i was the age she was in the
1980s i loudly and passionately
proclaimed the truth of some really
stupid ideas, but not just stupid ideas,
a few pretty good ones as well, and
at least my ideas, good and bad, were
the ideas of my generation, not the
preoccupations of a bunch of
grumpity crapity old men who claimed
to solve the world's problems over coffee
every morning without ever demonstrating
any personal knowledge
of the difference between shit and shinola
and now that i, myself, am among the
legion of grumpity, crapity old men
saving the world over coffee in the
morning i at least have, despite
a few remaining shit and shinola issues,
the comfort of knowing i have lived now
for 66 years in the wild and wicked
gales that are the real world, the gales
that over the years blew away most
of my stupid ideas and reinforced
my confidence in the good ones
and i'm sorry my dear but the idea
that i might be as clueless now
as i was 40 years ago is not an
outcome i would wish
or boast about
So much for the Halloween. No big plans, may go to a costume party, dress up like a Republican, scare the crap out of everyone. But whatever happens on that dark night, we will be back next week.
In the meantime - usual disclaimer: all the material in the blog remains the property of its creators, the exception being anything created exclusively by me which you can do with whatever you want as long as you spell my name right...allen itz.
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The maestro hits a low note
A R Rahman reveals his inner-most anxieties and the trauma of being so popular
A R Rahman reveals his inner-most anxieties and the trauma of being so popular
It's the final day for rehearsals for the Rockstar concert in Mumbai. But A R Rahman looks a little distracted.
"Please, can all these people with cameras in their hands move out of the room..... we need to finish this and we have just a few hours," he snaps.
A R Rahman with wife Saira
Ever since his Oscars, Rahman has been shuttling between LA and Chennai and clearly life has never been the same. In an exclusive interview with Mid-Day, the maestro talks candidly about his deepest pains...
You've composed 14 songs for your latest film. The last time we saw those many tracks on one album was for Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!
Rockstar is about the evolution of a character from India and the songs tell his story. I have seen many Indian kids from middle-class families turning into rock musicians. After a point they hit a wall. The songs in this film track that journey. To depict the emotional catharsis a rockstar undergoes was the biggest challenge for me.
Is that emotional turmoil essential to create good music?
It's essential for any artiste. You have to be suppressed first, to be able to come out of it. Life's boring and mundane otherwise. For musicians it's easy to visit that pain because all you have to do is go to a particular raga.
Have you been to a point in life where you think it couldn't get worse?
Everyday. I can't explain, but everyday there's something that pains you. That's why I've tried to stay away from both happiness and sadness.
How do you manage time away from your kids?
Last year has been so hectic.
I was so overworked that I thought I was going to die. I want my kids to have a father, at least for some time. That's why I have had to reject many offers. I've stuck to Rockstar and just one other Hollywood film.
Will we ever see epic soundtracks like Lagaan or Rang De Basanti again?
I think the effort has to be wholesome. I can't just create beautiful songs, and expect them to work. If there is no story to back them, they won't stay.
It's been a new theme for you. You've never done rock music for Bollywood before...
I consciously kept away from using distorted guitars and heavy snazzy music. But I have done it here. Plus most songs are acoustic, so even if people don't relate to rock, they would enjoy them.
Is Ranbir a good rockstar?
Well Ranbir is a much better actor. He has been very enthusiastic and arrives at rehearsals promptly. I'm sure he'll look back 20 years from now and feel proud of this experience.
You're gearing up for yet another world tour and also working with the likes of Mick Jagger. Will we see less and less of AR Rahman?
There's a lot to learn from Hollywood, plus there is a lot to impart. I will only work with people who I feel understand my music.
...Like Danny Boyle?
Yes, like Danny. But I am not sure of his next film. He also has another music group called The Underground that he works with.
His Rockstar team says...
Ranbir Kapoor, actor: "I spent a lot of time at Rahman sir's studio and his home. He doesn't have a chip on his shoulder. So I was very comfortable. We'd discuss everything from cars to gadgets!"
Mohit Chauhan, singer: "I spent an entire day trying to record Sadda Haq with Rahman saab. But couldn't get it right. The next day, I did a take when he was yet to arrive and it sounded perfect. He told Imtiaz, 'May be Mohit doesn't like me.'"
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A graphic and engrossing screen conception of Edna Ferber's widely read novel, "Cimarron," was presented by Radio Pictures last night at the Globe before a keenly interested audience. In it Richard Dix plays that unique character, Yancey Cravat, poet, pistoleer, lawyer and editor, the man who is periodically attacked with the wanderlust. This picture, a stupendous undertaking in view of the time that is covered and the hosts of persons in its scenes, starts with the land rush forty years ago to the Indian territory now known as the State of Oklahoma. It ends in 1930 with many of the characters who were in the first scenes still surviving.Although it is episodical, it holds one's attention and Mr. Dix gives a fine impersonation of Cravat. Cravat's nonchalance and his impulsiveness may seem more than a trifle strange at times, but he is nevertheless a person to be remembered. He is consistently inconsistent. His sangfroid is remarkable, but he goes on until he comes to a tragic end.From the first to the last scene one is often stirred by this chronicle. It has its subtleties and it has been most intelligently directed by Wesley Ruggles. It gives a wonderfully impressive idea of the early days in the territory, from the time the hordes of persons on horseback, in wagons and on foot make the dash to lay out their claims on the signal of a pistol shot, to the gradual improvements that come to Osage as years go by. There is the indomitable Sabra, Cravat's sterling wife, who sticks to the newspaper that he starts in the early days to the last. No matter how gallant Cravat may be during certain interludes, it is invariably his wife who enlists one's sympathy.Imagine a husband who has deserted his wife and children to go to the Cherokee strip, returning five years later and asking his wife whether she missed him! And what's more, he discovers at the moment of his return that the notorious Dixie Lee, who tricked him in the first land rush, is on trial for her wayward conduct in Osage Sabra, like other women, is eager to have Dixie put in prison, but Cravat hastens to the court and offers Dixie his services as counsel and finally wins an acquittal for her.In a previous episode, Cravat is asked to read the church services. There is no place of worship, so the biggest building in the community is sought. It is a gambling hall, with grotesque pictures on the wall. Lon Yountis, who is responsible for the death of the first editor who came to the territory, is at the service, and Cravat seizes that occasion to denounce the murderer. Quick as a flash the repellent Yountis pulls the trigger of his pistol, but like Wild Bill Hickok's victims, he is not quick enough, for Cravat ducks behind the table and then sends a bullet through Yountis's heart.Cravat has other encounters, where it appears almost as though he alone fights a whole band of desperadoes. And when he kills the Kid, who had been his companion on other jaunts, he regrets that he had to do it.There are moments when one may feel that Mr. Ruggles banks too much on Cravat's unerring aim, but it is pardonable license and last night's gathering was never quite sure whether Cravat would lay his man low or himself meet an untimely end. He is winged in one encounter, which is rather clever, for in spite of Cravat's charmed life, until a closing scene, one feels that after all he might be a target for some desperado's weapon.The changes in the scenes as the community grows are done with a great deal of artistry. The place that was nothing but a scene with people erecting wooden shacks finally becomes a hustling modern town. And through it all one sees Sabra and The Wigwam, as the newspaper is called. There is the stuttering printer, who toward the end asserts that he has been forty years with The Wigwam, the longest time he has held any job! In the course of this lengthy film Cravat reveals his tolerance, not only in the case of Dixie Lee, but also when his son becomes enamored of an Indian girl. His editorial in favor of the redskin, which was frowned upon at first by his wife, is eventually reprinted every anniversary of its appearance, and when Cravat is away for several years, his name still stands at the masthead of The Wigwam.In harking back over this picture one is tempted to describe one of the sequences and then revert to Yancey Cravat, for some further deed of his that escaped the mind for the moment is remembered. And toward the close of the picture the spectator will in all probability find himself waiting to catch the last glimpse of Cravat, gray, wrinkled and aged, the victim of an accident.Irene Dunne is excellent as Sabra. Edna May Oliver furnishes some really clever comedy. Estelle Taylor does good acting as Dixie Lee. Stanley Fields gives a steady and convincing performance as Lon Yountis.
Oklahoma, Then and Now.CIMARRON, with Richard Dix, Irene Dunn, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil, William Collier Jr., Roscoe Ates, George E. Stone, Stanley Fields, Robert McWade, Edna May Oliver, Frank Darien, Dolores Brown, Gloria Vonic, Otto Hoffman, William Orlamond, Frank Beal, Nancy Dover, Helen Parrish, Donald Dilloway, Reginald Streeter and others, based on Edna Ferber's novel of the same title, directed by Wesley Ruggles. At the Globe.


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It may seem like an obvious question, yet many dogs don't practise a consistent recall… sometimes chasing, playing or sniffing around is much more interesting than coming back!
Recall can be a simple word such as the dogs name, or commonly 'come', 'here', or it can be a whistle which the dog associates with returning to the owner… but why is that a good thing?
In short, it can help us keep our dogs safe at home and outdoors. It also gives the owner confidence in being able to control their dog when needed, such as in moments of seeing livestock near by or avoiding your dog coming into contact with reactive dogs. Recall gives us a tool to use when your dog fancies rolling in poo, but you don't have the time to wash it off before work, or to stop your dog chasing another dogs ball.
In all situations it allows us to create stress free walks knowing that your dog will stay near by and/or return when called. It also protects other animals and people, alongside protecting our noses from our dogs choice of fox poo eau de parfum!
If your dog is reactive to people, dogs, bikes, joggers etc then a strong recall can also give you confidence in allowing your dog further away from you, knowing that if their trigger were to appear, you can call your dog back without any confrontation.
So that you have a consistent recall, it is important to practise in lots of different situations so that your dog responds when needed. A long line is perfect for allowing your dog to roam on walks, but keeps everyone safe until a good recall is established. The long line is used during training so that you can practise teaching the recall as it helps set your dog up for success, instead of the dog being able to run away, or continue playing. If you're a dog owner that enjoys the freedom of walking without a lead, it can be frustrating to use a lead… however, the ultimate goal is to achieve a lead free walk. The lead is only in place to ensure the dog and other people/animals are kept safe, and to avoid those 'Oh, s#!t' moments.
Teaching your dog recall is fun because there are so many games that you can play with your dog that strengthens the response to name. It's also a way of developing trust with your dog, as it doesn't also mean that the lead is going back on! It means that there is going to be a game or a treat, or maybe just to check in. It's a way of engaging with your dog on a walk and enjoying your time together 🙂


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By: Elena Grace Flores
Aiza Seguerra's recent marriage proposal to her girlfriend, Liza Dino was like a love film between two women. It was accepted wholeheartedly by the families of both parties and there were not much violent reactions from the dominantly Roman Catholic citizens of the Philippines. Here's the news when Aiza asked Liza to be her partner for life:
Aiza surprises girlfriend with wedding proposal
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MANILA – Singer-actress Aiza Seguerra and girlfriend of one year, Liza Diño, are now engaged.
A friend of the couple, Toni Co, shared videos and photos of Seguerra's proposal in a series of posts on Instagram and Twitter. The proposal took place Friday at the Teatro Hermogenes Ylagan at University of the Philippines-Diliman. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/02/08/14/aiza-seguerra-proposes-girlfriend
This love film in real life can't be criticized anymore although opposed by the church. We can really feel that the world is changing. Love and understanding were bestowed more instead of ugly criticisms. Nothing more is greater than that. When we learn to give love rather than hurt to others, it's a good sign of spiritual maturity!


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Congratulations go to Archie B (Year 8) and Alex C (Year 7) who have been selected to represent the Prep Schools' Lions district football A squad in their respective age groups.
A huge well done also goes to Zach K (Year 8), James F (Year 8), Lucas F (Year 8), Torin T (Year 7), Dario H (Year 7), Callum T (Year 6) and Daniel BP (Year 6) who have made it into the Prep Schools' Lions development squad.
The standard at the trials was very strong and the selectors had a difficult task of picking out the best 18 players in each age group for the A Squads from 152 boys at U12 and 181 boys at U13. It is a fantastic achievement and great to have so many Caldicott boys involved.
The Prep Schools' Lions is an initiative set up to support the most talented footballers from the independent school sector across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey at U11, U12 and U13. The boys will have the opportunity to represent their area and a chance to play in matches against Academies and other regional teams to further their football skills.
In other football news, Caldicott wishes the best of luck to Zach K (Year 8) and Harry M (Year 8) who have made it to the final round of the Independent Schools Football Association (ISFA) U13 South Central selection process. Their final trial will take place at Ascot United on Sunday.
'A huge congratulations go to all the boys who are have been selected in the Prep Schools' Lions Squads and those who have been selected for the final round of trials for the ISFA District Team. They have all worked incredibly hard to get there and will relish the opportunity to play with and against many of the best prep school footballers in the South East. As football is one of the three main sports at Caldicott, alongside Rugby and Cricket, we are very proud of the achievements of the boys and the progression they make throughout the seasons. Football is thriving and is an important part of the Spring Term calendar. It has been pleasing to see the determination and enthusiasm from the boys in striving to develop their technical skills on the ball and within their teams.' - Josh Blagden, Head of Football
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My favorite minion was Tim the Minion. But Dave the Minion was pretty cool too.
Also Kevin the Minion. And Phil the Minion. And Bob the Minion, Stuart the Minion, Jerry the Minion, Mark the Minion…
Actually, all the minions were my favorite minion.
Despicable Me is worth seeing just for the minions.
They make the movie.
I don't just mean that they're cute and likeable and the source of endless sight gags.
The minions are key to making Gru, the evil genius who is the despicable him of the title, sympathetic as a villain.
It's a given that the three young orphans Gru "adopts" to help further his plot to steal the moon and prove he is the greatest villain of our time will melt his heart and cause him to change his evil ways. So, wisely, the filmmakers don't spend much time on showing us Gru's not such a bad guy after all. The little girls do what we know they're going to do but they do it by being Gru's antagonists. As in they antagonize him, deliberately and accidentally, and for at least the first half of the movie the question is when they will bring about his change of heart but how much trouble they will cause him and how much he'll put up with before the inevitable happens.
The girls are presented as another occupational hazard for a professional villain.
It helps that Margo, Edith, and Agnes have minds and needs and an agenda of their own and they don't act as if they "know" it's their job within the story to turn Gru into a good guy. As far as they're concerned, it's Gru's job to do that for himself by taking care of them which he's required to do because he is the grown-up and they are the children.
It's only in the movies that children make it their business to be responsible for grown-ups.
But from Gru's point of view, the girls are simply components in the complicated machinery of his scheme and they're causing him headaches---not to mention other sorts of aches and pains---by refusing to be managed as components.
In every evil scheme, things will go wrong. A smart villain expects setbacks and is ready to adapt. Frequent returns to the drawing board are a routine part of the job. The girls turn out to be more trouble than they're worth. They're getting in the way. And the filmmakers expect us to understand and sympathize with Gru's frustration.
They've got us rooting for Gru's evil scheme to succeed even as we're looking forward to his change of heart.
We're meant to sympathize with Gru just as we're meant to sympathize with Wile E. Coyote---and as Oliver Mannion pointed out on the way out of the theater Sunday, many of the things that go wrong for Gru along the way as he pursues his schemes are straight out of Looney Tunes.
Of course, we don't want the coyote to catch and eat the road runner. Well, most of us don't. But he puts so much effort into it and suffers so much that we can't help feeling sorry for him.
We don't feel sorry for Gru in that way. We want him to steal the moon and we feel sorry that he has to go through so much trouble.
That's because Gru is a professional and a craftsman.
Wile E. Coyote improvises all the time and his various schemes are bought and prefabricated. He expects the genius as ACME to do his work for him. Gru is a thoughtful, careful, hardworking villain. We can't help feeling he deserves to have his plots succeed.
The point I'm taking too long to make is that Gru truly is despicable. He's a bad guy. And the filmmakers don't expect us to overlook that. They want us to like him, but not in spite of the fact that he's a villain, and not because he's really a hero on the wrong path. They want us to like him because he is very good at being a villain.
The girls help us see that. The contrast between Gru and his arch-nemesis, Vector, helps even more.
Vector is every bit the evil genius Gru is. But he lacks discipline. Gru's evil scheming is his vocation. With Vector, it's an indulgence.
Everything about Vector signals his laziness. His flopping Moe Howard haircut, his fanny pack worn front ways round because it's too much trouble to have to reach behind, his orange track suit, his boneless slouching, this is a self-indulgent child-man who can't be bothered. He's an evil genius because it beats working for a living.
Here, Gru is helped out by the animation. He is an aesthetic anomaly in his own movie. All the other characters are short and rounded, either cuddly or squishy, with oversized heads that cause many of them to look squatty and crumpled as if collapsing under the weight of their own noggins. Gru is drawn evilly, dark and scary, but he's also tall and taut and his lines are trim. Stylistically, he owes much to Charles Addams and more to Edward Gorey, and although he's a broad in the shoulders and chest as Bluto, he still has a Gorey character's fluidity. This is a villain who knows how to move. Tall, strong, and supple, he's macabrely heroic in his villainosity.
But it's the minions who sell us on Gru as a secret good guy. They are absolutely devoted to him and giddily happy in their work. On Gru's birthday he probably gets a thousand mugs with The World's Best Boss on them and they're all heartfelt and well-meant and he appreciates each and every one.
Gru may be an evil genius but he's smart enough to know the value of a good employee.


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We were reviewing the following code for part of a membership site I've been working on when another developer pointed out that I used a goto and this was evil. The code is:
The goto is to handle a "shouldn't really happen" case (somebody sending us a session id which is invalid). I like the use of goto because it doesn't distract from the "normal" case which a loop would. He suggested:
Personally I think this is harder to read and it makes you read through to work out how the loop is exited.
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Industrial lighting market size is estimated to witness significant gains by 2023. The growth in the industry can be attributed to rising population, increasing income and swiftly urbanization. In addition, proliferating concerns for insufficiency of resources along with climate changes might positively impact the industry growth over the few upcoming years.
Asia pacific industrial lighting market is estimated to be the largest as well as fastest growing region from 2016 to 2023. It was valued more than USD 1.5 billion in 2012 and it is anticipated to reach USD 2.5 billion by 2023. The growth can be subjected to rising number of industries across the region.
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The industry involves high use of various lights such as incandescent, halogen, linear, fluorescent lamps (LFL), high-intensity discharge lamps (HID), compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), organic light emitting diode (OLED) and light emitting diode (LED) technology. It can be further segregated into certain sub-technologies namely metal halide, high-pressure sodium and cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL).
Proliferating programs are anticipated to offer huge energy optimization opportunities to end users as well as utilities. In addition, it aids in cost savings and also helps various industry participants in reaching their energy conservation goals. The global industrial lighting market offers various lamps with varied features such as intensity, dimensions & design and function. In addition, it also offer lighting solutions based on reliability, efficiency and superior performance.
Circular fluorescent and linear lamps are greatly used in manufacturing infrastructures to enlighten indoor shipping and receiving bays, production areas, warehousing and distribution operations. It mainly involves the usage of HID and incandescent lamps owing to which industrial LED lighting market is estimated to experience low penetration rate in this sector.
Various industries have diverse lighting specification that varies from specialized task lighting to varied lighting levels. In addition, lighting specification can also be done based on cost and the colour rendered by light. Certain criteria for choosing lighting system for industrial use include retrofit, upgrade or relight. Retrofitting involves reuse of old fixtures and it is limited only to ballast and lamp improvements. Upgrading the existing fixtures proves to be a better solution at times. This can be done by installing new ballasts and lamps, replacing or installing reflectors, cleaning reflecting surfaces and by replacing diffusers and lenses. Relighting involves more resources when compared to retrofitting. It entails the complete replacement of the existing system. As of 2015, industrial firms are estimated to undergo loss of USD 1.5 billion, owing to inappropriate application of lighting systems.
Regular maintenance of these systems aids in cost saving and also helps in maintaining the light systems. Effective use of these systems assists in cost optimization. Industrial LED lighting market facilitates energy consumption, high cost compared to other lighting solutions might pose as challenge to the industry growth; however, the expected LED price erosion should see a surge in units sold. Flourishing R&D is anticipated to pose potential growth opportunities to the industry players over the forecast period.
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North America was valued around USD 1.5 billion in 2012 and it is likely to witness moderate growth over the forecast period. Europe industrial lighting market was valued around USD 1.4 billion in 2012. It is likely to witness moderate growth owing to the debt crises in the region. It is estimated to reach USD 1.7 billion by 2023. Latin America was valued around USD 120 million in 2012. It is anticipated to exceed USD 150 million by 2023.
Key industry participants occupying significant industrial lighting market share include Siemens, Philips, GE Lighting, OSRAM Gmbh, Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc., Crompton greaves Ltd., Havells India Ltd, USHIO America, Inc. and Litetronics International, Inc. among others.
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Season two of Gotham continues to go darker and episode two, Knock Knock gives us the Maniax (!) run by Jerone, the soon to be Joker. The episode was a brilliant mix of horror, dark humor, pathos and some tear-inducing bonding moments between Alfred and Bruce. Last week's season opening set up the "new" Gotham City PD and this episode shot it to pieces.
In short order, the Maniax explode into the news in Gotham and create havoc. A group of victims thrown off the roof of the newspaper building, a school bus full of cheerleaders doused in gasoline and almost set on fire and the Gotham police department shot to rag doll ribbons by Jerome and the rest of the Maniax, sans Barbara ensures some massive media coverage.
Away from the death and mayhem going on in the city, Alfred and young Bruce have a massive falling out after the butler busts up the computer in the secret office. Wayne fires Alfred, although they do later reconcile and things shift between the two. Pennyworth will now train Bruce, in earnest, and he must also repair the computer.
Once Wayne and Alfred "make up" the butler then convinces Bruce to put him in charge. Pennyworth then approaches Lucius Fox, first to warn him, then to request that the man fix the broken computer.
*Sidenote* The bar scene contained the most awkward sounding dialogue ever to come from actor Sean Pertwee. The whole "tuck you up like a kipper" scene sounded stilted and, to be honest, is not a phrase heard by this reviewer once in over 32 years in England. Whoever came up with this whole scene should do their homework on how former soldiers actually talk. Just saying…me old sausage.
After Lucius and Alfred reach an understanding, the butler buys a drink for Mr. Fox (Chris Chalk) and the bartender, a touch of jolly old English "pub etiquette."
Nygma continues his transition into The Riddler and while his two halves fight for control, he is still in love with Kristen (Chelsea Spack). Later he manages to impress Miss Kringle by saving her life in the Gotham City Police Department massacre.
Jerome (played with gleeful gusto by Cameron Monaghan, who appears to be channeling all of the prior screen jokers into his version of the wonderfully catchy criminal) gets all the best lines of the show, and some of the best (blackly) comic moments.
The moment on the school bus where Jerome "leads" the cheerleaders in a very short chant:
"Give me an O."
Jerome fires his gun.
"I said, give me an O."
"Give me an N."
"Give me another O."
"What does that spell?"
Jerome starts spraying gas all over the bus, "Oh No!"
The little question on "N" is comedic magic, albeit very dark comedic magic.
Knock Knock gives us an insight on many characters. The almost orgasmic interest in the Russian Roulette scene by Theo Galavan (James Frain), Barbara's sense of sadism (who knew that Erin Richards could be so much more fun as "Bad Barbara?"), Harvey's realization that he really is a cop regardless of what he tells himself.
Overall, the dark humor in this episode was well done: Tabitha and Barbara are whipping the Mayor (who still has the "box" over his head) with cat-o-nine tail whips. They run him into a wall and he falls down and lays still. After telling the girls to leave the "poor mayor along" Galavan continues.
Theo: "You haven't killed him have you?"
Tabitha: "No I don't think so."
She hits the prone mayor on the stomach with her whip and he groans.
Tabitha: "Nope, hanging in there."
Season two is rolling out the mythos of Gotham nicely. On top of all the infamous baddies and their origin stories, the series is setting up the Pennyworth/Wayne dynamic beautifully. It may be a little schmaltzy but these two performers, Pertwee and young David Mazouz have a great chemistry together and do feel a little like surrogate father and son.
The death of Essen was grim, but what a fighter! Her seated head-butt to Jerome was worth a cheer and then she tops it with the "That's gonna leave a mark" quip. Major kudos to actress Zabryna Guevara who just killed it in her scene with the future Joker. Effortlessly.
By the time end credits rolled, Kringle brought Nygma an aspirin, Bullock put back on the badge and gun, the Maniax are down by two and Jerome has his first public broadcast. As the madman says, "Hang on to your hats folks cause you ain't seen nuthin' yet."
Gotham airs Mondays on FOX, miss this and miss some of the darkest and exciting television on offer.


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Microsoft Office 2010 Hits Stores Worldwide
After years of development and beta testing, Microsoft Office 2010 is now available for purchase by consumers worldwide.
Microsoft Office 2010 hits stores today with three versions: Home and Student, Home and Business, and Professional. In stores, the versions will cost $149.99, $279.99, or $499.99 respectively, but by downloading the software and just purchasing a Key Card, the price drops to $119.99, $199.99, and $349.99 respectively.
The newest version of Microsoft's productivity software provides some major additions and upgrades to the 2007 version, including Outlook Social Connector and new multimedia editing tools. The biggest addition is Office Web Apps, a slim but very functional version of its desktop counterpart that allows for live document collaboration, online storage, and integration with Hotmail and other Microsoft products.
The release of Office 2010 comes one month after Microsoft Office 2010's upgrade release and two months after it was released to manufacturing.


text: 238 Arctic Yearbook 2014 In a Statement addressed to BMP dated 21 April 2010, ICC Greenland formally lodged a complaint with the Government of Greenland stating that based on ICCs experience with the Cairn Energy Drisko West Drilling Programme, the hearing process "points to contradictory, confusing, persuasive, hurried, and possibly deceitful" practices (ICC Greenland 2010). As accounted by ICC Greenland (2010), representatives were invited on short notice to three meetings within the span of 15 days. The first two were promoted as informational only, but during the first meeting on February 1, 2010, BMP representatives left the meeting later explaining "government representatives should not be present during the meetings with others." ICC Greenland was then questioned by representatives from Cairn Energy, the global consultancy firm Environmental Resources Management (ERM) and other industry agents, none of which had been revealed to ICC Greenland prior to the meeting, giving the impression that the meeting was something other than "informational." The second BMP invitation was relayed by email and a phone call asking to meet again the next day on February 2. At both meetings ICC Greenland stressed that they did not consider the meetings to be a formal consultation, and that their remarks should not be included in ERMs Social Impact Assessment report (SIA). When ICC was then invited to a third meeting promoted as a "consultation" on February 15, they declined citing the short timeframe and lack of sufficient resources to properly prepare. Against ICCs insistence, ERM not only quoted, but also misquoted ICC several times throughout the SIA report. ICC Greenland noted that it was unfortunate that "time constraints and lack of financial resources" prevented them from conducting a thorough review, thus unable to make a "valuable contribution to the substance of the project." The ICC Statement expressed broader concerns such as weakness in the broad public hearing; lengthy technical reports (greater than 50MB) that were either too big to download or too costly given the capacity of Greenland's Internet; or non-technical summaries that leave out critical information and deemed "sloppy." In total, based on ICC Greenland's experience, they consider the process as a fundamental violation of human rights, not only for Inuit but also for all indigenous peoples throughout the world. Following Cairn's discovery of oil from one of its drill holes off the shores of Western Greenland, Aqqaluk Lynge remarked, "We really need a democratic infrastructure in Greenland," and proclaimed, "these are not in place" (George 2010). Subsequently, ICC Greenland partnered with Oceans North Canada to commission an independent review of Cairn Energy's offshore drilling program in Western Greenland. The technical analysis conducted by Harvey Consulting (2013), argued that the Government of Greenland, specifically BMP, obscured information from public view, citing "chronic delays," missing or redacted documentation and an overall attempt by BMP to avoid public scrutiny of the "response and contingency plans that in theory are designed to protect the public and the environment" (Inuit Circumpolar Council 2013). ICC Greenland, however, did not rely on its partnership with Oceans North Canada alone to make the point that the Government of Greenland was woefully remiss in its attention to the public consultation process. In 2012 ICC Greenland partnered with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) again to drive the point that Greenlandic authorities, which are viewed as pro-business, have largely based the decision-making process on economic gain. Gitte Seeberg, the Secretary General of WWF Dingman


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I'm a 26 year Christian full of faith and nowhere to go with it, With 0 Comments, Category: Church News, Church Reform, Latest News, Married Priests, Women in the Church,
Why the Catholic Church has been lost to my generation
I'd like to start off by saying that for as long as I can remember I've believed in and whole heartedly loved God. When I was younger I used to think that my faith could possibly be effected by what other's believed or in fact didn't believe. I now know that is certainly not the case, if you have a true faith in God you should find comfort in that and not need others to believe the same or be troubled if they don't. When I was in school we were taught about Martin Luther, who in 1517 grew so heartbroken with the behaviour of the church that he split away from it. The Catholic Church was selling indulgences, actually selling them, its 500 years later and I challenge someone more knowledgeable than I am to tell me whether or not the Catholic Church is better shape now than it was then?
"Justification by faith alone" was Martin Luther's teaching, as I understand it he believed that if you have true faith and were good to others you would be welcomed into Heaven. I have to say I can see little wrong with that logic. The Catholic Church is an organisation that's organised in a way that say's to the world Women are less than men, that they are inferior and aren't close enough to God to carry his word. God gave women the ability to create life, they are powerful beyond measure, it could therefore be argued that they are far more qualified to represent God on earth than men are. The Catholic Church is an employer openly discriminating against gender, if they were a company they would be sued. Tell me why Google or Amazon is held at a higher moral standard than a church?
The only atrocity of homosexuality is how gay men and women are treated by religious leaders. Love is Love and it's the greatest gift god gave us, how could we possibly expect anyone to restrict how they express that. You only have to be human to understand Love isn't something we have much control over. What's the difference between asking a straight Man to decide to Love a different women and asking a gay Man not to love a man. It's ok to be Gay but just don't practice is bullshit. The people of Ireland have spoken, we are all equal, and that's that. Or is the Catholic Church being so bold as to say God made a couple of mistakes along the way, where I'm sitting that's blasphemy.
The point I'm about to make about Priest's not being allowed Marry is not much different. Let's just start with the reasoning, as I understand it, it's because a priest is confined to Christ. It wasn't introduced until the 12th century, so I guess all priest's before that were just cheating on God. Let's just call a spade a spade, Catholic priests can't marry because the Church Identified that if Priests have families when they die there would be someone to inherit their belongings, and they would have to pay them more so they could support said families. As far as I'm concerned Jesus didn't marry because he was too busy dying for our sins. How with a straight face can anyone be asked to withhold themselves from being in Love and having a partner to walk through life with?
Expressing all this has already made me angry and I haven't even spoken about how women with kids out of wed lock were treated in our country by the Catholic Church. Or the big one, paedophilia. There are bad people in this world, evil people. I guarantee every big organisation in the world has them. It's not that they existed within the church that truly bothers me it's the people that covered it up that really upsets me. Edmund Burke said "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". The devil came to the door, and instead of fighting him off the church leadership just opened up, because fighting is hard.
A lot of what I've said has been the truth for a long, long time, so what's the difference between my generation and all the others before us. Why has the church lost us? Part of it is that simply at some stage people need to just say, enough. But honestly the answer is that my generation in Ireland is more educated than any before us and the internet has changed the game. Of course I didn't already know that it was in the 12ft century when celibacy was implemented but it took me 10 seconds to find out.
The jig is up, the race is run, it's time for change right now and lots of it. As things stand I'm a 26 year Christian full of faith and nowhere to go with it. My Dad was a Catholic priest, the most deeply religious person I know, he left his role because he fell in love and thank god he did because if he didn't I wouldn't be sitting here writing this. He never should have had to make that choice in the first place. As a result the church lost out big time, he's a beautiful person, full of endless compassion, understanding, forgiveness and patience. Because of those traits he will keep fighting the good fight for the changes that need to happen. I'm afraid I'm not as understanding or as patient so I'm done. But I'll pray that while I'm still on this earth I'll be enabled to change my mind.
Neill Mac Carthaigh
Neill is the 26 year old son of Tony MacCártaigh (pictured together at an NBA game)


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Startup Activity report shows San Diego moving up to the 9th best start-up locations. The index looked at:
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Movement up for San Diego means the city is improving as a place to do business. This is important for drawing in fresh talent and ensuring that new companies are growing and thriving in a way that lead to jobs a few years down the road.
As a nation we also seem to be starting more companies that we did previously. This can make a difference between a successful nation and one that fails. American must maintain its entrepreneurial approach if it wants to lead markets and maintain its competitive position against new challenges.


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For our water treatment task, we could find no providers. Can you help us?
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With the acceptance of eCommerce, retail is the most sought-after vertical in Africa. And what African retailers need is an integrated omnichannel retail management software that addresses all requirements of a growing retail chain. Visitors at the CitiXsys booth will get to experience the omnichannel capabilities of a suite of retail applications and how it can power everyday retailing.
After registering for the event, you will also be eligible to download iVend Retail's latest infographic 'eCommerce – The Next Big Thing'.
CitiXsys Arabia's Consulting Manager Keith Morrison will be helming two presentations on Omnichannel and Loyalty during the Confex.
eCommerce's role in the Omnichannel Environment
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These were inspired by the chickpea and coriander burgers I saw on the BBC good food website, a great source for finding new recipes, and the famous Jack Monroe kidney bean and carrot burgers.
I included chickpeas instead of kidney beans, a grated carrot, and my mum suggested using some of the frozen spinach – an excellent suggestion. I spiced it up with curry powder, which I currently have in abundance. I didn't want to buy eggs to bind my mixture, as I wasn't planning to use eggs anywhere else during the week so I used mashed potatoes instead. It also provide my source of carbs, having decided not to eat this as an actual burger.
I served these patties with some roasted brussels sprouts and peas so all in all it was a very green dinner.
Cooked 8 medium sized patties
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 30 minutes
- Oil, 3 tbsp (for onions and lightly frying the patties) [5 p]
- 400 g chickpea tin, drained and rinsed [25 p]
- 1 large potato, chopped (I left the skin on) [46 p]
- 1 small onion, finely chopped [12 p]
- 3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped [6 p]
- 200 g of frozen chopped spinach [30 p]
- 1 carrot, grated [10 p]
- 1 tsp curry powder [3 p]
- Salt, to taste
- Chop the potato and boil until soft to cut (around 15 minutes).
- Meanwhile, chop and fry off the onion and garlic until softened.
- Add the frozen spinach and when its cooked add the curry powder. Leave aside.
- In a mixing bowl, roughly mash the chickpeas.
- When the potatoes are done, mash and add to the bowl of chickpeas along with the onion spinach mixture and season.
- Mix everything really well
- Take a bit of the mixture, roll into a ball and flatten them slightly ready for some gentle frying and do the same with the rest of the mixture
- Fry off the patties for a couple of minutes until golden brown on both sides and serve with a choice of your sides
I froze a couple, should I need it later in the week to eat as a snack. Next time, I would add some fresh herbs either coriander or parsley along with some lemon to make it a bit more refreshing. This cost me roughly £1.40, around 17 p for each patty.


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