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To my loyal readers,
I want you to know that I have exported this blog to a new blog. The new address is: http://hesalsich.blogspot.com
I will be using this new blog from here on.
Teaching, Living, and Learning
Hamilton E. Salsich II
Saturday, September 07, 2013
"Mr Borthrop Trumbull [an auctioneer] had a kindly liquid in his veins; he was an admirer by nature, and would have liked to have the universe under his [auction] hammer, feeling that it would go at a higher figure for his recommendation."
-- George Eliot, Middlemarch
Years ago I knew a man who was bedridden with a gruesome disease, but somehow, to my amazement, he was able to be what Eliot's auctioneer was, an admirer by nature. He told me he had only so many years left to live, only so many minutes in which to admire the world around him or heap scorn upon it, and he chose to admire. He said it's exhausting to constantly find fault with what's happening, and he would rather relax in his admiration for the gifts this world gave him than wear himself out with complaining. Looking back, I guess he was lucky to have, like Borthrop Trumbull, "a kindly liquid in [his] veins", an approving and thankful nature that found something to praise in just about everything. Yes, he knew there was evil in the world, and there was failure and insufficiency and malfunction, and there were disappointments and duds aplenty, but he also knew, as he often told me, that there are so many more successes and wonders and heroes. He said that finding fault in everything is like seeing flaws in sunrises, or getting a gift of a great amount of money and making a fuss because it's not $2.00 more. He said he would rather work his hardest to find some satisfaction in his situation than rage against it. Life, he said as he struggled to sit up in his bed, is far too short to spend it in grumbles and grievances. There's sunshine to be seen in even the darkest days, and, from the bed he was confined to, he was out to find it.
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
Lately, I've been noticing, and thinking about, people who don't seem to be winners. I pass them each day – the people with forlorn looks and stooping shoulders, those for whom life seems to be an overwhelming weight. I see them in the news – the increasing numbers of those with no job, the vast numbers of impoverished families, the millions of forsaken refugees. They seem to be ever-present, these people who carry such distressing burdens on their shoulders, who seem to have simply lost the game of life. Sadly, when I was teaching, I saw them in my own classes, too, though certainly not to such extremes. I saw the kids who had no friends, who spent recess by themselves, lost in their own breakable worlds. I saw the students who never seemed to "make it" in school, the ones who got C's semester after semester, who never seemed to be "winners" at anything. Sadly, it's so easy to fail to notice these kids. The winners -- the 'A' students, the class leaders, the well-liked kids -- take up so much of the spotlight that the ordinary, everyday students often get left outside of the light. Like the outcasts of the world – the homeless, the poor, the peculiar – these disregarded students, I guess, must always struggle by themselves to bring some small, unnoticed distinction to their lives.
Tuesday, September 03, 2013
On this, the first day of classes at my former school, this freshly retired teacher was a struggling new student at a different kind of school. For far too long this morning, my wife and I worked as hard as I've ever worked at learning something new, and, looking back, it looks like I was strictly a C student. The school was the Westerly YMCA, and the class was called "Silver Sneakers", a name that doesn't come close to suggesting the kind of mystifying exercises I was called upon to carry out. This was a class advertised as a relatively unproblematic approach to conditioning for seniors, but, to me, that's a little like saying hikes in the White Mountains are promenades in the park. From the first minute, I felt like I was 14 again and floundering in a class beyond my skills. As the skilled and spirited teacher called out commands, I stumbled and fumbled and flayed around. When she wanted our feet to move to the right, mine went left; when my hips were supposed to swing in circles, they threw themselves back and forth like total flops as hips. It was like 9th grade math class all over again: I couldn't understand the teacher's sentences, everyone but me was making it seem easy, and all I wanted was to stay out of sight in the far back and break free from that room as soon as possible. I was an unsure and confused student, like maybe a few million others in these early weeks of school. My message to other befuddled students: Stay brave. If a furrowed old fellow like me can learn something new, so can you.
Monday, September 02, 2013
"In the beginning was the word" is a Bible phrase that always seemed strangely associated with my duties as a teacher, and today, as my former colleagues look forward to launching a new school year tomorrow, I'm thinking of how lucky they will be to feel the force of words in their classrooms. I guess we could say that words stand at the beginning of all things in classrooms. All lessons, exercises, readings, writings, quizzes, tests – all discussions, debates, arguments, speeches, lectures, comments, and remarks start with the force of a few words. Even the thousands of thoughts that arise during a given class period are constructed with words, as buildings are built with boards and stones and steel. Words are a sort of camouflaged force in the classroom, a force that kindles thoughts and carries conversations, a force that stands ready at the starting line of everything teachers and their students do. In fact, it has always seemed to me – and I often shared this with my students – that students and teachers do business with the strongest power in the universe. All wars start with words, as do all friendships, adventures, transformations, and triumphs. A world without words is a garden without daylight, a seed without soil. I'm grateful that I found myself, for 45 years, surrounded in the classroom by the everlasting liveliness of words, and tomorrow I'll think happily of the teachers in my former school as they and their students set forth on another educational mission, with the steadfast assistance of spirited and inspiring words.
Sunday, September 01, 2013
|"Sunset at Little Salmon, Yukon",
watercolor, by Jackie Irvine
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Several years ago, I tried my best to help a friend who was feeling unloved by someone whom he dearly loved, and I recall that a reassuring thought about his situation came to me, one which I shared with him. It occurred to me that my friend was thinking of love as something private and personal. He seemed to be thinking of love as a commodity, a material substance, like money, for instance, something private that could be given from one person to another, something he could then personally own and keep and treasure. His friend had given him her love, much like you might give a special gift, and now she had taken it back, and he felt forsaken and lacking in love. What I realized, and what I shared with him, is that love is not at all private or personal. It sounds crazy, I know, but it struck me as an undeniable fact: love is totally impersonal, simply because it doesn't belong to any one person, can't be owned by any person, isn't made by any person. It's not a material "thing" that can be constructed, given, and then taken away. An analogy that came to me is the air, which is everywhere and is freely available to everyone, just like love. No one would think of saying to someone, "I own this air I'm breathing, and no one else can have any of it." The air can't be privately owned, and thus can't be given and then recalled, and nether can love. Both air and love are just there –always and for everyone. While my friend was feeling unloved, all around him love was being breathed in, enjoyed, and then expressed – by his friends, by his family members, by his estranged loved one, by her family, by millions of strangers, and, of course, by him. My friend, like all of us, was absolutely surrounded by love, but he, like many of us, couldn't see it and feel it, because he wanted it to be private, his own, something he could stockpile and stow away. As with many of us, he wanted the love to be for him personally. He wanted to own love and keep love, and he felt like his loved one took it away from him. The truth is, though – and this is what I shared with him – that no one can take away any of the love that surrounds us. Love is wider and wilder and bigger and more boundless than any one person. It's with us always, like the endless air. When we're despondent and desperate, the air is still there, waiting for us to breathe it in, and so is love. The love may not be specifically and personally directed toward us, including my friend, but that's just because it's too immense, too never-ending. My friend's loved one had turned away from him, but the love that she and all of us are part of was still with him. He couldn't possibly escape from it, just as he can't escape from air.
The years have passed, but I still hope my friend can always, come what may, breathe in the undying power of free-of-charge, freewheeling, and limitless love.
Friday, August 30, 2013
The word "acquiescence" often carries a negative connotation – a sense that a person is reluctantly giving in – but it's interesting that the word derives from the Latin for "quiet", which offers a fresh perspective on it. When I acquiesce to whatever's happening in my life, perhaps I've simply decided to settle into a quiet but powerful posture of acceptance. Perhaps it implies embracing even the worst situations with poise and self-respect, and then studying them and trying to learn from them. Rather than necessarily suggesting a submissive attitude, acquiescence may actually stem from understanding that saying yes to the universe's plans for me can prepare the way for a wider kind of wisdom. I may not always love what's happening in my life, but bowing to it can bring the inner quietness and light that learning something new often produces. I might even drop the 'a' in the word. Perhaps I want to keep the quiescent kind of life I seem to have fallen into, a life marked, not by the sluggishness that sometimes shows up in retirement, but by a powerful kind of peacefulness, which often can come from just accepting what's happening. I guess I've slowly learned to extend a greeting to problems instead of opposing them, partly because acceptance is simply more restful than resistance, but also because working with a problem instead of against it seems to make my old life, in little and large ways, more triumphant day by day. Back in my youthful 50's, I was often stressed and frenzied from fighting with problems, but now, in my fairly hassle-free 70's, I'm putting out a hand of welcome to trouble, just to see what possiblities it might present.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Delycia and I have been reading The Education of Henry Adams together, and I was thrilled today to read that Adams enjoyed working with his Harvard students because sometimes "their minds burst open like flowers at the sunlight of a suggestion." His metaphor made me see, for a moment, the millions of students whose minds, every so often, will be unfolding in fresh ways in their classrooms this year. There will be classrooms full of youthful, flourishing minds everywhere, minds made for the sole purpose of blossoming with bright new thoughts – and the slightest suggestion from a teacher can start the process. In these first weeks of my retirement from the middle school classroom, I will daydream, now and then, about these gardens of good young minds and their teachers. I will see students stretching and spreading out like the flowers in Delycia's garden, and teachers trying their best to stay abreast of all this full-of-life sprouting and blooming. I won't miss it, because my wife and I will be doing our own special blossoming, but I'll see it in my daydreams sometimes.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
As we sat at breakfast this morning in the sunroom, great groups of birds were storming our feeders or sitting silently on the bushes below them, hoping for a shot at some seeds, but every so often, they would all rush off in a flash and a furious flap of wings. If you weren't looking, it almost sounded like a sudden wind, as if a piece of a storm had swiftly passed. It called to mind the moments of my life, usually the stirring ones, that seem to quickly come and go, those short-lived seconds of excitement that burst up as if on wings. I can be calm and quiet, resting in the center of my familiar life, when suddenly I'm flying off with some free-wheeling thoughts. Where these wild flocks of thoughts come from, I have no idea, and neither do I know where the sea of sparrows and finches swept in from this morning. There's a mystery about where these surprises came from, just as there's a mystery about where love comes from, or goodness, or sincerity, or the power to be there forever, if needed, when a friend's life falls apart. We can be sitting in silence somewhere, and suddenly we feel the great force of kindness filling us, or we're swept away by the wings of wanting to make the world better. With thoughts like these, of gentleness and benevolence, it can happen just that suddenly, like the throng of birds breaking away from the feeder in a sudden, wonderful flurry.
Monday, August 26, 2013
Today, while I was waiting for my evening college class to begin, I sat in a lobby at the college surrounded by humming snack machines, and it started me thinking about the humming minds of students and their teachers. For three hours on fifteen nights my students and I will be together in a small room, and, though each of us will sometimes be silent, our minds will always be making the steady sounds of earnest thinking. That's what minds do: they silently hum like hardworking snack machines, making endless refreshments, you might say, for our thought-hungry lives. After all, we live on thoughts, all of us. Our thoughts feed us, fill us with spirit and vision, and free us to find new ways to widen our lives. Whether we're working on an important project or just enjoying an idle afternoon, our minds are manufacturing thoughts that can carry us a thousand miles in a milisecond. Our minds are mechanisms made of a wild kind of wisdom, and they hum with the liveliness of limitless snack machines. I must keep this in mind as I make my way with my students through this class. In the deadest, most soundless moments of the class, our always animated minds will be beating the drums of thoughts and throwing thinking parties inside us. Silence and dullness on the outside, perhaps, but inside, always the purr and pulsation of spirited thoughts.
Friday, August 23, 2013
I saw many kinds of excitement on this summer day. First, there was the excitement of seemingly dozens of goldfinches fluttering around our feeders before breakfast. I'm sure they were simply going about their regular and relatively lackluster eating routines, but there did seem to be a special passion in their rushes and dashes back and forth. They seemed somehow delighted with their flits and flutters, pleased to be pecking at seeds-for-the-taking, almost gleeful to get so much from one backyard. This was followed by the subdued and sweet-tempered excitement of two silver-haired retirees sharing breakfast together. It was simply omelets and toast and tasty coffee, but it caused a soft explosion of exhilaration inside each of them. They were lucky to live with each other, and lucky to like omelets together -- and this simple thought thrilled them. Then, after breakfast, these two tried-and-tested old timers took to the lovely roads of Stonington on their bikes, pedaling with pure joy, and joining forces to show old roads what old riders can do. No one will believe me when I say I saw trees shaking with praise as we passed and hummingbirds having a hard time keeping up with us. No one will trust me when I talk of taking hills as easily as straightaways, and finding valleys full of breezes at our backs. It was a ride full of senior-citizen excitement on a day when even omelets made two old folks flutter with pleasure.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Thou were not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown."
-- John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"
It's always been interesting to me that Keats places an emperor and a clown side by side, and, when I was teaching, I often thought of this puzzling pairing as I paced around my classroom in my commanding, sometimes puffed-up manner. Keats suggests in his poem that there isn't really much difference between an emperor and a clown, and I gradually came to see that the same might be true for a teacher and a clown. The emperor pretends to be stouthearted and shrewd, while in his heart, if he's wise, he secretly sighs at his own pompous foolishness, and something similar often happened to me when I was teaching. I saw myself standing before my students like some sort of sage or sheriff, but at the same time I saw the clown in me, the jester who joked with self-absorbed Mr. Salsich to help him see that he actually didn't know much about anything. In this way, teaching gradually became, for me, a sometimes joyous play-acting experience, in which, as the teacher-actor, I controlled my classroom to create at least an impression of expertise and wisdom, while the prankster inside me, the one who knew that most things are, in the end, altogether mysterious, wandered around in continuous amazement. I worked hard as a teacher, but I also was able to smile at my silly sense of self-importance. I realized, as the years passed, that I was just one infinitesimal role-player in the vast drama of my students' lives. I enthusiastically played my role of literary prince and pilot for my students, sincerely hoping to help them in significant ways, but the clown in my heart gradually got the truth of things, and smiled and sat back.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
|"What Kindle?",
oil, by Brenda Ferguson
Reading George Herbert's 17th century poem called "Prayer" the other day, I came across this phrase -- "plummet sounding heaven and earth" – and started wondering what would happen if I used an imaginary plummet (or plumb bob, as it's now known) to measure my reading. What would happen if I "sounded the depths" of a few of my favorite works of literature? How far down would the plumb bob have to drop to touch the very bottom of the meanings and reverberations of a Shakespeare play? And where is the bed, the final truth, the bottom substructure of an Emerson essay? And would my plumb bob just keep descending into the depths of a Dickens novel forever, falling past one interpretation after another, one opinion after another, one scholarly treatise after another? Can there, in fact, be a final, last-word foundation for any work of literature, or is serious reading always a process of sailing on a fathomless sea? Herbert's plumb would be useless when I'm navigating through Wordsworth or George Eliot, so I may as well leave it on shore and just take pleasure in the immeasurability and mystery of the expedition.
Friday, August 16, 2013
On the road I sometimes find myself behind a slow driver, and within seconds I'm usually simmering a little, much the way my students probably silently simmered when I made them read -- actually study -- a book like To Kill a Mockingbird very slowly -- paragraph by paragraph, sentence by sentence, sometimes even word by word. Many of the students, I feel sure, would have liked to rush through the plot of Harper Lee's novel as quickly as possible and then rush on to the next book, just as, when I find myself slowed almost to a standstill behind a leisurely driver, I grow anxious to push on with the business of the day. Like most of us, I want to get where I'm going quickly so I can quickly get to my next goal, and then my next, and on and on, and I fear many of my students thought of reading in a similar way. They were accustomed, perhaps, to reading a novel mostly to find out what happens, and then starting another one to find out what happens, and so on and so on. Things were very different in my rather measured and deliberate English class, and I sometimes saw, with some surprise, the similarity between languid, dilly-dallying drivers and my own teaching methods. A sluggish driver ahead of me was like old Mr. Salsich and his infamously slow style of both reading and teaching. The slow-moving driver made me slow way down so I had nothing better to do than take pleasure in the drive, and I made my students slow down as they traveled through the pages of the beautiful and far-reaching novel. Sometimes, in fact, we came to a momentary halt among some splendid sentences; indeed, sometimes we even stopped to observe and discuss a single paragraph for an entire class period! "Let's get going!" my students must have been silently screaming as the minutes crept along and the English class bus remained at a standstill beside a few sentences, and I want to yell something similar as I crawl along behind an unhurried and perfectly satisfied driver.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
After walking with Delycia this afternoon up and down the small hills in the shoreline village of Noank, it was reassuring to recall the simple fact that for every uphill there's a downhill, and for every struggle there's eventually some sort of peace. I puffed and panted up the hills by the sea, but coming down, I loosened up and felt my breath flowing freely. It was work on the uphill, but almost like merrymaking on the downhill. This is a little like life, I was thinking later – this cycle of labor followed by leisure, turmoil followed by at least a touch of tranquility. There will always be uphill climbs in my life, and they will always bring sweat and distress, but each will lead, in due course, to fairly free and easy downhill runs and at least a short-lived rest. It's good to know that beyond all my mountains will be brief but easy sloping trails.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Since one dictionary says that the definition for "sing" is "to make musical sounds with one's voice", it would seem that all of us are singers when we speak. Unless we say words in absolute flatness, our words rise and fall in subtle but sometimes very noticeable rhythms. Every spoken sentence is a song, if I listen with attentiveness. When someone speaks of sorrow, the spoken song is usually a slow one, with a melody that moves like sadness does. When the words speak of gladness, there's a supple and lightsome sound in the spoken sentences, like a melody made for a lighthearted song. Even the plainest and most modest among us speak words that sing precisely the moods we're feeling, and even those of us who have never sung a "real" song make our special music with every spoken sentence. I just need to listen. There are spoken songs shared with me each day – by store clerks, by passersby, by anyone wanting to pass around a few thoughts in words spoken with the simple cadence of sincerity.
Monday, August 12, 2013
"O mountain friends!
With mine your solemn spirit blends,
And life no more hath separate ends."
-- John Greenleaf Whittier, "Lake Winnipesaukee"
Since I often feel like I'm seeking separate objectives from everyone else, as if my goals, or ends, were given to me alone and I must make my way toward them on my own, it was wonderful to come upon these words of Whittier yesterday. On the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee, the poet came to understand the truth that, in fact, there are no "separate ends" anywhere – that all of us who share this universe also share the same goals. We are all seeking, every second, a stronger sense of being simply what or who we are. All of us – all people, animals, winds, and stars – are steering, in our special ways, toward being the best possible people, animals, winds, and stars. All of us are looking for light in a sometimes dark world, for comfort where comfort often seems far distant. I can pretend that my goals are solely mine, but that's a sham that surely diminishes me. The truth is, as Whittier discovered beside the lake, that not one of us strives separately from others – that all of us who share this impressively mystifying universe strive step by step in a sometimes unseen but everlasting togetherness.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
"She said she was just beginning to understand her selfishness."
-- Sarah Orne Jewett, in "Miss Sydney's Flowers"
I don't think I'm any more selfish than the next person, but strangely enough, like Miss Sydney in Jewett's story, I seem to be just starting to understand my particular type of selfishness. I'm not an unusually greedy or grasping person, and I do show a reasonable concern for others, so I don't think my personal kind of selfishness is especially spiteful. No, what I'm beginning to see, ever so slowly and clearly, is that I am selfish simply because I'm consumed with concern about my "self", the supposedly separate and distinct person I call "me". I'm starting to appreciate the fact that most of my thoughts, for all these years, have been about this "self", hoping to either protect it or enhance it or use it to stand strong against others. Somehow, over the long years of my life, I've steadily nourished the notion that nothing is more important than shielding and strengthening this small, separate self called "me" -- and now, in my 70's, I'm just starting to understand how irrepressible this preoccupation has become. This, to me, is selfishness of a high order, and it's something I want to hold up in a light, look at clearly, and then hopefully leave behind. This meager and insignificant "me" which has occupied so much of my time for 71 years must be set on the scrap pile where it belongs. The only "self" I want to support and make stronger in my senior-citizen years is the one called "the world", the vast and mysterious marvel of which all of us are indissolubly a part. That would be a commitment, a dedication, worth undertaking, far more praiseworthy than the shallow pledge to protect and bolster a silly little "me".
Friday, August 09, 2013
"[Maggie] saw it was Dr. Kenn's face that was looking at her; that plain, middle-aged face, with a grave, penetrating kindness in it, seeming to tell of a human being who had reached a firm, safe strand, but was looking with helpful pity toward the strugglers still tossed by the waves, had an effect on Maggie at this moment which was afterward remembered by her as if it had been a promise. The middle-aged, who have lived through their strongest emotions, but are yet in the time when memory is still half passionate and not merely contemplative, should surely be a sort of natural priesthood, whom life has disciplined and consecrated to be the refuge and rescue of early stumblers and victims of self-despair."
-- from George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss(my italics)
I have often been accused of excessive idealism (I happily embrace the description), so my appreciation of this passage will not surprise my friends: I entirely agree with what Eliot suggests about the role older people, including older teachers, can play. For instance, I took pleasure in the fact that, in my last years as a teacher, in my 60's and early 70's, I could show "a grave, penetrating kindness" toward my students. At that point in my life, it was not a silly, irresponsible kindness, one that simply wanted to win over the students and become their "friend", but rather a kindness that had some weightiness behind it and could sometimes penetrate into the heart of a situation. It was a kindness, I might say, that wore work gloves instead of kid gloves, a kindness that delivered itself to the students more like strong medicine than a sugary soft drink. In Eliot's words, I felt like I had, in some sense, "reached a firm, safe strand", from where I could, indeed, offer a helping hand to the "strugglers", my sometimes scatterbrained, befuddled, and brave teenage students. Having lived 50+ more years than they, I had been there, done that so often that I could, to some degree, show the way to the wandering souls in my classes. Perhaps, as the author suggests, older teachers, like I was, can stand before their students like a "promise" – a guarantee that the darkness can eventually become a little lighter. She uses the words "natural priesthood", which might smack of egotism and false pride, but there may be some truth in the idea that a senior teacher can fulfill the role of a "priest", who, to use the original Greek definition, could be thought of as simply an "elder", someone who's been through the wars, survived, and returned to offer instructions and warnings. And after all, don't these young people in our classrooms need that? Don't they need, in the midst of the mayhem and dread of these times, to hear words from the enduring veterans of life's wars, words that carry gravity, kindness, and a promise?
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Recently, as people were leaving a family celebration, I heard someone say the party was "very good", and I said to myself, "Yes indeed, and so is everything else." I've thought a lot about that over the last few years, because finding something good in everything has slowly become a fundamental goal in my life. It's not an easy task, not with so much sorrow and mourning in the world, not with misfortunes and disasters seemingly everywhere – but still, it's a search I'm set on pursuing. I want to uncover goodness even where sadness seems most devastating. I want to see the kindness that's created right where wickedness has done its worst. This is essentially a first-class universe I'm living in, a place designed far more for success than disappointment, and I'm looking for the successes even inside the disappointments. For sure, I've seen my share of sorrow, and sometimes, of course, it's been hard to see the secret victories concealed beneath it. Where there's heartbreak, it's hard to talk of hope; where there's gloominess inside, as happens to all of us, liking one's life seems a far distant daydream. However, I continue to be convinced that thoughtfulness and goodwill will give me a new start after every setback. I continue to search for the seeds of goodness that can always push up through the weeds of unhappiness. When things seem bad, compassion is still ready to give me its best. Seeing the goodness sometimes requires a serious search, but for me it's a stirring and satisfying search.
Sunday, August 04, 2013
|"Drifting Clouds", oil,
by Becky Joy
Friday, August 02, 2013
He smiled when the sky cleared
and the calls of the birds
became milder and more contented.
He knew that no one can know
the prizes that will be presented
in the next moment, or
how many mysteries will be solved
in this hour, or how holy
the whole world is. He knew
that nothing can surpass
the surprise of having
a heartbeat, or holding
another person's hand,
like he does sometimes
before sitting down to dinner.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
In Book 6 of The Prelude, the poet William Wordsworth writes of "a flash that … revealed / The invisible world", and it occurs to me that it might be the kind of flash that happened occasionally in my English classes. It's a fact that English teachers and their students, since they work mainly with words and ideas, often concern themselves with the unnoticed, the masked, the invisible. There are times when they're like explorers in the world of the unseen. In a way, they are part-time clairvoyants, using a human being's peculiar ability to see beyond normal sensory contact – in their case, beyond the outer shell of words on a page and into the concealed country of their meanings. English teachers, of course, are visible as they sit at their desks in the classroom, and their tools are certainly visible – books, paper, pencils, digital devices -- but they do most of their labor in the kingdom of ideas, those ghostly gift-givers that flit through our lives with spirit and influence. A visitor to my classroom might have seen a fairly uninspiring sight – a group of teens and a bald guy quietly communicating with each other – but what they wouldn't have seen is what's special. Under the surface of the seemingly commonplace conversations, unseen and pristine ideas were always dancing around – not because I was any better than any other English teacher, but because that's what happens when adults and kids converse about words written in wonderful books. It's like science fiction, really – a strange, clandestine universe just inside the doors of great books, and behind the doors of almost any English class.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
|"Garden Fountain and Flowers",
oil, by Mary Maxam
Though I'm far from being a wealthy retiree, it's reassuring to know that, barring an absolute disaster, there will always be enough resources available to supply my basic needs – and I'm not just talking about material resources. Yes, I have set aside enough money to keep myself moderately sheltered and safe, but I also have another supply of trustworthy resources – one that can't be exhausted. In addition to my IRAs and Social Security and scattered investments, I also have the inexhaustible endowment of inspiring thoughts. When a need arises, there will be sufficient money available, as well as – and just as important – sufficient inspiration. I will be able to access both dollars and encouraging ideas. In fact, while I'm only modestly comfortable financially, I am, like all of us, fabulously wealthy with enriching ideas. They overflow before me, always, and all I have to do is notice them and say "Welcome". They're a fountain of invisible resources, these everlasting affirmative thoughts that are always swift to stand me up and show me the way.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Over the last few years, I've occasionally listened to old time radio shows on the Internet, and they always take me happily back to my boyhood in the less worrisome times of the 40's and 50's. As I listen to "The Challenge of the Yukon", starring Sergeant Preston and his loyal husky, King, I'm carried back to 1517 Holly Drive, the pleasant house where we stretched out on the floor each night to listen to our favorite shows. Hearing again the kindly voice of Mr. Keen, tracer of lost persons, brings back warm memories of times when things seemed less wearing – days when an unsophisticated fifteen-minute radio show left you ready for another eight hours of easy sleep.
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Giant Speakers
Each year, my wife and I attempt to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life in chilly New England and jet off to some island in the Caribbean where warmth and rum drinks abound. This year it was Puerto Rico, which, unlike our Turks and Caicos visit last year, promised not only warm waters, but also the lush, forested geography of the central mountains. T&C has Grace Bay, the unparalleled beach of fine white sand on arrestingly turquoise waters, but inland, whatever isn't irrigated by a hose turns to scrub.
Provo: Look Out!
In the San Juan area, we gave ourselves a few days to lie around and hide from the sun's UV rays at the resort, then managed to put some energy into renting a car and heading inland to take in the "Ruta Panoramica" – the series of roads that wind across the center of the island from east to west. One always has high hopes for these sorts of quasi-foreign road trips, imagining the startling vistas that await the adventurous soul, despite the fact that all the books say don't look at anything but the road in front of you and drive around 25 mph.
The first bit of trouble on our escapade came almost immediately: we had been advised by Enterprise Rent a Car to use the electronic lane whenever we came upon a toll booth, and every time we did red lights flashed and buzzers went off. Once off the highway and heading up into the hills, we found ourselves stuck behind a huge garbage truck for mile after mile. Soon, we encountered more trucks, and eventually road work in the middle of nowhere. Once past the construction, we took the first wrong turn we could find and ended up in the unremarkable southern town of Guayama. We made our way back to the highway and through more flashing and buzzing toll lanes, and finally reached our lunch destination, the town of Aibonito, which had worse traffic than downtown Boston. We dumped our car and sought out a lechonera on foot in order to get a plate of the legendary Puerto Rican suckling pig; failing that, we landed at a so-so lunch spot outside of town called Tio Pepe's. By then, it was just about time to head back to Isla Verde lest we hit serious rush hour traffic in San Juan. Too late, as no matter which back road we took, we were confronted with more traffic, including this noisy fellow:
The laughter you hear is mild bemusement borne of fatigue and exasperation. Thankfully, we had one more day to lie around and read our books, which was the reason we'd gone on this trip in the first place.
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By any standard, Abraham Kuyper was a giant of the Reformed faith and the national life of Holland during the second half of the nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries. Like most of Europe, the Dutch society into which Abraham Kuyper was born had been greatly affected by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Seeing these as destructive influences on both church and state, Kuyper sought to implement a Calvinistic worldview that would stand against a purely humanistic philosophy.
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Although this work does become weighty at times, I recommend it for its historic content and also as an aid in understanding the continuing debate of the place of the Church in the life of the nation in which it exists.
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Oddworld brainfather Lorne Lanning has revealed that Just Add Water is working on a full HD remaster for the classic PlayStation title, Abe's Oddysee. On the one hand, it's sad to see that it won't be an all-new game. On the other, it'll be cool as Hell to see that game in HD.
"Abe HD is going into production," revealed Lanning. "It's basically Abe's Oddysee being redone in a 3D physics engine as a 2D side-scrolling platformer. So the way Just Add Water wants to approach it, we thought was very smart; they are not trying to reinvent any wheels. It's like, 'Can we make that experience in a new engine, with new tech, in the old way?"
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Unfortunately, women often miss the mark and lose the chance to exchange the kind of kiss that sparks a significant connection. Most of us are convinced we are good kissers — even if we're not. (This is true for men too, of course!)
It isn't completely our fault, however. Usually, if we suck at kissing (no pun intended), our guy usually doesn't have the cojones to tell us we're no good in the make-out department and we go on being a bad kisser for years.
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If your girlfriend is a bad kisser, give her a Kissing 101 class, albeit subtly. While you are kissing her, tell her what you like and show her how to do it by doing it to her.
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I honestly haven't driven this much over the past 2 weeks as its been very very very rainy in Northern Florida. I was supposed to drive up to TN and run the tail of the dragon last a little over a week ago but I had to bail last minute as the AC (or what Lotus calls AC) died on me. Just needed a recharge and a fuse swap.
Anyways, I've had this weird rattle on deceleration that I've been chasing down and based on what Ive heard and some recommendation on the forms I decided to replace the motor mounts.
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It took care of the rattle on decel but my god does the rest of the car rattle at idle and low rpms now.
Might switch back to the hem front mount for street use. A few guys have runt this setup and said its a good mix for street use.
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If you're a Texans fan, and for some reason you decided to take a nap around kickoff last Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts (and I can't imagine why you would, other than that the outcome of Texans games in Indy seems to be predetermined), and then woke up on Tuesday morning, it had to be a pretty jarring experience.
I mean, when you decided to take your 40 winks, Ryan Fitzpatrick was your starting quarterback and Tom Savage was waiting in the wings. When you woke up on Tuesday morning, Case Keenum was a Houston Texan again and you were forced to surf Thad Lewis YouTube videos to find out who in the hell he is.
This had to be how the guys in The Hangover felt when they found the tiger in the bathroom, right?
So here we are, Week 16 of the NFL season, the Texans are 7-7 and their entire quarterback depth chart has been blown away like the Soprano crew at the end of Season 6. Case Keenum
is your starting quarterback once again could be starting on Sunday -- CASE KEENUM! -- and yet mathematically the Texans would remain alive in Week 17 with a win over the Ravens.
I can't give Bill O'Brien a final grade as a head coach in his first season with the Texans, but I can say he does seem to have a "survivor" vibe to him. Against much more talented teams, his team fights to the end of games, and in an AFC playoff race where they have one of the thinnest rosters, here they are in Week 16 with a chance.
According to people good at the math, it's like a 6 percent chance, but a chance nevertheless. That said, as we get to the best bets, on Sunday I'm taking....
Ravens -5 over TEXANS I am working under the assumption that three months on the St. Louis Rams' practice squad hasn't transformed Case Keenum into a consistently capable NFL quarterback. I will grant that Keenum, in his eight starts last season, was sporadically capable. He had those great first halves against Kansas City, Indianapolis and Arizona. He made a few plays against Oakland and New England. But I won't bet on "sporadically capable." Not against a team that gets after the passer (third in the league in sacks) and with a receiving corps that is basically banged-up DeAndre Hopkins, recently concussed Andre Johnson and a bunch of guys who wouldn't get on the field for the Titans. Sorry.
Lions -8.5 over BEARS So i get these emails every week that outline some trends for the games on Sunday, and these trends normally help me formulate my selections. And the primary metrics in the trends email say the Lions are in a total ambush spot on Sunday against the Bears:
* Lions 4-26 SU last 30 road games vs. NFC North (11-16-3 ATS) * Lions 5-17-1 ATS last 23 games as road favorites (0-3 SU & ATS L3)
And yet, all I can think of is this....
The Bears' starting QB this Sunday ... pic.twitter.com/Y0oU2xkzXq
— Sean Pendergast (@SeanCablinasian) December 18, 2014
I mean, if you're picking this game, do you really trust this douche nozzle to back up the immutable laws of math?
Bears' new starting QB has won MULTIPLE RINGS, yo ... pic.twitter.com/hIxGjg2CJd
— Sean Pendergast (@SeanCablinasian) December 18, 2014
Answer: Hell no.
Vikings +6 over DOLPHINS This time of year, if I'm going to back a team that's mathematically eliminated, I want to back a team that still feels like they're playing for something. With a rookie quarterback (Teddy Bridgewater) who's been the top rookie QB this season and a first-year head coach (Mike Zimmer), the Vikings are still looking at 2014 as a building block toward 2015. Ironically, the Dolphins are the team still alive in the playoff race in this game, and they feel like they've given up on the season. I'll take the six points gladly in this game, and will probably take the Vikings to win straight up as well.
PANTHERS -3 over Browns Ten for 18 for 80 yards, and two horrific picks? Yes, Johnny Manziel has immediately been moved onto the "I need to see it happen with my human eyes before I back him in a road game" list. For the record, I still think his T-shirts at $15 are a good value, though...
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Colts/COWBOYS OVER 55 I'm not sure who's going to win this game on Sunday, but I am virtually certain there will be points scored. Lots and lots of points. The OVER is 9-1 in Indy's last ten road games, and despite going 3-1 straight up in their last four, Dallas has allowed nearly 30 points a game. If there's no DeMarco Murray (or limited Murray), it means the Cowboys will be throwing the ball, which either means lots of chunk plays down the field to Dez Bryant and Terrence Williams. I hate both teams, but I love both offenses.
Seahawks -7.5 over CARDINALS Since losing to the Chiefs in Week 11, the Seattle defense has allowed a total of 27 points in the last four games. Now they go up against a third-string quarterback, just a few weeks after holding Arizona's second string quarterback to three points. Basically, if Seattle scores 17 points, they're covering in this game. I think they'll score seventeen points.
Last week: 3-2-1 Season total: 47-48-1
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Affordable crafting and sewing supplies?
I have set myself a challenge, to visit one of the many economy stores that are popping up and to see what supplies I could find.
I think you may be surprised…
Fabric, table runners, t-towels, and of course bed linen. This single duvet cover for £6.99 which is the equivalent of 4 metres of fabric, for the same price I would gain one metre of the equivalent economy fabric in a fabric shop.
Tape, I was looking for parcel tape and double sided tape – have you seen this great tutorial for fabric washi tape, made with double sided tape and fabric scraps? What I found was foam double sided tape – great for mounting:) Plus Pritt stick glue and wallpaper samples, perfect for card making.
Wool – you can never be short of wool:)
Affordable storage for your crafting supplies.
I didn't find everything I expected to. I guess that is part of economy store shopping.. you never know what they have in stock!
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Paula Power says:
Some good finds, there, thanks for sharing them.
Could I ask what store that was? If you're able to tell us.
I'm fairly sure I know, but I could be wrong, lol.
Amylouise5 says:
I think it's called B & M:)
Sonia says:
I love a good bargain. I went to Aldi last night and got a Spiderman bedding set for £4.99. I was well impressed. It is lovely too 🙂
Really want some of those drawers at the bottom.
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I LOVE discount shops! Especially for children's crafting things – I never buy them anywhere else now.
otilia says:
I do love the discount stores 🙂
Phi @ The Sweetphi Blog says:
I'm all about discount shops! But you're very right…you never known what they'll have in stock. That's awesome that you found that duvet cover!
agatapokutycka says:
Try local car boot sale, you might be really surprised to see what other people want to get rid off. So many real gems to be found!
Amylouise5 says:
Car boots are great aren't they:) My kids are not quite so tolerant re rummaging at car boots sadly, last time we went to one I picked up some pillowcases for 25p each:)
Gina Caro says:
That looks like a Home Bargains to me! We have one near us and it's great. I have found loads of bargains in there. Apparently the reason that they can sell their stock so cheap is because they don't pay for advertising. Works for me 🙂 Thanks for sharing on #ThriftyThursday
catherinemary says:
I recently made a long cushion with 4 pillows that I picked up there for less than £5 each! The bedding is a great buy, like you say you can't buy fabric by the yard at that price.
Lorena says:
I always take a look at the discount store, you never know when you are going to find some treasure.
Michelle Murray says:
I love B and M. It sells so much stuff and so cheap too
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This smoochy lazy boy was delivered to us in the middle of a staff meeting by the Cardinia Shire Council. He was a 6 week old kitten who had just been hit by a car and had sustained a fractured pelvis and minor cuts and bruises. In a young kitten this injury requires lots of love and care, with eight weeks of confinement being necessary for recovery.
After his eight weeks of recovery, it was clear Castro was not going to leave The Animal Doctors @ Pakenham and he too became a permanent resident at the clinic.
Castro is always trying to be very helpful in the clinic, whether he is out the front chewing on your pen or sitting on the washing out the back whilst you try and fold it. He also enjoys terrorising people while they try to eat and getting outside any chance he can, only to return covered in dirt (although due to his track record with cars we do not encourage these outside visits).
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Braxton never had a doubt that Candi was the woman for him. "I definitely knew she was 'the one' right away," he says. "She's been my one-and-only since the day I laid eyes on her."
Braxton's smile is one of the things Candi finds sexiest about him; second to his heart, of course.
Quality time is key for Candi and Braxton. The groom-to-be shares, "I don't have one favorite thing to do with Candi because whatever we are doing I am enjoying her presence and the laughs that result from our unspoken communication."
Braxton loves that Candi is big on embracing her inner child. "I love her spontaneous antics when it's only the two of us together," he shares.
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"The summer after my freshman year we started hanging out and were practically inseparable," shares Candi about the beginnings of their blooming relationship.
Although Candi's beauty and confidence were what first caught Braxton's attention, it's her caring and generous personality that really made him fall in love with her.
The happy couple are a match made in heaven. "He understands even the crazy and quirky side of me," shares Candi. "He also challenges and pushes me towards greatness."
Braxton was right on target with the beautiful engagement ring he picked out for his soon-to-be wife. "We looked at lot of different rings and he knew I wanted a ring that had a vintage and classy feel to it," says Candi. "He did a great job finding 'the one.'
After dating for four years, Candi says that no gift she's ever gotten compares to the gift of being engaged to Braxton.
Candi and Braxton are adding some personal detail into their elegant and simplistic wedding theme. "Our colors are sapphire, champagne and ivory," shares Candi. "We chose sapphire because it's our birthstone."
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Chicken tastes great when fried, smothered, baked, skewered and even fricasseed. You can cook and pair chicken with rice, potatoes, pasta, bread and just about anything else food wise practically.
You can even pair chicken with peanut butter!
Chicken is a meat that goes with just about anything and people enjoy it anytime from breakfast, to lunch, dinner and snacks in between. This Dutch oven chicken recipe typically lends itself to be more of a dinner dish but you may get an urge to have it at another time. Go for it!
Yummy is yummy at any time to the tummy.
For those of you unfamiliar with what exactly a Dutch oven is, quite plainly a Dutch oven is large pot (usually and traditionally cast iron, although you can find ceramic variations) with a lid. Dutch ovens go by different names depending on where you are in the world, with casserole dish being one of them.
Now that the equipment portion is out of the way let's get down to business. Chicken cooked in a Dutch oven seals in moisture so that your chicken does not dry. While chicken usually is delicious, there is almost nothing worse than a dry chicken breast.
|1 chicken (5 - 7 pounds)
|1 1/2 tsp Black pepper
|2 tsp Salt (1 for inside, 1 for outside)
|2 tsp Garlic granules
|1 tsp Parsley
|1 lemon, halved
|1 tsp Rosemary*
|4 garlic cloves
|1 tsp Thyme*
|2 tablespoons butter, melted
|1 large onion, thickly sliced
|1 tablespoon Olive oil
|4 red potatoes, quartered
|3 Carrots, chopped
|1 Celery stalk, chopped
|1 cup broth (optional)
For thyme and rosemary these are measurements for the outside only. With fresh sprigs, place inside chicken.
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
Clean and rinse your chicken, remove giblets or anything on the inside of the chicken and pat dry. Salt the inside of the chicken and add your lemon, garlic and onion. If you have opted to include fresh thyme or rosemary, add those to the inside of the chicken as well. When it comes to the garlic, I personally pierce the chicken on both sides from within and place single cloves of garlic. To me this really enhances the flavor.
Also let me not forget (although optional), diced celery goes inside as well. Alternatively, you can use bell pepper (sliced). I have done either or and both even.
With the inside preparation complete, this is where you sprinkle on your garlic granules, salt, pepper and other herbs on the outside.
Some Dutch oven chicken recipe simply call for brushing melted butter on the outside of the chicken, I use both butter and olive oil. Maybe it's too much, but I love the flavor of both when they come together with the bits of garlic, lemon and everything else in the chicken recipe.
Sometimes and depending on the mood, I may even put a half a pat of butter on the inside!
After adding your herbs, spices and coating with olive oil, butter (or both), tie the legs together with kitchen string and tuck the chicken wing tips under the body.
Your potatoes, onions and carrots you can now place in your Dutch oven and add additional salt and pepper if you so desire along with a little olive oil and if you like a little broth. Sometimes I use vegetable broth, other times I've used chicken. This is optional and really depends on if I am making rice as a side dish. I know there are potatoes, but to have the option is nice.
Place the chicken on top and roast in the oven between an hour and a half and two hours (or slightly less) depending on the size of the chicken. Essentially, you want only clear juices to run when cut.
Note: 425 degrees is for the first 15-20 minutes of cooking time. After that, reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees for the remainder of the cooking time.


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Some private universities have got away with this nonsense but UNC is a public university and therefore subject to the 1st Amendment. They are going to have to back down
"The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders and members, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. "The university has given itself the authority to determine whether a group is religious or not," said Jeremy Tedesco, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund.
Tedesco filed suit on behalf of "Make Up Your Own Mind," a Christian club that was denied an exemption from the university's nondiscrimination policy.
UNC-Greensboro's nondiscrimination policy includes an exemption for student organizations that select their members based on a shared set of beliefs.
Tedesco said "Make Up Your Own Mind" has a clear religious mission and purpose and requires its members and leaders to agree with its statement of faith and beliefs about the value of innocent human life.
"Saying that a Christian club isn't religious is flatly absurd, especially when the university has granted its belief-based exception to numerous other clubs," he said. "The First Amendment forbids the government from determining what is and what is not 'religious,' yet the university is doing exactly this by telling a Christian group that it is not religious."
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The NYU
Movement Lab is a motion capture
studio and research group dedicated to the analysis
and animation of all forms of human movement.
It is housed at NYU's ITP Tisch School of the Arts, and Courant Institute's VLG. Many projects
are at the boundary between computer science, dance,
performance art, animation, medical research, and
other uses of motion capture technology. It
is mainly funded by grants from NYU, the National
Science Foundation, ONR, and
Sloan Foundation.
The Movement Lab, in collaboration with the New York Times, installed high-speed motion capture cameras in a studio of the Juilliard School at New York's Lincoln Center in order to study the movement of New York Philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert. Using advanced computer software with new visualization techniques, the team transformed this motion data, tracing the intricacies of Gilbert's gestures for the Times feature "The Maestro's Mojo."
The NYU Movement Lab's new Squidball platform "crowd2cloud"
will premiere at TEDx NYU on April 14, 2012. Squidball was first unveiled as the world's largest-scale motion capture game to 4,000 player audiences at SIGGRAPH 2004, and continued all over the world, including Ars Electronica 2010, and many other venues in New York and California.


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Web site visibility down the drain???
After attempting to get my site some visibility via search engines and good web practices, I noticed that last week my traffic seemed to die down somewhat (not that there was THAT much traffic to start off with). This coincided somewhat with my change of WordPress themes so I began by looking at that and noticed that all of the page titles for my article pages (single.php) has the WordPress theme name Andreas04 as a title. What the…. ?? I changed that to the blog name as I believe it was in the default theme and thought nothing more of it.
With my traffic still down, I decided to dig a bit more. I read up on Google's pagerank algorithm (Wikipedia – PageRank). I also started to examine the rankings of some Google queries which should bring back my website and blog. I noticed that my rss feed was being ranked higher than my articles which is definitely NOT what I want to see. I also found that some of my posts were indexed under Google supplemental index.
After reading a bit, I found that Google will put content there if it is duplicate content or blog spam of some kind. My only guess is that the various links to content such as the rss feed, the category pages, the archive pages as well as the pages themselves are being recognized by Google as duplicate content even though it is simply multiple paths to access the same content. I crafted up a robots.txt in order to prevent Google and other engines from indexing articles in multiple ways. We will now have to see if my rankings and my traffic improve.
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Vaginal Discharge
What is vaginal discharge?
Vaginal discharge is a clear or whitish fluid that comes out of the vagina. The uterus, cervix or vagina can produce the fluid.
Is vaginal discharge normal?
Yes. Most women have vaginal discharge but not all discharge is normal. The amount of discharge is different for each woman. Some women have a little discharge now and then. Others have discharge every day. Your "normal" discharge might change many times throughout your life.
If my vaginal discharge changes, do I have an infection?
Maybe. Your discharge might change color, become heavier or smell different. You might notice irritation around the opening of the vagina. You might also notice changes before or after your period. Changes in vaginal discharge may or may not be a sign that you have a vaginal infection.
Can a woman have more than one type of infection at one time?
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The Bixo project came about because two different companies needed the same thing – a web mining toolkit that could easily fit into an existing Cascading-based workflow.
In discussing various ways to solve this problem, it became clear that refactoring Nutch to work in this environment would be a painful and error-prone process. In addition, the known limitations of Nutch would still need to be worked around, while the resulting massive fork would have little to no chance of being rolled back into the main Nutch codebase.
So the shortest distance between the two points was a new, slimmed down implementation that satisfied the following constraints:
- Used Cascading to manage internal workflow as well as integrating with external data sources and sinks (outputs).
- Supported only http and https protocols, at least initially.
- Efficiently yet politely crawled white lists, with a limited number of discrete domains.
- Testable at multiple levels (unit, integration, simulated web crawl)
Powered By
The following is a partial list of companies using Bixo, along with any public details of use cases.
- Bebo – Help ensure the quality of their user experience.
- EMI Music – Extract music/artist popularity data from sources such as Facebook.
- ShareThis – Fetch, parse & generate a searchable index for shared URLs, and to mine a larger set of viewed web pages.
- Scale Unlimited – Bixo is a key component of their web mining & vertical crawling solutions.
We'd like to thank the following companies and individuals for their support of Bixo:
- EMI Music and ShareThis for sponsoring Bixo.
- 101tec for initially hosting the project.
- Stefan Groschupf for getting the project started.
- Chris Wensel (author of Cascading, co-founder of Scale Unlimited) for extensive technical support.
- YourKit, for providing a free license to their excellent Java Profiler. YourKit is kindly supporting open source projects with its full-featured Java Profiler. YourKit, LLC is the creator of innovative and intelligent tools for profiling Java and .NET applications. Take a look at YourKit's leading software products: YourKit Java Profiler and YourKit .NET Profiler.
Bixo also makes heavy use of a number of open source projects:
- Nutch – a great source for ideas and inspiration.
- HttpClient 4 – for all your HTTP protocol needs.
- Tika – a relatively new parser framework.
- Cascading – the key to efficient and reliable workflow.
- Hadoop – our foundation for distributed data processing.


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FINANCIAL AID FAQ's
How much does the program cost per year?
Each academic year, the tuition and fee rates change. Here are the links to the current tuition and fee rates (please note that Architecture is in the College of Fine and Applied Arts):
Illinois Resident Student Rates
Non-Illinois Resident and International Student Rates
Do you offer financial aid within the School of Architecture?
Aid for Undergraduate Students is offered in the form of scholarships. Applications for annual departmental scholarships can be found in the Student menu.
Aid for Graduate Students is offered in the form of assistantships and fellowships. Materials submitted at the time of application to an Illinois School of Architecture graduate program serve as an application for all available fellowships. Applicants and students are awarded fellowships on the basis of merit. Assistantships are applied for each Spring upon the receipt of admission applications. Assistantships are awarded to about 1/8th of our graduate student population.
What type of waiver is offered with assistantships?
For Master of Architecture and Master of Science students, Graduate Assistantships held within the Illinois School of Architecture carry a resident base rate tuition waiver and a monthly stipend. Most assistantships in the school are awarded at 25% time, requiring an average of 10 hours of work each week of the appointment.
Graduate Assistantships held by PhD students carry a full rate tuition waiver and a monthly stipend. PhD student assistantships vary from 25% to 50% time, requiring an average of 10 to 20 hours of work each week of the appointment, depending on percentage of appointment.
What are the requirements for assistantships?
All students applying for assistantships must have at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA and must maintain a strong academic record while holding the assistantship. International students must have at least a 24 on the speaking sub section of their TOEFL or an 8 on the speaking sub section of their IELTS. Students who do not have these scores will have the opportunity to take the EPI (English Placement Interview) through our Center for Teaching Excellence (http://cte.illinois.edu/testing/oral_eng/main.html). These are available for a limited time every semester and in the summer.
What type of waiver is offered with Fellowships?
Students awarded a fellowship receive a full tuition waiver and a waiver of some fees, as well as a monthly stipend (which varies with each fellowship).


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Uncyclopedia:Poo Lit Surprise
The contest is over and the results are below. Consult the talk page or me for any questions or concerns. See the Poo Lit Archive for the results from past competitions.
Best Article[edit]
Grand Champion: Slender Loris by Modusoperandi
runner up: Saturn is a Bitch by The Woodburninator
Best Noob Article[edit]
Grand Champion: Shakespeare's Poo Lit Soliloquy by Ticklethekeys
Best Illustrated Article[edit]
Grand Champions: Human anatomy by Xamralco
runner up: HowTo:Meet women by Thekillerfroggy
Best Rewrite[edit]
Grand Champions: Ask Jeeves by Black flamingo11
runner up: Freezer by Thekillerfroggy
Competition Wrap-Up[edit]
In all my years here at Uncyclopedia, this is the first time that I have ever run the PLS. I'm happy that it was successful and that so many promising articles have been written. I hope that somebody else runs the next PLS so that I am able to compete. -- Major Sir Zombiebaron GUN • WotM • UotM • PotM • AotM • EGAEDM • UPotM • MAFE • ZotM • IotM • VotM • UGotM (shout) 22:23, July 2, 2012 (UTC)
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Afognak Native Corporation (Afognak) owns 248,000 acres of land in the Kodiak Archipelago, primarily on Afognak Island. The lands represent Afognak's most valuable asset, they have formed the core of Afognak's financial success, and they demonstrate value through Shareholder use for culture, subsistence, and recreation activities as well as the opportunity for economic development.
Afognak manages and protects its traditional lands, providing opportunities for Shareholders and others to utilize the lands responsibly. Afognak, in partnership with two other Native corporations, regulate land use through a comprehensive lands security program. A Land Use Permit is required to access Afognak Lands. Land Use Permit.
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Sue trained as a textile designer, and worked for Laura Ashley in the textile design studio, until she ventured into freelance art and design work. After studying at Aberystwyth School of Art she continued to work on many projects representing her interests in both fine art and textiles, including private commissions and public art. In this exhibition her main inspiration has been mid-Wales geology, flora & fauna and historic mining sites. www.suepurcellart.com
Open from Tuesday October 3rd to Thursday November 30th
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Viewings can be organised outside of the times below by prior appointment. Please call our admin office on 01982 553668 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Meet Sue in the gallery this Saturday (November 18th) from 2.30pm on-wards. She will be adding to a large drawing as part of the gallery corner installation, this is part of her ongoing 'embracing spaces' series.
Please note that the exhibition will close at 6.30pm on Wednesday October 4th.
Will be closed all day on Wednesday November 15th.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.


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Essilor of America, Inc., in partnership with Transitions, have created a new progressive sunwear product designed specifically for presbyopic golfers. Like all transitions SOLFX sunwear products, the new golf lenses help enhance visual performance by intiutively adjusting to all outdoor sun conditions, changing from amber to a darker brown outdoors to improve contrast and depth perception. For further information or to book an appointment please call any of our three Rochester, NY Cornerstone Eye Associates locations in gates (585-328-0153), Brighton (585-244-2200) or Irondeqouit (585-266-7880).
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PCR, qPCR and LAMP reaction setup calculator; tool for planning PCR, qPCR and LAMP (Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification) reactions, mixing solutions.
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|10 mM dNTPs
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Kalendar R, Khassenov B, Ramankulov Y, Samuilova O, Ivanov KI 2017. FastPCR: an in silico tool for fast primer and probe design and advanced sequence analysis. Genomics, 109: 312-319. DOI:10.1016/j.ygeno.2017.05.005
Kalendar R, Muterko A, Shamekova M, Zhambakin K 2017. In silico PCR tools a fast primer, probe and advanced searching. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1620: 1-31. DOI:10.1007/978-1-4939-7060-5_1
Kalendar R, Tselykh T, Khassenov B, Ramanculov EM 2017. Introduction on using the FastPCR software and the related Java web tools for PCR, in silico PCR, and oligonucleotide assembly and analysis. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1620: 33-64. DOI:10.1007/978-1-4939-7060-5_2
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We are delighted to announce that Tiger Troop is going to be continuing until Easter. The children that are taking part are gaining such an enormous range of skills from the experience, as well as having a brilliant time!
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This Foundation is dedicated to the memory of Anthony Joseph Telesca. Anthony, a unique, dynamic, loving, unselfish, scholar-athlete, mature beyond his years, died senselessly on December 5, 2000, at the young age of 16, as a passenger, in a one-car accident. His high school friend was driving recklessly, and Anthony paid with the ultimate price, his life. This tragic accident is a never-ending nightmare for all concerned. Educating teenagers to drive safely, is our only hope to try to prevent these tragic and senseless accidents from happening.
Growing up in Medford, New Jersey, Anthony developed a friendship and rapport with all those he touched, young and old, alike. Special among them were many caring Township Police Officers, all of whom had a positive influence on him. So much so, that Anthony planned on pursuing a law enforcement career and giving back to his community. However, due to reckless driving, Anthony will never achieve his goal.
All Foundation efforts to promote teenage driver safety awareness is our lasting tribute to Anthony Telesca.


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We have run audits on people with nasal steroids on repeat or otherwise had nasal steroids this year and sent sms advising them. Also messages have been put on the next script.
Patients on steroid eye medication are similarly advised.
From Queens Bower , the MHRA revealed recently that there is a rare but serious side effect of nasal steroids on the eyes.Blurred vision is one of the symptoms of the condition though it is a normal side effect. Please report blurred vision.


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The very end of the United States. No, I'm not talking about another President Trump shenanigan or self-destructive Millennial trend. Let's take a step back and discuss simpler topics, like driving through the Overseas Highways to visit the unique tropical island city of Key West. Yes, a lot of people are infected with wanderlust dream of the bright lights of big US cities, … [Read more...] about The End of the US: Drive to Key West
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Making Friends creates engaging educational apps that promote play for children with special needs and tools for care teams to simplify communication and adapt care.
Making Friends creates engaging educational apps that promote play for children with special needs and tools for care teams to simplify communication and adapt care.
We're a team of educators, engineers, artists, designers and parents who share a connection to the special needs community.
Many of us have family or have worked with individuals with developmental and learning differences. We're inspired by the strength of the community and the opportunity to impact lives in meaningful ways.
We're on a mission to develop the next generation of applications that will inspire learners and help parents, teachers and therapists care for individuals with special needs.
In 2013, three friends came together to develop a game for teaching social skills to children with autism. After months of research and hundreds of designs, our idea took shape and our team began to grow.
Making Friends Park, is the our first step towards teaching social skills and inspiring learners through interactive and engaging educational content. We've worked hand-in-hand with the community to address the needs of our users and look forward to sharing our game with you.
Through our ongoing dialogue with the community, we've learned more about the challenges associated with caring for individuals with special needs. Our Care Journal is our next step for helping care teams stay on the same page, so they can focus on providing the best care possible.
Our journey is just beginning and we hope you will join us!
Inclusion: We want all kids to be accepted and promote neuro-diversity by emphasizing the potential of individuals.
Community: We realize it takes a whole team working together to change lives, and we strive to engage, participate and collaborate within the special needs community.
Innovation: We believe technology is a tool, not a replacement for supporting learners and their care teams.
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