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critical diaries: November 2015
No.3 – The multiverse of Odysseus
In our current charged campus atmosphere, amidst the drive towards some as-yet ill-defined “transformation” and “Africanisation”, the question of what we teach, and how we teach it, assumes especially urgent attention. How, in a literature department, do we choose from an overabundance of riches, at least eight hundred years of English, mutating into a menagerie of global varieties?
For some, just the term “English literature” implies we must inevitably be hung up in some sort of tweedy Victorian time-warp, wrapped in the cocoon of “the canon” – Shakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, and other such ‘approved’ work.
But perhaps “the canon” never really existed. Rather, there have always been many canons through time, overlapping and competing with one another like waves on a beach, endlessly argued over and flexing according to fashion and circumstance. At one time Dryden and Thackeray were “canonical” and therefore regularly taught; now they are hardly even mentioned, let alone studied. I’m not sure there’s a department in this country that still teaches primarily, let alone exclusively, anything like an “English canon”. What was always a contested category has been enormously complicated and enriched by the postcolonial explosion of “world Englishes” – so now we also teach South African and Zimbabwean, Kenyan and Ugandan, Nigerian and Canadian, Irish and American, Australian and Indian literatures. We jockey and argue perpetually about relative aesthetic, intellectual and thematic worthiness of this text against that – new canons waxing and waning with every successive wave.
Between the waves, certain rocks seem to retain incredible resilience. The Bible, of course, and yes, Shakespeare and Dickens and George Eliot, whose Victorian tome Middlemarch arguably remains the finest novel in the language. (Arguably, ha ha!)
But of all the world’s great works, I wonder if any surpasses Homer’s Odyssey for longevity, persistence and flexibility – its Protean quality, Homer himself might have said. Nearly three thousand years old, setting the standard and pattern for the poetic epic in many languages, unsettlingly modern in its seamy beginning, its episodic structure, and its dubious ending.
In his 1842 poem “Ulysses”, Lord Alfred Tennyson famously re-imagined that ending – Odysseus (aka Ulysses) coming home after twenty years, giving his wife a desultory smooch and shoving restlessly off again. As a youngster I thrilled to the reckless abandon, melancholy longing, and intoxicating rhythms of its closing lines:
Ah, those thundering iambic pentameters.
Years later I sequestered myself in a cottage in Zimbabwe’s Inyanga highlands and doggedly read James Joyce’s novel Ulysses from cover to cover. Dauntingly massive, dense with linguistic invention, really an “anti-novel”, it took a while. I still find the book’s parallels with the episodes of Homer’s original a bit obscure, in that tangential Modernist fashion – but I loved the brilliant rendition of a cat’s greeting: mngiaowr. Later still, I enjoyed following, guide-book in hand, the precisely-related steps of the central characters, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, in their mini-odysseys through the streets of Dublin. I tramped from Martello Tower to pub to the Library to the Book of Kells and back to the pubs – all shamelessly profiting from the fame of a writer who in his lifetime was forced into exile, vilified for daring to describe Poldy Bloom taking a dump.
Which just goes to prove the point about the mutability of canons.
Joyce, along with other Anglo-Irish writers like William Butler Yeats, who also worshipfully employed Homeric motifs, could be described as “postcolonial”: after all, Ireland had been colonised by the English longer than anyone – nine centuries. Similarly, the Odyssey has proved a fruitful model for writers from other former colonies, especially for those on journeys of exile, alienation and temptation; and those from sea-girt archipelagoes.
In the Caribbean, for instance, Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott transforms Odysseus into a humble Trinidadian fisherman, Achille, describing his meanderings and desires in the book-length poem, Omeros (Greek for Homer). Not only is this a rare modern epic poem (a form distinctly out of fashion), it’s written in loose terze rima, the interlocking rhyme scheme in which Dante wrote the Divine Comedy – in its way another Homeric offshoot. Here Walcott’s blind character Seven Seas celebrates the global reach of blind Homer himself:
at the waking sea, and a net of golden moss
of the lighthouse’s flock, that Cyclops whose blind eye
Just beautiful. And look up Walcott’s poem, “A Sea Chantey”, with its own Homeric echoes. It’s one of the most moving poems I know.
I was actually stimulated in this direction of thought this week by reading a 2014 ‘transnational’ novel by Bengali novelist Amit Chaudhuri, Odysseus Abroad – definitely a journey of both alienation and temptation. The Indian protagonist, Ananda, attends university in England, lightly bouncing his “adventures” off Homer’s original. Immensely readable, it’s at once an examination of postcolonial displacement in multicultural London and a delightfully perceptive depiction of a student of literature. Many of our students would identify with Ananda’s comic tribulations.
Among African writers, Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka magnified and universalised his prison experiences by refracting them through both Homer and Joyce, in his stream-of-consciousness series A Shuttle in the Crypt (1972).
Another ‘Homeric’ African, I dare to venture, is one Dan Wylie, whose volume Sailor: Poems for my father includes a scattering of echoes and quotations from the Odyssey. I found this a terrifically enriching way of meditating on what my late father means in my life – remembering that the opening books of the Odyssey are not about Odysseus at all, but about his son Telemachus’ search for him. So the ancient remains fully functional in the now; relevance is not pre-given, but proactively created in timeless interactions. This is Sailor’s opening poem:
I am in search of a certain man.
Nestor, Menelaus, have you seen his sail?
Memory, can you resurrect his voice?
You ask: How would we recognise him, this man?
He has a skull as blunt as an apothegm.
He has a chest like a depth-charge.
He has forearms like steam-trains.
He has hands that break resistance into kindling.
He has calves striated as volcanoes.
You ask: By what manners might we distinguish him?
He has a stride that scythes through armies.
He has eyes that would melt ice, then turn to ice.
He wields an argument with the rectitude of a hand-axe.
He has a laugh that collapses the lungs of nuns.
He has a memory to shame elephants.
An obstinate, cunning, and irrepressible intriguer.
So persuasive, so quick-witted, so self-possessed.
Eloquence and sound judgement, too.
You ask: What is this man to me?
He spoke me into being.
Year on year he strove
how to stare down failure
how to comprehend machines
how to navigate into unprecedented seas.
He beat me just once.
He embraced me once.
He let me go more than once.
I turned from him more than once.
The gods turned his head to darkness.
Have you not fragments I can piece together
to make at least the semblance of a father?
I wanted to ask him: Did I fail you?
I wanted to ask him: Did you perish incomplete?
I have sailed the length of the sliding world, and return,
looking for his footprints on the surfaces of waves.
Even as I draw closer, with cautious oars, he fades.
Where am I to look for him now?
With a bit of luck this, too, might one day emerge from obscurity and become canonical!
(To order a copy of Sailor, email me at danwylie1959@gmail.com )
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No.2 “The little Bushman stands guard”
An especially warm memory: Grahamstown poet Don Maclennan – mentor, friend, fellow-climber – brews tea in a billy over a twiggy fire, passes a mug to Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Heaney crinkles up those almost Mongolian slits of his laughing eyes. There are eight or ten of us, lounging about beneath the overhangs at Salem, twenty kilometres or so from Grahamstown, and discussing the russet fading Bushman paintings speckling the ledges above us. Then, taking turns, we read through the 34 sections of Don’s collection of short poems, Rock Paintings at Salem. (The last section said simply: "I am listening".)
I became interested in the ‘Bushmen’ – San, Khoikhoi, Basarwa, abaTwa, or however one might choose to name this nebulous, complex scattering of peoples – mostly through my exploration of ecological dimensions of literature: the ways in which novelists and poets represented and felt about landscapes, natural vegetation, animals. There was the “little Bushman”, as Laurens van der Post called ‘him’, popping up everywhere as the necessary guardian of ecological well-being, balance and respect. The radical opposite of rapacious, planet-destroying industrial modernity. The Bushmen were the victims of our very own Southern African genocide, the “Harmless People”, the gentle ones, living their eco-friendly desert lives in “original affluence.”
Most interesting, for me, was the clutch of white poets who had turned to Bushman material for inspiration. Thomas Pringle, of course, had the Bush-boy running at his side in his poem “Afar in the Desert” in 1821 or so; 180 years later, there was Don Maclennan responding to Salem’s mystery-laden paintings, artist to artist. Then there were those who had drawn directly on the extraordinary /Xam Bushman testimonies, collected in the 1870s, now fully available online – 12,000 pages of notebook pages: the Bleek-Lloyd Archive. Jack Cope, Stephen Watson (Return of the Moon), Antjie Krog (The Stars Say Tsau!), Alan James (The First Bushman’s Path), most recently erstwhile Zimbabwe resident poet Harold Farmer. All of them turning the song-stories – kukummi – of //Kabbo, Dai!kwain and other informants into ‘poems’, versions of translations from a now-vanished language. Watson and Krog even got embroiled in a weird ‘plagiarism’ spat, as if those old “stories that float from afar”, as //Kabbo called them, had somehow come to belong to them.
What is the attraction? Guilt at the earlier genocide? Disaffection with ‘civilisation’? A wish to root oneself more securely in African soil, via the earliest known inhabitants of the subcontinent? To connect better with ‘Nature’, however vicariously? To connect with what seems the very fount of poetry itself? For some – like contemporary Khoi-San identity lobby-groups – to resurrect a lost and marginalised ethnicity of belonging? – the kind of thing encapsulated by the return of poor ‘circus-freak’, colonial super-victim Saartjie Baartman, rather irreverently sent up by Diane Awerbuck in Home Remedies (see my first blog).
Whatever the motives, I became aware of how regularly the figure of the Bushman surfaces in our poetry and, even more so, our fiction. There was a phase, in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, of travel accounts and letters (including Thomas Pringle’s, recently edited by Randolph Vigne) detailing without much compunction the hunting of the Bushmen like vermin, like jackals or rabbits. By the later nineteenth century, a certain nostalgic guilt was setting in – witness Waldo (foreshadowing Maclennan) mulling over Bushman paintings on the kopje in Olive Schreiner’s 1881 novel Story of an African Farm. At the same time, anthropology was taking off as an academic discipline. Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd would be followed by the Marshalls, Megan Biesele, Thomas Dowson, Jeannette Deacon, pre-eminently David Lewis-Williams, and a veritable swarm of others – all subjecting the remnant groups of cornered Bushmen to the most intense scrutiny of any hunter-gatherer group in the world. The anthropology would deeply colour other portrayals of Bushmen, even as discontents with the academics were voicing a certain unease.
The first discontent perhaps was the (in)famous Laurens van der Post, who in The Lost World of the Kalahari and The Heart of the Hunter did so much to romanticise the eco-attuned Bushman; he even tried to style himself as a “white Bushman”, and was one of the first to draw on the Bleek-Lloyd testimonies to do so. If his biographer J D F Jones, in Storyteller: The many lives of Laurens van der Post, is to be believed, a lot of it was exaggerated, if not completely invented. But his influence is not to be denied, and I suspect there is something in his critique of ‘the West’ worth re-evaluating. From him flows a stream of representations of the Bushman as rescuer, tracker, guide. One example: in Wilbur Smith’s The Burning Shore, Europeans shipwrecked on the Namibian coast are rescued by Bushmen and taken to a kind of doughnut-shaped Eden in mid-desert. This motif is echoed in Lauren St John’s teen novel The Elephant’s Tale.
Now there are any number of the-Bushman-will-save-us-from-ourselves narratives, fictional and non-fictional and some uneasily in-between. World water expert James Workman, in The Heart of Dryness, looks to the Bushmen to show us ways of surviving in an increasingly water-poor world. John Paul Myburgh’s The Bushman Winter has Come marries Bushman lifeways with a New-Age rhetoric of finding-one’s-inner-spirit; similarly Uys Lafra’s The San Piper: Encounters with an Otherworldly Bushman, and Brad Keeney’s Way of the Bushman. There’s the more level-headed What Dawid Knew by the ultra-traveller Patricia Glyn; and the fictional Cape gangland-meets-Boesman story by Don Pinnock, Rainmaker (one of whose protagonist’s guides is named, unsurprisingly, Mr Kabbo).
And there are so many more appearances – probably hundreds. We just keep on wanting to listen to the Bushman. And this is just white writing in English – what of all our region’s other groups’ and languages’ literatures? If you know of any examples yourself, do let me know.
But the point of this blog is really an invitation. No one, as far as I know, has yet written a thorough survey and assessment of the Bushman’s literary presence. A fabulous PhD project for some one. Any takers?
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Welcome to "Critical Diaries"
Welcome to "Critical Diaries" - what I hope will be an on-going series of brief posts and discussions about books, reading, cultural artefacts, universities, pedagogy, cats, and whatever else stimulates a restless mind. It will definitely not be about ME - no seamy revelations here.
To begin everywhere and nowhere. I have just finished reading the latest novel by a one-time student of ours at Rhodes University, Grahamstown: Diane Awerbuck's Home Remedies. Diane has already won a prize or two for her fiction, but with this it seems she has unquestionably come into her own. What an intelligent, nuanced, richly textured and ultimately compelling read. It is at once an irreverent (even at points outrageous) sidelight on the Saartie Baartman saga - the returning of that poor person's remains from the display cabinets of a prurient Europe to reburial in South Africa - a densely-observed portrayal of Fish Hoek, and a moving story of a mother's life and traumas.
Home Remedies is one of just a number of I think deft and insightful novels by both the established and the younger generations, moving beyond the blunt politicisations of current South African discourse, without ignoring them. We would do better reading these works than the newspapers, in many ways! I can't begin to keep up, but I have been able of late to read some other local women's novels, all of them fascinating. Claire Robertson's The Spiral House offers two narrative strands. I couldn't quite fathom the link between them, and the second strand didn't interest me as much as the first. This is the voice of a young woman of the early Cape Dutch settlement, of Malay origin, trapped in a condition of near slavery without formally being enslaved. There were in fact quite a number of such women, of rather indeterminate legal status, often better educated than their farmer-'owners'. While the voice Robertson invents for this character is just that - invented, an English she could never have actually spoken - somehow it feels exactly right and authentic: a wonderful achievement.
The Cape seems to be The Place these days: Henrietta Rose-Innes' latest novel, The Green Lion, is a slightly futuristic take on a Cape Town cut off from its natural mountain-slope nature by a substantial (not quite impenetrable) fence, with the remnants of an old zoo and its leonine inhabitant. I thought Henrietta's earlier novels, Shark's Egg and Nineveh still had the feel of a writer finding her feet, but this one is very deft, inventive, funny, moving. It also moves into another apparently burgeoning focus of attention: human-animal relations with a touch of the magical thrown in: Lauren Beukes' Zoo City and Peter Merrington's Zebra Crossings spring to mind, and there are others. I wonder what's going on with that: a subtle invasion of the popularity of 'fantasy' into the 'realist' mainstream? An inventiveness born of frustrations with the conventional? A subject for future blogs, perhaps.
At any rate, it is a pity - and an indictment - that our education systems and our general media seem in deliberate collusion to prevent our people from developing the love of reading that these and many, many other South African novels deserve.
This is a bit of a test blog, so hope you will visit again soon.


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The federal minimum wage will increase by $.50 in May 2008 to $4.05 an hour. That's good news for all minimum wage earners!
However, minimum wage is not the only monetary issue guest workers are concerned about. Taxation with no representation, and with no benefits from the tax is another issue. Previously, I have sent questions to federal officials inquiring about social security benefits for guest workers. I wrote a post about the information I received:
"...I asked a Senate staffer if foreign guest workers were eligible to receive Social Security benefits or to be reimbursed for the money they paid into the fund. He was kind enough to get the answer. Here it is: "I've checked with our Soc Sec guy and the answer is that you need to be a U.S. citizen, or on track to become one, in order to be a Social Security beneficiary."
Here is information from the social security web site: "Nonresident aliens, in general, are also liable for Social Security/Medicare Taxes on wages paid to them for services performed by them in the United States, with certain exceptions based on their non-immigrant status."
From a December 14-18, 2004 Weekend Standard ariticle:"South Korean and Filipino workers are exempt from this 7 per cent assessment by treaty, but the lack of an agreement between the US and China means Chinese labourers have paid an estimated US$270 million that they cannot recover."
There are many additional questions about federal deductions being taken from the foreign contract workers' paychecks. A guest worker asks some of those questions in this clearly written letter that I have forwarded to federal officials for answers:
Social security and nonresident workers in CNMI
The Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Island is a tropical paradise offering magnificent beaches, crystal clear blue waters, the lively bustle of nightlife, shopping, a wide range of ethnic food and culture, and a multitude of outdoor activities.
Of all the former Trust Territories entitled to decide their future political identity, the people of the Marianas were the first to decide to enter into a Commonwealth arrangement in political union with the United States. On May 28, 1986, the United Nations Trusteeship Council concluded that the United States had satisfactorily discharged its obligations to the islands. On Nov. 4, 1986 U.S. citizenship was conferred upon those people of the Northern Marianas that met the necessary qualifications. The recent history of the NMI and its relationship with the United States is in fact entwined with the events surrounding World War II. The vital role of NMI during World War II made the islands a historic place. In other words, it was only after World War II that the CNMI came into existence. Since then, it has proven to be a prime location for investors and tourists. Establishment of many industries, such as garment factories and tourism industries, play vital roles in developing NMI economic condition. The NMI local population could not supply the high demand for workers required in those industries and business enterprises and, as a result, companies and factories started hiring alien workers from different part of the world.
All documented foreign workers in the CNMI are issued Social Security numbers. Nonresident workers have been paying their Social Security (FICA S.S.) and Medicare (FICA Medical) tax since the day they started working in NMI. The employer withholds FICA S.S and FICA Medical tax from every pay. As we were told, nonresident workers do not have to be a U.S. citizen to earn Social Security and Medicare health insurance coverage if they have been lawfully admitted for work in the U.S. or U.S territories. During our working years, we paid Social Security and Medicare taxes on our earnings. Most people need at least 10 years of work at jobs where they pay Social Security taxes in order to qualify for retirement benefits. No retirement benefits can be paid until you have the required number of credit (40). Social Security is part of the retirement plan of almost every American and alien worker. Social Security benefits are paid to workers and their eligible family member when the worker retires.
Since May 12, 2007, our employer has stopped withholding our FICA S.S. and FICA Medicare taxes. We tried to find out from our employer the reason why social security and Medicare taxes and income taxes are not being withheld from our pay. We were informed by our employer that under our visa as a temporary nonresident alien, we are not subject to social security and Medicare withholding. The law was launched in 2004, however our employer continued to withhold the taxes from our pay until May 12, 2007. Thus most of employees could not complete 10 years to score the required 40 credits to be eligible for retirement benefits. Apparently, the money we paid as FICA S.S. and FICA Medicare tax is with the Internal Revenue Service. We are unable to get a refund from the employer. Alien workers are trying to find a way to get this money back and they have adopted their own ways to get their refund. Some nonresident worker have seek help from lawyers with high commission rate, which put them in the position of getting just a fraction of their refund at the end, if they are able to get the refund. A very limited number of workers have filed a claim for refund with the Internal Revenue Service with required documents attached and Form 843 “Claim for Refund and Request for Abatement.” And the remaining alien workers have either left the island, leaving the hope of getting refund, or do not know what to do to claim for refund. Most of them are perplexed. So far, no one has been successful in getting a refund either from the employer or from Internal Revenue Service.
These kinds of activities are happening in NMI without anybody's consent. Alien workers are not willing to quit as this money will bring much needed financial help and tremendous economic benefits to them as most of them are from underdeveloped countries. We were paying FICA S.S. and FICA Medicare taxes without any objection and hesitation, believing that all taxpayers with social security numbers who pay social security and Medicare tax qualify for retirement benefits. Now it is clear that foreign temporary workers in the NMI would not qualify for federal retirement benefit. How does the federal Internal Revenue Service distinguish the nonresident workers from resident workers or U.S. citizens since we are all paying the same taxes? In this regards, we would like to draw the concerned authorities' attention to grant nonresident workers justice. Nonresident workers want to either continue to pay FICA S.S. and FICA Medicare to complete the required 40 credits or get a refund of the amount we have paid to Internal Revenue Service as per federal law and regulation.
Looking forward to a favorable response from concern authorities.
Jwarhar Lal Rajbanshi
Labels: CNMI minimum wage, Form 843, Jwarhar Lal Rajbanshi, social security taxes, taxation without representation
I think that it is very important for all the CNMI Contract Workers to review the Social Security Protection Act of 2004. This Act states that any foreign worker who begins paying into the system as of January 1, 2004 will be entitled to retirement benefits only if s/he works 40 quarters and retires in the United States(cnmi included) and remains 180 days a year in the US(CNMI) with a valid lawful visa status. So no longer will aliens be able to return home country and collect benefits from the US Social Security system. This is a decision that affects all aliens not just the CNMI workers.
AS for the tax treatment of CNMI Contract workers, Filipinos do not have a tax treaty with the United States on the issue of Social Security. It is an urban legend. The exemption that exists for Filipinos and Koreans was a liberal reading of a statutory provision that is in the Internal Revenue Code under Section 3121. Congress made a statutory exemption for H-2B visa holders from the PI and Korea who worked in Guam only. Over the years, the SSA office Saipan who was helped by the GUAM office just did the same as Guam with no request to legal counsel for an opinion as to how SSA was to apply to Contract workers in the CNMI.
As for the workers who participated in the SSA system prior to 2004, the law states that all you have to have is 40 quarters. In theory the 2004 Act should not prohibit the prior group from qualifying under the old system and have their retirement checks mailed to their home country with no restrictions.
The shame of all this was that the some of the CNMI contract workers had to pay this tax while others did not. All because someone did not simply ask legal counsel in the SSA whether or not CNMI contract workers had to pay FICA tax. The simple answer was no CNMI Contract worker had to pay this FICA tax. The unfairness that Filipinos and Korean CNMI Contract workers were exempt while the Chinese, Nepalese and Bangladeshis were selected out to pay tax is unfair to say the least.


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Gigamon Shares Plunge, Investors Cautious After Forecast
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Gigamon Inc, a manufacturer of cable network solutions and hardware, shares plunged 32 percent today after the company cut its second quarter forecast, citing difficulty in closing deals. The company now trades at the lowest level since its public debut in July of last year.
Some investors on Stocktwits took the forecast to be another dire sign for the struggling network installer, sentiment has plummeted since this morning’s announcement. Since March of this year, the company has already lost two thirds of it’s total market value.
The stock of Gigamon, was downgraded by analysts across the board. Goldman Sachs downgraded to Neutral and lowered price target to $14 from the earlier $29. Merrill Lynch downgraded Gigamon to Underperform from Neutral. Needham lowered it to Buy from Strong Buy and lowered price target to $20.
The news from Gigamon wasn’t all sour, CEO Paul Hooper said they added 84 new customers during the second quarter. Some investors think the stock will recover, and that the drop in price has been somewhat excessive.
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Patent US5640699 - Mixer constructed from thick film balanced line structure - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsA thick film balanced line multilayered structure having a substrate base of nominal 0.025 or 0.030 inch thick ceramic material, a first metal layer deposited on the substrate base, a nominal 0.003 inch thick dielectric layer deposited over and around the first metal layer, and a second metal layer deposited...http://www.google.com/patents/US5640699?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5640699 - Mixer constructed from thick film balanced line structureAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS5640699 APublication typeGrantApplication numberUS 08/645,602Publication dateJun 17, 1997Filing dateMay 14, 1996Priority dateJan 3, 1995Fee statusPaidAlso published asUS5534830, US5640132, US5640134Publication number08645602, 645602, US 5640699 A, US 5640699A, US-A-5640699, US5640699 A, US5640699AInventorsLoren E. RalphOriginal AssigneeRf PrimeExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (22), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (23), Classifications (20), Legal Events (11) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetMixer constructed from thick film balanced line structure
US 5640699 AAbstract
1. A thick film microwave mixer, comprising:(a) a plurality of balanced transmission line cells, each said cell including a substrate base, a first metal trace deposited on said substrate base, said first metal trace having a trace width and a trace length, said first metal trace having first and second ends, a dielectric layer deposited over said first metal layer, and a second metal trace deposited on said dielectric layer, said second metal trace having a trace width and a trace length, said second metal trace having first and second ends, said second metal trace aligned with and generally parallel to said first metal trace, wherein said first and second metal traces form a balanced transmission line having a line impedance and operational frequency, said line impedance determined by said width of said first and second metal traces, said operational frequency determined by said length of said first and second metal traces; (b) a first one of said transmission line cells having a local oscillator signal input terminal, first and second outputs, and a ground connection; (c) a second one of said transmission line cells having first and second inputs, an output, and a ground connection; (d) a third one of said transmission line cells having first and second inputs, an output, and a ground connection; (e) a fourth one of said transmission line cells having first and second inputs, a radio frequency output terminal, and a ground connection; (f) said first output of said first cell electrically connected to said first input of said second cell, said second output of said first cell electrically connected to said first input of said third cell, said second input of said second cell electrically connected to said second input of said third cell, said second inputs of said second and third cells electrically connected to an intermediate frequency signal input terminal, said output of said second cell electrically connected to a first input of a diode quad, said output of said third cell electrically connected to a second input of said diode quad array, said first input of said fourth cell electrically connected to a first output of said diode quad, said second input of said fourth cell electrically connected to a second output of said diode quad. Description
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KinderGals: Reader’s Workshop Discovering Patterns
I love Reader's Workshop. It is my favorite time of the day! After Michele and I published our first units, we were excited to see that so many other teachers loved Reader's Workshop, too. This post answers some of the most common questions we get about the first 3 units. After "meeting" unit 4, we will answer those questions below.
Michele and I are excited to have completed Unit 4-Discovering Patterns for Reader’s Workshop. This unit took quite a bit longer to do than the others. You might wonder why! Well first of all, school started! Those summer days of working on projects came to a stop as we got ready for the busy school year. Secondly, this unit was much harder to narrow down. As we began looking through our books, we discovered there were more patterns than we could ever cover in one month of mini lessons. So here’s our thinking: It’s not about learning a pattern. It’s about being able to identify that there is a pattern and then use that to be a better reader. I read somewhere, “It’s not about reading that book, it’s about learning what good readers do while reading that book.” We are teaching kiddos to be readers. What we do should not only be about that book, but should impact them as a reader.
Now…I know many of you have sent me comments and emails about the first three units. This week I got an email that had quite a few questions. Since it was going to take quite some time to answer the questions, I decided to do it as a blog post. That way, if you have the same questions, it will help you, too.
1. When do you typically begin in a kindergarten class? We begin on a Wednesday this year? Would you start on Thursday or wait till Monday?
This is really up to you! In Megan’s room we started on the 2nd day of school. The first day we were just trying to get them to school, get them fed, and get them home! Oh, and have a little fun, too!
2. In regards to elbow partners- you say to assign them- do they stay the same everyday- so those children are 'assigned' to sit by each other or does it change day to day depending on who they are sitting next to?
I assign my children a spot on the carpet to sit. We sit in three rows. I want those students who are going to need my help right on the front row. Plus, I want to be sure that certain children aren’t sitting beside each other. Know what I mean? Sometimes I have to move children to another spot on the carpet for one reason or another. Their elbow partner is whoever is sitting right next to them on the carpet. The only reason their elbow partner would change is if I moved them to another space on the carpet.
3. When you refer to reading books for concepts about print (l-r, t-b, etc) do you typically read just the pages facing the children, read the whole book, use a book you've already read or it doesn't matter bc skill is CAPs?
Michele and I have tried to not name particular books that have to be used except for familiar tales that we think nearly everyone will have access to. So any book usually works. For CAP, you would want a big book with a limited amount of text. I would say to read the whole book before the reader’s workshop time. Then, when you call them to the carpet for Reader’s Workshop, they have already enjoyed the book and are ready to focus on the concept you are trying to teach.
4. For baskets/tubs of books- should they be 'trade' books, leveled readers (PreA, A) a mix, doesn't matter?
At the beginning, music books, nursery rhyme books, familiar tales, and such work great. These help the children to feel like real readers. As you children move through the year, their bag of books will have a variety of books—some that are on their reading level and some that they just love and tell the story as they look at the pictures.
5. When distributing same copy of familiar reads- is a photocopy/b&w book OK or should it be a colored/bound copy?
Your decision, but I use only bound copies. Not everyone will have the same books. I collect all that I can find from my own collection and the library.
6. For the anchor chart- 3 ways to read- in your lesson you indicate to teach use picture, tell a story and then read words but the anchor chart copy to put in student notebooks doesn't read that way- it has tell a story first. Does it matter which way you do it or should i use the anchor chart i create with the kids as my reference for their anchor chart notebook.
Oops! Not sure I totally understand. The student notebook chart is a picture of the anchor chart. I will have to go take a closer look.
7. How do your units of study align with Lucy Calkins units? We were given her units of study to follow but she has 10 units. I know you are coming out with Unit 4 soon- will there be more on the way?
We will have 9 units when we are done. We are following the scope and sequence provided by Michele’s district. All of the lessons, etc are our own work, but we are using their outline as a guide for the unit theme. I think they actually used the Lucy Caulkins units as an outline.
8. I have used 'reading fingers' in the past (like the Halloween witch fingers but not as 'creepy' and come in assorted colors)- just wanted to let you know you can buy them in bulk through Oriental trading if you want to indicate that in your future publications!
1. Elbow partner- same as Unit 1's partner, switch partner, who sitting next to?
3. Do you actually say 'EEKK' or the whole thing
5. For retelling- do you do all the components during rw and an indep read/share? Seems like it would take way too long for the allotted time for RW.
At the beginning of the year, Reader’s Workshop will be very short. You will have time left over when Reader’s Workshop is over. So, you can use that time to do the “activities”. Then, during Reader’s Workshop you can use the projects during the active engagement part of the lesson. Later in the year, when your reader’s workshop is longer, some of the “make it” activities can be made as a center, etc and then used in reader’s workshop during active engagement.
1. Do you continue to have the stickys you taught about in Unit 2 available and encourage to use or just have them focus on characters?
The stickys will stay in the folder all year to encourage kids to talk about books.
2. Do you start to have them pick indep readers with sight words at this point so they can be used well in conjunction with what you are teaching in the mini lessson? Or continue to allow them to shop for whatever interests them?
They will have both kinds of books in their bags.
How many units are you planning on making- i ask this just because if each unit is about a month, 4 units would be about 4 months of material- leaving 6 months with no 'guide'.
We will have 9 units, enough for the whole school year.
Do you pull g.r. groups during your rw time? If so when do you begin that? For about how long? Do you also do centers outside your rw time and pull groups?
We start pulling groups when the kiddos have a stamia for independent reading of about 20 minutes. Then, we can pull one group during that time. Be sure that you are also spending time walking around and making sure that your children are actively engaged in the reading process. I do pull groups during centers, too.
Now, there are still 3 questions she asked that aren’t in this post. I will handle those tomorrow. Need to do a little checking on them. You can see any of these units on tpt by clicking on the cover of the units.
Posted by Kim and Megan at 4:12 PM
Awesome! I really appreciate this post. Sometimes, it is the little things that we forget to embellish when describing lessons, but they are actually really important parts of effective teaching practices.
With the new 2012-2013 Lucy Calkins Reader's Workshop Curricular Plan, it is now shorten to 7 units. I have the latest curricular plan and if you are interested, I can email it you :)
I have been looking at these units and love them! I just bought the first one and am still deciding how to fit it in my schedule. I am wondering if these are all aligned with the common core? Also, do you know the topics for the remaining units? I am just curious about the the topics for a pacing guide.
I know that you get your fonts from lettering delights but could you please tell me what that amazing font that you use for the Headings in your Readers workshop pack?
Which ones are you looking for? They are probably not "fonts" but alphabet clip art that you are looking for. I use the abc clip art in my titles most of the time.
Thanks for your reply. I just bought the Readers workshop bundle and I love it. I would like to try and match the alphabet/clip art you have used when I am making some other charts for my room.
The ones I am after the name of are from Unit 1 Blasting off:
The title "Reader Respect"
"Are you a book lover?"


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Nelson Story drove 600 head of cattle from Texas to Montana in 1867--up through the middle of what soon would become Wyoming Territory, where Red Cloud's War was at its height along the Bozeman Trail.
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On May 20, 1864, Jim Bridger guided the first group of Montana pioneers along the Bridger Trail to the Virginia City, Montana gold fields. He led a second party along the trail in fall 1864. In 1865, the Sioux more vigourously opposed Montana pioneers as well as United States military activities along the Bozeman Trail, increasing the demand for Jim Bridger's guiding service.
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James Felix "Jim" Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western United States during the decades of 1820-1850, as well as mediating between native tribes and encroaching whites. He was of English ancestry, and his family had been in North America since the early colonial period
Jim BRIDGER :: Mountain man and scout -- On May 20, 1864, Jim Bridger guided the first group of Montana pioneers along the Bridger Trail to the Virginia City, Montana gold fields. He led a second party along the trail in fall 1864.
Jim Bridger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...Jim Bridger and other mountain men were consulted on the journey. Bridger reportedly told Brigham Young that he would buy the first bushel of wheat grown in Salt Lake Valley for $1,000. No record that he ever paid up.
Jim Bridger (1804-1881) - An accomplished trapper, scout, and mountain man, Bridger was born on March 17, 1804 in Richmond, Virginia. At the age of 17, Bridger joined General William Ashley's Upper Missouri Expedition and was one of the first non-Indians to see the natural wonders of what would become Yellowstone Park.In 1824, he was the first white man to see the Great Salt Lake, which he believed to be an arm of the Pacific Ocean.
James Felix "Jim" Bridger was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western United States during the decades of 1820-1850, as well as mediating between native tribes and encroaching whites. Jim Bridger had a strong constitution that allowed him to survive the extreme conditions he encountered walking the Rocky Mountains from what would become southern Colorado to the Canadian border.
Jim Bridger 1804-1881 Foremost Mountain man,trapper,scout & guide.Amoung his discoveries he found an alternate route to the south pas which shortened the Oregon Trail By 61 miles. Married Native Flathead woman & had 2 children.after her death, he married a Shoshone Chief's daughter who died in childbirth.1840 he then married Shoshone Chief Washakie's daughter & had 2 children. He spoke French,Spanish & several Native American languages.
Jim Bridger Plainsman, Scout, Guide and Trapper. Driggs, Idaho 1832 "In July of 1832, this basin filled up with camps of trappers, traders, and merchants that spread across seven square miles, from the south end of Driggs all the way to Tetonia. Rocky Mountain Fur Company and American Fur Company were the two largest company camps along with an estimated 108 Nez Perce lodges and 80 Flathead lodges. Jim Bridger was in attendance at the rendezvous.
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Colonel Leander M. Black was another of the wealthy pioneers in Montana Territory during the mid 1800's. Black built much of Bozeman, including Bozeman's first bank and a large hotel. Black was the main contractor for the "Army of the Platte" during the Civil War.
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McCreed's Law (The Montana Series) by L. J. Martin. $0.99. http://notloseyourself.com/showme/dpolp/Bo0l0pAuLpKmWtZtGiQe.html. Author: L. J. Martin. Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing (December 9, 2012). 238 pages. To catch an outlaw, hire an outlaw...then get the hell out of the way! Gone, a shipment of gold from the Transcontinental. Found, one man who has the skill motivation, and courage to track down the mad dogs who hit the train. Kane McCreed knows the country, it's sa...
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One of the primary reasons folks read western novels is a desire to live, vicariously, an adventure populated by larger-than-life characters attempting to tame a wild land. Imagine a cookbook that delivers a similar experience. L.J. Martin’s Cooking Wild & Wonderful is a delight is a cultural reference that evokes the spirit and flavor of the West.
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Stranahan, available in both print and eBook. A western in the Louis L'Amour tradition, set in Montana.
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[NEWS] 120417 BoA takes a photo with TVXQ after attending ‘TVXQ’s Live Tour 2012-TONE’ concert	Posted on April 17, 2012	by addictedtotvxq BoA displayed her close friendship with TVXQ in a recent photo with the members after their concert in Japan.
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ok, i have a deep dark secret to make. i go to Ananova every couple of days, just for the comic relief. i know it's not news, but after reading an article like this, or this, or this can you blame me?
guess i'll have to turn in my library card now, huh?
edit: just been knocking around the usual sites, and i've found that i'm not the only one that goes to ananova. this story is really making the rounds. hell, when the the corner on nro, as well as drudge carry a story, it makes me feel
i'm really with it. hey everyone else goes there too
sadly pathetic that i'm just as shallow as everyone else, and vapid potty humor is the only bright spot in my day.
of course, i chose to believe the first
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Helen Caldicott and Kate Orff Talk About Nexus of Harm From Petrochemical America
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Coup Complete. USA Takes Over Australia
Sychophant NY Times oozes:
CANBERRA, Australia — President Obama and Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia announced plans on Wednesday for the first sustained American military presence in Australia, a relatively small deployment that is still a major symbol of American intentions to use regional alliances to counterbalance a rising China. . .
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“. . . Few people are aware that Pine Gap is the Agency’s most important base in the world. When Watergate was threatening to lead to its complete demise, DCI George H. W. Bush went all out to secure its continuance, an important step of which was keeping Pine Gap secretly operating. It was left to conspiracy theorists, and whistleblowers, like Dr. Helen Caldicott and Victor Marchetti, to describe this operation, a “mild Chile”.
In November 1975, Australia’s Labour Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed from office by Governor General James Kerr, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Crown representative, and a leading Opposition politician, for demanding to know what was really going on at Pine Gap, and threatening not to renew its lease if he were not told. Bush told his Australian counterpart that the bilateral intelligence relationship would not be continued if Whitlam’s demand was met. Since then, Australia has been America’s closest ally. (It is interesting to note that James Bamford has nothing about the coup d’etat in his study of the CIA’s basic sister agencies, Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World.) . . . “
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Japan, (Pal Telegraph) – What in the world is really going on at Los Alamos, Ft. Calhoun and Fukushima? There are millions of Americans that would like the truth about what is happening at these nuclear facilities, but the mainstream media has been strangely quiet. Instead, the mainstream media is running headlines such as “10 Dirtiest U.S. Beaches Named” and “Pole Dance Stops Times Square Cold”. Yes, those are actually headlines that appeared on the front pages of major mainstream news websites in the United States today. Sadly, you really have to dig to find anything about the problems that are currently happening at nuclear facilities in the United States, and the mainstream media seems to have gotten really tired of talking about Fukushima. It is almost as if the mainstream media actually prefers to talk about mindless things rather than focus on the truly important events that are happening all around us.
Sadly, the coverage by the mainstream media has been so sparse that the majority of Americans don’t even know that there are problems at Los Alamos and Ft. Calhoun. Most Americans also don’t understand how serious the Fukushima disaster really is. . . (more)
Orwellian: “Radiation was being released deliberately” from Fukushima meltdown argued British gov’t.
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“As a physician, I contend that nuclear technology threatens life on our planet with extinction. If present trends continue, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink will soon be contaminated with enough radioactive pollutants to pose a potential health hazard far greater than any plague humanity has ever experienced.” . . . (more)
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U.S. Nuclear Scares and Dishonest Industry – Signs of Nuclear Crisis in America?
Despite the summer heat, numerous natural disasters across the nation has chilled the authorities and local citizens – not just because if their innate threats, but due to the extending threats posed by their neighboring nuclear power plants. . .
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TEPCO “Forgets” to Switch Manual Valve Leading To Abnormally Elevated Levels of Waste
Lucas Whitefield Hixon has a bunch of Fukushima headlines today.
” . . . The map shows that external radiation exposure exceeded 1 millisievert–the safe standard for an entire year–only in a part of eastern Fukushima Prefecture.. . .”
Even as thousands of Japanese workers struggle to contain the ongoing nuclear disaster, low levels of radiation from those power plants have been detected in foods in the United States. Milk, fruits and vegetables show trace amounts of radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima Daichi power plants, and the media appears to be paying scant attention, if any attention at all. It is as if the problem only involves Japan, not the vast Pacific Ocean, into which highly radioactive water has poured by the dozens of tons, and not into air currents and rainwater that carry radiation to U.S. soil and to the rest of the world. And while both Switzerland and Germany have come out against any further nuclear development, the U.S. the nuclear power industry continues as usual, with aging and crumbling power plants receiving extended operating licenses from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as though it can’t happen here. But it is happening here, on your dinner plate. . . . (more)
Some info on Reactor at Unit 1 – Arnold Gundersen with the latest on the Fukushima meltdowns, Interview by Helen Caldicott, June 17, 2011 – audio download. EX-SKF says – Sometimes, it makes one wonder why he/she should care about people in Japan, and I had one such moment when I read this article by Tokyo Shinbun.
Schools in Mito City in Ibaraki Prefecture, just south of Fukushima Prefecture, have started PE classes using swimming pools. . . .
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/rejoice-mito-city-board-of-education.html
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Dr. Caldicott Explains Radiation at Fukushima (vid)
In case you missed it – (10 min. snip from longer vid) –
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Temperatures rise at No.4 spent fuel storage pool.
Above is a short video report from April 13—-
Caldicott: UN lies about nuclear threat Japan update: “A ticking time bomb…”
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Sage Mode enhances a technique’s scale and power ( because Shinsuu senju is ninjutsu and Sage mode enhances Ninjutsu techniques ), that’s undeniable. Not only Hashirama could do a summon with thousand hands not only because of his huge chakra reserves as you’ve said but also because of Sage Mode, the power of the Top transformed buddha ( when It continuously strikes the opponent with all of its hands ) is increased as well. The size of the technique has also something to do here, you see what happens when Naruto infuses Senjutsu in a Rasengan? It gets bigger ( though not always the case ), that’s the same for Shinsuu Senju.
I know, pa mentioned that to naruto. But the problem is, we don’t know for sure if hashirama can summon that Buddha in base mode or not. Not unless the manga already implied that one. But honestly, I’m quite sure that hashirama was able to summon that Buddha in base mode but his sage mode was able to made it stronger and powerful. So basically, hashirama’s immense and amazingl chakra was able to summon that Buddha, but his sage mode made that Buddha into a powerful and stronger summon. About If he could in base mode, we don’t have any proof for that but I think he could. Though when Hashi summoned it he said – Senpou : Mokuton : True several thousand hands, maybe in Spiral Zetsu’s case, we just remove the “Senpou” part and the “thousand” as well. Because it seems more like Mokuton : True several hundred hands( I think it is even less than a hundred hands, It seems to range from 30-50 ).
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"Ain't No California" is a song written by Sterling Whipple, and recorded by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was released in August 1978 as the second single from the album I Believe in You.[1] The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[2]
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Overview of the Agreements and Living with Them « Jim Ritchie-Dunham
Overview of the Agreements and Living with Them
Here I begin to share the new agreements being experienced in communities worldwide, the axioms that underlie them, and ways of living pragmatically with those new agreements. This exploration provides a few surprises along the way. To remove the mystery and to point directly at the shifts required, those surprises are highlighted here.
Tens of thousands of collectives around the globe today experience harmonic vibrancy through the agreements that guide human interactions, and it is possible to extract what they have learned about how to live with and within those agreements.
By collapsing the vibrancy zone (n-axes) into economics (one axis), we accept scarcity. By presencing the full harmonic of the vibrancy zones (all n axes), we re-member abundance through relationship with the flow of spirit. Agreements based on axioms of scarcity bring about scarcity. Agreements based on axioms of abundance bring about abundance, prosperity, and harmonic vibrancy.
Humanity has evolved from rules (nomos) to relationships (eco-nomos) to collaboration (eco-syn-nomos). In nomos, agreements are accepted as rules: that is just the way things are. In eco-nomos, agreements are seen as negotiable, usually depending on one’s power in the relationship. In eco-syn-nomos, agreements are just agreements, reached in relationship, in relationship to involved parties, whether they are one’s self, the other, the collective, nature, or spirit.
Liberty, equality, solidarity, transcendence (eros), and fitness (agape) are expressions of relationship with harmonic vibrancy (all-in-one), rather than separate possibilities (either-or, both-and tradeoffs). Agreements with built in relationships for growth, for social cohesion, and for societal health are stronger and more sustainable than agreements with only one. The harmonic vibrancy zone describes a coherent set of agreements that inherently include all three gestures.
Living with the Agreements
The agreements we make live with us in many forms. They influence: (1) the resources that sustain us; (2) our assessment of our health; (3) how we work together; and (4) the money that facilitates our interactions.
Resources are abundant, not scarce, when we are in balanced relationship with them and with each other. Well tested frameworks show how to design balanced sets of resources (GRASP) and for assessing their strategic direction. Assessing the past performance and future health of a social holon requires: (a) measurement at all relationship levels (5 axes); and (b) indication of levels and challenges in achieving harmonic vibrancy, which the systemic leverage index does.
People generally find it difficult to understand and use the principles of economics, and are hardwired and softwired to experience harmonic vibrancy and make decisions based on it. It takes years of study to be considered a competent economist, and it takes only a few minutes to understand and be considered a competent ecosynomist. Collaboration on the complex issues facing humanity (i.e., poverty, corruption, climate, energy) requires a cohesive set of principles based on collaboration and the innate human capacities for collaboration.
Money expresses wealth in “n” axes of relationship to the flow of spirit, clearly reminding us through perceived scarcity where we are weak in our relationship (which axis). The projection of money as a noun spirals down. The projection of money as a verb spirals up. When money shifts intentions, consciously or unconsciously, it is a reminder (monere) of a different relationship with the flow of spirit, thus intention matters and it is important that we are clear on the actual, imprinting intention.
Posted By: Jim Ritchie-Dunham	Category: Ecosynomic Frameworks	Tags: agreements, economos, ecosynomos, nomos	Post navigation
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