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Hail Caesar Salad
- 1 loaf day old Italian bread
- 3 garlic cloves, mashed
- 9 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon plus 1 pinch kosher salt
- 2 eggs
- 2 heads romaine lettuce, inner leaves only
- 7 grinds black pepper
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 6 drops Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Cut 1/2 to 3/4-inch croutons from the loaf of bread and place on a baking sheet and put into the oven until dry but not browned.
Use a mortar and pestle to mash the garlic with 4 tablespoons of oil and 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt. Strain the oil into a skillet over medium heat. Add the dried croutons and fry, tossing constantly until all of the oil is absorbed and the croutons turn gold. Set aside.
Bring 2 cups water to a boil in a small saucepan. Add the eggs and cook for 1 minute. Chill in ice water to halt cooking. Set aside.
In a very large bowl, tear lettuce and toss with 3 tablespoons of olive oil. Sprinkle with the remaining kosher salt and the black pepper. Add the remaining olive oil. Toss well. Add the lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce. Break in the eggs. Toss until a creamy dressing forms. Toss in Parmesan cheese and serve with croutons.
Recipe courtesy of Alton Brown
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Trend Lab Crib Bumper - Cowboy Baby
About this item
Trend Lab's Cowboy Baby Crib Bumpers feature patches of cowboy themed embroidered appliqués set against dusk blue cotton, set alongside a cowboy themed scatter print and bandana print. The scatter print features horses, boots, hats, lassos and horseshoes in powder blue, desert sand, chocolate brown and cream with touches of burnt orange and dusk blue while the bandana print is chocolate with desert sand and powder blue accents. A rope cord trim and chocolate ultrasuede ties add the finishing western details. Bumpers consist of two long and two short pieces measuring 10" tall. Matching Cowboy Baby 6 Piece Crib Bedding Set sold separately. Complete your child's room with coordinating accessories from the Cowboy Baby collection by Trend Lab.
- Bumpers consist of two long and two short pieces measuring 10" tall.
- Front/Back: 100% cotton twill prints, 100% polyester ultrasuede
- Bumpers - Patches: Cowboy Scatter Print Percale (Back), Bandana Percale, Blue Percale With Embroideries and Brown Ultrasuede Ties and Rope Cord Trim; Short: 10" x 28"; Long: 10" x 51"; 9" Ties
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Ward County – Thursday Dispositions
Drove or in actual physical control of a motor vehicle Aramis Jovan Andrews, 26, 1806-5th Ave. SE, Unit C, $250 fine, obtain chemical dependency evaluation, attend victim impact panel, also drove with suspended or revoked license, $100 fine, $225 court fee, $25 victim-witness fee.
Issuing check or draft without sufficient funds or credit Carol Ann Wilson, 47, 205-3rd Ave. SE, $150 fine, $300 court fee, $70 state NSF costs, $281.66 restitution, $25 victim-witness fee.
Possession of drug paraphernalia Thorin Christopher Gessner, 20, 1505-12th St. NW, Unit C, $170 fine, $300 court fee, $25 victim-witness fee, obtain chemical dependency evaluation.


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I need to buy a humidifer for a small/medium room because humidity is too low where i live for my puer cakes (30-40%)
Do you have any brand/model recommandation?
what about this one http://bit.ly/7QCdAa ?
thank you for your help
bryan_drinks_tea wrote:i'm gonna go out on a limb and risk being chastised - but there is nothing wrong with dry stored pu-erh, unless you simply don't like the flavor that aged- dry stored versions give.
TokyoB wrote:I would think that it is not only RH that matters but also temperature. That is at 70 RH, for example, the amount of water in the air will be much higher at 30C than 20C. I presume that the reason Kunming cakes are so dry, even at 70RH, is the lower temperature.


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Montrail Fairhaven
Montrail Fairhaven
$110, 11.0 oz, www.montrail.com
The Dirt. Testers reported a smooth transition from road to trail in this moderate-stability trainer. The Fairhaven introduces Montrail's new graduated-density posting technology (FluidPost), designed to offer variant levels of stability along the medial side by decreasing posting density toward the lateral side of the shoe. Low-profile, diamond-patterned lugs provided superb grip on all surfaces and did not feel clunky on the road. These are the most versatile shoes we tested; they are lightweight, fast and flexible without compromising cushion or support.
Fit. Fits narrow- to high-volume feet—you won't need to break them in and won't want to them take off. The FluidPost provides adequate stability and torsion control for neutral to moderate overpronators. Designers combined the three most comfortable attributes of the most popular road shoes, stretch panels—similar to the biomorphic fit technology from the Asics Kayano, aggressive posting as with Brooks' Adrenaline GTS and an outside heel crash pad similar to Saucony's Omni—to make this the most comfortable trail shoe we tested.
Best For. Road and trail runs of any length—everything from paved paths and roads to technical and rocky singletrack.


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Riley Duo Bunk Beds
The openings between the guardrails on the bunk bed can exceed 3 ½ inches in width, which is too wide and does not meet safety standards. This presents an entrapment hazard where a child could be seriously injured or become asphyxiated.
Wood Castle Furniture collect at (571) 754-9304 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT Monday through Friday or online at www.woodcastle.com and click on Product Recall for more information
About 1,000
This recall involves Riley Duo model bunk beds with model number C 5702, E 5702 or M 5702. The Duo has a twin size mattress frame on top and a full size mattress frame on the bottom. The solid wood bunk bed was sold in cherry, eastern maple or pacific coast maple. A warning label on the end rail of the top bunk has model number "5702" and "Duo Bunk" printed on it.
None reported.
Consumers should immediately contact Wood Castle Furniture for a free repair. Either the consumer or a company representative can determine if the guardrails spacing is too wide. Consumers with young children should discontinue use of the bunk bed until the hazard has been remedied.
Dania Furniture and Room and Board Furniture stores nationwide and online at Roomandboard.com from January 2008 through December 2011 for between $1,500 and $1,700.
Wood Castle Furniture, of Albany, Ore.
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Tourna Permanent Pressure Tennis Balls - 18 Ball Pack
Product Information:
Ace after ace, the Tourna® Permanent Pressure Tennis Balls won't let you down. This 18-pack of premium-felt tennis balls will never go flat or lose their true bounce no matter how much you strike. Ideal for practice or throwing machines, these tennis balls come in a handy mesh drawstring bag for easy transportation and storage.
- 18 premium-felt tennis balls that never go flat
- Ideal for practice or ball throwing machines
- The bounce is true and always the same
- Comes in a mesh drawstring bag
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New mission, new market
June 28, 2006
CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks
ales consultant Eric Hall shows Betsy Matthies the inside of a Ford Expedition on Tuesday at Hamilton Ford on Prince Street. Matthies and her husband, who is stationed at Cannon Air Force Base, ordered a Ford Focus.
Auto salesman Eric Hall said he is reaping the benefits of Clovis residents' renewed sense of economic security.
In the week since the announcement of a new mission for Cannon Air Force Base, Hall said he has had an influx of customers looking to upgrade vehicles.
Hall, who has been employed by Hamilton Big Country Ford for two-and-a-half years, said he has seen a noticeable increase in civilian customers.
"I've sold five cars in the past seven days," he said, "all to non-military." Hall cited the news that a Special Ops Wing from Florida would take over the base in the next year as the reason residents are loosening their purse strings.
"People were saving their money for the last year," Hall said, "because they thought they might have to relocate if Cannon closed."
Sales to military customers remained steady despite the uncertainty of Cannon's future, Hall said.
"Military personnel are always going to buy cars," Hall said. "If the base had closed, they would still have their jobs."
The salesman said his customers are buying mid-size SUVs and compact cars, but trucks remain popular as well.
A lifelong Clovis resident, Hall said the mood among prospective buyers has been overwhelmingly positive.
"People are happy and relieved," Hall said. "They (customers) are relaxed about buying a car."
Clovis real estate agent Carolyn Spence said business has picked up.
"It's a healthy market," Spence said. "It's not so hot that the prices are unreasonable, and it's not so cold people are having to sell at a discount."
According to Spence, she has shown properties to several out-of-towners and expects more interest in the future.
"The real estate industry never really died in Clovis," Spence said, "it's just picking up pace again."
Katina Jones, marketing manager for a Clovis employment service, said her company hopes to benefit from the new mission as well. ItsQuest Inc. places employees in temporary and permanent positions throughout the area. According to Jones, she is hoping to place several general laborers at Cannon for the future construction projects. "I am actively pursuing the contracts," Jones said.
Commercial real estate agent Bill Giese said although the new mission at Cannon is a plus, it won't affect chain stores or shopping center's decisions to build in Clovis.
"Large businesses are not thinking Clovis is hot," Giese said, "Southwest Cheese has more of an impact."
The owner of Giese Investment Realty Co. said the biggest impact of the new mission is psychological.
"The idea of a new mission makes people think Clovis is a progressive town," Giese said, "but it (mission) is not going to make Clovis blossom into a metropolitan overnight."


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Domestic Violence
Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviors used by one person in a relationship to control the other. Intimate partners may be:
- Married / not married / separated / divorced
- Dating /engaged / formerly dating or engaged
- Heterosexual / homosexual
- Living together / formerly living together
- Co-parents of a child
- Adult / minor
You have the right to be safe and no one has the right to hit, threaten, or abuse you. Men, women, children, elders and pets can all be victims of domestic violence. Children witnessing domestic violence in their home are at risk to grow up to be abused by their intimate partner or become abusers themselves.
If you are a victim of domestic violence, now is the time to start protecting yourself. You are taking that first step by seeking assistance and it is as close as a phone call to law enforcement, a friend or to a shelter.
If you need help, here's what you can do:
- Contact the San Diego Sheriff's Department at (858) 565-5200.
- Call the San Diego County Domestic Violence 24-hour hotline 1-888-DVLINKS (385-4657) for emergency assistance or ongoing needs.
- Leave your home or have someone stay with you. Go to a shelter.
- Get medical attention from your doctor or hospital emergency room. Ask the staff to photograph your injuries and keep detailed records in case you decide to take legal action.


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Notice of Annual Meeting of Members
March 26, April 2, 2014
Southwest Minnesota State University Foundation
Notice of Annual Meeting of Members
Pursuant to the bylaws of the Southwest Minnesota State University Foundation, notice is hereby given that the organization's Annual Meeting of members shall be held at the SMSU Conference Center,
April 14, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. for the following purposes:
1. To elect new board of directors and officers.
2. To conduct other business which may properly and appropriately come before the assembly or any adjournment thereof.
Proxies may be executed at the Office of Southwest Minnesota State University Foundation, Founders Hall 225; 1501 State Street, Marshall, MN 56258-1598.
By Order of the Board of Directors
Ken Mukomela
Secretary, SMSU Foundation


text: Our Destinations Dubai is one of the seven United Arab Emirates on the sun drenched Arabian Peninsula and the second largest. It has become increasingly popular as a tourism hotspot in recent years with first-class hotels, shopping and beach facilities. The official language is Arabic; Arabic and English are commonly used in business and commerce. Hindi and Urdu are also widely used.Dubai is modern hi-tech Arabia. The streets are clean and futuristic skyscrapers dominate the city landscape. The nightlife is known as the best in the UAE including lots of live entertainments.Dubai offers blue seas and fine beaches and there are lots of them. When developers ran out of beach they built luxury artificial islands with over 100km of new beach front.As well as the attractions of state-of-the-art modern city living and legendary Arabian hospitality Dubai is also hot all year round. Temperatures peak in the summer at over 40C and rarely fall below 15C in winter. As a result the best time to visit Dubai for many is November to March when the climate is extremely pleasant.Dubai covers 3,885km2 in North Eastern UAE. As well as tourism the kingdom is known for its international business zone which has been built into a major player in recent years. Both the kingdom and the capital are known as Dubai while the capital is also known as Dubai City.


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Gessler's office upholds recall petition language against Morse, Giron
It was two swings and two misses today for the lawyers fighting the recall campaigns against state Sen. Angela Giron, D-Pueblo, and state Sen. John Morse, D-Colorado Springs.
Deputy Secretary of State Suzanne Staiert handed down two rulings at 5 p.m that move the recall efforts forward:
First, she denied a motion from attorney Mark Grueskin to have Secretary of State Scott Gessler and his office recuse itself from hearing the legal challenge against the recall petitions.
Secondly, she upheld the wording of the petitions – a decision that wasn't unexpected and is likely to send the recall fight into district court.
Grueskin's reaction was, "We're going to court."
Unless lawyers for either side ask for a court injunction against the state recall timetable, Gessler's office will notify Gov. John Hickenlooper that a special election for Morse must be scheduled in no sooner than 45 days but no later than 75 days.
A similar notification would be made for Giron after Tuesday, if her supporters cannot invalidate the recall petitions against her by whittling down the number of signatures from 12,648 to fewer than 11,285.
The motion to have Gessler's office recuse itself from the recall process was a last-minute tactic based on Gessler speaking to a group of Pueblo County Republicans last March 12. Asked about the recall process, he gave the GOP crowd candid answers about the challenge of recalling a state official.
Grueskin argued those answers showed an appearance of bias against Giron. Staiert disagreed and handed down her ruling on the petition language as well.
She said the petition wording met the legal requirements of a recall as well. Staiert said the state recall laws should be interpreted liberally in favor of the public's right to recall officials.
No one expected Gessler's office to set aside petition language that his staff had approved earlier this year.
"We're pleased with the decision. It's what we expected," said Victor Head, one of the recall organizers. "It's unfortunate this will probably be drug out in court now."


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teaisme wrote:that set of 3 80ml cups seems like a steal for $36
Could I possibly get more pics ? Particularly the inside. Or you could just describe it to me if no pics handy. thanks!
Tead Off wrote:New work just posted. Please have a look.
Chip wrote:Tead Off wrote:New work just posted. Please have a look.
been there ... done that ...
teaisme wrote:btw link not working?
and chip you get #12 server?
Drax wrote:Let me guess... the "short version" is "yes" and the "longer version" is "yes, plus I got....<list items here>"??
Beautiful stuff as always...!
teaisme wrote:wow your really testing my self control...stunning
btw link not working?
and chip you get #12 server?
Anyone had a chance to try out those style of handles? Feel fluid?
debunix wrote:On the smaller teawares especially, it's hard to really get my fingers around the usual loop for a good stable grip, and I end up pinching the loop and trying to manipulate it as if it were a little flat piece like this. The new looks a lot more functional for big fingered people handling small containers of very hot water.


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Chapman University in order to identify, plan and implement key structural components of a campus emergency has adopted a Multi-Hazard response plan. The disaster plan includes four broad but essential components:
- Planning
- Mitigation
- Response
- Recovery
of the Plan:
The plan utilizes the combination of accepted emergency response practices, ICS (Incident Command System), and SEMS/NIMS (Standardized Emergency Management System /National Incident Management System). The SEMS structure is incorporated as a means to simplify interactions with all agencies involved in emergency response and disaster preparedness. All federal and state agencies are required to utilize this structure and FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) requires its use as one condition of reimbursement eligibility. Because the plan provides a continuum of levels of activation, it can be utilized for incidents ranging from those of limited outcome, site, or problem, up to and including large events with potential for large loss.
Types of Events the plan addresses:
- Earthquakes
- Floods
- Wild-land Fires
- Urban Fires
- Medical Disaster
- Drought
- Weather Storms
- Civil Disturbance
- Transport Type
- Landslide
- Hazardous Material
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- Dam Failure
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Police rescue woman held hostage
FLAT ROCK – A woman held hostage at gunpoint inside her home Tuesday safely escaped with the help of police, who later arrested her husband in a standoff in Flat Rock, said Delta County Sheriff Gary Ballweg this morning.
At 5:40 p.m. Tuesday, deputies were called to a residence on County Road 416 regarding the report of a man with a gun holding his wife hostage, Ballweg stated in a news release. Several other agencies responded to the emergency and formed a perimeter around the residence, which is located in a swampy area, said Ballweg.
A hostage negotiator from the Michigan State Police was called to the scene. A Michigan State Police Emergency Services SWAT team, made up of officers from throughout the Upper Peninsula, also responded, explained the sheriff.
"At around 8:30 p.m., officers were able to get the female hostage safely out of the residence," stated Ballweg.
Approximately six hours later, at around 2:30 this morning, the hostage negotiator talked the suspect into exiting the house without incident, the sheriff stated.
Ballweg said a warrant was issued charging the husband with one count of unlawful imprisonment, a 15-year felony, and one count of felonious assault, a four-year felony.
The suspect was arrested and lodged in the Delta County Jail where he remained this morning. His name is not being released pending his arraignment in district court. He was expected to be arraigned today.
A brother of the suspect was also arrested for interfering with the police investigation, according to the sheriff. His name is not being released pending his arraignment in district court.
In addition to the state police, other agencies assisting during the standoff included Escanaba Public Safety, Gladstone Public Safety, Escanaba Township Volunteer Fire Department, and Rampart Emergency Medical Services.
No other details were available on the incident pending an ongoing investigation.


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Skating On Thin Ice?
To the Readers' Forum:
I'm going to question a president's use of his "Executive Privilege" power. I'm sure that it has been used effectively by leaders of both parties at various times. Does this mean that a president can ignore the citizens and Congress to make sure his personal wishes and ideas are made law and disregard what might be best for the citizens and the country?!
Being a teenager in the 1930s, I lived through and have memories of the consequences that were the direct result of the actions of European leaders who made use of their "executive privilege."
The National Socialist Party in Germany mesmerized its people into believing that one man and his ideas would solve all their problems. Hitler became the Fuhrer, the Nazi Party was firmly established and there no longer was any need for a Congress to represent the people. On Feb. 23, 1933, the Reichstag (Congressional Building) was "conveniently" torched and destroyed by fire. Now, one man would decide the fate of Germany and not just by executive privilege, but by law.
As a result of these actions, over a number of years, the German people "accepted" ethnic recognition and discrimination, new gun laws and state sponsored day care for children became mandatory to better prepare them for total government control. Party leaders even insisted that the children report their own parents should they hear them speak negatively against the "Third Reich." Teenagers by the thousands were enlisted into the Hitler Youth to support the Nation. Newspapers were censored by the Ministry of Propaganda. Guess what it bragged about to the world!
I didn't really think that would happen to us but a few months later, after December 7, 1941, (Pearl Harbor), I was serving in the 8th Air Force in England. My comments are facts based on my own experience. I heard the actual voices and saw images of the leaders of both Germany and Italy being cheered by the masses as they each bragged about their vision for the country. I can't help being concerned with the direction our Country seems to be heading. Has "Political Correctness" gone too far?
Am I on thin ice? Someone has to check the thickness! Let me know if I make it!!
Leo A. Wilcox


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Bake & Decorate Cupcake Set
- Overview
Young culinary artists can create cupcakes of all designs and flavors, without any mess. Shaped like icing tubes, the dry-erase markers allow kids to decorate, wipe off, and redecorate the tops of four wooden cupcakes; the serving tray, oven mitt and decorative candles bring realistic details to imaginative play.
- 13.25" wide x 10.5" deep x 3" high
- Cupcakes are crafted of solid wood and feature a removable, wipeable top.
- Dry-erase markers are shaped like icing tubes and come in green, blue and pink.
- Set includes four cupcakes, a baking tray, three dry-erase markers, cupcake sleeves, four wooden candles, and an oven mitt.
- Ages 3 years and up.
- Dimensions & Care
- Dust with a soft, dry cloth.
- Shipping & Return Info
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Global Footprint Network is pleased to announce that it was named one of the world's best NGOs this week.
The Global Journal, an international print and online publication that focuses on the major players and issues of world governance, produced and published the 100 Best NGOs list for its January/February 2012 edition. The Global Journal described the list as the first international ranking of its kind, and those on it as the non-profit world's leading actors.
Global Footprint Network was among the handful of NGOs tackling sustainable development to be included in the Top 100. Other categories included humanitarian, health, education, technology and entrepreneurship organizations. Among the set of criteria used in making the decision included: impact, innovation, transparency, accountability and efficiency. Also included on the list were Global Footprint Network partners Gram Vikas, World Wildlife Fund and International Development Enterprise (IDE).
"We are humbled to be in the company of the many innovative organizations named in the top 100 who are seeking to create systemic change," said Susan Burns, Global Footprint Network's Senior Vice President and co-founder. "The world now finds itself at a defining moment where ecological constraints are ever more critical as we seek to secure people's well-being."
Global Footprint Network was recognized for its work as global resource accountants "to influence decision-makers at all levels of society" and make ecological limits central to their planning and decisions. Global Footprint Network President Mathis Wackernagel is co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, a resource accounting tool that measures how much nature can provide, how much humanity is using, and who is using what. The tool enables users to understand their resource constraints and the link between ecological and economic stability. The honor comes as the organization prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary next year.
"From humanitarian relief to the environment, public health to education, microfinance to intellectual property, NGOs are increasingly at the forefront of developments shaping the lives of millions of people around the world," The Global Journal said in announcing the Top 100 list.


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Cage, John
John Cage 1912-1992
(Full name John Milton Cage, Jr.) American poet, composer, essayist, and graphic artist.
Inventive and experimental, Cage was an influential and controversial avant-garde composer of music and poetry. In his works, he relentlessly strove to enhance and perfect the visual and aural texture of music, language, and art. His innovative work with mesostics—poetry and prose arranged to spell out words and ideas vertically through the text—and creative use of punctuation reflected his belief that language is merely a tool of art and can be manipulated to provide the reader with multiple avenues of interpretation.
Biographical Information
Cage was born on September 5, 1912, in Los Angeles, California, to John Cage, Sr., an inventor, and Lucretia Harvey Cage, a journalist. An exemplary student, he was the valedictorian of his class in high school. Upon graduation in 1928, he enrolled in Pomona College but left after two years. He then traveled through Europe and studied music composition, piano, painting, and poetry. He returned to the United States in the early 1930s, and in 1934 began three years of study with the composer Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles. In 1935 Cage married Xenia Andreyevna Kashevaroff, and two years later they moved to Seattle, where he took a teaching position at the Cornish School. While in Seattle, he met the dancer Merce Cunningham, with whom he later frequently collaborated, and he was introduced to the principles of Zen Buddhism. He relocated to New York in 1942 and became acquainted with the artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp, the composers David Tudor and Morton Feldman, and the Zen scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Cage began in the early 1950s to read the I Ching, an ancient Chinese text used in a form of divination in which the results of the tossing of coins is related to specific passages. This reading led him to experiment with incorporating elements of chance into his musical and poetic compositions. In the 1960s he began using the I Ching to create poems, deriving them from the works of other writers, such as James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Henry David Thoreau's Journals. He also developed his mesostics. Cage continued to experiment with sounds, silences, and languages, and to perform innovative "lectures" and readings until his death in 1992.
Major Poetic Works
Cage's early career was primarily devoted to composing music, and his first experiments with nontraditional sounds were in this medium. He placed various objects on piano strings to change the tone of the instrument, used electronic sounds in his performances, and incorporated silence as an integral part of music. As he began to explore poetics and language, Cage blended musical qualities with the spoken word. Silence (1961), A Year from Monday (1967), and Pour les ouiseaux (1976; For the Birds) contain many of these performance pieces and innovative writings. Cage's mesostics, a type of visual and textual poetry that reflected Cage's appreciation for chance events, are included in Sixty-Two Mesostics re: Merce Cunningham (1971) and M: Writings, '67-'72 (1973). He also created pieces that applied the principles of the I Ching to texts written by others. Mureau (1970; collected in M) was derived from Henry David Thoreau's Journals (the title comes from combining the words "music" and "Thoreau"); and Writings through Finnegans Wake (1978) was based on James Joyce's work. In Empty Words: Writings, '73-'78 (1979), Cage continued to develop poems with freedom of form and innumerable possibilities of interpretation. He further investigated free form in Themes & Variations (1982) and X: Writings '79-'82 (1983).
Critical Reception
Due to their iconoclastic nature, Cage's poetic works at first did not receive favorable mainstream criticism, and much of the commentary they did receive was uncomprehending, bemused, or indifferent. As Cage further developed his ideas and style, however, reviewers began to recognize the artistry of his poetics. Observers increasingly applauded Cage's attempts to free poetry from the constraints of language, incorporating a significant element of chance into his compositions while, in an apparent paradox, adhering to consistent forms and techniques. In the view of a number of critics, Cage's works derived from other's texts, such as Mureau and Writings through Finnegans Wake, enhance the understanding and appreciation of the originals. Many commentators now acknowledge his important contributions to music and poetry and consider Cage one of the most influential avant-garde artists of the twentieth century.
Principal Works
Sixty-Two Mesostics re: Merce Cunningham 1971
Writings through Finnegans Wake 1978
Empty Words: Writings, '73-'78 1979
Another Song 1981
Themes & Variations 1982
X: Writings '79-'82 1983
Silence: Lectures and Writings (essays, poetry, and lectures) 1961
A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings (essays, poetry, and lectures) 1967
Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued, Part 3 (poetry and lectures) 1967
M: Writings, '67-'72 (poetry and lectures) 1973
Pour les ouiseaux: entretiens avec Daniel Charles [For the Birds] (lectures, poetry, and conversations) 1976
I-VI (lectures) 1990
John Cage, Writer: Previously Uncollected Pieces (poetry and prose) 1993
John Cage and Richard Kostelanetz (interview date 1974-75)
SOURCE: Cage, John, and Richard Kostelanetz. "Empty Words (1974-1975)." In John Cage (ex)plain(ed), pp. 115-32. New York: Schirmer, 1996.
[In the following interview, conducted in 1974-75, Cage discusses Mureau, his work on Thoreau's Journal and explains his experiments with the structure and sound of language in Empty Words.]
I was always impressed by John Cage's statement that when you build a structure that strong you can accept all sorts of things into it.
—Robert Dunn, in an interview with Don McDonagh, The Rise and Fall and Rise of Modern Dance (1970)
Language was the base of much of John Cage's work in the 1970s and 1980s—language that is meant to be read and spoken without specific pitches (that would, by contrast, make the words song). These works are not essays, or even antiessays, like his earlier "Lecture on Nothing" (1959). As literary creations these later works are generically closer to poetry than to essays or fiction in that they represent compressions of language rather than extensions into narrative (fiction) or definitions of extrinsic reality (essays). Cage's first departure in this poetic direction was the essayistic "Diaries," produced in the late sixties, which are, in essence, a formally rigorous and typographically various shorthand for miscellaneous remarks. Three of these "Diaries" appeared in A Year from Monday (1967), and in the course of reviewing this book I suggested that Cage's work with words had not been as radical as his work with sound. Rather than dispute me, Cage remembered my criticisms (and repeatedly reminded me that he had) and moved ahead. He made a sequence of cleverly structured visual poems in memory of his friend Marcel Duchamp, Not Wanting To Say Anything About Marcel (1969), and then Sixty-two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham (1971), a series of vertically organized words that exploit the unique possibilities of rub-off lettering. He developed, in Mureau (1971), a nonsyntactic prose that was based not, like the "Diaries," upon his own experience and his own language, but upon words drawn from Henry David Thoreau's Journal. He further extended this line of work in his 1979 book, Empty Words.
Empty Words contains expository essays on "The Future of Music" and "How the Piano Came to Be Prepared." Both of these are of interest to followers of Cage's musical thinking. Another section, ostensibly about both the choreographer Merce Cunningham and food, illustrates Cage's genius for storytelling. However, most of this book contains language constructions that must be called "poetry," partly because they are not prose but mostly because they cannot be persuasively classified as anything else. Because these poems are radically unlike everything else in American writing today, it is scarcely surprising that they are rarely discussed by "poetry critics" and never mentioned in the current surveys of American literature.
Notwithstanding his advocacy of "chance" and artistic freedom, Cage was a poetic formalist who invented alternative ways of structuring language. One device is the mesostic. Whereas the familiar acrostic has a word running down the left-hand margin of several lines, the mesostic has a recognizable word running down the middle. In Cagean practice, this vertical word is usually the name of a friend—Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Norman O. Brown. Within this mesostic constraint, Cage makes concise statements:
not Just gArdener morelS coPrini morEls cop Rini. not Just hunter: cutting dOwn ailan tHus cuttiNg down ailanthuS.
The title piece of Empty Words is a four-part poem drawn from Henry David Thoreau's remarks about music and sound. Cage copied relevant passages out of Thoreau's journals and then subjected them to I Ching-aided chance processes that, in effect, scrambled and combined them, eventually producing a nonsyntactic pastiche of Thoreau's language:
speaksix round and longer than the shelloppressed and now ten feet high hero Theclosely isor have looked wellthat and spruces the and a darker line below it
This stanza comes from the first page of the first part, which contains phrases, words, syllables, and letters (characters) from Thoreau. The second part of "Empty Words" contains just his words, syllables, and letters; the third part just syllables and letters; and the fourth part just letters.
Cage's long poem "Empty Words" is less about Thoreau than about sound, or the sound of language about sound, compressed and recombined; reading it is not about assuaging our powers of literary understanding but about challenging and expanding them. This is rigorously Platonic poetry that takes initially spiritual literature and recomposes it into a yet more ethereal realm. In my opinion, "Empty Words" is better heard than read.
Scarcely contented with past poetic inventions, Cage developed a series of conceptually ambitious schemes for extracting language from James Joyce's multilingual masterpiece, Finnegans Wake. In the initial scheme, Cage worked from the beginning of Joyce's book to its end, extracting words that contain letters that fit into a mesostic structure based upon the name "James Joyce." Since the first J in Finnegans Wake appears in the word "nathandjoe," Cage took out that word and then, by a decision of taste, decided to take as well the three adjacent words to the left of it (ignoring those to the right). For the a of "James" he selected only the article (and implicitly decided against both sets of words adjacent to it). The next m appears in the word "malt"; the next e in "Jhem"; and the next s in "Shen." Thus, Cage's opening stanza reads:
wroth with twone nathandJoe A Malt jhEm Shen
It is a simple measure of Cage's originality that nobody ever made poetry like this before—the method is, like so much of his work, at once sensible and nutty. To my mind, Writing Through Finnegans Wake is interesting in part because it is so audaciously innovative; it succeeds in part because it recycles James Joyce. Hearing Cage read it aloud, with sensitive precision, was a special pleasure.
Empty Words contains only the second of Cage's workings with the Wake; the first, longer Joyce piece appeared initially as a special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly and has since been reissued as a book, Writing Through Finnegans Wake (1978). Both Cage Wake pieces appear together in a third book, a large-format signed and limited edition titled Writings Through Finnegans Wake (1978) (note the plural in the first word). Reproducing Cage's manuscript in its original size, this sumptuously produced volume is superior to the reduced versions, even though its high price is amenable, alas, primarily to libraries and collectors of Cage's visual art.
Cage described Empty Words as progressing, over its four parts, from literature to music, and it seems to me that both this work and its Joycean successor finally realized an identity between the two traditional arts. Text-sound is the epithet I use to define language works that cohere primarily in terms of sound rather than syntax or semantics; and Cage, as a literary musician, was clearly a master of that domain. On the other hand, because both Empty Words and Writings Through Finnegans Wake are language-based, they fit snugly into the great American tradition of poetry that realizes an eccentric innovation in the machinery of the art—a radical change not in meaning or in sensibility but in the materials indigenous to poetry: language, line, syntax, and meter. (In this sense Cage's principal poetic precursors are Whitman, Cummings, and Gertrude Stein.) Considered in this way, Cage was not a literary curiosity but an exemplary American poet.
I spoke with Cage about how he created these unusual literary works, including Mureau and Empty Words; here's some of his thoughts.
[Cage]: Having agreed to write a text about electronic music, and having noticed that HDT—that's Thoreau—listened to sound as electronic composers listen to it, not just to musical sounds but to noises and ambient sound generally, it occurred to me that making a chance-determined mix of his remarks in the Journal about sound, silence, and music would make a text relevant to electronic music. Therefore, I gave it the title Mu(music)reau(Thoreau). I went through the index of the Dover edition of the Journal, and I noticed every occurrence in the index of anything that could be remotely thought to be connected with music, and then I listed all of those appearances; then I subjected it all to chance operations in terms of sentences, phrases, words, syllables, and letters. I made a permutation of those five possibilities, so that it could be each of the five alone, or in any groups of two, or any groups of three, or any groups of four, or finally all five.
[Kostelanetz]: In gathering the original material for Mureau, you took phrases out of Thoreau and sentences out of Thoreau and words out of Thoreau.
First I listed all the things having to do with sound. Then I asked, what it was of all those permuted possibilities I was looking for, whether I was looking for all five together or a group of four of them, or a group of three or a group of two or one. And when I knew what I was doing, my next question was for how many events was I doing it? And the answer could be anywhere from one to sixty-four. Let's say I got twenty-three. Then if I knew that I was looking for twenty-three events which were any of these five, then I asked of this five which is the first one. Which is the second? Which is the third? So I knew finally what I was doing. And then when I knew what I was doing, I did it.
How did you decide to begin work, in the case of Mureau?
I wanted to make a text that would have four parts, and it was written for a magazine in Minneapolis called Synthesis. And they were written to be columns. I was a columnist for the magazine. I don't think of these texts as lectures. They were conceived as columns, initially, and if you'll notice, the columns have different widths. I did that on purpose.
I was continuing Mureau, but extending it beyond Thoreau's remarks about sound and music to the whole of the Journal. To begin with, I omitted sentences, and I thought of Empty Words as a transition from literature to music.
In the first notebooks of Empty Words, each part is called a lecture. It was something to be read aloud, and therefore I made it a length that some people would consider excessive; I made a length of two hours and a half for each lecture.
How did you determine that?
Most people consider this excessive, and they don't want me to give it as a lecture. I think that's because the average lecture, say in a college, should be forty minutes.
Why did you make your own lectures nearly four times as long?
I had been very impressed by an experience I had in Japan, in 1964, of going to a Buddhist service. We went to an evening lecture there that went on for hours and hours, and we had been warned that it was going to be tiresome. I was with Merce Cunningham and the Dance Company. It was very cold, and we were not protected by any warmth. They had told us it would be uncomfortable and long, but we were told also that we didn't have the right to leave once we had decided that we wanted to stay. So we all suffered through it, and it went on and on, for something like six hours.
And then a few days later, or maybe it was on another trip to Japan, I was in a Zen temple in Kyoto. When I was invited to go to an early morning Buddhist service, I did. I noticed that after a lengthy service they opened the doors of the temple, and you heard the sounds coming in from the outside. So, putting these two things together, the long night business and then the dawn of the opening of the doors, I thought of the opening of the doors...
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John Cage and Richard Kostelanetz (interview date spring 1982)
SOURCE: Cage, John, and Richard Kostelanetz. "Talking about Writings through Finnegans Wake." TriQuarterly 54 (spring 1982): 208-16.
[In the following interview, Cage explains his use of mesostics (aligning letters within a text to spell out words vertically), clarifies the formulas for picking the words and letters in his mesostics, and discusses his decision to rework James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in this style.]
In the 1960s, John Cage wrote poetry, initially in a series of notational "Diary" pieces that I regard as a rich extension of Black Mountain poetics. More recently, he has been rewriting poetry—to be precise, rewriting someone else's...
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Marjorie Perloff (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: Perloff, Marjorie. "'Unimpededness and Interpenetration': The Poetic of John Cage." In A John Cage Reader: In Celebration of His 70th Birthday, edited by Peter Gena and Jonathan Brent, pp. 4-16. New York: C. F. Peters, 1982.
[In the following essay, Perloff refutes John Hollander's negative assessment of the artistic merit of Cage's work and offers the explanation that Cage's writing—although it has a strict form—actually is about the freedom from conventional form and style.]
—One does not then make just any experiment but does what must be done.1
John Hollander, reviewing...
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Arthur J. Sabatini (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Sabatini, Arthur J. "Silent Performances: On Reading John Cage." In John Cage at Seventy-Five, edited by Richard Fleming and William Duckworth, pp. 74-96. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 1989.
[In the following essay, Sabatini describes the various media and genres of Cage's works, analyzes his experimental forms and styles, and attempts to explain his use of space and visuals to enhance poetic and artistic impact.]
At any rate, my musical words, strictly speaking, have managed to arouse either indignation or sympathy—nothing compared to my books. You can't imagine how many people were touched by Silence! I received...
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Daniel Herwitz (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Herwitz, Daniel. "John Cage's Approach to the Global." In John Cage: Composed in America, edited by Marjorie Perloff and Charles Junkerman, pp. 188-205. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
[In the following essay, Herwitz views Cage's works as anarchic studies of humanity, politics, and language.]
It was almost inevitable that John Cage would move from composing in music to composing in words. For Cage, music was never just music, it was always the occasion for reformation. When Cage set out in the early 1950s to reform music, to silence what he saw as its constricted practices, he was really aiming to free constricted human beings by freeing their...
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Marjorie Perloff (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Perloff, Marjorie. "The Music of Verbal Space: John Cage's 'What You Say ….'" In Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies, edited by Adalaide Morris, pp. 129-48. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
[In the following essay, Perloff examines the form and content of Cage's mesostic endeavors, arguing that in his mesostic poems, Cage adds musical texture and deeper meaning to the texts he uses for his poems, therefore enhancing the original texts and creating new poetic interpretations.]
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Further Reading
Revill, David. The Roaring Silence: John Cage, A Life. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1992, 375 p.
Biography that seeks to demonstrate the interrelation of Cage's life with his work and thought.
Bruns, Gerald L. "Poethics: John Cage and Stanley Cavell at the Cross Roads of Ethical Theory." In John Cage: Composed in America, edited by Marjorie Perloff and Charles Junkerman, pp. 206-25. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Explores the works and ideas of Cage and philosopher Stanley Cavell to illustrate the link between artistic expression and ethical...
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Patron Book Review: Sing You Home, by Jodi Picoult
Zoe, the music therapist protagonista, struggles to find happiness after a series of disappointments in her life. Not wanting to give away a part of the plot I can just say that Picoult wrote very briefly without going into any details about the incident that changed Zoe's life. Had she done that, it would have given the story a much needed boost. Predictable ending.
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I installed a Lyric last week in my Taylor. Previously I had an active K&K Pure Mini... so I removed the K&K preamp and simply wired the passive K&K to the ring tabs on the Lyric. Then I use my Fishman Artist to mix the two signals.
For the most part it sounds good. But the thing that bothers me is that I have to gain up the Lyric excessively. When comparing the two pickups, I have to gain the Lyric to 3 o'clock and the passive K&K to 9 o'clock to get relatively equal sound. Even if I unplug the K&K, the signal strength on the Lyric seems low (with the on board volume at 100%). Is this normal? I had a new battery. As I turn the amp up past noon, I start to notice some hiss... not terrible, but definitely audible.
I tried putting a Para DI after the Lyric and before the Fishman Artist to boost the signal, thinking the Artist may be the noisy part. Gaining up on the Para DI allows me to not use as much gain on the Artist, but I still encounter similar hiss noise at higher gains. This suggests that the lyric is the noise source at higher gains and not the Artist.
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Morning All
As some of you know, I am one of the candidates hoping to win one of Lothian's seven regional MSP places at the 5th May Scottish Parliament general election. Aye, that really is its full title, one hell of a mouthful. I'm standing as an independent candidate & announced I was standing on Tuesday. You can find out more about my campaign & why I'm standing via this press release - http://wp.me/p1m7AU-2J.
I wanted to say this in public so everybody knew where I stand. I don't want to abuse my Forest family & friends, but of course I am looking for all the support I can get. Some may say that I shouldn't canvass on the Forest's BB and I apologise if it offends you. However, others have said I should & honesty is always the best policy.
The most important thing about May's election is voting if you are entitled to. As I've said here before, most folk don't realise they are able to vote for Holyrood politicians. For clarity's sake, you can vote to elect MSPs if you are over 18 on the date of the election & one of the following.
• A British Subject.
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• A citizen of another European Union country.
The deadline to register to vote at the election is 1700 on Friday 15 April. If you want a postal vote then you need to apply by 1700 on Thursday 14 April. If you want a proxy vote (someone voting on your behalf), you have until Thursday 21 April. To register to vote, go to the Lothian Valuation Joint Board's website, http://www.lothian-vjb.gov.uk/downloads.html.
If you are British, from a Commonwealth country or Irish, this will also make you eligible to vote in the referendum on whether to move to the Alternative Vote system for electing MPs to Westminster instead of the current First Past The Post. For more info on that, got to the Yes to Fairer Votes website, http://www.yestofairervotes.org.
As I said, I'm standing on the regional or list ballot. For the Scottish Parliament, 73 of the 129 MSPs represent individual constituencies. This is sometimes referred to as your first vote & for this you will get a lilac coloured ballot paper. The remaining 56 MSPs are elected from the eight additional member regions, which each elect seven MSPs. This is sometimes referred to as your second vote & is on a peach coloured ballot paper. The referendum is on a white one.
So, if you want to vote for me, look for the line that says "Ken O'Neill, Independent" & put an X against my name.
For more information on the Scottish Parliamentary elections, check out the About My Vote site's section on it (http://tinyurl.com/3qknoek), Wiki's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament) or the Electoral Commission's (http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/guidance/voters).
OK, enough of that. How can you help me get elected? Well, vote for me of course. First though, read my site & see what I stand for. I'm going back to proof reading my manifesto after this & hopefully that will go online tomorrow. If you like what you see, then vote for me on Thursday 5th May.
Next, follow me on Twitter (http://twitter.com/LothiansKen) &/or Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001943657013). The more people who follow me, the more likely someone else is to & the more likely that a journalist will take me seriously. If they take me seriously, the more coverage I get. I don't need to join the dots as you're all intelligent people. Obviously, if you follow me then please retweet or share with your friends what I'm saying.
I could say if/why I would make a good MSP, how I could help you and/or the Forest or how I can make a difference to Edinburgh, the Lothians or the Forest if elected. However, I think I've done enough trumpet blowing on here for now. I'm happy to answer questions, either here or via Formspring (http://www.formspring.me/LothiansKen).
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Alice M. Sorenson
RINGSTED – Mass of Christian Burial for Alice M. Sorenson, 97, of Ringsted will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Armstrong, with Father Sunny Dominic as Celebrant. Interment will be in Ringsted Memorial Cemetery, Ringsted, Iowa.
Sorenson passed away Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at Good Samaritan Society, Estherville, Iowa. Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Thursday at Henry-Olson Funeral Chapel, Estherville, followed by a Vigil Prayer Service at 7 p.m., also at the funeral home.
Alice Marie (Ulrich) Sorensen, the daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Carrigan) Ulrich, was born Aug. 6, 1915, in Ayrshire, Iowa. Alice was raised in Ayrshire and attended Mallard, Iowa, schools, graduating from Mallard High School. After completing high school, Alice attended college at University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, graduating with her Teaching Certificate. Later she did graduate work at the University of Minnesota. On July 17, 1950, Alice was united in marriage to James A. Sorensen in Northwood, Iowa. The couple made their home in the Ringsted area, where Jim farmed and they also owned and operated Sorensen Trucking Business. Alice taught school for many years in Iowa and Minn. She taught school for 27 years in Ringsted Town School, retiring in 1976. Alice took great pride in her teaching career and was honored as a outstanding educator at the Ringsted Centennial. Alice also worked as bookkeeper for Nevill Brothers Implement in Estherville. Besides teaching, Alice was active in her community including: being a judge for Little Miss Iowa pageants for 10 years; serving on advisory boards at Valley Vue Care Center for three years; volunteering 10 years as receptionist at Fairmont Community Hospital; served on Fairmont Hospital Foundation Board for three years and served on the advisory board for Emmet County Historical Society for five years. The couple also traveled extensively in the United States, Canada and Denmark. One of their most memorable trips was spending their silver wedding observance on the Baltic Sea with friends from Ringsted. Jim died Feb. 21, 1997.
Alice was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church; Ringsted American Legion Auxiliary; Catholic Daughters of America; St. Mary's Altar Society; Avera Holy Family Hospital Auxiliary and the Danish American Fellowship. She was a life-time member of National Education Association; Iowa State Education Association; National Association of English Teachers; National Association of Teachers for Social Studies; Fairmont Community Hospital and the Emmet County Historical Society.
Left to cherish Alice's memory are her siblings, Margaret Kelly of Clovis, Calif., Eileen Lark of Santa Rosa, Calif., Helen Rose (Rosie) Mulvihill of Aitken, Minn., and John Ulrich of Des Moines, Iowa; special friend, Helle Jorvad-Lund of Ringsted, Denmark; and also many nieces, nephews and friends.
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The renovated Kepler Building is now open. All classes previously scheduled for Kepler will be held in their originally scheduled locations. Classes will no longer meet in the Classroom Building.
The Kepler renovation included the addition of the Performing and Visual Arts Education Center, which features a dance studio, blackbox theater, campus gallery, classrooms, practice rooms, art rooms, and faculty offices. The theater renovation includes expanded dressing rooms, a costume shop, and extended wardrobe storage.
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The offices of several faculty and staff members have been relocated to the renovated Kepler Building. The following faculty and staff are housed in Kepler:
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Hey Folks! Time to thin out the Yixing herd to help pay for a lovely chawan I couldn't pass up. This pot performs very well, but I just don't use it enough and would like to see a TeaChatter get some use out of her.
Sorry for the dark lighting here...
Clay: Pin Zi Ni. High fired for zi ni. Rings when tapped.
Size: 110 ml
Age/Year: Modern- late 2000's.
Walls: Quite Thick
Pour: +/- 5 sec. Multiple hole filter. Crazy fast! No drips. Perfect lid fit. Stops on a dime when the vent hole is covered.
Source: Shop in Flushing, Queens
Tea Pairing: Japanese green tea, Chinese green tea, or Gao Shan (Taiwanese high mountain oolong).
Info: I'm sure the pot was made for export to the Japanese market- it is quite high fired for a zi ni pot, which points to its intended use with Japanese green teas (a lower fired clay will begin to smell funky with sencha, gyokuro, etc). When I bought it, I knew the small lid opening was going to be a limiting tea-pairing factor and would rule out any tea with long/twisted leaves. The walls are very thick and hold in heat quite well. I already have a nice Tokoname kyusu for Japanese greens, and honestly I don't drink them all that much to begin with. On the advice of a friend, I tried some Gao Shan in the pot. I was worried the purple clay would take too much of the aroma and high notes away, but as it turns out, it didn't. It made a truly excellent brew in fact. The thick walls really threw a ton of heat at the tea (what I think Gao Shan really needs in order to shine) and brought out a new depth of flavor.
Just to avoid the headache of eBay listing, I'll let her go to a new loving home for $40 + shipping


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Edinburgh, built on seven hills, giving an unmistakably dramatic skyline, it's historic buildings, elegant Georgian and Victorian architecture overlooked by a guardian castle... These are memories you will keep from your visit from our city.
Quality shopping, a cultural and artistic life of international repute, surprising night life and restaurants, museums and art galleries... all of these you will discover within one and a half miles from Sandaig.
...Eating out is a hobby in Edinburgh and most ethnic cuisines are represented within walking distance from Sandaig - in fact might we even say that some of the best restaurants in Edinburgh are situated in Leith.
... Was home to Scotland's oldest railway station built in 1838 - unfortunately no longer in existence.
.... Was once Scotland's principal port.
Golf... The earliest reference to golf in the annals of history is an edict by James II. In 1457 he banned golf from Leith Links as it interfered with the army's archery practice.
...The original thirteen rules of golf were drawn up in 1 744 in Leith and in 1 754 these rules were brought into use in St. Andrews and achieved a permanent place in the sport.
... From 1777 - 1867, Leith also hosted an all corners competition, latterly known as the Scottish Open - However by 1907 the rolling dunes had been levelled and planted with trees to create a public park, and so, in the interests of safety, golf was banned from Leith Links once more.
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This isn't really a blog post. More of something I wanted to interject in a discussion on Google plus but wouldn't fit in the text box.
I've always had trouble with the way the Legendre transform is introduced in classical mechanics. I know I'm not the only one. Many mathematicians and physicists have recognised that it seems to be plucked out of a hat like a rabbit and have even written papers to address this issue. But however much an author attempts to make it seem natural, it still looks like a rabbit to me.
So I have to ask myself, what would make me feel comfortable with the Legendre transform?
The Legendre transform is an analogue of the Fourier transform that uses a different semiring to the usual. I wrote briefly about this many years ago. So if we could write classical mechanics in a form that is analogous to another problem where I'd use a Fourier transform, I'd be happier. This is my attempt to do that.
When I wrote about Fourier transforms a little while back the intention was to immediately follow it with an analogous article about Legendre transforms. Unfortunately that's been postponed so I'm going to just assume you know that Legendre transforms can be used to compute inf-convolutions. I'll state clearly what that means below, but I won't show any detail on the analogy with Fourier transforms.
Free classical particles
Let's work in one dimension with a particle of mass whose position at time is . The kinetic energy of this particle is given by . Its Lagrangian is therefore .
The action of our particle for the time from to is therefore
The particle motion is that which minimises the action.
Suppose the position of the particle at time is and the position at time is . Then write for the action minimising path from to . So
where we're minimising over all paths such that .
Now suppose our system evolves from time to . We can consider this to be two stages, one from to followed by one from to . Let be the minimised action analogous to for the period to . The action from to is the sum of the actions for the two subperiods. So the minimum total action for the period to is given by
Let me simply that a little. I'll use where I previously used and for . So that last equation becomes:
Now suppose is translation-independent in the sense that . So we can write . Then the minimum total action is given by
Infimal convolution is defined by
so the minimum we seek is
So now it's natural to use the Legendre transform. We have the inf-convolution theorem:
where is the Legendre transform of given by
and so (where we use to represent Legendre transform with respect to the spatial variable).
Let's consider the case where from onwards the particle motion is free, so . In this case we clearly have translation-invariance and so the time evolution is given by repeated inf-convolution with and in the "Legendre domain" this is nothing other than repeated addition of .
Let's take a look at . We know that if a particle travels freely from to over the period from to then it must have followed the minimum action path and we know, from basic mechanics, this is the path with constant velocity. So
and hence the action is given by
So the time evolution of is given by repeated inf-convolution with a quadratic function. The time evolution of is therefore given by repeated addition of the Legendre transform of a quadratic function. It's not hard to prove that the Legendre transform of a quadratic function is also quadratic. In fact:
Addition is easier to work with than inf-convolution so if we wish to understand the time evolution of the action function it's natural to work with this Legendre transformed function.
So that's it for classical mechanics in this post. I've tried to look at the evolution of a classical system in a way that makes the Legendre transform natural.
Free quantum particles
Now I want to take a look at the evolution of a free quantum particle to show how similar it is to what I wrote above. In this case we have the Schrödinger equation
Let's suppose that from time onwards the particle is free so . Then we have
Now let's take the Fourier transform in the spatial variable. We get:
We can write this as
So the time evolution of the free quantum particle is given by repeated convolution with a Gaussian function which in the Fourier domain is repeated multiplication by a Gaussian. The classical section above is nothing but a tropical version of this section.
I doubt I've said anything original here. Classical mechanics is well known to be the limit of quantum mechanics as and it's well known that in this limit we find that occurrences of the semiring are replaced by the semiring . But I've never seen an article that attempts to describe classical mechanics in terms of repeated inf-convolution even though this is close to Hamilton's formulation and I've never seen an article that shows the parallel with the Schrödinger equation in this way. I'm hoping someone will now be able to say to me "I've seen that before" and post a relevant link below.
I'm not sure how the above applies for a non-trivial potential . I wrote this little Schrödinger equation solver a while back. As might be expected, it's inconvenient to use the Fourier domain to deal with the part of the evolution due to . In order to simulate a time step of the code simulates in the Fourier domain assuming the particle is free and then spends solving for the -dependent part in the spatial domain. So even in the presence of non-trivial it can still be useful to work with a Fourier transform. Almost the same iteration could be used to numerically compute the action for the classical case.


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Mayhem Festival -- Tampa, FL -- July 13th, 2012
Yesterday morning around 10AM, we headed out to go to the Mayhem Festival 2012 at the 1-800-ask-gary amphitheater, we get there 2 hours before doors open, we are in the first 50 people there. it's like 98 degrees, we were suppose to be let in at 1 but did not get in till 1:40, and the first band started at 1:30.
Upon A burning Body - This band had such great energy and interaction with the crowd, they sounded great, had a great setlist, my 2nd time seeing them, and I will definitely see them again if given the chance. 7/10
Whitechapel - Watched them from a distance while in line to meet anthrax, sounded great though. - 6/10
The Devil Wears Prada - Much better than i anticipated, Mike definitely knows how to work the crowd. - 6/10
Anthrax - The main reason i was there, they completely owned the side stage, they had 3 pits going on at once at one point, unbelievable energy from Scott Ian, frankie Bello and Joey Belladonna, i was slightly disappointed drummer Charlie Benante was hurt and couldn't play, but recruited drummer Jason Bittner from Shadows Fall did a great job, the setlist was great, by far the highlight of the day for me. - 9/10
As I Lay Dying - We missed the first 2 songs because they started before Anthrax ended, sounded great. I just hope they come back through on their album tour in a club setting, not really an amphitheater band, decent setlist - 6.5/10
Motorhead - I will never for the life of me understand what is so great about this "legendary" band, up until the last 3 songs i could not understand a single word Lemmy said, drummer Mickey D's drum solo was the only memorable part of the set for me, i did enjoy the song "Overkill" though. - 5/10
Slayer - I was looking forward to seeing this band for the first time, and they did not disappoint, opening with the very brutal track "Disciple", Slayer continue to show why they are near the top of the Thrash world, vocalist Tom Araya sounded almost flawless, he NAILED the scream at the beginning to Angel Of Death, and Dave Lombardo continues to amaze people with his intense speed, I definitely plan on seeing them again, hopefully in a smaller venue. - 8/10
Slipknot - I will be honest, they were a major let down compared to what I've been hearing about them live, everyone always says they are one of the best live bands ever, they were entertaining, they had as decent setlist, and great musicianship, but i was not blown away by them, I'm not sure I would even pay this much money to go see them again, again they were good, but not amazing. - 7/10
Stuff i got.
Signed posters by whitechapel, As I Lay Dying, Anthrax and The Devil Wears Prada.
Whitechapel "This Is Exile" picture disc vinyl (# 1170 of 2000, limited press)
Drum sticks signed by the drummers from Whitechapel, TDWP, Upon A burning Body and Shadows Fall(filling in for Anthrax)
Whitechapel and Anthrax shirts
Pre-order for As I Lay Dying's upcoming album "Awakened".
I was here too. I had an awesome time! Here's my review of what I saw:
Whitechapel: They were playing while I was waiting to meet Anthrax. I saw them before and they were fucking brutal! I was hoping to watch more but they sounded as good as ever. Didn't watch enough of their set to grade it though.
Asking Alexandria: I really enjoyed their set personally. I know many people hate them, but I happen to like them, and they did well. The crowd was really into them too. 7.5/10
The Devil Wears Prada: I was watching them while waiting for the Slipknot signing. This was my third time seeing them, and they also sounded as good as ever. 7/10
Anthrax: Didn't really watch enough of their set to grade it, but I've seen them already and they sounded tight yesterday!
As I Lay Dying: Awesome band, but I was on the lawn so I didn't get as much out of their set as I had hoped to. Really hope to catch them in a smaller venue soon. Still solid though. 7.5/10
Motorhead: Good, but not amazing. This was my first time seeing them, and they definitely have that great rock n' roll sound. The drum solo was good though, and they played all of their songs well. I'd like to see them closer, but only if its cheap or with another band I want to see. 7/10
Slayer: This was my third time seeing Slayer, and they ALWAYS deliver. After a failed attempt by my friend and I to get in the pit, we sucked it up on the lawn. They sounded awesome, and eventually we went to the pit on the lawn near the end of the set, which was a ton of fun. I do wish they had played Chemical Warfare and Black Magic, but they played all of their other signature songs. Would definitely not mind seeing them a fourth time. 8.5/10
Slipknot: After Slayer, I decided to see if anybody in the pit was leaving the venue before Slipknot. I found one guy and asked if I could have his yellow wristband, and he gave it to me! So I got in the pit for Slipknot! This was my first time seeing them, and they were very awesome. I was surprised to see Jim Root was back, which was great. Their setlist was near flawless imo, with a heavy focus on old material. I was pissed that they didn't play Pulse of the Maggots though, since they have on every other stop, and it's one of my top 3 songs by them. I also would have liked to see All Hope is Gone, Dead Memories, and Snuff, although I know they aren't playing them on this tour. Still though, they had great crowd interaction, great use of pyro, and they sounded tight. Spit It Out in particular was incredible. I will say though, they didn't quite live up to my expectations. They sounded good, but could have been improved on with little things here and there, especially the guitars' volume. I had an awesome time though, and I will see them in a heartbeat whenever they do come back. I was hoping for a 9/10 show, but they got damn close. 8.5/10
While I was there, I also got my CD booklet for Among the Living signed by Anthrax (made sure not to have the Shadows Fall drummer sign it though), a Slipknot poster signed by Chris, Clown, and Corey, and I bought an As I Lay Dying tank.
Mayhem is a ton of fun every year, and this year was no exception. This was probably my favorite lineup yet (although 2009 is REALLY close), and I can't wait for next year. It was also a bonus that this was the day after my birthday too! My only real regret is not buying a pit ticket from the beginning. I wonder who they could get for next year. If they want a fresh headliner that people aren't tired of (or at least hasn't done a major tour recently), they really need to finally get System of a Down next year.
12/15 - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
2/4 - Gojira/Devin Townsend
2/23 - Muse
3/2 - Dropkick Murphys
3/11 - Meshuggah
3/12 - Tenacious D
Jason Bittner signed my Anthrax poster, i didn't even think anything of it, but i got him to sign a pair of drum sticks.
1) At least he's in Anthrax
2) I totally forgot about that
Haha oh well. Also, upon further research, I see Slipknot only played Pulse of the Maggots at the San Bernadino date, so I don't feel as bad now.
12/15 - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
2/4 - Gojira/Devin Townsend
2/23 - Muse
3/2 - Dropkick Murphys
3/11 - Meshuggah
3/12 - Tenacious D
I managed to get to rail for Anthrax and it was one of the more extreme crowds I've been in.
Only funny thing was seeing people have Joey sign "The Greater of Two Evils"
Suicide Machines
Guns N Roses/Alice in Chains
Hollywood Vampires
Disturbed/Breaking Benjamin
Rob Zombie/KoRn
Rock Allegiance
Jason might as well be in Anthrax now, it seems like he's played more shows than Charlie has this year
I wish it was Gene Hoglan filling in (again) instead of Bittner.
I honestly think Gary Holt is going to be with Slayer for a long time. Hanneman hasnt played with them in over a year and is still recovering. Holt is actually a fantastic guitarist and if they do write an album with him it might freshen up their sound.
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Obits April 9
April 8, 2004
PNT Staff Writer
Health experts from around Roosevelt County weighed in with their tips for maintaining good health during National Public Health Week, which ends on Sunday.
Portales nutrition experts said no matter what age the individual is, a good diet is vital to keep them from dragging through the day. They added that parents need to take the initiative in providing good, nutritious food to children and start at an early age eating right in their first meal.
"It is important to eat a nutritious breakfast because the body had been without food for many hours," Wendy McGowan, Eastern New Mexico University Registered Nurse/Certified Nutritionist, said. "If you skip breakfast you may feel okay for a while but then hunger strikes and you are more likely to grab anything handy, usually not something healthful. When a larger amount of sugar is eaten, insulin is over-secreted and the 'sugar low' causes you to feel tired, unable to concentrate and likely to grab another 'whatever is handy' snack."
McGowan said those who suffer from diabetes need to especially take good care of their bodies. She said that in addition to eating meals with high fiber and protein, exercise is vital.
Sharon Harris, a registered consulting dietitian who provides services to the Roosevelt County General Hospital and Heartland Continuing Care Center, said one of her responsibilities is to oversee the kitchen staff at the HCCC.
"(HCCC) Residents don't prepare their own meals," Harris said. "We need to make sure they receive a nutritious meal. We make sure they have enough fruits and vegetables. We try to incorporate the meals with what they liked to eat at home."
Harris said people in general do not eat enough fruits and vegetables in their meals. She said seven servings of vegetables are recommended every day.
"We get in the habit of eating too many snacks," Harris said. "We need to replace chips and cookies with fruits. Some people worry that their fruits are going to go bad. However, on many occasions, they have fruit, but decide to eat chips instead."
Harris said another item people need to eliminate from their meals is sodas, in order to take care of their bodies. According to Harris, a 12-ounce soda has between 110 to 150 calories whereas unsweetened tea has 0 calories.
And if people still aren't getting enough vitamins in their meals another alternative is health vitamin supplements.
Ladawna Brooks, pharmacist for Marty's Pharmacy, said she has not jumped on the bandwagon for natural herb vitamins but suggests One-A-Day and Centrum supplements to help for the lack of vitamins.
"Many people do not eat correctly because they do not have enough time," Brooks said. "So vitamin supplements are always a great idea to get the vitamins and minerals they need."
A majority of the people who enter Marty's Pharmacy are looking for vitamin supplements to provide them with more energy and something to compensate for the stress, according to Brooks.
"Most generally, we get customers who say they are too tired and have low energy," Brooks said. "We really like the B vitamins in those circumstances. B6 and B12 are excellent for the overworked, over-stressed population."
McGowan offers these healthful snack ideas in an article she wrote titled, 'Giving Health to Our Kids': Apples, oranges, bananas sliced and dipped in coconut, sliced peppers, cucumbers, celery with peanut butter, broccoli dipped in cheese sauce and boiled or deviled eggs.