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And I have to admit, it was a bit of an uphill climb at first. Cal liked being read to (I think I'd mentioned the "Illustrated Classics" series here already, and he particularly enjoyed the science-fiction-adventure story picks of that lot--your War of the Worlds, your 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, what have you) but I still think he viewed reading for himself as a bit of a slog. I got him some easier chapter books (in particular he had mentioned reading some of the "Cam Jansen" books at school--basically your standard kid mystery series, Case of the Missing Dinosaur Bones, that kind of thing--and while it didn't seem like great storytelling I did particularly like that the protagonist was a girl and her best friend was a boy who was always babysitting his baby brother) and Cal worked his way through a dozen of those, mostly when I asked him to. But it still kind of felt like that to him: work. He'd read two or three chapters after school, mostly on assignment, and then, duty dispensed, he'd go and do something he really wanted to do, like write the definitive illustrated reference guide to prehistoric reptiles or some such thing.
I figured I wouldn't push it. I figured he wasn't ready. I figured (and this I kept to myself, but with growing dismay) that not every kid loves to read, and just because Cal didn't want to read in the bathtub didn't mean that he wouldn't have a rich intellectual life. (This was a recurring theme--many of my paperbacks from childhood and adolescence were more than a little warped from water exposure.)
I got the Harry Potter series for Cal...kind of...but also just because I thought they were books that were worth owning, period. I expected Cal would like to read them eventually, of course, but I didn't really think he'd be quite ready for them yet--some of the writing and plot are a little dense at points, and the dialogue and vernacular is a touch continental (stuff like Ron exclaiming "bloody hell!" all the time, people referring to large groups of students as "you lot"--which I guess is the British version of all y'all) but, you know, I figure we'd have them lying around for later, and maybe Cal would pick them up and leaf through them if and when he wanted to.
A couple of months ago, we started reading "The Sorcerer's Stone" to Cal at bedtime. We watched the movie. Cal started getting interested, pointing out that while he liked the movie because it "showed what things look like," he liked the book better because it had details and some side plots that necessarily got dropped from the film version. (I'd argue, actually, that they weren't judicious enough in their editorial process for that first film--have you tried to re-watch that thing? God, it's like Exposition City, and it just goes on forever.) We got through "The Chamber of Secrets," Joe and I reading most of it aloud, Cal reading some of it himself. First he read it aloud to us. Then I started noticing him silently reading it alone, while I was cooking dinner, or taking care of Mack. We finished the second book and instantly he picked up "The Prisoner of Azkaban." He started reading in the car. I took him to Target the other day (to buy underwear for Mack, remember), and he was reading as we made our way down the aisles. These past few weeks, we've been seeing more of this:
He has one of the lanterns from our camping trip in the bottom bunk of his bed, and he says up late, reading Harry Potter. He begs us to let him read for ten more minutes, to let him finish the chapter, he'll go to sleep right after, but it's the part with Quidditch, mom, just let me finish the part with the Quidditch. Right under our noses, he's made the jump from reading for comprehension to reading for enjoyment.
I guess the real conclusion from all this is something that no one needed me to point out, which is that J.K. Rowling is a very good writer. That, and maybe we need to get a better reading light for Cal's room.
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- christine2:33 PM
I wasn't much of a reading-for-pleasure person in high school or college (reading textbooks took up most of my time, and after those I inevitably had to grab a copy of PEOPLE magazine to let my brain relax), but I will say that I looked forward to every single Harry Potter book that came out. Now that I'm in grad school, with a bit more time on my hands, I've rediscovered the joys of going to bed with a book and reading until 5 AM. Cal's getting a good start!ReplyDelete
That is awesome. My son is the same way about reading -- it's good to hear that he may come around one day!ReplyDelete
That's so exciting, congrats!ReplyDelete
A whole new world opens up for him and for you too.
I guess the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
- Lida3:53 PM
Oh, I envy him! I clearly remember reading Deathly Hallows in one night right after my anatomy exam (I was 22... so what?)ReplyDelete
I hope he will keep the enthusiasm!
Ditto on being jealous--Cal keeps saying how he CAN'T WAIT to get to the "Deathly Hallows," and I keep telling him that he shouldn't be too impatient, because after the 7th book, there are NO MORE TO READ and that is tragic.ReplyDelete
(I started reading Harry Potter in med school too. I read the first four all at once, and then the remaining three as they were released.)
- Chris6:21 PM
I also have a vast collection of water damaged books from reading in the tub! I think passing on a love of reading is one of the best things you can do for a child. Have you bought any other fantasy-genre books for Cal? As a child any book with magic was instantly captivating.ReplyDelete
I think I channeled you when I was younger and reading-Sweet Valley and Baby Sitters Club!! Mama and Daddy grew up in India, so they banned TV by the time we were old enough to turn it on and ALL I DID was read.ReplyDelete
When I went to Switzerland last summer for an internship, the first thing I found was the English bookshop. Not the chocolate. Not the food. The bookstore.
Glad to see Cal loves reading!
- Anonymous7:26 PM
I started reading Harry Potter between book 4 and book 5 (book 5 is the first one I got the day it was released) at age 23 or so, I think. I kept telling people I was sure I would hate it because I hate fantasy books. Turns out that I loved them so much that at age 30, a big part of a trip to Ireland was finding things that reminded my friend and I about Harry Potter (i.e. the cliffs look like the movie, the library at Trinity college, the names in churches, the tour guide that looked like Harry himself etc!)!!ReplyDelete
Anyway, I am pretty envious of Cal getting to read those books at an age where it is still completely magical.
And about book 7, I kind of have a hard time reading it because of how much it sucks that it is the last one! I have this whole thing about how she could have written 8 books....given us year 7 at school and then the 8th book for most of the book 7 plot.
- Anonymous7:53 PM
As a kid with straight black Asian hair, I hated Susan and her perfect blond curls too!ReplyDelete
Love Harry Potter!ReplyDelete
Do you worry about Cal developing myopia since he's such a voracious reader? My mom used to tell me that my eyesight would go bad if I read lying down (well, I did eventually develop myopia at age 11 years, but not from reading lying down, but probably genes had something to do with it + I was also reading A LOT)
This entry has made me realize that I need to incorporate reading for pleasure back into my life. Ever since I left my job in August and headed back to school, I haven't read for pleasure since I got back in the classroom! Going to find something to download on my Kindle right now!ReplyDelete
Go Cal! Harry Potter is the best!
- Anonymous8:52 PM
I am very impressed that he is reading at such an advanced level. My youngest daughter and Cal are almost the exact same age (7/20/2005). She is just now getting the hang of reading and still has difficulty with about every third word. We are still sounding out "ch" "th" "wh", etc.ReplyDelete
Good for Cal. Are his teachers impressed with his reading skills? Surely he must be the most advanced in his class.
For me the moment came right when I turned 7 at the end of first grade: It was the Little House on the Prairie series that did it for me. Harry Potter is more difficult I think. He's a really good reader!ReplyDelete
As a side note.... Oh how I wish I'd been allowed to read Sweet Valley High!!! So jealous.
- Jenny9:35 PM
That is awesome that he loves to read now. I love Beverly Cleary. And I remember the "My Teacher is an Alien" series was pretty fun to read, too. I can't wait until my kids are old enough to read. I have to remind myself to read physical books instead of electronic ones, so they know I'm reading and not just playing on the computer/device.ReplyDelete
I used to read all my books in my native language. But then in my secondary school, I started to pick up the English version.ReplyDelete
And all because I wanted to read Harry Potter's newest book. (It'd take about six months before we can start reading the Indonesian version).
So I probably have to thank JK Rowling for making me learn English. :D
Cam Jansen!!! "Click!"ReplyDelete
Ohh second grade.
- medrecgal11:40 AM
A fabulous post...reading for pleasure is a great tool to have in your arsenal, and I've been doing it since I was three. I wasn't a series girl, but I did (and still do) a lot of reading. I was reading the medical journals by the time I was twelve (geeky, I know!). Good for Cal; it will serve him well in the future to be well-read.ReplyDelete
- Atlantagirl10:34 PM
OMDG: I was reminiscing tonight to my fiance about how much I loved the Little House series! I asked him if he read it and, with a snort of derision, he said no. I guess it's pretty girly, though I'd think the pioneer spirit spans both genders!ReplyDelete
What got me on the topic is this new book I checked out at the library called The Wilder Life, by this author who visits all the 'Little House' locations!! Haven't started reading it, though.
- Elizabeth10:43 PM
I loved this post. I also was a voracious reader as a kid, both in the bathtub and out (hell, I still am a voracious bathtub reader), and both quality books and the BSC. I certainly hope that my ten-month old daughter will love reading as much as I did. She does enjoy being read to now, so maybe that's a good sign...ReplyDelete
I have a sister who's much younger than I am. For the longest time at age 3 or 4, she was only interested in having Pokemon books read to her. I bribed her to sit still and listen to just one damn chapter of Sorceror's Stone, because I thought she'd like it. I read sort of fast so she wouldn't get up and leave during the first chapter. At the end, she looked up at me and said, "Keep READIN'!" We read her the first three books in a month; by the time the fourth one came out, she was reading it herself.
Go Cal! Keep it up!
Atlantagirl -- I didn't think the series was SO girly, but in general little boys don't read books with girl protagonists because.... well isn't it obvious?ReplyDelete
Not sure if it's true, but I heard once that Harry Potter was originally about Hermione, but that the publisher made Rowling change it to Harry because they knew that only little girls would read the book if the protagonist was a girl. I hope that's not true, because it makes me a little sad.
- Anonymous10:31 AM
The second Little House book is told from the male perspective, I think it's called Farm Boy or something along those lines. Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote it from her husband's POV when he was a child. Though I am female it was my favorite book because it goes into detail about the food. Mmmmmm...home cooked country food.ReplyDelete
Anon -- Yes, Farmer Boy! I think it was the third book. I think my favorite was On the Banks of Plum Creek (#4), because they lived in an underground house which I thought was cool.ReplyDelete
Congratulations! That must be a wonderful feeling. I read the Harry Potter series as I was growing up, and I think there is something (extra) magical about reading them as a child. I was also a voracious reader (and still am). But I used to get in trouble for reading at the table, especially when we had company, and I'm fairly certain I didn't do my eyes any favors by reading from the light of the street lamps after I was supposed to be in bed. I needed reading glasses at 18. Definitely buy Cal that new reading lamp! I know I just talked about myself a lot, but the truth is, of hope that someday I can feel as proud as you must feel now knowing that the love of reading is going to teach him more about life and about himself at an accelerated rate.ReplyDelete
Loved the BSC...I think I wanted to be best friends with all of them at one point! And Sweet Valley, it started off so innocent with the "Kids" series and turned downright raunchy and tragic once they graduated and went off to Sweet Valley University! Also, I believe SVH was at one point a TV series, albeit a short-lived one- the episodes are on YouTube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcmbBpPhNLIReplyDelete
Although I really don't care for the Harry Potter series at all, they were also the first books my boy read when he turned from a reluctant to a voracious reader. So go Ms. Rowling.ReplyDelete
As for the girl/boy protagonist thing, I think we often don't give boys enough credit for being willing to listen to books about girls, and because of that, they never get the chance to discover what great books some of them are. My boys like being read to (and I was a girl) so I read them the books I loved. If a story is a good story, boys will like it.
So far my 8 and 11yo boys have listened happily to the entire Little House series (and yes, the food in Farmer Boy!), The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Anne of Green Gables, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Harriet the Spy, Strawberry Girl, and a host of other books with girl protagonists - along with plenty of books featuring the fellows.
- Annie7:49 AM
I'm glad I'm not the only nerd who read in the shower! Those Babysitter's Club books bindings are really quite secure. I loved to fill the tub up and read in there for hours.ReplyDelete
Boys take a little longer than girls to get into reading. I think it's because girls live a little more in fairyland during the early childhood. But eventually they do get it. J K Rolling is a genius at getting people reading. You should look into the Star Wars Series. Both of my boys were captivated by them.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:13 PM
back in the days....it was safe to read on the subway. now i keep my head up and remain vigilant.ReplyDelete
- Root_doc5:12 PM
Don't be afraid to journey into the Ricky Ricotta series ( my 7 year old loves), Humphrey the Hamster, missile mouse, Secrets of Droon, or Vincent Shadow: Toy Inventor. Stay away from Captain Underpants.Unless you are a huge fan of the potty humor genre.ReplyDelete
Wow!! This Boy Having A great Hobby..that is really favorable for him:)ReplyDelete
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On July 1st, two friends and I bought a yoga studio (exciting and totally new-to-us adventure). Then, my dad had a major surgery and was in the hospital for two weeks (now he is continuing to heal and recover at home). Then, we got a new cat when our neighbors moved away (he is an awesome cat).
So, I haven't really been blogging and now you know why. In fact, I really haven't been that interested in kitchen time. I've been eating things like nectarines, ramen, take-out, carrot sticks, etc. About the the fanciest thing I've made in the last month was opening a can of refries, adding some fresh salsa, and steaming some broccoli to mix in. Nothing too glamorous, folks. Nothing all that "blog-worthy."
Our garden has been slowly chugging along - despite the fact that I've only watered it about 4 times this year. This was my first official batch of tomatoes for the summer. The first batch of tomatoes is always such a special and momentous occasion... full of promises for what's to come. This year I am growing about 6 or 7 different varieties, including a few that are really brand new to me. Pictured here are Early Girls, Sungold Cherry Tomatoes, Isis Candy cherry tomatoes, and one beautiful Green Zebra tomato!
Also, even though I haven't been much in the mood for cooking lately, I AM gearing up for VeganMoFo next month. I have a nice idea for a theme, and I hope to do it some justice. Let's hope I get some kitchen mojo back in the next two weeks!


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A sad old dog
Mrs Grumble's dog is getting old. It's sad when your dog gets old. She has begun to get those sorts of terrible things old people get. One of the worst is wetting the carpet. She never used to do this. She's also been panting a lot. It's a different sort of panting from usual - almost a breathlessness. She climbed the stairs yesterday and was gasping at the top. Another curious thing is that she has been drinking a lot - vast quantities. Yes, Dr Grumble thought of diabetes. Mrs Grumble managed to catch some urine and there was no glucose. Even odder she has become ravenously hungry and has begun stealing food. She never used to do this. Not once. Now that is very odd. She's also had difficulty jumping into the car and like old people she has developed a bit of a pot belly. Old age is bad. And the dog is only 9. In her breed (she is a Newfoundland) old age comes on early. They rarely live to 13.
What you don't want to do when your dog gets decrepit is prolong the decline too much. It's really not fair on the dog. So Dr Grumble was a little concerned about where the inevitable trip to the vet (who does extremely well from the Grumble household) might lead. He was not looking forward to an incontinent, gasping dog on heart failure pills.
If you are a vet reading this you might by now have made a diagnosis. If you are a doctor you probably won't have. Certainly Dr Grumble hadn't. But then he's not a vet. And the disease Mrs Grumble's dog has is a rare one in humans but common in dogs. Mrs Grumble's dog has Cushing's Syndrome.
And Dr Grumble thought it was old age. But Dr Grumble is now becoming an expert on canine Cushing's and according to the textbooks 'the most common signs are very similar to those of the normal ageing process'. But Dr Grumble feels a bit bad because, looking back, Mrs Grumble's dog has obviously had this problem for at least a year or two - perhaps longer. This too is typical.
(This post was first published in 2007 and has been republished because I was thinking about our poor dog who eventually got weaker and weaker and died.)


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Blackberry: Optimizing Blackberry For Enterprise Class Environments
Blackberry has become a very popular application providing mobile messaging services. In this article, I will go over how to design and optimize your Blackberry environment in conjunction with Exchange.
Blackberry is a very time sensitive application. Each second of latency from your BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) to your Exchange server has an exponential affect in delivery times for messages. Therefore it is critical that your BES server and Exchange server are in close proximity (LAN) with ping response times of less than 35ms. In BES environments, the following holds true, "One bad apple ruins the bunch." What this means is that if your BES server communicates with multiple Exchange servers and one of those Exchange servers is on a high latency link above 35ms, then everyone suffers the latency affect. Therefore; follow the best practices below.
1. Configure your BES servers to communicate with the fewest number of Exchange servers as possible. For example, if you have 3 BES servers and 3 Exchange servers, configure BES1 to only host users on EX1, BES2 to EX2 and BES3 to EX3, rather than a full mesh environment.
2. What about if you hosts many Exchange servers which are geographically dispersed? Ideally you want to host your BES server in the same LAN as the Exchange server it hosts. However, if your organization hosts all it's BES servers in one location say HQ, and has Exchange servers geographically dispersed, design your BES according to the following:
Classify your Exchange servers in 3 tiers based on ping times from the BES servers. Classify your low latency Exchange servers <35ms in tier1, >35 to <60ms tier2, >60ms tier3. Now you want to follow the "One bad apple ruins the bunch" approach. Therefore, have one of your BES only hosts tier1 Exchange servers, another BES only host tier2 Exchange servers and another BES host tier3 users.
Depending on the size of your environment, number of BES servers and Exchange servers, you can classify the tiers anyway that suits your environment as long as you follow the "One bad apple ruins the bunch" approach.
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Opinion: The Millennial Jobs Malaise
Generation Opportunity president Evan Feinberg on the latest, abysmal jobs numbers for millennials. Photo credit:
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... I ... I ... the ... looking Chow I'm Mary Kissel ... the the the is this mean high schoolers today it's ... the importance of job training ... and the sun the unemployment figures ... those young Americans are many all the help they can get ... Generation Opportunity President and find her joins me now from ... Washington haven't ... a quick ... slide here to look at the numbers ... of millennial joblessness ... youth unemployment age eighteen to twenty nine ... fifteen point eight percent ... but when you drill down African Americans almost twenty four percent Hispanic somewhat seventeen percent when aunts and ... why these numbers so bad ... well this is not a lot of opportunity for young Americans in today's economy look we've had a stagnant economy that has been growing is the time ... Bernard new jobs for all these dynamic new graduates that are coming out of school and so ... many Americans have never been in an economy that offers the American dream to them so ... we're seeing higher unemployment rates in the rest of the of the population and it's really hurting my generation ... is this exaggeration to say that it's a it's a great depression ... ah for AI those young Americans day for this millennials ... I don't think it's an exaggeration and all I mean ... a third of young Americans between the ages of eighteen thirty four years old had been forced to move back in with their parents we got over trillion dollars in student loan debt that we have no hopes of being able to ... earn enough money to pay off an ... ounce up about the national debt which my generation's on the hook for and there's there's no doubt that it's the it's a great depression free under American it's now that the has focused on using youth unemployment night you see that ... Indian entities doing today ... why haven't his policies were seven ... of the president's policies in really been a war on you in fact that no job training programs the mansion aren't the answer to my cherished or that one in education ... we've got plenty of skills with plenty of upper north to ... the problem is that the of the overall economy is rigged against US politicians including the special interests in the previous generation before the next generation of Americans and so in a suit with policies like Obamacare weren't its rigs in a young people pay more said or sicker Americans can have more benefits how when your policies are specifically targeted benefiting others and not worry about younger Americans that his nose the surprise again Americans lock opportunity ... what effect does this have on the midterm elections seven because ... the youth vote was a key part of that ... Obama coalition ... in the last two elections ... I think if you look it ... that present Obama vs may Ronnie among eighteen nineteen and twenty year olds new Romney the President Obama ... a recent Harvard in student politics will show that if you ... had a vote to recall the president today fifty two percent to eighteen to twenty four year olds which is the president of office that doesn't bode well for for the president and his party in the midterm elections I think ... Republicans have a message of empowerment ... are probably Guinea better able to message that to my demographic I think whichever political party which ever politicians were able to talk about ... how to improve the lives of young Americans that he would do well like swirly and right now in force the president's policies ... are on the other side of that equation one thing's for sure they are terrible numbers ... a real crisis in the millennial generation ... generation opportunity president of the Feinberg ... inky so much for joining us ... thank you


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It caused a huge uproar some years ago when the head of a Philip K. Dick android went missing on an aircraft — and now that incident has spawned a book, called Losing the Head of Philip K Dick-A Bizarre but True Tale of Androids, Kill Switches, and Left Luggage by David Dufty. According to The Bookseller, this book is Dufty's account of his post-doctoral research in robotics, where he helped create the PKD android whose head was left in an airplane's overhead compartment.
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Acute kidney failure is the rapid loss your kidneys' ability to remove waste and help balance fluids and
Alternative Names
Kidney failure; Renal failure; Renal failure – acute; ARF; Kidney injury – acute
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
There are many possible causes of kidney damage. They include:
- Acute tubular necrosis (
- Autoimmune kidney disease
- Blood clot from cholesterol (cholesterol emboli)
- Decreased blood flow due to very low blood pressure, which can result from:
Burns Dehydration
- Hemorrhage
- Injury
Septic shock
- Serious illness
- Surgery
- Disorders that cause clotting within the kidney's blood vessels
- Infections that directly injure the kidney, such as:
- Acute pyelonephritis
- Pregnancy complications, including:
Placenta abruptio Placenta previa
- Urinary tract blockage
- Bloody stools
Breath odorand metallic taste in mouth
- Bruising easily
Changes in mental statusor mood
- Decreased appetite
Decreased sensation, especially in the hands or feet Fatigue Flank pain(between the ribs and hips) Hand tremor
- High blood pressure
- Metallic taste in mouth
- Nausea or vomiting, may last for days
- Nosebleeds
- Persistent hiccups
- Prolonged bleeding
- Seizures
- Shortness of breath
- Slow, sluggish movements
Swellingdue to the body keeping in fluid Swelling, usually in the ankles, feet, and legs
- Urination changes:
- Little or no urine
Excessive urination at night
- Urination stops completely
Signs and tests
The doctor or nurse will examine you. Many patients with kidney disease have body swelling caused by fluid retention. The doctor may hear a heart murmur, crackles in the lungs, or other abnormal sounds when listening to the heart and lungs with a stethoscope.
The results of laboratory tests may change suddenly (within a few days to 2 weeks). Such tests may include:
BUN Creatinine clearance Serum creatinine Serum potassium Urinalysis
A kidney or abdominal ultrasound is the preferred test for diagnosing a blockage in the urinary tract. X-ray, CT scan, or MRI of the abdomen can also tell if there is a blockage.
Blood tests may help reveal the underlying cause of kidney failure. Arterial blood gas and
Once the cause is found, the goal of treatment is to help your kidneys work again and prevent fluid and waste from building up in the body while they heal. Usually, you have to stay overnight in the hospital for treatment.
The amount of liquid you eat (such as soup) or drink will be limited to the amount of urine you can produce. You will be told what you may and may not eat to reduce the buildup of toxins that the kidneys would normally remove. Your diet may need to be high in
You may need antibiotics to treat or prevent infection. Diuretics ("water pills") may be used to help remove fluid from your body.
Medicines will be given through a vein to help control your blood potassium level.
Dialysis may be needed for some patients, and can make you feel better. It can save your life if your potassium levels are dangerously high. Dialysis will also be used if:
Your mental status changes, if you stop urinating
You develop pericarditis
You retain too much fluid
You cannot eliminate nitrogen waste products from your body
Dialysis will most often be short term. Rarely, the kidney damage is so great that dialysis may be permanently needed.
Support Groups
The stress of having an illness can often be helped by joining a support group where members share common experiences and problems.
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if your urine output slows or stops or you have other symptoms of acute kidney failure.
Treating disorders such as high blood pressure can help prevent acute kidney failure.


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By Larry Rich, www.Israel21c.org
At Israel's Emek Hospital, it doesn't matter if you're Jewish, Christian, or Muslim.
On Thursday, June 3, just three days after the Gaza flotilla raid, 15-year-old Muhammed Kalalwe was working in his family's fields. They live in Jenin, a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, bordering Israel's Jezreel Valley and the city of Afula. The boy noticed a deadly viper snake and tried killing it with a rock, but the dangerous creature struck out and bit his right palm.
Screams and panic ensued and within minutes, the boy's father, Hafed, grabbed his stricken son and rushed him to the Jenin Hospital. They were ill-prepared to treat the boy, had no anti-serum and decided to send him by ambulance to the Emek Medical Center in Afula, Israel.
Emek, which was founded 86 years ago, is a community hospital that serves a culturally rich population that is equally divided (50/50) between Jews and Arabs. It has a mixed medical staff of Jews and Arabs, and its guiding philosophy is coexistence through medicine.
Hafed later related that he was genuinely afraid to be taken to Emek because he was sure that they would be ignored and not even spoken to. His son's palm and arm were critically swollen and the pain was unbearable.
The humanitarian reality of Emek shocked both the father and son as they were immediately greeted in Arabic, rushed into the ER where Emek's multi-ethnic staff administered life-saving anti-serum and brought the boy back from the brink of death.
Muhammed lay for the next two days in the pediatric intensive care unit and is now resting comfortably in Emek's pediatric surgical department from where he will be released in the next couple of days.
I asked the father how he felt now about Emek Hospital and the Israelis he has come into contact with. "Our people do not know the truth about you and our medicine has a long way to go," he told me. "My son and I are not the same as we were before this happened and I will share this with my family and friends."
As he spoke, he gesticulated determinedly in a classic Middle Eastern style and when we shook hands as I wished them both well, the grip was firm and real. I have shaken many such hands and gazed into many Palestinian eyes that have seen a reality here at Emek Medical Center that they never expected to see.
Larry Rich is the director of development at Emek Medical Center in Afula.


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Faulkner Heirs Race to Profit From His Estate
The executor of William Faulkner's estate is leading a full-frontal assault to capitalize on the legendary writer's works before it's too late. Stefanie Cohen has details on Lunch Break. Photo: AP.
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... I ... I James Bond movie a lawsuit against Woody Allen ... putting a Nobel prize up for auction will exhibit ... of William Faulkner State is leading an all out campaign to capitalize on the legendary writers' works before ... it's too late to hanging out with the de tails and ... represents a new post bop her Stalin World a statistic are sixteen reporter ... Stephanie knowing he Stephanie ... things to be it's a great story recap what I'm saying is less and pregnant ... he who is he in NYC ... now ramping up his efforts to to profit off and ... so he was neighbors and Mr Faulkner said he was like ten years old in Charlottesville Virginia ... he lived next door to the fall parents ... and I aam ... he became a nice day friends and family wealth to Hollywood and had a career as an independent producer ... I remain friends with the family and eventually ... on ... when Foster's daughter said to him you know what ... I'd rather he was also the countries that to much rather you take over ... the estate and deal with it because it was a lot for her and she was in her eighties ... and Chandler were still a demanding warned her you know her grandchildren and her ... husband ... are still the owners the errors that ... he is the representative for them to sell him he's doing a lot of work right now with his thinking and writing in a variety of ways in some of it to to help the family that in the state itself and Randolph ultimately profit from this ... I'm just some examples of what he's doing ... well ... as one of the main things he's doing as he was ready make movies out of Faulkner is the picture you know not necessarily the must've gotten sales and frankly I'm like the most are not likely already there yet James Franco who you know as ... I'd ... I guess he's got you in general the NBL ... and Stephen are our literature program ... he um wanted to adapt as I lay dying he can and do some mystery next Anacot ... I lay dying from year to knock on impact ... decent reviews mixed reviews that say ... I aam and so one thing is doing as he's trying to really make that go with ... the movie fall through the ... mud and legal channels to though they're all soo right ... funny filed a couple of copyright infringement lawsuits last year ... on one was settled out of work and one which is against Woody Allen's at midnight in Paris we own will likely average ... rate of the data back in time in ten heats falter the ... intimate dinner party and Faulkner any Islamic falters quotes and ... on the week after ending an attorney to ... bring to the fact they didn't like the feet out ... by the judge ruled last week that the ... case is without merit Systems without the big effort to this the small efforts like sort of Hermès what somebody might see me taking he might say I'm just being careful with him in nine Paris one possible or get undoing all Nobel Prize even tried to put his noteholders Nobel prize up for auction didn't get what he wanted to they ... now have full jet in many still but yet they try to auction ... I'm at some of these last month ... and it was valued estimate was like five thousand dollars into the breach had been silent since I'll get ... a aam ... but you know basically the family from their review their there they're playing as were trying to get our tax planning or estate planning to organize it was really does organize for years and the Fed can and do it and ... to some looks kind of dresses that made a bet the farm of insurance The Faulkner did not all them all right right ... well my son Foster belongs to them knowing they want to see his folks treated the way ... you know they first read and isolated they followed with an email like this ... the worry that this doesn't want to make about Faulkner movie ... but I think I was hoping he has a good job because it would be great if there were ... if there was a good movie about fostering more people were in Houston because they like James Franco sounds like this I'm movie probably and we kept going up next door to ... where I C ninety F Mi at the commission I ... think semester Chief alias when the arena section tomorrow ...


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2 years ago, my family and I made the difficult decision to put our horse of 12 years down.
Joshy was my first 'rescue', purchased cheap from a horse hoarder who got busted a week later. We took a chance, hoping there was a relatively sane horse under the mud encrusted coat. We had no idea what a wonderful horse we'd end up with. When we showed him, he'd often beat horses that cost thousands of dollars. A judge once offered to buy him from us, she loved his kind eye and the fact that he totally saved my butt over a jump.
He taught me to look beyond an animal's looks, be patient and kind, and you will be rewarded. I miss him dearly, and even more so lately. Three of my friends have had to put their horses down this month, all of them were pasture buddies with Josh at one time.


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Title 30 TAC 116.110 - 116.115, September 13, 1993
Subchapter B New Source Review Permits§ 116.110 Applicability
§ 116.111 General Application
§ 116.114 Application Review Schedule
§ 116.115 Special Provisions
(a) Permit to construct. Any person who plans to construct any new facility or to engage in the modification of any existing facility which may emit air contaminants into the air of this state shall obtain a permit pursuant to § 116.111 of this title (relating to General Applications) or satisfy the conditions for exempt facilities pursuant to Subchapter C of this chapter (relating to Permit exemptions) before any actual work is begun on the facility. Modifications to existing permitted facilities may be handled through the amendment of an existing permit.
(b) Operations certification
(1) To ensure that operations addressed in the applicant's permit are in conformance with the representations in the permit application, any person who has applied for and received a permit from the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission shall:
(A) submit the first part of the operations certification before commencing operations certifying that, to the best of the knowledge of an individual with process knowledge in a managerial capacity signing the certification, the facilities or changes authorized by the permit have been accomplished as represented, if those representations affect emissions, method of control, or character of emissions;
(B) submit a second certification certifying that, to the best of the knowledge of an individual with process knowledge in a managerial capacity signing the certification, the facility complies with all terms of the preconstruction permit and that operations of the facility are in compliance with the Texas Clean Air Act and the rules of the TNRCC. This certification shall be submitted simultaneously with any report of testing or monitoring results required by the permit or, if no testing or monitoring is required, within 60 days of the commencement of operation. The certification deadline may be extended by the Executive Director upon a showing of good cause by the permit holder; the request for extension must be filed prior to the certification deadline.
(2) Multiple operations certifications may be submitted on a facility-by-facility basis for a given permit.
(3) All permits issued after the effective date of this subsection are subject to the provisions of this subsection.
(c) Change in ownership.
(1) The new owner of a facility which previously has received a permit or special permit from the TNRCC shall not be required to apply for a new permit or special permit, and the change of ownership shall not be subject to the public notification requirements of this chapter, provided that within 30 days after the change of ownership the new owner notifies the TNRCC of the change. The notification shall include a certification of each of the following:
(A) the ownership change has occurred and the new owner agrees to be bound by all conditions and provisions of the permit or special permit and all representations made in the application for permit or special permit and any amendments to the permit.
(B) there will be no change in the type of pollutants emitted; and
(C) there will be no increase in the quantity of pollutants emitted.
(2) The new owner of the facility is required to comply with all conditions and provisions of the permit or special permit and all representations made in the application for permit or special permit and any amendments to the permit.
(d) Submittal under seal of registered professional engineer. All applications for permit or permit amendment with an estimated capital cost of the project above $2 million, and not subject to any exemption contained in the Texas Engineering Practice Act (TEPA), shall be submitted under seal of a registered professional engineer. However, nothing in this subsection shall limit or affect any requirement which may apply to the practice of engineering under the TEPA or the actions of the Texas State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. For purposes of this subsection, the estimated capital cost is defined in § 116.141 of this title (relating to Permit Fees).
(e) Responsibility for permit application. The owner of the facility or the operator of the facility authorized to act for the owner is responsible for complying with this section.
Any application for a new permit, permit amendment, or special permit amendment must include a completed Form PI-1 General Application. The Form PI-1 must be signed by an authorized representative of the applicant. The Form PI-1 specifies additional support information which must be provided before the application is deemed complete. In order to be granted a permit, permit amendment or special permit amendment, the owner or operator of the proposed facility shall submit information to the TNRCC which shall demonstrate that all of the following are met:
(1) Protection of public health and welfare. The emissions from the proposed facility will comply with all rules and regulations of the TNRCC and with the intent of the TCAA, including protection of the health and physical property of the people. In considering the issuance of a permit for construction or modification of any facility within 3,000 feet or less of an elementary, junior high/middle or senior high school, the TNRCC shall consider any possible adverse short-term or long-term side effects that an air contaminant or nuisance odor from the facility may have on the individuals attending these school facilities.
(2) Measurement of emissions. The proposed facility will have provisions for measuring the emission of significant air contaminants as determined by the executive director. This may include the installation of sampling ports on exhaust stacks and construction of sampling platforms in accordance with guidelines in the TNRCC "Compliance Sampling Manual."
(3) Best available control technology (BACT). The proposed facility will utilize BACT, with consideration given to the technical practicability and economic reasonableness of reducing or eliminating the emissions from the facility.
(4) Federal New Source Performance Standards (NSPS). The emissions from the proposed facility will meet at least the requirements of any applicable NSPS as listed under Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 60, promulgated by the EPA pursuant to authority granted under the FCAA, § 111, as amended.
(5) National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP). The emissions from the proposed facility will meet at least the requirements of any applicable NESHAP, as listed under 40 CFR Part 61, promulgated by EPA pursuant to authority granted under the FCAA, § 112, as amended.
(6) Performance demonstration. The proposed facility will achieve the performance specified in the permit application. The applicant may be required to submit additional engineering data after a permit has been issued in order to demonstrate further that the proposed facility will achieve the performance specified in the permit application. In addition, dispersion modeling, monitoring, or stack testing may be required.
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(b) Voiding of deficient application. An applicant shall make a good faith effort to submit, in a timely manner, adequate information which demonstrates that the requirements for obtaining a permit or permit amendment are met in response to any deficiency notification issued by the executive director pursuant to the provisions of this section, or § 116.131 of this title (relating to Public Notification Requirements). If an applicant fails to make such good faith effort, the executive director shall void the application and notify the applicant. If the application is resubmitted within six months of the voidance, it shall be exempt from the requirements of § 116.140 of this title (relating to Permit Fee Applicability).
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly, (born Sept. 15, 1736, Paris—died Nov. 12, 1793, Paris), French astronomer noted for his computation of an orbit for Halley's Comet (1759) and for his studies of the four satellites of Jupiter then known. He was also a statesman who took part in the revolutionary events of his age.
Bailly began his study of Halley's Comet in 1759. One year later he established an observatory where he could undertake observations of Jupiter's satellites. He was elected to the Académie des Sciences in 1763. His major works include Essai sur la théorie des satellites de Jupiter (1766; "Essay on the Theory of Jupiter's Satellites") and Mémoires sur les inégalités de la lumière des satellites de Jupiter (1771; "Memoirs on the Uneven Illumination of Jupiter's Satellites").
Later in his career Bailly wrote widely read histories of astronomy: Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne depuis son origine jusqu'à l'établissement de l'école d'Alexandrie (1775; "History of Ancient Astronomy from Its Origin to the Establishment of the School of Alexandria") and Histoire de l'astronomie moderne depuis la fondation de l'école d'Alexandrie, jusqu'à l'époque de M.D.CC.XXX (1779; "History of Modern Astronomy from the Foundation of the School of Alexandria to the Epoch 1730"). However, these were soon superceded by the more scholarly histories of French astronomer Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre. Bailly's Traité de l'astronomie indienne et orientale (1787; "Treatise on Indian and Oriental Astronomy") was part of a wave of 18th-century interest in the history and methods of non-Western astronomy. In 1784 Bailly was a member of a royal commission appointed to investigate the claims of animal magnetism made by German physician Franz Mesmer and was the author of the report concluding that Mesmer's magnetic fluid probably did not exist and that the effects on his human subjects were likely due to imagination and imitation.
The French Revolution interrupted his studies. Elected deputy from Paris to the Estates-General, he was chosen president of the third estate on May 5, 1789, and led the famous proceedings in the Tennis Court on June 20. He was proclaimed the first mayor of Paris on July 15, 1789. He was reelected mayor in August 1790 but lost popularity, particularly after his order to the national guard to disperse a riotous crowd led to the massacre of the Champ de Mars on July 17, 1791. Bailly retired on Nov. 16, 1791, and went to Nantes in July 1792, where he composed Mémoires d'un témoin de la Révolution ("Memoirs of a Witness of the Revolution"), an incomplete narrative of the extraordinary events of his public life. Late in 1793 Bailly went to Melun to join his friend, scientist Pierre-Simon Laplace, but was recognized, arrested, and taken before the revolutionary tribunal at Paris on November 10. He was subsequently guillotined.


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Matthew99145 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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I am starting a site dedicated to living with disabilities. The site will include video, products and most importantly a friendly community.
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The target audience will be disabled people, care givers, product manufacturers and business owners. The biggest ones to think about are disabled people and care givers.
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text: March 2014 Faculty/Staff News News Home 03.03.14 By: Mark Tarnacki George Ashline, professor and chair of mathematics, recently gave four invited talks/workshops to different classes/groups of students at U-32 High School in Montpelier, VT. He presented the workshop "Bias and Margin of Error in Statistical Analysis" to one AP Statistics class, the workshop "Exponential Functions in Snowflakes, Carpets, and Paper Folding" to two Algebra II classes, and the workshop "Correlation Properties and Applications" to an Algebra I class. Valerie Banschbach, professor of biology, on February 11, 2014, presented an invited lecture for the Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society, Saint Michael's College Chapter, entitled, "Ants and Tigers: Agriculture and Conservation of Wildlife in India." On January 16, 2014, she gave invited presentations at Roanoke College, Environmental Studies Program, Salem, VA. In December 2013 during her time as a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar in India, Valerie presented at several venues in that country. Christine Bauer-Ramazani, instructor of applied linguistics, in March will be presenting three sessions at the TESOL 2014 International Convention & English Language Expo in Portland, Oregon. Michael Bosia, associate professor of political science, attended the "QP5" (Fifth International Conference Queering Paradigms), titled "Queering Narratives of Modernity," which was held in Quito, Ecuador, February 20-22, and he co-organized a panel. This is a major academic conference on queer and sexuality issues globally. James Byrne, professor and chair of religious studies, recently (February 2014) evaluated an $80,000 grant proposal on the German Enlightenment for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Brian Collier, assistant professor of art, had his work was featured in the exhibition, "Curios & Curiosities: Interpreting the Natural & Cultural Worlds" at the Bush Barn Art Center in Salem, Oregon, from January 17 to February 22 of 2014. He also has work appearing in the publication Mandorla: Writings from the Americas, and in upcoming books. George Dameron, professor and chair of history and director of the Humanities Center, was invited to present the paper, "Identifying a Killer by Cracking the Teeth of the Dead: Recent Scientific and Historical Research into the Nature of the Black Death," at the fall 2013 meeting of the American Boccaccio Association at Georgetown University on October 4. He also completed an officer term with the New England Medieval Conference and presided over a session by the Society for Italian Historical Studies. Kristin Dykstra, Scholar-in-Residence in American Studies, is currently featured at Circumference: Poetry in Translation for her work on El mundo como ser (The World as Presence), a new collection by Marcelo Morales Cintero of Havana, Cuba. She presented translations of recent poetry by Tina Escaja (Professor of Spanish at UVM) on a panel blending readings with discussion of current issues, "Translation and U.S. Spanish-Language Poetry," at the national conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs on February 27 in Seattle. She also read at "Tacos and Tecates," an offsite event hosted by MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine to coincide with the AWP conference. Later this year Kristin will speak on the panel "In the Wake of Orígenes: Cuban Writers Re-read Orígenes in the Special Period and Beyond" at the Latin American Studies Association's national congress in Chicago, May 24-26. David Heroux, associate professor of chemistry, is co-author with 12 other researchers on a paper, "Real-time monitoring of the deactivation of HZSM-5 during upgrading of pine pyrolysis vapors," published in the March issue of the journal Green Chemistry (2014,16, 1444-1461). David also presented an invited research talk at SUNY Binghamton on February 28, and presented a chemical magic show on campus with students from the Saint Michael's American Chemical Society student affiliates chapter to kids in the DREAM program. Shane Lamos, associate professor of chemistry, recently was co-author with four others on a research paper, "Multiplexed Analysis of Cage and Cage Free Chicken Egg Fatty Acids Using Stable Isotope Labeling and Mass Spectrometry," appearing in the journal Molecules (2013, 18, 14977-14988). Shane also received a second patent for the use of his metabolomic labeling reagents, and he will be traveling to the American Chemical Society National Meeting (March 16-20) in Dallas, TX, where one of his students, Katherine Schutt '14, will present the latest results from their research. Valerie Bang-Jensen, associate professor of education, and Mark Lubkowitz, associate professor of biology, report that the National Gardening Association recently published their new curriculum book, Books in Bloom: Discovering the Science in Great Children's Literature. This illustrated book, written for educators, parents, and anyone involved with environmental education, explores the literary and biological themes in 17 excellent books for children. Brian McCarthy, faculty, fine arts/music and director of the college's Jazz Orchestra, recently was featured in a double-facing-page photo spread of Vermont Life Magazine, touting all the work he does around the state as an educator and working musician. James Nagle, associate professor of education, had his edited book published in December 2013. English Learner Instruction through Collaboration and Inquiry in Teacher Education describes different ways in which teachers learn to teach English learners. Paul Olsen, assistant professor of business administration and accounting, was author of an article, "Namaste: How Yoga Can Inform Leadership Education," published in the Winter 2014 issue of the Journal of Leadership Education (JOLE). Also, Paul's business case "Skinny Paycheck? Livable Wage Ordinance Tests Socially Responsible Business Owner," was accepted for publication in the March 2014 issue of the Business Case Journal. John O'Meara, associate professor of physics, presented two talks at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C., early in January. He also appeared on five posters. Kacy Pula, assistant professor of psychology, in February had a paper, "Regulatory Focus and Food Choice Motives: Prevention Orientation Associated with Mood, Convenience, and Familiarity," accepted for publication in the journal Appetite. Joan Wry, associate professor of English, was named as one of 20 participants for the "Dickinson Institute" to be held in August 2014 at Amherst College. Individuals from Great Britain, Japan, and sixteen American colleges and universities will participate in panel presentations and an exchange of research and scholarship on "Emily Dickinson and other New England Writers." Wry also has an essay on Margaret Fuller forthcoming in a collection for the second volume of Transatlantic Women Writers to be published in 2015: "Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers in Italy."


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What Sports and Fitness Outfit is Better For You
There is a quite righteous saying that health is the most essential thing in the world. Other things that we often overestimate (including career matters, scientific studies etc.), to tell the truth, are secondary. The thing is, that any things like studies or career, can not be performed well without robust heath. And this leads us to the necessity of going in for regular physical exercise in order to be healthy. The following tips will help you choose the most helpful and effective fitness outfit for you to do exercise with pleasure and maximum benefits.
There is also another saying: He, who has health, has hope. And he, who has hope, has everything. Health gives powerful propulsion for every sphere of our life, directly or indirectly, and without health, you can not create innovations or perform your work properly. The mind of a healthy person can generate thousands of new ideas, while the mind of an unhealthy person only thinks about body illnesses and problems.
In order to be healthy, regular physical exercise is essential. It will improve your health condition and get you in good shape. For physical exercise, you need willpower and high quality outfit and equipment. But before purchasing it, it is important to determine your goals for fitness exercises. You should try to imagine what you wish your body to become like. Is it building up muscle or getting slimmer? According to your goals, you can then choose the right outfit which would be most helpful.
If your goal is to build up muscle, the most common variant of equipment is either dumbbells or barbells, and, in addition to them, you can purchase different kinds of bars, benches, training machines, exercise balls, etc. All press machines may be used either with additional weights or without them. Combining different equipment and weights, you can shape and increase your muscle in different body areas. You can use smaller weights in order to work with one hand, or bigger weights in order to work with both hands. You can increase or decrease weight according to your strength level.
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August 29, 2008
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Doug Calisch doesn't want you distracted by stories of how he collects the 'found' objects in his art, but this one's too good to pass up.
Even the artist admits it.
It's the first thing he mentions as we walk among his freshly hung sculptures and photographs in the galleries of the Wabash College Fine Arts Center, where his "Lost and Found, Again" exhibit opens September 5.
We stop at a piece with dice, an old metal horse, and a jigsaw puzzle piece among its many elements.
"My son, Nolan, and I had traveled to this travesty of a border wall built by the Bush Administration in southern Arizona," Calisch explains. As they drove through the desert along the border, they investigated a series of abandoned shacks that illegal immigrants had used en route to the U.S.
"Most of the objects in this piece are from those abandoned shacks. They are the things people left behind as they were fleeing from the border patrol. They realized they were carrying too much, so they just started throwing stuff away."
Calisch's collecting that day drew the suspicion of U.S. Border Patrol agents.
"We explained what we were doing there, and we engaged them in conversation," Calisch says.
"Turns out that when they find this stuff, they'll set them up on rocks in the desert, shoot them for target practice, and take the ones they hit home as trophies."
"So you have these paramilitary guys destroying this stuff that these people were reluctantly giving up at the last minute, and only because they were being weighed down by it."
Too much for an artist to resist.
But Calisch's is not the typical artistic process. He has long approached his work with a sense of adventure and yearning for personal interaction. For the pieces in his last major show on campus six years ago, he spent hours talking with folk artists in Appalachia about their work.
"Since that experience, I have been lured to create sculpture almost exclusively from found objects," Calisch wrote for that 2002 show. "I collect, explore, and rescue materials. The work becomes a celebration of human activity—my own and acts previous to mine."
Each piece in this 2008 exhibit offers its own stories.
"I put these items together not just because they're the right color or the right texture. Each object has personal significance, each piece a story. I'm reluctant to make that story obvious because I don't want to be too heavy-handed about how I guide people through these.
"But if people build their own narratives out of these things, then I'm delighted."
A creative writing class would have a field day with Calisch's sculptures, but it's the photography and its interaction with those pieces that makes this exhibit transcendent as the azure skies of the American southwest that have caught the artist's eye and imagination. Taken in the many of the same places where the objects in the sculptures were collected, the photographs play off of them like a soaring tenor sax solo in a jazz combo. And they have plenty of space to breathe in the expansive Wabash galleries.
Wabash gallery manager, former Purdue University Galleries Assistant Director, and Art Museum of Greater Lafayette Curator Michael Atwell puts it best: "The sculptures and photographs are structured on the same artistic concepts, so they meld together within the exhibit, literally becoming a single sculpture unto itself. The visual transition is seamless."
"I was wandering around abandoned homesteads, farmsteads, railroad tracks, and places other people tend not to look, and I came to realize how beautiful these places are," Calisch says. So he began bringing his camera on his collecting excursions.
"The photos became a logical extension of the sculptural work."
The images are as varied as the items Calisch collects. Some are not what they seem from a distance: a gorgeous gradient of earth tones is actually a rusted dumpster. Calisch describes another as "a photographic collage."
"This abandoned interior I call 'Clubhouse' is a beautiful collection of stuff that I wished I could bring to my studio," he says. "Since I couldn't, I photographed it just the way I found it. You could create a narrative from it in the same way you can the sculptures."
"Here's my absolute favorite photograph," he says, walking us to an image of a swimming pool next to a freeway in morning light, a blue truck blurring by from the left. "I love the variations in blue—blue truck, blue pool, blue sky, the repeated forms.
"I was traveling with a friend of mine, and as we pulled into this motel I said, 'In the morning there's going to be a shot here.' I knew it. I didn't sleep well that night. I was up at 6 in the morning, after a half hour's time this shadow lowered into the pool and trucks went by. Even the night before in the dark I could see that shot—an epiphany."
The relationship between knowledge and appreciation is a central theme of the show.
"What do you need to know about nature to really appreciate it?" Calisch asks. "What is the relationship between knowledge and appreciation, and the contrast between what we're comfortable with and the fact the this symmetry and order we try to attribute to nature isn't really there?"
But while hanging the pieces in the Wabash gallery, the artist saw another interesting convergence.
"You learn things about yourself when you do a show like this," Calisch says. "Just this morning, I realized for the first time that one of the first pieces completed here has a horse in it, and so does the last. Probably a coincidence."
That last piece is called "Mixture 79" and refers to a brand of tobacco his father smoked.
"It's a piece about generations—good breeding stock, what you pass on to your children."
Calisch completed it during the days he was helping his stepmother move out of the house she had lived in with his father, who died 15 years ago almost to the day Calisch finished that last piece.
"We had to go through my father's stuff, and I learned things I never knew about him. At the same time, my two sons were home together for the first time in 15 months, so we were having all these family conversations.
"There's no specific imagery in this piece that would necessarily lead someone to that story. In fact, I could tell you the story and still you wouldn't guess which piece it was about. I like that ambiguity."
Somehow all these things are connected. That was title of one of Calisch's first art exhibits at Wabash more than 25 years ago. His father, poet Richard Calisch, saw the show and wrote about it—a poem about generations, about finding things that remind us of those we love and the power of art to keep us in touch with them:
"You were not there.
and yet I felt the presence
of my father and my son
in that gallery."
Doug Calisch's father and sons are in this gallery, too. At midlife, his work taps deeply into that heritage while coming into its own with a new way of seeing.
The poem concludes: "Somehow all these things are connected." It never answers the question of how. The poet seems content to wonder. Richard Calisch was comfortable with such ambiguity; his son revels in such creative tension. That's where you'll find yourself when you experience Doug Calisch's work. It's a good place to be.
See if you don't walk out of the gallery telling a few stories of your own.
Lost and Found, Again runs September 5 through October 10 in the Eric Dean Gallery of the Wabash College Fine Arts Center, with an opening reception in the gallery on Friday, September 5, from 5-7 p.m.
In photos: Double Sky, by Doug Calisch; Square, Level, and Plumb by Doug Calisch


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