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Clarke was speaking to Sky Sports News following the broadcast from the Special Report team, which uncovered several incidents of racist chanting at football matches.
The report was inspired by Marvin Sordell, the Bolton striker who said he was called a "slave" by Millwall fans last year and is one of the few footballers to speak out about his experiences.
And Clarke believes the reluctance of many black footballers to report incidents of racism highlights a deeper problem within the sport.
He said: "I was grateful to Sky for shedding some light on a very dark area in football. Anybody who has been associated with football for years knows that things are getting better but they are nowhere near where they need to be.
"To have our players subject to vile and filthy abuse deserves nothing better than the culprits being arrested and charged with the full weight of the law.
"We obviously have to stamp out racism. No right-thinking person could in any way condone the sort of terrible behaviour we saw on your programme.
"But what chilled me even more was not the racism but the reticence of black players to feel comfortable in reporting it.
"If we created an environment which doesn't support black players in confronting this issue then we've done something terribly wrong.
"So we've got to wrap ourselves around our black players, give them our support to be able to report such episodes and then deal with such episodes extremely severely.
"I've been working with Herman Ouseley (chairman of the Kick It Out campaign) and (PFA chief) Gordon Taylor behind the scenes, meeting one-on-one with black players, senior pros, managers, who, to be frank, don't want to go on camera and don't want to put their head above the parapet but believe things need to be done.
"So we need to create a culture within football which rather than make the person pointing out the problem the villain, that they get the support they deserve to be able to point it out to us so we can do something about it. We need to support the victims here.
And when asked what steps the Football League would be taking to stamp out racism, Clarke responded: "By making sure that we use every tool in our armour.
"We will use CCTV, steward statements, players statements, to hunt down every racist at every football ground and make sure they never get into a football ground again, plus be charged by the police."


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"Fresnel" McCann enjoys dog parks, walks, and roughhousing with his younger "sister," "Lily." But, life hasn't always been idyllic for the nearly 90-pound black lab mix. Fresnel's overcome some "ruff" challenges the past 11 years.
His life got off to a bumpy start on Highway 99 near Fresno.
After seeing another driver toss a box and a carcass out of a truck, a good samaritan pulled over to investigate. The box contained Fresnel and his eight siblings. The carcass was the puppies' mother. Fortunately, the puppies survived and the person who abandoned them and shot their mother was arrested.
When he was four months old, "Fresno" was adopted from Second Chance Rescue by Robert and Kandi McCann. The McCanns renamed Fresno "Fresnel"—a type of lens on lighting equipment.
Seven years later, right before Christmas, Fresnel encountered a second roadblock.
After discovering odd lumps under the skin on Fresnel's right flank, the McCanns brought him in for an exam. A needle biopsy revealed Fresnel had cancer throughout the connective tissues of his skin and muscles.
After cancer surgery, Fresnel began chemotherapy treatment. When new cancer masses appeared one month after surgery, I started Fresnel on Chinese herbs. His appetite and energy quickly improved.
"Within 48 hours of starting Chinese herbs, Fresnel started regaining energy. My husband and I knew for sure he was feeling better when Fresnel jumped on our bed and got frisky with Lily," chuckles Fresnel's owner Kandi McCann. Pictured, from left, are Lily and Fresnel (aka "Fres").
By March 2008, Fresnel's cancer masses were gone but he was too sick to continue chemotherapy. After discontinuing chemotherapy, I had Fresnel continue on the Chinese herbs and began acupuncture treatments—which he tolerated well.
Between March 2008 and late 2010, Fresnel experienced reoccurrences of cancerous masses in his connective tissues. But, he continued to thrive due to the Chinese herbs and monthly acupuncture treatments.
In January 2011, an X-ray showed Fresnel had developed cancerous lesions on his chest. Despite this finding, Fresnel is doing well on Chinese herbs, the anti-cancer supplement Onco Support and intermittent acupuncture treatments.
January 3 of this year marked four years since Fresnel's cancer diagnosis. He's happy, has a healthy appetite and remarkable energy for an 11-year-old dog who has cancer.
The past three years, Fresnel's walked with Kandi in the annual Relay for Life event. And, through Bark for Life, Fresnel and Kandi raise awareness about canine cancer. Fresnel continues to defy the odds with the help of Chinese herbs and acupuncture—and the devoted love of the McCanns.
From Fresnel's owner—
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"Chelsea" Jawor by Dr. Jim Codington, DVM (aka "Dr. Jim")
Chelsea is an honorary canine member of Nancy's Club. Members of the nonprofit Club, who are living with cancer, enjoy monthly cruises with their loved ones on the San Francisco Bay. "Chelsea likes the cruise because she loves kids and boats," says her owner, Wendy Jawor.
Over a year ago, patient "Chelsea" Jawor was facing death. Today, she's thriving and surviving.
Owner Wendy Jawor first brought Chelsea, a 12-year-old spaniel mix, to our office in April 2010. Chelsea had been having bouts of reoccurring diarrhea. Three months after Chelsea was successfully treated, she began bleeding from her nostrils.
X-rays and biopsies showed Chelsea had a type of nasal cancer that usually ends a patient's life within three months. A CAT Scan at UC Davis Veterinary Hospital revealed the tumor was at the back of Chelsea's sinuses—nearly penetrating her brain.
Surgery was not an option due to the tumor's location, and radiation therapy would be expensive and ineffective in such a severe case. In addition, the radiation treatments would require Wendy to leave Chelsea at UC Davis Veterinary Hospital for three weeks—or make daily round trips to drive Chelsea to Davis.
Since Wendy was concerned about subjecting Chelsea to painful radiation treatments that would have little impact, I immediately started Chelsea on a treatment plan. The comprehensive regimen included Chinese herbs, homeopathic remedies, immune-boosting supplements, anti-inflammatories and antibiotics.
In June, an exam revealed Chelsea's tumor had grown some. Since then, she's been receiving injections of Iscador—an immune-boosting cancer drug derived from mistleltoe. Since being treated with Iscador, Chelsea feels better and her symptoms have diminished.
July marked a year since Chelsea's cancer diagnosis. Today, to the delight of Wendy, Chelsea is perky, has a healthy appetite and enjoys a 3.5 mile walk five days a week. Sweet Chelsea is a true miracle.
From Chelsea's owner—
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As months passed, the tumor slowly grew and soon Dominique had trouble walking. She was brought in to see Dr. Jim one last time, her valiant spirit seeming to dwindle. In the exam room, her eyes began to twinkle and it soon became clear she was not yet finished. Her guardians asked Dr. Jim if he might agree to operate, as either way it seemed as though her situation was dire. He agreed to try, though with a heavy heart. Little Dominique's heart stopped three times on the table as Dr. Jim worked meticulously to remove the 13-pound tumor. After 3 days in intensive care and receiving multiple blood transfusions, Dominique left the hospital and once again found herself in the arms of those who had lovingly watched over her life and never left her wanting for anything.
Miracles happen. Dominque's story is one of few those of us in the veterinary field are blessed to witness. Choosing a life involving animals, we are always aware of the joys and sorrows that journey can bring. We are also driven by the rewards. Dominique's courage has touched all of our hearts. In her younger years, someone once took notice and marveled at how brilliant the strength of her heart was. That brilliance continues to shine today and we are all grateful for having been part of her journey. Click here to see the tumor. (Warning: Graphic!)
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Obama and the Drones
David Ignatius reveals this morning that US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has fought hard and ultimately failed to maintain ultimate 'country authority' over the CIA's drone attacks inside Pakistan.
Ignatius writes:
As America's relationship with Pakistan has unraveled over the past 18 months, an important debate has been going on within the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad over the proper scope of CIA covert actions and their effect on diplomatic interests.
The principals in this policy debate have been Cameron Munter, the U.S. ambassador since October 2010, and several CIA station chiefs who served with him. The technical issue was whether the ambassador, as chief of mission, had the authority to veto CIA operations he thought would harm long-term relations. Munter appears to have lost this fight.
Munter is no ordinary campaign-contributing pal of Barack Obama and didn't buy his perch in Islamabad like so many other US Ambassadors.
Munter is one of the few career foreign service officers who has stacked up respect not only from his State Department colleagues — but across other agencies and departments, particularly the Department of Defense for his pivotal work in securing Congressional approval of NATO expansion during the Clinton administration, and from the various intelligence agencies for his 'smart power approach' to trying to simultaneously win the hearts and minds of citizens in Pakistan while also understanding that some targets require deployed hard power.
According to Ignatius' interesting report, Munter has fought the significant expansion of drone attacks, particularly when US-Pakistan relations are on the verge of catastrophic rupture.
Ignatius also reveals that CIA Director David Petraeus has often sided with Munter and his concern about an increasingly zealous drone targeting program — and that Petraeus and the chief of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, whose name is classified and is referred to as "Roger", have had substantial disputes with each other over drone targeting and attacks.
The possible implications of this report on Munter's frustration and political loss is that this punctuates a larger set of failures.
First, Hillary Clinton, in her launch of the QDDR (Quadrennial Diplomacy & Development Review), made a statement at the time that the Department of State was re-asserting itself as the "statutory lead" in America's conflict situations abroad. This statement that she made at the launch of the QDDR was seen as part of a strategy to rebalance the powers between the military/intel part of America's power equation with the diplomatic/economic elements of statecraft.
It seems that by allowing the drone-deployers to prevail over the diplomats, the Obama White House is pushing tactics over strategy. Some may debate this — and I welcome that debate — but a drone triumphalism seems to be dominating over other key strategic equities that the U.S. should be concerned about.
Secondly, the Petraeus revelations remind one a bit of the privileged, off the grid activities organized by David Addington in the Bush/Cheney White House. It is one thing to see that the Department of State is predictably losing another national security power struggle in the White House; it is an entirely different thing to see that an operation inside the CIA is resisting and bucking the authority of that agency's director, perhaps because the Counterterrorism Center sees its reporting line directly to the White House and President.
David Addington always felt that his off-grid work in creating a Kafka-esque system of secret prisons and policies surrounding combat detainees was done with the direct authority of the President (and Vice President).
David Ignatius' article is titled "Drones vs. Diplomacy". The consequences for the nation, during the presidency of a Democrat who once opposed many of the Bush administration's anti-terror methodologies, of letting 'drones' win could be enormous.
– Steve Clemons is Washington Editor at Large at The Atlantic, where this post first appeared. Clemons can be followed on Twitter at @SCClemons
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There was a positive response to my idea in the last thread, so I guess I'll start posting a series of "lessons" (or annotations) on the 百人一首. First I should explain some basics, though, and how I'll be doing these.
What is the 百人一首?
The name means "One hundred people, one poem [each]". The name is a general name that can be applied to a number of works, but usually it refers to the 小倉百人一首, a work by the poet and scholar 藤原定家(ふじわらのていか) (1162-1241). Teika selected one poem each from one hundred poets, ranging from the 7th century (supposedly) up to his own time. The poems represent his own poetic tastes, and these should not necessarily be seen as the best 100 poems of all time. You can read more about it on Wikipedia or other Internet sites.
All of the poems are in the 和歌 or 短歌 format, which means a 31-beat/syllable poem divided into 5 lines (5-7-5-7-7 beats).
Why read/study it?
There are several good reasons to read it as a beginner in classical Japanese. 100 poems is short enough to read in its entirety, but still long enough to give you some depth. It's a good jumping off point for reading other Japanese poetry. Also, because of the popularity of the card game utagaruta, the work is still known today and many editions of it are published aimed at native Japanese people who have very little classical Japanese. There's even a current manga and anime series (ちはやふる) about karuta.
My idea is to post annotated versions of each poem, aimed at relative beginners to classical Japanese. I'm not going to assume much knowledge, although you should have some sort of reference that at least shows the classical conjugations (several of these can be found on the Internet, both in English and Japanese). For looking up classical words, many of them will not be in a J-E dictionary but a large J-J dictionary like the Koujien or Daijirin (goo.ne.jp, etc.) will suffice, although a dedicated classical dictionary is better.
The goal is not only to read the classical Japanese but also to learn about the poetic techniques, the authors themselves, and some traditional cultural elements.
Anyway, each post will have the following:
I'm trying to practice 崩し字 as much as possible, so I'm first going to give a straight transcription from a manuscript that's in one of the books I have, then I'll do a 5-line cleaned up version with kanji, dakuten, etc. There will also be a romanization done by normal classical standards -- straight kana transcription following kunrei-shiki. As for actually reading the poems, nowadays people generally use an Edo-period pronunciation which is more or less the same as current pronunciation with a few differences (e.g. a + ふ is read as ou).
These are notes on the grammar and vocabulary, and sometimes the poetic techniques. They may seem a bit long since I tried to incorporate not just definitions but other information as well.
This is intended to be just a straight, basic translation, with no attempt to be poetic in English.
Brief information on the author, although many of the authors have good articles on Wikipedia (if so I won't give a lot of information).
All of the poems come from Imperial anthologies, so I will give the source of each poem. All poems in the anthologies have a 題 (circumstance of composition) which Teika omitted in the 百人一首, but I will give the 題 here since it's a good opportunity to read relatively simple classical Japanese prose.
These are miscellaneous issues related to the poems and overall interpretation, as well as some classical commentary of the Kamakura, Muromachi, and Edo periods.
I hope this doesn't sound too imposing or difficult -- I'll try to post the first poem in the next day or two and then try to do one a week after that.
Last edited by yudantaiteki (2011 December 25, 6:50 pm)
http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?p … 67#p125567
An audio recording + parallel texts of the poems.
This sounds really interesting Yudan. I look forward to the first installment.
Here we go. This is kind of long. Let me know if you have any suggestions, and feel free to ask any questions, no matter how basic they seem -- I know a lot of people here have no experience at all with classical Japanese.
Poem 1
秋の田の aki no ta no
仮庵の庵の kariho no iho no
苫を荒らみ toma wo ara-mi
我が衣手は waga koromode ha
露に濡れつつ tuyu ni nure-tutu
天智天皇御製 御製 is read as ぎょせい. (てんぢてんわうぎよせい in old kana spelling)
秋: Seasonal references are important in waka, and many poems contain them even if they are not directly related to the season (although it is not as much of a fixed requirement as you find in haiku). The rest of the images in the poem are associated with autumn. The season was especially associated with sorrow, both due to the play on 飽き, and the images (such as falling leaves) that represented the transient world.
仮庵: This is a shortening of かり(仮)いほ(庵); a temporary hut. 庵 (modern いおり) is a simple dwelling associated with peasants. The redundancy of the line is to fill it out to 7 beats. There is possibly a play on 刈り穂(かりほ), the stalks cut down by the farmers.
苫: The thatched roof of the hut.
荒らみ: This is the stem of the -ku adjective 荒らし (cf. modern 荒らす), plus the suffix み. み is a suffix that was used in Nara-period Japanese, but by the Heian period it survived only in poetry. It indicates a cause or reason (like modern day から or ので). In Heian poetry it always occurs in the form XをYみ, with the を indicating the subject.
我が: Classical Japanese uses が as a possessive more productively than in modern Japanese, where it only survives in certain fixed phrases. However, わが is one of those fixed phrases that is still recognizable in modern Japanese. (The personal pronoun わ by the Heian period had become used only in certain set forms like わが)
衣手: A poetic word (歌語) for sleeves.
濡れつつ: The 連用形 of the verb 濡る plus つつ. Unlike in modern Japanese, in old Japanese this usually represents the repetition of an action. Wet sleeves (especially sleeves wet with dew) are a common symbol in poetry for someone crying.
The thatched roof of the temporary hut in the autumn field is ruined; thus my sleeves are continually wet with dew.
天智天皇(てんじてんのう), 626-671. The 38th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign was from 661-671.
後撰和歌集 (gosen wakashu). This is the second imperially commissioned anthology, compiled in 951. It has the usual division of books (seasons, love, miscellaneous, etc.) This poem is from the Autumn section. As in all poetic anthologies, each poem is preceded by a prose preface indicating the circumstance (題) of composition. In this case it is 題知らず (circumstance unknown). The majority of poems in the imperial anthologies ascribed to people from the Nara period are listed as 題知らず.
The main question surrounding this poem is what connection it has with Emperor Tenji. It's hard to imagine an Emperor sitting in a hut with holes in the roof. The poem does not appear in any collection until around three centuries after Tenji's death, and it may possibly derive from an anonymous Man'yoshu poem. These considerations make it unlikely that the poem was actually composed by the Emperor. It may have originated as a poem expressing the suffering of a peasant this theme is not common in Japanese poetry, but it does occur sometimes in pre-Heian poetry, largely from Chinese influences (particularly the poetry of Bai Juyi). It's unclear how it became associated with Emperor Tenji.
Premodern commentaries accepted the imperial authorship, though, and some attempted to explain the poem's connection with the Emperor, resulting in some strained theories (which still seem to pop up in modern editions from time to time). One is that it represents the Emperor's pained thoughts at being unable to rule over the unified country. Another is that it refers to a specific time when the Emperor went to Saga and saw a peasant's hard life, and composed this poem in sorrow. Another is that it is a poem of mourning for the Emperor's father Jomei, and one commentary even seems to say that the Emperor actually constructed a temporary hut to stay in for 20 days while he mourned. The prevailing theory in the old commentaries is that it was written by the Emperor in sympathy for the hard life of the peasants under his rule.
This leads to a related, more minor concern, about whether the entire poem is the Emperor speaking in the voice of the peasant, or whether the last two lines are the Emperor himself crying after seeing the peasant's hovel.
The anonymous Man'yoshu poem mentioned above as the source of this poem was taken for use in the Shin kokinshu. Since Fujiwara no Teika was one of the editors of the Shin kokinshu, there's a good chance he knew that the poem he selected as poem 1 had doubtful authorship. He recorded in his diary (the Meigetsuki) that he wanted to begin with Emperor Tenji, and this may have been to create a parallel with the end of the work. Poems 1 and 2 are attributed to Emperor Tenji and Empress Jito (Tenji's daughter), and Poems 99 and 100 are Emperor Gotoba and Emperor Juntoku (Gotoba's son, who was most likely Emperor when the Hyakunin isshu was completed).
Last edited by yudantaiteki (2011 December 25, 3:16 am)
yudantaiteki wrote:
As for actually reading the poems, nowadays people generally use an Edo-period pronunciation which is more or less the same as current pronunciation with a few differences (e.g. a + ふ is read as ou).
Does that correspond basically to "read the romanization as if it were romanization of modern Japanese" ?
How much do we know about Heian-era and earlier pronunciation? I guess we don't have the convenience of a set of related but diverging languages to cross-compare the way we do with the Indo-European family...
There's some interesting resources out there on historical pronunciation. See for example this page on the ハ行 kana's historical changes.
This is awesome Yudan, thanks!!! i never thought i'd study classical, but i'm definately going to follow this thread with interest!!!
i have a couple of questions, sorry if they're dumb...
*About あらみ: By -ku adjective, do you mean i-adj, or should i look it up? If so, is it normal then for i-adjectives not to have the extra い on the end in classical Japanese, or is it only some of them?
Also, some i-adjectives still conjugate with a み, like 重み. So, was that not around at that time, or was み ambiguous back then?
*The か and て in わかころもては (second line in the text) you say are が and で. Didn't they use the little marks back then then? How did people know how to read it then, or would they have read it か and て too?
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IceCream wrote:
i have a couple of questions, sorry if they're dumb...
*About あらみ: By -ku adjective, do you mean i-adj, or should i look it up? If so, is it normal then for i-adjectives not to have the extra い on the end in classical Japanese, or is it only some of them?
If I can answer that part of the question:
I-adj and na-adj didn't exist in bungo. Today i-adjectives come from adjectives in bungo which ended in し (like よし、高し、美し) and na-adjectives come from adjectival verbs that ended in なり (like 明らかなり、静かなり).
Now, -ku adjective and -shiku adjective are terms that refer to the way in which that adjectives that ended in し conjugated. It's because they had two types of conjugation - -ku and -shiku. The way to tell in which way an adjective conjugated is to compare it to the modern i-adj. If it ends in しい (like 美し -> now 美しい), it means that it takes -shiku conjugation. If it just ends in い (without し in front of it, like よし、高し - よい、高い), it takes -ku conjugation.
So because 荒らし is 荒い now, it is ku-adjective.
Nice idea, this is definitely something I will be srsing soon.
IceCream wrote:
This is awesome Yudan, thanks!!! i never thought i'd study classical, but i'm definately going to follow this thread with interest!!!
i have a couple of questions, sorry if they're dumb...
Don't worry, they're not dumb at all.
*About あらみ: By -ku adjective, do you mean i-adj, or should i look it up? If so, is it normal then for i-adjectives not to have the extra い on the end in classical Japanese, or is it only some of them?
Also, some i-adjectives still conjugate with a み, like 重み. So, was that not around at that time, or was み ambiguous back then?
Rayath answered the first part well. The み in 重み is a different み than the one in this poem (although both existed in classical Japanese).
*The か and て in わかころもては (second line in the text) you say are が and で. Didn't they use the little marks back then then? How did people know how to read it then, or would they have read it か and て too?
The voicing marks (dakuten) were not regularly used until the Meiji period, although they were used in some cases before then. Sometimes in older texts you see them added in a different color ink. As for how people knew how to read it, it's just context. Although there are some cases where we're still not sure today whether to voice it or not. (They would not have read it か and て; voiced syllables go back to the earliest written Japanese.)
Does that correspond basically to "read the romanization as if it were romanization of modern Japanese" ?
Pretty much, although the romanization will follow old kana usage. The romanization method is normal in classical studies because it avoids having to take a position on how the syllables would actually have been pronounced. This is especially relevant for something like this -- the particle は in this poem would (probably) have been pronounced as "pa" when it was originally written, and probably something like "fa" when it was put in the Gosenshu in the 10th century, and by the Edo period it was "wa" although I don't know how Teika himself would have read it in the 13th century.
(If you're wondering why I'm using romanization instead of kana, I think it's easier to show the spacing and use dashes to show suffixes, which is helpful if you're not used to classical.)
Last edited by yudantaiteki (2011 December 25, 6:49 pm)
Wow, this is really great, Yudan! I'm looking forward to more.
This will be a very awesome thread, I think. I already learned things from the first poem. Very cool idea yudantaiteki.
Thank you. It's a very interesting project. It would make a great book... "YTT's Introduction to Classical Japanese".
This is brilliant. Keep going. Thanks so much.
thankyou Rayath & Yudan for the clear explanations!!!
This is indeed a great idea! I have thus far not dabbled into classical Japanese in the least, does anyone know of a good introduction/website where the basics of bungo are explained?
Here are two that have conjugations and such:
Unrelated, if you want to see an example of the original text I'm working from, here's a picture of the first poem; I wrote the kana on the side, and for the 変体仮名 I put the original kanji in parentheses.
How on earth did you figure out how to read that!?
half of it is just squiggles...
It's not easy. I have a little book that has examples of 崩し字 from a number of different historical manuscripts, and since I already know what this poem's text is, I can just look up the syllables in the book and see which kanji it is. I've been doing this with the 百人一首 and Genji but I'm nowhere near the point where I could just take a manuscript I had no idea about and figure out more than 50% of it.
Of course a lot of people say that the printed kana look like squiggles too, so it's just what you're used to.
Last edited by yudantaiteki (2011 December 27, 3:58 am)
A lot of the time with calligraphic japanese I get the impression the writer is just being deliberately messy because it looks cool and even they wouldn't be able to read it after a while.
Poem 2
春過ぎて haru sugi-te
夏来にけらし natu ki ni kerasi
白栲の sirotahe no
衣干すてふ koromo hosu tefu
天の香具山 ama no kaguyama
春過ぎて: Classical Japanese (as well as colloquial modern Japanese) does not require any particle between a subject and predicate, or object and predicate (as seen in lines 1, 2, and 4).
来にけらし: This parses as ki (連用形 of ku) + ni (連用形 of the suffix ぬ, indicating completion) + kerasi, a contraction of keri and rasi. keri is a somewhat complicated suffix; in poetry it almost always indicates that the speaker is just noticing something that is already true or has occurred (sometimes called the surprise keri). rasi is more or less the same as modern らしい in this case. The meaning of the whole line is something like It seems that summer is already here. In contrast to the first poem, which was one sentence, the end of the second line is the end of a sentence. This is sometimes known as 二句切(にくぎり). The remaining three lines are a modifier (line 3 and 4) for a noun (line 5); ending a poem with a noun in this manner is known as 体言止め(たいげんどめ). It's particularly associated with poetry of the 新古今集 era (see below).
白栲の: This is a word literally representing a white tree, but also referring to white clothes woven from the bark of the tree, or simply the color white. In this case, the whole phrase is something called a 枕詞(まくらことば). These phrases, almost always 5 mora, are used to fill out the meter of a poem and always connect to specific words if you're familiar with Homeric poetry, it's similar to the stock epithets found in The Iliad and The Odyssey. They are most associated with poetry from the 万葉集 era, particularly the longer poems. In some cases the exact meanings of the 枕詞 are unknown or disputed. In this case the phrase is a 枕詞 for 衣 in the next line, although it's also possible to simply read it as the literal white clothes meaning.
衣干す: Modern Japanese still uses 干す with clothing to refer to hanging them out to dry. The 衣 here may be some sort of sacred garment associated with religious ceremonies on the mountain (although see the commentary section below).
てふ: This is a shortening of といふ (と言ふ) and is usually read as ちょう when the poem is read out loud now. This essentially is the same as modern という used to describe something, and means that the mountain is known as a place where clothes are dried. It may indicate that this is a legend about the mountain.
天の香具山: 天 in this case means holy or heavenly. The mountain is one of the so-called 大和三山. It is in modern-day 橿原市(かきわらし) in Nara-ken. The Japanese wikipedia article has more information and a picture. Aside from this poem, it is famous in poetry for Man'yoshu poem 2, in which Emperor Jomei stands on it to view the kingdom.
Translation: It seems that spring has passed and summer has already come. Holy Kaguya mountain, where it is said they dry white clothing.
Author: Empress Jito (645-702), the 41st Emperor in the traditional order of succession, and the daughter of Tenji. Unlike the previous poem, this poem originally appears in the 万葉集 attributed to Jito, making this poem's authenticity much more likely.
Source: 新古今和歌集 (shin kokin wakashu), the 8th imperial anthology and the last of the so-called 八大集. It appears there with the 詞書 of 題知らず, as with the previous poem. The poem was taken originally from the 万葉集, where it appears as poem 28 in a slightly different form (line 2 is 来(きた)るらし and line 4 is 衣干したり, したり being equivalent to the modern している or してある).
Teika himself was one of the compilers of the 新古今集. It took a number of poems from old sources like the Man'yoshu (which was not an imperially commissioned collection), especially when the poetic techniques seemed to match those in vogue at the time. The reason for the different form of the poem could be due to alternate methods of reading the 万葉仮名, or it could be because the compilers did not get the poem directly from the Man'yoshu but instead one of the later sources that drew from it.
The 体言止 technique has the effect of making the connection between the first 2 and last 3 lines less obvious. It seems to be here that the last three lines give the reason why the poet now sees that summer has come.
However, the exact link between the clothes drying and summer is a subject of debate, and even the exact meaning of 衣干す is a common topic of discussion in older commentaries. The surface, literal meaning is one possibility this may be related to a change of clothing due to the change of seasons. Either this represents literally people living on the mountain drying their clothes, or it may refer to a legend where gods came down to the mountain to dry their white clothing.
Other commentaries, though, propose several other symbolic readings of the poem. One suggestion is that the flowers of the trees on the mountain look like white clothing drying. Another is that the mountain is veiled in mist in the spring, and once the mist clears in the summer you can see the mountain clearly (明白), thus using the drying white clothes as a symbol for that. Or, the mist on the mountain may be the white clothes themselves in summer, the mountain has taken off its white robes and is drying them (after cleaning).
Thanks for the second poem!
I feel like I'm starting to learn Japanese all over again... there's so much to learn (a bitter sweet realization).
I'm still thinking about the best way to SRS these. It doesn't make much sense to add them line by line out of context... maybe I'll go for the vocab + explanation approach only and try to learn the poems without SRS.
If anyone has experience in this kind of direction (learning poems, or maybe lyrics?) I'd be glad to hear them!
I can't help you there...I never used SRS and I'm not really sure about good strategies. I also don't know if this would really be the best way to learn classical.
Thanks for the second poem.
Thanks for the efforts!
A couple comments/suggestions:
It would be great if you would keep posting pictures of the calligraphy!
Also, wouldn't it be more appropriate for the kanji transcriptions to be 旧字体 (especially since you're keeping 旧仮名遣い)?


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If I have any complaint it is that it gives up far too few steeps. Despite my yixing's young age, with each day's use my other teas provide more and more steeps with each round, and yet this leaf still struggles to make a full ten — let alone reach for fifteen or more as great pu-erh often does.
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Welcome to my DIY synthesizer website. The name Pugix (and the graphic toon) belonged to an online gaming character that I used to play and has nothing to do with synthesizers.
Welcome to my DIY synthesizer website. The name Pugix (and the graphic toon) belonged to an online gaming character that I used to play and has nothing to do with synthesizers.
Just an old fashioned drone, made with modular Tetrazzi, Zeroscillator, an LFO, a sample and hold, and some envelope generators.
Here is a CGS SSG board, assembled as a dual S&H with a one-shot circuit. It's the first of six identical boards.
A while back I posted about a 'quartussy' project I wanted to do. Since then I have extended the design to six sections and enhanced the block diagram to include a VCA between the first sample & hold output and the CV input to the VCO. I've tentatively decided to call this project the Quantasise, indicating six quantized things. There will be more about this project as it develops. Each section will have a VCO, a VCA, and two sample & holds (S&H). That's 12 sample & holds total. This post is about the sample & hold circuits, which are made from CGS SSG boards.
The SSG (Smooth & Stepped Generator) has two virtually identical sections that can each function as a VC slew, VCO, or Sample & Hold. The S&H function is implemented by pulsing the track and hold function. A pulse releases the hold for a moment, allowing the output to slew towards the input and then hold again. The minimum acquisition time obtainable with the selected capacitor (about 0.28 milliseconds) is relatively long for a S&H, but it works just fine for my purpose. No external rate pot is needed, because the trimmer is capable of setting the rate for the shortest acquisition time. I selected a 47 nf polypropylene capacitor for the integrator. This capacitor is Mouser part number 505-MKP20.047/100/5 (WIMA MKP2D024701C00JSSD). I have not tried to measure the droop rate of this S&H, but for this use I'm sure it will be acceptable.
In addition to the two S&H circuits, each SSG includes two one-shot pulse generators. One of these is used to drive two S&H circuits, as shown in the block diagram. More about this in a future post.
I built a stand-alone power supply that delivers +/-15 volts @ 800 ma to use as a bench supply for testing modules under development, and also to use as the external supply for a new stand-alone synthesizer I'm building. The supply is Power One HAA15-0.8-AG. Two jumper wires near the output posts must be cut to change the output levels from +/-12 to +/-15 volts. These are labelled VW1 and VW2.
The enclosure is Hammond 1458VD3 (Mouser 546-1458VD3). The top and bottom are vinyl-coated steel, with ventilation slots, and the front and back have painted aluminum panels, easy to machine. I mounted all parts on the front panel, with the Power One supply fitting nicely in the rear of the box.
I used the same Schurter AC Power Entry as on my portable cabinets. It's very convenient, having the AC inlet, dual fuse, and power switch all in one unit, Mouser 693-4304.6090.
The red and yellow LED power indicators are in chrome bezels I had lying around. I put a 2K resistor in series with each.
Red and yellow banana jacks output +15 and -15 volts, with two black banana jacks for ground. The outlet that will supply the stand-alone synthesizer uses a high quality 4-conductor locking connector that includes earth ground as well as plus, minus, and supply ground. The connector shown is a female panel mount. The corresponding connector on the synthesizer will be a male panel mount and the cable will have mating male and female connectors. These connector Mouser part numbers are:
I was in Asheville, North Carolina, last week, visiting my friends David Linton and Claire Barratt, and was invited to join in an improvisational piece to be shown at intermission at the BeBe Theatre, during a performance for the Butoh Festival. David and I had practiced with a setup that included his zither and my Tetrazzi and Cocoquantus. The piece, designed by Claire Elizabeth Barratt, involved the use of a number of instruments set out in a space to be played by wandering musicians. This video captured a part of it. Because of the complexity of the overall resulting sound, I decided to omit the Cocoquantus and just use Tetrazzi. We all wandered about slowly, playing instruments at will. I wasn't the only one playing Tetrazzi.
The dining room table has been taken over by Ciat-Lonbarde stuff. I also set up the RCF powered monitors in the room. Combined with the Macbook Pro and the firewire interface, it makes a complete recording studio. Tetrazzi and Roland Mobile Cube are in the background of first picture.
Shown below, clockwise from lower left: touchpad, gong, origami, gong, Cocoquantus, Plumbutter, Tetrazzi, Shbobo Shnth.
I was lucky to snag a first-run Shbobo Shnth, Peter Blasser's just released computer music device. It is tiny at 4.25 x 4.25 x 1.25 inches. It features:
The output is through a stereo mini-jack.
Shnth is programmed in a language called shlisp. The programs load from a computer via a USB cable, which also serves to charge the internal battery. Shnth can be disconnected from the computer and played with the currently loaded program. Programs can contain a group of separate 'situations', which represent different patches.
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Christmas Knits
Ok so I'm a little behind to say the least. Not in the knitterly sense, I'm right on track with my delightful Christmas knitting, but in the Craft Room sense. I've had so much fun visiting friends, hosting some little parties, and generally enjoying my new home and neighbourhood, the Craft Room has fallen by the wayside.
I have waited so long for this space to call my very own and now that it's here I find the process of organizing it rather daunting. First of all there is A LOT more stuff than I remember having. Yarn was coming out of every room of our old apartment and now that I can see it all in it's shining glory I have to take a good hard look at my serious yarn problem (although of course it was rather inspiring at the same time so you win some you lose some). Add that to the number of half finished quilts and boy, it's really something to behold. Of course I don't really restrict myself to 2 types of crafting. I make cards, collages, scrapbooks, friendship bracelets, cross stitch and any number of other random crafts, each of which has it's own array of supplies and leftovers. It's a wonderful life to lead with so much creation in it but it's a tough one to organize. Slowly but surely!
Onto some great finished projects I have been working on for the last couple of weeks:
I can't wait to send these babies off to their happy recipients! For those who want to know the Stag Scarf was knit in Spud and Chloe Outs (2 skeins), the Hunter hat was knit in Madelinetosh Vintage colourway Twig (1 skein), the Habitat Hat was knit with Louet Gems Worsted (1 and a bit skeins), and the Mistake Rib Scarf was knit with Madelinetosh Vintage in Norway Spruce (2 skeins).


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I know, it took me a few days to write a post. Â First, it took me a full day to get over this pathetic loss of the highest sucktitude. Â And second, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to say or how I wanted to say it.
So, here goes…and bear with me, this post will be largely stream of consciousness.
I heard a lot of talk about the sucktitude that is our defense.  Well, lets be clear.  It's not the line. Some have had a great year.  Harrison, Woodley, Kiesel, Farrior and Snack are having a great season.  So, let's get specific.  Without Troy, our secondary is highly suspect.  Neither of the corners have any take aways and honestly, other than tackling at the spot, which they do well (as a parent, I am told never just to criticize, but to also highlight the things people do well) there's not much else going on.  Tackles.  At least they have one advantage over Skippy. *ahem* (I just can't talk Special Teams today)
There just aren't big plays happening in the secondary without Troy. Â Or at least not often. Â I can think of some great hits from Clark. Â And Ty had that interception against Minny. Â But where was the hell unleashed?
I expected some big get down – score blown out (I should never even get excited about this since even I have admitted that the Steelers never blow out anyone) blitzing like crazy, Gradkowski laying on his back for most of the game….Instead, the Raiders looked stellar. Â Well put together and on it. Â They blew up the secondary. Â And did it right over the top. Â Something that they could never do if Troy was in the game.
That said, why is it that one individual player has that much impact on a team? Â That to me is a problem. Â Don't get me wrong, Troy is spectacular. Â He's arguably the best strong safety in the NFL. Â The game is played differently on both sides of the ball when he's there. Â But why don't we have a back up that can also fill that gap? Â Maybe not to the extent that Troy does, but what is it about Ty and Ryan that isn't AS scary? Â I want to see fear from the opponents. Â Instead, they look like they are going to have tea at a picnic in the park….and then they do. Â It's called defeating the Champs.
I'm a Steelers fan, will always be a Steelers fan…but man, this season is painful to watch. Â How many 4th quarter leads can you blow? Â I really, really mean it when I say we need an energy drink sponsor. Or an oxygen at halftime sponsor. Â Or hyperbaric chambers for everyone sponsor.
December was supposed to be a win-out. Â Sorry Steelers, I love you, I do…but you don't deserve the playoffs. Â (Aaaaaannnddd cue the Steeler Nation comments)
IF by some strange act of karma the teams that need to lose do lose and the Steelers get a wildcard, how in the world do you expect to beat anyone past the first round (if that) playing just mediocre?  I mean, where's the hell unleashed?  That's the only way – THE ONLY WAY – the Steelers can beat anyone…and I will say it here, because I am in my "realistic" mode, you better be ready to seriously unleash crazy hell on these teams or go home and sit on the couch watching the playoffs. Did you see Green Bay put the beat down on the Ravens?  And Miami beat the Patriots.  Steelers, it's going to be a long, long December.  We just got started.  It's not going to be pretty.
An unnamed source close to the team asked me yesterday to keep on with the positives, that "Now is the time we need Steeler Nation the most." Â I told that source that I'm in it. Â Steelers are always my team, but at the same time, I have been waving my terrible towel Sunday after Sunday, never picking against my team, being supportive, but as I said way back in the beginning of the season, this feels a little like a one-way relationship. Â I need some love back. Â Can you bring me a W? Â I mean, it's the Browns (said exactly how I said "It's the Chiefs" or "It's the Raiders")…
I am still waving my towel, but it would be better if there was some love in return.
I'll be waiting. Yes, me, the girl in the black and gold every single week….
By the way, this guy said "Change is coming." Even I am scared….Steelers, you should be too…He looks dead serious.


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Not only was the championship on the line Saturday night at the 23rd annual Sylmar girls' volleyball tournament, but a possible shift in the City Section Div. II playoff seedings when the host Spartans faced Venice in the final.
Although Sylmar held an early lead and remained tied midway through the deciding game, a crucial six-point run by the Gondoliers proved too much for the Spartans to overcome, as Venice prevailed 25-20 to capture its first title at Sylmar High.
The Gondoliers had reached the Sylmar championship four times, including last year's loss to Narbonne, before finally capturing the title.
Although Flynn Salas-Miller and Sarah Schemerhorn secured all-tournament honors for Venice, it was Kristen Shekelle who took over for the Gondoliers in the final with five kills, three aces and two blocks.
After a Venice hitting error tied the score at 16-16, the Gondoliers relied on two kills from Salas-Miller, a kill from Shekelle, an ace from Kira Wessels and two Sylmar errors to build a 22-16 advantage.
The Spartans, led by all-tournament honorees Stephanie Estrada and London Lucien, twice closed the deficit to four points, but couldn't pull any closer.
Venice, Taft and Sylmar are expected to be in contention for the top three seeds in the Div. II playoffs. Venice and Taft are also scheduled to compete in the Crescenta Valley tournament next weekend.
The Gondoliers regrouped after splitting in pool play with both Calabasas and Van Nuys -- resulting
Venice knocked off Canyon 25-22 in the quarterfinals and Burbank 25-20 in the semifinals.
Sylmar, which split with Eagle Rock in pool play, received the No. 4 seed and a first-round bye.
The Spartans, seeking their first title since 2003, outlasted El Camino Real 26-24 and Lancaster 28-26 to reach the title game.
Along with Burbank, Canyon and Village Christian were the only other teams to complete pool play with undefeated records, but the Cowboys and Crusaders were both upset in the quarterfinals.
Lancaster defeated Village Christian 25-21 and Canyon lost to Venice.
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Nike Tournament of Champions: Valencia went 1-2 on the second day of competition in Arizona to finish seventh in the gold division, defeating Roseburg 25-22, 25-22 after losing to Mountain Pointe 25-19, 25-23 and Hamilton 25-17, 25-14.
Sierra Sanchez had 29 kills and 24 digs for the Vikings, who received nine kills and 26 digs from Emily Bible.
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Salesian 62, St. Genevieve 7: The Valiants (5-3, 0-2) held a 7-6 first-quarter lead, before Salesian before the Mustangs responded with the next 56 points in a Santa Fe League victory at Poly High.
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The win was the third of their road trip and moved the Canadiens back atop the Eastern Conference standings.
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The Australian Orienteering Elite Ranking Scheme points are now finalised for season 2005. Recent World Ranking Events in China provided David Brickhill-Jones (Tas) with the opportunity to climb to the top of the ranking list for the first time. His 1312 points in the Yunnan Orienteering Festival Sprint Distance race and 1223 in the Middle Distance has enabled him to leapfrog Grant Bluett (ACT) and finish the season as Australia's number one ranked orienteer.
There is no change to the women's list, with Hanny Allston (Tas) finishing the year at number one, ahead of Jo Allison (ACT) and Tracy Bluett (NSW).


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Local teams see individuals advance to state and sectionals this weekend.
Three Aurora golfers competed at state Monday and Tuesday in Class 3 among the top golfers in the state. The championships were two rounds in Sedalia.
Students make in-depth studies regarding a country chosen by their respective classes. They set up displays in the gymnasium, and each class takes time to go and view the displays.
Southwest Missouri beef cattle producers have shown a great interest in branding their cattle this winter and spring following several instances of cattle theft.
Some people remember it by simply repeating "5-4-3," which stands for May 4, 2003.
The Aurora golf team won districts Tuesday by 18 strokes at Bolivar with a total score of 330.
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South Australian Prawn Trawl Fisheries - LENS amendment 2004
Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette GN 48, 1 December 2004
Commonwealth of Australia
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens
I, Ian Cresswell, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Trade and Sustainable Fisheries Branch, Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, pursuant to subsection 303DC(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the Act), hereby amend the list of exempt native specimens established under section 303DB of the Act by including in the list the following specimens:
- Specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, other than specimens that belong to species listed under Part 13 of the Act, taken in the Spencer Gulf Prawn Fishery, the Gulf St Vincent Prawn Fishery and the West Coast Prawn Fishery, as defined in the management regime, made under the South Australian Scheme of Management (Prawn Fisheries) Regulations 1991 and the Fisheries (General) Regulations 2000.
with a notation that inclusion of the specimens in the list is subject to the following restrictions or conditions:
- The specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully;
- The specimen is included on the list until 3 November 2009.
Dated this Fifth day of November 2004
Ian Cresswell
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Increased shipping, spurred by the country's expanding economy, is creating unprecedented levels of pollution, a situation China's Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) is working to remedy.
Speaking yesterday, Liu Gongchen, deputy director-general of MSA, said his administration is working to establish a compensation regime for oil pollution from ships to guarantee financial support for cleanup operations and compensation for the victims of oil leaks.
"While promoting compulsory insurance against oil pollution from ships, the administration plans to set up a fund by levying a charge on ship owners and cargo consignors as they should take responsibility for oil pollution and compensating the victims of oil spills," Liu said in a keynote speech at the International Maritime Forum in Shanghai, which closes today.
He said the oil pollution fund is to be set up as soon as the draft of the legal document is put forward for approval by the State Council.
The risk of oil pollution in the nation's sea areas is increasing as the shipping economy expands. However, at the moment, the economic burden of dealing with oil spills always falls on the government.
Statistics from the Ministry of Communications indicate that cargo transported by sea reached around 1.8 billion tons last year, and the throughput in ports across the country amounted to 4.17 billion tons including 61.8 million TEUs, one-eighth of the world's total containers.
At least 90 per cent of the nation's imported crude oil is transported by sea, with the figure last year reaching up to 110 million tons, statistics show.
Coupled with the surge in marine transport is a growth in the number of oil spills. Between 1973 and 2003, more than 2,350 oil spills occurred along the nation's coast one spill every 4.6 days.


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Dr. Jeffrey Sharp's dance card is filled Saturday night at his 16th and last Cupid's Ball. He is surprised by the appearance of his four older daughters, who later expressed having fond memories of attending the Ball with their dad. While the song "We are Family" blasts over the sound system, the oldest sister, Lauren Bootz, 24, dances with Emily, 12, center. Clockwise from left are Cristian, 20, Dr. Sharp, Lydia, 15, Mrs. Michelle Sharp, and Elena, 18.
It is a tradition at the Cupid's Ball for the 12-year-olds and their fathers to have the floor for one song. It was after that dance, in which Dr. Sharp danced with his youngest daughter, Emma, that the four older Sharp sisters, from left, Cristian, Elena, Lydia and Lauren surprised their dad with an oversized card.
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Ek Tha Tiger Music Review (Sohail Sen, Sajid-Wajid)
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Should I start with Mashallah? Well, I think there is enough said about the song, and then everyone seems to have heard it, so let's just say the song is probably going to be the weaker part of the album. Or maybe I can say the weakest, if Salman Bhai's fans allow me to. Not because he's wrong anywhere, cuz Sajid-Wajid HAVE given some good songs for him. How can I ever forget the small preview of Tere Mast Mast Do Nain I heard at IIFA. That number within seconds told us what a hit it was going to be. But then, this time they seem to have got it wrong. Not too wrong, but not as right as it has been earlier.
And I wrote again so much about that song. OK, leave that one. Let's see others.
Sohail Sen's part of the album begins with a KK song and the duo seem to maintain the rapport shared in their last album, Mere Brother ki Dulhan. KK here again plays the fast track, and sings a full fledged commercial number for Salman, this time with Shreya Ghoshal. The song, though not extraordinary as such, has a nice melody and the 'main laapata' part is catchy as well. So be ready to hear many fans singing this one, and in due time, some non-fans too.
The next song of the album, Banjaara, is sung by Sukhwinder Singh. And will definitely be pictured on Salman Khan. That actually tells you a lot about the song. Let me spell it out a little more clearly. The song is full of energy, so much so that without even watching it, one can see Salman Khan dancing to the tune with full energy. This one is a hit.
Teri Meri Meri Teri Prem Kahani hai Naadan Parindey. Saiyyara Main Saiyaara. OK leave the name. Let's just say there is a sad song sung by Mohit Chauhan for Salman Khan. Can there be a thing deadlier than this as of today? OK I may again be overselling it, but I would at least say that Saiyaara is the best song of the album. The song has a superb melody, touching lyrics, the singer is superb, so is the singing. The orchestration is simple and beautiful. One cannot doubt about the presence of Salman Khan in the song. Basically there isn't a thing that would leave me in doubt about the song, it just is going to be one of the best this year. The only minor hitch is that the lyrics of the song make me feel that the movie 'may' have a sad ending. Hope that isn't the case. I want the Tiger to remain there.
But other than that, this Tiger is going to rock. As per the rumors, Salman may not be too happy about Sohail doing the score for the movie, but the result has come out really well, and Sajid-Wajid's song turns out the not-so-good piece of the album. As for Sohail's part, I'd just say, Mashallah.
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We went to The BONGO ROOM for May's breakfast visit!
It's a plain store front on a busy street. I love the graffiti to the left of the building.
The place, on the inside, was really happenin' for a thursday morning- not a single table available.
It's located in Bucktown. Their food is all about the buck. So many good choices, what should I order?
They serve seasonal french toast and pancake varieties.
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What? Not done with your holiday shopping? Yeah, neither are we. But we've been making lists -- and checking them twice -- and we've got some suggestions for the nice people on your list. Today, Chow ... More »
To the joy of anyone with a Tumblr account or a cat thing, the internet-famed Grumpy Cat (real name: Tardar Sauce) is making a public appearance in Gilbert this weekend. See also: - Our Nine Favori... More »
Maybe it's the affordable housing prices or the constant sunshine that attracts transplants from all over the globe, but whatever the reason, Phoenix has become the melting pot of the Southwest. It's rare to find a native Phoenician and even rarer to find one like restaurateur Joe Johnston, who manages to make even the newest desert dweller feel at home in his trio of Gilbert restaurants: Joe's Real BBQ, Liberty Market, and Joe's Farm Grill.Johnston grew up in the slump block ranch that... More »
Nothing goes better with a juicy Fontina burger or a grilled all-beef hot dog than a good basket of fries, and at Joe's Farm Grill -- a Jetsons-esque eatery with its own organic farm, located in East Gilbert's Agritopia community -- they've turned fry-making into an art-form. Cooked in trans-fat-free oil, Joe's standard-issue fries are crisp and light, a tribute to all that's tasty about a potato. But what really keeps us coming to this far corner of the Valley are the variations:... More »
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The forced assimilation of First Nations children in residential schools began in Canada in 1874 and lasted more than 120 years.
The impact of being taken from their families, stripped of their culture — and in many cases abused — have left profound and lasting effects on survivors and the generations that have followed.
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