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San Francisco Fifty Years Ago
(Kenneth Rexroths complete columns from the San Francisco Examiner)
August 1964
Pork Barrel in Harlem
The Invasion of Northern California
Culture on the Go
Disappearing Farmland
Descendants of the Heroic Negro Past
San Francisco Swimming
Wonder and Meditation in the Sierras
Community Planlessness
Mysticism, Ethical and Chemical
Pork Barrel in Harlem
Wednesday I did a piece on Harlem. I would like to return to the subject. Rather, I dont like to at all, Im sick of it, but I think I should. All the voices of the public, the pundits and the solons, the columnists and the editors, the spokesmen for Left and Right and Black and White, are busy hunting for scapegoats those ancient devices for shedding ones own guilt.
The riots were an explosion of senseless violence, motivated by hopeless and hopelessly ignorant frustration, and were essentially self-destructive. Rioters and police alike were expendable and expended.
Behind them, rank upon rank, Negro and white, stood the community of New York and the community of all America. Pusillanimity, indifference, self-seeking, demagogy, graft and corruption, irresponsibility, charlatanism, merciless exploitation, and again and again, indifference this was their brief harvest.
Before the war on poverty has even begun, $118 million has been appropriated to Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU). Already in the field was the Associated Community Teams (ACT), which has now merged with the new organization.
Some time ago, on the floor of the House, Representative Gross of Iowa questioned the grant of $250,000 to ACT. He said he had read that $187,000 had been spent on personnel and for rent of property reportedly owned by Adam Clayton Powells Abyssinian Baptist Church. Since that time Powell has marched over all opposition to control of this first installment on what promises to be a bottomless pork barrel.
Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, perhaps the leading Negro social scientist, and a dedicated man, tried to lead the opposition to Powell, tried to insist that the program be free of politics and graft. Suddenly he found that he was without followers. Finally Mayor Wagner, using Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the Urban League, as an instrument, persuaded Clark to back away. Back away from what? Adam Clayton Powell.
If this is what happens before the public eye when a most qualified and committed black man tries to insist on responsible behavior what do you think goes on amongst the slum landlords, the Mafia-Negro lords of dope and gambling, the politicians, the crooked contractors, the race leaders, the corrupt representatives of law and order, out of sight, out of all public control, year after year after year, in Harlem, on Chicagos South Side, in other Negro ghettos, ever since the First World War?
The industrial system of the Machine Age could not afford Negro slavery. We fought a war to establish that fact. The South refused to accept it and lagged far behind the rest of the country in the development of modern capitalism. The new technology of automation and electronics, the post-capitalist system of the last quarter of this century cannot afford, purely as business enterprise, racial discrimination or poverty or slums. If we refuse to accept that, we will eventually go under, or at the best become a social and economic anachronism, a kind of vast Balkans fifty Mississippis.
We have put up with a race or color caste at the bottom of our society which did not, as they say, bottom out our economy with a minimum base level. On the contrary, it cut a hole in the bottom. Harlem or Mississippi, these are holes in the boat through which all value drained away for years and through which now the well-known tides of change are flooding. The boat will founder unless we do something.
Act? Yes indeed, but something far more decisive than Adams ACT. We need a massive attack on every aspect of the problem, all along the line. We need leaders of both races who will come up with solid concrete programs which can be implemented beginning right now not hysterical cries of personal frustration from delicate Negro novelists and truculent jazz musicians.
Instead, what do we get? In the same paper with my column on Harlem there was an exchange of letters about racial imbalance in the schools between the Council for Civic Unity and Dr. James Stratten, president of the San Francisco Board of Education. Dr. Strattens letter was worthy of the satirical invention of Richard Wright or Chester Himes. It was an example of sanctimonious issue dodging so far fetched as to be scarcely believable.
But this is an issue that cannot be dodged its a locomotive coming around the mountain and if the track isnt cleared there is going to be a terrible smashup. White backlash and black backlash and Casey Jones caught in the middle.
[August 2, 1964]
The Invasion of Northern California
Saturday I was down to Music at the Vineyards. This is one of the most satisfactory experiences available in Northern California, one of the reasons I live here. The music is lovely, the site, high above the Santa Clara Valley, as spectacular as most anything in Italy. We drove down as we usually do, along the Skyline, but we came back by the freeway. Again, the Skyline is as fine a drive as any road out of a city anywhere, and I take it whenever I can.
How long will it last? Like a firebreak, it now separates the Water Reservation from the developers and everything to the east will soon be built up. Next step, an eight-lane freeway, connecting with a concrete-covered Golden Gate Park, to handle the commuter traffic. San Mateo Country has long agitated for recreational use of the Spring Valley Water Reservation and they say Mayor Shelley is seriously considering opening it up. I am totally opposed to this idea at this time.
San Franciscos water, once, with Seattles, the purest of any big citys, is now mysteriously polluted. There is no mystery about it. The bugs do not come from Mars or Moscow by space ship they come from the present abuse of the watershed by uncontrolled development. I am all in favor of turning the whole Santa Cruz Range into a recreation area, or even a park, but the water reservation should not be thrown open until it is protected by the most elaborate safeguards.
Nor should San Mateo County be presented with the gift of a park for which they pay nothing. Already little San Francisco, seven by seven miles, provides all the important social and cultural services for a metropolitan area extending from Vallejo to Gilroy to Stockton. Our narrow tax base supports the creative leisure of millions.
What is called California around the world, with grimaces of distaste, is rapidly invading what is called, everywhere, San Francisco with smiles of almost personal pride. Everybody is glad San Francisco exists.
Like Milwaukee, which I recently visited, Los Angeles is an uncontrollable human error of which everybody, but especially the residents, is secretly ashamed. Los Angeles is at our gates, clad in bikinis and dark glasses, pushing its shopping carts, waving its bawling transistors, clouding the air with carcinogens delicately scented with My Sin.
Unless the Association of Bay Area Governments can overcome this regions obsession with cheap taxes, its bitter parochialism, its petty politics, Northern California is going to be a wilderness of freeways, super hot dogs, chromium flea bags, and automobile graveyards within ten years. Then I am in favor of picking San Francisco up bodily and moving it, bay window by bay window, to Denmark or Uruguay.
One of the most startling things, so easily observed in the proliferation of lights year by year below Music at the Vineyards, is the way we are obliterating our unmatchable agricultural base but more of that next Wednesday.
[August 5, 1964]
Culture on the Go
Since Ive been back from Milwaukee, its just been go, go, go. Shakespeare at Stanford, Shakespeare in the Park, The Duchess of Malfi at Stanford, Music in the Vineyards, Lulu at the Playhouse, Nineteenth Century Art at the Legion, Ballet 64, a show of local artists at the S.F. Museum thats all I remember, but Im sure Ive forgotten something. Oh yes, Ronnie Daviss Tartuffe and the new Negro group the Aldrich Players.
People write in to the boss, How can you assign such a fearless and astute commentator on politics and community affairs to chatter about art galleries and concerts? Others, You filthy mongrel Communist, why dont you stick to the crazy so-called art of your beatnik friends and stop discussing national and civic issues you know nothing about? I wouldnt let you marry my sister.
Rarely am I assigned to anything. I write as I please. That used to be the title of a column somebody ran in my youth and it could well be mine.
I get far less interference from The Examiner than I do from the liberal weeklies, or the illiberal ones, for which I write sometimes. What the column tries to give is the picture of mature, male, civilized, tolerant living in San Francisco. The only thing I belong to is the Sierra Club, and I often disagree with them.
First, lets go back over that list for some snap judgments. I much prefer the helter-skelter amateurism of the bunch that gave Shakespeare at the Hall of Flowers to the self-conscious performances of the San Diego and Ashland companies. I guess Im just what we used to call in The Industry a B picture aesthete, but I love high school performances of Julius Caesar in bed sheets. The commercial Broadway theater I find absolutely unendurable. The highbrow theater I find rigid, each group after its kind, and, compared with the theater of the first quarter of the century, artistically reactionary.
I think Shakespeare in the Park should be a permanent feature of San Francisco life. BUT, it should be free, it should be outdoors, it should include one play by each of the local groups which would be willing to put one on . . . everybody, the Playhouse, the International Repertory Theater, the Interplayers, the Aldrich Players, the Mime Troupe, and so on.
Usually the academic theater is fresh and imaginative. I found The Duchess of Malfi pretty empty as a production. It is one of the very greatest plays ever written and I do hope somebody with a lot of talent and daring and, most important, feeling for its soul-probing poetry, puts it on soon someplace hereabouts.
Ballet 64 is the high point of the S.F. Ballet to date. No company gets more workout than ours does, and it is beginning to show. Last year the boys, many of them new, were all at sixes and sevens. This year theyre polished and honed to a fine edge of skill and sensitivity. No other company offers such opportunities to its members to do their own choreography. It sure pays off.
The new ballets were splendid. Most of them were comic, but what is now being learned in comedy will be assimilated later in large, serious forms, and we will discover that we have evolved a new and distinctive San Francisco Style. Already we have broken away from the all-pervading dictatorship of George Balanchine.
There is a similar breakaway in the painting at the S.F. Museum. Its a long time since Ive left those halls thoroughly pleased and content with what Id seen. Modern painting so often alternates between, or combines, sterile modernist academicism and commercial racketeering. My friends Bill Brown and Deborah Remington and the rest have really managed to come up with painting that is new, highly personal, and that insists it be taken seriously.
What does all this mean to The City, to the general public? It means that we offer, second only to New York, the amenities of civilized living. And who wants them? The technical and professional people essential to the business enterprise of the last third of the century.
A city like Milwaukee, where Cultcha is in the hands of quarreling elderly society women and artists are treated like trained dogs, is hopelessly trapped in the Industrial Age of mechanical production and exploitation of gross labor power. Someday the purulent fecal bacteria that pollute Lake Michigan will crawl out of the lake and get in the beer vats, and the Beer Barons will cry, Where is that biochemist we hired two years ago? and the superintendant will reply, He broke his contract and fled. He is out in San Francisco digging Stockhausens new ballet.
[August 9, 1964]
Disappearing Farmland
I have before me a copy of the northern California magazine, The Redwood Rancher, open to a pair of pictures. One is of rolling hills covered with vineyards, orchards, and beyond them, savannahs where milk cows graze. The other is of the same country after taking covered with tract houses that look like well-scrubbed Tokyo slums. They occupy the former agricultural land.
Above them the grazing land, still untouched, stretches away into limitless distances. Whats going on here? Whats coming off here?
The Santa Clara Valley was once the most productive region of the state, watered by artesian wells, covered with high-money crops on the lowlands, vineyards on the slopes, milk shed on the hills, and above to the west, dense forests. What is it now? We are doing things backwards.
Of Californias three to four million acres of class-one cropland, roughly one million has been urbanized. We have lost two and a half million acres altogether from approximately sixteen million possibly arable. We spend millions developing marginal acres and crop and irrigation types and techniques. At the same time we lose 140,000 acres each year of land formerly in highly productive field crops with more than one harvest, and in fruit, nuts, vegetables and melons.
Not only that, smog and other abuse attendant on urbanization or suburbanization damages the adjacent croplands and wasteful use of available water deprives them of irrigation resources.
If these tendencies continue unrestrained a little simple arithmetic will show you that in less than a generation California will become a land of eroded hillsides and hydroponic tomatoes in the windows of rose-covered slums. Already the citrus crop has moved north of the Tehachapi, and is now being harried by the subdividers in the San Joaquin. Whole specialty crops have disappeared altogether from California. The same thing is at least as well along in Florida. It does not require much imagination to foresee the day when the fruit and fresh vegetable basket will be empty and we will be living on milk, beef, grains, and synthetic gunk made from tank-grown chlorella micro-organisms.
What is the answer? This is just one more of those dilemmas in late twentieth century life where irresistible forces are deadlocked with immovable objects. There are two simple answers. Remove class-one cropland from urban development completely and facilitate financing of marginal land use for residential tracts. Will this happen? Almost certainly not.
Apathy, ignorance, voter resistance you can emotionalize the Redwoods or Bodega Bay, but it is a lot harder to emotionalize a prune or a tomato. Contrariwise, the San Jose, Walnut Creek, Napa, Sonoma regions are proud of what they are doing to themselves. Someday theyll be sorry, but then it will be too late.
[August 12, 1964]
Descendants of the Heroic Negro Past
Last week I was down to Asilomar to a four-day conference on the Negro Writer in America. I suppose to people to whom the subject and all its problems were new, it was an educative experience. Maybe Ive been around too long. After a couple of days of being told all about how were the good guys and theyre the bad guys, I began to suffer from elastic fatigue, like an overworked bridge. No doubt we are and they are, but Ive known it since infancy.
The meeting was a tense one. Goldwater had been nominated. The Harlem riots were in full swing. Everybody was just a little too emotional. Most of the speakers, whether they wished it or not, became pretty charismatic under the pressures of audience response and performer projection.
They were perfectly justified. The situation is unimaginably worse than most all white men and a very large percentage of Negroes can even comprehend. The options are closing in places like Harlem. Soon there will be no option at all.
At present the newspapers hunt for leaders. The grim fact is there are no leaders. Many of the speakers at Asilomar persisted in talking of the Harlem riots and other recent riots as though they were demonstrations that had gone awry. They were nothing of the sort. They were riots: explosions of anger with no objective but vengeance and escape from hopeless frustration.
As for the nomination, whether we are Republicans or Democrats, but especially if we are Republicans, we had better face the fact that some of the Negroes in this country are saying, I have always considered myself an American Negro, but I am beginning to wonder how totally committed I should be to a nation in which even a sizable minority would nominate such a man on such a program. Dont write in and tell me Im anti-Goldwater. I am simply stating a fact that needs to be taken into consideration. I heard such sentiments from writers, school teachers, social workers, housewives, journalists all sorts of people.
Such patterns of action and reaction make for ominous thunder and blinding flashes of illumination but they do not cast a steady light on problems which are obscure, tortured and yet so impossibly simple of solution. And of course, such emotional pressures kept pushing the conference away from a discussion of the specific problems of the American Negro writer and turning it into a civil rights rally.
I did learn one thing, something I had always suspected. I said to Arna Bontemps, himself a Creole of color and a gentleman of letters of the type who once made French literature so greatly humane, When I was a little boy, there lived next to us, on a farm we had in Michigan, a famous agronomist who taught at the nearby agricultural college. He was a descendant of the educated freemen who had been driven out of the Carolinas in the bitter reaction to the slave revolts before the Civil War. His ancestors and mine had been associated as conductors on the Underground Railway. On the wall of his study were pictures of John Mercer Langston, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and signed photographs of Mary Church Terrell and Ida Wells Barnett. I would sit with his children on the banks of the swimming hole that formed the border of our two meadows, and listen to him tell us stories of the heroic Negro past.
What happened to those children? What happened to all the children of the Negro elite of the years before the First World War? Why should it be necessary for a State Department official this very day to bawl out the leading Negro fraternity because their members and all the Negro middle class are so apathetic in defense of their own people? There are no Negro doctors, lawyers, dentists, insurance brokers at this conference. Did the descendants of the great men and women of the past all migrate to Canada?
Arna Bontemps replied, As a teacher, I have met descendants of John Mercer Langston who did not know who their great ancestor was and who were embarrassed when I told them about him. They, like most other middle-class Americans, have been snowed under by the standards of the television culture.
I suppose so. There must be descendants of Thomas Jefferson or Daniel Shay, Francis Wright, Victoria Claffin or Robert Dale Owen abroad in the land. I have never met them and I doubt if I ever will in the circles I frequent.
[August 16, 1964]
San Francisco Swimming
Dont get the idea that The Examiner has decided in secret conclave around the mahogany table to mount some sort of campaign the discussion of Fleishhacker Pool and related matters results from a moment of happy inspiration. The response, as they say, has been gratifying. I too want to respond. Swimming facilities in San Francisco have bothered me for years.
Long ago, when it was first built, Fleishhacker Pool was unfenced, lighted, open after working hours, and all winter. Quite a few people used to swim in the ocean, at Baker and China Beaches, and where the Marina Green and Yacht Harbor are now, and at what is now Aquatic Park. You could see somebody in the water every day of the year.
Neptune Beach and other spots around the Bay did a thriving business. So did Sutro and Lurline Baths. So did Crystal Plunge with its unheated salt water, where Charles Sava turned out a succession of champions. In addition, the restaurant above Fleishhacker was, as city concessions go, a pretty good place to eat and then there was Taits at the beach.
Nowadays, after dark, the area around Fleishhacker Pool is one of the most disorderly spots in California. Why not develop the pine woods as a sort of outdoor café, light the pool, raise the windbreak a little higher and the water temperature just a few degrees, fence off the entire section instead of the pool, reactivate the restaurant, and invite the hooligans in?
Of course it would present quite a problem in keeping order, but no worse than it does now, and I suspect youd get enthusiastic cooperation in self-policing from the majority of the adolescent customers. As it is, the pool is inadequately used at any time and the whole neighborhood is dangerous after dark. Roofing the thing is prohibitively expensive and I doubt if it would increase its use. Of course it is ridiculous to close it for the winter just as San Franciscos best weather sets in. And, overtime or no, it should be available at least for the daylight hours after work.
We need another Olympic standard pool, a swimmers pool. I cant imagine a better use for the Fine Arts Palace main building. We forget that this place was open once and proved impractical for precisely the uses now proposed for it concerts, art fairs, tennis courts, etc., etc. nothing worked. It surely would make a good big covered pool. But would its curvature disqualify it as Olympic?
The neighborhood pools are fine, but they are too small and they are monopolized by battalions of school kids, and closed up just when adults want to use them. What we need in San Francisco is swimmers. Proportionate to the increase in population over the past generation, we seem to be growing more and more afraid of the water.
[August 19, 1964]
Wonder and Meditation in the Sierras
When you read this I will be far away in a tent in the High Sierras with my daughters, Mary and Katharine. This time we are going up to Tuolumne Meadows and have ourselves spot-packed that is, we will ride in on horseback and have our stuff carried on mules and when were ready to come out theyll come and get us.
This is about the most comfortable way to camp in high, wild country, off the beaten track. It cuts down your mobility, but it is more comfortable than traveling every day, and usually cheaper. The Curry Company packers know all sorts of places where you can be pretty much by your lonesome for your vacation and only a days ride from the road.
People often speak of going into the wilderness to get away from it all. Maybe that is what I did when I was young, because I remember months together spent alone or with my first wife, Andrée, living out of a rucksack and seldom seeing anybody. The Sierras were less used then and it was easier to do.
We spent our time in meditation and wonder — climbing is an exercise of wonder and fishing is an exercise of meditation — gathering our strength from within ourselves. When we would see people in the distance, we would avoid them, and we were always irritable when we had to come down for supplies and mix briefly with other humans.
I guess that is what age does, what they call maturing, because now my motives seem to me quite the opposite. I go to the mountains not to get away from it, but to get with it. As 11 months roll by I feel myself getting more and more mechanical in my attitude towards other men. Imperceptibly men take on the masks and costumes of causes and tendencies, and classes and forces and ideologies and all the false faces of generalization with which we classify human beings.
The most mortal of sins, said Immanuel Kant, is to consider another man as an instrument or a means and not as an end in himself. Yet our whole society strives, inhumanly and insensibly, to make instruments of us all, one to the other. We are all corrupted by a world in which everything and everyone is a means to something else. I resist it always, but it creeps over me like an infection, the virus that turns each other man, himself an "I" like myself, into a thing in my eyes — and so secretly turns me slowly to a thing likewise.
So if I go away for a little and associate with rocks and stars and flowers and fish, the living perspective comes back. Alice over in Africa, the President in the White House, the murderer on Death Row, the Pope in the Vatican, the people that pass in the street — they cease to represent anything but themselves — human like myself. They aren't Marxists or Catholics or Democrats or Americans or Eskimos or Negroes. They're just like me. We're all here together and we don't know what's going to happen next.
Some people find great comfort in repeating that all men are immortal souls, equally precious in the sight of God. That is an estimable sentiment and a great truth. Sometimes I think we use it to dodge the issue — we think of an abstraction called "all men" stretching indefinitely away like a fresco of heaven by Fra Angelico, all equipped with haloes, harps and beatific smiles and all very much alike.
It is August, and as I lie under the sky of late summer and watch the Great Nebula of Andromeda swim past overhead — a cloud of millions of stars all as big as our sun — I think of the world down below the mountains. There are over 2 billion men out there. Each one of them is an animal like me, naked under his clothes. Under his skin his body is full of blood and bones and meat and mysterious capsules and sponges which hold his life. Sometimes these things hurt him and one day they stop working and he dies and decays away. He doesn't represent anything except himself, a self called Barry or Nikolai or Wang or Nkekerere. There will never be another one like him. Each one of him swims by my imagination like the Andromeda Nebula, a 2-billion-fold cloud, and each one of him says to me the word that denies absolutely that he can ever be a thing, the word I call myself — "I."
[August 23, 1964]
Community Planlessness
Looking back over the columns of the last few Wednesdays, I am impressed by how many of them are concerned with problems which arise from community planlessness, inertia, leave well enough alone, and everybody for himself. As the world grows more complicated and more crowded, the old free and easy ways dont work anymore.
Today the conservative is the conservationist. If we are going to preserve the values of the past, or the democratic way of life, or free enterprise, or rugged individualism, or competition, or the capitalist system, we have to plan. We have to plan imaginatively, and expertly, and we have to conserve valuable resources and human relationships.
That is why people have called the new Radical Right not conservative but reactionary. The Good Old Days of everybody for himself are largely legendary, but insofar as they ever existed, we can no longer afford them, and attempts to go back to them only cripple and will eventually destroy the very thing they try to preserve free enterprise in life as well as in economics.
It is precisely Karl Marxs argument that capitalism cannot plan rationally and that its dog-eat-dog chaos will eventually destroy it from within. Marx wrote almost nothing about socialism. What he did say was vague, exhortative, and utopian. His book is called Capital, not Socialism. It describes an economic system of irrational forces which is headed for breakdown because of its failure to take account of human needs. Soon it will be a hundred years old and capitalism has not broken down yet, although reading his book it is difficult to understand how it could have lasted a week.
The answer, of course, is that we do plan, we do take account of human needs, we do try to envisage our own future creatively.
In the give and take of social bargaining that goes on in our economic life and in which the government has come to act as overseer, we do work out plans that enable each contending force to act as freely as may be in the joint enterprise in which we are all partners. We have in fact always done this, even in the 19th century when theorists preached unbridled competition and the principle that the compounding of a multitude of individual evils would result in the common good.
We are drawing to the close of an era of safe and sane government in the Bay Area in which expensive and creative planning was kept at a minimum. For a long time we jes growed. Today in every department of our community affairs we are entering a period of sharpening crisis due to those years of playing it safe. It is our own free enterprise that is being strangled by lack of expertise, lack of vision, lack of accepted authority.
All the struggling and seesawing going on now in a dozen different fields is going to have to reach a tipover point soon, into regions of large daring and creative consensus accompanied with popular knowledge and enthusiasm. If we dont tip over that way, we are going to tip over backwards into deadlock and decay.
[August 26, 1964]
Mysticism, Ethical and Chemical
For me, camping in the high mountains is a time of recollection and ordering of thought and attitudes. It is an examination of conscience for the bygone year, like the examen that a monk makes each night before he goes to sleep. This year I took along on the mules' pack saddles some Chinese poetry, some French poetry, natural history and astronomy field manuals for the children, and some books on religion — a new selection of Baron Friedrich von Hügel, Spiritual Counsel and Letters of F. von Hügel edited by Douglas Steere, and a couple of more recent writers, notably Alan Watts.
Von Hügel has given me counsel and illumination ever since I discovered him when I was about 15. I think he remains the most profound, the most sensitive and incomparably the most balanced and sane religious writer of the 20th century, and one of the greatest minds produced by the Roman Catholic Church in modern times. Not so long ago he was under suspicion as a "modernist."
Today his ideas have gained their way beyond his fondest expectation, and if anything he seems a little conservative and cautious. His reputation has been rehabilitated, but I wonder how many people read him? They should, Catholics especially, because he was wise medicine against the sickness of the age.
So much modern writing on religion preaches a religion without tears, visions without responsibility. Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Gerald Heard, Alan Watts have been engaged for years now in popularizing and making available to the lower-middle-class masses in the rose-covered slums and the Zenicks in the cold-water flats a bargain-rate illumination that can be taken without work. In fact, Huxley before he died, and Watts now, advocate buying it at the drugstore. Lysergic acid is the answer — the Beatific Vision at 50 cents a shot. After you've gone through cannabis sativa, peyote, methys and old-fashioned junk and seen the face of the Pharmaceutical Absolute, there's always Synanon or a Federal Hospital to clean you up and start you over again.
This is the sad end of North Beach Zen Buddhism and the whole postwar craze for ecstasy on the cheap. It is obvious why this came about. Heard, Huxley and Watts are full of snide remarks about superficial dogmas, moralistic codes, Victorian hypocrisy, the whole vocabulary of abuse you can hear at any cocktail party. The word for this is antinomianism. Coupled with this is their own dogma that all religions are one. All are concerned with the revelation of one identical procedure for the attaining of ecstasy, all the hard-won distinctions for which men have fought wars and burned each other merge in one sentimental mush flavored with dimestore incense. The word for this is Gnosticism.
Instead of one of those outworn moralistic codes, the ethical systems of the vulgarizers of religion are simplicity itself — all you have to do is buy a paperback book at the drugstore one week and come back and buy a bottle of LSD the next, and whooey—! You can be Buddha. The word for this is charlatanism.
As a matter of fact, all religions do hold certain principles in common. One of them is that the experience of illumination, the ecstasy of the mystic, comes unexpectedly to most people for a brief moment or two in their lives as a special grace, but that otherwise it occurs only as the final fruit of a life lived far more responsibly than ordered by even the strictest of those moralistic codes. The Catholic contemplative, the Sufi, the Buddhist monk, follow counsels of perfection — illumination comes as the crown of a life of intense ethical activism, of honesty, loyalty, poverty, chastity, and above all charity, positive, out-going love of all creatures. The good life creates the ambience into which spiritual illumination flows like a sourceless, totally diffused light.
One of the most noticeable things about the doctrines of the modern mystagogues is that their goal, the object of their striving, grows ever more unreal, more abstract. Better, said Chesterton, worship a wooden idol than The Absolute. The ground of being is not an abstraction — it is a concretion.
If the word God means anything, it means the most real thing there is, incomparably more real than anything else. The religious man does not seek the experience, just as an experience for himself — a kick, he seeks the reality, and may not notice that he so much as has an experience. It is this distinction that makes all the difference.
[August 30, 1964]
"San Francisco Fifty Years Ago" is an ongoing project of posting all of Kenneth Rexroth's columns for the San Francisco Examiner (1960-1967). Each of the columns is being posted on the 50th anniversary of its original appearance. Copyright 1960-1967 Kenneth Rexroth. Reproduced here by permission of the Kenneth Rexroth Trust.


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Author: Danielle Paige
Publisher: DC Ink
Publication Date: April 12, 2019
Princess Mera is teenage royalty and heir to the throne of Xebel, a penal colony ruled by the other not-so-lost land under the sea, Atlantis. Her father, his court and the entire kingdom are expecting her to marry and introduce a new king. But Mera is destined to wear a different crown....
When the Xebellian military plots to overthrow Atlantis and break free of its oppressive regime, Mera seizes the opportunity to take control over her own destiny by assassinating Arthur Curry—the long-lost prince and heir to the kingdom of Atlantis. But her mission gets sidetracked when Mera and Arthur unexpectedly fall in love. Will Arthur Curry be the king at Mera's side, or will he die under her blade as she attempts to free her people from persecution?
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If the music is already ripped, Windows Explorer can be used to copy the files to another location. Otherwise Windows Media Player can be used to rip the files directly to a backup device such as an external hard drive. The following steps can be used to accomplish this.
How to Copy Music Over
Step 1 - Insert the CD, which contains the music to be ripped, into the CDROM/DVD drive. In some cases a window will pop up with a list of actions that can be taken, including ripping the CD. Close this window, without taking an action, so you can specify exactly where the audio files will be copied once ripped.
Step 2 – Open Media Player and click "Tools" from the menu bar, then click "Options." Click the "Rip Music" tab and then choose the external hard drive as the location to place the files.
Step 3 - While on the Rip tab, specify the format and audio quality in which the music is to be saved. Use the slider bar to choose the desired bit rate, bearing in mind that higher bit rates will slow down the ripping process and cause more storage space to be used. Click "OK" to save the changes.
Step 4 - Uncheck any the tracks that shouldn't copied from the CD and click "Rip Music." If all goes well the ripping process should start and can be monitored from the progress bar.
Step 5 - Remove the CD from the drive after the process is complete and access the external hard drive to verify that the files were copied correctly.
Why Ripping Process May be Slow
Both the speed of the CD drive and external drive interface can affect the ripping rate. Generally speaking, drives with IEEE 1494 (USB 2.0) interfaces will work faster than those running USB 1.1. However, there are changes that can be made to improve the rate at which files are ripped and copied to your external hard drive.
The device settings for your CD drive can affect CD ripping speed. Especially if your notice pops and hiccups in the ripped audio files while ripping from slower drives, you may need to rip in Analog instead of the default Digital mode. To access these settings for your device, do the following:
From the Windows Media Player Tools menu, click Options.
From the Devices tab, click the CD drive you are using and click properties.
Other Options For Copying Music to a Hard Drive
Even though Windows Media Player offers a quick and convenient way of copying music files to a hard drive, there are other media players that can be used to complete the process; MusicMatch, Rhapsody, Winamp and iTunes are just a few.
- "Rip music to an external hard drive." https://www.flickr.com/photos/misbehave/2885262347/
- "Slow music ripping problem." https://www.flickr.com/photos/bombardier/15371755/


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Classes include:
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The featured speaker will be Don Akers, award-winning speaker on technical sales.
More information is available at www.ewqa.org, [email protected] or 888.450.2409.
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And guess how- Firstly I could get an internet connection, which seemed impossible initially and Secondly, Well I learned something new and which you will definitely find useful !!
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How to access internet on laptop using GPRS enabled handset ?
And guess how- Firstly I could get an internet connection, which seemed impossible initially and Secondly, Well I learned something new and which you will definitely find useful !!
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I just got back from a week long trip visiting family. There was absolutely no wi-fi, no chat cafes, no even a local library with a decent connection.
Where was this article before I left. I was stuck in non-blogging HELL. Oh well, at least now I know.
- March 14, 2008 at 1:50 AM
- Unknown said...
Great article. I'll bookmark this one.
- March 22, 2008 at 7:39 AM
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hey ankit,
just one questine ;
how did u research on the net with no internet connection :)
.... nice blogs btw !
- March 22, 2008 at 9:21 AM
I've seen this one many times, but here in the states it is more common to see an extra card inserted fr faster than GPRS packet speed.
- March 29, 2008 at 2:37 PM
I have problems using Reliance data card with my mac. tries so many blogs to find out solution through blogadda, but did not find any. do you know if the rel. card works well with macbook pro. which card do you think works well all over India?
- April 4, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Hey.. i have the same laptop.
I guess it's HP dv6000. i have dv6500
btw, it is an nice article.
- ankit jain
- August 25, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Went to watch AVATAR today.. Basically i had gone to appear for NSE's Derivative module test. After the test, i went to watch the movie....
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On Tuesday, October 29, students gathered in the Dean's Heritage Room where Dr. LaShonda Gurley spoke to the multicultural planning committee (MPC). This meeting would be her last before her official departure for another institution on November 4. However, she did not know that coworker, Dianne Ricks planned a surprise farewell party following.
Both MPC members and dimension award scholars gathered to partake in snacks, write a quick message, and wish her the best of luck. Gurley spoke at length about reaching back to help the ones that we leave behind and teaching the younger students to continue. Near the end of the party, she said, "Colleges all over are getting rid of their multicultural centers. Fight to keep it."
The multicultural center is the hub of multicultural development on campus. Each year, the center provides Dimension Award scholarships to incoming students from a minority racial or ethnic background as well as creating events to foster connections to the campus. In addition, the center offers snacks and a quiet place to study for those students during finals week. Once a month, the Office of Multicultural Development presents a Cultural Conversation Hour where students and faculty discuss "ideas of multiculturalism and diversity in greater society." November's topic, Native American Heritage Month, will be held on Tuesday, November 19 at 11am in the English Chapel.
Dr. Gurley has been a part of this campus for the last seven years and her loss will surely be felt across campus. As the Director of Multicultural Development and a Deputy Title IX Coordinator, she touched many students' lives. She ran the Cultural Conversation Hours and advised the dimension award scholars diversity-based groups on campus.
In the interim, Dr. Adrianne Thompson-Bradshaw is stepping in to help the multicultural planning community continue their work in her stead. The multicultural center will also remain open to all who need their services.


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Two young men are to stand trial for the death of Leanne Davies last May, close to the Lion War Memorial. Leanne was a front seat passenger in the Corsa driven by 20 year-old Paul Reddan of Broadwell, when it hit the wall close to the war memorial and burst into flames, (as reported here on this website at the time). It is alleged Reddan, who was seriously injured in the accident and airlifted to Frenchay Hospital, was said to be racing along the A4136 Longhope bypass at high speed with another car, a Renault Clio driven by 18 year-old Matthew Creed, of Brierley. The two men appeared at Gloucester Crown Court accused of causing Leanne's death by dangerous driving, and Creed also faces a charge of perjury. They are both pleading not guilty according to their lawyers, and have been bailed for the trial in October.
The judge, Jamie Tabor QC, was not very impressed that the case had taken so long to come to court. He was told that a series of errors meant that paperwork sent to the Criminal Justice Department had "got lost" twice, and that a lawyer had been heavily involved with the case of the M5 multiple crash in thick fog, near Taunton, and had not had time. Judge Tabor told the men that they were "very serious charges indeed. Very serious."


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A Peek at Sista's Holiday TablePreppy Empty Nester December 26, 2016
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I am glad you popped back in as your sister's table is so pretty. Love the silver and black and white checks. I am so sure it is hard to let those girls go back to what they want to call "home." We raise them to be independent, but couldn't they have a house next door?ReplyDelete
So lovely.....wishing you a wonderful rest of the holiday season and hope your Christmas was very merry:)ReplyDelete
Oh, I'm so happy you came out of hiding and posted this. Of course I love it! May have to order a set of those napkins. Have the ribbon. '-) I know it must feel empty at your house. Hope you and the mister do something fun! Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
Beautiful, thanks for sharing, and tell sista it certainly inspires those of us who love tablecaping!ReplyDelete
What's not beautiful is all the crap, er....I mean Christmas decor, lying around my house, waiting to be put away. The only thing worse is all the holiday stuff I have to put away at the antique mall - today. Ugh. I'd rather sit in my pjs all day and buy more stuff online with all the sales going on, hehe.
I simply adore this Katie! I am inspired for next year from your sister's beautiful holiday table! Happy New Year love!ReplyDelete
Sistah clearly rocks! What a glorious table! Merry, Happy, Katie!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous table!! You and your sister are such fabulous decorators! Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
Your "sistah" is amazingly talented. That said, what I've seen of your home, the two of you could start a design firm!ReplyDelete
Enjoy the week before we start a new year.
Such a beautiful table and I love seeing the fire - warm and cozy. Wishing you all the best in 2017!!ReplyDelete
You and your sister have such wonderful abilities to create beautiful settings! Her table is to die for! -JennReplyDelete
Old school cozy beautiful! My next house will have a fireplace in the dining room, just like Sista's.ReplyDelete
It is really the pits when the kids leave. Our one and only and the boyfriend took off this afternoon. The dog and I are depressed. Will have to start cocktail hour early...
Beautiful! You and Sista have such good taste. :)ReplyDelete
The kids are never home long enough for Christmas anymore - that's why I cram as much fun and as many activities as possible into our few days together,ReplyDelete
You and Sista have a flair for decorating!
Happy New Year!
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2016 at 12:22 PM
Wishing you and yours a blessed, healthy and happy 2017.ReplyDelete
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Thank you, Marilyn. Same to yours!Delete
Just gorgeous, makes me envious! Happy new year Katie!ReplyDelete
Yes, she definitely has a gorgeous table. And don't we get everything from Amazon?? That's why we know our UPS man so well. He's always delivering something. Happy New Year to you and yours, including those darling fur kids! xoxoReplyDelete
Gorgeous! I hope that you have a very Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
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I agree with you that the tone of Chopin's "The Storm" is sympathetic.
One place to find evidence to support your conclusion about tone is in the description. A speaker's description of characters will usually reveal his/her attitude toward those characters.
In paragraph twelve, the speaker describes Calixta as follows:
She was a little fuller of figure than five years before when she married; but she had lost nothing of her vivacity. Her blue eyes still retained their melting quality; and her yellow hair, dishevelled by the wind and rain, kinked more stubbornly than ever about her ears and temples.
The speaker describes her character as vivacious, and the character's eyes melt. The speaker uses specific detail--"about her ears and temples"--to give her character verisimilitude, or realism, and to create imagery; to make the face concrete. The speaker encourages the reader to imagine Calixta in her vivaciousness.
In paragraph twenty, when Calixta staggers backward, she is "encircled" by Alcee's arm--a protective, tender motion. When she cannot compose herself,
Alcee clasped her shoulders and looked into her face. The contact of her warm, palpitating body when he had unthinkingly drawn her into his arms, had aroused all the one-time infatuation and desire for her flesh.
The moment is described positively. Again, specific detail creates imagery--Alcee "looked into her face"; her body is "warm" and "palpitating"; his infatuation and desire are "aroused." The imagery makes the movement concrete, as well as adding verisimilitude. And the images are positive and tender.
This is the moment that leads directly into what society calls adultery, but the speaker considers fulfillment and necessary passion.
The speaker's description reveals the tone to be sympathetic.


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- The functions \(f\) and \(g\) are defined by
f&: x\mapsto e^x, &&x\in\mathbb{R}, \\
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Sketch in a single diagram the graphs of \(f\) and the composite functions \(gf\) and \(fg\), labelling each graph clearly.
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between the graphs of \(f\) and \(fg\).
Express \((1-x)(x-3)\) in the form \(a-(x-b)^2\), where \(a\) and \(b\) are constants. State the coordinates of the maximum point on the graph of \(y=(1-x)(x-3)\), and state what symmetry the graph possesses.
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Geek Christmas, otherwise known as San Diego Comic Con, has come and gone, and thankfully left plenty of spoilers beneath our glowing light sabers, bat signals and comic books.
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Each month we will put up the latest fishing report for Boondooma and BP dams right here. Find out whats happening in the South Burnett!
November fishing report 2018
Summer heat brings our freshwater fish on the bite!
The hot weather and afternoon storm buildups bring on some awesome oportunities for big bass and yellowbelly. With the onset of summer, this weather pattern is quite common and it really brings the native fish on the bite. If you're an avid troller, from now through to February is the best time to dust off those deep divers and head to the South Burnetts dams to get amongst some great native trolling action.
When the warmer months arrive and its hot, the yellowbelly and bass like to position themselves in a zone called the Thermocline, or comfortable water, which is generally a depth of 18 to 25 feet. This zone or column of water is the water that the fish find the most comfortable, where the temperature is just right to sit in while its hot upstairs and is full of the little critters that they love to gorge themselves on. With the majority of the fish sitting in this zone thoughout the dam, it opens up the doors for some fanstatic fishing opportunities.
If I want to target bass, the first places I'll look are the deep water off any prominent points. I'll use my sounder to sound the fish sitting in that optimal depth. When I'm happy that I've found a good concentration of fish, I will pull up and begin casting 3" to 4" soft plastics rigged with a ½ ounce or 5/8 ounce head. With a big long cast over the areas that I found the fish, I will let the jig head sink 7 to 10 seconds and begin a slow retrieve back to the boat with a couple of twitches mixed in. The same can be done with a 12 or 18 gram Norries spoon. Continue this technique untill you start to feel a few taps on the plastic or spoon, when you feel a tap its important to keep that slow wind going unitll you feel weight on the line, slowly lift the rod tip until you feel the weight of the fish. At this point the fish will know its hooked and make some great runs back down into the deeper water. Keep your drag fairly loose so that the hook doesn't pull on the way back to the boat. Using this method over the holiday period will account for some big bass on Boondooma.
Lake Boondooma is a great place for the younger generation to learn more about freshwater fishing.
Sometimes this fishing is that hot they come aboard 2 at a time. Reardo catching his bag in 1 cast.
The timbered arms are holding good numbers of bass and yellow belly as well. In the arms they are holding very close to structure and you'll need to get your lures in as close as you can to get a bite. Look for spindly timber, or big trees out in the middle of the arms. Lures of choice for this scenario are, 5/8 or 3/8 Bassman Spinner baits, ½ ounce jig head rigged with a 3" soft plastic and any sinking lipless Crank bait. Give your lure up to 5 seconds to sink down and start a slow wind. It's important to make sure that you have a lure retriever with you as you WILL get snagged on the trees occasionally but if you're getting snagged you know you're in the thick of it.
Fishing close to structure, I use 14 to 20 pound leaders so I have a chance if a fish rubs the line through trees. Otherwise, if I'm in open water I'll decrease my leader size to 6 to 10 pound as I'm less concerned about a fish dragging me through trees or any structure.
Chantel with a cracking bass from some suspended fish at Lake Boondooma.
Trollers are picking up some great bass and yellow belly trolling around the deeper sections of the dam, targeting those suspended fish. Make sure to have plenty of deep divers handy, and some 5/8 Bassman Spinnerbaits or any lures that dive 15 to 20 feet will be the ones that get you onto consistent fish.
Bait fisherman are consistently getting amongst a mixed bag of fish up in the timbered arms of the dam using worms and fresh shrimp. It may even pay to move to the main basin and let your bait suspend under the boat in that 15 to 25 foot range. Drifting with the wind is a great way to cover water with your bait under the boat. Eventually it will cross paths with a hungry fish or two.
Red claw numbers are also starting to pick up with the hot weather, so make sure your pack the opera houses if you're coming out for a day or two.
Lake Barambah
With a similar pattern to that of Boondooma, Lake Barambah is producing some great fishing as well. The fish are sitting in that 15 to 20 foot range and are very willing to take anything that is placed in front of them. Because Barambah is a shallower dam you can target more areas and use a bigger variety of lures to catch a few natives. The Bass are responding well to 3" soft plastics, ¼ blades and 3/8 and 5/8 spinnerbaits. Some likely areas to target is the large flat area in front of the main dam wall, the Quarry and wide off Bass point.
On a recent fishing charter, we targeted the lakes bass with a ½ jig head rigged with a 3' soft plastic and caught dozens of bass and yellow belly. We targeted areas that were 15 to 20 feet and had rocky edges or a drop offs adjacent to them. I found that the bigger fish were tight to the drop-offs, and waiting for bait to swim over. Areas like this are prime ambush positions for native fish so don't forget to give areas like this a go next time you're out.
Lane Ferling with a 48cm bass caught slow rolling a ½ rigged soft plastic.
Trollers are catching some nice bass and yellow belly trolling over the quarry towards the dam wall as well as adjacent to the steep rock wall on the left of the dam just before bass point.
Bait fisherman are consistently catching good numbers of yellow belly and bass anchoring along the steeper edges of the dam. Best baits have been fresh shrimp and worms.
Red claw are patchy but I have heard of some good numbers coming from the dam.
Stocking News
The fish stocking for both dams is still very much alive and well with another massive stock of bass put into Bjelke-Petersen dam this weekend. 46 000 Australian bass were released into BP dam. Boondooma Stocking Association also released 80 000 bass into Boondooma a couple weeks ago, so it's a great boost for fishing in the South Burnett. It's great to see our stocking associations working hard to make this happen because without them we don't get to catch the fish that we really love chasing.
Members of the BP stocking group and a group of eager young helpers release Australian Bass into BP.
Fishing Charters
The fishing of late at BP and Boondooma have been fantastic with most sessions producing numbers of fish and some great quality. BP dam is fishing well for anyone wanting to learn how to fish suspended fish with soft plastics. Boondooma has been producing a great mixed bag of species, so if you'd like to learn more about targeting a particular species, all you have to do is ask and make a booking.
Don't forget that you can book a fishing charter with me on BP and Boondooma dams and many other dams in QLD. If you'd like a great day out and all the info and knowledge to catch Bass, Yellow belly or Saratoga in our great dams make sure you give me a call on 0408658592 and I'll be happy to take you out for a great days fishing. You can also check out our website on http://www.australianfreshwaterfishing.com
Until next time, tight line and bent rods.
Matthew Langford


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A landlord in Cambridge has been ordered to pay £15,000 in fines after one of his properties was found to be breaching multiple safety rules.
The property in question, belonging to Mr Selvakumar Francis, was raided by the local council, who found unsafe living conditions, overcrowding and several breaches of the law.
Inspectors found that the fire detection system did not work, and no suitable fire detection equipment in the kitchen or lounge.
A fire door was also not present, which meant tenants would not have been aware of any fire and would have been trapped in their rooms if a fire broke out.
And the main escape route of the building was obstructed by bikes, a mattress and several packs of laminate flooring.
Executive Councillor for housing, Cllr Kevin Price said: "This prosecution, and the fine and costs of over £15,000, shows Cambridge City Council's determination to deal with 'rogue landlords' and that if you rent out a property, it must meet safety and amenity standards.
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MIRPUR - Azad Jammu & Kashmir Government on Friday announced Rs 62 billion revenue-oriented tax-free budget for the new fiscal year 2014-15 AJK budget with recurring expenditures totaled to be around Rs 51.5 billion with total revenue deficit (to be met by Federal government) of Rs 7.5 billion.
AJ&K Finance Minister Chaudry Latif Akbar announced the budget of in the budget session of AJ&K Legislative Assembly which met in Muzaffarabad with Speaker Sardar Ghulam Sadiq Khan in the chair.
"An amount of Rs10.5 billion has been allocated for development sector with Rs 51.50 recurrent budget for the coming fiscal," he clued-up the House. The AJ&K lawmakers were informed that the government has geared up the budget within available resources. In his key note address to the AJ&K Legislators, he revealed that health and education were the major sectors which have been focused in the budget for the coming year.
Focusing the unemployed youth of the state, AJ&K government has allocated an amount Rs480 million for green cab scheme and distribution of laptops among the students. The state's minister for finance expressed words of gratitude for Pakistani Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif for inclusion of AJ&K's mega projects in federal budget for the first time in history which includes Tao Butt Mangla Kashmir Highway, Lower Toppa, Kohala Murree express way, Leepa Tunnel and broadcasting schemes for Neelum, a far flung districts well known in the world for its scenic beauty.
Stating the significant features of the budget 2014-15 the Finance Minister affirmed that from total revenue collection, an amount of Rs15,002 million will be generated from state resources whereas Rs 778 million as water uses charges of Mangla, Rs 12,500 million as 80pc of income tax from AJ&K Council and a share of Rs 15,750 million will be collected from federal tax share.
He disclosed to the House that recurring budget for the fiscal year 2014-15 has been estimated as Rs 51,500 million and the sectors from which government is likely to generate income is estimated are as follows: Rs5,060 million from Provincial Excise, Rs67.1 million from Land Record and Settlement, Rs 126.5 million from Stamps, Forest Rs253 million, Registration Rs44 million. Jails Rs0.345 million, Administration of Justice Rs57 million, Rs 0.110 from jails, home department Rs33 million, education Rs121 million, health Rs61.6 million, agriculture Rs3.3 million, animal husbandry Rs14.3 million, Industries, Labor & Minerals Rs27.5 million, Sericulture Rs3.5 million, miscellaneous Rs280.24 million, Communication and Works 143.00 million, Electricity Rs12,550 million, Printing Press Rs12 million, Armed Services board Rs17 million, Religious Affairs Rs27.5 million, Food Rs1,200 million, Tourism, Wild Life & Fisheries are estimated to contribute Rs 36 million. The Minister for Finance told the House those Rs5,115.95 million are to be adjusted as overdraft payable to State Bank of Pakistan. Total revenue generation has been estimated as Rs51,500 million with Rs 7,450 million deficit which will be met by the federal government.
So far as the sectoral allocation is concerned, Akbar enlightened the house that Rs1,950.87 million have been allocated for General Administration, Rs616.256 million for Board of Revenue, Rs14.151 million for Stamps, Rs19.997 million for Land Record & Settlement, Rs714.198 million for Rehabilitation and Relief, Rs4,700.0 million for Pensions, Rs88.979 for Public Relations department, Rs920.945 million for administration of justice, Rs3,827.0 million for Police, Rs116.070 million for Jails, Rs82.860 million for Civil Defense, Rs49.280 million for Armed Services Board, Rs2,259.398 million for Communication and Works, Rs17,072.504 for Education, Rs4,257.135 for Public Health, Rs88.544 million for Sports, Youth & Culture, Rs119.746 million for Religious Affairs, Rs201.393 for Social Welfare & Women Development, Rs508.040 for Agriculture, Rs517.524 million for Animal Husbandry, Rs161.2410 million for Food, Rs3,000.0 for state trading, Rs677.800 million for Forest, Rs49.077 million for Co-operative, Rs5,656.946 million for Electricity, Rs368.663 for Local Government & Rural Development, Rs100.744 million for Industries & Minerals, Rs42.862 million for Printing Press, Rs65.808 million for Sericulture, Rs111.215 million Tourism, Wild Life & Fisheries and Rs3,140.750 million rupee as miscellaneous which makes the total as Rs51,500.00 million allocation for non-developmental sector for the fiscal year 2014-15.
Making known the development budget for the financial year 2014-15 Minister for Finance stated that Rs10,500 million has been estimated to be spent in development sector for coming fiscal. It includes Rs237.00 million for Agriculture & Live stock, Rs50.0 million for Civil Defense, Rs150.0 million for Development Authorities, Rs825.475 million for Education, Rs28 million for Environment, Rs107.00 million for foreign aided projects, Rs365.0 million for Forest, Fisheries & Wild Life, Rs320.831 million for health, Rs195.00 million for Industries and Minerals, Rs 48.0 million for transport Rs10.00 million for Information & Media Development, Rs125.0 million for Information Technology, Rs850.00 for Local Government, Rs1245.0 for Power, Rs705.0 million for Physical Planning and Housing, Rs110 for rehabilitation and resettlement, Rs130 million for Research & development, Rs41 million for Social Welfare, Rs155 million for Sports, Rs4,687.694 million for Transport & Communications and for Tourism Rs115.00 million (total amount of Rs10,500.000 million) for the fiscal year 2014-15. The budget has been offered to the house for debate. The finance minister said the suggestions and proposals of the members of the house will be given due consideration to making it acceptable for all.