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On "The Man-Moth"
Elizabeth Bishop (1962)
Ive forgotten what it was that was supposed to be "mammoth." But the misprint seemed meant for me. An oracle spoke from the page of the New York Times, kindly explaining New York City to me, at least for a moment.
One is offered such oracular statements all the time, but often misses them, gets lazy about writing them out in detail, or the meaning refuses to stay put. This poem seems to have stayed put fairly well but as [Thomas] "Fats" Waller used to say, "One never knows, do one?"
from Elizabeth Bishop, "On The Man-Moth," in Poets Choice, ed. Paul Engle and Joseph Langland (New York: Dial, 1962), 101.
Robert Dale Parker (1988)
Moths never aspire, and no reader could previously have associated aspiration with Man-Moths, having never heard of the things before. Only people (Men, in the language of the poem) aspire, so that the poem becomes an allegorical commentary on human ambition and the restraint of ambition by fear, especially fear of failure. The Man dares not ascend, because he knows he will fall; whereas the Man-Moth believes he will fall if he dares ascend, but dares not refuse to try.
Wish is the world or manner of imagination in which those who do not believe and who do aspire will find the most the pleases them. The world of have they find confining. They aspire to more than they can have, and they cannot believe they will ever reach what they aspire to, so that only wish is left to fill the space between satisfaction in the here and natural, and faith in the hereafter and supernatural. Bishop thus choose wishes instead of unbelief.
the Man-Moth bravely seeks something sublimely exterior to himself and at the same time fears the ordinary all around him that he seems to fantasize into something sublimely oppressive. He tries, in the first half, to escape into aloneness, but in the second half, the populated world around him reasserts its routine.
The routine comes back so strongly that all of a sudden Bishop addresses her readers directly as if we not only could but probably will enter the Man-Moths company, which so bursts the familiar barrier between our quotidian, readerly expectations and his eerie fantasies that, at the last, the poem changes again, once more and finally deserting the world of routine for the unpredictable underworld of shadowy fable:
[Parker quotes the final 8 lines of "The Man-Moth."]
Until this ending, although Bishop has encouraged us to identify with the Man-Moths heroic daring and oppressed loneliness, she has led us to identify in emotion, never in action. Then, abruptly, she addresses us as if we share the mythical world that until then she has described as apart from us and as fantastically imaginary. Where before she called forth our identification through allegorical parable and not through any sense that she referred to our world directly, now she assumes casually that we njot only share the Man-Moths world but even that we rule it and might well capture him and violate the pristine independence she earlier presented so sympathetically. Like watchmen, we patrol the illusory world and hold it up to the cold, flashlight scrutiny of synthetic vision. The once-pitiful little man-moth emerges as large, with its eye big enough to shine a light in, and in comically human words able to "palm" or "hand over" a tear. The poems otherworldly scale merges with our familiar scene as now we face a zoological peer, more like a criminal on the streets than an alien sprite. From the sympathetic, opening "Here" that mixes so oddly with the extraterrestrial "above" that Bishop joins to it, we change to the guarded but earthly distance of watching and disarming. By breaking our identification and her own with the Man-Moth, the final stanzas swerve gives a sense of conclusiveness. Perhaps Bishop then feels a guilt or regret for deserting what she had romanticized, which leads her to sentimentalize the final lines, as if to compensate. That hardly helps, for in the process she condescends to the once-wild and boldly wishful creature, reimagining him as timid and obedient.
At the end of the this poem, therefore, imagination is a beaten or when it survives a guilty thing. The Man Moths is forced underground or even killed, though killed only incidentally, while Man raids his treasure, like raiding a conquered cultures art, to supply the trumped-up museum imagination of a culture physically more powerful. The residue of human imagination is thus desperate and wishful, hanging on by its spoils, agonizingly secondary.
From Robert Dale Parker, "Wish: North & South," Chapter 2 in The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988), 40-41, 47-49.
David Kalstone (1989)
A figure effectively dead turns up in the notebooks, in New York material that Bishop would adapt for "The Man-Moth." She had observed a woman in the subway about whom everything had died her face dead white, her clothes, her handbag except her eyelashes. Bishop remembers that in a dream her friend Margaret Miller "had looked into the inside of a small mask someone had pulled from his face, and caught in it all around the eyeholes were the little hairy eyelashes. The womans face made me think of that its expression was a concave one, like an empty interior expression, and its only markings were the little eyelashes." The womans eyes were shut, and the lashes seemed like those on a sleeping doll. "It is rather strange the way the eye is surrounded with inhuman stuff hair grows, Ive heard, even on the dead." The incident contributes obliquely to "the Man-Moth," a kind of morbid counterpart to the man-moth himself, who has, on rare occasions, the capacity to escape and make his romantic ascents to the surface of the city, each one a doomed foray. We know that a newspaper misprint, reading "manmoth" for "mammoth," prompted the poem: the idea of a doomed spirit trapped in a subway riders form, sitting always backward, racing under the city streets (in the world of the third rail "running along silently, as insincere as poison," she wrote in her notebook). In the conditional clauses of the poems last stanza she transforms her own notebook observations of the deadened woman on the subway into a glimpse of residual purity and spirit:
[Kalstone quotes the last stanza.]
The observers curiosity and effort is rewarded by extracted signs of life, but as in her windowpane illumination, as in "the Weed," there is a link between vision and tears.
from David Kalstone, "From the Country to the City," Chapter 1 in Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989 19-20
C.K. Doreski
Early ("Man-Moth") and late ("Pink Dog") examples of her personae of exile illustrate her fascination with extreme isolation, with freaks and outcasts. Though their admittedly distorted perspectives are convincing, they engender no sense of kinship, nor are they intended to. Their purpose is to engender languages of extremity, and to plot with their grotesque narratives the border beyond which the psyche and language no longer appear to coincide.
Robert Lowell has most clearly described the kind of difference found in Bishop's exile poems. When discussing the uniqueness of "The Man-Moth" [NS] he said:
In Elizabeth Bishop's "Man-Moth" a whole new world is gotten out and you don't know what will come after any one line. It's exploring. And it's as original as Kafka. She's gotten a world, not just a way of writing. She seldom writes a poem that doesn't have the exploring quality.
The otherworldliness of "The Man-Moth" beckons; like the shadows of German Expressionist films, it looms uncomfortably near enough to darken the familiar world. The man-moth is an oddly plausible figure, drawn to the surface from tunnels and nightmares of the ordinary imagination. The "whole new world" he occupies depends upon negatives or opposites: shadow and light, verticals and horizontals, forward and backward, sun and moon. The shadowy mirror-images (unlike the playful distortions of "The Gentleman of Shalott") challenge his grip on the surface of the earth just as they challenge the ordinary viewer to define a comfortable self-image, a grip on sanity.
Yet even this world of negatives and opposites has limits and rules. The Man-Moth's discomfort during this "visit to the surface" is palpable. The nature of his other life, underground, remains undetermined; but unlike Crusoe this alien shares, somewhat unwillingly, what humanity he contains:
If you catch him,
hold up a flashlight to his eye. It's all dark pupil,
an entire night itself, whose haired horizon tightens
as he stares back, and closes up the eye. Then from the lids
one tear, his only possession, like the bees sting, slips.
Slyly he palms it, and if you're not paying attention
he'll swallow it. However, if you watch, he'll hand it over,
cool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink.
The Man-Moth's humanity reveals itself only in the terms of its subterranean world, the "entire night" of its eye, its single tear.
Bishop conjures similarly self-inhibited spirits throughout her writing. For example, in "Gwendolyn" part of the child's self- definition required definition of her opposites, in somewhat the way the adult process of self-discovery might entail an encounter with an opposite in the form of a Man-Moth-like creature. Bishop's larger concern is to generate a language of sufficient latitude to permit observation of these intersections of like and unlike. The actions of Crusoe occur within a carefully depicted emotional frame, but the Man-Moth embodies the unknown or the unconscious, "an entire night in itself." In the end, his surfacing is an incomplete gesture, an attempt to reach out to others that is partially negated by his unwillingness to make a gift of his emotional self. The truncated first lines of these stanzas indicate how very tentative this gesture really is. Though the images are tethered to the knowable world, the poem heightens the contrast between shadow and light, the strangeness of ordinary landscapes, and the potential oddities of perspective. Bishop has dramatized the way the ordinary daylight world forcibly persuades the outsider to conform:
he climbs fearfully, thinking that this time he will manage
to push his small head through that round clean opening
and be forced through, as from a tube, in black scrolls on the
The rather grim simile''as from a tube"underscores the solitary nature of his journey; society has no place for him, no means of accommodating such a creature. The compactness of his world, the tension of his stance, in these lines is oppressive. The density of the stanzas, the longish lines dominated by monosyllables, suggest what the Man-Moth must penetrate. These contrasting worlds of shadow and light, underground and surface seem mutually exclusive, beyond interpretation or knowledge. The ordinary world has broken down into cubist planes of darkness and reflected light, while the poet-observer stands to one side, manipulating those reflections in the terms of self-definition.
from Elizabeth Bishop: The Restraints of Language. Copyright © 1993 by Oxford UP
Marilyn May Lombardi (1995)
Bishops fascination with the "third rail" stems from a set of private associations the poet refuses to develop within the poem. These associations are preserved, instead, in her working notebooks, where a direct relationship is forged between the fatal third rail and the dangers of alcoholism. In the journal she kept following her graduation from Vassar, Bishop plays with certain ideas that would eventually find their way into "the Man-Moth," including the observation that "the third rail is almost worth some sort of prose poem. Running along silently, as insincere as poison" ("Recorded Observations," 1934-1976, p. 6). As we have already seen, she would come to think of alochol as a poison with "flattering" effects, thus establishing a connection between ingratiating liquor and the "insincere" third rail that runs beside the subway track like an "unbroken draught of poison." Alternating between a tone of elevation and deflation (to match the ascending and descending fortunes of her protagonist), Bishop creates in her hyphenated creature a veiled portrait of the artist as addict.
Underscoring this theme of consumption and addiction is the man-moths resemblance to the Baudelarian vampire, imbiber of forbidden fluids. Like the vampire the man-moth seeks to penetrate the physical boundaries of this universe and be born into a new existence, one that escapes the laws of mortality and gravity that weigh down the natural man. Thinking of the moon "as a small hole at the top of the sky," his aim is to "push his small head through that round clean opening." But instead of escaping those laws he is trapped in an existence ruled by bodily drives and marked by reiteration (he "must be carried through artificial tunnels and dream recurrent dreams").
Along with the inference of sexual deviance or unnaturalness that vampirism inevitably suggests, Bishops allusions to the undead reinforce the impression that she is grappling in this poem with the compulsive artist, a slave to the bodys mechanisms and to the machinery of art.
from Marilyn May Lombardi, "Abnormal Thirst: Addiction and the Poéte Maudit," Chapter 5 in The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishops Poetics (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992)
Anne Colwell (1997)
[Colwell quotes the last stanza in "the Man-Moth."]
The image of the flashlight relates to the central image pattern of the moon, the third rail and the eye; like these, iy represents and conducts energy. Holding up the flashlight to the Man-Moths eye, a kind of anti-moon, reveals both complete isolation, "all dark pupil, / an entire night itself," and the presence of a permeable membrane, a portal or hole that proves protection useless and connection possible.
The connection between Man and Man-Moth in the final stanza differs from the Man-Moths earlier attempts at connection because it involves a kind of strict attention that does not investigate outward but drinks in. By comparing the tear that may be drunk to the bees sting, Bishop makes explicit the implicit threat of each opportunity for connection and transcendence. The tear resembles a bees sting, which poisons the receiver and kills the giver; the vulnerability in any moment of connection sexual, natal, or even intellectual is equally dangerous. The Man-Moths desire to palm his tear manifests this desire for displacement, the desire to hide and protect the internal self, like a coin hed rather not pay. It also connects the Man-Moth with strange legendary creatures like genies and leprechauns, who must surrender their treasure when caught or summoned. In each case, attention can reveal the openings in the external facade and make connection with the internal or other world possible. The suggestion that the tear be drunk, that the other be internalized, relates to the image of the moon as birth canal; the mortal risk and the possibility for true connection through internalization seems to me a profoundly feminine image.
The Man-Moths tear belongs to a pattern of images in Bishops poems that concerns abolishing the self in order to preserve it, or in [Karl] Malkoffs terms, escaping the self in order to realize it. earned by painful attention, the moment of connection concerns giving over control and enlarging perspective, rather than making reality small, manageable and egocentric. The tear is, as Lloyd Schwartz says, "a clarifying vision for whoever asks for it." To the criticism of readers who, like [Jerome] Mazzaro, complain about Bishops restraint, who lament "if only she had given up her one tear," the poem answers, "Youre not paying attention." The price of attention is pain and vulnerability to pain, and the gift of attention is sensuous perception. "Cool as from underground springs" recalls both the subway home and the "entire night" of the Man-Moths self. "Pure enough to drink" suggests that the tear is not otherworldly, perfectly pure, but human, sufficient. In the act of imbibing the tear, man risks, the danger of self-annihilation, transcendence and understanding.
From Anne Colwell,"North & South: Finding a Language for How We Know," Chapter 1 in Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997), 62-63
Helen M. Dennis
One of the problems of romanticism is the divide between the phenomenal and the noumenal which I have just referred to, and one of the tasks of the romantic poet is thus to find ways of linking the two. I am not suggesting that this presents such a crisis for the modernist poet, yet traces remain and are clearly visible in Bishop's work of the question of what is heautonomy (autonomy) and how it can be achieved? Even if Bishop's footnote to the "The Man-Moth" implies it is a whimsical, playful poem, based on a "Newspaper misprint for 'mammoth'," it is a poem which plays on the sense of the self and its double. The man-moth foregrounds the "imaginary" identity and plays down the actual, and yet there are moments of linkage:
Each night he must
be carried through artificial tunnels and dream recurrent dreams
Just as the ties recur beneath his train, these underlie his
rushing brain. (15)
Here the simile is used in reverse. The fantasy world of the "imaginary" is proffered as the norm, and details from what we normally accept as the "real" world, the world of commuter travel becomes the descriptive figure of speech. The figurative and the real, or the vehicle and tenor have been inverted. The sublime is the locus where phenomenon and noumen should meet, it is an indeterminate space which should act as a bridge between the two; or as a place where the impossible leap can be made to connect the two. "The Man-Moth" articulates the difficulty of this, and does so through allusion to a version of the sublime which emphasizes the trope of th vertical:
He thinks the moon is a small hole at the top of the sky,
proving the sky quite useless for protection.
He trembles, but must investigate as high as he can climb. (14)
There is a desire for security but a compulsive attraction which draws him to the awful elevation. So that this is a type of attempt at aesthetic transcendence, in a modernist parody of what Brooks calls the verticality of sublime landscapes. Yet even in the romantic project the ascent is doomed to a fall. The vertical landscapes of the romantic sublime with their dizzying heights and peaks lost in the clouds emphasize the impossible but ineluctable ascent and the subsequent fall back into the merely human. The pattern of aspiration and falling back is replayed here by Bishop, "But what the Man-Moth fears most he must do, although / he fails, of course, and falls back scared, but quite unhurt" (14). "The Man-Moth" represents the absurd quest for the harmony and totality and the concomitant fall back down in a cartoon version of the modern city-scape. It ends with a tear which becomes a "pearl" of wisdom or exchange with the reader; a tear which reminds us that terror and se1f-pity are also linked in the romantic landscape of the self.
from "Bishop and the Negative Sublime." In Kelly Lionel (ed.) Poetry and the Sense of Panic: Critical Essays on Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.
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Publishers Weekly Ruled by the Hitler-like Master Drachton Below according to the principles of Physiognomy (the "science" of judging the proportions of the flesh), the anti-utopian Well-Built City of Ford's goofily allegorical debut is already ripe for revolution when Below sends physiognomist Cley to the mining town Gronus to track down a fabled white fruit stolen from the state Church. A cruel, merciless bureaucrat who recommends anyone with less than perfect features for execution or the sulfur mines, Cley starts to soften toward his subversive assistant, Arla, and eventually vows to overthrow the City. Ford's inventions founder somewhere in the never-never land between Asimov and Kafka, as he substitutes the cute for the prophetic, obvious moralizing for original inventions ("Shudder," for instance, is coffee; "absence" is alcohol; "sheer beauty" a heroin-like opiate). The things Ford does invent are too whimsical to be threatening, such as the blue miners who are used as fuel or monuments when they die, and the thematic conflicts?good vs. Evil, death vs. Immortality, man vs. Nature, man vs. himself?lack subtlety, to say the least, while Ford's social crusades (against sexism and state violence) are too cartoonish to evoke any real-life struggles. Despite Ford's evident, childlike delight in his alter-world, the accoutrements of the story aren't enough to sustain its larger concerns. (Sept.)
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Book list Cley, Physiognomer First Class, arrives in a frontier mining town in the realm despotically ruled by his and everybody else's Master to rediscover the white fruit kept by the town church. The fruit came from a place commonly called paradise, and the Master wants it because eating it confers immortality. But Cley bungles his assignment mysteriously, falling afoul of the Master, who has the town destroyed and Cley dispatched to a sulfur-mining penal colony and certain death. Cley gets out, of course, becomes a fifth columnist, and attains some salvation, as well as an enormous improvement in personality, in a pedestrianly written yet colorful and fast-paced quest fantasy that is more beholden to such graphic novels as Ronin and the Crow and Sandman series and to redemption sagas in the vein of The Pilgrim's Progress than to sword-and-sorcery epics. --Ray Olson
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Requiring prospective voters to present a photo ID before casting a ballot does not violate the right to vote.
In a 6-to-3 decision announced on Monday, the US Supreme Court upheld a 2005 Indiana law that requires voters to show government-issued photo identification before voting.
The opinion is important because it helps set a standard for the upcoming 2008 elections in November and it gives a green light to the kind of aggressive antifraud efforts favored by many Republicans. Opponents said the Indiana photo ID law is among the toughest in the nation and argued that it will discourage some voters – particularly those who are elderly, disabled, poor, or minority – from participating in the elections.
Democratic officials went even further. They complained that the law was a thinly veiled attempt to suppress Democratic voter turnout in Indiana.
In upholding the law, the majority justices said the burdens of the voter ID requirement did not amount to a constitutional violation.
"On the basis of the record that has been made in this litigation, we cannot conclude that the statute imposes excessively burdensome requirements on any class of voters," writes Justice John Paul Stevens, in an opinion joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy. Three other justices concurred in the judgment, providing the Stevens opinion the necessary majority.
"This is a huge victory for defenders of such laws, and the effect of the loss for critics will begin to be felt next week when Indiana holds its presidential primary using the voter ID law the court just upheld," says Nathaniel Persily, an election law expert and professor at Columbia Law School.
Former Federal Election Commission Chairman Brad Smith said the court recognized that "not every minor burden on voting constitutes disenfranchisement." He added, "Plaintiffs failed to produce a single person actually prevented from voting by Indiana's law, and the court rightly demanded evidence of real disenfranchisement before limiting the states' ability to ask for what most Americans see as a common sense requirement – that voters present a photo ID at the polls."
Critics of the law expressed disappointment with the decision. "The Supreme Court has abdicated its role as the defender of our democracy," says Kathryn Kolbert, president of the advocacy group, People For the American Way.
"The justices should clear a path to the ballot box for voters, not help block the way," Ms. Kolbert says. "The justices are letting politicians erect barricades against some groups of voters – and that's absolutely unacceptable."
Justice Antonin Scalia concurred in the judgment, but wrote separately in opposition to Justice Stevens's approach of weighing whether the Indiana measure imposed a special burden on some voters. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito joined Justice Scalia's concurrence.
"Weighing the burden of a nondiscriminatory voting law upon each voter and concomitantly requiring exceptions for vulnerable voters would effectively turn back decades of equal-protection jurisprudence," Scalia writes.
"A voter complaining about such a law's effect on him has no valid equal-protection claim because, without proof of discriminatory intent, a generally applicable law with disparate impact is not unconstitutional," he writes.
Three justices dissented. Justice David Souter said Indiana had failed to justify with concrete evidence the need for its voter ID law. The mere suggestion that an ID law might prevent voter fraud is not enough, he writes.
"A state may not burden the right to vote merely by invoking abstract interests, be they legitimate, or even compelling, but must make a particular, factual showing that the threats to its interests outweigh the particular impediments it has imposed," Justice Souter writes.
"The state has made no such justification here, and as to some aspects of its law, it has hardly even tried," he writes.
Most Indiana voters possess either a driver's license or some other form of photo ID. By one estimate 43,000 Indiana residents do not have the required identification.
Under the law, the state must issue a photo identification card free of charge to anyone who requests it. But critics say assembling the three documents necessary to qualify for the free ID card can be time consuming and expensive.
The burden of the law falls primarily on elderly, disabled, poor, and minority voters. Those who come within such classifications generally vote for Democrats, critics say.
Two Democratic officials, the Indiana Democratic Party, and four public interest groups challenged the law in US district court soon after it was enacted. A federal judge ruled the law constitutional. The ruling was upheld 2 to 1 by the Seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. The Supreme Court agreed in September to hear the appeal.
In affirming the Seventh Circuit decision, the high court said: "When we consider only the statute's broad application to all Indiana voters we conclude that it imposes only a limited burden on voters' rights."
In rejecting the allegation of attempted partisan vote suppression, Stevens writes: "If a nondiscriminatory law is supported by valid neutral justifications, those justifications should not be disregarded simply because partisan interests may have provided one motivation for the votes of individual legislators."
Stevens adds, "The application of the statute to the vast majority of Indiana voters is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting the integrity and reliability of the electoral process."
Today's decision comes in two consolidated cases: Crawford v. Marion County Election Board (07-21), and Indiana Democratic Party v. Rokita (07-25).
In his dissent, Justice Souter likened the Indiana law to the $1.50 poll tax struck down by the high court in 1966 as an unconstitutional infringement on the right to vote. "If this court's decision in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections stands for anything, it is that being poor has nothing to do with being qualified to vote," he writes. "The calculation revealed in the Indiana statute crosses a line when it targets the poor and the weak," Souter writes.
Stevens, in his opinion, rejected the poll tax comparison. He said the state issues photo identification cards free of charge. "For most people who need [the voter ID], the inconvenience of making a trip to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, gathering the required documents, and posing for a photograph surely does not qualify as a substantial burden on the right to vote, or even represent a significant increase over the usual burdens of voting," he says.
In his concurrence, Scalia says he opposed Stevens's approach of focusing on the special burdens a law places on particular individuals. He says such an approach sets the stage for future litigation.
"This is an area where the dos and the don'ts need to be known in advance of the election, and voter-by-voter examination of the burdens of voting regulations would prove especially disruptive," Scalia says.
"A case-by-case approach naturally encourages constant litigation," the justice adds. "Very few new election regulations improve everyone's lot, so the potential allegations of severe burden are endless."


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The research report "Civil Drone Market: Global Industry Analysis 2018 -2023" offers comprehensive knowledge on the civil drone market. The report explores the essential factors that are likely to influence the global civil drone market such as segment analysis, market dominant players, latest market trends, technology advancements, civil drone business growth factors and restraints. In addition, the report tracks the civil drone market movements for more than ten years & provides a historical assessment of the market over the period 2013-2017, with forecast and projections offered for the period 2018-2023.
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Hamed Sinno is a Lebanese Freddie Mercury — only he wears black, not white. In a shiny wife-beater, slicked-back hair and matching mustache, he hits the painfully high notes and caresses the microphone. Sinno is the front man for Mashrou' Leila, the Lebanese band making sound waves across the Middle East, and now in London.
This week, the band performed for the first time in the British capital. Their London tour was extended from a single night to two after the first venue sold out. Performing this week in north London's The Garage and at Venue 229 in central London, they packed out the floor with young Lebanese fans and die-hard Arabists.
Mashrou' Leila comes as a shock to those accustomed to Lebanon's traditional soundtrack. The warbling French chancons and ubiquitous voice of Lebanese diva Fayrouz are drowned out by a genreless blend of Arab tarab, indie, folk, rock, electro, and maybe even Balkan gypsy dance.
Dancing is exactly what Mashrou' Leila's latest album is all about. Titled Raasuk, or You've Been Choreographed, the band say the album is "most importantly" about "dancing." Instead of moshing, members of the audience kicked out their legs, twirled and tapped their heels. Although most Londoners may not be able to move like the belly-dancer in the music video for "Lil Watan," they gave it a pretty good shot.
It is not just Mashrou' Leila's sound that defies tradition; the band's approach to the Arab music industry is unorthodox. In a dramatic break from the multi-millionaire pop stars of the region, Mahrou' Leila financed their latest album through the Arab crowd-funding website ZOOMAL. They did it all on the $66,000 donated by fans.
The successful release of Raasuk in August has seen the seven-member band tour Lebanon, Canada, France, the UK and Spain. Khaled Ziada, part of the behind-the-scenes team in London, has been bringing independent Arab artists to the capital for over a decade. Ziada already has his next lineup assembled, composed mainly of Palestinian artists, including renowned Palestinian Hip Hop group DAM, who will be performing at The New Empowering Church in Hackney on Oct. 26.
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Thicker than stock and adjustable. Perfect for an adjustable sway bar. Relieve a lot of jarring from the suspension with the better joints and girth. Only con is the connecting screws are much longer than necessary. I read somewhere that they are the same as stock at the joints but they just have the same dust cover as stock.


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VIDEO: Bird freed from yard decoration
HOWARD (WLUK) -- Free bird!
A Howard couple woke up to an unusual situation Friday. A bird had become stuck to one of their yard decorations.
Gwen Kohls shared the video with us. She says the bird's tail feathers were frozen to a shepherd's hook. She says other birds were gathering to eat, but the stuck bird could only look at them and open its mouth.
Gwen's husband, David, got the bird free using warm water.
According to the National Weather Service, the temperature in the area around 8 a.m. was -2 degrees.


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by Bill Bird
The Art Glass Association (AGA) presented its annual awards to Leslie Silverman, the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and to Yoli Cantu, Retailer of the Year and owner of McAllen Stained Glass. Following the awards dinner, Steve Shupper shared AGA's vision for growing the glass art industry by helping to promote glass art education and continuing to recognize industry leaders.
This article was originally published on page 44 of the November/December 2011 issue of Glass Art.


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December 28, 2012
BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A man accused of killing his girlfriend's 14-year-old sister in Commerce City also is accused of sexual assault.
Prosecutors said Friday that 24-year-old Ezequiel Padilla-Villalobos (pah-DEE'-yah vee-ah-LOH-bohs) of Chihuahua, Mexico, is being charged with first-degree murder and five counts of sexual assault.
A police affidavit in the case said he allegedly told investigators his girlfriend had asked him to pick up her younger sister Sunday from their mother's house in Broomfield and that he had thoughts of killing the girl while he was driving. He also allegedly said he had beer and cocaine before the slaying.
Relatives identified the victim as Gabriela Acosta.
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Cigarette Addiction
Nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs known. When you combine this chemical with the flavor of tobacco smoke and the oral satisfaction of a cigarette, you get an addiction that is very difficult to break.
Conventional treatment for smoking addiction focuses primarily on methods to separate nicotine addiction from the other habit-forming features of cigarettes. These include the nicotine patch and the nicotine inhaler. In addition, the drugs varencicline and bupropion (Zyban) have shown benefit.
Proposed Natural Treatments
There are no proven natural aids for treating cigarette addiction.
Acupuncture, especially in the form of ear acupuncture (auriculopuncture) is widely used as a treatment for cigarette addiction. However, a 1999 analysis of 12 placebo-controlled trials did not find acupuncture more effective than sham-acupuncture for smoking cessation.10 A subsequent, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 330 adolescent smokers, conducted in 2000, also found no benefit.11
Another analysis of 12 trials, done in 2011, found that subjects who received real acupuncture had more success in quitting smoking over the short-term compared to those in the sham group.19 However, over the long-term, there was no difference between the groups. From other studies in the same analysis, researchers also found no evidence that acupuncture was more effective, over the short- or long-term, than nicotine replacement therapy (eg, gum or patch) or psychological interventions.
A review of 6 randomized controlled trials with 823 patients found acupuncture was over 3 times more effective than sham acupuncture for smoking cessation. The patients were only followed for an average of 6-12 months, highlighting that acupuncture is more successful in the short-term.20
On a more positive note, one study found that while acupuncture may not be effective for treating cigarette addiction on its own, it might (in some unknown manner) increase the effectiveness of smoking cessation education.12 In this placebo-controlled study of 141 adults, acupuncture plus education was twice as effective as sham acupuncture plus education, and four times as effective as acupuncture alone. Nonetheless, these benefits were only seen in the short-term; at long-term follow-up, acupuncture's advantage disappeared.
Other Treatments
The herb lobelia has been widely promoted for stopping smoking. The origin of this idea appears to be a misconception that has been passed along for some years: that a constituent of lobelia—lobeline—closely resembles the drug nicotine. In fact, lobeline and nicotine are not biochemically similar, and they are not believed to have generally similar actions in the nervous system.1 Nonetheless, intriguing research suggests that lobeline might have some unusual effects on the nervous system that could make it helpful for treating addiction, especially to amphetamines.1-4 However, keep in mind that it is a long way from theoretical findings of this type to practical usage.
The herb wild oats ( Avena sativa) has also been suggested as a treatment for cigarette addiction, but on balance the evidence indicates that it is not effective.5-9
Weak evidence supports a role for melatonin in reducing nicotine withdrawal symptoms.14
The substance cysticine is a toxic compound found in the seeds of Laburnum anagyroides and related plants. Weak evidence, mostly from Eastern Europe, hints that careful use of this substance might aid smoking cessation.16
Numerous other herbs are promoted for stopping smoking, including alfalfa, eucalyptus, gotu kola, hops, licorice, passionflower, and skullcap, but they have not been evaluated scientifically.
While hypnotherapy benefits some smokers, it does not appear to be superior to other methods for quitting. In a review of 9 studies, researchers found no consistent evidence that hypnotherapy was better than 14 other interventions for nicotine addiction.17 A more recent randomized trial found that, when combined with a nicotine patch, hypnotherapy was no better than cognitive-behavioral therapy.18
A review of 4 randomized trials with 273 patients found hypnotherapy was over 4 times more effective compared to a control in treating cigarette addiction. The patients, however, were only followed for an average of 6-12 months, indicating that hynotherapy may produce short-term results.20
Smoking is believed to cause increased need for a variety of nutrients, including beta-carotene, folate, vitamin B12, vitamin C, and vitamin E.13 For this reason, people who smoke might benefit by taking a supplement that provides these nutrients at a little more than standard nutritional doses. (For more information, see the Nutrition for Cigarette Smokers article.) However, there is no reason to think that use of these supplements will help you quit smoking.
Consumption of almonds has also shown potential for slightly reducing some of the harmful effects of cigarette smoking.15
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1. Dwoskin LP, Crooks PA. A novel mechanism of action and potential use for lobeline as a treatment for psychostimulant abuse. Biochem Pharmacol. 2002;63:89-98.
2. Teng L, Crooks PA, Dwoskin LP. Lobeline displaces [3H]dihydrotetrabenazine binding and releases [3H]dopamine from rat striatal synaptic vesicles: comparison with d-amphetamine. J Neurochem. 1998;71:258-265.
3. Miller DK, Crooks PA, Teng L, et al. Lobeline inhibits the neurochemical and behavioral effects of amphetamine. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2001;296:1023-1034.
4. Harrod SB, Dwoskin LP, Crooks PA, et al. Lobeline attenuates d-methamphetamine self-administration in rats. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2001;298:172-179.
5. Connor J, Connor T, Marshall PB, et al. The pharmacology of Avena sativa.J Pharm Pharmacol. 1975;27:92-98.
6. Gabrynowicz JW. Letter: Treatment of nicotine addiction with Avena sativa.Med J Aust. 1974;2:306-307.
7. Schmidt K, Geckeler K. Pharmacotherapy with avena sativa—a double blind study. Int J Clin Pharmacol Biopharm. 1976;14:214-216.
8. Anand CL. Effect of Avena sativa on cigarette smoking [letter]. Nature. 1971;233:496.
9. Bye C, Fowle ASE, Letly E, et al. Lack of effect of Avena sativa on cigarette smoking. Nature. 1974; 252: 580-581.
10. White A, Resch KL, Ernst E. A meta-analysis of acupuncture techniques for smoking cessation. Tob Control. 1999;8:393-397.
11. Yiming C, Changxin Z, Ung WS, et al. Laser acupuncture for adolescent smokers—A randomized double-blind controlled trial. Am J Chin Med. 2000;28:443-449.
12. Bier ID, Wilson J, Studt P, et al. Auricular acupuncture, education, and smoking cessation: a randomized, sham-controlled trial. Am J Public Health. 2002;92:1642-1647.
13. van den Berg H, van der Gaag M, Hendriks H. Influence of lifestyle on vitamin bioavailability. Int J Vitam Nutr Res. 2002;72:53-59.
14. Zhdanova IV, Piotrovskaya VR. Melatonin treatment attenuates symptoms of acute nicotine withdrawal in humans. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2001;67:131-135.
15. Jia X, Li N, Zhang W, et al. A pilot study on the effects of almond consumption on DNA damage and oxidative stress in smokers. Nutr Cancer. 2006;54:179-183.
16. Etter JF. Cytisine for Smoking Cessation. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1553-1559.
17. Abbot NC, Stead LF, White AR. Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2000;(2):CD001008.
18. Carmody TP, Duncan C, Simon JA, et al. Hypnosis for smoking cessation: A randomized trial. Nicotine Tob Res. 2008;10:811-818.
19. Whites A, Rampes H, Liu J, Stead L, Campell J. Acupuncture and related interventions for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011;(1):CD000009.
20. Tahiri M, Mottillo S, Joseph L, et al. Alternative smoking cessation aids: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Am J Med. 2012 Jun;125(6):576.
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2DucksDancing brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 371 Designs von 117 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We are currently rebranding and looking for someone to design something cool that embodies our organisation.
We are an IT security consultancy and are looking for something creative that is very different to the tradtional key/padlock/wall type thing. the brief provides good levels of detail of what we are after however if you have something different that may appeal feel free to put it forward
Swarm Logic - formerly GISG
Brief summary
Looking for logo as first part of company re-branding effort.
Brand name
Swarm-logic.com (previously known as GISG – http://www.gisg.com.au)
Swarm-logic offers a range of information security services to medium to large organisations, including banks, government departments, educational institutions. swarm-logic are experts in security architecture and administration.
Our clients are typically senior IT managers, senior IT technical staff and board level management
The logo to be developed is to appeal to the target market; yet have a feeling of being approachable.
This logo will be used as a basis for a website redesign, email footers, business cards, etc so needs to be able to scale across different media and be printed. It should also use colours that we can use as the rest of a website and general corporate look and feel.
If an appropriate logo is designed we are open to the idea of having website design done via the same group/person
We are trying to produce a distinctly different look than traditional IT security providers
Logo which embodies the philosophy of Swarm Logic or Swarm Intelligence – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence
Something a bit creative and different – almost a film/advertising/creative industry type logo rather than traditional IT company logo
If you can add a catch phrase or similar that's an added bonus.
Some ideas/inspirations
individual swarm agents working to a collective purpose
strength in a disaster
attention to detail
business professionalism
peace of mind
finger print scanner from Bourne Identity (bank vault scene) / Charlie's Angels (server room scene)
strong or dependable colours such as blues, gun-metal greys, greens, etc.
Something funky and modern.
We are looking to receive the logo in vector files - that is, scalable files that will not lose resolution when they are made larger, such as the raw Adobe Illustrator (.ai file) or equivalent, as well as eps, tiff, jpg, gif file formats
anything that looks like a padlock/shield/brick wall unless a very creative interpretation
animated, mascot-style entities
pastels, softness
anything cheesy
anything cartoony
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Customers have printed, matted, framed, or downloaded the file to their digital devices. Some even put the image on a coffee mug! The options are unlimited and the image can be used over and over.
Here's one of my favorite feedbacks from JD:
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November and December turnaround may be extended based on seasonal activity. After mid December, a prelim sketch can minimally be provided with an IOU to complete a project by the end of December or sooner. Direct contact with me is appreciated at this time of the year to consider options. Each portrait requires time to complete to your satisfaction!
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I know I'm supposed to be on holiday, but I just couldn't resist sharing with you this correspondence that typifies the season. It is a true celebration of the indomitable human spirit.
Name: Roman
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Location: Kansas
I'm a 22 and I have cerebral palsy. My girlfriend has CP too. You say you have experience working with people with disabilities. Do you know about how CP and how it affects our balance and muscle control? Me and my GF have difficulty having sex. Our bodies don't move like other people. Most of the time we are in wheelchairs and, while sitting is ok, our stiff legs make conventional sex impossible. We have invented ways to get each other off, but when it comes to intercourse we are stumped. We've tried different things, but we can't get the angle right. We've looked for ideas on the internet, but nothing.
Kudos to you Roman, and your plucky girlfriend. You kids sound like you've got it gonin' on, I'm really impressed. You're right, I have some experience with people with disabilities, particularly around the issue of sexuality. And I am familiar with the affects of cerebral palsy on one's balance and muscle control. So I think I can help you. However, I want you to help me too. I think you could help me and my audience understand and appreciate your situation a bit better.
Here's why I think this. It's not often I hear from such an articulate fellow in your particular circumstance. So I want to ask you a few questions. (Any one else out there in my audience who wants to chime in on this, please do!) In the past, most of the people I've encountered who have disabling conditions, like CP have been at the mercy of those who care for them at home or in assisted living facilities. So would it be correct for me to guess that you and your girlfriend are living independently? It sounds that way to me. The reason I say that is, one of the most troubling problems folks, like ya'll, have is finding private time and space for any intimacies of whatever kind. Families and assisted living facilities are notorious for not giving or respecting a client's privacy.
If you are in an independent living situation and you have enough privacy to engage in intimacies that can get you off, short of intercourse. How do you do you get one another off? Is this done while you're in your chairs? If you're actually getting naked with each other, and I hope you are, do you need assistance from someone to achieve this?
Here's why I'm asking you this. If you are having a person assist you as far as getting out of your cloths and into the sack with each other, would it be out of the question for either of you to ask this person to help you get into position for fucking? I ask this because on one very special occasion a couple I knew some years ago asked me to assist them in their love making. At first, I didn't know if I was up to the task. Not because I would be freaked out gimps gettin their groove on — not at all. I was concerned that I wouldn't know what to do, or how to do it. My friends, the couple, told me not to worry, that they would direct me if I helped them manage their limbs and coordinate their movements. I was honored by their request, so I accepted their invitation.
We were all really nervous, me especially. They asked if I would be comfortable being naked with them. This put me on the spot, for sure. It's not that I was uncomfortable being naked, that's rarely an issue. But I was strangely uncomfortable being naked with them. Was it professional pride? Did I feel more secure being clothed, less vulnerable that way? Hell, I don't know. They explained that they didn't want this to be some kind of clinical thing where I was being a therapist, albeit an unconventional therapist.
In the end I relented. And after a few minutes of feeling really awkward, we lost our inhibitions and got down to business. Just so you know, my friends were right. Had I kept my cloths on, the experience wouldn't have been the same. While I tried to be as unobtrusive as possible, I was remarkably able to experience, in a most intimate way, what it must be like to live in a body that doesn't respond like my body does. I felt like my friends' bodies were extensions of my body. And they said they felt the same way; that my body was an extension of their bodies. It was a communion like no other.
My friends kept cracking jokes. Every time I'd topple over trying to get the two lovebirds into position they'd say something like: "is that what it's like having an able body?" BITCHES! No doubt, the humor and giggling help take the edge off for us all. I know it helped me overcome being so self-conscious. I confess I was a bit embarrassed to be the only able body person present.
What struck me most in all of this was the determination of my friends. I've never met anyone more dogged and tenacious…and all to get a little nookie. God bless 'em!
We tried several positions. Luckily, my friends had upped the dose of their muscle relaxant medications so they were a bit more pliable. One position that seemed to work particularly well was having my friends lying on their sides facing each other. I helped the woman swing one of her legs over her guy. I was then able to scoot their pelvises together and guide his dick into her pussy. Then all I needed to do is bounce them a little. It was brilliant, even though it was the hardest I ever worked for a fuck — and it wasn't even me who was doing the fucking.
We were all completely exhausted by the experience. My friends were enormously grateful and I was blissed out. It took them days to recover, but at least they achieved what they so desperately wanted. Did they ever attempt intercourse again? I don't know. They may have discovered that fucking, especially if it takes that much concentration and energy may not be worth it. Maybe they realized that full-on fucking is not necessarily for full-on sexual enjoyment. I mean my friend was expert at eating out his girlfriend. All I had to do is help him in into position. And she got off on it big time…oh and so did he…the randy little bugger!
So, Roman, I didn't mean to go on and on like that. Sorry if I got off topic. I just wanted to tell you that story because I thought it might suggest to you and your girlfriend the idea of having someone help you guys fuck. It's worth a try, right?
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SBA Small Business Learning Center: Training, Tools and Answers via Your Desktop
Starting or growing a business? Owning a small business can be a fulfilling endeavor, but as you probably already know or are just finding out – it requires that you wear many hats. This of course leaves you with little time to take a deep dive into the many aspects of starting and growing a business. Instead, many business owners turn to search engines for answers when questions come up.
But what if you had access to a small business classroom that provided informed, accurate and always-available access to the advice and guidance you need?
Welcome to the SBA Small Business Learning Center.
Online Training and Tools for Small Business Owners
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My comments on Wednesday with respect to historical reality and "deception" in the Bible drove me back to some good friends: books on interpretation of the Bible. What I found disturbing in the original post on which I was commenting, and in many of the comments which followed, was this claim that for something to be true and real, it must be historical. A sharp dichotomy was explicitly drawn: if something or someone described or discussed in the Bible is not historically real, then the person describing this person or event, in this case Jesus, is engaged in deception or lies. Ergo, if Jesus discusses someone, Noah, Jonah, etc., that person must be (or have been) a real, historical personage or Jesus is engaged in a lie or some form of deception. This strikes me as too simplistic and, in fact, a particularly modern, Enlightenment notion of "reality" that you often only find amongst scientific fundamentalists when they criticize the Bible and its supposed "truth."
But I do believe that what the Bible describes is true and real because I believe it is God's word. Sometimes this means that events described in the Bible must be historically accurate for the claims made about them to be true. For instance, when Paul says in 1 Corinthians that Christ was literally raised from the dead, it is important that Christians affirm that he was historically raised from the dead:
if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. (15:12-20)
Is it equally as significant, though, to affirm the historicity of the following verses in Revelation?
Then another portent appeared in heaven: a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born. And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne; and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that there she can be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days. (Revelation 12:3-6)
Must we affirm an historical Dragon, who swept a third of the stars from the sky, as described in Revelation 12? Is all the truth of the Bible based upon the historical reality of events and persons mentioned in the Bible?
I do not think the literal affirmation of the historicity of all persons or events in the Bible is necessary. It is essential for me to affirm the truth of the Bible, but this does not always indicate the historical reality of persons or events described in the Bible. Sean McEvenue, in his book Interpretation and Bible: Essays on Truth in Literature, maps out fascinating ground and I want to travel some of that territory with him. This will not be a systematic attempt to sketch a whole technique or scheme of reading Scripture, but just the setting of place-markers. McEvenue makes an essential point for those who read the Bible as Scripture, but which is often lost on both professional and casual readers:
"Biblical texts speak a truth which will only be fully known in the future" (44).
For Christians and Jews, the Bible is a text which points to a reality that is only partially known now. We must have the humility to acknowledge that our own understanding of texts is limited by our own imperfections and humanity, not those of the Divine Reason, however acute and perfect we find our own understanding. McEvenue develops this thought when he says,
"All texts of the Bible attempt to speak, from the horizon of their time, of a reality which will be completely revealed only at the end of time" (45).
Though we tend to think of limitations of knowledge and understanding in terms of the "past," we are not at the apex of human understanding now. Apart from a fulfillment of divine knowledge which only occurs in the presence of God or at the Eschaton - as Paul says, "Now I know only in part; then I will know fully" (1 Corinthians 13:12) - we continue to learn as human beings, from year to year and century to century. Just as someone in the 1st century could not imagine, literally, the world of today, so we cannot imagine, literally, the world as it might be a millennium from now. Yet, this sort of human knowledge pales in view of divine knowledge and interpreters of all stripes want to claim their own personal knowledge of the divine as complete, exact and unfailing. To paraphrase George Castanza's father, "Humility now!"
This humility has some necessary impact on reading ancient texts, even ancient Scripture:
"Today's reader of Amos, for example, may have acquired conceptual information about God which goes far beyond that of Amos, through later revelation and through doctrinal development and catechesis. In that sense, today's reader of Amos may understand Amos' text better than its author" (43-44).
This seems remarkable, but on some matters of understanding, whether of factual or spiritual knowledge, I believe McEvenue is correct. He goes on to say that this does not mean our knowledge of God would surpass that of the prophet Amos when we think of "knowledge" of God in terms of holiness, conversion, or grace. As a prophet who reveals God, Amos "knows" God in a more profound way than I do as a reader who might have some "conceptual" knowledge beyond that of Amos simply by virtue of when I was born historically.
Finally, McEvenue notes that "biblical texts speak of truths which transcend objective categories. Biblical texts are literary in nature (i.e., written with artistic form and subtlety), but not with either scientific logic, precision and limitation…Thus their subject matter, or truth, will be the sort of truth which is appropriate to literature, and that is why the Second Vatican Council spoke of 'salvific truth'" (45). As I read McEvenue, he justly points out that scientific logic and precision have limitations placed on them by the historical period in which they arise, and the limited nature of truth which they describe, while saving truth has no such limitation. This is why Scripture has the language of poetry and myth to express truth and not the language of medical textbooks or even philosophical discourses such as found in the genius of St. Thomas Aquinas. Salvific truth is eternal, while scientific language and propositions pass away.
"Biblical texts affirm different ways of being open to, or experiencing, the unlimited Word of God, and point the reader to that precise knowledge. Commentary should never presume to carry that burden itself. It should enable the reader to hear, once again, the song which rose in the heart of the biblical writer. It should place the reader in the best location to hear and see. And it should stop there" (46).
Sometimes it is necessary to understand the history of a particular text to hear and see, sometimes it is necessary to hear the poetry of the text, but however the text calls to us, it calls us to an encounter and relationship with God. We need not, in advance, limit the value of the texts which call us to an encounter with God, here and now, to their historicity. The texts of the Bible speak truth. Truth is eternal.
John W. Martens
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However, it is possible to see that some people cannot just believe that there is a God and the Bible is God's word. They believe that the Bible is meant to be evidence of God's existence.
I have read every book written by Fr. Raymond Brown. Some have been massive and difficult. Yet I believe one of his best is so easily digestible, "Responses to 101 Questions on the Bible." In 1990 he wrote, about how the Church should "countereact" biblical fundamentalism: "then we should mobilize our forces in order to supply intelligent biblical leadership among Catholics. That will prevent them from becoming fundamentalists. I do not think we have done this as a church. . . . We do not sufficiently see the danger to the right." (p.47)
He also supports Fr. Reese's comments with thoughts on the liturgy that fails to proclaim a vivid love of Jesus: "We may have lost some of that ethos in the laudable development of liturgical language that is less emotional." (48)
Fr. Brown specifically discusses one of the examples that is referenced:
"but the theologians [he includes Joseph Ratzinger] who allow ignorance or do not posit special additions of divine knowledge would be harmonious with the overwhelming view of biblical exegetes that Jesus shared many of the religious presuppositions of his time—presuppositions reflecting detectible limitations of knowledge with which the modern reader would not have to concur. For instance, Jesus seems to take literally that Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a fish (Matt.12:40), which we would understand the Book of Jonah as parabolic. In Mark 12:36-37 Jesus states that David spoke the opening line of Psalm 110, "The Lord said to my lord,: with the assumption that David was thinking of the future Messiah. Few modern scholars would interpret the original meaning of the psalm in that fashion. In Jesus, God and Man I cite other examples which Jesus seemingly shares the limited views of his era in regard to issues that are broadly religious. Thus, one may argue that both biblically and theologically the position of limited knowledge seems defensible. It is worth emphasizing that to deny the full humanity of Jesus is just as serious as to deny the full divinity . . . .(104-105)"
Maybe the Church will make the changes that Fr. Brown urged in 1990 and Fr. Reese urges now. Are you optimistic?


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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Macaroni and Cheese as Crunchy Potato Chip Topping Delivery System
There are all sorts of "favorite" casserole toppings, but the one that seems to excite people the most is the potato chip crust. Maybe it's the extra crunch, or the cheesy flair, or that very few unpleasant memories include potato chips.So, the concept here is simple. Make a batch of béchamel (basic white sauce) using the recipe below. If you need to watch the technique, here is a video recipe for it, but use this post's measurements. To that add 12 ounces of really good cheese, and when it's melted, mix into cooked macaroni.
That would make a great meal as is, but when you add a big spoon of this impossibly crispy, cheesy, crunchy, buttery love…well, damn. Not only is this delicious, but it's a triumph of textural perfection. It's also a versatile recipe, as you can make the topping mixture and the white sauce ahead of time. I hope you give it a try, enjoy!
For the white sauce: (watch technique video here)
1/4 cup unsalted butter
1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
3 cups cold milk
small pinch of nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon cayenne, or to taste
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme, or few springs of fresh
1 1/2 teaspoons table salt, or to taste
Cheeses I used:
1/2 pound shredded extra-sharp cheddar cheese
1/4 pound shredded Gruyere cheese
For the potato chip topping:
1 tablespoon butter
1 bag (minus 6-7 chips) white cheddar kettle-style potato chips, crushed into medium-fine crumbs
1/3 cup finely grated Parmigiano-Reggiano (real Parmesan cheese)
2 tablespoons plain breadcrumbs
View the complete recipe
26 comments:
Now THIS is what I watch Food Wishes for! Thank you Chef John!
- October 20, 2010 at 1:54 AM
Instead of butter with the crushed chips, use a cut up strip of bacon. More flavor for the chips, plus you get crunchy bacon bits with your mac and cheese.
- October 20, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Frank Sugino said...
Instead of butter, slice up a strip of bacon into the crushed potato chips. The fat will give the chips better flavor, plus you get bacon bits on your mac and cheese.
- October 20, 2010 at 10:58 AM
- Cheri Witmer said...
Oohhh, my mouth is so watering for this! Gotta make soon :) Thanks again Chef John
- October 20, 2010 at 11:37 AM
- Food Junkie said...
Yummy. Mac'n cheese is my favourite comfort food. On a lazy night or one short of cheese to shred that topping would also nicely dress up a ready made mac'n cheese. Thanks chef!
- October 20, 2010 at 7:06 PM
Hey Chef John, I have a couple cheese questions!
Firstly, is there something I can substitute for gruyere? I live in a small town, and the gruyere is very expensive. (I live on a college student budget)
Secondly, there are wedges that say Parmesan, and wedges that say Parmigiano Reggiano. What's the difference?
- October 20, 2010 at 7:31 PM
- grumbleghoul said...
ok.. Chef John, I went to the Bechamel sauce video. in that video you stated that there were 5 "mother" sauces of which this is one. You also said in the video that you would cover those in another post of some sort. What are the other 4, Where can I find them, and if the others are as awesome as this one for making the mac n cheese, why haven't I found this site sooner???
- October 20, 2010 at 8:18 PM
- Chef John said...
here is mother sauce info. I've done several. read and do a search. enjoy!
- October 21, 2010 at 2:10 AM
- Rita said...
tater chips? hmmm... interesting twist on one of my favorite comfort foods. a must try!
the difference between Parmesan and Parmigiano-Reggiano is that - the latter came from the producing towns of Parma, Reggio-Emilia (i forgot the other nearby towns) in Italy. the Parmigiano-Reggiano has better quality and taste - it's creamier and richer. if you got the really good parmegiano - it can be so smooth and sweet. melts in your mouth.
reason why they have it labeled as, Parmigiano-Reggiano, because it's like the DOC in bubblies. it cannot be called champange, unless it came from the town of Champagne, France. meaning, the label is protected.
you can substitute Emmentaler, Comte, Swiss. if you use the swiss cheese, it will still be good, but you will not get the same bite that the Gruyere have.
- October 21, 2010 at 4:56 AM
chef john, will you ever consider coming back to CCA to do a demo for us current students (even though i'm in the P&B program)? would love to meet you in person. :)
- October 21, 2010 at 7:46 AM
- Chef John said...
yes, what Rita said! ;-)
Jacqui, probably not there, but I may do something independently for students.
- October 21, 2010 at 1:04 PM
- DukeCitySnapShooter said...
Wow Chef John! Your photography and videography have hit a new high!
Excellent video (and the recipe looks good too.)
- October 21, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- Erin Phang said...
I just tried this recipe today. The best part was the potato chips topping! However, I didn't use the cheese that Chef John used for the white sauce. Cuz I live in Asia and it's abit hard to find the cheese. Well, even if I find it, it will be so expensive :(. I just used normal white cheddar cheese. My sister said the sauce tasted abit bitter. Is that becuase of the cheese?
Btw, I liked the white sauce cuz it didn't taste flourish.
Thanks for making the recipe looks very simple, Chef John! It really encourages me to try it ;)
Next I'm gonna try the NY Cheese'crack'! *wink* ;D
Thanks again!
- October 24, 2010 at 2:50 AM
Hi Erin Phang, I'm from Singapore also. How did you convert the measurement in metric terms? I've tried recipes from this site before but the proportion always seem a bit off. Google also gave me different value and there is also the complication that a cup of wet ing or water is different from a cup of dry ing. Thanks for any help and I hope I will be able to pull off this recipe.
- October 29, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- frames for beds said...
Thanks for including a video in this post. That was really helpful. The recipe is definitely worth a try.
- November 5, 2010 at 10:19 PM
Might be a good idea, will go to try it!
- November 14, 2010 at 3:49 AM
Hi there! What are kettle-style potato chips? I only ever see Lays in my local grocery store. I'm not so sure Lays would taste nice although perhaps the kids would like it. Let me know, thank you.
- February 19, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- Chef John said...
They are just thicker crispier chips. Any large grocery store will have several brands (one brand's name is Kettle Chips. Ask the manager.
- February 19, 2011 at 3:47 PM
Thank you so much! I will ask about the chips.
The problem for me is that I currently live outside of the US so some of your ingredients are hard to find OR they are extremely expensive. Sometimes I will make your recipes without some ingredients or I try to make substitutes but this doesn't always work properly. Then I just get frustrated and lose my nerve to try new dishes! So, I guess I scare easily in the kitchen! :(
I've been looking for the Panko flakes you mentioned on another recipe. If I can mange to find these would they make a good substitute for the chips? Thanks again for your help, take care.
- February 19, 2011 at 4:09 PM
Ooops, sorry, I just found another recipe of yours where you do use Panko to top macaroni! Answered my own question! :)
- February 19, 2011 at 4:13 PM
Oh man I used to do this all the time! Try using all-dressed chips for a bit of a bite or zesty/nacho/spicy-nacho Doritos for some seriously crunchy cheesy crust!
- July 12, 2011 at 2:56 PM
- Blood88Seeker said...
Sir, you are a true food magician!!! Cooked this today, it was way better than my expectation. Like you said" there is no way to explain how good this is".
- May 30, 2013 at 4:28 PM
- Mannaggia said...
Chef John, Another winner! For my nephew Conner's 7th birthday he requested his favorite food, mac & cheese. Served 9 people (8 of them adults) with 1.5 X your recipe & ended up with a pint of extra cheese sauce - ok, we'll use it up. Used Beechers flagship & Gruyere. Served with grilled Italian sausages and mixed green salad w/ simple vinaigrette. Everyone loved it. Potato chip topping a hit.
Suggestion: Please consider reordering posts, newest on top. Thanks.
- November 25, 2015 at 12:17 AM
- Jennifer Lawrence said...
Thank you for the lovely potato chips recipe. I am surely gonna try it.
- May 4, 2016 at 7:52 AM
- Lisa Storhaug said...
Great recipe! Super easy takes just as long as,(excuse me) the box and a million times better. My question is how long can this keep in the fridge and could you freeze it or will the sauce get funny? Thanks, lisa
- November 12, 2016 at 9:07 PM
- Sally said...
Chef, I just wanted to say "thank you" for the link to Allrecipes that you gave at the bottom of your ingredient list. I wish you had that on all of your videos!
- March 31, 2017 at 7:30 AM


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by J.B. Hyppolite
How many sports-crazed fans who breathe, sleep and dream about the Eagles, 76ers, Flyers and Phillies, know their statistics inside and out, have passionate opinions about who should be fired, who should be benched, who's the reason our guys did not win a championship, etc., would (almost) give their right arm to be a sports talk show host on the radio? Forget the American Dream; this is the one-in-a-million chance; this is winning the lottery; right?
Well, sports fans, Mt. Airy resident Phil Allen, aka "Phil from Mt. Airy," is that one-in-a-million lottery winner, that passionate Philly fan-turned radio sports talk show host. Phil, 50, is currently hosting his own show on the ESPN Affiliate, The Fanatic (97.5 FM / 950 AM). Since achieving that feat, Phil is still pinching himself over his miracle dream-turned-reality job.
"…You try and balance being a talk show guy with being one of the guys around the neighborhood, and it's still a tough balance to transition from being a caller to the host now, but I am the host now," said Phil, who also recently hosted the Eagles' post-game show on 97.5 FM. He's been on rotating shifts. At "The Fanatic" there are the main hosts, including the likes of Tony Bruno, a sports talk radio legend in Philly, and Mike Missanelli, another veteran and Philadelphia sports talk heavyweight, while others, including Phil, fill in the rest of the hours.
"Sometimes I'm on 12 to 4 Saturdays, but I could be on 8 to 12 Sunday morning, whatever shift they give me," said Phil, who doesn't have a regularly scheduled show yet. On 97.5 TheFanatic.com's on-air segment's page, there are two spots where you'll be sure to catch Phil. Along with Nick Kayal, Phil does a sports trivia segment every Sunday, 11:45 a.m., in a segment titled "Google Me." They also do "Three Things That Annoy You on Sundays" at 9:45 a.m.
"I don't think people understand what goes in to doing a four-hour radio show. I probably do eight hours of preparation for every four hours I'm on, easily," said Phil, whose biggest accomplishments since being at The Fanatic have been hosting various Eagles and Phillies playoff post-game shows, which in turn says a lot about the station's belief in Phil. In 2010 he was part of a three-hour Saturday morning show titled the "Jon Marks Show with Mount Airy Phil." It ran from 8 to 11 a.m.
"Dude, it's a blast," said Phil, who built a following and earned the ear of Philadelphia sports talk radio listeners and vets as a frequent caller to WIP 610 throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Phil got his chance to shine at The Fanatic in 2009 after speaking with Missanelli and later with Matt Nahigian, The Fanatic's program director. It was then that Phil got his shot at being a "talk show guy," as he described himself, on the number one sports talk radio station in the city.
Despite being a host, Phil describes himself as a voice of the fans. He seeks to represent the pulse of the average Philadelphia sports fan. He thinks not being an "expert" analyst is an advantage, and takes pride in being an African American host who is also not an ex-football player. Phil doesn't talk down to his callers, unless they're non-Philadelphia sports fans who think they know all about Philly teams.
"There's a fine line between me being the guy who facilitates the conversation and being some wiseguy who just wants to, you know, 'I'm smarter than you; I look down on you.' Never, ever that … It's been two years now, and it's been a blast."
With respect to Philadelphia as a sports town, Phil recognizes what Philadelphia brings to the table. When it comes to our sports teams, "we're all in," Phil said. When our beloved teams have a tough loss, we feel it like no other. When our teams have a big win, it could literally set a positive tone for thebeginning, middle or rest of any given week. Phil, who has traveled to various cities, provided an example, comparing fans he's seen at a Jacksonville Jaguars game to fans at an Eagles game.
"…When they lose, they'll just head off to the next event. It could be a birthday party, dinner at their grandma's or whatever. We lose, that's it for our day. The restaurant's empty, the bars are empty, the train's silent," said Phil, who summed it up by adding, "We can't be fooled."
Phil was featured in the Philadelphia Eagles documentary, 'E-A-G-L-E-S: The Movie,' which followed the Eagles during their 2004-2005 Superbowl season. Unfortunately, that season didn't end the way we wanted it too. "Dude, I'd give my left arm, my left leg, for a Superbowl championship," said Phil.
Phil loves his job, but there are times when guests turn an otherwise enjoyable experience into a cringe-worthy 40 minutes.
"I let this one woman come on, and she wouldn't answer anything straight. It was just a friggin' disaster. The best radio interviews for guests are generally four to five minutes because, y'know, you've got callers waiting. They've been on hold, some of them 15-20 minutes already … All the energy was drained out of the show; it was the longest 40 minutes of my life … But you kind of have to have the pulse of the fans and the city and the team(s). You're like a thermometer and a barometer at the same time. It's amazing, I'm telling you."
Phil Allen was born in Philadelphia. He proudly claims to have been around the world "like 68 times." Despite primarily being a book wholesaler, Phil has had various jobs including selling timeshares in Bali and Austrailia. When he was younger he was in the Navy and wound up in Israel. "By the time I was 18, I was leaning on the Tower of Pisa," he said.
When Phil returned from the Navy, he attended Community College of Philadelphia followed by Temple University, where he majored in Social Work. Phil's book-selling service is called Philly Books, Inc. Despite at one point having four retail book stores in the region, Phil continues to independently distribute books.
He is a father of five, married and has three grandchildren. Phil also coaches a baseball team of 9-10-year-olds, the Mt. Airy Cubs His wife, Dr. Valerie Dorsey Allen, is the director of the African American Resource Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her MSW and her doctorate in social work are both from Penn, where she also teaches human behavior in the social environment and a graduate research class. The Allens live in East Mt. Airy.
Anyone who wants to reach Phil can do so at firstname.lastname@example.com. Anyone trying to see when he's on air can check 975TheFanatic.com and its Facebook page, www.facebook.com/975thefanatic.


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Expo Finefood March 28th - March 31th, 2017 Shanghai New Int'l Expo Center
As one of the largest, most effective and highest level exhibitions in the hospitality industry, HOTELEX Shanghai is consistently concerned about the practice of innovative elements and green concepts. As the main part of HDD (Hotelex, Deco & Design), it contains ten differently themed sectors including Catering Equipment & Supply, Bakery, Tableware, Textile, Appliance & Amenities and IT & Security, Fitness & Leisure, Food & Beverage, Coffee & Tea and Wine & Spirits. HOTELEX has led the hospitality industry trends for 22 years and will continue to provide one-stop purchasing and information platform for the hospitality professionals.
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