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Aye, but she?
Your other sister and my other soul
Grave Silence, lovelier
Than the three loveliest maidens, what of her?
Clio, not you,
Not you, Calliope,
Nor all your wanton line,
Not Beauty's perfect self shall comfort me
For Silence once departed,
For her the cool-tongued, her the tranquil-hearted,
Whom evermore I follow wistfully,
Wandering Heaven and Earth and Hell and the four seasons through;
Thalia, not you,
Not you, Melpomene,
Not your incomparable feet, O thin Terpsichore, I seek in this great hall,
But one more pale, more pensive, most beloved of you all.
I seek her from afar,
I come from temples where her altars are,
From groves that bear her name,
Noisy with stricken victims now and sacrificial flame,
And cymbals struck on high and strident faces
Obstreperous in her praise
They neither love nor know,
A goddess of gone days,
Departed long ago,
Abandoning the invaded shrines and fanes
Of her old sanctuary,
A deity obscure and legendary,
Of whom there now remains,
For sages to decipher and priests to garble,
Only and for a little while her letters wedged in marble,
Which even now, behold, the friendly mumbling rain erases,
And the inarticulate snow,
Leaving at last of her least signs and traces
None whatsoever, nor whither she is vanished from these places.
"She will love well," I said,
"If love be of that heart inhabiter,
The flowers of the dead;
The red anemone that with no sound
Moves in the wind, and from another wound
That sprang, the heavily-sweet blue hyacinth,
That blossoms underground,
And sallow poppies, will be dear to her.
And will not Silence know
In the black shade of what obsidian steep
Stiffens the white narcissus numb with sleep?
(Seed which Demeter's daughter bore from home,
Uptorn by desperate fingers long ago,
Reluctant even as she,
Undone Persephone,
And even as she set out again to grow
In twilight, in perdition's lean and inauspicious loam).
She will love well," I said,
"The flowers of the dead;
Where dark Persephone the winter round,
Uncomforted for home, uncomforted,
Lacking a sunny southern slope in northern Sicily,
With sullen pupils focussed on a dream,
Stares on the stagnant stream
That moats the unequivocable battlements of Hell,
There, there will she be found,
She that is Beauty veiled from men and Music in a swound."
"I long for Silence as they long for breath
Whose helpless nostrils drink the bitter sea;
What thing can be
So stout, what so redoubtable, in Death
What fury, what considerable rage, if only she,
Upon whose icy breast,
Unquestioned, uncaressed,
One time I lay,
And whom always I lack,
Even to this day,
Being by no means from that frigid bosom weaned away,
If only she therewith be given me back?"
I sought her down that dolorous labyrinth,
Wherein no shaft of sunlight ever fell,
And in among the bloodless everywhere
I sought her, but the air,
Breathed many times and spent,
Was fretful with a whispering discontent,
And questioning me, importuning me to tell
Some slightest tidings of the light of day they know no more,
Plucking my sleeve, the eager shades were with me where I went.
I paused at every grievous door,
And harked a moment, holding up my hand,—and for a space
A hush was on them, while they watched my face;
And then they fell a-whispering as before;
So that I smiled at them and left them, seeing she was not there.
I sought her, too,
Among the upper gods, although I knew
She was not like to be where feasting is,
Nor near to Heaven's lord,
Being a thing abhorred
And shunned of him, although a child of his,
(Not yours, not yours; to you she owes not breath,
Mother of Song, being sown of Zeus upon a dream of Death).
Fearing to pass unvisited some place
And later learn, too late, how all the while,
With her still face,
She had been standing there and seen me pass, without a smile,
I sought her even to the sagging board whereat
The stout immortals sat;
But such a laughter shook the mighty hall
No one could hear me say:
Had she been seen upon the Hill that day?
And no one knew at all
How long I stood, or when at last I sighed and went away.
There is a garden lying in a lull
Between the mountains and the mountainous sea,
I know not where, but which a dream diurnal
Paints on my lids a moment till the hull
Be lifted from the kernel
And Slumber fed to me.
Your foot-print is not there, Mnemosene,
Though it would seem a ruined place and after
Your lichenous heart, being full
Of broken columns, caryatides
Thrown to the earth and fallen forward on their jointless knees,
And urns funereal altered into dust
Minuter than the ashes of the dead,
And Psyche's lamp out of the earth up-thrust,
Dripping itself in marble wax on what was once the bed
Of Love, and his young body asleep, but now is dust instead.
There twists the bitter-sweet, the white wisteria Fastens its fingers in the strangling wall,
And the wide crannies quicken with bright weeds;
There dumbly like a worm all day the still white orchid feeds;
But never an echo of your daughters' laughter
Is there, nor any sign of you at all
Swells fungous from the rotten bough, grey mother of Pieria!
Only her shadow once upon a stone
I saw,—and, lo, the shadow and the garden, too, were gone.
I tell you you have done her body an ill,
You chatterers, you noisy crew!
She is not anywhere!
I sought her in deep Hell;
And through the world as well;
I thought of Heaven and I sought her there;
Above nor under ground
Is Silence to be found,
That was the very warp and woof of you,
Lovely before your songs began and after they were through!
Oh, say if on this hill
Somewhere your sister's body lies in death,
So I may follow there, and make a wreath
Of my locked hands, that on her quiet breast
Shall lie till age has withered them!
(Ah, sweetly from the rest
I see
Turn and consider me
Compassionate Euterpe!)
"There is a gate beyond the gate of Death,
Beyond the gate of everlasting Life,
Beyond the gates of Heaven and Hell," she saith,
"Whereon but to believe is horror!
Whereon to meditate engendereth
Even in deathless spirits such as I
A tumult in the breath,
A chilling of the inexhaustible blood
Even in my veins that never will be dry,
And in the austere, divine monotony
That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
This is her province whom you lack and seek;
And seek her not elsewhere.
Hell is a thoroughfare
For pilgrims,—Herakles,
And he that loved Euridice too well,
Have walked therein; and many more than these;
And witnessed the desire and the despair
Of souls that passed reluctantly and sicken for the air;
You, too, have entered Hell,
And issued thence; but thence whereof I speak
None has returned;—for thither fury brings
Only the driven ghosts of them that flee before all things.
Oblivion is the name of this abode: and she is there."
Oh, radiant Song! Oh, gracious Memory!
Be long upon this height
I shall not climb again!
I know the way you mean,—the little night,
And the long empty day,—never to see
Again the angry light,
Or hear the hungry noises cry my brain!
Ah, but she,
Your other sister and my other soul,
She shall again be mine;
And I shall drink her from a silver bowl,
A chilly thin green wine,
Not bitter to the taste,
Not sweet,
Not of your press, oh, restless, clamorous nine,—
To foam beneath the frantic hoofs of mirth—
But savoring faintly of the acid earth,
And trod by pensive feet
From perfect clusters ripened without haste
Out of the urgent heat
In some clear glimmering vaulted twilight under the odorous vine
. Lift up your lyres! Sing on!
But as for me, I seek your sister whither she is gone.
An Evening Scene on the Same Subject
Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you'll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
The sun, above the mountain's head,
A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.
Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it.
And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your Teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless—
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:—
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 5
But being too happy in thine happiness,
That thou, light-wing¨¨d Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease. 10
O for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delv¨¨d earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country-green,
Dance, and Proven?al song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South! 15
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stain¨¨d mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim: 20
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs, 25
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs;
Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. 30
Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night, 35
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. 40
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalm¨¨d darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; 45
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 50
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a mus¨¨d rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die, 55
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain¡ª
To thy high requiem become a sod. 60
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path 65
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that ofttimes hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. 70
Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades 75
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:¡ªdo I wake or sleep? 80
Remember the 1340's? We were doing a dance called the Catapult.
You always wore brown, the color craze of the decade,
and I was draped in one of those capes that were popular,
the ones with unicorns and pomegranates in needlework.
Everyone would pause for beer and onions in the afternoon,
and at night we would play a game called "Find the Cow."
Everything was hand-lettered then, not like today.
Where has the summer of 1572 gone? Brocade and sonnet
marathons were the rage. We used to dress up in the flags
of rival baronies and conquer one another in cold rooms of stone.
Out on the dance floor we were all doing the Struggle
while your sister practiced the Daphne all alone in her room.
We borrowed the jargon of farriers for our slang.
These days language seems transparent a badly broken code.
The 1790's will never come again. Childhood was big.
People would take walks to the very tops of hills
and write down what they saw in their journals without speaking.
Our collars were high and our hats were extremely soft.
We would surprise each other with alphabets made of twigs.
It was a wonderful time to be alive, or even dead.
I am very fond of the period between 1815 and 1821.
Europe trembled while we sat still for our portraits.
And I would love to return to 1901 if only for a moment,
time enough to wind up a music box and do a few dance steps,
or shoot me back to 1922 or 1941, or at least let me
recapture the serenity of last month when we picked
berries and glided through afternoons in a canoe.
Even this morning would be an improvement over the present.
I was in the garden then, surrounded by the hum of bees
and the Latin names of flowers, watching the early light
flash off the slanted windows of the greenhouse
and silver the limbs on the rows of dark hemlocks.
As usual, I was thinking about the moments of the past,
letting my memory rush over them like water
rushing over the stones on the bottom of a stream.
I was even thinking a little about the future, that place
where people are doing a dance we cannot imagine,
a dance whose name we can only guess.
THE DAY is done and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.
I see the lights of the village 5
Gleam through the rain and the mist
And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me
That my soul cannot resist:
A feeling of sadness and longing
That is not akin to pain 10
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
Come read to me some poem
Some simple and heartfelt lay
That shall soothe this restless feeling 15
And banish the thoughts of day.
Not from the grand old masters
Not from the bards sublime
Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors of Time. 20
For like strains of martial music
Their mighty thoughts suggest
Life's endless toil and endeavor;
And to-night I long for rest.
Read from some humbler poet 25
Whose songs gushed from his heart
As showers from the clouds of summer
Or tears from the eyelids start;
Who through long days of labor
And nights devoid of ease 30
Still heard in his soul the music
Of wonderful melodies.
Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care
And come like the benediction 35
That follows after prayer.
Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice. 40
And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
Out of the mid-wood's twilight
Into the meadow's dawn,
Ivory limbed and brown-eyed,
Flashes my Faun!
He skips through the copses singing,
And his shadow dances along,
And I know not which I should follow,
Shadow or song!
O Hunter, snare me his shadow!
O Nightingale, catch me his strain!
Else moonstruck with music and madness
I track him in vain!
either peace or happiness,
let it enfold you
when i was a young man
I felt these things were
I had bad blood,a twisted
mind, a pecarious
I was hard as granite,I
leered at the
I trusted no man and
especially no
I was living a hell in
small rooms, I broke
things, smashed things,
walked through glass,
I challenged everything,
was continually being
evicted,jailed,in and
out of fights,in and aout
of my mind.
women were something
to screw and rail
at,i had no male
I changed jobs and
cities,I hated holidays,
newspapers, museums,
marriage, movies,
spiders, garbagemen,
english accents,spain,
france,italy,walnuts and
the color
algebra angred me,
opera sickened me,
charlie chaplin was a
and flowers were for
peace an happiness to me
were signs of
tenants of the weak
but as I went on with
my alley fights,
my suicidal years,
my passage through
any number of
women-it gradually
began to occur to
that I wasn't diffrent
from the
others, I was the same,
they were all fulsome
with hatred,
glossed over with petty
the men I fought in
alleys had hearts of stone.
everybody was nudging,
inching, cheating for
some insignificant
the lie was the
weapon and the
plot was
darkness was the
cautiously, I allowed
myself to feel good
at times.
I found moments of
peace in cheap
just staring at the
knobs of some
or listening to the
rain in the
the less i needed
the better i
maybe the other life had worn me
I no longer found
in topping somebody
in conversation.
or in mounting the
body of some poor
drunken female
whose life had
slipped away into
I could never accept
life as it was,
i could never gobble
down all its
but there were parts,
tenous magic parts
open for the
I re formulated
I don't know when,
but the change
something in me
relaxed, smoothed
i no longer had to
prove that i was a
I did'nt have to prove
I began to see things:
coffe cups lined up
behind a counter in a
or a dog walking along
a sidewalk.
or the way the mouse
on my dresser top
stopped there
with its body,
its ears,
its nose,
it was fixed,
a bit of life
caught within itself
and its eyes looked
at me
and they were
then- it was
I began to feel good,
I began to feel good
in the worst situations
and there were plenty
of those.
like say, the boss
behind his desk,
he is going to have
to fire me.
I've missed too many
he is dressed in a
suit, necktie, glasses,
he says, "i am going
to have to let you go"
"it's all right" i tell
He must do what he
must do, he has a
wife, a house, children.
expenses, most probably
a girlfreind.
I am sorry for him
he is caught.
I walk onto the blazing
the whole day is
(the whole world is at the
throat of the world,
everybody feels angry,
short-changed, cheated,
everybody is despondent,
I welcomed shots of
peace, tattered shards of
I embraced that stuff
like the hottest number,
like high heels,breasts,
(dont get me wrong,
there is such a thing as cockeyed optimism
that overlooks all
basic problems justr for
the sake of
this is a sheild and a
The knife got near my
throat again,
I almost turned on the
but when the good
moments arrived
I did'nt fight them off
like an alley
I let them take me,
i luxuriated in them,
I bade them welcome
I even looked into
the mirror
once having thought
myself to be
I now liked what
I saw,almost
a bit ripped and
odd turns,
but all in all,
not too bad,
almost handsome,
better at least than
some of those movie
star faces
like the cheeks of
a babys
and finally I discovered
real feelings fo
like latley,
like this morning,
as I was leaving,
for the track,
i saw my wif in bed,
just the
shape of
her head there
(not forgetting
centuries of the living
and the dead and
the dying,
the pyarimids,
Mozart dead
but his music still
there in the
room, weeds growing,
the earth turning,
the toteboard waiting for
I saw the shape of my
wife's head,
she so still,
i ached for her life,
just being there
under the
i kissed her in the,
got down the stairway,
got outside,
got into my marvelous
fixed the seatbelt,
backed out the
feeling warm to
the fingertips,
down to my
foot on the gas
I entered the world
drove down the
past the houses
full and emptey
i saw the mailman,
he waved
at me.
to Robert Hass and in memory of Elliot Gilbert
Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn,
Bashõ and his friends go out to view the moon;
In summer, gasoline rainbow in the gutter,
The secret courtesy that courses like ichor
Through the old form of the rude, full-scale joke,
Impossible to tell in writing. "Bashõ"
He named himself, "Banana Tree": banana
After the plant some grateful students gave him,
Maybe in appreciation of his guidance
Threading a long night through the rules and channels
Of their collaborative linking-poem
Scored in their teacher's heart: live, rigid, fluid
Like passages etched in a microscopic cicuit.
Elliot had in his memory so many jokes
They seemed to breed like microbes in a culture
Inside his brain, one so much making another
It was impossible to tell them all:
In the court-culture of jokes, a top banana.
Imagine a court of one: the queen a young mother,
Unhappy, alone all day with her firstborn child
And her new baby in a squalid apartment
Of too few rooms, a different race from her neighbors.
She tells the child she's going to kill herself.
She broods, she rages. Hoping to distract her,
The child cuts capers, he sings, he does imitations
Of different people in the building, he jokes,
He feels if he keeps her alive until the father
Gets home from work, they'll be okay till morning.
It's laughter versus the bedroom and the pills.
What is he in his efforts but a courtier?
Impossible to tell his whole delusion.
In the first months when I had moved back East
From California and had to leave a message
On Bob's machine, I used to make a habit
Of telling the tape a joke; and part-way through,
I would pretend that I forgot the punchline,
Or make believe that I was interrupted--
As though he'd be so eager to hear the end
He'd have to call me back. The joke was Elliot's,
More often than not. The doctors made the blunder
That killed him some time later that same year.
One day when I got home I found a message
On my machine from Bob. He had a story
About two rabbis, one of them tall, one short,
One day while walking along the street together
They see the corpse of a Chinese man before them,
And Bob said, sorry, he forgot the rest.
Of course he thought that his joke was a dummy,
Impossible to tell--a dead-end challenge.
But here it is, as Elliot told it to me:
The dead man's widow came to the rabbis weeping,
Begging them, if they could, to resurrect him.
Shocked, the tall rabbi said absolutely not.
But the short rabbi told her to bring the body
Into the study house, and ordered the shutters
Closed so the room was night-dark. Then he prayed
Over the body, chanting a secret blessing
Out of Kabala. "Arise and breathe," he shouted;
But nothing happened. The body lay still. So then
The little rabbi called for hundreds of candles
And danced around the body, chanting and praying
In Hebrew, then Yiddish, then Aramaic. He prayed
In Turkish and Egyptian and Old Galician
For nearly three hours, leaping about the coffin
In the candlelight so that his tiny black shoes
Seemed not to touch the floor. With one last prayer
Sobbed in the Spanish of before the Inquisition
He stopped, exhausted, and looked in the dead man's face.
Panting, he raised both arms in a mystic gesture
And said, "Arise and breathe!" And still the body
Lay as before. Impossible to tell
In words how Elliot's eyebrows flailed and snorted
Like shaggy mammoths as--the Chinese widow
Granting permission--the little rabbi sang
The blessing for performing a circumcision
And removed the dead man's foreskin, chanting blessings
In Finnish and Swahili, and bathed the corpse
From head to foot, and with a final prayer
In Babylonian, gasping with exhaustion,
He seized the dead man's head and kissed the lips
And dropped it again and leaping back commanded,
"Arise and breathe!" The corpse lay still as ever.
At this, as when Bashõ's disciples wind
Along the curving spine that links the renga
Across the different voices, each one adding
A transformation according to the rules
Of stasis and repetition, all in order
And yet impossible to tell beforehand,
Elliot changes for the punchline: the wee
Rabbi, still panting, like a startled boxer,
Looks at the dead one, then up at all those watching,
A kind of Mel Brooks gesture: "Hoo boy!" he says,
"Now that's what I call really dead." O mortal
Powers and princes of earth, and you immortal
Lords of the underground and afterlife,
Jehovah, Raa, Bol-Morah, Hecate, Pluto,
What has a brilliant, living soul to do with
Your harps and fires and boats, your bric-a-brac
And troughs of smoking blood? Provincial stinkers,
Our languages don't touch you, you're like that mother
Whose small child entertained her to beg her life.
Possibly he grew up to be the tall rabbi,
The one who washed his hands of all those capers
Right at the outset. Or maybe he became
The author of these lines, a one-man renga
The one for whom it seems to be impossible
To tell a story straight. It was a routine
Procedure. When it was finished the physicians
Told Sandra and the kids it had succeeded,
But Elliot wouldn't wake up for maybe an hour,
They should go eat. The two of them loved to bicker
In a way that on his side went back to Yiddish,
On Sandra's to some Sicilian dialect.
He used to scold her endlessly for smoking.
When she got back from dinner with their children
The doctors had to tell them about the mistake.
Oh swirling petals, falling leaves! The movement
Of linking renga coursing from moment to moment
Is meaning, Bob says in his Haiku book.
Oh swirling petals, all living things are contingent,
Falling leaves, and transient, and they suffer.
But the Universal is the goal of jokes,
Especially certain ethnic jokes, which taper
Down through the swirling funnel of tongues and gestures
Toward their preposterous Ithaca. There's one
A journalist told me. He heard it while a hero
Of the South African freedom movement was speaking
To elderly Jews. The speaker's own right arm
Had been blown off by right-wing letter-bombers.
He told his listeners they had to cast their ballots
For the ANC--a group the old Jews feared
As "in with the Arabs." But they started weeping
As the old one-armed fighter told them their country
Needed them to vote for what was right, their vote
Could make a country their children could return to
From London and Chicago. The moved old people
Applauded wildly, and the speaker's friend
Whispered to the journalist, "It's the Belgian Army
Joke come to life." I wish I could tell it
To Elliot. In the Belgian Army, the feud
Between the Flemings and Walloons grew vicious,
So out of hand the army could barely function.
Finally one commander assembled his men
In one great room, to deal with things directly.
They stood before him at attention. "All Flemings,"
He ordered, "to the left wall." Half the men
Clustered to the left. "Now all Walloons," he ordered,
"Move to the right." An equal number crowded
Against the right wall. Only one man remained
At attention in the middle: "What are you, soldier?"
Saluting, the man said, "Sir, I am a Belgian."
"Why, that's astonishing, Corporal--what's your name?"
Saluting again, "Rabinowitz," he answered:
A joke that seems at first to be a story
About the Jews. But as the renga describes
Religious meaning by moving in drifting petals
And brittle leaves that touch and die and suffer
The changing winds that riffle the gutter swirl,
So in the joke, just under the raucous music
Of Fleming, Jew, Walloon, a courtly allegiance
Moves to the dulcimer, gavotte and bow,
Over the banana tree the moon in autumn--
Allegiance to a state impossible to tell.
RIFTED mountains, clad with forests, girded round by gleaming pines,
Where the morning, like an angel, robed in golden splendour shines;
Shimmering mountains, throwing downward on the slopes a mazy glare
Where the noonday glory sails through gulfs of calm and glittering air;
Stately mountains, high and hoary, piled with blocks of amber cloud,
Where the fading twilight lingers, when the winds are wailing loud;
Grand old mountains, overbeetling brawling brooks and deep ravines,
Where the moonshine, pale and mournful, flows on rocks and evergreens.
Underneath these regal ridges - underneath the gnarly trees,
I am sitting, lonely-hearted, listening to a lonely breeze!
Sitting by an ancient casement, casting many a longing look
Out across the hazy gloaming - out beyond the brawling brook!
Over pathways leading skyward - over crag and swelling cone,
Past long hillocks looking like to waves of ocean turned to stone;
Yearning for a bliss unworldly, yearning for a brighter change,
Yearning for the mystic Aidenn, built beyond this mountain range.
Happy years, amongst these valleys, happy years have come and gone,
And my youthful hopes and friendships withered with them one by one;
Days and moments bearing onward many a bright and beauteous dream,
All have passed me like to sunstreaks flying down a distant stream.
Oh, the love returned by loved ones! Oh, the faces that I knew!
Oh, the wrecks of fond affection! Oh, the hearts so warm and true!
But their voices I remember, and a something lingers still,
Like a dying echo roaming sadly round a far off hill.
I would sojourn here contented, tranquil as I was of yore,
And would never wish to clamber, seeking for an unknown shore;
I have dwelt within this cottage twenty summers, and mine eyes
Never wandered erewhile round in search of undiscovered skies;
But a spirit sits beside me, veiled in robes of dazzling white,
And a dear one's whisper wakens with the symphonies of night;
And a low sad music cometh, borne along on windy wings,
Like a strain familiar rising from a maze of slumbering springs.
And the Spirit, by my window, speaketh to my restless soul,
Telling of the clime she came from, where the silent moments roll;
Telling of the bourne mysterious, where the sunny summers flee
Cliffs and coasts, by man untrodden, ridging round a shipless sea.
There the years of yore are blooming - there departed life-dreams dwell,
There the faces beam with gladness that I loved in youth so well;
There the songs of childhood travel, over wave-worn steep and strand -
Over dale and upland stretching out behind this mountain land.
``Lovely Being, can a mortal, weary of this changeless scene,
Cross these cloudy summits to the land where man hath never been?
Can he find a pathway leading through that wildering mass of pines,
So that he shall reach the country where ethereal glory shines;
So that he may glance at waters never dark with coming ships;
Hearing round him gentle language floating from angelic lips;
Casting off his earthly fetters, living there for evermore;
All the blooms of Beauty near him, gleaming on that quiet shore?
``Ere you quit this ancient casement, tell me, is it well to yearn
For the evanescent visions, vanished never to return?
Is it well that I should with to leave this dreary world behind,
Seeking for your fair Utopia, which perchance I may not find?
Passing through a gloomy forest, scaling steeps like prison walls,
Where the scanty sunshine wavers and the moonlight seldom falls?
Oh, the feelings re-awakened! Oh, the hopes of loftier range!
Is it well, thou friendly Being, well to wish for such a change?''
But the Spirit answers nothing! and the dazzling mantle fades;
And a wailing whisper wanders out from dismal seaside shades!
``Lo, the trees are moaning loudly, underneath their hood-like shrouds,
And the arch above us darkens, scarred with ragged thunder clouds!''
But the spirit answers nothing, and I linger all alone,
Gazing through the moony vapours where the lovely Dream has flown;
And my heart is beating sadly, and the music waxeth faint,
Sailing up to holy Heaven, like the anthems of a Saint.
The Frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry
Came loud---and hark, again! loud as before.
The inmates of my cottage, all at rest,
Have left me to that solitude, which suits
Abstruser musings: save that at my side
My cradled infant slumbers peacefully.
`Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs
And vexes meditation with its strange
And extreme silentness. Sea, hill, and wood,
This populous village! Sea, and hill, and wood,
With all the numberless goings-on of life,
Inaudible as dreams! the thin blue flame
Lies on my low-burnt fire, and quivers not;
Only that film, which fluttered on the grate,
Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.
Methinks, its motion in this hush of nature
Gives it dim sympathies with me who live,
Making it a companionable form,
Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit
By its own moods interprets, every where
Echo or mirror seeking of itself,
And makes a toy of Thought.
But O! how oft,
How oft, at school, with most believing mind,
Presageful, have I gazed upon the bars,
To watch that fluttering stranger! and as oft
With unclosed lids, already had I dreamt
Of my sweet birth-place, and the old church-tower,
Whose bells, the poor man's only music, rang
>From morn to evening, all the hot Fair-day,
So sweetly, that they stirred and haunted me
With a wild pleasure, falling on mine ear
Most like articulate sounds of things to come!
So gazed I, till the soothing things, I dreamt,
Lulled me to sleep, and sleep prolonged my dreams!
And so I brooded all the following morn,
Awed by the stern preceptor's face, mine eye
Fixed with mock study on my swimming book:
Save if the door half opened, and I snatched
A hasty glance, and still my heart leaped up,
For still I hoped to see the stranger's face,
Townsman, or aunt, or sister more beloved,
My play-mate when we both were clothed alike!
Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side,
Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm,
Fill up the interspersed vacancies
And momentary pauses of the thought!
My babe so beautiful! it thrills my heart
With tender gladness, thus to look at thee,
And think that thou shall learn far other lore,
And in far other scenes! For I was reared
In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim,
And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars.
But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze
By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags
Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds,
Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores
And mountain crags: so shalt thou see and hear
The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible
Of that eternal language, which thy God
Utters, who from eternity doth teach
Himself in all, and all things in himself.
Great universal Teacher! he shall mould
Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask.
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch
Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.
Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur. Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
That on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
The day is come when I again repose
Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts,
Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,
Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
'Mid groves and copses. Once again I see
These hedgerows, hardly hedgerows, little lines
Of sportive wood run wild; these pastoral farms,
Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke
Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!
With some uncertain notice, as might seem
Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,
Or of some Hermit's cave, where by his fire
The Hermit sits alone.
These beauteous forms,
Through a long absence, have not been to me
As is a landscape to a blind man's eye;
But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;
And passing even into my purer mind
With tranquil restoration—feelings too
Of unremembered pleasure; such, perhaps,
As have no slight or trivial influence
On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered, acts
Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust,
To them I may have owed another gift,
Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world,
Is lightened—that serene and blessed mood,
In which the affections gently lead us on—
Until, the breath of this corporeal frame
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul;
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
If this
Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft—
In darkness and amid the many shapes
Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world,
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart—
How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee,
O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer through the woods,
How often has my spirit turned to thee!
And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,
With many recognitions dim and faint,
And somewhat of a sad perplexity,
The picture of the mind revives again;
While here I stand, not only with the sense
Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts
That in this moment there is life and food
For future years. And so I dare to hope,
Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first
I came among these hills; when like a roe
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides
Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams,
Wherever nature led—more like a man
Flying from something that he dreads than one
Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then
(The coarser pleasures of my boyish days
And their glad animal movements all gone by)
To me was all in all.—I cannot paint
What then I was. The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colors and their forms, were then to me
An appetite; a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied, not any interest
Unborrowed from the eye.—That time is past,
And all its aching joys are now no more,
And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this
Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts
Have followed; for such loss, I would believe,
Abundant recompense. For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye, and ear—both what they half create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognize
In nature and the language of the sense
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being.
Nor perchance,
If I were not thus taught, should I the more
Suffer my genial spirits to decay:
For thou art with me here upon the banks
Of this fair river; thou my dearest Friend,
My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch
The language of my former heart, and read
My former pleasures in the shooting lights
Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while
May I behold in thee what I was once,
My dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make,
Knowing that Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,
Through all the years of this our life, to lead
From joy to joy: for she can so inform
The mind that is within us, so impress
With quietness and beauty, and so feed
With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues,
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men,
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life,
Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb
Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold
Is full of blessings. Therefore let the moon
Shine on thee in thy solitary walk;
And let the misty mountain winds be free
To blow against thee: and, in after years,
When these wild ecstasies shall be matured
Into a sober pleasure; when thy mind
Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms,
Thy memory be as a dwelling place
For all sweet sounds and harmonies; oh! then,
If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,
Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts
Of tender joy wilt thou remember me,
And these my exhortations! Nor, perchance—
If I should be where I no more can hear
Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams
Of past existence—wilt thou then forget
That on the banks of this delightful stream
We stood together; and that I, so long
A worshipper of Nature, hither came
Unwearied in that service; rather say
With warmer love—oh! with far deeper zeal
Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget,
That after many wanderings, many years
Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs,
And this green pastoral landscape, were to me
More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake!
Who can say
Why her eyes,
Those playmates of the hamlet where Beauty dwells,
Why her eyes smile that way ?
When notes arising from her soul,
That Temple-Palace of Music,
And traipsing through the land of glad tidings,
Mirthfully smothering the tinkling of their anklets,
Tip toe up, haltingly, secretively,
To the gates of her lips,
Why her gaze sparkles and smiles ?
Leaping over islands of silence
And wastelands of sealed lip pining,
When the silhouettes of desire
Come waltzing in
To nestle in an intimate moment's nest,
Why her gaze sparkles and smiles ?
Her soul, that Sprite-Princess,
Neither lifts her veil
Nor voices her song
And when her heart's ballad
Passes through distant, unexplored worlds
As the faint, lingering sounds of a flute …
Why her gaze sparkles and smiles !
Following are several translations
of the 'Old Pond' poem, which may be
the most famous of all haiku:
Furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto
-- Basho
Literal Translation
Fu-ru (old) i-ke (pond) ya,
ka-wa-zu (frog) to-bi-ko-mu (jumping into)
mi-zu (water) no o-to (sound)
The old pond--
a frog jumps in,
sound of water.
Translated by Robert Hass
Old pond...
a frog jumps in
water's sound.
Translated by William J. Higginson
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
Translated by Harry Behn
There is the old pond!
Lo, into it jumps a frog:
hark, water's music!
Translated by John Bryan
The silent old pond
a mirror of ancient calm,
a frog-leaps-in splash.
Translated by Dion O'Donnol
old pond
frog leaping
Translated by Cid Corman
Antic pond--
frantic frog jumps in--
gigantic sound.
Translated by Bernard Lionel Einbond
'Dere wasa dis frogg
Gone jumpa offa da logg
Now he inna bogg.'
-- Anonymous
Translated by George M. Young, Jr.
Old pond
leap -- splash
a frog.
Translated by Lucien Stryck
The old pond,
A frog jumps in:.
Translated by Allan Watts
The old pond, yes, and
A frog is jumping into
The water, and splash.
Translated by G.S. Fraser
SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees 5
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more
And still more later flowers for the bees
Until they think warm days will never cease 10
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; 15
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep
Drowsed with the fume of poppies while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twin¨¨d flowers;
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook; 20
Or by a cider-press with patient look
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay where are they?
Think not of them thou hast thy music too ¡ª
While barr¨¨d clouds bloom the soft-dying day 25
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; 30
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
EVENING was in the wood, louring with storm.
A time of drought had sucked the weedy pool
And baked the channels; birds had done with song.
Thirst was a dream of fountains in the moon,
Or willow-music blown across the water 5
Leisurely sliding on by weir and mill.
Uneasy was the man who wandered, brooding,
His face a little whiter than the dusk.
A drone of sultry wings flicker¡¯d in his head.
The end of sunset burning thro¡¯ the boughs 10
Died in a smear of red; exhausted hours
Cumber¡¯d, and ugly sorrows hemmed him in.
He thought: ¡®Somewhere there¡¯s thunder,¡¯ as he strove
To shake off dread; he dared not look behind him,
But stood, the sweat of horror on his face. 15
He blunder¡¯d down a path, trampling on thistles,
In sudden race to leave the ghostly trees.
And: ¡®Soon I¡¯ll be in open fields,¡¯ he thought,
And half remembered starlight on the meadows,
Scent of mown grass and voices of tired men, 20
Fading along the field-paths; home and sleep
And cool-swept upland spaces, whispering leaves,
And far off the long churring night-jar¡¯s note.
But something in the wood, trying to daunt him,
Led him confused in circles through the thicket. 25
He was forgetting his old wretched folly,
And freedom was his need; his throat was choking.
Barbed brambles gripped and clawed him round his legs,
And he floundered over snags and hidden stumps.
Mumbling: ¡®I will get out! I must get out!¡¯ 30
Butting and thrusting up the baffling gloom,
Pausing to listen in a space ¡¯twixt thorns,
He peers around with peering, frantic eyes.
An evil creature in the twilight looping,
Flapped blindly in his face. Beating it off, 35
He screeched in terror, and straightway something clambered
Heavily from an oak, and dropped, bent double,
To shamble at him zigzag, squat and bestial.
Headlong he charges down the wood, and falls
With roaring brain¡ªagony¡ªthe snap¡¯t spark¡ª 40
And blots of green and purple in his eyes.
Then the slow fingers groping on his neck,
And at his heart the strangling clasp of death.


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Sure do. Expect the obligatory bowing, grovelling and scraping Appreciation thread to appear anytime now
The whole "MeTooism" of any corp that had anything to do with audio jumping in on the headphone market has become so common now it just barely registers anymore.
We need to start a pool for Who's next up in the rush to market Name Brand headphone race.
^ Welp i am surprised that the fruit company hasn't milked it yet. But i guess it's easier to just sell beats/ others brands for premium prices in their retail shops cuz they know their fanbase will pay the full MSRPs for them.
woof woof!!!


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Ocean City
September 14th, 2013
Gym, tye-die, perms.
(submitted by Kim)
you're right…the headbands would have been too much
I hope they got these in Ocean City, NJ and not Ocean City, MD….I HOPE!
They should have worn their bright outfits
And matching sunburns!
And all blonde to boot!
I read Ocean Pity
And very TAN.


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The way the fans are responding to this patch and news of it, you just know the game is kind of messed up. Its a big fix supposedly.
Tells me all I need to know right there. And I seriously doubt no amount of patches is going to bring swtor up to the standard a mega million mmo should be.
Even after 1.2 the player base will still not be there. People will still hate it and the game will wind up going f2p, or getting the servers shut down for lack of subscriptions.
Ranked warzones not in 1.2 anymore. They are holding off deployment for now.
Originally posted by Alalala
Unsubscribed already.
Too much like WoW, of a couple years ago.
Sure the cut-scene, voice dialogue is cool, but it dulls all too soon, leaving a lesser WoW in its place.
Take away the light sabers, and you've got a middling, under developed MMO.
On many areas it's lesser WoW and underdeveloped, but at least it has something important that WoW does not have anymore today, constant open world group content while leveling. Anyway, finally unsubbed my self too, just nothing to do in the open world after leveling to max, which is the most important feature for me in a mmorpg, the open world.
Hope this goes Free2Play (like Aion/L2; none of that Freemium crap).
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall." - Confucius
ROFLMAO!! First let me say this. I love the game! It's had its problems. They fixed few and thats a positive on maken a few.
Originally posted by RefMinor
Beyond all my expectations. :-)
The only thing I miss now is to have multiple builds. if some class can i.e. heal is nice to have healing build to be usefull for group, but is problem when soloing and questing. Also is possible to test various trees without need to go to skill reset trainer. Would be great to be possible to switch between varous builds.
Btw, to dyner, i sincerely hope that putrid f2p plague never come in contact with Swtor (or wow and rift for that matter). This three are only games that are worth and should stay P2P.


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Poppy Seed Dinner Loaf
|Vegetable cooking spray
|Cornflake crumbs
|1 Tablespoon
|Unbleached all purpose flour
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Yellow cornmeal
|2⁄3 Cup (10.67 tbs)
|Grated parmesan cheese
|2 Tablespoon
|Poppy seed
|1 Tablespoon
|2 Teaspoon
|Baking powder
|2 Teaspoon
|Onion powder
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|2⁄3 Cup (10.67 tbs)
|Egg white
|Vegetable oil
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
Spray 8 x 4-inch loaf dish with vegetable cooking spray.
Line bottom of loaf dish with wax paper.
Spray wax paper with vegetable cooking spray.
Sprinkle with cornflake crumbs.
Tilt dish to coat.
Set aside.
In medium mixing bowl, combine all remaining ingredients.
Beat at low speed of electric mixer until moistened.
Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.
Spread batter evenly into prepared dish.
Shield ends with 2-inch strips of foil, covering 1-inch of batter and molding remainder around handles of dish.
Place dish on saucer in oven.
Microwave at 50% (Medium) for 6 minutes, rotating dish 1/4 turn after every 3 minutes.
Remove foil.
Increase power to High.
Microwave for 1 to 5 minutes longer, or until center springs back when touched lightly and no uncooked batter remains on the bottom, rotating dish once.
Let stand on counter for 5 to 10 minutes.
Recipe Summary
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Nutrition Rank
Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 944 Calories from Fat 445
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 50 g77.2%
Saturated Fat 8.7 g43.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 118.9 mg39.6%
Sodium 762.3 mg31.8%
Total Carbohydrates 99 g33.2%
Dietary Fiber 6.7 g26.8%
Sugars 6.6 g
Protein 24 g48.5%
Vitamin A 6.6% Vitamin C 3.2%
Calcium 66.7% Iron 46.3%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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The Regents of the University of California at San Diego
: $15,275,115.00
San Diego, CA
Expand pre-hospital emergency field care and electronic information transmission to improve outcomes for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, empower patients to engage in their own health management through web portal and cellular telephone technology, and improve continuity of care for veterans and military personnel through the Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record initiative.
Louisiana Public Health Institute
: $13,525,434.00
New Orleans, LA
Reduce racial health disparities and improve control of diabetes and smoking cessation rates by linking technically isolated health systems, providers, and hospitals; and empower patients by increasing their access to Personal Health Records.
Mayo Clinic Rochester, d/b/a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
: $12,284,770.00
Rochester, MN
Enhance patient management and, reduce costs costs associated with hospitalization and emergency services for patients with diabetes and childhood asthma and address reduce health disparities for underserved populations and rural communities.
Delta Health Alliance, Inc.
: $14,666,156.00
Stoneville, MS
Focus on achieving improvements for diabetic patients by electronically linking isolated systems and practices for care management, medication therapy management and patient education.
Southern Piedmont Community Care Plan, Inc.
: $15,907,622.00
Concord, NC
Improve care coordination for patients with diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and asthma by engaging patients and providers in bidirectional data sharing through a Health Record Bank, empowering patients and family members to participate in self-management through patient portals, and expanding access to care managers to facilitate post-discharge planning.
Western New York Clinical Information Exchange, Inc.
: $16,092,485.00
Buffalo, NY
Utilize clinical decision support tools such as registries and point-of-care alerts and reminders and innovative telemedicine solutions to improve primary and specialty care for diabetic patients, decrease preventable emergency room visits, hospitalizations and re-admissions for patients with diabetes and congestive heart failure or pneumonia, and improve immunization rates among diabetic patients.
Geisinger Clinic
: $16,069,110.00
Danville, PA
Enhance care for patients with pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure by creating a community-wide medical home, promoting Health Information Exchange and extending Geisinger�s proven model for practice redesign� to independent healthcare organizations throughout region.
Rhode Island Quality Institute
: $15,914,787.00
Providence, RI
Improve the management of patients with diabetes through several health IT initiatives to support Rhode Island�s transition to the Patient Centered Medical Home model and adapt infrastructure proven to improve childhood immunizations in order to achieve improvements in adult immunization rates.
: $15,790,181.00
Salt Lake City, UT
Improve Diabetes management performance measures by increasing availability, accuracy and transparency of quality reporting, leverage Intermountain Healthcare�s strategies to reduce health systems costs throughout the region, and improve public health reporting.
Inland Northwest Health Services
: $15,702,479.00
Spokane, WA
Focus on increasing preventive services for diabetic patients in rural areas by extending Health Information Exchange and establishing anchor institutions in close proximity to remote clinics that will promulgate successes in health IT supported care coordination.
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems
: $12,749,740.00
Brewer, ME
Expand community connectivity, including long-term care, primary care and specialist providers, to existing Health Information Exchange and promote the use of telemedicine and patient self-management in order to improve care for elderly patients and individuals needing long-term or home care.
Indiana Health Information Exchange, INC.
: $16,008,431.00
Indianapolis, IN
Expand the country�s largest Health Information Exchange to new community providers in order to improve cholesterol and blood sugar control for diabetic patients and reduce preventable re-admissions through telemonitoring of high risk chronic disease patients after hospital discharge.
University of Hawaii at Hilo
: $16,091,390.00
Hilo, HI
Implement a region-wide Health Information Exchange and Patient Health Record solution and utilize secure, internet-based care coordination and tele-monitoring tools to increase access to specialty care for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity in this rural, health-professional shortage area.
Rocky Mountain Health Maintenance Organization, Grand Junction
: $11,878,279.00
Grand Junction, CO
Enable robust collection of clinical data from health systems, providers, and hospitals in order to inform practice redesign to improve blood pressure control in patients with diabetes and hypertension, increase smoking cessation counseling, and reduce unnecessary emergency department utilization and hospital re-admissions.
Community Health Alliance of Humboldt-Del Norte
Humbolt County, CA
The Humboldt County-AF4Q initiative is a collaborative project of many local organizations and individuals interested in improving the quality of health care. The effort fosters a high-quality, integrated, patient-centered system of care that is accessible to all North Coast residents. The project has three aims�provider measurement and public reporting, patient involvement, and medical care improvement activities�to improve the medical care and self-care of patients, particularly those with diabetes..
Central Indiana Alliance for Health
Nine central Indiana counties, including Marion County, which encompasses Indianapolis
To achieve its goals, CIA4H aims to increase awareness of health care quality; increase the use and understanding of publicly available quality information; and support the roles of consumers and providers in achieving high-quality, patient-centered care..
The Greater Boston Quality Coalition
Boston, MA
The Greater Boston Quality Coalition's (GBQC) mission is to create substantive change and sustained improvement in the area's health care system through community-wide performance measurement and reporting, consumer engagement and quality improvement efforts. The Coalition's initial focus is on reducing preventable emergency department visits and associated admissions as an indicator for assuring appropriate care in the community. GBQC will work to achieve and sustain community-wide improvements in caring for patients with chronic health conditions such as asthma and diabetes, as well as focusing on improving access to primary care services..
Massachusetts Chartered Value Exchange
Watertown, MA
Collaboration among diverse stakeholders and promotion of benefit designs that encourage high value healthcare. Measure and report on cost of health care and promote the development and adoption of payment incentive systems that reward providers based on performance. .
Maine Aligning Forces for Quality
Manchester, ME (Statewide)
The Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative in Maine is led by Quality Counts (QC). Established in 2004 by a network of 35 organizations, QC is a multi-stakeholder statewide regional health care coalition that is committed to working across organizations and communities to improve health care systems and outcomes for the people of Maine. Its mission is to coordinate existing, but disparate, efforts across the state that promote local, coordinated systems of care and the resources that support them..
Maine Chartered Value Exchange Alliance
Scarborough, ME
Provide quality rankings for hospitals and primary care physicians, bring purchaser and provider communities together in a partnership to measure and report on the value of healthcare services..
Greater Detroit Area Health Council
Detroit, MI
As one of the AF4Q pilot sites, GDAHC implemented Save Lives Save Dollars, a multi-year initiative of coordinated immediate and long-term actions to drive quality improvement (save lives) and derive cost reductions (save dollars). As GDAHC enters the second phase of AF4Q, its mission is to continue to lead improvement in the quality, cost-effectiveness and accessibility of health care..
Alliance for Health
Grand Rapids, MI; West Michigan (Mason, Lake, Osceola, Oceana, Newaygo, Mecosta, Montcalm, Muskegon, Ottawa, Kent, Ionia, Allegan and Barry counties )
The AF4Q work of the Alliance focuses on improving quality and efficiency, reducing disparities and using information as a foundation for provider quality improvement and consumer engagement. Consumer engagement entails influencing, inspiring and motivating consumers to become more active partners in their health care. The initiative aims to increase consumers� understanding of what high-quality health care is�in general and within the context of diabetes, the Alliance�s first focus area�and to engage diabetes patients in evidence-based self-management activities to improve health and minimize the negative effects of the disease..
MN Community Measurement
Minneapolis, MN (Statewide)
Under AF4Q, the site is expanding performance measurement to publicly report new measures, such as patient experience of care, and more detailed data, such as new clinic-level results for select chronic disease measures. The site's AF4Q initiative is also furthering consumer engagement through its Consumer Engagement Workgroup, first with a targeted focus on patients with diabetes. A new consumer-centered Web site, www.theD5.org, features diabetes care quality information, which will be promoted through a community communications campaign. The next phase of consumer engagement work will focus on the needs of traditionally underserved populations. Efforts to improve provider capacity to undertake quality improvement include a Patient Activation Redesign Collaborative, led by the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, and alignment of continuing medical education offerings around quality improvement topics, particularly data transparency..
Albuquerque Coalition for Healthcare Quality
Albuquerque, NM
The Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative in Albuquerque is led by the Albuquerque Coalition for Healthcare Quality (AC4HQ) in partnership with the New Mexico Medical Review Association, the state's health quality improvement organization. AC4HQ is a multistakeholder coalition consisting of hospitals, health plans, primary care physicians, nurses, consumers and employers working together to drive health care quality. The coalition is working across organizations and Albuquerque's multicultural community to improve health care systems and outcomes for residents..
P� Collaborative of Western New York
Williamsville, NY; Western New York (Cattaraugus, Alleghany, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, Wyoming and Chautauqua counties)
The P� Collaborative's AF4Q initiative aims to: educate the Western New York community about the importance of health care quality and how consumers (particularly those with diabetes) can take a proactive role; engage the community to incorporate the most up-to-date best practices in treating patients suffering from diabetes and related conditions; create a platform for consumers with diabetes to report on the quality of care they receive; and disseminate resources to diabetes educators, consumers, providers, employers and health plans..
Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati Aligning Forces for Quality
Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati AF4Q seeks to enhance local infrastructure and to align key drivers of overall health care improvement. The initiative has identified diabetes as its initial condition of focus, later to be followed by additional conditions. Programmatic aims include aligning diabetes care messaging among employers, health plans, providers and community-based organizations; initiating quality improvement among primary care providers; and initiating region-wide public reporting of selected primary care practices' quality-related outcomes..
Better Health Greater Cleveland
Cleveland, OH
Physician practices across the region volunteer to report measures of outcomes and care to produce twice yearly Community Health Checkup reports, first on diabetes. The reports are based on data from medical records of outpatient care with attention to socioeconomic group and whether the care was paid for through a government or commercial health plan or was provided to a patient without insurance..
Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation
Willamette Valley, Oregon (Multnomah, Washington, Marion, Polk, Yamhill, Clackamas, Linn, Benton and Lane counties)
The priorities of the Quality Corp are to promote the availability and use of understandable quality information to inform decision-making, stimulate cooperation among all health care stakeholders and support the development of a health information infrastructure so that Oregonians' health information is always available..
Healthy York County Coalition
York, PA
AF4Q in South Central PA seeks to improve the quality of health care, with initial foci on diabetes, congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease. The overall goals of the initiative are to strengthen the partnership between consumers and their health care teams and encourage consumers to take actions based on the information and data they receive..
Healthy Memphis Common Table
Memphis, TN
HMCT identifies and implements results-driven, quality improvement solutions that are informed by the expertise of community partners, including schools, faith-based organizations, local governments, social agencies, hospitals, health plans, physicians, employers and corporations. Its AF4Q initiative develops a sustainable infrastructure for physician quality improvement activities, placing an emphasis on performance measurement and public reporting in its programming..
The Puget Sound Health Alliance
Puget Sound, WA (King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish and Thurston counties )
Its AF4Q work includes developing and promoting quality improvement strategies that provide key stakeholders with action steps for targeted clinical areas, in addition to providing resources and tools to enhance quality improvement efforts..
Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality
Middleton, WI (Statewide)
Its initial consumer engagement efforts are focused on addressing the issue of low health literacy and its adverse impact on health outcomes. Many Wisconsin organizations are working together to implement the Ask Me 3 program, which is designed to apply practical solutions�like asking essential questions of your provider�to promote effective patient-provider communication..
California Chartered Value Exchange
San Francisco, CA
Collect and report comparable, reliable performance data for stakeholder use, such as standardized, reliable health plan and provider performance data. Also promote the use of accurate and comparable quality measures and create efficiency in data collection leading to reduced burden and cost to all participants..
Colorado Value Exchange
Denver, CO
Colorado Value Exchange is a virtual entity under the leadership of the Colorado Business Group on Health. It engages the healthcare markerplace through leadership and active participation, driving positive changes to address quality and realize savings, by creating standards of care, improving accountability and data about providers and hospitals, and restructuring and reforming healthcare delivery systems..
eHealth Connecticut Inc.
Middletown, CT
eHealth Connecticut is focused on statewide health information exchange, and represents a collaborative approach to meeting the challenges of health information technology adoption and interoperability for the entire state..
Quality Health First Program
Indianapolis, IN
Operates nation's largest health information exchange and assembles health data in a meaningful way for providers to help them achieve improved health outcomes for patients. Targets focus on cancer screenings, diabetes care, heart health, asthma care, well-child visits and other care interventions..
Greater Louisville Value Exchange Partnership
Lousiville, KY
Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum
Baton Rouge, LA
The Quality Forum has established five committees that focus on quality improvement. The committees include he Medical Home, Quality Measurement, Clinical Quality Improvement, Health Information Technology and Outreach and Education. .
Greater Detroit Area Health Council
Detroit, MI
As one of the AF4Q pilot sites, GDAHC implemented Save Lives Save Dollars, a multi-year initiative of coordinated immediate and long-term actions to drive quality improvement (save lives) and derive cost reductions (save dollars). As GDAHC enters the second phase of AF4Q, its mission is to continue to lead improvement in the quality, cost-effectiveness and accessibility of health care..
Alliance for Health
Grand Rapids, MI
Alliance for Health determines community needs, service gaps and areas of unnecessary duplication and measures health status of the community. They act as liason between different sectors to improve health care and lead discussion. .
Health Information Alliance
Mt. Pleasant, MI
Leverage health information technology to improve quality, safety, access, and cost-effectiveness of health care, across the central Michigan region. .
Healthcare Value Exchange
St. Paul, MN
The alliance�s activities directly relate to state health care reform legislation signed into law in May 2008; which include the Minnesota Quality Reporting and Incentive Payment System, Health care home support and development, Bundles of care measurement and payment, and Provider peer grouping by cost and quality. .
Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium
Kansas City, MO
The goals of KCQIC are to equip patients to make informed health care choices, engage physicians in public reporting and other processes to improve the quality of health care for patients, and increase the role that family and community resources play in helping people with their health care selections and services..
Partnership for Value Driven Health Care
Las Vegas, NV
Work with stakeholders to attain a value-driven healthcare system, through the development of health information technology, data sharing, increased transparency, and promote evidence based practices..
Niagara Health Quality Coalition
Williamsville, NY
Initiatives include www.myHealthFinder.com, New York's independent source of hospital and physician ratings. The New York State Hospital Report Card examines the quality of care at every NY state hospital, as well as a New York State Preventable Hospitalizations Report. .
New York Quality Alliance
Albany, NY
Comprised of representatives from multiple health plans, physician groups, businesses, consumers and government. It's project includes developing a uniform data aggregation and reporting system that will promote statewide quality performance improvements among health care practitioners. .
Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati and Health Bridge
Cincinnati, OH
Maintain HealthBridge, nation's largest health information exchange that connects hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, independent labs, radiology centers, and others within the health care community. It also releases Indicators of Healthy Communities Report every three years that gives an overview of the tri-state population's health and support initiatives to improve quality of care and health. .
Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation
Portland, OR
The priorities of the Quality Corp are to promote the availability and use of understandable quality information to inform decision-making, stimulate cooperation among all health care stakeholders and support the development of a health information infrastructure so that Oregonians' health information is always available..
Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative
Pittsburgh, PA
Implement electronic health records and clinical quality incentives payments. .
Aligning Forces for Quality - South Central Pennsylvania
York, PA
Improve health care transparency on quality, cost and efficiency, and patient experience through provider performance and patient management information collection and presentation with the provision of technical support to providers, performance-based payment, and public reporting to assist consumers in identifying high quality cost effective providers. .
Healthy Memphis Common Table
Memphis, TN
HMCT identifies and implements results-driven, quality improvement solutions that are informed by the expertise of community partners, including schools, faith-based organizations, local governments, social agencies, hospitals, health plans, physicians, employers and corporations. Its AF4Q initiative develops a sustainable infrastructure for physician quality improvement activities, placing an emphasis on performance measurement and public reporting in its programming..
Utah Partnership for Value- driven Health Care
Salt Lake City, UT
Define incentives and monitor pay for performance progress; increase adoption of electronic medical records among physicians and encourage and support exchange of health information. .
Virginia Health Care Alliance
Glen Allen, VA
Develop and maintain an integrated healthcare system through a multispecialty group and other healthcare providers and organizations. .
The Puget Sound Health Alliance
Seattle, WA
The Alliance measures and evaluates the actual performance of doctors and hospitals and then publishes results in the report Community Checkup, which evaluates and compares performance across hospitals, clinics, and among doctors. .
Wisconsin Healthcare Value Exchange
Madison, WI
Create the WHIO Health Analytics Exchange, a datadriven marketplace that analyzes health system and individual physician performance based on several variables. The Exchange can also be used to identify population health issues, gaps in care, and cost per episode of care. .
Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium
Kansas City, MO
The AF4Q goals of KCQIC are to equip patients to make informed health care choices, engage physicians in public reporting and other processes to improve the quality of health care for patients, and increase the role that family and community resources play in helping people with their health care selections and services..
Community Services Council of Tulsa
: $12,043,948.00
Tulsa, OK
Leverage broad community partnerships with hospitals, providers, payers, and government agencies� to expand a community-wide care coordination system, which will increase appropriate referrals for cancer screenings, decrease unnecessary specialist visits and (with telemedicine) increase access to care for patients with diabetes.
The Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge, Inc
: $13,800,000.00
Cincinnati, OH
Use health information exchange program to develop new quality improvement and care initiatives. Focus on patients with pediatric asthma and adult diabetes. Provide better clinical information and IT "decision support" tools to physicians, health systems, federally qualified health centers and critical access hospitals.
The Southeastern Michigan Health Association
: $16,200,000.00
Detroit, MI
Use Health IT tools and strategies to prevent and better manage diabetes. Leverage existing and new technologies across health care settings to improve availability of patient information at the point of care. Track clinical outcomes and provide practical support for the adaptation of EHRs.
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jesus the reborn savior
strikes a very shiny pose
that's cause he has a halo
you could even say it glows
all of the other saviors
used to like to drop god's name
"but he's my dad", said jesus
that became his claim to fame
then one dreary friday eve
pilate came to say
jesus, if your claim is right
won't god save your life tonight ?
then all the romans killed him
but he was brought back with glee
jesus the reborn savior
he went down in history
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Backpacking in Utah
Hikers in Utah travel paths through alpine forests, slickrock lands, jagged peaks and lush waterways in search of the great reward around the next bend. Sometimes the reward is a mountain top above 13,000 feet, a hidden sandstone arch or a waterfall oasis in the desert. Sometimes, you won't be able to reach that reward in the span of a single day or the reward itself is in the journey. It's time to pack your bag for the long haul and adjust your compass for Utah's magnetic declination (or check the battery in your GPS).
There is no more varied place on earth than Utah to backpack. To begin such an adventure in Utah, to step into its thousands of miles of wilderness, can be an extremely cathartic experience. The season can determine whether you choose to head for the mountains, make a pilgrimage to the desert, or both. More than 70 percent of Utah is public land: five National Parks, nine million acres of National Forest, millions of acres belong to the National Monuments and National Recreation Areas, and 42 percent of Utah is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. That adds up to unbelievable choices for backpacking that would take more than a lifetime to complete.
Regardless of where you choose to hike, be cautious. Never hike alone, always tell your friends and family where you are going and when you plan to return. Always carry plenty of water in both the deserts and mountains. Bring a first-aid kit and a water filter. Be prepared to be truly self-reliant. It's a good idea to take more food and water than you think you'll need in the event you become stranded. Most importantly, have a safe, fun, and rewarding experience.
Many professional guides offer hiking treks throughout Utah, including National Parks and Wilderness Areas. Find your next extended adventure below:
Wasatch Range Backpacking
Find trailheads to beautiful multiday hikes within minutes of downtown, then find solitude in the mountains.
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text: 000 NOUS42 KMLB 012128 PNSMLB FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-144-147-020000- Public Information Statement National Weather Service Melbourne FL 428 PM EST WED FEB 1 2017 ...January 2017 was Warmer and Drier Than Normal Across East Central Florida... A few cold frontal passages occurred across the area during January, ushering in some of the coldest temperatures so far this winter season. However these cool downs were limited and brief, with much of the rest of the month remaining warmer than normal, especially through the middle of the month. A couple bands of showers and storms, and a large area of light to moderate rain at the end of the month produced much of the precipitation in January. Still, monthly rainfall totals were below normal for many locations. Temperatures... Temperatures started out much warmer than normal into the first few days of the new year, with highs in the 80s. On the 3rd of the month, Daytona Beach, Orlando, Melbourne and Vero Beach all tied or broke their record highs for the day. A weak front that shifted across central Florida on the 4th only dropped temperatures slightly. However it was behind a stronger cold front that moved through on the 7th, that led to some of the coldest temperatures so far this season. This was especially true from the Orlando area northward, where temperatures dropped as low as the low to mid 30s early on the 8th. Warmer than normal temperatures quickly returned after this brief cold spell and persisted through the much of the rest of January as a more dominant ridge aloft limited additional frontal passages. Below normal temperatures then returned into late month, behind a cold front on the 27th, and a reinforcing boundary on the 30th. Areas south of Orlando on the morning of the 31st saw temperatures plummet into the low to mid 30s, which were some of the coldest values so far this winter across this part of the region. Since the periods of well below normal temperatures were quite brief and warmer conditions prevailed, average temperature departures for January ended up around 3 to 4 degrees above normal for much of the area. However, none of the primary climate sites ranked in the top ten warmest. Daily Record Temperatures for the Month: Daytona Beach: -January 3rd: Tied record high of 83 degrees last set in 2015. Also, set record warm low of 69 degrees. Previous record was 68 degrees last set in 1993. -January 22nd: Record high of 85 degrees. Previous record was 83 degrees last set in 1937. Orlando: -January 3rd: Tied record high of 86 degrees last set in 1967. Also, tied record warm low of 67 degrees last set in 2015. Melbourne: -January 3rd: Tied record high of 86 degrees last set in 1967. -January 22nd: Record high of 87 degrees. Previous record was 86 degrees last set in 2007. Vero Beach: -January 3rd: Record high of 86 degrees. Previous record was 83 last set in 2006. -January 22nd: Record high of 87 degrees. Previous record was 86 degrees last set in 2007. Average temperature values for January 2017 at the four primary climate sites across east central Florida are as follows (rankings provided if in the top 10): -Daytona Beach had a monthly average temperature of 62.5 degrees Fahrenheit, which was 4.6 degrees above normal. -Orlando had a monthly average temperature of 64.6 degrees Fahrenheit, which was 4.4 degrees above normal. -Melbourne had a monthly average temperature of 64.0 degrees Fahrenheit, which was 3.7 degrees above normal. -Vero Beach had a monthly average temperature of 65.1 degrees Fahrenheit, which was 3.0 degrees above normal. .Rainfall... Fronts early in January produced precipitation across the area, especially late on the 6th through the 7th when a band of showers and isolated storms generated totals up to 1 to 2 inches from Orlando northward. Drier than normal conditions then generally prevailed through the middle of the month, with rainfall mostly limited to isolated onshore moving light showers. A fast moving squall line ahead of a cold front then moved through the area on the evening of the 22nd through the early morning of the 23rd. This band of showers and storms produced widespread half inch, to locally heavier 1 to 2 inch rainfall amounts, as well as strong wind gusts and hail across east central Florida. A band of light to moderate rain also moved across the area at the end of the month, but only produced totals that averaged around a quarter of an inch. Despite these periods of rainfall, monthly precipitation totals were still below normal, around 75 percent or less of normal for many locations. January 2017 rainfall totals for the four primary climate sites across east central Florida are as follows (ranking provided if in the top 10): -Daytona Beach received 1.98 inches of rain for the month, which was 0.76 inches below normal. -Orlando received 1.98 inches of rain for the month, which was 0.37 inches below normal. -Melbourne received 1.46 inches of rain for the month, which was 0.81 inches below normal. -Vero Beach received 0.73 inches of rain for the month, which was 1.77 inches below normal. Below is a list of observed precipitation totals and rainfall statistics for select sites across east central Florida for January 2017: Station January 2017 Normal Departure Percent of Rainfall Rainfall From Normal Normal Daytona Beach 1.98" 2.74" -0.76" 72% (DAB) Orlando 1.98" 2.35" -0.37" 84% (MCO) Melbourne 1.46" 2.27" -0.81" 64% (MLB) Vero Beach 0.73" 2.50" -1.77" 29% (VRB) Clermont 1.98" 2.91" -0.93" 68% (CLRF1) Leesburg 3.10" 2.74" +0.36" 113% (LEE) DeLand 2.23" 3.04" -0.81" 73% (DELF1) Sanford 3.16" 2.86" +0.30" 110% (SFNF1) Titusville 2.52" 2.75" -0.23" 92% (TITF1) Fort Pierce 0.83" 2.35" -1.52" 35% (FPCF1) Stuart 1.14" 2.59" -1.45" 44% (STRF1) For more local climate information, please visit our web page at http://weather.gov/mlb and click on the "Climate" icon toward the bottom of the page. $$ Weitlich


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Restaurants in Putrajaya (Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya) – 49 Restaurants
Magnum Cafe
Puja G posted oneskinnyhippo.blogspot.myGood
A refreshing change of different ways to have your Magnum Ice Cream. The taste of Magnum as original as always.One place to pick on your creativity
Kelab Tasik Putrajaya
harrycath posted www.harrycath.com 20 ReviewsExceptional
Marvellous location, quaint and cosy place and excellent for marine inclined patrons. We were here for a wedding reception and though a bit cramped, the function hall served its purpose well.
Great spread and good quality food
Cha Tra Mue Number One Brand Original Thai Tea Sin
summerkid posted www.malaysianflavours.com 531 Reviews
Grab a tall cup of authentic Thai Milk Tea if you happened to visit IOI City Mall!
ojsiew posted ojsiew.blogspot.com 633 Reviews
The ribs were marvellous as it was succulent and flavourful!
Duckie posted duckies-food-blog.blogspot.com 304 Reviews
Don't know about the food there but don't think I want to go back there anymore.
Fuze Restaurant
pamela_ybc posted www.malaysianfoodie.com 987 Reviews
The mushroom soup is indeed superb and filled with the creaminess in it.
Stacks by LasVacas
Su Fen posted www.sufentan.com 153 Reviews
I love the combination of wood and concrete in the restaurant. The concrete actually toned down the wood colour, making the whole place looks more energetic.
Palms Cafe
perutbesi posted perutbesi.blogspot.com 230 Reviews
If you're keen to have some good food during the breaking of fast, you've gotta hurry to get your dining vouchers before the vouchers get snapped up!
t-Lounge by Dilmah
ChristineLeng posted www.broughtup2share.com 430 Reviews
Next visit, we would love to check out their food and of course the different types of tea! Anyone?
Penang Road Famous Teochew Chendul
Pas De Nom posted chillout-soulout-freakout.blogspot.com 465 Reviews
When you are already famous with cendol, it is a good time to diversify some other dishes which I heard they are pretty good at which are their assam laksa, curry mee and rojak.
Secret Recipe
With good service, nice environment and of course excellent food, it is awarded as "Malaysia Best Halal Restaurant of The Year 2005".
The Village
ChristineLeng posted www.broughtup2share.com 430 Reviews
The Village features an exquisite local architecture with a touch of Balinese style with traditional attap roofing. They provide a contemporary range of Asian cuisine as well as Mediterranean for patrons to enjoy while they dine by the lake.
Penang Village
The overall rating is good. The food is worth for the price.
Me and my colleagues were on a business trip from Penang and the locals here told us about Putrajaya Alamanda Shopping Mall. We paid a visit and decided to have dinner at Penang Village Restaurant because the ambiance looked traditional and very nyonya. The food was well presented, and very delicious as well, especially the baba chicken. The yin yang kai lan was cooked crispy and the stem very crunchy. Five stars given.