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University Presidents Are Cashing In, While Students And Professors Get Messed Over
Dear Colleagues:
Professional and daily newspapers have recently let us know that 42 presidents of private universities and 17 presidents of public ones now make more than $500,000. In fact, seven presidents of private universities made more than $800,000 in the 2003 fiscal year, and the outside earnings of some of these (via payments made to them because they are corporate directors, for example) gave them total earnings of a million dollars or more. (Judith Rodin of Penn is said to have made $893,213 in university compensation and about $404,000 as a director of five corporations (for a total of nearly 1.3 million dollars. Boy, financially speaking, Rodin must be the original Thinker, eh?).
Presidents of public universities are no pikers either in the really big money game. Four of them are over or pretty near $700,000. Mary Sue Coleman, the President of Michigan (my own alma mater) made 677,500, which put her "only" in third place among presidents of public universities. (However, it is significant that she also gets at least $100,000 in directors fees, plus shares and stock options -- no piker Mary Joe.) The guy said to be in second place, Carl Patten, made $723,350 for being President of Georgia State University. (Georgia State?)
Ofttimes high compensation for presidents of public schools arises because they receive money from private contributions as well as public monies. (For example, of the $651,400 received by the President of the University of Texas system, $581,169 comes from private contributions; of the $549,783 received by the President of the University of Virginia, $398,362 comes from private contributions. There are many other examples, particularly including Louisville, Texas Tech, and the University of Texas at Austin.)
In fairness to the academy (if fairness is the right word), it is reported that one-third of private college presidents earned "only" between $200,000 and $300,000 in the 2003 fiscal year, and the median compensation for presidents at all public universities surveyed by The Chronicle of Higher Education was "only" $328,400. (Medians were higher in some individual regions (e.g., the South, with a median of $398,002), and lower in other regions (e.g., the west, where the median was $303,651).) Earnings of $200,000 or $300,000 are not exactly chicken feed, yet perhaps they don't have quite as obnoxious a ring as saying a university President makes nearly $700,000 or a million dollars.
At the same time that we are hearing that university Presidents are making a fortune, we simultaneously read that professors are getting little or nothing in pay raises, and students' tuitions are constantly going up. Perhaps Georgia can serve as a poster child here. Let me quote from the November 19th issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education:
The University of Georgia's Mr. Adams [who earned $637,966] was the sixth-highest-paid president in the survey, and G. Wayne Clough, president of Georgia Institute of Technology, was 11th, earning $531,587. The system's chancellor, Thomas C. Meredith, was 17th, at $501,455. Meanwhile, the system's faculty and staff members have had no raises since October 2002, and tuition rose 5 percent last year.On a more general note, it is said that a survey by the College Board showed that public four year schools raised tuition by an average of 14 percent last year and by another 10 percent this year.
So what the hell is going on here? Well, it's pretty obvious, isn't it? Some people have found a gravy train in the academic world and are riding it for all it's worth. Presidents, of course, are not the only ones to be doing this, but they are leading practitioners. Generally speaking, in the education world of today, it is money that speaks, not education. The students get screwed, tuition wise. Large segments of the professoriate get screwed, salary wise (e.g., English professors, philosophy professors, etc.). But the presidents (and the people who run Harvard's endowment and the football and basketball coaches) make out like bandits -- which may be what some figuratively think of some of the Presidents (or money managers, or coaches) -- and rich schools sit on enormous endowments whose huge annual incomes could each pay far more than full freight for every one of the schools' students, while the poor cannot afford college. (Harvard's endowment, by the way, is said to now exceed $22.5 billion. Couldn't Harvard buy all of Iraq with that sum of money and solve one of our problems?)
Does anyone think, by the way, that Presidents have to be paid $500,000 or $700,000 or a million dollars, or else competent people won't be Presidents? That apparently is what university trustees, who come from the vastly overpaid corporate world -- where the compensation of the top ten CEOs is said to have increased 4,300 percent since 1981 -- seek to persuade us of. They spout all the usual excuses for unconfined greed -- they tell us what a hard job being President of a university is, how time consuming it is -- it's 24-7 -- how one has to be able to satisfy and entice so many different constituencies like donors, faculty, alumni, boards, politicians, etc., etc. "[Q]ualified presidential candidates are in short supply," and the boards "are at the mercy of market economics," are what The Chronicle says board members and educational consultants claim. This is all a species of bovine defecation, or bull roar as some used to call it in mid century Chicago.
One is tempted to sarcastically point out, of course, that if the boards and consultants are right -- if huge salaries are needed to attract people who can and will run universities competently -- then the boards are not paying enough if one judges by the continuous difficulties and disasters being experienced by universities. Maybe they should be paying not $700,000 dollars or one million dollars, but seven million or ten million dollars. Or, taking the outrageous corporate world as our guide, as the boards apparently are doing, maybe it should be several score million or one hundred million dollars. Maybe a one hundred million dollar man or woman can clean up what a mere million dollar man or woman cannot.
So much for sarcasm. The truth is that good people -- people with vision, concern, articulateness -- would serve as Presidents of universities for far less than $700,000 dollars or one million dollars, or even "just" $500,000 or $400,000. There are many such persons already serving as presidents or lesser administrators. (Remember the geographic presidential medians discussed above?) There are others who now are not even administrators who could do a fine job if they were to become administrators (and were to focus on education instead of Mammon). The claims of directors and consultants that salary elephantiasis is necessary to get good people is just another transplantation into the academic world of the uncabined corporate greed whose latest, now-20-year-long round was unleashed by Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s. He gave us, and we still have, morning in America -- morning in America for unchecked corporate greed and militarism and mourning in America for those whose values include reasonable limits on these things in the interest of a more balanced society. Balance is plainly missing today in the academic world, where Presidents grow rich, while faculty grow in the other direction, students get soaked -- ever more soaked -- students' parents denude themselves financially to send kids to college, and lots of people can't even afford college and are therefore shut out of a major vehicle for climbing the socio-economic ladder. Oh, well, so it goes; at least the Presidents are making money.*
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Hi Courtney, what a pleasure it is to be here today at Stiletto Storytime during my Grand Tour of the blogosphere in celebration of the release of my new Austen-inspired anthology, Jane Austen Made Me Do It. With Halloween looming next week, and ghosts and horror stories on the minds of readers, I thought it quite appropriate to chat with you today about Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey, a tongue-in-cheek parody of the Gothic fiction so wildly popular in Austen's time.
Austen is known for her romantic dramas filled with dry humor and social reproof, but of her six major novels, Northanger is quite unique in that it was purposely written as satire and contains broader humor, stronger ironies – and – the classic elements to a Gothic novel: a troubled heroine (Catherine Morland), a haunted castle (an ancient abbey in this case), a mysterious and menacing male figure (General Tilney), hidden secrets of the past (the death of Mrs. Tilney), and a romantic hero who is at odds with his family (Henry Tilney). Now all of these classic Gothic elements of mystery and menace are actually projected by the imaginative heroine Catherine from her reading of Ann Radcliffe's Gothic romance, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and further fueled by Henry Tilney's teasing remarks.
"And are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building such as 'what one reads about' may produce? Have you a stout heart? Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?" Northanger Abbey, Chapter 20
I find Northanger Abbey a perfect read for the Halloween season. Paired with the Gothic fiction that inspired it, such as Radcliffe's Udolpho, Romance of the Forrest or The Italian, readers will have an excellent grasp of the early beginning of the Gothic genre from the late eighteenth century which would develop further with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
I was so pleased that of the twenty-two stories in my Austen-inspired anthology, Jane Austen Made Me Do It, there are three stories with allusions to Gothic fiction: two inspired by Northanger Abbey: "The Mysterious Closet" and "A Night at Northanger" and a third in which Jane Austen returns as a ghost in "The Ghost Writer." Each is in spirit with Austen's use of parody, spoof and comedy. Here are their descriptions:
"The Mysterious Closet: A Tale," by Myretta Robens
In the wake of her most recent failed relationship, Cathy Fullerton takes an extended vacation in a converted Abbey in Gloucestershire, England. Ensconced in the Radcliffe Suite, a jet-lagged Cathy mistakes a walk-in closet for a Vaulted Chamber, a clothing rack for an Instrument of Torture and an accumulation of cobwebs for her True Love.
"A Night at Northanger," by Lauren Willig
Our heroine, Cate Cartwright, is part of the cast of "Ghost Trekkers", currently filming at one of England's most haunted homes, Northanger Abbey. Naturally, Cate knows there's no such thing as ghosts. It's all smoke and mirrors for the credulous who watch late night TV. At least, that's what she thinks… until she meets the shade of one Miss Jane Austen during one fateful night at Northanger.
"The Ghostwriter," by Elizabeth Aston
Sara, obsessed with Pride and Prejudice, is jilted by Charles, who can't compete with Mr. Darcy. His parting gift is a lock of Jane Austen's hair. Sara wakes the next morning to find a strange woman sitting on the end of her bed. A figment of her imagination? No, it's the astringent ghost of Jane Austen. On a mission to restore the reputation of forgotten Gothic author Clarissa Curstable, Jane Austen saves Sara's career and brings Charles back before taking herself off into the ether, but there's a price to pay, as the couple discover when they wake up to find another ghostly visitor at the end of the bed. It's Jane's friend, Clarissa – and she plans to stay.
While editing these short stories for the anthology, their irony and high comedy reminded of this passage in Northanger Abbey between Isabella Thorpe and Catherine Morland which illustrated Austen genius for burlesque.
Isabella: "Have you gone on with Udolpho?"
Catherine: "Yes, I have been reading it ever since I woke; and I am got to the black veil."
Isabella: "Are you, indeed? How delightful! Oh! I would not tell you what is behind the black veil for the world! Are not you wild to know?"
Catherine: "Oh! Yes, quite; what can it be? But do not tell me — I would not be told upon any account. I know it must be a skeleton, I am sure it is Laurentina's skeleton. Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. I assure you, if it had not been to meet you, I would not have come away from it for all the world." Northanger Abbey, Chapter 6
Happy Halloween everyone. I hope you discover what lies behind the black veil!
Cheers, Laurel Ann
Editor bio:
A life-long acolyte of Jane Austen, Laurel Ann Nattress is the author/editor of Austenprose.com a blog devoted to the oeuvre of her favorite author and the many books and movies that she has inspired. She is a life member of the Jane Austen Society of North America, a regular contributor to the PBS blog Remotely Connected and the Jane Austen Centre online magazine. An expatriate of southern California, Laurel Ann lives in a country cottage near Snohomish, Washington. Visit Laurel Ann at her blogs Austenprose.com and JaneAustenMadeMeDoIt.com, on Twitter as @Austenprose, and on Facebook as Laurel Ann Nattress.
Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart, edited by Laurel Ann Nattress
Ballantine Books • ISBN: 978-0345524966
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Enter a chance to win one copy of Jane Austen Made Me Do It by leaving a comment by Midnight EST November 12, 2011 stating what intrigues you about reading an Austen-inspired short story anthology. Winner to be drawn at random. Shipment to US and Canadian addresses only. Good luck to all and Happy Reading!


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Three Good Reasons to Apply for the New Generation Thinkers Scheme
by Sue-Ann Harding
The New Generation Thinkers scheme, now in its third year, is an AHRC and BBC Radio 3 joint initiative that brings together academics and the wider public through the media. It's a fantastic opportunity for new researchers who are given a platform to share their research and their ideas. I applied last year because when I saw the announcement it seemed already to be 'mine'. An avid radio listener, funded by the AHRC at doctoral and post-doc level, the very words themselves seemed to be from familiar territory. As busy as I was with the usual deadlines and marking that fill this time of year, I knew I would chide myself ever after if I did not at least give it a go. Now, speaking as one of the ten who were selected for the 2012 scheme, here are three good reasons why you should apply.
Firstly, the application is not onerous. 250 words on how your research "could make an engaging and stimulating programme of up to 45 minutes for a non-academic audience." No long calls for CVs, personal statements, evidence of skills etc. Nor is this a cost-benefit analysis for a funding application, so you don't have to think how you would do it, just what you would do if you could. My idea was to go to Russia and describe the various monuments erected in various cities in memory of the victims of the Beslan hostage disaster of 2004. It would be one of those evocative programmes full of "radio pictures"; and I still hope it gets made. The other part of the application is 250 words to "review a new film, play, novel, book of poetry, exhibition or other cultural event that you've recently attended. It must be on a topic separate from your research." I wrote on the Magritte exhibition at Tate Liverpool and brought in memories of how I'd first discovered him as a school girl, leafing through glossy art books with a friend on Saturday afternoons at her house. The hardest part of the application was using the right 250 words for each piece, but the themes and ideas should already be familiar and close to you. Even if you get no further than this you will have a) met a deadline, b) met a strict word limit c) written about your research for a non-academic audience and d) thought about your research in terms other than the usual conference or academic paper.
Secondly, the workshops are great! "Each day-long workshop will consist of an introduction to programme-making; a chance to hear from a regular Radio 3 contributor who is also an academic; a meeting with producers from Radio 3 arts programmes and from BBC TV Arts; an opportunity to develop your own programme idea - and finally a pitching session for a place amongst the final ten." Although the competition is still on at this point, I was simply so thrilled to be shortlisted (already a major achievement that you can put on your CV) that I forgot all about that and simply engaged in the day's activities and thoroughly enjoyed myself. We had to prepare a two-minute pitch for a radio programme (I expanded on the one I'd used in the application) and then answer questions from the others in the group. Again, an excellent opportunity to talk about, and defend, your research. We also had to be prepared to argue on both sides of the question, "Is life a comedy or a tragedy?" I read up on this beforehand, formulated a few working definitions and settled on a basic argument for each side. In fact, this was the most difficult part of the day - it came right at the end after a whole day of thinking and discussions and I thought my head would crack open – but it was also incredibly enjoyable. I remember just physically relaxing into the role play and "pretending" I was on The Review Show or something. By then then whole thing seemed slightly ridiculous and so, was lots of fun.
Thirdly, actually making it through to the final ten is a fantastic opportunity to secure and develop a platform for your research and ideas. It also gives you the permission, if you like, to take that on, to believe that what you have to say is of interest to others. Most of us, in the early stages of our academic careers, don't quite have that – which might well be why you are hesitating to even apply. My advice is: do it – meet the word limit, stick to the deadline, write about what you know best, what you care about, and what moves you. And just see what happens. Nothing to lose and plenty to gain.


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I am so excited since I heard that Studio Ghibli was making a Borrowers movie! The movie name will be Karigurashi no Arrietty, written 借りぐらしのアリエッティ and translated as Arrietty Borrows Everything. I have loved the book by Mary Norton, as well as the movies that were built based on the book since I learned how to read… I really cannot contain my excitement, (I could even squeal like a teenage fangirl) and I am really, really looking forward for the movie!
"The upcoming film is slated for a July 17, 2010 release in Japan and will mark the directorial debut of Studio Ghibli animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi, who will be the youngest person to direct a film for Ghibli. Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki will be supervising the production as a developing planner."


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When I was a little kid, my Mom made us breakfast all the time, every morning. We ate breakfast together as a family before school, and before my Dad went to work. (I know, my Mom is fantastic.) We sat at the kitchen table and ate as a family. Today I had a grapefruit for breakfast and as I was cutting it I remembered how we often had them for breakfast as kids at our house. I remember that my Dad, Mom and Brothers ate theirs out of the peel, and my Mom usually cute mine and put it in a bowl. Probably because I was too little to get it out of the peel on my own. Though I won't have said that today's grapefruit was the best that I have ever had, it was still really good. . . and the best part was the memories that went with it.
How to pick out a tasty grapefruit?
Grapefruits should be firm, yet slightly springy when gentle pressure is applied. While chilled grapefruits do not have an apparent fragrance, those kept at room temperature should have a subtly sweet aroma. Grapefruits can be purchased throughout the year although the height of the season ranges from winter through early spring.


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Last Updated: Aug 27, 2015 Views: 100
From our database page, just click on the Mango Languages link to access the database. It will ask you for your EBRP library card number.
Once you're in Mango, you can create a profile -- which lets you work through the courses and saves your work. Or you can just "start learning" without creating a profile, but Mango won't remember where you stopped if you go back in at a later time.
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- I went to the database page and clicked on mangolanguages, but it takes me to this link: http://www.ebrpl.com:2048/login?dest=mango&url=http://connect.mangolanguages.com/east-baton-rouge/start
This just gives me a blank page that never loads. I checked my internet connection and all my other tabs run just fine. Everything works except that page.


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The Rare Book & Manuscript Collection contains over 9,000 early printed books and approximately 300 manuscripts. The collection reflects the educational and personal interests of barristers spanning the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries. The collection contains significant early legal texts as well as a wide range of non-legal subjects, including poetry, travel, medicine, theology and science.
The first printed catalogue of the collection was produced in 1700, and since then the collections have been augmented significantly. All of the materials, including the manuscripts, have been catalogued: www.middletemplelibrary.org.uk. Our early printed books (up to 1800) are on COPAC, the union catalogue for collections in the UK.
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Many of the books were donated by previous members and the books' inscriptions, bookplates and bindings often give clues about their provenance. The earliest recorded donation of books to the Inn is the Robert Ashley bequest, which re-established the library in 1641. See the Early Printed Books page for more information.
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The manuscripts consist mostly of legal texts, acts and reports. This includes a manuscript copy of drafts of acts passed during 1652 and 1653, a crucial period in English Parliamentary history. In addition we have some non-legal texts, including a MS copy of Luis Pacheco de Narvaez's Libro delas grandecas dela espada [ca. 1600], which is an early work on fencing and John Lathbury's Commentary on Lamentations [ca. 1406]. See the Manuscripts section for further details.
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United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston is calling for an independent investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka, following forensic experts' findings that video footage from a mobile phone of the summary execution of naked and blindfolded Tamils by Sri Lankan soldiers was authentic.
In August 2009, Britain's Channel 4 television station aired the footage; the Sri Lankan Government initially said the videotape was fake, and that it would not investigate. But Alston, who is also John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law and faculty director and co-chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law, commissioned analysis of the video from three United States specialists: an expert in firearms evidence; a prominent forensic pathologist; and an expert in forensic video analysis.
"Together, the reports by these experts strongly suggest that the video is authentic," Alston stated. "Given these conclusions, and in light of the persistent flow of other allegations of extrajudicial executions by both sides during the closing phases of the war against the L.T.T.E. [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam], I call for the establishment of an independent inquiry to carry out an impartial investigation into war crimes and other grave violations of international humanitarian and human rights law allegedly committed in Sri Lanka."
On January 8, 2010, Reuters reported that Sri Lanka has rejected Alston's report, maintaining that its own experts had determined that the footage was fake. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Martin Nesirky "backed the need for such a probe, saying that Alston's conclusions show 'the need for a credible, independent and impartial investigation into allegations of violations of human rights and international law by all sides in the conflict in Sri Lanka.'"
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BMC Technologies; Officially launched in Jan 2015, is a venture of student Entrepreneur's registered under BMC Student Entrepreneur's Society and managed by Baselios Mathews II College of Engineering, Sasthamcotta, Kollam
BMC Technologies is an in house product development unit exploiting the benefits of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IEDC) through Technopark-Technology Business Incubator (T-TBI) to nurture the young student entrepreneurs in order to set up an entrepreneurial eco system in the campus. This venture deals with establishing functions to support and promote innovative ideas within the campus & also to aim at product development in Applet applications, Consumer electronics, Robotics, Energy systems, Mechatronics, Instrumentation etc. BMC technologies is aimed at fostering the growth of entrepreneurship in young minds and at creating an enabling environment for startups in the campus. BMC technologies provide its young entrepreneurs with a comprehensive range of services aimed at intensifying technology utilization.
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There's just something about a military man isn't there? The uniform, the muscles, the haircut and clean shave...what is it that makes women go absolutely crazy? To be entirely honest, before meeting my husband, I didn't get that whole 'man in uniform' fascination. Seriously, be it cammies, a suit or jeans and a tee, what difference did it really make? After meeting my husband, that changed. Finally I got it. I realized that it really WASN'T the uniform or the clean cut look that caused women to swoon...it was what those things stood for! Suddenly, instead of seeing merely a uniform, I saw strength, courage, devotion. I saw a man who would do whatever it took to take care of those things that were important to him- his country, his brothers in uniform and our family. A man who was willing to put his life on the line to fight for what he believed in. A man willing to work long, hard hours to provide the best life possible for his family. I found that the clean shave of a military man said a lot more about him than where he worked.
In the military, a clean shave doesn't just look better- it's required. It's part of the uniform. For most- my husband included- that means he has to shave each and every day, no exceptions. Needless to say, a GOOD, high quality razor is an absolute must. It has to get the job done, and it has to do it well. So, we took a little trip to our local Walmart to find a shaving solution, which we found with the Gillette Flexball Razor.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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lololol, this is the first thing i saw on drawn today!
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
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My sculpey Carla finally got some real hair! This was my first venture into cloth/wire hair, before I had always just made it from sculpey. All she needs now is some decent clothes, good lighting, and a bottle of wine :)
Above are a few of my type samples/logo samples I made up for my friend Chris' business card. I really want to do a linoleum block print of the antlers!!!!
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Friday, March 6, 2009
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today was an awesome illy day. i got to meet with my friend chris from arenas about his business card that i'm doing. he wants kind of a crest shape made out of.... ANTLERS! cool!!!! i grabbed my reference from atop shalini's doorway and got to work!
oh, and that penguin you see up there? well... it was chosen for a women's art datebook coming out in 2010! order one when they go up for sale!!!!!!!! it was such an honor to be selected!
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Ever wished to view or share your real life objects from all sides on your big screens ? In normal images, we can only view a part of the the image from a specific angle. Virtual 3-D images provide an amazing experience of sharing and viewing objects and products.
This software code helps you to make required software to capture the minimum number of required images and view your object on computer from all sides.
Find the complete tutorial here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Virtual-3D-Imaging/?ALLSTEPS
You can even export the viewing code to make an executable file for Windows as well as Linux and share it with your friends. Thus, you can share your 3-D images with your friends instead of the usual image which let you see only a part of an object. This can be useful in sharing what you make, even small products for digital advertisements.


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The English Market
Baked goods at the English Market © LWYang
The 16th century Princes Street Market is a covered food market in the centre of Cork. A large sign now designates it the Old English Market (and the nearby St Peter's Market is referred to locally as the Irish Market), although it is certainly Irish in character. The Queen and Prince Philip visited the market in June 2011, cementing its association with the English.
Merchandise on sale includes fresh fruit and vegetables, baked goods, cheese, meat, seafood, gourmet chocolate, sweets, clothes, and local crafts, trinkets and souvenirs. It is well known among locals and tourists alike for its varied selection of produce from all over the world, and especially for its fresh fish. The merchants are very friendly and the place has a wonderful atmosphere. It's a good idea to ask the stall owners for their recommendations and try out some local specialties. You can buy a take-away meal, gifts for those back home, or all your groceries at the Old English Market, but if you enjoy the place it is a good idea to visit the Farmgate Restaurant, located above the market, where you can sit on the balcony overlooking the stalls and enjoy the smells and sights along with a great meal.
Address: Princes Street
Website: www.englishmarket.ie/


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Nothing I've written on this site is "true" according to "objective" standards set by the current Age of Reason on this planet. The best word which characterizes what I write here is Myth. I found a great explanation of what this means in the book by Lewis Hyde called The Gift. The particular passage (from the chapter 'Ezra Pound and the fate of vegetable money') refers to Ezra Pound's ruminations on this subject. Note in the poem Pound writes, "I stood still and was a tree amid the wood..." Now, does that mean that Pound actually became a tree? Maybe he did, or maybe he did only in his mind; but does that mean it's any less real?
[Hyde] I found myself imagining a fable about Pound as a young poet. Was there a time, I wondered, when Pound himself had the experience of 'the soul in ascent?' Was there a Poundian epiphany like Whitman's or Ginsberg's, or like the moment when young Elliot, walking in Boston, saw the street and all of its objects turn to light? Such moments are rare, given only once or twice in a lifetime, and yet they serve as a fountain for a life's work. Did Pound have one, and if he did, what happened afterward?
In Pavannes and Divagations Pound paused to imagine how a myth might have come about, saying:
[Pound] The first myths arose when a man walked sheer into 'nonsense;' that is to say, when some very vivid and undeniable adventure befell him, and he told someone else who called him a liar. Thereupon, after bitter experience, perceiving that no one could understand what he meant when he said that he 'turned into a tree,' he made a myth - a work of art that is an impersonal or objective story woven out of his own emotion, as the nearest equation that he was capable of putting into words. The story, perhaps, then gave rise to a weaker copy of his emotion in others, until there rose a cult, a company of people who could understand each other's nonsense about the gods.
[Hyde] Let us set this rumination beside the first poem in Pound's Personae:
The Tree
I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
Knowing the truth of things unseen before;
Of Daphne and the laurel bow
And that god-feasting couple old
That grew elm-oak amid the wold.
'Twas not until the gods had been
Kindly entreated, and been brought within
Unto the hearth of their heart's home
That they might do this wonder thing;
Nathless I have been a tree amid the wood
And many a new thing understood
That was rank folly to my head before.
So, what this means to me is that in some way, myths like Narnia, Atlantis and the stories of the gods are in some way true, but we can't prove that in the material realm. Nevertheless they provide us humans with useful information which enriches our lives, and helps us understand the world we live in.
I spend a lot of time reading books which appeal to me. One thing that happens to me frequently is that I somehow know that I will like that book, or author, or composer as soon as I hear about it, without any other information. For example, when I heard the name of the composer Maurice Ravel I instantly knew that I would like his music. The funny thing is, I subsequently find out why and it always makes sense: there are common threads or resonances with other things I like or am interested in, even though I had no idea before I started exploring about that person or that person's work. So to continue on with the example of Ravel, there is much in his music which relates to myths. The early piano pieces such as Jeux d'Eaux, Miroirs, and Gaspard de la Nuit are all magical mythical musical images, at least for me.
Recently, the books I have been choosing mention UFOs, Pleiadeans, ecstatic states and other such topics which I don't expect. There is usually no clue about this, but once I start reading them I quickly find something surprising. Now I personally have never had any encounters with UFOs, but it is an interesting topic. I was reading the book Anastasia and was very surprised to read this about flying saucers, in a conversation between Anastasia and the author, Viktor Megre:
[Anastasia] ...In Nature there are living microorganisms that transform gaseous substances into solids. All plants do this in fact, only at varying speeds and with varying degrees of firmness and solidity of the resulting substance."
"Take a look around you, and you will see that plants take in liquid from the earth and breathe air, and then process these into a hard and solid body — let us say, wood, or something even harder and more solid, like a nutshell or a plum-stone. A microorganism smaller than the eye can see does this with fantastic speed, feeding, it would seem, on air alone. It is these same kinds of microorganisms that power flying saucers. They are Uke the microcells in the brain, only their operation has a very narrow focus. Their sole function is propulsion. But they carry out this function to perfection and they can accelerate a flying saucer to one-nineteenth the speed of the average modern Earth-dweller's thought.
"These microorganisms are located on the inner surface of the upper part of the flying saucer and positioned between its double walls, which are set approximately three centimetres apart. The upper and lower surfaces of the outer walls are porous, with micro-sized pinholes. The microorganisms draw in air through these pinholes, thereby creating a vacuum ahead of the saucer. The streams of air begin to congeal even before contact with the saucer, and as they pass through the microorganisms they are transformed into tiny spheres. Then these spheres are enlarged even more, to approximately half a centimetre in diameter. They lose their firmness, and slide down between the walls into the lower part of the saucer, where they again decompose into a gaseous substance. You can even eat them, if you can do this before they decompose."
[VM] "What about the walls of the flying saucer — what are they made of?"
[Anastasia] "They are cultivated — grown."
[VM] "How so?"
[Anastasia] "Why the surprise? Just give it a little thought, you will figure it out. Many people cultivate a fungus in various kinds of containers.2 The fungus imbues the water in which it is placed with a pleasant, slightly acidic flavour, and takes the shape of the container. This fungus is very similar to a flying saucer; it creates a double wall around itself. If another microorganism is added to its water, it produces a congealment, but this so-called microorganism can be produced — or, rather, generated — by the power of the will, or the brain, much like a vivid concept or imagery"
[VM] "Can you do this?" I asked.
[Anastasia] "Yes, but I do not have sufficient power of my own. The action of several dozen people having the same ability is required, and it takes about a year all told,"
[VM] "And can one find on our Earth everything necessary to make — or grow, as you say — such a flying saucer and the microorganisms?"
[Anastasia] "Of course one can. The Earth has everything that the Universe has."
[VM] "But how do you get the microorganisms inside the walls of the saucer if they are so small you can't even see them?"
[Anastasia] "Once the upper wall is cultivated, it will attract and collect them in huge numbers, just as bees are attracted to cells. But this process also requires the collective will of several dozen people. In any case, what is the use of elaborating further if you cannot cultivate it for lack of people with the right kind of will, intelligence and knowledge?"
[VM] "Isn't there some way you could help?"
[Anastasia] "I could."
[VM] "So, do it!"
[Anastasia] "I have already"
[VM] "What have you done?" I was still perplexed.
[Anastasia] "I told you how children should be raised. And I can tell you more. You must tell this to others. Many will understand, and their children raised in this manner will have the intelligence, knowledge and will permitting them to make not only a primitive flying saucer, but significantly more..."
[VM] "Anastasia, how do you know so much about flying saucers? Does that too come through your communication with plants?"
[Anastasia] "They have landed here, and I, well, I helped the occupants repair their ship."
[VM] "Are they much smarter than us?"
[Anastasia] "Not at all. They have a long way to go to attain the level of Man — they are afraid of us, afraid to approach people, even though they are very curious. At first they were afraid of me. They trained their mental paralysers on me. Put on quite a show. They tried to frighten me, shock me. It was quite a challenge to calm them down and convince them I would only treat them with affection."
[VM] "Well, how can they be less smart than us if they can do things Man can't do yet?"
[Anastasia] "What is so surprising about that? Bees too make incredible structures out of natural materials, including whole ventilation and heating systems, but that does not mean they are superior to Man in intelligence. In the Universe there is no one and nothing stronger than Man except God!"
I did not expect to read about flying saucers in Anastasia!
Another book that I read recently, The Gathering by William Gammill, also has interesting references to flying saucers. Here's one of them:
...this type of UFO is organic in nature and increases or decreases in size as you come on board or leave; your own consciousness becoming a part of its consciousness. It does not come from a place so much as a need, and was originally formed close to the point where matter emerges. It is not really a craft but a live being, the energy package of the being itself, appearing as something I could relate to - a Hilton Hotel in the sky, or light beings made to look human. What makes it unbelievable and, therefore, unrecognizable, is its enormous size. We don't recognize singular living entities the size of a house, or a spacecraft, or a city, or a whole planet. We are seeing live beings, not UFOs; instead of ships, we are engaging the actual soul of the thing itself. And, as such, it has one of two natures: put simply, it is enlightened or it is not.
I was told not to fear the latter, for we have power over them. They are leaving anyway. They will not be able to stay much longer because of the dimensional shift taking place, the ascension of consciousness, which requires a perfect balance of heart and mind.
Both of these passages about UFOs state that they are not what we would expect them to be if we have seen movies about UFOs, where they are usually portrayed as being constructed of dead metal. Who would think that UFOs are in some way alive, or at least that they are secretions of living organisms? Well, no one I know can prove this one way or another, so we are left with a myth.
This brings up another point - can we even see something that we don't really expect to be there? I have found this writing all over the web, so I dont' know who wrote it originally, but it raises some interesting questions:
In 1492, Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola, now the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Until Columbus' arrival, the islanders had only seen and heard of small boats—like their own canoes. The tribe had never seen nor heard of large ocean-going sea craft. So when the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria arrived, the natives couldn't see the big ships of Christopher Columbus! And the vessels were floating in plain sight right off shore!
"I Don't See Any Big Ships!"
Why couldn't the islanders see the big boats? Because nobody in their culture had ever seen big boats before. And nobody had ever written or talked about big boats in their society.
In any culture, the mythmakers—teachers, historians and media—decide people's reality. The specific world that mythmakers talk and write about determines the aspects of reality that people are able to perceive. The world that these storytellers talk and write about creates a belief system unique to each culture. And this belief system acts as a filter, screening out realities that don't fit into the cultural conditioning of the society.
The mythkeepers who shaped the islanders' belief systems didn't recognize the possibility that large ships might exist. And the filter of this belief prevented the natives from seeing the three large sea vessels...at first!
Note that the word myth pops up conveniently in that passage.
Another problem with expressing experiences "scientifically" is that we often don't have the words to express what we mean. This excerpt is also from The Gathering, and is taken from a journal entry in 1996 where he meets with one of his teachers who has been dead for ten years:
I don't know what my teacher asked me, but I watched my empty head fill up with information and give him the response he seemed to want. My head emptied and he asked me another question. Again my head filled up with answers and information. And so on. Each time he asked a question my head filled up with answers. Between questions my head was marvelously empty. The crowd of childlike beings began to cheer. I began to cry. My teacher was smiling. A feeling came over me - my heart first, then my head, then my entire body. I thought I was coming. I wondered, is if possible to come forever?
(All this in the time it takes for a bolt of lightning to pass through your skull, your brain, and out again. All I saw was a body of light.)
Now this part of the experience would seem to end right here. I mean, it doesn't really have an ending. What appears to be an ending is but an invitation to access a more vast and subtle scale of operations. I woke up at first light, back in room, in my bed, feeling like I'd had sex all night with the Beloved. Light and loose in my body, I felt wonderfully hungover from whatever had gone on the night before; indeed was still going on. I do not remember the stages of my return - at some point I seemed to be more here than there.
Does that passage have anything to do with sex? No, it's just that there aren't other words in the English language which are capable of expressing extreme ecstasy, although we do seem to have plenty of words to express extreme pain. Here is another example of writing about this same subject, again from an unexpected source. It's also interesting that these experiences are available to practitioners of meditation, monks in this example. This is from the book The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard, which is a companion to A Course in Miracles:
All experiences, including sex, are mental states - even if the illusion is that they take place in the body. I remember visiting a church in Boston to hear a lecture by two Buddhist monks who grew up near the border of India and Tibet. After the lecture, people in the audience were given the opportunity to ask questions. Most of the were the nice "spiritual" question people usually ask. Then one woman had the courage to get up and ask the monks how they could go so long - in one case, thirty years - without having sex. The monk who had been celibate the longest, and who spoke English as well as the Dalai Lama, thought for a minute and then surprised the audience with his reply: "When you're coming all the time, it doesn't make any difference."
From the vantage point of my new experiences, I could now see that happy monk's answer in sync with the Course [in Miracles]'s answer to the dilemma of giving up the changing, illusory universe...
Most of this book is verbatim dialog between the author and two ascended masters, Pursen and Arten, who showed up in his living room one day, and who continued to visit him for years. Already on page seven this dialog was a complete surprise as I hardly expected a "serious" book about A Course in Miracles to contain anything like this! This is a conversation about what it's like in heaven:
Pursah: There are no differences in Heaven and no changes. Everything is constant. That's the only way it can be completely dependable instead of chaotic.
Gary: Isn't that kind of boring?
Pursah: Let me ask you something, Gary. Is sex boring?
Gary: Not in my book.
Pursah: Well, imagine the very peak of a perfect sexual orgasm, except this orgasm never stops. It keeps going on forever with no decrease in its powerful and flawless intensity.
Gary: You have my attention.
Pursah: The physical act of sex doesn't even come close to the incredible bliss of Heaven. It's just a poor, made-up imitation of union with God. It's a false idol made to fix your attention on the body and the world with just enough of a payoff to keep you coming back for more. It's very similar to a narcotic. Heaven, on the other hand, is a perfect, indescribable ecstasy that never ceases.
Now I hope that you begin to see why this site is only myth, and not "The Truth." It's just not possible to get across the experiences available from musical voyaging in any other way!


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