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Will County Coroner Patrick O'Neil says a woman aboard the single-engine aircraft was killed Wednesday when it slammed into a parking lot outside a Bolingbrook bank. O'Neil says her name is being withheld until a Thursday autopsy establishes a positive identification and relatives are notified.
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Bolingbrook Police Lt. Michael Rompa says the victims are believed to be the plane's pilot and passenger. Photos showed the plane ablaze after the crash.
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RIAL, Carmen. Rodar: the circulation of brazilian football players abroad.Translated byLetícia Maria Costa da Nóbrega Cesarino. Horiz.antropol. [online]. 2008, vol.4Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0104-7183.
Of the millions of Brazilians who currently live abroad, nearly 5 thousand play football in the world's top clubs. This article draws on the anthropological perspective to analyse the migration of these successful Brazilian players in order to understand the characteristics of this particular global circulation of people and capital which has a huge presence in the mediascape (Appadurai, 1990). Of all 'exports' and emigrations currently underway, that of football players has the greatest symbolic impact, both in Brazil and abroad. As the brain drain resulting from the emigration of scientists, this could be framed as an instance of 'fleeting feet'. I look at the plans, consumption and lifestyle of these players based on ethnographic data gathered in Seville, Spain and Eindhoven, Holland, as well as through conversations with more than 40 Brazilian players living or trying to live in foreign countries. These contacts took place in Toronto, Canada; Almelo, Groningen, Alkmaar, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam in Holland, Tokyo, Japan; Lyon, Le Mans, Nancy and Lille in France, Monaco; Charleroi, Belgium; and in Fortaleza, Salvador and Belém, Brazil. I explore the intersections of age, social origin and religion, and note that many of the players were the youngest siblings in their families. The large majority are low income, and attend evangelical churches. I also found that these immigrant athletes are increasingly younger. I conclude that the constant change of employer (club or global club), countries and the large number of 'repatriates' characterise this migratory movement as a circulation. It is what the players call 'rodar', cast positively as an opportunity for amassing experience. This circulation takes place in protected zones, where a banal nationalism (Billig, 1995) is constantly activated. Even after obtaining legal citizenship, they continue to be seen and to perceive themselves as foreigners. In this case, therefore, nationalisation has a strategic purpose (Sassen, 2008). I conclude that these players cross geographic borders without really entering the countries, because their borders are not national but those of the clubs.
Keywords : emigration; football; global club; nationalisation.

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i have the code from online but how do u add the libraries to the sketch?
the help i need is in this: #include <SdFat.h> #include <SdFatUtil.h> #include <SFEMP3Shield.h> SFEMP3Shield MP3player;how do i add these??
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but where do I name the tracks?
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Hi All, sorry about not blogging for last four days! Eh.. After the my itenary, I have become kinda lazy! Ok ok.. I was always lazy.. but this time.. l became an embodiment of it! (satisfied!) Hey Shadow.. here is my post..J
It was a good trip. We (me and my father) we planned to cover most of the temples near the Mailaduthurai, it�s a place in Southern Tamilnadu near to Kumbakonam. We were particular to cover only Dhivya desams, (Dhivya desams - these are the Temples in which Alwars have sung about the deties and is a considered sacred among other temples!) So we travelled by Bus and reached Mailaduthurai on Thursday Morning (02 Oct 2003), we got out of the bus and we were welcomed by our driver there, its really good to see some person receive your even in a place where you don�t have any acquaintance. He took us to a decent Hotel, where we took some rest and started off our spiritual journey. Wow! man, you wont believe, we almost covered 12 temples in the day, all were Divya Desams and all were very near to each other, in a 20km radius. It was pretty a strenuous journey, traveling all day long continuously. Then we came back to the hotel. I never closed my eyes to sleep, I didn�t know when I started sleeping, when I opened my eyes it was 5.00 AM! We were supposed to get up at that time, as our driver would come to the hotel by 6.00AM to take us to some distant temples. I was feeling pretty lazy to get up, so I woke my father up and asked him to alert me once he is ready. So I actually got ready by 6.15AM only, huh, but our driver haven�t yet come to the hotel, he too would have felt very tired and hence the delay. He actually came at 6.30AM , by which time we were in the reception. We went to 3 temples which were located pretty far off from our place. We actually decided to goto �Uppiliappan� temple in Kumbakonam, which is one of my favorite deities. So we vacated the hotel by around 1.00 in the noon and went to Kumbakonam and offered our prayers over there. We then disposed the car and took a bus again to reach Trichy. We stayed in one hotel near to the bustand, actually we had one ritual to be performed in Srirangam on Saturday. When we reached tiruchi, it was almost around 3.00pm, we took rest for 1hour and took a bus and went to Srirangam to visit the famous Ranganathar temple. We had a good dharshan. It was already very tiring. I did a mistake when I was in Mailaduthurai, on Friday, I took water from the one of the hotels! I could feel it having effect in my throat, I don�t know why I am sensitive to water! Even if I take once, I face the problem! My throat goes irk!!!!
Then we finished the ritual on Saturday and retuned back to Chennai the same day. We reached Chennai at 10.30pm. Good to have a mobile and the number of Chennai call taxi. These guys (Chennai call taxi) were really cool. I just fixed a taxi 15mins before I arrived in Kathipara junction in Guindy, the Taxi came in less than 5mins to that place. I could realize the power of the technology, you have phone , you can book a taxi while you are still on the bus, reaching your destination, and you have a taxi ready to serve you when you arrive your destination! Cool one, Chennai has improved a lot. The Taxi driver seemed to be a real decent guy, he was conversing fluently in English, that too pretty decent English. Was surprised to see a customer oriented taxi drivers.
Then we reached home by 11.00pm and went to bed.. when I woke up next morning.. a shock awaited me�. I never expected it�
Continued in my next blog..
It was Sunday and the time was around 5.30pm, I was still lazy, refusing to get up (yeah.. was enjoying sleeping! Usually called my second round!)..Sunday.... its all ought to be enjoyed.. after those tiring week of work, man you must have Sundays to sleep and be lazy.. don�t ask me how active was me during weeksdays.. thatz completely a different story, which I don�t want to disclose now (hehe).
I have booked two seats(On Saturday) for this play held in Sivagami Petachi Auditorium,Alwarpet and the I have promised my sister that I am taking her with me for the play J. But my laziness was raising its horns to cancel the plan.. cause.. I am lazy to get up and goto the show!
Thanks to my sister, she pushed me to attend the play.. for otherwise, I would have missed that splendid display of transcendent humour !
I just loved the way the character �Evan� attributed himself to such a travesty! Wow man.. you were really cool.
Those preposterously boisterous dialects that were performed in the stage was just awesome! Could it be formed any better??
The performance of Mr.Mark and Mr.Sudge (I am not sure abt their names) the other two main character�s performance were made out of their utter diligence. This could be asserted from the very fact of their professional display that they scorned out in the stage.
Trapping the audience with a gasp, each scene of the play has a class in itself. Evan a self-mocking insane (Can I call him insane!), the spendthrift Sudge(Not really) and the piquing Mark(was all times!) were clearly chistled characters that were exhibited in the play.
The story runs around the feelings attributed by friendship but was centered by an art (which is painted on a white background, with a white foreground! � was that a painting or a clear screen J )!
If evam is gonna present another play next time, they can count me already in!.
Yeah.. I am sure they are gonna get more such repeat customers.
I Hope they come up with much more hilarious stuffs as good as the play �the ART�.
My wishes to evam team to succeed! Guys you just did a gr8 performance..! And each of those applause that you received are all well deserved J.
I also liked their service, the polite booking of tickets through phone ..and the ticket distribution till the seating arragements all were professionally done.
Hey Evam, am waiting for another play from you ppl :-)
- Aravinth.
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When I winked the first light out
And Heard the first thud !
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When school came across me
And on the walls that we stood!
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When I quit pencil and picked up Pen!
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When I struggled to balance the cycle!
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When Dewali was meant to Crackers
And Friends to play!
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When we smiled those smiles
And walked those gaits..!
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When farewell stood between me and school
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When Seniors frightened juniors
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When mass bunks and nicknames were studies
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When you attended that last lecture.
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When Campus interviews ruled classrooms..
And proud counts of offers.
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When Buisness Card bore me! Proud
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When you fly for the first time..
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
When your passport has no paper left�
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
That you spent more time with parents
It seems just yesterday.. It seems just yesterday
Such an unpretentious being that I were,
- Aravinthan.
Death hour 11 am every sunday!
Here was this case in the hospital's Intensive Care
ward where patients always died in the same bed and on Sunday morning at
11 a.m.,
regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the doctors and some
thought that it had something to do with the supernatural. no one could
the mystery..... as to Why the death at 11 AM?
So an world-wide expert team was constituted and they decide to go down to
the ward to investigate the cause of the incidents. So on the next Sunday
morning few minutes before 11 a.m., all doctors and nurses nervously wait
outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was
about. Some were holding wooden crosses,prayer books and other holy
objects to ward off the evil........ Just when the clock struck 11,....
Jhon, the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward and
unplugged the life support system so that he could use the vacuum
Hey.. you know one thing, Amit has got an offer from Miscrosoft.. it�s the paradise for the software professionals! Once you get into it.. you are in heaven.. there you have great facilities .. a rack of chocolates, dry fruits, in each person�s cabin.. a flexi time, can choose to work from home. And a gr8 sal package! Cant even compare with any other company! See what we are having.. a dirty cabin, no GYM, Swimming pool.. nothing ya.. a very somber place with no fun..!
I used to compare what I am doing(with some of my gr8 friends who were doing gr8 things).. when some of my friends are flying high.. but then after some deep thinking and analysis (actually after I finished the �seven habits of highly effective ppl � by Stephen R Covey�), I realized my goal is something which �I need to set and achieve� and not by looking at other gr8 ppl and follow their foot steps.
One thing I feel currently, is getting satisfied with what one has is a great boon to live peacefully, but if you are already content with what you have, there is no growth for improvement and you become stagnant.. but to strike the balance between the two and to find the right thing for oneslef.. is a trick in itself..!
So If we start to look not only the disadvantages of the current position in life, but also the advantages and other grrener things that are associated with it. With this vision we would at least be able to choose the right thing for us and decide whatz good to us ! and proceed in that direction!
Is this how one has to lead his life.. I don�t know yet.. but I feel it�s a secure way to lead one�s life towards some target!
Am I rite! Or Am I too confusing! Put in your comments!
Just moving out of my personal experience and stuff to.. to more towards Humour! So enjoy reading this tooo!
TEACHER: Why are you late?
WEBSTER: Because of the sign.
TEACHER: What sign?
WEBSTER: The one that says, "School Ahead, Go Slow."
TEACHER: Cindy, why are you doing your maths sums on the floor?
CINDY: You told me to do it without using tables!
TEACHER: John, how do you spell "crocodile"?
JOHN: "K-R-O-K-O-D-A-I-L" TEACHER: No, that's wrong JOHN: Maybe it's
wrong, but you ask me how I spell it!
TEACHER: What is the chemical formula for water?
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
SARAH: Yesterday you said it's H to O!
TEACHER: George, go to the map and find North America.
GEORGE: Here it is!
TEACHER: Correct. Now, class, who discovered America?
CLASS: George!
TEACHER: Willy, name one important thing we have today that we didn't
ten years ago.
WILLY: Me!
TEACHER: Tommy, why do you always get so dirty?
TOMMY: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground then you are.
SILVIA: Dad, can you write in the dark?
FATHER: I think so. What do you want me to write?
SYLVIA: Your name on this report card.
TEACHER: How can you prevent diseases caused by biting insects?
JOSE: Don't bite any.
TEACHER: Ellen, give me a sentence starting with "I".
ELLEN: I is...
TEACHER: No, Ellen. Always say, "I am."
ELLEN: All right... "I am the ninth letter of the alphabet."
I was just wondering as to what this world is doing! Why we were born, what we were upto and things like that.. suddenly a mail came to me describing the economics!
Saw that you wud know how I wud have felt after reading that!
World Economics !!
TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your
herd multiplies and the economy grows. You retire on the income.
INFOSYS ECONOMICS You have 2 cows. You put both of them on the bench. And
hire another to do the job.
TCS ECONOMICS You have 2 cows You tell them that only one will go to
onsite. You ask both of them to fight for the only H1B Visa. Both of them
die after fighting.
HCL ECONOMICS You have 2 cows You milk them only for 24 hours on just 7
days a week. They run away.
WIPRO Economics You have 2 cows You train them for two months on how to
milk themselves. Then you ask them to pull bullock carts.
INDIAN ECONOMICS You have two cows. You worship them.
PAKISTAN ECONOMICS You don't have any cows. You claim that the Indian cows
belong to you. You ask the US for financial aid, China for military aid,
British for Warplanes, Italy for machines, Germany for technology, French
for submarines, Switzerland for loans, Russia for drugs and Japan for
equipment. You buy the cows with all this and claim of exploitation by the
AMERICAN ECONOMICS You have two cows. You sell one and force the other to
produce the milk of four cows. You profess surprise when the cow drops
FRENCH ECONOMICS You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three
GERMAN ECONOMICS You have two cows. You reengineer them so that they live
for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves.
BRITISH ECONOMICS You have two cows. They are both mad cows.
ITALIAN ECONOMICS You have two cows. You don't know where they are. You
break for lunch.
SWISS ECONOMICS You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge
others for storing them.
JAPANESE ECONOMICS You have two cows. You redesign them so that they are
one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create cute cartoon cow images called Cowkimon and market them
RUSSIAN ECONOMICS You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five
cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again
and learn you have 17 cows. You give up counting and open another bottle of
CHINESE ECONOMICS You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You
claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest anyone reporting
the actual numbers.
Sorry for some irregular blogging(I think this is my second blong! And a huge gap between the first and second!), I am gonna make myself more organized in blogging , try to blog atleast once a week.! And I am going to follow this(schedule) religiously. So plz visit me every week to read some of my thoughts and my experiences. This article is about my short stint at bangalore!
Hmm, just went to B�lore on Saturday (6th Sept) to do some recruitment for our team. This is an official trip sent by HCLT Chennai. We were four panelists who went there to select some candidates. Due to the unavailability of train tickets.. we made our journey thru.. flight!(I wud have loved to !) but no way.. we traveled in BUS! (Now a days cost cutting in companies is so prevalent that even the panelists are sent in bus.).but thatz Okey.. Traveling in bus is also okey with me. It was a safe journey and we reached B�lore early morning on Sunday. We quickly checked in to a hotel in the infantry road, thank god.. the HR have atleast booked a pretty good hotel, I just loved the interiors, its kinda Italian ambiance maintained. I love those curved chairs and sleuth beds, with perfect match of cusions to rest your head while watching TV. Hmmm.. but I generally dont like Italian cusines! And hate pastas! I don�t know how ppl take such a tasteless.. spongy stuff! Being Indian may be I demand more spicy food.
We didn�t take our complimentary breakfast there(I told you that I don�t like Italian food),so we went out and had my favourite idly ,dosa and coconut water.. thanks to Mr.Gobi,(one of the panelists) who spotted the coconut vendor.
Then we took an auto and reached the GRG office (where we are supposed to take the interviews), its near the SUN microsysytem�s office. The weather was so perfect, with a slightly cold breeze having a soothing effect on you(the breeze hit us while traveling in an auto). I still like that kinda breeze! Hope to change the geography of Chennai and make its altitude to at least some 2000m above the sea level! So that we chennaities can enjoy the climate of B�lore and that cool breeze!
Then we did the interviews ! ( I don�t want to dwell on this!). We selected some 5 candidates.
Another worst part of this visit, is that of the lunch! Ehh.. we ordered lunch at 1.30 pm and we got our lunch at 3.30 pm.. these guys who do this door delivery were very good service oriented ppl! And worst of all is that he didn�t have any change for my 500 ruppe note! And gave me some gift voucher to adjust the amount!
I got a severe headache because of the late lunch and since no candidates were left to be interviewed (ppl who had appointment at 1.30 havent turned up till 3.45), we (myself and Gopi)decided to take a stroll along the road and come back in 10mins! So that out headache will also vanish, still the gentle breeze well alive and we enjoyed it. Within minutes, we reached the hockey stadium there. The stadium was just few yards from the place of interview. There was a local match that was going on, we watched the same for some 5mins. It was really refreshing. Why don�t media sponsor these games, hockey is supposed to be the official sport of our country and in familiarity wise could not even be compared with the cricket. I thin we need to pour more encouragement and support to these good athletes as well. But the ground was really well maintained and the lush green was a treat to our eyes and soon our headaches vanished!
We then finished the rest of the candidates and started back to hotel. We were supposed to catch our bus which was scheduled to depart at 10.30pm in the evening! W were in the hotel by 7.00pm and we thought we could go to Brigade rd to do some shopping and come back.But then I was too lazy and dropped that idea. Just went inside that cozy bed (I loved that soft cusion).. the AC in the room was just adequate to keep yourself underneath the warmth of the bedsheets. Just slept for some 30mins and got up and called the reception. Enquired whether the distance from this hotel to Kalasipalayam (where we need to board our bus).The stupid receptionist informed us that it will take an hour from the hotel to reach kalasipalayam!
It was already 8.00pm and we haven�t taken our dinner, so we rushed to kalasipalayam and planned to have out dinner there, as it would save time. So took an auto and went to kalasipalayam. It toll less than 20mins from the hotel. Couldn�t yell at the receptionist! She not there with us.. thought .. may be she is new to Bangalore, but she shouldn�t have given an erroneous data if she doesnt know, atleast she should have enquired with some one else about it! We could have spent some more time to have our dinner in the hotel!
Any way, we had our dinner in a hotel there in Kalasipalayam, it was a bit decent one.. not a gr8 one.
And spent our time walking down in the kalasipalayam streets, enjoyed the breeze. There were also beautiful crackers that were lighting the sky, may be the celebrations for the ganesh chaturthy. We watched it, then got into our bus and reached Chennai in the morning!
If you have read this essay till this line, you might be interested in the way I write and you don�t have anything else to do! (just kidding!) .. and one more important inference is .. we need to speak !
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Copycats, innovators, and slaves of the past: on being "post-all-of-that"
"... invaluable though innovation may be, our relentless focus on it may be obscuring the value of its much-maligned relative, imitation. Imitation has always had a faintly disreputable ring to it — presidents do not normally give speeches extolling the virtues of the copycat. But where innovation brings new things into the world, imitation spreads them; where innovators break the old mold, imitators perfect the new one; and while innovators can win big, imitators often win bigger. Indeed, what looks like innovation is often actually artful imitation.."
Note: I copied this story and pic from another blog - the inimitable 3 Quarks Daily!
Speaking of innovation and imitation, I was struck by Christian Bök's recent Harriet post about Erik Zboya's using digital techniques to experiment with Mallarmé's Un Coup de Dés: struck because the techniques seem so much less innovative than the original. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, mind you. I'm even more interested, however, in B.'s "Xenotext Experiment," which replies on scientific technology and theorizing that is precisely fifty years old now to "encode" poems in DNA. Commentaries on the past as innovation!
Anyway, I've been reading about the latter - and much more - in a fascinating anthology recently published by the wonderful project now residing at Lake Forest College, The &NOW Awards for best innovative writing. A fun thing in the book, edited capaciously and generously by Robert Archambeau, Davis Schniederman, and Steve Tomasula, is Gretchen E. Henderson's Galerie de Difformité, - yet even that piece owes much, at least in theory, to Nerval's The Salt Smugglers - ca. 1850... or even perhaps Laurence Sterne, from whom we all arguably descend. In a sense, possibly a Platonic one, all hats are old. As the Amazon "product description" puts it, the anthology "features writing as a contemporary art form: writing as it is practiced today by authors who consciously treat their work as an art, and as a practice explicitly aware of its own literary and extra-literary history." So again: I'm interested in the idea of innovation as consisting of hyper-awareness of the past - 'cos I imagine that even writers who don't think of themselves as, or aren't considered to be innovative... have that.
Anyhow, something in the &NOW book that really grabs me is DJ Spooky's more lively and convincing "The Future Is Here," which begins:
"I'm just happy to be alive in this era. It's truly exciting to travel around just checking out how strange it all is. I'd say this is going to be a century of hyper-acceleration, and I just get a kick out of seeing it. One of my favorite phrases comes from William Gibson: 'The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed.'"
I strongly suspect that the sound structures and social clusters Spooky evokes with such relish represent something of what the future really holds in store, something we haven't quite known before.
Oh, and kudos to the eds. for sampling The New Anonymous - "a literary journal of the nameless, edited by the faceless" - surely an idea whose time has come!
As Steve Tomasula sez in his intro, writing "now" is really hard to categorize - all we can say is that it's something "post-all-of-that!"
Still: I just read the fascinating book Toward Total Poetry, by Adriano Spatola - one of the fine products of Paul Vangelisti and Guy Bennett's Seismicity Editions about which I recently blogged. And though the book originally appeared back in the early seventies (this is its first translation into English), almost everything we now call innovative turns up in its pages: it's almost a cookbook for innovative poetry. I suppose it can't have been influential among those in the English-language poetry world now among us; but the thinking is there... and it's well over three decades old.
So: who are the slaves of the past? Everybody, I presume; but appropos of everything and nothing (which is the way I juxtapose stuff, being not a flâneur but a bricoleur), here's "Jane" over on Digital Emunction:
"I think there's little intellectual honor in producing some semi-official metric for the ends of epochs and not making any claims until it had been rigorously satisfied. That, to be sure, is to be a slave of the past."
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- Joel Brouwer said...
I teach a course for MFA students on imitation. I call it "Reiteration" to avoid the word imitation, which, as you point out, is generally seen as derogatory. We read works clearly imitative of others, but the secret agenda of the course is to demonstrate by semester's end that all texts are imitative, that originality is a bugaboo sent by the past to trouble the sleep of the present, that there hasn't been a sui generis text since some Sumerian first scratched a tablet. Some students hear this argument as a challenge to their artistic virility*, and, like panicky mastodons in a tar pit, struggle harder and sink faster. The smart ones see it for what it is: A release, a relief, a permission.
*I choose this word advisedly: These students are almost always dudes.
- April 23, 2010 at 7:18 AM
- Henry Gould said...
Have to disagree, Joel. It's not one or the other, it's both/and. Yes, every poem & every work of art is rooted in past art (among other things), but it has to move a step past imitation, into originality, in order to become a true equivalent of those past works themselves (which are also original). Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny; the Child is Father to the Man; the New is born from the Old.
- April 23, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- Henry Gould said...
Another factor of the condition I just described : the notion that "all art is imitation" assumes art exists on a sort of Platonic-technical plateau, outside time, place & history. But one of the ways art asserts its originality is in the way it examines & reflects the distinct conditions of its own time & place. "A local habitation & a name."
- April 23, 2010 at 11:29 AM
- Joel Brouwer said...
I think the only thing we're disagreeing about is what "originality" means. If you want to define originality as the new version of the old thing, then sure, you bet, it not only exists, it's the only game in town. But I think most poets, asked to define originality, would say, "doing something that no one's done before." And that's the bugbear I want to free my students from the fear of. Oof. of.
- April 23, 2010 at 9:04 PM
- Kent Johnson said...
On Imitation, Petrarch writes thusly to Boccaccio:
An imitator must see to it that what he writes is similar, but not the very same; and the similarity, moreover, should not be like that of a painting or statue to the person represented, but rather like that of a son to a father, where there is often great difference in the features and members, yet after all there is a shadowy something— akin to what the painters call one's air—hovering about the face, and especially the eyes, out of which there grows a likeness.... [W]e writers, too, must see to it that along with the similarity there is a large measure of dissimilarity; and furthermore such likeness as there is must be elusive, something that it is impossible to seize except by a sort of still-hunt, a quality to be felt rather than defined.... It may all be summed up by saying with Seneca, and with Flaccus [Horace] before him, that we must write just as the bees make honey, not keeping the flowers but turning them into a sweetness of our own, blending many different flavors into one, which shall be unlike them all, and better.
- April 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM
- Henry Gould said...
I think we're almost seeing eye-to-eye, Joel, but it's that hair's-breadth that makes the difference. There's something more to originality than the "new version of the old thing". I think the problem comes (& this generates a lot of myths in US poetryland) when one equates "original" with "new" : as if writing were a matter of technical innovations. Original is more than simply new : it's the unique. Style is like a fingerprint : the feeling of "newness" stems from originality - uniqueness - not the other way around. It's new because its original; it's not original because it's new (the causation runs one way here).
Ted Roethke is a good example. I like & admire his poetry a great deal - but I don't think he's in the front rank of poets. Why? He's not original enough. He consents to channel his great forebears (Whitman, Eliot, Yeats) too easily & too often.
If I were teaching creative writing, I would explain originality in this way : as a seeking & finding of one's own style by long study, affinity & imitation.
- April 24, 2010 at 11:37 AM
- Joel Brouwer said...
How's about instead of eyes or hairs or fingerprints -- all of which, you'll recall, were discredited at O.J.'s trial -- style's like DNA: Uniquely your own, but also wholly, utterly, irreducibly derivative?
OK and then sorry but "Ted"? You made beer come out of my nose!
- April 25, 2010 at 6:06 PM
- Henry Gould said...
Ted : that's what they called him. Call me Hank if you like - no beer off my nose.
Originality : you either have it or you don't. But it's a sine qua non, in my book. & to repeat my inimitable self (see above) : "make it new" doesn't cut it. So where does that leave us? "Make it derivative" doesn't either.
Tell your kids to be themselves, that's my advice. & good luck to them.
- April 26, 2010 at 3:13 PM
- Gary B. Fitzgerald said...
"Good poets borrow.
Great poets steal."
- T.S. Eliot
"Good poets learn everything they can.
Great poets forget everything they learned."
- Gary B. Fitzgerald
- April 26, 2010 at 6:37 PM
- Joelle Biele said...
Thanks for the links--love the idea behind the New Anonymous--
- April 28, 2010 at 8:31 AM
- Don Share said...
Thanks for your comment, Joelle. (Keep sending poems!) - Don
- April 28, 2010 at 9:23 AM
- Joel Brouwer said...
"Just be yourself" -- it's always struck me funny that people say that as if it were some kind of release and relief, like, "Whew, trying to be someone else was really difficult; it's going to be so much easier to just be myself." Really? Not for me. Tell me to be like someone else and I at least know how to begin. Tell me to be myself and I first have to figure out what my self is, a process which, if conducted honestly, is almost certain to result in the conclusion that what my self is is boring. I just don't see the shame in being derivative. If I can shave a sliver off the alp of what's come before me and curl it to my personal whim I'll die happy.
- April 28, 2010 at 9:58 AM
- Joel Brouwer said...
Gary, Eliot did not say that.
- April 28, 2010 at 10:01 AM
- Henry Gould said...
Joel, I know what you're saying... I don't disagree so much... just a different emphasis. "Be yourself" is meant here as a shorthand for "seek your own style (through long practice, trial & error, assimilation, imitation...)".
Imitation is a necessary means to an end, which is originality. Originality not for its own sake, but rather as the only way to make something actually new & authentic. Part of my disappointment with Ted Roethke (for example, & not to pick on him) is that I know that if I read him without having read Eliot, Yeats or Whitman, I wouldn't realize how much (how overmuch) he was "sounding like" them. Ie. not really new, different, original, authentic enough. Not quite, anyway.
- April 28, 2010 at 10:35 AM
- Henry Gould said...
p.s. Joel, part of my nit-picking on this might have to do with the fact that I'm the son of a patent attorney. The status of "invention" - the new vs. the remake, the rip-off, the 2nd-hand goods - was something I grew up with. My father handled patents for the Wham-O corporation. My brothers & I flew a prototype of the "Frisbee" in our yard, back in the 50s.
- April 28, 2010 at 10:50 AM
- Gary B. Fitzgerald said...
"Gary, Eliot did not say that."
Joel, I have heard that but he also seems to be the one to whom it is most frequently attributed. Do you know who actually said it?
P.S. I just heard Rush Limbaugh call someone named Travis Nichols in Chicago an idiot. Apparently Travis is calling for a boycott of Arizona Tea, which is made in New York. Do you think Limbaugh checks out Harriet? :-)
- April 28, 2010 at 12:03 PM
- Joel Brouwer said...
Henry, seems we're simply being ourselves by advancing different versions of the same old idea, which seems more than appropriate!
Gary, "One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest." http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw11.html
- April 28, 2010 at 1:45 PM
- Gary B. Fitzgerald said...
Thanks, Joel.
I have never read that. I guess we learn something every day.
- April 28, 2010 at 8:54 PM


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Not really, I don't deal in absolutes like that. Microsoft could give Windows away and offer to send a tech onsite for every little problem that arises, and there would still be people with requirements that Windows just couldn't meet. I'm talking about customers needing a competitive market to achieve the best value, and OSS being an enabler for that competitive market by offering a viable alternative, not the only viable alternative, to proprietary software with crappy support or inherent lockin. Besides, free software far predates Windows whether considering public domain, shared source, freeware, shareware, what have you. It will always exist, it's human nature to create and try and improve. The existence of proprietary software has nothing directly to do with that, though perhaps indirectly in that it inspires others to try and do better one way or another.
The problem with advocates and zealots on either side of the argument is that they tend to superimpose their requirements and objectives onto the general public. Some people choose free software because they resent paying for something they believe should be free, some people choose linux because they want the flexibility it can offer over Windows even knowing that it may require compromise, whereas some people just need their software and hardware to work together above all else and are happily willing to pay for that. Some people want the best supported product, some want the cheapest and will gamble on fixing it if something goes wrong. Some people value gaming at 15000 fps as being more important than not having to install A/V software. Nobody's requirements or value definition is right or wrong, it's for them to determine and what I believe is important is that everyone have the ability to select the products that offer the best value matching their requirements. Be it FOSS, OSS, or unabashedly proprietary.
I do believe that OSS has an important role in commoditizing technologies that dominant companies would otherwise resist in an effort to extract every possible dollar of revenue out of, something that normally would not be possible in a competitive free market but is possible when dealing with staggering monopolies, ambiguous patent laws and questionable competitive practices, all of which at least partially fly in the face of a free market.
Besides, I'll be the first to admit that OSS isn't always the better alternative. Low priced doesn't always equate to cost effectiveness, and in terms of TCO and ROI sometimes you have to spend more money up front to save money in the long run. I think the whole issue gets clouded with the concept of linux being gratis versus Windows being $400, when the issue and value equation can be far more complex than that.
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Jan Pribyla came in for a Czech Up, with Dr Ivan Cakovsky and Sister Sasch Borodin. Jan had a bad stomach and it needed some investigation. So he is told to get undressed and put on the white surgical smock. When he has done that The medics put him in the chair and take some vital tests, like blood pressure and temperature, using the thermometer in the dick trick. But he fails to get a reading, so he then tries the ass, and is more successful. Ivan decides that further examination of Jan's ass is required, so he gloves up and slides a finger in. At the same time Sascha starts kissing Jan and plays with his cock. Then Sascha also dons a glove and both he and Ivan finger Jan's ass. Ivan then sucks on Jan's dick until he gets it fully hard. Next it is time for Jan to get a taste of some dick, and he sucks Ivan and Sascha in turn, while wanking himself. But Ivan doesn't forget all about his duties as a Dr and gets the proctoscope and checks Jan's ass some more. It seems that it needs further attention, so Ivan has Jan sit down on his throbbing dick for further penetration. Jan rides Ivan's hard dick, bouncing up and down, as Ivan sucks on Sascha's dick. A quick change of position allows Ivan better access to Jan's ass, and Jan can also suck Sascha at the same time. Finally Ivan and Sascha want to give their loads to Jan, so they unload and he sucks them dry. The guys then kiss and bring the scene to a very nice conclusion.
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Finally we have a nice, hot afternoon in Prague. As I write these words, Mad Monk, two of his nieces, Pavel Nikos and our IT guy are waiting to board a plane for Istanbul. This morning, the Monk's missing luggage finally arrived in Prague, with a great lens for my new camera, and my Mac Matic Trackpad. The day it came out, I installed the new Mac OS 10.7 Lion. Everything went very smoothly until I started on the Newsletter, and an important ftp connection no longer worked, with our IT guy waiting to board his flight. Always happens that way. Never mind. I used the critical ftp connection on my old PC and got that much done. Miracle. When our IT guy returns next week, he'll sort the problems out.
My review of Lion: Most of the stuff I can see are cosmetic improvements on what the last operating system already did. I'm sure there's lots under the hood which I can't see. One thing: You can make your Mac PC monitor look like an iPhone or iPad. Most power users are very scathing about that. I think I'll hardly ever use that feature. This reminds me of the pro screaming about the interface on the new Final Cut Pro X. Once I spent about three weeks learning my way around the new editing program, I decided I love it. It's much better than the old program. I think pros don't want to be induced to learn something completely new from the ground up. There are lots of things I'd rather have been doing, but once I learned it, I'm very grateful I took the time to do it. At my age, if I can relearn an editing system, I'm sure practically everyone can.
I just finished a really great shoot. Boris was casting about for the cast of a 'sukat' duo for today's schedule. I said, what I'd like to see is a flip-flop between Ivan Cakovsky and Artur Lefek. Done. Boris set it up. Artur had never been passive and really didn't want to try. Well, this afternoon he lost his cherry. And he took it like a champ. Artur was just great. Ivan, on the other hand, who's had lots of experience in the passive position, had a very difficult time of it. Lots of pain. Miro said, 'Ivan is having a very difficult time of it. He's never been passive before – today.' At last Ivan got used to it, and put in a fine performance. I just loved this shoot, and tomorrow, I'll put together a quick Sneak Peek for the blog.
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Our preview tonight is a nude submission wrestling, Ladislav v Filip. That was a great shoot, and I'll download it as soon as it's released.
Mykola Petruskov is 19 years old and hails from Russia. He is in the Czech Republic for work and in his spare time he enjoys playing football. Mykola is a cute looking guy who photographs very well, as you can see in this stills shoot. He does some very nice poses, and shows a very good, upstanding qualification as well a a most inviting ass. It would be great if we could persuade him to come back and do something with another guy.
Lukas Bursik is aged 18 and lives in Prague, where is a student of economics. He enjoys computers and tennis in his spare time. This is his erotic video, and I must say he looks very good. He starts by removing his shirt and caressing his body before opening his jeans and dropping themto the floor, revealing his engorged member. He wanks himself and we see that his dick grows to quite size, and he sits to continue wanking. Then with his dick nicely aroused he lifts his legs to show us a nice hairy hole too. changing position allows Lukas to bend over and stretch the hole open some more. this time it actually opens up very nicely indeed. Laying face down on the wooden beam gives us a great view of Lukas' ass again, this time it opens even further. Then it is time for a cumshot, so Lukas wanks himself to a massive erection and spurts a nice big load, which splatters the floor. He then finishes up in the shower to refresh himself after his exertions. Lukas really looks great in this video. I would love to see him do more.
Wank Party 2011 #7 features Pavol Zbynek, Ivan Cakovsky, Honza Copak, Jan Pribyla and Sascha Borodin. Pavol, Ivan and Honza are walking by the lake and find Sascha and Jan Sunbathing on an air bed. They run into the water and tip them off, and the fun begins, the guys get naked and enjoy a good time laughing, joking, mock fighting and playing with a ball before they leave the water and walk back to where they are staying. Dropping their towels the guys start to get hard and soon Ivan is sucking Sascha while Jan sucks on Pavol's hard cock. Before long they switch and Ivan sucks on Honza and Sascha and Pavol gets to grips with Jan's dick. The guys move to another room for more sucking, this time with Ivan rimming Jan's ass. Pavol wants some too so he starts to rim Sascha as well, taking the opportunity to jam his thumb up his ass. Meanwhile Ivan is fingering Jan's ass, so we know that more is going to find its way in there soon. Our expectations are met swiftly as Ivan fucks Jan while Pavol fucks Sascha real deep. Then they switch with Pavol shoving his dick deep into Sascha, and Ivan doing the same to Jan, who also gets a mouthfull of Honza's rampant cock. Another change sees Honza sitting on Ivan's dick and Sascha fucking Jan, with Pavol waiting his turn to fuck Honza. Which he does very soon, doggy style. Then Honza sits on Ivan again and Pavol moves back to have another go at Jan's tight ass. All too soon the cumshots start to flow, with Pavol, Sascha and Ivan cumming in quick succession, all over Jan's face, and he dutifully sucks the dicks dry, before he also shoots a nice load and finally Honza drops his load over Jan's head to bring the scene to a wonderful ending.
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CHICAGO — Three years after he was elected with support from Sarah Palin and other tea party activists, Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger finds himself in new territory: the target of a primary battle waged by people who say he's not conservative enough.
CHICAGO — Three years after he was elected with support from Sarah Palin and other tea party activists, Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger finds himself in new territory: the target of a primary battle waged by people who say he's not conservative enough.
While similar challenges prompted some GOP lawmakers to move to the right or temper their rhetoric, Kinzinger has tried to hold his ground and become more visible and vocal than ever. He has made the rounds on TV talk shows to argue for military action in Syria — a position he shared with President Barack Obama — and he has criticized the groups targeting him for contributing to paralysis in Washington.
It's a calculated gamble by Kinzinger, who enjoys the advantages of incumbency in what's considered a safe Republican district. But he argues that it's also an opportunity to show other Republicans — especially in blue states like Illinois — that the GOP can make gains by welcoming younger voters and minorities, by not "going on cable TV all the time and yelling and screaming" and by accepting that it's a big party and "we're not going to agree on everything."
The House GOP's national campaign arm has selected the 35-year-old Channahon congressman to help with election efforts across the Midwest in 2014.
"I think there are people in D.C. that are scared of that idea of a primary," Kinzinger said in an interview this month in his Washington, D.C., office. "I think when you're challenged and you can defend your ideas and win big, it makes you stronger."
David Hale, who founded a local tea party group in Rockford, announced earlier this month that he'll take on Kinzinger in 2014. He said Kinzinger's position on Syria solidified his decision to run. While he knows he faces an uphill climb against an "established Republican sweetheart," he points to votes such as Kinzinger's support for a deal that averted the so-called "fiscal cliff" but raised taxes on upper incomes as reason to fight.
"To me it's about principle. It really is," said the 50-year-old U.S. Army veteran, who works in health care information management. "(Kinzinger) says the right things. He's just not what he says he is or who he says he is."
A veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, Kinzinger was one of few House Republicans to come out in favor of military action in Syria amid evidence of a chemical attack. The former Air Force pilot, who still serves in the Air National Guard and has photos of himself in his flight suit throughout his office, said the ability of the U.S. and its allies to defend themselves in the future depended on enforcing a century-old ban on chemical weapons.
While he also criticized the Obama administration, saying it's shown "a complete failure to lead" on foreign affairs, Kinzinger's stance was seen by opponents of military action as a betrayal.
Club for Growth Action, a conservative anti-tax organization, has named Kinzinger to a list of 10 "Republicans in name only" that it's targeting for primaries. Among the others listed on the group's "Primary My Congressman" website are fellow Illinois U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock of Peoria and U.S. Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
GOP strategist Doug O'Brien says Club for Growth's efforts run counter to the way Illinois voters make decisions. They tend to be more concerned about local needs and problems, he said, rather than "30,000-foot issues people inside the beltway care so much about."
Still he said Kinzinger's recent strategy was unusual in the face of a primary threat.
"A lot of politicians in that situation would have shied away from further exacerbating that," said O'Brien, a former aide to U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, another Illinois Republican who's infuriated tea party activists because of some moderate views.
Illinois' 18-member congressional delegation includes just six Republicans, after Democrats completed a near sweep of the most competitive races in 2012. The year before, Democratic lawmakers who control the Legislature redrew the state's political maps to favor their party.
The tea party hasn't held as much influence in Illinois as in some other states. Kinzinger had support from many tea party activists when he was first elected to Congress in 2010. When Democrats redrew the maps to make Kinzinger's district more Democrat-friendly he decided to challenge longtime GOP Congressman Don Manzullo — whose new 16th district included much of Kinzinger's old one. The district, where Republican Mitt Romney got about 53 percent of the vote for president in 2012, hugs some of Chicago's outermost suburbs and stretches through north-central portions of the state.
Manzullo had support from tea party activists, while Kinzinger was backed by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who's often considered the tea party's link to GOP leadership. Kinzinger won the primary and easily took the general election.
The Club for Growth, through its website, is still inviting the public to recommend a challenger to Kinzinger, though with six months left before the March primary a bid could be difficult, particularly for an unknown candidate.


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A Conservation Agreement regarding Gunnison sage grouse was presented to US Fish and Wildlife Director Dan Ash on July 16 in Gunnison, CO.
Five representatives from San Juan County attended the meeting, including Commissioners Bruce Adams, Mark Maryboy, and Phil Lyman; County Planner Nick Sandberg; and County Extension Officer Jim Keyes.
The Conservation Agreement (also known as the Umbrella Plan) was signed by San Juan County and 18 counties in Colorado. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and Utah Governor Gary Herbert both signed the agreement.
Colton Miles, of the staff of Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz, and John Harja, of the Governors Public Land Policy Council, also attended the meeting.
The Conservation Agreement urges the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to forego listing the Gunnison sage grouse as an endangered species and asks to not list critical habit. The preliminary designation listed nearly one third of private land in San Juan Couty as critical habitat.
The agreement asks the FWS to recognize local efforts to preserve the sage grouse and requests ten years for local groups to prove that they can manage on their own without a federal designation.
The Utah FWS and the coalition of the 19 counties have requested an extension of six months on the public comment period. That extension has been granted. Public comments on the issue will be taken until March 31, 2014.
San Juan County Commissioners are attending a National Association of Counties Convention in Fort Worth, TX next week. Commissioner Adams is sponsoring a resolution at the convention concerning the Gunnison sage grouse designation.
In other matters at the July 15 Commission meeting, County Emergency Services Director Rick Bailey shared a map of Utah designating the various drought conditions in the state.
Bailey points out that two-thirds of San Juan County is in the extreme drought range, but that the county has not been designated by the USDA as a primary natural disaster area due to drought.
Piute, Sanpete and Sevier counties have this designation. Commissioner Adams said he will look into this.
Kelly Pehrson, Chief Executive Officer for the county, has looked into refinancing a water bond for the Mexican Hat Special Service District. He reports that the cost to refinance is prohibitive.
The county currently pays about $6,000 a year on that bond. It is agreed that the county will continue to make their current payments.
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