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Assisted Living Reviews for The Villages of St. Peters
July 14, 2016
I am a friend or relative of a resident
My ex-husband is in Villages at St Peters. The people there are happy. The staff is friendly, professional, and seem to be doing a good job with the residents. They keep the place up and decorated nicely. It is not elegant, but it is good for the price point. I think it is a nice facility. They seem to care about his well-being. I know they play bingo, do exercise activities, and have social hours. They take them out for lunch and to different places.
June 10, 2015
I am a friend or relative of a resident
Everything about The Villages of St. Peters was excellent. The staff and the doctors were wonderful. My mother was there for a while. They could not accommodate her needs, and they didn't have a room for her, but I highly recommend them. It was very clean, the food was excellent, and it was a wonderful place.
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July 07, 2018
I am a friend or relative of a current/past resident
I got my mother-in-law in a nursing home called The Villages of St. Peters. It's wonderful and gorgeous. There is a big fountain in the center with high ceilings. The people are very friendly. They get their money's worth there. One thing I love about this place is that they have their own dental company that comes in once a month. It also has memory care unit. The staff is wonderful. They treat you like royalty. My mother-in-law couldn't sit up because she was abused, beaten, and neglected by her son, so they had to re-build her. Her hair was matted to her head, so they washed her hair six times. They just went overboard for her. They keep them extremely busy, and they do arts and crafts. The food is excellent. My mother-in-law loves it. As a matter of fact, they give her two helpings of breakfast, two helpings of lunch, and two helpings of dinner. In between, if they want Ensure or snacks, they set it out and they can come and get it or they will bring it to them.
April 25, 2018
I am a friend or relative of a current/past resident
Mom is at the Villages of St. Peters. The overall care she's getting is fine, they help her with what she needs to do, but she doesn't always care for the food. A large concern is the cost, but overall, it's fine. They could do more activities on the skilled nursing side.
July 17, 2017
I visited this facility
We are on a waitlist at The Villages of St. Peters. The place itself was very bright and light, which gave us a good feeling. We like their minimal medical policy. They said they try to keep them on as little medication as possible. Those two things were very attractive to us. It is a mile from my house, so it would be very easy for visiting. They have a companion room that seems pretty close to our price range. It has a small patio and a little bit of space to walk around. Their staffing seems more than adequate.
June 20, 2017
I am a friend or relative of a current/past resident
Father is currently in this joke of a rehab center. He fell at home and was placed here after his hospital stay, where he has fallen an additional TWO TIMES. There is no staff to be seen when you need them, and it's a 10 minute wait with a call button. As for rehab...whats rehab?!?!? Thus place sucks.
April 28, 2017
I am a friend or relative of a current/past resident
The Villages at St. Peters was adequate, clean, respectable, and had adequate staff. The food was above average. The rooms were a good size. My loved one was in a nice semi-private room. She would go back if we had to put her in rehab again. They had activities, like social interaction, birthday parties, and local choirs from the school who came in to sing for the residents. They had something going on all the time to keep them active. The place had up-to-date, modernized elderly care.
March 23, 2016
I am/was a resident of this facility
My experience here was great. I didn't know what to expect, it was my first time needing such a service. I had my mind made up it would be dreadful. I was delighted to find my stay was filled with therapy, recreational activities and lots of people to socialize with. The workers were very accommodating and friendly, I felt like they really cared what happened to me. I liked my stay so well that I now volunteer there.
February 02, 2016
I visited this facility
My Mother has been in that phycility for 3 weeks starting the beginning of January 2016' and I had to call 911 and personally have her transpired to the ER, because she had severe swelling all over her body, and the Nurse Ebony was such a horrific disrespectful, uncaring, rude nurse, when I requested that she have tests ran to see where the root of the swelling was coming from they would not even run blood work. Or do anything to care for her. Within an hour of having her transported to the ER they said she had Congestive heart failure, and if I would have waited any longer to bring her she would have surely died. If you love your family member, I would suggest you NEVER NEVER alow them to be in this busing home. They will surly die!
January 23, 2016
I visited this facility
My mother is on a waiting list for The Villages. She loves the place. It's just 3 miles from my place. The rooms are all one-bedroom with walk-in closets. It's a good size, and the price is good. I loved the people. They were very nice, and very caring. I've seen the food, and it looked awesome. They have a lot of choices. So, you can always find something you like.
November 10, 2015
I am a friend or relative of resident
My mother has been a resident in the rehab wing of this facility for a week. So far, the staff--from the physician's assistant to the aides and therapists--have been incredibly helpful, responsive and polite. My mother had spent two days at another rehab facility (substandard) in West County and, thus far, is much happier at the Villages of St. Peters.
July 05, 2015
I visited this facility
My mom was there for rehab after a hip fracture. I witnessed one of the lowest levels of care by the nursing staff and the physician all which led to the death of my mom. I am forced to place at least 1 star in order to submit my review. If I could I would give zero or a negative infinity. How can you positively rate a facility when you lost your loved one due to neglect and poor poor medical practice?
February 18, 2015
I visited this facility
I would not recommend this place. Nurses would not respond to any of my questions. The bathroom toilet didn't work correctly for 3 days. DID NOT LISTEN TO ME. Kept making requests. Staff rude.
October 16, 2014
I am a friend or relative of a resident
So far we like Villages of St. Peters; the location is close -- which is convenient for us -- and the price is good. The room is sufficient for one person; it's a bedroom with a separate living space and a kitchen area with no stove, a little refrigerator, a microwave, and plenty of kitchen cabinets. The people that worked there were professional and very friendly. They know everybody by name, and when you walked down the hallway they talked to everybody that they saw so I'm really impressed with that.
October 07, 2014
I am a friend or relative of resident
My mother had a wonderful stay at The Villages Of St. Peters. When she arrived she was greeted by friendly staff, and they made her feel very comfortable in a scary time. They took the time to explain the entire rehab process and made her feel welcome. The therapy department was AMAZING!!!! I had my doubts that she would be able to be able to make it back home on her own, she was brought in by an ambulance, and she walked out on her own accord. She had plenty of things to keep her busy, and she loved the food. I even ate with her a few times and the food was great. The nursing staff was helpful, and got to get pretty quickly despite the fact that they were full my moms entire stay. My family liked visiting also, it didn't have that depressed "nursing home feel" If you or your family need a good place for rehab, go to the Villages! I hope we never need them again, but if we do, we will go back!
August 27, 2014
I visited this facility
We visited Villages of St. Peters. It was a very nice building but we saw some things that I felt indicated a general lack of care. There was a bad smell in the building. We walked into a room and the man there complained to us that he had been sitting in his feces for three hours. There were no activities going on. We couldn't find people to answer our questions. There was just a general lack of care, like nobody really seemed interested in anything. Unfortunately, it was just a really bad feeling overall. The building was beautiful, but once you stepped inside, it was just a really sad atmosphere. It was an unannounced tour and the staff seemed very disorganized. We waited around for a long time for someone to help us. We didn't feel very informed. They have both private rooms and semi-private rooms that did have nice space, so that part was nice. About the environment, it didn't seem there were enough staffers there. It looked like there were a lot of residents asking for help as we walked by. They need more staffing.
August 09, 2012
I am a friend or relative of a resident
Unexpectedly and rather quickly we found we had to put my father in a nursing home, first for rehab along with Alzheimers and now just for Alzheimers care. After looking at several facilities we decided on The Villages of St. Peters. While no one wants to put a family member in a home The Villages have been wonderful in our transition. The location is great , right off a major highway. The facility itself has common areas that look like you are in France at a Vineyard or winery. Beautiful decor, with many comfortable areas for you to sit with your family and visit. They even have a small dining room you can reserve for a private dinner or party, you feel like you are sitting at home in your own dining room. They do things each week for the patients, parties for holidays, Olympics etc. They bring in people to sing and play music and bingo. A sports bar (no alcohol) but with multiple TVs and table and chairs. Almost as if you were in a resort. The staff is very friendly and often just come by to say hello and give words of encouragement to the resident. They take the time to know you, even the food staff, if they see my father is not liking dinner , they know him well enough to offer something as a back up that he always likes. i.e. a cheeseburger and fries and sherbert. So he never goes away hungry. This facility also has assisted living apartments and a re-hab center, but we utilize them for the skilled nursing home. If we could have him at home that would of course be our first choice, but take it from a person who has visited a lot of people in nursing homes and hospitals over the years, this place out ranks all of them in design, cleanliness and cheerful staff. You feel care about not just the resident but their family as well. I would tell anyone to go here if they find they are at a time they need to provide care for someone.
November 08, 2011
I am a friend or relative of resident
I would never recommend this facility to anyone. Yes, the surroundings are nice and homey, but the staff is unresponsive to questions or concerns from family members; unresponsive to patients requests. My father had been coughing all night, he had asked for some cough medicine at 2am, he never did get any and the nurse or aide never did come back. The people working there are too busy talking on the phone at the nurse's stations and when I went to go and ask a few questions, she was bothered and didn't even hang up with her social call. I asked to speak to his nurse on evening after bringing him back from an outing, they never could find her while I waited 30min. The food is absolutely awful. How can a person get well and get out of rehab if they can't eat enough to sustain their energy? I'm sorry, a grilled cheese sandwhich is not a main entree for dinner!! After 2 1/2 weeks, we moved my father out of that place. And then they claimed we were leaving 'Against medical advise" and they wouldnt' release any of his medical info to the new rehab we moved him to. I had to call his DR and have all new orders issued!
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Date of Birth: 26 Oct 1985
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Asin Thottumkal is an award-winning Indian film actress from the state of Kerala. Currently , she is considered to be one of the most popular actresses in the South Indian film industry with three Southern Filmfare Awards in her kitty. Making her acting debut in Sathyan Anthikkad's Narendra Makan Jayakanthan Vaka (2001), Asin had her first commercial success with Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi in 2003, and won a Filmfare Award for the Best Telugu Actress for the film.
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More recently, Asin has been making a debut in Bollywood, in Ghajini, the remake of its Tamil namesake. She has also reportedly been paid a hefty sum of Rs. 1.5 Crore for her second Bollywood Venture, London Dreams. She started her schooling in Naval Public School, Kochin. She is an only child to her parents – her father being a businessman and her mother a surgeon. She has completed her B.A. English Literature at St. Teresa's College, Kochi.
She has shifted from her home town Kochi to Chennai, where she stays on Harrington Road. She has also bought an apartment at Lokhandwala in Mumbai for her convenience as a base in the city when she is there, as she is slowly but steadily foraying into Bollywood. Before becoming an actress, she was a part-time model and a businesswoman.
Asin Thottumkal debuted in a supporting role in Sathyan Anthikkad's unsuccessful Malayalam film Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka in 2001, at the age of 15. After taking a year out to pursue her education, Asin returned with her breakthrough film as an actress, Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi opposite Ravi Teja, portraying a Tamil girl in her first Telugu language film, which subsequently fetched her the Telugu Filmfare Award for Best Actress.
In the same year she won the Santosham Best Actress Award for her performance alongside Nagarjuna in her second Telugu film, Shivamani. Her following two Telugu films, Lakshmi Narasimha and Gharshana, both portrayed Asin as the love interest for police officers, giving her two more solid hit films, cementing her place as a leading actress in the Telugu film industry.
Asin's first Tamil language film was M. Kumaran son of Mahalakshmi, in which she co-starred with Jayam Ravi. Asin reprised her role from her film Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi for the remake, which saw her portraying a Malayali girl instead of the Tamil girl in the original. The movie subsequently went on to become one of the biggest hits in Tamil cinema during 2004, introducing Asin to Tamil film industry. After a brief return to Telugu films, to do Chakram, her first failure as a senior artiste, she appeared in Ullam Ketkumae.
The film, initially launched in 2002, was originally meant to be the launch for Asin as a lead actress, alongwith then-debutants Arya and Pooja Umashankar. The college love story, directed by Jeeva, was long-delayed but eventually became a successful venture at the box-office, creating wider opportunities for her and the rest of the lead cast.
After the release of Ullam Ketkumae, Asin became publicized as a leading heroine after signing films with the four leading actors of the Tamil industry: Surya, Vikram, Vijay and Ajith in Ghajini, Majaa, Sivakasi and Varalaru respectively. The venture which provided the breakthrough for Asin to become the leading South Indian actress was her Tamil film, Ghajini. The film, co-starring Surya and Nayantara and directed by A. R. Murugadoss, helped Asin secure the Tamil Filmfare Award for Best Actress.
Her role, that of a vivacious young model called Kalpana who dies, became a trendsetter and was parodied in several other films after the release of Ghajini. Her portrayal as "magical" and that "Kalpana was the lovable chatterbox, [with] sheer ability in the romantic interludes, the poignant and heartfelt scenes when she rescues minor girls from villains and her gory end are touching".
The reviewer further went on to mention that "The chemistry between the lead pair in the first half is a delight", a view that became common among film producers who attempted to put their pair opposite each other for the films, Sillunu Oru Kaadhal and Vaaranam Aayiram, both of which started without Asin.
The following Diwali in 2005, Asin had two big releases in Sivakasi and Majaa. Despite the latter becoming an average grosser, the former also went on to be a successful venture at the box office, despite Asin's poorly etched out role.
The following year, Asin opted for a less hectic schedule, becoming more choosy with her roles, rejecting several opportunities in the process. Her long-delayed venture, Varalaru opposite Ajith Kumar, became the biggest blockbuster of 2006 in Tamil cinema, after releasing for Diwali 2006. The film's hero-centric plot retreated Asin to the sidelines, but her role was well acclaimed by critics.
Asin kept intact with her popularity in Telugu films by appearing in Pawan Kalyan's Annavaram, another successful venture in hwich she had a poorly-etched out role. In January 2007, Asin appeared opposite Ajith Kumar and Vijay in two different films, Aalwar and Pokkiri, with the latter becoming a super success, whilst Aalwar became a failure.
The two projects which released on the same day, had been billed up as rival films due to the rivalry of the lead actors in the films. Whilst Asin's role in Aalwar was criticized, her performance in Pokkiri was lauded by critics. Her final project of the year was opposite in Hari's Vel, which had a Diwali 2007 release, subsequently becoming her third successful film which relesed during the Diwali season in three years. The film saw Asin and Surya put apart their creative differences and appear alongside each other after Ghajini. Asin, who portrayed a TV anchor, was appreciated for her role in the film.
Asin appeared in her first dual role in K. S. Ravikumar's magnum opus Dasavathaaram opposite Kamal Haasan, who portrayed ten roles. The film, which was under production since September 2006, became Asin's largest film til date.
Despite being overshadowed by Haasan's ten roles, Asin's portrayal's in the film were praised as her "best-to-date" with one of her roles being that of a Vaishnavite in the 12th century; whilst the other charcter was a Brahmin girl from Chidambaram. Dasavathaaram subsequently went on to become one of the biggest blockbusters in South Indian film history.
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A couple who were spotted kissing on a beach in Dubai have been jailed for a year - despite the fact the man claimed he was giving her CPR.
The Indian man, 28, said he was trying to resuscitate the Filipino woman - who was his co-worker at a McDonald's restaurant - after she suffered an asthma attack.
According to The National, an Emirati child saw the two together on the Jumeirah Open Beach, and told his mother he had seen a couple 'wrestling'.
The mother then claimed she watched for an hour as the pair kissed on the beach.
According to the Daily Mail, she said: "I was shocked when I spotted them seated in a position that looked like they were making love.
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"Right now (MOTAC) is perceived as a gallery," Williams said, "and we want to make it seem more active and have more changing exhibits."
At SoFAB's new 30,000-square-foot space, there will be areas devoted to each of the Southern states, and the cocktail collection will be part of those exhibits. Williams also is working on ways to highlight aspects of cocktail history that do not fit SoFAB's geographic focus. All the items in the current MOTAC collection, which are on loan from the museum's board of directors, will remain in New Orleans.
MOTAC and SoFAB began discussing a closer relationship last July during Tales of the Cocktail. Although Williams will lead both museums and was appointed a board member of the Museum of the American Cocktail, the two institutions remain legally separate entities.
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McMillian will become the assistant managing director of MOTAC and focus on programing and special events.
While the museums are closed, McMillian will hold events around the city, including a cocktail hour at Loa on Nov. 6 and a "spirited dinner" at the Windsor Court on Dec. 3. In a letter that MOTAC board president Dale DeGroff sent to "friends of the museum," he said that, in the interim, monthly seminars would move to the restaurant SoBou, which already displays items from the museum's collection.
McMillian noted that due to the expense MOTAC will end its popular Mixology Monday seminars, which every month brought some of the most distinguished bartenders and cocktail scholars to New Orleans. Each seminar cost $3,000–$4,000. Instead, MOTAC will launch a monthly series of presentations by local bartenders.
According to Williams, the integration of the two museums is part of a fundamental shift in the mission of SoFAB. The food museum has increasingly focused on providing information about issues such as food law and policy along with creating and supporting food exhibits outside the South. SoFAB and MOTAC, for example, are exploring a joint opportunity for a second exhibit in Chicago. To reflect those changes, the organization that oversees SoFAB has been renamed the SoFAB Institute.
"We can have exhibits, museums and other activities around the country," Williams said. "We're not wedded to the South except in this particular location."
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It's just been announced that Rebel Wilson is doing something exciting with clothing. (This time it doesn't involve making a statement about the fashion industry by bending over.)
She helped designed a capsule collection for TORRID called REBEL FOR TORRID, and there will be jackets, dresses, bottoms, accessories, and tops like a Koala print t-shirt because Australia.
You'll be able to buy the clothes (25 pieces priced from $28.50 to $125) in November, just in time for the season of giving to yourself. A Rebel Spring 2016 collection is also in the works, and the brand has always been dedicated exclusively to sizes 12 to 28.
Rebel describes it as "dope." Will she ever stop doing lovable stuff?
I've had a 'torrid' affair with buying clothes all my life. I've never really felt like there's a brand out there in the plus size world that is creating cool stuff, that fits well and is good quality yet affordable.
It's really only been in the last few years that I've seen companies try. So it was awesome to team with Torrid, who I think are doing such a great job in making plus size fashion relevant and dope. I've been loving designing the clothes for my capsule collection. I've been putting my unique style and personal loves into the clothing and literally can't wait for the collection to launch!
Liz Munoz, Torrid SVP of Design says the denim component will be particularly dope. "Rebel's got a natural instinct for design. She's been totally hands-on throughout the process. She cares about every detail, down to the diamanté rivet on the jeans. We love the results… she crushed it."
We're hoping this turns out awesome, but like a Craigslist ad for a pristine laundry hamper, we won't know until see we see some photos. It's still excellent news though. Hopefully Rebel will lend TORRID some of her rebellious whimsy.
Reprinted with permission from Styleite. Want more? Check out these related articles from Styleite:
Old Navy Makes Another Awkward Plus Size F*ck-Up
Lena Dunham and the Curse of Plus Size Women in Polka Dots
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A couple times a year we have a ladies Bible Study that meets on Tuesday mornings. This Bible study is led by Sarah Thornton. Please check back to find out when the next Bible study will begin.
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I gather that recovering from a serious injury and/or surgery can require exercise regimens which help strengthen you but can be mind-numbingly boring. According to a Feb. 23, 30217 New York University Tandon School of Engineering news release (also on EurekAlert), scientists have found a way to make the physical rehabilitation process more meaningful,
Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering have devised a method by which patients requiring repetitive rehabilitative exercises, such as those prescribed by physical therapists, can voluntarily contribute to scientific projects in which massive data collection and analysis is needed.
Citizen science empowers people with little to no scientific training to participate in research led by professional scientists in different ways. The benefit of such an activity is often bidirectional, whereby professional scientists leverage the effort of a large number of volunteers in data collection or analysis, while the volunteers increase their knowledge on the topic of the scientific endeavor. Tandon researchers added the benefit of performing what can sometimes be boring or painful exercise regimes in a more appealing yet still therapeutic manner.
The citizen science activity they employed entailed the environmental mapping of a polluted body of water (in this case Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal) with a miniature instrumented boat, which was remotely controlled by the participants through their physical gestures, as tracked by a low-cost motion capture system that does not require the subject to don special equipment. The researchers demonstrated that the natural user interface offers an engaging and effective means for performing environmental monitoring tasks. At the same time, the citizen science activity increased the commitment of the participants, leading to a better motion performance, quantified through an array of objective indices.
Visiting Researcher Eduardo Palermo (of Sapienza University of Rome), Post-doctoral Researcher Jeffrey Laut, Professor of Technology Management and Innovation Oded Nov, late Research Professor Paolo Cappa, and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Maurizio Porfiri provided subjects with a Microsoft Kinect sensor, a markerless human motion tracker capable of estimating three-dimensional coordinates of human joints that was initially designed for gaming but has since been widely repurposed as an input device for natural user interfaces. They asked participants to pilot the boat, controlling thruster speed and steering angle, by lifting one arm away from the trunk and using wrist motions, in effect, mimicking one widely adopted type of rehabilitative exercises based on repetitively performing simple movements with the affected arm. Their results suggest that an inexpensive, off-the-shelf device can offer an engaging means to contribute to important scientific tasks while delivering relevant and efficient physical exercises.
"The study constitutes a first and necessary step toward rehabilitative treatments of the upper limb through citizen science and low-cost markerless optical systems," Porfiri explains. "Our methodology expands behavioral rehabilitation by providing an engaging and fun natural user interface, a tangible scientific contribution, and an attractive low-cost markerless technology for human motion capture."
Here's a link to and a citation for the paper,
A Natural User Interface to Integrate Citizen Science and Physical Exercise by Eduardo Palermo, Jeffrey Laut, Oded Nov, Paolo Cappa, Maurizio Porfiri. Public Library of Science (PLoS) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172587 Published: February 23, 2017
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When we moved into our new home, I was so excited to have a space to do arts and crafts. After the birth of our second child, we decided to change my arts and crafts room into a playroom/craftroom. I am so glad that we did, as to be honest a lot of the kids crafting supplies are a lot more fun than mine! I wanted the room to be bright and colourful, so I decided to create a lot of pop art of our photographs of family and friends.
Here's a how to do it...
Open up the image you would like to use in GIMP. I then use a large white paintbrush to remove all of the background of the image.
Then you need to use the Photocopy tool by selecting Filters > Artistic > Photocopy. There is a preview that shows you how dark and thick your lines are going to be, so you can play with the settings until you are happy. If it is still not the desired darkness or your white bits are too dark then go into Colors > Levels and move the little black, grey and white triangles until you are happy with how it looks.
If your lines are dark without gaps you can simply use the bucket fill tool to colour in your image. If however, you have gaps, you will need to click Colors > Colors to Alpha > OK which will create a layer that is transparent apart from the black lines of your image.
You then need to create a white layer by clicking Layer > New Layer and making sure white is selected and clicking OK.
You then need to open up the Layers by clicking Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Layers.
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On Thursday evening, MSNBC's Chris Matthews–a noted Barack Obama fan–will be interviewing the 44th president at one of the lowest points in his presidency. Mockery of Matthews has already ensued, especially after he promised to include some "easy" questions. Yet the interview represents a rare opportunity to hold the president accountable–something he resists, and which the media have been reluctant to do in the past.
There are questions that would be obvious to a conservative that Matthews will not ask, such as why he still refuses to consider a delay or amendments to Obamacare when it has turned out to be such a logistical nightmare. Yet there are questions other than the how-great-are-you variety that even a leftist like Matthews should want answered. The following are the top ten questions he should, from a left-wing view, ask:
1. Obamacare was supposed to be your signature domestic policy achievement. How could you let it go so badly? This is a question Matthews has been hinting at asking with his recent comments on the lack of "executive accountability" in the Obamacare rollout, one of the few criticisms he has been prepared to offer. He will not question the policy's intentions, but could hit hard on its poor execution. (Or not, of course.)
2. Why did you tell people they would be able to keep their insurance if you knew it was untrue? Matthews is unlikely to ask this question, since it implies bad faith and dishonesty on the part of the president, which Matthews will never admit. But he may ask a similar question: if this policy was designed so badly, why not just go for a "public option" in the first place? Why not tell the American people your goals?
3. Why are you expanding the powers of the presidency when that was something you once opposed? As liberal law professor Jonathan Turley testified before Congress earlier this week, President Obama is "becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid." He ran in 2008 on a promise not to"do an end-run around Congress." Why has he become even worse than Bush in that regard?
4. If you want the Iran deal to work, why haven't you ironed out the details yet, including the starting date? President Obama's philosophy, as he describes it, is to avoid military conflict if at all possible. From that perspective, the Iran nuclear deal offers hope of a diplomatic solution. Yet the deal has not been finalized. If there is no start date, there is no deadline–and the Israelis and Saudis may pre-empt diplomacy.
5. What really happened that night during the Benghazi attacks? Matthews is guaranteed not to ask this question. But he should, because from a liberal perspective, the more responsibility that can be assigned to President Obama, the less that will be assigned to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is the party's great hope for 2016. If Obama is a team player–as she was–he should finally "man up" on Benghazi.
6. Earlier this year you asked for a minimum wage hike to $9 per hour, but now you want $10–what has changed? There really is no good answer to this question, because not only is the minimum wage bad for the poor (it reduces job opportunities), but the fact that the president is doubling down on a failed initiative exposes how bankrupt his economic agenda really is. Expect him to blame Congress in response.
7. You are taking on economic inequality–but why has inequality increased so much on your watch, particularly for minorities? This policy should be at the core of left-wing criticism of the Obama administration. He will blame Congress, or Wall Street, but at bottom, if inequality is something worth obsessing about, there is no good reason for him to have done so little about it, 60% through it presidency.
8. We have budget negotiations coming up–why don't you demand higher taxes to solve the long-term deficit and debt? This is a logical question, given Obama's rhetoric over the years, and the left's odd economic beliefs. The fact is that Obama knows that massive tax increases are not only politically unfeasible but economically undesirable. So his answer will reveal more about his own duplicity than about his policy.
9. Why are you building an external activist organization, Organizing for Action, if you're against big money in politics? Not only would this question expose the hypocrisy of Obama's crusade to destroy conservative non-profit groups, but it would also give voice to the silent frustration of Democrats who see millions being siphoned away to Obama's pet project rather than being devoted to the party infrastructure.
10. Why are so many issues–gun control, card check, immigration reform–left undone and what are you going to do about them? Expect Obama to blame the opposition–and expect Matthews to join Democrats in urging more rule-by-fiat executive actions. But the question is important because it reveals the degree to which political agitation is an end in itself for Obama, rather than actual policy achievement.


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FATHER'S DAY CAN be a little hollow when your dad has passed away, as mine did in 2002. So, on this day every year I tend to reflect on some of my best memories of Dad, and I always seem to go back to that summer day when I must have been about 14 years old.
That was the day Dad took me to see Willie Mays play.
We were living in Cheyenne, Wyo., at the time, which was a long way from anywhere, particularly in baseball miles. We watched the "Game of the Week" on TV every Saturday, but we otherwise had no real connection to professional baseball.
Reading box scores in the newspaper allowed me to keep up with the game, but the players were merely names on paper. I knew Tony Oliva of the Twins and Roberto Clemente of the Pirates were outstanding players, but only by their statistics not by how they swung a bat, ran the bases or played in the field.
Only on occasion did the players come to life for me.
A couple of years earlier, Dad had taken me to an exhibition game in Denver between the New York Yankees and the old Denver Bears minor-league team. I also had saved all my newspaper delivery and snow-shoveling earnings to finance a plane trip to Minneapolis to visit relatives and, more importantly, see the Minnesota Twins play.
Otherwise, I relied on Dad to keep me informed about the best players in the major leagues. He was a Chicago Cubs fan because of his Midwestern upbringing in Iowa, and followed the Yankees because that is who everyone followed throughout the 1950s and '60s.
Despite his allegiances, I never once heard Dad proclaim that either Ernie Banks of the Cubs or Mickey Mantle of the Yankees was the greatest player of all time, and he certainly could have made a valid case for either.
He reserved that "greatest-ever" designation for Willie Mays, and Dad wanted to make sure his youngest son got the chance to see "The Great One" play in person. So, he woke me up early that Saturday morning, we jumped into the family station wagon and off we went on a 15-hour trek across the Kansas plains to St. Louis.
We lodged in a downtown St. Louis hotel where Dad taught me the intricacies of shaving. He also asked God forgiveness for not attending church that Sunday morning, no doubt because we were attending a different kind of sanctuary that afternoon.
We walked to Busch Stadium, which recently had opened as one of many multi-purpose, circular parks around the country. The parks seemed functional at the time by allowing baseball and football to be played on the same surface, but they were virtually extinct three decades later when fans figured out the sight lines were bad, regardless of the sport.
My view of the Busch Stadium field – and, specifically of Willie Mays – was spectacular from the third-base line, maybe 50 rows back. I was transfixed on Mays when he appeared from out of the Giants' dugout in the top of the first inning and knelt in the on-deck circle wearing his customary No. 24 jersey.
I do not recall what Mays did that day as far as hits or runs scored, but I know that every move he made on the base paths or in the field was followed by a statement from Dad, something about "now that's the way you play the game."
Dad had a deep love for baseball, much more than any other sport. He knew the game inside and out, and he passed along that knowledge of the game as well as his passion for it.
It drove Dad crazy later in life, not that his beloved Cubs never won a World Series in his lifetime, but that they did not play the game properly. He watched nearly every Cubs game on TV late in his life and often grumbled about his team not hitting the cutoff man or failing to hit behind the runner with no outs.
Dad finally gave in to a long bout with failing health in 2002. Not long before he died, Dad watched from inside a retirement home as I played catch outside his window with my 7-year-old son, Luke, the youngest of Dad's 16 grandchildren.
I saw a smile on Dad's face that I will never forget. He was watching his son pass along the love for baseball to another generation. Along the way, I also have passed along the belief that Willie Mays was the greatest baseball player of all time. Thanks to Dad, I saw that first-hand.


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Let me introduce you to Ligthelm. A creative initiative formed by Salomon Ligthelm with a large focus on film, sound design and other various disciplines.
Vimeo Staff Picks is a great place to find new and exciting work which is exactly where we came across this piece: Silent Transitions.
Stirred by images of a busy New York city landscape, Salomon was inspired by the concept of 'silence' and the need for man to find moments of silence and rest in a busy world. The piece was largely inspired by two short pieces of writing in the Bible: 2 Samuel 22:20 and Psalm 46:10: 'The idea evolved with time and I started thinking of more creative ways to illustrate or compare this 'noisy' life with the silence - the moment in which we can be still and know that He is God.'
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Better bike P.R.
Robert Sullivan's piece in the New York Times is getting a lot of attention from bike blogs for its four suggestions to improve the image of cyclists (it's also a great description of what it's like to bike in New York City). They are:
Stop at major intersections.
Don't go the wrong way on one-way streets.
Stay off sidewalks.
Signal before turning
These suggestions strike me as incredibly modest and probably already followed by everyone who reads this blog. In fact, I'm not sure the bad reputation that cyclists have comes from anybody who is serious enough about cycling to read a blog, join an advocacy group, etc. (although Sullivan does criticize the "Lance Armstong types" in his piece for their poor urban etiquette). That being said, it's good to remember we are all in this together, as far as reputations go – maybe some more casual cyclists will read this the Times and reform their ways.
Ottawa > Toronto
The Ottawa Citizen offers a short piece describing the positions of mayoral candidates on cycling policy. Mike described this as "why Ottawa's mayoral race is better than Toronto's"; given that the Toronto candidate who once said "it's their own fault" of cyclists who get killed in traffic now has a narrow plurality in the polls, he's probably right.
Update: The Toronto municipal bureaucracy, however, does keep hope alive with a plan to add bike boxes around five busy intersections, including the terrifying College & Spadina.
Recent cycling links
1. Cycling in Ottawa contributor appears on CTV News to discuss bike safety in the wake of recent cycling deaths.
2. The New York Times' ethics columnist goes for a bike ride around New York City and discusses cycling ethics.
3. The 2010 Bikeway Network Improvements pass Toronto City Council, but the high-profile plan for a segregated lane on University Avenue (which I was really looking forward to) fails due to an ostensible voting error by one councillor.
4. An NDP private member's bill in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario would require drivers to leave 3 feet of space between their vehicles and cyclists; write your MPP.
Segregated Cycling lanes
Hello all!
With winter finally seeming to have been beaten, it's time to take this blog out of its seasonal (albeit never planned) hibernation.
There's been a lot of attention paid in the past few weeks to a pilot project that would see the city create a segregated cycling route through centretown on a trial basis. The Sun was the first to report on it on March 15th (though doesn't have most of the details exactly right and is pretty slanted against), Centretown News followed up on the 26th (their details are right, but they managed to get some names wrong), and the Citizen has something published today. Note all stories talk about different events: the Sun followed the original presentation to the Roads and Cycling Advisory Committee (full disclosure: I'm chair of RCAC. I write here as an individual), the latter follow Councillor Holmes' stepping in to propose the creation of a different consultation mechanism.
I think that there's lots to be optimistic about in this. Given that this will be a bit of a first for Ottawa (at least in the core). My impression, at least based on what RCAC was told, was that the plan was to begin meeting with other community and business groups. What is being proposed here is to make the consultation process more formal. That might slow things down a bit, but I'm not sure that we would have seen any changes this cycling season in any case. It's more important that we do what is needed to make sure that everyone is comfortable with the process and is able to contribute as much as is possible: it'll produce a better result, and it will help avoid infighting amongst various road users/business groups/residents.
Now, in The Citizen Holmes' suggests that downtown was listed as an option, but the cycling plan calls for considerations of larger east-west routes, which is true. I think that the idea of a downtown route for the pilot has more to do with it being an area where there is a good concentration of places to go, local residents, and people commuting in. There's also already a lot of bicycles. That's a good mix for a first project, and is probably different than if it were farther from the core.
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Winter cycling and the increasing ranks of the hardcore
The Citizen has an article today on winter cycling, which looks at an apparent increase in numbers.
The key quote:
"When I first started in the winter, occasionally I would see bike tracks in the snow on the bridge, so I would know there is somebody out there sometimes. And then just gradually I started to see more and more people on bicycles, and now, I don't go a day, no matter how bad the weather, without seeing at least one other bicycle, and usually like five to 10 bicycles," said Hickey.
This more or less reflects my thoughts on winter biking. Now, I don't actually bike in the winter because the added hassle of bundling up offsets the time that I'd save over walking to work. But if I lived much farther away, I'd totally invest in a winter bike because it seems eminently doable. Mostly, I really don't like the bus, but at least part of me just wants to say that I winter bike. Oh, authenticity: you haunt me still.
City Cycling Safety/Lane study?
News out of transportation committee today: a motion from Clive Doucet calls for a city-wide study of cycling safety hazards and whether or not segregated lanes might be a solution. The Citizen and CBC have it covered.
Doucet, quoted in the CBC:
"I hope to see Ottawa becoming much safer," Doucet said Wednesday. "We'll hopefully have an east-west dedicated lane through the centre of the city, which we don't have now. I mean talk to my staff, who come to work down Gladstone and have to share the lane with a bus — pretty scary."
Now, I bike down Gladstone all the time and have never really felt unsafe given the volume of traffic. But I also bike 9 months of the year and contribute to a cycling blog, so I'm probably not the best judge of average. A full set of city-wide cycling lanes designed for commuting would certainly be nice, and would probably help to get more people onto bikes. I know I'd certainly appreciate something a bit more dedicated in the downtown core, given that Queen St., and the risk of door prizes and people making blind right turns, represents that most dangerous couple minutes of my day.
These lanes require dedicated funding for cycling projects, which have been something that the city has not always been great about finding. Also, while it doesn't seem to be in either of the links above, I seem to recall staff mentioning somewhere else that in most of the areas where we've seen accidents segregated lanes are not really feasible.
These now go onto full council for further discussion, so emailing your councilor support would be handy.
The right to bike
While this blog has waxed ambivalent on Critical Mass before, I have to say I was heartened to see that the British House of Lords has over-ruled attempet at police restrictions on the event. Essentially, the police wanted to require "prior notice of the ride's date, time and route and the names and addresses of the organisers" for every CM ride. The law lords say CM is not bound by the Public Order Act, which would have allowed suched restrictions.
Spacing Ottawa
We've been quite fond in the past of linking to articles from Spacing, the fantastic Toronto-based urbanism magazine. Now, CiO readers should be sure to subscribe to their new Ottawa blog, where they cover such issues as Lansdowne, pedestrian bridges and Big Joe Mufferaw. As well, in Spacing Radio #012, you can hear Spacing Ottawa editor Evan Thornton discuss the tension "between the ceremonial and the everyday" in designing Ottawa.
Finally, I recently bought a print subscription to Spacing, and despite the high price, it's definitely worth it. Given the huge amount of content these folks create covering urban issues in a variety of cities, I'm happy to support them.
Confirmed: MEC launching bikes in bigger cities
So, it looks like this will be another arrow in the quiver of those explaining why Toronto is better than Ottawa.
According to the employees I spoke with on Tuesday, MEC has started selling bicycles at it's locations in downtown Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, and Longeuil. These are all bigger stores in bigger markets, so have the extra space needed to setup a bike retail area/shop. At this point it sounds like it is still a pilot project, and it doesn't look like we'll see them added to the Ottawa store in the near future. At this point, apparently they are not even shipping to the non-pilot markets.


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NEWARK – Left-hander Paul Fagan scattered three hits and allowed just one earned run in his first start of the season and Kennard Jones had four hits, drove in a run and had three stolen bases, leading the Newark Bears to a 6-2 victory over the Lancaster Barnstormers in the opening game of a twilight doubleheader Wednesday at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium.
The Barnstormers took the nightcap, 11-3, thanks to a big game from Joe Gaetti, the son of former Minnesota Twins slugger Gary Gaetti. The younger Gaetti had two hits, including a three-run homer, and four RBI for Lancaster (3-2), spearheading a 12-hit attack.
In the opener, Fagan was masterful in his first start for the Bears (3-2), allowing the Barnstormers to score just two runs in the top of the fourth.
Former Milwaukee Brewer reliever Joe Winkelsas pitched the seventh and final inning of Game 1 for the Bears, setting Lancaster down in order.
Jones continued his torrid hitting to start the season, collecting three singles and a double for the winners. Jones had two doubles and scored twice in the nightcap, so he was 6-for-7 with three runs scored on the day.
Daryle Ward had a long solo homer in the second inning against Lancaster starter and loser Jose Sanchez put the Bears in front for good. They scored twice in the third inning, one coming in on a bases loaded walk by Scott Spiezio and added three more in the home third on RBI singles from Jones and Fernando Seguinol, who had two more hits for the Bears.
In the nightcap, the Barnstormers got to starter and loser Pedro Rivera, the former Kean University standout, for four runs in the first, three coming on Gaetti's three-run blast. Lancaster added three more runs in the second inning, with Brett Harper driving in a run with a sacrifice fly and Vic Gutierrez plating a run with a bases-loaded walk.
Former NJIT pitcher Matt Melody limited the damage for the Bears with 2 1/3 innings in relief, allowing just one earned run and striking out two.
The Bears will complete the series with Lancaster Thursday night, with first pitch slated for 6:35 p.m. It's also the final game of the season-opening home stand for the Bears, who head to Camden to begin a series with the Riversharks on Friday night.
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The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) will look into whether students should be allowed to rush the court after victories after Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski expressed his annoyance that he and his players were not given time to leave the court before students stormed it.
He said students who rush the court after beating highly-ranked teams like Duke could cause incidents that could tarnish the sport and potentially hurt teams, especially if players from the losing team who are incited respond in kind. especially if a Duke player who is incited responds in kind.
"Look, do you know how close you are to–just put yourself in the position of one of our players or coaches," Krzyzewski said on Thursday, according to the Raleigh News & Observer. "I'm not saying any fan did this, but the potential is there all the time for a fan to just go up to you and say, 'Coach, you're a [expletive],' or push you or hit you. And what do you do? What if you did something? That would be the story. We deserve that type of protection."
After Duke lost at Virginia on Thursday, Virginia fans stormed the court. The same thing happened when Duke lost at Miami, Maryland, and N.C. State earlier in the year.
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September 28, 2012 – While not a single technology or cohesive strategy, spending on efficient or "green" data center measures is expected to nearly triple from current levels to $45 billion worldwide by 2016, according to a new market analysis.
Pike Research's review assesses investment IT equipment, power and cooling infrastructure, and monitoring and management tools, all of which includes data center dedications on modular storage units and cloud computing deployments. In the new assessment, Pike actually cut back its spending forecast by approximately $5 billion from a previous report, which notched green data center spending at $41.4 billion by 2015. Pike attributes that dollar reduction to macroeconomic conditions and uncertainty with electricity prices.
Broken into geographic regions, Pike anticipates green spending to grow by 27 percent CAGR in Europe and North America, the largest market, and by 30 percent CAGR in Asia and the Pacific. And the global spending for 2012 is expected to total approximately $17 billion.
Cutting costs associated with energy use and infrastructure demands are a large part of the drive for greener data centers. But Pike notes that a few other trends are pushing spending up and, at the same time, challenging reduction efforts.
For one, data center management tools are "gradually closing the gap" between IT systems and power use, as well as opening the performance monitoring and maintenance of data systems. The huge rush to public, private and hybrid cloud deployments carries opportunities for fewer servers on, but not in use, as well as other in-house uptime expenditures and dedications. In recent estimates from a separate report, Pike stated the cloud could cut back on data center energy consumption by one-third by the end of the decade. Along those same lines, the cloud also demands new metrics and variability in workloads at data centers, which opens the debate for the levels of real efficiency found in data deployments.
"We are, however, only at the beginning of the long investigation and debate as to the most energy-efficient and environmentally sensitive ways to provide those services and use them effectively," the Pike report states.
Implementation of basic operational improvements, modern cooling and power infrastructure, and the current level of server and storage virtualization show that green initiatives have "yet to be adopted as a mainstream technology," Pike's researchers wrote. The virtualization aspect of that is a huge unknown, as computing power and data volumes reach atmospheric levels of growth over the next few years and beyond. Going forward, Pike also expects that weak regulatory environments on data center consumption in Asia and the U.S. will face governmental and industry agreements on energy, greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption.
Although green and efficient methodologies have been a big part of data management discussions in recent years, the energy consumption of data centers have come into wider attention of late, in part from a New York Times series that has found no shortage of industry criticism. Industries reliant on huge data volumes like the banking sector have bought in to efficiency technologies, and vendors like HP have trotted out data center architecture that promise low energy waste.
Taking precedence over the public perception of data center consumption is the view of the customer, according to Pike.
"As the data center's true costs becomes more visible, a new transparency is being brought to discussions about energy consumption and required infrastructure investments. This, in turn, is contributing to a broader transformation in the relationship between the data center and the businesses it serves," according to Pike Research Director Eric Woods.
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It was a sad day in the mid 1960s when the historic old building was run down and dilapidated. A permit to demolish it and put up some new apartment buildings was requested. And the community of Wilmington was put on alert. A local treasure was about to be lost.
In 1966, the Society for Preservation of Drum Barracks was formed. People like Joan Lorenzen, Walter Holstein, John Holland, Felix Schmidt, Katy Papadakis and many more put in hours of time and effort, figuring out ways to save the old barracks building. Joan and Fred Lorenzen, along with their daughter Marga Jean Lorenzen Martin who was the official "Miss Drum Barracks," were major fund raisers and forces in the creation and growth of the museum.
In 1968, the State of California purchased the building and grounds. Years went by and nothing was happening to improve the site. Again, the Wilmington community rallied, and worked with the City of Los Angeles to secure funding and support. In 1974, a thirty-year lease was signed by the City of los Angeles with the State of California. In that lease the City agreed to restore the building and grounds and open it as a public museum.
Fundraising continued and in 1976 and 1977, the work began. A massive restoration of the site took place with every effort made to retain as much as possible of the original building. Today, the results of that impressive historical effort reveal a structure with original floors, door and window frames and twin staircases. Every original piece of the building was retained, if possible. The walls, with plaster long past saving, were hand re-plastered to continue that historical accuracy. The building was brought up to code requirements and could be used by the public. Now the work of creating a museum began.
In 1965 the site was recommissioned and rededicated. In the 1970s it was opened for tours by appointment, and in September of 1987, it was opened to the public as a City of Los Angeles museum, the Drum Barracks Civil War Museum. Marge O'Brien was the first director. She began to organize the artifacts on hand and to locate and obtain those that would add to the new museum.
The group that was formed by the Wilmington community in 1966 to save the building from demolition was named the Society for Preservation of Drum Barracks. It is the parent group for the current Drum Barracks Garrison & Society, the 501(c)(3), non-profit group that supports the Museum and it's programs and activities. Donations to the Garrison & Society are tax exempt.
Marge O'Brien continued as director until 1998 and in January 2000, Susan Ogle began as the second director at Drum Barracks.
A 50-year lease with the state was signed by the city in 2007, ensuring the museum will remain a treasure in the Wilmington community. Continuing improvements and maintenance are done, funded by the city and through grants. Lead abatement was done on the exterior walls, doors and windows of the building in 2003 and a new irrigation system was installed providing for beautiful grounds around the site. A new roof was installed in 2010. And we hope there is much more to come.
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Using Haikus to Express Love
While there are many ways to say "I love you" in Japanese, love in Japan is also expressed in poetry, where it may not be as direct. A popular type of Japanese poetry is haiku (俳句), a three line poem that follows a five-syllable seven-syllable, five-syllable line pattern. Haikus are a great way to teach students about love in Japanese, as they are open to interpretation, and allow the writer to express her love creatively. In this lesson, we cover two famous Japanese writers: Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827) and Yosa Buson (1716-1783). You can start the lesson by giving a historical background on each writer, and lead into the poems. If students have an advanced knowledge of Japanese, give them a history of each writer in Japanese.
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Kobayashi Issa's Haiku
Start the lesson by giving each student a copy of this Issa poem:
君なくて (kimi nakute)
まことに多大の (makoto ni tadai no)
木立哉 (kodachi kana)
Ask if there are any words they do not know, or if there are any unfamiliar kanji. Ask students to translate the poem, and if they can, write the translation in haiku style. After students have enough time to go over the poem, hand out this R.H. Blyth translation from "A History of Haiku":
Without you, in truth,
Too many and too wide
Are the groves
Ask the students: do they agree with R.H. Blyth's translation? How did they translate the poem? What do they think the poem means? What sentiment about love do they get? What image to they get when they read this poem?
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Yosa Buson's Haiku
Once the Issa poem has been discussed, hand out this Buson poem:
夜の蘭 (yoru no ran)
香にかくれてや (ka ni kakurete ya)
花白し (hana shiroshi)
Like before, go over any unfamiliar vocabulary or kanji. Have each student write out a translation, and encourage them to be creative and write a translation in haiku. After giving the students enough time to translate, pass out this R.H. Blyth translation from "Haiku, Volume Four: Autumn-Winter":
An evening orchid
It hid its scent
The flower white
Do they agree with R.H. Blyth's translation? How did they translate the poem and were there any differences? What do they think the poem means? What sentiment about love do they get? What image to they get when they read this poem? How is this poem different from the Issa poem? Which Japanese haiku do they like better? Why?
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Point out that Japanese haikus use nature and its beauty to express sentiments like love. For homework, give a haiku and have them put together artwork that compliments the poem. In class, have students write their own haiku. If it is a beginner Japanese class, they can write the poem in English, as long as they integrate elements found in a Japanese haiku, like nature. For more advanced students, have them write the haiku in Japanese.
- Blyth, R.H. Haiku, Volume Four: Autumn-Winter. Hokuseido Press, 1982
- Blyth, R.H. A History of Haiku. Hokuseido Press, 1964


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The majority verdict by a divided committee of British lawmakers brings more scrutiny of Murdoch's holding in British Sky Broadcasting — already under investigation by the U.K.'s broadcast regulator — and could increase calls for the breakup of his British media empire.