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Thursday, March 31, 2005
rules for irregular nouns (draft)
The words are maps.
-Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck"
1. genus, genera
a. Forget the thing you came for. As in:
There are trees enough between us.
b. Syntax breaks all the bones,
fashions an index or an acanthus.
I was threadbare and calm, and the splinter still inside me.
c. Here, we came for the ghost of the word
inside the other word:
When seen at a nervous distance,
the leaves that spring from her mouth
resemble sparrows.
2. nebula, nebulae
a. Beware any direct object that ends in –ment. It commonly implies
slowness and pralines.
b. One word may possibly be confused for another. As in,
the instruments were very accurate
the dark gears, incredibly precise.
c. Like diagnosis or phenomenon, many are remnants of archaic systems.(Germanic, Indo/European, et al.)
You believe her when she tells you the radius of her palm equals
the width of a star.
3. stratum, strata
a. The tongue prefers the Latinate, the celestrina and the castanette.
b. She was holding a nest of paper wasps,
the window sills, all the cells covered with silk.
c. What may be utterly commonplace may be utterly lost.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Yesterday, one of the student workers handed me a book and said "he doesn't seem to have a barcode." At first I laughed, but then she and I got to discussing whether books have a gender. I always found it amusing that other languages have those gendered articles...le, la, les, un una, des.... Can individual books have a certain property about them that indicates gender? The volume in question was a play from the 60's I really knew nothing bout....but what about other books? Is the sex of an author a factor.? Now I would say most definitely that Moby Dick is male, while all of Jane Austens novels are female. I've determined the following books/authors to be female despite who wrote them: anything by Chekhov, Henry James, EM Forster, Shakespeare, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Thedore Dreiser. Dostoevsky is certainly male, as are Milton, Poe, Dickens, Hemingway, and Updike. All the contemporary poetry on my shelves at home are female, with the exception of the Bukowski, while all my reference books are male except for Grave's White Goddess, which of course, has to be a woman.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Am in the home stretch with the Book of Red collage project--which is a good thing since I need to deliver it to the gallery Friday afternoon. Spent a better part of Sunday working on it--the highlight being when my neighbor next door came knocking on my door asking me to turn the music down because he was trying to get some work done. I breifly considered telling him he might not want to maturbate so loudly in that case (I assume it's that since I don't hear anyone ELSE quite so vocal.) I'm surprised it was so loud considering it was just the tiny laptop speakers and not my stereo.
Spent the rest of the day assembling the next DGP chapbook, and am nearly finished. Also some more Wicked Alice's from last year. I have the covers all printed, but ran out of bodies for the initial print run of 100, which I guess is good. Suddenly had an unexpected spike in sales--I don't know where THAT came from, but it's good.
Realized that I have a bunch of stuff out in submission that's making me impatiently check the mailbox everyday, moreso than usual--9 out to print journals, three poems each. Plus two book manuscripts, and two chapbooks. No wonder I'm unusually antsy.
And today, absolutely gorgeous out, the first day when it's been reasonably warm this year. I SO do not want to be stuck here in the library. Spring Break--on the good side it means a break from classes, bad side is that I have to work the dreaded 9-5 shift. I'm not sure it's a fair trade.
Im suddenly obsessed with the idea of a series of carnival poems. Of course I can't start that til I finish the half-dozen other things I've vowed to do. The Red Riding Hood poems.(only some of which I'm using for the collage project). More Joseph Campbell pieces. The regular book poems. Poems for class. Plus layout for the next Wicked Alice. Plus getting a start on the next DGP chapbook. Plus a new little venture which we we'll see if it pans out.
Ah, but it's spring...so things don't seem quite so overwhelming...
Sunday, March 27, 2005
Not ever really my favorite holliday. It's always yukky out--the trees still bare, the sky gray, the grass brown. And ham. I hate ham. I opted out of family festivities today since I couldn't see going out to Rockford for one day. And the family get togethers are always a riot of fun. Today, I plan to spend the day writing and collaging, and just relaxing.
My mom is so funny. Every year, no matter how old we are, we get some sort of Easter basket with some candy and a small gift--usually a cool candle, or some scrumptious bath gel. This year, my parents aren't coming in a for a couple of weeks, so she didn't have a chance to give me anything. She insisted I make sure I bought myself some candy over the weekend and fashioned my own little easter basket, so last night I went to Walgreens and procured a big chocolate bunny, some pastel foiled hershey kisses, and some taffy. Also two books from Borders--Neruda and Lorca, both of whom I'm not all that aquainted with. So I shall spend the day hopped up on sugar and translated poetry.
I remember the holliday being fun when I was younger though. My favorite Easter candy was always those little wax bottles with the fruity liquid in them, the ones you had to bit the top off of and and then drink what was inside. I always felt a little like Alice in Wonderland.
Every Easter when I was kid we would get up in the morning and go for a ride--always stopping at McDonalds to get breakfast, which we rarely did any other time back then, so it was like a big treat for a 10 year old (oddly I STILL associate EggMcMuffins with easter). Then we'd drive north and always ended up in Rockton, near`the Wisconsin border, driving around my dad's favorite golf course,--another place I associate with the holliday.
There were years when the Easter baskets sported a more exotic present, depending on what the family finances were like. One year, I got a silvery, blue ten-speed. One year, some white roller skates with red, white, and blue stripes on the side. Another year, a sticker book. Always some little things like kites, or bubble stuff, or even last year, just for fun, one of those foil pinwheels. There were at least two Easters I remember being too sick to go to my aunts house, unable to eat any candy, or take advantage of my new stuff. One year, my giant chocolate bunny melted in the car when placed too close to the heater, and became this mass of chocolate stuck with green easter grass. One year, when I was fifteen or so, my little gift was a Cheap Trick Lap of Luxury cassete I spent days in my room listening to.
Friday, March 25, 2005
I had a conversation with one of the student workers about important books and how I'd never been able to get through the first 10 pages of Ulysses and he'd mentioned Proust, so I think that's where this oddness came from. It all taps into how I always feel like there's too much I haven't read, too much I've missed, and how now, I'm so damn stubborn about what I read. And that's with two degrees in literature (BA, MA) and a third in specifically poetry underway.
As an undergrad, I was reading much more broadly. But in grad school it focused in on specifically women authors. So I've read alot Chopin , lots of Jane Austen, the Brontes, Cather, Wharton, Gilman, Woolf. And a few poets: Dickinson,Sexton, Plath, Millay, Parker, Loy. My contemporary fiction reading gravitates toward authors like Margaret Atwood, Alice Hoffman, Lorrie Moore, Isabel Allende and others like them. From my undergrad senior sem I know alot about Milton, and am pretty good with Shakespeare and drama, thanks to several theatre history and dramatic lit classes I gravitated toward. I pretty well aquainted with big-figures like Hawthorne, Poe, Hemingway and Faulkner, a little Steinbeck. I developed a predilection for Henry James and EM Forster on my own. So there's alot of 20th Century books by male authors I have no famliarity with. I've read Joyce's more reader-friendly books--Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners--but never DID get through Ulysses. No Proust. No Maugham. I tell myself I'll read this stuff someday, but it isn't likely.
Thursday, March 24, 2005
One of my perks for winning the Juried Reading last spring was that I got to sit on the blind jury (1 of 3 poets) for this years competetion, the highest scorers then being passed on to final judge Jorie Graham (who I am of mixed emotions about) I had to read around 500 hundred entries, each containing 5 poems, and score them on a scale of 1-5...all in about three weeks. I thought I may never want to read another poem again at times, but hopefully some of my favorites in the stack made it. All the names were off, so until they post whose poems were whose, I won't know, but it was an interesting experience to say the least.
It really made me think, as I went through them, about what I look for in poetry, what makes me say something is "great" as opposed to merely "good." What standards do I hold poems to? What sort of readerly expectations do I have?
The hardest thing was that, on the whole, I'd say 80% of what we got was competant, well-crafted, perfectly enjoyable poems. A couple of years ago I judged an online contest in which 80% was pretty awful, so this was a nice change. Although I'd have to say it was infinitely more frustrating to judge these. I can easily dismiss a bad poem, but to score perfectly sound poems, to evaluate them in terms of each other, was enormously difficult.
We were told to avoid giving poems a 3 as , I guess for averaging reasons, unless they really warranted it. My scoring went something along these lines:
First, I looked for what wasn't there: cliche, abstraction, tired language, flat imagery. If the poem suffered from any of these, it automatically generated a 1. I gave 2's to those poems which avoided all the mis-steps and all the bad things, and were, in themselves sound. crafted poems, but which didn't do anything interesting for me, or which stumbled or fell short in some way.
3's went to those, who like the 2's were competent poems, but which excelled in some way, or maybe had one poem better than the other four, or something that shined a bit brighter than all the 2's--(and there were alot of 2's).
4's were reseved for those poems that not only excelled in forming a well-crafted poem, but which did interesting things with language, with image, newness, freshness, above and beyond. Those which scored 5's, and I gave only around 30/500 entries this score, in addition to meeting and exceeding all the above requirements, showed a certain polish, an authority. All things which I look for in what I read, and try for when I'm writing.
My scoresheets had a few 1's (and believe me, there were a handful of entries that deserved a 0), lots of 2's and 3's, a smaller number of 4's, and an even smaller number of 5's. I hope I wasn't being too much of a hard-ass on this, but that was the system I devised as I read through and hopefully the best poems got the highest scores from all of us. But I was also thinking about how subjective it all is. Things I might find important may not even register with another judge. Or another judge may hate something I loved and vice-versa. Or Jorie Graham may hate everything we pick and choose the person who walks her dog as a winner. Who knows?
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
because everybody's doing it....
Ovid's Metamorphoses
· Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights.
· The last book you read:
Novel: Madeleine is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-Lein Bynam
Poetry: Srikanth Reddy's Facts for Visitors.
· What are you currently reading?
Re-reading Plath's Ariel, a novel about Plath called Little Fugue, and a critical book on Little Red Riding Hood.
· Five books you would take to a deserted island:
Ovid's Metamorphoses
The Complete Anne Sexton Poems
The Virgin Suicides / Jeffery Eugenides
A Moveable Feast / Hemingway
Room With A View / EM Forster
(but the evil smutty side of me says substitute The Story of O)
for any of the above)
openings (draft)
witched and sugared, the bed harbors
collapse and our pockets, a flood.
Strange how this wound in my
mouth opens a bit when I say love.
A strangle that pools the sheets
and soaps the dawn blurry.
Given time I can linen my body
to white, can map the coordinates
of continental drift by the shift
of vertebrae. What spreads,
what closes, like buttons on a dress.
Monday, March 21, 2005
The Archaeologist's Daughter
poems by Kristy Bowen
Moon Journal Press, 2005
$5.00 buy here
I really like the pink actually (I hadn't seen it until today.). There's a problem with the page numbering, they apparently printed the title page info on the inside cover, so the first page you see is the aknowledgements, and every page is one off from there, but it's done, so I'm happy. I'm not complaining.
If anyone would like one who has already purchased one of my other chaps, you can have it for free....or trades would be more than welcome (The poems are a little less polished than what I'm doing now, but some of them are good.)
Sunday, March 20, 2005
I have to admit, I've noticed this alot too. And actually I quite enjoy those books when I come across them. I recently read Catherine Barnette's Into Such Perfect Spheres these Holes are Pierced, and liked its narrative through-line alot. In fact, I think with what I've done with errata and am attempting with girls reading novels makes me guilty of what he's talking about. I think, in my case, since the first two manuscripts were rather broad and general, I'm just trying to do something a little more focused than I've done before. And hell, after I'm finished with this, I'm planning on doing some sort of novel-in-verse, sustained narrative sort of thing. My instructor for the Sexton/Oliver/Olds class mentioned last semester that alot of poets later on start to move more toward "projects," like Sexton with Transformations and The Death Notebooks.
But to be honest, even my first two manuscripts have over-arching themes, if not something blatant. almanac is predominantly more rural, wistful, coming of age poems, while fever poems is more surreal, more urban, more....I don't know..fevered. Now, with the latest book, I'm working toward a specific thematic overlay, largely because I find myself approaching the idea of the book as the goal, moreso than the individual poem. I used to just write poems and then draw them together into a manuscript. Now I'm writing poems to go into a book--though of course not ONLY for the book, but in large part, most of the new pieces will go into it. I find it somehow focuses me...even if there's not even the chance anyone will publish these manuscripts at all.
Though it does make one wonder why these themed books are winning a number of contests, why they're being released so often by presses. I think editors and judges are looking for something cohesive, and these books, by their nature HAVE to be cohesive. They can't really fail in that regard. Plus, in terms of potential sales, people seem to like books that are ABOUT something, even if it's sort of general. It's easier to pitch a book like this when some editor or potential reader asks you "Hey, what's this book about?"
This is my favorite part:
"Do what I tell you, dear aspirant and you might even be rewarded with a university position in poetry, even though you've never published a poem that anyone especially likes or remembers. "
Saturday, March 19, 2005
When I start numbering my arguments, you know I'm riled up:
1) Who the fuck caters their work to markets rather than finding markets that fit their work?
2)"Focused on our art"--I have always been focused on the art, but art is, if you want an audience, also a matter of business. Whether it's submitting work or just posting it somewhere yourself--it's still business, making a name, gaining respect. (If those are the things you want) If it's all art for art's sake I'd write my poems and thrown them in the fucking trash.
3)At least one of the speakers is making quite a name for himself in the local, if not the national scene...and no wonder since he has a book published by a well-known press, an Iowa/Harvard education, and a prestigious residency at the University of Chicago and probably had most things handed to him on a platter. (I'm saying this knowing that he likely deserves it, his book being rather good, but still...) The other, incidently his girlfriend, has a book recently out, and beyond the fact that she teaches here, I've never heard of her, met her, or seen her work. But somehow there are slightly elitest undertones to all this advice..the HAVES telling the HAVE NOTS what to do, smugly sitting on their successes....
4)If this is all true, I'd be really screwed, having been submitting on and off since I was 19, publishing quite a bit in the last five years or so, entering and winning contests, publishing chapbooks, putting together book manuscripts. I don't think any of this has interfered with my "art" but has actually deepened my involvement and kept me at it so vigorously.
5)Again, here it is, the ever-important MFA. I swear writing has to be the one art form where they DON't encourage you to become part of the artist/audience community until you're deemed a poet by them tapping you on the head with their magic poet-stick or whatever. No one woud tell a painter not to try and get into shows, or a pianist not to do concerts. I'm hoping this was just the opinion/bias of these two poets and not the entire dept--who actually always seem to support us submitting and entering things--at least they put announcements and fliers in our mailboxes for contests and submission calls. Arielle Greenberg even seems to encourage us pretty often to submit--but then I think she was also someone who had a gap in education between her BA and MFA and was doing alot of stuff before grad school, ie. "being a poet" long before her program deemed her one.
Friday, March 18, 2005
I'm extraordinarily distracted and disorganized the last week. I'm apt to blame my classes, but I've become an expert at time wastage via blog reading and watching music videos on the laptop when at home, which I never used to do. At least it was a good investment it seems in that regard.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
tomorrow night
Poetry Cram
Wednesday, March 16, 8 p.m.
The Bourbon Café
4768 N Lincoln Ave
featuring Dave Gecic, Esteban Colon, Lane Falcon, Larry O' Dean, Kristy Bowen, Jan Bottiglieri, Tom Roby, Charlie Newman, Carol Anderson, Kathy Kubik, Micheal Brownstein, Charlie Rossiter, Pam Miller, Pete Dederick, Lui s Pelayo, Somara Zwick, Scott DeKatch, Dina Stengel, Emilio, Jeff Wyatt, Emily Rose, Amy Stewart, Earth Body, Dan Scurek, Rachna Sundaram, Rod Reinhart, and more.....
Monday, March 14, 2005
letter to a young revolutionary (draft)
Dusk disarrays the senses.I dream an accumulation of driftwood. I dream a red skirt. The sky ladders itself to my window, and I climb down, using only an elaborate insect manual and a yard of lace. Afterwards, the rain bleaches the houses white as cat bones. There is music enough for a perilous dance, all twirls and innuendoes, but not enough to trap in a bottle. I dream in cursive. The wind leaves no trace along my body.
Friday, March 11, 2005
For years I did just fine without it. By the time I started, I had finished two chapbooks (The Archaeologist's Daughter and Bloody Mary), had even had one accepted by a press besides my own, and was quite close to finishing a book manuscript--(almanac). I already had my MA in Lit, no longer had any plans to go for my PhD., or to teach. I was just writing steadily onward, publishing alot--mostly online--and even coming close in a few chapbook competitions and contests. And then I find out CC is going to offer a grad poetry program, and sucker for punishment I am, I decided to apply, since I'm here anyway and all. And I can't argue that I'm not getting anything from it--the craft classes have been great, spawning new projects and pushing me in new directions. But are my MFA studies absolutely necessary to succeed--I doubt it. It actually seemed more people liked my poems before I started the program. And certainly, we know the whole workshopping thing isn't really working out. I rarely put the MFA thing in my bio, even, since it's only a small fraction of my life as a writer.
The posting also brings up connections, an idea which makes me nauseous. I can't say I have, or really WANT to make connections that way, outside of interacting with my fellow students (and even that at a minimum), I'm not much for faculty and visiting poet sucking-up. I know so much of this whole poetry career thing depends on that, and it seems sort of wrong somehow. For so long, I was completely cut off from other writers, I'd say until about four years ago, and hate to think, that had my work been any good then (which it really wasn't that much anyway, but still,) that I'd have been unable to stand a chance simply because of that factor.
grr...I suppose there are some MFA poets (and certainly, thank god, not all) have to convince themselves that their degree gives them some corner on the poetry market or otherwise they have to admit that with enough reading and writing, anyone with half a brain,a smidge of talent, and a drive to make something of it, can do it...
Thursday, March 10, 2005
a bit of library drunkenness
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
parlor games
These Wednesdays with my entire day free are very nice though. I slept twelve hours last night and got up to work on some poems and a couple other projects,which gives me a pause before the three day stetch until I have another day off...
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
the archaeologist's daughter update
the synaesthete's love poem (draft)
Even the wind chimes caused dizziness;
the ache of paper lanterns rotting
from the acacias. Perhaps the L
in my name makes you sad,
evokes a film where a woman
waves from a train. Or how
this horizon wants to be a hymn.
If you listen, you can
hear the holes in the alphabet,
the sounds lit by the lamps
of our bones. Perhaps
with this page I could fashion
a boat or a very convincing window.
A dress made entirely of vowels.
misreadings (draft)
continuously, the paper dolls
in their mechanical operetta.
My pockets fill with voluptuous
words like aplomb and orangeade.
I ask for burnt and you give me wing,
and so we go on like this, sistered like
cells to the dark openings, the bracelet
of light marking the horizon. A trap
door comes loose and the bed falls
through three floors of aquariums,
all kissing fish and fiberglass plants.
I ask for umbrella and you give me feather.
Sentences become sodden, uninhabitable.
Monday, March 07, 2005
from the dream concordance (draft)
pg 78 caught when telling a lie, her teeth began to crumble into her cupped palm
pg 89 in an atlas roughly the size of a table, his teeth gleamed in the lamplight
pg 90 those which use their teeth as a means of attack or defense
pg 99 forgotten the buckets, milk-heavy, the day's teeth already into her
pg 104 the space behind her teeth and tongue purpling and erratic
pg 107 when bending at the waist, the movement of the comb's teeth along the scalp incites a certain frisson
pg 110 hard toothlike projection from the beak of embryonic birds, assists in hatching, later falls off
pg 112 the top of the backbone and already in the teeth, the fever spreads to the ears
pg 130 exhibited a certain sweet tooth and affinity for lemon cake
pg 145 loss of teeth, could denote a deprivation of vitamins, but may signify loss of love. Large teeth indicate dishonesty or wordiness.
Sunday, March 06, 2005
the sylvia plath book signing
Oddly this seems only to extend to writers. When I was paying, the clerk told me that I might be interested in the fact that Tori Amos would be signing things in the Borders on Michigan avenue at some point. I wasn't the least bit interested, but I was tempted to tell him, when he commented on the Plath books, that if she were going to be signing, I'd be first in line. And while I love Tori Amos's music, and have ever since I heard Little Earthquakes, I'm not really very interested in the artist herself. I tend to look at musicians much as I tend to look at actors, not as celebrities, but as instruments moved around in front of the camera to tell a story, or in this case, the person that creates a finished product. I don't care much about them beyond that..
Friday, March 04, 2005
instructions for when traveling abroad (draft)
On every continent, obscurity invents mystery. Chewing gum may help. A petticoat beneath a black skirt may mend the interstices between syllables. Be prepared.
For every vaulted ceiling, or tattered calendar, draw an x across your forearm. Do not long to steal the chandelier or place oranges at the foot of St. Cecelia.
On Saturdays, wash your lingere in white, scentless soap.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Have yet to delve into the delectable looking new issues of Lily and Stirring, which have so many xanga dwellers included, but plan to shortly. "Sugar", which is in this months Lily is an older piece, included in Bloody Mary, and revised with the ending chopped off, re-attached, and then chopped off again since then at the advice of Lily editors. That poem has had so many different endings it's ridiculous.
Tomorrow, I have the day off until the workshop class in the evening, and I guess we'll have to see how that goes this time. On other fronts, I've finally finished the last errata poem, after shuffling the damn thing in my "In Progress" file for over a month to work on new stuff, but I'm glad I can finally put the thing aside and mark it as done in all my damn infernal lists.


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March 19th, 2013, "Active Solar Design for Building Professionals," with Gary Gerber
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One of the fondest memories of my late 1950s and early 1960s rural New England childhood was spending most days each summer roaming and exploring throughout our neighborhood and the surrounding small farms. Our little development of post WWII middle class track homes had been built on a former pig farm and was surrounded by peach and apple orchards and working cow farms and horse stables.
In actuality the entire area was probably no more than a couple of square miles, but to a child it seemed like a huge and mysterious paradise. There was so much to explore and do: paths in the woods, huge trees, streams and swamps, and lots of rabbits, birds and other small animals, as well as horses, cows and even a bull. The fruit orchards went on for acres, and once a child turned 10 or so it was possible to be hired to pick the dropped apples and to earn a quarter or so per bushel.
Perhaps the best part of each summer was what we all took for granted. Each morning after breakfast the local children would gather in packs throughout the neighborhood, usually segregated by gender and relative age. We would spend the rest of the day freely investigating the many wonders of that little world, breaking only for lunch. There was no adult supervision required, although there were plenty of stay-at-home moms within earshot should they be needed in an emergency.
This rich rural world was ours to be directly experienced and discovered, without the prism of adult perspective. Each child also learned the dynamics of a social peer experience without a grown-up's constant intervention and mediation. For sure this was not always a pretty or sanitized social world: feelings were often hurt and everyone knew who were the dominant players and who were the tagalongs. And yet this largely unsupervised experience provided a rich opportunity for identifying one's strengths and weaknesses, and in figuring out how to adapt, accommodate and compromise.
As an early childhood educator for over three decades, I deeply regret the loss of this kind of experience for children growing up today. Children today are almost always monitored and closely supervised. Rather than time spent freely investigating and exploring, their summers are filled with organized camps and structured experiences. Although entirely understandable given the needs for safety, one wonders just how many opportunities for identity formation and experiential learning have been unnecessarily sacrificed in the name of security.
One small way at our preschool that we try to compensate for some of what has been lost is the teachers intentionally do not intervene in every disagreement or conflict. We do not comment on every social interaction, and we check our tendency to impose an adult perspective on every peer-to-peer exchange. Of course a teacher is always aware of what's happening and available to intervene when necessary. We understand, however, that there is a rich learning opportunity that often occurs when the adults intentionally step back and let the children work things out on their own.
None of us can replicate the suburban or rural lifestyle of forty or fifty years ago, and most likely those more innocent times are lost forever. We can, however, resist the inclination to constantly intervene in a child's world at every upset and disagreement. When you do step back I think you're likely to be impressed with your child's resourcefulness and resilience, and his emerging ability to manage life on his own.
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It amazes me that my childhood in the 1980's in central Vermont is an echo of the above! Living in South Philly and raising our children in an urban environment is foreign to my suburban hubby and me, the country girl. Our daughters are attending a private christian school in the city and even in that context I feel unprepared to help them through the social challenges they face. This year I had to learn not to speak into every trial they came home with, but instead asked them how they thought they could resolve conflicts. Now in the summer we're back to tattle tales, but that will settle down once they're back into school. :) I think their teachers follow a similar approach to allowing the children to "fight their own battles" which helped shape one of our daughters into a more confident young girl. It will be interesting to see how our second daughter blossoms through such training.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago during the 70s, I have similar memories. There were lots of families with children of the same ages in our neighborhood. We spent a large percentage of our time playing together outdoors without direct adult supervision. Likewise, we seemed to be able to work out most social interactions (rules for kick-the-can, why it was ok to climb on the roof of the neighbor's garage, why it wasn't ok to build a fire in the backyard, or what constituted a wiffle ball home-run). I've seen several headlines discussing bullying. While it might be counter-intuitive, I think your argument of not mediating every interaction children have with the world might enable them to become more confident and self-reliant. This in turn might help them be less susceptible to a bully's taunts or be more willing to support someone being picked on. As an educator, I'd appreciate your perspective on bullys. Thanks!
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Shane Recklet says that the moment he saw Freddy Hall walk onto the field, he knew things would be different.
Hall was fast, sure, and he could jump, as high and as long as Recklet had ever seen, long and quick like the burst of hope and a smile stretching across a face.
And he sure smiled a lot, Hall did. Still does. Talked a lot, too.
"The first drill we did in the very first practice, basically everyone could tell the amount of talent this guy had," said Recklet, now a senior midfielder. "He had this confidence in himself, and he was a good communicator. A lot of people don't have that in their transition to being a new team. A new player, they're shy at first, that wasn't the case with Freddy."
Recklet was a center-back in 2006, when Hall stepped onto the pitch at Quinnipiac after transferring out of South Florida. Hall couldn't play that first year, as he sat out due to transfer restrictions. But ever since then, he's played almost every minute in goal for the Bobcats, molding himself into arguably the nation's most important - if not best - goaltender.
The Bermuda-born Hall, who transferred out of USF after seeing a few minutes of action in 2004 and sitting out due to injury in '05, currently sits atop the nation in both save percentage (.931) and raw saves-made (94). This, after he led the country in both categories in 2007. He's also fourth nationally in goals-against average (0.431). And he's perhaps the biggest reason why, heading into Northeast Conference-leading Quinnipiac's final three regular season games - including a matchup on Sunday with conference rival and No. 14 Monmouth - the Bobcats (8-1-6, 5-0-2 NEC) have a legitimate shot at hosting their first-ever conference tourney and claiming their very first NEC title.
"He has the ability to jump from one side of the goal to the other," Recklet said. "He can just make game-saving saves that come out of nowhere.
"He's a huge part of every game," he continued. "He's a big part of why we win, why we're able to stay within teams, especially the bigtime teams we play."
Quantifying soccer goalies is a tough job. Goals-against average is, at the very best, a soupy hybrid between a goalie and his defense. Ninety minutes of shutout ball when a goalie faces one (or no) shots on goal still pares down the GAA as much as a goalie who makes 10 saves to get there.
For reference, Akron's freshman goalie David Meves leads the nation in GAA, putting up a .204 mark for a Zips defense that's on pace to break the NCAA's all-time mark for single-season goals-against average. In 15 games, he's made 22 saves.
Hall has made 94. An average of 6.26 per game. Meves didn't have to make his seventh save until Akron's fifth game of the year. As a sophomore in 2007, when Hall also led the nation in save percentage (.913), he averaged 7.38.
"When you have a great goalkeeper in goal and you limit them to shots a distance, Freddy is just too good to let them in," said Quinnipiac head coach Eric Da Costa. "And when they're close, he doesn't let him either."
So, goals per game doesn't quite do him justice. For him, success is best tallied one by one, save by save, bruise by bruise. Only seven shots have managed to find their way into the net this year. Eight times, he's shut teams out completely. And, had he stayed in to finish another game that he exited late, he could have had nine.
"Letting in goals is the worst feeling," Hall said. "I was actually telling one of my roommates the other night that the worst feeling for me is the goal being scored and the ball bouncing out of the net. I can have a goal if the ball stays in the net, but if it comes out that's the worst."
He hasn't had to experience that much this year. And, for a team that's tied six games on the season, it's a fortunate thing. With an offense that's scoring 1.27 goals per game, dozens of those 94 saves have meant the difference between a win and a tie, or, almost just as often, a tie and a loss.
"We have a very deep team, and Freddy's a part of that," Da Costa said. "I'm not sure where we'd be without him. I'd like to think that no one player is bigger than the team or the program, so I like to think we'd be in the same position, but he's a huge asset of ours a huge part of our success."
He was a pretty big get, back when he went into the transfer market in 2005. USF had been good to him, Hall said. There aren't too many bad memories at all associated with that place. But hailing from Bermuda and having attended prep school in New Hampshire, he wanted to head somewhere a little more familiar.
"I came back after winter break, and realized I needed something different," Hall said.
Hall liked being closer to Bermuda at Quinnipiac. He also liked the young coaching staff, liked their goal of getting the Bobcats to the next tier in college soccer.
And, once he stepped onto the field in Connecticut, he got to work holding up his end of the deal.
"It was a big change for me, going arguably from the best players in this age group at USF, some of the best players I've ever played with, coming here," Hall said. "I wouldn't say it was a huge drop, skill-level wise, but not the entire team was as skillful as USF. It was a drastic change, but Eric, he really had a dream of players coming in, great recruiting classes.
"I felt more responsibility," he continued. "I had to make sure that I was doing my job in goal."
The team could barely believe what it was seeing, Recklet said. There, in front of them, was as good an athlete as they'd ever seen. An instant leader: just add transfer papers.
But if there was anything lacking from Hall back then, it was the ability to run a field, to arrange and direct his defense in a way that'd complement his own skills. Over three years, those skills have caught up with the abilities that first caught the eye of his teammates, Da Costa said.
"It's something we worked on, something to improve on, with his communication skills," the coach said. "At that next level, he won't be able to just make the saves he makes. A lot of times goaltender don't make it because they haven't been able to develop that quality. This year he's manufactured goals."
"Freddie is a phenomenal athlete, a freak of nature, and he depended on that, rightfully so," Da Costa said. "He relied on his strengths, his athleticism, that he could always make the save, just because he's a super-athlete, but now he's focused more on technical ability. He's become a complete goalie."
Hall's talking more now. About how excited he is about this weekend, and the heights that Quinnipiac's slowly ascended to. And, when he sits down with his coach, he talks about the very distinct possibility of playing professional soccer, when the season's over and he moves on.
But before then, he said, there's a conference championship to be won.
"That's a scary thought," DeCosta said of Hall's departure. "It's not something I wanna think about `til next year when I don't have him."


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VANCOUVER – A new year that has got off to a bad start took a strange twist for the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night.
Coach John Tortorella could only shake his head after watching his team give up two goals 16 seconds apart in the last 1:11 of the third period, then lose 5-4 to the Pittsburgh Penguins in a NHL shootout.
"This one was a doozy," said Tortorella.
That's one word for it anyway.
The Canucks had erased a two-goal deficit and led 4-2 with 6:26 left in the third. Then the roof caved in on Vancouver. Again.
It was the Canucks' fifth consecutive loss. Vancouver has blown third-period leads in four of those games. The Canucks have also been outshot in their last four games, including giving up 49 shots to each Los Angeles and Anaheim over the weekend.
The Canucks keep finding different ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
"It's happening way too many times," said captain Henrik Sedin. "We should have at least five of six more points right now.
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Vancouver lost five games during a 10-day stretch in November but got back on track to roll through December with a 10-1-1 streak. Things went off the rails with a 4-3 shootout at home to Philadelphia on Dec. 30. The Canucks have yet to win in 2014.
"It's too many points being lost late in the game," said Daniel Sedin. "We are a good team that should be able to play with the lead.
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At one point, with Vancouver trailing 2-0, the Rogers Arena fans began booing as the Canucks sat back and watched the Penguins bring the puck out of their own end. Those jeers later turned to cheers as goaltender Eddie Lack twice robbed Pittsburgh's Kris Letang.
The Canucks looked to be in control of the game after Jason Garrison, Chris Tanev, Chris Higgins and Zack Kassian scored consecutive goals. The Penguins tied the game on goals from Letang and Sidney Crosby with goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury on the bench. Crosby also scored in the shootout.
The Canucks have given up six goals this season when the opposition has pulled its goalie.
Defenceman Kevin Bieksa said the late losses are taking their toll on the team's confidence.
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"The state of our team right now, we just have to try to get the positives and build off it," said Tortorella. "We played much better (Tuesday).
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Got in the tank - 200 gallon, youtube vidoes said it should hold my weight. Found the leak first hand. Slit in the black silicon.


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The Discomfort of Originality
This blog post is adapted from Jack Delosa's new book, Unwritten – Reinvent Tomorrow. A book about innovation, entrepreneurship and living a life on purpose. We live in a world that finds comfort in familiarity. Too often we look to the past to examine what…READ MORE


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Tools, Productivity, And Bright Shiny Distractions
by Tim Berry
Is this you? Over and over again, you fall off on regular consistent organizational practices like to-do lists, emails, planning, backing up your computer … then you run across some cool new productivity tool. You jump on the bandwagon enthusiastically, promising yourself that you're finally going to get organized and stay organized. You spend happy... Read More »
Disturbing Questions About Productivity and Technology
by Tim Berry
Have you heard the standard cliche: "Necessity is the Mother of Invention?" In business productivity, in my experience at least, the old standard is reversed: the new truth is that Invention is the Mother of Necessity." For example: Spreadsheets and... Read More »
Invention is the Mother of Necessity: Technology and Productivity
by Tim Berry
Have you heard the standard cliche: "Necessity is the Mother of Invention?" In business technology and productivity, in my experience at least, the old standard is reversed: the new truth is that Invention is the Mother of Necessity." For example: Spreadsheets and Budgeting: When I started in business analysis back in the middle 1970s we... Read More »
What's In It For You from The Startup America Partnership
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So how cool is this? The Startup America Partnership is offering a collection of real business tools and resources, mostly web-based, to help high-growth startups. This was announced at the White House a year ago this month. Here's what I wrote then on this blog: The Obama White House [Feb. 1, 2011] announced its Startup... Read More »
Folk Wisdom Reversal: Necessity Isn't the Mother of Invention
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The Pull of Bloat and Feature Addiction
by Tim Berry
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Guy Kawasaki and the Zen of Not Zen
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Easy Spreadsheet Plans a Session or Meeting.
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J. Ross Clark letter to Walter J. K. Bracken, May 28, 1904
May 28th, 1904. Dr. J.K.W.Bracken, Las Vegas, Nevada. Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of May 23rd in regard to using up the surplus water on the ranch. I attach hereto a map showing land adjoining the Las Vegas ranch, both for which we have deeds and which is covered by options. It is our intention to take up the options early next month; in the meantime should you find it necessary to do so, you may run the water on to any of the land shown on the map with the exception of that owned by Col. Maxson. This matter is entirely confidential, as we do not care to have it generally known that we have acquired any additional land until the matter is finally disposed of.In regard to the date I will be at the ranch: I am sorry to advise you that I find it impossible to make the trip at this time, however, when I do decide to make the trip, I will advise you in plenty of time, in order that you may be there. Very truly yours, (Signed) J. ROSS CLARK. enc.
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WITH CLOSE REFERENCE TO THE TEXT, EXPLORE THE CHARACTER OF IAGO, HOW HE IS PRESENTED TO THE AUDIENCE, HOW WE ARE GIVEN AN INSIGHT INTO HIS PERSONALITY AND MOTIVATIONS. In the play 'Othello' by William Shakespeare, we are introduced to the character of Iago at a very early stage. From the outset, we see that he is the main protagonist in the play and that he engineers situations to his advantage. In some respects, however, the audience may feel sorry for Iago, as he has been denied the post of lieutenant. This refusal, nonetheless, is the basis of all the underlying schemes and manipulations from Iago in the play. Generally, Iago is seen as a determined character. At the beginning of the play we see him as a malevolent and bitter person. He is manipulative in his ways, and twists many situations for his own benefit. All his actions have malicious intent and this makes him very disruptive. However, he is a very intelligent and ambitious person, but it is evident from the start that he uses this in the wrong way. In the very first scene of the play, we see Iago's deceitful character in action. He has just been denied the post of lieutenant by Othello and is rather upset and annoyed. He decides to, "wear his heart upon his sleeve" and act as if he is loyal and trustworthy to Othello, when actually he is plotting against him. The first stage of his plan is to let Othello and Desdemona's secret be known to Desdemona's father Brabantio. Iago goes round to Brabantio's house and lets him know that his daughter is going to marry Othello. Brabantio is upset when he hears this and when it is proven he disowns Desdemona. He also reports it to the senate, as a black...
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1. Introduction Motivating employees is a key issue for most managers. In order to achieve a high level of performance and productivity, managers nowadays are inclined to pay more attention on this issue. Different employees need different motivation. This assignment will first look at the different characteristics of professional workers and lower level contingent workers. It will also address the different motivation approaches which are generally used by managers towards these two different groups. And then, by applying a set of motivation theories, we will explain why managers should use such different methods. 2. Characteristics of professional workers and lower level contingent workers According to Robbins(1998), professional workers are the employees who usually have specialist knowledge, own a permanent working status and tend to be well-paid in an organization, such as software engineers and accountants . On the other hand, lower level contingent workers are usually the people who lack of specialist skills, work part-time involuntarily due to redundancy and tend to be paid at a relatively low level. Professional workers are often placed to important positions and take more responsibility while contingent workers are always working on simple tasks and with less responsibility. 3. Different approaches of motivation applied to professionals and contingent workers in real business world In the real business world, organization managers are usually recommended to take different approaches of motivation towards their professional employees and lower level contingent workers.(www.accel-team.com) Managers tend to motivate professionals by offering challenging projects, giving them autonomy in following interests and structuring work and rewarding with educational opportunities. French computer services company CAP Gemini Sogeti , for example, used to motivate its engineers and technicians by giving them challenging tasks and relevant solution tools (Robbins 1998). To motivate contingent workers, managers use pay increase, opportunity for permanent status and membership of an occupational sickness benefit scheme....
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The best example of terrorism in the present day was the attack on the Americans on September 11th when the world trade center was destroyed. It certainly caught the attention of the world and succeeded in its goal. Terrorism is defined as using terror-inspiring methods of governing: is this a productive political strategy? Terrorists usually campaign for their political view to be enforced. By drastic, extreme methods, such as the September 11th attack, terrorists are able to inspire fear and make their views known in effective ways. USA civilians mourned the loss of life on September 11th but they also mourned over their loss of faith in the system that protects them from any attack. This fear was created by terrorism. Action taken by terrorists is made more significant by the inevitable publicity terrorists crave. Gaining the public eye allows terrorists to emphasize the political point they are campaigning about well, which is exactly the desired effect of terrorist attacks. It is evident that terrorism is a successful means of displaying a message because US President George Bush made clear the motive of the suicide bombers on September 11th. He advertised their cause for them. A "war on terrorism" is almost impossible as terrorism is what might be called an abstract concept. Terrorism cannot be demolished through plain hand-to-hand combat, as the USA discovered in the Vietnam War against the communist guerrillas. Terrorism can only be abolished by the causes of terrorism being abolished, making the world a place free of grievances, which is almost impossible to achieve. Certain terrorist movements can be combated by intelligence agencies. However, terrorist operations ensure that their plans will not be known by many people, so it is extremely difficult for the intelligence agencies to find out what they are doing. This method of terrorist organisation is...
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History has shown that developing countries face many obstacles, one of which is disease. Diseases have had devastating effects on civilizations. The Roman Empire, Great Britain, China, and The United States all have had historical plagues that have killed thousands. The diseases that were so devastating to our past civilizations can now be seen in new civilizations, but in other forms. In the world today, nations like the United States and Great Britain have developed to a level where disease can be fought and prevented. Unfortunately, other nations have yet to develop to such a level. Even with treatment from other nations many nations still cannot afford the treatment needed. But, as millions die in South Africa each year, who is socially responsible or more importantly, who is going to pay for it? The South African government appears to be the reason for much of their problems. The South African government has failed at any attempt to stop their epidemic and has resisted their need for help. Since the South African government has neglected its own people outside measures appear to be needed. This has left the social responsibility to the world. The costs and efforts of this battle are tremendous and will take years along with billions of dollars to fight. In order to take on such a battle nations will need to unite and fight as one. Organizations like the United Nations and World Health Organization have already started this battle. With the support from pharmaceutical companies and their nations, the battle can be won. In doing so, the needs of all the groups must be considered. No burden should be left on the shoulders of any single entity. Pharmaceutical companies appear to be willing to cut the costs of their drugs to a rate that is not beneficial for them,...
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Describe your career aspirations and why you have decided to enter Laurier's MBA program at this time.Admission
Describe your career aspirations and why you have decided to enter Laurier's MBA program at this time. Upon graduating from university with a degree in mathematics, I embarked upon a career in consulting. I continued my education by enrolling in the Association of Investment Management of Research's Chartered Financial Analyst program and successfully passed the first of three exams: Level I. While preparing and studying for this exam, I was concurrently gaining some exposure to the Financial Accounting division within my company, Hewitt Associates, and realized that my strength was in finance. I quickly became passionate about the subject and with much introspection, I realized that my true interests lay in the path of finance and accounting. Having a mathematical background, I have always been engaged with numbers and I believe that finance, coupled with accounting, would be an excellent outlet for my creative abilities. One might ask, "But why would you need an MBA?" My response would be that without the education and specialization that comes with a Laurier MBA-CMA, it would be quite difficult to enter my role of choice: Financial Accountant Analyst at Hewitt, which requires a CMA designation and prefers an MBA degree. Furthermore, the leading companies, like Hewitt and Ernst and Young, typically require an MBA and/or a CMA degree for managerial positions like Financial Planning & Analysis manager. Without the specialized financial accounting and management skills that would come with an MBA-CMA, I believe that it would take a long time to make my career move. My research of the school (from the Canadian Business's most recent survey of Canadian MBA programs and What's in a MBA? The Complete Guide to MBA and Executive MBA Programs in Canada by Rebecca Carpenter) has indicated that Laurier graduates speak highly of the specialized and integrated nature of the...
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John Stubbs' essay is an examination of the defense which he believes Henry and Catherine use to protect themselves from the discovery of their insignificance and "powerlessness...in a world indifferent to their well being..." He asserts that "role-playing" by the two main characters, and several others in the book, is a way to escape the realization of human mortality which is unveiled by war. Stubbs thinks that Hemingway utilized role-playing as a way to "explore the strengths and weaknesses of his two characters." Stubbs says that by placing Henry's ordered life in opposition to Catherine's topsy-turvy one, and then letting each one assume a role which will bring them closer together, Hemingway shows the pair's inability to accept "the hard, gratuitous quality of life." Stubbs begins by showing other examples, notably in In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises, in which Hemingway's characters revert to role-playing in order to escape or retreat from their lives. The ability to create characters who play roles, he says, either to "maintain self-esteem" or to escape, is one Hemingway exploits extraordinarily well in A Farewell to Arms and therefore it "is his richest and most successful handling of human beings trying to come to terms with their vulnerability." As far as Stubbs is concerned, Hemingway is quite blatant in letting us know that role-playing is what is occurring. He tells that the role-playing begins during Henry and Catherine's third encounter, when Catherine directly dictates what is spoken by Henry. After this meeting the two become increasingly comfortable with their roles and easily adopt them whenever the other is nearby. This is apparent also in that they can only successfully play their roles when they are in private and any disturbance causes the "game" to be disrupted. The intrusion of the outside world in any...
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Thin is in. Many companies, regardless of their products, use unrealistic looking models in their advertisements. They try to make a connection between beauty and their products. It's done in TV ads, on Magazine covers, and in magazine ads. In the last couple of decades the importance of beauty has become more prevalent in society. As sexier ads became more acceptable the models started to shrink in size. The models now used are on average are 5'8" a size 4 and weigh 120lbs. This is what advertising companies portray as beauty, although really less than 1% of the population is that size. Thin instead of curvy is now seen as beautiful. Models are often viewed as the ideal female body type by both men and women. They use women's insecurities and need to be beautiful to sell their products. This type of advertising sends the message that this is what beautiful people look like, some ads even go as far to suggest that fat is being fat is unacceptable and that message can have detrimental effects on society. Most clothing companies advertising campaigns use super skinny models in their ads. These ads are stereotypical of today's superficial society. More and more emphasis is being placed on appearance. The advertisers use these models because the clothes look good on them, which then make their clothes look appealing and help them to sell. If an overweight person were to model the same clothes they probably wouldn't look as good to the reader. This is because society has become obsessed with thinness; which in part is due to these thin models are being held as the standard for beauty. These ads are everywhere; in fact it's hard to find a magazine that doesn't contain these ads. The real challenge would be to try to find...
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I Love Rock and Roll The early 1950s in America was a time for conservative teenagers. They would come home early from dates, wear their hair slicked to the side and dress in clothing so that their bodies were not exposed to the public. Until the year of 1956. This is the year when all of America changed. Rock and Roll was first introduced, and soon worshiped. Teen idol, Elvis Presley, changed the lives and attitudes of every American teenager. From fashion to morals, every teenager in America was effected by this new form of entertainment, Rock and Roll. Girls began to dress less and guys wore tight jeans with leather jackets. Rock and Roll changed a generation. If I had the chance to go back in time, I would travel back to the 50s. This decade appeals to me most because of the fashion, music and unblemished movie stars. Fashion is the essence of it all. Clothing styles was the beginning of the transition in the 50s. From the height of formality evidenced in the 40s, to an ever-increasing informality in styles that were present by the late 50s. Girls pounced around in mid-knee poodle skirts with motifs on them. They would accompany their skirts with tight fitting blouses tucked into the waist; and to top it off girls would wear saddle shoes. Summer clothing consisted of strapless or halter bathing suit tops, one piece suits and plastic shoes. The boys on the other hand, would wear plain white t-shirts, with jeans and either a leather jacket or sport cardigan and converse. The fashion of the 50s reminds me of the characters in Grease. I think it would be so much fun to wake up and dress in a poodle skirt to school. To go back in time and date a...
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The history of popular music contains many ruptures "to existing styles and genre's. Compare and contrast two such periods of "new music", paying particular regard to the factors which bring about such musical change. Your examination should consider the areas of musical influences, social relationships, technology, marketing, media and audiences. Popular music evolves from the bottom up. It is nearly always pushed forward or re-defined, from within the underground and the alternative segments of society. New musical movements tend to bubble away benaeath the surface of mainstream society until I they can no longer be ignored. Breathing new air into what was once a climate of safe radio friendly songs supporting the staus quo. Rythum and blues in one form or another had been a tradional folk music of Black Americans of rock for as long as Black Americans had been brought to America as slaves. It was this music that eventually influenced and redefined music as we know it today. Creating what we now as Rock and Roll. "The rhythm and blues….laid the foundation for Elvis, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones , Led Zepplin, the Sex Pistols and most other rock and roll groups" The birth of Rock has undoubtebly been the largest transformation of Popular music. However within Rock there have also been massive amounts of ruptures and emergence of new music. Two of these ruptures have been the acid rock/ pscycadllia movement of San Francisco in the late sixties and conversely the Punk Movement of England in the mid-seventies. Although worlds apart in their music their beliefs and their look, both sub-cultures began as an underground movement that started small but grew to capture the worlds imagination. Both were rebelling, although in completely different ways, to the staus quo. Both set about to bring about a change within not only...
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"ELVIS" Is he still the King? Just yesterday I was watching television and a new Toyota commercial came on. What struck me about the ad was not the car, but the music it had playing in the background. A brand new single by Elvis Presley called "Rubberneckin." The song gave instant satisfaction to my ears and I started rocking my head forward and back as the music played. After the thirty second ad was over I was left hungry for more. I wanted and needed the song to listen to it the whole way through. Then a strange thought hit me, how does he do it? How does a man, that's been dead for twenty five years, come out with music that blows everything else clear out of the water? Elvis Presley is known as "The King of Rock and Roll." To this day Elvis sells more records and merchandising than any other artist today. His popularity seems to grow with every new generation. Elvis impersonators fill Las Vegas hotel lounges, and make appearances in movies at least once a year. Elvis' movies play regularly on VH1, Time Warner classics, and major networks whenever an Elvis anniversary comes. The soundtrack to Disney's most recent children's movie "Stitch" is filled with Elvis Presley tracks. As many as seven hundred thousand people visit Elvis' Graceland every year. It is estimated that half of all those visitors are under the age of thirty five. Elvis has been gone for twenty five years, yet his popularity is as strong if not stronger than it ever was today. The question is what keeps Elvis on top? Elvis changed the face of rock and roll and led the way for white people to do "black people's music." He had it all, good looks, charisma; the ability to drive the girl's...
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