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Asherson's syndrome is an extremely rare autoimmune disorder characterized by the development, over a period of hours, days or weeks, of rapidly progressive blood clots affecting multiple organ systems of the body. Conditions such as infections, immunizations, wounds caused due to physical trauma and failure in the anticoagulation mechanism of the body usually act as "triggers".
The syndrome is particularly common among patients with antiphospholipid syndrome who experience a cessation of the anticoagulation mechanism rleated to recurrent bleeding in the body. It is usually seen in patients who have previously suffered from a simple/classic episode of antiphospholipid syndrome. It is not known why patients of antiphospholipid syndrome often have the tendency to be "catapulted" into a serious or fatal multiorgan failure, while the same triggers in other individuals may only result in recurrent large vessel thrombosis. The symptoms are also aptly observed in patients during pregnancy or in the weeks after childbirth (puerperium) and may follow the HELLP syndrome or be associated with malignancies. Symptoms vary from case to case depending upon the specific organ systems involved. Asherson's syndrome can rapidly result in life-threatening multiorgan failure.
Asherson's syndrome is a severe variant of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), an autoimmune disorder in which blood clots occur in relation to the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies in the body. Antibodies are specialized proteins produced by the body's immune system to fight infection. In autoimmune disorders, antibodies mistakenly attack healthy tissue. In APS and Asherson's syndrome, antibodies mistakenly attack certain proteins that bind to phospholipids, which are fat molecules that are involved in the proper function of cell membranes. Phospholipids are found throughout the body. The reason these antibodies attack these proteins and the process by which they cause blood clots to form is not known.
Asherson's syndrome may occur in individuals who have primary or secondary APS or in individuals with lupus or other autoimmune disorders. In some cases, no previous history of these disorders may be present. The exact cause of Asherson's syndrome is unknown.
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Doctoral Candidate Finishes Well in Boston Marathon, April 17, 2001
BOSTON, Mass., April 17, 2001 -- New Mexico Tech doctoral candidate Vladimir Ispolatov finished yesterday's 105th Boston Marathon with a very respectable official time of 2 hours, 55 minutes, and 37 seconds.
In between conducting research and finishing up his doctoral dissertation, Ispolatov manages to find time for some serious training for marathons.
Ispolatov also finished in last year's Boston Marathon and fared well in that race as well.


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WALTHAM, Mass. – Brandeis University senior Chris Brown of North Chelmsford, Mass., has been named University Athletic Association men's track and field Runner of the Week for the fourth time this season.
Competing last weekend at Princeton University's Larry Ellis Invitational, Brown turned in just the third sub-3:50 time in NCAA Division III this season in the 1,500-meter run. In a field of mostly Division I athletes, Brown ran 3:47.94 to win his heat and place 19th overall.
Brown, an All-American in the mile run at the 2012 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field championships back in March, now boasts the second-fastest time in the UAA and third-fastest in Division III in the 1,500. At this weekend's UAA championship, which will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, he will face NYU senior Matt Turlip, who ran a time of 3:46.81 earlier this season. Brown defeated Turlip for the UAA title in the mile run indoors by nearly three seconds. Brown is also ranked 18th nationally in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:53.13, run on April 7 in his backyard at UMass Lowell's George Davis Invitational.
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New Lighting Added to New Mexico Tech Campus
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SOCORRO, N.M., Aug. 1, 2007 – New outdoor lighting on the New Mexico Tech campus offers improved safety and security at night. In addition, the newly installed lights are in full compliance with city, state, and astronomical observatory ordinances and regulations concerning outdoor lighting.
The campus-wide outdoor lighting improvement project has been ongoing for several years now, with the most recent additions being 18 new lights going up in the central area between the university's Fidel Student Services Center and the Mineral Science and Engineering Complex (MSEC).
The new lights include two new light fixtures on the outside walls of the Speare Building, five concrete pedestal lights between Fidel and Speare, and 11 new pole lights interspersed in the areas among Fidel, Speare, and MSEC.
All of the concrete pedestal lights on the New Mexico Tech campus are new. They were selected for their durability, and were designed and constructed to complement the university's centrally located Centennial Fountain.
And, to keep light pollution to a minimum, all of the new lights are downward–facing.
There are several other pole lights already in place on campus; and, the newer pole lights are easily distinguished from the older ones. However, none of the previously existing lights is currently scheduled for replacement. There are plans in place, nonetheless, to eventually upgrade some of the older pole lights.
The older pole lights on campus employ mercury vapor lamps; while the newer pole lights use low-pressure sodium lamps. The newest pole lights will use high-pressure sodium lamps.
Mercury vapor lamps offer good color rendition, which is not conducive to nearby astronomical observatory work. They also become more costly to use as they age, due to the fact that as their light levels fade, they still consume as much power as when new. Ultraviolet radiation leakage can also be an issue associated with these lamps.
In contrast, low-pressure sodium lamps are extremely efficient and offer very low amounts of light pollution. These lamps only emit one wavelength of light making them the easiest to filter out for astronomy purposes. However, their color rendition is considered of poor quality.
High-pressure sodium lamps are quite efficient, have better color rendition than low-pressure sodium lamps, but are smaller. These types of lamps also undergo a phenomenon known as "cycling" as they age, where the light glows for a while and then goes out, repeatedly.
The mercury vapor lamps on campus will eventually be upgraded to high-pressure sodium lamps. While there is interest in upgrading the low-pressure sodium lamps to high-pressure sodium, this is not yet decided.
The main reason for installing the new lighting is safety. New Mexico Tech Electrical Supervisor Joey Baca explained, "Many people have voiced concerns about how dark it is on campus at night and early in the mornings."
The new pole lights will also allow for "panic buttons" to be installed if New Mexico Tech administrators deem it necessary to add this feature in the future.
The new lighting is also relatively inexpensive, Baca said, especially in comparison to some of the more recent changes seen on campus.
"You can't put a price on safety," said Baca.
In addition to added security, the installation of new junction boxes for this lighting project will allow for power outlets to be accessible in areas that would have previously required running wires over streets and in other areas.


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Two years after Arizona passed a controversial immigration-enforcement law that, among other things, makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday for and against the law. Several other states, including Texas, that have passed — or have attempted to pass — similar legislation are certain to keep a close eye on the proceedings.
Analysts say that a decision will probably be rendered in June, which would leave ample time for lawmakers in Texas to mull over if or how they would attempt to write legislation aimed at curbing illegal immigration before the next legislative session convenes in January. Several dozen bills — including measures making it a state crime to knowingly hire an illegal immigrant (except those hired for domestic services) and broadening the immigration-enforcement authority of local law enforcement — were filed during the 2011 session. But none passed.
The court will hear arguments on the provisions that were blocked by a federal district court after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed SB 1070. They include a requirement that police officers attempt to determine the immigration status of a person detained if they suspect the person is in the country illegally; a provision that makes it a crime if an immigrant fails to carry proof of legal status; and a provision that makes it a crime for an unauthorized immigrant to work, apply for work or solicit work, which the Immigration Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, says includes "a gesture or a nod, indicating that a person is willing to be employed." The final provision that will be debated allows officers to arrest immigrants without a warrant if probable cause that they have committed a deportable offense exists. The court will ultimately be tasked with determining whether federal laws pre-empt those state ordinances.
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan will not hear the oral arguments because of her former position as the U.S. solicitor general in President Obama's administration. That means the remaining eight justices could split evenly and fail to reach a majority decision. The policy center explains that if that happens, the district court's ruling would stand and no opinion would be issued. The lower courts could continue to debate similar laws, however, unless the Supreme Court agrees to hear another case and make a ruling on it.
If the court rules against Arizona's law, a permanent injunction will probably be issued. The state of Arizona, however, may modify its law to comply with the court's decision. If the court upholds the law and lifts the injunction, the policy center says, individuals could still file legal challenges to other parts of the law based on how they are implemented.
Some Texas lawmakers and stakeholders are not waiting on the court's decision to make their views on the issue known. On the eve of oral arguments, several offices issued statements.
U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, issued a statement in support of the bill. He said the "Obama administration is wrong to sue the State of Arizona."
"The Constitution gives Congress the authority and responsibility to establish a uniform immigration policy for the nation," he said. "However, if Congress does not pre-empt states from enacting their own immigration laws, they can assist with federal enforcement and pass laws that are not inconsistent with federal law. That's precisely what Arizona has done."
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Meanwhile, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus issued a statement admonishing the law, arguing that the bill opens up Latinos to racial profiling.
"Since its passage, SB1070 has legalized profiling of Latinos, prevented local police from doing their jobs by turning them into immigration agents, and codified harassment of families and communities," said U.S. Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio, the caucus chairman.
He added that the law "does not represent the values on which our country was founded. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will seize the opportunity to restore justice for the well-being of all our communities by overturning SB1070."


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College men's basketball program and head coach Terry Sellers announced the signing of Lance Uwaifo Wednesday.
Uwaifo, a 6-foot-8 center, played his high school basketball at South Gwinnett. He comes to Georgia College from Atlanta Metropolitan College where he played the previous two years for head coach Robert Pritchett.
"Lance is exactly what we are looking for in a student-athlete" said Sellers. "He is an outstanding person and student who possesses high character. With the departure of [All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Center Reece Wiedeman] we needed a low-post player and Lance fits the bill. I am thrilled that Lance decided to join our basketball family".
Uwaifo finished second in the GJCAA in rebounding with 11 per game. He averaged eight points per game and shot 54 percent from the field. He totaled 310 rebounds for the season.
The Bobcats are fresh off a 16-10 season in 2010-11, finishing third in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC). The Bobcats lose two seniors, including starting center Wiedeman, who was named Second Team All-PBC and starting forward Josh Hurst, who earned a spot on the PBC All-Academic Team three years in a row.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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A year goes by, another Hallowe'en arrives! To commemorate the occasion, I thought I'd share a few snippets of vampirey goodness. And lots of links. Oh, so many links.
Firstly, The Highgate Cemetery Vampire Appreciation Society–which I co-admin–has celebrated its first anniversary. We've progressed from a 'den of vipers' with six members to 102 strong. As of this writing. Our success even inspired a clone.
If you're interested in joining, it's free. Well, our 'base' is Facebook, after all. Here's our group and our page. If you're thinking 'Highgate Cemetery Vampire Wha–?', read this article. It deals with one of the most infamous and contested cases in vampire history.
Oh, I also co-admin Vampire lore and legends and Count Dracula. The latter has personal significance. It was born from the ashes of a swiped Facebook group. Unfortunately, its original owner wasn't able to reclaim it, but the group set-up in its stead rapidly gained support and sizable membership. Both groups are great. Join us there, too.
Speaking of memberships, I've just renewed my Transylvanian Society of Dracula membership. Literally. Today. That's not free, unfortunately, but still fairly cheap–an annual fee of $30. Canadian. Here's what membership gets you (courtesy of the society's page):
- our quarterly newsletter, The Borgo Post
- a free copy of our annual scholarly publication, the Journal of Dracula Studies
- access to the Membership Directory
- occasional in-house publications
- on request, access to various resource materials held by the TSD office
- updated information on conferences and Dracula tours, as well as discounts on TSD-sponsored events
If that tickles your fancy, come join us. Last year, I wrote a significant article for The Borgo Post. It was 'the first vampire-related article I've submitted for a print publication. Ever.' You can read it here.
My ghoulish heart was touched by a young girl having the audacity to tell Pippa Middleton that she wasn't interested in princesses, but by certain other creatures of the night...
On 29 October, I received my copy of The undead and theology (Eugene, Or.: Pickwick Publications, 2012). That was another personal investment. A financial one, this time. I've discussed the development of that book here, here and here.
In order to ensure its publication, a Kickstarter fund was set-up. I'm proud to be one of its sponsors. One of the great hindrances of vampire scholarship–though, admittedly, this book covers other undead, too–is that it's such a niche field of interest, with niches of its own.
It's a shame its editors, Kim Paffenroth and John W. Morehead, had to resort to donations, but it also means we could be seeing more and more DIY projects emerge. I welcome that. It'll encourage more authors to get their stuff out there, rather than be deterred by rejections from mainstream publishers. Sure, that also means that there'd also be a lot of crappy output to sort through–but that's no different to what we generally deal with now, anyway.
This particular book doesn't fall into the crappy pile, thankfully. It's a well-produced and researched book. Kudos to Kim, John, its contributors, donors and Wipf and Stock. You can buy the book through its publisher or Amazon.
As mentioned in my previous post, 'my Amazon trawlings have upturned a cache of upcoming books I'm really enthused about.' That post is still on the way, but I'll disclose one of them–as it's no longer 'upcoming', but out.
Tanya Erzen's Fanpire: the Twilight saga and the women who love it was released on 30 October. The timing couldn't be better, what with the last movie in the series–The twilight saga: breaking dawn – part 2–due for release on 16 November.
I also suspect it'll represent a turning point in the Twilight craze, especially as a lot of its literary thunder's been stolen by E. L. James' 'Fifty shades trilogy'. A bit of a kick in the guts, as it spun off from Twilight fan-fic. We'll probably see one last heave of vampire books in the wake of the movie's release, before things die down again and the next boom comes along.
That said, I'd be very surprised if we ever see anything as mainstreamly successful as Twilight was. Sure, Stoker's Dracula developed into a myth, an archetype–but that took decades to cultivate. Meanwhile, Meyers' saga scored her millions in a short time frame, even threatening to topple the success of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. It blows my mind.
Therefore, books like Erzen's will ironically outlast the saga's success and provide a snapshot of 21st century vampire fandom. What exactly was it about these books that made them so successful, especially as we're awash with–probably–thousands of other vampire novels? What's the appeal? Either way, it's on my wish list. You can buy the book from its publisher or Amazon.
Last but not least, I thought I'd share a tune to celebrate the Hallowe'en festivities. It's not vampire-related–yes, much disappointment all round–but it's a good 'un, nonetheless. Presenting, Stephen Lynch's 'Halloween'.
This particular version features Lynch on Last call with Carson Daly (31 October 2003). It's also available on his 2005 album, The Craig machine.
And on that note, I wish all my readers a safe and Happy Hallowe'en! Enjoy your treats.


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Zippy replied to trickards's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubI'm in the process of getting an alloy replacing for my Titanium, having gone through Ford Customer Relations, whom I've found to be extremely helpful, with my case, anyway. I got told when I put new tyres on that one of my alloys had a buckle, but got told the same, keep an eye on it, and then, before I know it, it's wrecked a tyre :( Ford Customer Relations told me the maximum they'll pay towards my new alloy is £75, as they feel this is substantial in refurbing a single wheel etc, though I begged to differ, and am now waiting to see what sort of goodwill gesture will now be offered as I feel it's unacceptable, the amount of posts I've read about alloy buckles, and I've told them that! Seems persistance is the key with Customer Relations! Hope this helps
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Zippy replied to Zippy's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubI might be replacing the alloy as I was told it had a 'slight' buckle, but was then told "don't worry, it's not bad" so it could be a result of today's 'puncture' although there is no obvious damage to the tyre, nails etc, and the tyre has been re-inflated and remains with the correct pressure, but time will tell, I spose once it goes back on the car, weight of the car etc, IF it goes back on, cause tbh, I'd rather just replace than have the inconvienience of a flat tyre, and being a woman! But I will take it to a tyre place to see first.
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Zippy posted a topic in Ford Fiesta ClubI have a quick question! Got a puncture today and had to use the spare wheel to get me home, but the car book says not to use the alloy wheel nut bolty things with a steel wheel, but that's all I have! Ford never supplied any wheel nuts to accompany the steel spare, should they have?? if not where can I get a set for future use? I'm also gonna need a replacement alloy for a Fiesta Titanium 15 spoke, but my local ford dealer are wanting £160 for 1, but I've saw online places what do them cheaper, so I'm wondering if anybody has any recommendations of any online ford genuine part places. Many thanks
Buckled Alloy.. And Two New Tyres
Zippy replied to Zippy's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubTitanium alloys. The steering juddered under 30, but seemed to improve slightly above that, at faster speeds. It would be interesting to start a vote to see how many have had problems!
Buckled Alloy.. And Two New Tyres
Zippy posted a topic in Ford Fiesta ClubTook the car in today to get a steering wobble looked at, outcome, needs two new tyres, has a buckled alloy, and needs re-balancing etc. Front tyres I suspected needed replacing anyway, but a couple people have said to me, how many miles has your car done, 12K? it's tyres should have lasted longer?? Should they have? It has Continental Contact Sport on it, so I don't know if these are just crappy wearing, or what. The buckled alloy, they've said isn't too bad, and can be left on the back?! I'm not really for doing this tbh, so I'm looking at having it replacing. But I have slight concerns, as having read other posts on the forum about people with alloy buckles, whether this is infact a Ford fault? I'm not looking to immediately point the finger at Ford, so I just want to know where I stand basically, you people who've had buckles with your Titanium 16" 15 spokes, what did you do, contact Ford? or just bite the bullet and replace yourselves? or submit claims to the local council? though, tbh, that's probably like trying to get blood out a stone. Thanks for any help offered! Abbie
The Missing In Action/awol List
Zippy replied to DanGull's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubOoh I've been missed :D but I'm here! :) I do still have a nosey on the forum from time to time, lol.
I Love My Car!
Zippy replied to BB69's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHe's just jealous cos his is a fugly Fiesta :D
Women Drivers!!!!
Zippy replied to Bashful's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubAwww, sorry to hear :( I'd be well gutted too! I was gutted just scuffing an alloy!
Passed My Driving Test
Zippy replied to aph1101's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubCongrats, Alex! :)
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Nice forum upgrade!
Zippy replied to Michael P's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubI really don't like either :( why 'fix' what's not broken :( Sorry to all who like, and no disrespect, but it hurts my eyes also, the text is far too small, and the colour scheme is a little bit meh. I find it harder to navigate too, maybe it's still a work in progress, but I would like to see the 'Ford Owners Club - Ford Forums >' section bolder, as I found it hard to spot it at first, and was having to use the back button to get back to the Fiesta forum to view topics Other than this, it's working a lot faster today! :)
Tesco's Brookland's Car Park BEWARE!!!!!!
Zippy replied to BRGRSP's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubNobody bats an eyelid even when the thieving sh*ts are crouched by the alloys! I had all 4 of my silver alloy ford logo'ed valve dust caps taken!! From under my nose, in broad daylight too, while at the checkout, unable to get out! Umpteen people passed by too, and Tesco's? Meh, as much use as a chocolate teapot, simply weren't interested, so I shop elsewhere! Lol. *rant over* but I bet they look good on their friggin bikes!! Lol.
Zippy replied to Michael P's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHappy Birthday Alex!! xx
birthdays,chocolate cake,ice skating ,and a trip to fords
Zippy replied to Air Hostess's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHappy Belated Birthday, Kristal xxx
Happy New Year!
Zippy replied to Flic's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHappy New Year!! :) To all the regulars and newcomers on FOC. Have a great one! xx
Happy Birthday Karen! (AKA Bashful)
Zippy replied to Michael P's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHappy Birthday Karen!! Hope you had a good one xx
ah man....gota feel sorry for the owner
Zippy replied to InstructorPiggy's topic in Ford Fiesta Club:o Shame on you!! Vision RULES! :P lol.
Nighty night Mike :) Sleep well!
!! Oh my... I'm in danger of waking my olds!!
£65! Though, he did it for £60 since it wasn't a biggie, but still! I've never kept as far away from kerbs as I do now!
You really should!! You wouldn't even know where I'd scuffed it well chuffed!! :D
Ohhh Flic... I got my wheel fixed!!! What a great job they did too!! Wicked Wheels = Brilliant!! My car isn't 'hurt' anymore Thankies again for your recommendation!
Doing not too bad, thanks :) getting over a stinker of a cold!!
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Penguin's Flightless Anthology
The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry is such a travesty, why bother to say anything about it at all?
I call it the 2 by 4 effect: an event or phenomenon so incomprehensible, so utterly perplexing and inexplicable as to be mentally indigestible, that one feels as if some malefactor slammed the back of one's head with a 2 by 4. I've been feeling that a lot lately. Rick Perry, Michelle Bachman, a president who, as a former constitutional law graduate from Harvard decimates our civil rights and flushes Habeas Corpus down the toilet, a blockbuster series of movies about teenage vampires in love, Bob Dylan doing an ad for Cadillac Escalade, the list is long. Long, long, long. How can anyone survive all these blows to the back of the head?
So, in view of what a hideous and psychotic landscape the United States has become, should it be that surprising that an anthology of American poetry would exclude, oh, I don't know, Howl?
No Howl!!???? Not even a sampling from "Howl," or one of the other poems in Howl, "A Supermarket In California," "America," or "Sunflower Sutra?" How can you frigging exclude "Howl" from an anthology purported to be representative of poetry in the 20th century? It is not possible to overstate the importance of that poem from the development of 20th poetry. I would argue that the anthemic power and reach of Diane DiPrima's "Rant" is also of vital significance, and could easily have set the tone for the entire anthology. It might have substituted for the lack of "Howl," or any of Ginsberg's work. I'm sure there are others. But I'm getting ahead of myself. The question remains: why no Howl?
Penguin's editor, former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, argues that HarperCollin's permission fee was prohibitively high in the case of Howl. If this is the case, then shame on HarperCollins.
Though it seems more than a little suspicious. How high did HarperCollins go? Is Penguin strapped for liquidity? Can it be that HarperCollins has their own anthology of 20th century American poetry in the works, and are trying to torpedo Penguin's anthology? Are they planning to publish one in which all the poets Dove excluded will be included?
Dove's exclusions are breathtaking: Zukofsky, Oppen, Reznikoff, Rakosi, Niedecker. Basically, nothing at all from the Objectivist movement, except for William Carlos Williams. Dove has stated that she is averse to schools and isms as a guiding principle. But also missing are poets of great originality who do not fit into any niche or school or ism, poets such as Riding, Loy, Bronk, Blackburn, Eigner, Enslin, Dorn, Mac Low, Spicer, Plath, Rexroth, or Robin Blaser. Others conspicuous by absence include Schwerner, Lamantia, McClure, Whalen, Will Alexander, Corman, Guest, Schuyler, Padgett, Kaufman, Rothenberg, Kelly, Eshleman, Antin, Lansing, Hoover, Perelman, Armantrout, DuPlessis, Joans, Wieners, Tarn, Coolidge, Sobin, Sanders, Taggert, Bromige, Irby, Yau, Cortez, Chernoff, Fanny Howe, Susan Howe, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Grahn, Kleinzahler, Waldman, Warsh, Bernstein and Bernadette Mayer.
Wait a minute. No Rexroth…??!! Let me go back and check.
Nope. No Rexroth. The poet, translator and essayist who is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and was once dubbed the "Father Of The Beats" by Time magazine, is not in an anthology of 20th century American poetry.
The mind boggles.
Was this another instance of a permission fee being too prohibitive?
I have a strong feeling that these names and many others are being bandied about even now with the same magnitude of incredulity, and with an equal amount of stunned speculation.
Helen Vendler has vigorously criticized the anthology, admonishing Dove's bias toward multiculturalism as a guiding principle and being overly inclusive of poets of "little or no lasting value."
Vendler further criticizes Dove's bias toward accessibility: "Not to be 'accessible' is now to be chastised. Perhaps Dove's two years as poet laureate helped foster the impression that poetry should be written in 'plain American that cats and dogs can read' (Moore, satirizing English views of America). But a poem can communicate while it is still imperfectly understood (said Coleridge), and Dove trusts her readers less than she might."
Vendler criticizes Dove's introductory essay as being breezy and shallow: "The simplest thing to say about Dove's introduction is that she is writing in a genre not her own; she is a poet, not an essayist, and, uncomfortable in the essayist's role, she strains for effects (alliteration the favorite) on the one hand and, on the other, falls into mere boilerplate."
Dove counters these criticisms by saying that her representation of 175 poets is not overly indulgent, but that "when one considers the number of American poets (124) in The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry—which includes other Anglophone poets as well—or the number of poets who have received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book or the National Book Critics' Circle awards, 175 doesn't seem an unreasonable number for a century's worth of poetry—that is, if you are a mere mortal not satiated by a steady diet of ambrosia."
Dove goes on to say that "The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry is not meant to be an in-depth scholarly study of pick-your-ism; it is a gathering of poems its editor finds outstanding for a variety of reasons, and by no means all of them in adherence to my own aesthetic taste buds; my intent was to offer many of the best poems bound into books between 1900 and 2000 and to lend a helping hand to those readers wishing to strike out on their own beyond this selection."
Dove's most heated response is to Vendler's criticism of Dove's handling of the Black Arts Movement: "It is astounding to me how utterly Vendler misreads my critical assessment of the Black Arts Movement, construing my straightforward account of their defiant manifesto as endorsement of their tactics; she ignores a substantial critical paragraph in which I decry the fallout from the movement ('Against such clamor and thunder, introspective black poets had little chance to assert themselves and were swept under the steamroller,' I write in my introduction) and instead focuses on that handy whipping boy, Amiri Baraka, plucking passages from his historically seminal poem 'Black Art' in which he denigrated Jews, thereby slyly, even creepily implying that I might have similar anti-Semitic tendencies. Smear by association…sound familiar? I would not have believed Vendler capable of throwing such cheap dirt, and no defense is necessary against these dishonorable tactics except the desire to shield my reputation from the kind of slanderous slime that sticks although it bears no truth. (I could argue equal opportunity offensiveness by having printed Hart Crane's 'A liquid theme that floating niggers swell'—but perhaps that makes me racist as well.)"
I don't know what to make of all this. My mental wheels are spinning. There is no traction. All I find is the immobility of total incomprehension.
Dove's counters to Vendler's criticisms are animated and sharp, but do not shed light on the many exclusions from the anthology that are conspicuous by their absence. I applaud her efforts to give pages to underrepresented voices and groups, but few of her choices within this parameter can be justified by the quality of writing. The anthology could have been a fabulous gallimaufry of disparate voices and human perspective such as Rothenberg's Technicians Of The Sacred. Diversity is vital to poetry. I have sharp aesthetic differences with Vendler, and sharp differences with Dove, but there comes a point where the sheer quality of writing transcends its culture and dazzles the mind by the scorch of its imaginative force. These are the samples you need to find. It's as if Dove went fishing in a very rich ocean but rather than bring back some scintillating samples of rare tropical fish she returned to port with the same old cod.
The issue of aesthetics is a prickly one. How does one overlook one's preferences to locate a quality and strength of writing that goes beyond the walls of its garden and reaches and brings in a landscape of thrilling dimension? I think I just answered my own question. You'll know it immediately. It will be there. Huge and wild and uncontainable. It will sing in your blood. Burn holes through your brain. Leave you trembling like a newborn wildebeest.
Dove argues repeatedly in her response to Vendler's criticism that her primary concern was one of reaching beyond her own aesthetics to attain a truly representative sampling of poetic culture in 20th Century America. But this is precisely where I am most perplexed. If accessibility was a central criteria, which I read as a form of dumbing down, I can see now why poets such as Zukofsky or Eshleman or Blaser were excluded, not that their poetry is excessively difficult, but because their poetry is rigorous in its force and density. It requires a quality of attention our current Twittering generation is significantly lacking. Yet Dove did include many poets of notable sophistication: Ashbery, Palmer, Silliman, Rukeyser, Mackey, and Harryette Mullen.
I hope I'm utterly wrong about the current generation. The young poets I've met are all eager for experiment and intellectual rigor. They're a very bright group of people who, despite the seductions of the Internet and Smartphones, have a love of books and language. I feel for them. I see them as a keen exception, ennobled by endeavoring at the far margins of American society where there are very few rewards or compensations, monetary or social. They do not have the social support that I enjoyed attaining adulthood in the late 60s. Poets were revered. The staid middle-class revered poets such as Frost and Sandburg for their wisdom. Frost recited poetry at Kennedy's inauguration. Younger poets revered poets such as Snyder and McClure for their freedom and exuberance. As Larry Keenan's photo of Dylan, McClure, Ginsberg and Robbie Robertson standing in back of the City Lights bookstore attests, there was nary a sliver of difference between a poet and a rock star. It was Dylan's ferocious lyrics that brought me to poetry. Before that, I had it in mind to become a painter.
I worry to what extent this anthology will be taken seriously by schools and especially by young people with a flair for writing. They will find a lot of good poets in the anthology. But it seems an awful shame they won't find those aforementioned names that were excluded.
Anthologies are curious repositories. They're a lot like museums. They have that hushed quality of solemnity and canon. Whatever is in them on display bear the weight of historical importance. It is for that reason that I've always found anthologies appealing (I love museums), but also places where the very criteria for inclusion does something to the vitality of the items put on display. There is the acute sense that life is elsewhere. That the items in the museum - pots, butterflies, skeletons, scrimshaw, ancient flowers embedded in stone - have been long displaced from the worlds in which they once had a vital and authentic existence.
I remember when, somewhere between age 15 and 18, I had acquired a taste for literature, and what joy I had when I discovered Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, McClure and Corso. I admired the canonized poets, Frost and Sandburg and Edna St. Vincent Millay, but with the exception of Dickinson and Whitman, they were just plain dull. Which is why, when I entered a bookstore or visited the house of a middle class family and spotted a "Best of" or "Anthology of" modern American poetry on the shelf, I took no interest in it. What I looked for was far outside the canon. I had a gut feeling that the poetry that really mattered and lit my nerves on fire was not going to be found in an anthology of contemporary poetry. How could it? What I was looking for was savage, raw, and wild. I was looking for words that would get me drunk. Get me high. Stir me up. Make feel more alive. And when I found that poet, he wasn't even American. He was French. And his name was Arthur Rimbaud.
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- December 20, 2011 at 3:08 AM
- William Keckler said...
Hi John. It is perhaps terrible to say I enjoyed your discombobulation in this post.
I don't mean Schadenfreude.
I guess I mean the way it sent your compass spinning.
I remember getting all worked up like this when Adrienne Rich edited the BAP anthology that one year. It was all about the idea that every victim is a hero. And a lot of really bad poetry made the cut.
Some poets are all too ecstatic to go into Pelican Bay and proclaim any poem written within its walls a triumph of the human will, an unprecedented gift to the art. But for crissakes look out where you're driving. Remember when Norman Mailer did this same thing with Jack Abbott (Belly of the Beast). This beautiful social conscience thing. I applaud it. I really do. I liked that book too but even when I read it as a teenager I knew it was stupid working to get Mr. Abbott-Nietzsche out. He stabbed whom to death shortly after his release? A waiter who looked at him wrong? Probably didn't realize Abbott's "greatness."
So we all have our great passions and vibrating sympathies and generous empathies. And I guess Dove is just putting her money where her mouth is.
I think there are too many poets. (And Yeah, I'll gladly step aside and leave space.)
Well, not too many. No such thing. But too many for a human lifespan anyway. Because you have to double back or triple back on many of them. And you'll never even get to everybody. Unless you can speak every language on earth.
I think most younger people aren't all that into poetry today because it's not as exciting to them. I've been looking at what they're doing and how they express themselves and I think I see why they tend that way. Their creativity is invested in different media and syntheses of media. Their use of language tends to be wedded to the visual. They're not dumb. They're very canny. I find it exhilarating when I see 13 year olds doing queer activism on Tumblr. Because I think, how Brave. Would I have done that if I had been born in the nineties? I don't know.
But even though I was really disappointed with Rich's version of the BAP that year, I still think she's a great poet. I think The Will to Change is an amazing book. Every bit as Ginsberg in some of those poems, IMO. But she was always interested in the dispossessed, the disenfranchised and the destroyed. Some soul.
Good human souls are going to hurt clean, cold thinkers.
I knew it was money with Howl's exclusion even before I hit the next paragraph. And that doesn't surprise me one bit.
I think in the next century (with 7 billion people now here) it will be a similar situation with the living to yours with focusing on Dickinson and Whitman. I know you know in your bones they're only going to need a handful of people.
But not to worry, right? Because either there's an Afterlife where all bad anthologies get corrected. Or there's absolutely nothing, in which case things will probably seem corrected.
Seem is italicized.
You've been very busy with publishing the past few years. I can see I have a terrible Olson deficit. But then I have terrible life deficits in general, so please forgive me.
I wish I could read the way I did when I was younger.
I'm horrified that I've reached the age where I double and triple back on my favorite books. There might be a few thousand but I know there should be thousands more than that.
Or does it really matter?
How much we contain?
- December 20, 2011 at 1:47 PM
Thank you for your very thoughtful comment William. I never read Mailer's book about Jack Abbott, but I remember hearing about it. I learned long ago, and still fret and chafe, over the connection between artistic genius and morality. I refused to read Pound for decades because of his ties with fascism. Then one day, hungover, my defenses down, I grapped a slim volume of selected Cantos off the shelf and was immeidately enamored. As for the Penguin anthology, it may be that the inclusions bother me more than the exculusions. But until I actually read the work of those I am unfamiliar, I must refrain judgment. I did recognize enough names, such as Mary Oliver and Billy Collins, to realize how far toward accessibility Dove was pushing things. This is the NPR crowd. The kind of drek Garrison Keiler reads on NPR. Anecdotal, moralizing, one-dimensional. What Herman Bloch, in his essay on kisch (in the collection Geist and Zeitgeist: The Spirit in an Unspiritual Age), no doubt would have viewed as a diminishment of intellect and spirit. - John
- December 20, 2011 at 10:23 PM
Correction: Broch, not Bloch.
- December 20, 2011 at 10:25 PM
- Surazeus Astarius said...
I saw the best poets of a hundred years excluded from the anthology of gods, statues of glory pushed over and broken in mud, where wheels of racing cars crushed their words as seeds in mud.
- December 22, 2011 at 9:20 AM
Poetry is lost to this world. Rejoice! The frontal lobe no longer processes the genre. If you see a bum, give him change. If you come upon a poet reciting a poem, advise him to take his life. What? Oh, yes of course, Mr. Dickens, "Decrease the surplus (poet) population." Indeed! Tea and crumpets at Four, chip, chip, cheerio!
Space aliens abducted T.S. Eliot and urinated celestial puss down his throat, hence, The Waste Land. Robert Frost's left big toe inspired him to write very badly. Anne Sexton smoked used Tampons driving her to confess. The entire collected poems of poets throughout history are absent one verity and mere to take up space. Poetry, you are now of the Charnel House.
- December 28, 2011 at 12:46 PM
- William Keckler said...
Hi John. I haven't read the anthology yet either. So maybe you're right: maybe there are some great new discoveries to be made where Dove sees someone others see as minor (or possibly even obscure) as major. And maybe she'll be proven right.
I liked your latest prose poem posted above here ("My Pythagorean Hat.")
It's a sustained assault that can jump keys and not lose the reader/listener (prose atonalism? Schoenberg moves?)
I hope the editing, the "anthology logic," wasn't in service of "mere" accessibility.
I'd rather have had it been in service "Of Mere Being."
I don't think accessibility moves poetry anthologies anyway.
Only the Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster does that.
Or maybe a mention on Silliman's Blog.
Might move some copies of an anthology. Too. ;-)
- December 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- William Keckler said...
P.S. I don't know who Chris Roberts is (commenter above) but I loved his funny, scabrous little squib.
Nice words you got vibrating 'round your uvula there, guy.
- December 30, 2011 at 1:04 PM
- John Olson said...
hey William, I would love to see an anthology devoted to Being. Especially one with a Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster in it. Thank you for your kind comment on My Pythogorean Hat. You should see my Spaghetti Monster Peplum and Eucalyptus Shoes. Meanwhile, Happy New Ears!
- December 31, 2011 at 8:39 PM
- William Keckler said...
lol. You're writing great poetry at a fast clip if the latest ones you posted are all very recent. As though it matters whether it came fast or slow...just that it's here.
I really love the disarming confessionalism (that's not a dirty word to me! no more than Brainard is a dirty word!) of your latest pieces, where you enter language from a purity of purpose and candor that strikes me as the Child as Divine. I love the poet as the Child as Divine. Whether it's William Blake or Dorothea Lasky. Or you here.
Your one piece definitely gave me back a living Ponge--the onemeditating on the parts of the body.
But it also had a soucon of Brainard (for me, anyway).
Your poetry definitely understands the Poundian dictum about the need for poems to be "at least as well-written as prose." I might be misquoting but I know you know what I'm referencing. Too many poems (prose poems or otherwise) seem to lose track of that single damning dictum. I lose track of that dictum most of the time.
I love "Happy New Ears" and same to you on that.
Must. Appropriate. That.
Your blog is a beautiful atelier. It must be the lighting. ;-)
- January 11, 2012 at 11:55 PM
- John Olson said...
Wow, thank you so much for your kind and generous comments William. I, too, love Ponge, and was consciously mimicking his style when I wrote the piece about the human body. I must confess, however, that it was Roberta who came up with "Happy New Ears." She works as a cake decorator and we were having a laugh about all the cake decorating blunders real and/or potential that occur in the business.
- January 13, 2012 at 9:32 AM
- Fred said...
Good piece. The Harper thing was a real kick in the pants--covered better elsewhere--and was partially mitigated by the inclusion of some poets into the space that otherwise might not have gotten into the book at all.
I myself would have eliminated Walcott (I don't believe he's American and therefore not eligible) and included at least something by Rexroth. But editing these anthologies is pretty difficult. This one even more so because of Harper's insistence on getting a huge check out of it.
- January 13, 2012 at 1:45 PM


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And speaking of walking and swimming pools, I was in San Francisco a couple of weekends back, and decided to go walking in a place I knew next to nothing about. I headed off to Point Lobos, not so far from Golden Gate Park, the ruins of the Sutro Baths. I was there on a bright, warm, sunny April morning and the ruins were surprisingly well-populated with walkers and amblers and the occasional scrambler.
The Sutro Baths, I know now though I didn't know them, were a vast indoor bathing complex opened in 1896, by Adolph Sutro, a successful businessman and one time San Francisco mayor. They were located between a cliff edge and the Pacific Ocean, a great turn of the century scheme, all glass and wrought iron, seven pools, six of them filled by the incoming tide, the seventh containing fresh water.
Images from the time make it look like a cross between a football stadium, an opera house and the Crystal Palace, and evidently many visitors back in the day were there to watch rather than swim: there was seating for 8,000, and photographs show the seats absolutely packed. There was also a skating rink and a museum containing Mr. Sutro's collection of curiosities.
Very little of this could be deduced on the ground from looking at the present day ruins, and after looking at photographs and even blueprints from the baths' glory days, I'm still not exactly certain how the current fragments relate to that elaborate and optimistic nineteenth century structure.
What we have now are chunks of strewn masonry, broken columns, pools of still water, a pedestrian tunnel, and an inscrutable block that looks like an above-ground bunker, but must have been in one of the lowest levels of the original building. There are also a number of what appear to be concrete catwalks, actually the foundations of the baths' walls, I suppose, raised not so very high above the surrounding water. Some of them appear to be the retaining walls of the individual pools, but the longest one runs right alongside the ocean, from one end of the baths to the other.
I wasn't sure exactly how seriously to take that sign, "Cliff and Surf Area Extremely Dangerous: people have been swept from the rocks and drowned," but I don't think it was a completely superfluous warning. Certainly the sea was rough even on that warm sunny day, and some sections of that oceanside walkway were wet: you could certainly have got drenched if not necessarily drowned.
Of course, the vast majority of the people visiting the ruins felt the urge, perhaps the compulsion, to walk along at least some of those catwalks. In one sense there was nothing very challenging or risky about most of them. At their narrowest they were still a couple of feet wide, and if they'd been at ground level and not edged by water they'd have presented no problem for anyone. Even as it was, some people just strolled along them as easily as if they were walking down a garden path. Others however walked as delicately and deliberately as if they were on a tightrope, or tiptoeing through a minefield.
Personally I was somewhere between the two. I walked the concrete strip alongside ocean, purposefully and carefully, making sure not to slip on the wet sections. I didn't fear for my life, but I did fear the terrible humiliation that would have ensued if I'd lost my footing and got a soaking. I did just fine. It was a fun little walk, and invigorating enough, but I admit there was a certain relief when it was over.
Drenching and drowning are not the only risks around the Sutro Baths. The cliffs are high, the drops steep and scary, and on one of them there was this wonderful sign.
Of course it's actually very ambiguous. It obviously started out as a simple "no walking" sign, a pedestrian with a diagonal line struck through him. Now he's been turned into the grim reaper, but the line through him is still visible, as though it means "no death," which is a nice idea, but there's something about that cliff edge, with the view of rocks and ruins below, that made death seem a perfectly real possibility.
Here's a terrific website that tells a great deal more about the Sutro Baths:
Here's a terrific website that tells a great deal more about the Sutro Baths:


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Health officials at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta are calling the current outbreak of mosquito-transmitted West Nile Virus (WNV) disease across Texas the worst outbreak in the state's history, causing cities across the state to launch comprehensive pesticide spraying programs in an effort to protect the public.
The death toll related to West Nile Virus in Texas this year has reached 17 so far and health officials from Austin to Atlanta are warning that number could go higher. Also at risk are farm animals, especially horses, and Texas AgriLife officials are warning farmers and ranchers to take steps now to control potential mosquito breeding grounds to protect both humans and animals.
In addition to stock ponds and water troughs in rural areas that serve as mosquito breeding grounds, officials say the problem is serious in urban areas as well. Dallas County, for example, has begun aerial spraying of pesticides to control mosquitoes for the first time in 45 years, largely because of concerns that public schools are set to open this week and next, which has alarmed parents over the dangers.
Concerns with school openings
Janet Hurley, AgriLife Extension state school integrated pest management specialist in Dallas County, says it is a valid concern, but one that can be managed.
"State law mandates that public school districts in Texas, all 1,030 of them, must have a trained integrated pest management coordinator on staff. They are trained to deal with situations such as the mosquito problems we are seeing in many parts of the state now," she said.
West Nile Virus is a flavivirus commonly found in Africa, West Asia, and the Middle East. It is closely related to St. Louis encephalitis virus, which is also found in the United States. The virus can infect humans, birds, mosquitoes, horses and other mammals. The most severe type of disease for a person infected with West Nile virus is sometimes called "neuroinvasive disease" because it affects a person's nervous system. Specific types of neuroinvasive disease include: West Nile encephalitis, West Nile meningitis or West Nile meningoencephalitis.
While most people who contract the virus experience only mild flu-like symptoms including lethargy, weakness, muscle stiffness, malaise and loss of appetite, other and more symptoms might include possible neurological signs of encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). The latter might include stumbling, staggering, abnormal posture, disorientation, muscle twitching, seizures, paralysis, and coma. In humans, those with underlying health conditions, including the elderly and extremely young, are at greater risk. In some cases, the disease can be fatal.
Health officials warn that while the summer season is nearing its end, WMV can continue to pose a health risk through the fall and winter months until a substantial freeze eliminates mosquito populations.
Half of U.S. cases in Texas
"Right now, Texas has half the West Nile cases in the nation," Dr David Lakey, Texas state health commissioner, told reporters at a press conference last week. "Dallas County has half of the cases in the state, so about a quarter of all the cases in the United States are in this county. This isn't business as usual."
According to Texas Department of Health (TDA) figures, 465 West Nile cases have been confirmed in Texas this year, including 17 related deaths, which is on track for the most cases since the disease first reached the state late last century. Ten deaths and more than 200 cases this year have been reported in Dallas County alone.
In rural Texas, WMV poses little threat to livestock, but horses and birds are subject to infection. In 2011 six cases of equine WMV were confirmed in Texas. Horses and humans are, in fact, the most likely mammals to show signs of the disease. Infections with West Nile virus have been documented in other mammals as well with evidence of illness in cats, dogs, sheep, goats, bats, llamas, wolves, and rodents.
When evaluating a cow with signs of general lethargy or neurological impairment, West
Nile Fever remains very low on the diagnostic list. But health officials warn that any evidence of neurological disease in cattle should be seriously considered.
Controlling WMV on the farm and ranch involves eliminating mosquito breeding grounds. In addition to stock ponds and water troughs, old tires, feed buckets and any other container that holds water is a potential breeding ground. In addition, overflowing septic systems can pose a serious problem.
High risk times of the day when mosquito bites are most common include early mornings and early evenings, and farm and ranch workers should use an approved insect repellant containing Deet, the most effective repellant, when working outdoors.
The CDC reports that as of August 14, 43 states have confirmed West Nile infection in people, birds or mosquitoes this year, with more than80 percent of cases from six states: Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Dakota and California.
The 693 human cases reported to CDC through the second week in August is the highest number for that time of year since the virus was first detected in the United States in 1999. At least 26 people have died nationwide.


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Tim Tebow's call lifts Albany area crash victim's spirits
CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. -- The power of social media brightened the day Monday of an Albany-area teenager who was seriously injured in a two-car crash late Saturday night.
Matt Hardy, a 17-year-old Shenendehowa High School junior who was injured in the accident that claimed the lives of two fellow Shenendehowa students, was called in his hospital room just after 9 p.m. Monday by New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow after the hashtag #TebowCallMatt trended nationally on Twitter.
After the call, Hardy's brother, Michael, tweeted: "TIM TEBOW JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH MATT! SUCH A CLASS ACT!!"
A few minutes later, Tebow tweeted: "Thanks to everyone who got #TebowCallMatt trending & helped connect us. Matt truly inspired me. God bless y'all."
Matt Hardy is a junior football, baseball and basketball player at Shenendehowa. He was upgraded to stable condition in Albany Medical Center on Monday night with a concussion and broken bones.
The two students killed in the crash were Shenendehowa seniors Chris Stewart and Deanna Rivers, both 17. Stewart played football and Rivers played softball at the school.
The other person in the crash, 17-year-old Bailey Wind from Shaker High School in the Albany area, remained hospitalized in serious condition Monday night with broken bones.
New York State Police said Dennis Drue, 22, of Clifton Park, caused the accident when he aggressively switched lanes and hit the back of the SUV driven by Stewart in the right-hand lane, causing the vehicle to swerve across the highway and into the median.
Drue, who failed an alcohol breath test at the scene, is likely to be charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter, according to police.
But Monday night, Matt Hardy got an emotional lift when he received the call from Tebow, and Hardy's friends were excited about it.
"It was awesome. You hear about these stories of professional athletes calling, but you never think it will happen to one of your best friends," said fellow Shenendehowa student and football player Connor Chatterton, a junior.
"It's just amazing that he [Tebow] would do that. How we all could contact him, then he could contact Matt," said Shenendehowa junior Taylor Hennigan. "Clearly, [Twitter] can do a lot."
"I think it meant a lot," junior Shannon McNall said of the call to Hardy. "What he'd been through the past two days is unimaginable. He deserved it."
Meanwhile, tweets urging Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin and Olympic diver Tom Daley to call Wind were trending on Twitter with the hashtag #MissyCallBailey and #DaleyCallBailey.
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14.7 Grand LilyPond Input Syntax Standardization (GLISS)
- Start: sortly after 2.14 comes out, which is currently estimated to happen in January 2011.
- Length: 6-12 months. We're not going to rush this.
- Goal: define an input which we commit to being machine-updateable for the forseeable future. Any future patches which change the syntax in a non-convert-ly-able format will be rejected. (subject to the limitations, below) Once this is finished, we will release lilypond 3.0.
The Problem
One of the biggest complaints people have with lilypond – other than silly thing like "there's no gui" – is the changing syntax. Now, inventing a language or standards is difficult. If you set it in stone too soon, you risk being stuck with decisions which may limit matters. If you keep on updating the syntax, interaction with older data (and other programs!) becomes complex.
Scope and Limitations
- tweaks will not be included. Anything with \override, \set, \overrideProperty, \tweak, \revert, \unset... including even those command names themselves... is still fair game for NOT_SMART convert-ly updates.
- other than that, everything is on the table. Is it a problem to have the tagline inside \header? What should the default behavior of \include be?
- we need to get standards for command names. This will help users remember them, and reduce the options for future names (and potential renamings later on). \commandOn and \commandOff seem to work well (should we *always* have an Off command?), but what about the "command" part? Should it be \nounVerbOn, or \verbNounOn ? Or \verbNotesWithExtraInformationOn ?
- we need standards for the location of commands. Ligature brackets, I'm looking at you. (non-postfix notation must die!)
- this Grand Project doesn't affect whether we have a 2.16 or not. The main problem will be deciding what to do (with a bit of messiness anticipated for \tuplet); we should definitely release a 2.16 before merging _any_ of these changes.
- we obviously can't /guarantee/ that we'll /never/ make any non-convert-ly changes in the basic format. But we *can* guarantee that such changes would force lilypond 4.0, and that we would only do so for overwhelmingly good reasons.
- We're going to have lots and lots of emails flying around. The vast majority won't really fit into either -devel or -user, so we'll use a list devoted to syntax issues.
- Once we have a serious proposal that gained general acceptance from the separate syntax mailing list, I'll bring it to -devel. We're not going to make any changes without discussing it on -devel, but if we're going to have huge threads about English grammar and silly ideas, and I don't want to clutter up -devel. Once whatever chaotic silliness on the syntax list is settled down, I'll bring the ideas to -devel.
- as with GDP, I'll moderate the discussion. Not as with mailist moderation, but rather by introducing issues at specific times. We don't want a free-for-all discussion of all parts of the syntax at once; nothing will get resolved.
- Whenever possible, we'll decide on policies at the highest level of abstraction. For example, consider \numericTimeSignature, \slurUp, \xNotesOn, \startTextSpan, and \verylongfermata. One of them starts with the name of the notation first (slur). One has an abbreviation (x instead of cross). One has the verb at the end (On), another has it at the beginning (start). The adjective can come at the beginning (numeric, x) or end (Up). Most are in camelCase, but one isn't (verylongfermata).
- Instead of arguing about each individual command, we'll decide on abstract questions. Should each command begin the notation-noun, or the verb? Should all commands be in camelCase, or should we make everything other than articulations in camelCase but make articulations all lower-case? Are abbreviations allowed?
- Once we've answered such fundamental questions, most of the syntax should fall into place pretty easily. There might be a few odd questions left ("is it a span, or a spanner?"), but those can be settled fairly quickly.
Nothing until the project is finished, then we declare the next stable release (2.16.0 or 2.18.0 ?) to be the final 2.x version, release it, then apply all the GLISS syntax changes and start testing a beta for 3.0 a week or two later.
Don't respond to any of the specifics yet. Yes, we all have our pet irritations (like "what's up with \paper and \layout?!"). There will be plenty of time to discuss them once GLISS starts.
That said, we have a list of specific items that people really wanted to have written down. See Specific GLISS issues.
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Intel has announced Threading Building Blocks 2.2 (TBB), a high-level C++ library that abstracts threads to tasks to create portable and scalable parallel applications. Version 2.2 is available in both the commercial and open source releases. These are built from identical sources -- the only real difference is the license and support offerings.
TBB 2.2 maintains the functionality and platform support of previous versions and adds feature and performance improvements, including full support for the lambda capabilities of the new C++ draft standard (C++0x) and more flexibility for developers to redistribute with their applications. Among the new 2.2 features are:
- Automatic memory allocator replacement available. The memory allocator is one of the most popular features of Intel TBB. However, it can be time consuming to replace your own memory allocator calls. Version 2.2 uses a dynamic instrumentation method on Windows and the LD_PRELOAD function on Linux to offer automatic memory allocator replacement throughout applications. Version 2.2 extends TBB's memory allocator's performance by delivering large-block (over 8K in size) allocation performance.
- Scaling of scheduler enhanced. Version 2.2 features a reworked task scheduler to behave more like an ideal Cilk-style scheduler, yielding scalable behavior. Version 2.2 also has improvements to the affinity partitioner, and changes the default for loop templates from the simple_partitioner to the easier to use and adaptive auto_partitioner.
- Automatic initialization available. Version 2.2 no longer requires an explicit initialization. Users of prior versions have told us that in a large application it is not easy to initialize in the right place. Version 2.2 takes care of automatically initializing the scheduler when it is first needed.
Additionally, 2.2 includes enhancements to parallel algorithms:
- Version 2.2 has a new parallel_invoke for running a group of functors simultaneously in parallel.
- Version 2.2 has a new parallel_for_each and a simplified parallel_for interface to make writing some common for loops easier.
- parallel_for_each(first, last, f) is like parallel_do(first, last, body) but without the feeder functionality that allows adding more work items. In other words, tbb::parallel_for_each is the parallel equivalent of std::for_each.
- The new overload parallel_for(first, last, step, f) lets you pass an integer first (auto i=first), last (i
, and step (i+=step) for a given function f(i), handles simple cases easily, especially with the use of lambdas. The original interface parallel_for(range, body, partitioner) has been retained. It's more general but also more complicated to write, even with the use of lambdas.
- Intel TBB's pipeline can now perform DirectX, OpenGL, and I/O parallelization by using the new thread_bound_filter feature. There are certain types of operations that require that they are used from the same thread every time and by using a filter bound to a thread, you can guarantee that the final stage of the pipeline will always use the same thread.
- Exception safety support has been expanded significantly. Prior versions had support for exception propagation only in parallel_for, parallel_reduce, and parallel_sort. Support is expanded to include parallel_do, the new parallel_invoke, and parallel_for_each as well as the new forms of parallel_for and parallel_reduce.
- Lambda support has been extended to cover not only parallel_for, but also parallel_reduce, parallel_sort, and the new parallel_for_each and parallel_invoke algorithms. In addition, the new combinable and enumerable_thread_specific classes for thread local storage can accept lambdas. The documentation and code examples are expanded to show lambdas in action. The Intel Compiler 11.0 and Intel Parallel Studio offer lambda support today, and Microsoft will support it in Visual Studio 2010 (it is in the beta currently).
Concurrent container enhancements include:
- Thread local storage, which is portable across platforms, is now possible with the new enumerable_thread_specific and combinable classes. This can be useful for algorithms that reduce shared memory contention by creating local copies and then combining results later through something like a reduce operation.
- Unbounded non-blocking interface for concurrent_queue and new blocking concurrent_bounded_queue. Some operations require synchronization and may or may not block depending on whether or not the queue is bounded. To get the best behavior, use the unbounded form if you need only basic non-blocking push/try_pop operations to modify the queue. Otherwise use the bounded form which supports both blocking and non-blocking push/pop operations.
- Simplified interfaces for concurrent_hash_map that make it easier to utilize for common data types using the new tbb_hasher.
- Improved interfaces for concurrent_vector that removes a common extra step needed to use the vector output.
There are some changes programmers may need to do to move from prior versions of Intel TBB to the Version 2.2. Developers can simply add #define TBB_DEPRECATED 1 to their code, and the old interfaces remain available (at least for now) adjust to the following changes:
- auto_partitioner() is now the default instead of simple_partitioner().
- Concurrent queue API changes: renaming four interfaces. Or you can change pop_if_present to try_pop, push_if_not_full to try_push, begin to unsafe_begin and end to unsafe_end, and thereby be consistent with the latest API.
- Concurrent vector API changes: renamed compact to shirnk_to_fit, and changed three interfaces to all consistently have return types of iterator. Previously grow_by returned size_type, grow_to_at_least returned nothing, push_back returned size_type.
- The notion of task depth has been eliminated, so the following four members of class task have no effect: depth_type, depth, set_depth and add_to_depth. These have no effect in 2.2 even if you use TBB_DEPRECATED, but are nonetheless defined to permit their use without error messages.


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Saturday, February 25, 2012
The Kindness Chronicles
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Thank you, Jane, what a kind thing to do, to bring attention to the importance of kindness. :) I am looking forward to reading the chronicles. Mindful kindness.ReplyDelete
- Sooz Weissberg2/25/2012 7:38 AM
Looking forward to March 4th !! :DReplyDelete
Awesome! Count me in!ReplyDelete
I love this…You're already such a great example of kindness. This takes it up a notch and brings awareness of how simple things like kindness makes the world a better place.ReplyDelete
Not sure how it works, but I'd like to put your badge for the Kindness Chronicles on my blog and link it over to yours so people can get inspired. To participate, do I also write a kindness post first Sunday of the month?
Jane... I am so inspired by this project. The world can always use kindness. Sign Me Up!ReplyDelete
wonderful! so either grab the logo and put it on your blog, and use it for your first sunday blog post, or email me (email address in the blog post) and I'll send you the jpeg.ReplyDelete
I'm in! Kindness is like sunshine, and I love the sun!ReplyDelete
I SO love this idea. I've done Random Acts of Kindness "contests" on my blog before, but this will be much easier, and more fun! Thanks, Jane.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful idea! I look forward to reading your posts and participating as well.ReplyDelete
A wonderful light spreading idea! Will it be like a link party? Thinking about what i can do already! Patsy fromReplyDelete
I love this idea and passed a link to your blog on. I wonder where I could get a t shirt like the yoga teachers. . .ReplyDelete


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Welcome to The X Universe.
Feel free to join in the community here at TXU and ask as many questions as you need about any topics found within the scope of this site.
Joining the community will mean far more opportunities to participate with the features of the site, and is free for all to join.
Been putting a lot of effort into allowing quicker article entry within the wiki.
There's been so much work going into it, and with the complexity of some of the templates and articles, the editors have had a hard job entering data, particularly for the bigger ships with more turrets, etc.
To solve this we've been working on creating an Excel spreadsheet that will manipulate the data into the correct final format. So far entries such as Minotaur and Skirnir have been
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I thought this post would be good to highlight, just to see if we can inspire some writing again at TXU. There's been such a high caliber of writing in times past, it'd be nice to see if there's some new talent able to write as well, or if we can persuade the oldies to get writing again...
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In any development, especially on software created by someone else, there is a large learning curve, where you try things, they work for a bit, and then you realise you should have done something different at the start.
X³ was exactly like that.
When we started changing some of the files, we got some nice new features. Later we decided to add to these files, and we hit a brick wall. Most of the files needed editing in such a way that we couldn't keep compatibility
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It's interesting perusing through some of the statistics of the site, it helps create a feel for the progression of the site. 2Blackhawk has been useful for this, as he's kept a constant track of stats (hidden from most in the Moderators Areas) which help show the progression. I've copied one or two of the charts he's done in his time, and notice the steady growth
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It was while scouting around for someone to help I came across Moxy's M7 Mod (known as MMM for short). This discovery was to change TXU forever.
I'd always been a big fan of the X series. I liked the ideology of the games, and wished there was more to the games, extended plots, etc. MMM was what I needed. It expanded on the concepts that made X³ so good, it filled the gaps X³ had.
I remember the excitement I had as I looked on the model concepts that Moxy (now more
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In a conference where it can truly be said that any team can beat any other team on any given night, the Bisons were in control for most of the game, but failed to finish strong in a 73-71 loss to Stetson on homecoming Saturday at Allen Arena.
The loss was only the second in 10 outings at home for the Bisons who are in a dogfight for one of the eight spots in the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament.
"This league is a one-possession game from week-to-week," said Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson. "Every possession is critical."
The Bisons started strong, switching leads 10 times on the way to a slim 38-36 halftime edge.
In the second half the Bisons went on a 13-4 run to lead 53-40 with 16 minutes left on a fast break that ended with a lay-up by Jason Guyette.
At 14:14 the Bisons would take their biggest lead of the game at 15 points on a field goal by Brian Fisk that put the Bisons ahead 57-42.
In the final nine minutes, several Stetson steals combined with a 19-7 scoring advantage sealed the loss for the Bisons. From the7:19 mark until the end of the game the Bisons scored only five points.
With four seconds left E.J. Gordon stole the ball from Fisk. Gordon went to the free throw lie to a pair to make it 73-71 with three seconds left. Fisk would shoot a 3-pointer from about 30 feet out at the buzzer, but the shot missed.
"I told Brian that play didn't beat us," Sanderson said. "We had numerous plays in the first half and second half where the ball was rolling the around on the floor, and we didn't get them."
Fisk led the Bisons in scoring with 19 points. Jason Guyette added 12. The Bisons shot 46.3 from the field.
"It's definitely a mental thing offensively," Sanderson said. "We got good shots. Late in the game we got very good shots. We just didn't make them."
The Bisons held a slim 35-34 edge on the boards. Charlie Jenney led the Bisons with eight boards.
Stetson placed four players in double figures. E.J. Gordon earned the double-double with 19 points and a game-high 10 rebounds. Anthony Register scored a game-high 21 for Stetson followed by Will Holloman with 14 and Karl Hollingsworth with 13.


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Australian artist Numskull presents his work both on the street and in galleries. His segmented use of vintage typography and Native American imagery is dangerously similar to that of FAILE's mixed media work, but his energetic character designs establish him as a force all his own. Goofy gets three eyes and Bart Simpson hair, and the character takes on a completely new persona. Hysterical, almost toothless grins populate the streets. The world would be a better place if it was populated with even more visuals from the mind of Numskull.
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