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Wow. I just started watching a series of lessons on JLTV on the teachings of the Kabbalah. Amazing spiritual value on the series thus far.
However I am seeking a complete translated Zohar in to English.
Would any have an I idea as to where this might be located whether it be a series of pdf's or even the whole series of books.
I saw have located a series of book, the whole set for 130 dollars and seems to be a good purchase but not sure of it is in English...


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For centuries the Kavussari and Forsellians have waged a galactic war. Over time the two races entered into treaties with the Herald Accord, a union between different cultures in the galaxy. Even though peace settled across their planets, the seething hatred between the races kept the fire of war simmering under the fragile truce. Sensing their newest members could spread war throughout the galaxy; the Herald Accord gave the Kavussari and Forsellians a choice. Pit their warriors against each other in the arena rather than on the fields of war, or face total annihilation. The Nexuiz was formed, a series of battle arenas on the home planets of the Kavussari, Forsellian and the ruined planet of Atavirta.
A full reimagining of Alien Trap Software's cult-classic shooter, Nexuiz is a fast-paced, arena-based FPS based on the CryEngine 3. The game features a mutator system that allows players to change the rules of the match; as players rank, new mutators become available for them to use. Leader boards are designed for social networking, letting players feel more engaged with the community.
Nexuiz is just as much an enigma as how to pronounce its name. Rapidly paced, twitchy arena shooters don't surface all that often these days, but the genre is far from dead, at least judging from how many people are still way into competitive Quake and Unreal Tournament. It seems like a new one would be something worth getting excited over, but Nexuiz adds a little novelty to the form, and what it does bring seems at odds with the purity of competition that has helped much older games endure. There's not much overtly bad about Nexuiz, but it just doesn't seem to have much reason to exist, especially on PC. Read More »
Today marks the PC release of bafflingly-titled competitive arena shooter Nexuiz. It started life as a modest mod, and now the baby's left home and moved in with the commercial release crowd. Hit the jump for a gameplay video and further details on the PC version of Nezwix - Neuwiz - no, Niz - oh, sigh, why is this name so hard to type correctly? At least nobody's forcing me to say it out loud in front of an audience. I haven't a clue where to begin trying to pronounce that. Read More »
The original Nexuiz, first released in 2005, rests comfortably at the apex of free, universally accessible, ridiculously fast-paced first-person arena shooters. Now it's been completely remade with CryEngine3 and is making its way to Steam for 10 bucks -- which is not quite free, but still dirt cheap. Lightning fast, twitchy arena shooters don't come down the pike very often these days, and Unreal Tournament and Quake 3: Arena, can arguably still be considered both the origin and zenith of the genre. Nexuiz certainly represents a graphical step up from those venerable founders, but how does it measure up where it counts? Read More »
Epic Games says it is working on a PC exclusive, and our fingers are crossed for a new Unreal Tournament. But until the day we're fragging foes with a Flak Cannon in the next UT, we'll have to find our FPS arena fix elsewhere. Enter the PC version of Nexuiz. The pretty, fast-paced shooter has been lighting up Xbox Live since February, and now a rebuilt, DirectX 11-infused PC version is ready for a trial run. Read More »
Having trouble figuring out how to pronounce Nexuiz? Well, you're not alone: even the design team behind this fast-paced, CryEngine 3-powered shooter suffers internal strife over how to say it. "You can say it however you want, but I always say 'nexus,'" says Creative Director Kedhrin Gonzalez. Read More »
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Fulbright-Hays Program Provides Teachers Summer Courses in Ghana, March 22, 1999
SOCORRO, N.M., March 22, 1999 -- As part of its curriculum, New Mexico Tech's Master of Science Teaching (MST) program has always offered state educators summer field courses that incorporate trips to "exotic" locales such as the Grand Canyon, the Bisti Badlands, or the rapids of the Colorado River.
But now, with recent funding provided by a prestigious U.S. Department of Education program, Tech's MST program is vastly expanding its boundaries this summer to faraway West Africa.
Because of a special monetary award acquired from the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program, teachers enrolled in two of the 11 classes offered this summer through the MST program will be conducting environmental science field and lab work in Ghana. The western African country is a republic which, up until it achieved its independence in 1957, was formerly a British colony known as "the Gold Coast."
"This is an exciting opportunity for MST participants to include an international component in their graduate studies," says Vannetta R. Perry, New Mexico Tech's coordinator for educational outreach programs.
"New Mexico Tech was very fortunate to get Fulbright-Hays funding for this particular project, since out of about 300 proposals which are submitted annually, only 35 to 40 projects are actually funded each year throughout the nation," she adds.
In one of the classes, MST program participants taking the month-long "Ghanaian Environmental Science Seminar and Cross-Cultural Studies" will be conducting surveys and analyses of Ghanaian groundwater, looking for the presence of hazardous amounts of arsenic. Part of the field work will consist of water samples being taken from several small African villages by teams of three to four students accompanied by Tech professors or their teaching assistants.
In the program's other Ghanaian class, educators will focus on constructing and testing a pilot-scale, low-technology treatment system for removing arsenic from groundwater. A local raw material, laterite, which is found throughout Ghana, will be comparison tested in the study, along with a commercial treatment material, for possible use as an adsorbent for arsenic removal.
By also completing two additional directed studies associated with the Ghanaian classes, participants can earn up to six graduate credit hours through New Mexico Tech's MST degree- granting program.
"As educators, it is important for us to open the world to our students and the Ghanaian Environmental Science Seminar also will provide that opportunity," adds Perry. "We all will learn far beyond the geochemistry and environmental engineering aspects of the course components. The cultural awareness and experiences will be invaluable, and bringing that knowledge back to New Mexico will enrich the teaching and learning of our state's K-12 students."
Perry also point out that results derived from the Ghanaian study may potentially have "significant applications" to arsenic-contaminated water-supply problems in other countries.
Applicants who are chosen to participate in the Ghanaian Environmental Science Seminar and Cross-Cultural Studies summer courses will be provided with air travel to and from Ghana, plus per diem expenses, as part of the funding contributed by the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program. However, participants will be responsible for paying all other expenses associated with the program, including registration and fees for the MST classes.
Applications for the Ghanaian program must be completed, submitted, and postmarked no later than Wednesday, March 25.
Those interested in applying for the program, or those who wish to receive more information about these or other MST courses being offered this summer, are asked to contact Perry as soon as possible at (505) 835-5678, or by e-mail at email@example.com.


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Former London-based investment banker-turned-sex therapist Mike Lousada, who was dubbed the "orgasm guru" by British GQ, has revealed Wall Streeters' biggest problems in bed.
eFinancial Careers' Sarah Butcher reports:
"There are two problems with men in banking," he said. "One is erectile dysfunction (ED). The other is premature ejaculation (PE). Both are linked to the nature of banking jobs."
Lousada said male bankers are prone to ED because they suffer from performance anxiety. "Banking is a performance-related, competitive culture. If you work in an environment which emphasizes performance so heavily, it creates a mindset that spills out into other areas of your life."
Lousada, who spent spent twenty years working in the City (London's version of Wall Street) at Barclays, SocGen, JPMorgan Chase and Nomura, describes himself as psychosexual body worker.
This definitely isn't your typical career that you would segue into after a long stint on the Street, so we decided to learn a litte more.
Here's what we now know about Lousada's profession:
- His clients include mostly women, but he also works with men. He does not consider himself gay or straight, according to a report from the Independent.
- The female clients he sees may be women who have never orgasmed before, they don't enjoy sex or they're virgins, he told The Sunback in 2011.
- The women he sees are typically ages 35 to 55. He's seen clients young as 25 and as old as 60, according to a report in The Sun.
- For the therapy part, Lousado's sessions can range from talk work, non-intimate body work to intimate body work, according to his website. Lousado has sex with some of the clients, but it's "purely therapeutic," he told the Independent last year.
- For men's sex and intimacy issues, he works with them through "talk work, education and non-intimate bodywork," according to his website.
- According to The Sun, he charges £100 per session and up to £300. He can also be booked up a month in advance.


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I'm new here - and maybe this isn't the correct place to ask - but I've stumbled across the windows version of DCASTAWAY - and it seems great!
I've spotted a few bugs though. Just wondering if there is still interest/development on this project or if something happened to Chui & Ron??? (As the last post here is quite old/no updates to the news on http://chui.dcemu.co.uk/index.html for quite a while?)
Ron's blog: http://rondreamcast.blogspot.com/search/label/Dreamcast
fox68k and Chui are still working on Gens4all afaik.
- Try over at www.dreamcast.es - Ron, Chui and fox68k are active there I think.
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On this day in 1937, Anthony Hopkins, who will become known for playing one of the greatest villains in movie history, the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs and its two sequels, is born in Port Talbot, Wales. In addition to portraying Lecter, a role which earned Hopkins his first Academy Award, the versatile actor, considered one of the best of his generation, has appeared in a long list of films, including Remains of the Day and Fracture.
The Lion in Winter, with Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn. Hopkins went on to co-star in such films as The Elephant Man (1980), directed by David Lynch, and The Bounty (1984), in which he played Captain William Bligh to Mel Gibson's Fletcher Christian.
In 1990, Hopkins starred in the thriller The Silence of the Lambs as the murderous psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, a character who originated in a series of novels by Thomas Harris. (The actor Brian Cox first played Lecter on the silver screen in 1986's Manhunter.) Directed by Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs co-starred Jodie Foster as the FBI trainee Clarice Starling, who asks for the incarcerated Lecter's help in catching another serial killer. The film won Academy Awards in all five major categories, including Best Actor for Hopkins, Best Actress for Foster, Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The American Film Institute later named Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter the top villain in movie history. Hopkins reprised his role for 2001's Hannibal and 2002's Red Dragon.
In addition to The Silence of the Lambs, Hopkins was featured in a lengthy list of films during the 1990s, including director James Ivory's Howards End (1992); Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992); The Remains of the Day (1993), which earned him a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance as aging English butler James Stevens; Shadowlands (1993), in which he played Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis; Old West epic Legends of the Fall (1994), with Brad Pitt, Henry Thomas, Aidan Quinn and Julia Ormond; and director Oliver Stone's biopic Nixon (1995), for which Hopkins earned another Best Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of America's 37th president.
Hopkins received his first Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for Steven Spielberg's slavery drama Amistad (1996), in which he played John Quincy Adams. Among the actor's more recent film credits are The Human Stain (2003), with Nicole Kidman; The World's Fastest Indian (2005), based on the real-life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who built a motorcycle that set the land-speed record; and the thriller Fracture (2007), with Ryan Gosling, in which Hopkins plays a manipulative murderer.
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As in the Cold War, so in the current power play between the United States and China, the rest of Asia will simply not submit itself to the discipline of a bipolar framework. Asia will actively shape and be shaped by the emerging strategic dynamic between Washington and Beijing.
Asia is home to many large states that are wedded to nationalism and territorial sovereignty, opposed to local ambitions for regional hegemony,committed to a measure of autonomy from the great powers, and determined to promote greater economic integration with each other. These are competing imperatives that do not sit well with each other but do define the contradictory nature of Asia's rise.
One of these important regional powers is India—the third largest economy in Asia, and the fourth biggest spender on defense in the Indo-Pacific after the United States, China and Japan.Enjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.
India's potential could contribute significantly to the new balance of power in Asia as recognized by both Washington and Beijing. U.S. Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, was in Delhi last June declaring India as a "lynchpin"in the U.S. pivot to Asia.
The Chinese defense minister Liang Guanglie was soon knocking at Delhi's doors, trying to soothe India's growing concerns about Beijing's rise.
Delhi's cautious response to America's Asian pivot underlines India's open-ended and deliberative strategy in dealing with the twists and turns in the U.S. strategy towards China.
India has had a complex and difficult relationship with China since they became neighbors in the middle of the 20th century. And it is only over the last decade that Delhi's ties with the United States have begun to warm.
India has not had a direct conflict of interest with the United States during the Cold War, but the two have had deep differences on global and regional issues.


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A YouTube video of a young woman twerking against a door and then falling into a coffee table with lighted candles went viral last week. However, turns out she's fine because on Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel revealed that he put her up to it and fooled us all. But hey, at least she's OK!
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Used to use C Quads with a Dirtsurfer up and down the hardpack on the waters edge on the beach.
Had a Pro Tools Mosquito 9.5M size (I think 9.5) foil when I was learning to water kite, it was a monster truck, and it turned so slow compared to the other foils I had.
I liked the KiteWing (Skimbat) with the Dirstsurfer (back in 2003) up and down the beach, it hauled major a$$.
Still have a KiteWing and a couple Dirtsurfers.
No C-Quads left in my garage though.


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When Police Chief Robert Hayden responded to the call for a sudden death at the Elmcourt Hotel late Saturday morning, he and other officers found not one, but two dead bodies.
An unidentified man and woman in their 40s lay dead in Room 301 on the hotel's third floor, with drug paraphernalia nearby, the police chief said.
BROCKTON – When Police Chief Robert Hayden responded to the call for a sudden death at the Elmcourt Hotel late Saturday morning, he and other officers found not one, but two dead bodies.
An unidentified man and woman in their 40s lay dead in Room 301 on the hotel's third floor, with drug paraphernalia nearby, the police chief said.
As authorities await autopsy results to determine the exact cause of death, Hayden said he's reaching out to police chiefs across the region to address the surge in drug overdoses locally.
Brockton has seen five suspected overdose deaths in the past 10 days. Taunton has seen at least four suspected overdose deaths since Jan. 1.
"Something has to be done. It's just out of control," Hayden said Sunday.
Shortly after he spoke, Brockton officers responded to an emergency call for a 27-year-old man who overdosed on heroin on Falconer Avenue at 6:37 p.m. Sunday. Police said the man was initially unresponsive, and a family member administered Narcan, a prescription medication that can reverse the effects of an opiate overdose. He was sent to a local hospital.
Police can't explain the recent surge in drug overdose deaths locally – but they're eyeing one possible reason for them.
There has been an increase in deaths associated with the use of fentanyl, a powerful painkiller implicated in dozens of fatalities in the Northeast, in some cases in combination with heroin.
Taunton police have linked heroin tainted with fentanyl, and a potent form of heroin, to the recent high rate of overdoses in the Silver City.
In Brockton, police are watching closely for street use of the deadly drug.
"I'd like to find out who's selling this stuff and trace it back and see if we can follow this thing," Hayden said. "We're trying to strategize as to how we can have an impact on it. It's an extremely elusive target. It's very tough."
Brockton officers responded to the Elmcourt Hotel at 33 West Elm St. at 11:32 a.m. Saturday, and found the bodies of a male and female in a third floor room, police said.
Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Russ Eonas said no foul play is suspected in the two unattended deaths. Eonas said he would not comment further until the autopsies are complete.
Elmcourt owner Chip Yannone could not be reached for comment.
Brockton Mayor Bill Carpenter said the city must fight the "overdose epidemic" on several fronts – with medical attention for addicts, stepped up law enforcement, and drug awareness education.
"In the short run, it's getting Narcan deployed," Carpenter said Sunday. "It's stepping up our enforcement action against drug dealers by doubling the size of the narcotics unit at the Brockton Police Department."
Brockton firefighters on Friday began training to carry Narcan with them as they respond to calls across the city, Carpenter said, adding that he hopes that will help curb overdose deaths.
In 2013, the Stoughton Fire Department used Narcan 36 times in response to drug overdoses. All 36 people lived, said Stoughton Fire Chief Mark Dolloff. In 2012, Narcan was used 29 times in response to drug overdoses, and all 29 of those people also lived, Dolloff said.
Carpenter said he is planning a drug overdose prevention and information forum in Brockton in the coming weeks. A special forum will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday at East Middle School to inform parents about substance abuse and emerging drug trends.
Carpenter said he will lobby for a drug court to be brought to the court system in Brockton. Drug courts, which exist in Quincy and South Boston, would require and monitor a drug treatment program for nonviolent offenders as an alternative to jail, Carpenter said.
"The idea is that for someone who is addicted, they're going to keep stealing and robbing until their addiction is treated," Carpenter said. "From a practical standpoint, it's a far more reasonable approach. You have to treat the underlying cause."
Councilor-at-large Robert Sullivan called for a citywide meeting with Brockton residents, healthcare organizations and schools and colleges to talk about the recent drug overdoses.
"An open, frank discussion is something that needs to happen in order to try to control it," said Sullivan, who serves as the council president.
Brockton needs help from the state Department of Public Health to bring more drug awareness forums into the community, said Councilor-at-large Shaynah Barnes, who called the overdoses a "public epidemic."
"A lot of it has to do with drug education and getting things out in a way that would let people know what could happen (with drug use)," Barnes said. "They're rolling the dice."
Reports from area hospitals have indicated that overdose numbers are up in recent months.
In January alone, Morton Hospital in Taunton saw 43 patients were brought to the emergency room for drug overdoses. During the entire year of 2013, the hospital saw 129 total overdoses, hospital spokeswoman Julie Masci said. January's one-month total equals one-third the number of overdoses treated over the preceding 12 months.
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Promote your business, entice school spirit, raise money, drive support for a cause; there are many great reasons to get a custom temporary tattoo. While the choice to get a custom temporary tattoo is an easy one, how to order one and what to consider when doing so can be difficult.
Fortunately, this article nails down the 5 elements you need to consider when ordering a custom temporary tattoo. Each element is simple and once you decide upon each you'll be well on your way to custom temporary tattoo success!
5 Elements to Consider When Ordering a Custom Tattoo:
1. The front design
Since the objective behind designing a custom tattoo is to make an impression, you'll want to use your logo or well known symbol. Using a business logo works well for brand building and a well-known symbol is more likely to draw attention and spark interest.
Simple enough; but there are a couple variations you can take advantage of to make your custom tattoos even more successful:
• If you operate a website, incorporate that site's URL on the front of the tattoo with your logo.
• For promoting a cause, start with a well-known symbol (like the pink ribbon or recycling symbol) and add the name of an individual or a meaningful date.
By incorporating your website and taking advantage of a well-known symbol or business logo, you can ensure that you are making the most of every impression your custom temporary tattoos will receive.
2. The back
A little known fact is that the back of the tattoo is just as customizable as the front. Take full advantage of this by including the company address, website and social media information. The majority of promotional, custom temporary tattoos are kept as opposed to worn. People will take them home and throw them on the counter or on a desk or keep them at the office. This turns your custom temporary tattoo into a business card of sorts-but one that stands out.
Information to include on the back of your tattoo:
• Name of your business or organization
• Website URL
• Facebook & Twitter information
• A coupon code or special offer
3. Size
The most popular custom temporary tattoo size is 2"x2". It's small enough that it can be applied and worn easily but large enough to accommodate contact information on the back. Plus, this is just the right size to fit into a wallet or pocket of a purse for easy transport to the home or office.
4. White Effect
When printing a temporary tattoo, there are 3 options regarding white ink: no white, spot white and flood white.
• No White: any areas of the design without color will print without ink, so that the skin shows through those areas
• Spot White: any areas of the design without color will print with white ink, so that that white ink-instead of the skin-shows through those areas
• Flood White: white ink will be printed underneath the entire tattoo, making the colors look more brilliant once transferred to the skin because the layer of white makes the image more opaque
Choosing the white effect for your custom tattoo depends upon your purpose. Do you want the tattoo to be applied to the skin or kept as a promotional product? For the latter, you'll want to go with either spot white or no white because that will look better on the tattoo paper. If it's more important that the tattoo look good once applied, then you want to choose flood white because, even though the tattoo will appear 'milky' on the paper, it will look great on the skin.
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Maintaining your health as you age can be a challenge, especially when some body functions cease or decrease over time. For example, when women go through menopause, their ovaries reduce production of several essential hormones. This causes a slew of adverse effects that can include impairment of brain functions. While hormone therapies can alleviate these effects, they also pose their own health risks.
Heather Bimonte-Nelson, a neuroscientist and associate professor of psychology at Arizona State University, is working to find the optimal hormone profile for menopausal women, or what she calls "that key, beautiful balance that will result in a healthy aging brain." She was recently awarded $1.6 million by the National Institute on Aging, one of the National Institutes of Health, to pursue this goal.
This is a renewal of research started about five years ago by Bimonte-Nelson, who leads the Neuroscience of Memory and Aging Lab in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She and her team of students have already produced more than 20 journal publications in the initial grant period.
Through the new award, Bimonte-Nelson and her team plan to identify the optimal treatments for women going through both surgical and transitional menopause, which require very different considerations.
Transitional menopause happens when a woman's menstrual cycle and fertility end naturally. The ovaries begin producing less estrogen and progesterone, but continue pumping out androgen, which Bimonte-Nelson's lab has recently linked to memory problems in animal studies.
Surgical menopause happens when the ovaries are removed, usually to treat conditions like ovarian cancer or severe endometriosis. As a result, the ovaries no longer release estrogen, progesterone or androgen into the body.
In both cases, the reduction of hormones can lead to bone density loss, hot flashes and other symptoms, which is why women typically turn to hormone therapies. However, menopause can have cognitive effects as well.
As estrogen and progesterone levels decrease in transitional menopause, an androgen called androstenedione becomes the primary hormone released from the ovaries. High levels of this androgen have been linked to memory impairment in Bimonte-Nelson's lab. The results have been replicated three times.
Most hormone therapies for transitional menopause include estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen alone can improve cognition, but it is also well-known to increase the risk of uterine cancer. Adding progesterone reduces this cancer risk. But studies in Bimonte-Nelson's lab suggest that it negates estrogen's benefits to memory.
"Our approach is to take each of these hormone classes - estrogens, progestins and androgens - optimize them individually, and then combine them to find a therapy that will work to optimize brain aging without increasing the risk of cancer," says Bimonte-Nelson.
Graduate students in the Neuroscience of Memory and Aging Laboratory will explore different aspects of the project. Sarah Mennenga, a doctoral candidate in psychology, will look at how the hormones used in birth control can be applied to women going through menopause. Bryan Camp, also a doctoral candidate in psychology, is detailing the new line of research into the role androgens play during menopause.
First-year doctoral student Stephanie Koebele is testing the details of cognitive aging with different menopause parameters. Postdoctoral fellow Sheri Hiroi will examine whether depression relates to the associations between hormones and memory during aging.
The lab's many efforts are further enriched by undergraduate and high school students working hard in the laboratory, according to Bimonte-Nelson. She credits her large team of students for creating an innovative and explorative environment where, she says, success is inevitable.
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94 N. Main Street, Jasper, GA - (706) 253-2457
Laura Schell
Ms. Laura Ashley Schell, age 24 of Whitestone Road, Talking Rock, passed away Monday July 12, 2010.
She is survived by her daughter, Elizabeth Maloy, Talking Rock; father and step-mother, Russell and Kelly Schell, Talking Rock; mother, Barbara Schell, Hortense, Ga.; grandmothers, Ann Elizabeth Sutton and Juanita Elrod, both of Yellue, Fl.; grandfather, Alfred Livingston Schell, Marietta; brothers, Brian Schell, Woodstock, and John Alfred Schell, Talking Rock; sister, Mary Ann Howell, Hicox, Ga., and step-parent, Clarence Elrod, Yellue, Fl. Several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins also survive.
The body remains at Roper Funeral Home with visitation from 12-4 and 6-9 p.m. Thursday. The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday from the Chapel of Roper Funeral Home with the Revs. Jason Gerdis and Tim May officiating. Interment will follow in Lake Forest Memorial Park.
Tony Pack
Roper Funeral Home of Jasper announces the death of Mr. Tony Pack, age 49 of Jasper, who passed away July 9, 2010 at his home.
He is survived by a special friend, Wanda Childers, Jasper; children, Brandon Pack, Fairmount, Mark Pack, Jasper, Chris Pack and Loren Pack, both of Fairmount, Damanda Colburn, Jasper, Malanda Gibson, Fairmount, Phillip, Andy, Miranda and Manuel Childers, all of Jasper; brothers, Scott and Daniel Pack, both of Jasper; and sister, Sheila Woods, Canton. Five grandchildren also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Saturday from Friendship Baptist Church with the Rev. Ricky Jarrett officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. The family did accept flowers or contributions may be made to help with funeral expenses c/o Roper Funeral Home, 206 Holly Street, Jasper, Ga. 30143.
Willie Mae Poole
Mrs. Willie Mae Poole, age 93, of Jasper, Ga., died Thursday, July 1, 2010, at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital.
Born Jan. 13, 1917 in Pickens County, she was preceded in death by her husband, S.A. Poole; and her son, Larry Poole. Mrs. Poole was a member of the Yellow Creek Baptist Church.
Survivors include her sons, Loy G., Gary and Ronnie Poole, all of Jasper; and daughter, Betty Parker, Jasper. Nieces, nephews and other relatives also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 4 from Yellow Creek Baptist Church with the Revs. Gene Hyde, William Blackwell and Ray Mauldin officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Roper Funeral Home of Jasper in charge of the arrangements.
Robert Morrison
Robert Lee Morrison, age 71 of Kennesaw, died Saturday, June 26, 2010.
Lee was born in Talking Rock, Ga. on Oct. 3, 1938. He graduated from Pickens County High School class of 1956 and was an alumnus of North Georgia College, class of 1960. He worked for Great American Financial Corporation for 27 years. Upon retiring in 1988, he moved back to Georgia where he lived in Kennesaw and built new custom homes.
Survivors include his wife, Shirley Peppers Morrison, Kennesaw; son, James Claude Morrison and his wife, Amy, Blackhawk, Co.; daughters, Lyn Little, Winder, Michelle Morrison Frazier and husband, William C. Frazier, Jr., Kennesaw; son, Michael Derek Morrison, Kennesaw; brother and sister-in-law, John and Sandra Morrison, Jasper; nine grandchildren, Aubrey, Kaylea and Christine Morrison, Tyler Little, Javier Ruiz, Hayden Henley, Kylee Nicole Frazier, Owen Wilson Frazier and Wyatt Alexander Frazier.
Lee was a faithful and much loved member of New Salem Baptist Church, and in his memory the family has requested in lieu of flowers that donations be made to New Salem Baptist Church, 836 New Salem Road, Kennesaw, Ga 30152-4799.
The funeral service was held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 29 from New Salem Baptist Church. Burial was in the family cemetery in Talking Rock, Ga. Mayes Ward-Dobbins Funeral Home & Crematory in Marietta was in charge of arrangements.
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Carl Waddell, Jr.
Mr. Carl Waddell, Jr., age 81 of Louisville, Ky., passed away surrounded by his family on Sunday, July 4, 2010 at the VA Medical Center.
Mr. Waddell was a native of Elizabethtown, Ky., a U.S. Navy veteran of WW II, a member of Valley Station Baptist Church and Plumb Masonic Lodge. He had retired from DuPont in 1985 with the design division and was also co-owner of Waddell/Pippin Heating & Air.
He loved fishing with his grandchildren and winters in Florida with his wife. Mr. Waddell was preceded in death by his daughter, Mary Beth Waddell; parents, Carl Sr. and Nellie Waddell; and sisters, Jean, June and Ramona.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Nola Jean (Herron) Waddell; daughters, Terry Dunn (Jack) and Lisa Fulton (Dennis); granddaughter, Amanda Abbott (Jason); grandsons, Dereck and Brent Dunn and Aaron Sullivan; and great-granddaughter, Kaila Poole. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
The family would like to thank the staff at the VA Medical Center for their care and compassion.
The funeral service was held at 1 p.m. Thursday from Owen Funeral Home with the burial in Louisville Memorial Gardens West. Memorial gifts can be made to American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association.
Terry Buttrum
Mr. Terry Hoss Buttrum, age 51 of Jasper, passed away Thursday, July 8, 2010 at his residence.
Survivors include his daughters and son-in-law, Kim Buttrum and Katie and Michael Mulkey, all of Jasper; brother, Jerry Buttrum, Jasper; sisters and brothers-in-law, Deborah and Charles Ledbetter, Ball Ground, and Donna and Greg Bryant, Jasper; and grandson, Dalton Mulkey. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 10 from the Chapel of Cagle Funeral Home with the Revs. J.T. Childers and Ed Hamrick officiating. Interment followed in Bethesda Baptist Church Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Michael and Kevin Ledford, Jason Ledbetter, Wes Wilson, Bruce Beck and Donnie Reynolds. The family did accept flowers but prefer donations be made to Cagle Funeral Home to help with the funeral expenses.
James Behrbaum
Mr. James Behrbaum, age 72 of Ball Ground, passed early Monday, July 5, 2010 at Embracing Hospice in Cumming.
Survivors include his wife, Nancy Behrbaum, Ball Ground; son, Jeff Behrbaum, Virginia; daughter and son-in-law, Julie and Mathew Lemaster, Austell; step-children, Wendy and Lori Behrbaum and Amy and Chris Metildi, all of California; brothers, Ray Behrbaum, California, and Bob Behrbaum, Washington; sister, Patricia Behrbaum; grandchildren, Landon and Lauren Lemaster, Emily Haynes and Michael and Mathew Metildi; and great-granddaughter, Emma Haynes.
The family will have a private memorial service at a later date. Cagle Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Daryl Rogers
Mr. Daryl Ray Rogers, age 48 of Jasper, Ga., passed away June 30, 2010 at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital.
Survivors include his wife, Ava Rogers, Jasper; parents, Gene and Jeannie Rogers, Jasper; grandmother, Ethyl Hicks, Jasper; mother and father-in-law, Ed and Pauline Stephens, Jasper; sons, Cody and Eddie Rogers, both of Jasper; daughter and son-in-law, Maria and Dustin Benson Jasper; children at heart, Miles Phillips and Hanna Coxe; brother and sister-in-law, Curtis and Helen Rogers, Elk City, Ok.; sisters and brothers-in-law, Tammy and Jerry Silveria, Talking Rock, and Linda and Fred Davis, Prague, Ok.; brother-in-law and wife, Paul and Carrie Stephens; and grandchildren, Cliff and Katie Rogers and Dere Benson. A host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, special niece, Kasey Silvers, and special friends, AJ and Rosemary Padgett also survive. He was preceded in death by his son, Cliff Rogers.
The funeral service was held Saturday, July 3 from Cool Springs Baptist Church Cemetery with Pastor Bob Whitfield officiating. Interment followed in Cool Springs Baptist Church Cemetery. The family did accept flowers, but donations may be made to Cagle Funeral Home to help with funeral expenses.
George Hollingshead
Rev. George Hollingshead, age 75 of Jasper, passed away Friday, July 2, 2010 at his residence.
Survivors include his wife, Murial M. Hollingshead, Jasper; brothers, Herman, Sr. and Johnny Hollingshead, both of Jasper; and grandchildren, John and Paul Kerney. Several nieces and nephews also survive. He was preceded in death by his parents, Carl and Geneva Hollingshead; first wife, Betty Lou Hollingshead; brother, Edward Hollingshead; and step-daughter, Marilyn Kerney.
The funeral service was held at 1 p.m. Monday, July 5 from Bethel Tabernacle with the Revs. Robert Jarvis, Larry Phillips and Johnny Hollingshead officiating. Interment followed at Sunrise Memorial Gardens with local Chapter 47 DAV in charge of the military graveside service. Pallbearers were: Bobby Joe, Carl, Charles, Eddie, Bobby Ray, David and Herman Hollingshead, Jr. and Ralph Causey. Honorary pallbearers were: Kevin Buchanan, Victor Robinson and David Marvin Hollingshead. Cagle Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Marilyn Andrews
Marilyn Melville Andrews, 79 of Jasper, Ga., went to be with the Lord on Monday, July 12, 2010.
She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister. As a longtime resident of the Bent Tree Community and an active member of the New Lebanon Presbyterian Church, Marilyn graced all she met with a warm and loving spirit. She was born in Oak Park, Il. and was a graduate of Northwestern University.
She is survived by the love of her life, her husband of 56 years, Bruce; daughters, Susan (Cal Peterson), Atlanta, Beth (OJ Bergeron), Knoxville, Tn.; and grandchildren, Drew (Jessica) Thompson, Leigh (Jake) Koffler of Atlanta and O?Neill Bergeron of Knoxville, Tn., as well as her sister, Ann Bradley of Charlotte, N.C. also survive her.
A memorial service will be held at the New Lebanon Presbyterian Church Saturday, July 17. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the New Lebanon Presbyterian Church at 389 Bent Tree Drive, Jasper, Ga. 30143.
Wayne Poole
Wayne Alan Poole, Sr., age 46 of Talking Rock, passed away Monday, July 12, 2010.
Survivors include his wife, Tram Poole, Talking Rock; children, Christie (Ricky) Carters and Wayne Alan, Jr. (Brittany) Poole, all of Talking Rock; mother, Hazel Lail, Stockbridge; sister, Patricia Parsons, Rome, brothers, Henry L. Poole, Jr., Waleska, Jimmy and Tony Poole, both of Stockbridge, and Jerry Poole, McDonough; and grandchildren, Juleeanna Carter, Landon Poole and Leeland Carter.
The funeral service will be held at 12 p.m. Thursday, July 15 from Sosebee Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. David Herring and Mr. Jerry Poole officiating. Interment will follow in Macedonia Memorial Park. The family will receive Wednesday from 11 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—Will the last small-cap stock seller please turn out the lights?
If you're invested only in large-cap U.S. stocks, you might not appreciate that U.S. small-caps are taking a big beating.
And so, on the insightful Cycle of Market Emotions chart, people with most of their money in S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.29% stocks are ambling along the Yellen-bricked road to "euphoria," nicely positioned somewhere between "optimism" and "thrill."
But if your money is riding on stocks in the Russell 2000 Index and other small-cap vehicles, you are in a much darker place on the emotions chart. You have likely crashed through the "denial" stage and are skidding into "fear" and "desperation." And if you're clinging to formerly highflying growth stocks such as Athenahealth US:ATHN Facebook FB, -1.38% and Tesla Motors TSLA, -2.84% (down, respectively, 49%, 20%, and 25% from their 52-week highs), you might even be in the throes of "panic."
In its latest show of weakness, the Russell 2000 Index RUT, -0.32% has tumbled below its 200-day moving average; the index has lost more than 8% since its early March closing high. A popular ETF tracking the benchmark, iShares Russell 2000 ETF IWM, -0.28% is off more than 4% so far this year. The S&P 500 SPX, -0.57% meanwhile, is up almost 2% this year and around 6% in the past three months alone.
Growth-stock investors are in even more pain. An exchange-traded fund tracking the Russell 2000 growth segment, iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF IWO, -0.40% is down more than 6% so far this year. Its large-cap counterpart, iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF IVW, -0.66% is down just 1%.
But small-cap buyers can take some heart from the market emotions chart. The small-cap rout is likely closer to the end than the beginning, and while the end typically is never pretty, it is the true "point of maximum financial opportunity."
The wild card is U.S. economic growth. Stronger growth favors smaller companies over larger ones, particularly in an accompanying climate of rising interest rates. If the U.S. economy picks up from its anemic first-quarter, which seems likely, then the story of the second half of the year will be small-caps' big rebound.
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Major U.S. equity indexes rallied to all-time highs as investors rejoiced over the Federal Reserve's decision to hold off from tapering bond-repurchases this time around. Bullish momentum swept over Wall Street as fears of cutting back on stimulus seemingly evaporated after Chairman Bernanke affirmed the Fed's "accommodative" stance [see Picture Edition: The Complete History of the Dow Jones Industrial Average].
Our ETF to watch for today is the State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR (XLI, A), which will look to continue its rally after investors digest the latest regional manufacturing data. Analysts are expecting for the Philly Fed Index to come in at 11, which would be a modest improvement from last month's reading of 9.3.
Chart Analysis
Consider XLI's one-year daily performance chart below. This ETF has been climbing higher within a fairly well-defined trading channel (blue lines) since breaking above its 200-day moving average (yellow line) in mid-November of 2012. XLI recently struggled to break above resistance at the $46 level, but recent fundamental developments have helped propel it to new highs; yesterday's Fed decision to hold off from reducing bond-repurchases resonated very well among cyclical securities as investors saw it as an opportunity to increase their risk appetite in light of the Fed maintaining its stimulus "lifeline" [see Picture Edition: Major Asset Class Returns From The 2009 Bottom].
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From a technical perspective, new buyers should be aware that XLI is trading near the upper-resistance boundary of its longer-term channel, which means that a pullback could be right around the corner; nonetheless, taking a short position is not recommended here given XLI's steep, longer-term uptrend at hand [see 101 ETF Lessons Financial Advisors Should Learn].
If the latest Philly Fed manufacturing data comes in above expectations, XLI will likely continue its steep ascent; in terms of upside, XLI has no clear-cut resistance levels ahead, seeing as how it is trading in uncharted territory. On the other hand, disappointing data may inspire a pullback for the industrials sector; in terms of downside, XLI has support at $46 a share followed by the $44 level. As always, investors of all experience levels are advised to use stop-loss orders and practice disciplined profit-taking techniques.
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"The Acme of Parlor Games," "More Simple Than Authors," "More Scientific Than Whist." Sound like fun? For the millions of Americans who have purchased it since 1902, Flinch has provided limitless hours of strategy and entertainment. The history of the popular card game goes back more than 100 years, and it all began in Kalamazoo with a man named Arthur J. Patterson.
Patterson was born in 1869 on a farm in Eaton County, grew up there, and graduated from Grand Ledge High School at the age of 16. He took various jobs as a teacher and clerk in Grand Rapids and Chicago. In 1898 he came to Kalamazoo to accept a job as the bookkeeper at Beecher & Kymer, a prominent book and stationery store. The business would soon become known as Beecher, Kymer, & Patterson.
Patterson was an avid card player, and in 1901, while playing cards in his Vine Street home, he came up with the idea for a new game that would be played with a special deck that he would produce and sell. He called the game "Flinch" and ran the Flinch Card Company out of the offices of Beecher, Kymer, & Patterson at 122 South Burdick.
A Flinch deck is made up of 150 cards numbered 1 through 15. The object of the game is to be the first to play all the cards from your hand and game pile. The instructions packaged with the game were simple enough for children to understand and to learn quickly, yet the game lent itself to strategy, which made it a favorite of adults as well.
Flinch went on to become a national sensation. In the first years Patterson sold it he commented, "We could sell ten times the goods we do, if we could only produce them." It was reported that game stores had special signs made for their window displays that read "No Flinch Today" for when they were sold out of the game, and "Flinch Today" for when they received a new shipment. In 1903 nearly 1 million Flinch games were sold, and by the time Patterson sold the rights to Parker Brothers in 1936, over seven and a half million had been sold. Arthur Patterson died in 1948, but the game that he invented lives on, and families the world over can still enjoy his legacy by playing a game of Flinch.
by James Ball Naylor
There's people down to Clovertown
whose only end an' aim
Is jest to set an' fiddle with some dern
fool, silly game
They used to play at tid'lywinks an'
authors – an' I guess,
They hankered after dominoes, an'
crokinole, an' chess:
An' as fer checkers – goodness me! –
they said you couldn't find
A better thing to cultivate the morals
an' the mind
But now – by gum, it makes me laugh
- they wouldn't give a pinch
Of salt, fer' all them former games:
The only thing is "Flinch"


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In the spring of 2011, a big, fast-melting snowpack, along with ice-jammed rivers and persistent rain brought intense flooding to Montana. Miles City, in the southeastern part of the state, declared a flood disaster after part of its levee system eroded away, and the town's stream gauge on the Yellowstone River measured the third highest peak stream flow there since the gauge began recording continuously in August of 1928.
How will this year's runoff in Miles City compare to that flood and stream flows from the lifetime of years before it? On Wednesday morning it looked like we would never know. That's when I heard from the Montana U.S. Geologic Survey that they were shutting off the Miles City stream gauge, along with two others in the state. By the afternoon, the agency had updated its web pages for the gauges to include the cause of death, explained in all capital letters: "STATION DISCONTINUED DUE TO SEQUESTRATION." But at the last minute, the state stepped in to rescue the gauge--for now, although gauges in other states are still on the chopping block.
All across the country stream flow sentinels are falling victim to the indiscriminate spending cuts ushered in on March 1 after Congress failed to agree on a budget. (See Cally Carswell's High Country News story analyzing sequestration in the West). Other states, like Idaho, have rescued some of their endangered gauges with state funding, but until yesterday, it looked like no one in Montana was stepping up for Miles City's Yellowstone gauge, the Three Forks gauge on the Jefferson River, and a gauge near Missoula on the Bitterroot River.
According to the U.S. Geologic Survey's Threatened and Endangered stream gauge website, sequestration could wipe out up to 375 gauges out of about 8,000 total. The agency started tracking and mapping imperiled stream gauges a couple of years ago, because even before sequestration, funding shortfalls were shutting down gauges, which generally cost about $14,000 to $16,000 to run each year.
Gina Loss, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Great Falls Montana, say it's her agency's job to protect lives and property from weather events, but they rely on readings of river stage and flow from the USGS gauges to help predict flooding. Without a gauge, Miles City would be a blind spot for the weather service.
Flood forecasting is just one of many reasons people care about stream gauges. Recreational boaters, anglers, wildlife managers, highway departments, the U.S. Army Corps and many others rely on stream gauges. They are also used to dole out water rights, because you can't do that if you don't know how much water is in the river. And then there are old gauges that have been around long enough to help characterize climate, and shape our perceptions of what's normal on a river.
The Miles City gauge is one of those granddaddy gauges, and it's valuable simply because it has been keeping an eye on the Yellowstone for 83 years (the oldest gauge in Montana was installed in 1890 at Fort Benton). The minimum age for a data series to be useful to assess climate change trends is around 30 years, and even a data record that old is hard to come by.
"For a gauge with this many years of effort we almost feel physical pain when we have to turn them off, because of the amount of work that's gone into them," says John Kilpatrick, the director of the USGS Water Science Center in Helena, Montana.
Part of that pain comes from what you can't get back when a gauge dies. Even if it is turned back on in a year or two, and its numbers start helping with flood or drought forecasts again, the gauge's distinction of having a long and continuous data record is over. That matters because data gaps lead to statistical guesswork, which make calculating climate trends less reliable, or impossible.
At this point you might be asking why the USGS even considered shutting off an important stream gauge with such a long data record. The simple answer is that the agency was backed into a corner by the idiosyncrasies of stream gauge funding.
Many USGS stream gauges are funded in partnership with other federal, state or local agencies like water conservation districts, or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—there are 850 partnerships nationwide. But that patchwork quilt of funding can't provide security for the gauge network as a whole, since the life of any single gauge could hinge on the vagaries of local funding.
So in 1998 congress created the USGS National Streamflow Information Program (NSIP). That program is where the USGS tucked away their rock star gauges to protect them from the volatility of local funding. NSIP is the backbone of the stream gauge network. Here's what the USGS website says about the first goal of NSIP, which is having stable stream gauge network: "These will be a permanent set of core stream gauges from which flow information would be delivered in real time, uncompromised by changing support from funding partners."
Unless, of course, that funding partner is the federal government. With federal cash running short for the USGS right now, agency hydrologists are being forced to cull stream gauges from the NSIP network, because those are the gauges funded solely by the feds. It's a cruel irony that they have to select from their favorite gauges to make the cuts.
So why did the Miles City gauge end up on the chopping block? According to Mel White, a USGS hydrologic technician and data manager in Billings, there are two other gauges on the Yellowstone above Miles City and two below it, so that station was selected in favor of keeping a gauge running on a river or stream with fewer instruments. For the USGS employees, as well as groups like the local disaster responders who worry about flood prevention, it's an unpleasant tradeoff. Wayne Berkas, a USGS hydrolgist in Montana, says that with only 39 NSIP gauges in Montana, there's not a single gauge in the network that isn't important to someone.
When I called White to check on some facts Thursday morning, he told me that a technician had just turned off the satellite data feed in Miles City (the station was still collecting data, just not sending it), when they learned that the state is stepping in to rescue the gauges at least until September 30. White had to call the technician to drive back to Miles City and turn it back on.
By Thursday afternoon the sequestration memorial in capital letters was gone from the Miles City gauge's web page. It's been replaced with the phrase, "This station managed by the Billings field office."
Sarah Jane Keller is an intern at High Country News.
The view from the Miles City gauging station taken by USGS technician Josh Voorhees on the day the gauge was rescued.
Map of threatened and endangered stream gauges updated Thursday 5 p.m. MST courtesy of USGS.
Image of stream gauge on the East Fork of the Owyhee River in Idaho courtesy of USGS.


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Remember, my blog is called Humble Quilts for a reason. There isn't anything very precise about the center block, other then it finishes at 12". Relax, have fun, make changes as you see fit.
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You should be able to click on that link to get to the center basket pattern. If not, let me know and I'll try and fix it.
You should all know in quilting there are 101 different ways to do the same thing. You have to try a few ways and see what works for you. This is one of the ways I do machine applique. It's a very casual approach so I hope if you've been afraid of applique that you give this a try.
You will need a fusible web. I use Heat N Bond Lite iron-on adhesive. Any light-weight iron on fusible adhesive will work.
If you are wondering about the stems, you can do them the same way as the other pieces (described above) using the fusible web.
I don't have a photo, but cut your background 13" and lay your applique pieces on your background in a pleasing manner, following the pattern.....or not. Iron them onto the background. If you've taken all the paper off, everything should stick!! Ta-da!
Admire your work!!!
Ready to sew?
You will be using a small zig zag stitch using matching thread. I use DMC machine embroidery thread, but any matching thread will work. make sure your throat plate is wide and your sewing foot will accommodate a zig zag. Check your sewing machine manual if you need to. I LOVE my open toed foot so I can see what I'm doing. It is a Bernina #20.
If I'm starting on a little leaf and won't be back I'll hit reverse for a few stitches and take off again.
Just get comfortable with your machine. This isn't a Baltimore Album quilt. Use this as a learning project if you haven't machine appliqued before. It really is very forgiving.
If you want you can also use a machine buttonhole stitch. Check your manual for info on that stitch.
Once everything is stitched down, press and trim to 12 1/2" Admire your work again!!
On May 13th we will give you the directions for the first pieced border.
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Mysterioso One
with rusty brown spots as the oldest
or the Bodhisattva Kwannon as a simpering
and infinitely generous
How surprised we are at what passes
in past and future
for the scent of apples.
know more about the skin and muscles
and the wall of stars two billion light-years long
from Mysteriosos And Other Poems, by Michael McClure.
The above poem, which I have crudely reproduced here (the Google Blogger does not allow center justification and line indentations involve a complex, coded process), looks like a plant. It has a stem, or spine, from which the lines branch out, radiating toward the margins on either side, thwarting linearity and encouraging a view of the text as a form of three-dimensional sculpture. It appears to be holding its ideas and images and sounds in suspension. Its verticality exalts thought. The eyes travel up and down a verbal form inviting rumination in the embrace of a candelabrum. But something else is going on. There is a tension hidden among its lines. Its structure worries a vivid paradox. Words flare outward, like yardarms on a clipper, but are also drawn inward, like particles of iron magnetized into a needle. Two conflicting energies excite the height and punch of the poem.
This structure has been a hallmark of McClure's for many years. It reminds me of Apollinaire's Calligrams, or George Herbert's "The Altar," which were early examples of concrete poetry, though McClure does not create pictures so much as chisel his way into space, creating oak out of nothingness, plumping energy into palpable chunks. He is inviting us to read the text differently, as a Möbius loop of sound; as a gardenia.
The first two lines, "LOVELY. LOVELY AND ANCIENT AND FOXED/ with rusty brown spots as the oldest," refer to a form of spotting, or browning, on old paper documents, postage stamps, birth certificates, death certificates, and legal transactions. Pages of an old book, especially. Here in Seattle, it's impossible to escape the encroachment of humidity and damp. You have to be pretty vigilant, run a dehumidifier, keep the windows open on balmy days, in order to prevent "foxing," as it is called, in your manuscripts and prize books. The image McClure is presenting us with is paper, old paper, but the next line, "IMMORTAL PRINCESS," which switches paper to skin, the skin of an old woman, frail and parchment-like: one sees moles, warts, veins. Time written into the scripture of her wrinkly surface. I imagine a venerable old woman in a twinkling tiara, a mischievous sparkle still iridescing in her eyes, something fey and girlish about her despite her age and royalty. She is not a queen. Heavy responsibilities go with being a queen. This being is different. She is unmarried, still waiting for a final ascendancy to the throne of whatever realm she inhabits, a potential for consummation that has long passed by. McClure is presenting us with a strange combination of youth and age. Or, possibly, an old piece of paper with nothing yet written on it.
Or possibly an aged manuscript in the British Museum. A letter from Keats. The beginning to Tennyson's "In Memorium A.H.H." The frontispiece to a first edition Leaves of Grass.
Something that feels light and crinkly in the hands. Something complexioned and sensual and prickly with writing.
The next three lines change things radically: "or the Bodhisattva Kwannon as a simpering/ and infinitely generous/ OLD WHORE."
Things are quick and alive as the alleys of Montmartre with these lines. The woman is seasoned and wise but also self-destructive, promiscuous and daring. She is a wily denizen of vile places. She has seen it all. Beatitude and sin. Everything repellent and stinking and rotten with depravity, but also robustness and Rabelaisian energy, singing that goes long into the night shaking the stars into delirium and Fauve painting, bedsprings squeaking among old wood-burning stoves and African masks.
Kwannon is the Japanese counterpart of the Chinese Kuan Yin, or Guanyin. She is also known as Gwan-eum in Korean and Quan Âm in Vietnamese. She is recognized as the bodhisattva of compassion. Bodhisattva translates roughly as "wisdom-being." It comes from the Sanskrit: bodhi, meaning "perfect knowledge," or enlightenment, and sattva, meaning a variety of things: goodness, essence, being, existence, spirit. All these things combined. It refers to someone who has chosen to attain enlightenment with a goal toward helping others. Its application to other suffixes varies its meaning accordingly: sattvadhika means spirited, courageous, or valiant.
According to the Buddhist legend from the Complete Tale of Guanyin and the Southern Seas, Guanyin vows never to rest until she frees all sentient beings from samsara, or reincarnation. After struggling to comprehend the needs of so many, her head split into eleven pieces. Amitabha Buddha (principal Buddha of the Pure Land sect; Amitabha is translatable as "infinite light"), seeing her plight, gave her eleven heads with which to hear the cries of the suffering. When her arms shattered into pieces, Amitabha gave her a thousand arms with which to aid the many in suffering.
But why not an old whore? A venerable, and venerated, sex worker. An infinitely generous sex worker. I leave it to you to imagine how that generosity might manifest. Remember: a thousand arms, and eleven heads.
There is an abrupt shift of thought in the next line: "How surprised we are at what passes/ in past and future/ for the scent of apples."
Two things come to mind: Frederick Schiller, and Monsanto.
Frederick Schiller kept rotten apples in his desk drawer to sniff while writing. The odor inspired him.
Genetically modified food - fruit, vegetables, wheat, etc. - poses both promise and threat. Selective breeding, or artificial selection, has been in practice for thousands of years. The poodle, the dachshund, and the Guernsey cow are products of selective breeding. Plant breeding is as old as human civilization. Rice, barley, wheat and oats are all products of plant breeding. Classical plant breeding crosses related individuals to produce varieties with desirable properties: increased quality and yield, increased tolerance to such factors as salinity and temperature, resistance to viruses, fungi, and bacteria, and increased tolerance to bugs and other pests. Classical plant breeding relies on homologous recombination between chromosomes to generate genetic diversity.
Genetic diversity is crucial. Diversity in all its guises is crucial. Sameness and standardization run contrary to life.
Modern plant breeding uses techniques of molecular biology to genetically modify desirable traits. The danger here is multiple: corporations that own a patent over a genome have commercial control over the product; the danger inherent in that is obvious. Extortion would not be strong a word.
Another problem with so-called Frankenfood is lack of nutrition: by favoring certain aspects of a plant's development, other qualities may be compromised. Corn, soybeans, and cotton are, at this point, the crops most subject to genetic modification. It's a highly debatable issue. Insecticide use has decreased with the adoption of insect-resistant crops. But is the disappearance of bees and colony collapse disorder related to this? As McClure notes, what will pass for the scent of apples in the future?
The next line, which runs vertically down the page, "I MUST," serves as part of the stem of this poem. The word 'must,' as a noun rather than a verb, echoes the earlier line about the scent of apples. There is strength in the phrase "I must," which the majuscules emphasize. Must is a strong verb. It pushes. It marshals. It declares itself to be an imperative.
Must what?
Must "know more about the skin and muscles/ and the wall of stars two billion light-years long." It's interesting how McClure conflates skin and muscle with the stars, with the cosmos, with the generative energies of the universe. This is a salient quality of McClure's aesthetic; to conflate disparate qualities, disparate energies, disparate magnitudes. It is in high contrasts such as this that we discover power in hybridization, expansion in the poetry of differentials. A root may be exponentiated by water and dirt into a flourish of branches and leaves. A consonant may be hissed into cypress by a magician of vowels. Multiplicity stems from reaching.
"IT IS all QUICK!!!" completes the stem of the poem, roots it in exclamation points. How quick, as Johnny Carson would say, is it?
Pretty quick: 186,000 miles per second.
According to the theory of relativity, space and time are connected. They are one and the same, a single continuum. Space is three-dimensional, time is four-dimensional. By combining space and time into a single manifold, or mathematical space (a line and a circle are one-dimensional manifolds), physicists have consolidated a number of theories in a manner that allows a clearer description of the workings of the universe. In classical mechanics, time is treated as a constant. In relativistic contexts, time bends. Time depends on the motion of an observer.
A poem is quick not only because it blends space and time (time in the poem being a measure of cadence, and pause), but because it dyes the eyes with the fire of inspiration.
As writers, we are discouraged from using exclamation points. McClure has gone contrary to this edict, big time. Not one, but three exclamation points leap up at us at the end of the poem. The first effect of this is that it doesn't feel like an end. It feels more like a beginning. Secondly, the verticality of the exclamation points mirror the verticality of the poem.
The exclamation point was introduced into English printing in the 15th century and was called the "sign of admiration or exclamation," or the "note of admiration." One theory of its origin is that it was originally the Latin word for joy, Io, written with the 'I' written above the 'o.'
I see it as a seed, the little dot being the seed, and the vertical mark above it being the stem.
What steam does not stem from a stalk of talk?
The lips move and a grace of air and thunder is gurgled in the clouds.
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