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The Final Saturn Retrograde in Libra For 30 Years and Your Saturn in Libra Post-It Note from Willow
Saturn's last retrograde in Libra for 30 years will be testing all weak points in the sign of the scales over the next four+ months, going over territory we first entered in early November, 2011. Expect circumstances from around then, particularly regarding relationship, fairness, balance, and justice, to come up for resolution now, though this retrograde reaches back much further than that.
This is the final going over for the entire Saturn in Libra transit, which began in October 2009 and ends in October 2012, and it reaches back to relationship and relating issues from 1980-1983, 1950-1953, and 1921-1924.
If we don't ace our Libra lessons now, we drag relational issues and weaknesses - mostly related to the astrological Piscean era - forward for the next 29 years. Chew on that one for a minute.
This retrograde station brings with it some dread, some fear, some pressure, some challenge, some difficulty, and some "looking back over it all" melancholy (all Saturnine things), especially as far as relating, relationships, and the structuring of our lives to include other people.
Holding our noses and taking our Saturn medicine now puts us in good position for upcoming cardinal Grand Crosses (more on that later in the article), but knowing that doesn't necessarily ease a mad case of the Saturnine dreads.
Because of Saturn's almost exact trine to Neptune as it stations, there's some discouragement possible related to the disparity between where we hoped we would be at this point (Neptune) versus where we actually are (Saturn). However, if we accept and work with our limitations and challenges over this 4.5-month retrograde, we find ourselves in much stronger position in late June as Saturn turns direct and we experience the first of the seven exact Uranus in Aries - Pluto in Capricorn squares.
I've written quite a lot on Saturn in Libra and the upcoming retrograde, and I'll post some pertinent excerpts and links here. Hey, it's a retrograde. I'm bringing up old posts and previous efforts (Saturn). This will be new to some, and for those who've read it before, it can serve as a solid reminder. Consider this a Saturn in Libra Post-It note on your mirror from Willow.
From a previous post on the remaining leg of the Saturn in Libra transit November 21, 2011: Venus-Saturn Mutual Reception November 26 - December 20: Ants Get More Play Than Grasshoppers
"There's a solid groundwork that should have been built by now - new relational rules and standards, a heightened command of social responsibility, the ability to maintain equilibrium under pressure, as well as a new maturity in the tone of our relationships, especially between the sexes. At this point, people either have it or they don't...
This far into Saturn's transit of Libra, we start to see the social and professional results of having put this groundwork in. We also see the results of not having put it in, as well as the areas that contain hazardous holes and breaks in structure. This is especially apparent when we relate with those who have shirked the full effort.
Under Saturn in Libra, we've determined who makes for a favourable partner and who doesn't, and now these standards must be applied across the board...
We're looking for long-term pay-off in relationship here and nothing less than that is worth the time or energy. Those who prove they cannot be responsible toward us, in relation to us, are not worth the time or energy.
Only take on the responsibility toward others that feels absolutely right to take on, and don't give anyone a level of responsibility in relation to you that he or she is not meant (or equipped) to take on...
[I]t's a person with solid integrity, with some financial savvy, with a nose for legitimate advancement, with expertly handled personal responsibilities, and with the ability to dig in and get the job done even if it means deferring personal pleasures who is most attractive under these astro energies.
[Saturn in Libra] is seeking partners with strong shoulders who bear their burdens well, partners who act their age (even older than their chronological age). [It's] seeking a partner who understands the full realities of life, including the difficult, sombre, or "unfun" aspects, who understood them early on, and who worked with them pretty much from the get-go rather than sloughing them off...
People who are obviously playing catch-up on this front are not going to hold as much appeal. We're looking for the results of long-term efforts - what a person has built and what progress has been made over the course of the lifetime.
Charm is a quality with a decreasing amount of value the closer Saturn gets to Scorpio if it is not also attached to absolute integrity and authenticity. Those are the qualities that make bank under Saturn in Scorpio. People who have skated by on looks, charm, charisma, or social prowess and facade are going to find these qualities don't get them nearly as far as they used to.
Playboys (or girls), those who refuse to grow up, the skittish, the cheaters, the fibbers, the non-committal, those who can't manage limitations, restrictions, or adult responsibilities - these people become less and less attractive."
Everyone will be feeling the Saturnine relating/relationship pressure to a certain extent, as we all have Libra somewhere in our natal charts, but this retrograde is particularly potent for those with strong natal placements in Libra. On a generational basis, this relates in particular to the Uranus in Libras (1968 - 1975), the Neptune in Libras (1942 - 1957), and the Pluto in Libras (1971 - 1984).
As mentioned, with sustained effort, the Saturnine squeeze on Libra puts us in good position for the upcoming cardinal Grand Crosses (2013-2014) when the personal planets in Libra will form, in waves, the fourth leg of the configuration. Having a firm, mature, responsible handle on the energy and themes of Libra - especially the slippery bits - will be of great benefit to us then, so grit your teeth and dig in now.
Cardinal Grand Crosses 2013-2014
A Grand Cross is a formation of four bodies within two oppositions (180-degree aspect) or four squares (90-degree aspect). All four bodies within the upcoming Grand Cross configurations are in cardinal signs, indicating the need for grand scale and dynamic new leadership, direction, and initiative within highly pressurized global circumstances. As the square is a tense, difficult, and frictional aspect, this configuration involves feelings of being boxed in from all angles, with the impetus to move in new directions coming from the tension of our circumstances on the planet.
The Grand Cross formed in the summer of 2010 that kicked things off was not a full cardinal Grand Cross because Saturn was in late Virgo, a mutable sign. I referred to it as a cardinal t-square.
The formations of the summer of 2011 were full cardinal Grand Crosses, involving Uranus in Aries, Saturn in Libra, Pluto in Capricorn, and the personal planets (Mercury, the Sun, Venus, and Mars) in Cancer.
The cardinal Grand Crosses that form from August to December, 2013 and in April, 2014 will involve Uranus in Aries, Pluto in Capricorn, Jupiter in Cancer, and the personal planets (Venus, Mercury, the Sun, and Mars) in Libra.
August 23-27, 2013 - Venus in Libra will move into place, forming the fourth leg of the cardinal Grand Cross.
September 14-20, 2013 - Mercury in Libra will pass through this territory, using a nine-degree orb.
October 1-13, 2013 - The Sun in Libra will trigger the cardinal Grand Cross using a ten-degree orb for aspects.
December 23, 2013 – January 1, 2014 - Mars in Libra moves into cardinal Grand Cross formation to close out 2013.
April 21-24, 2014 (exact) – Consider all prior cardinal Grand Crosses a dress rehearsal for this one. Mars Rx in Libra makes an exact cardinal Grand Cross configuration with Jupiter in Cancer, Uranus in Aries, and Pluto Rx in Capricorn all at Lucky 13 degrees of the cardinal signs. This formation strongly colours the Mars retrograde through Libra February 28 to May 19, 2014.
From a previous post:
"Aren't you glad Saturn in Libra is drilling us on our maturity and responsibility with Libra themes right now? Weak points related to this sign's energy would (and will) wreak major havoc within these future cardinal Grand Crosses. Going out of balance within the pressurized circumstances of this formation would require an immense amount of effort to put right. Under this type of tension, if one spring goes, they all go.
This formation, especially the exact one April 21-24, 2014, will have a hugely polarizing effect socially with a tendency to move to extreme ends of the spectrum in relation to other people or groups. Mars is in detriment in Libra and indicates a struggle to maintain any semblance of social diplomacy and human decency. It will take great effort (Mars) to maintain peace (Libra), especially in light of the groups gunning for another world war. Thirteen is a potent and highly symbolic number, and we can expect this formation to be used to trigger further symbolic events on the world stage.
Learn your Libra lessons well between now and October 2012, and the foundation will be set as far as future success with these cardinal Grand Cross formations."
More articles on this Saturn retrograde in Libra:
January 16, 2012: Let's Just Say The Cosmos Isn't Going to Be Blowing Confetti Out Our Butts This Week
December 27, 2011: Saturn in Libra (Not Quite) Trine Neptune in Aquarius and Saturn Retrograde: Neptunian Relationship Fodder From the Anaretic Degrees
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- Anonymous said...
I am turning 60 this year.I am amazed at what I see around me these days.Persons in the beginning 60s either cracking up mentally,or just exiting by dying.Never as a nurse seen it so obvious.Kauai
- February 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM
- Joie de Vivre said...
Willow, despite your movings aaaaaagain, you always have me!
:), Joie de Vivre
Or you can sell me on eBay!
Good fortune to you!
- February 7, 2012 at 11:32 AM
- david5379 said...
even though its saturn, could something good come out of it, if ive been a good and patient boy this whole time, is it possible saturn will play santa? I have been putting a LOT of hard work into libra things. when saturn went over my libra jupiter I expected something bad and instead I got a surprising amount of money(its in the 2nd house, and by money I mean fin aid for college)but it was for being a good student and all the hard work I put into school. Could the same thing happen libra wise? By asking this I might be suggesting I have some sort of trouble here and maybe your thinking, its probably your patterns or what not making you unhappy with libra things. But every single "other" I have out there im perfectly fine with, im not griping with what I have, but my inability to recreate such a quality out here at college. Is it possible I will finally meet my partner in crime?
- February 7, 2012 at 2:56 PM
- Willow said...
Sure, it's possible. I couldn't say whether its probable because, uhh, you're a person I don't know commenting on my blog, and astrology doesn't really work like that. :-)
- February 7, 2012 at 3:04 PM
- Anonymous said...
"I come from people who historically have been rooted to the land and to their homes."
Just curious, do you mean your indigenous? What nationality?
Madame O lii smokes
- February 7, 2012 at 8:48 PM
- Debs said...
"I'm being challenged (Saturn) to be more social (Libra), but that's not so comfortable for people who need a lot of solitude, like me. I've considered balking, believe me."
Boy, do I hear you.
I've had the challenge of minimizing wasteful socializing time so that it doesn't all feel like a giant chore. I've felt obligated many many times to attend gatherings I didn't really want to attend... because the host was OK, only to find out at the gathering later just how much I didn't want to be there.
That sucked.
My focus now is to ensure that socializing is meaningful and worth my time. And whatever I wind up doing doesn't have to happen on anyone else's watch!
I hope your move is successful, Willow, and that you wind up in a happy place!
- February 7, 2012 at 9:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
Absolutely great post- begin the legal undoing of the relationship today.... wow picked the perfect time to do it (a huge ugggh but to undo relationship karmic knots I guess it couldn't be better).... really appreciate the astrological reading you did for me -g
- February 8, 2012 at 4:57 AM
- shannon said...
well i have this big boy tapdancing over my 12th house moon neptune and ascendent. i am so tired and beat down. (but grateful) holy fucking mackerel.
- February 8, 2012 at 7:21 PM
- LG said...
Thanks dear Willow for this absolutely stunning blog.
- February 9, 2012 at 12:07 AM
- LG said...
And lots and lots of luck with your move! Sounds like you've taken it in exactly the right spirit, and I know what it's like, have been there myself.
- February 9, 2012 at 12:09 AM
- Willow said...
Thanks, LG. There was an 11th hour reprieve! I'm not moving. Phew.
- February 9, 2012 at 8:34 AM
- Joie de Vivre said...
See? We, the readers organized our collective brain waves for you, Willow and now you can settle back in again.
Can you take me down from eBay? Somebody put a bid in on me and I have to do their chores, ugh!
- February 9, 2012 at 2:17 PM
- Firehorse said...
Funny about moving... I too have moved numerous times as the Universe seems to apply boot-to-ass to get me moving to the next weigh point. My lease is up the end of this month and hoping landlord will let me go month to month. Same shortage of rentals and higher and higher rents just for something decent. It makes me nauseous to think about having to look. At the same time, I am trying not to resist. Good luck!
- February 10, 2012 at 6:28 AM
- Willow said...
I hope you aren't moving, either, Firehorse! The housing situation is ridiculous at this point, isn't it?
- February 10, 2012 at 12:49 PM
- HoBad said...
Charles Bronson is a Scorpio:
Thorough those Scorpios, that's for sure.
- February 11, 2012 at 12:08 AM
- LG said...
- February 12, 2012 at 1:37 AM


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Elna Strout, a housekeeper at the Bar Harbor Inn in Maine, remembered well the strange letter she received last year from a guest named Ted L. Nancy, who asked about a pair of rubber gorilla feet he believed he had left in the men's restroom.
"We laughed and laughed and laughed about that letter," said Strout, who has worked at the inn for almost 30 years and handles its lost-and-found inquiries. "We've had some strange requests of things left behind, but rubber gorilla feet stood right out. I thought he was really strange."
Strout wrote back to Nancy on hotel stationery, telling him she did not find his gorilla feet. Her handwritten note is the first of many letters featured in "All New Letters From a Nut," the latest in a series of compilations of gag correspondences by author Ted L. Nancy. The author's identity has long been the subject of speculation, and will be revealed Thursday night on national television by comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
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Seinfeld will appear on "Larry King Live" to reveal Nancy's identity because, as he wrote in the foreword of the book, "I can conceal the secret no longer. I can't live with myself." He will also appear Friday on TODAY to talk about the book. Nancy's identity, known to only a handful of people, has been "a carefully guarded secret," said Seinfeld's publicist Tom Keaney. "I do know, so it's obviously not a group of very powerful people."
The consensus is that Nancy is really Seinfeld, who has written introductions to all four "Letters From a Nut" books, which have garnered a cult following and sold hundreds of thousands of copies in the past 15 years. The previous one, "Even More Letters From a Nut," was published 10 years ago.
"Jerry doesn't lend his name to many situations," his literary agent Dan Strone said cryptically. "Many people think that Jerry is the author; the more he denies it, the more the mystery builds. At its core, the book is really funny. The mythology certainly helps, but if it didn't deliver the humor, the myth would not be sustained."
Who's the man behind the myth?
The myth began in 1995, as Seinfeld tells it in the first book, when he discovered a bunch of letters written by someone named Ted L. Nancy sitting on a coffee table. He read them aloud to friends and "the whole room was laughing," Seinfeld wrote. Those letters and the responses to them became the first book. In the introduction to the original book, Seinfeld implied even he did not know who Ted L. Nancy really was.
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A week before the book was published, housekeeper Elna Strout received a call from someone claiming to be or represent Nancy. That person left a message notifying Strout that hers was the first letter in the book.
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Not everyone included the book was notified. Ron Sprenger of Satellite Industries Toilets in Minneapolis wrote several e-mail letters to Nancy about a large order of portable toilets for a company Nancy called Papa's Johns Commodes. In later letters, Nancy changed the name of his company to Elton's Johns and finally to Nincompoops.
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The sincerity with which Nancy's correspondents respond is key to the books' appeal. And until Thursday night, so is the mystery behind the author's identity.
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Large-scale Climate Projections and Hurricanes
View of model-projected changes in vertical wind shear (warm colors mean higher shear) to global warming.
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Global Warming Projections and Hurricanes Activity
How hurricane (or more generally "tropical cyclone") activity will respond to human-induced global warming is a topic of much popular interest and scientific debate. Recent studies (cf. Tom Knutson's "Hurricanes and Global Warming Page") suggest that global warming may act to increase tropical cyclone activity due to a rise in ocean surface temperatures. However, there are a number of environmental factors besides ocean surface temperature which also influence the development and intensification of hurricanes, such as upper atmospheric temperature, relative humidity, and wind shear (see below).
The study of Vecchi and Soden (2007) explored changes in these environmental factors in a set of 18 'state-of-the-art' coupled climate models simulations for the 21st Century (PCMDI). These climate model simulations were performed by research laboratories all over the world in support of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC AR4)
These models combine our best understanding of the physical processes controlling the climate system (atmosphere, ocean, land surface and sea ice), with estimates of possible concentrations of greenhouse gases over the coming century, to provide projections of future climate changes. The models are not perfect, with uncertainties arising from our inability to fully represent certain physical processes and imperfect knowledge of future emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols. However, climate models have proved skillful in reproducing many aspects of past climate change and are essential to making projections of future climate change.
A key finding of this study is the projected increase in wind shear over the tropical Atlantic and eastern Pacific ocean basins during the next century. Wind shear results from a change in direction or speed of winds between the lower and upper levels of the atmosphere and is widely recognized to inhibit the development and intensification of tropical cyclones. The models also project a decrease in Central and West Pacific wind shear in the 21st Century (see below or Vecchi and Soden (2007))
The increased Atlantic and East Pacific shear is a common feature of climate model projections for the 21st Century and is tied to an overall weakening of the tropical "Walker circulation" – a vast loop of winds that influences climate across much of the globe, and varies in concert with naturally-occuring El Niño and La Niña oscillations.
Because current climate models do not resolve tropical cyclones explicitly, the study focused on the models' projections of changes in large-scale environmental parameters associated with tropical cyclone activity and intensity, and NOT on simulations of tropical cyclones themselves. The net effect of increased wind shear, warmer oceans, and other environmental changes on the number and intensity of tropical cyclones will require further investigation with more detailed models. However, the current study does point out the presence of other key environmental changes over the Atlantic and eastern Pacific that are comparable in magnitude to the impact of warming oceans, but with an opposing effect on tropical cyclone activity.
Summary Table
The following table summarizes the general effect of the model-projected changes in parameters relevant to hurricanes over the various basins. See below or the Vecchi and Soden (2007, GRL) manuscript for a more detailed discussion.
Ocean Basins
Effect of Ocean Warming
Effect of Wind Shear Change
Effect of Relative Humidity Change
Net Effect
Atlantic and East Pacific
West Pacific and Indian Ocean
Model Projected Changes in Hurricane-relevant Parameters:
The following plots offer summaries of the "multi-model" average change in various "hurricane-relevant" parameters. The changes are computed by differencing the models' 2081-2100 projection, with their 2001-2020 projection. More details are available in Vecchi and Soden (2007). Changes in the quantities are plotted for separately for the two six month seasons of June-November and December-May.
The quantities we have considered are:
Vertical wind shear:
(Vs) Magnitude of the difference between lower (850hPa) and upper (200hPa) tropospheric winds. Large values of wind shear are historically connected with reduced tropical storm activity and intensification.
Mid-tropospheric relative humidity:
(RH700) This is the relative humidity at 700hPa. Large values of mid-tropospheric relative humidity are conducive to tropical storm activity.
Emanuel's Maximum Potential Intensity:
(MPIv) This is a measure of the thermodynamic limit on the intensity of a storm, which is based on the theory developed by Kerry Emanuel – who has a discussion of MPI Theory and Fortran Code for computing MPI. Large values of MPIv are associated with enhanced tropical storm activity and intensity.
Emanuel and Nolan (2004) Genesis Potential Index:
(GPI) This is a metric that combines the values of shear, mid-tropospheric relative humidity, MPIv and large-scale vorticity to estimate the potential for a storm to develop. Larger values of GPI are associated with enhanced tropical storm development.
Projected Changes in June-November
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Wind Shear
The model average projects a decrease in June-November wind shear over much of the Northern Hemisphere tropics, with the notable exception of the tropical Atlantic and East Pacific. This local shear increase is related to a weakening of the Pacific Walker circulation in these model projections.
Mid-tropospheric Relative Humidity
The model average projects regions of both increasing and decreasing relative humidity. Over much of the tropical Atlantic Ocean the models show a decrease in mid-tropospheric relative humidity, which would tend to be unfavorable to tropical storms. However, over the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, the models project modest and large increases in mid-tropospheric relative humidity.
Changes in modeled mid-tropospheric relative humidity appear tied to changes in circulation (shown in contours, with dashed lines indicating anomalous ascent). Regions of anomalous ascent are associated with increasing relative humidity, regions
of anomalous subsidence are associated with drying.
Maximum Potential Intensity
The model average projects an increase in Emanuel (1995) maximum potential intensity (MPIv) over most of the northern hemisphere tropics. The change is on the order of a few percent per degree warming, consistent with the findings of Knutson and Tuleya (2004). However, over the tropical Atlantic Ocean there is a large swath where MPIv actually decreases in a warming climate.
The local decrease in MPIv in the tropical Atlantic is associated with a minimum in sea surface temperature warming there (contours show the relative surface warming, with dashed lines indicating regions that warm less than the tropical mean). Even though model surface temperatures are warming in the global tropics, the tropical Atlantic warms less than the rest of the tropics. Because the upper tropospheric temperature changes are tied to the changes across the entire tropics, this local minimum in warming results in stabilization of the atmosphere.
Genesis Potential Index
The model average projects an overall increase in June-November Genesis Potential Index (GPI) across the northern hemisphere tropics. However, the Tropical Atlantic and East Pacific generally have smaller changes than the other basins, with regions of both increase and decrease of GPI. The Western and Central Pacific exhibit the largest change in June-November GPI, with substantial increases; the northern Indian Ocean also shows a moderate increase in GPI.
Projected Changes in December-May
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Wind Shear
The model average projects an increase of shear across most of the subtropics, and a decrease near the Equator. In the Indian Ocean there is a decrease in shear in the region 5S-10S.
Mid-tropospheric Relative Humidity
The model average projects regions of both increasing and decreasing relative humidity.
Changes in modeled mid-tropospheric relative humidity appear tied to changes in circulation (shown in contours, with dashed lines indicating anomalous ascent). Regions of anomalous ascent are associated with increasing relative humidity, regions of anomalous subsidence are associated with drying.
Maximum Potential Intensity
The model average projects an increase in Emanuel (1995) maximum potential intensity (MPIv) over most of the tropics. The change is on the order of a few percent per degree warming, consistent with the findings of Knutson and Tuleya (2004). The regions of local minima in warming in the subtropics are associated with a decrease in MPIv, however those are regions where tropical storms do not generally form. Over regions where tropical storms tend to form and intensify ini the austral winter, MPIv tends to be projected to increase.
Genesis Potential Index
The model average projects an overall increase in June-November Genesis Potential Index (GPI) across much of the tropics. The southern Indian Ocean exhibits the largest change in December-May GPI, with a substantial increase; the western Pacific Ocean also shows a moderate increase in GPI – although there is a region in the central Pacific that shows a decrease in GPI.
Coming Soon
- Plots for each of the models
- NetCDF data of the multi-model averages
This work was a collaboration between: Prof. Brian Soden at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) at the University of Miami. and Dr. Gabriel Vecchi at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory


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I work for a local government that bills for water usage and garbage collection. I received a call today from a customer that a "New York company" called him asking for his customer number and pin to give them access to his online account so they can "scrape" his water usage from the site. They are apparently collecting that information from several apartments for some reason that he couldn't recall. Of course this raises flags with me and I informed him to not give them this information. I also told him that if they call back to tell this company that they can contact us directly to get this information if they require it.
Now, if one of our customers received a call, I feel it's safe to assume that others have gotten the same or similar call and they may or may not have given this information. How can I check our logs to see if there is a bot hitting our site and screen-scraping our data? I also feel we should block that bot and prevent further attempts.
Note: The only information stored on the web server is the name and address of the customer, water usages and costs of the bills with a total amount due. They can also pay the bill. We don't store any account information online. So overall, the information on the web server could be considered public information (though the proper channels).


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Camp site are available year round; however, the water is shut off between Oct 15 - April 1.
Horseshoe pit
Shelter is for day use only, no primitive camping allowed at this shelter
Shower house. Closed for the winter.
Boat ramp has two lanes.
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My great great grandfather Caleb Rand Bill (1833 - 1902) was a music professor in Salem, Massachusetts. When I was researching Professor Bill I found many stories about Manuel Fenollosa and Manuel Emilio, two other famous musicians from Salem. And, surprise!, a family link, too!
Manuel Fenollosa came to Salem from Spain with his brother in law, Manuel Emilio in 1838 on the US naval frigate the United States. They had both been musicians for the crew, and Emilio was the bandmaster. They remained in the United States, and formed a band, then a music school in Salem, Massachusetts. Their first Salem concert was held at John P. Jewett's house, who later published their sheet music (he also published Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin). Jewett taught Fenollosa how to speak English.
According to the lyrics written by a mysterious "R. T. L." the "Emancipation Hymn":
Long our land in blood had weltered, Blood of dearest sons:
Long had Hero Spirits faltered, Not at booming guns:
Long our pray'r to Heav'n ascended Fraught with bondmen's groans;
Long with victory's cheers had blended Fettered manhood's moans!
God hath heard us, God hath heard us, and in mercy Gives us bread for stones.
God hath heard us, God hath heard us, and in mercy Gives us bread for stones.
Asking for a Land, for a Land united, We forgot the slave.
Pray'd we for our Country, for our Country blighted--For our falling brave,
Left the bondman, chas'd by blood hounds Scented thro' the cane,
God was with that panting brother; Pray'd we thus in vain!
Ask, as we would serve another, ask and he will hear again!
Ask, as we would serve another, ask and he will hear again!
He hath heard; O give Him glory! Heard the Bondman's pray'r:
O'er the war path, red and gory Thro' the slave-hound's lair,
Peals the mandate of salvation, "Let my people go."
Humbled, bleeding, hear the nation Answer, "Be it so!"
Who shall weary! Who shall weary! who shall falter! God is with us now!
Fenollosa Family History:
Generation 1. Manuel Fenollosa and Isabel Del Pino of Spain
Generation 2. Manuel Francisco Ciriaco Fenollosa, born 24 December 1822 in Malaga, Spain, died 13 January 1878 in Salem, Massachusetts; married first to Mary Silsbee, on 20 November 1851 in Salem; married second to Annie Elizabeth Kinsman on 26 July 1869 in Salem. Manuel's sister, Isabel, married Manuel Emilio.
Two children with Mary Silsbee:
1. Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, born 18 February 1853, died 21 September 1908, in London; married Elizabeth Goodhue Millett. He spent thirty years in Japan studying the art and culture.
2. William Silsbee Fenollosa, born about 1855, married a Martha W. Fabene in 1887
Three children with Annie Kinsman:
3. Clarence Fenollosa, born 25 November 1870 in Salem
4. Sydney Kinsman Fenollosa, born 4 May 1873 in Salem.
5. Manuel Emilio Fenollosa, born 7 June 1875 in Salem
Both of Manuel Fenollosa's wives are distant cousins to me. Mary Silsbee is a great grand daughter of John Becket (1715 – 1781) and Rebecca Beadle (1714 – 1758), my 6x great grandparents. Annie Elizabeth Kinsman is related to me through multiple lines of Essex County families (Kinsman, Dutch, Kimball, Treadwell, Webb, and Burnham).
For more information:
The Papers of Luis F. Emilio, 1812 – 1871 contain information on the musical career of Manuel Fenollosa in Salem. They are held at the Peabody Essex Museum.
"Emancipaton Hymn", by Manuel Fenollosa, lyrics by R. T. L, Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co, 1863 (sheet music) M1640.F at the Library of Congress
Diary of Manuel Fenollosa, 1848 – 1849, by Manuel Fenollosa, held at the Peabody Essex Museum (describes a voyage from Malaga, Spain to Salem, Massachusetts in 1838, on the barks Sophia Walker and the A. G. Hill)
"Immigrants to Salem Join the Abolitionist Cause", Boston Globe, by Jim Dalton, 1 Feb 2011 at the website http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/salem/2011/02/immigrants_to_salem_join_the_a.html accessed 9 March 2011
Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
Monday, March 14, 2011
Manuel Francisco Ciriaco Fenollosa del Pino
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Hi Heather. I just wanted to let you know how much I'm enjoying your blog, and I've nominated you for the One Lovely Blog award. Cheers!ReplyDelete
Hello, I am Juan Carlos, from Málaga, Spain. I´m interesting on Fenollosa story because of my interest in Japanese Art. And how a person of Malaga was as influential in the Japanese of the Meiji Restoration to re-appreciate their own art and culture. Thank youReplyDelete
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Disciple vs Haskell
These are some syntactic differences that tend to trip up Haskell programmers when they first start with Disciple.
Evaluation Order
Disciple uses strict / call-by-value as the default evaluation order. This implies that bindings in let and where expressions must be written in dependency order. For example, you can write:
fun :: Int -> Int fun x = x + z where y = g x z = 3 + y
but not:
fun :: Int -> Int fun x = x + z where z = 3 + y y = g x
This doesn't work because the bindings for y and z are in the "wrong" order.
For let and where expressions, all the bindings are evaluated in-order, before moving to the body.
The (.) operator
We use (.) for projection instead of function composition. If you want to compose two functions then use ($), or suggest a good replacement for (.) on the mailing lists.
Death to [Char]
In the Disciple prelude, strings are defined as append-lists of arrays of characters. This provides sane complexities to the common operations of constructing and printing strings, with respect to the regular Haskell ones. For this reason you need to use the string append operator (%) to append lists, instead of the list append operator (++). If you really want a list of characters then use charListOfString :: String -> [Char] defined in Data.List.
No Dictionary Passing
Dictionary passing for type classes isn't implemented yet, but we plan to do this in the medium term (within 12 months). You can still define new classes and instances, but each method call must be resolved to its instance at the point of use. In practice this means that you can't write functions who's types have class contexts. For example, this is ok:
showTwoInts :: (Int, Int) -> String showTwoInts (x, y) = "you've got a " % show x % " and a " % show y
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showTwoThings :: Show a => (a, a) -> String showTwoThings (x, y) = "you've got a " % show x % " and a " % show y


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Snowshoe Rabbit
Binds when used
Use: Teaches you how to summon this companion.
Grooms face and scratches ear.
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Pit-pattering footsteps; vocalizations (on-click)
Rabbit Crate (Snowshoe)
Item Level 20
Binds when used
Use: Right Click to summon and dismiss your rabbit.
Sell Price: 5
As of patch 3.0, this rabbit was changed to solid white. Previously it used the model of the Spring Rabbit. Yarlyn Amberstill is found running about, making purchasing her rabbits something of a challenge. This pet is only sold to alliance characters. Horde characters may purchase this pet through a neutral auction house and on occasion through their own auction house.
The Snowshoe Rabbit is a trainable pet in Mists of Pandaria. However, only Gnomes and Dwarves are offered this option from Battle Pet Trainers. Once learned, all characters will have access to this pet.
I'm not sure why this pet has such a low battle rating - rabbits are powerhouses. It seems that Blizzard decided the cuter and more innocuous the animal, the more vicious it is in battle. I just wish they would upgrade their appearance, as the closer you look, the more crude the rendering appears.


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Winter, on the wine trail in Italy. The vineyard is a concentration of packed earth in a cold box. The not so glamorous work of preparing the vines takes place in the short days, soon dark by 4:30 in the afternoon.
There are no wine trail tours, no salumi and aged cheeses. The holidays, the merrymaking, are soon behind us. In the cities the salespeople and marketers are trying to press out every last drop of cash from the retailer and the consumer. Here in the vineyard, the frozen hand of the worker guides the pruning sheer to train the next crop, the next great vintage.
But now it is dark and cold and lonely. This is out somewhere beyond the cover of friend and family. This is no place for the damaged heart, but this slope is where we find ourselves in this moment.
What dreams are left in the earth for this heart? What music waits in the piano for this ear? What empty glass patiently sits on the shelf for the wine to come ? How does one press hope from this moment of dormancy?
For the winemakers in Valpolicella it is too soon for their beloved Amarone, and the Recioto is even more illusive. In Tuscany, in the Santeria, the white and red grapes are withered, but not yet will their flesh be pressed. This is a moment to hold one's breath and hope for hope. And share the morning coffee cup with a little grappa, for strength, for clarity, to ward off the illness hovering about the little stone house.
In Sicily, they are laughing at the northerners while sending their blood orange and the Pacchino hothouse tomatoes up to the frozen provinces and fraziones.
They laugh at the vine as it twists in the bitter north wind. And they dance and they feast on the 7 fishes and eat cookies stuffed with figs and brandy.
Today I was looking at wine made by a clown, a Neapolitan that long ago moved to Tuscany, and is now as Tuscan as the next door neighbor. The labels are lively and sunny and the wine is sunny and fruity and happy like Scarlatti's Renaissance lute music.
His family was famous for their place in Neapolitan stage life. They were the clowns in the operas so loved by the music lovers, rich and poor.
Once in Tuscany, though, a serious country town, provincial and conservative, he had to relegate that creativity through his vines and wines and labels. So loved are these wines that people travel from all over Italy to pick up their yearly allotment of wine. During the Christmas holiday they drive the Lunigiana to pick up his red wine and olive oil, honey and marmalades.
All is this said as a way to push back the darkness and the solitude , the loneliness that vine feels as it twists in the wind, in the dark, in the cold, hoping someday for spring and sun and warmth and hope.


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There is new technology being introduced to the meteorology world and its base is either in your hand, your pocket or your purse. Cumulonimbus, a Canadian weather research company, is teaming up with meteorologists at the University of Washington to turn your smart phone and tablet in to a portable weather station. The team has developed an app for android devices equipped with internal pressure sensors. The app, called PressureNet, is free of charge and can be downloaded here.
PressureNet takes a pressure reading every hour and sends the data along with the location to atmospheric modeling software, giving forecasters a more accurate view of current conditions across an area. Privacy concerns associated with the location feature of the app can be addressed in the app's settings. As of now, the data is viewable for Cumulonimbus, university researchers, and select commercial weather forecasters, but users can choose who exactly who is able to see the data.
"With the recent research [of Gilbert P. Compo, Jeffrey S. Whitaker, and Prashant D. Sardeshmukh], we have found that with sufficient surface pressure sensors and a sophisticated model-based data assimilation system, one can accurately reconstruct the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere," said Cliff Mass, a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. This accurate mapping of current atmospheric conditions will greatly reduce the error of future forecasts, especially with regards to small scale systems such as thunderstorms.
The data provided by android devices here in eastern Carolina will help forecasters more accurately predict thunderstorm formation and storm track. While the list of mobile devices equipped with internal pressure sensors is small (Samsung Galaxy SIII, Samsung Nexus tablet and Motorola Xoom tablet), the listed is expected to grow as companies update and upgrade their portable products. If you are able to download PressureNet on your device, you are encouraged to do so. The more observations forecasters get, the better their ability is to provide you accurate weather forecasts.
Sources: University of Washington, Cliff Mass Weather Blog


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Police on Thursday ticketed a man suspected of smoking marijuana in Collyer Park, Sixth Avenue and Collyer Street.
A woman was issued a summons on Thursday to appear in court on suspicion of shoplifting items from a business on the 2200 block of E. Ken Pratt Boulevard. The woman was suspected of child abuse, but the report gave no details.
A resident of the 1200 block of Tulip Street told police Wednesday that someone had vandalized her vehicle.
An employee of a pawn shop on the 300 block of Main Street reported a theft "by a known suspect" on Wednesday, police said. The case has been referred to the Patrol Division for follow-up.
Police arrested a 34-year-old man on suspicion of violating a protection order after a bicycle-patrol officer found the man and a 21-year-old woman with open cans of beer in Garden Acres Park on Wednesday night — a municipal offense for having open containers of alcohol in a public place. The protection order that came up during a computer check forbids him from being in contact with the 21-year-old woman with whom he was at the park.
Police are investigating a Tuesday report that a 92-year-old woman had been sexually assaulted at a location on the 000 block of 21st Avenue.
Police are investigating two separate reports of a woman issuing forged checks, one at a bank on the 000 block of East Ken Pratt Boulevard on Tuesday and the other at a bank on the 2100 block of Main Street on Wednesday. Longmont police said a possible suspect is in custody in Loveland for a similar offence.
Someone broke into a man's car and stole his wallet while the vehicle was parked at Carr Park, according to a report police got on Wednesday.
Police got a Tuesday report that someone had broken into an SUV parked on the 1800 block of Spencer Street and stole items from the vehicle.
A woman told police Tuesday that someone had broken the window of her vehicle when it was parked off the street on the 000 block of South Sunset Street and stole a pair of sunglasses from inside it.
Police got a Tuesday night report of a burglary earlier that day on the 1100 block of Trout Creek Circle.
A 50-year-old woman was taken into custody Tuesday night on suspicion of domestic violence, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment after police investigated a reported incident on the 2200 block of Meadow Street.


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Make some beautiful and inexpensive gift wrap using the plain side of an old brown paper bag and paint chip samples. Denise at d.Sharp Journal posted about this: you just need a couple round hole punches in different sizes. The colors – all shades of the same hue – will harmonize nicely, because they're all from the same paint chip card.
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SPAIN'S HIDDEN GEM – LA PETITA COSTA BRAVA BY George Keegan Stretching along Spain's eastern seaboard in Catalonia (spelt Catalunya in Catalan) is the very beautiful Costa Brava. There are some 220km of coastline stretching right up to the French border containing many areas of natural beauty. It has a mild Mediterranean climate meaning [...]+ MORE
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Lipscomb associate director of athletics for spiritual formation Brent High checks in with an update from day six of the trip to Mission Lazarus in Honduras
Day six included our first round of goodbyes. We finished our work at the home site in Nuevos Colorados. We made and laid concrete all day again. Today was the first day anything sprang up from the foundation floor as the rebar towers were tied into the ground and cemented. By the end of the day we had started pouring the first stages of the walls.
As we finished up our day we invited all of the children that had been hanging on the fence outside the church grounds to come into the main building. We had them sit in a circle and told them to close their eyes. We then presented each of them with either a purple Lipscomb jersey or one of the neon Lipscomb Athletics shirts we printed earlier this year. We also gave the older gentlemen who helped us all week a game-worn old Lipscomb baseball jersey. We all went outside and took a picture together.
From there most of our students wanted to take individual photos with children they had connected with during the week. Nehemias was a rock star. Alex and Josias were in several photos. Josias told us as we were saying goodbye that he was on Facebook and he would friend us. That, of all the things that have happened this week, came across as the strangest thing to me. Here's a kid in the middle of a third world country in an extremely poor neighborhood who by the time I got back to Mission Lazarus had sent me a friend request on Facebook. The world is such a small place.
Jae Hwang spent most of the day with the kids outside the gate. It was so encouraging to watch him engage with them and give them his full attention. He became a hero in a short period of time to those boys and girls.
I have seen this done on previous trips but today several of our team members gave things of value to the people in Nuevos Colorados. A watch, several hats, shirts and the boots off several of our team members' feet were given to some of the workers and kids. I had seen Alton, one of the adult workers, take off his shoes earlier in the day and put some folded pieces of the concrete bags in the bottom since there was a gigantic hole in both shoes. One of our guys gave him his rubber work boots. You would have thought Alton had hit the lottery.
We shared another meaningful time of sharing around the fire. We saw several shooting stars while we were sharing. Many team members shared comments about where they saw God this week and how their lives have been changed forever.
I have had a couple of very good, long conversations with a couple of our students who are really seeking in their faith journey. I am so thankful that Lipscomb has chosen to embrace those kids no matter how little Bible knowledge or faith background they have when they come to us.
One of our team members shared with another team member that before this trip they were planning on transferring for second semester. They used this trip as a chance to set the fleece out Gideon style. This student is now so thankful to be at Lipscomb and for the first time has real community.
I am tired. I want to be home. I miss Emily and the boys badly.
We all are tired to some extent. There are a lot of blisters and a few pink shoulders.
Tomorrow the guys who served in Duyure, Honduras last year building an adobe brick house will return to reunite with friends they met. The other group members will be taking a tour of Mission Lazarus via horseback. They will learn more about the orphanage, cattle farm, crops and coffee plantation.
I am blessed to be able to do what I do at Lipscomb thanks to people like you. I have only been a short-term missionary for a year. I left the United States for the first time last December at the age of 37. This is now my third trip to Mission Lazarus in Honduras. I can't say enough good things about our missions department at Lipscomb. Mark Jent and T.J. McCloud have been so supportive and patient with us as we have sought to provide more opportunities for our athletes to serve in the mission field. I will tell anyone that will listen that I think missions is the best thing Lipscomb does, period.
These trips will continue to increase with our athletic department. Another team made a commitment to serve in 2013 yesterday. We will look forward to announcing more about that trip soon.
Please continue to pray for us as we seek to grow closer to Jesus of Nazareth.
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Previously we looked at connecting one producer to one consumer using a unix pipe. If we want to do many to many connections, we can use the
AnyEvent Notifier I mentioned in Connecting Software Systems.
Instead of echoing a notification that a work unit has been created to
STDOUT I write it to a socket connected to the notifier.
IO::Socket makes this absurdly easy.
use IO::Socket ':crlf'; use constant SHUTDOWN_SOCK_RW => 2; my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => 'localhost:12345'); for (1..5) { my_log "Iteration $_"; my $filename = create_file($top); print $sock "/producer/file-creator/new-file $filename" . CRLF; my_log "PRODUCED $filename"; } $sock->shutdown(SHUTDOWN_SOCK_RW); $sock->close();
I often use a
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Driver hydroplanes off roadway in Rose City
According to Orange County Deputy Martin Gaskin at the scene of an accident Monday morning, Feb. 11, around 9:30 a.m., a woman veered off the road in Rose City and crashed into a guardrail. The young woman at the scene said she lost control when her car hydroplaned on the westbound Interstate 10 access road near the Asher Turnaround. She said she was unhurt.


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Colorado's marijuana debate heats up as activists argue against heavy taxation
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DENVER — Marijuana sellers and growers in Colorado joke that it's rare for an industry to seek a tax on its own product — in their case, a 25 percent tax rate that goes before voters next month. Republicans, Democrats and large dispensary owners agree the taxes will boost state revenues and pay for the nation's first intense state oversight of the recreational pot business.
But not everyone is happy about the proposed sales and excise taxes, which, if approved, would go into effect when sales begin on Jan. 1.
A few dozen marijuana activists have banded together to oppose the tax rates, saying they're too high and will keep people in the black market. They've organized three joint giveaways, events that don't violate state law as long as the joints are free and recipients are over 21.
Their protests have been spirited. At a Denver joint giveaway this week, activists jeered dispensary owners who support the tax and even Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, who attended a $1,000-a-person fundraiser to support the tax campaign.
"If we overtax it, just watch. The whole thing's going to collapse and the black market isn't going anywhere," said Larisa Bolivar, a former dispensary owner in Denver and executive director of the campaign against the tax measure.
If approved, Colorado pot taxes would be lower than taxes on tobacco but more than taxes on alcohol. Tobacco has a 34 percent excise tax. Colorado excise taxes for alcohol are 8 cents per gallon for beer, 7.33 cents per liter for wine, and 60 cents per liter for liquor.
The Nov. 5 ballot measure includes a 15 percent excise tax and an initial 10 percent sales tax. State enforcement has been estimated to cost about $7 million.
Still, all sides agree that there's no way to know what the marijuana tax rate should be. Economists can only guess what pot users are paying now and how much they'd pay to shop in a regulated store, not grow their own or shop on the black market.
Economists at Colorado State University have warned the taxes may not raise enough money to pay for the state's proposed enforcement scheme.
In an April report, Colorado State's Colorado Futures Center predicted the rates won't make a big difference in the state budget. The forecasters used a higher rate than the one proposed to voters — a 30 percent combined sales and excise tax — and put the post-legalization price at $185 an ounce, including taxes.
They said that marijuana demand may not spike just because it's legal, depressing a possible tax windfall.
"Revenue from marijuana taxes will contribute little or nothing to the state's general fund," the report concluded. "There are likely to be offsetting effects of those attracted to marijuana or inclined to consume larger quantities because it is now legal and those who lose interest in marijuana now that the 'forbidden fruit' aspect of marijuana use is eliminated."
Washington state, the only other place in the U.S. that has legalized recreational pot, will tax retail pot at 75 percent. That rate was included in the ballot measure voters there approved last year.
Colorado's rate requires separate voter approval because of state tax law. Up to $40 million in excise tax is designated for school construction, with the rest designated for marijuana enforcement.
The architects of Colorado's marijuana amendment insist the taxes are fair. They pointed to a recent U.S. Department of Justice memo that makes clear states need vigorous pot enforcement to avoid federal intervention.
"The country is looking at us, and we have an obligation to create the greatest regulatory scheme we can," said Rick Ridder, a political consultant who attended this week's fundraiser.
They also point out that most folks don't use marijuana, so voters need an incentive to approve the drug that doesn't relate to their personal use.
"It's one of the primary reasons people support marijuana, to get the tax revenue to take this product out of the hands of cartels," said Brian Vicente, a lawyer who helped write the legalization measure.
Some lawmakers this spring feared that Coloradans would reject a tax measure, leaving the state with a hefty tab for enforcing pot sales but little cash to pay for it.
Despite the debate, the campaigns for and against taxes won't be too visible to most. Campaign finance reports filed with the state show the pro-tax side with just about $10,000 raised by the end of September. Those numbers don't include the recent fundraiser but likely won't allow television advertising, campaign managers said.
Pot tax opponents had less than $2,000 by the end of last month. That figure doesn't include an important "in-kind" donation — hundreds of free joints protesters say have been donated by an anonymous supporter. Protesters plan to keep handing out the joints until the vote Nov. 5.
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(RNN/AP) - President Donald Trump said Friday he will nominate William Barr, the former attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, for his next attorney general.
Trump made the announcement while departing the White House for a trip to Missouri. He called Barr "a terrific man" and "one of the most respected jurists in the country."
Barr was attorney general between 1991 and 1993, serving in the Justice Department at the same time that now-special counsel Robert Mueller oversaw the department's criminal division. Barr later worked as a corporate general counsel and is currently a counsel at a prominent international law firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
In May 2017, Barr wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post defending Trump's decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey.
If confirmed by the Senate, he would replace Jeff Sessions as permanent attorney general and presumably oversee the Mueller investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election. Matthew Whitaker has been acting AG since Sessions resigned at the president's request in November.
In May 2017, he wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post defending Trump's decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey.
Trump also announced former Fox News anchor Heather Nauert as his pick to replace Nikki Haley as ambassador to the United Nations. Nauert's first government experience came when she was named a spokeswoman for the State Department in April 2017, and she was promoted to acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs earlier this year.
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