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(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
Is it not strange how Poe's name is usually the signal for a free fight? One might go up and down the streets proclaiming that Longfellow or Bryant or Whitman or anybody was the greatest American poet, and all would be somnolent and calm. But to speak of Poe in that connection is to evoke cudgels. In my case it is all Donnybrook to a single shillelab. One critic, indeed, whom I am proud to call my friend, Mr. Pennypacker of the Philadelphia "Inquirer," has stood forth to champion the champion of an oppressed poet. Mr. Pennypacker is in some sense the father of the new Poe cult, so it is only right he should fight for his offspring.
Although I assumed in my article printed in THE DIAL Some time since that there was a widespread prejudice against Poe, I am surprised at the extent of it. One correspondent, dating, of all places, from Baltimore, is particularly incensed. He claims it to be a well-known fact that whenever Poe wished to make a parade of learning he was in the habit of getting Professor Anthon to coach him. I did not refer to the vexed question of Poe's scholarship in my article, deeming it superfluous to do so. In all probability Poe had the same sort of learning as had Shakespeare, Goethe, and Emerson. It was rich and various and vital, rather than exact and dull and dead. He knew at least the alphabets of the whole circle of sciences and arts, — knew their relations to each other and their bearings on human life. And when he wanted any special information he knew what slave of the lamp, Anthon or another, to summon up to get it for him. The notion that he had Professor Anthon on tap during the whole of his literary life is really a humorous one. We must imagine him sending an order for an assorted bill of erudition, and getting in return, as per invoice, samples and supplies of such goods to deck his show-window. In nine cases out of ten such a procedure would be more trouble to any man who had wits of his own than to study up the subjects for himself. The same correspondent also states that he has talked with several New York literary men about Poe, and they all gave him a bad character. Very likely. New York literary men are capable of anything. My correspondent has the advantage over me in knowing them, and I cannot contradict him. I have gone up to New York more than once, but I always camped on a hillside and preached the destruction of the city from afar.
However, my proper purpose in recurring to the Poe question is to answer, as far as I may, the temperate and courteous communications which have appeared in THE DIAL. With Professor Tolman I have very little quarrel. I have no doubt he is sealed of the tribe of Poe himself. His analysis of Poe's "additions" is amusing. I always suspected there was something queer about that treasure chest, but I never worked it out. Such errors, however, are even more trivial than Shakespeare's anachronisms, and do not touch what I meant when I spoke of his inerrancy. I referred to what I might term the mathematics of character, — that sense of logic in him which compelled him to think straight and act straight in a world which is fond of curves and compliances. I have no desire to make Poe out an angel or an unsinning man. He was doubtless [column 2:] nothing of the sort. But his faults were such as comport with truth. His great sin indeed was the same as Dante's, and he has doubtless long been treading with bended back that ledge of Purgatory where Pride is punished.
Professor Tolman says that Poe can never be popular. Mr. Harvey, on the other hand, claims that he is popular, or at least widely prized. This is the crux of the case. He was immensely popular in his lifetime — his work startled the public and vivified magazines — and yet he was unpaid. He is popular in death — "The Raven," I suppose, is, after Gray's "Elegy," the best known short poem in the language — and yet he is proscribed. It is the horrible injustice of this fate which moved me to protest.
Mr. Harvey, in spite of real fairness, is dominated by the traditional conception of Poe as a sort of a Giant Pape sitting in the door of a cave strewn with human bones and grinning horribly. It does not appear to me that Poe is often baleful or ghastly; his art is usually controlled by too strong a sense of beauty to be really unpleasant. But he is prevailingly tragic. If Mr. Harvey will look squarely at the masterpieces of tragic poetry he will find that they are all of the charnel and the pit. What breath of plain air is there in the "Ædipas Tyrannos," or "Macbeth," or the greater part of "Faust"? Is there not in all of them the intense and contorted atmosphere of a thunderstorm? And with lesser tragedians, such as Ford or Webster or Emily Brontë, the sheer horror is still more accentuated. The difference between these writers and Poe is that they get their tragic effects from human beings, while he deals mainly with abstractions. From a Greek point of view, and even more from that of the art of the East, this conventionalizing and generalizing may be defended as tending to unity, proportion, and effect.
And this brings me to Mr. Barrows's charge against Poe of a want of realism, naturalness, or, to put it in its strongest word, truth. Truth, like heaven, has many mansions. Every age inhabits a different one — or to be more accurate, mankind vibrates between its town house of conventionality and its home amid the forests and the floods. In the day of the "Spectator," Shakespeare was thought a barbarian or a wildly irregular genius. In the time of the domestic novel, Poe naturally went to the wall. The volcanoes are extinct or are piped to furnish heat to our hot-houses. The witch Imagination has been thrust out of doors and the hag Fact installed in her place. Our ideal felicity is a balance at our bankers, a country villa, and everything handsome about us. But the slicked-up human being is a savage still. Fire and flood and famine and disease and war still exist. The perturbations of nature and the passions of man are still untamed. And because Poe, in an odd enough way I grant, expresses these primal things, he is nearer eternal truth than the painters and reporters of the surface of society.
It may be answered me that there are other primal things — sunlight and peace and happiness. Of course. But Tragedy does not much deal with them. People may say that they do not like Tragedy — that they will not read Tragedy. The incredible childishness of the American mind does say something of the sort. And it identifies the artist with his art; it executes the bearer of bad tidings; it hisses the villain of the melodrama from the stage. The consent of the rest of the world, however, calls him the greatest poet who faces the darkest storm of life, who searches the deepest chasms [page 287:] and climbs the most inaccessible peaks of human nature. Poe's art is tragic — therefore it deals with evil — it could not do otherwise. But that he compromises with evil or is wanting in moral motives is a singular error. The reverse is the case to a degree that hurts his art. His spirituality and high-mindedness are everywhere apparent. Conscience comes too easily upon the scene; the Furies lark around every corner; Nemesis follows upon the slightest transgression. It is only necessary to compare him with Stevenson to bring this out. Stevenson deals with evil almost in the spirit of mischief. The worse his characters are the better he likes them. He as much exceeds the sane tolerance of Shakespeare, which accepts evil because it is necessary and then does justice to it, as Poe falls short of such an outlook.
"Place aux dames" is an honored custom, and I hope my woman critic will forgive me for leaving her communication to the last. I do it because it is perhaps the most important one I have to deal with. To give up Poe as a heartless genius is too much — it leaves his intellect living in too dry a place. My own view of the matter is that his nature vibrated between the two poles of thought and feeling; that it was his super-sensitiveness, his extra emotionality, which brought him half his hurts, and which caused him to case himself as in a shell against the world. To those who accept Lowell's flippant characterization of Poe as one whose heart had been squeezed out by his brain, it must seem strange that nearly all his best poems were dictated by personal affection — were tributes to those he loved. It is true they are not like the usual run of poems of the affection — the keepsake kind. Poe was a conscious artist even when most moved, when most inspired. "Ulalume" was rejected originally by a woman editor, and it is a strange dirge for a dead wife. One of the main uses of books of travel, however, is to teach us that all men do not think or feel alike. In this matter of high sentiment, as Matthew Arnold would scoffingly phrase it, the Anglo-Saxon temperament is not to have the last word. I do not see that Poe's embodiment of his wife in Ulalume is more out of the way than Petrarch's personifications and canonizations of Lady Laura, or than Dante's using Beatrice to typify the Divine Wisdom and putting in her mouth immeasurable sermons of scholastic philosophy. Petrarch and Dante have not been accounted heartless men, though both of them were probably more faithless to their loves than Poe. It will be admitted, I think, that it is difficult as well as ungracious to argue with a woman. Their methods of thought are different from those of men; and, besides, like Britomart in Spencer, they always tilt with enchanted lances. My critic reproaches Poe for not voicing the common feelings of mankind and then when he does this very thing, coining his heart blood into tokens of beauty which must be current forever — she turns upon him and taunts him with the musical outpourings of self pity. What will satisfy her? A poet must speak his feelings and he must not. Resolve me this riddle. As for girding up his loins in the strenuous Anglo-Norman fashion — I should like to know what else Poe was doing all his life. I know of no poet who played his part in a manlier way. He faced the world with fierce independence. He cringed to no one and asked no help. He labored honestly to support his family. He paid his own "freight," which we have the authority of Eugene Field for asserting that Horace did not do. He did not go gallivanting after strange [column 2:] women. And when his wife died he mourned her in an immortal poem. In the name of all the Gods and fishes what can the most exacting feminine ask more?
I have only one thing else to notice, and that is what somebody calls the "bad physics and worse metaphysics" of the "Eureka." I am not to speak of physics, yet I can see there are some considerable errors in the piece. A notable one is a grossly absurd theory as to the variations in vegetation in high latitudes in past times. The received hypothesis is that they were caused by the eccentricity of the earth's orbit. Poe was perfectly cognizant of Kepler's laws and the mistake is a mere oversight. There an other flaws, but I do not believe enough of them to make his physics at all foolish. His main position, the finite nature of the physical universe, is, I understand, coming to be the accepted astronomical view. As to his metaphysics, he shares the fate of all other philosophers in that they are not provable. But this thought is interesting and in the main original. One of the most remarkable things in "Eureka" in the suggestion of a new method of proof — or of a sense for reaching such a proof, which he names the intuitional faculty. To a certain extent this faculty is the same an Kant's moral judgment that issues "categorical imperatives," and it is still more closely akin to Cardinal Newman's Illative Sense. That the physicists and English School of philosophers deny the existence of any such judgment or faculty or sense does not rob Poe of the credit of a bold speculation.
And now I am done. It is not the least my desire to claim for Poe a place with the great world poets. I think, though, that he is the most vital and universal force in letters America has yet produced. As compared with Tennyson, when one takes him with all his best and makes the necessary omissions and exceptions from Tennyson, they are, I think, about equal in range and equal in execution. And the underivable and daemonic spark burns brighter in Poe than in the English poet. On the whole, I would rank him beside the great originating poets of the beginning of the century, beside Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Leopardi, and Heine. If this estimate is true he has not had his just deserts. That it is true in my thesis, which, as I think I have sufficiently defended it, I deliver to the judgment of others.
Philadelphia, March 17, 1899.
Charles Leonard Moore (1854-1925) was a poet and author of several essays. He was also a member of the Pegasus Club, a club of poets in Philadelphia with more than a few hints of Poe's fictional Folio Club. (The Pegasus Club is briefly discussed in Publisher's Weekly, July 7, 1894, pp. 12-13, and the New York Times, January 25, 1902.) Moore comments further on Poe in his book Incense & Iconoclasm: Studies in Literature (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915).
[S:1 - DIAL, 1899] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - A Poe Bookshelf - Poe Again (C. L. Moore, 1899)


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It limits to the north with the province of Holguín; to the west with Granma; to the south with the Caribbean Sea, and to the east with the province of Guantánamo. The province covers a total area of 6 343 21 , Km². You can get here through Antonio Maceo International Airport, also by road from any other part of Cuba, or by sea ─in this last case, requesting the services from Punta Gorda Marina.
Two particular features characterizes Santiago de Cuba that make it exceptional: its hospitality, with people of happy and relaxed temperament and its rich historical-cultural wealth. Its Caribbean identity is evident in its popular music and in folklore manifestations. It depicts the title of Heroine City of the Republic of Cuba for the role carried out by its inhabitants in the revolutionary struggle during the decade of 1950. Privileged by its historical past, in Santiago de Cuba there are two of the Cuban places distinguished by UNESCO with the title of World Heritage: the San Pedro de la Roca Castle and the ruins of the first French coffee plantations in La Gran Piedra. The Santa Ifigenia cemetery , the 26 of July Historical Museum and the Siboney Farm, are places indissolubly linked to the history of Cuba.
Cayo Granma and Baconao Park (Biosphere Reserve) also part of the attractiveness of this region. As a tourist destination, Santiago de Cuba, combines excellent possibilities for the enjoyment of beaches, city and nature tourism for to the places of interest in those three scenarios.
For those who arrive in Santiago de Cuba, there are diverse lodging options in the city and in its surroundings, linked as much to the sea as to nature. With a variety of categories and levels of comfort, it will always be a guarantee for the visitors looking for harmony and soothing rest. There are other things, among so many, that make people from Santiago proud: to be the birthplace, par excellence, of almost all the musical genres of Cuba, a country where the music is soul and root; also, the carnivals that every month of July take place here, are the most spectacular in the country; as well as their rum, the well-known Fiestas del Fuego and the already traditional Festival of the Caribbean.
The region of Santiago de Cuba has the necessary infrastructure to encourage tourism of events and congresses; it also has in its mountainous and seafaring environment the conditions to develop nature and adventure tourism, trekking, nautical activities, and health tourism. But there is nothing better than walk its undulating and narrow streets loaded with history and music at the same time.
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The following conjecture/problem posed in The Kourovka Notebook in 1973 by Ya. G. Berkovich:
Problem 4.13. Prove that every finite non-abelian $p$-group admits an automorphism of order $p$ which is not an inner one. ($p$ as usual denotes a prime number)
I would like to know if anybody knows anything concerning history of this problem.
What I know are as follows: W. Gaschütz has proved in 1966 that every finite $p$-group of order greater than $p$ has a non-inner automorphism of $p$-power order. One year before Gaschütz, H. Liebeck has proved problem 4.13 for $p$-groups of class $2$ whenever $p>2$. The problem in its own is of course interesting, but I think maybe the main motivation to propose the problem is to strengthen Gaschütz's famous result, am I right?
What I really look for is to know: does the problem come from other mathematics problems that people already noted to and they stated it? For example, has it any relation to the classification of finite simple groups?!
I am sorry if you feel my questions are so vague! and I apologize in advance for.


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Porphyria cutanea tarda: Literally, the late skin form of porphyria, a genetic photosensitive (light-sensitive) skin disease with onset in adult life with substances called uroporphyrins in the urine due to a deficiency of uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase (UROD), an enzyme required for the synthesis of heme (part of hemoglobin, the pigment in red blood cells that carries oxygen). The hallmarks of porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) are blisters which become ulcerated in areas of the skin exposed to sunlight, especially on the face, ears and dorsum (back) of the hands. The affected areas of skin also tend to be fragile and show hyperpigmentation (excess pigment) and hypertrichosis (excess hair).
Porphyria cutanea tarda, the most common form of porphyria, comes in two clinical familial and a sporadic form:
- The familial form of porphyria cutanea tarda -- is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with males and females affected in multiple generations. The enzyme UROD is reduced in all tissues.
- The sporadic form of porphyria cutanea tarda -- is more common. The enzyme UROD is only reduced in the liver. It appears sporadically in people with liver disease, as from alcoholism, and from exposure to agents such as estrogens.
Iron overload is frequently present in porphyria cutanea tarda and may be associated with varying degrees of damage of the liver.
A severe form of porphyria cutanea tarda, hepatoerythropoietic porphyria (HEP), has its onset in infancy with the accumulation of protoporphyrin in the red blood cells. The level of the enzyme UROD is very low in red cells.
The UROD gene has been mapped to 1p34. Mutations have been identified in the UROD gene, including DNA base substitutions and deletions. These mutations result in reduced activity of the enzyme. Some mutation result in porphyria cutanea tarda and others in the recessively inherited HEP. HEP is the homozygous form of familial porphyria cutanea tarda.
Treatment is directed first at reducing iron overload by regular phlebotomy (removal of blood). Then treatment with the drug hydroxychloroquine usually induces a sustained remission.


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"The Freemasonic monopoly of government positions continued for at least the first hundred years of United States history … According to a 1924 census, even in that year, the Senate had a membership which was sixty percent Freemason." -Mark Pinkham, "The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom" (291)
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Phone manufacturers will have to add GPS capabilities to every phone model by 2018, according to the FCC (via TechCrunch). While those of us with smartphones already have GPS, many feature phones do not, instead relying on cell-tower triangulation and other methods to determine location at any given time. While Assisted GPS will still be usable, actual GPS functionality will be required for all phones in seven years time. The FCC is also quick to point out that 85 percent of phones would already have GPS by 2018 without its new rules.
The GPS requirement is so emergency 911 responders can track a caller's location to more accurately send assistance. Often in traumatic times victims may not know exactly where they are.
Of course, what we don't know is exactly when the next-generation emergency 911 service will be activated (it will include texting, photos), when cell phones without GPS will be shut off, and why the FCC is giving manufacturers 7 years to comply with this. At the speed the mobile world iterates, the FCC could require that GPS be in every handset within the next 3-4 years and no industry heads would explode. Perhaps after all the backlash over its net neutrality regulation, the agency is backing down a bit.
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A Fresh-Squeezed Take on Body Image from the Author of Unsqueezed
- Shawn McEvoy Crosswalk.com Managing Editor
- 2010 16 Jul
What do you see when you look in the mirror? The outside or the inside? The new creation in Christ, or the old human? Imperfections, or purposed usefulness?
What do you see when you look at the television or a magazine? Shrinking boundaries of beauty? More challenges you'll never be able to meet? Outright lies?
All of the above can have a constricting, squeezing effect on (not just) women in (not just) America, not unlike the frustration of trying to squeeze into those designer jeans that are two sizes too small.
Body image books have been written and reported on before, but we sat down with the delightfully quirky Margot Starbuck (M.Div., Princeton Seminary), who has written a book with the title and goal of getting you Unsqueezed. As you'll see, Margot attacks the body image issue from the unique perspectives of discipleship, disability, doing life with friends, and defining what bodies are truly for…
Crosswalk.com: Why are women so predisposed to seeing flaws when they look in the mirror, including women who are new creations in Christ or would claim to know that God looks at the heart?
Margot Starbuck: That's a great question. I think even though we know in our heads and our hearts that we are new creations, we live in this culture in which we're bombarded by images of "the perfect woman." I feel like we live in that tension between what we believe, and the reality of being squeezed by the impact that these images have on us.
So when we begin to deal with those images, and we ask ourselves questions like, "Is this really me?" people come up with all sorts of solutions - plastic surgery, for example. Are these solutions ever answers? Is it different for each person? What do you think?
I think that the little voices that hisses, "There's something inherently wrong about you," is often followed by the Deceiver's whisper, "There's something you can do to be acceptable, there's something you can grasp or purchase to finally be acceptable."
And I think what discipleship looks like is living in trust that God will meet our needs, and I think that we err when we decide to take things into our own hands, to satisfy ourselves, to soothe ourselves with all of these "other" options. It feels to me like Jesus' encounter with Satan in the wilderness, where's he's offered this array of possibilities but finally says, "I will trust in what God provides." And I think that's what the path of discipleship looks like for us as well.
You've done work with the disabled. How has that work informed the themes you cover in Unsqueezed?
As I began to think about bodies, the first thing I wanted to say is that bodies were given by God for function. And in my mind I was trying to make a distinction between that idea and our culture's insistence that bodies were made to be viewed, [which stands in] opposition to the understanding that God gave us bodies to love and serve others.
But as I was thinking about it, I realized that anything which I say about bodies and the reason God gives bodies also has to be true for my friends with disabilities! And that really helped me. All of a sudden it couldn't be just about function anymore - although that's important. But that's how I came to the realization that bodies really are given for relationship.
I'm thinking of a teenage friend whose body is severely compromised, and yet it's that body which allows him to be in relationship with other people. So in that respect, his body is good because he's able to be in relationship.
You use humor in several of the stories you tell in the book. Can you give us an example of how humor - seeing things with a laugh or a smile - can help someone change how she sees herself?
Oh, yeah! That's been part of my personal journey. I just can't take myself too seriously! There are these things that I believe about what bodies are for, what God gave them for, and then all of a sudden I'll see myself doing something particularly nutty. In fact, as I was getting ready to come to this conference…
I had traveled a few weeks ago, so all of my favorite clothes that I wanted to wear here and look so special, I put them in the washing machine with this bright red jacket… and everything came out pink!
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one.
Yeah! I just had to say to myself, this is perfect as I'm preparing to speak about how unimportant appearances are. It just made me laugh that this outfit that I had literally imagined wearing for months was just gone, destroyed.
I think that as women can talk about these things and agree together how silly some of it is… like some of the commercials for shampoos and hair conditioners that show the split ends, and all the molecules?
Under a microscope, right?
Exactly! People, these are ends, they don't even do anything! So I think that as we have those conversations, we can help set one another free from some of the silliness that's marketed to us.
Is there anything wrong with wanting to look your best?
[Sighs]… That's a great question. As I was doing this thinking and dreaming [in preparation for the book], I originally wanted to say, "Appearances are not important at all."
But I was kind of pushed by a friend, who said, "Really? Because…" - whatever it is for me, you know, with the tie-dye, or the beads or whatever - "it looks like you do put a bit of time and energy into your own appearance." So, I was challenged. And I realized that where it goes bad is when we become obsessed with this preoccupation with ourselves.
So no, I don't think there's anything wrong with looking good, with appearing attractive. Where we go astray is with self-preoccupation. An example would be a businesswoman who pulls out her credit card in Nordstrom's but is done with it in 15 minutes might spend less time and energy on her appearance than I do at my thrift stores looking for the perfect accessory to go with this or that. So I think that when we look at the time and the resources that we pour into ourselves, that's a pretty good barometer of how we're doing.
And it's applicable to so many things when it becomes about us. You've already touched on the fact that you want to help people discover why God gave us bodies. So can you finish that sentence for us? "God gave us bodies because __________."
Yes, I really believe that God gave us bodies to love God and love other people. I think we see that most clearly in the person of Jesus. Jesus is the visible image of God, and I know that's not supposed to be literal, and yet we can really see who we're supposed to be when we look at the physical body of Jesus: when his hands feed people, when his eyes see people who aren't otherwise seen, when his ears really listen to people who aren't heard, when his knees bend in prayer. I think that that is what bodies are for, and we see it most clearly in the person of Jesus.
And then we figure out what that most looks like in our lives. It might mean shoveling for an elderly neighbor. It might mean holding a friend's baby who's got colic. Whatever it is, when we use our bodies to love God and other people, our bodies are doing what they were made for.
How has your journey of writing the book and discovering these themes changed you, and how can it change others?
I feel like on the journey of both living it and writing the book, I have realized the importance of doing it with a friend. When it's just me, I either get stuck in my head or fail, yet I think when we do the journey with others, we're all strengthened. For a while I had what I call a Body Buddy, I had a Hair Buddy for a while (she had sworn off $150 highlights with her hairdresser, and I knew she was going to need some support to live that out, so we became Hair Buddies)… another friend decided not to buy clothes for one year, and that had been something that had been on my heart for a while. I didn't want to do it! But when I saw her doing it I said, yeah, I want to be a part of that and do that with you.
So the support of friends on that journey has meant the world to me, and it really is what I encourage other women to be about. Because in the end? What we consume - where our attention is with what we eat, what we buy, what we wear - is a matter of discipleship. To me that's exciting that there are these very practical ways in which we can live out discipleship with one another.
For some practical applications from Unsqueezed: Springing Free from Skinny Jeans, Nose Jobs, Highlights and Stilettos, see our article "Use Your Body the Way God Designed It," by Whitney Hopler.
Margot Starbuck is a popular speaker at conferences and retreats and on college campuses. She has an M.Div. from Princeton Seminary and is also the author of The Girl in the Orange Dress.
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March Madness, February-Style
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Or you could just move to Texas... 70 degrees today ;)ReplyDelete
We just bought some badminton racquets for living room use... Shuttlecocks can't do any damage! (Although a poorly swung racquet could, I suppose.)ReplyDelete
I am in love with your good chair!! I just did a mini (very) makeover in blues- I think it was the cold that prompted it. I need spring!! ...and my boys are like caged animals right now. I can't take it!ReplyDelete
Patrick is awesome.ReplyDelete
I love February because it's Valentine's Day and my birthday and we get a week off of school/work right in the middle :)
I'm right there with ya. I'm over winter and apparently were supposed to get a nast storm tonight. Perfect. I miss sunshine.ReplyDelete
I live where it's warm and the kids can play outside, but there are still THOSE days! It's amazing what we allow when near our wits end. Spring is coming...hang in there : ).ReplyDelete
Hehe..... I hear you! This darkness drives us all crazy. Thank goodness we've had some snow so they can get outside.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 7, 2013 at 8:51 AM
I love the pictures of him jumping off the couch to do the slam dunk. Yes we are having lots of relays and wrestling matches right now as well. Come, spring, come!ReplyDelete
I'm so there with ya! February is hard...ReplyDelete
You are such a good mom! I would go crazy seeing my little one jump off furniture or run down the hall!ReplyDelete
Yes, come on down to Texas! Playing outside until it's too dark- only bad thing is that it makes homework a struggle. :)ReplyDelete
Yes, come on down to Texas! Playing outside until it's too dark- only bad thing is that it makes homework a struggle. :)ReplyDelete
It drives my husband crazy when I relent and start letting them use the entire house as a gym but, well.....a mom's gotta do what a mom's gotta do, I say! It is, after all, THE FEBRUARY.ReplyDelete
I think we all know the feeling... I stumbled across a blog today, which directed me to your blog, and i followed you tutorial on how to make a blog banner - awesomeness!!! Thank you so much for such a great tutorial - you made it super easy to do - my blog is looking a lot "fancier" that it use to...ReplyDelete
I don't realize how lucky we are to live in Florida. I have lived here since I was 2 so I don't have any perspective what the winter is like in other parts of the country. I'm usually just wishing I could get use out of my boots and sweaters for a few weeks. But just in the last few days, three other bloggers have talked about how hard February is with kids--not seeing the sun or going outside never occurs to me (not trying to pour salt on your wounds). Just need to remind myself to be grateful that it is 76 degrees and sunny and not be annoyed that "our" winter is over before it even began. Thanks for the perspective! Maybe we should trade homes in the winter months--we could see a little snow and you could come make sand angels at the beach :)ReplyDelete
February feels like the longest month, but there's something to love about it, too. {And congrats to your uncle; are they still #1? I am hoping my team beats them this Tuesday!}ReplyDelete
Can you show a picture of how you have the photos on the stairs arranged? I am thinking of doing something like that.ReplyDelete
Can you show a picture of how you have the photos on the stairs arranged? I am thinking of doing something like that.ReplyDelete
This made me laugh! Winter is so long and brutal for us as well (we are in Fairbanks AK). We have about 7 months of winter and some days it is hard to go out because it is extremely cold, and we have little daylight. I can tell when we are on the gaining end of the daylight deal. It was after 5 yesterday and I was telling my son how exciting it is that it wasn't completely dark yet! Can't wait for summer! (even if it is so short. The 24-hour days make it so worth it!)ReplyDelete
Ha I can TOTALLY relate being the MOther of 5 bored boys stuck indoors due to all the winter rain this year in Tennessee! patrick has a pretty good thing going there!!ReplyDelete
Ha! Love this Sarah! Now move by me and you quickly solve your February problem! Plus we would just have so much fun. :)ReplyDelete
I have that same basketball hoop and I have resorted to keeping it in my living room due to the vaulted ceilings. I see balls fly past my beautiful lamps and cute vases and I am not sure I even care anymore. Looking forward to warm weather and getting my living room back.ReplyDelete
We have several wrestling matches a day and lots of jumping from the couch, and that's even with our temperate Virginia winter weather. I love that you are able to let your kids exercise inside.ReplyDelete


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Texas State AMA chapter finalist in 2014 Collegiate CASE competition
By Raquel Gonzales
University News Service
February 5, 2014
The American Marketing Association student chapter at Texas State University has been named a finalist in the 2014 AMA Collegiate Case Competition.
Texas State is one of 10 finalists in the competition.
The case sponsor this year is the Hershey Company. Past sponsors have included Donate Life America, Nintendo and McGraw-Hill. The case submission this year requires students to develop a marketing strategy to re-launch the Hershey Take 5 candy bar. Texas State's entry was developed by students in a marketing class that focuses on forming a submission for the AMA competition.
"I am very proud of our students," said Gail Zank, chapter advisor. "It speaks to the quality of Texas State students and the marketing department program that we have had such success at this competition."
Texas State has performed well at previous case competitions. In the eight years that Texas State has participated in the competition, it has been chosen seven times as finalists. Texas State has been recognized as second place four times.
Students that participated in this year's case submission include Justin Davis, Andrea Franklin, Hayley Helfenbein, Jennifer Klinger, Daye Lee, Analisa Luning, Lacy McCann, Mervin Medina, Megan Stockberger and Danielle Word. Marketing students Mervin Medina and Jennifer Klinger will be presenting their case to the judges at the AMA competition.
"What I'm anticipating most about the AMA Case Competition in New Orleans is getting the opportunity to present with my team members that worked so diligently on the project," Klinger said. "Presenting our marketing recommendations to the people of Hershey's and AMA will be an incredible (and nerve-wracking) experience."
The marketing students will present their case in New Orleans, La., at the annual AMA international collegiate conference on April 10.
For more information, contact Gail Zank at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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"Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it."
Proverbs 22:6
When you construct a plan for introducing your children to Jesus, you may want to make your motto "the earlier the better." In a recent nationwide poll, researcher George Barna learned that children ages five through thirteen have a 32 percent probability of accepting Christ as their Savior. That rate drops dramatically, to just 4 percent, for kids ages fourteen through eighteen. And those who have not become Christians before age nineteen have only a 6 percent probability of doing so during the rest of their lives!
Spiritual training of children should begin at their earliest moments of awareness and continue through the teen years. The most important year, however, may be age five. That is when they are open and tender to the call of Christ. Some kids come to a fork in the road at this point. Either they begin to internalize what they are taught and make it their own, or Bible stories and lessons become like fables that don't apply to the real world. Your careful instruction during this period can lay the faith foundation that will guide your children throughout their earthly lives—and lead them into a joyous eternity.
Before you say good night…
Dear Jesus, You are the master teacher. Help us to follow Your example as we train our children—to say the right words at a time when their ears will hear so that they will become devoted followers of You. Amen.
• Statistics from "Teens and Adults Have Little Chance of Accepting Christ As Their Savior," Barna Research Online, 15 November 1999, as quoted in Bringing Up Boys copyright © 2001 by James Dobson, Inc. Published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Listen to today's broadcast of Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk at OnePlace.com. For more from Dr. Dobson, visit the resource center at drjamesdobson.org.
This devotional is taken from Night Light for Parents. Copyright © 2000 by James Dobson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
If you're raising kids right now, you know it's hard work. Even children who are sweet and compliant come with their own set of challenges. But if your son or daughter is strong-willed and defiant, that child can wear you out emotionally. If you have one or more of these independent youngsters, you know how difficult life can be. Here's the good news: Help is on the way. The Dr. James Dobson Family Institute has developed this new 10-day email series based on Dr. Dobson's best-selling book, The New Strong-Willed Child. It's designed to equip you to wisely lead your kids through even the toughest trials.


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Oakland Museum of California
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This presentation of Carnwath's work—the first organized by a major West Coast museum—includes more than 40 paintings not seen collectively since the artist's last major exhibition, in 1994.
The 20-year professional association between artist Squeak Carnwath and Karen Tsujimoto, senior curator of art at the Oakland Museum of California, culminates in Squeak Carnwath: Painting Is No Ordinary Object. The exhibition is on view April 25 through August 23, 2009.
"An in-depth examination of Squeak Carnwath's work is timely, if not overdue," says museum director Lori Fogarty. "This show confirms Carnwath's groundbreaking artistry and stature as one of California's leading contemporary artists."
As the title indicates, a painting is "no ordinary object" for Carnwath (American, b. 1947). Her recurring motifs—among them numbers, rabbits, and lists—reflect personal and universal themes; each meticulously applied layer of paint carries meaning and inquiry.
"Painting is a philosophical enterprise," Carnwath says, "a kind of alchemy . . . inert material becomes something else—a document of being, a repository of the human spirit."
An Oakland resident since 1970, Carnwath received her MFA from the California College of the Arts in 1977, with high distinction in ceramics. Within a few years she decided not to work in clay, due in part to the chauvinistic attitude within the medium at the time.
"Painting then became Carnwath's primary means of expression," curator Tsujimoto observes, "a talismanic device to explore themes of loss, loneliness, and the search for happiness and knowledge."
A tenured professor of art practice at UC Berkeley, Carnwath also taught at UC Davis (1983-1998). She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Carnwath has influenced hundreds of young artists in her three decades of teaching and art making.
The exhibition's companion book, Painting Is No Ordinary Object, is a 160-page retrospective of Carnwath's career. It features more than 80 color reproductions and essays by Tsujimoto and art critic and poet John Yau (co-published by Pomegranate, 2009).
Squeak Carnwath: Painting Is No Ordinary Object
Work by one of California's leading contemporary artists.


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we should leave its readers to make the most of it, without any comment of ours, if it were not for the duty of holding up to reprehension one or two of the passages that it contains. Fichte was, on the one hand, a sturdy, bold, restless man, of an eminent virtue and rare personal qualities, though they were rather of a rough cast. He was an ardent lover and a stout champion of freedom. Living in an age of great events and high political excitement, he partook largely of its spirit. He was an earnest patriot, and sought to exert as much influence upon public affairs as was consistent with his secluded habits and studious life. We honor him for the noble moral stand that he took, and for the eloquence with which he maintained it. On the other hand, he was one of those gigantic shadows in the shape of philosophy, that have flitted over the stage of German thought in such strange succession for the last century. While he has been extravagantly overpraised as a thinker in some quarters, his philosophical theory has been most uproariously laughed at in others, that were held in no less respect among his own countrymen. We consider his philosophy to have been resolved some time ago into the clouds, from which it was gathered and painted up into a likeness of reality, and into which many swelling pretensions that have followed his are hastening to be forgotten. He was a hard dogmatist in his day, though his system was one of pure idealism. But the day was not a long one, and his " I = I," and the "I and the not I," soon became formulas that were used in sport rather than with any sober wonder. There were many admirable things about Johann Gottlieb Fichte; but we do not consider that either his metaphysical doctrine or his manner of exhibiting it belonged to the number.
Wild Henri Heine makes merry with Fichte's principal intellectual operation, under the figure of an ape, sitting before the fire and boiling his own tail, supposing that the real culinary art did not consist merely in cooking objectively, but also in having a subjective consciousness of the cookery. He tells us at the same time of having seen a caricature that represented a Fichtean goose. The liver of the poor creature had become so large, that she no longer knew whether she was liver or goose. Upon her belly was written, "II." We doubt, however, whether any caricature could be more comic than the description in this very book, copied from the Autobiography of Henry Steffens, and describing Fichte in his lecture-room. "Gentlemen,' said he, collect yourselves, go into yourselves, for we have here nothing to do with things without, but simply with the inner self.' Thus summoned, the auditors appeared really to go into themselves. Some, to facilitate the operation, changed their position, and stood up; some drew them
selves together, and cast their eyes upon the floor; all were evidently waiting, under high excitement, for what was to follow this preparatory summons. 'Gentlemen,' continued Fichte, 'think the wall.' This was a task to which the hearers were evidently all equal; they thought the wall. Have you thought the wall?' asked Fichte. Well, then, Gentlemen, think him who thought the wall.' It was curious to see the evident confusion and embarrassment that now arose."
Thus much for the philosopher. As for his English biographer, Mr. William Smith, we know nothing of him, but from the present work. He is evidently an accomplished person. We do not deny that he writes in a good, scholarly style; his performance is in several respects highly creditable. But we perceive in him a taint, that infects a pretty large class of writers at the present day, both in England and America, and which we will not cease to mark with the warning reprobation that we think it deserves. On the 119th page, he brings together Socrates, Descartes, Spinoza, Priestley, Fichte, and the "deeply religious Shelley," in the same category with Christ and the Apostle Paul, as persons who suffered persecution on account of their more enlightened spiritual views. Now, apart from the bad taste of such a combination, it seems to us to indicate an unsoundness that is of a most serious nature. Even if we should grant what he asserts of Shelley to be true, and we consider it a monstrous perversion of the truth, yet to mention thus in company the author of Queen Mab and the divine Founder of the gospel shows plainly enough to what class of thinkers he that ventures upon such a mode of speaking must belong.
But we have a worse charge to bring than this. He quotes with evident content a passage from an essay by Forberg, fortified with a preface by Fichte, that runs thus:- "Two great poets have expressed this faith of good and thinking men, with inimitable beauty. Such an one may adopt their language." Then follows the often-quoted passage from Goethe's Faust, beginning with, "Who dares to say, I believe in God? Who dares to name him, and to profess I believe in him?" and ending with, — "Then call it what thou wilt,- Happiness! Heart! Love! God! I have no name for it. Feeling is all; name is but sound and smoke, veiling the glow of heaven." Here is recommended to us, as the "faith of good and thinking men," the creed of Dr. Faustus when under the instigation of Mephistopheles the devil, which he uttered as a part of his plan for the betrayal and ruin of an innocent maiden. And this precious confession of faith, all in poetry, though the verse is rather ragged, is found in a deliberate essay, "On the Definition of the Idea of Religion"; or else in 23
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an article prefixed to it, "On the Grounds of our Faith in a Divine Government of the World." We are not perfectly sure in which it occurs; for the biographer is not exactly luminous on this point, and we have not the Philosophical Journal for 1798 before us. Let the two German adepts in metaphysical juggles share the merit of so admirable an application between them. But they should at least have added what the poor deluded Margaret said so touchingly in reply, - "That is all fine and good; the parson says nearly that, only in words a little different. And what shall we say to you, English Mr. Smith, who can gravely repeat such perfidious trumpery?"
With respect to the preface of the American editor, we cannot say that we entirely like its tone, or agree with all its positions. But we are reluctant to find fault. It implies a wish, towards the close, that the writings of Fichte might be "domesticated here," since "they would materially assist us in the solution of many of the impending questions which now appear above our horizon." From this opinion we dissent. From the offer of such aid we turn away. In answer to such a wish for domestication, we should be ready to say any thing that sounds least like Amen.
5. Report of the Committee on the Expediency of providing Better Tenements for the Poor. Boston: Eastburn's Press. 1846. 8vo. pp. 36.
We have opportunity only to call attention to the remarkable statements made in this pamphlet, and earnestly to recommend the well digested and practicable scheme of philanthropy that is set forth in it, for alleviating what is perhaps the most fruitful of all evils in the condition of the laboring poor who reside in large cities. The situation of Boston on a peninsula of very limited extent, the rapid increase of its population, especially during the last ten years, and the consequent rise in the value of real estate have contributed to abridge the accommodations for the poor, till they are now worse lodged than their brethren in the foulest and most crowded districts of the large cities of Europe. Broad Street and its vicinity are more crowded, and probably more unhealthy, than the most noted dens of misery and crime in Liverpool and London, than Shoreditch, Whitechapel, or St. Giles. On an average, there are thirty-seven inhabitants to a house, and each person has but seven square yards on the ground. A large
building often contains more families than it has rooms, even if we include under this name the subdivisions of the cellar. We have examined with some care the statements and authorities on which the following conclusions, taken from this Report, are founded, and we are satisfied that they do not exaggerate the evil.
"First. That the present population of the first section' of Boston is nearly as dense as that of the central parts of London.
"Second. That the number of individuals to the house, throughout the whole city, is greater than in the principal commercial and manufacturing towns of England.
Third. That the distribution of the population with us is shockingly unequal, producing crowds in certain sections which are rarely surpassed.
"Fourth. That the proportion of deaths among infants has been steadily on the increase, and the average duration of life diminishing.
"Fifth. That the infant mortality is vastly greater among the Catholics than in the whole population, and the average duration of life among them less.
"Sixth. That the average of life in Boston is less than in London, or in Ireland, and but little greater than in Liverpool, where the greatest mortality, in England, prevails.
"Seventh. That the average duration of life among the Catholics of Boston is less than that of operatives and laborers in the great commercial and manufacturing cities of England."— p. 10.
The physical discomforts, the squalor and privations to which the tenants of these miserable abodes must submit, the alarming increase of mortality among them, and the peril to the general health of the city are not the only, or the greatest, evils produced by this density of population.
"As to the influence of this crowding, on the moral health, there can be, we apprehend, even less doubt. This is indeed so evident, that it is not our intention to go into details, which would be equally shocking and unnecessary. It is enough to say, that every one who has been in the habit of observing the character of excessively crowded populations has remarked, that, just as their physical nature becomes blunted, and hardened to the impurities about them, so their moral nature gradually accustoms itself to the sight of evil, and ceases, at last, to be offended at what was originally shocking to it.".
- p. 11.
It is found that the poor pay very high rents for their loathsome and unhealthy habitations. Hiring single rooms, and paying for them by the week, the aggregate rent obtained from them for a house cheaply built or much dilapidated is very great; and in many parts of the city, land can be more profitably occupied by buildings of this sort than by expensive structures for stores or for the habitations of the wealthier classes. Land thus occupied in
Broad Street produces yearly sixty cents a square foot; while in Tremont Street, facing the common, it yields but forty-five cents, and in Morton Place but thirty-one cents. Now, this fact suggests at once a remedy for the greater part of the evil here complained of, without calling for any charitable contributions whatever. Capitalists may erect large buildings in the very districts where they are most needed, suitably arranged to be let out in small tenements, so as to afford comfortable, healthy, and convenient dwellings for the poor, and still receive a very good income from the investment. The experiment has already been tried on a small scale, and the results are perfectly satisfactory. Plans and estimates are submitted with this Report, apparently well considered and trustworthy, which show that such buildings will produce from seven to eleven per cent. on their cost. The apartment for each family will consist of at least two rooms, well ventilated, and with suitable minor conveniences attached. It is proposed that houses of this character should be built at first by an association, or chartered company, and be put under the charge of a judicious and careful superintendent; but the obvious utility of cultivating amicable and kind relations between landlord and tenant makes it desirable that individual capitalists, also, should engage in this enterprise.
We have given a very imperfect synopsis of this excellent report, for in truth, though clear and full, it is so succinctly drawn up as not to admit of abridgment. To the "merchant princes of Boston, whose fame for judicious and munificent philanthropy stands so deservedly high, we heartily commend it, in full confidence that to draw their attention to such a project is enough to insure its immediate success.
6. Lectures to Young Men on their Moral Dangers and Duties. By ABIEL ABBOT LIVERMORE. Boston James Munroe & Co. 1846. 12mo. pp. 160.
A GREAT disadvantage attends books whose titles announce them to be written expressly for young men or young ladies; the particular class for whose benefit they are intended are not in the least disposed to read them. So many admonitions have vexed their unwilling ears in the course of their adolescence, that they have come to regard advice very much in the light of physic, and though it is recommended as "the sovereign'st thing on earth" against all the ills that flesh is heir to, they swallow it with dis


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In factory automation, the best solution isn't always the most obvious. From a design perspective it is important for the engineer to ask, "What is the end goal?" The design challenge isn't simply getting a series of off-the-shelf components to work together. Instead, it is determining the best way to integrate the power, logic, and the power-conversion devices that convert rotary motion to linear motion in the smallest, most flexible package achievable. That frequently means analyzing whether AC or DC motors represent the best option.
In the material handling industry, traditional motion control solutions generally integrate a series of off-the-shelf products such as an AC motor, speed control, gear box, and a gear-and-sprocket conveyor system, which includes custom rollers with slip drives that are tied into a programmable logic controller (PLC) or personal computer (PC). A larger factory may have a series of these lines. This type of solution also requires custom software and a significant amount of field wiring, since each AC motor must have a power drop and should be wired back to the PLC or PC.
While this solution works well for factories with pallet lines that transport heavy, high-volume product, it can be inefficient or too costly for applications that have lighter loads or periodic wait states. While there are specialized AC motors capable of addressing these applications, 24 V brushless DC motors may offer a far less costly solution.
From a design perspective, there are five areas to consider in determining whether AC or DC motors represent the best option:
- Efficiency
- Torque
- Flexibility/intelligence
- Installation cost/complexity
- Maintenance cost
AC motors must generate a magnetic field in order to operate. As a result, AC motors typically have high inrush currents. An unloaded AC motor may draw almost as much power as a fully loaded motor. To design around this most conveyor systems using AC motors have the AC gear motor running continuously. Roller slip drives, gear boxes, and air valves are some of the devices used to modify motion, but since the motor continues to run, much energy is wasted. This wasted energy ultimately transforms into heat, noise, or mechanical wear.
Comparatively, 24 V brushless DC motors have permanent magnets. Inrush current can be managed by the electronic controls, so there is minimal energy lost in high stop/start cycles. A brushless DC motor also requires a microprocessor to operate. This enables the motor to be easily programmed to shut off when it is not needed, eliminating most of the equipment required for AC motor systems, as well as the energy wasted when motion is not required.
There are times and places where AC motors are the best choice. These would include situations where the torque or power requirements exceed the limits of typical DC motors or where continuous operation is an application requirement. A large bulk-handling belt conveyor would be a perfect example. Another would be where products need to be transported up an inclined belt conveyor. There an AC gear motor might be a perfect match for the speed and torque required to get the job done.
On the other hand, more torque is generally required to get a load moving than to keep it moving. AC motors often offer starting torque that is no greater than the running torque. Brushless DC motors can provide starting torque that is two to four times their rated running torque. This can be a real advantage in systems where frequent starts and stops are required.


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Adam Smith on the need for "peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice" (1755)
Found in An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Cannan ed.), vol. 1
Dugald Stewart had in his possession some notes of lectures Adam Smith gave in 1755, some 21 years before the appearance of the Wealth of Nations (1776). Here Smith gives a pithy description of what he thought the government should do to encourage economic development:
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. All governments which thwart this natural course, which force things into another channel, or which endeavour to arrest the progress of society at a particular point, are unnatural, and to support themselves are obliged to be oppressive and tyrannical.
Dugald Stewart gave a presentation to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1793 three years after Smith's death. He wanted to show the consistency of some of Smith's ideas "at a very early period" two decades before the publication of The Wealth of Nations. One of these ideas was that if left alone a society will produce its own spontaneous order, or what he termed "her own designs." Also in this passage Smith hints that he advocates a policy by the government of "laissez-faire" (or hands off), or again in his terms "to let her (nature) alone, and give her fair play in the pursuit of her ends". The second idea in this "early Smith" is a clear statement of the policy of very limited government which he believed should limited to three things: peace, low taxes, and an acceptable (and presumably also cheap) system of justice. To what extent Smith continued to believe these principles in 1776 is open to debate. What is interesting here is that there is no mention of government provision of public goods which was later to play an important role in the Smithian state as described in Wealth of Nations.


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Monday, November 29, 2010
Before There Was Captain Kirk ...
How I could not have commented upon the recent death of Leslie Nielsen, I do not know, if only because Forbidden Planet is one of my favorite movies of all time. In that 1956 film, Nielsen established the cinematic template for what a starship captain is and ought to be -- charismatic and thoughtful, yet perfectly willing to break out the blasters if the situation called for it. Neilsen gave a standout performance in a film replete with them. He was the human center in a movie whose groundbreaking special effects could easily have become its main attraction. Without him, neither Forbidden Planet nor science fiction would have been the same.
Rest in peace, Mr Neilsen.
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When I saw the title of the post, I thought that you may have been referring to Alan Shapiro's excellent essay Captain Kirk Was Never the Original. It's a heavy but rewarding read, combining a Star Trek history lesson with thought-provoking contemporary philosophy. Interesting too to note that, like your comment on Nielsen forming Forbidden Planet's "human centre", Shapiro mentions that:ReplyDelete
'The popularity of Star Trek is attributed to our delight in the "human qualities of Captain Kirk," which "are always victorious over the very technological mega-systems that make [his] adventures possible." '
Forbidden Planet is one of my favorite movies of all-time, science fiction or otherwise.It set the tone for me of what stellar exploration should feel like: out there far from home, isolated, unable to run to the nearest base at the drop of a hat and thus forced to make momentous decisions on one's own responsibility, that sense of mysteries far older than Man. You can easily that in the original Trek, which is perhaps one reason why that's my favorite among the various series.ReplyDelete
A great movie and a great performance. I'll have to watch it again this week in Nielsen's honor.
- AnonymousNovember 29, 2010 at 7:28 PM
I was very pleased to see almost all the tributes made a mention of "Forbidden Planet" as well as his other dramatic roles before turning to "Airplane!" and his emergence as a deadpan comedic star.ReplyDelete
I first saw this film as an adult after two decades of immersion in the original Star Trek series. Of all the film's marvelous qualities, Leslie Nielsen's pre-Captain Kirk starship captain surprised the hell out of me.ReplyDelete
Forbidden Planet was one of many inspirations to Gene Rodenberry, and we all know what he up creating. If you don't then you need to turn in your Geek Card.ReplyDelete
Sad news. Forbidden Planet is my favorite Proto-Star Trek movie. Though dated in some ways it still stands up pretty well today. One of many RPG projects I've wanted to do but never got around to is a United Planets RPG based on Forbidden Planet....ReplyDelete
Not just a cool starship cap (one of few in the 50's), but his line delivery set the eventual tone for his great comedy roles.ReplyDelete
And who can forget he gets Anne Francis by the end of the film? Always been amazed (and thankful) that with the technological and scientific brilliance of the Krell available, they could only seem to produce mini-skirts for her to wear as Altaira.ReplyDelete
Still love "Forbidden Planet" and who hasn't worked an "Airplane" or "Naked Gun" line into a gaming session before?
I knew him best for his role in CREEPSHOW.ReplyDelete
He was a good actor...that never got his due IMO.
I didn't remember this!!! I am not really good at recognizing people so while the movie is one of my favorite film I didn't remember who the actors were...ReplyDelete


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