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This is going to be my last response on this topic because I'm getting pissed off with the attitudes I'm getting from a supposedly 'Christian' crowd.
... but just a question, from another p.o.v.-What if your best guy friend fell and slept with a girl? He realized after it that he was wrong, went to confession, was truly repentent and vowed to never let it happen again until after marriage. Would you discourage him from dating virgins? Would you wish him to marry a non-virgin? Or would you respect him because he realized his error, repented, and lived a chaste life after? Or would you not associate with him, not forgive him, and criticize him if he dated a virgin, or married a virgin? Who would have the greater sin? The man who fell and felt truly repentent? Or the man who continued to judge even after God had granted forgiveness? And would you actually discourage him from marrying a virgin? Even though he had received forgiveness from God and changed his ways? Would that be fair for you? Would it be fair for me to do the same with my best girl friend? Just like one-time gluttony will not ruin a chef for the rest of his career, one-time falling into lust will not ruin a repentent Christian's future marriage.sorry... bad bad analogy, but like I said, my brain is fried :-p
Yes, there would be significant effects through which you both would have to work, but you would not be doomed.
You obviously weren't paying attention to what the man said. He asked how it could ever be possible for a virgin and non-virgin to find some sort of intiacy between each other -- not whether two non-virgins could. The two situations are completely different from one another and, as such, everything you said is rendered moot.
I will be honest here, and it may shock some people. I would criticize him for dating a virgin. I would mock him for marrying a virgin, because that virgin could have married another virgin. Life is not fair, that is what I have learned. Just because God forgives you does not mean all things are well. What about someone who kills someone else? He goes to church repents and confesses his sin, truly repented and vowed to never fall again. God has forgiven him, so why doesn't society forgive him and let him out of jail? Their are consequences to sin. A person who has slept around has a good chance of carrying STDs(believe it or not condoms do not protect against every STD) and STDs have been know to cause infertility in males and females. So it becomes more of a health issue, and that is not a minor thing at all. I have found that women are more accepting of sexual liasons than men. Just look at Kobe Bryant. He commits adultery and may go to jail, yet there is his wife right by his side.
As Plutonas said, I was asking about how a virgin and a non-virgin can build sexual intimacy in a marriage. Anyway, you don't seem to be endorsing virginity, by that you are not totally bummed about not being a virgin on your wedding day.
If I was a widower, I don't think I would re-marry. Depending on the situation I would consider monasticism.
I'm sorry but I am sure that the Orthodox Church and God himself doesn't see it that way. You are telling me there is a difference between a person who has slept with one or two other people and the whole football team? What is the point of me being a virgin then? Whatever happened to being pure and having only one person for the rest of your life? Whatever happened to building an intimacy over time? So it is not so bad to have sex with a few people and not ten? That is pathetic.
I guess Plutonas and I are two aliens from another planet on this whole entire issue. I realize we live in a more sexually liberated time and it is sad. So much for being chaste up to your marriage, might as well go out and get some experience with one or two others. This whole thread is just plain despairing.
Just look at Kobe Bryant. He commits adultery and may go to jail, yet there is his wife right by his side.
I think it would do us all some good to read Hosea sometime.
He will match you up with a sinner though.
However, what if she happens to be someone who has never [insert your sin of choice] and does not wish to marry someone who has.
You may be a virgin, but you have sinned in many other ways. Does God see your sin differently from sexual sin? Why do you?
You and I are both miserable sinners.
We are sinners, but we are also a people who have been set free from slavery to sin by the death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. If a person has commited adultry, but later repented and confessed their sin, or similiarly later became an orthodox christian and had that sin washed away through their regeneration at baptism, God no longer sees that person as an adulterer. As far as God is concerned that person is now as white as snow. Should we see them any differently?
I don't think that God will tell me tomorrow to go out and marry a whore.
we're not EO even.
Ideas can be gotten across without resorting to crudity, maybe?
Plutonas, Why are you so angry? What has hurt you?
Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death." - James 1:13-15Say not: "It was God's doing that I fell away"; for what he hates he does not do. Say not: "It was he who set me astray"; for he has no need of wicked man. Abominable wickedness the LORD hates, he does not let it befall those who fear him. When God, in the beginning, created man, he made him subject to his own free choice. If you choose you can keep the commandments; it is loyalty to do his will. There are set before you fire and water; to whichever you choose, stretch forth your hand. Before man are life and death, whichever he chooses shall be given him. Immense is the wisdom of the LORD; he is mighty in power, and all-seeing. The eyes of God see all he has made; he understands man's every deed. No man does he command to sin, to none does he give strength for lies. - Sir. 15:11-20
if the only other option I have is to accept a despoiled creature as my wife, thereby lowering and degrading myself.
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Quote from: sinjinsmythe on July 22, 2003, 03:24:03 AMHow can someone who has not had premarital sex get married and build intimacy with a spouse who has slept around? When my husband I married 5 years ago, neither one of us were virgins. I know that at the time I married I wished that I had remained a virgin. However, the fact that we were not virgins has not kept us from building a wonderful, intimate relationship. Neither one of us ever think about the other people we were with. Now, it truly seems like I was never with anyone else. Let me ask you: say you married and were then widowed (maybe at a relatively young age). You found someone else who was also widowed. Could you not marry and build an intimate relationship with that new spouse simply because they had slept with someone else? I realize there is a difference between a girl who has been with one or two other guys and a girl who's been with the whole football team. Most of my friends, though not virigns, had not been with a lot of guys; I don't think it would be too hard to find a girl like that.I am not saying that there is anything wrong with trying to find someone who is a virgin; in fact, I think it's a good thing that you want to find someone who hasn't slept around. But I just wanted to say that I don't think it's impossible to build an intimate relationship with someone who is not a virgin.
How can someone who has not had premarital sex get married and build intimacy with a spouse who has slept around?
Ironically, I've heard more of the opposite lately-men only want women with "experience".
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Albondigas is the Spanish word for meatballs and there are several albondiga dishes in Spain and Mexico. Back home, my mom made them in a tomato and chile sauce that I really loved. They also used to make them the same way at my parents' restaurant fairly often. I really don't have the recipe my mom and the cooks at the restaurant used for the sauce, but the ancho chile sauce I made came close, I believe, to the one from my culinary memory. I usually made meatballs with ground turkey and a lot of other ingredients thrown in the mixture to make them more interesting and this time was no exception:
Albondigas in ancho chile sauce
The ingredients:
For the meatballs:
- 1 lb ground meat
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup cooked pinto beans
- 1/2 cup corn kernels
- 1/2 cup zucchini, chopped in small cubes
- 1 TBSP fresh parsley, minced
- 1/2 cup onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1/4 cup whole-wheat flour
- salt and pepper
- olive oil
For the sauce:
- 1 ancho chile, deseeded
- 1/2 small onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 cup diced tomatoes
- 3-4 cups chicken broth or water (the meatballs will give flavor to the sauce while cooking)
- 1 tsp gound cumin
- 2 dried bay leaves
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- salt and pepper to taste
The preparation:
- In a small pot bring to a boil 1/2 cup of water and add the chile ancho and cook until soft, about 2-3 minutes. Drain.
- In a large bowl mix all the meatball ingredients very well. Shape the meatballs about the size of golf balls and fried them in about 1/2″ of oil moving them constantly to sear them evenly.
- Blend together chile ancho, onion, garlic cloves and tomatoes with 1 cup of broth. Pour into a large pot over medium high heat and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to medium low and add the rest of the broth, cumin, bay leaves and oregano. Mix well.
- Add meatballs and bring the sauce to a boil again.
- Reduce heat to low and adjust seasoning if necessary. Cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes or until meatballs are completely cooked.
- Serve with rice and enjoy.
The afterthoughts:
- I love chile ancho because it is a very mild and almost sweet chile so it complemented the tomato sauce perfectly. The meatballs were very interesting because of the different flavors you found in them in evey bite. This is perfect to keep your family and guests wondering the ingredients you used in them. I served this with tomatillo rice, which recipe I will be posting later in the week.
¡Buen provecho!
[donotprint]In another note, the following picture is my entry to Click, the best food photography event on the web, of which I am honored to be a judge this month (I can't believe it either!). This month's theme is allium, food for me wouldn't be the same without that beautiful and delicious botanic famly.[/donotprint]


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Kelly Monteith has a been a comedian for more than thirty five years. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and its suburb Kirkwood, he migrated west at the age of seventeen to attend the famed Pasadena Playhouse College of Theater Arts. After graduating with a degree in theater he was well prepared for a life in show business. (I was in hock up to my eyeballs.) In order to support his habit, (eating), he took a series of odd jobs, (booking drunks at the LAPD's central jail. It doesn't get much odder than that), and after a stint in the U.S. Naval Air Reserve he took his classical theatrical training and put it to practical use doing stand up comedy in strip clubs working to a bunch of horny drunks.
Although strip clubs were not the most conducive environment to creative development, they did teach Monteith the necessary skills to survive in show business. (For one thing it taught me how to share a dressing room with a stripper without becoming…well, you know, involved. A skill I'm happy to say, that I failed in.) From strip clubs he graduated to working the Playboy clubs, where he continued to develop his stand-up skills. (I still worked to horny drunks, but horny drunks with a membership!) During this time he landed an audition for the Mike Douglas Show which resulted in being chosen to make his television debut on that show. That led to an appearance on Jack Paar's return to late night television where Kelly's appearance was singled out in a Time Magazine review of the show. (It said I was a "new and funny comic". Not a big review but hey it was in Time. Two years before I was intro-ing strippers at the Body Shop in Atlanta!) That appearance led to the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson where he made his first of numerous (over 40) appearances and The Merv Griffin Show, where he appeared regularly.
Soon he, (Kelly Monteith, in case you the reader has A.D.D.), was appearing in every major room in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno as well as theaters throughout the United States and Canada, sharing the bill with the Who's Who of performers (some of who are still alive!), from the likes of Bill Cosby and Loretta Lynn to Aretha Franklin and Tony Bennett to name just a few. (It was an honor to share the bill with them, supremely talented all.) Along with television and personal appearances he had his own summer show on CBS, "The Kelly Monteith Show" and a late night show, "No Holds Barred" (which if memory serves, was cancelled during the credit roll).
After two highly successful appearances on a British "chat" show, the Des O'Connor Show, he was offered his own series on the BBC, which he created, wrote (with Neil Shand) and starred in. It ran on both BBC2 and BBC1 for six years. In its first year of production the series was one of two shows chosen to represent the BBC in the prestigious Montreux Television Festival in Montreux, Switzerland where it won the Silver Rose.
During the series run (this is getting serious now) he began touring the United Kingdom, selling out concerts in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, culminating in a Command Performance in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II, (no we didn't date, those are just nasty rumors), and a "Night of a Hundred Stars" in the presence of Princess Margaret. (See pics in the Photo Gallery). Upon the completion of the series' six year run, he, (Kelly again), performed a one man show in London's West End, the British equivalent to Broadway. Returning to the United States with a wife and new baby daughter, which a few years later became two. (Another baby that is, a boy. The way I phrased it made it sound like our daughter cloned herself.) Monteith hit the road once again, working comedy clubs, appearances with Jay Leno and David Letterman and hosting a syndicated show called "The Hit Squad", which predated "America's Funniest Home Videos".
Mr. Monteith continues to make television appearances and tour extensively. When not performing he's ensconced in his Malibu manse where he writes. (Checks, mostly. Okay, I admit I don't have a 'Malibu manse' but you got to admit it does dress up the bio.) In addition to his stand-up he (me, Kelly remember?) is very excited about his independent feature film comedy, "A Lousy Ten Grand", which he wrote, directed and appeared in along with a terrific ensemble cast.
To prove that Monteith has completely lost his sanity he has filmed another independent feature film titled: "Too Hip For The Room", due out later this year.


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Monday, October 19, 2009
SF Nike Women's Marathon
(Photos courtesy of SF Gate)
Did yesterday really happen? Here is my recollection. Waking up, eating, putting on my gear (and yes I wore a pair of my trail shoes, La Sportiva Skylites). Next I arrived at the start, nervous, excited, typical prior race feelings. Then we started running. I kept a fast, but comfortable pace. When I arrived at mile one in 6 minutes I realized I needed to settle in a bit more. There I was leading the race, the pace car in front of me, motorcycles by my side, and the nicest woman ever biking near by. She kept being blown away by my climbing. Hills yes SF has them, but they are not like running up a mountain. And I explained that I loved to run up mountains. Before I knew it I was at mile 10. I was in disbelief that I was still leading. A couple 1/2 marathoners cruised past and I was sad when they turned off to finish. Where was everyone else I thought? I came through the half way mark on target for a 2:51. I just kept breathing and enjoyed the encouragement from people I knew, people I didn't know, and seeing all the other women out there running, smiling, and achieving their goals. As I came into mile 17 I saw Rick Gaston. I was so excited to see a fellow trail runner and grabbing a water at the same time turned into a bad mix. I fell. All these times running on trails with roots and rocks and I fall running on a road, go figure. I jumped back up and started running, everyone cheered. It took a bit to get back into a groove, but I did. I slowed down a bit in those last 8/9 miles, but just tried to stay consistent. My legs are not trained for the faster leg turnover and I think they were a bit confused. At around mile 20, I started to realize I might win. Honestly I got a bit freaked out, but once again I just settled in and enjoyed calculating my finish time in my head. I knew if I just stayed at my current pace I would run under 3 hours. Before I knew it there was mile 25 and I thought holy shit this is really happening. I am really going to finish first and all those people are going crazy for me. Part of me wanted to cry, smile, and laugh all at the same time. I crossed through the banner in 2:58 and I was greeted by Joan Benoit Samuelson ,Kara Goucher, and a crew of paparazzi. I got my knees cleaned up and then got to spend time with a few other top finishers. Everyone was so nice and down to earth, got to love that! I got to celebrate in the afternoon with friends. I have to say it was a good day. Every time I run I am blown away by how much I love it. By how much potential there is in all of us. By the strength of consistency, trust, and acceptance. And thanks everyone for the super kind words and enthusiasm!!!! Hope all the other women felt that out there yesterday too!
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21 comments:
- trailmomma said...
Awesome awesome job. I was there. Ran the half. Beautiful day. Beautiful course. Congrats on a great win and a great race. I did chuckle about the fall though. That is so my style. :)
- October 19, 2009 at 3:11 PM
- 209Mike said...
You are a frickin' stud. Congratulations on another great run.
- October 19, 2009 at 4:22 PM
- Bob - BlogMYruns.com said...
lol love the dark trail shoes look in the photo as you motor down the Road with bloody knees ... Classic!
Trail Shoes,
Road Fall
1st Place - Priceless
I was looking for results yesterday and I was wondering how you did ...then I read the article from the examiner earlier today and Said: OH I guess she did pretty good :-)
Congrats !!!
- October 19, 2009 at 4:29 PM
- Devon said...
Congrats girl! I am so proud of you!!! I can totally relate to your feelings about running and winning the marathon. It feels so surreal. Very different than the ultrarunning/mountain running scene that is for sure. I think it is just freaking fantastic that you had such a great day out there! So what are you thoughts about 2012 :)?
- October 19, 2009 at 5:11 PM
- Rick Gaston said...
You finished the race with bloody knees and a pair of trail shoes, like Mike said, you are such a stud. I'm glad you had a great day in San Francisco. That finishing picture with those two, priceless.
- October 19, 2009 at 6:04 PM
- David Ray said...
Well, okay, then. Another day at the office. Just your friendly neighborhood superstar. That's a good payoff for the bumming taper week. Congrat on a great race!
- October 19, 2009 at 6:04 PM
- Luke said...
absolutely amazing, you are incredible!!
- October 19, 2009 at 6:58 PM
- Scotty said...
Isn't cool when a random person says "You were awesome." ?
You were awesome.
- October 19, 2009 at 9:16 PM
- Buzz said...
Sub 3 and the big W ... congratulations! What a year. You look good.
- October 19, 2009 at 10:18 PM
nice race. ditch the trail boots and skirt; train to run a flat/fast course (e.g., CIM) with some decent competition and a 'b' standard time is a very realistic goal. good luck.
- October 19, 2009 at 10:56 PM
- SteveQ said...
Congrats! Everyone beat me to the bloody knees/ trail shoes comments.
- October 20, 2009 at 8:46 AM
- Old Man said...
Ditch the skirt and boots? Yeah, for sure, cause you know the CIM with a negative elevation gain and such wild switchbacks is so, yawn, interesting, especially for mtn climbers. But you know, if you put away your trail shoes, you might have a pair of flip flops (or something else more suitable for the road?) that you can wear for this ridiculous ego booster (gee, how fast can i run if i fell off a cliff?) sideshow. However, do remember that nike blew it big last year win they awarded an "elite" runner with a 3:06 time with the win even though an amateur won it in 2:55:11. So yeah, you won, but you know you can so blow that time. Regardless of trail vs. road sentiments, go for it next year, win the CIM, and then qualify for London 1212 trials. Shaka.
- October 20, 2009 at 11:35 PM
CIM last year was won in 2:32
- October 21, 2009 at 10:36 PM
- willgotthardt said...
Hard to find any fault in someone who can, on essentially a whim, throw on a skirt, grab the least muddy pair of shoes from the pile by the door, and throw down a sub-3hr/8min-gap win in her first road marathon in over seven years.
Caitlin, your only possible limit is the uniquely wide scope of your running talent(s). Just make sure you continue to push into areas you enjoy, and not get pulled (there will be a lot of that ahead).
Anyways, great fucking race, best of luck in Germany, keep it rolling.
Cheers, Will G.
- October 22, 2009 at 12:00 PM
You are a running goddess! What an amazing result and great story - bloody knees, trail shoes, victory!
Can't wait to see how you do in other road races while you continue to dominate on the trails.
- October 23, 2009 at 9:30 AM
- Thomas Bussiere said...
Enjoy the moment - Make it last! What an amazing race.
- October 23, 2009 at 9:22 PM
- Marco said...
Caitlin, awesome job! You are amazing. To even think about running a marathon hurts my legs. Our company produced all the printed graphics for the race (including the finish line banner!) Good luck next year! - Marco
- October 27, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- Scott Dunlap said...
Way to make us trail runners proud! Can't imagine how fast you would have gone with say, road training and a pair of racing flats. Another day, perhaps. ;-)
- October 28, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- Scott Dunlap said...
And I'm with Devon - time to put 2012 Olympic Trials on your agenda. You easily have low 2:40's in you (as does Devon).
- October 28, 2009 at 7:06 PM
- Monica said...
Congrats on all your race's! Good luck with all your race's in the future. have fun and be blessed!
- November 4, 2009 at 10:06 PM
- Jesse said...
Wow, congratulations. I've been following your blog since I got into ultra running and appreciate your insightful but down-to-earth writing style. I was up there for this event, running a friend in the last 9 miles. What a beautiful course to win on.
- November 7, 2009 at 3:21 PM


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All this ambiguity is deeply frustrating to Ed Miller, spokesman for the American Lung Association's Maine chapter. "It's the wild, wild West out there," he said.
The lung association's stance is that smoke-free laws should be applied to e-cigarettes, even if what comes out of them is vapor rather than secondhand smoke. Miller cites a German study that found trace amounts of formaldehyde and benzine in the vapor emissions. But while no one seems to be able to locate any definitive research, more people are discovering the products.
One of the key statistics that fuels Miller and Simon's concern and the nationwide debate over e-cigarettes is the increase in the number of middle and high school students who say they have tried them. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, between 2011 and 2012 the percentage of kids in grades 6-12 who said they'd used the battery-operated cigarettes increased from 3.3 percent to 6.8 percent. And e-cigarettes come in such flavors as chocolate, orange, caramel and even, if you hunt for it online, something called Cap'n Crunch Berries.
"The e-cigarette industry is really taking its tactics from the cigarette industry on how it is marketing to the kids," Miller said. "It's ripped from Big Tobacco's playbook."
When it comes to that SmokeEnds car on the Thornton Academy campus, Carrie Gorham would vehemently disagree. Her reasons for letting her daughter drive the car to school had everything to do with convenience, not marketing.
"Are there are companies out there doing that?" she said. "Oh, my God, yes, and we combat them every single day."
If she were selling regular cigarettes and driving a car wrapped in, say, Marlboro advertisements, she never would have let her child drive it to school. But she feels so good about the business she started three years ago, shortly after throwing her last seven traditional cigarettes into a mud puddle, that she sometimes forgets that others might not feel the same way.
"We are trying to save people," Gorham said. "I feel that we are making a difference in this world." She tiptoes around the word "healthy," careful not to make promises she knows are false. "All I know is this is a far better alternative."
A former dog groomer, she was spurred to start the Kennebunk-based business by the death of her former mother-in-law. "She died of a massive heart attack at 62 with a cigarette in her mouth," Gorham said. During that time, when Gorham was heartbroken and disgusted with her own "horrible" habit, her husband, Steve, introduced her to e-cigarettes. She liked one brand but found them hard to find and decided that she wanted to go into the distribution business herself.
Eventually that led to trademarking her own brand and working with a factory in China, where the first e-cigarettes were produced. Now they have several employees, including Carrie's brother John Graham, and seven cars in the SmokeEnds fleet. Most of them, Gorham points out, are hybrids. She worries about the environment. She cares about cancer victims. She said she raised $500 for a breast cancer patient who needed wigs by selling e-cigarettes with a pink cartridge. Her customers are grateful.
"People are so excited," she said. "It's like a breath of fresh air to still smoke but without all the bad crap."
While it's true that e-cigarettes don't contain tar, they do contain nicotine – otherwise they'd do nothing for the person with the chemical addiction to the tobacco product. A battery in an e-cigarette fires a heating coil, which warms a liquid containing nicotine. When the user inhales, it produces a nicotine vapor.
Demonstrating, Gorham exhales out her nose like a practiced cigarette smoker, but there's more of a sense of something light passing through the air than an actual smell. She calls it smoking – old habits –but the industry name for what you do with an e-cigarette is "vaping."
The FDA's proposed regulations on e-cigarettes were expected in October, but the government shutdown slowed that process, and an FDA spokeswoman said the agency can't speculate on timing. In September, Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills joined with 39 other state and territorial attorneys general in calling for the FDA to place restrictions on them by classifying them as "tobacco products" under the Tobacco Control Act. This would limit the advertising and marketing of e-cigarettes to youth. No more Stephen Dorff ads.
As the CDC noted in its report on the use of e-cigarettes by people under 18, there are other components in the e-cigarettes, including a component to produce the aerosol, which could be propylene glycol or glycerol. In addition, the CDC report said "potentially harmful constituents also have been documented in some e-cigarette cartridges, including irritants, genotoxins, and animal carcinogens." These ingredients are untested, and vary from one product to another.
"The consumer has no idea what's in there," Miller said.
The flavorings are another factor. For Miller, they are a clear indication that the industry, which produces between 200 and 250 brands, is catering to a youthful market.
Carrie Gorham doesn't see it that way. As she vaped from an orange-flavored cartridge at a Scarborough restaurant, she said she favors a flavored e-cigarette because her taste buds, damaged from years of smoking regular cigarettes, crave a flavor agent.
Her vaping went unnoticed by a waitress and the rest of the staff, which local restaurateurs say is common.
At Foreplay in Portland, bar manager Jeff Nappi said he'd hardly seen anyone using e-cigarettes in the bar in recent years. There's one regular who used them for a while, he said, but went outside to do so. At J's Oyster, a waitress who vapes also goes outside. E-cigarettes have not been a factor at DiMillo's restaurant, except for one server who uses them in public areas.
"It raises some eyebrows, but in my opinion doesn't ruffle too many feathers," owner Johnny DiMillo wrote in an email. "I wouldn't deter any of our diners from using these devices any more than the occasional obnoxious kid with a beeping and buzzing cell phone or iPad totally disengaged from the rest of their dining group."
But the lack of direction from the FDA leaves business owners unclear on how to proceed.
"I was wondering what I would say if someone pulled one out at Becky's," said Becky Rand, whose Becky's Diner is a popular waterfront destination. "Don't they produce a vapor? For people who haven't heard of them, there are going to be some questions." Her inclination is to ask e-cigarette users to step outside. But she has sympathy for smokers, "because they are addicted and it is just the way the cigarette companies want them to be," she said.
She struggled to keep both her smoking customers and her nonsmoking customers happy in the days before Portland eliminated indoor smoking, she said. Being banished outside wasn't popular with the smokers, but "they are used to being second-class citizens on this issue," she said.
Gorham would agree with this. "We haven't been citizens of the United States for 10 years," she said. And then, once more, over pizza and in public, she vaped.
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Flexible cords and cabling are very useful, allowing us to do things that Chapter 3 wiring methods do not. But this flexibility comes at a cost, and that cost is increased vulnerability. For that reason, Art. 400 requirements are essential for safety.
Fig. 1. Refer to Sec. 400.5(A) and (B) for guidance on the ampacity of flexible cords.
We can see the various types of flexible cords and cables in Table 400.4, which takes up seven pages and comprises more than half of Art. 400. The first rule of working with flexible cords and cables is always use that table. Some other basic rules to always keep in mind include:
- Always use a cord and fittings identified for the application [400.3].
- Never use a flexible cord or cable in place of a permanent wiring method.
- Replace, rather than patch, a damaged cord or cable.
Tables 400.5(A) and 400.5(B) list the allowable ampacity for flexible cords and flexible cables with not more than three current-carrying conductors at an ambient temperature of 86°F. The tables assume copper conductors.
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- If the number of current-carrying conductors in a cable or raceway exceeds three, adjust the allowable ampacity of each conductor with the multipliers listed in Table 400.5.
- If the ambient temperature exceeds 86°F, the temperature correction factors listed in Table 310.16 are used to adjust the flexible cord or cable ampacity (Fig. 1).
Permitted uses
Fig. 2. There's no maximum length requirement for cords in the NEC.
Wiring methods for flexible cords and cables aren't like those defined in Chapter 3. So, where can you use them? Per 400.7, you can use them in the following applications:
- Pendants [210.50(A) and 314.23(H)] if the cords are identified for pendant use in Table 400.4.
- Wiring of luminaires as allowed by 410.24(A) and 410.62(B).
- Connection of portable luminaires, portable and mobile signs, or appliances as allowed in 422.16 [400.7(A)(3), but when used with attachment plugs [400.7(B)].
- Elevator cables.
- Wiring of cranes and hoists.
- Connection of utilization equipment to facilitate frequent interchange [422.16], but only when used with attachment plugs [400.7(B)], as shown in Fig. 2.
- Prevention of the transmission of noise or vibration [422.16].
- Appliances where the fastening means and mechanical connections are specifically designed to permit ready removal for maintenance and repair, and the appliance is intended or identified for flexible cord connections [422.16], but only when used with attachment plugs [400.7(B)].
- Connection of moving parts.
- Where specifically permitted elsewhere in the NEC.
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In 400.8, the NEC lists specific types of uses that are not permitted for flexible cords and cables [400.8]. Unless specifically allowed in 400.7, flexible cords must not be:
- Used as substitutes for the fixed wiring of a structure.
- Run through holes in walls, structural ceilings, suspended or dropped ceilings, or floors.
- Run through doorways, windows, or similar openings.
- Attached to building surfaces.
- Concealed by walls, floors, or ceilings — or located above suspended or dropped ceilings (Fig. 3).
- Installed in raceways, except as permitted elsewhere in the NEC.
- Used or installed in a manner that unduly exposes them to physical damage.
Fig. 3. The NEC doesn't permit the use of flexible cords and cables in certain situations, including above suspended or dropped ceilings.
Some clarification is in order for the fifth bulleted item above. You can use flexible cords under a raised floor with removable panels used for environmental air, because this area isn't considered a concealed space. See the definition of "Exposed" in Art. 100.
You can install receptacles above suspended or dropped ceilings, but you can't install flexible cords up there to plug into them. So what's the point of installing the receptacle? The receptacle can supply power for portable lights and tools, but that receptacle can't be used to supply cord- and plug-connected equipment fastened in place, such as a permanently mounted projector.
Fig. 4. Flexible cords must be installed so that tension will not be transmitted to the conductor terminals.
Install flexible cords so tension, including that from the weight of the cord, won't be transmitted to the conductor terminals [400.10]. While the NEC allows you to accomplish this by knotting the cord or winding the cord with tape, it's best to use fittings designed for the purpose, such as strain-relief fittings (Fig. 4).
While a strain-relief fitting is optional, other types of fittings may not be. You must use bushings or fittings to protect cords where they pass through holes in covers, outlet boxes, or similar enclosures [400.14].
While you normally can't install flexible cords in raceways, there is a provision in the Code that allows cords inside raceways for a specific type of installation. In industrial establishments where the conditions of maintenance and supervision ensure that only qualified persons will service the installation, you can install flexible cords or flexible cables in aboveground raceways — but only if the cords/cables aren't more than 50 ft long [400.14].
Overcurrent protection
Flexible cords and cables must be protected against overcurrent in accordance with 240.5, which contains the following requirements:
- Overcurrent devices must not be rated higher than the cord's ampacity, as specified in Table 400.5(A) and Table 400.5(B) [240.5(A)].
- Flexible cord for listed utilization equipment is considered protected when used per the equipment listing requirements [240.5(B)(1)].
- Extension cord sets are considered protected when used per the extension cord listing requirements [240.5(B)(3)].
- Flexible cord used in field-assembled extension cords, made with separately listed and installed components, can be supplied by a 20A branch circuit for 16 AWG and larger conductors [240.5(B)(4)].
Conductor identification
How do you know which conductor in a cord is the neutral? It must be identified using one of the following methods [400.22]:
- White or gray colored braid.
- Colored tracer in the braid.
- White, gray, or light blue insulation.
- Ridges, grooves or white stripes on the exterior of the cord.
The equipment grounding conductor must be identified with one of the following methods [400.23]:
- Continuous green color.
- Continuous identifying marker distinguishing it from the other conductors.
If a conductor in a cord or cable has insulation that's green or green with one or more yellow stripes, don't use it for an ungrounded or neutral conductor [250.119].
Fixture wires
Fixture wires are flexible conductors used for wiring fixtures and control circuits, but not branch circuits. There are some special uses and requirements for fixture wires, and NEC Art. 402 deals especially with fixture wires. Some key points:
- No fixture wire can be smaller than 18 AWG [402.6].
- Fixture wires must be of a type listed in Table 402.3. That table makes up the bulk of Art. 402.
- The allowable ampacity of fixture wires is in Table 402.5.
Raceway size
Raceways must be large enough to permit the installation and removal of conductors without damaging conductor insulation [402.7]. The number of fixture wires permitted in a single raceway must not exceed the percentage fill specified in Table 1 of Chapter 9.
When all conductors in a raceway are the same size and insulation, you can use Annex C to determine the number of conductors permitted for the raceway type.
When all conductors are not of the same insulation type or the same size, then Chapter 9, Table 5 is used to find the area of all conductors, and Chapter 9, Table 4 is then used to size the raceway that can accommodate that conductor fill.
Neutral identification
The fixture wire used as a neutral conductor must have continuous white stripes or be identified by one of the means allowed for the neutral of flexible cords and cables as listed in 400.22(A) through (E) [402.8]. Always remember that in order to prevent electric shock, the screw shell of a luminaire or lampholder must be connected to the neutral conductor [200.10(C) and 410.50].
Permitted uses
You can use fixture wires:
- For installation in luminaires (and similar equipment), where enclosed and protected and not subject to bending and twisting in use [402.10].
- To connect luminaires to their branch circuit conductors [402.10].
- For elevators and escalators [620.11(C)], Class 1 control and power-limited circuits [725.49(B)], and nonpower-limited fire alarm circuits [760.49(B)].
You can't use fixture wires, however, for branch-circuit wiring, except as permitted elsewhere in the Code [402.11].
Overcurrent protection
Fixture wires are allowed to be tapped off of a branch-circuit conductor following the requirements of [240.5(B)(2)]:
- 20A circuits can supply: 18AWG, up to 50 ft of run length; 16AWG, up to 100 ft; 14AWG and larger for any length.
- 30A circuits can supply: 14AWG and larger.
- 40A and 50A circuits can supply: 12AWG and larger.
Fixture wires used for motor control circuit taps must have overcurrent protection per 430.72(A), and Class 1 remote-control circuits must have overcurrent protection per 725.43.
The requirements for flexible cords, cables, and fixture wires aren't hard to meet; however, violating them can cause serious problems. Always remember that the rules for flexible cords and cables are in Art. 400 and fixture wires are covered by Art. 402, then start by using the tables in these articles for application and ampacity details.


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Genealogy News Alert: Ancestry to Acquire Archives.com
Today Ancestry.com announced it's plans to acquire Archives.com in the following press announcement. The press release I received included an additional note from Tim Sullivan, CEO of Ancestry:
"In some ways, we view our deal with Archives.com as a coming-of-age moment for the online family history category....We very much view the acquisition of Archives.com as a way for us to accelerate our strategy of serving multiple customer segments with well differentiated offerings. I want to emphasis that our plan is to keep Archives.com as a distinct brand and site, to continue to nurture its existing partnerships, and to continue to invest in new content, product and technology."
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PROVO, Utah, April 25, 2012 – Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOM) announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Archives.com, a family history website, for approximately $100 million in cash and assumed liabilities.
This transaction will enable Ancestry.com to add a differentiated service targeted to a complementary segment of the growing family history category. In addition, Ancestry.com will welcome a team of talented engineers, digital marketers, and family history innovators into the Ancestry.com fold and also gain access to a proprietary technology platform that has supported Archives.com's rapid growth.
Archives.com is owned and operated by Inflection LLC, a Silicon Valley-based technology company. Since Archives.com's launch in January 2010, the site has rapidly grown to more than 380,000 paying subscribers who pay approximately $39.95 a year. Archives.com offers access to over 2.1 billion historical records, including birth records, obituaries, immigration and passenger lists, historical newspapers, and U.S. and U.K. Censuses.
"Archives.com has built a fantastic and fast-growing business that we think is highly complementary to Ancestry.com's online family history offering," said Tim Sullivan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ancestry.com. "We love their focus on making family history simple and affordable, and we are excited to help the talented Archives.com team continue to grow alongside Ancestry.com, Fold3.com, and Family Tree Maker."
"Family history remains a dynamic and growing online category," added Sullivan. "Archives.com's focus is consistent with our mission to help everyone discover, preserve and share their family history, which will help continue our efforts in delivering amazing discoveries to an even broader audience."
Over the past two years, Archives.com has partnered with multiple well-known family history organizations that have helped build out Archives.com robust collection of family history records. Most recently, Archives.com partnered with the U.S. National Archives to provide free digital access to the recently released 1940 U.S. Federal Census.
"We are proud of the experience we've built with Archives.com and believe strongly in its future potential," said Matthew Monahan, CEO and Co-Founder of Inflection. "Combining with Ancestry.com positions Archives.com to best capitalize on that potential, pairing complementary visions of the marketplace and the opportunity. We've long admired Ancestry.com's content and technology and the innovations that the Ancestry.com team continues to bring to market. We're excited to see how this transaction expands the reach of family history to an even larger audience."
Upon completion of the transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, including expiration of the HSR waiting period, Ancestry.com will continue to operate Archives.com separately retaining its brand and website. Multiple Inflection employees, including key product and engineering executives are expected to join the Ancestry.com team.
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Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOM) is the world's largest online family history resource, with more than 1.8 million paying subscribers. More than 9 billion records have been added to the site in the past 15 years. Ancestry users have created more than 34 million family trees containing approximately 4 billion profiles. In addition to its flagship site, Ancestry.com offers several localized Web sites designed to empower people to discover, preserve and share their family history.
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I don't like Ancestry.com gobbling up the small companies! Leave them alone!They are just getting rid of any competition. I don't trust Ancestry with all the info funneled into them! I don't like their high prices! I joined Archives.com. but may not renew when it comes up.
Sincerely, Linda
- April 26, 2012 at 5:43 PM
It sounds like an asset to the users. I feel confident that you will continue to serve the customers and keep us all happy. Keeping the price down is a very good selling point.
- April 26, 2012 at 7:07 PM
I agree with Linda, the bigger the company, the less competition to provide information. Ancestry is a great site, but Archives offers you something very different. I like looking at the data in different formats, because sometimes I find things that I didn't find on Ancestry.
- April 26, 2012 at 7:21 PM
- Johanna Louise said...
I realize ancestry.com has billions of records, but I find that inaccuracies are huge. I also find that the flashing green leaves are generally not helpful and it costs a lot of unnecessary effort and time to deal with them. Info in many trees that are obviously just copy jobs from other trees is often incorrect. Trying to get these fixed and corrected is seemingly not possible. I believe that is because ancestry charges people to see their own trees, and perhaps the tree owners are not members for whatever reason. I am also a member of Archives.com and am somewhat uncomfortable about them being acquired by ancestry.com
J. Blackford
- April 27, 2012 at 4:33 AM
Ancestry is trying to be a monopoly. Where can we go to get something for free anymore? BJ
- April 27, 2012 at 9:07 AM
As a subscriber of Archives, I've enjoyed being able to view newspaper clippings that I never would have known about.
I agree with the other comments about the Ancestry.com monopoly. Leave the little guys alone.
- April 28, 2012 at 5:42 AM
While our numbers are growing, there are only so many family historians and genealogists who are willing to pay for subscriptions to such websites as archives.com and ancestry.com. Those subscriptions are the revenue that allows these companies to continue to digitize and index more records.
While I believe that some competition is necessary, I can also see that more players in the genealogy records business means diluted revenue for all resulting in more duplication of existing record sets and less new material digitized and indexed.
That said, I would have to say I'm in favor of this acquisition of archives.com by Ancestry, but I am also very interested to see what happens when brightsolid steps into the US genealogy record arena beyond their current www.censusrecords.com website.
With their pay-as-you-go option and the expertise they bring from their UK website "Find My Past", I think they will be a very worth competitor to Ancestry.com.
- April 28, 2012 at 6:13 AM
I question how Ancentry.com gets all information off the internet. What I could get for free I find I am no longer able to get with out paying a fee because information is gobbled up by Ancenstry.com I resent this very much
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I received some interesting feedback on a previous post of mine (Defect Count is Constant), and it really prompted me to define what is a defect, and why I believe that the defect count is fairly constant. This comment was from a developer, but I'm sure applies to many more people and roles in software.
I definitely don't want to ship a non-perfect product. Especially because I just got out of school (a year ago) and every assignment I handed in (except one) was perfect.
Before I get into what is a defect, let's look at an official definition:
- Dictionary.com - "The lack of something necessary or desirable for completion or perfection."
So why do I say it is inevitable that all software will have defects? It's easy to say that my experience has proven this again and again, but that's a coward's answer. The truth is that there are a number of reasons. First, here is my definition of a defect:
The software does not do something that it is supposed to do.
I know my definition seems fairly vague, and that is by design. Every piece of software is supposed to do something. What that is, who determines it, what the customer wants, these are all negotiable and this is where some of the confusion sets in. If a customer wants a button that turns the screen green, and the product manager writes a specification to make the screen blue, the programmer could make the world's most perfect button, the code could be beautiful, and the testing could pass without a hitch; and it is still a defect. The customer is not getting what they want. Don't think that I feel the customer is always innocent, sometimes they say green and mean an off shade of lavender, but that is a different post for a different day. While this may seem like a very simple issue, and one that could be fixed quickly, start to image an exponentially more complex scenario. 250+ customers, 50+ high priority customers, all who want the same features to work in different ways, 10 people in product management writing specifications, 60 developers spread across 3 countries, 5 timezones, and 2 continents, and 60 testers, only 10 of which have any experience with the prior iterations of the product. Now you can start to see where things fall through the cracks.
Sources of defects:
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- Poor Requirements
- Missing Requirements
- Missed Defects in Testing
- Misinterpreted Customer Requests
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- And Many More.....
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Again, why does all software have defects? The truth is, there is software out there that literally has 0 defects. According to my previous post, that software's constant defect count could be 0. All versions of that software should ship with 0 defects. But as you increase complexity, dependencies, and requirements, the defect count will always increase. I won't begin to project percentages of the defect could that could be attributed to any particular source, and that is usually dependent on the team and its process. A team with a really strong customer interaction and strong product management probably has very few requirements defects. This also typically trends to a higher level of developer defects since the requirements contain additional detail, and that leaves additional details to be missed during the programming process.
The other hidden truth in a constant defect count is the severity of these defects. Sure, the number of defects remains virtually the same, but the average severity should continue to decrease throughout the testing phase of the product lifecycle. A critical defect, in my mind defined as a defect that you can't ship without fixing, will get fixed. While re-testing is, the tester may find a typo on the screen. Now, the total defect count hasn't changed, but I think everyone would agree it's better to ship a product with a typo then a product that doesn't install properly (example of a critical defect).
At the end of the day, everyone is human. The more complex the task, the higher the risk and occurrence of defects. This is to be expected, and it becomes the role of the leads and managers to work through the list of defects. So yes, it is possible for software to be perfect, but the likelihood of that is inversely proportional to the size of the project. The true skill is in being able to manage a product and ship a release that isn't perfect, but having a solid enough understanding to ship the important pieces well, and make sure that all of the known defects are manageable.
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MACOMB, IL - The second annual Western Illinois University Piano Festival is coming to The WIU School of Music with guest artist Lori Sims on Saturday, Oct. 12 in the COFAC Recital Hall.
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Ecomorphism is the antithesis of anthropomorphism. Instead of seeing myself at the center of my world, I can now see my human activity—and yours—in terms of our connectedness to nonhuman life. For centuries the poets have said, "that mourning dove is singing a song as sad as I am sad" or "that cloud looks as happy the way I am happy as it skitters across the sky." Now we need to reconsider both the tenor and the vehicle of such anthropomorphic metaphors. The vehicle is the subject—humans—from which the characteristic (sadness or happiness) is taken. The tenor is the natural subject (bird or cloud) to which the human characteristic is given. Poets and other imaginative creators should now consider reversing this metaphoric order in the interest of ecocentrism. No longer should we just imagine ants as resembling humans. We now need to point out that humans often act like ants, or birds, or even clouds. A bird does not build a house the way I build a house, but I can roost just the way a bird roosts: ecomorphism.
This difference between anthropomorphism and ecomorphism is subtle but significant. Science has revealed to us that ant-colonies are like human communities, but equally important is the idea that human colonies are like ant colonies. Both are adaptive responses to specific social conditions. Likewise, butterflies do not use mimicry and thereby make themselves disguised the way humans use disguises. Humans use forms mimicry, derived from mimicry in butterflies and other "lower" creatures, to accomplish similar goals. Humans gather and store food the way squirrels do, not vice versa. Humans seek mates like the rest of sexually-selecting nature does. We are more like them than they are like us.
If it ever made sense to describe the nonhuman world as human, it no longer makes sense to talk about the "melancholy mourning dove" or the "anxious anteater". It now makes much more practical and poetic sense to describe ourselves in relation to the rest of nature than it does to humanize the nonhuman. If we want to keep thinking of ourselves as special—as superior to ants, and wasps, and birds—that is fine, but we should also recognize that we derive directly from, and are thus always linked to, the rest of wild nature. They came first. We arose out of them in the first place. We were not self-generated. Our humanity is deeply intertwined with and invested in all of the creatures that predate us on the evolutionary scale. Our own special status—when it exists—derives directly from our self-interest, nothing more, nothing less, but so does a chimpanzee's special status.
Ecomorphism sees human activity as dependent upon—and interdependent with—all ecological interactions on earth. At the same time, human activity plays an increasingly important role in all ecological systems. Human fires pump countless tons of airborne waste products into an ecosystem that has always produced its own "destructive" elements: volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes. Now, however, the three-pound blob of our human brain is always the self-conscious definer of the problem. Destruction only makes sense from a human point of view. No dinosaur worried about rapid climate change on the planet. No trilobite was troubled by alterations in ocean temperature. Even from our human perspective, the flood that brings death and destruction to the Nile or the Mississippi deltas also brings moisture, and nutrients, and life.
Our brain not only creates the sense of what we have to fear; it also reconnects us to the wider world around us. Ecomorphism emphasizes this need to see ourselves as determined by—while existing within—a world that lies beyond the illusory border of our bodies. The complex fact of consciousness is the condition that allows us to appreciate this central truth about our surroundings. We are a part of every environment we inhabit. There is no absolute separation between a world outside (nature) and a world inside (the mind). Our own self-consciousness—as writers from Shelley and Keats to Annie Dillard and Wendell Berry have reminded us—can give way to forms of unselfconsciousness that allow for fleeting unification between individuals and the wider world. Mystics from every cultural tradition have also known this truth. Such unselfconsciousness may best be described as environmental ambience. Ambience describes the unification of every element in a set of natural circumstances with the conscious mind that perceives those surroundings. In an ambient unity of self and surroundings lies one hope for an ecocentric ecology. As Tim Morton—one of the architects of ecoambience—puts the problem, "Ecology may [now] be without nature. But it is not without us" (205).
In recent years, ecocritics have described the progression from several millennia of Judeo-Christian thinking about the dominion of humans over animals, through Romantic empathy in the writings of authors like Blake, Shelley and Keats, toward our current willingness to emphasize our dependence on, not our dominion over, our natural surroundings. This development began in Genesis 1:28, when "God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." Once God told us to subdue the earth, and offered us dominion over creation, humans had to decide how to use their new powers. They often misused them. The history of this misuse is recorded in centuries of environmental degradation, culminating in the ravages of twentieth-century industrialization, and in untold suffering of sentient beings, from captive creatures to more widespread animal cruelty.
Progress toward a new view began with an emphasis on pristine nature and natural law during the Enlightenment and the centuries since. This new view can be seen in gendered terms. Monotheistic and patriarchal dominion gave way, by the late eighteenth century, to mostly masculine articulations of Romantic empathy toward animals. Locke and Rousseau, among others, described a pristine natural state out of which we had all emerged. Keats and Shelley praised the birds and the beasts. In the twentieth-century, Romantic empathy merges with environmentalism, from Rachel Carson's silent spring to Al Gore's inconvenient truth. This modern ecoempathy has also evolved into what Carol Gilligan calls an "ethic of care." But an ethic of caring also needs an ethic of sharing. We need to share both the world we did not create—which we call "nature"—and the world we have created—which we call "culture." The two worlds are really one. From men with dominion, we have become humans who need to recognize our interdependence. From the illusion of arbitrary control we have moved toward an emphasis on symbiosis. In the process, we have reached our current desire to see the biosphere as a continuum of all life and all living process. From Jaweh's monotheological rod of control, we have made our way through Keats's anthropomorphic nightingale toward modern versions of ecocentrism and ecofeminism. The romanticist Nandita Batra has described this history as a long—often painful—progression from dominion to empathy to symbiosis (ISLE 3:2 Fall 1996). We might now want to call this sequence progress.
Blake's point-of-view in his lyric "The Fly," to choose just one example of ecoromanticism, puts us into an ecomorphic mindset by forcing us to ask, to what—or to whom—might I appear to be a fly?
Little Fly
Thy summers play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me? (ll. 1-8)
Such a dream of contact across the species line is not only the basis of all anthropomorphic thinking but also of all ecomorphism. A fly might be like you or me and, if he is, what might that say about us? Species boundary-crossing is not simply a metaphor; it is a scientific reality in the modern world. All species are connected. They can be metaphorically linked or literally linked. We have hinted at these metaphoric links since Aesop said that the ant was industrious, the fox was sly, and the tortoise patient. Now we know that there are literal links. We share genetic material with chimpanzee and crustaceans. We can transplant animal organs into humans. We can insert human genes into other species. We derive from and depend upon other species in countless ways. Ecoromanticism reminds of us these links from Blake's fly and Burns's mouse to Shelley's skylark and Mary Shelley's monster.
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Submitted by TimothyMorton (not verified) on
For a discussion of "The Fly" as ecological poem see chapter 3 of my Ecology without Nature.
What of the Cartesian undercurrent ("If thought is life and strength and breath, / And the want of thought is death")?
My fly-ness would then appear to be predicated on the dreaded Cartesian dualism (cue spooky organ music).


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