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Texas begins season with rout of Alcorn State
Austin, TX (Sports Network) – Kevin Durant scored 20 points as the 21st-
ranked Texas Longhorns opened their season with a 103-44 annihilation of
Alcorn State in the opening round of the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic.
A.J. Abrams and Damion James each scored 13 points to lead a balanced scoring
attack for the Longhorns (1-0), who won a school-record 30 games last season
en route to an appearance in the Elite Eight in the NCAA Tournament.
Texas will next face Chicago State in the second round of the tournament on
Delvin Thompson scored a team-high 15 points for the Braves (0-1), who are
coming off a disappointing 8-20 season last year that saw the team go winless,
0-10, in the SWAC.
Surprisingly, Texas got off to a slow start and Alcorn State held an early 9-1
lead. However, James' dunk ignited a 19-0 run and the blowout was on. Craig
Winder's layup capped the scoring spurt that made it a 20-9 game midway
through the first half.
The Braves would scored just nine more points the rest of the half as Texas
took a 48-18 lead into the locker room and outscored Alcorn State, 55-26 in
the second half.
Game Notes
The Longhorns are now 82-19 in season-openers, including 7-2 under head coach
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Saturday team news
Kenny Jackett hopes to welcome back Liam Trotter (back), Danny Shittu (knee) and Andy Keogh (toe) for Saturday's trip to the Reebok Stadium to face Bolton Wanderers.
The same applies to Keogh who has been out of action since the December win over Leicester City with a now-healed broken toe. New signing Martyn Woolford also looks likely to be involved in some capacity after joining the club on Thursday.
Trotter and Shittu both missed last weekend's FA Cup win over Preston North End but have trained this week and will be vying for a return to the squad.
Trotter and Shittu both missed last weekend's FA Cup win over Preston North End but have trained this week and will be vying for a return to the squad.
Chris Taylor (knee) also misses out, as does Paul Robinson (pelvis), though the latter this week returned to first team training.
Jackett, however, will be without the services of Liam Feeney who injured his hamstring against The Lilywhites and looks set to be on the sidelines for the next couple of weeks.
Millwall squad: Forde, M.Taylor, Beevers, Lowry, Osborne, Shittu, J.Smith, A.Smith, Dunne, Abdou, Trotter, Wright, Henderson, Keogh, N'Guessan, Batt, Marquis, Woolford, Henry.
Trotters boss Dougie Freedman looks set to add new signing Craig Davies to his squad after the striker penned a two-and-a-half year deal this week from Bristol City.
American midfielder Stuart Holden may not be rushed back into first team action despite making his comeback from a long-term knee problem in a development game on Tuesday night.


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Gang squad investigate after teenager shot in the foot in Regent's Park
Police believe the 17-year-old was cycling near Albany Road when he was shot
20 July, 2017 — By William McLennan
Doctors removed a bullet from the teen's foot
A TEENAGE boy was shot in the ankle as he cycled through the Regent's Park estate, police have said.
The 17-year-old took himself to hospital in the early hours of Monday and doctors removed a bullet from his foot.
Detectives from the Met's gangs unit are investigating the shooting, which is believed to have taken place near Albany Street at some point between 11:30pm on Sunday and 00:30am on Monday.
Police said the victim told them he was shot as he cycled around the Regent's Park estate.
The handgun found by police last month
If follows the discovery of a revolver and 13 rounds of ammunition in a unlocked vehicle in nearby Robert Street last month. Specialist officers carried out a fingertip search of the area after a tip-off from residents.
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When I was a child, I loved playing in nature as well as making
something by hand. So, I used to go to mountains to catch insects and
go fishing in a river. And I was absorbed in making plastic models.
Having had such a childhood, I worked as a businessman and lived a
quiet, uneventful life.
However, the turning point came to me when I was just 23 years old.
My grandfather who loved me passed away… In general, it is
common to cremate the deceased than bury them in Japan. And we
put the remaining bones in a ceramic jar called Kotsutsubo. After
putting them, Kotsutsubo is buried in a grave. In other words,
Kotsutsubo is an important place as we spend our last time.
However, a person who was an undertaker was about to put bones of
my grandfather in the dull and mass-produced ceramic jar. At that
moment, I had a strong uncomfortable feeling; "Is it the best place for
him as the end of his days?" And then, I wanted my parents to enter in
Kotsutsubo which I make when they pass away.
That gave me the resolve to change my job to day laborer and I decided
to go to Seto city. Because I thought Seto city which is famous
for producing ceramic ware was the best place for me to learn potter.
So, I began to study at ceramic school in Seto right away. It was very
tough time for me. After graduation, I moved to the Mino area and
trained with a focus on Mino-yaki (Mino ceramic ware). In Mino, I
discovered a type of ancient pottery called Atsumi- yaki that was
produced in the region of my hometown, Mikawa. Unlike Mino-yaki
whose production started in 15th century, the production of Atsumi-
yaki started in 12th century. And Atsumi-yaki was used as a roofing
tile of Todai-ji Temple. I was soon attracted to Atsumi-yaki. So, I've
been exploring the essence of pottery and Atsumi-yaki.
The themes of my works are "Fusion of the Middle Ages and
Modern times" and "Harmonize with nature". " Fusion of the
Middle Ages and Modern times" means an innovative approach using
not only solemnity and excellent technology of Middle Ages, but also a
technology that utilizes both modern beauty and modern usability. And
"Harmonize with nature" means that respecting for nature, making
my works using materials which have low impacts on the
environment and value the handicraft industry. And, I want to
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want everyone to realize the interest of manufacturing and
the wonderfulness of tradition.
The reason for my idea is that in Japan there seems to be a
tendency of ignoring Japanese traditional culture and technology.
Although the abandonment of old ideas and methods contributed
to the postwar economic recovery in Japan, it is still remains that
only something new is good in the mind of many young Japanese.
Especially young Japanese people have a prejudice against Japanese
traditional things as they are old-fashioned. And the less chance of
experiencing the traditional ones makes this worse. Although it is
difficult to break this situation by myself, I want everyone to give a
chance to contact our original culture. So, I should study the goodness
of the past and I am responsible for making the pottery which suits
modern life. And I want everyone to use my works every day.
I feel rejoiced that I can communicate with people throughout the
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Fiat money, part 3
Let's clear up some potentially confusing points about fiat money on our island:
We said that when the government spends, it increases net dollar wealth, and that when it taxes, it decreases net dollar wealth.
So you can think of the total government debt as the "national savings account". But it is important to note that when we say "savings", we are really referring to savings in the form of dollars (or Treasuries, which we'll get to later).
If I chop up some wood and build a bird house for my pet woodpecker, I've created wealth and my net worth (assuming that other people are interested in buying the bird house) has gone up. But my dollar wealth is unchanged. Since the total number of dollars out there is the same but there are more goods it can buy (because that spectacular bird house has been built), overall prices might have to come down. So you could argue that the government has to issue more dollars to keep pace with the amount of "real wealth" that is created.
Where does the extra money "come from"? Is the government racking up a bunch of debt?
You might be confused at this point as to where the money used for deficit spending comes from. There are two possible answers: the government can "print" the money, or it can "borrow" the money.
Let's start with borrowing, since that's the case most familiar to a lot of us.
In order to borrow money, the government has to print up a bunch of IOUs and sell them. We'll call the island IOU's "Treasuries" to match the U.S. terminology. So the government prints some Treasuries and exchanges them for cash with "regular" civilians. For now, those civilians represent island citizens, but later we'll consider what happens if they are foreigners.
For instance, if the government collected $500,000 in taxes but wants to spend $520,000, it could issue $20,000 worth of Treasuries and sell them to island residents. In the process, the government has $20,000 worth of cash, and it can proceed to spend or give away the money. If Lenny the Lender purchased $100 worth of government Treasuries, then he's just as wealthy now as he was before. His cash has been reduced by $100 but he now has $100 worth of Treasuries.
So now when we refer to "dollar savings" we'll be referring to cash or Treasuries. Both are a form of dollars; the difference is the Treasuries are scheduled to "turn into" regular cash at a future date. Alternatively, you could say that cash is just a "zero maturity" Treasury, i.e. a Treasury that gets paid back by the government right now.
So how does "printing" money work?
Well, on the island, we can literally print it and spend it. It is our imaginary island after all.
But does the U.S. actually just print money and spend it?
This is a minor point, but the U.S. Treasury works slightly differently. (Thanks to ESM for spelling this out for me.) If the U.S. Treasury wants to "print money", the Treasury issues bonds to the Federal Reserve, and the Fed pays cash to the Treasury. Now the Treasury has cash to spend, and the Fed is holding onto a bunch of bonds. The Fed can either hold the bonds, sell them on the open market, or tear them up. In the last case (which is quite common), we can say that the Treasury effectively printed money, and for some reason, the amount that it printed is not added to the U.S. debt. This is horribly inconsistent, but it's the way it is. It's as the government periodically get loans and the bank keeps forgetting to collect debt payments.
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i would like to ask 1 question and have one point clarified. First the clarification.
You write:
"So you could argue that the government has to issue more dollars to keep pace with the amount of "real wealth" that is created."
I understand what you are saying, but do you mind elaborating on this? For example, is this really the goal of the goverment? If we did this, does this put our island goverment in the business of deciding what peoples work is worth? Is it necessary to do this - isn't this money relative and if someone makes something valuable, then other products will go down in price as you mention - but is that a bad thing? (i guess a better question is why doesnt the government keep the amounnt of money constant and your wealth is more a reflection of the % of that pie you own)
Then my question is regarding your last paragraph about how the fed and treasury tranact business. you write "the Treasury issues bonds to the Federal Reserve, and the Fed pays cash to the Treasury" - where does the Fed get the cash to buy the treasuries?
- August 24, 2010 at 8:28 AM
- ESM said...
First there is the simple idea that as you have more wealth, more productive capacity, and more people, you need more money around to make the economy run smoothly. Obviously, if you have too few dollars people have to resort to start using a different kind of money for transactions (personal IOUs for example) or even resort to barter.
Leaving aside such an extreme case, you will also have a problem if the currency begins to appreciate in value relative to goods and services (which is what we call deflation). There are certain financial asymmetries which make moderate deflation worse for the economy than moderate inflation.
One asymmetry is that the nominal interest rate cannot go below zero. Therefore, if you have deflation, investors earn a real return from just hoarding cash. Certain investments which produce a positive real return in actual goods and services (consider a chicken farmer who starts with 100 chickens and ends the year with 103 chickens after paying for all of his labor and supplies with chickens) will not happen because investors will just sit on their cash.
A second asymmetry comes from creditworthiness. Inflation makes it easier for debtors to pay back their debts, but deflation makes it harder. A small amount of deflation can undermine creditworthiness throughout the system because when one debtor defaults, the person he defaults to may also become a bad credit as a consequence. When everybody is seen as a poor credit risk, loans simply will not happen. You might think, well, loans will happen at some interest rate. Bad credit people will just be charged a higher spread over the risk free rate. But that doesn't happen in the real world. Aside from the fact that we have usury laws, once the interest rate gets above 20%, the interest burden exacerbates credit risk more than the interest income can compensate. Rates above 20% just aren't feasible.
Finally, there is the sticky wage asymmetry. Workers are reluctant psychologically to accept a cut in nominal wages. Faced with the choice between cutting all worker salaries by 5% or cutting the workforce by 5%, many companies will actually choose the latter, which is obviously very inefficient.
- August 24, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- ESM said...
Forgot about your second question. The Fed gets the cash from the same place that the scorekeeper gets the points in a basketball game. They're made up numbers. Just numbers placed into cells in an Excel spreadsheet. Say that cell F4 is the Treasury's federal reserve account. Somebody at the Fed just puts in "+1,000,000,000,000" into cell F4 and now there is a $1T in there.
- August 24, 2010 at 1:41 PM
Thanks ESM. The clairfication of why the goverment might want to create more money as wealth is created makes sense.
When I read the answer to my question (your last comment). It seems that the Fed has an absolutely enormous amount of power AND the residents of this country do not have any alternative cause we pay taxes in dollars. Is this correct? Say you knew ahead of time that a crazy guy was going to run the Fed, you would not have any alternative except to leave the country. Is there any legitimate type of check and balance to what the Fed decides?
- August 25, 2010 at 5:25 AM
- ESM said...
It is a crazy system since there is really not much of a check on the Fed except for Congress basically voting to disband it I guess. The thing is the Fed was purposely set up to be independent of Congress and the Treasury because it was felt that only an entity that was apolitical could make the right decisions for the country with respect to monetary policy. The US (through the IMF) has enforced this central bank - Treasury separation on almost every country in the world. The problem is that much of what the Fed does is hidden from the public. In theory it isn't hidden, but the press does such a bad job of covering the Fed that nobody really scrutinizes what it does.
- August 25, 2010 at 12:11 PM
ESM, how much damage can the Fed really do? They have no control over deficits/surpluses, so all they can do is "move money along the yield curve", right?
- August 25, 2010 at 6:50 PM
- ESM said...
In theory, Ben Bernanke could just direct some of his minions to credit JP Morgan's reserve account with $10B for further credit to Ben Bernanke.
More realistically, the Fed could transfer wealth to favored institutions by buying their bonds or buying toxic assets from them at inflated prices. Although Fed managers could get in trouble if they outright transferred money to another entity as a grant rather than a loan or a purchase, making a loan which you know won't be paid back or purchasing something at an inflated price amounts to the same thing.
The Fed has plenty of power to do this, and in fact has been doing this for the last 2.5 years.
- August 26, 2010 at 8:02 AM
ESM, great point. If the Fed couldn't do things like that, is there a lot of damage they could do with just regular monetary policy?
- August 26, 2010 at 10:35 AM


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I'm so happy to finally be able to share the results of my 6 month protective style challenge with you. Unlike any other challenge [check out the initial challenge video here] or length check I've done here on the blog, this one had me particularly nervous. There were a few occasions just before the official length check reveal, when I became slightly panicked by the thought of a set back. There's no doubt I'm extremely happy things didn't turn out that way.
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Among my fellow practitioners of popery there have been a great many dumbfounded exclamations on social media since yesterday, when The Met announced that the theme for the 2018 Met Gala will be – wait for it – "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination". The idea appears to have been suggested by the upcoming loan of historic vestments and other liturgical garments from the Vatican, for an exhibition which will open at The Met on May 10th. I find it difficult to understand why Rome would allow itself to serve as the touchstone for a parade of tarts, gigolos, and social parasites who openly hate the Church, but then the inherent tackiness of the present occupant of the chair of St. Peter is something which has been more than apparent for years now. I hope Cardinal Dolan has better sense than to attend this event.
Now, on to some more interesting news.
Ah, Venice!
After many years of complaints from residents, art and architecture historians, and international cultural organizations like UNESCO, Italy is finally taking steps to ban jumbo cruise ships from the center of Venice. Over the next two years, the mega-liners will be diverted from the Giudecca Canal, which merges with the Grand Canal to lead into the Piazza San Marco. The behemoths will now dock at a newly-constructed facility on the North Canal at Marghera, on the Venetian mainland. While not a complete solution to the many problems faced by La Serenissima, from depopulation to pollution, hopefully scenes like that pictured below, of a tacky monstrosity looming over the historic core of the city, will soon be a thing of the past.
Bah, Berkshire!
Despite last-minute interventions by both the Rockwell family and the Massachusetts Attorney General, it looks as though the sale of the Berkshire Museum's two Norman Rockwell paintings will be going ahead at Sotheby's next week as planned. Readers will recall that the Berkshire decided to sell off a significant portion of its art holdings, including two paintings gifted to the museum by Rockwell himself (one of which served as the Saturday Evening Post cover pictured below), as well as a number of other significant works of art in the collection, to become some sort of experiential tourist destination. Barring some last-minute appeals, the museum is now free to reinvent itself as the nonsensical, irrelevant, lowest common denominator institution which its current leadership wants it to become. My prediction is that a decade from now, it will have ceased to exist entirely.
Bello, Bernini!
A major exhibition featuring almost 80 works by the greatest master of Italian Baroque architecture and sculpture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), has just opened at the Borghese in Rome, should you happen to find yourself in the Eternal City in the coming months. What's particularly interesting about "Bernini" (no other exhibition descriptors were thought necessary) is that, in addition to a number of the artist's most famous sculptures, as well as a newly restored work, and drawings and models for buildings such as St. Peter's, the show features several of his paintings – for yes, Bernini could paint, too. Note for example the wonderfully direct frankness and overall simplicity of this 1632 portrait of Pope Urban VIII (1568-1644), which is on loan to the Borghese show. I particularly like how Bernini handled the red of the garments in this picture, so as to give the viewer a real sense of it being the kind of dense, close-cropped velvet that has little or no sheen to it. "Bernini" runs through February 4, 2018.
Golly, Guido!
Speaking of the Italian Baroque, Bendor Grosvenor – whom I read every day and you should, too – reports that the National Gallery in London has recently determined that a work presumed to be by assistants of the very influential painter Guido Reni (1575-1642) has now been determined to be, at least in part, from the hand of Reni himself. Though not quite a household name today, Reni was *the* most popular Italian Baroque artist of his day, and indeed for centuries afterwards; dozens of important artists came to study in his studio, and his pictures were widely sought after by collectors all over Europe. "The Toilet of Venus" was painted sometime between 1620 and 1625, but it has been a dark and dingy thing for many years. Thanks to a recent cleaning, it has regained the almost porcelain qualities of flesh and jewel-toned fabric for which Reni is justly famous. Intriguingly, as Grosvenor mentions in his piece, another painting that was gifted to the National Gallery as part of the same bequest was also believed to be a copy executed by Reni's studio assistants. I suspect that the museum is now going to turn its attention to funding the cleaning and restoration of this one, since it would be just as major of a rediscovery. At this point, the painting is so grimy that you can only barely see the threatening Kraken swimming about at the lower left of the picture.


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Friday, 4/11/2014
In the last post, Blindsided, I discussed some possibilities as to why we sometimes find ourselves surprised by the way life goes, having been completely off in expectations due to inaccurate prophetic perceptions.
I occasionally hear folks say, "We can't know the future." I bite my tongue but beg to differ.
I will concede that much of the time, even with prophetic insight, we don't know HOW something will play out, but we CAN know generally THAT A PARTICULAR EVENT WILL OCCUR.
Through dreams, God may give us the general idea, but we don't know exactly what course life will take to fulfill that prophesy. A dream one of my sons once had comes to mind:
The dream prophesied that a trip would look as if it was not going to happen, then resurrect. Sure enough, the invitation to be a featured artist at an international music festival was cancelled after he had gone to all the trouble to get his passport and Brazilian visa. Weeks later, just as the dream had prophesied through metaphors, the festival was rescheduled and the invitation resent.
The interesting part of the dream was that while he was on that trip, our family's beloved deceased cat appeared before him. Chiffon was as lovely, fluffy, and white as ever; but she died before his eyes. He was saddened in the dream.
The interpretation? Whatever or whoever Chiffon symbolized was going to die. It would be sad.
OK. So we have a REVELATION (the dream), and an INTERPRETATION of that aspect of the dream. Next step in dream interpretation is the APPLICATION. What or who does the cat represent? It wasn't hard to see that it might be someone that is a beloved to the family, perhaps someone we see as beautiful and lovely, maybe graceful.
This is where we find ourselves making mistakes. Without further divine revelation, we can only project what makes worldly sense to us.
The death of a person in dreams usually represents something ending, rather than a person literally dying. It may represent that a person is already dead, that is, spiritually dead… and needs to come to the cross.
But this was a cat. "It must be my husband's mother," I considered. "Her time on this earth must be up". She was in her 90's at the time, but in good health. I began to consider how I would handle that should it come to pass.
The REVELATION was of course correct. God had sent the dream. He's never wrong. The INTERPRETATION was right: Whatever or whoever Chiffon symbolized was going to die. It would be sad.
November came and our son left for Brazil. The dream was then fulfilled in an unanticipated way.
I had expected the dream to apply to my mother-in-law. I WAS WAY OFF! Our beloved "Lammy" is fine to this day and won't be going home to the Lord any time soon (God told me in a dream that she has thistles in her garden and is stuck here on this planet for a while.)
While our son was overseas, the wife of our other son, our beloved daughter-in-law, left him.
I had always felt as if she were an actual daughter of mine, but sadly, this lovely delightful ballerina decided to hit the road. Our son was miserable, but it of course didn't surprise God.
So WE KNEW THE FUTURE, we KNEW something was going to END, just didn't know what. We KNEW something specific about the future, just not the details.
To all those scoffers out there who say, "We can't know the future," again, I BEG TO DIFFER! God sometimes allows us to know the future- often describing it very specifically- but at the same time leaving room for His way of fulfilling it. This brings us encouragement and comfort when they are needed.
One more thing. I've learned that even when something dies in a dream, God has the capacity to resurrect it.
That beautiful and graceful cat who turned out to be the ballerina… she'll be sitting with me at an Opera House tomorrow night. She is delightfully back in the family and expecting a second child with my son! GOD IS GOOD!
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OMG!!!!! The ending totally through me into tears. I am so elated that your daughter-in-law came back to her husband. I have always had a heart for marriages. I hate to hear anything bad about a marriage. You know, her leaving was actually a blessing because it seems she needed to resolve her issue and also realize the value in her marriage so now she is not in the marriage with doubts. Thank you Father God for bringing her back. Congrats on the new baby coming 🙂
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How can you have a company built around the betterment of animal care and learning to have masterful conversations with animals if you don't have a very wise animal guide to confer with from time to time? Timmy is a very wise soul who chooses to share his wisdom with us. He is a grand teacher and helps Val stay connected on a daily basis to the supreme unconditional love that can only come from a treasured animal friend.
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Rumery is Barb's confidante and loves to talk to people who are having problems with their animals. He enjoys interior redecorating, and is known for his remarkable ability to know when Val needs Barb's help. He has been known to play Val's phone voice messages on her recorder and especially loves sitting in on Val's webinars and teleclasses.
Ravindra Kalra – Assistant Extraordinaire, Blog & Podcast Coordinator
Ravindra is the master of the details! He is our LinkedIn and social media guy. He ensures that our vision/mission message (sharing our passion for animal care) is broadcast to the world. Ravi works hard to ensure that The Real Dr Doolittle Show is vibrant and alive on iTunes and our Animal Hearts Talk Blogs.


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STEP ONE: Choose the program you wish to volunteer on, as well as the dates you wish to volunteer. Complete and submit our online application form with these details. You will then receive an email confirming that DAV Nepal has received your application (if you do not receive this, please contact us)
STEP TWO: Within 48 hours (2 working days), you will receive an email from DAV Nepal acknowledging your application and confirming project and dates of your volunteer program. In this email, you will receive more information about your chosen program, as well as details on how to pay the program fees.
STEP THREE: Once your confirmation has been received, DAV Nepal will provide you with all the information and support you need to prepare for your upcoming volunteer program. We will provide you with detailed information specific to your chosen volunteer program and fulfill all remaining administration duties with you, including:
- Organizing your airport pickup with our local staff
- Letting you know when you need to pay the balance of your Program Fee by (no later than 10 days prior to your program start date)
- Providing on-going 24/7 support through telephone and email communication
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Village of PinecrestHome Menu
Expired Permits
Expired Pinecrest Permits
What is an "Expired Permit"? When a permit that has been issued by the Village of Pinecrest has not received an approved inspection within 180 days from the issuance of the permit or from the date of the last approved inspection, that permit is considered an "expired permit" and is subject to the issuance of a Notice of Violation to the permit holder and a civil penalty of $200.00. If a permit has been expired for less than 180 days the permit holder is required to renew the permit by paying the current permit fee, plus a $200.00 civil violation fee. A new permit application is not required. A credit of 50% of the original permit fee will be applied to the total permit fee. Once the permit has been renewed, the required inspections, up to and including a final inspection may be arranged by one of the following three methods: 1) Online at www.pinecrest-fl.gov; 2) Via the automated phone line at 305.234.2111 or 3) Fax request form to 305.234.2133.
If a permit has been expired for over 180 days, the permit holder will be required to submit to the Building and Planning Department a new permit application along with two sets of plans. Outside agency reviews may also be required. Once the plans are approved by our department the permit will be issued upon payment of the permit fee plus a $200.00 civil violation fee. The permit holder will be required to arrange for inspections as indicated above.
Expired Miami-Dade Permits (Issued prior to 1997)
- Submit to the Building and Planning Department a completed permit application for each Miami-Dade permit to be closed. The application shall be signed by the current property owner. Under the description of work include the wording "To close expired Miami-Dade permit" and the permit number. Attach a copy of the expired Miami-Dade permit to the application.
- Submit to the Building and Planning Department a sworn affidavit certifying compliance with the applicable building codes and other local regulations. No modification of the affidavit is permitted. One affidavit will be required per expired permit. No inspection is required by the Village of Pinecrest
- Alternately, in lieu of an affidavit, for certain types of permits inspections may be requested from the Building and Planning Department in order to close the Miami-Dade County expired permit.
- The permit fee is $126.25 for each permit to be closed. We accept check or credit card payments.


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The most likely faults that are likely to produce strong ground shaking in Napa County include the Northern Hayward/Rodgers Creek in the west, the Maacama in the northwest, the Hunting Creek-Berryessa in the north, the Green Valley in the southeast and the West Napa in the south central. The Concord Green Valley and the West Napa Fault are the only two major faults that pass through County boundaries.
The combined probability of a major quake on one of these major faults is 63% over the next thirty years. Most of Napa County's resources and population are in the Napa Valley floor, which consists of alluvial soils that enhance and amplify the shaking from earthquakes. In 2000, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck an unmapped fault just west of the West Napa Fault with an epicenter near Yountville and caused significant damage in the city of Napa.
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An interesting paper from
physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton featured on BBC2's Newnsight last night, in which she hypothesised that, contrary to
scientific consensus, black holes may not exist after all. If she turns out to
be right, it wouldn't surprise me much – my multi-lens of reality theory predicts that difficult counterintuitive
things like black holes, infinities and singularities are examples of us being
locked into limited physical perceptions by virtue of our being physical
agents. Cambridge
We cannot know how the science of the future will change our thinking, but we must also consider our differing perceptions of how things like black holes confound our intuition. Consider this strange peculiarity about nature: if I'm observing a black hole and a cat falls into the black hole I will see it approach the black hole's event horizon where it gets incinerated by the Hawking radiation (particles emitted as a result of the effects of quantum mechanics). But if at the same time you fall into the black hole along with the cat, you would observe the cat cross the horizon safely before encountering the singularity at the core of the black hole.
Interestingly both your story and mine would be true respectively, but depending on the perception, we appear to have a condition under which the cat is both incinerated outside of the horizon and unincinerated inside the black hole. There would not be two simultaneous cats because as far as we know the laws of physics do not allow for information to be duplicated in that way.
This must be an issue for the mind in that it is under the illusion that we can describe events both inside and outside the horizon simultaneously - but in actual fact, no mind can observe both at once. This means that the physical regime can only be apprehended if descriptions are restricted to the view of one single observer. Given that it is possible that there are extra dimensions (as in String Theory) that we may never interface with, and a general queerness to quantum physics that will likely always leave one aspect of a wave/particle duality 'uncertain', it may well be true that these things are mere shadows of a reality we will never fully apprehend.
The black hole has thus far been one of several phenomena in nature that indicates this. The black hole example shows the difference in perspectives; for a man entering the black hole there will be a contraction of length and an expansion of time. But while this will be noticed by an outside observer, it will not be noticed from his own local perspective because the standards with which he would ordinarily do the measuring would have altered too; that is, the standards of measuring contractions have contracted as well, and the standard of measuring time has expanded to make the expansion of time indecipherable. The logical corollary is that crossing the horizon will seem like normal time to him, unless he can register outside of his local perspective, in which case he would decipher the changes.
Understanding that humans perceive reality through many different lenses gives us a better insight into just how much we can refine our understanding of reality. In considering, say, the transition from Newtonian physics to Einsteinian physics, or Euclidian geometry to Riemannian geometry, we make a useful inference about reality and the relationship humans have with it. What we realise is that reality isn't singularly Newtonian, Einsteinian, Euclidian or Riemannian, because the physics or geometry under examination is contingent upon the perceptual lens of the beholder. In other words, how reality is at any one time depends on the particular lens of reality of the person doing the perceiving.
In a similar sense, if you imagine something like a rock; once you zoom in on its deeper constituent parts, you will not find anything like what imagination has always supposed it to be. A hard rock, when probed further would reveal the deep mysteries of matter and sub-atomic energy - a whirling mass of particles and waves, consisting of a vast nexus of space, in which very small particles (electrons) move around the nucleus, and are bound to it by electric forces. That is to say, despite the rock's appearance in front of our own naked eyes, everything appearing solid consists almost entirely of empty space. It is the exceptionally small particles dashing at stupendous speeds around the nucleus of the atom that gives atoms their solid appearance.
My multi-lens of reality theory holds that just about every part of our reality that we interface with through perception or conception is made up of analogies, metaphors and symbolic expressions, and that the physical perceptions of reality are only one facet of reality – inextricable to minds like ours due to our being physical beings. Once we begin to trim away at the things that appear to warrant claims for having a necessary existence, I find we can even trim away the physical reality around which we employ our empirical considerations. My gut feeling is that after all the trimming is done, the only things we're going to find left in our qualification for necessary existence are God and mathematics. I will submit that all the rest is, in a certain sense, fiction – but not just any old fiction – it is a fictional interpretation that is for now a precursory disquisition to a dénouement that we are at present only tapping into. As has been said before – it is an echo of a reality we have not yet heard in full.
This can bring about a new perspective to our empirical endeavours – it is a new perspective where fiction and fact intersect in an embrace. So, science is a fictional reality in the same qualitative sense that poetry, literature, theology and art are fictional realities. But, as indicated, by 'fictional' I do not mean 'non-factual', I mean fictional in the sense that science is only one branch on a huge tree of human conceptions that involve objects that are real to the human mind in ways that they are not real in the reality 'out there' beyond the mind. In other words, all the objects we convey in reductionist science (rocks, sand, water, atoms, protons, etc) are as they are because they are projected onto our minds. If our mental conceptions are a tool box full of tools, science is one kind of creative tool for understanding reality, and mathematics is another, poetry another, and theology another, and so forth (often with overlap between them).
This is what I mean when I say that our reality is largely made up of analogies, metaphors and symbolic expressions. Just as physical objects like trees, rocks and buildings are made up of smaller component parts - once we get down to the full reality of those smaller component parts, we find they are made up of, or only describable with, numbers (or more accurately, what those numbers represent). This is evidenced by the fact that if we don't describe them with numbers and concomitant equations, we are forced to revert back to the macroscopic world of metaphor and analogy to describe them - particles, waves, forces, position, momentum, etc. Physical reality is in the eye of the beholder, it's just that humans are one kind of beholder. Any sense of the physical is bound up in the fact that we evolved in the realm of the physical mechanism of natural selection, so our neural network is implicitly physical, which makes our engagement with reality implicitly and explicitly physical. It is due to this human-centred limitation that external reality to us is almost entirely expressed in terms of the metaphorical, analogical and symbolical.
Given the foregoing, we can see why Laura Mersini-Houghton's hypothesis that black holes don't exist after all is possibly more than an example of changing perceptions. If we accept, say, quantum physics as a synthesis of propositions that align themselves to a central conception, we find, as indicated above, that even that leaves us with an epistemological hiatus, and we then have to resort to macroscopic metaphors (particles, waves, position, momentum, states of possibility) to explain what our quantum concepts mean. That's the best clue we have that we are locked in a macroscopic lens of reality in which physical interpretations are the only game in town when it comes to empirical investigations, but not the only game in town in realities outside of human physical conceptions.


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Charles Pelkey joined Red Kite Prayer in 2011, after a long career at what was one of the country's leading cycling magazines. Over his 17 years at that publication, he served as technical editor, news editor, online editor and senior web editor.
Pelkey has spent more than 25 years in journalism, including time as a news reporter for Wyoming Public Radio and later as a staff writer for the Casper Star Tribune, covering education and Wyoming politics. He served as press secretary for then-U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson, before moving into cycling journalism in 1994. During his 17-year career at the magazine, Pelkey covered the top levels of the sport, including the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España.
Pelkey is a graduate of the University of Wyoming College of Law. He is a member of the Wyoming Bar and is admitted to practice in the federal courts of Wyoming. Pelkey is also a partner at the Laramie law firm of Neubauer, Pelkey and Goldfinger, LLP. His primary legal interests are criminal law, family law, employment law, personal injury and sports law.
He also spent several years investigating the problems of performance-enhancing drugs in sport and is regarded as an expert in the field. Pelkey reported on and followed the evolution of the body of law involving the World Anti-Doping Agency and the World Anti-Doping Code and attended both the agency's founding conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1999 and its most recent, the 2007 conference in Madrid. Pelkey has frequently appeared as a guest on major news outlets including NPR, the BBC, MSNBC, ESPN and CBS, to discuss the topic in general and how the law applies to individual cases.
Pelkey lives in Laramie with his wife Diana Denison and their two children, Philip and Annika.


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We believe every event can be improved and enriched by comedy. Gag Reflex can provide our own fantastic comedians for your event, but we also have years of experience, and contacts, so would love to discuss your individual requirements.
We have a wealth of suggestions of acts across the industry that could be the right fit for your event, from traditional stand-ups to cabaret peformers to musical or physical comedy, and magic.
We keep your unique needs in mind, match your budget, the style of event and audience demographic, and will source & secure the best acts for the best fee, then present you with the exciting options.
Whether you need a host for an awards ceremony, some after dinner entertainment, or even assistance at a team-building day or product launch, we will find the right fit to enhance your event.
Perhaps you're holding an event with a large number of non English speakers attending - Tape Face is a fantastic option - mime with noise, to well known tracks, and so much more. This Edinburgh Panel Award winner and America's Got Talent finalist is in huge demand for corporate events, from exclusive birthday parties to business Gala's and Awards ceremonies.
Need to enthuse your team for a day of team building? Or want to liven up your Wedding reception?! Jonny Awsum is an ideal candidate, his feel good set and gentle musical interaction has captivated audiences across the globe.
Mat Ricardo performs encompassing elements of Stand up comedy, slapstick, dance, and ofcourse high level circus, which lets him suit any audience, of any age, and fit seamlessly into any show, before stealing it! He has entertained corporate clients too numerous to mention, as well as members of the Royal Family.
This is just a tiny selection of the acts we're able to provide - wander over to our acts Roster page for a full run down. Each page has a detailed description of the act, where they perform, a video clip, and links to their social media sites, which will all give you the best idea of their suitability for your event.
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Get in touch today to discuss your requirements; 0161 2058739 or email email@example.com
"Over the past two years Gag Reflex have provided us with some excellent comedians, awards hosts and comperes for our high-profile business events. Gag Reflex have provided an excellent service, negotiating on price and communicating well. On top of this they are fantastic to deal with – helpful, professional and endlessly accommodating."
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We love bringing comedy to new areas, venues, and audiences. Collectively our team has over 20 years of experience at running various clubs and comedy nights nationwide, crafting stellar line-ups for a killer night out.
There are several crucial elements to ensure a successful night for all involved, and we can advise you on everything you need, including:
As well as booking comedy bills for venues across the North West we also have a wealth of experience running our own shows & venues, so we can advise on every aspect from booking the acts to making sure the audience have the best experience possible at your venue. We book everyone from household names to newer, emerging talent, and have great relationships with agents & promoters across the UK.
We have booked for comedy clubs, theatres, festivals, sports clubs, charity nights, corporate and after dinner events, birthday parties and many more across the UK and Europe.
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"Gag Reflex have been a great company to use with an excellent service manner, and professional attitude. We would certainly recommend them for ease of booking for any business event. Thanks for helping make our meeting enjoyable and finding us a fantastic comedian in Dan Nightingale."
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"Gag Reflex are fine purveyors of the best of established and emerging comic talent, and dead easy to work with."
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"Jonny Awsum pitched his performance absolutely spot on, had everyone laughing from start to finish, and achieved an incredible amount of audience participation. I'd be delighted to recommend him to anyone. "
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If you own a business, it is likely that you have created custom items before. Maybe your employees have custom matching t-shirts, you use custom pens with your information on it, or you hand out custom business cards. One item that is often forgot about is a custom lanyard.
There are so many reasons you might want a custom lanyard with your business logo on it, and here are three of them:
1. Public Advertisement
Many adults who drive have a lanyard attached to their keys. Because of this, their lanyards come with them everywhere they go. Imagine if you and your employees all carried around lanyards with your business logo and information on them. This would provide great opportunities for strangers to inquire about your company.
If you don't want to use a lanyard for your keys, another option for public advertisement would be to have your employees wear business logo lanyards around their necks at conventions or other work-related events. Although this is a different kind of audience than you'd get from strangers in parking lots, it's still a great form of advertisement.
2. Cohesion and Professionalism
If you're in the early stages of building your business, there's no better way to help you feel more legitimate than creating custom matching items for you and your team.
Not only would lanyards with your business logo make your company feel professional, they would also allow you and your employees to look cohesive while behind the scenes or out in public. Even if your business has been around for a while and has grown quite large, you can never get enough solidarity and professionalism.
A great company is one whose employees feel like they are an important part of a team. That kind of feeling can be brought about by matching lanyards.
3. Give Them Away
So far, the reasons to get business logo lanyards have involved the lanyards staying within company limits. However, one of the best ways to use custom company items is actually to give them away.
Lanyards are the perfect size for you to put in gift baskets for clients, hang on doorknobs, send in the mail, or give out at public events/festivals. Look into various places and opportunities in the community for your business to give away you lanyards.
People will love receiving them, and this technique also ties back into public advertisement. The more people who have a lanyard with your business logo and information on it the better! Instead of relying on strangers inquiring about the lanyard attached to your keys, you could rely on the general public inquiring to each other.
This provides opportunity for the community to be better acquainted with your company, and you'll likely gain a lot of business from it.
Where to Start
If you decide that you want to purchase custom lanyards with your business logo on them, or you want to make your own lanyards. The first step is to decide what type of lanyard you want.
You can pick from various materials, styles, and colors. After that, just type out your company information you want to include on them, upload your business logo, and you're all set to go!


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It gives immense pleasure to announce that with shear hard work & dedication of Team LTA, we were able to reach another milestone in the year 2015- 101 Reasons to SMILE - LTA School of Beauty churned out 101 CIDESCO Graduates in industry in 2015.
My Heartiest Congratulations to all our proud CIDESCO Graduates year 2015 - Spring, Summer & Winter passouts
LTA largely considered as India's Largest CIDESCO School is known to offer industry relevant programs with duration ranging from 12 to 18 months. Its Salon Graduate Program - SGP include course related Hair dressing, Beauty therapy, Make-up , SPA therapy and Nail art . These programs are designed to help youngster make a good career in Beauty with best of the employers.
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This is a multi-center, open label, phase IV study to provide continued supply of pasireotide to patients being treated in a current Novartis-sponsored study and who are benefiting from treatment with pasireotide alone or in combination with another treatment for Cushing's Disease and Acromegaly . Eligible patients are to be …
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On Tuesday, we saw a handful of state and local elections. Chris Christie won his reëlection as governor of New Jersey. Bill de Blasio won, positioning himself as the mayor who will bring progressivism back to New York City. And Terry McAuliffe will be the next governor of Virginia. Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Hertzberg join host Dorothy Wickenden on this week's Political Scene podcast to discuss what these outcomes can tell us about the world of politics at the moment.
The elections this week, Lizza says, reveal how little ideology can matter. "So much is about tactics and strategy." Hertzberg elaborates, "The political situation, generally, is so volatile. Things change every couple of weeks. First it's, 'Oh, the Democrats are a shoo-in for 2016 because of the shutdown.' 'No, no, the Republicans are a shoo-in for 2016 because of the Obamacare rollout.' There's a lot more of that to come."
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Fairy Tales are of utmost importance in human life. They give us wisdom and beauty and hope.
At a certain day in July 1981, I happened to be in London and witnessed the grand marriage of the Prince and the Princess. I was very excited by that time.
And time is somewhat similar to space.
Distance makes differences. The longer the time, the farther the space, keep you away from the gossip, and you are a step nearer to the true facts.
I was in Hong Kong several decades after the marriage. I heard little about the gossips. May be I had avoided them. All that happened in my mind was a good fairy tale .The Prince and the Princess finally got married and they were living happily ever after.
And fairy tales are very important. They were real hopes.
If by one day, even the fairy tales cannot exist anymore, you wonder, what had actually happened in our ugly life.
By the year 1997, the Princess was dead.
And the fairy tale was broken. It cannot exit in the hearts of modern people.
Truth was disappeared.
All sorts of grief and all sorts of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to cover from every angle.
So the fairy tale is dead.
And this is the modern world. It is just like that. All are realities and no fairy tales.
9082 How did a fairy tale of Princess Diana turn ugly? 20170421
(#The author is a question raiser. He has raised more then 9000 questions. The above article is question no.9082 . He is an expert on cultures and he is a qi master as well as a songwriter. )


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Learn how to restore network ignite backup on HPUX server. Learn how to restore some other server's OS backup on diff server provided hardware model is same
Ignite backup is OS backup for HPUX OS. Ignite-Ux is licensed tool developed by HP for their proprietary OS HPUX. Ignite backup can be taken on local tape or over network on Ignite server. In this post we will be seeing how to restore network ignite backup on HPUX.
Pre-requisite :
Login to Ignite server and confirm below points :
- Ignite backup of server is available under /var/opt/ignite/clients/<MAC of machine> directory
- Directory ownership is bin:bin
- Directory permissions are 755
- One spare IP with same subnet of Ignite server for installation
Restoration :
Power up your server on which network ignite backup needs to restore. Halt boot process at EFI shell. Enter EFI shell to build your boot profile. Boot profile is profile which has booting options like boot path, network path, setting up boot network parameters for current server etc.
On EFI prompt, you need to execute below command to build your boot profile :
EFI> dbprofile -dn testprofile -sip x.x.x.x -cip x.x.x.x -gip x.x.x.x -m 255.255.255.0 -b "/opt/ignite/boot/nbp.efi"
in which,
- -sip is Ignite server IP on which backup resides
- -cip is machine ip to be used to boot machine with (spare IP I mentioned earlier)
- -gip is gateway IP
- -m is subnet mask
- -b is boot path
- -dn is profile name
Here we are building profile with name testprofile and related network parameters using which machine will boot and look for backup.
Now, boot your machine over LAN with this profile using below command from EFI shell:
EFI> lanboot select -dn testprofile
This will boot machine with taking himself IP defined in cip, with gateway in gip and will search for boot path on Ignite server sip. Once its query reaches ignite server, it check the MAC address from which query is generated and then serves backup boot path from directory with that MAC address title. Thats why we checked permission and ownership previously.
Once everything goes smoothly, you will be served with text based GUI installation menu on your putty terminal. You can go ahead with installation adn restore network ignite backup.
Restoring serverA backup on serverB :
In above method, its mandatory to have a backup of same machine in place at Ignite server to restore. In case you do not have backup and wish to restore another server's backup then it can be done. Only thing is both machine's hardware model should be same.
For example if you have serverA backed up on Ignite server and wants to restore this backup on serverB then its possible with bit of trick provided serverA and serverB should have same hardware model.
For such instance, you need to copy existing backup directory to new one. New directory should be named with MAC address of serverB. MAC address of new server can be obtained using lanaddress command in EFI shell in case it's not installed with OS. After copying make sure ownership and permissions are intact.
Once copy is done , you can follow above process and get the restore done!


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Inventory Management
Watch a replay of the webinar >
Presented: Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Time: 2:00 PM EDT
As the academic publishing industry continues to adapt to a changing marketplace and declining print sales, the management of inventory needs to become an even more important focus for press management and staff.
During this webinar you'll hear from a press director, a marketing and sales director, and CFO/operations managers from various size university presses as they discuss how the following topics relate to the academic monographs that we publish:
- Setting print runs and selecting print vendors
- Impact of inventory on cash flow
- Accounting for inventory from the balance sheet to cost of sales
- Inventory write-down
- How Print-on-Demand, Short-Run Digital, and GAP program are being used to manage inventory
The panelists will discuss practical aspects of inventory management as well as present case studies and actual examples.
- Tera Beermann, Assistant Director for Business & CFO, University of Nebraska Press
- Karla Garrett, Deputy Director & Finance and Operations Manager, Baylor University Press
- Mary Beth Jarrad, Marketing and Sales Director, New York University Press
- Leila Salisbury, Director, University Press of Mississippi
- Robbie Dircks, Associate Director & CFO, University of North Carolina Press


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Afternoon call from Governor Vohra ended Mehbooba's CM tenure
Srinagar: Mehbooba Mufti's tenure as Jammu and Kashmir chief minister came to an abrupt end today with a call from Governor N N Vohra, who informed her that the BJP had pulled out of its alliance with the PDP, officials said.
It was a working day just as any other for Mehbooba, who was in her office in the civil secretariat when Chief Secretary B B Vyas received the phone call that signalled the end of her maiden tenure as chief minister, they said.
The governor asked Vyas where the chief minister was and asked him to immediately arrange a call with her, they said.
This was minutes before BJP general secretary Ram Madhav addressed a press conference in the national capital around 2 pm to announce the decision.
Vyas duly arranged the call. The governor, according to officials in the know of developments, informed Mehbooba about the BJP's decision, which was conveyed to him in a letter sent by BJP state president Ravinder Raina along with the resignation letters of the BJP ministers.
Mehbooba, 59, listened to the news in silence, and after a pause said there was no need for talks with the BJP and she would be submitting her resignation, the officials said.
Soon after, Madhav made his announcement in Delhi, ending the uneasy, often fractious alliance between the BJP and the PDP and setting the stage for another round of governor's rule.


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Norman Macleod Manuscripts
1940 - 1951
Manuscript Collection Number: 190
Accessioned: Purchase, April 1986
Extent: 24 items (.3 linear ft.)
Content: Autobiography, short story, poems, resume, reviews, lecture, and articles
Access: The collection is open for research.
Processed: Revised August 1995 by Anita A. Wellner
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Table of Contents
Biographical Note
American editor, educator, and poet Norman Wicklund Macleod was born October 1, 1906, in Salem, Oregon. After receiving a B.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1930, Macleod continued his education at the University of Southern California (1931- 1932) and the University of Oklahoma (1934), before receiving a master's degree from Columbia University in 1936.
Norman Macleod began his editing career as the American editor of Front (Netherlands) and Morada (Italy), serving both from 1930-1932. From 1932 to 1978 Macleod worked in a variety of editing positions, including reader and circulation assistant for Harper & Brothers (1932-1934), editorial director of the Maryland Quarterly (1942-1944) and Briarcliff Quarterly (1944-1947), guest editor of Cronos (1947), and editor of Pembroke Magazine (1969- 1978).
Macleod began teaching in 1939 as instructor in poetry at the New York Poetry Center, where he worked until 1942. From 1942 until 1978, he was on the faculty of numerous high schools, colleges, and universities, including the University of Maryland, San Francisco State College, and the University of Baghdad (Iraq). His final and most lengthy residence was as Associate Professor of English, poet-in-residence, and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Pembroke State University in Pembroke, North Carolina (1967-1978).
Although Macleod is most often recognized for his poetry, he also wrote two novels, You Get What You Ask For (1939) and The Bitter Roots (1941), plus an autobiography, I Never Lost Anything in Istanbul (1978). His collections of poetry include his first book, Horizons of Death, published by Parnassus in 1934, as well as Thanksgiving Before November (1936), We Thank You All the Time (1941), A Man in Midpassage (1947), Pure as Nowhere (1962), Selected Poems (1975), and The Distance: New and Selected Poems, 1928-1977 (1977).
Norman Macleod was awarded the Horace Gregory Award in 1973 for his work as a poet, novelist, editor, and teacher. On June 5, 1985, Macleod died in Greenville, North Carolina.
Locher, Frances Carol (ed.) Contemporary Authors. Volumes 73-76. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1978. pp. 390-391.
May, Hal (ed.) Contemporary Authors. Volume 116. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1986. p. 297.
Scope and Content Note
An autobiography, fifteen poems, one short story, two resumes, a lecture, and several compilations of reviews of his work comprise this collection of manuscripts written by or related to American poet Norman Macleod. In addition to these twenty-four items (.3 linear ft.), tear sheets for Polly Hardy's article, "Introducing Norman Macleod," are available as part of this collection. Although most of the material is undated, it appears that the majority of the manuscripts were written between 1940 and 1951.
In addition to the fifteen poems by Macleod, numerous typescript drafts of poems (plus drafts of letters) are found on the verso of pages of Macleod's autobiography, Period One.
Descriptions of each manuscript are available in the contents list. This small group of manuscripts provides examples of Macleod's writing style and an idea of how the author viewed his own work.
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Contents List
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Period One: An Autobiography, 1951 Typescript (carbon) with extensive autograph corrections. The title page bears an autograph note: "Second copy of first draft" and is signed by Macleod. Numerous pages bear typescript poems or drafts of letters on the verso. F1 Pages 1-158 F2 Pages 159-270 F3 Pages 271-401 F4 Cover "Get on a Horse and Ride," n.d. F5 Typescript short story, with cover and acknowledgement page. 21 pp. Poems written by Macleod, n.d. F6 Fifteen typescript poems with some typescript comments or autograph notes about the publication history of particular poems. Poems include "Golden Cripple," "Newsreel," "The Electric Air," "Sons of Soil," "Song of Masses," "20th Century Bucking Broncho," "Booze Runners," "Red Year," "Twisted Poem," "In Memory: Northern Navajo," "Nigger Cabins: Alabama," "Boulevard Stop," "Mill Workers," "Charnel Rose," and "The Hunkey's Vision." 16 pp. Lecture/critique on the poem, "In Tiny, Leaden Effigy," n.d. F7 Typescript lecture and critique of this poem by an unidentified writer. The text includes Macleod's poem, "Cold Memory." 6 pp. "Supplement to the Application of Norman Macleod," 1941-1948 F8 Two versions of Norman Macleod's resume titled "Supplement to the Application of Norman Macleod." Includes a mimeographed typescript compiled ca. 1941 and a printed version (ca. 1948). 9 pp. "Critical Comments on the Work of Norman Macleod," n.d. F9 Two typescript versions of "Critical Comments on the Work of Norman Macleod" and one page of another draft of the same work. Includes reviews of Macleod's books, You Get What You Ask For and Horizons of Death, as well as excerpts from Ikeda's article, "The Poetical Style of Norman Macleod." 24 pp. Article about Macleod, [n.d.] F10 Tear sheets, from an unidentified magazine, of Polly Hardy's article, "Introducing Norman Macleod." Includes two poems by Macleod titled "Period Piece" (1940) and "Short Order Over the Stand" (1942). 3 pp.
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