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Issue 23

Issue Date: July, 1972
Editor: Robin Skelton
Pages: 152
Number of Contributors: 21

Cover of issue #23

From Robin Skelton’s opening “Comment,” bemoaning the “huge pile of new poetry books” that cannot all be reviewed (a situation that still exists today, I might add) to the cache of excellent reviews of books of various genres, issue #23 is one of the most enjoyable of the Malahat’s back issues I’ve read—so far.

A portrait of Skelton by Myfanwy Pavelic (1916-2007), who selected it from among her other pictures (ten black-and-white plates are included here) graces the cover, prompting Skelton to admit to a certain embarrassment and to muse whether the “character of a periodical” could be “derived from looking at the face of its editor.” Skelton’s fourteen-page essay, “Myfanwy Pavelic: Perception & Solitude,” is a remarkably astute overview of the Victoria-born artist’s early life, horrific physical challenges, artistic influences, training, and motifs. This appreciation of Pavelic, now considered one of Canada’s most important portrait artists, would have introduced her to many readers, both local and international, for the first time.

Before the Malahat initiated its Long Poem Prize, the stage had been set for longer works. This issue opens with “Tiresias: A Poem” by the Irish poet Austin Clarke (1896-1974), a twenty-page tour de force erotic imagining of the classical character who experienced life (and sex) as both male and female. Tiresias is asked to “Speak now and be fearless. / Did you enjoy in the consummatory moments of love-making / greater bliss as woman or man?” The “answer” may surprise you.

The art of translation is predominant in this issue, with Larry Gregg’s English version of Viktoria Tokareva’s “A Ruble Sixty…That’s Not Much,” a fantastical story concerning a cap that renders the wearer invisible. Fleur Adcock, the famous New Zealand poet, contributes her translations of four poems from The Greek Anthology, and linguist Peter Russell translates no less than twenty sublime works by the great Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938).

American author Paul Theroux’s, “A Deed Without a Name,” is a short story with a decidedly twisted ending, that also manages to be blackly funny. In Joyce Carol Oates’ “Silkie” a young woman’s flirtatious ways and misguided honesty fail her when faced with pregnancy and a difficult decision. “It seems to me that the hundreds of times I did things like that were just one single time, locked safe somewhere with me still that age and safe from growing up, and I could maybe get back to it if I knew how.”

A final note regarding reviews: older issues of the Malahat did not include reviewers as contributors insofar as biographical notes are concerned. I have, in my count above, included them as such and might also note that Issue #23 contains reviews by Marilyn Bowering, Leon Rooke, Constance Rooke, Charles (Mike) Doyle, and S. W. Jackman.

—Rhonda Batchelor

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Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Loscil City Hospital (Jackdaw Edition)

An expanded soundtrack to the Malcolm Lowry novella “Lunar Caustic”.

Presented in a jackdaw style format, this release charts the unsteady memories and shifting surroundings of protagonist Bill Plantagenet as he recovers from an alcoholic-fueled breakdown in the City Hospital. Based on Lowry’s own self admission to New York’s Bellevue in the 1930′s, our observations are presented through maps, photographs and postcards from the era, a sort of “psycho-geography”.

Track Listing:
1a. Awoke on a Ship
1b. The Coal Barge
1c. Staring Out Of The Window At Twilight
1d. The Death of Ase

Order a copy from Wist Rec.

Thanks to Gary Mentanko for asking me to contribute to this extended edition.

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Jul 31, 2014

Revisiting the 70's Disco Shirt + Painting Update!

Look, everybody, my garbage-find artwork is now hanging on the wall -- I was even inspired to declutter the surface of my credenza!

Jul 30, 2014

Challis Winters? + Garbage Find of the Month!

Friends, just look what I found in my building trash yesterday evening.

Jul 29, 2014

Linen Pinstripe Drawstring Pants for Michael

Occasionally I buy fabric with a certain project in mind but end up using it for something else entirely.

Jul 27, 2014

Hello, VLOGGY!

Friends, once again I am delighted to present my latest VLOG extravaganza.

Jul 25, 2014

FINAL Williwear Post: Michael Rocks It!

OK, so Michael insisted he get to model McCalls 8536, the vintage Eighties Willwear top.  Or somebody insisted...

Jul 24, 2014

Meet Mary Porter!

Friends, I am delighted to introduce my new colleague here at MPB, veteran sewing instructress Mary Porter!

Jul 23, 2014

In Praise of the One-Day Sewing Project -- McCall's 8536

Remember this vintage McCall's Williwear pattern from 1983?  Well today I made the top.  (You know this is basically a unisex pattern when a men's shirt is referred to in the instructions as a top.)

Jul 22, 2014

READER QUESTION: "How practical are white pants?"

On occasion an MPB reader will ask me for fashion or sewing advice.   It's flattering!

Jul 21, 2014

Kenmore Feed Dog FAIL -- What am I doing wrong? (With UPDATES)

Friends, if you watched yesterday's vlog, you know I've been doing some long-delayed maintenance on my beloved Kenmore 158.141, my go-to vintage zigzagger.

Jul 20, 2014

Sunday VLOG -- Sultry Summer Edition!

Readers, it's VLOG time again.  Mitzi's ready for her big number and so am I!

Jul 19, 2014

Coffee Table Fashion Books (in the age of Pinterest) -- YEA or NAY?

I used to own this exact same coffee table.  I ended up selling it when I got tired of telling people not to put their drinks down on it without a coaster -- a real drag.

Jul 18, 2014

Gearing Up for The Next Big Thing

Friends, I played hookey yesterday: I went to the beach at Fire Island with my friend Nora.

Jul 16, 2014

So You Want to Sew a Men's Suit -- Some Helpful Resources

I'll admit it: I find a men's suit to be one of the most challenging sewing projects to take on.

Jul 15, 2014

Modeling My Navy Blue Suit at Mood!

Friends, as promised, my suit -- the first I've completed that wasn't made out of a vintage bedsheet, btw -- is live and ready for your inspection on the Mood Sewing Network.  Just click here.

Jul 13, 2014

Invasion of the Killer VLOG!

It's out there in the night.  It's coming closer and closer...

Jul 11, 2014

NAME THAT PATTERN: Matchy-matchy Semi-Finals!

Readers, the last season of MPB's exclusive pattern-naming game, NAME THAT PATTERN, proved that there exist among you some very talented players who are ready to step it up a level.

Jul 10, 2014

When Bad Things Happen to Good Pockets

Friends, I have good news and bad news.

Jul 9, 2014

"Just the pants, ma'am"

I have a very bad habit.

Jul 8, 2014

Jul 6, 2014

Sunday Sewing VLOG TIME!

Has a week gone by already? Where does the time go?

Jul 5, 2014

Herringbone Twill Jacket Update

The jacket continues to come together, albeit slower than I'd originally hoped.

Jul 4, 2014

July 4th Jumpsuit Miracle: a TRUE STORY!

Readers, you're not going to believe what happened to me today.

Jul 3, 2014

A (Slight) Change of Plan

Remember this cotton/linen outfit from last month?

Jul 2, 2014

From Red to White and Blue: New Fabric!

Maybe it's the approach of July 4th, but lately I'm all about the reds and the blues -- with some white in there too of course.

Jul 1, 2014

Juicy July Jottings!

Readers, with the excitement of the last few days, I completely forgot that we have a brand new month before us.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

DEMON'S NIGHT by Guido Henkel_Review

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Demon's Night (Jason Dark #1)Demon's Night by Guido Henkel

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A delightfully adventurous peek into Supernatural Victorian London, with fine period detail, “Demon Night” is an intriguing and inspiring introduction to the “Jason Dark” series by author Guido Henkel. Mr. Dark, a wealthy upper-class inventor and explorer of the Supernatural, would be right at home in the Steampunk sub-genre, and it would fit itself around him like a tailored glove.
Speaking of tailoring, Jason Dark’s character is tailormade to bring readers who love historical fiction, Victoriana, or classical supernatural chills flocking to their nearest bookselling outlet to download the entire series. “Demon’s Night” is totally enjoyable, with adventures, frights, friendships, accurate period details, and of course, that overtone we can’t live without, the Supernatural. As Jason and his newly-met friend Siu Lin battle the intensifying manifestation of a lesser demon, they quickly discover that they’re only putting out a small fire, compared to the bonfire of the greater demon about to enter this world. Not only Jason’s and Siu Lin’s lives are threatened, but those of the entire global population.

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Bubblegum Machine Cake Pops

Bubblegum Machine Cake Pops

These are SO adorable! I need to start stocking up on the supplies when I see them on sale... must try!

Monday, March 22, 2010

Hooked On Phonics

HOP is having a sale on a lot of their materials right now, and some of their older stuff is in "overstock" for really cheap. On top of that, they have a code out that works on most sale stuff - HOP50 - that will take 50% off your order. I'm about to place an order for their older HOP K-2 program (audio CDs rather than the new one with DVDs) that will be $39.98 (before tax and shipping) rather than $199.95! The two friends I know that have used the program have used this version and love it.

Thanks to Dealnews.com for this info bit!

My God is an AWESOME God!

I shared this on Facebook, and I know many of you found me from there. But I needed to share this here, too.

This is the story of the husband of my friend, Jeney. He is currently in Haiti helping with the rebuilding efforts - both of buildings and of lives.

My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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Friday, March 19, 2010

Moblog? Noblog...

I set up this account to accept posts from my cellphone, but for some reason they aren't going through. So you didn't get to see the cute edible Daddies that I made for breakfast a couple days ago. I'll work on it...

Otherwise, we've just been battling the sickies here for a few days. Yesterday my kids were running around in our yard in flip-flops in 60 degree weather. Today we've got snow. No wonder I'm sick.

Then again, I've got kids who touch everything... and a son who then picks his nose. Guess who is usually the first one sick - and the most generous. :/

Good thing he's cute.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Great Just1 deals at Rite Aid this week

Are you participating in Just1 and looking for inexpensive ways you can help?

Utah Deal Diva has a great Rite Aid list this week! Lots of scenarios. And I still have my $20 gift of savings certificate to use. I think I'll be heading there tomorrow before my moms' night out (that's right - no kids, no hubbies... I can't wait!)

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

On a roll tonight

or rather... off one. I dropped a "famous" blogger off my blog roll today. It has been a long time in coming - I couldn't help but see cracks in the "perfect" exterior that weren't making sense. The constant attempts at being "real" were just too... fake. Too forced.

But it was hard! I hate to admit that, but it was hard to walk away from what so many other people think is the best thing since sliced bread. When every other post or tweet or update or photo was tightening a knot in my stomach, and when attempts to ask questions about what the blogger was supposedly about - just to get clarification - were going unanswered, I got to asking, "What's the point, Genevieve? Why are you hanging around?"

And I couldn't answer.

I guess it's part of my personal Mama Revolution (sorry, I really dislike the name Mommy!). I'm sensing a need for some personal shake-ups, and the first thing to go will be the stuff tying me down to the negative feelings. Too much crap in my life - too little focus on what (and Who) really matters.

I'm breaking free!

I've got an attitude about altitude

One little known fact about me. I used to be terrified of yeast. TERRIFIED. I would have nightmares about dough left to proof getting out of control and taking over my house. There's an episode of Pinky Dinky Doo where everyone in the family keeps adding baking soda to her fluffy buns recipe (because she forgot it once) - and the dough rises so quickly that the whole apartment building goes up to the moon and everyone in the building has to eat fluffy buns to bring it back to earth. Yeah... like that.

I eventually got over my fear of yeast and became a pretty good baker, if I do say so myself. Then, shortly after moving to the Oregon coast, I was diagnosed with celiac disease and had to learn the very different world of gluten-free baking. Oh, I still do "regular" baking for my family, but GF is a whole other ballgame.

Then? Then we moved to Colorado. 6000 feet up. You know those directions on the back of the cake mix that say "High Altitude Directions?" That's me. You have to reduce the yeast and up the flour and sometimes equally up the water, unless you don't. And extend the time. Or is it reduce the time and up the temp? AHHHHHH!!!!

In the interest of saving money, I've taken to baking most everything from scratch. I made up a batch of pizza dough the other day (finally... it was supposed to be on OAMC day). It worked out just fine - but this was the end result of the dough cycle on my gluteny bread machine...

The dough also rises and rises and...

It's not just a nightmare... it's REALITY!!!!

Adventures in kitchenworld

On Thursday, we took a family trip to Wal-Mart to get some pull-ups and an egg slicer (ours was broken in the move). While we were there, we did our normal shopping of the clearance meats. My husband found these steak medallions and wanted to try to find a recipe like something he had tried at Olive Garden. He even found a recipe right away!

Friday afternoon when he returned from work, he started reducing balsamic vinegar to make the glaze. Our house smelled like an Easter egg dying factory fire! My lungs were burning until we opened the windows and turned on the hood vent over the stove. Small price to pay considering he paid about $2.50 for the bottle of vinegar - and a bottle of the glaze was about 4 times that (for a *small* bottle).

We ended up making a lot of changes to the recipe for my celiac and to get the kids to eat it and still get some of the good stuff =) Plus my husband doesn't like green onions, sun dried tomatoes were too expensive, and we forgot the parsley. Do I sound like an allrecipes reviewer yet ;)

We used Trader Joes GF rotini noodles. We didn't have any alfredo on hand, so I made my knock-off (2 cans goat milk that we have left over from when my daughter received it through WIC, "enough" Parmesan cheese - a cup maybe?, and some garlic powder). Then we added the fresh spinach (cuz that's what we had). We knew my son would pick it out of the sauce, so I had the brilliant idea to break out the immersion blender and make it un-pick-outable!

We're still out of propane, so my husband did the medalions on the Foreman grill. Before this, he used the salt-caking technique here to make them much more tender (and they really weren't too salty at all!) It turned out to be a good thing, because they probably would have fallen through the grill outside.

The end result? The kids didn't like the balsamic glaze (we didn't think they would - we didn't put it on their bowls but let them try ours). They *loved* the "alien slime pasta" with "stinky cheese" sprinkled on top. They even ate some of the steak (they love beef, but they aren't big steak eaters).

And... it turned out BEAUTIFUL! Don't you think?

Steak Gorgonzola à La Olive Garden

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Stop faking it!

One of my bloggy-friends wrote a great post about the fake mommy blogs. No, not the ones that are supposed to be fictional... the kind that are more old-school Jon & Kate + 8. You know, everything's perfect, our lives are in order, our kids are always obedient and would you mind taking off your shoes and putting that on a coaster?

I want to join in the revolution! I'll start with the comment that I left on her post, and I'll be sure to post more in the coming days, too.

This? This right here?

This is why I love reading your blog. I wish I lived closer to - wherever you live - because I would love to have a cup of coffee with you. I could have written this post (other than I have NO desire to become a vegetarian =) ).

I can't **stand** the fake bloggers. There's one in particular (whom I won't name) that so many people just love to bits... and I don't get it! I mean, I'm not a hater like many - I'm not going to start joining all the ______ is a faker blogs that have popped up, I don't care about bank records and police reports and all that, well, crap.

Just be real! And don't *force* your "real" posts, either. Don't build them up to be this monumental revelation that we'd all better sit down for... and I'll tell you on Thursday. You don't have to give me your SSN, your phone number or address, heck - I don't even care if you use your real name! But don't paint this picture of the perfect family - and then be shocked when others call you on it.

Wanna know a secret? We have this MASSIVE beach towel - I think they call it a beach blanket - that we got for our honeymoon. It's under one side of the dining room table - the side where my two kids eat. If we shake it out once a week, we're doing pretty good. And sometimes? We just put it back down there after shaking it instead of washing it. =)

And my kids... usually only get a bath once a week. But we do brush their teeth before bed every night! And I try to get the carpet-fuzz dread locks out of my daughter's hair as soon as I see them.

Keep being you, Courtney! That's who I want to see... and that's who Christ wants to see!

So come on - join with me! Go grab that button at the bottom of her post, and lets pledge to show more of the real and live a life less fabricated!

Monday, March 1, 2010

Slowly throwing in the towel

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Well... I'm tired =) I didn't get any new cooking done since my last post, but I got a lot of "bagging and tagging" done, transported meals to our freezer in the garage, brought the rest of the stuff up for the lasagnas that will be put together after the kids are in bed... and I *may* still take a stab at the GF tortillas.

So, I didn't finish my whole list, but I still got a LOT more accomplished than I thought I would or could. I'll try and get a picture up before we start using it all up, but my list of what's available for dinners now:
1/2 gallon of chili (previous mega batch)
2, 24 count meatballs that just need reheating and sauce
2, 4 cup bags of cooked brown rice
2 dinners of sloppy Joes
3 dinners of Chef Mis-er-ly
6 dinners of beef tacos
4 dinners of beef stew
3 quart bags of split pea soup (I'm the only one that likes it... so this is 6-9 meals for me!)
4 rice side-dish mixes

By the end of the night, I'll have:
3 pounds of chicken nuggets
1 wheat lasagna (3-4 dinners)
1 gluten free lasagna (8 meals)

I hope to be able to continue on my list tomorrow - but we are also making the soups for soup supper on Wednesday night. I've got more planning to do!

That's better...

My body forced a nap on me. I fell asleep shortly after writing that last post and slept an interrupted 2 hours. I finally woke up when my husband took a call from the moving company that moved us on our two big moves - the last one being just before Christmas. It appears the people whose belongings were in the other half of our truck just opened a mirror box that had some wedding pictures in it - and it's not theirs. I'm sick to my stomach thinking that some of our wedding pictures are missing, but we still can't confirm that it's ours. The company is playing middle man and will call us back (our mover was less than stellar - but the company was/is great!)... and we get to dig through the downstairs bedroom and the garage that are both, just about, wall-to-wall boxes while we await our final (please?) move to our own place. Just another bump in the road.

Now? Back to work!

Maybe we'll just do Atkins

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Seriously, I've done NOTHING with the bready stuff. No pizza crusts, no bread (though we still have a loaf in the freezer, and I make it pretty often - it's like a natural Glade home fragrance =) ), not even the tortillas, and they're super easy!

But I've knocked out most of the rest of the list. I haven't boiled the lasagna noodles (again with the starch!), but the rest is ready to go! The chicken nuggets are absorbing the butter milk and waiting for me to bread and bread and bread and bake and bake and bake!

Didn't have coffee... kind of afraid to have it now for fear of it keeping me up too late tonight. But I'd like to kick out a few things in the bread department yet. Going to make the tortillas after I feed the kiddos lunch. I'd *like* to still get at least one pizza crust (each) done, too - but that needs more of my attention because of the altitude issues as well... making sure it's not a big gooey ball!

Our house smells like some eclectic diner. Or the home of someone who can't decide what to eat! We have the mingled smells of beef stew, split pea soup, tacos, sloppy Joes and "Chef Mis-er-ly." I need to get something bready going to try and neutralize the smell of confusion!

Plus - I still have to bag up the soups... and take the immersion blender to the pea soup (and pray it doesn't a'splode!). The tacos have been simmering for for-ev-er... gotta stir them and set them aside to cool.

Did I mention a nap? Because I'm starting to think that is no longer an option but a requirement! The hubs is out to get our mail... and get more freezer bags =)

Half(ish) way there!

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About to start pounding the life out of some (dead) chicken breasts. I'm actually quite surprised at how well this is going...

... but I'm also finally starting to get tired.

Time to brew some coffee, make sure both crock pots are off, toss some food in the general direction of my kids (just kidding - they're eating grapes right now and will have hard boiled eggs in a few seconds... plus I'm brewing some (decaf) tea for them right now. Did I mention that they never went back to sleep once the girl got up at 5:45?!?! I do believe that is the definition of insanity - especially since they normally get up sometime between 7-8.

And... in the 20 minutes since I started writing this, I dozed off, my kids got in trouble for getting into the homeschooling supplies, and it's turning out to be just as crazy as I thought it might get.

Next part of the plan - get coffee started, get some pizza dough in each bread machine (one is a dedicated gluten-free machine... for my new readers, I have celiac disease, but I'm the only one in my family that eats GF because GF flours, pastas, etc are much more expensive and much more time consuming to make), and get that chicken abused and drowned! =)

Why does cooking have to be so noisy?!?!

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I blame it on coffee. I don't usually have much caffeine. Especially since moving from sea level to 6000 feet, caffeine seems to **really** effect me. But the coffee at church today was SO good. And the young woman who normally finishes off the pot gave up coffee for Lent. So even though I had my normal cup during Bible study... and filled up again (in my defense, our church building is pretty cold and I usually have two cups of decaf tea)... I finished the last cup while the kids and I were waiting for Daddy to finish teaching confirmation.

That's right, I haven't had caffeine in... weeks. And then I had THREE LARGE CUPS yesterday. At first I wrote today - because I still haven't slept (though I did snooze on the couch for about 20 minutes around 3).

But the things that I had hoped to do in preparation for today's big cooking day? I couldn't do them. Because they're loud. I can't pound the chicken with a mallet for the chicken fingers/nuggets. I can't be rolling out tortillas and pizza dough on our wood table because *that's* loud. Did I mention that our kitchen/living room is right over the master bedroom where my incredible husband is trying to sleep? Yeah.

So, I added to my list. I had found a couple rice mix recipes in a gluten-free cookbook I recently received, and I wanted to try them out. They're quiet to assemble, easy to walk away from when the 3 year old wakes up because she peed in her pull-up... only to find out she didn't really, but she did wake her brother who now also needs to go potty. And will you tuck me back in when I'm done, Mama?

I got 4 different rice side-dish mixes made up: Herb rice for chicken, Herb rice for beef, Beef rice, and (the one I'm really excited about) Curried rice! I just need to type up the instructions that go along with them and attach them to the little glass pint canning jars that house them for now.

Got 5 of 10 pounds of ground beef browned, the soup and stew are almost done, and the 8 cups of brown rice had the distinction of being the first things added to the freezer! Even took a picture of me and my first bag of freezer food - but Blogger hasn't returned my text to let me post it here. In time. It's a good feeling to be ticking things off the list.

Everything that needs to be done either requires making wake-up-someone-sleeping noise or needs and electric outlet (two of which are absorbed with crock pots right now). I don't want to blow a fuse (flip a switch?). So I think it's time for me to curl up on the couch and take a little more of a nap. And then when I get up? COFFEE =)


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Speak the Truth with Your Spouse

GossipLet’s talk spousal abuse.

No, don’t picture hitting or shouting.

Picture this: your spouse is not even in the room. You’re with some friends, chatting about life, and suddenly the conversation turns to spouses. One lady says her husband never considers her feelings any more–he just does whatever he wants. You commiserate because your husband has been getting on your last nerve, and several recent episodes tumble from your mouth as you vent your frustration. There! It’s been said. You feel better. You can go on with life.

You have just engaged in a bit of character assassination. Against the one person who should be closest and dearest to you!

God embedded this into the ten commandments: you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

“But what I said wasn’t false!” you protest.

Wasn’t it? Think back on the language used. Did you grumble, complain, and resignedly huff, “That’s just how he is!” Did you say “he never…” or “he always…“? Did you allow your frustration to color your language a little? Did you remember all the good he has done to you and for you, or were you only thinking of the recent trouble? When we use words like never and always, we lie, because it’s almost never true! Test it out…

frustrated woman“He never considers my feelings first.” That’s an animal and not a man you’ve just described.

“He always throws his dirty socks on the floor.” That’s quite a track record. Has he never once hit the laundry basket even by mistake?

“She never wants to do what I want to do.” Was that what attracted you to her in the first place?

“She always says just the thing to get on my nerves.” You must be just on the verge of exploding! And I’m sure you always respond with a gentle answer in order to turn away her wrath.

Husbands and wives, will you agree with me that we sometimes do bear false witness against our spouses? We really need to quit. It’s not healthy, it’s lying, and it’s sinful.

We ought to remember that our moods change. Murder is committed when people act in the throws of anger. Paul commanded,

“Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil” (Ephesians 4.25-27)

All these commandments work together. Anger often prompts us to falsehood as we modify and reshape the truth to serve our own purposes. The best thing to do in our anger is usually BE STILL! Don’t act! Wait. Take a breath and count to 10. Or 100. Or 1000. Whatever it takes to cool off. If we speak in our anger and frustration we are apt to sin.

UpsetNext time you feel frustrated with your spouse try this:

  1. Don’t talk to him / her about it immediately. And certainly don’t talk about him / her to others.
  2. Pray about it and ask yourself why you feel so bad about it. Was she intentionally trying to hurt you? Does he even know how what he did or said affects you? Be honest.
  3. Maybe even wait a day or two before you address the problem, and in the meantime do something nice for him / her — just because.

I’ll be curious to know how it turns out 🙂 I have found most “issues” all but vanish given a little time and breathing room. I’d love to know how this technique works in your relationship.

Always speak the truth about your spouse!

Remember: Anger and lies give the devil a foothold in your life.


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Moschino Peace Sign Belt

Label: Moschino

Condition: very good used condition, light wear from age, no major flaws

Material: leather

Country of Manufacture: Italy

Size: labelled size 44

   Total Length: 36"

   Width: 1.75"

    Circumference when buckled: 31"-33"

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vintage colorful segmented leather belt with peace sign buckle by Moschino
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‘It must be good, it’s sold out”, said a prospective customer who arrived late at our stall at the Legaspi Sunday Market.  All our products were sold out and he wanted to buy Hainanese Chicken.  He actually wanted to order for his upcoming birthday.  He was like many of our customers, a ‘foodie’ i.e. a person who has a great love for quality food.  While price is important, taste is paramount.

This prospective customer had hoped to buy one serving of our Hainanese Chicken and then decide whether or not to order for his birthday celebration.  He said the 1st time he tasted Hainanese Chicken was in Hainan.  He also said he was often disappointed with the Hainanese Chicken in Manila.  So I said ‘I hope you like our chicken’.  To which he replied ‘It must be good, it’s sold out”.

This got me thinking about the supply chain, about fulfilling consumer demand and about building a customer base.

One of the biggest problems we had at Avon was fulfilling consumer demand.  We got to the point where we had indoctrinated our sales force and our customers to our lingo.  At Avon we used the acronym ‘OS’ - for out of stock.  I knew we had a widespread problem when a new masahista learned I worked at Avon and immediately said ‘ah Avon – laging OS”.

Avon had a wide and complicated product line, multiple outlets and hundreds of thousands of sales force.  You don’t sell a lipstick in one shade, you offer at least 10 shades. The trick is making sure the lipstick in the hands of our customer is the right shade, at the right time, literally from Aparri to Jolo, without having substantial excess.

When we opened up our stall at the Sunday Market, we deliberately kept the supply chain simple and the product offering small.  But we were still short.  We have unfulfilled customer demand, a source of frustration for some customers.  But as in the case of the gentleman ‘foodie’, there are those who believe ‘if it’s sold out, it must be good’.  We also overestimated and had chicken coming out of our ears at the end of the day, as was the case during the last Pacquaio fight.  Our sales were knocked out by Pacquiao.

So which is better, to short and lose sales or to overstock and lose profit?

To my mind, it depends on the stage of development of your business, the nature of your product and on your business objectives.

Let’s tackle ‘Stage of development’.  If your business is a start up, capitalization is generally tight and cash flowa key driver in your business.  In my days as a new GM of a start up company, suppliers were told, ‘sorry walang check signatory’ even if I was in the office.  Inventory ties up cash and must be turned over quickly.  At this stage, it’s better to short than to get stuck with inventory.  As your cash flow improves, you can invest in more inventory.

Nature of your product line.  If your product has a long shelf life, of course it’s ok to invest in inventory.  If your product has a short shelf life, think twice.  Our neighbouring stall at the market sells wine and beer.  The Sunday of the Pacquiao fight, the owner complained to me that her sales were so low.  I looked at her and said ‘at least you can keep your inventory and sell it next week!”  We ate chicken fried rice, chicken salad, chicken sandwiches, chicken pasta all through the week!

Business Objectives.  If your business objectives include gaining consumer trial, ordefending market share,or  gaining market share  --  investment in inventory is mandatory.  Notice the use of the word ‘investment’.  Because it is an investment, it is a competitive tool, a business hot button. Depending on your business objectives, you choose to invest in certain SKUs, in certain locations or both.

Lastly, would you consider deliberately shorting a product to create demand?  Perhaps.  When you short, customers sometimes shift to whatever is available.  But done too often, customers walk away.  Perhaps, if the competition is not aggressive.But remember, many of our local business giants quickly lost market share when aggressive competitors entered their business arena.  Dealers and customers were fed up with ‘poor customer service’.  That is perhaps the most important – customer service and your ability to recover your customer’s good will in spite of shortfalls.
MaluDyBuncio is the Chief Business Development Strategist of Mansmith and Fielders, Inc., (www.mansmith.net). She was the former country head of Avon Philippines and Avon Indonesia. For inquiries on our programs, please call (63-2) 584-5858/412-0034, text 0918-81-168-88 or email info@mansmith.net.


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segunda-feira, agosto 03, 2015

Lourdes Castro's Exhibition: "Todos os Livros" ("All The Books") - Part 1 ("Avessos/Reverse Sides")

I was there in 2012 at the Goethe-Institute, and now in 2015 at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
What a marvel!

Lourdes Castro has begun to enjoy something of a renaissance, in Portugal and abroad. As far I know, the one at the Goethe-Institute and now this one at Gulbenkian, were the only two full-scale retrospectives of her work. What I chance it was to see them both! This time Manuel Zimbro's work was not on display (Lourdes Castro’s collaborator and life partner;"he was the Light and I was the Shadow", as Lourdes Castro used to say). As with all great artists, Lourdes Castro's work is not derivative, i.e., it's highly personal. After seeing her work for the first time in 2012, I always think of Lourdes Castro's work as an Unchangeable that is immortalized in the matter.

Lourdes Castro was born on the island of Madeira and in the 30s went to the German School there. From 1958 onwards she studied and lived in Germany.
In Berlin, she devised a "German Correspondence Course" as an introduction to the language for Manuel Zimbro, who was in Paris.
It has been reproduced and published as an artist's book by Documenta Publishing House.
The original was exhibited at the Goethe-Institute in Lisbon, during its 50th anniversary celebrations.

(Die auf Madeira geborene Künstlerin Lourdes Castro besuchte in den 1930er Jahren die Deutsche Schule in Funchal. Ab 1958 lebte sie für einige Jahre in Deutschland. Um Manuel Zimbro, der in Paris lebte, die deutsche Sprache näher zu bringen, entwarf sie in Berlin einen "Deutschkurs per Korrespondenz", ein Künstlerbuch, das der Verlag Documenta als Faksimile-Kunstbuch herausgibt.
Das Original war zur Feier des 50. Gerbuststags des Goethe-Institute in Lissabon am 01.Oktober 2012 ausgestellt.)

(Avessos Encadernados/Bounded Reverse Sides: Kagé, 1971
Translucid fluo rose plexiglass front cover and white Plexiglas back cover, 5 white plexiglas leaves embroidered with the word "shadow" in Japanese in pink wollen wire)

(Avessos encadernados/Bounded Reverse Sides: Sombra, Paris 1971.
Translucid plexiglas front cover, red plexiglas back cover, 13 cardboard leaves, red perle embroidery thread.)

(Avessos encadeados/Bounded Up Reverse Sides: Os Lusíadas, 1971.
Orange plexiglas front and back covers, 5 translucid plexiglas leaves embroidery plastic wire)

(Avessos encadeados/Bounded Up Reverse Sides: Goethe, 1971.
Light yellow pleiglas front cover and bright yellow plexiglas back cover, 13 white cardboard brown perle embroidery thread)

(left: Laying shadow of Umberto with the books "Beds"
right: Sitting shadow of Zorica reading "Little red book")

(Artistic Reasoning for the two figures above: Umberto and Zorica)

(Branche de Cerisier: printemps [with Manuel Zimbro], 1981)

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Hmmm... now that's a lame heading, if ever there was, but I'm struggling here, 'k? Both of the following hail from Ol' Blighty, the land of warm beer, bad teeth and mostly worthless music since the year 1981. But under the surface there's always been a few good things a-bubblin'. The outfit known as Honey Ride Me A Goat, a trio from Kent, is certainly one of them. They've been around since the start of the century some time and were kind enough to send me a box of goodies a little while back. They've got a bunch of ltd.-run EPs, CDs, 10"s, split 12"s and probably a cassette or 8-track or two under their belt, and from what I've heard, it's all good. The band they remind me a whole lot of would be none other than the Stretchheads (killer Scottish mob of yore; if you've read this blog for more than the last 10 minutes, then you've heard the rant before. There's a 2CD Complete Discography coming out some time in 2010, so keep yer ears peeled), which means there's a fair dose of "whackiness" involved, but it's all in good humour and suits their schtick to a tee. Instrumental and heavy on the chops, occasionally falling apart in a free-jazz-style skree but then roping itself together in seconds, their prowess is put to expert use. And now that I'm on the topic, let me add this: virtuosity in music is not necessarily a bad thing. Virtuosity for its own sake is, but one punk rock myth which needs to be debunked is the misnomer that practicing your craft and becoming damn good at it is a bad thing. Punk rock was a musical movement, and the best bands could play like demons, not slobs. I could now go on for another 1,000 words regarding the genius-like songcraft and musical dynamics of Black Flag, Minor Threat and Bad Brains, but I'll save that for a drunken rant down at the pub. Let me speak some more of HRMAG. The songs are short, sharp and over quick, just like a slightly more fleshed-out take on Punchline-era Minutemen. The guitar - whooaah, the guitar - is dynamite. It's got a D. Boon-like scratchiness, but the treble isn't so screechy that texture doesn't also enter the picture. I'm thinkin' Joe Baiza, James Ulmer and Peter Cosey, and no higher compliment can be paid. I've got the s/t 10", the split w/ the similarly-minded Mothguts, and even a copy of an as-yet-unreleased recording they did w/ the Soft Machine's Hugh Hopper just before he passed away earlier this year, and they all kill me. The Hopper recording is one long half-hour+ number which screeches, groans and fires up not unlike Universal Congress Of's debut, whilst the other two keep the attacks brief, with each song twisting and turning at a second's notice. This is music way beyond any kinda clever-clever shenanigans; it's highly evolved nonsense which gives me a kick every time, and some of the absolute best music hardly anyone has ever heard of being made in the year 2009. Take the plunge.

There's also the brand new issue - that'd be #3 - of the UK's best fanzine out right about now. It's called Niche Homo. I reviewed the first issue a while ago, and the editors must've been so chuffed with my positive review that they quote it every time I see 'em floggin' their wares on the 'net. I guess my good word does carry more weight than that of a feather. I'm blushing. Rumour has it one of these young folks slugs it out in the UK office of Vice magazine for a day job, and whilst such a vocation would usually have said publication flushed down the toilet in an instant, in Niche Homo's case, vapid hipsterism is not their game. Their game is music, pure and simple. There's the usual swag of interviews and pieces on current UK u/grounders I know zip about (but likely should, or will in the future), such as Mazes, So Cow and Spin Spin The Dogs; an interview w/ ex-Vibracathedral Orchestra dude, Neil Campbell (always a great interviewee; his piece in an old ish of Opprobrium is a classic); and even a fairly comprehensive and recent interview with an old drunk by the name of Mark E. Smith, a man whose brain appears to be leaving the planet at an alarming rate. There's also a cool section for the real geekoids, "Mixtape Wars", where editor/publisher Nick B. gets a few friends to make tapes for each other and records their reactions to tunes by the likes of Neil Young, Meat Puppets, Wipers, Red Crayola, King Crimson, Cannanes, Bo Diddley and even personal faves (of mine!) Dawson. I tried a similar thing a decade ago - an "Invisible Jukebox" - w/ my pal Dave (ex-Sailors homo): I played him free-jazz malarkey and he forced me to listen to generic garage rock, but the drunken results were so dire I never published it anywhere. This one's much better. I applaud any u/ground publishing magnate who makes the effort to put ink to real-life paper in the year 2009 and actually gets it out to the public; I give them a round of applause when the results are this good. As the front cover says: Superior Toilet Literature. I've had to pack up all my 'zines the last few days for a room switch to make some space for the kids, and my collection, seeing it all now in cardboard boxes, has overwhelmed me. There must be over a thousand of them. Niche Homo is finding its home there, too. I'm expecting a Honey Ride Me A Goat piece in the next issue.

You've heard the album, you've bought the DVD, now read the true story of the mighty Imperial Dogs. Check it out here: an excellent piece and interview w/ Dog Don Waller done by none other than Dave Laing. The other guy.

Michael said...

Am definitely up for any Brit mixtape wars going at the moment - gonna check out Niche Homo pronto. Thanks for the tip.

And I, too, would've linked to Dave Laing's piece - it's sooo great and elucidating about them longgone times . . . but christ, I've already done 2 posts about THE IMPERIAL DOGS in the past month. A man's gotta stop somewheres.

Anonymous said...

"..and mostly worthless music since the year 1981..."

You got facts to back this bullshit up?

It's easy to bag Pommy music being an Aussie, and grunge morons were the same, but the irony is that MOST music that came out of England since 1981 has aged better than the bumfluff noise from most other parts of the world.


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text: Cupid and Psyche Cupid, Psyche Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon) 1893-01-01/1893-12-31 Orpheus and Eurydice Orpheus, Eurydice Originally modeled for The Gates of Hell, where it was apparently intended to illustrate a poem from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, this group was abandoned by Rodin in the final version of The Gates but given a second existence under the present title. The figure of Eurydice is recognizable as that of the Martyr and exemplifies Rodin's propensity for exploring the multiple interpretations of a single form. Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon) 1893-01-01/1893-12-31 Diana Diana In the Salon of 1848, Diaz exhibited a painting entitled "The Departure of Diana for the Hunt," which was criticized for inept drawing. The following year, he painted this picture, larger than the first and characterized by careful draughtsmanship and a greater sense of movement. Its classical subject and high-key palette reflect the artist's interest in the works of Correggio (1489–1534) and Prud'hon (1758–1823). -- Miquel and Miquel [Ref. 2006] catalogue five other versions of this composition, calling one (no. 2842; location unknown) a study for ours. They also identify our painting as the one shown in the Salon of 1848 as "Départ de Diane pour la chasse." However Sterling and Salinger [Ref. 1966] consider ours to be a replica of the Salon painting. Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, Bordeaux 1808–1876 Menton) 1849-01-01/1849-12-31 Pygmalion and Galatea Pygmalion, Galatea Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon) 1908-01-01/1909-12-31 The Birth of Venus Venus The first version of Cabanel's Birth of Venus (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) created a sensation at the Salon of 1863, which was dubbed the "Salon of the Venuses" owing to the number of alluring nudes on view. Embodying the ideals of academic art, the careful modeling, silky brushwork, and mythological subject of Cabanel’s canvas proved a winning combination: the Salon picture was purchased by no less than Napoleon III for his personal collection. In 1875, John Wolfe commissioned the present, slightly smaller, replica from Cabanel. -- The first version of Cabanel's Birth of Venus (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) created a sensation at the Salon of 1863, which was dubbed the "Salon of the Venuses" owing to the number of alluring nudes on view. Embodying the ideals of academic art, the careful modeling, silky brushwork, and mythological subject of Cabanel’s canvas proved a winning combination: the Salon picture was purchased by no less than Napoleon III for his personal collection. In 1875, John Wolfe commissioned the present, slightly smaller, replica from Cabanel. Alexandre Cabanel (French, Montpellier 1823–1889 Paris) 1875-01-01/1875-12-31 Venus and the Sphinx Venus, Sphinx Like much of the sculpture of the Romantic movement in French art, Préault's work was rejected from the Paris Salons throughout the 1830s and 1840s. Official recognition came after the Revolution of 1848. This plaster group is the working model for the commission of 1867 for the imperial palace at Fontainbleau. Auguste Préault (French, 1809–1879) 1868-01-01/1868-12-31 Oedipus and the Sphinx Oedipus, Sphinx Moreau, a virtually unknown artist at the age of thirty-eight, triumphed at the Salon of 1864 with his interpretation of the myth of Oedipus and the Sphinx. This painting represents the moment when Oedipus confronts the winged monster outside Thebes and must solve her riddle to save his life as well as those of the besieged Thebans. The work shows Moreau's awareness of Ingres's version of the subject (Musée du Louvre, Paris), painted in 1808, which Moreau had sketched. It also demonstrates his familiarity with works by the early Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, whose paintings Moreau had studied at the Louvre. Moreau's choice of a mythological subject and his deliberately archaizing style distinguished his painting from the Realist and naturalist currents of the 1860s. -- This painting was a success at the Salon of 1864, where it won a medal and helped to establish Moreau's reputation. A painting of the same subject by Ingres of 1808 (Musée du Louvre, Paris) served as a point of departure for Moreau's own interpretation of the theme. Holten [see Ref. 1957] has argued that Moreau derived the posture of the sphinx from a poem by Heinrich Heine. Dorra [see Ref. 1973] believes that the pose of the sphinx is based on the etymological meaning of the word "sphinx"; a paper written on this subject was published in 1863 [see Ref. Bréal 1863]. Others have suggested that the pose of Oedipus and the Sphinx were informed by Moreau's knowledge of antiquities, knowledge he could have acquired at the Louvre or from books in his and his father's private library [see Refs. Helma-Tisserent 1981 and Moret 2000]. This picture has been interpreted as being not only about good versus evil, but about the conflict between the sexes [see Ref. Holten 1960]. Paladilhe [see Ref. 1971], in a Freudian reading of this painting, notes that at the time Moreau was painting this his father had died and he was projecting in this canvas his unconscious desire to exorcise the castrating influence of his mother. It has also been suggested that this work symbolizes Moreau's own struggle in choosing the life of an artist and having to give up sensual gratification [see Ref. Kaplan 1974]. More than thirty studies and many repetitions of this work were made. Julius Kaplan, in "Gustave Moreau," Los Angeles, 1974, reproduces the following: a pencil study for Oedipus and a copy after Ingres's Oedipus (in "De Cavalleriis, Antiquarium Statuarum Urbis Romae") of about 1860 (no. 30); a watercolor of Oedipus and the Sphinx of about 1860 (no. 31); a first idea for Oedipus and the Sphinx, in pencil, pen, and ink, of 1861 (no. 29); an undated study for Oedipus, in pencil (no. 32); and an undated study for the Sphinx's wing, in pencil (no. 33). Gustave Moreau (French, Paris 1826–1898 Paris) 1864-01-01/1864-12-31 Theseus Fighting the Centaur Bianor Theseus, Bianor Bayre's thorough grounding in classical prototypes is evident in this highly charged representation of an incident from the battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs described in Book XII of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Bayre surely knew the series of metopes from the Parthenon depicting the Greek legend, but the death blow delivered by the Greek hero is recognizable as a borrowing from the marble Hercules and a Centaur by the Mannerist sculptor Giambologna in Florence. Antoine-Louis Barye (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris) 1867-01-01/1867-12-31 Hercules and Cacus Hercules, Cacus From Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: One of the greatest engravers of all time, Dutch Mannerist artist Hendrick Goltzius was also a superb draftsman, skilled painter and successful print publisher. He was born in 1558 to a family of artists living in the Rhineland near the Dutch border. Despite permanently injuring his right hand in a fireplace accident as an infant, Goltzius showed great artistic talent and in 1574 or 1575 became the student of the Dutch artist Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert (1522-1590), in the Rhineland town of Xanten. Goltzius learned engraving and etching from Coornhert, making his earliest prints after his teacher's designs and those of other artists. Coornhert returned to his former home of Haarlem, in Holland, in early 1577, followed by Goltzius later that year. For the next several years Goltzius designed and engraved prints for Coornhert and for two Antwerp publishers, Aux Quatre Vents and Philip Galle (1537-1612). The subjects included religious and allegorical scenes and portraits. In 1579 he married the widow Margretha Jansdr (1549/1550-1631), who brought with her a modest inheritance and a son, Jacob Matham (1571-1631). Goltzius apparently began publishing prints himself in 1580 and by 1582 was prosperous enough to buy a house and two years later hired two apprentices. Sometime around 1584 Goltzius met the artist (and his future biographer) Karel van Mander I (1548-1606), a refugee from Flanders. Van Mander had worked in Italy and Vienna and was familiar with international art sources and trends. He introduced Goltzius to the drawings of the Flemish artist Bartholomeus Spranger (1546-1611), then working in Prague for the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II (1552-1612), whose work influenced Goltzius for the remainder of the decade. He published several prints based on Springer's Mannerist drawings. Soon Goltzius was cutting engravings based on drawings prepared for him by Springer, such as the large print The Wedding of Cupid and Psyche (N. Holl. D. 341), which caused a stir at the Frankfurt Book Fair in September 1587. By the second half of the 1580s, the Goltzius workshop employed assistants as well as apprentices, including his stepson Matham, Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629) and Jan Saenredam (1565-1607), and issued dozens of prints a year to designs by Goltzius, some engraved by him as well. He also began to create woodcuts; Hercules Killing Cacus from 1588 (N. Holl. D. 304), done in the chiaroscuro style, is thought to be the first of eighteen woodcuts he created based on his own designs. During the late 1580s Goltzius apparently suffered from depression and consumption, but despite his illnesses he traveled to Italy in 1590 via Hamburg and Munich, then to Venice, Bologna and Florence, arriving in Rome in January 1591, where he stayed for eight months (except for a sojourn to Naples). He studied art of all periods, from classical statuary to Renaissance masters. He brought back to Haarlem a collection of his drawings that would inform his art for the rest of his life, such as his three engravings after classical statues, e.g., the Farnese Hercules (1592, N.Holl. D. 378). During the 1590s Goltzius engraved many of his most famous prints, such as the six plates of The Life of the Virgin series (1593-1594, N. Holl. D. 8-13), one done convincingly in the style of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), another in the style of Lucas van Leyden (ca. 1494-1533), and four in the styles of other artists. Van Mander records that Goltzius completed the set very quickly to get it ready for sale at the Spring 1594 Frankfurt Book Fair. By the end of the 16th century he had created about 310 prints after his own designs and another seventy after the designs of others. Goltzius also created a large number of drawings intended as works of art in their own right, in addition to drawings serving as designs for prints or as studies. Done with in ink, chalk or metalpoint, on parchment, paper or canvas, his finished drawings were acquired by significant collectors throughout Europe, with at least three by the Holy Roman Emperor. Altogether some 500 of his drawings survive. In 1600 Goltzius undertook a major change in his artistic career. While continuing to draw, he stopped creating engravings and took up oil painting. He turned the publishing house over to his stepson Matham. While some scholars find his paintings to be less successful than his prints and drawings, his oils were highly sought after during his lifetime. About fifty surviving canvasses are now attributed to Goltzius. By 1616 his health had worsened and he died on January 1 of the following year. (TNB 6/2012) Selected bibliography: Goddard, Stephen H. and James A. Ganz. Goltzius and the third dimension. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2001. Leeflang, Huigen and Ger Luitjen, et al. Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). Drawings, Prints and Paintings. Exhibition catalogue. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio: The Toledo Museum of Art, and Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2003. Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, Mühlbracht 1558–1617 Haarlem) 1588-01-01/1588-12-31 Hercules Fighting the Fury and the Discord Christoffel Jegher (Flemish, 1596–1652/53) After Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp) 1633-01-01/1635-12-31


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Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Poetry: My First Love

I started writing when I was ten years old, but my first endeavors into creative writing were not short stories, novels or even flash fiction. I started out as a poet. I love poetry to this day, all kids of poetry and recently I've developed a certain fascination with the spoken word. Since hearing 'We Are More' By Shane Koyczan at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games' opening ceremony, I've been hooked. His poem 'To This Day' makes choke up every time I listen to it.

I don't think I'd ever have it in me to be a spoken word artist, and although I've put poetry on the back burner to develop my novel writing skills, I still love to write it. There's a certain joy in sitting down and pouring a part of your soul into something that is only ten lines long. There's a special joy in letting someone know that you know exactly how they feel.

I want to share with you a poem of mine. It's unpublished anywhere else, so you saw it here first. I must have rewritten it and tweaked it about a thousand times, but I'm finally happy with it. (Though I changed the title slightly upon posting LOL)

Scattering Ashes

Grey black butterflies
float on a breeze.
Dancing in the wind
they hover in the trees.
Sun kissed wings
gracefully flutter,
over sea and hill and dale,
with sweet serenity everlasting,
a beauty that will never pale.
Like bittersweet memories,
with distance they fade.
A scattering of ashes
remembered as a butterfly parade.

If you'd be interested in reading some of my published poetry, visit this list of my work.

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Friday, May 07, 2010

Envisat Monitors Oil Spill Proximity to Loop Current

As fears grow that the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico could soon catch the oil slick and drag it south towards coral reefs in the Florida Keys, scientists are monitoring the situation closely with ESA's Envisat radar data.

By combining surface roughness and current flow information with Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) data of the spill, SAR image analysts are able to detect the direction in which the spill boundaries can drift.

In these two ASAR images for 29 April and 2 May, advanced processing methods have been performed to display ocean surface roughness variations and Doppler-derived ocean surface radial velocities. Merging this information provides insight into the spatial structure of the spill and its dispersion by the upper ocean turbulent flow.

In the 29 April image, smooth surfaces appear as black patches inside the oil spill and in the very low wind region east of the spill, where the flow analysis is not possible.

As visible in both images, the spill still appears relatively confined around its point of origin and is still north of the Loop Current, a powerful conveyor belt that circulates clockwise around the Gulf toward Florida before being joining the powerful Gulf Stream.

An intriguing shape is detected in the 2 May image that seems to follow passively the flow derived from the Doppler measurements.

The fear is that winds could push the oil slick south until it joins the Loop Current, which would carry the oil towards Florida. If that were to happen, the oil could flow into the Gulf Stream and be carried up to the US East Coast.

"As observed, this does not seem to be the case at the moment as no connection between the spill and the intense current presently occurs," said Dr Bertrand Chapron of IFREMER, the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea. "Thanks to systematic Envisat ASAR planning over this area, close monitoring of the situation is ensured as long as there is some wind to contrast the surface roughness."

Dr Chapron and Dr Fabrice Collard of France's CLS (formerly the BOOST Technologies Company) created these products using ASAR in Wide Swath mode. They have been working with radar data for many years and have developed sets of algorithms that allow ASAR data to be processed in near-real time and to produce state-of-the-art ocean parameters. These are made widely available on the SOPRANO ocean products demonstration website developed with ESA.

"The upcoming Sentinel-1 SAR instrument will have an enhanced capability to capture the surface flow information on top of the higher resolution sea surface roughness," Dr Chapron explained. "As demonstrated, these combined products are very promising for strengthening the use of SAR data to help fight oil-spill consequences on coastal zones."

Sentinel-1 is a two-satellite system. The first Sentinel-1 satellite is planned for launch at the end 2012 and will ensure the continuity of SAR data. The second Sentinel-1 satellite is planned for launch in 2014. The fleet of Sentinel satellites is being developed by ESA within the EU's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative.European Space Agency (2010, May 5). Envisat monitors oil spill proximity to Loop Current.

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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Game Report: Fighters @ Marines - Karaage-kun Gets Fried

Walking to Chiba Marine Stadium on Saturday morning, I couldn't help but notice the breeze blowing in off Tokyo Bay. It was probably around 90 degrees Fahrenheit outside, but actually didn't feel that bad thanks to the wind. My thought, though, was that it was going to be a really tough day for anyone to hit a home run with that wind blowing in off the bay.

Boy, was I wrong.

But this story doesn't actually start with the 5 homeruns hit during the game. This story starts with the pre-game. I can shorten 90% of my interactions to basically "Saw [name], my Fighters-cheering friend that lives in [city that isn't Tokyo] who I met in [some other city]. Gave them Carp cookie omiyage from last weekend and they gave me [something yummy that comes from where they live]." Though you'd be surprised by how many people fit that, and the wide variety of yummy stuff they brought. The best was probably the coffee-cream daifuku from Kobe.

As I was staring at the Fighters out in the field during batting practice, I was surprised to see a guy running around wearing #42, since Brian Sweeney wasn't on the active roster as far as I knew, but sure enough, he was there, and just as I saw him, my friend Akki grabbed my arm like "Hey! Come translate for me, I wanna talk to Brian since I'm his biggest fan ever but you know I can't speak a damned word of English."

(This is not entirely an exaggeration. Akki has a signed Sweeney jersey and always cheers for him as much as possible.)

So I go down to the field, we yell for Brian, and being the super-nice guy he is, he actually comes over to chat for a few minutes. Akki gave him a Carp Katsu omiyage package and Brian's like "Can I eat this?" and I'm like "Yeah, you can," and Akki told me to tell him that he also gave some Carp omiyage to Brian's family in the infield the day before. And then he said, "Tell Brian that he has to be the game hero when the Fighters play at the Tokyo Dome and throw me a baseball in the stands!" and I'm like "Eeeeh?" but I went ahead and translated anyway. But Brian actually knows who Akki is, and even asked why he wasn't wearing glasses that day, which made Akki really happy.

Oh! But important info that I gained from the exchange is that Brian's pitching on Sunday! I should be sitting in the infield for that game, so I hope I'll get to see him pitch a good game from there! I told him I'd blog about it, so he better kick butt :)

Anyway, one other thing I discovered while waiting for the game to start is that there's actually a huge concessions stand behind the centerfield scoreboard with a patio. I'm not sure why I'd never wandered out there before, but one of my main complaints about sitting in the outfield in Chiba was the lack of decent food choices out there, and now it turns out I just never found them. I still prefer Bobby Burgers from the infield, but it's still nowhere near as dire a situation as I thought.

So, today's starters were Tomoya Yagi for the Fighters and Yuki Karakawa for the Marines. Karakawa's 20th birthday is next week on July 5th and he'd said he really wanted to win another game as a teenager. Yagi, on the other hand, really just wants to spend another year up at ichi-gun if possible, after being the Rookie of the Year in 2006 and then immediately having a terrible second season.

The Fighters got off to a stupid start, Kensuke walking and then the count getting up to 3-0 on Koyano, who was batting second. This should have led to great things, but instead it led to Kensuke getting caught stealing and Koyano hitting a pop fly out a few pitches later. Oops. But, in the 2nd inning, Sledge hit a one-out double to right field and another out later, Tomohiro Nioka, who was DHing and batting 7th, hit a fly ball to right field that happened to actually land inside fair territory, surprising everyone, most of all right-fielder Ohmatsu. Sledge scored, making it 1-0.

In the top of the 4th, Shinji Takahashi singled, and then Sledge hit a fly ball that we thought might be a home run... but was caught at the left-field wall, which had a No Homeruns Shield on it. So fortunately, Yoshio Itoi hit the ball to RIGHT field, where it cleared the wall for a 2-run homer. 3-0. And, amazingly, Tomohiro Nioka followed that up with ANOTHER homer to right, making it 4-0. I can't remember the last time I saw Fighters back-to-back homeruns, to be honest.

Shoitsu Ohmatsu took advantage of the home run magnet in right field to hit one there himself in the bottom of the 4th, making it 4-1.

But well, much as Karaage-kun really wanted to get that final win as a teenager, it was not destined to happen at this game. Koyano led off the 5th with a single, and Inaba walked, and Shinji bunted them up to second and third... and then Sledge ALSO walked, loading the bases, and so it was curtains for Karakawa.

Koji Takagi took over on the mound ("Uniform number 48? Or age 48?" joked one of my friends), and much to the chagrin of the Fighters ouendan guy I think of as "Shaggy", we struck up the Kanto Chance Theme Music, aka Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Yoshio Itoi didn't hit another home run, but he did hit a single to right, scoring Koyano to make it 5-1. Another pitching change brought Taiki Nakagoh out to the mound again, and he struck out Nioka. Tsuruoka hit a sharp liner to left... caught by Tadahito Iguchi to end the inning. Whoops.

Speaking of old dudes on the Marines, Koichi Hori hit a 2-run homer in the bottom of the 5th to make it 5-3. It was a monster shot straight to dead centerfield -- it bounced in the crack between the centerfield wall and fence and then went over. I like Hori and all, but I'd rather see him hit home runs against teams I don't like, like Seibu.

Yagi finished 6 innings and then Shintaro Ejiri came in to pitch the bottom of the 7th. Hooray, I like Ejiri. Unfortunately, he got to two outs pretty quickly and then BAM, a pinch-hitting Gary Burnham Jr. sent yet another homerun over the right field wall, making it 5-4.

Then there was a bit of Musical Chairs going on between the mound and the plate. Left-handed Tasuku Hashimoto pinch-hit for right-handed Koichi Hori, so the Fighters took the right-handed Ejiri off the mound and replaced him with the left-handed Masanori Hayashi. So Bobby replaced pinch-hitter Hashimoto with the right-handed Akira "Go Go Ohtsukakira" Ohtsuka, who hit a big, big foul ball.

I spent that inning talking to some other gaijin way out on the fringes of the cheering section, who are perhaps nominally Fighters fans, by which I mean I've seen them at games once or twice before and they claim to be Fighters fans, but they don't know any of the cheer songs or who most of the players on the team are. They were super-disappointed that Darvish wasn't coming in from the bullpen, and asked me "who the heck is this guy?" when Nioka came up to bat, and it made me wonder if maybe I'm the weird one for having so much baseball in my head. But in reality, no, it just made me remember that why I love Japanese baseball fans so much is that they all know the roster so well and live and die by the team so much, which is a passion I just don't find enough of in the US. (It also might be why I get along with Japanese baseball fans better -- I'm as crazy as they are.)

Anyway, something pretty odd happened after that inning -- Gary Burnham, who'd pinch-hit for the DH, entered the game as the first baseman, so Tadahito Ogino, who entered the game as the pitcher, was inserted into the lineup batting 7th. It's been a while since I've seen a PL team lose the DH. But anyway, Ogino wasn't too awful aside from hitting Makoto Kaneko with a pitch. Grrr.

Kaneko, for the record, hit two doubles today, three singles yesterday, and is 5-for-6 on the weekend. Seriously. Welcome back to the Pacific League, kaicho.

Kazumasa Kikuchi took over on the mound for the Fighters in the bottom of the 8th, which caused quite a stir, because it was his 27th birthday:

Very cool, a whole bunch of people orchestrated this one, and held up their signs for the entire inning he pitched, which was a 1-2-3 inning.

Hisashi Takeda closed out the game, and he had us a bit worried when he suddenly seemed incapable of throwing a strike, but it all worked out okay in the end and the Fighters managed to pull it all together, winning 5-4. Whew.

Nioka was the game hero for the go-ahead RBI back in the 2nd, and once again we didn't see him on the screen, only heard him.

I guess it was another day for kids to run around the bases, so while we were still doing our after-game cheers, people started filling up the field, which was especially odd as several of them started taking photos of the Fighters cheering section...

Anyway, good times. Our post-game cheering wasn't quite as crazy as Friday, but it was still a lot of fun.

Onwards to Sunday, where Brian Sweeney will take on Shingo Ono, and Deanna will take on the summer sun and try not to get burnt too badly.

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Oh Deer

Plants and fence configurations that are good for our furry friends and your garden.

LIVING IN MARIN means sharing the roads and paths, your extra backyard produce and your garden with deer. You’ll have better luck in the garden and less frustration if you are respectful of these creatures and know the rules. To that end, here are garden design considerations to keep in mind and some tips on fences and plants that will keep deer at bay without endangering them.

The Hunger A hungry deer will eat almost anything. From summer into fall there is less food, and deer need to get water by chewing on plants. Early spring brings more food sources, but during birthing season mothers get extra hungry.

Use Repellent Young plants taste better to deer than established plants and it takes time for plants — even those considered deer resistant — to build up resistant qualities. As you wait for your plants to build resistance, either cage them or spray them with a deer repellent like Liquid Fence. Deer become familiar with repellents, so rotate different types when they become ineffective.

Think Regional Deer eat different plants in different areas. Try using plants that have proven successful for your neighbors. Usually groups of deer have similar aversions to certain plants. In general, deer don’t like strong-smelling plants, plants with toxic milky sap, like euphorbia, or plants with fuzzy, prickly or thorny textures (except roses).

Smart Fencing Install a smaller fenced area if you want to grow vegetables, fruit or other deer favorites. It’s important to leave an open trail for deer.

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Plant guru and owner of Green Jeans Garden Supply, Kevin Sadlier, recommends thinking outside the box with it comes to deer. “Try a less conventional and more compassionate approach and you may get better results,” Sadlier says. He suggests putting out a tub of water for the deer so they get their moisture needs met and, in turn, they may avoid eating your ornamentals. “Also try planting a forage garden for the deer,” he adds. “You might enjoy wildlife more.”

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