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28 Nisan 2013 Pazar

A Turkish Poet on Armenian Reconciliation

Cahit Koytak, born 1949, is probably the greatest living poet of the Turkish language. He is a devout Muslim, a man of vast and philosophical vision, a jazz lover, a latter-day Sufi. He published this poem on April 24, 2013, the 98th anniversary of the Armenian tragedy.

Koytak is a difficult poet to translate – his sinuous syntax hardly carries into English, and the suggestivenes of phrase may sound hollow to unfamiliar ears. I have done my best. You must take me on my word that the original, here, is good poetry as well as a powerful call to action.

2015, The Year of Armenian Homecoming – A Poet’s View

Shall we be reconciled when we admit to be the heirs of Union and Progress,[1]
that band of devilish murderers,
and apologize in their name?

Shall we, who swear by the honesty of the Prophet and witness to the unity of God,[2]
we who never stood, never stood willingly, in the ranks of those murderers
                in their path of rage and bloodshed,
shall we ask for reconciliation
for having never moved a finger to seek justice and to redress the crime,
for nearly a century,
though we all knew of the enormity of the crime,
and knew the perpetrators,
and yet pretended that there was nothing amiss,
and tolerated those who said so?

Shall we seek reconciliation,
we who are the other members of the same great family, sharing the same house,
for failing to see, blindly, for so many years,
that what was done to them, and to their children, was done to us,
and that their pain, and the pain of their grandchildren, was our pain,[3]
and for doing nothing to call out for justice, and to lighten their burden?

Shall we offer reconciliation
for our indifference, our carelessness, our blindness?

For sitting on, or for keeping silent while others sat, for so many years,
on  the homes, on the gardens and fields and the villages
                from which the Armenians were driven so brutally?

Or, to deserve a great and true reconciliation,
for all this and for all our other debts and perfidies,
shall we open our heart wide enough,
and invite them back into it, their home?

Shall we open our heart wide enough,
to deserve a true and great reconciliation,
that we wish them to come back, with joy and trust,
to the homes, the villages, the fields and gardens which are theirs,
          and see to it that they do so safe and secure, and with a cloudless heart?

Shall we make our table broad enough,
to deserve this great redemption,
that we tell them “the earth belongs to God, and is wide enough;
the earth is His, and we are His family;
His is the land, the house, the shop, the fields and the grain that we all share at His table,
His bounty is large enough to be yours and ours, and this country[4] is your land as well as ours?”

Shall we open our bosom wide enough,
that we reach across the frontier at Ardahan[5], and call,
“see, we live under the same skies,
the same rainclouds wet our fields and our forelocks,
our dreams share the same night,
so let us fling open not only the gates,
but the boundary itself,
and render it as nothing,
and let our arms which reach out to embrace you
be long enough to circle the globe,
to Peru, Argentina and Arizona,
to embrace your spread-out seed”?[6]

Shall our hearts generate a joy great enough
that we proclaim the year 2015 “The Year of Armenian Homecoming”,
and turn it into a year of
homecoming feasts,
homecoming rites,
and homecoming follies?

Shall our soul generate candor and goodwill enough,
and kindness and love great enough to fill the heavens and the earth,
that we invite the lost sons, the lost daughters, and the estranged children of this family,
not only back to their homes in their homeland,
not only to their homes and gardens here,
but back to their homes in our heart,
to the gardens and fields that blossom in our arms,
into the mountains and valleys of our inner soul?

Shall we, to deserve this year of 2015 as a year of Birth,
not only for us and the Armenians, but for all mankind,
a year of homecoming, a year of rediscovery,
a year to breathe in the spirit of God, and the great communion that embraces us all,
can we, the Muslims, weep for those children and women, and the elderly,
who were driven from their homes, murdered, allowed to perish on the road,
abused and soiled and dishonored,
by the devils of that time,
as much as we weep for the victims of Kerbela,
for Hasan and Huseyn, and their women and children?[7]

And shall the year 2015 be, for them too, the Armenians,
a year of reconciliation, a year of joy and redemption,
that they shall deserve by weeping
for the pain of those other sons and daughters of the family,
victims of the mayhem of Hnchakists, Tashnakists and what other wild band,[8]
loosed at a time when our house was on fire,
and for those who, more recently,
lost their homes and their land, and their lives, in Karabagh?
Shall they weep, as they weep for Jesus son of Mary,
or at least lend an ear of sympathy to those who weep?

[1] The Committee of Union and Progress (İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti) ruled Turkey 1913 to 1918, carrying out the ethnic cleansing of not only the Armenians, but the Greeks, Bulgarians and others as well. The Turkish Republic was founded by their direct heirs and allies. Neo-Muslim opinion in current-day Turkey regards them – somewhat facilely, perhaps – as a criminal gang that brought the Ottoman Empire down.

[2] The poem addresses “us, the Muslims”. The phrases regarding God and Prophet are code for the Islamic aversion to the founding principles of the Republic.

[3] Viewing the later generations of the Armenian diaspora as victims of tragedy is a huge mental leap for Turkish opinion. It was never, to my knowledge, voiced before.

[4] The original has Anadolu. The English term Anatolia simply does not carry the resonance of the original, which has come to mean the homeland stripped of the nationalistic and exclusivist overtones of Turkey, Turkish, Türkiye. Türkiye is the home of the Turks, Anadolu is the common home.

[5] A town near the Armenian border. The land border between Turkey and the Republic of Armenia has been closed since 1994. An increasingly vocal school of thought now maintains that the border should not only be opened to traffic, but that it should be abolished altogether.

[6] The Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, has voiced the possibility of offering Turkish citizenship to members and descendants of the “Turkish diaspora,” i.e. all those Turks and non-Turks banished from Turkey.

[7] The murder of Hasan and Huseyn, grandchildren of the Prophet, at the desert fort of Kerbela, is mourned by all Muslims, but more so by those of Alevite/Shiite persuasion. Their murderer, Yezid, is a synonym for “devil” in Turkish, and that is the word used here twice to refer to the perpetrators of the Armenian massacre.

[8] Turkish public opinion is accustomed to see the Armenian nationalist parties of the turn of the 20th century as blood-soaked terrorist bands, and there has been too much recent propaganda about the bloodshed in Karabagh during the Armenian-Azeri war of 1992-1994. The poet deals with these sticky subjects gently.

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  1. düzyazıyı (bakmayın mısraya benzesin diye orasından burasından kırıldığına) hakiki şiir etmişsiniz, helal olsun hocam.

  2. Hani Ermeni Soykırımı Abdülhamid'le başlayan bir süreçti? Olayı bir avuç "yezit" İttihatçıya yıkmak niye? Diğer yandan "devout" Müslümanlar "Siyonistlere kök söktüren ulu hakan" Abdülhamid'le ilgili ne düşünür? Questions, questions.


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Aug 1, 2015

Pathrode Paan Undi

A tasty, spicy and nutritious undi (steamed dish) in Konkani cuisine (Chembila in Malayalam)

To make the best “Pathrodo” undi  one has to plan it a couple of days in advance. The bunch of green leaves should be wrapped in a plastic packet without folding the leaves (away from direct sunlight) - for a couple of days. Ideally – the leaves should be used for making “Pathrodo” only on the 3rd day from cutting / plucking the leaves. This is to allow the sap of the leaves to dry – as the sap is very itchy.

Remove the thick stems and nerves from the Colocasialeaves ( See the photo above- you can find lots of main nerves and sub nerves in the back side of Colocasia leaves ) and wash the leaves well. Wipe with kitchen towel and keep aside. You can starts this process early – a couple of leaves a time – when ever you find time.

Makes:  3 steel thalis / or in 2 deep bowls

Ingredients may differ from region to region (Mangalore region and Cochin GSB's)

Boiled Rice ( Idli rice / ukkada chawal ) – 1 cup (Indian standard measuring cup of 200 ml / 8 oz capacity)

Raw rice (soorai orovu / pachari ) - 1 cup (Indian standard measuring cup of 200 ml / 8 oz capacity)

Grated coconut – 1 ½ cup

Star fruit  (kermbel)- 4 - 6 nos (depending upon size), wash well and chopped

Red chilly powder – 2 teaspoon (or 2 to 2 ½ teaspoon for more spicy)

Turmeric powder – ½ teaspoon

Asafoetida / hing – 1/2 teaspoon

Salt – 1 ¼ - 1 1/2 teaspoon ( or to taste )

Finely shredded Pathrode paan – 15 - 17 paan (leaves) wash well and chopped finely

Wash and soak boiled rice and raw rice for 5 - 6 hours ( or overnight ). Grind with grated coconut,  chopped star fruit, red chilly powder, turmeric powder and salt. Grind until the batter is coarse consistency in a mixer in 2 batches (not very smooth, like sooji / rawa). Add water upto the level of rice.

Transfer this batter to another container / bowl and mix with asafoetida / hing and finely shredded pathrode paan.  Add extra water and salt if required and batter should be just like '' idli batter and pouring consistency. No need to ferment this batter. We can prepare it immediately or after 1 – 2 hours.

Grease steel thalis or bowl with little oil and pour this batter up to ¾th level and steam in a steamer / pedavan / pressure cooker (without weight)  or rice cooker for 30 - 35 minutes  until done / till a skewer / knife inserted in the centre comes out clean.  Remove from steamer and keep aside to cool for 15 minutes to  half an hour.  Gently remove and  cut into desired shape and size from steel thali / steel bowl .  We can also shallow fry these undi slices in 2 teaspoon ghee  / oil (like undi bajjille).

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Chubby Checker Announces New “Twist” In Medicare Law

By Ellen Zwierzynski, Social Security District Manager in Elizabeth

If you’ve been thinking about applying for extra help with your Medicare prescription drug costs, then now’s the time to get on the dance floor and hop to it.

Chubby Checker, the Grammy Award winning rock and roll legend most known for his hit, “The Twist,” has teamed up with Michael J. Astrue, commissioner of Social Security, to tell people about a new “twist” in the law.  The change in the law makes it easier for people with Medicare to qualify for extra help with their prescription drug costs.

“The changes in the Medicare law will allow hundreds of thousands of Americans who are struggling to pay their prescription drug costs to get extra help during these tough economic times,” said Astrue.  “I am thrilled that Chubby Checker has volunteered to help us spread this important message through a new television, radio, and Internet spot as well as pamphlets and posters.”

“Listen up, America!  For 50 years, people of all ages and backgrounds have danced the Twist,” Chubby Checker said.  “Now it’s important everyone learn about this new twist in the law.  Check it out at”

There are income and resource limits a person needs to meet to qualify for the extra help.  But the new Medicare law eases those requirements in two ways:

  • The cash value of life insurance no longer counts as a resource; and
  • Assistance people receive from others to pay for household expenses, such as food, rent, mortgage, or utilities, no longer counts as income.

A bonus “twist” is that the application you file for extra help can now start the application process for Medicare Savings Programs as well — state programs that provide help with other Medicare costs.  These programs help pay Medicare Part B (medical insurance) premiums.  For some people, the Medicare Savings Programs also pay Medicare Part A (hospital insurance) premiums, if any, and Part A and B deductibles and co-payments.

To learn more about the extra help program and to view the new television spot featuring Chubby Checker, visit Social Security online at

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Monday, December 20, 2010

Eritrea: President Fears U.S. Plans to Kill Him - Cable

Rumsfeld Isaias Afewerki

Addis Ababa — Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki suspects the United States has plans to assassinate him by bombing his residence, according to leaked secret American diplomatic cables.
The Cable from the US embassy in Eritrea released on December 15 on WikiLeaks, quoted US ambassador to Eritrea, Ronald McMullen also as saying that Isaias also believed Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has attempted to have him killed over a decade ago.

The Eritrean president was nearly assassinated while returning to Asmara after a family holiday in Kenya, 14 years ago

"Isaias thinks the United States will attempt to kill him by missile strike on his residence in the city of Massawa," the cable said, quoting a U.N. official.
"He is paranoid and believes Ethiopian PM Meles tried to kill him and that the United States will attempt to assassinate him," McMullen wrote to his superiors in Washington on November 5, last year.
The cables reveal an incident in 1996 when Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi offered one of his helicopters to fly President Afeworki to Asmara.  .View original article here

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Friday, 9 March 2012

Make a vase from a plastic bottle!

 Woven plastic bottle vase

From a distance, you would never guess this vase was plastic. Plus, it’s virtually unbreakable, and you can recycle it if you decide to redecorate.
Difficulty level: Beginner
What you’ll need: large plastic bottle, scissors, pencil (for marking)
How to make it:
1. Mark and cut the smooth middle portion of the bottle to give an even edge that’s approximately 7.5 to 8 centimeters above desired position of fluted rim.
2. Measure and mark straight, evenly spaced cuts all the way around the bottle. Cut the segments in half; then cut each of those in half to make even, thin strips.
3. Carefully press and fold all the strips outward to make a level edge all the way around. Press the bottle upside down on a flat surface to ensure an even edge.
4. Weave the tip of a strip over the next one and under the next two. Fold and crease it so that the tip is at the place .
5. Fold and crease the next one the same way, but weave this one over two and under one. Fold the third strip and weave the same as the first one. Continue around in this pattern until the last three and tuck each one under the next until woven in completely.
Why not give this a try for a really original vase.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

In My Mailbox

Hey everyone!

Once again it's time for an 'In My Mailbox'. In My Mailbox is a book blogging Internet meme started by Kristi over at The Story Siren. In My Mailbox is a meme where you talk about books you receive in your mailbox, giveaways, books you bought at stores, borrowed from the library and etc!

This is an accumulation of books that I've gotten over the last couple of weeks from grocery stores to giveaways!

(In order from top to bottom)

Once in a full moon by Ellen Schreiber
I absolutely love the Vampire Kisses series and have been dying to read other books by the glamorous Ellen because she's one of my favorite authors. So after several times of going to the bookstore and dying to pick up her famous werewolf series off of the shelf I finally did! Woohoo!

Cloaked by Alex Flinn
I loved Alex's other urban fairytale retelling like Beastly and A Kiss In Time.

Immortal Hearts by Ellen Schreiber
The last book in the Vampire Kisses series which both thrills and saddens me. I'm super excited to read the conclusion of the series but nervous about what's going to happen. But I'm so excited to sink my teeth into this book! ;)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
While on a trip to the movie theater a few weeks ago I saw the trailer to the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie directed by the amazing Tim Burton and was instantly thrilled. As soon as I had laid eyes on this book at the grocery store I knew I needed to get it because I wanted to read the book before seeing the movie so that my mind could be fresh and my imagination unaffected. (It's one of my quirks.)

Vengeance by Ian Irvine
I won this book in a giveaway on GoodReads and the synopsis sounded pretty cool so I'm excited to read this whenever I'll get the chance.

That's all for the books In My Mailbox. What books have you guys gotten recently that you're excited about?

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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Dear Potential Employer...

Are you looking for temporary, part-time or contract Web, writing, Microsoft Office or event help?

Consider this an "uncover letter."

If you're looking for a drone or a yes person, and your only requirement is that they are available 40 hours a week (or more), please don't bother looking at my resume. I'm not the person you're looking for.

But, if you need a contract, occasional or part-time employee who is

* enthusiastic
* friendly
* computer-literate
* flexible

please read my formal resume. Even better, if you give "extra points" for creativity, humor and honesty, you might want to talk to me directly. I have a great computer, loads of software and excellent connectivity from my home, so you don't even need an office for me. I live near Pittsburgh International Airport, and am looking for a job west of downtown. I'd even consider downtown Pittsburgh if I don't have to come in every day.

I'll be blunt--I'm a middle-aged woman with severe insomnia, which means I burn out quickly in a full time job, particularly one that demands 40 hours (or more) a week. But I'm terrific 20-30 hours a week. I can:

* code Web sites
* write anything
* help with customers
* do research
* manage your databases
* help give your Web sites a higher Google ranking
* help with your spreadsheets
* negotiate with hotels or convention centers
* manage your events

I'm even cheerful first thing in the morning. And I make a great chocolate chip cookie.

So if you're looking for reliable, contract or part-time help, or event management, drop me some E-mail and let's talk.

Laurie D. Mann

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Thursday, March 03, 2016

Almost overnight, the response of Republican establishmentarians to the Donald Trump threat has changed from deer-in-the-headlights catatonia to bouncing-off-the-walls frenzy; denial wasn't working, so now, probably too late, the party insiders are going all in on a "stop Trump by any means necessary" strategy.

In a speech today, Mitt Romney hinted at one of the few hopes the GOP establishment has for thwarting Trump:
I know that some people want the race to be over. They look at history and say a trend like Mr. Trump's isn't going to be stopped.

Perhaps. But the rules of political history have pretty much all been shredded during this campaign. If the other candidates can find common ground, I believe we can nominate a person who can win the general election and who will represent the values and policies of conservatism. Given the current delegate selection process, this means that I would vote for Marco Rubio in Florida, for John Kasich in Ohio, and for Ted Cruz or whichever one of the other two contenders has the best chance of beating Mr. Trump in a given state.
Translation: We can't agree on a Trump alternative, so let's vote for anybody who can beat Trump in any state, and yes, they'll all go into the convention with fewer delegates than Trump, but at least he won't have enough for a first-ballot victory, and surely no one will get upset if we take advantage of that and nominate someone other than Trump, the guy in first place, right?

So that's the establishment's plan -- or one of the establishment's plans. Another is to run a Republican as a third-party candidate. I think the hope is that no candidate in a three-way race would get 270 electoral votes and a GOP House would pick the third-party establishment Republican as president -- even if that candidate finished third in the popular and electoral votes. (No one in America would be angry about that, right?)

But even if the GOP establishment could pull off the brokered-convention moon shot, or could herd enough GOP cats to get behind the third-party plan, why should we believe establishment Republicans could agree on an alternative candidate?

Hasn't that been the problem for the GOP starting with Trump's first top-of-the-charts poll -- that the party is supposed to decide on the consensus nominee, but the party couldn't decide this year? Hasn't the problem been that big donors couldn't settle on one candidate in the non-Trump "lanes," therefore too many candidates stayed in the race through too many contests? Isn't that still the problem? Why have Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich all remained in the race? Shouldn't Kasich, at least, get the hell out?

If the GOP establishment tries to go third-party, or tries to thwart Trump at the convention, isn't the same unwillingness to coalesce going to repeat itself -- except this time with new contenders? Isn't Romney going to be floated as a possible savior? As well as Paul Ryan? Isn't each of the three remaining candidates going to insist that he's the only one who can win? Isn't Bill Kristol going to start floating his cockamamie idea of an all-neocon ticket made up of Dick Cheney and Senator Tom Cotton? And on and on?

This might be easier if the Koch brothers -- the de facto chairmen of the Republican Party -- would weigh in. But they've pondered the primary candidates for a year now and have just continued to dither, and even now they're refuse to spend money to stop Trump. So they're no help.

I'm shocked that this seems to be the GOP plan -- not just because it's going to enrage the already angry (and occasionally violent) Trump mobs, but also because it would require the party to do something it couldn't do even though it needed doing months ago: make a freaking decision.

So Trump is probably safe.

UPDATE: Told ya.

BillFromPA said...

Quote: 'I think the hope is that no candidate in a three-way race would get 270 electoral votes and a GOP House would pick the third-party establishment Republican as president -- even if that candidate finished third in the popular and electoral votes. (No one in America would be angry about that, right?)'

What a pipe dream that is. Either Dem beats any repug, it will probably be Hillary. Divide the repug vote and she romps to say nothing of down ballot races. GOP Senate and Rep candidates will have to choose to back one or the other pi$$ing off the spurned voters. Go for it!

CH said...

I expect Mitt to end up being the one who's out on a limb, not Trump. Note McCain's reaction - basically, "Like Mitt said, but if DT's the nominee I'll support him". With very few if any prominent exceptions, that'll be as far as the R "counter-insurgency" goes, I think, and not even that far as a rule.

Feud Turgidson said...

There's a flaw, or at least an important nuance, in this "Congress gets to decide" scenario:

It's not necessary for a given party nominee or independent candidate on the general election presidential ballot to win a majority of votes WITHIN a given state, to get awarded that state's Electoral College votes in full. With at least one actual expection - Nebraska - and some ARGUABLE exceptions - almost all of them right now in deep red states where it has no practical effect on Electoral College vote allocation - each of which is looking right now between dubious to fanciful, anyway - all that's necessary in MOST states, indeed in ALL states that the Obama EC coalition relied on, is a plurality of votes.

So I'm not cncerned about a Bloomberg or a Mittens or some other Bizarro World Nader handing the decision over to this Republican-controlled Congress or to th next on that seems overwhelmingly likely to have at least a Republican majority in the House and an effective Republican block against any sort of super-majority in the Senate.

petrilli said...

I no longer think that Trump would be less dangerous as president that Rubio or Cruz. My original calculations were based on Trump's fuzzy centrist government views compared to the hardened conservative orthodoxy practiced by the other two.

The flaw in that reasoning is that unlike Cruz or even Rubio, Trump doesn't really know what he thinks. He is under the delusion that he does. But he doesn't. Know. He's a dictionary illustration of the Dunning/Kruger Effect. The worst of the worst despots will be advising him who to kill, to impoverish. One can only guess at the waiting room. Maybe Elliot Abrahms? Richard Perle? John Negroponte? Of course he'll think he came up with their ideas on his own, Like a toddler at a party standing on the tips of daddys shoes thinks she's really dancing. "These are very very smart people, folks, believe me. The best people"This factor changes my equation and makes him much more unpredictable and dangerous than Rubio or Cruz if he wins IM[revised]O.

Roger said...

I think it's well past too late, but I've seen comments wondering why the other candidates haven't done their oppo research. It's hard to believe that Trump hasn't done many illegal things, as well as all the unethical things we already know about. There are superPACs out there with lots of money, directed by really nasty people (hello, Sheldon Adelson), who have resources to find the bodies. The downside with that strategy is that a dozen or more really, really rich people would also have to be exposed and maybe prosecuted, so I don't expect that to happen. I don't think Hillary is going to do it either, because it would remind people that Trum is a small donor to her fvcking foundation.

Feud Turgidson said...

Roger, I ain't buying that et al, at all. R pol campaigns of any size- & Cruz, Rubio & Kasich have large campaigns, the first 2 at least with a helluva lot more money than necessary for this - are REFLEXIVE at oppo research.

The PROBLEMS were these:

(1) The kinds of things they came up with by and large go right to the cons, frauds, gifts, scams, shell game, stings, theft, and assorted horseshit messaging that is STANDARD GOP MEME-ery, going back to Saint Ronnie and the messaging angel Gingrich. This is surgical stuff, and it's largely beyond the reach of relatively new hopey-changey types like the Cruzbiota - indeed, it's part of why Romney did his Inspector Renault "I'm shocked- shocked I say" speech today (the putz), because Mitt has no downside: either the party in Cleveland "begs him" to accept, or otherwise he has no Guffs [Mormon Fux] to give.

(2) As we see today with Drumpf moving so effortlessly into the image of Mittens down on his knees giving Donald the full Lewinkski, Drumpf has spent YEARS insulating himself from being hurt by anyone inside the R party establishment. They sold out to him long ago. Now Drumpf gets to say, Here's my offer: Nothing. Plus I'd consider it simply my due that you supply any and all breath mints, handywipes and lube out of your own deep pockets. Oh, and Mitt: fuck you, you weirdo cargo cult whack job, with a wooden spoon right up the fracking wah-zoo.

Mitt's gonna wanna hurt him bad now: but Drumpf is figuring Mitt ain't got the wit or the ballz to pull it off.

swkellogg said...

The clowns seem to believe you can steer the yaks with their lame version of nuance when it takes rocks.

Feud Turgidson said...

That said, I'm really not sure why this isn't been exploited by his opponents:The NY state superior court hearing on Trump Uni fixed for July - BEFORE the RNC Convention in Cleveland - is NOT a "trial" on 'IF' Trump U was a scam. That's already been decided, this week in Summary Judgment.

The plaintiffs' motion for judgment without even needing a trial was granted, in favor of both the People of NY State AND potential plaintiffs who might fit the categories of parties who suffered actual direct damages or 'knock-on' [down the line] consequential knock-on injuries.

The over-all proceeding had been delayed and delayed by Trump U attorneys for YEARS, going back to before the 2012 preznit election. As a practical matter, it was partly delayed by being placed into position behind proceedings involving the licensing of the venture (which the Trump U defendants lost, at hearing, then on administrative appeal, then in court review of that process), and some related claims in other jurisdictions. But much of the delay, arguably the bulk of it, was just the sort that gives attorneys and legal process a bad name: bafflegab, excuses, horseshit, lies, obfuscation, & procedural delay tactics.

That's OVER. The next hearing is on HOW MUCH. There are reasons why "how much" requires its own hearing: (1) plaintiffs can't get to any of RICO tripling of damages for organized fraud, or to knock-on injury damages, or to legal costs recovery, without first getting a judgment, and (2) NY state can now reorganize it case to present the evidence of individual claimants who fit the description ordered by the trial judge - which is going to be in the thousands of potential claimants, which it could not presume to do before getting the judgment order.

I also want to emphasize that this is all going faster than Drumpf himself expected. Big corporate con artist grifters like Drumpf never bank on being pinned down finally in court anyway, despite that legl cases are such a feature of their existences; the only way they keep on going is constantly in denial, including with their own attorneys (who - trust me - they drive bananas by repeatedly never preparing and never listening and always trying to con judges directly by saying different things to different courts on the same exact subjects and facts).

With this grant of summary judgment, from now til Cleveland, every day we'll hear the bells pealing from Old Trump U. It'll be like matins. Heh.

Feud Turgidson said...

So, the OTHER side: later 2night I visited Drudge's page, right on top where the slimy creep puts his hot stuff there's a Drudgepoll (image begone) TITLED "WHO WON THE 11TH REPUBLICAN POLL". So, I click & vote 'RUBIO' b/c WTF cares I only want to know what Drudge's dimwits thought & just guess: DRUMPF is up 15X Rubio ... JFC!

They're just askin' for it: let's tear that Argh party seriously asunder.

nanute said...

Can't Trump agree to settle before the judgement? And stipulate that the parties agree not to comment publicly on the terms?

Feud Turgidson said...

Nanute, goooooood question. Answer: No. Reasons:

1) See that RICO part? That feature is the statutory tripling of civil damages where the facts satisfy by the test for organized crime.
Do they? NY AG Schneiderman says, Absoltootly they do. Any chance he's wrong? Not in front of this judge, and not on the facts as 'found' in this opinion.
2) Triple WHAT tho? What R the damages? Ah: it's still an open question, because Schneiderman and the various attorneys attaching to his coattails here are being quite aggressive. They are pursuing recovery of:
a) all money their clients paid to Trump U, which is the EASY part - except, as you may have gathered from Drumpf's comments last night, Drumpf is disputing even this easy part - despiite that he has no sound factual or legal basis for so disputing it;
b) interest - which in some instances is lost deposit interest, in others it is high rate credit card interest paid out often with accelerated terms and interest ON interest, in others costs of first or later mortgaging of person or business properties, in some cases indistinguishable from loan shark terms, so the judge will to make some calls on this, some of which Drumpf, I expect, will win, at least to keep the rates down from sharking;
c) consequential damages and lost opportunity: this is really more in the hands of the attorneys of client claimants who argue they fit the state's categories of protected claimants, and the stories will range from heart-wrenching to horseshit, but they'll all have to fit the judge's test criteria to make the cut; THEN
d) triple that if RICO applies (I make no prediction long term, but I do say this: IF the judge rules in RICO, that's actually got knock-on implications in OTHER states, and in the federal court system for interstate "wire" fraud - IOW this could be trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with You-know-who; plus
e) attorneys costs reimbursement to the winning 'side' which will be fairly easy to determine for Scheiderman but will be a function of 'success' of individual claimants beyond the state.

Now, it may be the judge will rule narrowly that the summary judgment is only for the state's case SO FAR, and leave the rest for the future. That's TBD at this point, but it's Drumpf's best scenario for his political ambitions at THIS point. His WORST scenario is some Patrick Fitzgerald-type US attorney ushing this summary judgment to seek and indictment for wire fraud in a jurisdiction where the statutory limits haven't already run out.

So, now you know the TECHNICAL reasons why he can't settle now. But there's one additional reason: Schneiderman. He's out for blood on this. It's a career maker: governmor, state pol, US House rep, US senator, state superior court judge, whatever: this case unlocks a huge cave of shiny goodies. And to get there, he needs a ceremonial gutting - so, as El Awrence said in the desert: NO PRISONERS!

Then, after all that, the vultures are going to start descending. They're already gathering around: Schneiderman's TV and radio appearances are helping to carry the stench of carrion.

John Robinson said...

I think this is fundamentally a pointless discussion. 10:1 (maybe higher) the GOP oh-so-reluctantly decides to accept the candidacy of Trump "for the good of the Party". Hey, he looks like a winner, right?

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Never Ben Better said...

Hey, the establishment still has hope, with science -- yes, science! -- coming to the rescue!


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Sunday, 4 October 2015

4th of October: What a load of rubbish

Following our Blakeney Point beach clean in September, local artist Hugh Pilkington has been busily sorting through all 42 bags of rubbish. Here is the three miles worth of litter laid out...
 Thank you to all who helped us clear this rubbish off the beach

We eagerly wait for the final art project to emerge from this impressive collection of litter. It is an interesting representation of how much rubbish has built up over a six-month period. On a related note, volunteer Richard Porter has been collecting discarded fishing tackle on the Point - this is how much he has picked up in the last two years...

Fishing tackle is bad news for seabirds and marine wildlife, from swallowing hooks to getting caught in netting. Every year we see seals caught in netting, and occasionally we are able to successfully free them. In seal news, our latest low tide count recorded a total of 108 Common and 306 Grey on Tuesday (the 29th of September). In other mammalian news, a Harvest Mouse was spotted near the Long Hills on the same day.

This week has certainly not been without its migrant bird sightings. As ducks and geese continue to increase in the harbour, thrushes and warblers are also on the move. Highlights have included three Hen Harriers, a male Stonechat and the first Redwing and Ring Ouzel of the autumn on Monday (28th), a Red-breasted Flycatcher on Tuesday (29th), an Osprey and the first Robins of the autumn on Wednesday (30th), a Jack Snipe on Thursday (1st of October), a male Eider on Friday (2nd), a Little Bunting on Saturday (3rd) plus numerous Yellow-browed Warblers throughout the week.
 Red-breasted Flycatcher (Richard Porter)

 Yellow-browed Warbler in the Plantation (Richard Porter)

The end of September saw the end of the season for Seasonal Assistant Rangers Josh, Sarah and Paul. A big thank you to them for their hard work throughout the season. Their last week was pleasant and sunny, with some big spring tides, as captured in this short film...

I am on leave for much of October, but will be blogging again at the end of the month. By then, we could well be celebrating the first Grey Seal pup of winter 2015/16 (historically, the first pup has been born on the Point between the 26th of October and 1st of November). Always about a month ahead, due to their position further north, our friends the Farnes Islands had their first pup last week.

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  1. fishing tackles are really very dangerous for fishes. It is our responsibility to take care of the oceans. Thank you for paying attention to these issue. Best regards!


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Thursday, May 03, 2007

once burned

I have been trying very hard to think positively this week.

This was greatly helped by my naturopath who walked me through a terrrific relaxation exercise. And for the rest of this week, I have been dutifully repeating, "Every day and in ever way, I am getting better and better," along with the more cumbersome, "Negative thoughts and negative feelings do not influence me at any level of my mind."

And it's been working.

Until today.

Today I heard that insistent voice that started as a whisper and built to a roar, the voice that reminds me that I was pretty damn positive when I first went through treatment and before I knew that the cancer had metastasized.

A fat lot of good it did me then.

But it is not helpful to imagine my tumours growing, imagine myself sick from a more toxic chemo regimen, imagine myself dying.

Or to imagine trying to explain to my children that Mama is dying.

Not helpful at all.

Mind you, I do believe in the value of a good meltdown and wish that tears came to me more easily.

But dwelling on the unthinkable does not help me cope with stress.

And there is some evidence that positive thought can actually help with healing.

So....all together now: "Every day and in every way, I am getting better and better."

Ultrasound results tomorrow.

Anonymous said...

every day in every way you are getting better and better. Good luck tomorrow.

Flippy said...

We're keeping our fingers crossed here in Vegas. I don't think I've crossed my fingers this hard in a very long time, if ever.

Anonymous said...

I know you're getting better and better. Vibrancy and well being are shining out of your eyes and appearing on the pages of your writing. We'll be in touch later today and our thoughts and positive energies are with you 110%!!!!

The T.

dd said...

thanks for the mantra. these are such good things to share. when I'm being lazy (of the mind and spirit, not to mention the body)I often forget how helpful positive thinking can be to struggle through any moment. it's a practice that I need to use more often. as always, thanks for helping us all along.

Anonymous said...

Hoping you are hearing (or have heard) some magic words by now.

Hope it all good.

Love and hugs-

Many PT headed your way,


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What do our planet's interior, surface plate tectonics, the life cycle of glaciers, and ocean circulation have in common? Quite a bit, as demonstrated by Richard Peltier, who recognized early in his research career the deep interrelationship between land-surface processes, continental ice sheets, sea ice, and the circulations of the oceans and atmosphere. Dr. Peltier is the 2011 winner of NSERC's Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.

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I work in the area of planetary physics, which is to say I'm interested both in the interiors of planets, the interior structure of planets, as well as what goes on on the surface - in the atmosphere, in the oceans. In particular, I'm very interested, and have been for the last decade or more, in the problem of climate change.

Well, I have been developing theories of ice age occurrence, that is the fact that this planet has experienced intense periods of glaciation over the past million years of Earth history almost on a metronomic, 100,000-year cyclic fashion. And so the question naturally arose why did this occur, and this takes you directly into the issue of planet system evolution. What are the forces which force the climate system to evolve in such striking ways?

There's so much that accompanies the evolution of the planet that really can't be understood from a purely oceanographic or atmospheric science or ice dynamics perspective, that these different components of the system are so tightly linked that you really can't understand anything unless you're willing to focus on the system as a whole.

The same theory that I've developed to explain sea level history and so on during ice age events in the last million years of Earth history is now being brought to bear to help us to understand what's happening to sea level rise as a consequence of the fact that both Greenland and Antarctica, as well as mountain glaciers all over the world, have begun to lose mass, processes that are causing sea level to rise at present at the rate of almost three millimetres every year.

One of the main problems that we're facing in the context of trying to predict exactly what's in store for us again has to do with what we expect will be the history of surface ice cover. However, as I've said, the models we're using to make these projections have no skill when it comes to their ability to predict the dynamical behaviour of these massive accumulations of land ice on the planet. So there are major caveats that we have had to add to the projections that we make of how far warming will proceed and what the major effects of that warming will be.

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I’m on an email discussion list that includes a bunch of people in the oil industry. On an average day the ratio of shop-talk to global conspiracy stuff is 10:1… and really, there’s only so many times you can read the same impassioned arguments about the merits of different fluid injection methodologies. But every now and then a discussion about a wider political issue gains traction. By and large these are sober, conservative (small ‘c’) engineers not taken to flights of fancy. So when they start saying things like “there’s only a 60% chance the US dollar will still be a viable currency in 18 months”, it piques my interest.

For the past couple of months there has been an almost complete consensus among these people that the Gulf States are driving down the price of oil in order to destabilise Iran. There’s even a guy who – having spent some time chatting with a staffer in the UAE oil ministry – claims that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE are targeting $40 per barrel by the middle of 2015 and they intend to keep it there for a year.

As an aside, I read a message from a guy who said he expects 5 year oil futures to drop below $85 any day now. That there… that’s as close to a sure thing investment as the modern financial industry is capable of. What’s more, given the short-sightedness of the financial industry, I wouldn’t be surprised if you could buy November 2020 oil futures for less than $70 by this time next year. Pretty crazy.

Anyway, there’s no doubt that Iran’s economy is utterly buggered if this continues for much longer. Even if the $40 for a year thing is exaggeration, this is presenting Tehran with very serious problems.

Thing is, Iran isn’t the only place this is hitting hard. The Gulf States can weather this storm, but almost no other major oil exporter can. And while oil importers are quite enjoying this period of temporary price-fixing, places like Venezuela and Nigeria are suffering. The fracking industry in the United States is also in trouble (though this price drop is only one of the reasons for that) but America isn’t too worried about that because they like seeing the squeeze put on Iran, while the damage being done to the Russian economy is being seen – curiously enough – through the lens of Ukraine, the Malaysia Airliner disaster and what’s being viewed as Putin’s increasingly aggressive stance towards the west. So the Americans are offering their explicit support to the Gulf States in order to put Russia under pressure.

Now, let’s be under no illusions here… Putin is a dangerous man. I’ve noticed more and more western liberals buying into the Russia Today narrative and viewing Putin with a kind of grudging, “enemy of my enemy” respect. Which is madness, because this guy should be viewed as at least as big an enemy as western capitalist imperialism. Anyway, it’s simply inconceivable that Russia won’t respond dramatically to this very real threat to their national economy. And what response will that be?

Well, according to the mailing list people, Putin is getting ready to announce a major shift in policy. Early next year he will be switching all of Russia’s petroleum trading to roubles. That’s what they’re saying on the grapevine anyway.

A lot of people – even economically literate ones – don’t fully understand the important link between the US dollar and the global oil trade. The pricing of oil in dollars isn’t just a matter of convenience. All trade in oil actually takes place in dollars. Dollars get exchanged for oil. Not euro, or roubles or yen. This ensures a constant demand for dollars as anyone who wants oil… i.e. everyone… needs to buy dollars before they can buy that oil.

Not sure if you’ve noticed the huge collapse in the value of the rouble in the past week? And the huge Russian interest rate hike? Well, according to some people Russia has deliberately torpedoed their currency in order to buy back roubles, from anyone who has them, at a bargain price. Because if Putin goes through with this and demands roubles in exchange for oil and gas? He will instantly make the rouble into a European reserve currency. Demand will rocket and the dollar flight will begin.

Unlike other countries, the US will not be able to intimidate Russia into backing down on this. Especially given the huge hardship being caused to Russia by this US-supported Gulf strategy. And if it turns out to be a success for Putin (which I think it will do) then there’s really nothing to prevent other countries doing the same.

The Saudis, with the support of the US, are playing a very risky game right now. And one that could result in the end of the dollar as global reserve currency. Sleep tight.

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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Jesus Or Jail

Alabama City’s Proposed Plan To Send Offenders To Church Sparks Controversy

If you commit a misdemeanor in Baldwin County, Ala., you might find yourself behind bars in the local jail or slapped with a fine, but there’s one way to avoid those unpleasant scenarios: Agree to go to church.
In late September, Police Chief Michael Rowland of Bay Minette, a city of about 8,500 people north of Mobile, announced the implementation of something called “Operation Restore Our Community.” Under the plan, low-level offenders would have an option of paying a fine, going to jail or attending church weekly for one year. At the end of 12 months, their records would be wiped clean.
“It’s an easy choice for me,” Rowland told The Christian Post. “If I had to choose between going to jail and paying a heavy fine or going to church, I’d certainly select church.”
But that, according to critics, is exactly the problem with the scheme. Offenders, naturally eager to avoid fines and time behind bars, will take the church option. Bay Minette’s police department will become a conduit for Christian evangelism.
Church-state separation advocates were quick to weigh in.
“I have just two words for this ill-considered scheme: blatantly unconstitutional,” said Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. “Government simply can’t put people in a position where their only choice is Jesus or jail.”
Americans United’s Legal Department also spoke up. In a letter to Rowland, Bay Minette Mayor Jamie Tillery and members of the city council, AU Legal Director Ayesha N. Khan and Litigation Counsel Gregory M. Lipper warned officials that they are on thin constitutional ice.
“Under well-established decisions, the City may not force individuals – even those convicted of crimes – to choose between religion and jail,” wrote Khan and Lipper.
The AU attorneys added, “The Program would be unconstitutional even if participants could, as the City has asserted, attend the religious service of their choice. For one, any such choice is purely theoretical: only churches participate in the Program, and so in practice defendants must attend Christian services. In any event, the Program would violate the Constitution even if other religions did participate, because the First Amendment also requires the government to remain neutral between religion and non-religion.”
Rowland says more than five dozen churches have agreed to take part in the plan. Although he insisted that Jewish and Muslim groups would be welcome to participate as well, it doesn’t appear that houses of worship like that even exist in town. A survey of the city’s religious community found plenty of Baptist churches as well as Methodist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Roman Catholic, Holiness and other Christian denominations – but not much else.
As for non-believers, Rowland was blunt that they can’t take part in the program. “We would not have an option for them,” he said. “It’s a faith-based program, so it has to be a faith-based organization.” Some religious leaders are eager to take part, seeing the program as a mission field.
“You show me somebody who falls in love with Jesus, and I’ll show you a person who won't be a problem to society but that will be an influence and a help to those around them,” Pastor Robert Gates of Christian Life Church told WRKG-TV in Mobile.
In Washington, the Family Research Council endorsed the approach as well. FRC blogger Ashley Skidmore said the program “should be an interesting example of how a community can join together to help local non-violent offenders get their lives on the right track, and hopefully get their spiritual lives on the right track as well.”
Faced with mounting criticism, Rowland began insisting that no one would be forced to choose between going to church or going to jail. Offenders, he said, could always choose community service.
In Bay Minette, community service consists of some type of physical labor, such as cleaning up trash or doing yard work in local parks. Again, critics pointed out, for many it’s a less attractive option than attending church.
Rowland hasn’t been shy about his preference. He told the Mobile Press-Register, “It was agreed by all the pastors that at the core of the crime problem was the erosion of family values and morals. We have children raising children and parents not instilling values in young people.”
As criticism mounted (and the American Civil Liberties Union threatened to sue), officials in Bay Minette started to waver. Tillery announced that city attorneys were reviewing the program.
“The city will ask the Alabama Attorney General to review the program as well. The city will reserve further comment until these reviews have been completed,” Tillery wrote in an email to Rowland, however, continued to insist that critics had misunderstood his plan and said it was legal.
Bay Minette didn’t pioneer the idea of sentencing offenders to church. In 2005, a state judge in Kentucky came under fire after it was revealed that he had, on about 50 occasions, given drug and alcohol offenders the option of going to church instead of spending time behind bars or in a rehabilitation center.
Laurel County District Judge Michael Caperton said he saw no problem in the unusual sentences, remarking, “It’s not mandatory and I say worship services instead of church.” AU wrote to the judge, urging him to stop the practice. (The issue died down when Caperton moved up to the state Court of Appeals, where he no longer directly sentenced offeders.)
More recently, Idaho resident Janene Cowles found herself facing a “Jesus or jail” situation due to some unusual circumstances. Convicted of a drug offense in 2006, Cowles was told she could serve a year in the Ada County Jail or attend a “discipleship/ recovery” program at the Boise Rescue Mission. She chose the program.
Although not a Christian, Cowles knew the program was religious and thought she could get through it. But once she got there, she determined that it was not a good fit. The program was heavily Pentecostal in nature, and Cowles was expected to pray, sing hymns, lay hands on the afflicted and even take part in exorcisms to cast out demons. (She was even forced to attend National Day of Prayer activities at the state capitol.)
When Cowles complained she was kicked out – and sent back to jail. Cowles and another mission resident sued over the matter. Backed by the Intermountain Fair Housing Council, they asserted that the mission had engaged in religious discrimination for tossing her out and had violated the federal Fair Housing Act. Two federal courts rejected the lawsuit.
Religion and correctional institutions have a long history – and often a complicated one. Recidivism, the tendency of an offender to commit another crime after being released, remains a serious problem. A recent report published by the Pew Center on the States found that more than 40 percent of convicts who win release from prison are back behind bars within three years.
Corrections officials, criminologists, social scientists and others have tried various approaches to reduce recidivism – some of them religious in nature.
Religious programs in prisons and jails that are voluntarily supported and funded don’t usually present a problem. But some states have gone beyond that. In 2003, Americans United sued to block government support for the InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI), a fundamentalist program run by Charles W. Colson’s Prison Fellowship Ministries. In court, Americans United proved that IFI is saturated with fundamentalist dogma and that inmates taking part in it were given special perks not available to others.
A federal judge ruled tax-funded support of the program unconstitutional in June of 2006. In December of 2007, a federal appeals court upheld the decision.
Noted the appeals court, “In the present case, plaintiffs demonstrated…that the InnerChange program resulted in inmate enrollment in a program dominated by Bible study, Christian classes, religious revivals, and church services.”
InnerChange has claimed success in helping former inmates go straight, but another researcher looked at the data and found that InnerChange had skewed the results by excluding participants who failed to complete the program. Other researchers have looked at the impact of religious programs in prisons and jails and concluded that their effect on recidivism remains unclear.
Prisons and jails, like the larger American society, contain a diverse population of religious believers and non-believers. Rather than push “Christians-only” programs, Americans United urges correctional officials to tend to the spiritual needs of all inmates in a manner that comports with the Constitution.
After word of AU’s letter to officials in Bay Minette hit the media, the organization heard from a prison chaplain in Maryland who discussed his work with inmates at a federal penitentiary in Cumberland – an approach that stands in stark contrast to Bay Minette’s plan.
“I was invited to serve a need as a faith representative as a Wiccan minister,” the chaplain wrote. “They have, in addition, Native American, Santeria, Baptist, Seventh-day Adventist, Muslim, Jewish and others. Essentially, if a prisoner requests a faith representative, they will take all due diligence to find them.
“The faith-based community program to help restore prisoners to society seeks out faith houses of many religions to help in restoration, rehabilitation and sometimes habilitation as the person has come from an environment of crime and so has no social or physical skills to hold down a job,” continued the chaplain. “From math to taking care of dogs to horse training, to woodworking, to farm work, the prison in which I serve is out to care for the individual – not be a solely Christian release program.”

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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Internal Corrosion ROCKS!

If you're looking for Bay Area-style thrash with bits of crossover, check out the fist-pounding metal mayhem of California's INTERNAL CORROSION. Chunky gallops bound with killer metal riffage and vocals that sound nearly identical to Aversion's Christian Fuhrer has netted me in as someone who thinks this music completely rocks.

Yes, many out there in grumpy-pants land could label Internal Corrosion as just another unoriginal thrash band, but there are too many parts in their music that absolutely shine, making these guys bona fide genre ass-kickers.  Hector, Internal Corrosion's vocalist/guitarist, has a dynamic voice that is freakin' perfect for heading a thrash metal band. On top of that, the guitar solos are great, the rhythm is tight as hell, and the production on the available songs I've heard is stellar. I love it!

Listen to what Internal Corrosion has to offer below and then hit them up here.

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  1. This is actually pretty good. I don't hear much crossover, this reminds me of very early Thrash when there was still a lot of Rock/Metal influence in the sound. It may be the primitive vocal patterns that have you thinking that. nevertheless, this is good stuff.

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Sometimes, when a bird calls,
Or a wind moves through the brush,
Or a dog barks in a distant farmyard,
I must listen a long time, and hush.

My soul flies back to where,
Before a thousand forgotten years
The bird and the waving wind
Were like me, and were my kin.

My soul becomes a tree, an animal,
A cloud woven across the sky.
Changed and unfamiliar it turns back
And questions me.  How shall I reply?

        Hermann Hesse (Germany, 1877-1962) is probably best known in English for his novels that became popular during the 60’s for their themes of the quest for enlightenment.  I wanted to share this poem because, while perhaps not strictly fantasy, it still evokes the speculative themes of mystery, of communication with animals and nature, of transformation, of experiencing the world of the Other…  Although I’d seen it before, it was brought to my attention again recently when (somewhat to my surprise) my son P selected it to write about in a paragraph for his poetry unit at school.
        This is my own translation.  The original rhymes, but the standard English translation I found does not, so I thought I’d try my hand at a rhyming version.  I admit I'm not happy with the middle verse, but you can see the original German here, or the translation by Robert Bly here.

[Picture: Moonlight on Backside, wood block print by Tom Killion, 1973/74 (Image from earthisland.)]

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Boerum Hill: Brooklyn Inn on its way out. [Eater] Clinton Hill: Credit the blogosphere if the brewery on Waverly Avenue opens this summer as a beer garden. [Gothamist] Financial District: We’ve got the menu for the new Dublin-European bistro Stella Maris. [Grub Street] Flatiron: Markt has relocated to Sixth Avenue and now serves breakfast. [Grub Street] Greenpoint: Starbucks cabaret may be opening soon. [Curbed] Harlem: Wine store to replace Back in the Day antique shop. But will it have as cutesy a name? [Harlem Fur] Midtown East: Jeffrey Chodorow’s Wild Salmon replaces English Is Italian on Friday; we look forward to his review [NYT] Morningside Heights: Order pinot at Vino Fino wine shop, opening soon. [Harlem Fur] Times Square: Only two more days until you can sing Journey like everyone else at karaoke joint Spotlight Live. [NYS] West Village: Alexandra swallowing nearby storefronts for wine bar to be filled by nonexistent waiting customers. [Eater] Newly opened Central Kitchen offering 10 percent off its menu through Sunday. That’s as much as a “European-style” tip. [NYS]

Flatbush Farm Chef Takes Leave of the Barnyard

Eric Lind, the chef who opened Flatbush Farm, has left the Haute Barnyard hit. You may be disappointed to learn that neither of the two projects he’s consulting on center around seasonal foods: Stella Maris, a recently opened restaurant on Front Street, specializes in modern Irish cooking; Nelson Blue is a New Zealand–themed gastropub also on Front Street set to open in mid- to late April. Once he’s done downtown, Lind plans on another eatery of his own, likely in the “rustic, organic, country style” he established at Flatbush Farm. “This is the food that really appeals to me,” he tells us, “and the food that I like to eat.” He’s not the only one. Related: Haute Barnyard Take on a Classic SoCal Sandwich Flatbush Farm Takes Haute Barnyard to the Next Level


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Loathe thy neighbor

Nothing says West Virginia or Kentucky like Romania.

No, seriously. That’s where History Channel’s excellent original movie “Hatfields & McCoys” was filmed, and it sure looks more like the Old South than the New South does these days.

When I first heard about it, my thought was: Why? But that was before I sat through all six hours of this intense saga.

Most miniseries this long tend to lose steam somewhere between the beginning of Night 1 and the middle of Night 2. Not this one.

The story of the legendary, bloody feud begins towards the end of the Civil War and ended up so dividing the states of West Virginia and Kentucky that it nearly caused another civil war.

The families, once close, begin to hate one another when Devil Anse Hatfield (Kevin Costner) decides to bag it at the end of the war, deserting not just his platoon, but his rebel compatriot and friend, Randall McCoy (Bill Paxton).

Hatfield knows that the rebel cause is lost and decides that his family needs him more than the lost war effort. Let the feud begin.

When McCoy eventually makes his way home, tensions flare. A bar fight leads to murder, land squabbles over timber lead to fury, the forbidden sexual relationship between Devil’s son, Johnse Hatfield (Matt Barr), and Rosanna McCoy (Lindsay Pulsipher ) of course leads to all-out war.

The two patriarchs supported by their strong, constantly child-bearing wives — Sally McCoy (Mare Winningham) who lost six of her 11 kids to the violence, and Levicy Hatfield (Sarah Parish), who gave birth to 12 little Hatfields.

Into the mix comes slimy McCoy family cousin, lawyer Perry Cline (Ronan Vibert), who is constantly manipulating Randall and instigating against Devil Anse, while falling madly in love with his cousin’s young daughter, Rosanna.

As the Hatfields become more successful in the timber business, the resentment only grows, and the tangled web of old feuds, new feuds, legal and illegal claims and murder escalate until few are left standing.

The cast, which is spectacular, includes Tom Beringer as Jim Vance, the Hatfield cousin who ignites the war.

The whole thing is bloodier than a Mafia family feud, and the names are better than any Mafia clan ever dreamed up. There’s Squirrel-Huntin’ Sam, Ransom Bray, Good ’Lias, and Cotton Top Mounts.

The miniseries is full of stand-out performances from great actors like my personal fave, Powers Boothe. But it’s the guys you may not know who will blow you away. I was especially taken with Michael Greco, who plays a half-crazed dim-wit.

If “Hatfields & McCoys” reminds you of “Deadwood,” it should. It was written by Ted Mann, who wrote some of the most memorable episodes of that wild, wild west saga.

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Is Your Passport Full? Request Extra Pages Now

The U.S. State Department is Eliminating Page Inserts

If you like to travel and you're running out of passport pages for visas, the time to request extra pages is now. Starting January 1st, 2016, the U.S. State Department will no longer add additional pages to U.S. passports. You will need to renew your passport altogether after this date if you need more space.

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Sheriff Mills, a Marine Corps Veteran, commenced his law enforcement career with the Oneonta Police Department. He subsequently joined the New York State Police and retired as Station Commander. He later rejoined the profession as a part-time Deputy Sheriff in Delaware County. He was elected Sheriff in January 1999.

Honors and Achievements

Sheriff Mills is a member of the Executive Committee of the Otsedela Council of Boy Scouts of America and hosts the Sheriff’s Explorer Post 108. He is a past Master of the Margaretville Masonic Lodge and past Commander of the American Legion Post 190. He is the Commander of Post 10550 of the Veteran’s of Foreign Wars in Delhi. In 2006, he was appointed to the NYS Committee for the Coordination of Police Services to Elderly Persons by then-Governor George E. Pataki. In 2007, he was invited to serve on the NYS Statewide Communication Interoperability Plan (“SCIP”) Governance Evaluation Board.

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When Sheriff Mills took office, he inherited an outdated 28-prisoner jail on the village square in Delhi. In 2003, that historic landmark was replaced with a new 124-bed state-of-the-art combination Public Safety Building/Correctional Facility, whose full-time staff now numbers 77. He has also acquired accreditation within the Law enforcement Division in 2010.


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Kiyoko Uyesato Akiyama, 100, of Hanapepe Heights, Kauai, a businesswoman, died at home. She was born in Kohala, Hawaii. She is survived by son James; daughters June Shishido, Patsy Kuwata, Amy Sagawa and Carol Akiyama; 10 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at Hanapepe United Church of Christ. Services: 11 a.m. No monetary offerings.

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Saturday, 17 September 2011

Shock And Awe Or 'Delta Farce': How Cheryl Cole Gave The British Army The SeX Factor

Pay attention, dilettantes: it's Putting Stuff in Perspective week in showbiz again, as Cheryl Cole does Helmand. The singer and deposed X Factor judge has undertaken a mission to Camp Bastion at the behest of the Daily Mirror, and is exclusively pictured in combat gear on a front page they have disappointingly declined to headline "Delta farce".

Apparently, the Fight For This Love legend joined a staged gun battle and got in a tank and fired a cannon and stuff – but you'll be glad to hear she didn't shirk her nation-building obligations. "Cheryl also took part in a traditional shura," we learn, "where soldiers sit down with village elders to discuss problems." Mm. I wish I didn't have a mental image of Cheryl taking the hand of a bearded gentleman and telling him soulfully: "I really believe in you and I think your appeal for electricity has what it takes to be absolutely massive." Perhaps as one last throw of the dice, before we leave Afghanistan to its own improvised explosive devices, we should try assigning celebrity mentors to its various factions. I'd give Tulisa the Quetta Shura, while poor old Louis Walsh would probably be stuck with the Afghan local police.

Anyway, back to Cheryl, and the nagging question with these celebrity military missions: do they increase respect for the work the proper soldiers are doing? There is no question that on the ground, Cheryl's presence is a morale-booster for servicemen and women. And were it confined to that locale, then that would be that. But isn't the manner in which the visit is hyped to the wider world the opposite of morale-boosting? Cast your eyes over the spread of nine photos of a heavily false-eyelashed Cheryl looking down the sights of a sniper's rifle, or taking part in a mock raid and so on, and ask whether they do not, in fact, trivialise life on the front line to a degree that would be hilarious were it not so distasteful.

Thus the visit, which would have been just as morale-boosting had it happened off-camera, is eclipsed by the more insistent public relations message – namely, that Cole knows how far behind "our boys" a little old pop star like her comes in the rankings of jobs that actually matter. It is an exercise in performative humility that doesn't quite come off.

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Military might: Cheryl Cole performing in camouflage in 2010. Photograph: Dave Hogan/CC/Getty Images Europe

Cheryl Cole, a tool for the New World Order, helping to bring in the military agenda and programming the masses - she is no stranger to performing in military outfits.

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"I sleep but my heart watches over this house which I have built."     St. Thèodora Guèrin

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   9:00 am Sunday Mass at St. Matthew Catholic Church, Indianapolis

Sacramental Preparation Resources

   Program for First Reconciliation in ASL from NCOD
   Program for Confirmation in ASL from NCOD, featuring Fr. Mike Depcik
   Fr. Shawn Carey explains the steps in making a good confession, including the Act of Contrition

 Resources for Interpreting the Mass

   YouTube Playlist: New Roman Missal for Interpreters (from the Archdiocese of Washington)
   NCOD DVD Resource: Liturgical Signs and Prayers
   YouTube Video: New Roman Missal Translation (from the Archdiocese of Boston)
   Interpreter Resources/ASL videos (from the Archdiocese of Boston)
   Signing the Scriptures, Year A,B and C by Joan Blake: It is important to note that these books do NOT provide pictures of the signs, but the word order for the readings, using the ASL syntax.
   Religious Signing: A Comprehensive Guide for All Faiths by Elaine Costello, Ph.D: A good, visual dictionary for religious signs.

Homilies, Prayers and Interviews in ASL

   Fr. Mike Depcik's blog: a wonderful resource in general for homilies, interviews and prayers in ASL, including the Stations of the Cross, the Divine Mercy Chaplet and the Rosary
   ASL prayer videos from Loyola Press

   The "Jesus" film translated into ASL: based on Luke's Gospel from the "Good News" translation, Today's English Version (USCCB approved)


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Lady Gaga Teases New “American Horror Story” Character

lady gaga american horror story ahs teaser instagram featureLooks like a busy month for Lady Gaga. Rumors are circulating that we might have new music from the Mother Monster soon. Between that, the ongoing fallout of her breakup with Taylor Kinney and some truly weird dating news, it’s easy to gloss over Gaga’s hotly anticipated return for season six of “American Horror Story.” But, lest we forget, Gaga is already teasing the upcoming season.

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