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'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me'. This should sound familiar to most of us since we danced around the playground yelling this to those who tossed verbal barbs our direction. If we are honest with ourselves, we admit just how hurt we can be by the opinions, thoughts, and/or expressions of others.
Why do we talk so harshly about others? Taking such delight in their pain; sharing it freely as if to taunt them with it or even shame them. Are we so callous that we can't see how much those words hurt the other person??? Often times the person we are talking about is someone we would call a "friend." Would you like one of your friends to speak harshly about you? When we identify this behavior in ourselves, how do we go about changing ourselves? In an entire culture?
The words of Christ Jesus come to mind, "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 7:12, NIV) Some people will use YOUR rules against you; be ready for that. If you speak harshly of others, expect harsh words to be spoken of you. We are advised to be the light; a shining example for others in this dark world. Perhaps allowing others to talk about you and simply ignoring hurtful remarks is a good place to begin. When this strategy doesn't work, then seek wisdom in how to respond. Harsh words in response will only cause more hurt and do further damage to an already strained relationship. Of course, there may also be situations that warrant an immediate correction to halt future hurtful conversations. The correction might be a statement by you about how hurt you felt along with the impact on the relationship. Whether you choose to ignore the hurtful words or to respond with correction, ensure that your actions show a positive example of how you expect to be treated.
For as long as man has been fallen, hurtful words have been spoken. That is a heavy history to change. Is it realistic to think that we can get everyone to stop being hurtful? No. However, it is reasonable to work at impacting the close circle of friends, family, acquaintances, etc. that we encounter in our daily walk.

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Dengue is spread when a female Aedes aegypti mosquito bites an infected patient and then bites healthy people within the following week. The mosquito can bite up to 10 different people before she has had her fill, which is why multiple members of the same family are falling ill.
“We are receiving more than 500 cases per day and more than 70% of those I oversee have been tested positive,” said Sher Bahadur Pun, Chief of the Clinical Research Unit at Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital in Teku. “Our response is not proportionate to the enormity of the crisis. We are risking our own health to treat infected patients.”
A female Aedes mosquito lays from 500-1,000 eggs in her lifetime, and if infected, all her eggs are also infected from birth and the epidemic multiplies. The best strategy to stop this cycle is destroying mosquito habitat, experts say. Personal protective measures are equally important.
“No one is safe since the mosquitoes are everywhere, from plains to the mountains,” said Prakash Prasad Shah of the Epidemiological Diseases Control Division. “Also, fogging is not effective — it only kills adult mosquitoes. We need search and destroy missions and this requires a collective effort.”
After Dharan started an anti-dengue campaign by targeting the mosquito’s breeding spots, there has been a drop in the four-month outbreak there. Similarly, dengue cases in New Delhi fell 80% after 2015 due to a massive public awareness campaign.
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Only 10% of those infected with the dengue virus show symptoms and need further treatment. Very few suffer from complications due to haemorrhage and internal bleeding. Of the four types of dengue viruses, most Nepalis seem to be afflicted with the milder forms, either type 1 or 2.
There is no vaccine or definite treatment for dengue fever yet. Patients are kept under observation and given supportive treatment for fever and with a blood transfusion if there is a drop in blood platelet count.
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

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KABUL - Pakistan's foreign minister said on Thursday that the country wants an apology for a NATO cross-border strike that killed two dozen of its soldiers last year before it considers reopening supply routes to foreign troops in Afghanistan.
"Pakistan still wants an unconditional apology and the reassurance that the Salala type of incident does not happen again," Hina Rabbani Khar told reporters, referring to the place where the incident took place.
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The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) today released their first self-study, “Portrait of the Movement“. The report uses a modeling tool developed by the study’s authors to weigh a school’s Academic Performance Index (API) against a predicted API that controls for factors in a student’s background such as poverty. The CCSA concludes that charter schools both out- and under-perform traditional schools in California. Study results indicate that in California, charter schools are four times as likely to rank in the top 5% of schools and twice as likely to rank in the bottom 5%. The study does not disaggregate data from “turnaround” or “conversion” charter schools (that enroll all students from a traditional school) versus “schools of choice” (where families self-select the charter school). The most widely referenced data on charter school performance was an independent national study conducted by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Educational Outcomes (CREDO) in 2009. That study concluded that 17% of charter schools nationwide outperform conventional schools while 37% show lower gains than their traditional public school counterparts.


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- Amlogic M8 ARM CORTEX A9 x 4 colors, Frequency CPU of 1.5-2GHz, GPU x 8 colors, 1 Gb RAM DDR3, Internal memory
- Android 5.1 Operating System Lollipop
- RJ45 10 / 100M Ethernet Port
- It supports videos with resolution UltraHD 4K-2K in SD Card, External Hard Disk.
- Internal antenna Wifi 802.11 b / g / n
- HDMI and RCA video output to connect to a TV
- 2 External USB ports, Supports external HDD, if it is more than 1Tb needs external power, Supports mice, keyboards,
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- It supports the time, calendar and different desks and Launchers.
- Supports Qwerty Flymouse control (mouse + keyboard) This is an optional accessory model KR100
- Includes a KR36 convetional IR control
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- Supports Micro SD card up to 32Gb
- Supports Google Chrome Browser
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|Graphics GPU||Mali 450 GPU 600Mhz - 8 Cores|
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|Wifi||11 b/g/n with external antenna|
|Supports Skype WebCam||Unknow|
|Play Store installed||YES|
|MicroSD Card Input||YES|
|SD Card Input||NO|
|Tuner DVB-T Internal DTT||NO|
|Tuner USB DVB-T externo||Unknow|
|Resolution||Ultra Full HD 4K|
|Imagen Formats||BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, GIF|
|USB Hub||Supported up to 4 USB|
|HDD||External via USB NTFS format|
|Remote control||Includes KR34 Basic Control as standard, OPTIONAL KR100 (FlyMouse with Qwerty keyboard)|
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March 30th, 2009 | www.chinaview.cn UN official: China can act as role model on water resources management
A senior UN official said that while there are many problems with the management of global water resources, they are not insurmountable and China can act as a role model in the field.
Olcay Unver, coordinator of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s world water assessment program, said in a recent interview with Xinhua that there are great challenges concerning global water resources, including mismanagement and no access to clean water.
He said immediate action must be taken to address the problems, including increased infrastructure investment.
As one of the authors of the World Water Development Report 3 issued in mid-March, Unver noted that managers of water resources need to coordinate with people from other fields and improve their work. Governments, companies and the public, he said, should also try every means available to protect water resources worldwide.
“Although there are many problems, they are not irresolvable,” he said.
Unver said the management of water resources is of great significance because it can ensure the reasonable allocation and safe use of water resources. Water management also is the foundation of food and energy security and environmental protection, he said.
The senior UN official emphasized that China plays a significant role in water management and can act as a role model for other countries.
As a major investor and donator, China has a great say in the management of global water resources, he said.
Unver noted that Chinese President Hu Jintao made a call several years ago to develop a resource-conserving and environment-friendly society. He said he welcomed the call and thought it was in accordance with the spirit promoted in the UN report.
Unver said the UN report mentions how China has been successful in managing its water resources and describes some successful cases such as the expansion of water services in Dalian, a port city in northeastern China, and the transfer of water from the Yangtze River to the Yellow River.
Another achievement that China has made is increasing its water resources utilization rate by 10 percent, the report said.
Unver said China’s Ministry of Water Resources has expressed interest in cooperating with UNESCO on regional water assessment programs. Unver said he hoped cooperation in this regard will bear fruit.
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Reacting to the sudden demise of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday, NC vice-president Omar Abdullah has said that she was a very warm and affectionate lady who did wonders for Delhi as the Chief Minister. He added that she will be greatly missed, praying for her soul.
His fellow Kashmiri politician and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti too expressed her condolences on the sudden demise of Sheila Dikshit saying that she transformed Delhi in her tenure as Chief Minister.
The 81-year old Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee chief Sheila Dikshit passed away on Saturday. She died while undergoing a heart surgery in New Delhi's Fortis Hospital. Sources also report that she breathed her last at 03:55 PM.
Born on 31 March 1938, she was the longest-serving Chief Minister of Delhi, serving for a period of 15 years from 1998 to 2013.
Dikshit led Congress party to three consecutive electoral victories in Delhi. In the December 2013 elections to the Delhi Legislative Assembly, Dikshit was defeated in New Delhi constituency by Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal, who replaced her as Delhi's chief minister.
Subsequently, she was sworn in as Governor of Kerala on 11 March 2014. The Congress party fought the recent Lok Sabha elections in Delhi under her leadership.


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One by one he stalked the gentle women who defiled the seventh sacrament...nuns who left the cloister. They died slowly. Horribly. With a last prayer on their lips. With the word betrayed written in their own blood.
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Visitors to Hanford's B Reactor have a virtual park ranger to help them learn about the history of the reactor and life in early Hanford as they visit it.
The Atomic Heritage Foundation has started a Ranger in Your Pocket program that allows visitors to play videos or audio on their smartphones or tablets that they bring on tours of the reactor.
The program displays like an app on phones or tablets, but it was designed as a website to avoid taking up memory on personal devices, said Cynthia Kelly, president of the foundation. The website is at RangerInYourPocket.org.
Visitors can watch segments to learn about Hanford before they visit. Then they can click on information for each major room open to the public as they tour the reactor, listening to scientists and workers explain how the reactor works.
In the control room, visitors can hear a recording of Leona Woods Marshall, one of the few female scientists on the Manhattan Project, remembering the startup of the world's first production-scale reactor.
"You could see the water getting hot. It's going through the brown recorders and you could hear it rushing in the tubes," she said. "You could see the control rods coming out and out and out."
But the reaction failed.
"The reactor was dead, just plain dead," she said. "Everybody stood around and stared."
The problem was traced to xenon 135, which was absorbing too many neutrons, stopping the reaction.
Ranger in Your Pocket goes beyond the mechanics of the reactor to give visitors a sense of life at Hanford as the United States raced to produce plutonium there for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, helping to end World War II.
"It's really great for the classroom if teachers are bringing students out," Kelly said.
Several of the segments posted are memories of people who were children during Hanford's early years, such as Herb Depke.
Schools were so crowded in 1943 that they were running morning and afternoon shifts.
Depke started third grade assigned to the morning shift, and a school bus picked him up in the dark, he remembered. But when he was dropped off that afternoon in the daylight, all the houses built for workers looked alike, he said.
"I had no idea which one was mine. It scared me to death," he said.
In another segment, Henry Petcher remembered being in charge of the work to prepare 55-cent boxed lunches that would be delivered to construction workers on 10- to 12-hour shifts. The boxes included sandwiches, cold baked potatoes and salt tablets.
"At my peak we were making anywhere between (50,000) to 55,000 box lunches a day," he said. "It was a 24-hour operation. I had 370-some-odd people working there, mostly women that were wives of construction workers."
The website also touches on Native American issues, including a deal made with the Wanapum band to allow them to continue fishing in the Columbia River.
The Atomic Heritage Foundation used grant money for the project, including money from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust and money from hotel and motel taxes collected in Richland to be used for tourism promotion. The amount of city money was not immediately available Monday.
"This is the first in what we hope will be a series," Kelly said.
The foundation plans a virtual guided tour that will feature Hanford's prewar history, T Plant and the 300 Area just north of Richland.
Another tour will focus on scientific and engineering innovations that came out of the Manhattan Project, including those at Hanford. The project "demanded extraordinary ingenuity" and resulted in about 5,000 patents, Kelly said.
The Atomic Heritage Foundation is hoping that a Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which would include B Reactor, will be created through legislation approved this year.
But visitors already can take tours of B Reactor or tours of the entire Hanford site, which include a stop at B Reactor.
Seats on 2014 tours of B Reactor remain available through website registration at www.hanford.gov or by calling the B Reactor Tour headquarters at 509-376-1647.
The 2014 bus tours that cover other Hanford sites in addition to B Reactor are only available now as cancellations are received. Sign up for the few openings available or to be notified as seats become available at www.hanford.gov.
-- Annette Cary: 582-1533; firstname.lastname@example.org; Twitter: @HanfordNews


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Economist Mike Schussler says South Africa’s economic growth rate will not see a “major improvement beyond 2%, 2.5% for the foreseeable future”.
“I think growth next year, not even depending on who is the president, will be better than this year, but it is not going to shoot out the lights,” he said on Thursday, speaking to Engineering News Online on the sidelines of the Transport Forum in Johannesburg.
“Ultimately next year is a holding year. I’m not saying we are going into a recession, but we are on a growth strike. We are going to struggle to grow fast enough to create enough jobs, which in itself creates a political problem.”
Schussler believed a changing of the political guard within the ruling ANC, with the election battle scheduled for the end of this year, would only have an impact on the economy towards the end of next year, or thereafter.
“Economically speaking, it takes a year to 18 months for interest rates to have an impact, for fiscal policies to have an impact. So what happens in December will have impact more in 2019 than in 2018.
“If you look at our political history we could get a bit of a boost should consumer confidence come up because people feel the crooks have lost. If Cyril [Ramaphosa], Zweli [Mkhize] or Lindiwe [Sisulu] win, there could be a boost. NDZ [Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma] might not be such a good boost.
“If the wrong person wins - someone aligned with the crooks - consumer and business confidence will not pick up. International investors will care less about us and local investors will invest ever more in other countries. The growth rate will stay subdued.”
Schussler said the direct fixed investment of South Africa at the end of the second quarter this year was over R2.8-trillion.
“Sixty per cent of South Africa’s gross domestic product value is invested in other countries. Most South African companies are now investing outside South Africa.
“Firms no longer think returns in South Africa are worth the risk.”
Schussler added that South Africa had to be seen “to do the right thing”, should the non-NDZ camp win.
“The right thing means people will have to go to jail for what they have done. Not the bit players and side players. I’m talking political players. This will lead to upheaval.
“But, of course, the crooks have much bigger motivation to stay in power than those trying to unseat them. That remains a problem.”
Schussler emphasised that South Africa suffered not only from political problems.
“At this point in time, we have high tax rates and low spending on infrastructure. The quality of our education needs to improve drastically.”


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Objectives: To determine whether two independent examiners can agree on a diagnosis of myofascial pain syndrome (MPS). To evaluate interexaminer reliability in identifying myofascial trigger points in upper quarter muscles. To evaluate the reliability of clinical diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of MPS. To evaluate the validity of clinical diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of MPS.
Design: Validity and reliability study.
Setting: Provincial Hospital. Toledo, Spain.
Participants: Twenty myofascial pain syndrome patients and 20 healthy, normal control subjects, enrolled by a trained and experienced examiner.
Methods: Ten bilateral muscles from the upper quarter were evaluated by two experienced examiners. The second examiner was blinded to the diagnosis group. The MPS diagnosis required at least one muscle to have an active myofascial trigger point. Three to four days separated the two examinations. The primary outcome measure was the frequency with which the two examiners agreed on the classification of the subjects as patients or as healthy controls. The kappa statistic (K) was used to determine the level of agreement between both examinations, interpreted as very good (0.81-1.00), good (0.61-0.80), moderate (0.41-0.60), fair (0.21-0.40), or poor (≤0.20).
Results: Interexaminer reliability for identifying subjects with MPS was very good (K = 1.0). Interexaminer reliability for identifying muscles leading to a diagnosis of MPS was also very good (K = 0.81). Sensitivity and specificity showed high values for most examination tests in all muscles, which confirms the validity of clinical diagnostic criteria in the diagnosis of MPS.
Conclusions: Interrater reliability between two expert examiners identifying subjects with MPS involving upper quarter muscles exhibited substantial agreement. These results suggest that clinical criteria can be valid and reliable in the diagnosis of this condition.

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It's so photogenic you could acquire some kind of camera over-use injury.
A brew that inspires joy and wonky walking.
Lake Tegernsee is a pretty mountain retreat an hour from Munich yet a million miles from overcrowded alpine hotspots. Brian Johnston gets local among the Bavarians.
WE'RE AN OLDER COUPLE, LOVE HISTORY, WALKING AND PARKS, THINKING OF TWO WEEKS TRAVELLING BY TRAIN AROUND GERMANY WITH A SHORT CRUISE, PREFERABLY ALONG THE COASTLINE. ANY ADVICE RE ACCOMMODATION? M. AND D. BAKER, LENNOX HEAD NSW Cruising is a great way to see Germany but by far the most popular cruises are along the Rhine and Main rivers rather than the Baltic coast.
Essen is far from the chintzy Germany of lederhosen and clanking beer steins, but all the more interesting for that.
It's an area of myth, legend and fairy tale around every bend.
Unified Germany's capital is a bohemian kind of place, where freedom and creativity are revered more than labels or luxury.
The world's most beautiful castle enchants inside and out.
There is so much more to Germany than beer and sausages. This is a tantalising country of spectacular scenery, grand palaces and magical forests. From Berlin to Bavaria and Oktoberfest to Christmas markets, this is an all-in-one experience for travellers of any age. Indulge in local treats, learn of folktales or bask under big-city lights. This place won't disappoint.

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CIA’s Drones, Barely Secret, Receive Rare Public Nod - Washington Wire
On his way out the door at the Pentagon, Robert Gates leveled with the military. Killer Drones, Stealth Jets, Spy Planes: Bob Gates' Legacy in Military Tech | Danger Room
Pentagon cancels divisive Distinguished Warfare Medal for cyber ops, drone strikes
Obama's war by drone
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.New American Oct 12, 2012 Defense contractor Northrop Grumman, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center reported on October 8 that they are moving closer to the day when drones can stay airborne indefinitely, refueled by other unmanned aerial vehicles without human assistance. The test flights conducted between January 11 and May 30 involved the use of two Global Hawk drones — “one configured as a tanker and the other as a receiver.” The experiments were conducted at Edwards Air Force Base, California and reportedly resulted in the achieving of many milestones: » DARPA Tests Drones That Refuel While Airborne Alex Jones
Two-thirds of National Journal's National Security Insiders believe that the Obama administration's increasing use of drone strikes to kill terrorism suspects overseas is the right approach—but many cautioned that Washington should not overuse the tactic. Insiders: Drone Strikes Right Approach in Current Phase of War on Terror - Sara Sorcher
US Drones Moving From Iraq to Turkey
Drone (lost in Iran) belonged to CIA, officials say The mission of the downed drone remains unclear. Iran, a longtime adversary of the United States, is believed by U.S. intelligence agencies to be pursuing the development of a nuclear weapon and is also accused of providing support to anti-coalition elements in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The RQ-170 has been used by the CIA for highly sensitive missions into other nations’ airspace, including months of surveillance of the compound in Pakistan in which Osama bin Laden was hiding before he was killed in a May raid by Special Operations forces.
America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a big air base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel sit in front of multiple computer screens, and a fourth at an air base in the United Arab Emirates that almost no one talks about. And that leaves at least 56 more such facilities to mention in an expanding American empire of unmanned drone bases being set up worldwide. Despite frequent news reports on the drone assassination campaign launched in support of America’s ever-widening undeclared wars and a spate of stories on drone bases in Africa and the Middle East, most of these facilities have remained unnoted, uncounted, and remarkably anonymous -- until now.
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Silver - to fill in shadows or add highlights
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DPWH actively participates in Kalayaan Jobs Fair
Davao City (11 June) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will actively participate on a nationwide 3-day Kalayaan Job Fair activities starting June 12-14, in commemoration of the 111th Anniversary of Philippine Independence June 12th.
In his message during a hooked-up radio program over Radyo ng Bayan, DPWH XI Director Osop L. Ali gave emphasis that "Her Excellency, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo wants to attain higher growth and rate targets by creating as many jobs as possible especially for the displaced workers, and protect the most vulnerable sectors and build bridges to allies around the world."
In support of the Economic Resiliency Plan, a stimulus package introduced by the President, DPWH Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane, Jr., has directed all DPWH regional executive heads across the nation to actively get involved in this momentous occasion.
To address this global challenges and economic recession, Director Ali reported that the DPWH in region eleven has generated job employment opportunities to some 4,516 workers under the DPWH Job Generation and Employment for Displaced Workers.
"We have launched the DPWH Jobs Generation since February 23, 2009 of which the contractors in Davao region play important role on this event," he said.
The launching was coordinated with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the National Constructors Association of the Philippines, Davao chapter.
Director Ali bared that "there were 3,527 workers hired as of June 4, 2009 and we are still continuously generating employment opportunities to realize the goal of the Arroyo Administration."
He further reported that from calendar year 2006 to 2009, the DPWH Davao region has a total of 2,920 projects.
Under the locally-funded projects, there are 139 ongoing while 35 projects are for implementation, he added.
Our DPWH staff and personnel are now at the NCCC mall for the jobs fair and ready to assist those applicants who wish to apply for job vacancies, he said. (PIA XI/with rbpalacio) [top]


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For all of our AAHAM fathers I want to wish you a Happy Father’s Day!
Some of you may think of Father’s Day as another Hallmark holiday or a Sunday marked by giving Dad a tie, bbq tools or golf balls, but I think it’s important to recognize the contributions fathers make to their families. Fathers today seem much more involved than the fathers we knew from TV when I was growing up. Whether it was “Leave it to Beaver”, “Father Know Best” or “Happy Days” it seemed Dad went to work in a suit and tie and mom stayed home. It’s so different today. Men are so much more involved in the family.
I celebrate my brother who takes a very active role in parenting. He’s the parent that attends all his children’s’ school functions, chauffeurs them to after school activities and chaperones them on camping trips. He’s been the Cub Scout leader as well.
Celebrating Father’s Day goes back to 1908 but it was a tough sell. Our country enthusiastically embraced Mother’s Day but it was said that Father’s Day didn’t have as much sentimental appeal. After all, while Mother’s Day was widely supported by the floral industry, who sends Dad a bouquet for Father’s Day? The struggle to make Father’s Day official slowly gained support. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson honored the day by using telegraph signals to unfurl a flag in Spokane when he pressed a button in Washington, D.C.
In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge urged state governments to observe Father’s Day. However, many men continued to disdain the day. As one historian writes, they “scoffed at the holiday’s sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with flowers and gift-giving, or they derided the proliferation of such holidays as a commercial gimmick to sell more products, often paid for by the father himself.”
In the 1920s and 1930s there was an effort to scrap separate Mother’s Day and Father’s Day in favor of a single holiday, Parent’s Day. But during the depression struggling retailers and advertisers redoubled their efforts to make Father’s Day a “second Christmas” for dads, promoting goods such as ties, hats, socks, pipes and tobacco, golf clubs and other sporting goods, and greeting cards.
In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson, by official order, made Father's Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The holiday was not formally considered until 1972, when President Richard Nixon signed a proclamation officially acknowledged by a Congressional Act, setting it permanently on the third Sunday in June all over the nation. What are your family’s plans for Father’s Day?


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Ian Webster and Dianne Lanskey have celebrated planting their 30,000th tree on their 13 hectare property at Flaxton. For over 15 years, they have partnered with council's land for wildlife program. During this time they have transformed their property from a tangled mess of weeds to a thriving haven for wildlife. A number of rare and threatened species occur on this property, including:
- Richmond Birdwing Butterfly ( Ornithoptera richmondia)
- Richmond Birdwing Butterfly Vine ( Pararistolochia praevenosa)
- Gympie Nut ( Macadamia ternifolia) and
- Three-leaved Bosistoa ( Bosistoa transversa).
Council's land for wildlife program assists landholders by:
- providing educational workshops
- property visits and
- free incentives (seedlings, weed control induction and nest boxes).
The landholder environment grants assist with funding for on-ground conservation projects.
Voluntary conservation agreements support the ongoing management and protection of the property.
Within the program, council currently has:
- 1,250 land for wildlife properties
- 8,683 ha of retained habitat
- 88 voluntary conservation agreement properties, and
- 1,326 ha that are protected in perpetuity.
Environment and liveability strategy
These partnerships are just some of the ways council and our community are working together to deliver a healthy environment and liveable Sunshine Coast. To see what else we are doing view the environment and liveability strategy.

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The Lovsuns TBM that will bore the Westerly Storage Tunnel in Cleveland, Ohio, arrived by boat the week of Sept. 2. The freighter BBC Plata arrived at the Port of Cleveland where the TBM was offloaded onto a barge and pushed up the Cuyahoga River to a location near the jobsite. The ship sailed from Dalian, China, containing the pieces of the disassembled TBM, which included a 29-ft wide cutterhead and three large shields.
Besides the barge, an additional 40 truckloads of equipment will be hauled to the same location to begin the TBM’s underground reassembly where it will become 265-ft long and 2 million lbs.
The $135 million Westerly Storage Tunnel will be more than two miles long and 27 ft in diameter when finished in 2020. It will be Part of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District‘s (NEORSD) Project Clean Lake program, the new tunnel will be capable of storing more than 300 million gallons of sewage and stormwater for treatment in a single year, thereby preventing combined sewer overflows from polluting Lake Erie.
The BBC Plata navigated from Dalian, China to Cleveland, Ohio, with several stops along the way. The time it will take to reassemble the TBM before its new underground journey begins is about the same. Eight weeks.


The European 323F was designated , but was actually almost identical to the , and had little to do with other. There was a choice of hatchbacks and station wagon bodies, both available with a three- or five-door bodystyle. Vented front and solid rear disc brakes, larger front brakes, larger clutch, equal-length driveshafts, dual outlet muffler, body-color door handles and mirrors, fold-down rear center armrest, driver's vanity mirror, and larger stabilizer bars. All three models were available as either Standard or Deluxe. The Lantis was on the , a minor update of the that underpinned the and. HighBeam Research: Online Press Releases.
Browse our top Mazda 323 Manual Transmissions products below, order online to ship to your home, or head into your nearest Advance Auto Parts location to get started. We provide incredibly reasonable prices on quality parts. Private car versions received foglights in the grille as well as more chrome trim. If you have a service guide in the glove compartment of your Mazda, then the faith you have in its technical quality will only be enhanced. Beyond great prices, we stock trusted brands manufacturing all types of Manual Transmissions products for your Mazda 323. Le Moniteur de l'Automobile in French.
The Baby Boomers was a lightly facelifted variant with new bumpers and a rear spoiler, for a more sporty appearance overall. This was also the last year of production for the Protegé. These reviews are from anyone who purchased those parts, in this case a Repair Manual, so you can feel confident that you know what you are buying. Production of the second generation Familia ended in January 1977, but not before another minor facelift and had taken place in February 1976. Mazda 323s were used as by some such as the under where the Mazda 323 were partially retired as of 2016. The Rotary Coupé was discontinued, having been replaced by the larger -based Mazda Savanna.
Period commentators complimented its linear and smooth power delivery. Plus, it provides repair procedures with detailed specifications and photographs. Another version called the Haima Happin went on sale for the 2010—2012 model years. In some cases the manufacturer does not allow us to show you our lower prices until you take further action. It went on sale in the United Kingdom in July 1991, with 1200 vehicles expected to be sold that year. The sequence of disassembling and assembling components and assemblies is set out in operation, specifying the features of work, safety measures, measurements of the necessary parameters and advice to motorists who prefer self-repair. The model remained in production in South Africa, as an entry-level model until 2003.
In Japan, the installation of a rotary engine gave Japanese buyers a financial advantage when it came time to pay the annual in that they bought a car that was more powerful than a traditional inline engine, but without having the penalty for having an engine in the higher 1. In Europe, only the 1. This generation was sold through the 1989 model year in the United States. Archived from on 13 January 2010. The 1985 Familia spawned a Ford Laser twin sold in the Asia-Pacific.
It was only offered with a single engine - the twin-barrel 1. Where Will I Find A Mazda Service Manual? Separate sections of the Mazda 323 repair manual include the electrical wiring diagrams. The interior was fitted with leather and suede seats, and had the option of replacing the cupholder with a 3 gauge cluster. Upgrading the Familia Rotary to the 12A engine would have cost the car its tax advantage in Japan, and the decision to discontinue it was made, despite the Familia body continuing production for some years to follow. For 1982, the Sport was made to live up to its name a little bit more, with the installation of a front and cast aluminum wheels. A factory-built body was introduced in March 1986 in both Mazda 323 and Ford Laser 323 panels from firewall back versions, initially running the 1. The rotary engined R100 has a unique front end design, with a more prominent pointed hood, grille, and bumper.
In Southeast Asia, a version of the last Laser continued to be assembled in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines as the Ford Lynx. The range was replaced in 1980, however the station wagon models continued in production until 1986. The same front design was used for the. In total, 31,017 Brisa passenger cars were built. Around the same time, the 800 engine was upgraded, adding three horsepower. The car was produced from 1989 until 1994 before being replaced by the. At about the same time a four-wheel-drive model was introduced in Japan, either with a 1.
The Familia Presto Van continued largely unchanged until the summer of 1978, aside from the 1. It was available as a hatchback or sedan only for the first year, and wagon and cabriolet models were added in November 1985 and March 1986 respectively. There was also a 1. It is always beneficial to have a service manual to hand. The Familia was also as the and in Asia, Oceania, Southern Africa, some Latin American countries and, from 1991, as the and in North America.
The van and wagon did receive some superficial changes to their bodywork, but retained the narrower track of the preceding model. From model year 1970 on the Familia was also available with the new 1. All cars received exposed rectangular sealed-beam units. Mazda Protege The Mazda Familia, also marketed as the Mazda 323 and the Mazda Protegé, is a small family car that was manufactured by Mazda between 1963 and 2003. Archived from on 20 August 2009.


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This morning I’m pouring sugar into my coffee and stuffing my fat dumb face with frosted donettes when old Bill Sluice from HR comes up to me. He says, hey Drew, got a newbie in an entry level position, down in Plagiarism. Seeing’s that’s your old stomping grounds, he says, figured you might show her the ropes.
I go: But I’m in Infringement now.
Don’t matter, Bill says. With Marcia out on mat-leave someone’s gotta show her the ropes.
What are these ropes? is what I say. I worked in Plagiarism sixteen years, I don’t remember any ropes.
Bill goes, Very funny—you don’t think I heard that one before? She’s at the front desk and I told her you’re on your way.
I went to the front desk.
She was there, like Bill said.Continue reading “Wholly Original Work”
At some point the orderlies had had to tranquilize Ameer. Not that he remembered the struggle—yanking tubes from his arms, attempting to bust his leg cast with a bedpan. Letting the Get Well Soon balloons out the window. Days later he awoke in his lumpy recovery bed for the second time. He whispered now what he’d screamed then.
“No, no, no,” he said. “Nono.”Continue reading “Doctor Kenworthy’s Jell-O Girl”
My first memory concerns the Haunted Mansion. The Disneyland one. We were –Land People, my family. The -World people, we didn’t like.
The first thing about my life I can remember is screaming. Gramma’s pulling me by the wrist into the lobby of the Haunted Mansion. There’s loud organ music. Between that and all my screaming, my eardrums are crackling. There are candelabras and cobblestones and graves and about a thousand strange kids staring at me.
And there is Gramma. My father’s sweet old mother. In this memory, she has been twisted, distorted into a demonic thing. She is all limbs and peeling sunburn flakes. Shrieking “YOU’LL LIKE IT!” She drags my five-year-old, struggling, chubby body into the cartoonish manor. My feet are an inch off the ground. I’m screaming, “No! No! No!”
But we are going in anyway.Continue reading “Happy Haunts”
Congrats to my amazing friend Rachel Leigh on this aw-shucks shoutout for her cover design of my novel The Man Who Ran for God. Thanks to thebookdesigner.com.
Easily the prettiest thing ever associated with my work.
Ryan E. Felton
Charlie didn’t like it at all when we told him they were building a new house on the vacant lot.
He loves to play out there, you know, with the neighbor kid. Tall grass and rock pits and ditches for hide-and-seek. Big hills to tumble down, dirt clods to throw, lots of space to ride bikes.
But now they’re gonna mow it down, pave it, put more houses back there. I’m a little sad, too.Continue reading “Taken Root”


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Mooring the Gaps: Marianne Moore’s Bryn Mawr Poetry
Fear you not my part of the Dialogue.
—Much Ado About Nothing III. i.31
The critical considerations of the poetry reflect the poet’s participation in the diverse modes of presentation such as layout, sound, and allusion. This deep process of textual, poetic creation is particularly apparent in Marianne Moore’s Bryn Mawr poems–early works of a poet whose hand often lingered in the space between allusion and textual representation. Scholarship on Moore has not yet successfully integrated these Bryn Mawr poems into her larger corpus, because it has not sufficiently engaged with the dynamic, unfixed nature of her corpus. This essay explores three early poems, illuminating the different ways they open allusive conversations with other writers, other readers, and other forms as well as resist fixity. Seeking a critical mode and a presentation medium that foregrounds the multiple voices in Moore’s poetry, this essay explores the uses of a website as a platform for interpretation. My reading of Marianne Moore’s work incorporates three different analytic structures (one for each poem), testing the possibilities of new media in Moore’s vision of poetry as an art of multimodal dialogue, allowing elements of the text as well as perspectives of the reader to converse on the page.
The Text as an Environment for Dialogue
“Shhh! I’m reading.” ? If you have spent a good amount of time in a library then you have likely been asked or yourself have asked a fellow reader to keep the noise down. The idea that reading should happen in and through silence permeates our culture. Beginning in junior high, even high school, many students encounter “SSR” Sustained Silent Reading. As students, we are trained to believe that SSR is the proper way to read, and we begin to equate reading with silence and solitude.
Yet reading is also profoundly dialogic and always has been. The OED gloss gives some sense of the scope of conversation with self and others this practice comprises: “to advise, to suggest, to convince, to devise, to guess, to think, to plot” (“Read”). It is a transitive verb, one that requires us to define a subject and an object. Whether it is while reading Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy, exchanging brushes with Milton on the way to helping Lyra save Yorek, or while eating your peach and exploring T.S. Eliot’s “Prufrock” only to be thrust into Dante’s Inferno, we experience texts reaching out to other texts, stretching their sentences in all directions , making allusions, critiques, and multiple labyrinths to explore. With the recognition of intertextuality comes the responsibility to commit to the labor of reading; we must “think, guess, and devise” our own routes through the text. The margins of the page welcome comments, allowing our thoughts to run alongside the text, expanding and extending books beyond the original boundaries set by bindings and cover. The text becomes an environment for dialogue. Though if one further interrogates the codex form, it is not as limited as the bound form suggests. Extroversive elements which move outwards from the text such as the margins and footnotes demonstrate a move towards dialogism. These textual additions are radical modes of interchange which can subvert or emphasize the text itself. As Anthony Grafton corrects the preconceptions in The Footnote: A Curious History: “To the inexpert, footnotes look like deep root systems, solid and fixed; to the connoisseur , however, they reveal themselves as anthills, swarming with constructive and combative activity” (Grafton 9). Grafton’s study of the footnote as an organic textual element proves that stasis within a text is constantly being challenged. As the editor or author uses the footnote, we as readers employ the margins. We annotate, we deconstruct the physical text by underlining, circling, even writing over the printed words. We create layers of reading and on a re-reading, we continue to add, archiving our experience of the text. When we re-read the text, though it may seem like a repetition of action, the time that has passed between readings changes our experiences of the text. We return to the text to find that we may no longer agree with our former selves, or that we have extended our thoughts, percolating new ones as we glance over own notes. The act of re-reading then, especially in conjunction with the reading of our marginalia, allows us to constantly be revising the text and our relation to it.
This notion of reading-as-revision was theorized famously by the reader-response critic Wolfgang Iser. Iser moves beyond the idea that the intent of the author is the primary purpose for analysis. He rejects the notion of a hierarchy in which the reader was positioned as ancillary to the text. Iser challenges any approach to reading in which a singularly correct meaning could be ascribed to a text. By granting each reader and reading experience validity, we are allowed—even encouraged– to linger in potential readings. His theories helped to develop the framing ideas of reader-reception theory:
Focusing primarily on two points of intersection—between text and context and between text and reader—reception theory, as I have tried to formulate it, conceives of literature as a form of interaction. This conception goes against the aura of surrounding autonomous art, as well as against the notion of literature as a representation of life; instead, by intervening in contextual realities, literature refracts life’s multifariousness. (“Do I Write for an Audience?” 312)
Iser delivers the text from isolation. By insisting that readers focus on “contextual realities,” Iser suggests that the text is a site for metamorphosis in which the governing ideas of the text are forth by the author are revised by the reader and the physical text itself. Iser theorizes that even in the most seeming tightly constructed prose, the work’s success depends on gaps for the reader to diverge from the confines of the text. Iser’s theories were radical when they were first introduced in the early 1960s, because he forced gaps into theory where it was intentionally sewn shut.
An Essay in the form of a Website
Yet even as reader-response theory has become more widely accepted, and readers are seen as collaborators of the text, we are only given so much room in codex form. Though margins allow for reader involvement, they also embody intellectual constraints on the reader by placing a spatial limit on the amount of newly generated ideas. The margins guard the text, allotting a fixed amount of dialogue. We can only decrease the size of our writing so much until we have filled the space to fullest with our own thoughts, and it seems as if the page is about to burst with words. Similarly, readers are textually limited; we cannot see the two passages on the same surface. We can only physically reconnect the passages by flipping from page to page each time. This viusal limtation of codex text suggests a more automatic movement through the text, rather than encouraging readers to thoughfully make their own way through the text and notice new connections between ideas.
Virtual interfaces attempt to fulfill the criterion of empowering the capacities of the reader. Though Iser could not have predicted the dynamic new tools of textual interaction such as hyperlinks and virtual comments, he identified the need for a revision of the ways in which we interact with text. The virtual interfaces allow for analysis of both the context and the reader’s reaction in a more physical ways, creating for us the possibility to trace these interactions or immerse ourselves in new conversation. Context becomes redefined not to be masterfully illusive, but apparent and malleable. As readers remark on the text, each comment becomes incorporated into the whole of the text as it appears on the site, allowing for internal regeneration and inexhaustiblity. We acknowledge that if we are to become true readers we must not be silent, but explore loudly. Clamoring, we make our voices visibly “heard” through the boxes designated for comments. We are still bound, or to be more specific, “boxed” –literally. The seemingly restrictive lines of the boxes enclose us and name us. This self-expandable space reminds us that as readers, we are only given as much space to contribute our own writing as we take.
By creating a thread in which comments become visible as a constant presence in the text, the comments create a pastiche of “refract[ions].” The comments create a dialogue happening in a more open environment. This new access to multiple readers pushes Iser’s theory of context beyond the author and beyond the text to apply to the reader. Dialogue, born in the interior of the mind, is given a physical space by the virtual interface of the page—there, it becomes part of the content with which later readers interact. Through participating in this collaborative act of reading, the commenters have created a new context—that of the annotation within the responses to the text. We are allowed to access the paths of fellow readers. Virtual texts invite us to partake in a communal pilgrimage.
Iser’s theories are applicable to the web in so far as they foreground the reader’s more active role, however the virtual interface adds the dimension of the protean virtual layout. If the principles of the text are no longer physically restricted to a uniform layout, what will govern our orientation to the visual layout of the text? Martha Nell Smith, a prominent digital theorist, provides a guide to digital text while maintaining an emphasis on the sanctity of the reader’s individual perspective.
In “Electronic Scholarly Editing,” Smith writes,
Understanding the poetics and principles of electronic scholarly editing means understanding that the primary goal of this activity is not to dictate what can be seen but rather to open up new ways of seeing. (315)
Smith was not talking literally, per se, but the literal visual element does allow us to perceive the journey of both our own reading experience and that of our companions. We can visualize the multiplicity of voices as well as how the voices of readers differ in their approach to the text; Smith points to the virtual interface’s ability to physically manifest the diversity that Iser theorized. Integrating the multiple sources of writing with digital replications serves to remind us as readers that we should not forget to consult the source text. Context surrounding the text create free-standing rooms built around the original so that often times, we manage to linger so long in a single room that wholeness of the text is dispersed into fragments. This shift allows for a transformation of how we read and view ourselves as readers. No longer at the forefront of the reader’s mind is the pressure to ascertain new discoveries in the text, but the reader allowed to be drawn to the elements which have magnetized his or her attention. In creating an electronic archive, the aim is to allow multiple paths. However, Smith does not ask the curator of a website to put aside all acts of critical, scholarly intervention in this process of reaction and commentary.
At the very core of creating an archive is the idea that by selecting the material, the curator acknowledges what is included is worth preserving. Smith’s breaking open of paths does not translate into a breaking down of analytic strategies, rather a more comprehensive consideration in which the primary goal of the text is to highlight possibility.
In response to Iser and Smith, I have chosen a digital platform for my thesis that allows for editorial construction of the layout and readerly annotation. I posit via digital platform that the reader can reread the ways in which Moore interconnects quotations, the relationship between public and private space, tradition, and institutilization, by using space (windows, hyperlinks, comments, tags) to materialize time, publication, and allusion. Digital media highlight that Moore investigated the issue of context, context, and that it resonated at the core. Her poems connect to one another using questions of time, space, and authority as threads, weaving together the elements of poetry. We are asked as readers to assume the position of Arachne, to deconstruct and revise. Each poem provides a pattern refashioning perspective. By using hyperlinks and tags, we as readers can visually fashion a web of words connecting from one to another or connecting extrinsic material to the text itself. We take the authority to “pull apart” the threads of comments to investigate the web, defining the path and adding our comments in revision. Iser creates new ways to understand our relationship to the text, and Moore actively demonstrates the reader’s part of the dialogue through her own writing.
Moore’s Multimodal Dialogue
Marianne Moore entered Bryn Mawr in 1904 with the intention of becoming an English major. The future Modernist poet was told by her Bryn Mawr professors that in her English essays, she over-used quotations and neglected to propose a central idea. In response, Moore did not change her style; instead, she changed her major. Moore’s professors were acknowledging facets of her work that would be defining characteristics throughout her career: her use of quotation and her opacity. These quotations and her lack of transition between them often make her poems seem like a “compilation of anthologies,” as she herself describes, rather than a purposefully constructed poem (“A Burning Desire to Be Explicit” 5-6). Through this structure, Moore invites the reader to dive into her poems and commit to a self-directed dialogue. Her response demonstrates that she was actively thinking about style, presentation and representation while attending Bryn Mawr.
In 1994, the second edition of the Complete Poems of Marianne Moore was published. Moore’s first publications of poetry began at Bryn Mawr in 1907, leaving the 1994 revision of “complete” to be off by 28 years and 18 poems. Yet until Robin Schulze published the facsimile edition of Moore’s poems in 2002, were the Bryn Mawr poems included in a publication of her work as the beginning of Moore’s poetic career. Grace Schulman included the Bryn Mawr poems a year later in the latest edition of Moore’s poetry The Poems of Marianne Moore. Worse yet, as this short of summary of publication demonstrates the Bryn Mawr poems are virtually ignored even where they are taken into account. While Scholar Jeanne Heuving in Omissions are Not Accidents cites some of Moore’s Bryn Mawr poems as early as 1992, but her analysis uses them to find glints of what will manifest in Moore’s later poems rather than recognizing them as a free-standing accomplishments.
Schulze claims in her introduction to Becoming Marianne Moore that she “[has] tried, in particular, to give readers and scholars a better look at the changing of texts of Moore’s early career to fill the gap between the beginning of her life as a published poet in 1907 and the publication of her first American volume of verse, Observations, in 1924″ (11). Though Schulze accomplishes the task of making Moore’s early work available, this is only the first step in being able to “fill the gap” in early Moore scholarship. Moore’ s early work as discussed above has been printed in Grace Shulman’s edition, but criticism on Moore has not focused on these newly introduced poems. The next step for expanding Moore’s oeuvre to truly include these early years, is to demonstrate their room for readerly dialogue. Rather than just reproduce the works, the works must be shown to have dimensionality to draw in readers. Moore’s Bryn Mawr poems, now that they are attainable, must be accessible. Such accessibility, an important goal of this essay, will help transform the perception of Moore’s Bryn Mawr poetry from juvenilia to being worthy of attention and research.
Because Moore’s early poems from Bryn Mawr were not included in any of the editions of her poetry until long after her death, the poems lend themselves more freely to interpetation. The fact that the poems have been neglected demonstrates the dismissal of Bryn Mawr and its institutional connection with Moore. The oversight delegitimizes Moore’s first foray into poetry and creates a disparity in the way we view her work. As shown by her multiple conflicts with publication as a means to an authoritative edition, Moore’s refusal of a final product extends through her entire career. The rejection of Moore’s early work and experiences is a misreading of Moore’s corpus. The magnetic force in Moore’s poetry is the trajectory of revisions. Her ability to create new poems and alternative meaning through emending her poems pulls the reader in. Her Bryn Mawr poems mark the beginning and the inattention to them equates to the negligence of not considering an original draft.
In one of her most famous poems, “Poetry, “Moore writes, “Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in/ it after all, a place for the genuine” (lines 2-3). “Poetry” presents a meta-reading in which “reading” equates to “discovery.” The transformation of the text occurs as the reader has actively engaged and found a truth beyond the preconceptions she brings to it or that by engaging with tradition and taking on the genre of poetry, the text brings upon itself. In Moore’s description of reading poetry, the act of reading begins before the reader engages with any of the text. By deciding to read a poem, the reader enters into a set of pre-established expectations and embarks on the poem “with perfect contempt.” However, it is when the poem touches us in a way that feels more real or honest than a contrivance of art, we are surprised and excited, and reading turns into a “discovery” where the line between artifice and experience blurs.
Moore’s reading of “Poetry” conjures the need for desire on the part of the reader. >The subject enters the poem in order to embark on the journey of reading—and, ultimately, to uncover a truth, despite the limiting initial perspective of “perfect contempt.” The desire to unearth from the poetry a truth or “genuine[ness]” prompts the reader to continue reading with a keen eye. Perhaps the space in which this discovery can be realized is in the gap, which provides an opportunity for reflection on oneself, the text and the context. Moore models for us the type of reading one does in exploring the text. By titling a poem “Poetry,” she establishes a context and then maneuvers her way through it. Moore denies that her poems present her “philosophy”; instead she affixes her maze-like web of citations.
Moore displaces herself as author(ity),denying that the text must take the form of a proclamation of authorial intent. By doing so, she gives her blessing for the reader to do so as well. She asks that we do not pin her poem down by inferring authorial intent, not because she is attempting to be elusive but because she re-imagines the role of reader as a non-submissive one. In the Introduction to Becoming Marianne Moore, Schulze makes a case for “broaden[ing] the notion of authorial intention to suit the revisionary habits of poets like Moore who seem to conceive of their texts as processes rather than finished products” (11). Schulze points to something key in Moore’s writing : each time Moore creates a “re -vision,” she grants herself the possibility to return to the poem first as reader, then as poet. She brings to the role of reading as much seriousness as she brings to the role of the composer. If Moore as reader could not find new paths, new visions in her work, if she ceased to re-envision the possibilities within her work then she would be failing as reader and writer. It is through Moore’s approach to art that we as readers can understand how to proceed in taking on her work –loudly and with much dialogue.
Three Dialogic Readings
A poet with a deep commitment to intertextuality and a creative investment in continual revision, rather than fixed product, Moore is an especially demanding subject for a conventional codex edition and scholarship. In a number of respects the form of a website better suits the critical presentation of her work than a codex text. The virtual interface of the website provides a textual manifestation of Moore’s allusive tendencies. By allowing for more in-depth consideration of phrases and words, hyperlinking creates context which both intertwines the poems thematically as well as sends the reader outward beyond the text. The various capacities of layout allowing for facsimiles, hyperlinks, and even sound, visually recreate the many approaches the reader could take throughout Moore’s poems. The interface also allows for a layering of communal and personal reading in so much that comments can be continually added to, and respond to one another. However, these comments cannot be revised or edited. The reader must create a new comment to add to an existing one. Though this is a limitation of the functionality of the comments to the reader, it provides an accurate representation (on a much smaller scale) of Moore’s own struggles with publication. Like us returning to amend a comment, Moore had to publish a new version of each poem to amend it; a challenge to which she regularly adhered. Thus the process of own comments mirrors Moore’s revision as a reader.
On this site, I have endeavored to analyze three of the Bryn Mawr poems: “To My Cup-Bearer,” “Councell to A Bachelor” and “To Come After a Sonnet.” These poems are just a sampling of Moore’s early work. With each poem, I have used capabilities of CommentPress to render three different conceptual readings.
“To My Cup-bearer” exemplifies the connection of Moore and Bryn Mawr by interrogating the inheritance of women as scholars. “To My Cup-bearer” in its essence is rich with questions of public and private space, recreation, and context. In this poem, Moore archives a secret Bryn Mawr ceremony which symbolized a handing down of knowledge from the senior class to the junior class. Moore’s publishing of this poem both illuminates the ceremony and publication itself in thought-provoking ways. In the post “To My Cup-Bearer” I use the hyperlinks to create a layering of windows to demonstrating that Moore layers tradition and meaning within the poem. The affect of this structure is intended to allow the reader to experience the interruptions and connections temporally and visually in the reading process.
“To Come After a Sonnet” is one of the two earliest published poems of Moore’s. I chose to include this poem for the scope it provides. Including one of Moore’s earliest poems demonstrates that even from onset of her poetic career, she was producing complex work. “To Come After a Sonnet” fashions opposed readings to illustrate how multiple criticisms can be in conversation by drawing out the text in different directions. Like “To My Cup-bearer,” “To Come After a Sonnet” critiques tradition and questions the roles within academia. A richness comes from reading the two poems in the same grouping, because they present Moore’s diversity of form, voice, and presentation while achieving a consistent, developing theme. In the post “To Come After a Sonnet,” the comments are headed with one of two subtitles “READING A” or “READING B.” The readings are juxtaposed interpretations of close readings of the poems. The two contrasting readings emphasize the multi-vocal perspectives Moore sets up between/within her own poem and the poetic tradition. These perspectives create a nexus in which they are often opposed, sometimes overlapping, and most importantly engaged in conversation with one another.
“Councell to A Bachelor” illustrates one of Moore’s most intrepid but subtle early forays into textual revision. Her play with space questions authorship, originality, and most interestingly, publication as tool. Moore does little revision the the poem, though publishes it twice–once in the The Lantern and then in Poetry Magazine. These publications are keys to understanding how broadly Moore considered context and her willingness to include a poem’s context as an opportunity for revising and re-infusing it with new meaning. In the post “Councell to A Bachelor,” I have included two separate windows to distinguish to spatially distinguish the publications : “The Lantern Publication” and “Poetry Publication.” i Each hyperlink opens a new window so that the specific analysis for each publication can be read in a different space, which allows for the physical separation of context which I argue is Moore’s main interest and source of revision for the poem. The separate windows provide a mode to recognize the separateness of each text, while still illustrating how they interplay with one another.
As mentioned in the Abstract on the splash page, the research and development of this site was limited to the timeframe of the Bryn Mawr senior thesis. Within the necessarily narrowed scope of this essay, I was able to discuss only three of Moore’s eighteen early poems. The three poems (as described above in “Three Dialogic Readings”) not only lend themselves to inwardly abundant readings, but also when examined as a cluster provide avenues for a cross-analysis of Moore’s early work. These three poems only skim the surface of the potential of Moore’s Bryn Mawr poetry.
Moore’s poems revolve around a re-organization of quotes, images, and data, out of which emerges a new perspective or conclusion. I began to consider the links between and across the years, but the scope of this project was not big enough to incorporate this research. Eventually, I would like this table to be revised to include hyper-linked access to facsimiles as graphical representation of Moore’s poem, in order tacilitate easier access to all 18 of the Bryn Mawr poems. Currently, only “To Come After a Sonnet,” “To My Cup-bearer,” and “Councell to a Bachelor” are presented on this site. However, facsimiles of all of the poems can be found in Robin Schulze’s Becoming Marianne Moore.
Table A (below) illustrates the poems Moore published in Bryn Mawr’s two literary magazines, The Tipyn ‘O Bob and The Lantern. The table is organized by year/season and indicates the publication. My interest in organizing Moore’s Bryn Mawr publishing information graphically is to illustrate how much of Moore’s work has been ignored, and viewing information by year and season, allows for contemplation about the evolution of Moore as poet through her poetry.
Marianne Moore's Work Published in The Tipyn O' Bob and The Lantern
(For a larger view, click here)
It is my hope that I as I continue my research with Moore, I will be able to fill more gaps in her early history. My ideal site (with more technical skills and resources) would analyze each of the poems as well as create different organizational clusters between and across the poems.
I look forward to your comments, interpretations and critiques as you read through the site.


Is cached data important?
Cached files on your Android phone or tablet can exist for the apps which you access or use, and it will exist for the websites you visit using your smartphone.
Since cached data is automatically created and it does not include any important data, wiping or clearing the cache for an app or a device is harmless..
What will I lose if I clear my cache?
While the cache can be cleared with little risk to app settings, preferences and saved states, clearing the app data will delete/remove these entirely. Clearing data resets an app to its default state: it makes your app act like when you first downloaded and installed it.
Why should I clear cache?
The app cache (and how to clear it) As you use applications, they start storing files to reference later. … This cache saves you time and data. But maybe you want to clear an app’s cached data, either to regain some used space or to try to fix a misbehaving app. This method is how you can do it.
Is clearing cache harmful?
Cache files are basically created to provide you smoother experience of browsing internet and navigating between apps by reducing the loading time. You can clear your cache memory any time. This will not cause any harm to your phone rather it would free your internal and external memory.
Will clearing cache delete pictures?
From Google search: By clearing cache, you remove the temporary files in the cache, but it WON’T delete your other app data like logins, settings, saved games, downloaded photos, conversations. So if you clear the cache of the Gallery or Camera app on your Android phone, you won’t lose any of your photos.
Does clearing cache improve performance?
The prime purpose is to improve the performance by reducing the data processing and fetching. With a sizeable amount of cache stored, the speed and performance of machine is hampered. Enhancing system and application performance is one of the benefits of clearing cache.


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Creative Nonfiction by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
There is a point when you have to let off the brakes for your own safety. Every action you must take is contrary to everything you’ve ever known about self-preservation. Careful can get you killed.
Speed up when a branch blocks the path in order to hit it head-on. Stand, instead of crouch, when feeling out of control descending a mountain. In order to have the power to push forward, pedal backward. And when conditions get too slippery, yield your control to Mother Nature’s design.
This is flexibility. This is freedom. This is mountain biking.
Turns out, this is also writing. A few years ago, the two converged for me and led to an unexpected discovery.
I had been a damn good basketball player in high school and continued to be involved with the sport working in my university’s basketball office and coaching at various levels after graduation. But because of this life-long dedication, my knees were shot. So, after having my second child, I was pretty miserable. In my head I was still an athlete, but my body was overweight and my energy was drained.
Additionally, my first novel manuscript had apparently also chosen a sedentary lifestyle without my consent. After years of near-miss publication, I was burned-out on pitching this passion project. By my mid-thirties, I began to wonder if it wasn’t time to just accept and settle on all fronts. I needed a change. I needed a new opportunity. I needed to start training again as both an athlete and a writer.
Coincidentally, my tribe, the Eastern Band of Cherokee, was building a world-class trail system for hiking and biking, Fire Mountain Trails, in my home of Cherokee, North Carolina. I had been the Executive Director at the Cherokee Preservation Foundation when the planning grant was funded by our organization. The whole concept of climbing mountains, especially on two wheels, seemed both impossible and intriguing.
So, I handed the basketball off to my sons and I let off the brakes. Almost simultaneously, I enrolled in a writing workshop called, “Get ‘er done. Write your novel,” shelved the first manuscript, and started renting a mountain bike from a local cycling shop.
In the process of learning to ride a mountain bike, I lost over 60lbs. I won races and gained strength. But more than anything, I met friends, life-changing friends, and I started seeing the world around me differently. I was writing a fresh new novel and learning a brand-new sport. Writing and riding became inextricably linked.
This confluence of paths, writing Even As We Breathe and becoming an avid mountain biker, put me in uncharted territory. I would become the first member of my tribe to publish a novel, so there were no comparative experiences to learn from, no advisers to call on without dialing long distance. The mountain biking world is sparsely populated by Native women and is notorious for having a “bro mentality.” When I began cycling, there were no other women from Cherokee who were riding consistently enough to mentor me. I cast broad nets in search for community with the hopes that I could one day help to build community on both fronts back home.
During this time, I returned to teaching English at Swain County High School and I rode with friends from work. These women were all older than me (in some cases, a couple of decades older than me) and all balanced children and careers. They consistently kicked my tail. On our rides, we had plenty of time for them to counsel me as I caught my breath. On one such summit, my friend asked me if I was able to think about writing when I rode. I assured her that all I could think about when I climbed was which was louder, my heartbeat or my breathing; but on descents and on levels paths, I could write in my head. We decided I would do that for the last leg of the ride. I did it a little too well, taking my sweet time catching up with them; but it worked. It gave me metaphor. It gave me a whole new writing process.
I started seeing the divots in a path and the way the woods look and feel different every season, sometimes every day. I gained insight from the curves of a mountain and rock patterns in a creek bed. And mind you, I ride the same trails over and over again. I am on a literal path, but the end is not the objective and my personal ride time is not the purpose. I have become more human when caked in mud and laughing with friends as I slip my way down a path in a race to beat the lightning.
I become more human when I meet a rider who has battled cancer and makes no excuses for climbing slow. I am more human when I race with my former student and cheer him on to victory while he cheers me on as well. And writing is nothing if not an exploration of humanity.
When you go on group rides, it is always fun to follow a rider who is better than you. You literally follow their line–as if on that tight rope. You are so close to their back tire that you can’t necessarily see the trail before you the way they can. But you can see the line they take. You can see how they swerve to miss a loose rock or hit a fallen limb straight on without braking. You are propelled into their high lean on a berm or know when to lift from the seat for a descent.
You are watching the rider more than the trail itself. Your body becomes an extension of theirs. And you learn from that. Your body adopts it. It is spellbinding. Perhaps you are even leading the group ride the next time. This is what literary characters can do for you. Take you on a group ride of sorts. Show you their lines.
Consequently, this is the elasticity of empathy and why we write. We provide experiences that give readers insight into the life lines of others.
Yes, I have a whole list of examples to complete this literary conceit. And it is a cheesy one. Super cheesy. But then again, I did take a workshop titled “Get ‘er done,” so it should be expected.
Both practices, writing and riding, taught me the value of surrounding yourself with experts. Whether they be literary mentors and teachers or more skilled riders, we cannot learn in isolation. We will never know our own potential if we do not study the skill of others. And when you do find these exceptional teachers and allies, close your mouth and listen. On a ride, if my mouth is agape, I am going to run out of breath and swallow bugs. If I spend too much time listening to my own self-talk when working craft, I am going to do something very similar.
There is an inherent vulnerability in both riding and writing. So, it is always a good idea to tell someone where you are going. They don’t have to know every turn, but it keeps us from getting lost in the woods for too long. Sometimes it keeps us from giving up too early, afraid of the difficulty ahead.
Pain is inevitable. Wear your scars like a badge of honor. Rejections make great stories. Your ass will be sore at first, but with a little cushion and time (maybe some adapted numbness), you will adjust.
Sometimes you have to tweak your saddle to get a better perspective on what lies ahead. This can mean taking a completely different approach to a topic or considering another voice to the tell the story. What works on one ride doesn’t always work on the next. In a similar fashion, don’t be afraid to explore new trails, new genres. Change gears as needed, not as prescribed. Only you know when you need a different level of resistance.
Most importantly, I have learned the value in being willing to support others and teach so that the community will grow. It will make you a better rider and writer. It will remind you of skills that may have become dulled over time and light that flame that may be merely smoldering.
Getting deep into the work is like getting deep into the woods. It requires you to linger when otherwise the tendency is to simply pass through as quickly as possible. We can bring these extended experiences to our readers by imparting the physicality of a reading experience. We ask to readers to climb with us, but finding a rhythm for them is just as crucial as finding a riding rhythm. No one wants to climb without respite or the promise of an exhilarating descent. And if the descent is too long and too intense, your hands will cramp from squeezing the brake. Squeeze for too long and you’ll careen out of control.
This attention to motion becomes a landscape for literary structure, but also informs line crafting. I love to work a single line over and over in my head as the wheels of my bike turn. It connects the rhythm of the landscape with the rhythm of the words that will eventually be penned to paper. Because it is impossible to write these notes while riding, I am forced to hold the words, the syntax, and repeat the rhythm with each rotation of my tires so I don’t forget them. In doing so, I polish the words until smooth.
I no longer travel to writing retreats without my bike. It has saved me from a blank page more times than I can count. However, a bike is not the only tool capable of connecting the writer with physicality. I know writers who run or play tennis or hike or practice yoga or hunt or fish.
Mostly, I know writers who laugh together—who build community around a metaphorical campfire. They tell stories that leave my stomach aching in amusement. My throat grows sore from long nights of porch-sitting story-exchanges. After only an hour of discussions, my head is heavy with new understanding. A gathering of writers is a bonfire of energy that melds community together. While it may not be Fire Mountain, it is a mountain of fire.
And when I really think about, I believe that is why mountain biking at Fire Mountain has become a craft workshop for me. It’s a forged relationship with place and how that place has made its people. It may be a combustible relationship at times, but one that always gives light to hidden stories.
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, resides in Qualla, NC. She holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. Her debut novel, Even As We Breathe (UPK 2020), was a finalist for the Weatherford Award, named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020, and received the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award (2021). It also is the first novel published by a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee. Clapsaddle’s work appears in Yes! Magazine, Lit Hub, Our State Magazine, and The Atlantic. She teaches secondary English and Cherokee Studies, is an editor for the Appalachian Futures Series (UPK), and serves on the board of trustees for the North Carolina Writers Network.