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Experiential Time in Some Modern Poetry
Experiential or lived time (A-series time) can be many things. Gertrude Stein claims, in her 1935 Narration lectures, that experiential time is a plenum: all experiential time is full of vivid experience, if one is alert to perceive it. Stein, however, then poses a problem of narration that seems to obstruct poetic access to this vivid plenum. Bernadette Mayer and Lisa Jarnot take up Stein’s challenge with time-defined and time-filling poetic writing processes. Much like children, these processes can come to have their own experiential times.
time; experiential time; Lisa Jarnot; Bernadette Mayer; Gertrude Stein; Alfred North Whitehead
Poets are metaphysicians. Poets do not merely use the metaphysics developed by philosophers; poets work this out for their own purposes in their own ways. That is the general thesis behind this essay, although this essay is confined to the work of a specific lineage of poets concerning the metaphysics of time.
Gertrude Stein’s methods are radical and precise. For Stein, anything can be named and addressed in its particularity, just as it is. So, anything can be in a poem. As she says in Tender Buttons:
A measure is that which put up so that it shows the length has a steel construction. Tidiness is not delicacy, it does not destroy the whole piece, certainly not it has been measured and nothing has been cut off and even if that has been lost there is a name, no name is signed and left over, not any space is fitted so that moving about it is plentiful.
Nothing is left out or cut off, even if it has been lost. Space is not confined. Stein’s rigorous measure has a “steel construction,” and its tidiness is not merely a matter of having delicate taste. Instead, Stein is driven by a firm sense of correctness with which to address things, so she enjoins us, in a famous passage, to “show the choice” by which the poetic construction proceeds:
Dance a clean dream and an extravagant turn up, secure the steady rights and translate more than translate the authority, show the choice and make no more mistakes than yesterday.
In this rigorously constructive mode, Stein poses a basic problem about the metaphysics of time ,in her 1935 Narration lectures, because it arises while writing any narrative. According to Stein, it turns out that no narrative can be true or correct. Next, Bernadette Mayer responds directly to Stein’s problem of narration, in her 1971 project, Memory. Mayer’s methods are as radical as Stein’s, and Mayer’s extremely intensive writing process entails some risk to herself. Then, Lisa Jarnot brings this lineage to the present in her 2019 A Princess Magic Presto Spell, in which the risks of Mayer’s type of writing process are controlled by carrying out the process in small increments spread out over a long time, allowing an emergent consciousness in the poem itself to come into view, alongside that of Jarnot herself and that of her daughter.
2. Stein’s experiential time
The problem Stein wants to solve in her 1935 Narration lectures is how it is possible to speak or write vividly in narration. She first defines knowledge and truth. For Stein, ‘knowledge’ is a state of “immediate existing,” in which “in knowing anything you know it as you know it, you know it at the time that you are knowing it.” Stein is talking about the qualitative immediacy of the present. Stein pairs this concept of knowledge with an experiential or idealist concept of truth, according to which language is correct or succeeds when “it tell[s] something in the way that makes it feel that something is what that thing is.” She uses an amusing example to illustrate the fact that our experience can be vividly full, even when nothing appears to happen. During World War I, when American soldiers arrived in France, French people would do nothing but watch “the American soldiers standing, standing and doing nothing standing for a long time not even talking but just standing and being watched by the whole French population.” Her example shows how “impressive” an experience can be, even though no action worth mentioning occurs. If this experience was vividly full for these French people, then it must have significance.
In terms of the metaphysics of time, Stein’s view of knowledge and truth is “presentist,” affirming that only the present is fully real. This is a variety of A-series time, according to which tense is a real qualitative property of events. The events that are present are continually changing. Likewise, change or time-passage is another general characteristic of A-series time. A-series time is the time of experience, action, and suffering. In contrast, B-series time is the time of physical explanation. B-series time is a relation between events, such that an event is either before, after, or simultaneous with another event. This relation does not undergo change. What matters for physics are quantitatively measurable intervals among events that are before, after, or simultaneous with each other; and physical time is the main example of B-series time. The equations of physics accordingly have no tense.
Moreover, according to Stein’s view of knowledge, “at no time of knowing is there anything but knowing that thing the thing you know.” That is, for every time, there is an experience. Stein thus postulates a map from time to experience, such that experiential time is full of experience. For Stein, A-series time is a vivid plenum of experience, even if nothing seems to happen, as exemplified by the French people’s experience watching American soldiers while apparently nothing happened.
A map from B-series times to physical events would be a physical plenum, perhaps real if we think of the cosmic background radiation or gravity as filling space-time. But the point of Einstein’s 1905 Special Relativity paper is to define a map going in the opposite direction. Instead of a map from time to events, Einstein defines a map from events to times. A relation of simultaneity is defined between events in relative motion, which then extends to a relation between events before and after each other, consistent with physical facts, especially the constancy of the velocity of light in a vacuum. These B-series time relations between events in relativity theory depend on the trajectories of relative motion and so are not unique, contrary to prior assumptions, including Kant’s.
But Einstein’s map is still from events to times, rather than Stein’s map from times to events. For Kant, the map from experiences to times was necessary for objectivity; experience that was not organized by the objective synthesis of time “would not be knowledge, but a rhapsody of perceptions that would not fit into any context according to rules of a completely interconnected (possible) consciousness.” Yet such rhapsodic perceptions are just part of what fills Stein’s plenum of experiential A-series time. Stein’s vivid plenum of experience, however, is not a mere “rhapsody of perceptions,” but instead an exploratory and constructive process. Stein’s modernism thus aligns with the post-Kantian romantic embrace of increasingly diverse experiential content, including very particular, inward, extreme, alienated, abrupt, or mad (as in “mad pride”) experiences.
3. Stein’s problem of narration
Gertrude Stein’s “Lecture 3” of her four 1935 lectures in Narration critiques the time expressed in ordinary narration. She disputes the putative temporal immediacy of newspaper reports and headlines. Suppose we consider the proverbial headline, “Man Bites Dog.” This might seem to state something in the immediately present ‘now,’ but it does not. When anyone reads that headline, the event is already over. The newspaper headline started with an occurrence that was “existing” in an experiential now having the “quality of ending or beginning.” The newspaper headline converted that immediacy into an event or “happening” (in contrast with “existing” in Stein’s terms), and “it is a fact like any other and having been done it is for the purposes of memory a thing having no vitality.”
Stein argues that the newspaper headline is false according to her concept of truth, and narratives in newspapers and many other kinds of writing are false. It does not “tell something in that way that makes it feel that that something is what that thing is.” Instead, the fake immediacy of the headline serves to “deceive the reader into feeling that yesterday is to-day.” If yesterday is today, then today is tomorrow and the same for all days. Then change is unreal, “nothing must ever be changing.” Also, and in the same way, historical writing is merely soothing repetition. Stein thus presents a sharp critique of ordinary narration as confusing past with present, thereby obliterating the vividness of the present.
Stein’s “Lecture 2” of Narration follows her “Poetry and Grammar” in Lectures in America, by explaining poetry as a language of nouns and prose as a language of sentences and paragraphs. Stein considers a borderline example to illustrate the distinction. “Let’s make our flour meal and meat in Georgia,” which she saw on a billboard from a train, might be “moving in any direction.” As poetry, this could be a line in a song of praise for the agricultural god of Georgia, and so addressing or calling out to that god. As prose, this could be part of a plan, or else a statement advertising the fact that such products are available. A language of nouns can be correct or not, as Stein says: “A name is adequate or it is not.”
Aside: Stein is not making any logical error here by extending truth from sentences to a language composed mostly or entirely of nouns. An expression of elementary arithmetic, such as “2 + 3 = 5,” consists of two nouns, “5” and the complex noun “2 + 3.” By equating these, we say these refer to the same thing. One could replace the equals sign by a rule of substitution, and instead say merely “2 + 3” followed by “5,” which would be correct in that narrowly restricted language.
Poetry, then, aims to call things by their adequate names, as in “how you talk to anything whose name is new to you a lover a baby or a dog or a new land or any part of it.” This correctness can fade as feelings, things, and their names change. The vividness by which a lover calls a love-name to a beloved can easily be lost; then we would have lost the thread of truth in Stein’s sense. In response, Stein aims to replace nouns by “the thing itself,” whereby “it was eventually to be poetry and not prose which would have to deal with everything that was not movement in space.” Addressing is the point, not the words as such. Tender Buttons begins that project, and Stanzas in Meditation is its culmination.
Stein, then, affirms the authoritative truth of poetry, but remains troubled by narration. How to narrate without deceptively converting vivid existence into merely completed facts? In “Lecture 4” of Narration, Stein proceeds to consider the question of the audience, the answer to which might possibly provide a solution to the problem of narration. In particular, letters and lectures have definite addressees, and therefore have a poetic element of direct address. To achieve a vivid immediacy, the writer’s experiential plenum somehow needs to merge with that of the audience. Stein says, “What makes writing writing is hearing what an audience is that is to say makes recognition while in the act of writing what he is writing.” Stein emphasizes how difficult this is, and that a writer is a ”genius” who is continually listening while simultaneously telling. A telling that achieves an experiential merger between the ceaseless changes in the particular present now for both audience and writer would achieve the vivid immediacy that Stein regards as truth.
4. Mayer’s Memory
In the same way that she criticizes newspaper reports, Stein also says, “Remembering is repetition anybody can know that.” The context is that Stein is talking about the problems of how to portray people without implying that anyone is merely an instance of a preconceived concept. In objective time, one thinks of people, or anything, as embedded in time; time is a master concept into which every changing thing fits, but Stein abjures this view. Stein’s deprecation of remembering, however, presents a deep problem about time, language, and consciousness. How can one, with full truth in Stein’s sense, remember anything? If experiential time really is what we think it is, we should be able to talk directly about a qualitatively distinct “now” and “then,” without theoretical abstractions or other loss of immediacy. Bernadette Mayer takes up this problem in 1971, with her monumental project, Memory. Mayer remarked a few years later that Stein “wasn’t indulgent enough” in considering the full variety of memory and ways of writing. If it is possible to say what something is, and to call it lovingly by its right name, which Stein did not doubt, then the real problem of memory is the inclusion or selection of what to say.
Mayer’s early work is in the intersection of conceptual art and experimental poetry in late-1960s New York City. In 1967-1969, she co-edited a small magazine, 0 To 9, with Vito Acconci. This magazine bridged the art and poetry communities by publishing work both by conceptual artists, including, among others, Adrian Piper, Robert Smithson, and Sol LeWitt, and by experimental writers, including Hannah Weiner, Ted Berrigan, Jackson Mac Low, and Clark Coolidge, and others. Mayer’s experimentalism is not just about works as processes or objects distinct from her life and mind. Instead, she uses herself as an experimental test case. In a later interview, Mayer said:
… I’ve always used myself – as a person – as an example. That’s how I write. I have an example of the emotions and other feelings humans have in the twenty-first century … (laughs). Uh, anarchists, left-wing humans not many of us, right? But yeah, I’ve always very rigorously used myself as an example because that’s what I have available to me. And for free, right?
In the interview, Mayer next explained that this idea first occurred to her from reading books by countercultural biologist John Lilly, who had a “very rigorous attitude towards experimentation with himself.”
Mayer solves Stein’s problem of remembering in Stein’s own terms, using the poetic authority of addressing or calling. Memories occur in thought, then other things occur, each qualitatively distinct and none interchangeable. Repetition is never a problem. In language, something comes first and other things follow: “the things that dont get called they come last if there’s time if there’s time, you missed it you threw it that’s an echo that comes last.” Mayer analyzes the problem of order in experience as being about selection. Sometimes, an initial order set up for some experiences continues to work for new experience. “But if that does not happen, if the order or design that’s set up for the original experience doesnt prove workable when the volume of it is increased, … then we have two alternatives: we can reject the new stuff, orange pen, or we can change the order or design, orange pen: …” This sentence continues, like others throughout the book, by expanding to fill experiential time:
washed hair here, rampage, heavy air here, talked to anne & m is still pissed offf about videotapes & now peter too as well & larry & gertrude & harris her going to the coast & grandfather’s state terrible nothing right nothing wrong, a kidney infection jaundice dehydration oxygen intravenous feeding hardening of the arteries, can you break this seal break this seal his first movie in the english language, grace is in the country with the magician’s children: the arsonist a hit & run, I saw it all at once tonight that words are leading me on, the one in imagination, saw, in leaks in indian leaks somehow, I can erase I can modify I pick up, least it’s not a nautical sleep affinity for words like genet some flow to stretch, stretch out & pull in, to masturbate: & it is in honor of these crimes that I am writing this book & so on, not a use or function like v, perform a service, work words into a system, words put into a system, it’s some play, some death, nautical, at sea with them & I started to write that, what’s put in, watts, what’s put in creating problems, everyone expects a rearrangement to suit not to suit, expect spectrum: yellow but the sun is pure white, a little lemon in it, I was holding them on, those games, jokes all the time, nothing to do with time, what can a diary be not a reconstruction, something put in, use the time, pass it, stain it, pass it, it’s stained, it’s magnified, it sticks, it sticks in my mind & my hand always hurts always hurts still does when I write in this book: book, took three rolls to be developed into seen.
Mayer’s run-on sentence starts with her talking about the problem of composition as choice and ends up talking about how the appearance of light is added up from the component light in the spectrum. Mayer says the sun is yellow (on a cloudless day, one supposes), even though sunlight in the visible spectrum adds up to white, but both the yellow sun and white light are part of a process that fills time.
Full experiential time has everything in it. A diary need not be a reconstruction, but it can be an original construction of a pattern of experience, since we are always constructing such patterns anyway. Later, Mayer described the Memory project:
if a human, a writer, could come up with a workable code, or shorthand, for the transcription of every event, every motion, every transition of his or her own mind, & could perform this process of translation on himself, using the code, for a 24-hour period, he or we or someone could come up with a great piece of language/information.
Mayer solves Stein’s problem of the loss of immediacy by making herself into an observing instrument. She assists herself by keeping a journal and by taking photographs. Then Mayer’s writing process generates a time filled with experiences leaving no gaps. The aim was not just to transcribe data, however, although the all-encompassing character of this project can make it seem that way. The project defines an operation or process that the writer applies to himself or herself. The aim was “to find a structure for MEMORY” and to “find out what memory is.” The aim is any pattern of significance that would reveal itself as the outcome of applying the process to oneself.
After a month of the Memory project in July 1971, Mayer felt that she was going crazy (“go on going crazy”), but that this self-transformation was itself worth pursuing. “I thought why not go over that brink & see what’s there.” This conscious self-transformation, then, continues in Mayer’s Studying Hunger Journals project, in which she kept journals to share with a psychoanalyst. Mayer turned her own mind into a demolition and construction site, with new building materials arriving all the time.
Mayer’s projects solve Stein’s problem of temporal immediacy in narrative. An immediate truth occurs in the recording of events, rather than remembering them. Mayer’s recording of events generates memory. These events rise to the level of consciousness, even if they are dreams or anything initially subconscious. A structure for memory arises in bringing these to consciousness. These events have significance for Mayer as episodes of her conscious life, and thus they constitute her self-consciousness of having been there and done that.
One interpretation of Mayer’s projects involves psychologist Endel Tulving’s concept of “episodic memory,” which he developed around the same time as Mayer was writing Memory and Studying Hunger Journals. Tulving argues that self-consciousness arises through memory of events as one experiences them, which he calls “episodic memory,” in contrast with factual memory. He describes a motorcycle accident victim who retained his factual memory about his own life after the accident but lost his sense of these being his own memories of events as he experienced them. As a result, the accident victim also lost his sense of subjective time as his own past, present, and future. In this light, Mayer’s projects are exercises in heightening her self-consciousness by deliberately building episodic memories. Mayer’s Memory project may have overloaded the process of creating episodic memory, which made her feel like she was going crazy.
5. Jarnot’s entities and their times
Lisa Jarnot’s (2019) Princess Magic Presto Spell project is comparable to Mayer’s Memory in that both are time-defined and time-filling processes of recording. Jarnot’s process, however, is much slower and more deliberate, devoting ten years to write one poem, starting in 2009 with the birth of her daughter. Motherhood changed Jarnot’s life, so that writing three words per day, when possible, had become a reasonable and “modest” goal. The effects of the writing process on Jarnot’s life were not as much of a shock or disturbance as Mayer’s experiments on hers. The effect on Jarnot and on her readers lingers, however.
Jarnot’s poetry frequently jumps or hovers between selves that seem to divide and appear beside themselves. Her poem, “The Bridge,” is a good example. The first person of that poem experiences a kiss, despite not being there. The first person metamorphoses into Thucydides, who famously said he wrote the truth for all time, but who appears in the poem as a child wandering in an American exurban landscape of shopping malls and abandoned barns, somewhere “near the ocean.”
A Magic Princess Presto Spell starts with nouns and the Steinian authority of poetic truth, calling first, “Into the eve of a picnic of trees of the Strawberry Rugelet Rabbit Tyrone.” The preposition, “into,” prefixes this first address, so we are not only addressing but also entering. “Strawberry Rugulet Rabbit Tyrone” is a way of addressing Jarnot’s daughter, whose birth brought the book project into existence. This must be a goofy singsong chant by which Jarnot’s words entered her newborn daughter’s mind. Thus, at that moment, the poem begins with a way of sharing minds between Jarnot and her daughter. At that moment, the poem is this identity-bond between Jarnot and daughter in the mother’s chant. We know that this identity must eventually dissipate, as Jarnot’s daughter gradually attains her own separate self-consciousness. In any case, the poem is not the poet.
That first address is soon over, and the second line enters into a distinct moment, a distinct present now: “into a glazed economic disturbance caused by the rain most dramatic and strange.” The first now has immediately vanished. A new now has replaced the first.
If we applied a common-sense ontology, then there are three distinct things: the poet, the words, and the daughter. We would say, “The poet says words to the daughter.” By saying that, however, we would lapse into the error Stein diagnosed in newspapers. So we shall not do that. Instead, we shall attend to the addressing itself, as Stein did when proposing a pure poetry in which “the thing itself” replaces the nouns.
A Princess Magic Presto Spell does not narrate in the way Stein deprecates. Instead, Jarnot follows Mayer’s example by adhering to the process of constructing the poem, which is also a process of constructing consciousness. This construction is not hypothetical. Jarnot attained a mother-daughter bond in that silly phrase, “Strawberry Rugulet Rabbit Tyrone.” Then, the daughter’s consciousness grows through the poem. We encounter her “first k sound” at the beginning of her second year, followed by early words, “milk, apple, cracker,” and then early sentences, “catch it! stop it! go there! I want to do that.” Meanwhile, goofy singsong breaks, “mango turkey boobie” and “silly gilly gumball,” as well as “Strawberry Rugulet Rabbit Tyrone,” align the poet, the poem, and the daughter with the same rhythm and the same present now: identical consciousness at that moment. These identities between Jarnot’s, her daughter’s, and the poem’s senses of a present now are fleeting, however. With Jarnot’s daughter’s fourth year, there is “Not a coming into/ but a going out of.” Her daughter’s mind has begun to separate itself to make its own way. Her own stories start to appear, along with complete sentences.
Mayer’s constructive processes heightened her self-consciousness, writing perhaps too much, too fast. Jarnot’s is much, much slower. But not only that. By writing only three words a day, the writing process becomes so slow that time consciousness in the writing departs from Jarnot’s own time consciousness. The poem cannot exist just in Jarnot’s mind. Jarnot’s method of writing three words per day for ten years implies that she does not keep the poem enclosed in her mind. The poem is fragmentary and not a patterned unity that might be remembered in detail. Yet it has the unity of a succession of now-moments, laid down like geological sedimentary strata or successive tree rings. Whatever kind of thing the poem is, it has something other than any sort of unity human consciousness might have: Jarnot cannot possibly remember its contents or the process of writing it over ten years; the process was not that of remembering. The directness or directedness of Jarnot’s authorship dissipates over the course of the writing process, like a mist that lifts, leaving something like the pure poetry of addressing that Stein sought.
Yet, there is direct address in A Princess Magic Presto Spell; its first and most important addressee is her daughter. The writing process primarily addresses her. That address initiates the poem and sustains it. It addresses the readers indirectly. It would seem that something that talks to us is conscious in some way, or very like a conscious entity. So, in some sense, the writing process itself attains something like its own rights, or something like consciousness.
6. Whitehead’s actual entities
How precisely the writing process, or the poem, is conscious requires some strange metaphysics. Stein’s friend, philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, provides a metaphysical framework for stating how this might happen. Whitehead’s metaphysics, in Process and Reality, supports the claim that A-series time is real, and that experience as having tense – past, present, and future – is real, and so there is something false in converting this experience into a time lacking such qualities. Whitehead views the objective time and space of physics as a hypothesis, rather than basic reality. He insists, “[I]n every act of becoming there is the becoming of something with temporal extension.” Hence, time is a plenum.
For Whitehead, reality consists entirely of atoms of experience (“actual entities”). Each atom is an indivisible “This happening here now.” Each atomic experience has duration and is not an abstract point of time. In this kind of unit, experience generalizes in such a way that a bacterium has experience (“prehension”) by its chemical metabolism with its environment, not only human or animal minds. Hence, time is full of experience.
Whitehead’s metaphysics has the remarkable consequence that every form is “organic form” by default. This is because each atom of experience is a unity (“concrescence”) of relatedness with other things. Any actual entity undergoes self-realization by successive concrescences. Organic unity is a relationship between a whole and all of its parts. Kant, for instance, defines organic unity: “An organized product of nature is one in which everything is a purpose and reciprocally also a means.” In Whitehead’s metaphysics, things never have parts that fail to fit together into organic wholes, because every actual entity is atomic and has no parts. It is vacuously true that each experiential atom is an organic unity. The unity exists by default in any present moment of experience. No wonder Charles Olson and Robert Duncan were inspired by Whitehead’s metaphysics, which underwrites the authority of the present moment of experience.
Whitehead’s metaphysics of experience might seem far-fetched. One can discuss and debate the reality of tense, and Stein’s claim that denying that reality is false, without bringing up Whitehead’s process philosophy. (Whitehead is not influential in academic philosophical debate over the metaphysics of time.) Yet Whitehead’s view has another consequence of interest to any poet. If a bacterium can have experiences in Whitehead’s sense as “prehensions,” then why not a writing process or a poem? If so, then the process of writing A Princess Magic Presto Spell, amoeba-like, experiences the things it absorbs, engulfing each. Each datum swims briefly into “presentational immediacy,” as Whitehead calls the simple mode of experience by which any “actual entity” realizes itself. Moreover, if a writing process can have experiences, should it therefore have rights? The idea that a poem has rights goes back to the beginning of romanticism, with Friedrich Schlegel’s claim that poetry is “a speech which is its own law and end unto itself,” with the rights of a free citizen of the realm of art. Further, Schlegel argues, “Poetry can only be criticized by way of poetry. A critical judgment of an artistic production has no civil rights in the realm of art if it isn’t itself a work of art .…” Schlegel’s romantic idealism might be taken in an elitist direction, but it need not be. It is more usual today to expand the notion of “artistic production” in a democratic way. Warhol’s work, among many others’, exemplifies democratized artistic creation.
7. A Princess Magic Presto Spell as actual entity
One puzzle about open form in poetry is how it should conclude or end. Since an open form can grow forever, does it end only when a poet collapses in exhaustion – or dies? If so, then the poem would exist as a unity primarily in relation to the poet, or to her mind, as the topic of her thoughts and creative activity. Yet, Jarnot’s method of writing three words per day for ten years implies that she does not keep the poem enclosed in her mind.
A solution to the puzzle of how open forms can conclude or end has to say that it does not matter. Pound worried about closure in his Cantos, but we do not. Our expectations as readers are mistaken if we demand a special flourish, such as a rhyming closure or rhythmic call and response, to mark the culmination of a poem. Then, however, how is a poem to exist as an entity without such special flourishes to mark its unity? There needs to be something in its method of construction such that the poem is continually realizing its own internal nature. Jarnot’s method of writing three words per day is enough for it to achieve “concrescence” through its geological sedimentary method.
The simplest way that A Princess Magic Presto Spell is an “actual entity” of its own is that the writing process defines its own time internal to the poem. Over the duration of ten human years of jotting down words, and then editing and culling, the writing process grows apart from whatever perception of time that the poet or readers would experience on our own. Too many words have grown up between us for any one mind to hold them all together; we have to accept and respect that, somehow. That brings us to the result of the writing process: the poem itself.
In its sixth year, the poem presents a block of text in which events overlap in a confusion, verging on simultaneity. Then, in the seventh year, the poem enters a new world, “teeming with life.” A Princess Magic Presto Spell shares this world with “roaches, fruit flies, ants, hairballs, ringworm, fleas,” and people coexisting with all of them. This world has public facts, like “global liquidity funds” and deaths of famous people. This world has both private and public meanings: “for ‘Hopkinesque’ read ‘urinalysis.'” Finally, the ninth year begins with a surreal yet coherent complete declarative sentence:
Dust and spirit
at the Erie County Fair
Complete declarative sentences bring the poem into a world of objects, such as a cat, which can have attributes, such as that of being dead. Complete thoughts only gradually emerge in the poem; their full emergence marks the conclusion of the poem. For Whitehead, objectification of aspects of actual experience defines their being in the past. Such objects can exist in the shared hypothesis of objective time. The time of the poem is no longer exclusively experiential time. The writing process of A Princess Magic Presto Spell concludes by resulting in the product of that process. This product is the poem as it is on a page and bound in a book. The completion of a process can be a metamorphosis akin to something dying and decomposing, but also similar to a human growing up. Either way, the writing is done and the poem has become something for a reader to read.
For Whitehead, it remains unresolved whether distinct actual entities can share the same time sequence or whether any one mind has a single unified time sequence. In A Princess Magic Presto Spell, a shared time sequence coincides with Jarnot’s daughter’s earliest years. Yet as the writing process and Jarnot’s daughter grow up, Jarnot’s daughter and the writing process as “actual entity” split off from each other and grow apart. The process addresses and embraces Jarnot’s daughter, and as it nears its conclusion, she can experience the poem. They experience each other in a community, along with the poet. Their experiences are distinct. The poem is more receptive in embrace of relations with other things, all at once or in quick succession, than any human could be. The poem embraces the separateness of human minds, and it embraces its own separateness from human minds.
This essay began by considering two maps, one from all objective mental contents to one kind of time, and another from all times to mental contents. The map from all times to mental contents requires a time that is full of content. A writing process that achieves this plenum acquires a sort of life of its own. We need not interpret this emergence as irrational, or even as asserting the validity of one’s own experience, although it is the latter. It is also a rational process of departure and exploration, of trying and possibly succeeding in finding something.
This essay, with gratitude, is for Lisa Jarnot. The author also thanks the editor and reviewers of Contemporary Aesthetics.
Aaron Lercher is a librarian at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. He earned a doctorate in philosophy at SUNY Buffalo. His publications are mostly in environmental ethics and information science, with another forthcoming in logic.
Published on October 31, 2023.
Cite this article: Aaron Lercher, “Experiential Time in Some Modern Poetry,” Contemporary Aesthetics, Volume 21 (2023), accessed date.
 Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons, (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1991), pp. 68-69.
 Stein, Tender Buttons, p. 76.
 Gertrude Stein, Narration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935), p. 20.
 Ibid., p. 31.
 Ibid., p. 19.
 Ibid., p. 21.
 Albert Einstein, Relativity: the Special and the General Theory, trans. Robert W. Lawson, Fifteenth, enlarged edition (London: Routledge, 2001), p. 156: ”On the basis of the general theory of relativity, on the other hand, space as opposed to ’what fills space,’ which is dependent on the co-ordinates, has no separate existence.”
 Einstein, Relativity, p. 25: ”In this manner a time-value is associated with every event which is essentially capable of observation.”
 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Norman Kemp Smith (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1929), B275-279.
 Stein, Narration, p. 42.
 Ibid., p. 42.
 Ibid., p. 31.
 Ibid., p. 37.
 Ibid., p. 43.
 Ibid., p. 58.
 Gertrude Stein, Lectures in America (New York: Random House, 1935).
 Stein, Narration, p. 28.
 Stein, Lectures, p. 210.
 Ibid., p. 234.
 Ibid., pp. 245-246.
 Stein, Narration, p. 56.
 Stein, Lectures, p. 170; Stein Narration, p. 34.
 Stein, Lectures, p. 178.
 Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh. Piece of Cake (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 2020), p. 93.
 Kate Shapira and Deborah Poe, “A conversation with Bernadette Mayer,” Denver Quarterly 46(1) (Winter 2011), p. 76
 Bernadette Mayer, Memory (Catskill, NY: Siglio Press, 2020), p. 91.
 Ibid., p. 142.
 Ibid., pp. 142-143.
 Bernadette Mayer, Studying Hunger Journals (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 2011), p. 2.
 Mayer, Studying Hunger, p. 3.
 Mayer, Memory, p. 271.
 Mayer, Studying Hunger, p. 1.
 Endel Tulving, “Memory and Consciousness,” Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadiene, (1985) 26: 1-12.
 Lisa Jarnot, A Princess Magic Presto Spell (Chicago: Flood Editions, 2019).
 Jarnot, Princess, p. 63.
 Lisa Jarnot, Ring of Fire (Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2003), pp. 5-6.
 Jarnot, Princess, p. 3.
 Ibid., pp. 11-15.
 Ibid., p. 25.
 Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, edited by David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne (New York: Free Press, 1978), p. 69.
 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner S. Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett), Ak V, 376.
 Friedrich Schlegel, Critical Fragments, Number 65, in Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics, edited by J. M. Bernstein (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 239-245.
 Schlegel, Critical Fragments, Number 117.
 Jarnot, Princess, p. 43.
 Ibid., p. 59.
 Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 123.
 Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957), p. 73.

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I read a post about rawhide alternatives and saw that lots of people had suggested raw bones. I went to the grocery store and asked where to get those. The deli guy suggested frozen soup bones. They're pretty big beef bones. Wondering if anyone has ever given those to their beagey and if they're safe.
There are lots of great raw bones you can give your dogs, with lots of benefits to their health - being carnivores, dogs are designed to eat raw meat and bones and they actually digest it more easily than processed food like kibble.
My dogs eat raw bones every day, some of the ones they get include:
- chicken wings, necks and frames (or drumsticks if they are lucky!)
- cow necks
- turkey necks (if you can get them)
- lamb flaps
- and for a special treat, lamb shanks
I have even fed them osso bucco, which are veal shanks. I can get them very cheaply at my local supermarket when they are due to expire in the day or two - I give them to the dogs that night or the next morning and they love them!
Brisket bones which are like soup bones are ok, but I rarely feed them because I like my dogs to get a nice portion of bone and meat to eat. They give the dog a bit of marrow and a lot to chew, but aren't so much a meal as the other types of bones you can give them.
I feed the raw soup bones and marrow bones to our dogs about 4-5 times per year. They love them and do well with them. If I give them ones that are too large though they can get the runs a little from them.
You can actually take the packaged soup bones over to the butcher and ask them to cut them smaller for you or see if they have some bones in the back that they can cut to the size you want. Our butcher (supermarket) asks how big you want them and cuts them perfectly for us. Don't be afraid to ask. They have the saws to do it with ease unlike us common folks.
When the dogs have chewed them down small I pick them up and throw them away for fear that they will swallow a piece too large to handle if you know what I mean.
Wow, that picture of the dog with the bone stuck on it's jaw is scary!!! I gave one to Squeegee and he ate the soft tissue on the outside and in the middle and can't seem to do anything with the marrow or the bone. It's been sitting out for a day now... wonder if I should trow it away. Are they ok after they sit out for a while?
I give snoopy raw buffalo knuckle bones as a treat.
she LOVES them.. she gets very protective of them so i have to be very strict. she is NOT allowed to growl if i try to take it away or come near her, if she does, i take it away.
to take it away from her, i leave her leash attached and pull up on it while giving her the leave it command. this, i find, is better than just sticking my hand in and grabbing it away from her.
I also found that if i let her chew and eat the WHOLE knuckle bone at once, her stools get loose. I think because she wasn't used to it at first and it was a little rich for her... but now i just let her chew about 1/2 of it at a time and she's fine. I've also started giving snoopy raw steak (the cheap cut kind!) for dinner as her kibble was making her poop too much i thought. on that diet, she eats less and goes to the washroom half as much, so it's worth it! and she is ONE HAPPY BEAGLEY PUP!!!

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How the Soviet Union came to an end in 1991, after its nearly seventy year existence, is a process and event still mired in controversy and debate. Historians, politicians, citizens of the post-Soviet world and beyond understand this epochal event in drastically different ways - was it the result of internal contradictions of the Soviet system? Did pressure from the capitalist world force the USSR into an arms race that led to economic ruin? Was the Soviet Union consciously dismembered by elites from the national republics? Did Gorbachev undermine his own political goals or was the rise of Boris Yeltsin to blame for the failures of perestroika and glasnost? Did the West, and principally the United States, actively push the USSR towards collapse or earnestly try to save it at the last moment? Or both?
And what does all of this mean for post-Soviet Georgia? Former First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party Eduard Shevardnadze was at the center of it all as the final Foreign Minister of the USSR, only to return to Georgia and become president of the country in 1995. His unique role in the process of the USSR’s collapse, along with the close connections in the West he made along the way directly influenced the trajectory of nation building in post-Soviet Georgia.
On today’s episode, Sopo Japaridze, Beka Natsvlishvili and Bryan Gigantino discuss all of this and more with historian Vladislav Zubok author of the book Collapse: the Fall of the Soviet Union .


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text: Vegetables high in nitrates are also high in antioxidants — which neutralize free radicals depleting NO in the bloodstream. For access to exclusive gear videos, celebrity interviews, and more, subscribe on YouTube! Nitrates may also affect the way your body uses sugar, making you more likely to develop diabetes. Beets also decrease blood stickiness. Check out Heart Beet by The Drs. It’s possible that nitrates, upon forming nitrosamines, may affect brain health, contributing to Alzheimer’s. This chemical reaction occurs most readily at the high … When added to meat, the nitrates are readily converted to nitrosamines, which are associated with an increased risk of certain types of cancers. Sodium Nitrite and Sodium Nitrate are two closely-related chemicals are used to preserve meat. And you already know that most processed meats are high in sodium and some are high in saturated fat, which can disrupt a heart-healthy diet. As such, fruits tend to contain significantly fewer nitrates than, say, root vegetables or leafy greens. Adding high-fat foods to the diet makes things worse. Consult with your physician before starting a high-nitrate diet; it may interact with certain medications. Nitrates tend to be most concentrated in plant food that are closest to the source; the roots. If nitrates can boost athletic performance and protect against heart disease, which vegetables have the most—beans, bulb vegetables (like garlic and onions), fruiting vegetables (like eggplant and squash), greens (such as arugula), mushrooms, root vegetables (such as carrots and beets), or stem vegetables (such as celery and rhubarb)? For example, the high natural nitrate content of beetroot juice has been credited with lowering blood pressure and enhancing exercise performance. Nevertheless, a few fruits provide dietary nitrate. Some of the best leafy greens to eat are: Arugula — Arugula is a cruciferous vegetable, similar to broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage. Although evidence that nitrites cause cancer is limited, processed and cured meats may increase your risk for cancers of the prostate, lung, esophagus and stomach, according to … In a study, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, researchers found that foods high in nitrates may help the body supply blood and oxygen to muscles more effectively. There are plenty of studies that confirm this food as a vasodilator which lowers blood pressure and improves erectile function. They took into account both nitrate concentration and serving size for a range of foods, and arranged all of the foods into three groups: a high nitrate group that’s worth two nitrate units per serving, a medium group that’s worth about a half unit per serving, and a low nitrate group that’s worth one-tenth of a unit per serving. Additionally, foods high in nitrates play an important role in physiological activity. Beetroot/ Beets: Beetroots/ beets are one of the foods richest in nitrates. Nitrites give cured meats that characteristic smoky flavor and pink color that make them irresistible. Therefore, beets are one of the best plants for increasing nitric oxide levels. Of all plants, beets are probably the highest in nitrates and they also have the ability to lower estrogen levels. Beetroot is loaded with nitrates. Moreover, people who drank pure beetroot juice walked 18% longer. Green, leafy vegetables and melon are among the produce with the highest nitrates, but the nitrates in vegetables don't pose the same risk as processed foods. Experiments were conducted showing that nitrosamines may cause diabetes as well as fatty liver disease and obesity. Wolfson. Nitrates are … Green, leafy vegetables and melon are among the produce with the highest nitrates, but the nitrates in vegetables don't pose the same risk as processed foods. Nitric Oxide Foods: Top 25+ Foods That Boost NO Production Naturally. Also, beets are an excellent source of anti-oxidants and contain betalains, which are anti-inflammatory.

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This week is national anti bullying week. The whole school is taking part in a variety of activities to do with this.
Today we discussed the different forms that bullying can take. We also looked at some scenarios where Flat Stanley might feel he was being bullied and gave him some advice to cope with this. We thought it was really important that any child being bullied should discuss it with an adult they trust.
We have been learning to use the problem solving strategy “Find all Combinations.” Today we had to try to find different combinations of a selection of foods, with varying prices, which would add up to 20p.
We are learning that reading the problem and working out the important information is very important.

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The sexual content and foul language the networks are getting away with is shocking — including programming aimed at children and young teens. It is truly perverse.
I’d rather listen to classic rock or conservative radio.
I mainly watch sports, but you can’t get away from the filth even there because the networks show raunchy previews for their sick shows during sports programming. We are about to go the Roku route, so even though I will miss some of my precious college football games :-( it will be worth it to kick cable to the curb.
***Id rather listen to classic rock or conservative radio.***
Just tuned my TV to the music selections for the first time;)
It then occurred to me that we can almost trace the decline of America’s manners and taste in the history of music.
From classic symphony thru Sinatra, Elvis, Beatles, BeeGees, Country & Gospel to Hip-Hop and finally Rap. I stopped buying recordings after Elvis.

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The voters of Catalonia took part in an historic election yesterday that could signal the beginning of independence for the region from Spain in a move that will radically shake up the map and the politics of Europe.
The winning parties, collectively under the banner of Junts pel Si (Together for Yes) captured 62 of the seats in the Catalonian Parliament, and along with pro-independence CUP, who won a further 10 seats, there will be a majority of members in favour of secession when the new Parliament sits.
During the run-up to the campaign, Junts pel Si leader Artur Mas has signalled that a pro-independence government will see the region break away within 18 months, beginning negotiations with the Spanish authorities within days of taking office.
However, the Spanish Government has been adamant in its opposition to Catalan independence, repeatedly denying the people of the region a binding referendum on the subject and decrying last November’s plebiscite on the question to be unconstitutional and illegal.
Catalonia is one of the most economically successful parts of Spain, contributing as much as a fifth of the country’s GDP, as well as being home to over 7 million people and the cultural centre of Barcelona. It has its own distinct language of Catalan and came under brutal repression under the Franco regime of the 20th century. It is because of the different economic and cultural climates in the region compared with the rest of Spain that the move towards independence has grown over the last decade, with many feeling that their efforts are subsidising the rest of Spain which suffered heavily during the recession of the late 00s and early 10s. The austerity programme of the Spanish Government has hit Catalonia hard, and many see independence as the only way of preserving their own way of life.
While this is the closest Catalonia has come to independence since it was subsumed into Spain during the early 18th century, there are still many obstacles in its path. Firstly, a coalition will need to be formed by the collectivist Junts pel Si, which comprises both left and right wing parties that are working for an independent state, and the CUP, which are a more radical left-wing party that are in favour of faster separation but only if there is a popular mandate for it.
Crucially for the coalition building, the pro-independence parties did not win a majority of the votes cast, getting 47.8% off a 77.4% turnout. Whether the CUP’s loyalty is to the principle of a mandate or to independence remains to be seen.
Should a coalition be formed, Catalonia would then likely need to opt for a unilateral declaration of independence as the Spanish Government has steadfastly held to its position that secession is illegal and forbidden by the country’s constitution. While democratically it seems shaky that such as UDI should be declared when over half the population do not vote with it, the Spanish Government is refusing the chance for the people of Catalonia to exercise their right to self-determination. Unlike with Scotland, Spain is denying the chance of a referendum to Catalonia because of how damaging it would be to their economy and to their rule, particularly with separatists in the Basque country still making their own case for independence. Losing Catalonia would be more than losing a part of itself, it could mean the end for Spain in many ways.
The momentum is clearly towards independence for Catalonia and the efforts of Spain to stifle the insurrection may turn out to backfire. Being denied a democratic voice is one sure way of campaigning for independence, and Spain is providing the Yes camp with a very solid democratic argument for any potential campaign to come. It’s time for Spain to call the bluff and call a referendum. The result will be close but it looks like if there’s any result to be had at the moment Spain need to act quick before losing its crown jewel and plenty more besides.


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Frolic Hawaii Editor – Thomas Obungen Recommendations to Eat in Waikiki!
Aloha! My name is Thomas Obungen. I am the Associate Editor of Frolic Hawaii, the local authority on all things food on O‘ahu. I also co-own Slug Media, a boutique digital marketing agency specializing in restaurant consulting and content. Online I’m known as @thomasohhh or the CEO of Eating Deliciously, a title I take not so seriously. Since 2015, I’ve covered the explosive growth of our incredibly vibrant restaurant scene. Wandering from hidden alleyways to luxury department stores and every street in between, I’ve discovered that it takes a unique mix of nostalgia and innovation to get the local seal of approval.
Waikīkī is not only a top destination for worldwide travelers, some locals (myself included), love to play tourist here because it’s an ideal neighborhood to eat your way around. It also just happens to have some of the best food finds on Oahu. I’m in Waikīkī quite often, so I’ve had my fair share of meals here. From upscale dining to street food and pool drinks, there’s a ton to explore in these three square miles.
Not only cute and a total vibe, Shoreline Hotel Waikīkī just so happens to be the best starting point to explore the 96815. Many of my top picks are less than a seven-minute walk from the Shoreline.
Here are some of my favorite places to eat in Waikīkī.
Ali‘i Coffee // Coffee
400 Royal Hawaiian Avenue
Ali‘i Coffee’s cold brew coff-tails (coffee cocktails) and lattes are a dreamy way to greet the day. The iced Kula Cold Brew with house-made lavender syrup and half and half is soothing while the sweet Banana Milk Float will have you dancing from shop to shop. I also love their breakfast sandwich that can easily be shared for a light meal or “first breakfast” as I like to call it.
Cream Pot // Soufflé pancakes & baked eggs
444 Niu St.
Nathan Tran’s cloud-like souffle pancakes are popular and for good reason: they’re the original creations that inspired the trend in Japan and abroad. With toppings like blueberry compote, S’mores and lemon curd, they are a treat from every angle, but the savory dishes should not be dismissed. Try the baked eggs or beef bourguignon omurice for something ultra-savory. Cream Pot is as much a feast for the tummy as it is for the eyes with whimsical details plucked right out of a storybook garden. It’s not just cute, it’s chō kawaii.
Castro’s // Lunch & dinner
2113 Kalākaua Avenue
Cuban cuisine with touches of local flair is a very good thing, especially in a Waikīkī that has Japanese, American and Italian comfort on every corner. From freshly squeezed tropical fruit juices to one of my favorite sandwiches, the Cubano, Castro’s is where I go for a leisurely lunch or dinner. The menu changes over in the evening with tapas like brisket and cheddar empanadas and tender lamb lollipops with black bean hummus. If anything, sit outside and people watch—you’re almost guaranteed to see something interesting on this side of Kalakaua Avenue.
Tim Ho Wan // Afternoon tea/dim sum
2233 Kalakaua Avenue, Fl. 3
There’s no better way to pass the afternoon than with dim sum—yum cha if you’re fancy—on the open-air patio at Tim Ho Wan. The Waikīkī outpost of this Michelin-rated chain from Hong Kong is so chill this time of day, you might even stick around for pau hana drinks. Of course, you’ll need an order of their signature baked char siu bao but why not add some pan-fried noodles and a bit of deep-fried eggplant with shrimp. Snack on as much or as little as you want.
Aloha Steak House // Casual steak dinner
320 Lewers St.
Sometimes you just want a good steak dinner without having to dress up for it. Zetton Group created Aloha Steak House, so you can have a little beach and beef without regrets. Pick an apron and let the meat come to you. The best value is in their sharable $99 two-pound tomahawk steak that’s sliced tableside and finished with a generous lashing of salt. The vibrantly arranged cobb salad, North Shore-style fried garlic shrimp and french fries round out the experience very well. Finish off with a cone of their house-made watermelon soft serve and you’ll fall in love with this steak-ation all over again.
HEAVENLY Island Lifestyle // Happy hour & light dinner
342 Seaside Avenue
You don’t have to go very far to experience locavore dining. Heavenly Lifestyle is located off the lobby from the Shoreline Hotel Waikīkī and offers all meals, including a daily happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m.. I love that everything has a fresh and bright vibe – nothing here’s going to weigh you down so it’s the perfect pre- or post-beach spot. Try the tantan sesame cold pho noodles or my favorite, the Hainan Chicken Rice.
Poke Fix // Poke bowls
334 Seaside Avenue #108
Build your own poke bowls with salmon, fresh ‘ahi, hamachi and garlic shrimp with generous heaps of sides that makes us locals smile. The ginger onion hamachi (if they have it) and shoyu ‘ahi are must-tries. Get the pickled garlic and taegu (Korean-style marinated fish) to vary up your bites.
Musubi Cafe Iyasume // Musubi
This established musubi (rice ball) shop has multiple locations dotted throughout Waikīkī and beyond, but this one is the most convenient despite its limited hours. I especially like to pack a Spam and ume (salted plum) musubi, tuna mayo musubi and fried karaage chicken in my bag for snacks on the beach or lounging by the pool.
Island Vintage Wine Bar // Wine
2301 Kalākaua Avenue, Fl. 2
A classy yet casual joint on the strip, Island Vintage Wine Bar is one of those places that stay on the brain. Whether it’s the best lilikoi mimosa you’ve ever had made with a rare rose from France or the most indulgent charcuterie and cheese board with European meats and cheeses to match, you could spend an entire day here and not think it was wasted.
Matcha Stand Maiko // Matcha soft cream
2310 Kūhiō Avenue
Matcha is such an “in” flavor and I want to say it’s thanks in part to Matcha Stand Maiko. This matcha dessert cafe opened in 2017 and quickly became Waikīkī’s coolest spot serving up verdant cones of grassy green tea ice cream using matcha from Uji, Japan. Maiko also dishes up incredible parfaits layered with every texture you could think of and now they have expanded with new flavor swirls, including purple sweet potato and houjicha.

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In the latest step in an ambitious and aggressive plan to tackle climate change, newly-elected French President Macron’s Ecology Minister announced on Thursday that France would be phasing out the sale of gasoline and diesel-fueled vehicles produced in the country by 2040.
The ambitious plan is set to reach its height in 2040, when France plans to fully halt the production of any petroleum-run cars in the nation.
With just 23 years to achieve this goal, France is set to begin phasing out the production of traditional cars in order to more greatly emphasize their already impressive electric car industry.
France is Europe’s second-biggest car industry, and have been taking an increasing share of the electric car market in recent years.
On Wednesday, Swedish car company Volvo announced that they would stop producing petroleum-only cars in 2019. From then on, every car produced by the company would either be all-electric or hybrid.
The announcement comes just a week after Macron announced that France would no longer grant permits to companies seeking to search for and harvest oil and natural gas in the country.
With former leader in the Paris Climate Agreement America backing out of any participation in the agreement, Macron’s motivation for such an aggressive agenda is twofold: to both keep his promise, and to take his place as the global leader in fighting climate change.

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SomeArtFabric.com and I've been the background guy for a few years now. I've created a back-end for her entire website using FileMaker, another F, but it's also truly worth mentioning.
When we travel to events like International Quilt Festival/Cincinnati this week, we meet all sorts of people who just rave over her fabric.
It's great quilt shop quality stuff. 100% cotton, but apparently so many little quilt shops are closing in the US, the quilting public is hungry to see some wild fabrics. Mrs. SF is great with color and she buys for the shop the fabrics that speak to her, so it's really worked for her.
December rolled along and we bounced through the holidays. Holiday visits, chorus events, vacationing with family. What happened in January ...
It's another list. This time we're counting down the top ten TV shows according to SF Daddy! As always, I'm gearing this list ...
The Official Star Wars Blog » Romancing the Droid: Why I Married R2-D2 : "Artoo gave me a lovely ring, and I gave him a shiny, new re...

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I’ve been pleased, and surprised, at how much traffic followed my earlier post about the efforts develop New York’s Farley post office as Moynihan Station. I wanted to draw attention to a site mentioned by a commenter on that post.
In the site’s own words:
The Municipal Art Society’s involvement with the Farley Post Office Building dates back to the 1980s, when Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was promoting the idea of building a new rail station within McKim, Mead & White’s Post Office. The Municipal Art Society has supported the expansion of Penn Station since it was originally proposed and continues to support it today.
I’ve been using a Google alert to follow the press on this issue, but this site offers an RSS feed and, I suspect, might be a good source for you if, like me, this is an issue you wish to follow. I subscribed.

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If you live in South Bombay, there’s probably only one place you go to for watching plays or concerts. Even if you do not live in town, you have definitely heard of this place. It’s one of the first names to pop up in one’s mind when one thinks of theatre in the city. The National Centre for Performing Arts, more commonly known as the NCPA, is the hub for theatre, music and dance performances in Mumbai. And if you enjoy watching these performances, here’s what you need to look out for in February:
Watch the story of the great statesman and visionary, who single-handedly carved India out of the chaos of infighting and exploitation by the regional kings of his time. Manoj Joshi is all set to embody this character once again on Sunday, Feb 04, at the Tata Theatre.
Cezanne – Portraits of a Life
A film will be screened dedicated to the portrait work of Paul Cezanne, taking the audience to places the painter lived and worked. The film sheds light on the artist, featuring interviews with curators and experts across the world. Catch it at the Dance Theatre Godrej on Feb 06.
Spectrum – A Festival of Dances from Around the World
NCPA’s new dance festival is initiated to present dance forms from across the world. For its first season, you can witness multiple performances with evenings guided by dancer-choreographer, Sandip Soparrkar. The festival takes place from Feb 10 to 11 at the Experimental Theatre.
Phir Wohi Sham: A Bouquet of Ghazals By Javed Ali & Group
Tata Theatre will once again host acclaimed musician Javed Ali, who is set to present evergreen ghazals penned by great poets and immortalized by legendary Bollywood singers. Catch this presentation on Feb 16 and enjoy a soulful evening.
Winners of Ithaka – 2017: Mr. Robinson & Night Must Fall
Ithaka is the official theatre and literary festival of St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. The winners of the festival will now get an opportunity to showcase their plays at the Dance Theatre Godrej, where you can watch them on Feb 17. Two plays have been chosen for the event.
You have watched Paresh Rawal on screen, now it’s time to watch him on stage. This comedy-drama directed by Dinkar Jani suddenly turns into a suspense as the cops attempt to solve a case of attempted murder. Read our review here and catch it on Feb 17, at Tata Theatre to find out the truth.
The Sound of Music
The hills have come alive once again, this time at Tata Theatre. Presented by Raell Padamsee's Ace Productions, the musical will feature acclaimed theatre artist Meher Mistry as Fraulein Maria, while actor Arunoday Singh will play Captain Von Trapp. Watch the show between Feb 23 and 25.
Symphony Orchestra of India: Schubert & Mendelssohn
Witness the works of popular classical musicians, brought to you by conductor Zane Dalal and pianist Roberto Prosseda. They will present Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" and Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 4 "Italian" at Jamshed Bhabha Theatre on Feb 24.
So what are you waiting for? Log on to BookMyShow and start booking your tickets to these amazing plays and concerts now!


Actress Rose McGowan was arrested on a charge of possession of a controlled substance after police said she left behind some luggage on a flight at Washington Dulles International Airport that tested positive for narcotics.
The Charmed star was under police investigation after two bags of cocaine were found in her purse after it was found on a United Airlines plane.
Police launched an investigation after they allegedly found traces of narcotics in personal belongings left behind on a United flight arriving at the Washington Dulles International Airport on January 20, the AP reported.
The actress turned herself in, was arrested and booked before being released on a $5,000 bond in Virginia Tuesday, according to the Loudoun County Sheriffs Office. After turning herself in Tuesday in Loudoun County, Virgina, McGowan was released on $5,000 bond.
The Talk: Eve fills Aisha Tyler's vacated seat
She had previously appeared as a guest co-host on " The Talk " during the week of October 30. She replaces Aisha Tyler who had departed in July after six years on the program.
I figured I could probably have gotten him up to three (million dollars), she tweeted, but I was like, Ew, gross, youre disgusting, I dont want your money, that would make me feel disgusting.. "I said I was the proof".
Rose, 44, is thought to have been paid £75,000 by the producer over an incident in the 1990s, and she recently tweeted: "Ladies of Hollywood your silence is deafening".


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Alzheimer’s disease is amongst the majority of costly sicknesses in the U.S. There is no treatment, no effectual cure, and no simple solution for the increasing fiscal cost of caring for an aged population.
Investing on care for individuals who will develop the illness in the U.S. right now is estimated to cross $47 Trillion over the span of their lifetime, claimed a report rolled out this week by the Alzheimer’s Association. The U.S. is planned to invest $277 Billion on other dementia care including Alzheimer’s single-handedly in 2018, with an aging army of newbies pushing that figure to $1.1 Trillion by the end of 2050.
Study so far has been blocked by scientific failures. Minimum 190 human tests of Alzheimer’s drugs have concluded in failure by one count. No firm has productively invented a drug to cure it, although many huge pharmaceutical players, comprising Pfizer Inc. and Merck & Co. have attempted to do so. A firm located in Cambridge, Biogen Inc., witnessed its stakes fall last month post it claimed it was extending the number of members that take part in its test for the aducanumab drug.
On the other hand, noteworthy cost savings can be attained by the simple act of premature diagnosis, as per the new study. Presently, people are characteristically identified in the dementia phase, in comparison to when they have got only MCI (mild cognitive impairment). Diagnosing the illness early can permit it to be managed better, partially with current drugs that cure its symptoms. While doing so, the study assumes that the U.S. can save $7.9 Trillion over the course of everybody’s lifespan living right now.
Scientists were assigned at Precision Health Economics by the Alzheimer’s Association to study the possible savings of getting a diagnosis in advance. It employed information from the Health and Retirement Study.


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How should the world respond amid the military coup and its resulting protests in Myanmar?
Hair the Musical at Hope Mill theatre certainly leaves the audience on a high
Aaron Sorkin’s latest film, The Trial of the Chicago 7, returns to a familiar period of US history through a well-constructed courtroom drama
After a trip to see the classic war film at the Cornerhouse, James Moules was all too eager to share his thoughts.


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The government delayed its £4bn aircraft carrier project yesterday in an effort to head off a crisis in the defence budget and quieten a growing number of critics within the military, insisting that priority must be given to frontline troops.
John Hutton, the defence secretary, said in a written Commons statement that HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales would not enter into service in 2014 and 2016 as planned, and would be delayed for up to two years. That, he added, could bring the project "more closely in line" with the US joint combat aircraft, also delayed, destined to fly on the carriers at an estimated cost of at least £8bn.
The delays in the US project gave Hutton an added argument for delaying the British carrier programme. But uncertainty continues to surround other parts of the arms procurement budget which is facing a shortfall of as much as £15bn according to some independent estimates.
Hutton said plans to build a fleet of hi-tech armoured vehicles for the army would also be put off. Plans to construct supply ships and fuel tankers for the navy could also be delayed or awarded to foreign shipyards.
He said priority should be given to provide frontline troops with helicopters and new armoured cars. The Treasury has agreed to provide more than £70m for new engines for Lynx helicopters enabling them to be used in the heat and mountains of Afghanistan, he said.
Hutton said the government had also agreed to proceed with plans to buy Super Lynx helicopters for the army and navy. The £1bn project would preserve jobs in Yeovil, Somerset, home of AgustaWestland which will manufacture the aircraft.
Hutton also said priority would be given to upgrading the army's Warrior armoured vehicles and to building a scout car to replace Scimitars and Spartan reconnaissance vehicles which have been in service for decades.
The Ministry of Defence, meanwhile, had agreed with the Treasury a budget of £635m for "urgent operational requirements" next year on top of nearly £10bn received from the reserve since 2001.
The defence secretary said that the construction of the two carriers - to be built in Portsmouth, Barrow-in-Furness, Glasgow and Rosyth - would "still provide stability for the core shipyard workforce, including 10,000 UK jobs".
The MoD was unable to say how much would be saved by yesterday's measures, how much the delays would cost, if anything, and how much money was shifted from the budget previously earmarked for ships to priorities for the army.
The measures were attacked by opposition leaders. Liam Fox, the shadow defence secretary, said: "This is a bad day for the Royal Navy, which will have to wait even longer for the aircraft carriers and tankers they have been promised. It is a bad day for the army, which has now had its vehicle programmes cut. It's a bad day for industry, as major programmes are thrown into confusion through the government's incompetence. We don't know how exactly many Future Lynx helicopters have been ordered ... Substantial cuts now mean bigger bills later".
The Liberal Democrat defence spokesman, Nick Harvey, said: "Our armed forces are crying out for strategic direction, but instead are getting more delays and salami-slicing. The withdrawal of the order for armoured vehicles confirms that the ... project has been one of the most disastrously meandering, wasteful procurements in history."
Nigel Whitehead, of BAE Systems, the main manufacturer of the carriers, said: "While there are bound to be challenges for the business in the UK against the current financial background, we are continuing to work with the MoD to establish a coherent plan for future requirements".
Union representatives, fearing worse news, generally welcomed the announcement. Bernie Hamilton, national aerospace and shipbuilding officer for Unite, said he was delighted. "It is great news for our members and workers ... It will secure employment in the sector for many more years with a stable workload," he said .

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When we entertain friends for Sunday dinner, I frequently serve these tangy meatballs. Everyone loves the distinctive sauce, but they're often surprised to learn it is made with gingernsaps. -Melody Mellinger, Myerstown, Pennsylvania
- 3 eggs
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1-1/2 cups dry bread crumbs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 3-1/2 cups tomato juice
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 10 gingersnaps, finely crushed
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 1 teaspoon onion salt
- In a large bowl, combine the eggs, onion, bread crumbs and salt. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well. Shape into 1-1/2-in. balls.
- In a large skillet, brown meatballs in batches in oil. Transfer to a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish.
- In a large saucepan, combine the sauce ingredients. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring until cookie crumbs are dissolved. Pour over meatballs.
- Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until meat is no longer pink. Yield: 8 servings.
Originally published as Sweet 'n' Sour Meatballs in Taste of Home October/November 2003, p33
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Mazda Motor, Yamaha Motor, and Suzuki Motor have all admitted to using falsified emissions data to inspect their new vehicles. The news is the result of internal investigations at all three organizations ordered by the Japanese ministry of transportation.
“The inspection of exhaust emissions and fuel efficiency are important processes to guarantee environmental performance related to carbon dioxide and harmful gasses. It is extremely regrettable that the process was done inappropriately," said Keiichi Ishii, the minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism, in a press statement.
Of the three, Suzuki was found to be the biggest violator. When inspectors reviewed the tests at all three carmakers, Suzuki's improper testing appeared to go as far back as 2012. Out of 12,819 cars sampled for fuel economy and emissions since June 2012, said Japan's fourth-largest car manufacturer, around half had been inspected improperly. 30 car models, some of which are no longer in production, were subject to the investigation.
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The company maintains that there are no problems with their cars' actual emissions release, and therefore no recalls will need to be issued.
“I deeply apologize and will lead efforts to prevent a recurrence,” President Toshihiro Suzuki told a press conference.
Mazda was found to have improperly tested 72 cars dating back to November 2014, Yamaha was found to have 7 from January 2016.
Kiyotaka Shobuda, Mazda's senior managing executive officer, told reporters that Mazda's actions were not deliberate and the improper inspections had not affected the quality of their cars. "The company takes the incident seriously, and will make sure to prevent the improper inspections from happening again," Shobuda said in a statement.
"Regarding the emissions inspections... it is a fact that there were improper actions," a Yamaha spokesman said in a statement. "We sincerely apologize."
The investigations were prompted by similar findings of improper testing at Subaru Corp. and Nissan Motor Co., and before that from the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal of 2015, where 11 million cars were found to be cheating emissions standards.
That scandal emerging into a examination which showed that 4,000 European vehicle models were exceeding nitrogen oxide levels set by the European Union. Nearly all European cars were dirty in some respect, the study found. Japanese cars now have a section of the scandal all their own.
Source: CBS News
David Grossman is a staff writer for PopularMechanics.com. He's previously written for The Verge, Rolling Stone, The New Republic and several other publications. He's based out of Brooklyn.


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It came with no great shock that the Labour party held all three Sunderland seats. The city has been a Labour stronghold for numerous years and there was very little chance of that changing in the 2017 election. Bridget Phillipson, Julie Elliot and Sharon Hodgson all held their respective seats in Houghton and Sunderland South, Sunderland Central and Washington and Sunderland West.
Although the results weren’t surprising, there were a few talking points that arose from the night:
People were more engaged:
One of the biggest talking points was the rise in the turn out of voters, with all three constituencies seeing substantial increases in the number of people visiting the voting booths.
All parties were keen to express how important this election was and how vital voting was. It seems to have worked.
The table below shows the how this year’s turn out compare to the 2015 General Election:
|Location||2015 Turn out||2017 Turn out||Rise|
|Houghton and Sunderland South||56.33%||61%||4.67%|
|Washington and Sunderland West||54.63%||60.4%||5.77%|
Could the lack of UKIP support benefit Labour?
There was a strong suggestion in the build up to the election that UKIP would struggle to gain a single seat in the house of commons and that post-Brexit, people had lost interested and trust in the party.
The general assumption was that if voters were to leave UKIP, they would vote Conservative.
However, this did not seem to be the case in Sunderland.
Although the Conservatives clearly gained from people stopping their support for UKIP, Labour also saw a sharp increase which could also be related to UKIP’s falling numbers.
Dr Peter Hayes, a senior political lecturer at University of Sunderland, explained to SRNews how the lack of UKIP support could be better for Labour that the Conservatives: “The drop in UKIP voters hasn’t especially benefited the Conservatives and that, fairly evenly, it is split between Conservative and Labour. If that is the case, that’s good news for Labour.”
Did Labour’s appeal to young people Work?
Since the start of the campaign, Labour stressed they are a party “for the many, not the few.” Jeremy Corbyn also wanted to get young people interested in politics and to help drive this, he was even interviewed by grime artist JME.
This, as well as several pledges in their manifesto targeted directly at young people, Labour felt would be their best chance on securing more seats. Looking to build up trust with 18-25 year olds and first time voters.
But did young people see any appeal? There is the argument to suggest that the young people of Sunderland found themselves engaging in politics, because of Labour’s campaign. This would also explain why all of the Labour candidates saw such growth in their votes and help to understand how the turnout increased as much as it did.
Stay up-to-date with all the latest election news as well as what is happening around the North East on SRNews’ Facebook and Twitter.


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Pet Foster Volunteers Wanted for Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe as Numbers Rise | South of Lake Tahoe
The pandemic has led to an unprecedented number of animals in need, and the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe (HSTT) is expanding its reach to help shelters across the country, and volunteers are needed.
The HSTT has always been committed to rescuing and helping 100% of pets in the Truckee and Eastern Placer County area, as well as assisting many other shelters whenever possible. In 2021, the HSTT worked with 30 different shelters across the country, saving over 400 animals in the process.
“Shelters everywhere are full, some well beyond capacity, and here in California, pets are entering shelters at rates we haven’t seen in years,” says Erin Ellis, director. of HSTT’s community involvement. “The need everywhere is great.”
Last year, the HSTT helped other shelters in California during the Caldor Fire – not only assisting staff and volunteers at the Douglas County Evacuation Shelter, but also transferring pets Douglas County and El Dorado County animal shelters in Truckee to make room for pets. during the South Lake Tahoe evacuation. HSTT has also helped Texas shelters during their cold crisis.
Helping pets and families around the world
70% of animals helped by HSTT came from shelters outside of the Tahoe area.
More than 50% of families who have adopted pets from HSTT live outside of the Tahoe area.
In a 4-day period in November, HSTT transferred a total of 49 pets – animals that otherwise might not have made it out of their current shelter.
How you can help
The HSTT is looking for volunteers to participate in its hospitality program. This is a life-saving and life-saving effort that provides temporary homes for animals in the care of HSTT. A foster family provides a nurturing environment for pets awaiting their forever home. The program adapts to what is best for the foster family and their home environment, allowing foster families to choose whether they wish to temporarily foster dogs, cats, puppies or kittens. HSTT provides all necessary support and supplies, and the foster family provides love and care for an animal in need.
There are foster parents needed around Lake Tahoe and Truckee.
If you would like to learn more about the program and how to become a host family, please contact Samantha Laroche, Host Program Manager, at firstname.lastname@example.org.
About The Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe: The Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe was founded in 1994 by a group of volunteers. Shortly after its inception, The Humane Society and the City of Truckee became partners and together became the driving force for animal welfare in their area through rescue, protection and adoption. The partnership has continued to grow over the past two decades, cementing a longstanding relationship in September 2013 by opening the region’s first public animal sanctuary. This facility, located at 10961 Stevens Lane in Truckee, maximizes efficiency and effectiveness by housing public and private entities under one roof. The opening of a second location at 3438 Lake Tahoe Blvd. in South Lake Tahoe allowed the agency to service the entire Lake Tahoe area.
The Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe rescues 100% of adoptable homeless pets in the community. Additionally, they rescue animals from overcrowded shelters whenever space permits.
For more information, visit HSTT.org or call 530-587-5948, or follow HSTT on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HumaneSocietyofTruckeeTahoe.

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The band have confirmed that their third album - and first without Camila - will be released this year.
According to Billboard, Ally Brooke, 23, Normani Kordei, 20, Dinah Jane, 19, and Lauren Jauregui, 20, have had the go ahead from Epic Records and Syco to release the third album.
Camila, 19, will reportedly release her first solo single this April-May, having already enjoyed chart success without Fifth Harmony by guesting on tracks by Shawn Mendes and Machine Gun Kelly.
It could be a vocals-only version of "Bad Things" which she recently registered the name of.
The album news comes not long after Fifth Harmony posed for their first official photo as a four-piece.
In the picture the girls look unfazed about Camila's departure and show their sass in matching red outfits.
Fifth Harmony confirmed Camila's departure from the group via Instagram towards the end of last year.
"After 4 and a half years of being together, we have been informed via her representatives that Camila has decided to leave Fifth Harmony," the statement read. "We wish her well."
Fifth Harmony were put together on the second series of The US X Factor and came third.
They signed a joint record deal in 2013 with Simon Cowell’s record label Syco and Epic Records.
Since then, they’ve gone on to release the platinum-selling singles BO$$, Sledgehammer and Worth It.


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It's me! I am @pinterestmama and www.pinterestmama.com is my new venture!
Well, let me tell you:
Pinterest Mama is a place you can use as a go-to source on how to make the most of your Pinterest experience. For those who are already familiar with Pinterest, you know how awesome it is!
I'm un-offically the world's biggest Pinterest fan and want to help you make the most of your Pinterest experience.
But for those who are not yet familiar with Pinterest, here is the exact quote of what Pinterest has to say about themselves from their own website (This is the exact quote from their own website):
"Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes. Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests." Source: www.Pinterest.com
Simply stated, Pinterest is an awesome place where you can Dream BIG!
You can dream - pin - plan - organize - make a reality!
So my thought was to create a place to share ideas on how to make the most of Pinterest.
There are so many possibilities for using Pinterest!
Well, as an intro. of what Pinterest can do for you, here is a beginning idea for those of you who love giveaways:
Willow Wooden Play Kitchen and Metal Utensils Set.
Perfect for a an unschooling family, or a Waldorf - Play Based - Reggio Emilia - or Montessori inspired classroom or homeschool!
Also would be great for a nonprofit that works with young children!
This is just a gorgeous set, has two shelves for storage, is made of pine and is 37" tall 22" wide and 12" deep. No ply wood or MDF. Solid, sturdy, and handcrafted.
The Willow Wooden Play Kitchen retails for $250.00
The Stainless Steel Cookware Set retails for $22.50
So, the prize package is a wonderful prize worth $272.50!!!
Here is the thing:
A little on the back story of this lovely set:
Had purchased this set thinking that it would be something neat for some friends of mine, but the shipping was going to be somewhat cost prohibitive.
So when I contacted Pinterest, purchased www.pinterestmama.com and set up @pinterestmama, decided that what might be a great way to get the word out about Pinterest would be to give this away to a lucky winner!!!
This giveaway is now closed. Comments are now closed.
The winner, as determined by Random.Org, is comment #19, submitted by tlb.
Congrats to tlb!
Drawing started 11/10/2011 and ended 11/25/2011.
Winner, tlb, will be notified on or by 11/28/2011 following the review of all submissions.
Winner was chosen randomly via Random.Org
Some Disclaimers are here, but for the complete disclaimer post, please click to read here.
Contacted Pinterest and have permission to go as Pinterest Mama, @pinterestmama and www.pinterestmama.com as long as it is very clearly stated that I am not an employee of Pinterest.
Also contacted Willow Toys and have sent them a link to this giveaway!
|Wouldn't this be awesome to win???|
|Fabulous Willow Kitchen Set!|
|Stainless steel utensils set is in this bag.|
|Gorgeous Willow Play Kitchen!|
|Stamp from Willow showing that it is authentic.|
Follow your heart and pin what makes you happy and what you feel passionate about as far as creating - visualizing - and learning for your family and for yourself.

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It might be Empire Day which would place it on or after 1904 when the event was started or just possibly to mark the end of the Boer War which was two years earlier.
And it will hang on which of the women in the picture is Annie Holland. She was born in 1889 and grew up around on Cobden Street in Salford and was the grandmother of Alan who has kindly allowed me to use three family photographs of Annie.*
Now this is not the youthful face that stares out of us from the earlier photograph so I minded to think we must be mch later, but just when is still unclear.
*Annie Holland in Salford in 1911
Picture; Salford Mill women courtesy of Alan

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Oliver James, an Irish citizen living in London, traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, in April to meet his newborn baby born to a surrogate. He has spent 8 weeks trying to get travel documents to return home, but it seems the no one has yet reviewed his paperwork. Without Irish recognition of James as father of the child (established through a paternity test), his funds running low, and risk of becoming homeless, he is desperate for the Irish embassy to help them get home soon.
Russia is considering a ban on surrogacy until a review of the existing law is complete. This article briefly explains the current status of the practice and the direction of future legislation – both of which are heavily influenced by the Russian Orthodox Church, a longstanding voice against all forms of surrogacy and public in its opinion of the practice as a threat to traditional marriage, childbearing, and family formation.

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Wood decay by Chlorociboria aeruginascens (Nyl.) Kanouse (Helotiales, Leotiaceae) and associated basidiomycete fungi
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International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation
Two isolates of Chlorociboria aeruginascens (Nyl.) Kanouse incubated axenically on aspen wood blocks resulted in 18% and 32% mass loss after 134 wks (2 yrs 8 mo). Aspen wood decayed by C. aeruginascens contained cavities in the S2 layer of the secondary cell wall, similar to Type I soft rot attack, as well as erosion troughs and overall thinning and erosion of wood cell walls, resembling decay by Type II soft rot fungi. Using a selective medium, basidiomycete fungi were isolated from 9 of 17 samples of wood from a variety of tree species colonized and stained by Chlorociboria sp. (putatively C. aeruginascens) in a mixed hardwood forest from northern North America. Basidiomycete fungi were identified by ITS sequencing and cultural tests and were shown to be predominantly species of common white rot fungi. In axenic decay tests with aspen blocks, basidiomycete isolates caused mass losses in the range of 10%e50% after 26 wks incubation. Decay tests in which a basidiomycete isolate was co-inoculated with an isolate of C. aeruginascens did not differ significantly (p < 0.05) in mass loss from those caused by the respective basidiomycete alone. Results suggest that decay of wood colonized by C. aeruginascens is principally caused by white rot fungi and is neither enhanced nor inhibited by the presence of C. aeruginascens.
KeywordsChlorociboria aeruginascens; Green stain; Wood decay; Soft rot; Axenic culture; Ascomycetes; Basidiomycetes; Co-inoculation
Richter, Dana L.; Glaeser, Jessie A. 2015. Wood decay by Chlorociboria aeruginascens (Nyl.) Kanouse (Helotiales, Leotiaceae) and associated basidiomycete fungi. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 105: pp. 239-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2015.09.008.

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ORANGE ROAD, Madison, Virginia
ORANGE ROAD, Madison, Virginia 22727 - 23.67+- acres of rolling pasture land with hard surfaced road frontage on Orange Road. Approved for a 3 bedroom pumped septic system. Conveniently located to U.S. Route 29, Town of Madison, Orange, Culpeper, and Charlottesville. The property is zoned R-1/B-1. Real estate taxes to be determined. Portion of Tax Map 48-61 & 61Z.
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A group of us girls stayed in the Meyrick a few weekends ago for my sister's hen from the Friday to Sunday.The staff were soooo helpful and friendly, and nothing was any trouble to them(like bring a big projector screen into our room for a dvd showing).The a la carte menu was very good on the Friday night and the... More
- Official Description (provided by the hotel):
- Perfectly located in the heart of Galway City, the 4 star Hotel Meyrick combines stunning Victorian elegance with modern luxury and style. Enjoy luxurious accommodation, a range of bar and dining options from the fine dining Oyster Grill Restaurant and the elegant Oyster Bar to the relaxed and inviting Fagan’s Bar as well as soothing spa treatments in the Square Spa. Ideally situated overlooking bustling Eyre Square, the delights of Galway are on your doorstep. ... more less
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