Monday, October 31, 2016
Eggs: 90 X 365 X ( 2 or 3 )
Eggs: 90 X 365 X ( 2 or 3 )
It is not clear whether or when she's going to heaven
but Emma Morano will be 117 on November 27.
She says that she has eaten two or 3 eggs each day
for 90 years with little or no vegetables and beef
which is quite fortunate we might say
since she no longer has any teeth.
I doubt that extreme longevity in America she would have achieved
because of all the well-meaning health advice she would have received.
HzL
10/31/16
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Saturday, October 29, 2016
SEPTEMBER MORN---> OCTOBER PORN
SEPTEMBER MORN ----> OCTOBER PORN
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OCTOBER PORN
Every boy has a weiner
and every girl does not*
But let's keep this story cleaner
when it may so affect our ballot.
Those who are either rational or elderly
may be have very little desire to see
what may or may not lurk below---
How does it influence national policy
is what they'd like to know.
Besides, real sex over the Internet?
It hasn't been invented...yet?
HzL
10/29/16
*except for an in-betweener
with a more complicated slot.
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Friday, October 28, 2016
OVERHEARD AT THE CLINTONS
OVERHEARD AT THE CLINTONS
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ON TIME (2)
ON TIME (2)
Time, the sly assassin works by stealth
to rob us of our health and wealth.
Though we come with age to understand,
this kind of knowledge is contraband.
For when we try to put it to use
we may find our bodies lack the juice.
Though In our minds we may hear as clearly as when we were young,
the song may croak in air as it tries to get sung.
Yet, we may get the crowd's hooray,
especially if helped by our DNA.
HzL
10/28/16
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
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"I taste a liquor never brewed" is a lyrical poem written by Emily Dickinson first published in the Springfield Daily Republican of 4 May 1861 from a now lost copy.
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Dear Emily
How could one taste a liquid never brewed
even if soluble in water or oil?
And on it there's no way you could have gotten stewed
enough to become less poet and more naughty girl.
For it is unfortunately true
that if from more potent drinks you abstain
to only get kicks from dew
may mean that you might then remain
both sober and virginal too.
Yet listen -- the outcome could have been worse
for your offspring now survive numerous in verse
with words chosen with such lapidary skill
that they still for us shine and glisten-- and always will.
HzL
10/26/16
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
At Last, Poor Yorick
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Re: Derivation of "Ham Actor"
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In Reply to: Derivation of "Ham Actor" posted by Mary on January 06, 2000
: I know I read/heard once that Hams were originally called Ham Fatters in Shakespeare's day, and that the phrase referred more to their being less than the best, not supported by the crown, as the King's Players were, and having to use ham fat to mix or remove their makeup. Further descriptions welcomed.
I looked in three reference books and got three slightly different "takes" on the origin of "ham actor." So I'm going to list all three and let the Phrase Finder folks sort it all out:
From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, 1997) with asides from Mr. Hendrickson in parenthesis: "HAM. Actors prefer to think that the word derives from the old theatrical use of ham fat to remove blackface makeup - actors were thus called hamfatters, or hams. Many scholars lean to this theory, but 'ham' in the sense of an amateur actor or a 10th rate actor who outrageously overplays his scenes has enough folk etymologies to make a one-act play. Since none really seems capable of absolute proof, I'll simply list three: 1) Ham derives from the Cockney slang 'hamateur,' for 'amateur actor.' (Unlikely, as the term 'ham' in this sense is American from about 1880.) 2) The word structure of 'amateur' itself suggested 'ham.' (A good possibility, but why did it wait so long to suggest itself?) 3) It comes from the role of 'Hamlet,' which actors frequently misperformed. (Another good possibility, but, if so, 'ham' should have been with us since Shakespeare's time.) 'Ham' for one of the rear quarters of a hog, or its meat, derives from Old English 'hamm' for the bend of the knee."
From the "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, 1977, 1988): "HAM ACTOR. 'Ham in this phrase has two distinct meanings. First, probably by analogy to 'amateur,' there is the use of 'ham' to mean an actor who is incompetent or unskilled. That's the meaning intended in such phrases as 'Hollywood hams.' Then there is 'ham' in the sense of one who overacts or outrageously overplays a scene - especially when his intention is to center all attention on himself to the exclusion of other players. Such devices as upstaging other actors, grimacing at the audience and pointedly fiddling with one's pocket handkerchief during another player's speech are common practices of actors bent on 'hamming it up.' In the days of blackface minstrel shows before the turn of the century, one popular song was 'The Hamfat Man' and it clearly referred to second-rate actors of the type that appeared in such shows. But nobody knows for sure whether the song inspired the name 'hamfatter' for these actors or whether the name preceded the song. We think that the name came before the song, probably from the minstrel's practice of using ham fat to remove the heavy black makeup used during performances. In any event, ham actor is an American expression which made its first appearance in print during the 1880s."
From "The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology: The Origin of American English Words" by Robert W. Barnhart (HarperCollins 1995) "HAM. n. performer. 1882. American English, apparently a shortened form of 'hamfatter' , an actor of low grade, said to be from an old minstrel song 'The Ham-fat Man.' The idea amateurish was extended to a amateur telegraphist and an amateur radio operator ."
Of course, there are other theories on the origin of the word "ham" for radio operators. But I'm stopping for now.
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According to poet Carl Sandburg:
"They all want to play Hamlet"
since all actors like to hold the skull
to pronounce those words whose glory
have long caused audiences to mull
on just how life-and-death are transitory.
Besides, since the word "ham"
has been used for actor since around the time of Shakespeare
what could be simpler than
assuming its use may also have began there.
However, its origin is probably a different matter
which I hope won't excessively you shake up--
arising from the compound word "hamfatter"
then a way to remove an actor's make-up.
But an actor's itch*, I'd say
for the stage must really be Historic
to wish that part of him should go on and on to play-
silently - the role of Yorick. (HzL. 10/25/16)
*See below, Andre Tchaikowsky, and the Royal Shakespeare Company
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.
II. People Who Must
6. They All Want to Play Hamlet
THEY all want to play Hamlet.
They have not exactly seen their fathers killed
Nor their mothers in a frame-up to kill,
Nor an Ophelia dying with a dust gagging the heart,
Not exactly the spinning circles of singing golden spiders, 5
Not exactly this have they got at nor the meaning of flowers—O flowers, flowers slung by a dancing girl—in the saddest play the inkfish, Shakespeare, ever wrote;
Yet they all want to play Hamlet because it is sad like all actors are sad and to stand by an open grave with a joker’s skull in the hand and then to say over slow and say over slow wise, keen, beautiful words masking a heart that’s breaking, breaking,
This is something that calls and calls to their blood.
They are acting when they talk about it and they know it is acting to be particular about it and yet: They all want to play Hamlet.
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.
Vanitas imagery[edit]
Portrait of Katheryn of Berain by Adrian van Cronenburgh c.1560. Shakespeare's 1601 poem The Phoenix and the Turtle was published in a collection dedicated to Katheryn's son, John Salusbury.
The contrast between Yorick as "a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy" and his grim remains is a variation on the theme of earthly vanity (cf. Vanitas): death being unavoidable, the things of this life are inconsequential.
This theme of Memento mori ('Remember you shall die') is common in 16th- and 17th-century painting, appearing in art throughout Europe. Images of Mary Magdalene regularly showed her contemplating a skull. It is also a very common motif in 15th- and 16th-century British portraiture.
Frans Hals, Young Man with a Skull
A more direct comparison is with pictures of playful children or young men, who are often depicted looking at a skull as a sign of the transience of life. It was also a familiar motif in emblem books and tombs.
Hamlet meditating upon the skull of Yorick has become the most lasting embodiment of this idea, and has been depicted by later artists as a continuation of the Vanitas tradition.
Name[edit]
The name Yorick has most often been interpreted as an attempt to render a Scandinavian forename: usually either "Erick" or "Jørg", a form of the name George.[2] The name "Rorik" has also been suggested, since it appears in Saxo Grammaticus, one of Shakespeare's source texts, as the name of the queen's father. There has been no agreement about which name is most likely.[3]
An alternative suggestion is that it may be derived from the Viking name of the city of York (Jórvík), a connection that was first made in 1866.[4] More recently Gerald Kilroy has suggested that it is an anagram of the Greek word 'Kurios', which he takes to be a reference to the Catholic martyr Edmund Campion.[5]
Alas poor Yorick - A humorous rendering ofLaurence Sterne's Yorick byMartin Rowson in his graphic novel of Tristram Shandy
The name was used by Laurence Sterne in his comic novels Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey as the surname of one of the characters, a parson who is a humorous portrait of the author. Parson Yorick is supposed to be descended from Shakespeare's Yorick.[6]
In B. Traven's novel The Death Ship the doomed vessel is named the "Yorikke".
Portrayals[edit]
The Young Lord Hamlet (1868) byPhilip H. Calderon, which shows Hamlet as a child, riding on the back of Yorick.
The earliest visual image of Hamlet holding Yorick's skull is a 1773 engraving by John Hall after a design by Edward Edwards in Bell's edition of Shakespeare's plays.[7] It has since become a common subject. While Yorick normally only appears as the skull, there have been scattered portrayals of him as a living man, such as Philip Hermogenes Calderon's painting The Young Lord Hamlet (1868), which depicts him carrying the child Hamlet on his back, as if being ridden like a horse by the prince. He was portrayed by comedian Ken Dodd in a flashback during the gravedigging scene in Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film Hamlet.
Pianist André Tchaikowsky donated his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company for use in theatrical productions, hoping that it would be used as the skull of Yorick.[8] Tchaikowsky died in 1982. His skull was used during rehearsals for a 1989 RSC production of Hamlet starring Mark Rylance, but the company eventually decided to use a replica skull in the performance. Musical director Claire van Kampen, who later married Rylance, recalled:
As a company, we all felt most privileged to be able to work the gravedigger scene with a real skull ... However, collectively as a group we agreed that as the real power of theatre lies in the complicity of illusion between actor and audience, it would be inappropriate to use a real skull during the performances, in the same way that we would not be using real blood, etc. It is possible that some of us felt a certain primitive taboo about the skull, although the gravedigger, as I recall, was all for it![8]
David Tennant used the skull of pianist André Tchaikowsky for Yorick's skull in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production.
Although Tchaikowsky's skull was not used in the performances of this production, its use during rehearsals affected some interpretations and line readings: for example, Rylance delivered the line "That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once" with especial reproach. In this production, Hamlet retained Yorick's skull throughout subsequent scenes, and it was eventually placed on a mantelpiece as a "talisman" during his final duel with Laertes.[8] In 2008, Tchaikowsky's skull was used byDavid Tennant in an RSC production of Hamlet at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.[9] It was later announced that the skull had been replaced after it became apparent that news of the skull distracted the audience too much from the play.[10] This was untrue however, and the skull was used as a prop throughout the run of the production after its move to London's West End.[11]
Monday, October 24, 2016
A SHAGGY DOG PRESIDENT?
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A SHAGGY DOG PRESIDENT?
Despite their often pious lip service to liberal platitudes. It has become obvious that the Clintons have become quite comfortable with Wall Street and vice versa.The best outcome for financial markets according to the Wall Street Journal would be for a Clinton presidency but not an overwhelming victory which would make Congress Democratic too.
This is reminiscent of a joke about a shaggy dog. One classic version:
the archetypical shaggy dog story involves an advertisement placed in the Times announcing a search for a shaggy dog. In the Partridge story, an aristocratic family living in Park Lane is searching for a lost dog, and an American answers the advertisement with a shaggy dog that he has found and personally brought across the Atlantic, only to be received by the butler at the end of the story who takes one look at the dog and shuts the door in his face, saying, "But not so shaggy as that, sir!"
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Sunday, October 23, 2016
the innovators, Walter Isaacson
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For a lot of today and several days before that I have been reading a book by Walter Isaacson called The Innovators.
He is a brilliant writer with real understanding of science and technology.But he also knows human beings.Here is his description of Steve Jobs first employment:
Jobs spent the following year dropping in and out of Reed College and then seeking spiritual enlightenment on a pilgrimage to India. When he returned in the fall of 1974, he went to work at at Atari under Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn. They were now flush with money from the success of the game Pong and so took him on even though Jobs showed up dressed in his hippie garb and said he wouldn't leave the lobby until he was hired.
Anyway Bushnell decided to take a chance on him. Despite his newly acquired Zen sensibilities, Jobs was inclined to inform his coworkers that they were "dumb shits". Yet somehow he also managed to be compelling and exciting. He sometimes wore a saffron robe, went barefoot and believed that his strict diet of only fruits and vegetables meant that he did not need to use deodorant or to shower often. As Bushnell later recounted, this theory was mistaken so he put Jobs on the night shift......
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Friday, October 21, 2016
On Time?
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On Time?
It is Nature's clock.
Although flowers and trees
never tick tock.
Neither do birds or bees
nor anemones.
So perhaps it is none of these.
To grammaticians it gives declension
and to physicists, another dimension
but to the rest of us, mostly apprehension.
Carpe Diem, Seize the Day
Poets and Prophets will often say
For This Too Shall Pass Away--
and neither life nor love can always stay,
And like you
I too
am caught in the yellowing sheets of Time
beside mountains I can no longer climb
with aches and pains from which I suffer.
What to do?What to do?
How should I know? Ask a Philosopher!
HzL
10/21/16
Please note that Francis Quarles (above and below) didn't spend all HIS time writing poetry:
Quarles married Ursula Woodgate in 1618, by whom he had eighteen children.
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Francis Quarles (8 May 1592 – 8 September 1644) was an English poet most famous for his Emblem book aptly entitled Emblems.
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“A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;”
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1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
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WATER WATER EVERYWHERE
Nine months to the day
lovers had shown their devotion
her placenta gave way
in the middle of the ocean.
There was
Water, water everywhere
and little time to think
of proper maternity care
with two lives on the brink.
But since the story did have a happy ending
this Ancient Mariner will here stop sending--
because he knows a little about dental floss
but, except in some poem*, nothing of an albatross.
HzL
10/20/16
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Bob Dylan's New Lyrics?
As to whether he will attend, however, the answer is blowing in the wind.
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DYLAN'S NEW LYRICS?
How many times must the Nobel people call
before I will answer the phone?
And why don't they stop ringing at all
and just simply leave me alone?
Yes, and how many worthier could they have found
if they'd taken more time to look around?
I don't mean to despise their Prize
but if I'm not showing will I still win?
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind.
HzL
10/18/16
Nobel panel gives up knockin' on Dylan's door
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Saturday, October 15, 2016
Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan: Two Jewish Bards
Leonard Cohen: giving Nobel to Bob Dylan like 'pinning medal on Everest'
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Mr. Leonard Cohen
has a mind of his own.
It is quite musically as well as intellectually ample.
His forbears were prominent members of a Montreal Temple
( Though In Litvak English that might rhyme
perhaps I should try a bit harder next time)
in an upper middle class neighborhood of Montreal
but going into their dress business didn't suit him all.
So he wound up a mixed up libertine and ascetic
writing great songs both poignant and dramatic
( i apologize again!)
and I'm sure he will go on singing until his last breath
even if in his latest album he seems to contemplate death.
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Bob Dylan, once Robert Allen Zimmerman, is also a Jew
in fact, of half Litvak plus half Ladino stock too
But back in Duluth and Hibbing Minnesota
for serious folk singers there was no quota
and this young man, inspired by dylan '/thomas and woody guthrie
took himself quite quite seriously.
despite less than obvious talent and a voice rather flat
and musicianship that wasn't as good as that
of many others, including Joan Baez, his one-time flame.
who sang so beautifully under her own name.
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During his Dinkytown days, Zimmerman began introducing himself as "Bob Dylan".[19][a 1] In his memoir, Dylan acknowledged that he had been influenced by the poetry of Dylan Thomas.[20] Explaining his change of name in a 2004 interview, Dylan remarked, "You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free."[21]
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I can't say his career started with a bang
and I never ever really liked the way he sang
and even though his words,are undoubtedly gifted
to me they sound somehow as if from others lifted,
Still there's very little to despise
in adding a Nobel Prize
with its attendant ultra-honorable rank
to the 80 mill you have already in the bank.
HzL
10/15/16
Friday, October 14, 2016
Hillary's Vision-- is it Univision?
Hillary's Vision -- is it Univision?
While it is difficult to imagine Donald Trump as president because of his often much too thin-skinned insulting manner, it is important I believe to realize that he has tapped into something in current American politics that resonates....our country is often for sale, disguised by pious pronouncements.
In particular, the Clinton years and unfortunately, I believe, aided and abetted by Obama's, the great hypocrisy of speaking for liberal causes, while pocketing huge amounts of money by judicious distribution of power and privilege.
Of course, this is what politics is usually about with a handful of at least partial exceptions, every century or two, who usually wind up on the back of currency or stamps or mountain monuments but only after many a struggle.
Currently, I believe Trump is telling the truth about those sex charges being amplified and exploited and that the main person behind that is the billionaire Haim Saban (to my shock and amazement he is very pro-Israel) behind the Univision television network. He (Univision) recently bought Gawker after it went bankrupt due to a similar campaign of sex charges against Hulk Hogan, and the snarling Univision anchor Jorge Ramos has often been an overly aggressive anti-Trump mouthpiece.
Bill Clinton was flown to the Peres funeral on Mr. Saban's personal jet and then flown back on Obama's, Air Force One. Will Bill Clinton now go down in history as an ex-presidential flying bagman?
This is being reported by Politico, Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal to their credit, references below, but not yet in the wider media who are too busy publicizing their disgust with Trump supposed sexual misbehaviors (that tape was 11 years ago) and thereby winning the election for Hillary, as planned. Of course, things may go too far and the Congress could go Democratic too and then it is possible that both Hillary and Mr. Saban could wind up being opposed by more liberal members of their their own party. That would really be interesting. HzL
THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN
This election campaign seems less about ideology
than crude charges of sexual impropriety
launched daily in the press and on the air.
As awkward as Mr. Donald Trump may be
his opponents have been equally unfair....
is there less danger from a once crudely boastful male
than from those NOW putting America on sale?
Thursday, October 13, 2016
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE:Remake? , October 2016
If you are old enough, or a movie buff, or both you may remember the movie "It's A Wonderful Life"
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It starred Jimmy Stewart in a truly wonderfully acted Oscar worthy role as a small town bank president who wants to commit suicide because his bank has gotten deeply in debt ruining his customers. Part of this was due to the machinations of crafty financier played by Lionel Barrymore. I'll have to turn to Google for the rest of the cast..(above)...AND now we can all turn to yesterday's headlines.
Our current bank president is not a movie star and he just got fired by the current Lionel Barrymore type played by Warren Buffett, who wasn't just play acting. (I can't prove any of this, but since the bank president has cost Wells Fargo major investor/owner Mr. Buffett over $1 billion in losses recently, I suspect this or some equivalent scenario.)
But this Mr. Schlumpf (really Stumpf) doesn't have to contemplate suicide since he gets 140 million dollars in retirement benefits which is far better than the fate of thousands of employees he had fired-- many because they wouldn't go along with his crooked schemes, putting 'fired for cause'
on their records so they could not be rehired by other banks. HzL 10/13/16
Wells Fargo CEO retires amid accounts scandal and is replaced by a ...
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11 hours ago - John Stumpf has resigned from Wells Fargo & Co., owing to ... to take over as CEO, though he acknowledged that he is taking over at a difficult time. .... that still left him with his largevested stock, pension and 401(k) benefits.
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WATERSHIP DOWN
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Watership Down
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WATERSHIP DOWN
Someone left a tattered, falling apart paperback in our little library. Its title
Watership Down sounded vaguely familiar so I started reading it.After a while it became
absorbing, even though the premise seemed to be silly, involving rabbits who not only spoke their own language, but one of whom, named Fiver*, could foretell the future – although only approximately.
*Because he was the fifth in the litter when he was born. His older brother, somewhat confusingly named Hazel, eventually became chief rabbit.
The book began its existence as a story told by the author, Richard Adams, to his two young daughters sitting in the backseat as he tried to calm them and keep them less bored during drives in their car. They were so entranced that they insisted that Daddy write the stories down into a book.
It was turned down by the major publishers in England, but a small press took a chance and, strangely, it became a bestseller and then a movie. The movie is available here on YouTube free for those who want to watch.
It was a great success in England, but flopped in America although one notable bit part, a rescuing bird with a Polish Jewish accent(Unfortunately for me, much less prominent in the movie than in the book) was spoken wonderfully by Zero Mostel in his last movie role.
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Even though the movie and book are supposed to be for children. They really deal with struggles against a totalitarian society and the attempt to find the basic goodness in people (or at least rabbits) to form a more just community.
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Buy Watership Down (Deluxe Edition) on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING ... Personally, even at a tender age, I *knew* that the movie wasn't just about rabbits.
Interestingly, and I didn't know this until just a few seconds ago, the movie is being remade in 2017 (above) to make it less violent and scary for children. Is that because our present society is more dangerous or less dangerous than in 1978?
HzL
10/13/16
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
MEDICATION ADVICE FOR OLDER PATIENTS
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MEDICATION ADVICE TO OLDER PATIENTS
"What was once good for you may not be as good now"
when hair-or what's left- has grayed above a wrinkled brow.
You should especially watch statins
which may have helped greatly
to sustain former life patterns
but can be dangerous at 80.
So reduce your dose
of most of those
as well as all other meds when you're over 75
for by then your body's gotten used to staying alive
and needs less help from medication --
taking more can just be provocation.
So, when almost all else has been said and done
why not, just (carefully?) go out and have some fun?
HzL
10/11/16
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Monday, October 10, 2016
THE DEBATE
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Things got heated during the second presidential debate
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The two nominees squared off in St. Louis in their second debate. Here are our takeaways.
THE DEBATE
I didn't watch the debate last night
because I was sleep deprived
but today I read it was quite a fight
and both very well knived.
There was bitterness and force
for neither stopped long to think.
It was more like watching a divorce
with dirty dishes in the sink.
Or perhaps a famed Edward Albee play
restaged for Off Off Off Broadway
resulting in entertainment for the masses
no matter what their economic classes--
the latest in 'reality' TV
and better yet, for free.
HzL
10/10/16
Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies ...
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Sunday, October 9, 2016
The Decline and Fall of America?
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Edward Gibbon (1737–1794).
The Decline and Fall of America?
If they decided to gave a blue ribbon
for the eminent writing of History
a major recipient would certainly be Gibbon
for his work written in the 18th Century:
The Decline and Fall of Ancient Rome--
but its six volumes make too long a poem.
So, dear reader to spare you such tedia,
I'll just quote two sentences from the Wikipedia:
"According to Gibbon, the Roman empire succumbed to barbarian invasions in large part due to the gradual loss of civic virtue among its its citizens. They had become weak, outsourcing their duty to defend their empire to barbarian mercenaries who then became so numerous and ingrained that they were able to take over the Empire."
Reading these lines somehow strikes a Bell
because they well apply to our own country as well
Though more about how we do business today
than about our military defenses per se.
For what is it that we make here anymore
that we buy in a local or department store?
More and more what we expect to get
is simply ordered or sent over the Internet.
And how long can our country be expected to thrive
when there is no Detroit label on anything we drive?
HzL
10/9/16
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This edition also includes an illustrated history of BOTH the RISE AND FALL of the ... This led toGibbon being called the first "modern historian of ancient Rome".
IN STORM BATTERED HAITI
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/8lac65/picture107043262/ALTERNATES/FREE_960/Matthew+Haiti+f+epf
"To say the least, the situation is not good
(we) don't have water. (we) don't have food"
so why do relief trucks pass us by?
Do you want me now to tell a lie?
THIS IS WHAT THEY DO IN HAITI !
The terrible storm and dangerous trash
are wiping out lives by the score,
yet despite an obvious emergency
our corrupt politicians see a different urgency.
Even though relief supplies would help greatly in the mess,
because they're free, they're bad for business,
so, instead,right now they'd prefer cash
and a little later, please send more!
HzL
10/9/16
“The people are in a dire situation. They lost everything. They don’t have water, they don’t have food,” an exasperated Charles said. “So they just revolted.
“They need water, they need food, they need zinc sheeting [for rebuilding homes],” he added. “I understand them, but this is a crime. It’s another crime.”
The leader of the protest: Fritzna Charles, a Miami resident who said she was there to support the residents.
Asked why she blocked the street, she screamed: “Because this is what they do in Haiti!”
Charles said she decided to join the others in the mutiny after they saw a convoy of food pass their storm-damaged homes and head in the direction of Port Salut, a coastal town battered by Matthew, without stopping in their neighborhood.
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In tense western Haiti, an attempt to hijack hurricane-relief supplies
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Fritza Charles is pushed out of the way as a Haitian National Police officer takes a man away from a protest where branches were spread across the middle of the road in Hock, Haiti, to block a convoy of food Saturday, Oct. 18, 2016.PATRICK FARRELL pfarrell@miamiherald.com
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Friday, October 7, 2016
A Beef by and about Matthew
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A Beef by and about Matthew
Far from grateful that whatever controls Hurricanes
pushed Hurricane Matthew somewhat to the East
another Matthew, (Drudge) now loudly complains
and doesn't sound happy in the least.
He claims the Hurricane was overblown
as global warming propaganda
which the government decided to be shown
as part of its (and the Obama) agenda.
No one should agree with this totally unjust beef.
For did anyone see him earlier taking a selfie on a reef?
Or venturing out-- as he might have explored
how angry the Atlantic could be on a surfboard ?
It isn't fair to accuse NOAA of plots aplenty
when we all know that hindsight is 20-20.
HzL
10/7/16
Hurricane Matthew Scrapes Florida Space Coast; Highest Storm Surge Since Hugo, Torrential Rain to Trigger Major ...
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Hurricane Matthew is blasting eastern Florida's Space Coast, and ... a rareNWS "extreme wind warning", as the hurricane's western outer eyewall scrapes the Space Coast.
Hurricane Matthew: Matt Drudge conspiracy comments kick up storm
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Conservative US blogger Matt Drudge suggests warnings over Hurricane Matthew are a ...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Studying Topologically Ordered Matter Wins Nobel
3 Share Physics Nobel for Work on States of Matter
By DENNIS OVERBYE and SEWELL CHAN 6:23 AM ET
David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz were recognized for transforming the understanding of matter that assumes strange shapes.
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“I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.”
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Studying Topologically Ordered Matter Wins Nobel
I know very little of Alfred Nobel
except that he invented dynamite
but later came to rue it
giving Prizes to undue it.
But it seems evident as well
the man could also write
meaningful and pithy phrases.
So perhaps it is appropriate
the study of matter and its phases
to many a new weirder state
just won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.
What Einstein called a 'spooky entanglement' dance
is now in the thick of modern Physics' advance
bringing ultra sophisticated chatter about new kinds of matter
requiring advanced math to describe without apology
including something called quantized non-Abelian topology.
This is quite remarkable stuff
though trying to understand it is rough
and, if you're among the few that do,
I think you'd deserve an award too.
HzL
10/3/16
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In this article, we examine the orders in states of matter in depth and present a new ... Topological orders (and quantum orders) extend and deepen our previous ...
Topological states of matter - nLab
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Nov 18, 2015 - We include here a phase of matter which is, at long distance and low energy, described by a topological quantum field theory (invariant under small smooth deformations of space-time) as well as the phases related to symmetry protected trivial orders (SPT orders).
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Oct 4, 2012 - Condensed Matter > Strongly Correlated Electrons ... that reveal the existence of those new phases - topologically ordered phases. Just like ...
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Monday, October 3, 2016
LONGEVITY
Genome | Rocking the Ages
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AN EASIER GOING ATTITUDE TO LIFE AND WIDE SOCIAL NETWORK ARE
PROBABLY AS IMPORTANT
and
AS JAY LENO SAID:
"Scientists have found the secret of longevity. Eat as much as you want, stop exercising, and the good thing is, if you die, you don't care."
CASABLANCA REVISITED?
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CASABLANCA REVISITED?
"We'll always have Paris", Bogart's Rick said
but is it really the same with a gun to your head?
And even though the lady' s not Ingrid but a Kardashian
she really still shouldn't be treated in such fashion.
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Kim Kardashian West held up at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room
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Kim Kardashian West held up at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room ... inside her Paris hotel Sunday night but was not harmed during the robbery, a representative said.
Kim Kardashian leaves France after police questioning on robbery
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Still, I hope we'll soon have assurance
that this all was covered by insurance
which, unlike her clothing, is rather substantial
so that there won't be any great loss financial.
And I suspect that even if a true Paris police chief might be sceptical
about the reality of this this whole scene kleptical,
if he took any substantial time to use his brains---
in the new movie, that role would need a Claude Rains.
HzL
10/3/16
Casablanca (1942) - IMDb
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Drama · In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
In THE GUARDIAN Today
In THE GUARDIAN Today :
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While Putin, Assad and their Iranian allies continue their slaughter
and our too cautiously peaceful President just wimps and speaks.
Not even SNL can turn that situation to one of laughter
because its overwhelming inhumanity so chokes and reeks.
But the Donald and Hillary live and die on a lesser plane
and to make fun of them is both proper and germane.
If only we could similarly cut lethal bullies down to size--
by clever TV skits and dialog brisk--
and thus more effectively criticize
without putting our entire civilized? world at risk!
HzL
10/2/16
Russia warns US not to intervene as hospital is hit in latest Aleppo blitz
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If anything, the show seems to have more fun writing great lines for Clinton – “If you don’t elect me, I will continue to run for president until the day I die. I will never die” –
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Saturday, October 1, 2016
When does the year begin?
Figure 7.20: Artist's version of the precession of Mercury's orbit. Most of the effect is due to the pull from the other planets but there is a measurable effect due to the corrections to Newton's theory predicted by the General Theory of Relativity.
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When does the year begin?
Since the earth orbits the sun
you really can pick any date as number "One"
and then if you call the time to orbit 'a year'
it should be abundantly clear
that you needn't have any doubt or fear--
especially if you are a patient waiter--
you'll get back to that date exactly a year later.
(However, if you lived on the planet Mercury
not only would you be awfully hot
but you might have to adjust your clocks
a little. though certainly not a lot.)
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But you'd have to be MUCH younger than I,
to have time enough to study and understand why:
PDF]Mercury's Perihelion
www.math.toronto.edu/~colliand/426_03/Papers03/C_Pollock.pdf
by C Pollock - 2003 - Cited by 1 - Related articles
Mar 31, 2003 - A calculation of relativistic perihelion shift using Einstein's theory of rel- ... the advance of Mercury's perihelion, was of tantamount importance to ...
[PDF]The Precession of Mercury's Perihelion
https://www.math.washington.edu/~morrow/.../Genrel.pdf
University of Washington
by O Biesel - 2008 - Related articles
The Precession of Mercury's Perihelion. Owen Biesel. January 25, 2008. Contents. 1 Introduction. 2. 2 The Classical Solution. 2. 3 Classical Calculation of the ...)
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As I was saying, before by myself I was rudely interrupted,
New Year's Day in history has been rather corrupted
so, given these conditions,
why not celebrate more
and, as in some traditions,
have at least four?
HzL
10/1/16
Why Are There Four Jewish New Years? - Judaism - About.com
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The Jewish calendar traditionally has four new years days, each with a different purpose. This is ... 5.Traditions for the Month of Elul ... 1st of Nisan: The first new year is the 1st of the Hebrew month of Nisan, usually in the early spring (April).
January Joins the Calendar. The first time the new year was celebrated on January 1st was in Rome in 153 B.C. (In fact, the month of January did not even exist until around 700 B.C., when the second king of Rome, Numa Pontilius, added the months of January and February.)
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Jan 1, 2016 - And the ancient Greeks celebrated on the winter solstice, around December 20. By the Middle Ages, though, in many places the new year began in March. Around the 16th century, a movement developed to restore January 1 as New
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The celebration of the new year on January 1st is a relatively new phenomenon. The earliest recording of a new year celebration is believed to have been in Mesopotamia, c. 2000 B.C. and was celebrated around the time of the vernal equinox, in mid-March. A variety of other dates tied to the seasons were also used by various ancient cultures. The Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Persians began their new year with the fall equinox, and the Greeks celebrated it on the winter solstice.
Early Roman Calendar: March 1st Rings in the New Year
The early Roman calendar designated March 1 as the new year. The calendar had just ten months, beginning with March. That the new year once began with the month of March is still reflected in some of the names of the months. September through December, our ninth through twelfth months, were originally positioned as the seventh through tenth months (septem is Latin for "seven," octo is "eight," novem is "nine," and decem is "ten."
January Joins the Calendar
The first time the new year was celebrated on January 1st was in Rome in 153 B.C. (In fact, the month of January did not even exist until around 700 B.C., when the second king of Rome, Numa Pontilius, added the months of January and February.) The new year was moved from March to January because that was the beginning of the civil year, the month that the two newly electedRoman consuls—the highest officials in the Roman republic—began their one-year tenure. But this new year date was not always strictly and widely observed, and the new year was still sometimes celebrated on March 1.
Julian Calendar: January 1st Officially Instituted as the New Year
In 46 B.C. Julius Caesar introduced a new, solar-based calendar that was a vast improvement on the ancient Roman calendar, which was a lunar system that had become wildly inaccurate over the years. The Julian calendar decreed that the new year would occur with January 1, and within the Roman world, January 1 became the consistently observed start of the new year.
Middle Ages: January 1st Abolished
In medieval Europe, however, the celebrations accompanying the new year were considered pagan and unchristian like, and in 567 the Council of Tours abolished January 1 as the beginning of the year. At various times and in various places throughout medieval Christian Europe, the new year was celebrated on Dec. 25, the birth of Jesus; March 1; March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation; and Easter.
Gregorian Calendar: January 1st Restored
In 1582, the Gregorian calendar reform restored January 1 as new year's day. Although most Catholic countries adopted the Gregorian calendar almost immediately, it was only gradually adopted among Protestant countries. The British, for example, did not adopt the reformed calendar until 1752. Until then, the British Empire —and their American .......
Mrs.(Carnegie Deli Owner) Levine's Lament
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Mrs. (Carnegie Deli Owner) Levine's Lament :
Change,
the watchword in Life
is not always for the better;
It has been like a knife
for me and The Carnegie.
As even the most delicious bagel can get moldy,
a faithfully devoted may wife seem too oldy
with her imploring boring--
until- and I know It sounds more than a bit absurd---
but about it you may have already heard --
a Thai Restaurant stole our stuff
after their family member played sneaky and rough.
With a sympathetic smile hiding her guile,
a trim dress emphasized her thigh
as she totally captured my husband's eye.
And now it's in Bangkok you'll find OUR pastrami piled high
(perhaps even upon a Jewish seeded rye
flown in from LA earlier in the day?)
While I can understand that our recipes now star on their menu,
why, oh why, did she first have to steal my husband too?
HzL, 9/30/16
CARNEGIE DELI
Carnegie Deli will close at end of 2016
editorial The Carnegie Deli: sic transit glorious pastrami - New York Post
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7 hours ago - By Post Editorial Board. View author ... Pastrami sandwiches are seen at the Carnegie Deli on September 30. Photo: Getty ... Nypost.com.
From the NYP article:
......(Mrs.) Levine lost her lease on annex space in a building next door a few years ago.
She went through a bitter divorce from ex-husband “Sandy” Levine, who carried on a long-term affair with a former waitress and allegedly stole Carnegie’s pastrami and cheesecake recipes. The recipes were allegedly then used in the girlfriend’s family’s restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand.
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