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'Bloomberg For President' Redux
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is being encouraged to run as an independent after a concerted attempt to get him to run in 2008 went nowhere.
There was even a web site — Run Mike Run— that was set up to persuade him to throw his hat into the ring. But Bloomberg didn't bite – and the web site is still there.
"Should events encourage Mr. Bloomberg to reconsider for 2012, this site will be here to assist in that cause," it says.
Now Thomas Friedman, a New York Times columnist, is calling on Bloomberg to "reconsider running as an independent candidate." Friedman says Bloomberg doesn't have to "win to succeed – or even stay in the race to the end." He argues that simply by entering the race "if only to participate in the presidential debates and give our two-party system the shock it needs" the country would be the winner.
His presence in the race would "change the dynamic of the election … [by] offering sensible programs" and compel Barack Obama and Mitt Romney "to gravitate to some of his positions as Election Day neared. … By taking part in the televised debates, he could impose a dose of reality on the election that would otherwise be missing."
This column ran Wednesday, April 18. That afternoon, Stu Loeser, Bloomberg's press secretary, sent me the following e-mail when I asked Bloomberg's reaction to the column: "He's not going to run for President."
But (partisan) political consultant Hank Sheinkopf says the country would be the loser if he didn't run.
"A Mike Bloomberg campaign would be fresh air in a country where image and poll numbers seem to matter more than the long term dangers this nation faces economically," he said. "Bloomberg would be a spectacular presidential candidate. He would raise issues, and we'd have a real discussion because he's not a politician. We need that kind of campaign."
Sheinkopf knows Bloomberg well, having worked for him in 2009.
"I have tremendous personal regard for him," he said. "Anyone who understands politics in the region knows he saved the city after 9-11 because he restored confidence in the business community. And he could do the same thing nationally. He knows how to bring people together and to deal with problems between business and labor. … He is very smart with an extraordinary grasp of difficult issues. This is the international city of this country. He's done rather well with it and there is no reason why he couldn't do that well nationally and internationally."
But should Bloomberg change his mind, he shouldn't enter the race half-heartedly and expect to bow out before Election Day. Should he go all the way, he may find more support than generally believed. A new book has found that there are more independent voters than those who identify as Republicans or Democrats.
The book, "A Partisan America" by Russell Dalton, a professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, points out that the percentage of Americans who consider themselves independent jumped from 23 percent in 1952 to 40 percent in 2008. Most of the shift today comes from former Democrats, Dalton said, whereas in the past "independents used to [attract] people at the margins of politics, less educated, less interested, who wouldn't vote – people at the periphery."
Interesting, Dalton said, the growth of independents comes from the young, educated, politically engaged people who are "turned off by political parties" but are interested in politics and who do vote.
"They won't vote out of loyalty, but out of issues," he added. "That's what injected volatility into the [presidential] campaign."
Obama generated tremendous enthusiasm four years ago, particularly among young people. The fact that he and Romney are now tied in the polls indicates that support has slipped considerably, suggesting that Friedman may have a point in calling on Bloomberg to run.


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Neither Scrooge Nor Patsy Be – Part Three
Neither Scrooge Nor Patsy Be – Part Three by Peter Burrows elburropete@gmail.com 1/24/14
In "Part Two," I discussed the reaction of a liberal young lady who was on Sean Hannity's show last fall featuring seven liberal college kids and seven conservative college kids. She said the show illustrated how liberals were compassionate and generous, conservatives selfish and stingy, or something to that effect.
She was wrong on two counts. The first, discussed in Part Two, was that non-liberals don't think spending other peoples' money qualifies as being compassionate. Liberals, with their "it takes a village" mentality, can't understand this.
The second and most important difference is that non-liberals think that most "compassionate" uses of tax dollars are either wasted or do more harm than good. It's is not just the disincentives built into welfare, but the inherent waste and corruption that always creeps into government programs.
A study published in April of 2012, The American Welfare State, by Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute, lists 126 different federal programs to wage war on poverty, costing $668 billion in 2012. Combined with state and local spending, he estimated we spend almost $1 trillion per year, or $61,830 per poor family of three, who if they received these benefits in cash , would get them TAX FREE!
If you suspect that all that money, instead of going to poor people, is going to the troops bravely fighting poverty from foxholes in government offices, you've broken the code. "Gosh," you say, "why don't we just give that family of three HALF that amount, $30,915, and eliminate all the poverty programs and save a ton of money?"
WHAT? AND FIRE ALL THOSE OVERPAID UNDERWORKED GOVERNMENT WORKERS? YOU HEARTLESS CONSERVATIVE SCROOGE!
And those brave government poverty fighters, like their brethren in governments jobs around the world, know how to protect their turf. Anybody who tries to cut these programs faces the indignant, self-righteous fury of the liberal establishment, which includes the mainstream media and most of the clergy.
The food stamp program, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is a good example. The number of people receiving SNAP has doubled to almost 50 million since 2008 under Obama, thanks in large part to the recession, but also to aggressive promotion and the elimination of work requirements for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents – ABAWDs.
What critics fail to note, is that the SNAP enrollment also doubled between 2001 and 2007 under President Bush in a time of relative prosperity. This means that the program has a life of its own, independent of the economy: It grows in good times and REALLY GROWS in bad times. ABAWDs getting free rides forever may fire up the critics, rightfully so, but they're less than 10% of the total.
In dollar terms, the program has grown in the last dozen years from $17 billion a year to $78 billion. Republican efforts to cut $40 billion from the estimated levels of spending over the NEXT TEN YEARS, that's $4 billion a year on average, met with typical demagoguery. Rep. James McGovern (D-MA) called it "one of the most heartless bills I've ever seen." (Patsy be he.)
Remember, we're not talking actual spending cuts, just cuts to estimated spending, the level of which is conveniently obscured by the government practice of base-line budgeting.
If SNAP was in fact a real life line for the poor, who could argue? Unfortunately, the program has always been gamed by the recipients. One simple fact that liberals just don't get: Poor people are poor, not stupid. SNAP dollars are supposed to go for basic necessities, not booze and cigarettes. Yeah. Right.
The black market rate for SNAP benefits, now conveniently dispensed via a debit-like card called an Electronic Benefits Card, is anecdotally about fifty cents on the dollar. Until the beginning of this year, when welfare reform is supposed to close the "strip club loophole," these EBT cards were being widely abused.
In her 1/11/3 column, EBT Abuse: The Cash-for-Drunkards Program, Michelle Malkin notes that right here in the Land of Enchantment there were abuses going on: "In New Mexico, Jim Scarantino of Watchdog.org reported that in just a three-month period, EBT cards were used at multiple liquor stores, girly bars, smoke shops and casinos –."
There has never been a concerted effort to crack down on SNAP abuse, for obvious reasons. The liberals are loath to question anybody's integrity, especially if the program buys votes for Democrats, and the Republicans are too cowardly to get tough because they fear being called heartless or – GASP! – racists.
While I would eliminate SNAP, fire hundreds of bureaucrats and increase cash benefits in lieu of food stamps for the truly needy, that's not going to happen. Too many people with vested interests, too many uncritical supporters who need to be "compassionate".
I do have an idea that I think would cut the cost of the program by fifteen percent or so, and that would be fifteen percent reduction right now, in real spending, not some mythical budget cut ten years from now.
The idea is quite simple: SNAP cards should be redeemable for CASH at seventy cents on dollar at any FDIC insured bank or savings and loan. Since this is a better deal than the black market fifty cents, recipients should welcome the option. It could be called "The SNAP Flexibility And Freedom Act."
I'm betting fifty percent of the SNAP recipients would take advantage of this new and wonderfully compassionate program, which is how I'd sell it. (Fifty percent taking a thirty percent reduction equals an overall fifteen percent reduction.)
Democrats will oppose it, for the simple reason that it would expose the waste in the program, and raise questions about waste in many other poverty programs.
I emailed Rep. Pearce with the idea, but no response. Sigh. Nobody listens to me.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2014 by petervburrows.
Neither Scrooge Nor Patsy Be, Part Two
Neither Scrooge Nor Patsy Be, Part Two – January 9, 2014
Sean Hannity hosted a forum of 14 college kids last fall, seven liberal and seven conservative, and if you saw the show, you came away either optimistic for the future of America thanks to the articulate young liberals, or deeply pessimistic for the future of America thanks to the articulate young liberals.
Somebody asked me, "What about the conservative kids?" and I said I didn't pay as much attention to them as, terrible me, I was looking for things to buttress my bias against liberals, and it was rich pickings. The liberal kids were so certain of themselves! So self righteous!
They reminded me of the cynical observation that our colleges excel at graduating ignoramuses with high opinions of themselves. That's a little unfair, as any nineteen or twenty-year old who agrees to appear on a TV talk show obviously has a lot of self confidence and maturity, and all of the kids, liberal and conservative, were very well spoken.
As an aside, I would love to know the occupations of the parents of each of the students. I'd wager that a majority of the liberal kids had parents with government jobs.
One liberal young lady was later quoted to the effect that the show illustrated the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives, which is that liberals are compassionate, caring people, while conservatives are basically selfish, and care more about what something costs. I've tried in vain to find her exact statement, but it doesn't matter. She's a typical liberal, believing liberals are more compassionate and more caring than conservatives.
She couldn't be more wrong.
When it comes to "compassion," there are two differences between liberals and conservatives. The first is that conservatives do not think compassion is involved in government poverty programs. Liberals are puzzled by this assertion. "Why, of COURSE it's compassionate to give people food stamps, medical care, shelter and so on, you heartless conservative cretin."
In fact, this self flattering "compassion" that liberals are so proud of is proof that their vanity has blinded them to a simple fact: It's easy to be compassionate with somebody else's money. Using government taxation to fund whatever liberals feel is a "good thing" is not compassion, it is simply a manifestation of the collectivist and totalitarian mentality that is at the heart of the liberal soul.
Furthermore, it's the easy way out. Those vague feelings of guilt that many of us, not just liberals, have about how fortunate we are relative to so many around the world and around the block, can be stilled by supporting government funded charities. Nary a second glance at that fella lying on the sidewalk. Being a compassionate liberal is a super-charged version of "I gave at the office."
They never stop to think that maybe more good could be done if people kept the money that was taxed from them. Perish the thought. That would call into question the moral and intellectual superiority that is so fundamental to liberalism, call into question their bedrock belief that government is a force for good, even if occasionally guided by flawed human beings, Stalin or Mao, for instance.
Gosh, their INTENTIONS were good and INTENTIONS are what counts in the liberal mind. More on that in Part Three.
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Londres may refer to:

Locations
 London, capital of the United Kingdom and England, called Londres in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, and Filipino
 Londres, Catamarca, Argentina, formally "San Juan de la Ribera de Londres" or "Londres de la Nueva Inglaterra"
 Londres, Costa Rica, small rural Costa Rican community about  east of Quepos on the Rio Naranjo river
 Londres, Lot-et-Garonne, a former commune of France, now part of Puymiclan
 Nueva Londres, a town in the Caaguazú department of Paraguay

People with the surname
 Albert Londres (1884–1932), French journalist and writer
 Richie Londres, also known as Altered Beats, English musician, hip hop record producer, lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist

Other uses
Albert Londres Prize, prize in the name of Albert Londres
Radio Londres, a radio broadcast from 1940 to 1944 from the BBC in London to Nazi occupied France
 Londres Nova, Mars, capital of the Martian Congressional Republic in the Expanse series

See also
 London (disambiguation)

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Tying the knot on the seas is growing ever more popular with couples looking for an extra special wedding day. With exceptional dining options, incredible seascape views and exquisite service, cruise lines can provide an incredibly romantic setting for the big day. Here we explore the cruise ships offering wedding packages.
Princess Cruises offer three different wedding packages giving guests the chance to marry aboard the fleet, harborside or on any part of the excursions. The 'Tie the Knot at Sea' package includes use of the onboard wedding chapel, flower arrangements, rose bouquet, wedding cake and a candlelit ceremony officiated by the captain. The 'Tie the Knot Harborside' package includes a ceremony officiated by a nondenomenational officiant, rose bouquet, wedding cake and silk floral arrangements. Finally, the 'Tie the Know Ashore' package gives guests the chance to marry in any of the Princess Cruises' excursion destinations.
Furthermore, the cruise company have also started a Honeymoon Wishes Registry programme, allowing friends and family of the happy couple to pay for extras for the newlyweds to enjoy on their honeymoon.
The 'Royal Romance' programme from Royal Caribbean offers three different marriage packages. All of the packages give the happy couple the opportunity to marry on board the ship or in one of the hundreds of stunning excursion destinations. The premiere package, Royal Romance at Sea, includes chocolate-covered strawberries in the cabin on the wedding night.
The on-shore wedding locations include stunning sites such as atop an Alaskan glacier.
With the exception of the small-sized Xpedition, all members of the Celebrity Cruises' fleet cater for wedding packages. Highlights of the wedding packages include music from a live band, one hour of photography and the 'Nautical Nuptials at Sea' – romantic extras such as champagne, chocolate-covered strawberries, his-and-hers robes and rose petals on the bed.
Celebrity Cruises also offers a tone-setting wedding reception package which includes a bridesmaid tea party, and a cigar and cognac party.
With five packages which accommodate between eight and 20 guests, Carnival Cruise Line offer a wide range of wedding packages. Champagne toasts and open bars are just two of the features of the different packages. The comprehensive 'Let Us Serve You' package incorporates all of the wedding features and amenities offered aboard the Carnival fleet.
The Carnival Cruises online gift registry makes it simple for guests to contribute towards the wedding and buy gifts for the happy couple.
Starting at £825, the 'Weddings at Sea' package includes VIP treatment, starting with a bottle of Champagne and meats, cheeses and fruit platters. P&O Cruises allows the happy couple to personalise the big day with special shore excurions including snorkelling in the Caribbean or a gondola ride in Venice.
The cruise line also offers vow renewal services.
Since changing the vessel registry from United Kingdom to Bermuda, Cunard Line's captains are permitted to conduct weddings at sea. The sophistication and elegance of the Cunard Line fleet runs throughout all of the wedding packages offered.
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Pair George III Old Sheffield Plate Silver Candelabra, circa 1820.
A FINE PAIR OF OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE SILVER CANDELABRA. GEORGE III, CIRCA 1820.
Of a superb Regency design of twin branch, three light form, with gadroon drip pans, vertical reeded and shell mounted capitals, scroll & reeded leaf mount branches, on corresponding half fluted stems & raised on spreading circular gadroon bases.


The place where this monument was to be erected was the center of the city of Orly, located not far from Paris. But this center is traversed by a large highway with an incessant flow of cars going to and from Paris. The buildings in this place are not very tall, representing the architecture of the 1950's. It made sense to make something that would be in contrast to this gray surrounding, and at the same time, would stand up against the constant passing of cars right next to the monument. At the base of the concept for the monument lies the idea of a piece of the sky that has fallen and plunged into the ground, or the theme of an object lying on the ground that belongs to some other lofty world, an object that is alien in its nature to the place where it has wound up.
The slanted, semi-circular figure stands out sharply in contrast to the vertical, rectangular buildings as well as to the horizontal lanes of the highway. The 'mirror' was also placed on the grass in a semi-round form, and a semi-circular path for pedestrians and for cars to pull up to the buildings runs around the grassy area. A path and a small sandy area for erecting a memorial plaque indicating to what this monument is dedicated were cut out directly in front of the mirror on the grass. The path to the monument is united with the common pedestrian path running parallel to the highway. Enormous old trees grow on both sides of the path along the highway, forming an interval in the place where the monument is situated. Flagpoles are erected behind the monument, as well as two poles for lighting the monument during nighttime.
The monument is erected in honor of the famous airborne division Normandie-Niemen. During the Second World War, a division of pilots was formed whose airplanes bombed enemy positions along the front line as well as deep into the territory of Germany. The division was based in Normandie. Having bombed their targets, the planes would land in the Niemen region, get a fresh supply of bombs, and head back in the opposite direction, fulfilling the same mission on the way. Russian pilots and technical personnel participated in numerous operations of the division. During these very dangerous raids over enemy territory, a large number of French pilots, among whom were many representatives of aristocratic families, were shot down. In memory of the pilots who perished in battle, the French and Soviet governments decided to erect a monument in two places, in France, and in the USSR: in France, it was to be in Orly, near Paris. In the USSR it was to be in 'Star City' near Moscow. Moreover, one of the conditions for erecting the monuments was that the monument in France was to be designed by a Soviet artist, and the one in the USSR, correspondingly, by a French artist.


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10 things developers wish CIOs knew about their job
By Alison DeNisco Rayome in Software on April 12, 2018, 4:00 AM PST
These tips from developers can help CIOs gain a broader perspective on the needs of the tech team.
Video: How to hire and retain great developer talent From startups and SMBs to the enterprise, the tech skills gap impacts every company. TechRepublic contributor Matt Asay explains how to locate, recruit, and retain the top-tier technology talent.
Developers are responsible for carrying out the technology vision of the CIO. However, many feel that the CIO does not fully understand the pressures they are up against, and what tools and training they need to succeed at their job and create the most value.
"Above all, developers want to be trusted by their CIOs," said Brian Rock, senior director of engineering at Applause. "When all is said and done, developers—like all employees—want to be seen as owners of the products they are delivering. Owners, much like consumers, care about quality and customer experience."
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Here are 10 things developers say they wish CIOs knew about their job.
1. Developers need training to innovate
CIOs sometimes mistake the amount of time it takes to implement new technologies, said Daryl Heinz, CEO of data consultancy DF Heinz.
"It does not take 3 years to get to the cloud," Heinz said. "Most big data vendors are all selling same open source solutions that are available for free online. An investment in training developers to secure and understand open source tools would cut existing data license and storage fees by 80%. This how Fortune 500 companies maintain competitive advantage in the market today, but few of them would want you to know that."
SEE: Hiring kit: Python developer (Tech Pro Research)
2. CIOs must communicate the mission of a project
CIOs need to clearly communicate the overall mission of a project, and encourage development team managers to reinforce that message, said William Ma, team lead and solution architect at Mendix.
"Often, developers are given a list of requirements to work on and aren't given the full context of the intended outcome of the project," Ma said. "This can create issues when the list of requirements is completed, and while it meets the requirements, it may not be the best solution for the intended business purpose and updates need to be made."
3. Developers aren't just writing code
Practices like Agile and DevOps have transformed developers' responsibilities over the past few years, said Michael Dikman, a software team manager at Perfecto.
"We aren't just writing code anymore," Dikman said. "A decade ago, that seemed like the case; back then, our role was laser-focused on writing code, pushing it out into the world and then moving on to the next project. Today, however, our job is so much more than that."
Developers are now creating applications, rather than just features, that they know works for people across a variety of platforms and geographies, Dikman said. "This means we need greater insight into not only our business objectives, but the customer experience, too," he added. "For our code to work well we need to be able to constantly collect feedback from the customers in real-time, whether that's via one-by-one user monitoring or synthetic monitoring. Essentially, we now need to act and think more like business owners rather than code slingers."
4. QA testing isn't easy
CIOs sometimes forget that developers are also responsible for unit test implementation and documentation following the completion of product development, said Alex Ough, CTO architect at Sungard Availability Services.
"This can be a struggle for developers given their other responsibilities, but it's important to complete, especially when dealing with microservices that interact heavily with one another," Ough said. "Performing thorough unit testing can help identify and resolve a minor bug before deployment. If proper testing is not performed, an undetected bug has the potential to cause a lot of wasted time trying to find the root cause later on down the road."
5. Rethink re-architecting apps
New application architecture best practices are introduced almost regularly, according to Mor Cohen, cloud CTO of Turbonomic and former senior software engineer, from monolithic applications, to three tier applications, to microservices based 12-factor architecture, through full FaaS and serverless architecture.
"While clearly there are benefits to moving to more advanced architectures there is a significant cost associated with it," Cohen said. "Instead of jumping to the latest trend and setting goals on percentage of apps that need to be re-architected, CIOs should focus on evaluating each application based on the value and effort that re-architecting would provide."
Sometimes there are less expensive ways to achieve those benefits with less effort, she added.
SEE: Job description: Java developer (Tech Pro Research)
6. Most developers aren't security experts
Software vulnerabilities can have catastrophic business consequences, but most developers don't have the security expertise to prevent those vulnerabilities from making it into production—especially when they are releasing software at the speed and scale common in DevOps environments, said Ofer Maor, director of solutions management at Synopsys Software Integrity Group.
"Most developers aren't security experts and they aren't intimately familiar with the multitude of ways adversaries might try to exploit their software," Maor said. "Developers need help from tools, processes and security experts, but in such a way that doesn't prevent them from doing their job effectively and efficiently."
This also means providing training to avoid common security pitfalls, and rapid, accurate, security feedback. It also means the CIO must support the decision to "break the build" when a critical security vulnerability is found, Maor said.
7. Deadlines need to be well thought out
As digital transformation initiatives have every enterprise entering a new era of cloud, cybersecurity, and automation, developers can struggle to meet delivery goals—especially when CIOs don't fully understand the full scope of the challenges ahead, said Malcolm Ross, vice president of product at Appian.
"These are not small initiatives and will fundamentally change how organizations operate, the type of employees they hire and the tools they use to digitally transform the enterprise," Ross said.
Developers are often measured against seemingly conflicting objectives, Maor said. "Most developers are measured on their ability to meet deadlines, i.e. time-to-market," Maor said. "They are also expected to produce secure, high-quality code but are not necessarily incentivized to do so at the expense of meeting deadlines. Equipping them the right tools and best practices is important, but also acknowledging the extra effort it requires and balancing it with other KPIs will make it much easier for developers to prioritize software security and quality."
8. Tools must be chosen from both a technical and business perspective
CIOs sometimes select tools from a business perspective, without first assembling the technical nuts and bolts that impact developers, said Jennifer Reif, a developer relations engineer at Neo4j.
"In a traditional enterprise hierarchy, developers rely on IT leadership support to get the business buy-in and success of solutions," Reif said. "Developer ideas have far more momentum and success with leadership backing. CIOs should involve developers before giving any (even rough) estimates to an organization's leadership, as the business will likely hold IT to whatever number is given."
9. Process changes require C-level buy-in
CIOs need to understand that fundamental process changes, such as moving from waterfall to DevOps, requires support from the entire C-suite, said Randy Bias, vice president for cloud technology and strategy at Juniper Networks.
"[These changes] impact the way dev services are consumed and delivered across the enterprise," Bias said. "Ignoring this puts developers in an impossible situation where expectations are unmet and they are blamed, because the CIO and his or her C-level counterparts did not plan well."
10. The developer role is shifting
CIOs need to understand how the developer role is shifting, said Kiran Chitturi, CTO architect at Sungard Availability Services.
"In the past, developers were highly specialized—frontend/backend, one specific language, platform, etc.," Chitturi said. "However in today's landscape, a CIO should place more value on hiring 'full-stack' developers with a DevOps, CI/CD mindset, who are willing to learn new technologies."
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Anything is paw-sible as purpose-built doggie day care centre near Bedford is unveiled
New larger Co-op store opening in Cranfield after £1.2m investment
LEP there be light...
A HIGH-profile summit will be held in Bedfordshire Wednesday, November 17, to find out what businesses want from the newly formed South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
Wednesday, 10th November 2010, 5:00 am
The Business and Enterprise Summit at Cranfield Innovation Centre has been planned to set in train a programme of work for the new LEP, which is meant to focus its efforts on powering economic growth in the region.
The South East Midlands LEP covers a population of more than 1.8 million people and 75,000 businesses, accounting for 3.7 per cent of the English economy.
Councils and businesses in this huge area have been brought together under the new LEP, including the Chambers of Commerce of Bedfordfordshire and Luton, North Bucks and Milton Keynes, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and the Institute of Directors.
Local authorities in Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Aylesbury Vale in Buckinghamshire, Northampton, Kettering and Corby, South Northamptonshire, Daventry and Cherwell in Oxfordshire have been brought under the umbrella of the new body.
While business leaders contacted by Business Monthly have their concerns that the new LEP could turn into an unwieldy talking shop, dominated by local politicians, they remain engaged in the process.
The FSB in the Luton and Dunstable area has welcomed the go-ahead for the first 24 LEPs, including South East Midlands.
But it says the 'immediate focus' should be to set priorities to encourage business growth and ensure that small firms really are at the heart of the local community.
FSB Luton and South Beds chairman Carole Hegley said: "The FSB has always been an advocate of local businesses working in partnership with local authorities so setting up these business-led partnerships is the logical next step.
"We are delighted that the first LEPs are beginning to take shape and it is right that those that are ready to do so are not held back.
"If these partnerships are going to be successful they must genuinely involve local businesses to get things done – not fall into the temptation of merely paying lip service to the small business sector.
"The immediate focus for each new LEP should be to set priorities to encourage business growth in the area. As the voice of small business, the FSB must be involved in all LEPs as they emerge in order to ensure small businesses are at their core, as it is small firms that are at the heart of successful local communities."
The region's universities, in Bedfordshire, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Buckingham and Cranfield are set to become central to a new development strategy aimed at encouraging a "diverse and competitive knowledge economy with first class infrastructure and high growth, built on local private sector strengths, exports and job creation."
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Poet in Pakistan: the Flamboyant Carolyn Kizer
14 March, 2021 • Marian Janssen
"Sufic Trance IV" by Salma Arastu (courtesy of the artist).
Marian Janssen, a Dutch writer, was asked to write the—unauthorized–biography of poet, essayist and author Carolyn Kizer (1923-2014). Kizer founded the journal Poetry Northwest, became the first Literature Director at the NEA, and a member of the Academy of American Poets— from which she soon resigned in protest because it remained a white old boys club. Her life resembled a soap opera: she had an affair with Abe Fortas, Supreme Court Justice and fixer for President Johnson, as well as with Hubert Humphrey. And when she went to Pakistan in 1964, she returned not only with translations from Urdu, but also with a lover. Most of her affairs were with writers, from Hayden Carruth to Robert Conquest, David Wagoner and John Wain.
Marian Janssen
Trying to convince me to write the biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning feminist poet and writer Carolyn Kizer, her daughter, Ashley Bullitt, described her mother's life as follows: "…a movie-star gorgeous 6-foot-tall Amazon sex goddess who fought . . . her way out of hicktown to go everywhere and know everyone, and was also the wittiest woman in the world, and a brilliant intellectual, teacher and poet, who through her work as a civil servant transformed the role of culture in the lives of the American people."
Clearly, I could not pass up the opportunity to write about such a female powerhouse and I am now Carolyn Kizer's biographer. Below is part of her story.
Desperately Leaving Seattle
"Well, it's happened: I'm free, beige and thirty-eight! I get $5,000 'severance pay' on the first of January, and that's it. The children are, however, well-provided for, for the first time. And they are hilarious at the thought of freedom: we're all released from the court order requiring us to live within the Seattle city limits. So onwards with the Guggenheim. And lay it on thick, will you?" (Unless otherwise indicated, quotations are from the Carolyn Kizer Collection at the Lilly Library, Indiana University. This letter is from Carolyn Kizer to Stanley and Elise Kunitz, October 21, 1963. Kunitz Collection, Princeton University.)
Carolyn Kizer, poet and founding editor of Poetry Northwest, was desperate to leave Seattle after the debacle of her marriage to Stimson Bullitt, heir to the King Broadcasting Company media conglomerate, founded by his mother Dorothy in 1946. In October 1963, just a few days after her divorce decree modification came through, she had asked Stanley Kunitz to be one of her referees for a Guggenheim grant. Kizer was lonely in small-town Seattle without her circle of literary friends. Theodore Roethke, her beloved bearlike mentor, had drowned in a swimming pool and David Wagoner, her former suitor of seven years, no longer wanted to see her now that he was married. James Wright and Richard Hugo had left the city. She planned to use the Guggenheim to work on her translations of Tang Dynasty master poet Tu Fu with scholars of Chinese at Columbia University in New York City for half a year, followed by a similar period in Italy, to perfect them. Kunitz's glowing reference notwithstanding, the Guggenheim went to one of Kizer's many lovers, editor and essayist Emile Capouya.
In spite of everything she contemplated, from moving to New York City to emigrating to Great Britain, Kizer remained stuck in Seattle almost a year after she had regained her independence. Robie Macauley—then editor of the prestigious Kenyon Review, soon bought out by Playboy magazine—was Kizer's savior. The State Department had asked him to attend a literary conference in Pakistan, but as he was too busy, he suggested Kizer, who jumped at this chance. Within weeks of her acceptance, State improved their offer, proposing as an experiment that Kizer become their Specialist in Literature—in effect, poet-in-residence—staying for six months (with a possible extension of three) at the royal salary of $700 a month, some $6,000 today. Kizer was hysterical with joy. She could leave small-minded Seattle behind; besides, it released her once and for all from her sadomasochistic relationship with Capouya, "a brilliant, gifted man, but . . . crazier than a bedbug."
Carolyn Kizer reads to a rapt audience in Lahore, circa 1964 (clipping courtesy Marian Janssen).
She quickly turned her life around. "She left in a whirlwind, preparing the next double issue of Poetry Northwest with one hand and packing with the other," co-editor William Matchett apologized to David Sandberg, who wondered what had happened to his submissions. (October 7, 1964. Poetry Northwest Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.) Kizer discussed Poetry Northwest's editorship with substitute John Logan in Chicago, was briefed by the State Department in Washington D.C., and met with President Johnson's fixer, brilliant lawyer Abe Fortas—with whom she had had a long affair while still married to Stimson Bullitt. Then on to New York City, London and Paris, ending up in Switzerland (her daughter Ashley accompanied her because she had enrolled at the posh international school Monta Rosa in Montreux), before flying on to Karachi.
Arriving in Pakistan
"Pakistan, Land of Contrasts!" Kizer wrote to her friends just two weeks after her arrival. Although she was generally far more liberal than her fellow Americans, her letter nevertheless shows that she was heavily influenced by the prejudices of her time. "Somehow, I find myself thinking in captions, rather like a tourist brochure or a travel-talk. Behind the hotel, a large old camel tethered to a large new Buick; two boys on one bicycle, the one not pedalling [sic] furiously is leading a young colt; drinking coke on the beach and putting down the Herald Tribune to watch a snake-charmer or a pair of trained monkeys. . . listening to a poet's young sister chanting a poem in Urdu while a hi-fi set plays a Mozart sonata." Tongue-in-cheek, she added that she wanted to get her impressions down while she was still "an expert on the country: after a few months I won't know anything." She knew that she had come into contact with only a minute number of well-educated and well-off people in Pakistan, but could not praise the women highly enough. She was sure that once they succeeded in breaking free of the restrictions placed on them in even the most enlightened households, they would "light up Chicago on a Saturday night," because they possessed so much personal electricity. She was enamored, too, of Pakistan's architecture, its "opulence and wide arms, mak[ing] European gothic seem crammed, overly-vertical and somehow pursed and puritanical." Lahore, where she lived, was "Metro-Goldwyn-Moghul, tacky, tatty, crumbling pastel plaster, HUGE signs stuck on everything. . . but all it needs is a sign-remover and some buckets of plaster, and the shot-gun marriage of Mohammed and Queen Victoria would be revealed in all its charming splendor."
Kizer was critical of the men, who were far too interested in playing political games, she judged. She did not take into account that then still-recent Partition of India in 1947, with its heritage of death and destitution, had left bloody wounds. She reserved her most severe censure for Islam. Naively, again, she believed that Pakistan should have done everything in its power to play down religious fanaticism after the mass murders, looting, and raping that had taken place at the time of Partition. Always quick to pass judgment, Kizer condemned what she saw as "a fantastic amount of hypocrisy: Muslims don't touch alcohol (you should see them lapping up American whiskey at private parties); official standards of chastity and morality are so high that rape is the commonest crime here, and no woman, brown, white, or puce, would think of going alone in the streets after twilight."
Another dangerous tendency, she concluded, was censorship. The country's most prominent paper, the Pakistan Times, was a mere instrument of government propaganda, filled with worshipful pages about the superiority of Islam. As a writer, she balked "at the spectacle of slaughter and rapine committed on the English language in every periodical." As a citizen of imperialist America, Kizer regarded English "in the mainstream of world literature and technical thought," as the language in which Asia could and should communicate with the world. She also took Pakistanis to task for pronouncing English in such a strange way that "one can listen to quite a long statement before realizing that it is in English, not in Urdu or one of the dialects." Eventually Kizer stopped her snap judgments and bitching, seeing that her usual "eternal note of asperity" had crept in, admitting that she would probably "blush, should I read it six months hence."
Kiser and Aijaz Ahmad (photo courtesy Marian Janssen).
Poet in Pakistan
As Specialist in Literature, Kizer intended both to acquaint her host country with literary and intellectual trends in the United States and to learn about Pakistani writing and movements. She was determined to devote one issue of Poetry Northwest to works translated from the local languages Urdu, Pashto, or Bengali. Sponsored by the American Asia Society, she also hoped to publish a separate East-West magazine containing works of writers from both countries.
Lahore is situated in the eastern part of Pakistan, close to Kashmir—the apple of continuing territorial discord after Partition. This city was Pakistan's old cultural center, similar to Boston, Kizer thought, because it, too, was a self-obsessed, stratified society, closed to strangers. And if its literary community was thriving, it was simultaneously very diffuse, most members being educators, lawyers, civil servants, and doctors, who wrote on the side. They were divided into cliques, spending much of their intellectual energy on infighting. As Kizer was the first state-sponsored writer to stay in Pakistan for an extended period of time, she was thrust into this hornet's nest without being adequately briefed beforehand. She also had to face the fact that Pakistan's interest in western literature, which was not all that keen to begin with, was British-oriented.
Her first public appearance was inauspicious.
"I went to the University of Karachi, prepared to deliver a lecture on current trends in American literature. I think I shall quote my introduction, by a young woman professor in the English Department, more or less verbatim: 'Due no doubt to our British heritage, we Pakistanis believe that Americans have no culture.' Miss Kizer"—she continued, "gulped a few times, and mentally cast her lecture out of the window." Instead, she read passages from Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau, "coming at last to the safe harbor in the ample arms of Walt Whitman." She may have managed to convince a few in that audience that Americans have some culture, but she soon found that intellectually and culturally, America was held in low regard. Indeed, in the early 1960s there were no courses in American literature at any university in Pakistan.
As there had been only a short period between Kizer's being offered her job and her hasty departure for Pakistan, she had not had time to learn any of its languages. Understandably, this, too, made the local literati look down upon her. How dare this person, who spoke English only, pretend to understand their poetic traditions, which were thousands of years old and vastly superior to those of America? Even worse, she was a mere woman. Before she was selected, there had indeed been vigorous debate on the advisability of sending a woman—a feminist to boot—to a strict Muslim country. Kizer, who hardly ever questioned her own judgment, was convinced that it was imperative to do so, "whether or not they want liberated women to visit the subcontinent, they certainly need them!"
As was her habit in dealing with problems, she brought sex and humor into play: "Any woman talking before an audience at a male college has no worries about holding their attention. Many of them are having their first view of the female leg, and one has to resist the impulse to crouch down so as to meet them on eye level." Truth to tell, she was distressed to find that "the social and sexual mores of this society are so utterly different from our own that—at least until they become used to the idea of a woman on her own. . .it was simpler to behave as if I didn't exist."
Being undervalued and overlooked made her first weeks in Lahore extremely tough on Kizer, who was used to being the center of attention. A serious case of dysentery—though it had the one advantage, she thought, that it made her lose twenty pounds—upset her further. Distraught because the United States Information Service (USIS) left her to flounder, she sent a missive to the highest official she knew, Abe Fortas. He was keen to rush to her rescue: "I hope that you are no longer being neglected. What a stupid waste of great natural resources. When you get this letter, if things are not straightened out, send me a cable . . . and say, 'Please do something.'"
In the end, his intervention was not necessary, for Kizer had found her way: she had secured a male chaperone, a young and handsome writer, Aijaz Ahmad.
After she had overcome her dysentery, USIS helped organize numerous introductory teas, dinners, receptions, and readings. Often, these gatherings were separate for men and women—the larger ones mainly for men only. In the course of her stay, the invitations came to include visits to sculpture exhibitions, touristy trips to the ancient architectural splendors of Mughal Fort Lahore and the paradisiacal Shalamar Gardens, as well as to the National Horse and Cattle show. She loved the mushairas—interactive poetry performances where Urdu poetry was spoken or sung—the most. For although Kizer did not understand the language, poetry, for her, was first and foremost musical. USIS also arranged her poetry readings and lectures. While she was initially regarded with suspicion, she soon became a source of fascination. USIS noted with satisfaction that her reading in Lahore attracted its largest audience ever. She even won over the head of the English department of a men's college, "who was known to feel strongly that Matthew Arnold was the last great poet of the English language," but who, after hearing her, decided to give a tea in her honor—and asked for more lectures.
Kizer spent much energy on her translation project. At the time, hardly any Pakistani poetry had been translated into English and, according to Kizer's chaperone, the quality of translations was almost always lamentable. For access to Urdu poetry, Aijaz Ahmad told me in an interview, "she relied almost exclusively on me." Kizer traveled all over the country, delighting in the fact that every little town had its own poetry club, Pakistan being "one of those places where you may be barefoot and penniless, but you know a lot of poetry and you can recite it by heart." Because she spoke nothing but English, it was impossible for her to pinpoint poems worthy of translation, the more so because most Pakistani poets recommended their friends' work and were offended if Kizer met their rivals. They were happy that, thanks to Kizer, their work was finally attracting international attention, but not sufficiently motivated to translate themselves, even though Kizer had obtained a grant from the Asia Society to pay for such contributions.
Carolyn Kizer and Pakistani poet Khan Abdul Ghani Khan (photo courtesy Marian Janssen).
Only a very few poets were admired by almost everyone. One was Pakistan's pet showpiece, the internationally famous and formidable Urdu writer Faiz Ahmad Faiz. The people at USIS were grateful when Kizer contacted him and the two became fast friends. Faiz, who spoke English, helped her translate his work. They were far less pleased, though, when Kizer decided to meet another of Pakistan's well-known poets, Khan Abdul Ghani Khan, who wrote in Pashto. Ghani Khan had spent much of his life in prison (mostly under British rule) because of his political activism. His government was silencing him and much of his poetry remained unpublished at the time. He was obsessed with art and poetry and not at all interested in leading a tribal uprising; besides, his years in prison, drink and drugs had damaged him. Nevertheless, the American embassy, treading very carefully, feared a diplomatic incident and refused Kizer permission to visit.
Kizer did not care and met Ghani Khan secretly in the beginning of 1965, though not so secretly that the consul did not find out: fearing repercussions, he was furious with her. Ghani Khan and Kizer also became friends and after their meeting he wrote her long, sometimes paranoid letters about his addictions, her cowardly, stupid government, and spineless Americans in general. One of his letters ended on a ray of hope, though: he felt like a poet again, for new poems were "getting ready in my bones."
By that time Kizer had her own poet. She had been very lonely during the first few weeks of her stay, for Kizer never could function without a man. She fell for Aijaz Ahmad, who was movie-star handsome, well-educated, and an inveterate reader, almost as soon as she met him. Ahmad was—like many other Pakistani men—fascinated by Kizer. Tall, blonde, and brash, she was the antipode of Pakistani women. "She is a goddess!" a poet exclaimed after attending one of her readings at a mushaira, "She is mighty!" (quoted by Barbara Thompson, "Carolyn Kizer: The Art of Poetry," Paris Review, Spring 2000.) Kizer's true interest in their poetry and culture (though prejudiced, she was far less hegemonic than most of her fellow Americans) and her ravishing reading in a rich contralto in a country where the oral tradition was vital endeared her to Pakistani writers, particularly Ahmad. Soon, they had become inseparable, Ahmad transporting her everywhere, usually on the back of his scooter. Kizer needed an escort, for it was unwise to go about unchaperoned anywhere. As it was, she was stared and jeered at, and even beaten with sticks on her bare legs.
Ahmad's and Kizer's relationship turned sexual. Theirs seemed like a very unequal alliance, particularly in Pakistan's cultural context where women were subservient, self-effacing, and soft-spoken—everything Kizer was not. Few Pakistani men would have been able to cope with her, yet Ahmad was. (American men also found it difficult to deal with Kizer's self-assurance and sense of entitlement, her conviction that she was more brilliant than most of them—as indeed she was.) Furthermore, she was taller than he, something most men would have found threatening to their masculinity. Finally, Ahmad was not yet thirty, while Kizer was in her early forties. Did Kizer regard him as a pretty boy toy to pass the time with? Initially that may have been the case, but their correspondence after Kizer left Pakistan and Ahmad behind reveals that they developed deep feelings for each other.
Carolyn Kizer at home in Lahore (photo courtesy Marian Janssen).
A few months after her arrival, the American consul had decided the house Kizer shared with two Fulbright ladies was simply not good enough for her. He allowed her the use of one of the most luxurious houses in all of Lahore. Its previous, high-placed American inhabitant had been found in flagrante with someone else's wife and had therefore been sent back to America in shame. Having a whole house to herself opened up myriad possibilities for the burgeoning romance between Kizer and Ahmad, away from both the prying eyes of her former housemates and the local and expat communities in Lahore. Considering the circumstances under which Kizer had been assigned her new home, it is probable that they kept their relationship a secret. USIS would not have been so approving of their first long-term Specialist in Literature, had they known that she was fraternizing with a leftist local poet. Many of Ahmad's anti-American friends would have looked askance at their liaison, too. When she returned to Seattle, their correspondence was often veiled— Ahmad fearing that his government was spying on him. Nevertheless, his first letter ended: "[t]here will be nothing and nobody in my life whom I may love so much, so fully, with so much tenderness and gratitude—nothing that will make me happier or a better man." He was sore, though, that Kizer had not taken the three-month extension, which USIS had urged her to accept.
In the spring of 1965, in her debriefing, Kizer explained that she had turned the extension down because of the escalation of the Vietnam war, lecturing State Department officials on how ruinous their Vietnam policy was. (The head of its Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs did not mind: he thought she was "the greatest thing since color TV.") Kizer's official "Report on Pakistan" shows that her half year in her host country had opened her eyes politically. Before, she had not understood the anti-Americanism of both Pakistan's intellectual left and its government. All condemned what they saw as America's naivete in supporting India's aggression towards Pakistan; all condemned its uncooperative stance in the smoldering Kashmir conflict. America's imperialist involvement in Vietnam had only aggravated those hostile sentiments. Its coca-colonization as well as, conversely, the "bands of roving Beatniks and assorted intellectual poor white trash . . . searching for thrills from drugs, religious mendicants and sexual exotics" further violated the customs of the host country. ("Report on Pakistan.")
During her stay, however, Kizer's opinion of Pakistani women had changed for the worse. In her final report she described them as "extremely dull," because, she stated, they were undereducated and underexposed—but then, to her, most American housewives were not worthy of attention, either. As she had predicted in that first long letter home, she now realized that it was hard to evaluate the qualities of Pakistani culture, because it was in such contrast to her own. Not surprisingly, then, her advice to the State Department was to send more long-term specialists. Their main task should not be to try and impose American values (standard USIS policy), but instead, "to become familiar with Pakistani culture, to sympathize, to identify, to appreciate" and (like the Russians, she goaded) to give aid in the preservation of their culture.
Though some of Kizer's remarks in her fifteen-page official report were patronizing, in all, she was at least as critical of her own country. Yet, USIS lauded her imaginative and practical ideas for cultural programming. "She personally could reach an audience which is, in general, politically alienated from the U.S. at this time," USIS noted. "She is a dynamic, stimulating person, an extremely outspoken and articulate woman," they praised. "Being a woman and without a knowledge of Urdu she would have been submerged here without some of her forcefulness and a marvelous sense of humor." They also remarked that her contacts were far more meaningful than those of the usual three-day visiting specialists, surprisingly mentioning that her presence had been of particular encouragement to women writers.
Kizer did not correspond with, publish, or translate Pakistani women after her return.
Painting of 1965 Indo-Pak War on the Punjab front by Gp. Cptn. SMA Hussaini (courtesy of the artist).
Back in the U.S.A.
"When you were here," Ahmad reminisced a few weeks after she had left, "we rarely talked of anything other than poetry, or criticism of poetry. That was mainly because I wanted to be worthy of what interested you." He hoped she would either return to Pakistan soon, or that he could come to America. From the Kizer Collection at the Lilly Library, it is apparent that Kizer did her utmost to find a Fulbright or a position for Ahmad ("the most brilliant young man that I met in the course of my stay"), while he was usually too depressed to undertake any action himself, preferring that Kizer return to Pakistan. But she had left just in time: the Indo-Pakistan war of 1965 broke out soon after her departure. Cities were bombed and American women and children evacuated. Fiercely patriotic, in the midst of death and destruction, feeling he was writing in a vacuum as mail came through only very intermittently, Ahmad gave up on Kizer. He was sure he would never see her again.
Kizer, meanwhile, increased her campaign to have Ahmad come to America. She even wrote Senator Fulbright personally, emphasizing that the State Department might be cut out for putting "together programs for farmers and scientists (watching chickens or cyclotrons)," but should not have a say with respect to programs for cultural appointees. One of her examples was of a reporter from the Pakistan Times, "who wandered lonely as a rather dark-complexioned rain cloud, getting himself turned away from, or thrown out of, Southern whites-only restaurants by irate proprietors." Obviously, she commented, his ordeal made splendid copy in the Pakistani anti-American papers, thus entirely defeating the purpose of the Fulbright program.
There are gaps in the—one-sided—correspondence at the Lilly Library and I am not sure whether Kizer's personal appeal helped Ahmad gain entry to the United States. They were reunited in November 1966, about a year and a half after they had last seen each other. By that time, Kizer's career had taken off spectacularly. President Johnson had created the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and its first director had made her director of its literary program—with a nepotistic nudge from Abe Fortas. Self-styled "cultural czarina," Kizer found herself shadowed by the FBI. From the hundreds of (often partially blacked out) pages of the Bureau's reports it is clear that Kizer—anti Vietnam, a left-liberal suspected of communist tendencies—underwent a full field investigation. Not only were her college classmates interviewed, but also various landlords, as well as her Seattle neighbors. One of those complained that Kizer "had spent a good deal of time during warmer weather sitting or working in her front yard scantily clad" which was "improper and illustrated [her] unstableness." Indeed, not only Kizer's allegiance to the United States, but her career, character, and love-life all underwent serious scrutiny. FBI's final, bureaucratese verdict was affirmative, however: "She is considered loyal to United States although non-conformist." Confident of a positive outcome, and eager as always to flee from Seattle, Kizer had already moved mid-term to Washington D.C. with her two younger children, Scott and Jill. Ahmad joined them there and came to live in her basement apartment.
Kizer had never made a secret of the fact that she had lovers—her teenage daughter Ashley was her confidante, sometimes even wingwoman—but Scott and Jill did not seem to realize that the relationship between their mother and Ahmad was more than that of mentor and mentee, lessor and lessee. Kizer introduced him everywhere, taking him to parties where they hobnobbed with Washington luminaries such as Bobby and Teddy Kennedy (according to Kizer "a ferret" and "gorgeous," respectively), but also, often, with Washington's "colored" establishment. Ahmad never held back his impassioned political views. When, at a dinner party, prominent black journalist Chuck Stone, decrying the continuing discrimination of Blacks and wondering where people of color were ever "going to get the TROOPS to fight the Whites," Ahmad answered: "Asia, of course, buddy. We have plenty of dark Asians who will fight on your side." Kizer observed that she was glad he was not talking with activist Rap Brown (now Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, imprisoned for murder), otherwise the two of them would have marched on Georgetown right then and there.
Their political differences were small, however, Kizer being just slightly less vocal than Ahmad. For though she was now working for the Johnson administration, she remained outspoken in her opposition to his war in Vietnam. But in America the contrasts between their two utterly different cultures were magnified. Dependent on queen bee Kizer, in her country, in her social circle, Ahmad, a landowner used to being served, accustomed to deference, was humiliated. Living in her basement did not help. Kizer prided herself on giving him a footing among the intelligentsia, on supplying him with books, paintings, and even clothes. She stamped him all over with her American way of life. Her well-intentioned generosity (if with a paternalistic whiff), proved too much for his sense of self-worth. For some two years, though, they managed to make both worlds meet. They worked together on translating Urdu poetry, introducing its now so beloved ghazal to America. "If I Were Certain," one of Faiz Ahmad Faiz's ghazals which they had (freely) translated together was particularly pertinent. It ends:
No song of mine can be a panacea
For suffering, though it may soothe your grief.
My song is not a lancet but a salve
Touching the famous sorrows of your life.
Only a knife can end your agony,
Killing, redeeming. I cannot fulfill you.
Nor any breathing being on this earth
Except yourself, except yourself, except yourself.
The Nation, November 4, 1968
Coming to America: The Ghazal
Kizer at home in Lahore, Pakistan, 1965 (photo courtesy Marian Janssen).
As early as March 1965, Kizer had written poet Hayden Carruth that she was working on ghazals with help from native translators. She was enchanted by the ghazal's formal restrictions, especially the second line, which "always ends with the same word, usually with the same phrase; and sometimes the whole line is repeated, preferably with the same slight twist which you give a repeated line in a villanelle. The fun comes in deciding on the refrain line" (Carolyn Kizer to Hayden Carruth, March 12, 1965. Hayden Carruth Papers, University of Vermont). She also was busy working on her special Poetry Northwest issue on Pakistan. In the end, she published an international issue with poems by three Pakistani poets—Zulfikar Ghose, Shahid Hosain, and Salim-Ur-Rahman—squeezed in between translations and impressions from Chinese and Japanese poetry. In her contributor's notes, Kizer listed optimistically that Salim-Ur-Rahman was "industriously and eloquently translating contemporary Urdu poetry into English for a special issue of this magazine" (Poetry Northwest, 1965-1966, Vol 6,4 p. 48). That was not to be, because Salim-Ur-Rahman, battered by the war, had become not only violently anti-India, but also anti-America—and anti-Kizer: "It is this mass-killing [in Kashmir] which never gets reported in American Press. You don't care, do you?" he scolded in November 1965. He now was against the idea of a special issue, thinking this a step down from a general one. A few months later, in February, he was no longer in the mood for translating, either, having come to regard it as "troublesome and unrewarding work. No offense intended." In the end, the East-West magazine for the Asia Society also failed to materialize.
In January 1968, Ahmad and Kizer did perform together on a program for the Asia Society, "when he and I will read Urdu poetry and his and my translations of same. All sorts of prominent people have been invited, so I am anxious that we be a success." (To Benjamin Kizer, January 19, 1968. Lilly.) Indeed, Kizer had not only written to numerous people on Ahmad's behalf, trying to find him a graduate program, a teaching assistantship, or a job as a translator, but had also introduced him to her enormous network of literary friends. Ahmad's brilliance, drive, and his love for his native poetry resonated with a number of poets—among them William Stafford, already established and, on the brink of fame, William Merwin and Adrienne Rich. He convinced them to write versions of Ghalib's timeless ghazals for the centennial of his death. Following the method Kizer and he had worked out together, Ahmad translated and annotated the ghazals, and the American poets then wrote their free "transmissions." The ghazals' music, language of loss and love, their otherness, and abstract multivalence rang fresh with poets and a reading public that, at the beginning of the hip 1970s, were looking for an escape from literary modernism and cultural-political isolationism. Ahmad's Ghazals of Ghalib (Columbia University Press, 1971) is now generally regarded as having introduced ghazals to America, where they almost immediately became embedded in its literary tradition.
The glaring omission in this collection is Kizer.
Carolyn Kizer's Harping On, collected poems from 1985-1995, is available from Copper Canyon Press, as are several other of her titles.
Opposites attract and after their reunion Ahmad had even mentioned matrimony. However, after her first, prison-like marriage, Kizer cherished her freedom; besides she thought Ahmad deserved starting a family—and she was not willing to burden herself with more children. Clashing cultures, contrasting views of the roles of women and men, in combination with their proud, fiery characters became a recipe for disaster. They broke up at the end of 1968. In her vitriolic farewell letter, Kizer mentioned their sexual incompatibility—managing to emasculate him, Ahmad must have felt, by telling him that she had been totally frustrated. Kizer was embittered that Ahmad had traded her for Adrienne Rich, only a few years younger than her and a similarly unfit candidate to have children with. Kizer herself was two-timing him, too, though, with an Austrian-Australian opera singer and producer, who had the advantage of being married and living abroad. Ahmad, for all his attractive otherness, was part of her daily life, and therefore just too close. Recognizing that Kizer had tried to pave the way for him in America, and still caring for her, Ahmad truly hoped to remain friends, but Kizer excised him from her life.
Kizer's love for Urdu poetry and the ghazal remained steadfast. While most American poets were following in the footsteps of those published in Ahmad's collection and played with the ghazal's rules, Kizer adhered to its original conventions. Kashmiri American Muslim poet Agha Shahid Ali considered the free verse ghazal a contradiction in terms. In September 1996, he implored Kizer to write a real ghazal, as she was "someone who knows forms intuitively." "Let's—please—put this thing called ghazal, floating from so many American monthlies to quarterlies, in its proper place, for it is nothing of the kind," he started his "Transparently Invisible: An Invitation from the Real Ghazal." "When I complained to Carolyn Kizer (as a translator of Faiz Ahmad Faiz she knows the real thing) that the Americans have got the ghazal quite wrong, she, in extravagant despair, responded: 'Have they ever'" (Poetry Pilot, Winter 1995-1996, p. 34).
Kizer had translated real ghazals such as "Among the Trees" by Nazir Kazmi with Salim-Ur -Rahman:
Yellow and white and red and blue and green—
No end to color there among the trees.
The sad and lovelorn princess of perfumes,
I apprehended her last night among the trees.
For an interval, so brilliant were her eyes
There was a kind of glow among the trees.
The path of lights ran straight, then suddenly
For some dark reason, swerved into the trees.
The denizens of the garden were amazed
Last night: There was a man among the trees.
Carbon copy, Kizer collection, courtesy Lilly Library
Ali's anthology Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English (2000) caused another explosion of interest in this verse form. Ironically, Kizer never contributed to this dazzling array of over a hundred poets writing real ghazals either. It is understandable, therefore, that her indirect but substantial role in bringing the ghazal to America has been forgotten.
Poets in Pakistan
Kizer's affair with Aijaz Ahmad can be seen as emblematic of her relationship with his home country. If as an American government emissary in Pakistan, she had been much more appreciative of its culture than most government officials, in the end, she favored her own. But whereas she fell out of love with everyday Ahmad, she continued to romanticize faraway Pakistan. She had ended her report in 1965: "And I know I'll go back to Pakistan one day, with or without help from Uncle, to see my friends, Pakistani and American, and that crazy mixed-up country that I pity, deplore, and love."
In the fall of 1969, Uncle Sam asked her to attend a conference in Pakistan. Kizer accepted gladly: "I was a Lahore-wallah, and this feels more like coming home than it would to, say, Seattle, Washington, where I spent fifteen years of my life feeling like a transient," she noted in "Pakistan Journal," published in her collection of translations, Carrying Over (1988). "I lived there just long enough to know how little I knew," she now admitted. Her journal anonymized most of her sources and friends, to protect them in a country that had become even more anti-American than four years earlier. Ghani Khan, already hounded, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz, too famous, perhaps to suffer prosecution, were exceptions. With Faiz she sat at the hotel bar, drinking gin and going over translations. When her fellow-conferencegoers looked for her, the hotel staff refused to tell them her whereabouts. "They damn well weren't going to interrupt us. They know how to treat poets in this country."
Marian Janssen received her PhD cum laude from Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her first book was The Kenyon Review (1939-1970): A Critical History. She received a post-doctoral fellowship for a biography of the poet Isabella Gardner. When she became full-time head of Radboud University's International Office, her research was relegated to a backburner. After giving a talk at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Marian was asked when she was going to finish her planned biography. When Marian said that writing a biography and her current position did not mix, she was offered, on the spot, a grant for a year's sabbatical. This led to her Not at All What One Is Used To: The Life and Times of Isabella Gardner (2010). She is now at work on a biography of the flamboyant American poet Carolyn Kizer.
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Welcome Arnaud from Belgium. He is our exchange student who is staying with Sarah Trisko's family.
He is pictured here with Sarah Trisko (left) and Mike Traeger (right) our club President as they exchange Rotary flags.
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IRSC opened the 2019 season splitting two games in Clearwater. In the opening game the Pioneers defeated St. Pete 4-3 but lost the second game of the weekend 10-6 to College of Central Florida.
On Friday IRSC pitcher Christian O'Kelly went three and two-thirds innings, allowing one run on two hits and striking out one.
Cole Brutcher went 2-for-4 at the plate to lead Indian River in hits.
On Saturday against CCF the Pioneers fell behind early and couldn't come back in a 10-6 loss.
Indian River put up four runs in the sixth inning. Levi Aguila, Carter Chancey, and Josh Shrouder all drove in runs in the frame.
Zachary Audet was on the pitcher's mound for IRSC. He went three innings, allowing two runs on three hits and striking out two. Christopher Astoske and Ryan Benson entered the game in relief, throwing two and two-thirds innings and two and a third innings respectively.
The Pioneers racked up nine hits on the day. Chancey, Jackson Muldowney, and Shrouder all managed multiple hits for IRSC. Shrouder, Muldowney, and Chancey each had two hits to pace the offense.
IRSC (1-1) will play Daytona Beach State on 1-30-19 in the team's home opener. Game time in Ft. Pierce is 2:00pm.


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Latest conference in London - AngularConnect 2015 (Oct 20 & 21) - showed that there are still many things that are going to be improved. Or rather - are planned to be better, meaning - still in development.
ng-forward is for those who want Angular 2 syntax in Angular 1.x. But syntax is not the most important thing - architecture is. Most of the future upgrade effort could be taken down now just by taking route of component pattern/approach. So, instead of future fighting with new syntax, you can code directives as if they were components by trying to not use controllers. In Angular 2 you're going to do that anyway.
It's totally worth reading, understanding and implementing.
Come on, Give me TypeScript already!
Done? OK. So this is a base for us. We removed standard package blaze-html-templates in exchange for Angular. ecmascript package is also removed in exchange for TypeScript compiler. Also, I assumed that everyone needs ui-router . We remove autopublish and insecure because these are just prototyping pleasure. It's enough of playing with packages, for now.
As we're not use those, remove files generated by Meteor: recipes.js, recipes.css, recipes.html.
Now, It would be best to go and create whole this structure, including empty files.
Let's configure some for the starters.
compileOnSave/buildOnSave is for Atom - make it not compiling .ts files by itself. module: commonjs is to shut up TypeScript package error, let's don't bother.
You should have angular-meteor, angular, jquery and meteor typings now installed.
- basically, you'll add here things that are not provided by external typings.
tsd.json should be added to your git so on another machine instead of manually adding all typings you can just call tsd install .
Note that there's no need for <html> tag, Meteor will handle this and few other things.
Sure, component approach is the future but we're going to code some controller in Meteor+AngularJS+TS combo. So, again - we'll use controller as it would be a component.
The last line will probably cause a little shock. Well, after this file is compiled, Meteor puts it into IIFE.
_id comes from MongoDB. It's best to make it optional ( ? operator) so it's possible to create a new Recipe without ID, it will be then created automatically. On the rest of fields you decide - optional or not.
the type is just a helper for auto-completion that we're going to use in controller!
Script above loads recipes from the file and adds one more so you can see a way to create a new Recipe.
Now, we can simply bind to vm.recipes by ng-repeat directive as if it was an array.
Now just type meteor in system console, wait a moment and enter http://localhost:3000. You shall see Best Recipes which are only those of rating equal to 5.
Full code can be found on repository here: https://github.com/Namek/meteor-angular-typescript and you can treat it as a skeleton for your app.
Angular is there since 2009 so it already proved some quality about frontend development. Of course, it has many drawbacks but it showed the world that declarative approach is the way to go.
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Illusionary State Of Mind, is a series of poster-sized illustrations inspired by a professional artist of our choice. My artist of choice was Takashi Murakami, a well-known Japan based pop artist. What I wanted to explore with Murakami's works was his use of textures and colors throughout. I wanted to try replicating his attempts with digital media. I sketched the original illustrations on paper before digitally replicating them. Murakami tends to start his process on paper and then digitally replicates an image before his team starts screen printing.


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Seattle Seahawks' Michael Bennett Calls Out Steph Curry (And Other Athletes) For Their Expensive Youth Camps: "How Much Money Do You Need?"
on July 8, 2016 at 9:45 am
Good guy/Seattle Seahawks Pro Bowl MVP Michael Bennett is one chill dude. He seems to really understand that we're all here to help one another. To hopefully one day end the struggle and make sure everyone has a good life.
The 7-year NFL veteran has had a lot of success in the league, but we have to imagine his friends and family are more impressed by his work in the community. He grew up in Houston; however, he's spent the last four years living on the island of Oahu.
As Khon 2 reports, he spends most of his time helping out in the community and giving back…
That comes from my mom and dad growing up in the community and always giving back. My dad was a part of the school board, my mom worked in the district for 20 years, and I just always wanted to give back and always make it free.
That last word being the most important for Bennett. He's been hosting a free camp for the past four years on the island, and it makes him sick when he sees these rich athletes charging kids insane amounts of money to attend their camps.
He specifically called out Steph Curry, who hosted a four-day camp on the campus of BYU-Hawaii. He charged each kid $2,250 to attend, which Bennett finds absolutely ridiculous.
I see a lot of different athletes come through Hawaii whether it's Steph Curry or whoever it is. They all come here and it makes me mad, because I live in this community and I understand this community — that there's so many kids who can't afford to pay such a high amount of money. In my mind it's like, how much money do you need before you start giving back for free?
In Curry's defense, his camp is a four-day event. Bennett's camp requires no overnight stay, which means he doesn't have to pay for their meals or lodging. But still, Curry makes over $12 million a year (just from his contract alone) so we're pretty sure he could afford to hold a free camp two or three times a year.
Let's remember, it's not just pro athletes being greedy. Actors and musicians take money from their fans all the time by charging (in some cases) close to $1,000 just for a private photo at an event like Comic-Con.
And while we're calling people out for being selfish, let's look at ourselves. I'm not rich. I'm not even poor rich. I'm just poor. But still, I could afford to donate more to local shelters. Or heck, anyone can donate time. You don't have to buy anything at all.
So just remember that while it's true most of these rich celebrities are greedy, self-absorbed buttholes, we all could be doing more to help out.
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Three weeks ago, I officially started in my new position as Learning Supervisor. It is a role which is providing me with new opportunities for new learning, daily and on many levels. The portfolio is varied and the different teams which I get to interact with are tremendously talented. One of those teams is our Instructional Coaches, which we spent the last two weeks with. It was a time for us to build a sense of team, co-construct our purpose statement and begin to explore the extensive ways in which we can support the professional learning needs of the elementary teachers within our school board. I've been so impressed with our coaches' desire to learn as much as they can about curriculum, technology, communication skills and the inner workings of Learning Support Services.
Ultimately our goal, as a team of Instructional coaches, is to support our teaching colleagues as they explore ways to improve student learning. In order to improve, we need to look at ways to change how we are meeting the learning needs of our students. In order to make informed changes we want to ensure that our teachers are immersed in their own learning. It's a rich cycle and one that is worth it! Our time with our students is limited. Let's make the most of it.


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Venjamin Venjaminovič Aleksandrov (), ruski hokejist, * 18. april 1937, Moskva, Rusija, † 12. november 1991, Rusija.

Aleksandrov je v sovjetski ligi igral celotno kariero za klub CSKA Moskva, na prvenstvenih tekmah je na 400-tih tekmah dosegel 351 golov. Za sovjetsko reprezentanco je nastopil na treh Olimpijskih igrah, na katerih je osvojil dve zlati in eno bronasto medaljo, in osmih Svetovnih prvenstvih (brez olimpijskih iger), na katerih je osvojil štiri zlate, tri srebrne in eno bronasto medaljo. Za reprezentanco je nastopil na 161-ih tekmah.

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 Seznam ruskih hokejistov na ledu

Zunanje povezave

Ruski hokejski levokrilni napadalci
Olimpijski tekmovalci za Sovjetsko zvezo
Hokejisti Zimskih olimpijskih iger 1960
Hokejisti Zimskih olimpijskih iger 1964
Hokejisti Zimskih olimpijskih iger 1968
Prejemniki zlatih olimpijskih medalj za Sovjetsko zvezo
Prejemniki bronastih olimpijskih medalj za Sovjetsko zvezo
Sovjetski hokejski reprezentanti
Hokejisti CSKA Moskva
Sprejeti v Mednarodni hokejski hram slavnih
Sprejeti v Ruski hokejski hram slavnih
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