How easy it is, and plausible, to regard a collection of letters spanning youth and old age as an approximation of autobiography: the procession of denizens who inhabit a life, the bit players with their entrances and exits, the faithful chronology of incidents—all turn up reliably in either form, whether dated and posted or backward-looking. Yet autobiography, even when ostensibly steeped in candor, tends toward reconsideration—if not revisionary paperings-over, then late perspectives, afterwords, and second thoughts. Whereas letters (but here let us specify a writer's letters) are appetite and urgency, unmediated seizures of impulse and desire torn from the fraught and living moment. And letters—sorted, indexed, bound—are themselves a paradox: hotly alive, they claim death as a requisite. Rare and anomalous is the publisher who would prefer the correspondence of the quick, however celebrated, to the letters of the dead: the death of a writer who answers his mail, especially one possessed of a powerful fame, lengthens and amplifies the body of work.
Even so, death disports with writers more cruelly than with the rest of humankind. The grave can hardly make more mute those who were voiceless when alive—dust to dust, muteness to muteness. But the silence that dogs the established writer's noisy obituary, with its boisterous shock and busy regret, is more profound than any other. Oblivion comes more cuttingly to the writer whose presence has been felt, argued over, championed, disparaged—the writer who is seen to be what Lionel Trilling calls a Figure. Lionel Trilling? Consider: who at this hour (apart from some professorial specialist currying his "field") is reading Mary McCarthy, James T. Farrell, John Berryman, Allan Bloom, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Edmund Wilson, Anne Sexton, Alice Adams, Robert Lowell, Grace Paley, Owen Barfield, Stanley Elkin, Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Leslie Fiedler, R.P. Blackmur, Paul Goodman, Susan Sontag, Lillian Hellman, John Crowe Ransom, Stephen Spender, Daniel Fuchs, Hugh Kenner, Seymour Krim, J.F. Powers, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Rahv, Jack Richardson, John Auerbach, Harvey Swados—or Trilling himself?
These names of the dead—a good number of them past luminaries, a few (Lillian Hellman, say) worthy of being forgotten—do not come randomly. They all have their fleeting turn in Saul Bellow's letters, whether vituperatively, casually, or approvingly (though scarcely ever indifferently). It is safe to say that most are nowadays not much in demand either at your local library or on Amazon, and safer yet to surmise that many have little chance of outlasting even the first third of the twenty-first century; several have barely outlasted the twentieth. Nearly all have been overtaken by newer writers lately grown familiar, vernal aspirants who crowd the horizon with their addictive clamor.
And even as these contemporary importunings swamp our perception, what can already be clearly discerned rising from this swelling armada of the twice-buried is a single exemption: Bellow. Among all the literary tumults and public roilings of the recently Famous, he alone courts lastingness, he alone escapes eclipse. To state this so bluntly is not so much a declaration as it is an inquiry. Only see how speedily the grave works its mufflings and comedowns—Ginsberg, mum; Mailer, dumb as stone. In the tracings of unassailable art, high or low, they leave improbable spoor: the poet no poet but minstrel and mountebank, the would-be immortal novelist undone by the politicized harlequin he became. Gradually they decay into symptom and artifact—documents of a receding social history—while the vestigial rustlings surrounding their names testify to nothing more memorable than outdated literary tinsel.
[My parents] needed all the help they could get. They were forever asking, "What does the man say?" and I would translate for them into heavy-footed English. That didn't help much either. The old people were as ignorant of English as they were of Canadian French. We often stopped before a display of children's shoes. My mother coveted for me a pair of patent-leather sandals with an elegantissimo strap. I finally got them—I rubbed them with butter to preserve the leather. This is when I was six or seven years old.... Amazing how it all boils down to a pair of patent-leather sandals.
It all boils down to a pair of patent-leather sandals. A dying old man's sentimental nostalgia, a fruitlessly self-indulgent yearning for a mother lost too soon? No; or not only. What we are hearing also is the culmination of a theory of pastness—and pastness means passage. In nine sentences, an annotated history of an immigrant family, where it settled, how it struggled, how it aspired; and a hint of the future novelist's moral aesthetic, the determination to preserve. As with the family, so with the family of man. Bellow, who as a graduate student studied anthropology, as a writer pursues the history of civilized thought—an inquisitiveness directed to the way experience (Augie) turns into a quest for philosophy (Henderson, Sammler, Herzog), sometimes via a scalding bath of comedy.
I attended the Tuley reunion and it was a depressing affair, on the whole—elderly people nostalgic for youth and the Depression years. There seemed nothing for them (for us) to do but to turn into middle-class Americans, all supplied with the same phrases and thoughts from the same sources. Some came from far away ... and some were crippled and required wheeling.... [One] who seemed well preserved turned out to have a hereditary disorder affecting his memory so that he was groping, while we talked, and his new wife was deeply uneasy.... But my closest friends were Oscar and Isaac, dead for many years. In every decade I try to think what they might have been like had they lived.
I even came to know Yetta's grandfather, whom I would often see at the synagogue when I came to say Kaddish for my mother. He was an extremely, primitively orthodox short bent man with a beard that seemed to rush out of him and muffled his face. He wore a bowler hat and elastic-sided boots. The old women, it seems, were wildly radical Communist sympathizers. The grandfathers were the pious ones.
Passages such as these, with their sociohistorical notation and their indelible optical prowess—rushing beard, elastic-sided boots!—can easily be found reverberating in any of Bellow's stories and novels. And even in the very first letter in this collection, a clowning response to Yetta's having jilted him in favor of one Nathan Goldstein, Bellow at seventeen was already a conscious writer—antic, teasing, showing off, pumping adolescent brio and witty pastiche. He felt what he was; he was sure of what he had.
I know you will accuse me again of putting off the philosopher's robe and of being too impatient, and that you will repeat that before I have published five or six books I can't expect to live by writing. But as I write slowly I will be forty or so before my fifth book is ready and I don't think it is unreasonable of me to expect that the most should be made of what I do produce. When I see my chances for a year or two of uninterrupted work going down the drain I can't help protesting the injustice of it. This year I have been ill and teaching leaves me no energy for writing. [Bellow at this time was assistant professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.] ... I see next year and the next and the one after that fribbled away at the university. My grievance is a legitimate one, I think. I don't want to be a commercial writer or to be taken up with money. I have never discussed money matters with you in four years, not even when I signed contracts, except for the letter I wrote you last spring about [The Victim]. You were annoyed with me. ... But now the book is out, it hasn't been badly received and already it seems to be going the way of Dangling Man.
Circumspectly, the letter was not sent. But the break with Henle was carried out; it stood for more than ambition, more than a writer's nervous self-advocacy. It was clairvoyance, it was a heralding, it spoke for the cause of imagination untrammeled. Already it bristled with the thickening future. His second novel only just published, Bellow was numbering the long row of still-to-be-written novels ahead. The unsent letter was not about money—it was about freedom, it was about becoming. Even more, it was about knowing. Bellow knew what he knew, and like some youthfully anointed evangelist, he wanted what he knew to be known. The flight from Henle was the beginning of a credo.
Compared to what is published nowadays between boards, it is an accomplishment. By my own standards, however, it is promissory. It took hold of my mind and imagination very deeply but I know that somehow I failed to write it freely, with all the stops out from beginning to end.... And I must admit that in spite of the great amount of energy I brought to the book at certain times, I was at others, for some reason, content to fall back on lesser resources.... But there is a certain diffidence about me ... that prevents me from going all out.... I assemble the dynamite but I am not ready to touch off the fuse. Why? Because I am working toward something and have not arrived.... I wanted to write before I had sufficient maturity to write as "high" as I wished and so I had a very arduous and painful apprenticeship and still am undergoing it.
Adding more than sixty years of reappraisal to Bellow's spare three months, we can argue even more effectively against the notion of apprenticeship. There is by now no getting away from it: the earlier novels need not, should not, be overshadowed or diminished by Augie. It is not too daring to venture that if Augie—grand gusts of vitality notwithstanding—had never come into being, Bellow would still have been Bellow: the mind, the wit, the word, the reach; the perplexity and the delirium of the human animal. There are whole pages in Dangling Man that might have been torn out of Seize the Day. There are rolling tracts of dialogue in The Victim with telling affinities to Ravelstein. The familiar metaphysical cunning is everywhere. From the start, Bellow wrote "high." And the key to writing high, said this most intellectual of novelists, is to force intellect into hiding, to trick the explicit into vanishing into the implicit.
I think positions emerge in a work of art, and you seem to think they're imposed. It makes small difference what the artist says he thinks, and a "prepared" attitude is an invitation to disaster.... I only complain that intelligence has become so naked.
If you think Seize the Day was good, I am satisfied that I'm doing all right. It's hard for me to know, because so much of the time I'm deaf, dumb and blind, the slave of unknown masters.
All the formal properties have to be cracked and the simplicities released.
Your explication is too dense, too detailed.... Perhaps it is too much like laboratory analysis.... You see, you have left out the literary side of the matter almost entirely, and that, to my mind, is a mistake. I myself distinguish between the parts of the novel that were written and those that were constructed as part of the argument; they are not alike in quality.... Your interest is in Opinion rather than in Creation.
Imagination has been steadily losing prestige in American life, it seems to me, for a long time. I am speaking of the poetic imagination. Inferior kinds of imagination have prospered, but the poetic has less credit than ever before. Perhaps that is because there is less room than ever for the personal, spacious, unanxious and free, for the unprepared, unorganized, and spontaneous elements from which poetic imagination springs.
You'll find the book I'm writing now less "tender," "tolerant," etc. When a writer has such feelings, however, it's his business to lead them all into the hottest fire. He must expose them to the most destructive opposites he can find and, if he wishes to be tender, confront the murderer's face. The converse, however, is equally true, for writers who believe there is a Sargasso of vomit into which we must drift are obliged to confront beauty. To deny that, you would have to deny your instincts as a writer.
Augie was very difficult for me in the last half. I suppose I succumbed to the dreadful thing I warn everyone against—seriousness.... My slogan was "Easily or not at all," but I forgot it. Too much of a temptation to speak the last word.
Somehow I've managed to do exactly what I like. There are certain philosophers (Samuel Butler, if he is one) who say we really do get what we want. Question: Can we bear it when we get it? That's the question that's the beginning of religion.
We were cats of the same breed. The sons of Eastern European immigrant Jews, we had gone early into the streets of our respective cities, were Americanized by schools, newspapers, subways, streetcars, sandlots. Melting Pot children, we had assumed the American program to be the real thing: no barriers to the freest and fullest American choices. Of course we understood that it was no simple civics-course matter. We knew too much about the slums, we had assimilated too much dark history in our mothers' kitchens to be radiant optimists ... It was admiration, it was love that drew us to the dazzling company of the great masters, all of them belonging to the Protestant Majority—some of them explicitly anti-Semitic.... But one could not submit to control by such prejudices. My own view was that in religion the Christians had lived with us, had lived in the Bible of the Jews, but when the Jews wished to live in Western history with them they were refused. As if that history was not, by now, also ours.
These words (brilliantly included among the letters by the superbly intuitive editor) were recited on Bellow's behalf under the dim chandeliers of the meeting room of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where the members' chairs bore brass plaques inscribed with such storied names as Henry Adams, Owen Wister, Hamlin Garland, Edwin Markham, and other venerable representatives of Bellow's capitalized Majority. And when, not yet out of their teens, he and Isaac Rosenfeld dissolved the solemn ironies of Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" into a hilariously lampooning Yiddish ditty, it may have marked the signal moment when writers born Jewish and awakened into America would refuse to be refused by Western history.
Bellow's capacity for what might (in quick march) be called Jewish intelligence summoned deeps far beyond where the journalists could follow: the literary talent that rose up, in puzzling if impressive flocks, out of what appeared to be a low immigrant culture. Bellow was distinctive in transcending—transgressing against—the archetype of the coarse and unlettered ghetto greenhorn. The greenhorns in their humble trades were aware that they were carriers of a moral civilization. ("You are too intelligent for this," Herzog protests to his vaporously over-theorizing friend Shapiro. "You inherited rich blood. Your father peddled apples.") Though he had repeatedly declared himself, as an American, free to choose according to will or desire, Bellow also chose not to be disaffected.
He was in possession of an inherited literacy that few novelists of Jewish background, writers of or close to his generation, could match, however sophisticated they otherwise might be. His range spanned an inclusive continuum; as his eulogy for Malamud insisted, Western learning and literature had also to mean Jewish learning and literature. He was at home in biblical Hebrew, was initiated into the liturgy from early childhood, and read and spoke (always with relish) a supple Yiddish. In the letters he will now and again slide into a Yiddish word or phrase for its pungent or familial aptness where English might pale. It was Bellow who, with Irving Howe and the Yiddish poet Eliezer Greenberg standing by, translated I.B. Singer's "Gimpel the Fool," in effect creating, in a matter of hours, a modernist American writer out of what had passed, mistakenly, for an old-fashioned Yiddish storyteller. What other "American Jewish writer" could have pulled off this feat? Or would have been willing to set aside the mask of fiction to pursue—his personal viewpoint plain to see—the political culture of Israel, as Bellow did in To Jerusalem and Back, a book-length essay composed at the crux of churning contention? (Decades old and read today, it remains, in its candor and credibility, shatteringly up-to-date.) And finally—we are compelled to come to this—there is the strangely misunderstood question of Bellow and the Holocaust.
It's perfectly true that "Jewish Writers in America" (a repulsive category!) missed what should have been for them the central event of their time, the destruction of European Jewry. We (I speak of Jews now and not merely of writers) should have reckoned more fully, more deeply with it.... I was too busy becoming a novelist to take note of what was happening in the Forties. I was involved with "literature" and given over to preoccupations with art, with language, with my struggle on the American scene, with claims for recognition of my talent or, like my pals of the Partisan Review, with modernism, Marxism, New Criticism, with Eliot, Yeats, Proust, etc.—with anything except the terrible events in Poland. Growing slowly aware of this unspeakable evasion I didn't even know how to begin to admit it into my inner life. Not a particle of this can be denied. And can I really say—can anyone say—what was to be done, how this "thing" ought to have been met? Since the late Forties I have been brooding about it and sometimes I imagine I can see something. But what brooding may amount to is probably insignificant. I can't even begin to say what responsibility any of us may bear in such a matter, in a crime so vast that it brings all Being into Judgment.
If there appears to be a contradiction in this arresting statement, it is hardly to the point. "I was too busy becoming a novelist to take note of what was happening in the Forties" may in fact clash with "Since the late Forties I have been brooding about it," but it is the closing phrase that calls reality into question—the known reality of "the terrible events in Poland." Bellow was made fully aware of these events earlier than most, and with a close-up precision unbefogged by such grand metaphorical abstractions as "a crime so vast that it brings all Being into Judgment." The writer who could explicitly describe the particular texture of an old man's boots glimpsed seventy years before here fades into the elusiveness of high declamation. Yet a single much-overlooked biographical datum may dispute these assertions of overriding literary distraction.
In 1948, three years after the defeat of Germany and the appalling revelations of the death camps, Bellow and Anita Goshkin, the social worker who became his first wife, went to live in Paris; a Guggenheim grant made the move possible. Bellow settled in to work on a new novel, caught up in the convivial cadres of literary Americans drawn to postwar Paris, while Anita found a job with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Here we must pause to take this in. The Joint, as it was called, was a privately funded American effort to salvage the broken lives of the remnant of Holocaust survivors. Anita was perforce immersed daily in freshly accumulating news of "the terrible events in Poland." Are we to believe that the wife never imparted to the husband what she learned and witnessed and felt every day, or that, detached, he took no notice of it?
I once asked Alexander Donat, author of The Holocaust Kingdom, how it was that the Jews went down so quickly in Poland. He said something like this: "After three days in the ghetto, unable to wash and shave, without clean clothing, deprived of food, all utilities and municipal services cut off, your toilet habits humiliatingly disrupted, you are demoralized, confused, subject to panic. A life of austere discipline would have made it possible for me to keep my head, but how many civilized people lead such a life?" Such simple facts—had Hannah had the imagination to see them—would have lowered the intellectual fever that vitiates her theories.
Pound advocated in his poems and in his broadcasts enmity to the Jews and preached hatred and murder. Do you mean to ask me to join you in honoring a man who called for the destruction of my kinsmen? I can take no part in such a thing even if it makes effective propaganda abroad, which I doubt. Europeans will take it instead as a symptom of reaction. In France, Pound would have been shot. Free him because he is a poet? Why, better poets than he were exterminated perhaps. Shall we say nothing in their behalf?
America has dealt mercifully with Pound in recognizing his insanity and sparing his life. To release him is a foolish and feeble idea. It would identify this program in the eyes of the world with Hitler and Himmler and Mussolini and genocide.... What staggers me is that you and Mr. [John] Steinbeck who have dealt for so many years in words should fail to understand the import of Ezra Pound's plain and brutal statements about the "kikes" leading the "goy" to slaughter. Is this—from The Pisan Cantos—the stuff of poetry? It is a call to murder.... The whole world conspires to ignore what has happened, the giant wars, the colossal hatreds, the unimaginable murders, the destruction of the very image of man. And we—"a representative group of American writers"—is this what we come out for, too?
In light of this uncompromising cri de coeur, and of similar mordant reflections in the novels and the stories (covertly in The Victim and boldly elsewhere), how are we to regard Bellow's "I was too busy becoming a novelist" apologia? A false note: there was, in fact, no "unspeakable evasion"—rather, an enduring recognition of acid shame and remorse. And can I really say—can anyone say—what was to be done? Clearly, and from the first, he saw and he knew.
Now it may be imagined—or even insisted—that too much is being made of all this, that the emphasis here is disproportionate, and that there are other dimensions, more conspicuous and profuse, which can more readily define Bellow as writer. Or it can be said, justifiably, that he openly denigrated anything resembling special pleading—after all, hadn't he brushed off as "a repulsive category" the phrase "Jewish writers in America"? And what was this dismissal if not a repudiation of a vulgarizing tendency to bypass the art in order to laud the artist as a kind of ethnic cheerleader—much as young Jewish baseball fans are encouraged to look to Hank Greenberg for prideful self-validation? Besides, he had long ago put himself on record as freewheeling, unfettered, unprescribed, liberated from direction or coercion. In words that will not be found in the correspondence (they derive from the essays, those publicly personal letters to readers), Bellow wrote, "I would not allow myself to become the product of an environment"—flaunting willful italics. And though he never failed to refresh his law of the unleashed life, it rang now with a decisive coda: "In my generation, the children of immigrants became Americans. An effort was required. One made oneself, freestyle.... I was already an American, and I was also a Jew. I had an American outlook, superadded to a Jewish consciousness." To Faulkner's indifference he could speak—powerfully, inexorably—of "my kinsmen." And to history the same.
Say, then, that he was, as he intended to be, free, unstinting in what he chose to love or mourn or recoil from. The letters tell us whom and how he loved. He loved his sons. He loved John Berryman, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Martin Amis. He loved Alfred Kazin (whom he mostly disliked). He loved, to the end, Janis Bellow and their little daughter, Naomi Rose. He loved, even in death, Isaac Rosenfeld, the tumultuously inspired intimate of his youth (who nastily destroyed a hoard of his old friend's letters). He revered—but not always—thought, civilization, and what he named "the very image of man," all of which could be undone. He believed in outcry, and trusted the truth of his own. He was adept at witticism and outright laughter. He was serious in invoking whatever particle of eternity he meant by soul, that old, old inkling he was fearless in calling up from contemporary disgrace.
Like the novels and the stories, the letters in their proliferation and spontaneity unveil the life—those sinews of it amenable to utterance—almost to its final breath. What happened soon afterward came to something less. On September 21, 2005, five months after Bellow's death, a celebratory symposium was convened at the 92nd Street Y in New York. The participants included British writers Ian McEwan and Martin Amis, and critic James Wood, the first two having flown from London for the occasion; William Kennedy and Jeffrey Eugenides completed the panel. Each spoke movingly in turn: joyfully reverential, heartfelt, intermittently (and charmingly) anecdotal, adoring—a density of love. There was mention of modernism, fictional digression, character, childhood, Chicago, crowded tenements, the immigrant poor. Riffing in homage, Amis delivered an imitation of Bellow's laugh, the delight and self-delight of it, the lifted chin, the head thrown back. But all this was a departure from the culminating sentiment—it was a sentiment, a susceptibility, a rapturous indulgence—that captivated and dominated these writerly temperaments. Wood: "I judge all modern prose by his ... The prose comes before and it comes afterward." Amis: "His sentences and his prose were a force of nature." McEwan: "The phrase or sentence has become part of our mental furniture.... Sentences like these are all you need to know about Saul Bellow." And so on. Understandable, plainly: superior novelists, stellar craftsmen, each one mesmerized by Bellow's unparalleled combinations.
Yet, despite these plenitudes, Saul Bellow was missing on that platform and in that auditorium teeming with admirers—as much missing there as, clothed in living flesh, he is an insistent presence in the letters. It was as if a committee of professional jewelers, loupes in place, had met to sift through heaps of gems strewn scattershot on a velvet scarf—the splendor and flash and glitter of opal and ruby and emerald, the word, the phrase, the sentence, the marvelous juxtapositions, the sublime clashes of style, the precious trove of verbal touchstones!
It was not enough. It was an abundant truth that diminished even as it aggrandized. A mammoth absence opened its jaws—where was the century, the century that Bellow's reality-stung inquisitiveness traversed almost in its entirety, from Trotsky to Wilhelm Reich to Rudolf Steiner, where was the raw and raucously shifting society he knocked about in, undermined, reveled in, and sometimes reviled? Where was his imagined Africa, where were the philosophies he devoured, where were the evanescent infatuations he pursued, where was the clamor of history, and the defiant angers, and the burning lamentations for the beloved dead, the broken heart for Isaac Rosenfeld, whose writer's envy blazed, and for the father and brothers whose belittlements never left off hurting? And where, during that long tribute-laden afternoon in New York, was America itself?
Among the soon-to-be-forgotten novelists of our time, Saul Bellow stays on. Surely it is for the kaleidoscopic astonishments of his sentences that he lasts. But not only.
Cynthia Ozick is the author, most recently, of Foreign Bodies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). This article ran in the March 3, 2011, issue of the magazine.


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Toby Keith Announces New Album, 'Peso in My Pocket'
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It's been six years, but new music is finally coming from Toby Keith! The 60-year-old just announced the upcoming release of Peso in My Pocket, a 10-track project, featuring five songs written by Keith, including the title track.
Keith wrote four of the songs on the album by himself, including "She's Drinking' Again," "Thunderbird," and the recently-released song, "Happy Birthday America." He also co-wrote a song, "Growing Up a Bit–" with Sammy Hagar.
Ryan Hurd and Maren Morris, along with Brett Tyler, co-wrote a song, "Old School" that is on the record. Keith also included "Take a Look at My Heart," written by John Mellencamp and John Prine, and previously recorded by Prine.
"Happy Birthday America," which Keith released earlier this month, was inspired by one of Keith's other songs, which he heard on July 4, 2020.
"There were 5000 boats tied up out there and they started playing — all the boats had radios synced to the same radio station, so you could hear the same thing all across the lake, 'cause it was synchronized with the fireworks," Keith recalled on Fox & Friends. "'Courtesy of Red, White and Blue' came on and everybody was honking their horns and screaming and singing, and it was a big, unison thing. I was like, 'Wow.'
"Fireworks were going off," he continues. "It was in the middle of last summer and this country felt like a dumpster fire about then. I was like, 'Wow, this is pretty neat.' I said, 'Happy Birthday America, whatever's left of you.' I was running a few days later and I wrote that song."
The news of Peso in My Pocket comes on the heels of Keith being named one of the class of 2021 inductees into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, along with Amy Grant, Rhett Akins, Buddy Cannon and John Scott Sherrill.
See a track list for Peso in My Pocket. The record will be released on October 15. It is currently available for pre-order here.
Peso in My Pocket track list:
1. "Oklahoma Breakdown" (Michael Hosty)
2. "Peso in My Pocket" (Toby Keith)
3. "Old School" (Ryan Hurd, Maren Morris, Brett Tyler)
4. "Old Me Better" (Kevin R. Moore, John Lewis Parker)
5. "Days I Shoulda Died" (Brad Warren, Brett Warren, Jessie Jo Dillon)
6. "Growing Up Is a Bitch" (Toby Keith, Sammy Hagar)
7. "She's Drinkin' Again" (Toby Keith)
8. "Thunderbird" (Toby Keith)
9. "Take a Look at My Heart" (John Mellencamp, John Prine)
10. "Happy Birthday America" (Toby Keith)
Read Toby Keith: 11 Things to Know About the Patriotic Singer here.
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Facebook rejects ads for traditional Inuit knives, calling them 'weapons'
May 10, 2019 by - 3 min read
An artist in Yellowknife says Facebook is culturally discriminating against Inuit after the site rejected his ads selling uluit, the plural of ulu, a traditional Inuit knife.
Kenneth Ingniqjuk Mackay, who is Inuk and Scottish, makes and sells uluit from discarded items such as scrap saw blades and wood.
Buying ads on Facebook is a convenient and effective way to sell them, he said.
He'd been advertising them for two months without issue when Facebook rejected one of his paid ads on May 4. A notification said it violated Facebook's advertising policy that prohibits the sale of weapons on the social media site.
"I was surprised. Like, it's a tool for food and sewing," Mackay said, noting he's seen lots of ads on Facebook for kitchen knives.
Mackay immediately requested a review of the ban and took to social media to air his frustrations.
Mackay took to social media to air his frustrations after Facebook rejected one of his ads selling uluit. The issue has since gotten traction with #freetheulu. (Urban Inuk/Facebook )
"Calling it a weapon is cultural prejudice," he wrote in a Facebook post on May 5. "It has never, ever been made or promoted as a weapon."
That post has since been shared more than 1,000 times and garnered more than 200 comments. The issue has also gained traction on other social media platforms with #freetheulu.
Two days after requesting the review, Mackay said Facebook concluded his ad didn't violate its policies and it was approved. But he said there were only 40 minutes remaining before the ad expired and he wasn't reimbursed for the cost.
"I've had a lot of great support, which has been really great, but Facebook hasn't gotten the message, apparently," Mackay said.
A few days later, he said another one of his ads was rejected.
"It's been really frustrating. I don't know why they just keep banning it and declining the ads," he said.
"It definitely feels like cultural discrimination. Like, it feels weird when our everyday clothing and tools are regularly flagged as something that violates community standards. All around, it doesn't feel very good."
Facebook apologizes
According to Facebook, all ads are reviewed before they can run on the site. Facebook enforces its advertising policies through a combination of automated and manual reviews of text, photos and landing pages where ads lead. But the site's review process isn't perfect.
In an email to CBC, a spokesperson for Facebook said Mackay's ad was rejected in error.
"We recognize the deep importance of [uluit] to Inuit communities and want to clarify that products like the one the seller posted are allowed for sale on our platform." the email reads.
"We apologize for the mistake and value the feedback that helped us identify and correct it as quickly as possible."
Mackay says Facebook is a convenient way to sell his work, and he'd like the site to do a better job of reviewing posts featuring work by Inuit. (Urban Inuk/Facebook)
This is not the first time Facebook has come under fire for banning posts by Inuit selling culturally significant items.
In 2017, some northerners expressed frustration after Facebook removed posts featuring sealskin crafts, with the same issue recurring in January 2019.
Facebook apologized on both occasions and said the posts were removed by mistake.
Mackay said he'd like to see the platform do a better job of reviewing ads for cultural Inuit items.
This story originally appeared on CBC
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Strong networks are not about how many business cards you collect or hands you shake. As ?Crain's "Most Connected New Yorkers"? demonstrates, it is about diversity, access and influence.
The saying, "It's not what you know; it's who you know" is the battle cry of every college grad, entrepreneur and job-seeker these days. Internships are now sold on the connections they offer. An entire industry has sprung up dedicated to putting people in a room together so they can hand small cards to each other. And you know what? All those clichés and anxieties and alumni associations are not unfounded: who you know does matter. What that actually means, though, is a bit more complicated than it seems.
As with most things, context is critical. The quality of your relationships, the number of connections to influencers and their connections and the diversity of your network all contribute to your connectedness, your relationship capital. So when Crain's New York Business and RelSci began their work on the Crain's "Most Connected New Yorkers," released today, the goal was not to see who simply had the greatest reach—the most friends on social media or contacts in their smartphones. Real relationship capital, the one we set out to define, is measured by how much you can do with what you've got (or rather, who you've got).
Industry influencers and thought leaders get to where they are by surrounding themselves with smart people. Those influencers certainly have their own inherent value to your network, but it's their connections that are just as likely to open up doors for you. That's why it's important to know people who know people who can offer help—a solution to a technical or organizational issue, an introduction to a potential client or just an experienced ear.
Take Crain's number one most connected New Yorker (why not aspire to the top?), C.V. Starr's Chairman and CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg. Alone, he brings powerful influence to any network. But take a peek at his connections: CEOs of national brands, top players in asset management, hospital executives and philanthropists. The access he provides to those decision makers and influencers is why he's so very valuable in any relationship portfolio—and thus a big reason for his position atop Crain's list.
Crain's list represents New Yorkers who travel in circles as varied as they are rarified. Take Greenberg again. His relationships reach across the worlds of international affairs and national security; higher education and government. And the third-most-connected New Yorker, Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co? His current board members alone come from technology, childcare, private equity, hospitality and commercial storage services.
As we've discussed before, relationship capital isn't merely a numbers game. The more diverse your network (and diversity can refer to any number of variables: age, industry, gender, experience level, ethnicity, etc.) the greater the chances of your finding what you need. For entrepreneurs and business owners, cross-sector collaboration can breed innovation by infusing static processes with new ideas. For nonprofit organizations, corporate partnerships can mean missions accomplished. This is how members of Crain's list translate their relationship capital into intellectual, strategic, and financial capital.
So, yes, it's about who you know. But as Crain's who's who of the whos you most want to know makes clear, who they know matters even more.
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Happy Valentine's Day! I love Holidays. Especially Valentine's Day for the fact that it encourages people to remind one another that they are loved. We can all get caught up in our own lives and routine, but it is important to spread the love. The fact that the colors are pink and red aren't so bad either.
One of my favorite posts to look at on blogs are surprisingly about interior decorating. At home fashion parallels with personal style to express our individuality. Today I want to show you my apartment with subtle reminders of this sweet holiday and how easily it can be incorporated into your home as well as your fashions.
I know my comment box had issues on Monday but it is up and working! I would love to hear from y'all and if there are any questions regarding my apartment decor just ask below and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you for all of the love and encouragement, friends!
See you back here on Monday for another outfit post, TGIF!
Hi!! Oh my goodness I love everything in these photos! At the risk of totally creeping you out with my long list of wonders, could you tell me where the mirrored side table, gold spotted vase, and flamingo pillow are all from? Thank you!!
Love your style! Would you mind telling me where that amazing bar cart is from?
Love your style! Would you mind telling me where that incredible bar cart is from??
Hi Emily! It is from the flea market in Los Angeles when I lived there. Such an amazing find! Here are a couple that are close though- hope it helps!!


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Greg Olson, left, became the Bucs offensive coordinator just 10 days before the season opener against Dallas last week.
By IRA KAUFMAN
TAMPA - The Greg Olson era is two weeks old and no one has any gripes, except for the twins, Kenneth and Grayce.
Daddy's never home.
Tampa Bay's new offensive coordinator is logging major hours at One Buc Place, and judging by the results of Sunday's opener against Dallas, it's time well spent.
"I've always liked Greg as a person, and I'm glad he got this opportunity," Bucs right tackle Jeremy Trueblood said after Tampa Bay rolled up 450 yards in a 34-21 loss. "He did a heck of a job in Week 1. The guy knows what he's doing, and the communication was excellent all day."
Olson was hired as quarterbacks coach last year and was promoted Sept. 3 when the Bucs fired Jeff Jagodzinski only 10 days before the season opener.
Now, he's responsible for devising a new weekly game plan while helping his quarterbacks implement the details.
"It was tough on him," said Byron Leftwich, who wasn't sacked or intercepted against the Cowboys in posting a passer rating of 89.1. "All that week he was running around. I know he wasn't getting much sleep at night because his responsibility changed - just like that. For us to go out there and play the way we played offensively is great."
Only six times in franchise history have the Bucs gained more yards than they accumulated against the Cowboys, who led the NFL in sacks last year and came away dazed and confused.
"They were making plays early," Dallas linebacker Bradie James said. "We were moving around and they were gashing us a little bit. We had to make some adjustments."
Although he had served as an offensive coordinator with the Lions and Rams, Olson was not interviewed by the Bucs following the dismissal of Coach Jon Gruden, who called all the plays for seven seasons.
Despite the 26 first downs and a plan of attack that had the Cowboys off balance all day, Olson isn't satisfied with his debut effort.
"Obviously, not good enough," he said. "Our goal on every series is to score touchdowns, score points, and we didn't get that done. But the overall execution, the mechanics, were good for the first time out. It's exciting, and I feel blessed to have this staff. When the switch was made, they bought into it as well."
Apparently, Olson has company in the wee, small hours.
"I believe (offensive line coach) Pete Mangurian spent the night here Tuesday," Olson said. "I really enjoy coaching the position (quarterbacks). With the added responsibility of coordinator, it means I have to work more hours."
As the Bucs head to Buffalo this weekend, Olson has quickly earned the respect of a young offense.
"Coach Olson did an excellent job of making sideline adjustments," wide receiver Michael Clayton said. "You see his charisma out there and it's real exciting. The communication was great from the press box to the sideline."
Olson showed a strong commitment to the ground game and mixed up his pass plays as Leftwich found 10 different targets among his 25 completions.
"They kind of went out and created an identity last week," Coach Raheem Morris said of Olson's dynamic opening statement. "Now they have to live up to it. A standard is set when you continue to do it."
Olson said he will be adding pages to the offensive script over the next month as he plays catch-up following Jagodzinski's abrupt departure.
In the meantime, his slimmed-down version worked quite nicely on opening day.
"We never felt like we were ever stopped," Olson said. "We just kind of stopped ourselves a little bit. We felt like we kind of had Dallas' number, so to speak. We knew what they were doing and we knew how we wanted to attack them."
Posted by NC Sports on Monday, September 21, 2009
Labels: greg olson, NC Sports Coaches in the News


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Why men should also worry about waiting too long to have kids
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As a woman goes from her 20s to her 30s to her 40s without having children, she's likely to hear more and more people warn her about the risks in waiting to get pregnant.
There are generally well-meaning comments from friends, relatives, even bosses. There are the tearful or fearful advice columns about the danger of waiting too long. There are the pop culture references: Mindy Kaling's ticking clock, Bridget Jones talking about her "sell-by date," or Ally McBeal hallucinating the dancing baby. There are the news stories about companies offering egg freezing so women can focus on their careers, rather than their biological egg timers.
And what do men hear about having kids as they grow older? Beyond maybe a parent wishing for a grandchild, usually not that much at all.
You might assume that biology explains why women face so much pressure to have kids as they age, but men don't. After 35, the thinking goes, it gets harder for a woman to get pregnant, and, if she does conceive, there's a greater risk the baby will have health problems. According to that thinking, men are mostly untouched by this process, often able to father kids until a ripe old age.
Except it turns out this isn't really true. Researchers are increasingly arguing that men have a biological clock, too, even if most people don't hear it ticking.
Research has shown that age affects a man's ability to have a child in a similar way to a woman's, though the timeline isn't the same. It's harder for older men to father children, and their offspring are more likely to have health problems, too. In fact, new research suggests that many problematic genetic conditions may be more closely linked to the age of the father than the mother.
But few people today seem to be aware of how a man's age can affect a pregnancy and the health of the child. The missing knowledge could be useful for a young couple thinking about when to have kids, or a childless older couple feeling the pressure of aging. It could be a strong reason for many couples to rethink their plans about career and family, and for many people to reexamine their ideas about work, gender and their health.
How biological clocks started ticking in the first place
Both men and women in the U.S. today are having kids at an older age than they ever have before. The number of children born to men and women in their teens and 20s has been steadily declining, while more and more kids are born to parents in their 30s and 40s, as the data below from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show.
These trends have a strong link with economic class, education and race: The more educated a woman or a man is, the more likely he or she is to have children later. White, non-Hispanic women are also likely to have children at an older age than black and Hispanic mothers.
Yet the trend toward having kids later in life seems to be putting far more stress on women than men. According to a poll by Pew Research Center, 51 percent of women with children under age 18 said being a working mother makes it harder to advance in a job or a career, while only 16 percent of working fathers felt a similar impediment.
"A lot of women are postponing childbirth until they are 30, but if they can't get pregnant at 30 they start panicking," says Liberty Barnes, a sociologist who studies medicine and gender. "They have this very short window, and they feel this pressure, whereas I don't think men are feeling any pressure."
This dilemma between career and children was what gave rise to the idea of the ticking female "biological clock" as we know it.
When the term "biological clock" first surfaced in the 1950s, it referred to cyclical rhythms in the human body, like patterns of sleeping and activity, says Jenna Healey, a PhD candidate at Yale who is studying the history of reproductive technologies.
In the decades after World War II, most Americans were getting married and having kids in their late teens and 20s. But as birth control became widely available and women entered the workforce in greater numbers in the 1970s, the phrase "biological clock" began to be used to describe a new conundrum for society: the waning reproductive possibilities for older women who had postponed childbirth to focus on their careers.
Healey says the first reference she has found in the media to a woman's biological clock was a column in The Washington Post in 1978, in which columnist Richard Cohen discusses the anxiety of several career women, who he has folded together into one "composite woman."
"Sometimes, the Composite Woman is married and sometimes she is not. Sometimes, horribly, there is no man in the horizon. What there is always, though, is a feeling the clock is ticking," the column says.
The idea of a woman's "biological clock" quickly spread through popular culture, popping up in Cosmopolitan articles and Cathy cartoons. "By the early '80s it's a very widespread cultural expression," Healey says. In 1982, an influential study in the New England Journal of Medicine warned that a woman's ability to have a baby dropped off after the age of 30 (though later studies suggested the age could be higher). In 2011, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine even funded a controversial ad campaign to remind people that "women in their twenties and early thirties are most likely to conceive."
Today, the term is commonly used to refer to women's reproductive aging, but the idea of a "biological clock" for men is less well accepted. While various studies over the past century have shown links between advanced paternal age and reproductive difficulties, it's only in the last decade that some people have begun to argue that the concept of a biological clock ought to apply to men, too.
One of the main people to popularize the idea is Harry Fisch, a New York-based doctor of reproductive medicine who wrote a book called "The Male Biological Clock" in 2005, which describes how male fertility and testosterone levels tend to decline as a man ages and what can be done about it.
Fisch says a lot of people found the idea that men even have a biological clock to be deeply offensive. "I took so much crap for writing that book, it was unbelievable," he said. "Holy cow, when it first came out, a lot of people were upset that I was debunking the machismo image of men as they age."
Yet Fisch and others say the science is clear. As they age, both women and men experience declining fertility, declining hormone levels and increasing risk of health complications for the child -- the very combination that most people think of when they talk about a ticking "biological clock."
The science of the male 'biological clock'
Studies indicate that a man's age can affect his fertility in three main ways. The older the father, the harder it may be for a couple to conceive a baby. Older fathers are also more likely to see pregnancies result in miscarriages. And the older age of the father can potentially trigger health problems in a child, too.
Unlike women, who are born with a finite number of eggs, men continue to produce sperm throughout their life, and some can father children into their 60s and beyond — an age where women's clocks have totally stopped ticking. George Lucas, Steve Martin and Rod Stewart all famously fathered children in their late 60s. But for most men, testosterone declines as they age, which can lead to decreased libido and erectile dysfunction. And as they get older, men also see a decline in the quantity and genetic quality of sperm.
"The aging male, at least from a reproductive perspective, is not as good when he's older as when he's younger," says Alexander Pastuszak, an assistant professor of urology at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and a specialist in male fertility and reproductive problems.
These changes mirror similar changes in women, with a notable difference: Most seem to occur a few years later in men, and happen more gradually.
There's a lot of disagreement about when exactly in a man's and a woman's life these changes occur; various studies and experts cite different ages and time periods. But many argue that, for women, fertility declines gradually in the mid- to late 30s, and then sharply in the 40s. For men, the change appears to happen more in their 40s and 50s.
One study of 2,000 couples in France found that while women's reproductive capacity tends to decline around 35, men experience a similar, though more gradual, decline after the age of 40. Several studies suggest that men over 35 are twice as likely to be infertile as those younger than 25. Another study of about 2,000 couples in the United Kingdom showed that, after controlling for a woman's age and other factors, men who were 45 and older took five times longer to conceive than those who were 25 and younger.
The charts below, from the U.K. study in the journal "Fertility and Sterility," show how the advancing age of women (on the left) and men (on the right) tend to lengthen the amount of time it takes to get pregnant. For the women and men in their 20s and early 30s that the study examined, nearly 80 percent got pregnant within a year. But those rates fell to only 36 percent for women over 40, and only 25 percent for men over 50. (You can click on the graphic to enlarge it.)
Some doctors argue against the term "the male biological clock," mostly because they don't like the metaphor. Larry Lipshultz, a doctor of urology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, says the term conveys a false sense of finality.
"There's just no consensus on when men should be considered of an advanced age reproductively," he says. "But the concept is certainly one that we should embrace, in that men are not immune to the effects of aging on their reproductive system."
For men, some of these changes are treatable or avoidable. Men who are overweight are far more likely to experience low testosterone levels. And male fertility problems are often linked with other health problems, including cancer, hypertension, heart disease or kidney disease, Pastuszak says.
There's also growing evidence that what a man eats, drinks and smokes, what pesticides or industrial chemicals he is exposed to, and even how much stress he experiences in the months leading up to conception can influence the health of his sperm, and thus potentially the health of the baby.
But other changes in a man's reproductive health are just an unavoidable consequence of the march of time. Numerous studies now show that the genetic quality of a man's sperm degrades as he ages, which may lead to infertility, miscarriages, and an increased risk of autism, schizophrenia and certain cancers for the child. This is why the American Society for Reproductive Medicine now recommends that sperm donors "ideally be less than 40 years of age to minimize the potential hazards of aging."
The key is that, while women are born with a finite number of eggs, men form new sperm throughout their lives, with the existing sperm replicating its DNA and then splitting into two, over and over again. That might seem like a fountain of youth for men, but it's actually more like a game of telephone — each time the process is repeated, there's the chance that the DNA will change a little.
For this reason, the number of genetic mutations in a man's sperm appear to increase gradually and steadily with age. According to Icelandic researcher Kári Stefánsson, one of the authors of a 2012 study on the subject, the result is that there is a much larger number of genetic conditions that are associated with the age of the father, including early onset cancers, schizophrenia and autism, than with the age of the mother.
Compared with a 20-year-old father, a 40-year-old father brings twice the number of new mutations to a child and is two to three times more likely to conceive a child that will eventually develop schizophrenia or autism, Stefánsson says. But the research shows no connection between the age of the mother and these mutations.
"To me, this was a remarkable observation because when I was in medical school, we were always warned about the age of the mother," Stefánsson says. "You could argue that in our work, there is buried a little bit of redemption for the old mother that we are always criticizing for the risk of having children, because what is truly dangerous is the high age of the father."
Many experts say these findings should be interpreted with some caution, because scientists still don't really understand how genetic mutations ultimately result in specific conditions, like schizophrenia and autism. For example, some mutations in the sperm's genes can actually be repaired by the egg before being passed on to the child.
And others, including Stefánsson, say these findings shouldn't dissuade older couples who want to have a child from trying to do so, because the chance of having a child with a genetic disorder is still very low. The study suggests that the chance of having a child with these disorders might double from around 1 percent to 2 percent with a man's older age, not a terribly large increase in risk "when you look at it in the context of everything that we have to go through, from the time that we are conceived until we die," Stefánsson says.
Yet Stefánsson argues the findings are substantial enough to influence public health, and how people think about paternal age more broadly. "For society, this is very important."
The second sex, at least in reproduction
The disparity between how we think about men's and women's fertility isn't just a matter of science. It also speaks volumes about our assumptions about reproduction, families and gender.
One reason is that doctors and scientists have put much more time and money into studying women's reproductive health than men's. Barnes says that, by her calculations, in 2013 there were five reproductive endocrinologists -- who mostly treat female patients -- for every one urologist specializing in male fertility in the United States. According to Lipshultz, male infertility research is easily a decade behind female infertility research in the U.S.
This is partially because women's role in reproduction -- the cycle of menstruation, pregnancy and delivery -- is more immediately obvious than the role that men play. It's also because, for much of human history, giving birth was an incredibly dangerous activity. In the U.S., about 18 women today die in pregnancy or childbirth for every 100,000 live births, down from about 600 women per 100,000 live births a century ago.
But it's also in part because of deeply entrenched cultural attitudes toward reproduction. Barnes, the sociologist of medicine and gender, argues there's long been an assumption that fertility, pregnancy and childbirth are women's issues — both in popular imagination and in the medical community.
While women are educated to think about their role in reproduction, men, generally, are not. Until recently, doctors recommended that women go to the gynecologist every year — providing ample opportunities for a woman to talk about reproduction with a doctor. Many men, in contrast, don't even know what "the male version of a gynecologist" is. (In the U.S., it's a urologist or andrologist.)
Lipshultz says the idea that paternal age affects fertility and pregnancy has not yet filtered out into clinical practice, and that he has never seen a man referred to discuss advanced paternal age. Yet any woman who will be over the age of 35 at the time of delivery will have her medical file stamped with the term "advanced maternal age," and most will undergo genetic screening for fetal abnormalities. A man's age, in contrast, is almost never considered.
Barnes, who followed dozens of couples for her book "Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity," says that couples seeking treatment infertility will often look to the woman first — undergoing treatments like in vitro fertilization that focus on the woman's body, even though male fertility treatments — such as checking for swollen veins or infections — may be simpler and less invasive.
"As a sociologist, I would say, of course this is linked to gender beliefs," Barnes says.
Lessons from the ticking clock
Experts say that these findings about paternal age and fertility shouldn't dissuade older couples who want to have a child from trying to do so. However, they could be a consideration for young people who are just thinking about when they want to have families.
"If you're 40 and you're trying to have a child, you do the best you can," says Fisch, the author of the book on the male biological clock. "But I have a daughter who is 22, and my recommendation to my kids is, why don't you try to have a family early? And that's for both men and women. But I certainly would love it if my kids had kids before they're 30, and that's from a fertility doctor's point of view."
Alexey Kondrashov, a geneticist at the University of Michigan, agrees. He says the findings about older men and genetic mutations are not enough to discourage older parents from trying to have children. However, they might be enough to encourage young men to freeze their sperm in case they want to have kids later in life.
"18-year-olds don't think about these things, but if I was 18 years old and capable of thinking of things like that, I would think about it carefully," he said.
As the idea of the paternal biological clock becomes more widespread, it could also be an important guiding principle for how our society functions more broadly — for example, encouraging more doctors to talk to men about their fertility, and turning stressful workplaces into family-friendly ones. It could also be an argument for supportive policies, like paid family leave or child care, that might help men and women have kids at a younger age, says Rene Almeling, a sociologist at Yale University who studies medicine and gender.
"If we really start to think of reproductive responsibility as something that is not just applicable to women ... I think it raises a whole host of questions about other contentious debates we have in this country," Almeling says.
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Q: mysql (5.1) command line interface and my madness Got two little problems with this interface. The worse one is that I have a file with a blank line (i have removed the SQL to demonstrate!). Tried to use mysql but get this
C:\Users\edheal\Desktop>mysql -e "blank.sql" -h localhost -u test -p
Enter password: *
ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the ma
nual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use n
ear 'blank.sql' at line 1
C:\Users\edheal\Desktop>cat -v "blank.sql"
^M

C:\Users\edheal\Desktop>

What could possibly be the problem? It is just a blank line!
The second - just me being lazy during development. Is it possible to not have a password on the account? Seems that the minimum is one character.

A: A blank line is not a valid SQL statement therefore it's a syntax error.

A: Try to use
mysql -h localhost -u test -pYourPasword < "blank.sql"

One some standard installations, the root user does not have any password. But it is not possible to set an existing password to "empty".

A: The -e or the --execute option expects you to have the SQL command following it:
mysql -e "select ....." -h localhost -u test -p

If you want to execute the commands listed in a file say test.sql you can do:
mysql -h localhost -u test -p < test.sql

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Want to get Battlestar Galactica Loyalty Deck for iPhone?
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'The Last Human' Chapter 202: update, Spoilers, and Scan Details
The infected monsters are proving to be too strong as they ganged up on Tiang Cheng to a point where he had to retreat together with his team in the previous chapter of 'The Last Human'. The manga made its latest release with chapter 201 on the 2nd of January 2020. So in this post, we are going to talk about 'The Last Human' Chapter 202 update, spoilers, and scan details. We will take a look at the spoilers first so if you do not like them you can just scroll to the bottom of the post for the release information of the next chapters.
'The Last Human' Chapter 202 Spoilers
This fight has been going on for quite some time and the infections have already spread all over the city. So it's up to Tiang Cheng and his other 2 comrades to liberate the city of these monsters. The dog managed to free itself from the parasites and infections using the viral energy that was generated by the parasites on its body. So as Luo Lansha got a green meteorite crystal he intended to feed it to Shang Biao as it could help it recover from the infections it received.
When Is 'The Last Human' Chapter 202 update?
This Manga releases new chapters every three days, so with chapter 201 released on the 2nd of January 2020, Merakiscans has scheduled the next Chapter to be released in 3 days. Then this makes Chapter 202 to be available later on the 5th of January 2020.
Where To Read 'The Last Human' Manga?
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The problem with running side by side print and digital marketing campaigns is that they often end up working in silos instead of together. Fusing isn't always easy, but getting it right can boost the reach and efficiency of your entire marketing campaign.
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NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION I In accordance with Article VI of the Constitution and Bylaws of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, approved Oct. 28, 1935, as amended Oct. 3, 1981, notice is hereby given that on Nov. 7, 1987, a primary election will be held forthe purpose of filling the expired terms of Tribal Council seats and the unexpired term of a vacated Tribal Council seat from the Arlee District. Under Article V, Section 1, of the Constitution and Bylaws of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the Tribal Coun cil reservesthe right to make selectionstofilltheunexpiredterm of any Council seat vacated. As a measure to allow the involvement of the eligible voters of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, eligible candi dates from the Arlee District are encouraged to file under the terms and conditions as set forth below. Any enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Koote nai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation who resides in the districts may announce his/her candidacy for the Tribal Council by notifying the Executive Tribal Secretary in writing of his/her candidacy no later that October 16, 1987, at 4:30 p.m., providing the following eligibility criteria are met: 1. The candidate must be at least 21 years of age at the time of filing application for candidacy. 2. The candidate must have physically resided in his/her d ¡strict for no less than one year prior to the date of the election. 3. The candidate must never have been convicted of a felony or impeached from public office. Each application for candidacy must be accompanied with a non-refundable $25.00 filing fee and a signed, sworn affidavit attesting to qualifications. (The candidate's affidavit forms are available from the Executive Tribal Secretary's office.) Each candidate filing for the vacated T ribal Council seat from the Arlee District must so designate in writing on his/her application for candidacy. Arlee District — Louie Adams, expired term Jim Steele, Sr., unexpired term Schedule of Events for the 1987 Tribal Council Primary Election Opening date for filing application for candidacy: 9-20-87 Closing date for filing application for candidacy: 10-16-87, 4:30 p.m. Deadline for withdrawing application for candidacy: 10-16- 87, 4:30 p.m. Certification of candidates: 10-22-87 Certification of voting list: 10-22-87 District election board orientation: 11-4-87 Deadline for returning absentee ballots: POSTMARKED 11 - 7-87 and received by Tuesday, 11-10-87 Polling places: Arlee District: Salish Indian Center St. Ignatius District: Community Center Poison District: Flathead Lake Senior Citizens Center Hot Springs District: Camas Lanes (Bowling Alley) Ronan District: Senior Citizens Center Elmo/Dayton District: Koostatah Hall Dixon District: TERS Gymnasium Pablo District: Tribal Office Date of Primary Election: 11 -7-87.. .Polls open 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Date of certification of the vote following primary election: 11 - 11-87 St. Ignatius District — Ron Therriault, expired term Hot Springs District — Michael T. Pablo, expired term Dixon District — Sonny Morigeau, expired term Pablo District — Victor Stinger, expired term ELECTION COMMITTEE: Patrick Lefthand, Fred Matt, Robert McCrea and Laurence Kenmille. CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES Joseph E. Dupuis, Executive Tribal Secretary Dated: Sept. 20, 1987 S ale of timber - F lathead I ndian R eservation The Flathead Indian Reservation hereby offers for sale timber in an area known as "Lozeau Flats*. Sealed bids will be received until 1:00 p.m. local time October 22, 1987, and must be in duplicate, marked on the outside: " LOZEAU FLATS LOGGING UNIT*. Address all bids to the Superintendent, Flathead Agency, Pablo, MT 59855. Oral auction bids will be received by the Superintendent immedi ately following the posting of sealed bids and will be restricted to bidders who have submitted an acceptable sealed bid in accordance with this notice. The sale contains approximately 2,661 acres to be logged with a volume of 6,624,000 board feet sawlogs of all species, consisting of 3,955,000 board feet of ponderosa pine, and 2,670,000 board feet of Douglas-fir and other species. The above stated volumes are esti mates and are not guaranteed. Each bidder must state price per thousand net board feet, Scribner Decimal C Log Scale, that will be paid for timber cut and scaled prior to any rate adjustment as specified in the contract. The contract base index for stumpage adjustment purposes will be the W.W.P.A. index rate for September, 1987. The high bid will be subject to review and acceptance by the seller and approval by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Each bidder must state a price per thousand board feet (MBF) net Scribner Decimal C Log Scale, for each species group as follows: 1) Ponderosa pine; 2) Douglas-fir and other species. No bid less than $190.00/MBF for ponderosa pine and $55.00/MBF for Douglas-fir and other species will be considered. Merchantable blue-stained ponderosa pine, which is not a bid item, will be sold at 50% of the ponderosa pine sawlog rate. Contract provisions give the purchaser an option to remove wood logs at a fixed rate established by the Superintendent. A deposit of Twenty-Seven Thousand Dollars ($27,000.00) in the form of a certified check, bank draft, cashier's check, postal money order (payable to the Bureau of Indian Affairs) or cash must accom pany each sealed bid. At the conclusion of the oral auction, deposits will be returned to all but the apparent high bidder. Any other bidder requesting further consideration for his bid will also have his bid deposit retained. The deposit of the successful bidder will be applied to the purchase price of timber cut on this sale only and/or retained as liquidated damages if the bidder fails to execute the contract. A performance bond of Forty-Five Thousand Dollars ($45,000.00) is required within thirty (30) days of bid acceptance. Performance bonding requirements may be satisfied by use of an irrevocable letter Qf credit, cash or negotiable United States securities. The right to waive technical defects and to reject any and all bids is reserved. The contract will specify that all designated timber for harvest shall be presented for scaling on or before December 31,1989. Before bids are submitted, full information concerning the timber, conditions of the sale, and the submission of bids should be obtained from the Superintendent, Flathead Agency, Pablo, Montana 59855. Dated: 9/21/87 [signed] Wyman Babby, Superintendent, Flathead Agency 4 4 4


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Q: XSLT function format_number does not work for 0 with format for leading zeroes I would like to format a number in XSLT to have a 4 digit number with leading zeroes.
E.g.
1234 -> 1234
12   -> 0012
1    -> 0001
0    -> 0000

Therefor I use the function format-number as follows:
format-number(somevalue, '0000')

This works fine for everything except for 0 as somevalue. Here I get 0 as a result instead of 0000.

A: I have a code snippet and a template to add leading zeros.
Maybe it helps you:
<IDTNR>
 <xsl:call-template name="checkAndConvertNumeric">
     <xsl:with-param name="numValue" select="somevalue"/>
     <xsl:with-param name="numFormat" select="'0000'"/>
   </xsl:call-template>
</IDTNR>

<xsl:template name="checkAndConvertNumeric">
    <xsl:param name="numValue" />
    <xsl:param name="numFormat" />
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="normalize-space(number($numValue)) = 'NaN'">
            <xsl:value-of select="$numValue" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:value-of select="string(format-number($numValue,$numFormat))" />
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

In the line
<xsl:with-param name="numFormat" select="'0000'"/>

you specify how many zeros you need.

A: I just found the problem. I the problem is a wrong check for number like the following.
<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="not(number(somevalue))">
        <xsl:value-of select="concat(somevalue, ' = ')"/>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="concat(format-number(somevalue, '0000'), ' = ')"/>
    </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

number(0) gets 0 and not(0) is true. Therefore 0 is nt formatted.
I changed the number check like recommanded in the post by Peter and now it works perfectly fine.


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Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel signed a two-year deal to continue hosting ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Deadline reported Monday.
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The once-married, father of two, was romantically linked to fellow comedian Sarah Silverman until their split in 2009.
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Karl Eberhard Meier (1909 Pforzheim, Alemania - 1964 Cordillera de Linares, Chile) fue un destacado montañista alemán que se hizo famoso por hacer numerosos primeros ascensos en los Andes Centrales de Chile. Fue miembro del Club Alemán Andino durante toda su vida en Chile.

Historia
Eberhard Meier fue un montañista alemán, miembro del Club Alemán Andino o DAV Santiago. Se destacó por hacer innumerables primeros ascensos en la Cordillera de los Andes, especialmente en la zona central de Chile. Después de llegar desde Venezuela a Chile en 1940, donde trabajó como joyero, comenzó su gran carrera como andinista. Nunca habló con mucho entusiasmo de su paso por Venezuela, país en el que pudo ascender el Pico Ávila.
En 1943 junto a Juan Harseim hizo el primer ascenso del cerro Sargento del Quempo, en la cordillera cercana a Santiago. Ese mismo año haría también los primeros ascensos de los cerros Placas y Diablo. Al año siguiente haría el primer ascenso de un 6000, al subir junto a sus compañeros Krahl, Köster y Förster el cerro Alto. En 1945 tras un intento fracasado de ascenso al cerro Castillo, consiguió el primer ascenso del vecino cerro Manchado. Ese mismo año, junto a Ludwig Krahl haría lo que es considerado el inicio de la escalada en Chile. Ambos montañistas decidieron subir el cerro San Francisco por una ruta que no era la más fácil, puesto que abordaron esta montaña por su glaciar sur, haciendo algo que nadie había intentado hasta la fecha en Chile. La ruta que abrieron es conocida como la Krahl-Meier y recibió el premio a la "Mejor Ascensión" de la Asociación Santiago de Ski y Andinismo.
A continuación participaría de los primeros ascensos de cerros tan destacados como el Trono (5477m), Laguna (4090m), cerro de Federico (4000m), Picos del Barroso cumbres Oeste y Central (5150m) por la que también recibiría el premio a la "Mejor Ascensión", Sierra Bella (5230m), Nevado del Plomo (6050m), Sierra Esmeralda (4500m), León Negro (5151m), primer ascenso del Juncal (6000m) por su glaciar colgante, San Hilario (4000m), Torre de Flores (4890m), primer ascenso por la vertiente chilena del nevado Piuquenes (6000m), Loma Amarilla (4900m), Estravío (4000m), Meso cumbres Este y Norte (6150m). Tal vez la ascensión más destacada que realizó fue el primer ascenso íntegro de la ruta Güssfeldt al Aconcagua en 1952, la que sólo fue repetida en dos ocasiones y hoy está prohibido realizarla.
De forma lamentable, Meier sufriría un accidente durante un viaje a Alemania en el cual perdería un pie, lo que lo dejaría inválido para hacer grandes ascensos. De esta forma y sin otra opción dedicó sus últimos años a realizar excursiones en solitario a lugares de menor altura para fotografiar principalmente la flora de estos lugares. En una de estas excursiones en solitario el año 1964 fue asaltado dentro de su carpa para ser robado y cobardemente asesinado.
En 1985, los miembros del club Richard Waetjen y Rolando Núñez bautizaron en su honor como Punta Meier una, hasta entonces inescalada, cumbre de casi 6000m de altura ubicada al norte del Nevado sin Nombre.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Página del Club Alemán Andino.

Montañeros de Alemania
Montañistas de Chile
Escaladores del Aconcagua
Deportistas asesinados
Emigrantes alemanes hacia Chile
Asesinatos en Chile
Nacidos en Pforzheim


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Das Umspannwerk Wilhelmsruh () ist ein Baudenkmal und ein Umspannwerk im Berliner Ortsteil Wilhelmsruh des Bezirks Pankow.

Geschichte
Das Umspannwerk Wilhelmsruh entstand im Auftrag der damaligen Bewag vom Architekten Hans Heinrich Müller zwischen den Jahren 1925 und 1926 und steht in der Kopenhagener Straße 83, 85 und 89. Die Porzellanfabrik in Freiburg diente als Entwurfsgrundlage. In den Jahren 2004 bis 2008 wurde das Gebäude nach Plänen des Architekten Max Dudler zu einem Bürogebäude umgebaut.

Beschreibung
Die Einrichtungen des Umspannwerkes waren in um einen Hof angeordneten Baukörpern untergebracht; das ovale Wartengebäude bildet das Zentrum. Das hohe Schalthaus mit seiner abgetreppten Rückfront und den aufragenden Treppentürmen befindet sich vom Straßenraum abgerückt an der hinteren Grundstücksgrenze, die langgestreckte Phasenschieberhalle liegt dazu parallel an der Straßenfront und wird seitlich von jeweils einem fünfgeschossigen Wohnturm abgeschlossen. Zwischen der Phasenschieberhalle und dem Schalthaus wurden in den Seitenflügeln die Transformatoren aufgestellt. Diese sind mit den hohen Treppentürmen an das Schalthaus angeschlossen.

Die Backsteinfassaden sind durch abgetreppte geschossübergreifende Lisenen mit segmentbogigen Abschlüssen gegliedert.

Literatur

Einzelnachweise

Wilhelmsruh
Berlin-Wilhelmsruh
Baudenkmal in Berlin
Bürogebäude in Berlin
Umgenutztes Bauwerk in Berlin
Backsteinexpressionismus
Bauwerk des Expressionismus in Berlin
Erbaut in den 1920er Jahren


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