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Ignoring the garbled grammar and obtuse wording of the agenda item, I'll give everyone the benefit of the doubt here and assume NTWMD sincerely wants to "address neighborhood concerns." Here are the two most important questions I had going into the work session.
Why is the NTMWD expanding Lookout instead of redirecting trash to Plano Parkway, which has excess capacity?
If Plano Parkway has no excess capacity, why was Lookout chosen for expansion instead of Parkway?
Did the NTWMD staff answer my questions? No. I infer that the decision to expand Lookout before Parkway was made years ago. The reasons were not explained. The order was Custer (now already expanded), Lookout (the project at hand), Parkway (still be done), and finally, construction of a fourth transfer station (location still to be determined). Today, that plan is out of date and it's possible that a fourth transfer station will be needed before Parkway is rebuilt. But for now, NTMWD is focusing on getting Lookout rebuilt.
The NTMWD staff said that the value of the system is in how the system operates as a whole. Striving for local optimization or equalization between components (Richardson vs Plano) is not necessarily incorrect, but NTMWD emphasizes the total picture. They look at a system of three transfer stations (someday four) serving five cities, not one transfer station (Lookout) in Richardson utilized by Plano as well. NTMWD claims there are too many components to expect or even desire equality between each and every pair of components. They presented enough statistics for each of the five cities (population size, trash generated and transfer stations used for residential and commercial and brushy trash) to convince at least this Richardson resident that, overall, Richardson is not being taken advantage of.
NTMWD staff also pointed out that the member cities themselves control which transfer stations they utilize in their efforts to optimize their own trash collection efficiency and to minimize their costs. Richardson staff reported that the city has been evaluating a change in commercial trash routes by diverting two of the nine routes from Lookout to Parkway, with no significant negative impact to operations or cost. The net result is that the overall disparity between trash sent from Plano to Richardson versus the other direction was reduced from 3.8x to 2.7x. The ratio could be dropped further by diverting more routes. That has not been tried and its impact on operations and cost is unknown, but is expected to become an issue at some point with greater diversion.
Although my specific questions were only partially addressed, the detailed presentation (i.e., l-o-n-g) did address many of the other issues raised by the neighborhood associations surrounding Lookout. NTMWD proposed a significantly lower throughput than earlier suggestions. The current actual throughput is 478 tons/day and the new proposal is 750 tons/day average phased in gradually over 20 years. They contrasted this with Custer, which was recently expanded to a higher throughput capacity and is actually closer to surrounding neighborhoods than Lookout is or will be after reconstruction. NTWMD staff also explained how the redesign will improve operations. They didn't claim it, but in my opinion the new, larger transfer station will have less of an impact on the surrounding neighborhood, golf course, soccer fields, and bike trails than the current operation does. NTMWD made an excellent case for rebuilding and increasing throughput at Lookout. Richardson residents living near the Lookout transfer station will have their own opinions, I'm sure, but if I lived nearby, I would not be fighting the Lookout project. I'd be saying I want it done yesterday.


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Making Personal Health Data Available During an Emergency: HHS Ventures Fund Alumni Making Data Available When and Where It's Needed
By: Lee Stevens
If you or your family were injured during a disaster like a hurricane, earthquake or forest fire, wouldn't you want your health data to be available to first responders and others who are there to provide care? We thought you might, and we are partnering with the State of California to pilot just such a project.
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If you or your family were injured during a disaster like a hurricane, earthquake or forest fire, wouldn't you want your health data to be available to first responders and others who are there to provide care?
We thought you might, and we are partnering with the State of California to pilot just such a project.
Working at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), we have had the opportunity to leverage investments in health information technology to spur innovation in public health and preparedness. We are especially excited about a project that had its beginning here at ONC but only really came to fruition thanks to a unique federal-state collaboration between the HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the HHS Office of the Chief Technology Officer, and the State of California.
The project, Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies (PULSE), received seed funding of $50,000 from the HHS Ventures Fund in July 2014. PULSE was designed to connect patients with their personal health records in some of the most challenging conditions imaginable - a natural disaster.
Here's the update: the original HHS Ventures project (EMS to HIE Innovation), now known as PULSE, received an additional $2.75 million Advance Interoperable Health Information Technology Services to Support Health Information Exchange grant from ONC in July 2015.
In late 2015, the California Legislature passed and Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed into law four bills that support and extend the electronic exchange capabilities of the system to spread throughout the state's 58 counties and 53 Congressional Districts.
Dr. Howard Backer, director of California's Emergency Medical Services Authority (Cal EMSA), wrote last January that the "recent legislation, in addition to multiple data initiatives, is driving rapid changes in EMS data systems at the local, state and national levels."
PULSE is currently being built to facilitate exchange during a declared emergency by extending interoperability across disparate technologies to support health information exchange. PULSE will allow Alternative Care Facilities (think of these as aid stations or MASH units set up during an emergency) so that EMS and authenticated volunteer providers can quickly get access to often life-saving data, when and where they need it. In the future, the PULSE system could facilitate patient lookup capability in an ambulance.
During a recent demonstration by Audacious Inquiry, the contractor that developed the PULSE technology, the program's benefits become readily apparent. In the event of an earthquake, or forest fire (like the one that recently ravaged Eastern Tennessee), first responders (defined under PULSE as any of six provider types, including doctors, nurses and EMTs) can query PULSE with standard eHealth exchange patient demographics-including name, date of birth, and gender. PULSE then sends out data tendrils to California-based HIEs, health systems and hospitals, for instance, looking for a match to the query. PULSE then enables first responders to see recent care notes from treating providers - including hospital discharge summaries and the Consolidated Clinical Documents (CCDs).
As PULSE is being developed, we have tried to ensure that it can be a model for other states to use. To support future scalability, PULSE is utilizing industry standards when communicating with HIEs and hospitals.
To provide a glimpse into the impact of PULSE-it has the potential to ensure resiliency and redundancies in the world's sixth largest economy, California. PULSE will not only protect vulnerable patients but ensure that first responders and other providers have access to patients' clinical documents at the point of care - a real limitation evidenced during Hurricane Katrina. This allows first responders and providers to make more informed clinical decisions for patients.
Cal EMSA is planning a "table top drill" to test PULSE's capabilities in June 2017 - along with four connected HIEs that will process PULSE patient queries and return clinical documents - and will also hold its fourth annual California Health Information Exchange in EMS Summit which will include workshops and a "Fireside Chat" April 3-5, 2017 in Anaheim. This conference is open to all to attend and will showcase cutting edge EMS and HIE projects from around the country.
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A remarkable demonstration of the power of Passive House wrapped up today, just a stone's throw from the White House: Ice Box Challenge DC.
We love that Ice Box Challenge DC took place REALLY close to the White House, on Farragut Square.
At the Ice Reveal event today, the Ice Box Challenge team unveiled the results of the DC Challenge in Farragut Square. After two weeks in the summer sun, just 460 pounds of ice remained in the code-built box (out of an original 1,800 pounds of ice). By contrast, 838 pounds remained in the Passive House-built box: nearly 2x more ice.
Ice Reveal in DC showed 460 pounds of ice remaining in code-built box (left) and 838 pounds remaining in the Passive House box (right).
NK Architects co-presented the DC Challenge with the European Union Delegation to the United States, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium, and DC's Golden Triangle BID. During the two week period of the Challenge, WiFi location data collected at the park showed that over 300,000 (cell-phone carrying) pedestrians passed by the boxes: lots of exposure for Passive House and the role that buildings can play to combat climate change.
Leona Agouridis, Executive Director of Golden Triangle BID.
"On behalf of NK Architects, it's an honor to be working with this distinguished group to share the Ice Box Challenge with you all, here in the nation's capital.
"When we think about climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, we tend to think about cars and transportation. But the single biggest source of energy-related emissions is our buildings. An estimated 74% of Washington, DC's greenhouse gas emissions comes from heating, cooling, and operating buildings. And DC is not unique in this regard. The number is 81% for my hometown, Pittsburgh, with similar numbers for New York, Boston, Chicago, and elsewhere.
"So, buildings are clearly a big part of the climate problem. But the good news is that they can become part of the climate solution. And because building codes, incentives, and consumer choices are made at the local and state levels, we don't need to wait for the federal government to act. We can build buildings that are a form of climate action, today. Cities, counties, and states can play a starring role. Homeowners, building developers, and architects can, too.
"'Passive House' is the definition of 'Building As Climate Action.' By harnessing building science and robust energy modeling, Passive House design reduces building energy use by 50-75% compared to conventional code-built buildings. Most importantly, Passive House is cost-effective. Construction data from 179 project budgets shared by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency suggests that the construction cost premium for a Passive House apartment building is tiny: less than 2 percent. Once you factor in ongoing utility bills savings, Passive House buildings are actually cheaper than conventional ones.
"That's why Passive House buildings are exploding in popularity in the United States today, with over 6,000 units already built or under construction right now. And that unit count doubles every year, following an exponential growth curve. We at NK Architects are currently working on one of the largest Passive House projects in the country, just north of here in Montgomery County. It will provide hundreds of families with affordable and market rate units that boast the superior indoor air quality, thermal comfort, and energy performance that are hallmarks of Passive House buildings.
Generous sponsorship support for the Ice Box Challenge was provided by Rockwool, SIGA, and Cascadia Windows & Doors. CruxHomes provided vital onsite construction assistance during setup and takedown. The Ice Boxes themselves were designed in 2017 by Vancouver, BC's Stark Architecture and later painted by Belgian street artist Oli-B when the boxes visited Manhattan.
The Ice Box Challenge Tour continues! Where will the torch be passed to next? Stay tuned.


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Is ladanian tomlinson a hall of fame RB?
No, he is not in the NFL Hall of Fame.
Q: Is ladanian tomlinson a hall of fame RB?
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Who was the youngest American Football hall of fame inductee?
For the Pro Football Hall of Fame, that is RB Gale Sayers of the Chicago Bears who was inducted in 1977 at the age of 34.
Who was the 1st person to be inducted number 1 draft pick in the nfl hall of fame?
The first overall #1 draft choice elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame was RB Bill Dudley who was selected first by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1942 and elected to the HoF in 1966.
How many NFL Hall of Fame players came from the University of Pittsburgh?
In the Pro Football Hall of Fame, 6. LB Joe Schmidt, TE Mike Ditka, RB Tony Dorsett, QB Dan Marino, LB Rickey Jackson, G Russ Grimm
How many Hall of Fame football players went to college at PSU?
There are 5 players from Penn State in the Pro Football Hall of Fame ... 1) OL Mike Michalske inducted in 1964. 2) RB/WR Lenny Moore inducted in 1975. 3) LB Jack Ham inducted in 1988. 4) RB Franco Harris inducted in 1990. 5) OL Mike Munchak inducted in 2001.
Who won the 2006 NFL MVP?
2006• LaDainian Tomlinson, RB - San Diego Chargers (Associated Press)
Who was the MVP in 2006 in the NFL?
Ladanian Tomlinson (RB, San Diego Chargers)
Why is Walter Payton in the hall of fame?
becuas ehe was the best rb ever
Who is one of the RB's that ran for the most TD's in WAC history?
in Ladanian Tomlinson's career as an NCAA player at TCU (WAC conference) he and many others ran for 50 TD's Ladanian also has the record for most TD's in an NFL season with 31
Who is the best runningback?
The best RB in 2009 is a fight between Ladanian Tomlinson,of the (San Diego Chargers) and Adrian Peterson of the (Minnesota Vikings). WHAT! Ladanian Tomlinson is on his eighth year, is old, his numbers have dropped, and san Diego just cut him, and no one yet has offered him anything! Adrian Peterson and Chris Johnson (Tennesse Titans) are tied but I think Adrian is the best.
Who is the best running back fo all time?
There are so many GREAT running backs. I personally think Ladanian Tomlinson is good. Adrian Peterson is the new upcoming RB...he had a 290 something total rushing yards in a game vs San Diego Chargers.
Is rb singer aaron hall dead?
No, Aaron Hall is not dead.
How tall is rb singer aaron hall?
What was the highest scoring fantasy football players last year?
LT - LaDainian Tomlinson, S.D. RB


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Voices of Warringah has been listening to you! Over the past eight months we have been conducting Kitchen Table Conversations and community forums across Warringah. Through these conversations we heard loud and clear many of the questions you have for our candidates in the upcoming federal election and we have asked them!
After the candidates were officially registered in April we asked all of the Warringah candidates thirty-three "Yes" or "No" questions across ten topics YOU are passionate about. We drew our questions from Warringah residents and the work of peak bodies across Australia. You can see their responses represented in the graphic below, an additional two, longer questions can be viewed below it.
While we asked the candidates to respond to our questions with a simple yes or no answer, many elected to elaborate on their reasoning and approach. Answers where no clear definitive "YES" or "NO" was given, or answers where candidates chose to qualify their response have been coloured RED. For these answers we encourage you to view the candidate's full response and ensure we have represented each candidate fairly. You can download PDF versions of their responses here.
The questions presented here are summaries of the full questions we asked our candidates, if you would like to see the questions in full, including the peak bodies they were drawn from you can do so here.
Not all candidates have responded to our questions, notably the Liberal Party candidate Tony Abbott has failed to respond to our questions as of publication.
We hope that the questions we have asked and the answers our candidates have provided will help you, the people of Warringah, make a more informed decision on who to vote for in the upcoming federal election.
Voices of Warringah deeply cares about the Warringah community, we wanted to know what values our candidates hold in our community. We asked them two additional, longer, questions about community and Warringah you can view below.
Brian Clare (Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party)
What makes for a strong community?
Pulling together without overt socialist tripe.
What do you value the most about living in Warringah?
Near the Northern beaches and a number of reasonable service facilities, with Manly hospital closed, the Frenches Forest private hospital is the nearest, thus a requirement for a good public transport from the Manly peninsula etc. Running a tram up the steep Brookvale road would be a problem.
Kristyn Glanville (Greens)
A strong community is driven its members being compassionate, kind and looking out for one another. By working together, we can make sure everyone gets access to the essentials to live our best lives and provide a safety net so we can be resilient to challenges we either individually face (like unemployment) or together (such as climate change). Strong communities require an attentive government that listens to the community's needs and makes sure it's citizens have what's needed to live in an active and fair community.
I'm fortunate enough to live only 10 minutes walk from one of Australia's best beaches and a similar walk to local bushlands and lagoons. Not everyone gets this opportunity and I instinctively feel the duty to ensure we take good stewardship of our local environment so that we can pass it on to future generations. Warringah is home to many kind and thoughtful people, and I am very inspired by those who work hard and volunteer their time to clean up beaches, and care for the vulnerable members of our community.
Dean Harris (Labor)
A strong community is one that is founded on equality, fairness and opportunity – no one is marginalised or left behind, we treat each other with respect, we provide opportunity for everyone to be their best selves and we reward and recognise contribution and achievement.
Warringah is for me about people and place. I have lived in the electorate for over 12 years and have always found it a particularly friendly, welcoming and harmonious community. It must also be one of the most beautiful electorates in the country. I am very passionate about protecting the native bush, pristine beaches and marine environments for future generations.
Susan Moylan-Coombs (Independent)
Strong Communities are communities where its citizens know the "civic story". There is acceptance and inclusion of the historical narrative of place and future aspirations of its people. It recognises and embraces diversity and promotes equality and equity to build a strong social fabric.
It intentionally has a willingness to be open and has the ability to work together towards common goals. It creates memories together. It allows freedom of expression and promotes fairness. In times of crisis it can pull together as well as express joy in celebrating achievements and milestones.
Communities are only as strong as the individuals and families that are apart of it.
Warringah, which means "deep water" referring to the water in Middle Harbour, has been my home for over 50 years. What I value most about living here is my connection to country. This is Gai-mariagal land, this is the ancestral homelands of Professor Dennis Foley and his family, who I am proud to call a friend. When I walk country, the beaches, the bush and swim in the ocean and waterways, I know the proper way to be in country and I value that.
Warringah is home for me now, I have raised my children here and I am deeply connected to this place. Warringah is where I now professionally work as a small business owner, I value the acceptance and inclusion of my contribution, giving of my time voluntarily and being of service to the wider community to bring healing to the land and to all people who call Warringah home.
Zali Steggall (Independent)
A strong community is healthy, safe and connected. A place where we value and respect each other; care for each other, support each other and celebrate our diversity. A strong community is where all people are recognised, listened to and those in need are supported.
To be healthy we must value our physical and mental health and treat them as equal. This is why I've called for more holistic health practices and more community programs in schools to promote mental strength and wellbeing.
Loneliness is a growing problem and while we're more connected through devices, we risk losing person to person connections. Our sports groups in Warringah help this enormously and all those who volunteer and participate in local sports should be commended for making our community stronger.
We live in a very special part of the world. I feel so lucky to be able to raise my children in Warringah. What I value is our environment - our bush and beaches - and I want to preserve them for future generations. I also value our people, our heritage and unique local communities.
Voices of Warringah knows that across the electorate there are a large number of voices passionate about politics. We structured our questions so to cover the broadest range of issues as in depth as possible, but inevitably we have missed many.
If you have more questions, please get involved! Email or call your candidates, go see them at candidate forums and townhalls, and of course join us at Voices of Warringah!
Thank you to those candidates that responded to our questions, your willingness hear and respond to the voices of the Warringah people is a testament to the value that this campaign has had for improving politics in Warringah. Good luck to all the candidates and voters come 18 May, let our voices be heard!


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At Ease With Elsewhere
Collected Poems, by Pearse Hutchinson, The Gallery Press, 294pp, €17.50,
At Least for a While, by Pearse Hutchinson, The Gallery Press, 69pp, €11.95, ISBN: 978-1852354480
I navigate against the current.
When the rest are coming back I'm setting out.1
The Spring 2009 issue of the literary journal Cyphers contains three separate contributions from Pearse Hutchinson: a prose poem in two short parts called "Near the Grand Canal", dedicated to Patrick Galvin ("that gallant man", born in Cork in 1927), a translation into English of a poem in Catalan by Manuel Forcano (born 1968), and a series of six haikus from the Portuguese of Brazilian poet Alice Ruiz (born 1946).2 Three short poems – or eight if "Haikus" is taken as six individual poems – composed in and through three different languages, representing Hutchinson's engagement with a wide range of poetic cultures and contexts, from the local/Irish to the Iberian and then extending across the Atlantic and beyond through Luiz's Latin American experiments with a form that originates in ancient Japan. Taken together, they represent a snapshot of the poet's project and vision going back over sixty years – his first published poems ("Water" and "The River") appeared in The Bell in 1945 – a project, indeed, that has over six decades evolved into a vision of poetry's possibilities beyond the confines or contours of national cultures or contexts.3
This is not to say that Hutchinson has not written about Ireland, Dublin, Irish culture, politics, or society – he has, of course, written about all of these concerns in compelling ways on several occasions – but it is wrong to think of him as a poet whose achievement should be judged solely in local or, indeed, national terms. It may in fact be worth considering him as a "transnational" poet insofar as his work exemplifies the kind of "poetic transnationalism" that Jahan Ramazani has suggested "can help us both understand and imagine a world in which cultural boundaries are fluid, transient, and permeable".4
Not all poetry imagines such a world, and a great deal of Irish poetry may be said to fixate on the idea of place in ways that make it difficult to think of the writing outside of its local contexts. The pull of home is perhaps always present in poetry, but in Hutchinson's work the attraction of what Gerald Dawe once termed a "real life elsewhere" seems to exert a greater force over his imagination than it has over many poets of his own and later generations.5 The work of his contemporaries John Montague (born 1929) and Thomas Kinsella (born 1928) certainly engages with "elsewhere" at important junctures, but they are ultimately poets of particular places and their Irish origins (even in Montague's case – he was born in Brooklyn) have had a pervasively powerful effect on their work's thematic development. The identifiably Irish element in Montague and Kinsella may account in part for their popularity among critics and scholars of Irish poetry. By the same token, the fact that his work has been more attracted to non-Irish contexts than either of these contemporaries may explain the Irish critical establishment's almost total lack of interest in Hutchinson's work over the past number of decades. Unlike Montague and Kinsella, Hutchinson has not yet been the subject of a special issue of the Irish University Review, nor has his work been the focus of any book-length scholarly monographs or essay collections. Compared to these poets the critical response to his work has been muted to say the least, even in Ireland, apart from a few brief discussions in larger studies of the field and the advocacy of a handful of admirers in academia and the arts.
In response to Dennis O'Driscoll's question about his first encounter with The Dolmen Miscellany of Irish Writing in Stepping Stones, Seamus Heaney recalls getting his "hands on a copy of the Miscellany very early on": "It was a marvellous thing to behold" he says:
It marked a moment. It was the right treatment for the generation who came into their own in its pages – [John] McGahern had an extract from The Barracks, [Richard] Murphy had "The Cleggan Disaster", [Thomas] Kinsella had "A Country Walk", [John] Montague had a long essay on Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" – readable now as a premonition of The Rough Field. You also had Pearse Hutchinson, James Plunkett, and a strange, outsiderish piece by Brian Moore.6
The Dolmen Miscellany was published in 1962, the same year Hutchinson's first book appeared (with Dolphin Books, run by Joan Gili in Oxford), a selection of translations from the work of Catalan poet Josep Carner. His first book of original poems in English, Tongue without Hands, was published by the Dolmen Press in 1963, but in retrospect it seems clear now that the Carner book is the true starting point for a consideration of Hutchinson's achievement. The peripatetic course of Carner's career – he was born in Barcelona in 1884 and died in Brussels in 1970 – must have struck a chord with the young Hutchinson, who was born in Glasgow in 1927, moved to Dublin at the age of five with his parents, but then spent his twenties and thirties mainly living abroad, first in Geneva and then in Barcelona, where he was based more or less permanently until 1967. If Brian Moore's work seemed "outsiderish" to the young Heaney in 1962, what must he have made of Hutchinson? He had been "outside" Ireland for well over a decade at this point, learning the languages of greater Europe – Catalan, Galician, Galaico-Portuguese, as well as French, Dutch-Flemish, and Italian – and forming his poetic identity in relation to poets such as Carner and other Catalan figures like Pere Quart (1899-1986) and Salvador Espriu (1913-1985), to name only a few of the non-Irish and non-Anglophone writers whose work had a major impact on the development of his distinctive poetic voice in the early decades of his career. Patrick Kavanagh and Louis MacNeice were certainly there in the background – Kavanagh in particular – but they were less important to the development of Hutchinson's poetry and poetics than they were to his contemporaries Montague and Kinsella or, indeed, to Heaney and others after them.
Reading through his Collected Poems (2002), it would be hard to miss the extent to which writers and literatures outside of the Irish scene impacted upon both the course of Hutchinson's career and the character of his writing. The first poem in the book, dedicated to Huyck van Leeuwen and the Dutch poet Judith Herzberg, describes an encounter with racism and anti-Semitism in Paris in the 1950s, where the poet saw the words "Mort aux noirs, comme aux juifs!" "scratched on a urinal".7 Throughout the six earlier volumes assembled for his Collected Poems and the selection of New Poems (1995-2001) gathered there, and in At Least for a While (2008), the memory of that encounter combined with a more general sense of what the American poet John Berryman once called "the evil waste of history" has pervaded Hutchinson's poetry, particularly in poems such as "Odessa", "Ostfriesland", and "Judengasse".8 His engagements with the memory of the Holocaust in these and many other poems are a major part of his work's thinking about modern European history and culture, but he is also a poet for whom language, no matter how much it has been debased in the service of hatred, may become a source for spiritual self-replenishment. This, surely, is one of the reasons why Hutchinson has been drawn to so many languages in addition to his native English and Irish, and his revelatory reclamation of words in and for their own peculiar sonic uniqueness and power is evident throughout his Collected Poems, where individual phrases and names are often teased out and tested for the sheer joy of the sound they make as much as anything else – from "Galinsoga: beautiful nine-letter name" in "A Rose and a Book for Sant Jordi" from Watching the Morning Grow (1972) to "Enriqueta Bru" and her "lovely name" from Barnsley Main Seam (1995).9 Only a poet with such a sense of language's sovereignty – who can conjure an image of "Flemish words on horseback" – can seriously claim that "To kill a language is to kill a people" as Hutchinson does in his poem for Michael Hartnett, "The Frost is All Over" (the title poem of his 1975 collection).10 Only a poet with such an understanding of the intricate and intimate relationship between language and humanity – never mind nationality – can really lay claim to the resources that survive even in languages assumed to be already "dead". Beyond the local/national politics of his poetry's consideration of the Irish language, then, lies a belief in language's agency in itself, a belief which allows Hutchinson to claim (not just of Irish but of any language) that: "To kill a language is to kill one's self."11
While it is tempting, and to a certain extent necessary, to read Hutchinson's poetry in terms of its national/Irish contexts, in other words, it is just as important to keep a broader framework in mind. The Irish story has a place, certainly, in his work and readings of it, but it is not prioritised by the poet when one considers the range of his interests over the last few decades. In a recent essay in The Irish Times under the title "After Ireland?" Declan Kiberd described what he calls "the tragedy of many contemporary artists and intellectuals" who "have declared their embarrassment in the face of simple-minded notions of nation, faith and fatherland".12 Hutchinson has always confronted such notions directly, even when he has written about them from abroad, but his aesthetic and political integrity as an artist have not been determined or compromised by narrow national determinations of what he should or should not say in his art. Rather, like his great Catalan exemplar Carner, he is a poet whose calling has always been writing itself first and foremost – language before it enters the political arena as the first point of departure even if, as the poems take shape, they come to speak to questions of ideology and public critique. As he puts it in "At Nightfall" (a translation from Carner), in lines that might be read as an endorsement of the poet's primary responsibility to his own craft:
The lamp on the table summons me,
so does a fleeting thought,
and the old worn chair,
and, malcontent, a sheet of paper.13
Of course there are times when he doubts language's power, and in "Diptychs for the Living", a poem translated from the work of Salvador Espriu, he writes: "Perhaps a line will save me from the sea / a few clear words" – but only "if [...] they can stretch their value / over an entire life."14 Hutchinson is willing to credit that "a few clear words" can "stretch their value / over an entire life" and the canon of his published poetry to date in and from over a dozen languages confirms his belief in their sustaining (staying) power. As he puts it in the recently published haiku translated from the Portuguese of Alice Ruiz: "against the red / a small boy crosses / still writing verses".15
If Irish critics have not engaged with Hutchinson's work as much as they have with some of his more well-known contemporaries, poets and translators from a wide range of cultural backgrounds have been busy over the past number of years with his poems – as busy with his work as he has been with theirs. His work to date includes collaborative ventures in translation with Melita Cataldi, for example, and the poet has also translated his own poems in Irish into English, as well as versions of poems in Catalan, Spanish, and Italian into Irish. Hutchinson's Anglophone audience might not be familiar with the following titles of his works that have been published by various poets, scholars, and translators over the past number of years: El Alma Que Besó Al Cuerpo (1994), L'anima che bacio il corpo (1999), Achnasheen: Corenta e catro poemas irlandeses (2002), Cîtec de cimpoi (2003), Lenda (2004), Poèmes (2008).16 The latter volume is a "trilingual" production ("édition trilingue: irlandais, anglais et français"), overseen by Pádraig Ó Gormaile and Bernard Escarbelt and involving a team of translators from two French centres for Irish Studies (the Centre d'Études et de Recherche Irlandaises at the Université Charles de Gaulle in Lille and the Université de Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle). In his introduction to that book Ó Gormaile writes that Hutchinson "speaks from within both a bilingual tradition [...] and a multilingual European tradition rich in surrealist imagery, without describing either but by adopting the idiom of both to express his own particular view of man and reality."17 Hutchinson's interest in surrealism began during his first extended period away from Ireland, in the 1950s, when he got to know the French writer Claude Tarnaud in Geneva, but if the surrealist element is not always obvious in his work Ó Gormaile and Escarbelt are certainly right in their observation that his poetry gives voice to "a multilingual European tradition" – not just because he has done so much to introduce many of those languages to Irish readers in his translations but because many of his poems are meditations on the richness of Europe's linguistic heritage in itself.18 And the work continues: 2010 will see the publication of a selection of his poems rendered into Dutch by the poet Joris Iven (whose work is represented in Hutchinson's Done into English by "The House on the Lake"), and a collection translated into Spanish by Dickinson College scholar, editor, and poet Jorge Sagastume will also be published next year.
In addition to these new books of translations of Hutchinson's work, the Irish Academic Press will publish a collection of essays and reflections on the poet that will include contributions by a wide range of scholars, a long interview with Hutchinson and a bibliography compiled especially for the volume that will allow readers to appreciate for the first time the full extent and range of his career to date as poet, translator, editor, critic, reviewer, and broadcaster. When that volume is published it will provide readers with a resource through which the biographical, bibliographical, and contextual details of Hutchinson's career can be more fully understood, and it will also throw light on areas of his work that have long needed to be examined in a critical light, from his engagements with Irish and European history to the claim made at the start of this piece regarding the possibility that he might be considered a "transnational" poet. On the basis of his published works to date and, indeed, considering the example of his most recent collection in English, At Least for a While, Ramazani's claim that a "transnational poetics" allows us to "read ourselves as imaginative citizens not of one or another hermetically sealed national or civilizational bloc" seems to make clear sense in relation to Hutchinson. Poems such as "Cockney" and the wonderful triptych "Memories of West Cork and Limerick" point to Hutchinson's abiding concern for the Irish language and cultural politics, but the poems of At Least for a While more frequently take us outside Ireland, to Rotterdam (in "A Man Goes for a Walk; Runs the Gauntlet; and Finds Beauty"), Amsterdam and Barcelona ("Perfection in Amsterdam and Barcelona"), Lisbon ("Senhor Mascarenhas"), Milan ("Midnight"), Venice ("Calder"), Stockholm ("A Bowl of Red Cherries"), Savona and Compostella ("Crucifixions"), Seville ("The Three-Cornered Hat"), Rome ("A Roman Piazza"), Lugo ("Believers in a Possible Freedom") and Lübeck ("Lehmbruck in Lübeck"), to name only the places that are named in his most recent collection. There are also poems in which specifics of place or time are not given – such as "Ivy and Bay" and "Irises", poems in which Hutchinson's eye fixes on isolated details of the natural world around him – but naming a place beyond one's own nation (wherever or whatever that is) does not necessarily make a poem "transnational". With regard to Hutchinson, it seems to me that the term makes sense simply because he is a poet who has refused to be hemmed in by what might be termed the expectations of local or national culture. Always his own man, writing against the grain, he has made a body of work over the last sixty years and continues to make poems that reflect an ease with elsewhere that is not always popular in contemporary Irish writing. Moreover, reading his poems of those "other" places one is allowed, briefly and provisionally, to become what Ramazani has termed an "imaginative citizen [...] of intercultural worlds that ceaselessly overlap, intersect, and converge".19
Perhaps that is what all poetry aspires to give its readers – a temporary passport to the forbidden zone, the place you always wanted to visit but by going there you would have to forgo the comforts of home. Maybe the best poets take us out of ourselves by revealing something previously unforeseen in the homely. However one thinks about the relationship between poetry and home, art and the familiar, the extent to which Hutchinson has worked and reworked these terms in his writing is undeniable, and he has accomplished this in part by embracing the "transnational" not just as a way of living his life but as a way of writing poetry. In a remarkable tribute to the poet published in her most recent collection Pure Lizard (2008), the Indian poet Sujata Bhatt – another writer for whom the idea of a "transnational poetics" seems to be of profound relevance – concludes her poem with the following lines:
Pearse, that summer I read
your poems for the first time –
Entered your Dublin, your Barcelona.
Your 1950s echoing with Gaelic,
with Castilian and Catalan –
That summer I kept
returning to your words.
And always, in the background:
Thetis sleeping, Thetis awakening,
Neptune in love – Ebb' und Fluth,
Ebb' und Fluth, Neptune in love –
And always, love.
Always, the aching pull of it –
An unknown creature grasping the soul.20
Bhatt's lines remind us that Hutchinson's "Dublin" or "Barcelona" will always be his cities, the particular poet's memory and representation of those places. At the same time, however, his poems take us to these "other" places and in those journeys, as Bhatt records, echoes of various languages resound against a background of music and mythology that extends from the anonymous poets of Ancient Greece to Georg Philipp Telemann's Hamburg. Through each journey the common theme is love – "Always, the aching pull of it" – and it is this, finally that has compelled Hutchinson to range across cultures throughout his career as a poet. He has never written simply as a tourist or as a passive observer of life as he witnessed it in Franco's Spain or anywhere else, but as an artist with a firm belief in art's relation to the world.
Writing "from / Findrum" – the house where he grew up in Dublin and to which he returned in the late 1960s, and where he now lives – "to / Fisterra" – on the Costa da Morte or "Coast of Death" in Galicia – Hutchinson's explorations of place ultimately transcend national and cultural particulars to invoke what he calls "'the best-loved space'" in "Black Tide".21 The poem (written in response to a photograph taken by Xavier Rodríguez of ten people lying naked on a beach in protest against oil pollution), begins in the contemplation of the actualities of an ecological disaster but ends with an invocation of the perseverance of the human voice in art that speaks across boundaries of space and time:
This is no fun, no self-indulgent freak
but a bitter shriek of anger, even despair
These gallant bodies are hope – of a kind.
Is there any other kind?
Their silent nakedness cries to the sky.
Made for loving they scream outrage
But each one with breast, nobilities,
'the best-loved space', with beauty,
cleaves through the black ugly dreck of greed
to love the beautiful insulted land, and people.22
The land loved there is not just Spain, or Galicia, and the "gallant bodies" protesting in Rodríguez's photograph are representative of women and men everywhere who take a stand against "the black ugly dreck of greed" and dare to love through art. In their gestures and performances, and in Hutchinson's poems, hope and love reside.
1.Pearse Hutchinson, "Game", translated from the Catalan of Pere Quart, in Done into English: Collected Translations (Oldcastle: Gallery, 2003), p. 151.
2. Cyphers (Spring 2009) 40-42. Hutchinson has been a contributing editor to Cyphers since it was founded by him with Leland Bardwell, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and Macdara Woods in 1975.
3. The Bell 9.6 (March 1945) 472-3.
4. Jahan Ramazani, "A Transnational Poetics", American Literary History 18.2 (2006) 332-359; 355.
5. Gerald Dawe, A Real Life Elsewhere (Belfast: Lagan Press, 1993).
6. Seamus Heaney in Dennis O'Driscoll, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (London: Faber and Faber, 2008), pp 51-52.
7. "Changes" in Collected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery, 2002), p. 15. Two of Hutchinson's translations of poems by Judith Herzberg are included in Done into English, pp 94-95.
8. Ibid., pp 228-230; 231-233; 262-263. Berryman's phrase is from the poem "Winter Landscape", collected in Charles Thornbury, ed. Collected Poems, 1937-1971 (London: Faber and Faber, 1991), p. 3.
9. Ibid., pp 125; 256-259.
10. Ibid., pp 172-173.
12. Declan Kiberd, "After Ireland?", The Irish Times (29 August 2009). Available online at: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0829/.
13. Done into English, p. 134.
15.Cyphers (Spring 2009) 40.
16. El Alma Que Besó Al Cuerpo, translations by Pilar Salamanca (Madrid: Hiperión, 1994); L'anima che bacio il corpo / Pearse Hutchinson; poesie scelte a cura di Melita Cataldi; traduzioni dall'irlandese e dall'inglese di Rosangela Barone, Melita Cataldi e Marco Sonzogni (Torino: Trauben, 1999); Achnasheen: Corenta e catro poemas irlandeses, translations by Kathleen March and Luis Martul (Santiago di Compostela: Noitarenga, 2002); Cîtec de cimpoi / Pearse Hutchinson; traducere de Christian Tămaş (Iaşi, Romania: Ars Longa, 2003); Lenda, translations by Robert Neal Baxter, (Santiago di Compostela: Amastra-N-Gallar, 2004); Poèmes / Pearse Hutchinson, edition trilingue irlandais, anglais et français, présentés et introduits par Bernard Escarbelt et Pádraig Ó Gormaile (sur CD version sonore en irlandais par le poète lui-même (Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2008).
17. Pádraig Ó Gormaile, "Introduction", Poèmes, p. 15.
18. On Claude Tarnaud see http://claudetarnaud.com/.
19. Ramazani, p. 355.
20. Sujata Bhatt, Pure Lizard (Manchester: Carcanet, 2008), pp 37-39; p. 39.
21. Hutchinson, At Least for a While (Oldcastle: Gallery, 2008), pp 54-55.
22. Ibid., p. 55.
Philip Coleman is a Lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where he is Director of the MPhil in Literatures of the Americas and Head of Sophisters. With Maria Johnston he is editing Reading Pearse Hutchinson, a collection of essays and reflections on the poet, for the Irish Academic Press. He has edited collections of essays on literature and science and on the poetry of John Berryman. His book John Berryman and the Public Sphere: Reception and Redress will be published by UCD Press in 2010.


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I left 2 bottles of water for that guy knocked out in the floatie for being first to my set (by default).
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PS – That guy bringing funky back in plain view of the camera was Dominic Isaiah. Props to you man!
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Congratulations, Jeff! See – that's part of my point. As much as I love super-festivals like Ultra and the like, they're so big that special moments like that get overlooked. Cheers to you both!


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Sharjah is a city of learning and the arts, as confirmed by its 1998 UNESCO designation as the Cultural Capital of the Arab World. The city of Sharjah is home for more than 20 museums with splendid collections of artifacts and art as well as exhibits on science and natural history. Sharjah is the only emirate to have land on both the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.
The Emirate of Ajman is situated on the coast of the Arabian Gulf, extending over a distance of 16 km, between the emirates of Umm al-Qaiwain and Sharjah. The area of the emirate is 259 square kilometers, equivalent to 0.3% of the country's total area, excluding the islands.
It is the second smallest emirate in terms of space. Umm al-Qaiwain is located between three emirates, which are Sharjah, Ajman and Ras Al Khaimah. Ajman and Sharjah lies at the south of the Emirate, and Ras Al Khaimah north. Also, Umm Al Qaiwain is smaller in terms of population. The Citizens depend on fishing and cultivating palm trees as source of income. But now Umm al-Qaiwain is developing and highlight features of the architectural renaissance.
Ras Al Khaimah is the historical capital of the United Arab Emirates. Its area is 1700 square kilometres. Ras Al Khaimah is characterized by its green tree, which extends to cover a vast area of it. The city of Ras Al Khaimah which lies on the sea, has a long history stems from the flourished port and the special Pearl. The emirate is witnessing significant developments.
Fujairah holds a unique position in the UAE. It is the only emirate that lies on the eastern side of the UAE, along the Gulf of Oman, while all the six other emirates are along the Arabian Gulf. The area of the it is 1,300 square kilometers, which vary between mountains and plains and desert.Fujairah's main occupation in the past were fishing and agriculture.
To be a competitive economy that would achieve sustainable economic development, raise the level of per capita income and lead to a competitive status with global economies. Abu Dhabi strategy is based on both the enhancement of the economic structure and the diversification of income sources through nurturing the non-oil sectors, strengthening the public-private partnership (PPP), encouraging the direct foreign investment (DFI), as well as through entering into joint ventures hinged upon comparative advantages. Any local economy managed by global standards seeks to apply the laws of the knowledge-based economy.
Premium education, healthcare and infrastructure assets.
The creation of a sustainable knowledge based economy.
An optimal transparent regulatory environment.
Complete international and domestic security.
A continuation of strong and diverse international relationships.
The maintenance of Abu Dhabi's values, culture and heritage.
A significant and ongoing contribution to the federation of the United Arab Emirates.
An economy based on quality and providing the best services in conformity with global standards.
Abu Dhabi is the number one city in the Arab world. Abu Dhabi seeks to integrate into the global market and to achieve prosperity for its citizens and residents. To make this a reality, it has taken up a scientific approach based on standards that would make it possible to measure its performance against that of other economies.
The International Institute for Management Development (IMD), based in Switzerland, and the Abu Dhabi Council for Economic Development prepared a report on Abu Dhabi Competitiveness in 2006, which aims to highlight the strengths and weaknesses in Abu Dhabi economy with the objective of creating an attractive business environment and of bringing about a competitive economy.
Abu Dhabi ranked 27 out of the 55 countries.
We could not obtain the status of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the global competitiveness index, however, in 2006, the same index registered for the UAE a competitive indicator of 32 out of 128 countries and the same rank was also recorded in 2006. The UAE came first in terms of Arab countries' competitiveness.
Abu Dhabi, where luxury and style are infused with traditional values of hospitality and respect. Where sunny weather, tranquil beaches, lush oases, vibrant city life, and a mixture of culture and traditions come together to create a holiday experience like no other. Explore the emirate's old souqs, sip a fragrant Arabic coffee, ride the dunes on an exhilarating desert safari, or dive into a dazzling marine life - there is something for everyone in Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi is one of the most modern cities in the world. It is the center of government and business life in the UAE, headquarters of the emirates oil operating companies and embassies are based here. The architecture of its modern buildings and sky scrapers is the finest in the Middle East. Abu Dhabi's oil wealth has been wisely utilized to encourage a healthy trade and commerce atmosphere apart from oil industries too. The promotion of tourism and various tourism-related projects will elevate Abu Dhabi to a Singaporean status in the region. Large gardens and parks, green boulevards lining all the streets and roads, sophisticated high-rise buildings, state-of-the-art communication services and transport, the presence of all the international luxury hotel chains, rich shopping malls, cultural centers and events provide tourists a one-of-a-kind experience all the year round. Abu Dhabi's second region, known as the Eastern Region, has as its capital Al Ain city.
Al Ain is a fertile oasis city located approximately 160 kilometers east of the Abu Dhabi capital. Its name ("the spring" in Arabic) derives from its originally plentiful supply of fresh water, which makes its way underground across most of the plain lying before the Omani mountains.
Abu Dhabi emirate including nearly 200 islands are strewn along its coast. Visitors can use public transportation available to some of those islands. There is also renting boats for those who wish to do special trips to visit the islands.
Some of these islands: Lulu, Saadiyat, Al Futaisi , Horseshoe, Cut and Bahraini , Yas Island, Sir Bani Yas, Dalma.
There are plenty of historical and contemporary sites for Abu Dhabi and Al-Ain visitors to explore in order to obtain an understanding of the local culture and heritage.
Some of these sites in Al-Ain: Al Ain Palace Museum, Al Ain National Museum, and Hafit Mountain.
Visitors can catch the latest Hollywood, Bollywood and Arabic blockbusters at any of the emirate's numerous cinemas.
In Abu Dhabi: there are eight major cinemas.
Al Ain also boasts several shopping venues, most notably Al Ain Mall. In addition to a number of brand name stores and 25 food outlets, Other shopping places in Al Ain include Al Jimi Mall and Al Ain City Centre.
There are many parks in Abu Dhabi. On the other hand, Al Ain is known as the Garden City among its visitors. It has more than 70 parks equipped with leisure and entertainment facilities. Lush trees and landscape on the roadsides add to the beauty of the city.
Abu Dhabi: Sheikh Khalifa Park, Mushrif Garden, and other parks.
Al-Ain: Al-Ain Zoo, Mabzarah Al Khadra, Hili Fun City, Ayn-Al Fayda, and a large number of parks.