Verilog source code, testbench, and output files for the controller. This source code was developed using Icarus verilog in Linux. To compile and run the testbench simply run make. The included Makefile runs the Icarus compiler and processor with the proper arguments. You should see some output from the testbench results. There is also a vcd dumpfile generated for gtkwave.
This is the front panel schematics for the ac97 expansion board for the NGW100 AVR evaluation kit with contains an AVR32AP7001 32-bit processor.


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•WVU Medicine News•Dr. Hannah Hazard-Jenkins named permanent director of the WVU Cancer Institute
Dr. Hannah Hazard-Jenkins named permanent director of the WVU Cancer Institute
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Hannah Hazard-Jenkins, M.D., associate chair of surgery for cancer services, has been named the permanent director of the WVU Cancer Institute after having served in the position on an interim basis since January.
Hannah Hazard-Jenkins, M.D.
"As a native West Virginian, it is my honor to serve in this role for the people of my home state and the surrounding region. I have been and will always be committed to ensuring that everyone who seeks us out for care has access to the latest advancements in treatment, procedures, and clinical trials regardless of where they come into our system – whether it's at our flagship campus in Morgantown or one of our regional sites," Dr. Hazard-Jenkins said. "My goal is to continue to improve outcomes for all cancer patients in West Virginia, so that they make the transition from cancer patient to cancer survivor."
As the director of clinical services for the WVU Cancer Institute's Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, Hazard-Jenkins helped manage clinical affairs and programmatic development, as well as the Institute's statewide network of cancer care. She also serves as the director of the Institute's Comprehensive Breast Cancer Program and as chief of staff at WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital.
"Dr. Hazard-Jenkins is the perfect person to lead the WVU Cancer Institute because she has made cancer care in West Virginia – from research to patient care to education – her life's work. She understands the challenges our patients face, including the types of cancers and compounding chronic conditions West Virginians most often face as well as the geographic and socioeconomic barriers to treatment," Albert L. Wright, Jr., president and CEO of the West Virginia University Health System, said. "As a result, she is a champion for every patient who walks through our doors and treats each and every one of them like family. You will be hard pressed to find someone more dedicated to reversing the cancer burden in this state."
Hazard-Jenkins completed her medical education and internship and residency training in general surgery at the WVU School of Medicine and a fellowship in breast diseases at Northwestern University in Chicago. She is board certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery.
"Dr. Hazard-Jenkins always places our patients and their families first in their quest for care and healing at the WVU Cancer Institute," Clay B. Marsh, M.D., vice president and executive dean for WVU Health Sciences, said. "She is a tireless educator, a compassionate care provider, and a visionary leader who brings enthusiasm, innovation, and a talent for connecting research and clinical teams to this role. As a West Virginian and graduate of the WVU School of Medicine, she is intimately aware of the needs of our state."
She has earned several accolades over the years due to her service to patients and trainees, including being named Clinician of the Year, the Bernard Zimmerman Outstanding Attending Surgeon, and the Ron Albuquerque Medical Student Teaching Award. Hazard-Jenkins has served as an invited speaker at more than two dozen regional and national events and has authored and co-authored more than 45 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and selected abstracts and poster presentations.
For more information on the WVU Cancer Institute, visit WVUMedicine.org/Cancer.
For media inquiries: Angela Jones-Knopf, Corporate Director of Media Relations and Public Affairs, 304-285-7259
knopfa@wvumedicine.org

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We have a new schedule of classes for January to May. Please follow the following link to view this newsletter. We hope there is something of interest to you. Now that winter is here we need a new project to keep us busy. We challenge you to try something new this year!
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Help raise awareness for Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) by simply driving your car! This ribbon magnet is perfect for anyone who wants to help raise awareness for HG.
Help raise awareness for Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) by simply driving your car! These round car magnets are perfect for anyone who wants to help raise awareness for HG. They measure 5 3/4 inches and can be read by the car behind you.
In the spirit of Lance Armstrong's "LIVE STRONG" bracelets, the HER Foundation decided to create a hyperemesis gravidarum wristband to raise awareness.


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About Toggle Dropdown
State Tribal Relations Policy Events
Resources Toggle Dropdown
Montana Tribal ID Cards
Directory Toggle Dropdown
Blackfeet Reservation Crow Reservation Flathead Reservation Fort Belknap Reservation Fort Peck Reservation Little Shell Chippewa Tribe Northern Cheyenne Reservation Rocky Boy's Reservation
Blackfeet Reservation
Crow Reservation
Flathead Reservation
Fort Belknap Reservation
Fort Peck Reservation
Little Shell Chippewa Tribe
Northern Cheyenne Reservation
Rocky Boy's Reservation
Chippewa Cree Tribe
Rocky's Boy Reservation
Box Elder, MT 59521
Rocky Boy's provides a home for about 2,500 members of the Chippewa-Cree tribe. The name "Rocky Boy" was derived from the name of a leader of a band of Chippewa Indians. It actually meant "Stone Child," but it was not translated correctly from Chippewa into English, and "Rocky Boy" evolved.
Rocky Boy's Reservation is near the Canadian border, in northcentral Montana. It is graced by the Bears Paw Mountains, which provide a dramatic contrast to the flat bottomlands of this area.
Rocky Boy's residents who work on the reservation are employed by the schools, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Health Service and tribal government. There is also some wheat farming and post and pole production. The tribe is actively working toward development of its natural resources to be able to provide more jobs and income for its people.
Chippewa-Cree Recreation Area
Many outdoor recreation opportunities are available, including Bear Paw Ski Bowl, a tribally owned, fully operational ski area. The Chippewa-Cree Recreation Area is located 29 miles south of Havre in the Bears Paw Mountains.
Bears Paw Mountains
Stone Child College
A two-year college, Stone Child offers associate's degrees in the Arts and Sciences. There are future plans for a cultural center on campus.
www.stonechild.edu
Constitution and By-laws for the Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation
The Chippewa Cree Business Committee is the governing body of the Tribe. The eight Council members and Chairman are elected at large; serving four years on staggered terms. Elections are held in the fall of every even numbered year.
The Tribe elected to 'compact' the Bureau of Indian Affairs (FY 93) and Indian Health Service (FY 94) programs under Title IV of the P.l. 93-638 Act. The historical Act allowed Tribes the opportunity to determine their priorities and to exercise the inherent tribal sovereignty of the Chippewa Cree Nation.
Meet the current membership of the Chippewa Cree Business Committee: www.chippewacree.org
The Rocky Boy's Reservation, headquartered at Rocky Boy's Agency, encompasses approximately 122,000 acres.
The reservation is home to 55% of the 6,177 enrolled Chippewa & Cree tribal members.
The name "Rocky Boy" was derived from the name of a leader of a band of Chippewa Indians. It actually meant "Stone Child," but it was not translated correctly from Chippewa into English, and "Rocky Boy" evolved.
The tribe call themselves "Ne Hiyawak" which means "those who speak the same language".
The reservation's economy is primarily supported by agriculture and livestock.
The tribe celebrates Rocky Boy's Pow Wow annually in August.
Governor's Office of Indian Affairs
Helena, MT 59620-0801
Governor's Offices
Budget and Program Planning
Indian Affairs
Mental Disabilities Board of Visitors
Mental Health Ombudsman
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Transparenter MIFARE RFID Tag mit 25mm Durchmesser und einer Dicke von 0,7mm.
This tag is transparent and has a diameter of 25mm and an overall thickness of about 0.7mm. It works with MIFARE 13.56 MHz compatible readers.


Pagination and lists; HTML doesn't get much more boring (unless we want to talk about forms, and who does?). But you can have fun with counters!
So you really want to talk about forms? Okay, fine. Let's at least make it fun by using currentColor and pseudo-elements with our form controls.
A plethora of performance measuring tools, from websites to bookmarks to command line, including Grunt and Gulp… Whew!
Speaking of modern debugging techniques, my good friend Kevin Chisholm, who regularly writes great tutorials on modern web development techniques, has another great piece about using Firefox's emulator.
With all the hub-bub about Google now indicating "Mobile-friendly" pages in search results, it makes sense to at least run your projects through their Mobile-friendly test tool. Depending on the results, you might also want to consult the crap-load of resources offered on their Web Fundamentals page.
If you've been looking for a good AngularJS tutorial, it seems like Treehouse just might have it for you.
Or maybe you'd prefer an alternative, like Zurb's Foundation for Apps?
icdiff… Would love to see this replace the existing git diff viewer!
A thorough run-down on all the various classes WP natively makes available to you.
"9 eye-popping images created purely in CSS3" Impressive, indeed!
This entry was posted in angularjs, command line, css, debugging, firefox, git, grunt, gulp, html, mobile, performance, responsive web, today's readings, web development, wordpress. Bookmark the permalink.
You can totally set git up to use a custom diff tool!


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Q: How to loop through and compare millions of values in two text files? I have two text files files (TXT) which contain over 2 million distinct file names. I want to loop through all the names in the first file and find those that are also present in the second text file.
I have tried looping through the StreamReader but it takes a lot of time. I also tried the code below, but it still takes too much time.
StreamReader first = new StreamReader(path);
string strFirst = first.ReadToEnd();
string[] strarrFirst = strFirst.Split('\n');

 bool found = false;

StreamReader second = new StreamReader(path2);
string str = second.ReadToEnd();
string[] strarrSecond = str.Split('\n');

for (int j = 0; j < (strarrFirst.Length); j++)
{
          found = false;

    for (int i = 0; i < (strarrSecond .Length); i++)
    {
        if (strarrFirst[j] == strarrSecond[i])
        {
            found = true;
            break;
        }
    }

    if (!found)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(strarrFirst[j]);
    }
}

What is a good way to compare the files?

A: How about this:
var commonNames = File.ReadLines(path).Intersect(File.ReadLines(path2));

That's O(N + M) instead of your current solution which tests every line in the first file with every line in the second file - O(N * M).
That's assuming you're using .NET 4. Otherwise, you could use File.ReadAllLines, but that will read the whole file into memory. Or you could write the equivalent of File.ReadLines yourself - it's not terribly hard.
Ultimately you're likely to be limited by file IO by the time you've got rid of the O(N * M) problem in your current code - there's not much way to get round that.
EDIT: For .NET 2, first let's implement something like ReadLines:
public static IEnumerable<string> ReadLines(string file)
{
    using (TextReader reader = File.OpenText(file))
    {
        string line;
        while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
        {
            yield return line;
        }
    }
}

Now we really want to use a HashSet<T>, but that wasn't in .NET 2 - so let's use Dictionary<TKey, TValue> instead:
Dictionary<string, string> map = new Dictionary<string, string>();
foreach (string line in ReadLines(path))
{
    map[line] = line;
}

List<string> intersection = new List<string>();
foreach (string line in ReadLines(path2))
{
    if (map.ContainsKey(line))
    {
        intersection.Add(line);
    }
}

A: Try something like this to speed it up a bit ...
            var path = string.Empty;
            var path2 = string.Empty;
            var strFirst = string.Empty;
            var str = string.Empty;
            var strarrFirst = new List<string>();
            var strarrSecond = new List<string>();

            using (var first = new StreamReader(path))
            {
                strFirst = first.ReadToEnd();
            }

            using (var second = new StreamReader(path2))
            {
                str = second.ReadToEnd();
            }

            strarrFirst.AddRange(strFirst.Split('\n'));

            strarrSecond.AddRange(str.Split('\n'));
            strarrSecond.Sort();

            foreach(var value in strarrFirst)
            {
                var found = strarrSecond.BinarySearch(value) >= 0;
                if (!found) Console.WriteLine(value);
            }

A: Just for fun, I've tried Jon Skeet method and own:
    var guidArray = Enumerable.Range(0, 1000000).Select(x => Guid.NewGuid().ToString()).ToList();
        string path = "first.txt";
        File.WriteAllLines(path, guidArray);
        string path2 = "second.txt";
        File.WriteAllLines(path2, guidArray.Select(x=>DateTime.UtcNow.Ticks % 2 == 0 ? x : Guid.NewGuid().ToString()));

        var start = DateTime.Now;

        var commonNames = File.ReadLines(path).Intersect(File.ReadLines(path2)).ToList();

        Console.WriteLine((DateTime.Now - start).TotalMilliseconds);

        start = DateTime.Now;

        var lines = File.ReadAllLines(path);
        var hashset = new HashSet<string>(lines);

        var lines2 = File.ReadAllLines(path2);

        var result = lines2.Where(hashset.Contains).ToList();

        Console.WriteLine((DateTime.Now - start).TotalMilliseconds);
        Console.ReadKey();

And Skeet's method was tiny bit faster (1453.0831 vs 1488.0851, iDevForFun method was quite slow - 12791.7316), so i think under layers should happen same thing as I was trying to do manually with hashset.

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Q: Unwanted white space on the top and left I'm trying to make an image under a title on the top left but the image doesn't want to cover the left side.
I changed the position to position: absolute, made the margin and padding 0, inspected the HTML page and can't see anything that can influence this image.
The HTML:

Dillan Robbertze

The CSS:
.header img{
    height:Auto;
    left:0;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    position:absolute;
    width:100vw;
    z-index:1;
    }

Expected Results: Image is under the title top left.
Actual Results: There is a white space left and top of the image.
EDIT: I added top:0; thanks to @Somesh Mukherjee. The image moved up, but there is still a left space that shouldn't be there.

A: You have not specified the top attribute
.header img{
    height:auto;
    left:0;
    top:0;
    margin:0:
    padding:0;
    position:absolute;
    width:100vw;
}

A: why don't you try:

top: -28px;
      position:relative;

Helped me once, or twice in similar situations.

A: add a class to the parent div element. and add position relative to it.
.myNewClass {
    position: relative;
}

also, make sure your parent elements don't have margin and padding. for that, you can use a CSS reset like this:
* {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

though this will make sure all of your elements don't have any margin or padding so you need to specify all you need by yourself. you should put this at the top of your CSS file if you want to use it.


Paying off high interest debt can be daunting and much tougher than what you may perceive it to be. Saving money, while owing huge amounts to creditors and lenders is nothing but a futile attempt; no matter how knowledgeable you are about saving money and dealing with unanticipated situations. Accidents and emergencies happen to anyone but people should be equipped in the best way to deal with them smartly and wisely.
There are times when you break even, when all you need is small amount of money to repay a debt amount that has long been overdue. This feeling of being so close yet so far is indeed frustrating than being in debt. This is when you should consider car title loans which are short term loans for a borrower using collateral. Let's check out the few reasons behind using a car title loan when you require cash.
Who doesn't love to take out loans from lenders who won't check their credit score? As long as car title loans are concerned, you can get such loans even though you have poor credit score or you've declared bankruptcy. All you require is a residency proof, a bank account and a car title that's clean. Your credit history and income history as something irrelevant as you use your car as collateral to the loan. When you fail to pay the amount, the lender will sell your vehicle to recoup the money.
A second reason to obtain a car title loan is that you can get immediate cash. There are several traditional lending institutions which make you wait for long time after requesting the loan. Title loans, on the other hand, get approved within hours. As reports reveal that 78% of Americans are living from one paycheck to the next, this options seems indeed helpful.
If you approach large banks, they use a specific formula to determine the amount you can borrow. Then the bank checks everything from your assets, income to your bank account history. On the other hand, the borrowing limit that is set on the car title loan is based on the value of the vehicle. This will always work in your favor as used car prices are usually around $14,385. You can borrow a percentage of the value of your vehicle to handle even the biggest bill and other emergencies.
One final reason to use car title loans is that the repayment procedure is easy and flexible. Title loans offer you the option to spread payments through several months. Hence you can repay the loan without bankrupting yourself.
Therefore, if you're in need of instant cash and you're car-rich, what are you waiting for? Approach a car title loan lender and get the loan to access its benefits.


Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and it's time to start planning that special night out with your sweetheart. If planning isn't really your thing, Grapevine Towne Center is the perfect place to be while searching for hot Valentine's Day ideas in Grapevine. From romantic dinners to relaxing nights out, we've got the plates to impress your date. Here are our best Valentine's Day ideas in Grapevine Towne Center.
Go big or go home, right? Well, how about just going big?… Haltom's Jewelers has anything from bridal and wedding pieces to Rolexes and timepieces. If exclusive is right up your alley, check out the luxury brands at Haltom's. You can go home later.
If you're looking for 'hot food, cool vibes, cold drinks and a big-time fun,' this is the place for you. Bottlecap Alley Icehouse Grill offers you nothing but fresh, high-quality products and 100% Fresh Angus Beef. Bring the entire family or take a night off with your significant other, but whatever you do- see if you can "Build the Big One" like the "D2", the "Avocado Burger" or the lean and green "T-Bird" Turkey Burger.
It's never a bad thing to be "selfish" and treat yourself every once in a while. It happens. With a high-end, modern, bright and beautifully decorated salon like Ava Salon Suites & Spa, it's time to let the beauty professionals take you into their hands for a bit. You won't regret it, and neither will your skin.
Whether this is your first time or you're a dinner planning date machine, you can never go wrong with taking your Valentine's Day ideas to Grapevine Towne Center. You'll have anything you want and need in the Towne Center. If you want to hear about more 'sweet' Valentine's Day ideas in Grapevine, check out our blog today!
Grapevine Towne Center is offered by Weitzman. Weitzman is one of the leading commercial real estate companies in North Texas. Weitzman offers a full range of Commercial Real Estate services including Project Representation, Tenant Representation and Investment Sales and, is also a leading Asset Management and Development Services Commercial Real Estate firm.
There is never a bad time to start practicing habits for green living in Grapevine. Living a more eco-friendly life begins with learning more about the ways you can live a greener life. Just changing small daily habits can have a huge impact on our planet. Grapevine Towne Center has gathered a list of tips and tricks for implementing a life of green living in Grapevine.
Vegetarianism has risen in the U.S. by a significant margin. While it's easy to make fun of people who don't eat meat, they are actually helping the amount of carbon monoxide in the air supply. Cows used for meat produce a huge amount of C02 that is poisonous for humans. Choosing a delicious meal at Jason's Deli in Grapevine Towne Center that doesn't include meat can help support green living in Grapevine.
Limiting the use of paper and plastic shopping bags has been a big trend in the U.S as of late, but do you know why? Plastic and paper bags have been showing up in our wildlife and are causing serious problems for our ecosystem. Show love for green living in Grapevine by bringing a reusable bag to Big Lots or any of the Grapevine Towne Center stores.
Practicing these tips for green living in Grapevine can help the environment for years to come. We can all help keep Grapevine beautiful with a little bit of effort. Check out our blog for other ways to shop at Grapevine Towne Center!
You can find a lot of terrific family-friendly restaurants in Grapevine at Grapevine Towne Center. With options like Jason's Deli and Bottlecap Alley Icehouse Grill, your entire family will find a restaurant that works for their diets. The most difficult decision should be deciding the type of food you are in the mood to try! Take a look at some of the most fun family restaurants in Grapevine at Grapevine Towne Center.
If you're looking for a healthy family meal in Grapevine, check out Grapevine Towne Center. All of the pickiest eaters in your family will be able to order their own sandwich at a Jason's Deli. As a bonus, everyone can get a good ratio of meats and vegetables in every bite. Grapevine Towne Center and Jason's Deli make family dinner in Grapevine simple! You can even find soups, salads and free ice cream at Jason's Deli. Perfect for any family gathering.
A reliable family dinner is an old-fashioned hamburger with a milkshake on the side. Bottlecap Alley Icehouse Grill is the place to get a taste of the best burger in Grapevine. This family favorite meal from Grapevine Towne Center will make a long, hard week feel like a walk in the park, at least for a little bit. Treat your kids to the meal they are always asking for with Bottlecap Alley Icehouse Grill for a relaxing family dinner in Grapevine. The kids can get a hot dog or nachos if a hearty burger doesn't suit their appetites.
Check out our directory to learn how to spend more time in Grapevine with your family at Grapevine Towne Center!
Grapevine Towne Center sis offered by Weitzman. Weitzman is one of the leading commercial real estate companies in North Texas. Weitzman offers a full range of Commercial Real Estate services including Project Representation, Tenant Representation and Investment Sales and, is also a leading Asset Management and Development Services Commercial Real Estate firm.
Take your mom jewelry shopping at Haltom's Jewelers!
Make your mom feel super special by taking her shopping for a new piece of jewelry from Haltom's Jewelers! Choose from a wide range of gorgeous jewelry and purchase your mom something super special.
Relax and unwind at Bottlecap Alley Icehouse Grill with your mom and your family for lunch on Mothers Day! Bottlecap Alley Icehouse has a super large menu that the entire family will love. Whether you feel like a burger or chips and queso, there is something for everyone at Bottlecap!
You can never have too much makeup! Head into Merle Norman Cosmetics at Grapevine Towne Center and indulge in some new make up with your mom! Perhaps you'll even score a free makeover in-store!
We hope to see you on Mothers Day in Grapevine this weekend! Happy Mothers Day Moms!
Bottlecap Alley Icehouse Grill is all about high quality, fresh ingredients, and local artisan buns. Customize your delicious juicy burger, relax, and enjoy some beverages with friends!
If you haven't heard of Jason's Deli, you've been living under a rock! With 266 delis in 28 states, it's safe to say Jason's Deli' knows what they are doing. They are also one of the first restaurant groups to remove artificial trans fat and have since eliminated processed MSG, high-fructose corn syrup, dyes, artificial colors, and artificial flavors.
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Старые Ка́раваи — деревня в Невельском районе Псковской области, входящая в состав Ивановской волости, расположенная примерно в 5 километрах от административного центра города Невеля на берегу озера Воротно.  Население - 7 человек (на 2000) и 3 человека на 2011.

Ссылки
 Сайт Невельского района. Ивановская волость

Примечания

Населённые пункты Невельского района (Псковская область)

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A super, amazing, brilliant, mesmerizing intriguing, provoking Social Media Count I came across. How Social Media has grown, developed and is evolving, at an almost remarkable pace.
The Social Media interspace as we use it, how we use it.
Thanks to Gary Hayes at personalizemedia. Accurate at time of posting.


As an AIA Vitality member, you can save up to 50% on selected room types* at Berjaya hotels and resorts in Malaysia. Discounts and cashback will be rewarded based on your AIA Vitality Status.
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An analyst at the OECD told The Local on Friday that Italy's legal system is in a "critical situation", as a report by the organization shows that it takes an average of more than 1,000 days for a case to go through the country's highest court.
"Italy stands out in various areas as being in a critical situation," Giuseppe Nicoletti, head of the OECD's Structural Policy Analysis Division, told The Local on Friday.
"In all stages of judgements, it always has the longest duration. In Switzerland a case takes 400 days to go through the three courts (court of first instance, appeal court and supreme court) but in Italy it takes 1,000 days [for each of the two appeals]. It's crazy," Nicoletti said.
The analyst spoke to The Local on the day the OECD's 'What Makes Civil Justice Effective?' report was presented in Rome, which compared the legal systems of 31 OECD countries as well as those of Russia and South Africa.
And Italy came bottom of the table in terms of the time it takes for a case to conclude in the courts.
Researchers found that the trial length in the court of first instance takes an average of 564 days in Italy, compared to the OECD average of 240 days. In comparison in Japan proceedings in trial last for an average of 107 days.
"There's a paradox; Italy has one of the highest rates of cases solved per judge but the duration of trials is among the highest," said Nicoletti, who supervised the report.
He put this down to a backlog of cases which has been accumulating for more than 20 years. "It's a deficit which turns into a debt," he said.
The analyst believes the impact of the bungling judicial system goes far beyond the courts themselves and has much wider implications for Italy.
Management of the system is inefficient, Nicoletti said, who claims lawyers themselves have profited from the sluggish system.
"The way in which lawyers are remunerated gives them incentives to lengthen the duration of the procedures," he said.
The country's recent history of political instability has further added to Italy's judicial woes.
"What is clear is that there is a need for continuity. What is really detrimental to any kind of reform is incoherent measures from one government to another and backing off measures that have been taken in the past," Nicoletti said.
However the problems of Italy's judicial system cannot be solved with just money, the report found as Switzerland and Italy both allocate around 0.2 percent of GDP to court budgets, but as shown above Switzerland has a far more efficient system.


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Masashi Ebinuma
Masashi Ebinuma (海老沼 匡, Ebinuma Masashi, born 15 February 1990) is a Japanese judoka.
(1990-02-15) February 15, 1990 (age 29)
Oyama, Japan
Native name
海老沼 匡
66 kg (146 lb; 10 st 6 lb)
Half-lightweight
Fighting out of
All Japan National Team
Park 24
Kenzo Nakamura
4th degree black belt in Judo
2012 London –66 kg
2016 Rio de Janeiro –66 kg
2011 Paris –66kg
2013 Rio de Janeiro –66kg
2014 Chelyabinsk –66 kg
2018 Jakarta Mixed Team
2009 Belgrade –66kg
Ebinuma is a triple world champion, having won in 2011, 2013 and 2014. A dominant force in the half-lightweight division, he was ranked first in the world for three years. He is regarded as an ultimate stylist of seoi nage. He is also known for being a quadruple All-Japan national champion.[1][2]
Ebinuma won bronze medals at the 2012 Olympics and the 2016 Olympics.
In one of the most controversial fights in judo with Ebinuma beating South Korea's Cho Jun-ho, Cho Jun-ho was initially announced as the victor. His score was overturned by the judges after a replay.[when?]
In the bronze medal match in the London 2012 Olympics, an ippon was scored against him by Poland's Paweł Zagrodnik. It was downgraded to a waza-ari, saving him from defeat and earning him his first Olympic medal.[3][4]
At the 2016 Olympics, he beat Charles Chibana, Ma Duanbin and Wander Mateo before losing to An Ba-ul.[5] Because An reached the final, Ebinuma was entered into the repechage, where he beat Antoine Bouchard to win his second bronze medal.[5]
AchievementsEdit
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Asian U20 Championships -66 kg, Jeju
Grand Slam -66 kg, Tokyo
World U20 Championships -66 kg, Bangkok
Summer Universiade -66 kg, Belgrade
Grand Prix -66 kg, Abu Dhabi
World Cup -66 kg, Budapest
World Cup Team -66 kg, Salvador
All Japan Judo Championships -66 kg, Fukuoka
World Championships -66 kg, Paris
Grand Slam -66 kg, Rio de Janeiro
Olympic Games -66 kg, London
World Masters -66 kg, Almaty
World Championships -66 kg, Rio de Janeiro
Grand Prix -66 kg, Düsseldorf
World Championships -66 kg, Chelyabinsk
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^ Masashi Ebinuma Archived 2012-08-01 at the Wayback Machine. london2012.com.
^ London 2012 Olympics: Japanese world judo champion Ebinuma Masashi saved by an overturned verdict
^ Ebinuma misses gold but salvages bronze
^ a b "Masashi Ebinuma Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
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Address correspondence to: Jordan S. Orange, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, 3615 Civic Center Blvd., ARC 907A, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. Phone 267.426.5622, Fax 267.426.0947; E-mail: orange@upenn.edu.
J Clin Invest. 2012;122(3):798–801. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI62620.
An interesting variant of familial glucocorticoid deficiency (FGD), an autosomal recessive form of adrenal failure, exists in a genetically isolated Irish population. In addition to hypocortisolemia, affected children show signs of growth failure, increased chromosomal breakage, and NK cell deficiency. Targeted exome sequencing in 8 patients identified a variant (c.71-1insG) in minichromosome maintenance–deficient 4 (MCM4) that was predicted to result in a severely truncated protein (p.Pro24ArgfsX4). Western blotting of patient samples revealed that the major 96-kDa isoform present in unaffected human controls was absent, while the presence of the minor 85-kDa isoform was preserved. Interestingly, histological studies with Mcm4-depleted mice showed grossly abnormal adrenal morphology that was characterized by non-steroidogenic GATA4- and Gli1-positive cells within the steroidogenic cortex, which reduced the number of steroidogenic cells in the zona fasciculata of the adrenal cortex. Since MCM4 is one part of a MCM2-7 complex recently confirmed as the replicative helicase essential for normal DNA replication and genome stability in all eukaryotes, it is possible that our patients may have an increased risk of neoplastic change. In summary, we have identified what we believe to be the first human mutation in MCM4 and have shown that it is associated with adrenal insufficiency, short stature, and NK cell deficiency.
Natural killer (NK) cells are circulating cytotoxic lymphocytes that exert potent and nonredundant antiviral activity and antitumoral activity in the mouse; however, their function in host defense in humans remains unclear. Here, we investigated 6 related patients with autosomal recessive growth retardation, adrenal insufficiency, and a selective NK cell deficiency characterized by a lack of the CD56dim NK subset. Using linkage analysis and fine mapping, we identified the disease-causing gene, MCM4, which encodes a component of the MCM2-7 helicase complex required for DNA replication. A splice-site mutation in the patients produced a frameshift, but the mutation was hypomorphic due to the creation of two new translation initiation methionine codons downstream of the premature termination codon. The patients' fibroblasts exhibited genomic instability, which was rescued by expression of WT MCM4. These data indicate that the patients' growth retardation and adrenal insufficiency likely reflect the ubiquitous but heterogeneous impact of the MCM4 mutation in various tissues. In addition, the specific loss of the NK CD56dim subset in patients was associated with a lower rate of NK CD56bright cell proliferation, and the maturation of NK CD56bright cells toward an NK CD56dim phenotype was tightly dependent on MCM4-dependent cell division. Thus, partial MCM4 deficiency results in a genetic syndrome of growth retardation with adrenal insufficiency and selective NK deficiency.
NK cells are a component of the innate immune system identified in animals as serving an essential role in antiviral immunity. Establishing their role in human health has been challenging, with the most direct insight coming from the study of NK cell–deficient individuals. However, NK cell deficiencies are rare, and more research is needed. In this issue of the JCI, two independent groups of researchers have simultaneously identified the genetic cause of a human NK cell deficiency as mutation in the MCM4 gene, encoding minichromosome maintenance complex component 4. These reports suggest a critical role for the minichromosome maintenance helicase complex in NK cells and NK cell–mediated host defense.
NK cells are lymphocytes of the innate immune system that serve essential roles in host defense (1). They are specialized for surveillance and are alerted to particular signatures of disease through a series of germline-encoded activating and inhibitory receptors. NK cell functions known to participate in immunity include the secretion of cytokines, costimulation of other immune cells, and contact-dependent cytotoxicity of targeted cells. The latter occurs through the directed secretion of the contents of highly specialized lysosome-related organelles (which are called lytic granules) that include the pore-forming molecule perforin and apoptosis-inducing proteases (2).
While there is abundant mechanistic evidence in experimental animals regarding the important role of NK cells in immune defense (3), similar proof in humans has been more difficult to obtain. Some of the most valuable evidence has been generated from the study of very rare NK cell–deficient patients (4, 5). Like NK cell–deficient animals, these individuals are extraordinarily susceptible to infection with viruses, particularly those of the herpesvirus and papillomavirus families. Both of these virus families have well-developed strategies for evading cytotoxic T cell responses, perhaps making NK cells a more relevant feature of antiviral defense. There are likely other factors, however, as other viruses that evade cytotoxic T cells (6) are not as burdensome in patients with NK cell deficiency.
Human NK cell deficiencies can be divided into two categories. Those in the first category are characterized by effects on the quantity of NK cells in the peripheral blood, while effects on the function but not quantity of NK cells characterize those in the second. NK cell deficiencies in the first category have been labeled "classical NK cell deficiencies", and those in the second "functional NK cell deficiencies" (4, 5). The first example of a classical NK cell deficiency was reported in 1989 in a girl with severe varicella and other complicated herpesvirus infections (7). She was determined to stably lack both NK cells in peripheral blood as well as peripheral blood NK cell cytotoxic activity against the prototypical human NK cell target cell, the K562 erythroleukemia cell line. The first example of a functional NK cell deficiency was described in 1982 in three siblings with severe Epstein-Barr virus infection (8). All three individuals in this family had deficient K562 target cell killing activity, and the surviving affected individual has had persistently deficient function over a 30-year period (personal observation).
Although reports of individuals with these rare disorders have accumulated, the mechanistic underpinnings of the conditions remain largely unknown. Only two genetic causes of NK cell deficiency have been identified to date. These are autosomal recessive CD16 mutation, which leads to a functional NK cell deficiency (9), and autosomal dominant GATA2 mutation, which leads to classical NK cell deficiency (10, 11). Individuals with either of these mutations have characteristic viral susceptibility, although some individuals with GATA2 mutations have abnormalities in monocytes and dendritic cells in addition to NK cells and are also susceptible to atypical mycobacterial infection. It is presently unclear why autosomal recessive CD16 mutation and autosomal dominant GATA2 mutation affect NK cells.
When the experience obtained from studying the rare cases of classical and functional NK cell deficiency is combined with that gained from the analysis of other known human single gene diseases that impact the immune system more broadly but include deficiency in NK cell numbers or function (4, 5), some fairly substantive insights can be obtained into the role of human NK cells in host defense as well as their requirements for existence and function (Figure 1). Even though some of these diseases are quite immunologically severe, most are associated with abnormal susceptibility to herpesviruses in at least some form. Thus, while immunologically instructive, they have not pointed to any NK cell–specific developmental requirements or a direct clinical role for NK cells in the way the classical or functional NK cell deficiencies have.
Human genes known to affect NK cells in the context of naturally occurring disease. A human NK cell is represented schematically, with disease-associated genes listed in proximity to where the encoded proteins function within the cell. Genes that have an impact on other immune cells in addition to NK cells and thus cause broader immunodeficiency/hematological syndromes are shown in blue. The three genes known to cause either functional (CD16) or classical (GATA2 and now MCM4) NK cell deficiency are shown in red. CD16 mutation impacts a region of the well-defined NK cell activation receptor (shown on the cell surface) encoded by the gene (9), while GATA2 mutation affects the broadly expressed hematopoietic transcription factor (shown in the nucleus) that it encodes (10, 11). MCM4 mutations as defined by Gineau et al. (12) and Hughes et al. (13) presumably affect the function in NK cell DNA replication of the MCM2–7 complex of which MCM4 is a component. The impact and role in NK cells of the other human disease-associated mutated genes is reviewed elsewhere (2, 4, 5). In addition to having an impact on other immune cells, these affect NK cell development (IL2RG, JAK3), NK cell survival (ADA, BLM, FANCA–G), NK cell lytic function (ITGB2, ORAI1, LYST, AP3B1, MAPBPIP, RAB27A, UNC13D, STXBP2, STX11, PRF1, CTSC, WASP, MYH9), or NK cell responsiveness (TAP1, TAP2, IL12RB1, NEMO, CASP8).
In this issue of the JCI, Gineau et al. (12) and Hughes et al. (13) have defined one of the clearest known examples of classical NK cell deficiency as resulting from mutations in the minichromosome maintenance complex component 4 (MCM4; also known as minichromosome maintenance–deficient 4) gene. The patients are from three consanguineous Irish cohorts and in addition to exhibiting classical NK cell deficiency have adrenal insufficiency and growth retardation. From an infectious standpoint, the proband of the first family studied experienced complications from EBV infection and other affected individuals had susceptibility to infection with herpesviruses and presumed complications of viral illnesses — symptoms clinically consistent with an NK cell deficiency.
Several of the patients studied have been known to have an NK cell deficiency for quite some time (14); colleagues of Gineau have previously identified low numbers of peripheral blood NK cells in the four affected children of the larger family studied (14). Using microsatellite homozygosity mapping, this group had linked the phenotype to chromosome 8p11.23–q11.21 with a lod score of 4.51 (14). This is a 12-Mb region containing 59 genes, which were subsequently focused to 45 and systematically evaluated by Gineau et al. (12). Colleagues of Hughes had originally observed and studied the adrenal insufficiency exhibited by affected individuals in one of the cohorts (15). In the present study, Hughes et al. discovered the causative gene via genome-wide homozygosity mapping and a targeted custom exonic sequence capture array (13). Both groups identified the causative mutations as homozygous acceptor splice site mutations in the MCM4 gene leading to a frameshift and premature stop codon (12, 13). This results in a severely truncated MCM4 protein and abrogation of the major MCM4 isoform.
MCM4 is one part of the minichromosome maintenance complex consisting of MCM2–7. It is a highly conserved DNA helicase that is recruited to origins of replication to promote the unwinding and polymerization of chromosomal DNA (16). Complete MCM4 deficiency in mice is lethal, although a hypomorphic mutant mouse strain (Chaos3) has been characterized (17). In the mutations identified in patients with NK cell deficiency, adrenal insufficiency, and growth retardation, Gineau et al. found that the MCM complex formed normally but failed to promote normal DNA replication, resulting in an abnormal proportion of cells in G1/S phase (12). In patient-derived fibroblasts there was also an abnormally high number of DNA breaks, thus confirming aberrant replicative processes.
Why an impact upon the seemingly ubiquitous and essential MCM2–7 complex and inclusion of an aberrant MCM4 component would affect only NK cells, adrenal function, and growth patterns is unclear. Although direct patient samples were not available, in Chaos3 mice, Hughes et al. found that adrenal morphology was abnormal, with displacement of steroidogenic cells. This potentially would impact normal adrenal steroid responses (13).
The NK cell phenotype in the patients is especially unusual. While the total number of NK cells in their peripheral blood is extremely low, there is a normal number of CD56bright NK cells. CD56bright NK cells are believed to be immature and a developmental precursor to CD56dim mature NK cells (Figure 2 and ref. 18). In peripheral blood, CD56bright NK cells represent a minor population of NK cells, typically approximately 5%. They have characteristic cell surface receptor phenotypes and are not enabled for cytotoxicity. Although the exact requirements are unclear, CD56bright NK cells are thought to give rise to CD56dim NK cells in peripheral lymphoid organs and thus sustain the population of cytotoxic NK cells essential for host defense (18, 19). In their report, Gineau et al. observed a selective defect in the proliferation of mutation-containing CD56bright NK cells as well as an increase in their spontaneous apoptosis (12). This defect was not identified in other immune cell populations tested.
Schematic of terminal human NK cell differentiation and a proposed role for MCM4. Human NK cells arise from the HSC in the bone marrow and then progress to pro-, pre-, and immature NK cells (also referred to as stage 1, 2, and 3 NK cells, respectively). The immature NK cell transits to the peripheral lymphoid compartment secondary lymphoid tissues where CD56bright NK cells predominate. CD56bright NK cells are also referred to as stage 4 NK cells, and current evidence suggests that they develop in the secondary lymphoid tissues into CD56dim mature NK cells (stage 5). Key differences between CD56bright and CD56dim NK cells are depicted in the schematics of these two cells. Characteristics of early-stage NK cells as well as their specific transcriptional requirements are reviewed elsewhere (18). The present work suggests a role for MCM4 in the transition of CD56bright to CD56dim NK cells, as evidenced by the relative absence of CD56dim NK cells in the peripheral blood with the preservation of the CD56bright NK cell population.
The observations of Gineau et al. (12) underscore the importance of mature CD56dim lytic NK cells in human host defense and suggest that MCM4 is required for terminal NK cell maturation. Specific evaluation of the patients' lymphoid compartments, where CD56bright cells are believed to undergo maturation, as well as the recapitulation of NK cell development in vitro from patient cells would provide insight. Furthermore, the question arises as to a potential role for MCM4 in the survival of mature NK cells as opposed to a defect in development or transition from CD56bright NK cells. Additional biological studies of patient cells as well as NK cells in which MCM4 has been experimentally manipulated should prove mechanistically useful.
Collectively, the works of Gineau et al. (12) and Hughes et al. (13) provide deep mechanistic perspective into a novel human disease phenotype and directly expand our understanding of human immunobiology and endocrinology. A clear outstanding question, however, remains: why such selectivity for NK cells and adrenal steroidogenic cells? This unexpected discovery suggests the need to better understand the specific replicative requirements of immature NK cells and adrenal cells and why these cells are unique within the immune and endocrine systems, respectively, in their reliance upon MCM4. Since deficiencies of NK cells have been identified in other DNA stability defects (reviewed in ref. 4), there is likely to be some particular importance of specific types of DNA replication in NK cells and their development.
There are also certain other features of the reports from Gineau et al. (12) and Hughes et al. (13) that warrant further consideration. The total peripheral blood NK cell counts reported by Hughes et al. (13) were not as low as those observed by Gineau et al. (12), and in some affected individuals approached normal ranges. This raises the possibility that this particular mutant MCM4–associated phenotype shows variable expressivity. Penetrance, however, would appear to be complete, as all individuals had low numbers of NK cells. It is unclear whether this is simply something that changes over time in affected individuals or is a feature of genetic co-modifiers in these consanguineous cohorts, or even environmental experience and/or epigenetic modifications. Whichever the case, it may help explain the observation that only some of the patients were affected by the profound susceptibility to viral infections observed in the proband.
It is likely that defects in genes encoding products with a functional relationship with MCM4 will be defined in other reported classical and functional NK cell deficiencies, since certain cases described in the literature are characterized by clinical and immunologic phenotypes strikingly similar to those reported by Gineau et al. (12) and Hughes et al. (13) (for example, it has been reported that individuals with classical NK cell deficiency in a non-consanguineous French family also exhibit growth retardation, although an impact on neutrophils and cytotoxic T cells is also seen; ref. 20). Nevertheless, the work of Gineau et al. (12) and Hughes et al. (13) defines a new genetic syndrome that establishes the importance of mature NK cells in human host defense and suggests novel molecular requirements in NK cell maturation. The further definition of human NK cell deficiency and its genetic roots also define the clinical relevance of this diagnosis and the need for continued research if we are to develop therapeutics that benefit affected patients.
I thank Emily Mace for the critical review of this commentary, as well as the support of NIH-NIAID R01067946.
Reference information: J Clin Invest. 2012;122(3):798–801. doi:10.1172/JCI62620.
See the related articles at Partial MCM4 deficiency in patients with growth retardation, adrenal insufficiency, and natural killer cell deficiency and MCM4 mutation causes adrenal failure, short stature, and natural killer cell deficiency in humans.
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Эстляндская армия — одна из армий РККА, сформированная во время Гражданской войны.

Эстонские национальные формирования в Красной армии

Формирование
Сформирована постановлением РВСР и СНК Эстляндской трудовой коммуны от 18 февраля 1919 года из частей 7-й армии в составе Западного фронта с целью освобождения Эстонии от националистов и белогвардейцев. Расформирована 30 мая 1919 года, войска были переданы в состав 7-й и 15-й армий.

Состав
В состав армии входили:
 1-я Эстляндская стрелковая дивизия (март — 30 мая 1919 года)
 Мариенбургская группа войск (7 апреля — 25 мая 1919 года; в оперативном подчинени)
 Псковская группа войск (8 апреля — 30 мая 1919 года)
 Чудская военная флотилия (март — май 1919 года; в оперативном подчинении)

Боевые действия
К весне 1919 года армия занимала полосу шириной 280 км, который разделялся на три боевых участка: Нарвский, Озёрный (вдоль восточного берега Чудского и Псковского озёр). В апреле 1919 года войска армии вели наступление в Лифляндии на верроском направлении, которое закончилось неудачей. Армия приняла участие в отражении первого наступления Северного корпуса на Петроград в мае 1919 года, действуя на нарвском и гдовском направлении и прикрывая железную дорогу Луга — Псков. Приказом по войскам Западного фронта от 25 мая 1919 года была подчинена командованию 7-й армии, а 30 мая расформирована.

Командный состав
Командующий:
 27.02.1919 — 30.05.1919 Васильев, Михаил Николаевич

Члены РВС
 18.02.1919 — 30.05.1919  Изак, Рейнгольд Иванович
 18.02.1919 — 30.05.1919 Керрес Мартин
 02.04.1919 — 30.05.1919 Восков, Семён Петрович
 20.04.1919 — 24.05.1919 Пальвадре, Яков Карлович

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 18.02.1919 — 30.05.1919 Корк, Август Иванович

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Литература
 Гражданская война и военная интервенция в СССР: Энциклопедия. М.: Советская энциклопедия, 1983.

Советские армии во время Гражданской войны
Создание Эстонской Республики
Гражданская война в Прибалтике
Воинские части и формирования, созданные в 1919 году
Воинские части и формирования, расформированные в 1919 году


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I remember very little of my maternal grandmother. I can recall that she always looked (and acted) about 100 years old, could feel a draft within seconds of a door opening, and didn't get along with my father all too well—"May she not be burning too badly," he said to me the day after she died. So, I guess she wasn't exactly a ray of sunshine. However, I know for a fact that she was a fantastic cook.
One of my favorite things she'd make, especially around the winter months, was Split Pea Soup. I've never been able to quite figure out what she did to make hers taste so damn good, but this recipe has served me pretty well.
* I tend to use a ham steak because it's cheaper and I'm not made out of money. This is probably why my split pea soup is vastly inferior to my grandma's. Whatever. Do you.
Layer everything in the crock pot that you received as a gift for Christmas six years ago but never got around to using. Cover and cook on low for approximately 8 – 10 hours or high for approximately 4 – 6. You'll know it's done when when the peas turn into a wonderful mush that my friend once compared to baby poop. Fortunately, it tastes much better. At least that's what I'm assuming. I've never eaten baby poop before.
This freezes incredibly well, so save some for later.
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I do something similar. When I need to get work done, I go somewhere quiet but public (like the library). I feel like all those people would be judging me if I am slacking (even though I doubt they'd care/could tell).


Okay, its not That Royale … but there is cheese.
I'm still working my way through the Big Box O- Cheese from Artisanal Cheese That Ed gave me over the holidays. This time, I'm doing something with the Stella Royale that came in the box…. so cheese purists, look away.
that is able to thrive throughout the extremes of the seasons.
Stella is delicious with some sliced pears, roasted Brussels sprouts, or caramelized onions. I've decided to utilize two of those in a re-imagined southern favorite – Macaroni & Cheese.
If you aren't familiar with it, my family has always made a custard based macaroni and cheese. The cheese is layered in separately with the noodles before the savory custard is introduced. Trust me, it's way better than those creamy sauces, and the addition of the Stella?
@ anon – glad you tried and liked it!
thank you so much for posting this recipe, i tried it last night and it was amazing!!! my family too has always made this custard style mac and cheese and that is why i went searching for the recipe. but the addition of caramalized onions was absolutely brilliant. bravo!!!
Lo-mo – I think the custard style wins heads over the cheese sauce. I like my mac & cheese with a lot of body. And – you don't have to use fancy schmancy cheese – regular cheddar or longhorn work fabulously!
This looks easier than the traditional bechamel type of cheese sauce I've been making! I am enchated by the big box o cheese…I think I need something like that around here!
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Dana Gioia's Six Steps to Rescue Poetry
I love reading poetry, but I also love essays that attack and question it, that demand it should be better.
In 1991, the critic and poet Dana Gioia began his polemical essay, "Can Poetry Matter?" with this claim: "American poetry now belongs to a subculture… As a class poets are not without cultural status. Like priests in a town of agnostics, they still command a certain residual prestige. But as individual artists they are almost invisible."
The essay questioning the health of poetry is a popular form. Many such polemical essays, of varying quality, have appeared over the years. More recently, these pieces seem to focus their critique on the content of contemporary poetry: that it is too narrowly personal, too flip and distant, or too baroquely complex. But that's not Gioia's focus here. He's more interested in how poetry is published and curated–how it is presented to the wider public.
One sees evidence of poetry's diminished stature even within the thriving subculture. The established rituals of the poetry world–the readings, small magazines, workshops, and conferences–exhibit a surprising number of self-imposed limitations. Why, for example, does poetry mix so seldom with music, dance, or theater? At most readings the program consists of verse only–and usually only verse by that night's author. Forty years ago, when Dylan Thomas read, he spent half the program reciting other poets' work. Hardly a self-effacing man, he was nevertheless humble before his art. Today most readings are celebrations less of poetry than of the author's ego. No wonder the audience for such events usually consists entirely of poets, would-be poets, and friends of the author.
Several dozen journals now exist that print only verse. They don't publish literary reviews, just page after page of freshly minted poems. The heart sinks to see so many poems crammed so tightly together, like downcast immigrants in steerage. One can easily miss a radiant poem amid the many lackluster ones. It takes tremendous effort to read these small magazines with openness and attention. Few people bother, generally not even the magazines' contributors. The indifference to poetry in the mass media has created a monster of the opposite kind–journals that love poetry not wisely but too well.
Ouch! One comment: as the example of Dylan Thomas suggests, when Gioia complains about "the author's ego," I don't think he means "the author's ambition." Ego and ambition can be opposing forces, the first being a self-protective impulse, the second a generative, exploratory one. I actually wish there were more ambition on display in many of the readings I attend.
The whole essay is worth reading. It's really good, particularly in its historical discussion of the mid-century American poetry scene.
In the essay's conclusion, Gioia lays out how he thinks the situation can be rescued. In other words, he doesn't just have a complaint: he also has a solution. I'd love to hear what you think about his six-step plan. The sixth step, I'm sure, will make you laugh: 1991 will suddenly seem a long way away. But first five are very interesting, and I don't think the arrival of the Internet disproves them.
If I, like Marianne Moore, could have my wish, and I, like Solomon, could have the self-control not to wish for myself, I would wish that poetry could again become a part of American public culture. I don't think this is impossible. All it would require is that poets and poetry teachers take more responsibility for bringing their art to the public. I will close with six modest proposals for how this dream might come true.
1. When poets give public readings, they should spend part of every program reciting other people's work–preferably poems they admire by writers they do not know personally. Readings should be celebrations of poetry in general, not merely of the featured author's work.
2. When arts administrators plan public readings, they should avoid the standard subculture format of poetry only. Mix poetry with the other arts, especially music. Plan evenings honoring dead or foreign writers. Combine short critical lectures with poetry performances. Such combinations would attract an audience from beyond the poetry world without compromising quality.
3. Poets need to write prose about poetry more often, more candidly, and more effectively. Poets must recapture the attention of the broader intellectual community by writing for nonspecialist publications. They must also avoid the jargon of contemporary academic criticism and write in a public idiom. Finally, poets must regain the reader's trust by candidly admitting what they don't like as well as promoting what they like. Professional courtesy has no place in literary journalism.
4. Poets who compile anthologies–or even reading lists–should be scrupulously honest in including only poems they genuinely admire. Anthologies are poetry's gateway to the general culture. They should not be used as pork barrels for the creative-writing trade. An art expands its audience by presenting masterpieces, not mediocrity. Anthologies should be compiled to move, delight, and instruct readers, not to flatter the writing teachers who assign books. Poet-anthologists must never trade the Muse's property for professional favors.
5. Poetry teachers especially at the high school and undergraduate levels, should spend less time on analysis and more on performance. Poetry needs to be liberated from literary criticism. Poems should be memorized, recited, and performed. The sheer joy of the art must be emphasized. The pleasure of performance is what first attracts children to poetry, the sensual excitement of speaking and hearing the words of the poem. Performance was also the teaching technique that kept poetry vital for centuries. Maybe it also holds the key to poetry's future.
6. Finally poets and arts administrators should use radio to expand the art's audience. Poetry is an aural medium, and thus ideally suited to radio. A little imaginative programming at the hundreds of college and public-supported radio stations could bring poetry to millions of listeners. Some programming exists, but it is stuck mostly in the standard subculture format of living poets' reading their own work. Mixing poetry with music on classical and jazz stations or creating innovative talk-radio formats could re-establish a direct relationship between poetry and the general audience.
What do you think about these? For instance, is "professional courtesy" simply an inevitable part of being a creative writer these days?
Filed Under: On Pine Street, On Writing, Poetry Tagged With: American poetry scene, Dana Gioia, Dylan Thomas, Poetry teachers, public readings, The Atlantic, What's wrong with poetry?
Caribbean restaurants of Olney
This year I've been teaching at the Community College of Philadelphia, and at the start of the semester I was moved from the main campus to one in the far north, right by the last stop on the Broad Street underground line. I was sad about this because it meant no more visits to Jamaica D's, the food truck outside the main campus's West building where I used to get my early evening meal. Jamaica D's did a huge portion of fried fish, rice and beans, and sweet potatoes, drizzled with spicy sauce, for seven dollars. However, I need not have worried about my belly, because the walk from the Olney tube stop to the CCP campus contains at least three good Caribbean restaurants, and they fed me well all semester.
Olney is certainly not a rich area, and friends told me it wasn't safe, but Broad Street was always busy, and so I didn't feel that worried. What makes Camden and the areas surrounding Temple scary, for me, is not their poverty—I've seen that all over the world and have travelled safely through it many times—but the absence of life, the derelict buildings, the houses with collapsing roofs, the bare streets. In Olney, in contrast, I was offered dental plans. Food-wise, there was a good pizzeria, but I feel I eat too much pizza the rest of the week, and several Chinese restaurants, but I have a troubled relationship with Chinese food in America, as it frequently seems a horrible lessening of the food I have eaten in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore.
For he on honeydew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise!
And so I basically ate Carribean food two evenings a week all autumn. All three of the restaurants I describe below are walking distance from the Olney SEPTA station.
1. Denise's Soul Food. Denise's was the first restaurant I tried, and they serve hearty portions. I got a bucket's worth of rice and beans, sweet potatoes, and fried fish for seven dollars, and the fish is always cooked to order. Denise's is a pretty basic place, however, just a takeaway window and two arcade machines (Ms Pac Man and Marvel versus Capcom), and there isn't much variety if you don't eat meat. Even the jerk sauce has meat in it, a practice that other Caribbean cooks I spoke to found hard to believe.
2. Ron's. Some of my students enthusiastically recommended Ron's, and as soon as you walk in, you feel the warmth and energy of a popular, well-run place. Unlike Denise's, there are tables at which you can eat, even though most customers seemed to be taking their food away. There is usually a queue, the waitresses moving fast to load up each new box with food, then placing them in the window to the kitchen so that the cooks can pour gravy over the rice. If you eat meat, Ron's selection looks pretty amazing, the ox tails and jerk chicken and goat soaked in thick sauces. Ron's also offered a very tasty budget meal for me—a huge portion of rice and beans ("rice and peas") covered with fish gravy for three dollars fifty. However, because their main dishes are not cooked to order, everything sits on hot plates stewing, and this is not a good way to serve fried fish, so if I wanted a more substantial meal, I went elsewhere. For anyone who eats meat, this wouldn't be such a problem, as most of the meat dishes continue cooking in their own sauce, and so don't dry out the way the fish does.
3. My favourite of the three, however, was Lil Trini Cuisine, the farthest north, 5912 Old York Rd. Not only did I quickly get on chatting terms with the people who run it, but their food is exceptional, good enough to imagine making the trip back to nothern Philly just to try their fried and stewed kingfish again. Aside from two huge wheels of fish, first stewed then fried, Lil Trini serves a "gravy" of the sort of complexity that a chef in China would admire. This sauce of fish stock, slivered carrots and other vegetables coats their rice and peas and their fish, and I loved dipping the side dishes of macaroni pie or fried cabbage in the oily compartment which holds the purest gravy. Such a dish is not cheap (11 dollars), but it offers about two days' worth of food. The shrimp roti was also stunning. At the end of the semester, it was sad to say goodbye to the family—everyone gave me a hug.
Filed Under: Food, On Pine Street, Philadelphia, Reviews Tagged With: Caribbean restaurants in Philadelphia, how to gain weight quickly, pescetarian, rice and peas
Trashy stories, posted fiction, saving literature
It seems that America has stopped reading. On trains and in cafes, I still see faces bent into books, but the trend is clear, and the rest of the Anglophone world is no better. If Oprah ever discovers the pleasures of World of Warcraft, and cancels her book club, the injury to the publishing industry will probably be fatal. Walk into a Barnes and Noble, and you'll see that they're desperate to sell everything but books, that they feel ashamed to be involved with them—to get to actual Literature, you have to walk through at least one floor of accessories, gifts, and book-shaped-objects. Fiction is, therefore, becoming more and more like poetry, being read only by its practitioners.
I believe that, to save fiction, we have to get stories back into people's hands. This is my idea how: choose a house in your neighbourhood, wait until "trash day," and quietly rip open a black bag or two. Go through the thrown out things, and write a very short story about them. Then post it through the owner's door, with a note saying, "If you want to know the ending to this story, knock on the door to the left." You have also gone through that house's rubbish, and posted through its door a story which could, conceivably, be both the ending and beginning of the two stories combined.
The scheme makes fiction personal, immediate, and communal. Literature is saved.
Yet, whenever I've explained this plan to friends, they say it sounds more like stalking than writing. All great ideas were misunderstood at first.
Filed Under: diary, Fiction, MFA, On Pine Street, On Writing, Poetry, Reviews, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: Oprah, reading
Reading work
People write for different reasons, but most people who write hope to be read. One of the strange things about writing in the non-blog world is that getting an audience requires participation in the big, strange world of the publishing industry. And even with a blog, although I see site stats and referrals on a daily basis, it's tricky to know who came by in hope of porn and so soon left, and who read page after page until their life was changed.
This is one of the reasons, since coming to the States, that I've come to love public readings. People gather, and a poet, or story writer, or essayist stands up and reads aloud his or her work, and during those minutes, the writer can no longer complain about the foolishness of editors or agents, and the audience, hopefully, is no longer distracted by mobile phones and facebook. Everyone makes eye contact.
The other good thing about reading work aloud is that I can read it the way I'd like it to be read. I don't do accents or voices when I read, but by pacing my sentences, I give the narration a personality.
As a result, I'm fond of starting and running reading series-es. The one I'm MCing on Saturday, at Bodhi Coffee, should be a good mix of planned readers and open mic-ers, a good mix of old writers and new. The scheduled readers are : Randall Brown, the director of the Rosemont College MFA, and Chris Bullard, a federal judge and published poet, as well as my friend and room mate, the short story and novel writer Matt Blasi. If you're in the Philly area, come by. And I'm planning to make these readings at Bodhi a regular thing, so if you are a Philly/South Jersey based writer, drop me a line.
Filed Under: MFA, On Pine Street, On Writing, Poetry, Reviews, Uncategorized
Reading at Bodhi Coffee, 16th October
The people at Bodhi Coffee were kind enough to let me use their space, so I called writers I knew and organised a reading. You should come!
Filed Under: Fiction, MFA, On Pine Street, On Writing, Poetry, Uncategorized
Photo shoot of me
My friend Kay, an aspiring professional photographer, is visiting from London at the moment. On Friday, she and I did an "author's" photo shoot around the city. Here are a few of my favourites of her pictures. The locations that you can see in the shoots are: Philadelphia's amazing Magic Gardens, the historic churchyard by 2nd and Pine, and a quiet residential lane close to 10th and Spuce.
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Fire researchers respond to political pundits who blame "forest management"
By Rebecca Miller, Catherine Mach and Chris Field
(This article is reposted from Scientific American, October 29, 2020.)
As the toll from California's wildfires grows higher year after year, the state's future appears fiery and hazy with smoke. For conservative columnists like Ben Shapiro, Niall Ferguson and Tyler O'Neil, it's clear who is responsible: California Democrats. In recent opinion pieces, they acknowledge that climate change might play a role in these fires, but they blame Democratic leadership for exacerbating fuel buildups through poor land management. As proof, they reference a study from early this year in Nature Sustainability.
We wrote that study. These columnists are wrong.
Their opinion pieces represent a dangerous form of climate denialism, one that recognizes the value of climate adaptation—adapting to life under a changing climate—but purposefully misdirects by refusing to acknowledge the critical importance of limiting the amount of future climate change.
The science is clear. Climate change plays an undeniable role in the unprecedented wildfires of recent years. More than half of the acres burned each year in the western United States can be attributed to climate change. The number of dry, warm, and windy autumn days—perfect wildfire weather—in California has more than doubled since the 1980s.
Without aggressive reduction of greenhouse gasses, forests in Northern California, Oregon and Washington could experience an increase of more than 78 percent in area burned by 2050. Governor Gavin Newsom correctly characterized recent wildfires as a "climate damn emergency." It's almost unfathomable to imagine a situation in which the 2020 wildfire season becomes a regular occurrence or even a mild year, but that's exactly what could happen in our future.
We must dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Otherwise, in a few decades, we might recall the more than four million acres of California burned so far this year—that have already shattered the prior record, set in 2018—as a relatively light wildfire season. That prospect, rooted in science and devastating to life and property, is unacceptable.
But we must also prepare for reality with strong measures to reduce our already heightened and increasing risk. Resilience will require a broad portfolio of actions, from the household to the federal level, from emergency preparedness to disaster-resistant building codes. For wildfires, fuel treatments like prescribed burns have become a salient example.
Fuel treatments reduce the buildup of vegetation that has resulted from nearly a century of fire suppression and from the criminalization of traditional Indigenous controlled burning. Twenty million acres of forests across California could now benefit from fuel treatments like prescribed burns, purposely-set fires intended to safely reduce fuel overgrowth. However, inadequate funding, limited prescribed burn crews, and dangerous weather conditions remain barriers to conducting prescribed burns.
As the owner of 57 percent of forests in California, the federal government has an enormous role to play. The U.S. Forest Service aspires to treat 500,000 acres per year, but is unlikely to reach that target given limited funding from Congress. However, new legislation could help: a new bill from Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) could guarantee $600 million each year for prescribed burns across federal, state and private lands.
Meanwhile, legislators in Sacramento have passed dozens of bills to address wildfire risk in the last few years, including six new laws on prescribed burns. These laws and recent executive actions address several of the barriers we found in our study, including the need for liability protection and programs for training and public education. Last year, Governor Newsom also declared a state of emergency to fast-track 35 fuel-reduction projects that would protect 200 at-risk communities.
But fuel treatments alone are not the solution; we cannot disregard that our contributions to climate change continue to aggravate our risk. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an essential part of protecting our communities and ecosystems in the future. By exclusively focusing on fuel treatments, these conservative columnists ignore the ongoing influence of climate change and politicize critical action for fuel treatments that protect our communities and ecosystems.
In the September 29 debate, two years after recommending that Californians rake the forest, President Trump deflected on commenting on the role of climate change in recent wildfires. Instead, he told us, "Every year I get the call: 'California is burning! California is burning!" If that was cleaned, if you had good forest management, you wouldn't be getting those calls."
Ignoring climate change won't prevent climate disasters. From California wildfires to Gulf Coast floods, we already experience their effects. Arguments that purposefully misconstrue the impacts of climate change on our ecosystems and communities increase our peril.
Rebecca Miller is a Ph.D. candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at Stanford University.
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Katharine Mach is an associate professor at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and a faculty scholar at the Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami.
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Chris Field is the director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and a professor of biology and of earth system science at Stanford University.
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