Re: Champion Damsels
Interesting poem. Reminds me of the myth (in Igbo culture) on how the Sun fought with the Moon: the Sun, consumed by envy, took a cutlass and slashed the Moon into two, and the Moon, dazed but not giving up, grabbed her broom and poked into the eye of the Sun. That is why the Sun always blinks and the Moon emerges sometimes in half... ! Obododimma Oha Harrison Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The wind shelves the stars, Ah!, the stars!, envious Of the wind, have hands for the night solely They are ashen handed, Ah!, ashen handed!, and hushed -- Are disregardful of the vowed sounds?, Or when the cry strikes, comply with The beasts there, their low sounds, Finally!, exiled sky from beneath our feet -- ? The past to the stars Is the Sun, when envy was the Moon's The past to the wind? To hear her tell it, The time she pulled the Moon off the top shelf _ Interest Rates Fall Again! $430,000 Mortgage for $1,399/mo - Calculate new payment http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9632-18679moid=7581 ** Obododimma Oha PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric) MSc (Legal, Criminological, Security Psychology) Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, Discourse Analysis Department of English, University of Ibadan Fellow, Centre for Peace Conflict Studies University of Ibadan, NIGERIA - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
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Re: Champion Damsels
Interesting poem. Reminds me of the myth (in Igbo culture) on how the Sun fought with the Moon: the Sun, consumed by envy, took a cutlass and slashed the Moon into two, and the Moon, dazed but not giving up, grabbed her broom and poked into the eye of the Sun. That is why the Sun always blinks and the Moon emerges sometimes in half... ! Obododimma Oha Dear Obododimma, Why do I find that myth so comforting? I think it is the notion that the gods are squabling like husbands and wives and yet still managing to live together -- however horribly we treat one another there is hope and even the gods are only human. Seems a lot more profound to me than some of the myths that bent my twig. Yes, and a great poem too, Jeff! Best wishes, Jim Piat Harrison Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The wind shelves the stars, Ah!, the stars!, envious Of the wind, have hands for the night solely They are ashen handed, Ah!, ashen handed!, and hushed -- Are disregardful of the vowed sounds?, Or when the cry strikes, comply with The beasts there, their low sounds, Finally!, exiled sky from beneath our feet -- ? The past to the stars Is the Sun, when envy was the Moon's The past to the wind? To hear her tell it, The time she pulled the Moon off the top shelf _ Interest Rates Fall Again! $430,000 Mortgage for $1,399/mo - Calculate new payment http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9632-18679moid=7581 ** Obododimma Oha PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric) MSc (Legal, Criminological, Security Psychology) Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, Discourse Analysis Department of English, University of Ibadan Fellow, Centre for Peace Conflict Studies University of Ibadan, NIGERIA -- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.
30 by Cecil Touchon
The minimalist concrete poetry site at: http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ has been updated with 30 pieces by Cecil Touchon. When scraps and snippets and swatches of language are stitched together with supreme care a new kind of look into the world of letterforms and formulations appears. Come get lost. Regards, Dan
Re: 30 by Cecil Touchon
These are beautiful! John At 09:16 AM 4/13/2007, you wrote: The minimalist concrete poetry site at: http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ has been updated with 30 pieces by Cecil Touchon. When scraps and snippets and swatches of language are stitched together with supreme care a new kind of look into the world of letterforms and formulations appears. Come get lost. Regards, Dan -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 275248907) is spam: Spam:https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=si=275248907m=ed2baa85a86e Not spam:https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=ni=275248907m=ed2baa85a86e Forget vote: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=fi=275248907m=ed2baa85a86e -- END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/ ___
Re: 30 by Cecil Touchon
Dear Folks--
I \{oV]+ Cecil's work and the way Dan re-captures some of it in words
When are you coming
Who is your friend
Why don't you write
Can't you just call
Needless to say
Oh christ it's been raining
most of the day
- Original Message -
From: Dan Waber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 9:16 AM
Subject: 30 by Cecil Touchon
The minimalist concrete poetry site at:
http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/
has been updated with 30 pieces by Cecil Touchon.
When scraps and snippets and swatches of language are stitched
together with supreme care a new kind of look into the world of
letterforms and formulations appears.
Come get lost.
Regards,
Dan
Re: 30 by Cecil Touchon
I found this work to be intriguing -- something to look at again and again. Challenging as well. And while I was looking, I came across Christopher Major's 7 ASCII poems which somehow I had missed -- and they are inventive, whimsical, and also thought provoking: a lesson in reducing texts to their basics. Thanks, Dan, for continuing this project. Martha Deed - Original Message - From: Dan Waber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 9:16 AM Subject: 30 by Cecil Touchon The minimalist concrete poetry site at: http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ has been updated with 30 pieces by Cecil Touchon. When scraps and snippets and swatches of language are stitched together with supreme care a new kind of look into the world of letterforms and formulations appears. Come get lost. Regards, Dan -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/759 - Release Date: 4/12/2007 7:58 PM
Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Spacecraft Loss (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:52:34 -0700 From: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Spacecraft Loss MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE 818-354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Guy Webster 818-354-6278 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726 NASA Headquarters, Washington NEWS RELEASE: 2007-040 April 13, 2007 Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Spacecraft Loss WASHINGTON - After studying Mars four times as long as originally planned, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter appears to have succumbed to battery failure caused by a complex sequence of events involving the onboard computer memory and ground commands. The causes were released today in a preliminary report by an internal review board. The board was formed to look more in-depth into why NASA's Mars Global Surveyor went silent in November 2006 and recommend any processes or procedures that could increase safety for other spacecraft. Mars Global Surveyor last communicated with Earth on Nov. 2, 2006. Within 11 hours, depleted batteries likely left the spacecraft unable to control its orientation. The loss of the spacecraft was the result of a series of events linked to a computer error made five months before the likely battery failure, said board Chairperson Dolly Perkins, deputy director- technical of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. On Nov. 2, after the spacecraft was ordered to perform a routine adjustment of its solar panels, the spacecraft reported a series of alarms, but indicated that it had stabilized. That was its final transmission. Subsequently, the spacecraft reoriented to an angle that exposed one of two batteries carried on the spacecraft to direct sunlight. This caused the battery to overheat and ultimately led to the depletion of both batteries. Incorrect antenna pointing prevented the orbiter from telling controllers its status, and its programmed safety response did not include making sure the spacecraft orientation was thermally safe. The board also concluded that the Mars Global Surveyor team followed existing procedures, but that procedures were insufficient to catch the errors that occurred. The board is finalizing recommendations to apply to other missions, such as conducting more thorough reviews of all non- routine changes to stored data before they are uploaded and to evaluate spacecraft contingency modes for risks of overheating. We are making an end-to-end review of all our missions to be sure that we apply the lessons learned from Mars Global Surveyor to all our ongoing missions, said Fuk Li, Mars Exploration Program manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Mars Global Surveyor, launched in 1996, operated longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history, and for more than four times as long as the prime mission originally planned. The spacecraft returned detailed information that has overhauled understanding about Mars. Major findings include dramatic evidence that water still flows in short bursts down hillside gullies, and identification of deposits of water-related minerals leading to selection of a Mars rover landing site. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages Mars Global Surveyor for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, developed and operates the spacecraft. Information about the Mars Global Surveyor mission, including the preliminary report from the process review board and a list of some important discoveries by the mission, is available on the Internet at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mgs -end- To remove yourself from all mailings from NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory, please go to http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M725665005957889744348665
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From: Walter Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Walter K. Lew Lecture Friday and Reading Saturday in Minneapolis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For those of you in the Twin Cities area, a last-minute notice of a talk and reading I'm giving: Meaning's Many-Patterned Movement: What the Long History of Korean Intermedia Texts Can Offer Us as New Artists Korean studies scholar and poet Walter K. Lew will present different examples from the long history of Korean texts that combine language, icons and other imagery, and sometimes performance. These range from 7th-century Buddhist dharani and the 15th-century development of a new Korean orthography (actually, orthophony) to multimedia performances during the Japanese colonial era and the avant-garde poetries of Yi Sang (1910-1937) and Yi Won (b. 1968). Time permitting, he will suggest ways in which they can serve as models for new work in the present. Lew teaches in the English Dept. of the U. of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. WHEN: Friday. April 13 at 3 p.m. WHERE: Minnesota Population Center Seminar room Lower Level, 50 Willey Hall University of Minnesota, West Bank CONTACT: Karen Kinoshita University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Institute for Advanced Study 612.626.5054 or 612.626.5028 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ias.umn.edu/ SPONSORS: The Institute for Advanced Study and Dept. of English of the University of Minnesota Lew will also give a brief reading the following evening, Sat., April 14, as part of the opening ceremony for an exhibit on the Korean War titled Still Present Pasts at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis (2822 Lyndale Avenue South / phone: 612.871.).
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Re: Using the search terms vib and assembly
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Re: Using the search terms vib and assembly
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Re: Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Spacecraft Loss (fwd)
http://ana-logues.blogspot.com/2007/04/nasa-on-friday-thirteenth.html D^ On 13-Apr-07, at 9:38 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:52:34 -0700 From: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Spacecraft Loss MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE 818-354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Guy Webster 818-354-6278 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726 NASA Headquarters, Washington NEWS RELEASE: 2007-040 April 13, 2007 Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Spacecraft Loss WASHINGTON - After studying Mars four times as long as originally planned, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter appears to have succumbed to battery failure caused by a complex sequence of events involving the onboard computer memory and ground commands. The causes were released today in a preliminary report by an internal review board. The board was formed to look more in-depth into why NASA's Mars Global Surveyor went silent in November 2006 and recommend any processes or procedures that could increase safety for other spacecraft. Mars Global Surveyor last communicated with Earth on Nov. 2, 2006. Within 11 hours, depleted batteries likely left the spacecraft unable to control its orientation. The loss of the spacecraft was the result of a series of events linked to a computer error made five months before the likely battery failure, said board Chairperson Dolly Perkins, deputy director- technical of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. On Nov. 2, after the spacecraft was ordered to perform a routine adjustment of its solar panels, the spacecraft reported a series of alarms, but indicated that it had stabilized. That was its final transmission. Subsequently, the spacecraft reoriented to an angle that exposed one of two batteries carried on the spacecraft to direct sunlight. This caused the battery to overheat and ultimately led to the depletion of both batteries. Incorrect antenna pointing prevented the orbiter from telling controllers its status, and its programmed safety response did not include making sure the spacecraft orientation was thermally safe. The board also concluded that the Mars Global Surveyor team followed existing procedures, but that procedures were insufficient to catch the errors that occurred. The board is finalizing recommendations to apply to other missions, such as conducting more thorough reviews of all non- routine changes to stored data before they are uploaded and to evaluate spacecraft contingency modes for risks of overheating. We are making an end-to-end review of all our missions to be sure that we apply the lessons learned from Mars Global Surveyor to all our ongoing missions, said Fuk Li, Mars Exploration Program manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Mars Global Surveyor, launched in 1996, operated longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history, and for more than four times as long as the prime mission originally planned. The spacecraft returned detailed information that has overhauled understanding about Mars. Major findings include dramatic evidence that water still flows in short bursts down hillside gullies, and identification of deposits of water-related minerals leading to selection of a Mars rover landing site. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages Mars Global Surveyor for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, developed and operates the spacecraft. Information about the Mars Global Surveyor mission, including the preliminary report from the process review board and a list of some important discoveries by the mission, is available on the Internet at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mgs P!^VP
Re: Using the search terms vib and assembly
thank you mr allen! my mother's mother's family are all Webers. They all have the same naturally down-turned frowny mouths as John Ashbery. I've always tried to tell my Dad they're smiles on the retina, but he calls them all dour rural germans.. makes me think of a spiderverb, a vibweber or verbwebber, or werdverber or vorbwordblur.. something.. Queen Elizabeth makes such an elegant cameo. What is that odd tree limb they bring to her on Christmas morning? The one that supports the existence of the belief that Joseph of Aramathea came to England? I like that detail about the Queen. I think i remember this right.. Odd horticultural traditions of the Royal families of the World, that would be an interesting book to write or read! vibb;y lq - Original Message - From: Allen Bramhall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 11:52 AM Subject: Re: Using the search terms vib and assembly nice one phanero wrote: http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/vibweber.jpg Using the search terms vib and assembly and a few others I've forgotten, a unit became visible. I must admit, I am happy to make it. There is a queen robber robin with a wolf crown, an goddess of the S, the imfamous 144 Vibilia, and the Totem Rangers. Will you please enjoy me as a red hot iron chicken in a blizzard which is steaming the path before you to the snoggy old cabin of the glaciers which hide smoke wolves in sheep's lingering clover, light lovers are easy...
Re: 30 by Cecil Touchon
Really outstanding work Cecil. - Peter Ciccariello On 4/13/07, Dan Waber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The minimalist concrete poetry site at: http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ has been updated with 30 pieces by Cecil Touchon. When scraps and snippets and swatches of language are stitched together with supreme care a new kind of look into the world of letterforms and formulations appears. Come get lost. Regards, Dan -- Image - http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/ Word - http://poemsfromprovidence.blogspot.com/ Photography - http://uncommonvision.blogspot.com/
Fw: I wondered why I liked digging for rocks, and gardening.
FW: I wondered why I liked digging for rocks, and gardening. Depressed? Go Play in the Dirt LiveScience.com Fri Apr 13, 9:25 AM ET Exposure to friendly soil bacteria could improve mood by boosting the immune system just as effectively as antidepressant drugs, a new study suggests. Researchers exposed mice to a harmless soil microbe called Mycobacterium vaccae and had the rodents perform a behavioral task commonly used to test the efficacy of antidepressant drugs. The mice were placed in a large beaker of water for five minutes and watched to see how long they continued swimming and searching for an exit before giving up. The researchers found that the bacteria-exposed mice continued paddling around much longer than the control mice. At the risk of anthropomorphizing, you could say the [bacteria-exposed] mice had a more active coping style, said study leader Chris Lowry of the University of Bristol in England. Mice given antidepressant drugs also appear more determined to escape, Lowry added. The finding is detailed online by the journal Neuroscience. Human test Results from the new study are similar to those from a medical trial a few years ago in which human cancer patients treated with the bacteria reported significant increases in their quality of life. M. vaccae is no longer being pursued as a treatment for cancer, because it didn't prolong life, but patients did report increases in things like vitality and cognitive function and decreases in pain, Lowry told LiveScience. Scientists still don't know how M. vaccae improves mood. We don't know the mechanism. That's something that we would desperately like to know, Lowry said. The researchers suspect, however, that the microbes are affecting the brain indirectly by causing immune cells to release chemicals called cytokines. We know that some of these cytokines can activate the nerves that relay signals from the body to the brain, Lowry said in a telephone interview. Serotonin link The stimulated nerves cause certain neurons in the brain to release a chemical called serotonin into the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain known to be involved in mood regulation, among other things. Only a very small number of neurons in the brain make serotonin, but they have massive branching projections to every part of the brain, Lowry said. Scientists think the lack of serotonin in the brain is thought to cause depression in people. Previous studies have linked early childhood exposure to bacteria to protection against allergies and asthma in adulthood. The new finding take this idea, called the hygiene hypothesis, a step further, and suggests bacteria-exposure not only boosts our immune systems, but alters our vulnerability to conditions such as depression as well. These studies help us understand how the body communicates with the brain and why a healthy immune system is important for maintaining mental health, Lowry said. They also leave us wondering if we shouldn't all be spending more time playing in the dirt. War on Bacteria is Wrongheaded Scientists Discover Gene Therapy for Depression All About Bacteria Original Story: Depressed? Go Play in the Dirt.
Re: Fw: I wondered why I liked digging for rocks, and gardening.
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Re: Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Spacecraft Loss (fwd)
http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/061013_friday_13th.html Like she was saying. D^ --- Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:52:34 -0700 From: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Spacecraft Loss MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE 818-354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Guy Webster 818-354-6278 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726 NASA Headquarters, Washington NEWS RELEASE: 2007-040 April 13, 2007 Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Spacecraft Loss WASHINGTON - After studying Mars four times as long as originally planned, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter appears to have succumbed to battery failure caused by a complex sequence of events involving the onboard computer memory and ground commands. The causes were released today in a preliminary report by an internal review board. The board was formed to look more in-depth into why NASA's Mars Global Surveyor went silent in November 2006 and recommend any processes or procedures that could increase safety for other spacecraft. Mars Global Surveyor last communicated with Earth on Nov. 2, 2006. Within 11 hours, depleted batteries likely left the spacecraft unable to control its orientation. The loss of the spacecraft was the result of a series of events linked to a computer error made five months before the likely battery failure, said board Chairperson Dolly Perkins, deputy director- technical of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. On Nov. 2, after the spacecraft was ordered to perform a routine adjustment of its solar panels, the spacecraft reported a series of alarms, but indicated that it had stabilized. That was its final transmission. Subsequently, the spacecraft reoriented to an angle that exposed one of two batteries carried on the spacecraft to direct sunlight. This caused the battery to overheat and ultimately led to the depletion of both batteries. Incorrect antenna pointing prevented the orbiter from telling controllers its status, and its programmed safety response did not include making sure the spacecraft orientation was thermally safe. The board also concluded that the Mars Global Surveyor team followed existing procedures, but that procedures were insufficient to catch the errors that occurred. The board is finalizing recommendations to apply to other missions, such as conducting more thorough reviews of all non- routine changes to stored data before they are uploaded and to evaluate spacecraft contingency modes for risks of overheating. We are making an end-to-end review of all our missions to be sure that we apply the lessons learned from Mars Global Surveyor to all our ongoing missions, said Fuk Li, Mars Exploration Program manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Mars Global Surveyor, launched in 1996, operated longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history, and for more than four times as long as the prime mission originally planned. The spacecraft returned detailed information that has overhauled understanding about Mars. Major findings include dramatic evidence that water still flows in short bursts down hillside gullies, and identification of deposits of water-related minerals leading to selection of a Mars rover landing site. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages Mars Global Surveyor for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, developed and operates the spacecraft. Information about the Mars Global Surveyor mission, including the preliminary report from the process review board and a list of some important discoveries by the mission, is available on the Internet at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mgs -end- To remove yourself from all mailings from NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory, please go to http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M725665005957889744348665 d^Vizio Get news delivered with the All new Yahoo! Mail. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. Start today at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca
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