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This is my first post for the Day of Archaeology event. I'd like to begin by thanking the organizers, advisors, and sponsors for conceiving of and making this event happen. It's important that we discuss archaeology across the world and get our work out to a broad audience. All most people know about archaeology is what they see on the Discovery Channel or from Indiana Jones.
The road I took to get to a career in archaeology involved several u-turns and a few speed bumps. Here is a quick history. When I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut, an airline pilot, or an archaeologist. Since my family didn't have the money for me to realize any of those goals I did what I thought was the next best thing and joined the Navy right out of high school. I spent the next four and a half years working on EA-6B Prowlers as an aviation electronics technician. During that time I went on a cruise on the USS Enterprise for six months in the Mediterranean and in the Persian Gulf. We saw some great cities with great archaeology and history. At this time, archaeology was something you saw on TV and included crusty old PhDs working in universities. I never considered it as a career.
Near the end of my time in the Navy a random phone call landed me in commercial flight training at the Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While there I received my private pilot's license and finished the training for a few other licenses. After a year and a half I transferred to the University of North Dakota to continue my flight training at the nations largest and most advanced collegiate flight training school. UND Aerospace has an amazing program with state of the art aircraft and flight simulators. It was a great experience.
While I was taking aviation classes I filled up my general education requirements with anthropology classes. I still loved the science of archaeology, in particular paleoanthropology, but still didn't see it as a career option. I'm not sure why. I think it was still just one of those fantasy fields that you never think you are capable of performing.
After a couple of years I started to lose my desire to fly commercially. I just didn't think I would get any satisfaction from shuttling people around the country for the rest of my life. Sure the pay is good but there are a lot of things you can do that involve less stress if all you want is money. I need a job that makes me feel good at the end of the day and that I look forward to going to everyday. Since I still didn't see archaeology as an option, even though I had taken most of the classes offered, I spent the next couple of years taking photography and math classes just for fun. I know, I like math. I'm probably the only CRM archaeologist that has used SOHCAHTOA to determine the exact angle for a transect.
During my penultimate year in college my professor, Dr. Melinda Leach, told me that I could graduate in one year with a degree in anthropology. I just had to take all of the upper level classes and that would be it. With no other direction I decided to go for it. I had to take 18 credits during the fall and 15 credits during the spring and write, I think, five or six research papers during the year but in the end I graduated. After graduation I went back to Seattle and worked with my brother's father in law's home remodeling company. I hated it.
In the fall I went back to North Dakota to help with the big event that the department had planned the previous year. We had Jane Goodall coming to speak to a packed house. One day, while sitting in the student lounge, a former student, and friend, came up to me and said hi. He was visiting because hurricane Katrina had destroyed his apartment in New Orleans and his company laid everyone off for a little while. He asked what I was doing. At the time I was getting ready to go on an Earthwatch expedition to dig in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. After that I had no plans. He asked if I had checked Shovelbums. Shovel what?
I educated myself on shovelbums.org, prepared my CV, and started on a job in Minnesota a week after I returned from Africa. That was in October of 2005 and I've been in CRM ever since. I've worked at all times of the year, on all phases of field archaeology and in 13 states.
In August of 2009 I began a one year MS program at the University of Georgia. The program was intense but I received my Master of Science in Archaeological Recourse Management in July of 2010. I'm currently working in the Great Basin of Nevada and love every minute of it!
So, I guess that wasn't too brief. My fiancé will tell you that brevity is not a trait that I possess. Hopefully someone will get out of this that it's never too late and you are never too old to get into the dynamic field of anthropology. There are many paths that you can take to get to anthropology and there are just as many that you can take along your career.
My Chief in the Navy once told me how he decides whether a job or a position is right for him. He said to look around at the people that have been doing your job and are at the ends of their careers. Are they happy? Are they doing what you would want to do? My favorite thing about archaeology is that you can't really tell what the future will bring. You could be running a company, teaching at a university, or hosting your own show on the Discovery Channel, if they ever get back to science and history shows and away from reality shows. The possibilities are nearly endless.
In my next post I'll talk about the project I'm on right now and the wonders of monitoring.
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The hidden health cost of the eco-NIMBY complex
For insight into why both unemployment and prices for just about everything are so high in California, consider the saga of the Oceanside trash hauler that wants to cut costs while dramatically reducing air pollution.
The local division of Waste Management, a national trash hauler, wants to buy 42 new garbage trucks that burn natural gas instead of diesel fuel. This is a good idea on every conceivable level.
Natural gas engines burn so cleanly that replacing 42 diesel trucks is the air-pollution equivalent to removing 3,100 cars from local roads. They also emit much less carbon dioxide, the subject of pending limits designed to reduce global warming. Experts say that switching to natural gas is particularly important for garbage trucks and city buses, because they travel thousands of miles on stop-and-go routes close to homes and pedestrians.
At this moment in global energy history, natural gas also offers remarkable cost savings. Although the trucks are more expensive, natural gas prices have plummeted thanks to the nationwide "fracking" revolution in drilling technology that has caused an epic boom in U.S. supplies.
With diesel routinely above $4 a gallon, the equivalent amount of compressed natural gas costs $2 or less. The savings potential has prompted officials at railroads, trucking firms and other major transporters to study or begin converting their fleets.
Not incidentally, the Navy and Marines are converting rapidly to natural gas to become less dependent on insecure foreign oil suppliers, some of which fund terrorists.
Let's pause to review: Upgrading Oceanside's garbage fleet is vastly better for human health, costs less and bolsters national security. What could possibly go wrong?
To fuel its new trucks, Waste Management sought – and received – city permission to install equipment at its 3.7-acre diesel refueling center in an Oceanside Boulevard industrial park. That triggered an appeal under the California Environmental Quality Act by one Nadine Scott, who lives nearby.
With help from law students at the USD Environmental Law Clinic, Scott articulated a long list of alleged "environmental" violations, ranging from noise to flooding risk to the recent demise of an oleander hedge on the company's property.
City officials and company lawyers rebutted the entire list: The project was reviewed by state and federal regulators. The new trucks are much quieter, not louder. The oleanders, which are not native and battling a plant disease, are being replaced by eco-friendly native plants. A company-paid biologist will ensure that no birds are mating at planting time.
If it seems incredible that adding pumps and natural gas tanks to an established industrial site requires this kind of high-cost bureaucracy, welcome to doing business in California.
Oceanside's City Council wisely rejected Scott's appeal. But under CEQA, her student lawyers could just be warming up, and the protests of a single neighbor could stymie the improvement of an entire region.
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Editor's comment: Artificial neural networks are computer models inspired by actual biological central nervous systems (the brain in particular) that are capable of machine learning and pattern recognition. In an artificial neural network, simple artificial nodes, called "neurons," are connected together to form a network which mimics a biological neural network.
An Artificial Neural Network Approach for Predicting Functional Outcome in Fibromyalgia Syndrome after Multidisciplinary Pain Program.
By M. Salgueiro,et al.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the ability of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to predict, on the basis of clinical variables, the response of persons with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) to a standard, 4-week interdisciplinary pain program.
DESIGN: The design of this study is retrospective longitudinal.
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SETTING: Fibromyalgia outpatient clinic in a tertiary-care general hospital.
SUBJECTS: The subjects of this study include outpatients with FMS.
INTERVENTION: Multidisciplinary pain program including pain pharmacotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, physical therapy, and occupational therapy.
OUTCOME MEASURES: Reliable change (RC) of scores on the Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ), and accuracy of ANNs in predicting RC at discharge or at 6-month follow-up as compared to Logistic Regression.
RESULTS: ANN-based models using the sensory-discriminative and affective-motivational subscales of the McGill Pain Questionnaire, the HAQ disability index, and the anxiety subscale of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale at baseline as input variables correctly classified 81.81% of responders at discharge and 83.33% of responders at 6-month follow-up, as well as 100% of nonresponders at either evaluation time-point.
Logistic regression analysis, which was used for comparison, could predict treatment outcome with accuracies of 86.11% and 61.11% at discharge and follow-up, respectively, based on baseline scores on the HAQ and the mental summary component of the Medical Outcomes Study-Short Form 36.
CONCLUSIONS: Properly trained ANNs can be a useful tool for optimal treatment selection at an early stage after diagnosis, thus contributing to minimize the lag until symptom amelioration and improving tertiary prevention in patients with FMS.
Source: Pain Medicine, August 5, 2013. By M. Salgueiro, X. Basogain, A. Collado, X. Torres, J. Bilbao, F. Doñate, L. Aguilera and J.J. Azkue. Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain.


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Getting your own Genome
You can get the whole genetic map and sequences of you.
It means that you can store nearly everything about your genetic information in a PC.
However, the price for now it too high (about $300,000 in 2009). By 2012, the price will go down to around $1,000 USD. By 2016, the price will be below zero (i.e, you can sell your genome information if you want)
The Genomics recipe for having your own set of Genetic material : (Genome Sequencing Procedure)
1) Take small amount of blood from your body or spit saliva to a test tube.
2) Do sequencing after amplifying the amount of genetic material (i.e., your genome parts) using re-sequencing equipments.
3) Map the sequences to a reference genome and assemble all the genetic parts of your genome
4) Store the information in such a way that bioinformaists can analyze hundreds of aspects of your genome.
5) Applying bioinformatics software to find interesting things such as relatedness, geneology, disease susceptability, and visualizing the whole genome.
6) Finding critical information on yourself as a biological being.
There will be thousands of companies by 2010 that try to help you get and see your own genomes.
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Absolute Newb Web Site Tutorial
Written by rmcgoo
If you already know how to do this, dont read it. Itll probably make you dumber.
How to make a website! woopdie doo
Step 1- HTML
HTML is the language used to build .html files, which are viewed in browsers(IE, Netscape, Mozilla). Understanding what the important HTML tags mean will help you understand later what some functions in web development programs do.
Links- http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/,<a rel="no....com.com/, http://www.htmlprimer.com/
Step 2- WYSIWYG Editors
HTML coding can be slow, and unless you are very good with it, pages can really look outdated and unattractive. A WYSIWYG editor (what you see is what you get) is a GUI interface way to develop web sites. They keep all your files organized, and allow you to see what your page looks like while you work on it, without having to write HTML much, if at all. Plus- its easier for multiple people to work on the same project. They also come with tools that work with your site to speed things up, like ftp and spellcheckers.
Programs-Adobe Golive, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft Frontpage
Links- www.adobe.com, www.adobexchange.com, www.macromedia.com, http://www.trainingtools.com/online/dreamweaver4/
Step 3- Graphics
Visual presentation can make up for content, seriously. A site with bad content can still look credible just because it looks professional. A sites graphics present the site just as much as clothes present a person. A lot of times, you can judge a book by its cover in terms of web sites. These programs make, and more importantly, compress graphics for quicker page loads.
Programs- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Imageready. (cheaper->) Macromedia Fireworks, Freehand. 3d (pretty tough stuff) Alias Wavefront Maya, Newtek Lightwave, Discreet 3dsMax
Step 4- Server stuff
To get your site attached to a domain name, (whatever.com, org, net) theres webhosting. Free webhosting is awesome for a beginner site, because you dont need a lot of extras anyways. There are a ton of free web hosts, just google for free web hosting. They all suck, but they all have their own special benefits. Then there are web host providers that you pay for. Cheaper ones go for 5-10 bucks a month, and they go up from there. They all have their different options, but look for bandwith and disk space, most importantly. Once you learn more about web development, youll know what to look for after that. If you already know how to host your OWN server, then you probably knew how to do all this stuff anyway.
Step 5- Advanced stuff
Once your site is up, youll want better stuff for it. Here are some links to some sites offering advanced web development software, or languages. Google for flash, server side programming, databases, but by now, youll probably know what you want to look for.
www.adobe.com, www.macromedia.com, www.php.net
I know the AO community is pretty intelligent, but this was to give web dev newbs something to start off of. If you want to learn about security, you gotta know something about what you're securing.


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Seafood Tom Yam
Dinner, Lunch, Seafood, Thai July 18th, 2006
I am back. I just had tom yam for lunch.
Tom Yam is a Thai-style spicy soup which is bound to increase one's appetite (and sweat). It is hot and sour and is served hot. Great accompaniment to a steaming bowl of white rice, especially in cold weather. I do cook it once in a blue moon.
This is my recipe for Seafood Tom Yam
- 400 gms medium prawns
- 200 gms squid (cut into rings)
- 150 gms oyster mushrooms
- 100 gms baby corn (quarter-cut lengthwise)
- 3 tomatoes (quartered)
- 4 cups prawn / chicken stock
- Salt and sugar to taste
- 2 stalks lemon grass, bruised
- 4 kaffir lime leaves
- 4 fresh birds-eye chillies (cili padi)
- Lime juice to taste
- 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
- 2 onions cut into rings
- 2 tablespoon tom yam paste (can be obtained from supermarkets)
Shell and devein prawns. (The heads and shells can be boiled to make prawn stock)
Bring to boil 5 cups prawn / chicken stock. Add all the above ingredients (except prawns, squid, lime juice & coriander leaves) and simmer till baby corn and mushroom are cooked.
Add prawns and squid and simmer for three minutes, or just until prawns and squid are cooked.
Stir in lime juice to taste, making it nicely piquant. Serve sprinkled with coriander leaves


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What to do in Manila
Manila, as Philippines's capital, has many gems to satisfy your wanderlust. It's a cultural melting pot of Malay, Spanish, American, Chinese and Arabic influences, meaning you'll get a lot out of your trip. Take your pick from the fabulous food, funky bars and nightclubs, historic destinations, and bargain finds, just to name a few.
Start your tour of Manila by exploring the iconic walled city of Intramuros. Enjoy riding the horse-drawn kalesa as you take pictures and explore the area. As long as your camera's out, see the country's most important monument of their national hero at Rizal Park.
For the Philippines' own version of "The White House", take a taxi to Malacañan Palace. Another stunning building for you to check out is the Cultural Center of the Philippines during sunset or at night.
Have your own "Visita Iglesia" next and visit the most beautiful churches in the city like the Manila Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica, Minor Basilica of San Lorenzo Ruiz, and San Agustin Church. Don't forget to check out the National Museum of the Philippines and see the striking Spolarium painting of Juan Luna.
If you're travelling with kids, you can also ride the kalesa around Chinatown, where you can get your fill of Chinese food and find exotic goods. Or you can visit Manila Ocean Park next to see local and international marine animals right here in the city.
Spend some of your Philippine Pesos by shopping too. If you want quality but cheap items, Divisoria and Greenhills are paradise for bargain hunters. Since the country is shopping culture is so big, check out the massive Mall of Asia too!
What's the best way for you to say goodbye to Manila? Stroll through Baywalk in Manila Bay and see one of the best sunsets in the world. The locals even call it legendary, and you won't find it hard to agree when you see it in person.
Complete your Manila moments and check out this list of 10 things to do in Manila.
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The best time for you to visit Manila is from December to April when the weather is most pleasant. Schedule your trip on December, and you'll even get to see the colourful parols (star-shaped lanterns) all over the city for the Christmas season.
You can fly to the Philippines and visit Manila visa-free for 30 days. Check Smartraveller for more info.
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When Tom Nally first appeared on the IA 25 list in 2012, the first several paragraphs of his profile were as much about his predecessor, Tom Bradley, as it was about Nally. Two years later, it's all Nally, who has stamped his own personality on the RIA custodian.
While Nally is a cheerleader for the RIA model, as might be expected for someone in his position, he's no Pollyanna when it comes to the challenges that RIAs and TDAI face. He began an April interview by saying, "We try to be an industry leader in all the areas of the market where we engage," but "we can't be all things to all people."
He then listed the areas where he says the firm shines:
- Providing great service: "We publish our CSI scores in our advisor magazine—we're transparent about that."
- Technology, which he said is critical to helping its RIAs "build scalable businesses."
- Trading, which he says is increasingly a "differentiator for advisors."
- Practice management, where "we don't want to be publishing white papers" but rather "take a more tactical solutions approach."
- Advocacy for advisors, reflecting "our fundamental belief in the RIA model" while also mentioning that "we referred $25 billion to advisors through Advisor Direct," its referral program.
- Human capital, which includes its hiring practices where they value prospective employees for "what their capabilities are more than what their experience is."
He admitted, however, that as an industry, "We still have a lot of work to do" in rebuilding trust among the investing public. Since the interview occurred just days after writer Michael Lewis charged in a "60 Minutes" segment that the "stock market is rigged" in favor of high-frequency traders, Nally said, "We're in another reputational crisis in the industry right now." While the markets "are not perfect, never have been, the ultimate loser is the individual investor when" somebody like Lewis charges that "'the markets are rigged.'" It may "scare people off" from participating in the markets.
Nally also said that advisors and their partners "need to do a better job of adapting our business model to better serve" underserved sectors of American society, including younger people, women, the less affluent and the less white. He said the "solution" is "about embracing diversity. You want your team to reflect the market you're selling into; we must attract more women and minorities." Another part of the solution is technology, "the great enabler," because "the more efficient an advisory firm is, the more services it can offer."
Speaking of the generational wealth transfer, "we have more work to do there" as well. The next generation "is a powerful force," and since "I'm a next-genner myself, I understand the challenges" (Nally is 42). That next generation has "different values, different preferences than the boomers." TDAI and the entire industry, he argued, "need to do a better job attracting the next gen of advisors" since "clients want somebody who looks like them from a gender and ethnicity" viewpoint.
"The statistics are sobering—only 6% of advisors are under the age of 30," which is why TD has launched its scholarship and financial planning program grant programs, and it internship initiative.
As for the challenge of "robo-advisors," Nally put it into the context of understanding the needs of clients "based on their current life stage. They might not need a more comprehensive plan" than what robo-advisors now offer and what most advisors do not. "One of the challenges we're facing now is that technology is evolving faster than the ability of advisors to bring that technology into their shops."
Returning to his still relatively recent ascent to the top of TD Ameritrade Institutional, Nally said of his current position that "it's a job I've been preparing for, for many years. I feel privileged to sit in this seat and serve these advisors for what they do for their clients. They're the folks who are doing the right thing for their clients."
Returning to the Michael Lewis charge, he worries about "Mr. and Mrs. Jones sitting on their couch thinking the markets are rigged, so they miss out on participating in those markets—their future won't be as bright."
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Oscar Pistorius has two carbon fiber blades for legs. Despite that, he can run 400 meters in 45.07 seconds. And South Africa, his home country, is sending him to the World Championships to compete against a field of normal-legged runners.
The 24-year-old Pistorius has been the subject of debate and discussion since he began using his Cheetah Flex-Foot prostheses. Initially, he had been banned from competing in regular competition because German scientists had concluded he had a 30% efficiency advantage over sprinters with actual legs. Although the ruling was overturned shortly before the Beijing Olympics, ESPN says that he failed to qualify for the 2008 Olympics and the 2009 World Championships.
After setting his personal best earlier this year in Rome, he's finally fast enough to run in the World Championships and will be the only 400 meter sprinter representing South Africa. Pistorius says he'll be pleased to make it out of his preliminary heats. [ESPN]


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In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma comes a fascinating and cutting-edge look at the scary truth about what really goes into our food.
If a piece of individually wrapped cheese can retain its shape, color, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat and feed to our children?
Former New York Times business reporter and mother Melanie Warner decided to explore that question when she observed the phenomenon of the indestructible cheese. She began an investigative journey that took her to research labs, university food science departments, and factories around the country. What she discovered provides a rare, eye-opening-and sometimes disturbing-account of what we're really eating. Warner looks at how decades of food science have resulted in the cheapest, most abundant, most addictive, and most nutritionally inferior food in the world, and she uncovers startling evidence about the profound health implications of the packaged and fast foods that we eat on a daily basis.
From breakfast cereal to chicken subs to nutrition bars, processed foods account for roughly 70 percent of our nation's calories. Despite the growing presence of farmers' markets and organic produce, strange food additives are nearly impossible to avoid. Warner digs deep into the ingredient lists of purportedly healthy foods, and what she finds will change the way readers eat-and how they feed their children.
Combining meticulous research, vivid writing, and cultural analysis, Warner blows the lid off the largely undocumented-and lightly regulated-world of chemically treated and processed foods and lays bare the potential price we may pay for consuming even so-called healthy foods.
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Chet Phillips' illustrations have taken us to the steampunk Planet of the Apes and an alternate universe where Earth's greatest writers and artists are cats and dogs. His latest fantastical trading cards place familiar superheroes in the VIctorian era.
Steampunk versions of superheroes are nothing new, but there's something especially charming about Phillips' period-style illustrations and reimaginings of the heroes' biographies. Among the other super steampunks featured are the Flatiron Knight, Stupendous Gent, Empress Amazonia, Plastic Samuel, and Lord Wolverton.
Unfortunately, the set is currently sold out, though Phillips says he'll replenish his stock in the next few days.
The Union of Superlative Heroes [Chet Phillips Illustration via Comics Alliance]


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On "Canto IX"
Lawrence S. Rainey
The Cantos of Ezra Pound has long been considered the most important work of Anglo-American literary modernism. It is also the most intractable: its difficulties are notorious, its obscurity legendary. Though we are ignorant about many matters in Pound's work, at least one point has gradually attracted a substantial consensus: the decisive event in the formation of The Cantos occurred when Pound composed the Malatesta Cantos in 1922 and 1923. This event marked a catalytic moment. It enabled Pound to discover poetic techniques essential to the formal repertory of The Cantos, such as the direct quotation of prose documents, a device that effectively dissolved the distinction between verse and prose--a crucial development in the history of modern poetry. Equally important, the Malatesta Cantos precipitated a radical revision of all the earlier cantos, crystallizing the design of the larger poem, which had until then remained obscure for Pound himself. These events, the outcome of an intense struggle with an enormous body of historical materials, consumed eleven months of his life. Yet t heir reverberations extended far beyond 1923. In later cantos Pound returned to historical topics connected with Malatestan material some one hundred times. In prose he treated the subject in reviews and essays of the 1930s, at times comparing himself with Sigismondo Malatesta and his work with the church Sigismondo had constructed. In his private life he talked about Sigismondo to anyone who would listen; he purchased slides and photographs of historical documents important for Sigismondo's life or times; he kept above his writing desk a bas-relief that depicted Isotta degli Atti, the woman who had allegedly inspired Sigismondo's greatest achievement; and in the closing years of his life he journeyed to Rimini again to visit the church of San Francesco one last, haunting time. For Pound, it is clear, the issues he had encountered in the dramatic moments of 1922-23 became a reference point for all his subsequent thinking about civilization and cultural politics. The Malatesta Cantos are a locus for exploring the entire project of The Cantos, the central aspirations of literary modernism, and the intricate history of their critical reception by modern scholarship.
Quotation is a salient feature of major modernist texts, whether The Cantos or The Waste Land, Ulysses or To the Lighthouse. Its appearance in the modernist novel may not be surprising: after all, quotation has typified the novel since the day when Don Quixote recited Petrarchan sonnets and the formulas of chivalric romance. But quotation is also ubiquitous in modernist poetry--seven of the last eight lines of The Waste Land, for example, are quotations--surpassing the boundaries of generic expectations. Further, the modernist practice of quotation is not only pervasive, but qualitatively different: in addition to earlier poems or traditional literary materials, it cites tags from popular songs (O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--), or the nightly injunction of pub-tenders (HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME), materials wrested from outside the conventional literary domain. And the citation of historical documents, a procedure first adopted in the Malatesta Cantos, seems an especially intransigent form of this practice. The source texts are aggressively quotidian and antiliterary, invoking materials so alien to conventional notions of the "poetic" as to reconstitute the boundaries of subject matter acceptable in poetic discourse. Morever, they are presented without ragged right margins, miming the graphic characteristics of prose as if to emphasize their departure from poetic norms. In part, then, they have elicited critical interest because evaluating them is essential to our understanding not only of The Cantos, but of literary modernism. Another reason for interest is that criticism of the last two decades has virtually defined itself by the problem of quotation.
Pound's use of quotation was ambiguous and ambivalent. It invoked the standards of philological accuracy in order to juxtapose them against a higher accuracy of the spirit. It enacted a critique of the bourgeois mentalité and a radical rejection of the reformist socialism that allegedly shared its foundations; yet the result was a utopian aspiration imperiled by its own emptiness, a threat that could only be met by authorization from the past, by the invocation of historical precedent--which meant a return to the terrain of philology and history. The cycle became vertiginous and inescapable, its gestures both rebellious and conservative its implications poised on an abyss of ambiguity.
. . . distaste for the world engendered by capitalism is structured through a radical antimaterialism that rejects both the historicist trend of elite bourgeois culture and the repetitious "uniformity" of an urban lower class public associated with socialism. Meanwhile the "middle" (read also "mediocre") socioeconomic strata are rejected in favor of an imaginary cultural aristocracy that embodies and is unified with the vitality of a traditional-rural folk, and this imaginary construct becomes the vehicle for values uncontaminated by the mentalité that has engendered the culture of capitalist industrialism, materialism, or its academic exponent, philology. And it was but a short step from the 1917 essay to his 1922 view of the courtly culture of Rimini, where the "men of unusual intelligence" become "men of unusual genius" as Pound approvingly cites (in the final version of the Malatesta Cantos) Bartolomeo Scacchi's report that Sigismondo typically discussed "books, arms, / And men of unusual genius." This was the background to Pound's use of historical quotation in the Malatesta Cantos--an aggressive, accusatory assault on the historicist trend of elite bourgeois culture.
Viewed in Pound's own terms, the quotations in the Malatesta Cantos are not structured by philology, but against it: the "passion for completeness" is replaced with "selection"; the consultation of "commentaries" gives way to "direct study of the texts themselves" (ten long weeks of archival research from February to April 1923); the method of "science" is superseded by "art"; the "dullness" of "the earnest" is met with "levity"; and the study of "mediocrity" is supplanted by the "primitive religion" of "hero-worship." Pound invokes the standards of philological accuracy only to savage the institutional apparatus that sustains them. His literalist translations parody the typical features of the loathed institution. Consider his citation of a single phrase from a letter of 1454: "the bay pony (ronzino baiectino) the which you have sent me." Here are the gestures of philology--meticulous report of the original wording in parentheses (ronzino baiectino), and a translation so literal as to skirt the absurd ("the which" for il quale). It is, of course, too literal, a cruel parody of the philological fetish with "unvital detail."
From Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture: Text, History, and the Malatesta Cantos. Copyright © 1991 by the U of Chicago P.
Christine Froula
Canto IX is one of Pound's four "Malatesta Cantos" (VII-XI), a series based on the life and times of an Italian lord and condottiere, or professional soldier: Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-68). Pound's attraction to this obscure Renaissance hero arises from the fact that, while actively and riskily engaged in the political intrigues of the Italian city-states, which finally led to his excoriation by Pope Pius X, Sigismondo also managed to "gather the artists and savants about him" (Canto XIII) at his court and to leave behind him a work of art - the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini, Italy - which registers the complex historical temper of his time. In the midst of political turmoil, Sigismondo created in Rimini a little "civilization," to which his Tempio (Temple) enduringly testifies.
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Sixty years later, we can hardly avoid seeing problematic complications in the value Pound placed on Sigismondo's high "cultural awareness" - hero worship being chief among them. In 1923, Pound could discount Sigismondo's violence and immense egotism for the sake of the great value he attached to the triumphant embodiment of his antimonotheistic sensibility in the Tempio, "against the current of power." Looking back from the second half of our century, however, it is no longer possible to overlook the ruthless acts of barbarism on which this "cultural high" was raised. While we may still be moved by the eloquent "record of struggle" Sigismondo left in the Tempio, we must judge this Renaissance record of struggle, as Pound himself could not, within the context of the record of struggle Pound's poem has left for our own time, which mirrors the still unresolved crisis of the heroic values on which Western civilization is founded.
From A Guide to Ezra Pound's Selected Poems. Copyright © 1982, 1983 by Christine Froula.
Daniel Albright
The next Cantos - VIII-XI - turn from myth to history: from Acoetes to the landlocked Odysseus of fifteenth-century Rimini, the warlord Sigismundo Malatesta, ever harassed, ever trying to construct his private Ithaca, the Tempio. These four Cantos are the most coherent, chronologically intelligible sequence in the whole Cantos, until the Chinese dynastic Cantos LII-LXI. And yet they are as technically advanced as any of their predecessors.
Pound had been long experimenting with personae that were not (so to speak) whole-body personae, personae in which the poet was completely hidden by the mask: Pound was fascinated by personae in the form of half-masks, in which the poet only partly hid himself. In the year that he began The Cantos, 1915, Pound wrote "Near Perigord," in which the poet dramatizes the difficulty of finding out enough about the belligerent troubadour Bertrans de Born in order to adopt him as a persona: we see Pound gathering puzzling documents, bemusing himself with possible constructions of Bertrans' physical appearance, pretending for a moment to speak in Bertrans' voice, but at last watching the whole charade fall apart into "a broken bundle of mirrors" (P, 1926, 157). Sigismundo is Pound's most far-reaching experiment with the half-mask: Pound prints documents, sometimes in translation, concerning Sigismundo's life (a poem he wrote to his mistress Isotta; instructions concerning his generous patronage of the arts; a gracious letter he received from his son; a description of the bonfire at St. Peter's basilica, in which an effigy of Sigismundo was burnt, following his excommunication by Pope Pius II); but Pound is reluctant to feign Sigismundo's voice, and prefers to let "Sidge" speak for himself.
. . . .
Much of the narrative is told in the third person, but Pound occasionally slips into the first person plural, as if the poet had enlisted in Malatesta's army:
And we beat the papishes and fought
them back through the tents
And he came up to the dyke again
And fought through the dyke-gate
And it went on from dawn to sunset
And we broke them and took their baggage (XI/48)
The repeated And suggests the soldiers' inexorable advance. This technique, in which the poet retains a half-anonymous, tentative presence on the fringes of the poem, would persist in The Cantos. . . .
But there is a moment in the Malatesta Cantos, toward the end f Sigismundo's life, when the poet presents himself in a slightly different manner:
and came back with no pep in him
And we sit here. I have sat here
for forty thousand years (XI/50)
This might be the exaggeration of a footsoldier, whose hard life might seem forty thousand years long; but it also might be the voice of the poet of Canto IV, conjuring up the shadows of the fifteenth century in an old arena; and it also might be the voice of Eliot's Tiresias, who sat by Thebes below the wall, and walked among the lowest of the dead. Sometimes Pound's voice is focused through a mask; but sometimes it blurs, grows hollow with echoes, as if a whole Grand Canyon had opened around it. As Sigismundo's dreams crumble, as it becomes clear that his syncretic temple, in which the gods of pagan antiquity would be worshiped along with the Christian god, will never be finished, the poet starts to disengage himself from Sigismundo, to range for new ghosts. . . .
Sigismundo was a contemporary of Villon, on a higher social plane, but equally engaged with sex, religion, and death. Instead of excerpts from testamentary poetry, Pound provides for his "score" the documents that constitute Sigismundo's testament - his generosity to painters such as Piero delta Francesca, his consultation with Alberti on the architecture of the unfinished (but still preserved) Tempio. Instead of cello and bassoon, Pound provides cues that establish the right timbre, the right roughening of voice: the poet's own macho zest for combat ("we had smashed at Piombino and driven Out" - X/46) or explicit judgments about Sigismundo's accomplishment, as when Pound visits what is left of the Tempio and notes, "The filigree hiding the gothic,/with a touch rhetoric in the whole" (IX/41). Perhaps this will serve as a judgment on The Cantos as well as on the Tempio that seems a stone metaphor for The Cantos.
From "Early Cantos I - XLI" in The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound. Copyright © 1999 by Cambridge University Press.
Michael Alexander
. . .out of the whirl of jag detail the various aspects of Sigismundo - fighting, negotiating, protecting his family and his city - assert themselves and imply a personality, the centre of which is the construction of the Tempio Malatestiano at Rimini. 'A splendid church,' admitted his enemy Pope Pius II, 'dedicated to St Francis, though he filled it so full of pagan works of art that it seemed less a Christian sanctuary than a temple of heathen devil-worshippers. In it he erected for his mistress a tomb of magnificent marble and exquisite workmanship with an inscription in the pagan style as follows: "Sacred to the deified Isotta".
The Tempio, though never finished, is a great achievement; Alberti was the architect, the bas-reliefs are by Agostino di Duccio, Piero della Francesca and others, the marble was brought from San Apollinare in Classe. It is unique, perhaps the most original church of its time, a monument of beauty and power. Like many a Renaissance church it is really a monument to the greater glory of its patron and to his ideals; in this case, to his love for his third wife, Isotta. The Tempio is a monument very similar to the Cantos. It stands off the beaten track in the old town, which is now a dusty annexe to the popular beach resort. From the outside it is powerful and austere, the masterpiece of the first architect of the Renaissance; inside, it is a cabinet of beauties, disregarded.
From The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound. Copyright © 1979 by Michael Alexander.
James F. Knapp
The portrait of Sigismundo which Pound creates out of the gradually assembled details of cantos 8 and 9 reaches its point of clearest focus in the series of letters which Sigismundo's enemies find upon intercepting his postbag. By dating the correspondence to 1454, the year in which the Malatesta fortunes began to fail, Pound establishes a background of dangerous political strife. But though Sigismundo might be expected to be concerned with nothing beyond his own survival at such a time, the letters reveal only the character of his household. In presenting a detail such as Sigismundo's gift of a pony to his six-year-old son, Pound defines a structure of relationships through the precise manipulation of tone. Thus, the young Malatesta thanks his father in language which expresses the respect and formality he was being taught through writing letters like this one, while still revealing a natural innocence and enthusiasm: the pony is "a fine caparison'd charger, upon which I intend to learn all there is to know about riding." Against the formality of the boy's letter, Pound sets a comment by his tutor, in a style which is sheer colloquial American: "It would take me a month to write you all the fun he gets out of that pony." The cumulative effect of these letters is to suggest the respect, decorum, affection, and businesslike free speaking which Sigismundo (as a true Confucian hero) has established as the heart of his properly ordered household.
In terms of content, however, these letters are mostly concerned with Sigismundo's patronage of the arts. Filled with the very concrete details of building - inventories of material, problems with securing proper measurements, waiting for the frosts to end before attempting to lay stone - they help to define a man whose overriding passion, even at a time when his political survival was threatened, was the creation of meaningful beauty. Canto 9 ends with a terse summary of the remaining contents of the postbag, noting that Sigismundo "lived and ruled," and that he had "built a temple so full of pagan works"
and in the style "Past ruin'd Latium"
The filigree hiding the gothic,
with a touch of rhetoric in the whole
And the old sarcophagi,
such as lie, smothered in grass, by San Vitale.
San Vitale is a Byzantine church in Ravenna, nearly a thousand years older than the Tempio, and by closing on this image of time's inexorable passage, Pound implies that the vital new achievements of Sigismundo's Renaissance must also fall before the smothering grass of a world in constant flux. Sigismundo was, for Pound, a man who had seen the vision, and who had struggled to create a cultural vortex in his own time. But he was also a man in history, and history was the destructive element in which visions could be carried into action only in part, and only for a time.
From Ezra Pound. Copyright © 1979 by G.K. Hall and Co.
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By Editor Edison – CalPatty Press Editor for Revenge of the Ghost Wolf
Former Sheriff Metz, Ike Morris local Oil Baron and his little right hand man(gal)Sandy Pettit, Gerald B Hough Prosecuting Attorney for Gilmer County, Richard A Facemire 14th judicial district Circuit Court Judge and Larry Gerwig Gilmer County Sheriff, along with Brian Kennedy and Larry Chapman County Commissioners complete with their dumb as a fucking rock County Commission Clerk Jean Butcher make up a list of CROOKS from Crooked County who are reported on in many of the local TRUTH BLOGS and websites that sets Gilmer County apart from the rest of the state of West Virginia.
"These Crooked County Crooks essentially run the county's legal system," said SC of the Secret Seven Coalition of journalists in Central West Virginia Dan Bingman, who is also President of the Central West Virginia Council of Concerned Citizens. The fact was seconded by award winning investigative reporter and SS Major Sir Lawrence Smith who has reported many wrongdoings in Gilmer County via the West Virginia Record.
The ringleaders in the community for stirring up mayhem not mentioned above, are the Butcher and Butcher law firm consisting of Timothy B Butcher and Terry Butcher, Terry of course being the father of the infamous Butcher Bitches.
"The Butcher and Butcher law firm in Gilmer County have a direct connection to Judge Richard A Facemire who was the BAD JUDGE involved in the "Travesty of Justice," case the longest running court case in Gilmer County History!"
Could Gerald B Hough Prosecutor for Gilmer County and other Gilmer County public officials be headed to PRISON like the County officials from MINGO COUNTY, WV? Only time and good information gathering will tell, and hopefully sooner than later. GOD KNOWS Gilmer County officials have been breaking the rules and committing crimes for YEARS in Central West Virginia.
A federal judge sentenced the former prosecuting attorney of Mingo County last July 7th 2014 just three months and eight days ago to a year in prison and said he would have given him longer — possibly much longer — if he could.
Michael Sparks Mingo County Prosecutor, 44, pleaded guilty last year to one count of deprivation of rights under the color of law, a misdemeanor. He admitted he took part in a scheme to deprive George White of his right to have the attorney of his choice.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston sentenced Sparks to the statutory maximum the charge carries, despite Sparks' lengthy plea for an alternative sentence, like home confinement.
"You had an obligation as a prosecutor to treat George White in a fair and just manner. However instead of justice, you gave him injustice," Johnston said. "This sentence needs to repeat, repeat the message that corruption must come to an end in Mingo County and Southern West Virginia.
"Ultimately, the citizens of Mingo County and Southern West Virginia must stand up against political corruption. They should have confidence that serious penalties will await those who perpetuate political corruption in Mingo County and Southern West Virginia in the future," the judge said.
Sparks, who had been Mingo County's prosecuting attorney since 2005 until he resigned last year, is the fourth county official to be sentenced this year in a corruption probe by U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin's office.
"This sentence strikes an appropriate balance," Goodwin recently stated. "It punishes wrongdoing while encouraging officials involved in public corruption to come forward, admit what they've done, and help federal authorities. What Sparks did was indefensible, and he deserves prison time. But his early cooperation was vital to our investigation in Mingo County.
"This sentence underscores that telling the truth at the beginning of an investigation is always a smart decision," Goodwin US Attorney for the Southern District said.
"One of the Circuit Court Judges in Gilmer County (Facemire)and his team of questionable attorneys and partners in crime, along with Sandy Pettit democrat executive committee chair person and Ike Morris are the real power in Gilmer County," Bingman explained recently in Parkersburg, West Virginia while conducting research at the courthouse.
"They didn't like anyone who tried to oppose them. If you were an attorney or an individual who wanted to get a fair shake in the court system, you had to play whatever game the Crooked County Crooks wanted you to play. It is a very toxic legal environment to say the very least…"
These alleged "Crooks from a Crooked County mentioned above make up "Team Gilmer County" also known as TEAM CROOKED COUNTY who control the legal system locally, and they may think no one would stand up against them," but many have been secretly working to expose them by making information made available to outside law enforcement who may get some investigators from Pittsburgh Pa interested in those public officials that make up TEAM GILMER COUNTY such as Gerald B Hough, Richard A Facemire, Carol Wolfe magistrate, Larry Gerwig Gilmer County Sheriff and Commissioners Kennedy and Chapman — all the above are public officials who truly believe they are above the law in Gilmer County and the state of West Virginia.
Local members of the Council of Concerned Citizens have contacted individuals who have been investigating public corruption and white-collar crime for more than a decade.
"No matter how much power you wield," according to the local President of the Concerned Citizens, Dan Bingman and his right hand man investigative journalist Sir Lawrence Smith … "When you violate the public trust and engage in corruption, sooner or later, you will get caught."
These individuals along with Dave Ramezan of the Gilmer Free Press will be revealing the criminal element in Gilmer County to their reading audience hopefully around Thanksgiving of this year according to local report.
One of the worst things Crooked County is known for is threatening people who the public officials of Gilmer County think are making comments on the Gilmer Free Press and other websites designed to give the public the real news, not the manufactured bullshit so well known to be published in the only print media in Gilmer County the Gilmer County Democrat run by a very questionable journalist known to us all as Dave (Corky) Corcoran.
Common citizens can exchange information about corrupt officials in Gilmer County now and further, even have the matter published, and the CROOKS from Crooked County can't stand it.
Who really knows if every person that ever responded to FREE PRESS articles were threatened — or just a few … on a hand selected by a HOUGH and Larry Chapman hit list – being blamed for past grievances and disagreements with no real justification!
The rules of professional conduct for attorneys in West Virginia specify that a lawyer cannot represent a private client in a matter he or she was involved in as a county prosecutor or other public officer, but Gerry Hough seems to make his own rules, which include hiding pieces of property needed in high profile West Virginia Supreme Court cases, and even ordered Beverly Marks County Clerk to hide the title of property to cover for a lie Hough told a circuit court jury in the famous, "Travesty of Justice," case the longest running court case in Gilmer County history that went all the way to US Supreme Court.
When one has served in both public offices of City Mayor and County Prosecutor like Hough has, there is hardly anyone in the most populated area of Gilmer County a person does not become involved with.
Whether the issue is taxation, police actions, local ordinance disputes, seeking funding, parking tickets or trying to get the vote, the Mayor becomes involved. Gerry Hough was once the MAYOR of Glenville. As a prosecutor, Gerry Hough simultaneously runs a real estate business and independent law firm, against rules of professional conduct, which leaves literally almost no one for this MONSTER GERALD B HOUGH to represent legally in this county as a private attorney.
These infamous CROOKS from Crooked County, like Judge Facemire, Hough, Sheriff Larry Gerwig, and all the county commissioners work together and think absolutely nothing about violating West Virginia code or breaking any law, for they truly think they are ABOVE the law and they are quite convinced of it. This sounds like a tall tale, but the matter can all be proven via court record and documents on file at the courthouse.
BRIAN KENNEDY President of the Gilmer County Commission GETS ARRESTED like a BIG DOG driving erratically, but does not get sent to jail like common sense for the common man might tell you would be the normal consequence!
The Gilmer FREE PRESS shared the West Virginia Metro News Report regarding the JULY 19th 2014 incident:
The West Virginia State Police arrested and charged Gilmer County Commissioner Brian Kennedy with a DUI over the weekend.
Senior Trooper K. J. Varner II pulled Kennedy over at 8:00 PM on Saturday after he was seen driving erratically on U.S. Highway 33 in Gilmer County.
Once pulled over, Varner said he detected alcohol on Kennedy's breath and initiated the proper procedures.
A secondary chemical test revealed Kennedy's BAC was at 0.089, which is over the 0.08 limit.
Varner said Kennedy was cooperative while detained until around 10:30 PM, when Magistrate Judge Carol L. Wolfe arraigned and released him on a personal recognizance bond.
"According to Judge Wolfe's office, no dates have been set in regard to the case!"
A representative from the Gilmer County Commission has not yet been available for comment on the matter at this time.
Also, according to court record Magistrate Carol Wolfe has recused herself further from hearing County Commissioner Brian the Walrus Kennedy's case, for I am sure she does not want to be involved in any more press scandals and allegations of misconduct than has already been documented in the past. Wolfe is usually the go to judge when one of the elite get caught so she can fix it, or if there is another rape at the college so she can squash it. Until national or regional attention can be brought to this action little or nothing is going to be done about these wrongdoings in GILMER COUNTY, why do you think it is famous and known as CROOKED COUNTY?
It doesn't matter if you are a magistrate, the elected County Sheriff Larry Gerwig, or that dumb bitch of a County Commission Clerk Jean Butcher, who has a background in special education, every single one of those Son's of Bitches that work in the Gilmer County Courthouse lie their asses off about real facts — And most have been involved in multiple cover ups. Now we hear that Crooked County is broke as fuck and soon some of the Crooks will be getting dumped in the Crooked River like the little bitches they truly are, and they will be without jobs and paychecks! You can bet your ass those Crooked County Crooks will be telling HORRIBLE LIES as to how it all came about.
Yeah we would love to hear those SWEET LITTLE LIES, while we just happen to bump into a few of those folk while trying to hold back the dogs that already smelled them coming and know what comes next…
That' right, LIE to US, LIE to our faces and see where that gets ya!!
Tell us some SWEET LITTLE LIES!
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of the evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of the Ghost Wolf and goodwill, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Ghost Wolf when I lay my vengeance upon thee!"


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I found this book after a tip-off on Amy's lovely blog and I ordered it and waited patiently for it to arrive on these shores from America. Very cheap it was too and it arrived very quickly. I'm not interested in what I suppose is the book's primary aim, a guide to valuing quilts, I'm interested purely in drooling over the many photos of divine vintage quilts of all types. But crikey, I pretty much either want to own or make them all!
I decided to tie the quilt rather than hand quilting it, to stay with the child-like theme. I used a white wool yarn. I put a very thin batting in the middle and went with that knife-edge binding with red blanket stitching. Finally, I (gasp) immersed the finished quilt in a tea bath (yes, a sink full of tea of the drinking variety) to give it a bit of an aged look. Of course, it then dried a little crinkly.
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Dream Home Spray Mop Wet Pad (2 pack)
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Top Of The Pops is to return to television screens next weekend in a format that includes both new and archive performances and videos.
Even when TOTP went the way of the dodo a couple of months back, insiders stated that its sister show, Top Of The Pops 2, would be broadcast again. This has proven to be the case, as the show that'll air on Saturday night (September 30) will be called TOTP 2, even though it'll feature live performances from current acts Razorlight and Nelly Furtado.
The 50-minute show, presented by Steve Wright, will also feature The Beach Boys and Frankie Goes To Hollywood. After this initial show, the programme will switch to a 30-minute length, but will continue to highlight current acts a la the original TOTP.
Anyone tuning in early - TOTP 2 will air at 8.20pm - can catch the Lauren Laverne-presented The Culture Show at 7.30. Bit classier than CD:UK, that.


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So much for burying the hatchet.
Canadian house music producer/DJ Deadmau5 still has an axe to grind with pop matriarch Madonna.
Back in March, Deadmau5 (real name Joel Zimmerman) branded the singer "irresponsible" and a "f***ing idiot" for making an apparent reference to ecstasy use during an appearance at Miami's Ultra Musical Festival.
Addressing the crowd at the fest, she asked: "How many people in this crowd have seen molly?"
Molly is the slang term used in electronic dance music (EDM) circles for MDMA, the active chemical in ecstasy.
Deadmau5 swiftly took to Twitter and Facebook to have a pop at the Girl Gone Wild singer.
"Very classy there madonna. "HUR DUR HAS ANYONE SEEN MOLLY???" such a great message for the young music lovers at ultra," he posted on Facebook. "Quite the f'n philanthropist. but hey, at least yer HIP AND TRENDY! f***ing cant smack my head hard enough right now.
"I can appriciate her meteoric career, and all good deeds done, but WHAT THE F**K WAS THAT?" he added. "That's your big contribution to EDM? Thats your big message to ultra attendies? hipsterspeak for looking for drugs? f**k off you f***ing IDIOT."
He tweeted: "@MadonnaMDNAday You're a role model to 100's of millions. You have a powerful voice, EDM could use your positive influence, not 'molly' talk."
But Madge, whose latest album is titled MDNA, fired back with a response.
"@deadmau5 lovemaus5," she tweeted, linking to a 1989 black and white photo of herself dressed in Minnie Mouse ears, with a with a speech bubble which read: "From one mouse to another. I don't support drug use and I never have. I was referring to the song called Have you seen Molly? written by my friend Cedric Gervais who I almost worked with on my album."
Deadmau5 saw the tweet and replied, saying: "Fair enough, I was just voicing my concerns as I usually do. +1 respect for clearing it up personally ... regardless, just be a little more aware of what you should represent at EDM events, and I'll watch my mouth."
Madonna responded with a tweet, saying, "Communication is always best. You should have called me first, we could have cleared it up 'privately.' ;) See you on the road."
In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Deadmau5, has another pop at the 53-year-old singer.
"You wan't to be 'hip' and 'cool' and 'funky grandma'?" he said. "Fine. It's not my place to say you're irrelevant. If you're going to come into my world, at least do it with a little more dignity."
He continued: "I understand she has millions more fans, and is way more successful than I'll ever be. But it's like talking about slavery at a f***ing blues concert. It's inappropriate."
Deadmau5 also has a problem with DJ and producer David Guetta.
"David Guetta has two iPods and a mixer and he just plays tracks - like, 'Here's one with Akon, check it out!'," he said.
"Even Skrillex [a friend of Zimmerman's] isn't doing anything too technical. He has a laptop and a MIDI recorder, and he's just playing his shit ... People are, thank God, smartening up about who does what - but there's still button-pushers getting paid half a million. And not to say I'm not a button-pusher. I'm just pushing a lot more buttons."
That he is. And possibly one or two of Madonna's after dropping the 'G' bomb.
Meanwhile, her Madgesty has been turning heads on the set of her new music video in Italy.
The singer spent Monday in Florence shooting the video for her track Turn Up The Radio, surrounded by a bevy of hunky dancers - including her boyfriend Brahim Zaibat.
Madge, dressed in black leather hotpants, fishnet tights and lace push-up bra, was snapped hanging out with her boys while perching on the back of a convertible.
In-between takes, she couldn't resists putting on a bit of a leggy show for her Italian fans.
Angelina Jolie would be proud.
Someone get that left leg a Twitter handle, STAT!
Listen to Madonna's Turn Up The Radio below:
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For all those same-sex newlyweds in New York, Lawrence S. Jacobs has a message: Enjoy the Champagne and the honeymoon, but expect no gifts from the IRS. Jacobs, a lawyer in Washington, specializes in estate planning for same-sex couples — and in delivering the bad news that their unions aren't legal in the eyes of the IRS, a policy that will cost them time and money during tax season.
Same-sex couples in Washington, which last year legalized gay marriage, must fill out a federal return to make calculations required for their D.C. joint return. But then they must set that work aside and fill out separate federal returns because the IRS doesn't regard their union as legal, Jacobs says. "You just spent decades getting your marriage recognized, and now the feds say, 'No, you're not,'" says Jacobs, who as a partner in a same-sex marriage has firsthand experience of the problem.
This cumbersome process applies to all married same-sex couples in the U.S. It comes courtesy of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which defines marriage as "a legal union between a man and a woman as husband and wife." The Obama Administration, saying DOMA is unconstitutional, has instructed federal agencies to do what they can under existing law to extend benefits to same-sex partnerships. Such rule-stretching doesn't go far with the IRS, says Brian Moulton, an attorney with the Human Rights Campaign, a Washington gay rights advocacy group. "There's a relatively small space before you bump up against DOMA," he says. "I don't think there's much they can do." The IRS declined to comment.
Businessweek: New York to open gay-marriage era as lottery winners celebrate
Filling out a "dummy" federal return can add $300 to $400 to a same-sex married couple's tax preparation bill, according to Larry Rubin, a partner at accounting firm Aronson in Rockville, Md. As a result of DOMA, gay couples must also pay income tax on a portion of employer-provided health insurance, which isn't taxable for heterosexual married couples.
The costliest potential consequence of the IRS's treatment of same-sex couples involves the estate tax. A heterosexual husband or wife generally can inherit any amount of money or property from his or her spouse without paying tax. A same-sex spouse inheriting a large estate, by contrast, can face a tax bill of as much as 35 percent on anything above $5 million. That situation spurred a New York widow, Edith Windsor, to sue the government last November seeking to get the IRS to return $363,000 in taxes on an inheritance from her spouse, Thea Spyer. Windsor is working with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and other lawmakers to repeal DOMA. "It's a matter of fundamental fairness," says Rose Saxe, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, which is helping represent Windsor. "The government shouldn't be excluding one group of married couples from these important protections."
The bottom line: Even where they can marry, gays face disadvantages such as higher estate taxes and tax-prep fees $300-$400 more than straight couples.
Businessweek: Gay marriage in New York
Businessweek: When the IRS makes a refund mistake