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Busted: 9 Economy Myths
|The measure of a healthy economy is a growing GDP.
|A healthy economy meets real needs within ecological limits.
|All you need is money.
|You can't eat money. What we need is healthy families, communities, and ecosystems.
|Booms and busts are inevitable in a modern economy.
|The boom/bust cycle is a result of letting banks create money.
We usually think of money as neutral—it allows buyers and sellers to make deals, and that's good. But it's not neutral when we give private banks the right to create money that we taxpayers have to borrow. It gets worse when banks get entangled in exotic speculation, creating trillions of electronic dollars that inflate financial bubbles. Then—because the paper wealth is disconnected from the real economy—the bubble pops, and finances crash. The banks don't know how to untangle the mess, and they stop making loans. Even when things are going well, there's this little problem about interest-based money—it concentrates more and more wealth in the hands of those lending it at the expense of your average home buyer, credit card holder, or tuition-paying college student. In the new economy, there are better ways to get money circulating.
Money from Nothing :: How Banks Create Money Out of Thin Air :: Dollars with Good Sense: Local Currencies
|Wall Street is the engine that powers our economy.
|Most real economic activity is local.
|Corporate banks are too big to fail. We need them to keep our economy going.
|Small, responsible banks and credit unions build real wealth in our communities.
|The smart investor insists on high returns.
|Slow community investments pay back in dollars and quality of life.
Finance begins with a simple idea—individuals or groups sell shares to investors or borrow money from banks, and use the funds to start businesses, buy land, or build houses, factories, or roads. Investors gain a stake in these ventures; if these companies are publicly traded, investors can buy and sell shares on stock exchanges. But as the small U.S. stock exchanges of the late 18th century grew into the vast institution that is now Wall Street, the relationship between trading and the real economy of goods and services fell apart. We've witnessed what happens when "owners" of businesses have no accountability for outcomes in the real world. Financiers are rewarded for generating short-term profit, even when the investments turn out to be phony or to cause harm. As mega-finance crumbles, many farsighted individuals are putting their money in enterprises and financial institutions that benefit working Americans and the places they live.
Small Banks, Radical Vision :: My Best Investments are Down the Street :: Put Your Money Where Your Life Is :: Tips for Community Investment
|Well-run businesses require a hierarchy of highly paid executives.
|Worker co-ops are efficient and democratic, and workers keep the profits.
|The freedom to do ecological damage improves the business climate.
|If we destroy the environment, there is no business … or climate.
|Large corporations are efficient, innovative, and create jobs.
|Locally rooted small- and medium-sized businesses create the jobs and innovations we need.
Do you want new jobs in your community? With layoffs and businesses closing, who doesn't? The standard formula is to offer big corporations subsidies and tax breaks. Throw in lax environmental and labor standards, and you may win the new-jobs sweepstakes—until another city offers a better deal. There's another way—build your economy from local assets. Worker co-ops, in particular, are enjoying a resurgence. The Mondragón cooperatives in Spain started up to provide jobs during an economic slump; today, they employ 100,000 worker/owners. In the South Bronx, a new green worker co-op is reselling salvaged building materials. In Cleveland, co-ops will soon be servicing the city's most stable employers—hospitals and colleges. These businesses employ the poor and keep jobs local. Many have a distinctly green tinge. Instead of flying off to distant shareholders, the profits go to the worker/owners who keep them circulating close to home.
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On Mary Oliver's Poetry
Oliver and The Romantic Tradition
Janet McNew
[McNews closely reasoned essay places Olivers poetry within the framework of the traditional romantic nature poetry paradigm, revealing striking differences in the relationship of the speaker to her subjects. Numerous examples from a number of poems over several volumes support her contrasts.]
Why, we might ask, is so much important contemporary criticism in the romantic tradition unable to appreciate the kind of nature poetry that Mary Oliver writes?
The areas of dispute for these distinguished critics of romantic poetry usually involve boundaries first, of course, between the self and nature, but also by extension between soul and body, consciousness and unconsciousness, subject and object, culture and nature, language and muteness, immortality and death, imaginative poet and immature child, transcendence and immanence. Hence, when we examine the archetypic situation of modern nature poetry we also recognize the interplay of these mythologically opposed pairs. Furthermore, all of these dichotomies have also been philosophically and mythically related to that most pervasive pair, masculine and feminine. The usual sexual dynamic in romantic nature poetry assumes, therefore, a speaking male subject who explores his relation to a mute and female nature. Finding an authentic place in this traditional pattern presents challenges for women poets
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What Oliver does in her most intense visionary poetry is not so much to defy patriarchal boundaries as to ignore their defining powers. The terms "soul" and "body," for example, do appear in her poetry, but her mischievous phrasing often confuses the expected dichotomy. [Two poems, "Pink Moon The Pond" and "Humpbacks" provide examples, from which it is concluded that: "In Olivers primitive world, physicality thus becomes the most visionary spirituality."]
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Intensely, sensuous bodily experience repr4sents for Oliver the human in the act of recovering a truth that we are creatures. Memory of lost childhood sensuality, "splendor in the grass," led Wordsworth to a very different truth. In his "Ode: On Intimations of Immortality," he demoted nature from mother to "homely nurse" because he wanted to claim a more diverse parentage, a patriarchal one with "God, who is our home." Few romantic poets, even those like Wordsworth who wrote to recover a closer relation to nature, finally see themselves as entirely natural creatures, for natural creatures die, and poets, as Wordsworths title indicates, must find an imaginative route to immortality. Oliver remains faithful to her attachment to nature. Instead of forsaking the natural for supernatural eternity, her poems follow the cycles of the seasons to image loss and the possibility for renewal. These vast natural cycles, which usually symbolize traps and prison houses for the romantic visionary, are strangely consoling for Oliver. Wedding her close to them holds her close to the deepest mysteries she knows, those of natural transformation.
Olivers visionary goal, then, involves constructing a subjectivity that does not depend on separation from a world of objects. Instead, she respectfully confers subjecthood on nature, thereby modeling a kind of identity that does not depend on opposition for definition.
At its most intense, her poetry aims to peer beneath the constructions of culture and reason that burden us with an alienated consciousness to celebrate the primitive, mystical visions that reveal "a mossy darkness / a dream that would never breathe air / and was hinged to your wildest joy like a shadow" (from Dream Work, p. 64), a dream of oneness with a maternal earth-womb.
From Janet McNew, "Mary Oliver and the Tradition of Romantic Nature Poetry," Contemporary Literature 30:1 (Spring 1989), 60, 68, 69, 70, 72, 75.
Oliver's Other
Vicki Graham
[Graham examines Olivers third collection, American Primitive, for poems in which Oliver imaginatively enters the perspective of an Other, often an animal. At the close of her essay, she offers comparisons with native American beliefs, and her concluding remarks may be aligned with those in the essay following hers by Robin Riley Fast.]
Olivers celebration of dissolution into the natural world troubles some critics: her poems flirt dangerously with romantic assumptions about the close association of women with nature that many theorists claim put the woman writer at risk. [Graham here inserts a footnote: "For a detailed discussion of the complex relationship between nature and language for women writers see Margaret Homanss Bearing the Word."] But for Oliver, immersion in nature is not death: language is not destroyed and the writer is not silenced. To merge with the non-human is to acknowledge the selfs mutability and multiplicity, not to lose subjectivity. But few feminists have wholeheartedly appreciated Olivers work, and though some critics have read her poems as revolutionary reconstructions of the female subject, others remain skeptical "that identification with natur4 can empower women" [a quote from Diane S. Bonds "The Language of Nature in the Poetry of Mary Oliver," Womens Studies 21:1 (1992), p. 1.]
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American Primitive ends with fulfillment; the blank space at the end of "The Gardens" implies that Oliver has lost herself in the "body of another." But this loss of self is never permanent. Oliver becomes, in turn, a bear, a whale, a fish, but, as each poem and each subsequent transformation suggests, she returns again to human consciousness and must repeat the process of becoming another over and over. Rooted in the binary oppositions that structure Western thinking, Oliver can never fully escape the teaching of her culture that the mind is divided from the body and identity depends on keeping intact the boundaries between the self an others. Each of the selves Oliver becomes in this collection is self-contained and separate. A bear, like a human, has its own boundaries and becoming bear as Oliver understands this process involves moving back and forth across the boundaries between herself and the bear rather than dissolving the boundaries themselves.
Olivers desire to become other through mimesis conflicts with a culturally instilled need to establish a single, unified self, but Oliver neither faces this problem head on nor articulates it clearly as another poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, does. Rilke, too, longs to get inside the body of another creature, to "let [himself] precisely into the dogs center, the point from which it begins to be a dog, the place in it where God, as it were, would have sat down for a moment when the dog was finished." But unlike Oliver, Rilke articulates the consequence of staying there: "For awhile you can endure being inside the dog; you just have to be alert and jump out in time, before its environment has completely enclosed you, since otherwise you would simply remain the dog in the dog and be lost for everything else." It is that "everything else" that Oliver does not want to be lost for. She cannot resign herself to being just "the dog in the dog" because this would mean she would never be a bear or a fish. Giving up human subjectivity would mean, at least as Oliver perceives it, giving up the ability to mime herself into the body of another. It would also mean giving up self-consciousness, knowing who and what she is, as well as the ability to remember and write about the experience. Olivers poems suggest that we need language and self-consciousness in order to experience stepping outside of language and the self.
From Vicki Graham, " Into the Body of Another: Mary Oliver and the Poetics of Becoming Other," Papers on Language and Literature 30:4 (Fall 1994), 352-353, 366-368
Oliver and Native American History
Robin Riley Fast
Mary Olivers poetry offers European-American readers a way of responding to Native Americans and the past we share with them that both acknowledges the history and the consequences of colonization and uses that knowledge to start moving beyond the limits of cultural bias and individual disaffection.
A strong sense of place, and of identity in relation to it, is central to her poetry. Her poems are firmly located in the places where she has lived or travelled, particularly her native Ohio and New England; her moments of transcendence arise organically from the realities of swamp, pond, woods and shore. The vital importance of native or adopted places, however, renders acute her discomfort about hoe her forebears came to be established in Ohio, and about how white Europeans in general established themselves on this continent by evicting the Indians for whom, too, a sense of self was (and is) fundamentally bound to place. Olivers confrontation with her historically rooted discomfort, and her imaginative rapprochement with Indian ways of being in nature, constitute the political grounding of the poems I will discuss here, and contribute to the intensity of many others where politics is not directly evident but where she seeks a holistic relationship to the world. Her treatment of Indians differs significantly from those of such major white male contemporaries and twentieth-century predecessors as Jerome Rothenberg, William Carlos Williams, and Gary Snyder; her poetry, like theirs, raises questions about the meanings of whites literary response to Native experience and culture.
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Olivers poems raise questions that strangely echo those she asked so angrily in "Tecumseh": "Where are the Shawnee now? / Do you know?" Why are her living Indians old? Did she stop on the Wind River Reservation or see any Indian people? Do her poems in some sense buy into the myth of the Noble Savage after all? Or is her treatment of Native Americans appropriately tentative and non-presumptuous? As Olivers poems generally do not concern human relationships other than the most intimate ones, it is fairly easy, and I think justifiable, to answer "yes" to the last question, let this writer of wonderfully moving and illuminating poetry off the hook, and avoid falling into the ranks of those who demand the right kind of politics of the writer. Nonetheless, such questions remain important, if perhaps unanswerable, for readers inclined to scrutinize the grounds of their own responses to literature and to the worlds that it opens to us. And they are the kinds of questions that we all need to ask, as we come to terms with the plural realities of American literature and culture.
from Robin Riley Fast, "The Native American Presence in Mary Olivers Poetry," Kentucky Review 12:1/2 (autumn 1993), 59; 65-66.
The Human and the Nonhuman
John Elder
[In a second, expanded edition of his 1985 Imagining the Earth, Elder included a final chapter in which he appreciated Oliver's ability to conceive natural events that she could transfer into textual experiences. But see, below, Dana Phillips's contrary response.]
… Some of Oliver's poems proceed from description to a more meditative mode, while in others a declarative or questioning voice may burst out for a line or two right in the middle. But regardless of their sequence, almost all of them manifest a dual impulse, at once to acknowledge the intricate, dynamic realities of nonhuman life and to convey the intense meaning of those realities for one who regards them long and clearly.
"Spring" expresses Oliver's dual impulse in its most condensed and direct form. … [In that work] Oliver injects, as a separate sentence that links the end of stanza four with the beginning of stanza five, "There is only one question: / how to love this world." ….
[T]his question seems to represent two main challenges for the poet. One is to register this world, to make room within human consciousness for as many of nature's specifics as possible. In this respect, Oliver's art resembles that of Annie Dillard in "The Present," where she attempts, if only for a moment, to register the manifold life in that particular patch of earth on which she sits. …
[Elder offers examples to suggest that Oliver often resembles Thoreau in his effort to "break through abstraction and convention so tat he might discern the individuality within nature."]
Such specificity recalls, as well, the haiku tradition with which both the Thoreauvian genre of prose nature writing and contemporary American poetry have strong connections. Like the haiku poet Basho, Oliver pursues the deepest significance of the seasons. But, also like him, she brings the broad contours of nature into focus through pointed particulars. The connection may be illustrated by juxtaposing her lines "It is January, and there are the crows / like black flowers on the snow" [House of Light (Boston: Beacon Press, 1990), p. 75) with his haiku "A barren branch / on which a crow alights / – it is autumn" (translation [Elder]).
A second dimension of Oliver's central question is expressed in her poem "Turtte." [Elder quotes lines in which a snapping turtle abruptly devours one of the brood of young led by a teal across a pond.]. …. Taking in the particulars of nature presents an emotional as well as a cognitive challenge. There is no place for sentimental love or simple affirmation in a world like ours, where a predatory snapper cruises the lake. … Oliver is drawn to such moments not simply because of a desire to present the whole picture honestly, but also because in the predators' single-mindedness she recognizes a special purity of concentration and intention. … [T[he snapper is part of nature, not a violation of it – no matter if seeing it at work does bring a shiver to the soft flesh and tender feeling of the human observer. But Oliver's achievement in House of Light is more than simply emphasizing the lurker in the depths, or the continuum of decay through which a field of lilies bloom. The ecology o her poems represents her own emotions and ideas as fully integral with nature. …She understands the reality of life through an eosystem and so registers this reality as a psychological and emotional fact.
From John Elder, "Renewing the Question," Chapter Ten in Imagining the Earth: Poetry and the Vision of Nature, second edition, expanded (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), pp 218-221.
Sociopolitcs Deferred
Sue Russell
Until 1993, the sexual preference of poet Mary Oliver was a trade secret, albeit not a very well-kept one. If appearance in gay and lesbian anthologies is the main way readers find out such things, Oliver wasnt giving any clues. Winning the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive in 1982 broadened her readership but did not bring this respected poet out of the closet. The timing must have been right when Oliver was announced as the winner of the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems in 1992. Perjaps spurred by "out and proud" winner Paul Monette (nonfiction, Borrowed Time) and Dorothy Allison (fiction, Bastard Out of Carolina), according to an unnamed Lambda Book Report staffer, Oliver took the stage at the award ceremony and thanked both the Democrats and "the light of my life, Molly Malone Cook," the woman to whom she dedicates her books.
Readers searching eagerly on the basis of this new information for lesbian content in Olivers work may come away disappointed. And yet, her personal aesthetic clearly aligns her with a lesbian literary tradition. Rhythmically, her poems adjust themselves to the pace of the poet-observer as she makes her way through forests, across meadows, and along the shore in her native habitat on the Atlantic coast. Her deeply held belief in the eternal ebb and flow of the universe may in fact contribute to Olivers stubborn refusal to align herself with any one sociopolitical position.
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Mary Oliver will never be a balladeer of contemporary lesbian life in the vein of Marilyn Hacker, or an important political thinker like Adrienne Rich; but the fact that she chooses not to write from a similar political or narrative stance makes her all the more valuable to our collective culture. Poets who choose indirection as a strategy do so, at least in part, because that is what poetry means to them as a form of expression that can transcend its historical context. We owe them the favor of giving their work our fullest attention, no matter what shelf we find it on.
From Sue Russell, "Mary Oliver: The Poet and the Persona," The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 4:4 (Fall 1997), 21, 22.
A Career Overview
Annette Allen
The power of Oliver's highly acclaimed poetry rests in its passionate attention to the natural world which she sees as the source of revelation about ultimate things. Like her romantic predecessors, Oliver locates wisdom in the wilderness she seeks in solitude, where discoveries about the self and nature's otherness can be made. Her poems of thirty years and her recent prose collection, Blue Pastures (1995), reveal an art driven by visionary conviction in a manner similar to her claimed influences, William Blake and Walt Whitman. Expressed in simple language and familiar imagery, evoking dark and joyous states, this vision of nature is often conveyed in an ecstatic voice that compels. Celebratory and spiritual in her poetic vision, Oliver is one of America 's finest nature poets. . . .
Her first collection, No Voyage and Other Poems (1963), is rooted in a mythical sense of the land and exhibits simplicity and a fine mastery of form, though some critics found the poems mannered. Like Robert Frost, her plain language and conventional forms could mask attention to an uncommon vision of nature's forces. The poems in The River Styx, Ohio and Other Poems (1972) call up an Ohio heritage and reclaim it through memory and myth, while her chapbooks, Night Traveler (1978) and Sleeping in the Forest (1978), develop the mythic dimension more fully, using themes of dreams, birth, and death. Oliver charts a course in the twenty-six poems of Night Traveler between two worlds, human and natural, where the individual faces loneliness and yearns to transcend the limited human world. In "Winter Sleep," the speaker voices her affinity with the she-bear who is the night traveler of the book's title and whose image, closely identified with the poet, reappears in later work. This desire to merge with nature's kingdom opens Oliver's fourth collection, Twelve Moons (1979), in its first poem, "Sleeping in the Forest," a poem where the poet vanishes over and over into the earth. Crafted thematically, Twelve Moons presents a wholistic vision of natural cycles, balancing these processes, as she does eloquently in the twelve moon poems, with what exists in human experience.
Heralded for its perceptions of the visible world and the lyric intensity of Oliver's voice, American Primitive (1983), like no other collection before it, celebrates union with the natural world, immersion in wood and swamp, and becoming other: bear, owl, or whale. For Oliver, the desire to become another begins with longing that originates in the body, but the mind presents an opposing impulse and attempts to bring the body to self-consciousness. "Blossom" and "The Plum Tree" capture this battle between body and mind in a series of oppositions, and while the poems have an edge of didacticism, the sensuous images triumph. In "Crossing the Swamp" and "August," the speakers in the poems merge easily with the other; in the former, she becomes the swamp, her body sprouting branches from the swamp's life force; in "August," she is the bear, more animal than human. Through Oliver's repeating verbs of desire, American Primitive, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, sings its belief that fusion with nature or merging with the non-human releases the self's multiplicity, fluidity, and ultimate joy.
Widening her vision in Dream Work (1986), Oliver expands her subject matter in an increasingly fluid voice, touching on music and the intimate lives of others in "Consequences," "Robert Schumann," and, in the tribute to her mentor, "Stanley Kunitz." This expansion continues in House of Light (1990) with "Singapore" and "lch Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen," a poem about Mahler on his birthday. As before, the ever-present theme, expressed primarily in poems of four or five line stanzas, is still the sensuous world. Spiritual and prophetic, the poems raise philosophical questions, and in revelatory moments, such as the conclusion of "Wild Geese," they signal the importance of the imagination.
In Oliver's oeuvre, New and Selected Poems (1992), which is structured in reverse chronological order, a prevailing idiom of wonder and awe reigns. Most of the poems bear the unique stamp of an Oliver poem: the solitary speaker bringing her uneasy, questioning spirit to the woods or fields in search of understanding, instruction, even solace. The stylistic hallmarks of conversational tone, plain diction, and momentous endings, which frequent Oliver's past collections, appear in the new poems as well. These poems have their strength, however, in the theme of imagined death, which is the final wedding of human and natural for the poet. Death recurs in the thirty new poems in various manifestations: in the bold images of . "When Death Comes," a poem about the poet's own death; in poignant and urgent lines about the lushness of peonies before death; and stoically in the isolating, falling snow of "Lonely, White Fields."
The companion prose works, A Poetry Handbook (1994) and Blue Pastures (1995), collectively offer Oliver's wisdom about the craft of writing, including the analysis of exemplary poems, and reflection on the necessity of solitude and mystery for a writer's life. Chapters on sound, the line, imagery, tone, and form in A Poetry Handbook serve as Oliver's concise, experienced guide to writing poetry. The observational powers that enrich Oliver's poetry surface in the form of soliloquies in Blue Pastures, providing insight to Oliver's childhood, her poetics and philosophy of nature. She meditates on Whitman as the brother she never had, on the merciless homed owl in its flight, and on language as a door past the self. Her brilliant, empathetic essay on the complex love affair between Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon provokes the larger human question; how can we know another's life? This collection, transcendent like her best poems, confirms Oliver's talent for prose writing, which she began in White Pine (1994), a collection of poems and prose poems looser in structure and, according to several critics, somewhat given to commonplace adjectives and adverbs.
The evocative forty pieces of White Pine continue the intense appeal to nature's otherness in poems such as "Toad," where the creature's unknowing grace contrasts with the knowing, conscious language spoken above him. In all of Oliver's poetry, the otherness of the natural world and her longing to merge with it coexist with doubt about the value of human consciousness from which the language she uses, springs. Oliver struggles with her doubts and desires in the theater of the poem, creating a world of flora and beasts transformed in their greenery and creatureliness by language. . . .
from Encylopedia of American Literature. Steven R. Serafin, General Editor. Copyright � 1999 by the Continuum Publishing Company.
Ecocritical Theories
Dana Phillips
[Phillips project is critical and revisionary: an attempt "to rediscover, to complicate, and hence to redefine ecocriticism, which despite the relative newness of the field, or perhaps precisely because of it, some creaky old traditions have found refuge" (p. ix). The fourth chapter addresses critics who have rejected theory as "needlessly, pointlessly abstract, and therefore less than vital to the everyday practice of scholarship … as a justification of a return to the critic's traditional task of providing appreciative commentary on works of insight and genius, with a little moral guidance thrown in on the side" (p. 135) .]
Elder fails to recognize that ecology, like other sciences, is reductive, even if it refuses to be reductive in the same way and to the same degree that physics and microbiology are. …Elder's assumption of ecological and cultural wholeness has as its corollary the assumption that poets must concern themselves with wholeness above all else. …Regrettably, Elder seems to intend the comparison between the poem and the ecosystem, and between poetry and ecology, in its more ethically and "ontologically committed" form, which is why I think it is important to point out the shortcomings in his ideas about both poetry and ecosystems. …Poetry is not a manifestation of landscape and climate, or of anything else, for that matter, apart from the conscious decisions and unconscious motivations of poets, and the structural and aesthetic effects of genres and languages in which they write. …
Elder's attempts to view literary and ecological values in the same light and in the same terms often bear strange fruit. Consider his reading of Mary Oliver in which the aesthetic supplants the ecological in a way that obscures the difference between the imagined and the actual words. "The ecology of her poem presents her own emotions and ideas as fully integral to nature." … He continues: "In describing Oliver's imagination as ecological, I mean not to make a broad gesture toward her 'environmental' imagination but rather to describe a specific, and crucial, element in such poems as 'Turtle.' She understands the recycling of life through an ecosystem and also registers this reality as a psychological and emotional fact" [Imagining the Earth, second edition, p.221; also see above, Elder]. Elder suggests that Oliver's imagination is religious; he means both that it is taken up with a consideration of such matters of ultimate concern as life and death, and that Oliver as uncanny powers of insight and understanding. … Elder treats the details of natural history as if they can be rounded off and up, and metaphorically recast by poets in emotionally suggestive terms, without a loss of the specifically ecological meanings that he claims to discover in poem after poem. Thus the movement of nutrients through an ecosystem becomes the '"recycling of life," which suggests incarnation and overlooks the fact that while nutrients may be essential to the maintenance of a life, they cannot be said to have lives of their own.
Elder's eagerness to see poetry in ecological terms leads him to champion what amounts to a sort of hyperrealism. He describes a passage from Oliver's poem "In Blackwater Woods " as an "instance of aural transcription" because it contains a list of the birds that a mockingbird is supposed to have imitated as Oliver listened to it one morning. The list includes the linnet, an Old World finch, which suggests that Oliver's mockingbird has a remarkably cosmopolitan repertoire of imitations. It must have learned to be a mockingbird not by knocking around among its aviary friends and neighbors, and not by obeying its instincts as a mimic thrush, but by listening to Berlitz tapes.
… When Elder insists that the mockingbird can be transcribed into Standard English, and not just translated, he treats the semantic and the sensual, or sense-making and sensory experience, as if they operated on the same plane and in the same instance. He posits an ecstatic and "poetic" version of the realism that some ecocritics have wanted to see as the saving grace of nature writing in prose. For the ecstatic and "poetic" realist, verbal descriptions can represent the natural world accurately by virtue of the fact that in skilled hands they reproduce its sensual features with absolute fidelity. Because this variety of realism does not recognize the difference between the world as represented verbally and the world as experienced sensually. And this is the sort of earth that ecocriticism should treat with all the circumspection it can muster.
from Dana Phillips, "Art for Earth's Sake," Chapter Ten in The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 155-156, 158-159.
Oliver and the Spiritual
John Gatta
[Gatta's book-length study examines literature and religion in relation to the environment in American writing from the Puritans to the present. His comments on Oliver place her alongside Gary Snyder , Wendell Berry, and Pattian Rogers in a final chapter that associates the "religious" in contemporary ecopoetry with an open-ended love that is especially inclusive toward that which is unloveable; this work indicates "a resurgent, unexpectedly resilient strain of spirituality in contemporary American poetry (p. 226)]
A novel feature of this ecological spirituality is its emphasis on reciprocal restoration. … As Mary Oliver puts it, "the pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves – we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other's destiny" [from Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999, p. 101.)]
While ecopoetic meditation characteristically aims to integrate interiority with landscape by way of imagination, its outward focus differs from one writer to another. … Mary Oliver's reflections ix most memorably on predators – hawk, bear and snapping turtle – commonly found in the Northeast. Ordinarily, too, Oliver prefers to concentrate attention by setting these images of non-human life within the frame of unpeopled landscapes.
While campaigns for environmental reform often appeal to humankind's sense of duty or fear of self-destruction, the poets we are considering typically invoke love. Mary Oliver, in her poem "Spring," announces the theme quite overtly when she describes a black bear's emergence from hibernation. Identifying the bear's own silent, primal and sensuous awakening as "perfect love," the poet declares: "There is only one question: / how to love this world." What does she mean? Is this love of earth anything but sentimental enthusiasm?
For Oliver, [Gary] Snyder, and the rest, earth-love seems to involve, in the first place, familiarity with one's environment, attentiveness to its biotic and topographical details. Oliver's black bear, whose moving fists and tongue connect her unself-consciously to the waking world, is evidently at home in the place where she finds herself. … [Oliver] knows she will never become identical to that black bear in "Spring" whose aboriginally sensate, direct communion with her environment the poet dreams of emulating. Simply imagining the experience of this animal, which the poet never claims to observe directly, ties her spiritually to the "dazzling darkness" of her own animal origins. [Mary Oliver, "Speing," New and Selected Poems (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992), p. 70]. …
Another form of earth-love involves the poet's struggle to accept natural processes that seem cruel or absurdly profligate from the standpoint of humanistic values. In "Turtle" Mary Oliver displays compassion for the predator no less than for its prey. … In "Nature" she celebrates the owl's wild instinct of hunting by night, finding in this bloody ritual a "true gift" and inevitability of nature "which is the reason / we love it." The poem's unrelenting cadences and lack of end-stopped lines reinforce this theme. And though the poet is troubled at first by the imperfection of nibbled lilies that crowd the black waters of summer in "The Ponds," she finally asserts her will to believe in the transcendent prospect of floating "a little / above this difficult world." To love the world is to look beyond imperfection to an affirmation that she is indeed "looking / into the white fire of a great mystery." [Mary Oliver, "Nature" and "The Ponds" in New and Selected Poems (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992, pp. 90, 93.]
From John Gatta, "Learning to Love Creation: The Religious Tenor of Contemporary Ecopoetry," Chapter Ten in Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present (New York :Oxford University Press, 2004), pp.: 226-227, 227-228, 234-26.
Oliver and the Philosophical Tradition
J. Scott Bryson
[Bryson situates ecopoetic themes in Oliver (and in Wendell Berry, Joy Harjo and W. S. Merwin) to align them with worlds constructed spatially and temporally by philosophers and theorists.]
… Oliver's poetry proceeds out of a phenomenological worldview centered in the body's fundamental relatedness to the rest of nature. As such, it rests on a place-centered poetics that allows her momentarily to enter the consciousness of her natural subjects. As a result of her awareness of this bodily collection, Oliver frequently and intentionally employs the pathetic fallacy. But she does so in a highly self-conscious manner that signifies her awareness of her inability actually to speak for nature, since she is merely "the imaginer." Thus her poetics are space-centered as well. In other words, Oliver response to the dualistic crisis proceeds out of a deep desire to play the role of related participant in the world she observes; however, with this ever-preset awareness that real connection between herself and the rest of the world most often takes place as only an act of the imagination.
… Poet Vicki Graham explains that ''over and over the speaker of Oliver's poems reminds herself to look, to touch, to see, and to smell. Only by yielding to her senses can she get close to the 'real'" [the quote is from Vicki Graham, " 'Into the Body of Another': Mary Oliver and the Poetics of Becoming Other," Papers on Language and Literature 30:4 (Fall 1994), 355; also see, Graham above]. In both of her recent prose handbooks on poetry, Oliver discusses this idea, spelling out her understanding of the relationship between nature and the body and sounding a great deal like Merleau-Ponty:
We experience the physical world around us through our five senses. Through our imagination and our intelligence, we recall, organize, conceptualize, and meditate. What we meditate upon is never shapeless or filled with alien emotion – it is filled with all the precisely earthly things that we have ever encountered and all of our responses to them. The task of the meditation is to put disorder into order. No one would need to think, without the initial profusion of perceptual experience [Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook, (Orlando: Harcout Brace, 1994), p. 105].
As Oliver proceeds from this phenomenological assertion, she explains that poetry evolves directly out of the relationship between nature and the body:
The natural world has always been the great warehouse of symbolic imagery. Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering – I mean remembering words – what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears ad desire of our inner lives. [Poetry Handbook, p. 106].
… For [Yi-Fu] Tuan, place, along with culture, offers a feeling of connection to the world ad thus the means to "forget our separateness and the world's indifference" [Yi-Fu Tuan and Gretchen Holstein Schaff, Two Essays on a Sense of Place (Madison: Wisconsin Humanities Committee, 1988),p. 44], but it does so only through decision, in that no matter how strongly we feel related to an other, that feeling is, to a significant extent, illusory. So for Tuan, the only reasonable response to the modern crisis is to "acknowledge the reality of 'islanded' selves and the world's indifference, peer 'beyond' the carapaces of place ad culture in all their myriad enthralling forms, and by thus putting a slight distance between us and what we create, recognize not only their necessity and power to delude but also their goodness and beauty" [Two Essays, pp. 44-45]. Tuan advocates that we accept modern alienation as fact; that we recognize the delusional nature of place and culture; and that we acknowledge both the "necessity and power" and the "goodness and beauty" of the delusions in helping us to deal with the perceived rift between people and nature.
The response Tuan endorses mirrors that of Oliver, whose work at its best weaves in and out among several philosophical perspectives. Unlike many traditional nature poets, she embraces the fact that the world is indifferent, and that in many ways, primarily as a consequence of her human logic and rationality, hers is an "islanded" self. Yet at the same time she realizes that the material and biological essence of her body serves as a significant point of relation between herself and the Others surrounding her. This awareness of relatedness leads to place-making, as Oliver uses her personifying poetry to enter the world of the nonhuman subjects around her; she also invites them to enter her own, thus imagining a place-full world that serves as home for human and nonhumans alike. Yet she tempers attempts at connection with a space-conscious awareness of her essential ability to achieve either goal; the chasm between herself and nonhuman nature is so wide.
From J. Scott Bryson, "Both Sides of the Beautiful Water: Mary Oliver," Chapter Four in The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space and Ecopoetry (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005), pp. 78, 85-86, and 96.
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This file removed from Mayor's files 1952, Record Series 60.2
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Includes: Preliminary Report of the Public Buildings Commission. 1953. 1 June 1953; Center-City Office Space Requirements for City and County Governmental Agencies. Prepared by Governmental Consulting Service, Institute of Local and State Government. 1 June 1953; Summary of Report by Public Buildings Commission, 23 June 1953; Report of Space Survey and Recommendations by The Public Buildings Commission, City of Philadelphia, August 1953. These reports present a discussion of the nature of the space problem facing City and County agencies, the alternatives considered, the Commission's recommendations, and many supporting graphs, charts and tables illustrating and analyzing the office space at the time, utilization of office space in 1903, and projected requirements of the year 2003.
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Hubble Space Telescope Completes Eighth Year Of Exploration
In honor of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's eighth anniversary, we have gift-wrapped Saturn in vivid colors. Actually, this image is courtesy of Hubble's infrared camera, which has taken its first peek at Saturn.
This view provides detailed information on the clouds and hazes in Saturn's atmosphere. The blue colors indicate a clear atmosphere down to the main cloud layer. Most of the Northern Hemisphere that is visible above the rings is relatively clear. The dark region around the South Pole indicates a big hole in the main cloud layer. The green and yellow colors indicate a haze above the main cloud layer. The red and orange colors indicate clouds reaching up high into the atmosphere. The rings, made up of chunks of ice, are as white as images taken in visible light.
An Infrared View of Saturn
Infant galaxies, distant quasars, exploding stars, mysterious black holes, colliding galaxies. Since its launch on April 24, 1990, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a stunning view of our universe by making unique discoveries and capturing spectacular images.
To celebrate Hubble's eighth anniversary, we have "gift wrapped" Saturn in a colorful image taken by the telescope's new infrared camera. We also have assembled a gallery of the telescope's most compelling images and have prepared a summary of its top scientific accomplishments.
In its eight years of space exploration, the 12.5-ton orbiting observatory has set many milestones. Here are some of them.
The Life Story of Galaxies
Astronomers have used Hubble to look back more than 10 billion years at infant galaxies, some of which date to nearly the beginning of the universe. What they found was astonishing: a bewildering assortment of about 2,000 galaxies at various stages of evolution.
This deepest, most detailed optical view of the universe is called the Hubble Deep Field. For 10 consecutive days in 1995, the telescope was pointed at a keyhole-sized piece of sky. Most of the galaxies the telescope uncovered are so faint (about 4 billion times fainter than can be seen by the human eye) that they have never been seen by even the largest telescopes. This observation has enabled astronomers to actually see the shapes of galaxies in the distant past. Astronomers have continued to analyze the Hubble Deep Field images to trace the evolution of stars and galaxies.
This analysis has led to intriguing evidence that the Big Bang may have been followed by a stellar "baby boom." The early universe may have had an active, dynamic youth where stars formed out of dust and gas at a ferocious rate. Consequently, most of the stars the universe will ever make may have already been formed, and the universe now contains largely "mid-life" stars.
How Old is the Universe?
For decades, astronomers have debated this question. Hubble is helping them determine the answer by studying distant supernovae and pulsating stars.
Peering halfway across the universe to analyze light from exploded stars that died long before the Sun was born, Hubble's crisp vision has allowed astronomers to determine that the universe and all its objects may have not slowed down since their creation and may continue to balloon outward. Based on preliminary observations of several distant supernovae - one of which erupted 7.7 billion years ago - the cosmos is not packed with enough material to halt its infinite expansion. If these early conclusions are true, then the universe could be 15 billion years old.
Other teams of astronomers are using different techniques to calculate the universe's age. They are using Hubble to accurately measure the distances to galaxies, an important prerequisite for calculating age. Hubble is measuring distances to neighboring galaxies by finding reliable "milepost markers," a special class of pulsating star called Cepheid variables. These, in turn, are being used to calibrate more remote milepost markers. By figuring out these distances, astronomers can determine the rate at which the universe is expanding, called the Hubble constant, and ultimately its age.
Quasars Live in a Variety of Homes
Most quasars aren't choosy about where they live. Hubble's sharp vision has shown that most quasars lie at the cores of bright distant galaxies, both spiral and elliptical.
Quasars are compact powerhouses of light that reside largely at the outer reaches of the universe. They are not much bigger than Earth's solar system but pour out 100 to 1,000 times as much light as an entire galaxy of 100 billion stars. Most astronomers believe that massive black holes power quasars. As a black hole gobbles up stars, gas, and dust, heat is generated, and intense radiation is emitted. But a black hole needs enough food to "turn on" a quasar. Hubble data have shown that collisions or near encounters between galaxies may provide enough stellar material to make most quasars shine.
The Universe's Biggest Blasts
Astronomers have long pondered the origins of one of the universe's greatest enigmas, periodic bursts of gamma-rays in deep space. Hubble has made an important contribution toward solving the source and nature of these fireballs, nature's most powerful explosions. The telescope has allowed astronomers to follow the fading visible-light counterpart of an invisible gamma ray burst, a cooling fireball associated with one of these massive outbursts.
After monitoring the visible afterglow that follows the gamma-ray explosion, Hubble's sensitive instruments have given astronomers some important information by pinpointing some gamma-ray bursts to faraway galaxies.
Hunting for Black Holes
Massive black holes cannot be seen because they are so dense and compact that nothing, not even light, escapes from their gravitational clutches. But black holes do leave a swirling trail of clues: a whirlpool-like stew of gas, dust, and stars orbiting them, like soap and water spiraling around a bathtub drain.
Hubble has provided convincing evidence of the existence of these powerhouses by measuring the speed of gas and stars in the cores of galaxies, where black holes reside. Hubble's efficient black hole hunter, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), has measured the increasing speed of a disk of gas orbiting a black hole in M84, located 50 million light-years away in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. The gas is swirling around the unseen black hole at 880,000 mph. Astronomers have calculated that the black hole contains at least 300 million solar masses.
Massive black holes such as the one in M84 apparently are a dime a dozen. The telescope helped prove that massive black holes are so common that nearly every large galaxy has one.
Galactic Smashup Creates Stellar Fireworks Show
Hubble images of a head-on wreck between two spiral galaxies have furnished astronomers with some surprising information about the birth of stars and star clusters.
The telescope uncovered more than 1,000 bright young star clusters bursting to life in a brief, intense "fireworks show" at the heart of the Antennae galaxies, the nearest and youngest example of a pair of colliding galaxies. (Antennae is so named because a pair of long tails of bright matter formed by the collision resembles an insect's antennae.) The images of so many young globular star clusters in the Antennae suggest, for example, that they are not necessarily relics of the earliest generations of stars formed in a galaxy, as was once commonly thought, but may be the fossils of more recent collisions.
The Hubble images also are helping astronomers understand how globular star clusters formed from giant hydrogen clouds in space. The ages of the resulting clusters provide a clock for estimating the age of a collision. By knowing when the galaxies collided, astronomers can assemble a chronological sequence of how colliding galaxies evolve, which may then explain why some galaxies become spirals, and others, ellipticals.
Caution: Cosmic Nursery
Hubble images have provided a dramatically clear look at the birth of stars, and how planets may form from the dust and gas around them.
Hubble has revealed pancake-shaped disks of dust and gas swirling around and feeding embryonic stars. These disks, dubbed protoplanetary disks, contain the raw material for planet formation.
Hubble images also show new details of blowtorch-like jets of hot gas streaming from deep within the disks. Jets are an "exhaust product" of star formation.
Going Out with a Bang
Hubble has provided ringside seats to the violence of star death, from the titanic blast of a supernova explosion to the fireworks displays produced from the demise of ordinary stars like our Sun.
Hubble has followed the expanding wave of material from the explosion of supernova 1987A. The massive star's self-destruction was first seen nearly 11 years ago by astronomers using ground-based telescopes. Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) have shown that debris from the supernova blast is slamming into a ring of material around the dying star. The collision has illuminated part of the ring, which was formed before the star exploded. The crash has allowed scientists to probe the structure around the supernova and uncover new clues about the final years of the progenitor star.
Although the final outbursts of ordinary stars are not as powerful as supernova explosions, they do create quite a stellar light show. Their colors and shapes look like works of art: reds, greens, yellows on canvases shaped like hourglasses, pinwheels, and goblets. Hubble images reveal very fine structural details of these dying stars, called planetary nebulae. The images show lawn-sprinkler style jets of gas ejected from the burned out star, material resembling exhaust from a rocket engine, bubbles of glowing gas, and shells of gas that have been flung into space.
By studying the stunning Hubble images of planetary nebulae, astronomers hope to better understand the processes that shape dying stars.
A Unique View Of Our Cosmic Back Yard
A comet smashup on Jupiter, the mottled surface of Pluto, a mammoth crater on the asteroid Vesta, and new moons orbiting Saturn. These are just some of the important events and discoveries recorded in our solar system by Hubble.
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Rains Lessen Dakotas' Drought Conditions
(NPN) -- Recent rains have helped drought conditions in the Dakotas, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
In the Dakotas, rainfall helped drought conditions by upgrading an area of severe drought (D2) in northeastern South Dakota to moderate drought (D1) and upgrading D1 conditions in the eastern third of North Dakota to abnormally dry (D0). Also, an area of D0 was eliminated in the southeastern corner of North Dakota.
In other areas of the plains states (Dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas), according to the monitor.
Rainfall in Colorado tapered off this week, but widespread rainfall in the eastern Dakotas, central Nebraska, and northwestern Kansas helped improve conditions in those areas.
In the plains region as a whole, area of moderate drought (D1) or worse conditions improved by another 6 percent this week, to total 43.21 percent. A 5 percent improvement in area of severe drought (D2) occurred this week as well. As with last week, 0.30 percent of the Region still remains in exceptional drought (D4).
Wyoming had major improvements this week. A large area of extreme drought (D3) was upgraded to D2 in the southwestern portions of the state. Now only 2.85 percent of the state remains in a D3 condition.
In central Wyoming, a majority of the area was upgraded one-category eliminating drought conditions and leaving the area in an abnormally dry (D0) condition.
In Colorado, an area of D2 was upgraded this week to D1 in the northwestern corner of the state. In the northeastern corner of the state D0 conditions were eliminated and D1 conditions were upgraded to D0. The only area of exceptional drought (D4) in the Region still remains in the southeastern corner.
Western Kansas also has improvements this week. The areas of D3 were upgraded one-category and only total about 4 percent of the state. This is a major upgrade from just a month ago when on Sept. 3, 30.55 percent of the state was in D3 conditions.
In Nebraska, the panhandle continues to see improvements. Some D0 was eliminated and a small portion of D1 was trimmed back. In south-central Nebraska an area of D3 was upgraded to D2 and now only 6.6 percent of the state remains in D3. In north-central Nebraska a large area of D2 was upgrade to D1.
The U.S. Drought Monitor is produced by the High Plains Climate Research Center in Lincoln, Neb.


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On Sunday, the House passed Bill 178, Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Labour Dispute Resolution Act, 2017. This Bill ended a 5 week labour dispute and got 500,000 college students back to the classrooms –where they belong. The government sought quicker passage of Bill 178, but was blocked by the NDP at every opportunity. The NDP also voted against the legislation on both second and third reading.
On Tuesday, the House voted down its fourth Opposition Day motion. This motion, tabled by the PCs was critical of the government's imports and exports of electricity. From 2013 to 2016 electricity exports provided $1 billion of savings to ratepayers.
On Wednesday, the House passed Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017. Bill 148 will raise the minimum wage to $14 an hour on January 1, 2018 and $15 an hour on January 1, 2019. The Bill also includes provisions ensuring equal pay for equal work and establishes leave for victims of domestic and sexual violence. The PCs voted against the third reading of Bill 148.
On Thursday, the House passed second reading of Bill 174, Cannabis, Smoke-Free Ontario and Road Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017. The Bill has been referred to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy. Anyone interested in speaking to the Bill should contact Clerk Christopher Tyrell by tel: 416-325-3883 or email: email@example.com.
Bill 179, Flood Avoidance, Insurance and Recovery Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017, sponsored by NDP MPP Taras Natyshak passed second reading unanimously in the House. The Bill would, if passed, provide greater protections against flooding events and assistance for flooding victims.
Bill 173, Reducing Waste One Pod at a Time Act, 2017, sponsored by PC MPP Norm Miller also passed second reading unanimously in the House. The Bill would, if passed, prohibit the sale of single use beverage pods unless they are fully compostable.
Bill 153, Organic Products Act, 2017 sponsored by NDP MPP Peter Tabuns and PC MPP Sylvia Jones also passed unanimously in the House. The Bill would, if passed, prohibit the marketing and labelling of products as "organic" unless they have been certified as organic in accordance with the Act.
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DR. HOOK- Hairy, barren, fat: PCOS makes life miserable
I recently received a heart-breaking letter from a woman with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (POCS). The classic signs are hirsuitism (hairy face and body), but male pattern baldness, acne, irregular menstrual cycles, and sometimes infertility can also present.
"Before I found out I had PCOS I felt so alone and depressed," says the Waynesboro correspondent. "I didn't know anyone else who had these problems, and being a 'fat circus freak' was scary and frightening for a young woman in a society so obsessed with physical appearances."
She says that a doctor took one look at her and blurted, "What's wrong with you?" Understandably, just leaving the house was an emotional event.
We still arent sure exactly what causes PCOS. It appears genetics are involved, and even some medicines like anti-epileptic drugs are associated. Women with PCOS have too much androgen (male sex hormone). Besides leading to some male traits that would make the beautiful Demi Moore look like her ex, Bruce Willis, PCOS can also cause some more serious effects: Type II diabetes, obesity, and polycystic ovaries
Because the ovaries dont always release an egg each month, menstrual periods dont necessarily come every month. Therefore, having a baby can be difficult and sometimes impossible. Also because the endometrial lining of the uterus becomes too thick, heavy breakthrough bleeding can occur, and there is a slight increased risk of endometrial cancer.
About five percent of women in the southeastern USA have the problem. Fifty percent of women with PCOS are obese, and most have glucose intolerance or Type II diabetes due to insulin resistance. That means the body doesnt respond well to insulin, and so the blood sugars go up like John Grishams royalties. Because of the bodys increased demand for insulin, the pancreas cranks out a lot of insulin which can cause a fatty liver, and that in time can progress to cirrhosis.
Obstructive sleep apnea is also associated with PCOS, probably because of the obesity issue, which also is associated with heart disease, as well as pulmonary hypertension, fatigue, and headaches. High cholesterol and heart disease are more prevalent with PCOS. Considering the number-one killer of women is heart disease, this should perk up everyones ears.
The Waynesboro woman says she didn't find out she had PCOS until she volunteered for a clinical study at UVA.
One reason diagnosis is so difficult is that PCOS is not a disease. It's a syndrome. A pelvic ultrasound of the ovaries usually shows numerous ovarian cysts, but this is not needed for diagnosis. A blood test (LH/FSH) on day 10 of the menstrual cycle can help confirm PCOS.
As for treatment, wanna guess what's important? Diet and exercise. Yes, I've said it a hundred times, and like a bad infomercial, Ill continue to say it.
Even just a little weight loss can restore normal menstrual periods and help fertility. Weight loss can also reduce the risk of Type II diabetes and possibly reverse the glucose intolerance. Oral contraceptives are used to help restore female traits and regulate periods. Spironolactone also combats hirsuitism, acne, and balding. But Metformin is probably the best medicine.
This diabetes medication not only treats glucose intolerance and diabetes, but with exercise, it can help the person lose weight. Stop the presses– help lose weight? Yes, it can, but the person has to exercise– which seems to be like Latin– dead.
Living a healthy lifestyle and taking the appropriate medications can help those ovaries function a little bit better.
"I remember being subjected to the stares of others," says the Waynesboro woman. "I don't want anyone else to feel this way."


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Planetary Nebula NGC 3918
NGC 3918 is in the constellation Centaurus and is about 3,000 light-years from us. Its diameter is about 0.3 light-year. It shows a roughly spherical outer envelope but an elongated inner balloon inflated by a fast wind from the hot central star, which is starting to break out of the spherical envelope at the top and bottom of the image.
Credits: Howard Bond (Space Telescope Science Institute), Robin Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State University) and NASA


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The Mercury Type: understanding the Mercury type
Matthew Campling
Your 12 Type Enneagram host is London psychotherapist and author Matthew Campling. Matthew has written the first EVER book on this wonderful system 'The 12 Type Enneagram: Know Your Type: Improve Your Life' Published by and available from Watkins, selected bookshops and Internet suppliers including Amazon.co.uk.
Please click here for a sample chapter.
Part 2 : The 6 Main Types
Part 3: The 6 Hybrid Types
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A defining moment came early on in Wisconsin's struggle against Governor Scott Walker's decision to eliminate the organizing rights of public sector workers. Walker decided to exempt some workers, but not others, from the loss of pensions and collective bargaining rights, hoping to divide them. Instead, the opposite happened. Listen to John Nichols describe a stunning event where those whose rights remained intact stood up for those whose rights had not.
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Sinecure Clause
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time....Article I, Section 6, Clause 2
Determined to avoid corruption and self-dealing in the legislative process, the Framers kept all appointive powers out of the hands of Congress. (See Article II, Section 2, Clause 2.) But corruption could come not only from self-dealing but also from the blandishments of the executive. Consequently, in order to prevent a repetition of the British Crown's practice of "buying" support by creating offices and sinecures to give to members of Parliament, Robert Yates proposed to the Constitutional Convention a ban on Members of Congress from "any office established by a particular State, or under the authority of the U. States...during the term of service, and under the national Government for the space of one year after its expiration."
All the delegates in Philadelphia agreed that no Member of Congress should serve in an appointive position while he was sitting, but Nathaniel Gorham, James Wilson, and Alexander Hamilton wanted no bar at all, once a person was no longer in Congress. Hamilton argued that since passion drives all men, the executive should be able to satisfy the desires of the better qualified men by inducing them to serve in appointive offices.
James Madison proposed a solution that sought to reconcile the divergent concerns of the Framers: "that no office ought to be open to a member, which may be created or augmented while he is in the legislature." For some time, the delegates debated whether this idea was too restrictive or not restrictive enough. Madison responded that "the unnecessary creation of offices, and increase of salaries, were the evils most experienced, & that if the door was shut agst. them, it might properly be left open for the appointt. of members to other offices as an encouragmt. to the Legislative service." Eventually, the delegates accepted Madison's view, but they deleted the prohibition from holding state office (the state might need the Member's services) and the one-year bar after leaving office (it was not long enough to be of any significant effect). They also limited the bar to "civil" offices so that the military could have the service of all when the country was in danger.
As adopted, the relatively limited bar of this clause reinforces the separation of powers and the federal structure of the union. Of the separation of powers, Madison famously wrote in The Federalist No. 51: "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place." The clause puts an obstacle to the President's ability to shift a Congress Member's ambition from the legislative to the executive. Of the federal structure of the union, Madison had warned of "the unnecessary creation of offices"—obviously beyond what was appropriate for the central government—that could occur if the clause were not adopted.
The clause establishes a number of formal requirements: (1) It applies to those Members who have actually taken their seats, not to those who were elected but not yet sworn in. (2) "Appointed" means at the moment of nomination for civil office, not at the time of approval. Marbury v. Madison (1803). (3) The bar cannot be evaded by resignation from Congress. In a written opinion of Attorney General Benjamin Brewster in 1882, the clause applies for the term "for which he was elected," not the time during which the member actually holds office. (4) "Civil office" is one in which the appointee exercises an authoritative role. It does not apply to temporary, honorific, advisory, or occasional postings. United States v. Hartwell (1868). (5) "Emoluments" means more than salary, McLean v. United States (1912), but it is unclear how much more. In 1937, the Senate approved the appointment of Hugo L. Black to the Supreme Court even though Congress had passed legislation significantly augmenting the pensions of Supreme Court justices during the Senate term in which Black served. Later, under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and James Earl Carter, the Department of Justice opined that it did not matter when Congress passed legislation increasing the salary for an office, so long as the former Member of Congress was nominated before the salary increase went into effect. The courts have dismissed suits contesting the appointments of Justice Hugo L. Black and Judge Abner Mikva on lack of standing grounds. Ex parte Levitt (1937); McClure v. Carter (1981).
In his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Justice Joseph Story, even in his panegyric, was hesitant about the clause: "It has been deemed by one commentator as admirable provision against venality, though not perhaps sufficiently guarded to prevent evasion." For well over a century, Presidents and their attorneys general had rigorously followed the formal requirements of the clause. In 1973, however, Congress and the executive devised an effective stratagem to avoid the limitations of the clause. Termed the "Saxbe fix," it copied an idea invented during the Taft administration. President Richard M. Nixon appointed Senator William Saxbe to be Attorney General even though Saxbe had been a Senator when Congress raised the Attorney General's salary from $35,000 to $60,000. Under an opinion from acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork, the Congress "fixed" the violation of the clause by returning the Attorney General's salary to the $35,000 level.
Presidents Gerald R. Ford, Carter (appointing Senator Edmund Muskie as Secretary of State), and William Jefferson Clinton (appointing Senator Lloyd Bentsen as Secretary of the Treasury) went further and utilized "temporary Saxbe fixes," persuading Congress to reduce the salary of a position to which a Member had been appointed but only until the date when the Member's term would have ended. Only under Attorney General Edwin Meese III did the Department of Justice eschew this end run around the formal requirements of the Sinecure Clause. In 1987, the Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion that Senator Orrin Hatch would be ineligible for nomination to the Supreme Court because Congress had raised the salaries for Associate Justices during Hatch's term. President Ronald Reagan chose to nominate Judge Robert H. Bork, whom the Senate did not approve.
Justice Joseph Story had also written, "It has sometimes been a matter of regret, that the disqualification had not been made co-extensive with the supposed mischief; and thus to have for ever excluded members from the possession of offices created, or rendered more lucrative, by themselves." Yet he still adds ambivalently: "Perhaps there is quite as much wisdom in leaving the provision, where it now is." The upshot is that fidelity to the Constitution by any of the branches of the government is as much a function of internal commitment as it is of external constraint.
- David F. Forte
- Professor of Law
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|Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
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|Ontario Christian
AS A JUNIOR IN 2010-11: Competed in seven of the 12 events for the Broncos with his best finish coming in the WCC Championships where he tied for 17th with rounds of 73, 77, and 72 … tied for 22nd at the Palouse Cougar Collegiate with a 216 total that included rounds of 72, 70, and 74 … tied for 26th at the Saint Mary's Invitational where he shot a season best round of 67 (-4) along with rounds of 79 and 78 … tied for 36th at the SCU Cabo Collegiate with rounds of 81, 73, and 74 … tied for 56th at the UTA/Waterchase Invitational with rounds of 76, 76, and 74.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2009-10: Competed in all 11 events for the Broncos as a key member of the team … top finish was 10th place at the Anteater Invitational where he finished with a 214 total that included rounds of 73, 68, and 73 … finished 17th at the Wyoming Desert Classic with rounds of 71, 75, and 74 … tied for 28th at the Braveheart Classic with rounds of 74, 74, and 78 … tied for 32nd at the Turtle Bay Resort College Invitational with rounds of 72, 76, and 73 … tied for 39th at the USD Farms Invitational with rounds of 75, 77, and 78 … tied 49th at the Oregon Duck Invitational with rounds of 77, 72, and 74 … best round of the season was a 68 (-3) at the Anteater Invitational.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2008-09: Competed in nine of the 11 events as a true freshman … finished 14th at the Palmas Del Real Intercollegiate with rounds of 78, 72, and 71 … finished 26th at the Mardi Gras Invitational with rounds of 72, 82, and 72 … tied for 30th at the Saint Mary's Invitational with a 219 total that included rounds of 73, 74, and 72 … tied for 32nd at the WCC Championships with rounds of 74, 75, and 79 … shot a season best total of 213 with a season best round of 69 (-1) at the U.S. Intercollegiate where he finished tied for 40th.
HIGH SCHOOL: 2008 graduate of Ontario Christian High School in Ontario, Calif. ... played for coaches Kevin Knutson and Nick Koning ... captained his team as a sophomore, junior and senior ... advanced to the CIF SoCal Regional in 2006 and '08 ... team was Christian League Champions in 2006 and '08 ... participated in the CIF South Sectionals in 2006, '07 and '08.
AMATUER: Tied for 17th at the U.S. Juniors in 2007 ... finished seconds at the 2006 AJGA Pacific Northwest Juniors ... tied for eighth at the 2008 Heather Farr Classic ... tied for fifth at the L.A. City Juniors ... finished second at the 2006 Chino Amateur ... played in the 2008 Rolex Juniors ... was the 2006 Toyota Club at Glen Annie Champion ... was the 2006 Inland Empire Junior Champion ... had is lowest round, 67, at 2006 Pacific Northwest Juniors.
PERSONAL: Son of Pat and Lynette Monaco ... has two older sisters, Jennille and Nataly ... no relation to SCU teammate Bobby Monaco ... studying in the Leavey School of Business.


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Side effects of radiation for cervical cancer
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
Could you give me any information on any possible negative outcomes using radiation to treat cervical cancer? Could scarring occur in the vagina? Where would I find information or statistics regarding a choice of radiation versus hysterectomy as treatment for this condition?
Ruth Collins, MSN, CRNP, OCN, Advanced Practice Nurse in the Research Division of the Department of Radiation Oncology, responds:
Radiation therapy for cervical cancer can include external beam and intracavitary implants.� There are both acute and long-term potential complications, but fortunately most can be treated effectively.� The acute effects usually occur within the first 90 days and can include:
Local skin reactions, which can occur during radiation therapy and depend on the area being treated. They usually occur 2 to 3 weeks into treatment and resolve usually within one-month post treatment.
Cystitis (burning with urination, frequency, and urgency) usually after 10 - 14 days which usually resolves within one month after completion of therapy.
Diarrhea, which can be an early side effect or persistent late effect.
Nausea and vomiting usually occur in patients receiving whole abdomen radiation therapy.
Lowering of blood counts usually in patients receiving whole abdomen radiation therapy.
Fatigue more common in whole abdomen radiation therapy.
Vaginal inflammation usually occurs within the first 14-21 days.� Vaginal infections may occur.
Late vaginal effects can happen months or years after treatment and may include stenosis (scarring with decreased pliability and decrease of the vaginal diameter) and a decrease in vaginal length has been documented.� The vaginal mucosa can become dry especially if ovarian functioning has been effected.� But, these side effects can be treated with regular sexual intercourse or dilators and the use of lubricators or estrogen creams.
Information regarding radiation therapy versus surgery would depend on the stage of the cervical cancer.� It is best to discuss your options, based on your individual situation with a Gynecologic Oncologist, Radiation Oncologist and Medical Oncologist.� Consults with these specialists would give you the information based on your specific case and allow you to make an informed decision.� This is a very personal decision and should be made with information that you receive based upon your personal case.
Hassey Dow, K, Dunn Bucholtz, J., Iwamoto, R., Fieler, V, & Hilderly, L. Nursing Care in Radiation Oncology. (2nd.ed.) 1997. p. 221-233.� W.B. Saunders: Philadelphia.
Watkins-Buner, D., Moore-Higgs, G & Haas, M. Outcomes in Radiation Therapy: Multidisciplinary Management. 2001. p.360-362. Jones and Bartlett Publishers: Boston.


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This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."
Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter.
E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. It contains illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E.B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books.
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Sixty years ago, on October 15, 1952, E.B. White's Charlotte's Web was published. It's gone on to become one of the most beloved children's books of all time. To celebrate this milestone, the renowned Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo has written a heartfelt and poignant tribute to the book that is itself a beautiful translation of White's own view of the world—of the joy he took in the change of seasons, in farm life, in the miracles of life and death, and, in short, the glory of everything.
We are proud to include Kate DiCamillo's foreword in the 60th anniversary editions of this cherished classic.
Charlotte's Web is the story of a little girl named Fern who loved a little pig named Wilbur—and of Wilbur's dear friend Charlotte A. Cavatica, a beautiful large grey spider who lived with Wilbur in the barn.
With the help of Templeton, the rat who never did anything for anybody unless there was something in it for him, and by a wonderfully clever plan of her own, Charlotte saved the life of Wilbur, who by this time had grown up to quite a pig.
How all this comes about is Mr. White's story. It is a story of the magic of childhood on the farm. The thousands of children who loved Stuart Little, the heroic little city mouse, will be entranced with Charlotte the spider, Wilbur the pig, and Fern, the little girl who understood their language.
The forty-seven black-and-white drawings by Garth Williams have all the wonderful detail and warmhearted appeal that children love in his work. Incomparably matched to E.B. White's marvelous story, they speak to each new generation, softly and irresistibly.
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LARAMIE, Wyo., Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Jeff Elorriaga hit a 3-pointer as time expired Wednesday to give Boise State a 63-61 victory over No. 25 and previously unbeaten Wyoming.
Wyoming trailed for most of the first half, rallied to lead by 10 in the second period, then fell behind by seven points with 2:30 to play. The Cowboys came back again to take a one-point lead when Josh Adams made two free throws with 8 seconds left.
Elorriaga, however, hit his clutch jumper for the last of his 18 points in the opening Mountain West Conference game for both teams.
The Cowboys had won their first 13 games of the season and their loss leaves Arizona, Michigan and Duke as the only unbeaten teams remaining in major college basketball. Boise State improved to 13-2.
Anthony Drmic also scored 18 points for the Broncos and Igor Hadziomerovic added 11. Boise State made 11-of-19 from 3-point range.
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|Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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|Merion Mercy Academy
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Junior • 2009
Scored game winning goal in overtime win over Brown (Oct. 3) ... Scored a goal in the Ivy season opener at Yale (Sept. 19) ... Notched one goal and one assist in home opener against Bryant (Sept. 12) … Recorded two goals and two assists in 4-1 win over UC Davis (Sept. 9) … Scored two goals and had an assist in season opener against Holy Cross (Sept. 5).
Sophomore • 2008
Appeared in 17 games and started six at midfielder ... Third on the team in goals scored (four) ... Scored the game-winning goals against Holy Cross (Sept. 5), Northeastern (Oct. 8) and Saint Louis (Oct. 13) ... Scored two goals in 6-0 win against Saint Louis (Oct. 13) ... Notched an assist at New Hampshire (Sept. 7).
Freshman • 2007
Appeared in 14 games as a rookie ... Started at No. 4 Connecticut Sept. 19 ... Scored two goals, both game-winners ... First collegiate goal broke a scoreless tie with 15 minutes remaining in the Crimson's 2-0 win at Northeastern Oct. 3 ... Assisted on the team's other goal against the Huskies ... Also scored a goal against Dartmouth Oct. 27, a 3-1 win ... Made collegiate debut in a loss to Massachusetts Sept. 2.
Before Harvard
A four-year starter and two-year captain of the Merion Mercy field hockey team, moving from forward to center midfield for her final two seasons ... Also a four-year starter and one-year captain in lacrosse ... Selected to all-state field hockey second team as a senior ... Named field hockey team MVP twice and lacrosse MVP once ... Three-time AACA All-Star and four-time Main Line Times All-Star and Main Line Life All-Star in both field hockey and lacrosse ... Received school's Senior Athlete Award ... Helped field hockey team reach AACA final as a sophomore ... Member of National Honor Society, Ministry Team and Respect Life.
Sister, Kristen, played field hockey for the Crimson, graduating in 2006, and also wore jersey No. 24.