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The Undulant Trees



 Opportunity

I had a life once, a life/
handed to me on a golden matter:
more, more, & more; but
did not see it, and let it pass.




 April's End


'Tis the last day of April.
'Tis, 'tis, 'tis.                  
Oh how quickly 30 whizz.

And here I sit,
sullen and somber,
where undulant evil is.

Yo, rise/ from your stool.
There are reams to conquer,
twirling fool.




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Brian A. J. Salchert

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 Lately melodies have been streaming through my body
in strings that go on for an hour or more.  It got so tonight
that I felt I was getting to be like (ha ha) Franz Schubert.
This led to a Franz Schubert search and to Wikipedia.   
That man, sometimes known as the little mushroom, was
amazing!  He wrote over 600 lieder, a fact alone, given
that he died at the age of 31, enough to assure his fame;
but he also composed chamber music, operas, and was
working on (I believe) his 10th symphony when he died.

These melodies in me come out as modulated exhalings.
I need to get some recording equipment.  It could be
that these melodies already exist and I am just pulling
them out of the ether somehow.  Sometimes, as now,
I'll get stuck on one and repeat it over and over.  At
other times one or two notes in one melody will lead
me into another melody, one which may or not/ be
related to the progenitor melody.  It's strange, but it
can be enjoyable.

Years ago there was a period when I was composing
parts of symphonies in a similar manner, but I was not
able to transcribe them.  I still am not able to, and the
only instrument I can play is my breath instrument. 



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-28

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 Other integer knowns pertaining to primes and nonprimes:
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1.  What I call Elimination Tables can be constructed/ wherein
    2 x the pown (positive odd whole number) whose mulitples
    are being eliminated generates the first pewn divisible by 
    that pown.  That pewn and the integer multiples of it become 
    C2 of a three-column table/ wherein C1 contains all the 
    powns which are 1 less than each C2 pewn, and C3 contains  
    all the powns which are 1 greater than each C2 pewn.  If "3"
    and its multiples are the powns being eliminated, all the powns
    not divisble by "3" will be among the minor or major powns 
    in the table.  Many of these powns will be prime numbers, but
    note that all the squares of powns will be major powns.
2.  Some facts about squares, powns, and pewns:
    a) Subtracting 1 from any pewn square whose final digit is 6
        equals a pown which is divisible by "5".
    b) Subtracting 2 from any pown square often equals a pown
        which is a prime number, but there are some interesting
        exceptions.  119, or 7 x 17, is one of these.
    c) The recurring final-digit sequence for pewn squares is:
        4, 6, 6, 4, 0; and
        the recurring final-digit sequence for pown squares is:
        1, 9, 5, 9, 1.
    d) The Elimination Table for multiples of "3" is the 6n table.
        At each 6n (C2), the C1 pown and the C3 pown
        constitute a pair such as 5 7, 11 13, 17 19, 23 25, 29 31,
        35 37, 41 43, 47 49, 53 55, 59 61, 65 67, 71 73, 77 79,
        83 85, 89 91, 95 97, 101 103, 107 109, 113 115, 119 121.
        If this table is taken into infinity, all the possible prime pairs
        exist in it.
    e) Any integer whose final digit is 5, being divisible by "5", is
        automatically a nonprime.  Therefore, for all powns > 9
        only those powns whose final digits are 1 or 3 or 7 or 9
        need be inspected for primality.
    f) 2 is the only pewn prime, and the only pown prime triad is:
        3 5 7.
    g) An integer's power begins at its square.  This is why "2"
        is the only pewn prime.  This is also why the lesser of
        two pown integers is always the ruling eliminator of 
        integers greater than itself. 



Brian A. J. Salchert

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(  3)   1+2     4+5      7+8     10+11    13+14    16+17    19+20    22+23

(  5)   2+3     7+8     12+13    17+18    22+23    27+28    32+33    37+38

(  7)   3+4    10+11    17+18    24+25    31+32    38+39    45+46    52+53

(  9)   4+5    13+14    22+23    31+32    40+41    49+50    58+59    67+68

( 11)   5+6    16+17    27+28    38+39    49+50    60+61    71+72    82+83

( 13)   6+7    19+20    32+33    45+46    58+59    71+72    84+85    97+98

( 15)   7+8    22+23    37+38    52+53    67+68    82+83    97+98   112+113

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About 1+2, 2+3, 3+4, and:  The first # = the row #,
and the second # indicates the column # where the square of the ( #) is.
#
Next: If the two adjacent #s which sum to a ( #) exists in a prior row,
that ( #) is not a prime #.  Example: 4+5 is in row 1 column 2, and
4+5 is also in row 4 column 1.
#
Next:  Column 1 is the x1 column, C2 is the x3 column, C3 the x5,
C4 the x7, C5 the x9, C6 the x11, C7 the x13; C8 the x15.  So,
(column # x2) - 1 = the times # for that column.
#
Next:  Since 4+5 is in C2 of R1, which is 3s row, 4+5 = 3x3.
#
Next:  That # which is the second # in R1C1 is the first in R2C1.
This means that there are three distinct numbers C1 of any two
adjacent rows.  These three #s in C1 of R1 and R2 sum to 6.
These three #s in C1 of R2 and R3 sum to 9.  These three #s
in R5 and R6 sum to 18, or 3x6.  The ( #) in R5 is 11, and the
( #) in R6 is 13.  11+13=24, or 3x8.  24 - 18 = 6.  Go back.
3+5=8; 8 - 6 = 2.  5+7=12; 12 - 9 = 3.  So, the distinct #s in
adjacent rows rise by 3, and ( #)s in adjacent rows rise by 4 
when they are summed as terms in a set of adjacent rows.  I
am not yet certain what the value of knowing these facts is,
but I suspect there is an interpolation value.  
#
Next:  A known about primes is that there is a prime number
between n and 2n for every integer n > 1.
If n = 2, 2n = 4.  3 is between 2 and 4.  If n
= 3, 2n = 6.  5 is between 3 and 6.  If n = 4,
2n = 8.  Both 5 and 7 are between 4 and 8.  If n
= 5, 2n = 10.  Both 7 and 9 are between 5 and 10, but
we know that 9, or (10 - 1),  is not a prime.  Between 8 and 16
are 9, 11, 13, and 15.  Question:  Why do 5+6 and 6+7 equal
numbers which are prime numbers, while 4+5 and 7+8 do not? 



Brian A. J. Salchert

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 Yesterday I joined Goodreads, a free connectivity service
for people who read.

 Anyone interested in a recipe for a large batch
of really hot chili should go to my Other Journals
section and click on      a place in Ohio.
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[ 2008-10-23 note: the place in Ohio is in limbo
   and I'm not sure when it will return from there,
   if it does return. ]



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-23

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Earth Day 2008

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d = diddlings


     Do not particularly like this Verdana size 3,
but I tried Times New Roman and Courier New
and did not like them.  I had a wrong impression
about the former and, as I have known, the latter
is like typewriter type--which I like--but is too light.
The jump from 2 to 3 in Verdana is too great.  I
would prefer a size between those choices.


This is Verdana size 2.


This is Georgia size 3.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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Though it's a bit heavy, I may go to this.


This is Trebuchet MS size 3.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z


This is Courier New size 4.


This is Perpetua size 5.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

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Should get back to entering my old online diaries
but I just don't feel up to it.  Keep floating around
the Internet for other web logs of interest to me.
Have found several.

Spring has sprang, and I took some photos over
the weekend of things in bloom and of bushes
displaying variant colors.  Today it warmed up
enough for me to go to my mailbox without a
jacket.

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An interesting serendipity occurred this evening
which relates to a poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt.

Read what Boyd Tonkin writes about himself 
in his "Why poetry still matters" feature


and then go K. Silem Mohammad's site where
he shows and discusses the same poem.

see Monday, April 14, 2008




Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-21

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d = design


two articles from Technology Review

"Nano Drugs to Starve Tumors"
By Jocelyn Rice - Friday April 11, 2008
(about fighting cancer more safely)

"Corn Primed for Making Biofuel"
By Alexandra M. Goho - Wednesday April 16, 2008
(about less expensive and cleaner ethanol)



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-19

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This Being I Am


Wherever I wander;
wherever I flee /
the Lord is always
after me.

Wherever I wander;
wherever I flee /
the Lord is walking
ahe-ead of me.

    It keeps its mystery
    however I ponder.
    It keeps its mystery
    however I plead.

    It keeps its mystery
    however I wonder.
    It keeps its mystery
    however I weave.



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-19

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d = disposition


Death to any human who does not believe as I believe
is an evil perception fanned by desperation and anger
allowed to heat to the level of hate.  Such, whether
based in a theology, a philosophy, a psychology, or 
a whatever, is self-serving, and cares not about the
common good.

If all you can do is pray, do that.

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Over at Common Dreams:

"The Unmaking of the Market" by Sally Kohn
Read it and also scroll down to the Galen April 16th, 2008 
12:04 pm comment and read its final paragraph.

"Carter Calls Gaza Blockade a Crime and Atrocity"
This is a Reuters article by Jonathan Wright.




Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-18

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Venturings



 World Without


What it was and why it was no one knew.
For unknown years it had been there.
Unbothered, it seemed/ it could stay/ centuries more.

Building, mountain, boulevard, trail, the sun rolls round
while over snow south of its range a Snowy Owl
rises/ off a fence post/ and floats beyond.

Neither time, nor reason, nor an empty heart
jostles the neurons of desire in this fantasm.
What lingers, lingers; what departs, departs.  Nod.



-
Brian A. J. Salchert

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d = decision


 If no changes that matter have occurred, when voting day
for the next president of the these endangered United States
comes, Senator John McCain (a politician I have liked at times
over the years, but for whom I/ will not vote then) will be the
Republican candidate; and either Senator Barrack Obama or
Senator Hillary Clinton (neither of whom is a politician who 
sells what I would prefer to buy then) will be the Democratic
candidate; and there will be outsider candidates.

If someone could prove to me that an outsider candidate I
would be willing to vote for then/ will have at that time a
reasonable chance of winning, I would vote for that person.
Yesterday over at Common Dreams I read 
Obama Is Right by Katrina vanden Heuvel
and many of the comments.  In one of those comments was
the conclusion that a vote for an outsider candidate would in
effect be a vote for McCain, that is if/ that vote/ would have 
been cast for the Democratic candidate otherwise.  I agree.
Therefore, aside from not voting, I will vote for whichever
senator is the Democratic candidate.

The central reason men gathered to form this nation was
the tyranny of King George III.  What besets this nation
now, and indeed the world, is oligarchic tyrrany based on
the so-called free market system.  President Eisenhower,
who had he felt as comfortable in his statesman role as he
felt in his military role (difficult as that was) would likely have
made some significant salutary changes, warned us about
this.  Given how insidiously the ruling powers have trapped
those being ruled, it is hard to know what to do about our
incarceration.  After all, it is not totally odious.  One could
make, little by little, moves toward self-sufficiency, and wait
for the overlord system to collapse; but then what?  One
could hasten its downfall by supporting only the clean and
green, of which ethanol is not a part.  See Care2 but avoid
its petitions area.  One could help promote, organize, and 
then convene a Peoples Congress.  I, for one, would like to
know what those who do not vote and those who've been 
disenfranchised think, even if as a group their opinions mirror
the opinions of those whose votes do count.

Two aspects of collusional oligarchic power which sadden
me most are how easily it can eliminate what threatens it 
and/or how easily it can co-opt an adversarial creation.
Alexander Hamilton was killed by Aaron Burr in a duel, but
Hamilton's spirit (wherever it is) must be so excited it's
about to pop/ out of its hiding place.  At Wikipedia is this
quick biography of Hamilton.  



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-15

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 d = destiny


 Globalization 101

 Global Policy Forum



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-13

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 d = deliberation


 Since I can't do it in person, am thinking about touring online.
Have no plan as yet.  May start with overviews.  Satellite 
images of some U.S. cities.

Thanks to a 4-11-08 link on Linh Dinh's Detainees 
to an article by one Ted Gup, 
I'm changing direction.

This is a timeline history of the U.S. Civil War.
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current U.S. cabinet
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U.S. Supreme Court
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U.S. Senate
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U.S. House of Representatives
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1952 U.S. presidential election


With thanks again to Linh Dinh, who placed a link to the following
in a comment to me on his blog.  Read this:  
"The Great American Media Mind Warp" by Joe Bageant.



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-12

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The Undulant Trees

   [ Note: One should not laugh at another's misfortune.
      The content below popped into my head several days back,
      and does not relate to any familial event in my life. ]


 Out There


I laughed when my fa-ather
lost his shoe.
I laughed when my fa-ather
lost his shoe.
I laughed,
and laughed,
and laughed,
and laughed.
I laughed when my fa-ather
lost his shoe.

I laughed when my fa-ather
lost his shoe.
I laughed when my fa-ather
lost his shoe.
I laughed,
and laughed,
and laughed,
and laughed.
I laughed when my fa-ather
lost his
shoe.




-
Brian A. J. Salchert

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 "The Ideology of American Empire"


 "737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire"


 PBS Frontline: Understanding The Book of Revelation




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Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-08

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 The Death of Due Process



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-07

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 d = diary

 11 steps to a better brain at NewScientist is--
even though from 5-28-05--a worthwhile read.

"Why the demise of civilization may be inevitable" by Deborah MacKenzie 
is also at NewScientist, but you need to subscribe if you
want to read the full article.  Here is one available sentence:
"It appears that once a society develops beyond a certain
level of complexity it becomes increasingly fragile."




Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-06

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 Partly because it may not be available much longer,
visit this journal: Isaac Stolzfuts' Journal  Its author
has been missing since about August third of 2007.            
He was 87 at that time.

 Have been involved with a math project based on Pascal's Triangle,
its fourth row to be exact.  It's a different way of looking at the
6n Elimination Table, a table which begins with the 5 7 pair, rising
through all the odd natural numbers which are not divisible by "3".
Thus the next three pairs are: 11 13, 17 19, 23 25.  The second
row of this triangle is comprised of all the natural numbers except
"1".  1 is the number which borders two sides of the triangle, and
"0" is not in the triangle.  The triangle's third row is comprised of
numbers in the natural number summation sequence, beginning
with "3".  I have done what I set out to do with these numbers.
This is all I'm saying about it.



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-05

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 Other than a brief post at Rho-, today has been an online reading day.
Went to Robert Peake's site--though I'd been there late last night--to
read his "Post-Postmodernism And Hope" entry again.  Because his
thoughts speak to me aesthetically and as a human through his words
about Paul Celan and Umberto Saba (a poet new to me but one who
was able to choose life over death against the ravagings of WW2), I
am encouraged by them.

Also revisited the "Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism" essay
by Raoul Eshelman which relates to Robert Peake's entry, but which I 
searched for separately.

At Silliman's Blog for April 04, 2008, is a link to an interview of
Rachel Blau DuPlessis by CA Conrad I had to read in two sittings.
Course work, but of an essential nature.  I then went to Jacket 35
and read her Draft 88 and Draft 89.  Revelatory.

Read a few other poems and parts of poems in that issue, but as
has often happened during the last 12+ months, I was not moved
by them other than toward ennui, a state I suspect reading many 
of my poems would induce: which says less about the poems than
it does about the reader.  Sometimes I wish I lived in Philadelphia
instead of most of the places I have lived in.  But complaining is
such a deadening act.

Was at Latta's Isola too, which today was extra terrestrial.   




Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-04

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 Just had enough time this morning to change the dates in 
All About Me and to check the weather map.  It is now
4:30 PM and overcast, but rains seem to be angling in
from Oklahoma City.  Could go mostly south and east
of Springfield.  So far, most of my day was away from
here.  Had to get ready to go shopping, and when that
was done, had to eat while putting the items I bought in
their proper places; and also deal with other needs.  Best
benefit I got was exercise.



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-03

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 Rest of today and all of tomorrow are expected to be stormy.
May not be online much, if at all.  Plan to go grocery shopping
tomorrow.  If that happens, beets and lima beans will be at the
center of my food changes.  Will be pulling away from dairy
products and processed meats.



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-02

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 Partly cloudy with brisk cool winds.  Took two photos of the
blooming sturdy bush.  My sister then took me to where my
general practitioner is so I could have blood drawn for two 
tests.  We also went to the closest library where I requested
two books.  After that we drove around a Wendy's because
I wanted one plain baked potato.  And then, and then, and
then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and this.  Did 
you get all that?

 This is a good site to read whatever of
if you want information about healthy foods
such as lima beans.



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-01