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About 4,000 people are expected to attend the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Minneapolis from Aug. 4 to 9, 2013. The theme of this year's conference is Sustainable Pathways: Learning from the Past and Shaping the Future.
Forest Drought Stress in Southwest May Exceed Most Severe Droughts in Last Thousand Years: Severe wildfires and drought-induced tree deaths have increased greatly over the past two decades in the southwestern United States. Historical ecological sources about Southwest fire regimes and forest patterns over the past 10,000 years provide context for recent fire and vegetation trends. Specifically, these sources show that regional forest landscapes are greatly affected by interactive changes among human land management, climate and disturbances. Such linkages are further emphasized through the newly developed forest drought-stress index (FDSI) for the Southwest, which uses extremely robust relationships among historical tree-ring growth, warm-season temperature and cold-season precipitation to reconstruct the FDSI back to AD 1000 from a massive archive of tree-ring growth data. This research by USGS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Arizona, and other university partners shows very strong relationships between FDSI and regional forest productivity, tree mortality, bark-beetle outbreaks and wildfire. Moving forward, if temperatures increase as projected, background levels of southwestern forest drought-stress by the 2050s will exceed that of the most severe droughts in the past 1,000 years, which almost certainly means imminent changes in forest structure and composition. Overall, interactions among climate, land-use history and disturbance processes are driving the current pulse of major forest transitions in the Southwest. In the face of such rapid changes, it is imperative to explore adaptation strategies to foster ecosystem resilience. This work is addressed in two presentations: 1) Land cover change in the Southwest: wildfire risk, drought-induced tree mortality, and the convergence of climate, land management, and disturbance trends in regional forests and woodlands, will be in room 101c on Aug. 9 at 8:40 a.m. Contact Craig Allen, firstname.lastname@example.com, 505-795-1571; and 2) A forest is not a pan of water: temperature and vapor-pressure deficit as potent drivers of regional forest drought stress, will be in room 101A on Aug. 6 at 9:50 a.m. Contact Park Williams, email@example.com, 505-667-6551.
Response of North American Desert Plants to Climate Change: Forecasts for Management and Planning: Forecasted climate warming and changes in precipitation patterns in North American deserts can have a strong impact on plant species already stressed by low water availability. Accurate forecasts of climate-induced changes to desert plant assemblages are needed by managers because dryland ecosystems are prone to abrupt and potentially irreversible degradation and reductions in productivity. To help managers mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts, USGS researchers have synthesized over a century (1906-2012) of climate and vegetation monitoring results from more than 1,500 vegetation plots across the Colorado Plateau, and the Sonoran, Chihuahuan and Mojave deserts. In all of these deserts, dominant plant species and plant diversity responded to drought and elevated temperature.
On the Colorado Plateau, large declines of cool-season perennial bunchgrasses occurred, primarily driven by high temperatures. In the Sonoran Desert, increases in cacti occurred with hotter temperatures, and decreases in warm-season perennial grasses and sub-shrubs occurred with less annual precipitation. Tree and shrub species in the Sonoran Desert were less responsive to changing climatic conditions than other species, but some woody species were sensitive to warmer temperatures and less winter precipitation, especially on south-facing slopes. In the Chihuahuan Desert, many grasses and forbs had large responses to summer precipitation, whereas most woody vegetation showed small responses to winter precipitation. In the Mojave Desert, winter drought was related to declines of shrubs at some sites. USGS research also highlights "climate pivot points" that mark important shifts from increases to decreases in plant abundance along climatic gradients. These results are being used to assist with management decisions, improve monitoring protocols and inform climate change vulnerability assessments for land managers. This presentation (OOS 16-4), Regional signatures of plant response to climate across North American deserts: Forecasts for management and planning, will take place in room 101B on Aug. 7 at 9 a.m. Contact Seth Munson, firstname.lastname@example.com, work cell, 303-810-4896.
Large, Invasive Rodents: Are They Heading Your Way? The nutria is a large, prolific and water-loving invasive rodent that has become established in many parts of the world after being introduced for the fur industry, including in the Southeast and the Pacific Northwest regions of the United States. In the Southeast and elsewhere, they wreak havoc in coastal marshes and bald cypress swamps by feeding on the tender roots of plants, seedlings and saplings, completely stripping vegetation in areas where the animals are concentrated. Historically nutria ranges have expanded regionally northward following milder winters and contracted southward following more severe winters. This USGS study examined the current and potential distribution of nutria in the Pacific Northwest. Due to a string of relatively mild winters nutria populations have been expanding northward in the United States, suggesting that nutria populations could extend their range substantially both in the Pacific Northwest, the Mississippi Valley and the Eastern Seaboard in the future since climate change models predict milder winter temperatures though the USA. Large-scale management of the species requires knowledge of its current and potential distribution. This presentation, Using a combined hydrologic network-climate model of the invasive nutria (Myocastor coypus) to understand current distributions and range expansion potential under climate change scenarios, will be in room 101H on Aug. 9 at 10:50 a.m. Contact Catherine Jarnevich, email@example.com, 970-226-9439.
In a related study, USGS scientists investigated the activity patterns of urban nutria populations in Lafayette, La., and Portland, Ore., since little is known about this subject. The study found that daily as well as seasonal activity patterns differed in the two geographic areas, leading to current efforts to explore the role that alternative factors might play in the differing activity patterns. This presentation, Comparison of activity patterns of nutria (Myocastor coypus) between urban pond complexes in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA and Portland, Oregon, USA, will be in Room L100B on Aug. 5 at 1:30 p.m. Contact Jacoby Carter, email@example.com, 337-266-8620.
People, Cameras, and Action! Teaming Up to Better Understand Phenology: The implications and impacts of climate change on the earth's phenology – the timing of plant and animal life-cycle events – are increasingly well documented. Two continental-scale observation networks, PhenoCam and the USA National Phenology Network, which is managed by the USGS, are collaborating with the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to develop more refined phenological monitoring processes and to explore new opportunities for collaborative research. While PhenoCam quantifies plant phenology by using high-frequency camera monitoring of plant canopies, the USA-NPN contributes ground-based plant and animal data through its crowd-sourcing phenology program, Nature's Notebook. Both organizations are collaborating with NEON, a continental-scale ecological observing system, to enhance and codify best practices for phenological data collection and to collect and integrate phenological data across multiple spatial scales. The joint efforts of these programs will bridge major knowledge gaps in the field of phenology: not only will cameras provide new techniques for validating satellite-derived land-surface phenology products, but multi-faceted phenology datasets will aid in investigations of the feedback between ecosystem phenology and carbon/water/energy fluxes between the biosphere and atmosphere. This presentation, Integrating Phenocam and USA National Phenology Network continental-scale approaches into NEON phenology data products, will be in room L100I on Aug. 6 at 4:30 p.m. Contact Jake Weltzin, email@example.com (cell: 703-485-5138) or the lead author Michael Toomey, email@example.com, 860-986-3804.
Crowd-Sourcing Needed to Take the Pulse of Our Planet: The USA National Phenology Network serves science and society by collecting and organizing valuable data on plant and animal activity across the United States, and by setting global standards for integrated monitoring of plant and animal seasonal activity to understand impacts of climate change on ecological systems. Most data entered into the Network's national database are submitted by citizen scientists through the national-scale, multi-taxa phenology observation program, Nature's Notebook. With 2,500 active participants and more than 2.3 million contributions since the program went live in 2008, volunteers and professional scientists work side by side to observe and record the important phases in the annual life cycles of plants and animals. This presentation will provide a broad overview of the Network and its partners and participants, but will focus on recent successes embodied in local- to national-scale projects including detection of invasive species, recent and historical trends in phenology, and potential future changes in phenology in the eastern deciduous forest. This presentation, The National Phenology Database: A multi-taxa, continental-scale dataset for scientific inquiry, will be in room LL101 on Aug. 8 at 4 p.m. Contact Jake Weltzin, firstname.lastname@example.com, 703-485-5138.
Climate Science Centers: Sparking Collaboration through Research & Resource Management: This special session will introduce participants to the Department of Interior Climate Science Centers (CSCs) and their unique position to unite researchers with cultural and natural resource managers to facilitate a full-cycle approach to the use of research in support of management decisions. A panel composed of leaders from the CSCs, members of the University Consortia and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, and other collaborators/clients will provide an overview of the approaches used to support the CSC mission: to serve the scientific needs of managers of fish, wildlife, habitats, and ecosystems as they plan for a changing climate by providing scientific support for climate-adaptation identification and implementation of climate-adaptation strategies across a full range of natural and cultural resources. Participants will benefit from an overview of the CSC support capacities, research solicitation and funding processes with hopes to spark future collaborations. This presentation, Climate Science Centers: now supporting resource management with science at a location near you!, will be in room 101A on Aug. 5 at 10:15 a.m. Contact Stephen Gray (firstname.lastname@example.com), 907-301-7830.
Actionable Climate Change Science Strategically Tying Research to Management and Policy Needs: Prompt access to climate adaptation science for policymakers and managers is vital to effectively plan for climate change in a timely manner. Up until this point, the scientific community has employed a largely ineffective "conveyor-belt" approach to this process, in which managers both define scientific needs and assign projects to scientists. To streamline this process, the Department of the Interior Climate Science Centers have designed a new approach in which this procedure is executed in a more integrated and promptly actionable method. Using strategic decision-based approaches, the CSCs are creating a series of pilot projects that will focus on developing science outcomes that are tied to strategic management decisions. Unlike previous models, these teams, consisting of scientists, managers, decision-makers and stakeholders, will work collaboratively throughout the project to assure science outputs are consistent with management needs. These CSC pilot projects will form the basis for a national science agenda that will support climate adaptation decision-making processes. This presentation, Actionable science in an era of rapid climate change, tying observations and predictions to policies and action, will be in Auditorium room 3 on Aug. 8 at 4:10 p.m. Contact Doug Beard,email@example.com, 571-265-4623
Bridging the Gap between Science and Decisions: Climate-science researchers and resource-management decision-makers inhabit different professional worlds, but those worlds must come together to ensure scientifically informed management decisions. Effective cooperation and interaction between these groups are essential, yet hampered by professional and institutional barriers. Despite these disconnects, numerous case studies exist in which research has been applied effectively to climate-change management decisions. These case studies provide a foundation for identifying best practices for both researchers and decision-makers. These best practices include patient, persistent engagement among relevant parties. If climate-change research is to be used effectively in decision-making, researchers will need to step outside traditional comfort zones, listen carefully to decision-makers, and maintain continuing dialogue. New professional models must be encouraged, in which effective engagement and actionable science become part of the professional reward structure in research institutions. This presentation, Seeking Leopold's Quadrant: how do we foster research that addresses needs of resource-management decision-makers?, will be in room 101C on Aug. 9 at 9:50 a.m. Contact Stephen T. Jackson, email@example.com, 307-760- 0750.
U.S. Engagement in the Global Shift in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is in full swing with 109 member countries; its first IPBES plenary conference took place in Bonn, Germany (also the site of its Secretariat), in January 2013. The United States scientific community should be engaged as full participants in the IPDS process. The session speakers will discuss the changing landscape in global environmental science initiatives, present the latest updates in the IPBES process, share current and future opportunities for input, and discuss ways to broadly engage the U.S scientific community and other stakeholders in preparation for the December 2013 second IPBES plenary. This presentation, Biodiversity and ecosystem services on the global stage: IPBES and you, will be in room L100F on Aug. 7 at 8:00 p.m. Contact Doug Beard, firstname.lastname@example.com, 571-265-4623.
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Summit County's top stories: March and April 2012
An El Paso County judge denied prosecutors' request for an appeal of an assault case against Dillon police officer Brian Brady March 1, after the case was tossed out in August.
Brady was charged with third-degree assault on a minor after he allegedly hit a handcuffed juvenile suspect in the head during an arrest in 2010. The 16-year-old suspect was wanted for multiple armed robberies and arson at the time of the arrest.
An arm of Ten Mile Creek at the west end of Frisco flooded in early March, seeping into several Stonebridge townhomes' crawlspaces.
An unconfirmed theory suggested that the creek froze from the bottom up, lacking insulation it typically receives from fallen snow. With mild winter days mixed with chilly days recently, water started to flow over the frozen creek bed.
The Colorado Department of Transportation halted the controversial rolling speed harmonization program in mid-March, with only mixed results to show for the low-budget solution to heavy winter weekend traffic on Interstate 70.
Summit County Crime Stoppers, a local organization dedicated to taking anonymous tips and to paying out rewards to tipsters who help solve crimes, was disbanded in March after 15 years in operation as leaders faced dwindling funds and a lack of enthusiasm.
A 17 percent recession-induced decrease in property tax collections hit Summit County government's budget in January. In March, local officials learned another dip, though not as bad, is coming in 2014.
Property values have fallen again, an average of 4 percent countywide over the last two years.
A Silverthorne man faces charges of vehicular homicide after reportedly hitting and killing a pedestrian on a crosswalk in Keystone March 17.
Keystone residents had long complained about the crosswalk where the victim was hit.
The town of Breckenridge agreed in late March to pay $97,000 in lodging expenses for the Winter Dew Tour as part of a deal to bring the event back to Breck for the next two years.
The money covered the cost of 750 room nights for Dew Tour staff and competitors during the mid-December event.
A small wildfire ignited by a downed powerline closed Montezuma Road March 26, and later grew to a five-acre frenzy.
The fire in underbrush next to snowbanks was a strange sight to Lake Dillon Fire chief Dave Parmley, who said the late March blaze could be the earliest he'd seen.
Snowpack percentages plummeted during March.
Warm, dry weather counteracted Colorado's wet February, dropping snowpack in the Colorado River Basin from 75 percent of average at the end of February to 49 percent at the end of March.
It was the driest winter since 2002, when the snowpack on April 1 was also reported to be just 52 percent of the average.
Criminal defense lawyer Todd Barson, the locally favored Democratic candidate for district attorney at the time, was charged in March with domestic violence and harassment, ending his bid for the top prosecutor's job.
The case was later dismissed.
Breckenridge voters replaced Peter Joyce, the only incumbent in the running for town council, instead seating newcomers Gary Gallagher, Wendy Wolfe and Ben Brewer in the April 3 local election.
In a close race on Tuesday, Dillon residents cast the majority of their ballots for Terry King, Kevin Burns and R. Louis Skowyra III for town council.
The quest to fill three full-term seats and one half-term vacancy on the Silverthorne Town Council ended April 3 with incumbents Stuart Richardson, Bruce Butler and Ann-Marie Sandquist remaining seated for another four-year-term each and Derrick Fowler finding his way to the two-year seat.
The April 3 elections unseated Mayor Bill Pelham, with voters choosing former town Councilman Gary Wilkinson for the top slot. Voters also re-seated incumbent town Councilman Larry Sawyer and brought in new councilmembers Tom Connolly and Kathleen Kennedy.
In their first election in decades, nearly 150 Blue River voters turned out April 3 to put a fresh face, Julie Jones, on the town board of trustees, and to return two incumbents, Rob Theobald and Larry Nelson to their seats.
Longtime Summit County nonprofit Summit Prevention Alliance announced Tuesday it is suspending operations indefinitely due to financial issues while its board tries to identify a new direction.
Trouble maintaining operating expenses and competing for grants were some of the biggest reasons for the suspension.
Former Breckenridge attorney Royal "Scoop" Daniel was sentenced April 19 to 12 years in state prison, the maximum for the charges he faced.
Daniel, who disappeared in 2007 along with more than $900,000 of his clients' money, pleaded guilty to two charges of felony theft in February, while insisting his crimes were not intentional.
Four of 10 local businesses called on during a series of compliance checks last spring sold alcohol to undercover minors working with local law-enforcement agencies.
All immediately received warnings after the checks.
The Breckenridge Town Council gave the nod to a controversial proposal for a weekend rodeo this summer to be held on the overflow skier parking lot to the north of town in late April.
Town leaders called this summer's event an experiment.
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Microsoft Warns of Dangerous DirectShow Vulnerability
Microsoft is reporting that a vulnerability in DirectShow in some versions of Windows is being exploited in the wild. DirectShow is a framework for playing various media types.
The attacks are being perpetrated using malicious QuickTime media files in what Microsoft calls "limited, active attacks." The vulnerability can cause remote code execution in the context of the logged-in user.There is no patch for the vulnerability yet.
DirectShow versions 7, 8 and 9 in Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are vulnerable to the attack. Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 are not vulnerable. DirectShow was largely replaced in Vista by the Windows Media Foundation.
Microsoft has created a workaround registry script which you can download and run through Knowledge Base Article 971778. There is a big, obvious "Fix It" button to download the script. The script removes certain registry entries which enable QuickTime parsing. A second script from Microsoft re-enables it. You can run the second one after the patch is available. The scripts won't work in all environments so there are other methods described in the KB article. Read it to see which is right for you.
No word on when the patch will be available. The next scheduled Patch Tuesday is June 9, which would be a pretty quick turnaround. In the meantime you can expect anti-malware companies to begin providing detection for known attacks.


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Good afternoon everyone. I can't keep everyone waiting any longer. Here's the TTCOMBAT Q&A.
By all means share these amongst your respective communities but please remember this was done by Michel Goulmy and my self for the community.
When will DZC and DFC be available on the webstore?
We've pencilled in the relaunch of the whole range of DZC and DFC on the TTCombat webstore for the end of this month.
What's the plan for US distribution?
We're good to go pretty much whenever you are! Existing distributors from Hawk are still on board, so we're just waiting for the orders. You know a store you'd like to see DZC and DFC in? Tell them! Tell them over and over until they have no choice. We're working with more US distributors, but the process takes a while to sort out a good deal for both us and them. The more demand from retailers, the quicker the process will go!
How will you be addressing the issues with international support?
International (like Australia) is a bit harder than Europe and the USA, as those are the two biggest markets, and so are easiest to cater for! We're looking to expand into the rest of the world soon too, it's just a case of being able to find the right distributors and keep up with the demand! If you know of stores that want to stock our products, get them to email firstname.lastname@example.com who deal with all of our retail orders.
Will TTC be providing regular updates on DzC and DFC? If so, through what channels?
Regular updates are a must! New miniatures and rules coming thick and fast once all the dust has settled. We'll be updating our webstore, and providing information through there and here on Facebook! We're planning on making a brand new website for Dropzone and Dropfleet that will have information, articles, background, rules, event information... lots of stuff!
How will we revitalize and/or grow the player base?
In our opinion there are two important things to:
1. Get the games into more retail stores. The more available the games are, the more people will pick them up. We work with a lot of retailers at the moment, but if you have a retailer you want to stock the games: tell them you want them. Then when they do stock them, buy stuff and offer to run events and demos!
2. Having the games in stores is well and good, but without new releases, no one will keep playing. We all know there's been a lack of new releases over the last year, and that's because Dave has been busy doing other stuff. Now he's back on design, we'll have more releases coming! Getting new releases out to the stores isn't a quick process though, especially when taking over a new company. So please be patient with us! We'll have lots of new stuff releasing frequently, which will really help keep people interested.
When will we receive information about the Talon program?
We're looking to relaunch that this year. It's very important to the game, and we'd like to make sure we're doing it right. We'd been working on a similar scheme for RUMBLESLAM for a little while, and it seems sensible to combine everything into one place with a similar operating procedure. That doesn't mean you'll have to promote RUMBLESLAM or Carnevale if you just want to do DZC and/or DFC, but if you like more than one game you'll be able to run events for all of our games and be supported through one channel (and use your points on all our ranges!).
Will TTC be at Gencon (or other shows) with DZC/DFC?
Yep, we'll be at Gen Con and others in the States through Don, and will be flying the flag at UK Games Expo, Salute, and Crisis to name a few!
Will TTC be following up on Hawk's aborted plans to encourage organized play/tournaments?
We'd love to! We've got a lot to get sorted before jumping into organised play events and tournaments, but it's something we're currently doing for RUMBLESLAM, and something we're writing the Carnevale rules to incorporate from the start. That idea will definitely carry over to DZC and DFC! Organised play is one of those things that's hugely important to the hobby, and there's nothing quite like getting a room full of excited gamers together! In all honesty though, running tournaments isn't our priority right now – getting the miniatures made and out to stores is. All of that stuff will be a lot easier to keep running once the initial start up is done, and we'll be able to shift our attention to more fun things like tournaments.
Where are the Ebooks and rumoured app for the games?
Is DZC V2 still on target for an April release?
Potentially, but we think we'd actually like to push it back a bit. We're talking about the best way to get the new rules out, and aren't quite decided yet. V2 rules are almost entirely written and tested, but there was never a plan in place to add anything else to the V2 release. We started our discussions off talking about whether Reconquest would be needed, and in the state we saw the new rules, you'd still need those books to play the complete factions. We're not so keen on having to have multiple books to play a game, and it seems a little weird to back the new rules backwards compatible with older units, when this is an opportunity to consolidate everything that's happened with the game up to this point, and also make a few tweaks while we're at it. Of course, this version of V2 requires a lot more work, but would potentially see new miniatures, new story, new art, photos, and painted minis instead of just a new rule set.
With that in mind, we're discussing a potential open beta for the new rules, as well as free downloads for all units. None of that is definite right now, but we're talking about the best way to revitalise the game, and we're not sure a quick release new rulebook is necessarily the answer.
Are the updated rules going to feel more streamlined than they currently are?
We think so!
Is there any way we can get rid of the D6 in DZC V2 and maybe introduce the D10?
We're actually going to change it to a D2. Coinflip Commander is here!
When will we see DZC Reconquest Phase 2 units? Can we have a preview?
We're hoping they'll be available with the webstore launch. As for a preview, yeah why not?
Will there be a huge selection of 10mm scenery available for more varied game boards?
Yes. Huge selections of affordable scenery is our jam. In fact, Scott wanted to show a quick render of some of the MDF kits he's been working on.
Will famous commanders be balanced for tournament and regular play?
This is a conversation we've been having quite a lot recently, and there are differing opinions on it. Personally I think that named characters should be able to be used no matter where you are, but others feel that they should deliberately be very good and not necessarily balanced for tournaments. We'd love to hear the community's thoughts!
Where is the KS fulfillment?
Around 75% at time of writing.
When will we get our store credit for the undelivered Kickstarter stuff (maps, etc.)?
I'm afraid I can't give an exact date for that. We'll be sending them out to backers in waves – there'd be nothing worse than getting thousands of orders all in one week and putting a big delay on fulfilling them! We're looking at Q1 this year for the first wave.
Will there be a look at internal faction balance in DFC?
Definitely at some point!
Will show exclusive models like the Athens ever be available as Hawk has done in the past?
When will we be seeing the "fifth race"?
TODAY! No, not really. I don't have any specific answers for this one. Is "soon" a good enough answer? New races helps more people get into the game, as the more varied styles you have, the more likely you are to find something you really connect with. So yeah, it's definitely on the horizon.
Any plans for a Voidgate only pack?
I don't know! It's kind of annoying that you need Cruisers to get Voidgates. I'll ask around to see if there's a chance to do them in resin. No promises!
What role will new ships (monitors, destroyers, dreadnoughts) play in the mechanics of DFC?
From Dave:
Monitors – Frigate sized ships but very heavily armoured (2+/3+), well armed but VERY slow. Fluff wise, they have no FTL capability and are really just mildly mobile orbital gun platforms.
Destroyers - basically they sit between Frigates and Cruisers in size, capability and cost. Generally (but not always), they require Weapons Free to get the most out of them (unlike Light Cruisers and Frigates) but pack very respectable firepower in return. Dreadnoughts - these are the absolute kings of the battlefield. Monstrous in size, massively armed and extremely hard to kill. A serious investment in points (at tournament level especially). Total bullet magnets with massive signatures - a big commitment but a scary prospect to face.


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"Your poems still fly straight to my heart." — Sy Safransky (the editor of The Sun)
Watch Lyn Lifshin doing the Argentine Tango!
SO YOU THINK I WROTE ABOUT YOU - An essay by Lyn
Barbaro, Beyond Brokenness
by Lyn Lifshin
Both Barbaro and The Licorice Daughter are available from the Texas Review Consortium at 800-826-8911
The Licorice Daughter:
My Year with Ruffian
Winner of the Texas Review Award
more about this book.
Listen to Lyn read from the book (in interview with Grace Cavalieri)
(Portrait of Ruffian shown on cover is in private collection of John Bellucci)
Bio Notes
Lyn Lifshin has written more than 125 books and edited 4 anthologies of women writers. Her poems have appeared in most poetry and literary magazines in the U.S.A, and her work has been included in virtually every major anthology of recent writing by women. She has given more than 700 readings across the U.S.A. and has appeared at Dartmouth and Skidmore colleges, Cornell University, the Shakespeare Library, Whitney Museum, and Huntington Library. Lyn Lifshin has also taught poetry and prose writing for many years at universities, colleges and high schools, and has been Poet in Residence at the University of Rochester, Antioch, and Colorado Mountain College. Winner of numerous awards including the Jack Kerouac Award for her book Kiss The Skin Off, Lyn is the subject of the documentary film Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass. For her absolute dedication to the small presses which first published her, and for managing to survive on her own apart from any major publishing house or academic institution, Lifshin has earned the distinction "Queen of the Small Presses." She has been praised by Robert Frost, Ken Kesey and Richard Eberhart, and Ed Sanders has seen her as "a modern Emily Dickinson."
Lyn Lifshin's prizewinning book (Paterson Poetry Award)
Before It's Light was published Winter
1999-2000 by Black Sparrow Press, following their publication of Cold
Comfort in 1997. The Licorice Daughter
was published in February 2006 and Another Woman
who Looks Like Me was published by Black Sparrow-David Godine
in October 2006. (firstname.lastname@example.com) Also books include A
New Film About a Woman in Love with the Dead, March Street
Press, Marilyn Monroe, When
a Cat Dies, Another Woman's Story,
Barbie Poems, The
Daughter I Don't Have, What Matters
Most, and Blue Tattoo.
Lifshin has won awards for her non-fiction and edited four anthologies
of women's writing including Tangled Vines,
Ariadne's Thread and Lips
Unsealed. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry
magazines. Her poem "No More Apologizing" has been called "among
the most impressive documents of the women's poetry movement" by
Alicia Ostriker. An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical
Series, "On the Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Lace," was published
in Spring, 2003. Texas Review Press published her poems about the famous,
short-lived, beautiful race horse, Ruffian: The
Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian. New books include
Mirrors, August
Wind, Novemberly and just
out spring 2008, 92 Rapple Drive and
Desire. She is working on a collection
about poets, Poets, (Mostly) Who Have Touched
Me, Living and Dead. All True, Especially
the Lies will be published by World Parade and Tsunami
will come from Blue Heron Press. Other forthcoming books include a book
about the courageous and riveting race horse, Barbaro:
Beyond Brokenness from Texas
Review Press, Nutley Pond from
Goose River Press, Lost in the Fog
from Finishing Line Press, Persephone
from Red Hen. For interviews, more bio material, photographs, reviews,
a contact, interviews and samples of her work, browse this website: www.lynlifshin.com.
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Sri Lankan army soldiers march during a Victory Day parade, May 18, 2014.
Sri Lanka's government Sunday marked the 5th anniversary of the civil war victory over ethnic Tamil separatists by displaying its military strength, while preventing Tamil civilians from publicly remembering their dead.
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New recruits to the pro-Russian activist movement undergo basic training in the district administration building, May 18, 2014.
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A boy gestures in front of a barricade on fire during a protest after French troops opened fire at protesters blocking a road, May 22, 2014.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai walks away after shaking hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping before the opening ceremony in the Expo Center during the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia summit, May 21, 2014.
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A sloth peeks out from behind a door on a floating house in the 'Lago do Janauari', May 20, 2014.
Manaus is one of the host cities for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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Men practice parkour on the beach, May 18, 2014.
A week before presidential elections are scheduled, questions remain whether the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk are stable enough to administer the vote.
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A couple sticks their heads out of holes while taking a photograph at a public park, May 19, 2014.
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A religious statue is seen in front of a flooded house, May 20, 2014.
Soldiers and energy workers stacked thousands of sandbags overnight to protect Serbia's biggest power plant from flood waters expected to keep rising after the heaviest rains in the Balkans in more than a century killed dozens of people.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiles during a visit to Taesongsan General Hospital in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency, May 19, 2014.
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Tropical Blue-and-gold Macaws are seen at Bronte Beach, May 23, 2014.
Sydney is experiencing it's hottest May on record, already recording its hottest week for this time of year in over 150 years.
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U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen gather before graduation ceremonies, May 23, 2014 in.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel delivered the commencement address to the 1068 commissioned graduates.
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U.S. actress Jessica Chastain poses as she arrives for the screening of the film "Foxcatcher" at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, May 19, 2014.
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A boy plays on a street decorated for the upcoming World Cup, May 21, 2014.
California Chrome is bathed after jogging around the track at Belmont Park, May 21, 2014.
California Chrome arrived in New York on Tuesday to begin preparations for his bid to become horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in 36 years.
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Joy Bishara, one of the school girls that escaped by jumping from the truck the night she was kidnapped by Islamist extremist, waits outside her family house in Chibok.
Traditional hunters armed with homemade guns, poisoned speers and amulets have gathered in their hundreds, eager to use their skills and what they believe to be supernatural powers to help find nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists.
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A man shows off the powers of his charms by putting fire to his neck at a camp of a vigilante group of traditional hunters, May 21, 2014.
About 100 traditional hunters from villages in Borno state have gathered in a camp in Maiduguri and volunteered to hunt for Boko Haram to the local government. The local government gives them two meals per day, they say.
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Protesters carry a man who was shot by French soldiers after French troops opened fire at protesters blocking a road in Bambari, May 22, 2014.
A boy rides his bicycle along Third Street of the Alvorada neighborhood which is decorated for the 2014 World Cup, May 17, 2014.
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A woman and her son move away from the downwash of an European Union Force helicopter after being rescued from the flooded Serici village, May 17, 2014.
More than 20 people have been killed in the worst floods in more than a century in Serbia and Bosnia, authorities said, with thousands evacuated from towns still under threat from rising rivers.
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A new recruit checks his hair cut at a training camp for the Donbass Battalion, a pro-Ukrainian militia, May 19, 2014.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani attends a news conference at a hotel after the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia summit, May 22, 2014.
Rouhani said on Thursday he is not pessimistic about reaching an agreement over nuclear talks with the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany.
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A man smokes as he waits with his painted buffalo before a buffalo body-painting competition in Jiangcheng county, May 18, 2014.
Artists from eight countries painted on buffaloes to compete for a 100,000 yuan ($16,042) prize reward during the competition on Sunday.
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Shakira performs at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, May 18, 2014, in .
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Richard Bland of England hits his third shot on the 18th hole out of the bunker during Day 2 of the Open de Espana held at PGA Catalunya Resort, May 16, 2014.
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A general view of sunbathers at Bondi Beach, May 23, 2014.
Sydney is experiencing it's hottest May on record, already recording it's hottest week for this time of year in over 150 years.
Juventus' supporters hold up banners which read, "With...You", referring to Juventus' coach Antonio Conte, during their Italian Serie A soccer match againt Cagliari at Juventus stadium, May 18, 2014.
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A man walks past a house tilted by floods, May 21, 2014.
Thai soldiers stand guard during a coup at the Army Club where Thailand's army chief held a meeting with all rival factions in central May 22, 2014. Thailand's army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha took control of the government in the coup on Thursday saying the army had to restore order and push through reforms, two days after he declared martial law.
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A police water canon is used against anti government protesters, May 16, 2014.
Hundreds of protesters took part in the march against the government and there were clashes with the police forces. An explosion and fire at a coal mine killed hundreds of workers, authorities said, in one of the worst mining disasters in Turkish history.
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Ivana Spanovic of Serbia competes at the women's long jump at the IAAF Diamond League athletics meet, May 18, 2014.
Firefighters, police, members of the military and the public participate in the ceremonial transfer of the National 9/11 Flag into the The National September 11 Memorial Museum permanent collection, May 21, 2014.
The giant American Flag, which was flying from a building beside the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 and was later found badly damaged in the debris of ground zero, was unfurled at the World Trade Center site in a ceremony. The flag was refolded and firefighters marched it into the museum. The National September 11 Memorial Museum opened its doors to the general public today.
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BJP leader Narendra Modi is blessed by his mother Heeraben Modi on her front porch, May 16, 2014.
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Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, India's prime minister-elect from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), watches a ritual known as "Aarti" during evening prayers on the banks of river Ganges at Varanasi, May 17, 2014.
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Rescue workers search an air force plane crash site near Nadee village, May 17, 2014.
The Laotian air force plane with at least 14 people on board crashed on Saturday, a defense ministry source said, and a witness at the site said the defense minister was among the dead.
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People stand on a terrace of their flooded house as they wait to be evacuated, May 16, 2014.
The heaviest rains and floods in 120 years have hit Bosnia and Serbia.
Rescue workers stand on the partially salvaged M.V. Miraj-4 ferry after it capsized on the Meghna river at Rasulpur, May 16, 2014.
A Bangladeshi official said on Friday there was no chance of finding further survivors of a ferry that sank in a storm with about 200 people on board, the latest in a series of fatal ferry accidents to hit the country.
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A protester sits in a chair as he poses for a photograph during clashes with Turkish riot police using water cannons to disperse protesters taking part in a demonstration against the recent mine accident in Soma, May 22, 2014.
One man was injured when Turkish riot police today fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse a group of Istanbul protesters hurling Molotov cocktails and stones.
Tensions are high in Turkey with the approach of the first anniversary of deadly nationwide anti-government protests and in the wake of an unprecedented mine disaster that claimed 301 lives last week.
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A Palestinian protester runs from tear gas fired by Israeli troops during clashes near Israel's Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 16, 2014.
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Fire crew put out smouldering embers from the Cocos Fire, May 15, 2014.
A towering wall of flames charged a hillside California community on Thursday as firefighters battled fierce wildfires that forced 125,000 people to flee homes in the San Diego area.
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Migrants from sub-Saharan areas stand on a rescue boat of Italy's Navy ship San Giorgio after being rescued in open international waters in the Mediterranean Sea between the Italian and the Libyan coasts, May 14, 2014.
Italy's navy ship San Giorgio is one of five vessels involved in search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily - known as Mare Nostrum or "Our Sea" - to prevent shipwrecks of overcrowded migrant boats like the one in October in which 366 drowned a mile from the island of Lampedusa.
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An ultra-Orthodox Jew cuts the hair of his son near a bonfire, during celebrations for the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer in Kfar Chabad, May 17, 2014.
The holiday marks the end of a plague that killed thousands of Jewish scholars in ancient times, as well as the anniversary of the death of Bar Yochai, who rebelled against Roman rule and is believed to be the author of the Zohar, the core text of Kabbalah mysticism. Holiday traditions include lighting bonfires and cutting the hair of three-year-old boys for the first time.
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Former President Bill Clinton walks onto the stage at Symphony Hall before accepting a City Year Legacy Award at a Boston Pops Concert Celebrating City Year's 25th Anniversary, May 22, 2014.
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Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan attends a meeting as he is flanked by Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, May 19, 2014.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry leaves Stansted Airport to return to the United States from London, May 16, 2014.
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Member of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Beltagy speaks during his trial, May 18, 2014.
An Egyptian court jailed more than 160 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to up to 15 years in prison on Sunday, pressing a crackdown on the Islamist group before a presidential election former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to win.
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U.S. President Barack Obama greets people in the crowd gathered to watch him arrive on Air Force One at Griffiss International Airport, May 22, 2014.
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Brazilian artist Paulo Ito talks on his mobile phone next to graffiti he painted referencing the 2014 World Cup, on the door of a public schoolhouse, May 22, 2014.
The city of Sao Paulo will host the opening match of the 2014 Brazil World Cup.
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Richard Qiangdong Liu, founder, chairman and CEO of JD.com celebrates with employees as JD.com has its initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq exchange, May 22, 2014.
JD.com is a popular online Chinese retail site.
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A man jumps off from a boarding ramp to a boat near a timber factory by the river Buriganga, May 18, 2014.
Damai, 3 years old Bornean orangutan plays at the courtyard of Surabaya Zoo as he prepares to be released into the wild, May 19, 2014.
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Dead cows to be taken away by the Bosnian military from a farm near the Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac along river Sava, May 20, 2014.
A new calamity emerged Tuesday in the flood-hit Balkans even as emergency workers battled overflowing rivers and evacuated thousands: tons of drowned livestock were posing a health hazard. With the rainfall stopping and temperatures rising, the withdrawing floodwaters revealed a harrowing sight: thousands of dead cows, pigs, sheep, dogs and other animals that were left behind after their panicked owners fled rapidly advancing torrents.
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Marlene lies over the original fossilised femur of a dinosaur displayed on exhibition at the Egidio Feruglio Museum, May 18, 2014.
According to the palaeontologists Jose Luis Carballido and Ruben Cuneo, the fossils are that of a sauropod and preliminary tests dates the fossils at some 90 million years old.
The scientists said the dinosaur could be 130 feet long and 65 feet tall, and weigh at 85 tons, and it is a previously undiscovered species of titanosaur, an herbivore, which lived during the Late Cretaceous period.
See more: Largest ever set of dinosaur remains
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Free Syrian Army fighters fire a self-made rocket towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, May 19, 2014.
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A member of the Aposento da Moita forcados group is tossed by a bull during a bullfight at Campo Pequeno bullring, May 16, 2014.
Forcados are traditional Portuguese bullfighters who catch bulls with their bare hands.
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Hero cat Tara, with the help of her owner Roger Triantafilo and team staff member Jade Henry, tosses the first pitch prior to the start of Bakersfield Blaze and Lancaster Jayhawks Single A baseball game, May 20, 2014.
The cat saved Roger's son Jeremy Triantafilo, 4, from a dog attack in the family's driveway.
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A fan takes pictures as rapper Kanye West arrives at a fashion designer shop in Paris, May 22, 2014.
U.S. television personality Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West will celebrate their wedding in Florence on May 25, an official from the mayor's office confirmed on Friday.
See more: Kim and Kanye in Paris
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A supporter of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dances during celebrations after learning of initial poll results outside the party headquarters, May 16, 2014.
Opposition candidate Narendra Modi will be the next prime minister of India, with early election results on Friday showing the pro-business Hindu nationalist and his party headed for the biggest victory the country has seen in 30 years.
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Flowers are laid at the place where Ugur Kurt was shot dead in Okmeydani cemevi, an Alevi place of worship, May 23, 2014.
A bystander, Ugur Kurt, who was attending a relative's funeral, was shot in the head apparently by a stray bullet as the violence flared on Thursday.
A second person died on Friday after clashes between Turkish police and protesters in a working-class district of Istanbul, stirring fears of further unrest as the anniversary of last year's anti-government demonstrations approaches.
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Anti-government protesters celebrate as they board buses at the Royal plaza to take them back home after the coup was declared, May 22, 2014.
Thailand's army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha took control of the government in the coup on Thursday saying the army had to restore order and push through reforms, two days after he declared martial law.
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Army Col. Matthew Rasmussen, of the Army Military District of Washington, wipes tears from his eyes while visiting the grave of Army Staff Sgt. Richard Tieman, 28, of Waynesboro, Pa., as he and members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as The Old Guard, places flags at grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery as part of the annual "Flags-In" ceremony in preparation for Memorial Day, May 22, 2014, at the cemetery in Arlington.
Tieman died May 18, 2010, in Kabul, Afghanistan of wounds suffered in a suicide car bombing.
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American Dreamers (Hardcover)
How the Left Changed a Nation
Knopf, 9780307266286, 352pp.
Publication Date: August 23, 2011
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Paperback (9/4/2012)
A panoramic yet intimate history of the American left—of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who have fought for a more just and humane society, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky—that gives us a revelatory new way of looking at two centuries of American politics and culture.
Michael Kazin—one of the most respected historians of the American left working today—takes us from abolitionism and early feminism to the labor struggles of the industrial age, through the emergence of anarchists, socialists, and communists, right up to the New Left in the 1960s and '70s. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been, in the traditional view, a story of movements that failed to gain support from mainstream America. In American Dreamers, Kazin tells a new history: one in which many of these movements, although they did not fully succeed on their own terms, nonetheless made lasting contributions to American society that led to equal opportunity for women, racial minorities, and homosexuals; the celebration of sexual pleasure; multiculturalism in the media and the schools; and the popularity of books and films with altruistic and antiauthoritarian messages.
Deeply informed, at once judicious and impassioned, and superbly written, American Dreamers is an essential book for our times and for anyone seeking to understand our political history and the people who made it.
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"Lively and illuminating . . . Kazin's book [is] a pleasure, but it is also a work of honest rigor. Kazin understands the limitations of the left, its self-destructive divisions, its difficulty in establishing an American presence within an international movement . . . It is, to say the least, timely."
—Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times
"Compendious and erudite . . . Kazin's is no rosy account of the continual march of progress; rather, it is a careful and nuanced view of the saga of the American left . . . For the political junkie as well as those simply curious about the saga of the left, his book is helpfully crammed with numerous informative portraits of famous as well as more neglected figures." —Jacob Heilbrunn, The Washington Monthly
"A spirited defense of the positive role played by left-wing radicals in shaping American society. . . . A coherent, wide-ranging analysis of a century of political and social activism in America." —Kirkus Reviews
"[A] perceptive history of the radical left . . . a lively and lucid synthesis of a vital political tradition." —Publishers Weekly
"Young progressives owe themselves the pleasure of reading American Dreamers to understand the tradition in which they're engaged and how the historical successes and failures of the American Left shape the choices they face now. Kazin has shown through the years that asking questions relevant to current struggles does not distort history. On the contrary, in the hands of a relentlessly honest historian, this approach sheds new light on the past and unearths truths that eluded others. Kazin will be read many years from now as one the most productive, graceful, provocative and intelligent historians of our era, and American Dreams is his masterwork."
—E. J. Dionne, author of Why Americans Hate Politics and Souled Out
"Michael Kazin writes about politics at its most romantic and reckless, with a rare empathy for history's protagonists, great and humble. American Dreamers will stir those who share the left's dreams and fascinate those who do not."
—Christopher Caldwell, senior editor, The Weekly Standard
"Michael Kazin's American Dreamers could not be more timely. At a moment when "the left" is a term of glib dismissal, Kazin resurrects a vital American radical tradition—everyone from Frederick Douglass and Emma Goldman to Betty Friedan and Doctor Seuss. With deft biographical portraits and telling historical detail, he shows how abolitionists, feminists, socialists, and even anarchists challenged Americans to embrace a larger life. Inspiring and engaging but also judiciously critical, American Dreamers reminds us that visions of utopia—whatever their flaws—remain an essential resource for creating a more humane society."
—Jackson Lears, Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers University
"With American Dreamers, Michael Kazin assumes his place in the tradition of Richard Hofstadter, Arthur Schlesinger, and Christopher Lasch as an invaluable interpreter of the American past as it applies to its present. This book is a tour de force of solid scholarship, stolid good sense, and remarkably precise and fluid prose. Simultaneously sympathetic and critical, it will be a pleasure for anyone interested in the left to read and a necessary challenge for its partisans to ponder."
—Eric Alterman, author of Why We're Liberals
"Michael Kazin has distilled years of his deeply informed thinking into a eminently readable book full of astute judgments, bringing generations of radicals and reformers out of the shadows, restoring them to the honored place they deserve in the history of an America that serves 'the better angels of our nature.'"
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Biden gives Letterman 'Top 10' reasons for voting early
Vice President Biden pitched in on the political entertainment front Thursday by reading David Letterman's "Top 10 Good Things About Voting Early."
The Biden-Letterman list included jokes about open bars, paying taxes, Donald Trump, and two of the vice president's favorite words, "literally" and "malarkey."
And the vice president no doubt struck a bipartisan note with his number one reason for voting early: "Honestly, don't you want this election over with already?"
Here's the full list:
10. I'm not saying each early voter gets a free cheeseburger, but I'm not saying they don't either.
9. It's vastly more effective than voting late.
8. You know who votes early? People with a backbone like a ramrod.
7. In a less crowded polling center, there's plenty of room to stretch out, linger and relax.
6. If you vote early you don't have to pay taxes. I'm sorry I'm being told that's not accurate.
5. Single and looking to mingle? Find that special someone in the early voting booth.
4. Of course, there's the open bar.
3. Not exercising your right to vote is malarkey - it's literally malarkey.
2. Early voters will receive a $5 million donation from Donald Trump.
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Since the beginning of the campaign in the US for the final Republican and Democratic nominees, I haven't been able to get this poem out of my head. Perhaps I had such a wonderful professor for American Poetry that Robert Frost's "The Mending Wall," made such an impression on me.
Thirteen years after I've graduated, I still think about this poem and what wisdom Frost imparts to people in his own time and ours. Mainly he suggests his poem is less about literal walls or fences, but about how neighbors should treat each other. Whether you've read the poem or not, you may find certain correlations between Frost's poem and the current political situation in the US.
I think the biggest issue Frost's poem highlights is why we build walls in the first place. The line at the beginning of the poem: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall," implies not all of us enjoy having walls between us and our neighbors (1). Frost isn't merely talking about physical walls or fences but about the walls that exist in relationships between people.
It's practical and helpful for to us to avoid petty arguments by having physical fences around our yards. But Frost suggests in "The Mending Wall," it is not helpful at all, to have walls and distance between people and their relationships with one another. This can cause large rifts between people when they don't agree or share a similar opinion. Communication and negotiation need to be encouraged, instead of building bigger walls. We forget many other people in this world are the same as us, going through similar trials. It doesn't matter their religion or ethnicity, we're all human.
Open communication and friendly communication is a necessary key to life. While physically we may have to "set the wall between us once again," or have certain boundaries, I don't recall stone walls every setting to right differences of opinion or thought (14). We can't stop talking because we don't agree, reaching for the best compromise available is vital.
Erecting a wall between the US and Mexico will affect US relationships with other nations, not only Mexico. It also makes the US government appear isolationist. Moreover, it affects other countries who would think it was okay to support their own selfish ideologies which are not democratic.
Isolationist countries and governments do not prosper in themselves or in helping their citizens prosper. In today's world it is critical for us all to have open communication and at times compromise and not always get 'our own way' with other countries for the good of all; the current US government goes against this globalized view. Trump stands for himself and if you're a lucky American who supports a view he does, he might stand for you too. But it's not something I would count on in a person who is extremely unpredictable.
In Frost's poem, the lines: "There where it is we do not need the wall: / He is all pine and I am apple orchard. / My apple trees will never get across / [and] eat the cones under his pines, I tell him," show the utter absurdity of having such a thick solid wall between the narrator and his neighbor (23-27). Frost's point in these lines is if the speaker and his neighbor acted neighborly, they wouldn't require a fence between them. It's absurd to have a wall between them because the narrator's apples don't eat his neighbor's pine cones and vice versa. The neighbor lacks insight into the situation.
He is similar to Trump who wants a wall between the US and Mexico beyond the border which already exists. Trump is akin to the neighbor insisting " . . . good fences make good neighbors." Truly walls break down relations between people and invite people to spew hatred and feel they are entitled to act badly and Trump's actions are encouraging this behavior (27). People have choices to act how their conscience tells them, but when the government decides on input-less actions that destroy relations with other parts of the world and with US citizens, this government is self-serving.
Frost's speaker also wonders about this wall he and his neighbor always fix in spring. He asks ". . . why do [fences] make good neighbors . . . " commenting that "[before] I built a wall I'd ask to know / [what] I was walling in or walling out, / [and] to whom I was like to offense" (32-34). For me, these lines are shockingly apt in current US politics.
In Robert Frost's poem "The Mending Wall," the wall is not only a physical wall/fence it's symbolic of relations between neighbors and metaphorical walls between people, in a broader sense, all sovereign nations. Trump insists on building a wall because it will wall out drugs from entering the US. He also believes he is keeping out illegal immigrates as well as crime. I think Frost would say, Trump is missing the bigger picture.
To my knowledge, Obama never had outstanding issues with Mexico. Most of us are aware of the drugs going back and forth across the border from Mexico and the people who want to leave Mexico for a better life. I would argue as many have, one way or another, the immigrants who want to get through are going to find a way through.
We also know for a fact, there are already tunnels to bring drugs into the US. If Trump wants to stop drug cartels from selling drugs, maybe he should focus on his own citizens involved in the purchase and selling of drugs. If you take away the market, perhaps you stop drug trafficking; however, my hunch is if Mexico sells fewer drugs, those who want or need drugs, will find another source.
Additionally, Frost's line about giving "offense" is relatable to Trump not caring what Mexico thinks about the wall (34). He wants to make them pay for it and he doesn't care that their President refused. He offended Mexico and its citizens; hopefully, he doesn't plan on vacationing there anytime soon as many US citizens like to do. He's going to make it difficult for US citizens wanting to vacation in Mexico and other places around the world in general. I've meant many wonderful American citizens on vacations but I know there are places where they still have to wear a Canadain flag on their outfit, so they are not thought be Americans. I would hate for this to be worse because of current affairs.
He's going to make it difficult for US citizens wanting to vacation in Mexico and other places around the world in general. I've met many wonderful American citizens on vacations but I know there are places where they still have to wear a Canadain flag on their outfit, so they are not thought be Americans because it would be dangerous to them or their cash supply. I would hate for this to be worse because of current affairs in the US.
As well, Trump offended the Mexican President who refused to visit the US after Trump announced the wall. He's set back relations with his physical and symbolic wall with Mexico. I believe US dealings with other countries will suffer setbacks as well because I think other nations will see US actions and be less inclined to trust their government and Trump.
The most curious part to me is how one man can destroy relations with other countries around the word so quickly through his lack of diplomacy and unwillingness to cooperate. I don't want the US, Canada, or anywhere to be larger targets for radical terrorists or desperate criminals because Trump is blocking people from migrating to the US from the Middle East. Many people there are like us, regular people who don't deserve to be labeled terrorists due to their religion. Some of those people require help due to actual terrorists such as ISIS, who are making it difficult for them to meet their basic needs.
Frost also writes in his poem about those who don't love walls and would like them down. His narrator sees no need for the wall and thinks he could tell his neighbor, "'I could say "Elves" to him, / [but] it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather / [he] said it for himself (35 – 38). Frost implies the neighbor needs to recognize for himself and 'say' for himself, that the physical and metaphorical wall between them is absurd.
I think the same principles apply to Trump and his wall. The wall is a thoughtless law as well as the symbolic breaking down of US relations with other countries such as Mexico and realistically, several others. The current US President won't ever admit he is wrong.
In the end, I find the situation with Trump and the US government much the same as Frost describes the neighbour in his poem: "In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed./ He moves in darkness as it seems to me, / [not] of woods only and the shade of trees (40 – 42). To the narrator of Frost's poem, rebuilding the wall between his neighbour and him is a game.
He even wonders if he could put "a notion" in his neighbours head and say "[elves]" made the stones fall out of place (29,37). But to the neighbour such as the US government, this is no game. While the rest of us mock Trump and have "mischief" in us as we read daily what Trump's decided to do now, we are also somewhat afraid.
Trump walks around as Frost's speaker's neighbor, "an old-stone savage armed . . . [moving] in darkness . . . (40-41). This darkness is as an ignorance and not only of "woods . . . and the shade of trees (42)." I cannot imagine all the duties a President has; however, I do know about starting a new job as I'm sure many people can relate to.
Often, it is best to let things be done the way they have been done, to learn the experience and the wisdom behind the methods people use currently, before implementing massive change. At times, we think our own way of doing something is better. Then one day it hits us why something was done a certain way, how much easier it is to keep doing it that particular way. Once you learn how things are done, then changes can be implemented with reason and with experience behind that reasoning.
With US relations with its own citizens and the citizens of the world, we can only hope Trump ends his walk in darkness and ignorance. Perhaps one day he will step into the light and see why past Presidents acted how they did in certain matters? That he was elected by citizens and speaks and acts for them.
It's my hope he searches beyond his own experience, what he's been able to do freely as wealthy and powerful man. I hope he listens to the people who elected him and acts with discernment, that he learns to think before he acts. One encouraging thing about Trump I did hear was his admiration of Winston Churchill.
In conclusion, Frost calls his poem "The Mending Wall" because he hopes each year relations with his neighbour will improve, that eventually they won't need a wall between them. Can we hope this much of the new US government? That they will not build walls to isolate their country? That they will not only think about themselves in this diverse, multicultural, and globalized world? I hope so. I'd hope Trump eventually learns to mend relations with his neighbours and not to snub them or God forbid, cause war. I hope he learns to see beyond the saying, " . . . [good] fences make good neighbours" (45).
By Robert Frost
1. Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
2. That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
3. And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
4. And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
5. The work of hunters is another thing:
6. I have come after them and made repair
7. Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
8. But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
9. To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
10. No one has seen them made or heard them made,
11. But at spring mending-time we find them there.
12. I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
13. And on a day we meet to walk the line
14. And set the wall between us once again.
15. We keep the wall between us as we go.
16. To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
17. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
18. We have to use a spell to make them balance:
19. "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
20. We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
21. Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
22. One on a side. It comes to little more:
23. There where it is we do not need the wall:
24. He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
25. My apple trees will never get across
26. And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
27. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."
28. Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
29. If I could put a notion in his head:
30. "Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
31. Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
32. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
33. What I was walling in or walling out,
34. And to whom I was like to give offence.
35. Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
36. That wants it down." I could say "Elves" to him,
37. But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
38. He said it for himself. I see him there
39. Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
40. In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
41.He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
42. Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
43. He will not go behind his father's saying,
44. And he likes having thought of it so well
45. He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."
See Poetry Foundation: The Mending Wall by Robert Frost.
©Mandibelle16. (2017) All Rights Reserved.


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W hy the hell is Eric Holder still around? That's a question many of Barack Obama's political advisers have asked at various points throughout Holder's tumultuous five years at the helm of the Justice Department.
For most of Obama's presidency, in fact, if there's been controversy, Holder was likely to be in the middle of it, from the failed efforts to close Guantánamo Bay and to prosecute alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a Manhattan court to his inability to send Wall Street executives involved in the mortgage meltdown to jail. His detractors in the West Wing of the White House, and there have been many, have seen the attorney general as a never-ending source of questionable decisions, tin-eared political missteps and off-the-reservation remarks. "If it was coming out of the Justice Department," a former top adviser to Obama recalled to me, "it was bad news."
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Congress has it in for Holder, too: House Republicans howled for his scalp after voting him in contempt of Congress two years ago in a dispute over a gun investigation gone awry, making Holder the first Cabinet member ever to be sanctioned. And at least one Hill Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, suggested Holder step down after it was revealed the department had secretly obtained journalists' phone records as part of leak investigations involving the Associated Press and Fox News. "Whenever you feel that you have lost your effectiveness … to the detriment of the job that you do," Manchin told Bloomberg, "decisions have to be made."
And yet Holder, an affable, ambitious and stubborn 63-year-old career prosecutor, has not only weathered these attacks but emerged, improbably, with greater leverage and more access to Obama than ever. How did he do it? To start, it helps that he is one of the few administration figures to cross the threshold from employee to friend of the famously reserved president. Holder, in fact, is one of the only Cabinet members Obama routinely invites over for dinner and drinks (Education Secretary Arne Duncan, a hoops buddy from Chicago, is another) and the only one who times his summer vacation to hang out with the president on Martha's Vineyard. Their wives are even closer, and Michelle Obama is a not infrequent drop-in guest for Friday pizza night at Holder's house. Besides, the attorney general is nothing if not a loyalist, an increasingly valuable commodity to a second-term president rattled by accelerating congressional investigations. Obama clearly respects Holder's four decades of experience as an attorney and judge and supports Holder's positions on LGBT rights and racial profiling, often telling his staff he recognizes it's not all Holder's fault: The job of attorney general is a "shit magnet" for the most intractable controversies.
But there's another explanation, and according to the two dozen current and former Obama administration officials and confidants of both men I've spoken with in recent weeks, it may well be the main reason the first black president of the United States has stood so firmly behind the first black attorney general of the United States: Holder has been willing to say the things Obama couldn't or wouldn't say about race.
"He's a race man," says Charles Ogletree, a longtime friend of Holder's who taught and mentored Obama and his wife, Michelle, as Harvard Law School students in the 1980s. "He's gone farther and deeper into some issues of race than the White House would like, but I know he has the president's well-wishes. It's clear [Obama and Holder] believe in the same things."
Holder himself recently told another African-American friend that he feels part of his job is "to talk about things the president can't talk about as easily." Asked to describe Holder's role, one of his former top aides described him as "Obama's heat shield."
There's no question that Obama has resisted calls, from inside and outside the administration, to dump Holder, including quiet rumblings by some aides who wanted Obama to ease him out after the 2012 reelection.
But the president brushed off such talk, as he has done repeatedly with those who have tried and failed to come between him and his AG. From the start, the White House staff has been at odds with Holder—a conflict that, my sources told me, has been one of the longest-running hidden dramas of this White House. "He says he's on Team Obama, but he's really on Team Holder," one top Obama aide told me.
The bad blood goes all the way back to a month into Obama's first term—as the West Wing staff was working 18-hour days to keep the economy from collapsing—when Holder jolted Obama's team seemingly out of nowhere. Tellingly, the subject was race. Holder informed the White House he planned to deliver a Black History Month speech but never got around to telling Obama's aides what he would actually say, a habit that would infuriate the White House time and again over the years—and underscore Holder's special standing in Obama's world.
"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," Holder declared to a gathering of Justice Department employees—a bombshell assertion that caused the predictable rage among Obama's attackers on the right, who accused him of playing the race card.
Obama's top political aides—white liberals to a man, and they were all men—didn't necessarily disagree with Holder's sentiment; they just thought it was a dumb way of saying it and dangerously ill-timed to boot. Obama was ticked off, too, and did nothing to stop his top advisers David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs and Jim Messina from severely restricting Holder's public utterances and imposing a ban on Sunday show appearances that stands to this day.
But the president's anger only went so far, and Holder takes no small satisfaction in outlasting those early rivals. In interviews, many of the officials I spoke with offered a blunt explanation for his bond with Obama: For all the president's success at breaking barriers, Obama is often the only black person in the room when a major decision is being made—unless Holder, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett or National Security Adviser Susan Rice is present. This isn't just about skin pigment, and it's not a phenomenon unique to Obama; all presidents draw close to them people who share common personal experiences and their deepest priorities, people they trust, who provide the elusive "comfort level" they seek in times of extreme stress. John F. Kennedy had his "Irish Mafia," Ronald Reagan had his California buddies, Bill Clinton surrounded himself with pals from Arkansas.
Balanced against such bonds, Holder's scraps with Congress, his battles with a press corps furious over the most leak prosecutions of any administration in history and the opposition of Obama's palace guard—who view him as politically clueless—just can't quite compete.


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Ferrer, ranked fourth in the world, tumbled to the Belgian grass court specialist 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 in the opening round at Autotron Rosmalen.
The Spaniard was seeking to repeat in the Netherlands after downing German Philipp Petzschner in last year's finale.
Malisse, meanwhile, notched just his 16th win 57 all-time matches against Top 10 players.
Elsewhere Tuesday, second-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland moved on to the second round with a 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 defeat of Belgian lucky-loser Steve Darcis 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, while No. 5 seed Jeremy Chardy of France bested countryman Lucas Pouille 7-5, 6-4.
The news wasn't as good for No. 4 Benoit Paire, who retired in the first set against French countryman Michael Llodra.
Romanian wild card Marius Copil, Taiwan's Yen-Hsun Lu, French qualifier Nicolas Mahut, and Czech qualifier Jan Hernych also picked up opening-round victories.


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Brooklyn, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's basketball team improved to 4-2 overall, 1-0 in the Skyline, with an 80-51 victory over NYU-Poly in their conference opener on Thursday night in Brooklyn, N.Y. The Jays fell to 0-5, 0-2 with the loss.
The Rams built up an early 18-2 margin and never looked back as they cruised to the first conference win of the year. Junior forward AJ Matthews (Brooklyn, N.Y.) posted game-highs of 27 points, 19 boards, and eight blocks to lead Farmingdale State.
NYU-Poly was led by freshman Evan Azzam (Los Angeles, Calif.) who totaled 14 points. Senior Alex Westphal (Port Washington, Wisc.) and freshman Thomas Fabian (Stroudsburg, Pa.) each chipped in with 11. Westphal led the Jays with 11 rebounds.
NYU-Poly shot just 22-percent from the field on the night, while Farmingdale shot 40-percent.
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