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For the last 24 hours I've had no "Find Match" button.
Tried restarting dota, restarting steam, resetting router, verifying cache files . . . no change.
The button reappeared if I was invited to a party by a friend, however would be gone when I restarted dota.
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David Jones, Giorgio Armani, Inglot, Laura Mercier, MAC, makeup tips, Mascara, Maybelline, Myer, Shiseido, Shu Uemura, Tweezerman
Some people are born with a perfect set of lashes, but for the rest of us mere mortals there is mascara! Mascara has been around since Ancient Egypt. For the modern student, the ideal mascara should be dark, lengthening, separating and long-wearing. But honestly, finding the perfect mascara is kind of like finding parking at UWA on a Monday – you keep looking and hoping until you get lucky. To make things worse, mascaras can be notoriously inconsistent from person to person. The only way to find your holy grail is through a lot of experimentation (although reviews help! Check out my post on the value of reviews here).
When you have a mascara you love, you can apply a few tricks to get the most out of it. Firstly and most importantly, invest in a good lash curler. The undeniable worldwide favourite is the Shu Uemura lash curler (currently available in David Jones). Good quality curlers are also made by MAC, Shiseido and Tweezerman (all available at Myer).
Curl lashes starting at the base (that is as close to your lid as you can get without pinching the skin!) and moving up towards the tip with each pump. This creates a nice 'C' shaped curl that opens up the eyes without giving you that Betty Boop look. Once you've curled, quickly comb through the lashes with a spoolie to separate and shape them. Then apply your mascara, starting as close to the lashline as possible.
Finally, to create the illusion of added thickness, gently pat black eyeshadow into your upper lashline using an angled eyeliner brush. You can also get this effect by tightlining (applying eyeliner to the upper waterline). Make sure you pre-apply an eyeshadow base to prevent smudging throughout the day.
Recommended items:
- Shu Uemura Eyelash Curler – AUD 45.00
- Giorgio Armani Eyes to Kill Mascara – AUD 50.00
- Shiseido Perfect Mascara – AUD 50.00
- Maybelline Full N' Soft Mascara – AUD 19.25
- Laura Mercier Caviar Eyeliner in Black – AUD 45.00
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The Boy Who Changed the World by Andy Andrews is a colorful children's book that talks about the impact even a small action can have on the world. The book is adapted from Andrews' inspirational book The Butterfly Effect in order to bring it down to a child's level of understanding. It is graphically and colorfully illustrated by Philip Hurst.
In order to illustrate his point the author tells the story of the development of a hybrid corn seed that has saved the lives of billions from starvation. He traces the events that led up to the development backward through time to the small act of a simple farmer who rescued a small boy from the hands of outlaws and brought him into his own family.
This story does a good job of showing how everything we do can have an impact. Every child needs to learn the lesson that they don't have to be a president, or CEO, or Military Hero to change to world. They just need to be themselves and do what they can for others.
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text: TV GLAAD-Nominated Aussie Comedy 'Please Like Me' to Get Second Season 1:12 AM PST 2/17/2014 by Pip Bulbeck FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME ABC "Please Like Me" The show from Australian Broadcasting Corp. and Participant Media stars Josh Thomas and airs on Pivot in the U.S. SYDNEY -- The Australian Broadcasting Corp. and Participant Media have confirmed they've commissioned a second season of Josh Thomas' GLAAD-nominated comedy Please Like Me, with production of another 10 half-hour episodes starting this week in Melbourne. The second season stars Thomas alongside a host of returning and new castmembers, and it will air later this year on ABC2 in Australia and Pivot TV in the U.S. Pivot is a cable channel owned by Participant Media that targets 18- to 34-year-old viewers. PHOTOS: 2014's New Broadcast and Cable TV Shows The first season of Please Like Me was heralded as one of the best shows of 2013 by The New Yorker, Time, Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times. In Australia, the series was ABC2's highest rated original comedy, and in January, it won the 2014 AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) award for best television comedy or light entertainment series. It is currently nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding comedy series, alongside Glee, Modern Family, Orange Is the New Black and 2014 Golden Globe winner Brooklyn Nine-Nine. New castmembers in season two include the Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby, Australian entertainer Denise Drysdale, and rising stars Keegan Joyce (Rake), Charles Cottier (Home and Away) and Charlotte Nicdao (The Slap, The Time of Our Lives). PHOTOS: 'House of Cards': Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright Toast Season 2 In the first season, Thomas was dumped by his girlfriend, gained and lost a boyfriend, came out to his parents, lost his eccentric great aunt and moved back in to live with his bipolar mother after her suicide attempt. Now he just tries to get through the day without upsetting anyone. The new season also welcomes a new dog, a new rabbit and a new baby. Director Matthew Saville (The Slap, Cloudstreet, Felony) and producer Todd Abbott also return for the second season. Executive producers are Thomas, Abbott and Kevin Whyte. Executive producers for ABC are Rick Kalowski and Brett Sleigh, and for Pivot, Jeff Skoll and Holly Hines. Kalowski, ABC head of comedy, said, "We couldn't be prouder at ABC to be going into business with Pivot on season two of this outstanding show. I've never read new scripts as assured as these. Please Like Me fans all over the world are in for a major treat." FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Pip Bulbeck firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


text: Beijing, in its quest looking for energy resources, is slowly and steadily building ties with the resource-rich Persian Gulf states. What implications does this have for Washington which constantly looks to counterbalance China's influence in the global arena? This new book, edited by program associate Bryce Wakefield and program assistant Susan L. Levenstein, examines China's role in the Persian Gulf, evolving views on China from within the Gulf, and what China's presence means for the United States. Click on the attachment for a free PDF version.


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10 Causes of Population Growth | Possible Implications
Overpopulation is an undesirable condition where the number count of the human population exceeds the carrying capacity of Earth.
But overpopulation is a problem limited to few countries. In some countries, less population is a cause of worry.
However, overpopulation has a deleterious effect on the environment due to current lifestyle.
There would be rampant exploitation of natural resources, excess human waste accumulation, chances of epidemics etc.
Besides, it would also lead to socioeconomic problems like poverty, malnutrition, violence, corruption etc.
Human overpopulation occurs if the number of people in a group exceeds the carrying capacity of the region occupied by that group.
What causes overpopulation 10 Reasons
1. Better health care leads to a decline in the death rate:
The reduced mortality rate is one of the leading causes of overpopulation. Due to medical advancements, many diseases could be cured now. Owing to advances in both preventive and curative medicine, diseases have either been eradicated or have more effective treatments now. There are effective ways to control epidemics and there are better measures to treat critical health ailments, thus leading to a drop in death rates.
Developments in medicine have led to reduced mortality and an increase in the average life expectancy of humans. Infant mortality rates are very low and cases of deaths during childbirth are less frequent now. Good prenatal care has improved the chances of survival for both the mother and the baby.
2. The rise in the Birth Rate:
Due to the advancement in medicine, the average birth rate has gone up. Due to various fertility treatments available today, there are effective solutions to infertility problems, which increases chances of conception. Due to modern medicine, pregnancies are safer. In the case of conception after fertility treatment, there are chances of multiple pregnancies, further contributing to increasing birth rate. This further contributes to overpopulation. Early marriages also contribute to population growth as getting married at an early age increases the chances of having more children. And especially so with the uneducated class where family planning is not adopted.
3. Lack of Education/ awareness
Illiteracy is another important factor that contributes to overpopulation. Masses lacking education fail to understand the need to curb population growth. Modern methods of birth control and family planning don't reach the illiterate sections of society. Furthermore, due to lack of awareness, there is resistance in adopting such methods. The illiterate are unable to understand what impact overpopulation can have. The educated class can make more responsible decisions about marriage and childbirth.
4. Cultural Influences:
The concept of birth control is not widely accepted. Adopting birth control measures is considered taboo in certain cultures. Some cultures foster beliefs where marrying at a certain age or having a certain number of children is considered to be ideal. In some cultures, there is pressure from the family and society to have children. Social norms influence decisions of starting and extending one's family. In cultures where a woman's role is considered to be that of a child-bearer, large families become the norm.
5. Lack of Family Planning:
Most developing nations have a large number of people who are illiterate, live below the poverty line and have little or no knowledge about family planning. Getting their children married at an early age increase the chances of producing more kids. Those people are unable to understand the harmful effects of overpopulation and lack of ignorance prompts them to avoid family planning measures.
6. Religious propagation: It is believed that some religious preachers encourage to have more children. They propagate that God would provide for them and hence they should not stop having children or adopt family planning. This is a sort of selfish motive to enhance their religious population. Hence, you can notice countries with certain major religions have more population.
7. The desire to manipulate democracy or demography:
The above-said method is also used to encourage the growth of the population of their sect. This is seen in a few instances where the ratio of children to parents is very high in some communities. Though it is not appropriate to mention them here. Recent news of ethnic cleansing etc. throw a light on how the population was manipulated to get dominance. It was reported that girls of very low age were a mother to two or more kids. Even you can notice politician argue against and in support of immigrants of a particular religion or group specifically.
8. Immigration/ migration: Population of a state or country would rise not only due to enhanced birth rate or decline in death rate but also due to enhanced migration.
In the recent past, we have noticed many people migrate to other countries for survival. This way the host country population goes up. Even these immigrants tend to enhance their community population by having more children.
In few countries, politicians intentionally encourage such illegal migration for vote bank. They give them shelter and also provide identity card to enjoy as natural citizens.
9. The desire for social support: A man who has more children considers to have better strength socially. Even if he wishes to take up work or contract, he would involve all his children and get it done. Also since he has a big family with more number of children and their families, he could dominate others with less familial strength or support. So having more children is an intention to have better social support or dominance.
10. Region-based variation in perception: We can notice that western countries have less population than eastern countries. This is because some people in the west do not like to take responsibility for kids upbringing etc. While, in the east, children and family are considered as an asset and therefore people are ready to take responsibility.


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The butt lift cosmetic surgery has grown into one of the most popular enhancement procedures today. The butt lift is known as a buttock or gluteal augmentation. The butt lift serves to shape, reshape and contour the curves of the buttocks, adding volume or restoring lost volume. Additionally, by increasing the volume of the buttocks, the butt lift serves to trim the silhouette of the waistline, especially when performed with fat transfer.
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Nearly a year ago, 60 Minutes ran a story on fake stem cell treatments being targeted at terminally ill patients. Last week, three men were taken into custody by the FBI, with a fourth still on the loose.
Stem cell treatments could cure dozens or even hundreds of debilitating diseases from paralysis to diabetes to HIV. The problem is that these technologies take time, and they are not the magical cure-alls that we hear about in science fiction. Unfortunately, that has not stopped people from taking advantage of the general public's naivety regarding regenerative medicine.
It has become a trend in recent years to claim that health products contain stem cells as a magical active ingredient. On the less ethically-troublesome side, beauty products claim that creams and gels will make skin perfect through the "science" of stem cells. These products cost between $38-$160 per 1-5oz container, and say they will help skin regenerate back to their perfect form. Clinical trial data is almost never provided, and some products may not even contain any stem cells. This company uses "only adult human stem cells", but some products may include animal cells instead.
While fake beauty creams are bad, far worse is promising cures to fatal diseases that offer no hope of working. The three men arrested obtained umbilical cord blood and used it to produce stem cells illegally. They then marketed the cells as cures to ALS, MS, Parkinson's and others, all while pretending to be doctors. The men would meet people in the US, then travel to Mexico to perform the procedures.
Medical tourism, or travelling to another country for medical treatment, is a common problem for the stem cell industry. Late last year Peyton Manning travelled to Europe in the hopes of curing a neck problem that was not healing with traditional surgery. The team has since announced that the treatment was unsuccessful, which is no surprise to stem cell researchers.
Luckily, these terrible men are being brought to justice , and real stem cell experts are speaking out against these "miracle cures". Last year, Doug Sipp, from RIKEN's Science Policy and Ethics Studies Unit, gave a presentation on illegal marketing practices for fake stem cell "cures" at the Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Congress in Boston. Many fear that public opinion of stem cells will be tarnished by the negative (or potentially dangerous) effects of these unapproved treatments, so it is great that 60 Minutes and experts like Doug are working to educate the public on these fake claims.
Learn more about real stem cell treatments at the Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Congress USA 2012!


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The Big Sable Point Lighthouse is open May 1 - Oct. 31, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Recreation Passport required for entry. Typically there are no additional fees for interpretive programs, with the exception of snowshoe-making programs in the winter.
Known for its miles of sandy beaches and sand dunes on Lake Michigan, Ludington State Park offers a variety of interpretive programs.
The park is located on the shore of Lake Michigan and includes nearly 5,300 acres of scenic sand dunes, over five miles of Lake Michigan shoreline vistas, ponds and forest land. The park is home to Hamlin Lake and one of Michigan's oldest lighthouses, Big Sable Point Lighthouse.
Ludington State Park offers many great attractions, classes, hikes, and interpretive programs year round. Visitors can learn about the sand dunes, the Great Lakes, the history of Big Sable Point Lighthouse, lumber town, and the Civilian Conservation Corps camp. Most programs are free, and reservations are not necessary.


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text: TV Spain's Globomedia Joins Euro Newen Network 5:44 AM PDT 5/24/2011 by Pamela Rolfe FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Spain's leading television producer joins the European web of creative formats launched by France's Newen production house. MADRID -- Spain's leading television producer Globomedia announced Tuesday it has joined Newen Network, the European web of creative formats launched by France's Newen production house. The network allows its members access to television formats and is intended to unite Europe's independent players and facilitate the subsequent sale of formats beyond national borders -- as well as the acquisition of cutting-edge programs for the respective domestic markets. "Our accord with Globomedia marks a new stage in our international development of Newen," Newen president Fabrice Larue said. "With Newen Network, members will have access to the best formats of each one. These privileged agreements offer greater opportunities of growth abroad." Globomedia, part of the Imagina group -- an empire that leads Spanish television production, controls free-to-air channel La Sexta and includes Barcelona-based powerhouse Mediapro. "In the highly competitive global market, this alliance with an important French production group allows us to strengthen our position as one of the main international producers and sellers of formats," Globomedia president Daniel Ecija said. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Pamela Rolfe firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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The festival of the church of the Assumption of St. Clair Shores, MI was a sea of people from August 15-17. The Divine Liturgy on the Feast Day of Assumption was celebrated by Metropolitan Nicholas and Fr. Michael Varlamos and the festival followed, attracting thousands of Greeks and Philhellenes.
The festivities featured continuous performances by numerous dance groups whose members wore traditional costumes. The Oneiro orchestra, which includes second and third generation Greek-American musicians, including Nicholas Varlamos, the pastor's son, on vocals, generated much kefi.
More than 250 volunteers helped make the big festival a reality. The ladies of the Philoptochos Society were in perpetual motion until Sunday night.
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Jaguars place Blaine Gabbert, Laurent Robinson on injured reserve
The Jacksonville Jaguars announced that quarterback Blaine Gabbert has been placed on season-ending injured reserve with a right forearm injury he sustained in the first quarter of last Sunday's 43-37 overtime loss to the Houston Texans. In addition to the forearm injury, Gabbert has been bothered by a torn labrum in his left shoulder throughout this season, an ailment that was cited in the official release from the team's public relations department and which will require surgery to repair.
Gabbert was selected with the No. 10 overall pick in the 2011 NFL draft to be the team's quarterback of the future. Coming out of a spread offense with no offseason to work with an NFL coaching staff, Gabbert strugged as a rookie, completing just 50.8 percent of 413 pass attempts for 2,214 yards with 12 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. Gabbert's passer rating was just 65.4 and he ranked dead last among qualifying quarterbacks in Football Outsiders' DYAR (Defense-adjusted Yards Above Replacement).
[Related video: What to do with those injured NFL stars?]
This season, Gabbert's completion percentage had risen to 58.3 percent on 278 attempts for 1,662 yards with nine touchdowns and six interceptions. Gabbert still ranks towards the bottom in DYAR, however, ahead of only Matt Cassel of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Gabbert has two seasons and $3,477,645 in fully guaranteed base salary remaining on his rookie contract, but the Jaguars only have one season remaining to determine whether or not to exercise their fifth-year option on the contract, a decision that needs to be made between the final regular-season game of 2013 and May 3, 2014.
With Gabbert placed on the shelf, Chad Henne ascends to the top spot on the depth chart. Henne was signed to a two-year, $6.75 million contract to back up and push Gabbert, a deal that included $4.075 million guaranteed money. In four appearances this season, Henne has completed 37 of 71 pass attempts for 569 yards with five touchdowns and one interception. Most of Henne's production came in relief of Gabbert last Sunday, with the former Miami Dolphins quarterback passing for 354 yards and four touchdown in the overtime loss.
[Related: Jacksonville WR Justin Blackmon breaks out]
The Jaguars had been carrying only two quarterbacks on the 53-man roster, but have signed Jordan Palmer to replace Gabbert on the active roster. The club also has former Alabama and Atlanta Falcons backup John Parker Wilson on the practice squad.
In addition to placing Gabbert on injured reserve, the Jaguars placed wide receiver Laurent Robinson on injured reserve with a concussion, his third of the regular season. To bolster a passing offense that ranked 32nd in the NFL in 2011, the Jaguars signed Robinson to a five-year, $32.5 million contract that included $13.6 million in guaranteed money, including a fully guaranteed $2.6 million base salary for the 2013 season. In seven games this season, Robinson caught 24 passes for 252 yards and did not find the end zone once after being among the league leaders with 11 during his 2011 season with the Dallas Cowboys.
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Caterpillar and Ariel announce 50-50 JV--Black Horse--aimed at providing well service pressure pumping products for customers in global oil and gas industry; JV also announces acquisition of Houston-based pump manufacturer ProSource
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December 5, 2012
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– Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) and Ariel Corporation announced today the formation of a 50-50 joint venture that will provide well service pressure pumping products for customers in the global oil and gas industry. The combined venture, Black Horse LLC, also announced the acquisition of pump manufacturer ProSource of Houston, Texas.
Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of diesel and natural gas engines for the generation, control and supply of mechanical and electric power for the marine and petroleum industries. Ariel Corporation is a global leader in the design and manufacture of gas compressors. More than 40,000 Ariel compressors are currently in use throughout the global energy industry to extract, process, transport, store and distribute natural gas from the wellhead to the end-user.
The acquisition of ProSource, which designs and manufactures reciprocating pressure pumps, enables Black Horse LLC to serve the well service market. Black Horse LLC will leverage Caterpillar and Ariel engineering and manufacturing expertise to expand ProSource's existing product line to better serve global oil and gas customers. Frac pumps sold through the combined venture will be branded and sold under the Cat name and distributed through the Cat dealer network.
"We are thrilled to partner with Ariel to bring our petroleum customers not just a partial solution, but a complete package," said Tom Frake, Caterpillar vice president with responsibility for Marine and Petroleum Power. "Together, with the support of our Cat dealer network, we can provide not only a complete pressure-pumping solution, but also the global parts and service support to maximize up-time throughout the world. This deal significantly improves our capability to meet our oil and gas customers' needs for reliable, sustainable power."
Under the arrangement, executives from Caterpillar's Marine and Petroleum Power Division and Ariel Corporation will jointly lead Black Horse LLC.
"Ariel has built an outstanding reputation by employing technology to provide high-quality, innovative products backed by world-class customer support. Caterpillar has done exactly the same," said Karen Buchwald Wright, Ariel's president and chief executive officer. "This partnership brings together two companies with the same strong values and commitment to customers' success. It's an exciting, new chapter for both of us."
The joint venture and integration of ProSource will result in important synergies, including leveraging the companies' existing product ranges, advanced technologies, research and development resources, and manufacturing, distribution and customer support capabilities.
Black Horse LLC is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
About Caterpillar:
For more than 85 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on every continent. With 2011 sales and revenues of $60.138 billion, Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The company also is a leading services provider through Caterpillar Financial Services, Caterpillar Remanufacturing Services and Progress Rail Services. More information is available at: http://www.caterpillar.com.
About Ariel:
Established in 1966, and headquartered in Mount Vernon, OH, Ariel Corporation is the world's largest manufacturer of separable reciprocating gas compressors utilized by the global energy industry to extract, process, transport, store, and distribute natural gas from the wellhead to the end-user. Ariel also produces specialized API-618 reciprocating compressors for the process industry. As a world-class manufacturer, Ariel sets the industry standard through industry-leading research & development, expert design & manufacturing, and unmatched customer support. More information is available at: http://www.ArielCorp.com.
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We have the capabilities to Hot Vulcanize Conveyor and Transmission belts from 30mm wide up to 2400mm wide.
Belt Maintenance and Repairs can be done On Site by using the Super Spotter Repair Vulcanizer, or by using the Cold Vulcanization Method.
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CMS offers a complete and diverse range of conveyor pulleys that are precision manufactured to the highest standards. This ensures product suitability, reliability, performance as well as reduced maintenance.
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
--Miguel de Cervantes
One bite has never been a life changing decision but it is now --- to bite or not to bite that is the question.
All Lucius needs is his family. They might be a mismatched and unconventional group but they're the only "real" family he knows and wants. What Lucius doesn't need is the strange, beautiful man who arrives as a last minute dinner guest and knocks him and his wolf on his ass, literally.
Just being in the same room with the mysterious Nicu proves disastrous. Lucius knows without a doubt he doesn't need the havoc Nicu threatens to bring to his predictable, but comfortable existence. But when he stands to lose the man who is tearing his life apart, Lucius realizes he doesn't know what he needs at all.
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We've been here just a little over a month so far. Worker Man is settling into a bit of a routine, and I have many more checks on The List than I did a couple weeks ago. Besides trying to work around sharing the tools that are too expensive to duplicate (the ratcheting crimper, for instance), the projects have gone remarkable smooth. I confess to having tackled some of the shorter projects just to be able to check some off, and the longer projects are looming on the horizon now that most of the shorter ones are getting checked off. For those who care to see what a summer of upgrades looks like, here's the status.
Yet to do:
- Remove old shower sump box
- Install new shower sump box
- Re-route fridge drain into new shower sump box
- Move old bilge pump to new position as backup (glass new mount into bilge, use existing wiring)
- Remodel old shower sump box into storage box for Coke cans
- Install new bilge pump (glass new mount into bilge, run new wiring from bilge to battery and from bilge to switch panel)
- Install new 3-way bilge pump rocker switch
- Make new chafe guards out of Sailrite boat blanket
- Make new windlass cover
- Make new jerry can covers for water jugs
- Make zippered flag sleeve for US flag
- Make new shelf support bracket for middle of electronics charging shelf
- Install new LED strip light in aft cabin with dimmer switch
Yet to do:
- Install 12V plug in cockpit
- Install iPad mount in cockpit
- Rebed ports (13)
- Paint nonskid
- Refinish all the teak on the exterior of the boat
- Refinish hatch screen frames interior
- Make cockpit enclosure
- Find new whisker pole
- Find new spare anchor
- Polish stainless
- Replace leaking galley faucet
- Mount new bus bar in battery box
Are you tired yet? I am, so off to bed, but before I go, here's a picture for you to enjoy. I'm putting it here to remind us why we're working so hard.


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Date: August 9, 1757/2014
Situation: Russian Invasion of East Prussia
Fictional Location east of Danzig: The Sonnenfeld
During the summer of 1757/2014 the Russians invaded East Prussia. They hoped this would stretch Frederick II's resources as allies Austria and France pressed Prussia and Britain on other fronts. On August 9, 1757 the Russians and Prussians fought on the field of Sonnenfeld.
The Beginning
Prussian Right Flank
Unseen: On the Russian Back Table the Bosnian Lancers went battle mad apparently. They crashed into the routing and disorganized Russian Converged Grenadiers cutting them all down. One of their flags was captured by the Bosnians too. They later returned to the Main Table hoping for more mischief in the rear of the Russian Left Flank.
Prussian Left Flank
Protected by Battalion Isenburg. {25mm Garrison castings}
Musketry soon caused casualties on both sides. {Foreground: Protzdam Grenadiers 30mm Staddens from my collection.These are the same castings (not the unit) on the cover of CHARGE or How To Play Wargames. Having these iconic castings was a long-term goal.}
The leading Russian battalion became a tough remnant.
The other two (not shown to the left) cantered through a gap in the Russian lines to cause mischief and presented themselves in the rear of the Russians.
The last dragoons mentioned are not shown. One squadron off image in the upper right would approach the rear left flank of the distant Russian infantry. The other went toward the Russian Back Table but was shot to pieces by a battalion that turned about to face it.
The Center
Battle Honours
Missions:Russians: Substantially throw the foe off The Main Table. {Unsuccessful}
Prussians: Prevent further incursion of the Russians into East Prussia. {Successful}
BAR Rules:
Batailles de l' Ancien Régime 1740-1763 written by yours truly with considerable advice and play testing with Jim P. plus the invaluable writings of Christopher Duffy and Sir Reginald Savory among others. The game started at 11:00 am. ending at 3:45 p.m. with a half hour pause for lunch. I think nine turns were played using nearly 1,800 miniatures total. We could have played one more but the game reached a decision.We also thought our metal warriors had reached a state of exhaustion.
Russian Fire Discipline:
Two playing card decks were used. One on the Prussian Left Flank and the other deck for The Center and Prussian Right Flank. The latter card deck allowed the Russians to fire first for an amazing seven or so turns. On the Prussian Left Flank, fire cards were drawn more favorably for the Prussians there.
Too nerve wracking? Yes, it is understandable to think this. However, in the course of almost one hundred games, odds seem to even out in each game. In spite of amazing luck for Russians in the Center and Prussian Right Flank, the Prussians won the battle. There is often a back and forth effect which after the game seems to be most pleasing and fun in a post game analysis.
Not historical? Is it? Is simultaneous fire historical? In the chaos of war there are often wide swings in advantages and surprises. A card deck allows this. Also there are many ways to utilize card decks for random movement and fire. We most often draw cards per turn per side. But you don't have to.
Oh and if someone draws a joker; three per deck, these are used to trump the other side's card anytime when desired for movement or fire.
If a player wanted to request help, get orders changed or order somebody to do something outside his "Tactical Orders", we used couriers. A message was written on paper, folded, placed under a courier and then the courier was simply given to the recipient in question. On the next turn the recipient would pick up the message from under the courier on the table and react. In a nine turn game, this is best. Otherwise, couriers take way too much game time to arrive at their destinations and then barely make a difference at all.
Each Army Fielded:
Everyone: Rated Veteran.
600 Line Infantry {10 Bns.}
120 Converged Grenadiers {2 Bns.} Oops! Prussia had 126!
24 Riflemen
20 Pounds of Artillery
48 Dragoons
72 Kürassiers
18 Irregular Horsemen
Russian Total: 882 + Gunners (John B., Michael M. and John M. collections)
Prussian Total: 888 + Gunners (Mostly Jim P's collection)
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1) BAR may be purchased at oldregimerules.com for $40.00 including postage. It includes two sets of Quick Reference Charts; one for small tables/games and another for larger situations such as the one described above. We barely use the booklet itself. BAR is fast-playing and fun. Plus most in our group agree that games provide historical results. Chart updates are available for purchasers, new and old.
2) Michael took these photos of me:
Contemplating launching a worrisome cavalry charge on the Prussian Right Flank and of....
Me having some "serious" FUN explaining a rule.
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SALVATOR ROSA (Italian 1615 - 1673). Penitent Saint William of Maleval, circa 1645-50. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24-1/4 inches...Click the image to load the highest resolution version.
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DescriptionSALVATOR ROSA (Italian 1615 - 1673)
Penitent Saint William of Maleval, circa 1645-50
Oil on canvas
30 x 24-1/4 inches
Signed on reverse on original canvas, Sal. Rosa
Collection label verso: printed family crest of the Earls of Caledon, "Per Mare Per Terra," with handwritten number 20.
(possibly) Sale, London (Peter Coxe), May 12, 1801, lot 30 (not ill., seller and buyer unknown) as Salvator Rosa. The Holy Soldier. 2-1/2 h. x 2 w. (size annotations in a copy of the sales catalogue preserved at the Courtauld Institute, London);
Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon (1777-1839), elected a Representative Peer in 1804, Governor of the Cape Colony (British South Africa) in 1807, Caledon House, County Tyrone, Ireland, and thence by descent;
Acquired by descent to his son, James Du Pre Alexander, 3rd Earl of Caledon (1812-1855), elected a Representative Peer in 1841; in addition to his country house in Ireland he maintained an apartment at 5 Carlton House Terrace, London, where Waagen saw the painting prior to publishing his book in 1857 (see Literature below);
Acquired by descent to his son, James Alexander, 4th Earl of Caledon (1846-1898), elected a Representative Peer in 1877;
Acquired by descent to his son, Eric James Desmond Alexander, 5th Earl of Caledon (1885-1968);
Sale "The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Caledon, removed from 5, Carlton House Terrace, S.W.1, Pictures by Old Masters," [5th Earl of Caledon's sale including 98 Old Master paintings including two other Rosas], Christie's, London, June 9, 1939, lot 68 (not ill.) as Saint William of Aquitaine bound to a Tree in a landscape (29 ½ x 24 in.);
Private collection;
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, January 29, 2005, lot 45;
Private Collection
Dr. Gustav Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, John Murray, vol IV (supplement) of 4 vols, 1857, p. 149 as being displayed in the Earl of Caledeon's "ante-room."
The seventeenth-century Neapolitan artist Salvator Rosa was the Italian Rembrandt. Almost exactly contemporary with the great Dutch painter, Rosa was equally versatile, innovative, and fiercely independent. He painted portraits and probative self-portraits, atmospherically charged landscapes, battle scenes, genre scenes with soldiers or banditti gambling, and histories and religious pictures. These, including the present work in which the soldier St. William of Maleval is shown tied to a tree atoning for his licentious past, often featured penitent souls within landscapes that are just as tortured. Here Rosa goes far beyond Rembrandt. With their ragged rocks, blasted trees, hair-raising foliage and caverns of pitch darkness, Rosa's landscapes are often more desolate, more terribly beautiful than the people in them. Even though Rosa worked hard to be best known as a figure painter, it was his landscapes that made him famous. Also like his Dutch counterpart, Rosa was a compulsive draftsman whose range of scribbly, swirling, free drawing styles seemed to change with his mood and never quite kept pace with his imagination; and he was an inventive etcher, although unlike Rembrandt, he seemed to have been less patient with the printmaking process. Instead of fussing over multiple states Rosa generally produced just one or two states for the 100 odd plates he worked. And like Rembrandt, but with a more violent sensibility perhaps, Rosa managed to give his Baroque subject matter an overwhelming emotional charge which penetrates beyond tenebrism and paint application to something deeply unsettling but ineffable. His work simmers with melancholy, a sense of never being quite good enough, possibly even a degree of self loathing that made it irresistible to the British Romantics from the mid-eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. His "interest in witchcraft, in monstrous critters, in brooding philosophers," as one writer put it, made him both temperamentally and artistically the perfect proto-Romantic poster boy for the age of Byron, Wright of Derby, Fuseli, and of course, Goya, when Rosa became an even greater celebrity than he had been in his own time. And although the Rosa craze is no longer in full swing, his work has that persistent edge that transcends vogues of aesthetic fashion.
The subject of the present painting by Rosa is best known through a tremendously popular etching he made approximately a decade after the painting of circa 1645-50. During the summer and autumn of 1661, Rosa sojourned at Castello di Strozzavolpe in Siena, the Tuscan residence of his friend and longtime literary inspiration, Giovanni Battista Ricciardi, who had studied philosophy at the University of Pisa. At the home of his erudite friend, Rosa produced Saint William (Bartsch 1; Etching and drypoint, signed SRosa in the plate at lower right, overall 13 7/16 x 11 5/16 in. (34.2 x 28.8 cm)) and its pendant Saint Albert (Bartsch 2), the first of his seventeen large subject etchings. As Richard Wallace has noted, these etchings display a "savage romanticism and varied, expressive use of the medium" which are found in abundance in the present painting as well. The inspiration for the subject of William of Maleval, a soldier repentant for his gambling, cheating, and womanizing past, may have originally come through Ricciardi, particularly since Saint William's biography has both a Pisan and Sienese connection. (Rosa produced his painting of this subject during the nine-year period he lived in Tuscany and had struck up his lifelong friendship with Ricciardi.) The story of Saint William begins with his repentance. Upon seeing the error of his ways, he undertook a first pilgrimage to Rome, and a second to the Holy Land. Upon his return to Tuscany in 1153, he was named abbot of a monastery near Pisa, but unable to maintain discipline there, retired to a hermitage on Mt. Bruno that developed into a monastery, where he was again unsuccessful as an abbot. He returned to the solitary life at Malevalle, near Siena, where he attracted two disciples, Albert and Renaldo (Rinaldo?), who continued to follow William's rule after his death in 1157. In the early 13th century, William's followers, known as the Guillemites or barefoot friars, spread through Italy into France and Germany. Gregory IX replaced their harsh rule with the Rule of St. Benedict, and the order, now extinct, was divided among the Benedictines and the Augustinian canons. St. William of Maleval became known as the patron of armorers.
In comparing Rosa's painting of St. William with his later treatment of the subject in etching, one can see how the artist made significant changes to compensate for the fact he was working with line rather than color and paint. For example, in the painting, the clump of trees to which the saint is tied is pushed to the far right so that the line formed by the figure's outstretched arms, bound hands, and taut ropes cuts straight across the center of the canvas. This design thus accentuates the act of penitence, which Rosa highlighted with beautiful passages of glowing impasto on the armor, skin and gnarly rope, as well as by the dramatic sky that backlights the diagonal gesture. In the painting, the cross in the tree to which St. William prays is barely discernable in the shadows. In the print, however, the tree with its well-defined cross is moved to the center of the composition, to fill the spot occupied by the colorful sky in the painting. Unable to rely upon color, Rosa instead etched a magnificent passage of foliage that is as decorative as it is expressive. The popular etching inspired an eighteenth-century copy by Anton Joseph von Prenner (22.5 x 16.5 cm.) (plate 46, Theatricum Artis Pictoriae, 3 vols., Vienna, 1728-31).
Another autograph version of the present painting by Rosa is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Although seldom reproduced, that work which has slightly smaller dimensions (75 x 58.5 cm.) and is somewhat brighter in tonality than the present painting, was known to Leandro Ozzola in 1909 (Vita e opere di Salvator Rosa. Pittore, Poeta, Incisore, ill. fig. 7) and Luigi Salerno in 1963 (Salvator Rosa, p. 148) and 1975 (L'opera completa di Salvator Rosa, no. 171, ill.) who included it in their respective catalogues. There are at least two known (traceable) copies by other hands of the present painting, both oval in format. The better of the two is in the collection of the Duke of Richmond, Greenwood House, no. 211 (1 ft. 21 in. x 11 in.). The other is in Tatton Park, Cheshire. (Images of both are available in the Salvator Rosa microforms of the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, no. 10,260.)
The present painting is an important addition to Rosa's oeuvre. It was unknown both to Ozzolo and Salerno since it had remained for some 140 years in the uncatalogued collections of the Earls of Caledon in Ireland, and then surfaced only briefly in 1939 at auction, only to disappear once again into a private collection for six decades.
The painting became part of the Caledon collections during the early years of the nineteenth century. The family fortune was made by the first Earl of Caledon, James Alexander (1730-1802). A self-made man, James Alexander was bent upon setting himself up as a member of the gentry. He purchased the estate of Caledon in County Tyrone, and then acquired in short order a barony, then a viscountcy, and finally an earldom and, in time-honored fashion, set himself up as a country gentleman. Because he died only two short years after attaining his earldom, it was left to his son, the second earl, to make the most substantial purchases of art and books to furnish the country home. Although the origins of the painting collection, including this work, were not faithfully recorded, it does appear from the second earl's collecting practices that he bought extravagantly, often, and en masse. For example, he purchased the entire library of Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and commissioned the Regency architect John Nash to design a library for it. That library is probably the finest Nash room outside Buckingham Palace. Bishop Percy's collection was a peculiar choice since all the works were highly academic and heavily annotated. However, what Lord Caledon wanted was a library, any library. A gentleman's house required a library, and Bishop Percy's was convenient in both size and location. The convenience with which Lord Caledon purchased was more than matched by the convenience with which others sold.
When the 5th Earl of Caledon sold the family's collection of Old Master pictures in 1939, he parted with many notable examples of seventeenth-century painting from French, Italian, Spanish and Netherlandish Schools, which have since become part of the world's most distinguished museum collections. The Earl of Caledon's large Fall of Phaeton (circa 1604-5) by Peter Paul Rubens is now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington (1990.1.1), and Sebastien Bourdon's Baptism of Christ is now part of the permanent holdings of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1974.2).
Since it surfaced on the art market in 2005, Rosa's Penitent Saint William of Maleval has been professionally cleaned of its aged yellowed varnish and revarnished, uncovering the hitherto unknown signature on the reverse of the original liner support.
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For the past two seasons, PushPush has presented our own company-developed original holiday comedies, Expecting Carol and It's a Wonderful Carol. This year, we're broadening our scope with a collection of short, sharp, sometimes shocking and always funny plays by a variety of local and national writers, including Karen Wurl, Larry Larson, Janece Shaffer, Rob Nixon, Nova Performance Company Cabaret and many others -- with an encore presentation of Murray Mednick's Baby Jesus. It's a refreshing and hilarious alternative to the usual holiday theater fare. And don't miss our biggest New Year's bash ever -- rock in the (real) Millennium with music, dance, food and fun.
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For the second year running, Push Push missed again with their holiday show. From the beating that takes place in the final "play" (Peace on Earth?) to the blatant rip-off of Warner Brothers' Michigan J. Frog!Maybe the title "Skating on Thin Ice" would be a little more appropriate.On a Good note, the ONE shinning star would be the performance of Caroline Masaclet. Who created believable charecters and showed precise comic timing. [POST A COMMENT REGARDING THIS REVIEW]


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Draft News and Notes: Shimooki, Chono, Anan offered contracts
by Gen on Nov.24, 2009 @ 5:02 pm, under NPB
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...The Buffaloes offered 5th round draft pick Toru Anan a contract worth 10M yen and a signing bonus of 40M yen.
Softbank Hawks
...The Hawks offered 3rd round draft pick Yuki Shimooki a contract worth 6M yen and a signing bonus of 50M yen.
My notes indicate that the Hawks have one player left that has not been offered a contract.
Yomiuri Giants
...The Giants offered 1st round draft pick Hisayoshi Chono a contract worth 15M yen and a signing bonus of 100M yen to go along with 50M yen in incentives.
According to my notes, other than Naomasa Yokawa, who opted for college, the Giants have now signed every player they drafted this year. Behind the Nippon Ham Fighters, they are only the second team to sign all their players so far.


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Easy Origami Tissue Holder Instructions
Learn how to make a nifty origami tissue paper holder for your handbag! These are quick and easy to make. You can use tissues or toilet paper for these!
If using toilet roll, the paper can be pulled out from the opening in a neat way.
These are very handy to keep in your bag especially if you want to save money and not buy little packets of tissues in plastic.
You will need 1 sheet of square paper for this.
To fit most toilet roll, use paper that is at least 20 x 20 cm, ideally use paper that is a bit larger, up to 30 x 30 cm.
It's nice to use paper with a different design on the back and front.
You can also use fabric for this one, iron the fabric after each step, and even add a little push clasp on the back.Continue to 2 of 5 below.
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Easy Origami Tissue Holder Instructions - Step 1
1. Start with your paper with the color you'd like the flaps to be - facing up.
Fold the paper in half diagonally both ways and unfold.
2. Fold the top and bottom corners to the central point.
3. Keeping the flaps in place, fold the top and bottom edges to the central point.
4. Unfold all of that back to the start. You will have seven horizontal creases.Continue to 3 of 5 below.
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Easy Origami Tissue Holder Instructions - Step 2
5. Fold the top corner down, using the third crease from the top. The point should reach the second crease from the bottom.
6. Next, fold the corner back up to the top edge, leaving a small 2-3mm gap.
7. Fold the bottom of that section up to meet the central horizontal crease, and then fold up again.
8. Repeat the same steps on the lower section. To make it easier, you can rotate the paper so that the point is at the top again.Continue to 4 of 5 below.
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Easy Origami Tissue Holder Instructions - Step 3
9. Next you can work out some rough thirds here. These will be mountain folds.
10. Flip the model over to the other side and fold the sides in. Depending on the size of your tissues you will need to adjust these folds.
11. You can insert one end into the other. If your fans don't reach, just use some sticky tape or glue, after you have put your tissues inside.
12. Flip the model over and this is the finished origami tissue holder.
Go to the next page to find out how to fold tissue to put inside.Continue to 5 of 5 below.
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Easy Origami Tissue Holder Instructions - Step 4
13. You can use toilet paper for this.
Unroll some tissue from the roll. Using your origami tissue holder as a guide, roll up some of the tissue into a neat roll. The height of the new roll should be a bit smaller than the holder.
14. You should now have a little roll of tissue.
15. Unfold the tissue holder and put the roll inside, with the loose end coming out of the opening.
16. Re-fold the holder, you may need to re-fold the holder a bit looser on the edges to fit the paper.
If you used bigger paper (30 x 30 cm maybe) you can use the tissue that you get from tissue dispensing machines.
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Today we're pleased to announce the launch of PennSound Radio, a 24-hour stream of readings and conversations from the PennSound poetry archive. Our daily schedule includes rebroadcasts of such series as Live at the Writers House, Charles Bernstein's Close Listening, and Leonard Schwartz's Cross-Cultural Poetics, as well as a curated selection of our favorite performances. You can play PennSound Radio through iTunes on your computer, or by installing the free TuneIn app on your iPhone, BlackBerry, or Android device. Listen at work! At home! At the gym! While rebuilding a transmission! And while you're at it, follow us on Twitter (@PennSoundRadio) to keep up with all of our new programs and special features.
PennSound's new John Kinsella page features three recordings. One is a reading he gave at Buffalo in September of 1996, introduced by Susan Schultz (5:11): MP3 .
Here are poems Kinsella read:
Warhol at Wheatlands (2:53): MP3Bluff Knoll Sublimity (2:54): MP3Aspects of the Pagan (4:43): MP3Editing (0:51): MP3Disclaimers (2:19): MP3Echidna (2:45): MP3from "Syzygy" (4:57): MP3Skeleton weed / generative grammar (3:35): MP3
He also took a moment to comment on the tradition of classical poetry in Australia and the slaughter of aboriginal peoples (1:05): MP3. The complete reading (26:19): MP3 is of course available also, but note that the recording cuts off at 26:19.
We at PennSound are grateful to Jeff Davis for helping us make this recording available from the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, with permission from the Creeley family. The recording was made apparently in the late 1960s. It is available on PennSound's growing Robert Creeley page.
What brought you to Black Mountain? (1:17): MP3In what capacity were you there? (2:32): MP3What were your first impressions? (5:43): MP3Did they subsequently change? (3:22): MP3Who among the faculty or students impressed you? (2:17): MP3Is it accurate to refer to a Black Mountain school of poetry? (8:44): MP3 What were BMC's particular strong and weak points? (4:55): MP3Anything about the school's tone or procedures you wish were otherwise? (2:32): MP3What satisfactions and tensions resulted from living at such close quarters?(5:07): MP3What accounts for perennial faculty splits at BMC? (3:34): MP3Did good relations exist between the college and the community? (9:40): MP3Why did the college finally close? (1:07): MP3How would you evaluate BMC's influence on your artistic growth? (11:16): MP3
We are pleased to publish Robert Zaller's summary of Stanley Burnshaw's life and work to mark the occasion of PennSound's acquisition of two recordings of Burnshaw — one a talk, the other a 1963 reading. Zaller is a poet, critic, historian and activist, and serves as the executor of the Burnshaw Estate. Years ago I interviewed Burnshaw with Harvey Teres and spoke with him about his affiliation with radical writers in the 1930s and his encounter (by way of a negative review of Ideas of Order) with Wallace Stevens; we add my note (and a link to the PDF of the interview transcript) to this little Burnshaw feature.
Recently a new author page was created at PennSound for poet, editor, critic, translator, and environmentalist Stanley Burnshaw. The recordings were made available through an arrangement with the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library, at Yale University - with special support from Nancy Kuhl. We are also greateful for permission to make these recordings available given by Robert Zaller as Executor of the Estate of Stanley Burnshaw.
Today we at PennSound have segmented Vanessa Place's Segue Series reading at the Bowery Poetry Club. The reading took place on March 27, 2010. Here are the two pieces she read that day:
For much more of Place's work, visit her PennSound page.
PennSound's partnership with our colleagues at the Beinecke Library has led to the wide availability of recordings made many years ago by Lee Anderson. Today we introduce our PennSound/Beinecke page within the PennSound web archive. Many thanks, once again, to Nancy Kuhl at Yale.
"A vast archive of historic and contemporary recordings of readings, podcasts, and now also videos, featuring a growing list of international poets (mostly English language focus). PennSound is co-run from Philadelphia by the poet, scholar and broadcaster Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis, director of Kelly Writers House." Link: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/6752/
Clark Coolidge's PennSound page is one I happily recommend. I think my favorite set of recordings there is from his March 2000 reading at the University of California at Santa Cruz, hosted by Peter Gizzi. Peter's introduction — also among the recordings — is itself a fine introduction to Coolidge's life and importance to contemporary poetics. After the reading Coolidge took a few questions. Someone asked about burn-out (a writer reaching the end of writing) and Coolidge responded by speaking of Kerouac's line, Where pain don't take you by surprise. Coolidge discusses Kerouac's line and Kerouac, and then he re-reads the poem in which Kerouac's idea occurs. The Coolidge-Kerouac connection is edifying. Here's the recording. And here is Coolidge's essay on Kerouac's sound or "babble flow," which I ask my students to read. Here's a sampling of the babble flow: "Black black black black bling bling bling bling black black black black bling bling bling bling black black black black bling bling bling...." The essay was first published in the January/February 1995 issue of American Poetry Review.
The recording of this reading was segmented into thirteen poems just yesterday. Go here to see the special PennSound page devoted to this event:
When I Think (2:22): MP3War (0:59): MP3Talking (1:08): MP3Paul (1:49): MP3Old Song (0:53): MP3Oh, do you remember (2:22): MP3Mediterranean I (1:17): MP3Mediterranean II (1:39): MP3Jumping with Jackson (1:23): MP3Shimmer (4:01): MP3Sad Walk (1:32): MP3The Red Flower (2:54): MP3Old Story from The Diary of Francis Kilver (1:13): MP3


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I remember exactly where I was in 2002. I was sick and out of consideration for my fellow fans, I stayed at home rather than spreading the plague to the gathering sea of red and white. Most people would've probably slept to recover from a deathly cough and severe muscle pain but knowing that such an important sporting event, such an important moment in Canadian history was happening, you couldn't keep me from it if I was dead.
Watching perhaps the greatest group of hockey players ever assembled by my home country bring home our first hockey gold in fifty years, I couldn't help but tear up in one of the only situations where it is okay for a man to do so. Heck, to this day when I even think about that moment, I have to hold back emotion. I cheered as loud as I could. No one else was home to hear me but it didn't matter. There were 33 million people cheering with me. This is what Team Canada truly embarks on today. No offense to Norway or Switzerland as they gave us great efforts but the United States is the first real test of our strength.
So let's show the world what this country is made of, Team Canada. Show them that they can't come to our backyard and take this away from us. Hockey is our game. Sure, other countries have adopted it and made solid teams here and there but there is no other nation where hockey is as ingrained and essential to culture as it is here. No one loves hockey as we do. In this country, there is nothing greater. Nothing that brings more people together. Nothing that we take more pride in.
So your country asks of you, Team Canada…play every game as if it was your last. There is no tomorrow! A few great Canadians have already taken their place in history at these games. Bring us more! Fight for Canada's honor. For pride. For glory. For your country. Go big or go home? We're already at home…so we can only go big! Go big, Canada!


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The horrible finish to the season of the Detroit Tigers should not diminish what the Tigers accomplished in 2011. They ran away with an albeit weak American League Central division and then sent the New York Yankees to an unexpectedly early end to that team's season. A lot went right for the Tigers this season. Jose Valverde, Jhonny Peralta and of course, Justin Verlander all had career seasons. Alex Avila blossomed into one of the best catchers in baseball and Doug Fister gives them a strong number two starter to compliment Verlander. If you think the Tigers are satisfied with finishing as the second best team in the American League, you haven't been following baseball.
The Tigers are always dynamic in the off season and are not afraid of making bold moves to improve their team. And a few moves are certainly in the offing heading into 2012. They look to have little resistance again in the AL Central next season. The Royals and Indians will be more competitive but the Twins and White Sox have some major rebuilding to do. But the Tigers want more than to just win the division. This loss to the Rangers in the ALCS will make them even hungrier to take it further in 2012. So let's take a look at 2012 and where the Tigers go from here.
The Rotation
Good bye Brad Penny. Have a nice life. You can be certain that Penny will not be back and that's what is so encouraging about the Tigers' rotation heading into 2012. They are four deep already with Verlander, Fister, Max Scherzer and Rick Porcello. They can fill the fifth role with either Jacob Turner or Casey Crosby (their two best pitching prospects) or go after someone like Mark Buehrle. Either way, they should be in better shape than what they started with in 2011. Verlander's season was no fluke. He truly is a stud and barring injury (heaven forbid), should lead this staff for many years to come. Having Doug Fister all season (and on the cheap too!) will be a boon for them. The guy simply knows how to pitch. In 448 career innings in the big leagues, Fister has walked only 1.7 batters per nine innings and keeps the ball in the ballpark really well. Unlike some, the comparisons to Maddux for this writer do not seem far fetched.
The two to worry about are Porcello and Scherzer. Of the two, there is less worry for Scherzer. Scherzer has the more dynamic arm of the two and he just needs to get better at keeping the ball in the park and limit the times when he flattens out in the hitter's zone. Porcello, on the other hand, doesn't fool many batters over the long haul and his 5.1 strikeouts per nine innings is of great concern. That's why it's important to either bring in another pitcher or hope that one of their two great pitching prospects (Turner and Crosby) can make the next step. Jacob Turner has been compared to Verlander and did get his feet wet this season. He's only going to be 21 in 2012, but Clayton Kershaw proved it can be done. Turner did get cuffed around in his cup of coffee, but he's got a great arm.
The Bullpen
Jose Valverde had a great season, make no mistake about that. Forget the close rate as that stat isn't all that meaningful. Saying that, he was fifth in the majors among relievers in WPA and until his last outing, was lights out in the playoffs. This writer would like to see him lose some weight and take better care of himself. And to expect him to not blow a save in 2012 seems like a stretch, but he's proven himself to be a reliable ninth inning game finisher and should be all set for 2012.
Joaquin Benoit was the target of a lot of early season jibes after he signed a big contract and then started so poorly. But Benoit turned it on in June and in the second half, he was nearly unhittable. He's a solid back of the bullpen guy. Phil Coke (can we forget the starting pitcher experiment please?) is a reliable arm from the left side with some juice. Leave him in the bullpen and we have no problems.
Alberto Alburquerque needs to be the pre-concussion pitcher and not the post-concussion pitcher. He also needs to find a way to throw more strikes. There's no doubt he has electric stuff and can strike out a ton of batters. He has the talent to be a David Robertson type of bullpen guy if he can throw strikes. After Alburquerque, the bullpen is thin (as we saw in the playoffs), so the Tigers will need to scrounge around and get themselves some more arms. But that's the case with pretty much every team in baseball.
The Infield
You can pencil in Miguel Cabrera's name in there for years to come. He too looked heavy at the end of the season, but how can you argue with those results? Pencil him in for another season of a 1.000+ OPS. The rest of the infield is a question mark. Third base was a wasteland of Wilson Betemit and Brandon Inge. Inge is one of those guys you root for and is a very good fielder. He just doesn't carry his weight with the bat. Betemit should be allowed to walk (or run). It's too bad the team gave up on Scott Sizemore. This writer still thinks that Sizemore could become a very good player. And to think they gave him away for David Purcey?
Second base is also a big question mark. The Ryan Raburn experiment is interesting. The Tigers should probably explore that further in Spring Training. Ramon Santiago isn't the answer and don't even discuss Carlos Guillen. Second basemen on the market are probably led by Aaron Hill (Towers is talking tough about not keeping him in Arizona). With a market led by Hill, Raburn looks a lot better.
Jhonny Peralta surprised a lot of people with his play this season. He certainly had a career year and played brilliantly at the plate and adequately in the field. To expect a season like that next season seems like a stretch. Peralta can play other positions and if the Tigers can pull off a Jose Reyes/Jimmy Rollins type free agent haul, they should do it and move Peralta to second or third. Prospects Dale Iorg and Daniel Fields both look like they will not be able to hit big league pitching.
Catcher and DH
There are no worries behind the plate for the Tigers. Alex Avilla is your number one catcher for years to come and Victor Martinez can catch the odd days and of course, is one of the best DHs in baseball.
The Outfield
The outfield is sort of a landmine for the Tigers. It didn't help losing Brennan Boesch to injury after 115 games. If he can come back healthy, he's set for right. He's only adequate in the field, but he can rake. Austin Jackson has proven himself as a fine defensive center fielder. But as a batter, he's a ninth hole hitter at best. He's got to get out of the lead off spot. Do that, and you can live with his inadequate offense. This writer doesn't believe in Delmon Young no matter how good he played in the post season. Magglio Ordonez is probably done, so you can't look there. You know who would really look good in this outfield? Andre Ethier. The Dodgers will be motivated to trade him and the Tigers would do well to get him say for Young and a strong second tier pitching prospect.
The Tigers have a solid core of pitching and offense to again win the AL Central next season. A few tweaks here and there and as scary as the Tigers were in 2011, with a few tweaks, they can be even better in 2012. The playoffs might have ended badly, but this team will be back in the playoffs again next season.


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