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Zeb Coulter & Jack SwaggerPhoto courtesy: WWE
By Kevin Hunsperger
@kevinhunsperger & @my123cents on Twitter
Jack Swagger is back. (He's been back on WWE TV for a couple of weeks, I'm finally writing about it.) The former World Heavyweight and U.S. Champion has a new look and a new mindset. He's even got a new manager, Zeb Coulter. Longtime fans know Zeb of course is Dutch Mantell, who worked for the WWE years ago as Uncle Zeb and managed the likes of the Blu Brothers and Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw (JBL).
Personally, I love the addition of Zeb to the roster. I have long believed that the WWE has needed to add more managers. It's a throwback to the 70's and 80's when managers were a big part of the product. This is a side tangent, but I'd like to see others join Paul Heyman and Zeb on the outside of the ring. During the Attitude Era and beyond managers fell by the wayside in the WWE. I really hope this is a signal of a resurgence. (crossing my fingers)
Jack Swagger's Patriot Act
Anyway, back to Jack. He's gone through some changes in appearance and with his character, but I've noticed he still has the same theme music. I think in order to complete his change, new music is essential. It won't make or break the character, but I think it'll definitely help convey the message that this is not the same Swagger we've known for years.
I like his aggression and the mean streak that seems to be pushed by the presence of Coulter. The WWE is taking a page out of real life to develop these characters, as I feel like Swagger and Coulter represent the feelings that many in this country have. They've just amped it up a bit.
There's no telling where exactly they're heading with this, but his addition to the Elimination Chamber match is hopefully a good sign for this gifted athlete. The one big obstacle I see with the chamber match Sunday is three men in it are making big returns, (Swagger, Chris Jericho, and Mark Henry) so unfortunately the wind is going to be removed from the sails of at least two of these guys. While I don't expect Swagger to win the match, I'm hoping he goes in there and has a chance to shine with the other former champs. He's the youngest in the match and may have the most to prove against the cream of the WWE crop.


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Skip to comments.Kirk Douglas: America is a 'Cowboy Country with too Many Guns'
Posted on 06/06/2013 6:56:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Kirk Douglas looks around America these days and he sees too many guns.
The 96-year-old actor, best known for performances in classic films like Spartacus, Paths of Glory and Lust for Life, took to the cyber pages of The Huffington Post to call for more gun control--and far less guns.
I often played the good cowboy on screen, riding in to save the day. Now, everybody thinks he is a cowboy too. That frightens me. We have become a cowboy country with too many guns....
I cannot understand the people who are against some form of gun control. They should be the first to welcome a message on making it more difficult to get a gun. Many of them seem to propose more guns being available to everybody. Why? Are they interested in making more money for the gun manufacturers? Are they politicians who just want to oppose the president in anything he endorses? It's incomprehensible to me.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
America has to many guns..... Not enough adult diapers.
A mind is a terrible thing to lose.
"Kirk Douglas" is not even the dude's name - he's been faking it all his life.
A legend would never have appeared in "Saturn 3."
Kirk Douglas has been wrong about nearly everything for many years now, and many of the American people no longer even know who he is.
Eastwood did survive a ditching at sea when he was US Army...very well could have died in uniform..
He changed his name because Jews were/are persecuted.
Most stars changed their names to more glamorous 'Americanized' names.
A small sampling:
Joey Adams ............................. Joseph Abramowitz
Eddie Albert ............................Eddie Heimberger
Woody Allen............................. Allen Konigsberg
Lauren Bacall .......................... Joan Perske
Jack Benny ............................. Benny Kubelsky
Milton Berle ........................... Milton Berlinger
Ernest Borgnine .........................Effron Borgnine
George Burns ........................... Nathan Birnbaum
Joan Blondell........................... Rosebud Blustein
Joyce Brothers ..........................Joyce Bauer
Mel Brooks ............................. Melvin Kaminsky
Joey Bishop ............................ Joey Gottlieb
Charles Bronson ........................ Charles Buchinsky
Rona Barrett ............................Rona Burnstein
Cyd Chrisse .............................Tula Finklea
Tony Curtis ............................ Bernie Schwartz
Joan Crawford .......................... Lucille Le Sueur
Dyan Cannon ............................ Samile Friesen
Kirk Douglas ........................... Isadore Demsky
Bob Dylan ...............................Robert Zimmerman
Rodney Dangerfield ......................Jacob Cohen
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ................. Douglas Ullman
Joel Grey .............................. Joel Katz
Elliott Gould ...........................Elliott Goldstein
Zsa Zsa Gabor ...........................Sara Gabor
John Garfield .......................... Jules Garfinkle
Judy Garland ........................... Frances Gumm
Paulette Goddard ....................... Paulette Levy
Eydie Gorme............................. Edith Gormezano
Cary Grant ............................. Larry Leach
Lorne Green .............................Chaim Leibowiz
Judy Holliday .......................... Judith Tuvin
Leslie Howard .......................... Leslie Stainer
Buddy Hackett .......................... Leonard Hacker
Jill St. John .......................... Jill Oppenheim
Danny Kaye.............................. David Kominsky
Alan King .............................. Irwin Kniberg
Larry King...............................Larry Zeiger
Tina Louise............................. Tina Blacker
Ann Landers..............................Esther Friedman
Dorothy Lamour ......................... Dorothy Kaumeyer
Miehael Landon ......................... Mike Orowitz
Steve Lawrence ......................... Sidney Leibowitz
Jerry Lewis ............................ Joseph Levitch
Karl Maiden .............................Maiden Sekulovitch
Ethel Merman ........................... Ethel Zimmerman
Jan Murray ............................. Murray Janofsky
Walter Matthau ......................... Walter Matasschanskayasky
Lilly Palmer ........................... Maria Peiser
Jan Pierce.............................. Pincus Perelmuth
Roberta Peters...........................Roberta Peterman
Eleanor Parker.......................... Ellen Friedlob
Joan Rlvers .............................Joan Molinsky
Tony Randall ........................... Sidney Rosenberg
Edward G. Robinson ..................... Emanuel Goldenberg
Dinah Shore ............................ Fanny Rose
Shelly Winters ......................... Shirley Schrift
Gene Wilder............................. Jerome Silberman
Issur Danielovitch was his birth name.
"Eastwood never fought and was wounded defending America's freedom as Douglas did. Eastwood was a star in his time. Douglas is a legend."
Kirk is a legend in his own, and your, mind. Eastwood is eternal; 100 years from now, people will still watch "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" but will ask "who the hell was that Kirk guy?"
If we're talking about purely great films, 'Paths of Glory' and 'Out of the Past' are all time American masterpieces. As much as I love the Sergio Leone film you mentioned, I don't know if Eastwood has been anything as good as those two.
"has been in anything as good..."
And yes, many of our legends have appeared in low rated movies at one time or another. Douglas was fortunate to not have made many of these.
Even John Wayne really put his foot in it by making "The Conqueror" .
Just what was he thinking when he signed on to play Genghis Khan?
That film may very well have killed Wayne.
In those days you were under contract to the studio. If they said you were going to play the third talking tree in the Magic Forest then that is what you did. You could refuse but that Studio system was an Old Boys Club and the phrase "you'll never work in this town again" was not an idle threat.
Don't blame him one damn bit!
holy crap he is still alive? He must be over 100.
Not false.
Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch in Amsterdam, New York, the son of Bryna "Bertha" (née Sanglel) and Herschel "Harry" Danielovitch, a businessman.[3] His parents were Jewish immigrants from Gomel (now in Belarus but then in Russia),[4][5] and the family spoke Yiddish.[6][7] His father's brother, who emigrated earlier, used the surname Demsky, which Douglas' family adopted in the United States.[2] In addition to their surname, his parents also changed their given names to Harry and Bertha.
His 1988 biography paints a memorable picture of his family in the early years in America. After noting that his father was denied work in the carpet mills, the town's largest employers, because he was Jewish, Douglas writes:
So my father, who had been a horse trader in Russia, got himself a horse and a small wagon, and became a ragman, buying old rags, pieces of metal, and junk for pennies, nickels, and dimes. . . . Even on Eagle Street, in the poorest section of town, where all the families were struggling, the ragman was on the lowest rung on the ladder. And I was the ragman's son.
Douglas grew up as Izzy Demsky and legally changed his name to Kirk Douglas before entering the Navy during World War II.[8]
He'll turn 97 later this year. But this guy is almost 100!
Name change like that probably saved him many years of pain and suffering from Carpal tunnel syndrome...
The dude with the camera looks like the other arrogant liberal comedian George Lopez.
Now wasn't it Kirk that is rumored to have raped Natalie Wood?
If it was just Matasschanskay, it wouldn't be that bad, but the additional *asky* on the end will hurt your brain trying to pronounce :)
Yep my mind keeps skipping the track when I get to those final few letters...
It just does not compute...!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars
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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is a list of the top 50 greatest screen legends in American film history, which included 25 male and 25 female stars. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 15, 1999 CBS special hosted by Shirley Temple, with 50 current actors making the presentations.
As of 2013, of the fifty stars listed, only five are still alive: two men (Sidney Poitier and Kirk Douglas), and three women (Shirley Temple, Lauren Bacall, and Sophia Loren). At the time the list was unveiled Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando and Gregory Peck were also still living.
List of 50 legends [edit]
Male Legends
Female Legends
1. Humphrey Bogart Katharine Hepburn
2. Cary Grant Bette Davis
3. James Stewart Audrey Hepburn
4. Marlon Brando Ingrid Bergman
5. Fred Astaire Greta Garbo
6. Henry Fonda Marilyn Monroe
7. Clark Gable Elizabeth Taylor
8. James Cagney Judy Garland
9. Spencer Tracy Marlene Dietrich
10. Charlie Chaplin Joan Crawford
11. Gary Cooper Barbara Stanwyck
12. Gregory Peck Claudette Colbert
13. John Wayne Grace Kelly
14. Laurence Olivier Ginger Rogers
15. Gene Kelly Mae West
16. Orson Welles Vivien Leigh
17. Kirk Douglas Lillian Gish
18. James Dean Shirley Temple
19. Burt Lancaster Rita Hayworth
20. The Marx Brothers Lauren Bacall
21. Buster Keaton Sophia Loren
22. Sidney Poitier Jean Harlow
23. Robert Mitchum Carole Lombard
24. Edward G. Robinson Mary Pickford
25. William Holden Ava Gardner
Eastwood will NEVER make this list.
Rumor was Burt Lancaster, also.
It's a rumor.
Speaking of names,
Albert Brooks real name is Albert Einstein.
There have been long standing rumours for years that Kirk Douglas allegedly raped Natalie Wood and she was terrified of him. In those days if you were a big box office draw studios covered up things so as not to destroy their stars credibility. The Hollywood insider known as Himmmm delivered three long posts in the comments that were supposedly about the Douglas-Wood story.
It describes how Natalie Wood wanted edgier roles (Rebel Without a Cause comes to mind) and eventually had an affair with a married director to get a desired part. Word got around that she would do the deed with anyone (with her mother's encouragement) for a movie part and supposedly the Spartacus actor took her up on it.
Wood at this time thought she was powerful in the movie world, accepted the invitation and as soon as she walked into the door the actor made his intentions known. She decline his advances and he threw her down and ripped her clothing off. He allegedly raped her repeatedly and told her as she laid battered and hurt to come and see him the next night and he might give her a part. The actress's mother accused Wood of making the actor angry and the damage to Natalie was permanent, both mentally and physically.
In 1949 actress Jean Spangler disappeared and Douglas's name was brought up once again. On October 7, 1949 Spangler kissed her 5-year-old daughter goodbye and the next day an employee at Griffith Park reported finding Jean Spanglers purse near the Fern Dell entrance to the park. Inside the purse, written in Jeans hand, it read: "Kirk Cant wait any longer. Going to see Dr. Scott. It will work out best this way while mother is away." The 27-year-old B actress was reportedly three months pregnant and going to get an illegal abortion.
According to Palm Springs Life actor Robert Cummings, told police that the last film Jean had been working on she mentioned a recent new romance. Spangler told Cummings it wasn't serious but she was having the time of her life. Douglas, when asked by police said he didn't remember her and Spangler's mother said the only Kirk Spangler talked about was the actor on the set. After exhaustive investigation Dr. Scott was found out to be a medical student who performed abortions for the Hollywood-set and the case is still open. Was it Douglas, her ex -husband, or the mob?
My 93-year-old dad is as hawkish than ever. ;)
He's still living in The Great Generation.
Creepy "Kirk Douglas" aka Issur Danielovitchold, son of impoverished Russian Jewish emigrants, spits on the people that made this country and allowed this pervert to emigrate and make a load of money as a half pint bad actor! Hope he doesn't live to see another birthday, Go To Hell Issur and take your worthless sons with you!
Julie Newmar - Julia Neumeyer
"said the guy that made most of his fortune with guns....."
That's right! 'ole Kirk had no problem with guns when he made all those Westerns.
Douglas says, "I cannot understand the people who are against some form of gun control...." Doesn't he know that we have over 20,000 gun laws on the books? Is law 20,001 going to make a difference? He must be kidding. Sheesh.
EASTWOOD: Yes, I've always supported a certain amount of gun control. I don't -- I think California has always had a mandatory waiting period, so we were never concerned about it like the rest of the country. Some states didn't have any at all. So I've always supported that. I think it's very important that guns don't get in the wrong hands, and, yes, I would support most of that. I don't know too much about trigger locks. I've never really discussed that with anyone. But I do feel that guns -- it's very important to keep them out of the hands of felons or anyone who might be crazy with it.
PRESS: So what do you say -- I don't know whether you're a member of the NRA or not. But what do you say to your friend Charlton Heston, who opposes all three, opposes any gun control measures?
EASTWOOD: Well, I don't agree with him on that, if that's his position. I haven't talk to him about it. When he first became one of the spokesmans for the NRA, I thought it was a good thing. I thought at least, well, if the guy's maybe putting his money where his mouth is, then he's going to go in there and enact some reform. And that would be a good thing, rather than just talk like most people do. But so far, they still seem to be stuck on one position of anti-any reform.
Unfortunately, what happens is they get pressured. They don't want to be pressured. Both sides get their heels dug in the mud because they don't want to be pressured on their stance there. I think that both sides have a point. When you say that there's a lot of laws that aren't even...
PRESS: Enforced.
EASTWOOD: ... enforced in this country, and then you -- and then the NRA says they want those done prior to gun control, or at least simultaneous with. Whether that will happen or not, I don't know, because both sides are kind of dogmatic.
America is a toilet, filled with too many unflushed turds.
Need more ammo.
Try Bruce Willis.
Bruce Willis: Don't infringe on Second Amendment
Why doesn't he retire to his home in Bermuda and get away from all the cowboys he's so worried about?
I've known a few great ones from the Greatest Generation and do miss them.
The article says this was Kirk Douglas's quote not Michael.
It is probably safe to assume that Michael Douglas feels the same way.
Hey, little boy, do you like candy? Would you like to see my puppy? Just come into my house for a few minutes!
I thought this fool was taking a dirt nap too. His is the only autobio I have ever read in my life where I was neutral about the person before reading, and hated the SOB after I'd read it. Thoroughly nasty person.
Jane Fonda did some good acting jobs too, but we're going to call the bitch on her anti-USA crap no matter how old she gets — BECAUSE SHE DESERVES IT when she spews her anti-American crap. Same with Kirk. You don't get a "pass" because you did alright in some other area of life.
If he "doesn't deserve nasty remarks" [for calling him on HIS BS] then he shouldn't spew BS and espouse gun grabbing. His ways end up getting millions killed. I don't give a damn how old someone is, or what "exalted" thing they'd done - -but it doesn't give them a free pass to spout nonsense and not get called on it. No one held a gun to his head to say the crap he did, therefore he can and should be called on it. You don't have to suspend reason and kiss his butt for saying stupid stuff.
Weren't assault swords banned in 15 BCE?
Where is he spitting on the country? I don't agree with his take on guns but this guy isn't burning the flag.
He probably also said "HEY YOU KIDS! GET OFFA MY LAWN!" but that sort of angry old man rant doesn't make headlines.
Yes. And that's why there have been no deaths from assault swords ever since.
: )
Neither you nor I will be around 100 years from now and no one will say "I sure would like to see a Kirk Douglas movie," but they'll still be enjoying "For a Few Dollars More."
Tango Sierra for you and your legend.
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Isaksen Leads US Pentathlon Team with Ninth Place World Cup Finish
Mexico City-- After two days of hotly contested men and women's finals, seventeen year old Margaux Isaksen led the US team with a ninth place finish on Sunday in the first World Cup of the 2009 series in Mexico City this past Saturday and Sunday, March 28-29. The nearly perfect sunny, 80 degree weather conditions made the weekend of competition a well attended event which added to the festive and spirited atmosphere. Several representatives from the UIPM (Union Internationale Pentathlon Moderne) technical committee were in attendance to assist the Mexican LOC (Local Organizing Committee) with the organization of the event which was the first time the newly adopted combined event was contested at the World Cup level. This event is a combination of running and shooting. The increased excitement level of the spectators was apparent as the athletes ran to their shooting stations and had to score on their 59.2 mm target five times before being allowed to depart for their one kilometer run over grass, asphalt and stone paths. This was repeated three times for a total of 15 scoring shots and three kilometers of racing. The final standings after this event were significantly different than the placings after the fencing, swimming, and riding events.
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Well dang...I can see why you like those results. That's a real tasty looker there Chaz, Congrats!Doesn't appear bottom browning will be a problem with your setup...even at just 500 you got great color.Was the top of that cornicione as thin and crisp as it looks?
Thanks for the kind words Bob! The cornicione was nice and thin/crisp and had great flavor. I can see why some do use the broiler for some top browning. If I wanted to cut down on the bake time, I would crank the oven up to 550 and use the broiler setting 3- 3.5 mins in to get that nice top browning since I do get sufficient bottom browning fairly quick. I guess that will have to be my next experiment.
Let's talk sauce It might be the light, but it's coming off a bit orange-y. No pre-cook, right? No oil, correct?
I have been using cento crushed
Deb, Craig (and others) have long posited that any Cento products other than the Italian with the can code ROA1 aren't worth buying, and, from testing them on multiple occasions, I'm apt to agree.
What type of cheese are you using?
I have read that, I haven't been able to find the ROA1 for a few years and I don't think I have ever seen them in the crushed. I haven't seen NJ Scalfani's over here either. We have a Scalfani but they are a different company and are not good (though I haven't tried them for years). I'll have to check for those the next time I drive west...
I used block PollyO whole milk mozzarella.
Uh C Bob, you gonna quote on every reply now that you are master of quote thingy ? told you I was nervous John
Deb, Dave Cavanagh (dmcavanagh) can get Jersey Sclafani's and he's in the Albany area. It's possible they don't deal with any supermarkets in CT, but I'd still look around a bit. You also might try contacting the company.http://www.donpepino.com/history.asp
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100%, 587 g. (20.71 oz.) WMGV puree2.556%, Sunflower oil, about 3 1/4 t. (15 g.)2.317%, Sugar, about 3 1/2 t. (13.6 g.)0.35%, Salt, 3/8 t. (2.06 g.)0.12%, Dried Italian oregano (ground in a mortar and pestle), about 1 1/8 t. (0.70 g.) (Note: the weight is after grinding)0.069%, Dried Italian basil (ground in a mortar and pestle), about 3/8 t. (0.41 g.) (Note: the weight is after grinding) - A couple of pinches of freshly ground black pepper0.20%, Garlic powder, a bit less than 1 1/8 t. (1.17 g.)0.172%, Olive oil, about 1/4 t. (1 g.)
I tried your sauce clone, but every one thought it came out much too sweet. Did I use the wrong type of pure? It actually seemed a little on the sweet side right out of the can.
petehave you ever used stanislaus full red for cloning the sauce?
c0mpl3x,No, I have not tried the Stanislaus Full Red tomatoes. In all of my PJ reverse engineering/cloning experiments, both for the dough/pizzas and sauce, I have tried to use ingredients that our members have a good chance of finding either in supermarkets or by mail order at reasonable prices, and in small can sizes (28 ounces) in the case of canned tomatoes. In the past, I have been able to locate the small cans of Stanislaus tomatoes, like Tomato Magic and I believe the Full Red, but it is a hit or miss proposition as to whether the store where I have located these tomatoes--an Italian food market in Dallas--will have them on its shelves at any given time. The 6-in-1s in small cans I purchase online from time to time as I need them. I am sure that I can obtain the Stanislaus and Escalon fresh-pack tomatoes from pennmac (http://www.pennmac.com/page/27) in the #10 cans but I have not gone that route thus far. Also, in my case, I am often able to get the large cans of some Stanislaus tomatoes at the Italian food market in Dallas.Peter
ill ship you a #10 can of full red if you are interested.
c0mpl3x,Thank you very much for the kind offer. However, the next time I go into Dallas I should be able to pick up a large can of the Full Red. Peter
Sonic98,Thank you for your feedback.As member November mentioned earlier in this thread, there are limitations to trying to reverse engineer and clone a pizza sauce using only one's tastebuds, which can vary from one person to another and even at different times for the same person. Unfortunately, at the time I conducted my PJ sauce experiments all I had was my tastebuds. But it is clear from the PJ sauce ingredients list I started with that sugar is added to the already sweet (naturally) Stanislaus tomatoes used in PJ's regular pizza sauce. For some people, that can mean a sauce that is cloyingly sweet and, from reports I have read, there are many people who will no longer buy PJ pizzas because the sauce is too sweet for them, not to mention the above average amount of sugar in the PJ dough/crust that will also contribute to the overall sweetness of the pizza. As one who is very sensitive to the presence of sugar in many different foods, I can understand that reaction. If it weren't for the fact that I was trying to reverse engineer and clone the basic PJ pizza sauce, I perhaps wouldn't personally choose a sauce as sweet as those I made. In your case, I believe you have several options. You can 1) repeat the sauce formulation you used but reduce the amount of added sugar, 2) ask for a sample of the PJ pizza sauce the next time you buy a PJ pizza (but not the sauce in the little tubs) and conduct your own reverse engineering/cloning tests, or 3) use a different pizza sauce that contains little or no sugar. I suppose you could also use less sweet tomatoes than the Stanislaus and Escalon fresh-pack tomatoes, as I did with the Wal-Mart crushed tomatoes, and add whatever amount of sugar satisfies your tastebuds. If you decide to go with options 1) or 2), I hope you will return to the forum and report on your results, either on this thread or a new thread if you wish.Peter
Doskocil (which you can get from just about any vendor)...you can try others, but the flavors are obviously different.(they use Doskocil for all their meats I think)
I am making this sauce for my PJ Clone. Just wanted to type up a couple of early impressions.I made it with Kroger great value, I looked for the 6-in-1 product but didn't see it at two stores. I'll keep an eye out for it.I put all the ingredients listed into a blender and pulverized it with the 'margarita mode' (as my wife and I call it) and it turned out pretty decent at first taste. I did NOT further crush the herbs. That seemed a bit overkill at first...but after tasting the sauce, I can see the value for next time.I plan on letting it sit in the fridge in an airtight container overnight so the flavors blend a bit. I'll post my thoughts.


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In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual.
Told in Macfarlane's distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology and literature. His walks take him from the chalk downs of England to the bird islands of the Scottish northwest, from Palestine to the sacred landscapes of Spain and the Himalayas. Along the way he crosses paths with walkers of many kinds—wanderers, pilgrims, guides, and artists. Above all this is a book about walking as a journey inward and the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move. Macfarlane discovers that paths offer not just a means of traversing space, but of feeling, knowing, and thinking.
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At last week's Acton on Tap, I discussed the economic teachings of the Heidelberg Catechism, beginning with the divine origin of material blessings as expressed in Lord's Day 50, which explores the fourth petition of the Lord's Prayer, "Give us this day our daily bread." The catechism emphasizes God as "the only source of everything good," echoing the classical Christian understanding of God as the fons omnium bonorum, a Latin phrase meaning the font or source of all good things. This formula appears in many places, notably in the work of John Calvin.
The conclusion from such an understanding is, as the catechism puts it, that we are "to give up our trust in creatures and trust in you [God] alone." So even though the bread we normally consume each day is brought to us by the work of others, including farmers, millers, and bakers, we are to look beyond these secondary means to the origin of all good things, giving thanks to him.
In his guide to the Heidelberg Catechism, the Rev. Cornelis Vonk provides us with a powerful image connecting the divine origins and the human means by which our material blessings normally are provided. Vonk writes,
Someone might nonetheless ask, "How can we ask the Lord for bread when it is already prepared and ready on our table?"
We see the same thing when a child takes an apple from a bowl on the table, after first asking, "Mother, may I take an apple?" The child does this even though those apples were purchased for him. But Mother is the owner. In the same way, before we enjoy a finely furnished meal, we acknowledge our heavenly Father as the owner by saying, "Please."
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The Phillies have signed 33-year old righty starting pitcher Aaron Cook to a minor league deal. Cook pitched in 18 games (all starts) for the Red Sox last year and he was 4-11 with a 5.65 ERA and a 1.47 WHIP. He didn't miss many bats last year as he gave up 115 hits and he only whiffed 20 batters in 94 innings for the Red Sox in 2012. But, he does throw strikes as he only walked 21 batters last year. Cook has now pitched in 256 games (224 starts) in his first 11 years in the majors and he is 76-79 with a 4.60 ERA and a 1.47 WHIP. Cook will duke it out with John Lannan and Rodrigo Lopez this spring for the #5 job in the Phillies' starting rotation.


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The Town of Carroll Police Department in cooperation with the New York State Police, Chautauqua County Humane Society and the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Department executed a search warrant at 384 Sandberg Road after a one-month investigation into reports of dangerous dogs that are suspected of killing several other area dogs and family pets. According to police, five dogs, five cats, five chickens and two parakeets were seized from the residence. The same trailer that was occupied by the majority of the animals was also inhabited by three adults and six children. According to police, the conditions at the residence necessitated occupancy restriction and additional charges are pending.
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"It got to a point that we couldn't let people continue to live in that house," said Wright. "There was soiling from the animals, and disease that can come out of that. The level of soiling from multiple animals coming and going and living in that small contained environment was just very bad. It was not a good situation – there's a danger factor in this case that is extreme."
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Are Cloud-Based Apps Right for Your Practice?
Two emerging trends in healthcare have captured the attention of technologists and clinicians alike. One is the growing role of prevention and wellness services in clinical care, prompted in part by research that suggests it costs the healthcare system less to prevent chronic disease with proper diet, exercise and other lifestyle adjustments than to treat life-long disorders that result from neglecting these issues.
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While every organization has its own IT needs and limitations, the case studies described in the two companion pieces included with this report make it clear that choosing the right cloud setup can have profound impact. The first case demonstrates the benefits of a cloud-based program called Silverstone MatchGrid, which uses complex algorithms to match patients in need of kidney transplants with living donors. The second shows how a cloud-based practice management system—encompassing data warehousing, billing and analytics tools—helps a growing oncology practice work more efficiently.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (185 votes).
In short: Pretty flat with a good promise of a pb.Date of review: February 1, 2010
In short: Rain paused just long enough to get us round. Fast but still challenging. Great opportunity for a 'year's best'.Date of review: November 24, 2009
In short: Nice and easy. Will hopefully do the whole series next year.Date of review: November 23, 2009
In short: Fast course, 3 laps not as boring as it soundsIn full: Well organised, car park right next to the race HQ mean i could be on the road a matter of minutes after finishing. The wind made the race interesting, but it is definitely a PB-potential course.Date of review: November 23, 2009
In short: Weather was interesting and certainly blew away the cobwebs! Excellent organisation, very friendly. Managed a massive PB, so well worth the trip! See you in February!Date of review: November 23, 2009
In short: Sorry about the toilets.In full: Getting a lot of comments about the toilets and just wanted to apologise. As organsiers, it was totally out of our hands - we were informed at 5pm the night before that the main toilets were closed for refurbishment. We had one set up open behind the cafe and another set were opened at 10am plus the ones in the cafe. Unfortunately the cafe toilets then got blocked too.The main toilet block will be refurbished ready for the February Chilly, but that was of no comfort yesterday I know.Date of review: November 23, 2009
In short: PB course when not windy. No more, no lessIn full: I have given the PB 100% as this is what it would be on a calm day. Strange but strangely enjoyable running round a race track (OK - who had car noises in their head) Yes it could be boring but it's only 3 laps, Would be far worse on a shorter circuit. Minor gripe - Chip collection could have had a few more helping hands although they did vary registration times to keep queues down. 1 toilet block open was a joke. Iwas led to believe that another one did open later. In all fairness I will hold back on my judgement of the organisers for this as this may have been the responsibility of the race track owners. Were they aware of numbers involved? Date of review: November 23, 2009
In short: A Little unorganised, plus more loos neededIn full: A good run with PB potential apart from the wind at the far end of the track!Date of review: November 22, 2009
In short: Generally good, with one major issueIn full: Let's start with the good bits. In general this is a really good event, well organised and efficient. Running on a racetrack was a novelty.Normally I have no time for runners who moan aboput a lack of toilets, and think that they'd be better off directing their energies towards getting there in reasonable time. However, when you're travelling for an hour to the race 'coordinating' bodily functions is hit and miss, and provision is needed. In summary, there was ONE toilet for the 150 odd blokes in the race (badly signed too, with several 'false' signs). As a result I endured a massively uncomfortable last 3km where I had to virtually walk and any hope of a decent time disappeared.This isn't an excuse - my own lack of fitness was the main reason for a disappointing time. However, such complete lack of provision is simply not good enough, especially at a circuit like this where facilities should have been plentifulDate of review: November 22, 2009
In short: Head wind prevented a pb run! (That's my excuse and I'm sticking to itt)In full: Good organisation. Shame about the wind. It was the only negitive on the day. Everything else went smoothly!!Date of review: November 22, 2009
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Fourth Buffalo man charged in Dunkirk drug investigation
Another Buffalo man has been charged following an investigation of illegal drug sales in the city of Dunkirk.
On Monday, David Hall, 33, was located and arrested in the city of Buffalo by the New York State Police on a secret Grand Jury indictment warrant that had been issued in Chautauqua County.
The warrant was signed by Judge John T. Ward after the Chautauqua County District Attorney's office presented the case that had been brought by the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force.
It is alleged that Hall sold crack cocaine in Dunkirk to undercover agents over a two-month period.
Hall is the fourth Buffalo man charged with selling drugs in Dunkirk this month.
He has been charged with multiple counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance.
Authorities continue to ask the public for information pertaining to narcotics trafficking within their communities. If anyone witnesses what they believe is narcotics related traffic, call either their local police or the Drug Task Force at 1-800-344-8702.


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Welcome to TeaDay, come share your cup with everyone, see what everyone else is sipping, and answer the Poll.
Remember, newbies, all are welcome to TeaDay, please join us and share what is in your cup.
Today's TeaPoll question was pointed out to me by Sky Warrior regarding Tenuki's TeaDay post on caffeine on Friday.
He tells us there there is a scale for measuring caffeine consumption, I have named it appropriately, the Tenuki Caffeine Consumption Scale (TCCS). So, where are you on the TCCS? Please feel free to have some fun with this on TeaDay today!
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Grey Larsen, in the 150 Gems collection, has given us a most welcome follow-up to his encyclopedic volume, The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle (Mel Bay Publications, 2003) and The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox (Mel Bay Publications, 2004). The Gems feature not only meticulously-selected tunes, but represent the first mjor offerings that use Larsen's innovative system of notating Irish ornamentation. This book and CDs will help players gain a deeper understanding of the Irish musical tradition as well as provide new material to enhance the experience of the solo player and Irish session participant alike.
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Halpern, Daniel
Halpern, Daniel 1945–
Halpern, an American poet, is noted for his cool, almost emotionless poetry in which he explores man's interior landscapes. Life among Others is his most recent collection. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols, 33-36, rev. ed.)
Peter Cooley
Traveling on Credit has an ease, depth, assurance and picaresque range of subject matter rare for a first volume. Halpern takes us out of the house, out of America, but remains himself in any adventure, mastering experience while in it. "I've been after the exotic for years," the book begins, but this poet shows us (in the title poem and elsewhere) that the journey is made with imagination and language as much as lifted thumb….
Though his catalogues, his peripatetic quality and his flip-ness relate him to the "New York poets," Halpern focuses on an image just long enough to take it, make it, without the obsessive repetitiousness one has come to associate with that movement recently. He's hip and sophisticated, somebody to watch. (pp. 83-4)
Peter Cooley, "Turning, Turning: 7 Poets Moving In and Moving Out," in Michigan Quarterly Review (copyright © The University of Michigan, 1974), Vol. XIII, No. 1, Winter, 1974, pp. 79-84.∗
Calm and melancholy in tone, the poems in [Life among Others] are diminished, weaker than his earlier work, at best simple sketches or dream scenes. A few, like the last piece, "I am a Dancer," have a strong, clear voice, but most are less elegant, less animated, and rich in metaphor, a backing away from illuminating intelligence towards blankness, suspension, "white images that lift away." Nature is good, man evil in the scheme proclaimed by the title; and an orderly life excludes relationships, so that one lives among, not with, others.
"Poetry: 'Life among Others'," in Virginia Quarterly Review (copyright, 1978, by the Virginia Quarterly Review, The University of Virginia), Vol. 54, No. 3 (Summer, 1978), p. 100.
Jay Parini
[Life Among Others is Daniel Halpern's] best work to date, not different in kind but in degree from Traveling on Credit and Street Fire. The new poems intensity and extend Halpern's earlier visions of isolation and loss, and they push outward into the real world of lovers, houses, friends, food. The dreamlike quality of his previous collections persists, as does the claustrophobic aspect of heightened self-consciousness, but with a difference. A newfound transparency, an almost embarrassing directness and simplicity, presents itself here; the poet casts a net over (into) his experience of himself in the world. This is psychic fishing, so to speak, an attempt to retrieve from strange personal depths something of the subliminal energies which charge the dream-world with meaning.
Halpern obliterates normal boundaries of day and night. In doing so, he also blurs the usual limits between self and others or between subject and object…. Halpern traverses an interior world in pursuit of what Yeats called "radical innocence," a condition in which the world outside of the mind and the world within find a natural balance, a dwelling in the evening air. Halpern longs for this sense of equilibrium and acceptance wherein "You are no longer the stranger / who made too little sense."
This ideal state of being remains, as it must, at the edge of Halpern's experience, a luminous stillness like a clearing deep in...
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William Pratt
Solitude. Silence. Stillness. Whiteness. Otherness.
These words and others like them resonate through [Life Among Others,] a sequence of short poems that seem to be about almost nothing. But the nothing penetrates, as Paul Valéry once said. Here, deliberate reticence sometimes becomes potent with meaning…. Life Among Others is a quiet book, like a conversation in whispers, conducted by strangers who meet for the first time but somehow seem intimate. Their world is the city—no particular city, but a peopled space where meetings are casual and inconclusive, anonymous encounters with others, faceless souls in limbo seeking some human contact. The voice that speaks them is less a talker than a silent listener, one who says, "My work is to stand still and see everything."
This … collection of Daniel Halpern's poetry is mostly impressive for what it is not about, for he seems to have passed through the rather slick cosmopolitan world of his earlier books, Traveling on Credit (1972) and Street Fire (1975), where exotic, forbidden places beckon with a leer, into a purer world where everything is white, clear, transparent: "It is winter. The trees / march away from the window / like the ghostly skeltons of fish." Lines such as these are reminiscent of the later poems of Wallace Stevens, and it is probably significant that this volume begins with a few verses from "The Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour." But Halpern's poems move at their own pace through this bare inner landscape, with an air of attentive and at times compelling anticipation, as if the poet were on tiptoe, a somnambulist walking through a dream. The dream never wholly materializes, but the mood of expectancy lingers, like breath in cold air, giving hope that someday, perhaps in his next book, Halpern may stumble on a revelation of what all this stillness means. It is a faint hope, but amid the myriad slim, forgettable volumes of poems, it is something. (pp. 293-94)
William Pratt, "World Literature in Review: 'Life among Others'," in World Literature Today (copyright 1979 by the University of Oklahoma Press), Vol. 53, No. 2, Spring, 1979, pp. 293-94.
Dave Smith
For me the severely spare and squeezed distillate of human experience in most of Daniel Halpern's third book, Life Among Others, is interesting but not, finally, enough. The poems haven't a sufficient dirt on their feet, however earnest their hearts, however they fully disclose an aesthetic intelligence. Twenty of Halpern's thirty-six poems commence with the same monosyllabic conjunction of a personal pronoun and a verb of the most modest action, if any, ("I take the hand of others.") which makes a flat statement whose value depends on our interest in Halpern's emotional life, his travel, or his ennui. I would guess he has come to a dead end mannerism not unlike "It is night. The snow is falling."… [Yet] beautiful poems have a habit of rising out of the most arid zones…. Three of Halpern's poems seem to do as much as we might ask and more; they are "The Hero at Midnight," "Letter To The Midwest," and "The Dance." If we are lucky, and if we look for what is and not what isn't there, we may see more poems with Halpern's own stamp of joy, such as ["The Dance"]…. Mr. Halpern is dancing pretty nicely in his poem and I am dancing for the pleasure it gives me…. (p. 33)
Dave Smith, "Dancing through Life among Others: Some Recent Poetry from Younger American Poets," in The American Poetry Review (copyright © 1979 by World Poetry, Inc.; reprinted by permission of Dave Smith), Vol. 8, No. 3, May-June, 1979, pp. 29-33.∗
Peter Stitt
Daniel Halpern's Life Among Others has been criticized for the stance expressed by its title—the speaker of these poems is seen as an observer of rather than a participant in life, as one who doesn't live with others. It is assumed that this situation weakens the book, that the reader's sympathies cannot be given to a protagonist so withdrawn from humanity, seemingly so cold to it. This view, I think, ignores certain important features of the book. In many of its poems, the speaker does in fact reach out to, and express real sympathy for, other human beings. Then there is the tone of most of the poems, which seems to me more stunned and psychically defensive than downright cold. The book has an inner plot of sorts, and we must attend to this if we are to understand the speaker's seeming coldness.
It is not until the second of the book's two sections that we learn the reason for the speaker's strange withdrawal from humankind—a broken love affair. This theme is carried by several poems—"For You" and "I Hear Nothing" among them—but appears centrally in the beautifully written "Sad Endings," which concludes:
And how simple it all is. Someone finally just walks
away. It might be sunset, but it mustn't be.
The one who leaves is moved
less than the left,
but both are touched, and touched in different ways.
One leaves, one remains:
For you who go, for me who stays, two autumns.
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Ray Miller 50/50
In the more consistently sunny Santa Monica Mountains of Point Mugu State Park in southern California, the Ray Miller 50 Miler also took place over the weekend. The race honors Ray Miller, or "Ranger Ray" as he was known, who lived and volunteered year-round in the park for many years.
The men's race went to Dylan Bowman of Aspen, Colorado, after a hard fought battle with former Pearl Izumi teammate and eventual second place finisher, Timothy Olson of Ashland, Oregon. Bowman's finish time (6:47) was two minutes shy of the course record set by Jorge Maravilla in the race's inaugural running. Hal Koerner, 37, took third in 7:17. The women's winner was Amy Sproston, 38, who finished in 8:38. Second place went to Stephanie Weigel, 31 (9:11), followed by Clare Abram, 42 (9:31) in third.
Jed Smith Ultra Classic 50 Miler
Almost 400 miles north in Sacramento, California, the 35th annual Jed Smith Ultra Classic saw a new route that included a bit more asphalt and a bit less dirt than runners were used to. Amy Halseth, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, ran 6:19 to claim first in the women's race and second overall. Her run brought her within 38 seconds of Meghan Arbogast's record-setting race last year. Julie Fingar, of Granite Bay, California, race director of the Sierra Nevada Endurance Runs, trailed Halseth, crossing the line in second with a time of 7:05. Kathrine Plichta, of Redwood City, California, was a close third in 7:09. The men's winner was Victor Ballesteros of San Rafael, California. Chad Worthen, of Sacramento was second (6:47), and Jeremy Nye, also from Sacramento, finished third (7:26).


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