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NEW-YORK: April 1849.
DEAR SIR, — No doubt you will be surprised to learn that your letter dated Dec. 18 has only this moment reached me. I live at the village of Fordham; about 14 miles from New-York on the Harlem Rail-Road — but as there is no Post-Office at the place, I date always from New-York and get all my letters from the city Post-Office. When, by accident or misapprehension, letters are especially directed to me at Fordham, the clerks — some of them who do not know my arrangements — forward them to West-Farms, the nearest Post-Office town, and one which I rarely visit. Thus it happened with your letter — on account of the request which you made Mr. Putnam, I presume "to forward it to my residence." I have thought it proper to make you this explanation, lest you may have been all this time fancying me discourteous in not replying to your very flattering proposition. [page 349:]
I deeply regret that I did not sooner receive it; and had it reached me in due season, I would have agreed to it unhesitatingly. In assuming "originality" as the "keystone of success" in such enterprises, you are right; and not only right, but, in yourself, almost "original" — for there are none of our publishers who have the wit to perceive this vital truth. What the public seek in a Magazine is what they cannot elsewhere procure.
Should you not have changed your mind on the subject, I should be pleased to hear from you again. I do not think — (in fact I am perfectly sure of the contrary) — that a Magazine could succeed, to any great extent, under the precise form, title, and general plan which (no doubt hurriedly) you have suggested; but your idea of the duplicate publication, East & West, strikes me forcibly.
Experience, not less than the most mature reflection on the topic, assures me that no cheap Magazine can ever again prosper in America. We must aim high — address the intellect — the higher classes — of the country (with reference, also, to a certain amount of foreign circulation) and put the work at $5: — giving about 112 pp. (or perhaps 128) with occasional wood-engravings in the first style of art, but only in obvious illustration of the text. Such a Mag. would begin to pay after 1000 subscribers; and with 5000 would be a fortune worth talking about: — but there is no earthly reason why, under proper management, and with energy and talent, the work might not be made to circulate, at the end of a few years — (say 5) 20,000 copies — in which case it would give a clear income of 70 or 80,000 dollars — even if conducted in the most expensive manner, paying the highest [page 350:] European prices for contributions & designs. I need not add that such a Mag. would exercise a literary and other influence never yet exercised in America. — I presume you know that during the second year of its existence, the "S. L. Messenger" rose from less than 1000 to 5000 subs., and that "Graham," in 18 months after my joining it, went up from 5000 to 52,000. I do not imagine that a $5 Mag. could ever be forced into so great a circulation as this latter; but, under certain circumstances, I would answer for 20,000. The whole income from Graham's 52,000 never went beyond 15,000 $: — the proportional expenses of the $3 Mags. being so very much greater than those of the $5 ones.
My plan, in getting up such a work as I propose, would he to take a tour through the principal States — especially West & South — visiting the small towns more particularly than the large ones — lecturing as I went, to pay expenses — and staying sufficiently long in each place to interest my personal friends (old College & West Point acquaintances scattered all over the land) in the success of the enterprise. By these means I would guarantee, in 3 months (or 4) to get 1000 subs. in advance, with their signatures — nearly all pledged to pay on the issue of the first number. Under such circumstances, success would be certain. I have now about 200 names pledged to support me whenever I venture on the undertaking — which perhaps you are aware I have long had in contemplation — only awaiting a secure opportunity.
If you will write me your views on the subject — as much in detail as possible — and if they accord in any degree with mine — I will endeavor to pay you a visit at Oquawka, or meet you at any place you suggest, [page 351:] where we can talk the matter over with deliberation. Please direct your reply simply to New-York City.
Very Respy.
Yr Ob. St.
E. H. N. PATTERSON Esq.
FORDHAM, April 20, 1849.
MY DEAR WILLIS; — The poem which I enclose, and which I am so vain as to hope you will like, in some respects, has been just published in a paper for which sheer necessity compels me to write now and then. It pays well — as times go — but unquestionably it ought to pay ten prices; for whatever I send it I feel I am consigning to the tomb of the Capulets. The verses accompanying this, may I beg you to take out of the tomb, and bring them to light in the Home Journal? If you can oblige me so far as to copy them, I do not think it will be necessary to say "From the Flag," — that would be too bad: — and, perhaps, "From a late —— paper" would do.
I have not forgotten how a "good word in season" from you made "The Raven," and made "Ulalume," (which, by-the-way, people have done me the honor of attributing to you) — therefore I would ask you (if I dared), to say something on these lines — if they please you.
Truly yours ever,
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OQUAWKA, May 7, 1849.
DEAR SIR, — Yours of April is before me, and I hasten to reply. I feared that my letter had never reached you (and had contempl.), or that other engagements had prevented your replying. You ask me to give (me) you my views upon the subject of our present correspondence "as much in detail as possible;" this I shall proceed briefly and concisely to do. (Your remarks, especially as they are strong.) Your opinions, strengthened as they have been by experience, have had their weight in convincing me that it would probably be better to establish at the outset a high-priced, and correspondingly high-toned periodical, which would, without doubt, win a generous and extended patronage from a genius-appreciating public. When I wrote you before, I had not given the subject that consideration (necessary to) which it deserved, — my principal object at that time being to enlist your sympathies and interests in a periodical (to be published by me), the literary contents of which should be exclusively under your control, believing that such an enterprise would prove successful, not doubting that even a cheap Magazine, under your editorial control, could be made to pay well, and at the same time exert a beneficial influence upon American Literature. But I certainly think that a Magazine (upon) such as you suggest, would yield a handsome income — probably a "fortune worth talking about" — and also subserve the interests of Literature to a much greater extent.
Our Literature is, just now, sadly deficient in the department of criticism. The Boston Reviewers are, generally, too (contracted in their views) much affected by local prejudices to give impartial criticisms; the Philadelphia Magazines (are) have become mere monthly [page 353:] bulletins for booksellers; Willis does not, with his paper, succeed, even tolerably, as a critic; in fact, I seldom find any (review) critique so nearly according with my own idea of the true aim and manner of criticism as were yours, while you had charge of that department in Graham's and Burton's. I wish and (am not alone in the wish) to see you at the head of an influential periodical, where you saw (speak at) —
As you do not appear to be pleased with the (plan) name suggested by me, I will leave to you the task of selecting an appropriate name, and would suggest that you make it unique — something that will be at once taking and will sound well. Make out a list of contributors and write a prospectus, and forward to me as soon as you can, so that I may at once commence operations — or, if it would be more consonant with your views, I will visit New York if possible by the first of August, prepared to purchase suitable materials to (comm) fulfill my part of the work, and then consult with you more deliberately upon minutiæ.
My plan then (with certain modifications which we may agree upon) is thus:
I will furnish an office, and take upon myself the sole charge and expense of Publishing a Magazine (name to be suggested by you) to be issued in monthly numbers at Oquawka, Illinois, containing, in every number, 96 pages, of the same size of those of Graham's Magazine, on good paper and new bold-face long primer (literary critical reviews to be set in smaller type) at the rate of (five) $5 per annum. Of this magazine you are to have the entire editorial control, furnishing, at your expense, matter for its pages, which can be transmitted to me by mail or as we may hereafter agree upon. (The profits none.) You can make your own bargains with authors whose contributions you secure, and I am to publish upon the best terms I can — each incurring the expenses consequent upon his own department — and we are to share the receipts equally — the books to be faithfully kept in [page 354:] the publication office at Oquawka, and one-half of all receipts from subscriptions, and private and agency sales to be forwarded to you monthly, by mail or as you may otherwise direct.
If one thousand subscribers can be secured in advance (and I have your assurance that they can), I am desirous of publishing a Magazine of this character. Your plan for procuring subscribers strikes me as having been happily conceived, and from its very "originality," exclusive of your own extended personal popularity, must succeed admirably. On my part, I think my influence probably would extend to probably 500 subs., but I depend mainly upon your name, which (whatever may be the title you may propose) must form a part thereof. The fact of your editorship must also be well displayed in the prospectus.
Oquawka is comparatively an unimportant point, but I think that such being the case would not injure at all the circulation of the Magazine. Those who would become subscribers, would be induced to do so by their confidence in the abilities of the Editor, and the names of the contributors — and after the appearance of the first number I would guarantee that none will be disposed to cavil at the style or manner of publication. Here I can, situated as I now am, do my work at a less outlay, do it as neatly, and enjoy every mail advantage that I could at St. Louis, being but 30 hours' travel from that city, and being situated immediately upon the Mississippi, with daily connection with the Northern Canal and St. Louis, and directly upon the great daily mail line from the East, through Penn., Ohio, and Indiana. In short, I could have no advantage in St. Louis that I may not avail myself of here — while here my expenses would not be so great as they would there, at least not in the beginning; — when the Magazine circulates five thousand copies it may be to our interests to publish it elsewhere — time will tell. [page 355:]
I have decided upon 96 pages — exclusive of cover; thinking that we had better begin with a work of this size. If, at the end of the first year, our circulation should justify, we can make a favorable impression as regards the stability of the work by enlarging to 112 pages or perhaps even to 128 pp.
I should expect you to be at one-half the cost of printing, say, 100 (perhaps a somewhat larger number) copies sent to editors in payment of insertion of prospectus.
If my plan accords with your views, you will immediately select a title, write me to that effect, and we will both commence operations. I will visit you at New York during the latter part of July or 1st of August, when we can settle minutiæ and write out prospectus. We ought to put out the first number early in January next. Let me hear from you immediately.
And now that business is over — a word in your private ear. In conversing with a gentleman from Boston last year, upon the relative merits of some of our leading writers, I mentioned your name, and was surprised that he did not at once agree with me in my estimate of your poetic powers. He confessed that he had read a review of some of your poems and concluded that they were scarcely worth his attention. He had not even seen the "Raven." I lent him this, besides several fugitive pieces of yours in my possession — "William Wilson," "Murders of the Rue Morgue," &c., and afterwards "Eureka," a copy of which (the last in the city) I had just a little while before procured in St. L. The preface of this work he said was sufficient, if he had never read another of your writings, to convince him that Edgar A. Poe was a man of gigantic mind. I was thus the humble instrument in removing for the
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NOTE. — This is a memorandum, rather than a letter, and is copied verbatim, including italicized parentheses, which are in many cases obscure, but seem to involve alternate modes of expression, The text is copied from the publication of the Caxton Club. — ED. [page 356:]
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NEW-YORK — May 23 — 49.
MY DEAR SIR, — Your letter of the 7th. came to hand in due course of mail; but I have delayed my reply for a week, that I might deliberate well upon your proposition. You will comprehend the caution with which I feel it necessary to act, when you refer to my former letter, in which I endeavored to explain to you the ambition of my views and the importance I assign to success in the Magazine enterprise. If we attempt it we must succeed — for, so far as concerns myself individually, all my prospects, pecuniary as well as literary, are involved in the project — but I shrink from making any attempt which may fail. For these reasons, I have thought long and carefully on what you propose; and I confess that some serious difficulties present themselves. They are not insuperable, however, and, if we bring a proper energy to the task, they may be even readily overcome. Your residence at Oquawka is certainly one of the most serious of these difficulties; and I submit to you whether it be not possible to put on our title-page "Published simultaneously at New-York & St Louis" — or something equivalent.
However, these are points to be discussed when we meet — for, upon the whole, I say Yes to your proposition. Enclosed, you will find a title-page designed by myself about a year ago: — your joining me will, of course, necessitate some modifications — but the title &c should, for many reasons (to be explained hereafter) be adhered to. [page 357:]
We will find the 7 months between now and January brief enough for our preparations. It will be absolutely necessary that we begin at once. To-day I am going to Boston & Lowell, to remain a week; and immediately afterwards I will start for Richmond, where I will await your answer to this letter. Please direct to me there, under cover, or to the care of John R. Thompson, Edr. of the "South. Lit. Messenger." on receipt of your letter (should you still be in the mind you now are) I will proceed to St. Louis & there meet you. We can then visit N. York together, or I can continue the tour, as may be agreed on. In the meantime I will do what I can in Boston & Virginia — without involving your name in the enterprise until I hear from you.
I fancy that I shall be able to meet the current expenses of the tour by lecturing as I proceed; but there is something required in the way of outfit; and as I am not overstocked with money (what poor-devil author is?) I must ask you to advance half of the sum I need to begin with — about $100. Please, therefore, enclose $50 in your reply, which I will get at Richmond.
If these arrangements suit you, you can announce the agreement &c to your friends & proceed as if all was signed and sealed.
I enclose a poem from Willis's "Home Journal" & would be obliged to you if you could have it copied (with Willis's editorial prefix) in some paper either in St Louis or Oquawka: — enclosing me the copy when you write.
Cordially yours,
E. H. N. PATTERSON, Esqr. [page 358:]
FORDHAM, —— June 16.
You asked me to write before I started for Richmond, and I was to have started last Monday (the 11th) — so, perhaps, you thought me gone, and without having written to say "good-bye" — but indeed, Annie, I could not have done so. The truth is, I have been on the point of starting every day since I wrote — and so put off writing until the last moment — but I have been disappointed — and can no longer refrain from sending you, at least, a few lines to let you see why I have been so long silent. When I can go now is uncertain — but, perhaps, I may be off tomorrow, or next day: — all depends upon circumstances beyond my control. Most probably, I will not go until I hear from Thompson (of the S. L. Messenger), to whom I wrote five days ago — telling him to forward the letter from Oquawka, instead of retaining it until he sees me. The reason of the return of my draft on Graham's Magazine (which put me to such annoyance and mortification while I was with you) was, that the articles I sent (by mail) did not come to hand. No insult (as I had half anticipated) was meant — and I am sincerely glad of this; for I did not wish to give up writing for Graham's Magazine just yet — I enclose the publisher's reply to my letter of enquiry. The Postmaster here is investigating the matter, and, in all probability, the articles will be found, and the draft paid by the time you get this. So all this will be right. ... [page 359:]
You see I enclose you quite a budget of papers: the letter of Mrs. L—— to Muddy — Mrs. L——'s long MS. poem — the verses by the "Lynn Bard,"(1) which you said you wished to see, and also some lines to me (or rather about me), by Mrs. Osgood, in which she imagines me writing to her. I send, too, another notice of "Eureka," from Greeley's Tribune. The letter of Mrs. L—— you can retain if you wish it.
Have you seen the "Moral for Authors," a new satire by J. E. Tuel? — who, in the name of Heaven, is J. E. Tuel? The book is miserably stupid. He has a long parody of the "Raven" — in fact, nearly the whole thing seems to be aimed at me. If you have not seen it and wish to see it, I will send it. ... No news of Mrs. L—— yet. If she comes here I shall refuse to see her. Remember me to your parents, Mr. R——, &c. — And now Heaven for ever bless you —
I enclose, also, an autograph of the Mr. Willis you are so much in love with. Tell Bardwell I will send him what I promised very soon. ... My mother sends you her dearest — most devoted love.
June 21.
I have been spending a couple of hours most pleasantly ... in reading and re-reading your "Child of [page 360:] the Sea." When it appears in print — less enticing to the eye, perhaps, than your own graceful MS. — I shall endeavor to do it critical justice in full; but in the meantime permit me to say, briefly, that I think it well conducted as a whole — abounding in narrative passages of unusual force — but especially remarkable for the boldness and poetic fervor of its sentimental portions, where a very striking originality is manifested. The descriptions, throughout, are warmly imaginative. The versification could scarcely be improved. The conception of Zamen is unique — a creation in the best poetic understanding of the term. I most heartily congratulate you upon having accomplished a work which will live. — Yours most sincerely,
POE TO ———. [[G. W. Eveleth]]
NEW YORK, June 26, 1849.
On the principle of "better late than never" I avail myself of a few moments' leisure to say a word or two in reply to your last letter — the one from Brunswick.
You have had time to form an opinion of "Eureka." Let me know, frankly, how it impresses you. It is accomplishing all that I prophesied — even more.
In respect to D——. By a singular coincidence, he is the chief of the very sect of Hogites to whom I refer as "the most intolerant and intolerable set of bigots and tyrants that ever existed on the face of the Earth." A merely perceptive man, with no intrinsic [page 361:] force — no power of generalisation — in short, a pompous nobody. He is aware (for there have been plenty to tell him) that I intend him in "Eureka."
I do not comprehend you about my being the "autobiographer of Holden's Magazine." I occasionally hear of that work, but have never seen a number of it.
"The Rationale of Verse" appeared in the last November and December numbers of the Southern Literary Messenger. In the February number I published (editorially) a review of "The Fable for Critics" — It is not much. Lowell might have done better.
I have never written any poem called "Ullahana." What makes you suppose I have? I enclose the last poem (of any length) which I have published (i. e., "For Annie"). How do you like it? You know I put much faith in your poetical judgments. It is from Willis's H. Journal. Do you ever see the Literary World?
Touching the Stylus: Monk Lewis once was asked how he came, in one of his acted plays, to introduce black banditti, when, in the country where the scene was laid, black people were quite unknown. His answer was: "I introduced them because I truly anticipated that blacks would have more effect on my audience than whites — and if I had taken it into my head that, by making them sky-blue the effect would have been greater, why sky-blue they should have been." To apply this idea to the Stylus — I am awaiting the best opportunity for its issue; and if by waiting until the day of judgment I perceive still increasing chances of ultimate success, why until the day of judgment I will patiently wait. I am now [page 362:] going to Richmond to "see about it" — and possibly I may get out the first number next January.
Write soon and more frequently. I always receive your letters with interest.
Cordially your friend,
Please re-enclose the verses.
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NEW YORK, June 28 — 49.
DEAR GRISWOLD, — Since I have more critically examined your "Female Poets" it occurs to me that you have not quite done justice to our common friend, Mrs. Lewis; and if you could oblige me so far as to substitute, for your no doubt hurried notice, a somewhat longer one prepared by myself (subject, of course, to your emendations) I would reciprocate the favor when, where, and as you please. If you could agree to this, give me a hint to that effect, and the MS. is ready. I will leave it sealed with Mrs. L. who is unaware of my design — for I would rather she should consider herself as indebted to you for the favor, at all points. By calling on Mrs. L., and asking for a package to your address, you can at any moment get it. I would not, of course, put you to any expense in this matter: — all cost shall be promptly defrayed.
Truly yours,
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RICHMOND, July 19.
MY DEAR SIR, — I left New York six weeks ago on my way to this place, but was arrested in Philadelphia by the Cholera, from which I barely escaped with life. I have just arrived in Richmond and your letter is only this moment received — or rather your two letters with the enclosures ($50. etc.) I have not yet read them and write now merely to let you know that they are safe. In a few days — as soon as I gather a little strength — you shall hear from me in full.
Truly Yours ever,
E. H. N. PATTERSON, Esq.
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RICHMOND, Aug. 7, 49.
MY DEAR SIR, — The date of your last letter was June 7 — so that two months have elapsed since you wrote it, and I am only just now sitting down to reply. The fault, Heaven knows, has not been mine. I have suffered worse than death — not so much from the Cholera as from its long-continued consequences in debility and congestion of the brain — the latter, possibly, attributable to the calomel taken.
I have at length, however, been able to give your propositions full consideration — and I confess that I [page 364:] hesitate. "To fail" would be ruinous — at least to me; and a $3 Magazine (however well it might succeed (temporarily) under the guidance of another) would inevitably fail under mine. I could not undertake it con amore. My heart would not be in the work. So far as regards all my friends and supporters — so far as concerns all that class to whom I should look for sympathy and nearly all of whom I propose to see personally — the mere idea of a "$3 Magazine" would suggest namby-pamby-ism & frivolity. Moreover, even with a far more diminished circulation than you suggest, the profits of a $5 work would exceed those of a $3 one.
I most bitterly lament the event which has detained me from St. Louis — for I cannot help thinking that, in a personal interview, I could have brought you over to my plans. I fear that now it is too late. But a Mag. might be issued in July very well — and if you think it possible that your views might be changed, I will still visit you at St. L. As yet, I am too feeble to travel; but by the time your reply to this reaches me, I shall have gained sufficient strength to set out. It is not impossible, indeed, that, with energy, the first number might yet be issued in January. I will, therefore, await, in Richmond, your answer to this.
Very cordially yours
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OQUAWKA, ILL., Aug. 21, 1849.
EDGAR A. POE, Esq.
MY DEAR SIR, — Yours of the 7th inst. was received last night, and I hasten to reply. I am truly glad to hear that you are recovering your health, and trust that it will soon be fully restored. You cannot enter into the joint publication of a $3 Mag. with "your heart in the work." Well, what say you to this? —
In publishing a $5 magazine, of 96 pp., monthly, — page same size as Graham's — in bourgeois or brevier (instead of long primer and brevier, as first proposed), it would be necessary for me to make an outlay of at least $1,100 (this amount including a supply of paper for three months for 2,000 copies). Now, if you are sure that, as you before thought, 1,000 subscribers can be obtained who will pay upon receipt of the first number, then you may consider me pledged to be with you in the undertaking.
If this proposition meets your approval, you may immediately commence your journey to St. Louis — making easy stages through the South and operating on your way — so as to reach that city by the middle of October (say the 15th), keeping me advised of your progress, as you proceed, by letter, say every two weeks. I will meet you at St. Louis, by the time mentioned, at which time I shall be more at leisure than before, and can then settle on arrangements. You may associate my name with your own in the matter, the same as if I had met you in person.
Adopt your own title. I leave this matter to you as belonging peculiarly to your department. (Remember, however, published simultaneously at New York and St. Louis.) The first number can be issued in July — it is [page 366:] now too late to do it in January, and it would not be advisable to commence at any time other than the beginning or the middle of the year. I will try to be in St. Louis on the 15 of October, if your answer to this be favorable; until which time I bid you God-speed, and beg leave to sign myself,
Most truly yours,
P. S. — I send this via St. Louis and Vincennes, and will make a duplicate via Chicago to-morrow.
[From MS. in possessions of Miss A. F. Poe.]
Tuesday — Sep. 18 — 49.
MY OWN DARLING MUDDY, — On arriving here last night from Norfolk I received both your letters, including Mrs. Lewis's. I cannot tell you the joy they gave me — to learn at least that you are well & hopeful. May God forever bless you, my dear, dear Muddy. —— Elmira(1) has just got home from the country. I spent last evening with her. I think she loves me more devotedly than any one I ever knew & I cannot help loving her in return. Nothing is as yet definitely settled — and it will not do to hurry matters. I lectured at Norfolk on Monday & cleared enough to settle my bill here at the Madison House with $2, over. I had a highly fashionable audience, but Norfolk is a small place & there were 2 exhibitions the same night. Next Monday I lecture again [page 367:] here & expect to have a large audience. On Tuesday I start for Phila to attend to Mrs. Loud's poems — & possibly on Thursday I may start for N. York. If I do I will go straight over to Mrs. Lewis's & send for you. It will be better for me not to go to Fordham. — don't you think so? Write immediately in reply & direct to Phila[[.]] For fear I should not get the letter sign no name & address it to E. S. T. Grey, Esqre. If possible I will get married before I start — but there is no telling. Give my dearest love to Mrs. L. My poor, poor Muddy I am still unable to send you even one dollar — but keep up heart — I hope that our troubles are nearly over. I saw John Beatty in Norfolk.
God bless & protect you, my own darling Muddy. I showed your letter to Elmira and she says "it is such a darling precious letter that she loves you for it already."
Your own
Don't forget to write immediately to Phila so that your letter will be there when I arrive.
The papers here are praising me to death — and I have been received every where with enthusiasm. Be sure & preserve all the printed scraps I have sent you & beep up my file of the Lit. World. [page 368:]
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possible. Everybody says that if I lecture again & put the tickets at 50 cts. I will clear $100. I never was received with so much enthusiasm. The papers have done nothing but praise me before the lecture & since. I enclose one of the notices — the only one in which the slightest word of disparagement appears. It is written by Daniel — the man whom I challenged when I was here last year. I have been invited out a great deal — but could seldom go, on account of not having a dress coat. To-night Rose(1) & I are to spend the evening at Elmira's. Last night I was at Poitiaux's — the night before at Strobia's, where I saw my dear friend Eliza Lambert (Gen. Lambert's sister). She was ill in her bed-room, but insisted upon our coming up, & we stayed until nearly 1 o'clock. In a word, I have received nothing but kindness since I have been here, & could have been quite happy but for my dreadful anxiety about you. Since the report of my intended marriage, the McKenzies have overwhelmed me with attentions. Their house is so crowded that they could not ask me to stay. — And now, my own precious Muddy, the very moment I get a definite answer about everything, I will write again & tell you what to do. Elmira talks about visiting Fordham — but I do not know whether that would do. [page 369:] I think, perhaps, it would be best for you to give up everything there & come on here in the Packet. Write immediately & give me your advice about it — for you know best. Could we be happier in Richmond or Lowell? — for I suppose we could never be happy at Fordham — and, Muddy, I must be somewhere where I can see Annie. — Did Mrs. L. get the Western Quarterly Review? Thompson is constantly urging me to write for the Messenger, but I am so anxious that I cannot — Mr. Loud, the husband of Mrs. St Leon Loud, the hostess of Philadelphia, called on me the other day and offered me $100 to edit his wife's poems. Of course, I accepted the offer. The whole labor will not occupy me 3 days. I am to have them ready by Christmas. — I have seen Bernard often. Eliza is expected but has not come. — When I repeat my lecture here, I will then go to Petersburg & Norfolk. — A Mr. Taverner lectured here on Shakespeare, a few nights after me, and had 8 persons, including myself & the doorkeeper. — I think, upon the whole, dear Muddy, it will be better for you to say that I am ill, or something of that kind, and break up at Fordham, so that you may come on here. Let me know immediately what you think best. You know we could easily pay off what we owe at Fordham & the place is a beautiful one — but I want to live near Annie. — And now, dear Muddy, there is one thing I wish you to pay particular attention to. I told Elmira, when I first came here, that I had one of the pencil-sketches of her, that I took a long while ago in Richmond; and I told her that I would write to you about it. So when you write, just copy the following words in your letter:
I have looked again for the pencil-sketch of Mrs. S. [page 370:] but cannot find it anywhere. I took down all the books and shook them one by one, and unless Eliza White has it, I do not know what has become of it. She was looking at it the last time I saw it. The one you spoilt with Indian Ink ought to be some where about the house. I will do my best to (find — torn) it.
I got a sneaking letter to-day from Chivers. — Do not tell me anything about Annie — I cannot bear to hear it now — unless you can tell me that Mr. R. is dead. — I have got the wedding ring. — and shall have no difficulty, I think, in getting a dress-coat.
Wednesday Night.
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[Remainder of letter torn away, except]
also the letter. Return the letter when you write.
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1. "Lines to Edgar A. Poe," in the Lady's Book, April 1847. — INGRAM'S NOTE.
2. "Stella."
[The following footnote appears at the bottom of page 366:]
1. Mrs. Shelton.
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1. Poe's sister.
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Tom Boonen, Sylvain Chavanel and other members of Omega Pharma-QuickStep will tackle the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix aboard a new bike from team sponsors Specialized. The bike doesn't officially have a name yet, but past convention tells us this will be the next-generation S-Works Roubaix SL4.
Specialized wouldn't divulge details of the new bike, as it's still in the final stages of development. Per UCI rules, bikes not only have to meet the governing body's testing process but they also "have to be presented to the media" so we were shown the new bike but weren't given any details.
The seatstays now house bigger Zertz dampers
Still, visual inspection shows several key changes, most notably yet another evolution of the company's distinctive Zertz viscoelastic dampers inserted into the fork blades and seatstays. They're not only bigger than ever but also plug into new pockets in the frame that maximize surface area contact to more effectively damp vibration. Specialized wouldn't disclose the reasoning behind the new shape but we presume it lends more comfort than the current Roubaix SL3.
Specifics regarding tested frame stiffness figures and claimed frame and fork weights were also unavailable at press time, but the tapered steerer retains the current 1-1/8 to 1-3/8in diameters. Tom Boonen's personal Roubaix SL4 prototype weighed 7.53kg (16.6lb) on our scale.
The UCI require that Specialized show Boonen's new Roubaix SL4 to the press before he can race it, so on the eve of Paris-Roubaix they held an impromptu unveiling
More information is expected later this summer, but Specialized brand communications manager Ben Delaney told BikeRadarthat the new bike will be "available in very limited quantities in the fall". Specialized say Boonen – as well as new teammate Zdenek Stybar – began testing the new bike on the cobbles late February in Mol, Belgium.
Along with the new chassis, Specialized have a new complementary seatpost concept. Currently referred to as the COBL GOBL-R, Specialized director of advanced development Chris D'Aluisio says it "doubles the compliance" of the Roubaix on its own, but is still stiff enough that it doesn't actually feel like it's moving under normal riding conditions.
Specialized say Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) has tested this novel suspension seatpost but decided to play it safe on race day. It's unofficially called the 'COBL GOBL-R'
Moreover, D'Aluisio says most of the motion of the Roubaix frame itself is fore-aft and Specialized are reaching the limit of how much movement is available. On the other hand, the COBL GOBL-R's motion is mostly up and down and since it only moves on bigger hits, riders apparently aren't bothered by the subtle (and momentary) change in saddle height. Claimed weight for the carbon fiber COBL GOBL-R is 230g.
This season Boonen debuted some significant changes to his personal position after a fit session with Specialized SBCU director Scott Holz. His saddle height is now up a full centimeter, bar width is down from 46cm to 44cm, and tweaks have been made to his shoe insoles, which have, supposedly, improved his pedal stroke.
Overall, Specialized claim the modifications (especially the change in bar width) save Boonen 20 watts of energy at cruising speed and his sprinting style is now significantly more stable and lower up front. It obviously worked in Flanders, and this weekend will likely be total proof of concept for the new Roubaix, and Boonen's new position.


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|2012-12-21, 00:18
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There are a lot if things we don't need, cel-phones, blu-ray, tiny cars that while are very fuel efficient lack any sort of comfort or style. Mostly just luxury items we all take for granted nowadays.
Fear is the driving force behind our affection toward guns? Really? Then why are those who fear us having them or the gun itself? Ignorance maybe? Just asking?
As a species we all fear what we don't understand, to learn a thing is too know a thing, and the fear will go away. Yet there are those who just don't want to learn or understand, they're mired in old beliefs, stereotypes, or popular media propaganda. Sort of how anime is viewed by outsiders.
And as for the military turning on its citizens. Yeah right! The current military an all volunteer force, and many of the now returning veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are less than thrilled with the powers that be, and their decesion making capabilities! I suspect that most would actually join the citizenry in an all out rebellion!
And lastly, there's more too gun than just death and destruction! Look at the lives saved by it, the ability to harvest food.
Or is a resentment of those who just don't get it, that the gun makes those who have them a bit more independent on society for their daily needs? And just tend to do their own thing without care or worry of what there peers think?
|2012-12-21, 08:44
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1) I don't like that website. The opening paragraph at the top of the main homepage makes it very clear where the page maintainer's bias lies. I still read through one of the other articles that you linked from there, but I don't trust his take on things. It may still be useful for reading through the data and websites that he references, though.
2) Any collected data is bound to be inaccurate, and poll data even more so. However, trends are still useful to compare. Unless you want to claim that people in the South are more honest that people in the Northeast, the Gallup poll indicates that there are more guns in the South than the Northeast. The exact numbers ("20 percentage points") is meaningless, but qualitatively the data is still valuable and we can use it for further comparisons.
kyp275 didn't disprove this theory, but correctly pointed out that there's weakness with this reasoning. In order to say exactly how useful or useless guns are when it comes to defense, it would be helpful to know how many of those killed by assault were armed, and it would be helpful if we could find data about failed assaults and whether the victims were armed or not.
"But a fellow citizen could be a terrorist!" you might want to argue. Yes, you're right, but I'm pretty sure that you know what you did here, and I'm pretty sure you know that it was twisting the article to try and support your point. Can we please not go the tabloid route?
Edit: It also looks like there are some issues with data fabrication on Lott's part (also from another source, although that one seems to have an agenda). That may not be an author whose data you want to rely on.
In trying to keep my posts short, I'll end it here. The rest of your post would have just involved me criticizing you for trying to bring an "anecdotal knife to a statistical gunfight." However, I will remark on the data falsification claim: claims made with no evidence are often made up, interpretation of data can be wrong and biased, and data collection is imperfect; however, outright falsified data isn't quite as common. Thus when I present numbers, I'm interested to hear your interpretation of the data.
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|2012-12-21, 12:13
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I'm going to condense this down as much as possible here, since we seem to be repeating things.
He is typical of someone who knows the facts of this case and gets annoyed at those who refuse to accept it.
Personally, I also find his use of the word "Liberal" offensive, and I don't like him allowing his emotions to overflow into some of his articles.
His information however, is excellent and he makes his case quite well.
In other words, while his professional courtesy may be lacking, his data makes up for it.
What the drug gang activity is like.
How strictly current firearm laws are enforced.
And, if the data includes local and city gun control laws into the mix.
Take Illinois for example.
The state laws are not as strict as Chicago, yet Chicago has a vastly higher rate of homicide by firearm than nearly any other part of the country.
I would submit it is because of many reasons, but among them is their ridiculously strict gun control laws.
Chicago has a population of about 2.7 million people.
Houston, a city with very little gun control, has a population of 2.2 million people, and very little violent crime compared to Chicago.
Legal gun ownership in Houston is vastly greater than in Chicago due to Chicago's strict anti-2nd amendment laws.
Also, in Houston they have a castle doctrine that allows citizens to defend themselves.
So while you could roll back all of Chicago's ridiculous gun laws, they would be useless without also passing a castle doctrine that protects the CCW holder from prosecution.
The standard of living in Houston is also higher overall than in Chicago.
I imagine that is a factor, how much of a factor is debatable.
As John Lott has noted after some of Chicago's gun laws were struck down, the crime rate started to go down with it.
How many of those assaults are by repeat offenders?
How many are over reported (domestic assaults by the same person on the same partner are often counted for each incident)?
We also know that in states like Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire, gun control is very lax.
Look at Vermont, they even have open carry (meaning you can carry a gun openly on your hip).
In fact, Vermont has some of the least strict gun control laws in the country, and is one of the safest states to live in.
Standard of living, that's why.
With the exception of crazied mass killers, most violent crime takes place in poverty sticken areas, that is a fact that we both agree on.
Most violent crime also takes place where, in addition to poverty, you have gangs.
Look at Nevada, it's one of the worst places in the country for violent crime.
It's gun laws are stricter than those in Vermont, yet it's violent crime rate is higher.
Organized crime is very strong there, gambling, prostitution and a low standard of living make for fertile ground for violence.
Factors that go well beyond gun ownership.
So we're left with the simple facts rather than anything statistics can tell us, because while something may look "good" on paper via number crunching, it rarely reflects what matters in real life.
Especially in a life or death situation with someone attempting to assault another person.
This is why policy making on this should not be done solely using statistics, in fact, statistics should not come into the mix when dealing with inalienable natural rights at all.
Some states are stricter than others, some cities are stricter than states.
Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Virginia, W. Virginia, and Pennsylvania are relatively the same as Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi in so far as gun laws are concerned.
So regulation isn't the issue here, since clearly its not a factor in states that are comparable to one another.
Now, if we start crunching numbers on racial demographics, poverty levels, drug gangs, and organized crime, then you get a better picture of why the Southern States are so much worse than their Northern counterparts.
Wealth alleviates the stresses and problems for many (though certianly not all) people and raising the standard of living is a must if we are to deal with these issues.
The current data set we have isn't reflecting reality.
There are hundreds of local news reported stories of people stopping crime (as reported by police) yet the statistics don't take them into account.
I would think it is because there simply is not enough data.
When a crime is stopped, and it isn't reported, we don't know about it.
They're still using that insane DHS report on "right-wing" violence in the US.
Here is the PDF of the report.
Interestingly enough, that report does in fact support something I said earlier (but James stopped me):
(U//FOUO) Proposed imposition of firearms restrictions and weapons bans
likely would attract new members into the ranks of rightwing extremist groups,
as well as potentially spur some of them to begin planning and training for
violence against the government. The high volume of purchases and
stockpiling of weapons and ammunition by rightwing extremists in anticipation
of restrictions and bans in some parts of the country continue to be a primary
concern to law enforcement.
Even they admit the following:
Is DataMasher Statistically Rigorous?
...but some mashups could be. We created DataMasher to empower people to discover and discuss government data through manipulation and mapping.
While some of the mashups may be solid indicators and demonstrate real correlations, other mashups may be complete nonsense--it depends on the data sets and the relationship you create. Additionally, the mashups are only as good as the underlying data, which may or may not be strong enough for the relationship you're trying to explore.
Our goal was to build a tool that could be applied to situations where combining data sets and visualizing their result was key. We recognize the benefits of user-generated analysis, but we're having fun and provoking discussions and avenues for more rigorous inquiry, not doing serious social science.
It's a site meant to have fun, by their own admission.
It's not a serious website about statistics.
John Lott and Gary Kleck HAVE been doing a serious study of this for over 30 years.
I'll trust them more than a site meant for "shits and giggles."
Overall, as Doctor Park Dietz pointed out after Columbine, the media is why there is so much hysteria over "gun violence."
They've created this paranoia and its needs to stop.
Richard Jenny explains this best, besides we could use some levity here:
Ted Nugent took Piers to task...love it!
EDIT: Legem you know better than to use SourceWatch and MediaMatters, they're both far-left groups with an agenda that includes disarmament. I don't believe one whit of what they publish.
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This is the same kind of logical fallacy as "Tear down all hospitals, you're 98214% (number invented) more likely to die in a hospital than at home".
I've been visiting a couple of pro-gun websites, and the sheer amount of non-sequitur nonsense is nothing but staggering. At the same time, since they all tend to repeat the same nonsense, so it becomes "common sense" knowledge. Amazing.
On another note, we just learned what the solution is to the various school massacres: Put an armed cop in each school.
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Kudos to NRA for making the correct argument to deal with this situation.
NRA calls for armed police officer in every school
I don't like LaPierre very much (I prefer Larry Pratt's view on this issue), however he exposed the cold hard facts of reality in his speech:
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,"
|2012-12-21, 12:52
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Yup, that's the NRA for you. First compounding the problem which other civilized nations don't have in the first place (firearms in everyone's hands), and then demanding more of it to combat it.
You know - if their argument "only guns protect from guns" were true, then those American states where the NRA and gun possession rates were strongest should be the safest. Alas, the opposite is true, and pretty much consistently so.
|2012-12-21, 13:05
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Or you can just keep doing the same thing, just know that you're not adding anything of value to the debate that way.
|2012-12-21, 13:47
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I'm curious, though. Every totalitarian movie shows armed forces at every corner, watching the populace for any sign of trouble. Every movie-goer agrees that this is bad, and not a sign of a healthy society. Why, then, is it suddenly a good idea when the NRA suggests it?
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But to answer your earlier question: Because it doesn't help solving the root cause of the problem, and instead merely adds a quick-fix of dubious effectiveness, considerable cost and perpetuating the problem.
Like I wrote before, as long as America's selfish, violent and gun-toting culture (I have to respect GundamFan0083's very frank national self-appraisal here) does not change, I don't see any easy solutions. So the question is how much carnage and financial overhead the US will have to accept to retain the perceived advantages of the second amendment and its current interpretations.
We'd have to see whether or not the huge financial investment and emotional harm (little kids forcibly exposed to guns) will bring down school massacres at all. I just think that it's no solution to the problem of easy availability of firearms to people who shouldn't have any. I just don't think that America needs even MORE guns to protect from guns. Which is exactly what I wrote before. This general approach obviously failed so far.
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|2012-12-21, 14:38
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To cut a long story short: There are many reasons why this fairly extreme suggestion could fail or not yield the desired results. We just don't know.
[talk about the American national character]
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At what point does security become militia? Picture this scenario:
A department that handles security
A room where all activity in the building and surrounding areas are monitored
Cameras placed in every possible location
Security badges
Security checkpoints
Guarded gates
Armed guards patrolling the grounds
Metal detectors at all entrances
Barred windows
What does that sound like to you? At what point do you go from protecting citizens to imprisoning them?
Do we have more control over the internet so you can't research how to kill people? Do we require psych evals to get a job flipping burgers? Do we ban any media that could give someone "immoral" thoughts? Do we really need to encourage more Big Brother police state idiocy?
The issue being discussed is far too limited. We're trying to solve the problem of cultural violence using the structure of the culture that generated it in the first place. Of course the NRA is going to advocate guns, and blame other parts of society. It's who they are, it's what they believe. Of course you're going to see pushes for gun control. It's what those people believe. Of course you'll see pushes for better mental health. People believe that these incidents are caused by crazy people, while believing themselves to be the sane ones. These people, groups, are the products of the culture as it exists.
You cannot solve problems using the same thinking that created the problems in the first place.
|2012-12-21, 15:15
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This has nothing to do with being manly or not, it's simply the best tactic for survival. If you can't stop the shooter from gaining access to your location, and you don't make any organized effort to stop the shooter, then the only alternative is sit there and wait for your turn to be executed.
Seriously, what are you suggesting here, that people should just give up and sit there and die?
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|2012-12-21, 15:21
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Getting to your city comparison, here's something for you to consider: Chicago has a population density roughly four times that of Houston, according to Wikipedia (11,864.4/sq mi vs 3,623/sq mi). Having lived in New York City (population density 27,012.5/sq mi) and Los Angeles (population density 8,092/sq mi), I can tell you that isn't trivial. I also had to chuckle at this line in the article you linked:
Gun lovers are gleeful about Chicagos deadly summer. ... But Chicagos murder rate is not proof that gun control doesnt work. Its proof that, in a country with one gun per citizen, local gun laws are meaningless.
I guess they predicted who would be citing their article and for what purposes. They end with something that we've already agreed upon:
The number-one factor in predicting crime is not guns -- or lack of guns. It is concentrated urban poverty. Because of Chicagos history as a segregated city, we have a lot of that.
For example, go to the link that I provided and look at either the map view or look at the ranking in the table. Their ranking is achieved by dividing "violent crime per 100,000" by "% households with a loaded firearm." The mathematical operations that they're doing are considered statistics, but it makes absolutely no sense. Consider the following example:
They list Hawaii as rank #4. Hawaii has 272.8 violent crimes per 100,000 with a 1.20% household firearm ownership. Divide the first by the second to get 227.33.
Louisiana is ranked #23 with a violent crime rate of 729.5 and household gun ownership of 10%. Division yields 72.95.
Looking purely at the products of division, Louisiana is "safer" than Hawaii thanks to its greater gun ownership... even though it has a violent crime rate of approximately triple that. Does that make any sense to you? It shouldn't. That's because doing simple division on these figures is a poor statistical method to determine if there is a trend, and what that trend is. A place could have ten times the amount of violent crime, but it would achieve a better ranking if it had ten or more times the amount of gun ownership. (Just by looking at the raw numbers for yourself, I believe you would agree with me that there is no trend.)
I'm pretty sure I made a disclaimer about ignoring the "rank" and looking purely at the raw numbers the first time that I used that link in this thread, but if I forgot to do so the most recent time, then I apologize.
The allegations that Lott fabricated or fudged data are serious and should be a red flag to anyone who's interested in the truth. Unless it's proven that he committed data fabrication regularly, I'm still willing to look at his data and read his biased interpretations. Not sure why you're unwilling to do the same for data and authors that don't suit your viewpoint.
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I'm not a fervent gun supporter, but I am skeptical of gun control. I will point out that I would feel safer with a cop at the schools than I would if some law said you aren't allowed to have guns. Maybe I'm wrong or illogical for feeling this way, but if some nutjob wants to go on a rampage, I can't help but feel like they are going to find a way to do it, guns or not, legal gun ownership or not.
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NAAC announces John Deere as new partner for Contractor 2017
The National Association of Agricultural Contractors (NAAC) is delighted to announce John Deere as a new partner for its national conference and exhibition, Contractor 2017, being held at the East of England Showground on Thursday 14th December 2017.
The event, aimed specifically at contractors, will address the important role that this sector plays in the industry and examine how they may need to adapt to the changing needs of the farming industry post-Brexit.
"This is an exciting time for all involved with agriculture," says NAAC chief executive Duncan Russell. "It's great to announce that John Deere, a name highly regarded by contractors, will partner this important event for the industry."
John Deere Limited marketing manager Chris Wiltshire adds: "We are very pleased to be associated with Contractor 2017, a specialist and unique event aimed at an increasingly important sector of the farming industry."
At the event, John Deere will be showcasing new products aimed at contractors and large farmers to help improve the efficiency and management of modern agricultural machinery.
This is a must-attend day for contractors, featuring high profile speakers at the morning conference and a large exhibition of contractor specific machinery and services, with additional transport focused discussion and debate in the afternoon.
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'The Artist' Star Uggie the Dog is the New Nintendo Spokesdog
Uggie the dog has had quite a year. The plucky Jack Russell Terrier appeared in 'Water For Elephants' and was a major scene stealer in 'The Artist,' which eventually won the Academy Award for Best Picture. For his work in 'The Artist' the nine-year-old pup took Top Dog at the first annual Golden Collar Awards. Not bad for a pooch who was rejected by two owners and spent time in the pound before being "discovered" by an animal trainer.
So what's a dog to do, after all that success? Well, it looks like Uggie has translated his fame into a swanky new spokesdog gig with video game giant Nintendo.
Uggie is on board specifically to promote the nintendogs + cats series of games. But will there be any conflict between Uggie and Mario, Nintendo's traditional mascot, during the pooch's on-the-job training?
None at all. Uggie charms Mario just like he did the moviegoing public. Everything is coming up Uggie.


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The Jaguars were already racking up the frequent flier miles, thanks to their "home game" in London.
Now, they'll get a few extra Marriott points too.
According to John Oehser of the team's official website, Jaguars coach Gus Bradley has decided to keep his team on the West Coast for the week between early games.
The Jags play at the Raiders on Sept. 15, then go to Seattle for a Sept. 22 game. Rather than fly back to Florida to prepare for the Seahawks game, they'll stay in California, and head to Seattle closer to the weekend.
That's just part of a brutal travel schedule for the Jags, who come home for one week to play the Colts, then have back-to-back road games at St. Louis and Denver.
They do get another home game with the Chargers before they "host" the 49ers at Wembley Stadium on Oct. 27, but come out of the bye with three of four on the road.
Of course, they volunteered for the annual trip to London, which dampens any sympathy they deserve for their travel schedule. But when the league's scheduling rotation sends them to play the AFC West and NFC West, it makes for some long stretches away from home.


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Daniel J. Garvey joined the CCRI faculty (then RIJC) as assistant professor in 1965. He was largely responsible for building the Business Department and served as its chair from 1969 to 1984 when he retired from the college. His son, Joseph, succeeded him as chair of the department.
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We see a lot of the heartwarming homecomings when military men and women reunite with their families after long deployments overseas. They're emotional and beautiful, and we wonder how they're able to make such a sacrifice. While nothing makes it easy, families do find ways to stay in touch and keep that bond though miles separate them. Coast Guard officer Gerald Orellana and his family provide a unique and heartwarming example.
According to a story at the Huffington Post, Orellana's daughter, Evelyn, gave him her prized stuffed teddy bear when he was about to leave for his deployment to the Arctic. Her mom, Irene, said Evelyn didn't want him to be lonely. "She knew that she and I would have each other, but Gerald wouldn't have our family."
So Gerald set out with "Evelynbear" in his suitcase, which is sweet enough. But it gets even sweeter.
Gerald didn't just keep the bear packed away in his suitcase and take her out once in awhile when no one was looking. He actually took Evelynbear on adventures with him, then sent pictures back to his wife and daughter to show just how much fun she was having.
There are pictures of the bear on the ship, in the snow, and in a cigar shop. She even has a uniform! Since Gerald will reportedly be deployed for the rest of year, we can only imagine what else they'll see her do. It's such a sweet and simple way for the family to share the experiences together even though they're worlds apart.
Nothing can make it painless to not have a parent there for the day-to-day activities and milestones, but things like this help ease the pain a bit.
What unique ways have you seen military family members keep in touch?
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I'm on my holiday now , and away from crafting room for quite a long time already.
Here're two cards i made because i just can't leave home without one or two mimi stamps on my luggage :)
1. Make a card using white cardstock
2. stamp mimi from Fun in the Sun set in the middle and color.
3. Stamp the edge part of Breezy stamp using green ink around Mimi
4. Stamp the sun, color, trim then use foam tape to pop it up
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6.Tear some blue Mix and Match cardstock and layer them as the waves
1. Make a card using white cardstock
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UPDATE: Vote in the ASYLUM Poll: Was the Donovan McNabb trade a bust?
It's a pretty big deal, sadly, whenever the Detroit Lions beat anybody, and the walkaway story from their conquest over Washington yesterday was that Redskins coach Mike Shanahan benched his star quarterback with the game on the line. Donovan McNabb found himself riding the pine as Rex Grossman–who has played in all of four games since 2007–fumbled on his first snap under center. Shanahan's reasoning? Grossman, he said, gave the team
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Have you ever seen a gaggle of fat women walking down the sidewalk together? And you're stuck behind them, looking for some sort of opening to briskly power-walk through? That's McNabb running the two-minute offense. He's a fat woman walking down the sidewalk, and he's just gonna take his sweet-assed time getting his boys to the line and he doesn't care about me or the remnants of a 90,000-plus crowd making Kirstie Alley jokes behind him.
Shanahan has reiterated that McNabb will still be the starter as the Danielskins wait a week to face Philly at home. But Shanahan said Rex Grossman gave the team a better chance to win. Against the Lions. Chew on that for a while.


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Anyone watch the short movies they released? I haven't ...
Anyone watch the short movies they released? I haven't ...
Yeah right, you're probably just here to defend Edge of Tomorrow!
... but I also think it benefited from being surprisingly good
...whereas the hype around Interstellar kind of put it in a no-win place (save for the box office) of being transcendent or bust, and I thought it was much closer to the former, at least a credible attempt, than given credit, or even the credit given to less ambitious movies. So, I didn't mean to pick on Edge of Tomorrow so much as point out what I see as a double standard. Like, just come up with a cool Twilight Zone idea and we'll rave but don't get too ambitious or we'll be disappointed!
I dont need to explain to this crowd how influential Blade Runner is, and thus, what a terrifying feat it is to pick up on its trail and attempt to make a new story truly matter. These were some big shoes to fill. So I appreciate how well this movie straddled the line of being a sequel while also being its own thing. I went into this whole endeavor pretty much grossed out by the idea, was somewhat softened by the early reviews being out-of-this-world, and about 10 minutes into the movie, I got it. I understood why that world deserved to be revisited.
Ks a vessel for the narrative, and a great punching bag (did Ford write into his contract that if he works with Gosling, he mandates a certain number of punches to the face?), but not much else. And thats a bummer but that was inarguably his role: He was supposed to be a second-class citizen who represses his feelings and simply obeys. I suppose they chose the right actor! He was rationed precisely one emotion, he used it well, and thats all she wrote.
2) Was Wallace, Mr. I Own The Fucking Stars, really going to miss the fact that his nominally protected caravan was effortlessly dispatched and NOT track them down? Isnt going straight to the one theyre trying to hide, just MAYBE not the brightest idea?
Griff can tell you about his recut of Minority Report though, he actually pulled off something we'd talked about doing cutting out the fat and making it better.
How do you feel about rumors of Denis doing the next Dune? It's again another movie that doesn't need a follow up and yet, it'll happen anyway ... so given that predicament (as a fan), is Denis the best man for the job?
It hit me on the subway this morning that perhaps it's not as obvious as it seems and that maybe it was still all orchestrated by Wallace? Luv could have killed K when she had the chance before swimming back to the car, but she didn't. Maybe she had orders not to kill him so it's orchestrated that K kills her (I'm shrugging this off as I type it cos it sounds ridiculous) and so both, Deckard + K lead him to the child he's been looking for. It's a big big stretch but Wallace talking about how the meeting between Deckard and Rachel was orchestrated was a bit bonkers and I didn't see coming.
Walter... I am interested in seeing how much of a lasting influence Blade Runner 2049 has on the Theatrical Medium over the next 30 years.
As Blade Runner 2049 was a near flawless film with the exception of some lingering shots
And I'm not saying art-house films like 2049 shouldn't be made
Well, I got my ticket to 2049 at 3:30pm after work, before I have to come back for an 8pm meeting, but the fucking movie is so long I had to bypass a theater a few blocks away because it doesn't start there until "4:30pm" and if they don't it get going before five I might not have time to get back and setup for my own meeting! So, given the date I decided to play it safe with the earlier showtime and a short drive. Will update with my thoughts when I can (when I finally read the thread after the embargo I had to put on a few days back =).As an aside, at first I tried making a date to see it with my dad this weekend, as I first watched the original with him like 20 years ago (), but, despite the positive word of mouth and his only begotten son wanting to take him, he's going to wait for it to hit cable. BOOOOOO! Well, then I'm not coming to visit this weekend, dad!
BOOOOOO! Well, then I'm not coming to visit this weekend, dad!
The fire alarm went off during the trailers! Will update/consolidate posts later.
I did dig the atmosphere
ominous Goslian look on my face (great casting for that part btw, definitely the role he was born to play =)
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Then you liked the movie
Berserk isn't really "dark fantasy" either. It's plain fantasy
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Can't be bothered to read all those posts (please forgive me)
here's my take on Blade Runner 2049: I thought the movie was good enough. There's some nice photography in there, although the shots are way too clean. They lack the grit of the original, they often feel sterile and some scenes really look CGI'd (specifically at the beginning when we see the car in the rain). But it is a visually pleasing movie.
The music also did a decent enough job evoking Vangelis, if somewhat crudely.
The story's not too bad, although it's got its share of inconsistencies. But it's not stupid and it tries to have meaning. In that regard the movie could have been much much worse.
That being said, the Joi subplot really overstays its welcome and feels like it wanted to be its own movie but was grafted onto this one instead. I appreciated that for all its artificiality, the story played her character straight (she appears to have her own will all along), that lends it more depth than it ought to have. But still, I think those themes were better addressed in Star Trek Voyager.
Harrison Ford basically plays himself and not Deckard (like he does in all movies these days), which is unfortunate.
The limitations of Ryan Gosling's acting are also visible despite his character being emotionless on purpose, which says a lot.
I did like Leto's portrayal of Wallace, though the drones felt totally unnecessary and seem like some that will age terribly. I think Luv was well-acted too.
Anyway, did this movie need to exist? No. But I'm Ok with it existing.
I'm also fine with Villeneuve trying his hand at Dune (my favorite novel).
As long as he doesn't have the same reverence for David Lynch's version that he clearly does for Blade Runner.
What if Ridley Scott had done Dune back in his prime and we ended up with an impeccable sci-fi trilogy of Alien, Dune, and Blade Runner...
I don't think there should be any concerns for that. Lynch's Dune has never been regarded as the authoritative take on the book, so it wouldn't make much sense for Villeneuve to attempt to mimick it.
Instead, I imagine (hope?) that Villeneuve will attempt to offer his interpretation of the novel. This both excites me and makes me uncomfortable. The novel is epic science fiction, and has long deserved a more dignified seat at the table among sci-fi films if anything, just to get more people to read the damned book and realize how awesome it is. The problem is, I don't think Dune is something you can comfortably squeeze into a feature-length film. Even ignoring the vast amount of set up time necessary to digest the arrangement of houses, economy, technology, history that makes the scale of the opening act carry weight, there's a lot of character development, passages of time, that don't lend themselves to a single breezy sit-down experience, even at 2h 44 min. And if the solution is to trim those aforementioned parts, then like Studio4C cutting out the inconvenient Bonfire of Dreams sequence, I'd rather the attempt just not be made. But I'm getting ahead of myself
It's funny that you bring that up, because a significant chunk of the creative energies behind Jodorowsky's ill-fated Dune were eventually what gave birth to Alien.
On the other hand, I don't even think a film series is the best choice for something like this for the reasons you laid out, and a TV series is obviously no longer the death sentence by low expectations it once was, but rather often finer drama than anything at the movies these days (like I said, as good as 2049 was, it can't help but feel shallow compared to, say, Westworld). Calling HBO? Netflix? Amazon (which we heard wants it's own GoT)? You guys have any billions left to bring Dune to life, even as a write off? It'll be better received now than the Confederate fanfic written by male Hollywood power players, I promise! =)
Oh yeah, that mini-golden age was so incestuous! I heard Walter Hill talk about it a bit on the WTF pod, I don't know if you heard it (I know you've been a listener in the past) but it's worth it for that alone.
Part of me wants it to be a film for esoteric nerd reasons, but a series would more easily fit the mold.
That being said, I can count on one hand the number of serialized dramas that have left an impression on me, particularly recently. I feel like these studios have become pros at pushing out lots of content, creating a container with a substantial pitch, pilot and conclusion, and then just filling the rest of the glass with piss. Netflix is in particularly guilty of this, stringing out their series' structure with filler, dragging B-plots on for 5 episodes and then resolving them suddenly in minutes. Ugh... Hey speaking of which guys, Stranger Things 2 is out!
Nope! I'll look for that one. I have a road trip this weekend.I check in on the show every 6 months or so. Sometimes that show is amazing. But it's absolutely contingent on the guest being solid and receptive to Maron's conversational style. Much of the time, it's just boring to me, or feels like they're running down the clock as much as they can. I have the same problem with WTF as I do with the Jimmy Pardo podcast -- both can be phenomenal, but it's too much inside baseball. Whether it's comedy or Hollywood, the way they talk about those industries lifts the curtain in a way that's just really off-putting to me.


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LAS VEGAS—Emmanuel Mudiay was on the ground, holding his knee, not particularly concerned about trying to hide the fact he was in considerable pain.
Like any athlete in any game in any sport, he knows he always is one wrong move away from surgery and a year away from the game. It didn't seem like this was such a moment, but he couldn't be entirely sure at first.
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"Honestly, I just prayed. I started praying," Mudiay told Sporting News. "God's taken care of me on the court. That's why I pray before every game, to avoid injuries like that. I was fine. I'll be all right."
He was fine after a short rest on the bench, but he wasn't great for MWA in a pool-play game against the Arkansas Wings at the Fab 48 tournament at Bishop Gorman High.
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Mudiay's day no doubt brightened, though, with the news center Karviar Shepherd (who'll attend TCU) and forward Jordan Mickey (LSU) had been cleared academically to compete in NCAA Division I.
Two weeks ago, ESPN reported that each initially had been ruled ineligible because of academic issues at Prime Prep in the Dallas area, which Mudiay also attends. Mudiay insisted to Sporting News he had no concerns about Prime Prep and he would be back there for his senior year.
"Not at all. I'm going back."
Friday probably wasn't a bad day for Mudiay to perform at less than his best. Many of the head coaches involved in Mudiay's recruitment were elsewhere, attending a tournament in Orlando instead. Kansas' Bill Self was courtside though, as well as SMU's Larry Brown, N.C. State's Mark Gottfried and Texas' Rick Barnes.
Of course, no one is going to back away from a 6-3 point guard with Mudiay's level of skill because of a single game, and even if there were a coach so foolish this wouldn't have been the game that forced it.
First off, Mudiay did show off a phenomenal feel for finding open teammates. He is an eager, willing passer who excels at creating openings for teammates by driving the ball, anticipating from which direction defensive help will arrive and delivering passes that are easy to catch and convert.
Book it now: He will average at least a half-dozen assists per game as a college freshman. Because he stands 6-3, and perhaps because Kentucky's John Calipari is one of the coaches pursuing him hardest, Mudiay commonly is compared to NBA star Tyreke Evans, who played for Calipari at Memphis.
Although Evans always had the ability to make the spectacular pass, his conversion to the point was a process at Memphis, and he still averages fewer than 5 assists for his career. Mudiay looks first to run his team, to make things happen for those around him.
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During MWA's comeback against Arkansas, his first priority was to find open shooters who were knocking down 3-pointers necessary to close the gap. He acknowledges he still can improve as a shooter, but when Mudiay did fire as part of that barrage he showed solid form and a confident touch.
Several times this summer, including Friday, Mudiay has explained that his primary area to improve is "to take no plays off, really, and stay aggressive on the defensive end."
One of the hazards in getting a first look at a player this late in the NCAA's July evaluation period is the wide variety of variables that can affect his performance. The NCAA allows coaches to observe players in each of three Wednesday-to-Sunday windows, and this is the last of those.
The end of July often produces sloppy basketball, and there was plenty of that from Mudiay against Arkansas. At least five times he completely lost his grip on the ball while trying to escape the press or attack in transition.
Asked if the turnovers were a product of trying to rush to close such a huge deficit, Mudiay responded, "That, and the ball is kind of slippery, too. I'm trying to figure that ball out."
Mudiay still lists nine schools as potential destinations, but has decided on just one official visit to date, which he'll take to Kentucky when UK has its Big Blue Madness celebration.
"It's just an experience I want to have, going up there," Mudiay said. "I'm hearing it's crazy, so I'm going to go check it out."
Mudiay said his interest in SMU stems from Brown "trying to start something new. He's a legend, and he's trying to get people where they want to go."
SMU isn't a common destination for top-5 prospects, but Mudiay is friends with Dallas wing Keith Frazier, a McDonald's All-American who signed with the Mustangs last spring.
Wherever Mudiay ends up, he wants to find a coach "that's going to make me better, off and on the court, make be a better person, bring the best out of me and get me to where my goals are."