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soybean oil press machine, cooking oil making machine from soybean to refined oil
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Safflower Seed Oil Press Machine
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Product Description
with over 60 years history, we are professional in all kinds of cooking oil extraction, pressing, refining, etc.
From raw material (soya bean, sunflower, rice bran, etc. to final finished refined cooking oil )
For soybean oil processing line, usually we adapt solvent extraction with the capacity over 30TPD.
30--500TPD soybean oil refinery plant, soybean oil mill machine, soya bean oil extraction machine with CE, ISO
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we have soybean oil extractor, soybean oil presser, soybean oil refinery machine, etc. full set of soya oil processing line.
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Why choose us
-- Shandong LD Cereals & Oils Machinery Co., Ltd.
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-- Our equipments have got ISO9001, SGS, CE, IAF and CNAS certifications.
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- AddressLeader Industrial Park, Jinan, Shandong
- Phone(Working Time)0531 85064681
- Fax0531 85064682
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Policy consultant and blogger Susie Cambria calls our attention to a grant the District of Columbia's Child and Family Services Agency recently received.
The grant, says CFSA, will help it "make trauma-informed treatment the foundation of serving children and youth in the District [sic] child welfare system."
The approach sounds like a good thing, but it's far beyond my capacity to assess.
The reason I write about it is rather what Mindy Good, CFSA's public information officer, told Cambria about the traumatic events children have experienced by the time they become part of the agency's caseload.
Some are cases we could confidently classify as abuse, e.g., severe physical punishment, molesting.
Others bespeak neglect that could call for at least a temporary rescue, e.g., having to rely on a parent or other caretaker whose behavior is "erratic" due to substance abuse or untreated mental illness.
But many are simply consequences of living in a family that's desperately poor, e.g., "not knowing where the next meal is coming from," "being homeless or moving a great deal."
Good alludes to getting the child to safety as a first step. This seems to mean, in most cases, removing children from their parents or other caretakers — itself a traumatic experience, as she notes.
Perhaps even the first traumatic experience they have. It's by no means clear, for example, that the mere fact of living doubled up with first one family and then another induces emotional and/or behavioral problems.
Last year, CFSA confirmed about 873 cases of child neglect — 58% of all the incidents it substantiated. In 2010, neglect (unspecified) was the primary reason it put 395 children into foster care.
One can't help wondering how many of them weren't really neglected at all — children in food insecure families, for example, or in homeless families the District wouldn't shelter.
Or children being cared for by strangers or tasked with caring for younger sibs — two other "traumatic events" Good cites.
There's a ready remedy for these "traumas." And it's not being put into foster care.
If children justifiably fear hunger, their parents or guardians obviously need food stamps — or if they're not eligible, assurance that their children often are.
Perhaps they also need cash assistance, since we know that food stamps often don't cover the costs of even the U.S. Department of Agriculture's cheapest meal plan.
If children are homeless, their families need affordable housing. Same if the family moves frequently because it has to rely on the hospitality of friends and relatives.
If children get parked with strangers or have to shoulder inappropriate child care responsibilities, perhaps the family needs a voucher to pay for daycare — and access to a provider who'll care for kids early, late and on unpredicable schedules.
CFSA can advise families how to seek these kinds of help. And it may now be doing so, since it reports a new response model, which, in some cases, "leads to service options the family can choose to accept."
But, of course, seeking isn't receiving.
As recently as 2010, CFSA cited "inadequate housing" as the primary reason it put some children into foster care. Telling their parents they could apply for housing assistance would be futile, since they'd merely join the many thousands of households on the waiting list.
Though parents might enroll in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Family's program, the cash benefits would leave them in dire poverty — perhaps still unable to stretch their food budgets till the end of the month.
They'd be eligible for child care assistance, but they might not be able to find it because the District's provider reimbursement rates have led to a severe shortage of available slots, especially for very young children and those with disabilities.
CFSA's new treatment approach may help children overcome whatever traumas they've experienced because their parents can't afford to provide them with safe, stable housing, regular meals and the like. But it's a second-best solution.
Perhaps the best CFSA can do, however, because our system defines "child welfare" as protection from abuse and neglect.
It's up to other agencies — and ultimately to our elected officials — to ensure that the poor children in our community have what they need to fare well.
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McGwire has been barely a blip of the Hall of Fame radar screen since his retirement. Many writers, myself included, said they wouldn't vote for McGwire or any other player linked to steroids. His admission will cause for some soul searching from those writers, myself included, as to their stance now.
Honestly, an admission doesn't alter the fact he cheated, but it's a way of being honest to the fans and to the game. For that, whatever McGwire's motivation, deserves some consideration. I've always been a believer in second chances so I might be leaning in that direction. So, in that respect, personally I'm glad he did this as it will erase the cloud hovering over him.
In the Never-say-Never Department, McGwire, now a hitting instructor with the Cardinals, could be activated says manager Tony La Russa. Should that happen, the clock would go back and wouldn't start ticking until he retires for good. It would be interesting to see the reaction McGwire would receive, but it would be more interesting to see if he has anything left for real.
Some excerpts to his release:
* "I wish I had never touched steroids. It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era."
• "I never knew when, but I always knew this day would come. It's time for me to talk about the past and to confirm what people have suspected."
• "I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids. I had good years when I didn't take any, and I had bad years when I didn't take any. I had good years when I took steroids, and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what, I shouldn't have done it and for that I'm truly sorry."
Technically, McGwire never lied to Congress, he just looked weak saying he wasn't there to talk about the past. Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield and Rafael Palmeiro – all with 500 career homers – have been linked, or suspected of using steriods.
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The New York Mets don't have to look far if they want to plug one of the holes in the back end of their rotation.
The Yankees have no interest in bringing back either Phil Hughes or Joba Chamberlain, and for those believing in the "change of scenery,'' theory, they might be able additions to the Mets' staff as they are 27 and 28, respectively.
Although both have been injured during their short careers, they are healthy now, but largely ineffective.
Hughes was a miserable 4-14 with a 5.19 ERA last season in 30 starts and lost his spot in the rotation. However, he won 16 games in 2012 and 18 games in 2010. He was 8-3 when the Yankees won the World Series in 2009.
"This year has been a struggle for him,'' Yankees manager Joe Girardi said in a classic understatement after the season.
Considering Hughes has experienced major league success, and has made at least 30 starts in three of the last four seasons, and twice in that span worked at least 175 innings.
Hughes made $7.15 million last season, not unreasonable for a starter with a recent history of durability.
It shouldn't be underestimated that a significant explanation in part for Hughes' trouble is that he's a fly ball pitcher working in a phone booth. That's a major contributor to his career 4.54 ERA and an average of 24 homers given up per season.
Citi Field, the lack of a designated hitter, and being away from the Yankee Stadium boo-birds could be the change he needs.
His salary isn't unreasonable, and his age is a plus. This isn't like signing Bronson Arroyo, who'll be 37 in February, and wouldn't be able to give the Mets more than a year or two.
As for Chamberlain, he's been treated similar to Jenrry Mejia in that he was bounced around from the rotation to the bullpen earlier in his career before being a strict reliever the last four years.
Once considered the heir apparent to Mariano Rivera, Chamberlain sustained a shoulder injury in 2008 and eventually had Tommy John surgery in 2011. The following spring he mangled his ankle when he fell off a trampoline.
Chamberlain has lost something off his fastball, but still throws hard enough to get the job done.
Chamberlain earned just $1.8 million last season while going 2-1 with a 4.93 ERA in 45 appearances. He worked only 42 innings in 45 games. Overall, he's worked only 444.2 innings during his career so there's a lot of mileage left.
Considering their needs, the ages and salary history of Hughes and Chamberlain, both could become steals for the Mets.
LATER TODAY: I will take a look at Curtis Granderson as a possible fit into the Mets' outfield.


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Quotes: Coach and Players Reflect on Week 4
Wade Phillips: "Our team is going to stay together. Our team is going to keep fighting, keep working harder, keep trying to do the things it takes to get better, and we're going to do that getting ready for this next ball game.
"This team has worked a long time and very hard to stop believing in what we're doing, stop trusting each other. We're going to work at it and get better and do something about it."
Mike Jenkins: "After a loss like that it really hurts. It's going to happen no matter what, the finger-pointing. Just don't let it come out, and if you do, do it in a manly fashion. Go up to the person you think had a bad game or you think could have done better, and let them know it. Don't do it by telling everybody and putting their business out there. At the end of the day you hug each other and still be brothers, and come back as a team."
"I hope it doesn't turn out like last year. The situation last year, just finger-pointing, everybody. Just come in, watch the film, everybody correct each other and don't take it personally. That's the main thing we need to do is not take it personally and just stick together."
Jason Witten: "I think this team has done a great job of understanding and learning from that [last season]. Just stay at the grind. We still have a lot of football left and everybody's playing hard."
Patrick Crayton: "It's time for us to really check ourselves now and say, `Hey, look here, regardless of what it's going to take, we have to come out and we have to start winning these games ugly at the end and be consistent. We've got too good of an offense to even put our defense in a situations to where they've got to carry us."
Patrick Crayton (as usual had a lot to say): "We've got five freaks of nature up front that are calling for us to run the ball, you would think you'd listen to those guys. We're trying to grind it out and get an ugly victory. We're on the road against a 3-0 football team with the No. 1 defense and we blew them out of the water to start the game off, don't deviate away from that."
Tony Romo: "When the game is in that situation at that time, we knew that our defense was playing great football and any kind of points would have helped out tremendously. It's very frustrating not to be able to do that."
Tony Romo: "It's a long season. There's going to be a lot of ups and downs along the way. You obviously want to have one of those streaks where you can run off six, eight wins in a row. Hopefully we can get that started this week."
Ken Hamlin: "Who says we're mediocre? Being 2-2 doesn't mean you're mediocre. I can go back in the past and go through teams who were 1-2 or 2-2 or whatever at this time and still went to the Super Bowl."
Bradie James: "We still have a lot of ball to play. But next month, we won't have a lot of ball to play. So we need to right some wrongs right now and find a way."
And lastly, my personal favorite…
Keith Brooking: "We didn't play good enough to win. It doesn't matter what the offense did. We went into the half and it was our game to win. We were up 10-7 and if they don't score anymore then we win. They had one long drive on us and one long play. I don't care how good we played for 64-of-65 plays if there are 65 plays in the game you have to play well for 65 plays. I don't want to hear the offense getting blamed. We win as a team and we lose as a team."
"We're done with the first quarter of the season. The ball game's tied up. We've got to win the next three quarters. It's the only way I know to look at it.
"We win the next three quarters and we're going to be where we want to be."
***NOTE: These quotes were taken from dallascowboys.com, dallasnews.com, Yahoo! Sports, and ESPN.com


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Chair Pincomb will call the meeting to order.
Chair Pincomb will seek approval of the minutes from the March 19, 2013 meeting.
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Chair Pincomb will offer opportunity for open comments concerning items on this agenda.
Each year, Florida's public universities are required to submit a Fixed Capital Outlay Request to the Board of Governors for potential incorporation into the Board of Governors' budget request. At the same time, they are expected to submit a Five-Year Capital Outlay request.
The University of North Florida's Board of Trustees is charged with approving and submitting the PECO plan for the university in consultation with the President. The attached schedule shows UNF's proposed three-year and five-year capital requests (PECO). Each of the items included in this proposed request is consistent with the university's goals and master plan.
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According to Florida Statutes, the Board of Trustees shall, each year, adopt a capital outlay budget for the upcoming year. This plan shall designate the proposed capital outlay expenditures by project from all fund sources. Attached is the Annual Capital Outlay Budget for Fiscal Year 2013-2014.
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Regulation 9.0070R I. (1) provides for the Board of Trustees to approve the fines for citations, late fees and immobilization fees. The 2012-2013 Parking Council reviewed the parking citation fine amounts and recommended some changes.
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According to the Florida Senate – 2012, the Capital Improvement Trust Fund (CITF) fee is not to exceed 10 percent of the tuition for resident students or 10 percent of the sum of tuition and out-of-state fees for nonresident students. The CITF is to be used for certain projects or real property acquisitions. Also, it is required that the Division of Bond Finance of the State Board of Administration analyze any proposed fee reductions to the CITF; and that the Board of Governors approve any proposed fee reductions.
Each university is to establish a separate CITF fee and building fee at the main campus of the university. Also, each university is to establish a fee committee to recommend any increase in the fees and that committee is to be composed of students and members appointed by the university president. The university president is to approve committee recommendations, noting that an increase in fees may occur only once each fiscal year. The Board of Governors is to adopt regulations and timetables to implement the fees.
The University of North Florida is proposing an increase in the CITF of $2.00 per credit hour, which would create a total of $8.76 for resident students and non-resident students. The additional dollars will be used on recreational projects.
Vice President Shuman will address the committee and present this report.
This request was reviewed by the Student Life and Facilities Committee and approved by the full Board at the March 19, 2013 meeting.
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This report serves to provide trustees with progress on current construction projects, including funding sources and any current issues, including change orders.
change orders, the Board authorized the President or his designee to approve change orders, in the name of the Board, for pre-established amounts. Approvals are for the purpose of expediting the work in progress and are to be reported to the Board and entered into its official minutes.
President Shuman will update trustees on current construction projects and report on change orders.
Vice President Shuman will discuss the potential purchase of a 67,200-square-foot warehouse north of the campus. Physical Facilities would vacate their maintenance shops in the core of campus and move to the warehouse. The current space on campus may be filled by Art & Design for their sculpture program, Engineering and Building Construction.
Chair Pincomb will adjourn the meeting.
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Jeremy's Guacamole
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I love Mexican food, too! Getting Viva Vegan! really sealed the deal for me, I would be happy to eat any of those meals all day, every day!ReplyDelete
I love that your bro was the Guac Maker in your house - no Mexi meal is complete without a side of avo!
I love the drawing about taking pictures of your food before eating it! Before I went vegan I never took photos of my food, and now it feels like I do it all the time :)ReplyDelete
- Pattykim6:23 AM
I'm new to reading your blog and I don't see links to the recipes you're talking about. What am I missing?ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Pattykim, thanks for reading! I post recipes sometimes (if they are my own recipes), but if the recipes are from cookbooks that are still out on the market, I usually just say the name of the recipe and the name of the book it's from. This helps support all my friends who are cookbook authors! :)Delete
Ha! We call it "guac" as well. When I first met Josh, he said he didn't like it and that he thought avocados were gross... he has certainly changed his tune over the years and we've become a Californian "avocado on everything" kind of household.ReplyDelete
The Viva Vegan guac is really good!
- Anonymous9:35 AM
My daughter is in charge of making the guac in our house - we eat Mexican or Peruvian probably every third night! What makes her guac skills such a big deal is that she claims to hate the stuff - yet she taste tests it as she makes it, and always gets it right. Either she secretly likes it and doesn't want to let on, or she likes dirtying about five or six spoons from all of her taste testing. Either way, I'm glad it's already family tradition (she's only 6 1/2) that she's in charge of the guac!ReplyDelete
I love Mexican food, too, though I can see I don't love it as much as you. ;) But I especially love guacamole. I have a favorite recipe that I got from my friend Claire. The problem here is that I don't always have avocados on hand and it's almost impossible to find them ripe when I need the guac. I used to have avocados around all the time but I think I may have eaten too many, and then I couldn't even look at them without feeling queasy. I may be just about ready to start having them in the house again.ReplyDelete
I love the Viva Vegan recipe but I'll try the sprouted quinoa version, too. It sounds very interesting, If there was one reason to emigrate from Germany it is probably the lack of good Mexican food. I am glad for the internet and good cookbooks:)ReplyDelete
I don't know your brother but I already love him! I mean, if he's your family, he's probably amazing. I love that he had a special job. My brother's special job was to melt the maple syrup with the butter for pancakes and waffles (seriously, it makes all the difference. Melt them together first!).ReplyDelete
mmmm i loooove guac! when i think of the best guac i have ever had it would have to by my dad's. I don't know how he makes it, but when I see he bought avocados I get so happy!ReplyDelete


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2014 Kia Sorento
By Automobile Magazine 9/30/2013
What's New for Sorento in 2014
The 2014 Kia Sorento has been heavily revised. It rides on a new platform, has updated sheetmetal, and is more comfortable than its predecessor. more
Vehicle Summary
Over the years, the Kia Sorento has morphed along with its market segment. Originally a tough SUV, the Sorento transformed into a slightly larger and much softer SUV before becoming what it is today — a typical crossover. Kia has seriously updated the Sorento for 2014. The 2014 Kia Sorento is based on the Hyundai Santa Fe Sport, which means that it has the same nicely balanced manners as the Hyundai.
It also means that one of the 2014 Kia Sorento's strongest selling points — its optional third-row seats — is still compromised. This is a good crossover for families that would very occasionally use third-row seats. Families who would rely on the extra row would do better to look at larger crossovers, such as the Nissan Pathfinder and the Dodge Durango.
Still, the 2014 Kia Sorento is a fantastic option for buyers who want something sportier and smaller than a full-size crossover.
This generation of the Sorento is a leap forward from what the Sorento used to be, which was a brutish crossover with body-on-frame construction. For 2011, Kia turned the Sorento into a unibody crossover with a little space in the back for a third row, and it was pretty much inaccessible to anyone but toddlers. For 2014, Kia has again updated the Sorento, but this refresh is more of a step forward than a second leap.
The Sorento now rides on a new platform that yields a bit more space in the third row, although you'd still be hard-pressed to get anyone not wearing a Hannah Montana shirt and Velcro-strap shoes back there. The real benefit we see from the new platform is that the Sorento's handling and ride quality have improved. A strut-tower brace increases chassis stiffness, and new rear bushings and mounts help keep out road noise and vibrations.
New, too, is the Sorento's 3.3-liter V-6 engine with direct injection. It produces 290 hp, more than the larger engine it replaces, but it's no more efficient than the previous V-6. Eco-friendly buyers might want the Sorento LX for its more economical 2.4-liter in-line four-cylinder engine, even though it's not very lively.
The exterior benefits from both a redesigned nose and a redesigned tail. The interior on most models has been updated with a seven-inch LCD instrument cluster, and there are now heated second-row seats on the top-trim SX-L model. This 2014 refresh illustrates that Kia is still moving in the right direction with its Sorento.
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Despite widespread protests and calls by human rights groups to call off the race , formula one seems keen to hold the race. And they are also spreading good news (propaganda) about it. An article on Bloomsberg claims that 3000 temporary jobs will be created in Bahrain due to the race and also that the race would earn 500 million USD for the Bahrain economy.
"The F1 generates huge returns for Bahrain by regenerating interest in Bahrain as a friendly and hospitable environment," Sheikh Salman said.
Sheikh Salman is the chief executive officer of the Bahrain International Circuit which has also been criticized for firing folks on whims and fancies like liking a facebook age which promoted democracy for Bahrain.
The official news agency of Bahrain is doing even more propaganda hinting that the racing event is needed for national unity (while people are still getting arrested ?). Below is an excerpt from a press release on Bahrain News Agency's website.
So unfortunate it was when the Bahrain Grand Prix Race was cancelled last year, even more unfortunate were the events that lead to that. Bahrain had gone through a rough period of time in 2011, but the comeback of the event of the year is proof that our beloved Bahrain can, is and will always be moving forward and in alignment with the progression of the rest of the world, that Bahrainis will, at the end of the day, always put their differences aside and unite in their love for their country, and the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix is the perfect event to set the ideal mood and the ideal scene for unity. The excitement, the anticipation, the economic opportunities and the festive events and shows that are all steady companions to the Grand Prix every year are sure to unite us.
The event is currently scheduled for the April 20-22 weekend, and F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is in no mood to back down and cancel the race. In a rare show of support for any such activity. He made the following comments :
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"These people (the Bahrainis) were brave enough to start an event in that part of the world, and that's it. We'll be there as long as they want us."
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Sister Marion Shea, IHM, 86, died Thursday, Oct. 24, at the IHM Health Care Center in Monroe, Mich.
Sister Marion was one of four children born to Thomas J. and Ellen (Keating) Shea. She was born on May 20, 1927 in St. Louis and given the name Marion. Sister Marion attended St. Edward, St. Catherine of Siena and St. Ann grade schools and the Ursuline Academy and Sacred Heart Academy high schools, all in the St. Louis area. She entered the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe in 1953 and received the religious name, Sister Jane Marie.
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Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., were two of the six Republicans who gave Democrats enough votes to begin debate on the extension. But at a news conference Wednesday, both said they won't vote to advance the bill any further unless the extension's cost is offset.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A stage that collapsed at a Southern California high school during the weekend, injuring 28 students, had a construction flaw and a building permit can't be found.
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Students from a sister school were performing on Saturday when an apron covering the orchestra pit failed, and students tumbled several feet. Some suffered broken bones.
A website statement from school President Peter S. Bowen says an internal investigation found that the apron, which was built in the early 1980s, had a construction flaw — although the statement isn't specific. The school also says it hasn't found a record of a building permit.
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A forensic pathologist from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem testified Tuesday that 26-year-old Chadric "Chad" Lee Newsome died in 2010 from complications of two bullet wounds in his chest.
A forensic pathologist from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem testified Tuesday that 26-year-old Chadric "Chad" Lee Newsome died in 2010 from complications of two bullet wounds in his chest.
Dr. Donald Jason of WFBMC told the jury he performed the autopsy Aug. 2, 2010, just days after Newsome died as a result of an incident at an abandoned home on Dacotah Street. Phillip Scott Baker, 34, is being tried in Newsome's death, and is facing life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder. Jason's remarks came during the fourth day of testimonies as the trial resumed after the Labor Day holiday.
Jason testified he's performed between 8,000 and 9,000 autopsies in his career. He determined bullets made entry into Newsome's chest and there were no exit points on the man's body. One of the bullets was turned over to authorities but Jason could not find the other in Newsome's body.
Jason explained Tuesday it was possible the bullet was removed during surgery and not documented. He also added there were abrasions on Newsome's hands and right wrist.
Michelle A. Hannon, a forensic scientist with the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab in Raleigh, testified Tuesday she could not definitively say if Baker or Newsome's DNA were on the firearm believed to have taken Newsome's life. However, she said Baker, Newsome and an unknown person's DNA could not be excluded from the grips of weapon. Hannon said she was not given swabs to test for Murphy's DNA with the firearm, and explained there was an even mixture of DNA among the victim, Baker and the unknown person.
Barry Hopkins, an inmate at the Davidson County Detention Center, testified Tuesday as a state witness. He is the brother of Gary Sweetwater Wilson, who took the stand this past week. Wilson was a friend of Newsome, and went to the abandoned home for the purchase of a pound of marijuana, according to testimony provided in the courtroom.
Hopkins was in custody Tuesday for a number of drug charges that remain pending. He said he's been given no promises for giving a truthful testimony. Hopkins said he knew both Baker and Newsome. Hopkins explained he and Wilson had a number of discussions about the incident that claimed the life of Newsome.
Hopkins said he and Baker were being housed in the detention center in late February or early March 2012 when Baker initiated contact with him. He said he was walking by Baker's cell when he was asked, 'Do you know who I am?'
"I said, 'Yes I know,'" Hopkins testified. "He said, 'You know (your) brother is on my paperwork.'"
Hopkins said Baker was referring to his case and his brother having a statement against him. He said he told Baker he was aware of it.
"That was kind of the end of it," he said, referring to the incident.
However, a second incident occurred, according to Hopkins. He said he was questioned again in the jail by Baker about Wilson's plans to testify in court.
"I said, 'I don't know. You killed his friend,'" Hopkins recalled. "He said, 'That's all they (have) against me, Daquon (Littles) and your brother.' He said, 'This is my life.' "
Hopkins said Baker told him he "was there for the lick but I did not do it." He said a lick is referring to a robbery. Hopkins said Baker wanted him to talk to his brother and see what the plans were going to be for the trial. Instead, Hopkins got in contact with the Davidson County District Attorney's Office by completing a form.
Littles also testified in court this past week. He first refused but decided a day later to testify after being charged with contempt of court. Littles said he was 100 percent positive Baker and his co-defendant, Lecourtney Quandarrius Murphy, were near the crime scene on Dacotah Street during the afternoon hours of July 31, 2010. Murphy has previously accepted a plea agreement to testify against Baker. He pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact of murder and accessory after the fact of robbery, and testified this past week he expects to be sentenced as members of the jury deliberate their verdict.
Baker's attorney, Mike Klinkosum, questioned Hopkins regarding his motives for testifying in the trial. Hopkins, while responding to the defense attorney, said there were no promises but prosecutors told him they would take his testimony in consideration with his pending charges.
Others taking the stand Tuesday were Tonya Broadway, the mother of Murphy, Lexington Police Cpl. Tracy Mahan, Capt. Billy Scarboro and Sgt. Luke Davis, one of the detectives who investigated Newsome's death. The sergeant began Tuesday walking through how he received the case and he is expected to provide additional testimony Wednesday.
Darrick Ignasiak can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 217, or email@example.com. Follow Darrick on Twitter: @DispatchDarrick.


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Historian's Report
Nagel, Katherine. "Historian's Report." Emmons County Historical Society News Letter, January 2009, no. 111.
Note: Rev Max Speckmaier was pastor of Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Strasburg, North Dakota, in 1914, when this publication was published in the German language which has been translated and published, Strasburg, Emmons Co., N.Dak.: Celebratory Publication ("Festschrift") on the 25th Jubilee of St. Peter and Paul's Parish.
"It was in the fall of the year 1888 when delegates from Strassburg, South Russia, came into Emmons County, where the town of Strasburg not stands, to look for suitable land for the arriving homesteaders. What they found was unlimited space, uninhabited and empty, but there was lots of room to settle. Far and wide nothing could be seen but a lone dwelling that belonged to a certain Mr. Petrie, who later became a prominent businessman in Linton, North Dakota.
After this first tour of exploration, several so-called German-Russians arrived in the spring of 1889 to take up homesteads. The first of these stalwart, stout-hearted settlers were the three Baumgartner brothers, Jakob, Johannes, and Franz; Albinus Schneider, Kasper Feist, and two unmarried young men, Joseph Burgad and Jakob Feist. Shortly afterwards a second group arrived, namely Egidius Keller, Peter Kraft, Jakob Geffreh, Franz Giesinger, Martin and Lorenz Schwab-all from the Kutschurgan district north-west of the city of Odessa.
What the first settlers found was little more than the vast naked prairie. It was, in fact, literally naked, for just prior to the arrival of the intrepid settlers a prairie fire had swept away everything except the bare earth and stones. The first settlers arrived at noon on the 7th of May, 1889, and on the same day they started plowing up the sod and building the simple lowly huts of earth and clay. That was enough of a hardship, but the very first night a heavy rain set in and weather turned so cold that the homesteaders had to remove the boxes from the wagons to provide some shelter for themselves and their families.
When the days grew warmer a plot of prairie was plowed and prepared for the sowing of grain, but the results were meager and the crop was rather poor. The ripe flax which the men had cut with a grass mover was mostly blown away by wind. In an attempt to save the rest of the crop, the people picked the flax by hand. Much labor was now required to convert the small crop into money wherewith to buy food. The nearest railway station was at Eureka, S. Dakota, where you could sell grain and buy provisions, but the town was at least 50 miles away. The hardships the poor settlers had to endure on this long trip, particularly when there was a rain or a snow storm, can scarcely be conceived by the younger generation today. And we should not forget that the draft animals of the first settlers were not horses, but oxen.
The year 1890 arrived and with it another crop failure. The poor people were beginning to suffer want and were filled with distress and despair. The pioneers still relate even today how they used to cry all day, partly because of their poverty and misery, partly because of homesickness and longing for their native villages in Russia. Many of them would have gone back, if the way had not been so terribly far and if there had been no ocean between America and Russia.
In those times of utter distress everybody, young and old, wandered over the desolate prairie day after day, looking for buffalo bones. These had then to be hauled to Napoleon or Steele where one could sell them and buy the needed groceries with the bit of money. One did not make much, of course, on the sale of bones. For a wagon load you could get a sack of flour, which was the most important staple at the time. One was unable to obtain any meat, except what you might occasionally get with a gun.
So it happened one day that three men went a-hunting, in the hope of shooting something that had meat and bones. The three hunters were Jakob Feist, Egidi Keller, and Lorenz Schwab. They set out in the direction of Beaver Creek where they expected to find some wild game. They walked around for a long time, without seeing or finding anything. Finally they spotted a bird, not very big and not too small; it was probably a snipe. Now it was a question of quick action, for birds fly fast. Lorenz quickly took aim, the shot rang out, and the bird fell to the ground-dead. The three men hurried to the spot. They lifted the feathered victim from the earth, but alas the poor thing was completely shot to pieces. Lorenz was about to fling it away when Egidi cried out excitedly, "Give it here. I'll take it. Meat is meat." That's how precious meat was in those times.
What was worse than the lack of meat, was the scarcity of fuel and the nonexistence of roads. The following incident will provide a graphic illustration. One day Jakob Feist with his wife and his brother-in-law, Egidi Keller, hitched their oxen to their two wagons and drove to Beaver Creek to get some firewood. They found enough wood to load up both wagons. When they were ready to start back the sun was already setting. The return trip was very slow, for the wagons were heavy and the oxen were plodding slowly and laboriously across the road less prairie. Night fell all too quickly and it soon grew pitch dark. Since the drivers could neither see nor hear anything, they soon lost all sense of direction, but the oxen moved forward through the night. Suddenly a glimmer of light appeared in the darkness. "That's my house," exclaimed Jakob. He had the foresight to tell his people at home to set out a burning lantern in front of the house. But suddenly the light disappeared again as the nocturnal wayfarers came near an intervening hill. The drivers now separated and Jakob drove in the direction of his house which he soon reached. Edgidi also drove in the direction of his house but missed it completely. For a long time he drove around aimlessly in the darkness and finally fell asleep, but the oxen kept on going. The people back home were beginning to worry, but eventually they crawled under the wagon-box and went to sleep. When they came out the next morning they saw the oxen standing in the yard with a fine load of wood, on top of which they found Egidi, still fast asleep.
In the first years there was no church in the new settlement. The nearest priests were 26 miles away. They were the Benedictine missionaries, Fathers Bernard and Franz, who were stationed at Fort Yates. The first priest to visit settlers was Fr. Bernard who also celebrated the first Mass for the community in 1889 in the sod house of Franz Baumgartner. The joy of the settlers could not have been greater if an angel from Heaven had suddenly appeared among them. In the same year, the first resident priest, Father Schmitz, arrived at St. John's Parish in McIntosh County. However, the Benedictine Fathers from Fort Yates continued to visit the settlers from time to time.
Similar accounts of pioneer experiences could, no doubt, be multiplied a thousand times and corroborated by the oral reminiscences of many old timers. But even the brief reports presented here enable us to draw the well-founded conclusion that the obstacles and hardships confronting the Dakota pioneers were, by all odds, even grater and more formidable than those endured by the immigrant forefathers who settled on the steppes of Russia some 90 years earlier.
To be sure, the journey from Russia to America was not as arduous and dangerous as the trek of the German emigrants to the Black Sea, and the sod house on the prairie was doubtless more comfortable than the crude 'semelyanka' and the wattled clay hut of the steppedweller. Moreover, the homesteader in the Dakotas also had the distinct advantage of having a better wagon, plow and other farm equipment. On the other hand, he was seriously disadvantaged in several respects. While the pioneer of the steppe received an interest-free government loan of 250-300 rubles to help him get established on his homestead, the settlers in the Dakotas (and elsewhere) received no government loans, but were often at the mercy of unscrupulous loan sharks who, at times, exacted a 200% interest on short-term loan. Furthermore, while the Czarist government granted the homesteaders food-ration money until the first harvest, the settlers on the prairie were, in several instances, forced to pick buffalo bones in order to provide bread for their families. In Russia, the colonists lived together in villages which provided the facilities of mutual aid and social contacts, whereas the settlers on the prairie had to live in isolation and loneliness. Finally whereas the Czarist government even provided a stone church for the colonist enclaves, the first settlers of the plains had to be content with makeshift sod churches for several years. What both pioneer groups had in common, besides their ethnic identity, was their precious heritage of a staunch faith in God, a proud capacity for hard work, and an unfledged determination to wrest an honest, decent livelihood from the good earth. And this heritage, I venture to say, was the secret of their ultimate success.
(As reported by Rev. Max Speckmaier, Strasburg, N D)


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I had not come across a Westerner Buddhist who did not consider meditation an integral part of their practice before (with the exception of the Sokka Gakkai people, but few here would even consider them Buddhist).robertk wrote:you mean my 'formalized' practice of eating at Belly rather than subway? yep, I do recommend them,Ii cant go back to the coarse taste and plastic chairs at Subway .Mr Man wrote:Hi robertkrobertk wrote:the thought of taking up a Dhamma book looking for wisdom to grow shows confidence in the value of the Dhamma.
So there is a hierarchy of value given to different activities?
Also: In an earlier post when talking about meditation you said "For me I have my other hobbies so am not so interested for now". I wondered if you envisioned that there would be a time when you returned to a more formalized* practice.
*although it seems that your present practice is actually already rather formalized.
as for a special meditation practice in the future? Well I have a mild interest in horse riding and target pistol which I haven't had time to explore ... , plus a considerable number of academic projects, family, overseas trips every couple of months etc, ect etc.Then there is cage fighting on TV along with premier league football - all demanding of attention. Its a typical busy householders life I live, and I don't see any urge to take up some specific practice...who knows though
the heirarachy you mention: it is more of a recognition that the teaching of the Buddha is the nutrition that grows wisdom.
You live and learn!


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Steveisnoartist needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 6 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Make my do it yourself logo look more dynamic, polished and professional while retaining the gist of its idea.
This is for my web projects website which has yet to be named
Here is my logo: http://frabujous.us/logo0007.jpg
I'm looking for the sitting figure to be more defined as well as the 1s and 0s to look more like they are in motion. Spruce up the laptop and screen as well.
For an example of what I'm going for, go to stockart.com and look at some samples.
- Add face, body to the figure. The figure could be male or female, but dress should be professional or business casual. I'd like to keep the construction hat, but if you have something better, I'd be willing to lose it.
- Make the 1s and 0s look like they are flying through air or should I say ether.
- Make the laptop and screen look more refined.
- A total redesign. All the objects and figures stay. Not looking for a new logo.
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Large bureaucracies, whether public or private, have a variety of ways to effectively avoid adopting a popular policy or practice. One way is to make that policy or practice a long-term goal while promising to keep evaluating it periodically.
That's what the Defense Department has done with its BYOD -- bring your own device -- policy.
There's no question that the department has made strides on mobility, enterprise mobile device management, and the use of commercial devices and even General Services Administration contracts. But BYOD?
Here's what Defense CIO Teri Takai said about BYOD in a February 2013 memo on commercial mobile device (CMD) implementation:
"Despite the benefits, existing DOD policies, operational constructs, and security vulnerabilities currently prevent the adoption of devices that are unapproved and procured outside of official government acquisition." The memo said that BYOD is a long-term objective and, "in conjunction with the Digital Government Strategy, DOD will continue to evaluate BYOD options."
[Beware, iPhone owners. Read iPhone Thefts Rise: Protect Yourself. ]
Based on public comments from the CIO's office since then, it's fair to say that the DOD's position hasn't changed. In other words, when it comes to BYOD, don't hold your breath. Although the department officially holds out the possibility of a future BYOD policy, I don't see it happening in reality, at least not in the foreseeable future.
Why? The risk of security breaches are simply too great and the consequences too dangerous.
Not a month after the DOD CIO's office issued its implementation plan, the Defense Department's inspector general released a tough report on security holes in the Army's use of commercial mobile devices. Investigators visited West Point and Army Corps of Engineers locations and examined Android, iOS, and other commercial mobile devices in use.
The IG found they weren't covered by mobile device management (MDM) software, and weren't subject to remote wiping. Many devices were in use, yet the Army wasn't even aware of them. Hundreds were purchased by users without authorization in a sort of self-created, unofficial BYOD program.
If the DOD is going slowly in adoption of mobility devices, it's going more slowly still in BYOD. DOD IT planners realize, as everyone should, that mobility doesn't equal BYOD. Mobile devices have special -- and by now, widely understood -- requirements for becoming secure. Two of the most important:
It's not as if policies aren't in place to help implement mobility in Defense Department components. The IG report mentions DOD instructions (5010.40) covering internal control programs. There's also a memo that predates Takai's memo, dating back to early 2011. It has comprehensive instructions on protecting commercial mobile devices.
Policy is fragmentedIn spite of the best efforts of the DOD CIO's office, I see the policies toward mobile devices varying widely from one defense branch to next.
DOD doesn't lack for initiatives to unify policy and practice. The Defense Information Systems Agency has been designated to provide unified technology programs across the DOD and has made some headway. For example, DISA continues to strengthen its role in the Joint Information Environment (JIE), providing 1.4 million users secure access to DOD cloud email accounts. It also created an Army-Air Force enterprise license agreement for Microsoft products.
The JIE is presumably the right place to develop and manage mobility capabilities for individual defense branches and even DOD-wide. But to put it charitably, the JIE is very much a work in progress.
DOD managers can also avail themselves of mobility guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and even the Office of Management and Budget. Yet nothing in the accumulated policy and technology guidance makes a strong case for advancing BYOD as a subset of a military mobility framework, much less compels it.
Contractors seeking to work in the DOD market would be wise not to oversell the idea of enabling any and all mobile devices. Despite the promises of technology, BYOD simply won't happen in the DOD, at least not in any meaningful numbers.
I know, I know. BYOD situations have broken out in a few civilian agencies. But they have different and often less dangerous security considerations. And let's not forget about the Snowden effect that's making every agency nervous about trusted people on its network.
More likely, DOD agencies will establish a choose-your-own-device plan. (Dare I coin a new term, "CYOD"?) Employees, uniformed and civilian, will select from a list of approved devices depending on the flavor each person prefers. But the devices will be government-furnished, delivered with the agency's configuration and security controls already in place.
Tim Larkins is manager of market intelligence for immixGroup, which helps technology companies do business with the government. He can be reached at [email protected]
Incidents of mobile malware are way up, researchers say, and 78% of respondents worry about lost or stolen devices. But while many teams are taking mobile security more seriously, 42% still skip scanning completely, and just 39% have MDM systems in place. Find out more in the State Of Mobile Security report. (Free registration required.)


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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Return to the Ferry Hotel by Ross Donlon
for a year. The rest of the time you wouldn't know where he was. Likely you'd see him an alley next to a restaurant. Or on a park bench, looking at the grass with a pint in his pocket. Destitute is a nice word for where Red had got. His red hair had about turned white. He'd been a medium built man with a thick strong neck and set of shoulders that would fill a uniform. Lately he'd had trouble holding up a suit.
I wondered where he got the money for lodgings. Maybe he panhandled or got some welfare. He was an enlisted man. He was particular about that. Not drafted. He hadn't
waited to be called from the motor production line. But at thirty four he was eligible for nothing. Truth is I don't know how he lived those last years. I only know he had been in Vets' hospital for liver damage. Jaundiced is nice word for the yellow tinge that had seeped into his skin and made abrasions hard to heal.
I hailed a cab and when I said Ferry Hotel, Embarcadero Street, the cabbie shot me a sideways look. The Ferry is down the end of the Embaracadero. The deep end. It's a long street that curves the length of the dock. In the centre is the Y.M.C.A. with flags on top. It was built in the twenties before the crash. It looks like a bank. Red stayed there when he first came from Louisville. But the rooms still cost, even for an ex serviceman, and there was no work, or not enough to live on, straight after the war
The Ferry Hotel goes back to an older time in San Francisco, a three story box
of rat traps with a fire escape out back. A ferry still took short trip commuters
to work from across the bay but most ferries used the main terminal across from the Y.
The Ferry had been a squat red brick building but now it was black. Windows once picked out in white were grey. On the front the windows were the opaque bubble type that makes what happens on the other side look like it's underwater.
This would have suited anyone looking in or out. Over the street there was a set of medium sized buildings like broken teeth. A post war recession in property meant the wrecking ball hadn't got to them yet. But it was swinging. Inside, most denizens of the Ferry Hotel would have been happy not to be seen there. Occasionally an out of towner would book by mistake for a few days. Or a salesman would cut budget on a quick trip. Otherwise the Ferry catered for short-timers or men who had managed to get a break from streets, parks and alleys.
During the post-war recession all big cities hosted a small colony of ex-servicemen who had made it back from war but not made it into civilian life. You felt both sorry and scared if you saw one. They were usually alone as they rifled through a garbage bin, or came towards you with everything they owned on their back.
I paid the cabbie and booked him to come back in twenty minutes. That would be long enough for what I had to do. The foyer had once had a piece of light patterned carpet down to the door, but that was long ago. Green linoleum slid from what was left. The desk was empty. The sound of a blues song was coming from the office behind a half closed door. It could have been Billie and I Cover the Waterfront. That would have been cute, but I didn't wait to hear.
I knew where he was.
I took the stairs. They're faster than the lifts in these joints, and probably safer. On each
floor a john and bathroom waited on one end of the hall, fire escape on the other. On the
third floor I turned right.
I wanted to check on Fred Lovell who had the room next to Red. Lovell had called Emergency that morning but Emergency hadn't come for another sick rheumy at the Ferry. Lovell must have been a good egg because he had called in later to see how Red had been getting along when he came home. By then Red was too late for Emergency. Lovell told the clerk and called help again. They were still in no hurry to get to the Ferry.
Then it occurred to me he might be waiting down in the office now with the clerk, taking a shot or two while he waited. He'd have a few questions to answer when they arrived, not
that he done anything but try to be a Samaritan.
In some ways, this made it easier. I knew Red had the next door room. Forty-five. Old locks like these don't need a science degree to get in. I could leave the door open and hear the elevator crank up the floors and be on the stairs before it arrived.
The room was on a corner and the first thing I noticed was the light. There were windows back and side with the bed head on the back wall. He had pulled all the curtains back hard, one even rucked up on itself to let more light in. It had been a cool day in August, blue, cold and still. An early autumn after a hot summer. But the room was flooded with late afternoon light. A window was open. You could hear the sounds of the waterfront. Gulls and shipping. A horn echoed, warning someone. Seagulls propped on windowsills like trapeze artists waiting to fly.
The room was neat. I thought it might be the way a soldier had been trained to keep his kit and bed in the barracks.
And there he was.
In a sitting position, as I'd been told, fully dressed with his back against a dresser, looking, more or less, toward the window. He'd taken some care. His shirt and pants were clean and so was his light jacket. He had a loafer on one foot. The other shoe was nearby, as though he'd been trying to get it on when he fell. There was an abrasion on his forehead and some other marks on his face, as though he'd had trouble shaving. His face was a Van Gogh yellow.
I stood in front for him for a few minutes, then crouched down and looked closely at his
face. I smelt a musky odour coming both from him and his clothing. Stale booze, maybe.
But something else. From the liver, probably. If he weren't dead you would say he was in a kind of trance, as though Death had hypnotized him before making final arrangements.
I got up and walked over to the windows. One looked into the damp brick wall of the warehouse next door. The few windows were barred. The window looking out back was a different story. From there you could see a slab of San Francisco Bay and spans of the Golden Gate Bridge. It looked the way it does in some stamps, from an angle underneath. Now, nearing nightfall, a parade of coloured lights was heading out of the city. I suspected that he'd stayed in the shadow of the Bridge, drinking, as the ships he could never take pulled out.
I didn't touch him. I could see all I needed to. I felt the way you do sometimes do when you see a statue you want to touch, but something makes you stop. He was the man I'd seen in photographs; his wedding with Peg, skylarking with army buddies and the last one, taken when he left Louisville for San Francisco.
He had changed a lot since then. The red hair that gave him his nickname, thinning, almost white, his body wasted, as though he'd disappeared into himself in the five years he'd been in 'Frisco.
I wondered if he'd kept photographs of us, Peg and me. I knew she'd sent them from
Sydney. His mother and seen them and commented on how healthy I was. But there was nothing on the bureau. Maybe somewhere else.
I'd seen what I came to see. It wasn't making peace. There'd been no war between us. I couldn't blame him for something I didn't know. And I didn't know a lot of things. Why
didn't he go home to Kentucky? Was he sick with something else he brought home from New Guinea? Had he fought it? The last question was important.
The elevator started clanking, like something out of a horror movie. But it wasn't like that. Although he'd been dead for sixty years and I'd thought a bit about it, I'd never tried to see him face to face before and this was the closest I was going to get.
From The Blue Dressing Gown & Other Poems by Ross Donlon published by Profile Poetry
Editor: Jennifer Compton
Ross Donlon is an Australian and he lives in Castlemaine in Victoria. He convenes the wonderful Castlemaine Readings in the Guildford Hotel. The title poem of his collection was a winner of the Arvon International Poetry Competition (the Wenlock Poetry Festival category.)
The cover photo on the book shows a picture of Ross's American father whom he never met, and who died while he was a baby. Return To The Ferry Hotel is a very powerful imagining of a strange meeting.
You can find more about Ross Donlon at http://www.rossdonlon.com/
Remember to check out the poets and poems in the sidebar.
Jennifer Compton is an award-winning New Zealand-born playwright and poet who lives in Australia but has had two recent writers' residencies in New Zealand at the Randell Cottage in Wellington and Massey University, Palmerston North. Jen also won the Kathleen Grattan Prize (2010) in NZ for an unpublished collection, which was published as 'This City' (OUP 2011).
10 comments:
- Kathleen Jones said...
Really interesting. I loved it. But still not sure whether it's a short story, or a poem - either way it's brilliant!
- March 13, 2012 at 3:11 AM
- lillyanne said...
What Kathleen said, really, in that I don't understand why this isn't called a short story. But I like it!
- March 13, 2012 at 7:58 AM
- Carole said...
Nice blog. You might like to see my post about the Picasso exhibition in Sydney. It finishes on the 25th March. http://caroleschatter.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/picasso-exhibition-art-gallery-of-new.html
- March 13, 2012 at 10:28 AM
- Keith Westwater said...
Thanks Jennifer for challenging me to think about the merge area between poetry and prose. I like the look of Ross's work and will explore more.
- March 13, 2012 at 9:17 PM
- Jennifer Compton said...
i call it a prose poem and ross calls it a prose poem and it is in a book of poetry ... tricky one this i know ... i do like the way it transgresses though and hovers at the border
- March 14, 2012 at 5:04 PM
yes well the question of whether it is prose or poetry is an interesting one but if Ross calls it prose poetry then it is in my opinion. Also there is something about the way he moves into the situation and visits his father as he was which to me is much less contrived than it might be if it was a short story.
It blows me away. All my senses are involved! Thanks for this choice.
- March 14, 2012 at 5:41 PM
- Cattyrox said...
I love the places where definitions blur and merge. Very powerful piece of writing whatever you choose to call it. Thanks Jen!
- March 15, 2012 at 12:32 AM
- Ben Hur said...
It is very affecting no matter what genre you place it in.
I couldn't help thinking of Raymond Chandler, but with emotional layering added.
- March 17, 2012 at 9:17 PM
- Ben Hur said...
It is very affecting no matter what genre you place it in.
I couldn't help thinking of Raymond Chandler, but with emotional layering added.
- March 17, 2012 at 9:17 PM
- Penelope said...
Yes, the hard-boiled detective works came to mind, and also the thought that this could be a veteran from so many wars, used up and discarded in some cheap waterfront hotel. And of course the Styx and that mythical ferryman are in there too. (It's the Ferry Hotel, after all, and we're well below the bridge.)
- March 18, 2012 at 1:23 AM