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Friday, January 14, 2011
ip confesses
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- freegan said...
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal
JOEL SALATIN / Acres v.33, n.9, Sept 2003 1sep03
Everything I want to do is illegal. As if a highly bureaucratic regulatory system was not already in place, 9/11 fueled renewed acceleration to eliminate freedom from the countryside. Every time a letter arrives in the mail from a federal or state agriculture department my heart jumps like I just got sent to the principal's office.
And it doesn't stop with agriculture bureaucrats. It includes all sorts of government agencies, from zoning, to taxing, to food inspectors. These agencies are the ultimate extension of a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process.
I want to dress my beef and pork on the farm where I've coddled and raised it. But zoning laws prohibit slaughterhouses on agricultural land. For crying out loud, what makes more holistic sense than to put abattoirs where the animals are? But no, in the wisdom of Western disconnected thinking, abattoirs are massive centralized facilities visited daily by a steady stream of tractor trailers and illegal alien workers.
But what about dressing a couple of animals a year in the backyard? How can that be compared to a ConAgra or Tyson facility? In the eyes of the government, the two are one and the same. Every T-bone steak has to be wrapped in a half-million dollar facility so that it can be sold to your neighbor. The fact that I can do it on my own farm more cleanly, more responsibly, more humanely, more efficiently, and in a more environmentally friendly manner doesn't matter to the government agents who walk around with big badges on their jackets and wheelbarrow-sized regulations tucked under their arms.
OK, so I take my animals and load them onto a trailer for the first time in their life to send them up the already clogged interstate to the abattoir to await their appointed hour with a shed full of animals of dubious extraction. They are dressed by people wearing long coats with deep pockets with whom I cannot even communicate. The carcasses hang in a cooler alongside others that were not similarly cared for in life. After the animals are processed, I return to the facility hoping to retrieve my meat.
When I return home to sell these delectable packages, the county zoning ordinance says that this is a manufactured product because it exited the farm and was reimported as a value-added product, thereby throwing our farm into the Wal-Mart category, another prohibition in agricultural areas. Just so you understand this, remember that an on-farm abattoir was illegal, so I took the animals to a legal abattoir, but now the selling of said products in an on-farm store is illegal.
Our whole culture suffers from an industrial food system that has made every part disconnected from the rest. Smelly and dirty farms are supposed to be in one place, away from people, who snuggle smugly in their cul-de-sacs and have not a clue about the out-of-sight-out-of-mind atrocities being committed to their dinner before it arrives in microwaveable, four-color-labeled, plastic packaging. Industrial abattoirs need to be located in a not-in-my-backyard place to sequester noxious odors and sights. Finally, the retail store must be located in a commercial district surrounded by lots of pavement, handicapped access, public toilets and whatever else must be required to get food to people.
The notion that animals can be raised, processed, packaged, and sold in a model that offends neither our eyes nor noses cannot even register on the average bureaucrat's radar screen — or, more importantly, on the radar of the average consumer advocacy organization. Besides, all these single-use megalithic structures are good for the gross domestic product. Anything else is illegal.
- January 15, 2011 at 5:10 AM
- freegan said...
In the disconnected mind of modem America, a farm is a production unit for commodities — nothing more and nothing less. Because our land is zoned as agricultural, we cannot charge school kids for a tour of the farm because that puts us in the category of "Theme Park." Anyone paying for infotainment creates "Farmadisney," a strict no-no in agricultural zones.
Farms are not supposed to be places of enjoyment or learning. They are commodity production units dotting the landscape, just as factories are manufacturing units and office complexes are service units. In the government's mind, integrating farm production with recreation and meaningful education creates a warped sense of agriculture.
The very notion of encouraging people to visit farms is blasphemous to an official credo that views even sparrows, starlings and flies as disease threats to immunocompromised plants and animals. Visitors entering USDA-blessed production unit farms must run through a gauntlet of toxic sanitation dips and don moonsuits in order to keep their germs to themselves. Indeed, people are viewed as hazardous foreign bodies at Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).
Farmers who actually encourage folks to come to their farms threaten the health and welfare of their fecal concentration camp production unit neighbors, and therefore must be prohibited from bringing these invasive germ-dispensing humans onto their landscape. In the industrial agribusiness paradigm, farms must be protected from people, not to mention free-range poultry.
The notion that animals and plants can be raised in such a way that their enhanced immune system protects them from kindergarteners' germs, and that the animals actually thrive when marinated in human attention, never enters the minds of government officials dedicated to protecting precarious production units.
I have several neighbors who produce high-quality food or crafts that complement our own meat and poultry. Dried flower arrangements from one artisan, pickles from another, wine from another, and first-class vegetables from another. These are just for starters.
Our community is blessed with all sorts of creative artisans who offer products that we would love to stock in our on-farm retail venue. Doesn't it make sense to encourage these customers driving out from the city to be able to go to one farm to do their rural browsing/ purchasing rather than drive all over the countryside? Furthermore, many of these artisans have neither the desire nor time to deal with patrons one-on-one. A collaborative venue is the most win-win, reasonable idea imaginable — except to government agents.
As soon as our farm offers a single item — just one — that is not produced here, we have become a Wal-Mart. Period. That means a business license, which isbasically another layer of taxes on our gross sales. The business license requires a commercial entrance, which on our country road is almost impossible to acquire due to sight-distance requirements and width regulations. Of course, zoning prohibits businesses in our agricultural zones. Remember, people are supposed to be kept away from agricultural areas — people bring diseases.
Even if we could comply with all of the above requirements, a retail outlet carries with it a host of additional regulations. We must provide designated handicapped parking, government-approved toilet facilities (our four household bathrooms in the two homes located 50 feet away from the retail building do not count) — and it can't be a composting toilet. We must offer x-number of parking spaces. Folks, it just goes on and on, ad nauseum, and all for simply trying to help a neighbor sell her potatoes or extra pumpkins at Thanksgiving. I thought this was the home of the free. In most countries of the world, anyone can sell any of this stuff anywhere, and the hungering hordes are glad to get it, but in the great U.S. of A we're too sophisticated to allow such bioregional commerce.
- January 15, 2011 at 5:16 AM
- freegan said...
You would think that if I cut the trees, mill the logs into lumber, and build the house on my own farm, I could make it however I wanted to. Think again. It's illegal to build a house less than 900 square feet. Period. Doesn't matter if I'm a hermit or the father of 20. The government agents have decreed, in their egocentric wisdom, that no human can live in anything less than 900 square feet.
Our son got married last year and wanted to build a small cottage on the farm, which he now oversees for the most part. Our new saying is, "He runs the farm, and I just run around." The plan was to do what Mom and Dad did for Teresa and I — trade houses when children come. That way our empty nest downsizes, and the young people can upsize in the main family farmhouse. Sounds reasonable and environmentally sensitive to me. But no, his little honeymoon cottage — or our retirement shack — had to be a 900-square-foot Taj Mahal. A state-of-the-art accredited composting toilet to avoid the need for a septic system and sewer leach field was denied.
When the hillside leach field would not meet agronomic standards and we had to install it in the floodplain, I asked the health department bureaucrat why. He said that essentially the only approvable leach fields now are alongside creeks and streams, because they are the only sites that offer dark-enough colored soils. Sounds like real environmental steward-ship, doesn't it?
Look, if I want to build a yurt of rabbit skins and go to the bathroom in a compost pile, why is it any of the government's business? Bureaucrats bend over back-wards to accredit, tax credit, and offer money to people wanting to build pig city-factories or bigger airports. But let a guy go to his woods, cut down some trees, and build himself a home, and a plethora of regulatory tyrants descend on the project to complicate, obfuscate, irritate, frustrate, and virtually terminate. I think it's time to eradicate some of these laws and the piranhas who administer them.
- January 15, 2011 at 5:22 AM
- freegan said...
I don't ask for a dime of government money. I don't ask for government accreditation. I don't want to register my animals with a global positioning tattoo. I don't want to tell officials the names of my constituents. And I sure as the dickens don't intend to hand over my firearms. I can't even use the "U" word.
On every side, our paternalistic culture is tightening the noose around those of us who just want to opt out of the system — and it is the freedom to opt out that differentiates tyrannical and free societies.
How a culture deals with its misfits reveals its strength. The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, then silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
Faith in what? Faith in diversity. Faith in each other. Faith in people's ability to self-educate, thereby making informed decisions. Faith in seekers to find answers. Faith in marketplace dynamics to reward integrity and not cheating. Faith in Creation to heal. Faith in healthy plants and animals to withstand epizootics. Faith in earthworms to increase fertility. Faith in communities to function efficiently and honorably without centralized beltway interference. Faith in Acres U.S.A. to arrive every month with a cornucopia of insight and information.
Our culture's current fear of bioterrorism shows the glaring weakness of a centralized, immunodeficient food system. This weakness leads to fear. Demanding from on high that we irradiate all food, register every cow with government agencies, and hire more inspectors does not show strength. It shows fear.
Indeed, official policy views all these minority production and marketing systems that have been shown faithful over the centuries to be instead things that threaten everyone and everything. As a teepee dwelling, herb healing, home educating, people loving, compost building retail farmer, I represent the real answers, but real answers must be eradicated by those who seek to build their power and fortunes on a lie — the lie being that genetic integrity can be maintained when corporate scientists begin splicing DNA. The lie that, as Charles Walters says, toxic rescue chemistry is better than a balanced biological bath. The lie that farms are disease-prone, unfriendly, inhumane places and should be zoned away from people.
Those of us who would aspire to opt out — both consumers and producers — must pray for enough cleverness to circumvent the system until the system cannot sustain itself. Cycles happen. Because things are this way today does not mean they will be this way next year. Hurrah for that.
Often, the greatest escapes occur at the moment the noose becomes tightest. I'm feeling the rope, and it's not very loose. Society seems bound and determined to hang me for everything I want to do. But there's power in truth. And for sure, surprises are in store that may make
society shake its collective head and begin to question some seemingly unalterable doctrines. Doctrines like the righteousness of the bureaucrat. The sanctity of government research. The protection of the Food Safety and Inspection Service. The helpfulness of the USDA.
When that day comes, you and I can graciously offer our society honest food, honest ecology, honest stewardship. May the day come quickly.
Joel Salatin raises grass-fed beef, pastured poultry, rabbits and more on a model diversified farmstead, Polyface Farm, in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. He is the author of Salad Bar Beef, Pastured Poultry Profits, You Can Farm,
- January 15, 2011 at 5:39 AM
- larry kurtz said...
Here is Salatin's story on NPR.
- January 15, 2011 at 6:53 AM


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Let's see how far this thread can go.
The start of the Lazy Rockets when Robbie tried to run over Stingy with a bulldozer for no other reason than pure Malice and Hatred.
Let's see how far this thread can go.
The start of the Lazy Rockets when Robbie tried to run over Stingy with a bulldozer for no other reason than pure Malice and Hatred.
σh, lífє? nσt α fαn. thє tutσríαl tσσk 18 чєαrs.
The scene where Stephanie is serving Sportacus water in the episode Breakfast At Stephanie's. It just came off as awkward and kinda weird
Robbie dating a Fly in The First Day Of Summer.
Getur einhver annar verið Glanni ? það bara passar ekki
Stefan Karl Stefansson, það er enginn eins og þú!
Everything in The Baby Troll, except the song which was 10/10.
When Ziggy throws his lollipop to the tree for no reason and then gets stuck on the tree.
I think pretty much every scene where Ziggy "interviews" kids in Extra is stilted and overall weird.
Also the scene in "Time to Learn" where Robbie just starts munching on the banana peel
Robbie's intelligence level has no continuity honestly
I would have to say in "LazyTown goes digital" where Ziggy gets buried in pizza and just cares about his chocolate being topped off by him offering a slice to Sportacus
just great.
Sportacus: Let's play catch!
Kids: Yeah, let's play catch.
Sportacus: Except for you Pixel.
Pixel: I want to play.
Sportacus: Gotcha!
(Everybody laughs. Pixel fake laughing.)
Weirdest Scene?
The Pilot. (At least watching for the first time)
When sportacus ate a ice cube
rip stefan
The shot in We Got The Energy where they raise their hands high in the air, and then it cuts to their hands with winter gloves on... why??
Like Toy Soliders
When they went back in time in season 4
rip stefan
oh man. Totally agree on the random mittens cut. Also...lots of Ziggy scenes is just him being an idiot. Lets throw a lollipop into a tree! :/ why Ziggy... why?
In Ghost Stoppers, they treat Robbie's Parascope like an actual student. There's plenty of weird scenes but that one sticks out to me.
When Sportacus goes to an ice glacier to get some water, like that's so extra but pretty cool I guess.
ur nan
The entirety of Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ
Sportacus probably smells like body odor and grass.
Robbie butt's in SportaFake. Trixie Hit it
… Please forgive me.
I've got another one. In Haunted Castle when Sportacus hears a hooting noise he goes outside to find an owl puppet hanging off his airship. He asks for its name and it says: "HOO HOO!" His response is a happy: "I'M SPORTACUS!" *Intro begins*
I mean seriously, WTF.


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Grading the Winter Meetings
Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow's first Winter Meetings are in the rearview mirror, and as he leaves Nashville, it's time to look back and see how he did with the team's most pressing needs:
Upgrade the Bullpen
Last season, the Astros' bullpen was in the bottom 5 in the major leagues in ERA (5th-worst), batting average against (2nd-worst), save percentage (5th-worst), WHIP (3rd-worst), and home runs against (7th-worst). Upgrading the bullpen is at or near the top of the priority list for most GMs every offseason, and this year was no different for Luhnow.
The first thing anyone notices is the trade of Wilton Lopez to Colorado, in exchange for Alex White and Alex Gillingham. You might raise your eyebrows and wonder how the bullpen will be improved through the loss of Lopez, the team's best reliever, but it might have been. During the Winter Meetings, the Astros added several arms, including White, Gillingham, Rule 5 picks Josh Fields and Cameron Lamb, and Mickey Storey, claimed off waivers from the Yankees (who'd claimed him off waivers themselves from Houston before the Winter Meetings.)
Storey, Fields, and White should contribute immediately to the 2013 pitching staff. It's unclear whether White is being looked at as a starter or as a reliever, but the story on him since college is that he could be a fairly dominant reliever. What's helpful, too, is that he's a similar-type pitcher to Lopez, but under team control longer. Fields is a power pitcher, and Storey had a very nice season in 2012, with 10.09 K/9 and a 2.80 FIP.
Maybe the best news is that Jason Stoffel, who figures to be a good bullpen arm for the Astros in 2014 if not sooner, didn't get taken in the Rule 5 Draft. Of course, this is through no great display of skill by Houston, but it's noteworthy nonetheless.
Prior to the Winter Meetings, Houston had already picked up Sam Demel off waivers from the Diamondbacks.
Lamb and Gillingham won't pitch for the big league club this season, but Storey, White, Fields, and probably Stoffel will. Without signing a single free agent or spending any real money, Luhnow & Co. at least maintained the big league bullpen, whether or not they actually strengthened it.
Improve the Starting Rotation
Before the Winter Meetings, the Astros went out and snagged Philip Humber off waivers from the White Sox. Heading into Nashville, it didn't seem very likely that much else would be done to improve the starting rotation, which could benefit from a veteran presence that slots in either above or below Jordan Lyles, Lucas Harrell, and Bud Norris. Figure that the competition for the final two rotation spots is currently between Jarred Cosart, Dallas Keuchel, and Alex White.
Clearly, this is an area where the Astros could use an upgrade, even if it's just a veteran stop-gap who can hold down the fort until Cosart's put in some time in Oklahoma City.
There are still some veteran arms I like, including Francisco Liriano, and some more that I'll discuss later in the week. But during the Winter Meetings, unless you consider White a potential starter, Luhnow did not address the rotation.
Find a Designated Hitter
Despite reports that the Astros checked in on Lance Berkman, Travis Hafner, and Carlos Pena, no one was signed during the Winter Meetings with the express intent of playing DH for the Astros. Rule 5 selection Nate Freiman does look like someone who might be able to fill the role if no one else is signed, as he can provide pop at the plate, but I can't even imagine that he's Option A for anyone in the Houston front office.
Though Houston came out of the Winter Meetings arguably stronger than when they went in, there are still holes to address. Still, for Luhnow's first go-around, it was a pretty solid effort without spending any money or making any compromises.


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Gasoline – The Imaginary and the Pure
By Paul Stubbs.
'I think Corso is a more perfect poet, unique and independent of modes and manners'
– Allen Ginsberg
'….it comes; I tell you, immense with gasolined
rags and bits of wire and old bent nails, a dark
arriviste, from a dark river within.'
– Gregory Corso
It seems an almost well accepted fact that more than fifty years on from when it was first published in 1958, Gasoline (City Lights, 1958) by Beat poet Gregory Corso is a seminal book in the birth of that particular literary generation. Yet today, when compared to Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kerouac, the other major Beat writers, his work is still relatively ignored, and while their books can be found in large amounts in most British and American bookshops, Corso is still almost untraceable. And actually, at the time of writing this, Corso's selected poems Mindfield is criminally out of print. Consequently, Corso's poetry has still to receive its true recognition, which in part is due still to the ruling classes of Academia, and maybe even to a certain snobbishness over his sometimes wild and spontaneous antics.
In Beat circles of course Corso is still read widely, but outside such a group it seems there still exists a kind of malignant amnesia for a poet of such unique gifts. The label given to him of the Beat 'clown' and madman of poetry has certainly not helped his reputation, and has in fact repeatedly damaged it. When Corso was writing the poems of Gasoline the barricades were already being drawn in the universities and colleges of America between what Robert Lowell described as "cooked" and "raw" poetry; besides, in the two preceding years leading up to the release of Gasoline came the publication and subsequent trial of Howl by Allen Ginsberg in 56, and On the Road by Jack Kerouac in 57, two individual books that wedged that divide even further. So, by the time Gasoline was published in 1958 Corso was already an infamous and notorious Beat character, having already appeared in Life magazine alongside Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs, also living around this period in the Beat Hotel in Paris that he himself named. It is true Corso probably alienated himself further by comments such as the following in a letter to Ginsberg in 1957: "I hate poetry and all its fucking ambitious son-of-a-bitches who call me a showman because I act myself". Yet, he is the true Beat poet, writing because he had to and because of his beloved Shelley who handed down his pen to him as if a rod of lightening out of the celestial dream cloud forming inside his head while he was only 17 and festering in Clinton prison for petty crime. Corso though did find one early champion of his work in the unlikely academic and public figure of Randall Jarrell who, at the time, was Poetry Consultant for the Library of Congress: he was impressed by The Vestal Lady on Brattle (the poet's first collection, published in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1955) enough to invite Corso to his house, giving him encouragement and vital head-space in which to write and complete the poems that went into Gasoline. Yet, only months after, fuelled by a visit to Jarrell's house by a drunken Kerouac, Corso was left in no uncertain terms that he had outstayed his welcome – such as would happen to him most of his life.
After a reading with Ginsberg in 1956, Corso wrote to Jarrell to outline again his belief in the poet as an actual living-fusion of the language, an almost bodily representation of his own words, and also, like his hero Shelley as a legislator: "…I wanted to cause rebellion, I wanted to wake them up, even if my song was impractical, or somewhat silly. The poet is the minstrel, the legislator, the eternal rebel". Ginsberg himself was the biggest champion of Corso's work, maintaining up until his death that Corso had always been the greater poet, and always fighting his corner. In a letter from Amsterdam in 1957, where Ginsberg was writing the introduction to Gasoline, he replied to Ferlinghetti: "I know everybody puts Gregory down there in Frisco and glad you don't, I am amazed by his genuine genius & originality". And once more, in a letter to Kerouac: "We unite and give him send off – for he is sure to be generally put down unless people are made to dig him." Besides, in his introduction that he was then writing, he explained in depth: "Corso is a great word-slinger, first naked sign of a poet, a scientific master of mad mouthfuls of language. He wants a surface hilarious with ellipses, jumps of the strangest phrasing picked off the streets of his mind like "mad children of soda caps' ".
Corso described his own quite idiosyncratic methods further: "That's what poetry is to me, a wondrous prober… It's not the metre, or measure of a line, a breath; not 'law music', but the assembly of great eye-sounds placed into an inspired idea" – the phrase "eye-sounds", for him, being a typical oxymoronic way of seeing things, and that feeds into the poems of Gasoline.
In the opening poem, 'Ode to Coit Tower', which is actually more of an anti-ode, Corso bursts forth into a vatic outpouring, in which vision and beauty clash like two cymbals to leave the reader rapt, transfixed and vibrating with the poet's compound phrases and hallucinatory build-up of images. Vision and beauty are represented by the tower itself, while everything else in the world that stymies, restrains and oppresses is represented by the prison of Alcatraz. It's "petrific bondage" in which the human capacity for spirit, soul, light, is locked away, those each day "weeping I'm sure for humanity's vast door to open that all men be free that / both hinge and lock die that all doors if they close close / like Chinese bells." Corso knows his own truth but asks all the same:
'Was it man's love that put that rock there never to avalanche
but in vision or this imaginary now or myself standing
on Telegraph Hill Nob Hill Russia Hill the same view
always Alcatraz like a deserted holiday'
This opening poem, like nearly all of Corso's creations, laments the imprisonment of the human spirit, that which is inevitably inflicted by "reality's worm". The poet mourns the loss of the imaginative faculties that he holds so dear, longing as he did always for the
'Dreams that once jumped joyous bright from my heart like
Sparks issued from a wild sharper's wheel'
These 'dreams' that almost re-tongued Corso allowed him, if only momentarily, to speak 'that madness again that infinitive solitude where illusion spoke truth's divine dialect'; for Corso is a poet of the unfettered, an intuitive and reflex poet, a poet of the film-scraps of the soul, whose imagination, like that of all true originals, was but an involuntary net hauling in all that transfigures, burns, and dazzles in the universe; his voice can be located in his sonorous distortion of diction, syntax and cadence, that which truncates the rhythm of his poems, until the 'sound' of his voice becomes that of a dictionary tearing:
'It is better man give up his diction
become mouthless
it is better
that another man, myself,
heed his restriction'
(from 'No word')
Being an autodidact allowed him the freedom to read as voraciously as he pleased, and read he did: The Book of the Dead, Egyptian and Greek myths, poets such as Mayakovsky, Artaud, Lorca, Shelley, Rimbaud, Michaux (who both he and Ginsberg befriended when they lived in Paris) and other American originals such as Crane and O'Hara. In Puma in chapultepec zoo, which might in some way have been influenced by the jaguar of Rilke (whose poems Corso had discovered whilst in Paris), the feline's confinement is juxtaposed by the wilderness that once poured off from its heel; then the restriction of the puma in this cage makes Corso think of a distant friend:
'I think of Ulanova
locked in some small furnished room
in New York, on East 17th street
in the Puerto Rican section.'
And this is also a metaphor for our own everyday human predicament, of the spirit caged in the material world, vision and imagination locked behind the cage of our own flesh and bones. In Amnesia in Memphis the narrator sways back and forth between life and death, retelling the posthumous existence inside his now dead body. Behind the visage of his dead face he remembers his former life that now lies supine and "half-embalmed". This loss of life seems to be also paralleled by the loss of his once magical and divine power:
'For what I am; who I am, I cannot regain,
Nor sponge my life back with the charm of ibis oil;'
By the end of the poem, this subsequent mortal outcome becomes something of a post-mythological prophecy for our own End-times, in this period of eschatological politics and religious demonology, and the last image has still today quite horrifying consequences:
'The papyrus readers have seen the falcon's head
Fall unto the jackal's plate.'
In 'To a downfallen Rose', we witness our imaginative fall since Eden, our de-humanization born of man's anti-utopian mindset, which has entrapped us "in the vast fixedness of matter", and who is also then subject to the now "hateful law" of the phenomenal world, to time, to decay and physical mortal death; and thus, man, in the form of a rose, screams in anguish and despair, realizing 'the big lie of the sun'. The sun is even given more in-depth treatment in the automatic poem Sun, where Corso lets his mind off the hook, treating it as if water to skim his words like stones directly into the sun itself; this poem is in many ways the type of poem that a Lowell or Bishop must have so hated, for it is poetry in its most 'raw' state, Corso at his most untamed, wild, creating a poetic form that Kerouac described as "eyeball-kicks". Yet Corso's vision bursts through to have a powerful effect, reminding us that the sun is far from being just a ball of gas, but is that same torch that lit up once the crypt of the skulls of the ancient civilizations, that its life-giving qualities maintain a direct poetic link to his imaginative forebears, "hellion, Apollo, rha, sol", for Corso, like any visionary poet, bathed in the sun's eternal glow of possibilities: 'O constant hole where all beyond is true Byzantium'.
Here, the poet cranks up the language to an almost incalculable pitch, forcing free the confession of new words, as if each line were a rope in an end-of-the-world tug of war battle between sound and sense ; indeed, like in Beckett, the silence is that before the beginning of the world, before the flesh was fossilized by scars, and the great crustacean of the will by sin, for the 'silence' in Corso's poem is purity: a purity that he catches and cages and turns into straw by the fire of his imagination; in this poem, scathed by impossible sounds, his voice glitters and sparks until registering in the brain as something approaching the raw and unclassifiable language of Artaud's "Theatre of Cruelty", of what Artaud himself depicted as "a wholly auditory language" ; for when the semantic ambiguities and cerebral punctuation have been removed from language, the human consciousness is forced then to exist inside the gaps, the pauses between the noises of the world:
'Sun dinosaur of electric motion extinct and
fossiled, babble on!'
The faults in Corso's poetry are always indications of its strengths, the verbal (neo-romantic) elucidation, the 'old' poetries becoming new again, by what, prior to the denouement of his poem, Corso manages to shunt into creation by his own self-formulated thought patterns; he achieves this by receiving the holy-ghost of poetry, his muse, which to him was never something problematic, but the vision that has no climax, for his poems of universal impartiality were as absolute to him as were the tonnage of the planets and galaxies that when placed upon his word-scales assumed no more than feather-weight properties; this same kind of celestial realization is portrayed in one of the very best poems in Gasoline, In 'the Fleeting Hand of Time', a classic Beat poem in which Corso's mind takes astral flight back over his material world of birth, childhood, family; the poet, like his very own creation, 'Captain Poetry', takes on supernatural flight and journey back over the corporeal facts of his life, and relays them to us by speaking directly into the microphone of memory; William Blake can perhaps be detected in this poem, as maybe can (but in a very loose way) Wordsworth in his 'Intimations of Immortality': from the Recollections of Early Childhood, for this poem reveals Corso's own personal myth of his cosmos, taking us back to 'his' beginning:
'On the steps of the bright madhouse
I hear the bearded bell shaking down the woodlawn
the final knell of my world'
And thus the poet reveals himself to us in his own mythological life-span:
'Now my presence is known' until
'time itself takes me by the hand
born March 26 1930 I am led 100 mph
O'er the vast market of choice
What to choose? What to choose?'
Corso flies back and back and back, until
'A baby mother stuffs my mouth with
a pale Milanese breast
I suck I struggle I cry O Olympian mother'
then regresses until having extinguished his imaginative source:
'a long long dog having chased its orbited tail
comes grab my hand
and leads me into conditional life.'
But what Corso also proves in this collection is just how powerful a poet he could be when writing the more quite lyric poem, when turning down the volume of the dial of his own high imaginative frequency, to write mournful poems such as the famous 'The Mad Yak', a heartbreaking poem, just as Corso himself described it in a letter from Mexico to Randall Jarrell in 1956: 'how perfect, how sad is that?'; and sad it is, for we hear the interior monologue of the Yak himself, who speaks of the cruelty of the whole of mankind. Here, 'Human' and 'animal' are merely anthropological variations on the same crime, for we hear the compassionate and gentle and humane Yak juxtaposed by the greedy and callous human being who sees the Yak only in terms of opportunistic 'products' such as 'scarves', 'Caps', 'buttons', and 'shoelaces'. The Yak, on the other hand, feels our sorrow and compassion for us. It mourns the loss of its brother and sisters, and feels pity for its "Poor uncle,…/ How sad he is, how tired!". The Yak therefore exhibits all the qualities that humans, in this case, sadly lack.
At heart Corso was a poet of universal compassion for all sentient beings, for the pure and natural state of all living things, and his poetry comes into being when this 'state' is irrevocably altered by man's persecution of what (in the poet's mind) should remain innocent in the world; in Gasoline, this 'altered' state of innocence we experience over and over. The destruction of innocence and beauty is exemplified in the manic and hallucinatory poem 'Don't Shoot the Warthog' where a child personifying beauty is abused and devoured in some kind of cannibal frenzy; at the beginning, the child is seen "swinging an ocean on a stick", a typical Corso-like image of the fabulous, the impossible and surreal. The calling out of the child's "name" in this poem is what brings the other children leaping and running to see, before
'a fury of mothers and fathers
sank their teeth into his brain.
I called to the angels of my generation
on the rooftops, in the alleyways,
beneath the garbage and the stones,
I screamed the name! and they came
and gnawed the child's bones.'
The most successful poems in this collection also include a lot of small ones or what Ginsberg described as Corso's "weird haiku-like juxtapositions that aren't in the American book" such as the following 'Italian Extravaganza' which is much anthologized in Beat collections:
'Mrs. Lombardi's month-old son is dead.
I saw it in Rizzo's funeral parlour,
A small purplish wrinkled head.
They've just finished having high mass for it;
They're coming out now
….Wow, such a small coffin!
And ten black cadillacs to haul it in.'
In the slightly longer and equally famous 'I AM 25' we encounter a poet full of youthful hubris and healthy irreverence for the elder poets of his day; it is another classic Beat poem, in which Corso informs us:
Especially old poetmen who retract
who consult other old poet men'
And then going on to conclude:
'O I would quiet old men
Say to them: — I am your friend
What you once were, thru me
You'll be again—
Then at night in the confidence of their homes
rip out their apology-tongues
and steal their poems'
The last two lines especially encapsulate the impish, almost satyr-like humour of Corso, the humour that was to become an even more key component in his most famous upcoming poems of the sixties, such as 'Marriage', 'Bomb', and 'Hair'. And it was indeed in 1963 that Robert Lowell, in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop, wrote: "…the Beats have blown away, the professionals have returned". A typically cold-hearted response from a poet who had of course more in common with the Beats than he ever cared/dared to admit, having himself spent large portions of the second half of his life in various mental institutions and hospitals. But the Beats have never gone away, much to the chagrin of that school of 'cooked' critics and poets, such as Norman Podhoretz (who repudiated the Beats any chance he could get) or John Hollander, who called Howl a "dreadful little volume" and who maintained that the Beat writers were talentless.
Yet now, 50 years on? The Beats are going stronger than ever, appealing to generation after new generation. But what of the movement's enfant terrible, Gregory Corso? Well, now should be the time for a complete overhaul of Corso's achievement and re-recognition of this important and unique post-war poet. And things might just be looking up, for it was a pleasure to see Corso included in the critic Ian Hamilton's book Against Oblivion (Penguin 2002) among other such eminent names like Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Hughes or Crane. So maybe the tide is beginning to posthumously turn for Corso, though, if this is to happen, a Collected Poems is a must. Ginsberg (also included amongst those fighting oblivion in Hamilton's book) gives us the best insight available into the working methods of Corso in and around the time in which he was working on Gasoline, writing to Ferlinghetti from Amsterdam in 1957: "…in his poverty too marvellously, how he gets along here hand to mouth, daily, begging & conning & wooing, but he writes daily marvellous poems, every morning he wakes and types last nites 2 or 3 pages of poems, …his life is too unstable for him to sit down for long cool afterthoughts & assembling of book properly…"
And those particularly acute Beat facts of a poet's life, though unimaginable for the festival-career-workshop-prizewinning poets of today, are what set Corso apart from nearly every living poet of his day for he LIVED his life to the poetic hilt. Corso concludes in a letter to Isabella Gardner in 1958 from Paris, speaking of himself and Ginsberg: "…the both of us, somewhat romantically, yes, but not cornily, will die for our poetry." And how many poets alive today could you imagine saying that?
Paul Stubbs lives in Paris. He left school at sixteen and worked in various jobs around the U.K. before beginning to write. His second collection The Icon Maker was published by Arc Publications in 2008 and his poems have appeared in a variety of magazines, including The Wolf, Agenda, and The Shop. Paul has also written versions of two classical Greek plays, Euripides's The Bacchae and Aeschylus's Prometheus Unbound. He was recently invited to read his poems at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast, at the King's Lynn Festival and in New York. His third collection will be released in 2010. He is currently working on his fourth collection of poems.
First published in 3:AM Magazine: Thursday, March 11th, 2010.


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Carlos Villanueva made his return to the rotation this afternoon and was good but was on a pitch limit, so the Cubs needed a real big effort from their pitchers, and they got it. Villanueva and Hector Rondon each gave up a run today, but other than that the Cubs pitchers were spotless, all seven of them. Oh, except for Kevin Gregg, leading 3-2 in the ninth the Pirates were down to their last strike when Starling Marte launched a game tying solo shot, gut punch. Matt Guerrier came on in relief and gave the Cubs a chance to win and the Cubs did just that. After loading the bases with nobody out Dioner Navarro hit a game winning sacrifice fly to right field, and just like that the Cubs had a series win, their fourth in their last five. Sure this season is lost, but it is nice to see some positive results on the North Side, finally.
Game Highlights:
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Barney's gem
Villanueva scores on the error
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In one of our many efforts to keep our wedding simple and laid back, Zach and I decided not to have an official "wedding party." It's not that we don't have friends who we'd love to honor with this position, as I think both of us could easily pick a few close buddies to stand up with us. It's more that we just don't really see the point.
I mean, dressing alike is cute when you're toddlers…
And then all of a sudden it's cute again when you're a fully-grown adult if you're in a wedding? I don't get it.
We didn't want to boss people around and tell them what to wear and what to help with for our wedding. Honestly, we hope that our friends and family will voluntarily step up and help us out of the goodness of their hearts, not out of obligation because of some "title" we've bestowed upon them. We're still involving some special people in the ceremony by having them perform readings, and both of our best friends will still be giving toasts at the reception.
Another factor in our decision was that our wedding is only going to have about 60 guests. The more people you put up front the emptier the seats will look! I don't want our ceremony to look like no one is there because there are no butts in seats!
Anyone else forgoing a traditional wedding party for a more casual approach?


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"As we know these so called police who are suppose to protect and serve are terrorists who, on a daily basis, practice State authorized racism against our people and who protect the rich from the poor rather than the poor from the rich, let our community offer prayers and make offerings against these terrorists who are now in critical condition," controversial Seattle Black Foot Soldier Alfred "Issaquah" Shafford is quoted as saying this morning. "Let us also recognize that, perhaps, even this devil was inspired by brother and martyr Maurice Clemmons."


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I have the feeling, that senders which I have entered in the banned senders list carefully ignore that they are listed there
But may bethey do this, because I have entered them not correctly. I made a search in the forum, but in none of all the mails complaning about dealing with this list, is mentioned, how a banned sender has to be entered.
Can I enter on one line as many addresses the line takes?
Has there to be a comma or any other character between an address?
Has there to be only 1 address per line?
Has the address to be placed in brackets ore any other characters?
Or is there an' end character needed at the end of the file?
The only thing I'm sure about is, that I have to say yes to Run standard non-Bayesian filters - Is that so?
But - if I say yes, have I then to disable one the next page "Run learning Bayesian filters"
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I regularly stop in the local thrift stores to peruse their dish selection, searching for interesting colors, patterns and textures that I might want to use in a future mosaic. Some days I leave empty handed, other days I come home with a huge stack of dishes to break. Of every few hundred plates I see, I find one or two with its own appealing, unique qualities and I have to take them home. I've amassed a wide variety of plates that I have no idea what I'll do with (let me know if you need any 25th Wedding Anniversary plates, or a Mother Jones Monument plate), so I decided to decorate a boring wall.
That was back in November. I've been satisfied with it until today, when I read this blog post and saw a more sophisticated and colorful wall collage. Sara gathered meaningful art, painted simple, inexpensive frames and transformed a plain wall into an art gallery. (Seriously, go check it out, it's awesome.) And the best part is that she showed how she decided where the nails go.
For the longest time, I'd see wall collages and wonder how in the world can someone hang 30 different things on one wall and make it look good? And how do these people know where the nails go? It takes one kind of effort to choose materials that create cohesion and balance, but it takes math and craftsmanship to actually get nails into the wall - after you decide where the nails need to go. That always felt like the trickiest part, so I took a few photos as I was trying to figure out how to assemble a wall of plates. I had no idea what I was doing, so I like seeing how Sara approached a similar project.
I first hung up a piece of brown kraft paper in the space that I wanted to fill. I marked the thermostat's location (Sara had to work a light switch into her collage), then laid the piece of paper on the floor. This gave me boundaries and a visual reference as to how the plates would look on the wall.
Note: I have a giant roll of brown kraft paper for mosaic purposes, but in the past I have taped together a bunch of sheets of paper and that worked just as well. Sara used wrapping paper, which I find brilliant.
I spent more than two hours deciding which plates to use, arranging and rearranging them into different patterns, until I realized that I could switch them out at any time so just pick something already.
I traced all the plates onto the paper, numbering each plate and its tracing. A few friends teased me for it, but this step prevented me from being frustrated when trying to hang plates in their intended spot. Labeling was a logical part of the template-making process and after seeing Sara do the same thing, I think it's necessary to stay organized.
I also marked where each nail hole needed to be because it was different for every plate.
I started to cut a slot in the paper at each nail hole and mark the wall, but then I realized I could just drill through the paper... so I drilled the holes while the paper was still up.
I have plaster walls, so for each plate I pre-drilled a hole, hammered in an anchor, then screwed a screw into the anchor.
After all that prep work, it only took about five minutes to take down the paper and hang 28 plates.
It's fun (and easy) to revamp my wall once it starts to feel boring again. Every now and then I rearrange some of the collage to bring out new plates from my reserve, or to display an album or two, but there are a few pieces that have sentimental value and for that they will always stay on the wall.
19 July 2011
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This is fantastic! You have some great plates!ReplyDelete
Ahhh!!!! I love love love love love it!! Thank you so much for the wonderful compliment on my map wall. And you did an amazing job! I love all the plates you picked out and it was genius using one huge piece of kraft paper to get everything laid out perfectly! The wall looks fantastic!ReplyDelete
That is super cool! Maybe I should do that with some of my basket collection...ReplyDelete
Would love to see it 'live' sometime :)
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U.S. Beach Volleyball Update for Jan. 10
B.J. Hoeptner Evans
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@USA_Volleyball - @USAV Beach – USAV Facebook
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Jan. 10, 2013) – The University of Nebraska has announced that it will add sand volleyball as a women's intercollegiate sport, beginning with the spring 2013 competition season.
The addition of sand volleyball to Nebraska's list of sport offerings, gives the Huskers 24 intercollegiate programs, including 14 women's teams and 10 men's teams. Sand volleyball is the first sport Nebraska has added since women's rifle began competition in the 1998-99 season.
Sand volleyball was approved as an NCAA Emerging Sport for women in 2009 and began play in the 2011-12 school year. Fifteen schools sponsored varsity teams in the spring of 2012, the first season of competition for Division I schools. The inaugural AVCA Collegiate Sand Volleyball Championships were held last April in Gulf Shores, Ala., and that site will host the championship from 2013 to 2015.
More than 20 schools are currently sponsoring sand volleyball, with that number expected to grow in the coming years. When 40 institutions in Division I and II have sponsored varsity programs for one year, the NCAA will sponsor an NCAA Championship in the sport. Should funds be approved for a championship in the next budget cycle, the NCAA would host its first national championship in the spring of 2016.
Nebraska Volleyball Coach John Cook said the growing popularity of sand volleyball made the addition of the sport at Nebraska an attractive option.
"We have talked a great deal about our vision for sand volleyball," Cook said. "We plan to start small and grow as the sport continues to develop. We understand the challenges in terms of our location, but we have a good plan on how to manage our sand volleyball team and grow with the sport."
Nebraska does not intend to offer scholarships for sand volleyball players, but all members of the Huskers' court volleyball team may participate in the sand season. Sand volleyball teams may have a maximum of two coaches, and Cook said he and assistant coach Dan Meske will fill those positions.
To view the AVCA's list of colleges that have a sand volleyball program or are considering adding one, click here.
USA Beach Volleyball Coaching Education is hosting a Beach CAP I course for all beach coaches interested in taking their coaching to the next level on Feb. 2-3 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.
Instructors will be former and current national team and collegiate beach volleyball coaches. Take advantage of this weekend to learn some new techniques and skills of the game.
For more information and to register for this USAV Beach CAP I coaching event, please visit the USA Volleyball web site.
The USA Volleyball Beach Volleyball Department will host a weekend meeting for elite athletes on Feb. 22-24 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. The weekend will include meetings with sports medicine staff, team building exercises and media training among other activities.
Kerri Walsh Jennings (Saratoga, Calif.) and Santa Monica Beach Volleyball Club are teaming up to hold a fundraiser on Jan. 20 at the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica.
Walsh Jennings, a three-time Olympic gold medalist who is pregnant with her third child will join her husband, pro beach volleyball player Casey Jennings (Las Vegas, Nev.), and beach volleyball coach Dane Selznick in holding a clinic. Following the clinic, a dinner/auction will be held from 5:30-9 p.m. Cost for the clinic is $100; dinner/auction is $125 per person.
The Chase the Stars Foundation, Good Tidings, Wholesports and GameOn have come together to generate funds to build beach volleyball courts and provide scholarships to benefit players.
To register, visit SantaMonicaBeachVolleyballClub.com. For more information, contact 310-666-7247.
Olympic silver medalist April Ross has started a blog. To read it, click here.
Jonas Reckermann, who won the men's beach volleyball gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games with partner Julius Brink, has announced he is retiring from the sport due to back problems.
"This decision is very difficult for me for various reasons, but you can't buy health and that's the most important thing at the end of the day," Reckermann, 33, told the Germany Volleyball Federation.
Reckermann has recovered from shoulder surgery he had in October; but a scan has shown that besides a known degenerative process in his spine, a cyst in the canal of the spinal cord is putting pressure on a nerve.
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Albano Laziale, Italy, Jul 7, 2014 / 06:58 am MT ().- Following St. Maria Goretti's feast day, the rector of the basilica where her body resides stated that her willingness to forgive is her most prominent testimony, and that her virtue is an example for family life.
Maria's greatest witness is forgiveness, Fr. Giovanni Alberti told CNA July 7.
"Many people come saying I left to forgive, with the example of Maria Goretti. These people that are leaving, go with a great lesson from the child Saint," Fr. Alberti said.
Fr. Alberti has been rector of the Basilica of the Mother of Grace and of Saint Maria Goretti in Nottuno, Italy for the past six years. He said the assignment is "a great responsibility and a call to live with great simplicity."
The saint's July 6 feast day included a large procession the night before beginning at the basilica and lasting six miles to the house where she lived for four years prior to her death. Some 4,000 people attended the procession to celebrate the life of the saint.
Born in the city of Corinaldo, Italy in 1890, St. Maria Goretti was the eldest of six children. She was killed at the age of 11 while resisting a rape, and is considered a martyr for chastity.
Coming from a poor family, Maria assisted her mother in housework and in caring for her five younger siblings following her father's death.
In 1902 a neighboring farmhand, Alessandro Serenelli, who had made previous inappropriate comments and sexual advances toward her, attempted to rape Maria in her house. When she resisted, Alessandro stabbed her 14 times.
After being found bleeding to death, she was rushed to the hospital in Nettuno, where she forgave Alessandro, saying: "Yes, for the love of Jesus I forgive him…and I want him to be with me in paradise."
While in prison several years later, Alessandro converted after having a dream in which Maria handed him 14 white flowers that burst into flame. The flowers represented the 14 wounds he had inflicted upon her; the flames symbolized forgiveness. After being released from prison he became a Capuchin tertiary and attended Maria's beatification alongside her mother.
Speaking of Maria's continuous example today, Fr. Alberti explained that those who come to the basilica in Nettuno receive a great lesson in forgiveness because "today we have many conflicts, also social."
"We have situations of rupture in the family, in marriage. So this element of forgiveness, this teaching of Jesus is coming out, we say, decisively to change the rapport of the people, also of the family."
"To know that there is a saint who forgave the one that killed her, is becoming an important resource in forgiveness, more than the other aspects," he noted, describing how there "is not just one aspect" of her holiness, but many.
"There is also that of the dignity of women, the respect of women, of a sexuality that is healthy and balanced. Then there is faith in God, there is prayer, there is her devotion to Mary, her devotion to the Eucharist, and there is forgiveness, and her testimony of eternal life.
Fr. Alberti said Maria's desire to have her killer with her in paradise was remarkable for several reasons.
"It's a testimony of a life after life. For a child of 11 this is enormous. These are very great things."
During her life, Maria often could not go to church or school because her family lived far away from any parish. Still, Fr. Alberti said, "she had a school in her family," because hers was "a family marked and full of virtue, full of, we say, resources."
"She was truly the child of a family…The family is also fundamental and irreplaceable, in this aspect."
Margherita, a 68-year-old volunteer who assists the community overseeing the basilica, told CNA July 7 that "Marietta" is "very dear" to her because she was born in Nettuno and has known the saint all her life.
"I knew Marietta since I was a little girl," she said. "The name of Marietta was always present."
Recalling an accident she had on a horse when she was three years old, Margherita recounted how when she went to the hospital to get stitches on her face, the doctor said that it was a miracle she wasn't injured worse, because if the horse had been more aggressive she would have died.
"So in the family everyone used to say oh this is a miracle of Saint Maria Goretti, she was protecting Margherita," she observed.
"I used to go around and tell everyone that I received a miracle from Saint Maria Goretti."
"So as you can see she is very dear to me, and I do whatever I do for her, in her name, with great joy."
Margherita also revealed that the Nettuno diocese is planning to bring Maria Goretti's body to the United States and Canada for a month-long tour in 2015.
"We are organizing with someone from the States," she said. "Already Cardinal Dolan from New York knows about it," and "he's very enthusiastic."
Margherita said the plan is for the tour to go to nine dioceses, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, and Toronto. The body will also go to New Jersey, where some relatives of Maria Goretti reside.
The dates of the tour are still being discussed, but tentative dates could be Jan. 25 – March 1, 2015, due to the low tourism traffic in Nettuno during that time.
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Tigers 0-2 at Jaguar Invitational
Mobile, Ala. – The Tennessee State volleyball team dropped its second game in as many chances at the Jaguar Invitational in Mobile, Ala. The Tigers fell 3-0 (19-25, 20-25, 10-25) to Georgia Southern and is now 0-2 to start the season, while the Eagles improved to 2-0.
As a team, TSU hit just .057 as they recorded 29 kills with 24 errors in 88 attempts. Naomi Wells once again led the team in kills with nine. Shuantia Carr registered the highest hitting percentage with more than ten attempts. Carr hit .273 with six kills and three errors in 11 attempts.
Erika Moss finished with 26 assists, while Ileanushka Maldanado led with nine digs and Katie Burnett topped TSU with two service aces.
Head coach Kathy Roulhac had to call a timeout four plays into the first game as GSU jumped out to a 4-0 lead. After the timeout, the Tigers charged back with three straight points highlighted by a pair of kills by Carr. The Eagles grabbed a six point advantage at 14-8 before TSU took the lead by scoring eight straight points. An Eagle attack error started the run and was followed with kills by Carr and Wells that sandwiched an ace by Burnett. A GSU timeout did not slow down the Tigers as Carr and Moss teamed up for a pair of blocks. Wells slammed home a kill to give TSU a 16-14 advantage. With the Tigers leading 17-15, GSU went on a run of their own scoring six straight points making the score 21-17. Coach Roulhac's squad could only manage a couple more points as the Eagles claimed the first game 25-19.
Game two started the same as game one with GSU racing to a 4-0 lead. The Eagles controlled the game maintaining a six-to-seven point lead. Down 20-12, the Tigers started to chip away at the Eagles as they received kills by Taylor Swayzer, Wells, and Carr to go along with service aces from Moss, Burnett and Wells to cut the deficit to three as they trailed 23-20. Georgia Southern would secure the final two points for a 25-20 win.
GSU closed out the Tigers in three as they earned a 25-10 win. TSU committed nine errors opposed to just seven kills in 23 attempts for a -.087 hitting percentage in the final game. The Eagles hit .333 with seven kills and one error in 18 attempts.
The Tigers will face Southern Utah at 4:30pm in their final match of the Jaguar Invitational.


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A humble, very committed group of eight Muslims worked diligently and with the blessing of Allah (God) founded a small facility to rent in the heart of downtown Oxnard, CA. Meetings were conducted every Sunday to reach out and invite more Muslims to the center. Since then, the number of attendees has grown substantially. The center has 3 rooms for prayer and 3 bathrooms equipped with Wudu (Ablution) accommodations. The importance of the center is to bring Muslims and non-Muslims together in order to educate about our faith and way of life. ICOVC promotes friendly relations, and we invite all Non-Muslims, people of all different religious and cultural backgrounds to visit our place of worship.
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Uhuru Kenyatta, in full Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, (born October 26, 1961, Nairobi, Kenya), Kenyan businessman and politician who held several government posts before being elected president of Kenya in 2013. He was reelected in 2017.
Early Life
The son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president, Uhuru was raised in a wealthy and politically powerful Kikuyu family. He attended St. Mary's School in Nairobi, where he played as a winger for the school's rugby team. He then went on to study political science and economics at Amherst College in Massachusetts. After his return to Kenya, he started a horticultural business that became quite successful. He also assumed some responsibility for managing his family's extensive business holdings.
Political Rise And ICC Charges
Kenyatta became politically active in the 1990s. In 1997 he was chair of a local branch of the Kenya African National Union (KANU)—the longtime ruling party that his father had once led—and later that year ran unsuccessfully for a parliamentary seat. In spite of his loss, KANU leader and Kenyan Pres. Daniel arap Moi seemed intent on grooming him for a greater role in public service. He appointed Kenyatta to chair the Kenya Tourist Board in 1999, and the following year Kenyatta was given the additional task of chairing the Disaster Emergency Response Committee.
Kenyatta's political profile rose considerably in October 2001, when he was nominated by President Moi to fill a parliament seat; Moi then elevated him to the cabinet as minister for local government a month later. In 2002 Kenyatta was elected as one of four vice-chairs of KANU. Also that year, he was named the KANU candidate for the presidency—a controversial move engineered by outgoing President Moi, who was ineligible to stand for another term and wanted someone of his own choosing to succeed him; many feared that Moi would continue to rule through Kenyatta if the younger man were elected. Moi's machinations backfired, however, as some KANU members bristled at the lack of debate within the party regarding Kenyatta's selection as Moi's successor, and they left KANU to support opposition leader Mwai Kibaki, who handily defeated Kenyatta in elections held in December 2002. Kenyatta then assumed the position of leader of the opposition in parliament.
Kenyatta's star continued to rise within KANU, and he was elected chairman of the party in 2005. In the run-up to Kenya's next presidential election, held in December 2007, Kenyatta again threw his hat into the ring, but he withdrew his candidacy a few months before the election and opted instead to back Kibaki, who was running for reelection against Raila Odinga and several other challengers.
When the election results showed that Kibaki had narrowly defeated Odinga, the outcome was rejected by many of the latter's supporters and was followed by weeks of widespread violence along ethnic lines, with the Kikuyu, Kenya's largest ethnic group, being both instigators and targets of violence. Kibaki initially named Kenyatta as minister of local government in January 2008, but in a coalition government formed in April Kenyatta was appointed deputy prime minister and minister of trade. The next year, he was moved from the ministry of trade and became the minister of finance.
Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court (ICC) had started an investigation into the violence that followed the December 2007 polls. In late 2010 Kenyatta was named by the ICC as being one of six suspects thought to be most responsible for instigating the postelection violence; he immediately disputed the allegations and proclaimed his innocence. In January 2012 the ICC announced that four of the six suspects, including Kenyatta, would face trial. They were charged with committing crimes against humanity; the charges included allegations that Kenyatta had helped mobilize and fund the Mungiki, a Kikuyu criminal gang, in the group's attacks on Odinga's supporters in the aftermath of the disputed election. Shortly after the charges were announced, Kenyatta resigned as minister of finance but remained in his post as deputy prime minister.
The ICC charges did not dissuade Kenyatta from once again pursuing his aspirations for the presidency. Kenyatta and KANU parted ways in April 2012, and the next month Kenyatta launched a new party, The National Alliance (TNA). Later that year he and TNA became part of a multiparty alliance known as the Jubilee Coalition, which also included one of the other ICC suspects, William Ruto, and his United Republican Party. Kenyatta and Ruto campaigned together for the posts of president and vice president, respectively.
In light of the ICC proceedings, the eligibility of the two men to stand in the election was called into question by some, but in February 2013 the High Court of Kenya dismissed a case that sought to bar them from standing. Kenyatta went on to win the presidential election in the first round of voting, held on March 4, 2013, squeaking by with 50.07 percent of the vote.
His nearest challenger was Odinga, who garnered 43.31 percent. Odinga did not at first concede. Citing what he deemed irregularities with the election, he filed a challenge to the results with Kenya's Supreme Court. The court later upheld the election results, and Odinga conceded. Kenyatta was sworn in as president on April 9, 2013.


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My school friends who I meet atleast once a week, go shopping with, go for weekend getaways... would you believe it that they havent yet read my blog? :P :D See, strange friends Ive got :P Ok so their big complaint is that I will write about anyone and everyone - from poems for fictional (for them) entities sitting in some godforsaken corner of the world to soft toys to heartbreaks and to silly crushes :P But according to them *sheepishly agrees* I have never mentioned them here. So here it is just for my oldest, bestest, sweetest, most WEIRD friends *what? don't glare! 1. you learnt that from me, n 2. you never came here anyway :P*
Riddhi, Padmaja and I became friends when we were in the sixth standard. I know no one will believe this but I used to like NEVER talk uptill the 7th :P I *yes yes me!* was awfully shy :P We became friends and stayed in the same class all the way till 10th. In the 8th Abha, Ketki joined us. Now this is the weirdest part, you know how bitchy girls are, and so each of us had heard ALL sorts of versions of what the other one was like, no points for guessing, most versions about me. Lolz. I have always been a controversial character :P :D But anyway, 1st day of 8th standard when we were alloted our seats, I rem this so distinctly, I smiled at Abha, and Ketki who sat behind her (I was in the adjacent row - all three always together cz we are short and hence always on the 1st& 2nd benches :P). One smile. Thats all. It took to become friends. *see now u know why i smile so much :P*
Life had different plans for us after school. Me and Riddhi ended up taking up engineering, Abha took up commerce, Ketki took up medical and Padmaja moved all the way to the other coast - chennai. The four of us who remained back, stangely, incredibly, because not many I know are still so close to school friends, we became even closer than school. :) The weekend getaways, the CRAZY shopping trips (Me Abha n Ketki once flirted with 3 guys in the shopping mall and imagine how much we kicked ourselves when we found SRK(them not me) n John(me me me!!!!) were outside for Kaals premeire :P :P :D) We have had countless night outs, sleepovers in our PJ's, discussions about guys and life and friendship and marraige and jobs... Countless lunches and dinners even breakfasts.. Countless wondering how we will be in 10 years from now, about meeting that one guy.. I have cried in front of them *yes im a big crybaby :P* about my broken heart, they were there when I literally had NO clue what I will do in life again. They have been the only people who have known me the longest, and always accepted me the way I am.
Abha is the chotisi bacchi of the group. Even though she scolds me everytime I want to buy one more teddybear at the mall, she is one baby pink - baby blue crazy girl. Aptly named "mini mayapuri" :P , the best part about her is that she has never ever ever been mean to anyone. She is simply incapable of being rude or mean or anything bad in anyway :) We have had countless shopping trips, buying everything from lingerie to cells :P and throw in a whole wardrobe in the middle :P
Ketki is the most matured girl, who had her books all done first in school :P & has the most practical approach to life. She and I were two people with the most volatile natures, and my dear god, have we had some serious fights??!!! And then we each used to storm off and people had to come get us together. Which we used to anyway, because we cant do without each other :) She has the voice of an angel and if she ever went on Idol she will win it, but stupid that she is, she doesnt take us seriously. *sigh!* someday we will kidnap her and send her on stage... someday.. :)
Riddhi is mad. No other word for her. She is the fashionista, drives like she is a racing god :P my flirting partner in crime :P (we have actually gone out with the same guy and then dumped him after respective first dates... *evil laugh*) She considers anything less than perfect hair, less than perfect attire to be a disaster and the girl will actually come to you and tell you you are one disaster :P She understands all jokes in the end, and then we have to laugh a second time with her, she is now in the US and she insists I still write her programs for her :P :) Damn I miss u girl!!! :(
Padmaja moved to the Chennai right after 12th standard. We didnt meet much during Junior high, and we dont talk all that often, *lately thanks to FB we do*, but she still remains one of my closest friends. She has always been this really sweet girl, choir group (yeah we all are a pack of singers :P), intelligent, english mam's fav *right after me ofc :D* I remember the very first outing *shopping trip* that we girls had was because of her *her car :D* Whenever she comes here, we meet up and its like we have never been away at all. And that happenes only with best friends right? I mean people fall apart, fade away, whatever the term, when distance comes into the picture. But we didnt and Im awfully proud of each one of us for that. :)
I love you guys, and I know we meet often enough *a whole week without you guys is LONG seriously*, but still I miss you :) You will always be a big big part of who I am, and whatever I am now would be impossible without you. I know we will remain just as close as we are now, even years from now. Someday we are going to sit with our teenaged kids and tell them about our escapades and argue about who said what, while playing rummy, where Abha will still be winning , me and Riddhi will still be cheating and Ketki will still be lost :P :D & hopefully by then we will NOT be calling paddy over the phone and shrieking into it about who is winning!! :)
I love you guys! Mwahhhhh!!!! :) :)


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It's been over a month since my last blog post! I missed the holidays and everything. How is everyone? I have been great myself (just a tad bit busy). So the holiday rush in my shop pretty much kicked my butt.
I wanted to pop in and all that's been going on with me. If you follow me on instagram (@wristsoiree), then you've seen many of these pics so just bare with me here;-)
I welcomed a nephew back in December! His name is Peter!
I hosted a Christmas party with some of my family and friends
I witnessed the Grinch first smile that night!
I discovered that great lipstick does not have to cost more than $1!
Straitened my hair for the first time
Finally found some fab blue suede shoes!
Worked on my inspiration board
Decided that my shop needed something more so I decided to add clutches
Figured it was time to get back to painting so I pulled out some paint from my stash and...
Started painting!
I have missed blogging and hearing from you guys. I hope all is well and that you've missed me too! Stay tuned for a peek at this little space and the plans for my family room now that I finally have my couch!
Happy New Year!


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Welcome et bienvenue to LegalEase: a monthly Montreal-based and produced radio show on 90.3 FM CKUT – a broadcast about law, cast broadly. Le collectif LegalEase est un groupe d'étudiants et étudiantes en droit de la communauté montréalaise.This month the program is entitled, "Living Resistance."
Bedford has been given leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. What is Bedford? See past LegalEase programming (yes, we follow-up) and the Ontario Court of Appeal decision, Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford, 2012 ONCA 186 (CanLII). This month, Garrett Zehr sets up a nice piece featuring Alan Young, Osgoode Law professor and the lawyer, and Tara Santini, a member and consultant for Stella.
Second, Preeti Dhaliwal gives a rousing and thoughtful contribution on Remembrance Day and militarism.
Third, collective member Alyssa Clutterbuck pays tribute to Civil Rights activist and lawyer Charles Roach. Roach fought institutional racism, defended asylum seekers and was a stalwart advocate for social justice. Roach co-founded the Black Action Defence Committee, Caribana, Citizens for a Canadian Republic, and was a long-time member of the Law Union of Ontario.
LegalEase on 90.3 FM is a radio program broadcast every second Friday of the month at 11am EST from Montreal, Quebec. Originally founded by the McGill Legal Information Clinic in 1989, LegalEase is now run by a collective of progressive of law students from McGill University. Our weekly radio show deals with legal topics of interest to the community, with the intention of making the law both accessible and engaging. Tune into our show, follow us on Twitter @LegalEaseCkut, email legalease[at]ckut.ca or check our podcast library for past programming.