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NEW YORK — Eventually, Rockets guard Jeremy Lin will be able to return to New York as just another player, a guy in a road uniform who faces the usual disdain from the Madison Square Garden crowd. He would like it that way, in fact — before playing against his old team, the Knicks, on Thursday, Lin said he would prefer to be a "subplot."
Lin might no longer be in the starring role he once filled in New York, but in Thursday's 109-106 Rockets victory, he was hardly a subplot. He came up huge for Houston in the fourth quarter when he was most needed. James Harden led the team with 36 points, and Chandler Parsons had 22, but it was Lin's 12 points in the final period that kept the Knicks at bay and pushed the Rockets to the win.
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"I am just trying to play really free, I am trying to play really, really free," Lin said. "I am trying to be myself on the court and not worry about anything, any distractions. I am just trying to play as hard as I can."
Of course, when it happens here on this court, it is all the more reminiscent of Lin's glory days just a little more than one year ago. Lin captivated the sports world in the winter of 2012 with an out-of-nowhere run that propelled him to global prominence and onto the cover of Time magazine. He became the first player in more than 40 years to put up 20 points and seven assists in his first five starts. His run eventually stalled, and a knee injury ended his 2011-12 campaign, but many remained shocked that summer when the Rockets offered Lin a three-year, $25 million deal that the Knicks refused to match.
Lin still enjoys cult-hero status in these parts among those who fondly remember the Linsanity stretch. Lin has tried to put that behind him. When Lin entered Thursday's game, he was met with polite applause — hardly the raucous celebration his name once set off in this building.
"It was a lot more mellow than the first time (he returned) which was like, wow," Lin said. "This time was a lot more mellow. A lot of people were here to see James and Dwight (Howard)."
Lin wrapped up the game with a solid 21 points on 7-for-16 shooting. He is in a stretch in which he seems to have returned to form despite being in a new role.
He has been moved to a sixth-man spot behind point guard Patrick Beverley, and he has excelled. He scored 34 points (with 12 assists) in the loss to the Sixers on Wednesday, following up a 31-point effort against the Raptors. He was 20-for-36 from the field and 12-for-21 from the 3-point line in those two games. Overall, he is averaging 18.4 points.
That's a big improvement over last season, when Lin struggled to meet high post-Linsanity expectations with his new team, and didn't seem to mesh well at all with backcourt mate Harden. He seems more comfortable now, and the bench role — which allows him to play more with Harden off the floor — might be helping him further.
Lin was able to be a big contributor in New York despite going just 1-for-6 from the 3-point line, after making a career-high nine 3s on Wednesday. "He used them all last night," coach Kevin McHale said. "I told him, you don't want to throw them all in one basket at one time. No, really, he has played well, Jeremy has played well all year. I met with him in September, we worked out. He looked faster and in better shape. He has been tremendous all year long."
What's more, the up-and-down Rockets managed to close out a game on Thursday after blowing a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter on Wednesday. They have hardly played their best basketball, but the Rockets are still a respectable 6-4.
That's where Lin's focus remains. "I think it is progress," he said. "We played more as a team today, we really moved the ball and shared the ball, played really unselfish. We did what we needed to do defensively."


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Rio Carnaval with Veuve Clicquot: Part I
Apparently i didn't even realize i needed a break until i landed in Rio after a long flight from NYC. And immediately we're surrounded by music, fun, and incredibly happy people everywhere… not to mention endless Veuve Clicquot awaiting us at the Santa Teresa Hotel which will be home for the next few nights. Though i've only been here for a few hours… take a peek at the lovely room complete with hammock on the patio… and poolside drinks/lunch. The official launch party at the Copacabana is tonight, so i'd best run off and prepare… but had to share the relaxing fun and a peek down at remnants of street parades passing by next to us first! See it on the next page…
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Pieces of fresh apricot tucked into squares of a rich, shortbread-style cake. I've been making these bars for more than thirty years!
There's a reason I remembered these oh-so-pretty apricot bars after -- dare I say? -- 30 years: they're that good. There's a reason why they're that good: think butter, think sugar, think something akin to a moist shortbread. Whew. A 50:50 butter:sugar mix I didn't remember.
The apricots have been so lush and juicy this year, I bought them three times before finally hunting up the recipe, a favorite from the year I lived in Finland, though it's not particularly Finnish. My third host mother made these bars with canned apricots so good news, it's a recipe that can be made year-round.
Shocked by the calorie count? Me too, actually. But mine is one of the very few recipe sites (including the big corporate sites like Epicurious) which provides nutrition information with each and every recipe, even for recipes that rack up calories like crazy. I choose to own up to the nutrition impact -- bad and good -- so there's no hiding from it, no getting fooled into thinking, "How bad can it be?" Some times I fear that readers will abandon my sites because calorie information is included for recipes that are clearly an indulgence. But I hope that regular readers appreciate that here, anyway, they'll get the straight, um, skinny.
My first attempt to lower the calorie count per bar was to use apricot quarters, not halves, in order to make smaller squares. It helped a little but also absolutely convinced me that I have got to figure out how to make smaller bars. There's just something remarkable about the soft, barely-cooked tang of apricots against the almond-scented buttery bars.
My next tactic will be to chop fresh or canned apricots (and even moist dried apricots) to mix directly into the batter. The impressive appearance would be lost but smaller bars could be cut.
Refrigerated, a week later these bars are still fresh, moist and flavorful. It's another reason to get this right!
Time-to-table: 1 hour
Serves 12 or 20
- 1-1/4 cups (2-1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1-1/4 cups (325g) sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 2-1/2 cups flour, fluffed to aerate before measuring or 344g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt
- Fresh apricots (halved or quartered) or canned apricots (well-drained), enough to fill the tray
- Icing sugar
Preheat oven to 400F. With an electric mixer, cream the butter until light and fluffy. Add the sugar and continue beating until light and creamy. One at a time, add the eggs and beat until batter becomes glossy. Add the extract and incorporate.
Stir together the flour, baking powder and salt, add to butter mixture and incorporate fully but do not overbeat.
With your fingers, spread the dough evenly in a well-greased jelly roll pan or a baking sheet with sides, even a 9x13. Arrange apricots cut-side down in rows so that when cut, an apricot half sits in the center of each bar.
Bake for 15-20 minutes or until cooked clear through and slightly golden on the edges. Let cool slightly and sprinkle with icing sugar. Any leftovers should be covered and refrigerated.
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The calories are awfully high. But I'm glad you put the information in. This is why I come back here so often, because I know what I'll find.
I just love apricots and making your bars is next on my list. I'll just had to search out the apricots at my farmers markets for now, which is still wonderful. But I am still hoping and keeping my fingers crossed for a apricot tree one day!
So glad these were a hit!
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JOHANNESBURG A spokeswoman for Oscar Pistorius says he has reported to authorities in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, under the bail terms in the murder case against him.
Lunice Johnston said Monday that the double-amputee Olympic athlete visited correctional officers, but she did not specify their location in the city.
- Oscar Pistorius' brother also facing murder charges
- Oscar Pistorius out on bail
- Father of Oscar Pistorius' slain girlfriend speaks out
Pistorius, who was released on bail Friday, is staying at the home of his uncle, Arnold, in the affluent suburb of Waterkloof, in Pretoria.
Pistorius is accused of premeditated murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in the early hours of Feb. 14. Prosecutors say the pair had an argument before Steenkamp was killed; Pistorius says he mistook her for an intruder and shot her accidentally.


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How a Photo Can Make Your Real-Estate Listing Pop
Which kinds of photos could add as much as 3.9% to your home's sale price? Sanette Tanaka has the answers on Lunch Break. Photo: Michael Weinstein.
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The Australian dollar is unlikely to return to the lower levels experienced before 2007, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens says.
In an interview published on Wednesday, Mr Stevens said that while he expected non-mining business investment to pick up, the bank could not guarantee that monetary policy would provide an easy transition from mining to non-mining investment.
"We've got to recognise that monetary policy has limits to fine tuning," he told The Australian Financial Review in his first newspaper interview since taking office in 2006.
"We're not going to be able to absolutely guarantee seamlessly every handover from one source of demand to another."
He also predicted that the Australian dollar was unlikely to return to the low numbers of around 75 US cents that were the norm before 2007 - adding there were limits to how the bank could harness interest rates to counteract the strong dollar's contractionary effects.
"... the classic problem in a situation like this can be that you seek to compensate for a very high exchange rate with cheaper, lower interest rates.
"It can - in some circumstances - give you the asset credit build-up that then gets you into trouble later," he said.
But he said you could not rule out that the exchange rate might drop if the boom ends.
"But if this relative price shift turns out to have a good deal of persistence, even if not at current levels, then I think one could expect the exchange rate is around a higher long-run average as a result of that.
"I don't know what that average is, but it would be unlikely that it would be in the low numbers that we have become accustomed to until the last five or six years," he said.
And while he expected house prices to retrace some of the losses experienced since mid-2010, he said it would be concerning if prices returned to double-digit annual growth rates.
Mr Stevens also said that while a three per cent official cash rate for Australia might be low by historical standards, globally it is "pretty attractive".
"I think we have to recognise that and accept that that has some impact on where we set things."
Ultra-low interest rates in the US, Japan and Europe compared to Australia are helping to keep the Australian dollar high and economic growth moderate.


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ASUS Crosshair V Formula Z Motherboard Review
I have been searching for a definitive answer to the question regarding the release of the rumored new AMD chipset that has been called 1090/1050. It was rumored to be eminent before the release of Bulldozer, then the rumor was revised for it to be released synonymously with the re-stepped Vishera. At about this time we were hearing about the Vishera refresh and that the new chipset would accompany it. Now the Vishera refresh does not seem as certain as the rumor mill once had it and again talk of the new chipset lingers, parallel to the release of Steamroller. It does appear however that the 1090/1050 chipset has been shelved and the 990FX chipset will continue through the release of Steamroller, due out Q4 this year. Is a new chipset needed? We don't know. But for right now, there are some high end motherboards laden with hefty features and advanced power delivery to eek out the maximum overclock and performance from at least the Vishera FX line of processors. Asus has sent us a trio of homes for the FX Vishera CPU, that provides a great contrast in motherboard features. Does It make a discernible difference in performance? That's also what I will be looking for. First up is the ASUS Crosshair Formula V-Z. The CFV is the Asus AMD flagship of the lineup. It is a board that is heavy on features and power delivery, designed to extract the maximum overclock from any CPU that fits the AM3+ socket soldered to it. It is particularly aimed at the FX octo-core processors with it's higher power requirements and price tag.
Closer Look:
The ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z bares a resemblance to it's earlier incarnation the Crosshair V Formula and many have taken that cosmetic similarity and ran with the assumption. The fact is that the 'Z' line is all new, from the PCB up, with very tangible changes. From the power delivery to the on-board audio, many features have been improved, revised, or just simply replaced with better.
The Formula Z presents itself in a very similar package to that of its predecessor the Formula IV. It's a spare no expense, Velcro flapped, windowed showcase that matches the high end look and feel of the Formula V-Z. The Formula Z is part of the highly regarded and gamer smile evoking ROG or Republic of Gamers lineup. A line designed for the demanding task of gaming, with all of the heightened power requirements and conveniences that a gamer looks for when putting together that multi GPU machine, designed to chew through those heavily shaded and tessellated titles sitting on store shelves. Among the more prominent and powerful features are the 8+2+2 Extreme Engine Digi+II Digital Power delivery and 42 PCIe lanes for massive bandwidth. The Formula Z is designed to be the powerhouse king of the hill amongst AMD motherboards. Time to heat it up and see if that indeed is the case.
The packaging is a great looking Crimson red affair with the ASUS ROG flame design shooting from the lower left corner of the box. In the upper right is the ROG insignia letting you know that if you are a gamer, this board is for you. When you open the Velcro flap you get a good deal of information about the exclusive features of the Formula V and on the opposite side a windowed look at the entire black and red schemed board.
Having a look around the other six sides of the box, we have the usual amount of branding going on with a serial/SKU sticker on one of the sides and a handle on the top for easy transport. The packaging matches the impressive intent of the motherboard. You get the idea from the extensive design, layout, and quality of the materials that something special is inside.
Cracking open this showcase of a box, we find two separate boxes. One containing the motherboard and one for the accessory bundle, a very complete bundle it is. Inside you find user's manual, a shielded I/O Shield, 6 x SATA 6Gb/s cable(s),1 x 3-Way SLI bridge(s),1 x SLI bridge(s),1 x CrossFire cable(s),1 x Q-connector(s) (2 in 1), 1 x ROG Connect cable(s), and a ROG "Do not disturb, I m gaming" door hanger.
This a very nice bundle, with sharp looking 90 degree SATA cables and a special 'ROG' cable, for the hardcore to be able to tune and OC their machines from a laptop or tablet. To keep all those cables straight and to make it easy to get them back into the original USB port they are married to, ASUS has included a sheet of self adhesive wire labels to keep things orderly.
From a looks standpoint the Formula Z screams power and performance. Let's have a look around this black and red beauty before applying the power and unforgiving loads on it and see if this is the case.


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2013-02-06 / Front Page
New Yorkers are having healthier babies
State Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah, M.D., M.P.H., announced last month that the rate of premature birth in New York is dropping. In 2009, 12.2 percent of New York's babies were born prematurely. As of 2011, New York has dropped to a rate of 10.9 percent –a relative decline of more than 10.6 percent in two years and better than the U.S. average of 11.7 percent.
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Michigan's Burke wins Wooden Award
Atlanta, GA – Michigan sophomore guard Trey Burke has been selected as the winner of the John R. Wooden Award, presented annually to the top men's college basketball player.
Burke is the first Michigan player chosen for the honor, which was created in 1977 to honor the legendary UCLA coach. He is the fourth Big Ten player to win the award and first since Ohio State's Evan Turner in 2010.
The Big Ten Player of the Year has led Michigan to its first Final Four since 1993. He has started all 37 games for the Wolverines, and leads the team with averages of 18.8 points and 6.8 assists, while adding 3.1 rebounds.
Burke edged Indiana's Victor Oladipo in balloting from a nationwide panel of college basketball media members. Burke received 2,808 points, just 90 more than Oladipo. Creighton's Doug McDermott was third with 2,344 points and Georgetown's Otto Porter was next with 2,144.
Last year's winner was Kentucky freshman Anthony Davis.


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The latest section approved from Fresno to Bakersfield for California's proposed high-speed train project would displace hundreds of homes and businesses and take as much as 5,000 acres of farmland out of production on at least a temporary basis during construction.
Those details are embedded in the 20,000 or so pages of the environmental impact report certified last week by members of the California High-Speed Rail Authority board at its meeting in Fresno.
The route generally follows the BNSF Railway freight tracks that run through rural Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern counties between the cities of Fresno and Bakersfield. It includes a bypass that veers from the freight railroad by sweeping eastward around the city of Hanford, and takes shorter bypasses to avoid the communities of Corcoran and Allensworth. The route also follows the BNSF tracks through the Kern County cities of Wasco and Shafter.
The final route is one of more than 100 possible combinations of various options that were evaluated by consultants over more than two years.
The EIR details the anticipated effects of building and operating the 114-mile segment on residents, businesses, farms, air and wildlife habitat in the region. But despite these and other significant effects of project, the rail authority deemed the "unavoidable" environmental risks as "acceptable due to overriding considerations and benefits expected to result" from the train system.
In a 328-page finding of facts adopted last week as part of its approval, the rail board acknowledged that the project "will result in certain significant impacts to the environment that cannot be avoided or substantially lessened" through measures to offset the effects.
But, the findings continued, the board "has carefully weighed these impacts and benefits and finds that the benefits ... outweigh the significant and unavoidable environmental impacts."
Among the effects detailed in the EIR are:
• The displacement of 376 homes and relocation of 1,144 residents to make way for the railroad right of way as well as related overpasses and other structures to support the tracks. Most of the displaced homes would be in the Bakersfield area.
• The need to relocate 393 commercial or industrial businesses, employing a total of nearly 2,900 employees, along the route. As with the residential displacement, most of those businesses -- 294, with 1,604 workers -- are in the Bakersfield area. In Fresno, 62 businesses with about 1,100 workers would need to be relocated.
• The permanent loss of about 3,500 acres of "important" farmland between Fresno and Bakersfield for the railroad right of way or related structures and roads. "Important farmland" is property that is considered to be prime, unique or of statewide or local importance under the federal Farmland Protection Policy Act. In addition, construction of the system over the next four years is estimated to temporarily disrupt farming on about 1,600 acres in the four-county region.
• The splitting of almost 140 farm properties, and displacement of 15 agriculture-related facilities, by the railroad right of way as it heads across the landscape, including for the bypasses around the communities of Hanford, Corcoran and Allensworth. Among the ag facilities in the bullet-train's path are an animal-carcass rendering plant operated by Baker Commodities east of Hanford. In its EIR, the rail authority acknowledged the importance of relocating the rendering plant before the existing facility is closed "to avoid interruption in the services these facilities provide."
• A reduction of about $34 million in agricultural revenue and about 340 fewer farm jobs as a result of farmland being taken out of production across the four-county region, mostly in Kern and Kings counties.
The board's statement of overriding considerations asserts that the anticipated benefits of building and operating the project outweigh the unavoidable effects. Those anticipated benefits include providing the nation's first test track for testing high-speed trains at speeds of 220 mph or faster; serving as a valuable transportation asset, in the short-term as a route for conventional Amtrak passenger trains and ultimately as part of the statewide bullet-train system; peak employment of as many as 4,750 workers per year in construction to build the rail line in the southern San Joaquin Valley; long-term environmental benefits through reduced automobile traffic and improved air quality in the region; and focusing metropolitan growth in downtown areas around stations and reducing the encroachment of urban sprawl onto farmland.
While the EIR spans the section between proposed passenger stations in downtown Fresno and downtown Bakersfield, the vote approving the project only applies to the span from Fresno to the northern outskirts of Bakersfield.
Leaders in Bakersfield asked the board to postpone a decision on a route into the heart of the city because of concerns over disruption of businesses and historic resources. The rail board agreed that it would not begin any work south of 7th Standard Road without giving the city of Bakersfield 60 days notice.
Affected parcels
Visit the map links and pages below to see the specific parcels anticipated to be affected by the Fresno-Bakersfield portion of California's high-speed rail project (warning: large files):
•Fresno-Hanford (Pages 1-79)
•Corcoran Bypass (Pages 54-70)
•Corcoran-Allensworth (Pages 6-16)
•Allensworth Bypass )(Pages 71-80)
,(Pages 1-31)
•Allensworth-Wasco-Shafter-Bakersfield (Pages 56-60), 1-35)
•Bakersfield Hybrid (Pages 85-98)


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What is :hat?
Awesome. Spawned from an smiley at the Dream Theater forum, that depicts of a smile with a pimp hat smoking some hash. Use to describe awesome things, or to use after an accomplishment of something awesome.
Dude, I got the new Marillion album. :hat
The new Star Wars movie is so :hat


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Fab Equipment Spending Expected to Improve with 2% in 2013
Strong 2nd half pulls 2013 finally into positive territory, 2014 growth in double digits
By Christian Gregor Dieseldorff, SEMI Industry Research & Statistics Group (June 3, 2013)
SEMICON West 2013
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Fab equipment spending will grow two percent year-over-year (US$ 32.5 billion) for 2013 and 23 to 27 percent in 2014 ($41 billion) according to the May edition of the SEMI World Fab Forecast. Fab construction spending, which can be a strong indicator for future equipment spending, is expected to grow 6.5 percent ($6.6 billion) in 2013, followed by a decline of 18 percent ($5.4 billion) in 2014. The new World Fab Forecast report covers fab information on over 1,100 facilities, including such details as capacities, technology nodes, product types, and spending for construction and equipment for any cleanroom wafer facility by quarter. Reported spending reported includes new, used and in-house equipment for volume fabs to R&D, for product types such as IC facilities, Discretes, and LEDs.
Fab Equipment Spending Growth Reaches into Positive Territory
The equipment spending increase in the second half is attributed to growing semiconductor demand and improving average selling price for chips. 2014 is expected to have 23 to 27 percent growth of $41 billion year-over-year (YoY), which would be an all-time record.
Looking at product types, the largest amounts of spending on fab equipment in 2013 will come from the foundry sector, which increases by about 21 percent. This is driven mainly by capex increases by TSMC. The memory sector is also expected to have an increase of only one percent, which is still impressive after a 35 percent decline in the previous year. The MPU sector is expected to grow by about five percent. A double-digit increase in the Analog sector in 2013 will still translate into low absolute dollar amounts, compared to the other sectors mentioned. (See Figure 1)
Figure 1: Fab Equipment Spending by Product Type over Time (Foundries include System LSI)
2014 is expected to be a growth year for fab equipment spending for almost all major product segments. For example, spending for Memory is expected to increase over 40 percent, but spending amounts are not expected to exceed what was seen in 2010 or 2011. MPU is expected to increase by over 50 percent, driven mainly by the ramp of 14nm facilities. The foundry sector is still expected to have the highest spending for fab equipment on 2014, but growth rate may slow to about 15 percent.
Construction Projects: Indicator for more Future Equipment Spending
Typically construction spending is a good indicator for more equipment spending in the future, because any fab built will need to be equipped. Figure 2 is taken directly from the World Fab Forecast (www.semi.org/MarketInfo/FabDatabase) report. See Figure 2.
Figure 2: Fab Construction Spending by Region over Time
Fab construction spending in 2013 has improved to almost 15 percent growth YoY growth ($6.6 billion) with 38 known construction projects. Last year (2012), the number of projects was higher, but the total dollar amount much less with $5.8 billion. This year fewer but much larger projects are under way.
2014 shows a decline of about 18 percent ($5.4 billion) in construction spending with only 21 construction projects expected to be on-going. However, these construction projects include large fabs and some are 450mm-ready. If only a couple of new fabs start construction soon, fab construction spending will improve a lot for 2014.
Top spenders for fab construction in 2013 are TSMC and Samsung, who plan to spend between $1.5 and $2 billion each, followed by Intel, Globalfoundries and UMC. Details in the World Fab Forecast report may hint at some surprises.
Fab Forecast: Cautious but more Optimistic
Compared to other published forecasts in the industry, the SEMI World Fab Forecast shows the same trends for fab equipment in 2014; however, SEMI's projections about 2013 differ. Two prior fab database reports predicted 0 percent growth in equipment spending, but SEMI now expects two percent growth YoY. Capital expenditure for semiconductor companies is expected to grow three percent in 2013 and 12 percent for 2014. Demand keeps increasing such as media tablets and smart phones, ASP for chips are expected to improve and many revenue predictions for 2013 are in the strong single digits. Overall, the scenario remains cautious but more optimistic than in prior forecasts.
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Since the last fab database publication at the end February 2013 SEMI's worldwide dedicated analysis team has made a record of 389 updates to 324 facilities (including Opto/LED fabs) in the database. The latest edition of the World Fab Forecast lists 1,144 facilities (including 310 Opto/LED facilities), with 61 facilities with various probabilities starting production this year and in the near future. Seventeen new facilities were added and 8 facilities were closed.
The SEMI World Fab Forecast uses a bottom-up approach methodology, providing high-level summaries and graphs; and in-depth analyses of capital expenditures, capacities, technology and products by fab. Additionally, the database provides forecasts for the next 18 months by quarter. These tools are invaluable for understanding how the semiconductor manufacturing will look in 2013 and 2014, and learning more about capex for construction projects, fab equipping, technology levels, and products.
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A Carteret County commissioner is among the governor�s appointees announced this week to serve on the state�s Coastal Resources Commissioner.
A Carteret County commissioner is among the governor�s appointees announced this week to serve on the state�s Coastal Resources Commissioner.
Greg Lewis, chairman of the Carteret County Board of Commissioners, said he was surprised to be asked by Gov. Pat McCrory to serve as he had not applied for any boards but gladly agreed.
�I think it is beneficial to, not only Carteret County, but to our neighboring coastal counties to have a representative on the CRC,� Lewis said. �I have spoken to the CRC chairman, Mr. Frank Gorham, about identifying needs and issues that affect coastal counties. I look forward to listening to the needs of our coastal citizens and formulating a plan to help them.�
Lewis and Gorham, who is from New Hanover County, fill the two seats reserved for a coastal property owner or someone experienced in land development.
Gorham, who takes over as chair of the CRC, will serve a two-year term and Lewis was appointed to a one-year term.
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� Bill Naumann of Craven County and Neal Andrew of New Hanover County who fill seats requiring experience in engineering or a marine-related science. Naumann, president of Transformation Venture Capital and former CEO of Hatteras Yachts, will serve two years.
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Grae's Rating:
My uterus jumped ship
What to Expect is a graduate of the post-2010 Garry Marshall School of Filmmaking: Why tell a small, affecting story when you can tell a bloated, haphazard one with ten or more Hollywood superstars? Having as much warmth and charm as the 1984 non-fiction advice guide it was "adapted" from, this film offers an endless supply of bodily function and epidural references. And when is that not funny? Well, now.
The five couples in the film represent each of the fingers on my hand that I used to smack my forehead with during the seemingly nine-month long movie. There's Brooklyn Decker and Dennis Quaid, who get pregnant without trying, while Quaid's son Ben Falcone and his wife Elizabeth Banks had been trying and finally had succeeded. Cameron Diaz and her TV star boyfriend Matthew Morrison end up having "an accident," as do Anna Kendrick and Chase Crawford. Jennifer Lopez and Rodrigo Santoro are adopting, despite his reservations. More than half of these couples are gross human beings who made me question the logic in demanding 16 year-olds get a license to drive, while no one certifies you worthy of having a child.
Just to be edgy and unique (can you feel me rolling my eyes?), there's a group of dads (creatively named The Dudes) who push their strollers while trying to appear as gangsta as possible. They have the real scoop on fatherhood, and accidentally hit their kids in the head with beer cans. With Chris Rock as their leader, they're supposed to be relatable to men who got dragged into the theater, but even Rock's monologues are lacking. It's representative of the problem with the entire film--it's not devoid of laughs, but it feels more tired than parents of a newborn.
Elizabeth Banks is the saving grace here. Her character Wendy wants a baby so badly, and has such reverence for life, that it's a triumph when she can finally have one of her own. Unfortunately for her, the miracle of life turns out to be a big bummer physically, and Banks' comedy chops and honesty make this relatable and endearing. Her storyline is the one that will have mothers laughing and cheering. The rest of them? Not so much. They just scrape the surface of relationships, emasculating men, hormones, and bureaucratic red tape. This movie undoes what Bridesmaids did last year to get men into the theater for a "chick flick." Drag a guy to this one and he'll never forgive you.
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We are perturbed and disconcerted by the news reports which indicate that Virender Sehwag had been deliberately deprived of a reaching a century by Suraj Randiv bowling a no ball in the last over.
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Hey Billie,
I have read your posts in this thread (not others as I would come across as a stalker ) and I can see that there is a lot of hostility in you. I have no need to point fingers as I can respect the fact that you are seeing that this is an issue for you. I have found in my experiences that I never respond to a post without walking away for a bit when I have read something that has raised the temperature under my collar. It has worked great for me and now I don't feel the need to be hostile with other people. I have no issues in pointing out when someone's behaviour has gotten to be childish and I would hope that others would do me the same respect. I like this thread as I am hoping that it causes the tireless crying on the EPIC Bs thread to come to an end. Both parties have pushed lines and it would be nice to see it drop off the main page (I no longer visit as it is a pointless thread with nothing more than hurt feelings and a lost agenda).


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
The Wow Factor: Underwater Fun?
Seeing this piece for the first time certainly made me stop and say "Wow!"
But I wonder how fun it was for Baker when only months later another artist swiped his 'lady in red' for the movie poster below? Not only is the body position and outfit virtually identical, but even the lighting and shadows that define the form of the bikini-clad babe have been copied.
American Art Archives attributes a similar poster for the same film to Ren Wicks. I can't say for sure if Wicks did this version as well, but it serves as a reminder to us all that our swipes can come back to haunt us... even half a century later!
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I would guess that the movie poster was painted by Howard Hughes' pre-pubescent, half-blind nephew. That's the only way I can see how a big budget ($3 million!) movie would use a picture with such an amateurish background (those white motion lines and bubbles are too childish to be believed, especially when the artist had the Colliers original right in front of him to steal from. And that awkward shark fight is a clumsy distraction in exactly the wrong place).ReplyDelete
Why do I specify pre-pubescent? Because no artist past the age of puberty would paint a picture of Jane Russell's cleavage by substituting the body of a generic female skin diver lifted from a family magazine. That kind of defeats the whole point.
Growing up in the 50s and 60s, the one comic artist who always mesmerized me was Russ Heath. Heath did a little remembered DC title called THE SEA DEVILS about a group of aqualung adventurers and his skill and drawing underwater sequences (never an easy job) wasReplyDelete
mind-boggling. The Collier original here totally reminded me of Heath's
That was not the only swipe. A few years later it would surface (submerge?) again as the cover image for ERRIE #22. Only this time the artist, Vic Prezio, didn't trace the image. But the details are all there.ReplyDelete


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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the federal government has broken another promise by ditching its planned budget surplus.
Treasurer Wayne Swan on Thursday announced falling tax revenues due to a high Australian dollar and global economic uncertainty means it's "unlikely" the $1.1 billion surplus for 2012/13 could be deliver.
"What this demonstrates is you just can't trust this government to manage the economy and you just can't trust this government to tell the truth," Mr Abbott told reporters in Sydney.
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Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey said he was "sad" to have been vindicated in his insistence that the surplus would not be delivered.
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Disclaimer: Harry Potter is owned by JK
Rowling. No copyright infringement is intended.
A/N: This fic is somewhat AU. It doesnt
technically clash with anything thats canon, but there is an alternate
universe later on and the story involves some details about the Weasley family
that probably would have been mentioned at some point in the books if they were
Also, Id like to thank my betas Kelleypen
and Jo Wickaninnish for all their help on this fic and for dealing with all my
confusing inconsistencies.
Mirrors and Wishes
Charlie Weasley
sat down on the floor of his bedroom in the center of a pile of gifts. He
picked one up, held it up to his ear, shook it, weighed it in his hands, and
carefully placed it behind him before selecting another and repeating the
process. He smiled up at his wife as she strode into the room.
Are you ready
yet? Cassia Weasley asked as she dumped several neatly wrapped gifts with
glittering nametags into the pile.
Not really,
Charlie replied, squishing the gift in his hands.
What do you
mean not really? she asked suspiciously, plopping down onto the bed.
Well, I
finished wrapping, and I finished writing out the cards, but I still have to
figure out which card goes to which gift.
Cassia sighed as
she snuggled into her pillow, making herself comfortable for a long wait. Why
didnt you just do each gift and card at the same time like I told you to?
Because its so
much more interesting this way, Charlie answered, flashing her a wide smile.
Its like a puzzle. You have to figure how to discover whats inside each
gift without messing up either the gift or the wrapping paper.
Youre insane,
she said, yawning.
You know you
love it.
Cassia made a
soft snorting sound as her eyes slowly closed.
Cassia found herself tiptoeing through the
dark halls of Malfoy Manor, listening for the noise of approaching footsteps.
She pressed herself against a tapestry when she thought she heard a door creak
around the corner. If Death Eaters were approaching, their heavy boots on the
hardwood floor would certainly give them away. Cassia stayed motionless for
several seconds. She could hear nothing but a soft snuffling sound. A house-elf
perhaps? She crouched down low; a man might miss something so small, and a
house elf could be persuaded to keep silent. Slowly, she peered around the
corner and found herself looking directly into a pair of sleepy grey eyes. She
sighed, exasperated.
Go back to sleep, Draco.
But Cassia, Im thirsty. I need a glass
of water.
I said go back to sleep.
And I said Im thirsty.
Silently cursing all stubborn, spoiled five-year-olds
who would never listen, even to someone seven years their senior, she hissed,
Have Mipsy or Dobby to get it for you. No buts. She cut him off when he
tried to say something. Back to bed or the very minute Aunt Cissy gets back
from London, Ill tell her about those cookies you stole.
Faced with this dire threat, the child
mournfully slunk to his room, leaving Cassia to her task. She crept down to
the drawing room and pulled back the carpet under the stairs. Though the
complex charms that kept the trapdoor locked and concealed would not be taught
until next year, her Uncle Lucius had trained her so thoroughly that she easily
surpassed all the other second years in Charms, Transfiguration, and Defence
Against the Dark Arts. She pulled out her wand and muttered several charms in
quick succession, slipped as silently as a shadow though the trapdoor and
closed it behind her. She stepped in front of a chest full of files and began
to comb through it, trying to find where her blood traitor father had been a
few weeks previously, November 28 to be specific. She knew that her Uncle
Lucius kept careful records of the mans comings and goings, especially on
nights when he may have need of an alibisince the two brothers looked so much
alike. If Cassia could figure out where her father was the night her uncle had
gone to interrogate the Bones, Lucius could be proven innocent, assuming that
he could manage to get a trial. If her father had been seen by someone on that
night, Lucius could claim that he had been in that place at that time; her
father would finally be of some use to her family.
Cassia felt a familiar frustration fill her
as she was reminded of the day nine years ago when her twin brothers had been
killed in a forest at the age of two by Muggles hunting deer, while her father,
who was supposed to be watching them had been cavorting about in some
restaurant with his Muggle-born second wife. Though her mum had loved Marcus
so much that she took him back after things didnt work out with the
Muggle-born, Cassia was never able to forgive him for abandoning and shaming
her family. Now it was just Cassia and her parents left. Unable to face the
rest of the family after that incident, they had moved to India where her parents continued their work as magizoologists. When Cassia turned eleven, she
convinced her parents to send her back to Britain where she lived with her aunt
and uncle during the Christmas and Easter breaks, allowing her to attend
Hogwarts and show some family loyalty. With her aunt in London and none of the
resident Death Eaters aware of her uncles files, it was up to her alone to
save Lucius from the dementors.
Cassia tried to separate the damp papers
that filled the chest. She had figured out that they were sorted by date and
was now searching for the current year. 1965. 1968. 1976. The name Julius
caught her attention. The little brother who had been killed by Muggles.
She pulled out the sheet of parchment.
November 8, 1976
Name: Julius Malfoy
Lineage: Unknown
Muggle-born mother. Father is
Pureblood Marcus
No wonder Uncle Lucius and Aunt Cissa never
wanted Dad in the house, Cassia thought. He had
children with that Muggle-born he divorced! Cassia skimmed through attack
plans detailing a kidnapping from a camping trip on November 12. At the bottom
of the page she found the words, Status: Eliminated. She nearly dropped the
parchment. They killed my brother. It wasnt Muggles. They killed my
brother. But he was a half-blood, so its not that bad. But he was only two.
No two-year-old could ever possibly deserve this. How could they do that to
family? She sat in silence for several moments, then heard heavy footsteps
above her head. They must have been preparing to change the guard around the
house. Nott would be here soon, and he was far more likely to discover her and
the hidden room than that idiot man Goyle. Cassia quickly resumed her mission
and flipped though the last sheets of parchment, looking for her mothers
name. 1977 Gideon and Fabian Prewett. 1981 Harry Potter. 1982 Horace Bones.
1985 Sandra Malfoy. What was her mother doing in Uncle Lucius files?
December 16, 1985
Name: Sandra
Malfoy, suspected Auror
Cassias heart leapt into her throat.
Hands shaking, she sped through the rest of the report.
Mission: On the
evening of December 29 search her home for records concerning husband Marcus.
. .
My mother is a Pureblood. And thats
tonight! If they think shes Muggle-born. . . Cassia
skipped to the bottom of the page and felt some of the tension in her body
release when she found the words Status: Living. I have to warn her, she
thought, snatching up an Invisibility Cloak from a nearby shelf and throwing it
over her shoulders. The paper still clutched in her fist heated up as if it
had sensed her malignant thoughts. She threw it down, not knowing where she
could run if it were cursed; the footsteps upstairs had not yet ceased. But nothing
happened: no sparks, no explosions. Warily, Cassia leaned forward to get a
better look at the paper lying on the floor. One word was twisting and
morphing. The ink that had shaped the word Living now spelled out
Cassia! Cassia!
Charlie called, shaking his wife first slowly, then more roughly.
Cassia gasped,
grabbed him by his shoulders, flipped him onto his back, and thrust her wand
into his throat as she crouched on top of him on the bed.
Hey, hey, its
just me, he croaked, trying to push her wand away from his neck.
Cassia drew the
wand back shakily, breathing hard. Im sorry, she said, rubbing her eyes.
She plopped down onto the bed and rested her head on his shoulder. I dreamt
about the night my mother was killed. She gave a small attempt at a grin.
Talk about needing to re-evaluate your life. And I was only twelve.
Charlie quietly
kissed her forehead and began running his fingers through her dark hair,
allowing her to continue talking.
Man, I was such
a brat of a kid. I mean, not in a prissy girly way, but in a stuck-up superior
kind of way. And dont you say anything about understanding, because you
dont! she lectured her silent husband. How could you know what its like to
find out you havent got the pure blood that you prided yourself on and that
youre next on the hit list on the people who you thought loved you? That your
mothers dead and that the father you despised was a good man, far better than
the ones you admired. I thought that when I was a baby he had been cheating on
Mum with a Muggle-born, but they had just made up a woman because the
Muggle-born the Death Eaters had found out about was Mum. She got away, but
ten years later they realized that it had always been her and they killed her.
My father and I had to go into hiding for two weeks until all the Death Eaters
who knew about her were arrested. Dad even ventured into Malfoy Manor to
destroy my uncles records so that no one would know that I was a half-blood.
Charlie good-naturedly
let her continue to rant on for several more minutes until she woke up
completely and fully got out of her dream, becoming her usual cheerful self.
So are you
ready to go to your parents house yet? Cassia asked, fondly kissing his cheek.
Youre so slow I fell asleep waiting for you.
Just about.
Ive just got to pack up the presents, he said, getting up to pull the gifts
out of the closet. Theyre all in this closet, right? Mum and Dad, he
muttered aloud, putting their respective presents into the sack. Fred and
George. Ginny, Ron, Harry, Hermione. Percy, Penny, Brianna, Ryan. Bill,
Zhara, Sagira. He looked at the tags on two of the gifts more closely. These
arent the same size. Did you get Ryan and Brianna different toys?
Of course.
Ryans one and Briannas three. They wouldnt like the same things anyway.
Yeah, but then
theyll be constantly fighting over whose is better.
So what do you
want me to do, run out and buy new gifts for Ryan, Brianna, and Sagira too
while Im at it?
No way. Youd
spend half a lifetime trying to find the perfect toy thats good for all of
them, and were already late.
Its your fault
were late! she exclaimed, getting up to lightly smack him on the back of the
head. I told you to be ready at two.
Sorry. Both at
home and on the dragon reserve, there will always be someone whos later than
And how will
you ever get anywhere if you all think that? Your problem is that there are
just too many children in your family.
You think so?
Charlie asked, wrapping his arms around her. I was just thinking that there
arent enough. And its our turn to provide the next one.
Weve been over
this, Cassia responded, her voice losing its joking tone as she pulled away
slightly. I told you that I dont feel ready for a baby. You grew up with
five little brothers and sisters. But Ive been an only child since I was three,
and I dont even know how to buy gifts for kids. What if I mess up and
something happens to the baby?
Sweetie. You
cant avoid love in fear that youll lose it, Charlie told her, rubbing her
back. I know that what happened to your mum made you wary, but trust me.
Ill take care of the both of you. And we can have lots of kids; there will
always be someone to love.
You dont
really think that we can replace them that easily do you?
Of course not.
But I know how family can get you through tough times. After my parents and
Uncle Fabian died, Mum and Dad adopted me and Bill and we never felt that we
werent loved. I still had my elder brother and gained a new little brother in
You make it
sound as if the loss of your parents never hurt.
Are you
joking? I threw all sorts of tantrums, screaming for Mum, you know, my aunt,
to give me back to my parents. Sometimes I ran away, hoping theyd find me.
Charlie winced. All that fussing couldnt have been good for Mum; she was several
months pregnant with the twins at the time. But she never screamed back at me
or let me spend too much time pitying myself. And the one time I managed to
get myself good and lost in the woods behind the Burrow and started to wonder
if my birth parents would really be able to find me, it was Dad who discovered
me crying at the base of a tree. I think it was when I saw how worried they
were that I realized that they actually cared.
Your parents do
love taking in children who need it, dont they. First you and Bill, then
Mm, I think
Harrys taking quite a bit longer than I did to appreciate how much they love
him. I guess its because he was already twelve and in boarding school by the
time he came to the Burrow, while I was only five and Mum could spend all her
free time with us kids, Charlie continued, not noticing how Cassia had
smoothly managed to change the subject. He sighed, then stood up and hefted up
the bag of gifts. Shall we? he asked.
They lifted
their wands and with two loud cracks, Disapparated.


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From the Dust Jacket: This study of "the most intensely and electrically erotic artist in the world" is one of Brigid Brophy's most provocative works. Aubrey Beardsley was, above all, a lyrical artist "pounded and buckled" into an ironist, she believes, by the knowledge of his illness and imminent death. An infant prodigy, he retained through the brief years of his adult life the peculiar genius of a precocious child. Beardsley's vision is permanently that of a child lying in bed watching his mother dress for a dinner party. His obsession with the Madonna-and-child image; his fetishist fascination with hair, shoes, and hats, the ambiguous ornamentation with which he decorates his pictures, the languid elongation of the figures denoting inaccessibility-these are characteristic of the perverse quality of infant sexuality. Beardsley's choice of the graphic medium began as an accident of circumstance, the result of lack of time and physical energy, yet black and white became an image for the erosion of his life. His talent is far better understood by interior decorators-who do not blink his eroticism-than by scholars. Among current literature on Aubrey Beardsley, no more succinct and trenchant analysis of his mind and art exists than this brilliant piece by one of today's foremost stylists and critics. The inclusion of illustrations alongside Miss Brophy's textual interpretation aids the appreciation of Beardsley's work. A detailed chronology supplements the essay.


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Friday, March 5, 2010
Leon Stokesbury
Please do not die now. Listen.
Yesterday, storm clouds rolled
out of the west like thick muscles.
Lightning bloomed. Such a sideshow
of colors. You should have seen it.
A woman watched with me, then we slept.
Then, when I woke first, I saw
in her face that rest is possible.
The sky, it suddenly seems
important to tell you, the sky
was pink as a shell. Listen
to me. People orbit the moon now.
They must look like flies around
Fatty Arbuckle's head, that new
and that strange. My fellow American,
I bought a French cookbook. In it
are hundreds and hundreds of recipes.
If you come to see me, I shit you not,
we will cook with wine. Listen
to me. Listen to me, my brother,
please don't go. Take a later flight,
a later train. Another look around.
When was this poem composed? How did it start?
I wrote this poem in the spring of 1978. As the poem suggests, it was written in response to a considerable number of problems that my brother was experiencing at the time. Problems that led to his spending five years in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, and which eventually led to his death some years later.
How many revisions did this poem undergo? How much time elapsed between the first and final drafts?
Although it was some time ago, I recall that this poem found its final shape fairly quickly. Perhaps it went through three or four revisions over a period of a week.
Do you believe in inspiration? How much of this poem was "received" and how much was the result of sweat and tears?
This poem was mostly received. There are a few of my early poems that I can say that about and they are among my best. Today there seems to be more sweat and tears than there was thirty years ago. I do not know if that is normal or not, but it is the way it is with me. I do most certainly believe in inspiration, and that still happens for me. But I rarely have a poem just pop out ready to go anymore. The first draft is an inspiration, I suppose, but then I go through months, and occasionally even years, of process. But I do remember those distant days when such as this poem would burst miraculously upon the scene fully formed, like Gargantua being birthed, exploding from his mother's left ear shouting, "Some drink! Some drink!"
How did this poem arrive at its final form? Did you consciously employ any principles of technique?
The only thing I can recall is that I (and I may be the only person that can see this) was trying to write a free verse sonnet. As tight as a sonnet, but finding its own form too. I am not sure whether or not I was successful, but I do feel that the tightness in the poem is a reflection of that attempt.
How long after you finished this poem did it first appear in print?
Oh, I think I sent it off to The Mississippi Quarterly a month or two after I wrote it. And they printed it in less than a year.
How long do you let a poem "sit" before you send it off into the world? Do you have any rules about this or does your practice vary with every poem?
Lord, I should have rules. Because it takes so long for me to finish a poem now, I have repeatedly gotten myself into a pickle over writing something that I thought was quite good, and that I thought was finished, and so excitedly decided to fire it off to some great journal who I was sure would feel the same way. And, repeatedly, a month or so later I would see some clear flaw or clear way to make the poem measurably better. Which means the poem was not finished at all. Then, I would either have to wait for the poem to come back, as it almost always would, or write the journal and ask for the poem back because by then it was in such a different form. This problem has not gone away with experience but for some reason increased. All I can say is that at least the "final product" does, finally, get finished and is, finally, the way I want it to be. But it ends up being published in a journal quite different from the one I first wanted it to appear in.
Could you talk about fact and fiction and how this poem negotiates the two?
This poem is based on fact but is mostly fiction. My brother's problems were real and large. However, I did not have a French cookbook, but I wanted one. I had seen storm clouds some time like the ones I describe, but not any time during or around the writing of the poem. And I, at that time, was seeing a young woman who one afternoon was asleep in her bed and did look peaceful. When I showed her the poem, she said that she never felt like that. She felt bad and sad almost all the time. Loomings. So I guess I was using my fictive imagination. She really did look so peaceful though. And pretty too.
Is this a narrative poem?
Did you let anyone see drafts of this poem before you finished it? Is there an individual or a group of individuals with whom you regularly share work?
I do have one or two friends that I am in an e-mail mode with as I write my poems. And I also show my work to my wife, although I think she tries to offer mostly positive and constructive opinions. I am a bit loath to send work out into the naked world without someone beside myself having given me an opinion on it.
Was this poem finished or abandoned?
This poem was finished. I will work on the short ones, most of the time, until they seem so. Longer ones, I occasionally work until I do not think they would embarrass me or hope they are finished.
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Wonderful; pathos of the real.ReplyDelete
Great discussion.
Thanks so much for this, Brian--ReplyDelete
i think i'll start defining some of my poems as narrative - barely :) love that!ReplyDelete
I love this poem. Because I have bifocals and am reading on the Internet...I kept seeing "Unsent" as "Urgent." I felt the urgency AND the unsentness. But it was sent, just in this way.ReplyDelete
Leon, once again this poem hit me in the heart and made me cry outloud. You are my hero. You are one of my favorite poets, and I like your poems too. You helped me so much with my own work at the Catskills' Writers Workshop in Oneonta, NY at Hartwick. You probably don't even remember me, but I remember the last night of the conference when we sat at a table and sang Janis Joplin songs. My husband was really sick at the time and eventually got better a year or so ago with experimental Kidney transplants at the Cleveland Clinics. My youngest daughter was struggling with cognitive disability. But your poetry and help with mine stuck. I finally had a chap book published a year or so ago. I would love to send it to you. Please if you get this email me where to send it. My name is Annie, and my email is email@example.com . My friend who knows how much I love your work sent me this. I am so glad she did.ReplyDelete
I am sure that here you can find really useful advices for students. You can use them if you are going to get a PhD soon.ReplyDelete


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COLUMBIA - The Marine Corps in South Carolina is getting its first futuristic F-35 fighter jets in June, a commander from the Air Station in Beaufort announced Wednesday.
Marine Air Group 31 commander Col. Bill Leiblien told members of the South Carolina Military Base Task Force that the first of dozens of aircraft and pilots are due to arrive by early to mid-June.
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President Barack Obama's budget request for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 called for spending $8.7 billion to develop, test and buy 29 aircraft. In total, the Pentagon envisions purchasing more than 2,400 F-35s.
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The fighter is said to have the most advanced weaponry and radar systems, allowing it to fly and fight in day or night conditions.
The Marine Corps version also will have a vertical landing capability, while the Air Force version lands like a traditional fighter jet.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is pushing for a new round of base closures in 2017, given moves by Congress to sharply reduce government spending, including the Pentagon.
Gov. Nikki Haley appointed members of the task force to help the state support is military communities and fend off any base closures.
Last year, the panel issued a report showing the U.S. military pumps nearly $16 billion into South Carolina's economy and supports about 140,000 jobs, concentrated in Beaufort, Charleston, Columbia and Sumter. The state is home to eight military installations, 56,000 military retirees and 900 defense contractor firms, and lawmakers don't want to lose them.