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from Poetry, September 2013
An unusually successful example of that most easily mangled of verse genres, the philosophical disquisition made fully poetic, Robert Conquest's intricately argued poem "A Problem" is in The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse, an anthology that was always with me in the last few years before I left Australia in the early sixties. It's a long time ago now but I can still remember the thrill of reading, for the first time, the line that sums up what he was really after in that poem. On the face of it he takes a painterly approach, meticulously registering all the nuances of the Ligurian landscape, and how the light falls on it from the sky: falls and alters. But he also says that the shifting patterns of light are "Like the complex, simple movement of great verse."
We can call this prose if we like, but only if we wish that our own prose were as neatly suggestive, as rich in implication as it is authoritative in form—in other words, as complex yet simple, simple yet complex. The mere fact, however, that you have to say the same thing from two different directions is already proof that there is nothing dumb about the idea. Combined into a single oxymoronic phrase, the two words "simple" and "complex" not only collide, they explode. Once they touch and go off, each is riddled with the other's particular shrapnel. You can't have one without the other.
Is this seemingly simple notion—but so complex when you unpack it—really an appropriate measure for great verse? In those first years of mine as an appreciator of poetry, I found myself asking that very question when I started reading the later poems of Yeats. In Sydney I had already absorbed—or thought I had absorbed—Pound, Eliot, Auden, MacNeice, and Cummings, plus dozens of others among the avowedly modern—but with them I could always say, when I ran into a difficulty: well, that's modern art, complex and difficult. I could understand Henry Reed's "Lessons of the War" perfectly, and thought they added up to a great work. I could understand the poems in Hart Crane's "The Bridge" only intermittently, and thought they might add up to an even greater work, for that very reason. I could scarcely have been more receptive to a dash of obscurity. Tending to underrate intelligibility, I looked upon it as the poet's fallback position; a true simplicity with nothing complex about it: a life of ease that he might slip back into if he stopped trying. It never occurred to me then that an achieved clarity might be the apex of the craft; and might act as a vehicle for everything that the poet could not fully explain, just so long as he was clear about the fact that he couldn't. But in laying out the possibilities of choice like this—as if I had seen the choices but just hadn't yet done any choosing—I might appear to be retroactively giving myself credit for more acumen than I had at the time.
On the ship to England I took my first crack at the later Yeats. I sailed off for the territory beyond such earlier showstoppers as "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" and got myself into the territory where it seemed that the aging wizard wanted to be plain as much as he wanted to be poetic. I caught on most quickly to the poems whose prose statements I knew I wasn't supposed to understand completely at first reading. Such lines as "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed" were obviously meant to be clearer than their context. Byzantium was a destination in the mind, like the Land of Oob-La-Di. None of it was supposed to check out: only to resonate. What threw me, and was to go on throwing me for years, was his use of the perfectly plain, apparently ordinary prose statement. Apart from its biblical rhythm and repetition, was the following moment poetic in any way at all?
Man is in love and loves what vanishes,
What more is there to say?
But the musical momentum of those words made them into an extraordinary statement anyway. And actually there was a lot more to say, and the reader, by trying to say it, must eventually arrive at the conclusion that this seemingly simple statement is complex in the extreme. First of all, man is quite likely to vanish before the thing he loves vanishes. If the thing he loves is a person—say, a beautiful woman—she will certainly vanish one day, but if the beautiful woman is painted by Botticelli, she won't. One can go on teasing out an argument endlessly, and this same attribute applies to almost every apparently plain statement that the fully mature Yeats ever made. Right up until the end, the simpler he sounds, the more complex he gets. So Conquest's formula is not invalidated: far from it.
That famous motto about the evanescence of man's love is an extreme case, but really a lot of Yeats's later work is like that. Some of the mystical rigmarole of the early work continues into the later work: there is no escaping "the gyres! the gyres!" But his big poems, such as "Among School Children" and "All Souls' Night," can mainly be read almost as if they were prose: it's one of their characteristics. The characteristic is deceptive because it can lead even the most acute critic into the delusion that Yeats in his advanced years was writing rhetoric rather than poetry. He didn't. What he did was to trim down the number of complicating factors. Sometimes there was little imagery and often there was none at all: just an argument. But even the most straightforward argument was made musical by the way it moved. In his spellbinder of a short poem "The Cold Heaven," the "rook-delighting heaven" is first of all a syntactically compressed way of saying that the sky delights the crows. But it is also a peal of music. (One night at a feast in King's College, Cambridge, when the late Frank Kermode was already older than I am now, he recited the poem to me in his soft voice, and I was breathless at the beauty of its switches and turns, its smooth linking of pause and glide.) To fill the straightforward with implication—to make the simple complex—brought Yeats to the height of his technique.
Irish poets, learn your trade,
Sing whatever is well made.
—From Under Ben Bulben
In the early work there is frequent mention of mystical inspiration, but in the later work he is more likely to put the explicit emphasis on craft. We can be sure that he didn't think of craft as the lesser thing. It was the larger thing, embracing all the other mental activities going on in the mind of the artist.
Looking back on a long life of trying to get my feelings about poetry into order—a doomed task perhaps, but a compulsive one—I am shamed by the number of times that I did not catch on. The truth about my admiration for the later Yeats was that it took years to form. I was off the ship and in England for a long time before I followed up on the way Philip Larkin had provided latter-day mirror images for the big, sweeping stanzas of the last Yeats poems, and of how Dylan Thomas had said, while calling Hardy his favorite modern poet, that Yeats was the greatest by miles. When I read, in a preface by Larkin, that Thomas had said this, I didn't catch on about Hardy, but I was further encouraged into going on with Yeats.
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I like to think that I finally did catch on about Hardy's poetry, but it was a shamefully recent revelation. There I was, shambling into oblivion, and I still hadn't learned to love the mass of Hardy's verse: that great bulk of finely made things so cherished by such connoisseurs as, well, Larkin. But catching on can have as much to do with the when as the how. Larkin, in contrast to his friend Kingsley Amis, thought that D.H. Lawrence was a valuable writer, even if overrated. Larkin wrote about Lawrence as if Lawrence had opened up the emotional world for him and helped deliver him from adolescence. I got to Lawrence too late in my life to feel that way: only a few years too late, but late enough to close off the possibility. When I was at Cambridge in the mid-sixties, not to be a worshipper of Lawrence's novels could make life tricky if there were any fans of F.R Leavis about, but I had a get-out-of-jail free card: I genuinely admired Lawrence's poetry, and indeed his poem "The Ship of Death" is still frequently in my mind today, especially as the skies ahead of me grow dark. I loved the way his verse moved; but if we spool forward a few decades I find that I still can't love the way most of Hardy's verse moves. For too much of the time he is concerned with making pretty patterns on the page, and it seems that he must fool with the syntax and the vocabulary in order to stick within the template. And yet I can quite see that his poem about the Titanic (cleverly, it talks about the iceberg rather than about the ship) is a startling feat of the historic imagination: one of the last of the Empire poems, and as ambiguous about imperial prestige as anything by Kipling. But what I want, and want perhaps too much, is a line that carries its load without contortion, a line simple in its complexity.
I heard such a line of Hardy's when I was starting off in Sydney. I was no more fit to seek Hardy out for myself than I was fit to seek out the music of Elgar, which always sent me back to Beethoven after only four bars. But Hardy, so to speak, sought me out. In our student days, we would be very choosy about the discs we played at parties. To sit beside the radiogram and load the discs was a position of power. It was an era when the female students were spraining their hips trying to dance to the title track of Dave Brubeck's hit album Time Out: a few minutes of gyrating in 5/4 time could have dire effects on a foundation garment. But there were discs of spoken poetry too; and the most favored disc featured Dylan Thomas: and one of the tracks was "Poem on His Birthday." People demanded to hear it again and again. I knew what they meant. "And my shining men no more alone/ As I sail out to die." I found that heroic, even if puzzling. (Wouldn't they be more alone?) But the track that I myself insisted on hearing again, sometime against strong opposition, was his recital of Hardy's "In Death Divided." Thomas's speaking voice was so beautiful that he would have thrilled you if he had recited your death warrant, but he seemed to have been saving an extra dose of magic for the words of Hardy. What I liked best was the ending. After a twist of syntax in the second last line ("No eye will see,") the poem ended with an unblemished directness to which Thomas's voice lent full power but which he had no need to distort. "Stretching across the miles that sever you from me." Really I should have caught on about Hardy right then, instead of decades later.
Because there it was: the simple statement made complex by its own interior music. Though it undoubtedly sounded all the better because Thomas was saying it, it still sounded pretty good even when I said it. It still does. There must be many more moments like it in Hardy's thick book of collected verse, which still daunts me with its heap of patterns, as if it were a code book for threading up looms in a cloth mill. But I shan't make the mistake of hunting about at random in all that. I'll go to the selections, of which I own several; and to those anthologies in which he is featured, starting with Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse. Introducing you to a poet is one of the two best things an anthology can do. The other best thing is to introduce you to a single poem, as The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse did for me when it gave me a line by Robert Conquest that I have been thinking of ever since.
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When Yeats edited the Oxford Book of Modern Verse in 1936 he notoriously left Wilfred Owen's work out, thereby giving the impression that he did not find the most gifted English poet of the Great War quite poetic enough. (He left out the other war poets too, as if he thought war was not a fit subject. It is often necessary to remind oneself that the great man could be a tremendous fool.) At the time he edited the anthology Yeats had already made his own discoveries of just how poetic "unpoetic" poetry could be. Indeed, he had only three more years to live; most of the body of work that we think of as constituting his later manner was already written; and Auden was all set to sing unforgettably over his grave. One of the phrases that rings most true in Auden's triumphal threnody for the departed Irish giant was "You were silly like us." In pretending that he had not seen Owen's unarguable poetic virtues, Yeats had been as silly as a man of letters can well get. Cruelly cut down when young, Owen had shown from the start the quality that Yeats arrived at only near the finish: the prosaically poetic, the simply complex. ("And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds": how could Yeats, even at his most batty, not have seen the genius in that line?) A gift for the clear statement that would be almost ordinary if it were not so alert with meaning is one of the things that lock Owen and Keith Douglas in their fearful historic symmetry. Owen, killed by one of the last bullets of wwi, and Douglas, killed in Normandy in WWII, both had the secret. The loss was especially piquant in the case of Douglas because dozens of surrealists survived to help make a fashion of not knowing what they were talking about. Especially when they were subsumed under the blanket title of New Apocalyptics, surrealist poets were the plague of England in the war years. There were surrealist Americans too, but as the war wound down and the us took over as the dominant power in the West, no mishmash of meaning ever stood a chance against the brilliant clarities of Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, and a dozen lesser figures who had seen service—some of them had even seen action—without letting the shock scramble their sense of logic. Not even Robert Lowell, who wanted to say everything at once, ever abandoned logical structure. But in Britain, the ideal of intelligible poetry had to be re-established. Robert Conquest's anthology New Lines was a key document in the struggle, which was like trying to lift a locomotive back onto the tracks. The job would have been a lot easier if Keith Douglas had come back from the fighting.
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Complex simplicity means a phrase, a line, and sometimes a whole poem that makes a virtue out of incorporating its intellectual structure into its musical progression, and vice versa: it is always a two-way thing, a thermocouple of gold and platinum, but without the capacity of those two precious metals to give a precisely calculable effect.
On the contrary, a successful moment of poetry won't let you calculate anything. For as long as it lasts, it is a mental force that silences all the other mental forces.
For any modern poets, the ability to transmit this quality seems to be an important factor in whether or not they will last. Perhaps not the determining factor: Dylan Thomas would probably still be with us even if all his poems had been as crowded with symbolism as "Fern Hill." But it certainly helped that he could also write
The ball I threw while playing in the park
Has not yet reached the ground.
—From Should Lanterns Shine
Eventually we might have to decide whether the poetry of, say, John Ashbery is on its way to immortality or to the junkyard. But most of the great moderns have given us a larger proportion of intelligible statement to go on than he has done over the long span of his work. For what these titles are worth, Eliot and Frost are still fighting it out for the spot at the top of the rankings. Our first thought about Frost is that too often he was too plain: he could do a clinching line that courted banality. People employed the term "cracker motto" and sometimes they were not wrong. But on second thoughts, and for many layers of thought thereafter, Frost was a master of organizing a prose argument into a poem. That brief but bewitching masterpiece "The Silken Tent" is written in the most limpid of plain language throughout. It's a kind of level-headed dizzy spell. There was one academic—I forget which one—who thought that the mention of "guys" meant men instead of ropes, but on the whole the poem's language is of a simplicity that not even an idiot with tenure could get wrong. And yet it is as complex as could be. Anyone who doubts that should try memorizing the poem. It defies memorization because of the complexity of its syntax.
Eliot wrote a smaller proportion of "unpoetic" poetry but two examples might be usefully mentioned. Early on, in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," there is the passage that starts: "No! I am not Prince Hamlet" and goes on into an astonishing sweep of deliberate prolixity. The fluent bravura of the structure is obviously meant to be one of the elements that produce the emotion—the "art emotion" which Eliot said was separate from other emotions. When you search for details, you don't find details of imagery; you find details of syntax, and of how the phrases and sentences balance up. Thus, "Politic, cautious, and meticulous" has a phonetic relationship, as well as a semantic one, to "At times, indeed, almost ridiculous." So effective that it can floor the first-time reader like an overcharged cocktail, this is poetry with very few of the usual poetic attributes. On the other hand, it is prose whose interior workings are calculated and refined to such a high standard that they turn incandescent. If it's simple, it's as simple as complexity can get.
Most of Eliot's poetry isn't like that. He struck a similar tone only much later, in Four Quartets, and we must remember that in each of the four constituent poems the texture is dictated by symbolism: not so deliberately tangled as in The Waste Land, perhaps, but still densely woven, and often oblique beyond analysis. An indicative moment is when the author completes an obscure lyrical flight and then starts his next verse paragraph with "That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory." So he has admitted his own thirst for an alternative; but when he takes a different course, into plainness, it is only to floor us all over again, as he once did with the attendant lord who was not Hamlet. In "Little Gidding" we get the long and rigorously unpoetic passage that begins with how the poet and his interlocutor met each other before they "trod the pavement in a dead patrol." According to a mountain of scholarship, the poet's companion could be the shade of Yeats. Certainly the mysterious companion has overtones of Brunetto Latini, Dante's beloved teacher who turns up in the Divine Comedy to walk beside him. Towards the end of this sublime passage—there is no other adjective that will serve—even the most overtly poetic line, the line that sounds as if it could have been borrowed from Shakespeare, is a straight statement that you can take away and use in conversation. "Then fools' approval stings, and honour stains." Otherwise, at the end as at the beginning, the whole marvelous feat of versification is written as if it had no claims to the poetic beyond the surefootedness with which it is organized. Somewhere in the background you can hear the pulse of Dante's terza rima, but in fact Eliot's version doesn't even rhyme. The phonetic impetus is all provided by the arrangement of the syllables within each line, and the movement of each line against the next. It is a tour de force. But is it poetic?
Of course it is. And we can say that with rather more certainty than when we assure ourselves that a painting by Mark Rothko in his later manner is still a painting even though almost every standard painterly component has been suppressed at the deliberate wish of the artist. About a Rothko painting there will always be a question: it's one of the reasons why so many people have come to see it. But about this supreme moment in Eliot's verse there can be no question. We can tell that it is poetry by the way that we react.
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I knew an English poet of my own age who was quietly mortified at being left out of Larkin's Oxford book. Since the poet in question was famous for his integrity and stoicism, this was a striking example of how anthologies count. The poet thought that being omitted would hurt his career. In the long run it didn't, but the long run was certainly made harder. Resentment at Larkin's policy of inclusion did not center so much on the lavish space he gave to Hardy and Betjeman: everyone knew that he would serve his tastes. What cheesed people off was that he found room for poems written by sociable versifiers no longer in fashion, while thereby restricting his accommodation of current poets who were counting on making an appearance, however cursory. As my friend said, it hurt to give your life to the art of poetry and then find yourself crowded out by the resurrected corpse of a genteel scribbler such as Vita Sackville-West.
But we have to see the matter from Larkin's viewpoint. For all that he might have admired my friend's seriousness, he didn't think that the result was poetry: whereas he thought that Vita, even though a loquacious mediocrity whose work in verse could be measured by the square mile, had occasionally hit the mark. The inclusion of so much Betjeman was an obvious sign that Larkin's taste had triumphed: he had always seen Betjeman as an important poet and now he was in a position to assert it irrefutably. But the inclusion of even a little of Sackville-West was an even greater triumph of taste, if much less obvious. He was saying that something matters beyond the name and the reputation. What matters is the authoritative voice of the successful poem; a voice in which the poet might speak only once, but it is still a poem if it sounds like this—
All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have held
Reality down fluttering to a bench;
Cut wood to their own purposes; compelled
The growth of pattern with the patient shuttle;
Drained acres to a trench.
After which she goes on to speak wonderfully about the rich subject she has opened up. Why couldn't she have written more poetry like that? The only possible answer is that she just didn't find it imperative. The idea that people might actually choose not to do more of their best thing is one that we are bound to find unsettling, but it is part of freedom. Robert Conquest, incidentally, has spent most of his literary career, when he has bothered with verse at all, cobbling squibs in rhyming form. In a long life he has written only a handful of serious poems. Sometimes to the dismay of his friends and admirers, the man who defined the simply complex has seldom pursued it. But his book The Great Terror helped to bring down the Soviet Union, so we owe him for other things.
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About the Author
Clive James has published two books this year: the essay collection Cultural Cohesion and a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, both published by W. W. Norton. The American edition of his poetry collection Nefertiti in the Flak Tower will be published later this year.
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"What we've done with Columbia, which is one of our strongest allies in Latin America, is to leave them twisting slowly in the wind," said Yeutter, who also served as agriculture secretary in the first Bush administration. "In the interim, some of our competitors have moved in and grabbed some of our share of that market."
(For a video interview with Ambassador Yeutter, go to http://deltafarmpress.com/government/administration-needs-move-free-trade-agreements.)
The Columbia, Panama and South Korean free trade agreements were negotiated by former U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab, but congressional leaders did not bring them up for a vote because of opposition from various groups. The U.S. auto, beef and rice industries had expressed reservations, in particular, about the South Korea FTA.
The latter was re-negotiated by Ambassador Ron Kirk, the U.S. Trade Representative for the Obama administration, and now is supported by the auto and beef industries. The USA Rice Federation continues to oppose the South Korea agreement.
When the South Korea agreement is fully implemented, increased exports of the major grain, oilseed, fiber, fruit and vegetable and livestock products could exceed $1.8 billion annually. The Korea agreement will allow the United States to become a competitive supplier of agricultural products to South Korea by providing duty-free and reduced tariff access.
"The agreement offers immediate duty-free access to U.S. soybeans for crushing and to U.S. soybean meal," according to ASA's Wellman, a producer from Syracuse, Neb. "For the first time, producers of U.S. food-grade soybeans would have access to the South Korean market outside of the import monopoly created by the Korean State Trading Enterprise. Tariffs on refined soybean oil would be eliminated over five years, and tariffs on crude soybean oil would be eliminated over 10 years.
"Domestic demand for U.S. soybean meal will also increase because this agreement is expected to generate millions of dollars of new meat and poultry exports. Domestic livestock consumed 28 million metric tons of soybean meal in 2010, using nearly 80 percent of all the soybean meal processed in this country."
(For a video report on ASA's press briefing on the pending free trade agreements, go to http://deltafarmpress.com/government/asa-calls-movement-free-trade-agreements.)
U.S.-Columbia Agreement
The U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement eliminates tariffs on U.S. agricultural products, correcting the current tariff imbalance in agricultural trade between our countries, created in part by congressional passage and extension of the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA). Elimination of Colombia's duties in the agricultural sector would create new opportunities for American farmers and ranchers in this market, particularly relative to other suppliers that already have trade agreements with Colombia.
"Under this agreement, Colombia will immediately eliminate tariffs on soybeans and soy meal and flour," Wellman said. "It will provide immediate duty-free access for crude soybean oil through a 31,200-ton quota with four percent annual growth and will phase-out the out-of-quota tariff of 24 percent for crude soybean oil over 10 years. Colombia also will phase out its 24 percent tariff for refined soybean oil over five years."
The United States already has a large share of the Panamanian agricultural market that must be protected. Averaged across all agricultural products, the United States supplies 53 percent of Panamanian agricultural imports. For the commodities most important to the United States, the share is more than 80 percent.
(For more information on the three trade agreements, go to http://deltafarmpress.com/government/rapid-ratification-uskorea-trade-agreement-urged.)
The U.S-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement will prevent other countries, specifically other Latin and North American suppliers, from taking some of the current U.S. share of the Panamanian market. In addition, Panama has completed a trade agreement with Canada. If this agreement goes into effect before the U.S. agreement, Canadian exporters will gain a significant competitive advantage over the United States in the market.
"There is an urgent need for passage of these agreements," Wellman said. "The Panama FTA would permanently lock-in duty-free treatment of U.S. exports of soybeans, soybean meal, and crude soybean oil."


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It doesn't matter how active, athletic, coordinated or healthy you are…whether a shredded MMA fighter, couch potato, a stay-at-home mom, even a grandmother... all can quickly learn to neutralize even multiple armed attackers!
(PRWEB) November 27, 2012
Glenn Beck gets behind the most ubiquitous name in protection and self defense - Tim Larkin and his Target Focus Training enterprise. A brief visit to Larkin's Target Focus Training website will quickly prove why he is the man to be trusted when it comes to self protection.
States Larkin, "It doesn't matter how active, athletic, coordinated or healthy you are…whether a shredded MMA fighter, couch potato, a stay-at-home mom, even a grandmother... all can quickly learn to neutralize even multiple armed attackers! The fact is… anyone can learn how to use lethal force."
Philosophically speaking, perhaps this Larkin quote best sums up his approach: "causing injury to the other guy Is the ONLY thing that allows you to walk away... alive." He provides video and other real-life instances which corroborate this claim.
Larkin argues that we live in a very dangerous time, and often cannot rely on the availability of guns and knives for protection of self and family, citing several viable instances where this reality rings menacingly true. He laments that the majority of people who hear about his Target Focus Training system are either "too busy" to listen, or quickly conclude that, "it will never happen to me."
We certainly don't live in the days of our parents or grandparents, and with a societal trend toward morbid curiosity, mindless violence, kidnappings, bullying, and all other manner of irreputable social interaction, perhaps more people should take a listen to Larkin and get prepared. "In the same way that a person buys insurance in the case of an auto accident or house fire," says Larkin, "why is it not considered imperative to insure oneself with knowledge of self-protection using our natural tools?"
Avers Larkin, "Chaos in violence is a given. It comes on as a bewildering mess… and doesn't change until someone does something specific to change it. The sword that cleaves that Gordian Knot is debilitating injury, where you take away his ability to think and move, or both. The first one to get it done—and knows what to do with it—wins. Not the first to move, or the first to strike… but the first to injure."
In other words, "The guy attacking you wishes great harm to you, so you best know how to force him into inaction for your own protection and those under your care."
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Horray, Horray, it's a Moda Bake Shop Day!! Well everyday is a Moda Bake Shop day, but today it's my day to show you the latest project that I have been working on, Starry Terrain. I needed a wedding present and the couple had requested a black, lime and magenta quilt. I checked to see what fabric lines Moda had and of course, they had something that would work…the fabric line Terrain along with the black swirl fabric…perfect. For interest, I ended up adding the orange too. I hope you like it.
Terrain is a fun fabric line with deep jewel toned colors. Kimberly over at the Fat Quarter Shop has fabric from the line at her shop. She has generously offered to sponsor a give away for $50 gift certificate to one of my lucky blog readers. After you check out the tutorial here, head on over to my blog, Jo's Country Junction, to learn more about it.
6 yards Black Marble Swirls Jet9908 29
2 yards Orange Terrain Lichen Bloom 27098 13
3 1/2 yards Magenta Terrain Fern Berry 27099 12
2 yards Lime/Teal Terrain Lichen Foliage 27098 14
6.5 yards Backing Terrain Forest Floor Foliage 27090 14-More fabric will be need if you don't want to piece a scrappy backing.
Cutting Instructions:
Black-6 yards
Cut 32~ 2 1/2″ strips sub cut into 512~2 1/2″ squares
Cut 19~2 7/8″ strips sub cut into 256~ 2 7/8″ squares cut on diagonal
Cut 8~5 1/4″ strips sub cut into 64~5 1/4″ squares cut twice on diagonal
Lime-2 yards
Cut 19~2 7/8″ strips sub cut into 256~ 2 7/8″ squares cut on diagonal
Orange-2 yards
Cut 8~5 1/4″ strips sub cut into 64~5 1/4″ squares cut twice on diagonal
Cut 7~ 3 1/2″ strips. Set aside for a pieced back.
Magents-3 1/2 yards
Cut 16~5 1/4″ strips sub cut into 128~5 1/4″ squares cut twice on diagonal
Cut 9~2.5″ Strips for binding
Layer Cake
Remove the lime, orange and magenta squares from the remaining squares cut 64~ 4 1/2″ squares. There will be a few repeated fabrics and some leftover.
When you initially look at this quilt, it appears like the quilt features the green star block. That is not true! This is the actual block:
To create the hour glass portion of the block take a magenta triangle and lay it on a black triangle. Sew as shown. Press to the magenta. You will need 512 total.
Take a magenta triangle and lay it on an orange triangle. Sew as shown. Press to the magenta. You will need 512 total.
Lay the newly formed triangles on top of each other and sew making sure to match the center seams. Continue until you have 512 quarter square triangle blocks.
Begin assembling the blocks by sewing the pieces into strips as shown.
Assemble the blocks into an 8 x 8 layout.
To piece the backing, take the leftovers from the layer cake and sew them into a 126″ long strip that is 10″ wide. Sew the 3.5″ orange strip pieces together. Sew them along the sides of the layer cake pieces. Cut the backing fabric into two 126″ pieces. Sew that to the sides of the orange fabric.
Bind with the magenta 2.5″ strips. ENJOY!!
96″ x 96″
As long as I quilt, it will always amaze me to see the designs created when blocks come together.
Don't forget to come on over and check out the give away I am hosting for the $50 gift certificate to the Fat Quarter Shop.


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Scott Goldstein talks with students in Point Park's cinema arts program during a campus visit in March 2010.
A large part of being successful in any artistic field is utilizing experiences to their full potential and recognizing the importance of networking. On Thursday, March 18, two-time Emmy- and Grammy Award-winner Scott Goldstein spoke to cinema arts students about these lessons and others he's learned throughout his illustrious career.
Goldstein is a producer, writer and director whose major credits include producing LA Law (NBC, two Emmy Awards); Doogie Howser, MD (ABC); the TODAY Show (NBC); Endgame: Ethics and Values in America (PBS); Science Fiction: A Journey into the Unknown (FOX); Ordinary People, the Millennium Machine and the Point of View Diner exhibits (Simon Wiesenthal Center, Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles and New York Tolerance Center).
Goldstein was in Pittsburgh for the screening of his feature documentary, Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story, as part of the Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival. During his Point Park visit, he used a segment of this film and a short scene from Doogie Howser to illustrate several lessons he learned while working in the film business.
One of the most important lessons that Goldstein stressed to the students was taking advantage of any opportunity, no matter what it is.
"It doesn't matter what job you get," said Goldstein. "Do your job and do it well."
To prove this point, Goldstein referenced several moments in his life and in others where small yet well-done tasks, such as getting a good cup of coffee, led to great opportunities.
"Get your foot in the door any way possible as soon as possible," he said. "If you have good taste and work hard, there's no reason you shouldn't get a job."
Regarding the actual process of making films, Goldstein emphasized the importance of effective transitions, in addition to the importance of knowing how to write and how to speak to actors. He also spoke on the need to portray passion and heart in any story that a filmmaker tells.
"Emotions trump everything," Goldstein said. "Operate more out of passion than intellect."
On a closing note, Goldstein spoke about the impact that a film program like Point Park's, which allows students to create films and build a portfolio, can have on a career.
"Having a degree and a film to show someone will take you a long way," he said.
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Preheat the oven to 200 degrees F. In a medium bowl, sift together the powdered sugar and almond flour.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the 5 egg whites for 1 minute to combine. Add the cream of tartar and continue beating the whites on high speed until soft peaks form, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the scraped vanilla bean seeds and continue beating until it is fully incorporated and the whites are glossy, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove the bowl from the mixer and use a rubber spatula to gently fold in the lemon zest and the powdered sugar mixture.
Coat 1 or 2 large baking sheets with a layer of parchment paper. Spray the paper with a thin layer of nonstick spray. Put heaping teaspoonfuls of the batter about 2-inches apart on the tray(s). Take care to leave the space between each mound because this batter spreads as it bakes.
Put the tray in the center of the oven and bake for 8 minutes, then raise the temperature to 375 degrees F and bake until the cookies are golden brown around the edges and form a nice shell-like exterior, about 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow them to cool for a few minutes before gingerly removing them from the tray with an offset spatula. Take care! They can stick to the paper.


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Setting Standards
The Expert Panel for Developing National HIV/AIDS Nutrition Guidelines
April 2000
"Taking medicine without eating properly is like washing your hands and drying them in the dirt."
During the question-and-answer period that followed his presentation, I asked him about this patient's nutrition support. He apologized for his oversight and repeated to the audience an expression he had been told by one of his patients at his clinic in Haiti: "Taking medicine without eating properly is like washing your hands and drying them in the dirt." Well said.
Have you ever asked the same question about your nutrition needs to two different nutritionists -- both of them well respected in the HIV/AIDS community -- only to get two different answers?
As a nutritionist working with people with HIV and AIDS, I get the questions all the time:
Bringing Nutrition Out of the Healthcare Closet
The people with HIV disease and others who have been making these comments to me are right! We certainly seem to have a wealth of nutrition information, but very little consistency. Every day we read about something else that is good for the control of HIV disease or of an opportunistic infection. The problem is that we have not yet organized what we know into a format that everyone can agree on. Some food and nutrition organizations have put out guidelines, but none carries the blessing of the federal Office of HIV/AIDS Policy.
This problem is not unique to HIV and AIDS. If you make a list of the illnesses that plague our country--the many different cancers, cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and strokes, diabetes, high blood pressure (hypertension) and obesity, to name just a few--you will find that the nutrition component is still very often left out of prevention and treatment efforts, or its importance is greatly understated. Take the case of cardiovascular disease, for example. The evidence that eating badly is a major contributing factor to the illness began to be collected over sixty years ago. But poor diet takes a long time to manifest itself in physical illness. Perhaps that's why it's hard for us to see the connection between the two. Instead, we always seem to be looking for a gene or other built-in mechanism to blame for our poor health.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." We've heard the saying all of our lives, but it's not one that we take to heart, at least when it comes to nutrition. We know from many studies that children who eat nutritious meals do better in school, have fewer behavioral problems, and get sick less often than their less well-fed peers, but our WIC program, aimed at meeting the nutrition needs of children in needy families, is funded to only about one-half of those in need. When Medicare was created about 35 years ago, funding for nutrition services was not part of the menu. Even our Food Pyramid is not getting the attention it deserves: This educational tool and symbol of healthy eating currently has an advertising budget of only one million dollars per year. A large fast-food company may spend that much advertising its junkburgers in a matter of hours.
As a final example, it is important to note that most medical schools in the United States don't teach nutrition. It's not surprising, then, that the Journal of the American Medical Association's piece entitled "Initial Evaluation of the HIV-Infected Adult Patient," found in The Sanford Guide to HIV/AIDS Therapy, does not even mention the word "nutrition."
Fortunately, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Nutrition education and diet therapy are--slowly--gaining recognition. In September 1993, the National Cholesterol Education Program issued its Second Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults, complete with a section on "Dietary Therapy and Physical Activity." A bill called "The Medicare Medical Therapy Act of 1999," now before Congress and enjoying bipartisan support, would pay for outpatient nutrition counseling and therapy by certified and registered nutritionists.
Setting HIV/AIDS Nutrition Standards
In some ways, the importance of nutrition--or at least of food--in dealing with HIV/AIDS has been apparent since people first started getting sick. AIDS wasting was an almost universal symptom, and the immediate goal was to put weight--any kind of weight--back on people who were literally starving to death. As nutritionists worked with people with AIDS in those early years, however, it quickly became apparent that the kind of weight is important, and that nutrition intervention early in the disease process is vital in heading off some of these symptoms and keeping people healthy. The "ounce-of-prevention/pound-of-cure" metaphor is particularly apt when dealing with lean body mass.
Although nutritionists working with people with AIDS have from the beginning shared their experiences and learned from each other, in both formal and informal groupings, there have not until now been any officially sanctioned standards for HIV nutrition therapy and counseling. Then, late last year, Eric Goosby, M.D., Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, called a meeting to start developing national HIV/AIDS nutrition guidelines.
Over 100 health professionals were invited to participate in the November 15, 1999, meeting, and about seventy were able to attend. I was honored to be one of the participants. The group was made up of nutritionists, dieticians, M.D.s, food and water safety specialists, and government organizers from all over the country. In a letter to the participants, Dr. Goosby explained that the plan of the meeting was to ". . . begin developing national guidelines for nutritional management intended to improve clinical care and outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS. Our goal for this project is to see medical nutrition therapy become routine in primary HIV health management. These National HIV Nutrition Guidelines are intended to become a 'companion' to the PHS Treatment Guidelines that so effectively and quickly transformed the quality of medical care for HIV-infected persons.
"We anticipate that the National HIV/AIDS Nutrition Guidelines will include or encapsulate established and recently developed nutrition documents. We also anticipate that the process will illuminate areas of nutrition that (1) need further research and examination, and (2) need greater integration in HIV medical management. . . ."
The discussion about the need for guidelines was an old one for me and my colleagues in New York City. But the discussion about this guidelines meeting in Washington started taking place the week before I left for D.C. I called several nutritionists whom I respect and often work with in New York to ask them what message they thought I should bring to Washington. Not surprisingly, all the people I spoke with had similar ideas about what should be done, even though their individual emphasis was often in different areas of nutrition. What we agreed on was to emphasize the need to eat food and drink water first, when possible, and to use supplements as supplements, not as main courses. On the train to Washington the day before the meeting, the discussion continued with another New York-based nutritionist I met at Penn Station, and it was expanded on the evening of my arrival at an informal reception hosted by two of the main organizers.
The Guidelines Meeting
Monday morning the meeting began in earnest. The seventy attendees were in their seats and ready to begin by 9:00 a.m. The feeling in the room was one of excitement and anticipation.
The day was broken up into three main sections: overview, breakout sessions, and a meeting summary with closing remarks. The overview lasted two hours. We were welcomed and given information on issues that would be discussed at the meeting: metabolic problems in HIV disease and nutrition's role in the solution; the federal role in existing guidelines; integration of nutrition guidelines with existing guidelines; a short history of nutrition landmarks; and, last but by no means least, the rules of evidence needed in order to determine whether or not a recommendation can be made.
This last area may be among the most critical. The "gold standard" for research is the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. I asked myself, How many nutrition research studies have been done this way? How many eating studies have been done this way? Have any studies been done comparing nutrient quality in food with that in a supplement? Have any studies been done comparing nutrient absorption from food rather than from a supplement? The answers, by and large, are negative.
The next four and a half hours were devoted to the breakout sessions. (That includes one hour for lunch. It would probably be instructive to discuss what this group of nutritionists had for lunch, but space and the value I place on my life do not permit me to divulge such highly classified information!) The large group was divided into six smaller groups, each with a specific area of nutrition to discuss. These were: general management issues in nutrition and metabolism; assessment of nutritional status, body composition, and HIV-associated morphologic change; recognition and management of metabolic and morphologic complications of HIV disease and its treatment; prevention and treatment of weight loss and wasting associated with HIV disease; other food and diet issues, including water and food safety; and supplemental micronutrients, macronutrients, chemicals, herbs, and other substances.
I don't know how the decisions were made about who was put into which group, but I was very pleased to be asked to be a co-leader of the "other food and diet issues" group. This group welcomed discussion of many social issues that we considered fundamental to setting up accurate guidelines. For example, all the counseling in the world is meaningless if you don't have a roof over your head, a place to cook, or the food itself. Counseling is also wasted if there is a language problem, or if written materials are given to people who have trouble reading.
After the breakout sessions, during the meeting summary, the leader of each group reported to the reassembled gathering on the work the group had done. The comments made after the group reports turned out to contain some of the most important information of the day.
The Challenge
Dr. Goosby, in his closing remarks, outlined the difficulty that we face in producing guidelines that have the blessing of the federal government. Many people support and understand the importance of nutrition in HIV disease, but some of the key questions remain: Do we have gold-standard research to back up our recommendations? If not, how can we most effectively propose guidelines? Should they be guidelines, or merely suggestions or recommendations?
It was fitting that Dr. Goosby was highlighting these difficulties, since he is the one who is going to have to promote and implement the suggestions of the panel. If guidelines are adopted, they could become the standard that federally funded nutrition programs around the country will have to adhere to.
This is not a responsibility to be undertaken lightly. Actually, one of the difficulties we nutritionists have in our daily professional lives is figuring out what is effective and what is the nutrition fad of the day. Another problem is that approaches that show great promise for improving the health of PWA/HIVs but have a very low probability of profit are often very poorly studied. Should we use information based on good evidence that a particular approach works for many people, even when it doesn't have any gold-standard research to back it up?
There seems to be a gap between what we recommend as scientific nutrition therapy in some other diseases and what we recommend as scientific nutrition therapy in HIV disease. One of our jobs has to be to make nutrition therapy in HIV disease as routine and consistent as it is in other illnesses. The panel is equal to the task. There will be many more meetings and discussions to come before HIV/AIDS nutritionists will have the guidelines to enable us to speak with one voice. Stay tuned for more developments.
Back to the April 2000 Issue of Body Positive Magazine.
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Absolutely Splendid! Dazzling Clear Smoky Quartz carved into a sphere. A perfect Beauty.
This sphere has sweeping veils and would look wonderful on a light box.
Smoky Quartz is one of the most powerful grounding and clearing stones available. The energies of Smoky Quartz clear the aura and physical/spiritual energetic systems, allowing a more solid connection between heaven and earth within ourselves.
Metaphysical and Healing properties of Quartz Crystal:
Quartz Crystal stimulates psychic perception. It amplifies, stores, focuses, transmits, and transforms energy. Quartz works with all the chakras; however, especially clear quartz opens the crown chakra. Quartz amplifies visualizations and is great for meditation and co creation. It assists one in being receptive to higher communication and guidance. Quartz Crystal has been used for centuries as a tool for meditation and healing. It is a stone of immense capabilities when coupled with the human psyche. It is a gateway to the inner soul.
This Smoky Quartz sphere measures 44 mm in diameter.
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Connecting with your Crystal
Welcome your new crystal into your home by setting aside a little one on one time for just the two of you! Sit with your crystal and feel its energy opening and connecting with your heart center. Find a special place to keep your crystal where you will see it often and be able to connect with it. Working with Crystals for Crystal Healing is a fun, easy way to elevate your personal energy and deepen your connection with Mother Earth. Each Crystal is unique and offers its own special gifts. See our Crystal Definitions page for more info on specific crystal types.
How to Activate your Crystal
Crystals love to work with a purpose! In general, they are already "Turned On" and busy doing their own thing: Elevating Energies and pumping out Good Vibes! This is their natural state. We can tap into these elevated energies and combine forces by working with our crystals to expand and elevate our own energies and to connect with our highest self. This is done through activation and will set a field of expanded energies that will help us in our daily lives as we practice and deepen this connection with our crystalline friends.
To begin an activation, clear your mind and sit quietly with your crystal. Connect with your heart center and through your heart center connect with the crystal you are holding. This crystal is sharing its love and light with you, as you share your love and light with your crystal.
Think of activation as the growing and expansion of energy layers. The first activation establishes a connection between the crystal and the user, creating the first layer. These layers continue to grow, for both ourselves and the crystal, as we continue to connect. This energy field becomes more stable over time as we continue to connect and reconnect.
Cleansing your Crystal
Stones of all kinds are energetically alive. Crystals and Gemstones carry their own vibrations and can be influenced by subtle energies and/or thoughts and actions taking place around them. Crystals also have the ability to be cleansed of influences that have touched them before or after they have come to you. When gemstones are energetically cleansed they are cleared of all energies other than their own, and until they are used again in ritual or meditation, they will generally remain cleared. For some people, it is important to cleanse, wash and purify their gemstones and crystals before using them. For others it is not. This is really a personal preference, one that you may feel into on an individual basis.
Feel into your crystal when you first receive it. How does it feel? Does it feel yummy and scrumptious; is it a pure delight? Then maybe it doesn't need cleared at all. But, if you feel guided to make this new gemstone truly a piece of your own, and perhaps also to have a special bonding session with your new crystalline friend, then cleansing your crystals should be easy and fun. Below are a few ideas for consideration, but you may be inspired by something entirely different! The key is to have an open heart and to connect with your crystals just as you would with any person or spirit guide.
Listed below is one of our favorite methods. For a more exhaustive list of possibilities, see our Crystal Cleansing Guide.
Cleansing your crystals with the method of energy and intention:
Hold your crystal with the intention of Pure Love & Light enfolding it. Feel yourself and your crystal being surrounded within a sphere of very supportive white or golden light energy. (You may also play with different colors, if you enjoy color healing!) Begin to feel Cosmic Love and Source Energy flowing throughout your body and directly into your crystal. Stay within this protective sphere for as long as you feel guided. This is also an excellent way to begin any meditation.


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Thursday, July 4, 1963
Charlene Peyton was to compete in the National Women's and National Girl's Outdoor championship track and field meet at Dayton, Ohio.
Peyton, 16, was a junior at Anderson County High and even though she had only been in the sport for eight weeks was undefeated in the 14 events in which she had competed.
"We feel she has a chance to score high at Dayton," Coach Charles Grote said.
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There are few more graceful swimmers in the ocean than the ray – "batiod" rays, such as mantas and stingrays, are quick, agile, and energy-efficient. Engineers are using these fascinating creatures as inspiration for the Mantabot, a new autonomous underwater vehicle. The Mantabot's plastic body and and silicone fins are modeled from a direct molding of the cownose ray, and it glides through the water with the same flapping motions as its living counterparts.
Scientists at the University of Virginia, UCLA, Princeton, and the West Chester University have teamed up to build a new, dynamic robot that mimics one of best-adapted creatures of the deep. The Mantabot's large, wing-like fins are able to change shape by expanding or contracting rods controlled by remote computer signals and it's powered by a battery held in the main casing. The team's biologists and engineers studied live specimens and dissections of the animals to provide insight into how to achieve the most amount of propulsion with the least amount of energy.
"We are studying a creature to understand how it is able to swim so beautifully, and we are hoping to improve upon it," says Hilary Bart-Smith, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia, "We are learning from nature, but we also are innovating; trying to move beyond emulation."
Developers hope that the Mantabot will eventually become autonomous and able to be deployed for long periods of time without the need to surface and refuel. There is also the potential for the size to be adapted to carry payloads or recording equipment. The mechanical fish may soon find a future in oil spill cleanup, scientific exploration, pollution monitoring, and military applications.
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Leopard Nidalee (League of Legends) – Cosplay of the Day
Yes, we've shown Leopard Nidalee before. But we found a cosplayer who's represented the character so phenomenally well that we just had to feature her again. Say hello once more to Leopard Nidalee, the sexy huntress from League of Legends.
If you know anything about her lore, then you'd know that Nidalee is a bit of a wildcat, having grown up in the jungle, raised by cougars. Her time in the jungle has given her special powers on top of her feline-like agility and fighting skills. Nidalee's spot in the League of Legends helps her protect her childhood home while doing it in great style.
Here's Sbabby with her take on Nidalee's alternate Leopard look. We've gotta say, she gets everything pretty much down pat. One look at this outfit is enough to convince us that she's got cat-like reflexes and just as much tenacity as any wildcat. Of course, it doesn't hurt that she's also very easy on the eyes.
Take a look at her other work, which includes a Slave Leia outfit, on her Facebook page, and let us know what you think of this fantastic costumer.
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I absorbed the very little I know about trees from living beside them, beneath them and seeking their shade on a hot summer days, invading their fortress of darkness, where a boy could pretend he was hiding from the good guys or hunting the bad ones, and later enduring those cursed magnets that lured his errant golf balls to their deep, dark, deadly jungles.
I am no arborist, know little about botany and horticulture and express no great insights into these giant, majestic, colorful and breath-giving towers that spring up around us, planted either by God or by man, to bestow us with grace and wonder for all our days.
The great poet Shel Silverstein cuts down man's relationship to trees with the humble homage of The Giving Tree: From acorn to sawdust, the tree serves man, and man does little to return that undying, loving commitment.
I plant my own little seedling here because we are in the full-blown blaze of autumn, and there is no better time to speak reverently of trees and the great beauty they bring to our world.
I opened my prayer book this weekend on a U-turn trip to Knoxville for a family wedding – a wonderful, tearful and everlasting celebration of eternal love – and was able to spend six hours of travel studying the landscape hues God is painting for us this season.
My, my, it was awesome, and we have not yet arrived at the summit of leaf season in these parts.
I can only imagine what another week or 10 days may add to the color wheel that spins across the mountains and valleys, cast to glory in the angle of fall light that artists and photographers covet for inspiration and mere mortals such as I can only just study with finger-pointing wonder from the top of Jellico Mountain, the canyons near Stinking Creek Road and the hollers of Renfro Valley.
This is a an excursion that I had not made in autumn for many years, usually relegating treks at this time of year to airports, which in all their greatness of efficiency steal from us one of those smell-the-roses opportunities.
I saw old sites in new lights, a chance to see chiseled limestone framed by fiery-red bushes and golden leaves, a different angle of sunlight spraying from on high.
And the trees were the centerpiece of this canvas.
Let me be clear that not only am I no student of trees, I'm not really all that intimate with their types, varieties, species and fruitful reasons for being.
As a boy, the back and sides of my house were protected for a few bountiful hickory trees that shared their nuts and leaves with us.
We knew walnuts, maples, oaks, elms and poplars as numerous and impeccable sentries along the fences that bounded our farmland and our waterways.
Willows emerged along the lake beside my home, and in the afterlife of our old farm, they gave name to the Saddlebred factory that now owns and nurtures its rolling fields.
We rode tractors to the back acreage and chopped down cedar bushes every Christmas, bringing their numerous but spindly needles and wonderful scent into our homes for a couple of weeks at a time.
During nearly a decade of studying, playing and working in the south of Mississippi I became intimate with pines and live oaks, mostly because they dominated and lent their names to the golf courses where I practiced my frustration.
To be certain, the pine trees were better friends of the errant golfer – their thin trunks and spindly needles much more forgiving than the ground-touching majesty of the ancient and awesome live oaks – but they were, mostly, just two different forms of evergreens whose serendipitous placement and karma often added strokes to my score.
For the nearly three decades I lived in Florida, palms of various sorts, tall and waving or short, snake-hiding and eye-gouging, danced in cozy and complementary cruelty along the edges of fairways and backyards.
But in none of those places was autumn celebrated with any great flourish or sense of wonder or expectation.
So it was on my return to Kentucky a few years ago that I was able to learn anew how trees – especially trees in the fall – bring rainbows to our world without ever requiring a rain cloud to pass.
I was humbled by all I had forgotten. Despite what science teachers tried to press between my ears, there is so much I simply do not know.
I have been blessed to have seen the golden Aspens of Colorado in a snowy October morning. I've flown across the country on clear days and been rewarded a bird's-eye view of a quilt of many colors. I have toured New England, am intimate with North Carolina in the fall.
But I can tell you that in recent years I have seen few more awesome sights than those taken in along the wide ribbon of I-75 as it snaked south from Berea to the base of the Smokies.
The love story of the couple married there this weekend – underscored by an all-in dance to "Rocky Top" – includes a pluck-your-heartstrings testament about how they became engaged by the side of the road on a looping trip from Knoxville to Chattanooga.
The groom, who engineered one of the great romantic moments of our time, pulled this off despite his well-known hatred for road trips. His love won the day.
So maybe his sense of romance can help him understand this: My road trip was the perfect entree for his beautiful wedding, and I hope his marriage is as sturdy as an oak.
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And little Bettys (it hurts me not to use an apostrophe but that's how it is!)
To prove we didn't live off cake for the weekend here's a plate of wholesome goodness from Wackers (on Gillygate), York's biggest and best loved fish and chip restaurant. The fish and chips is fried in beef dripping....mmm, beef dripping!
150g chocolate digestives – use milk or dark, whichever you prefer (I used milk)
125g unsalted butter, at room temperature
50ml dark rum
100g unsalted butter
¼ teaspoon fine salt
150g golden caster sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
50g golden syrup
30g plain flour (this is not a typo – it is only 30g)
250g chocolate – I used a mix of dark and milk
4 eggs, separated
30g icing sugar
50g icing sugar
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The European Origins of the Boelen Family: Boele Roeloffson and His Wife Bayken Arents in Amsterdam by Lorine McGinnis Schulze was published in the April 2000 issue of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record.
The article was an overview of genealogy records found in Amsterdam for Boele and Bayken. After the article was published, more research was conducted with exciting results. Bayken Arents' father was found to have used a second patronymic. In-depth research provided more family details and genealogy records recorded under this second patronymic.
In order to share this exciting new information a book was developed: New Netherland Settlers. Boele Roeloffsen & His Wife Bayken Arents From Amsterdam with information on the European Origins of the Family by Lorine McGinnis Schulze.
The book is set in the historical context of the early Dutch settlement in New Netherland (now New York). The history of New Netherland, customs, religious practices, and settlement of Fort Orange (Albany) are discussed in depth. An explanation of the patronymic system of naming, the barter system of paying for goods and the English translation of common Dutch words used in church records is provided.
Boele and Bayken's origins in the Netherlands are thoroughly covered with Bayken's newly discovered lineage documented and sourced in footnotes. A genealogy report for Boele and Bayken and their children as well as Bayken's ancestry are clearly laid out. Hand-drawn maps complete this book which is part of the New Netherland Settlers series.
Publication: New Netherland Settlers. Boele Roeloffsen & His Wife Bayken Arents From Amsterdam with information on the European Origins of the Family.
Author: Lorine McGinnis Schulze
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Thanks for the notice about this. At least 3 branches of my tree also came from New Netherlands. Phillippe du Trieux, Lodewyck Post, and Wink— originally Van Der Vinck–are all part of the New Netherlands settlers. I'm really interested in the customs of the time. This book is on my wish list!
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Celebrate royalty, enchantment, and romance with these beautiful Disney Princess wall decals. These removable and repositionable designs feature Cinderella, Aurora, Belle, Tiana, Ariel, and Snow White. Each pack includes several princess decals, complimentary flowers and elements, and 42 sparkling peel & stick gems. Apply the decals to any smooth surface, then place the gems right on top (or anywhere else you please). Made in the USA.
4 sheets of 10" x 18" (37 decals, 42 peel and stick gems)
This product is printed on clear material for a "stenciled" look. White or light colored walls are recommended for best results.
4 sheets of 10" x 18" (37 decals, 42 peel and stick gems)
Decals range from 1" x 1.5" to 8" x 11.5"
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Chuck Knippen needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
The National Society is looking to take an aggressive step with its corporate branding to create a dynamic corporate partnership sales document.
We would like to create an eye-catching and impactful sales document for our sales team.
Included with this overview, we have included samples of two other brochures. While we want to maintain our branding standards (look/fonts), we are looking to 'stretch' these standards to give a designer the flexibility to generate a dynamic piece with pics, alternate fonts, etc.
We are willing to spend budget on images to purchase and also have a library of internal images to use as well. We look to have young, college-age, diverse populations represented on our documents.
Content for the brochure can be found at:
Previous documents for design reference can be found at:
- 1 page, back and front, sales sheet
- Full-Color
- Adhere to branding found on http://www.SocietyLeadership.org, with room to flex the brand to make the piece 'pop'
- New ideas for our promotional materials
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WHITE PLAINS, NY- April 30, 2013 -- Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. Stroke takes a life every 4 minutes and is a leading cause of adult disability. Almost 800,000 strokes will occur this year in the U.S. In recognition of National Stroke Awareness month, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital is hosting a series of educational events in May to promote awareness about stroke.
"Research shows that most people cannot identify stroke warning signs and stroke risk factors," says Lisa Edelstein, OT, Burke's Stroke Program director. "With more than 7 million estimated stroke survivors nationwide, we encourage our community to learn how to identify stroke symptoms, know that stroke is a medical emergency, and learn the steps to take to prevent stroke."
Burke also wants to ensure caregivers of stroke patients receive the support they need. "Focus on the Caregiver: An Evening for You" is the first of Burke's Stroke Awareness events and will be tailored for caregivers. It will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on May 15 in the Rosedale Conference Room in the Billings Building, building 4, of the hospital's main campus at 785 Mamaroneck Ave. in White Plains. The evening's program includes a presentation by Mark Herceg, Ph.D., Director of Rehabilitation Psychology and Neuropsychology at Burke, titled "My Loved One's Stroke: How to Cope," a relaxation exercise led by Alexandra Oudheusden, Director of Therapeutic Recreation at Burke, and a panel discussion and Q&A session with stroke experts to share information on care-giving topics.
Burke's annual Stroke Awareness Day is the second awareness event and will be held from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on May 22. This educational open house will focus on stroke recognition, response and prevention, and will be held in the hospital's Wood Pavilion, building 7. Short presentations about stroke and stroke treatment options, plus how to reduce risk factors will be repeated throughout the day. It also includes a Stroke Information Expo where there will be free blood pressure and blood sugar screenings, risk assessments, and resources for a healthy lifestyle.
Both events are free and open to the public, with refreshments available. Pre-registration is requested. Please call Lisa Edelstein, OT at (914) 597-2256 to register or for information on Focus on the Caregiver and/or Stroke Awareness Day. Additional information can be found at www.burke.org.
Burke Rehabilitation Hospital is a private, not-for-profit, acute rehabilitation hospital. Founded in 1915, it is the only hospital in Westchester County dedicated solely to rehabilitation medicine. Burke offers both inpatient and outpatient programs for those who have experienced a disabling illness, traumatic injury or joint replacement surgery. Burke is both an acute rehabilitation hospital and medical research center. Burke's world renowned doctors and therapists provide state-of-the-art -treatment, while research scientists explore the frontiers of neurological and pulmonary medicine. All share the Burke mission to ensure that every patient makes the fullest possible recovery from illness or injury regardless of their ability to pay.
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Demarco Murray Scouting Report
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Demarco Murray, RB, Oklahoma
The 2009 season did not go quite as well as opposing defenses keyed in on the ground game after the injury to quarterback Sam Bradford. Murray's yards-per-carry average went down a lot, but he still proved to be a dangerous back that is always a threat to get to the end zone. In 2010 Murray finally got the ground game all to himself. Through ten games he has not disappointed and has rushed for 911 yards on 207 carries. Murray has also caught an impressive 52 passes and has accounted for a total of 17 touchdowns.
What separates Murray from Brown -- besides the fact that Brown is more of a downhill runner -- is Murray's ability to catch the ball. His explosiveness makes Murray a great secondary back and that could be enough for him to sneak into the first round. However, Murray is more than just an explosive back. In 2010 he proved that he can carry the ball 20 to 25 times per game and be the workhorse in the backfield.
2/10 Update: Murray finished the 2010 campaign with 1,175 rushing yards, 595 receiving yards and 20 total touchdowns. However, he seemed to lack the big play explosiveness that he possessed earlier in his career. During the Senior Bowl, the story was pretty much the same. The lack of explosiveness is a concern and Murray is slipping down to the third round.
4/6 Update: Showing off his speed at the NFL combine has given Murray another small push up the draft boards. If a few running backs start going off the board in the late first and early second round, Murray could sneak into the end of the second round. His hands are great and his speed is amazing, but NFL teams are not convinced that he has the vision to make the most out of those skills. The result will likely be a third round selection come draft day.
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IF demarco murray comes out for the NFL draft no doubt i think the san diego chargers will draft him with this most likley being LT's last year and sproles not being an every down RB murray is what the chargers need
mannymackin 12/28/09 04:19 AM
Remind me of Thurman Thomas with his versatility
shotgun517 12/31/09 06:39 AM
This guy is so fast. Not saying that because he is my second favorite player. Saying that because it takes some speed to put up a 4.33 40 time. He is agile and can catch out of the backfield. Referring to mannymackin. He would be great for the chargers but not sure if he will make it that long
jkk0752 01/20/10 11:18 AM
Great talent with low mileage for a guy who has played four years in the big 12, he has the ability to catch as good as most recievers, with footwork, hips, speed, athleticism, and power he is the most complete back in the draft. His numbers didn't stick out due to the pass oriented offense at Oklahoma, but that could work to his benefit having very little mileage I believe scout will recognize this, and with a good workout at the combine I doub murray will slip out of the top 20.
mkoziarski08 12/30/10 05:57 PM