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PORTLAND—Greely's boys' basketball team has known its share of agonizing defeat over the years, but what happened Saturday at the Cumberland County Civic Center still doesn't seem real.
The Rangers, top-seeded and seemingly destined to play for the Gold Ball for the first time in 16 seasons, played their role of overwhelming favorite to near perfection in a first quarter that left Cinderella No. 6 seed Poland on the canvas.
But eight minutes does not a basketball game make and slowly and surely, the upstart Knights crept back.
After trailing by as many as 19 points, 23-4, Poland, sparked by the play of sophomore John Fossett off the bench, went on an improbable 18-4 run, took advantage of Greely senior standout Mike McDevitt's absence after he received his third foul and got as close as four points late in the first half, but Rangers senior shooting sensation Bailey Train made his third 3-pointer to give Greely a 32-25 lead at the break.
The Knights then scored the first seven points of the third quarter to tie the score and when senior standout C.J. Martin drained a 3 with 2:26 to play in the frame, Poland had the lead for the first time, 38-36.
The game would go back and forth for awhile, being tied on five occasions, before a three-point play from Knights senior Tyler Michaud put the underdog on top for good.
As McDevitt and eventually senior Connor Hanley fouled out, Poland stretched its lead to as much as 11 points, 61-50, but in the final minute, the proud Rangers mustered one final comeback.
Two 3s from Train, both contested and from difficult angles, followed by another from freshman Matt McDevitt, suddenly made it a 61-59 game with 26.2 seconds to play, but the Knights iced it on a layup from senior Josh Gary and held on to shock the local basketball world, 63-59.
Poland improved to 13-8, extended its win streak to seven games and got 26 points from Martin as it advanced to its first state final, where it will meet Old Town Friday evening in Bangor.
Despite 22 points from Train, Greely's tremendous season ended at 19-2.
"Poland did great things," said Rangers coach Travis Seaver. "They really did. They hit big shots and we stopped what we were doing. All the credit in the world to them. They played great from halfway through the second quarter on."
Since winning the 1998 Class B crown, its third in four seasons, Greely has been in the playoffs every season and knocked (sometimes quite loudly) on the championship door, but it couldn't get over the hump.
This year's team, however, was something special and after a 17-1 regular season, the Rangers avoided an epic upset in the quarterfinals, rallying to edge No. 8 York, 41-38, then handled rival No. 4 Yarmouth in Thursday's semifinals, 56-38.
While Greely was expected to be here all along, Poland was not. The Knights began the year 1-4 and were 6-8 late in the season, in danger of missing the playoffs, but Poland won its final four regular season games, then upset No. 3 Spruce Mountain (77-69) in the quarterfinals and second-ranked Morse (45-44) in the semifinals Thursday (almost blowing a 13-point lead before holding on for dear life) to make it to its first ever regional championship game.
Greely won the lone regular season meeting, 67-44, six days before Christmas in Poland. The teams had no playoff history.
Saturday, they made some in a game that can't be forgotten quickly enough in Cumberland and North Yarmouth, but will live in Poland lore as long as the school exists.
It took four seconds for Greely to make a statement, as Mike McDevitt won the opening tip to Train, who fed Hanley behind the defense for a layup.
Train hinted a big night to come when he hit a 3. Hanley then fed senior Kyle Wood for a fastbreak layup and with 4:44 to go in the first, O'Shea sank a jumper, forcing Poland coach Tyler Tracy to call timeout.
It didn't help, as McDevitt threaded a beautiful pass to Hanley for a layup and an 11-0 lead.
With 3:43 left in the first, the Knights finally got on the board as Gary made a bank shot, but McDevitt made a free throw, then took a pass from O'Shea and dunked home a shot. It counted, but McDevitt was called for a technical foul for hanging on the rim. Martin made both free throws to make the score 14-4.
With 2:09 left in the first, McDevitt made a layup while being fouled and hit the free throw to complete the old-fashioned three-point play. After Hanley made a free throw, Train made another 3, then converted a floater for a 23-4 lead.
At that point, Poland's season appeared to have a very short shelf life, while Greely was halfway to Bangor, but there was still a lot of basketball to be played.
Martin hit two foul shots with a second to go, but that only pulled the Knights within 17, 23-6, after one.
Then, in one of the most shocking momentum turns in Maine tournament history, everything changed.
Big time.
After junior Alan Young made a foul shot for Poland, O'Shea drove for a layup. Sophomore John Fossett then somehow banked home a follow-up while falling down, but McDevitt hit a baseline jumper. Senior Tyler Michaud canned a 3 for the Knights, cutting the deficit to 27-12 and Seaver, not taking any chances, called timeout.
It didn't help as seconds later, McDevitt was called for a charge, his third, and he had to sit for the rest of the half.
Poland then took advantage and went on a stunning run.
A finger roll from Martin was answered by two Hanley foul shots. After another acrobatic play by Fossett, who tipped home a missed shot, Fossett made two free throws.
"John's an energy guy," Martin said. "He doesn't go between the legs or do a 360 or anything like that, but he busts his butt on defense and gives us energy. That's what we needed. He came out, wasn't shellshocked and delivered what he needed."
A driving bank shot from Martin with 2:09 left in the half pulled the Knights within single digits, 29-20.
Junior Derek Michaud followed with a 3 and with 1:05 remaining, Martin made a pullup jumper to make it a four-point game.
"It was just mental toughness," said Martin. "We didn't believe we were out of it. We were just a little bit shellshocked at the beginning."
"I just wanted us to start playing with confidence," said Tracy. "I don't know if it was Greely or the environment, but we just didn't play our game. We played tentative, scared. We finally settled down and starting attacking them and I thought we had a shot. I knew we'd eventually settle down, but I was concerned about when it would happen. They were a couple baskets away from really closing the deal early and we just managed to knock down a few buckets."
The Rangers had been staggered.
"I don't think the guys thought it was over (when we were up, 23-4)," Seaver said. "They've played a lot of basketball and have seen a lot of things happen."
Finally, with 12.4 seconds to go, Greely restored some order when Train made a 3, ending the 16-2 Poland run and making it 32-25 Rangers at halftime.
In the first half, Train led all scorers with 11 points. McDevitt added eight and Hanley had seven. Poland got 10 points from Martin.
In the third quarter, the Rangers got McDevitt back, but the Knights didn't budge.
Martin hit a floater 45 seconds in, then added a layup. After Young made a layup, a free throw from Martin tied the game, 32-32.
Greely went back on top on an O'Shea leaner and McDevitt took a pass from Hanley and made a shot for a 36-32 advantage, but back roared the Knights, as Martin hit a corner 3, then, with 2:26 left in the frame, Martin made another 3 for Poland's first lead, 38-36.
An O'Shea jumper tied it, but Tyler Michaud made two free throws. After Train tied the game with a layup, Martin drove for a layup. Two O'Shea foul shots with 22.3 seconds left made it 42-42 heading for the frenetic fourth.
Poland opened the final stanza with a layup from Fossett. McDevitt pulled the Rangers within one with a foul shot, but Tyler Michaud drained a baseline jumper.
With 6:26 left, McDevitt found a wide open Train up top and Train buried a 3, but Michaud drove for a layup, was fouled and converted the three-point play with a free throw to give the Knights the lead for good.
With 5:28 to go, McDevitt was whistled for his fourth foul and Young made one of two free throws for a four-point advantage, 50-46.
After Young scored on a putback, Young made a leaner and the lead was eight, 54-46.
McDevitt made a free throw, but Michaud set up Fossett for a layup. After McDevitt made another foul shot, Martin hit two and Poland impossibly had a double digit advantage, 58-48.
With 2:53 to go, Greely's comeback hopes took a serious hit when McDevitt was called for a charge, his fifth foul, and had to leave the game.
"We wanted to take charges," Martin said. "That was the game plan. We knew he'd try to take over. We got ourselves in position."
Hanley kept hope alive with a putback, but Michaud made two free throws and Martin hit one, giving the Knights their biggest lead, 61-50.
The Rangers then embarked on a furious rally in the final minute, one which almost stole victory from the jaws of defeat.
With 52.3 seconds to go, Train hit a long, contested 3. Thirteen seconds later, he made another, this one from the far right corner and just like that, Greely was only down five, 61-56, with plenty of time left.
"Bailey's a great shooter and he's a gamer," Seaver said. "It's nice to have him on the floor."
After Derek Michaud missed two foul shots, Rangers sophomore Matt McDevitt buried a 3 and suddenly, Greely had more than a pulse, it had legitimate hope, trailing by only two, 61-59, and Poland was putting its coach and fans through the wringer once more.
"That was nervewracking," Martin said. "The whole tournament we've done that. I think our parents are pretty mad at us for that."
"I've gotten a lot of gray hairs the past two weeks," said Tracy.
But on the ensuing inbounds pass, Derek Michaud threw a touchdown pass that Young tipped to Gary, who made a layup while being fouled. He missed the free throw, but Poland was back on top by two possessions, 63-59.
"That play over the top was a backbreaker," Seaver said.
Derek Michaud then stole the ball and although Tyler Michaud missed two foul shots with 6.5 seconds to go, the Rangers had run out of chances and the Knights prevailed in epic and astonishing fashion.
"The whole community was behind us today," Martin said. "It was a lot of fun. We were also fan favorites being the 6 seed. We have a lot of respect for Greely. They set the precedent this year. They beat every team in our conference and even beat Falmouth.
"I always knew we had the ability and talent. In the final three weeks of the season, we came along with mental toughness. Now that it's happened, we keep pinching ourselves. This is the first time in Poland's history that we're here. We played like we had nothing to lose, because we didn't. I'm still in disbelief. It's another thing to marvel at. We're a resilient bunch."
"I did think this was possible," said Tracy, who in four short years has put the program and the school on the map. "This past summer, we talked about having the ability. We didn't play to our capabilities early, then we finally got going. The way we were playing at the end of season, I thought we could really do some damage. It's the kids. They've put in the work. They wanted this. They showed tonight how tough they are. They don't roll over."
Martin, who won the Pierre Harnois Award as outstanding player and sportsman of the tournament, dazzled, scoring 26 points.
"C.J.'s our senior captain and he wasn't going to let us go down easy," said Tracy. "He's there when we need him most."
Tyler Michaud was clutch throughout, scoring a dozen points. He also had a pair of steals and rebounds.
Fossett had 10 points and tied for game-high honors with seven rebounds, but what he brought to his team off the bench Saturday simply can't be quantified.
"John's just a workhorse," said Tracy. "We needed physicalness and aggressiveness and he brought that. "
Young had eight points and five boards, Gary finished with four points and Derek Michaud added three.
"This has been such a team effort the whole time," said Martin. "It seems like someone new delivers every night."
Poland, after committing six turnovers in the first half, only had five the rest of the way (including none in the third period) to finish with a most respectable 11, especially considering the magnitude of the game. The Knights made 17 of 27 free throws.
Poland's magic carpet ride has one last stop, Friday, at the new Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, where it will meet Eastern B champion Old Town (17-5) in the state final at 9:05 p.m.
The schools have no history and neither has played in a Class B state final.
The Coyotes won Class A championships in 1952, 1957, 1967 and 1991, which was their last time on the big stage.
Old Town knocked off No. 11 Waterville (73-44) in the preliminary round, then upset third-ranked Mt. Desert Island (57-44), beat No. 10 Ellsworth (53-50) and finally survived fourth-ranked Caribou (43-41, in overtime) to advance.
Something will have to give as a pair of No. 6 seeds do battle.
"We're going to be focused," Martin said. "We want to get this one for Coach, he's from the Bangor area. We believe in him. He's a big reason why we're here. He preached mental toughness to us and pushed us enough to get to where we could come back from being down 19 to the 1 seed that has a lot of all-conference players."
"I'm a Northern Maine guy, so I'm excited for my guys to play on the Bangor floor and get that experience," said Tracy, who hails from Guilford. "They deserve it."
Train paced the Rangers with 22 points, including six of the team's seven 3s. He also had three steals and a blocked shot.
Mike McDevitt bowed out with 13 points, six boards and a block.
O'Shea had 10 points, Hanley nine (to go with four rebounds), Matt McDevitt three and Wood two (to go with a team-high seven boards and a block).
Greely had a 25-19 rebounding advantage and made 10 of 16 foul shots, but was done in by 20 turnovers.
"Our goal was to make it one more game, but we weren't looking ahead," Seaver said. "They shot 8 for 10 in the fourth quarter and made 17 free throws. Those things are killers. We got in foul trouble. We just didn't execute. We missed a bunch of three-, four-footers. When they were hot, we weren't.
"It's very disappointing, but we had a great season. The kids who put the uniform on every night are tremendous kids. I can't stress that enough. Our captains are quality people. As a coach, that's all you can ask for. We'd love to play one more, but everyone in our locker room will go on and do great things in life."
Clearly, the loss of Hanley, McDevitt, O'Shea, Train and Wood (as well as reserves Alex McAdoo and Terison) will be a huge blow to the program, but the Rangers will once again be in the hunt next winter.
"We'll keep competing," Seaver said. "We have good kids coming back. We're lucky. It's a great program here."
Greely junior Gabe Axelsen goes up over Poland junior Derek Michaud. Axelsen was called for a charge on the play.
Greely senior Connor Hanley elevates for a shot.
Greely senior Mike McDevitt soars for a dunk and is charged with a technical foul for hanging on the rim in the process.
Greely senior Patrick O'Shea, who had 10 points, shoots from the outside.
Greely senior Bailey Train shoots over Poland junior Derek Michaud.
Greely senior Kyle Wood goes up for a shot.
Try as it might, the Greely student section wasn't able to will the Rangers to victory Saturday.
Greely seniors Mike McDevitt (far left) and Connor Hanley can only sit on and watch in dismay in the waning moments after fouling out.
Cinderella celebrates. After rallying from 19-points down, the Poland boys' basketball team danced on the court after winning its first regional championship.
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Greely senior Bailey Train launches one of his six 3-pointers Saturday in the Western Class B Final. Despite Train's heroics and an early 23-4 lead, the top-seeded Rangers were upset by No. 6 Poland, 63-59.
Jason Veilleux photos.
More photos below.
P- Martin 8-8-26, T. Michaud 3-5-12, Fossett 4-2-10, Young 3-2-8, Gary 2-0-4, D. Michaud 1-0-3
G- Train 8-0-22, M. McDevitt 4-5-13, O'Shea 4-2-10, Hanley 3-3-9, Ma. McDevitt 1-0-3, Wood 1-0-2
P (4) Martin 2, D. Michaud, T. Michaud 1
G (7) Train 6, Ma. McDevitt 1
P (19) Fossett 7, Young 5, Gary 3, Martin, T. Michaud 2
G (25) Wood 7, McDevitt 6, Hanley 4, Axelsen, O'Shea, Terison, Train 2
P (6) T. Michaud 2, Bickford, Fossett, D. Michaud, Martin 1
G (6) Train 3, Axelsen 2, Wood 1
Blocked shots:
P (1) Murphy 1
G (3) McDevitt, Train, Wood 1
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Another fun Kevvie, finishing again second to the Ancient ones. Congratulations swashbucklers! We bested them once, but not twice. Well played to the furballs who finally got a bit of revenge on the mindbenders.
Congratulations to the Mariners - thanks to my fellow Queencats - as always, a pleasure :)
Congratulations Mariners, another fine win. Mindbenders tried hard but didn't quite do it this month and the Fantastic Four did well for third without me this month.

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The Town Of Light Review
Italian developers LKA bring a unique horror puzzler in the form of The Town of Light, relying on storytelling and thought-provoking material to pull you through the experience.
"If you think you have psychological problems, please speak to a local doctor or specialist" is the opening disclaimer before you start the game. One might think that this disclaimer is an unnecessary one, considering many titles that come before it involve an abundance of violence without relevant disclaimers, but the more you start to experience this title, the more you realise why this is needed. Experience being the key word here, as this is a psychological horror title with inventive puzzles and no combat. Instead, you're left to deal with the eeriness of the asylum that your character, Renée is walking around in, finding answers to her past.
It's also important to know that the asylum is based off of a real asylum in Italy, brought to fruition by research the developers have delved into, creating an 'artistic interpretation' of said asylum. You can tell a lot of work has gone into the research, providing an insight into actual patients that once resided at the Charcot Asylum in Volterra, Tuscany, so much so, that as you're playing and experiencing the asylum, you can't help but wonder for yourself, how lonely this place must've been for the patients that once resided here.
As Renée, you're investigating your forgotten memories of when you were brought to the asylum at 16 years of age, where entering certain rooms will trigger flashbacks of the insane procedures, the patients used to endure. As you're progressing through the asylum, and unravelling the secrets, you're left to contend with Renée's own demons and blurred lines between reality and psychosis, wondering if this is the past or the present for Renée. As you approach key locations in the asylum, soft melancholic music will play indicating that you're on the right path, although if you're lost, Renée will give you pointers from what she can recall from memory.
Wandering through the asylum and learning about the patients leaves an overwhelming feeling of despair, one that you wouldn't expect to feel when playing a video game, leaving you with nothing but empathy for the patients and Renée herself, providing a deep, meaningful story that makes you want to research the asylum for yourself…Yes the asylum exists and pictures have been sourced and it's incredible how much detail the developers have put into bringing the asylum to life, not to mention how accurate it looks.
Moving on, certain actions and choices you make throughout your venture around the asylum will change the outcome for Renée so more than one play through is needed, should you wish to experience the other storylines for her. There are no jump scares for the hell of it, in fact the developers don't want you to be scared at all, they want you to understand and feel what the patients felt, which they have done an impeccable job with.
The Town of Light is available now and can be downloaded from the Xbox Store, priced at £15.99.
A horror experience like no other, offering a unique insight into patients and procedures of an asylum before its closure. With a story that's not only thought-provoking but relevant even today, you'll be left with unusual feelings of despair and empathy that's rarely found within a game.


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Getting off the block is the slowest portion of a professional sprint (100M or 200M). Once you really get going, you're just gliding, and historically it seems the 200M world record is less than twice the 100M world record.
For example, prior to his latest runs, Usain Bolt's 200M and 100M runs clocked in at 19.296 and 9.69 respectively. In 1996 in Atlanta, Michael Johnson's 200M record (19.32) was less than twice Donovan Bailey's 100 (9.84).
But now it's reversed: Usain's 200M was 19.19 and his 100M record 9.58.
Meanwhile, check out this hilarious clip of an Jamaican female sprint winner and her awkward interaction with a mascot.


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"She blew out her knee."
If you've spent much time around women's roller derby, you've heard these dreaded words. You've also seen injured players wearing knee braces, hobbling around on crutches or using a cane, and talking about surgery to repair their ACL or PCL. Unless you're medically or anatomically savvy, you've probably been unsure about what these letters stand for but have surmised that whatever they are, you don't want yours torn or busted. In fact, studies show that 50 to 100 percent of female athletes who do sustain these injuries will develop osteoarthritis in the knee within one to two decades.
Ryan Lowery MS ATC;L, a Certified Athletic Trainer and founder of the non-profit Derby Injury Prevention Network, said knee injuries are the most common injury he's encountered while working with roller derby players.
Multiple studies show that female athletes who play sports involving jumping and pivoting are 4 to 10 times more likely than male athletes to tear their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). In roller derby, injury to the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) is also a notable risk due to hard falls onto the knee.
The ACL and PCL are two crisscrossing bands of tissue within the knee joint that connect the shin bone (tibia) to the thigh bone (femur). The ACL crosses in the front of the knee to prevent the shin bone from sliding too far forward on the thigh bone, and the PCL crosses in the back of the knee to prevent the shin bone from sliding too far back on the thigh bone. The PCL, which is considered the knee's basic stabilizer, is almost twice as strong as the ACL, and provides an axis for the knee to rotate.
ACL injuries typically occur without contact during cutting, pivoting, and jumping, and are often accompanied by a popping sound. PCL injuries occur with sharp blows such as a knee striking the floor. Both ACL and PCL injuries can cause pain, swelling, stiffness, and knee instability.
Researchers who have investigated why female athletes are more prone to ACL injuries cite differences in anatomy, hormone levels, muscle strength and control, and mechanics during jumping and landing.
Lowery said that because women have wider hips than men, the female shin bone meets the thigh bone at a greater Q angle. He said that the wider a woman's hips, the greater the Q angle is likely to be, which can produce a bit of a knock-kneed posture called genu valgum.
"This is significant because when an athlete lands from a jump, it's important that the knee not cave inward but stays in line with the body," he said. "When the knee caves inward, it oftentimes produces a rotational force that can tear the ACL and many times other structures in the process."
In addition, the space within a woman's knee joint is narrower, which can also increase the chance of the ACL being pinched or torn. Furthermore, while female hormone levels can confer injury prevention benefits by promoting flexibility, too much looseness can make it more difficult for the muscles around the knee to absorb force.
"Several studies also support the idea that females are also more prone to ACL tears during the pre-ovulation phase of their menstrual cycle (approximately days 9-14 of a 28 day cycle)," Lowery said. "Although the true cause is unknown, researchers speculate that it has to do with hormonal changes during the cycle which might increase laxity in the ligaments."
According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, women's ACL injuries are often caused by a lack of neuromuscular control in the hip and trunk. Video evidence shows that women sustain ACL injuries in the following ways:
"You prevent your knee from caving inward by strengthening the hip," Lowery said. "The injurious rotation comes from the hip, not the knee. But strengthening all those other muscle groups has to go with it."
Lowery said resistance training is paramount to preventing ACL injuries by building the hips, glutes, hamstrings, quadriceps, and core.
"Proper technique with skating, jumping, landing, and athletic positions also help a lot," he said.
Lowery added that many derby athletes think they are in a good, low athletic position when they are actually bending their backs or using some other sort of pattern of compensation in place of leg strength.
The Sports Therapy Department at the Massachusetts General Hospital has created a sports conditioning and injury prevention program for the female knee that emphasizes increasing agility by building muscular strength and control in the legs and core. Some exercises included in the program are lunges and abdominal crunches; forward, backward, and diagonal running; and forward, backward, and side-to-side hopping on one or both feet. The entire training program can be accessed here: http://www.massgeneral.org/ortho/services/sports/pdfs/conditioning-female-knee.pdf
Lowery recommends performing these types of exercises 2-3 times per week.
In addition, the program emphasizes proper jumping techniques such as landing on the balls of the feet with the knees slightly bent.
"Especially when landing, land very softly and absorb the shock of your weight using your ankles, knees, hips and maintain a solid core," Lowery said. "Watch yourself in the mirror."
In terms of PCL injuries, Lowery admits that they are harder to prevent.
PCL injuries during roller derby can occur from inadequate protection when knee pads slip down the shin during a fall. Choosing properly fitting pads with a lot of cushioning can lessen the impact from a blow to the knee. Custom knee braces are also an option, but they come with a hefty price tag.
"The only way to prevent a PCL injury is to not fall on the knee, which means refraining from play—yeah, right!—or having an increased situational awareness," Lowery said. "Strong quadriceps might help, but a great enough force can always overcome strong muscle."
For more information on how to prevent roller derby injuries, check out the Derby Injury Prevention Network on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DerbyIPN).
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Laura Hope-Gill: A Selection of Poems
Each month since becoming poetry editor of Rapid River I've featured the work of a poet who seemed to me to merit wider attention. For February, I selected Laura Hope-Gill - not because she's one of my co-hosts for WordPlay (though happily she is), but because she'd shared some work that I found intelligent, passionate, compassionate - and even, sometimes, hilariously funny. Limited as we were to the space of a single page, not all of it made it into the magazine; I include here both those poems that did see print, and those, as well, that just wouldn't fit.
A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Laura now teaches English and directs plays at Christ School. Her poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in Cincinatti Review, Fugue, Fox Cry Review, Madison Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Phantasmagoria, The Rambler, Cairn, and Xavier Review, among others. As I mentioned, she co-hosts WPVM's Wordplay with Sebastian Matthews, Glenis Redmond, and myself, and is the Director of Wordfest 2008 Asheville, an upcoming poetry festival. Her blog, initially concerned mostly with her progress into deafness, but now featuring some explorations in alchemy and imagination, is Fade To Quiet.
So, ladies and gentlemen, ....
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
The Book of Jonah 1:15
The boy ate chum for three
days straight, felt for light with outstretched
fingers that knew best the sea
from distances. He never asked for a journey.
While others prayed, he slept, weary
of the dangers once God finds you
and calls out. The joy of learning
to piss his name in the sand evaporated.
Becoming a man nearly took
everyone on that boat down with him.
And there in the darkness of his consequence,
the night he'd never dreamed
encountered him and moved him through the sea.
Through skin, this thickness,
under the fullest weight of quiet, Jonah,
with the bright red burden pressing in on him,
heard the loudest absence of sound for hours,
then broken by the tongueless moan that echoes
an ocean's fullness, all in one breath, a division
from where he'd been, such distance, such desire to connect.
I hunger for salt's slow death, he said,
drifting far below a tempest, not feeling it,
as the whale's broomstick-diametered ear rounded Africa
with its tail somewhere near what's now Quebec,
because I lack the patience needed for life.
I am the restless boy from the seashore that's my home,
I am the stick-thrower who prods the dead fish
for the smell. Ask me to serve you too much of myself,
and I become the flame-thrower of my temperament.
I am the boy who doubts the judgment
of anyone who puts their trust in me.
Here, I am the broken boy of questions held captive.
How do we choose our movement within
what is ever moving? In his pocket:
a coin, a bell, the grit of sea-tossed sand,
and almonds, seven left, sustaining him
in an otherwise unsweet depth.
He held his position at the prow of God's loneliness,
and from the brackish want for an end to stillness
steered his mind.
He slept deep and hard while they prayed,
slept the fugitive sleep as their calls, cries, creaked
through the vessel of his head, aching
by then from the pounding of skull
only God is capable of when He's trying to get in.
The fun was long over. A boy needs his
rest. He remembers when the visions first
started: sleep that left a place for lessons, the dreams
then all animal, a broken talon
he fixed with sudden magic. And now
excruciating in the slow leviathan journey
his mind was,
they rocked him into the ocean from his sleep.
In the water, the blood slows thickly
as the body bends into the waves that shaped it
ages ago, enfolding, remolding,
the deep relearns the shallow thinness of skin
and fingernail and questions again its creation.
Was it tears that made the human form so false
in the absence of the light, down here where there
are no eyes to admire it? What swam past certainly
glowed in comparison, as pale bubbles formed on his lashes
and the blue opened only wide enough to devour a floating boy.
He would, of course, then dream of his mother,
her subtle weaknesses abhorred, and craved them now.
The sea's bone refuse ebbed at his feet,
calculated by ballein roughness into infinitesimals
of how such a thing could live when all else is so small.
What she had given him was a wisdom
to question things that at least had potential for answers.
Desire is a hungry ghost, and within the whale's
cavernous belly, Jonah learned to sing.
The hours then between the steady flow of sea creatures, blood, urchin,
and weed honed him into one whose sounds
delighted God, who Jonah thought just might be listening.
And God loved how the music warmed the rib, resonated
outward into his beloved sea.
The boy pulled his knees up above the fooded surface
and forgot for a moment he was suffering
and into a world he could neither see nor hear sang.
Updated: 7:29 p.m. ET Nov. 16, 2005
NEW ORLEANS - In death, Ethel Freeman became an anonymous symbol of the government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina: The 91-year-old woman's body, covered by a poncho and slumped in a wheelchair, lay outside the convention center for days.
This year belongs to Ethel Freeman,
the woman under the poncho
which has also grown to cover
Cindy Sheehan's son, the countless civilians,
soldiers, the families in earthquake rubble dust
we could not also get to in time, those taken by a broad
spectacular wave high enough to erase
the efforts of generations,
the holiday of your dreams,
a year of uncovered mass graves,
and uncovered mass illusions.
The year belongs to the woman whose son
had to leave her because there was not room on the bus
for the dead mothers, the busses that came too late
to carry the living mothers.
It belongs to the poncho keeping us under the cover
of death's rainy season, the broken levees of our illusions,
the dreaming tattered by streaming media of
rows of patient children, the camera-directed calls
of parents demanding "America, the rain has stopped.
Where are you?" when she was the black spot at the bottom
of their question marks. No, when she was the question itself,
slumped over, hidden, but undeniably, horrifically there
in the most powerful corner of the picture,
the background of the truths we know,
hunched over with the weight of rain,
under something that's begun to resemble a flag.
It was God whom she needed to show how deep
was her love, and for one night only, spirits
having flown, she was named guilty, doomed
to stand, sticks and specks, against the flames'
shadow dancing. Did she think, did she hear
alone the melody, through the still waters of
her timeless, god-connected mind for whom the
bell still tolls, knowing a love so right, the words
in the night, in the night we love, we know how
to do it? Did a horn section blast out the hard beats,
shout out as the ropes lashed her wrists, the words
nobody gets too much heaven no more? Did she
expect to get saved by the greatest bell? I just want
to be your everything, God has said, demanding that
we the little islands in the stream invite his jive talking
in exchange for the sort of immortality that often has
come too soon. You win again, the saints must always say.
Don't forget to remember, instructs God, before letting his
words of "you and I," heard one night only through the still
waters of the mind, feeling like ESP, disappear like a woman
consumed by fire. This is where I came in, says God,
running down a list of Number Ones who answered,
served and died, as the world saw a new morning, and alone
now tries still, shouting from beyond: I've gotta get a message
to you, crying out, singing: If I can't have you I don't want
nobody, baby. And God shouts back, Love you inside out
but we, still thinking we are islands in the stream, like Juliet's
Romeo don't get the message in time. And while this may indeed
sound like a tragedy, love still is so much thicker than water.
Great spirits have flown, having learned how can you mend
a broken heart. And the answer has always been to keep
stayin' alive, and know even among the flames that consume
you like a Saturday Night Fever, you should, like you started
a joke, for the record, in Massachusetts, anywhere, like a
ghetto supasta, no matter what your lonely days, lonely nights
may leave you, you should be dancin'. Yeah.
For Tom Andrews
Rather than worry about how little,
you worried how much time we had
in this world. The future bore down
upon you even as you read in your blue
plaid pajamas. And I couldn't calm you.
You knew then you would find your way
out and, sensing your need for change, I
suggested we buy a new house. Sensing
your desire to return to nature, I found one
in the woods. I hoped the new car would
help hasten your journey between home
and work. On the new piano, I played Bach,
in hopes that it would help you find order.
After six years, the world's still here, but you're
not in it. Some other couple lives in our house,
walks our woods. Plays our piano.
Another drives our car.
Rising up the escalator from the trams
that run between and below the terminals
at the Atlanta International Airport, I stand
shoulder to chest with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s
black wool preaching robes. They are heavy and cloaked around
a form that isn't a body. No one has dared to try to recreate
that face of hope and love. There is just the robe,
there to remind travelers racing past
that he is not a body anymore.
Behind me, as I rise,
the wall above the escalators presents
the faces of a hundred slaves,
daguerrotypes, the lost art of glass plates
reflecting light even from these darkest faces,
our own darkest faces from our own darkest past
many say we should stop shining so much light
into and move on into the future,
ones who say we should forget the past.
But I say: I am a lover of light.
I say shine light everywhere that light can be shone,
I say capture as many truths and images
in the instant of flash
that is such an opportunity as life.
At the Atlanta airport, the photos of slaves
are accompanied by the phrases of slaves,
the language that grows when books are not present
and if they are present, the alphabet's denied.
And I hear those faces talking to me.
They are explaining to me the history of what many say
should be kept in silence.
But I say: I am a lover of speech.
I say talk about it because it's the silence that divides us from ourselves,
while it is the talk that heals us.
Talk and teach, I say, the truth because we are all here to learn.
We do not get the world we want by ignoring the world we have.
Rising up the escalator at the Atlanta International Airport
I come face to face
with the premature absence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is just his robe standing there,
empty of heart, of flesh, of breath,
but it is preaching from inside that glass box
to millions of travelers passing by.
And I always make a point of stopping to listen before racing past
because I know I need to know where I'm going.
Miason ran as though he'd made
a decision no cuts in flesh, barbs
torn through chest and haunch
could cause him to regret. The horse-
hands that summer made a game of
loosening their laces then launching
a kicked boot aimed at the horses'
stomachs. They used their whips
and crops like words, just to say
something. And we, the children,
winced at the jolt and stagger each
time a struck horse lost balance
or footing. Certain riding lessons
we chose not to learn. Nor at nights
did we steal out under the moon
to the pastures with hands outstretched
with apples. Instead, we slept in our
bunkbeds and dreamt of the horses'
velvet muzzles whispering the fruit
from our trembling fingers, opening
their lips with a gust of forgiveness
spelled out in silk upon the darkened
air. But when Miason chose to run from
whatever was about to be done to him
in his stall, his bolting took up
the whole wind and wrapped it
around us twice so we could not
move from the path of snapped wire as it
blew toward us and cut the horses' wild
remembered blood deep into our own.
On the second to last day of the year
after visiting the otters, the goats, the turkey, and the bears,
my 2 and 1/2 year old daughter and I come home. We eat
Annie's macaroni and cheese, the macaroni the shape of rabbits.
Andaluna doesn't eat it once its made
because she really only wanted to postpone her nap.
So I say it's time then for a nap
and she screams out for the rabbits.
What follows then, a row the sort no tactical expert in any cabinet could
maneuver, mastermind, or bring to a graceful close without
bringing in additional troops, it is a battle won by love
and patience alone and violence is not permitted-
and yet neither side can give in.
It is my will, which is the same as her will, against her will, which is mine
on the fluffy animal and stars rug of her bedroom, a simple pair
of purple footy pajamas on her body the target.
Our audience of Pooh bear, Ernie, Elmo, and one large
unaffiliated pink rabbit and his shifty crew of tigers, Nemo,
and woolen cats my grandmother knitted before my daughter was born
look on in dismay as I undo the love of indulgence,
turn my back on the photograph of her first minute outside of me,
resting on me, and all the tenderness between us now turns
into a battle against all sleep everywhere-the fresh diaper now a symbol of
her defeat, she kicks against it, throws Curious George,
the book not the soft toy,
toward my head.
When it's done,
the pajamas on, she struggles to catch her breath
which has run it seems back into my body she now clings to to get it back.
In the rocking chair, she cries out for sleep, as if it's the piece
of the puzzle I was missing,
the obvious provision in the ransom note she'd given me to read.
Cuddle, she begs, in mama's bed.
Battle-worn, I haven't even the energy to consult my parenting skills.
I lift the weary body of my three foot adversary and carry her to my bed,
where under the covers, we hold hands, talk in whispers,
and grow back into one another like a world once again at peace.
Poems © 2007 by Laura Hope-Gill.
(Former Rapid River poets have included Rose McLarney and Thomas Rain Crowe.)
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The incident occurred around at 1.30 a.m. at a function hall in Hussaini Alam area near the Charminar.
The police said that an argument took place between two groups at the dining table when a couple of guests who wanted chicken dish to be served felt insulted over the delay and also by some remarks made by the other group.
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Freddie Grubb
|Personal information
|Full name
|Frederick Henry Grubb
|27 May 1887
Kingston, Surrey, England
|6 March 1949 (aged 61)
Surrey, England
|Team information
Medal record
Frederick Henry Grubb (27 May 1887 – 6 March 1949) was a British road racing cyclist who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He won silver medals in the individual road race and the team road race. In 1914, after he retired from racing, he established a bicycle manufacturing business (F.H.Grubb) in Brixton, London. By 1920 manufacturing had moved to Croydon and then in 1926 to Twickenham. In 1935 FHG Ltd was established in Wimbledon but by 1947 the F H Grubb name was back in use. Two years after his death the business was bought by Holdsworth, which used the Freddie Grubb brand until around 1978.
Cycling career[edit]
Born in Kingston, Surrey in 1887, Freddie Grubb was a leading rider when cycle-racing in Britain was limited to time-trials and track racing. A writer said of him in 1910: "Since August Bank Holiday he has been the most talked-of cyclist in Great Britain... and it is safe to say that no man since Harry Green has shown more brilliant promise".[1] Grubb was teetotal and a vegetarian.[2] He rode for the Vegetarian Cycle and Athletic Club. He broke the 100-mile time-trial record in 1910 on a fixed-wheel bike with no brakes. The Vegetarian club historian, Peter Duncan, said: "He has no brakes; traffic was so light he saw no need for them." [1][n 1] Grubb rode the distance in less than five hours. The distance had already been ridden in less than five hours by "Goss" Green during a record attempt from London to Brighton and back over 104 miles; his finishing time showed he had ridden 100 miles in less than five hours but he was denied the 100-mile record because he had not been timed at that distance.[3] Grubb's ride was the first to be formally timed.
Grubb set a record for 12 hours in the Anerley event near Liverpool in 1911. The organizers had set a course of 210 miles, further than they expected any rider to go. It had to be extended to allow Grubb to ride 220.5 miles. The second rider, Charlie Davey, also beat the club's plans and finished in 215.5 miles.
Grubb set a record of 351 miles for a 24-hour time-trial on the track. It was broken by Henrik Morén with 375.6 miles in 1912. Grubb's 5h 9m 41s for London to Brighton and back stood for 14 years. He rode a Triumph bicycle with a reinforced frame to withstand his style of forcing round big gears.[3]
He won two silver medals in the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912.[4] He turned professional in 1914. Cycling reported:[5]
F. H. Grubb [has] returned his amateur license to the National Cyclists' Union. He has decided to make cycle racing and record breaking both on road and path a profession... Next year, he will take part in all the big Continental road races, and will also participate in paced races on the track. Grubb, who has been a strict vegetarian for five years, is a non-smoker and total abstainer, and should prove a very worthy British representative abroad. He is 25 years of age, and scales 12st stripped, and when he gets accustomed to the Continental methods there is no reason he should not shine as a star of the very first order in the professional ranks.
Grubb was considered for the New York, Paris and Berlin six-day races.[6] He rode briefly on the continent, starting in the 1914 Giro d'Italia before returning disillusioned. The venture ended his cycling because rules denied professionals the right to ride again as an amateur.
Cycle trade[edit]
Grubb opened a cycle business in Brixton, south London, in 1914 but the First World War started. Peter Duncan said:[1]
Fred worked in a London munitions factory. He had long working hours and cycled to and from work every day. It was all bed and work. He wanted to get into the Navy for an easier life, but his reserved-occupation status was a problem.[n 2] Eventually he managed, but Navy catering meant when he returned he was no longer vegetarian. He was made an honorary club member.
Grubb opened another shop after the war, with money from his clubmate Charlie Davey. Grubb went into partnership with Ching Allin in 1919, forming Allin & Grubb of 132 Whitehorse Road, Croydon. The two split in a row over cycle design. Allin & Grubb became A. H. Allin and began selling Davey cycles rather than Grubb.
The cycle-trade historian Mick Butler, who called Grubb "not a very likable character", said:[n 3][n 4][7]
After the Armistice (1918), Charlie Davey put up more money for Fred Grubb to resume production with Ching Allin in partnership and the firm of Allin & Grubb was founded in 1919. Ching was a much more likeable character so with the prestigious name of Grubb on the bikes and the likeable nature and business acumen of Ching the bikes were an instant hit complete with the then revolutionary quick release.
Butler added:[7]
An advert for F.H.Grubb [says] "NOT THE ONLY DROPOUT BUT THE ONLY GENUINE QUICK RELEASE". I was told many moons ago by Bill Bush and Len James, former stalwarts of the Southern Veteran Cycling Club, that there was one hell of a row between Ching Allin and Fred Grubb over who originally designed the drop-out and quick release on the Grubb bicycle. Apparently Fred Grubb wanted all the credit as his name had top billing on the bikes they were making and Ching was annoyed by this, staking a claim for Charley Davey who was Fred's money man and the designer of the original QR.
Grubb opened another business under his own name in London Road, West Croydon, in 1920 and by 1924 had a shop at Robsart Street, Brixton.
In 1934 Grubb advertised that his business was in liquidation. He then opened another company, FHG, at 147a Haydons Road, Wimbledon, with 20 staff from the former venture.
Grubb died on 6 March 1949, aged 61, in north-east Surrey and his family continued the business. The Holdsworth company bought the Grubb name in 1952.
- ^ Riding a fixed wheel, or direct gearing between the pedals and the back wheel, would have given him limited braking but not enough for an emergency stop.
- ^ Dispensation from military enlistment was given to workers in 'Reserved-occupations', those industries, such as munitions, farming and mines, often considered too valuable at home to be allowed to fight abroad.
- ^ Quick release wheels can be attached and detached faster than the nut and bolt of other wheels, an advantage when changing a punctured tyre during a race
- ^ Cycling historian Mick Butler also noted that the earliest reference for 'quick release wheels' that could be verified was Cycling, 4 March 1920 p XVI. An advert declared Grubb Racing Cycles – with the simplest quickest form of quick release wheels – Allin & Grubb, 132 Whitehorse Road, Croydon. The same issue of Cycling also contains an advert for 'F.H.Grubb, 250 London Road, Croydon', (just around the corner from Allin & Grubb) which goes on to state "no connection with any other firm" so it would seem they had already parted company or all was not quite well.
- ^ a b c NTL World, F.H.Grubb – FHG – Freddie Grubb, by Norman Kilgariff. Archived 6 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sykes, Herbie. (2013). Maglia Rosa 2nd Edition: Triumph and Tragedy at the Giro D'Italia. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-4081-9001-2
- ^ a b The Bicycle, 15 July 1942, p6
- ^ "Freddie Grubb Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
- ^ Cycling, 3 October 1912, p290
- ^ Cycling, 31 October 1912, p371
- ^ a b Classic Lightweights, Allin-Grubb, retrieved September 2008
External links[edit]
- Olympic database. Profile F.H. Grubb at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-03-15)
- Nkilgariff Archive Site – W.F.Holdsworth, FH Grubb, Claud Butler
- 1887 births
- 1949 deaths
- English male cyclists
- Cyclists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Great Britain
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Companies based in the London Borough of Merton
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Defunct cycle manufacturers of the United Kingdom
- People from Kingston upon Thames
- Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Companies based in the London Borough of Lambeth
- Vegetarians


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The Chronicle: Issue 2016-14, April 5, 2016
What's Going Through The Intersection of Insurance and Technology?
Is CRM Realizing its Potential After 3 Decades?
Majesco and SPLICE Software announce strategic partnership
Majesco, a global provider of core insurance software, consulting and services for insurance business transformation, has announced that SPLICE Software, a provider of solutions that connect insurance companies and customers with a real-time, data-driven engagement across all mediums of automated communication , has joined their partner ecosystem.
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Due to declines in property and liability costs and overall risk management costs, businesses paid 2% less in 2015 than they did in 2014 to cover the total cost of risk, according to the 2016 RIMS Benchmark Survey.
IBM Executive Report – Innovating insurance: Lessons from the world's leading innovators
With high levels of protection through regulation and other factors, insurers have lacked an imperative to innovate to remain competitive. Yet shrinking premiums in a slow economic environment, rapidly changing customer expectations and behaviors, and unprecedented technological advancement are changing the game. Insurers can no longer count on barriers to entry to protect them, as emergent forces of change gnaw away at traditional business models. This executive report highlights key innovation lessons from the world's most successful organizations and identifies specific strategies that can help insurers innovate and outperform.
iA Financial Group launches Access Life
Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc. has announced the launch of Access Life, a simplified issue life insurance product offering quick, comprehensive coverage with no need for a medical exam. Access Life provides basic coverage for clients who have trouble getting life insurance for any number of reasons.
Slice Labs secures funding from Horizons Ventures and XL Innovate
Slice Labs Inc., an insurtech startup set to launch the industry's first on-demand insurance platform, has announced that it has secured seed funding from Horizons Ventures and XL Innovate. The Slice on-demand insurance platform allows participants to easily purchase insurance when they need it, with a tap. The first product launched on the platform will be a pay-per-use policy for Uber and Lyft drivers.
IBC and Tesera Systems announce transfer agreement for municipal risk assessment tool
Insurance Bureau of Canada has announced the transfer of intellectual property rights for its municipal risk assessment tool (MRAT) to Tesera Systems Inc. MRAT, the only tool of its kind, is a made-in-Canada innovative solution to help communities be more resilient and adaptable to climate change by providing insights into infrastructure vulnerabilities and the risks they face from extreme weather events.
Conning releases annual insurance M&A study
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Celent report on Closed Block Vendor Spectrum: Options For Outsourcing and Technology Transformation
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Opta expands innovations with launch of Inspection Score
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Celent survey: Making property/casualty investments that pay off
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T.E. Wealth acquires Doherty & Bryant
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CSC and 360Globalnet join forces to advance digital insurance claims processing
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eMarketer: Canadian consumers split on comfort with digital purchasing
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Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Rating/Content: PG. Stress-influenced dietary decisions. Set post-TRF, so references to that episode.
Disclaimer: Neither the world or the characters are mine, and I believe Molly is specifically Moffat and Gatiss' creation.
Word Count: 800-ish
Summary: Molly has a miserable day, and then gets a phone call.
A/N: The tried and true therapy of giving a fictional character my crappy day strikes again.
A Very Small Something
by CaffieneKitty
A bowl of ice cream, the tailings of a jar of strawberry jam and an enormous blob of Nutella. There, thought Molly, throwing the large serving spoon into the sink with a disgusted clatter. Dinner.
Toby looked up at her from his own less-sugary more-fishy dinner at the sudden noise and meowed.
"Don't you start," Molly huffed, pulling a smaller spoon from her cutlery drawer and shoving it shut, only to have the drawer coast closed with a quiet snick.
She cursed Ikea bitterly.
Gathering her bowl and spoon, she stomped and muttered her way over to the sofa and flopped down.
Of course her mobile rang.
Bowl perched on her stomach Molly seriously considered letting it ring out, but it could be the hospital with something urgent. She set the bowl aside, got up and retrieved her phone from her coat by the door.
'Dr. J. Watson' the display read. Fantastic. Second worst possible person- She thumbed the answer button. "What."
"Yes. What."
"Hi. Um. I hope I'm not bothering you, but Sherlock just-"
She snorted and rolled her eyes. "Oh don't tell me he's got you phoning in apologies for him now."
"Apol- What's he done?"
"He- well-" Molly dropped back down onto the sofa. "It's not anything specific, only it's some days he just, you know, is, and it's like, like wearing a blouse made of nettles. Drives me mad."
John laughed. "Yeah, I know the feeling. Not so much the blouse-wearing part though."
Molly smirked and gave Toby a pat when he jumped up beside her. "You would know what he's like if anyone would."
"I thought after the-" John paused. It hadn't been that long, and faked death or not, the grieving had still been real for John. "I thought you and he had a sort of friendship going after that. Or more than you had before."
Wedging the phone under her ear, Molly retrieved her sugary 'dinner' and gave it a stir, watching the colours chase her spoon. "So did I, but he's been just as bad since he came back. I thought he might be less of, well. Less of a prat, but apparently I'm wrong about that too."
John chuckled. "I don't think even coming back from the grave for real would change Sherlock that much. 'Prat' is coded into his DNA."
"You're probably right." Molly giggled. "So if he's not making you apologise for him, and you aren't apologising for him regardless of whether he's making you or not, why did you call?"
"Well. He came in tonight in a whirl of coat, as per."
"As per."
"And he started going on, you know, the usual, surrounded by idiots, tiny little brains, waving his hands around like a mad orchestra conductor and shouting the place down."
Molly sagged further into the sofa, poking at her ice cream. "He would do after spending three hours around me."
"No, no, that's not it at all. In the middle of it, he said something I thought you should hear."
"What?" Molly braced herself.
"He said, 'If it weren't for Molly Hooper, the whole of Bart's Hospital would be better off used as a nursery school. She's the only person there with even a spark of thought in her head, if she'd bother to use it.'"
The spoon clattered into the bowl as Molly put a hand over her mouth.
John's voice rushed to fill the sudden silence. "I mean, it's his usual backwards way of saying things, but he meant- He respects you Molly, in his own way. He might not say it to you directly, but he does. You know he'd never have asked you to help him with- to help him the way you did last year if he didn't respect you and trust you."
She took a breath. "I know. I mean I guess I know after, you know, things, it's just-" Molly sighed, rubbing her nose and willing herself not to cry. "It's really nice to hear. Even indirectly. Thank you."
"Don't mention it. I just thought you should know."
They exchanged a few more words, then John rang off.
Molly put the phone down on the coffee table next to her bowl. It didn't change that Sherlock was an irritating, infuriating prat who took over her territory at Bart's as if he had a right to at all hours of the day and night, but... it was something. A very small something.
Molly looked down at the mangled swirls of white, red and brown sugary goop in the bowl sitting next to her mobile on the table. The thought of eating the bowl's contents made her feel faintly nauseated. She had bread, some cheese, half a tomato, and possibly a bit of ham left from Sunday. That would make a far better dinner.
Rising from the sofa, she took the bowl and put it into the freezer spoon and all, then started the kettle for tea.
- - -
(that's all)
Post A/N: This is the second time I've had Molly abandoning a bowl of ice cream in her freezer in a story. I don't know why this is my head-canon for her stress-coping mechanism, but at least this time I'm not setting her up with Jim from IT.
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Visual art news, views & reviews in Dallas, Texas, USA
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& The MAC Subindex
D-Art vs. the Bathhouse
& Other
Art Organization Stories
from Texas Arts Revue #9
Summer / Fall 1982
Interview with D-Art Founder Mary Ward below
Another Ward quote concludes the article.
Much like the icebergs floating on the walls of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, the business of Dallas art is only partially visible, its appearance is deceptively warm, and directionless movement is often obscured by incremental progress.
What distinguishes art business from other business is that art business can work and never show a profit. A well-run art business not only works, however, but it is mutually beneficial to artists, patrons and administration. How well this is achieved depends on whom you ask.
In an attempt to compare privately funded D-Art with the publicly funded Bath House Cultural Center, it became apparent that what goes on in both cases is probably more peculiar to Dallas art business in general than to either establishment. Marlis Schmidt, a former D-Art volunteer, put it succinctly: "Both are alternatives. Both are strangled by red tape. Neither have defined themselves very well... Neither have met their potential."
Dallas' growing pains and the influx of new people and ideas have not spared the art community. Some Dallas artists are seeing a need for a united political front. Such a need stems from the artist's attempts to get public funding and to establish legal precedents for protecting their ideas and property.
The consensus is that there is a lack of centralized voice in the artistic community and that the artists are not well represented by Dallas art institutions.
Despite its goal to be an alternative to those institutions, D-Art has been criticized on the same grounds for not having artists on its board. The organization has also come under fire for using volunteers in positions that require professional expertise and for lumping professionals with leisure-time artists.
By virtue of its relatively low profile, the Bath House has escaped much of the criticism D-Art has endured. It does, however, suffer from a Red-Tape Worm contracted from Public Money in the Dallas Park and Recreation Department. Due to a case of Limited Budget, programming efforts are left to the responsibility of community artists.
Private Money vs Public Money is no freshly opened can of worms, nor is the hope that "volunteerism" can assume professional commitment. Texas is known as an art haven of private support, despite its reluctance, or ignorance, in soliciting money from such federal sources as the National Endowment for the Arts.
"Texas was slow to get on the national funding bandwagon with the East and West coasts," acknowledges Patrician Meadows, programming director of D-Art. "We are considered provincial because we just started taking advantage of NEA funding the past six or seven years. The private sector has always felt the need to support the arts... [ for D-Art ] to go with them was a natural step."
Gerald Burns
drawing of D-Art ©1982
Although D-Art has a variety of 'personal problems,' it maintains a cheerful, if not paranoid, front. Much of D-Art occurs on the telephone from a removed, voice-from-nowhere source. It has openings almost every Monday ('Come drink free wine! } and pursues a policy of actively filling every square inch of its 20,000-square-foot interior.
Meadows has been BUSY rounding up all sorts of aesthetic experiences ranging from a show of policeman's art ( May 3-7 ) to an exhibition titled Derangements, that will be comprised of the works of 30 Texas artists.
D-Art offers its artist members 'a gathering place' and a newsletter for an annual fee of $35. Exhibition space, workshops, classes and storage are available for additional fees. Although no private studios exist, they are included in long-range plans.
The building, at 2917 Swiss Avenue, has all the atmosphere of a federally subsidized clinic. maybe it's the yellow brick, the white walls or the creaky little old ladies who come to sign the register. maybe it's the oil-painted still life propped at the entry on an easel.
"D-Art is not as fru-fru as it sounds," chirped Meadows. "It's not like OBJECT D'art or anything. We like to think of it as a place where Dallas artists can exhibit and work and really be around each other."
Doubtless, all would like to think of it that way. But many do not. Dallas artists involved with The Red Horse Flying Show, ( January 4-30, 1982 ), said they found D-Art painfully unsupportive, uncooperative and unprofessional... "in the end it seemed like they were just women who wanted to hang out with artists," said one contributor.
Among the myriad problems encountered by Pegasus organizers Alison Kraft and Robert Trammell, an uninsured wooden sculpture by Wayne Amerine was damaged by an animated visitor. D-Art had taken out insurance on the show, but it expired before the show was opened. D-Art is taking no responsibility for damages beyond offering the artist $500 for a work valued at $2,500, Kraft said.
Mary Ward at home, portrait ©1982 by John Walker
Mary Ward, formerly D-Art's executive director, and the person most responsible for its establishment, adopts a diplomatic stance. An eloquent speaker on anything, Ward gestures often, slim fingers often curled around a Winston Light. her glamourous blue gaze and sheet of dark hair bring to mind a 20th Century Cleopatra.
"It's very difficult to separate the concept that began a couple of years ago when D'ART evolved into ... a a group of people who all have very strong opinions of what an art center should be... It is a mistake to look at D-Art and criticize it, because you can stand back and say, 'D-Art is what it is and no more and no less, and it serves part of the community.'
"The error is when you say D-Art serves all needs to all people. it doesn't. No institution does. My concern is how to find out, if that didn't work, ( which it didn't for me ), what is it that does work?"
Mary Ward spoke reluctantly of her controversial departure from the administration at D-Art in early March. "If I expressed my sincere feelings about why I left, I could very well jeopardize [ my ] future future activities in this town. And that's just being very blunt.
"To describe the conditions of my departure would be to bring into focus the very subject that prevents me from saying exactly how I feel about it. I am sorry to be that convoluted about it... Whatever the circumstances were that surrounded my leaving, I think it's best to leave it to the fact that it was a process that was imminent. I had certainly perceived of myself as leaving D-Art... just because of my inability to do the same thing over and over again, day after day, year after year.
"My role had ultimately reached a point where I was taking care of a lot of things that were not my forte in terms of dealing with mundane administrative things. I saw myself as more of an idea person... It was a difficult decision. I don't want to be cagey, but I hope whatever I do, I correct the mistakes I made before."
The Bath House may not be everyone's answer, but it was designed to provide new alternatives, especially for residents of Lakewood and Lake Highlands. Unlike many City projects, it was not conceived as a recreation center.
"We are not here to initiate programs, and we are somewhat selective... This is not the place for the Dallas Bridge club," quipped Jay Trimble, who is primarily concerned with the performance aspects of the facility.
Original Manager Jayne Hickey, who spent three years ( 1976-79 ) at Art Park in upstate New York, emphasizes the Bath House's potential for outdoor events in its surrounding park on the lake. Art Park's reputation was built on out-door environmental extravaganzas.
Gerald Burns
drawing of The Bath House
The Bath House appears over the last rise of North Cliff Drive like a sudden mirage on glittering White rock Lake. Its massive bleached concrete blocks have had their ground since the mid-20s. The original orange railings and elegant black iron lamp posts stand firmly despite frequent flooding and years of neglect. Some say an attempt to raze the stately structure proved too great a task, even for bulldozers.
Although little recorded history exists about the facility or its architect John Carsey, some Dallas old timers remember the Bath House's popularity in the 30s and 40s when thousands of bathers flocked there each day to trade high heels and wingtips for shower shoes and bathing suits to take a cool plunge.
It closed in 1958 after a long drought that almost dried up White Rock Lake.*
The Bath House survived 20 empty years and was resurrected by the city of Dallas in 1980 as the Bath House Cultural Center through the City Arts Program division of the Parks and Recreation Department.
Two identical wings of the building, which originally served as men's and women's dressing rooms, have been transformed into a theater on one side and a workshop/exhibition space on the other. Rental fees are arranged on an hourly or weekly basis and range from $4 to $24.
The theater is small, intimate. Plushy orange velveteen armchairs are arranged to seat about 90 people in front of the stage. Gray walls spotted with track lights surround the room. The natural acoustics are perfect for readings and performances without amplification.
The white, skylit exhibition rooms are accessed by an incomplete darkroom and fiber/wood/metal sculpture workshop. Underneath the structure, which was at one time a shower area, dozens of resident cats share space with possibilities of a raku kiln and foundry.
Despite being vulnerable to constant public scrutiny, it seems blissfully removed from the fuss except in observing City policy. Sale of liquor is forbidden, and work is subject to censorship.
"When I say 'censorship,' I'm not talking about drawings of nudes," Hickey explained. "I mean violent, sexist, racist trends not suitable for public consumption. The City has an obligation to be non-partisan."
She has avoided what she calls "The Big Bang Theory,' i.e, staging an initial hoopla and letting it slide the rest of the year. The CETA Arts Festival last summer was the first rattle out of the Bath House box and community response has been trickling in since fliers were sent out in January. The momentum is building a widely varied spring/summer schedule. It is difficult, however, to fairly assess a facility put to such relatively little use.
By way of conclusion, it may be most appropriate to quote Mary Ward: "I have no tolerance for a civilization that won't accept criticism or sarcasm. It's a very dull world when everyone agrees on everything. [ In Dallas ] there is very little tolerance for difference of opinion. We desperately need a publication to accurately reflect what is happening here."
[We are trying.]
Julia Frazier was an information gatherer,
for Belo Computer Information Services,
a freelance writer and a recent graduate,
of NTSU's Journalism school.
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(Reuters) - Netflix Inc said it would launch its movie and TV streaming service in South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan early next year.
The move is part of the U.S.-based streaming pioneer's global expansion plans. By the end of 2016, Netflix plans to reach 200 countries, including China, where it said it was "continuing to explore options."
The streaming service will be available at launch on smart TVs, tablets, smartphones, computers and a range of Internet-capable game consoles and set-top boxes, Netflix said.
Earlier this month, Netflix started its service in Japan, the first Asian country to welcome the maker of "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black".
Details on pricing, programs and supported devices will be known at a later date, the company added.
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#3103 - Eleven-Month Old Budget Impasse
Illinois Lawmakers are expressing guarded optimism about ending the state's eleven-month old budget impasse by the end of May.
Illinois Lawmakers are expressing guarded optimism about ending the state's eleven-month old budget impasse by the end of May.
The Illinois General Assembly has wrapped up its work for another week in Springfield and there's still no sign of a budget agreement nearly three weeks into the state's new fiscal year.
Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and the Democratic majorities in Springfield remained far apart over solving the state's budget problems when the scheduled May 31st adjournment date passed without agreement.
The Illinois General Assembly may be in for a long, hot summer after the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate advance their own version of a $36.3-billion budget for FY 2016 after rejecting Governor Bruce Rauner's Illinois Turnaround Agenda.
More on #3008 - Democratic Budget, Governors Turnaround Agenda, and Session Impasse
House Democrats are preparing to run their own budget proposal before May 31st while Governor Bruce Rauner is warning lawmakers can expect to be in Springfield for an extra long session if they don't agree to his pro-business agenda before trying to raise taxes.


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