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Sea levels could rise nearly 7 metres by 3000 AD
On a business-as-usual, high emissions path for CO2, global sea levels will rise 6.8m (22 ft) by 3000 AD. Irreversible warming will cause this trend to continue for thousands more years to come, ultimately reaching 65m (213 ft).
That's the conclusion of a new study published this week in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, which sought to model sea-level changes on very long timescales of millenia, taking into account all of Earth's ice and the warming of the oceans – something which has not been done before.
In all of the scenarios that the researchers analysed, the Greenland ice sheet was responsible for more than half of the rises; thermal expansion of the oceans was the second highest contributor, and the contribution of glaciers and ice was only small.
The researchers believe this is the first study to incorporate glaciers, ice caps, both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and the thermal expansion of the oceans into a comprehensive projection of sea-level rises.
Read more: http://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2012/10/3.htm
Great link thanks. It fits well with the paleoclimate evidence of very much higher sea levels in warmer climates.
I wouldn't expect that we, as a species, would wait until 3000 A.D. for the ocean to rise a mere 22 feet. The geologic record shows that the ocean rose 30 feet in a 50 year period in Mexico. We see plenty of historical evidence and immediate evidence that temperature rises tend to build exponentially upon themselves.
Do you have a link(s) to support that?
Will, if you take another look at the paper, you will see that their estimate of 7 meters is for the case where GHGs stabilize at 2100 and then remain level .
A BAU high emissions scenario, without stabilization, is going to produce 7 meters much sooner, and what the year 3000 would like under those circumstances…Venus.
I really do find guesstimates of circumstances in 3000 quite befuddling. At the rate at which negative changes are cascading down upon our heads, we'll do well to reach 2100, let alone 3000. Moreover, for reasons that I cannot begin to understand, all the predictions of the 'alarmist' climate scientists so far have proved quite consistently to be under-estimates. The Arctic summer sea ice loss is a prime example, and the resultant increase in heat absorbed due to the albedo flip (being replicated by the loss of Northern Hemisphere snow and ice cover)seems to me to be such a strong positive feedback that we can expect really rapid changes, on decadal time frames, rather than those of millennia.
There is a chilling look at the permafrost carbon feedback at Climate Sight. I was struck by this section:
"The ocean kept absorbing carbon, but in some scenarios the carbon source of the land outweighed the carbon sink of the ocean. That is, even without human emissions, the land was emitting more CO2 than the ocean could soak up. Concentrations kept climbing indefinitely, even if human emissions suddenly dropped to zero. This is the part of the paper that made me want to hide under my desk."
The sea level 1,000 years from now is kind of interesting to contemplate.
But it seems a bit like someone in the Dark Ages speculating about what would happen in our century. The parallel has an obvious weakness: we have real data and scientific modeling to formulate our visions, things that the small educated class of 1000 AD didn't have.
Still, our tonsured forebears didn't expend a lot of effort worrying about we of the far future. Bravo to us for taking more accountability, but it seems rather beside the point, if the point is to spur the necessary action to prevent such an outcome.
Long before the sea level rises–in fact, in the next ten to thirty years–the atmosphere is likely to experience total systemic failure from the point of view of agriculture.
It's all about the disintegrating Arctic ice cap. Once the ice cap goes, the jet stream will flop around untethered to its historic track. That track is defined by the temperature gradient between the pole and the lower latitudes. As the Arctic warms, that gradient is literally degrading and the track is widening.
As a result, seasonal rains and temperatures are getting more volatile. The strangely warm weather of March 2012 is a mild foretaste, as were the storms that brought snow to Rome during that time. Both were the result of big, slow meanders in the jet stream.
If the ice cap disappears, and it seems well on its way, and the Arctic inverts (not changes, but inverts) from heat reflector to heat absorber, then an escalating feedback loop of tundra melt, methane and carbon release, and further warming may have been initiated. Once that happens, if it does, agriculture is doomed. And so are we. I don't mean the human race. I mean myself, the people reading these comments, and everyone we love.
I'm not saying it's unfounded to worry about sea level rise a millennium hence. I'm saying that we're going to have very large problems in our own lifetime, unless we make some immediate and radical changes.
I so agree with the last paragraph. Nobody
'out there' is going to be greatly worried by the 3000 yr prospect. Related to that is the use of temperature at equilibrium in general discussion of AGW. Transient Climate Response would be better, I think, although the calculation looks a bit hard. Hansen's "40% in 5 years" looks like a good basis for approximation. Comment, anybody?
With the current state of acute danger that we face, in decades, I actually find airy phantasies about what may or may not happen by 3000 to be quite irresponsible. It seems to infer that we have centuries further to get our act together, and that we will actually still be extant then, as civilization and species.
Yes indeed. We are in for big problems in the short term. I am wondering what will happen when the arctic is open for many months and just sits there absorbing solar radiation instead of reflecting it. Has anyone run the numbers on how much extra heat the earth's energy balance will receive under a minimal ice cover in summer up there.
Let's remember, we hear people talk about the arctic like it won't be a REAL problem until we have ice free summers. Like, who cares! Once we have lost most of the summer ice, we will have so much more heat in the atmosphere up there that we could easily see the end of stable climate like mankind has grown used to. The ice is only partially gone in summer now and the weather is absolutely WILD! Just give it a couple more years of new minimums and all bets are off!
I know it is interesting to contemplate sea level rise in a thousand years, but right now the global house is burning and nobody is doing anything. No, I correct myself, we are doing something. We are exploiting Tar Sands in Canada, we are doing new deep water drilling, we are fracking gas and oil and we are now headed into the open arctic sea to drill more oil. We are doubling down on the disaster. Future historians will wonder at this suicidal course of action.
The large scale ban of cars in New York City will rid us of the structural violence of our streets by eliminating the devastating monopoly of cars leading the charge to immediate and dramatic reductions in emissions, the most crucial and inevitable adaptation to rapidly accelerating climate change.
And, compared to the large build-out emissions of other strategies for dealing with climate change, net zero mobility solutions will have minimal build-out emissions since current transportation methods are extremely inefficient and include huge wastes of materials.
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Canadian Hemp-based Cereal called "Holy Crap" Headed for ISS
OK — almost totally OT. If the U.S. government accepts hemp-based products even to this extent, it bodes well for a saner environmental policy.
Environmental and Economic Benefits of Hemp
Can hemp clothing save the planet?
By Brian Palmer|Posted Tuesday, 12 April 2011
This article points to a useful study, and seems to report it fairly.
Well, staying OT, Here's a short film made by the US Dept of Ag. in 1942 instructing farmers on how to raise "mairhuana" and reefer "For Victory".
James Hansen predicts 5 meter sea rise
In a paper published by Columbia University, celebrity climate change activist and academic James Hansen has revealed predictions of a 5 meter sea level rise by 2100.
The prediction is based on a situation where greenhouse emissions continue to grow at current rates. This will result in average global temperatures rising by 3-6 ° Celsius, which will melt both the Arctic and the Antarctic ice sheets. As these areas melt, the enormous quantities of water currently locked away in the ice will be released into the oceans, triggering a global sea level rise.
The report is highly technical, but extremely well written. Hansen and co-author Makiko Sato also discuss the impact of glacier melts and the positive feedback mechanisms involved in ice melts and global warming.
Thank you for the link. The Hansen & Sato paper is quite decent and useful.
With climate change statement, NU scientists chose proactive course
A group of climate scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have drawn criticism for their joint statement urging action on global warming. Above, the shoreline of Lincoln's Oak Lake bakes in the mid-August sun as drought continued to plague Nebraska and the region at large
Excellent piece by Chomsky -
' Excellent piece by Chomsky'- a tautology, surely.
By the end of July, the Large Lakes Observatory at the University of Minnesota Duluth reported that Lake Superior's average surface temperature was 8-10°F above average and expected to stay above normal through the remainder of summer…………….
Global assessment shows 95% of lakes are warming
In 2010, National Geographic News reported on the results of the first comprehensive global study of lake temperature trends. The study — conducted by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California using satellite data — found that in the last 25 years, the world's largest lakes have been steadily warming, some by as much as 4°F (2.2°C). In some cases, the trend is twice as fast as the air temperature trend over the same period.
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The thirtieth anniversary edition of BWR starts out strong with "Mother of Pearl Clouds," a poem by Larissa Szporluk that ends with a line articulating what is possibly the impetus of all art: "let's not let them / think that we're just passing." And it just gets better from there, offering fiction, nonfiction, interviews and a chapbook, all of which are smart and enjoyable. Take Elizabeth Wetmore's "How to Lose 30 Lbs. In 30 Days!" for instance, a refreshingly honest look at the disillusionment of wifehood; I found myself proclaiming Brilliance! after reading the following excerpt: ". . . you lean against the refrigerator, wondering if 'cut it out' is really an appropriate response from a licensed therapist and wrapping the phone cord around your pinkie until it turns dark red then dark purple, a shade so pretty it occurs to you that you might paint the bedroom this color and you imagine yourself at Home Depot wrapping a rubber band around and around your pinkie." Featuring full-color art by the mysteriously-named Mr. Hooper, whose ultra-contemporary work is both comic and disturbing, this publication is sustenance for your head, doled out in easy-to-digest doses. Pour yourself an absinthe and tuck right in. [Black Warrior Review, Box 862936,Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486.E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Single issue $8.00. http://www.webdelsol.com/bwr/] - SRP
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This thin, glossy little number could fairly be classified as Eye Candy. With full-color art to accompany each piece of literature, it is nothing short of visually stunning. From the dramatically minimalist black and white photography of Neila Kun to the evocative oils of Sergei Silverbeer, the artwork represented here is expansive enough to serve as anyone's cup of tea. Where literature is concerned, there is a fair mix of quality poetry and prose, tending somewhat toward the scholarly (this is not a market for wildly free-form, experimental verse). Though there was a disappointing exclusion of female writing from this volume, the boys came out swinging in good form. Mitchell Metz's vignette of an injured raccoon struggling primordially against death, set as it is within a mundane human backdrop, leaves the reader in ecstasies of empathy. And then there are the perfectly selected words of Donald Platt, presenting us with the picture of "smashed beach glass that the ocean's molars grind down / to the sweet smoothness / of half-sucked lozenges." All in all, The William & Mary Review is a delightfully showy, well-executed tome that, while edgy enough to escape seeming stodgy, is sufficiently academic to garner the respect of readers, writers and artists alike. [The William & Mary Review, P.O. Box 8795, VA 23187-8795. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Single issue $5.50.] - SRP
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The surrealist-naturalist oils of Margaret Wall-Romana set the tone for this journal, the theme of which is "Gardens in the Urban Jungle." Grouped into sections according to which editor selected them, the works represent a broad interpretation of the seemingly-simple motif—from straightforward botanical sketches to Yiddish verse printed in both English and Hebrew. Particularly impressive was Erin McCluskey's "What I can Give," a highly innovative, yet authentic prose-poem that bespeaks the effort of any artist in any genre to channel their love through their life to create something that resonate beyond mere articulation. Another standout is Sholem Burger, whose series of New York poems exhibits a righteous indelicacy that only true talent can sustain. An interesting, well-rounded publication with a universally applicable theme, Five Fingers Review #20 contains more enjoyable art than you can count on both hands. [Five Fingers Review, PO Box 4, San Leandro, CA 94577-0100.] - SRP
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An absolutely sensational cover on this terrific Canadian journal — "Avalok," a painting by Chris Woods creates a "clash of perspectives" with an astoundingly life-like image of a server / goddess at McDonald's with her sacred offerings of chicken nuggets / croquettes and cookies / biscuits (bilingual fast food in Canada, of course!). What's inside is just as exciting. More than three dozen poems, most the work of poets with strong, quirky, original voices, four equally original stories, a personal essay, and several thoughtful reviews of books from noteworthy indie presses. It's not hard to see why many of the writers published in Event rake in the big Canadian literary awards. Every piece here is truly an event. Poetry by Canadian writers Andy Stubbs and Sue Wheeler and by Californian John Randolph Carter is particularly striking, though all of the poetry in this issue is worth savoring; a story by Edward Maitano of New York could restore a cynic's faith in the fate of short fiction. The volume opens with the marvelous translation by Jeffrey Angles of the work of widely published Japanese poet Keizō Aizawa, a fitting invitation to the work that follows in this very memorable issue. Here is an excerpt:
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These words of the flesh are a bronze battle-axe
Swinging in a great, downward arc toward my ears,
And as it strikes,
My flesh sends up a spray of blood
That transforms into the petals
Of infinite flowers."
[Event, Douglas College, P.O. Box 2503, New Westminster, B.C. Canada V3L 5B2. Single issue $8. http://event.douglas.bc.ca] - SR
Number 3
Editors Alexandra van de Kamp (U.S.) and Alberto Domínguez (Spain), two of five co-editors between Madrid and New York, tell us this bilingual journal "attempts to demarcate an open, lyrical territory in which surprising relationships and uncanny connections may occur among different worlds and points of views." The work here does, indeed, reach beyond the mere distance between Manhattan and Madrid, offering an eclectic mix that is surprising and pleasing to find between one set of covers, from José Saramago's speech to the World Social Forum in Brazil in 2002 "From Justice to Democracy by Way of Our Bells," to Sarah Kennedy's quiet, painterly poem "Morning, with Tea."
There is much to ponder and appreciate, not the least of which is the opportunity to read writers from around the world one might not encounter in other publications available in the United States. There is some incredibly fine poetry in this issue. In particular, I was moved by the work of noted Spanish poet Angela Pérez Ovejero's, whose poem "The 28th of March, 1986" is beautifully, tenderly translated by Alexandra van de Kamp. Here is an excerpt:
"The night thickens with nails,
with walls of silence.
He has died of cancer.
You dress him in a vegetable skin:
it is the porous bark of acorn trees
or the black rain of windows,
of motionless statues,
black and motionless."
A summary in text and images by sculptor and conceptual artist Douglas Fishbone of his interactive installation of 25,000 bananas at the Banco Central in Cuenca, Ecuador ("…a critique of some of the more violent aspects of globalization and contemporary consumer capitalism") is provocative. An interview with prolific Spanish novelist Alejando Gándara also seems utterly apt for our time ("News does not necessarily suggest knowledge, and much less transparency…The world can turn opaque because of the news…"). Captivating photographs of a sort of words-or-paper-as-movement-and-visual-image by New York sculptor and photographer Suzanne Broughel need no translation. [Terra Incognita, P.O. Box 15085, Brooklyn, NY, 11215-0585. E-mail: email@example.com. Single issue $7.50. www.terra-incognita.com] - SR
Volume 25, Number 2
Winter 2003
Those of you who open up your copy of Indiana Review expecting a regional, Midwestern flavor are going to be in for a surprise. Many of the pieces in this sophisticated collection of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and reviews have a sharp, dark (dare I say cosmopolitan?) edge and a wicked sense of humor. For instance, the short story "In Bogalusa" by Paul Maliszewski conjures a reclusive Dorothy Parker who entombs herself in a Days Inn in rural Louisiana. Poems like "Jesus at the Help Desk" by Dana Roeser and the 2003 Indiana Review Poetry Prize award-winner, Maria McLeod's "Regarding the Character you named Maria, teacher's notes" use irreverent references in an intelligent way. There were also quite a few short-short pieces that walk the line between prose and poetry, among them the piece by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis with the great title, "Manifesto of the Over Mitt:"
3. We declare our allegiance to the stove, the occasional resentful foray to the backyard grill, where really a dishrag or potholder would do. No long-suffering upside-down cake of a sun or sum of our days. Though we be mere mitts, we be mitts of a new kitchen.
4. There is no beauty in the doily. there is no excuse for the doily.
A literary journal full of wit and energy. [Indiana Review, Indiana University, Ballantine Hall 465, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47405-7103. E-mail: email@example.com. Single issue $8. indianareview.org] - JHG
Issue 58
This eclectic and entertaining collection of full-color art work, poetry, short fiction and memoir provides space for highly ironic voices to mingle with the highly sincere. The eccentrically goofy tale of cons gone wrong, "That Kind of Nonsense" by Patrick Tobin, was a highlight, as were the poetry translations, including Robert Pinsky's translation of Anna Akhmatova's poem "The Summer Garden" and Taylor Stoehr's translation of Li Po's "Fighting South of the Wall." Another short story, "Heathens," by Alden Jones, describes the complicated relationships between a teacher, one of her young female students, and a church group teen on a mission trip in Costa Rica. The fascinating (and weirdly beautiful) photographs of decaying books by Rosamond Purcell lend irony to the reading experience. [AGNI, Boston University Writing Program, 236 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Single issue $9.95. http://www.bu.edu/agni/index.html] - JHG
The Hudson Review
Volume 56 Number 2
Summer 2003
Don't let the unapologetic academic tone of the Hudson Review scare you off. The long essays, which take up the bulk of the journal and at first may seem daunting, are fascinating, particularly the essay on Darwinism in the Humanities by Harold Fromm and another on Madame Pompadour by Tess Lewis. Of course, if you're interested in learning more about the relationship between the Western frontier mentality and the Salem Witch Trials or about the intricate corruptions in the Catholic Church, this issue will be right up your alley. The reviews are lively and informative, as usual, and include descriptions of works of theater, film, and music, which is somewhat unusual, but welcome, in a literary magazine. The poetry in this issue has a characteristic stateliness about it, and there are many examples of tightly-controlled formalist verse. [The Hudson Review, 684 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10021. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Single issue $9.00. http://www.hudsonreview.com ] – JHG
Spring/Summer 2003
This journal out of Texas presents poetry, art work, photography, and reviews in a slim, perfectly bound package with good production values. The appealing poetry within captures a cross-section of American writing that balances heart and art; these works are beautiful in and of themselves but also strive to mean something. For instance, the poem "On Forgetting" by Megan Snyder-Camp plays on well-known proverbs to display a deeper truth about motherhood, as in the following:
Your children have been waiting an hour.
You say you only have two hands, and they say
a stitch in time saves nine. They're learning
proverbs in school. They portend like old women.
You can barely speak to them…
The essay/review by Abe Louise Young, "New Blood for an Old Story: Rita Dove's Mother Love," was informative and intelligent. The bleak landscapes of California desert, photographed by Rama Tiru, provide graphic evidence of this region's otherworldly beauty. Overall, this is a good collection that will help remind you why you like to read contemporary poetry. [Borderlands, P.O. Box 33096, Austin, TX, 78764. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Single issue $10. www.borderlands.org] - JHG
The Missouri Review
Volume 26, Number 2
As you would expect, the "Editor's Prize Issue" of the Missouri Review features the editor's prize winners of both the fiction and essay contests and the Larry Levis poetry prize winner in addition to a selection of other fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews. Here are a few lines from the poetry winner George Looney's "An Occurrence of Grace at a Bartók Concert": "…They'd have heard whales in her voice, // seaweed and rust, not Bartók. Those / vain hawkers of deformities…Their shrill voices were too often ours." This issue also features an interview with novelist Richard Powers, author of The Gold Bug Variations and Galatea 2.2. By the way, this is one of the few literary magazines to feature cartoons – a welcome change of pace in the usually buttoned-up realm of serious literature. [The Missouri Review, 1507 Hillcrest Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211. E-mail: email@example.com. Single issue $7.95. http://www.missourireview.org/] – JHG
The Washington and Lee University Review
Volume 53, Number 3
Fall 2003
Civil war buffs will particularly enjoy this Fall 2003 issue of Shenandoah as it features a portfolio of twenty-three poems about the Civil War. It also showcases non-fiction, short fiction, poetry, and book reviews; many of the pieces have in common a sense of restraint, almost an old-fashioned polite reserve. Work here is on the formal rather than the experimental side. I enjoyed Paul Zimmer's amusing non-fiction piece "The Commissioner of Paper Football" and Mark Doty's lyrical poem "Fire to Fire," which begins: "All smolder and oxblood, / these flowerheads, / flames of August: / …the paired goldfinches / come swerving quick / on the branching towers, // so the blooms / sway with the heft / of hungers…" Overall a satisfying read, especially those who like Southern regional flavor; there were quite a few contributors from the state of Virginia and its environs. One note for fans: the editor writes that this journal will now be appearing three times a year instead of four. [Shenandoah, Washington and Lee University, Troubadour Theater, 2nd Floor, Box W, Lexington, VA, 24450-0303. shenandoahliterary.org/index.html] – JHG
Volume 26, Number 2
Issue #53
Summer/Fall 2003
With its introspective and lyrical qualities, the writing in Bellingham Review invokes the brief northern daylight and drizzly afternoons of the little bayside town, just south of the British Columbian border, which is its namesake. But don't misunderstand: this unassumingly slender journal (which must be one of the country's most beautifully designed) is neither slack nor unadventurous; its pages contain all the great weight and mass of true literature. While the 22 poems tend to induce a mellow and reflective state of mind, they are never staid, never complacent, and are nearly always—whether on a grand or quotidian scale—breathtaking. Consider these haunting lines from "Blown Glass" by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis: "Your hand went through the church window . . . I held two petals of your skin together with both hands. Blood, purple-throated, operatic sang through my fingers." Ann Veronica Simon's wry, rhapsodic essay on sleep and insomnia charms and disturbs, and the three short stories here are no less impressive. Brian Leung's "Drawings by Andrew Warhol," a snakelike narrative packed with surprises, is bound to compel readers to devour it whole. And June Unjoo Yang's "Revival," concerning a mother bewitched by her demon-daughter, is by far one of the most provocative and poetic I've read in a great while. [Bellingham Review, MS-9053, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225. E-mail: email@example.com. Single issue $7.00. www.wwu.edu/~bhreview] - MC
Issue 12
Summer 2003
Though this is the summer issue of Washington Square, its fiction and poetry is pervaded by cool autumnal temperatures. The six artful stories here, while engaging the reader in the indefinable dramas of urban singles or the troubled lives of the patrons in an Amsterdam pub, tend to maintain an impassivity that is eerily uniform. For the most part, these characters seem to have mastered an air of indifference toward their world. Whether it's a frosty patrician heiress, as in Gloria Lin's "Native Life," or a self-destructive ex-pat tippler as in Michele Mortimer's "At Empty Glass," the draftiness invoked by each narrative creates an effect that is cumulatively disturbing, for in every case the reader senses a palpable underlying truth: that these folks have never fully succeeded in self-delusion and are living lonely lives, haunted by the specter of futility. The chill first sets in with Liana Scalettar's story "The Dead Sea," where the author so well evokes the cool porcelain of her character's bath that the reader's feet begin tingling. Scalettar's closing lines leave a feeling of hollow transcendence that is brilliantly apt, and suggestive of the overall flavor of this issue: "Expecting to be immersed, warm, blind, you find yourself above and shivering, and confronted with a cool panorama of once invisible things." [Washington Square, Creative Writing Program, NY University, 19 University Place, Room 219, New York, NY, 10003-4556. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Single issue $6.00. [www.washingtonsquarereview.com/] - MC
Hanging Loose, a lovely and inventive poetry and fiction journal out of Brooklyn, may very well be the source to consult for contemporary poems of the most living kind. The work here is refreshingly unpretentious, playful, and altogether untouched by the cerebral rarefaction of academia or clumsy experimentalism. Yet seriously inventive compositions find a warm welcome here. "Madame Bowery," an illustrated cartoon poem written by Sharon Mesmer and drawn by David Borchart, is a prime example of work that is at once edgy, felicitous, and wholly alive in its spirited weirdness. Likewise, Richard Loranger's emulation of written liturgy, "Poems for a Centralized Church," thrives happily in its slightly post-modern, satirical humor, while delivering a touching paean to the strange art of poetry, forever impractical and indispensable. Hanging Loose should perhaps be best known, however, for the space it devotes exclusively to the work of high-school age writers: bold and muscular short fiction and poems by distinctive young voices that startle in their brave grasp of image. Sample these sweet lines by Brittany Nichole Lovejoy, from her poem "Ryan's Lake": "HE JUMPED / pulling his muscular legs to his chest, / and in the moment before / he fell through the horizontal line, / splitting / Heaven / and / Earth, / he was / The Keeper of All Happiness." [Hanging Loose, 231 Wyckoff Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217. Single issue $7.00. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. www.hangingloosepress.com] - MC
Volume 31 Number 2
Spring 2003
This slim journal out of Berea College, Kentucky, lives up to its name, with an intriguing showcase of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, reviews, and photographs by regional writers and artists.
Judith Victoria Hensley's photographs are particularly striking. They communicate a mystical love of the land. The simple directness of Jeff Mann's poems, "Single Men" and "The Harvest of Motes," make them memorable. Mary Susan Imo's poem "The New Dead" is chilling because the imagery is so familiar.
James B. Goode is the featured contemporary author, and Byron Herbert Reece is the featured historical author. A solid cross-section of their work is presented, along with essays about their work. The best of these is Mildred White Greear's "An Unlikely Friendship" about Reece.
The book reviews included cover an interesting cross section of regional books, published mostly by small presses.
The writing of Appalachian Heritage often whispers rather than sings. The exception is the poetry, which is allowed its more individual voices. Sense of place is strong in all the work, and the writing is intriguing enough to conjure fantasies of travel to the region. The journal would be a good addition to anyone's subscription list, but especially recommended to college students and university libraries. [Appalachian Heritage, CPO 2166, Berea, Kentucky 40404. email@example.com. Single issue $6.00. www.berea.edu/ApCenter/AppHeritage.html] - DE
Posted Dec 4, 2003
A Literary Review Celebrating Stories and the Art of Storytelling
Number 2
Ten stories, a novella, an interview, three poems, and a series of "Afterthoughts" by the journal's contributors comprise what Orchid's editors describe, with accuracy, as "rare fiction by talented writers." Featured writer Maura Stanton (a story and all of the poems) and interview subject Valerie Miner are probably the best known writers in the issue, but several others do certainly deserve our attention, most notably Cindy Dale, whose story "Do Not Do the Arithmetic" represents a brilliant effort. I'd read anything of hers set before me, and I'll definitely look for her name in every table of contents from now on. Bonnie Jo Campbell's masterfully crafted "Storm Warning" is also memorable. Campbell is one of the more experienced, as in widely published, writers in the volume. Particularly appealing is the number of stories here that deal with the working lives of their characters, including Debbie Lee Wesselman's fifty-page novella "Vibrissa," a subject in contemporary fiction that is often sorely missing. Overall this issue offers well-rounded, sturdy, appealing stories, happily free of pretensions and formulaic prose. If you're clamoring for good, readable stories from new and established voices, pick up a copy of Orchid. [Orchid: A Literary Review, 3096 Williamsburg, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2026. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Single issue $8. http://www.orchidlit.org] - SR
Volume 4
The range of experience represented in this annual publication is of particular interest — poets and fiction writers as sophisticated or widely published as Denise Duhamel, Peter Johnson, William Greenway, Antler, and Mark Brazaitis (among others) alongside newcomers Thomas Graves and Audrey Doire. With more than two dozen poems and a half dozen stories, there is much to contemplate and appreciate here. Much of both the fiction, as well as the poetry tends toward the "conversational" and often edgy, though there is sufficient diversity in tone and approach to keep the issue engaging. Particular favorites of mine are "Feral" by Antler, whose work always surprises, compels, and delights, and Greenway's "The Interpretation of Dreams," a short narrative poem that may be the best poem about dreaming I have encountered yet, ending with the exquisite: "and I drove down the wrong way / into what happened next," which is a metaphor for more experiences than I can name, including reading literary journals. "An Innocent Heart" by Catherine Harris is an intelligent fictive consideration of heterosexual marriage. Duhamel's alphabet prose poem "Our Americano" is well…just like the alphabet, promise and potential disguised as…promise and potential (my favorites "yz": "yakety-yack yes-men everywhere. He inspired a / zillion Zen hipsters, zoot suiters, and zazoos with his zing, zazzle, and zowie"). Duhamel never disappoints. [Bryant Literary Review, Faculty Suite F, Bryant College, 1150 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, RI 02917. E-mail: email@example.com. Single issue $8. http://www.bryant.edu/~blr] - SR
Posted Dec 3, 2003
Volume 29, Number 2
Exquisite engravings from Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam by German naturalist and artist Maria Silbylla Merian (1647-1717) are reproduced on the cover and also inside this issue. Merian's observations are said to have "revolutionized both botany and zoology," and it is evident from the specimens presented here why this is so. Also evident this issue, why Feminist Studies continues to be a leader when it comes to valuable writing of great interest to academic and non-academic audiences alike. This is a particularly worthwhile issue of well-researched and well-written essays offering novel perspectives on early modern European women, two excellent short stories and two excellent poems. Also within this volume is a beautifully composed art essay on the work of painter Agnès Thurnauer, a provocative forum on graduate education in women's studies, and a cluster of essays about a reproductive and care issues. Leslie J. Reagan's extraordinary essay "From Hazard to Blessing to Tragedy: Representations of Miscarriage in Twentieth-Century America," is an exceptional essay linking the author's personal experience and observation with meticulous research and theory. If you don't have hours to spend with the issue or the stamina and patience for the academic essays (though they're worth tackling), by all means read Reagan, poet Cathleen Calbert's short fiction "The Museum of Tragedy," Laurie Lamon's poem "Poetry: A Wonder," and Baumgardner and Richards' "The Number One Question about Feminism" which begins: "I consider myself a hard-core feminist….But is it okay that I wear thong underwear?" [Feminist Studies, 0103 Taliaferro, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. E-mail: email@example.com. http://www.feministstudies.org] - SR
Story. Place. Spirit. Witness
Volume 28, Issue 1
New publisher and editor Peter Anderson has saved the day! Long-time publishers Jack and Marcia Barstow retired last year, offering the magazine at no cost to anyone who would carry on the tradition of "personal reflective writing." Anderson has moved the operation to Crestone, Colorado where, if this first issue in the journal's twenty-eighth year is any indication, Pilgrimage will continue to delight and inspire us. According to Anderson, Pilgrimage serves an "eclectic fellowship of readers, writers, poets, naturalists, activists, contemplatives, seekers, adventurers, and other kindred spirits…" On encountering the moving and thoughtful writing here, one certainly wants to be belong to this "widespread community." About half the pieces in this issue are reprinted from other publications, but many are from independent presses or sources with which readers may not be familiar.
Plan to take your time with this issue because it is truly and profoundly about reflection. Kim Stafford's lovely essay about his father, poet William Stafford's idea of "Honorable Work" deserves a gentle, thoughtful read. Nasdijj's "Baseball," about being father to a boy with AIDS startles and tears at the heart with its quiet insights ("He forgets I was once a boy, for it's not a me he knows.") Nancy Mairs' complex piece about her correspondence with a death row inmate is something one wants to re-read, there's so much at stake here. Andrew Lam's "Can Ghosts Cross the Ocean?" is the sort of short, but intelligent and lyrical reflection that defies categorization and for which it might be hard to find a home, except in a journal precisely like Pilgrimage. And editor Anderson's "Home, Land, Security: The View from Vulture Gulch" gives me reason to believe that, if writing like this is possible, perhaps the times we live in are not as desperate and dark as they so often seem. [Pilgrimage, Box 696, Crestone, CO 81131. E-mail: email@example.com. Single issue $8. http://www.pilgrimagepress.org/] - SR
88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry
Issue 3
October 2003
This new-ish journal (only on its third issue) has already generated lots of positive talk among poetry insiders and continues to showcase a wide variety of writers: experimental, traditional, narrative, lyric – name a style, and you'll probably find it in here. A feeling of whimsy and humor pervades this issue; in the editor's notes, Ian Randall Wilson confides that they used a "Dada" method to organize the submissions. But the felicitous juxtapositions created work in the reader's favor. The editors of 88 have created a riotous tasting menu featuring some of today's best poetic voices – Elinor Wilner, Tony Hoagland, David Wagoner, amid many other familiar names, along with a sprinkling of reviews. Therefore, it's somewhat difficult to pick a representative quote, but I will pull some lines from two particularly enjoyable poems, "If God Were a Wiseguy" by Dorothy Barresi: "…though we pray… / …not, for once, to a bag of blue indifferent sky, / but to a brass-knuckled / wire-tapped tough / capable of making us feel important / for a few lousy moments…" and from Gerald Yelle's "Ovidian Love Songs and Their Place in Radio History":
So here goes mine:
Whose love is a wire, drawn though ever smaller dies, freeing
Daphne from the laurel, Jean d'Arc's heart from the heretic pyre.
Should your well run dry I will wed you back to water.
Definitely an up-and-coming journal to watch. [88, Box 88 c/o Hollyridge Press, PO Box 2872, Venice, CA 90294. E-mail: email@example.com. Single issue $13.95. http://www.hollyridgepress.com] - JHG
Volume 16 Number 2
Summer 2003
Okay, full disclosure: I will love any magazine that includes any work by Paul Maliszewski, fiction writer. I cannot help it. In the world of small literary magazines, most of us have authors for whom we'll shell out anything to get the latest—a Dean Young or Bob Hicok or Olena Kalytiak Davis Poem, a Paul Maliszewski or Thomas de Zengotita or Aimee Bender story. So I'm biased toward this particular Gettysburg Review from the start because of Mr. Maliszewski and his story, which, like nearly all his other published work, is fun, funny, strange and beautiful.
It is a little surprising, somehow, in that The Gettysburg Review seems a little staid, at first blush. But while the attractive perfect-bound journal has the matte finish of seriousness, it's a wild wind inside those pretty covers. If I don't say right here before mentioning the rest of the book that there's a man in North Carolina named G. C. Waldrep who has written two of the more devastating poems in recent memory, I'll explode. So there it is: if only for pages 233-34, for those two poems, buy the journal. And the Maliszewski story, of course.
But there's more, too. Christopher Coake has some fiction that's fresh as bananas before the boat, and Peter Stitt's introduction is wonderful; Brad Marshall's paintings are so soft you almost feel flannel on your cheek when you see them. And yes, there are too few women present in this magazine, by ratio, so here's to hoping Gettysburg will publish an overabundance of women writers in their future issues. [The Gettysburg Review, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325-1491. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Single Issue $7. http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/gettysburg_review/] - WC
Spring/Summer 2003
For all the hoopla and sage editorial paragraphs regarding work grounded in location and place on the submission pages of many, many journals, few magazines can come close to the South Dakota Review's incredibly grounded, sure, located/locatable collection in this, their 40th anniversary issue. As E.I. Pruitt writes to begin his poem "Corn": "You can't live in this part of the world for long / without developing a personal relationship with corn." There's corn. There are crows and eagles, there are countless farmers, there are horses and there is snow. All that said, there are poems on oceans, on bays, in sunny hot climes (though, of course, the Midwest is as hot in the summer as it is cold in the winter): there is work within from everywhere, geographically, yes. But the emphasis, clear from the outset and maintained throughout, is on the Midwest. The simplicity of 'the Midwest' in the country's imagination is belied by this journal, thankfully: for each ear of corn, there's a reference to Vaclav Havel; for every desolate, numbered county road, there's a city that people know is just a few miles past that road, and in that city, culture and the world. South Dakota and the Midwest are in good creative hands because of this magazine. [South Dakota Review, Box 111, University Exchange, Vermillion, SD 57069. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Single Issue $7/$5. http://www.usd.edu/sdreview/] -WC
The Bitter Oleander
Volume 9 Number 2
Summer 2003
This issue of The Bitter Oleander is heavy on translations and features an interview with writer and editor Nicomedes Suárez-Araúz as well as a selection of his poetry, which, overall, provides an international flavor to the collection. The translations in this issue are accompanied by the pieces printed in their original languages, from German to Spanish to Swedish, which I think adds nuances to the reading that otherwise might not be caught. The short fiction pieces are lyric and dream-like, and mix easily with the many prose poems throughout the journal. The poetry includes work by Robert Bly and Ray Gonzalez, among others. I enjoyed the Kafka-reminiscent poem by Katherine Sánchez Espano called "The Fiancée": "…A roach tries on / my wedding gown, fabric / billowing like rain clouds, informs me / I'm fat. I see / my pant seams divorcing." I like the fact that this journal continually publishes newer voices, and that the way it weaves these new discoveries with seasoned writers seems completely seamless. A delicate but tense aesthetic of image dominates the editor's choices. [The Bitter Oleander Press, 4983 Tall Oaks Drive, Fayetteville, New York 13066-9776. Email: email@example.com. Single issue $8.00. http://www.bitteroleander.com/issues.html ] - JHG
The Canary
Number 2
This issue of Canary, a new poetry journal with high production values featuring a completely black cover with only "Canary" and "2" visible, displays the talents of poets diverse as Thomas Lux and Olena Kalytiak Davis. Poems, which range from highly experimental to traditional forms, occasionally include visual media such as illustrations, plain lines, or even, an autograph of a pop culture icon, as in "Poem with Erik Estrada Autograph." As a representative sample, here are some evocative lines (lines breaks and stanza breaks condensed for the interests of space in this column) from Michael Dumanis' "West Des Moines":
"She asked me whether / she could cling to me // on the Impaler, / no, the Tilt-a-Whirl, // at the next Church / of Wounded Jesus carnival. // I wanted to live for / an infinite while // on the outskirts of Troy / at the dawnbreak of siege, // where I could conduct / reenactments // of meeting her / in my spare time."
A feeling of youthful energy, newness, and eccentricity pervade the poems here. [Canary River, P.O. Box 51210, Eugene, OR 97405. E-mail: email@example.com. Single issue $10.00. http://thecanary.org ] - JHG
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After winning the American League pennant in 2012 but losing the World Series in four straight games, the Detroit Tigers are ready to try to take that elusive final step.
The Tigers are led again by a collection of stars that would make pretty much any team envious. Right-hander Justin Verlander was the AL MVP two years ago, and slugger Miguel Cabrera was voted MVP last season after becoming baseball's first Triple Crown winner in 45 years.
They were both at Comerica Park on Thursday to kick off the team's winter caravan.
In addition to Verlander and Cabrera, Detroit also welcomes slugger Prince Fielder back for his second year with the team, and designated hitter Victor Martinez returns after missing all of 2012 with a knee injury.
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DeKalb County has dominated girls basketball lately in the state's second-largest classification, winning eight championships in the past 10 years.
Last season, Southwest DeKalb and Miller Grove played an all-DeKalb state final for the second consecutive season. Miller Grove won the three regular-season meetings, but Southwest DeKalb won in the region championship game and the state final to claim its fourth title in six years. In 2012, Miller Grove won to complete a boys/girls sweep of the championships.
The county's dominance goes back to 2004, when St. Pius claimed its first of three titles in four seasons. During the 10-season run, DeKalb's championships have come from St. Pius (2004, 2006, 2007), Southwest DeKalb (2008, 2009, 2010, 2013) and Miller Grove (2012). Only Etowah in 2005 and Fayette County in 2011 have taken the championship away from DeKalb.
Look for this year to be no different. In a preseason poll produced by Score Atlanta last week, four of the top five girls teams in Class AAAAA are DeKalb County schools, led by Southwest DeKalb at No. 1.
Here are five teams to watch this season:
*Southwest DeKalb: The Panthers will be led again this season by Tynice "Nicole" Martin. As a sophomore last season, Martin was second-team all-state and first-team all-DeKalb. She finished third in the county in scoring (16.7 points per game) and second in rebounding (10.3) and was the only DeKalb player to average a double-double. The Panthers also return junior Davion Wingate, who averaged 10.3 points and was among the top 10 in the county in 3-point percentage.
*Miller Grove: Coach Renee Breedlove has turned the Wolverines into one of the state's top programs, and they are ranked No. 5 in the preseason poll. The task this season will be replacing a strong group of graduated seniors that included Tashi Thompson (13.1 points per game), Klarissa Weaver (11.2 points, 7.8 rebounds) and Katie Hunt (9.5 points).
*Tucker: The Tigers, ranked No. 2 in the preseason, are led by Erykah Davenport, a first-team all-state player as a junior last season, when she averaged 14.8 points and 7.3 rebounds. The Tigers also return Naima Jackson, an honorable mention selection in DeKalb. Tucker, which lost to Miller Grove in the quarterfinals, faces defending AAAAAA champion Norcross in a scrimmage on Thursday.
*Kell: Much like Miller Grove, the Longhorns will have a bit of rebuilding to do this season after losing Naomi Stuger, China Henderson and Erin McKinney (graduated) as well as Caliya Robinson (transfer). The Longhorns were ranked No. 1 entering the state tournament last season but lost to DeKalb school Stephenson in the first round.
*Forest Park: The leader for the Panthers will be senior guard Kayla Potts, who missed more than a year with a knee injury. Forest Park was 8-6 without her last season but went 16-2 after her return in January. Potts scored a game-high 19 points in a 43-41 loss to Southwest DeKalb in the state semifinals. It was the closest game the eventual champions had during the tournament.
*Other teams to watch: Stephenson, Allatoona, Osborne, Effingham County, Cedar Shoals, McIntosh, Creekview, Flowery Branch
November 12th, 2013
3:25 pm
Watch out for the raiders. They have their four leading scorers returning and they are all seniors. Look for them to make some noise this year. That loss to Sandy Creek in the playoffs made them hungry to get get back to the dance this year and take it even further.
November 12th, 2013
4:01 pm
This is Tucker Tigers year we got all ours starter back from last year. The girls work pretty hard last year and we had 2 ladies got hurt from last year that will be back this year so 5AAAAA you better get ready. WE ARE TUCKER Erykah and the girls are going to bring it.
November 12th, 2013
4:34 pm
never understood why MLK has such a top program in football but not as strong in basketball!!
November 12th, 2013
5:15 pm
@Mighty Lion King I think your boys team will do well this year, Greg King is a beast.
November 12th, 2013
7:07 pm
@ TOP TIGER- I hope so, its not often that i get reports on our basketball team that we our doing well, needless to say i barely make it to any of the games!! Football is my favorite sport and judt so happens KING a strong majority of the time exceeds in that!!!!
November 13th, 2013
2:52 pm
There is a storm forming down 20 West AAAAA…Tucker, MLKing,SWD and all others. Watch out for Mays. They should be the Region Champs in football, and they are going to make someone very unhappy this basketball season.
November 13th, 2013
3:43 pm
@Mighty Lion King hey good luck this weekend we in DeKalb County know you guys are going to bring G-ville down. That have no defense.
November 13th, 2013
3:48 pm
@jolly rogers we know Mays have new coaches over there from DEKALB COUNTY but we are ready to face Mays. I just hope Mays is ready. LOL This is a Tiger year so get ready for the ride. WE ARE TUCKER
November 14th, 2013
2:31 am
With the exception of Miller Grove and Tucker, why do Dekalb Co. schools have the worst facilities?
November 14th, 2013
1:36 pm
Top Tiger…I admire your over confidence in your team..I hope you guys can be 1 of the 4 teams going to state this year, I'd hate for you to be the region tournament host sight and still not make it(talk about adding pressure..lol)…But lets be real this region is tough. You don't have anything that the other teams in your region don't have. I give you credit, you have a good team, but so does SWD, Stephenson, not so much Millergrove anymore, but yes, Mays is going to be in that mix. There will be no clear cut best this year in this region, every game will be a battle. just be mindful of your comments.. Be careful what you ask for. Your always one ACL or MCL away from another sad season.
While the Football team has won state, the boys have a championship, the girls…ummm might want to lay off the trash talk.
November 15th, 2013
7:48 am
The SWD girls(2013 5A champ) and Columbia girls(2013 4A Champ) squared off last night in a fundraiser game. SWD won by 20. There needs to be a story done on Coach Walton(SWD coach). She has a great program. 4 championships in 6 years. She has sent alot of girls to D-1 programs over the years.
November 15th, 2013
12:57 pm
Chip you forgot Stephenson girls State Championships in 2004 and 2008. Come on Chip!!!


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Left-back lines up against San Marino, Osman named on bench.
Leighton Baines was handed his 15th international cap with a place in Friday evening's starting line-up for England in San Marino.
In the build-up to the contest, there was much discussion as ever over the left-back's battle with Chelsea's Ashley Cole for possession of his country's number three jersey.
And reporters travelling with the Three Lions party were expecting the Everton man to get the nod against the European minnows, a team who sit joint last in the FIFA rankings alongside Bhutan and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
But England then face group leaders Montenegro on Tuesday evening, with manager Roy Hodgson's choice at left-back in that game the real acid test of his way of thinking.
Baines told evertontv: "They are both big games but the second one against Montenegro is important because of the group standings and where it is. We've got to get the job done against San Marino but people will rightly expect us to do that.
"We expect to get that job done. The next one [Montenegro] is the big one really."
Leon Osman is the second Everton player in the England party and Baines insists his clubmate is well worthy of adding to his solitary international cap in the forthcoming qualifiers.
"He's been amazing for us, this season especially," declared Baines. "Every season he is great and when we went down to 10 men against Manchester City last weekend he went and played like two or three players. He deserves to be in there and there can't be anyone who has been playing better than him that I can think of.
"He deserves the call up and hopefully he will get a game."
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Should we clone and revive Homo Neanderthal?
Scientists at Max Planck Institute have sequenced the complete genome of Neanderthal. What benefits could N. bring to the Sapiens mix of Today? And should interbreeding be contemplated?
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Mar 21 2013: So they say, ZX. Having the full "undiluted" genome is another thing altogether. The ethics of the issue, injecting a separate branch of Homo into a planet that knows precious little togetherness between populations of even a single species, would at first blush appear not only indefensible but also immoral. But the re-wind possibilities are tantalizing (and tantalizingly tempting!) re. unforeseen cultural, medical, or other benefits. The perils of exploitation of an intellectually weaker cousin lurk. The real question is: have we as a species not grown up at all in the last 30,000 years? Will we ever be capable of bi-species co-habitation?
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Mar 25 2013: Why does everyone assume that the childs life will be loveless? The Ikea Monkey shows that even smaller primates will tend to be given love by adoptive families if they are offered the chance to be adopted out. There is nothing different between this and any other experimental subject that happens to be an orphan.
The Ethics of experimenting on another human species are questionable, but that is what ethics are for, to answer questions that are hard because they raise concerns.
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Top picks 2012: Iamgold
Gold miner has production volume, growth projects and seasonal factors in its favor.
By Curtis Hesler, The Professional Timing Service
There was a study done in the 1970's that revealed that gold stocks tended to bottom in the fourth quarter and rally strongly into the end of the first quarter of the next year. Thus, looking for seasonal bargains in the gold sector makes sense, especially now.
Gold topped out at over $1,900 an ounce in August and September. It corrected to a low of $1,535, and has since consolidated around the $1,700 level. There is significant support at $1,600, but I don't expect it to dip that far before the next big rally leg begins.
I am confident that we will see gold significantly higher in 2012, perhaps with new highs by March.
Another attraction is that the average gold stock is currently cheaper than it was during the great crash of 2008. Now is the time to do a little gold mining and buy Iamgold (IAG).
Iamgold operates five mines and has some very interesting development projects in the works. Moreover -- and this is crucial -- it is producing a million ounces a year.
Gold mining is a capital intensive enterprise, and these days money is harder to find than gold. You need to have production, cash flow, and growth projects you can exploit from internal cash. Iamgold has all three, and even pays a 1% dividend. That is not all that outstanding, but it's comparable to a CD and has the potential to double during the next leg of the gold bull market.
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I did something strange. . .I watched all three movies last week....in opposite order. Very interesting. And I agree. I've been thinking of reading all the books again to gear up for November. Everytime I read them I always catch something new anyway. Wonder what I'll catch on to this time?
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Florida-based charity Christ's Starfish made a stop Thursday, March 28, at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital to donate toys for the pediatric unit.
The donations were presented in bins for each age group, ranging from rattles, mobiles and blankets for babies to video games and toys for the older children. In total, more than 500 toys were donated in six large boxes of toys, plus a bag full of teddy bears. They will be utilized and distributed by Phoebe's child life specialist Mandy Lanier.
"The toys go a long way to help the children who are in the hospital. The hospital can be a scary place, so I am able to use the toys donated by Christ's Starfish to help the children feel more at ease," Lanier said. "Sometimes a smile and a teddy bear can go a long way to make a children feel safe and comfortable."
Christ's Starfish is a faith-based organization that was started in 2007 by Carldon Layhey and his wife, Becky, in an effort to comfort children who require extended stays in health care facilities. They currently are working with child life specialists at hospitals in Florida, Georgia and Mississippi.
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Musician-Turned-Filmmaker John Maclean Premieres a Darkly Whimsical Feast for the Acclaimed Rockers
Two of Scotland's most talented siblings, Django Django drummer David Maclean and award-winning director John Maclean, collaborate on a surreal video for "Hand of Man", a single from the band's eponymous 2012 Mercury Prize-nominated album. "It's a little ditty about the idea of going back in time to the beginning of mankind and taking the hand of humanity to guide us forward through time to the present day, avoiding the slip-ups we've made along the way," David says of the track. Shot on black-and-white Super 8 in Elephant and Castle in London, the film jumps from a nostalgic warehouse party to a dreamy Dionysian picnic then back again, where drummer David is joined by bandmates Vincent Neff, Jimmy Dixon and Tommy Grace for the track's pastoral harmonies. The filmmaker describes the video as an "end of great things"—a reference to the near-obsolete Kodak stock used and the soon-to-be-demolished space in which the party scenes were shot. "It was the last day in our friend's building," he says, "which will inevitably be knocked down to make way for more dodgy flats with tiny triangle balconies." The quartet with a taste for psychedelic album art and outlandish stage costumes first met at art school in Edinburgh. John also rose to fame in the Scottish capital with the cult folktronica outfit The Beta Band, before turning to directing and picking up a Best Short Film BAFTA for his 2012 crime thriller Pitch Black Heist, starring Michael Fassbender. This latest work may mourn the passing of time, but it also looks forward to "the beginning of great things: Django Django, the spirit of youth, integrity, finding a way to live forever—and fresh bread."
Let the Grammy-Winning Guru of Record Production Guide You Toward New Year Nirvana
Recording artist whisperer and all-around wizened sage Rick Rubin contemplates life and art on the stunning cliffs outside his Malibu residence in this short film by Alison Chernick. The mogul ruminates on living in harmony with nature, the importance of recreating its perfection in art, and the transcendental power of sound before leading us into a guided meditation, a practice he has followed since becoming fascinated with yogis as a teenager. His trademark beard, untouched since he was 23 years old, pays clear homage to their spiritual influence. The story of Rubin's beginnings at Def Jam Records with Russell Simmons in 1984 from his New York University dorm room has become the stuff of legend. He has since become one of the most influential producers in the history of pop music, producing seminal hip-hop albums by artists such as LL Cool J, Run-D.M.C., and The Beastie Boys, with an unparalleled knack for genre-bending and critically acclaimed covers. He has also masterminded the late-career resurrection of a number of artists via American Recordings, exemplified by Johnny Cash's victorious comeback. Add to that eight Grammy awards, being named one of Time's most influential people in the world, and a co-presidency of Columbia Records, and Rubin has more than earned his magic reputation. "He is on a journey through the spiritual and creative wilderness," says Chernick. "It's transformative to witness."
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Pegasus Records has been around for about 30 years and they have a great selection of local Muscle Shoals music. They also buy and trade, which doesn't happen that much anymore.
Lunchtime Hotspot
Trowbridge's is the old-school local luncheonette in town. They serve really simple, delicious sandwiches and homemade ice cream. I always order the pimento cheese and a "babysitter." It's not listed on the menu but it is a local favorite: hot dogs, chili and mustard on white bread toast.
Retail Staple
Ye Olde General Store is a great shop that carries deadstock and new workwear. You can always find great items from Carhartt, Pointer and Duck Head. Gordon, the owner, is really helpful and kind.
Epicurean Fix
I try to get to the Florence-Lauderdale County Farmers' Market, The Tomato House and Spring Park Market on Thursday evenings, and Jack-O-Lantern Farms in Muscle Shoals. These are all locally grown fruit and vegetables markets in the area that have a great produce and homemade treats like pickled okra and sauces.
Treasure Trove
Southern Accents Architectural Antiques has an incredible selection. My wife and I love to shop for antiques and they have everything from bath fixtures, windows, knobs, and everything else you could think of to fill, or build, your home.
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A little is just enough... too much is dreadful. It can be very potent, especially hidden in punch or eggnog!


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The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has issued an advisory bulletin to alert all pipeline owners and operators of the circumstances of the Cherry Valley, Illinois, derailment and remind them of the importance of assuring that pipeline facilities have not been damaged either during a railroad accident or other event occurring in the right-of-way. Further, the advisory bulletin reminds pipeline owners and operators of the importance of providing pertinent information to rail operators and emergency response officials during an incident. This information should include the presence, depth and location of the pipelines so that the movement of heavy equipment and debris on the right-of-way does not damage or rupture the pipeline or otherwise pose a hazard to people working in, and around, the accident location. The advisory also encourages pipeline owners and operators to inform rail operators and emergency response officials of the benefits of using the 811 "Call Before You Dig" program to identify and notify underground utilities that an incident has occurred in the vicinity of their buried facilities. For more information, contact David Appelbaum by phone at 202-366-1419 or by email at email@example.com. Information about PHMSA may be found at http://phmsa.dot.gov. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-07-31/html/2012-18571.htm