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Because finally the personal
is all that matters,
we spend years describing stones,
chairs, abandoned farmhouses—
until we're ready. Always
it's a matter of precision,
what it feels like
to kiss someone or to walk
out the door. How good it was
to practice on stones
which were things we could love
without weeping over. How good
someone else abandoned the farmhouse,
bankrupt and desperate.
Now we can bring a fine edge
to our parents. We can hold hurt
up to the sun for examination.
But just when we think we have it,
the personal goes the way of
belief. What seemed so deep
begins to seem naive, something
that could be trusted
because we hadn't read Plato
or held two contradictory ideas
or women in the same day.
Love, then, becomes an old movie.
Loss seems so common
it belongs to the air,
to breath itself, anyone's.
We're left with style, a particular
way of standing and saying,
the idiosyncratic look
at the frown which means nothing
until we say it does. Years later,
long after we believed it peculiar
to ourselves, we return to love.
We return to everything
strange, inchoate, like living
with someone, like living alone,
settling for the partial, the almost
satisfactory sense of it.
When Mother died
I thought: now I'll have a death poem.
That was unforgivable.
Yet I've since forgiven myself
as sons are able to do
who've been loved by their mothers.
I stared into the coffin
knowing how long she'd live,
how many lifetimes there are
in the sweet revisions of memory.
It's hard to know exactly
how we ease ourselves back from sadness,
but I remembered when I was twelve,
1951, before the world
unbuttoned its blouse.
I had asked my mother (I was trembling)
If I could see her breasts
and she took me into her room
without embarrassment or coyness
and I stared at them,
afraid to ask for more.
Now, years later, someone tells me
Cancers who've never had mother love
are doomed and I, a Cancer
feel blessed again. What luck
to have had a mother
who showed me her breasts
when girls my age were developing
their separate countries,
what luck
she didn't doom me
with too much or too little.
Had I asked to touch,
Perhaps to suck them,
What would she have done?
Mother, dead woman
Who I think permits me
to love women easily
this poem
is dedicated to where
we stopped, to the incompleteness
that was sufficient
and to how you buttoned up,
began doing the routine things
around the house.
He climbed toward the blinding light
and when his eyes adjusted
he looked down and could see
his fellow prisoners captivated
by shadows; everything he had believed
was false. And he was suddenly
in the 20th century, in the sunlight
and violence of history, encumbered
by knowledge. Only a hero
would dare return with the truth.
So from the cave's upper reaches,
removed from harm, he called out
the disturbing news.
What lovely echoes, the prisoners said,
what a fine musical place to live.
He spelled it out, then, in clear prose
on paper scraps, which he floated down.
But in the semi-dark they read his words
with the indulgence of those who seldom read:
It's about my father's death, one of them said.
No, said the others, it's a joke.
By this time he no longer was sure
of what he'd seen. Wasn't sunlight a shadow too?
Wasn't there always a source
behind a source? He just stood there,
confused, a man who had moved
to larger errors, without a prayer.
Yesterday, for a long while,
the early morning sunlight
in the trees was sufficient,
replaced by a hello
from a long-limbed woman
pedaling her bike,
whereupon the wind came up,
dispersing the mosquitoes.
Blessings, all.
I'd come so far, it seemed,
happily looking for so little.
But then I saw a cow in a room
looking at the painting of a cow
in a field -- all of which
was a painting itself --
and I felt I'd been invited
into the actual, someplace
between the real and the real.
The trees, now, are trees
I'm seeing myself seeing.
I'll always deny that I kissed her.
I was just whispering into her mouth.
My neighbor was a biker, a pusher, a dog
and wife beater.
In bad dreams I killed him
and once, in the consequential light of day,
I called the Humane Society
about Blue, his dog. They took her away
and I readied myself, a baseball bat
inside my door.
That night I hear his wife scream
and I couldn't help it, that pathetic
relief; her again, not me.
It would be years before I'd understand
why victims cling and forgive. I plugged in
the Sleep-Sound and it crashed
like the ocean all the way to sleep.
One afternoon I found him
on the stoop,
a pistol in his hand, waiting,
he said, for me. A sparrow had gotten in
to our common basement.
Could he have permission
to shoot it? The bullets, he explained,
might go through the floor.
I said I'd catch it, wait, give me
a few minutes and, clear-eyed, brilliantly
afraid, I trapped it
with a pillow. I remember how it felt
when I got my hand, and how it burst
that hand open
when I took it outside, a strength
that must have come out of hopelessness
and the sudden light
and the trees. And I remember
the way he slapped the gun against
his open palm,
kept slapping it, and wouldn't speak.
This is not the way I am.
Really, I am much taller in person,
the hairline I conceal reaches back
to my grandfather, and the shyness my wife
will not believe in has always been why
I was bold on first dates. My father a crack salesman.
I've saved his pines, the small acclamations
I used to show my friends. And the billyclub
I keep by my bed was his, too; an heirloom.
I am somewhat older than you can tell.
The early deaths have decomposed
behind my eyes, leaving lines apparently caused
by smiling. My voice still reflects the time
I believed in prayer as a way of getting
what I wanted. I am none of my clothes.
My poems are approximately true.
The games I play and how I play them
are the arrows you should follow: they'll take you
to the enormous body of a child. It is not
that simple. At parties I have been known to remove
from the bookshelf the kind of book
that goes best with my beard.
My habits in bed are so perverse that they differentiate me
from no one. And I prefer soda, the bubbles just after
it's opened, to anyone who just lies there. Be careful:
I would like to make you believe in me.
When I come home at night after teaching myself
to students, I want to search the phone book
for their numbers, call them, and pick their brains.
Oh, I am much less flamboyant than this.
If you ever meet me, I'll be the one with the lapel
full of carnations.
He'd spent his life trying to control the names
people gave him;
oh the unfair and the accurate equally hurt.
Just recently he'd been a son-of-a-bitch
and sweetheart in the same day,
and once again knew what antonyms
love and control are, and how comforting
it must be to have a business card -
Manager, Specialist - and believe what it says.
Who, in fact, didn't want his most useful name
to enter with him,
when he entered a room, who didn't want to be
that kind of lie? A man who was a sweetheart
and a son-of-a-bitch
was also more or less every name
he'd ever been called, and when you die, he thought,
that's when it happens,
you're collected forever into a few small words.
But never to have been outrageous or exquisite,
no grand mistake
so utterly yours it causes whispers
in the peripheries of your presence - that was
his fear.
"Reckless"; he wouldn't object to such a name
if it came from the right voice with the right
amount of reverence.
Someone nearby, of course, certain to add "fool."
To hold a damaged sparrow
under water until you feel it die
is to know a small something
about the mind; how, for example,
it blames the cat for the original crime,
how it wants praise for its better side.
And yet it's as human
as pulling the plug on your Dad
whose world has turned
to feces and fog, human as--
Well, let's admit, it's a mild thing
as human things go.
But I felt the one good wing
flutter in my palm--
the smallest protest, if that's what it was,
I ever felt or heard.
Reminded me of how my eyelid has twitched,
the need to account for it.
Hard to believe no one notices.
The dogs greet me, I descend
into their world of fur and tongues
and then my wife and I embrace
as if we'd just closed the door
in a motel, our two girls slip in
between us and we're all saying
each other's names and the dogs
Buster and Sundown are on their hind legs,
people-style, seeking more love.
I've come home wanting to touch
everyone, everything; usually I turn
the key and they're all lost
in food or homework, even the dogs
are preoccupied with themselves,
I desire only to ease
back in, the mail, a drink,
but tonight the body-hungers have sent out
their long-range signals
or love itself has risen
from its squalor of neglect.
Everytime the kids turn their backs
I touch my wife's breasts
and when she checks the dinner
the unfriendly cat on the dishwasher
wants to rub heads, starts to speak
with his little motor and violin--
everything, everyone is intelligible
in the language of touch,
and we sit down to dinner inarticulate
as blood, all difficulties postponed
because the weather is so good.
Relax. This won't last long.
Or if it does, or if the lines
make you sleepy or bored,
give in to sleep, turn on
the T.V., deal the cards.
This poem is built to withstand
such things. Its feelings
cannot be hurt. They exist
somewhere in the poet,
and I am far away.
Pick it up anytime. Start it
in the middle if you wish.
It is as approachable as melodrama,
and can offer you violence
if it is violence you like. Look,
there's a man on a sidewalk;
the way his leg is quivering
he'll never be the same again.
This is your poem
and I know you're busy at the office
or the kids are into your last nerve.
Maybe it's sex you've always wanted.
Well, they lie together
like the party's unbuttoned coats,
slumped on the bed
waiting for drunken arms to move them.
I don't think you want me to go on;
everyone has his expectations, but this
is a poem for the entire family.
Right now, Budweiser
is dripping from a waterfall,
deodorants are hissing into armpits
of people you resemble,
and the two lovers are dressing now,
saying farewell.
I don't know what music this poem
can come up with, but clearly
it's needed. For it's apparent
they will never see each other again
and we need music for this
because there was never music when he or she
left you standing on the corner.
You see, I want this poem to be nicer
than life. I want you to look at it
when anxiety zigzags your stomach
and the last tranquilizer is gone
and you need someone to tell you
I'll be here when you want me
like the sound inside a shell.
The poem is saying that to you now.
But don't give anything for this poem.
It doesn't expect much. It will never say more
than listening can explain.
Just keep it in your attache case
or in your house. And if you're not asleep
by now, or bored beyond sense,
the poem wants you to laugh. Laugh at
yourself, laugh at this poem, at all poetry.
Come on:
Good. Now here's what poetry can do.
Imagine yourself a caterpillar.
There's an awful shrug and, suddenly,
You're beautiful for as long as you live.


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What do you mean by the phrase "earn the right to win"?
We equate this particular phrase to a weekly process in the NFL where we sell our players on a protocol to win and if they follow that protocol, at the end of the week they will have earned the right to win. And, as I said prior to Superbowl XLVI, because we have demonstrated through our practice, our diligence, our focus, our concentration that we have earned the right to win, are we guaranteeing that we win? No. But, we are guaranteeing that will play well.
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Look! Shaker Peg Rails in Hancock Village
We thought this was a good post to kick off Spring Cleaning Month (and this is not a scene from Harry Potter). There are so many details to capture when visiting a place like Hancock Shaker Village. One that we would like to copy one day is the abundant use of peg rail around the top of EVERY room...
These lines become part of the visual decor of the room while also doing endless duty as a place to hang anything from brooms to chairs to you-name-it.
When the Shakers cleaned up the room, they really liked to clear the floor. As a result, all their furniture was movable and much of it was meant to hang on these pegs.
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shaker peg rail, brilliant.
I saw that once in an issue of Martha Stewart Baby as an good organizing idea for a baby's room. It worked brilliantly for hanging towels, clothes, baskets, etc. and all that other baby stuff and looked good with nothing on it. It also serves to keep things out of baby's reach when you get to that point.
The photo of the brooms made me giggle...it's like a parking lot for witches...no offense to any Shakers out there...
PS: These are instructions for a crib canopy, but you can see the shaker peg rail in the photo: http://snipurl.com/shakerpeg
i never would have thought i'd be so inspired by all these shaker posts, but i really am.
who knew i was such a traditionalist?
this is a BRILLIANT solution to several problems i've been having. originally i was just going to hang 3 or 4 really hardcore heavy duty hooks, but i love the way this looks.
It's a spiffy look, but I think it can only look good with most of the pegs unused. If I put pegs up all around my room, they'd eventually get weighted down with every piece of junk imaginable.
I do have a small wall near the closet that had a row of six pegs for holding various book bags and purses. It looked good at first, but it's totally out of hand.
Le sigh.
yeah, this look is all about the art of the possible.
which isn't to say it's just for show, it's just NOT made for glopping a bunch of crud onto.
it would be just the thing, though, to hang re-wearable not-quite-dirty clothes on in my bedroom, for pots and such in the kitchen, etc. it would also make a great picture-rail.
i think it's important to establish the difference between visible storage and 'packed away' storage. i can dump all manner of things in total disorder into bins in my closet, or behind the doors of a cupboard. but anything on a hook or a shelf is a totally different story.
It would be difficult to offend a shaker. They did not believe in men and women touching each other, so they sort of went extinct.
Their design sense was amazing though!
This is so thrilling to see on an otherwise dreary Tuesday. One key thing no one mentioned is that pegboard...even the really nice stuff...is pretty cheap. So a wonderful way to make an incredibly beautiful and dramatic room on a very small salary (my situation).
What also really inspires here is the stunning way these spare rooms incorporate the tones and shadows of the light. Brings to mind my favorite movie title of all time (for a movie by Ingmar Bergman I haven't actually seen,) "Winter Light."
The fact that these pictures were taken in the summer, but still have that "winter light" effect makes it all the better.
ha, brad! i'm glad you brought that up! i was going to put it far less delicately
there's some lovely shaker furniture at the Met if anyone needs more inspiration
and if you need even MORE, my mom works at the original shaker settlement at Watervliet up near albany (tending the herb garden)
they give wonderful tours, have a great shop full of shaker reproductions and do craft fairs a few times a year highlighting these craft plus lots more
here's a link with even info
i'll try to remember to email maxwell/sara-kate the next time they do one in case anyone's interested
i love these but i have picture rails in my apt. i think having these as well would be kind of crazy -- though it would certainly be easy to mop the floor if you could hang all your dining room chairs up! www.shakerworkshops.com has them as well as other shaker stuff.
the shaker home office. hilarious!
especially the ladder-back chair with casters. plastic casters.
working a broom over here.
"pay no attention to the detail behind the" curtain/uncurtain/uncertain?
I think the problem is that we see these shaker houses when they are not lived-in - I imagine that when that dining room was full of people every single peg hook was used with cloaks and coats and hats etc hung up everywhere
The aesthetic we see from the Shakers is bare rooms and minimalism and I don't believe it was like that when they were actually living in those rooms
Thus the peg rail idea is great as long as you only hang one thing on it - otherwise you totally lose the look that inspired you - its a decorative idea rather than a practical one
I recently saw a modern interpretation of this v. functional design at the Porches Inn in the Berkshires (right across from Mass MoCA). Their version was in the bathroom & used metal pegs. I thought it was brilliant--but never knew that it had such a pedigree.
i don't necessarily know that that's true, violetsrose.
the shakers were, during their existence, committed to the idea of simplicity, functionality, hard work, and strong ethics. they very much were against the decorative and in favor of the spare and useful. and even while the shaker communities were still alive, outsiders recognized their functional but elegant aesthetic -- one of the major sources of income for the shakers was the sale of handcrafted furniture and items for the home, especially as their numbers dwindled (right around the advent of modernist design, interestingly enough).
now, of course when that dining room was full, there were hats and coats hung on each peg. these pegboards were made to be used, not to be looked at. but what's wrong with coats and hats hung on pegs, as a useful and attractive storage feature? again, we have to remember the difference between visible and hidden storage. but if done right, there's no reason the use of a shaker pegboard would have to be cluttered at all. certainly better than the unsightly pile of not-quite-dirty jeans on my bedroom floor.
though i would agree that in photos like these, there is a spareness that is exacerbated by the emptiness of the rooms, the sense of a space left behind -- not unlike the way that a similar feeling of desertion accentuated the elegance of classical forms for during the neoclassical period. in 5th century B.C. Athens, the Parthenon was painted in gaudy colors and thronged with crowds of people who probably smelled terrible. doesn't make the architecture any less fantastic, though.
I agree totally opoponax
What I was trying to say was that people love the look of the Shaker rooms as they are NOW (i.e. empty) then they go home and fit peg rails and hang loads of stuff off them and wonder why it doesn't look like the photos they've based it on
I was trying to indicate that if you like the Shaker look as above you need to use the peg rails as a DESIGN feature and only hang a couple of gorgeous things off them
To use them as a PRACTICAL feature (as I believe the Shakers would have done) won't give you the images above - they will give you a room with tons of "stuff" everywhere which is probably not the look you're going for (even though I believe it is more like the Shaker rooms would have looked when in use).
as with any storage solution or home decor choice, whether something will be attractive and useful is a matter of personality. i happen to think this is the best idea for my needs that i've seen so far, and as soon as i have some quality time with the power drill, i mean to whip one of these up. those people who call filled bookshelves 'clutter' should probably avoid it. as should any entrant to the Most Cluttered Closet contest
in the new Shaker post, there are photos of the peg board put to use. sometimes decoratively and sometimes pragmatically. i think it looks as good there as it does here.
I have peg rails throughout my house. It would be hard to live without them now. Two rooms in my home have them all the way around the room. I got mine from The Period House, www.theperiodhouse.com.
Please stop making posts with "Look!". It is completely unnecessary.
You can buy custom-cut peg rails from Shaker Workshops. I've bought stuff from them on line, and it's good quality.
FYI - Shaker isn't necessarily "traditional." The Whitney had a Shaker exhibit about 20 years ago, showing it as the predecessor to modern design. It would work very well in a modern interior.
I think someone would have to decide if they were using this idea as a design element or as an actual storage alternative. As others have suggested, I doubt the two looks would have the same sort of appeal. Sometimes there is a reason why things go out of fashion....or are replaced by closets.
Still, the Shaker look always feels so serene and peaceful.
Hello Everyone! We at Paul Thomas Designs www.paulthomasdesigns.com have been making Shaker Peg Rails for many many years. I began making them based on original rails as found throughout various Shaker communities. I needed a place for my, at the time, young daughters to hang their backpacks.
Those wonderful people who unfortunately had one too many rules gave to all of us simple beauty. But in their eyes, it was functional utility.
Whether it be a broom, a quilt, or a pegrail, the reason for it's being was to serve a purpose. In light of this, the Shakers did use adornment. This can be seen in furniture made after 1850.
Today, in our giant fast paced world, we find peace in the notion that less is better. And the Shakers created just that. Simple, clean, unadorned functional wares.
While there are many ways to hang a cap, coat, backpack, whatever, the Shaker Pegrail is a darn good choice. It hugs the wall, it blends well with existing styles, it is available in matching wood, or paint colors, it can be made to fit, and it can stow many different types of things. And last but not least, it's simplicity is it's beauty.
Another notion: if it works, don't fix it. Pegrails have been in use for more than a hundred years. Our pegrail sales are very strong thus supporting the idea that Shaker pegrails are both useful, and decorative.
So, just how popular is the Shaker Pegrail? I have dealers across the country and in Canada who sell my peg rails. A couple of stores sell them online.
For the Shakers, whatever they did had to be right in God's eyes. Utility came next. Our interpretation of intrinsic beauty follows.
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Pileup on an icy highway: Who pays?
Assigning fault can be difficult when more than 100 cars are involved. Here are the steps you should take to make sure your damage is covered.
This post comes from Mark Vallet at partner site CarInsurance.com.
How do you sort out responsibility in a 103-car pileup? Very carefully.
While massive pileups don't happen frequently, clearing the roads can take hours, investigations can take weeks, insurance claims checks may not arrive for months, and lawsuits can drag on for years.
A truly massive pileup can stretch for miles and involve hundreds of vehicles.
A few examples:
- A January pileup in Ohio on Interstate 275 involved 103 vehicles and about 200 people. There were 27 injuries and one death. A freak snowstorm dropped visibility to zero and glazed the road over with ice.
- One of the largest pileups in history took place on one of the fastest roads in the world. Heavy rain was blamed for the 259-car pileup in 2009 on the A2 Autobahn in Germany. A total of 66 people were injured but luckily no one was killed.
- Heavy fog in Texas resulted in a 140-car pileup on Thanksgiving Day 2012. Two people were killed and 80 were injured. The initial crash started on the eastbound side of the highway, which led to a chain reaction of crashes in both the eastbound and westbound lanes.
With so many moving vehicles, blame is difficult to pin down. And even if blame is obvious, who's got enough liability insurance to pay for dozens of totaled cars?
How they happen and who's to blame
Drunken drivers, red-light runners and speeders often cause smaller pileups by starting a chain reaction when they plow into a car in front of them. Assessing blame in those types of accidents is usually pretty straightforward, experts say.
In the case of really big pileups, weather is usually a contributing factor.
Even if the police are not able to pinpoint the exact cause of a pileup, drivers may still end up with a ticket. Lt. Chris Miller of the Florida Highway Patrol, who investigated a 47-car crash on Interstate 75 last October, says that while weather is often a contributing factor, the driver is responsible for adjusting his speed and the gap between the cars. Nineteen drivers were cited in the October crash.
Colerain Township, Ohio, traffic investigation specialist Mark Meyers says the police report on the 103-vehicle pileup in Ohio will take weeks to compile and run to 700 pages. Despite all of the time spent on the investigation, Meyers doesn't believe they will be able to determine which vehicle started the chain reaction, and the report will not show fault.
This is not uncommon in major pileups. Rick Ward, director of auto claims at MetLife, says that "most major pileups end up being a series of small accidents. Unless there is an extremely egregious action such as drunk driving, pinpointing fault can be very difficult."
Insurers, hoping to avoid big payouts, conduct their own investigations. Ward confirms that insurers put investigators in the field who review the police report, interview witnesses and examine the physical evidence to decide what to do about each individual claim.
Let the insurers sort it out
When it comes to pileups, in most cases you are on your own.
The truth is that no one carries enough coverage to pay for all of the damage caused by a massive pileup. If one person is responsible for the entire accident, their liability coverage would quickly be used up.
This is when your collision coverage will earn its keep. Collision insurance covers damage to your vehicle if you are involved in a wreck and you are at fault, the other driver lacks insurance or is underinsured, or if there is no way to determine fault.
Don Johnson, claims associate vice president with American Family Insurance, warns that claims from pileups can take months to settle because fault is often shared by more than one party. Evaluating comparative fault prolongs the settlement process. If significant injuries occurred, the process can become even more involved as insurers seek to sort out their exposure and recovery options.
The quickest way to get your car fixed, Ward says, is to make a claim on your own collision coverage. "Your insurer will pay your claim and then fight it out with other insurers if it feels you were not at fault," he says.
You will have to pay your collision deductible, but you might get that back if your insurance company is able to claim successfully against another driver.
Why you should file a claim quickly
So what happens if you don't carry collision coverage? Getting your car repaired is going to be a lot more complicated.
If you know which car hit you, it is possible to make a claim against that driver's liability coverage. Ward advises gathering as much information about the driver and his or her insurance company at the accident scene, filing a claim as soon as possible and then crossing your fingers.
A quick claim is also important if blame falls to a single driver. Penny Gusner, CarInsurance.com consumer analyst, says even a small pileup will exhaust a driver's liability coverage.
Getting your claim in first will put you at the top of the payout list. If you wait too long or the responsible driver carries low coverage levels, you will have to repair your own vehicle or pursue damages in court.
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Season two premieres tonight, plunging viewers back into the world of former FBI agent Ryan Hardy, played by Kevin Bacon. The star is joined by returning actors Shawn Ashmore and Valorie Curry, as well as new cast members Sam Underwood, Jessica Stroup, Connie Nielsen, and Tiffany Boone.
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Fears organised crime syndicates will hijack Rugby World Cup ticket sales
Ben Rumsby Organised criminals with links to the arms and drugs trade were on Wednesday night plotting to hijack the Rugby World Cup ticket launch and hold countless ordinary fans to ransom on the secondary market.
Germany stay in hunt for RWC berth
Germany remain in contention for a 2015 Rugby World Cup place after Saturday's 45-20 win over Sweden with Saracens' ex-junior Springbok Justin Melck scoring on his debut.
USA advances to Rugby World Cup
The United States booked a berth in the 2015 Rugby World Cup with a 32-13 victory over Uruguay on Saturday at Kennesaw State University.
Late try gives Uruguay World Cup qualifier draw with US
Scrumhalf Agustin Ormaechea scored a try five minutes from time to give Uruguay a 27-27 draw with favourites the United States in the first leg of their Rugby World Cup qualifier on Saturday.
Georgia grouped with All Blacks at 2015 World Cup
Georgia's reward for beating east European rivals Romania 22-9 on Saturday was to be drawn in Group C of the 2015 Rugby World Cup with title holders New Zealand.
England are shaping as World Cup threats
Austin Healey "Can England win the World Cup?" is a question that many fans have asked in recent weeks. It is certainly a topic of conversation Down Under where New Zealand, in particular, have started to take Stuart Lancaster's side seriously.
All-Ireland World Cup bid gets support
Ministers from both sides of the border have signalled their backing for an all-Ireland bid to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup.
Cheapest World Cup final tickets will be $268
Ticket prices for the 2015 Rugby World Cup final in England will range from STG150 ($A268) to STG715 ($A1,277), organisers announced on Wednesday.
Wallaroos draw France in World Cup
Australia have been drawn alongside hosts France for next year's Women's Rugby World Cup.
Horror draw for Wallabies at World Cup
GEORGINA ROBINSON Australia face arguably their toughest road yet to Rugby World Cup glory after drawing England and Wales in the pool stages of the 2015 tournament.
John O'Neill joins RWC15 board
Australian Rugby Union (ARU) chief executive John O'Neill was appointed to the 2015 Rugby World Cup board on Thursday, as was Wales Rugby Union (WRU) chairman David Pickering.
Richie McCaw breaks silence on eye gouge
All Blacks captain Richie McCaw has admitted he was "surprised" the International Rugby Board did not cite French player Aurelien Rougerie for the infamous eye gouge in the Rugby World Cup final.
'There's £35,000... down the toilet' - cash obsessed England slammed in leaked report
English rugby was in uproar on Wednesday after leaked reports into the country's World Cup campaign painted a damning portrait of an ill-disciplined, divided squad obsessed with making money.
Samoans blame managers, alcohol for World Cup flop
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Big issues
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Magic trip
Call it destiny, karma, fate … or just plain Black magic
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Player of the year
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Cup of great cheer but changes needed
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New Zealand celebrates 'ultimate achievement'
Hundreds of thousands of jubilant New Zealanders packed central Auckland for the All Blacks victory parade, celebrating their "ultimate achievement" in winning the Rugby World Cup.
Long road to 2015 Cup glory for tarnished Wallabies
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Wonder boy
Blond ambition: O'Connor puts hand up for midfield
Darren Walton WALLABIES wonder boy James O'Connor is spruiking a midfield playmaker's role in Australia's time of need.
The final verdict
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Greg Growden The seventh World Cup tournament is over. The new World Cup champion has been crowned. And numerous compelling questions can now be answered.
French resistance leaves a nation sweating bullets
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Long dark cloud lifts as All Blacks close the door on 24 years of pain
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Burdened McCaw proves a worthy vessel of nation's hopes
Marc Hinton THE finest player in the modern game can now call himself a world champion.
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Software & Accessories / Re: Comfortable strap?« on: January 23, 2014, 05:28:14 PM »
Has anyone experiences with this?
Looks like what I was looking for. I'm only mildly concerned about the solidity of those joints.
Looks interesting. It's a wide foam part of the strap is a winner but I agree with you those joints looks scary.
From experience, one of the reasons why I went with the Crumpler is because it's a continuous 1 piece that gets narrower. I've seen a camera strap that has failed/break at these joints/stitched points.
It's great your putting a lot of thought into it.
I have the Split Strap and love it. I've had people laugh at the plastic components, but I've never had any issue with them, and I push my gear hard. I like to shoot rock climbing, and I feel comfortable letting my DSLR dangle from this strap when I'm 100 feet off the ground. Another great feature that someone mentioned is being able to wear the strap under a jacket, and then when getting into a car or whatever, just unclipping the camera from it.
For anyone wanting to get it though, they just completed their Kickstarter for an updated strap that allows on the fly length adjustment, which to me would be a killer feature, so I would wait for that.


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Release Date: 2012 |
Album Rating: 5.0In which I drop the names of 7 classic records in one paragraph
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offlol
Album Rating: 4.0fuck me hip hop is just dominating this year
another 5 though? too good to be true
Album Rating: 3.0nick diamonds, nice. although i think he stopped going by that stage nameDigging: Literature - Chorus
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offsoby has wet dreams of el-p
Album Rating: 5.0 nick diamonds, nice. although i think he stopped going by that stage name
that's how he's credited it looks. that song is ridiculous... was awesome on letterman too. cant wait to catch the tour.
Thanks satellite
yeah el-p is probably my favorite musician, so none of my reviews for his stuff are very unbiased.
nick diamonds, nice. although i think he stopped going by that stage name
Album Rating: 5.0Probably this right now. But I go through cycles every now and then when all I listen to is FanDam or ISWYD
liked this a lot more than R.A.P. still but yeah really nice.
Album Rating: 4.0god damn, this really rules so far
don't know if i like this better than RAP music but i'm feeling 4.5s for both
Album Rating: 4.0man drones has a nasty beat
Album Rating: 5.0Tuned Mass Damper, Deep Space 9mm, Dr Hellno, Tazmanian Pain Coaster, Up All Night, Overly Dramatic Truth, Flyentology.
Yeah Can Ox and Co Flow are both classics for me too. They're all close for me.
Album Rating: 5.0do it, all your 5s are belong to el-p
cold vein's cool but its not that cool nahmsayin
this album however, luv how industrial it gets sometimes
*insert enormous hyperbole
would ask what they are but dont care LOL
Album Rating: 5.0i gotta wake up soon, ugh
Album Rating: 5.0Fucking love El-P. The only album I ever remembered to rate was I'll Sleep When You're Dead, when I got into him
But yeah, at least you weren't hesitant rating this a 5 rather than a 4.5 just because of Killer Mike. If an album deserves it, that's about it.
Album Rating: 4.5Probably best thing about El-P is that he always lets the beats breatheDigging: Banks - Goddess
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Didn't like Killer Mike all that much, and after hearing samples of this, I can safely say this is not my kind of hip-hop.
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A 1-liter bottle of deliciously sweet – and sugar free – vanilla syrup to flavor your coffee or latte at home or the office.
Tasting Notes Sweet, creamy vanilla.
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Anything but plain, this delicious vanilla flavored syrup is sweet, versatile – and sugar-free. So go ahead, sweeten anything from beverages to desserts.
The 1-liter bottle includes a handy pump for dispensing, so it's easy to add a shot of rich-tasting, sugar-free vanilla to the specialty coffee drinks you make at home.
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Under the leadership of Governor John Kitzhaber and the Oregon Education Investment Board (OEIB) a set of educational goals for the state were developed. They were titled the Achievement Compact. Dual Credit meets goals of the compacts in the "College and Career Ready" component. This section requires that all high school students earn nine or more college credits before their high school graduation. At first glance this might appear a challenging goal to meet. However, PCC Dual Credit has been doing just that since 1998.
Students earn college credit from PCC at no financial cost to the student or the high school. They develop the college readiness skills needed to transition to college to earn a degree or certificate. In Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses students develop technical and work readiness skills that prepare them for a career as well as further education. Additionally, the college level qualifications of the approved teachers and the articulated coursework raise the rigor of the high school experience. This system also supports the mandate for equity within the Achievement Compacts. Any school can participate as long as there are qualified teachers willing to coordinate their programs with PCC guidelines.
The Oregon Legislature's broad steps towards renewing their efforts to support, fund, and monitor the progress of education in the state led to the development of the Achievement Compacts. The Governor and the Oregon Education Investment Board (OEIB) are committed to implementing these compacts.
The goal that Oregon becomes a universally well-educated state is defined in Senate Bill 253 (2011), which defines the state's goals for high school and completion by 2025 to be:
- 40% of adult Oregonians have earned a bachelor's degree or higher;
- 40% of adult Oregonians have earned an associate's degree or post-secondary credential as their highest level of educational achievement; and,
- The remaining 20% or less of all adult Oregonians have earned a high school diploma, an extended or modified high school diploma, or the equivalent of a high school diploma as their highest level of achievement.
Because PCC Dual Credit provides an opportunity for students to start earning college credits before graduation they can begin to meet the requirements of a certificate or degree for no financial cost. This will shorten the amount of time and money that they have to spend earning a degree and help meets the goals of the achievement compacts.
In 2012-13, 1,754 students who registered for PCC Dual Credit earned 9 or more PCC college credits to date through Dual Credit (or another PCC program).
PCC Dual Credit will continue to strengthen the connections between high schools and community colleges as well as collaborating and aligning courses between community college and the Oregon University System. We will continue to share our strategies, collaborate and work to align courses for Dual Credit to provide educational opportunities for the students of Oregon.
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What, to you, are basic human rights?
This is quite a tough one to sum up in one discussion:
"...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."
1- Which ones summarize the scope of liberties, as a whole?
(name the ones -or your own- that give the whole perspective of liberties)
2- Can you define the basic human rights in terms of material, dimensional, spiritual- or any combination thereof?
3- Could these change? What could make them change?
4- Are they sustainable?
5- Also: where do those rights come from?
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Although their music is rooted in the classic sounds of rock and rolls past, Cincinnati, Ohio's The Greenhornes have developed an iconic sound all their own. Forming in 1996, band members Craig Fox, Patrick Keeler, and Jack Lawrence have released numerous singles and three albums demonstrating a wide range of musical ability. Like their predecessors The Kinks, The Byrds, and The Yardbirds, The Greenhornes songs range from classic psychedelic sounds and soulful melodies to timeless rock anthems. Culled from the recent sessions produced by label-mate Brendan Benson, The Greenhornes recently released a digital EP entitled East Grand Blues.


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A new report by real state researchers at Arizona State University says the median home price in metro Phoenix during October increased by 34 percent when compared to the same period a year before.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 — The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is standing with its international and national partners in condemning the deadly shooting in Tel Aviv at a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) gathering space. The Task Force is a member of the Council for Global Equality — a coalition of 14 leading advocacy organizations working together to promote human rights for LGBT people in the U.S. and abroad — which sent a letter expressing condolences to and solidarity with the LGBT community in Israel. In addition, the Task Force is co-sponsoring tonight's vigil in New York City, organized by Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, at 7 p.m. at 57 Bethune St.
"We join our sisters and brothers in Israel and around the world in grief and shock at the violent violation of the Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Association, resulting in the deaths of two young people and the wounding of many more who were attending a support meeting for LGBT youth," says Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "When our spaces of refuge and safety are invaded and violently attacked, we see bloody testament to the failures of societies to accept, embrace and celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. We take heart and strength that so many in Tel Aviv, in Israel, and around the globe are standing strong in pride and solidarity at this difficult time. We call upon leaders everywhere to support, protect and defend the rights of LGBT people to live, to love and to contribute to our fullest in all aspects of society."
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After 30 days from their original test date, an applicant is eligible to retest one time in writing, reading, and math.
To register to retest, a student must complete the Retesting Registration Form.This form may be printed from the link provided or picked up at any campus of Athens Technical College. The fee for the retest exam is $15 per section and is non-refundable
The completed registration form, with evidence of payment must be submitted to the testing site, a minimum of 24 hours in advance of the scheduled retesting date. All dates are listed on page 2 of the retesting registration form.
If an applicant scores below the minimum scores at retest, they will be required to complete the appropriate learning support classes to advance to college level content courses. If a student is currently enrolled in a learning support class, the student may not request to retest in that content area until completion of the course.
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From Proteopedia
|3c0g, resolution 2.19Å ()
|CASK (Homo sapiens)
|Non-specific serine/threonine protein kinase, with EC number 220.127.116.11
| 3c0h, 3c0i
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CASK CaM-Kinase Domain- 3'-AMP complex, P1 form
CASK is a unique MAGUK protein that contains an N-terminal CaM-kinase domain besides the typical MAGUK domains. The CASK CaM-kinase domain is presumed to be a catalytically inactive pseudokinase because it lacks the canonical DFG motif required for Mg2+ binding that is thought to be indispensable for kinase activity. Here we show, however, that CASK functions as an active protein kinase even without Mg2+ binding. High-resolution crystal structures reveal that the CASK CaM-kinase domain adopts a constitutively active conformation that binds ATP and catalyzes phosphotransfer without Mg2+. The CASK CaM-kinase domain phosphorylates itself and at least one physiological interactor, the synaptic protein neurexin-1, to which CASK is recruited via its PDZ domain. Thus, our data indicate that CASK combines the scaffolding activity of MAGUKs with an unusual kinase activity that phosphorylates substrates recuited by the scaffolding activity. Moreover, our study suggests that other pseudokinases (10% of the kinome) could also be catalytically active.
CASK Functions as a Mg2+-independent neurexin kinase., Mukherjee K, Sharma M, Urlaub H, Bourenkov GP, Jahn R, Sudhof TC, Wahl MC, Cell. 2008 Apr 18;133(2):328-39. PMID:18423203
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[CSKP_HUMAN] Defects in CASK are the cause of mental retardation and microcephaly with pontine and cerebellar hypoplasia (MICPCH) [MIM:300749]. A disorder characterized by significantly below average general intellectual functioning associated with impairments in adaptative behavior and manifested during the developmental period. Patients with mental retardation X-linked CASK-related can manifest a severe phenotype consisting of severe intellectual deficit, congenital or postnatal microcephaly, disproportionate brainstem and cerebellar hypoplasia. A milder phenotype consists of mental retardation alone or associated with nystagmus.[1] Defects in CASK are the cause of FG syndrome type 4 (FGS4) [MIM:300422]. FG syndrome (FGS) is an X-linked disorder characterized by mental retardation, relative macrocephaly, hypotonia and constipation.[2]
[CSKP_HUMAN] Multidomain scaffolding protein with a role in synaptic transmembrane protein anchoring and ion channel trafficking. Contributes to neural development and regulation of gene expression via interaction with the transcription factor TRB1. Binds to cell-surface proteins, including amyloid precursor protein, neurexins and syndecans. May mediate a link between the extracellular matrix and the actin cytoskeleton via its interaction with syndecan and with the actin/spectrin-binding protein 4.1.
About this Structure
3c0g is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
- Mukherjee K, Sharma M, Urlaub H, Bourenkov GP, Jahn R, Sudhof TC, Wahl MC. CASK Functions as a Mg2+-independent neurexin kinase. Cell. 2008 Apr 18;133(2):328-39. PMID:18423203 doi:10.1016/j.cell.2008.02.036
- ↑ Najm J, Horn D, Wimplinger I, Golden JA, Chizhikov VV, Sudi J, Christian SL, Ullmann R, Kuechler A, Haas CA, Flubacher A, Charnas LR, Uyanik G, Frank U, Klopocki E, Dobyns WB, Kutsche K. Mutations of CASK cause an X-linked brain malformation phenotype with microcephaly and hypoplasia of the brainstem and cerebellum. Nat Genet. 2008 Sep;40(9):1065-7. doi: 10.1038/ng.194. PMID:19165920 doi:10.1038/ng.194
- ↑ Piluso G, D'Amico F, Saccone V, Bismuto E, Rotundo IL, Di Domenico M, Aurino S, Schwartz CE, Neri G, Nigro V. A missense mutation in CASK causes FG syndrome in an Italian family. Am J Hum Genet. 2009 Feb;84(2):162-77. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.12.018. Epub 2009, Feb 5. PMID:19200522 doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.12.018
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Categories: Homo sapiens | Non-specific serine/threonine protein kinase | Wahl, M C. | Atp-binding | Ca2+/calmodulin dependent protein kinase | Calmodulin-binding | Cask | Magnesium | Maguk | Membrane-associated guanylate kinase | Metal-binding | Mg2+ | Neurexin | Nucleotide-binding | Nucleus | Pseudokinase | Serine/threonine-protein kinase | Sh3 domain | Synaptic plasticity | Transferase


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The Billy Joel Piano ConcertoPosted by Jeffrey Biegel in Uncategorized
Been away from posting for a few months. Hope everyone has enjoyed the holidays and is in full swing into 2006. During November, I wrote the piano part for a new piano concerto conceived by Billy Joel. I had asked Billy Joel via email if he might consider writing a piano concerto for me, and his personal assistant shared that he did not have the luxury of time to do so, though he asked if several of his classical solo piano pieces might be reworked into a virtuosic piano concerto. In utilizing the music already published as 'Fantasies and Delusions', the selections chosen came to my mind as a conception for a cohesive concerto in four movements of various styles and moods. The music is purely original, with Billy's renowned gifts for melodic invention and harmonic ingenuity. As a classical pianist, I found it natural to take the music and hear the expanded transcription of it in my mind's ears. Billy has also approved Phillip Keveren to be the orchestrator for the score who will work the orchestration around the piano part. It's not a pops piece, though it can be positioned on any concert program as an alternative to any concerto for piano and orchestra.
Fantasy (Film Noir)
Reverie (Villa D'Este)
Nunley's Carousel Waltz
The 'Fantasy' reminds me of some early piano music of the passionate and color-sensed Alexander Scriabin, the soulful Frederic Chopin, with a taste of Saint-Saens and the tender lyricism of Cesar Cui. It seems natural to employ a good deal of difficult left hand filigree to support the beautiful original melodies. 'Fantasy' is a very passionate work with a Romantic Russian feeling. It is a mesmerizing piece of music, and especially demanding for the pianist in its shifts of mood.
'Sorbetto' is a short and spirited palate cleanser that immediately brings to mind the style of Robert Schumann. In one passage, I quote from Schumann's 'Carnaval' as the music dictates. It's a light-hearted morsel situated between two larger movements.
'Reverie' contains tender melodies of nostalgic beauty that develop in a dream-like state furthered by a tango which Billy inserts between the passion and the dream. The piano part develops to seem nearly delirious in ecstasy and passion. I feel the spirits of Brahms and Chopin amidst the originality of Billy Joel's creation. As in the chordal majesty in Rachmaninoff's piano concerti, I employ a similar chordal grandeur as the music calls for. The movement concludes in an exotic dream state–a 'reverie'.
For the finale, 'Nunley's Carousel' is a pianistic showpiece that conjures the spirits of Peter Tschaikowsky, Artur Schulz-Evler and Leopold Godowsky in their own brilliant transcriptions of Strauss waltzes, and of course, Chopin in his waltzes. Billy's carousel theme takes everyone back to the days of yesteryear when we all rode the carousel. My two sons had the chance to ride the beloved carousel at Long Island's Nunley's Amusement Park before it closed its doors. Re-creating this waltz for the piano concerto provided great pleasure and nostalgia for me. It's a pianistic tour-de-force which brings the concerto to a virtuoso finish for both pianist and orchestra.
It is my personal goal to bring this concerto to cities worldwide, to share how a pop music icon can also pen beautiful classically styled material and allow a classical pianist to take it to the next level. Perhaps this can begin a trend in the 21st century to make room for new classical contemporary repertoire with universal appeal conceived by popular music celebrities–especially when their talents warrant such creation.


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