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noreen, this time i read it without pause, and the only comment i'll make this time is it goes to MyPoemLIst. bri :) (Report) Reply
Noreen Carden
Heart of ice
Black day when ice formed round her heart.
Black day when they were forced to part.
Her anger made her rail at God.
What did she do that was so bad.
People think she is alive.
They don't suspect she's dead inside.
That she inhaled a breath so deep.
A deathlike state a waking sleep,
holds her fast she can't go forward
and the past is past.
Scalding tears wont break the ice.
So for now this must suffice.
Until his touch her breath releases
as it breaks the ice to pieces.
Only then will her heart pulse
and warm blood course within her veins
Her leprous soul feel joy or pain.
Breathing out she will live again.
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Comments about this poem (Heart of ice by Noreen Carden )
Bri Edwards (8/29/2014 9:30:00 PM)
Daniel Brick (5/16/2014 9:12:00 AM)
This is such a powerful and moving poem. Isn't ironic that a person's heartfelt, truly unselfish love for another is displayed in situations that are so traumatic they can scarcely appreciate the emotion that motivates them? That's when we must recall that good times and happy events also evoke true love. But in this poem the woman's love of her husband is so strong that she is grabbed by an emotional coma that parallels his physical coma. Your poem gives us incontrovertible proof of the scope and intensity of the bonds that are created by intimacy and tenderness. (Report) Reply
John Westlake (3/28/2014 6:51:00 AM)
Very moving and well written. Though I may not understand it as I should, I still enjoyed reading it. I will have to re read and hopefully understand it better next time (Report) Reply
Marie Shine (3/4/2014 5:38:00 AM)
You have narrated the story exquisitely, Noreen, in perfect rhythm and rhyme. Excellent use of metaphor, simile and alliteration. On reading, I thought it was a love story, so thank you for your kind note, which clarified the matter for me. Excellent word choice produces touching visual detail! A truly excellently crafted write, Noreen, which I thank you for sharing. I am so pleased there was a happy ending to the story for the lady and gentleman concerned, bless them both. Bless you also, Noreen, for penning this intriguing write. Wish you a very lovely day, blessed, peaceful and relaxed - enjoy! (Report) Reply
Ed Nigma (2/18/2014 7:46:00 PM)
Ah, the poets notes bring a clarification to a very good poem. I've dealt with a few people in a coma and it is exactly as you said. Scalding tears wont break the ice so for now this must suffice. Spoken truths while waiting for someone to come back from a comatose state. There are certain things that can aid this because it does bring about some stimulation but it is what you said it doesn't matter how many tears fall it doesn't change anything while you wait. Nicely done Noreen =) (Report) Reply
Adeline Foster (2/3/2014 5:23:00 PM)
Good job, you have told the story well. Reminds me a bit of mine - Cicatrix -
I too did a double-take on the 'leprous' (Report) Reply
Kanav Justa (2/2/2014 9:23:00 AM)
, , , , , a good poem this is, , , thanks for sharing, , , (Report) Reply
Khairul Ahsan (1/19/2014 12:41:00 PM)
'That she inhaled a breath so deep.
A deathlike state a waking sleep, ' - Nice! (Report) Reply
Clarence Prince (1/14/2014 9:46:00 AM)
Words of faith, Noreen! Breathing out she will live again, of course, with God everything is possible! Blessings! ! (Report) Reply
Ed Nigma (1/13/2014 8:01:00 PM)
I like imagery here. A deathlike state a waking sleep. Holds her fast she can't go forward and the past is past.
Can only imagine what it means to be stuck in limbo. A paralysis in time aging with no choice but to be. Then to be freed by the love of another. Nice poem (Report) Reply
Amitava Sur (1/5/2014 4:12:00 PM)
A lovely penning with a firm belief on the power of love.
Until his touch her breath releases
as it breaks the ice to pieces........ very nice (Report) Reply
Paddy D Daly (12/31/2013 2:24:00 PM)
hi, read your poem 'heart of ice', its very sad but beautifully written, thank you for commenting on'yvonne' and
my humble effort at a tribute to seamus h, kind regards and happy new year, paddy d (Report) Reply
Yasmeen Khan (12/29/2013 9:45:00 AM)
Only warmth of love can break the ice on the heart, a passionate write (Report) Reply
Geetha Jayakumar (12/25/2013 9:58:00 AM)
A Great write Noreen. Beautiful observation you have portrayed here, husband is in coma but she feel herself in coma. Her feelings are beautifully put up here. Loved reading it. (Report) Reply
Bri Edwards (12/18/2013 5:50:00 PM)
Noreen, i'll start with a complaint; i figure you are strong enough to take it. and we are fast friends, right? not fast THATWAY! in this line:
Her leprous soul feel joy or pain.
i don't understand its purpose here. i think the poem would do well without it and there would be no need to replace it. anyway, pain doesn't make a great rhyme with again (at least not in my mind) . granted there are several non-rhyming coupled lines, but i like all of THEM.
on a brighter note:
Until his touch her breath releases
as it breaks the ice to pieces....................i LOVE this for the meaning and for the rhyming.
thanks for sharing. :) bri i looked at this poem because, seeing the title, i thought it would be about ME! darn. (Report) Reply
Gary H (12/17/2013 9:05:00 PM)
this is really good, : -) that's good that he recovered. (Report) Reply
Unwritten Soul (12/13/2013 7:15:00 AM)
I understand it very well, because emotion and life is like that...ice and cold cant be separated if they are...they are gone..gone forever...because warm can live in ice, and no fire is cold_Soul (Report) Reply
Mike Barrett (12/10/2013 3:02:00 PM)
Interesting observation......not sure my heart would react in a similar way in a similar circumstance, I'm not only a believer in 'the Self (Soul) ' but also the divine and from my point of view there's hardly any difference between the two; hence, if the beloved is in a coma, this is a reflection of divine will, and that being the case, would my heart turn to ice? I think not for time after time, ITS love continuously warms me. (Report) Reply
Dinesh Nair (12/9/2013 10:44:00 PM)
That is the bond of true love that sans physical concerns... A love tale told for us with a note indeed. (Report) Reply
Charles Darnell (12/3/2013 8:36:00 AM)
A highly sensitive and insightful piece, Noreen. Well done. (Report) Reply
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"…a subjective opinion about the most important years of China and - no matter, if you agree or disagree - thus a pretty interesting insight into the thoughts of a chinese citizen about his/her own country. What now follows are the thoughts of ~Hornet394
Qin Dynasty, also known as Imperial China. China was finally united after around 200 years of fighting, and it seems like peace has arrived on the land however the king is very cruel and inhumane (if you need more info here I can fill you in).
Han Dynasty, the most glorious time of China, and Chinese call our race 'Han' as China was really strong at that time. Major military campaigns were launched at that time, and China's map increased again. Confucianism also was widely promoted throughout China.
War broke out and basically China was separated into three major powers, Wei, Han, and Ng. Wei won at the end but eventually there was a revolt and China went into the Jin Dynasty. This period is better known in the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Tang Dynasty, another glorious period of China and also super duper developement. The silk road was opened during this era. This era seems to be the most popular, though.
Yuan Dynasty, China was ruled over by the Mongols, part of Genghis Khan's campaign to take over the world. In fact, the previous Song Dynasty had lasted for 152 years before being taken down by the Mongols.
Qing Dynasty. China was ruled by the Manchus, it was a non-Han dynasty as well. However, the Manchus were not able to lead China to prosperity, and during this period China started to be bullied by other countries.
First Opium War or First Anglo-Chinese War. England had used China as a market to sell opium, a highly addictive drug. Almost all Chinese were addicted to it as once you took a whiff you were pretty much gone, and since opium was everywhere it was hard not to smell it. Seeing this, Lin Zexu was ordered to destroy all the opium. And he did, with chemical means, and bullied all the merchants to hand out the opium but then the English government was very angry and used some random excuse to launch war on China. The second Opium War soon followed. In the end China was forced to sign treaties that were highly unfair to China, including the treaty to hand over Hong Kong.
XinHai Revolution. Doctor Sun Yat-sen and his allies organized numerous revolts and finally overthrew the Qing dynasty. Chinese consider Sun Yat-sen as the founder of modern China.
Second Sino-Japanese War. Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China on this day, when China was still split apart by civil war. Japan swore that China would be taken down in three months time, but this plan failed due to the fact that the Chinese were fed up of being pushed around by other nations. Although China was poor, underdeveloped, and was war-ridden, China held out her own until Japan joined the Pacific battlefield.
Modern China. the Communist Party of China won the civil war and Modern China was born. Bam.
June Fourth Incident or Tiananmen Square Protests or June Fourth Massacre as my parents like to call it. On this day it marked the fall of freedom of speech and political freedom in China. It was from 15 April 1989 to 4 June 1989. This student led protest was triggered by the death of Hu Yaobang, a politician who tried to reform the government. At height of the protests, a million people were said to have gathered in the Tiananmen Square. In many places people rose to support the students, including Hong Kong. I could go into the details of this, but I would just rant on and on while trying to stop myself from typing profanities. Anyways, the government wanted the students gone because the American ambassador and Russian ambassador was coming over soon, so Jiang Qing, Chairman Mao's wife and who was in power at that time, ordered the military to drive into the city of the capital. On June Fourth, the military was ordered to open fire. And they did, shooting at the peaceful protestors, who were all students, with real bullets and stabbed at them. Many people were shocked - a massacre, right at the doorstep of Tiananmen. Tanks drove over the bodies of the dead and alive. It was a dark time in the history of China. Eventually those student leaders who escaped fled overseas through Hong Kong.
Modern time. China is a economically strong country, developing in so many ways yet in so many others underdeveloped. Poverty is a severe problem and the rich people who go everywhere are referred to as locusts and dogs in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, the poor suffer. Many problems haven't been solved such as human rights, corruption, or pollution."
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Three complementary geological SSSIs in Swindon received the Face Lift treatment in a partnership between English Nature (now Natural England), Swindon Borough Council and Great Quarry Wildlife Group. The Old Town Railway Cutting, Okus Quarry and Great Quarry SSSIs all had sections cleared of vegetation and scree, and a sign-board about the geology and management of the site has been erected at Old Town Railway Cutting.
These quarries and railway cuttings expose limestones and sandstones of late Jurassic age. The lower part of the succession contains a variety of fossils, including bivalves and ammonites, providing evidence of a shallow and warm tropical sea in the area. Later, the sea retreated, leaving a complex of freshwater and saline lagoons and channels. These conditions are reflected in the different fossil fauna. The reappearance of marine fossils at intervals within the succession indicates occasional re-invasions by the sea. This group of sites provides important evidence of the changing environmental conditions in this part of Britain at the close of the Jurassic Period.
The Jurassic Portlandian sections at these sites are now re-exposed, not only enhancing their scientific value but also their educational value, as Okus Quarry lies within school grounds. The challenge is now to promote these sites to the local community to raise awareness of the important local geology.


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(Sports Network) - The top-seeded Detroit Red Wings will shoot for a commanding three games to none lead in the best-of-seven Western Conference quarterfinals tonight on the NHL on TSN, when they visit the Nashville Predators for Game 3 at the Sommet Center. The action gets underway at 7:30pm et./4:30pm pt. and is available on TSNHD.
The Red Wings did their part at home in the first two games of this set, posting victories in both contests. Detroit opened the series with a 3-1 win on Thursday and followed with a 4-2 decision Saturday at Joe Louis Arena.
Kris Draper's second-period goal proved to be the game-winner in the second test as the Red Wings skated to the win on Saturday afternoon.
Tomas Holmstrom had a goal and an assist, while Darren McCarty and Nicklas Lidstrom also scored for Detroit. The club was backed by another solid effort from veteran goaltender Dominik Hasek, who made 25 saves.
The 43-year-old Hasek, who helped the Red Wings to their last Stanley Cup title in 2002, continues to deflect criticism of being too old or too injury prone to carry Detroit through the postseason. Despite a .902 save percentage in the regular season, he has thrived against Nashville and is now 65-47 in 117 career playoff games. Backup Chris Osgood also has 87 postseason games under his belt.
Alex Radulov and Jordin Tootoo each tallied for Nashville, which couldn't fully recover from an early two-goal deficit. Dan Ellis stopped 34-of-38 shots in the loss.
In contrast to Hasek's experience, Ellis is playing in his first-ever playoff series and the 27-year-old had seen action in just one NHL contest prior to the 2007-08 season. Despite Nashville's 2-0 deficit in this series, Ellis has played well, stopping 71-of-77 shots for a .922 save percentage.
On the injury front, Predators centerman David Legwand has been out since March 7 with a deep bone bruise in his left foot, but is a game-time decision for tonight's test. Legwand recorded 44 points (15 goals, 29 assists) in 65 games this season.
The Red Wings were the winners of this year's Presidents' Trophy as the league's best team in the regular season. Detroit has won the award in three of the last four years and six times overall.
Detroit also won the Central Division for a seventh straight season and hit the 100-point mark for a record-tying eighth campaign in a row.
The Red Wings didn't exactly own the Predators this year, going 5-3-0 against them in the regular season. Detroit and Nashville have met once in the postseason, as the Red Wings defeated the Preds in six games during the 2004 conference quarterfinals.
Nashville posted a solid 23-14-4 record in the Music City this year, while the Red Wings were an impressive 25-12-4 as the visiting team.
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(photo courtesy of Stan Jones, who I assume is Stanimal based on the probable rarity of hardcore Vanderbilt fans named "Stan")
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Let's hope he's not jinxing anything with Taylor and Gray, but the guy put together a good list.
I might add "Cory Smith's fists" or "Todd Yoder's Still In The NFL?" or "Ted Skuchas's Hair."
I'm really not sure which athlete had the best single attribute among all Dores in the last decade. But I'm put together some nominees and corresponding video evidence of each. They are
David Price's Durability (Baseball 2005-07),
Jeffery Taylor's Bounce (Basketball 2008-Present),
Pedro Alvarez' Wrists (Baseball 2006-08),
Jay Cutler's Arm (Football 2002-2005),
Shan Foster's Fingertips (Basketball 2004-2008) and
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18 November 2009
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Everytime I plan for the best, there is something or someone who ruins those plans. Expectations for future plans are not high anymore. So ima plan for the worst so I won't expect so much from ppl.
-Jamie "Lockdown" Graham
14 November 2009
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Here's what I've found around the web, spladow! Tell your friends to read this blog.
28 October 2009
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Hot Massachusetts recruit Rod Odom seems to have a thing for Vanderbilt. It's just a hot rumor right now, but could be a very nice steal for us.
In other news, basketball is awesome.
26 October 2009
Vanderbilt Basketball Recruiting
Let me be clear: I do not care for the University of South Carolina. Not in the least. I've been there. You find yourself wondering, how are the "cock" jokes still funny? I mean, it's written on every single article of clothing they own. Honestly.
And the good ol' Carolina racism—it's just a bit more… uncomfortably consistent there. They don't say the word "boy" with hate, they breathe it with a smile and a whiff of nostalgia, like the sweetness whiskey in the breath of a sweaty guy in an oxford shirt, palmetto-patterned pants, and a visor. As in, "You run the ball, boy, like you were born and bred to do!" a direct quote from the student section of the 2005 Vandy game, at which I was present. I was dating a student there at the time. She called that "tradition."
I don't much care for Columbia, either. In fact, I might consider it the second worst university town in the SEC. Who's first? Here's a hint: Knoxville. Also, for the record, I don't include cities in Mississippi on any "worst of" lists. It's just unfair.
That's who the 'Dores have on their plate tomorrow. The Ol' "There are no Vanderbilts in the NFL" Ball Coach and his army of cocks (okay, it's a little funny).
Here are my conditional predictions:
If Vandy scores first, we win 12-10.
If SC scores the first 14 points of the game in the first half, they win 35-2.
This is why I think we might surprise the Gamecocks yet again: I strongly believe we will win one more game this year. We're too good defensively not to run in a couple interceptions for scores and end up with more than 13 points on the board in one of these games, a scoreboard situation that our defense knows how to take care of.
So I think we'll win again. Why not another game? Here's my reasoning:
So Spurrier may look over us again. That doesn't address our own struggles. What is it about the Commodores that makes our chances of winning highest tomorrow?
Because it would be our least satisfying upset possible. We have nothing to prove about matching up against South Carolina. If they hold us to 0 points tomorrow, whatever. Good for you, Steve, way to get it out of your system.
A win tomorrow would be a very nice dish, yes, but it's not what we ordered. Nobody expects us to beat Carolina three times in a row. But even if we do, the emotional returns are quickly diminishing. I'm tired of beating South Carolina. I want to beat UT again. Vanderbilt is my well-meaning aunt, whom I love; beating South Carolina is the special toffee candy she's been convinced I love for three years now, when really I'm ambivalent about toffee, but love taffy. But hey, these days, I'm just glad to get some candy once in a while.
We may expect to lose to teams we're heavily favored over (I called the Army loss), but these days, we also expect to win at least one game as major underdogs. Last year it was Auburn. Before that, South Carolina. Before that, Georgia. Before that, Tennessee.
So I think we win one more time this year, and of our remaining games, I would say we're most likely to win against SC. Then UT, then UK, then UF, then GT. Yes, I think we're more likely to beat Florida than Georgia Tech. I also think I'm more likely to marry Natalie Portman than Scarlett Johansson, but you don't see me ring shopping.
If we get an upset, let's have it be a crazy upset, like against Florida, or the happiest upset possible: beating the Vols again.
This is where the crazy neurosis of Vanderbilt fandom really shines. I don't make my predictions based on statistics, player performance, or any of the like. Using only my gut, I am fully convinced of the following facts:
So there you go. I kind of think we have a bigger-than-expected chance tomorrow. I think we'll either come out and quickly show we came to win, or come out like the team we've been all year and get smoked.
This makes complete sense to me. If it doesn't make sense to you, you haven't been following Vanderbilt football closely enough.
24 October 2009
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Watching ESPN with some friends. The cutline: "Magic [Johnson]: Bad Blood?" Think about it.
A relatively slow day. I'll make my own predictions about this weekend's game shortly.
23 October 2009
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Jeffery Taylor can probably jump over a 1995 Mercury Sable.
22 October 2009
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Vanderbilt has had a rough season.
— Lone comment in the comment section of Chris Lowe's sharp prognostication. Surprisingly concise, accurate, and articulate, for a Bama fan.
21 October 2009
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Note: These stories were lazily taken directly (and I mean, bam bam bam, straight down the line) from VUcommodores.com's "Around The Web" section.
I recommend not reading all our injuries in one sitting. It's disheartening.
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Bedazzled (Stanley Donen, 1967).
The other day.. I saw this bloke.
Peter Cook, 1967.
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(A police Constable and a police Inspector are in a police station. There is a knock at the door.)
INSPECTOR: See who that is, will you Constable?
CONSTABLE: It's a Mr Prone, Inspector.
(Enter Mr Prone)
PRONE: Mr James Prone, Inspector, of Hawkchurch. I'm sorry to disturb you at this hour.
INSPECTOR: Not at all. Won't you come in? What can we do for you?
PRONE: I'd just like you to ask me a few questions.
INSPECTOR: Questions? What about? There's nothing wrong, is there?
PRONE: It's purely a matter of routine, Inspector. There's no need for you to feel alarmed, but you are in fact investigating a murder.
CONSTABLE: Murder? But this is horrible!
PRONE: Yes, Constable. Murder is an ugly thing. That is why I should be extremely grateful if you would help me bring the culprit to bear by asking me one or two simple questions.
INSPECTOR: But I don't understand, Mr Prone. What kind of questions?
PRONE: Like 'Did I know Mrs Tallow well?'
INSPECTOR: Only slightly. You used to play bridge together, but you don't mean to say…
CONSTABLE: Is she? he's not! She can't be! She isn't?
PRONE: I'm afraid so. She was found stabbed this morning at 11.31 between the third and fourth rib.
CONSTABLE: Poor Annie! Why did it have to be her> She never hurt a soul!
INSPECTOR: There, there Constable. You mustn't upset yourself. You must excuse my Constable, Mr Prone. You see, he was much closer to her than I was. But I still don't see what this horrible thing has got to do with you.
PRONE: Where was I this morning between eleven and twelve?
INSPECTOR: You were… you were… now look here Prone, you're not suggesting…
PRONE: I'm not suggesting anything Inspector. I only want you to get the facts. Now, where was I this morning?
INSPECTOR: I expect you were in the garden - gardening the beds.
PRONE: And did anybody see me gardening?
INSPECTOR: How the devil should I know? Now see here Prone, I don't like your tone.
PRONE: I'm only trying to do your job, Inspector. It isn't always a very pleasant one.
INSPECTOR: I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. It's just that you got me on the raw. Of course we'll do all we can to help you.
PRONE: And now the Constable would like to ask me a few questions.
CONSTABLE: I… I… Oh dear, I don't know what to say.
INSPECTOR: Can't you see the Constable's overwrought? He's not himself.
PRONE: Let me see your shoe, Constable. Just as I thought. This speck of gravel is identical to the gravel in Mrs Tallow's drive. You were there this morning, weren't you? Come clean now, Constable.
CONSTABLE: Oh, what's the use? You're too clever for me.
INSPECTOR: Is this true, Constable? Why didn't you tell me?
CONSTABLE: I thought you'd be angry.
PRONE: And what were you doing there?
INSPECTOR: Look here, Mr Prone - you're not implying that the Constable is in some way implicated in this affair?
PRONE: I am implying that at 11.15 precisely, he looked in through the large bay window and saw the murder done - correct, Constable?
CONSTABLE: I'm sorry, Inspector. I couldn't help it.
PRONE: Yes, Constable. I'm afraid the game's up. You looked through that window and saw me stab Mrs Tallow.
CONSTABLE: Yes, yes. I confess.
PRONE: In that case I'm afraid you have no alternative but to arrest me for wilful murder, and of course to caution me.
INSPECTOR: But this is absurd, Mr Prone. We can't possibly arrest you on such tenuous evidence as that. There's no proof.
PRONE: The Constable saw me do it.
INSPECTOR: I don't see what that's got to do with it. He's not a reliable witness. He'd soon break down under skilful cross examination.
PRONE: My fingerprints are all over the murder weapon.
INSPECTOR: But this is all purely circumstantial evidence. Besides, we haven't found it.
PRONE: Look in my pocket.
INSPECTOR: I haven't a search warrant. No, no. I tell you, Mr Prone, we haven't got enough to go on. For instance, what motice did you have?
PRONE: Money. She left me all she had. It's no use, Inspector. You must arrest me.
INSPECTOR: Are you threatening me, Prone? I warn you, I have influential friends in the force.
PRONE: Constable, take me into custody.
INSPECTOR: You'll never get away with this.
PRONE: I'm coming quietly, Inspector. You always get your man in the end.
INSPECTOR: Alright, you devil Prone. You win. But let us have one last drink before you go. Won't you join us?
PRONE: Not while I'm on duty, thank you. Wait, what were those white crystals you put in those glasses? Give them to me!
INSPECTOR: Too late, Prone. We'll never live to run you in. You see, that was cyanide we drank.
(The Inspector dies)
CONSTABLE: Oh no, Mr Prone - you'll never hang.
(The Constable dies)
PRONE: Damn, damn, damn. I've slipped through their fingers again. I should never have allowed them that last drink. I thought it was the perfect crime, but like all murderers, I made on fatal mistake.
(First performed by Peter Cook, David Johnson and Ray Mitchell)
(Published in Tragically I Was An Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook Edited by William Cook, 2003)
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On top of their usual fanfare of pop and R&B tunes, SHINee further amplified the group's maturity and eclectic identity by exploring new music boundaries and dipping their toes in a genre called grunge. They also attempted to push the envelope with a controversial performance involving handcuffs and "skinship" between Jonghyun and Taemin in 'Internet Wars'.
If there's one thing these grown-up boys from SHINee are dying to prove with their SHINee World II concert, it's that they are a band made up of more than just pretty faces and generic pop tunes. And don't start comparing them to their TVXQ! and Super Junior seniors for they are as different as chalk and cheese.
The five boys are determined in finding their footing through exploration and experimentation in different music genres, and they definitely drove this message home with rock-heavy performances and apt song selection at yesterday's concert.
Our verdict? SHINee World II in Singapore is undoubtedly a stronger and upgraded stage of their 2011 concert. Never mind that the only song (apart from older ballads) we could sing along to and identify with belonged to the 70s ('Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree'), we still enjoyed the boys' fan service and fun-loving theatrics.
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Most people don't give to get recognition. But often those who benefit from the gifts enjoy recognizing the gift and its giver. That's the idea behind 1885 Society at St. Mary's High School.
The 1885 Society is a way to honor donors who have given a significant gift to the St. Mary's Catholic Education Foundation during their lifetime or who have included St. Mary's High School or the foundation in an estate plan, said Bill Carter, president of the foundation board.
"Most people are humble and don't want to be shined on," Carter said. "But this is something simple and doesn't shine too bright a light on any one person."
At the end of January, the 1885 Society held its first reception at the home of LeRoy Landhuis. About 40 society members attended and were given a label pin to recognize their membership in the group.
Charles Pavlica, St. Mary's class of 1968, was one of those in attendance. Pavlica said he's been contributing to St. Mary's since the late 1980s, so it seemed only natural to include the school in his estate plan when he made it in 1996.
"It's important to me to support my community," Pavlica said. "I volunteer at the Marian House and work in my local parish. So this was just another way to support the community."
While Carter believes the idea of the 1885 Society has been around for a decade, the reception and membership pin were the first activities that brought recognition to it.
"It's a positive thing to do," he said. "The reception was phenomenal and set in such a beautiful venue. The whole thing has been well thought out."
Carter said he anticipates the reception will be an annual event, held each January during Catholic schools week.
During the reception, John Kraus, president of St. Mary's High School, shared with the new inductees some recent student successes including a phone call received earlier in the day from the National Institutes of Health. The NIH will highlight St. Mary's AP Biology class and the students' work on protein folding in an upcoming publication.
"The work of the Foundation and donations made to the 1885 Society lead directly to success in the classroom. Our students know this and appreciate this", said Kraus.
Anyone interested in joining the 1885 Society should contact Matt Walter, vice president for development, at 719.635.7540 ext. 38.
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The New York City subway has more than four hundred stations, eight hundred miles of track, six thousand cars, and, on any given weekday, five million passengers. It's an antiterrorism unit's nightmare. To sweep this teeming labyrinth for bombs would take an army of explosives experts equipped with chemical detectors. Instead, the city has gone to the dogs. Since 2001, the number of uniformed police has dropped by 17 percent. In that same period, the canine force has nearly doubled. It now has around a hundred dogs, divided among the narcotics, bomb, emergency-response, and transit squads.
A good dog is a natural supersoldier: strong yet acrobatic, fierce yet obedient. It can leap higher than most men and run twice as fast. Its eyes are equipped for night vision, its ears for supersonic hearing, its mouth for subduing the most fractious prey. But its true glory is its nose. In the 1970s, researchers found that dogs could detect even a few particles per million of a substance; in the 1990s, more subtle instruments lowered the threshold to particles per billion; the most recent tests have brought it down to particles per trillion. "It's a little disheartening, really," Paul Waggoner, a behavioral scientist at the Canine Detection Research Institute, at Auburn University, in Alabama, told me. "I spent a good six years of my life chasing this idea, only to find that it was all about the limitations of my equipment."
Just as astonishing, to Waggoner, is a dog's acuity—the way it can isolate and identify compounds within a scent, like the spices in a soup. Drug smugglers often try to mask the smell of their shipments by packaging them with coffee beans, air fresheners, or sheets of fabric softener. To see if this can fool a dog, Waggoner has flooded his laboratory with different scents, then added minute quantities of heroin or cocaine to the mix. In one case, "the whole damn lab smelled like a Starbucks," he told me, but the dogs had no trouble homing in on the drug. "They're just incredible at finding the needle in the haystack."
The New York police have two kinds of canines: detection dogs and patrol dogs. The former spend most of their time chasing down imaginary threats: terrorist attacks are so rare that the police have to stage simulations, with real explosives, to keep the dogs on their toes. Patrol dogs, on the other hand, have one of the most dangerous jobs in public life. Canine police are often called when a criminal is on the loose, and they're far more likely than others to have a lethal encounter. "The crimes I get called out on are always in progress," one officer told me. "The suspects are armed. They're known to be violent. So, by the mere nature of that call, it's going to be more dangerous." He shrugged. "I guess I'm an adrenaline junkie. I got into canines to hunt men."
The dogs in the Long Island City training facility are heirs to an ancient and bloodthirsty line. Their ancestors, descended from the great mastiffs and sighthounds of Mesopotamia, were used as shock troops by the Assyrians, the Persians, the Babylonians, and the Greeks. (Alexander the Great's dog, Peritas, is said to have saved his life at Gaugamela by leaping in front of a Persian elephant and biting its lip.) They wrought havoc in the Roman Colosseum, ran with Attila's hordes, and wore battle armor beside the knights of the Middle Ages. In 1495, when Columbus sailed to what is now the Dominican Republic, he brought Spanish mastiffs almost three feet high at the withers and greyhounds that could run down an enemy and disembowel him.


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Which stagnant tech stock will shake its funk?
It's old tech versus new tech in a race for recovery.
By James Brumley
Although few seem to appreciate it, the past few weeks have been nothing less than amazing for stocks.
Yes, the S&P 500 ($INX) as well as the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) have both hit new all-time highs. But the move into uncharted territory is even more impressive in that it materialized on top of an already-frothy 17% rally. All told, stocks have advanced 22% since the November low, with hardly even a blip along the way.
Most amazing of all, however, is that the market has rallied to new highs without the help of technology bellwethers Apple (AAPL), International Business Machines (IBM) and Amazon (AMZN). Indeed, stocks have managed to do the unthinkable despite the fact that these three names have been working against the market. Each has been lethargic at best of late, if not outright bearish.
Nothing lasts forever, though, and sometimes misery can yield opportunity. All three of these stocks will eventually turn things around ... but one of them is more apt to do it before the other two.
International Business Machines
To call a spade a spade, IBM had spoiled its investors.
Up until the first quarter of the year, the tech company had posted nine years' worth of quarterly revenue increases. It also topped estimates in almost every single one of those quarters.
So, when it finally stumbled last quarter by only earning $3 per share versus expectations of $3.05, the surprised market panicked and sent the stock 8% lower in just one day. Although shares have regained most of that loss since then, IBM is still well under its mid-March highs, and not looking particularly compelling.
For more than a decade, the market has given Amazon a pass, overlooking expenditures that seemed to perpetually grow in lock-step with revenue (see InvestorPlace). For whatever reason, however, investors seem to have finally had enough, sending AMZN lower to the tune of 7% in late April after unveiling last quarter's earnings.
Funny thing is, earnings weren't bad. The pros were only expecting a profit of 8 cents per share, but Amazon.com turned in 18 cents. Revenue grew by 22%, and operating margins widened to 26.6% -- the best Amazon had seen in more than a decade.
So what's the problem? While operating margins might be strengthening, net margins have slumped to a paper-thin 1.1% last quarter … with no end in sight, given the company's penchant for big spending.
Like it or not, with Apple being the highest-profile company in the world, the stock and the underlying company are loosely linked, at best.
Instead, the stock is the story -- and it's not just a reflection of traders' ever-changing opinion of the company, but also a driver of that opinion. If shares are headed higher, the rhetoric tends to become bullish. If shares are falling, the chatter takes on a bearish tone.
That dynamic has very much worked against Apple since September of last year, sending the stock lower by at much as 40% -- a downtrend that appears to have been renewed just this week -- now that competitors are starting to catch up on the smartphone front.
And the winner is …
No fanfare needed. IBM is your best bet among the three tech names in question.
Even within the technology sector, there's chic "new tech" and stodgy "old tech." Amazon and Apple fall into the 'new' category, which is fine … except it means investors who follow, buy, and sell those stocks tend to be driven by stories, growth forecasts, peer opinion. (Not to mention the fact that many of those investors are probably also Apple and Amazon customers.)
Now that the crowd has turned a critical, questioning eye toward both names, that psychological freight train is going to be tough to stop.
IBM, on the other hand, is "old" tech, boasting a long history with old-school investors and institutions -- the crowd that can actually pick the stock up and start carrying it again once they're satisfied IBM will get back into a decade-long growth groove.
Yes, Big Blue is tiptoeing into modern consumer technology arenas like cloud and mobile, but it's leveraging a much more established name to wedge its way into those newer markets. Investors will soon figure out that last quarter was a necessary growing pain, and will be quick to forgive. They won't be as encouraged with Amazon and Apple now that their vulnerabilities have been exposed.
As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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The dream of earning your own house in China is presenting a lot of issues like the skyrocketing prices of housing and its effects among the young people. Netizens talk about housing affordability and why those applying for housing loans are getting younger and younger.
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If you are planning to go to the Shanghai World Expo at a later time and are hoping that the crowds will be gone by then, that would never happen. Our fearless forecast is that the numbers will be getting higher. Student groups now get special prices. And there is a conspiracy theory attached too.
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Okay, so you might ask why the Russian tuner TopCar has revealed a series of images with the CLR X 650 , if the project belongs to Lumma Design. The answer is quite simple: because the two tuners have now formed a partnership and these images are of their first project together.
Lumma was the tuner responsible for the technology, while TopCar made sure the interior got a beautiful makeover. TopCar also provided some input on the color scheme combination and wheels. Next to this amazing Monte Carlo Blue exterior color, the CLR X 650 M can also be ordered in White and Deep Blue.
The Lumma CLR X 650 M is powered by a twin turbocharged 4.4 Liter V8 engine that has been tweaked to produce a total of 650 HP. With these changes under the hood, the SUV makes the sprint from 0 to 60 MPH in 4.5 seconds and can hit a top speed of 194 MPH.


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"Good Job, Good Effort" becomes a good overnight internet meme
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All you people who cranked out the Photoshops and fake Twitter accounts did a really "Good Job, Goo---", ahh, too easy.
It all started just minutes after "Good job! Good effort!" Kid's post-game screaming as a dejected Heat team hit the locker room. Within in an hour, the account Good Job Kid appeared on Twitter, tweeting out classics like "Spoelstra should still take them out to Dairy Queen."
As of Wednesday morning, @GoodJobKid has more than 3,000 followers. Compare that to how many Twitter followers you have. Now tell yourself, "Good job! Good effort!"
The jokers on Twitter weren't done there. Awful Announcing remarked, "The amazing thing is Pat Riley is actually considering hiring the "Good effort, good job" kid to coach Game 6."
Even Jason Whitlock was funny. "Why is everyone blasting Le Batard for shouting words of encouragement to the Heat after the game?" Whitlock tweeted.
And just like that, there is a "Good Effort" t-shirt for sale online that parodies the Miami logo. It's $22.99, and all proceeds will go to the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute. "I am a cancer survivor and am forever indebted to the treatment I received there," says the shirt's creator. "Also, the Heat blow."
If you're a political junkie, you might be aware of Tuesday's Wisconsin recall election. Internet pranksters quickly turned out a parody of losing gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett's Tuesday night concession speech in which "Good Job, Good Effort" Kid pays an unexpected visit.
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I was really wondered why so much strange buzz around the NuThief, why every single regular guy make his own review, why there's so much opinion-threads on the forums, and why they're so… strange? I came up to the idea about this phenomena that there's nothing wrong with people, it's all about game. The game is strange. Indeed, everything in it is odd and questionable: story, characters, lore, gameplay, levels, even graphics is strange. And all of this cause frustration resulting in numerous reviews and opinions as strange and frustrated as a game. Nobody expected that, everyone was surprised by what they see on screen. Surprised in a bad way. Game itself was playable, highly playable as any other generic coridor FPS, it has all contemporary things like minimap, objective-markers, motion capture, paralax texturing, really working 64 bit version. It has all but original Thief part. Well actually it has, but again it's also strange. Garrett is now acting irrationally led by some cryptic visions. The vast backstory and lore transformed into the big elaborate easter egg, though it was made strange again. While you can see that guys at Eidos do know and seems to love story of old games, they mess up the timeline, cut crucial parts and hide all the lore deep-deep in the game where it can be easily missed or even outside the game — in the Companion App. Partly i understand this, and blame Dark Souls' success for that. Looks like Eidos was inspied by Dark Souls experience, where players unveil story themselves from the item descriptions and rare dialogs, while developers hasn't provided any details, it was up to player to figure up things. The obscurity factor led to the formation of a strong community around the game, players was helping each other to solve game's issues and to explain what the hell is happening in the game's world. And while Dark Souls and his RPG counterpart Skyrim both had a deep story and lore, new Thief haven't. So the trick Miazaki did fails in Thief immediately. And this is what the NuThiaf in the nutshell: every idea, initially not bad, meets terrible implementation hurting it's original purpose and common sense. At first game seems fine, it looking good, playing good, but the more you playing the more you notice flaws and the scars on its body, then you realize that this scars are really sutures that hold together various parts something unstackable, sometimes necessary, and after you finish the game you realize that it is really terrifying pile of flesh sewn together forming horryfying monster. New Thief is a Frankenstein. It sewn of several components and the minor of them are from older Thief games. It resemples anything but Thief: Dishonored for nerfed blink and resemblance of setting, Half Life 2 for set-on-rails action and heavily scripted levels (teh Asylum), a bit of Skyrim for stealth, Ubisoft games (Far Cry 2 for instance) for a goddamn objective-marker and restricted set of actions allowed to player, new Call of Duty for one-button gameplay… From original Thief there's only names, that's why it doesn't feels like Thief. This is not a Thief at all. So it's really that bad? Well i don't plan to write my own review, with plenty of reviews around it looks obsolete, also i'm already posted about the Thief's ending, so i just link this video - a little bit emotional, but man have a point. —- Thief's case closely resemble a situation with one japanese company that ignored all the fans aiming for a new auditory and unsuccesfully rebooted a well established title. While CAPCOM planned 'total overhaul' from the start, Thief's roots of disaster lies in the developing process. Or how rapidly it changed over time. It seems that various rumors about the troubles in Eidos Montreal appears to be true. Having a half-baked game Square Enix changed development course aiming game to the mainstream population, resulted in dumbing down gameplay elements and adding aforementioned 'contemporary elements'. The problem of goddamn NuThief is not that game is frankensteined junk or that is reboot, or that EM — are mob of talentless idiots, or that SE are douchebags, the problem it's in game industry itself. It's a buiseness aimed for big cash, and most guaranteed way to succed is to go en masse — making average product for everyone. That's what AAA-label really means. This is where 'AAA-standards' apply. Industry is a factory, it need to constantly spew out staff to live. But creativity cannot be stantardized or searilized, it's mostly spontaneous. Good product is still a product, not a piece of art. That's why indies so popular these days: they making games crafted around non- standard ideas, they have opportunity to risk and more importanly — they're have freedom. This is unattainable for industry, but things can be changed in other way: if companies will be not money-oriented, but people-oriented, this can fix things up. Unless there will be clone armies of faceless abominations with a void inside like new Thief and it's dead City, populated only by guards.
NuThief ending is fucking dissappointing. After seeing this marasmatic conclusion, overall plot gets ridiculous. The ending doesn't make sense. It leads nowhere. And this is a shame because game not so bad after all (of course it's not as good as Thief 2, but not bad anyway). Of course game has it's weak points: it is bizzarely stupid cutscenes such as rooftop dog run, it is boss battle with Thief Taker (who catch our 'master thief' way too often for master thief), it is boringly monotone empty City (with this damnable infinite loadings between zones*), it is invisible voices, it is useless map, it is unified action (Space) button that sometimes doesn't work, it is stupid floating Farcry2/Skyrim-style marker, it is dull characters and of course overall plot… But stealth is good (though not well tuned), graphics is ok (though textures should be hi-res for the PCs), atmosphere, lore and references to early games are brilliant, sound is nice (though not without some devastating bugs) and customizable difficulty is a thing done right… and um, that's all. This is a very strange game, you can see the effort dev's made… but then something happend and initial idea got to the game half-baked or horribly transformed into something stupid. The example of former is a ending — embarassingly illogical and nonsensical, which with an ease ruin overall game, atmosphere and plot — though it is obvious 'cliffhanger' but extremelly clumsiness of execution set big question mark on very possibility of sequel. It's a biggest dissapointmenting and ultimately worst ending in recent ears.
*: WTF?! It's 2014, Skyrim has giant exterrior landmass filled with STUFF and is working without loadings somehow! On prev-gen consoles! Loadings are okay (maybe) for story missions and client's jobs, but just to cross small town? Hmmm, something wrong in conservatory.
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Kunio-kun sticker sheet. Arc System Works handed these out at TGS to anyone who played through the demo of the new 3DS Kunio game, which you'd better believe I did! While there were hours-long lines for the Persona fighting game at Arc's booth, I was able to saunter right up to this game with zero wait.
I'll have a preview of the actual game up on Joystiq soon, and I'll mention it here when that happens.
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Ben Howard is the man to thank for this beautiful, hand-made set of The Legend of Zelda chess pieces. Drawing mostly from the designs of the Wind Waker era (though there are a few older styles thrown in, especially for characters not present in the GameCube title), there's King Daphnes and Zelda…
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He stayed on best from the last to beat 11/8 favourite Zaidpour by two and a half lengths. So Young stayed on nicely from mid division to take third at 8/1. The winner touched 80/1 in running. His SP though was 11/4 from 7/2 in the ring.
The 33/1 outsider Whatuthink, who was well clear in front, faded but grabbed fourth.
"It can rain all it like now! I did a lot of shouting. I thought five out he was gone but then I thought he was getting in to it at two out. He stuck to the inside and it worked out. I left it to Paul. He waits on a horse as he has a theory if horses are going too fast. He gave him a super ride," trainer Noel Meade said.
"The World Hurdle is open enough now, but we'll live for today. He's a very young horse, he's only five and he's very easy to train. He had a hard race today and might not run before Cheltenham."
Jockey Paul Carberry added: "He wasn't mad about the ground. It's a bit sticky. He was struggling on it so I sat up on him a bit and he got a second wind and did very well to get up. He's a class horse. That's the worst the ground has been all week, very gluey."
Willie Mullins trainer of runner-up Zaidpour and third-placed So Young said: "They both ran crackers. It was So Young's best run yet.
"Zaidpour went after the one in front (Whatuthink) and that might have cost him the race, but he was beaten by a good horse."
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arrested Curtis Williams in connection with the robbery of a payday loan
business on Forestdale Boulevard December 10.
Williams was taken into custody on outstanding warrants and during the
interview process with detectives he confessed to robbing the payday loan
According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's
Office, just after 2:00 pm on December 10, two men approached the business on
Forestdale Blvd. An employee buzzed the electronic lock and let them in. Once
inside the pair went behind the counter and took money from the cash drawer.
They then forced the employee to show them the safe and took the money from it
as well. No weapon was presented and no
one was harmed in the robbery. One of
the men was recognized by employees of the business.
Williams is charged with Robbery 1st Degree,
Robbery 2nd Degree and Failure to Appear on an original charge of Unlawful
Possession of Marijuana 1st Degree. He has no bond.
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