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I was there Sunday and it was a pretty good show, especially since I also could go next door to the Texas Trophy Hunters Hunters Extravaganza without having to get into the car and travel. I saw some good deals in the gun show and even bought a new holster and gunbelt made by Don Hume for OWB carry of my 3" SP-101.
I saw the new Smith & Wesson emergency kit including a .500S&W revolver with orange hogue grip, firestarter, compass, emergency blankets and I think a signal mirror in a bright orange hardcase all for a little over a grand....
I also saw some nice used revolver deals, listened to a woman that thought she was the know it all for handgun grips....I proved her wrong!!!
I, for one really enjoyed the show but am looking forward to the big Reliant show in September.


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As the former Awgrip trainer for the Maine State Marine Trades Center I am very tuned in to finish surfaces. My next finish demonstration idea is to put some sort of textured surface above the WL that has an artistic bent. Some kind of fresco with a marine theme that is non descript enough that it might be enhanced by minor damage. It is such a source of anxiety for boat owners to worry about surface imperfections in their finishes. There is no question that an Endeavor Blue Awlgrip finish is spectacular. To have a finish that requires you to worry about the abrasive qualities of the fenders you use to prevent abrasion is a bit much. I used to watch owners peer into the finish of their yacht and admire their reflections. I also used to teach Marine painting and Varnishing for WoodenBoat Magazine, and loved those owners who are so particular about their painted and varnished surfaces. I concluded that many boat owners are maintenance junkeys who have decided that boats will be their outlet. I am a fairly good painter. I actually like to varnish. I have a Marshall Sandpiper and its coaming and rails are Bristol. That is enough. My other sail boat has teak trim that is beautifully weathered to a silver that matches my hair. The hull is weathering white gel coat (the only color for boats) and the occasional impact that leaves a mark is no more than a marker from another adventure. I do use fenders to protect the boat and soften impact but worrying about covering them to avoid a sign of wear is not on my list of priorities.
Perhaps I am an Ausi, too?
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Why you going to those things ? (spherical fenders) Isn't the problem of stowing the buggers more trouble than they are worth ?
One of our local boat painters highly recommends going to spherical fenders (called "scotchmans" hereabouts - often used to buoy crab/prawn pots) to their clients with freshly painted boats.
I did as SD suggested and bought some sweatpants from the thrift store. Cut the legs off above the knee, sewed in a hem top and bottom, added shoelaces as draw strings and slipped them over the fenders. My fenders were scratching the paint. Now they are not. I will wash them once in a while. $6.00 invested.
I bought 6 fender covers two years ago. Can't remember the brand but they were made of a thin blue knit synthetic. Pulled them onto the fenders, tied the boat alongside the slip, made everything tiddly and left.
The boat was slipped at a fixed dock in a Great Lakes marina, very sheltered. No tides and no turbulence.
Came back three days later. The covers on the three fenders between the boat and the slip were all bunched up at the top of the fender. Pulled them back down and looked at the covers on the other side. They were all in place covering the fenders. Not surprising as nothing was touching the boat on that side.
Two days later was back at the boat. One fender cover missing. Two others had ridden up the fenders again. They were starting to get quite dirty from the gunk that coated the side of the slip. It had deposited itself on the fender cover and the air had dried it out. Crusty is prbably the best term for it.
The covers on the other side were fine. Just where they had been put and no Lake sludge.
Took the dirty ones off the fenders, threw them into the wash at home and bought a new one to roekace the missing one.
They rode up and got dirty again. They got very, very crusty this time .
I took them off the fenders and threw them away. Won't buy them again.
My experience is counter to the advice given above regarding Awlgrip.
I've used fleece covers on my Awlgrip II paint for 7 years. They have not caused any harm and IMO have protected the paint better than uncovered fenders which I have seen leave rubbery streaks after heavy use/weather.
The rubber streaks are easily removeable, but why bother?
I found them online be googling "fuzzy fenders" and adding "-zz top" so that I didn't get a bunch of unrelated, but very funny coincidental guitar pictures.
Originally Posted by Valiente View Post
That is an excellent idea. If I cared about fender covers, I'd use it!
Wouldn't work for the orange spherical ones I'm going to, however.
Why you going to those things ? Isn't the problem of stowing the buggers more trouble than they are worth ?
Generally speaking I wouldn't be bothered with the covers , seem like just another way to piss away your hard earned dosh on completely useless stuff.
Then again some people do polish their hulls, have dinky little throw cushions with anchor motifs, wear colour coded docksiders and call their wife the admiral.
Our attitude is that should a pirate spot us they will take one look and decide the other blokes boat has got to be a better prize than our scruffy old pos. Also we are Australians. Nuff said.
Then again....how about fender covers made from dead possums ?
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Ask guys who paint boats
Ask guys who paint boats and the tech support at Awlgrip. They will usually tell you they do more harm than good. I had a long conversation with the Dupont Imron reps at the Maine Boat Builders Show and they were complaining that fleece covers are a huge Peeve of theirs. People thin kt they are doing good but dry crusty salt, dirt weeds dock grime and such sticks to fleece and it does not stick to a clean fender nearly as well..
People think they are doing a good thing but fleece likes to attract dirt, dock grime, dried seaweed and any other thing floating by. This stuff then gets trapped in the fibers and abrades the hull worse than a smooth clean fender will.
Clean your fenders often and I would advise agaisn the use of them. I chose to ignore my painter and bought some. I used them for one day and saw exactly what he said I would trapped grime and dirt in the fibers. They are basically brand new, sitting in my barn, collecting dust..
Hockey socks work too, if you want covers.
However, if there's a chance of airborne dirt particles (moored near a gravel lot and windy, for instance) the covers can trap and hold dust/dirt and then become hull abraders themselves.
SD, great idea. I'll have to buy the FAT Man sweats from Wall Mart to fit the finders. Should have a good color selection.
My big worry is damage to the gel coat over time.
|If you don't want to hear the hull squeaking all night they are a must and making the covers yourself is a great beginner project for sewing.
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The countdown to our next game starts here.
Before every fixture you can take a trip down memory lane with some classic encounters against our forthcoming opponents. Click on the scores for match reports and click on the PLAY buttons to watch the best of the action from each game.
Liverpool 0-2 arsenal, 1989
The most dramatic night in Arsenal's history. George Graham's side needed to win by two goals to snatch the title from Liverpool at Anfield and they did it thanks to Smith's header and Thomas' stoppage-time strike.
Liverpool 1-2 arsenal, 1971
Arsenal's first Double was secured by Charlie George's extra-time winner at Wembley in May 1971 as Bertie Mee's side came from behind on a sweltering hot day. Eddie Kelly got the equaliser before the Gunners made history.
Liverpool 1-2 arsenal, 1987
When Ian Rush scores, Liverpool don't lose. That 'law' of football was finally broken as Charlie Nicholas struck in either half to deny the favourites at Wembley. The Littlewoods Cup was Arsenal's first trophy for eight years.
Liverpool 1-2 arsenal, 2003
One of the key moments of the 'Invincibles' title season. Arsenal struggled to get into gear at Anfield but a fortuitous own goal cancelled out Kewell's opener and Pires scored one of the goals of the season to clinch the points.
Liverpool 1-3 arsenal, 2007
Arsenal ran riot in the domestic cups at Anfield in 2007 and this victory was largely down to Tomas Rosicky. The Czech produced two brilliant finishes from the edge of the box and Thierry Henry's solo effort took the Gunners through.
Liverpool 3-6 arsenal, 2007
Two years before Andrey Arshavin's awesome foursome, Julio Baptista did exactly the same in a dramatic Carling Cup tie. Aliadiere and Song were also on target but this was the Beast's night - Liverpool simply could not handle him.
Liverpool 1-1 arsenal, 2007
Arsenal's title credentials were put to the test at Anfield and they emerged intact thanks to a late goal from Fabregas. His Spain team-mate Alonso fired Liverpool ahead but the visitors were worth their point after dominating the second half.
arsenal 1-1 liverpool, 2008
Four days after a Champions League tie at the Emirates, the teams were at it again - with identical results. Peter Crouch's fine strike gave Liverpool a deserved lead but Nicklas Bendtner powered home a header to force a draw.
arsenal 1-1 liverpool, 2008
Van Persie gave Arsenal the lead with a brilliant strike but Keane matched him with an equally spectacular finish. The hosts ended the game with 10 men after Adebayor was sent off while Fabregas damaged knee ligaments.
Liverpool 4-4 arsenal, 2009
Arshavin took centre stage with four goals in a classic encounter. He poked Arsenal ahead, equalised after Liverpool hit back and then drilled the visitors back in front twice before a stoppage-time goal denied Arsenal victory.
Liverpool 1-2 arsenal, 2009
Arshavin was the scourge of Liverpool again with a venomous strike to win the game. The hosts went ahead in the first half but a Glen Johnson own goal levelled matters before Arshavin found a yard of space and then found the net.


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Claggett stops Duenas; Nichols tops Contreras
By Miguel Maravilla at ringside
Photos: Big Joe Miranda
Thompson Boxing Promotions returned to the Inland Empire Friday night hosting its New Blood series from the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, California. In the main event, Canadian Steve Claggett (15-1-1, 10 KOs) surprised local favorite Ricky Duenas (12-2, 6 KOs) with a fourth round TKO. This one was good while it lasted. In round one Duenas landed a right hand that stunned Claggett, Duenas followedwith another crushing right hand knocking down Claggett. Managing to survive the first round knockdown, Claggett landed a right hand in round two that got Duenas' attention and closing the round Claggett knocked down Duenas as he landed another right hand and Duenas was saved by the bell. The Canadian continued landing right hands in round three and floored Duenas again in round four with a short right. Duenas survived the round but that would be all as his corner asked referee Ray Corona to stop the contest at the end of the fourth round.
There was another upset in the co-main event as awkward featherweight Shawn Nichols (7-12, 5 KOs) of Denver won a six round majority decision over previously unbeaten Richard "Terminator" Contreras (9-1-1, 8 KOs) of Riverside.
The southpaw Nichols used the ring sticking and moving in the opening round as Contreras chased landing the more effective punches landing a solid right that backed up Nichols. In round two Contreras appeared to be cut on the forehead as Nichols landed solidly with straight lefts but Contreras landed with solid hooks and uppercuts on inside. The southpaw kept popping the jab beginning to frustrate Contreras as he began swinging wildly landing some in the process. Contreras however continued to land the harder punches as Nichols stood in front of Contreras displaying his elusiveness and countering in round four. Nichols landed a flurry of punches that backed up Contreras to the ropes, later in the round Nichols landed another flurry that stunned Contreras as Nichols continued to punch Contreras would be saved by the bell in closing round five. Sensing the urgency both traded in the sixth and final round as Contreras continued to land with the uppercuts. In the end Shawn Nichols proved to be tough awkward giving Richard Contreras the first blemish of his career as one judge scored it 57-57 while the two other judges scored it 58-56 as Shawn Nichols wins a majority decision.
Other bouts
In the opening bout of the evening the heavyweights started off the action as Canadian heavyweight Matt Kadian (6-1-1, 4 KO's) took on Lancaster's Avery Gibson (0-1-2). The two came out exchanging in the opening round shooting one-two combinations, Gibson later landed a one two combination followed by a solid left hook in the closing seconds of the round. Kadian began to box in round two as Gibson displayed his awkwardness punching and smothering. Round three both picked up the pace as they traded Gibson countered Kadian with a solid left hook closing the round. The fourth and final round Gibson came out landing heavy punches continuing to land with the left hook on the inside but the Canadian was there to fight as they closed out exchanging with the crowd on their feet. In the end one judge scored it 39-37, as the two other judges scored the bout even 38-38 declaring it a draw.
In women's action Lissette Medel (8-1-1) of Maywood took on Mexico City's Cynthia Munoz (6-2, 3 KO's) in a four round junior lightweight bout. Medel came out popping the jab boxing smoothly following through with one two combinations. The second round Medel continuing to box worked her way inside landing left hooks to the body. Continuing to work behind the jab Medel boxed patiently in round three as Munoz pressed fighting from the outside. In round five Medel began to counter punch the taller Munoz on the inside. Going into the sixth and final round Medel smothered Munoz as she landed a solid left hook rocking Munoz head back but Munoz displayed her toughness as she mixed it up with Medel as once again the crowd was on their feet at the end of the fight. In the end Lissete Medel displayed more ring generalship over her tough opponent as all three judges scored it 60-54 for Medel.
In more heavyweight action Javier "Monster" Torres (4-0, 2 KOs) of Long Beach returned to the Doubletree scoring a knockout over Utah's Gary Cobia (0-3). Torres landed a solid left hook in the opening seconds that knockdown Cobia, referee Ray Corona counted, Cobia quickly got up. Later in the round a one two combination to the body once again sent Cobia to the canvas as referee Ray Corona stopped the contest at 2:05 of the first round.
Junior featherweight Juan "Pochito" Reyes (8-1-1, 1KO) of Riverside dominated Mexicali's Jose Angel Cota (15-9-1, 11 KOs) for six six rouns. From the opening bell both fighters came out swinging but Reyes landed effectively on the inside with left hooks to the body followed by right hands as he began backing up Cota. In round two Reyes started off where he left off continuing to pressure landing a solid right that backed up Cota to the ropes. Reyes began to box and counter, the aggressive Cota in round three. Juan Reyes boxed well in round four beginning to pick apart the fading Cota as he began to tire. Reyes began to tee off on Cota popping him with the jab following through with combinations as Cota appeared to be tired. Reyes was the more superior fighter as he clearly out boxed and outworked the always tough Cota as they closed the bout exchanging with the crowd on its feet once again. Reyes cruises to a unanimous decision win as all three judges scored the bout 60-54.
Junior lightweight sensation Alejandro Luna (11-0, 9 KOs) of Whittier took on Adolfo Landeros (21-29-2, 10KOs). Luna boxed patiently in the opening round as he used his jab and being selective with his punches. Using his distance in round two Luna measured Landeros with the jab as he followed through with a solid left hook that broke Landeros guard. In round three Luna began to work inside throwing the left hook to the head and body mixing in uppercuts. Luna went back to boxing in round four as he began to use the ring keeping his distance from Landeros jabbing away. Once again Luna worked inside landing effectively as he backed Landeros to the ropes in round five, later in the round Luna landed a solid right that stunned Landeros as he would be saved by the bell. Alejandro Luna clearly outworked Landeros as he mixed up all night working from the inside and outside as he cruised his way to a unanimous decision win as all three judges scored it 60-54


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when would you be making one of these for the GMH? I would love to pick one up
when would you be making one of these for the GMH? I would love to pick one up
Id make one for the gmh, if I get a gmh. At the moment I do not have one. The waiting list is long for them as far as I can tell, and I have soooooooo much money wrapped up in this stuff that I wasnt planning on getting one.
If there was a guarantee to sell quite a few of the kits, id likely get to work on it. Theres not a tun of profit here, due to the amount of time (the process is time consuming) and materials (3-5 different materials to make each one) involved. And they do not come in quantities that go together so I always end up with way too much of something, or not enough of something else.
The rubber is alumilite not smoothon. But yoru right washing with soap and water, or alcohal will help a lot when using a non laquer based paint. The testers (pactra) based paints seem to bodn to this rubber, and never come off.
If you have a kit ready I have GMH #3 Im waiting on it from Chris...as its a premium upgraded to GMH Im waiting for the CC parts to be made...but Id see how well it fit when it got here
thats cool. i understand that fully. if you ever do get your hands on one or know someone willing to lend it out at some point and want to do a run im all for it
Ok, sorry been super busy, but have been pulling a part or two a night in teh pre-pro form.
So heres the scoop. This pic shows the two types of kits I have to ship now. They are pre-pro. Meaning the end kit may have more parts, may change, etc. But I have been testing some things and pulling parts as I go.
There is one block, on some of the rear pads, that ends up denting in a bit. The test mold is a little thin. its not terrible, and adds to the 'real world wear' feel. But I wanted to point it out.
These are the kits I have 4-6 of atm. 2 white forhead/rear/black domecheek, and 2 all black.
Heres what im projecting for the run. Id like you all to chime in.
The full kit, which will have a new forehead, and gasket for the visor is looking like 150 shipped. HOWEVER.
For every 10 I get committed, I will lower the kits $10. So if i can get 50 people interested, I will set the price at $100 for final kit.
I am only projecting 10-20 interested, so it would look more like 130-140.
I will run it this way (never done it before, but with this scenario I must).
1st: Sign up thread
2nd: $10 deposit
3rd: tally deposits, start making, give final price and ship.
The kits listed below are the $100 prepro pieces with old forehead, and no gasket. I know theres lots of budget fets out there that want these. Or people that want to get started
Ill provide the other pieces as a supplemental for a small fee to those that buy these.
Storm, put me down for 2...
I have my Jango and will soon enough have the GMH... Ok folks 48 more needed
FYI smu the Asok Jango helmet is ALOT smaller than the Boba helmet...
Ill post a pic later I think I have it at least...of the actual difference between a Asok and a FP budget and a Marrow Sun V3
Its likely i can just fill the detail pieces with rubber for the dome, and not the whole dome, so you wouldnt have to worry about dome fit. The rest, should fit in a considerably smaller helmet.
of the 6 ready to sell for 100, 2 are currently spoke for, both black as far as I can tell.
Storm, I think I'll be patient and wait for the final pulls instead of taking one of the pre-pros, so please mark me down for 1 (black) set of final product. Thanks!
If you look on the left of the picture is a FP Budget the middle an Asok ILM, and the far right a Marrow Sun V3 notice how small the Asok is in comparison
**** that's a significant difference... LOL
Stormy.. I'll paypal Friday the 21st...
Everyone wait on paypal for the sign up Im working on a new way to handle these sign ups that could be super if I can finish it quickly, which will handle a lot of the communication part (part i dont have time for at the moment) for me
The pieces stop short of the 'cheeks' by about 3/4 of an inc. Meaning more than 1.5 inches total curcumference and the piece still fits. Someone measure from where the cheak starts (earpiece area) all the way around the helmet to the other cheek. This will give me a better feel for how much smaller it actually is inside. It could be deeper for all i know, which would have the same circ.
any updates on the sign up ?
Due to weather and underwhelmingness im not sure how im going to handle this.
I think you sent me a 10$ dp, which im going to refund shortly.
Im likely going to shoot the prepros that arent sold, onto ebay, and take some time to sort out these projects. Working on the interior of a helmet, is daunting. Its highly likely that the expectations can not be met.
For the amount of time I have in to this project, I just am not seeing the demand that would make me double down at the moment.
Imagine trying to make and distribute a resin product, that is blemish free, out of the mold, and needs 0% filling, sanding, preping. Thats what these have to be to meet expectations, and I just dont think im prepared to handle the dissapointment.
I have a few sets I am going to put on ebay. If that ends up being a simpler outlet, Ill point people there instead.
Ill keep people informed of any progress either way.
It would be a shame to see this project stall.
The work that you have already done looks fantastic.
I hope that you decide to continue so that if I ever decide to build a Mando I can install one of your interiors.
I hope you decide to contiune with this project too because I would have no problem spending the money to get a set from you if it just meant all you had to do was get it out of the mold and ship it "as it is". I would be more than happy to do all the filing and trimming myself just like the typical "kit" requires..
Stormrider I just saw this thread and want to give you a big thumbs up on your work and effort. I am very familiar with the costs and time involved to produce an original work like this and it's a major commitment.
I'm interested in any info on these related to the GMH fit, even if trimming is required. Hopefully you turn a profit, but in any case this is a very respectable project. I think that part of your battle is related to the ultra canon obsessed, but in my opinion this does nothing but make a helmet more interesting.
Hey SR. Ive been away from TDH for a bit but Im glad to see you're still pluggin away! I have
2 of your older interiors just waiting to be used, I acually toyed with the idea of using some of the pieces
in my xwing bucket, but didnt want to break up a set for that. Im not sure why the interiors would
have to be perfect.....are they not being installed into trooping helmets for the most part? Anyway
I love my 2 interiors, cant wait to get em installed, love the progess picures, youve really mastered
casting in this foamrubber material!
Thanks for the kind words all.
The jist is, that withs soft rubber, you get a little pocking, a few bubbles etc. They arent possible to fill. They just have to be so close to perfect that people are more awed than dissapointed
miqt, i think i have some leftovers from the old kits. Ill take a look. I ws going to do a massive junk sell real soon. I have so many pairs of almost perfect foams, blasters, knee pads, hics you wouldnt believe it. I know for a fact I have some old kit parts left, I just saw them yesterday.
Im hoping once I sell all the prepro stuff i did, I can make a mold, and move forward again. Slowly
If I can get my hands on one of the new helmets i could tell you if they would fit. If someone can take a measurement for me, that would be stellar. Needs to be from cheek to cheeck aroudn the lower edge. Then from lowest part below the keyslots to the detail ring around the tome.
The dome likely WONT fit, but i could create the parts that go in the dome as pieces instead of a dome, and they could be glued in.
More later.
I still say they are really awesome kits. The really can work for any bucket, just don't expect a drop in solution. You can take a Xacto or scissors and trim out the greebs you want.
Another interested for GMH compatibility.
I have a couple of kits left that have a few backing bubbles. Im going to sell those for 75, like my original kits were, They will work as is, and can be trimmed to pieces to be put in iwthout the liner (flat) parts.
If anyones interested in the states for 75 shipped pm me, and ill shoot them off. Mixed color.
Im still working on the parts, this weekend im hoping it stay warm, because its getting weather time to start working on this stuff.


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B. COURTLAND SAXONAffiliation:
Courtland and Friends Jazz Combo
Jacobs School of Music/Indiana University
Jackson State University
Artist's BiographyDescribed as a musical prodigy, Courtland is innovative, technically-gifted and soulful. He possesses deep-rooted musical expressions of the jazz legends, reflected in his versatility whether he\'s improvising on a solo or playing soft background music. John Coltrane once said this regarding music: \"There is never an end. There are always new sounds to imagine, new feelings to get at and always the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we\'ve discovered in its purest state.\" This ideology best sums up the musical approach of B. Courtland Saxon, a graduate student at Jacobs School of Music. A graduate of Jackson State University, Courtland was a Dean\'s List Scholar, member of the National Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, MENC (International Association of Music Education), AAJC (African-American Jazz Caucus), JSU\'s Jazz Band and Vocal Ensemble. With appearances in the April 2006 issue of the Jazz Educational Journal with the AACJ/HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Student All-star Big Band, Courtland traveled to Japan with the Gospel Voices of Jackson, MS, performed with the Jackson State Orchestra at the Library of Congress for the U.S. Congress. He has enjoyed sharing the stage with saxophone masters\' legend Jimmy Heath, the Marsalis Brothers, Gerald Wilson, Chaka Khan, Chris Potter, the world renowed classical alto saxophonist Otis Murphy and named Best Soloist for the 2006/2008 Alcorn State\'s Collegiate Jazz Festival, 2008 Alabama\'s Jazz Hall of Fame Collegiate Festival and also Best Soloist at the North Texas Jazz Festival .During this competition, he received Best Composer and Arranger for one of his original tunes, Cleopatra\'s Needle. While performing with the AAJC/HBCU Student All-star Big Band at the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival, Saxon and six others received sponsorship to attend the 2006 Centrum Jazz Festival in Port Townsend, Washington. He was the featured soloist with the renowned saxophonist Kirk Whalum at the STAX Music Academy SNAP AFTER SCHOOL Spring Concert in Memphis, TN. At the historical election of President Barack Obama, B. Courtland performed with the JSU Orchestra at the Inauguration Celebration. Saxon is not resting on his laurels and humbly states, \"There is still so much to learn, explore and accomplish.\" Future plans include completion of graduate and doctorate programs with a career centered on teaching, performing abroad, writing music for television and film. He further explains, \"Music is a feeling. I try to make it happen, bringing everything together, the theory and technique, to create a body of art that stands the test of time.\"
\"Saxon performs at a consistently high level as a soloist.\"
Larry McClellan, Ph.D
Dean Professional Educational Division (Retired)
Berklee College of Music
Boston, Massachusetts
\"B. Courtland Saxon presents a very intelligent improvisational approach to jazz with wonderful tone quality and great chops...Look out for many future contributions from him. He really has a handle on this music and his instrument.\"
Dr. Willie L. Hill, Jr.
Director, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Past President - IAJE International Association for Jazz Education
Past President - MENC: The National Association for Music Education


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Spike holiday drinks, pies, and even fudge with a splash of eggnog, a creamy holiday classic.
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Food or medicine? That's the stark choice many older Americans face.
Nearly 9 million people 50 and older face the risk of hunger, representing an astounding 79 percent increase between 2001 and 2009, reports a study by AARP Foundation. Food insecurity strikes minorities, including Hispanics, especially hard. The 2011 study found that "Hispanic 50- to 59-year-olds had a sustained level of food insecurity that was double or more their white counterparts," and about one in seven Latinos between 50 and 70 struggle with very low food security, a severe condition defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a disruption of normal eating patterns (such as skipping meals).
Related: Learn how AARP Foundation is fighting senior hunger
Hispanics are also under-enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the federal government's primary safety net program to provide food aid. Research shows that Hispanics often turn to their families or "make ends meet with the little that they have," rather than accessing programs designed to fight hunger, said Hiram Lopez-Landin, an analyst for AARP Foundation's Hunger Impact team. "They really don't talk about something that is happening in their community."
"We intend to be instrumental in shaping the conversation," vows Lisa Marsh Ryerson, president of AARP Foundation. "We intend to be mindful of the disparities in different populations and how those barriers can be broken down."
See also: Food programs and resources for older Americans
As part of its response to this worsening crisis, AARP Foundation joined LATINO Magazine to launch No Más Hambre (No More Hunger) in 2011. The multipronged campaign helps raise awareness of hunger in the Hispanic community and drive that awareness into action. In addition to publishing editorials and articles about food insecurity in the pages of LATINO and on the No Más Hambre website, the Foundation has sponsored forums across the country and an annual national summit to unite and galvanize leading anti-hunger advocates.
The core of No Más Hambre involves local forums and events held in cities with large Hispanic populations, such as Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Charlotte, North Carolina. Panels focus on topics such as cultural barriers and immigration status that prevent many people from receiving food assistance, as well as the link between poor diet and chronic diseases that afflict the Latino population: diabetes, obesity and hypertension.
In Austin, Texas, the Foundation helped underwrite Tacorama, a week-long celebration of the humble taco in May 2012. In addition to a local No Más Hambre forum and a food drive, several of Austin's top restaurants featured a signature taco on their menus. Patrons then voted for "best taco" online, a prize won by Tamale House East's chicken mole taco.
No Más Hambre forums in smaller cities like Charlotte have proved particularly successful, said Lopez-Landin. In a metropolis, such as New York City, he explains, many anti-hunger advocates are already communicating and acting in concert. But in Charlotte, he recalled, "folks who had been working on the same issue miles from one another did not know about each other until the day of the forum."
Donald Herring, senior services director at the YWCA, San Gabriel Valley, in Covina, California, which runs programs that feed between 1,000 and 1,500 people per day, sees No Más Hambre as a rare opportunity to exchange new ideas with colleagues. "It's always helpful" to make new contacts, said Herring, who spoke last year at a forum in Los Angeles. Managers of established food programs sometimes contend with tunnel vision, he acknowledges, while gatherings like No Más Hambre enable participants to "think outside the box." At the Los Angeles forum, he learned that many organizations in his region now grow fruits and vegetables and then serve fresh produce to clients. "I didn't know that was happening quite to the extent it was," said Herring, who is open to establishing a similar venture in the future.
Related: Program helps seniors grow vegetables and income
Jessica Powers, director of WhyHunger's National Hunger Clearinghouse, spoke last year at a No Más Hambre panel in New York City. She commends the forums for sending hungry seniors a compelling message: "You have worked hard your whole life and paid [taxes], and [SNAP] is a benefit you are entitled to when you need some help."
Powers also applauds No Más Hambre for debunking common misconceptions about food aid recipients. For instance, many Americans blame elderly SNAP recipients for not saving enough for retirement, "but a variety of things could have happened," said Powers. "There could have been unexpected medical bills; there could have been a grandchild that they needed to take care of that they weren't expecting; they could have lost a lot of money in their 401(k)" during the recession. She believes No Más Hambre events -- which receive significant media attention -- educate people about "the difference between perception and reality."
Dispelling misconceptions, raising awareness, sharing strategies and helping to facilitate grassroots efforts to get nutritious food to those in need – it's an approach that has defined No Más Hambre since its inception. Moving forward, AARP Foundation and LATINO Magazine remain committed to working in all these ways to end senior hunger in the Hispanic community.


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For now, goodbye to Mr. Brown, plus his plummeting and essentially non-existent draft value and hello to David Wilson 's rankings rise. Even though the exciting Wilson, already a top-20 fantasy RB, emerged as the Giants lead runner, both backs were expected to be heavily involved in New York's offense. The second-year back finished preseason with 179 yards on 24 carries while hauling in seven receptions. Now with no major threats to steal touches at least for a while, expect Wilson's ADP to rise. Da'Rei Scott and Ryan Torian are now the primary backups. Neither is handcuff worthy until further notice. Suddenly, tabbing Wilson late in the second round is no longer a stretch.


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Gingrich "suspect[s]" Dems will put politics ahead of national security if they win control of House; after all, that's what he did in '94
In describing what would happen if the Democrats took control of the House, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, appearing on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, said "you can expect two years of all-out investigations, attacks, anything they can bring to bear." What Gingrich didn't say is that prior to the 1994 elections, he reportedly vowed, "Washington just can't imagine a world in which Republicans would have subpoena power," and he delivered.
Appearing on the March 15 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) alleged that, because of the "willingness" of Democratic leaders "to put politics ahead of national security" and other "major issues" facing the country, "you can expect two years of all-out investigations, attacks, anything they can bring to bear" if the Democrats regain control of the House or Senate after the 2006 congressional elections. But while Gingrich's theory that the Democrats will abuse their authority if they become the majority party is merely conjecture, neither he nor host Bill O'Reilly noted Gingrich's actions as House Speaker when the Republicans regained control in the 1994 congressional elections. Gingrich reportedly vowed before that election that "Washington just can't imagine a world in which Republicans would have subpoena power," and with the GOP's victory, he delivered.
In an October 14, 1994 report, The Washington Post described a memo detailing a meeting between Gingrich and then-National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) chairman Bill Paxon (R-NY) in which Gingrich claimed that if the Republican Party won control of the House in the upcoming congressional elections, the party would use its power to investigate corruption inside the Clinton administration. During the meeting with Paxon, Gingrich said that "Washington just can't imagine a world in which Republicans would have subpoena power," adding, "[I]magine the last two years if we could have used subpoena power to get to the bottom of Whitewater" and then-Secretary of Agriculture "Mike Espy's relation with Tysons Food." Espy was acquitted [1] in December 1998 of charges that he improperly accepted gifts from Tyson Foods Inc. and other companies.
Further, on April 29, 1996, Roll Call documented a memo drafted by Virginia Thomas, aide to then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), noting that "influential power brokers" in Gingrich's "inner circle" had directed Republican committee chairmen to search their files for "waste, fraud, and abuse" and "examples of dishonesty or ethical lapses" in the Clinton administration in order to "compile information for packaging and presentation to the Leadership for determining the agenda":
House Republican leaders last week directed their committee chairmen to search their investigative files for damaging "anecdotes" on corruption of "Washington labor union bosses" and "examples of dishonest or ethical lapses in the Clinton administration," according to an internal GOP memo that leaked out on Friday.
The memo was sent by Reps. Bob Walker (R-Pa) and Jim Nussle (R-Iowa), neither of whom holds an elected post in the leadership but who are nonetheless influential power brokers in House Speaker Newt Gingrich's (R-Ga) inner circle.
The project is under the direction of one of House Majority Leader Dick Armey's (R-Texas) top aides, Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Said the memo, "On behalf of the House Leadership, we have been asked to cull all committees for information that you already have on three subjects listed below. We are compiling information for packaging and presentation to the Leadership for determining the agenda."
The three subject areas set for committee review are: "Waste, Fraud and Abuse in the Clinton Administration; Influence of Washington Labor Union Bosses/Corruption," and "Examples of Dishonesty or ethical lapses in the Clinton administration."
Additionally, as Roll Call reported on September 30, 1996, Thomas -- wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas --prepared an "assault book" allegedly detailing 75 different alleged Clinton administration "scandals" for Republican House members to use for the upcoming 1996 elections:
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has prepared an assault book on the Clinton Administration that is being completed by the House GOP leadership in time for GOP Members to use for the fall elections.
The scandal sheet has been pieced together by Virginia Thomas, a top aide to House Majority Leader Richard Armey (R-Texas). Democrats have long accused Thomas of being a partisan dirt-digger for House leaders, a charge she has vociferously denied.
A GOP source said the book was still in draft form on Friday and would be completed by Monday so that Members can bring it home with them as they hit the campaign trail. As of Friday, the GOP leadership had detailed a running total of 75 Clinton Administration "scandals."
From a discussion about Sen. Russ Feingold's (D-WI) recent proposal to censure President Bush over his administration's domestic surveillance program on the March 15 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: Wall Street Journal today, editorial page [2]. Feingold, the senator from Wisconsin, wants to run for president in 2008, pushing the censure of President Bush about the NSA wiretapping deal. The Wall Street Journal says this is just the beginning of an impeachment situation if the Democrats regain control of the House and the Senate. What do you see?
GINGRICH: Well, I think if the Democrats -- if you end up with the Feingold-[House Democratic Leader Nancy] Pelosi-[Democratic National Committee chairman] Howard Dean leading the Democratic Party, in control of either the House or the Senate, you can expect two years of all-out investigations, attacks, anything they can bring to bear. Their willingness to put politics ahead of national security and put politics ahead of major issues that involve the country is, frankly, mildly amazing.
O'REILLY: All right. So, if the Democrats win the House or the Senate or both, then President Bush is going to have to fight political actions designed to humiliate him and remove him from office?
GINGRICH: See, I suspect that Nancy Pelosi's first instruction to every chairman would be, "Find something you can investigate the administration on," and they would go all out. And I think Senator Feingold is showing you that there are no holds barred. There are no grounds for censuring the president that are legal. This is a purely political ploy by somebody who's a very left-wing Democrat and who's trying to appeal, I think, to the anti-war crowd as part of a presidential campaign.
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Release Date: 11/22/2011
Clarksville, Ark. --- Brett Stone, who has served as assistant professor of health and physical education at Ozarks since 2008, was named the recipient of the 2011 Higher Education Educator of the Year award by the Arkansas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreations and Dance (ArkAHPERD) during its annual state convention, held Nov. 17-18 in Little Rock.
Brett Stone, assistant professor of health and physical education at Ozarks, received the 2011 Higher Education Educator of the Year award, given by the Arkansas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreations and Dance (ArkAHPERD).
ArkAHPERD is a professional organization that supports health and physical education teachers and professors as well as the development and well-being of children and youth throughout the state.
Stone was nominated for the award by Arkansas State University Professor Dr. Andy Mooneyhan, who is also executive director of ArkAHPERD. Mooneyhan said the Higher Education Educator of the Year award is one of the most prestigious given by the organization.
"Brett Stone has been an outstanding advocate for the health and well-being of Arkansas children," Mooneyhan said. "He has spent countless hours in committee meetings and in other venues helping to promote the importance of physical education in our schools, often at the sacrifice of his own time and resources. He has done a phenomenal job of standing up for the health of Arkansas' school children, and he is well deserving of this honor."
Stone said he was surprised by the honor.
"The award notification was such a surprise for me because I was not even aware that my name was included among the nominees," Stone said. "I am truly honored to be considered for the award and grateful for the opportunity to work in collaboration with so many good people."
Stone, who is also a co-sponsor of the University's Sports Shooting Club, earned his bachelor's degree from Lyon College before earning master's degrees in both adult education and public health from University of Arkansas. He is completing requirements for his Ph.D., also from UA.
Stone's primary focus is public health and community health promotion. He has also done extensive studies on the effectiveness of physical education programs in Arkansas schools. Last year he was awarded a grant by the Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas to help improve fitness levels for the state's school-aged children.


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A decent revolver (i.e., S&W J-frame) with a 2" barrel can make accurate hits out to 50 yards, in skilled and practiced hands.
The key word here is practice. It will also help if you could find a good instructor, who can teach you revolver technique.
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Theo Walcott is the EA SPORTS Player of the Month.
The England international has won the official Club award for the third consecutive month after a scintillating run of form in December.
Walcott scored four goals in five appearances, including a top-class hat-trick in the 7-3 victory over Newcastle United at Emirates Stadium.
An Henry-esque finish got him started and he doubled his tally with a well-placed shot into the top corner before completing his treble with a jinking run and clever finish.
Walcott was also on target in the 5-2 win at Reading before Christmas, making the most of his chance in a central role. The England star now has 14 goals in just 12 starts in all competitions this season.
Walcott won our December poll by a landslide, finishing more than 40 per cent clear of Jack Wilshere with Santi Cazorla in third place.
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Arsenal fan Charlotte Moss, 20, from Canterbury in Kent, has won the chance to present Theo with his award before the Manchester City game at Emirates Stadium.
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Fox News "analyst" Morris follows through on promise to "help" candidate by promoting him on Fox
Here's yet another example of how Fox News closely coordinates with Republican candidates.
Last Friday, October 1, Michael Yost, a Republican running for congress in Florida's 3rd congressional district, wrote [1] on his Facebook page that "Dick Morris just called. He KNOWS this race is winnable and is working to get us the help we need. He is placing it on his 'personal project' list. Watch dickmorris.com [2] for updates in the next few days ahead. WE CAN WIN this and send Rep. Brown to the unemployment line!"
On Monday, October 4, Morris appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News program and then worked "to get us the help we need" by promoting Yost's candidacy, stating:
MORRIS: And my case is, that there are races all over this country, of Democrats who are supposedly invincible and unbeatable. And when you poll those districts you find they are ahead 45-41. That they can be defeated.
I just found one in Florida, a guy Mike Yost who's running against Corrinne Brown, a 22-year Democratic liberal. He could defeat her.
And I'm launching tomorrow -- you go to DickMorris.com and by the way every morning I have a blog about the campaign. But tomorrow, I'm launching a new pact which is going to concentrate on the 60th, 70th, 80th, 90th and 100th seat.
It's my case is that there are districts out there, like Barney Frank's and Steny Hoyer's and Dingle's in the House, where you can defeat him if you go in and you advertise and you do an independent expenditure.
After Morris' mention, Yost thanked him on Twitter [3] and Facebook [4]:
Michael "Mike" Yost [5] Thank You @Dick Morris for your mention on Hannity's show tonight. WE are not going to let you down and will double our efforts to WIN in 2010. Corrine Brown CAN be beaten and I have the team, the effort, and the BEST Volunteers to make that happen. http://yost2010.com/ [6]
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As Media Matters has extensively noted [11], Morris has been a non-stop fundraising machine for Republicans on-air and off. Morris has been involved with several pro-Republican groups, and said [12] he plans to campaign for some 40 congressional candidates this cycle. And as the Yost example clearly indicates, he's telling candidates behind the scenes that he'll get them "help" by using his Fox News position.
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During the fall season, the evening sky surrounding stack stone chimneys across the state will begin to fill with swiftly moving birds. These little birds, also known as flying cigars, are one of Georgia's fall migratory birds the chimney swift. Depending almost totally on man-made structures like fireplace chimneys, airshafts or abandoned buildings, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division (DNR/WRD) encourages homeowners to provide and maintain proper roosting and nesting habitats for the states migratory chimney swift population. These large congregations of chimney swifts roost in the structures during fall migration and return to chimneys to nest and raise their families in the spring. While flickering through the sky, these numerous birds serve as excellent insect consumers!
Deforestation and loss of large hollow trees as natural roosting and nesting sites has caused the chimney swift to adapt to the use of man-made structures for its survival. Many people become concerned when birds are heard in their chimney. To help these fascinating birds find a home during migration, you can turn that concern into excitement and share your chimney with the chimney swift!
There are specific qualifications for a chimney to be structurally suitable for swifts. The inside of the chimney must be made of stone, firebrick or masonry flue tiles with mortared joints. These materials allow the birds to cling to the walls of the chimney, unlike the metal materials used in more modern homes. Chimneys that are composed of metal shafts should be capped to decrease the chance of an animal entering the metal flue and falling to the bottom of the fireplace.
Chimney swifts are uniquely equipped for roosting in these man-made cavities by clinging on to vertical surfaces with their small but strong feet and four sharp gripping claws. By comparison, most songbirds perch or stand upright. New homebuilders are recommended to build chimney structures suitable for chimney swift roosting. Older building homeowners and managers are encouraged to allow the birds to continue using the needed structures for nesting and roosting habitats.
Preserving abandoned buildings, building chimney swift friendly chimneys in new homes, properly maintaining stone and brick fireplaces and capping fireplace chimneys with metal shafts are crucial for the existence of the chimney swift populations in Georgia. Suitable nesting sites can be harder for the swifts to find due to the increased number of metal chimneys being built and old chimneys being capped.
Several steps should be followed to ensure proper maintenance of fireplace chimney structures for chimney swifts:
For more information on chimney swifts and how you can provide suitable roosting and nesting habitat or for design plans on how to construct new nesting habitats for swifts in your home, view the Driftwood Wildlife Association's fact sheet "Chimney Swifts - Nest Site Research Project [1]."
To report large aggregations (hundreds to thousands of birds) of chimney swifts seen in your area, please contact the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division, Nongame Conservation Section, 116 Rum Creek Drive, Forsyth, GA 31029 or (478) 994-1438.
Georgians can support conservation of chimney swifts and other nongame wildlife by purchasing a bald eagle wildlife license plate for their vehicle or by donating to the Give Wildlife a Chance State Income Tax Checkoff. Sales of the bald eagle/American flag license plate are the primary source of funding for the WRD Nongame Conservation Section.
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Release Date: 1/29/2014
"Images from the South," an exhibit from the Arkansas Arts Center Collection, will be the featured exhibition at University of the Ozarks for the month of February.
Among the artwork from the "Images of the South" exhibit that will be featured at Ozarks is Judith Betts' "Mardi Gras."
The exhibit is part of the University's Artist of the Month Series and will run from Feb. 5-26 in the Stephens Gallery, which is located in the Walton Fine Arts Center. Admission to the gallery is free and the exhibit is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
"Images from the South" is an exhibition of art from Arkansas and the immediate region that explores the artists' connection to the land of their birth. The use of detail, especially small and seemingly insignificant, is central to understanding the story imbedded in the images. Artists of note, such as Benny Andrews and Romare Bearden, recall the South of their past as they moved to larger American cities. Still others, such as Carroll Cloar, Mike Disfarmer, Louis Freund, and Andrew Kilgore, gained national fame, yet remain regional institutions.
The exhibition focuses on characters, customs, and the important role that the land had in the construction of this shared cultural memory. In addition to artists formally educated in various artistic techniques, the exhibition includes self-taught, or outsider art. Contemporary artists from the area, perhaps subconsciously, still absorb the influence of their surroundings into their work. The artists included in this exhibition give voice to a collective memory, mythology, and culture that supersedes time and place - proving that being Southern truly is a state of mind.
Arkansas Arts Center programs are supported in part by: the City of Little Rock; the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau; the City of North Little Rock and the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage; and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Among the artwork from the "Images of the South" exhibit that will be featured at Ozarks is Louis Freund's "Community Life in the Ozarks."


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Daily Caller's "Obama Intimidated Gallup" Conspiracy Comes To Inevitable End
The polling firm Gallup has agreed to pay [1] $10.5 million to settle civil charges that the company had kept two sets of books in order to overbill federal agencies by millions of dollars. The Daily Caller and Fox News had previously [2] floated a conspiracy theory [3] suggesting that the lawsuit was related to supposed efforts by the Obama campaign to "subtly intimidate" the firm to compel them to produce polling results more favorable to Obama.
The Daily Caller had also helped to smear [4] the whistleblower who first exposed Gallup's alleged practices, Michael Lindley, publishing a variety of unsubstantiated criticisms of Lindley from an unnamed "senior Gallup official." Under the terms of the settlement, Lindley, who says he was fired [5] in July 2009 after warning his superiors that he would go to the Justice Department if the company did not stop illegally overbilling the federal government on their contracts with the U.S. Mint and the State Department, will receive [6] $1.9 million.
In a September 6, 2012, story, headlined "Justice Dept. Gallup lawsuit came after Axelrod criticized pollsters," then-Daily Caller reporter Matthew Boyle wrote:
Internal emails between senior officials at The Gallup Organization, obtained by The Daily Caller, show senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod attempting to subtly intimidate the respected [7] polling firm when its numbers were unfavorable to the president.
After Gallup declined to change its polling methodology, Obama's Department of Justice hit it with an unrelated lawsuit that appears damning on its face.
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The alleged "intimidation" cited in the emails Boyle highlighted were complaints among Gallup executives that Obama strategist David Axelrod had sent a tweet criticizing Gallup's "methodological problems" in its polling of the presidential race. In June, Gallup acknowledged [8] that their methodology had indeed been flawed, leading the firm to consistently overestimate Mitt Romney's support.
As even conservative bloggers noted [2], Boyle's conspiracy theory made little sense: a single tweet from an Obama aide did not suggest Gallup's polling was a priority, there was little upside to trying to intimidate the firm, and the timeline showed that the Justice Department had been involved with the case for years before the tweet was issued.
Nonetheless, Fox quickly adopted [3] Boyle's conspiratorial frame. In a September 7 segment on his Fox Business program, Stuart Varney fabricated direct contacts between Axelrod and the Gallup employees to claim that the Gallup executives "had felt threatened." A few hours later on Fox News' America Live, guest anchor Shannon Bream said the Caller's story "suggests a conspiracy theory" between the filing of the DOJ lawsuit and Axelrod's "angry tweet." Both guests, attorney Brian Claypool and GOP pollster Chris Wilson, agreed that there was a connection between the two events; Wilson said it was indicative of "Chicago-style politics" on the part of President Obama and called it "frightening," while Claypool said the DOJ "needs to hire Houdini right now as a legal consultant" to "get them out of this mess."
In fact, the DOJ's own lawyers were sufficient to convince Gallup to pay more than $10 million rather than risk continued legal action.
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1. An elegy for an acquaintance, Seamus Heaney's poem begins by describing their unlikely friendship. Write a poem about the circumstances of one of your own friendships. Describe, like Heaney, the places you meet and the things you talk about. Try to include as many visceral, telling details as possible.
2. Heaney's poem is shattered by the political violence of his place and time—Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles. What political events concern you, or have had an impact on your friends or family? Try writing a poem that addresses the political context in which you live while remaining focused on your own daily life.
3. "Casualty" is also an ars poetica—a poem about writing poetry. Heaney compares it to fishing; elsewhere he has compared writing poetry to "Digging." <http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177017> What is it like for you to write a poem? Write your own ars poetica that compares, as Heaney's does, the activity to something else.
Discussion Questions
1. What comparisons does Heaney make between his own practice of writing poetry and his friend's love of fishing? How do his feelings about the differences and similarities between himself and his friend change and shift throughout the poem?
2. Why does Heaney use sections to divide up his poem? What happens in each section of "Casualty"? How do they relate to each other?
3. Make a timeline of the main events in the poem: how does Heaney describe each one? What kinds of words does he use? When and where does he utilize end rhyme, and to what effect?
4. Trace the different "turns" the poem takes: look for examples of the word itself, as well as moments when the poem shifts topic, or location. How and why does Heaney move around so much in this poem?
5.What kinds of line breaks does Heaney use in "Casualty"? How do they contribute to the tone of the poem? What do—or don't—they suggest about the speaker's emotional state?
Teaching Tips
1. Have students read "Easter 1916" by William Butler Yeats. (Try reading Eric Selinger's excellent introduction to teaching the poem in "Ten Poems I Love to Teach" for help with this.) Talk about any similarities they notice between Yeats's poem and Heaney's. Are they formally alike in any ways? Do they have a similar mood? Also discuss differences—is Yeats's poem easier or more difficult to understand? Have students read Joshua Weiner's poem guide, or introduce its main ideas to your class. Discuss the two poems in relation to one another again. How does Weiner suggest Heaney is responding to Yeats? Do they agree or disagree? Have students write their own responses to "Casualty."
2. "Casualty" is a political poem that can't quite decide how it feels about politics. Gather together other examples of poems that speak directly or indirectly to various political situations—you might start with Andrew Marvell's "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" and end with Carolyn Forche's "The Colonel" or John Beer's "Total Information Awareness." How do the poems treat their subjects? Is the poet or speaker's position clear? What kinds of language do they employ or subvert? Are the poems narrative (like Heaney's) or rhetorical (like Yeats's)? Have students write their own political poems on a topic of the moment.
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Seamus Heaney: "Casualty"
Poem Guide
Seamus Heaney is likely the best-selling English-language poet alive. Famous, at this point, for being famous (he received the Nobel Prize in 1995), Heaney began earning acclaim with his first book, Death of a Naturalist (1966). Critical interest and popular response came together in praise of Heaney's work, which captured a County Derry childhood in what he called "the sucking clabber" of a rich, guttural, elemental, and vivid music. With each successive volume, Heaney broadened the allusive reach of his poetry; his nostalgia for a rural childhood fused with the sound of a deep tribal history that also reached forward into the contemporary plight of Ireland, its political fate shaken by the explosive "Troubles" of nationalist violence.
A Catholic republican from the north, Heaney had a talent for weaving personal experience into the tale of the tribe, and his talent brought growing pressure on him to become a public spokesman. After the political poems of his third book, North (1975), Heaney grew wary of that role, finding it too confining. He had already left Belfast and his teaching position at Queens University in 1972 to spend four years writing in Glanmore, County Wicklow. From that experience grew the "Glanmore Sonnets," the heart of his fourth book, Field Work (1979). While the move south seemed to some a deliberate withdrawal from a previous political commitment to fight the British presence in Ireland, Field Work indicates rather a growing commitment to stay engaged, but to do so by maintaining the long view, which asks questions more than it assumes positions.
The title, Field Work, is a kind of pun; while it suggests most immediately anthropological investigation and agricultural labor, the wordplay digs down to submerged levels, evoking darker and more complex secondary figures of burial, memorial, and the poetic genre of elegy. "Casualty," one of the most powerful elegies in the book, exemplifies Heaney's evolving identity as an Irish poet from the north who is torn between public commitments and personal freedom, and who shares his language and literary antecedents with the English and Irish alike. Because the political conflict of Ireland is inscribed in Heaney's personal and poetic drama, it is fundamental to understanding the shades of Heaney's great elegy.
The poem is set in the northern province of Ulster in 1972, the infamous year of Bloody Sunday, when the British army killed 13 civil rights protesters in the Bogside area of Londonderry. The elegy takes the form of a kind of triptych memorializing a regular patron of the pubs, a fisherman known to Heaney who becomes a casualty of the sectarian urban warfare in the north. Although Heaney named the man in an interview—he was Louis O'Neill—he remains unnamed in the poem, a deliberate withholding that underscores the way the violence pulls even those who have no designated role onto the stage of history to play their accidental, anonymous part.
"Casualty" bears some formal resemblance to Yeats's "Easter, 1916," which memorializes the Easter Rising of 700 Volunteers, rebels who seized areas of Dublin and held out against British forces for six days. (It is from just this legacy of the Volunteers that the militant branch of the IRA, the Provisionals, would grow.) The occasion of Heaney's poem makes a kind of subject-rhyme with Yeats's, as well as echoing the trimeter and its scheme of crossed-rhyming (ababcdcd). But if Heaney takes the abstract tune from Yeats to embody such figures of resistance in his own time, the man whom Heaney memorializes in his poem is of a different stature than John MacBride in Yeats's poem. Unlike MacBride, an executed leader of the Easter Rebellion who "resigned his part / In the casual comedy" of life to assume his tragic role in the uprising, Heaney's pub-loving fisherman refuses to abide by a curfew in order to indulge in his nightly pint, and is killed without having assumed any significant part in the struggle.
Heaney's echo of Yeats—the way he adapts Yeats's use of "casual" to sound the darker strains of "casualty"—further transforms the implications of Yeats's famous refrain in "Easter, 1916," that from such violence life in Ireland is "changed utterly" and "a terrible beauty is born." In "Casualty," there are no beautiful transformations, only hauntingly terrible ones. The rebels may have "hearts with one purpose alone" in Yeats's poem, but the fisherman in Heaney's "would drink by himself"—
And raise a weathered thumb
Towards the high shelf,
Calling another rum
And blackcurrant, without
Having to raise his voice
Neither does Heaney raise his own voice to reach the rhetorical elevation of Yeats. That he takes so much from Yeats in plying his allusive craft while maintaining a more modest level of address is one element of genius at play.
Yeats also has his "Fisherman" (also in trimeter), "a wise and simple man" for whom Yeats hopes someday to have written "one / Poem maybe as cold and passionate as the dawn." One of the stunning particular observations of the fisherman, set like a jewel in Yeats's highly rhetorical poem, is "the downturn of his wrist / When the flies drop in the stream." Heaney opens his elegy with similar though more deliberate portraiture: the fisherman's raised "weathered thumb," his low voice, discretion, and "quick eye / And turned observant back."
Heaney's eye, as quick as his subject's, sees how even though the fisherman has his back turned, he is animated by a sensory alertness to what he cannot see. There is a pun buried in this description—the fisherman has apparently turned his back on the political struggle of the militant nationalists. Has Heaney also turned his proverbial back? The implication gathers weight as Heaney defines those qualities he admires in the fisherman: "sure-footed but too sly / His deadpan sidling tact" suggests, too, Heaney's expert prosody, his often cunning indirect approach, and his final evasion of political pronouncement that some readers have indeed found "too sly."
Turning and turning. Yeats's favorite verb makes a figure of historical process in "The Second Coming," a poem often quoted by politicians and in newspapers, with its dark prophecy about the center of civilization not holding as the beast of the apocalypse famously slouches towards Bethlehem. "Turning" also refers to a natural process of mutability, one that returns us to points of personal origin, to original sources of myth and legend. Such turning is present in the very action of figurative language, which turns one thing into another; in verse movement itself, which turns from the end of one line to the beginning of the next; and in rhyme, which turns us back through a poem as we listen for the acoustic correspondences.
"Turning" is also the dominant verb in "Casualty." It captures the fisherman "as he turned / In that bombed offending place, / Remorse fused with terror / In his still knowable face." And it signals Heaney's turning to the art of elegy, with its shifts between public utterance of private feeling, to commemorate the fisherman, a fixture of the pub scene, "blown to bits / Out drinking in a curfew / Others obeyed." It is also through the act of elegy that the role of observer shifts from the fisherman observing the poet in the pub, to the poet watching the fisherman in a haunted imagination. And through the shifting from simile into metaphor, the fisherman who "drank like a fish" ultimately becomes a fish, "swimming" out of cliché and "towards the lure / Of warm lit-up places."
The final turning in part three is even more remarkable for its suave displacements. Though Heaney admits missing the fisherman's funeral, he envisions the mourner's "shoaling out of his lane / . . . / With the habitual / Slow consolation / Of a dawdling engine," the sound of which seamlessly joins the funeral occasion to "that morning / I was taken in his boat, / The screw purling, turning / Indolent fathoms white." The "indolent fathoms" of poetry are indeed slow to develop, but it's on such waters that, in the fisherman's company, the poet "tasted freedom."
To get out early, haul
Steadily off the bottom,
Dispraise the catch, and smile
As you find a rhythm
Working you, slow mile by mile,
Into your proper haunt
Somewhere, well out, beyond. . . .
The fisherman's "proper haunt" was on the water, "well out, beyond," as the poet's place is in the poem, where "you find a rhythm working you," and where, through elegy, the fisherman continues to haunt the poet.
To "haul / Steadily off the bottom" reinscribes Heaney's figure for learning one's craft by "learning to turn the windlass at the well of poetry." "Usually," writes Heaney elsewhere, "you begin by dropping the bucket halfway down the shaft and winding up taking air. You are miming the real thing until one day the chain draws unexpectedly tight and you have dipped into waters that will continue to entice you back. You'll have broken the skin on the pool of yourself. Your praties will be 'fit for digging.'"
Much of the hardest digging Heaney does in Field Work is in these burial grounds of the "Troubles." In "Casualty," he exhumes the fisherman who, in a final turning from the human, becomes something other than human, a "dawn-sniffing revenant, / Plodder through midnight rain." It is no accident that, in the volume's sequence of poems, "Casualty" is followed by "The Badgers"—"murdered dead" who "glimmered away / into another garden." Like Dante in Hell, Heaney desires to converse with the elusive dead. Against the 13 victims of Bloody Sunday, who belong to history, Heaney depicts a loner, an outsider to whom he feels the strongest affinity as a poet. The poem's final line, "Question me again," is an invitation to the revenant to visit and to press the poet to keep asking about his own "proper haunt" inside and outside the complicities and conflicts of tribal belonging.
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Seamus Heaney is widely recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century. A native of Northern Ireland, Heaney was raised in County Derry, and later lived for many years in Dublin. He was the author of over 20 volumes of poetry and criticism, and edited several widely used anthologies. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." Heaney taught at Harvard University (1985-2006) and served as the Oxford Professor of Poetry (1989-1994). He died in 2013.
Heaney has attracted a readership on several continents and has won prestigious literary awards and honors, including the Nobel Prize. As Blake Morrison noted in his work Seamus Heaney, the author is "that rare thing, a poet rated highly by critics and academics yet popular with 'the common reader.'" Part of Heaney's popularity stems from his subject matter—modern...
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