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The Bill of the Flamingo
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The bill of the Greater Flamingo is a marvel of nature that would make any baleen whale turn pale with envy. Indeed, they are the avian equivalent to baleen whales, feeding exclusively on brine shrimp and blue-green algae using their highly specialized bills as filter devices. The long legs and neck allow them to ...6 days ago -
The Other Side of Cloudy
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Prompts for the Promptless: Silver Lining "Silver Lining" is a prospect of hope or comfort in a gloomy situation. A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all – he's walking on them. ~Leonard Louis ...6 days ago -
No Drought of winged beauties
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Despite the erratic rainfall and drying water bodies around the city, there is a silver lining. Ishwaria Lake on the outskirts of Rajkot (Gujarat, India) has literary turned into an oasis for thousands of wetlands birds. Spread over 40 hectares of wasteland at Madharpar village, Ishwaria (Rajkot, Gujarat, India) plays ...6 days ago -
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The Star-Ledger: Horseshoe crabs and red knots soon to arrive on replenished Delaware Bay beaches
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Mother's Day--Susannah Fox
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We have posted many stories featuring mothers over the years. In celebration of Mother's Day, a compilation: A Lifetime of Participatory Medicine Can Start With Maternity Care Through the Land of Smoke and Mirrors : An e-Patient's Odyssey ("Mama Lion" part one) Great news from "Mama Lion" Engelman ...6 days ago -
Common Tern, Bristol
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Floating Harbour, Bristol A headline more startling than most I've written. It beats additions to the life list , which are still relatively frequent. The reason? What the hell is a seabird doing in the centre of a major conurbation? Yes, there's water – just like any inland river or lake. Terns do show at ...6 days ago -
Male Cardinal Feeding Female
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Major Mitchell's Cockatoos
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It's Mother's day today in the U.S.A and down here in Australia-actually it will be almost over when you all arise in the U.S.A. to treat your Mothers to breakfast in bed and all those other good things that you have been planning! It gives us all an excuse to think "pink" and what better bird than ...6 days ago -
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The sign on the shed said Information , but none was to be found. So, instead of taking information, I took this photograph. The shed was on a jetty at the edge of the lagoon at Okarito, a small coastal settlement on the South Westland coast of New Zealand's South Island. Okarito Lagoon is a coastal lagoon ...6 days ago -
Journey in Mexico, Riviera Maya and Cancun
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The space asteroid which struck the Yucatan Peninsula Sixty-five million yrs. ago and induced the dying of the dinosaurs, based on research documented in Science journal, made a distinctive topography – basically an enormous slab of limestone by which soil water drainage making cenotes. Travelling in Cancun or ...6 days ago -
Games Like Angry Birds
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Angry Birds : Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by Finnish computer game developer Rovio Entertainment. Inspired primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the first game was first released for Apples iOS in December 2009. Over 12 million copies of the game have been purchased from Apples App Store, ...6 days ago -
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He stood above my head, chirping a rap I'd never heard before. He was calling his lover while swaying from side to side. "Come to me, my love." "I need you like a warm new glove." Odd as it sounds written, it was quite enjoyable to hear sung out of his little beak. When he noticed me watching, he ...6 days ago -
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The pullets have decided that the top of the hay feeder in their pen is their roost, even though the concrete blocks in the lower left corner support a very nice branch for perching: All six are up there, even though only five heads are showing This afternoon we were at a church members house for ...6 days ago -
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Six stamps featuring birds were released by the Federated States of Micronesia on August 1, 1988. The issue was designed by Dr. H. Douglas Pratt Jr. and printed by Walsall Security Printers Ltd. (U.K). The values and designs were: 3c. The Long-Billed White-Eye (Rukia longirostra 14c. The Truk Monarch (Metabolus ...6 days ago -
Just a goose...
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This post could easily be titled "more things (or another thing) I saw while riding my bike today." I love seeing nature in the city. It is all around us all we have to do is look. And often I dont see it, or at least take it for granted. This morning, for example, while I was riding around taking these photos , I ...6 days ago -
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I saw an amazing sight this morning as I was driving the short distance from my house to the antique store. My house is on the outskirts of one end of town and the antique store is on the opposite side of town. When I was about ¾ of the way to the store I looked up and to my left to see hundreds of ...6 days ago -
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Pink Finches I Have Known
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You can't really talk about pink birds without talking about pink finches. For some reason the Fringillidae, as the finch family is called if you want to be highfalutin, frequently tend toward pink. Not that I'm complaining! Too the contrary, I love spotting a pink finch, and the more out of place I am or the bird ...6 days ago


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America's Cup on display at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week
'The America's Cup will be on display during this month's Audi Hamilton Island Race Week at regatta headquarters, Hamilton Island Yacht Club'
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The oldest trophy in the history of international sport, the America's Cup, will be the spectacular centrepiece at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week this month, and while there it will celebrate a remarkable milestone: the 160th anniversary of when it was first contested in 1851.
Sporting history reveals that the contest for this remarkable trophy began before sports such as tennis, soccer, rugby union and cricket, as well as the modern Olympics, appeared on the world stage.
Over the centuries this bold yet ornately styled silver ewer has stood as the ultimate prize in international yachting, and the aura that has surrounded it has drawn some of the world's most influential and successful tycoons, and its greatest sailors, to the contest.
The Cup is currently held by San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club after it was won by Larry Ellison's giant trimaran, BMW Oracle, in a series against the Swiss defender, Alinghi, in Spain last year. Australian Jimmy Spithill skippered Ellison's yacht.
This will be only the third time that the Cup has been seen in Australia, so its presence at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week is high recognition of the stature that this regatta now holds on the international sailing scene.
'We are extremely honoured to have the America's Cup at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week,' said the Chairman of Hamilton Island Enterprises, Sandy Oatley. 'Hamilton Island is already well recognised across the world as an award winning holiday destination, and now the presence of the America's Cup at Race Week confirms we are also well recognised as an international destination for sailing and boating.'
This year Audi Hamilton Island Race Week will be staged from 19 to 27 August. To date 192 yachts have entered.
The historic America's Cup, which will be the centrepiece at this month's Audi Hamilton Island Race Week, is admired by Race Week Promotions Manager, Rob Mundle -
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The America's Cup visit to Audi Hamilton Island Race Week was organised by Iain Murray, the Commodore of Hamilton Island Yacht Club. Murray is also the CEO and Regatta Director for the next America's Cup match, which will be staged in San Francisco in 2013. Murray's direct association with the America's Cup spans almost 30 years. In that time he has been credited with making significant contributions towards the development of the event, particularly through yacht design and development.
It was on 22 August, 1851 that the New York Yacht Club's rakish and radical schooner, America, beat the best yachts the English could muster in a race around the Isle of Wight. The stunning victory led to the Americans being awarded the Royal Yacht Squadron's '100 Guinea Cup', a trophy that had been created for international competition and was being contested for the first time.
Queen Victoria, who was watching from the deck of the Royal Yacht off Cowes, accepted the salute from the American crew as they crossed the finish line then asked one of her aides which yacht was second. The response became a now legendary phrase: 'Your Majesty, there is no second.' The British yachts were so far back they could not be seen.
When New York Yacht Club Commodore, John Cox Stevens, and his associates who owned the winning yacht returned home they donated the trophy to the club, their Deed of Gift stating it was to be 'a perpetual challenge cup for friendly competition between nations'. It was also decided that the Cup should take the name of the yacht that won the inaugural contest, the schooner, America.
For 132 years the America's Cup remained secure on its plinth in the New York Yacht Club as the symbol of world yachting supremacy. In that time the club had met 25 foreign challenges and defeated each one through what many considered to be fair means or foul.
The history of the Cup changed dramatically on September 26, 1983 when Australia II, which was backed by a very determined West Australian, Alan Bond, shocked the world by ending what was the longest winning streak in sporting history. The radical Ben Lexcen designed yacht with its famous winged keel came from behind in a cliff-hanger series to take the prize four races to three.
During Audi Hamilton Island Race Week Iain Murray and the Vice-Commodore of the Golden Gate Yacht Club, Tom Ehman, will be speaking at forums about the America's Cup as an event, and the exciting new catamarans that will be competing in the 34th match in 2013.
The cup will be on prominent display at Hamilton Island Yacht Club throughout the week.
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Hamilton Island Race Week's naming rights sponsor, luxury carmaker Audi, is Australia's largest corporate sponsor of yachting.
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Organic farming must ditch its irrational mistrust of science or risk losing its reputation as being safer and healthier
I WORKED closely with the organic industry for almost a decade, first as head of the UK Food and Drink Federation's Organic Food Manufacturers Group and then as a representative on the UK government's Organic Action Plan Committee. I believe that the growth in the organic food sector has brought many benefits to farmers, food producers and consumers around the world.
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The recent fatal E. coli outbreak centred on Germany has focused attention on the validity of the claims that organic food is healthier and safer. The outbreak has been traced to bean sprouts grown on an organic farm in Bienenbüttel, northern Germany. As New Scientist went to press, 35 people had died in the outbreak and thousands more were made ill. As a result, concern is growing over standards of microbiological food safety in organic farming.
So are we at higher risk of E. coli and other food-borne diseases from organic food and, if so, what can producers do to reduce this risk and restore confidence in the organic brand?
There have been very few scientific studies comparing the microbiological safety of organic and conventional food production systems. In theory, organic food could be more prone to microbial contamination due to the absence of preservatives and the use of manure as fertiliser. However, where studies have been carried out, the results have not been conclusive. This is due to a number of factors, including a small sample size and a failure to factor in seasonal and regional variations.
What is clear is that both organic and conventional foods are susceptible to contamination by pathogenic microorganisms at every point in the food chain. It can occur during production, from manure and water, during processing from environmental sources and during the final handling and packing, possibly as a result of poor human sanitation.
One area where organic production systems might pose a higher health risk is through the use of untreated manure as fertiliser. Studies carried out on organic and conventional produce by Minnesota farmers in 2004 found that E. coli contamination was 19 times greater on organic farms which used manure or compost less than 12 months old than on farms which used older materials.
Although the risks are reduced as manure matures, researchers have found that many pathogenic organisms such as E. coli and salmonella can easily survive up to 60 days or more in compost and in the soil, depending on temperature and the condition of the soil.
Another extra risk factor in organic production is the avoidance of fungicides, which can lead to the growth of moulds and increased risk of mycotoxins such as aflatoxin and ergot in crops.
Taking these risks into account, and with recent events in Germany in mind, I think organic food producers need to focus on risk management. More research should also be done into pathogen survival in the food chain.
I also believe that the organic industry must put aside its suspicion and mistrust of science in food production and look at how it can introduce new systems that reduce the risk of future outbreaks of deadly food-borne diseases such as E. coli.
The real tragedy of the E. coli incident in Germany is that the outbreak could have been prevented if the organic industry had been willing to irradiate their produce. The bean sprout crop that was the source of the outbreak requires a warm and humid environment to grow, which increases the risk of contamination by E. coli and other disease-causing bacteria. The only certain means of reducing this risk is to irradiate the bean sprout seeds, which effectively kills 99.999 per cent of E. coli. There is no evidence that food irradiation is harmful to consumers, and also no evidence that it affects the nutritional quality of food.
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Yes, But
Tue Jun 28 18:41:23 BST 2011 by Jochem van der Spek
You may be right, but you ignor the consumers' aversion for irradiated food - and then we're talking psychological Fukushima fallout. it seems to me that that is the real reason for the organic industry (if ever there was an oxymoron) because if the public would eat it, they would produce it.
Yes, But
Tue Jun 28 19:32:48 BST 2011 by Bod
It is for the scientifically literate to keep explaining to the public that the alternative to the scientific project of the past 300 years is a descent back into medieval superstition death and mysticism. I expect better from those scientifically trained to be entertaining this irrational nonsense.
Yes, But
Tue Jun 28 20:07:32 BST 2011 by Karl
The problem is, if food is irradiated it is no longer legal to label it as "organic".
So the consumer has to choose between the risk of pesticide contamination in non-organic food or the risk of bacterial contamination in organic food.
Irradiate The Poo
Tue Jun 28 18:53:45 BST 2011 by Dennett
Why not irradiate the manure rather than the plants it fertilizes? Would that be far enough removed from the dinner table to alleviate the fears of radiophobic organic farmers and customers?
Irradiate The Poo
Tue Jun 28 21:15:46 BST 2011 by Markus
Manure is handled rather decentrally: it goes mostly straight from the stables via storage facilities on the local farm to local fields. Irradiation requires expensive centralized facilities. You can easily irradiate produce at some central point in the distribution chain, but there are no obvious central points where to irradiate manure. Irradiation involves powerful sealed sources of radioactive isotopes, something that for safety and cost reasons you really don't want to have around on every farm. Storing manure for a year, such that gut bacteria are gradually replaced with soil bacteria, may be far more practical.
Irradiate The Poo
Tue Jun 28 21:30:47 BST 2011 by Roba
I always wash all my veggies with soap. I know most people just rinse them under tap water. In the we wash the dishes, the countertops, our hands etc with all kinds of sophisticated products to eliminate germs and grime and yet when we bring our veggies and fruits in the kitchen, we just give them a few rinses. Imagine all the handling that they have gone through, accumulating all the grime and bacteria. Next time you wash your tomatoes, do it with soap and then feel the difference of the skin...... This surely gets rid of 99% of bacteria unless the bacteria finds it's way into the veggie or fruit!!
Irradiate The Poo
Tue Jun 28 23:32:51 BST 2011 by HB
I doubt bacteria would be confined to the surface of the item.... Still, you're surely removing more than just washing with water.
Irradiate The Poo
Wed Jun 29 15:39:39 BST 2011 by Freederick
Irradiating the manure is the best idea. The article itself says that aging the manure decreases contamination by a factor of 20 or so; well irradiating it would be even better.
On the other hand, it would remove the health worry of eating irradiated produce. The experts all say there is "no known harm" in eating irradiated food. That is the same story we heard about cell phones being "assuredly" harmless--until recent research proved all the scientific Pollyannas wrong.
Irradiation kills germs by inducing enough molecular damage in their tissues to break down their metabolism and kill them. It induces the same amount of molecular damage in the food product itself. The cells in your typical non-irradiated carrot are mostly alive, if dormant, when you purchase it--a new carrot could be cultured out of them. An irradiated carrot is dead, molecularly damaged, and starting to decompose--slowly at first, due to lack of living bacteria. It is also chock-full of free radicals, which are the product of radiation-mediated molecular damage.
Is that harmful to eat? In the absence of conclusive research, you have to decide for yourself--but it is not unreasonable to suppose that it might be.
Irradiate The Poo
Wed Jun 29 16:37:04 BST 2011 by Rom Mo
One of the reasons for increased e. coli is grain/corn feeding ruminant livestock. These animals have evolved to eat grass, not grains. In feedlots (where the grain feeding occurs) livestock have all kinds of gastric issues and sometimes even die.
By keeping these animals fed on grass, e. coli is dramatically reduced if not completely eradicated. Most bacteria is normally killed by stomach acids. In turn, e.coli in manure would not be such an issue.
Composting manure and other biological matter is always recommended as it helps neutralize harmful biological agents but in the process also makes the nutrients soluble to plants and more readily available.
I am not completely opposed to irradiation, as there are other methods besides exposure to x-rays, radioactive cobalt or cesium.
UV light can also be used to irradiate/sterilize foods and water.
Irradiate The Poo
Wed Jun 29 16:57:02 BST 2011 by Rom Mo
Irradiation is scientific, but it is not the only scientific solution.
Common Sense For Crap
Thu Jun 30 13:11:35 BST 2011 by Mike
What a lot of people don't realise this that by its very nature, vegetables grown organically will almost invariably mean the use of manure to fertilize the soil. Animal crap, as opposed to chemical fertilizers, is full of bacteria so it comes as no surprise that infections sometimes happen.
Organic veg should have prominent labelling to ensure that sufficient washing is done prior to eating, especially if the veg is eaten raw.
Common sense, no?
Common Sense For Crap
Thu Jun 30 15:17:59 BST 2011 by Ashley
It's a waste of time having this conversation. Irradiation is by any rational measure an excellent way of preserving food and/or improving its biological safety. However, you are not dealing with rational people.
You deal with people who can encompass the concept of 'inorganic food'. You deal with people who think cane sugar is 'purer' than sucrose. You deal with people who think that a nitrogen atom in a plant protein has a racial memory of whether it arrived there from poo or from ammonium nitrate. In short, you deal with flakes
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Pure Poetry Week(s):
#1 – 2/23/2011 – Intro & Def Poetry Jam, by Riese
#2 – 2/23/2011 – *Eileen Myles, by Carmen
#3 – 2/23/2011 – Anis Mojgani, by Crystal
#4 – 2/24/2011 – *Andrea Gibson, by Carmen & Katrina/KC Danger
#5 – 2/25/2011 – Leonard Cohen, by Crystal
#6 – 2/25/2011 – *Staceyann Chin, by Carmen
#7 – 2/25/2011 – e.e. cummings, by Intern Emily
#8 – 2/27/2011 – Louise Glück, by Lindsay
#9 – 2/28/2011 – Shel Silverstein, by Intern Lily & Guest
#10 – 2/28/2011 – *Michelle Tea, by Laneia
#11 – 2/28/2011 – Saul Williams, by Katrina Chicklett Danger
#12 – 3/2/2011 – Maya Angelou, by Laneia
#13 – 3/4/2011 – Jack Spicer, by Riese
#14 – 3/5/2011 – Diane DiPrima, by Sady Doyle
#15 – 3/6/2011 – Pablo Neruda, by Intern Laura
#16 - 3/7/2011 - Vanessa Hidary, by Lindsay
#17 - 3/7/2011 - *Adrienne Rich, by Taylor
#18 - 3/8/2011 - Raymond Carver, by Riese
#19 - 3/9/2011 - Rock WILK, by Gabrielle
#20 - 3/9/2011 - Veronica Franco, by Queerie Bradshaw
#21 - 3/10/2011 - Poems I Like, by Tao Lin
#22 - 3/12/2011 - William Carlos Williams & Robert Creeley, by Becky
#23 - 3/13/2011 - NSFW Sunday is Pure Poetry Edition, by Riese
#24 - 3/14/2011 - Charles Bukowski, by Intern Emily
#25 - 3/16/2011 - Rainer Maria Rilke, by Riese
#26 - 3/17/2011 - Lee Harwood by Mari
#27 - 3/18/2011 - Jeffrey McDaniel by Julieanne
#28 - 3/20/2011 - *Dorothy Porter by Julia
#29 - 3/21/2011 - Sylvia Plath, by Riese
#30 - 3/24/2011 - *Poems About Being a Homogay, by Riese
#31 - 3/28/2011 -* Mary Oliver by Morgan
#32 - 3/29/2011 - *Gertrude Stein + Mina Loy by Intern Emily
#33 - 3/29/2011 - Sappho by Marisa Meltzer
#34 - 3/30/2011 - Stephen Dunn by Riese, Rachel, Intern Laura & Intern Emily
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"I admire a great gaggle of contemporary poets whom I regard as a veritable pantheon of secular gods, but Stephen Dunn is my favorite living poet, my high priest of vertically rendered experience. I love his work so much that it seems that he should be dead. You understand."
- Erik Campbell, The Accidental Plagiarist
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We've decided to end Pure Poetry Month with a megapost about our favorite poet of all time. He's not a lesbian, unfortunately, but he changed our lives just the same and could change yours and has changed, we assume, many lives along the way.
Stephen Dunn was born in 1939 in New York City. Once upon a time he was a basketball player, another time he went to school for writing at Hofstra and then at Syracuse. Stephen Dunn won the Academy Award for Literature, the James Wright Prize, the National Poetry Series Award and a ton of National Endowment For the Arts situations. He has taught poetry and writing at Columbia, Syracuse, the University of Washington, Princeton, the University of Michigan, Wichita State University and others.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Different Hours, published in 2000. He lives in New Jersey sometimes and Maryland sometimes.
We love him.
Let's go.
I don't know how to talk about Stephen Dunn, because Stephen Dunn has already dedicated his life to talking about me so talking about him seems redundant.
Those of us who think we know
the same secrets
are silent together most of the time
- from 'those of us who think we know'
He doesn't know that he's talking about me. I mean he's a middle-aged -- well, he must be past 60 by now -- white guy who lives, I think, in New Jersey.
I met Stephen Dunn before I knew Stephen Dunn because he was the first poet to visit my first writing class during my first year at Interlochen Arts Academy.
At the time I was still anti-poetry. I didn't know he was such a big deal. I remember writing notes to my roommate about Ovaltine vs. Swiss Miss while he read.
I wish I'd known then what I know now about how much he knows me, I have so many questions for him. No I don't. I wouldn't say a word.
In large groups, create a corner
in the middle of a room.
I remember one line that he read though, from "The Routine Things Around the House." I realized this line was the truest thing I'd ever read, it described the only solace I knew for "what to do with pain," and it reminded me of me feeling how I felt when terrible things happened. I used that line to explain myself so many times I don't even need the book to write it down:
When Mother died I thought:
now I'll have a death poem.
That was unforgivable
A year later in a poetry workshop, a classmate mentioned her obsession with Stephen Dunn, and how she read New & Collected Poems every night all over again. I didn't even like that girl. She was a bad poet.
But I'm obsessed with what people become obsessed with. Then I noticed everyone else had remained obsessed since he'd first arrived on campus -- all my best friends were into him like teenagers are into Liz Phair or something. Some of my friends were into Liz Phair AND Stephen Dunn.
Why didn't I notice the first time? He's not inaccessible or esoteric. He's one of the most accessible poets I've ever read.
It was me, not him.
I remember Stephen Dunn's reading like you remember the first, incidental time you met your future girlfriend but had no idea at the time, how maybe you smiled at each other across the table and texted kindly the next day in a friendly manner and then boom five months later you're re-hashing that first glance, turning it into legend, turning memory into forecasts.
Stephen Dunn is a language now. It's a part of how I talk, and his words are equals to our own in relationships with my Interlochen friends Krista and Ingrid.
"Remember Each From Different Heights, Ris," Krista wrote me when a boy had just broken my heart. "Remember the bruise turning perfectly white." And Ingrid, who'd made me a card with Each From Different Heights on it the year prior, so it was right there when Krista brought it up. Right there for me to reference it.+
Each From Different Heights
That time I thought I was in love
and calmly said so
was not much different from the time
I was truly in love
and slept poorly and spoke out loud
to the wall
and discovered the hidden genius
of my hands
And the times I felt less in love,
less than someone
were, to be honest, not so different
Each was ridiculous in its own way
and each was tender, yes,
sometimes even the false is tender.
I am astounded
by the various kisses we're capable of.
Each from different heights
diminished, which is simply the law.
And the big bruise
from the longer fall looked perfectly white
in a few years.
That astounded me most of all.
I was 19 when he did a reading at The University of Michigan and I wrote it up for The Michigan Daily. I wondered if Stephen would see it. He was teaching MFA students that year.
...and the class proceeded to debate
what's fucking, what's making love,
and the importance of context, tact
the bon mot. I leaned towards those
who favored fucking; they were funnier
and seemed to have more experience
with the happy varieties of their subject.
- from decorum
Once we were in the same elevator, I think it was in Angell Hall. I didn't say anything because I didn't want to change our relationship -- the one where I read everything he said and he didn't know who I was.
It was weird to breathe air with him, just riding the elevator like two normal anonymous people. Afterwards I wrote him a letter and never sent it. I'm glad I never sent it.
I brought my best friend Becky to that reading he did at U of M, a Westchester-bred sorority girl who liked Between Angels so much that she'd built an entire photography project around it. I got her that book for her birthday. When I took Advanced Photo that year I took pictures of Becky and this boy Adam for a visual presentation of After Making Love (which Laura discusses, below), but then someone stole it from the Photography classroom. I wonder why.
Most of my best friends know Stephen Dunn because Stephen Dunn is the very first thing I give them for the very first holiday we ever share, but only if I can hand it to them, it's not the kind of thing you can mail.
I was 20 when I met another best friend, Natalie, and now we speak in a language that consists of our actual personalities augmented by Ani DiFranco lyrics, Lorrie Moore quotes and Stephen Dunn poems.
Here, let me help you, then you me,
------>otherwise we'll die.
- from kindness
In Wisconsin for a weekend in October of my fourth year of college : Krista and Ingrid and I got cheese curds in a bag and raspberries from the Farmers Market and were eating at their house and taking turns reading Stephen Dunn poems to each other.
Ingrid read "Beautiful Women" and said "I dedicate this to you two because you are the most beautiful women I know," which we thought was funny because everyone knew Ingrid was the most beautiful woman in the world. We'd gone to high school together. We knew these things.
More things come to them,
and they have more to hide.
All around them: mirrors, eyes
----->In any case
they are different from other women
and like great athletes have trouble
making friends, and trusting a world
quick to praise.
But she was right. It wasn't about high school or cheekbones, it was about being exactly who we were/are which is beautiful, all of us.
I wanted to stay in Madison forever with them on that floor, on that mattress, with those words. But I couldn't -- I had to go back to Michigan, to my condo and my boyfriend and the life I'd chosen but didn't want anymore.
It was like this with him, eventually:
The Answers
Why did you leave me?
We had grown tired together. Don't you remember?
We'd grown tired together, were going through the motions.
Why did you leave me?
I don't know, really. There was comfort in that tiredness.
There was love.
Why did you leave me?
You began to correct my embellishments in public.
You wouldn't let me tell my stories.
Why did you leave me?
She is... I don't wish to be
any more cruel than I've been
You son-of-a-bitch.
Why did you leave me?
I was already gone.
I just brought my body with me.
Why did you leave me?
You found out and I found I couldn't give her up.
I was as shocked as you were.
Why didn't you lie to me?
I was already lying to you. It was hard work.
All of it suddenly felt like hard work.
Why did you leave me?
I wanted to try monogamy again.
I wanted the freedom to be monogamous.
You fucker. You fucking son-of-a-bitch.
Why did you leave me?
I wanted you both. I thought I could be faithful
to each of you. You shouldn't have made me choose.
Don't you know what betrayal is?
I never thought of it as betrayal. More like one pleasure
of mine you should never have known.
You really are quite an awful man.
Why did you leave me?
It was time to leave.
The hour of leaving had come.
Why did you leave me?
It would take too long to explain. Please
don't ask me to explain.
Will you not explain it to me?
No, I will not explain it to you. I'll say anything
rather than explain it to you. Even things that sound true.
These two lines are perfect. I've repeated an infinite number of times:
I was already gone.
I just brought my body with me.
So, then Krista was driving me to the bus station. She asked me if my boyfriend loved words. I said he did not. I knew, she knew, we all knew it. I'd already left, but my body lingered on. I came home wanting to touch no-one.
I've come home wanting to touch
everyone, everything; usually I turn
the key and they're all lost
in food or homework, even the dogs
are preoccupied with themselves,
I desire only to ease
back in, the mail, a drink,
but tonight the body-hungers have set out
their long-range signals
or love itself has risen
from its squalor of neglect.
- from i come home wanting to touch everything
Krista spent an entire day hunting down The Insistence of Beauty -- where "The Answers" is from -- when it first came out. By this point we were living together in Manhattan. When I got home from work she handed me my copy: Ris, I think Stephen Dunn is getting divorced and I think he cheated on his wife or something.
But it wasn't just the divorce making sneaky appearances in The Insistence of Beauty -- though it was that. But it was also losing trust in love, or in the world, or in anything you once deemed reliable or eternal.
It was how people felt right after 9/11 which was right before our early 20s and so by this point in time -- the point of when we read this book --we'd already stopped trusting things. It set the tone. That things could be one way, and then another. I trusted no one because that's what happens after two or three people break your trust, you call the whole thing off. Then the world just reinforces that belief. I didn't think anyone could write about it without sounding tacky, unless they'd been there, or knew somebody.
It was a relief, then, to learn that Stephen Dunn knew it too.
Easy for almost anything to occur.
Even if we've scraped the sky, we can be rubble.
For years those men felt one way, acted another.
Ground zero, is it possible to get lower?
Now we had a new definition of the personal,
knew almost anything could occur.
It just takes a little training to blur
a motive, lie low while planning the terrible,
get good at acting one way, feeling another.
Yet who among us doesn't harbor
a grudge or secret? So much isn't erasable;
it follows that almost anything can occur,
like men ascending into the democracy of air
without intending to land, the useful veil
of having said one thing, meaning another.
Before you know it something's over.
Suddenly someone's missing at the table.
It's easy (I know it) for anything to occur
when men feel one way, act another.
That last part reminded me of Joan Didion, from The Year of Magical Thinking:
Life changes fast.
Life changes in the instant.
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
And I wrote those things down in my diary over and over again: Before you know it something's over, life changes in the instant, in the ordinary instant, it's easy, you sit down to dinner and suddenly someone's missing at the table. Over and over. It felt true.
Here are just a few of the other things he said that now I think about constantly, and maybe accidentally write myself sometimes, thinking it's my own idea:
I do not mind living
like this. I cannot bear
living like this.
Oh, everything's true
at different times
in the capacious day.
(from Between Angels)
There are always the simple events
of your life
that you might try to convert into legend.
(from Some Things I Wanted to Say to You)
I've known an edginess, come evening,
when I haven't chosen to be alone, but am...
(from Night Truths)
Tell your lovers the world
robs us in so many ways
that a caress is your way
of taking something back.
Tell the dogs and the horses
you love them more than cars.
Speak to everything
would be my advice.
(from Some Things I Wanted to Say to You)
Intelligence warmed by generosity
is inner beauty, and what's worse
some physically beautiful women have it,
and we have to be strapped and handcuffed
to the mast, or be ruined.
(from "Beautiful Women")
When you get together
you must feel everyone has brought
his fierce privacy with him
and is ready to share it. Prepare
yourself though to keep something back;
there's a center in you
you are simply a comedian without...
(from How to Be Happy: Another Memo to Myself)
If you want to love Stephen Dunn then a good/ideal place to start is New & Selected Poems (1974-1994). It has so many of my favorites in it. He wrote a non-fiction book too, called Waking Light, with this essay in it about Truth that I based my whole life on. Here's the books you should read, in order:
1. New & Selected Poems (1974-1994)
2. Between Angels
3. The Insistence of Beauty
4. Loosestrife
5. Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose Pairs
6. Different Hours
7. Walking Light
8. Landscape at the End of the Century
9. Everything Else in the World
10. Local Visitations
I said in the beginning that I always buy Stephen Dunn for a new friend when they're still new, and that I try to make everyone I love, love him too. But I've never bought Stephen Dunn for a girlfriend or boyfriend. I'm afraid. What if I see the book, untouched, on the counter? What if they read one thing and ignore the rest? I couldn't handle it. I have come prepared to hold something back.
Intern Laura:
I don't know how to talk about things I like so I'm going to talk about me. I liked Stephen Dunn because I learned about him during the year that I learned that I didn't actually hate poetry. I thought I hated it because poetry is about feelings and I spent a lot of time not feeling up until then. Not because something was wrong or I was damaged or anything, just because I was afraid I would do it wrong. Feelings are messy and poetry is hard if you like everything to have a place. I'm kind of a perfectionist.
This is what brought me to AP English, since I didn't actually have any specific love for literature. I used to devour books, but I'd slowly forgotten about what books can do as I isolated myself in ambition. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is what made a little crack in my shell during the first week of class because I felt like there wasn't time. And then "To His Coy Mistress" because it made me laugh and it was written 400 years ago and that's crazy.
Then my teacher told me I had to write more to practice and so I started by copying things down that I liked so that I wouldn't mess up. I wrote down those two and then some more. I realized other people's words weren't enough and so slowly I started reporting my days to my journal. Every night I wrote how things looked that day and who I saw and where I went.
One day I read "Essay on the Personal" on Riese's blog and I thought that some of the things he said were about me. I was practicing for all the things I hadn't felt yet and realizing that now I had more than just things to report because life was feeling like more than just that.
I forgot about him until, having felt a lot of things, I took my lonely-again heart to books for comfort.
After Making Love
No one should ask the other,
"What were you thinking?"
No one, that is,
who doesn't want to hear about the past
and its inhabitants,
or the strange loneliness of the present
filled, even as it may be, with pleasure
or those snapshots
of the future, different heads,
on different bodies.
Some people actually desire honesty.
They must never have broken
ino their own solitary houses
after having misplaced the key,
never seen with an intruder's eyes
what is theirs.
I missed my family and I missed the friends I'd made and wished highs didn't have to come with such low lows. Unlike me, Stephen Dunn's poems recognized the grey. They weren't too obvious in their sadness but they spoke about it perfectly. I bought "New and Collected Poems" and read through it in my room because the park next to the bookstore seemed too public and too expected and his poems were neither of those things.
I got through my heartache by listening to it during the day and listening to Ira Glass at night. I worked on my balancing act and moved my headquarters to a tiny room that gets enough sun.
The Room and the World
The room was room enough for one
or maybe two if the two had just
discovered each other and were one.
Outside of the room was the world
which had a key to the room, and knowing
a little about the world he knew
how pointless it was to change the lock.
He knew the world could enter the room
anytime it wanted, but for the present
the world was content to do its damage
elsewhere, which the television recorded.
Always, he kept in his mind the story of a man
hanging from a cliff, how the wildflowers
growing there looked lovelier than ever.
That was how he felt about his one chair
and the geometry of the hangers in his closet
and the bed that fit him like a body shirt.
Sometimes the world would breathe heavily
outside the door because it was obscene
and could not help itself. It was this
that led him eventually to love the world
for its pressure and essential sadness.
One day he just found himself opening
the door, allowing the inevitable.
The world came in and filled the room.
It seemed so familiar with everything.
But one day soon when I've learned enough, I'll move to a room that has space for more than just me. I think what Stephen Dunn does so well is love other people. It's too easy to be a complete shit and think that you're the only person in the world who feels like you and not be brave enough to go out and discover that you're not.
I was watching an interview with Sam Beam (my other favorite poet) and he was talking about how you can't say "Do you remember when we had french fries?" because that only means something to one or two people, you have to look bigger.
Next: Intern Emily, Natalie and Rachel talk about how precisely they also love Stephen Dunn


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12 Common Tax Mistakes That Waste Time and Money
We all want to keep taxes short and sweet, but don't rush – or you may be bitter later. You can maximize your refund and minimize the wait by avoiding these errors.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
– Oscar Wilde
As parents know, some lessons are best learned the hard way. Taxes, however, aren't one of those times.
Messing up on taxes is common. In the best cases, it could mean a delayed refund. But it could also mean a smaller refund, spending extra money and time to amend your return, or in the worst case, facing an audit.
Tax software helps avoid a lot of errors – especially the math kind – but it can't fill out personal information or replace common sense. These days, that's where the most frequent mistakes happen.
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The tax code runs thousands of pages and is constantly changing, so it's easy to make mistakes. But experience shows we tend to make the same ones, over and over. Here's a checklist to help you out…
1. Social Security info
What's on your Social Security card goes on the return – if your name is wrong there or has been changed, contact the Social Security Administration. Getting your number wrong, or that of a dependent or spouse, is even worse: The number might belong to someone else. This kind of error can completely stop the whole process.
2. Math
Software can help, but not every program spells out every step of the process. In some cases you may still have to tally numbers on the side to enter totals. When you do, triple-check your work.
3. Signature
It's like turning in homework without your name on it: no name, no credit. Make sure you sign your return – and the check, if you're sending one. Otherwise you may face delays or penalties.
4. Wrong form
Again, software often helps here by picking the relevant forms. But sometimes using a 1040EZ won't get you as much money as a 1040 or 1040A. And certain situations require additional forms or numbers in different places. For instance, where you claim a home office deduction differs depending on whether you are an employee, self-employed, or a business partner.
5. Paying
There are a lot of tax software options, with varying fees for preparing, filing, and amending, not to mention state returns if that applies. But if your income is under $51,000, chances are you can get your taxes prepared and filed for free. Check out 4 Ways to Get Your Taxes Done Free.
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If you have a simple tax situation that hasn't changed much since last year, there's no reason to pay a professional: All they're going to do is use the professional version of software you can buy (or get free) yourself. Check out 9 Tips to Pick a Tax Pro– If You Need One.
7. Waiting on a check
Filing your return electronically through the IRS Free File is always free, no matter your income. But however you file, do it electronically and sign up for direct deposit and your refund will most likely hit your account in less than two weeks. Just don't forget to triple-check your bank account number to make sure the money doesn't end up in someone else's account.
8. Hiding income
This can happen accidentally if you have multiple employers, or if a W2 or 1099 goes missing. So take your time, think it through, and make sure you report everything – not just from your job but also investments and anywhere else that might be reporting to the IRS. Ideally you'll track this throughout the year so you can't forget.
9. Missing deductions and credits
Polonius from Hamlet said, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." He was a jerk.
But he was right too – don't leave money on the table, at least not for the government. Did you buy a home in the past year? Go back to school? Life changes and major purchases may mean tax benefits. And don't forget to see if you can claim a home office deduction.
10. Taking out a refund loan
If you're desperate for your refund money, realize the interest charges on a refund anticipation loan or check only make things worse. Read why in our story from last year, Kiss Refund Loans Goodbye, and learn about a better idea: changing your tax withholding so you get bigger paychecks year-round.
11. Procrastinating
Tax Day is April 15 – and many people have already received their refunds. From the date this article was published, you have 53 days to get the job done right. So don't short-change yourself literally and figuratively by waiting until the last minute, and then rushing through it. That's how you make dumb mistakes and forget things that could have lowered your bill or gotten you more back.
12. Blowing it
Once you get your refund, don't make the mistake of misspending it. Use it wisely: to pay down debt, get tax advantages for next year, or at least do something memorable and fun. Whatever you do, don't fritter it away. We'll have a story next week on smart uses for your tax refund.
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The Booksellers at Laurelwood will host former Vice President Al Gore, signing "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change," Monday, Feb. 18, at noon at the bookstore, 387 Perkins Road Extended. Visit thebooksellersatlaurelwood.com.
Playhouse on the Square will present "Sunset Boulevard" Friday, Jan. 25, through Feb. 17 at Playhouse, 66 S. Cooper St. Visit playhouseonthesquare.org for times and tickets.
NEW YORK (AP) – Health providers are scrambling to notify patients in nearly two dozen states that steroid shots they got for back pain may have been contaminated with a fungus tied to a deadly meningitis outbreak.
Gallery Ten Ninety One will host an opening reception for the Bartlett Art Association Exhibit Thursday, Dec. 1, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at WKNO Digital Media Center, 7151 Cherry Farms Road. The exhibition will run through Dec. 30. The exhibit will feature approximately 90 pieces of art from 26 members of the association. For more information call 458-2521.
The Memphis College of Art will hold its 62nd annual Holiday Bazaar art sale Friday, Nov. 18, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.; and Saturday, Nov. 19, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Main and Lower Gallery of the college, 1930 Poplar Ave. Admission Friday and Saturday is free. All proceeds will benefit MCA's scholarship fund. For more information, call 272-5100 or visit www.mca.edu.
The Rotary Club of Memphis Central will meet Friday, Aug. 12, from 11:45 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the Holiday Inn University of Memphis, 3700 Central Ave. Dee Floyd, community development manager, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, will speak about its hospice. Cost is $20 for nonmembers. For reservations, call Karen Shea at 683-9099.
The Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce will hold the Germantown Business Expo and Power Breakfast Tuesday. The breakfast will begin at 7:15 a.m. at The Great Hall & Conference Center, 1900 S. Germantown Road. The business expo will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre, 1801 Exeter Road. For more information or registration, call 755-1200.
Rhodes College will host Memphis historian Jimmy Ogle who will present a continuing education class titled "Historic Memphis and its Highlights" Monday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Dorothy King Hall on campus. Seating is limited so reservations should be made by calling 843-3965.
Bennett Wood made his acting debut as a second-grader playing George Washington in a historical pageant.
Today, Wood can be found on the big screen, the small screen and on stage at Theatre Memphis, and his work there has earned him the Robert E. Gard Superior Volunteer Award from the American Association of Community Theatre.
The Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence will hold a workshop Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at its office, 5100 Poplar Ave., Suite 502. Participants will learn about the fundamentals of nonprofit communications. Cost is $99 for members, $150 for nonmembers and $89 for those in the Program for Nonprofit Excellence. For more information, call 684-6605 or visit www.npexcellence.org.
The Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence will hold a workshop Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at its office, 5100 Poplar Ave., suite 502. Participants will review best practices of fundraising and critical issues that must be addressed to be successful in a challenging economic environment. Cost is $99 for members, $150 for nonmembers and $89 for those in the Program for Nonprofit Excellence. For more information, call 684-6605 or visit www.npexcellence.org.
The Herff College of Engineering at the University of Memphis will hold an open house Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the college, located on Central Avenue near the Zach Curlin intersection. The open house is geared to middle school, high school and community college students and will provide the opportunity to meet faculty, staff, students and alumni and take guided tours. To register, call 678-4933 or visit www.memphis.edu/herff/eday/index.php.
The Center City Commission Board of Directors will meet Thursday at noon at 114 N. Main St. For more information, call 575-0540.
Dr. Autry Parker has joined the pain management team at Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute. Parker is a board certified, fellowship trained anesthesiologist, specializing in the treatment of severe and chronic pain.
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The 10,650-square-foot warehouse at 3644 Cherry Road in the Oakhaven/Parkway Village area has sold for $400,000 to a Metairie, La.-based entity called Alexandra Land & Development LLC. The sale closed Jan. 28 in a special warranty deed.
Dr. Adrian Blotner will present a seminar titled "Achieving Healthy Balance: Caring for Yourself & Those You Love" today at 7:30 a.m. at 6401 Poplar Ave., Suite 316. Cost is $30. For reservations, call 761-3255, Ext. 302, or e-mail email@example.com.
The Memphis Botanic Garden will host "Career Class: Finding a Job in a Challenging Economy" with Dr. Fred Dorn today from 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the garden, 750 Cherry Road. Cost is $159 for members and $179 for nonmembers. Call 636-4128 to register.
Memphis City Schools will host its first Memphis Interscholastic Athletic Association Golf Classic today at 8 a.m. at Irene Golf & Country Club, 8141 Irene Blvd. Tournament fees are $250 per person and $1,000 for teams of four. For more information or tickets, call 748-8889.
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The Center City Commission Revenue Finance Corp. meets at 9:30 a.m. in the CCC conference room, 114 N. Main St. Call 575-0540 for details.
The Small Business Chamber holds a free Cellular South workshop called "Customer Relationship Management (CRM)" from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the boardroom of Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove Road. Cost is free, but registration is required. Contact Robert Staub at 870-6934 for more information.
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The Memphis Botanic Garden presents a "No Risk Watercolor Class" with Sally Markell from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 750 Cherry Road. The class is for beginners or experienced artists who want to get reacquainted with watercolors. All supplies provided. Cost is $55 for members and $60 for non-members. Call 685-1566, Ext. 130, to register.
Gene Gibson, Robert Lee Browne and Dr. Kitsie Hendrix spared no expense on the upscale gated community they're developing near Poplar Avenue and Cherry Road, a project that will be heavily landscaped with property values at $1 million.
A soon-to-be vacant tract of land on Poplar Avenue soon will house the thoroughfare's latest residential infill development. The only obstacle standing in the way of the construction of Cherry Hall, a private, gated community planned for a site located on Poplar at the southeast corner of Cherry Road, is the house that still sits on the property.
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The Shelby County Republican Women's Club hosts Judge Phyllis Gardner at 11 a.m. at the Racquet Club, 5111 Sanderlin Ave. Edward Jones investment representative Steven Hefn...
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Rams Free Agency Fast Five – Part Three
Well there you have it. If there was any doubt in your mind the Rams are going in a new and unknown direction heading into the 2013 season you shouldn't any more.
Within a matter of a few days three of the biggest Rams free agents were signed to three different teams – the two wide receivers Danny Amendola and Brandon Gibson and running back Steven Jackson.
Amendola was snatched away by the New England Patriots, Gibson took his talents and baggage to South Beach to join the Dolphins and Jackson packed up and headed down to Hotlanta.
(There's a Craig Dahl teaser at the end of the post. Muhahaha.)
Steven Jackson trades in his Rams horns for Dirty Bird wings.
Jackson signed a three year, $12 million contract with $4 million in guaranteed money. His salary, if he had remained at Ram, would have been $7 million for 2013. Obviously, the Rams weren't about to pay him a "bell cow" type salary for playing in a committee of running backs. But it wasn't about the money according to Jackson.
For all the lean years he stuck it out in St. Louis I for one am happy for Jackson. He finally has a chance to win a post season game and possibly even to the big game, a Super Bowl.
It's going to be über strange seeing him in something other than Rams blue and gold but I wish him nothing but success. May your new wings take to higher ground and loftier places.
Not too many people believed me when I said…
This per Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Falcons have had their eyes on Jackson for quite some time. In fact, they were at exploring the possibility of trading for him near the NFL trading deadline in October, but nothing materialized. As a result, Jackson finished out his ninth season as a Ram.
My conspiracy theory about Steven Jackson seems a lot more plausible now, doesn't it?
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Chinese Puzzle - Act Global or Look Backward
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Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is trying to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings (NYSE: MMI) primarily to scoop up a huge treasure trove of patents and intellectual property. Anti-trust regulators around the world have in turn signed off on the deal. Except for the Chinese. China, the worlds second largest economy, seems to be officially sitting on its hands. They are holding up the deal. Google's track record in China is problematic to say the least. Let me rephrase that. Google's track record of governmental affairs in China is horrendous. The whole world knows it.
The past cannot be undone. When the decision to buy Motorola Mobility was made, Google's board probably did not say "What about China?" However, today it's very much "What about China?" Its not an accident that China waited until the end. This may be Google's moment to fix things in China and develop access to the huge market. Certainly there are back room conversations. Chinese sensibility needs to save face and appear to extract something from Google. China also should understand that if they block the deal they will appear to be backward thereby losing more face on the global stage. Face in China is huge. Don't mess with this.
Google will be taken out back to the Chinese wood shed and dealt with. If they are truly in the business of maximizing shareholder wealth, Sergey Brin and Larry Page should cut a deal. Get into the China game. The market is too large to be ignored. You cannot have geo-political gaps in your global coverage. Hire Henry Kissinger if you need to. As a matter of fact why haven't you done so already.
Is China Important to someone like Google? Should China be important to someone like Google. The short answer is Yes. But is Google important to China? The short but much smaller, light weight, and not nearly as important answer is yes. Google needs world domination to achieve scale. World domination cannot be achieved without a strong footprint with the grandchildren of Mao Tse Tung. The Chinese model will be more problematic. Beijing is still controlled by the communist party. They still expect complete control and will not tolerate challengers. They are also interested in promoting China's interests first. They understand that it is in their best interests to nurture Chinese based enterprises. They also understand that the size of their economy will allow a global dominant. The global dominant will not necessarily be a domestic based search engine. Other countries will block a Chinese centric vehicle.
China needs something rather soon. If they block the deal when the rest of the world has given it the imprimatur stamp, they look foolishly backward. They run the danger of incurring an international backlash for a parochial approach. Not a preferred option for the Chinese. So Google, make the grand gesture. The Chinese market is too large to ignore. You need to drive EPS. Your competitors have access and can use China as leverage against you. Time is money. If you make the Chinese blink first to save face in a multi face game, you just build up a huge tab when the game comes around again.
If I could be so bold as to suggest several joint ventures and develop a co-operative approach with China instead of an antagonistic mind set, both parties could move a long way to achieving strategic objectives. Because Google if you don't do it, someone else will sooner rather than later.
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The Big Bend Sentinel reports that the drugs were found in the cargo hold of a Van Horn I.S.D. bus that was transporting athletes from a basketball game in Presidio to Van Horn on the night of November 19th.
The bus driver and a coach reportedly found the duffel bags in the cargo hold of the bus when they tried to put another item in that space during a stop at a Stripes Convenience Store in Marfa.
The black duffel bags were reportedly loaded with an unknown amount of marijuana.
Van Horn coaches -- who claimed that the bags didn't belong to anyone on the team -- told a Border Patrol agent who was fueling his patrol car nearby about the duffel bags.
The Border Patrol agent then called the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Presidio County Sheriff's Office to the scene.
Law enforcement agents reportedly seized the drugs from the cargo hold of the bus.
The bus later got an escort back to Van Horn from officials from the Presidio and Culberson County Sheriff's Offices.
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