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[Broadway Journal, July 12, 1845.]
MR. HIRST is a young lawyer of Philadelphia — admitted to practice, we believe, about two years ago, and already deriving a very respectable income from his profession. Some years since, his name was frequently seen in the content-tables of our Magazines, but latterly the duties of his profession seem to have withdrawn him from literary pursuits. He has, nevertheless, done quite right in collecting his fugitive poems, and giving them to the public in a convenient and durable form. The day has happily gone by when a practitioner at the bar has anything to fear from its being understood that he is capable of inditing a good sonnet.
We have no hesitation in saying that Mr. Hirst has not only given indication of poetical genius, but that he has composed some very commendable poems. His imagination is vigorous, bold, and at the same time delicate. His sense of the true provinces of poetical art is remarkably keen and discriminating, and his versification is superior to that of any American poet. We perhaps should qualify this latter remark by observing that his knowledge of the principles of the [page 167:] metrical art is more profound and more accurate than that of any American poet — but that his knowledge too frequently leads him into the pedantry of hyperism. He is apt to overdo a good thing. He insists upon rhythmical and metrical effects until they cease to have any effect at all — or until they give to his compositions an air of mere oddity. — His other defects are, chiefly, a want of constructive ability, occasional extravagance of expression, and a far more than occasional imitativeness. This last sin, is, in poetry, never to be forgiven, and we are sorry to say that Mr. Hirst is inordinately given to it. There is not a single poem in the beautifully printed volume before us which does not remind us, instantly, of some other composition. If we except some rhythmical effects (for which the author deserves great praise) there is nothing in the book which is fairly entitled to be called original, either in its conception, execution, or manner, as a whole. Of detached thoughts, nevertheless, there are many very striking ones which are quite new, for any evidence that we have to the contrary.
As very usually happens in a case of this kind, the leading and longest poem of the collection is the least worthy of notice. It is called "The Coming of the Mammoth," and, to say nothing of its being a mere paraphrase, in all its most striking points, of Mr. Mathews' "Behemoth," is feebly and incoherently narrated — narrated, indeed, very much as a schoolboy would narrate it. In fact, we understand that it is one of the earliest compositions of the author, who began to write at a very immature age.
The story runs simply thus. The aborigines are suddenly startled from the quiet of ages, by the apparition of "myriad forms" of the mammoths. These [page 168:] creatures carry death and desolation everywhere — destroying vegetation, and animal life wherever they pass. The extravagance with which their nature is delineated, may be instanced by one stanza:
We saw them hunt the buffalo
And crush them with their tusks of steel;
The mountains rocking to and fro
Like trees that in the tempest reel,
When passed their herds; and lake and river
A draught of theirs made dry forever.
The aborigines themselves fall a prey and are reduced to a small band, when they bethink them of supplicating the aid of Moneddo (Manitou) who forthwith attacks the ravagers with lightning, and destroys them all but one.
Bolt rushed on bolt till, one by one,
Howling in agony, they died,
Save him, the fiercest! And alone
He stood — almost a God in pride —
Then with a loud defying yell
Leapt, like a shaft, o'er hill and dell.
He flies at great speed; the lightnings and the Indians still pursuing. He reaches the Mississippi — leaps it at one bound (possibly at a point not very far from the source) and is at last brought up by the Rocky Mountains — but only for a few moments — he ascends the highest peak — throws rocks and trees "in the face of God" and fairly defies him, until at length the "mightiest spirits" are summoned to put an end to the contest:
They heard: with one tremendous crash
Down on the Mammoth's forehead came
A surging sea of withering flame. [page 169:]
Earth trembled to its core; and weak
But unsubdued the Mammoth leapt
Furiously from that lofty peak
To where the dark blue ocean swept.
Down! down! The startled waters sever;
Then roll above him — and forever!
Our readers will agree with us that from the summit of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, is a tolerably long leap even for a Mammoth — although he had had some previous practice in jumping the Mississippi.
We are not extravagant in saying (are we?) that the "Coming of the Mammoth" which might as well have been called the "Coming and the Going of the Mammoth" is the most preposterous of all the preposterous poems ever deliberately printed by a gentleman arrived at the years of discretion. Nor has it one individual point of redeeming merit. Had Mr. Hirst written only this he should have thrown his book to the pigs without comment.
"The Funeral of Time," is a forcible allegory, very indistinctly made out, but well versified in some respects, and filled with majestic images — although disfigured, too often, by something even more mad than Nat Leeism.
"Isabelle" is the finest ballad ever written in this country, and but for its obvious and no doubt intentional imitations, might be called one of the best ever written anywhere. It is indeed exceedingly difficult to understand how the author of such trash as "The Mammoth" could be at the same time author of anything so widely different as "Isabelle." Its simplicity is exquisite — its conduct could not be improved — and its versification (within the narrow limits designed) is [page 170:] full of original force. We quote (unconnectedly) a few of the best quatrains:
A lustrous maid was Isabelle,
And quiet as a brooding bird;
She never thought of passion's spell —
Of love she never heard;
But in her lonely chamber sat,
Sighing the weary hours away
From morn till flitting of the bat
Around the turrets gray.
And trembling with a strange unrest —
A yearning for — she knew not what;
She only knew her heaving breast
Was heavy with its lot.
At last she passed to womanhood,
And sat her down on Beauty's throne,
A statue with a beating heart
Beneath a breast of stone.
Her lustrous eyes grew large with love;
Her cheeks with passion flushed and bright;
Her lips, whereon no bee might rove
Undrunken with delight,
Were, &c.
She felt she had not lived in vain;
She saw the Eden of her dreams
Close round her, and she stood again
Beside its silver streams.
The servants followed her with their eyes,
And prayed the virgin that her hours
Might ever pass under azure skies
And over parterres of flowers. [page 171:]
"Geraldine" is a far better poem than "Isabelle" and is unquestionably the best in the volume. It is, however, in manner a palpable imitation of Tennyson. In justice to Mr. Hirst we quote it in full:
The martins twitter round the eaves,
The swift adown the chimney glides,
The bees are humming 'mid the leaves
Along the garden side;
The robin whistles in the wood,
The linnet on the vane,
And down the alder-margined lane
The throstle sings, and by the flood
The plover pipes again.
But ah — alas! alas! no more
Their merry melodies delight;
No more along the river's shore
I watch the swallow's flight:
And bees may hum and birds may sing,
And silver streamlets shine,
But on the rocks I sit and pine
Unheeding all; for thought will cling
To naught but Geraldine.
Oh, Geraldine! my life, my love!
I only wander where we met
In emerald days, when blue above
The skies were o'er us set —
Along the glen and o'er the vale
And by the willow tree
I wandered where at even with thee
I sang the song and told the tale
Of olden chivalry.
I stand beneath the sombre pines
That darken all thy father's hall, [page 172:]
Begirt with noisome ivy vines
That shroud me like a pall.
Aye there! — where ruin frowns around!
Until the cock doth crow
I watch thy window-panes below,
Upon the sodden blackened ground
Where nothing good will grow.
I've watched thy lattice as before
To see the glimmer dimly pass,
(When thou wouldst open thy chamber door)
Of lamp-light on the glass;
But none from out thy lattice peeps,
And all within is gloom,
And silent as a vacant tomb,
Save when a bat affrighted cheeps
In some deserted roots.
Why comest thou not? Night after night
For many a long and weary year,
'Neath many and many a May-moon's light
I've waited for thee here.
Aye blackest night and wildest storm
When frowning in the sky
Have looked on me with lightning eye,
And charnel figures round my form
Have gleamed and hurried by.
Why comest thou not? or wilt thou soon?
The crimson sun doth wax and wane
Day after day; the yellow moon
Gildeth thy casement pane
Night after night; the stars are pale
Expecting thee; the breeze
Rustling among the dreary trees
Sighs for thee with a woful wail
Who art beyond the seas. [page 173:]
They tell me thou wilt never come —
Alas! that thou art cold and dead,
And slumbering in the green sea-foam
Upon some coral bed:
That shriekingly thy ship went down
Beneath the wailing wave,
And none were near to hear or save —
And then they weep to see me frown —
To hear me groan and rave.
Thou dead! — no, no! — it cannot be!
For if thou was, thy ghost had kept
The solemn trist thou madest with me
When all save passion slept —
Thy ghost had come and greeted me
And bade me be at rest;
And long ere this upon my breast
The clod had lain; and I with thee
Were roaming 'mid the blest.
"The Unseen River" is musical, but has the defect of being imperfectly made out. Few persons will understand that by the river always heard but never seen, until the traveller is overtaken by death, it is the poet's intention to typify Happiness. We quote a fine stanza of which the whole is very poetic (in the best sense) and of which the concluding line is a specimen of exquisite versification.
From the valley — from a river
Which, like many a silver quiver,
Through the landscape stole in light: —
From the bushes, shrubs and blossoms —
Flowers unfolding fragrant bosoms —
Curled the shadows out of sight,
Fading like a ghost in air; and ever the river rippled bright. [page 174:]
"The Burial of Eros" is a very effective allegorical poem — but all allegories are contemptible: — at least the only two which are not contemptible (The Pilgrim's Progress and The Fairy Queen) are admired in despite of themselves (as allegories) and in the direct ratio of the possibility of keeping the allegorical meaning out of sight.
"The Sea of the Mind" is another allegory, or (what is less objectionable) an allegorical enigma. It is miserably indefinite. Its only merit lies in detached thoughts, and in its admirable management of the trochaic rhythm. The metre is heptameter catalectic — consisting of seven (trochaic) feet and a final cæsura, equivalent. The trochees are finely varied, now and then, with dactyls, only the most forcible consonants are employed; the richest vowel sounds abound; and all the effects of alliteration, with other rhythmical effects less common, are skilfully introduced. —
For example:
Silvery the ocean singeth over sands of pearly glow;
Under its surface shapes are gliding — gliding fast or sailing slow —
Shapes of strange supernal beauty, floating through a fairy wave —
Fairer, purer, lovelier, brighter than the streams that Iram lave.
"The Birth of a Poet" is somewhat like an imitation from John Neal's poem of the same title; the commencement, especially, is stolen.
Mr. Hirst's conception throughout is fantastical — not to say absurd. The poem, however, is redeemed by one remarkably well-managed quatrain: [page 175:]
Music like what the poet hears
When, wrapt in harmony, he wings
His soul away through argent spheres,
And back their melody brings.
The concluding anapæst here beautifully and most appropriately varies the iambic rhythm — making the sound "echo the sense."
"Everard Grey" is a superb specimen of dactylic trimeter, catalectic on one syllable — three dactyls and one equivalent cæsura. E. g.
Time it has passed; and the lady is pale —
Pale as the lily that lolls on the gale:
Weary and worn she hath waited for years
Keeping her grief ever green with her tears: —
Years will she tarry — for cold is the clay
Fettering the form of her Everard Grey.
"The Fringilla Melodia" is truly beautiful throughout, possessing a natural force and grace (without effort) which would do honor to the most noted poet in the land. We quote the first quatrain:
Happy song-sparrow that on woodland side
Or by the meadow sits, and ceaseless sings
His mellow roundelay in russet pride,
Owning no care between his wings.
The "sits" here is not ungrammatical; the sparrow is not invoked. The construction is nevertheless a little equivocal.
"The Coming of Autumn" is spirited — but is a little too much in the Old King Cole way.
"The Autumn Wind" has a noble beginning, and as noble an end — but as a whole is unimpressive. [page 176:]
"Eleanore" has no merit at all except the effect of the constantly recurring refrain, "Eleanore," and this is taken from Tennyson's "Oriana."
"Mary" has some fine passages — e. g.
He watched each motion of her rustling dress,
Each lustrous movement of her liquid eyes —
Envied the air its undisturbed caress
Of her whose presence was his Paradise.
"To an Old Oak;" "To E— with a Withered Rose;" and "The Death-Song of the Nightingale" have nothing in them remarkable — "Eulalie Vere" nothing beyond the barroques lines.
Cheeks where the loveliest of lustre reposes
On valleys of lilies and mountains of roses.
"To the American Sky-Lark" is professedly an imitation of Bryant's "Waterfowl:" we need, therefore, say nothing about it.
"Ellena" has some glowing thoughts. For example,
at her word
The hushed air shook, with human passion stirred.
And again:
A maniac tune
Rang in mine ears, like songs sung in a swoon.
The Coming of Night" is excellent throughout — if we except the grammatical error in the ante-penultimate line.
Oh Blessed Night that comes to rich and poor. [page 177:]
Here are two admirable quatrains:
Forest and field are still
Nature seems wrapt in slumber; wholly dumb
Save when the frog's deep bass or beetle's hum,
Or wailing whippoorwill,
Disturb her weary ear,
Or the far falling of the rippling rill
That sings, while leaping down the silent hill,
Her dreamless sleep to cheer.
"Violet" is merely an absurd imitation of Barry Cornwall's most absurd Tom-Foolery.
"A Gift" is well versified, but common-place.
"The Owl" opens with two finely imaginative stanzas:
When twilight fades and evening falls
Alike on tree and tower,
And silence, like a pensive maid,
Walks round each slumbering bower,
When fragrant flowerets fold their leaves,
And all is still in sleep,
The horned owl on moonlit wing
Flies from the donjon keep.
And he calls aloud "too-whit! too-whoo!"
And the nightingale is still,
And the pattering step of the hurrying hare
Is hushed upon the hill;
And he crouches low in the dewy grass
As the lord of the night goes by,
Not with a loudly whirring wing
But like a lady's sigh. [page 178:]
Every critic — at least every poetical critic — will admit that the images in these two stanzas are such as only a true poet could conceive. At the same time they are embodied with much art.
"A Song" and "Mucius Scaevola" have no particular merit. "The Forsaken" ends with nerve:
Well, go thy way! and never wake
The feeblest memory of me,
To wring thy worthless heart! I break
Thy chains and set thee free.
Thou to thy mirth! I to my gloom!
Health to the coldest of the twain!
And mine — not thine — the iron doom
Of having loved in vain.
"The Lament of Adam" is chiefly remarkable for the effect of its versification — not altogether original, to be sure, but rare, and very forcible when well-managed. The rhythm is dactylic, the lines terminating with equivalent cæsuras. The metre is generally tetrameter, catalectic on one syllable (the cæsura forming the catalexis) — but the lines increase towards the closing of the stanzas, and in one instance are hexameter catalectic. We give the last stanza:
Life hath its pleasures — but perishing they as the flowers:
Sin hath its sorrows; and, sighing we turned from those bowers:
Bright were the angels behind with their falchions of heavenly flame:
Dark was the desolate desert before us, but darker the depth of our shame. [page 179:]
Here the alliteration is too obvious — quite overdone, and is an instance of the hyperism to which we alluded in the beginning of our notice.
"The Statue-Love" is not very good. "May" is a remarkably fine poem with an exquisite close:
the passionate bard
Wanders away through sylvan lonelinesses,
Alive with love — his heart a silver river
On which the swan of song floats gracefully forever.
"Dramatic Fragments" are worth nothing. "The Song of the Scald Biorne" is, to our astonishment, badly versified. How comes Mr. Hirst in an anapæstic rhythm, or in any rhythm, with such a verse as —
My iron hand on her arm when before her I knelt?
"Summer" is quite feeble.
Twenty well-constructed sonnets conclude the volume. Among these, "Bethlehem" and "Dead Man's Island" may be cited as particularly good: but by way of finale to our review we quote "Astarte" as the best.
Thy lustre, heavenly star! shines ever on me.
I, trembling like Endyinion over-bent
By dazzling Dian, when with wonderment
He saw her crescent light the Latmian lea:
And like a Naiad's sailing on the sea,
Floats thy fair form before me: the azure air
Is all ambrosial with thy hyacinth hair:
While round thy lips the moth in airy glee
Hovers, and hums in dim and dizzy dreams,
Drunken with odorous breath: thy urgent eyes [page 180:]
(Twin planets swimming through love's lustrous skies)
Are mirrored in my heart's serenest streams —
Such eyes saw Shakespeare, flashing, bold and bright,
When Queenly Egypt rode the Nile at night.
[The following footnote appears at the bottom of page 166:]
1. Cf. The Literati, Vol. XV. — ED.
[S:1 - JAHCW, 1902] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Editions - The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (J. A. Harrison) (Review of The Coming of the Mammoth)


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THE day the microscope arrived, I focused on a drop of water from my turtle's dish and yelled ``Wow.'' Beneath the lens a tardigrade, or water bear, lumbered by on eight legs like a mutant grizzly. Each time I breathed out, a crowd of living teacups, called vorticellas, coiled their stems into tight springs. Nearby, a rotifer swept supper into its mouth with a whirling disk of tiny hairs. I was the giant in control, safe from the risks of being 13 years old.
Already the tallest and the shyest girl in eighth grade, I'd longed for a way to escape. The answer had come with the fall Sears, Roebuck catalog. Using money earned picking raspberries, I'd ordered myself a microscope.
Eager to claim new small worlds after a week of turtle water, I began to prowl our house for promising fluids. Nothing was too sacred or foul for exploration: water from my mother's birthday bouquet, even blood from my sister's baseball-bumped nose.
Every night after school I retreated to my bedroom laboratory, played ``Fingal's Cave'' on the record player, and watched amoebas engulf unsuspecting paramecia. No longer did I have to deal with short boys with alarming tufts of hair on their chins, or girlfriends who spent their afternoons drinking green rivers at the Dutch Cup Caf'e. I read biological supply house catalogs like other girls read romances, fantasizing about petri dishes, slide covers, and Chinese liver flukes bottled in formaldehyde. In the microscopic world, even reproduction was often safely asexual. Paramecia divided in two. Hydras grew buds.
My life changed one day when I was reading a book on diatoms in the library. James Krengel, the shyest (and smartest) boy in eighth grade, came up behind me and asked, ``Have you ever looked through a microscope?''
``Wow!'' I thought to myself. It was then I began to reenter the world of people and love and sadness.
In eighth grade there was a teacher shortage, so we endured a series of substitutes. None of them taught science. James and I rebelled. Unknown to our teachers, we hid in the tiny school library where we read all the science books and wrote secret papers on Sputnik and stag beetles. And one day, as we knelt to dip water from a stagnant pond, he looked at me and took hold of my hand.
That summer my mother gave me a collection of Theodore Roethke's poetry. At first I was drawn to the ``slug soft stems'' and ``ground bones'' of his greenhouse poems. Then, as I went on to share secrets with my girlfriends at slumber parties and ride the Ferris wheel with James at the state fair, my leg against his in the rickety seat, I grew to love Roethke's ``shadow white as stone'' and song ``within a flame.''
Now that I am grown, groups of children ring my old oak table for science workshops. Together we make spore prints, experiment with aerodynamics. When I am alone, poetry comes out of me like dreams. I write of the sorrows and songs within myself, shaping them from sunken alders, wishing rocks, and the flash of black beetles burrowing away from my hands.

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"Day care is often a fragile and patchwork arrangement that's always on the mind of working parents."
Tampa, FL (PRWEB) June 7, 2010
Marketdata Enterprises, a 31-year-old market research firm, has just released its 7th edition in-depth market research industry study examining the non-profit and for-profit providers of day care services. This covers group day care chains, church or employer-based facilities, family day care homes, and care by nannies or foreign Au Pairs. The study examines national, state, and city receipts and growth from 1990 to 2013 Forecast, effects of the recession, operating ratios, factors affecting demand/customer demographics, major trends, government day care funding, franchising, major competitor profiles and rankings, and more.
"There is probably no consumer service that's more emotionally charged than day care. Fully 65% of mothers with children under age 6 are now in the labor force. Marketdata believes that many of the women that re-entered the workforce during this recession (to make up income lost by male wage earners) will choose to stay employed, as a new frugality takes hold. When the recession ends and live births top 4 million/year again, demand for child care should remain high," according to Research Director, John LaRosa.
Following are some findings from the Marketdata study:
- No company dominates this fragmented field. Competition is keen. Franchising has been limited. The top 6 chains operate just under 4,000 group day care centers and this group generated $2.86 billion in 2009 sales. This is a small share of the total $58 billion market. Knowledge Learning Corp. is the largest day care provider, with 2,000+ sites and $1.33 billion in sales. Learning Care Group is second with $595 million. Both have been very active with acquisitions in recent years.
- Marketdata estimates that America spent $58.6 billion on child care in 2009--a combination of federal funding from Head Start, Block Grants and other programs, and household expenditures. Receipts are forecast to grow by 5.4% yearly, to $71 billion by 2013. Receipts have not declined in 22 years, even during recessions.
- In the United Sates, there are an estimated 819,000 day care facilities or sites in operation. Family day care is the most popular form of care, with 325,000 homes. For-profit group centers by large chains number 110,000, and various other facilities are run by: churches, colleges, employers, hospitals, the government, etc. They all compete for the same day care dollar.
- Fees… In 2008, the average cost of full-time care for infants in a center was as high as $15,895 per year, 4-year olds paid up to $11,680, and parents of school-age kids paid up to $10,720. Fees are rising much faster than the overall inflation rate (up to 3-4 percentage points more).
- As of 2009, the "average" day care services establishment had estimated annual revenues of $660,000--with for-profit facilities generating $708,000. The 2007 Census found that for-profit establishments had annual receipts of $554,000. Industry pre-tax profit margins fell to 4.9% of net sales in 2009.
- The Labor Dept. estimates that 1.3 million people were employed by the day care sector in 2008 (429,00 self-employed). In addition, there are 1.2 million Nannies working in the U.S. today, earning $350-1,000/week, plus room and board. The recession did affect nanny jobs, as parents cut back their hours or dropped them. Foreign Au Pairs now number about 15-17,000 and cost parents $13-14,000 per year.
"Many think that things will get worse for child care before they get better, since state funding, temporarily boosted by the stimulus, will fall even more in the near future. Federal funding for Social Service Block Grants has been flat for the past five years,", according to John LaRosa.
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54.4 x 33 x 54.33 inches
366/525 lbs
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•• Special programming for the timing of the second color print
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80mm (3.14")
750-1500 iph
32 x 22 x 55 inches
420/580 lbs
• 8-station carousel with shot-pin (positive lock) registration for precise positioning of the part
• Single-point fixture mounting for rapid changeover
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80mm (3.14")
5" - 6"
1 to 2 colors: 1500 iph
54 x 30 x 55 inches
750/900 lbs
• 18-station pneumatic indexing conveyor
• Shot-pin registration (+/- .001" tolerance)
• Micro-adjust system for moving the conveyor in and out enables easy positioning of graphic on the part
• The conveyor can be interfaced with automatic load-unload systems
• Convenient for printing high volumes of industrial, medical and promotional products
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140mm (5.5")
1 color: 1200 iph
2 colors: 600 iph
32 x 30 x 54 inches
646/891 lbs
• Two 150mm ink cups (significantly larger than the industry's standard 130mm ink cups)
• Unique independent pad/ink cup stroke
• 2-position pneumatic part shuttle
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140mm (5.5")
1 color: 1200 iph
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32 x 30 x 54 inches
646/891 lbs
• Two 150mm ink cups
• Unique independent pad and ink cup stroke
• 12-station pneumatic indexing conveyor
• Shot-pin registration (+/- .001" tolerance)
• 2-position pneumatic shuttle
• Convenient for printing high volumes of large parts (injection molded housings, bezels, mugs, drinkware, beach balls, promotional products and tagless garments)
• Can be interfaced with automatic load-unload systems
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text: Hey guys I am creating a tutorial blog and created an EBOOk section that I want to upload books like, "The Secret", "Think and Grow Rich", etc. If I upload it to rapidshare and not my own server, can I get away with that, or would I still get in trouble eventually? Who knows of a good way around this. Thanks


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Summer Book Notes
- The Fold by An Na - The author attacks physical attraction and attractiveness head-on in her newest book with references to plastic surgery and other self-image issues. I was especially drawn to this book because of the Korean-American characters having lived in Seoul for two years as a teenager. References to the Korean culture, physical attributes and language did not disappoint, either! A Junior Literary Guild selection.
- The Postcard by Tony Abbott - Such fun - a mystery within a mystery! What made it really inviting was the use of old Florida postcard clues to develop an engaging, wacky, and humorous adventure, especially if you are familiar with the landmarks, history, and culture of the Tampa Bay/Sarasota area. It is being marketed to the middle school grades, but I can envision many high schoolers taking it for a read! Also a Junior Literary Guild selection.
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - See I told you the dust was collecting....Yes, this one has been out for a while and there's even a movie that has come and gone...This book was quite compelling and I was simultaneously sad and angry during much of the content as the worst of humanity was exposed page after page. Naturally, there were important lessons as well, including a chance to find ways to bridge differences (cultural, religious, economic, gender). The author's second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, is now on my reading list as it was also named a Florida Teens Read for 2008.
- Street Love by Walter Dean Myers - As the title intimates, this is a love story reflecting teenagers with 'street smarts'. It's emotional pangs and triumphs are punctuated by the free verse poetry style that only Myers can pen. Students who have borrowed it have enjoyed the taut drama and the easy reading. It is also a 2008 selection for the Florida Teens Read nomination.
- The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer - This one's content is haunting and disturbing...for it's potential reality. Imagine an apocalyptic event - in this case a collision between the moon and an asteroid which dramatically changes the world climate - and then think about what would happen to the survivors. Yes, there is a fair amount of death in this story and unlike other fictional work, you can envision this new world so the dying seems more real. Nevertheless, it is gripping and one of those books you are compelled to read to the end. A Junior Library Guild selection.
- The Dip by Seth Godin - And now for a change of pace! This little gem from the marketing guru is a delightful reminder of "when to quit (and when to stick)" The dip is that 'bump in the road' that you either persist through with focus and motivation to meet your goal or, in some cases, purposely assess the pros and cons weighing the likelihood of succes and giving yourself permission to 'quit' for a more appropriate goal. Short and sweet with many a re-reading in the future, this book goes well beyond the marketing theme!
That's it for the first half of summer - I've got more on my list (naturally!), so we'll see what I can share for the second half!
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Reiki: A natural approach that supports healing
Friday, January 10, 2014 by: Dawn Fleming
(NaturalNews) What is the mysterious energy technique called Reiki? Oprah and Dr. Oz both have raved about the benefits of receiving a Reiki treatment. Reiki can accelerate the healing process of the body, mind and emotions. Reiki helps release stress and creates balance. Maybe you just feel tired and rundown, but your blood counts all indicate that you are healthy, or emotionally you feel stuck in a rut, going nowhere. Reiki helps restore the energy that supports your health and well-being, getting you up and moving forward again.
Reiki: A natural approach that supports healing.


text: The peer to peer industry has grown at a phenomenal rate in the last decade and many have embraced it as a welcome new channel for investors to earn healthy returns on their money. With this in mind, it is clear advisers are starting to become open to the benefits P2P can offer their clients – set rates of interest, varied terms for lending, diverse portfolios of investment opportunities to spread risk, and the potential for better interest rates than with many other forms of investment.This year the peer to peer market is likely to be transformed by the arrival of the much-anticipated Innovative Finance Isa among the leading platforms. The IFISA market is yet to come into full effect, but when it does, the amount of P2P investors could potentially double. P2P lending is becoming a new and innovative way of making investment with current technology-driven market.


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As threatened, the U.S. government is suing Apple and several major publishers, accusing them of conspiring to fix prices of e-books. The suit was filed this morning in Manhattan federal court by the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
The publishers named in the suit include Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Penguin, Pearson Pic and Simon & Schuster. The lawsuit said the alleged conspiracy came as Apple was preparing to launch the iPad. It said the alleged conspiracy called for Apple to be guaranteed a 30 percent commission. Federal prosecutors said the alleged collusion came as a response to the success Amazon had in selling e-books for just under $10. Justice Department officials said publishers stopped selling e-books to Amazon and shifted to a so-called "agency" approach proposed by Apple.
In March, Citydesk reported how Penguin had terminated its contracts with the nation's libraries, not making any new titles available at lending institutions. Additionally, Random House, the world's largest English-language publisher, jacked up its prices for libraries as much as 300 percent, effective March 1.


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text: Ray Murphy Jr.'s professional experience includes more than 25 years in theatrical production. Mr. Murphy is a visionary within the field of themed comedy films, with a knack for developing witty material into entertaining movies. After serving six years in the United States Air Force, Mr. Murphy made his professional debut in 1985 as a Production Assistant for Eddie Murphy Productions. His tenure as a Production Assistant was short-lived, as he began fully working on films such as Coming to America, The Nutty Professor, and Producing films Another 48 Hours, and Vampire in Brooklyn, Harlem Nights, Beverly Hills Cop 3 and Metro. Murphy's dedication and expertise earned him the position of President for more than eight years. Through his leadership, worldwide box office gross revenues and media rentals for films under the Eddie Murphy Productions' umbrella had significantly exceeded $1 Billion. Mr. Murphy then went on to Executive Produce eight Comedy DVDs titled The Big Black Comedy Show. Murphy's strong relationship-building skills have solidified lasting associations with the industry's top producers, directors, agents, writers and film studio executives. Mr. Murphy recently launched Murphy Entertainment Studios to select, produce and distribute a broad range of entertainment films and products.


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On this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday, my good friend, a fellow collage artist... a brother in our journey... Anthony Morgan and I spent days in my studio creating various sketches and artworks (I also culled and cleaned areas in my studio). It was an exhilarating environment and I appreciate our time together warmly. Her are a few products of our efforts (one of which which will be featured in the upcoming exhibit at The Tech Garden in Syracuse, NY):
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Saturday, January 14, 2017
more ekphrasis?
This poem is what I would, perhaps loosely, describe as an ekphrastic poem. It was "inspired" by the element that I used as a substrate for this collage. I tried to use the words and phrases from the substrate to create an "acceptable" piece of poetry. Not the best poem, but a novelty poem none the less. I will be reading this poem as one of three at the upcoming Southern Humanities conference in Louisville, KY:
Advice from a certain type of writer
The First Lesson is done.
At 8
it is over…
leave; turn the page
The Second Lesson is,
"don't plagiarize".
Don't use the phrase "A lurid fire failed"
Don't use the phrase "A dull jailer sulks".
The Third Lesson is,
"Be truthful, not fitful".
You will touch hearts,
your tales remembered
The Fourth Lesson? …"explore"
Take wild walks in forests dark
…with folk and fowl and spooks and ghosts
Create wild work
The Fifth Lesson is nostalgic.
Understand that old junk links lives
The velvet and flannel
The big barn, and novels
What is the Sixth Lesson?
Exile the clock!
use everything you now have;
There are no limits …excel
Monday, January 9, 2017
South Side Sally revisited
The couple who bought this piece of mine a couple years ago have created a great treatment for it on the wall of the room. The substrate is the south side area of New York City. I am flattered! (the original post was 12/30/11)
Friday, January 6, 2017
Spontaneous pariedolia
Only have time for a "quickie" today as I head out to see a friend at Rutgers University. I just had to post this gem from my time in the studio last night. Perhaps a good way to begin the new year ;-)
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Welcome to the Left Bank Quarter of the county where bohemians roam in the secluded area part Parisian chic meets Dutch-inspired leisure. Overlooking the River Wye it gives you a glorious view of the River Wye and only a 2 minute walk from the high street.
It's a cosy cafe with a quaint and rustic farmhouse feel inside plus open seating outside. The upstairs is dedicated to the art exhibition of the moment and Friday music nights where local musicians sing and attendees dance along to their music. Arms swaying, gypsy skirts flowing depending on the type of music played. On rare afternoons off locals are found sipping coffee, nibbling cakes or perhaps a Pieminster pie. Some with a book in their hands, others doodle in sketchpads. It's family friendly and sometimes the pet dog tags along too. A wandering child walks up to the blackboard and notices the pretty handwritten white cursive…
On the blackboard you'll find the weekly usual of yoga or meditation classes. If you're lucky a poetry reading night may be on. The first poetry event held there was organised and performed by local poet Catherine Vaughan in March 2016. Nowadays a plethora of cultural activities take place from burlesque dances classes, life drawing as well as the Politics, Ethics & Environment nights and don't forget the Pub Quiz! Most recently they've been one of the venues for the Herefordshire Cultural Partnership which discusses culture ventures in the county as well as Herefordshire's forthcoming bid to be City of Culture in 2021.
On its footstep is The Left Bank which has it's Speakeasy Nightclub, comedy nights and formal events. It's also available for private hire.
So if you're ever visiting our city pop along to De Koffie Pot cafe, located on Bridge street, hidden behind the Left Bank.
Facebook: @DeKoffiePot
Twitter: @DeKoffiePot
The Waring family also run Lyde Court for Weddings (and were named Herefordshire Wedding Venue of the Year 2016) and The Left Bank which hosts events, parties and now Weddings.


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Through this solution, Accenture is helping companies connect content and digital assets to intelligent objects, creating new experiences, and improving the way the world works and lives.
The Accenture Digital Distribution Solution enables clients to intelligently, rapidly and cost-effectively distribute content and data to connected consumers, devices and retailers. Applications for the solution are as elastic as your imagination, with current use cases that include: wearable devices, digital music, connected workers, digital fashion, e-books, drones, 3D printing and more.
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Accenture is helping workers at a large global energy company convert static procedures into more effective, step-by-step, multimedia facilitated procedures—enabling real-time feedback and more accurate (digitally updatable) documentation. Watch the video to learn more.
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HarperCollins is one of the world's largest publishers, relying on large retailers to sell their digital content. However, this creates risk, as publishers lack the capabilities to sell and digitally distribute their e-books at scale to customers. Accenture Digital Distribution Solution integrates with front end e-commerce systems to power a global distribution-to-consumer (D2C) solution enabling clients to sell e-books in any country. In addition, the solution handles delivery to the end-user devices and ensures the content delivered is rights compliant.
To quickly meet consumer demand for flexible consumption, Accenture Digital Distribution Solution includes an on-demand transcoding offering that is a cloud based media processing service. It aims to ingest the content from any source, adapt it in any format and deliver it to any target location, for any device type (web, mobile, OTT, etc.). With benefits like competitiveness, transparency and agility, Accenture Digital On-Demand Transcoding Solution is available for all media content owners.
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Dec 19, 2005 5:00 am |Summary:
Foxconn are massive, make no mistake but when it comes to retail, they are new. Read on for our opinion. Read the review.
Nov 8, 2005 5:00 am |Summary:
On the market for Socket 939 mobo with onboard GPU for a media center PC? The Biostar GeForce 6100-M9 might be for you! Read the review.
Oct 24, 2005 4:00 am |Summary:
If you're looking for AMD64 and SLI on a budget, the Albatron K8SLI motherboard might be just what the doctor ordered. Read the review.
Sep 29, 2005 4:00 am |Summary:
For a little while now we've known about Gigabyte's upcoming 8N-SLI QUAD motherboard and quite frankly, we're a little excited about it. We've been on the backs of our friends from the Gigabyte marketing... Read the article.
Sep 27, 2005 4:00 am |Summary:
When nVidia first launched their dual graphics platform, it initially come under some scrutiny for only offering two 8x PCI-E ports. Many months later nVidia announced their nForce 4 SLI X16 chipset which... Read the article.
May 15, 2005 4:00 am |Summary:
EPoX sent us one of their newest motherboards recently, the 9NPA+ Ultra, which is based on nVidia's new nForce 4 Ultra chipset for the AMD Athlon Socket 939 processor platform. We've compared the motherboard... Read the review.
Feb 3, 2005 5:00 am |Summary:
Mike takes a close look at the EPoX 9NDA3+ Socket 939 motherboard today which is based around nVidia's nForce3 Ultra chipset. The motherboard makes use of an AGP port instead of the newer PCI-Express... Read the review.


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SAN FRANCISCO --A new look for San Francisco Giants closer Brian Wilson -- the black beard is gone and a gray one is in its place, for one night anyway.
Wilson donned a grey beard for an appearance on George Lopez's talk show on TBS Thursday night.
There was a nautical theme, since he dressed up like a ship captain, mixed in with some bizarre conversation.


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Korsakoff's Paper Chain
£5.00 + postage, November 2010, 72pp
Dr. F says:
"Just as a patient suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome, which affects the memory, may confabulate - create a false account in order to explain their solution and completely believe in it - and just as an act of architectural restoration may involve a certain amount of creative guesswork, so too goes the story of this wretched scrap of literature. Repeatedly destroyed, savaged, battered and blown to bits, only to be rebuilt from a few scattered remains by a different writer every time, it has survived long enough to be worth my presenting to you in bound form, with every past iteration having been reclaimed using sorcery, and the full story of its life painstakingly put back together. I, Dr Fulminare, give you the one and only Korsakoff's Paper Chain."
Featuring new poems by:
David Floyd, Charlotte Geater, Aiko Harman, Sarah Howe, Edward Mackay, Richard O'Brien, Adham Smart, James Wilkes, Chrissy Williams and Tony Williams.
The Last Time Reality Hit Me This Hard Was Yesterday
You told me they do quality reeds cheap at Korsakoffs? asked my postman Alfred Pewter, a formidable jazz clarinetist. Even as I said yes, it seemed a very reasonable kind of price to me. I saw Al twitch a conspiracy, more an understandable paranoia that everything mattered. Turns out hed ordered a pack. It had landed with Stacy, the back-room girl who moonlights editing manuscripts and who found the first English translation of Yoshida Shins Hells Pantry. Found it severely lacking, that is. Her red pen scribbles went global via wireless so thats when it broke loose. Al himself and other reedless and pained citizens went round the houses passing messages: That back-room girls gotta go! Whatever you do, dont bend to her editors whim: the close reading of Shins prosody is a willful mess. Blow and dont sing. Protest in bop with us!
Its dawn: Al reworks They Slither To The Source then shakes them down, says the boys with short names should pay him royalties for the detuned standard. Shin and Zoot demur in swing time. Dont try pleading special treatment, boys! Deep in the garden, they blend blue notes and disgust for the window ledge of snoring Stacy, easing skywards. Manys the cat to attempt some form of jazz vengeance, a well-meaning vicar advised, walking sidelong through the mist, But few end well on it. One escape: use bass string to construct a zip line, makeshift exit for large quantities of rhythm men. The local train needs uncoupling, wasted Zoot lisps. No! String will not help us invigorate our Shin! growls Al. Too late. The short-named boys have split.
Als in pursuit, two large old clarinets raring to crack heads, into the greengrocers, also a safehouse.
As shoppers sought the missing lads, raving Al, betrayed and bloody of eye, was scanning the papaya aisle. Columbian carnation petals assuaged his rage some, drifted round his feet: red snow. Scattered by his sister, one Mildred Pewter, adored by Al, who now starts weeping in the centre of this distinguished emporium of cultivated herbage. His forehead, as befits a mad king, is seized in virtue of the local byelaws. Seized and held gently by the sister, who was missed, gasped, quested by Al these past years. Some good old-fashioned dixielands what you need, she croons. But betrayal! sobs Al. No, to our knowledge theyre just being humans. Potatoes are enough for peace; dont dash yourselves unduly. So saying, she took a balmy Maris and applied its poultice, and he slept.
Supermarket voices blare out. Shins demons run him ragged past melons, sharpen their knives. He slips on spilt milk, and Stacy finds him gibbering in the cooler cabinet, by the coffee grinder where, within her, rise at each convulsion wells of pity. Why was it not obvious to me before?, and she downs pens, abjures the editorial, shaves her skull.
Listen to me, good people, cries Stacy to the wire baskets, evil requires nothing more than this: a fast car and somewhere to drive it. A pocket calculator and two figures. Its like we have all forgotten the obvious truth: men dazzle us with promises of mint. But its our homes. Our homes, where we can flourish if we smash the windows and breathe rain.
James Wilkes


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Eire's Inside Design Event
I am aware of at the very least two attempts by others to draw a floor plan: One is in a book of blueprints of varied fictional TELEVISION homes; the other is an internet picture that I discovered by shopping the net. Both versions arrive at options that ignore many clues given throughout the episodes of the DVD Present. One of them even accommodates quite a few blatant discrepancies that battle with what is plainly seen on the present. So I made a decision to strive my own solution. I believe the primary thing that's causing me stress about solely having every week left is that for four of these days I'm going to be in NYC so I cannot be here doing work on the area which goes to make for an attention-grabbing couple days earlier than the reveal. I'm still waiting on the biggest mission in the room to arrive within the mail and it needs to be here Friday, nevertheless I leave Saturday! I'm hoping the ability of positivity will maintain me afloat here and I'm assured I will get this completed!! If you're just checking in on all of this delightfulness now you may see the previous weeks posts below. Want me luck.
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The Feb. 10 Board of Supervisors regular meeting marks the third time recently that District 1 Supervisor Bill Thomasson has abstained on a vote.
At that meeting Thomasson abstained on a vote to transfer 69 acres of the former Camp 24 site to the Bedford Regional Water Authority (BRWA) for a new water treatment plant.
That vote comes after Thomasson abstained, last month, on a vote to advertise the public hearing for the land transfer.
A proposal, by the Bedford Regional Water Authority (BRWA) to treat water, drawn from Smith Mountain Lake, at a new water treatment plant to be built at the former Camp 24 site, and pumped to Forest, via Bedford, cleared its first hurdle last week when the planning commission decided, on a 7-0 vote, that the project was in accord with the county's comprehensive plan.
Several people spoke about the project at a public hearing held before the vote.
The Bedford Regional Water Authority's (BRWA) plans to build a new water treatment plant and send Smith Mountain Lake water, treated at this plant, to Bedford and Forest moved one step closer to becoming a reality Monday night.
It's been noted that Bedford County's supervisors, with the exception of District 5 Supervisor Steve Arrington, had little to say after the school board presented three school construction options to them at a joint meeting at the end of last month. They asked for time to consider these options, and discuss them among themselves before making a decision.
Most of them feel that there are a lot of unknowns involved in all the options, and they need time to digest the information they do have.
Bedford's volunteer fire chiefs believe the county's new fire department funding formula is inadequate, according to Eric Shell, Hardy's fire chief.
Shell, representing the county's fire commission and backed by various fire chiefs who filled two pews in the supervisors' meeting chamber, spoke before the county supervisors at a work session Monday night.
Shell said the fire departments have had flat funding for 20 years.
A major portion of a board of supervisors Monday evening work session was devoted to a presentation on storm water management.
The state, which, in turn, is responding to an EPA mandate, is requiring all Virginia localities to have a storm water management ordinance in force by July 1 or face fines of up to $32,000 per day for failing to do so. Localities have until May 15 to adopt their ordinances, which must be approved by the state.
Within 60 days, the Bedford County School Board hopes to have a clear direction from the County Board of Supervisors as to how much the board will be willing to ante up to build a new secondary school in the Liberty Zone.
Whether that school will be a middle school, high school or some hybrid between the two remains to be seen—and it all hinges on how much money the supervisors will be willing to borrow for the construction project.
If you showed up at the board of supervisor's Monday evening work session, you probably noticed that there was a person sitting in the District 5 seat who looks a lot like Steve Arrington; that's because it was him.
Arrington, who announced at the supervisors' last regular meeting of 2013, that he plans on stepping down from the board of supervisors has delayed the effective date of that resignation. He said he is postponing the effective date because there are issues he wants to finish.
When reversion took place last July, the newly-formed town of Bedford brought in 313 new residents as a result of boundary adjustments with Bedford County.
That represented a 5.1 percent increase in population for the town. And it means, by breaking that 5 percent threshold, that all town council seats, just elected during a special election in May, will once again be up for election.
That's what the reversion rules spelled out.
The Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce hosted Senator Mark Warner at an event held at the Center for Advanced Research and Engineering in New London last week. Warner, first elected to the U. S. Senate in 2008, is up for reelection this year.
"I've actually been a business guy long before I was a political guy," Warner told the Chamber gathering.
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Coping and Accountability for Children and Adolescents with Behavioral and Emotional Difficulties
with Dr. Buzz Mingin
A free evening workshop for parents and professionals presented by
Y.A.L.E. School Northfield campus
Thursday, January 26, 2017 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Y.A.L.E. School Northfield Campus – Multi-purpose Room
1000 Burton Avenue
Northfield, NJ 08225
Coping and Accountability for Children and Adolescents with Behavioral and Emotional Difficulties is a "hands on" workshop that teaches the following necessary tools for developing an emotionally intelligent home and classroom:
- The 3-Term Contingency Model for understanding cause and effect behavioral relationships
- How to develop an emotionally intelligent home and classroom
- How to develop and teach coping skills for students who resist boundary setting
- How to develop and implement natural and logical consequences
- How to develop interventions to navigate extinction bursts
- How to utilize outreach services effectively in order to make treatment and support meaningful
In addition, 2 credit hours will be provided to all Educational staff who attend.
RSVP to 609-677-9960 ext. 100 or email Danielle Moretti at email@example.com
Admission is free but attendees are asked to RSVP in advance


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vIronically, the introduction of software designed to improve writing (spell check, grammar check, etc.) coincided with an increasing lack of interest in the rules of writing. As a result, punctuation, capitalization, and even correct spelling are instruments that are becoming progressively rusty from neglect. With email, people tended to speed through messages, ignoring punctuation and capitalization. And, of course, texting not only introduced an entirely new language, but continued the deterioration of the previously mentioned tools.
However, if you own an Android phone (and if you care), the stock keyboard offers easy access to punctuation. I discovered this by accident, when a finger delayed a little too long on one of the keys, revealing optional characters. I then tested several keys, most of them exposing even more options, and finally–as a last resort—I referred to the Android owner's manual for additional information.
One impractical way to add punctuation (the one I used for several months), is to tap the lower left key, which opens the number and punctuation keyboard.
Then, I'd switch back and forth between keyboards for text and punctuation.
Tapping the number key again displays more symbols.
Note: This is demonstrated on Android 4.0 and may not work on all versions.
Disclaimer: Please don't misinterpret the second paragraph to suggest that owners' manuals should be used to find solutions. When your washing machine breaks down, take it apart, fix what you can, put it back together and–only when you discover that it no longer works at all, and the pile of remaining parts appears to contain critical components—should you consult the manual.


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Clay Harper (pictured) primarily occupies himself as one of Atlanta's most enduring restauranteurs, overseeing numerous Fellini's Pizza, La Fonda Latina and Greater Good Barbecue eateries throughout metro Atlanta. But Clay is also an eccentric musician, songwriter, producer and label owner who notoriously led the wacky band The Coolies in the late '80s before settling down a bit in the '90s with The Ottoman Empire and a series of solo singles. He also founded Casino Music as a record label not only for his own stuff but also selected friends including Wreckless Eric and Drivin' N' Cryin'.
More recently, Clay has put together a production and songwriting team with Ruairi Kilcullen called Plus Sized Dan, who are the guiding force behind two new, vastly different EPs. The first, a self-titled collaboration with phenomenally gifted Atlanta singer-songwriter Marshall Ruffin, is a soulful, gently-loping, socially-conscious excursion featuring instrumental backup from Atlanta musicians Tom Gray and Mark Johnson (The Delta Moon), banjoist Rick Taylor (Right As Rain), jazz saxophonist Eric Fontaine, bassist Kevin Scott (ringleader of the weekly jazz jams at Atlanta's Elliott Street Pub) and many more.
The same group backs up gruff-voiced Serbian rocker Milan Mumin on his EP In Case That One of Them Is You, which features three original songs from Mumin and two co-written with Harper and Kilcullen. The offbeat collaboration came about after Harper caught a screening of the indie film Love Hunter, which stars Mumin in the lead role, and sought him out via social media.
Out now, both CDs were recorded in Atlanta, with Grammy Award-winning artist Susan Archie designing the covers.


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It is ICSE time again. Have fun in Italy, everyone! Here, I'd like to share some of my thoughts on our ICSE14 paper as well as the valuable discussions I have had with my colleagues Guowei Yang, Cristian Cadar, Eric Bodden, Christian Kastner, Hridesh Rajan and Yang Liu over the year.
In this paper, we developed a program representation MVICFG and static analysis techniques to address the questions of how to determine commonalities and variabilities of program properties over similar code and multiple versions, and why it is useful. Here, the "program properties" used are bugs, and "similar code" are software revisions and releases.
Through this research, we found that 1) a patch can contain bugs (also reported in Yin et al.'s 2011 FSE paper), 2) a patch cannot always fix all the affected versions, 3) documentation on which versions are impacted can be incomplete, and MVICFGs can be used to automatically compute such information, and 4) leveraging cached results computed for previous versions, we are able to verify changes in seconds, which is practical for continuous integration in industry.
Guowei and I have discussed the differences between his ICSE 2009 paper, regression model checking, and our paper. The former first computes all the statements that are impacted by a change and then performs model checking on the change impacted statements. The latter is to first identify all the paths affected by the change and then applied demand-driven analysis on the changed paths. Demand-driven analysis computes the dependency information and determines the properties at the same time. Since demand-driven analysis terminates when the properties are determined, i.e., it does not necessarily cover all the change impacted statements and paths, and the model checking is performed on the entire set of affected statements, I'd say our approach still can be faster for computing many of the program properties.
In terms of future work, Cristian has mentioned that it will be useful to apply KLEE to such representations to better solve some of the patch testing problems they had. Eric and Christian both mentioned that it may be interesting to use it to explore the challenges caused by the combinations of changes and configurations. Hridesh has discussed with me on whether it is feasible to use MVICFGs to represent program versions in Boa. Last but not least, Liu Yang's group is interested in using the MVICFG to model malware variants.
To further improve the MVICFG, we are still thinking about how to better represent the changes introduced in a new version. In this paper, we took an old version and a new version (when all the changes have already been made) and tried to align the statements across versions using function level textual diffs. The problems are twofold. We ignore the process of changes, and thus the changes we represent in an MVICFG are not always the changes developers intended to make. To solve this problem, we need to integrate the information collected through code change process. There actually exist such code editors to do that documented in Susan Horwitz's papers. Another problem we faced is how we can better represent semantic changes in MVICFGs rather than syntactic changes. For instance, if the code performs refactoring, no changes should be shown on the MVICFG. In addition to thinking about how to represent changes, we are considering how to develop a language independent version of the MVICFG to make it beneficial to more types of analyses.


text: I just got a Macbook Pro and was planning on using Parallels with Windows XP on it. So far it works fine except for one big problem. While in Windows I'm unable to use a true dual monitor setup (but no problem in OS X). I'm able to move individual windows onto the 2nd monitor using the "coherence" feature in Parallels but it's extremely awkward - the monitors can't be lined up properly, the windows can't be maximized in either window without spreading across both, they tend to push out of the screen and are hard to get back, and it's simply very slow and jittery moving the windows. I was wondering if there's something I'm missing. Has anybody been able to use multi-monitors in Parallels Windows the same way as native Windows (or Mac)?


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Piggs Peak Hotel is a large resort hotel just outside the town of Piggs Peak, in the northwest of Swaziland. It is easily reached by road from South Africa and is an ideal stopover on your overland adventure. The hotel is mammoth with lush landscaped gardens housing two tennis courts, two squash courts and a bowling green. There is a sparkling swimming pool complete with sun loungers, a putt-putt course and a range of activities for both adults and children. There are conference facilities if you are here in business, and a restaurant and well-stocked bar will take care of all your culinary requirements.
Accommodation comes in the form of 103 comfortable rooms, each with a private balcony that faces out onto the mighty mountains and lush forests of the region. Each has an en-suite bathroom, telephone and satellite television as well as all the usual creature comforts. And of course there is the casino, rated as one of the best in southern Africa, with its slot machines and tables such as Roulette, Blackjack, Stud Poker and much more!
Though Piggs Peak is a large hotel, it does provide a secluded location about 10km outside the town. The fresh country air is intoxicating and the majestic mountains surround you in all their splendour. You can go hiking, mountain biking and horseriding, and there is even quadbiking for the adrenaline junkies! And with all the sports facilities on offer, even the most indugent exercise fanatic will not get bored. Chance your hand at the casino and experience the thrill of playing the tables and slot machines, and stand the chance to win a tidy fortune. Or you could just kick back on your balcony with an ice-cold cocktail in hand and savour the sunset on another day in Swaziland!


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Hi all,
How do you store all of your leftover bits from models? I've reached a bit of a tipping point with my own collection, which for years has resided in several large pullout drawers.
But with me getting a lot more kits of late, my box has only grown and now I'm spending more time searching through my bits than using them. As I like the assembly stage over the painting (see any of my plogs haha) this isn't good.
What do people use to store their own bits? I'm looking for recommendations for storage solutions that have lots of smaller compartments within a larger box to separate my bits out.
Thanks all in advance for any suggestions.


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Colleges continue to enroll students in programs that have dismal employment opportunities, for either reason of lack of jobs (liberal arts, philosophy) or imbalance between supply and demand of those jobs (law, business executive). While most universities are not technically "for-profit", higher education costs continue to rise at most far faster than the costs of housing or healthcare (public university costs rose 42% during the decade of 2001-2010 http://nces.Ed.Gov/fastfacts/display.Asp?Id=76) Many top name Universities cost upwards of 40K per year. Is this because information is harder to come by? No. In the digital age when all the information for 4 years of college could fit on a hard-drive the size of your thumb, the accreditation for that information becomes harder and harder to buy...I mean achieve.
Yes, colleges are brands. Brands aim to use their names and logos to make money. Name recognition often seems more important than a person's understanding of the knowledge and skills that the brand name represents.
There is starting to be a push for free education online, but the key is accreditation. Will employers accept that someone who took free online classes instead of paying 10,20,30K per year in tuition to gain the brand recognition?
Schools mandate many courses with no logical backing on why these courses are required. That's because it is all about the money. Most of the instructors in any business type class haven't even seen what an honest days work is- let alone being up to date on current trends in the subject matter the profess to be experts on.
To be honest my feelings towards going to college is 35% money and 65% education because I really would like to learn more about what I'm studying. I would love to be a debater and be a part of organizations and what not. I come from nothing and just to have a little bit more of something that I never had is fine with me. You really dont need that much money to provide clothing on your back, food on your table and a shelter over your head. Its just a lot of greedy people out here who are not appreciative.
Because they make profits in teaching .The schools and universities gain more money .Most schools are set up for a profit not for the people to get educated and benefit from it.So i conclude saying that schools and universities are more focused on making money than providing education to students.
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JBay Surf Retreats
LocationsSouth Africa » Jeffreys Bay (J-Bay)South Africa » Cape St. FrancisSouth Africa » Port ElizabethSouth Africa » Port AlfredSouth Africa » Plettenberg BaySouth Africa » The Wedge
ServicesAccommodation Surfer friendly places to stay near some great surf spots. Including camp-sites, hostels, hotels, B&Bs and surf lodges. Local Information Information about the local area, not always from a surfers perspective. Surf Guide Surf Camp Surf camps can offer a variety of types of accommodation such as apartments, hotels, rooms, camping or dormitories together with food, surf lessons and group activities. Often included are guided surf tours of the best local spots along with surf hire, videos, photography, professional coaching and even some night life.


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Quality Copywriting Vital For SEO in 2011
Google has earmarked improving the quality of search results as key in 2011. In February of 2011, the search giant announced that algorithmic changes would ensure low quality sites would see rankings drop. Quality is a key measure for Google now, so a quality copywriting service is a wise investment for businesses in Sydney, Melbourne and throughout Australia looking to distinguish themselves from lesser quality competition.
This algorithmic change came into force in all English speaking countries in April 2011, as confirmed here by Google. So the phrase 'Content is king' takes on added relevance and investing in quality copywriting services provides an opportunity to quickly set apart your website as a professional-looking and quality site.
Website content has to appeal to two key audiences – your target market and Google (or other search engines). Your online marketing or SEO strategy, if successfully maintained leads to better rankings, better visibility amongst your target market and ultimately more sales.
Writing Copy To Impress Your Target Market
Web copy that is relevant to your target audience and likely to make them come back for more ensures that your website maintains a steady flow of repeat traffic, which in Google's eyes makes your website, and hence your business, something of an authority in your industry. This leads to better rankings, which in turn leads to increased traffic – it's a simple interdependent three-step relationship which if managed appropriately, can add exponential value to your website and thus your business.
1. Interesting, fresh content improves your rankings through return visits
2. Great rankings lead to significant increases your website traffic
3. Increases in visitors (or popularity) who read riveting, engaging and relevant content ensures the cycle continues – so adding fresh content regularly makes perfect sense.
You may benefit in copywriting targeting individual locations such as: Brisbane SEO strategies, Perth Search Marketing programs or Australia-wide depending on your market demographic.
Copywriting To Impress Google
First off, fresh content grabs Google's attention every time they index a site – that's the premise on which news websites rank so highly, they're web content changes daily or even hourly for the biggest news websites. Now that Google has a more advanced algorithm for evaluating content, poor web content or poor sites in general are going to suffer.
Secondly, to put your business in the eyes of people who WANT to see it, is vital to ensuring your popularity and relevance grows. This is where the SEO process comes in. Discovering the relevant keywords and search phrases used by your target market is the first step. Placing these terms and phrases in your website content in a natural free-flowing way ensures your site is more likely to rank well for relevant search terms and attract the kind of audience that finds your site interesting.
It is also advised, by us and other web experts, not to try selling your business on every inch of your website. That in-your-face sales approach scares people off. As consumers we are already apprehensive about the internet – specifically online scam-artists, con-men and spam peddlers. Differentiate yourself from that kind of internet garbage by offering information and advice relevant to your industry – your customers will trust you for it, and if they trust you they are more likely to buy from you than from the site that screams "SPECIAL OFFER", "BUY NOW", or "LIMITED OFFER!" A subtle, persuasive approach to marketing your product works much more successfully in the long run.
Attract the right visitors by using keyword-rich content relevant to your target market
Attracting the right visitors, (those who are likely to return) has the knock-on effect of telling Google you are a relevant source of information for a given search term. This prompts Google to consider you relevant for similar search terms and this in turn leads to increased traffic. Increased traffic (or popularity) as we know, leads to more people reading your fresh, relevant content and thus maintains the cycle of keeping you at the top so you can continue to grow your online presence.
Keep your language simple and direct. Searchers aren't trying to experience your service or product online – they just want a taste of what your business is about and why you are better than your competitors. Over-exuberant, long-winded language is boring and ineffective – web searchers want fast, punchy, direct and to-the-point information, SO GIVE IT TO THEM (in a well-structured, grammatically accurate and keyword-rich way ideally!)
Remember, keyword-rich content increases rankings and relevance which increases traffic. Fresh, relevant and interesting content builds trust and popularity, which improves rankings and ensures the cycle is maintained. It's really quite simple.
To get compelling, intelligent, keyword-rich content that targets the right audience and encourages them to buy from you, turn to the experts at roi.com.au – we know how to put your business and website first with professional SEO copywriting services!


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Vestiaire Collective
Editorial & Print
Paris and New York based company Vestiaire Collective is known for its amazing selection of pre-loved designer goods, insider-y clientele, and coveted brands. They approached us to help them introduce their platform to the U.S. market and develop the Vestiaire Collective brand message across new initiatives to educate U.S. consumers about their platform.
We shot and produced direct mail pieces to announce Vestiaire Collective's arrival, and created print advertorials for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue featuring Kate Foley and Julia Roitfeld.
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Chief Creative Officer Margo Silver
Editorial Director Mallory Rice
Photographers Tony Kim & Mark Iantosca
Prop Stylist Emily Mullin
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Kofra Stout is now a gluten free craft beer!27th July 2016
We're currently jumping up and down with excitement over the re-invented gluten free Kofra Stout. For those who have not yet drank its beauty, Kofra is a 5.9% ABV stout. The name comes from a collaboration with a local Norwich coffee shop "Kofra". The beer is brewed using a blend of exclusive coffee produced just […]Read more


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We're going to be parents!!
We wasted no time at all starting a little family! Tom and I agreed not to put too much pressure and expectation on ourselves to conceive right after our wedding, so getting pregnant so quickly was a bit of a surprise.
We discussed when we would consciously start "working on it" and agreed that right after the wedding would be the best time. We decided that I would come off of birth control in mid-August right before our wedding in September, to give my body, what we thought would be, several months to get it's natural groove back.
I did use the P Tracker app to keep a log of my cycles and any weird things happening with my body during the "re-sync" stage. This was mainly to make sure that I was consistent and to know whether or not Tom and I would need to try alternative methods of conceiving down the road should it take longer than 6 months (according to my doctor) for anything to happen.
This little person growing in my tummy couldn't wait very long and right after we returned from our honeymoon in October, tah-dah – I was pregnant. We confirmed all the weirdness and "something isn't normal" feelings I had in mid-November when I took an at-home pregnancy test and saw two pink lines, confirming we were going to go from two to three, in nine months!
I don't think it hit home for either of us. I mean, yea we saw two pink lines telling us we were pregnant, but I didn't look it, and aside from my aches and pains, bloating, and exhaustion, I couldn't feel anything in there. I didn't feel pregnant other than all the symptoms I was/am experiencing. After our first ultrasound, it registered that there was definitely a little life in my tummy, but the fact that I couldn't and still can't feel anything still makes it feel a little unreal.
All I knew was that from when we had that two line confirmation, I needed to amp up my self-care and self-love (and so did Tom!). In the first trimester, everything we read about the first 12 weeks of pregnancy was that it's the time of high risk for miscarriage. I knew that whatever was meant to be, would be, but I was determined to nourish myself as best as I could. This did become slightly challenging when I developed all day nausea for about 8 weeks and is now history in my 17th week. Each day gets a little easier and I can stay awake past 7:30pm.
As the days pass by and this tummy of mine is slowly growing, it's starting to hit home. I wake up in the middle of the night a few times in the week with all kinds of things racing through my mind – will we be able to cope, will we be good parents, will our little one grow up to be someone who embraces all the best attributes one could hope for in a child they raise, like not being an a**hole, has a big heart, lots of will power, honest, determined, appreciates the gift of life, has a great set of values, and just a super cool soul? We can only try our best.
Tom and I already feel the immense support from family and friends with words of advice, encouragement and support, helpful tips, books, and pre-loved maternity and baby gear being freely passed on to us. We are both so grateful and look forward to sharing this time and adventure with you.
And in case you're wondering, we're NOT going to find out the sex! I'm itching to know and Tom wants a surprise – so we will wait until baby's arrival for the big reveal.


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A slightly taller version of the the original classic chair created by Jérôme Lepert in 1933. Designed as strong, comfortable seats for workers, Nicolle chairs became very popular in French factories and workshops.Just the right height for sitting at your breakfast bar, or for working at the bench, they have become a design classic with their iconic swan necks. Extremely comfortable, the back rest is in the perfect ergonomic spot and flexes slightly left and right as you move your back. Add the leather seat pad for extra comfort, sold separately. Or remove the back, and voilà, it becomes a stool. Made in France.


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The Provincial Grand Charity Steward, Wayne Smith, is one of the trustees of the Cornwallis East Kent Freemasons' Charity (CEKFC) and, in response to a number of frequently asked questions, he has asked for the following key points to be brought to everyone's notice:-
Key Points
1. Brethren are involved in the decision making process and in the presentation of the awards.
This Charity belongs to the members of this Province. It is their Charity and so in consequence the Brethren are involved in the decision-making process – visiting the Charity or community project to ascertain what it is they need and, whenever it is possible, for the local Charity Steward, Almoner or Master of the Lodge to make the presentation of the award.
2. The CEKFC offers Matched Funding of up to £250 per Lodge or Chapter.
If, for example, 4 Lodges meeting in one Centre decided to sponsor the same local charity for £250 each, an application could be made to the CEKFC for Matched Funding which would enable those local lodges to present a total of £2,000 to that local charity.
3. CEKFC is not asking for all of your charity giving. One raffle per year would assist.
CEKFC has given over £90,000 in its first year of operation. In order to enable us to continue helping those in need, the Charity needs regular support from Lodges, Chapters and individual Brethren. Could you please consider giving the proceeds from the raffle at your Installation or Christmas meeting to CEKFC?


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Do you ever hear about distressed dining room table? Of course, yes. This is the one of so many table styles in the world. As we know that every dining room tables of course has its difference with others tables, this distressed style has it also. The first thing that we may already know is that the size of the table is based on how many chairs that we need. The more chairs that we need, the bigger and wider the table will be.
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Beer, pizza & crafting!
My girl friend Julie needed a little something extra for an outfit she was putting together. So we had a crafty-beer-pizza night...which is a perfect nite for me. After chit chatting, a brew and sifting through loads of feathers and other supplies this is what we came up with...we both totally love it so I wanted to share what we did. Not bad for a beer and pizza night.
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