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So what about Dooley? ** -- 48zip 03/17/2017 1:22PM
Part of the issue with the later Beamer years is that our team got slower -- uvabasher 03/15/2017 3:24PM
VT may have had fast players here and there over the years -- VTHokie2000 03/16/2017 2:13PM
It wasn't so much that our teams got slower, but opponents got faster -- Casey 03/15/2017 11:00PM
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So you're saying VT didn't adapt. That's a shortcoming on our part. -- laphroaig 03/15/2017 11:18PM
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That's a fact. ** -- Techsupport 03/17/2017 08:54AM
Winning the NC wasn't his goal -- Baltimore Hokie 03/16/2017 11:31PM
The empty championship trophy case didn't magically appear. -- Atlee Hokie 03/17/2017 10:02PM
Agreed. But he literally said it aloud many times. It's not a secret at all ** -- NokieHokie 03/17/2017 10:57PM
He came on Hokie Hotline/TTL every season and said the goal was MNC. ** -- NokieHokie 03/16/2017 11:55PM
It comes with that job. Certainly you don't think VT fans are the only -- laphroaig 03/15/2017 10:19PM
No, most fans are just as clueless yet intolerant. Recruiting is the life -- Hoakie82 03/15/2017 11:00PM
Plenty of fans had a clue that our O, recruiting and S&C were not up to par ** -- NokieHokie 03/16/2017 12:36PM
UNC's shadiness was going on even when VT was winning 10 games -- laphroaig 03/15/2017 11:11PM
No single thing was the reason. It was cumulative but there was a time VT -- Hoakie82 03/15/2017 11:20PM
Cash was king for those UNC recruits. ** -- EDGEMAN 03/16/2017 11:20AM
Frank went 10-3 in 2009, 11-3 in 2010, and 11-3 in 2011. -- laphroaig 03/15/2017 11:33PM
Um. On field results lag recruiting results for obvious reasons. ** -- chuckd4vt 03/16/2017 12:05PM
Frank's age as to retirement, and prolonged lack of offensive sex appeal -- VTVOICE 03/16/2017 12:36AM
"FICKLE FANS" put up millions of $$$ - - ** -- JukeBox_78 03/15/2017 7:12PM
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Money talks. A VT donor that ponies up $100,000... -- GSOHokie01 03/15/2017 10:47PM
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If you pay money, you are expecting the service you are paying for. -- GSOHokie01 03/15/2017 10:57PM
When my doctor screws up, he gets an earful from me. -- laphroaig 03/15/2017 10:36PM
That still doesn't make you a doctor -- Manbearpig 03/15/2017 10:49PM
What's your point? -- Stork 03/15/2017 4:32PM
He/she just realized recruiting had gone downhill and hence the change -- Bleedin OandM 03/15/2017 8:05PM
His point is our team got slower under Beamer. -- bluehokie 03/15/2017 7:07PM
Would you have the same response if the OP was more complimentary? ** -- NokieHokie 03/15/2017 4:38PM
The point is its a moot point. Like bitching about yesterday's weather. ** -- 48zip 03/15/2017 5:18PM
Yesterday's weather was really cold and caused potholes in the road. -- Will Stewart 03/16/2017 11:42AM
The guy who designed, built and maintained the road -- Hokeedokee 03/18/2017 2:37PM
Perfect. Discussing without bitching about it. ** -- 48zip 03/16/2017 3:03PM
Careful with that Miata, she's a beauty! ** -- NokieHokie 03/16/2017 12:24PM
Bitching about yesterday's weather is completely valid. -- bluehokie 03/15/2017 7:08PM
Not really. Can't change it.Just have to deal with it and move forward. ** -- 48zip 03/16/2017 07:38AM
Actually, that is simply a waste of time -- Manbearpig 03/15/2017 10:58PM
I think it is totally irrelevant. I guess we disagree. -- 48zip 03/15/2017 7:14PM
I'm with you..I just think some people MISS bitching about Beamer ** -- HOKIERIT 03/15/2017 8:01PM
The OP was an observation. -- laphroaig 03/15/2017 10:41PM
Deleted - wrong place.** -- laphroaig 03/16/2017 12:41PM
Please show me where the original post had any reference to Fuente. -- Stork 03/16/2017 04:01AM
You're correct but it's not that much of a leap. -- laphroaig 03/16/2017 12:45PM
You b*tched about something meaningless replying to the OP... ** -- NokieHokie 03/16/2017 08:38AM
It is. So what? Ignore it. But he only said that because he disagrees. not -- NokieHokie 03/15/2017 5:21PM
It is? (so we agree?) Ignore it? (did you?) I'm confused. -- 48zip 03/16/2017 07:43AM
Most on this board are, you fit right in. ** -- NokieHokie 03/16/2017 08:49AM
It happens when trying to decipher certain posts. And thanks. ** -- 48zip 03/16/2017 1:40PM
Give it a rest. Come join the rest of us enjoying the basketball team's -- Stork 03/16/2017 09:32AM
I praise basketball all the time. Sorry that doesn't fit you're narrative. ** -- NokieHokie 03/16/2017 09:47AM
Because it shows a complete lack of wanting to discuss -- Stork 03/15/2017 5:51PM
Both! ** -- NokieHokie 03/15/2017 3:40PM


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Blundered across this in an academic paper, put together by a U.K. professor of philosophy, purporting to be the distilled creed/philosophical arguments for the Dawkins' style New Atheism.
I'm curious what the group thinks of it.
I believe that the cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. I believe that no other reality, divine or otherwise, exists. There is no life after death, no meaning to life apart from life, and no events or experiences, individuals or scriptures by which any supra- natural reality can be revealed. The cosmos forms the boundary of our experience. I believe that human life has no meaning apart from itself: that while there is purpose in life, there is no purpose to life. There is no ultimate justice, no final act of grace and no salvation. This is not a providential universe. I believe that not everything is permissible. For while that which increases happiness is not always a good, that which increases misery is always an evil. I believe that by the deployment of human reason and the acquisition of knowledge, by the development of moral law and the cultivation of compassion, the suffering of humanity can be alleviated and the condition of our lives improved. I believe that the path to individual and collective happiness lies in being educated to reality, and in being thus released from the irresponsible and pernicious illusion of religion, for which there is neither evidence nor need.
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The original version of the line appeared in B. Traven's 1927 novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre:
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The line was popularized by the 1948 film adaptation of the novel.[3] In one scene, a Mexican bandit leader named "Gold Hat"[4] (portrayed by Alfonso Bedoya) tries to convince Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart)[2] that he and his company are Federales:
Having stumbled upon this "creed" that you blundered upon Professor, have you any thoughts on it yourself or on the thoughts we offered you? I understand you may be busy elsewhere but I was wondering which parts you might disagree with – apart from the fact that your God is not given any consideration in it?
No, I have no personal thoughts on it. This is an area where I am honestly quite ignorant, and I would never try to tell folks what they believe.
I was wondering whether it made sense to people here before I asked any questions about it (well, I thought responses might trigger some questions perhaps).
I do believe with the statement that "there is a purpose in life, there is no purpose to life. However as an individual myself, I do not conform to the absolute idea that the cosmos is " all that is or ever was or ever will be". Since there is a whole new theory out there in Physics, regarding String Theory or Multiverse theory, we have no idea as of now what the validity of it is. It may very well exist or it may just not.
It's like that statement from Star Wars, where Obi Wan Kenobi says to Anakin Skywalker, "only a Sith deals in absolute". Which in itself is an absolute statement. When you have a creed with extreme filled parameters, it results in absolutism. Only certain proven absolutes can exist with evidence such as the speed of light, law of thermodynamics, etc. With everything else, especially regarding humans, a perceived notion of absolutist ideology does not work, rather there are always an exception to the cause.
Aw, shucks!
I was just curious. Personally, I think all human intellectual endeavor bases itself on some fundamental assumptions. Creeds are how we define the assumptions in some religions; in mathematics we call them axioms or postulates. One might consider such things as defining the limits of analysis, or perhaps as things which are true but unknowable/provable within the framework of the system (Godel's Theorem writ large, if you will).
I was just wondering what this community thought of this professor's effort to distill the postulates on which many in the group base their reasoning.
You were just curious? In fact, curiosity is the engine that drives intellectual development, especially in the realm of science. And I do equate science with reality as opposed to religion representing fairy tales.
To avoid confusion it is best to present the atheist position in it's simplest form: we have a lack of belief in all things supernatural. Explanations on the origins of the universe, happiness, morality, etc have no connection with atheism. Your personal philosophy on how to live out your existence is not tethered to atheism.
I couldn't have put it better myself. My only caution would be in regards to what is meant here by the "cosmos." If it is referring only to the observable universe, now or in the future, I would take mild exception. I can accept the notion that there is MUCH more to reality than what we have detected or - probably - what we will ever be able to detect. What lies beyond our senses and imaginations, if anything, is not known and probably not ever knowable by human experience or intuition - not by scientists and certainly not by theists. It is, therefore, nothing about which we need to concern ourselves; but it's an integral facet of humanity to speculate, I suppose. At any rate, at age 77, it's not something that keeps me awake nights.
I'd like to remind the OP that the title of this piece is only true in the most literal sense. That is, this "atheist's creed" is probably one particular atheist person's creed. It certainly could not be an ATHEIST CREED in the same way that a statement could be a church's creed, because you can't confine atheism to a creed.
The very ideas of "creed" and "atheism" seem to be nearly mutually exclusive, to me. Not totally, because of course everyone believes something, but from the time I've spent around atheist blogs I have noted that you really can't define atheism except by the one fact of not believing in gods. Creed is defined as "a statement of belief", and atheism is defined as not-a-belief. It is atheism, not Atheism. There is no test for orthodoxy. Atheism wouldn't be a thing at all except that so many people in the world are religious. A-theism is like a-unicornism, a-SantaClausim or a-fairyism. People don't have to have the same reasons for not believing in unicorns, and you and I not believing in unicorns doesn't mean we share any other beliefs in common.
That being said, I have very few problems with the creed you've posted. It's not how I would have said things, and like others mentioned, it is far to absolutist in parts, but other than that it seems good.
I'm not 100% sure whether I'm atheist, agnostic, or even some form of liberal religions/Unitarianism. For now my only creeds are 1) I think, therefore I am, and 2) Love your neighbor as yourself.
Why would a person with a lack of belief in gods require a creed? I agree with sentiments already expressed that as an atheist, the only thing that unites me with others is our lack of belief in gods. We don't require a creed for that.
As to the creed, as Un-one has said, the first statement is a faith position. How, do tell, can one claim that the cosmos is all there will be? Granting, the definition of cosmos, to be not limited to the observable universe, still one would be hard pressed to prove this statement.
Whether life has meaning or not has nothing to do with my atheism. It is a matter of personal reflection. I believe life is absurd, the next atheist may not agree, so how then can one purport to claim we have a creed? We don't need one!
** no need for any creed...faith is irrelevant to atheism as a form of objective knowledge
Now, the very short atheist viewpoint -- atheists believe-in nothing --
...no faith-based statement has any claim to knowledge at all. For example, atheists reject the xian "God" -- Father/Son/Holy Spirit -- as so much lying propaganda and pernicious mythology. This is not some counter-creed; it is a viewpoint based on reasoning from history, mythology, textual criticism...political theory...philosophy...the physical sciences.
Atheists offer reasons (based in logic or science or history) for not believing that the xian "God" exists. Note the key -- reasoning based in fact -- reason ranks higher than trust in ancient hearsay and wishful thinking.
In short -- xianity is not a fact-based view of reality. Scientific theories contain our best current views of reality, though ones not immutable, but always changing in detail, and sometimes in substance -- like modern evolutionary theory, or Einstein's theory of Gravity -- the General Theory of Relativity.
Rather than pursue the topic further -- you might consider buying (as I did recently) a copy of Atheism for Dummies (author: McGowan 2013) -- as good a guide as any atheist could wish others to read.
I can explain a little better what I was saying before. I'm not sure if I disagree with the content of the creed so much as I think the idea of "atheist" and "creed" put together rubs me the wrong way.
A creed is a statement of belief. The word 'atheist' denotes non-belief.
A creed is a religious term full of religious connotations. A creed is necessary for beliefs like Christianity or Islam. You affirm that Jesus is the only true God, or that Muhammad was the last and greatest prophet. Those affirmations are necessary because the very act of believing is one of the things that saves you. Whatever else you believe in life, you must believe those core tenants or invite punishment on yourself.
HOWEVER: To become an atheist, a Muslim doesn't have to take up a new creed or set of beliefs; he simply falls into the 'atheist' category as soon as he ceases believing his old religious beliefs.
You can believe in things without professing them in a creed. When you got out of bed this morning, I suppose you stepped confidently out onto the floor. You didn't hesitate, wondering if you would float up to the ceiling instead of sticking to the floor, or question if the floor would collapse and dump you into the basement. You didn't think about your creed of gravity, you just acted on what you know from experience.
I believe that eating food will sate this feeling I call 'hunger' and provide the nutrients my body needs. I believe that taking air into my lungs allows me to keep living. When I dive underwater in a pool, I believe very strongly that if I don't get my head above water again before long, I will pass out and die; but I've never made up a statement confirming my belief in air.
That's how atheists see their view of the world. They see it as an acknowledgement of what they see, hear, and feel. To an atheist, "belief" and "faith" in forces greater than yourself are unnecessary.
If you did create a creed, it would have to be a freethinker's creed, not an atheist creed. Nobody has a creed of non-belief. No Christian has a creed that says "Muhammad is not the prophet," and no Muslim is told to repeat every day, "Jesus is not God."
A freethinker's creed, still, would look very little like a religious creed. You don't have to be assured or dogmatic in not believing in gods, spirits or fairies. As I see it, all you have to do is believe in yourself. You don't have to know what the universe is like, or where right and wrong come from. Instead you say that the world is a rational place, and the best way to learn about it is through observations, experiments and logic. Not relying on magic or mysterious explanations for anything.
Basically, you believe in your own ability to observe the world, and in your own logic to learn and draw conclusions about the world. When it looks like there's no god, it probably means there is no god.


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In December 1942, 10 young marines set off to raid the port of Bordeaux in Nazi-occupied France. Their mission - Operation Frankton - was to blow up the ships that provided essential supplies for the German war machine. To reach their target, the men used so-called 'Cockleshell' canoes, specially designed for covert infiltration into enemy harbours. They had to paddle for nights on end up 70 miles of the largest and most heavily defended estuary in Europe - Gironde.
An audacious operation, they succeeded in blowing up one ship and severely damaging 4 others and according to Winston Churchill, shortened World War II by 6 months. Of the 10, 6 men were captured and executed by the Germans and 2 died of hypothermia. At the same time, a network of British trained spies were already in Bordeaux, preparing to strike the same target. Were these competing missions the result of the 'fog of war' or Whitehall rivalry? One thing is for certain, 12 young men risked their lives in an operation that should never have taken place.
In this documentary, former member of the Special Boat Service turned politician Lord Ashdown uses his experience to shed light on the challenges faced by the 'Cockleshell Heroes', recreating their incredible journey up the Gironde estuary. He also looks at the how the battle inside Whitehall raged almost as hard as the war against Nazi Germany. Churchill had created a series of competing armies, harnessing the spirit of individualism and ingenuity in the fight against Hitler - an approach that also led to confusion, suspicion and distrust. Using dramatic reconstructions to recreate the daring raid, Cockleshell Heroes brings to life a mission that would come to symbolize the fighting spirit of the British, and throws new light on the institutional rivalry that would ultimately lead the country from its darkest hours to victory.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Jordan Canzeri ran for a career-high 165 yards on 20 carries to help the Iowa Hawkeyes defeat the Purdue Boilermakers 38-14 on Saturday afternoon.
Canzeri, a sophomore who entered the game with 173 yards rushing all season, also scored a touchdown to help the Hawkeyes become bowl eligible. Jake Rudock passed for 191 yards and two touchdowns for Iowa (6-4, 3-3 Big Ten), which set season highs for total yards (509) and yards rushing (318).
Danny Etling completed 15 of 28 passes for 145 yards for Purdue (1-8, 0-5), which has lost seven straight and has not beaten a Football Bowl Subdivision team this year. The Boilermakers have scored 31 points in five Big Ten games, with two of the touchdowns coming in the final minute of play.
Early in the second quarter, Rudock found Don Shumpert down the middle of the field for 34 yards to move the Hawkeyes into Purdue territory. Eventually, Canzeri scored from the 2 to give Iowa a 7-0 lead. The touchdown capped a 90-yard drive that included a third-and-1 conversion by Mark Weisman to move the Hawkeyes to the Purdue 2-yard line.
Purdue caught its first break in a long time when Iowa's Kevonte Martin-Manley fumbled a punt and Purdue's Armstead Williams recovered at the Iowa 35.
Purdue, which had been shut out its previous two games, finally scored in the second quarter. Etling connected with Hunt for a 26-yard screen pass on third-and-6 to set up the Boilermakers at the Iowa 5-yard line. On third down, Etling found Kurt Freytag for a 2-yard touchdown pass. The extra point tied the score with 5:44 left in the second quarter.
Martin-Manley made up for his fumble with a 22-yard touchdown catch from Rudock that gave Iowa a 14-7 lead with 1:57 left in the second quarter.
Iowa gained 250 yards in the first half, yet led just 14-7. The Hawkeyes were hampered by bad field position throughout the half. Canzeri had 75 yards on 10 carries before the break.
On its second possession of the third quarter, the Boilermakers converted three first downs before Raheem Mostert fumbled and Iowa's Christian Kirksey recovered at the Iowa 29. The Hawkeyes took advantage when Weisman barreled in from 4 yards out to push their lead to 21-7 with 3:43 left in the third. It was an eight-play, 71-yard drive that included just one pass. The Hawkeyes controlled the game the rest of the way.
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I'd like to suggest an animal...BrachyurusThese animals are massive, bristly-furred wolfs with silvery-white fur. They stand about 6 feet tall at the shoulder. As on regular wolves, the thickest fur of a Brachyurus' coat is above and around the shoulders. On a Brachyurus, this shoulder ruff is constantly "up", as if the creature were angry. Their howls are eerie and carry for miles. Brachyuruses are vicious and territorial, and live in packs of five to seven, led by an alpha female.
No, you do not understand - how is hunting for some creatures so much more difficult than hunting for a rare plant. First, the druids have to BRAVE the creatures to get TO the plant, then the plant itself may be poisonous or hostile in some way. Necromancers can just set up large pit-traps and check on them once a week, they will have caught a variety of creatures! And it doesnt matter if they have been killing each other or not, because all necromancers need are the ingredients, not the animals. One more thing: these people will be USED to bieng underground. They will be able to see in the dark, and they will know their surroundings very well, not to mention the haunts of certain animals, plus what those animals strengths and weaknesses are. The only problem they may have is collecting feathers from a bird in the treetops
The only problem they may have is collecting feathers from a bird in the treetops
But can't druids plant their own? Once they find them and they are used for spells, can they just grow a garden? Can't say no to all the different plants...if they are just plants. They will find ways to keep them from dying, but I can understand maybe if their were other limits. Going to have to figure out some of those because if magic is common....gardens would probably be too.
On that same note, other birds (hawk-like) could be another huge past time as another source of food. There has got to be tons of birds perhaps. Maybe a special larger breed of bird that is perfect for hunting, and perhaps can capture some tree born animals.
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Topic: Fett vs Revan
Who do you think would win,Boba or Revan?
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Who do you think would win,Boba or Revan?
Sadly I have to agree.. *crying*
Sorry to be uninformed, but whos revan?
Darth Revan, sith lord of the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
oooooo ok ok. and why wouldn't Fett be able to beat him? Is he like an extremely strong Sith?
You could look him up.
ja, he is sith lord.
Ok if you know Bane, imagine him but like times eleventy-one.
Ahhh yes. Eleventy-one. Now i understand.
Yes. Eleventy one. AKA 111. Bilbo Baggin's Eleventy-first brithday. But yes, Bane learned almost all he knows from Sith Holocrons Revan made.
I'd have to say Revan.
Boba could probably give him some entertainment, but in the end, Reven would end up on top.
Definetely Revan.He killed Mandalore on Malachor V remember?
Sure did....but Fett would go down with a fight... I gess thats why they were born so far appart.
Wasn't mandalore at the time a little more... head strong... maybe even more arrogant, and.... illustrious? Like, he would get into a situation and try and be a badass to win? Boba might be a little more... careful when dealing with a Sith Lord.
This is what I think. Boba would attack, and put up a bit of a fight, but ultimately Revan would tire of him and hit him with some lightning, be like "Yeah, that metal helmet of yours conducts electricity pretty good eh?"
Darth Revan hands down. Revan the sith was very powerful, so much so that Darth Bane looks up to what Revan was. Boba is strong, is skilled, but alas didn't learn his skills thinking of fighting this Sith Lord.
BF is strong, but LR is stronger.........
Gotta say Revan becuase Revan is.......like.........me
reven because he killed mandalore before and he could do it again
reven because he killed mandalore before and he could do it again
Yup, Revan is one of the greatest Force users EVER. Sad to say, but that trumps greatest non-Force user every time. Unless Boba got really, REALLY lucky *never count out a Fett *
Boba's luck would run out.
I have to say...Darth Revan...
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Xerox Corp. said Friday Luca Maestri, executive vice president and chief financial officer, is leaving the company, effective Feb. 28, to become corporate controller at Apple Inc.
Maestri joined Xerox in February 2011. Prior to Xerox, he served as CFO and member of the executive board of Nokia Siemens Networks Nederland BV.
"Luca is a stellar finance executive whose contributions have brought great value to the transformation of Xerox into a services enterprise," said Ursula Burns, Xerox chairman and CEO, in a statement. "He's helped strengthen our financial foundation, which will serve his successor, our company and our shareholders well for the long term."
The company has initiated an external search for a new CFO, Burns noted. Maestri will help manage the financial leadership transition until she departs late next month.
The company remains on track to meet its fourth-quarter guidance of earnings per share of 24 to 26 cents and adjusted earnings per share of 28 to 30 cents, Burns said. Xerox is slated to announce its fourth-quarter and full-year results Jan. 24.
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Amazon, the company behind the Kindle, perhaps the world's most famous e-reader, recently announced an international version of its digital book reading device that will allow users to connect via 3G to download content in over 100 countries. The early success of the Kindle, together with products like the Sony Reader, and the excitement over recently announced products like the Nook and Plastic Logic e-reading devices (Wikipedia has a nice list of these things), portends profound changes to the way we consume and distribute reading materials going forward. The excellent (and highly recommended) Mobile Libraries blog explores what all of this might mean for one of most venerable of all information gathering, curation and dissemination institutions: the library. While Mobile Libraries documents issues related to how e-books and the like may transform the roles of the library in the industrialized countries of Europe, North America and Asia, there is no clear equivalent information resource highlighting what such advances might mean for developing countries. But, in various ways, many people and projects are hard at work exploring such issues.


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Sharon Olds
Born in San Francisco on November 19, 1942, Sharon Olds earned a BA at Stanford University and a PhD at Columbia University.
Her first collection of poems, Satan Says (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Olds's following collection, The Dead & the Living (Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), received the Lamont Poetry Selection in 1983 and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Her other collections include Stag's Leap (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012), recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize; One Secret Thing (Random House, 2008); Strike Sparks: Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004); The Unswept Room (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002); Blood, Tin, Straw (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999); The Gold Cell (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997); The Wellspring (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995); and The Father (Alfred A. Knopf, 1992); which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
About Olds's poetry, one reviewer for the New York Times said, "Her work has a robust sensuality, a delight in the physical that is almost Whitmanesque. She has made the minutiae of a woman's everyday life as valid a subject for poetry as the grand abstract themes that have preoccupied other poets."
Olds is the recipient of the 2016 Wallace Stevens Award. About Olds, Academy of American Poets Chancellor Mark Doty said:
With unfailing courage and a profound moral intelligence, with an unshakable faith in the necessity of inquiry into experience, Sharon Olds has crafted a life's work of remarkable power. The driving rhythms and artful structures of her poems are in service of a rigorous examination of her own life, and the lives of those around her. By writing with such candor and clarity, Olds has granted younger poets—especially women—permission to speak. Her poems, in their evocation of trauma or desire, in their grief and joy and comedy, have opened new possibilities for poetry in our time. She is an American master, and a national treasure.
Her numerous other honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her poetry has been anthologized in more than a hundred collections.
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Strike Sparks: Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)
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Blood, Tin, Straw (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)
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Today's front-page headline is a stunner: Middlebury College pledges $9 million to help the town build the long-discussed Cross Street Bridge. As a gift to the town, it's huge and most generous. But the bigger story is the message behind the gift — it's a new era in town-gown relations that promises a greater degree of cooperation and interaction to the benefit of both.
And that's terrific.
This new era is punctuated by several factors:
• The current generation of students are doers, says Middlebury College President Ron Liebowitz, and the college campus may not be big enough for them throughout their four-year stint. Interaction with the town and area communities allows them to spread their wings, pursue interests off campus, provide valuable services and gain an understanding of community outside the college.
• As students have changed, so has the town. This isn't the '60s, the self-centered days of the 1980s, or the boom times of the mid-'90s. We compete in a global economy now, global warming is everyone's concern, the Internet has made the world smaller and larger at the same time. It's an era in which fresh, young eyes can have an invigorating and progressive influence while learning from others, and an era in which students and local residents can build new alliances for the greater good.
• It's also an era in which state and federal aid will continue to diminish in important areas, leaving communities to fend for themselves in creative and innovative ways. Teamwork that unites businesses, institutions, non-profits and town government to achieve a common objective will be more important than ever before to the future well being of our communities.
As town selectboard Chairman John Tenny said, "As we look at the state of Vermont and its very limited resources, the traditional mechanisms … do not necessarily work well for communities, nor will they in the future. I think more and more we are going to be required — if we are to advance our communities — to do this kind of local partnering."
That said, and even with the significant pledge from the college, much still has to fall in place to make the bridge a reality. The total cost is $16 million, leaving $7 million to come from other sources. About $1.3 million is expected to come from a federal appropriation to help with the roundabout at Main, Cross and College streets. There is an appeal to Porter Hospital to help finance the effort via a 30-year pledge, in exchange for providing more reliable access for its emergency vehicles. (This is particularly an economic consideration for the hospital during the proposed reconstruction of the railroad underpasses at Main Street and Merchants Row, or any future work on the Battell Bridge itself as emergency care could be diverted to Rutland or Burlington if road access is limited.) As proposed, the Cross Street Bridge could be completed as early as 2010, making it feasible to delay substantial work on the railroad underpasses until the bridge is completed.
Local property taxpayers will be expected to finance about $2 million over 30 years, which is roughly the same as residents would have paid for the town's 10 percent share through traditional funding — only that could be 15-20 years from now and the bridge could cost twice as much. The town is working on other ways to finance the remaining $2 million to $4 million, with a commitment to keep the property tax burden capped at $2 million over that 30-year period.
While there is much to do, what's most encouraging is the can-do attitude and the determination of community leaders, including the college administration and trustees, to see — after 55 years of talking about it — that the job gets done.
That determination and this new era in town-gown relations is truly cause, as selectman Victor Nuovo said, for celebration.
It's also important to note that the $9 million pledge, while large in scale, is not out of character. On the contrary, under President John McCardell the college agreed to annual payments to the town in lieu of taxes more than a decade ago. It has long been a generous contributor to United Way campaigns and various other organizations in the area, has resurrected crumbling historic buildings (the old court house and Painter House are two) in the heart of town, and has been instrumental in the resurrection of the Town Hall Theatre — recently pledging $1 million in exchange for students to be able to use studio space, on top of its previous $125,000 donation.
The college has been, in short, an exemplary corporate citizen to the town.
But today's agreement signals more.
"I think the college administration and the board taking this step sends a message to students, faculty and staff about what our expectations are for engagement with the town in a meaningful way," Liebowitz told the Independent. "That it's not just a gift every year of $216,000 in lieu of taxes. It's to make something better, improve on something."
As a community, Middlebury could not have a more open invitation to form student-to-community alliances, to work with the college on issues ranging from traffic to economic development, and to share the warmth and dynamic energy of each other's cultures.
The agreement also sends a message to the community to think anew; to break down old prejudices and imagine new opportunities. It is, both leaders of the town and college agreed, a bridge to a brighter future — both literally and figuratively.
Angelo S. Lynn


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The Dallas Cowboys defense might have reached its tipping point when it comes to injuries.
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They were already playing without their All-Pro caliber insider linebacker Sean Lee. Now they will be without his wildly talented tag team partner Bruce Carter for the rest of the season.
Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com reports Carter is heading to injured reserve because of a dislocated elbow that will require surgery. He's the fourth defensive starter to hit IR along with Lee, defensive end Kenyon Coleman, and safety Barry Church.
Carter was playing extremely well this season, showing a complete game that should put him in the Pro Bowl some day soon. Now the Cowboys will have backups at both inside linebacker positions. They are going to sign Brady Poppinga, according to Archer. Ernie Sims will now be a starter.
On paper, the Cowboys had one of the more talented defensive groups in the league. Too many names have been erased.
UPDATE: Carter tweeted to his fans Monday.
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Minor setback for a MAJOR comeback! God is in control!â Bruce Carter (@BruceCarter54) November 26, 2012


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Barbershop Harmony Society
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BABS - British Association of Barbershop Singers
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LABBS - Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers
LABBS is the only British Ladies Barbershop Association in the UK.
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The Australian Barbershop community is vibrant collection of male singers from all over Australia, who gather together to sing tight, exciting four-part harmonies in quartets and in choruses.
NZABS - The New Zealand Association of Barbershoppers Inc.
All over New Zealand there are men enjoying singing in the barbershop style. They meet as quartets or as choruses and love to sing with each other and to entertain the public of new Zealand.
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BinG! - Barbershop in Germany
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The largest Dutch organization for female barbershoppers.
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DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) — Hollywood actor Kevin Costner is asking $14 million for 1,000 acres of land he owns in western South Dakota's Black Hills.
The property includes the site of the ill-fated Dunbar resort, a $100 million project that would have included a golf course and a steam-powered passenger train. It never materialized.
The listing does not include Costner's Midnight Star, the tallest building on Deadwood's Main Street, or the $6 million Tatanka visitor attraction he owns on the gambling town's north edge.
Costner filmed much of his Academy Award-wining movie "Dances with Wolves" in South Dakota. Real estate agent Mike Percevich says Costner has a strong sense of loyalty to the area, and his decision to sell was a difficult one.


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|Best Recipes of 2010 from Kitchen Parade
My favorite recipes from 2010, just 12 of the best recipes of the year. Made without processed food, these are everyday recipes, ones to make again and again. They are recipes that express the hallmarks of the Kitchen Parade style, 'fresh' and 'easy' and 'flavor-forward' and 'seasonal'.
Earlier this month, I received a letter from Patricia, a Kitchen Parade reader. She wrote, "At this time of the year, especially as we become older, it is important to count our blessings and tell those who have touched/and are touching our lives." She went on to thank me for making her life better. (Wow. Yes, I cried.)
But honestly, Kitchen Parade may come from my heart but without readers like Patricia -- without YOU as a reader -- and without your encouragement whether in comments, Facebooks "likes" or an e-mail subscription, this website would be a much lesser place, it might not exist at all.
So let ME thank you, for reading, for your encouragement, for your trust, for your curiosity, for the privilege of sharing kitchens.
My Favorite Recipes from 2010
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About the Photo Collage
In the center, the very first shot, straight out of the camera, no reading, no manual, of my much-loved Nikon D90 and its 35mm wide-angle lens. I'm still learning my way around the camera but my, how Nikon and I think alike. The recipe is Refried Bean Sauce with Eggs on Top.
From the top left corner, moving clockwise:
Best-Ever Caramel Cake, Cold-Brewed Coffee for Ice Coffee, First-Prize Peach Pie with Lattice Crust, Perfect Whole Wheat Pumpkin Muffins, Spicy Raisin Sauce for Ham, Deviled Eggs with Tomato & Herb Relish in tribute to my friend Linda, Pan de Muerto ('Bread of the Dead' Celebration Bread), Carrot & Zucchini Bread, Mexican Fruit Salad, Cold Shrimp in Creamy Dill Sauce with Capers, Fall Stew Baked in a Whole Pumpkin, Homemade Mayonnaise for BLTs, Snickers Cookies on Sticks or NOT, Grilled Steak with Summer Tomato Salad, Julia Child's Soubise (Onion & Rice Casserole), Cut-Out Spice Cookies.
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