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The addition of Craftsman and Kenmore products would give Lowe's more ammunition to compete with Home Depot (NYSE:HD). Lowe's has lagged behind its rival, recently reporting same-store sales that fell 0.7% versus Home Depot's 4.8% growth.
A spokesperson for Lowe's didn't rule out the possibility but cautioned that it's "too soon to know" whether the pending acquisition of Orchard, which was spun off by Sears in 2012, would allow the company to carry Craftsman and Kenmore products.
Lowe's does anticipate that those Sears brands will remain at Orchard stores.
"It is Orchard and Lowe's desire for Orchard to continue to sell those brands," the spokesperson said.
An Orchard representative did not respond to a request for comment. Sears said it "can't speculate about the future."
On Monday, Orchard filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and Lowe's stepped in with a bid to take over a majority of the West Coast chain.
Lowe's is the stalking horse, or lead bidder, and potential buyers will be able to submit higher bids at a bankruptcy auction. The home-improvement retailer, which plans to operate Orchard as a standalone business, offered $205 million in cash for at least 60 of the hardware chain's stores.
"Strategically, the acquisition will provide us with immediate access to Orchard's high density, prime locations in attractive markets in California, where Lowe's is currently underpenetrated, and will enable us to participate more fully in California's economic recovery," Lowe's President and CEO Robert A. Niblock said in a statement Monday.
Orchard operates 89 hardware and garden stores in California and two in Oregon, although it's seeking permission from bankruptcy court to immediately close eight underperforming stores.
The company will present the bid from Lowe's in bankruptcy court on Aug. 14 and hopes to complete a sale within 90 days.
Orchard released a separate statement Wednesday to caution shareholders that it expects to fall short of fulfilling obligations to bondholders. Therefore, the company said, equity holders will likely lose their entire investment.
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text: TICONDEROGA The 10th annual Best Fourth in the North Alumni Basketball Tournament in Ticonderoga has been changed to attract more players. The tournament has been moved to Saturday, March 22, at Ti High School. The Best Fourth in the North Alumni Basketball Tournament was originally scheduled for a week earlier, but was moved to take advantage of the Easter holiday which is expected to attract many alumni home for visits. By moving it back one week, which is the day before Easter, we hope to get a good crowd as well as a record number of alumni participating, explained Bob Dedrick, who is organizing the event along with Dan Crossman. Players are asked to come to the school at noon March 22. The tournament, featuring former Ticonderoga High School cagers, will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the school gym with three-point shooting contest. There will be a cash prize for the winner. There will be four games for men and women. All players will receive a souvenir T shirt The annual event serves as an unofficial reunion and a fundraiser for the communitys annual Fourth of July celebration. Most of last years players are expected to return this year and the new guys on the block, the Class of 2007, will their debut, said Crossman, chairman of the July 4th celebration committee. The last few years have been very competitive and this year should be even better. Donations at the door will be $3 for adults and $2 for senior citizens and students. Children younger than age 5 will be admitted free. The July 4th celebration committee will sell pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, candy, water, soft drinks and home-made baked goods. There will also be a raffle for gas cards. All proceeds will go toward Ticonderogas 2008 Fourth of July celebration. So come early and support our former hardwood heroes of the past and help support the Best Fourth in the North, Crossman said. For more information contact Dedrick at 585-7408 or Crossman at 585-7009.


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Another Thursday is upon us, and so is a batch of Nintendo downloads. Nothing on the Wii front, and surprisingly, nothing on the DSi side of things, either. The Wii U and 3DS, however, have a handful of new games. Check 'em all out here.
First up on the Wii U eShop is The Cave. This 2D platformer from Double Fine Productions will run you $14.99. There's also Funky Barn, which is a game you should only download if you know you're going to like it. And on the Virtual Console side of things we've got Balloon Fight. This NES original is currently on sale for 30 cents.
On the 3DS eShop we have the puzzler Cocoto Alien Brick Breaker for $4.99. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Shadow Wars is also available for download now. Last is Super C, a NES original and another entry in the Contra series of shoot 'em ups. That one will run you $4.99.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Can somebody explain this? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Can somebody explain this? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Chile View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Don AlanJoined: 11 Dec 2004Posts: 150Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject: Can somebody explain this? When I was in Santiago in September I went everyday to restaurants and cafes with my girlfriend. There were a couple of places we went to quite regularly near the Plaza de Armas. When we were taking a coffee for example or a coca cola in the terraza I always felt the waitress was hanging over us and if we stayed for more than ten minutes she would come and say, ' Could you pay the pill now because I have to go because my shift is finishing.' This happened more than once in another place also. I really don´t understand this because the places were more than half empty when this happened. And I said to my girlfriend, ' I don´t understand this pressure because there are plenty of tables and surely it attracts more customers if people see there are people in a place.' Just like to add also that we are both normal people, normal appearance, manners etc and I am never someone for lingering too long anyway. It was like the waitress had received an instruction: if someone is taking a drink give them 10 minutes and then move them on. Maybe I´m too used to Madrid where the problem is the opposite, attracting the waiter´s attention to pay the bill and be able to leave! Back to top Dennis ParishJoined: 09 Nov 2004Posts: 18Location: santiago de chile Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:00 pm Post subject: Your coffee never has a chance to get cold here - drink your Nescafe and move out! Complete opposite of Argentina. Tips are sensitive because a lot of restaurants don't let the staff keep them; they go to management and are redistributed among the staff at the end of the month. Move out of the Plaza de Armas and head to some of the places near Cerro Santa Lucia, off Merced. There's a great place on Mosqueto - good food, too!!! Back to top Don AlanJoined: 11 Dec 2004Posts: 150Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:57 am Post subject: Just came to mind another coffee experience I had in one of the places in Plaza de Armas. Went in and asked for a cafe con leche, when bill came was charged two coffees. Went to cash desk to pay, and said I asked for a coffee not two. Cashier called waitress who said yes but it was a big coffee with milk. Cashier agreed. Disputed the matter on the basis of a coffee with milk is one thing, two coffees is another. Did my usual performance and said, not going to pay it. Result charged coffee with milk price. Back to top Dennis ParishJoined: 09 Nov 2004Posts: 18Location: santiago de chile Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:13 pm Post subject: Big cup, small cup, who cares? What I want to is whether you got a cup which had been barely rinsed so that you got the added benefit of a huge whiff of chlorine and a taste to match. Stay out of the Plaza de Armas !!!(but you already know that...) Back to top Don AlanJoined: 11 Dec 2004Posts: 150Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 11:44 pm Post subject: Funny you say that about whether the cups were well rinsed because just after coming back from Santiago I become really ill and was diagnosed with Glandular Fever which as we know it caught through saliva. My girlfriend has never had it so i suspect those cups could have played a hand. Did you get my private message, Dennis? Back to top eileenJoined: 15 May 2004Posts: 71 Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 4:43 pm Post subject: When you come back, I suggest several really nice cafes on Jose Miguel de la Barra and nearby the bottom of Sta. Lucia. Tomodashi, El Habito, Cafe Santiago, Cafe Mosqueto and Brain Works would love for you to sit endlessly and drink their delicious brew. Rotten luck! Back to top Don AlanJoined: 11 Dec 2004Posts: 150Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject: Thanks for those suggestions. Back to top WeonaJoined: 11 Apr 2004Posts: 166Location: Chile Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:13 am Post subject: I've never had that happen to me but there have been many experiences where the waitress or waitor will stand behind me (or whoever is paying the tab) and watch as we put down the amount plus the tip. It feels very violating and rude. I hate that. Other than that, I've had mainly good experiences. 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The Town of Smyrna Public Safety Committee is looking into creating an ordinance to amend the town's law on animal cruelty to include a section regarding the tethering of dogs.
Smyrna Police Lt. Norman Wood gave a presentation on the tethering of dogs during the committee's meeting Thursday.
Wood proposes that the town create a section in the animal cruelty ordinance that bans the tethering of dogs unless the owner is out with them.
Wood and Police Chief Wil Bordley said there isn't an issue with tethering in town; the goal is to prevent it. There was a recent incident when a dog owner chained a puppy and its mother out during a snow storm, and officers asked for the owner to take the animals in. Tethering could become an issue during the summer months.
"There are more than 100 communities in more than 30 states that have passed laws to regulate tethering animals," Wood said.
Wood said there are several issues with tethering animals, which include dogs becoming territorial and aggressive. Attacks on people by tethered dogs have been documented, Wood said, and typically the victims are children who are unaware there's a chained dog until it's too late.
Wood showed several pictures in the presentation to show impacts of tethering dogs. One pictured showed a tethered dog that jumped a fence and hung there and died. Other pictures showed dogs that had been tied up with a rope and left there so when the dogs grew and the rope wasn't loosened, it dug into the skin.
After researching ordinances in other towns, Wood decided on one created by the City of Miami as he felt it best represented Smyrna and best suited pets in the area.
"Basically what this says is you can't tie a dog outside unless you're outside with it," Wood said.
Furthermore, if a dog owner is going to tether a dog while they are also outside, there are strict guidelines for how to do so. The proposal doesn't limit a dog owner from putting a dog in a kennel.
Last year, Gov. Jack Markell signed into law Senate Bill 211, which amended the definition of animal cruelty to include tethering a dog for 18 hours or more in any 24-hour period. The law also banned the tethering of young dogs or nursing mother dogs, regardless of how long they are tethered.
Wood said the issue with the state's law regarding tethering is that it's hard to enforce.
"In order to enforce it, an officer or an animal control officer has to sit in front of the house for a 24-hour period and see how long the dog was out and then he takes it to court and at that point the only thing they give them is a warning," Wood said. "After that, they can sit for another 24-hour period and watch because if you leave, it gives the owner a chance to say 'But I took the dog in for a while.'"
The committee members decided to do more research and continue discussions at their March meeting. If they're happy with Wood's proposal at that meeting, the committee members will forward it on to the town lawyer to put the proposal in ordinance form to be presented for consideration by Smyrna Town Council.
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|2009-10-04, 02:10
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see this is why I cut the theory from my line of reasoning -_- it's useless to use the human anatomy. Unless it's referring to the portrait of Beatrice since it shows the human body, even then.....nothing.
|2009-10-04, 02:30
|Link #86
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: USA
Age: 26
My beloved hometown (My body)
the sweetfish river running through it (The sweet blood running through it)
follow its path downstream and seek the key. (For some reason, I linked this to a heart, as it was like the base of the 'river' or whatever)
But it really didn't make much sense in the end..
God, I really want to solve this thing! I keep trying, but now the only thing really stopping me is that I can't read the kanji itself!
|2009-10-04, 02:46
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
Anyway, don't digress, Atlas! You must not doubt that! °_°
Maybe this will help. here is a list of "facts" about the river. Actually they aren't "facts" but hints, most of them are probably true, but some might be deceiving. Anyway the "river" should fit with the most of them to be valid:
1) it is something around the line of a family tree
2) there are things that can go up and down on it
3) you can find it in an atlas
4) it goes through a village, or many villages (whatever "village" means)
5) it has a connection with the sea (whatever "sea" means)
6) it is not a river
|2009-10-04, 04:16
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Endless Nine
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: In a certain tropical island
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If it plays around with a map, would the "journey" along the map, make up an initial Japanese character we can play around? Like writing an actual Japanese character in a a map?
Then Kinzo's love for western might indicate the word can be converted into romaji.
|2009-10-04, 06:05
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Senior Member
Because Young Eva insisted so much on the riddle being childish and the need to throw away the admiration of Kinzo.
There are many riddles and jokes among japanese children that rely on very dirty puns, so it may be that the riddle is so easy, so childish, that nobody would solve it like that considering it's rather dignified form.
If you search around the epitaph, you find other body related things.
懐 in 懐かしき if read ふところ is also bosom or breast.
So if you would follow that line of reasoning an これを下りて鍵を探せ (Step down from there and search the key) we would follow the 川 (river) which we associated as bloodstream.
川を下がれば、やがて里があり (If we follow that river down, before long there is a village/the home of one's parents), but 里 is also just simply the 'place of one's origin'...well we can all think what that would refer to.
その里に二人が口にし岸を探れ (In this 'home' search/feel around for the shore that two are speaking of/taking into their mouth)...this is maybe the most abstract part of the poem, still we have the 二人, two unspecified people, and they 'speak of', 'take into their mouth's' or 'eat', but 口 could also be another hint as it is also a hole or an orifice.
The problem is, if those Kanji could really lead us around in an Atlas.
I really have to read that scene again to see if there are more hints hidden in certain words even not taken from the epitaph.
If anyone knows a good site that collects older maps, I think we would all be a bit happier.
We all have to take into account too, that Ryukishi only said that the Epitaph is SOLVABLE...that could also mean we would have to have the same preposition and access to certain books as for example Eva.
|2009-10-04, 07:08
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
That's the reason why I think the book Eva is looking is not something too specific, but a generic common atlas. The book archive was also said to be a place where books that weren't of particular interest for Kinzo where stored. In othe words they are all pretty common books you can find anywhere.
@batpig: your reasoning is interesting, but don't make the mistake of feeling excited for finding some names that seem to redirect to the epitaph. This issomething I learned after many research looking at japanese atlas, I can find the kanji used in the firt portion of the epitaph everywhere. It looks like those are very commonly used in name of cities and places. There' like a thousand of places that have the kanji of "sato" and "kishi" in them XD
There are also a lot of places that have numerals from one to ten.
This is probably not casual, probably it is so because the epitaph actually refer to geographic places, however the fact that many places in the whole country have those kanji doesn't help.
Anyway I'm interest in the street analogy. But first I need to know of city maps are commonly included in japanese atlas. or if the word used by eva for "atlas" could also mean a city map (though the book Eva is looking at in the anime doesn't look like one). There is also the problem of which "street" would she pick among all of them.
|2009-10-04, 08:00
|Link #92
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: France
Age: 28
I remember trying to solve the epitaph quite some time ago...
I was thinking that "the two" were Shannon and Kanon (as their names were given by Kinzo).
I tried to find a solution based on the Shannon river in Ireland. If we follow it's path downstream, we can find a town also named Shannon, and near the shore there is an island called Kannon island (iirc). I remember trying to find a six-letters-long word using the other names of the island .
Well, it's pretty sure this line of reasoning isn't correct, after all it seems the river isn't a real river.
Something along the line of a family tree... The first things that comes to mind with the Ushiromiya family is the ranking system used for the family or the one used for the servants...
|2009-10-04, 08:10
|Link #93
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
My very first interpretation of the first part of the epitaph was as follow:
the homeland is planet earth
the river is the whole water mass
If you go down you find the Antarctica continent (village)
Then I got pretty much stucked there until I found out that "Kuchinishi" can also mean "to be eaten by". There are two large gulfs in the antarctica that resemble two mouths. The "shore" they are "eating" is an "ice shelf".
However I couldn't find any way to change it into 6 characters, "tanagoori" is the japanese word. And In the end I don't think this is the right solution anyway. Too bad because it does fit with Eva's reasoning for the most part, and it is a very simple childish solution ^^;
|2009-10-04, 09:29
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You're absolutely right, hence my disclaimer at the bottom XD. It's just been really helpful to read everyone's theories + thought process, so I wanted to share mine before I forget.
Another huge flaw with my idea is that a number of other kanjis would work to get my result, but it seems vitally important that it is "sato".
Spoiler for Eva's reasoning:
But as you say, as long as this can describe any street in any given city, then the whole theory falls apart. (Not having an insider's knowledge of Kinzo like Eva is a huge disadvantage ) I wonder what else you can see on a map that would immediately reminds you of "sato".
Can anyone confirm from the Japanese version of the game whether Eva specifically says "atlas" or does she say "map". I wonder too if it could be a specialized map or something. (i.e. natural resource map? river = flow of the resources. Or a more rational example, railway map.)
I also wonder about the last part of the epitaph that is really glossed over by the characters. Obviously, at that point they'd already have the gold and wouldn't care about everything else. But why does Kinzo even include it? Is it just to make it read like a ritual? For example, "One shall be, the resurrection of the souls of all the dead." could mean if you take the letters that have been "killed" and rearrange them, you'll get an additional message?
|2009-10-04, 11:24
|Link #96
Senior Member
Well yeah I looked it up, it really was just a 地図帳, an Atlas or if you would translate it literally a Map-Book or Map-Register...so anything apart from an actual Atlas seems to be out of question too...
So it really has to be something on a map that is somehow connected to 鮎 and 川 in the vicinity of something related to 里 ... the problem now is, we don't know what kind of map she is looking at.
It can't be a map of Rokkenjima, because Ryukishi said it was solvable and if it was a riddle made as a child or youth, then Kinzo wasn't even on Rokkenjima when he created the epitaph.
So we're back at the start...or better running in circles...wondering what 故郷 it could be where there can be something on a map where 鮎 are found in a 川...maybe there is a town in the vicinity of his birthplace ending with 川 and having 鮎 in it...
Right now I even thought about taking 鮎 apart and forming 魚 and 占. Sadly the only thing that found was, that the Ayu Kanji only exists in Japan as it seems.
|2009-10-04, 14:36
|Link #97
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I looked at a general map of Japan via Google Maps, and the only things I could see going up and down are:
Spoiler for working off assumption:
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|2009-10-04, 14:59
|Link #98
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Warwick, RI
Age: 35
I also think the "sweetfish river" might refer to a road, as well. If it's something that goes up and down, can be seen on a map, and ISN'T a literal river, what else could it be? It needs to have some kind of resonance, literal or metaphorical, with a "family tree" as well. Possibly due to a name associated with it or something near it, or something to do with its historical significance?
One of the things that interests me about this part of the riddle is "shore", which, from Eva's dialogue was clearly an important of solving the meaning. The reason I find it so interesting is because "kishi" is a word Ryukishi has played around with before, in one of Frederica Bernkastel's poems ("There is only one thing that I seek./ What I would obtain will either be the kishi (shore), or shiki (my death)."). There are lots of other resonances with Umineko in the Bernkastel poems, so I can't help but wonder if there is some kind of clue here.
The other interesting part of the riddle to me the "gouge and kill" sections. Unfortunately, I just don't know Japanese and so I can't grasp what's going on here as much as I wish but I what I assume is going on here is that the anatomical body parts refer to either kanji character or PARTS of the characters which can perhaps be removed, turning them into different characters all together. I don't know ... but I feel there has to be some kind of weird Japanese pun, joke, riddle, or child's game which connects these parts of the body with kanji formations.
|2009-10-04, 15:40
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
Eh... so in the end you also reach to that conclusion. I didn't tell until now, because I didn't want to affect your own reasoning, but in the end I also couldn't find anything that can fit better the description other than a street or a railway.
The toukaidou line has been tried already, I've even found it in the tea party forum of ryukishi's website. If you try that way you end to a city named senrioka 千里丘 and the previous station is named kishibe 岸辺. However no one was able to get past this point, so maybe the toukaidou isn't the right one.
|2009-10-05, 00:45
|Link #100
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Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
Hmmm. The line of reasoning being used right now would suggest people are to be looking for a place on a map.
This would seem incorrect. Using the wordplay to find a path of words on a map leading to something that is the "key" to the Golden Land. Also the key to "their youth". Whatever the word or item is, it would seem to point to a location of the island itself where the gold is hidden, even though the altas would not be pointing to the island at all. It also must be something that, in retrospect, is obvious, since Eva sort of clicked on it as soon as she saw the word/location on the altas.
Thus it must be something relatively simply...once one knows where to look. It also must be somewhere on the island...since Eva can't leave the island.
"The 'shore' the two will tell you of"? What does this get anyone? 千丘
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Delaware 4-H has announced Mary Argo as the 2013 recipient of the Joy Sparks Spirit of 4-H Award for Sussex County.
Argo was honored during the Sussex County 4-H annual achievement celebration held Sept. 28 at the University of Delaware's Carvel Research and Education Center in Georgetown before an audience of approximately 150 4-H family members and supporters.
Joy Sparks Spirit of 4-H Award winners in New Castle and Kent counties will be announced at later 4-H events.
Argo, who retired in April 2013 as Sussex 4-H educator, was surprised as her name was called and she was asked to come to the stage. In attendance to support her grandchildren in 4-H and to present the Friend of 4-H Award to volunteer leader William Campbell, Argo was continuing her career tradition of happily handing out awards to others. Her arrival on stage to accept the honor was met with a standing ovation.
"This is a surprise. I had not a clue about this," Argo exclaimed. "I have been very, very jealous of all the people who have gone before who have won this. This is a wonderful, wonderful award. I can't think of anyone finer to follow than Joy Sparks."
The Joy Sparks Spirit of 4-H Award was established in 2009 in memory of the Delaware 4-H program leader who died in February of that year. The honor recognizes outstanding achievement in individuals who exhibit dedication, enthusiasm and embody 4-H values. The four H's of the program represent "head, heart, hands and health," which members and volunteers pledge to dedicate to their club, community and country through leadership, citizenship and the furtherance of life skills and community service.
Argo's career began at the University of Delaware 23 years ago, and she spent the last 18 as Sussex County 4-H agent.
One of Argo's signature events was coordinating the annual 4-H Spring Farm Tours at Green Acres Farm, an event that invites area school children to visit Delaware's largest dairy farm, which is owned and operated by the Hopkins family of Lewes.
Each year, for two days in May, this valuable partnership welcomes between 1,500 and 2,000 youth who embark on discovery and participate in the sounds, smells and textures offered as lessons in an authentic agricultural experience — oftentimes receiving their first introduction to Cooperative Extension and the University.
With the help of Argo's colleagues at the Carvel center, tens of thousands of young students have been reached through this one event alone during her tenure as 4-H agent.
Argo was recognized for her belief in the value of personal visits, through which she cultivated many strong community relationships throughout her career.
A particular favorite program Argo initiated was Fridays with 4-H, an after school program at La Casita in Georgetown. Every Friday, Argo introduced 4-H curriculum and experiential learning activities. The outreach program impacted hundreds of Latino youth in Sussex County and was the direct result of Argo's networking and personal touch in her community.
"All who know Mary never fail to mention her tireless work ethic, positive outlook and enthusiastic dedication to make 4-H available to every child in Delaware," said Mark Manno, Delaware 4-H program leader, as he read from the nomination. "She has never missed an opportunity to shine the spotlight on an accomplishment of a 4-H youth member or adult volunteer."
Argo joined 4-H at the age of 10, as an inaugural member of the Broadkill Kool Kats 4-H Club, a club founded by her mother, Frances Millman. As an adult, Argo served as the club's organizational leader for 12 years.
In 1986, Argo was inducted into the prestigious 4-H alumni organization known as the Sussex County 4-H Order of the Link. Two of Argo's daughters are currently Delaware 4-H leaders, and 10 of her 11 grandchildren are currently enrolled in Delaware 4-H.
Argo was joined on stage by members of Joy Sparks' family, brother Alex Gooden and niece Lindsay Gooden Hughes, who presented Argo with the award.
Donald Sparks, S. Hallock du Pont Chair and director of the Delaware Environmental Institute at UD, was not able to join family members at the ceremony but later said, "Mary richly deserves the 2013 Joy Sparks Spirit of 4-H Award. Her numerous contributions to Delaware 4-H will be long lasting. I wish her the very best."
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After more than two and half years and a five day trial spread out over four and a half months, a Lebanon man has been found guilty of murdering three people in southern Camden County in Dec. 2010.
After more than two and half years and a five-day trial spread out over four and a half months, a Lebanon man has been found guilty of murdering three people in southern Camden County in Dec. 2010.
Camden County Circuit Court Judge Ken Hayden released his decision Tuesday afternoon to a fully packed courtroom, finding Morris McCabe guilty of three counts of first degree murder and three counts of armed criminal action in the deaths of Sally Amos, Donald Myers and Donald Young. Autopsies performed in the days after the crime determined that all three had died as a result of close-range gunfire from a rifle.
A neighbor found the trio dead at Myers' home near Stoutland on the morning of Dec. 3, 2010. McCabe, dressed in a red Camden County Jail tunic and striped pants, had no visible reaction to the verdict.
During the verdict reading, Hayden reviewed the evidence presented at trial by the prosecution and defense. He established that the timeframe of the crime matched up with a window of opportunity for McCabe to commit the murders.
Hayden recapped testimony involving cell phone evidence that suggested McCabe left Lebanon and was in Stoutland at the time of the crime.
"That, therefore, puts Mr. McCabe at the scene of the crime," Hayden said.
The crux of the case involved a blood stain on one of the gloves found with McCabe at his arrest. Criminalist Ruth Montgomery determined the blood stain matched the DNA standard for Sally Amos. Evidence mismanagement caused a four-and-a-half-month-long delay in the trial as the DNA standard was verified. The trial began in February and concluded in mid-June.
But when the trial resumed, public defenders Dave Kenyon and Beth Davis-Kerry took issue with the chain of command of the gloves, suggesting law enforcement mishandled the clothing in the case, casting doubt on the credibility of the gloves as evidence.
Hayden said over the course of the trial, he determined the credibility of the evidence. Ultimately, he said, the questions raised by the defense "do not rise to the level of reasonable doubt."
"The chain of custody was established almost immediately," Hayden continued. "Those gloves were in the same condition [from the time of the arrest through analysis]."
As Hayden described the evidence, cries from the gallery echoed in the courtroom.
"While, albeit, it is circumstantial, it is very strong circumstantial evidence," Hayden concluded before moving on to declare the final verdict.
McCabe will be sentenced on Nov. 12. Family and friends of the victims expressed frustration with having to wait several more months to hear the sentence.
"I'm happy with the verdict, but it's crazy to draw [the case] out until November," Judy Morris, Donald Young's sister, said.
Prosecuting Attorney Brian Keedy said that completing the verdict and the sentence in the same day was impossible, but also said he found relief that McCabe would not be out in public.
"There has been too much pain," Dennis Timm, a friend of Donald Young and Donald Myers, said. "It should have been settled today."
McCabe is ineligible for the death penalty. The prosecution traded the possibility of the death penalty for a bench trial, meaning Hayden alone decided McCabe's fate.


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Our common ancestors
Darwin's theory of natural selection implies that we are all descended from common ancestors. Most people who have doubts about the theory tend to think that this is a proposition that we can either choose to accept or deny. After all, no one was around to see it, were they?
But Richard Dawkins' excellent book The Ancestor's Tale (2004) gives a surprisingly rigorous argument (on page 39) that back in the distant past, we must have all had common ancestors. He is such a good writer, both stylish and concise, that paraphrasing him would be a waste of time and I will give you an extended quote:
If we go sufficiently far back, everybody's ancestors are shared. All your ancestors are mine, whoever you are, and all mine are yours. Not just approximately, but literally. This is one of those truths that turns out, on reflection, to need no new evidence. We prove it by pure reason, using the mathematician's trick of reductio ad absurdum. Take our imaginary time machine absurdly far back, say 100 million years, to an age when our ancestors resembled shrews or possums. Somewhere in the world at that ancient date, at least one of my personal ancestors must have been living, or I wouldn't be here. Let us call this particular little mammal Henry (it happens to be a family name). We seek to prove that if Henry is my ancestor he must be yours too. Imagine, for a moment, the contrary: I am descended from Henry and you are not. For this to be so, your lineage and mine would have to have marched, side by side yet never touching, through 100 million years of evolution to the present, never interbreeding yet ending up at the same evolutionary destination – so alike that your relatives are still capable of interbreeding with mine. This reductio is clearly absurd. If Henry is my ancestor, he must be yours too. If not mine, he cannot be yours.
Without specifying how ancient is 'sufficiently', we have just proved that a sufficiently ancient individual with any human descendants at all must be an ancestor of the entire human race. Long-distance ancestry, of a particular group of descendants such as the human species, is an all-or-nothing affair. Moreover, it is perfectly possible that Henry is my ancestor (and necessarily yours, given that you are human enough to be reading this book) while his brother Eric is the ancestor of, say, all the surviving aadvarks. Not only is it possible. It is a remarkable fact that there must be a moment in history when there were two animals in the same species, one of whom became the ancestor of all humans and no aardvarks, while the other became the ancestor of all aardvarks and no humans. They may well have met, and may even have been brothers. You can cross out aardvark and substitute any other modern species you like, and the statement must still be true. Think it through, and you will find that it follows from the fact that all species are cousins of one another. Bear in mind when you do so that the 'ancestor of all aardvarks' will also be the ancestor of lots of very different things beside aardvarks[.]
There is one aspect of this argument that is crucial and that is that our common shared ancestor Henry that Dawkins is talking about has to have lived at a time when he was of a different species from us, since the reductio argument he is using depends crucially on the unlikelihood of species evolution following separate but parallel tracks to arrive at the same species end point. Since all humans are descendants of this single animal Henry, we conclude that all the early humans must be the ancestors of all of us. So when Dawkins talks of us all sharing the same ancestors at some point, he means human ancestors, since all humans evolved from Henry's line.
Of course, as time progresses, the human species descended fro Henry produced more descendants who then produced yet more descendants and so on, and there must come a time when the lines diverged so that not everyone living at later times is the ancestor of all of us, but only some. That transition time is called the identical ancestors (IA) time. i.e., Earlier than that, every human was the ancestor of all of us or none of us (i.e., their line went extinct). After the IA time, people share only some ancestors.
It is not hard to see that as time progresses even further, there will come a time when we all share just one common human ancestor, referred to as the most recent common ancestor or MRCA. After that time, everyone living today no longer shares a common ancestor.
I don't know about you, but to me there is something extraordinarily beautiful about this idea that at one point in time we all shared the same single ancestor, and that some time further back, everyone who lived at that time was the ancestor of all of us. It seems to be such a decisive argument against tribalism. It is hard to maintain the idea that some groups of people are 'special' in some way, when we not only all descended from a single animal Henry, but that at a later time we all shared the same set of human ancestors. Not only that, but we are also cousins of all the species that currently exist.
No wonder some religious extremists are afraid to have their children learn this theory. It is so captivating one can see how it would fascinate and draw in anybody who begins to think seriously about it.
Having established that we have both an MRCA and a time where all our human ancestors were identical (the IA time), this raises the question of when these dates occurred.
And therein lies another surprise, to be discussed in an upcoming post in this series.
POST SCRIPT: We're number 1?
Comedian Lewis Black tries to help Americans to see themselves as others see them.
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Hi Professor,
Just thought I'd let you know, on an amusing note, that I read an article on this a month or so ago. Basically, 45 generations up the family tree of actress Brooke Sheilds you'll find Mohammed. I think it's a free article, not certain though. If not you can use:
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It works at pretty much any major news outlet's website.
I'm in D.C. now at GW Law in my first semester. Graduated from NYU with an MA in Intl Relations in the spring.
Your recent Iran writings were particularly interesting. Presidents Musharraf and Karzai both spoke on GW's campus in the last 5 days and made some news. Anyway, gotta get back to the reading :-)
Hope you're doing well. Thanks for everything once again.
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New Mexico State University has selected Mario Acosta to lead its fire department as chief. He will officially join the NMSU team Monday, Dec. 3.
"I feel like we're coming home," Acosta said. "We left New Mexico about five years ago and now we're coming full circle."
Acosta worked in Farmington, N.M. for more than 20 years, and has family there. One of his daughters is a graduate of NMSU and his wife, Carrie, is also an Aggie.
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The design should be relatively simple/solid/professional with just a touch of...well...sizzle!
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StarCraft II Performance Review - Even your mom can play (UPDATED)
Sorry Captain, the CPU can't push any more!
UPDATE 8/2/10: Over the weekend ATI went ahead and released a new Catalyst 10.7 beta driver that allows for AA to be enabled via the control panel. Check out the updated information for benchmarks and image quality comparisons!
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If you aren't excited about StarCraft II, then you aren't a real PC gamer. Argue your points all you want about this being the exact same game with 3D models rather than 2D sprites (and you are mostly correct); the fact of the matter is no PC game has garnered as much attention in recent months as SC2. The original StarCraft, and the Broodwars expansion, were easily my biggest time-sink in gaming through my high school years so I am fairly attached. I am ready to jump back into the world that Blizzard has created and I think millions of gamers across the world are as well.
Today I am going to show some of our performance results from the StarCraft II beta in order to prepare you for the release of the full retail game on July 27th. I know that many of you that either didn't make it into the beta or didn't have time to try it out and might be curious how your system and GPU will stand up to the challenge. I'll take you through my observations on CPU limitedness, GPU scaling and even the question of anti-aliasing with StarCraft II.
The CPU May Be Holding us Back
For testing purposes we are using the SC2 replay system that allows you to save and playback an entire multiplayer match. I played through several dozen matches, slaving away for our readers, to find instances of performance lag, low frame rates and what I would call your "typical" scenarios. I narrowed my replays down to a pair that seemed pretty interesting, but each provided very different frame rates.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 12, 2012) – Armed with a roster peppered with several new faces but also highlighted by plenty of talent and potential, the ETSU men's basketball team will open the 2012-13 season with its first official preseason practice Friday afternoon inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center.
ETSU head coach Murry Bartow will be working with a team that includes just four seniors, along with 10 players who are in either their first or second season at ETSU.
"We are going to rely on our seniors to provide us with quality minutes and to help lead our team," Bartow said. "But our coaching staff likes the guys we've brought in, and we think they have the ability to come in and help us immediately. It's going to be a challenge, but it's also exciting."
While the team will begin with regular practices over the next week, the Bucs will be introduced to the public on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m., as the team participates in the fifth annual Bluenanza basketball tipoff inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. The team will then play its only preseason exhibition game on Saturday, Nov. 3 against Carson-Newman, followed by the season opener Saturday, Nov. 10 at Virginia Tech.
For more on the Bucs' upcoming season, see the preseason prospectus located below:
After several years of quality returning players and at least some level of certainty regarding what to expect heading into the winter months, the 2012-13 ETSU men's basketball team will enter the new campaign with several questions and concerns.
The loss of standout seniors such as Adam Sollazzo (Tampa), Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) and Tommy Hubbard (Boston) will be hard to overcome, considering that group combined for a total of 3,091 points in their careers. A year ago, the Bucs enjoyed quality wins such as a road victory over Atlantic 10 Conference foe Charlotte, and finished with a respectable 17 victories on the season. The team finished fourth in the Atlantic Sun Conference standings at 10-8, reaching the league tournament semifinals.
This season, the Bucs top two returning starters are guards Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) and Marcus Dubose (Hartsville, S.C.), who both combined to score 19.7 points per game a year ago. Along with those two, fellow guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) and forward Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) are the only other ETSU players to be returning after playing significant minutes last year.
With so few returning, experienced players, ETSU will be looking to some unproven returning players, as well as a recruiting class that includes three incoming freshmen and a pair of junior college transfers, to come in and make an immediate impact. Sophomores Rashawn Rembert (Tampa) and John Walton (Memphis), along with redshirt freshman Lester Wilson (Knoxville) are expected to increase their production this year, while true freshmen guards Petey McClain (Mobile, Ala.), Mario Stramaglia (Birmingham, Ala.), and Yunio Barrueta (Miami, Fla.) will look to blossom into early contributors.
On the interior, Poderis and Walton will need help from junior college transfers Kinard Gadsden-Gilliard (Georgetown, S.C.) and Hunter Harris (Nashville). While they may have plenty of questions entering the season, the Bucs' schedule will not provide much patience for development. The team will face teams such as North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Ole Miss and Georgia in the opening weeks of the season, and will host 2011 Final Four participant VCU (Jan. 2) just days before the start of the Atlantic Sun Conference slate. The team will also enjoy a Christmas holiday trip to the Diamond Head Classic and face Arizona in the first round of that event on Dec. 22.
More preseason notes:
Projected Starters: With only two players returning to the roster with more than 20 starts from a year ago, the Buccaneers will enter the 2012-13 season with many questions regarding who will be in the roster's top five ... Beside Cooley and Dubose, who had 26 and 22 starts, respectively, no other returning ETSU player had more than eight starts in 2012-13 ... With five eligible newcomers as they enter the year, several jobs will be open as the team begins preseason workouts.
Anticipated Strengths: Cooley, Dubose and Jones will give the Bucs three capable and tested scoring threats on the perimeter ... However, consistency from this trio is something the Bucs will need on the offensive end of the floor ... A year ago, those three combined to score 25.6 points per game ... Having played solid defense for the last four seasons, expect that focus to continue again in 2012-13.
Anticipated Weaknesses: Unknowns and inexperience will be the biggest concerns for the Bucs in 2012-13, primarily because the team returns only a handful of players who have made major contributions to the team over the last several years ... The Bucs appear to have a strong crop of guards, but in the paint ETSU has only one player that reaches 6-foot-8 or taller ... In fact, the team will have just 4.0 points and 4.6 rebounds per game from returning post players.
All-Conference Candidates: Cooley and Dubose are the most talented returning players and have the best chance of earning postseason honors.
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Date: November 1912
The envelope was addressed to Mrs. John Buckner in a lovely cursive handwriting with the address having been marked through and forwarded with the last address being that of my boarding house. My curiosity was peaked to say the least, as I had the impression that Olivia's health condition, and her seeking treatment was somewhat of a secret.
Of course, I would not presume to know the going ons of our Guests private lives. However, with Olivia, I was privy to her problems from almost the moment she and the Marshall arrived. Within a few hours of their renting room Number Six, it was evident that the Buckners would be more than folks simply seeking a room for a few nights.
My mother had a sense of 'Knowing Beforehand' when something or someone was to have an impact on anothers life. That sense was heavy within my heart as soon as Olivia said, "Please if you could spare a dying woman a bit of your time, I assure you my story will not weigh heavy on your mind as it is only relevant to the unburdening of my soul."
Since that first day, a good many things have happened that changed the course of Olivia's plea and plight. Those incidents and events are recorded in the previous entries to this Journal, therefore, I refer the reader to those entries and will get on with the delivery of Olivia's letter, and the revelations that follow it's reading. A reading that changed one family's knowledge of who they were forevermore.
Olivia's Secret ...The Charming Confederate
I once asked you for a bit of your time, and if you have time now, I would like to share this letter and the memories it evokes that have been buried deep within my heart and soul for many years.
This letter and photograph is from Mary. She found the photograph in her father's Bible. It was taken on our wedding day. Yes, it is the charming confederate solider I married to give Mary a father and myself a home and family. He was the son of the woman who took me in after my home and family were destroyed by the Yankees.
We were married in March of 1870. I was sixteen, and he had returned home from the War a few months before with wounds and scars to both body and mind. I remembered him as a handsome and charming boy of sixteen when he left his mother and me to enlist in the Confederacy. His father had gone the year before with my own father and died at Shiloh. I remember his mother's anguish at his leaving and her jubilation when he returned. We were both joyful and thankful for his return.
When he left I was but ten years old, he therefore, remembered me as a child, but when he returned, he found the child had become a woman. In those days of war and desolation, a girls childhood was over much to soon. Franklin had suffered a crippling leg wound and the ravages of war had left him with unspeakable wounds of the heart and soul. We both needed healing and someone who cared. Our needs and what we took for love lead to our marriage and our first child, Mary.
Oh, Emma, I have such mixed emotions about how this letter will affect a decision I must make before I die. I'll read Mary's words to you for better understanding.
July 12, 1912
Dear Aunt Olivia,
It is with a sad heart that I inform you of the death of my Father, your beloved brother. He passed peacefully in his sleep on the night of June 29th. Since it has been many years since Father spoke of you, I am in hopes that this letter and it's contents will reach you through your last known address which I found in his Bible.
I must admit to some confusion concerning the photograph. It, too was in his Bible along with the enclosed card and your address. On discovering the photograph, my first thoughts were how lovely it was to have this photo of Father and his Sister. However, the inscription on the back along with the card and the placement in Proverbs 31 which sites the passages of a virtuous woman, gives rise to questions of which I hesitate to put in writing.
It is with great hope that you will receive this letter and will reply as soon as possible. There is one other matter of importance that requires your attention. Father's Last Will and Testament. I am not at liberty to state its content to you in this letter, as it was his wish for you to be present to receive his decree.
With kind regards,
Olivia carefully folded the letter and slipped it back into the envelope. She handed me the photograph and the card. Both showed signs of having been handled many times. I turned the photograph over and found the words I expected to see.
Franklin and Olivia ~ March 26, 1870 ~ Wedding Day
I looked up at Olivia to see one hand holding her handkerchief to her eyes and the other placed over her heart. With great trepidation, I turned the card over and read...
~Olivia Mother of My Children~
...to be continued...
Authored by Sandra Sue Pittman
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Photos are not Representative of People or Places in this Story.
Used strictly for interest and support of story.
Photos are Authentic Representations of the Period.
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The Return Of COICA; Because Censorship Is Cool Again
from the it's-baaaack dept
In regulating copyright, the law is regulating a form of speech. Addressing these issues in the context of the Internet--a potent outlet for free speech of all sorts--adds additional delicacy to these undertakings. Any technical mechanism that can be used to remove infringing content can be abused to remove disfavored, but constitutionally protected, speech. Any legal remedy that can enjoin the distribution of content can be misapplied or misused in the restraint of speech. This means that both technical and legal measures must be narrowly tailored both in their defined targets for action, and in the scope of the effects of their remedies.Meanwhile, the EFF is noting that the massive mistakes highlighted in the recent Homeland Security domain seizures should act as a warning sign for politicians supporting COICA.
Proposed remedies against online infringers must also take into account the evolving nature of the Internet and the businesses that rely upon it. Overbroad mechanisms can chill not only speech, but also investment in new distributed technologies.
Criminal copyright infringement is infringement committed "willfully" and in the context of various specific circumstances. Significantly, the websites targeted in the most recent ICE action appear to have merely linked to infringing content. That is, they did not themselves violate any of the exclusive rights of copyright owners that would constitute direct infringement. The ICE agent who signed the affidavit explicitly states that the ten seized domains point to what he calls "linking" websites—i.e., websites that contain "links to files on third party websites that contain illegal copies of copyrighted content." (He also points out that these linking sites "are popular because they allow users to quickly browse content and locate illegal streams that would otherwise be more difficult to find." Sound like any search engines you know?)Hopefully Congress realizes what a mistake COICA would be, but we keep hearing from people saying that the entertainment industry has put a huge effort behind COICA and getting it passed as quickly as possible.


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I hear someone whispering,
"Without this music,
Life would be a mistake."
In the poem quoted above, the musical referent is the sublime jazz created by saxophonist/flautist Charles Lloyd and his group. The poem is one of "Two for Charles Lloyd" that appear in the liner notes of the newly released CD "Rabo de Nube" by Lloyd's quartet. The poet is Charles Simic, a 1990 Pulitzer Prize honoree who was named the nation's poet laureate by the Library of Congress[1] last August. This most recent honor occasioned the publication last month of "Sixty Poems," an anthology of the author's best-known verse.
The artistic intersection at which a groundbreaking jazz musician and a poet who marries dark surrealism with playful irony converge presents a wonderful and too-rare opportunity for freedom-loving cultural devotees to celebrate. Not only do these artists share the same year of birth, 1938, but both witnessed firsthand the dramatic changes that roiled their respective worlds afterward — life under Nazi and communist rule in Yugoslavia for Simic and the civil rights and other socio-political struggles in the United States for Lloyd. In their respective fields, Simic and Lloyd chose oppression and freedom as their defining themes.
In a 1984 Missouri Review interview with Sherod Santos, Simic declared: "I'm the product of chance, the baby of ideologies, the orphan of history. Hitler and Stalin conspired to make me homeless." In a New York Times interview last August, Simic described Hitler and Stalin as his "travel agents."
Enduring the upheavals caused by two of the 20th century's most notorious tyrants becomes, in Simic's poetic universe, the basis for an underlying distrust in nearly everything — even the most seemingly benign inanimate objects. For example, his early volume, "Dismantling the Silence," includes poems entitled "Spoon," "Knife" and "Fork." Rather than presenting versified still-life snapshots of kitchen utensils, however, Simic imbues each with sinister qualities. The spoon is "polished to an evil/Glitter;" the fork "This strange thing must have crept/Right out of hell;" and, in "Knife," he conjures the potent image of "the sound/Of marching boots./You hear the earth/Answering/With a hollow thud." As Thomas Jefferson reminded us, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
He and his mother left Yugoslavia to join his father in New York City when Simic was 16. The family eventually settled in Chicago, where an excursion to a jazz club with his father to see legendary saxophonist Coleman Hawkins cemented Simic's American identity. "You could say the kid was hooked," Simic told Santos. "Jazz made me both an American and a poet." It is noteworthy that a writer of Simic's caliber has risen to the top tier of public and literary recognition when one considers that he learned the English language as a teenager in an era when assimilation was still encouraged.
Lloyd's musical career is no less impressive than Simic's. Born in Memphis, he began his career backing such blues musicians as Bobby "Blue" Bland and B.B. King. By the mid-1960s, he had formed one of the first true jazz fusion bands, featuring drummer Jack DeJohnette and pianist Keith Jarrett — both of whom participated on Miles Davis' more celebrated fusion outings several years later.
On the title song of "Rabo de Nube,[2]" Lloyd revisits a composition that he featured on the 2002 CD, "Lift Every Voice." On that album, he attempted to make sense in a musical fashion that which he could not comprehend rationally — the evil of the Sept. 11 hijackers, which was also the date that Lloyd and his group had been scheduled to play the Blue Note in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Lloyd said in an e-mail that the song "says something along the lines of: 'If I could tell you what I would like to be — it is the tail of a cloud, with a clear rain, that could come down and sweep away your tears and sorrows.' I feel the world needs much clear rain to come down, and there is much to sweep away. The beautiful melody … gives us one way to express this."
Simic recognizes the same quality in Lloyd's jazz. In the "Rabo de Nube" liner notes, he conjures the sense of freedom evoked by Lloyd's flute playing: "The instrument of/Lone shepherds/Sitting cross-legged/Nomads setting out in their caravans/Under a sky full of stars./The mystery of this moment,/That sudden realization/That we have a soul."
Simic's poems about Lloyd echo James Baldwin's depiction of the jazz combo in his classic short story, "Sonny's Blues," which offers a fitting conclusion to any essay on poetry, jazz and freedom:
He and his boys up there were keeping it new, at the risk of ruin, destruction, madness, and death, in order to find new ways to make us listen. For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.
Bruce Edward Walker is communications manager for the Property Rights Network at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research and educational institute headquartered in Midland, Mich. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is hereby granted, provided that the author and the Center are properly cited.
[1] According to the New York Times, the United States has had a poet laureate since 1987. The poet laureate is awarded $35,000 and a $5,000 travel allowance.
[2] The composition "Rabo de Nube" was written by Silvio Dominguez Rodriguez, a writer of hagiographic ballads about the Cuban butcher Che Guevara as well as many songs extolling the supposed virtues of communism. However, there is no evidence to suggest that Lloyd is sympathetic to Rodriguez's revolutionary views. When I posed my concern to Lloyd's publicist at ECM Records, she obtained the following e-mail response from Lloyd: "My attraction to this song has nothing to do with politics, but for the Sentiment of the lyric and the beauty of the melody." In any event, Rodriguez has ironically found his music banned from broadcast outlets under several socialist regimes, including Venezuela, because of its overt American influences.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2002 News Releases > April 2002 > Woodwind concerts planned for coming week at Wayland
Woodwind concerts planned for coming week at Wayland
Two recitals slated for April 1 and 4 will round out the special woodwind series organized by the music department at Wayland Baptist University. Both are free to the public.
Dr. Sandra Mosteller, assistant professor of music, will present her first faculty recital on the clarinet on April 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Harral Auditorium. Dr. Gary Belshaw, assistant professor of piano pedagogy, will accompany Mosteller on the piano.
Mosteller is in her first year on the faculty at Wayland, coming to the university from doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She holds a master's degree in clarinet performance from Arizona State University and a master's and bachelor's degree in music education from Truman State University.
A native of Iowa, Mosteller performs as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician, including recitals in Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Arizona and Missouri. She has performed works by several composers and is active as a private teacher and clinician. She has also published articles in two music journals and previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Radford University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Flutist Kathryn Scarbrough will present a recital on April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Harral Auditorium. Belshaw will accompany on piano and Mosteller will assist on the clarinet.
Scarbrough is currently band director at Fredericksburg (Va.) Christian Upper Elementary/Middle School and has a private flute/music theory studio. She holds a master's degree from Arizona State University and a bachelor's degree from Towson State University.
Co-founder of the Baltimore-based flute and harp duo "Harp Shadows and Silver Sounds," Scarbrough has served as principal flutist in the Concert Band and Ceremonial Band of the United States Marine Corps based in Quantico, Va.
She was honored with a Full Regents Scholarship at Arizona State and was named "Most Outstanding Graduate in Music" at Towson State.
Scarbrough will offer a master class in flute techniques and fundamentals at 5:45 p.m. in Harral Auditorium. Instrumentalists of all levels are welcome to attend. Fee for the class is $10 for the public, with Wayland music students admitted free.
For more information, contact Sandra Mosteller at 291-1069.


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Margaret Forsythe '46
Planned gifts that benefit the libraries may include bequests as well as gifts of assets that generate income, such as gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, and pooled income funds. A full explanation of planned giving options is available on the Oberlin College Development Office website.
An estate gift from Margaret Forsythe '46 enabled the renovation of the special collections and archives reading room and also created a classroom designed for teaching with special collections and archival materials.
15th-century book of hours
Frederick B. Artz bequest
The bequest of Professor of History Frederick B. Artz, consisting of a rich collection representing the history of the book and the history of printing, has had a transformative effect on the library's capacity to partner with faculty creating a new Book Studies curricular concentration.


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I've been a bad monkey... but check out Clyde's
A very bad monkey, and not posted in days. However, a funeral was attened and due respect was required. He was a good man... a great man, really, and for more decades than I can comprehend took care of countless people, doing everything from setting up medical units for local Vietnamese communties during the Vietnam war to delivering thousands of babies in America for decades after.
Today you should know more about New York beauty, including (and, of course, all you Manhattanites already know this) Clyde's beauty. It's the most amazing pharmacy on the island... it stocks entire ranges, bu we forgive them because they have such an inspired mix. We hope that maybe CB could potentially work with them on future projects. We can't find the website that's listed on their card, but, hands down, it's better than Sephora, Ricky's, Space NK, Douglas (which has been in Grand Central for years) or any other pharmacy/chemist/beauty boutique we can think of. If we had a CB award, it would go to them!
926 Madison Ave (near 74th)
New York, NY 10021


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Pedestrian killed on I-95 in Greenwich
Staff Report
GREENWICH -- A Port Chester, N.Y., man was killed on Interstate 95 in Greenwich late Thursday night after he stepped into the path of a tractor-trailer, State Police said.
Joshua Jacobs, 37, of 411 Westchester Ave., was walking along the northbound shoulder just north of the exit 2 off-ramp when he stepped in front of a truck in the righthand lane at 11 p.m., a State Police report of the incident said.
Jacobs suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Truck driver Frederick Schmitz, 48, of Macungie, Pa., was unharmed, but his Peterbilt tractor-trailer had to be towed because of damage to its front end.
State Police did not give any explanation for why Jacobs was walking along the highway. State police said the case remains under investigation.


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