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One of the most enjoyable portions of Super Bowl week is when video game engineers simulate the upcoming game 547 times and tell you, the viewer, who's going to win. So if you hate spoiler alerts, click away NOW, because I'm about to tell you who will prevail between the Packers and Steelers on Sunday. Avert your gaze!
/looks at headline
Oh, right. I already noted in the headline that they picked Pittsburgh to win. My bad. Anyway, my colleagues at Kotaku noted that Madden has the game going the Steelers way:
Madden NFL 11 predicts that the Pittsburgh Steelers will win their record seventh Vince Lombardi Trophy, defeating the Green Bay Packers 24-20 in Super Bowl XLV, according to the annual EA SPORTS Super Bowl Simulation powered by Madden NFL 11. Six out of the last seven Super Bowl champions have been accurately predicted by Madden NFL.
That's not all. The Steelers also prevailed in the simulation for NFL 2K5, a simulation that accurately predicted all three Jets playoff games. So all video game simulations point to a Pittsburgh victory, and yet that has had no bearing on the Vegas point spread, which has held firm with the Green Bay (-2.5) favored all week.
I think we can deduce two things from this. ONE: Green Bay fans bet more than Steelers fans. TWO: Steelers fans do not bet as much because they're too busy playing Madden and resetting the game any time the Packers take a 10-point lead or greater. I think both those conclusions are utterly IRONCLAD.
Anyway, keep those simulations in mind when you're placing bets with your Russian bookie. Computers never lie, except when they tell me there are hot girls waiting to meet me in MY area.


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Hi razer,
vote bank is singular, vote banks is plural.
vote bank - Wiktionary
Votebank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Friends, I'm confuse regarding the usage of countable and uncountable noun in this sentence. Because of the obscurity of that word I'm not been able to comprehend whether it's singular or plural. Actually, I want to use this term in my sentence: "vote bank trust". In this sentence I'm not sure term "vote bank" is countable noun or uncountable noun, in other words singular or plural. Only after knowing it I can put "s" with the word trust. So, chums help me figure out it's singular or plural and the sentence should be : "vote bank trust" or "vote bank trusts" ?
The whole sentence is like this: Not even Ahmadinejad's vote bank trust him anymore.
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Hi razer,
vote bank is singular, vote banks is plural.
vote bank - Wiktionary
Votebank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wiki links can't be consider as reliable. Further there is nothing on grammar aspect of that word. Regarding the word vote-banks I feel I've yet to confront such word. Any more info ? Where r senior guys ?
You takes your choice. It can be either a votebank or several votebanks.
Great. If I could figure it out on my own then why I was wandering in this forum As I've told in my given sentence the term is: vote bank. Now tell me it's countable noun or uncountable singular noun ?
"Razer bhai, try to be a little more polite. Given your context I would say that singular is appropriate hai na?"
I was always polite here one can check my record. Sorry, if was impolite Bhai Sahab, will be more cautious next time. I didn't get the "satisfying' reply after a long time; the replies I got are not much helpful therefore I got frustrated and "perhaps" used "bit" impolite language. My apology to all once again.
Yes, I also feel it should be singular. Correct hai Thanks for clearing my confusion. Others thanks to u also and I regret if I said anything hurtful to u.

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Edgar Allan Poe once wrote an essay called "The Philosophy of Composition," to explain why he wrote "The Raven" backward. The poem tells the story of a man who, "once upon a midnight dreary," while mourning his dead love, Lenore, answers a tapping at his chamber door, to find "darkness there and nothing more." He peers into the darkness, "dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before," and meets a silence broken only by his whispered word, "Lenore?" He closes the door. The tapping starts again. He flings open his shutter and, "with many a flirt and flutter," in flies a raven, "grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore." The bird speaks just one word: "Nevermore." That word is the poem's last, but it's where Poe began. He started, he said, "at the end, where all works of art should begin," and he "first put pen to paper" at what became the third-to-last stanza:
"Prophet," said I, "thing of evil! prophet
still if bird or devil!
By that heaven that bends above us—by
that God we both adore,
Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if
within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the
angels name Lenore—
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom
the angels name Lenore."
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."
"The Philosophy of Composition" is a lovely little essay, but, as Poe himself admitted, it's a bit of jiggery-pokery, too. Poe didn't actually write "The Raven" backward. The essay is as much a contrivance as the poem itself. Here is a beautiful poem; it does everything a poem should do, is everything a poem should be. And here is a clever essay about the writing of a beautiful poem. Top that. Nearly everything Poe wrote, including the spooky stories for which he is best remembered, has this virtuosic, showy, lilting, and slightly wilting quality, like a peony just past bloom. Poe didn't write "The Raven" to answer the exacting demands of a philosophic Art, or not entirely, anyway. He wrote it for the same reason that he wrote tales like "The Gold-Bug": to stave off starvation. For a long while, Poe lived on bread and molasses; weeks before "The Gold-Bug" was published, he was begging near-strangers on the street for fifty cents to buy something to eat. " 'The Raven' has had a great 'run,' " he wrote to a friend, "but I wrote it for the express purpose of running—just as I did the 'Gold-Bug,' you know. The bird beat the bug, though, all hollow." The public that swallowed that bird and bug Poe strenuously resented. You love Poe or you don't, but, either way, Poe doesn't love you. A writer more condescending to more adoring readers would be hard to find. "The nose of a mob is its imagination," he wrote. "By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
This year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Poe's birth and the publication of two collections of gothic tales produced by the Mystery Writers of America. "On a Raven's Wing: New Tales in Honor of Edgar Allan Poe" (Harper; $14.99) contains stories by twenty mystery writers, including Mary Higgins Clark. "In the Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe" (William Morrow; $25.99) pairs Poe's best-known stories with modern commentaries; Stephen King muses on "The Genius of 'The Tell-Tale Heart.' " There's also a sensitive and haunting brief biography, Peter Ackroyd's "Poe: A Life Cut Short" (Doubleday; $21.95), that offers a fitting tribute to Poe's begin-at-the-end philosophy by opening with his horrible and mysterious death, in October of 1849. Poe, drunk and delirious, seems to have been dragged around Baltimore to cast votes, precinct after precinct, in one of that city's infamously corrupt congressional elections, until he finally collapsed. From Ryan's tavern, a polling place in the Fourth Ward, Poe was carried, like a corpse, to a hospital. He died four days later. He was forty years old.
"My whole existence has been the merest Romance," Poe wrote, the year before his death, "in the sense of the most utter unworldliness." This is Byronic bunk. Poe's life was tragic, but he was about as unworldly as a bale of cotton. Poe's world was Andrew Jackson's America, a world of banking collapse, financial panic, and grinding depression that had a particularly devastating effect on the publishing industry, where Poe sought a perch. His biography really is a series of unfortunate events. But two of those events were transatlantic financial crises: the Panic of 1819 and the Panic of 1837, the pit and the pendulum of the antebellum economy. Poe died at the end of a decade known, in Europe, as "the Hungry Forties," and he wasn't the only American to fall face down in the gutter during a seven-year-long depression brought on by a credit collapse. He did not live out of time. He lived in hard times, dark times, up-and-down times. Indigence cast a shadow over everything he attempted. Poverty was his raven, tapping at the door, and it was Poe, not the bird, who uttered, helplessly, another rhyme for "Nevermore." "I send you an original tale," Poe once began a letter, and, at its end, added one line more: "P.S. I am poor."
Edgar Poe was born in Boston, on January 19, 1809, to a talented actress named Eliza Poe and her hapless husband, David, who deserted her. When Edgar was two, his mother died of consumption. Edgar and a brother and sister had little more to depend upon than the charity of strangers. The Poe orphans were separated, and Edgar landed in the home of a wealthy Richmond merchant named John Allan and his sickly, childless wife, Fanny. Allan, who ran a firm called the House of Ellis, never adopted the boy, and never loved him, either. Poe, for his part, took Allan's name but never wanted it. (He signed letters, and published, as "Edgar A. Poe.") In 1815, Allan moved his family to London, to take advantage of the booming British market for Virginia tobacco. Poe attended posh boarding schools. Then, during the Panic of 1819, the first bust in the industrializing nineteenth century, banks failed, factories closed, and Allan's business imploded. Allan, plagued with two hundred thousand dollars of debt, returned to Virginia. Poe turned poet. The earliest verses in his hand that survive were written when he was fifteen: "Last night, with many cares and toils oppress'd, / Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest." Adolescent melancholy, and nothing more. But on the same sheet of paper, just below Poe's scrawl, Allan had calculated the compound interest on a debt.
In 1823, Poe fell in love with Jane Stannard, the unhinged mother of a school friend. A year later, Stannard died, insane. Poe spent much time at her graveside. "No more" became his favorite phrase. In 1825, Allan inherited a fortune from an uncle. He did not name Poe as his heir. Allan rose; Poe kept falling. At seventeen, Poe went to the University of Virginia, where he drank and gambled and, in a matter of months, racked up debts totalling more than two thousand dollars. Allan refused to honor them, even though Poe was at risk of debtors' prison. Poe ran off. There followed a series of huffy pronouncements and stormy departures; most ended in Poe creeping back, begging Allan for money. "I am in the greatest necessity, not having tasted food since Yesterday morning," Poe wrote. "I have no where to sleep at night, but roam about the Streets." Allan was unmoved. Poe enlisted in the Army and served for two years as Edgar A. Perry. In 1829, Fanny Allan died. Andrew Jackson was inaugurated. Poe, while awaiting a commission to West Point, submitted the manuscript for a book of poems to a publisher, who told him that he would publish it only if Poe guaranteed him against the loss. Allan wouldn't front the money. Poe moved to Baltimore, where he lived with his invalid grandmother; his aunt, Maria Clemm; his nine-year-old cousin, Virginia; and his brother, Henry, an alcoholic who was dying of consumption.
Jackson, meanwhile, refused to renew the charter of the Bank of the United States, run by Nicholas Biddle. Biddle insisted on the need for federal regulation of paper currency. Some of Jackson's supporters wanted no paper money at all. Between 1830 and 1837, while Biddle and Jackson battled, three hundred and forty-seven state-chartered banks opened across the country. They printed their own money—$140 million in paper bills was in circulation by 1836. All this paper was backed by very little coin. At the end of Jackson's two terms, American banks held six times as much paper money as gold.
Poe, who was broke, didn't need a bank. He could treasure up funds, he came to believe, in his own brain. He read as much as he could, borrowing books from Baltimore libraries. "There are minds which not only retain all receipts, but keep them at compound interest for ever," he wrote. Poe may have thought that his mind was a mint, but when his book of poems was finally published it earned him nothing (exactly what all his collections of poetry earned). He sold one of Maria Clemm's slaves. "I have tried to get the money for you from Mr. A a dozen times—but he always shuffles me off," Poe wrote to one of his creditors. And he added, lying, "Mr. A is not very often sober."
"I have an inveterate habit of speaking the truth," Poe once wrote. That, too, was a lie. (That Poe lied compulsively about his own life has proved the undoing of many a biographer.) In 1830, he finally made it to West Point, where he pulled pranks. "I cannot believe a word he writes," Allan wrote on the back of yet another letter from his wayward charge. Poe was court-martialled, and after that Allan, who had since married a woman twenty years his junior, cut him off entirely. Poe went to New York, but, unable to support himself by writing, he left the city within three months, returning to Baltimore to live with Mrs. Clemm and little Virginia. He published his first story, "Metzengerstein," about a doomed Hungarian baron, his gloomy castle, and his fiery steed. He won a prize of fifty dollars from the Baltimore Saturday Visiter for "MS Found in a Bottle." One of the editors, who met him, later wrote, "I found him in Baltimore in a state of starvation." In these straits, Poe wrote "Berenice," a story about a man who disinters his dead lover and yanks out all her teeth—"the white and glistening, and ghastly teeth of Berenice"—only to realize that she is still alive. It has been claimed, plausibly, that Poe wrote this story to make a very bad and long-winded joke about "bad taste." Also: he was hungry.
John Allan died in 1834, a rich man. He left his vast estate—three plantations and two hundred and thirty slaves—to his second wife and their three children. He left Edgar A. Poe not a penny. The following year, Poe was hired as the editor of a new monthly magazine, the Southern Literary Messenger, in Richmond. He was paid sixty dollars a month, modest enough but, for him, a fortune. In 1836, Poe married Virginia Clemm. She was thirteen; he was twenty-seven; he said she was twenty-one. He called her his "darling little wifey." ("I was a child and she was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea; / But we loved with a love that was more than love— / I and my Annabel Lee.") Poe held the job at the Messenger for only sixteen months. He boasted that, under his editorship, the magazine's circulation grew from seven hundred to fifty-five hundred, but, as the Poe scholar Terence Whalen has discovered, this was another lie. The magazine had thirteen hundred subscribers when Poe started, and eighteen hundred when he left.
Poe lied about the Messenger's circulation because he was attempting to forge a career in the world of magazine publishing during very troubled economic times. And, plainly, he was a very troubled man. Quarrelling with the publisher of the Messenger, Poe left the magazine and, in February of 1837, moved to New York. The New-Yorker, a weekly magazine edited by Rufus Griswold, welcomed him, praising his work at the Messenger. Harper & Brothers was just about to publish his novel, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym," the account of a Nantucket seafarer. His voyages involve whaling, mutiny, shipwreck, sharks, cannibalism, letters written in blood, cryptic "Ethiopian characters," and an island of treacherous black people, with black teeth, whose chief is named Too-wit.
Unfortunately, Poe arrived in New York just in time for the Panic of 1837. With all that paper money, speculators had gone wild; in the West, there had been a land grab and in the East a housing bubble—in New York, real-estate values had risen a hundred and fifty per cent. When the crash came, early in the Van Buren Presidency, bankruptcies swept the nation. In New York, riots erupted as the swelling ranks of the city's poor broke into food shops. "Down with the panic makers," one newspaper warned, promising, "A bright sun will soon dispel the remaining darkness." But the skies didn't brighten. In April, one New Yorker wrote in his diary, "Wall Street. The blackness of darkness still hangeth over it. Failure on failure." By the fall of 1837, nine out of ten Eastern factories had closed. Five hundred desperate New Yorkers turned up to answer an ad for twenty day laborers, to be paid at the truly measly wage of four dollars a month.
"Pym" failed, too. Poe's publisher had tried to pass the novel off as an authentic travel journal even as its author left a trail of clues to the hoax—"pym" being, for instance, an anagram of "imp." This didn't go over especially well. One reviewer called the book "an impudent attempt at humbugging the public." Poe did not write another novel. He moved to Philadelphia and wrote more short stories. During the seven-year depression that followed the Panic, Whalen has shown, Poe wrote a tenth as many poems and twice as many tales. He insisted that this was an aesthetic choice. Any piece of truly worthy writing must be able to be read at a sitting in order to achieve a single dramatic effect, the "Nevermore"-ish end with which, Poe said, every work of Art must begin. The tale, he believed, affords "the best prose opportunity for display of the highest talent." Maybe. But writing a book was exactly the kind of long-term investment Poe could not afford to make, especially with so little prospect of return. In the eighteen-twenties, books cost, on average, two dollars; during the depression, that price fell to fifty cents.
Poe had started writing gothic stories before the economy collapsed. But, as a man without independent means, he was especially vulnerable to market forces, and he knew it. (That's probably why he worked so hard at appearing so otherworldly, so Romantic.) He tried to deduce, from careful study, what sold best, and concluded, "The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in nature—to Berenice." Gothic stories—supernatural tales set, often, in medieval ruins—had been popular for decades. They were fun to write on a rainy day, as Mary Shelley had discovered, and even more fun to parody, as Jane Austen found out (both "Frankenstein" and "Northanger Abbey" were published in 1818, when Poe was in England). The genre had since gone to seed, but it still sold well. A philosophy of composition? No, what Poe developed was a philosophy of the literary marketplace. He had little choice. "The general market for literary wares is in a state of stagnation," he reported, during one of the worst years of the depression. The problem with Poe comes to this: he needed to turn his pen to profit, but he also wanted to signal, as with "Pym," that he was lowering himself. Look! See? I'm brilliant! Even at writing dreck! In the story "How to Write a Blackwood Article" (1838), he tells of an aspiring writer of gothic tales who visits the editor of Blackwood's Magazine, seeking instruction. "Your writer of intensities must have very black ink, and a very big pen, with a very blunt nib," the editor advises, then offers some examples of recent successes:
Let me see. There was 'The Dead Alive,' a capital thing!—the record of a gentleman's sensations when entombed before the breath was out of his body—full of taste, terror, sentiment, metaphysics, and erudition. You would have sworn that the writer had been born and brought up in a coffin. Then we had the 'Confessions of an Opium-eater'—fine, very fine!—glorious imagination—deep philosophy—acute speculation—plenty of fire and fury, and a good spicing of the decidedly unintelligible. That was a nice bit of flummery, and went down the throats of the people delightfully. They would have it that Coleridge wrote the paper—but not so. It was composed by my pet baboon, Juniper. Poe calibrated and recalibrated. Just how many ways can a writer insult his readers and get away with it? If you take Poe's best horror stories at face value, they are wonderfully, flawlessly terrifying; they are also dripping with contempt. "Half-banter, half-satire" is how he once described them. "The Tell-Tale Heart" reads more like three-quarters burlesque, especially when you think about the literary output of Juniper the baboon. A madman with super-acuity murders an old man and entombs the corpse beneath the floor. When the police arrive, the madman begins to hear the beating of his victim's heart:
I felt that I must scream or die!—and now—again!—hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!—
"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed!—tear up the planks!—here, here!—it is the beating of his hideous heart!"
Most of Poe's stories have this campy, floozy "Boo!" business at the end. Poe knew that these were cheap tricks. He played them well—nobody better—but they weren't to everyone's taste. The first editor to read "The Tell-Tale Heart" rejected it. It was, he said, too loud.
What Poe most wanted was never again to answer to an editor. "As soon as Fate allows, I will have a Magazine of my own—and will endeavor to kick up a dust," he wrote in 1839. Instead, he became, that same year, the assistant editor of the Philadelphia-based Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. He wrote, "That Magazines can live, and not only live but thrive, and not only thrive but afford to disburse money for original contributions, are facts which can only be solved, under the circumstances, by the really fanciful but still agreeable supposition, that there is somewhere still existing an ember not altogether quenched among the fires of good feeling for letters and literary men." But, as the depression deepened, magazines struggled, too. At Burton's, Poe had to send letters to his writers informing them, "The intense pressure has obliged Mr. B. with nearly every, if not with every, publisher in the country, to discontinue paying for contributions." Drinking and fighting with Burton are the usual reasons given for Poe's being sacked, in 1840. But, really, he was in an impossible position.
Poe then asked Nicholas Biddle to give him a thousand dollars to launch his own magazine, which he proposed calling The Penn Magazine. Biddle, broken by the Bank War, didn't oblige. Poe took a job as the book-review editor of Graham's Magazine. He wrote much of the copy himself. George Graham paid his writers on a scale that ranged from two dollars a page to twelve dollars. He paid Poe only four dollars, explaining, "The character of Poe's mind was of such an order, as not to be very widely in demand."
At Graham's and elsewhere, Poe wrote a prodigious amount of rather extraordinary literary criticism. He was a keen critic: relentless, unsparing, and, at times, abusive. Thus, Poe on Margaret Fuller: "The manner of Carlyle is conventional—with himself. The style of Emerson is conventional—with himself and Carlyle. The style of Miss Fuller is conventional—with herself and Emerson and Carlyle:—that is to say, it is a triple-distilled conventionality:—and by the word 'conventionality,' as here used, I mean very nearly what, as regards personal conduct, we style 'affectation.' " He was picky about diction. "The history of the borders is filled with legends," James Fenimore Cooper had written. " 'Abounds with legends,' would be better," Poe suggested, "for it is clear that if the history were filled with legends it would be all legend and no history." Cooper was a popular writer, and this, to Poe, was a good sign that he was a bad one: "The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, persons of mere address, perseverance, effrontery—in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks." (Poe aspired to be that one out of a hundred who was not.) He also found grossly offensive the prevailing fashion for a national literature, and waged a one-man campaign against the Young Americans, charging them with adhering to "the gross paradox of liking a stupid book the better, because, sure enough, its stupidity is American." Poe also hated Transcendentalists and literary Bostonians, because, "self-bepuffed," they praised one another's work. He began his review of one much hyped novel, "For the sake of everything puffed, puffing and puffable, let us take a peep at its contents!" As Poe saw it, he was the nation's only real critic; everyone else was just a puffer. If Rufus Griswold's correspondence is any measure, Poe was right. A testy Griswold once wrote a publisher, "I puff your books, you know, without any regard to their quality."
Poe was, unsurprisingly, much attacked, as in a column titled "POE-LEMICAL." And still he fought. Literature was to Poe a religion, Graham once wrote, and Poe "its high-priest," who "with a whip of scorpions scourged the money-changers from the temple." Poe was looking, in other words, for a gold standard of literary value, against the nothingness of paper puffery. There was, in Andrew Jackson's America, a literary bubble, and Edgar A. Poe was determined to burst it.
Around the time Poe left Philadelphia, he changed the name of his proposed magazine to The Stylus; on its cover he wanted a picture of a hand holding a pen and, beneath it, a Latin epigraph that translates as "Sometimes a pen of gold and sometimes a pen of iron." The Stylus never got off the ground. Poe began to think of his life as a kind of forced labor in "the Magazine Prison-House." But the market that confined him to that prison affected other writers, and readers, too. Something had happened in the world, in the midst of the Panic. When Poe wrote to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Washington Irving, soliciting contributions, he began his letter, "I need not call your attention to the signs of the times." Magazines were cheaper than books and richer than newspapers. What Poe sensed was the commercial and stylistic ascendancy of magazine literature, despite the morbid financial times. The era of the magazine, with its clipped prose, relentless currency, and swift circulation, had arrived. No more "the verbose and ponderous." The "energetic, busy spirit of the age," Poe wrote, "tended wholly to the Magazine literature—to the curt, the terse, the well-timed, and the readily diffused."
Poe was, nevertheless, desperate for something other than magazine writing to fall back on, and in July of 1841 he urged the Tyler Administration to hire him as a cryptographer. "Nothing intelligible can be written which, with time, I cannot decipher," he boasted. That month, he published an essay on "secret writing," celebrating the ancient art of writing "in such manner as to elude general comprehension." Poe liked ciphers because he liked to send messages that readers lacking his particular genius could not decode. When he published a cryptogram that he had devised, he was astonished that even a single reader wrote in with the solution. "From among at least 100,000 readers," Poe replied to him, "you and I are the only persons who have succeeded."
Poe had no real chance at a political appointment. But cryptography did save him, by leading him to an ingenious solution to his dilemma, that of a poet determined to both court and outwit the mob. In 1841, he published "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the story of a crime solved by a code-cracking French detective named C. Auguste Dupin. (The murderer turns out to be an orangutan.) Two more Dupin tales, the world's first detective stories, followed. With Dupin, Poe channelled his desire to write above his readers—to dupe them—into a character much like himself, a man who had once been wealthy but who, "by a variety of untoward events, had been reduced to such poverty that the energy of his character succumbed beneath it." Dupin has a very Poe-ish intelligence; he is "fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural." And, like Poe, he gloats about his superior powers of perception, boasting, "with a low chuckling laugh, that most men, in respect to himself, wore windows in their bosoms."
If Dupin sounds uncannily familiar, that's because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, like every other author of detective fiction, not to mention the creators of a thousand TV crime shows, is incalculably in Poe's debt. "The children of Poe" is what Stephen King calls the members of his guild, and with good reason. But horror stories predate Poe, and have many other sources. Not so the literary sleuth. All detective stories and police procedurals begin with the intellectually imperious C. Auguste Dupin: methodical, eccentric, calculating—and insulting. We, mere readers, are so many Watsons, Hastingses, and Goodwins. Poe is the only Holmes.
Poe wrote his most popular story, "The Gold-Bug," just before the nation at last emerged from depression. In January of 1842, his wife had begun to cough up blood; she was eventually consumed, as Poe's mother had been, by tuberculosis. The squalid conditions in which the Poes lived didn't help. Poe begged Graham for an advance of two months' salary. In February, Poe wrote an unfavorable review of Dickens's "Barnaby Rudge," a novel about a village idiot and his talking raven that had been published, serially, in The New-Yorker. The next month, Poe met Dickens, who was on his American tour (during which Dickens coined the phrase "the almighty dollar"). By April, Poe had resigned his editorship of Graham's Magazine, claiming that he found the magazine "namby-pamby," but he had also taken to drinking again. (After Poe's death, Graham, who was fond of him, commended his bookkeeping: "He kept his accounts, small as they were, with the accuracy of a banker.") When Griswold replaced Poe as the editor of Graham's, a friend of Poe's printed a squib: "We would give more for Edgar A. Poe's toe nail, than we would for Rueful Grizzle's soul, unless we wanted a milk-strainer." Shortly afterward, Poe reviewed Griswold's "Poets and Poetry of America," remarking that Griswold had included in his anthology many poets whom Poe deemed to be beneath contempt. The battle between Griswold and Poe shaped Poe's legacy for a century.
"My only hope of relief is the 'Bankrupt Act,' " Poe wrote in June. He peddled "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt," a sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," at a discount, telling an editor that Graham would have paid him a hundred dollars: "Of course I could not afford to make you an absolute present of it—but if you are willing to take it, I will say $40." A friend who visited him that fall was mortified to find that Poe and his wife and Mrs. Clemm had a hard time coming up with anything to serve him. Then Poe offered to prostitute his magazine to the Tyler Administration. "It has been hinted to me that I will receive the most effectual patronage from Government, for a journal which will admit occasional papers in support of the Administration," he wrote. "Of the government patronage, upon the condition specified, I am assured and this alone will more than sustain the Magazine."
Early in 1843, Poe went to Washington, to lobby for that patronage, but he drank too much and abused his hosts. A journalist who met Poe on the streets of the capital found him seedy and woebegone. Just weeks later, Poe heard about a short-story contest, sponsored by the Dollar Newspaper. The prize was a hundred dollars: "Very Liberal Offers and No Humbug" read one version of the contest announcement. Poe had recently finished "The Gold-Bug," and had sold it to Graham for fifty-two dollars. Thinking to earn that extra forty-eight dollars, he returned Graham's money and submitted his story to the jury. He won first prize. The theme, another sign of the times, was clear enough: "The Banker's Daughter" took second prize; third went to a story called "Marrying for Money."
"The Gold-Bug" was printed in the Dollar Newspaper in June and July of 1843. Its Dupin-like protagonist, William Legrand, "had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want." Legrand lives on Sullivan's Island, off South Carolina, with a Newfoundland and "an old negro, called Jupiter." Jupiter tells a spooky story: Legrand has discovered a strange beetle and, ever since, has been puzzling "a syphon wid de figgurs on de slate—de queerest figgurs I ebber did see. Ise gitting to be skeered." (Poe's racism ran very deep.) Jupiter is the gothic tale-teller inside "The Gold-Bug," not unlike Juniper, the gothic-tale-writing baboon of "How to Write a Blackwood Article." In both stories, Poe divested himself of what he considered to be the darker side of his own authorship.
"The Gold-Bug" is a tangle of puns, many of them, as the literary scholar Marc Shell has pointed out, having to do with currency. Legrand has found a bug the color of gold. "De bug is a goole bug," Jupiter says. In other words, a ghoul bug. It looks as if it were made of gold. It is not. "Dey aint no tin in him, Massa," Jupiter says. There's nothing in him—no tin, and no gold, either. Legrand has also found a parchment, made of goatskin, _kid_skin. It contains a map showing where a treasure was buried on the island by the pirate Captain Kidd. This pun Legrand himself has to figure out, in order to find the buried treasure. (Kidd's map, in this sense, is itself a guide to Poe's tales. Is Poe kidding or not? Are the tales a joke, and worthless, or brilliant, and priceless?) The parchment is covered with invisible ink, which, as Legrand discovers, conceals a cryptogram. After decoding the cipher, Legrand takes Jupiter, the dog, and the befuddled narrator on a hunt for the treasure, which turns out to be a chest containing jewels and gold coins.
Poe's intent in writing "The Gold-Bug," one reviewer noted, "was evidently to write a popular tale: money, and the finding of money being chosen as the most popular thesis." When a critic called the prize "A Decided Humbug" and suggested that no editor could possibly have paid Poe a hundred dollars for such "unmitigated trash," Poe sued for libel and won a retraction. Still, the story is a kind of hoax. It aspires to popularity by assaulting the very idea of a popular audience. Poe's tales, like paper money, promise value even as they flaunt their worthlessness. Like the beetle of its title, "The Gold-Bug," the story, is "no tin," too.
After "The Gold-Bug," Poe's life went from bad to worse. In late 1843, when his friends heard that his wife and his mother-in-law were starving, they gave him fifteen dollars, only to come across him, an hour later, drunk and in the street. In 1844, Poe was down to his last four and a half dollars. The publication of "The Raven" the following year didn't rescue him from poverty, but it did propel him, almost overnight, to literary celebrity. This he simply sabotaged. He became the editor and then the owner of The Broadway Journal, a New York weekly. But the tone of his criticism grew more rancorous, especially with the ill-advised publication, in Godey's Lady's Book, of a series of sketches called "The Literati of New York City: Some Honest Opinions at Random Respecting Their Authorial Merits, with Occasional Words of Personality." Invited to Boston to recite a new poem, he read, instead, a poem that he later said he had written as a child (and subsequently, in The Broadway Journal, confessed, without apology, that he had been drunk). He tried to keep the magazine afloat, writing to a friend, "So help me Heaven, I have sent and gone personally in all the nooks & corners of Broker-Land & such a thing as the money you speak of—is not to be obtained." The Broadway Journal folded in 1846. Virginia Poe's prolonged illness left her husband in tatters. "I drank, God only knows how often or how much," Poe admitted. He had a breakdown. His wife died in January of 1847. Toward the end of his own life, Poe may have descended again into lunacy. "I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched," he insisted, just months before his death, when he was, at best, disordered to the point of necromaniacal incoherence: "I have been taken to prison once since I came here for getting drunk; but then I was not. It was about Virginia." The cause of his death remains mysterious.
Poe was buried in Baltimore in October, 1849. "Nothing further then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered." Days after Poe's death, Rufus Griswold wrote a breathtakingly belligerent obituary: Poe's passing "will startle many, but few will be grieved by it." Maria Clemm, in a singularly unfortunate act of ignorance or avarice, gave Griswold power of attorney and sold him Poe's papers. Griswold became his literary executor. A year later, he wrote a biography of Poe in which he distorted the historical record, publishing slanders and forgeries, to make Poe seem a fiend. Between Poe's lies and Griswold's forgeries, it can be difficult to take the measure of Edgar A. Poe. Was the man an utter genius or a complete fraud? It's a question that has riddled Poe scholarship for a century and a half. James Russell Lowell wrote, the year before Poe died, "There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, / Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge." The question goes back to Poe himself, who was forever calculating. Half banter? Half satire? Two dollars a page, or four? Less Byron, more gore?
And the raven, never flitting, still is
sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above
my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a
demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming
throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that
lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!
Three-fifths Romantic; two-fifths poor. ♦
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Report suggests drop in Missouri's overall health
Life expectancies in some counties rival less-developed countries
A new report claims Missourians are not as healthy as they used to be, comparing their health to citizens in less-developed countries.
The report from the Missouri Hospital Association comes amid the group's support of Gov. Jay Nixon's failed attempt to expand Medicaid in the state earlier this year.
The MHA report said Missouri, which was ranked the nation's 24th healthiest state in 1990, is now down to 42nd. The report said it based its assessment on criteria from the United Health Foundation.
Dr. Sarah Ziegler, a pediatrician at the Swope Health Center, said the state has had a generation of people making poor food choices.
"(People are eating) a lot of processed foods, heading away from the classic meat and potatoes and vegetable plate to a (diet of) fast food, quick food and packaged meals," Ziegler said.
She said if that's what parents eat, then so will their children.
The report also said Missouri has other bad health habits, leading it to be third in the nation for heart attacks, eighth in the nation for per-capita smokers and it has the fourth-lowest immunization rate.
The MHS said Missouri's strict Medicaid regulations are a factor in why so many people are uninsured. Almost 90 percent of uninsured Missourians are of working age, with most of the rest under 18.
Ziegler also said today's children aren't getting enough exercise.
"We're seeing a lot more children spending more time on the couches, in front of the TV, rather than being outside and active," she said.The average life expectancy in Missouri is 77 years. It's even lower in some counties in southeast Missouri, comparable to places like Vietnam, Venezuela and Lebanon.
The map (right) shows the life expectancy at birth across Missouri counties, including higher rates in the Kansas City, Columbia and St. Louis metropolitan areas. The map uses statistics from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.


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Janice Bastani necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 234 diseños de 62 diseñadores freelance.
Janice Bastani (actual signature) and under that are the three words: AWARENESS GROWTH FREEDOM in all caps.
Janice Bastani is an author with the idea of giving women back the power that they have always had. This brand will launch a new opportunity for women in all seasons of life to pause and to become aware of who there are inside. What they will discover is that their lives are built on and fashioned around with the opportunity to re-evaluate that foundation and fill the deep black hole that they feel.
This concept is introduced in the book, then they are pointed to the process of awareness and then to how they can grow to acheive the freedom to be comfortable with who they really are without the pretense of the world they live in.
I am a Professional Credentialed Coach and daily I coach women who are drowning in trying to fit into an identity that society, media and our culture has placed on them. I am giving them the oppoprtunity to lay down that false identity and to be the woman she was always meant to be. No two of us as women are the same.
No one can force us to comply; we each take on the role, identity or architype willingly and we are 100% responsible for staying in that place. Each woman can decide for herself to lay down that heavy weight and be free.
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The target demographic: Women, age 32 - 55, in all seasons of life (from new mom to empty nester), all nationalities within the US and abroad. My readership on my blog is 3,000+ every month (http://www.janicebastani.com).
My audience is in a great deal of "pain" in all life areas and are just really in two groups: those who have given up and are just resigned to their plight, and those who are still jumping through all the hoops trying to be "perfect" in every area of life and they are both completely exhausted and not doing a good job in any arena.
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Titanic Memorial Cruise Sets Sail from Southampton
Editor's Note: Janet Kalstrom, a docent at The Molly Brown House Museum, is a passenger on the Titanic Memorial Cruise, retracing the voyage of the doomed ship. Here is a running account of her journey, which culuminates April 15 at the site in the North Atlantic where the Titanic sank in the early morning hours.
We arrived back in Southampton and offloaded passengers from our mini cruise. We then began to load new passengers to set sail on the Titanic Memorial Cruise in the early afternoon. We spent some time watching the arrival of our fellow passengers that we will be with for the next 12 days. The excitement was very electric with television reporters and cameras recording the day's events. Many passengers arrived in period costume and seemed to be regaling in their moment of time as they paraded onto the ship. Everyone was excited about the upcoming memorial cruise. It was quite a sight. Many people I met had booked their passage on this trip when it was first announced – up to six years ago. I was not in costume but was wearing a Molly Brown House Museum t-shirt for the 100th anniversary. Somehow I was spotted and had an opportunity to share with two separate BBC interviews my excitement and motivation behind traveling on the cruise. They asked many questions about Margaret Brown as well as what I was looking forward to on the cruise. I responded "I was Chasing Molly and her spirit on this adventure with the hopes of returning home just like her- Unsinkable".


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Brian France divorce documents show net worth of NASCAR Chairman
Details in the more than 1,500 documents made public Wednesday in a bitter dispute between NASCAR Chairman Brian France and his ex-wife Megan show how much the head of NASCAR was worth in the mid-2000s.
What the documents don't show is just as telling.
According to his October 2005 prenuptial agreement and his December 2007 separation agreement with Megan, France's list of assets shows no shares of stock in NASCAR, the privately held company that sanctions the world's largest and most popular stock-car racing series.
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In an April 2007 order in Kentucky Speedway's lawsuit against NASCAR, the judge indicated that NASCAR was owned solely by Brian's uncle, Jim France, and sister, Lesa France Kennedy. Brian and Lesa are the children of former NASCAR Chairman Bill France Jr. and the grandchildren of NASCAR founder Bill France Sr.
When asked about whether he still owns any part of NASCAR in the past, France has said he would not discuss NASCAR ownership. The documents released Wednesday continue to show the common belief that France has no financial stake in the company he runs and that his sister and uncle control the NASCAR coffers.
NASCAR spokesman Brett Jewkes Thursday said that NASCAR, a private company, is owned by the France family but the ownership structure is proprietary. Jewkes said that neither France nor NASCAR would have any comment on the divorce case or the documents released Wednesday.
Details of the case became public after Charlotte-area media challenged the sealing of documents in the divorce case, in which Brian has not paid $6 million of a $9 million payment to Megan. He is currently paying $510,000 a year for 10 years in alimony and childcare, according to the documents. The couple is the parents of twins born in September 2006, and the $6 million plus interest is being held in escrow pending the outcome of the case.
The divorce was final in 2008, but the documents come from a lawsuit Brian filed in September 2008 alleging that Megan broke the terms of their divorce when it came to visitation rights, the hiring of nannies and the confidentiality clause. Because she broke the terms of the divorce, he has withheld the $6 million payment, according to court documents.
The case file shows the massive wealth of Brian France, who succeeded his father as Chairman and CEO of NASCAR is 2003. Or at least what it was worth in 2005 and 2007.
In 2005, Brian listed assets of $554 million and loans of $26 million, according to documents in the case. He earned $9.05 million in 2004 as NASCAR chairman and CEO.
As part of the divorce, Megan France kept a $3.2 million Charlotte home and a $2 million vacant lot.
Brian kept three California condos (worth $4.4 million), three Daytona condos (worth $1.8 million), a $950,000 home in Charlotte and a $10.6 million Central Park condo with an additional $780,000 maid condo. He also owned five cars worth a total of $234,000, a yacht worth $5.2 million and three planes valued at $54.6 million.
According to the documents, his investments were worth $259 million with his stock in the publicly traded and France-family controlled International Speedway Corp. worth $120 million. ISC owns 12 tracks that host NASCAR Sprint Cup races.
In 2007, Brian listed the Grand-Am sports-car series among the companies he had at least partial ownership in, but it is listed as having insignificant value.
Megan France argues in the case that Brian was not as involved in the life of their children as he should have been and has held back paying for some prep school fees for her daughter from a previous marriage.


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|Are you idiots serious? You want a review from me...Hmmm
Mar 5, 2013 7:47 PM
|A very disgruntled Customer named Ticked Off!!! from In my current broken down chair would not recommend this to a friend.
|A Little About Myself
|Disabled person that was taken advantage of and lied to, with fraudulent information on this chair to get my Social Security money.
|Salesperson wasn't forthright in the information I was given about this chair, but, told me things to get me to purchase the chair with blatant lies. The chair is not for anyone over 400 lbs. it does not support your legs when reclined, it is like sitting in a child's recliner...It is not comfortable, it does not support your back...It is not worth the money...
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|Was told that delivery would be free, and inside my home as I have no stairs, elevators etc...What a joke...was told to offer the delivery guy a tip, perhaps $20.00 to take it out of the box and slip the back on the chair...The delivery guy was so rude and not only did he not deliver inside my home, he dropped it off outside and would not even move the pallet closer to the front door for my son (who has aback injury die to recent motorcycle accident) to be able to get it inside a little better...He was argumentative, bad mouthed the company and almost got into a physical altercation with my son...These people and this company are winners folks, can you tell by now?
|When chair was delivered, within one hour I was calling to complain, to no avail, was told they would be glad to take the chair back minus...$273.89 for shipping and handling and a restock fee...I fought this and made several calls to get it straightened out, I was ignored, I was dodged on all of my calls, I was basically ripped off...Oh! and I am sure this review will never make it past your eyes $ Lift Chairs...but< it feels good to write it and copy and paste it when I am done and blog it on the internet...Who says that I do, not get the last laugh?...Oh! and by the way, I have not received my refund to this day, 23 days later, and a phone call each day (documented) for legal purposes and no refund...Beware, these people are thieves...Oh for the record I can't submit my comment without choosing a star to rate it so I am being forced to choose one star, in order to get my comments posted...I would give this product negative 10 stars...
|4 of 5 people found this review helpful
Jun 5, 2012 7:11 PM
|Appleanne from Farmington,Michigan would recommend this to a friend.
|A Little About Myself
|Older Lady with lymphedema
|Nice quite chair and fabric is very nice love the color.
|chair is to tall, and seat is hard
|Service & Delivery
|The service and delivery was great, the chair came very fast 3 days I think was sure surprised to see that it came so fast.And the salesman I had was very nice and helpful.
|I'm 5'6 and this chair is to tall for me. The chair is a hard chair so it takes time to get use too, I think I may have returned it but I got a really good price and was happy with that.
|1 of 1 person found this review helpful
|Heritage GL-358XL
Dec 11, 2009 8:58 AM
|Wayne from Chicago, IL would recommend this to a friend.
|A Little About Myself
This 3-position lift chair is everything that was advertised. I'm writing for my wife, who has arthritic knees and other health problems. We chose this chair over several others because it could accomodate her size. The batteries are hard to install because of the small wires, and I am afraid they will break and require servicing.
|5 of 5 people found this review helpful
|Not totally Satisified.
Dec 11, 2009 5:35 AM
|Unhappy from Valdosta, Ga. would not recommend this to a friend.
|A Little About Myself
|Average Health, Elderly
|Bulky, Heavy, Unsafe
|I purchased the liftchair thinking that some day I might really need to have an assist to stand from a sitting position. It does this fairly well. But the remainder of the features don't amount to a hill of beans. First they charge an exorbitant fee to add a vibrating/heat option. I only wanted the heat. Then come to find out that the heat only covers less then 12 Square inches next to the seat of the chair. Then to complicate things, they put a 15 minute timer on the heating pad to turn off. Thus if you sit in the chair for more than 15 minutes and want heat, you must recycle the heat switch to maintain the heat. I would like to have it for no less than one hour at a time. This would make more sense to me. I feel that this option was a waste of money. I have had the chair for about a year, and it is beginning to creek like a abused wooden chair. I truly feel that the wooden frame may be coming apart, as well. When I first set up the chair, it was placed on a hard wood floor. Then each time I sat down it would move a little. Thus when it was time to recline the chair, it would hit the wall. This required that I pull the chair away from the wall. I think that they should have put some type of feet on the unit, that would fit all types of floors, and prevent skidding on hard surfaces. It would be nice if the remote control for the chair were mounted permanently in the chair. You must search for the switches on the long cable each time you wish to make an adjustment. How nice it would be if the switches were mounted in a small box on the side of the arm rest. This could be specified as to right or left, according to the customer. It is a real hassle to find the switch each time you want to make an adjustment, turn on the chair shaker, (They won't let you use the word the properly describes this device!), or the heating pad. I would not recommend this brand of chair or this supplier to anyone.
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When I finished my years at the University of Utah for both of my degrees, it turned out that I had more hours of classes on military history than any other subject. I spent the next couple of years on active duty in the Army during the Vietnam War, but ended up serving in Panama rather than going to Vietnam. I bring this up to make a point about genealogy. Genealogy is history, no matter what the attitude of the academic world or anyone else for that matter and if you are doing genealogical research, you ignore history at your peril. I naturally think of the wars because this is my background. But many researchers have ignored military records, even when those records are indicated by the time and place where their ancestors lived.
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Someone commented recently to me that I seemed to have a rather dim view of the average person's knowledge of history. I can say that my experience in this regard simply forces me to that attitude. Among genealogists, the number of people who are aware of our history, is likely quite a bit greater than the general population, but there is still a lack of awareness of all of the military conflicts in America, both before and after Independence from England, that could have generated records.
The earliest American war is generally believed to be King Phillip's War from 1675 to 1676. However, there is also the Pequot War of 1637. Since that time, I count more than 30 different conflicts that could be considered to be wars, both declared and undeclared. For example, as I write this post, is there a U.S. war going on? Answer that question and you can see why the number of wars may vary. But the fact of the matter is that millions of Americans have fought in various conflicts from early colonial times to the present and their records have piled up in various repositories around the United States and abroad for hundreds of years.
With regard to King Phillip's War, I find about 5,000 books listed in WorldCat.org on that subject alone. You might want to start with the FamilySearch.org Research Wiki article, Massachusetts Military Records. You might also check out the article Colonial Wars, 1607 to 1763. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of websites dedicated to military history.
The rule here is that if your ancestors lived in America when one of these wars was in progress, there is a possibility that someone in your ancestral family was involved in the war and you may find records about your family that you previously were not aware of. If you think about it you may wish to go to the Research Wiki article, United States Military Records, to get started.
Of course, military records also exist in almost every other country of the world. No matter where you live, you just might try researching the military records for your own country.
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The bishops singled out the "unique and essential responsibility" of labor unions in economic renewal and noted their indispensable role as agents of solidarity and subsidiarity, but warned that "some union actions can contribute to excessive polarization and intense partisanship, can pursue positions that conflict with the common good, or can focus on just narrow self-interests."
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Centrally located in Dubai Marina, Elite Residence is a short walk away from many attractions. You can walk to the famous Marina Walk, the beach, the JBR Walk/Beach, metro station, ferry boat station, bus station, Dubai Marina shopping mall, supermarkets, retails shops, and hundreds of restaurants, coffee shops, and bars.
Superb location in the heart of Dubai Marina
New luxurious tower with resort-like amenities
Fully-featured, fully serviced apartments
24/7 receptionist and watch guard
Online booking: credit cards, paypal, eChecks
Well-equipped gymnasium (weights and cardio machines)
2 indoor swimming pools abd Jacuzzi
Outdoor swimming pools
Games room: billiard, table tennis, foosball, air hockey
Steam and dry Sauna, Jacuzzi
Children room: slides, toys, etc.
Gated car park with reserved space
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