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AUBURN, Ala. - The Auburn volleyball team continues its road swing as the Tigers travel to No. 1 Florida and South Carolina this weekend. Auburn opens with a 3 p.m. CT match against the top-ranked Gators in Gainesville on Friday. The Tigers follow with a 12:30 p.m. CT match against the Gamecocks in Columbia on Sunday.
"We're excited to face the top team in the country in Florida and we're anxious to see what we can do against a team of that caliber," head coach Wade Benson said. "South Carolina plays well at home and is a team that is going to keep the ball in the court with a strong game plan. We need to control our side of the ball in both of these matches and play our game."
Live stats are available and can be found on Auburn volleyball's schedule website. Also, get in-match updates by following AUVolleyball on Twitter.
Auburn returns to the Student Activities Center for a pair of SEC West match ups. The Tigers face Arkansas on Oct. 22 in a 7 p.m. match and follow with a 1:30 p.m. match on Oct. 24 against nationally-ranked LSU.
The No. 1 Florida Gators, who have not lost a match since Sept. 10, stands at 14-1 on the season and are a perfect 7-0 in the SEC. On the season, the Gators have faced nine nationally-ranked opponents and have come out on top in eight of the nine matches. Florida is coming off a pair three-set victories on the road with the first coming at Alabama on Oct. 8 and the last on Oct. 10 at Mississippi State.
The Gators are led by junior Kelly Murphy, who is fourth in the conference with a .368 attack percentage and 10th with an average of 3.15 kills per set. She also leads the squad with a 5.42 assists-per-set average. Junior Cassandra Anderson is seventh in the league with a .351 attack percentage and is fifth in blocks, averaging 1.11 blocks per set.
Friday's meeting between the Tigers and the Gators is the 36th meeting in the series history. Florida holds a 34-1 series record over the Tigers with Auburn's only victory coming in four sets at home during the 1990 season.
South Carolina enters the weekend with a 4-13 overall mark and is 1-6 in SEC play. The team, which includes nine freshmen, split last weekend's matches, opening with a 3-2 win on the road at Mississippi State. The Gamecocks fell at Alabama on Oct. 10 in three sets.
Freshman Juliette Thevenin is fifth in the conference with a 3.57 kills-per-set average and leads the team with 182 kills on the season. Sophomore setter Taylor Bruns is fifth in the SEC with a 8.18 assists-per-set average, while senior libero Hannah Lawing leads the league with a 5.02 digs-per-set average.
The Gamecocks hold a 19-8 series record over the Tigers with their first meeting coming during the 1990 season. The two squads split last year, seeing Auburn win the first meeting in four set in Auburn and South Carolina taking the second meeting in three sets in Columbia.


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Stopping for the night in Garibaldi turned out to be a great idea since two great bars were located across the street from our hotel. The Ghost Hole Public House was one of them. Before I go into the beer, I have to recommend the bar. The Ghost Hole featured Karaoke the night we were there and that turned out to be some of the best people watching on the OR coast. The only other people in the bar, and therefore the only people singing were two lesbians, two Mexican laborers, a drunk cowboy, a drunk biker, an obese good ol boy, and some young woman who thought she was Sheryl Crow.
To the beer After a few nice selections from Descuttes, I ordered a Ghost Hole Ale, the house beer contract brewed for Ghost Hole by Raccoon Lodge. To my surprise, this beer was really damn good. I expect contract brews to be dull, sweet, unbalanced, and rarely hoppy. Theyre usually some sort of indiscernible red/amber/bock/malt lager mess. This was a real beer, with a lot of hops.
Appearance is a pretty amber with a thin white head. Aroma is intensely piney with a nice caramel malt base. The flavor is pure resinous pine sap goodness balanced by a nice caramel sweetness. The finish is long and bitter and leaves a lasting taste and feel of bitter pine sap. The body is light, balanced but leaning towards being quite bitter, with some creaminess. Ghost Hole Ale is very drinkable. I recommend stopping in for a Ghost Hole at the Ghost Hole next time youre in Garibaldi.
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The berries should look as though they have simply tumbled onto the tart, so don't be fussy when arranging them on the custard filling. Recipe adapted with permission from "Williams-Sonoma Family Meals: Creating Traditions in the Kitchen," copyright 2009 by Maria Helm Sinskey and Williams-Sonoma, published by Weldon Owen, San Francisco.
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- 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
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- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
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- 2 large eggs
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More than 500 competitive shooters compete in the "classic nationals" just outside of Barry, in Pike County, Illinois.
"They are coming in here for about 4 days from 3 countries and from all over America. So, they are coming in from both coasts here to our area," said Executive Director Holly Cain, with the Quincy Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Cain estimates that almost $400,00 will go back into the economy from this competition.
"They're primarily going for the hotels, the restaurants, they're going to be shopping and fueling here," said Cain.
One of the main hotels competitors are staying at is the Microtel in Downtown Quincy. General Manager Bob Daly says he's almost sold out of rooms.
"This is a good event because for 3 or 4 nights our occupancy increases due to the single stack shooting tournament," said Daly.
One of the competitors staying at the Microtel is Doug Carden.
"Whenever we go to the national level shooting matches, like we have here, we do drop a considerable amount of money in the local community where we are staying," said Carden.
Carden traveled from Corralville, Iowa and says he and his family usually spends $2,000-$3,000 over this weekend.
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There's a couple more things in the "daily or every ten hours" catagory I'm going to pay a little more attention to. Rear axle bearings for one and as soon as I figure out/remember where the "Upper Bolster Pivot Shaft" zerk is located (somewhere up around the nose cone), it's going to get "two or three strokes of lubricant".


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I've been watching a little bit of the Combine this weekend, though I have to admit a lot of it's pretty dull. My hats off to the NFL Network for presenting it in a way that makes it infinitely more interesting than it actually is. Watching 300+ pound lineman run the 40 yard dash is just bad television, especially in HD.
Every NFL fan knows how vital the Draft is to having a great franchise. The NFL isn't like other leagues. True revenue sharing and a true salary cap create genuine parity in pro football. You can't ignore the draft and build a winner. In MLB you can buy a team. Same thing for the NBA. Do the LA Lakers ever have draft picks? It seems like they always give them up in ludicrous 5-team trades that land the biggest basketball names in Southern California.
But as our newly minted Chiefs head coach can attest to, in the NFL you can't just assemble an All Star team via free agency and expect winning results. When teams like Seattle have drafts like the had last year consistently (a franchise rookie quarterback in the third round?), you're really building a potential dynasty. NFL teams must draft well.
Our old pal Scott Piolo and a cast of other former GMs and coaches and players and scouts have been all over the NFL Network for the past couple of days, talking about what they're looking for out of athletes in the drills. To a degree, the combine is really a waste of time. When is a player going to be asked to do 225 pound bench press reps during a game (and why are they allowed to have such shitty lifting form when they do it? Why is a rep that bounces off a guy's chest counted in his number?)? The answer is never. The only thing the Combine really does tell you is how well these kids can prepare for a test. If a kid comes to the combine in anything less than the best possible shape then that has to be a red flag. I mean, does Geno Smith's fast 40 time today mean he'll handle adversity in the NFL better than he did in the Pinstripe Bowl?
So my thesis question is, is it possible for GMs and coaches to over-think things in the draft as they relate to doing their due diligence on players?
When Pioli was with the Chiefs, I remember him referencing the movie The Breakfast Club. Pioli mentioned Carl the janitor from that film and how he tried to find guys like him to ask how the players really behaved. Pioli also mentioned talking to females who worked in the athletic department to see how potential draftees treated women. On NFL Network this weekend others spoke of talking to people like athletic trainers and equipment managers to get a sense of a player's character.
Each team gets to interview players this week. Do you not think these kids have been coached by their agents on how to handle these interviews? When a coach asks, "Are you a natural leader?" do you think a draftee is going to actually say, "Not really, no."? These guys have been prepped like witnesses at a high profile trial. Many of them have been training at a Florida facility that specializes in Combine preparation.
The Combine is the ultimate dog and pony show in a lot of ways. How can coaches and GMs get anything useful or concrete or honest out of it? Do we need to know all the sordid details about Dez Bryant's mother in order to make a draft decision about him?
Does character matter? Fuck yes, it does. Pioli's idea about the "right 53" is exactly correct. I coached high school sports for ten years and even at that level there were psychological intangibles some kids had that other didn't. Some people thrive in a competitive environment while others flee from it. If I were working for a pro team I would think it vital to try and find out about these kids' characters as much as you can. But can it go so far that the kids get lost in the process?
With all this background work teams do on these kids both on and off the field, is it possible to create dossiers on them so thick that you lose sight of whether or not the kid can actually play football?
I'm a big movie buff and often you'll hear directors talk about being deep in the editing process and no longer being able to get a sense of their movie any more. They've watched the damn thing so many times, they say, that they couldn't begin to tell you if it's any good or not. Do GMs and coaches and scouts run that risk, over-thinking things so much that they can't tell if the kid is a good player or not?
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I'll be at the Highland Park NJ street fair Sunday, Sept. 29, reading from my Washington Irving parody 'Rip' and maybe from a novel-in-progress. I'm scheduled at 4:30 pm at corner of Raritan and Third avenues at a performance space hosted by Main Street Highland Park. I take the stage, believe it or not, after a juggler who's on from 4 to 4:30!
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It may be that the economy's on the upswing, but New York City's homeless people might argue with that analysis. So, too, might the folks I encounter nearly daily in central New Jersey.
As my son and I walked along Canal Street and up Second Avenue in lower Manhattan, a few days ago, we saw more homeless people than I remember seeing in NYC for a while, including a young couple camped out on a sidewalk in late morning, the girl sleeping on a pile of blankets while her companion stayed awake and kept watch.
Next day, early in the morning, at a park along the Raritan River in central New Jersey, I saw what has become a familiar sight: three homeless men, wearing all of their clothing (including winter parkas in 80 degree weather, as they left a small, wooded nature preserve in Highland Park where they apparently spend the night and then headed toward a long-established encampment along the riverside in the shadow of the New Brunswick-Highland Park bridge.
I believe that many of us these days are so distracted by our own lives and other issues — that the problem of poverty, both urban and rural, has faded from our view. There's a feeling, I think, even among well-meaning and caring people, that food pantries and government programs and volunteerism have got the problem under control. But, just walk around Manhattan these days, just visit rural Virginia as I did last fall, and drive around the old section of my old hometown of Yonkers, New York, and it's clear that as the rich are getting so much richer, the poor are getting so much poorer.
Here's Woody singing his "Hobo's Lullaby" –
Here's Dylan, singing Stephen Foster's "Hard Times" –
And here's John Prine, singing his classic song about being invisible and lonely, "Hello In There" –
To Be Continued…
I'll be reading excerpts from my satirical novel "Rip" on Friday, June 28, at To Be Continued Bookstore, 431 Metuchen, N.J., as part of the town's month-long "Junebug ArtFest."
I'll be appearing with two other authors — I'll start reading sometime between 6:30 and 7 p.m. Store owners Sergio and Karen have copies of my book for sale — and I'll happily sign any copies they sell. Admission is free. For more information about the event and/or the bookstore, call 917-686-6056.
King of the Jungle King
Sometime soon we'll be heading down to the Silver Ball Museum in Asbury Park, N.J., which I just learned has an incredible collection of vintage pinball machines — including Jungle King (!), which devoured untold numbers of my precious quarters and God knows how many hours I should have spent studying at the small university I attended in western New York state.
Best of all, the museum isn't really a museum! It's open to the public. For an all-day admission fee of $20, pinball wizards such as myself get to play all day on machines, including the circa-1973 Jungle King!
During the somewhat hazy years I spent barely toiling in the fields of academe, my kingdom was the world of Jungle King. And I was the king of Jungle King.
Here's what the Silver Ball Museum's website has to say about Jungle King:
"The object of this game is to win extra balls. This is achieved each time the battery of 10 rollovers is made and then the free ball targets and rollovers light. Making the free ball resets the 10 rollovers once again. Doubling your bonus score when the ball drains is possible if the rollover at the top of the game is made. If you complete all four marked rollovers, the playfield opens the free ball gate and the kickback kicker lane to keep your current ball in play. Score, of course, is another variable in achieving a longer playing game."
Yes, indeed, the skills and thrills of Jungle King revolved around learning the tricks and moves necessary to win extra balls and extra games. I became remarkably adept, after investing many quarters in my Jungle King education and field training, at "catching" the silver balls with the flippers, waiting for the rollovers and targets to light up, and then unleashing a machine-gun-like barrage of pinballs at the free-ball and bonus score targets.
I got to the point where I could make one quarter and one game last for hours. Literally. Free ball after ball. Free game after free game. Setting the "New High Score" and then shattering my own world record (or at least the high-score record for the machine in the college student center).
I think I also remember cheering and adoring crowds, some of them holding up banners, and perhaps even the college's marching band playing "Pinball Wizard" by The Who…
OK, wait…my college didn't even have a marching band…maybe my memories have been magnified by the lens of time…On the other hand…
It is beyond dispute that I was the true king of Jungle King. I hereby decree and proclaim to my faithful subjects that sometime in the next few weeks I shall be traveling with the royal entourage to the Shores of Jersey to reclaim my pinball crown and, yes, to take back my rightful kingdom.
Pretenders to the crown, you have been warned.
On Sunday night, I found myself attending an interfaith Thanksgiving service held at a Protestant church in Central New Jersey.
There were Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Jews. There was music, ranging from songs by an Indonesian Christian choir, to klezmer, to something called the Dalai Lama Mantra. There were readings and prayers, from the Quran (in Arabic and then English), and from the Testaments (old and new).
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, bombs and missiles — fueled and propelled by ethnic hatred and religious intolerance — were destroying lives in Palestine and Israel.
As good as it felt to be in the midst of this Thanksgiving gathering, I found myself wondering if it truly offered reason for hope — or whether it was really cause for despair, an illusion of harmony, a cruel mockery, a comfortable delusion.
My thoughts have settled somewhere in the middle.
Yes, it was a good thing that people could come together at a church in New Jersey in the name of brotherhood and peace, joining in a celebration of their shared belief in love and in joyous celebration of life.
Folksinger and activist Pete Seeger says it will be small groups of people, not big organizations and governments, that will solve the problems of this world. Pete's banjo is inscribed with these words: "This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender."
Well, I agree with the many people who believe Pete deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for all the good he's done and the difference he's made in this world, but Pete's approaching his 95th year on this planet and when he goes to his grave there will still be wars raging and people dying and babies crying as bomb blasts rock their cradles.
My 80-year-old mother, who was a girl during World War II and had two older brothers see combat in Europe and the Pacific, was watching a news account of the recent violence in the Middle East, and said as she shook her head sadly: "Why can't people just be nice to each other? Why can't they just help each other?"
I'm afraid it's the nature of the beast. This has been going on since the world began and will continue until the day a big meteor comes whizzing out from behind the sun and returns mankind to the cosmic dust.
I'm glad that Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Christians are able, sometimes, to come together in peace. But this time of year, a couple of weeks before the anniversary of his murder, I hear John Lennon's challenge: "Imagine there's no countries…No need for greed…No hunger…And no religion too."
But even John Lennon, a man of peace and a man of dreams, could not escape the violence of hatred. Still, I believe his heart was in the right place. So is my mother's. Why can't people just be nice to each other? We need to keep trying to imagine, even when reality makes it very hard to do.
Quiet, please!
Quiet, please!
I remember, when I was a boy spending many hours at the main branch of the public library in my old hometown of Yonkers, New York.
Many QUIET hours. Signs around the library silently asked patrons to be quiet. If someone spoke too loudly, he or she was hushed by one of the ever-vigilant librarians.
There was a reason for this. People were doing things at the library which were easier to do in quiet surroundings — researching, writing, reading, studying…thinking.
I'm sitting now in the reference area of a public library in New Jersey.
I can hardly hear myself think.
People don't seem in the least bit inclined to whisper or speak softly. Teens and adults are answering phones. Babies are crying and children are talking loudly — while their mothers, apparently oblivious, carry on loud conversations of their own.
And one of the library staff is carrying on a loud conversation with a patron who loudly asked her if the library has a certain book he wants to read.
Never mind the other question that popped into my mind: Don't people know how to look up a book when they know the title and the author? They need to ask a librarian to find it?
Here's my question: Can everyone please be quiet?
I'm not being old-fashioned. I've been in other libraries — recently — and every one of them was blissfully quiet and conducive to reading and writing and thinking.
I understand that people can be noisy. Sometimes a cell phone rings. Sometimes a baby will throw a tantrum. And I think it's great when libraries are community gathering places, crowded with people of all ages and interests.
And I know libraries are now media centers and that there are no more card catalogs and that the time has long passed since librarians took a card out of the back of each book and stamped it with a due date.
I know these things and they're beside the point.
A library should be an oasis of serenity. It shouldn't feel like the Dewey decimal system has been replaced by the decibel system.
Quiet, please!
Going wild
Is civilization going wild? Or are wild things gettng civilized?
I've been aware that certain wild animals — black bears, coyotes, foxes, bald eagles — have proliferated and spread into places where they were rarely seen even twenty years ago.
For some reason, though, I still tend to think of aquatic birds as rara avis, which I suppose is why I've been startled to see a great white egret making itself at home at a park along the Raritan River in Central New Jersey, at a spot where the endless hum of traffic on Route 1, the New Jersey Turnpike and other busy highways is endlessly heard.
Within smelling distance of exhaust fumes and Superfund dumps, within walking distance of a gritty city, here's this lovely peaceful green oasis where I've also seen deer, and a red fox, and at least two resident blue herons, where turtles sunbathe on logs on the edge of a placid pond, and where I fully expect to someday see a brashly rambling bruin crashing through the brambles and to awaken in the Jersey night to the barks and yips of wily coyotes.
"Rip" tide?
Three more readings and book-signings have been scheduled for "Rip," my spoof of Washington Irving's classic "Rip Van Winkle."
As previously announced, I'll be appearing Saturday, Oct. 20, at 3 p.m., at the Briarcliff Manor (N.Y.) Library.
Now I've been scheduled for a reading and book-signing on Friday, Oct. 19, at 3 p.m., at the public library in Orangeburg, N.Y. -
In the springtime, I've been scheduled to appear on Thursday, April 4, at 5 p.m., at the Port Jervis (N.Y.) Public Library and on Monday, April 22, at 6 p.m., at the public library in Somers, N.Y.
Briarcliff is in Westchester County, N.Y., and is also well within range of Rockland County, Putnam County and southwest Connecticut. Orangeburg is off the Palisades Parkway between the northern border of New Jersey and the western side of the Tappan Zee Bridge, in the vicinity of Nyack and Nanuet, south of the Tappan Zee and north of the GW Bridge. Port Jervis is up near the Delaware Water Gap, sort of at the confluence of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Somers is in northern Westschester County.
At all four free events, I'll talk a bit about my longtime affection for Washington Irving's writing, I'll chat a little about how I came to write my modern-day parody of "Rip Van Winkle," I'll read sample chapters from the book, I'll take questions from the audience, and I'll sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase at each event.
More readings/signings are in the works. Details will be posted here (as well on Facebook and on my author page at amazon.com) as dates, times and locations are confirmed.
Caveman cuisine
It's time to hog the spotlight, to cast swine before pearls, to wallow in a swill-filled existential sty as I contemplate the backyard pig roast I attended last weekend in New Jersey.
I am rendered nearly inarticulate. Why? I think it mostly has to do with my love for the bus-driving and steam shovel-operating animals who populate Richard Scarry's Busytown, where I've wanted to live since I was four years old and where, other Busytown devotees may recall, the traffic cop blowing his whistle and directing Busytown's traffic was a jolly, friendly pig.
Add in several readings of "Charlotte's Web," several viewings of those movies about Babe the Gallant Pig, and countless hours of wasted youth spent watching Porky Pig cartoons (and listening to Porky sing his version of "Blue Christmas"), not to mention a recent weekend spent at a country fair where we saw lots of portly but pulchritudinous prize-winning pigs, and it's a wonder that I managed to even look at that poor 80-pound porker with its cute little snout and its curly little tail and its innocent half-smile as it sat there all brown and crispy on that big platter, never mind how I managed to take part (along with several-dozen other carnivores) in quickly devouring that poor beast.
Perhaps I was distracted by a conversation I had with a fellow carnivore who, as we stood there waiting for our chance to wiggle our way into the feeding trough, revealed to me with great enthusiasm that he'd embarked about a month before on the so-called "paleo" diet, which basically involves eating no foods and drinking no beverages unless they were available to Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble and all of the other cave people.
I stood there and gazed at the barbecued pig and pondered the relative merits of eating what cavemen and cavewomen ate. On the one hand, those early people were the forebears of humankind. On the other hand (or so I pondered as I enjoyed my second or third helping of pulled pork), cavemen hit each other over the heads with clubs; they weren't exactly Rhodes scholars, if you get my drift; and they were considered really old if they lived to be about nineteen years old, which was their normal life span unless they died young because they'd encountered an Ice Age or a saber-toothed tiger.
No, I decided as I also enjoyed a glass of non-primitive white wine and some delicious non-paleo pasta salad, I'll lay off the brontosaurus burgers and continue to eat modern food — pausing occasionally as I travel life's path to stay in touch with my caveman roots by munching on some poor not-as-evolved-as-me animal cooked primitively but to crispy perfection over sizzling hot coals (thank goodness Fred and Barney discovered fire!)
The culture of sculpture
The photo above? I call it "Large Head of Woman Appears to Float in the Mist in Replica of Japanese Garden Near Lovely But Expensive Restaurant." The location? I took it yesterday at the Grounds for Sculpture located in Hamilton Township, N.J.
Don't get me wrong. The Grounds for Sculpture is a stunning place, with hundreds of striking and creative outdoor sculptures, beautiful landscaping and pathways that beckon with a mantra hum …like the one in this photo, also taken yesterday:
It's a place filled with wit and wisdom and wonder, with the beauty of spirit and the spirit of beauty. I intend to go back some glorious morning in spring and I want to walk there in silent winter snow and I want to hear the soft crackle of leaves beneath my feet as I get lost in autmn on the perfectly unpredictable paths.
Yesterday was a hot day, with thunderstorms rumbling and dark clouds looking so biblical that the experience was nearly humbling…but not enough to resist the temptation to say "Visit the Grounds for Sculpture. But don't bother sitting through the introductory film in which someone rambles very seriously about experiencing the wonder of art and making it one's own and other very pretentious prattle that the narrator with her very British accent manages to read without even one little proper giggle.
Here's the link to the Grounds for Sculpture.
Get past the fact that these folks take themselves just a little too seriously and definitely need a new scriptwriter — and you'll find it to be a place you'll want to visit again and again.
P.S. At the entrance to one of the indoor exhibits I found a plaque bearing the best poem I've ever read or heard about the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001. It was written by my friend BJ Ward just days after the tragedy. BJ read this powerful poem just a few weeks later at one of the readings in the Delaware Valley Poetry Festival series I'd started just a few years before. I remember saying to people at the time that the poets and I had discussed whether it was right to hold the reading series that awful autumn. BJ's stunning poem made it clear that proceeding with the event wasn't just right – it was necessary:
For the Children of the World Trade Center Victims
Nothing could have prepared you—
Note: Every poem I have ever written
is not as important as this one.
Note: This poem says nothing important.
Clarification of last note:
This poem cannot save 3,000 lives.
Note: This poem is attempting to pull your father
out of the rubble, still living and glowing
and enjoying football on Sunday.
Note: This poem is trying to reach your mother
in her business skirt, and get her home
to Ridgewood where she can change
to her robe and sip Chamomile tea
as she looks through the bay window at the old,
untouched New York City skyline.
Note: This poem is aiming its guns at the sky
to shoot down the terrorists and might
hit God if He let this happen.
Note: This poem is trying to turn
that blooming of orange and black
of the impact into nothing
more than a sudden tiger-lily
whose petals your mother and father
could use as parachutes, float down
to the streets below, a million
dandelion seeds drifting off
to the untrafficked sky above them.
Note: This poem is still doing nothing.
Note: Somewhere in this poem there may be people alive,
and I'm trying like mad to reach them.
Note: I need to get back to writing the poem to reach them
instead of dwelling on these matters, but how
can any of us get back to writing poems?
Note: The sound of this poem: the sound
of a scream in 200 different languages
that outshouts the sounds of sirens and
airliners and glass shattering and
concrete crumbling as steel is bending and
the orchestral tympani of our American hearts
when the second plane hit.
Note: The sound of a scream in 200 languages
is the same sound.
It is the sound of a scream.
Note: In New Jersey over the next four days,
over thirty people asked me
if I knew anyone in the catastrophe.
Yes, I said.
I knew every single one of them.
BJ Ward
from Gravedigger's Birthday(North Atlantic Books)


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Teaming up with MMA sites like Low Kick, Fightline, Fight Opinion and The Fight Nerd, we'll provide an opportunity for all MMA fans to read some fresh and original voices in the sport.
This week, The Fight Nerd reviews the 'Tapout Textbook', MMA Convert gets an exclusive from Cris 'Cyborg' and Lowkick interviews UFC 146's Edson Barboza.
The full list of links is after the jump.
- Interview with lightweight contender Edson Barboza (LowKick)
"I want to be fighting against the best fighters in the world. I want to win my space step by step. I am not in a hurry. I know I am in a really hard division, and it keeps me motivated to train harder and harder. Today I am focused on my next fight. I want to do my best inside the octagon. What will happen after that, it is in God's hands."
- 'Tapout Textbook' Book review (The Fight Nerd)
Is this book truly worth of being a textbook, or is it as good as your old algebra textbooks from high school that you defaced with drawings of phalluses and boobs (which was how all of my books were... I swear they were that way when I got them)?
- Keith Kizer ready to drop the hammer on Nick Diaz next Monday (Fight Opinion)
Today, Nick Diaz (via his attorney Ross Goodman) lost their injunction hearing in a Las Vegas court room. Keith Kizer of the Nevada State Athletic Commission says that the commission will hold a hearing next Monday to give Diaz his suspension for a second positive drug test in Nevada (marijuana). Kizer is preparing to go for a full year suspension for Diaz.
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Daily Archives: October 10, 2013
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Outside of a brewery, I can't think of a more quintessential Milwaukee venue than a bowling alley.
Inside of a brewery, I'd be too busy drinking.
But you can drink and laugh – and carouse with keglers – at the Comedy Show Comedy Show, Saturday, Oct. 12, at Landmark Lanes, 2220 N. Farwell Ave.
Jake Kornely is the kingpin hosting, and scheduled performers include
The show starts at 8:30 p.m., but seats fill up fast, so be there when they open the doors at 8. Admission is $6.
Comedy: To feel, think (and sing) share
I read this on Facebook:
"Comedy does not exist for laughs. Comedy exists to make you feel and think. It's the strongest genre and the strongest emotion."
It was posted by Jacob Bach, co-founder of The Improvised Musical, the Broadway-style song-and-dance shows that are made up right in front of the audience with experienced comedy improvisers and a live band.
T.I.M. has been performing the third Thursday of every month for more than two years, and if you haven't seen it yet, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 17, is your chance. It's only $5 at Milwaukee's ComedySportz arena, 420 S. 1st St. If you are a regular T.I.M.-goer (Lord knows there are many.), you know that no two shows are ever alike.
Reserve your tickets by calling ahead on weekdays at (414) 272-8888.


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The Braves currently have the leverage in the Jake Peavy trade negotiations. They are probably the only real suitor, among the limited, for his services. The Braves do not need to panic as soon as one free agent starter signs. While Dempster eliminated himself from the Braves, the Cubs practically eliminated themselves from Peavy. (I know they said they might still pursue Peavy even after signing Dempster, but why would they spend the money *and* prospects on another star starter and not on their hometown boy Kerry Wood?) The Braves will continue to have all the leverage until after all the big name free agent starters disappear with the Braves standing there empty handed.
Towers may look dumb now but I think he's being realistic. The Braves need two starters - they even admit it. How hard is it to find *one* quality starter, let alone "*two*? Towers probably knows that the chances of the Braves getting two quality starting pitchers not named Jake Peavy is very small. But, that still doesn't take away from their pressing need to trade him with only a limited amount of suitors. I do not think that Peavy is going to expand his teams much further - he might if that team extends his contract to Sabathia money, but we saw last year that only one team was willing to spend the record money and prospects with Johan Santana. The Twins were forced to take a smaller package then they visioned - that's what happens when a player has team by the balls.
The Padres probably need to trade Peavy more than the Braves need to trade for Peavy - even if the Braves are still starting pitcher-less and desperate. I'm sure it's easier to explain to your boss why your team lost 90 games than it is to explain to your boss why you failed to decrease payroll by $20 or so million. Let's be honest for a second: the Braves will need to add several key pieces to seriously contend next year. If they Braves lose out on all those free agent pitchers, which they need *two* of, the Padres still are only offering only *one* starting pitcher. Peavy alone will not help the Braves compete next year, so if they lose out on all the other free agents then I think the need to trade for Peavy actually decreases. It wouldn't make much sense trading for Peavy now for hopes of 2010, unless another club trades for him he's not going anywhere - which seems to be unlikely, we'd have to pay his salary for a non-contending year, give up prospects who could have better value in a year, Peavy could be an entirely different health risk in a year, and our need for starting pitching might not be so glaring as it is now if some players find their groove.
Peavy signed his below market contract because he was happy and wanted to keep winning in San Diego. Well, now they want to trade him - he's obviously unhappy, and they're not going to win anytime soon. If you love your company so much that you agree to take a salary cut to stay with them, but then afterwards they want to send you somewhere else, are you going to be happy and play along? I'd assume that Peavy would make this as difficult for them as possible - and rightfully so. He signed a contract to stay with San Diego. If they wanted to move me, I'd be very particular of where I was willing to go and not lenient at all - especially since I gave up free agency and took a pay cut to stay. This continues to put the Padres at a disadvantage.
The Braves shouldn't panic about Peavy going anywhere - the Braves still have the leverage and the best prospects. A good GM would call up the Braves and ask if they can beat a current offer that will send Peavy elsewhere - but right now it's hard to determine if Towers is being a good GM. If the Braves want *two* quality starting pitchers, they will have to sign Burnett, Lowe, Sheets, or Sabathia pretty quickly. That would definitely frighten Towers and continue to give the Braves leverage throughout the offseason.
The Braves need to sign AJ Burnett. I think if the Braves signed Burnett, it would increase their chances of getting Peavy. In Burnett's past deal, he could opt out after so many years. Give that to him again or give him that fifth year as a player option - maybe even an evergreen clause. I get it, he's injury prone - but he seems to turn it up a notch when he's approaching free agency so this deal could potentially make him a better player in theory.
If the Braves signed Burnett, it could potentially make Towers panic and accept our previous Escobar, Gorkys, Morton or Reyes, Boyer or Low-A prospect package - or even less. That would allow us to pursue Furcal even harder - a health risk still too enticing not to take. If these scenarios happen and the dominoes continue to fall, we could still trade Kelly Johnson for Ryan Ludwick - assuming that's a real option - since we wouldn't be downgrading at both middle infield positions anymore.. So there you have it, we've upgraded at short, acquired our two starting pitchers and outfield bat, spent around $40 million - our budget, and got the leadoff hitter we've been missing since Furcal left.


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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Federal officials are accusing a Spokane Valley man of running an investment scam that preyed on the patriotic spirit of investors.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in federal court in Spokane on Thursday.
The complaint accused Daniel F. Peterson of an elaborate ruse that hooked at least 21 investors for more than $400,000, money he spent on vacations, a vehicle, gifts for his wife, and gambling trips to Las Vegas.
The Spokesman-Review says Peterson told investors that his USA Real Estate Fund 1 Inc. products were backed by Wall Street firms and made possible by the 2012 JOBS Act designed to help American companies. The SEC said those claims were false and the agency wants Peterson to return the investors' money and pay legal fines.


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Three people received minor injures after a motorcycle collided with a moped.
The accident happened yesterday on 165th Ave and Alma Lake Road in Mecosta County's Grant Township.
The motorcycle driver said he thought the moped was in his lane so he tried to slow down.
He says his rear tire hit loose gravel, slid out from under him, hitting the moped.
Officers gave both drivers tickets.


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REDLANDS - The Redlands Ladder Truck fund is about halfway to its goal, thanks to generous donations from various organizations.
Wednesday was a big day for the fundraiser, as the Redlands Fire Department received three big donations to go toward replacing its outdated ladder truck.
The University of Redlands donated $30,000 to the fund, just a few hours after Beaver Medical Clinic and Epic Management each donated $5,000, for a total of $40,000 in one day, not counting private donations.
But the fund still has a ways to go before the department is able to raise the $160,000 they need to match a federal grant.
"The Fire Department was notified in December by Congressman Jerry Lewis' office of the $636,000 award from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 2010 Assistance to Firefighter's Grant," city spokesman Carl Baker said last month.
"The grant will cover 80 percent of the purchase of a new ladder truck, with a 20 percent, or $160,000 match from the city," he explained.
The donation from the U of R has propelled the city that much closer to the much-needed new ladder truck, a replacement for the 1975 aerial ladder.
As part of the university's annual, voluntary donation to the city, executive vice president Phillip Doolittle presented a check to Chief Jeff Frazier on Wednesday afternoon.
"We've always had a good relationship with the Fire Department," Doolittle said. "It's appropriate for the university to donate to the fund."
Neal Waner, a member of the ladder truck fund committee, was thrilled with the donation, and said, "The University of Redlands gave us a very generous lead. We're very appreciative of their help, and Phil's support."
With the school's donation, and the medical groups', the fund is at about $80,000, and has another $80,000 to go. This includes donations from the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, the Redlands Community Hospital and others.
"The community has been so generous, and so supportive, and rightly so. This is a community-owned asset, used by the Fire Department," said Frazier. "The response has been humbling."
Donation requests have gone out in property owners' water bills, and the committee has more fundraisers planned.
Firefighters will continue to read books to children at the downtown bookstore Frugal Frigate, on Saturdays from noon to 2 p.m. A portion of the store's sales will be donated to the ladder fund when patrons mention the truck.
Plus, two fundraising events are planned for the ladder truck fund in October - an open house on Oct. 15, and the Inaugural Redlands Firefighters' Ball on Oct. 22.
"It's moving," Frazier said. "People will dig into their pockets to help. I hope the momentum continues."
Learn more about the fundraiser, how it is progressing, and even make a donation online at http://redlandsladdertruck.com/


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The Otsego County Relay for Life announced their annual event in honor of the American Cancer Society's Breast Cancer Awareness Month will occur on May 16 and 17, 2014 at the Cooperstown Dreams Park.
The Otsego County Relay for Life will also host a Warm Up on Tuesday, Nov. 12 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at The National Baseball Hall of Fame for past team captains and people interested in forming teams for this year's event. A make-up date in case of bad weather is Wednesday, Nov. 13.
The Relay for Life is held in over 6000 communities across the United States and 20 foreign countries, said Carla Eckler, the Otsego County Relay for Life Public Relations chairperson in a press release for the event.
"Pre-formed teams camp out and team members take turns walking a track throughout the night in honor of those who have fought cancer and in memory of those who are no longer with us," Eckler said in a press release.
In the past 16 years, the Otsego County Relay for Life has raised nearly 1.5 million dollars for cancer research, Eckler said. This year's theme is Sweet Sixteen: A Celebration of Hope and Progress, a tribute to the number of years of fundraising done by the Otsego County Relay for Life.
"It's a celebration of hope and a celebration of progress both for our local event and worldwide," Eckler said.
"The last 3 years have been record setting years in terms of fundraising," she continued. "We're on a roll."
Eckler said she hopes this year will be another year of abundant fundraising.
The Warm Up event on the 12th is a chance for teams from last year to celebrate and for all teams to discuss their fundraising goals for this year, Eckler said.
"It's going to be a fun event," Eckler said. "We're really trying to promote team participation."


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Billings voters have until Tuesday to approve or deny the nearly $122 million bond to fund new schools and deferred maintenance.
How to achieve what's best for kids is creating a bit of controversy. It's too soon how voters will decide. People are coming forward with some concerns. According to Century 21 realtor, Kate Hamlin, voting yes for the nearly bond means better education, better schools, and a better Billings. "If you just skip two cups of coffee, you're going to be able to pay for two new middle schools, two new renovations, have a technology budget, work on some deferred maintenance. So the pro list is incredibly long, but the con list is 11 dollars a month for the average homeowner," Hamlin said.
But, former school district two board member, Connie Wardell, said new schools aren't the answer. "If you vote yes for this, you're going to be voting for what's not financially sustainable. Which means there will be cuts in education where they are important," Wardell said.
Wardell said the district should build on existing schools to deal with overcrowding, which would cost less than half of the price of two new schools. "It's really a concern to me to see the district go down this road. We don't need to have people upset with the school district again, because we didn't give people all the facts," Wardell said.
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With a week away, both sides are still presenting strong arguments to move forward. "So, if you're really for kids, you're going to vote for what enhances curriculum, and you'll vote 'NO' on the bonds," Wardell said.
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We are thrilled to invite you to nominate your students for the Minnesota State University, Mankato High School Honor Band to be held Friday, January 17, 2014 on the campus of Minnesota State, Mankato. The ensemble is open to all deserving students in the 10th - 12th grades. The day will include tours of the building, performances by Minnesota State, Mankato instrumental ensembles, rehearsals with the wind band faculty and clinics with the applied faculty.
The High School Honor Band will include approximately 80 musicians and will be conducted by Dr. Amy Roisum-Foley, Director of Bands and Mr. Michael C. Thursby, Director of Athletic Bands.
Amy K. Roisum Foley is currently in her 12th year as the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Minnesota State University, Mankato where she administrates and conducts the concert bands and chamber ensembles. Her teaching also includes graduate and undergraduate conducting and instrumental music education. Roisum Foley has served as guest conductor and clinician for honor bands and festivals in the US and Canada.
Roisum Foley received her Bachalor of Music in Music Education and Performance from St. Olaf College, her Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of St. Thomas Aquinas and her Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education and Wind Band Conducting from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her additional studies include courses in Postural Restoration; coursework in Body Mapping; private lessons and extensive research in body health and alignment for musicians; study and lessons in performance dynamics with composer Michael Colgrass and research and application of Dalcroze Eurhythmics for Conductors. In addition, Roisum Foley apprenticed with master craftsmen, Charles B. Olson, Chris Blount and Dave Foley and is building batons for Custom Batons, Inc.
Michael C. Thursby is the Director of Athletic Bands at the Minnesota State University, Mankato where he teaches courses in percussion, assists with the MSU Instrumental ensembles, and is Director of the Maverick Athletic Bands. Thursby's musical training includes a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance and Music Education from at the University of Iowa and a Master of Music degree from University of Northern Iowa.
From 2010-2013, Thursby taught in the public schools of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, where he directed the marching programs, conducted concert ensembles, led the percussion program, and taught a variety of other music courses. In the realm of marching arts, Professor Thursby has worked as a percussion instructor, arranger, and clinician throughout the Midwest, directing the percussion sections for the University of Iowa "Hawkeye Marching Band," and the UNI "Panther Marching Band." He also spent time marching in Drum Corps International with the Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps and the Emerald Knights Drum and Bugle Corps.
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Enclosed you will find a band nomination form for up to six students. Please rank your students based upon your own criteria. Make sure you list each student's full name and their specific instrument, i.e., Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Treble Clef Baritone, and areas of strength for your percussionists. We will send out one copy of each selection of music for each student approximately six weeks prior to the event. Every school that sends a nomination form will be represented on stage. Top
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on May 26, 2009 at 4:56 pm
I've got 2 kids in PSD and my wife and I are both voting NO on Measure G. We've seen enough waste, bad teachers and useless overpaid administrators (and this is a "good" school district) to know I don't want to give them any additional money.
on May 26, 2009 at 8:55 pm
THE ONLY VOTE THAT COUNTS IS THE VOTE THAT'S CAST! If you do not want additional taxation or want to send a message to the PUSD and Teacher's Union - you must get out and vote. If the "NO" vote stays home - it's an automatic win for G supporters.
On the other hand if you'd like to support Measure G then get out and vote your support. Either way, the only vote that counts is the one cast. If 67% of the people who go to the polls vote NO....then it's a NO. If 67% of the people who go to the polls cast a YES vote then it's a yes. Either way, remember it's not 67% of the eligible voters in the community.....it's 67% of the votes cast that day.
on May 26, 2009 at 9:12 pm
six of a kind from my place already said no on G!!!
on May 26, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Only two yes votes on G here, so looks like you guys are ahead. ;-)
@Concerned Parent
I haven't seen the bad teachers yet, but probably will eventually. I guess quoting the word "good" means that the schools in Pleasanton aren't really that good. I guess by waste, you're talking about those solar panels, cell phones, and car allowances.
The biggest stretch I've heard so far is that if we don't defeat Measure G, are kids won't learn the important lesson of fiscal discipline. I can't quite see how that works.
In fact so far, I haven't seen anyone provide an explanation as to how defeating Measure G will benefit school children. What was the benefit? (I mean beyond that important lesson of fiscal discipline which they will somehow be denied if Measure G passes).
on May 26, 2009 at 10:35 pm
"I haven't seen anyone provide an explanation as to how defeating Measure G will benefit school children. What was the benefit? (I mean beyond that important lesson of fiscal discipline which they will somehow be denied if Measure G passes)."
Russell: you want to define the issue as "the children" when the real issue us how the district/state are managing the money that is intended to educate the "children"
California has increased the educational budget for Ca kids by 40% since Arnold took office. Have "the children" benefited 40% more?
Explain to me how giving those who manage the budget more money will "benefit the school children"
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, Shame on me!
4 Voting NO in this house. Ballots already in the mail!
on May 26, 2009 at 10:38 pm
5 NO VOTES from this home! We still have 2 kids in the PUSD. The others (over 18) are all NO voters + mom and dad. that makes 5!
on May 27, 2009 at 12:02 am
Measure G is a good tax. It's good for the community and great for the children. 4 Yes votes in this household. Let those haters cast their No votes but the measure shall prevail.
on May 27, 2009 at 7:43 am
"Let those haters cast their No votes but the measure shall prevail."
To The above post: Because I vote "NO" on G I am a Hater?????????????
Wow! Based on your lack of any kind of reasoning, am I to conclude that you were educated in the PUSD? Or that you have children in the PUSD which means you live in this community that you care so much about?
If so, that's proof there will never be enough money generated from "good taxes" to help you. Hopefully your kids have the influence of some real "adults" that will teach them the basics: "avoid name calling".
And as for this community? Your way of thinking is far more dangerous to this community than the outcome of G.
Four "haters" here voting NO!
on May 27, 2009 at 12:18 pm
3 "NO" votes from this household of "apparent" haters!
No on G!
You have a good attitude! :)
In fact, when this election is over, we "regulars" should meet downtown for coffee to start coming up with ideas (and support local businesses). I think it pretty clear, no matter how the measure turns out, some things need to change. We only really disagree on funding now or funding later.
I would LOVE to finally meet Kathleen, Sandy, Russell, Stacey, NO ON G, Pleasanton Parent, and Concerned Parent. It's time to work together!
on May 27, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Already sent in my No vote.
on May 27, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Two Nos and I'm aware of a several others from private conversations. I'm in for the coffee and conversations about next steps.
on May 27, 2009 at 6:45 pm
I'm up for coffee, as long as it's decaf.
And after next Tuesday. Because the YES voters will be turning out too.
If G passes, we're still going to need creative ideas, silly ideas, scary ideas, and pragmatic ideas. G makes the hole we're in half as deep, but it's still a hole, and the state keeps making it bigger. Working together would be great.
on May 27, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Hats off to you Sandy...you are a classy lady!
Whether G passes or not, there's still plenty of work to be done, not only on the budget, but putting the community back together.
on May 27, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I'm up for decaf too. Had to give up the hard stuff a few years back.
on May 28, 2009 at 11:37 pm
I wasn't invited.. but, if you'll post the time and place, I'll be the old guy at the corner table drinking the double shot expresso and pretending to read a PW.
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