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I have many that I like, especially by Pushkin in Russian…thinking if people mention Frost's poem about the intersection at the road/road not taken, I'll poke myself in the eye with a fork.
This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Greatest? I don't know about that.My favorite though is this
Annabel Lee
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
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;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Edgar Allan Poe
1. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died by Emily Dickinson
2. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
These are the two poets whose writing I admire most. Though I've room for many, many others (especially Bukowski and Cummings.)
@Simone_De_Beauvoir I don't know if you were intentionally punning (fork in the road) but you have all my lurve for your comment.
@muppetish I was, :) – I don't get why anyone likes that poem.
@Simone_De_Beauvoir, @muppetish I hate Robert Frost (no offense meant, @Austinlad) and won the English award at my high school. What did I get? The complete works of Robert Frost
Outwitted by Edwin Markham
He drew a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!
Jehova Buried, Satan Dead by ee cummings.
Jehovah buried,Satan dead,
do fearers worship Much and Quick;
badness not being felt as bad,
itself thinks goodness what is meek;
obey says toc,submit says tic,
Eternity's a Five Year Plan:
if Joy with Pain shall hand in hock
who dares to call himself a man?
go dreamless knaves on Shadows fed,
your Harry's Tom,your Tom is Dick;
while Gadgets murder squack and add,
the cult of Same is all the chic;
by instruments,both span and spic,
are justly measured Spic and Span:
to kiss the mike if Jew turn kike
who dares to call himself a man?
loudly for Truth have liars pled,click;
where Boobs are holy,poets mad,
illustrious punks of Progress shriek;
when Souls are outlawed,Hearts are sick,
Hearts being sick,Minds nothing can:
if Hate's a game and Love's a fuck
who dares to call himself a man?
King Christ,this world is all aleak;
and lifepreservers there are none:
and waves which only He may walk
Who dares to call Himself a man.
And though it isn't technically poetry (it's a song), I love In a Sweater Poorly Knit by mewithoutYou.
In a sweater poorly knit, and an unsuspecting smile
Little Moses drifts downstream in the Nile
A fumbling reply—an awkward, rigid laugh
I'm carried helpless by my floating basket raft
Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between sweeter than any wine, and bitter as mustard greens
Light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickle bread
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead
As you plow some other field and try and forget my name, see what harvest yields, and, supposing I'd do the same
I planted rows of peas, but by the first week of july—they should have come up to my knees but they were maybe ankle high
Take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns, and boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars
But now books are overdue and the goats are underfed… the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead
You're a door-without-a-key, a field-without-a-fence
You made a holy fool of me, and I've thanked you ever since
If she comes circling back, we'll end where we'd begun
Like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one
Or if I'm a crown without a king, if I'm a broken, open seed
If I come without a thing, I come with all I need
No boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead
damn those are some intensely meaningful lyrics.
I have a few.
The Bagpipe Who Didn't Say No by Shel Silverstein
The Telephone by Robert Frost
Love Is not All by Edna St. Vincent Millay
My Candle Burns at both Ends by Edna St. Vincent Millay You may recognize this one from my profile.
And drum roll please my absolute favorite poem of all time
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes, my absolute favorite poet of all time.
I am so excited, we're having a whole unit on him in my Adfrican American Lit class!
Edit to add: Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes brings tears to my eyes every time I read it.
I have two favorite poems.
Adventures of a Frisbee by Shel Silverstein
The Frisbee, he got tired of sailing
To and fro and to;
And thought about the other things
That he might like to do.
So the next time that they threw him,
He turned there in the sky,
And sailed away to try and find
Some new things he could try.
He tried to be an eyeglass,
But no one could see through him.
He tried to be a UFO,
But everyone knew him.
He tried to be a dinner plate,
But he got cracked and quit.
He tried to be a pizza,
But got tossed and baked and bit.
He tried to be a hubcap,
But the cars all moved too quick.
He tried to be a record,
But the spinnin' made him sick.
He tried to be a quarter,
But he was too big to spend.
So he rolled home, quite glad to be
A Frisbee once again.
It is very deep and philosophical. Being someone who has tried to fit in with the "cool crowd" I can definitely relate to this poem.
I also like Silverstein's other works. The Giving Tree is a great look at a parent's love for a child. The Missing Piece is an excellent and intriguing look at perfection. I really enjoyed his poems as a kid and I still like to read his poems. They really make me think philosophically about life.
Another poem that I really like is Harlem, a poem by Langston Hughes that was featured in the play "A Raisin in the Sun."
A Raisin in the Sun by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
I really like the vivid imagery of the poem. In fact, I once did a dramatic presentation of this in a school activity. Like "Adventures of a Frisbee" by Shel Silverstein, this poem is also very philosophical.
Other poets I like include Edgar Allan Poe (the Raven is pretty good), Robert Frost and William Shakespeare.
@weeveeship: Do you realize that I picked four poets, and you picked five, and between us, we picked three of the same? :)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot (this has been my favorite poem for years… it's long)
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question…
Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
Let us go and make our visit.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair—
(They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!")
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin—
(They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!")
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
And I have known the eyes already, known them all—
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?
And I have known the arms already, known them all—
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.
And should I then presume?
And how should I begin?
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? ...
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
* * *
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep… tired… or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet—and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it towards some overwhelming question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"—
If one, settling a pillow by her head
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all."
And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor—
And this, and so much more?—
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all."
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—
Almost, at times, the Fool.
I grow old… I grow old…
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel:
I will drink Life to the lees:
all times I have enjoy'd Greatly,
have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vexed the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honour'd of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers;
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As tho' to breath were life.
Life piled on life
Were all to little,
and of one to me
Little remains:
but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle-
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness, and pay
Meet adoration to my household gods,
When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me-
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads- you and I are old;
Old age had yet his honour and his toil;
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in the old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal-temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
What kind of poem?
I'm tempted to say 'In a station of the metro', or second @iamthemob's candidate, but these poems don't read so well out loud.
'Leaves of Grass' is certainly the greatest poem/s I know, but that poem is not so much heard as it is felt.
This embodies all poetry.
But this sounds better than all of them (unless you listen to the provided audio, which sounds bad).
With complete disregard, towards all 'the greats'.
I share with thee some words,
from a mind of demented states.
Fun & simple, with touches of grim.
Here be the works of a fellow,
last name Burton – first name Tim.
=Stick Boy and Match Girl in Love=
Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
he liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.
But could a flame ever burn
for a match and a stick?
It did quite literally;
he burned up pretty quick.
I Knew A Woman
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,
Or English poets who grew up on Greek
(I'd have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek.)
How well her wishes went! She stroked my chin,
She taught me Turn, and Counter-turn, and stand;
She taught me Touch, that undulant white skin:
I nibbled meekly from her proffered hand;
She was the sickle; I, poor I, the rake,
Coming behind her for her pretty sake
(But what prodigious mowing did we make.)
Love likes a gander, and adores a goose:
Her full lips pursed, the errant note to seize;
She played it quick, she played it light and loose;
My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees;
Her several parts could keep a pure repose,
Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose
(She moved in circles, and those circles moved.)
Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:
I'm martyr to a motion not my own;
What's freedom for? To know eternity.
I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
But who would count eternity in days?
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways.)
- Theodore Roethke
@absalom That is exactly how I feel about "Song of Myself" in particular – it has to be felt, not read or heard. I need to go out and purchase a portable copy and keep it in my pocket. I've been quoting passages often lately.
by Christina Rosetti
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Was a poem given to me after the death of my brother many years ago…..it helped me a lot :)
I have too many to count, but here's one not yet mentioned; a tribute to the folly of arrogance.
Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
This is my absolute favourite:
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there. I do not die.
And I also rather like Yeats':
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread upon my dreams.
I know of many, many great poems but this is my favourite:
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixèd mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.


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Emily (Shay Mitchell) and Paige McCullers (Lindsey Shaw) have been going strong for a while now, but the re-introduction of Alison DiLaurentis (Sasha Pieterse) into Emily's life could, possibly, cause a shakeup in their relationship. After all, as we saw in Season 4, Episode 14 ("Who's in the Box?"), Alison is very much still on Emily's mind. If Ali manages to convince Em she really does love her — well, who knows what could happen!
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Pros: Alison is one of the most fascinating characters on the show, and having her in a romantic situation would be yet another way to leverage her complexity for compelling stories. There could be an interesting compare/contrast to the way Emily acted around her before and the way Emily would act around her now, since Em has grown and is starting to come to terms with the fact that Ali manipulated her in the past. A relationship between Ali and Emily also has the potential to show how Ali has changed — if she's changed. Cons: If the writers went in this direction, it risks putting too much focus on Alison's dynamic with Emily, and losing sight of her relationship with all the other Liars, which would be a shame. Also, now that Emily has grown so much, an Alison/Emily relationship, if not handled really well, would seem like a step backwards in her character development — especially after her conversation with Paige in the winter premiere.
Pros: As much as we like drama in the Liars' lives, it's nice to see them happy, too, so we'd hate to see Paige and Emily break up. Plus, having Emily in a stable relationship allows the writers to focus on other parts of her life. We like the idea of having her focus on the mysteries, with Paige acting as a stabilizing force and a helping hand. We need some positivity on this show! And as an added bonus, we could see Paige getting all protective of Emily if she learns Ali is alive, which would be a fun dynamic. Cons: At this point Paige and Emily really do seem to have worked through most of their issues — which could be a bad thing in TV Land, because happy couples don't normally make for dramatic tension.


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Nationals Notes: Uggla, Janssen, Injuries, Strasburg, Zimmermann
Second baseman Dan Uggla has done enough to make the Opening Day roster, but it's unclear how he'll be used, writes Mark Zuckerman of Nats Insider. After a couple dismal seasons, Uggla is in camp as a NRI. He's hit a solid .278/.422/.500 after undergoing a new vision treatment over the offseason.
His lack of defensive versatility makes him difficult to roster. The club intends to use Yunel Escobar at second base with Danny Espinosa as a utility infielder. Uggla has an opt out, so he's unlikely to remain with the organization if he's assigned to the minors. Per Uggla, he wouldn't feel comfortable in a reserve role. Once Anthony Rendon returns from injury, it's hard to imagine the Nationals finding a place to keep Uggla.
- Reliever Casey Janssen will undergo a MRI on his sore pitching shoulder, reports James Wagner of the Washington Post. Manager Matt Williams described the injury as "generally it's in his lat…it's not something that's normal soreness for him." That's worrisome because he missed time with a lat injury late last season. He's also dealt with other shoulder injuries in the past. Janssen signed a one-year, $3.5MM over the winter and is expected to serve as the eighth inning reliever for the Nationals.
- GM Mike Rizzo won't be tinkering with the roster much in the coming days. When asked if he could add players before the opener, he told reporters, including Mark Zuckerman of Nats Insider (on Twitter), "We're satisfied. We like the team we have." The injury bug has bitten multiple Nats player, including Denard Span and Rendon.
- The Nationals may allow star pitchers Jordan Zimmermann and Stephen Strasburg to walk via free agency, writes Thomas Boswell of the Washington Post. The reason has nothing to do with their performance. Both pitchers received Tommy John surgery in the past. Per Boswell, the "life expectancy" for the reconstructed elbow is eight years. Jeff Zimmerman of FanGraphs estimates that risk of re-injury increases sharply after just 400 to 600 innings. In either event, the injury history may partially explain the club's willingness to add Max Scherzer over the offseason.
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Nationals Notes: Scherzer, Strasburg, Trades
Max Scherzer's seven-year, $210MM contract with the Nationals is still the talk of baseball, and Chase Hughes of CSNWashington.com was among the reporters to speak with GM Mike Rizzo, the Lerner family (who own the Nats) and agent Scott Boras at today's introductory press conference. The massive deferrals in the contract — half of Scherzer's guarantee is deferred from 2022-28 — were essential to its completion. "If that didn't happen, there wouldn't have been a deal," said Mark Lerner. "It was really my father and (Rizzo) coming up with a creative deal and luckily it worked out for everybody." Rizzo explained that a straight seven-year deal would not have fit into the team's budgetary parameters. Boras, meanwhile, said that he had to have multiple discussions with the Lerner family, as the front office and manager Matt Willians approved of the move from a baseball standpoint. Said Boras: "It was really a matter of working out their interests, understanding the complexity, what's going to be best for the team — long term, short term — their revenue dynamic."
Here's a bit more on Scherzer and his new team…
- ESPN's Jayson Stark takes a look at the history of seven-year contracts for free agent pitchers and points out that the odds aren't in the Nationals' favor on this contract. Kevin Brown's seven-year deal with the Dodgers is probably the best signed by a free agent hurler, he writes, with CC Sabathia's current seven-year deal ranking second. Brown's deal ended poorly, and Sabathia's looks to be on a similar trajectory. Stark spoke with a number of executives about the wisdom (or lack thereof) of seven-year deals for pitchers, with several execs opining that Jon Lester (who signed a six-year deal) is a better bet to hold up in the long term than Scherzer. One GM plainly stated: "Look, these contracts are dumb to begin with. Really, only a three- or four-year deal makes sense. Seven or eight is what the players want. So they should come down to five or six, as opposed to seven. But here's the thing: It's all market-based, so you do it."
- Boras spoke to reporters, including Tom Schad of the Washington Times, following today's press conference and quickly debunked the rumor that another of his clients, Stephen Strasburg, is ready to move on from the Nationals. "We don't know where that came from," Boras explained. "Stephen Strasburg wants to play here and wants to be with Max Scherzer and grow." Boras added that at the time of Scherzer's signing, Rizzo informed him that the team's intention was to keep the current roster intact. Owner Mark Lerner said the same to Schad.
- Boras expanded on those thoughts a bit on MLB Network Radio's Inside Pitch with Jim Bowden and Casey Stern (audio link): "The Nationals have told us that they intend to keep their pitching staff. They intend to try to win a World Series, to try to move forward, and Stephen Strasburg is certainly a part of that…" Boras also explained why he doesn't foresee the unique structure of Scherzer's deal as the beginning of a trend, but rather as a unique situation.
- For those interested, the 15-minute press conference to introduce Scherzer to the D.C. media is available on MLB.com (video link). Scherzer discusses what drew him to the Nationals, being reunited with former teammate Doug Fister and his own reaction to the jaw-dropping $210MM guarantee he will receive. Rizzo talks about scouting Scherzer as an amateur and the Nationals' offseason plan as a whole, while manager Matt Williams recalls a story from his days as Scherzer's manager with the D-Backs' Double-A affiliate.
Pitching Notes: Hamels, Shields, Scherzer, Strasburg
The Rangers and Phillies had "in-depth trade talks" regarding lefty Cole Hamels before Texas pulled the trigger to add Yovani Gallardo, Jon Morosi of FOX Sports tweets. The sticking point in those discussions was money, tweets Morosi's colleague Ken Rosenthal.
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- Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski discussed the signing of Max Scherzer with reporters today, and MLive.com's James Schmehl has the report. Though agent Scott Boras reached out to the club to indicate Scherzer's interest in exploring a reunion, Dombrowski said that no negotiations occurred. "We never 100 percent closed the door," he said, "but we're very happy with the rotation we have."
- Perhaps most importantly, Tigers owner Mike Ilitch never fully re-engaged with the idea of keeping Scherzer for the long-haul after the righty famously turned down a $144MM extension offer, Morosi reports. As Morosi rightly notes, neither side can be faulted for pursuing its interests. In the end, Detroit did not go beyond its comfort zone and Scherzer was able to secure a better contract elsewhere.
- As for the notion that the Tigers could be in the market for James Shields, easily the best arm left on the open market, Dombrowski again emphasized that he was happy with the in-house options and was not looking to add. When asked specifically whether he wanted to comment on or debunk the Shields rumors, Dombrowski said: "I just did, didn't I?"
- Of course, the big question now is whether Scherzer's move to the Nationals will lead his new club to deal from its impressive rotation. While pending free agents Jordan Zimmermann and Doug Fister have long been talked about as at least hypothetical candidates to move, the Scherzer signing has led to some suggestions that Stephen Strasburg could be dangled. Jeff Sullivan of Fangraphs discusses what kind of price tag might accompany the star righty, noting that it would likely be high given not only his immense talent but also his reasonable expected salary over the next two years.
- We have already covered a good bit of Scherzer analysis (see here and here), but ESPN.com's Buster Olney also weighed in (Insider subscription required). He argues not only that Scherzer does not represent a significant upgrade over the already-deep group of Nats starters, but also notes that dealing away set-up man Tyler Clippard — and, if it occurs, trading other starters or shortstop Ian Desmond — could create significant issues elsewhere on the roster. All said, the long-term obligations in the Scherzer deal are something of an unnecessary risk, Olney suggests.
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Reactions To The Max Scherzer Deal
Here's a roundup of early reactions to the news that the Nationals have agreed to sign Max Scherzer to a seven-year deal.
- The Nats shouldn't trade anyone from their loaded rotation, Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports writes. Pitchers get hurt frequently, and the Nationals don't need to deal a pitcher to fix a hole elsewhere — they're strong all over the diamond and they have a good farm system.
- Scott Boras has said he often negotiates huge deals with owners, not GMs, and it's unclear whether Nationals owner Ted Lerner was involved in negotiating the Scherzer deal or how GM Mike Rizzo might now plan if he did, FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal writes. The Nationals have discussed trades involving Jordan Zimmermann, Ian Desmond and Stephen Strasburg throughout the offseason, Rosenthal notes. Now that they've added Scherzer, though, they could just keep accumulating talent, perhaps adding another Boras client in Francisco Rodriguez or Rafael Soriano for their bullpen.
- The Nationals might now be a "super-team," Jeff Sullivan of Fangraphs writes. The Nationals' position players already projected for more WAR than any other NL team, and Scherzer's signing will move them past the Dodgers for the most projected pitcher WAR as well.
- The Red Sox can still use an ace and would be able to pay the high price necessary to acquire Zimmermann, Strasburg or Doug Fister, Brian MacPherson of the Providence Journal writes. It would perhaps be more likely that the Red Sox would acquire Zimmermann or Fister, given that Strasburg has two years of control left and would therefore cost more in a trade.
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Max Scherzer Close To Deal With Nationals
9:08pm: The deal is "close" but will not be completed tonight, Barry Svrluga of the Washington Post tweets.
6:54pm: Scherzer is "very close" to signing with the Nationals, although the deal is not yet done, a source tells Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post (via Twitter).
6:10pm: Max Scherzer is talking with the Nationals and one other team about a seven-year contract, reports Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com. FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal, on Twitter, categorizes the negotiations as "close." Chris Cotillo of SB Nation tweeted earlier the impression around baseball is the Nationals will sign Scherzer, but it was unclear whether a deal was imminent. Tigers President/CEO/GM Dave Dombrowski denies Detroit is the other team, telling Anthony Fenech of the Detroit Free Press their pursuit of Scherzer is still inactive (Twitter). The New York Post's Joel Sherman tweets the Yankees are not the other team and Rosenthal reports the Red Sox, Astros, and Dodgers are also not in on Scherzer (Twitter links). The Angels aren't the mystery team, either, MLB.com's Alden Gonzalez tweets, and neither are the Giants or Cardinals, according to ESPN's Jerry Crasnick (Twitter links).
Agent Scott Boras has said it would be an ownership-level decision on whether a team will sign Scherzer and that it could be a "two-step process" – ink Scherzer and then trade another member of their rotation. Barry Svlurga of the Washington Post sees Boras pitching Nationals owner Ted Lerner the notion of signing Scherzer to win the World Series in 2015 knowing the salaries of impending free agents Ian Desmond, Jordan Zimmermann, Doug Fister, and Denard Span will be coming off the books for 2016 (Twitter links).
The Nationals have engaged multiple teams over the past few weeks in trade talks for Zimmermann, tweets FOX Sports' Jon Paul Morosi. If Scherzer signs, Zimmermann is the most likely trade candidate; but, if an acceptable offer for Zimmermann does not materialize, sources tell Morosi the Nationals will look to move Stephen Strasburg (Twitter links).
Washington, amidst reports the club has not had significant extension talks with Desmond, has discussed its All-Star shortstop with other teams, most notably the failed three-way trade involving the Mets and Rays. The Nationals also have not re-engaged Fister in extension talks since last spring and are said to be willing to listen to any trade proposals for the right-hander.
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Nationals, Stephen Strasburg Avoid Arbitration
8:53am: Strasburg will earn $7.4MM in 2015, tweets Barry Svrluga of the Washington Post.
8:45am: The Nationals announced that they've avoided arbitration with right-hander Stephen Strasburg by agreeing to a one-year deal for the 2015 season. Terms haven't been disclosed, although MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projected an $8.1MM payday for the Scott Boras client.
Strasburg, 26, pitched a career-best 215 innings and made a career-high 34 starts in 2014, working to a 3.14 ERA with 10.1 K/9, 1.8 BB/9 and a 45.9 percent ground-ball rate. The former first overall pick earned $3.975MM last year in his first trip through the arb system.
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Desmond, Gonzalez Clear Waivers; Strasburg, Harper Pulled Back After Claims
The Nationals are clearly in the process of running much of their roster through waivers, as USA Today's Bob Nightengale reports that shortstop Ian Desmond and left-hander Gio Gonzalez have both cleared revocable trade waivers. Ace Stephen Strasburg and outfielder Bryce Harper were both claimed on waivers and subsequently pulled back, Nightengale adds (Twitter links).
That both Desmond and Gonzalez would clear waivers is a bit surprising, although even in the event that they had been claimed, it's highly unlikely that the contending Nationals would've dealt away either key contributor. Desmond, 28, is in the midst of a down season at the plate but has still been valuable. He's hitting .244/.296/.422 with 19 homers and 13 stolen bases. Defensive metrics such as Ultimate Zone Rating and Defensive Runs Saved are down on his typically strong glovework in 2014, however. Still, as a shortstop with pop that is owed just $1.74MM through season's end in addition to $11MM in 2015, it wouldn't have been a surprise for a club to place a claim.
Gonzalez, also 28, has struggled in 2014 as well (by his standards). The lefty has pitched to a 4.00 ERA with 9.5 K/9, 3.8 BB/9 and a 44.7 percent ground-ball rate. Though his ERA is higher than normal, ERA estimators such as FIP, xFIP and SIERA all feel that he's having one of his better years. Gonzalez is controlled through 2016 ($11MM in 2015, $12MM in 2016) with a $12MM club option for 2017 and a $12MM vesting option for 2018. As noted before, it's nearly impossible to imagine Desmond or Gonzalez being moved this month.
It's hardly a surprise to see Harper and Strasburg claimed, but it's even less surprising that the Nats promptly pulled them back. Harper is controlled through the 2018 season, and while he's having a down season, he possesses a sky-high ceiling and was excellent in 2012-13 despite playing at the ages of 19 and 20. Strasburg is under control through 2016, and while his ERA is higher than normal, he's sporting a 10.7 K/9 rate and an even 3.00 FIP. Both are Scott Boras clients, so while an extension is unlikely for either, they're integral part of the Nationals' plan in the coming seasons.
Both Desmond and Gonzalez will now be added to MLBTR's growing list of players that have reportedly cleared revocable waivers.
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East Notes: Knuckle-Curve, Roberts, Strasburg
In an interesting piece for FOX Sports, Dan Rozenson of Baseball Prospectus looks at the increasing proliferation of knuckle-curveballs around the game, and suggests that the pitch could be a better weapon than a traditional hook — especially for hard throwers — due to its more fastball-like release point and typically greater speed. While A.J. Burnett of the Phillies is one of the game's better-known practitioners of the pitch, many others are less well-publicized and have only recently been identified in the PITCHf/x system.
Here are a few more brief notes from the game's eastern divisions to start off the morning …
- When Brian Roberts joined the Yankees as their starting second baseman, he not only left the only organization he had known (the Orioles) but stood to replace one of the game's best players in Robinson Cano. Adapting to his new environs and dealing with that pressure may have explained some of Roberts's early-season struggles, writes Brendan Kuty of NJ.com. "I think it was more self-inflected than anything," Roberts said of his slow start. "You try hard, I think. I've always said it's got to be hard for guys to switch teams all the time. I was always so comfortable. It was like riding a bike every year."
- The Nationals are increasingly setting loose ace Stephen Strasburg, writes Tyler Kepner of the New York Times. "I mean, he's our horse," said manager Matt Williams. "He's a guy that can go 120 [pitches]." While Strasburg's fastball velocity is down and his results have lagged somewhat in the early going — thanks in large part to giving up lots of early runs — he is striking out batters at a ridiculous 12.2 K/9 rate and advanced metrics love his work. Strasburg has thrown 47 1/3 frames through his first eight starts, which lags Adam Wainwright's league-leading 58 innings in as many outings. But if the 25-year-old can continue working late into games, he could well make his first push past 200 innings. That could deliver a big bump in arbitration earnings for Strasburg, who netted a relatively modest $3.975MM in his first trip through the process.
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Stephen Strasburg, Nationals Avoid Arbitration
The Nationals have announced that they've agreed to terms with pitcher Stephen Strasburg, avoiding arbitration. CBS Sports' Jon Heyman tweets that Strasburg will make $3.975MM next year. He can also earn up to $125K in performance bonuses, Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post tweets. Strasburg is represented by Scott Boras.
MLBTR projected Strasburg would make $3.9MM in his first trip through the arbitration process. He also made $3.9MM in 2013 in what was effectively the final year of the Major-League contract he signed when the Nats drafted him in 2009. The Nationals control Strasburg's rights through 2016. The righty posted a 3.00 ERA, 9.4 K/9 and 2.8 BB/9 in 183 innings in 2013.
NL Notes: Arrieta, Mets, Strasburg
Let's take a quick look at some notes from the National League …
- Recent Cubs trade acquisition Jake Arrieta is struggling with consistency even while flashing the potential to be a dominant starter, writes Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune. Of course, as MLBTR's Zach Links noted back when he was shipped to Chicago, Arrieta was a nice buy-low, change-of-scenery candidate precisely because of his historical inability to harness his stuff.
- Looking forward to the club's right field opening in 2014, the Mets probably lack the top-end young bat that would be necessary to draw Giancarlo Stanton away from the Marlins, writes ESPNNewYork.com's Mark Simon. (Simon notes that catcher Travis d'Arnaud could fit the bill, but his struggles at the MLB level lower his value and he fills an obvious need for his current club.) Looking elsewhere, Simon tabs Shin-Soo Choo, Hunter Pence, Nelson Cruz, and recent Met Marlon Byrd as potential targets.
- Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg had his start skipped today after experiencing soreness in his right forearm, reports Tom Schad of MLB.com. Though manager Davey Johnson said that a medical examination revealed nothing of concern, the team is understandably proceeding with caution, even as it tries to hang on to the fringes of the Wild Card race. At this point, Strasburg has set himself up for a nice arbitration payday regardless of what happens over his remaining starts. He will enter the process for the first time with a career 2.95 ERA over 421 1/3 innings pitched, with 10.6 K/9 against just 2.5 BB/9, although his relatively low inning totals (he is at a career-high 170) and lack of wins this year (he has just seven) could limit his earning potential somewhat.
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Jul 14, 2004 7:04 pmDemocrats Need to Embrace the Obvious
John Kerry's advisors think he has to emphasize values, says the NYT. It's about time. Maybe while he's at it he'll stop referring to his plans. When he came to Seattle a month ago I went out to watch his talk to get a feel for him in person. He kept talking about his plans. He had a plan for health care. He had a plan for homeland security. "I have a plan for that" was the only line afterwards I could remember.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson was quoted by the Times as saying Republicans usually emphasize values and Democrats rights. This is one of the smartest observations I've heard lately. It's one of those statements that is so obvious you wonder why the Democrats haven't figured this out before. Or did they figure this out and decide they were fine with the Republicans monopolizing values? Serious mistake, if so. If you see the winning team hiring great pitchers doesn't it make sense to go out and start looking for pitchers yourself? You don't need to hire their pitchers. If they hired righties you can hire lefties. But damnit get in the game. If you don't talk about values people think you don't have values.
And by not talking about values the Democrats have let Republicans define values narrowly in moralistic terms that give them an advantage with the evangelical community. How dumb is this?
Of course, the Democrats' approach to politics is rooted in the party's history as the defender of the rights of Jews, blacks and other minorities, including women (who should never be described as a minority anyway). But there's no downside to stealing your opponent's approach when it doesn't cost you anything. And that's the situation here. Democrats can define values in their terms and win over people who use values as a kind of test of character.
Take health care, as an example. Democrats always treat it as a rights issue. But it's a values issue, too. What kind of society lets 43 million people get by without health insurance?
Voters don't care for the details of policies. It bores them when politicians even begin explaining the difference between Part A and Part B in Medicare. But values are issues susceptible to public debate. You don't need to know about policy details to comment on the issue when it's framed in terms of values.
Again, this all sounds so obvious I fear I am insulting the readers of this blog. But Democrats still are reluctant to embrace the obvious.
A few weeks ago David Brooks was ranting in the NYT about the indifference of Democrats to religion. I think he was wrong. It's not religion per se that the voters want politicians talking about. It's values.
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David a. Cousins - 8/27/2004
Pesky liberals? You are right. You people are pesky on the left. And intolerant, arrogant, and in Kerrys case, ALOOF.
Jonathan Dresner - 7/14/2004
I've never entirely understood the values debate. Values, as others have pointed out, are meaningless without implementation, and nobody can accuse the Democrats of not trying to get the Federal Government to DO stuff. Rights are expressions, implementations, of values.
Really, the debate is between Democrats, who think we need to do something about the ways in which we fall short of our ideals, and Republicans, who "value" our present state (and our pre-regulated economic state) as if everything were OK except for those pesky liberals.
Mark Daniels - 7/10/2004
One of the reasons I think that Democrats don't talk about "values" is that the only way such discussions seem to be approached these days is from a sectarian perspective, a la Bush.
But they would do well to remember that Americans--irrespective of their religion--have shared values. So long as "values-based" policies don't threaten any group from exercising their religious freedom, it's possible (in fact, essential) for governments to base their policies on some values. Even highway speed limit regulations, for example, are undergirded by some shared values: life, health, safety, stewardship of air and fuel, etc.
FDR's proclamation of the Four Freedoms was a statement of values. The Dems would do well to emulate this approach and get back into the values business.
In spite of diverging greatly from its roots in Jefferson and Jackson, there is a straight line between the emphasis on rights upheld by those two and the Democratic Party of today. Indeed, in Jefferson's personal life, you can see the consequences of a life lived in the pursuit of one's rights untethered by values: he was a spendthrift who left his family broke; he was a racist who viewed his slaves as property to be used in any way he saw fit; his desire for power was so complete that he engaged in the most outrageous and backstabbing demagoguery in order to attain the presidency; he claimed to believe in limited government, but when he took the reins of power, he wielded it with breathtaking and barely constitutional audacity.
Values matter. So do rights. When either party is able to strike a balance between these two poles, I believe that we'll see the country break free of the current red state-blue state deadlock.
Derek Charles Catsam - 7/8/2004
I've never gotten this free pass that republicans get with claiming "values' independent of actually explaining what that means. If you are running on "values" then implicitly are you not saying your opponent has lesser values? And yet no one ever dares to articulate it this way. No one can deny that Jimmy carter had "values." So what? I nagree with you that the dems seem just to have conceded this territory -- I can see a great speechwriter (Kerry, call, I'll make the time) coming up with an epic on this. They talk values, yet they . . . would be the epistrophe. Or, they talk values. We . . .
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19 comments:
- SeanM said...
Cutest pix ever.
- April 8, 2009 at 3:12 PM
SO CUTE but remove the first one please. :( it's just disturbing and I want to show my mother
- April 9, 2009 at 5:12 PM
- Duds said...
And the papers say KittyPorn is a bad thing...
- April 9, 2009 at 8:45 PM
- pollystyrene said...
Anonymous- I'm pretty sure your mom will survive seeing that picture. My mom's the one who sent this to me.
- April 10, 2009 at 5:35 PM
In what way is the first picture disturbing? They're kittens - playing, sniffing, doing what felines (and a lot of other animals) do. They don't have a sense of morality, so human judgment shouldn't be applied. I have to assume you're kidding.
- April 10, 2009 at 6:52 PM
- sidharth said...
I echo every part of what Anonymous said. My mom needs to see *most* of this.
- April 10, 2009 at 7:09 PM
The first picture is fine, leave it in. It's only disturbing to disturbed people. Get it through your heads, people, animals don't think about sex like we do. These are babies, besides! You are sick, anonymous.
- April 11, 2009 at 12:15 AM
- Bonnie said...
wow. humans have to learn lots of stuff yet, eh??
- April 11, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Yeah,this proves it!My two girls Amber Grace & Lily Marie are lezbeans!
Amber is the dyke! - April 17, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Great pictures, love the one with the moon, cats greet by touching noses. And the first one is fine, I really never thought of it as sexual in nature until I read the comments, and I thought what, there just playing. Mama Cat
- April 18, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Wow what can I say? When I first saw the pictures I laughed and thought that they looked more like they were fighting than loving eachother....just goes to show that their can be perversion in people whether they know it or not!
- April 20, 2009 at 9:47 PM
I think it's funny that the second poster is worried about his/her mom seeing the first pic - as if mom is a virgin who's been kept locked away in a tower, untainted by the world. Guess what? She had sex at least once; otherwise, you wouldn't be here. And you know what else? I'll bet she liked it. *gasp*
- April 21, 2009 at 10:43 PM
- beheaded said...
Cute photos and beautiful cats. One of them looked like the talking cat zola from http://www.facepaint.ws but not as fat as her of course.
- January 3, 2010 at 3:15 PM
Wow, the first one is just a cute pic. I first saw it and thought one was licking the other's belly or they were wrestling. You gotta be thinking dirty to see it any other way.
- January 31, 2010 at 2:08 AM
- jereme said...
These Kitties are soooooooooooooooooo adorable i luv them all, no 1 is fine its not disturbing at all...
Misshell is right its only disturbing to disturbed people LOL! - February 1, 2010 at 5:29 AM
I must be sick then :)cause I see they having fun adult way :D
but we all know that its just [playing - February 25, 2010 at 11:16 PM
These sick people should be locked away....*disgusting*, dirty minds...you should hang your head in shame, Anonymous...or go get some counceling!!!
- January 3, 2011 at 4:09 AM
This is so cute!!Love all the pics! Anonymous is disturbed for sure haha! XD
I WUV CATS S2 - February 22, 2012 at 1:37 AM
first pic: and if humans dub that as sick on a moral basis, then it is!
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'I Eat and Mom Doesn't': Growing Up Hungry in America
For 10-year-old Jazeer from Philadelphia, life is toughest when his family's food stamps run out at the end of the month. "I eat and my mom doesn't. She sacrifices," he shares with the ABC News correspondent in another installment of the network's series, "Hunger in America."
In this episode, the focus is on families with young children who are feeling the effects of growing up food insecure. Jazeer films home footage of his empty refrigerator and a shopping trip to his family's nearest source of food: a Rite Aid.
After the recession, the number of Americans on food stamps rose from 26 to 46 million people. Furthermore, 2.4 million children in our nation now live in poverty, and 17 million children are growing up food insecure. Watch the video below about Jazeer and children growing up hungry, and keep reading the Bread blog for further commentary on this important ABC News series.
+PLUS: Are you looking for a way to teach children about children growing up hungry? See these resources for kids from Bread for the World.
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Posted by Jeannie Choi on August 30, 2011 in Hunger in the News, U.S. Hunger / Comments (3) / TrackBack (0)
When is the ABC show/series?
Posted by: Ruth on September 01, 2011 at 12:50 AM
Hi Ruth, You can check out the series if you follow this link: http://abcnews.go.com/US/hunger_at_home/
Posted by: Jeannie on September 01, 2011 at 03:54 PM
The effect of recession is taking place now in America. I think not only in America but in many places in the whole world. I know that the American Government will stop this situations.
Posted by: Jemelyn on September 01, 2011 at 08:26 PM
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At the feet of the dinosaurs: the early history and radiation of lizards
AbstractLizards, snakes and amphisbaenians together constitute the Squamata, the largest and most diverse group of living reptiles. Despite their current success, the early squamate fossil record is extremely patchy. The last major survey of squamate palaeontology and evolution was published 20 years ago. Since then, there have been major changes in systematic theory and methodology, as well as a steady trickle of new fossil finds. This review examines our current understanding of the first 150 million years of squamate evolution in the light of the new data and changing ideas. Contrary to previous reports, no squamate fossils are currently documented before the Jurassic. Nonetheless, indirect evidence predicts that squamates had evolved by at least the middle Triassic, and had diversified into existing major lineages before the end of this period. There is thus a major gap in the squamate record at a time when key morphological features were evolving. With the exception of fragmentary remains from Africa and India, Jurassic squamates are known only from localities in northern continents (Laurasia). The situation improves in the Early Cretaceous, but the southern (Gondwanan) record remains extremely poor. This constrains palaeobiogeographic discussion and makes it difficult to predict centres of origin for major squamate clades on the basis of fossil evidence alone. Preliminary mapping of morphological characters onto a consensus tree demonstrates stages in the sequence of acquisition for some characters of the skull and postcranial skeleton, but many crucial stages – most notably those relating to the acquisition of squamate skull kinesis – remain unclear. (Received February 11 2002)(Revised September 9 2002) (Accepted November 21 2002) Key Words: lizard; Lepidosauria; Squamata; evolution; phylogeny; biogeography; skull morphology; fossils; Mesozoic. |