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The majority of Benefits Supervisors in the United States — just below two-thirds — boast more than 10 years of experience in their profession. Salaries stretch from $38K to $93K per year, and the median is $63K annually. Nearly all report receiving medical coverage from their employers and most collect dental insurance. The vast majority (81 percent) of Benefits Supervisors who took the survey are female. This field is filled with high levels of job satisfaction; most Benefits Supervisors are happy with their jobs. This snapshot results from replies to PayScale's salary survey.
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Benefits Supervisors with a lot of experience tend to enjoy higher earnings. Salaries of relatively inexperienced workers fall in the neighborhood of $45K, but folks who have racked up five to 10 years see a notably higher median of $57K. People with 10 to 20 years of experience make an average of about $68K in this role. Respondents who claim more than 20 years of experience may encounter pay that doesn't quite reflect their extensive experience; these veterans report a median income of around $74K.
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Unseen McQueen: Day 6
We're nearing the end of our week-long celebration of Nick Knight and Lee McQueen's creative collaborations. The penultimate piece of footage gleaned from Knight's archives shows the creation of an image from 1999 for the debut issue of Tina Brown's Talk magazine. The final photograph follows the tradition of Knight and McQueen collaborations in terms of its extreme imagery and emotive concept. McQueen appears bound in chains and hanging from his own flesh in a padded cell, the themes of torment and captivity symbolising the designer's unhappiness working as head designer at Givenchy. The short film gives a glimpse of the image-making process from beginning to end.
Marian Newman is the latest of McQueen's collaborators to be interviewed about her relationship with the ground-breaking designer. The nail artist speaks about working on shows and projects including the Alexander McQueen S/S 10 Plato's Atlantis show, Lee McQueen's last. 'Every time I did something with him there was always a story with the nails, which was great - and it was unheard of in those days,' she says of the designer's attention to detail.
In conversation with Lou Stoppard about his Talk magazine image, known as The Cell and shown as today's unseen footage, Nick Knight gives his penultimate interview on his creative collaborations with Lee.
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Where cold stars exist in the dark,
serene winds whisper to trees
and scarce human ears can listen,
lone songs wail in the distance
in frozen moon's silver spotlight,
a mark left where paws had paused.
Written by: Kelly Deschler. January 16th, 2015
Inspired by creature #3 Coyote
nette onclaud's contest - NIGHT CREATURES
This poem was also inspired by actual events. A few weeks ago, I discovered
some large animal paw prints that were left in the snow, near my home. I later
found out that the tracks were made by a wolf.
More great poems below...
Holding you inside one fragile beautiful flower blossoming dream
Sweet you are my love painting words breathtaking within all wishes
Silvery streak of moonlight shimmering a star
only now I read between the lines trailing thoughts
How can you ask someone to stop loving without care
an impossible task even for the hardest of hearts
If I were the last person on this planet sunshine through clouds
that's how it draws to me you're asking me not to love you
Misery likes company cuts deeper than a knife wounds beauty
never was the answer to love in our friendships face
A predator among us.
A villian in our midst.
An entity of evil,
Clouding up our wits.
Preying on the innocent.
Devouring the strong.
A sycophant immortal.
Unbound by right and wrong.
White wool adorning
The curves of their form.
Cloven hooves dragging
on the ground with the worms.
No hoofprints behind them.
just the four toed paws
dotted at the tips
by their long and angry claws.
Nature is a cruel being.
Creating monsters in her storms.
No one understands
And everyone is torn.
The prey will always villify
those who are higher than they
on the food chains bottom
the sheep will always stay.
The wolves are meant to feed
without remourse consume
The psyches of the weak
to bring them to their doom.
The sheep will bleat and bellow
in fear of those wolves
And try to justify their blindness
by stamping hard their hooves.
Hiding in the herd,
the prey upon their back
the predators facade
turns their wool to black.
Such is natures way.
No one is at fault.
The circle of life.
The predators of thought.
For who can blame the hungry beast
for eating to survive
When you people create such feasts
And tantalize our eyes.
We can not feel guilty
for gaining our sustenance.
consider this my fealty
for i shall not repent.
Hounds from Hell take their toll on your soul
as you walk the mainstreet of mainstream
and watch Saturn and Neptune dance to a simple tone
of silence in the outer space.
As you sit in the middle of the world
free yourself from the sense of hopelessness,
only see yourself in the mirror of deception
as your reflection laughs at you and looks right through you,
and doesn't have remorse for what it says or does to you.
Hounds from Hell take your soul,
chock you, cut of your air,
the smog and fog blind you in the city of ash.
Hear the hounds from hell howl for your soul,
go now, barracade your soul behind sins and temptation,
Alone, listening to your soul die away,
watch love go away from you, with suitcase in hand,
picture frames broken and collect dust through the sands of time.
Till the cleaning lady comes on Monday, to clean the mess
that you left behind.
You are gone, without a trace of ever returning.
Looks of the Hounds of Hell came for you and stole you from
comfort and warmth,
till the sorrowed heart cracks and pain spills out
and you look at it all spill out over the floor.
The Hounds from Hell have paid a consumable harmage to you,
and your rich soul of sorrowness burns away... slowly.
Fear darkens souls,
innocent souls burn with a new day,
a slumber that has no end
with nightmares haunting every light of hope
there is left in this desolate Wasteland.
Fear and darkness tears a hole in the darkened universe
and we all go to hell to see the Hounds,
who come for us all.
The graveyards fill,
and death guards the tombstones of the dead,
and the flowers burn away on the feet of the dead.
Alphabet Constructs 3 2 1
Annotated Achilles amends fallen frame amputees
Bulimec Barbies browse media monkey banalaties
Cameo clouds cling to beaded breath curios
Dopamine dreams dilenate check cash desires
Echo endorfins eulogize bullet brain excrement
Fecal folly fantasies reveal relevant frivoloties
Gonadial grownups gulp secret scrotal generosities
Helical hemorriods hinder senior stricken hemocraps
Idiotic ideals idioiosyncrate post partem iconoclasts
Jack Jill juxtapositories seek sexestential jouveniers
Kryptic killer kisses ascot arrogant kingdumbs
Liquid lipid loiners fear frontline lucklullibies
Malovent mommies masterbate rich reflective mommocules
Nevertheless nightengales nourich ruby rich noonbeams
Ovulatory occults outsource torrent tofu outrages
Pensive picses picnics lovelorny passions
Queer quiet quintensials release rancid quotients
Rape ripe residuals nullify nimble reprocussions
Silky seafoam silohouttes fornicate frothy sandlets
Tepid torch trilogies belie beligerent tourniquets
Useless utterences utilize organize orgasmic utopias
Venimous vixens violate cruel.com visions
White willow wombs softly seed hospice hell winds
XY XX xfactors envision extracurricular xraydoms
Yearning yoyo yesterdays calculate clearcovert yeilds
Zen zealous zions mirror maginfy Zoneotones
Leapin' lizards up in dem' gizzards, something we call the creepy crawl. And her womb spew forth blasphemy, and her lips uttered deceit. Black alters in Bone orchards. Praise hell syndicate burn down this town and everyone in it. Red lights…, blood lust. Ambrosia, with her hair so fare. Clearly obvious why the gods chose her. Devourer of subtleties... Tenderest of vittles. I know at night your bones up and come to life causing mischief. All monkey minds in devil times, chatter chatter, screechhhh... All lost, no hope. And then there was you. Burn down the temple and sing. Eyes bare witness to the rise of her. Dance to the rhythms of a free will symphony. Bleed from thyn eyes,... I don't mind. Bliss bliss and heaven. Your absence is the bane of my existence.
I once had a friend named Mildred
Who wiggled a lot in my bed,
She'd snore with delight
Her growl was a fright;
I rang the alarm clock instead.
"Without the right sleep, even the gentlest person
can turn into a crazed beast!"—own quote
John Freeman's Dumb and Dumber Personal quotes
Jab Meri Bechaini Mit Jayegi
Jab Mere Dilko Sukoon Mil Jayega
Yeh Khaalipan Mit Jayega
Do Pal Ki Chandni Ke Liye
Aj Bhi Zinda Hoon Main
Meri Khaamoshi Ke Ageh Aasmaan Bhi Khatam Ho Jayega
Kehne Ke Liye Toh Roz Marta Hoon Main
Thoda Aur Marne Ke Liye
Yeh Deewana Kal Phir Ayega
Oppressed by you, your state, your religion
So you think you good, kind and Superior
But I find you cruel, arrogant and callous
But that is just in my view, what do I know?
You control the language that describes pain
But there is no for me in its grid, or how I feel
My soul is ripped from my body and bound,
On to your machines on which I slave and toil.
You say it has to be this way, no room for doubt
Master and slave, it is only a matter of degrees
But it is my kind that is always tied to the rack
While you sip vintage wine in the lap of luxury.
Everything has its time and its place, yours is over
End is near, for you and everything you hold dear
Everything carries with it the root of its own destruction
And I will rejoice now that your has very nearly come.
knock knock knock
bang bang
tick tock
mish mash
ring ring
She struts with a strategic lust
punishing hesitation with voluptuous thrust,
invading my chamber of fresh heart and hard part
certain for her meal of tender male from the start,
perfume from waving sea spreading broadly through this fantasy
skin textured fine with urge for pulsing vine, Goddess grins robustly,
she walks in rosebud red
stalks the songs and lips within this throbing head,
the call she croons to with curving tongue
door of desire widens to release a white river upon breasts divinely hung -
Tomorrow is a mystery,
future isn't sure.
Tomorrow is killing me,
victory isn't pure.
Have got so much to give
but don't know what I would get.
Tomorrow has got me pensive,
tomorrow's pregnancy is a threat.
Will tomorrow be bright?
as I sleep and say goodnight?
Will tomorrow shine?
Will it be just fine?
Life is a crazy ride
but still make it a pride.
Live for today and hope for tomorrow
and hopefully meet a day to follow.
*Sammy Kyle*
I left my hometown and didn't much look back,
headed southward bound in my Cowboy Cadillac,
arrived at this store to grab me some snacks,
Yea, they're right about this town, of how it really attracks,
Yea, here in the town called Nashville, where the Grand Ole Opry's on TV,
They say it's the real deal, where upcoming singers need to be,
but I don't do much singing, 'cause the hound dogs howl at me,
though I sure hope it's worth bringing, my songs, for some to see,
I've got them on the internet, downloading them is free,
I haven't had any right connections yet, but I'm hoping patiently,
gonna find me country singer, try to pitch them a dog gone hit,
like pitching a horseshoe ringer, you know you just can't quit,
Yea, here in the town of Nashville, where the Grand Ole Opry's on TV,
they say it's the real deal, where even writers need to be,
no, I don't do much singing, 'cause the hound dogs howl at me,
but I sure hope it's well worth bringing, my songs, for some to see,
Yea, here in the town of Nashville, where the Grand Ole Opry's on TV,
they say it's the real deal, where upcoming singers hope patiently,
Got some songs to pitch the singers, like me, they just can't quit,
like making a horseshoe ringer, knowing one of them could hit,
I've got them at Poetry Soup, where printing them is free,
log on in, enjoy the view, it's finger friendly as can be,
become a welcomed member, without any sort of fee,
no matter what's your gender, or your nationality,
Yea, here in the town of Nashville, where the Grand Ole Opry's on TV,
they say it's the real deal, where upcoming singers need to be,
Gonna find me a country singer, try to pitch them a dog gone hit,
like throwing a horseshoe ringer, knowing you just can't quit,
Yea, I left my hometown and didn't much look back,
headed southward bound in my Cowboy Cadillac,
arrived at this store to grab me some snacks,
Yea, they're right about this town, of how it really attracks.
Who would have guessed/ the love carried for a beagle no less
Lily howling at the moon/ with ears long as her toes our coon
she gave birth to Bambi with no tail/ jack a be , 3 yrs later she is ours still
no describing the love for our girls / dressed in pink shirts and curly frills
the girls don't like when we leave home / they show us for leaving them alone
the pillows torn and howling non stop / we love our girly beagles until we drop
In a strange
environment under gross
darkness and whispering
night,I found myself with
a companion.
We walked an endless
journey across the
woods..eerie sounds we
heard,a crack! then the
undead resurrecting from
marshes,we ran seeking
for cover.
These creatures howled
as they drew near with
blood dripped
mouths,my fear
deepened,I called out to
my friend a flesh eater he
Under the whispering
night I stood alone,
seemed the world stood
still,as these monsters
encircled me,I closed my
eyes wishing I was not
Suddenly,a bright light
darkness,repelled these
zombies-then eerie noises
ceased, and the world
revolved once again.
A knock,I realized I
drifted to sleep as my
companion entered my
We zoomed off towards
the horizon under the
bright sky.
Name:ifeanyi B.
Such a nose had Ol' Blue.
Best in south Missouri... everybody knew.
Could smell a pheasant across the plain.
Could point a covey in a hurricane.
That's the way the legend goes.
Ol' Blue had a "magic nose."
As Blue got older, his master's mind would drift away
To a place where he and young Blue used to play.
In the mornings, sitting over his coffee cup
He found it sad there were no pups.
He thought it would be such a shame
If the only memory was Ol' Blue's name.
So, Jim was compelled and full of pride;
He made a search, far and wide,
To find Ol' Blue a suitable mate.
No doubt, his offspring would be great.
It seemed likely, he supposed,
At least one pup would have his "magic nose."
She was a Champion Miss from New Orleans,
A beautiful "red" named Cajun Queen.
But Blue suddenly passed away, before the pups were born.
Jim was broken hearted. He and "Queenie" mourned.
Then came the litter, but there was only one.
Jim struggled for hope; after all, he was Ol' Blue's son.
Dappled and lanky, a handsome little cuss,
He looked just like Blue. Jim made such a fuss.
Naming this pup would require no ado.
It was obvious. Officially, he would be "Blue Two."
Oh yes, these were mighty large tracks to fill.
"Can he?", folks asked. Jim would say, "Heck yes he will!"
So his nickname became "Two" and he seemed to be smart.
Soon it was time for his training to start.
The basics went well, but Jim's outlook grew very dim
When, instead of pointing, Two would wag and jump and bark at him.
Oh, Two seemed to be trying; but try as he might,
He just could not seem to ever get it right.
"Blue's son or not, he's got to go!"
Jim found Two a "pet home" far away, in Tupelo.
On his way back, he stopped in Texarkana.
Been too long a time since he'd seen his sister Hannah.
Six days and six pounds later, he was back on his way.
Work at the farm was callin' and he'd be drivin' all day.
He thought about Ol' Blue and wondered if and when
He'd ever have a birddog as good as Blue again.
Oh, he knew another "magic nose" was just a far off dream;
After all, it wasn't something any man could scheme.
A "magic nose" was a gift from God, only given to a few;
And he was proud and very lucky just to have known Ol' Blue.
As he turned into his drive, he broke into a smile.
"Why… I can't believe it! It…It must be 300 miles!"
Two was on the porch, thin and dirty; but he struck a handsome pose.
Jim ran and hugged Two hard. "How'd you get back? Lord only knows!"
Suddenly Jim realized; and struck with awe, he slowly rose.
A tear trickled to his smile. "Why Two… you have a "magic nose!"
Two and Jim are best of friends, together everywhere.
From milkin' cows to bedtime, Two is always there.
Jim doesn't hunt much anymore, now Two's a rescue dog.
Just last month, he saved a little girl lost in Cooley's Bog.
Jim struts and tells proud, heroic stories;
While Two wags and jumps and barks, and shares his glory.
Jim boasts, "Like father, like son!", then speaks fondly of Blue;
But all know the largest tracks to fill are those of Two.
His deeds are known far and wide,
And fill Jim's heart with love and pride.
For with every rescue, the legend grows;
About a dog named Two, and his "magic nose."
Walking threw the mist of the night,
on the path that lead deep into the forest, in absence of sound;
from one whom was bought, no body shell be found,
of those who might be lost, homeward bound,
as we raven through this hollow ground.
Cross sentences that are incomplete, fractions that make you weak,
threw words that you learned so well, life is a living hell,
don't front and pull back, end of line, number check,
in the story and on track, blank page,
ink intact.
* A tale of a charlatan, caught pretending to be a father of a Newton Massacre
Victim----(feel free to view his hyperbole on Youtube, search Robbie Parker
This place is not big on naming names, but you sir, are despicable! Usurp
nightmares of another. Charlatan! How can you do what you do, there, bold
face lying for world news cameras. You, the very reason mine stomach pit,
ulcer amore'! Tho' there's no clear understanding for sins you've committed.
Those children! Where are the tears Robbie Parker? Where are the tears? We
can't look at you anymore!
The epitome of evil approached the podium, unaware we were staring into
your laughing eyes. Caught red handed, you Superman'd into character.
Despise, despise! No, I won't pretend like the others that hate is not in my
heart. You see, minus hate, love remains half mast. I thank you for the
juxtaposition. Yet, sickening you are. And the truth is out Mr. Parker, you are
a farce! Now I ask...Where does the misconception end? You mock naysayers,
label them "Conspiracy Theorists" amongst other choice vulgarities. In return,
I request answers. Answers to understand where true conspiracy roams, for'
I'm no dummy little buddy, and I know where there's smoke, fire is nearby.
Meanwhile, you might want to sharpen your acting skills, for the end is nigh.
And you Robbie Parker are only a speck of the lie.
You rigged the book on Sandy Hook.
The howling of the beast Sends a chill through all in its wake It is that time again
Not a soul can be seen Under the full moons shining light Behind locked doors
Quivering Wide eyed Praying to their God May the beast pass me by Let
me live to see Another full moons shining light
Haiku 83
settles around me
like dust
As I look up at the sky I see the moon is high
I feel the wolf deep inside he is trying to come alive
As the pain begins to start It feels as through I am being ripped apart
My joints start to bend and break
Soon the wolf will be fully awake.....
Now here's a handy little tip I came across by chance,
While visiting the bathroom as a lad home from a dance.
I was a little worse for alcohol, so have to be forgiven,
For the odd thoughts that occur to me when I am cider driven.
I was there to give my teeth a brush and stood in fear of death,
As I had to get some mint on board before mum smelt my breath.
So I loaded up my toothbrush and I'd squeezed a good supply,
When I noticed something moving in the corner of my eye.
Well, I turned around quite slowly just in case it was a mouse.
For I'd seen them in the garden twice, but never in the house.
I was set to do the pouncing stuff, but then was forced to laugh,
As my eyes met two big spiders that were trapped down in the bath.
While I stood and watched their climbing fails I'd built up quite a foam,
And I thought, I shouldn't waste it, I should spit it a new home.
So I climbed up on the bath tub rim and hovered like a dove,
And with those spiders as my targets - I would bomb them from above.
Well, it took so many efforts, I was aiming like a fool,
Which meant I soon ran out of ammo, so I climbed down to refuel.
I then spread my Colgate nice and thick and brushed away for fun,
Till I'd whipped another mouthful, for another bombing run.
And then at last I hit one, on the edge with just some dregs,
And I watched with glazed amazement as it paralysed three legs.
With just five legs to drag himself, he couldn't reach his max,
Then I hit him with a splatter bomb which stopped him in his tracks.
I never thought that tooth paste drips would do them that much harm,
But the effect on those poor spiders was as deadly as Napalm.
The good news is, it sobered me, all that hanging over head,
And my teeth had never been so clean and both of them were dead.
Well this tip that I pass on to you, is bound to come in handy,
Just share it with your family and they'll love it more than candy.
You can save yourself a pile of work, catching bugs for bath release,
It will clear your house of spiders; clean your bath and kiddy's teeth.
They nicknamed Doris Day the girl next door
But she never lived next door to me.
Sting is known as sting but isn't a bee.
Davy Jones was known as a monkey
But I never saw him swing through trees.
The called big John Wayne the Duke
But he wasn't born within aristocracy.
Lana Turner was known as the sweater girl
But I never saw her sweat.
They call the invisible man invisible
But I haven't seen him yet.
Tarzan was known as the king of the jungle
But go tell that to a lion
Your title wouldn't have a lot to rely on.
Jane Mansfield was known as the blonde bomb shell
So get ready to run like hell.
Elvis was known as the pelvis
But there must have been more to him than that.
Bridget Bardot was know as the sex kitten
But wasn't a cat.
James Brown was known as the Godfather but
Didn't join the mob.
Sylvester Stallone Was known as the Italian stallion?.
Peter Dome.copyright.2014. July.
Sick of the monsters
that track my steps,
given the chance I'd
lay them to rest.
Following my
they trail my every
Gotta lose 'em
before the moon
Grab my carving set
and begin to think
Grabbing their
attention- I get the
upper hand.
Stabbing through
their frail skin,
I find the image of
blood in and on my
Cross-eyed and close
to the cliffs edge.
The moonlight sheds
time on the
monster's young
and i drop my knife.
For they are me, I
was them, and soon
we will be together
Looking back it was
a full moon's end.
Why is it after you wash a pair of socks
you can only find one
And we only really appreciate youth
when it's to late and gone.
Why do we always get a huge spot
on the end of our nose before a date
And we are always the last in a cue
and have to wait.
When your in the shower the telephone rings
and when your partner tidy's up
you can never find anything.
Why is it when you try to impress
we always make a mess
Why do women want bigger
or smaller breasts.
Why when you are down
they say your blue
when all you see is black
And soon on your holiday
you miss home and want to come back.
Why do electrical appliances
always break in 3's
And in simmer we are so attractive
to wasps and bees.
Why is it as soon as you get to the dentist
your toothache mysteriously goes away
And why is there never enough time
in the day.
Why when so many people are starving
we still throw so much food away.
Makes no sense to me.
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Oh such a lovely afternoon shopping for mostly plants plus some alpine gr
it and compost. I have taken their picture out on my picnic table. Six sempervivums, six herbs,three large alpines, three perennials. two heucheras including an alpine,large convolvulus cneorum, I shall be a very happy busy bee tomorrow potting up and planting out. Here they are:
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These white hyacinths are called "Carnegie". They certainly have a very rich perfume and are good companions to my Orange Emperor tulips. Both bulbs are flowering for the second year in pots. This year I will plant them in the garden.and let them multiply.
Very damp out in the garden so we have had some welcome rain. It certainly feels fresher if a little cooler. The wind has scattered a few tulip leaves as well on to my paths. Shopping for plants this afternoon at a big garden centre. The gardener on Points West last night said there will probably be lots of perennial bargains about so we shall see. I ordered a wheelbarrow with puncture less tyres yesterday from a local supplier which should be with me Monday so getting the compost to the raised beds and the weeds down to the green wheeliebin should be easier.I also ordered a solar light on a stand for the kitchen patio to make it easier to put the key in the back door when I come home in the dark. All paid for by smaller food bills as i am now eating up last year;s garden crop of fruit and veg since this years is on its way, Rhubarb needs picking. Freezer space needs freeing up.
My friend of the tiny garden has just emailed me pics of his red tulip collection, now all in flower.
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Yes, Busy-Lizzie I was told at the Bot. Gadn fasciation is fairly common in double daisies. actually the white ones are flowering this year but no sign of the red ones yet!
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The University of Alabama will add more history to campus on Saturday when a statue of Nick Saban is unveiled beside likenesses of other Crimson Tide football coaches who won national titles.
OXFORD -- Less than a week ago after a particularly disappointing practice, Mississippi linebacker D.T. Shackelford was among the team's most outspoken players, pushing his teammates to raise their performance. The coaches weren't surprised. Houston Nutt called him one of the unquestioned team leaders. Defensive coordinator Tyrone Nix marveled at how a still relatively young player could command so much respect. But now that leadership almost certainly will be lost for the upcoming season. Shackelford, a 6-foot-1, 244-pound junior, has a torn ACL in his right knee and will be out six to eight months.
STARKVILLE -- Changes are on the horizon for the Mississippi State baseball team's pitching rotation. MSU coach John Cohen has been encouraged by the solid innings junior Nick Routt has provided since sliding into the Sunday role, but ultra-talented junior Devin Jones has faltered as the Friday starter in league play. Cohen said Monday he and his staff have discussed the possibility of bumping Routt to Saturday and current Saturday starter Chris Stratton to Friday. The moves are being contemplated in an effort to protect the bullpen, which is lauded as the strength of the team.
Relentless is great way for a coach to describe a player. Tyler Aldridge has earned that moniker from East Mississippi Community College baseball coach because he is living up to standards higher than he set for himself.
STARKVILLE -- The Mississippi State baseball team's struggles with runners in scoring position continued Sunday in a 3-1 loss to the No. 4 University of Florida in the final game of a three-game Southeastern Conference series. MSU (21-11, 5-7 SEC) was 2-for-8 with runners in scoring position Sunday, and 3-for-21 for the weekend.
It's not easy to be patient when you're the center of attention. But Nashedra Barry wanted to make a change, so she knew she needed to take things slowly.
STARKVILLE -- The name says it all. Dylan Favre spent his first season as a Mississippi State quarterback tucked behind Chris Relf and Tyler Russell.
STARKVILLE -- For the second straight day, a team's leading pitcher in the Mississippi State-Florida series was chased far earlier than expected.
The Mississippi State football team's freshmen are are eager for their first appearance at Davis Wade Stadium this Saturday during the Maroon-White Spring Game.
STARKVILLE -- John Cohen knows his Mississippi State baseball team will face a challenge at 6:30 tonight when it kicks off a three-game weekend series against the University of Florida
STARKVILLE -- Through the largest private gift in the history of Mississippi State University athletics, the football team will take a major step forward in its ability to compete in the country's top conference. On Wednesday, MSU announced a $12 million gift from the Seal Family Foundation of Gulfport to help fund a football facility that will house a new weight room, coaches' offices, and treatment rooms. The facility will be adjacent to MSU's practice fields on campus.
STARKVILLE -- The tag "athlete" is common for high school football recruits. While there's value in a player who can help in multiple areas -- most play several positions in high school -- sooner or later he's going to have to settle in at one position.
PEARL -- Using Trustmark Park's big dimensions to his advantage, Luis Pollorena threw 5 2/3 innings of scoreless relief to help the Mississippi State baseball team rally to beat No. 14 Southern Miss 5-4 on Tuesday night.
STARKVILLE -- For Mississippi State's past two spring football scrimmages, the defense ended each day with a decisive advantage against a sometimes sluggish and error-prone offense. On Saturday in Davis-Wade Stadium, the offense responded with its most crisp performance of the spring, driving the ball at will and going three-and-out only once against MSU's first-team defense.
STARKVILLE -- It would be easy for Mississippi State's baseball program is back on course after its recent accomplishments. The Bulldogs have won five straight, including a series sweep of Auburn, their first since 2007. They've cracked a national poll for the first time in three seasons under coach John Cohen and are coming off a season-high 18-run performance in a victory against Alabama A&M.
Dan Mullen wasn't a happy football coach following Mississippi State's spring practice session Thursday. On one hand, he was pleased by his defense's domination in parts of the 11-on-11 work in the last block, but turnovers, procedural penalties, and botched snaps drew his ire.
STARKVILLE -- Mississippi State's men's tennis team is in an unfamiliar position in second place in the Southeastern Conference's Western Division No. 32 MSU is 4-2 in the league and two games behind weekend opponents University of Tennessee and Georgia for the overall lead in the SEC.
NEW YORK -- The players flooded off the Wichita State bench, jumping together near the corner of the floor. Gregg Marshall smiled and pumped his fist. A few thousand fans dressed in yellow stood on their feet, cheering for a championship. Good luck convincing any of them that they didn't deserve it, or that they didn't belong in a more prestigious postseason tournament.
STARKVILLE -- Jay Miller's appreciation of the game won't let him indulge in the career milestone he's approaching. The Mississippi State softball coach has 997 career wins in a 29-year career in the college game. Miller could earn win No. 1,000 this weekend if the Bulldogs sweep their three-game series against the University of Mississippi. That series will begin at 5 p.m. Friday in Starkville.
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Our latest review is of Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's Missing Soluch, which was one of our Top 10 Best Translations of 2007.
Despite the fact that Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is considered one of Iran's greatest writers (according to his Wikipedia entry, "He wrote Kalidar novel which is one of the most important significant of Iranian culture."), it seems like Missing Soluch slipped through the reviewing cracks when Melville House brought it out a few months ago. Ben Lytal of the New York Sun praised it, claiming that after The Savage Detectives and Out Stealing Horses this was the book from 2007 that he most wanted to recommend.
Maybe it's because of the understated cover, or the deceptive length of the book, but along with a positive write-up in PW Lytal's recommendation seems to be it. Which is really quite unfortunate, since this is a powerful and strangely compelling book.
I say "strangely compelling" because I'm having a hard time explaining why I was so engrossed in reading this. The story is pretty straightforward—the book opens with Mergan waking to find her husband Soluch missing. Apparently he's just taken off, leaving her and their two sons (Abbas and Abrau) and their daughter (Hajer) to fend for themselves. He may have left to find work, or possibly to go to the city . . . this uncertainty is one of the undercurrents running throughout the book. That and the constant desire for various characters to try and find enough work to sustain them for the next day.
The village where Mergan and her family lives is a small, rural, remote place, where a small cadre of landowners are scheming to take over "God's Land" (where the poorest of the poor farm) in order to raise pistachios. How this land is acquired, and the way this impacts and divides Mergan's family makes up the major plot line of the book.
Although the translation is clunky at times, and characters occasionally speak in an oddly wooden fashion, there is something captivating in the deceptively simple prose.
As long as you still have your eyes, everything looks normal. But if somehow suddenly you're blinded—say, by a hot iron or by a beast's cold claw—all at once you can no longer see the fire int he fireplace that you had stoked for all your life. For the first time, you realize what you've given up, what a dear thing it is you've lost: Soluch.
Contrasting the more lyrical, metaphorical elements of the prose are unrelenting descriptions of violence: the two boys beating up another man in the village, Hajer's soon-to-be husband nearly beating his wife to death after his mother is crushed by her collapsing house, Hajer's disturbing first sexual encounter with her husband, Abrau attacking his mother with a tractor . . . the list goes on and on. (The scene in which an insane camel attacks Abbas will haunt me forever.)
Echoing Ben Lytal's comment, I don't know enough about Persian literature to place this within a particular tradition, but generally speaking it's a pretty conventional, realistic novel. Dowlatabadi does capture the feel of the village, of it's diverse inhabitants (the sections about Hajj Salem and his son Moslem are especially funny and energetic), and of the struggles these people face just trying to survive.
There are some flaws in the book—the pacing is slow at points, some of the speeches about the tractor and modernization of the farmlands are quite pedantic—but on the whole, it's an interesting book that's an interesting contrast to the more self-conscious, overly structured novels that came out last year.
Missing Soluch
by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Translated from the Persian by Kamran Rastegar
Melville House
507 pgs, $16.95
From Ben Lytal's column in the New York Sun
But the book that, this year, I have most wanted to recommend is almost totally unknown. "Missing Soluch" (Melville House, 507 pages, $16.95) is Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's first novel translated into English, and it has hardly been reviewed at all. I've found references to Mr. Dowlatabadi in articles about Iranian censorship, but that's all. "Missing Soluch" is an Iranian book, and I don't know how to place it in that national literature. It has stayed with me because I don't know where to leave it; it remains a question mark.
"Missing Soluch" is not a perfect book, but it makes a deep impression. It reads like an ancient thing. Its characters could not be called mythic or epic, but they inhabit a village in pre-revolutionary Iran that belongs to a genre other than that of the bourgeois novel. To see them come alive in Mr. Dowlatabadi's book is to see how the novel works, and how reliable a medium it can be. His heroine, the stoic Mergan, would never guess that a novel is being written about her.
Does sound fascinating, and did make our best translations list.
The only other place that I've come across a reference to Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's Missing Soluch was in the Literary Saloon where Orthofer commented on how it's gotten basically no attention.
Thankfully, Ben Lytal of the New York Sun somewhat rectified the situation.
The book sounds pretty interesting in and of itself—according to Melville House, it's "the first [Iranian novel] ever written in the everyday language of the Iranian people"—but what caught my eye was that the Association of American Publishers' Freedom to Publish Committee "joined in launching this book to support the publication of voices censored by the State Department's ban of books from the 'Axis of Evil.' "
As always, Melville House deserves praise for the political edge to their publishing mission, and I hope this sentiment catches on. More publishers out there should be out there discovering and promoting great books from "our" ideological enemies.
Founded in 1960 by such creative pioneers as George Perec, Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino, the Oulipo, shorthand for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, came about in when a group of writers and mathematicians sought constraints to find new structures and. . .
There's little to say about a series of prose poems that willfully refuse to identify pronoun antecedents. Or perhaps there are a million things. The poems in Morse, My Deaf Friend— the chapbook by Miloš Djurdjević published by Ugly Duckling. . .
The Crimson Thread of Abandon is the first collection of short fiction available in English by the prolific Japanese writer and all-around avant-garde trickster Terayama Shūji, who died in 1983 at the age of 47. This collection would be important. . .
Last year, NYRB Classics introduced English-language readers to Catalan writer Josep Pla with Peter Bush's translation of The Gray Notebook. In that book, Pla wrote about life in Spain during an influenza outbreak soon after World War I, when. . .
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What to make of Vano and Niko, the English translation of Erlom Akhvlediani's work of the same name, as well as the two other short books that comprise a sort of trilogy? Quick searches will inform the curious reader that. . .
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con/disp1 mutants do not display an increase in cell death within PA. (A,B) Lateral views displaying TUNEL positive cells in 65 hpf wild type (A) or con/disp1 (B) embryos. Red arrows in (A,B) are showing a portion of the cells we counted positive to reflect a dying cell in the pharyngeal region. The pharyngeal region was defined by us to include all tissue ventral to the eye and otic vesicle and dorsal to the heart and yolk. (C) Graph displaying the mean number of dying cells (11.6) for 11 wild type embryos (standard deviation was 4.8) and the mean number of dying cells (13.25) for 12 con/disp1 mutants (standard deviation was 4.8). This was not considered significant (p-value > 0.05, actual p-value was 0.432) by a two-tailed student t-test. These results reflect a lack of cell death at 65 hpf, which is consistent with what we saw at earlier and later stages (not shown in this figure).
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Olivia DeCroix, girls 7
25 freestyle, 21, 40.73; 25 backstroke, 18, 33.37.
Ian Jaegers, boys 7
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Tell me what I could have done better with this vector drawingI traced this in Illustrator, as I'm sure you can tell, and I colored it using the Live Paint Bucket. I think it came out OK, but I know I could have done some things differently for better results, aside from the detail omissions, my eyes got tired.
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Shadows and highlights will really make it pop.
Not too shabby of a job, I can recognize who it is. How to improve?
You might want to experiment in the gradient mesh as well."You're just jealous because YOUR hat doesn't have a clock in it!"
Originally posted by CkretAjint View PostWhy use Paint to color it? Colorize it in Illustrator and add a bunch more shadowing. Shadows and highlights will really make it pop.
To create good illustration, the lines should vary from thin to thick. Having all the lines the same thickness makes the image seem flat. Pay attention to the details, adding the shading, making sure the shirt has all it's seams present, and even so much as adding the clothing wrinkles.
If you have a chance look through the book series "how to draw magna". Not so much for the style of illustration, but for how to put in the details.
what drazan said - having lines all the same weight isnt as effective. theres some good basic illy brushes you can use for this effect, or make your own.
if your next image has lots of perspective or foreshortening (overlapping objects based on distance from the eye), lines get thicker the closer they are to the viewer - so you can use both these techniques to make some very dynamic images.
the colouring is a bit flat too - next time you can try creating areas of highlight and shadow on the face, clothing and hair (hair is always tricky!) another advantage of this is that you dont have to use lines to show form, you can hint at it with shading instead which makes it more interesting.
other than that, its pretty good - youve captured the expression on the face well and your linework is nice and clean
I would say it is a good start. Check the shape of his nose because the first thing I thought when I looked at it was that it looked a lot like another part of a mans anatomy.I could give you a dose
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Geddy's nose is very dramatic, Drawing.
I agree on the stroked lines. You should never use a stroke weight on your lines in an illustration, but rather draw outlines on each individual shade value (think in terms of a color-by-number painting).
I wish I had a vector that I did... It was a self-portrait. Not all that great, but it's a good demonstration of the said shading technique. I'll post it up if I find it.
Interesting and kinda cute illustration, klucid.
Thanks for the feedback, guys.
I'm still a novice with Illustrator, and I can't figure out how to add colors to designs like this without using the Live Paint function, which kinda sucks.
I'm going to take your suggestions, go find some online tutorials, and learn how to do that stuff.
Oh, and I tried like CRAZY to get his nose not to look like a phallus, I really did. Geddy's nose is a very stunning sight to behold, there's not much else I could do with it.


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Fascinating 1797 C-2, B-2 Half Cent, VF301797 1/2 C Plain Edge VF30 PCGS. C-2, B-2, R.4. A late die state with a reverse crack extending from below the 2 to the tops of UN and the border over I. An intriguing mark at the top of the Y in LIBERTY may deserve close study, as it is possibly an undertype from a cut-down large cent. Wonderful light tan and pale blue toning on both sides accompany the smooth and pleasing surfaces of this piece. EAC 20.
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Booklet Offers Critical Information for Bone Care During Mesothelioma Treatments
When cancer metastasizes to the bones or when side effects from treatments cause thinning of bones and osteoporosis, mesothelioma and lung cancer patients' may experience excruciating pain as well as bone breaks or fractures. Patients undergoing treatment for pleural mesothelioma can experience bone loss, for example, when prescribed prednisone to help with shortness of breath …
Label: Treatment NewsPosted on Monday, Mar 21, 2011


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*Everyone is invited to the Presidential Reception on Monday from 4:00-5:30 pm at the Lakeside Cottage. Mingle with MN TRIO colleagues while enjoying refreshments and snacks.*
**If you are interested in participating in the "TRIO Ten-Pin Challenge" that will be offered both nights please BRING SOCKS.
Bowling shoes and balls are provided.**
***The dress for both Banquets is semi-formal.
Feel free to dress up!***
****Remember to bring items for the onsite silent auction. You can drop off the items at the Registration tables as you check-in.****
Peggy Larkin, a successful TRIO student, currently volunteers at Home Free Battered women's shelter as an advocate and is raising her two daughters. She attributes her success to the TRIO Programs. "Without TRIO, I know I would still be living in poverty - TRIO helped me and I am forever grateful!"
(Since this story was written, Peggy has graduated from law school and passed her bar exams.)
To learn more about Peggy Larkin's story and others, click here. Help more students like Peggy by donating to Minnesota TRIO.
A Greater Opportunity to Learn.
Minnesota TRIO feels every individual deserves equal access to post secondary education.. Access to colleges and universities is denied to many. We believe, however, that everyone has the right to learn. To discover who they are. To develop critical skills used to build a successful career. At Minnesota TRIO, we are helping students and families afford post-secondary education and creating a greater opportunity to learn.
Nias qhov no kom pom ntawm Hmoob.
Riix Halkan si aad uga bogato Boggan soomaali.
Minnesota TRIO is part of the Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP). To learn more about MAEOPP, click here.


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