text: on Mar 6, 2013 @ 7:45 AMMar 6, 2013 @ 7:45 AM PublishedUPDATE 2-Thomas Cook to cut 2,500 jobs in UK* Plans to cut 2,500 of its 15,000 UK staff* To close 195 stores, leaving 874 UK outlets* Share price risesBy Rhys JonesLONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - Travel firm Thomas Cook said it would cut 2,500 UK jobs and close 195 stores in Britain as the euro crisis, high fuel costs and unrest in key destinations like Egypt and Greece take their toll on the holiday business.The 172-year-old group has struggled over the last two years with a slump in sales that has forced it to renegotiate bank loans and sell off planes and stores to lighten its debt load while facing a string of profit warnings.Most of the job losses would be in its retail network and back-office positions and would involve the closure of 195 of its 1,069 UK stores, said the world's oldest travel group, which has a total workforce of 15,500 in the UK and Ireland.Thomas Cook said jobs at its head offices at Peterborough in eastern England and Preston in the northwest were at risk, while its Accrington office, also in the northwest, would be shut. It also plans to change the terms and conditions of some employees."We firmly believe these proposals will mean a better, more profitable, Thomas Cook that continues to be a major employer in the UK," said the group's UK and Ireland chief executive Peter Fankhauser in a statement."Thomas Cook needs to make the proposed changes to secure our future," he said.Travel firms and airlines across Europe have seen bookings fall over the last two years, hit by the euro zone debt crisis, high fuel costs and social and political turmoil in popular holiday destinations such as Greece, Egypt and Tunisia.Thomas Cook has been hit particularly hard by tough trading conditions in Britain where its core customer base of families with young children has been affected by the economic downturn.Since travel industry outsider Harriet Green took over as CEO last May, the company has seen a steady improvement in its finances following a series of disposals to slash its 1.5 billion pounds ($2.3 billion) debt pile, including the sale of its Indian business and several Spanish hotels."We were well aware of the challenges that Thomas Cook have been facing in turning their UK business around, but the scale and severity of these redundancies come as a real shock," said Sharon Ainsworth, an officer at the Usdaw shopworkers' union.Usdaw said Thomas Cook planned to replace store managers with cluster bosses, while also removing a layer of management at its larger branches.This week Thomas Cook said it had decided not to sell its under-performing French business and would instead kick off a restructuring programme to turn the unit around.Thomas Cook last month reported reduced first-quarter operating losses and said its turnaround plan was on track.Shares in Thomas Cook, which have risen 78 percent so far this year, were 1.5 percent up at 86.7 pence by 1410 GMT, valuing the business at around 780 million pounds ($1.18 billion).Peel Hunt analyst Nick Batram said the move provided clarity to the company's turnaround plan and would be welcomed by investors.Britain's unemployment rate stood at 7.8 percent in the three months to the end of December 2012, with 2.5 million people jobless, official data showed.


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Port shares to-do list for Chula Vista bayfront
Moore explained that the site of the H Street expansion is contaminated, and the Regional Board of Water Quality is reviewing the plans to mitigate the contamination. The port is considering making a financial offer so the board can hire someone specifically to look at this particular plan quickly, she said.
"It's hard putting your destiny in somebody else's hands," she added.
All five council members, including Mayor Cheryl Cox, said they are confident the bayfront plan is in capable hands.
The stars are aligned for Chula Vista, Councilwoman Mary Salas said.
"I just want to say that I think you're doing excellent work in a very difficult and complex environment," Councilwoman Patricia Aguilar told Moore and Nishihira.
Cox said the city has its own responsibility this year to ensure the substation next door to the power plant is moved further south. Technical reports on San Diego Gas & Electric's substation proposal should be coming out this month, and the Public Utilities Commission will make a decision in the coming months.
"I think it's important that our best efforts continue to be set forward, and time would be our enemy in this," she said.
Even though the power plant is to be imploded in February, Cox said, "I think we need to make sure the substation is kept high on our radar."

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Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee reports that the 49ers met with a prospect for that spot this week when University of the Cumberlands running back Terrance Cobb was in for a visit. Cobb joins Towson's Terrance Weset and Central Florida's Storm Johnson as backs that have popped up on the 49ers' radar recently.
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Great location and views.
The rooms are outdated. The carpets were dirty. The drapes had holes in them that let the light through in the morning.
Large bedroom area with nice table & chairs. Room divider to mirror & table/ closet area, then nice bathroom.
convenience and location
rates seemed high for what we got, wasn't a great hotel and while we ordered a room with a queen bed we got a bed with 2 doubles, thus not having a lot of room in the room itself.
Nice sized room with a desk. Adequate for my needs.
Charged me for incidentals after I left town with no explanation. Te bathtub/shower floor was warped and squeaked when I stepped on it .. didn't bother me, but must have been a nightmare for those in the room below me.
good breakfast
Only 50% of the light bulbs in the room were functional. Blanket was thin as a sheet; heater was inadequate. Fridge did not work well, and wall outlets would not hold a plug.
The National 9 is located within walking distance of several coffee shops and restaurants on Main St. The room, furniture, etc showed a lot of wear and tear, but everything was clean. As long as it's clean, I'm happy. The National 9 is a very inexpensive option. I would stay there again, if they fixed the hot water temperature. The hot water temperature was the only show-stopper for me.
The hot water temperature for the shower and sink was really, really weak. At best it could be called "luke warm", certainly not "hot". The toilet flushed very slowly. I suspected the toilet might overflow each time I flushed it, but it never did. All stations on the TV came in very fuzzy. I didn't care about the TV, so this didn't bother me. Finally, the wifi was very slow. I tested it at about 300kbps, which is the same as my cell phone's 3G data reception.
The location was nice, rooms were clean, staff was friendly, and it is a family owned buisness.
Bring your own pillows, definitely an older motel.
Not much, the lobby is nice, the staff was sorry they could not help us out. Breakfast okay but breakfast dining room small.
Three stories and no elevator, I am 70 years old and disabled. I received a smoking room, the motel is old and needs upgrading.
Friendly reception, good WIFI in the room, good selection of breakfast
Every thing is satisfy. WiFi fast connection and high down load speed.
We don't like? We love it!
The room was 'okay' for the price.
Needs some big time work on cleanliness. Halls and entrances were very dirty. Someone actually sat on the steps and trimmed their toenails/finger nails. Neither wifi nor cable TV were working. I know it's an old motel, but it could certainly be kept clean
Good breakfast, clean large room, quiet
Wished the pool was outside
No frills here but clean and comfortable.
The room was clean.
The shower ran hot then cold and could not regulate the temperature. Bed was very uncomfortable and we asked for a king and got a queen.
Cheap rates.
Lady in the front was really nice.
You get what you pay for.
Everything could be upgraded.
Dark rooms
Clean, cheap and allows pets - all we needed!
Rooms could use updating and the bed was hard. But not unexpected at this price range.
The location, the food and the innkeeper.
Bathroom could have been a little bigger.
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Sunni and Shia groups battle for leadership in Iraq
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Peace advocacy is more than opposition; it is defined not by what it opposes but by what it proposes.
If the unilateralist hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush were hoping that the easier than expected military victory in Iraq would bring the U.S. public closer to their views, they are likely to be very disappointed by the latest public
It is striking that few people are asking whether the U.S. or the rest of the world is safer now as a result of this overwhelming American military victory.
As U.S. forces consolidate the occupation in Iraq the neoconservatives are bringing the war home.
While Iraqis want U.S. help, they do not want U.S. influence, particularly in the formation of their democracy and its supporting civil structure.
Organizations that might have opposed war must not adopt the position that by participating in planning for post-conflict relief efforts or for new institutions of governance, they are somehow legitimizing the war or compromising their position.
The Bush administration claims against Syria's involvement in Iraq are off-base.
The war fought ostensibly to disarm Iraq will almost certainly lead to nuclear proliferation and the armament of the rest of the world. While, for the time being at least, many people in Iraq will indeed rejoice at the overthrow of their tyrant--the rest
The Iraqi people certainly have reason to celebrate the ouster of Saddam Hussein's regime. But it's premature for the Bush administration to join in.


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New weapons in war on obesity
FDA has approved two drugs in the battle against fat, but experts warn that the medicines are not a quick fix - just more tools in the campaign
By Alyson Ward | December 19, 2012 | Updated: December 20, 2012 2:36pm
Photo By HOPDThis photo provided by Food and Drug Administration shows Arena Pharmaceutical's anti-obesity pill Belviq. The Food and Drug Administration has approved Belviq, the first new prescription drug for long-term weight loss to enter the U.S. market in over a decade. The agency cleared the pill Wednesday for adults who are obese or are overweight with at least one medical complication, such as diabetes or high cholesterol. (AP Photo/Food and Drug Administration)
Photo By HOEPThis product image provided by Vivus Pharmaceuticals Inc. shows bottles of Qsymia, the company's anti-obesity drug. The pill was approved Tuesday, July 17, 2012 by the Food and Drug Administration for patients who are overweight or obese and also have at least one weight-related condition such as high blood pressure, diabetes or high cholesterol. (AP Photo/Vivus Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
Photo By --Dr. Erik Wilson is medical director of bariatric surgery at Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center and Chief of Elective General Surgery for the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Photo By --Dr. Rebecca Lee is the founding director of the University of Houston s Texas Obesity Research Center, which launched in 2007.
Photo By --/Photographer, University of HousJan- ke Gustafsson is a University of Houston professor and director of the university s Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling.
Photo By --/Photographer, University of HousJan- ke Gustafsson is a University of Houston professor and director of the university s Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling.
Photo By Thomas Campbell/Photographer, University of HousJan-Åke Gustafsson is a University of Houston professor and director of the university's Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling.
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It had been 13 long years since a prescription weight-loss drug had received federal approval. But within a month last summer, the Food and Drug Administration approved two new drugs designed to help patients manage their weight.
Qsymia, a combination of an anti-convulsant and the appetite suppressant phentermine, is on the market already; Belviq, which increases serotonin to suppress appetite, will be available early next year. Both are designed for people who are obese, with a body mass index of 30 or higher, or who are overweight with related health problems.
That's a big market: More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese, and another one-third are classified as overweight.
The drugs aren't a quick fix. Over time, patients lose a modest amount of body weight when they combine the medication with exercise and sensible eating. But that's a start, said Erik Wilson, medical director of bariatric surgery at Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center and chief of elective general surgery for the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
"They do have relatively modest effects so far," he said, "but they're something."
Wilson, who works with obese and overweight patients every day, sees the obesity epidemic firsthand. He's relieved that the FDA has given doctors two more tools to battle what has become a national crisis.
"We have a bad problem here, and we've been ignoring it for way too long," he said. "Obesity's not just about looking fat. The reality is, patients who are obese have significant health problems."
As obesity has increased in the United States, so has the incidence of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and arthritis. The Trust for America's Health estimates that if current trends continue, obesity could contribute up to 6 million cases of Type 2 diabetes, 5 million cases of coronary heart disease and stroke, and more than 400,000 cancer diagnoses in the next 20 years.
Belviq and Qsymia aren't the only new weapons against obesity. Here's a look at developments and research that are offering glimmers of hope:
Procedures: Patients are beginning to have more and better options in bariatric surgery, Wilson says. New endoluminal therapies are offering minimally invasive alternatives to lap-band surgery; sleeves, suturing devices and other tools can be inserted through the mouth and applied to the stomach or intestine without an incision. For instance, the UT Health Science Center is taking part in a clinical trial of the ReShape Duo weight-loss balloon, which is inserted into the stomach endoscopically, then filled with saline so it will occupy space and reduce the stomach's capacity for food.
Research: Scientists are beginning to understand more about obesity, said University of Houston professor Jan-Åke Gustafsson, director of the university's Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling. "It's a very promising field, in terms of moving ahead quite well," he said.
Science is aware that adipose tissue, or fat, secretes active compounds that can affect the central nervous system and peripheral metabolism, Gustafsson said. One way people hope to understand obesity better and find drugs to combat it, he said, is by studying those compounds and how they operate.
"Everybody's looking for reasons" for the surge in obesity, Gustafsson said. "Some people say, well, it's because of a sedentary lifestyle - we don't move around so much and we eat big portions. There are other people who think that's too easy an explanation."
Gustafsson's lab is testing the theory that environmental contaminants - compounds founds in plastic bottles, shower curtains, even cash register receipts - can cause our bodies to produce more fat cells.
"It's an interesting hypothesis and we need to work more on it," he said, but it might help explain part of what has become a multi-national problem. And finding causes can lead to prevention and better treatments.
"Nowadays, everything becomes more and more complicated in physiology," Gustafsson said.
"It's bad news because it makes it very complicated and it takes time to develop good drugs," he said.
"But it's good news because we get more sophisticated explanations for obesity."
It will be, he said, "absolutely possible in the future to find good drugs."
Prevention: While some scientists work to reverse obesity among adults, others are homing in on the next generation.
Daniel O'Connor, an associate professor at UH, is one of them. O'Connor is heading up the evaluation center for a CDC-funded trial aimed at improving obesity intervention in children.
The project is designed to get doctors, schools, community centers - and even restaurants - working together to keep kids from gaining too much weight in the first place.
"With the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity, prevention is where we need to be," O'Connor said.
It's more cost-effective, he points out, than waiting to intervene after kids have gained weight. And it may be the best hope for future generations.
O'Connor is part of UH's Texas Obesity Research Center, which is dedicated to research into the prevention and control of obesity.
The center launched in 2007 after it became evident that obesity would be a major health issue for the next several decades, said Rebecca Lee, the founding director.
"The writing was on the wall," Lee said. "It was a growth industry, as they say."
The center operates on the premise that fighting obesity is going to require a "multifactorial approach," Lee said - one that includes medical research, public policy changes and a stronger focus on healthy lifestyles.
Political leaders - national and local - are talking about obesity as an urgent issue, she said. The National Institutes of Health and other government bodies are investing serious money in obesity research.
And even in Houston, famously labeled one of America's fattest cities, there are signs of awareness, Lee said.
She sees an interest in farmers markets, more bikeways and outdoor exercise space.
"These small things I see around me make me think there is a future," Lee said.
Having two new drugs on the market doesn't mean the war against obesity is over. They're just two of many new weapons in the fight.
"We're finally starting to recognize in our society that obesity is a disease that kills people," said Memorial Hermann's Wilson.
"It's very dangerous, and we need to attack the problem with as many tools as possible."


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This 4-star property offers access to a business center and a meeting room. This Berlin hotel also offers a steam room, a rooftop terrace, and a library.
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Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include a health club, a sauna, and a steam room.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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Above is a photograph of the cover of the 2014 Farmscapes calendar put out by the Ray Township Historical Society.
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The Ray Township Historical Society will host "Building Barns" on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 10 a.m. in the Ray Township Senior Center, 64255 Wolcott Rd.
The event will combine the society's "Meet and Greet" for its 2014 calendar, titled "Farmscapes," and the Michigan Barn Preservation Network's Teamwork and Timbers program.
The morning event will include insight and historical backgrounds about the noteworthy barns and outbuildings within Ray Township as featured in the calendar and a brief presentation on barns by a member of the Michigan Barn Preservation Network.
Participants who are 10 years old and up can work together in an old-fashioned "barn raising" of a quarter size 19th century timber frame model barn on loan from the National Barn Alliance.
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The 2014 "Farmscapes" calendars will be available for purchase that morning for $10 each. Afterwards, calendars will be sold throughout the community, including the Ray Township Offices, Ray Township Public Library, and several local businesses.
A complete listing will be available on the society's website. Calendar sales support preservation projects in Ray Township.
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Critical Review by Barry Wallenstein
SOURCE: A review of Transbluency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961–1995), in American Book Review, Vol. 17, No. 3, February-March, 1996, pp. 7, 30.
In the following review, Wallenstein provides a positive assessment of Transbluency.
Deeply political, Amiri Baraka writes poems that have bothered many, reflecting as they do his dream of revolution, where the social orders will be recast, the races realigned. Much of his work is topical, written for the moment, and, as with agitprop verse, it's run the danger of becoming an historical footnote. Perhaps to consciously counter this eventuality, Baraka has placed musicality at the center of his efforts as a poet. He has often stated his aesthetic or purpose: "The poetry I want to write is oral by tradition, mass aimed as its fundamental functional motive."
Paul Vangelisti, the editor of Transbluency, divides the selected poetry into three periods, the Beat, Black Nationalism, and, finally, Third World Socialism. Baraka's "lyrical realism" is a stylistic constant, and his "political avant-garde[ism]" is the impulse that holds the work together. Almost from the beginning, the poetry is infused with the poet's emotional conflict between his racial culture and his self-recognition as an educated black man having come of age within a white culture. He copes with this dichotomy in a variety of ways, from expressions of rage to poses of cool detachment. In his best, most moving work, the "positions" are felt as coming not from the hardened heart or the fixed idea, but from the mind in flux, jockeying for a take on the particular situation at hand.
Marsilio Press deserves praise for bringing out this Selected Poems, an ample presentation from ten books. After the success of his first two books, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961) and The Dead Lecturer (1964, the year of the Dutchman), came Black Magic (1969) itself a collection of three revolutionary books, Sabotage, Target Study, and Black Art, some of the most influential publications of the Black Arts Movement.
This book marked his nationalist phase, a period he'd look back on, not many years later, as "reactionary." However, passages abound that transcend the taint of narrow practicality. The first poem, "Three Modes of History and Culture," concludes:
I think about a time when I will be relaxed
When flames and non-specific passion wear themselves
away. And my eyes and hands and mind can turn
and soften, and my songs will be softer
and lightly weight the air.
Similarly, when he says in "Gatsby's Theory of Aesthetics" that "Poetry aims at difficult meanings," he is speaking about his personal response and understanding of the objective world: "I write poetry in order to feel, and that, finally, sensually, all the terms of my life. I write poetry to investigate my self, and my meaning and meanings." These are words of the artist superseding the polemicist.
Although Black Magic makes pronouncements and develops ideas about black nationalism, one finds further examples where poetry reaches inward: "I am real, and I can't say who / I am. Ask me if I know, I'll say / yes. I might say no. Still ask. / I'm Everett LeRoi Jones, 30 yrs old. / A black nigger in the universe. / A long breath singer, / wouldbe dancer, strong from years of fantasy, / and study."
Ultimately, he would like to be viewed as one speaking less for himself than the larger group his poems are intended for. One could imagine the following lines being issued from a soap box, an incendiary pulpit, or a hate rally. This is from "Black Art":
We want poems
like fists beating niggers out of Jocks
or dagger poems in the slimy bellies
of the owner-jews. Black poems to
smear on girdlemamma mulatto bitches
whose brains are red jelly stuck
between 'lizabeth taylor's toes. Stinking
Whores! We want 'poems that kill.'
The poem ends: "We want a black poem. And a / Black World. / Let the world be a Black Poem / And Let All Black People Speak This Poem / Silently / or LOUD." One might imagine a deeply sensitive man, one steeped in modernist literature, Kafka and so forth, finding a tormented comfort away from the subjective quarrels of the struggling self, comfort behind the "we" of his people's painful history and daily oppressions. By the early '70s he'd moved from the nationalist sentiments and strategies of Black Magic to the Marxist-Leninist investigations of Hard Facts (1972), where he still sees art, as did Vallejo, Aragon, and Aimé Césaire, as "a weapon of revolution."
Concurrent with Baraka's political/racial passions has been his commitment to jazz as a liberating force, as a balm and inspiration. Not only do his poems refer to music, players and songs, but the language and urban landscape of the poetry clearly have a jazz feel. He came of age during the bop revolution of the late 1940s and was involved in performing his poetry in jazz clubs and coffee houses. An exemplar of the Beat counterculture, Baraka's aesthetic includes emphasis on spontaneity, improvised structure, and the use of argot, and "natural" speech. Along with everything else wild and untethered, such as line breaks, punctuation, diction, and so forth.
In the 1960s Baraka wrote for Downbeat magazine and published two important books on jazz, Blues People (1963) and Black Music (1968). In his Autobiography (1984) he remembers: "Art Williams … also had poetry readings (at the Cellar) and I even read there myself one evening with a poet … Yusef Rahman. Yusef's poetry was a revelation to me. He was like Bird in his approach to poetry, seeming to scat and spit rapid-fire lines of eight notes at top speed. It was definitely speech musicked." His phrase is an updating of Emily Dickinson's famous definition of poetry as "language musically employed." Baraka has strengthened this emphasis throughout his career. "[We] were drenched in black music and wanted our poetry to be black music. Not only that, we wanted that poetry to be armed with the spirit of black revolution."
From the 1979 book, Poetry for the Advanced, is a good example of Baraka's jazz inspired poetry, "Pres Spoke in a Language" (dedicated to Lester Young): "Pres / had a language / and a life, like, / all his own, / but in the teeming whole of us he lived / tooting on his sideways horn." The poem evokes other classic players, "Bird's feathers / Trane's sinewy tracks / the slickster walking through the crowd / surviving on a terrifying wit / it's the jungle the jungle the jungle / we living in." At the end of this lyrical, controlled meditation on jazz and survival, Baraka reaches out to include his readers: "Save all that comrades, we need it."
More recent books go all out with Baraka's involvement in jazz. In the Tradition (1982), dedicated to "Black Arthur Blythe," the great alto player and exemplar of free jazz, is a long poem celebrating the heritage of black music. Lists of tunes are arranged along with jazz artists and political figures mixed in. It's an amazing performance piece that Baraka has chanted or half-sung around the world. "Speech #38," from Wise, Why's, Y'z (1995), is an example of Baraka's sound poetry and the sound is pure jazz. It opens, "OoBlahDee / Ooolyacoo / Bloomdido / OoBopShabam / Perdido Klackto-/ Veestedene / Salt Peanuts oroonie / McVouty / rebop," and continues for two pages that way.
In The Selected Poems, there are many poems that do not touch racial issues and do not make use of jazz idiom, but still demonstrate Baraka's individual voice. For instance, there are the "Crow Jane" poems from The Dead Lecturer, rich in literary reference, and then there is the opening of the famous "Black Dada Nihilismus." It begins with a quiet prayer-like sound; "Against what light / is false what breath / sucked, for deadness." Soon oblique references to violent revolution sweep in. Sartre is referred to before "Plastique, we / do not have, only thin heroic blades. / The razor. Our flail against them, why / you carry knives." Finally in the infamous second section, after signaling "A cult of death," he calls forth "black dada / Nihilismus. Rape the white girls. Rape / their fathers. Cut the mothers' throats. / Black dada Nihilismus, choke my friends / in their bedrooms…." The poem moves to elegy as it offers a list of black heroes who have absorbed the violence of racism and for whom suffering and resistance have been identical: Willie Best, Du Bois—"The Black buckaroos / For Jack Johnson … billie holiday." But the end complicates even hatred; placed in an open parenthesis are the troubling words: "(May a lost god … save us / against the murders we intend / against his lost white children …)."
Viewing Baraka's work through a selected poem is a trip that inspires smiles (not always the comfortable kind) and admiration for qualities beyond the jazzy rhythms and the rage. There is restraint, sudden detachment, and technical control, often not noticed or mentioned in deference to the legend of poet as improvisor, poet as spontaneous bard. In "Balboa, The Entertainer," Baraka says: "Let my poems be a graph / of me." His is a complex graph, defying simple conclusions. His first book, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note has not yet been followed by the note, nor is the Preface finished.
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National Science Foundation Research Terms & Conditions Agency Specific Requirements Effective January 4, 2010 National Science Foundation website address: <http://www.nsf.gov> Research Term & Conditions website address: <http://www.nsf.gov/awards/managing/rtc.jsp> OMB Circulars referenced in the Research Terms & Conditions are available electronically at the following address: <http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB/circulars/index.html> Article 1. Awards Covered by the Research Terms & Conditions Effective January 4, 2010, organizations subject to 2 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) Part 215 will incorporate by reference the Research Terms & Conditions dated July 1, 2008, and the NSF Agency Specific Requirements dated January, 2010. The Research Terms & Conditions will not be applied to NSF cooperative agreements or to NSF fellowship awards made to individuals. 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Mafia II Benchmark video featuring NVIDIA PhysX comparison by nvidia
Official PhysX comparison video for Mafia II. Initial video sequence is nothing special (just benchmark run), but composing level makes me envious http://physxinfo.com/news/wp-include...icon_smile.gif
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The school bus and a second vehicle were stopped at a traffic light at about 7:45 a.m. on the 14500 block of Horizon Boulevard, Horizon City police said. The driver of a third vehicle did not notice the stop light and hit the second vehicle which then hit the bus, police said.
The driver of the third vehicle was identified as 21-year-old Brianna Cardenas of Horizon City. Cardenas was cited for not having a driver's license, failure to maintain financial responsibility and failure to control speed, police said.
CISD officials said 17 students were on the bus and nine students in the school bus were taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.
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They want to put a big old billboard in Wrigley Field
Mar 17, 2010, 10:46 AM EDT
When the Ricketeseses took over a few months ago they said that they were going to ensure that Wrigley Field maintained "it's essential character." Apparently part of that character — in addition of the urinal troughs, which will not be touched — includes a big billboard above the left field bleachers:
The Cubs filed a permit application this week for a "projecting,
illuminated" billboard rising high above the left-field bleachers that
has the potential to rake in big bucks from advertisers at the expense
of offending purists.
But, there's a problem. The 75 foot high, 360 square foot billboard
has raised the eyebrows of local Ald. Tom Tunney (44th). And it may not
pass muster with the Commission on Historical Landmarks, which must
decide whether new signage conforms with Wrigley's landmark
Two thoughts:
- Given that the biggest thing out towards left field for the last couple of decades has been a giant advertisement — one that the Cubs didn't even make any money on — I'm not sure that putting up one to block it is the end of the world. Right now the ad is for a cheesy Indiana casino. They also cut into the damn ivy in the name of spandex recently. I can't imagine that whatever the Cubs put up on their own billboard will do any more to "offend purists" than that stuff;
- I sure hope the dimensions of the sign listed in the ad are wrong. If the thing is really 75 feet high and 360 square feet, it must only be 4.8 feet wide. Unless they're advertising pens or longneck beers or something on it, it's gonna look funny.
Way I see it is if you want to keep Wrigley Field around you have to keep the place economically viable. The Ricketseseses are following the Fenway model in terms of renovating the ballpark. It's a good model. It also requires squeezing as many dollars from the place as can be squeezed. I think the de minimus aesthetic intrusion of a billboard in left is worth it if it means dragging Wrigley Field into the 21st century.
- RobRob - Mar 17, 2010 at 11:11 AM
The sign itself probably doesn't start until 20 feet off the ground, making the advertising portion 360 sq feet if the sign is 18 feet wide.
- RobRob - Mar 17, 2010 at 11:14 AM
Or maybe I could do math. 75 ft – 45 ft = 30 ft; 360 sq ft / 30 ft = 12 ft
- willmose - Mar 17, 2010 at 11:20 AM
Novel idea. How about putting a decent team in Wrigley?
- KR - Mar 17, 2010 at 11:36 AM
next thing you know, they'll be putting ads on the Green Monster.
- G - Mar 17, 2010 at 12:00 PM
I don't suppose they're doing it to block the rooftop views from across the street. Could it be galling them that fans are getting to see the game without paying?
- CB Fan - Mar 17, 2010 at 12:14 PM
How 'bout a domed field instead?
- Rich - Mar 17, 2010 at 12:23 PM
G – MLB forced the owners of the rooftops across the street into a revenue-sharing agreement several years ago. MLB and the Cubs get a portion of profits from the rooftops. The reason they want to put this billboard up is to block all TV shots of the Casino advertisement (it used to be a huge Budweiser sign) that is on the roof of one of the buildings. That building has never had seating on it. Also, from the proposed placement of this billboard, it would not significantly impact any view that the people on the left field rooftops currently have. I say go for it. Bring in revenue and get some decent players. Oh, and I don't think they removed any ivy for the UnderArmor signage, those doors have always been there.
- Scott - Mar 17, 2010 at 12:26 PM
Here we go again with the rooftoppers. This one should be a fight to the finish. They won't be happy at all. I agree though. Anything we can do to help keep Wrigley around is good. This place is beyond historic.
- H - Mar 17, 2010 at 12:33 PM
The 17 rooftop owners have a profit sharing plan with the Cubs so the fans aren't watching the game for free. The team does get some money from those seats.
I really think the new owners are doing this just for advertising money.
- steve - Mar 17, 2010 at 6:31 PM
Keep Wrigley Field Billboard Free!
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- Sox Fan - Mar 18, 2010 at 2:57 AM
Tear down the dump. The only thing good about Wrigley dump is when the Sox play there.
- Mike - Mar 18, 2010 at 4:00 PM
That's uncalled for. I'm a Sox fan and I love Fenway, and I also love everything they are doing to modernize the field without tearing the place down. Wrigley should do the exact same thing and just because you're not a fan of them is no reason to insult the 2nd oldest active field in the US. Is either field perfect? Hell no. Do any other fields in the US have a fraction as much history? Hell no.
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