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A Dominican Republic favorite known for its high-end resorts, Puerto Plata is also a great place to visit on a budget. The sands of Playa Dorada and Cabarete are perfect for whiling away days amongst heavenly surrounds, while Fort San Felipe del Morro, a 16th century citadel and World Heritage Site, offers the chance to ingest a little history and culture. For value eats, head to Sam's Bar and Grill, and finish the night off with a trip to Mangu for a great night out.
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27 Waterfalls
This is Mother Nature at her best. Take a bus to explore 27 mammoth waterfalls as well as emerald Dominican jungle and local wildlife. A guided walking tour of the first seven waterfalls is around $6 (it costs extra if you want to see more of them), or you can spend more to explore them by Jeep. Word to the wise: Bring your bathing suit and bug spray.
This beach village is known for delicious seafood, seaside fun and thriving nightlife. El Batey is the most tourist-y bar of the lot, so you'll find plenty of vacationers to share the fun with on your Puerto Plata travels. By day, we suggest a snorkel on the main bay and market-hopping in Los Charamicos.
For those of who fancy a shopping spree on a Puerto Plata vacation, the plazas and malls are perfect. Visit the mammoth outlet Plaza Turisol Complex for brand bargains, and the smaller Playa Dorada Plaza for souvenirs and trinkets. If you're in the market for jewelry, La Canoa is perfect and caters to budgets big and small.
Mount Isabel de Torres
Grab a guide and head to this slice of heaven for green, green and more green. And amazing views, too. Alternatively, you can take a teleferico (cable car) for just $5 and view this extraordinary place from above. Don't forget to look for the statue of Jesus – it's one of the most iconic images of the Dominican Republic.
Amber Museum
Housed in a building that looks like it belongs in Victorian London, the Amber Museum is a popular haunt for visitors on their Puerto Plata travels thanks to its great selection of amber gems and gift shop. Admission costs around $2, making it a real bargain.


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I got this the other day and started playing without any idea what was going on or how to do anything. I'm in my second autumn now and I've got piles of money and a baby coming, 10 chickens, and a pregnant cow (nine days left!). It's a great game! Now I want to get Rune Factory for the DS.
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This is what WiiWare is all about as far as I'm concerned. I love classic 2-D gameplay with modern graphical overhauls. Castlevania and Mega Man for the PSP being great examples of this. I think 2-D games will never die, you can't replicate the experience in a 3-D world. They activate different centres of the brain.
I don't understand what he means by "substantially easier than chess". In terms of difficulty, chess depends solely on your opponent's ability. There is no certain set difficulty level in chess. Unless he means that the game is easier to learn than it is to learn chess. But chess is pretty easy to learn. Oh well. Maybe he's never played chess.
I started out with Metroid Prime, then played the two GBA Metroids, which are very similar to this one. This one is the best. I have yet to try Corruption (but I'm looking forward to it).
There's better mario games out there, and there's also worse.
If you don't like this game there's something wrong with you. I've downloaded it, but I haven't started playing it yet -- I'm waiting for a large chunk of time that I can sit like a zombie in front of the TV and play the piss out of this thing from start to finish (like that's possible). This is the game everyone bought their N64's for! Non-gamers bought N64's for this thing!
Yeah, I like this game, but I have GX and basically have no reason to play this one.
Okay I beat the first stage. The second stage is a bitch!
Fun! I remember when the TG16 came out and I played a demo of this game at Radio Shack. I could only afford one (usually used) console with my paper route money, though, and Nintendo won every time! The VC blows my mind with all these old games I wanted to play but never had the chance.
This is fun. I got it a few months ago and played through a few levels/areas and moved on to other games. I'd like to come back and finish this in a weekend or something, I enjoyed what I did play.
I beat Gunstar Heroes in no time and yet I can't defeat the first boss in this game!
I like it, but it's hard. I haven't played it that much though.
Okay, Nintendo HAS to be releasing an external hard drive with the arrival of WiiWare, right? ......RIGHT?
Mine is full with just VC games, and I filled it in about four months. I keep N64 games on an SD card, and right away I'll be putting all the games I don't play so often on there as well.
But I suspect Nintendo will release a hard drive that looks just like the Wii and charge a hundred bucks for it. Every one of us would buy it, and N knows it! Anyway, whatever solution they come up with it'll cost us money. There's a reason they didn't give the Wii that much memory in the first place, after all!
That last paragraph worries me -- "much research is coming out that indicates that downloadable games are underpriced". I imagine that as (at least in the case of the VC) it has become so unexpectedly successful the next logical step is to jack up the price!
I'm not a pro with these games by any means. But this one is fantastic. I can't remember what level I'm at because I'm playing like 5 shooters at the moment, but this is cool. Is the VC awesome or what?
This game is awesome and crazy and hard. I really like it!
This game is okay for what it is. It's got its own kinda rythym. Actually I feel like playing right now, just thinking about it! Maybe it's better than okay. But for a cutesy sorta game it's deceptively hard! That's okay, I like it! Hopefully you guys'll get it soon!
I find this a little less fun that Shinobi. I haven't tried Ninja Gaiden.
I have not downloaded this, but the next time my sister visits I will get it immediately. If you have memories of this game from back in the day (way back), it never gets old.
This game is strangely addicting...
This game was crazy when it first came out. And it remains fun today. I also give it 5 stars. (and the F stands for formula -- but you knew that)
This is a great deal of fun but after a while I just started getting lost. I can't play the original Metroid either -- I just gotta have a map screen!
The music and the graphics make this game so great. The gameplay is top-notch but sometimes the control just feels kind of imprecise, maybe it's because of DK's size. But I mean, it's Donkey Kong Country, this is a classic.
I just downloaded this and haven't beat the first stage yet, but it's a pretty neat game once you get the hang of it.
Yeah, I got this cause it looks so cool, but the gameplay turns out to be missing something. I still enjoy running through it every once in a while because some of the stages remind me a little of Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind.
I'm still stuck at the last stage but this game is alot of fun and looks really cool, and it plays a little differently than all the others. It's a very solid game.
Fun! Easy at the start, hard at the end!
I don't have much experience with arcade-style games but I found this one to be pretty fun. I like the music and the general look of the game. I haven't made it very far though, someday I'll start again and just try and plough my way through it. Getting yourself positioned just right for a hit in these kind of games is always kind of tricky.
This is fun. I gave it four stars to be generous. To be honest, I never really got into Sonic. I just didn't get it. I downloaded it to give it another shot and I like it now, but I still suck at it. It's hard!
I love Castlevania in all its incarnations, and although I give the edge to the metroidvanias such as SOTN and all the fantastic GBA and DS games, THIS GAME IS COOOOOOL. Lots of fun. Addicting. Another classic for a classic system!
5 stars for sure!
This is a cool game. I've only played it solo, but I'm assuming it's a blast with someone to play with. There aren't enough 2-player-simultaneous games out there on the VC.
This game's alright. I gave it 4 stars, it could have used some atmosphere, and it started getting boring after awhile. Maybe I've just played too much Zelda.
I haven't made it to the falling rocks, I've gotten as far as stage 5. This is my first ninja game -- I've never played Ninja Gaiden. I like this one alot so maybe I'll try Ninja Gaiden sometime. I'm a little afraid of it's high difficulty though.
Fun! 5 stars for sure.
This was my first ever shooter when I downloaded it a few months ago. I used to think shooters were too hard, and now I can't stop playing them! Blazing Lazers is still one of the best, even though I can sweep through the first three levels without taking a hit. The music is great and the power-up system is fun. Once you loose your power-ups at the giant statue heads you're screwed, though.
I'm at level 7 (when I can get past those damned heads), so I've still got a little ways to go yet.
5 stars!
I bought this game off of a guy I knew and my sister and I played it like crazy every day after school. We still talk about this game. It's perfect!
This game is out-of-control awesome.
Super Mario World is the highest peak that silly plumber's ever reached. It's the greatest Mario game ever, on the greatest console ever.
One hundred stars!!
I got this game for Christmas (back in 1990), and I do believe it remains one of the greatest Christmas gifts I've ever received. All the kids were in high anticipation for this one after seeing The Wizard, and my sister and I used to quote that kid: "California, California!"
This game is classic. But please, no P wing! Play the level!
This game is excellent. I don't care if it's wierd or different. It's the bees knees!
It's Super Mario Bros. Download it.
I wish I had this when I was a kid. This game is great!
Yeah, I haven't even made it past the first level. I have to give it three stars. I suppose if I was twelve years old and only had Kid Icarus to play I'd give it the time it needs to get good at, but after dying six times I just play something else!
Whoa! Great game.
I've just started getting into shooters, and I've downloaded 8 of them, and yes, there's some slowdown on this one, but who cares? The level designs are great and it's as much fun as a game can get! I'm a little surprised by this rating, usually I agree with the reviews. Not this time! 5 stars.

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The Complete Capitol/Black & White Recordings
His Fans Are Your Favorite Guitarists
From Capitol Records' 1995 blues reissue series comes 3 glorious CDs, 75 tracks from "the most influential blues guitarist of the post-World War II era," T-Bone Walker. B.B. King had to have an electric guitar when he first heard him, Duane Allman based his philosophy on his work and everyone from Hendrix to Clapton tore a page or two from his playbook. In short, he did first whatever your favorite blues guitarist did later. T-Bone Walker's full band arrangements waver from pensive blues to full-tilt shuffles, but T-Bone's electric guitar playing routinely draws an angular, wiry contrast to his silky smooth vocals and melancholy atmospherics. This isn't the fiery, stomping blues of his disciples – Walker's post-big band blues has a softer, more intimate essence that's both sweet and sad. He's probably best known for "Stormy Monday" (and those amazing shots of him playing the guitar behind his head while doing the splits), but these sides, almost all recorded in 1949, provide the bigger picture. The example below will tell you all you need to know about this collection. Not cheap at Amazon, HERE. This was the debut release in the Capitol Blues Series, which we have more of in the archives, HERE.
T-Bone Blues
I Got A Break Baby
Mean Old World
No Worry Blues (Alternate Version)
No Worry Blues
Don't Leave Me Baby (Alternate Version)
Don't Leave Me Baby
Bobby Sox Blues (Alternate Version)
Bobby Sox Baby
I'm Gonna Find My Baby
I'm In An Awful Mood
It's A Lowdown Dirty Deal
Don't Give Me The Runaround
Hard Pain Blues
I Know Your Wig Is Gone
T-Bone Jumps Again
Call It Stormy Monday But Tuesday Is Just As Bad (Alternate)
Call It Stormy Monday But Tuesday Is Just As Bad
She Had To Let Me Down (Alternate Version)
She Had To Let Me Down
She's My Old Time Used To Be
Dream Girl Blues (Alternate Version)
Dream Girl Blues
Midnight Blues (Alternate Version)
Long Lost Lover Blues (Alternate Version)
Long Lost Lover Blues
Triflin' Woman Blues (Alternate Version)
Triflin' Woman Blues
Long Skirt Baby Blues (Alternate Version)
Long Skirt Baby Blues
Goodbye Blues
Too Much Trouble Blues (Alternate Version)
Too Much Trouble Blues
I'm Waiting For Your Call
Hypin' Woman Blues (Alternate Version)
Hypin' Woman Blues
So Blue Blues
On Your Way Blues
Natural Blues
That's Better For Me
First Love Blues (Alternate Version)
First Love Blues
Lonesome Woman Blues (Alternate Version 1)
Lonesome Woman Blues (Alternate Version 2)
Lonesome Woman Blues
Vacation Blues
Inspiration Blues (Alternate Version)
Inspiration Blues
Description Blues (Alternate Version)
Description Blues
T-Bone Shuffle (Alternate Version)
T-Bone Shuffle
That Old Feelin' Is Gone
The Time Seems So Long
Prison Blues
Home Town Blues
Wise Man Blues (Alternate Version)
Wise Man Blues
Misfortune Blues (Alternate Version)
Misfortune Blues
I Wish You Were Mine (Alternate Version)
I Wish You Were Mine
I'm Gonna Move You Out And Get Somebody Else
She's The No-Sleepin'est Woman (Alternate Version)
She's The No-Sleepin'est Woman
Plain Old Down Home Blues
Born To Be No Good
Go Back To The One You Love (Alternate Version)
Go Back To The One You Love
I Want A Little Girl
I'm Still In Love With You
You're My Best Poker Hand (Alternate Version)
You're My Best Poker Hand
West Side Baby


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Antonio Margarito Catches A Beatdown
November 15, 2010 8:01 AM
Antonio Margarito left the fight with Manny Pacquiao all lumped up. If you missed it we got all the highlights for you.
Damn!!! No wonder Floyd Mayweather doesn't want to fight him. He is a force NOT to be reckoned with! More on that story if you click HERE.


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BACK TO SCHOOL: First-day jitters gone
Students start new year in updated, new facilities
SAN ANGELO, Texas - As many as 14,000 students started school Monday in SAISD, and many students were welcomed with fresh paint and new facilities as work continues on projects paid for by the $117 million bond approved by voters in 2008.
Three of those campuses are Holiman Elementary School, Lee Middle School and Central High School:
What some might have considered chaos on the first day of school looked like smooth sailing to Holiman Elementary School Principal Dave Danner.
"The traffic flowed really well. We didn't have any problems with that. The kids all seem to be smiling. The parents were happy walking them in," Danner said Monday. "So far so good. We're off to a great start."
The principal said that for the first day of school it was "all hands on deck" to assist families, from answering questions to directing parents and students to meeting areas and drop-off points.
Holiman Elementary is the second project of the $117 million bond to be completed. Construction at the campus includes a new 16-classroom facility, as well as enlarging the library and adding an art room, a computer lab, a science room and a math lab.
Grounds crew and maintenance personnel worked nonstop preparing for opening day, Danner said.
"The place looks really nice. A big improvement from where we were two years ago," said Danner, who was a teacher at Holiman before being named principal in June.
Parents arrived at 7 a.m. to discover which teacher their child was placed with. About five people were registering their children for school at the main office. The school's enrollment ranges from 340 to 370 students.
An orderly line of cars dropped off children at the gym or cafeteria. Students in third through fifth grade were ushered into the gym, while kindergartners, first-graders and second-graders were sent to the cafeteria.
Whether students were filing out of vehicles or walking to campus, most of them carried plastic bags with one or two tissue boxes, a requirement on the school supplies list.
Even though summer is over, the talkative older students seemed excited and ready to jump-start the school year. It was mostly the kindergarten through second-grade students who sat quietly, waiting for the school staff to guide them to their classrooms for breakfast.
Before the first bell, fifth-graders chosen to assist with the district's Breakfast for Champions free-meal program rolled carts down the renovated hallways, delivering what is widely called the most important meal of the day.
— Eva Padilla
A well-timed false alarm became an impromptu fire drill for some students at Lee Middle School on the first day of school.
Students by and large had made it to their first-period classrooms when the alarm sounded about 8:20, bringing a San Angelo fire truck within two minutes.
After a sweep through the campus by Vice Principal Jay Law and Assistant Principal Aaron Oliver, it was determined the alarm had sounded in error.
Principal Elaine Stribling said the false alarm was not surprising, given the scope of the renovations going on at the San Angelo school district's oldest middle school. She said contractors had checked the alarm system Saturday.
The campus is in the middle of about $14 million in renovations and new construction, part of the $117 million bond project approved by voters in 2008.
A new building this school year includes a library and 16 classrooms. A new field house and weight room are also complete. A new covered walkway will make it easier for students to get to the band hall, which opened about a year ago, said David Heath, assistant band director.
"They've made a lot of progress just in the last few days as far as getting the grounds cleaned up," he said.
Daisy Sanchez, the school's at-risk coordinator, said it was "very smooth for a first day."
She credited Camp Orientation, a program for sixth-graders, for the relatively smooth start. About 200 of the expected 300 sixth-graders attended Camp O, including Bailey Cardenas, who was wearing a school T-shirt emblazoned with "Rebels: Leadership, excellence, enthusiasm," which she got at the camp.
Bailey, escorted this first day by her father, Orlando Cardenas, said she was most looking forward to math class.
"She likes homework. I don't know what's wrong with her," Orlando Cardenas said, joking. "She didn't get that from me."
Work continues, with much of it focused on the original building. The second floor is undergoing renovations, then contractors will move to the first-floor classrooms.
"We are pumped about all of our new areas," Sanchez said.
— Laurel L. Scott
Fenced-off construction zones and crews of workers dotted Central High School's campus, but it was business as usual for this year's 2,100 students, faculty and staff, CHS Principal Bill Waters said.
"It creates a challenge because any time you do something different, change it up, people have a hard time adjusting," he said. "But once they get here and they get going, they figure it out."
The first day back on the work-in-progress campus wasn't too different from any other opening day, he said.
"It's always this way on the first day," Waters said, smiling. "People don't know where they're going, or they missed the bus."
About 700 of the students are sophomores, new to the campus, he said.
"What we do is grab these guys and get them pointed in the right direction. Make sure they know where to go."
Waters stood at the front door of the new two-story Eva Camuñez-Tucker Hall, greeting and directing students as they arrived for the first day of classes — and their first look at the newly constructed building that houses science labs, classrooms and offices.
"On the first day you want to get everybody in the right place and feeling good, avoid any trouble and make sure everybody feels happy about being here," he said, walking the halls as school started for the first time in the new building's science and foreign language classrooms.
Stepping into one classroom, he gave a 15-second pep talk.
"Good morning, everybody," Waters called to the students.
"Y'all all right? Fired up? Ready to go?"
— Rick Smith
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Budget hampers home-schoolers, 3 October 2007, El Defensor Chieftain, Socorro, New Mexico
At the Sept. 25 meeting, the Socorro Consolidated Schools Board of Education heard several home schooling mothers speak about the Independent Distance Education Academy of New Mexico. Some local home schooling parents had approached Superintendent Cheryl Wilson about starting the program in Socorro this year.
The state would provide the district with funds for each student, and the home schooling families would receive an allotment for educational materials without religious messages. The parents would report progress to the district, and their children would contribute to the school system's Adequate Yearly Progress scores.
One teacher could supervise 100 home school students by meeting with parents periodically.
The IDEA program requires approved curriculum, meaning the school board would have to review the material the home school families used.
The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp
Another old fellow said, "Look at the cuts on me; look at my arm bit off! Those pigs have been free since the Revolution, eating snakes and rooting out roots and fending for themselves for over a hundred years. They're wild and they're dangerous. You can't trap them. No man dare go into the swamp by himself."
On the days I didn't feed them the pigs still gathered in the clearing. They squealed, and they grunted, and they begged and pleaded with me to feed them. But I only fed them every other day. And I put a second rail around the posts. Now the pigs became more and more desperate for food. Because now they were no longer used to going out and digging their own roots and finding their own food. They now needed me. They needed my corn every other day. So I trained them that I would feed them every day if they came in through a gate. And I put up a third rail around the fence. But it was still no great threat to their freedom, because there were several gates and they could run in and out at will."
"Finally I put up the fourth rail. Then I closed all the gates but one, and I fed them very, very well. Yesterday I closed the last gate. And today I need you to help me take these pigs to market."
The story is a fable, but the hogs are real.
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interview: Daniel Bowman
when you picture someone reading your poetry, how do you see them? what do they think about, wear, and do? or, maybe a better way to say it: who do you write for? and how do you see your writing nourishing others?
I have always written for myself, and for a small imaginary group made up of García Lorca, Robert Bly, and William Judson Decker (a professor and mentor of mine at Roberts Wesleyan), along with a few others who stand by to rotate in as I need them. I figure that no matter who does or doesn't like my poems, who does or doesn't publish them, if I write in such a way that those guys might like them, then I can be pleased. Imagining them reading my work helps me stay true to my vision. I was always taught that if you write what you care about—not trying to guess what any "target demographic" would like or buy—there will be readers who will care, too—that others will, in fact, be nourished by your words. Also using the metaphor of eating, the poet Marilyn Nelson challenged me in Santa Fe a few years ago, saying, "There are people out there who are hungry for what only you can give them." I believe that, though I can only begin to guess who these people are. I have met a few of them along the way, and I hope to meet more, just as I hope to meet more of the people whose words have nourished me.
how do you use poetry as a practice for spiritual exploration, discipline, or growth? can you offer any practical advice or sure-fire practices for folks interested in allowing writing to inform their spiritual discipline?
This is a difficult question, because I'm only just learning to articulate the connection between literature and spiritual growth in my life. It's always been there but I haven't always understood it except intuitively, as I understood the magic of playing alone in the woods of upstate New York when I was a boy. Christian Wiman said in "Love Bade Me Welcome" that "poetry is how religious feeling survived in [him]." This has been true for me, too, at different times in my life. I interpret his statement to mean that even when one isn't sensing God or a stable faith through traditional avenues like church and prayer, that literature—story, art—invites compassion, mystery, and deeply human truth ("religious feeling") that is unavailable elsewhere. Fr. Richard Rohr has said the church often teaches us that we are human beings who need to become spiritual when in fact we are spiritual beings who need to learn to become human. I can think of no better way to become human, to transform our pain, than by reading and writing. In his essay "Faith and Fiction," Ron Hansen says we look to great writing for "self-understanding, analogies of encounter, discovery, and decision that will help us contemplate and change our lives."
The only practical advice I can give is to persist. Don't stop reading and writing the works that make you a better person—even when it hurts—and you will grow spiritually. Bask in the company of others who are also on the path of growth. Love "everything that increases you," as Raymond Carver says in his poem "Where Water Comes Together with Other Water," and you just might end up "loving it all the way back to its source."
when you approach your desk, journal, computer—where ever it is you tend to create—what are some of the processes you use? what's going through your mind? tell us about your habits of writing, no matter how quirky, mundane, strange, or small. also, how do you go about revising your work?
I have books open in front of me quite often when I sit down to write, especially if I'm writing new poetry. Reading and even imitating poems you admire can get the engines warmed up.
I still write first drafts of almost everything by hand. I have to have really nice notebooks—not moleskins or arts and crafts/stationery things, but just the name brand (Mead and so forth) wire-bound you can find at CVS. I think they're 7 x 5 ½. I go to the word processor only when I've revised the handwritten material extensively. Bringing it into type is, for me, a substantial step in the revision process, as I inevitably see it differently then. I usually print out a copy and mark that up, too, then go into the document and make the changes electronically.
Also, I am a great believer in hearing material read aloud. I have a cheapo microphone and freeware audio program that I use. I record myself reading everything I write (when it's nearing a completed final draft). Then I play back the audio as I'm looking at the text on the page or screen, and make changes that way. I did this for 245 pages of my novel Beggars in Heaven—read into that mic like I was professional voice talent, like I really meant it, just to see what I could learn—and it helped more than almost any other revision strategy. Our ears hear what our eyes can't see.
what's the best advice you can give to a person just beginning to write, struggling to write, or feeling stuck? what's something you wish someone had told you starting out?
I recently answered this question (for another interview) with a simple but profound Latin phrase which is the motto of my alma mater, Roberts Wesleyan College: Ora et Labora—pray and work. It is associated with St. Benedict, who was born in the 5th century, and has been used widely for over 1500 years. Its simple power is still available to us. The maxim sounds dull in our contemporary world, but I actually believe it is exciting, challenging, and fulfilling. The combination of acting and contemplating is the essence of the reflective life, and the writing life is an extension of the reflective life, I think…a way of working it out.
Walking is an activity that combines both work and prayer. The human brain can't think or process at the rate of speed at which our vehicles move. In other words, driving by a place does nothing to engage us with the people and the land, to bring about an awareness of the particular details we need for our writing, the wonderful idiosyncrasies we must observe in people in order to create characters. Walking, though, is an occasion for the brain and the body to work at the same speed or thereabouts.
We walk, we notice, we think, we contemplate. How many of the world's greatest poets have been walkers? It's a long tradition that young writers need to adopt.
In Mary Oliver's poem "Ghosts," the speaker asks not once but four times—each instance in italics—the question you must answer in the affirmative if you are to write: "Have you noticed?" Walking is the perfect opportunity to notice.
would you like to share a poem you're working on or have recently finished and comment on how it was written in light of the comments above?
I hesitate to share this because it's a brand new draft, but what the heck…
Indiana Poem
At the Upland Depot
in maple shade
I contemplate
an Indiana poem,
my first. In July heat
we left New York's
Southern Tier
for Hartford City.
There should have been
plump tomatoes,
an eggplant or two, spaghetti
squash in long waiting.
There was dirt,
stray onions,
and unwieldy English Ivy
the whole, small plot.
Though in fairness
the snapdragons
bloomed yellow, red,
and colors winter wind
blew from memory.
Now in late April
the purple clematis takes up
where lilacs left off,
and I awake to a single
bright orange poppy.
Tennyson saw his "flower
in the crannied wall,"
but he "plucked it
out" and thought about
"what God and man is."
As for me, I'll settle for
loving this beauty
in Hoosier soil,
its petals like delicate paper,
Hartford City poppy,
Indiana poem.
I had left the office yesterday to caffeinate at my local coffee shop. On the way back, I pulled into a small park in Upland, built around the historic train depot. I just sat there in silence staring at the trees, the squirrels, the birds. This has been a practice of mine for many years—sneaking away to a natural setting where I can be alone. I'd been thinking about the changing flora in my yard, how the crabapple and red buds and lilacs were past peak, but the clematis and other flowers were blooming and the rose bush was budding, and how the tiger lilies would come later. I remembered back to when we looked at the house as potential buyers and saw the lovely little garden they'd just planted. And how, after our offer was accepted, the seller had—unbeknownst to us—attempted to transplant everything in the garden to their new place before moving out—right in the middle of the summer! (I secretly hoped some of the vegetables wouldn't survive.)
And I thought of my son's bright eyes as he and my wife pointed out the dining room window early this morning to show me a heavenly gift sitting alone: one bright orange poppy against a moody Midwestern sky.
Since I moved to Indiana last summer, the place has been seeping into my soul, and I have begun to learn how to love it, begun to understand what kind of love Indiana requires, if you will. Reading Scott Russell Sanders helped me in this transition. I have wondered for a while now when I'd attempt my first Indiana poem. My poems are often rooted in place, and for most of my life that place has been New York.
So finally, it seemed, the noticing I'd been doing, the walking, the working and praying, was leading me back to the page to help me explore meaning.
Of course, our literary experience also informs our writing, and when I thought of the image of a lone flower, I couldn't help but think of Tennyson's "Flower in the Crannied Wall." I knew that my family's poppy would not be plucked. It would just be noticed and praised and loved. Perhaps it would "not mean/ but be," as Archibald MacLeish says of poetry in his famous "Ars Poetic." Or it would mean and be. That was my idea, my entry point into a new poem, a bright flower coming up unbidden.
The poem still needs work. The language is not there yet, and the ending is problematic for me still, as are some line breaks, though I've revised it a few times (first the handwritten version, then the typed). But it's a start, and that's all we can hope for when we generate something new on the page.
Daniel Bowman Jr. is the author of A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country (VAC Poetry, 2012). Jeanne Murray Walker said of the book, "It captures brilliantly the strangeness of being human."
His poems and essays have appeared in The Adirondack Review, American Poetry Journal, The Bitter Oleander, Books and Culture, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), The Midwest Quarterly, The Other Journal, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, Rio Grande Review, Rock & Sling, Seneca Review, and others. He recently completed his first novel, Beggars in Heaven.
Born in Dover, Delaware and raised in Mohawk, New York, he holds degrees from Roberts Wesleyan College, the University of Cincinnati (MA, Comparative Literature), and Seattle Pacific University (MFA, Creative Writing). He lives in Indiana with his wife Beth and their two children, and teaches at Taylor University. Visit his website.
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Great interview. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and insight Daniel!
Ross, thank you–I appreciate that very much!
Wonderful interview. It was almost as good as sharing a cup in person. Thoughtful and wise–your readers and students (as well as your friends) would do well to read and re-read your words. Thanks.
David Clark, thank you! And I can't wait for the day to come when we can share a cup in person again; may it be soon.
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Great interview. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and insight Daniel!
Ross, thank you–I appreciate that very much!
Wonderful interview. It was almost as good as sharing a cup in person. Thoughtful and wise–your readers and students (as well as your friends) would do well to read and re-read your words. Thanks.
dan's writing is great! and this interview was so wonderfully practical!
David Clark, thank you! And I can't wait for the day to come when we can share a cup in person again; may it be soon.


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LAURA D'ANDREA TYSONS.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global ManagementHaas School of Business, UC Berkeley Laura D'Andrea Tyson is the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management at the Haas School of Business, at the University of California Berkeley. She served as Dean of London Business School from 2002-2006, and as Dean of the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley from 1998-2001.
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Circus Bear Pincushion
I don't know why but the Blahs hit me hard this month. I am dipping my toes back in with a cute feltie pattern I found here from RicRac.
I added a blanket because I couldn't bear to stick pins in the bear!!
I still need to find a cute button for his tail.
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Cute bear. I am right there with you. Can't get my sewjo going.ReplyDelete
I think I finally broke through the blahs this past weekend. I too would have problems sticking pins in the bear. Hope you are having a great day Kris!ReplyDelete
I had the same sewing apathy back in March. Thankfully it only lasted about 3 weeks and now I am back at it! My blogging want-to seems to have taken a permanent vaca, however!ReplyDelete
Cute bear! I too have not been sewing this week. I am waiting for background fabric to arrive for the Night Sky pattern. Today I went through some patterns to try and spark my interest in something else while I wait.ReplyDelete
Way to get back into sewing!! I love him, so cute!! You always make the cutest felties :)ReplyDelete
That is by far one of the cutest little pin cushions that I have ever seen! -BrittanyReplyDelete
Hahaha.....couldn't "bear"...... Your little bear is so, so sweet. I'm beginning to think I was born with the blahs!ReplyDelete
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Following the approach used during negotiations of the Stockholm Convention and during implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, a "Mercury Club" had been established to recognize support for the negotiating process for the legally binding instrument on mercury.
The aim was to present awards during each of the five sessions of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on mercury held from 2010 to 2013.
Three different types of awards, namely, gold, silver and bronze, were presented according to the level of contributions received in the time period between the 25th session of the UNEP Governing Council, where the decision to convene negotiations was taken, and the fifth session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee where Governments agreed to the text of the "Minamata Convention on Mercury".
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Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano has killed 273 people since it began erupting late last month, with more than 300,000 people forced to live in makeshift camps, an official said Wednesday.
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Blue Man Group delivers dizzying mix of wit, whimsy and wild beats in T.O.
A boggling blast of Blue
The quirky trio will mix music, comedy and multimedia through Dec. 4 in the Kavli Theatre at Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. The performances, presented by Theater League, are at 8 p.m. Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2 and 8 p.m. Dec. 3 and 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 4. Tickets, $54-$79, are available in person at the box office or through Ticketmaster, 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. For information, call 449-2787 or visit theaterleague.com. Blue Man's website is blueman.com.
The inventive Blue Man Group is a blast for the senses with a quirky but compelling sense of humor. Most of all, the troupe is infectious. Minutes after the touring act opened Tuesday night in Thousand Oaks, the compliant audience members, many of them obviously Blue Man fans and others willing converts, were shouting phrases ticker-taped across the top of the proscenium, going through a series of rock-crowd moves, punching fists, waving arms, doing whatever it took to be part of the Blue Man clan.
The group, appearing as part of the Theater League season, was founded in 1988 and has since brought its special brand of creative silliness to stages throughout the U.S. and beyond. The current North American tour is its first U.S. traveling production, with its Thousand Oaks visit continuing through Sunday, Dec. 4, at the Civic Arts Plaza.
In keeping with Blue Man whimsy, a stage-size projection of a quote from the International Diplomacy Guidebook prepares the audience for the invasion by the Blue Man Group. It advises that when approaching a "foreign culture" one should offer a few gifts, explore their interests and culture, create something together. If all that works, it continues, "you build a connection that lasts a lifetime." The impact of Blue Man may not last a lifetime, but it definitely leaves an indelible impression.
Where else can you find a full-bore 90-plus minutes of amazing light and color visuals, some so bright as to be blinding, or so sudden as to jar anyone's equanimity? (There's a caution in the lobby for those whose nervous system might be affected by the intense flashes.) But the constantly surprising light images are as engrossing as they are dazzling, with lots of "How do they do that?" moments. In another layer of sensory impact, the nonstop music provided by the three main Blue Men on stage, backed by a band of six musicians posted at the sides and the rear of the stage, provide heavily amped rhythmic blasts. One huge drum struck with an immense mallet makes the entire theater tremble with its impact.
Amid all the thunderous atmosphere there are the amusing tricks played by the Blue trio, each of whom is covered in bright blue from head to foot, giving them an appropriately alien look. They pull a few people up from the audience and get them to do ridiculous things that involve no spoken words, just the power of group influence, reaction or example. They catch color balls tossed from one's hand to another's mouth at distances of 20 feet or so, then spray-spit color onto "canvases" from those same mouths in an evocative enough manner to pass for art.
For a finale, flashing signs urge the audience to stand and shake their booties, a movement that seems interminable as a zillion other terms for the posterior are posted electronically across the screens. Interminable or not, folks did it. They had swallowed the Blue Man Group and its Kool-Aid, and were relishing the experience.
If you're looking for a quiet evening at the theater, Blue Man Group is not it. But if you're open to everything from the mind-boggling to the ridiculous, this group's gotcha.
Performances will take place at 8 p.m. Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2 and 8 p.m. Dec. 3 and 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 4. Tickets, $54-$79, are available in person at the box office or through Ticketmaster, 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. For information, call 449-2787 or visit theaterleague.com. Blue Man's website is blueman.com.
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John Prine & Mac Wiseman
Standard Songs for Average People
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John Prine's first three albums in the early 1970s caused some to call him "the new Dylan." Prine certainly didn't want the title, but hack music writers of the day heard the ambitious songwriting, acoustic guitar and gruff voice and couldn't help themselves.
Standard Songs for Average People matches Prine with Mac Wiseman, the singer and guitarist known to bluegrass fans for 50 years as "The Voice with a Heart."
It's an unexpected, but pleasing, pairing. Wiseman's voice stirs into Prine's like Tennessee whiskey does into campfire coffee.
Their easy, verse-swapping on Ernest Tubb's "Blue Eyed Elaine" and "Saginaw, Michigan" (written by Donald Wayne and Bill Anderson, popularized by Lefty Frizzell) tops a 14-song setlist that includes other great country & western, honky tonk and rockabilly songwriters like Bob Wills, Charlie Feathers, Leon Payne, Al Dexter, Kris Kristofferson and Tom T. Hall.
Producer David Ferguson helped line up musicians including Cowboy Jack Clement (guitar), Jaime Hartford (electric guitar), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Mike Bub (bass), Tim O'Brien (guitar), Ronnie McCoury (guitar, mandolin), the Carol Lee Singers and the incomparable Lester Armistead to give the album a just barley pre-countrypolitan sound with a touch of bluegrass.
It would have been nice to hear one or two songs from each singer's discography – let's say Wiseman's "'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered" and "Letter Edged in Black;" Prine's "Souveniers" and "Paradise," which continues as a bluegrass standard thanks to Jim & Jesse – but that's a small quibble at a very nice listen.
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This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Reaganesque Donald Moffat) is murdered by a Colombian drug/i>… See more details below
This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Reaganesque Donald Moffat) is murdered by a Colombian drug cartel. When Ryan discovers that the President's wealthy friend was in league with the cartel, the President's devious national security adviser (Harris Yulin) and an ambitious CIA deputy director (Henry Czerny) send a secret paramilitary force into Colombia to wipe out the drug lords. The force is captured and then abandoned by the President's lackeys. It falls to Ryan to enter Colombia and rescue them, aided only by a renegade operative named Clark (Willem Dafoe), with both his life and career on the line.
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|Ann Magnuson
|Moira Wolfson
|Hope Lange
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|Tom Tammi
|Emile Jacobs
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|Dan Muray
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|Patrick Bauchau
|Enrique Rojas
|Patricia Belcher
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|Cam Brainard
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|Jared Chandler
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|Chris Conrad
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|Jaime Gomez
|Sergeant Oso
|Clark Gregg
|Staff Sergeant
|Blanca Guerra
|Escobedo's Wife
|Ken Howard
|Committee Chairman
|Tom Isbell
|Restaurant Doctor
|Denice Kumagai
|John La Fayette
|CIA Analyst
|Rex Linn
|Washington Detective
|Kamala Lopez
|Venezuelan Telephonist
|Marjorie Lovett
|President's Secretary
|Jorge Luke
|Aaron Lustig
|Dr. Polk
|Honorato Magaloni
|Mining Company Manager
|M. Martinez
|Christine Moore
|Greer's Widow
|John Rixey Moore
|Miguel Perez
|DEA Agent
|John Putch
|Blackhawk Co-Pilot
|Theodore Raimi
|Satellite Analyst
|Guillermo Rios
|Gate House Guard
|Diana Sowle
|Cartel Maid
|Lynne Stewart
|Greer's Secretary
|Cameron Thor
|DEA Surveillance Agent
|Harley Venton
|DEA Agent
Technical Credits
|Phillip Noyce
|Michael Benson
|William Cruse
|Art Director
|Alan B. Curtiss
|Asst. Director
|Patricia A. Garhardt
|Robert Grasmere
|Special Effects
|Jay R. Hart
|Set Decoration/Design
|James Horner
|Score Composer
|Lis Kern
|Associate Producer
|Joe Lombardi
|Special Effects
|Paul Lombardi
|Special Effects
|Mindy Marin
|Terence Marsh
|Production Designer
|Donald M. McAlpine
|Mickey Michaels
|Set Decoration/Design
|John Milius
|Mace Neufeld
|Bernie Pollack
|Costumes/Costume Designer
|Fernando Ramirez
|Art Director
|Robert G. Rehme
|Peter Robb-King
|Arthur Rochester
|Musical Direction/Supervision
|Ralph S. Singleton
|Dawn Snyder
|Set Decoration/Design
|Donald E. Stewart
|Neil Travis
|Robert Willard
|Special Effects
|Steven Zaillian
|Dick Ziker
|Tom Clancy
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1. The Enchanter [:18]
2. A Clear and Present Danger [4:46]
3. Watch Your Back Jack [2:45]
4. Reciprocity [4:29]
5. Respectable Businessmen [:24]
6. Fort Hunter Liggett [3:02]
7. No Troops [2:59]
8. Political Capital [1:02]
9. Bogota, Colombia [5:48]
10. $650 Million and Change [1:12]
11. Ambush [3:11]
12. Coming Home [3:59]
13. The Killer's Voice [:29]
14. Car Bomb [5:35]
15. Something in Common [1:14]
16. Your Word is Who You Are [7:01]
17. Right and Wrong [1:01]
18. Great Patriots [3:24]
19. Shut Down [2:30]
20. No Place to Hide [7:06]
21. Ryan's Calling Card [:07]
22. The Rescue [6:10]
23. Potomac Two-Step [:49]
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Newton Blotter - 01-28-11
The following charges and arrests were reported by the Newton County Sheriff's Office, Covington Police Department, Oxford Police Department and Porterdale Police Department: * Christopher Bryon Allgood, 39, 515 Almond Road, child support default. * Stella Grace Bevels, 25, 200 Bell St., probation violation, possession of Schedule I & II (methamphetamine).
Patton-Withers wedding
Nicole Patton and Erik Withers were married in Oct. 10 at Southern Oaks in Fayetteville. Dr. Robert Winstead officiated the ceremony.
Schmersahl-Rose wedding
Leigh Anne Schmersahl and Archer Riddick Randall Rose Jr. were married on Dec. 11 at Mountain Top and Resort in Pine Mountain, Ga. The Rev. Mabry Collins officiated the ceremony.
Rush 50th Anniversary
Charles "Pat" Rush and Peggy Turner Rush of Covington celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Jan. 14. They celebrated with their children, their children's spouses and their grandchildren at the Smith House in Dahlonega, Ga.
FURMAN BISHER: It must be a sight to see Polamalu fit that mop in a helmet
Troy Polamalu is just the nicest guy in the world, I gather. At least that's the way my wife looks at him, but I wonder if he really enjoys having all that hair to have to take care of. Instead of looking tough, it makes him look like a hair-dresser's dream. How does he get all that mop inside a helmet?
JACK SIMPSON: Don't let a celebration turn into a tragic death
Remember that poem about shooting an arrow into the air and having it fall to the ground, you knew not where? Or breathing a song into the air, it fell to Earth I know not where. For who has sight so keen and strong that it can follow the flight of song?
Merryvale gets award
Merryvale Assisted Living in Oxford was named the Dick James Small Business of the Year at the Covington-Newton County Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting on Thursday night at DeKalb Tech.
County wants portion in Main Street
Newton County officials are not willing to turn over the Main Street Covington program to the city of Covington, based on results so far of meetings of a committee assigned to study the issue.
NCSO looking for suspects in robbery
The Newton County Sheriff's Office and surrounding agencies are on the lookout for four suspects in a Thursday afternoon armed robbery at a pawn shop.
LETTERS: Don't be silent if you are a stalking victim
January is a time every year when many individuals begin with New Year's resolutions and a positive outlook on the year ahead. However, victims of stalking do not have that luxury because they are always looking back over their shoulder in pure fear. Since January is observed as National Stalking Awareness Month, I wanted to take a moment to encourage people to educate themselves about the seriousness of this deadly crime.
LETTERS: Many people helped make CARE fundraiser event a great success
On Jan. 22, the CARE committee, a nonprofit organization, held a silent auction in Porterdale. This was a benefit to raise funds to assist the needy families of Porterdale. This was our first event like this and we really didn't know what to expect. However, it turned out great as well as a lot of fun and it is all because of the business owners and individuals in Porterdale and Newton County that stepped up to help us.
NCSS sizes up budget to others
The Newton County School System has compared itself with seven other school systems in Georgia while making decisions about possible cuts to next school year's budget.
CAL THOMAS: President hides a lot of spending in his speech
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama at times sounded like he was channeling Ronald Reagan: cutting the deficit, hailing private enterprise and individual initiative, talking about the future. But for all his eloquence, the president wrapped his liberal ideology in conservative sheep's clothing.
Georgia Forestry Commission selling a variety of seedlings
Cold weather is the perfect time to plant trees, and the Georgia Forestry Commission has seedlings for sale in a variety of species.
Family-owned art business aims to reach children, parents
CONYERS -- For those who have a yearning to get their creative juices flowing and include their youngsters in the process, the Children's Art Factory in Olde Town Conyers is the place to visit.


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You know the stereotype of thuggish garbage collectors? The bruisers who can be a little rough with the recycling bins? Larry VanDervort fits the mold. But the well-tanned, gold-chain-wearing strongman at Cloudburst Recycling also breaks it: The three-and-a-half-year veteran in the biz is also the teddy-bear trash man. It's hard to miss VanDervort when he's on route in Southeast Portland--he's the one with the stuffed Big Bird or Cookie Monster on the front of his rig. Bosses back at Cloudburst HQ report that Larry's so popular, he has a bit of a fan club, including a crew of old ladies who offer him soda pop and apples.
It's nice to know you can still get something for nothing. At fashion boutique Frock (2940 NE Alberta St., 595-0379), you get an original piece of art free with purchase. Really. Budding 10-year-old artist Herman Phillips uses brown bags as canvases for his playful, colorful and unaffected drawings, netting him 25 cents a pop from Frock's owner. Inspired by his surroundings, Phillips plans to use his imaginative sketches to someday launch a fashion line with "sexy and casual style." In the meantime, he does other odd jobs around the arty Alberta neighborhood, because he doesn't like asking his currently unemployed mother for money. He may not be able to tell you who Picasso is, but his work ethic and Alberta's enthusiastic support mean you better get an original Phillips while you can still afford it.
Maybe it's time we named a park after the guy who made the whole city his monument. April marked the death of one of the most prominent men behind Portland's street-level revitalization: Ernie Bonner, the city's director of urban planning from 1973 to 1978. Under his direction and afterward, when he was a prominent urban activist, Pioneer Courthouse Square and Tom McCall Waterfront Park were created and building restrictions were passed to preserve Portland's views of Mount Hood. Other plans Bonner had a role in include the introduction of MAX light rail and the re-introduction of streetcar service. To see Bonner's handiwork firsthand, catch an eastbound MAX from Pioneer Courthouse Square to the Old Town station. Walk one block to Waterfront Park and stroll along the Willamette. On a clear day, Mount Hood is visible on the horizon. Rest in peace, Ernie. After all this hard work, you deserve it.
If high-school marching bands were as entertaining as Portland's boho high-steppers MarchFourth Marching Band, band geeks probably wouldn't be subjected to so much crap (not to mention stupid uniforms). Taking its name from the date of the band's first show in 2003, this mobile circus with rhythm has become a local favorite, thanks to gigs at the Oregon Country Fair, Waterfront Blues Festival, Burning Man and Portland's Time-Based Art Festival, among others (check out upcoming shows at marchfourthmarchingband.com). It's no wonder, with MarchFourth's wild mix of gypsy samba, big band, Afro beat, Mexican hustle and Mardi Gras swagger performed by an entourage of stilt-walkers, fire spinners and costumed freaks galore--the kind that don't invite a good ass-kicking.
Do not be fooled by their surnames: Julie Leasure and Virginie Calme are serious about kicking your ass. Calme, 34, is a French-born Portland teacher who has climbed Mexico and North Africa's highest peaks and is training with Team D.A.R.T. (www.dirtworld.com/races/team/ DART) for the Adventure Racing World Championship this August in Canada. Meanwhile, 33-year-old Leasure, a Nike product manager, is squeezing in twice-daily workouts for Team Oceanic's showing at September's Primal Quest challenge in Washington state, the U.S.'s largest adventure race (www.subaruprimalquest.com). Leasure's and Calme's teams must whip nearly weeklong rafting, trekking, trail running, rappelling and kayaking courses to win up to $250,000. Damn, that's extreme.
Portland State University professor Robert Bertini (bertini.org) has got his eye on you--or at least your car. Operating over 60 cameras in conjunction with the Oregon Department of Transportation, TriMet and the City of Portland, the transportation aficionado heads PSU's Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory. It's a budding research center dedicated to improving transportation efficiency and safety by using road sensors and video surveillance to analyze traffic patterns. One of the lab's main projects is to develop a data archive cataloguing the number and speed of vehicles traveling on freeways, information that can be used to determine how heavy traffic is at any given moment. In the future, you could use this info to avoid gridlock and shorten your commute. So, the next time you're stuck in traffic, be consoled with the thought that Bertini and his lab are watching--and looking for a way to get you out of it.
The official motto of Portland State University is some Latin spiel meaning "Let Knowledge Serve the City." A more appropriate and accurate slogan might be "Do more for less." Certainly, in a perpetually cash-strapped environment, the redheaded stepchild of the state university system has to achieve on a stingy allowance. Kudos, then, to the Portland State History Department. Despite having no funds to send scholars to conferences or pay for research, and unable to offer a Ph.D., PSU History has nonetheless won accolades from peers and grads alike. In January, the American History Association gave PSU high marks for producing master's degree students who then score doctorates elsewhere, comparing it favorably with similar schools. A "public history" program emphasizing urban oral history, a robust tradition of shipping grad students off to study at Oxford and Cambridge, and the well-regarded Pacific Historical Review add to the department's low-budget luster.
So you're not rich, famous or in a boy band but still want to go to outer space? Good. The Portland State Aerospace Society has gained a national reputation for blasting 12-foot rockets into the stratosphere, and the group might just be able to use you. This innovative, ragtag Linux-loving brain trust aims to be the first group of its kind to blast nanosatellites into orbit, using a fuel made from candlewax. If this lights your fuse, go to http://twiki.psas.pdx.edu/bin/view/PSAS/ PsasHome for more.
For the past three years, Easter Sunday visitors to Laurelhurst Park might have noticed something a little funny going on--and it wasn't a worn-out Easter bunny or candy-stuffed youngsters searching for eggs. It was teams of twentysomethings beating the bushes and brambles for beer. Organized by Portland transplant-turned-ex-resident Brian Slaughter (he's working on a dude ranch in Wyoming this summer), the Easter beer hunt sent two teams of hunters/gatherers around the Southeast park on a mission to find cans, bottles and 40s of brew painted like Easter eggs. The most decorated? Cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon, of course.
A lot of chain shops' ad campaigns feel about as personalized as a Mad Lib: "Come on down to (STORE NAME) for the best selection in (CITY NAME)," "Your (CITY NAME) Home Improvement Headquarters." But the Portland outpost of Kiehl's Since 1851 (712 NW 23rd Ave., 223-7676) kicked off summer with something truly city-specific in its window display: its take on Benson Bubblers. Coppery tubs of Kiehl's gourmet eye creams sat in little pyramids atop hip-high blue glass pedestals in an homage to Portland's temperance-campaign water fountains. If they weren't behind glass, you could almost bend over and take a drink.
If breakfast at the Mallory Dining Room is like an early-morning shot in a Ross Hunter film with Doris Day and Rock Hudson, dinner and drinks at Wilf's (800 NW 6th Ave., 223-0070) is a noir set for a meeting between Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde over sirloins. The somber, gentlemen's-club wallpaper and paneling, wing-backed chairs, and plush velvet curtains, located within the historic Union Station, almost beg to be in black-and-white. Where else in town can one actually see Steak Diane prepared the old-fashioned way with a cart and flamer? It harks back to an age of mimeographs and letter-set presses. But what's a film set without a soundtrack (the one missing element at the Mallory)? At Wilf's, one can often find a cabaret singer crooning close by at a piano: Susannah Mars often pops up here with sheets of Gershwin and Porter under her arms. The perfect accompaniment to a deal, an assignation or the scene of your choice.
Stovokor, formed in mid-2001 by Ward Young, stands alone against the federation of Portland rock. Portland's best (and only) Klingon band has been soundly mocked from all sides: considered a disgrace to true satanic metal by those who practice the black arts, and denounced by hardcore Star Trek fans who call the band a bunch of poseurs, ignorant of the full intricacies of Klingon. You can judge for yourself by listening to Stovokor's debut EP at purevolume.com/ stovokor or catching the band in the documentary Trekkies II, out this fall.
Thanks to Dr. Phillip Leveque, scores of Oregon's ailing enjoy the benefits of medicinal marijuana. Leveque estimates he's signed about 4,000 of the 7,500 total applications for state-issued cards--actions that contributed to the decision by the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners to suspend his license to practice as of March 4, 2004. "I think they called me an imminent hazard to all society," he says. Regardless of the state's decision, our very own Doc Doobie plans to fight the suspension with everything he's got. "They're not harming me," explains the 81-year-old. "They're harming my patients."
Karate black belt Britt Allen has a simple approach to teaching martial arts: ""I want women to ask themselves, 'If someone touches me, how can I fuck him up?'" All right! For around $20 an hour, the 30-year-old Allen will instruct you in the practical art of what he describes as "self-defense kick-boxing," right in your own living room or back yard (call him at 421-8580). But be warned: Allen likes to start early in the morning, usually between 5:30 and 9 am. After all, he has to get to his mortgage-broker gig at Precision Lending in West Linn. If schedules allow, would-be homeowners can become killing machines while sneaking in a question or two about current interest rates and property taxes.
Leave it to a group of locals to update the age-old game of croquet for the PBR crowd. Mondo Croquet was born right here in River City in 1996, when a couple of local hooligans replaced standard croquet mallets and oversized billiard balls with sledgehammers and bowling balls. Stephen Peters, the city's go-to guy on this strangely satisfying sport, encourages ball busters in search of something "whacky" to join his posse in the North Park Blocks (in front of Powell's Technical Books at Couch Street) for impromptu games of "Croquet--American Style." Check for upcoming events at www.mondocroquet.com.
Bluegrass is a genre with a hard-line view toward preserving its acoustic roots. Usually this means a fiddle, acoustic guitar or banjo. For Portland's Trashcan Joe, this also entails a downhome lesson in utilitarianism. The banjo is made from a trash can ("a 'trash-can-jo' if you will," says TCJ frontman James Cook), the bass is made from a washtub, and very often a violin or ukulele fashioned from a cigar box plays into the mix. Who says recycling can't be fun? Trashcan Joe plays every Wednesday night at the Moon and Sixpence (2014 NE 42nd Ave., 288-7802).
Performance art--it's not just for the Oregon Country Fair. Artist Kevin Gilmore exposed downtown denizens to the process of his painting in May, when he transformed Art Media's display windows (on Southwest 9th Avenue between Taylor and Yamhill streets) into a public studio. Slapping colors on his canvas from 2 to 3 pm each weekday, Gilmore created an abstract oil painting titled Lunch Break: A Work in Progress. Working in public seemed intense and a bit daunting, says the 26-year-old painter, but when a handful of voyeurs--ahem, passersby--gathered to watch, he felt "inspired to make good paint strokes." For a fascinating look at how the painting morphed into its finished form, check out the daily photos posted at www.kevingilmore.com.
With the problems that Portland faces daily, from the effects of neighborhood gentrification to nasty roadblocks to gay rights, it's nice to receive a reminder of what does make us "the city that works." Just past the racks of whitewater rafting brochures and the TriMet ticket office inside the Portland Visitor Information Center at Pioneer Courthouse Square (701 SW 6th Ave., 275-8355), locals can get a cinematic ego boost with Perfectly Portland, the 15-minute mini-documentary that plays on the wrap-around screen inside the info center's cushy, air-conditioned, 50-seat Theater on the Square. It plays every half-hour from 9 am to 5 pm. With lush shots of Stumptown landmarks, history snippets and perky testimonials from locals like Gert Boyle (Columbia Sportswear), jazz trumpeter and teacher Thara Memory, and the McMenamin brothers (all jawing about why the Portland is, indeed, the most perfect city ever) the limelight never felt so warm or fuzzy. Now, if they'd just serve beer, well, that would make it really perfect.


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These refashion roundups are so much fun to do so I thought I would try to do a monthly roundup of new and interesting refashions from around the web. Want to join in – head on over to wardrobe refashion to join the community.
Make your own bra – why didn't I ever think of this – tutorial here. [pictured above]
Great way to patch up jeans
easy refashioned mens sweatshirt to stylish women's long line top.
Slow stitched gored skirt design with outward facing seams – from sneezerville.
make a tunic from a round table cloth – who would of thought?
clutch purse made from recycled t-shirt fabric
repurposing a boys shirt into a girls shirt-dress
Man shirt refashion into a stylish asymmetrical blouse with tucks and shirred back.
Kid's t-shirt refashion with fabric paint and stencils
heat wave halter top from a men's shirt
blouse made from linen handkerchiefs


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Scholarship Overview
This scholarship is for graduating high school seniors who are residents of the United States, Canada, or Puerto Rico. To qualify for this scholarship, applicants must have a cumulative high school 2.5 GPA and plan to enroll full-time, without interruption, for the entire 2015-2016 academic year at an accredited two- or four-year college, university, or vocational-technical school in the United States, Canada, or Puerto Rico. Scholarships will be awarded based on academic record and participation in school and community activities. Only the first 50,000 submitted applications will be processed.
How easy is it to apply?
Not too bad
This scholarship's application process may have items such as essays that could take a couple hours.
How much competition is there?
You will be competing against a pretty high number of people for this scholarship.
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Water.org Launches Comedy on YouTube to Share its MessageFebruary 12, 2013 by Sally Farhat Kassab
Today, Water.org's cofounder, Matt Damon, released a funny three-minute video that Water.org hopes will go viral. Read more at the Skoll awardee's blog below and its press coverage.
Matt Damon protests lack of access to a toilet or basic sanitation for 2.5 billion people
Los Angeles, California. February 12, 2013. Matt Damon, co-founder of Water.org, held a press conference where he announced that to protest the fact that 2.5 billion people lack access to a toilet or basic sanitation, he will be going on a "toilet strike." Damon remained afterward to make appearances in videos by top talent on the YouTube platform designed to bring awareness and activism to the global water and sanitation crisis.
At the news conference, Damon pointed out that "780 Million people, that's twice the population of the United States, lack access to clean water." He then announced his "toilet strike," declaring: "In protest of this global tragedy, until this issue is resolved, until everyone has access to clean water and sanitation… I will not go to the bathroom."
Support the strike by visiting StrikeWithMe.org.
Damon challenged reporters to tell him how they celebrated World Toilet Day; observed annually on November 19th, it aims to break the taboo around toilets and draw attention to the global sanitation challenge. Hearing no meaningful responses, Damon asked the press: "[Does] anybody have any idea what invention has saved more lives than any other in the history of humankind? "The Toilet." To underscore his point about the sanitation component of the water crisis, Damon added "More people have cell phones than toilets."
Damon is also working with a group of YouTube creators on appearances scheduled to debut on each creator's YouTube channel, including ShayCarl, EpicLloyd, WheezyWaiter, LivePrudeGirls, Smosh, Stan Lee, Lisa Schwartz, and John Elerick.
Gary White, Water.org co-founder and CEO said: "Matt's strike announcement and the vlogger videos are designed to start an online conversation that can engage people across the digital landscape, and we hope people will share the video, and respond to it with their own thoughts…" Gary added, "I've been working on the water crisis for over 25 years and the interest and excitement for our work against one of the world's most solvable problems has never been more real. We are confident we will solve this crisis in our lifetime."
Water.org invites viewers to http://strikewithme.org where they can "Support the Strike," subscribe to upcoming videos, and donate to the cause. The site supports integration with YouTube, Facebook Connect, Twitter OAuth, bitly, and Instagram.


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1988's Frank Darabont-scripted remake of The Blob used an iconic scene from the original to take a swipe at 1980's horror. In the movie theater attack scene, the Blob's soon-to-be victims are watching a hockey mask killer chasing coeds with a chainsaw. Seconds later, the Blob drops in to show the theatergoers true terror.
Choice Line: Isn't it a little late to be gardening? It's not even hockey season!!
When Jay and Silent Bob's adventures bring them to Hollywood, they have the opportunity to hang out on the set of the highly-anticipated sequel, Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season. It might lack the subtleties of the original, but makes up for it with killing that ponytailed prick.
Choice Line: Applesauce, bitch.
Proving to be probably the most influential film in history, the controversial material in Terrence and Phillip: Asses of Fire actually lead to a war between Canada and the United States of America. And then Satan got involved and it was cra-zzyyy.
Choice Line: You're an uncle f***er, I must say. You f***ed your uncle yesterday!!
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Ph.D., History and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University; B.A., Cornell University.
Dr. Akhtar is an historian of government, religion, and economy, focusing on Mediterranean Europe and the Middle East in the medieval and early modern periods. His first book project traces the political debates over Graeco-Arabic philosophy and Sufism in medieval Spain and Iraq as a larger window into the contested nature of political and religious authority in the medieval world. He is currently working on a new book on politics, law, and economy in the Republic of Venice and Ottoman Empire.


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MacAlister Hall - Room 2020
Thursday, April 11, 2013
By the conclusion of the program, students will:
Students will be registered for IAS 390, International Development in Action, a three-credit fall term course. Learning will mostly be rooted in Quetzaltenango, which is nestled in a valley mountain surrounded by farmland, indigenous populations, numerous development organizations, and a lively art and music scene. In addition to Spanish class and service learning activities, students will engage in daily lectures, discussions and qualitative research efforts. Although many of the assignments will occur during the program, students will be responsible for completing a paper upon their return. This course is open to all Drexel students in class or on co-op, and there are no pre-requisites. Students will be directed and overseen by Kate Hughes, M.S., MPH, assistant director of the Center of Interdisciplinary Programs, as well as Guatemalan instructors at the Casa XelaJu language school, and local development practitioners.
Week 1: Intensive Spanish instruction, afternoon volunteer and cultural activities, and a homestay with a local Guatemalan family.
Week 2: Informal and formal learning through lectures, and site visits and service learning projects which may include building safe stoves in the Mayan highlands, working on a fair trade coffee farm, and helping with a deforestation project.
Weekends will include cultural activities, like a day/evening in Antigua (a designated World Heritage Site), hiking, and visiting local hot springs.
For additional information, please contact Kate Hughes at email@example.com.
This event is co-sponsored by Study Abroad, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the International Area Studies program.
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Closer to 200 people tried to pile into a room with about 100 chairs Wednesday morning at the Eddie Robinson Museum.
The alumni, players, school officials and students spilling out into the hall left little question whether they supported Doug Williams' return as Grambling football coach.
"As the athletic director, I'm excited to have Doug Williams return to Grambling State University," Lin Dawson said, re-introducing one of the school's favorite sons. "I know the student-athletes, the students, the faculty, administration, alumni and the fans are excited as well. We're looking ...


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DIY Wrapped Candle
Update a plain candle with wrapping paper. This is an inexpensive way to make a gift for the holiday season using luxury wrapping paper. These candles run about $1.00 each and can be found at most local craft stores. Simply choose the wrapping pattern of your choice, cut-out paper, then glue on. This DIY project will take you about 5 minutes per candle to complete. Just think about it… In 30 minutes, you can have 6 original gifts for friends and family this holiday season. Happy crafting!
Things you will need
- Wrapping paper of your choice
- Regular scissors
- Design scissors
- Spray adhesive
- Candle
Step 1: Measure the candle
Step 2:
Trace measurement
Cut out
Spray with adhesive
Step 3:
Line up around candle
Wrap candle
Smooth out paper
Step 4: Bands
Draw lines in different sizes and thickness
Cut out bands
Step 5:
Line up bands
Spray with adhesive
Continue to wrap candle
Step 6: Designer Bands
Repeat previous steps-use same measurements
Draw out lines in different thickness and size
Cut out with designer scissors
Step 7: Finish
Spray adhesive
Wrap bands at different placement
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If you are interested in Central Coast wines, then get your planning book ready! As Summer winds down and we head into the Fall season, the area comes alive with festivals, fairs and many an opportunity to enjoy Central Coast wines.
To start the season off, we have "Sunset Savor the Central Coast" festival which encompasses 4 days of everything food and wine. The festival takes place September 25 – 28th, 2014. Now in it's fourth year of operation with the main event at the historic Santa Margarita Ranch, there is something here for everyone who enjoys fine wines, great food, scenic places and good times.
Following on Savor's heels is Paso Robles' "Harvest Wine Weekend." Our harvest weekend this year is October 17 – 19th, 2014. This is one of our favorite festivals because literally hundreds of mini events are happening at the wineries throughout the Paso Robles wine region. With Paso Robles being named "Wine Region of the Year" by wine enthusiast magazine in January, this year's festivities are sure to play stellar.
At the start of November, the San Luis Wine region will be hosting their festival November 7-9th, 2014. The Edna Valley, San Luis Obispo, Arroyo Grande, and Northern Santa Maria wines will be featured. Again, buckle up because these folks know how to show case Central Coast wines …as well as throw a great party!
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Polish designer Agnieszka Bar creates these great glass vases which are held together with coloured rubber bands.#32858
To celebrate the Spanish International Friendship Day, Ogilvy Argentina created a huge Coca-Cola vending machine. Consumers have to be 2 to be able to afford their Coca. Obviously they obtain a free second bottle.#32838
Nicolas le Moigne - french designer - released these stools and tables made of Eternit.#32836
We've reduced Mad Men to its component particles to make this Periodic Table of Mad Men#32834
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Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook. Arrangements for piano and voice with guitar chords. With Softcover. 9x12 inches. 112 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. (HL.00311770)
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22 blues and soul favorites, including: Baby, It's Cold Outside · Back Door Santa · Blue Christmas · Dig That Santa Claus · Jingle All the Way · Lonesome Christmas · Nuttin' for Christmas · Santa Baby · T'was Love · 'Zat You, Santa Claus? · and more.
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Girlfriend: 1st Shooting Spree Victim Friends with Suspect
We're learning more about the targeted shooting that led the suspected gunman on a violent spree in South Omaha. The victim's girlfriend says they knew the suspect.
Police responded to the shooting at around 2pm Saturday afternoon at an apartment complex near 31st & Hascall St. Amy Hockabout, the girlfriend of Aaron Anderson, says two men came up to their apartment to borrow Anderson's car. After they got the keys, the man that they knew shot him in the hallway. One suspect fled in Anderson's 1995 Ford T-Bird with Iowa tags BBH-574. The other suspect apparently started shooting people randomly. Anderson was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Hockabout says she can't believe the person, who they thought was a friend, could do this.
"He's a friend of ours that we knew and there's no reasoning behind it," Hockabout explained. "Every time I close my eyes I see it happen over and over again, but we'll make it through it."
Hockabout says she was interviewed by police for 12 hours before being charged with Felony Meth Possession. A judge let her out of jail on her own recognizance. She says the shooting had nothing to do with drugs.
Police say the suspected shooter walked south and critically wounded Angel Cabrera near 33rd & D St. He then shot and killed Pascual Bautista-Raymundo and Anthony Vazanno within 5 minutes of each other. The suspect was later shot and killed by Omaha Police Officer Coral Walker near F St. & Dahlman Avenue.
KMTV Action 3 News has not received an update on Anderson's condition from Creighton-Alegent Health.
The man who took Anderson's car has not been taken into custody by police. Authorities have still not been able to identify the suspect. Police need your help to figure out who the gunman is. Call OPD Crimestoppers at 402-444-7867 if you know who it is. You can remain anonymous, and could get a cash reward.
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