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With a month to go until the referendum on the 2013 oil-tax cuts, the industry and its allies are outgunning the advocates of repeal by more than 100 to one.
Four organizations favor keeping the 2013 tax law, sought by Gov. Sean Parnell and backed by Republican majorities in both houses of the Legislature, and they've raised more than $13.5 million combined and spent $12.2 million. Two groups back repeal and they've raised $115,500 and spent almost $109,000, according to an Alaska Dispatch News analysis of several dozen public campaign reports, which are supposed to be filed within 10 days of spending activity.
"Even though we're this itty-bitty organization, it seems like our bite is big," says T.J. Presley, campaign manager for the leading organization behind the referendum to remove the 2013 oil tax cuts from the books, Vote Yes! Repeal the Giveaway. "What keeps us motivated is that we aren't focusing on spending a lot of money on TV or big signs or traditional media. We do phone calls every night, we do (literature) drops every night, we do all the ground-game stuff."
The state's three leading oil producers -- ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp. and BP, the beneficiaries of the tax cut -- account for most of the opposition money, $10.8 million. Nearly all the rest comes from hopeful producers like Repsol ($729,000), the Alaska Oil and Gas Association ($145,000) and other industry and related organizations. Six Alaska Native regional corporations, many with subsidiaries that work on the North Slope, have pooled about $673,000 into their own anti-repeal organization [3].
"Our campaign is a wide grassroots effort," said Willis Lyford, campaign director of the industry's organization, Vote No on One, and senior vice president of the public relations firm running the campaign, Porcaro Communications.
"The grassroots is on the top floor of the executive building," suggested Marc Hellenthal, the Anchorage pollster and campaign adviser who usually works for Republicans. Hellenthal, who isn't working for either side in the referendum, said one of his polls last September showed repeal winning by 3 points. His most recent poll, at the end of June, showed it up about the same 3 points.
After all the millions raised and spent in opposition to repeal, Hellenthal said, "the needle hasn't moved and there's nothing on the other side. It's not like 'Oh, the other side had more brilliant ads' or something — they haven't had any ads. It's a monopoly."
Lyford won't say what his polling shows, but he disagrees with Hellenthal's numbers.
"That's for me to know; that's why we pay for polling," Lyford said. "We use it to inform our decision-making, and of course we don't discuss our polling publicly. I won't want the competition to know what I know."
The referendum will take place in the state's primary election, Aug. 19. It was forced by a statewide petition drive of opponents of the tax cut, initiated as Senate Bill 21 in 2013. It passed the Alaska Senate 11-9 [4], with two senators employed by ConocoPhillips joining the majority and two Republicans siding with all seven Democrats in opposition. The House vote was a more certain 24-15.
It will take a "Yes" vote at the polls to approve repeal and return the state's tax system to ACES -- Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share, passed in 2007. Supporters of repeal say ACES promoted investment by industry and provided a greater return to Alaska's treasury, which depends on oil tax revenue for most government activity. Opponents say ACES' high tax rate at high oil prices encouraged industry to drill in places with lower taxes, leading to a more rapid decline in production than would occur with greater investment.
Two groups are supporting repeal. Presley's Vote Yes! Repeal the Giveaway, has raised $107,400 and spent $106,200. Its biggest contributor is Barney Gottstein, the retired former grocery wholesaler and retailer, who gave $20,000, and the union PAC of the Alaska State Employees Association, which gave $10,000. In all, 420 contributors, almost all from Alaska, gave an average of $256 each.
Vote Yes! Repeal the Giveaway had at least two people on the regular payroll, Presley and Andrew Lessig, but Presley said Lessig is gone and has left the state after broadcasting an unauthorized email [5]attacking former Democratic Gov. Tony Knowles, a repeal opponent.
Among its other expenditures are rent for its Northern Lights Boulevard headquarters and charges for small printed items like signs and envelopes, a set of robocalls, ads on Facebook and city buses, and website fees.
The other group is Stop the Giveaway! Vote Yes on Prop 1, chaired by activist Ray Metcalfe. It has raised only $7,869, with Metcalfe himself the largest contributor at $1,120. The low-budget group reported spending $4.74 on a lone bumper sticker, then another $493 on 500 more.
Four groups are registered against repeal. Vote No on One, the group flooded with oil money, raised $12.3 million and spent $11.1 million, just about all with Porcaro. Most of the Porcaro money has been used to produce and place television and radio commercials. But Porcaro also reported spending nearly as much money just on a website and social media like Facebook -- $80,000 -- than the repeal group spent on everything.
Porcaro also reported subcontracting out some $465,000 in surveys and polling, a large sum that would enable it to tailor its commercial messages to the leanings it discovered among potential voters.
"I don't care whether it's political or it's consumer research, if you're selling a product, you want to know what your customer knows, what they understand, what is important to them," Lyford said. "We have to understand what their understanding of the issue is. We don't want to jump into the discussion way ahead of their level of understanding -- otherwise we'll lose them."
Typically, Hellenthal said, that means going through different variations of the messages and finding what resonates, then feeding it back to the public in commercials.
While the content of the Vote No on One commercials seems like it might be effective, Hellenthal said, they suffer from a perception problem: the state-mandated disclaimer at the end that lists the three biggest contributors to the group.
"The one thing that sticks out on all the ads is 'Paid for by Exxon, BP and ConocoPhillips,'" Hellenthal said. "Every single ad, and it's at the end. It takes away from all their messaging."
While the big companies have opened their wallets, they've let Vote No on One and Porcaro do most of their public talking. Dawn Patience, a spokeswoman for BP Exploration (Alaska), said no one has invited BP to participate in a public debate, though she's not sure the company would accept if the offer was made.
"We chose to support the entire conversation" by contributing to the oil-company group, she said. Company employees are deeply involved there as volunteers, Patience added. "We're supporting the effort to get out the word so people can make an informed decision," she said.
Two of the other anti-repeal groups also dwarf the pro-group.
No One on One, supported by six Native regional corporations, has raised $673,000 and spent $480,000. The group is headquartered at the Anchorage office of Arctic Slope Regional Corp., and ASRC has given $268,000. With Bristol Bay Native Corp.'s subsidiary Peak Oilfield Service Co., which is running its own one-company campaign, BBNC is the top spender among the regionals, totaling just under $279,000.
No One on One has spent nearly all its money with the agency Bradley Reid and Associates, which in turn has invested heavily in advertising. In one day alone, June 9, it reported spending $300,000 placing television commercials.
Keep Alaska Competitive -- Vote No on 1 has raised $413,000 and spent $378,300. Most of its money has come from oil company contractors and related businesses, with the Lynden freight companies leading the pack at $66,900 and GCI a close second at $50,000. The group reported spending all its money with MSI Communications, which in turn has researched campaign issues and produced advertising, campaign buttons and other material.
We Are Alaska -- No on One [6] has tapped the related Alaska Support Industry Alliance for $45,700 and has so far spent $23,900 of it on research, mailings and festival booths and parades.
Presley, the campaign official from the pro-repeal group, said he believes his opponents are so big, they've lost their effectiveness.
"When you're polling the entire state three, four, five times a month, you're never going to be able land on a consistent, solid message that speaks to a specific group of people that you're trying to get to," Presley said. "They've literally become no more substantive than 'For our jobs, for our future, for Alaska,' and that's actually what they're saying even in the debates now."
But Lyford disagreed. "Our whole campaign has been built around facts," he said. "Let's cut out the baloney and get down to the facts," he added, accusing the repeal forces of engaging in name-calling by saying oil companies "are big, ugly and greedy."
While the industry may not have yet convinced Alaskans, Hellenthal said its message has worked in the chambers of commerce.
"They've managed to convince most of the business people in this state that somehow we have to have this," said Hellenthal, who himself plans to vote for repeal.

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Folks in this group would may or may not need a course in Astronomy, but I thought you might have suggestions as to how I can get the word out about my course. "Principles of Astronomy".
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Site seems very well set out and more visually appealing. I like the greater emphasis on the What to do Now section. When I wanted to edit a response to a previous question the "Edit" button didn't seem to work. Just a minor glitch. Best of luck, it's a great web-site, very informative with lots of ideas and practical tips.
Thanks Jane, that's all good to hear. The edit bug is on our list; our developer Aydin will fix it in the next day or two.
What would make the site even better for you over the year ahead, do you think?
I particularly like the "What To Do Now" section.
Pots and containers are my favourite but I do not live near a garden centre and public transport is rather sparse in my neck of the woods - some of the ideas you feature are mouth-watering but not easily obtained!!
It is an interesting and informative web-site - good luck!
Hello Patricia. Many thanks for your feedback. It's great to hear that you like the What to do now website, and that you find the website useful. I'm sorry to hear that you find it tricky to obtain some of the plants listed in our pots and containers section. We will be looking at significantly improving the offers and shopping opportunities on the site over the coming months, so please bear with us on that one!
I like the new Forum section as it gives people an opportunity to start a new thread about a particular issue/topic they have rather than use current blog comments facility. This way, their questions don't disappear into the ether which can happen sometimes.
Thanks, rona&gordon. We love the fact that so many people regularly comment on the blogs, but as you say, the forum means that they can start discussions of their own. We hope to see you on here regularly!
So far so good .... and your smilies work too
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I have to say I am rather impressed. The homepage is really bright and clear, with the detail in the jobs to do now very good. A very good start to the new site.
Hello thomas.edwards, that's very encouraging, thank you. If there's anything you think that we should add to the site, that we're not already covering, then do let us know.
After a struggle (of course i never give up) I managed to post pictures which is something I have been wanting to do for ages on the old site. But the new site with its tool bar is great. And the choice of topics now is immense so you are much more likely to find someone who has experienced whatever problem you are having who is willing to help. This forum has been needed for a long time..
Quite so, happymarion, about the need for the forum. It will be particularly useful as a problem-solving tool, as you say. It is very helpful for the web team, also, to find out what we're getting right and what needs work.
I really like the new Gardeners' World.com, its really easy to use and I love the what to do now site. On the old site Ive got my scrap book where ive put handy hints about plants and what to do in the greenhouse etc, will this now disapear on the new site? Really love it though, its bright and very clear. Well Done!!
Hi Donutsmrs. The scrapbook is still here (we just need to make it easier to find - we'll add a clearer button) If you click on your member name at the top right hand corner of the screen, a dropdown list of your pages appears, and 'my scrapbook' is there. (Here's the link)
We've tested the new scrapbook page with a number of members, but I'd be grateful if you could tell me whether all your cuttings seem to be present and correct.
Hi Sean, I found the scrapbook page and everything I saved is there. Didn't realise it was in a drop down list, but a special button for it would great.
I can't enter the competitions now because (although I know the answers) I can't see how to mark the one I want to. I never had any problem before. (Though I never won anything either!)
Plus, when I try to click on "Email me when a response is mad?" nothing happens there either. And I really would like an answer.
"I meant to type "made" not "mad". Mad is just how I'm feeling!
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Please accept my apologies for the problem you're experiencing. Please could you email us on firstname.lastname@example.com. If you could let us know which browser you are using, it will help us to investigate how to resolve the problem you are experiencing. In the meantime, if you email your answers and your address, we will happily enter them into the competitions for you. I'll also ask the tech team to look into the issue with the email updates.
gardenersworld.com team.
Emma, I have the same problem as Jude. There is no box to place the answer in, and neither is there any tickbox.
I was using Chrome, just swapped to IE, and the problem was solved!


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Borderlands 2 Walkthrough
Table of Contents
Where Angels Fear to Tread
- Head towards the next waypoint marker to speak with Claptrap, then travel to Thousand Cuts and move through Slab Town in front of you to reach Bloody Knuckle Point.
- Move left through No Man's Land to speak with Claptrap and watch him deactivate the red barrier, then follow the little bot down the road ahead and start taking out the surrounding enemies that approach.
- Follow Claptrap up the steps at the end of the road, while eliminating the bots and soldiers at the top with rockets or corrosive ammo, then turn left to continue behind the small robot.
- Make your along the next road ahead to sprint around or out of the mortar targeting symbols that appear around you and destroy the turrets positioned on the right side of the street.
- Join Claptrap by the depot's front gate at the end of the street and take cover behind the stack of crates closest to you, then use a rocket launcher or sniper rifle to eliminate the pair of turrets above.
- Eliminate the enemies that exit through the front gate to safely enter the depot and destroy the surrounding bots within by using corrosive ammo, then climb the steps on your right to encounter the Badass Constructor at the top.
- Defeat the Badass Constructor by firing explosive or corrosive rounds into its red eye and taking cover beneath the ledges so that you have plenty of room to retreat from this enemy's rocket attacks.
- Move left across the second level to climb the next set of steps in the corner, using corrosive ammunition to take out the loaders and the repair bots above, then approach the Constructor on the upper level and use the building beside you as cover to destroy this enemy.
- Climb the next staircase on your left to eliminate the enemies at the top and collect the weapons to the right, then continue moving towards the waypoint marker to cross the bridge at the edge of the cliff ahead and enter The Bunker area.
- Follow the mountain path in front of you to collect supplies along the way and climb the last staircase at the top to discover the Bunker, then move left across the bridge to reach the Auto Cannon on the roof and destroy it with corrosive gunfire.
- Jump to avoid the rotating web of red laser beams and eliminate the second cannon on this section of the rooftop, then head down the other set of steps to reach the bridge below and fight your way across towards the next pair of waypoint markers.
- Head down the first set of steps ahead on the left and destroy the cannon on the side of the building above, then return to the bridge and continue forward to climb the stairs at the end.
- Find the steps that lead down to a bridge on the opposite side of the area and make your way across it to continue destroying the Auto Cannons, then climb the stairs at the end to reach the next rooftop above.
- Approach the waypoint markers to destroy the two Auto Cannons on the rooftop and the final one clinging to the side of the building in the distance ahead to activate a cut scene.
- Afterwards, climb the steps to enter the structure at the center of this area and locate the BNK-3R flying around outside to open fire on it using corrosive ammunition or a rocket launcher.
- Continue draining the BNK-3R's health until it retreats and exit the building to avoid the oncoming mortar attack, indicated by the red laser symbols on the floor, then take cover on the outside rooftop to locate the enemy vehicle again and specifically target the ship's front cannons.
- Collect the supplies dropped by the buzzard flying above to assist you in surviving this battle and re-enter the previous structure to safely continue your attack until the next mortar strike.
- Continue destroying the BNK-3R's cannons to disable its offense and eventually destroy this enemy airship, then approach the wreckage to collect various supplies and move towards the next waypoint marker on the level below to move into the indicated open room.
- Wait for the scanners to finish confirming the bio-signature and use the indicated console to say your password, then enter the room that opens in front of you and press the button ahead to descend on the elevator.
- Travel to the Control Core upon reaching the floor below, then follow the hallway ahead to press the button in the room at the end and activate a cut scene, then enter the chamber where Angel has been imprisoned and approach the forcefield.
- Look up towards the purple eridum pipes flowing into Angel's prison and open fire on the injectors attached at the base, then use corrosive ammunition to defeat the guards that arrive and to destroy the shock field generators .
- Use the forcefield as cover to help you defeat the surrounding threats and look above Angel when lasers starting firing down on you to destroy the turrets that appear as well, then continue clearing the room until Roland drops the injector shields.
- Look for the injectors that have turned green, after their shields have been dropped, and open fire on them with corrosive ammo to destroy this section of the eridum pipe.
- Use a rocket launcher to eliminate the larger enemies more quickly and continue clearing the area of guards, while waiting for Roland to drop the shields until you have destroyed all three injectors.
- After Angel has been freed and dies, "Turn In" with Roland to complete this chapter.
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|Braley Announces Over $268 Million for High Speed Rail
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Washington, DC – May 9, 2011 - Today, Congressman Bruce Braley (IA-01) announced that Iowa will benefit from over $268 million awarded to five Midwestern states for the continued development of high speed rail lines.
This award allows for the purchase of 48 passenger rail cars and 7 locomotives for 8 corridors in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan and Wisconsin. These new cars and locomotives will be able to travel up to speeds of 125 mph to comply with the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008. The new equipment will replace aging Amtrak equipment with cars that add capacity for anticipated usage, improve operational reliability and reduce operating costs.
"Today's announcement is great news for Iowans and our neighbors," Braley said. "Passenger rail is critical to the continued economic development of the region. This is one more step to create jobs and put Iowa's economy back on track."
In October, the Department of Transportation awarded $230 million in federal funding for a new Amtrak route between Chicago and Iowa City through the Quad Cities. The project is scheduled for completion in 2015 and will create 588 jobs per year for the first four years of design and construction. Once initiated, the new rail service is expected to increase business activity by $25 million per year.
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As Pete Kaiser was leaving the Lower Kalskag checkpoint in 5th place, he got word that his handler, Jen Peeks, had just won the Bogus Creek 150. Many considered Kaiser to be one of the favorites to win this year's K300 as well.
However, hopes of the Kaiser Racing Kennel winning both races took a serious hit Saturday night as his team had trouble with the trail looping around Aniak toward Whitefish Lake.
Just nine miles past Aniak and seemingly gaining momentum, Kaiser's team took a wrong turn at a fork.
Kaiser said as he was bending down to reach into his sled bag, his team went straight when they were supposed to veer left. The team ended up traveling about seven or eight miles in the wrong direction before Kaiser turned around.
The miscalculation turned a hopeful 10-hour run to the return checkpoint at Lower Kalskag into a 12-hour maneuver.
The trail his team took was actually a training route used by Aniak mushers and K300 competitors Richie Diehl and Isaac Underwood.
Kaiser said that at first he did not realize he was going the wrong direction because there were a few stray dog booties and marks from sled runners present on the trail. Unfamiliar landmarks revealed that Kaiser was headed in the wrong direction.
At the Lower Kalskag return checkpoint, Kaiser had fallen into the 12th position.
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I will get one chance to see the Cougars before my wife and I leave for the mission field.
Christmas in April!!!!
- 10:25 p.m. April 3, 2011
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I think this is a great choice by Bronco. It is rewarding for both the players
and the fans to be able to watch their team perform in a spring game. It is
probably the best way to track the improvements and also see where more work is
needed. Although it is not a real game, it provides a game type situation for
the players to show what they got! What a great opportunity! Hopefully there
is a good showing at LES! If only the game was aired on ESPN, I would love to
check out some of the new talent here in PA! Guess I will just have to wait
until Sept. 3 to see my Cougs!
Also I watched the Texas spring game today. The Longhorns have a the new Offensive coordinator from Boise State running a pro-style offense, problem is the entire roster including the QB's are more suited for a spread. If that team does not see some vast improvements by Sept 10, I believe BYU will have a 2-0 start in 2011. An upset in Austin would be HUGE for the move to Independence.
Can't wait!
- 10:40 p.m. April 3, 2011
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With the tough schedule BYU opens with, I think the scrimmage game is critical to really evaluate the talent, and the fans love the game. I think it was in the scrimmage game that Max Hall edged out Cooper for the starting spot, in spite of Cooper's injury. And I don't need ESPN for this one - I'd be happy if they broadcast it on BYUTV.
- 10:56 p.m. April 3, 2011
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Any chance of getting it on KBYU?
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TV would be awesome! Tivo the spring game and watch it after doing yardwork!
- 12:19 a.m. April 4, 2011
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Ugh, leaving town on Friday.
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i'm sure ESPN will be covering it. It's been "reported" that bYu will earn over 2.2 million.
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This is going to be a fun team to watch.
Jimmermania is moving on to the NBA...
get ready for
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Soon to be appearing nationwide in true HD!
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Whether or not BYU earns anything for the spring game, they have enough to pay for a basketball coach others want.
- 8:59 a.m. April 4, 2011
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One thing is for sure hedgy, the number of fans watching this spring game will out number the ute/usc game this fall....this we know to be true....
- 9:16 a.m. April 4, 2011
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Any way the spring game can be put on BYUTV? I don't get Utah tv where i live but i do get BYUTV.
- 9:47 a.m. April 4, 2011
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It seems like a fun thing for the players too! The only down-side is now the
sports writers have still fill the collegiate sections....
Congratulations on your mission call. I'll miss your comments. Where are you going?
- 10:15 a.m. April 4, 2011
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This is our third together. We are going to Vancouver Canada Mission. Out last one was in Fukuoka Japan. The hard part is we never missed a game in 27 years and now I have to buy my season tickets and let my kids use them...rats...rats and double rats.
But I wouldn't miss the mission field for anything. It is so great to feel the spirit of the Elders and Sisters. We have seen lives edified and miracles all around us and we love the people we serve among. It is definitly something we love to share in our retirement years.
- 11:56 a.m. April 4, 2011
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This will be are first won game in an unbeaten season. 15-0!!!
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Nice, Ernest! Thanks for your comments!
Yes, BYU-TV, YouTube, anything! Just a little something for my addiction.
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Nice reward for the players for the hard work they have put in. I hope the injury bug does not bite with any season impacting issues. Rise and shout people.
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Its great to hear they are doing well enough to change Bronco's mind about a spring game. Me and Ernest T. think this means that they are way good now and will won all their games for sur.
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Well, all the excitement hasn't taught you to spell, TJ, and it hasn't helped Ernie figure out the difference between "our" and "are". Must be U grads. I'll be at the spring game. It will be fun to watch.
- 4:52 p.m. April 4, 2011
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I'm not sure anyone is concerned with the Spring game in Provo this year.
There's nothing on the line for the Cougars next year in football, no conference
title and no BCS invite.
Well, I guess if BYU beats all those WAC teams, you could make the claim the Cougs are WAC champs.
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When I look around the country, I don't see anyone who can play with us! I can't believe how good we are!
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Pope's Rape of the Lock after 300 years – a mocking acknowledgement of the triumph of style over substance
T hree hundred years ago next week, Bernard Lintot's bookshop at the sign of the Cross Keys in Fleet Street was packed in a way few such establishments had ever been before. Londoners were clamouring to get their hands on one thing: the latest edition of Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock. Three thousand copies were snatched up within four days, while John Watts's printing presses were busily working overtime to produce another 2,000 copies in order to satisfy demand.
Pope was then twenty-five, and this was his third major publication. He first appeared in print with his "Pastorals" in 1709, in the sixth (and last) volume of Jacob Tonson's Poetical Miscellany, a series started with John Dryden's help back in 1684. It was most fitting. Of all the poets Pope emulated, Dryden made the most profound impact: he had translated the Æneid into iambic pentameter rhyming couplets, raised satiric hackles throughout the Restoration, and remained a Roman Catholic when it would have been advantageous to convert (again) to Protestantism in the reign of William and Mary.
Pope's second major poetic splash, An Essay on Criticism, had a slow start. This time, he went to an old school-mate, William Lewis, who set up as a bookseller in Covent Garden. In spite of the fact that TLS readers know at least three lines from this poem (some knowing without knowing they know) – "To err is human, to forgive divine", "A little learning is a dang'rous thing" and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" – the poem sold poorly. Lewis's promotional skills proved wanting, so Pope went elsewhere for his next venture.
Some time in 1711, an eligible young bachelor, Robert, Lord Petre, surreptitiously snipped a lock of hair from the beautifully coiffed head of Arabella Fermor
His third major publication came out of the blue. A bizarre episode had caused a rift between two Catholic families: some time in 1711, an eligible young bachelor, Robert, Lord Petre, surreptitiously snipped a lock of hair from the beautifully coiffed head of Arabella Fermor at Ingatestone Hall, his home in Essex. This act of sheer stupidity, presumably perpetrated as a misguided flirtation, put a halt to any marriage plans. The elder John Caryll, who had been Petre's guardian, asked Pope to write something that might help put the mess into perspective. And so the poet was provided with the "trivial thing" that inspired his most popular poem. Pope dashed off the first version within a fortnight: 334 lines over two cantos. The manuscript (which, alas, no longer survives) circulated from late in the summer of 1711.
But the poem was too good to remain in private hands. Pope had already arranged with Bernard Lintot, Tonson's younger rival, to include some of his works in the Miscellaneous Poems and Translations of 1712. "The Rape of the Locke" was tacked on at the end of this substantial collection. Initial sales were disappointing in spite of a favourable review by Joseph Addison in the Spectator. Lintot sold off copies at a discount to members of the trade, later slapping a 1714 title page on it in an attempt to move the old stock.
In the meantime, Pope returned to the poem, expanding it to five cantos, more than doubling its length to 764 lines (with another thirty added in 1717). After reading Le Comte de Gabalis (1670) by Nicolas-Pierre-Henri de Montfaucon de Villars, translations of which were available, he found the perfect way to expand his original work. The Rosicrucian spirits – sylphs, nymphs, salamanders, and gnomes – added a whole new allegorical dimension to his poem. The hair-rending incident would have been long lost in the great repository of idiotic male acts had Pope not recast the principals as Belinda and the Baron. He also moved the main setting to Hampton Court, making the Queen a potential witness to the assault. Pope was among the first to recognize the 1707 Act of Union in a couplet:
"Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take – and sometimes tea."
Belinda bests the Baron at Ombre; she is clearly not supposed to win and, more importantly, not meant to revel in her victory. Pope reminds us not to get too carried away: "Oh thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and too soon elate!" He also reminds us of what Belinda has forgotten: "Beware of all, but most beware of man!", and of glory's transitory nature: "Sudden, these honours shall be snatch'd away, / And curs'd for ever this victorious day". From the title on, Pope's poem feeds on exaggeration.
Pope even gets in a nice dig at politicians whose eyes, without coffee, would be completely shut
Having finished their game, the players pause for refreshment, taking what might be the first coffee break in English poetic history.
"For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crown'd,
The berries crackle, and the mill turns round.
On shining altars of Japan they raise
The silver lamp; the fiery spirits blaze.
From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide,
While China's earth receives the smoking tide.
At once they gratify their scent and taste,
And frequent cups prolong the rich repast."
Lest Belinda burn her lips, Pope charges some sylphs to cool her cup with their wings while others protect her dress from any unwanted spills. He even gets in a nice dig at politicians whose eyes, without coffee, would be completely shut:
"Straight hover round the fair her airy band;
Some, as she sipp'd, the fuming liquor fann'd,
Some o'er her lap their careful plumes display'd,
Trembling, and conscious of the rich brocade.
Coffee, (which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes)
Sent up in vapours to the baron's brain
New stratagems, the radiant lock to gain."
This isn't just a witty set-piece: coffee becomes the motivator for the Baron's next act. He has already noticed Belinda's alluring ringlets and wanted to add one to his collection of love trophies. But how?
Enter Clarissa. Out of the invisible crowd at court, she emerges to provide scissors, the means to the baron's end. She has evidently been following the Baron's gaze and thus becomes a silent conspirator. The ensuing mêlée, as it turned out, made an excellent preparation for his classical labours. A month after The Rape of the Lock became the best-selling poem of the eighteenth century, Pope signed a contract with Bernard Lintot to translate the Iliad. Pope's success helped consolidate his list of subscribers. A rival translator, Thomas Tickell, secretly had Joseph Addison's support, but ultimately Pope prevailed, and would spend the next decade translating both the Iliad and the Odyssey, thus completing a task Dryden had once begun. In a speech Pope didn't add until he prepared The Rape of the Lock for its appearance in his 1717 Works, Clarissa offers sound advice on the transience of beauty – "Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul" – which Belinda instantly rejects before charging into battle.
At the moment before Belinda loses her lock comes the couplet "Ev'n then, before the fatal Engine clos'd, / A wretched Sylph too fondly interposed" (engravings of Arabella Fermor taken from the Parr portrait give her name as "Fermer", the French verb to close). Pope inserted footnotes to give his text a breezy neoclassicism. One note adds to the mock-ironic relish of what follows: "Fate urg'd the Sheers, and cut the Sylph in twain, / (*But Airy Substance soon unites again)". The asterisk refers us to a note that initially read: "See Milton, lib. 6". This leads us to the scene in Paradise Lost where Michael slices Satan in two: "The griding sword with discontinuous wound / Pass'd thro' him! But th' ethereal substance clos'd, / Not long divisible". The "wretched Sylph"'s pre-Disney miracle needs no allusion to make it more vivid, but it offered too brilliant an opportunity for literary gamesmanship for Pope to miss. He is surely tormenting his reader – deliciously – at the moment the blades of Clarissa's scissors meet and part Belinda's lock from her "for ever, and for ever!" But tragedy turns to delight as the momentarily bisected Crispissa (the sylph who is earlier charged with guarding Belinda's hair, but unnamed here) is rendered happily whole again.
The Rape of the Lock represents Pope's acknowledgement of the triumph of style over substance – a mock-salute to the spirit of inconsequentiality, which seemed to be on the rise in the early eighteenth century (vide John Gay's Trivia) and looks ahead to Seinfeldian comedy, the great show about nothing, a celebration of the quotidian where the minor itches of life are scratched large. It was to be the last major original poem of Pope's early career. He composed sombre meditations such as "Eloisa to Abelard" and "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady", but The Rape of the Lock marked the end of his youthful, exuberant phase. The year 1714 was a watershed for both Pope and his country. When Queen Anne died on August 1, her physician, Dr John Arbuthnot, lost his chambers which housed the Scriblerus Club, one of the most creative associations of satirists ever. The Earl of Oxford, the political hopeful of the Tory wits, was brought down. Jonathan Swift, who had a difficult time with Anne, realized he would never find a position under the Hanoverians and returned to Dublin. Still, the seeds had been sown for some of the greatest satirical works: Swift's Gulliver's Travels would vex the world in 1726, Gay's Beggar's Opera, which would set new box-office records, premiered at Lincoln's Inn Fields in January 1728; and in the same year Pope's Dunciad brought the mock-epic to new depths.
The Rape of the Lock represents Pope's acknowledgement of the triumph of style over substance – a mock-salute to the spirit of inconsequentiality
The people whose lives Pope transmuted in The Rape of the Lock had mixed feelings. Sir George Brown (Sir Plume in the poem), who sputters ineffectively when called upon to ask the Baron to restore the lock, was so upset that Pope, perhaps only half-jokingly, wondered whether he might become a "whipt wit". Lord Petre rebounded to marry a Lancashire heiress and just as suddenly died in 1713. Arabella married one Francis Perkins and died in 1738. One portrait shows her wearing a crucifix , and bears the cunningly ambiguous couplet – "On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, / Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore" – which suggests she did not altogether mind being immortalized in Pope's poem.
As Voltaire noted in his Lettres philosophiques (translated into English in 1733), and as W. K. Wimsatt documented in The Portraits of Alexander Pope (1965), Pope's image was well spread throughout London and beyond. Illustrations helped push The Rape of the Lock through to six editions (not counting piracies) within ten years. Lintot's investment in frills – a frontispiece and a "cut" for each canto designed by Louis Du Guernier and engraved by Claude Du Bosc – paid off many times over. While perhaps not the best book illustrations, they offer a hint of Belinda's nipple in the illustration to Canto I, which may have titillated male readers. Aubrey Beardsley's much later drawings highlight the eroticism barely submerged by Pope's text. (The history of artistic interpretations of the poem has been well told by Robert Halsband in The Rape of the Lock and its Illustrations, 1714–1896. This month, the Yale Center for British Art opened an exhibition – "Fame and Friendship: Pope, Roubiliac, and the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth-Century Britain" – which moves to Waddesdon Manor, home of the Rothschild Collection, in June.)
While Lintot made a substantial profit from the sales of some 9,000 copies of The Rape of the Lock by 1723, the author of the first bestseller in the aftermath of the 1710 Copyright Act was paid a measly £7 for the original version and £15 for the "additions". Under the pseudonym of Esdras Barnivelt, Pope made an extra £10, 15s. for the spin-off mock explication, A Key to the Lock. However, the phenomenal success of his most original poem gave Pope considerable leverage in negotiating the terms of the Iliad contract which provided him with financial security for the rest of his life.
The Rape of the Lock has had an influence on many writers subsequently: from Robert Dodsley, who not only received £100 from Pope to set up his bookshop but had Pope to thank for the title of his play "The Moving Toyshop", to the Princeton professor Sophie Gee, who based her novel The Scandal of the Season (2007) on The Rape of the Lock, adapting snippets from the poem – "Wretches hang; jurymen dine" – for a darker narrative with Jacobite underpinnings. In between, Robert Burns paid tribute to Pope by citing a line from the Cave of Spleen episode in the fourth canto – "And send the Godly in a pet to pray" – as the epigraph to "Holy Willie's Prayer". Lord Byron, Pope's staunchest defender in the early nineteenth century, quoted "female errors fall" from Pope's second canto, in the first canto of Don Juan, with reference to Donna Inez, the hero's flawless mother.
T. S. Eliot wrote a passage in imitation of The Rape of the Lock in an early draft of The Waste Land, but Ezra Pound, acting as editor, advised him sternly, "Pope has done this so well that you cannot do it better; and if you mean this as a burlesque, you had better suppress it, for you cannot parody Pope unless you can write better verse than Pope – and you can't". The passage was accordingly deleted. (If there is a special providence in the birth of poets, a case might be made here for Pope, Byron and Eliot, who were born in successive '88s.)
T. S. Eliot wrote a passage in imitation of The Rape of the Lock in an early draft of The Waste Land, but Ezra Pound advised him to suppress it
Bruce Montgomery, the crime novelist (under the name Edmund Crispin), composer (for Carry On films, among others) and Oxford friend of Philip Larkin, had an extended bout of Pope-itis. He borrowed The Moving Toyshop as both title and crime scene in a novel published in 1946. A body, discovered in a modern toyshop, mysteriously disappears. The original couplet is quoted at the end of the novel: "With varying vanities, from every part, / They shift the moving toyshop of their heart". Montgomery/Crispin's detective-hero, Professor Gervase Fen, engages in literary chit-chat with Chief Inspector Humbleby in that brilliant and eccentric way English detectives do. In Sudden Vengeance (1950), Fen unsuccessfully fends off questions from Humbleby about the film he is working on:
"Based," Fen reiterated irritably, "on the life of Pope".
"The Pope?"
"Now which Pope would that be, I wonder?" said Humbleby, with the air of one who tries to take an intelligent interest in what is going forward. "Pius, or Clement, or —"
Fen stared at him. "Alexander, of course".
"You mean" – Humbleby spoke with something of an effort – "you mean the Borgia?"
Belinda in Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess owes her name to Pope's heroine. Ian Rankin injects the occasional line from Pope into his murder mysteries; his first novel, The Flood, refers to "coffee-swilling whist-players" , although Ombre is the card game of choice in The Rape.
Astronomers have taken to heart the poem's final couplet – "This Lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame, / And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name". While Sir William Herschel named the first two moons of Uranus Titania and Oberon from A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1787, William Lassell, who spotted two new moons in 1851, named them Ariel and Umbriel after Pope's sylph and gnome leaders. Shakespearean characters predominate in the naming of Uranus's twenty-seven moons, but Belinda's name was bestowed upon a newly discovered lunar orb in 1986. An operatic version of The Rape of the Lock, a podcast sampling of which is available online, is scheduled for world premiere in New York next September. Pope's heroical-comical masterpiece continues to resonate through the spheres.
Donald W. Nichol teaches English at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He edited the three-volume New Foundling Hospital for Wit, 2006, and Lumen, Vol. XXXI, the proceedings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, published in 2012.
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ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y.- This past Saturday, February 8, 2014, current Molloy College Head Women's Lacrosse Coach Tom Campolettano was inducted into the Long Island Metropolitan Lacrosse Foundation Hall of Fame for his contributions to the game of lacrosse, as well as his coaching career. The LIMLF's 29th annual induction ceremony and dinner was held at the Huntington Hilton.
"It is truly an honor to be recognized and included in this group and this Hall of Fame," said Campolettano. "To have your name included with the many great coaches and players who have graced the playing fields of Long Island is unbelievable."
Coach Campolettano is entering his ninth season at the helm of the Molloy College women's lacrosse program. Since starting the program in its inaugural 2006 season, Campolettano has brought the Lions forward in leaps and bounds – including a record-setting 2010 season, where the team finished with a 15-2 overall record and narrowly missed qualifying for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history. In his first eight years with Molloy, Campolettano has compiled a .548 winning percentage by way of a 68-56-1 record. Under his guidance, 19 student-athletes have been named to All-East Coast Conference teams. Three have been named to the All-ECC Preseason squad, and nine different players have been recognized as Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association All-East Region honorees for a total of 14 times.
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Prior to starting up the women's lacrosse program at Molloy, Campolettano spent seven years as the head coach of the girls' lacrosse team at Manhasset High School. During his time with the Indians, Campolettano compiled an impressive 110-22-4 overall record, while garnering the Nassau County Coach of the Year Award in 2001. He also earned Newsday Nassau County Coach of the Year laurels in 2003 and 2004. In addition, Campolettano guided his squad to three straight Nassau County and Long Island Small School Championships. In 2003, his Manhasset team won the NYS Small School Championship. In 2012, Campolettano was inducted into the Manhasset Lacrosse Hall of Fame for his dedication and contributions to the program.
Aside from coaching, Campolettano also served as the Vice President of the Long Island Metropolitan Lacrosse Foundation from 2000-03 before becoming President during 2003-05. He has been on the LIMLF Board of Directors since 1996 and is currently the 2nd Vice President. He was a member of the NCAA Division II Women's Lacrosse National Committee and currently is a member of the Division II All-American Committee. He served as the Chairperson of the same committee from 2008-2011.
Campolettano has been a member of the Nassau County Lacrosse Officials Association since 1983 and assigns officials for the Nassau County PAL Lacrosse League.
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In the connected, untitled lyrics that make up the final section of Valentine's 11th collection, the poet is at her fierce best. She addresses Lucy, an early hominid whose skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. The details that Valentine always renders palpable and significant are heightened by their juxtaposition with this long-lost life, as when she questions: "Did you have a cup, Lucy?/ O God who transcends time,/ let Lucy have a cup." Current terrors--bodies falling from the World Trade Center towers, the deaths of a pair named Ruth and Grace--are both contextualized and underscored by this totem "skeleton mother." Valentine writes: "when my scraped-out child died Lucy/ you hold her, all the time." The rest of the volume ranges in subject matter and setting, moving from a soldier in the Civil War to a chemo patient, Haiti, ghosts in elephant fields. Each poem shares Valentine's trademark concision and pared-down punch. Some of her severe observations can stop your breath: "Don't listen to the words--/ they're only little shapes for what you're saying,/ they're only cups if you're thirsty, you aren't thirsty." (Sept.)[Page ]. Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.


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How do I ask my mother in law not to smoke in the same house as my baby?
My husband wants my mother in law to stop smoking in her house, if she wants us to drop the baby off. My husband is afraid of the health risks of the baby being in house that is saturated with cirgarette smoke, as well as the baby/car seat/pack n play smelling! My husband also has asthma that is aggravated by smoke and is afraid the baby will share this trait. I support his stance, but how do you tell the grandma to stop smoking in her own house?
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Actually, MVS, I would forget about letting the baby go to your MIL's house. I have the very same issue, and after researching and finding out that 3rd hand smoke interacts with common house-hold molecules to form cancer-causing particles, I've decided not to allow my baby in her house. I haven't had 'the talk' yet and dread it, but I have to put my baby first!posted 06/15/2010 by MissingJohn71
If there is smoking in the house it is probably best to not leave the baby there. Explain to your MIL that you don't want the baby somewhere that there is cigarette smoking going on. The smoke from a cigarette can linger in the air long after the cigarette is gone. Just make sure that you emphasize that it's not that you don't want her to spend time with the baby but you would feel more comfortable if she came to your house. In time she may come to the conclusion on her own not to smoke in her home, or even better she may decide to quit.posted 06/01/2010 by Lynnabel
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When I say "based on", I don't mena "a small part of the kernel", but rather that the majority of the kernel is identical or slightly "improved" version of. The kernel architecture of Win2K is the same architecture as NT4, which is dramatically different from the Win9x kernels.
For the most part, drivers are NOT written in Assembler. The reason there is fewer 64-bit drivers is simply that most machines don't use 64-bit OS, and thus the demand for 64-bit drivers is small.
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Two graduate programs at East Carolina University are ranked among the best nationally in online education.
According to U.S. News & World Report, the ECU College of Nursing ranked 10th out of 72 masters or doctorate of nursing practice programs in the country. The online master of business administrations program in the College of Business ranked 40 out of 148 graduate business programs. Doctor Sylvia Brown credits some of their success to letting technology foster a closer connection for instructors and students, even while online.
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