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Troy Blattner didn't harbor any illusions about the business he was getting into when he bought Vancouver's Tip Top Too tavern. So why, he wonders, would his customers?
"From day one, when I opened the bar up I put up a note on the door that said this was a smoking establishment and you enter at your own risk," Blattner said, still smoldering over Washington's Clean Indoor Air Act — also known as Initiative 901 — five years after voters passed the ballot measure that banned smoking inside businesses. Blattner says there never was the sustained influx of nonsmoking customers the bill's backers promised.
"I got a few people right there the day of the smoking ban and after," said Blattner. "I only saw them for two or three days."
Bar owners across Clark County share Blattner's opposition to the ban. But tax figures and a newly published government study suggest the measure may have been a boon to their industry.
The data
Statewide sales at bars and taverns have grown more than expected since the ban took hold, a new peer-reviewed study in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control's journal Preventing Chronic Disease said. Businesses are classified as bars and taverns if more than half their sales come from alcohol.
Published in July, the report studied taxable retail sales from 2002 through 2007. It found that for the two years since the smoking ban was implemented, sales were $105.5 million more than expected. That amounts to a $21 per capita increase in spending across the state, based on an estimated 5 million adults in Washington.
The study was paid for by the Washington State Tobacco Prevention and Control Program.
More recent state Department of Revenue data, meanwhile, show Clark County bar and tavern sales have also grown since the ban's passage. In 2005, before the ban, drinking establishments reported more than $15 million in taxable retail sales. Their sales dropped by 20 percent in the ban's first year, but rose to pre-ban levels in 2007. Sales in Clark County continued rising through 2009, when they hit more than $21 million, a 43 percent increase since 2005.
"Compared to all taxable retail sales and retail trades it appears that bars and taverns have done well," DOR spokesman Mike Gowrylow said. "In this economy to hold your own is pretty good."
The CDC study looked at aggregate taxable retail sales for all bars and taverns in the state, so it wouldn't have caught individual businesses negatively affected by the ban.
"However, the decrease in revenue for these establishments was more than offset by the increase in revenue overall and supports our conclusion about the positive state-level economic effect," the report said.
Myde Boles, the study's principal investigator, said the study used a rigorous economic analysis and took numerous factors into account that might have affected the sales numbers. These factors included seasonal fluctuations, population growth in Washington, personal income growth and unemployment rates.
"There is a strong body of literature that supports the fact that once smoke-free laws go into effect there's not a negative impact," said Boles, who works for the Multnomah County Health Department and the Oregon Public Health Division.
Experience differs
Though the industry as a whole may have improved, individual bar owners say they're not seeing the economic benefits the data suggest.
"I lost a lot right at the beginning," Blattner said. "I slowly got them back. It's just uncomfortable during the winter."
Blattner, who owns two other Vancouver bars, was a vocal opponent of Initiative 901. He says he never saw a sustained increase in business after the law was passed.
Brandon Smith, who owns downtown Vancouver's Dublin Down, said the law unfairly targets his industry, especially because nonsmokers have always had businesses they could choose to go to in order to avoid smoke.
"All it did was injure bars," said Smith, who used to tend bar at Blattner's Top Shelf. "The people who aren't going to bars because there are cigarettes there are the people who don't go because there's alcohol there."
Electric alternative
Smith went into business in 2006, after the ban took effect. After seeing his previous employer's business hit by the ban, he decided when he opened up his bar to sell smokeless electronic cigarettes. The devices cost approximately $20 apiece. Smith says he sells about 10 of them a month. The Dublin Down doesn't have enough room outside for a tented smoking patio like the one at the Tip Top Too, Smith said. Once bargoers go outside for a cigarette, he said, they're less likely to come back in for another drink. The smokeless cigarettes keep customers inside.
"They're bar-friendly," Smith said. "We sell them because people don't want to go outside and smoke in the rain."
Overall sales were great during Smith's first year in business, but he said they tanked with the recession. He even had to cut prices. Smith said it was "asinine" to suggest the smoking ban helped business.
At the time of the ban, bar owners said many regulars decided to do their drinking in Oregon, particularly in Jantzen Beach. In fact, sales at Clark County bars and taverns began to creep back up even before Oregon enacted its own indoor smoking ban in 2009.
Gowrylow said he looked at specific data from a handful of individual bars in Vancouver. Some showed growth after Oregon's ban was passed, he said, but others didn't. (Gowrylow couldn't disclose which bars he looked at because data from individual businesses is confidential).
"It appears that any benefits of the Oregon smoking ban are not being spread equally," he said. "Why that is would take a more intensive study."


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Professor Stein teaches courses in African American and twentieth century United States history. She is on the editorial board of International Labor and Working-Class History, and has received fellowships from the NEH and ACLS. As well publishing in scholarly journals, she has written for the New York Times, Nation, Philadelphia Inquirer, Village Voice, In These Times and Dissent, where she blogs. She was the Nicholay V. Sivachev Distinguished Professor in United States History at Moscow State University in Spring, 2006 and taught at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan, in 2001. She was elected to the Society of American Historians.
B.A. Vassar College
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The United States since 1945
African American History
The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society (1986). Selected as an ACLS Humanities E-Book, 2004
Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of American Liberalism (1998)
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Well we finally see some progress on local Twp. govt. coming together and wouldn't you know it. Now local state puke breaks it up. So here we go again!
Even head Twp. official sounds discussed:
"He also wrote that the gas extraction company had agreed to all conditions proposed by the township "only to be faced with the specter of having that effort undone by someone with a personal agenda, an 'outspoken opponent' of the natural gas industry."…….. Michael Debbis, chairman Cecil Twp Board.
Local private landowners confront White:
"Even though the meeting had been canceled, White stopped at the township building Thursday night. There, he said, he was confronted by a few leaseholders who blamed him for interfering."
"A meeting designed to forge a positive, working relationship between Cecil Township and Range Resources was abruptly canceled Thursday because a local lawmaker posted the meeting notice on his Facebook page and announced his plans to attend.
State Rep. Jesse White, D-Cecil, who has been at odds with Range Resources for some time, posted information about the workshop meeting online, checking the option to invite others to attend.
But allowing public discussion was contrary to what representatives from Range Resources, who had requested the meeting, believed would be taking place at the 6 p.m. workshop.
In a letter to White, Range's counsel, attorney David Poole, referred to an Oct. 26 email from township manager Don Gennuso that stated in a workshop setting the public is able to attend but does not get involved in the discussion. He went on to note that based on White's Facebook posting, it appeared he was attempting "to derail the discussion" by inviting people who do not live in the township to come and speak.
So, shortly after 3 p.m., Jim Cannon, Range's local government relations manager, emailed Gennuso and said they were declining to appear but hoping to reschedule for another time. Range had previously told Gennuso they preferred that White either not attend or not have a role in the proceeding.
"We predicted his presence and the potential activists from outside Cecil Township that he invited would be a distraction at best and an uncontrollable spectacle at worst," he wrote. Contacted by telephone, White said he had merely taken the public meeting notice published in the Observer-Reporter and copied it onto his Facebook page as he does for all such meetings of interest to his constituents. He was careful, he said, to note he was not the organizer of the get-together.
White said he believed Range canceled the meeting because the company did not want public comment.
"I don't know how they can say they want to be sensitive to the people who live here if they won't even let them talk," he said.
Melissa Melewsky, media law counsel for the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, said a workshop meeting is no different than a board meeting if there is a quorum present.
"All public meetings have to have a designated time for public comment" she said, although officials can place "reasonable" rules on speaking time.
The workshop with Range was announced at Monday's township supervisor's meeting. Michael Debbis, chairman of the board, said Thursday he had been looking forward to the meeting so that both sides could iron out their differences.
In his email, Cannon reiterated his hopes to have a discussion with the township and be available to residents with "legitimate questions and concerns regarding our operations."
He also wrote that the gas extraction company had agreed to all conditions proposed by the township "only to be faced with the specter of having that effort undone by someone with a personal agenda, an 'outspoken opponent' of the natural gas industry."
Local govt. intrusiveness continues, but this time ole Jesse is caught red handed. See Observer-Reporter June 2 article. This is the kind of foolishness that that elected officials in Pa. do, very poor representation.


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Famous German Expressionism Artwork
List of famous German Expressionism artwork, listed alphabetically with photos when available. The German Expressionism movement was an awakening in the world of art, producing new types of paintings and sculptures that the world had never seen before. This is a list of the most popular German Expressionism art pieces, so art enthusiasts will likely recognize the names of the famous artists who created these pieces. These renowned pieces of German Expressionism artwork are showcased in museums all over the world, so if you can't afford an expensive vacation then this list is a great substitute for seeing fine German Expressionism art. In the chance that pictures of these historic German Expressionism works of art aren't available, you can click on the name of the piece for more information.
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Project Description: Jennifer LeMay, assisted by Jessie Altstatt, created the featured street painting at the 2009 Santa Barbara Street Painting Festival. The painting (12 x 16 feet) was created at the base of the SB Mission steps, and depicted underwater ocean life in the Santa Barbara Channel. The annual I Madonnari Street Painting Festival is a fundraiser for the Children's Creative Project (CCP), a division of Santa Barbara County Education Office. The painting was printed on posters, t-shirts and greeting cards, which are sold at subsequent festivals to benefit the CCP.
A festival is only one of the many venues featuring street paintings. Commissioning this unique artwork is a great way to bring creativity to many types of outdoor events, and is becoming more popular with nonprofits and businesses alike for attracting audiences.
The festival is held every Memorial Day weekend, and attracts nearly 30,000 visitors to the Santa Barbara Mission. Below are some photos and a video of a few of Jennifer's street paintings from past festivals.
I Madonnari Street Painting Festival 2010
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Cadillac SRX Second Generation Forum - 2010+ Discussion, Looking into 2010 SRX, questions? in Cadillac SRX Forums; I'm looking into a 2010 SRX for my grandparents, they currently have a 2009. I went to the dealer to ...
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Looking into 2010 SRX, questions?
I'm looking into a 2010 SRX for my grandparents, they currently have a 2009. I went to the dealer to look at the 2010, and I was really not too happy to see less storage room and a 3rd row window that is half the size of the previous model.
I test drove the 2010 and was really suprised by how bad the blind spot is on the rear of the truck and overall lack of rear visability.
The dealer tells me it will be 8-10 weeks before the white will be in the showrooms? Is that correct?
What types of deals are people getting, I was told the best they could do is 1,000$ off MSRP.
Re: Looking into 2010 SRX, questions?
You won't find many "deals" on the SRX; they are selling faster than the dealers can get them right now. The dealer should be able to give you the $500 off for giving up the 60-day return promo in addition to that $1000. I don't know about the white; I haven't seen one yet.
I've had mine for a few weeks and don't find the visibility/blind spots to be a problem.
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I say wait until supply catches up with demand. Dealers will be more apt to negotiate. Go to www.kbb.com. Select "2010 SRX". Then click "Price With Options". Build you SRX exactly the way you want. You'll be able to determine the dealer invoice price (with options) right down to the penny. For years car buyers were kept in the dark with regards to invoice prices. If you don't know what the dealer paid for a car, you can't know if you're getting a good deal.
When we bought my wife's car, a 2008 Subaru Tribeca, we took the KBB printout to the dealer and showed them what they paid for the car. Then, we proceeded to tell (not ask) them that we'd only purchase it for dealer invoice. To my surprise, it didn't take any arm twisting. The salesman accepted our offer without haggling. This was a completely redesigned new model for that year. When you show up to buy a car prepared, sales people know they can't pull the wool over you eyes, so they don't even try to. An educated, informed consumer is a car salesman's worse nightmare.
Why in God's name would they sell at car at cost you ask? If you get financing through them, they're still making money off of you. They don't need to make money on both ends. I also found out years ago from a friend who sells cars that car dealerships are more concerned with how many vehicles they move, than how much profit is made from each sale. When I bought my previous car I also negotiated from the dealer's invoice. The salesman "assumed" I was financing through them. Once I got the price down to where I wanted, I sprung it on him that I was getting financing through my credit union. You should have seen his jaw drop!
Now I doubt if you'd have the kind of success we had with our Subaru with a new model as popular as the SRX, but there's no reason you need to give them $1,000 over dealer invoice. In a few months the SRX will be just another new vehicle, putting you in a much better position to negotiate.
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Re: Looking into 2010 SRX, questions?
It's always best to be an informed consumer. However many dealerships will show you the invoice if you ask. I have been dealing with the same salesman/dealership for several years and I know what to expect from them. It goes without saying that those of us who want the car "right NOW" are going to pay a premium for the privilege, though we need not be gouged in the process.
The dealer holdback should not be considered in a car deal IMO. How do you think the dealership pays the rent, keeps the lights on, keeps a parts inventory, or keeps the coffee going in the service department? They have to make some profit to continue to operate.
Re: Looking into 2010 SRX, questions?
Remember that dealer invoice is an inexact figure. It may or may not include advertising and marketing fees. It does not include dealer incentives or end-of-year holdback.
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Re: Looking into 2010 SRX, questions?
How do you know they didn't buy the vehicle at dealer cost? You are making an assumption that may or may not be correct...and who cares? And, I don't agree with your "MSRP x 85%", but whatever. Also, a base model will NOT have the level of wiggle room for discount that a fully loaded one does.
Most of us realize that if we want to wait a few months for the car, there will be more inventory and a better opportunity for incentives. I got exactly what I wanted at a fair price, so I'm satisfied. That's the key to a successful car buying experience, IMO.
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Re: Looking into 2010 SRX, questions?Originally Posted by C5 rvOriginally Posted by dctex99
If a Dealer sells an SRX at Window Sticker, they make a little over 3 grand total, then subtract all the above overhead costs. $3,000 from $40,000 is 8%- not 15%. Just figured I'd share, since one of the most exaggerated myths around is how much profit car Dealers make on new cars. These days everything is spelled out on the invoice, from holdback to LMA costs. Most Dealers will be happy to show it to you in black & white, and despite the rumors, there are no "secret" invoices that we keep in the back room with our "real" cost.
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When starting my truck it often takes two or three attempts. It kicks over but does not fire. It runs great and theres no knocking and the gas mileage is great. I've change fuel filter, air filter, and ran a fuel injector cleaner through the system several times. Any hints? or tips?
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"Are you going to sell your properties?"
Now that I live in a different state than my rental investments, I hear this question a lot.
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When I quit my 9-to-5 job, I had no concept of passive income.
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You hop on a flight to Brazil or Costa Rica or Thailand. You spend a month reveling in the sand and surf. You taste new foods. You discover new music. You spot wildlife you've never imagined.
You don't check email the entire time. Heck, you don't even post photos to Facebook. You're radically offline — like it's 1972.
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Moderation is not my strong suit.
I don't just eat one chocolate-chip cookie — I either eat zero, or I eat the whole batch. I don't just travel for a weekend — I either stay at home, or I hit the road for weeks/months/years.
And apparently, I can't just buy one or two houses. Afford Anything Tribe, I'd like to introduce you to House #5, which is Rental Unit #7 in my ever-growing passive income portfolio.
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The last time I went to a tropical island, the showers only ran for 4 hours per day. If you missed that window, you had to wait 20 hours.
If you wanted to "flush" the toilet, you'd have to carry a bucket of ocean water to your bathroom.
This was a necessity. Freshwater was delivered by boat, and it needed to get strictly rationed. If you wanted enough for drinking and cooking, you needed to budget.
People elsewhere in the world, though, have become accustomed to luxuries like unfettered access to showers and toilets. They'll demand this luxury at any cost, even if their wallets and the environment can't support it.
Until recently, that was the case in Aruba.
To satisfy demand, Aruba coverts saltwater into drinking water. The process is called "desalination," and this 70-square-mile island (about the size of Washington, D.C.) is home to the world's second-largest desalination plant.
But desalination requires a ton of energy. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Aruba's energy consumption.
To keep people happy, Aruba imports cheddar cheese, Oreo cookies and some curious flavors of potato chips. (Teriyaki-flavored potato chips? Really?) It keeps its roadways well-maintained, offers strong public transportation, and spends a substantial amount of its GDP educating its local children.
(Aruba also imports designer clothes and handbags, which baffles me. Why ship that stuff down to the Caribbean, just so tourists can carry it back to Europe and the U.S.?)
Fortunately, Aruban officials recognized how energy-intensive the island's lifestyle has become. But they also recognized a concurrent reality: People don't want to pare back on their lifestyle. People love Oreo cookies and curiously-flavored potato chips.
So instead of sacrificing its quality of life, Aruba decided to make that lifestyle sustainable. In the midst of the last recession, Aruba unveiled an ambitious plan to become the world's first economy to run entirely on sustainable energy.
In 2009, Aruba built a wind farm that generates about 20 percent of its total energy. It's on-track to run 100 percent on renewable energy by the year 2020.
Sustainability isn't just a national issue, it's a personal one. A country's leaders can tackle waste at the macro-level. But what about waste within our own lives?
How can you create a sustainable life?
I'm not (just) talking about recycling your beer cans. I'm talking about creating multiple self-renewing sources of income.
It doesn't make sense to ship coal and freshwater to a remote island. That requires too much ongoing effort. It's much more sensible to build a sustainable solution.
Similarly, it doesn't make sense to wake up to a beeping alarm, drink stale coffee, battle rush-hour traffic, sit in a grey cubicle under flickering florescent lighting, and then battle even worse traffic back home.
It's downright ludicrous to endure this agony year after year, until your eyes strain from the computer screen, your back hurts from your corporate-issued chair, and your face gets etched with frown lines.
Sustainable wealth is much more sensible.
Rental properties create sustainable wealth. So do stock dividends, interest, royalties, and businesses that someone else manages.
In short: Investing creates sustainability.
Investing is our ONLY antidote to the hamster wheel. It's our ticket out.
Learn as much about investing as you can. Hustle, earn more, and apply all that extra money towards your investments. Buy some index funds. Put a down payment on a rental property. Build a small online business, then hire a VA to manage it.
Make just $10 in passive income per year. C'mon, just $10 per year. Anyone can do that.
Done? Okay, great. Now double it.
And double it again.
And again.
You see where I'm going with this …
This is sustainability at the personal level. This is freedom from paycheck dependence. This is how you can maintain an awesome lifestyle without polluting your most valuable (and limited) resource: your time.
P.S. The island in my introduction (with the 4-hour showering window and the ocean-bucket toilets) is Seraya Island, off the coast of Flores, Indonesia. It's one of my favorite places on earth.
P.P.S. I should take a moment to mention that Aruba does a LOT of things right. Their crime rate is close to zero. They have fewer than 30 traffic fatalities a year. They have 96 percent literacy, 94 percent employment, and many Arubans speak four languages: Dutch, Spanish, English and Papiamento. There's a lot we can learn from their example.
There's a little nugget of wisdom that people in the advertising industry whisper among themselves:
"Sell the Sizzle, Not the Steak."
That advertising motto is crucial in their efforts to squeeze more money out of customers. (No disrespect. That's their job, and they do it well.) But what do they mean by that?
Steak — A commodity. It's a slab of dead cow meat.
Sizzle — The fun, the friends, the merriment. You want to hear the sizzle of your warm meal as it comes out of the kitchen on a blustery winter night. You want a cute server to deliver it to your table while your best friend regales you with a hilarious story that makes you burst into hearty laughter. You want, just for a moment, to forget about your headaches and relax.
We don't want a slab of dead cow. We want the sizzle. Advertising's job is to get us to conflate the two ideas. They want us to associate the restaurant's brand name with positive emotions. With laughter. With relaxation. With the beautiful, fleeting joy of being alive.
You don't have to spend $14.99 to find the bliss of life.
When you find yourself wanting steak — create your own sizzle instead.
Here's what I mean:
The sizzle, as you know, is free. Every cliche says so. "Money can't buy happiness." "The best things in life are free." Our society pays lip-service to these ideals, and deep down, most people believe that the platitudes are true.
But most people don't live their lives accordingly.
We have to eat something. Steak, tofu, beans — we have to put calories in our mouth every day. Preferably delicious and healthy calories, and preferably in the company of family and friends. We're not anti-social hermits, and we're not willing to sacrifice our health for the sake of saving a few bucks.
That's fine. Eat the damn steak. Or tofu. Or whatever you want to eat. Invite your buddies over and grill out in your backyard. Because that's also where laughter and joy take place. That's where the sizzle happens.
You can create your own sizzle. You don't need to buy it.
Here's a mindset exercise that might help:
Next time you watch a restaurant commercial, imagine eating that meal alone, in a hurry, while on a conference call with an abusive boss. Not as much fun, right? That means you don't really want what they're selling. You don't want the $14.99 meal. You want the sizzle, and you can create that elsewhere.
Here's another example. Sorry, fellas, this one is girly:
When I see a cute dress, I'm tempted to buy it. But it's not the dress I want. I want the feelings associated with the dress: fun, free, beautiful, confident.
The problem is that no $32.99 dress can buy that. What will really achieve the feeling of "fun and free?" Breaking away from the cubicle. Taking a vacation without putting in a formal request.
What will really make me feel "beautiful and confident?" Toned legs. Strong arms. Skin that glows as a result of nutrition, water and plenty of sleep. And no dress, no matter how flattering, can compensate for a lack of time spent leading a healthy life.
So I tell myself, "Forget the dress. Work on your abs." Don't spend money on superfluous commodities. Use your money to buy time. And use that time to create the sizzle.
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Remember when we bought House #3? It's now rented!
Let's see if this deal is hot or not.
As long-time Afford Anything readers know, Will and I bought our third rental property in May. It's a 3-bed, 1.5-bath single-family home in a good school district in Atlanta. The asking price was $125,000, and we snagged it for $94,000.
This needed the fewest repairs of any of our houses. Here are the "before" pictures. As you can see, the scope of work was small. Knock out a wall or two; bust up some concrete steps; install a skylight. Voila – instant awesome!
Check out the "after" photos, below.
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Fall is here: leaves are turning red, stores are stocked with Halloween candy, and it's chilly enough to wear sweaters at night.
This means it's harvest season, and my garden is in full swing. I have so much basil, tomato and mint that I can't help but think about — passive income.
Yes, I just compared passive income to vegetables.
I know, you think I'm nuts. I've gone fruity! (Haha. Pun totally intended.) But hear me out:
Planting a garden is a pain-in-the-butt. Here's what happens:
I sprout the seeds in a starter tray, which I mist twice a day. Then I hunt down 40 cheap planters and fill them with soil and compost.
When the seedlings are an inch high, I transplant them to containers. Feed them nutrients. Water them daily. Monitor for pests. Thin them as they grow.
Soon its clear I've bitten off more than I can chew – er, planted more than I can grow. I need more space. So I head across the street to the house that I own but rent out to tenants. I ask them if I can tear up a section of my own front yard and use it as a garden. (Side note: It feels surreal to ask permission to dig in my own yard. That's landlord-ing for ya.)
Before I can dig, I need to chop down a tree. I have a small yard and the only place I can plant is completely shaded. So I spend a weekend sawing down the tree and hauling away the limbs. (Relax, earth lovers: it needed to be chopped down regardless; it posed a safety hazard. Trees in my neighborhood are famous for falling on houses.)
Then I have to till and aerate the soil. I listen to catcalls from the homeless guys who like to gather on the sidewalk in front of my house while I work. (I live in the city. This is normal.)
Next I head to the store and load my car with cow poop – er, "cow manure," as polite society says. I dig trenches six inches deep, cover it with cow manure, and rake the soil back over it.
By this point, I resent these darn plants. This stupid project has taken at least 50 hours of my time.
Then I transfer each plant into the earth and cover it with mulch. The homeless guys watch and provide commentary. They're like my personal sportscasters. Or paparazzi.
Now I need a fence. I buy some chicken wire, several stakes and zip ties. I find a shovel and a sledgehammer. It ain't pretty, but it works. Then I check the price of tomato cages. Hmmm. $4 per cage, times 40 plants, equals – yikes. So I gather 40 sticks. Jab them into the ground. Tie the base of each plant to each stick.
I'm fed up with the plants now. I just wanted to grow some darn tomatoes. No one told me it would be this much work.
But then something magical happens. The hard work – the upfront work – is finished. There's nothing left to do.
This lasts for months. My garden goes from being as demanding as a second job to being so passive I almost forget about it.
Now comes the harvest. I have hundreds of tomatoes. Hundreds and hundreds. Enough to feed the homeless guys. (They help themselves to it.)
You see, I do the tough work upfront – in the springtime, during the youth of the year. I maintain it throughout the summer, the adulthood of the year.
Now fall is here. It's harvest time. And I have abundance.
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If you're like most people, your only money-making asset is your ability to work. Take that away, and you're sunk.
But here's a little-known truth: our ability to work is limited by our time, energy, and desire. Our money's ability to work is unlimited.
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"Everything is going to be all right," Washington quarterback Keith Price says of the Huskies' sluggish start.
Coach Steve Sarkisian and quarterback Keith Price talk often.
But their meeting Monday, Price said, "was different."
On this Monday, following Washington's 41-3 dismantling at the hands of Louisiana State, their conversation lasted 45 minutes.
Topic A was Price's evident frustration over a season that's off to a sluggish start that no one imagined. After two games last year, Price already had thrown seven touchdown passes on his way to an eventual school-record 33. Through two games this year, he has thrown for one.
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And as the final minutes wound down Saturday in Baton Rouge, Price was left with nothing to do but stew on the sideline, his trademark smile gone, replaced by a face filled with frustration.
As Sarkisian and Price talked Monday, the coach let his quarterback know he needed to not play with the weight of the world (or even just the Huskies) on his shoulders.
"I want 17 to worry about 17, and not have to try to take responsibility for everybody and allow us coaches to do a lot of that," Sarkisian said, referring to Price's uniform number.
Offensive coordinator Eric Kiesau had a similar message when he met with Price.
"When you lose in the fashion that we did, it's never fun," Kiesau said. "We just have to coach him up and really get to him about his body language and his presence and that he's the leader on the field and that guys are going to look up to him, and he'll be fine. I have no doubt. He cares so much, it's so important to him and sometimes it shows and that's natural. We've just got to be able to hone that in a little bit."
Price said he left the meeting with Sarkisian feeling things are about to get better.
"I've just got to stick to what I'm doing and make sure I don't get too down or get too high on myself."
Playing Portland State, a member of the FCS Big Sky Conference, on Saturday should help. The Vikings have struggled so much on defense that Wednesday they fired defensive coordinator Eric Jackson.
"Real good to be home," Price said.
Anywhere other than Baton Rouge, where UW was held without a touchdown for the first time in a game Price started. It also was the first time he completed fewer than 50 percent of his passes, going 17 for 36 for just 157 yards. The performance came on the heels of what Price had said was one of his worst games in the opener against San Diego State, when he was 25 of 35 but for just 222 yards and a lone touchdown.
"Oh man, it was rough, especially when you expect to win," Price said of the LSU game. "I thought that we had a fair shot."
But last year Price had a stable line in front of him. This season he has one that has been riddled by injuries since the spring. And last year he had proven receivers to throw to. This year he has a young and untested group still finding its way. And he had Chris Polk last year to provide a reliable running game and keep defenses honest. This year the Huskies have a ground attack that so far has done little.
The result is that too often Price has been left running for his life in the face of oncoming rushers. And, he admits, trying too hard to make plays out of nothing.
"I think the natural thing is when the offense is not going the way that I expect it to go is me trying to push too hard," he said. "I just need to settle down and let the offense work for me."
An example, he said, was an interception he threw on fourth down in the third quarter at LSU.
"I think if the circumstances were a little different I probably would have thrown the ball away," he said. "But we were down and I was trying to make a play."
Price said he's a better quarterback than he was last year, even if he knows there also has been some criticism.
"Oh man, it (criticism) comes with the territory," he said. "I knew what I was getting into when I was 8 years old playing this position."
But he also knows the fact he is now a leader of the team and that means his role has changed, and that's one reason why the coaches want him to rein in his frustration. As one of the veterans, part of his role now is to mentor and groom players.
"We've got a lot of young guys, and I'm not using that as an excuse because once you are on the field it doesn't really matter what year you are," Price said. "But it's just getting in a rhythm with them and them getting to believing in themselves and being more detailed on their route-running and into their big-play ability that they are making out here (at practice). They've just got to understand this is just like practice in a game and just don't change.
And by the time his session with the media ended Wednesday, his trademark smile had returned.
"Everything," Price said "is going to be all right."
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The Surrey quintet and Kerrang! favourites have made a name for themselves over the past few years with their catchy melodies, snappy lyrics and hip-wriggling instrumentals. Their brand of emo rock with poppy hooks has perhaps made them the UK's answer to Incubus. Fourth album, 2014's 'Cavalier Youth', catapulted them to their biggest wave of success, reaching the number one position on the UK album chart.
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Configuring AMI BIOS Tool :
One thing you must note down before this. Flashing or modding BIOS can be dangerous which make your pc dead. So you must perform this on your own risk and better go through the post first. The BIOS option suppresses all the more obscure than the others. We'll see how to set a BIOS (the images were made using as a model AMI BIOS).
First you must enter the BIOS. If you read the previous article, you should be in front of a screen of this type when you are in the BIOS Setup. You then have different keyboard keys to more through the BIOS Setup and change its options. In our case we will use the + and -, and the arrow keys. Now what are all the options (or almost) the BIOS. BIOS is located in the ROM-chip memory (Read Only Memory), which provides continuous availability of BIOS, regardless of performance are external to the motherboard components (such as boot drive). Because access to RAM (memory) is much faster than ROM, many manufacturers provide the power automatically copy BIOS from ROM to RAM. Involved during this area of memory called the Shadow ROM.
Currently, most modern motherboards equipped with microchips Flash BIOS, code that can be overwritten using a special program. This approach allows updates (firmware new version) BIOS. Producers kernel BIOS is not so much. The most common BIOS from companies AMI (American Megatrends, Inc.), AWARD and Phoenics Technologies. Other BIOS (from companies FirmWorks, Micro Firmware, etc.) occur much less frequently. And now dominates the market AMI BIOS, so in the future you can focus on ways to re-flashing and modifying it up. Naturally, each manufacturer makes its own changes to the basic version of the BIOS, and, of course, one or another version of BIOS is only intended for a specific product (a PC or laptop) and is inconsistent with other decisions.
The main screen allows you to first change the time and the language used in the BIOS, and the type of your floppy drive (option set to 1.44M, 3.5 In). You then have the ability to configure drives and IDE hard drives. To do this, select using the arrow keys to configure the drive and press the enter key. Leads you to options you can configure your player. Here is an explanation for each of these options:
- Type: Select Auto if you prefer to let the BIOS detect your drive. Otherwise, enter CDROM if your device is a CDROM drive, otherwise put ARMD
- LBA / Large Mode: Enables or disables the LBA mode. If your drive supports this mode (which is usually the case), set Enabled.
- Block: Block Select mode, it can increase the performance of hard drives. If your device generates problems then disable this mode.
- PIO Mode: In case your player does not support DMA mode, select PIO mode. PIO Mode 4 is the one who offers the best performance, however, well below the DMA mode.
- DMA Mode: Select the DMA mode most appropriate for your reader. UDMA Mode 5 is the one that is more efficient.
- SMART: Analyzing if your hard drive will not give up the ghost. If your drive supports this option, click here.
- 32 Bit Data Transfer: Enable 32-bit to get the maximum possible performance.
Once this is completed, select the screen ADVANCED using the arrow direction right. You'll be presented with this screen.This category provides an impressive amount of change of parameters. Be careful, the amendment of certain options may cause the system to restart properly. Start by selecting the category Jumper Free Configuration. You're now in front of the screen.
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2. Reserve of power. Select the setting "Standard" if you do not want to overclock your processor. You can give different percentages (5-30%). Thirty% is not recommended, you could fry your processor. If you set this parameter to [manual], new options appear allowing you to change the frequency and voltage of the RAM, AGP bus and processor.
3. CPU Ratio: If the multiplier of your CPU is not locked, you can change the ratio (and hence overclock your processor).
Performance Mode: Leave the [self] if you do not know what charge can support the RAM on your system. If you have any good bars, set to [Turbo], otherwise the [standard] . Then go back on the screen ADVANCED menu and select CPU configuration.
4. Configure DRAM Timing By SPD: You can now configure the memory timings. If you do not know what values to place, proceed by trial and error or set this to [Enabled]. SPD (serial presence detect) automatically configures the values. Otherwise set [disabled] to access all options. Then choose the smallest possible values to speed up your PC. If you can not restart or your PC is not stable, increase the values gradually.
5. Memory Acceleration Mode: You can set this value to [Enabled] to speed up your PC. Your RAM sticks must be of good quality. DRAM Idle timer: interval of time before you open or close a section of RAM. Put "0T" for maximum performance.
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Update on KennedyKennedy is 40 years old. He is married and has three children. He works as a plumber to earn a living and has been in business for eight years. He describes his business environment as favorable because there is limited competition. Since he joined Faulu Kenya, he has been able to improve his business and hopes to be financially stable in the future. He has applied for a loan of 80,000 KES in order to buy pipes and fittings.
Previous Loan DetailsKennedy is a member of Maridadi group registered under Faulu Kenya. He does plumbing so as to earn his daily bread. He has been in the business for seven years. He was previously farming before he went into this business. Kennedy is married and a father of three. He works hard to provide for... More from Kennedy's previous loan »
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About Faulu KenyaFaulu Kenya aims to empower Kenyans by providing relevant financial solutions. Faulu is a sustainable and profitable microfinance institution that offers savings and credit services to over 225,000 Kenyans. Faulu recently became the first MFI in Kenya to be licensed as a Deposit-Taking Micro-Finance Company, which will enable Faulu to better serve its clients.
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Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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A 107mm and a 110mm (Shimano) BB were not long enough; the crank banged into the stays. I guess I'll have to give the 113 a go but thought I'd inquire beforehand in the event an expert was available.


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The average energy drink I've seen so far is way to high in carbs for a diabetic, like me. Although I control my diabetes with exercise, diet and a few tiny pillls a day, Carbs are still bad in excess.
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The old Caoling tunnel, a tourist attraction in Yilan, is shown in the photo taken on Tuesday, May 24. The scenic location is on the path of a mountain marathon which was slated to take place May 28-29
Eleven alleged members of a northeastern Yilan County-based gang were recently arrested by local police authorities amid accusations of extortions, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB, 刑事局) has announced.
The annual Yilan Green Expo opened Saturday in Su'ao in the northeastern county and will run until May 15.
A Chinese student at Fo Guang University in Yilan has been missing since he was swept by a big wave into the Pacific Ocean off Wushi Port in the county on Sunday, according to local police and Coast Guard officers.
Visitors holding tickets from the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA, 台鐵) and domestic bus companies can take free bus rides in Yilan County throughout the nine-day Lunar New Year holiday, announced the Yilan County Government (宜蘭縣政府) on Wednesday.
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Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire go waaaay back. Clarkson is set to wed Reba's stepson Brandon Blackstock this fall. The ladies released a duet single ('Because of You') in the past and toured together. They also partnered up for a CMT 'Crossroads' special. Now, they appear to be back in the studio together and they've drafted another country lady to be a part of their latest project: Trisha Yearwood.
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is featured on the cover of Rolling Stone this week. It's a picture and statement that has upset millions of Americans and caused two convenience store chains to ban the issue. Country stars like Brad Paisley are also upset. John Rich spent the better part of two hours tweeting his disgust.
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Does Synthetic Urine Work For Drug Test?
Mostly, yes. Drug testing laboratories in the United States usually do not perform genetic tests on urine specimens. Standard laboratory equipment just checks sample for certain drugs and toxins and whether it has been diluted or adulterated. If you use synthetic urine, you can check its integrity just by buying drug adulteration test strips that can check specific gravity as well as pH and creatinine levels and other substances that labs check. If your urine sample passes standard integrity test and has temperature between 90°F and 100°F, you will pass drug test for sure.
But this answer is not complete. Now labs are informed about synthetic urine and they can perform an additional analysis on the sample if they have reasonable suspicion that it was used. Also, you should know that use of synthetic urine is a felony in some states.
Is It Legal To Use?
Firs of all, this question is about legality of drug testing. There is no the only opinion about it. Officially drug test became legal in 1986 when president Reagan signed the special executive order. But many lawyers consider it unconstitutional, because of 4th Amendment to the Constitution of the US that guarantees
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizuresMany federal and state courts in the US ruled drug testing unconstitutional. From this point of view using synthetic urine in drug test is protection of your privacy, guaranteed by Constitution. In most states you can buy synthetic urine and use it legally. As of 2015 it is officially prohibited in AR, NC, OK, MD, IL, VA, SC, KY, NJ, NE, TX, FL, PA.
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Where It Is Used
Synthetic urine was designed for laboratory use. Organizations such as drug testing laboratories, institutions and researchers use it to calibrate their drug testing equipment. Staff checks the accuracy of equipment by testing urine samples that were intentionally mixed with some toxins or chemicals. They cannot use real human urine for several reasons: it smells bad, foams and must be kept frozen during shipping, as decays fast if not cooled. Also, before taking human sample, donor has to be checked thoroughly for drugs or diseases, that can spoil sample. Moreover, every human has its own body chemistry, so different people have different urine composition. That causes troubles for consistent researchers. Synthetic urine was created to avoid all these problems.
Now synthetic urine is used for next, sometimes specific, purposes:
Drug Testing
Synthetic urine is a chemical compound that has characteristics that resemble the real human urine. The lab produced synthetic urine is used for the calibration of drug testing equipment. Unlike natural pee, the synthetic one can be shipped without refrigerating and can be heated up unlimited times. Also this product is used for substituting drug test sample with the help of whizzinator or urinator in order to protect privacy.
Industrial Use
Except drug testing labs, diapers industry uses synthetic urine for testing diapers.
Urine Therapy
SYNTHETIC URINE IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR INTERNAL USE, but some people believe that urine has a curative power. Some cultures, for example Indian, have traditionally used it for a medicine purposes. But using a real urine is unpleasant for hygienic reasons, so some people use a synthetic product as an alternative substitute, as it has most substances the real pee has.
Another possible use is for fetish purposes. Fetish community uses synthetic urine instead of real because of health reasons. Real human urine can contain harmful impurities, but synthetic one is clear and looks real thus providing a healthy way to play.
Some people consider it to be funny when dousing friend's bed or clothing with urine. The synthetic product can help to avoid problems with resentful people. Unlike real pee, the synthetic one is absolutely healthy and hygienic, and does not contain the nasty substances.
Chemical Composition
Human urine contains a lot of different organic and inorganic substances. All of the components are either products of cellular metabolism or have been derived directly from food that people eat. The normal ratio of organic to inorganic components is about 3.5/2.5, although usually it varies from subject to subject.
The main organic components are urea, creatinine and uric acid. The main substance is urea that contains about 95% of the nitrogen of urine, so usually it is not necessary to integrate uric acid into synthetic urine. The second important substance is creatinine, that is a hydrated form of creatine. Usually approximately normal level of creatinine is included in the synthetic urine.
The basic inorganic components are chlorides, sulfates, phosphates and ammonia. Sodium chloride is about a half of all inorganic substances. Normally, there is very little of ammonia in fresh pee, because of its toxicity. But eventually, if urine stands at room temperature for some hours, the level of ammonia grows because of the breakdown of urea by bacterial action. So, a small amount of ammonia may be included (but not necessarily) in the synthetic urine to simulate the ammonia present in not fresh human urine.
Synthetic urine must have a temperature about 90-100°F to be an acceptable specimen. Usual synthetic urine formulation has a specific gravity about 1.00-1.035, a pH about 4-9 and a total solids content about 1.5-6% by weight. It necessarily contains urea, creatinine and water, and optionally includes a uric acid, a buffer, such as a phosphate buffer, phosphorus, potassium, calcium and a source of sodium.
In one of the variations, the synthetic urine consists of approximately 60-90 mg/dl of urea and 37-300 mg/dl of creatinine (this is the usual levels in real human urine). Also it contains about 0.5 g/l of magnesium chloride, 0.25 g/l of calcium chloride, 0.85 g/l of ammonium diphosphate, 0.85 g/l of ammonium phosphate, 2 g/l of sodium sulfate and 2 g/l of potassium chloride. (Synthetic Urine Patent)
Urea and creatinine have to be present in an appropriate range for a real human urine. Optional components can include an appropriate amounts of estrogen or testosterone and an appropriate coloring agent, like vitamin B12, beta carotene or yellow dyes to look like human urine.
The synthetic urine, that is created to calibrate the drug testing equipment, can contain a suitable amount of a drug substance, that equipment is intended to identify. Such mix helps to make sure that the equipment is functioning in the proper way. Mostly, this substance is Cannabis or its active component TetraHydroCannabinolic Acid. Sometimes this is Cocaine or its main metabolite Benzoylecgonine, opiates such as Morphine or Heroin, Amphetamine, PCP, Acetaldehyde, Ethanol etc. Sometimes such substances as Acetyl Salicylic Acid or Acetominophen can be mistaken for drug metabolites. To rule out this possibility they can be added to synthetic urine that is used for a negative control in drug test.
Synthetic urine can have not only normal concentration. Also, it can be in powdered and concentrated form. The concentrated product can have the form of a liquid or gel, and sometimes even paste, and can contain some carrier, for example a water-dissolvable pectin matrix. The concentrated and normal synthetic urines are usually stored separately from the heat activator, that is added only when needed to heat the compound to the required temperature. The powdered product sometimes can be mixed with the heat activator and sometimes can be provided separately. To save the storage space, a dried synthetic urine is frequently used and mixed with water to form a liqiud mix when needed.


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Marion County Animal Services now has legal custody of 35 animals found recently in deplorable conditions inside two vehicles, an RV and a passenger van.
Judge James McCune said the animals' owners, Penelope Walker, 67, and her daughter, Gina Walker, 44, of Lakeland, were unfit to take care of the animals and forbid them to own any animals in the future without permission from a court.
The Walkers had to pay the county $2,997.12 in boarding fees and other expenses.
Before the dogs, cats, donkeys and other animals can be adopted, most of them have to be spayed or neutered said officials.
After receiving information from a citizen in late February about multiple animals in a vehicle in a parking lot, a Dunnellon Police Department officer investigated and called animal control.
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Robert Choquette's Metropolitan Museum and the Problematization of History
Talbot, Emile J., Quebec Studies
In the history of Quebec poetry, the publication of Robert Choquette's Metropolitan Museum in 1931 marks a notable event whose significance has rarely been assessed. Issued in a limited luxury edition with woodcuts by Edwin Holgate (an edition that sold for $46,000 at an auction in April 2008), it was greeted with enthusiasm in France and in both French and English Canada. The French reaction is expressed by Pierre Dupuy who affirmed in his review in Mercure de France that Choquette was "un lyrique qui peut etre classe parmi les meilleurs de la poesie francaise" and that this volume was "le meilleur poeme de la litterature canadienne" (227). Choquette, he further asserted, "enrichit a la fois les lettres canadiennes et les lettres francaises" (231). Louis Dantin, then the leading French-Canadian critic, awarded the poem an eleven-page review, calling it "une oeuvre d'art mur" (87), while Albert Pelletier considered that it was richer in thought and image than "toute la poesie canadienne" (7). Claude-Henri Grignon, writing under the pseudonym of Des Esseintes, called it "un poeme lyrique d'une etonnante magnificence" meriting its author "une des premieres places dans la poesie francaise au Canada" (24). It was, added Henri Girard, "une oeuvre de premiere valeur, un poeme unique dans la langue francaise d'aujourd'hui" (17). Writing in The Canadian Forum, Leo Cox hailed its "ambitious scope" and "its great import to Canadian letters" (105). For Cox, Metropolitan Museum "is a distinctly original piece of work" and "one of the finest poems in the annals of Canadian letters," placing Choquette "definitely first among French-Canadian poets" (105). Yet, with the exception of Jeanne Paul-Crouzet's discussion in 1946, Gerard Bessette's brief, disappointing, presentation of its tropes in 1967, and a solid entry by Renee Legris in the Dictionnaire des oeuvres litteraires du Quebec (1980), subsequent criticism has tended to marginalize the work. The highly and justly acclaimed Histoire de la litterature quebecoise (2007) awards it but one (misleading) sentence (Biron et al. 225).
Prior to Metropolitan Museum, Choquette had self-published a volume of poetry, A travers les vents (1925), containing verse he had written as a student at Loyola College in Montreal. Choquette was but twenty when he issued this volume, which was well received by the critical establishment in Quebec to the extent of meriting a second edition in 1927, accompanied by a preface by Henri d'Arles, then a critic of note. As Marcel Dugas, writing in 1929 observed, however, Choquette's collection looks backward to Romanticism and breaks no new poetic ground, as had, for example, Jean-Aubert Loranger earlier in the decade (Dugas 187). While demonstrating a broad metric range, Choquette displays his great reverence for the poetic tradition as renewed by the French Romantics whose practice he attempts to replicate while retaining a private signature through occasional original images. Drawing on the resources of Romantic rhetoric, this is poetry endowed with considerable verve, mastering a rich vocabulary, and unashamed of expressing emotions, which range from the amorous to the spiritual. Its conservative poetics notwithstanding, the paucity of allusions to the history, topography, flora, and fauna of Canada aligns this poet with the modernists in the struggle, still not over at this time, between the regionalists and the exotiques, (1) in spite of his curious, ill-considered preface (not included in the second edition) in which he calls for a "Canadian" poetry at variance with the verse in his collection. He reconnects with the regionalist aesthetic, however, in his lack of interest in the distant, ancient cultures that fascinated the exotiques.
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Marquess Wilson says he has chosen to "resign" from the team and cited coaches who "belittle, intimidate and humiliate us."
PULLMAN — Marquess Wilson, Washington State's career-leading receiver suspended by the football program last week, issued a letter Saturday afternoon saying he's done at the school and alleging "physical, emotional and verbal abuse" by Mike Leach's first-year coaching staff.
In a letter texted to The Seattle Times and addressed to "Cougar Nation," Wilson said the notion that he might return after being suspended for WSU's game with UCLA Saturday night was a "lie" propagated by the athletic department.
He said he has chosen to "resign" from the team and cited coaches who "belittle, intimidate and humiliate us."
The letter was sent to The Times by Richard Miranda, Wilson's stepfather, who, like Wilson, spoke last week with WSU athletic director Bill Moos following Wilson's suspension for leaving a demanding conditioning practice Sunday night.
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Miranda said he encouraged Wilson to send out the statement, partly because WSU's statement that he had been suspended for "team violations" might have left the wrong impression.
"When you put that title out there, he's a bad kid," Miranda said. "What was he doing, drugs? But what he did was, he was fed up with what was going on."
Miranda said Wilson preferred not to be interviewed and would stand by his statement.
Asked for examples of abuse Wilson cited, Miranda referred to halftime of last week's Utah game in Salt Lake City, when "some coaches were physical, putting their hands on players, pushing them into lockers. That's just hearsay, but it's hearsay from people within (the locker room)."
Asked by The Times last Monday about the alleged incident, Leach said, "Yeah, it was intense and face-to-face, but it wasn't some physical ruckus."
Miranda said descriptions of the Sunday-night practice, including maneuvers in the sand pit Leach had constructed after he came to WSU, prompted Miranda to encourage Wilson to release his letter.
"Marquess was kind of hesitant," he said. "I said, you don't know who else you might be saving down the road."
WSU athletic director Bill Moos issued a statement Saturday night, saying he had been hopeful to provide "additional guidance if (Wilson) was willing to meet the standards that have been set by Mike Leach and his staff in their effort to establish a competitive football program at Washington State. Unfortunately, during times of coaching transitions, departures are not uncommon."
Moos added, "We have procedures in place that were developed to monitor student-athlete welfare in all of our sports programs. We will continue to follow those procedures and modify them if needed."
The Wilson developments come after a controversial postgame scene last week in Salt Lake City after the Cougars lost 49-6 to Utah. Leach criticized linemen for an effort "bordering on cowardice" and ordered them to answer media questions.
Leach was fired from Texas Tech after the 2009 season following an incident in which he was alleged to have ordered a player with a concussion into a storage shed. He disputed that and it wasn't proven, but Texas Tech dismissed him and he sued the school, alleging he was fired so Tech could avoid a large payment due him at calendar's end that year.
Wilson's stepfather said the star receiver, who has 3,207 career yards, hasn't decided what to do beyond staying in school to finish out the fall semester. He could enter the NFL draft or, as a third-year junior, could transfer to another school, redshirt and play as a fifth-year senior in 2014.
His statement:
"It is with a heavy heart that I announce my decision to forgo playing football for Washington State University. I realize the school is saying that I am suspended for violating team policies and may return next week, but this is a lie. This is an attempt by the athletic department to cover up what is really happening in that locker room.
"It has been a privilege to be a Cougar, to perform on your field and wear the Crimson and Gray. I would like to thank Washington State University for giving me the opportunity to do what I love most, to play football and receive a quality education for the past three years. I'm grateful to the athletic department for the coaching, care and encouragement I have received prior to this season.
"This was going to be our year. My teammates and I were aspiring to be the winning team you deserve. Unfortunately for all, the new coaching staff has destroyed that endeavor. I believe coaches have a chance to mold players, to shape men, to create greatness. However, the new regime of coaches has preferred to belittle, intimidate and humiliate us. This approach has obviously not been successful and has put a dark shadow on this program.
"My teammates and I have endured this treatment all season long. It is not 'tough love.' It is abuse. This abuse cannot be allowed to continue. I feel it is my duty to stand up and shed light on this situation by sacrificing my dreams, my education and my pride. I resign from this team. I am deeply sorry to those I am letting down. I am not a quitter. I was raised by my family, and many previous coaches, to exhibit dedication and embrace sacrifice, but there comes a time when one has to draw a line in the sand.
"Lastly, I thank my fellow teammates, those who also have left the program this year and those we are leaving behind. I hope our departure will bring awareness to the physical, emotional and verbal abuse being allowed in the locker room and on the field. I pray for healing and recovery for all those who have been hurt by this treatment."
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