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"Here is what I know. Each of us – daughter, father, lover, friend – walks the earth carrying the burden of certain painful truths, and at times we must set down our load. But the earth is patient and holds for us the truths we cannot abide and returns them when we are ready to bear them, if ever we are.
She guards our dreams and the quick tumbling years that stretch into the past to trace the fractured lines of our long-forgotten selves. She sees the broken lenses through which we view life and the means by which we take the measure, or mismeasure, of those we love, and looks upon all this without judgment, for only she knows the long history of the truths we've been asked to bear. The earth, who holds for us our hopes, who once held for me the lost pieces of myself, who now holds the ashes of my mother and father, who also holds the promise of riches yet to unfold.
From her I have learned many things. She has taught me how to untangle my truth from the easy words of those around me, how to retrieve it from the deepest reaches of darkness and breath life back into it. Because of her, I know that beneath what passes as restlessness is an unknown strength; that all these years later, I still belong to the wild. I know that to gain a foothold, we need to trust the slow unwinding of grace; and that in order to take flight, we merely need to let go."
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CHAFFEE -- Marvin Vernon Lagrand, 79, died Aug. 11, 2008, at Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
Born Aug. 1, 1929, in Painton, to the late William and Winnie Barker Lagrand, he was a retired construction worker. He was a veteran of the United States Army and a member of the General Baptist Church in Chaffee.
On Feb. 25, 1956, he married Kathleen Elfrank, who survives of the home.
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One brother and four sisters preceded him in death.
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The question of the day (and perhaps the decade) at the Irvine City Council: Is Councilwoman Christina Shea being unfairly denied information because of her opposition to the council majority? Or is she just making unnecessary trouble?
As my story Wednesday detailed, Shea says that environmental reports regarding the Great Park are not only being kept from the public, but from her as well.
I talked to Irvine Mayor Sukhee Kang on Wednesday afternoon, and he told me that Shea's claims are baseless and that she could have seen the documents -- which are shielded from the public on grounds of attorney-client privilege -- if she had only asked for them during weekly briefings with city staff.
Kang didn't say whether Shea actually raised the questions during the briefings, but he did say that she missed many of them.
Shea, whom I called after my talk with Kang, said what the mayor told me was a fabrication. She said she certainly did request updates in private briefings with both City Manager Sean Joyce and Great Park Chief Executive Mike Ellzey, but those requests went unanswered.
"He [Kang] has no knowledge of whether I go to briefings or I don't go to briefings," Shea said. "He's making that up."
Joyce wouldn't make himself available for comment, and Ellzey didn't return a call seeking comment.
Shea, a Republican, has a long history of raising such transparency issues from the dais, and the Democratic majority has a long history of saying that she is making mountains out of molehills.
At Tuesday's council meeting, Shea complained that the council had not received an update on the work of URS Corp., an environmental consultant the city attorney hired to assist with legal issues surrounding cleanup of the park, which sits on land that was formerly the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.
The city has deemed documents pertaining to the consultant's work protected from public view by attorney-client privilege. Shea says she is suspicious whether the documents should be given attorney-client protection and said she will make them public if she finds out they are not protected.
Shea says she and fellow Republican Councilman Steven Choi are consistently shut out by the Larry Agran-led faction that runs the city.
"They give Sukhee, Larry and Beth [Krom] updates. They close up with Steven and I completely," Shea said. "What he [Kang] gets and what I get are two different things."
Kang said politics play no role in who sees what. "She [Shea] certainly could have raised the issue with Sean [Joyce] or Mike Ellzey, then the staff will take it, then they'll [the city manager and Great Park CEO] circulate the memo in response to her inquiry," he said. "It's our responsibility to use that time for any questions on issues."
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EDWARDS, Colorado - What would the county commissioner candidates do to improve local public safety agencies' abilities to keep the community safe?
It's one question that Vail Fire Chief Mark Miller asked on behalf of Eagle County public safety agencies Thursday at a county commissioner candidate forum at Colorado Mountain College. Miller moderated the event, which attracted representatives from the Vail Fire Department, Vail Police Department, Avon Police Department, Eagle River Fire Protection District, Greater Eagle Fire Protection District, Eagle County Sheriff's Office, Gypsum Fire Department and the Colorado State Patrol, among other agencies.
Courtney Holm was the only commissioner candidate absent.
The issue of public safety isn't one that comes up often on the campaign trail, which is why the public safety officials were interested in not only hearing what candidates had to say, but also interested in informing the candidates of the issues facing local agencies.
From budget cuts to ballot questions to funding sources for things like the county-wide radio system, agency officials want to know where candidates stand.
"I thought it was great to start the conversation," said Vail Police Chief Dwight Henninger. "In the good economic times, public safety is not a priority - there are lots of other priorities - and now that we're getting down to we don't have the funds for a lot of things, then it becomes more important to have the conversations about the real critical role in government, which to me is when you dial 911 somebody comes, when you turn on the faucet the water comes out and when you flush the toilet, it goes away. ... I think it's important to let (the candidates) know these have become significant issues (in the face of budget cuts)."
Jeff Layman, Republican, and Jill Ryan, Democrat, are running for the District 1 seat.
Dale Nelson, Independent, Jon Stavney, Democrat, and Courtney Holm, Republican, are running for the District 2 seat.
Question 1: While on the campaign trail, what have you been hearing about Eagle County public safety agencies (fire, law enforcement and emergency medical services) and what do you think we need to be doing to improve public safety in Eagle County? What role will you have as a county commissioner in elevating and improving the public safety agencies and their ability to keep our community safe?
Jeff Layman: There's broad support for public safety in general, said Layman, a former police officer who served as acting chief in Vail, as chief in Avon and as an undersheriff with the Eagle County Sheriff's Office.
"People don't think about it because they're pretty confident they're going to be served well," he said, adding that funding is always an issue and that he thinks people will generally support a "back-to-the-basics" approach to government, which he describes as police, fire, medics and roads and bridges. He said the various agencies and government entities should look for areas and reasons to work together.
Jill Ryan: It's easy to take public safety agencies for granted, Ryan said. There's a disconnect with a community that has no appetite for tax increases, but people might not realize service levels are on the line, she said. Ryan thinks there are many education opportunities between now and the election so voters understand what's at stake (if ballot initiatives don't pass).
"We're all in this together," Ryan said, adding that she'd "be an active participant in the conversation."
Dale Nelson: The campaign season hasn't brought up any major discussions surrounding public safety that Nelson has heard. Since public safety agencies typically work behind the scenes, people don't think about them until their services are needed, Nelson said.
He agrees more education could be done in advance of the election - when the Eagle River Fire Protection District and the Gypsum Fire Department are asking for tax increases - to let voters know that, for example, homeowners insurance rate could go up if fire stations close.
Jon Stavney: Agencies leveraged the drought situation well in educating residents around the county who paid close attention due to fire along the Front Range, Stavney said. He said he's confident voters might approve a tax increase this time around, even though voters opposed last year. Stavney, too, agreed that agencies have been educating the community well, but more can be done.
Question 2: How would you as a commissioner propose ensuring the continued viability of the county-wide radio system infrastructure even with the significant cuts the user agencies are facing? How will you be allies?
(Vail Police Chief Dwight Henninger explained the issue concerning the county-wide radio system, which has become part of a state-wide system of communication. The local agencies pay for their respective uses of the system through a complicated formula, he said, and the system needs to be built out for better coverage away from the interstate. The county paid a much larger portion in the past and has since stopped paying. Henninger said, speaking for himself and not on behalf of the agencies, that the county owns the asset and therefore has a responsibility for maintaining it.)
Jill Ryan: This is critical infrastructure, Ryan said. "I don't have any solutions today to it, but I think it's core. I will keep an open mind in terms of the county's role."
Dale Nelson: Being able to communicate with each other has to be a priority, Nelson said. He would want to work with agencies to try to figure out a funding source to fund the system, he said.
Jon Stavney: "I'm as frustrated by this issue as much as many of you probably are," Stavney told police and fire officials. He said the system is the kind of thing that needs a capital improvement plan to put funding in place for the foreseeable future. "It's a county-wide asset and should have county-wide funding, and the taxpayers should be paying for that. ... I'm willing to provide the leadership when it comes to having that discussion."
Jeff Layman: The system and the communications center should be supported by taxpayers, Layman said, adding he doesn't think taxpayers would have a problem with that. He favors a dedicated stream of funding, but doesn't know whether it should come from sales or property taxes or some other source, adding that he thinks the county's reserve fund is "probably overfunded."
Question 3: What is your personal philosophy on how wildland fire response cost sharing should done between the county and towns/special districts, particularly on incidents that cross jurisdictional boundaries?
Dale Nelson: It would seem fair to fund these incidents based on a percentage that correlates to how much acreage is in one jurisdiction versus the other, for example, Nelson said.
Jon Stavney: "The idea that's there's lot of money sitting around to pay for wildland fire, it's just not there," Stavney said. "If it's not going to be there now, it's not going to be there soon." Stavney calls this issue a tough one, adding that the county needs reserves for incidents when the county needs to pick up some of the costs.
Jeff Layman: Sitting down together and negotiating is how Layman thinks the cost sharing should be handled. "I don't think there's such a thing as one formula fits all - every situation is handled differently."
Jill Ryan: Large emergencies are good uses of reserves, Ryan said. Agreements made ahead of time may not work when you're talking about large, unexpected expenses, she said, adding that there needs to be "creative problem-solving" among all the agencies.
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My church is small but in compensation there is a cemetery close to it. A lot of people, after visiting a relatives' graves, come to the House of God to light a candle and pray for them. It is not a large cemetery and, although, I am a priest I take care of it, too. I pluck the weeds, straighten a cross overturned or tilted by the wind. From time to time I water the flowers on the graves and make lanes among them.I don't have much work.
I don't overwork at the church, either.
Especially today. A couple of people made confessions.
Some came to pray.
I read "The Raven" by Poe most of the day and now I am poetically disposed. The day is drawing to an end. The Sun is slowly sinking below the horizon. The sky is reddish as if torn flesh merged with the light-blue clouds and created a drawing by Boche.
I gazed at the summer sky for a moment before closing the church gate. Sometimes I feel heavy with the sins heard during the day.
A man was coming across the church yard. When he saw that I was about to close the church, he quickened his step. He was with broad shoulders, dressed in a Kardin suit, with big wet stains around the armpits.
His round face was red and shiny. Drops of sweat streamed down his face, reached his nose and dropped on his chest. Breathing heavily, he asked: "Father, I would like to make a confession. Would you listen to me?"
I said: "I haven't sent back anyone, yet, son. Come with me to the confessional."
I entered my part of the confessional and he sat down in his. I slid the netlike window between us to make him feel at ease. I saw his face just for a while but I was impressed by it. His hair was sleeked back with hair gel. And although he looked young, there was a high, rather wrinkled forehead under his hair. His eyes were deep and arrogant. His nose was straight and his lower jaw was more protruding than his upper one.
"Wait a second, son, "I said. I took the Bible from the shelf next to me, held it tight in my hands and encouraged him: "Go on, son."
"I would like to know, do you keep the secret of the confession?"
"Every priest, entering the bosom of the church, takes a vow not only to listen to people's sins but to impress on them penance keeping their secrets in his heart. "I was still poetically disposed.
"How can I be sure that you won't go to the police after you listen to what I have to say?"
"My son, a lot of people have confessed before me. I have heard things which make normal people's hair stand on end. If you are afraid of talking in my presence you can leave. I was about to lock the church."
"I am sorry, father. It's my first confession."
Then he continued.
He spoke for almost fifteen minutes without a break. I don't want to repeat to anyone the things that I heard from him.
The man was a hired assassin. He had started at the age of nineteen. Now he was twenty seven. I laughed at him in the beginning. A lot of crazy people come to me just to have a chat with someone. But after he told me about some of the murders he had committed and the way he had committed them my doubts vanished.


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Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Is registration required for the weekend?
A. Yes, we would love to know that you are coming! This will help us prepare for your arrival on campus. Online registration is available now!
Q. Do I need to pay to attend Fall Fest Weekend?
A. Registration is free! However, some events, such as Shabbat Dinner, the comedy show, and the off-campus trips on Friday and Saturday have ticket fees. The Undergraduate Theater Collective performances throughout the weekend also have modest ticket fees.
Q. Do I have to register to participate in off-campus programs?
A. Yes, please purchase tickets in advance through Brandeis Tickets to participate in off-campus programs. We will have more information soon for off-campus programs.Q. I want to attend the Shabbat Dinner, how should I purchase tickets?
A. Visit Brandeis Tickets to purchase your ticket(s) to the Shabbat Dinner (coming soon). Each member of your family will need a ticket. Please call Brandeis Tickets at 781-736-3400 to purchase tickets for children under 12. Brandeis students pay for the Shabbat dinner using their meal plan.
Q. Can I register later?
A. Yes, you can register when you arrive on campus for Fall Fest. Just go to the registration table in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium; however, if you plan on participating in any off-campus programs, we recommend you purchase tickets in advance because most programs sell out before Fall Fest weekend.
Q. Can I pay online?
A. Yes, please visit Brandeis Tickets to purchase your tickets.
Q. Are there overnight accommodations on campus?
A. Unfortunately, we do not have on-campus housing facilities available for families during the weekend. Click here for options in the Waltham area.
Q. What is the closest hotel to campus?
A. Newton Marriott is the closest hotel option. It is approximately a mile and a half walk from campus. Within the Fall Fest program, we do offer guided walks from campus back to the hotel on Friday night.
Q. Where can we eat in the Waltham Area?
A. Waltham has many nice restaurants. Most are located along Main Street and Moody Street downtown. A partial listing is available here.
Q. Does Brandeis provide transportation to and from campus?
A. No, however there are many options listed below for you and your family.
Q. When does everything start and end?
A. Fall Fest Weekend begins on Thursday, October 27 and runs though Monday, October 31. A majority of the events take place on Friday and Saturday.


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SIKESTON -- Henry Elderbrook, 76, died Oct. 13, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.
Born March 31, 1926, in Matthews, son of the late William "Willie" and Delpha Pierce Elderbrook, he was of the Baptist belief and a veteran of the U.S. Army. He worked as a plumber for the Veterans Administration Hospital before retiring.
Survivors include: two daughters and one son-in-law: Rhonda Lawson and June and Gary Crump of St. Louis; two sisters, Helen Ponder of Charleston and Gwen Faulkner of Jerseyville, Ill.; four grandchildren and spouses, Denise and Mike Minor of Imperial, Bob Johnson of Cedar Hill, and Mike Crump and Julie and Tony of Arnold; and seven great-grandchildren.
In addition to his parents, two sisters preceded him in death.
Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston where services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. David Jackson, associate pastor of First Baptist Church, will officiate.
Burial will follow in the Sikeston Memorial Park Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be: Gary Crump, Mike Minor, John Ponder, Rudy Ponder, Bob Johnson and Billy Ponder.
Honorary pallbearers will be: Gene Newman and Bill Ponder.
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Science and ag goes hands-on in Ag-Venture
SEBRING - It's fairly common knowledge that cows have four stomach chambers but do you know that sheep also share that distinction or that Highlands County has more head of cattle than people? How about this: Bees have special hair on their hind legs, which also comes equipped with a hook, to gather pollen that static electricity from the bees helps to loosen, and the pollen is then taken to the hives and packed with honey to make "bee bread." Third-graders from four Highlands County schools learned these bee factoids Tuesday from volunteer Richard Dunaway, as part of the three-day 14th annual Ag-Venture, a hands-on expo on everything agricultural. Event co-chairwoman Danielle Daum hopes the roughly 1,200 third-graders who will sample the 14 booths or "tracks" will know where their food comes from and how many jobs agriculture creates."These children will grow up to be taxpayers and voters," she reasoned. "They need to know how agriculture is important." For many students, Ag-Venture also is a chance to try new things, from something as simple as planting to perhaps something more exotic, like petting an alligator or even feeling the different kinds of grain. Third-grader Aulani Smith tried to keep up with volunteer Andrew Fells as he instructed a group of students on how to pot a strawberry cutting. The students later learned that strawberries each have 200 seeds on the outside and growers protect the fruit from frost by spraying them with water that turns into icicles and cushions the temperature of the berries. Aulani, who was potting a plant for the first time, said she had a good time. So did fellow students Coyanna Bellamy and Jalan Gordon, holding bags with goodies and playing with the signature Ag-Venture hats all third-graders get to take home. Even Park Elementary School third-grade teacher Courtney Murfield, who has been coming to Ag-Venture for nine years as a third-grade teacher, laughed when asked if she had learned something new this time. Murfield said Ag-Venture is a good, hands-on way for children to sample things they may only learn about from a textbook and further their science knowledge in meaningful way. Before their trip, her class gets an introduction on things they will encounter at the event, followed by a little quiz when the class returns. One of those quizzing the kids was volunteer Tracee Smoak, who was introducing them to Sweetie the heifer, Harley the horse and an assortment of other farm animals, including a sheep with a week-old lamb. When the students learned, for instance, that a horse is measured in human hands, they had to pencil it in on a sheet they all got. As part of the fun, they got to pet the critters and found out that animals also have bowel movements, no matter how disgusting they may smell and sound. "Eeeww," some of the students gathered around Sweetie screamed when she did something impolite. "It's part of the whole experience on a farm," Smoak smiled.


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From staff reports SHERIDAN— Sheridan County is launching a county-wide contest to design a new logo that represents the county in a unique and identifying way. Submissions will be accepted through Thursday, Aug. 7. The County Commission will select up to 10 semi-finalists to be presented to the public for voting. Finalists will each receive $50 in Chamber Bucks, and the contest winner will receive $250 in Chamber Bucks.
SHERIDAN — For the next event in a series of outings celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the 30th anniversary of the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984, the Wyoming Wilderness Association will host a hike up Crystal Creek in the Gros Ventre Wilderness on July 24 to view nature at work. This includes an interpretive hike with Tim Farris as he explains backcountry trail maintenance. Hikers will learn how the Forest Service manages challenges in its trail maintenance program. The hike is approximately 9 miles round-trip. For more information or to register call the WWA at 672-2751 or email email@example.com.
SHERIDAN — The annual Sheridan Farmers Market will commence Thursday at Grinnell Plaza. From 5-7 p.m. weekly on Thursdays vendors will sell produce, arts and crafts and more as live music, children's activities, demonstrations and nonprofit booths are hosted. Attendance is free for customers and vendor booths are available to rent. This week features Mick Johnson Acoustic and youth activities. For more information or to sign up as a vendor call Bonnie Gregory at the Downtown Sheridan Association 672-8881 or see www.downtownsheridan.org.
SHERIDAN — In celebration of their fourth anniversary, the Kula Space will host "Flavor of the Week," a weekly free class on Thursdays this summer at 5:30 p.m. Some of the free classes will request optional donations to support a local cause and suggestions of local causes to support are welcome. This week's class will be yoga with Erin Scherry on Thursday. For more information or to nominate a cause to promote contact Michele Fritz or Evelyn Ferrante at email@example.com. The studio is located in Journeys Center of Wellbeing at 37 S. Main St.
SHERIDAN— Habitat for Humanity presents "On the Foundation", an evening of one-act plays, music, dessert, wine and beer 7 p.m. this Thursday at 1774 Poplar Trail. Tickets are $40, available at Sheridan Stationery, and all proceeds benefit Habitat for Humanity.
Casting for Recovery, a two and a half day free retreat awarded to 14 women of Wyoming who are breast cancer survivors, will be held July 25-27. The fourth annual event includes fly-fishing instruction, breast cancer information and other tools for healing and socializing, including a psycho-social therapist, a health care professional and river helpers. The services are provided at no cost to the participants thanks to donations from individuals and businesses as well as grants from the Wyoming Community Foundation, Wyoming Affiliate of Susan G. Komen and the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole. The organization is currently seeking residents to apply for the 2014 retreat, which will be held in Dubois at the Absaroka Ranch. For more information about the program or to apply see castingforrecovery.org or call 888-553-3500. The deadline for applications is May 16. Space is limited to 14 participants who will be chosen at random.
SHERIDAN— The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, Sheridan Workforce Center, and the Sheridan Veterans Administration are partnering to host their second annual job fair on Friday. From 2 p.m. until 4 p.m., the Sheridan VA Medical Center auditorium will open its doors to veterans only, but then starting at 4 p.m., they will open their doors to public job seekers. There will be over 20 employers from all career fields and participants are encouraged to dress for an interview and bring resumes. For more information call 672-9775.
AYTON—The 38th annual Dayton Days will be held Friday, July 25 and Saturday, July 26, in Dayton. Friday's events include the Cow Pie Classic golf tournament and the pet parade, movie, and talent show in the park. Saturday's events include the pancake breakfast, mile race, and the parade at 10 a.m. If you would like to register for the parade, please fill out a parade registration and return it to Town Hall, PO box 100, Dayton, WY 82836. For additional information contact Dayton Town Hall at 655-2217, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
SHERIDAN— Join the Sheridan Wesleyan Church and Vertical Church for family movies in the park Friday at dusk in Kendrick Park. Each film is a surprise but is appropriate for all ages. For more information please call 763-7320.
SHERIDAN — For the next event in a series of outings celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the 30th anniversary of the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984, the Wyoming Wilderness Association will host a gradual climb to the top of Brooks Mountain. A moderate to strenuous hike, it leads to a breathtaking drop-off overlooking Brooks Lake and the DuNoir valley, with views of the Tetons. Bring a picnic lunch and spend time discussing the anniversary of wilderness areas The walk will be approximately eight miles roundtrip. For more information or to register call the WWA at 672-2751 or email email@example.com.
SHERIDAN— Join the Wyoming Wilderness Association for the Spur Ranch Fest Sunday for biking, live music, beer, and more. The event will run from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. at 86 Peno Rd. and is a $10 entry free for adults, and children under 10 get in free. All proceeds will benefit the Wyoming Wilderness Association and Red Grade Trail Project. For more information call 672-8459.
BIG HORN— Join the Downtown Sheridan Association for the fifth annual Goose Creek Cup Sunday, 5 p.m., at the Flying H Polo Club on Bird Farm Road in Big Horn. Tailgating is encouraged at $10 per car, and there are events such as long ball contest and the champagne divot stomp. There will be an after party at 7 p.m. at the Big Horn Equestrian Center. If you are interested in being a private tent sponsor, please call the Downtown Sheridan Association at 672-8881.
SHERIDAN— Sheridan County School District 2 is holding a second opportunity for Kindergarten screening. All Kindergarten parents are urged to have their child attend this screening if they did not do so in April. Appointments can be made by calling 674-7405, extension 5105 no later than August 8. You can register your child for Kindergarten is Sheridan School District 2 at the screening. Parents and guardians need to bring a birth certificate and immunization records to the registration. Children must be five-years-old on or before September 15, 2014 to be eligible for Kindergarten this fall. For more information call Scott Stults at 647-7405, extension 5108.
SHERIDAN— Eagles Chapter number 186 will hold a candidates meet and greet Monday from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 at 850 North Main St. This is a chance for the public to meet the candidates and ask questions.
Sheridan City Planning Commission, 7 p.m., Monday, City Council chambers, City Hall, 55 E. Grinnell Plaza • Call to order and roll call of members • Approval of agenda as presented • Review, correction and approval of minutes of the July 14, 2014 meeting 1. Old business 2. New business • Consideration of PL-14-15: West Loucks Street right-of-way vacation; a request to vacate 2,074 square feet of the West Loucks right-of-way for the construction of a garage. Located in front of 1039 W. Loucks St. • Consideration of PL-14-21: Cloud Peak Ranch 16th Rezone; a request to rezone ± 2.67 acres, from R-3 Residence to R-1 Residence District. Located north of Mydland Road and Dome Drrive and east of Featherbed Lane • Consideration of PL-14-20: Cloud Peak Ranch 16th Filing Preliminary plat; a preliminary plat approval to subdivide ±7.55 acres into 24 lots and 5 outlots, to be zoned R-1 Residence District. Located north of Mydland Road and Dome Drive and east of Featherbed Lane • Comments from commissioners and staff • Adjourn
SHERIDAN— The Sheridan Senior Center is hosting a retired railroaders day Tuesday at 8 a.m. at 211 Smith St. There will be coffee and donuts provided. For more information please call Jane Perkins at 672-2240.
SHERIDAN— The Tongue River community blood drive is Tuesday from 2 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. at the Tongue River Valley Community Center in Ranchester. There is a critical need for O negative, A negative, B negative, and O positive blood types. Donors must be at least 16-years-old, weigh at least 110 pounds, be in good health, and have a picture ID. To schedule your appointment, call 800-365-4450.
SHERIDAN — The next Concert in the Park will be held Tuesday and will feature the Sheridan Concert Band. From 7:30-9 p.m. in the Kendrick Park Bandshell, band members Andy Edmundson and Bill Avery will play sections from popular musicals. The concert is free and open to all members of the community. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets. Food concessions will be available. For more information on the concert call David Kuzara at 751-7960.
SHERIDAN — The Wyoming Office of Tourism will host the next event in a series of events called "Wyoming Wednesdays." Informative and interpretive programs about Sheridan are being offered at 10 a.m. most Wednesdays throughout July at the Wyoming Welcome Center. At this week's event, Cheri Jones of the United States Forest Service will talk about forest service policies and will focus on the Big Horn National Forest. The events are free and open to everyone. Attendees are encouraged to bring picnic lunches and stay and enjoy the visitor's center before or after each program. The center is located off of Interstate 90 on the Fifth Street exit. For more information call 673-7120.
BIG HORN— The Brinton Museum will have a lecture Wednesday at 10 a.m. Hosted by assistant curator Jessie Landau on Bradford Brinton and the Early 20th Century Cult of Masculinity. This event is free and open to the public. The museum is located at 239 Brinton Rd., Big Horn. For more information please call 672-3173.
SHERIDAN— Penrose Place, a new 15-unit HUD subsidized apartment complex for seniors, will have its grand opening Wednesday at 10 a.m. Penrose Place is located at 667 East Sixth St. For more information, please call 763-4690.
SHERIDAN — Join Sarah Mentock of Science kids July 30 for "Wacky Science." Children ages 10-16 are invited to learn cool scientific principles using everyday materials. Following the science activities, participants will have a pizza party. Both events are free. The event will begin at 11 a.m. in the Inner Circle at the Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library.
SHERIDAN — EMIT Technologies, the Recreation District and the Wellness Council have partnered to present ParkFit 2014. Every Wednesday throughout the summer from 12:10-12:50 p.m. a free fitness class will be offered at one of the local parks. The next session will be fitness by the YMCA at Kendrick Park. A full schedule of ParkFit events can be seen at www.wellnesscouncilsc.org. All members of the community are invited to these free events.
Sheridan County School District 1 Recreation District 5:30 p.m. Wednesday Downtown Sheridan Association, 121 South Main St. • Call to order • Approval of agenda • Approval of July meeting minutes • Treasurer's report • Visitors • Old business 1. Update – Big Horn Community Center 2. Robotics discussion • New business 1. Board member terms • Adjournment
SHERIDAN— Funny Face Productions presents the musical comedy, 13, featuring twenty-three Sheridan-area teens. They will perform in the brand new Mars Theater at the WYO Theater, 42 North Main St. from July 30 until Aug. 2 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the WYO Theater box office or at www.wyotheater.com.


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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 18.104.22.168
Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & aakk9999 & andy langton & goodroi
Some surprising results with Google. I registered a brand new domain last week and created a single web page consisting of:
- a logo, with alt tag
- Coming soon in a h1 tag
- Address, Telephone, Email in p tags
I also created an xml sitemap.
Within less than 1 week, the site has appeared on Google. I'm amazed by this, previously I've waited weeks for new domains to appear, and wonder if this could be due to the submission of a sitemap?
Also, the description on Google is taken straight from the meta tag. Again, I'm amazed by this, I thought the meta description was ignored.
I can't find the site based on any of the meta keywords - no surprise there. I can find the site based upon the content in the p tags.
Im surprised that Google even looked at the meta description (I thought meta descriptions were ignored, and especialy since there is text on the holding page (albeit uninformative) that can be indexed.
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Um, actually, last I heard, Google does look at keyword tags, but only as a last resort.
OK, I'll try again...incorrect!
Keyword tags are important and not only as a last resort...
While topic may be meaningless either the topic or description is apparently quite important at least when you're already recognized as an authoritative site on a related subject.
Back OT, Phil, are you seeing referrals for high profiles keywords, or only 2+ word phrases that are less competative?
The person's name that appears on the site is unusual. Searching on this yields a result.
Picking a few key terms, combined with the name of the village, which all appear on the holding page gives 100 or so results on Google, but this site is nowhere to be seen.
I'm not concerned about this at the moment. I only put the holding page up in preparation of the whole site being ready in Jan in the hope that I got a headstart on the time taken to get a Google listing. I'm hoping for better results once I actually have put the site together.
Thanks everyone for your guidance on this.


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Just as buildings have stories, so does a woodland. The top stories are the pines, hemlocks, oaks, maples, beeches and all the trees that tower 50 feet or more. Below them are the understory trees in two ranks depending on their heights. Below these are the tall shrubs, then the shorter shrubs, and then the ground-hugging shrubs. Wait, we are not through yet! Among the perennials we have plants six feet tall like snakeroot to an inch or two like trailing arbutus whose name repens describes its creeping habit. Among the ferns we have the tiny oak fern to the five foot tall Ostrich fern. So just as we have the northern tier of Pennsylvania and the southern tier of New York, we have all these layers (tiers) in our woods. But let�s just talk about the understory trees.
When does a bush become a tree? We generally think of trees as single stem and bushes as multi-stemmed. That doesn�t always hold. Think of the birches. But that certainly is one of the criteria. How about height? That should be a factor. But why do maple sugar producers refer to their trees as sugar bushes? Let�s face it there are no hard and fast rules.
My understory trees when we bought the property were hawthorn, witch hazel, hop hornbeam, pagoda dogwood and one flowering dogwood, Since then we have added many more flowering dogwoods, shadblows, moosewood, mountain maple, pawpaw, ironwood, Washington and cockspur hawthorns, silverbell, fringe tree, sourwood, wafer ash, American mountain ash, American snowbell, several crab apples. Save for the crab apples, these are all native trees. They are all trees that provide more than one season of interest through their flowers, fruit and fall color.
Dogwoods and shads are two of my favorites and I have a half dozen or more of each. I had two pawpaws, but lately they have been sending up root suckers so they now total six. My redbud is a white-flowering form, blooming at the same time as the dogwoods, making a nice contrast. Mountain maple and mountain ash appear to be a favorite browse plant for deer when I neglect to close the gate and they come even though they were not invited. The maple is getting tall enough to resist their onslaught, but the mountain ash is struggling. The moosewood and the ironwood are noted for their bark which gives year round interest. The haws are noted for their flowers, fruit and fall color. The silverbell and fringe tree are stunning in the spring when in bloom and the seedpods on the silverbell are most interesting.
One native tree I do not have is the American smoketree. Nor do I have, as yet, American plum or pin cherry. Mountain stewartia would be nice to have as well.


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Latest rumors and news:
The Astros are still interested in Jason Jennings and the Rockies are eyeing three Astros: Jason Hirsh, Willy Taveras, Dan Wheeler.
Does it concern anyone but me that the Astros are apparently interesting in or talking to the Orioles about two different starting pitchers? Remember the trading deadline just a few months ago? Houston is apparently interested in Kris Benson or Rodrigo Lopez. Maybe I missed something, but I thought the Astros were looking for a #2 starter.
ESPN's Jayson Stark has an interesting take on why the Astros let Pettitte walk over "over a measly couple of million bucks." (But Stark still hasn't learned how to spell Jason's last name…as in H-I-R-S-H.
Russ Springer gets $1.75 million to join the Cardinals' bullpen. He's worth it.
Andy Pettitte is gone to the Yankees. Comments from his agent are terse, direct and ominous: "The Astros flat turned me down." Pettitte's agent offered $14 million and an option with the stipulation that he wouldn't exercise the option if he was hurt. The Astros said, "No, thank you."
Hopefully, general manager Tim Purpura has something else up his sleeve, but this has Nolan Ryan-to-Texas written all over it. Bad publicity. Ripple effect: Read Roger Clemens.
We haven't heard the last of the story, but it does leave the Astros in a dilemma. Now, almost certainly, Willy Taveras, Jason Hirsh and Taylor Buchholz — and perhaps Chris Burke and Morgan Ensberg — will have new addresses by New Year's Day.
Since Pettitte announced earlier this week he would play in 2007, it has seemed he may land in New York. Apparently, however, the Astros had the chance to bring him back. And declined. The lead in the Chronicle story says: "Andy Pettitte has chosen to re-sign with the New York Yankees." Perhaps it should better read: "The Astros declined to re-sign Andy Pettitte, allowing him to return to the New York Yankees."
Okay, now that he's not coming back, let's stand by for the next big news. What do Purpura, Tal Smith and Drayton McLane have up their sleeves? Surely, turning away Pettitte and risking a public relations debacle, they must have something in the works, right? Something big, right? Like huge, huh? Like a trade for Dontrelle, signing Roger Clemens and signing Barry Zito. Right?
And now that Pettitte is off the table, the White Sox or Rockies will up the ante from Willy Taveras and Jason Hirsh to Willy, Jason and Chris Burke.
Let's all pause for a moment of silence while we listen for the other shoe to drop.


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After takin' a swig o' grog, Tim Smith belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> I've seen some noise from the usual idiots that it was "bribery" when MS
> distributed code and documentation to attendees of the PDC via 160 GB
> portable hard drives.
> Interesting concept. It cost something like $2000 just to register for
> the PDC. Add on to that the costs of transportation and lodging.
> Just how, exactly, is getting a $100 drive full of developer technical
> material (at a developed technical conference) from Microsoft, after
> you've given Microsoft thousands to attend their conference, bribery?
Our customer would have to refuse a much smaller "gift", large conference
fee or not.
I think we ourselves could accept such a "gift".
I suppose loyalty has been bought for less, though. Anything to tip the
One thing I would refuse, though, is Microsoft hookers -- too many viruses.
Please remain calm, it's no use both of us being hysterical at the same time.


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Long-Term Changes in Pain Sensitivity in an Animal Model of Social Anxiety
AbstractAnimal models with an eco-ethological relevance can help in identifying novel and reliable stress-related markers. To this end, 3-month-old C57BL/6J male mice were exposed to social defeat (SD) stress for 10 days as this stressor shows good face and predictive validity for several models of human affective disorders including depression, social phobia and post-traumatic stress disorder. Social avoidance and pain threshold were assessed 24 h and 4 weeks after the end of SD stress, while corticosterone was assayed at the beginning and at the end of the stressful procedure (days 1 and 10). SD subjects were characterized by increased corticosterone levels (30 min following stress exposure), increased latency to approach the social target in the short-term as well as increased emotionality in the long-term. Moreover, an increase in nociceptive threshold (stress-induced analgesia) was found both in the short-term and 4 weeks after the end of stress. These data indicate that the SD paradigm is able to induce emotional changes associated with a stressful/traumatic event. In addition, they indicate that variations in the nociceptive threshold might represent a physiological marker of both short- and long-term effects of stress.
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Benjamin Spock, World's Pediatrician, Dies at 94
By ERIC PACE
Published: March 17, 1998
Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician who gently coached anxious postwar parents to trust their ''own common sense,'' only to be blamed by some critics for the self-indulgence of those parents' children, the 60's generation, died on Sunday at his home in San Diego. He was 94.
Over half a century, Dr. Spock's homey handbook on child care, now titled ''Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care,'' became one of the best sellers of all time. Therese Zazycki, a spokeswoman for Pocket Books, its main publisher, said yesterday that almost 50 million copies have been sold around the world, translated into 42 languages.
Dr. Spock also became well known as an antiwar demonstrator in the 1960's, as he campaigned for nuclear disarmament and against the war in Vietnam and was arrested in protest demonstrations. ''There's no point in raising children if they're going to be burned alive,'' was how he made the connection between parents, pediatricians and politics.
Dr. Spock had already broken with authority in his child-rearing handbook, which he saw as giving ''practical application'' to the ideas propounded by two early 20th-century sages, Sigmund Freud and John Dewey, the American philosopher and educator.
''John Dewey and Freud said that kids don't have to be disciplined into adulthood but can direct themselves toward adulthood by following their own will,'' he observed in 1972.
And so in the opening chapter of the book, first published in hardcover in 1946 with the title ''The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care,'' Dr. Spock counseled his readers not to ''take too seriously all that the neighbors say.''
''Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense,'' he wrote. ''What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best.''
Such relaxed advice, given in the easy, practical, reassuring way that he had with parents, was light-years from the stern dictums of earlier standard works, like the 1928 book ''Psychological Care of Infant and Child'' by Dr. John B. Watson. ''Never, never kiss your child,'' Dr. Watson commanded. ''Never hold it in your lap. Never rock its carriage.''
Dr. T. Berry Brazelton of the Harvard Medical School, another noted pediatrician-author, once said of Dr. Spock: ''Before he came along, advice to parents was very didactic. He opened the whole area of empowered parenting. He gave parents choices and encouraged them to think things out for themselves.''
Dr. Spock repeatedly revised his own book over the years, and, for the fifth and sixth editions, which appeared in 1985 and 1992 respectively, he had a co-author: Dr. Michael B. Rothenberg, a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of Washington's medical school. Dr. Spock said in an interview in early 1992, when he was 88, that he planned to stay involved in updating the book ''as long as I live.''
Ms. Zazycki of Pocket Books said that, as scheduled, the seventh edition of the book will be published, in mass market paperback and trade paperback versions, on May 2, which would have been the doctor's 95th birthday. Tracey Guest, a spokeswoman for the publishing house Dutton, said yesterday that Dutton will publish a hard-cover version of the seventh edition of Dr. Spock's book on July 1.
That new edition is by Dr. Spock and a new co-author, Dr. Steven J. Parker, who is a Boston pediatrician. He was the lead author of a study, published in 1992 in the journal Pediatrics, which found that women with one aspect of the Type A personality -- loosely identified as a hard-driving nature -- tend to have babies who exhibit Type A temperaments.
Dr. Spock's literary agent, Robert Lescher, said late in 1997 that Dr. Spock was ''very deeply involved'' in preparing the seventh edition.
Altogether, the doctor was the author or a co-author of 13 books. He was also a prolific author of magazine columns for more than 30 years. He wrote columns about raising children for Redbook and Ladies Home Journal and, more recently, for Parenting magazine.
From Pediatrics To Politics
In the 1960's and 1970's, Dr. Spock's views on child-rearing were sometimes blamed for the disorderliness of young people, many of whose parents had been devotees of his book.
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew blamed the doctor for what Mr. Agnew called the undue permissiveness abroad in the land.
It was in the 1960's that Dr. Spock became an antiwar activist and opponent of the draft, nuclear armaments and the United States's involvement in Vietnam. He was a co-chairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, known as SANE, from 1962 to 1967. He also underwent what he called a ''conversion to socialism.''
The doctor was arrested at various protest demonstrations. In 1968 a Boston court convicted him of conspiring to counsel evasion of the draft. He was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $5,000, but the conviction was reversed in 1969 by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on the ground of insufficient evidence.
In 1972 Dr. Spock was the Presidential candidate of the People's Party, a coalition of left-wing organizations. His platform called for free medical care, the legalization of abortion and marijuana, a guaranteed minimum income for families and the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from foreign countries.


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1 MR IRVING: On October 6th 1943 the SS chief in Rome said we
2have received orders to transfer 12,000 Jews from Rome to
3northern Italy and liquidate them. This message went to
4Ribbentrop, who dashed across to Hitler's headquarters and
5back went the message from the Foreign Ministry down to
6Rome, saying they are not to be liquidated they are to be
7taken to Mauthausen and kept as hostages.
8 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes, I know. I have read about it but now
9you have reminded me, thank you very much.
10 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] My Lord that is Mr Irving's version.
11 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Wait for the question?
12 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] I make it clear I do not accept it.
13 MR JUSTICE GRAY: What is the question?
14 MR IRVING: Professor Evans, which part of that statement do
15you not accept?
16 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] Well, if I can just say that the actual context is that
17the German military diplomatic representatives in Rome,
18which had been occupied by the Germans, the local
19representative there wanted to stop the Jews of Rome being
20killed by proposing that they should be employed locally
21as forced labour in military installations. Hitler
22intervened via Ribbentrop to override them and ordered the
23Jews to be taken off and murdered, which eventually they
24were in Auschwitz. So that what Mr Irving is portraying
25as an intervention by Hitler in order to save the Jews
26was, when one looks at the documents and restores the bits
1which he suppressed, actually the opposite.
2 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Does it depend a bit what is meant by taking
3them to northern Italy and keeping them as hostages?
4 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] That does to some extent, my Lord, yes, but also
5Mauthausen of course is notoriously a concentration camp
6in a class of its own, where the purpose was essentially
7to kill the inmates off by working them to death.
8 MR IRVING: How would you keep 12,000 just as hostages, if you
9kill them off by working them to death?
10 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] Let us have a look at the document, shall we? We are
11getting down to business here.
12 Q. [Mr Irving] You have none of these documents in your head, Professor?
13 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] I need ----
14 Q. [Mr Irving] Have you noticed that throughout this cross-examination I
15have ----
16 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Mr Irving, that is unhelpful. If he does not
17have it in his head, I, for one, would not criticise him
18for a second.
19 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] I want to be absolutely clear about what the documents
20said, say, and we must look at them in order to do that
21because your interpretations are so often wildly
22implausible. The problem with that is that there seems to
23be nowhere at this time where they could have been kept.
24There is a not a concentration camp there.
25 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Mauthausen does not sound as if it is
26northern Italy.
1 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] Mauthausen, no, it is...
2 Q. [Mr Irving] It is in southern Germany?
3 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] Yes -- as it was at that time. So, talk of "Upper Italy"
4seems to be camouflage language.
5 MR IRVING: Who was talking of "Upper Italy"? Hitler or the
7 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] Let us have a look.
8 Q. [Mr Irving] It was the SS, was it not? The SS said: "They are to be
9taken to northern Italy and liquidated" which is quite
10plain. They do not even use euphemisms, do they?
11 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] No, that not quite true.
12 Q. [Mr Irving] Well, "liquidated" does not appear to be a euphemism?
13 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] No, I do not think it is the SS who say that.
14 Q. [Mr Irving] "Liquidiert"?
15 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] Yes, I do not think that is the SS. I think it is the
16local consul in ----
17 Q. [Mr Irving] Consul Eitl Moellhausen?
18 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] Yes, it is the local Foreign Office official in Rome. It
19is not the SS who say that.
20 Q. [Mr Irving] Yes. He says: "The SS have told us they are going to
21take 12,000 Jews from Rome to northern Italy and liquidate
23 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] That is right, yes.
24 Q. [Mr Irving] And the message goes straight to Hitler's headquarters?
25 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] An extremely tactless use of language by this man.
26 Q. [Mr Irving] No euphemisms, no "auswanderung", no "umsiedlung",
2 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] No, but, of course, he was trying to stop this.
3 Q. [Mr Irving] What you cannot get around is the fact that the order
4comes back after Ribbentrop goes to see Hitler saying,
5"They are not to be liquidated. They are to be kept
6alive as hostages in Mauthausen". It could not be more
8 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] Yes.
9 Q. [Mr Irving] And all the other messages are irrelevant in that
11 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] No, I am sorry, that is not true at all. What you
12suppress is the fact that the local officials wanted to
13use them for, as it says, the telegram 201, "prefer to use
14the able-bodied Jews of Rome for fortification work
15here". So the local Foreign Office and military officials
16are proposing two telegrams, in fact, that it would be
17better business, says the other one, to use the Jews for
18fortification work rather than bringing them to Upper
19Italy where they are to be liquidated".
20 So, let us get this quite clear. We are not
21talking about hostages in Upper Italy. I will read this
22telegramme in full. "Obersturmbannfuhrer Kappler has
23received orders to arrest the 8,000 Jews resident in Rome
24and bring them to upper Italy where they are to be
25liquidated ... (reading to the words)... Please advise
1 Then another telegram, Field Marshal Kesselring
2has asked Oberstrunbannfuhrer Kappler to postpone the plan
3Juden Aktion for the time being, but if something has to
4be done, he would "prefer to use the able-bodied Jews of
5Rome for fortification work here".
6 So that is their proposal that they are making
7to the authorities in Berlin, particularly to Ribbentrop,
8and they, in other words, the idea, the notion of Upper
9Italy, since there is nowhere they could be taken there,
10is, I think, a euphemism for taking them off to somewhere
11like Auschwitz ----
12 Q. [Mr Irving] Can I help to cut through this verbiage and ask you ----
13 MR JUSTICE GRAY: No, that is unnecessarily offensive,
14Mr Irving.
15 MR IRVING: Well, to cut through this particular line of
16argument and say were the ----
17 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] Yes, I know you want to cut through this particular line
18of argument, Mr Irving, because you do not like it.
19 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Please continue, Professor Evans?
20 A. [Professor Richard John Evans] Thank you, my Lord. There is an additional document where
21on, it says, the local officials in Rome get back the
22message in answer to these telegrams on the basis of the
23Fuhrer's instructions. The Fuhrer's instructions, "the
248,000 Jews resident in Rome are to be taken to Mauthausen
25as hostages. The Heireich Foreign Minister asks you not
26to interfere in any way with this affair but leave it to
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Story Behind the Photo: Redbud Tree
Spring has official 'sprung' in the Tampa Bay area. After a cooler than average winter, the temperatures have warmed up into the upper 70's with abundant sunshine. There is virtually no humidity and thanks to some nice afternoon breezes, the air is filled with the sweet perfume of the blooming citrus trees. While I love to see the delicate flowers on the tangelo tree in my back yard each spring, it's not quite as impressive as the instant burst of color of many other flowering trees that stay dormant over the winter a little further to the north. Living in the Southeastern US for the majority of my life, there was a familiar pattern to spring. First the daffodils, tulips and hyacinths would emerge, sometimes before the last snow or freeze of the winter. Next up was the brilliant yellow of forsythia bushes and the bright pinks of redbud trees which seemed to bloom overnight. From here, the ornamental pear trees and cherry trees would bloom, followed by azaleas and dogwoods, filling the landscape with a sea of color.
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– panel about gay pride and poetry in the morning, where Greg Bellm talked about reading Kaddish as a youth in the Midwest: " 'Matterhorns of cock'…well, that sure lit the fire in me!"
– Dorianne Laux's excellent talk about rhythm and music as a jumping-off point for finding the right sounds of a poem (during which she read several from memory that I definitely have to check out now…)
– reading a poem at an open mic, with a mix of especially good young poets and especially crazy people
– finally getting my own copy of Aimee Nezhukumathathil's Lucky Fish, and Jane Hirshfield's Nine Gates at the tables; didn't buy more books, though I felt like I should have
– a panel with Patricia Smith and Natasha Trethewey (Poet Laureate! eeee) about their works dealing with Hurricane Katrina, including readings (Patricia Smith reading: unbelievable) and Q+A, though I was too shy to go up and meet them at the end
– spinach knishes for dinner!
And I came home to a fresh issue of Poets & Writers with Natasha Trethewey on the cover, since one of the Fellow's birthday gifts to me was a subscription. I suppose I should have stuck around for the evening events, but I am pretty exhausted; might go back tomorrow. In the meantime, the Reverie will have to wait, as I am poetically tapped. Days like this, I wish I had Twitter, so I could have made these little updates throughout the day.
See you on the flip!