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8 Plus 1by Robert Cormier
Seventeen-year-old Mike visits his grandmother's bedside and learns a family secret. A divorced father discovers that only love, not bribes, can keep his daughter "his" on Thursdays. A young white boy finds that friendship--and betrayal--can cross racial boundaries. Robert Cormier is one of America's most acclaimed writers for young adults. Here are nine touching and intensely personal stories, that confirm that these accolades are deserved. Each story features a brief introduction that explains how the story came to be, or something about the writing. Perhaps not as dark as some of Cormier's novels, these tales still have his classically haunting themes, which will be savored by readers of all ages.
After the First Deathby Robert Cormier
Sixteen-year-old Miro had instructions to kill the bus driver immediately. They would then take the busload of children to the bridge and begin the standoff. Artkin was Miro's mentor; the mastermind behind this act of terrorism that would get the world's attention. But Artkin had told Miro that the bus driver would be an old man. Sixteen-year old Kate sometimes substituted for her uncle and drove his bus when he was ill. She even got a special license to do so, and she'd always liked kids. She wondered what was going on when the van in front of her stopped, but when the man and the boy with guns forced their way onto the bus, she knew her worst nightmare was beginning.
After the First Deathby Robert Cormier
Sixteen-year-old Miro had instructions to kill the bus driver immediately. They would then take the busload of children to the bridge and begin the standoff. Artkin was Miro's mentor; the mastermind behind this act of terrorism that would get the world's attention. But Artkin had told Miro that the bus driver would be an old man. Sixteen-year old Kate sometimes substituted for her uncle and drove his bus when he was ill. She even got a special license to do so, and she'd always liked kids. She wondered what was going on when the van in front of her stopped, but when the man and the boy with guns forced their way onto the bus, she knew her worst nightmare was beginning.
After the First Deathby Robert Cormier Craig Virden
Who will be the next to die? They've taken the children. And the son of a general. But that isn't enough. More horrors must come...
Beyond the Chocolate Warby Robert Cormier
The school year is almost at an end, and the chocolate sale is past history. But no one at Trinity School can forget The Chocolate War. Devious Archie Costello, commander of the secret school organization called the Virgils, still has some torturous assignments to hand out before he graduates. In spite of this pleasure, Archie is troubled by his right-hand man, Obie, who has started to move away from the Virgils. Luckily Archie knows his stooges will fix that. But won't Archie be shocked when he discovers the surprise Obie has waiting for him? And there are surprises waiting for others. The time for revenge has come to those boys who secretly suffered the trials of Trinity. The fuse is set for the final explosion. Who will survive?
The Bumblebee Flies Anywayby Robert Cormier
Sixteen-year-old Barney has only fleeting memories about his past but, as a voluntary patient at the institute for experimental medicine, he knows he is different from the terminally ill patients surrounding him.
The Chocolate Warby Robert Cormier
One of the most controversial YA novels of all time, The Chocolate War is a modern masterpiece that speaks to fans of S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders and John Knowles's A Separate Peace. After suffering rejection from seven major publishers, The Chocolate War made its debut in 1974, and quickly became a bestselling--and provocative--classic for young adults. This chilling portrait of an all-boys prep school casts an unflinching eye on the pitfalls of conformity and corruption in our most elite cultural institutions. "Masterfully structured and rich in theme; the action is well crafted, well timed, suspenseful."--The New York Times Book Review "The characterizations of all the boys are superb."--School Library Journal, starred review "Compellingly immediate. . . . Readers will respect the uncompromising ending."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice A New York Times Outstanding Book of the YearFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
The Chocolate Warby Robert Cormier
Award winning novel for young adults.The story of Jerry Renault, a New England high school student and his personal battle with Archie Costello.
Crossroads: Classic Themes in Young Adult Literatureby Robert Cormier
A compilation of stories and poems from all types of writing for young adults.
Fadeby Robert Cormier
IT IS THE summer of 1938 when young Paul Moreaux discovers he can "fade." First bewildered, then thrilled with the power of invisibility, Paul experiments. But his "gift" soon shows him shocking secrets and drives him toward a chilling act."Imagine what might happen if Holden Caufield stepped into H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man, and you'll have an idea how good Fade is. . . . I was absolutely riveted."--Stephen KingFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
Frenchtown Summerby Robert Cormier
Eugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder "what I was doing here on the planet Earth." Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his beloved, enigmatic father. Here, too, is the world of a mill town: the boys swimming in a brook that is red or purple or green, depending on the dyes dumped that day by the comb shop; the visit of the ice man; and the boys' trips to the cemetery or the forbidden railroad tracks. And here also is a darker world-the mystery of a girl murdered years before. Robert Cormier's touching, funny, melancholy chronicle of a vanished world celebrates a son's connection to his father and human relationships that are timeless.
Frenchtown Summerby Robert Cormier Dan Krovatin
Eugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder "what I was doing here on the planet Earth." Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his beloved, enigmatic father. Here, too, is the world of a mill town: the boys swimming in a brook that is red or purple or green, depending on the dyes dumped that day by the comb shop; the visit of the ice man; and the boys' trips to the cemetery or the forbidden railroad tracks. And here also is a darker world-the mystery of a girl murdered years before. Robert Cormier's touching, funny, melancholy chronicle of a vanished world celebrates a son's connection to his father and human relationships that are timeless.From the Paperback edition.
Heroesby Robert Cormier
In Heroes, Robert Cormier explores the nature of heroism through a young and tragic life.Francis Cassavant returns from World War II to seek revenge on his childhood hero. He lost his face in France when he fell on a grenade, earning the Silver Star for Bravery. His hero also holds the Silver Star for Bravery--but do either deserve it? Examine the nature of heroism in the latest powerful novel from Robert Cormier.From the Hardcover edition.
I am the Cheeseby Robert Cormier
Adam Farmer tries to establish who he is but stumbles upon the past, present and future, which is horrifying. It is the embellished description of identity crisis found among the teens.
I Have Words to Spend: Reflections of a Small-Town Editorby Robert Cormier
A collection of 85 essays by award-winning author Robert Cormier originally written as newspaper columns when he was a journalist. It includes commentary about people, nature, music, and movies.
In the Middle of the Nightby Robert Cormier
On Halloween, eight years before Denny Colbert was born, his father was involved in a tragic accident that killed twenty-two children. And one of those children can't forget. Sixteen-year-old Denny just wants to be like other kids his age. But he isn't allowed to have a driver's license or answer the telephone, and his family moves so often that he's always the new kid in school. Now it's been twenty-five years since the accident, and When Denny defies his parents one afternoon and answers the telephone, he finds himself drawn into a provocative, and potentially deadly, relationship with the mystery caller--someone called Lulu. What happens when a son attempts to free himself from his father's past? Will he find freedom or death?
Other Bells for Us to Ringby Robert Cormier
[From the front flap:] "At eleven, Darcy has never had a best friend, but this summer she's met the unsinkable Kathleen Mary O'Hara, who, like Darcy, is an outsider in Frenchtown. Darcy has never lived for long in any one place, but it's wartime and her father is in the army somewhere in Europe. Because her own family is Unitarian, Darcy is spellbound by Kathleen Mary's vivid tales about Catholicism. But after that careless baptism, she's stunned. A bit of holy water can't make you a Catholic, or can it? Was Kathleen Mary joking? Must she now go to church every Sunday? Can she eat meat on Friday? Then Kathleen Marry and her family disappear from Frenchtown, and Darcy waits in vain for word from her friend who promised she'd never leave her. Soon after, Darcy learns that her father is missing in action. Desperate and forlorn, Darcy seeks out an old nun known for her spiritual wisdom. Religion is about love, the nun tells her, and about miracles. It's Christmas now, but Darcy remains unsure about the power of God's love until she gets a message from Kathleen Mary--in the form of a miracle. Robert Cormier's first book for children is a touching and profound portrayal of Darcy's curiosity--and doubt--about faith that will appeal to all those who struggle to make sense of a bewildering world." Readers will sympathize with the feelings of eleven-year-olds and learn about life and situations of families whose loved ones served in the armed forces during World War II. Practices of Catholicism and Unitarianism are seen simply through the eyes of children and the point made that there are many ways to God which, no matter what the religion, involve faith and love.
The Rag and Bone Shopby Robert Cormier
Amazon.com Review This final novel from the grand master of young-adult fiction is one last jewel in the literary crown of Robert Cormier, who died in November 2000. In it he continues to explore the themes that are so characteristic of his work: guilt and forgiveness, misuse of authority, and the corruption of innocence. But a new book from Cormier is always a surprise, and here he gives us a brilliant evocation of the detective story, in a narrative that centers on the interrogation of a murder suspect. A 7-year-old girl has been battered to death, and there are no suspects, no leads. The police, under political pressure to make an arrest, bring in Trent, a cold, ambitious professional interrogator who prides himself on his ability to extract confessions. His victim is 12-year-old Jason--the last person to see the girl. We know that Jason is innocent, and halfway through the interrogation Trent realizes it, too, in "a blazing moment." But like a medieval torturer, his goal is confession, not truth, and so he stifles his impulses for good and proceeds with the job, with deeply ironic consequences. The interrogation itself, which forms the centerpiece of the novel, is dazzling in its elegant thrust-and-parry, its subtle twists and turns, as Jason frantically tries to escape, like a mouse caged with a python. The point of view snaps back and forth so that we are intensely aware of the shifting emotions of both participants in the deadly game. And once again, Cormier has given us an ending that seems provocative and uncomfortable--until we remember that the center of his moral universe was always summed up by the words "if only." (Ages 12 and older)
Take Me Where the Good Times Areby Robert Cormier
A resident of a poorhouse brags that some day he'll return to his old town, get a job, and meet up with his old friends. Suddenly he gets a chance to do just that.
Tendernessby Robert Cormier
Lori Cranston is looking for someone who will be tender with her. She has run away from home, fleeing another of her mother's boyfriends. When she sees Eric Poole being released from custody on TV, she remembers their strange meeting years ago. How kind he was-gallant, in fact. Now she is fixated on him. Maybe he will quiet her longing. Lori is sure wonderful things are waiting for her. Eric Poole is looking for someone to be tender with. He has paid his debt to society. The media will follow him at first, but they'll lose interest. He'll have to elude the lieutenant, who knows what happened to the two girls. It's a good thing Eric was more clever with the third. Eric is sure no one can stop him from again finding tenderness with his girls. When Lori and Eric come together, they begin a riveting journey that will either save or destroy them.
Tunes for Bears to Dance toby Robert Cormier
A masterful portrayal of hatred, prejudice and manipulation that challenges readers to examine how they would behave in the face of evil. Henry meets and befriends Mr. Levine, an elderly Holocaust survivor, who is carving a replica of the village where he lived and which was destroyed in the war. Henry's friendship with Mr. Levine is put to the test when his prejudiced boss, Mr. Hairston, asks Henry to destroy Mr. Levine's village. "[The book] will make fascinating material for group discussion".-- School Library Journal"
We All Fall Downby Robert Cormier
They entered the house at 9:02 P.M. and trashed their way through the Cape Cod cottage. At 9:46 P.M. Karen Jerome made the mistake of arriving home early. Thrown down the basement stairs, Karen slips into a coma. The trashers slip away.But The Avenger has seen it all.From the Paperback edition.
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HIV-2 Vpx, a virus-associated accessory protein, is critical for infection of non-dividing myeloid cells. To understand the function of Vpx ubiquitination, interaction with an E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, and ability to overcome an inhibition of reverse transcription, we analyzed Vpx lysine mutants for their function and replication capability in macrophages. Both Wt Vpx and Vpx TA (lysine-less Vpx) localized to the cytoplasm and nucleus in HeLa cells. All HIV-2 Vpx lysine mutants were functional in virion packaging. However, ubiquitination was absent with Vpx TA and Vpx K84A mutants, indicating a lack of ubiquitin on positions K68 and K77. Mutants Vpx K68A and K77A were unable to infect macrophages due to impaired reverse transcription from loss of interaction with the ubiquitin substrate receptor, DCAF1. Even though Vpx K84A lacked ubiquitination, it bound DCAF1, and infected macrophages comparable to Wt Vpx.
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16 Isn't Always Sweetby Cassandra Carter
From best friend to frenemy to flat-out enemy For her Sweet Sixteen, Jordan Wright gets rid of the frizzy hair, the conservative clothes, and finally likes the hip new girl smiling in the mirror. So when she hears about an open casting call for the hottest rapper's new video, she has the confidence to go for it. She and her best friend, Adrienne, try out with hundreds of hopefuls, but only Jordan makes it. Adrienne seems fine with it. But when Jordan starts getting some serious attention, Adrienne turns into a hater. And after Jordan has an innocent in-the-hall conversation with Adrienne's ex-boyfriend--they dated for one week, like four years ago!--Adrienne plots to ruin Jordan's life by spreading rumors, writing stuff on the bathroom walls and telling Jordan she'd be better off dead. Suddenly Jordan's popularity is fading. Forget sweet sixteen. She soon discovers that what she needs most is to find the strength to be herself.
Fast Lifeby Cassandra Carter
Caught up in a world of easy money,designer labels and drug-dealing boyfriends, sixteen-year-old Kyra Jones is living life on the fast track. But when her single mom is offered a job that takes Kyra away from her old Chicago neighborhood, and the drugs and gang violence that go along with it, she finally realizes that there's more to life than Gucci, Prada and ghetto-fabulous bling. Starting over in a new place, with a new boyfriend, Justin, gives Kyra hope that life can be different. But sometimes the fast life catches up to you. And for Kyra, her only hope is to stay one step ahead of trouble.
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- The Work of Ezra Pound by Carl Sandburg
The Work of Ezra Pound
If I were driven to name one individual who, in the English language, by means of his own examples of creative art in poetry, has done most of living men to incite new impulses in poetry, the chances are I would name Ezra Pound.
This statement is made reservedly, out of knowing the work of Pound and being somewhat close to it for three years or so. I hope that no luck of war or peace will ever back me into a corner where, by force and duress, I must lie shackled and hungry in a donjon keep until I name the world's champion poet. If, however, as a friendly stranger in a smoking compartment, you should casually ask me for an offhand opinion as to who is the best man writing poetry today, I should probably answer, "Ezra Pound."
All talk on modern poetry, by people who know, ends with dragging in Ezra Pound somewhere. He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant. Or he may be classed as filling a niche today like that of Keats in a preceding epoch. The point is, he will be mentioned.
One must know how to spell his name, and have heard rumors of where he hangs his hat when he eats, and one must have at least passing acquaintance with his solemn denunciadoes and his blurted quiddities, in order to debate on modern poetry, and in such debate zigzag a course of progress.
When Nicodemus wanted to know more about the real Jesus of Nazareth, he had the justice to make a night call and ask Jesus some questions.
Let some of those thrusting spears and ink pots at Ezra Pound try to be fair enough to read him.
In the early regulations of the University of Paris, this oath was required of professors: "I swear to read and to finish reading, within the time set by the statutes, the books and parts of books assigned for my lectures." Some like form should be insisted on for reviewers and commentators who in this push button and dumbwaiter age rush into type with two-minute judgments on twenty-year accomplishments.
Though a Fabre spends ninety years watching spiders and writing a book, any ordinary book reviewer or critic nowadays will type haphazard a column of words on the work of a lifetime, and assume without humility or prayer to say this is good and that is bad.
Though an Ezra Pound toil ten years at one aim and coin high joy and red life into a commanding book of poetry, there are plenty of offhand scholars who assume that he means nothing to anybody because he means nothing to them.
The opposition to Pound divides roughly into two groups: first, the mumbo-jumbo school who assert with grave faces that this sort of poetry has never before been written, and therefore it is not poetry; and second, the pish-tush school whose risibilities are tickled with turning the poems upside down, inside out, or backwards and forwards.
In the cool and purple meantime, Pound goes ahead producing new poems having the slogan, "Guts and Efficiency," emblazoned above his daily program of work. His genius runs to various schools and styles. He acquires traits and then throws them away. One characteristic is that he has no characteristics. He is a new roamer of the beautiful, a new fetcher of wild shapes, in each new handful of writings offered us.
Maybe it is a psalm of his glory in certain old roads "where the hills part in three ways," where also he has "seen the copper come down tingeing the mountains," and sunset "torch flames painting the front of that church." Maybe it is a London girl combing her hair, and he watches her across the street from his room, and wonders pleasantly about her till she sings and her voice sends him running from the rasp of its falsetto. The old, old things that are always lovely haunt him, whether they move on the faces of women, petals of flowers, waves of moonlight, or the waters of Venice by night, which he gives in murmurous lines like these:
And the beauty of this thy Venice
hast thou shown unto me
Until is its loveliness become unto me
a thing of tears.
O God, what great kindness
have we done in times past
and forgotten it,
That thou givest this wonder unto us
O God of the waters?
O God of the night,
what great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
that thou thus repayest us
Before the time of its coming?
From these soft waters and this gentle blurred nocturne, he may turn to this picture and its hard movement:
Gray cliffs,
and beneath them
A sea
Harsher than granite,
unstill, never ceasing.
Or his translation of Bertrans de Born's ballad of the lover of war, wherein the master speaks to his jongleur, Papiol, in this wise:
And I love to see the sun rise blood-crimson,
And I watch his spears through the dark clash,
And it fills all my heart with rejoicing
And pries wide my mouth with fast music.
The man who fears war and squats opposing
My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson,
But is fit only to rot in womanish peace.
Papiol, Papiol, to the music:
May God damn forever all who cry, "Peace!"
Though the Vorticist school now claims Pound and he endorses the claim, he is also an ancient of the ancients. His translations from the Chinese are vivid in feeling and keen in sympathy. One realizes the closeness of the Chinese soul as a next-door human neighbor, fellow-traveler on an old, old planet, after reading Cathay.
Drawing a style of writing from hitherto obscure Romance literature and the troubadours, from the Chinese and the Egyptian, from modern science, Nietzsche and syndicalism, the technique of Pound baffles any accurate analysis in a single paper. His own statements of his theories do not get at the gist of the matter, and he passes his warmest inspirations to others through poems in the actual instead of theoretic.
As well should one reduce to chemical formula the crimson of a Kentucky redbird's wing as dissect the inner human elements that give poetic craft to this heart song from Planh:
But if one should look at me with the old hunger in her eyes,
How will I be answering her eyes?
For I have followed the white folk of the forest,
Aye! It's a long hunting,
And it's a deep hunger I have when I see them a-gliding
And a-flickering there where the trees stand apart.
But oh, it is sorrow and sorrow,
When love dies down in the heart.
He has prowled in streets, taprooms, libraries and lexicons. Out of a mixed lore gathered among hooligans, bookmen and beautiful women, he projects such films as these:
You came in out of the night
And there were flowers in your hands.
Now you will come out of a confusion of people,
Out of a turmoil of speech about you.
I, who have seen you amid the primal things,
Was angry when they spoke your name
In ordinary places.
I would that the cool waves might flow over my mind,
And that the world should dry as a dead leaf,
Or as a dandelion seed-pod and be swept away,
So that I might find you again,
O strange face there in the glass,
O ribald company, O saintly host,
O sorrow-swept my fool,
What answer? O ye myriad
That strive and play and pass,
Jest, challenge, counterlie?
And ye?
And Li Po also died drunk.
He tried to embrace a moon
In the yellow river.
So-Shu dreamed,
And having dreamed that he was a bird, a bee, a butterfly,
He was uncertain why he should try to feel like anything else.
Hence his contentment.
Out of thousands of Christ poems, there are not a dozen that live on shining with the luminous power of the Christ life. Judges like William Butler Yeats say Pound's Ballad of the Goodly Fere will last. These are two of its fourteen verses:
I ha' seen him cow a thousand men
On the hills o' Gallilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between,
Wi' his eyes like the gray o' the sea.
Like the sea that brooks no voyaging
With the winds unleashed and free,
Like the sea that he cowed at Genseret
Wi' twey words spoke suddenly.
On the fly-leaf of a book of Italian translations Ezra Pound wrote:
The reader must bear in mind that these poems were written one by one.
It is impossible to read the book "straight through" with any pleasure.
It is unfair to Guido to attempt it. The poem of the close school is a
subject for meditation. It is best to read one at a time. Four or five together
are all that should ever be tried.
The same counsel goes for those who take up the collected works of Ezra Pound. These are not in the same class with reading matter farmers buy from mail-order houses to while away long winter nights and the rainy season. A piece like this keeps its music through more than a hundred readings:
Beautiful, infinite memories
That are a-plucking at my heart,
Why will you be ever calling and a-calling,
And a-murmuring in the dark there?
And a-reaching out your long hands
Between me and my beloved?
And why will you be ever a-casting
The black shadows of your beauty
On the white face of my beloved,
And a-glinting in the pools of her eyes?
His way of working, his art and craftsmanship, is more conscious and deliberate, more clear-cut in purpose and design, than might be thought from first glance at the careless surface of one of his free-running poems. While he is an ignorant barbarian on the sources of his inspiration and the power by which he works out his inward flashes, once the urge and blaze is on him he works by rules, measurements, formulæ and data as strict and definite as any worker who uses exact science, and employs fractions of inches, and drills in steel by thousandths of millimeters. These two sentences may offer clues to the intuitions that guide him:
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, spheres and the like, but equations for the human emotions. If one have a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.
Since he wrote the foregoing in The Spirit of Romance some years ago, he has been joined with the Imagists and from them passed on to the Vorticists. Wyndham Lewis in Blast starts with the Red Indian, and then cites Poe, Whistler, Henry James, and Walt Whitman, ending with Ezra Pound as the high points of American art. These are Lewis' notes on Pound:
Demon pantechnicon driver, busy with removal of old world into
new quarters. In his steel net of impeccable technique he has lately
caught Li Po. Energy of a discriminating element.
People write poetry because they want to. It functions in them as air in the nostrils of an athlete in a sprint. Moods, thoughts, emotions, surge over writers as they do over inventors and politicians. It is a dark stuff of life that comes and goes.
There are those who play safe and sane in poetry, as in mechanics and politics. To each realm its own gay madmen. Some win their public while they live. Others must mould a very small public while alive, and be content with a larger one after death. Still others need no public at all, and in the role of bystanders they get more enjoyment and knowledge of life than as performers.
In a world with so high a proportion of fools, it is neither disgrace nor honor when people say of a finished work, "I can't understand it." The last word on the merits of it will be spoken by the future. And sometimes the future decides that a work is beautiful and worth treasuring, and then ironically destroys it and leaves behind no word of explanation nor apology.
I like the pages of Ezra Pound. He stains darkly and touches softly. The flair of great loneliness is there. He is utter as a prairie horseman, a biplane in the azure, a Norse crag, or any symbol of the isolate, contemplative spirit of man unafraid and searching. He is worth having.
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This poem originally appeared in the February 1916 issue of Poetry magazine
By G. Tucker Bispham
By Alfred Kreymborg
By Alice Corbin Henderson
"Trying to write briefly about Carl Sandburg," said a friend of the poet, "is like trying to picture the Grand Canyon in one black and white snapshot." His range of interests was enumerated by his close friend, Harry Golden, who, in his study of the poet, called Sandburg "the one...
The Work of Ezra Pound
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1) Yes, you can be Primal without eating a ton of veggies. I do it more or less seasonally. (Winter tends to be more carnivore.) However, they ARE good for you, so with that I have to say...
2) Suck it up and eat your vegetables. Seriously. I don't get grown people who can't eat a few green things once in a while.
Not trying to be rude, snarky or a b*tch. Just a little pet peeve of mine. You don't have to eat salad every day. Hell, you don't have to eat salad at all. I like my veggies cooked more often than not.
When it comes right down to it, you don't have to do anything, but you can choose to be Primal, and eat meat and veggies and be healthy. Your call.


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Has anyone noticed what happened to social media over the last few years? Um… where did all the content go? Communications have been reduced from actual status reports to inaccurate quotes, fake Asian proverbs, and the latest rage, a (not so) funny comment imposed on bad rip-offs of Charles Dana Gibson style illustrations. Everyone is sharing someone else's half-wit humor, silly cat video; or changing their profile pic to the latest mass political stance – is this what we've been reduced to? As much as it pains me to say it, we may have seen the relevance of social media pass. Sigh.
Social media is probably one of the most adaptive and evolving innovations of the new digital world. Even as I am writing this, some student is toiling away in his mother's basement creating the next great social share platform that will completely revolutionize social media – again. The number of social channels is growing on a daily basis. The spectrum covers everything from micro-blogging to gaming communities and everything in between. Staying on top of all the changes and platforms can be a daunting task. For a company without an abundance of capital to throw at the problem it is virtually impossible. Let's face it; we all can't afford to have a team of strategists pushing our brand 24-7. In the real world – most of us are struggling to keep up with production. It is almost impossible for any small or medium sized enterprise (SME) to stay on top of what is happening in the social sphere.
If you run a web search for just about any iteration of "social media strategy," you will find a plethora of opinions on how to run a perfect campaign. A dizzying array of to-dos, positions and strategies, some have validity others not so much; in either case, unless you have a devoted marketing team with its own social media division any advice is merely suggestive hopes and dreams.
I am here to offer an alternative, a common sense approach to a social media campaign for SMEs.
There is no reason to believe that social media is going to suddenly change the way your company (no matter how big or small) does business. Be realistic; know the limitations of what a social strategy can do for you. It's a slow burn. Just because you start posting does not mean that people are suddenly going to find you, listen, and engage your message with a response. Think of your social strategy more as a cultural change. Start small and work your way into the market .With steady persistence you will be rewarded.
We all have friends on Facebook who post comments about every event throughout their day, entertaining us with their boredom. My advice: don't be that person. If you want people to listen to what you are saying, post relevant information. It does not have to be directly related to your business, but there should be some sort of subtle connection where people who know what you do can find the information and draw their own conclusions. I'm reminded of a quote from one of the pioneers of design thinking, David Sibbit, in his book Visual Meetings, he writes in a chapter about getting people involved, "People are more engaged by things that are suggestive than by things that are crystal clear." This couldn't be more applicable than in social media. By being suggestive, subscribers are more likely participate in the thought process you are trying to create. Rather than telling them what to think engage them to draw their own correlations. You should post on pertinent news, legislation, and other things that affect your business and customers, but do so in an open-ended manner that will foster engagement in an insightful, meaningful manner.
When I was studying for my undergrad in Illustration, one theme that kept repeating itself throughout the curriculum was what we called "voice." This voice was a mixture of several things. It was part style, part message, and part personality. Style, as I see it, is a blend of technique and medium. Message is subject matter plus perspective, and personality is the passion from which the work is created. The final form is your "voice," and when all things are working together, your "voice" is what is prevalent. What is true in art is also true in business. You already have your voice. It is your passion, your perspective and your message as an enterprise. Take what motivates you and talk about it. When all these aspects are working together it is authentic which resonates with users.
One mistake that I see often in social campaigns is that companies are talking more than they are listening. Have you ever had a real conversation with someone who just talks and won't ever give you time to lend your point of view? Engaging people on social media is mostly about listening. If you know (follow, friend, make connection, etc.) your audience and you are paying attention to their voices the benefits are reciprocal and produce true relationships with opportunities for both parties to grow. This is your chance to provide customers a simple easy way to suggest, recommend and share success stories. You can also respond to a demand or need that your competition is missing.
Social media campaigns – like any message efforts – require understanding and experience. If you're interested in building a social media strategy, be sure you have a handle on the technology, the culture, the opportunities, the risks, and the investment. Set aside some time to learn about what is going on. Find some people and companies to follow, friend, or connect with, and observe their behavior for a while. Start with your competitors and clients; listen to what people are saying. Share little and listen a lot. When you're ready to start really participating in the social media scene, make sure you have a plan that's consistent with your overall brand strategy. Remember that for companies, social media isn't social at all, it's marketing.
According to research conducted at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, as of 2012 corporate blogs at Fortune 500 companies are up 12% since 2008, 66% are on Facebook and 73% have twitter accounts. These companies spend millions of dollars every year on social media strategy. The truly great part of this media is, it's not a Super bowl ad – you can essentially have the same presence with a fraction of the investment. Be relevant and passionate, and always remember that content is king. With persistence and the right approach, the benefits will come.
Opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views or positions of the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, its employees, members, or associates.
Christopher C. Fick is the Art Director at the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences; with a background in both manufacturing and visual design he is looking to bridge the gap between the creative and technical fields.
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Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is an ongoing problem, but it doesn't have to keep you from being active. You can help control it with exercise and a healthy lifestyle. Be sure to see your doctor as requested for checkups and lab work. At some point, your doctor may send you to a rheumatologist (a doctor who specializes in arthritis and related diseases).
Follow a Healthy Lifestyle
While no one knows what causes rheumatoid arthritis, these tips may help reduce your symptoms:
Find the right balance of rest and activity.
Learn ways to reduce or control stress.
Ask your family and friends for help with tasks.
Eat healthy foods.
Stay at your proper weight.
Start to Exercise
Gentle exercise can make it easier to use your joints. Keep the following in mind when you work out:
Choose exercises that improve joint motion and make your muscles stronger. Your doctor or a physical therapist may suggest a few.
Low-impact activities, such as walking, biking, or exercising in a warm pool, are good.
Don't push yourself too hard at first. Slowly build up your endurance over time.
When pain and stiffness are really bad, cut back on your workout.
Use Special Tools
Even simple tasks can be hard to do when your joints hurt. The special tools and aids listed here can make things easier by reducing strain and protecting your joints. Ask your health care provider where to find these and other helpful tools:
Long-handled reachers and grabbers
Jar openers, two-handled cups, button threaders
Splints for your wrists or other joints
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We welcome proposals for papers from the Renaissance to the present, from early galleries and cast courts, to contemporary interventions and installations. We are looking at the relationship between sculpture and its public position, primarily inside the building rather than out, and will consider a broad range of definitions of 'gallery' and indeed of 'sculpture'. How does sculpture signal an institution's (or an individual's) public aspirations; how does it denote culture, learning or modernity? How does sculpture affirm or challenge an established reputation? What kind of comparisons can be drawn between sculpture displays in art museums and galleries and those in other types of museums?
Please submit abstracts (of no more than 500 words) together with a brief biographical outline by email to Ellen Tait by email (email@example.com) or by post to: Henry Moore Institute, 74 The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AH by July 1 2006. (This conference has been developed in tandem with the Fellowship held at the Institute by Dr Christopher Marshall of the University of Melbourne who will work with us in developing its content.)


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Product recalls or recall notices announced recently. Details are available in most cases at www.cpsc.gov and other websites or telephone numbers listed.
Baby rattles
About 8,300 Manhattan Toy Quixel baby rattles. The plastic rattles have arches in red, orange, green and blue with sliding beads on each of the arches. The arches are held together by a single elastic string. The arches measure about 5 inches in diameter. They were sold at specialty toy and baby stores and online at www.manhattantoy.com from September 2011 through October 2013.
The arches can break, creating a small part that poses a choking hazard to small children. There have been at least four reports of the rattles breaking. No injuries have been reported.
Details: by phone at 800-541-1345; at www.manhattantoy.com.
About 31,000 Viking built-in refrigerators with bottom freezers. They were sold from November 2005 through October 2012. The model and serial numbers are on the ceiling of the interior.
The doors can come off, posing an injury hazard to consumers. There have been 39 reports of falling refrigerator doors, including 12 reports of injuries involving a fracture, bruises, strains and cuts, and 25 reports of minor property damage. The 39 new reports are in addition to 57 reports in the previous recall, from 2009.
Details: by phone at 877-546-0136; at www.vikingrange.com.
Fan heaters
About 107,000 Soleil portable fan heaters with model number LH-707. The model number is on the underside of the fan on a sticker. They were sold at Home Depot stores from September 2012 through May 2013.
The plastic housing can melt, deform and catch fire during use. There have been at least 464 reports of the fans melting. No injuries or property damage have been reported.
Details: by phone at 877-527-0313; or online at www.home depot.com.
Exercise equipment
About 2,200 Johnny G. Krankcycle by Matrix with detachable seats that can be removed from the frame by lifting up on the seat. The Krankcycles have handles that the user turns in a circular motion for exercise. They were sold from January 2008 through January 2012.
The seat can unexpectedly detach from the Krankcycle's frame during use, posing a fall hazard to users. There have been two injuries, including one report of broken ribs and one report of a back injury requiring surgery.
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I have been doing a fair amount of reading on the hook structure coming in phpBB 3.1 and made a suggestion or two for hook locations myself. I have not done so for SEO purposes yet. I believe it would be useful to hear where the phpBB SEO community would want hooks that would enable SEO URLs to be implemented in an easier fashion than currently - perhaps it would just require a few uses of the hooks and changes to .htaccess.
I believe that hooks in the following might be useful, does anyone have any to add?:
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I have not looked enough to say exactly where the hooks should go, but given where phpBB 3.1 is in development, now would be a good time to suggest where the hooks should go.
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Keeping up with the Joneses… for the longest time that seemed like the American past-time. See your neighbor get a 50″-inch flat-screen television, you had to spring for the 72″-incher. See your neighbor roll up in a BMW 3-series, you had to get yourself a lease on a 5-series. See your neighbor install a hot-tub? You had to dig your own in-ground pool. For years, consumerism dominated America and so many people went in the hole to one-up their neighbors, friends, and family.
Fortunately that little game seems to be waning along with the economy but I find that this unhealthy competition looks a lot like photo-retouching… something a recent Dove commercial railed against.
What's my point?
You can retouch all the photos you want but what's underneath is what's authentic and real. All the women in those magazines started off beautiful, they wouldn't have been chosen otherwise, and the retouching created an image that is simply unattainable and unrealistic. Did you see how they used computers to stretch that model's face? It looks weird when you know what she started out as but once you throw it on a billboard, it looks normal.
It's the same with our ridiculous level of consumer consumption. When you see that fancy new car or that nice television, chances are you don't see the high level of consumer debt (credit cards? second mortgage? HELOC?) that's behind it. We envision a lavish lifestyle as normal and stretch ourselves to attain it. Someone should do a commercial about that.
Be true to yourself and who you are, don't try to keep up with someone digging their own financial grave.
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We quantified the nitrogen and enzyme hydrolyzable amino acid (EHAA) concentrations of sediments prior to and after corals sloughed, ingested, and egested sediments layered onto their surfaces, for the three coral species Siderastrea siderea, Agaricia agaricites, and Porites astreoides in Jamaica. The percent nitrogen of the sediments egested by all three species was lower than in the sediments available to the corals. Additionally, the sediments sloughed ( not ingested) by A. agaricites and P. astreoides were lower in percent nitrogen, while the sediments sloughed by S. siderea had the same percent nitrogen as that of the available sediments. The percent nitrogen of the sediments sloughed and egested by P. astreoides showed significant negative and positive relationships, respectively, to increasing sediment loads, while the percent nitrogen of the sediments sloughed and egested by both S. siderea and A. agaricites showed no relationship to sediment load. EHAA concentrations were not significantly different between the sloughed and available sediments but were significantly lower in the sediments egested by S. siderea and A. agaricites ( EHAA concentrations were not measured for P. astreodies sediment fractions). Comparisons of the nitrogen and EHAA concentrations in the sloughed and egested sediments to what was available prior to coral processing show that maximum ingestion was between 0.1 and 0.2 mug N mug(-1) coral N cm(-2) and between 0.5 and 0.6 mug EHAA.cm(-2). Maximum assimilation efficiencies were estimated to be 30 - 60% of the available nitrogen. The data show that corals ingest and alter the nitrogen concentration of particles that land on their surfaces. The corals' abilities to process these sediments, and the sediments' possible contributions to coral nutrition, are discussed based on these results.
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Fine Gael pulls a stroke to zilch FF's Ryan
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The Political Cute Hoor of the Week Award (even though it's still only Monday) goes to Frank Flannery for his statement that Fine Gael would be willing to work with Sinn Féin to put Fianna Fáil out of office.
Enda and Frank: what are they cooking up? (Photograph by Eric Luke)
The only plausible interpretation is that he wants to put the kibosh once and for all on Eoin Ryan's chances of re-election to the European Parliament in the Dublin Constituency.
In a newspaper interview, Mr Flannery said his party would even consider taking part in a coalition government that included Sinn Féin: "Let's suppose that Fine Gael and Labour were short and Sinn Féin had the numbers. Could I see that, theoretically? I could see that happen."
Of course he was "speaking now in a personal way" and there were still problems over the paramilitary issue and SF's attitude to past violence. And then, as sure as night follows day, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny popped-up on RTE's This Week programme that Fine Gael had a policy of not "doing business" with Sinn Féin.
Mr Flannery is Fine Gael's National Director of Elections and the most believable explanation, by several country miles, for his sudden interest in Sinn Féin – it was the lead story in the Irish Mail on Sunday – is that it would send a signal to Gay Mitchell's supporters in the Dublin race that it was OK to give SF's Mary Lou McDonald their Number Two. She needs transfers – at least Ryan has a running-mate, Lord Mayor Eibhlín Byrne.
When I pressed Eoin Ryan a couple of weeks back on the issue of transfers, he said he was urging FF supporters to transfer to pro-EU parties. He is no doubt hoping that FG voters will take the same attitude and give him their second preference instead of Ms McDonald.
The problem for FG is that, whereas they will do well in terms of votes cast, they are virtually certain to lose that second seat in Ireland East/Leinster. If Avril Doyle were standing again, she would be a virtual shoo-in, whereas Senator John Paul Phelan doesn't seem to have much chance against Labour's Nessa Childers (Did you know she is the daughter of the former President? Oh, and by the way, she is the daughter of the former President. And while we're at it, her father was President of Ireland. Well, I know, because a Labour canvasser said it in my presence 500 times.)
The danger for FG is that the Big Story of the election could be: "Fianna Fáil holds four seats against the odds; Fine Gael down from five to four". That would take the shine off things for Frank and Enda et al.
You would think Brian Cowen would be in Dublin, canvassing his guts out for Ryan. In recent days he's been in South/Munster, where Brian Crowley is the greatest certainty since Italy beat San Marino way back whenever and he's been in North-West, where Pat the Cope is a very strong candidate. There's still some time left. (On the other hand, he might be a liability in the current climate.)
Meanwhile, Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern of Fianna Fáil says Flannery's comments are "astounding" and "shocking". Those with long memories will recall that, speaking to reporters at Hillsborough Castle on 12 October 2004, Mr Ahern said in reference to politics south of the Border: "It is only a matter of time that Sinn Féin will be in government in the future. But until such time as the IRA demonstrably show that they have put down arms forever and a day. . . there cannot be two armies. "
"That is the reality. It is the same in the North as it is in the Republic. That would be the position, depending on what happens as regards the entire issue of putting down arms forever."
He continued: "There will come a time, I envisage, where Sinn Fein will be in government in the Republic as they will be in the North. I hope that happens in the future."
Did that mean a coalition between Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin? "Well, with other parties, and conceivably with Fianna Fáil."


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The 2006 MAASA Program Committee invites colleagues in American Studies and related disciplines to propose papers, panel sessions, presentations, performances, film screenings, roundtables, or workshops. The theme of the conference is "American Public Cultures." MAASA also welcomes proposals on any topic dealing with American Studies. Proposals should represent work in progress rather than published work. The meeting is open to anyone having an interdisciplinary interest in the study of American culture. We extend a special invitation to colleagues in community colleges, libraries, high schools, museums, arts organizations, and historical societies.
The study of public culture brings together many strands of
American Studies scholarship, teaching, and practice. Public
culture is the enactment of rituals, symbols, expressions, and
displays intended to foster shared identities, build communities,
and establish attachments to place. It involves the mobilization of
tangible resources such as architecture, landscapes, visual
artifacts, and tools, as well as intangible resources such as
memory, affiliation, talent, belief, and place. Public culture,
then, is the active mobilization of these resources to define
social relations and shape public life.
Proposal guidelines:
1. Individual Paper. Two pages: first page contains name,
affiliation, title, and 250-word abstract. Second page, brief c.v.
2. Panels, performances, workshops, roundtables. Cover page listing participants' names, affiliations, roles, and titles.† 250-word
abstract of each presentation.†One-page c.v. for each participant.
Deadline: December 15, 2005
Send proposals to:
Matthew Mancini
MAASA 2006 Program Chair
Department of American Studies
Saint Louis University
3800 Lindell Blvd.
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Blackwell The Arts and Crafts House
Blackwell is one of England's most important surviving houses from the turn of the 20th century. Designed by M. H. Baillie Scott between 1898 and 1900, it is a superb example of Arts and Crafts movement architecture.
It occupies a stunning position overlooking Windermere in the English Lake District and is open to the public as a Historic House and a gallery for contemporary craft.
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Historic house or home
17 January - 31 December 2014 (except 25 & 26 Dec)
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Adult admission £8/£7.25, Children and Students FREE
houseplace by Chris Keenan
- 29 July — 9 October 2016 *on now
houseplace will be the result of a short residency undertaken by Chris Keenan at Blackwell in early 2016 organised jointly by the Craft Potters Association and Lakeland Arts, funded by the Headley Trust. The resulting work will be on display later in 2016.
'There are few things that offer me greater satisfaction than being at the wheel, throwing or turning. My work and knowledge of clay occupies a fairly narrow band of the extremely broad ceramic spectrum but that band does go deep. I have only ever used porcelain and for the most part, only two glazes. I largely make work in small batches and for these, repetition is key; but the word "repetition" belies the reality that each piece represents a separate examination of the form in question and is a nuanced response to a previous incarnation.
In addition, over the past few years, I have been making my "extra-curricular" work – non-functional, interactive installation pieces which have at their core a sense of playfulness, incorporating elements of theatre which is a nod to my previous existence as an actor.
My work is exhibited around the world and is held in the permanent collections of several Museums including the V&A in London, the Ashmolean in Oxford and the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan.'
Suitable for
- Any age
Adult £8.50 (without donation £7.70)
Friends, Patrons & Benefactors FREE
Free admission for young people up to the age of 16 and full-time students over 16.
National Art Pass 50% discount
Spinning the Colours of Lakeland: Annie Garnett's Spinnery, textiles and garden
- 24 September 2016 — 29 January 2017 *on now
'Colour I revel in' – the words of Annie Garnett, the creative Arts and Crafts designer and entrepreneur who became a key figure in the revival of hand spinning and weaving in the Lake District.
The exhibition is based on the unique archives of the Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry in Kendal and will describe the establishment and ethos of Annie Garnett's Spinnery workshops in Bowness-on-Windermere.
It examines how she created employment for up to a hundred women, working at home in cottages and farmhouses, to hand-spin flax and silk yarns for weaving into wonderfully coloured textiles, some richly embroidered, for making into dresses and soft furnishings of all kinds. These won numerous star prizes at important regional and national exhibitions and were purchased not only by local Lakeland folk, but also by the rich and famous from far and wide, including royalty, with some customers being as far away as the United States of America.
Sit and Stitch Embroidery Workshop
- 27 October 2016 2-4pm
Learn the techniques of hand embroidery and enjoy an afternoon of stitching in the White Drawing Room. Great for all ages.
Suitable for
- Any age
£10/£3 Friends, material provided. Booking essential
Blackwell The Arts and Crafts House
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What materials did you use? 300-1100 yds of Colour Adventures Sweet Merino DK or Dia Merino DK. Sizes 6m to 14 years. Notions: 4 stitch markers; Tapestry needle; Sewing needles; Matching sewing thread; 2 buttons (3/4 inch wide), more than 2 buttons are optional; 2 lengths of waste yarns/stitch holders; ~ 15 inches of wide elastic band (optional). Needles: Main needles (30 cm circulars or dpns and 60 or 80 cm circular): size that gives you correct gauge (for example, US #4/3.5 mm). Needles XS (30 cm circular or dpns and 60 cm circular): 2 sizes down from your main needle (for example, US #2.5/3.0 mm). Needles L (60 cm circular): one size up from your main needles (for example, US #5/3.75 mm). Needles XL (60 cm circular) - 12m and up only: two sizes up from your main needles (for example, US#6/4.0 mm). Gauge: 22sts x 28 to 32 rows = 4 inches.
So pretty and great photo.
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oh this is a nice project my granddaughter is only 16 mths would this fit her do you think
Yes the pattern is sized from 6 months to 14 years - there is more info on the blog here: http://anadiomenadesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/my-honey-cardigan.html


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VC appointed to General Medical Council
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex, Professor Michael Farthing, has been appointed to the General Medical Council (GMC), which regulates the UK's 250,000 doctors.
Along with six lay members, Professor Farthing, a gastroenterologist, will be one of six medical experts on a new, smaller GMC.
In what it describes as a "major milestone in reforming medical regulation", the GMC is reducing its membership from 24 to 12 in January.
Professor Sir Peter Rubin, Chair of the GMC, said: "The move to a smaller Council is an historic change and will play a critical role in setting out a clear vision and direction for the GMC at a time of great change for doctors and patients.
"The current Council has delivered a range of major initiatives to protect patients and improve the quality of healthcare.
"I am really looking forward to working with my new colleagues as we continue to make our contribution to improving medical education and practice across the UK."
Prior to joining Sussex in 2007, Professor Farthing was Principal of St George's, University of London, which specialises in medicine and health sciences. He was also Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Medicine for the University of London.
He is currently chair of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities and a board member of Universities UK.
Alongside these senior management roles in higher education, Professor Farthing has had a distinguished career in medicine, both as a physician and as an academic, spanning more than 30 years.
He was a member of the GMC's Education Committee until 2008 and, that year, chaired the group that reviewed the GMC's curriculum guidance document, 'Tomorrow's Doctors'.
The GMC controls entry to the Medical Register; regulates all stages of medical education; sets standards of practice and takes action where those standards have not been met.
The new Council will start its term of office on 1 January 2013.back to news list


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What a day, what a performance and what a result!
Beattie put a minor run of poor form to bed as Stoke beat a dispirited West Ham side 2-1 at the Britannia on Saturday. The poor advertising board felt the brunt of Beattie's relief as that particular sponsor no doubt sat grinning to themselves at the free publicity afforded by the big striker's right boot.
West Ham Correspondent Billy Blagg completes his story of the memorable League Cup of 72'
West Ham Correspondent Billy Blag recounts an historic cup run for his beloved Hammers which culminated in a lengthy, drawn out jostle with the high flying Potters...
A surprising line up but a good positive display saw Stoke take not just a point but also much encouragement away from Goodison Park.
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Skip to comments."Gay" Jesus play canceled
Posted on 03/27/2010 12:56:16 PM PDT by massmike
A controversial student-directed play at Tarleton State University that would have portrayed Jesus as a homosexual has been canceled.
According to a press release from the university, the professor of the theatre directing class decided to cancel the Saturday production of "Corpus Christi" because of safety and security concerns for the students, as well as the need to maintain an orderly academic environment.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdfw.com ...
"According to a press release from the university, the professor of the theatre directing class decided to cancel the Saturday production of "Corpus Christi" because of safety and security concerns for the students, as well as the need to maintain an orderly academic environment."
Hahahahaha...that and they probably sold four tickets...to the lead's and production team's "special friends."
I suspect you're right about low ticket sales being the actual reason.
I guess they cancelled it due to the Reign of Terror(tm) that the Teabaggers and Sky-Fairy Fundies have been conducting this past week. Katie Couric sez that it just isn't safe to be an Progressive in America these days!</sarc>
I would have canx'd it too. 3 good reason, not related to security or academic environment...
1. it's in poor taste.
2. if I were Christian, I'd be offended.
3. if I were homosexual, I'd be offended.
Drive the perversion out of the state and no the gay bathhouses of San Francisco.
Stephenville, Texas is not a good place to try this kind of cr@p. It is not a "f@g friendly" town, believe me.
It will be replaced with a new 3 act play entitled:
"Mohammed the One and Only Original Pedophile" , or "How to Win a War and Get Converts by Chopping Their Heads Off For Allah While Blissing With a 13 Year-Old Virgin [only 71 left to go!] in Mecca"
Exactly!!! My car got hid going through there surrounded by pickups and driver/passengers with cowboy hats!!
Glad we won one there for now as I would have wondered about Texas even more!
Happy Spring to all....
Canceled by God.
Canceled due to "safety and security" concerns?
See, they are spinning it that they were fearful of hateful homophobic people.
Yeah, I was looking forward to the "Gay Allah" sequel...
Where's my violin? Boo hoo hoo.
Try strolling through Butthole, California and saying anything less than adoring of homosexuality. Then tell me what it's like to fear for your safety.
Nobody cancels a play the day of, unless there is a serious problem. If there were credible threats, this leader would have played the victim card to the max.
No, people just didn't want to come see their religion attacked in public.
Yanking my kid out of that school would be one of the first things to enter my mind. What a disgusting disrespectful thing to put on display.
Everyone from the principle on down should be ashamed of the environment they were willing to tolerate there.
An ACT OF GOD!!!
More likely their parents were going to beat the crap out of them! lol
No principal there. It's a redneck party university.
Yes. It closed because no one wanted to see the banal POS but the silver lining is that the producer can lie about the reason, citing "security concerns" from those crazy Christians and will get to go on some talk show as a Free Speech Martyr.
The only time I can remember a play mocking Christ being shut down over true "security reasons" is in London when Muslims (who think Christ is a prophet) protested it.
Thanks DRey. I didn't bother to go back up and look. I appreciate the correction.
Actually, the play wasn't even open to the public. It was supposedly "an exercise to give the students practice in directing and producing a play". It was all done behind the back of the new university president. The first anybody heard of it was a little story in the newspaper. It was a flagrant slap in the face of the university leaders and the VERY conservative community. Several hundreds of thousands of dollars in endowments and gifts to the university were going to be withdrawn if the play went on. And yes, my dad is a big muckity-muck at Tarleton (but not the prez) and has been involved since the story broke.
The people who came up with this sick disgusting perversion are surely the ones to whom the Bible referred when it spoke of people who by their own rebellious stubbornness are turned over to "reprobate minds" beyond redemption.
Expect nationwide outrage from the sodomite thugs; local protests, property damage, assaults and other thuggery - in Stephenville of all places. This will go over really big for the sphincter worshipers. /sarc
It's OK everybody. The students involved decided instead to film a documentary exploring whether or not Mohammad was a murderous, lying, child rapist.
And here I thought that civilization had "advanced" to a point where "artistic freedom" allows the celebration of a homosexual Jesus. (sarcasm)
Well, we're "tolerant" and "evolved" enough to celebrate the vagina with "The Vagina Monologues", but not evolved enough for a gay Jesus. (more sarcasm)
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May 16, 2010
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
There are some incredible moments in this game. I enjoyed playing a sniper waiting for lightning to strike before I could hit my target. I also liked how destructible the environments are. I got a 101 on destruction from Just Cause 2. BFBC2 is where I applied my knowledge. You can create paths, and make it to the top floor of some buildings by destroying it properly. It also works against you. You might think you're safe inside that building until a rocket launcher takes out the wall that was protecting you.
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May 7, 2010
The Simpsons Arcade Game
The game starts off with Maggie being kidnapped by Smither's while the Simpson family attempts to get her back. You can play as Marge, Homer, Bart, or Lisa depending on where you decide to put your coins. Each character attacks with a different weapon. Marge has a vacuum, Homer uses his fists, Bart has a skateboard, and Lisa uses her jump rope. The game plays like an episode of the Simpson. The star of this episode is the town of Springfield. You begin in the streets fighting your way throgh enemies. The second level brings us to the amusement park. At the end of the boss fight you fall into the underworld and end up at the cemetery which conveniently is the 3rd level. I ran out of quarters here so I'll get back to you on the rest of the levels.
The game remains fun for me almost 20 years later. I used to enjoy the game play a lot as a kid, but now it's pretty dated. For controls we have a joystick and two buttons. One button (A) attacks and the other button (B) jumps. Really not much of a variety when it comes to attacking things when you only have two buttons. I found it possible to do 3 moves. Attack (A) . a jumping attack (B) then (A) or a swinging attack by turning the joystick in a circle then pressing (A) attack. The plot keeps me interested now. Seeing all of the various characters on the show doing stupid stuff while I explored the town of Springfield was fun. It's no secret Matt Groening loved video games. Konami came together and made him a good one. I forgive all of the other bad Simpson's games thanks to the arcade game.
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Adventurous and well-travelled zoologist who was fascinated by the ways desert creatures adapt to their torrid environment
Scorpions, centipedes and spiders were all held in the highest regard by John Cloudsley-Thompson, a natural historian of the old school. As a young soldier serving in North Africa he tamed a desert fox which he bartered from an Arab for half a piastre and a bunch of bananas. It was the beginning of a life-long fascination with desert creatures — and none was too small, poisonous or repulsive to escape his attentions.
In his element in the Sahara, where he lived for a decade, Cloudsley-Thompson might be found travelling through Tunisia in a jeep or working in a museum in


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on October 13, 2012 - 11:03 PM
Oct. 3
A vehicle had its rear window smashed while parked in the 400 block of Cedar Avenue in Niagara Falls.
The victim told police that someone smashed the window of his 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse when he left it parked behind his house overnight. Stolen were 35 Craftsman hand tools, valued at $1,000, as well as a $700 amplifier and $100 in cash. Total loss and damage $1,800.
Oct. 4
A Shawnee Road woman told police that someone stole a dehumidifier from her home. The woman told sheriff's deputies that sometime between 8 a.m. and noontime, someone entered her front porch and removed the item, valued at $50.
• A man swallowed a ball of suspected narcotics during a routine traffic stop on Niagara Falls Boulevard, police said.
Levester J. Rose, 34, of Dudley Avenue, had been stopped for speeding just after 11 p.m., police said, and when officers approached the vehicle he was seen swallowing a baggie containing a white substance about the size of a "large gumball,'' police said.
That act earned Rose a charge of tampering with physical evidence. He was also charged with speeding, second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, obstructing governmental administration, unlawful possession of marijuana and consuming alcohol in a motor vehicle.
Oct. 5
Barking dogs tipped a LaSalle-area woman to a theft attempt, police said.
The victim, an 81st Street resident, told police she did not investigate upon hearing her dogs barking between 12:15 and 12:30 a.m., but later discovered that someone had entered her unlocked car and removed a pair of portable DVD players valued at $160.
• A Ridge Road woman has been charged with theft of services for allegedly stealing electricity after power to her home was shut off in September.
Officials of National Grid confirmed that power to the Lockport home was cut on Sept. 27, but said that someone tampered with an electrical meter afterward, restoring electricity to the home. The theft was discovered on Friday, and Deborah J. Kennedy, 53, was charged following an investigation. A ""more permanent'' shutoff procedure was then employed, deputies said.
• A Tonawanda man was robbed of his pet cat as he sat on a bench at the NFTA Metro Bus terminal on Portage Road, Niagara Falls police said.
The 41-year-old victim told police he was at the terminal just before 4 a.m. when a truck pulled up alongside and a man exited the passenger side. He grabbed the cat, named ""Smokes,'' from the victim's arms, got back into the truck and left the area.
The victim said he walked across a parking lot, at which time the truck returned and drove past him. The truck stopped and the passenger gave the man four cigarettes before driving off again.
• Niagara Falls police said that about $1,000 worth of copper plumbing was stolen from a vacant home in the 2700 block of South Avenue.
A caretaker for the property owner said the theft occurred sometime since Sept. 19, but was not discovered until Friday. It was not immediately known how access to the property was gained.
Oct. 6
A man reportedly fired several shots from a BB-type gun into a home in the 700 block of Pierce Avenue in an apparent dispute over money, Niagara Falls Police said.
A resident of the home told police a man banged on the door just after midnight, holding a handgun. He believed the man was looking for his roommate, who reportedly owes the man money, and told him to go home.
The resident then reported hearing as many as 15 shots, at least two of which went through a window and struck a 27-year-old woman sitting nearby in the arm, causing welts. She refused treatment. The gunman was gone when police arrived at the scene.
• A Lockport woman was charged with driving while intoxicated after striking a parked car in the 400 block of Fourth Street, Niagara Falls police said.
Police said the woman told them she had just returned from Canada, where she had been drinking, and was parking so her friend could visit a nearby tavern, when the accident occurred around 1:30 a.m.
Erika E. Tulley, 19, of Locust Street Extension, was charged with DWI, second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation and making an unsafe lane change. Police said she had a blood-alcohol content of 0.18, more than twice the legal limit.
• A Buffalo woman's purse was stolen while she shopped at the DOTS clothing store on Niagara Falls Boulevard, according to Niagara Falls police reports.
The victim told police she was at the store around 7:30 p.m. and hung her purse on a clothing rack in order to try on some items. Other store patrons told the woman that three women, estimated to be in their 30s, grabbed the purse and fled the store.
The stolen purse contained $463 in cash, a cellphone, medications and credit cards, police said. Total loss was estimated at $748.
Oct. 8
A Niagara Falls woman said she was approached as she was walking on Niagara Falls Boulevard near the I-190 afternoon by two teens on bicycles who stopped her and then robbed her of her purse.
The 55-year-old woman said the boys both appeared to be about 16 years old and approached her at 4:20 p.m. as she walked along the south side of the road. She said one of the males stopped and asked her if she had a lighter, and she said when she opened her purse the other teen pushed her down to the ground. She said she held onto her purse, but the teen who pushed her down then grabbed the purse from her.
The victim said she injured her shoulder and neck in the robbery. The purse contained $80 in cash and personal papers, according to police. The woman was treated at Mount St. Mary's Hospital in Lewiston for her injuries, police said.
• Three vehicles left unlocked in driveways in the 5600 block of Leete Road in Lockport were broken into earlier this week and one of the vehicles, a sport utility vehicle, was taken on a joy ride after the owner left the keys to the unlocked vehicle in the SUV's cup holder.
A woman told police that her 2012 Ford Escape was stolen from the driveway sometime between 1 and 5 a.m. The vehicle was located around 9 a.m. in a City of Lockport parking lot as Niagara County sheriff's deputies were taking the report from the victim. No damages were reported.
She said a GPS, a Nintendo DS game system and her prescription glasses were stolen.
Her husband said his unlocked vehicle also was entered and $500 worth of tools, an MP3 player and two cartons of cigarettes were stolen.
A Leete Road neighbor told deputies that his unlocked minivan had a GPS stolen from the center console. Also stolen was a green bicycle with a water bottle.
Oct. 9
A 57-year-old 13th Street man told Niagara Falls police that someone ripped a purse from his shoulder as he walked down 20th Street.
The victim said at 9 p.m. he was in the 800 block of 20th Street when a man ran past him and forcibly stole the purse, ripping the shoulder strap. The purse contained identification, a bank card, and a benefits card.
• A Lockport man accused in a hit and run was stopped and found with a small amount of crack cocaine, according to Lockport police.
Justin J. Snead, 21, of Lincoln Place was stopped at 8:20 p.m. on Cottage Street and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, leaving the scene and operating a motor vehicle without a valid license. Police also confiscated $230.
The victim said a white Dodge Durango hit his vehicle on Spruce Street and left, damaging his vehicle's front quarter panel.
Snead admitted to leaving the scene but told police he had given the victim $400 and asked him not to call police.
• A Lockport man who admitted to selling drugs to an undercover informant pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance in Niagara County Court.
Nathaniel D. Smith, 32, of Lock Street, was accused of selling morphine to an informant on Jan. 11 and 12 and had faced two charges of third-degree sale of controlled substance, but in the plea he was allowed to plead guilty to the lesser charge and admitted to selling the drug on Jan. 11.
He will be sentenced on Jan. 8.
• A man in the 2300 block of Lake Road in Porter told Niagara County sheriff's deputies that his house was broken into while he was out of town.
The 37-year-old victim said he was working out of town for most of September and on Monday found a side door left open. He said he searched the house and found that a Les Paul electric guitar, valued a $800, was taken from the family room as well as a Wii game system and several games. A .22 caliber shotgun was stolen from the garage and a box of ammunition that was behind a work bench. Nothing else was disturbed.
The victim said the locks on the house do not secure properly.
Oct. 10
Asad R. Hixon, 21, of Dudley Avenue, Niagara Falls, became the third man to plead guilty in connection with a Dec. 9, 2010, burglary at a home on Cayuga Drive in the Falls.
Hixon admitted to attempted third-degree burglary and was scheduled for sentencing Dec. 5 by County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas. Deputy District Attorney Doreen M. Hoffmann said she will recommend a year in the County Jail, but the legal maximum is four years in state prison.
Two other men previously pleaded guilty to the same charge before Niagara Falls City Judge Angelo J. Morinello. Joseph L. Burton, 22, of Ely Avenue, is to be sentenced Dec. 20, while a 20-year-old Buffalo Avenue man, who was 18 at the time of the crime, was granted youthful offender status.