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Oct. 7, 2013
Q. What have you seen from Stefon Diggs as a sophomore wide receiver?
COACH LONDON: Very explosive, still one of the guys that they find different ways to try to get the ball in his hand with reverses and speed sweeps, different things like that, so he is a very dynamic person. We had a chance to recruit him as well, but he's made the most of his opportunities up there at Maryland.
Q. Do you guys play the wait-and-see process about C.J. Brown because of the injury, or do you scout out both quarterbacks?
COACH LONDON: You look at who they have right now, looking at the depth chart and who is listed and he's listed right now, but you did get a chance to see the second quarterback go in the latter part of the Florida State game. You try to look at this quarterback, the system, and the schemes that they play - that will be the main focus.
Obviously C.J. is a guy that can run the ball, does it very well for them, and, you know, we'll see how it goes throughout the week. But we'll get ready for the system that they play.
Q. Is it difficult at all to prepare for a team that goes from winning a game 37-0 to losing one 63-0, or do you not even look at Florida State?
COACH LONDON: You know, what you try to look at is - you look at the game, how it's played, or you look to see based on previous games that they are playing too. If they are sticking to what they do, if what the model of their offense or defense or special teams is true to the core of what they believe in.
And you're right, sometimes the scores get out of hand and what you try to find out, if they go back to just the nuts and bolts of what they do, and you don't want to get too far away from just evaluating what you see on tape and not sometimes trying to second-guess what they may or may not do. I think it will be important for us to understand that it's a very good offensive team, very explosive. They play very well defensively. I think they are third in the country in sacks, in turnovers. They are athletic. They have skill position players at different positions that help them get the ball downfield.
So we look more at that than we do the score imbalance, one way or the other, because we don't want to get caught looking at the scoreboard. We want to get caught looking at what they do.
Q. I think I asked this a couple weeks ago, but now two weeks later, about the midway point of the season, you guys want to have a power running game and stuff like that and Kevin is on pace for close to a thousand yards, 950, around that range. He was always the focal point of this offense going into the season; how do you think he's done in that role and how do you see him progressing forward?
COACH LONDON: Kevin's done a nice job with his opportunities to run the ball. You know, wanting to go into the season, being a team that wants to run the ball, set up the play-action passes off of that, he's really acclimated himself well to running between the tackles, trying to find things that even get him out of the backfield, the swing routes and different plays.
He is a large part of our offense, but it was good to see Smoke and Khalek Shepherd back as well. So there are other elements to whether you're running the ball or you're throwing those swing passes, which is basically like a toss sweep to a running back that's in the open field.
But we like the running backs that we have, particularly when they are healthy, and we look forward to trying to use those guys to the best of our abilities - to get them to do the things that they can do on the field to help us.
Q. How much have the last two weeks kind of messed with the mind-set of the team? How much of what you guys have had the last two weeks, do you have to pay attention to and overcome?
COACH LONDON: Well, the focus is to win games. And obviously when you lose two games, that we believe we should have won - whatever each game presented itself - for Pitt, not getting points after getting turnovers and this game, not being able to play well versus the run when we were getting points and being productive on offense.
Our main focus is to put a complete game together, offense, defense and special teams and focus on that and not worry about the things that have gone on in the past but focus on the things that can cause us to help us win as we prepare for Maryland and then focus on the future as far as doing things that we need to do to get better - to help us win on the field.
Q. On that same note, last year, it seemed like in the middle of the season, things just started spiraling a little bit. Have you taken anything from what this team went through last year and maybe applied it now that you've lost two in a row and you're trying to get out of a losing streak? Do you feel like they have learned from that experience last year, sort of a couple losses piling up and maybe kind of ruined the middle of the season there last year?
COACH LONDON: The one thing we always focus on is the next game that gives us a chance to change the fortunes of whatever occurred before and particularly in this event, the last two games, focusing on the fact that this is a team that we are about to play - probably the last time that Virginia plays Maryland – a school that has been a border rival where recruiting has been an issue between the two of us, and focusing on that is the most important thing right now, and not on the things that have happened in the past, but to get the mind-set on doing whatever we need to do to win games now. And Maryland provides that next challenge and that's what our focus is on.
Q. Tim Smith is a fifth-year senior, and I don't think until Saturday he had been used as a return man. How did he come to get that job? Obviously he did well Saturday.
COACH LONDON: He'd always been back there as one of the guys catching punts and you know, we start evaluating where we are and what we wanted to do. Coach Hagans said, Tim could catch it for us - he's probably who has some of the better awareness of catching, particularly when he's gone in practice and caught punts.
And in an attempt to make sure that we are doing everything we can to put the right people in the right places, I think Tim's audition, he did a nice job. You know, we told him about the Willie Mays catch over the shoulder there was -- which, maybe the decision making on that. But you know, he is excited about that.
The one punt return that he had, that was a long one was just one block away, and even the one over his shoulder that he caught, they were one block away - so he's a dynamic threat back.
When you evaluate your players and evaluate your team, we went with the decision to put him back there, and I think he will be a tremendous asset for us as we move forward.
Q. You began the season by beating a quality team in one of those bare-knuckle, coin flip games where you have to do things right at the end to win. And then five Saturdays later, you play a game that you called, embarrassing. From Point A to Point B, can you identify in your mind what happened and how to fix it?
COACH LONDON: You know, we talked about those positions and things we had to do to look at ourselves, what we're asking people to do. The fact that there are some players that we put in the position -- young players that have to play to the level of giving us an opportunity to be competitive and win - the fact that we just had 13 penalties, that's not an excuse for anything. That will cause you to lose games first and foremost, and then along -- you turn that over -- with turnovers. So that recipe right there in and of itself is a recipe not to be successful.
We forced some turnovers, we had some turnovers against BYU and got the big one towards the end -- those type of things. I think we are close in terms of just those type of things, ball bouncing the right way, guys understanding where they need to be, eliminating those errors that caused you those issues, and so we'll just keep pressing on. We'll just keep reiterating to the players about those things that can cause you to lose, have been manifested, particularly in this game and any game that we've lost.
So our goal was to get back on task with the Maryland team, being on the road, being at their place and all the things that come with playing them for the last time.
Q. You mentioned twice now about, you said probably the last time, and then you said a little bit more definite when you said it just now. Would you be opposed to playing Maryland on some kind of basis when they leave the ACC, or is there some kind of stigma attached to them because they are no longer in the conference?
COACH LONDON: No, there's no stigma. Just the fact that they are going into another conference and their first obligation will be their conference play, whether it's eight or nine-game conference schedules - I'm not in the mix of making that decision as far as how or when we play them. But again, to go on the premise that this may or could be the last time that we play them is something for the careers of these young men that we have right now, but you know, if it happens later on down the road, for the powers that be as far as the scheduling is concerned, then it happens.
But right now our seniors - juniors, first years, second years, third years, this will be the last time that they will play them.
Q. You mentioned the 13 penalties and often times when there are breakdowns during games, there's a correlation between those and problems off the field. But Luke Bowanko said that practices have been better than in all his five years here. You stressed good behavior off the field. So can you figure out, what's going on during games that isn't happening during the week and isn't happening in practices that's costing you guys so much?
COACH LONDON: Luke's assessment is correct. We've had really very good practices, and these -- the players have done a fantastic job in the classroom, in the community. We are always striving to be representative of the University.
Perhaps maybe focus; attention to detail at that moment, at the precise moment that it calls for you to be at your best, for whatever reason, that we are not there, and that has to be addressed and it has to be fixed. We've got to keep talking about it and keep harping on it until it becomes kind of ingrained.
We didn't start out that way, and trust me - the players understand that after Saturday, with penalties and turnovers like that, you don't want to feel the way you feel. You want to be able to have those types of satisfactory feelings of when you do things the way you're supposed to, limit those penalties, get turnovers and not give the ball up. I think that's what Luke is speaking to, is just more of a personal detailed interest in making sure we take care of the ball and protect the ball.
Q. A lot of coaches when there are penalties and mistakes like that have some consequences that players get up at 5:00 and run or whatever. Do you have anything like that?
COACH LONDON: Yes, there are consequences for players that continue to have the penalties that cause us to lose, and as I said, have not been that way until this particular point.
Regardless if it's believed it should have been called or not, it's a penalty, and penalties cause you to lose. So we'll address that at our practices in manners that I think are befitting for everyone to understand that we can't have those types of things. And then we move forward and we move on.
Q. You have mentioned the youth; is it more disconcerting for you guys that a lot of the penalties and the turnovers and stuff, a lot of it comes from people that are veterans that are among your best players and those kind of mistakes that are not from inexperience; they are from something else?
COACH LONDON: Again, turnovers are those things that can cause a team's opportunities not to be successful and if you catch the ball, you've got to put the ball away. I think it speaks a lot of times to other teams stripping the ball out, or just the awareness of having ball security or the mind-set of having ball destruction.
Turnovers have no age limit to it. I mean, the fact that older guys are involved in that, then there's also the fact that older guys understand the responsibility to change that, to fix that. And particularly are guys that are ball carriers that we want to get the ball to. So if that continues, then you don't give them the ball. You don't keep throwing them the ball. You don't keep handing the ball off to them. And I think that they will respond in a way that -- these guys are competitive and they understand that they want to carry the ball, they want to score and they want to be players that can be counted on as explosive players. I look for that to change and the ball security aspects to improve greatly.
Q. In the off-season you said something that fans should be patient about the new system, the new coaches, the new terminology, all that stuff. Has it taken longer than you thought that it might to kick in, or is it just something that has to work its way out?
COACH LONDON: There is a process to a lot of these things. Obviously we want to win. We want to win now. I believe in the coaches. I believe in the players. I believe in the young players that are playing. But there is a process to that, and you know, we want to do everything we can to make sure that we develop and bring these guys along to have a chance to be competitive in games. We want to show improvement from week-to-week, and that's my job. That's what I have to make sure that gets done, and that's the main focal point right now is just to move us from where we were, even though new systems and all, and gain improvement as we go along, and then be reflective as we play on the field on Saturday.
Q. You talked a lot about that Newsome kid for Ball State, number 11, and the outside rusher. Seemed like the two biggest pressures he had is when he switched to Morgan's [Moses] side but he played on Eric's [Smith] side and he did a decent job against it. How do you view that, a good thing that your freshman held up okay but your senior got beat up a few times?
COACH LONDON: As I said, Eric did a nice job for his first start. I think there are only four UVa linemen in history to start [at offensive tackle] as a freshman. Morgan is going to get the best of the best. He was going against him early -- I mean, he's gone against the best early in his career and he's gone against the best as we've played him. It's a challenge to him. You know, you're the left tackle, the starting left tackle; then you're going to get the best rushers, because people want to rush the quarterback's blind side.
The challenge is always given to Morgan that he's going to have to perform at a high, high level. And their rusher did a good job of affecting David on two occasions. I believe, like you said, he had two sacks.
Q. David came in last week and said that he needed to get more accurate, like the first series, he over-threw a couple people. How accurate is he in practices? Is there a difference between practice and games? And I guess you no longer consider him a first-year starter, or do you?
COACH LONDON: Well, with five games into his college career in terms of being a quarterback, he is a first-year starter right now. And I think with every practice, and with every rep, particularly when you have guys that are getting acclimated and learning the process and getting better -- I believe they will get better. I really believe that. And I know it's frustrating to him and frustrating to people that may be out there watching, but I think that there is a level of him improving that's yet to be made and that's through coaching, that's through the play calling. That's through what he sees as he's playing in the game, and I have confidence in him.
And you know, we'll get ready for Maryland and try to do things to allow him to be successful but --
Q. The two plays early, the two overthrows, do you see that in practice or jitters maybe?
COACH LONDON: You'd like to have a player throw 100 percent in game or in practice. Doesn't happen that way a lot of times. The thing is, you want to be efficient and you want to recognize that thing that he has to change. If he's overthrowing, he has to adjust or plant his feet or whatever it is. But that's part of the coaching and teaching, the improvement that you have to continue to make and that he is making.
So again, as I said, I look for his improvement to continue to get better as far as being a quarterback. You know, his practices have balls that he throws that are right on money, has balls that he throws that people are in his face and he has to put a little air over the top of it.
We'll continue to keep practicing and he'll continue to keep getting better, and as I said, I believe in his progress and where he's going.
Q. As far as going back to the new members of the staff, obviously Steve Fairchild is the play caller on offense, but what influence does Tom O'Brien have on decisions on game day?
COACH LONDON: It starts on Sunday with the game planning of the next opponent and with Coach O'Brien and Steve, Scott Wachenheim, Larry Lewis, Marques Hagans, they are all in that room talking about the best ways to attack an opponent. There's a lot of collaboration that goes on. Tom has been a valuable asset to Steve. He's up in the box, and they talk all the time.
And so again it's been a collaborative effort. Steve calls the plays, but Tom has done a good job of communicating what's going on, what he sees. Now, we have to do better in all aspects, you know, even with that, but we'll continue to make progress.
As I said, I believe in what's going on right now with these coaches. We have good coaches, and we have to show that we can bring these players long, as well, so they can have success.
Q. You made several changes to your offensive line at the wide receiver position this past weekend, obviously was the first time that the defense was really under the microscope. Have you looked at making any changes in your secondary, whether it's playing time, personnel or both?
COACH LONDON: Every game you go into, you go into the packages that you put in, whether it's in this case we will, regular base, dime, dollar. There's so many terminologies that you use, and look for Tim Harris, a young man to get playing opportunities; Max Valles to be more involved in some of the other packages that we have.
But again, in that position, as far as defensively, we didn't play well and got to play better. And I think that this week in practice, again, that everybody is under scrutiny to making sure that they are in the right gap; that the coverages are sound and that what we do is -- will give us an opportunity to play and play hard and play well.
So nothing -- no one is inheriting a position going into this workweek. Everybody has to be scrutinized and watch what we do and how we do it.
Q. Following up on that, it seemed like there were four games, that sort of the strength of this defense was its aggressiveness and its ability to create tackles. Seemed like, and correct me if I'm wrong, Ball State may have used some of that aggressiveness against you guys with some of the schemes they had with the short passes and whatnot. Are there any schematic adjustments that you guys feel need to be made, or was it like you said last night, simply just missed tackles and missed assignments?
COACH LONDON: They played well. We didn't. We'll continue to be aggressive in terms of Jon's [Tenuta] approach. We all know that. They had a passing game that was short and deliberate that at times would not allow you to get to the quarterback. Sometimes an aggressive play and the play-action pass sometimes makes it -- that you have to deal with the issues of it.
So we will get better with that without a doubt. That was the first thing on Sunday that guys worked on was we are going to continue to be aggressive and stop the run, and then one of the things that teams do to attack you is go play-action pass on that. So that's something that will be addressing this week, because again, this team that we are playing, Maryland, particularly with Brown as a quarterback, does a great job of running and play-action passing and throwing the ball down the field.
So we'll have to play -- we'll have to play well, for sure.
Q. You're talking about relying on younger players and this is your fourth year, so you've had three or four recruiting classes. I counted up seven on each side of the ball that are starters that are juniors or seniors. Can you explain how the process has been over your tenure, recruiting guys and developing those guys; have you missed on some recruits in you've been relying on younger players continuously since you've been here. How do you continue to work to make sure you've got juniors and seniors at almost all positions and that would possibly lead to more victories?
COACH LONDON: You keep searching for the best players, the best talent, and with three classes, you're correct, true freshmen, redshirt freshmen, or true sophomores that have played in the majority of the games since we've been here - but also taking the fact that the change of the different schemes, which affects the recruiting style or model of the particular player.
But ultimately we want to attract those student athletes that have a skill level that can help us win and be guys that could be consistent contributors. You would like to get to a point where you have fourth and fifth year players playing and be able to redshirt guys so they can sit -- particularly with your linemen. It's easier for skill position players to play a lot of times because it doesn't require that they have the weight room strength. It's the speed and athleticism and agility.
But we are at the point where we are getting to those guys that are playing now that -- guys that are coming in, we'd like to sit them, we'd like to soak them and allow them to get bigger, faster, stronger. But they are coming because they can play; they are coming because the skill that they bring allows them to get into the games right now.
So we'll also, like I said, we'll continue to keep recruiting the style of guys that fit the schemes offensively, defensively and special teams-wise.
Q. I think when people saw you guys come out and score 17 points pretty quickly, they thought, wow, you're in good shape because the defense is so strong. How surprised were you maybe by the way Ball State was able to move the ball on the defense?
COACH LONDON: Surprised. They did an excellent job in doing what they do. And again, I'm not a prognosticator, but that looks like it might be one of the MAC champions there. It's a very good football team. Coach Lembo has done a great job with them. They have a quarterback that's been in the system for three or four years; the value of having a guy that's been a starter for awhile, a college quarterback is something that is very important in today's game.
So they took what they had and they played it to the best of their ability and our ability wasn't good enough to stop them.
Q. Eli Harold wasn't having a monster game -- gets the sack taken away; how much do you think his penalties are where frustration may have been a factor?
COACH LONDON: Again, with penalties that occurred, those 15-yarders, whether it's inadvertent, whether hand in the facemask or whether it's pressing and playing till after the whistle, they are not excusable. It may have been frustration, but frustration caused us penalties and caused them first downs or caused a field position change.
So without all that being said, you know, he has to play better and understand that, you know, when you're a rusher and you're rushing quarterbacks, that you have to know where you're at and what you're doing because the referees are there for the protection of the players in the game and we just have to be smarter when he plays or when we play.
Q. The last time your defense gave a lot of points and yards against Oregon, they responded with two back-to-back performances against VMI and Pitt. Is that any comfort going into Maryland now that they have been there before and they have shown the resiliency to bounce back?
COACH LONDON: As I said, I believe in what the guys on the staff are doing and what they are getting taught and what they are getting implemented. And as we continue to grow into these roles, I believe that the players will respond because they are competitive. They want to win. They don't want to drop passes. They don't want to do those types of things.
And I feel certain that this week's practice will be another practice that will be geared towards eliminating those things again that have been played us particularly this week, and then more specifically, about taking care of the football.
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Ramones - End Of The Century
Label: Sire Records Company, Sire Records Company
Catalog#: QSR 6077, QSR-6077
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Vinyl: VG++
Inner lyric sleeve is VG+ VG++
Cover VG++
Country: Canada Issue
Released: Jan 1980
Genre: Rock
Style: Rock & Roll, Punk
Credits: Producer - Phil Spector
Notes: Label has QSR-6077 as cat#
Sleeve & Spine has QSR 6077 as cat#
A1 Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio?
A2 I'm Affected
A3 Danny Says
A4 Chinese Rock
A5 The Return Of Jackie And Judy
A6 Let's Go
B1 Baby, I Love You
B2 I Can't Make It On Time
B3 This Ain't Havana
B4 Rock 'N' Roll High School
B5 All The Way
B6 High Risk Insurance
The Most Controversial Album in the Ramones' History
It's quite interesting to read about cases in which a band is matched with a producer whose ideas clash with those of the group he or she is assigned to. Rock is filled with examples. Just recently, Paul McCartney re-issued the Beatles' legendary "Let it Be" album, but minus the input and infamous "Wall of Sound" of producer Phil Spector, who was paired with the Ramones in 1980 for "End of the Century," perhaps the punk rock pioneers' most controversial album, and one that raises a lot of points. The Ramones had started to expand their three-chord buzzsaw approach with "Road to Ruin" and a gradual progression was inevitable. But this album was a shock to many, as it contained such surprising bits as string arrangements and other things that don't come to mind when one mentions the Ramones. But "End of the Century" is a fascinating piece of history, not only of the Ramones, but of punk in general (even though the group was being overshadowed by the countless bands who had ripped them off, i.e. "the acts they had inspired").
In all fairness, it must be said that a big part of the progression in the album comes not from Spector's producing, but in the Ramones' songwriting. There are the typical Ramones-style punk rockers like Let's Go, The Return of Jackie & Judy, All the Way, and High Risk Insurance but there are other elements that have begun to sprout. There's storytelling in the dark heroin tale Chinese Rock, a song as dark as the obsession in I'm Affected, in which it seems the Ramones are actually in control of producing and not Spector, whose input is most obvious in the catchy ode to the 50's and 60's pop scene. Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio?, opening the album with a collage of radio sound effects, and in a dripping pop cover of Baby I Love You (a hit which Spector had co-written many years earlier), which became the Ramones' biggest single in the UK, while I Can't Make it on Time remains one of the many numbers on the album that should have been a hit. The hard rocking but catchy This Ain't Havana has a bit of cynicism in it, and there's even a punkier version of Rock N' Roll High School, the title song to the cult film the group had starred in (the more poppier single version showed up on the 1988 compilation "Ramones Mania"). Another notable point is guitarist Johnny's ability to pick and strum in the well-arranged Danny Says, an innocent, weary look at the rush of the music business.
For years, some of the Ramones pronounced "End of the Century" as their worst album, but it has become accepted by most bandmembers, and many fans, over time. The recently departed Johnny Ramone is quoted in this remaster's liner notes as saying he's glad the band worked with Phil Spector. It's actually hard to imagine the Ramones' catalog without the album. "End of the Century" was a necessary step, even if the public wasn't ready for it, in showing that the Ramones were growing as musicians and as individuals, even if the band was quite uncomfortable with it. Naturally, and fortunately, their next step was to stray from the wild ideas of Phil Spector and write history with their own definition of expanding, as shown on their next two albums, "Pleasant Dreams" and "Subterranean Jungle."
Ramones - Baby I Love You - Live at top of the pops January, 1980
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Here are all the detail pictures from our big day! I spent many hours, blood, sweat and a few tears over these projects!
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In one of the biggest tournaments of the year, the DE Rush G01's were able to roll to three victories in three games, claiming the top spot in the WAGS Showcase III division.
As the first match went to half, the DE Rush girls were tied 0-0 with Charlotte United (SC). That's when Hannah Cooksey (Pennsville HS [NJ]) took over – the tournament. In the remaining five halves of soccer, Cooksey would go on to score six goals while adding an assist. After teammate Alexis Hamm scored the game winner in the first match, Cooksey notched the game winners in the final two contests. Cooksey's six tournament goals included a hat trick against the Premier Angels (MD) and a brace in the championship match against previously undefeated Dynamo SC (VA). She stated, "I was able to score the game winners with the help of my teammates and by working hard to help my team win. It feels awesome to be champions of WAGS because it is something that you and your team can celebrate and look back on."
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WHEELING – When children don't have a stable home they don't achieve, and there's currently a lack of affordable housing in Wheeling, state lawmakers learned Wednesday.
The West Virginia Legislature's Select Committee on Children and Other Issues met at Catholic Charities of Wheeling for a public hearing on poverty's effect on children. The topic for discussion Wednesday was housing, said committee chairman Sen. John Unger, D-Berkeley.
A large percentage of West Virginia's children younger than age 8 have no stable home in which to live, he said.
"This causes toxic stress, and inhibits development," Unger said. "It creates uncertainty and anxiety, and affects child achievement."
There are even instances in West Virginia where children are living in cars and abandoned trailers, he said.
"The question now is what can we do to address the issue?" Unger asked.
Representatives of local social service agencies present told the panel it is often impossible for lower-income families to afford housing. The local monthly cost for a two-bedroom apartment with utilities can exceed $1,200, said Lisa Badia, executive director for the Greater Wheeling Coalition for the Homeless.
While she praised the presence of economic development in the area, Badia noted those working in the natural gas industry have an advantage over low-income residents in renting housing as their employers often cover the higher cost for rent.
"Our folks working tables aren't able to afford what the housing market is dictating," she said.
Marlene Midget, executive director for Northern Panhandle Head Start, said affordable housing "has all but disappeared in the area."
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Jodie Gardill, associate director of behavioral health advocacy at Legal Aid of West Virginia, suggested the area needs more public transportation. Not having transportation to a job leads to financial and housing insecurity, she said.
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Bright Star - Poem by John Keats
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
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To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
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The eternity of the diminishing star shows the fleeting episode that is life.... (Report) Reply
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A great poem on nature, love and beautiful it is. (Report) Reply
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......... love the romance in this beautiful poem....especially the last line, ..it's like the cherry on the ice cream sundae.... (Report) Reply
Dawn Fuzan (5/14/2014 4:45:00 PM)
This us an interesting piece of poetry keep it up (Report) Reply
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This is heavenly beautiful. Such a very nice poem (Report) Reply
Sara Abu Zaki (1/30/2014 8:16:00 AM)
@Nachiketha i believe he was addressing a night star and wishing he was as steadfast (still, eternally fixed) as it was. not because the star shines in loneliness above the Earth and watches over the seasons but because he (our poet) wishes to remain still in his lover's embrace and forever in love as he is in that particular moment.
Imagine, swooning to death.. geez (Report) Reply
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Sam Mohammed (12/17/2013 7:35:00 AM)
i love the poem, and, in fact, this poem explains almost half of my life.this is the best, a man can get! i am seeing a shining star everyday with my parents in my dream and i wish i will sleep forever in this happiness
but unfortunately my mom breaks the dream for school. (Report) Reply
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What a beutiful poem. He was writing about his love Fanny Brawne. I wrote a poem Bright Star as a tribute to Keats. (Report) Reply
Kelsey Clark (12/19/2012 8:09:00 PM)
For anyone who is deeply moved by romantic poetry, there is a movie called Bright Star that is centered on John Keats' love for a woman and their passionate but tragic love for one another. It is a lovely film. I just thought I'd share it since it makes this poem even more moving being used in a film. (Report) ReplyGangadharan Nair Pulingat (10/13/2014 2:39:00 AM)
Meaningful it is.
Allison Helman (4/19/2012 1:14:00 PM)
This is one of the most beautiful poems I've ever read. John Keats so fluidly describes the pain and joy of love, this sweet unrest as not opposing sides but, potential alchemic ingredients which amalgamate and stabilize with the constancy of bright star. To ... live forever or swoon to death is again all the same as a future possibility once one exists consecrated in the heightened state of Universal, Creative, Now, Love. Everything else would only be an apparent change in form not essence as illustrated by Beauty is truth, truth beauty... from Ode to a Grecian Urn but, again once alchemic, they are one and the same. (Report) Reply
Carlos Echeverria (4/19/2012 10:40:00 AM)
Though it shines brightly before our eyes
a star flickers as it dies
and Keats' loving heart
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Yes, this amp is a Mini³ v2 high-performance edition, I understand that the ALO folks made some capacitor substitutions. Sorry if the name is confusing, I am not sure if KB knew about the M³ (which is indeed a different beast, although they are both 3-channel active ground designs) when he selected the name for this amp.
KB told me that he did extensive listening and comparisons, and really liked the Mini³.
Correct, thanks AMB.
Again. The pricing for the package deals will listed probably over the weekend when I get back to my shop. The amp will sell for $285 and comes with a good rechargable 9V and 110V US charger. I will be able to make the package deals
(one amp that comes with a ALO LOD and there will be several to choose from)
(amp and a pair of Sleek Audio SA6s)
these will be priced nicely.
Hi Ken
Sorry, but this question has not been answered.
How is this amp different from the high performance ones offered by the DIY builders like Rockhopper or Mr X?
Black Gate caps (used in parallel)- all in the signal path and all in key areas.
It's a DC coupled amp. Why would you add caps to the signal path?
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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci, clues visible for all to see, yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.
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I really liked the book but I think that it was a lot less energizing then Angels and Demons. I took a couple of Art Classes and they tore almost all of Dan Browns ideas into shreds. Still a good read and I recommend it.
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This is one of the great books of our time. I have listened to and read most of the great mystery writers of the past 50 years and nothing has caught my attention like this novel. The characters are good but the plot and its details are interesting beyond words. I am going to go buy the illustrated version of the book for my collection. Now I have to research the "facts" of the book to see which are real. Well Done!
"Outstanding work of fiction"
What a great work of fiction this is! I thoroughly enjoyed the book. People get all worked up over the possibility that some of this could be true. My friend says, "But it's based on fact." I tell him that a work of fiction based on fact, is still fiction. That there are some real facts in it simply makes it more interesting. The book is very well written, and very well read. Paul Michael does a superb job of reading. His accents are so convincing, I found myself forgetting that there wasn't a full cast of characters. The dialogue was very good as well.
My next listen will be "Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code" by Bart D. Ehrman. It will be interesting to hear what a real historian has to say.
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If you're looking for a book with deep characters, this probably isn't the book for you. However, if you want to be entertained, this is an awesome book! The accents were laughable and some situations seemed outright rediculous, but the [unabridged] book was very entertaining. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
"Its Indiana Jones and the Da Vinci Code!"
This book is perfect if your looking for something with a better than average plot but a below average reading level. Dan Brown is an excellent story maker, but a less than average story teller. Its a good story, a bit of a rehash of "Angels and Demons" but a good story on the same intellectual level as the Indiana Jones films or any other light hearted historic fiction.
The narration of the book is on par with the book. Average. Nothing great, but good enough.
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I listened to this book while I cleaned my house and kitchen--they've never been so clean! I totally got caught up in the mystery. When I came to the end, I was left wanting more.
Brown weaves the legends of the Church into a wonderful web that will keep you listening until it's finally unraveled. Brown clearly knows his stuff and the listener will find his story informative and provacative as well as enjoyable. The only reason I held back one star was that as he unfolds the mystery, Brown makes sure to go back and connect all the dots for the reader (listener), not trusting that his narrative is sufficiently strong, which it certainly is, that the the reader can make the connections her or himself. As for the narration, the strained accents and melodrama of the narrator can take some getting used to, but the story is so powerful that soon any awareness of the narration is left behind. A highly recommended choice!
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"DaVinci Code was not first"
The basic premise explored by Dan Brown in the DaVinci Code had been set forth some 20 years earlier in books such as Holy Blood, Holy Grail. This premise of The DaVinci Code was not a surprise to those familiar with Henry Lincoln and his associates. A minor spate of books exploring the same or closely related topics have been published over the last 20 years. All these books are written from the perspective that the life and death of Jesus was significantly different from hundreds of years of Church teachings. The cryptic essence of the Holy Grail and the secret society that is the keeper of the "Grail Knowledge" provide the principal theme on which the plot hangs.
I say this, not to detract from Brown's efforts, but rather to point out that the major ideas that Brown weaves into this engrossing story are not unique to Brown. However, it is the novelization of these ideas for which Brown is to be commended. The DaVinci Code is a novel that takes these ideas and presents them in an exciting and overall well-crafted story. It holds your attention throughout. In the process, he introduces many new tidbits and topics of arcane interest, prior books not withstanding. Readers unfamiliar with the prior works will find The DaVinci Code full of esoterica and plot twists that will cause them take a more critical look at the religious dogma that have been carefully perpetuated and guarded by the Catholic Church and most of its off shoots for nearly two millennia.
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When I first started reading this book early Saturday morning, I did not realize that I would end up neglecting food, shower, bathroom, and sleep for a full 16 hours.
This gripping tale in the quest for the Holy Grail perfectly captures the reader with the main character who, like the reader, is completely unaware of the adventure in store. Brown has character development down to an art and is an expert at providing the reader with information only when appropriate.
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Lise Hand: Killer fish, Sake a la Fukushima and a major beef between China and Japan – by golly, Enda's got a lot on his plate
Published 03/12/2013 | 02:30
THE Taoiseach dined for Ireland yesterday – but by golly, if the Japanese chef had been a bit forgetful, Enda could've subsequently died for Ireland in short order.
For one course, in what could only be described as a sumptuous 11-course feast served at dinner at the residence of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last night, was 'Thinly-sliced Globefish with Condiments and Ponzu Sauce'.
Now this might sound innocuous enough, but the lungs of the globefish – or pufferfish – are very fishy indeed, containing a potentially fatal poison which could do for the unlucky diner if not removed beforehand.
And if the thought of the dangers lurking on the plate before him was enough to worry him, Enda could always have washed the fish down with a cup of sake on offer, which was produced in Fukushima, the scene of an unfortunate incident involving a nuclear reactor.
Ah well, at least the Taoiseach wouldn't have to bother with the notion of donning a metaphorical green jersey any more – he'd have a literal green glow about him permanently.
Although death-by-globefish doesn't quite have the same heroic ring for a political leader as being sniped off the roof of the GPO in 1916, heading up a trade mission can be an unpredictable affair. Tokyo being a small place (its population is a mere 20 million souls), Enda almost bumped into Yoko Ono yesterday. Literally seconds before the Taoiseach strolled down the corridor of the Okura Hotel en route to a meeting with Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito, a small figure clad in black from trousers to wide-brimmed leather cowboy hat entered the hotel and slipped into a lift.
But Enda was unruffled by the fact that he had missed the most famous Beatle wife by a hat's breadth. There was a Mayo connection, of course, as he pointed out that John Lennon was once the proud owner of Dorinish Island in Clew Bay which he bought in 1967 for £1,700.
However, he was far more interested in bumping into another of the hotel's guests. For US Vice-President Joe Biden was due to check into the hotel late last night, prior to a meeting with the Japanese prime minister.
But Joe hadn't flown more than halfway around the globe to dine on scary fish. He was in town on a delicate mission to calm down the escalating tension between China and Japan over a disputed set of small, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. The growing row has already led to frequent tense encounters and a spot of ominous sabre-rattling between the two sides' ships and planes over the past year.
And what's more, Joe was billeted in the same hotel as Enda, and the Taoiseach's diplomatic entourage spent much of the time determinedly trying to figure out if a meeting could be chucked together at short notice.
It looked unlikely that Joe could have time for coffee and a chinwag – nonetheless, Enda had a thing or two to say. After his own meeting with Shinzo Abe yesterday afternoon, the Taoiseach said that he had discussed with the prime minister how Ireland and England had endured what he politely called "a fraught relationship" and that he could offer some pointers about how to deal with troublesome neighbours.
"Ireland learned from experience that the only way to sort out situations like this is through negotiation and discussion and dialogue and we offer that lesson from our perspective to Japan."
Having seen off one superpower this year – the troika – was Enda really offering to be the negotiator between two countries who appear to be gumming for a scrap?
Not really, as it turned out, as Ireland has no dog in this particular fight. "Ireland is non-aligned and is not a member of Nato," he stressed. "This is a very serious matter and one doesn't want to contemplate unintended consequences," he warned.
Well. Between negotiating globefish and beef deals and peace in our time, Enda was having a busy day. He spent the morning at trade and business meetings in the hotel, before heading out in the afternoon to meet the Crown Prince – whom he invited to Ireland in 2017 to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between Ireland and Japan.
Nor did he turn up empty-handed, bearing gifts of his and hers Golf Ireland jackets for the royal golfing enthusiasts. But sometimes trade opportunities pop up in the strangest places.
During an afternoon meeting with members of a parliamentary group, Education Minister Hakubun Shimomura had an original proposition. He explained how Valentine's Day is only huge in Japan, and that the first of the three kanji characters which spell the word 'Ireland' means 'love' in Japanese.
"Ireland is a country of love. That's why we plan to make an initiative to designate Valentine's Day as the Day of Ireland and to encourage more people to visit Ireland in a group," he told Enda.
And what's more, the minister explained that in Japan there is a custom that on Valentine's Day women give chocolates to men. "Irish chocolate was all sold out on Valentine's Day," he explained. "I think we need to contemplate the implications for the chocolate industry," Enda mused later, Yen-signs dancing in his eyes.
Land of the Rising Rum and Raisin Fudge, here we come.
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Representing Habitat and Veterans Build on a national stage
AmeriCorps VISTA Catherine Stodola attends a milestone event.
The power of youth to make a difference
Habitat Nepal Youth Ambassador Santosh Shah sounds the call on International Youth Day.