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Top 10 reasons not to move to Bozeman
In my role as a journalistic curmudgeon, today I'd like to tell you some of the drawbacks of living in a trendy Western town that often makes the Top 10 lists drawn up by the likes of Outside magazine, Entrepreneur magazine, and Livability.com.
I'm talking about Bozeman, Montana – and how the conventional wisdom is only part of the story. In the 19 years I've lived in Bozeman, I've watched my town gain an international reputation as some kind of paradise. Click on any award-giver in the first paragraph – along with the American Planning Association, CNN Money, Fodor's Travel, National Geographic Adventure magazine, and the American Cities Business Journals – to get a sense of the distant experts expressing quick and easy attitude about my town.
Of course there's a lot to like about Bozeman – a Western university town in a scenic valley rimmed by mountains, near ski slopes and fishable rivers. We have a nice downtown, a small airport that's surprisingly well-connected, few traffic jams, and tech entrepreneurs mixing with conservationists and hipsters -- and a few actual cowboys.
On top of that, our homegrown entertainment includes a group of local women who create edgy comedy routines – check Broad Comedy on YouTube, singing "I Didn't F*ck It Up" or imitating inner-city rappers in "Soccer Mom Ho." You can even buy a Bozeman T-shirt letting the world know that you're a supporter of our very own Green Coalition of Gay Loggers for Jesus.
But any town has drawbacks, whether we're talking Paradise, Utah, or Paradise, Calif., or Paradise, Nev., or the various versions of San Francisco and Aspen and so on. That's why many local governments have adopted a new "Code of the West" officially warning any paradise-seeking immigrants of the problems they'll encounter when they move in, such as – egads! – rough roads, dangerous wildfires and the aroma of cattle.
The hyped-up Top 10 lists don't admit the drawbacks of my town. They just encourage paradise-seekers to move in – and thousands of people have apparently followed the advice by moving to Bozeman since I got here.
So, tongue in cheek, here's my rebellion against the hype: The Top 10 Reasons Not To Move To Bozeman.
(1) Begin with the town's name – it's lame. John M. Bozeman was a grandiose hustler who helped establish the town in 1864, while he was promoting the "Bozeman Trail," a dangerous shortcut for white settlers traveling through Wyoming and Idaho to Montana gold camps. John M. Bozeman hoped that his new town would "swallow up all the tenderfeet ... from the east, with their golden fleeces to be taken care of," one immigrant reported. But the whole Bozeman Trail quickly became a fiasco, as tribes including the Lakota Sioux, the Northern Cheyenne and the Northern Arapaho resisted the intrusion on their turf; within only four years or so, Native warriors wiped out 81 U.S. Army soldiers in the infamous Fetterman massacre and shut down the trail for good. As for John M. Bozeman himself, he had abandoned his wife and three young daughters in Georgia when he headed west to seek his fortune – setting the pattern for all the schemers and lone wolves who've come to this town since then.
John M. Bozeman had some good qualities (handsome, muscular, a crack shot). But fundamentally he was "a reckless man (who) never could see danger anywhere," according to one of his own friends back in the 1860s. He dressed like a dandy, in "the black beaver-cloth cutaway coat and striped dress trousers favored by gamblers," according to historians and friends, and made his living as "a speculator" who "farmed a bit, got in a few fights, gambled a lot, dreamed up business schemes, and was out of town for long periods of time."
John M. Bozeman's ventures included investing in a hotel and a river ferry, and delivering mail himself between Bozeman and the Virginia City mining camp, for 50 cents per piece (more than $18 in today's dollars) – apparently shameless price gouging. "His conscience was very elastic," a friend reported, and "to beat a man out of his wages or to neglect paying a bill or jumping a claim were matters of very little moment with him. ... His faults were produced by his education, or the lack of it rather, and the social system of the South, where labor was a disgrace to a white man. (He) had no use for money except to bet with, and the most congenial place to him on earth was the saloon, with a few boon companions at a table, playing a game of draw."
And John M. Bozeman only lasted a few years in Bozeman. At the age of 32, he was murdered – either by more hostile natives or by the jealous husband of a woman he was having an affair with. It was "the universal suspicion on the part of the husbands of the few women in town" that John Bozeman was a philanderer chasing the local married women, in the words of one historian. After he was killed, his estate wasn't worth as much as his outstanding bills.
(2) The weather. Yes, when you mention Montana, most people understand the weather is often bad here – as in, cold. And thanks to global warming, the cold spells seem to be getting a bit warmer and less prolonged. But still. I've had to deal with more than a foot of heavy wet snow that fell in my yard one day in mid-June several years ago, collapsing many of my leafed-out deciduous trees and crushing the mirage of summer.
The most recent seriously cold spell, a snowstorm in early December, generated these daily low temperatures, measured at the Montana State University campus near my house (with the late sunrise this time of year, these were the below-zero temperatures you would've faced, if you were in Bozeman commuting to work first thing in the morning):
Dec. 3 - 2 below zero F
Dec. 4 - 9 below zero
Dec. 5 - 14.2 below zero
Dec. 6 - 16.1 below zero
Dec. 7 - 19.3 below zero
Dec. 8 - 19.4 below zero
Dec. 9 - 10 below zero
Three of these days, the high temperature in late afternoon didn't even break zero. This all came down a couple of weeks before the official beginning of winter.
(3) The movie theaters. Movies can be intellectually and emotionally stimulating, a great cultural fix and an enjoyment -- but lately they're in short supply in Bozeman. When I moved here, we had two historic downtown movie theaters and a multiplex with about a half-dozen additional screens. Then another national theater chain opened a second multiplex, adding more than a half-dozen additional screens. At that point, a wide range of new movies showed in Bozeman, beyond the standard blockbusters aimed at teen-agers and families with young kids. But since then, both downtown theaters have stopped showing movies, and one multiplex closed.
So now we're down to only the newer multiplex, which is run by the biggest national chain, Tennessee-based Regal Entertainment Group – part of billionaire Philip Anschutz's empire. Anschutz is a politically active conservative Christian, opposing gay rights and backing various right-wing causes, and Regal Entertainment not only seems to have his conservative philosophy, the company also seems ignorant of basic facts like, Bozeman has more than 38,000 residents, and tens of thousands more live just outside city limits. Many of the locals are intelligent adults making careers not only in the university, but also in dozens of local high-tech companies, Montana's biggest ski resort (Big Sky), Yellowstone National Park (also nearby), or doing their own creative work in art, writing, photography, music, dance including more than one local ballet company, the local opera company, the local Shakespeare company, and so on.
As I write this blog post, these very good new movies have not yet shown in Bozeman's multiplex, even though they've been showing elsewhere around the West for weeks or months: 12 Years a Slave (a true story of 19th century slavery in this country, by the famous director Steve McQueen), All is Lost (Robert Redford suffering a solo shipwreck), Inside Llewyn Davis (the new Coen brothers flick), Dallas Buyers Club (Matthew McConaughey playing an early AIDS victim), Nebraska (same director as previous hits Sideways and The Descendants), Philomena (another British gem starring Judi Dench), Blue is the Warmest Color, Kill Your Darlings, Blue Jasmine (directed by Woody Allen, starring Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin), The Great Beauty, and Wadjda (a Saudi Arabian girl struggles for her rights).
Many of those movies have already won awards and will soon be nominated for Academy Awards, but somehow they're not appropriate for Bozeman? Or they can be shown here long after most other audiences have seen them? Give Bozeman a break, Regal Entertainment Group, or more like, give us what we're due.
I better acknowledge, two nights per month, a small nonprofit group called the Bozeman Film Festival brings some of the ignored-by-Regal movies to an auditorium in a former school that's now the Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture. The auditorium has been lovingly restored and improved to be a theater, but the screen is small and the sound can be difficult to decipher. That's a noble effort – thanks very much, Bozeman Film Festival and Emerson Center – but it's not a substitute for a state-of-the-art movie theater providing longer runs in better conditions.
(4) Lack of cultural or ethnic diversity. There is none in Bozeman, unless you imagine that white ice climbers are way different from white skiers who are way different from white fly fishermen. In the whole county, 95.5 percent of the residents are white, reporting no mixed blood at all. Hispanics make up roughly 3 percent, Natives about 1 percent, blacks less than half-a-percent. So for this kind of diversity, Bozeman is very boring. Pretty much anywhere I travel, other than Wyoming, I'm always struck by how much more diverse – and interesting – other communities are.
(5) Isolation. Bozeman is a long distance from any real urban area – the nearest is the Salt Lake City metro area, roughly 430 miles away. This has to do with fact that Montana is the only state that doesn't even border a state that has a city of one million. To get to Salt Lake City, you have to drive through hundreds of miles of Idaho. To get to Seattle, you also have to drive through Idaho, and to get to Denver, you have to drive across all of Wyoming. And so on. So when you want a city fix, it takes some doing.
(6) Wildfires. I used to tell friends who might like to visit Bozeman, the best time to come is during July and August, when the weather is most reliably good. But largely due to climate change, those months are now wildfire season, with a high risk of smoke filling the air, blocking views of the mountains and causing headaches and other health complaints. Now I tell friends who want to come during the warm weather, it's a gamble – they might experience air quality similar to inland Los Angeles.
(7) Occasional bad land-use planning. The city and county planners based in Bozeman, and their supporters, have good intentions and would probably do more to protect the landscape and the current residents who like things as they are, but they're constrained by local politics. They also, like all of us, make mistakes within what the politics allow.
As a result, we have a great deal of random sprawl – residential developments popping up on agricultural land outside the city, straining taxpayer-funded public services including law enforcement and road maintenance. And in the city, we have a large car wash that was allowed to wedge itself into a modern smart-growth neighborhood of houses, apartments and office buildings on North 15th Avenue, where there are no other commercial enterprises – as if the neighborhood residents would like to walk to a car wash instead of to a coffee shop or a cafe or small grocery. It's apparently a fine car wash, but does it belong in this neighborhood?
Meanwhile, at the central sports-field complex, we have an array of super bright lights on tall poles whose bothersome glare extends for miles – the opposite of the "Dark Skies" movement taking hold elsewhere in the West. Banks are being allowed to build new branches around the city's fringes, like the one going in now, all by itself, in a streamside field on Kagy Boulevard, where horses grazed until recently (shown in a photo around #1 in this blog post) – as if we need more banks in a town already saturated with them (an indication of the affluence here).
In arguably its biggest mistake, last August the city government had to pay $2 million to settle a dispute with a wealthy developer who felt burned by a city manager's land-use decision. There are other obvious planning and land-use debacles, but this writing is long enough.
(8) Microbrewery suppression. Montana now has nearly 40 craft brewers – ranking in the top three states in breweries per-capita – making wonderful beers and ales, like Moose Drool and Cold Smoke (as in, windblown snow). But Montana microbreweries are suppressed by the hard-liquor saloons that are organized as the Montana Tavern Association, making it unduly difficult to drink a fresh draft microbrew.
It works like this: Under state law, the hard-liquor saloons must have state licenses. The state also limits the number of those licenses, so bidding wars erupt and a license can now cost more than $100,000. Microbreweries don't have to buy those licenses. The Tavern Association thinks that isn't fair, so it pressures the Montana Legislature to pass laws ordering that microbreweries can only serve their product in "tasting rooms" for limited hours – 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. "Microbreweries here operate under some of the most restrictive regulations in the country," says the head of the Montana Brewers Association. As a result, when I venture into any of the good microbreweries in the Bozeman area, last call is 8 p.m.
(9) Restaurants. Maybe due to the lack of cultural and ethnic diversity, Bozeman has no restaurants specializing in Indian food, none specializing in Ethiopian or other varieties of African food, no Peruvian or Brazilian or Spanish cuisine, and so on. We have some good restaurants, including sushi, Thai, and a co-op that serves from steamer trays, but overall Bozeman's fare tends to be middle-of-the-road. Maybe more important, Bozeman also has no restaurant open 24/7, and the coffee shops don't stay open late, so night owls seeking community, you're out of luck here.
(10) The supervolcano near Bozeman. It underlies Yellowstone National Park, generating the heat for all the geysers and hotpots, and as anyone who's watched the supervolcano documentaries on the Discovery Channel and PBS, it could erupt anytime. And when it does generate its next eruption – actually the term is supereruption, and some experts say this is "overdue" – it will obliterate Bozeman, along with ruining the whole planet's atmosphere. So despite the influx of wealthy people driving up the prices of Bozeman real estate, our property values are really iffy, long-term.
I could list more than these Top 10 Reasons Not To Move To Bozeman, but like I said, this is long enough. And like I also said, I'm writing this tongue-in-cheek, because I do like living in Bozeman, despite the drawbacks. But those who are thinking of moving here, keep this list in mind. And fellow Bozemanites, if you'd like to chime in, please do.
Ray Ring is a senior editor of High Country News, and he is based in Bozeman. The descriptions of John M. Bozeman for this post were found in Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley: A history, by Phyllis Smith, and John M. Bozeman: Montana Trailmaker, by Merrill G. Burlingame. The list of new movies that haven't shown in Bozeman's multiplex theater is derived from months of the multiplex's ads in the local newspaper.
The problem lies in the rate of growth. The cities of Backpacker Magazine, Outdoor, etc. are not allowed to grow organically, but instead undergo an explosion of growth. And again, I understand the point your trying to make here, but this seems more like an advertisement for Bozeman than anything else.
Seriously, it is beautiful. Bozeman is the best town on earth in the summer and fall. I loved Peet's Hill and the trails I could hit from my doorstep. I could guarantee getting an elk tag, or even two. But when people from Montana would say to me, "Wow, Bozeman? It's cold there!" I realized two subtropical people were not cut out for that 6 month winter.
The people are fantastic. They are friendly, pleasant, helpful, and real. The beauty and grandeur of our little corner of the world is all I need.....and if making mention of a car wash in a residential area is necessary, then we are doing pretty good. Have you ever lived in a big city? It's a horror show laced with the benefits of a diverse culture and good restaurants.Bozeman...love it or leave it.
" lists. Just sayin'
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Just like Bozeman, Boulder isn't a bad place to live. However, there are caveats, some of which are monumental. To me it's journalistic laziness and a disservice to readers when these writers write glowing reviews and confidently proclaim somewhere as a great place to live using factors like Yoga studies per square mile or whatever.
I plan on moving very soon, and when I do I'll be sure to avoid anywhere that consistently makes it on a top 10 list of best places to live, if it truly is deserving of the title in a few years it'll be ruined. I don't want to hoard amazing places all to myself, everyone should have a right to move wherever they want. Personally what makes a great place to me includes things like a reasonable cost of living and a smaller community in addition to access to natural beauty and public lands.
Ah, Ray. The terrible burden of discovering and moving to a beautiful sorta-wild setting with a little bit of cowboy and a little bit of isolation and a little bit of volcano-paranoia to keep your on your toes…only to find that a bunch of JOURNALISTS from somewhere else (wait – isn't that you?) spotted it as well, and actually wrote about it (wait, again – you, again?).
So get your tongue out of your cheek, old friend, and your head out of your other cheeks. I mean, grousing about only having one multi-plex, and microbreweries that close too early, and a lack of Ethiopian restaurants (no!)? Really?
Hey, you should come to Lander, WY. It makes Bozeman look like Paris. Less than half as many people. No university. No multiplex. And…Ethiopian? We don't even have Sushi.
Of course, there are reasons. Reasons which you, my friend, and your brethren at HCN, must bear some responsibility for.
Lander too was once one of those "best small towns" that you feel so burdened to live in (maybe a smaller best small town in smaller magazines, but…we were on the list, okay?) Once, the mere mention of Lander turned heads in Santa Fe and Sebastapol and, well, Bozeman. Then came one of those pivot points in history: High Country News, which was born and raised in Lander, Tom Bell's home town, moved to Colorado (and opened a Bozeman branch). And Lander, left in the lurch, was no longer a best small town – it was just a small town, dropped in the dustbin of history. The je ne sais quoi of Rocky Mountain bestness was gone.
And so we have ELEVEN reasons not to move to Lander.
1-10/ Town name, weather, movie theaters (make that theater), diversity, isolation, wildfires, bad land-use planning, microbrewery hours, appalling lack of Ethiopian restaurants, super-volcano imminence (600,000 years and counting); and
11/ No more High Country News. Not even a Ray Ring bureau.
"If you don't want to be in a place where people are moving to, leave." So if I have deep roots, 8 generations in a town, and it is undergoing massive gentrification, I can just leave? There are two types of people in the world, ones that have a sense of place and those who don't. Many peoples identities are shaped by the place they call home, and it's not as easy to pick up and leave, nor should it be.
And to speak of tourism, that is a completely different and off topic subject. We rely on tourism as our #1 industry in my town, yet there is a sentiment in all tourist towns -yes even in Maine which I had lived in for nearly a year- that we want you to come and visit, but please don't stay.
Some people have respect for cultural identity, which the "West" loses as more people are displaced by gentrification, and some obviously don't.
I am also part of two writer's groups. One is called SF- and Fantasy the other is called The Bozeman Writer's Group which can be found at the Bozeman Library. I mean the latter not the former. For anyone interested the other is at Barnes and Noble, which happens to be right next to out movie theater. Last thing, did you know we have about 6 Toastmaster's groups in Bozeman? Ahem.
A Montana Libertarian's top 10 reasons not to move to Bozeman
1. Begin with the town's name – it's lame. : As locals here call it, Bozeangeles or Bros-man. Yep, as the nick names suggest this is a VERY leftist-marxist type of city., I.e lots of Californians and collectivists abound.
2. The weather : Blame it Bush, Obama or Trump, the snow here isn't what it used to be. Though perhaps our CONSTANT tax paid Geo-engineering weather modification programs in the skies may soon help? Yeah, we have "cold smoke" sometimes...but days with over a foot of our famous snow are now rare and due to the recent explosion in population and ridership you'll be lucky to get 3 runs in before it's all tracked up.
3. Movie theaters : There's really only one theater at the mall, I think it has approximately 10 screens but this place now services over 100+ thousand people (current population of the valley, look it up!) so it's very crowded and busy.
4. Lack of diversity : Good luck finding or meeting ANY Montanans here in Bozeman Montana. This place has been overrun with a far disproportionate number of leftist-progressive East and West coasters, social justice warriors, gun controllers, socialists, communists, do-gooders and righteous liberty busting brown-shirts than conservatives or libertarians.
5. Isolation : Once a barrier, Montana is no longer far enough from California, Oregon and the East Coast. I recently overheard some people thinking about moving here on a plane from Minneapolis say that over 75% of Bozeman people have only lived in Bozeman for 5 years or less...and if you live here that is completely believable!
6. Wildfires : And you think East Los Angeles or Mexico City is smoky, just wait.
7. Occasional bad land-use planning : Angenda21 - don't' know it? please look it up, your national sovereignty and freedoms are about to go away and on behalf of a new world order with one world government - and a new ruling government without the Constitution and Bill of Rights that you may be taking for granted.
8. Microbrewery suppression : Mercantilism, Protectionism, Fascism and Collective "Progressivism" make this and all industry a very challenging place to be a real laissez-faire free market real-liberal entrepreneur.
9. Restaurants : Regulation and anti-liberal policies from those masquerading as "liberals" hinder the market place from providing the people with what they want. The "liberal" Demoplocan agenda continuously ensures difficult and or monopoly via startup barriers, taxes and regulations.
10. The supervolcano near Bozeman : Could blow in the next month or 100k years...but until it does alarmists will fear-monger on this in order to divert and avoid discussion of the REAL threats to you, your friends and your family, namely the Replublicrats/Demoplocans continuous attack on you individual liberties and rights.
"most other races can not stand the cold weather"
Learn your Montana history, Hunter! The reason why Montana is so white is because Montanans made it that way. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, political elites across Montana drove Black residents out. Our state became rife with so-called "Sundown Towns" — towns in which Black people were simply forbidden to stay in, especially "after sundown". And forget about owning property.
Helena, for example, had black newspapers, black-owned businesses, and a black literary society founded in 1906 that drew more than 100 attendees to its weekly meetings. Helena's African Methodist Episcopal Church was important enough to host the western regional AME church conference in 1894.
The only cold that drove non-whites out of Montana was the icy cold — and violent — shoulder of white Montanans.


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On May 13-16, I joined Assistant Secretary of Education Brenda Dann-Messier at the Third International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), hosted by UNESCO and the government of China. Over the course of four days, we heard from participants around the world about how important technical and vocational education is and what it can do to change people's lives and transform economies.
Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong said that technical and vocational education is a key part of creating green development and supporting emerging and high-tech industries. As new industries emerge, we will need to prepare the global workforce with new skills. And, at a time when technological advances are rapidly changing the demands of the workforce and 200 million people are unemployed globally, our meeting in Shanghai could not have been better timed.
Miika Tomi, a representative of the UNESCO Youth Forum, talked about working with youths as partners in addressing unemployment and economic crises. He sees technical and vocational education as a way to jumpstart economic growth, create jobs for young people, and ensure that they have the skills to enter the workforce. Of the 200 million unemployed people around the world, 75 million of them are youths.
While it is clear that technical and vocational education is important, it is a challenge to make it relevant. As the global economy changes, education systems have to adapt, preparing students for the jobs of the future, not for jobs that will no longer exist. They also have to be accessible. Finally, they must foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
Every educator I spoke to identified these same challenges, and most viewed the International Congress as a chance to find new approaches to address these issues. Everyone is looking for solutions.
During the conference, Assistant Secretary Dann-Messier talked about the United States' approach to facing these challenges: our new Blueprint for Career and Technical Education. This proposal will deliver a more relevant and results-driven education, more effectively linking technical education with the needs of employers, engaging partners, and fostering innovation. This plan will help meet President Barack Obama's goal of creating a truly 21st century American workforce: competitive, highly skilled, and prepared for emerging industries.
China's new strategy to technical and vocational education is remarkably similar to the U.S. approach, and we are looking forward to a fruitful bilateral dialogue later this summer. We are also looking to engage other countries in similar dialogues in which we can all learn about innovative approaches and ways to better connect vocational education around the world.
The transformation of technical and vocational education has only begun. Completing this effort will not be easy, but if we succeed, the benefits will be great. As a colleague from the International Labor Organization said, better trained workers help our economies run more efficiently and create economic opportunity and social mobility. Technical and vocational education can help to develop businesses and to foster young entrepreneurs. In short, it helps build human capital: the ultimate renewable resource.
Enock O. in Uganda writes:
I think the Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong is right we need technical and piratical education not theoretical courses if we are to create jobs.
Anna in Washington, D.C. writes:
As an educator, I could not agree more that we need to rethink how we are teaching the next generation. We can't give up on the benefits of a strong liberal arts education, but we need to increase educational opportunities at all levels, from elementary school to life-long learning institutes, in the areas of technology, business, and foreign languages.
Violet in the United Kingdom writes:
Technical education is really the key point in today's world, where everything is ruled by Internet and all of the different devices, so it definitely can chane people's lives in a hige way. Even more important is, if that education directed toward the generation of the future, has as its main strategy, the ideas for greener and energy-saving planning. Then it will assure that the new leders will be notonly working on developing the economy, but will work into protection what we have as our nature.
Melissa in Maryland writes:
Two words: community colleges


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Returning to the White Isle on the 10th of June for 15 weeks right through until 16th September Judge Jules can never be accused of not knowing how to fill a room at one of his Judgement Sundays parties. Although he's wedded to the trance sound, he's happy to play away with funky house and indie in the back room, and indulge in affairs with big breaks boys.
Judgement Sundays continues to be San Antonio's busiest by a distance, with Judge Jules leading the line and with strong support guaranteed each season he seems to do no wrong.
So far we have John O'Callaghan confirmed to play on July 8th, August 5th and September 16th, with one of the events being taken over by his own branded night Subculture. In addition Radio 1 superstar DJ competition winner Danny Howard has been confirmed for the 10th and 24th June as well as Ferry Corsten who will bring his 'Full on Ferry' show to the party for 6 dates and Eddie Halliwell returns with his 'Fire it up' event for 3 shows. So, with these impressive headlining acts already cofirmed for 2012 we can't wait to see who else will be joining The Judge this summer!
This is one party that gets loud, hot and very busy. And we love it !
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The lawyers of Intel Corp. and the Federal Trade Commission have reportedly reached a settlement agreement. The world's largest chipmaker will not be fined, but will be forced to change some of its business tactics.
Reuters news-agency reports that the preliminary deal between Intel and the FTC has been reached and it does not involve any payments, but will require it to extend changes demanded under its November agreement with Advanced Micro Devices to graphics chips. The deal will also adjust Intel's use of volume discounts for both microprocessors and graphics processors
While FTC lawyers reached a preliminary agreement with Intel, the five-member commission continues to talk about it. Friday is the target date for a final ruling, although that date could be pushed back or, as with any deal, it could fall apart altogether.
At present it is unclear which of FTC's recommendations to Intel will be enforced. One of the things proposed by the FTC was to make it easier for third-party chipset vendors to obtain license to build and sell core-logic sets compatible with Intel microprocessors.
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Fed Sees Moderate Economic Growth, Leaves Rates Unchanged (Update 1)
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) - The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged as it said the labor market is showing signs of improvement and suggested that the economy is returning to moderate economic growth.
The Federal Open Market Committee -- the Fed's policy making wing -- downwardly revised its 2013 real GDP forecast to 2.3% to 2.8% growth from 2.3% to 3% in December, and cut its unemployment rate prediction to 7.3% to 7.5% from 7.4% to 7.7% in December.
"I think there's probably a little bit less angst and panic that we're hearing ... and there's certainly some continued recognition of the challenges that they
TheStreet also broke down the Fed's announcement with FAO Chief Economist Robert Brusca.
Below is the text to the FOMC's announcement. Click through here for the Fed's latest economic projection.
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests a return to moderate economic growth following a pause late last year. Labor market conditions have shown signs of improvement in recent months but the unemployment rate remains elevated. Household spending and business fixed investment advanced, and the housing sector has strengthened further, but fiscal policy has become somewhat more restrictive. Inflation has been running somewhat below the Committee's longer-run objective, apart from temporary variations that largely reflect fluctuations in energy prices. Longer-term inflation expectations have remained stable.
Consistent with its statutory mandate, the Committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability. The Committee expects that, with appropriate policy accommodation, economic growth will proceed at a moderate pace and the unemployment rate will gradually decline toward levels the Committee judges consistent with its dual mandate. The Committee continues to see downside risks to the economic outlook. The Committee also anticipates that inflation over the medium term likely will run at or below its 2 percent objective.
To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at the rate most consistent with its dual mandate, the Committee decided to continue purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month and longer-term Treasury securities at a pace of $45 billion per month. The Committee is maintaining its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities and of rolling over maturing Treasury securities at auction. Taken together, these actions should maintain downward pressure on longer-term interest rates, support mortgage markets, and help to make broader financial conditions more accommodative.


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Council defeats motion prohibiting smoking in park
ESCANABA – In a 3-2 vote Thursday, Escanaba City Council defeated a motion to prohibit smoking at the new John D. Besse Park. Council members opposing the agenda item said the city's no-smoking ordinance needs more work.
A second public hearing was held Thursday to prohibit smoking and apply city park rules to the new playground located on the corner of 8th Avenue South and South 30th Street.
Following public comment from citizen James Hellermann that the no-smoking ordinance should be repealed, council member Patricia Baribeau made a motion to amend the city ordinances to include Besse Park.
Mayor Leo Evans voted in favor of the motion. Council members Pete Baker, Ron Beauchamp and Marc Tall opposed the motion.
Beauchamp said the no-smoking ordinance needs to be revisited including the size of the area in parks where smoking is prohibited. Concerned the ban area includes the pavilion at Besse Park, he said people should be able to smoke at the picnic table while watching their kids play.
Tall noted he does want rules to apply fairly throughout the city but added he is not sure he agrees with the no-smoking ordinance.
Baker agreed with Beauchamp and Tall, saying the no-smoking ordinance needs more work. He commented he is personally opposed to smoking.
An outdoor no-smoking ordinance was approved by council in July 2011 for specific locations in Escanaba including parks where children are concentrated and city buildings.
The amendment prohibits smoking within 100 feet of city buildings, nine playgrounds, six ball fields, the guarded beach area, Webster pool, and two ice rinks.
The issue was first considered by the city's Recreation Advisory Board after Recreation Director Tom Penegor was approached by the public health department to ban smoking in areas where there are high concentrations of children.
Penegor said Thursday there have been no major problems with the no-smoking ordinance. Once smokers are made aware of the rule, they have complied, he added.
Three weeks ago at the Oct. 17 council meeting, the first reading and public hearing to amend the city's no-smoking and park ordinances to include Besse Park took place.
Beauchamp made the motion to set Nov. 7 for the second reading, public hearing and adoption. Baribeau seconded the motion to set the date, which was approved 5-0 by council.
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Pacing Diana - Page 4
You can see a runner coming from a long way off at Grouse Gulch, which is one of the few places in the race where runners are on a dirt road. Descending from Engineer Pass, above the trees, exposed, came Diana, and, I could tell, she was crushing the descent. The blue shirt, black shorts, white visor. The happy stride. Then, we were off.
"So I get to Engineer Aid," she said as we ran (Engineer aid station is at treeline, mile 50), "and I see this guy peering over the cliff above and he says, `We got a runner coming, it's a pacer.' And I said `I'm no pacer! I'm a runner!' And he yells, `We got the first runner coming, and it's a girl!' That was cool."
Immediately after Grouse Gulch Aid, we started up Handies Peak. It is a long climb, almost two climbs. One ascends to the base of Handies, the other to its 14,000-plus-foot summit. Relentless. As part of her training, we had climbed the mountain nine or 10 times. The fastest we ever ran from Grouse Gulch to the summit was 2 hours 10 minutes. That night, during the race, we made it in 1 hour 50 minutes.
We summited Handies at dark, 9:40 p.m. Lightning flashed in the distance, the last of the sun visible in the west. We looked back to see the lights of other runners chasing us. "We are at the front of this goddamn race, Finkel," I said to Diana, being the shrink, wanting her to appreciate the moment. "There are less than 40 miles to go. Let's just run your race. Enjoy it. But don't let it kill you."
We tumbled down the backside of Handies in the dark, slipping on the ball bearing scree, like skiing without skis, then falling, then upright again. I looked back up the mountain for the headlamps of anyone chasing us down. But I never saw any lights behind us, in that particular valley, all the way to the gravel forest service road, all the way down that road in the dark to the next aid station, Sherman, at mile 70. We ran strong the whole way.
Diana had stopped worrying about the second woman passing her and focused on maintaining the overall lead. It was not a conscious decision, just something that happened, borne out of a respect for the race, to lead for as long as possible, to fight for it, to make the runners behind her fight for it.
It is a long climb out of the Sherman Aid Station. As we left, I looked across the valley and finally saw the lights of other runners coming down the long hill into Sherman. "Alright, Finkel, let's climb this like mules, get to the top of the Continental Divide, and run the downhills into Pole Creek." It was the plan, made months ago.
Since we have run together so much, we can speak in code. "Climb like a mule" means establish a sustainable, hurried but methodical walking pace. "When we walk, we swing our arms and walk with purpose" is a reminder to not stroll. I said this in the dark to annoy her and remind her. Every step counted. That and eat. That and drink.


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The complaint by Rambus seeks an exclusion order barring the importation, sale for importation, or sale after importation of products that infringe nine Rambus patents from the Ware and Barth families of patents. The accused products include Nvidia products that incorporate DDR, DDR2, DDR3, LPDDR, GDDR, GDDR2, and GDDR3 memory controllers, including GeForce graphics processors and nForce chipsets.
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At a grocery shop close to my hometown in the Bay Area, a Columbia Business School professor ran an experiment that would one day become a classic study on choice. Professor Sheena Iyengar set up a tasting booth at the store and alternated between a display of 24 jam options and six jam options. Nearly a third of the samplers purchased a jar when presented with a selection of six jams, compared to only 3 percent of samplers presented with 24 choices. Interestingly, too much choice can lead to a fear of making a decision or even an inability to make a decision.
If you're a customer overwhelmed with the burden of choosing from too many jams, you can go with the easy option to just not pick a jam. That's about as low-stakes as life will ever get. If you're a graduating student overwhelmed by the nebulous options of post-grad life, you can't avoid making a decision the way you can avoid buying a jar of jam. Chances are you're stuck with, maybe even paralyzed by, the overwhelming burden of choice.
It's a modern-day luxury to have so many options in one's early 20s, and Columbia students should be grateful that their education has opened up a wide variety of post-graduation life paths, from travel to finance. Unfortunately, that kind of gratitude-oriented logic doesn't work for most students who have spent the past 16 years in an educational system that has often left them unprepared to make decisions more impactful than what classes they should take.
College seniors are notoriously terrible at handling the ever-asked "what are you going to do when you graduate" question. Even the early-recruited finance and consulting seniors who landed full-time jobs in the fall are quick to add that they're not sure about their long-term career plans. Where did this anxiety come from? Blame the education system, blame the students, blame their parents, blame the economy.
The reasons for graduation anxiety are varied, but the result is mostly the same: Many elite college campuses have developed a culture of indecision. It's taboo to ask friends about post-graduation plans. There's camaraderie in knowing your classmates are as confused as you are. The day they declare their majors, humanities students know their long-term interests don't necessarily rely on which subject they choose to study. There's a feeling of stability in collective fear—you know you aren't alone in your uncertainty. For many college students, the culture of indecision is a coping mechanism for feeling lost, but is it healthy? I don't think so.
Living in a delusional culture of indecision, where an inability to make big decisions is accepted and sometimes even celebrated, can convince a young college graduate to keep avoiding and fearing big decisions. But making big decisions is a fundamental aspect of life. Graduates have to pick a jar of jam at some point, and thinking it's OK to wait in a grocery store forever is not only frustrating and anxiety-inducing, but also unfeasible.
If you feel like you're being accused of living in the culture of indecision, you may counter that you actually have the opposite problem—your problem isn't that you're avoiding big decisions but rather that you're thinking too much about them. Unfortunately, thinking too much about a decision is often the same thing as avoiding a decision. At a certain point, all the thinking and logic in the world may not help you come closer to making a better decision about which jar to pick.
As individuals, we can continue to accept the culture of indecision, believing that big choices are too formidable to be made while we're so young. Or we can change our attitudes. What if we instead accepted that our problem isn't too much choice, but rather our fear of choice? Aiming to create a healthier relationship with decision-making is a much better approach than aiming to avoid it by nestling in a culture of indecision.
Many Columbia students are in some ways lucky that their lives up to this point have involved very few tough decisions. But our education isn't complete if we graduate knowing more about what Aristotle has to say about making decisions than how to make decisions. Getting the most out of our college experience is up to us, and we have to take the initiative to learn how to develop a better attitude toward making decisions. The culture of indecision may shield us from making big choices, but we should be using our time in college to instead practice the life-long skill of coming to terms with the need to be decisive.
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We sliced sweet potatoes one-inch thick and roasted them with cinnamon and salt the night before a long run, cooled them in the fridge overnight and enjoyed rounds from a plastic baggie every 30 minutes or so during a long run. To make them softer, boil them and cut them into cubes like Zeke Tiernan, an elite ultraunner in Basalt, Colorado, does.
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Lane, Patrick
Patrick Lane 1939–
Canadian poet.
Lane has been called a "maverick poet" for his often brusque and unflinchingly rough portrayals of life in British Columbia. Though he has written some lyric and introspective poetry, Lane's narrative poems have been most successful. As the poet-observer, he records the stories of hard-working people, failures, and outcasts with dramatic images rendered through a disturbing voice. Some critics find Lane's visceral style sensational in its emphasis on violence. Others praise him for combining "the grotesque with the deeply human" to achieve a harsh but true realism.
Lane's early poetry was marked by experiments in language and form through which he gradually developed a unique, documentary style. Most critics feel his poetry matured with the volumes Beware the Months of Fire and Unborn Things; the latter recounts his experiences while traveling in South America. For Poems New and Selected Lane received the Governor General's Award in 1978. His recent collection, The Measure, has further expanded Lane's reputation as one of Canada's most distinctive poets.
(See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 97-100.)
Peter Stevens
[In Letters From the Savage Mind Patrick Lane] allows his persona to stand at the centre of the majority of his poems, which are especially good when he deals with the ordinary affairs of himself and his family. Just under the surface of these poems lie enormous fears and questions but they never assume moral proportions. The encroachments of age, the madness of political situations, childlessness, loneliness and anonymity in the big city, outbursts of violence are all fixed within the circle of himself and the environments he lives in, visits or remembers. Ordinary things take on aspects of seriousness; they belong to individuals, and individuals are what matter in this terrifying world. Thus, the poetry focuses on seemingly small and unimportant things: cats, dogs—alive or dead, an ant, children and children's games, an orange lawnmower, a carved wooden fish. He remembers the outer world by things immediate and personal to him: the Cuban crisis by cougar tracks and Pope Paul's visit to the U.N. by the first hard rain of winter. Lights on ships create myths for him—there are several poems about the sea and the mountains, making an overwhelming environment for man. But somehow man survives by means of his ordinary everyday affairs and relationships.
Sometimes these ordinary things reduce the poems to ordinariness. Sometimes Patrick Lane becomes strangely pretentious: I find the two long poems in the book, particularly "The Carnival Man" (however important it may be to the poet himself), too overwrought. He is best in dealing with immediacies and there are many poems in Letters From The Savage Mind of this kind. The cumulative effect of these poems is to make the reader feel that this poet is an individual keenly observant about himself and the world around him, sensitive without being over-emotional, realistic without milking the realism too often. This is a very good collection. (p. 283)
Peter Stevens, "Stones' Throw from the West," in The Canadian Forum, Vol. XLVII, No. 566, March, 1968, pp. 282-83.∗
Doug Fetherling
Lane's poems are more visceral than cerebral and are not abstract at all. At their most representative they focus on a specific person or place in his life, such as a whore or a lumberjack, a jail cell or a highway, and they are characterized by a general surefootedness and realism through which he sprinkles the occasional brilliant image, the odd burst of poetry so pure it makes you squirm. This places him in direct contrast with those who favour the halting and the indirect, who esteem the distillation of experience to the point where the poem is the residue of the moment and the thought. Likewise it removes him from those of the other popular extreme for whom the poem is a topical thing dashed off to preserve the moment of its birth; who do not eliminate, rework and reshape but who believe in the blanket method of trying to isolate truths. In the age of extremists, then, Lane is a moderate who does not see a potential poem in every experience and who does not too much belabour, according to fashion, those things he does undertake. He goes his own way, without followers but with at least one teacher.
For many years associated with West Coast writing, he seems in this retrospective collection [The Sun Has Begun to Eat the Mountain] to be at his best in several cases when dealing with British Columbia. The best instance is a longer poem called "Sam Sam the Candy Man."… It is a childhood memory of the town simpleton and his...
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Lorne Hicks
Beware the Months of Fire is a book which is sometimes brutal, often morbid, usually disturbing. Like Yeats, Lane finds his muse "In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart", but what a foul shop this is, leading to darkness rather than Byzantium. These poems explore an intensely black vision, remindful both in grotesque point of view and morbid tone of Sylvia Plath's work. Just as Plath once confided that she enjoyed watching "cadavers cut open", Lane's poetry reveals a similar grisly fascination with bodies, both dead and dying…. Although death is treated graphically by Lane, rather than as an abstraction, there is an underlying sense of purpose in his poetry, summarized by the epigraph: "The greatest defeat, in anything, is to forget, and above all to forget what it is that has smashed you, and to let yourself be smashed without ever realizing how thoroughly devilish men can be." (Céline, Journey To The End of Night). This collection is autobiographical, and its characters—all either failures or outcasts—never allow Lane "to forget"; each of them has been cruelly "smashed"; death is degrading rather than ennobling. (p. 22)
The central concern of Lane's poetry is to gain a gut response to the grotesque action of his work, rather than leading the reader to a sympathetic understanding of character or motive. It's tough, but effective. While a picture may be worth a thousand words, a poem such as "There was a Woman Bending" carries more impact than a long polemic dealing with abortion…. This is a stunning, moving poem which carries an immense feeling of emptiness and waste, even though it doesn't proselytize…. In "July", Pat Lane writes that "compassion is only the beginning of suffering." In the end, however, the poet describes what has smashed him through the symbolic act of remembering. Although pain and death are central here, Beware the Months of Fire is a collection provoked by love and understanding rather than hate and bitterness. (pp. 22-3)
Lorne Hicks, "Literature: 'Beware the Months of Fire'," in The Canadian Forum, Vol. LIV, Nos. 640 & 641, May-June, 1974, pp. 20-3.∗
Len Gasparini
Lane's poems tell us about things we would like to forget. They are the acerbic documents of an imagination turned inside out. Lane records his impressions of reality with guts. There is no jive circumlocution in his style—an unschooled, street-cool one that serves the purpose of his perception. Neither does he run at the mouth for the sake of vocabulary….
Beware the Months of Fire is Lane's ninth collection, and it contains many poems from earlier, now out-of-print editions. The new poems complement the range of Lane's voice. They also touch upon familiar and poignant subjects; from the almost scatological view of "What Does Not Change" to the brutality of "Gerald"; from big city streets to country jails to the haunting isolation of the B.C. interior, and from the malaise called South America to Canada's own spectral Indian Reservations. Lane has covered them all. His poems are mirrors with the spidery cracks of truth in them. He doesn't flinch from the ugliness and cruelty of life, but observes it with ironic compassion. Like Layton and Jeffers, he knows the grimace behind the grin. (p. 92)
Lane's vision encompasses the surfeit of experience pushed to its extremity. Whether he writes about wild dogs or lovemaking, "Toronto the Ugly" or the "shredded" walls in a tenement house, he is right there, gripping the essential, inducing us to look. He feeds us raw chunks of life.
Because of his seeming obsession with the seamier aspects of life, the lyrical and reflective moments in his poetry (And they do happen!) hit us unexpectedly. "The Bird", "Saskatchewan", "October", "Cariboo Winter", and "Similkameen Deer" are evocative of nature and the tender ceremonies of love. In these pieces Lane transforms the "I" and gives it an objective dignity. Metaphor and meaning create a kind of magnetic field, and the poet places the "I" within that space…. [Beware the Months of Fire] is easily the best book of poems to come out of Canada this year. (p. 93)
Len Gasparini, "One Plus Three" (reprinted by permission of the author), in Canadian Literature, No. 63, Winter, 1975, pp. 92-5.∗
George Woodcock
[Unborn Things: South American Poems is Patrick Lane's] threnodies of the Inca past and his appalled presentations of the here-and-now in which the descendants of those who created the Andean civilizations survive. Patrick Lane's earlier poems have already shown his exceptional quality as a poet recording with mingled delight and anger the splendour of the world and the shame of what man has done to it and to his fellow inhabitants…. [The main suite of Unborn Things, "Macchu Picchu",] evokes the past of that lost final fortress of the Inca realm, perched on its splendid crags above the jungle and the river: the departure of Manco Capac, the last Inca, to die in a Spanish ambush; the dying out of the deserted Virgins of the Sun; and the fate their refuge now shares with other tragic loci of history, with Mycenae and Elsinore, with Taxila and Persepolis…. (p. 87)
The kind of transference that equates modern man's brutality to a snake with the Spaniards' destruction of a civilization they could not understand, is extended to other poems in Unborn Things, which is not unexpected when one remembers the indictments of man's abuse of his will and power over other beings in earlier Lane poems like "Mountain Oysters" and "The Black Filly". "At the Edge of the Jungle" is a poem about disillusionment with a place romantically anticipated, and the narrative of horror begins with a dog burying its head in the Amazon mud to evade the flies that swarm on his sore eyes; it ends with a tethered rooster whose beak children have cut away so that he cannot eat. It is a fine, appalling poem, whose truth I recognize from having made that journey myself, over the Andean sierra and down to the Amazonian headwaters….
South America has provoked Canadian poets to remarkable work. It gave Earle Birney the hints for some of his best poems, and the same is true of Patrick Lane, whose recent work—this volume and Beware the Months of Fire, establish him clearly as a poet unusual in his direct and telling response to experience, whether that experience is a memory of the collective mind or an episode individually lived. (p. 88)
George Woodcock, "Playing with Freezing Fire" (reprinted by permission of the author), in Canadian Literature, No. 70, Autumn, 1976, pp. 84-91.∗
Marilyn Bowering
Lane's early work struggles to find a sincere language. He tries out modes of speech, tones, roles. There is a hostile/aggressive/macho touch even where he tries for the lyric—bravado substituting for feeling—and an occasional line or poem which learns, under the impetus of betrayal/anger, to say what it means. (p. 26)
His devices, clumsy at first, are sound. They teach him structure, how a change in syntax, the substitution of a word in a familiar phrase, or the reversal of normal perspective, can make something new…. The language gains independence. It has its own drive apart from anything the poet knows he knows. Lane discovers how to elicit meaningful connections (rather than the strained,...
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Len Gasparini
I have always had the utmost respect for Lane's work in books and magazines, and this new volume [Poems New & Selected] is an ostensible culmination of his poetic talent. His themes are earthy, steeped in raw experience, the sweat of working and loving, and his language rages with pain, a violent beauty, and Neruda's "confused impurity of the human condition." His imagery is seldom bland; in fact, it often relies on a shock effect….
Lane's poems are poignantly impressionistic observations on the menacing aspects of man and nature. He writes about his native British Columbia with passion and irony, like a man who knows its moods inside out. He can soar into the lyricism of "Macchu...
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Rosemary Sullivan
Pat Lane is from the BC interior and in his poetry [recently collected in Poems New & Selected] you find the West Coast landscape and temperament. He writes of logging camps and forests, the native people, hunting and bush farming, but you don't feel the poet has turned to these subjects as the compulsory material of his region. This is Lane's natural world. He writes a tough-minded, anecdotal poetry full of narratives of the hard lives of ordinary people. The voice he chooses is often raw and violent, and his best quality is a remarkable and moving empathy for all of life that is vulnerable and pained: the woman who aborts herself in a dingy hotel, the boy who blows his mother's arms off with a bomb, the...
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John Cook
[Patrick Lane] continues to produce sharp and crafty verse. In [No Longer Two People] he has entangled his imagination with Lorna Uher's to produce a duet of violent, but ultimately gentle, love poems….
No Longer Two People takes the form of a poetic dialogue with alternating statements, Uher's under the emblem of a spreading tree, and Lane's under what I take to be a rising sun although his poems themselves speak often of death and the approach of winter. Each poet reacts to and develops the imagery and themes of the other producing a blending of visions that parallels the theme of personal union explored in the poems. It is a unity born of the violence of love with its conflict of...
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Christopher Levenson
Usually what attracts or repels one in poetry is the way something is said, the striking perspective, rather than the subject matter as such. Let me start, then, by saying that, purely in terms of linguistic control, mastery of cadence and verse movement, and command of imagery, Patrick Lane, winner of the 1978 Governor-General's award for poetry, has to be classed along with John Newlove and Margaret Atwood as among Canada's most accomplished contemporary poets.
However, what a poem is saying cannot be ignored, especially if, as is the case with Lane, there is such a consistent, indeed obsessive pattern to his work. His main concerns are with violence and squalor. Any writer may choose to see...
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Ian Sowton
It seems to me that Patrick Lane is one of our better contemporary poets when it comes to telling us about the place they inhabit with us. The Measure is a recent milestone/signpost of his being there—particularly West and Northwest. A controlling pattern of his earlier books like Beware the Months of Fire … and Poems New and Selected … is even clearer here: short sojourns, many journeys. He is but a little mad north-northwest; but whichever direction the wind sits that blows through so many of his poems, he has a bracing body of work and calloused hands to show for his and his persona's travels. (p. 102)
As in a lot of our poetry, outer topography of The Measure's...
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Rosemary Aubert
The poems [in The Measure] fall roughly into three categories.
A few poems like "Temenos" are basically philosophical in nature. While they certainly cannot be dismissed as merely abstract, they are ponderous and occasionally fall victim to a too-frequent use of rhetorical questions. A second class of poem encompasses works such as "The Long Coyote Line." These are enriched nature poems, descriptive, but also offering comment on what is described. These poems are both strong and delicate, reminiscent of fine Oriental poetry.
But the third type of poem shows the real strength of this collection: the narratives. Every one of them is vigorous, gripping and nearly unforgettable....
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John Cruickshank
The title poem of [The Measure] should quickly find its way into the anthologies, not because it is the best of the 25 poems brought together in this volume, but because it is the most striking. "The Measure" depicts a dead dog in a field being watched over by a magpie; it is a small, almost perfect song in a minor key. The metaphor is precise and compelling, drawing the reader into a slightly claustrophobic but richly furnished poetic world. And, like much of the best anthology poetry—though not always the best verse—"The Measure" feels authorless and timeless…. Such words as "bone" and "stark," and such images as wind whipping away sound, seem to suspend the poem in time and place, giving it a universal...
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Don Gutteridge
Old Mother contains three quite distinct sections. First there is a long sequence called "Prairie Poems," which confirms Lane's reputation as one of our best poets. Read individually, these poems afford the pleasure we have come to expect from his verse: a sense of immediacy, of living through powerful emotional and sensuous experiences expressed in stark, occasionally bizarre, imagery and controlled by a constant voice whose rhythms are as sure as they are haunting. Lane's has always been the voice of the outsider, the alienated, the man with the crooked eye—a voice tempered always by compassion and the anguish it brings. In "Prairie Poems" these concerns are vividly focussed on the everyday world of rural...
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Rush fans...the moment you've all been waiting for has arrived. Not quite like clockwork, but Clockwork Angels is finally and definitely headed your way. The new album, on Anthem/Roadrunner and produced by Nick Raskulinecz (who's worked with Foo Fighters and Deftones) is slated to hit stores June 12. In grand Rush style, this is a concept disc, with a "steampunk" theme wrapped around the familiar trope of a young man chasing a dream in a confusing world. There'll be an accompanying novel (written by Neal Peart in collaboration with sci-fi superstar and prog megafan Kevin J. Anderson.
Can't quite wait for June 12? The first single, "Headlong Flight" will debut April 19th. And a tour will follow (announcement soon).
We'll of course be on the case here at S+V.


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Introduction to rheumatic fever:
Group A strep is a common cause of illness in children. Usually the disease is as mild as strep throat, but strep can also cause serious illnesses, including toxic shock, "flesh-eating disease," and rheumatic fever, a serious form of heart disease. Preventing rheumatic fever and other complications is one of the major reasons we treat all cases of strep with antibiotics.
During the 1960s and 1970s, rheumatic fever was a major worldwide problem. When it seemed to disappear, people thought it had become a disease of the past. After its resurgence, we learned that rheumatic fever comes and goes in waves. It can cause serious illness wherever strep throat occurs.
What is rheumatic fever?
Rheumatic fever is a serious inflammatory disease that can follow untreated or inadequately treated streptococcal infections. The major ongoing problem from rheumatic fever is the possible long-term destruction of heart valves.
Why is strep sometimes mild and sometimes so severe? It is thought that some children may be genetically more likely than other children to develop rheumatic fever when infected with strep. Other studies show that certain strains of strep may carry a greater risk of causing rheumatic fever. A study published in the March 26, 2002 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences supports the idea that certain strains are more dangerous than others. Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) analyzed strep bacteria from 36 different rheumatic fever outbreaks. They have discovered several genes present in those strains of strep that are not present in other strains. The genes are the blueprints for specific toxins. It appears that different subtypes of Group A strep are responsible for different degrees and locations of illness. And an interesting twist – the extra genes appear to be 'swappable,' injected into the strep by a tiny virus that infects the strep bacteria!
Who gets rheumatic fever?
Rheumatic fever is most common in children between the ages of 5 and 15. It follows strep throat and other strep infections caused by specific streptococcal strains. Rheumatic fever often occurs in outbreaks.
What are the symptoms of rheumatic fever?
Children with rheumatic fever may have red, painful, swollen joints; uncontrolled limb movements; a characteristic rash; non-tender nodules under the skin; heart problems; and/or a high fever.
Is rheumatic fever contagious?
Rheumatic fever is not directly contagious, but the strep infection that triggered the rheumatic fever is contagious.
How long does rheumatic fever last?
Rheumatic fever can continue to cause new problems for as many as 40 or 50 years after the initial illness.
How is rheumatic fever diagnosed?
The diagnosis is based on specific symptoms called the Jones Criteria. To be diagnosed with rheumatic fever, someone must exhibit evidence of a recent strep infection along with 2 of the major criteria, or 1 of the major criteria and 2 of the minor criteria.
Major criteria:
- Carditis (inflammation of the heart)
- Migratory polyarthritis (exquisite joint pain and inflammation)
- Chorea (involuntary movement of the limbs)
- Subcutaneous nodules (usually over the joints)
Minor criteria:
- Fever (usually high)
- Arthralgia (joint pain, even in the absence of redness or swelling)
- Abnormal lab tests (sedimentation rate (ESR) or C-reactive protein (CRP)
- Abnormal electrocardiogram (EKG) (prolonged PR interval)
How is rheumatic fever treated?
Treatment for rheumatic fever usually includes anti-infective agents and anti-inflammatory agents. Often cardiac medications are needed. Sometimes neurologic medicines are needed to treat the chorea.
How can rheumatic fever be prevented?
Rheumatic fever may be prevented by preventing strep infections, or by identifying strep infections and treating them quickly with appropriate antibiotics. Preventing rheumatic fever is a major reason for strep to be treated promptly even at a time when antibiotics are often overused.
Related A-to-Z Information:
Arthritis (Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, JRA), Congenital Heart Disease, Exanthems (Childhood rash), Impetigo, Lyme Disease, Mononucleosis (Mono), Scarlet Fever, Strep Throat, Streptococcus (Strep), Toxic Synovitis


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Fredonia: Our choice for trustees
High taxes. High water bills. An unfriendly business climate. Lack of development.
That sums up Fredonia for the last 15 years when you look at how the Village Board has managed its affairs.
The reason? Village government continually makes itself the priority as the economy in northern Chautauqua County suffers.
One only has to look to the Chadwick Bay Regional Development Corp. For the first time in years, there is significant progress on a north county regional water district. Who is missing from the table? The village of Fredonia, which has a water system that could be on the verge of a disaster.
Trustees were just as stubborn in their attitude when they approved the hire of a new Department of Public Works laborer. Even though the department's supervisor embarrassingly could not give specifics or details on the job description, the board bowed to his wishes and added to an already oversized payroll.
Maybe the election next week can bring change. Four candidates are vying for two positions on the Village Board, which has recently had a number of 3-2 votes. This election can tilt the current power structure, which appears to be the faction of Trustees Joseph Cerrie, Janel Subjack and Adam Brown against Trustees Thomas Brown and Marc Ruckman.
While the Browns will be finishing their four years – with Thomas Brown being the much more accountable and effective of the two – Susan Forrester-Mackay, Phyllis Jones, Michael Vinciguerra and Mary Jane Starks seek the pair of open positions. In addition, Justice David Prince is running unopposed.
We salute the efforts of Mackay in the past as trustee and as a key member of the Festivals Fredonia committee. Her work has made a number of events possible throughout the years.
Working with her on the committee was Starks, whose father Louis A. Mancuso was one of the great past village leaders. She aims to make Fredonia a "thriving community that we all can be proud of, one that people want to actively be a part of and a place in which future generations want to live."
But looking forward, we need some fire on the board. Too often, village leaders quietly and unconfidently trudge down the same path every year, raising taxes, fees or both.
Our endorsements are strongly for Vinciguerra and cautiously for Jones. Vinciguerra has been on this path before – he was defeated in 2009 – and was a firm believer in consolidation and shared services. He also won't accept lame excuses for filling positions like three members of the current board did.
Jones, a Democrat, could be politically pressured into voting along the lines of Cerrie and Subjack in important matters. However, we know she is a dedicated, hard-working community member and volunteer who has helped build organizations and vital non-profits. She will be a difference maker.
Polls in the village are open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday.


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klown!You are the lucky one! Those of us who play with sourdough regularly... and multiple cultures... I'm sure have had hooch problems! I captured one yeast a few years ago... no matter how many times I washed it, fed it, nutured it, kept it warm and cozy... it refused to behave! It was an evil child who had to be sent away!! I wish you continued success with no evil cultures in the future. It's sad when a good culture goes bad! ~sd


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For those of you who live in much colder areas, the shirt jacket can be just as useful. When things get real cold outside and your peacoat just isn't doing it, the shirt jacket can be a seriously warm middle layer. Odds are its plaid print will stand out against your dark outerwear (much like a plaid scarf), so it'll look pretty good as it gets the job done.
Shirt jackets, or really heavy shirts (often lined) that can function as a lightweight jacket, are pretty easy to find from most of the usual suspects. No matter what you're into you can easily find a shirt jacket that syncs up with your current wardrobe (I'll be the first to admit that red and black buffalo check is not my thing). Most are made of a heavy duty fabric, such as wool, and will often come with a unremovable liner. The extra fabric adds warmth, no doubt, but this comes at a price. Most shirt jackets are going to run you in the $100 and up range, but when you consider how it can replace a $300 jacket, it pales in comparison. Here are some options to considering adding to the weekend rotation...
L.L Bean Washable Wool Jac-Shirt...$59.00
L.L. Bean Lined Allagash Shirt-Jac Buffalo Plaid...$89.00
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Sylvia B. Luckow
FAIRMONT – Funeral services for Sylvia B. Luckow, 87, of Fairmont, Minn. will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at Zaharia Family Funeral & Cremation Service of Truman. Interment will take place in St. James Lutheran Cemetery, rural Northrop.
Sylvia died Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, at the Roxanne House in Fairmont. Visitation will be one hour prior to the services in the funeral home.
Sylvia Burnetta Luckow was born June 4, 1925, in Rutland Township, rural Martin County, to Emil and Alma (Henslin) Luckow. Sylvia worked at Woolworth's, Ben Franklin and at Stokely-Van Camp/United Foods, all in Fairmont.
Sylvia is survived by one sister, Lorna Hofmeister, Mankato, Minn.; and nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; four sisters, Lucille Vandrey, Viola Alsdorf, Elvira Sytsma, Clarice Luckow; and two brothers, Gordon and one in infancy.


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Good outweighs bad in Renault Zoe EV
The Renault Zoe starts at 13,700 euros in France after a 7,000-euro government subsidy. Customers must also pay at least 79 euros a month to rent the battery.
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The good things about the Renault Zoe electric car – it's quiet, comfortable and affordable – outweigh the bad, especially for people who drive short distances everyday and have a way to charge the battery at work and home. Those positives could be enough to make it the best-selling EV in Europe by the end of this year.
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Vikes currently up by 17 (which they should be) since UIC blows...
Don't mean to sleep on Wright State or GB but I'm going to because CSU should beat either of those teams too.
That puts us against Butler in the semis. Maybe 3rd times a charm?
Got some faith that Valpo or Detroit can pull an upset against Milwaukee even in their house.
Then we'd get to host the Championship game.
Wishful thinking. Probably won't get past Butler.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (105 votes).
In short: Great race special for me as its the birth place of my children.Date of review: November 30, 2008
In short: Not overwhelming exciting but pleasantDate of review: November 30, 2008
In short: Killer hill... not once but twice! Challenging course, optional ford, good atmosphereeDate of review: November 30, 2008
In short: Certainly a challenging course, will definately run next yearIn full: Ran it a day after having food poisioning, just glad i made it to the finish. The ford is a nice touch and that hill twice is certainly a challange, can't wait to run it again next year when I'm not ill. All good fun though, very well organised and definately one to put in the diary for next year, if you like a challenge!Date of review: November 30, 2008
In short: No flat bits!!Date of review: December 15, 2007
In short: storms, hills and a ford to cross -who needs more!In full: Exciting stormy day for a run. Friendly crowd. Cheery and brave marshalls. Really felt like you were out there!Date of review: December 7, 2007
In short: hills killed the speedDate of review: December 7, 2007
In short: The Hill and the Ford - niceDate of review: December 5, 2007
In short: Rain and wind were quite incredible. Good atmostphere and great fun. "That hill" strikes again. Worth doing for the experience and the fabulous marshalls!Date of review: December 2, 2007
In short: Weather was terrible, down hill was great, up hill was 'challenging'. Would recommend.Date of review: December 2, 2007
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Magical Thinking: Barnaba Fornasetti's Milan Home
The first thing you notice about Mehall Griffey and Jerry Maggi's apartment in Catania, on the island of Sicily, is the floor. The couple live on the second story of a palazzo in the city's historic center, and the handcrafted, hand-painted Sicilian tiles were laid when the building went up, between 1860 and 1880.
The next thing you notice is the color of the walls: the Pompeian red and the Mediterranean blue of the bedrooms, the smoky, deep gray of the drawing and dining rooms, and the blood orange of the guest bath, this last specially developed with their painter. For that room, they washed color over the scars and humidity stains on the old, beige walls, producing variegations that nod toward antiquity.
In the dining room, armchairs from a local flea market surround a Saarinen table painted in Farrow & Ball's Down Pipe; the Murano-glass chandelier is antique, the Neapolitan console is circa 1850, and the plates are by Fornasetti.
But many aspects of their apartment gesture in the opposite direction. The Devon & Devon tub in the guest bath is contemporary. So are the jade tiles in the master bath (with some random gold tiles sprinkled in to pick up the gold leaf on the ceiling), and the minimalist fixtures in the shower and above the marble sink, which was made by Sicilian craftsmen.
The beauty of times gone by: absolutely. The discomforts: no way.
The walls and floor of the master bath are covered in Bisazza tiles, the French mirror is 1950s, and the custom sink was handmade by Sicilian craftsmen; the fittings are by Hansgrohe, and the ceiling is covered in gold leaf.
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AC Milan focus on Serie A
A look ahead to this weekend's action in the Italian Serie A.
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A place in the Champions League quarter-finals would be a welcome bonus for AC Milan head coach Massimiliano Allegri, but his priority remains strengthening the club's grip on third place in the Serie A table.
The Rossoneri will join Juventus in the last eight of Europe's premier competition if they can protect a two-goal advantage at Barcelona on Tuesday night.
Allegri, however, is more concerned with keeping resurgent Genoa at bay on Friday night, with Lazio, Inter Milan and Fiorentina all poised to capitalise should the Rossoneri stumble.
The Milan boss told his club's official website: "We can't relax because there are a lot of teams close to us who we still have to go up against.
"The plan is to move forward in the championship and if we don't get through to the next round of the Champions League then we've done well regardless.
"We have to defend our current position so that we can at least make next season's qualifiers.
"Between now and the end of the season we have to maintain our current form and make the most of these two months with great enthusiasm."
Two of Milan's closest challengers go head-to-head on Sunday night as Lazio welcome Fiorentina to the Stadio Olimpico.
The Biancocelesti have slipped out of the top three after recording just one win from seven games, while Fiorentina remain in touch having beaten Chievo last time out.
Lazio goalkeeper Federico Marchetti dismissed recent criticism of his side's poor run, telling La Repubblica: "These kind of things make me laugh.
"We are just experiencing a little bit of psychological burnout based on the tough games we had in the first round of fixtures."
His Fiorentina counterpart, Emiliano Viviano, is more optimistic, saying: "In April we can start thinking about Europe.
"Even though we are a few points away from the Champions League places, we will have a go."
There is no respite for league leaders Juventus, who booked their place in the last eight of the Champions League at the expense of Celtic, as in-form Catania visit Turin looking to atone for a dramatic home defeat to Inter.
The Nerazzurri return from a Europa League meeting with Tottenham to face the challenge of an improving Bologna team, while second-placed Napoli strive to end a debilitating run of four consecutive draws when they visit lowly Chievo.
Roma striker Francesco Totti, meanwhile, can become the second highest all-time goalscorer in Serie A if he finds the back of the net at Udinese, after the veteran matched Gunnar Nordahl's tally of 225 goals with a penalty against Genoa.
The picture at the other end of the table is becoming clearer ahead of the run-in, with Palermo welcoming Siena to the Renzo Barbera for a relegation six-pointer after bottom side Pescara take on Atalanta in Bergamo.
The Delfini are under new management in the wake of Cristiano Bergodi's sacking, with former youth-team coach Cristian Bucchi tasked with overhauling a five-point deficit and securing survival.
Elsewhere, struggling Parma bid to seal a first win in nine at the expense of Torino while mid-table Sampdoria take on Cagliari at the Stadio Is Arenas.
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A Primo bottled water dispenser in your home or office allows you to enjoy fresh, safe hot, cool and cold water instantly while helping eliminate thousands of single-use bottles from landfills. The atttractive design features a high-flow mechanism that dispenses cold water twice as fast as competitors' models. Near-boiling hot water is great for instant beverages, soups and cereals.
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Two new Paramore designs are available at select Hot Topic stores. The 'Dead Flowers' shirt features a black and white photo of flowers in a vase. The 'Drowning' shirt features three hands reaching out of the water and the lyrics "we started drowning, not like we sink any further. I let my heart go, it's somewhere down at the bottom." The band name is printed at the top of both designs.
Both shirts are available now at the following Hot Topic Stores:
Antelope Valley Mall (CA)
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Hi all
Sadly this is my first grizzle and moan on this forum. When a person buys an item, whatever it is, and it lists the contents of what is included then you expect to get everything you are paying for.
I forked out a lot of money after much deliberation to buy the RAM super deluxe version which was supposed to inlcude a years free membership digital access on paulmccartney.com. I go on line to find this service does not exist anymore. Fair enough change is envitable etc, but at the least they could have given a date of closure with the membership card details.
Basically I have been cheated and did not get what I was alluded to being payinbg for . This is actually false advertsing a serious error of judgement on the companies and peoples involved.
P.S On a cheeier note I found Paul's latest dvd relesase at Capitol wonderful except maybe for some of Eric Costello's gushing in the accompanying booklet. I am a huge Paul fan but I fail to see while interviewers feel the need to 'suck-up' and flatter Paul with every question/statement they make.


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Topic: Uploads of image file using RoR
Hi Friends,
I am facing a difficulty in uploading an image file in RoR.
Here is my case.
1 I have to accept a file from the user.
2 Resize the image file using RMagick
3 Store that file with the file-name "logo#{user_id}" on the file-system
*where user_id is the id of the image uploding user.
I tried using many a plug-ins like file_column and upload_column for uploading a file. They work fine they upload the file after resizing the image but I am not able to rename the file as "logo#{user_id}". The file is stored with its actual name and a column in the table for example "filename" is getting populated.
Is there any ways that I can name the file and upload the image file after resizing it with Rmagick.
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Culture, Community and Collaboration
"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." Alfred L. Kroeber
Anthropology studies physical and cultural differences among human beings across time and space. It helps students understand the nature of those differences, why they exist, and, most importantly, why they matter.
- Commitment: to an engaged, public anthropology
- Tradition: one of the oldest anthropology programs west of the Mississippi River
- Intimacy: small class sizes and hands-on learning
- Attentiveness: thoughtful student advising and one-on-one mentoring
- Opportunity: direct access to research material in our own Museum of Anthropology and active faculty field projects.
- Networking: relationships with Denver's world-class museums and other cultural institutions
Anthropology students at DU specialize in one of three areas.
Archaeology is the study of humans through the material traces their activities leave behind. Through site survey, excavation, and non-invasive methods such as ground penetrating radar, archaeology helps us better understand variation in the ways people thought, organized themselves, and lived in the past.
Archaeological Research at Amache Internment Camp
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural anthropologists seek to lay bare the little known. People in groups behave in patterns and act on assumptions of which they, themselves, may not even be aware. Cultural anthropologists use intensive observation and structured interviewing to decode these shared behaviors and assumptions and distill unstated understandings from the merely idiosyncratic. They may even seek participation in the lives of the people under study, domesticating and celebrating the benignly familiar as well as the entrancingly "exotic".
Museum and Heritage Studies
The Museum and Heritage Studies (MHS) concentration is designed to provide students with a solid background in the theoretical and academic, as well as the practical and professional aspects of museum anthropology and heritage studies. Students learn to be practicing anthropologists in museums and related cultural institutions.
Understanding the nature of culture gives anthropology students a head-start in careers that involve working with diverse groups of people. Our graduates go on to careers in fields such as:
- museum work
- archaeology
- cultural heritage management
- non-profit management
- marketing
- publishing
- international business and development
- foreign policy
- education
- health care
The critical reading, thinking, writing, and research skills emphasized in anthropology classes also prepares our students for graduate programs in law, public policy, medicine, counseling, education and beyond.