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Maguindanao five years on
November 23 will mark five years since the Maguindanao massacre, the single deadliest event for the press since the Committee to Protect Journalists began keeping records in 1992.
November 23 will mark five years since the Maguindanao massacre, the single deadliest event for the press since the Committee to Protect Journalists began keeping records in 1992.
Some weeks ago, the body of Esmail Amil Enog was found. The corpse had been chopped to pieces and then thrown together in a sack. Enog was a witness in a grisly massacre in November 2009, which took the lives of 57 people, 32 of them journalists, on a stretch of lonely highway in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao. It was the single largest attack on journalists in the world.
The climate of impunity that fostered the November 23, 2009, massacre of 57 people, including 32 journalists, is alive and well not only on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, where the massacre took place, but in all of the country. The revelation that the brutalized body of a key witness to the killings, Esmail Enog, was found two months after he had gone missing is an indicator of that. Enog testified last year that he had driven gunmen to the site of the November massacre, news reports said. The killings wiped out almost an entire generation of journalists in the region.
Bangkok, May 12, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned by an appeals court resolution in the Philippines that threatens to curb outside scrutiny of legal proceedings against suspects in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre, in which 32 journalists and media practitioners were systematically shot and murdered.
New York, April 19, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists is dismayed by the Philippine government's decision to drop murder charges against Zaldy Ampatuan, former governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and his uncle, Akmad Ampatuan, former mayor of Mamasapano on the southern island of Mindanao. The move, announced in
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Temporary forest trail closures found on Crow Wing County managed forest lands
Due to vulnerable trail surfaces during the spring thaw, selected forest trails administered by Crow Wing County Land Services will be temporarily closed to motorized vehicles.
Closure signs will be installed at each trail to inform the traveling public. Trail conditions will be periodically monitored by forestry staff and when appropriate, the closures will be lifted.
The county is asking all citizens to observe these trail closures during spring thaw to protect natural resources.
"Please help us protect vulnerable forest trail surfaces and minimize maintenance costs in the future by not traveling on these temporarily closed forest trails," said Kirk Titus, Land Services supervisor for public land management.
The county manages 105,000 acres of forest land for timber production and diverse recreational opportunities for multiple users. The sale of timber at public auctions during the year funds the county's management of these lands, while providing revenues to local communities.
County forest lands are managed to strict environmental standards established by both the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and the Forest Stewardship Council certification standards.
The townships and cities where trail closures exist are identified on the Crow Wing County website at http://crowwing.us/index.aspx?NID=318. See "Temporary Forest Trail Closures" in the "News & Highlights" or contact Crow Wing County Land Services at 218-824-1115.


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The Blues are optimistic that their pre-season match against the Reds in Toowoomba will still go ahead on Saturday, despite the damage that ex-tropical cyclone Oswald has done to the Queensland area.
Blues coach John Kirwan said he received reports this morning that the Toowoomba area in Southern Queensland where the game is scheduled is OK, but will closely monitor the situation throughout the week.
"Our thoughts firstly go out to everyone that is struggling over there, I just hope everyone there is OK and if we have to cancel, we cancel," Kirwan said.
"We got up this morning and there was a state of emergency for Brisbane, so we just contacted them this morning and said we will do whatever you need us to do, just let us know."
Kirwan plans to take a young Blues squad to Australia on Friday, with Piri Weepu, Ali Williams, Rene Ranger, Peter Saili and Charlie Faumuina all staying behind.
"We've got a few boys that aren't quite ready to get back into the game and a few All Blacks that need some time.
"It is a good opportunity for the younger guys to take on some leadership roles."
Luke Braid will have the opportunity to captain the side, but Kirwan said he is not interested in the result, or worried about the performance.
"The Reds have been together for 12 weeks so they are ahead of us from an organisational point of view, but it's not about that.
"It's not about who wins and who loses, for us it's about clarity over roles and responsibilities and the new systems that we have in place."
Meanwhile, The Reds have named a strong 28-man trial side which boasts 11 capped Wallabies from 2012 for the match.
The squad has a solid green and gold feel to it with 11 players selected in the match having featured in last year's Wallaby Test campaign, which includes matches during the June Test window, Rugby Championship and end-of-season Spring Tour.
Headlined by mercurial playmaker Quade Cooper, the Reds starting backline is full of experience with Cooper linking with Ben Lucas in the playmaking roles; Faingaa and Ben Tapuai in the centres; Luke Morahan and Digby Ioane on the wings; and goal-kicking ace Mike Harris at fullback.
St.George Queensland Reds Trial Team v Blues in Toowoomba on Saturday 2 February
1. Albert Anae; 2. James Hanson; 3. Jono Owen; 4. Blake Enever; 5. Adam Wallace-Harrison (vc); 6. Nigel Ah Wong; 7. Eddie Quirk; 8. Radike Samo; 9. Ben Lucas; 10. Quade Cooper; 11. Digby Ioane; 12. Ben Tapuai; 13. Anthony Faingaa (c); 14. Luke Morahan; 15. Mike Harris
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Politicians often argue about the minimum wage. Some want it raised to $15 an hour immediately. Others say anything over the existing $13.50 is too hard on businesses.
But a huge segment of the population works 40-hour weeks for much less than the minimum wage. No one advocates for them to earn a "living wage".
Who are these people? The self-employed.
There is no minimum wage for self-employed people.
I have completed financial statements for many people who have worked a full-time stint, only to be shocked by their accounts.
A quick calculation to work out that their hourly rate shows that they have, in effect, earned less than the minimum wage - and in some cases a negative hourly rate. In most cases this surprises and shocks.
Educating the self-employed to understand their financial statements is the accountant's obligation.
It needs to be done with emotion and enthusiasm.
We know this stuff inside out, can read a set of books with ease, and can smile and frown wisely upon the results at a glance.
However, we should not soften the blow if we see that the results are dire. We need to tell you, sternly, that earning an income less than a minimum wage from your business is a problem.
When working out your hourly wage - by dividing your average weekly profit by the hours you work in a week - you do need to consider the perks.
You may need to add back that phone that's paid through the business, that car and its fuel, that entertainment account, that use of home office.
Remember that we also get GST back on some of these things - (those things that seem 15 per cent cheaper to a GST-registered person). And don't forget that we can, in many cases, choose when we want to work, there are no annual leave forms to fill out, no sick leave to request, no medical certificates to provide, although this for some may be a mixed blessing.
Remember the more that you can earn in your business now can mean if you take it to market you can command a higher price in terms of goodwill.
Would you buy a business that was making its owner a minimum wage?


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Craig Raine 1944–
English poet, critic, and editor.
The following entry presents criticism of Raine's work through 1995. For further information on his life and career, see CLC, Volume 32.
Widely regarded as among the foremost of England's contemporary poets, Raine writes allusive, erudite poetry stylistically characterized by dazzling wordplay, startling imagery, and strange metaphors. Many critics believe that he has revitalized modern British verse by leading the so-called "Martian" school of poets, a loose literary movement which takes its name from the title of Raine's book of poetry, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979). Martian poetry, like Raine's early verse, features unexpected imagery, unique and metaphoric language, and an emphasis on an alien point of view that makes the familiar, everyday world seem fresh, newly discovered, and sometimes humorous. Thomas Lux has declared Raine "a poet of rare wit, originality, and humanity."
Biographical Information
Raine was born December 3, 1944, in Shildon, County Durham, to working-class parents. He attended Exeter College at Oxford University, where he earned an honors degree in English language and literature in 1965 and a bachelor's degree in nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies in 1968. Raine attempted to write a doctoral dissertation about English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetic philosophy, but abandoned the project in 1971 when he received a one-year appointment as lecturer at Exeter. After his 1972 marriage to Ann Pasternak Slater, the grand-niece of Russian author Boris Pasternak, Raine continued to lecture at various colleges at Oxford until 1979. During the late 1970s, poems that Raine submitted to English periodicals began attracting attention: he twice took the Cheltenham Poetry Prize and received second prize in the 1978 National Poetry Competition. The publication of his first poetry collection, The Onion, Memory (1978), generated such controversy in the English poetry establishment that Raine promptly published A Martian Sends a Postcard Home, which includes the award-winning title poem. From 1981 to 1991, Raine served as poetry editor at Faber & Faber publishers, which made him the first poetry editor for that firm since T. S. Eliot to publish his own works, including the poetry collection Rich (1984), the never-performed libretto The Electrification of the Soviet Union (1986), and a collection of astute critical essays, Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (1990). Since 1991, Raine has taught as a fellow at New College, Oxford, and has completed the epic poem History: The Home Movie (1994).
Major Works
Possessing deep affinities with early twentieth-century modernist and imagist poetics, Raine's poetry represents a continuous but often witty questioning about "whether seeing is believing," according to Michael Hulse, but his later verse expands to include personal, autobiographical observations about the human condition. The poems—some have called them conceits—in The Onion, Memory feature the poet's intensely metaphoric descriptions of daily, ordinary objects and phenomena: animals, insects, gardens, vegetation, butchers, barbers, grocers. Similarly, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home contains the eyewitness accounts of an imagined visitor from Mars who describes various things used every day on Earth and amusingly reveals his incomprehension of their purpose. Rich marks Raine's movement toward a more narrative style in his poetry and furthers his experimentation with wordplay. Divided into three sections—the second consisting of a prose memoir of his father and his family background through age sixteen—the poems in Rich depict episodes in the lives of his parents, himself, and his young daughter. This volume also displays Raine's personal, autobiographical impulses and presents several poems about love and sex. History, identified by the publishers as "a novel in verse," chronicles the history of most of the twentieth century in Europe through events selected from the family histories of the Raines and the Pasternaks. Comprising dozens of individual parts written in three-line stanzas, the poem makes use of riddling metaphors, graphic sexual language, and violence.
Critical Reception
Reactions to Raine's first two poetry collections initially polarized the English critical community, represented equally well by the extremes of infatuated enthusiasm and near-hysterical dismissal. Most critics have marveled at "Raine's odd Tightness of perception," as Lux put it, but others have claimed that his poetry is "superficial and escapist … [seeming] slickly clever rather than artistically accomplished," according to Martin Booth. John Bayley has observed that Raine's poems "frequently pull off the really difficult feat of not sounding like 'poetry' at all, but just seeming a very clever way of saying something arresting." Although most critics immediately recognized Raine's enlivening and significant impact on English poetry, some have faulted his earlier work for not addressing human emotions or concerns. Since Rich, however, commentators have detected a humane, more personal approach in Raine's writings, and they have continued to comment on his linguistic and metaphoric pyrotechnics, often mentioning the influence of Pound, Lowell, or Stevens along the way. Once relatively unknown in the United States, Raine has gained a growing audience since the publication of History. Hulse has suggested that "Raine's future development must be of great interest to anyone seriously concerned with the future development of the poetic imagination."
Principal Works
The Onion, Memory (poetry) 1978
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (poetry) 1979
A Journey to Greece (poetry) 1979
∗A Free Translation (poetry) 1981
Rich (poetry and prose) 1984
∗∗The Electrification of the Soviet Union (libretto) 1986
Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (essays) 1990
1953: A Version of Racine's 'Andromaque' (verse drama) 1990
History: The Home Movie (poetry) 1994
∗This work was published as a pamphlet containing six poems, which were later included in Rich.
∗∗This work is based on Boris Pasternak's novella The Last...
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Gavin Ewart (review date 30 June 1978)
SOURCE: "References Back," in Times Literary Supplement, June 30, 1978, p. 728.
[In the following review, Ewart finds The Onion, Memory "intellectually so satisfying that some triviality of theme can be overlooked."]
[The Onion, Memory] is Craig Raine's first book. At the age of thirty-four he is no infant prodigy and it is clear at once that there are qualities of thought and control here which a younger writer might not have been able to command. It is also clear, from the very first poem, that metaphor and simile rule OK. A butcher "duels with himself" and offers "heart lamé-ed from the fridge, a leg of pork / like a nasty bouquet". The new customer...
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John Bayley (review date 4 January 1980)
SOURCE: "Making It Strange," in Times Literary Supplement, January 4, 1980.
[In the following review of A Martian Sends a Postcard Home, Bayley detects similarities between Raine's poetic technique and that of the Russian formalists.]
Who but Donne would have thought a good man like a telescope? asked Dr. Johnson, and who but Craig Raine would want to wipe away the sorrows of a new laid egg?—and in so doing sympathize even with the bowl into which it has been shoved.
To want to wipe away
From this one smudged face
the mucus and the excrement,
so many...
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Michael Hulse (essay date Autumn 1984)
SOURCE: "Craig Raine & Co.: Martians and Story-Tellers," in The Antigonish Review, Vol. 59, Autumn, 1984, pp. 21-30.
[In the following essay, Hulse provides an overview of the so-called "Martian" poets, discussing the different emphases on imagery and narrative technique of individual members.]
John Fuller, to whom I devoted the first article in this series, has a good title to be considered the father of that movement in poetry which has dominated the British scene since the end of the 70s: the Martian school. In The Mountain in the Sea (1975), Fuller's parlour-game approach to verse at times produced witty results that anticipate the riddle-making...
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David Bromwich (review date 19 October 1984)
SOURCE: "Tricks and Treats," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 4255, October 19, 1984, p. 1193.
[In the following review of Rich, Bromwich considers the autobiographical aspects of the poetry reminiscent of the confessional poets' technique, but reserves his highest praise for the prose section.]
Craig Raine's early poems belonged to a subgenre that the Germans call "thing-poems". They dealt with such things as "Misericords", "Houses in North Oxford" and, making allowances for compound entities, "The Fair in St. Giles" and "Demolition with Tobacco Speck". Other poems, close to these in simplicity, made up a sequence on tradesmen, including "The Butcher", "The...
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Paul Muldoon (review date 1-14 November 1984)
SOURCE: "Sweaney Peregraine," in London Review of Books, Vol. 6, No. 20, November 1-14, 1984, pp. 19-21.
[In the excerpt below, Muldoon concludes that Rich is a "substantial collection, [Raine's] best so far."]
Raine's third collection follows the procedures of The Onion, Memory (1978) and A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979): his poetic strategy is to present a series of striking similes or metaphors with the hope of forcing his reader to admire the justice of those similes and metaphors. Christopher Ricks need look no further (certainly not across the Irish Sea) for textual substantiation of his theory of the self-reflexive image....
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John Lucas (review date 7 December 1984)
SOURCE: "Prodigal Son," in New Statesman, Vol. 108, No. 2803, December 7, 1984, pp. 32, 34.
[In the following excerpt, Lucas senses Wallace Stevens' influence in Rich, but criticizes the rhythmic structure and sometimes the language used by Raine.]
Rich comes in three sections. The first contains poems about Craig Raine's immediate family and is called 'Rich'. Then there is a prose section, 'The Silver Plate', in which he writes about his boyhood and especially his extra-ordinary father, an unemployed and unemployable epileptic with a gift of tongues and overwhelming personality, someone who seems to be all appetite. The third section, 'Poor', contains...
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Martin Booth (review date January 1985)
SOURCE: A review of Rich, in British Book News, January, 1985, p. 53.
[In the review below, Booth blasts Raine for the "basically vacuous" poetry in Rich, although he concedes that the prose section contains "genuine attempts at true artistic achievement."]
The latest collection from Craig Raine, his first verse book for five years, is entitled Rich; sadly it is a weak addition to this famous poetry list. Previously, Raine's work has appeared from Oxford University Press (The Onion, Memory, 1978, and A Martian Sends a Postcard Home, 1979) but his appointment as poetry editor at Faber has him bringing out his own work, making him the...
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Charles Forceville (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: "Craig Raine's Poetry of Perception: Imagery in A Martian Sends a Postcard Home," in Dutch Quarterly Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1985, pp. 102-15.
[In the following essay, Forceville discusses the imagery of selected poems from A Martian Sends a Postcard Home, focusing particularly on the implications of Raine's metaphors and similes.]
Craig Raine is one of those contemporary British poets whose achievements have attracted considerable attention. Several of the poems in his second collection A Martian Sends a Postcard Home are first-rate, and the title poem supplied the name for what has come to be known as the "Martian" school in contemporary...
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Blake Morrison (review date 20 November 1986)
SOURCE: "Tales of Hofmann," in London Review of Books, Vol. 8, No. 20, November 20, 1986, p. 11.
[In the excerpt below, Morrison reviews The Electrification of the Soviet Union, noting that it is "well worth reading."]
Craig Raine's libretto The Electrification of the Soviet Union might be seen as a further strand in his continuing argument with Tom Paulin over The Faber Book of Political Verse. On the one hand, Raine here shows himself to be a writer who can step out of the domestic tunnel into the stadium of politics and history: He takes [Boris] Pasternak's novella The Last Summer, set in 1916 with flashbacks to 1914, and lets the shadow...
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Craig Raine with Mary Karr (interview date 1987)
SOURCE: An interview in Ploughshares, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1987, pp. 139-48.
[In the following interview, Raine discusses Martianism, the evolution of his poetry, his audience, poetic technique, and literary influences.]
Craig Raine's new kind of poetry has yet to reach a substantial audience in the United States. But, if the reviews can be believed, Raine's reputation in Britain exceeds that of any contemporary poet on this side of the Atlantic. Raine's four books—The Onion, Memory, A Martian Sends a Post Card Home, Rich, and his recent opera libretto, The Electrification of the Soviet Union—have prompted an upheaval in British poetic tastes and tempers,...
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Thomas Lux (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "On Craig Raine," in Ploughshares, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1987, pp. 149-53.
[In the essay below, Lux gives a close reading of "In the Mortuary" and "The Trout Farm," marveling at Raine's poetic skill.]
I discovered Craig Raine's work (first his remarkable second book A Martian Sends a Postcard Home and then his first book The Onion, Memory) about eight years ago. I was immediately struck by its eloquence, which is never stuffy or merely decorative, by the sharpness of its tone, and by the odd Tightness of its metaphors/figurative language. The poems are intensely written, never wasting a syllable and using all of the tools available to a poet. They are...
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Sean French (review date 8 June 1990)
SOURCE: "Getting Dirty," in New Statesman & Society, Vol. 3, No. 104, June 8, 1990, p. 38.
[In the review below, French cautiously admires Raine's critical abilities in Haydn and the Valve Trumpet.]
In my local bookshop I recently saw Clive James's collection of literary essays, Snake Charmers in Texas, among the travel books. Craig Raine's eccentric title for his own essays [Haydn and the Valve Trumpet] will almost certainly guarantee them a place in the musicology section of most bookshops.
The title derives from an essay exploring Haydn's use of the valve trumpet, which was published in the Listener in 1972. The following...
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Peter Kemp (review date 6 July 1990)
SOURCE: "Matters of Decorum," in The Times Educational Supplement, No. 3862, July 6, 1990, p. 26.
[In the excerpt below, Kemp praises Raine's "exhilarating and engrossing" criticism in Haydn and the Valve Trumpet, concluding that "it is almost always stirringly alive to the procedures and possibilities of creativity."]
[Anthony] Powell's Pall Mall prose, meticulous concurrence with the conservative, and pained recoil from the irreverent lower-class energies of Wells, Twain and their like [in his Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers, 1946–1989] put him at the opposite extreme as a critic to Craig Raine. Where Powell exudes commendation for the...
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Barbara Everett (review date 12 July 1990)
SOURCE: "Being All Right, and Being Wrong," in London Review of Books, Vol. 12, No. 13, July 12, 1990, pp. 11-12.
[In the following excerpt, Everett identifies the "journalistic" quality of Raine's criticism in Haydn and the Valve Trumpet, concluding, however, that his essays are "genuinely literary."]
Men of different generations and presumably social worlds, Anthony Powell and Craig Raine aren't much alike as writers. But the novelist's Miscellaneous Verdicts and the poet's Haydn and the Valve Trumpet are both very good, solid selections of occasional writing. The five hundred pages to which they both run are mainly literary journalism, with some...
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Carol Rumens (review date 9 September 1994)
SOURCE: "Local Heroes," in New Statesman & Society, Vol. 7, September 9, 1994, p. 37.
[Below, Rumens disputes the publishers' claim that History: The Home Movie is a verse-novel.]
In "Epic", Patrick Kavanagh is consoled by Homer's ghost. So what if the Monaghan poet spent the "year of the Munich bother" arguing about "who owned / That half a rood of rock?" The Iliad itself was made from "such / A local row". History: the Home Movie doesn't seek the epic in the ordinary quite in this way. The technique is to show us both History and the Home Movie, the "Munich bother" as it infiltrates the "local row", the local-row element in the Munich...
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Adam Thorpe (review date 11 September 1994)
SOURCE: "Adding Assonance to the Ancestors," in The Observer Review, September 11, 1994, p. 20.
[In the following review, Thorpe admires History: The Home Movie, focusing on the "glittering little links" of the poem sequence.]
Billed as a fiction/poetry hybrid, Craig Raine's History: The Home Movie wilfully dispenses with the Pushkinian elements of strong narrative, deeply drawn characters, and a bustling, involved narrator—and there is no complex verse form, either. Home movie, yes: or perhaps an evening at the music hall.
The first 'chapter' arranges the Pasternaks—Russian, renowned—in a filmic family group at a Black Sea dacha...
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Frank Kermode (review date 22 September 1994)
SOURCE: "Yoked Together," in London Review of Books, Vol. 16, No. 18, September 22, 1994, p. 3.
[In the review below, Kermode traces the narrative movement in History: The Home Movie, observing the poem's literary precedents.]
'There is hardly a stanza in the long poem which is not vivid, hardly one which is not more or less odd, and the reader feels as if he had been riding on the rims over an endless timber bridge.' As I read Craig Raine's new poem [History: The Home Movie] (a novel, an epic, a film, says the ebullient blurb) something stirred in the depths of memory, and I found myself thinking of Theophila, a very long poem published by Edward...
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Mick Imlah (review date 7 October 1994)
SOURCE: "History by Hindsight," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 4775, October 7, 1994, p. 31.
[Below, Imlah assesses the poetic and narrative strengths of History: The Home Movie, emphasizing Raine's anal and genital preoccupations.]
Auden observed of the Old Masters (he had Bruegel principally in mind) that they understood how ordinary life carries on in the comers, regardless of the momentous event that is the painting's subject; how, for instance, in one (unidentified or imagined) picture, "the torturer's horse / Scratches its innocent behind on a tree". Since his sonnet "Arsehole" of 1983 ("I fed that famished mouth my ambergris")—which made A. N. Wilson...
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Richard Tillinghast (review date 11 December 1994)
SOURCE: "Poets Are Born, Then Made," in The New York Times Book Review, Vol. 99, December 11, 1994, pp. 25-6.
[In the following excerpt, Tillinghast reviews History: The Home Movie, summarizing the salient points of Raine's poetic technique.]
Craig Raine has been known in Britain as the chief exemplar of a late-1970's movement in poetry known as "the Martians," in whose work quotidian elements of life were seen as if through the eyes of a visitor from another planet. In A Martian Sends a Postcard Home, for example, "Rain is when the earth is television / It has the property of making colors darker." Now he has written a bold; ambitious chronicle of life...
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Tom Clark (review date 12 March 1995)
SOURCE: "The Private Life of Our Century," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, March 12, 1995, p. 11.
[In the following review, Clark emphasizes the narrative aspect of History: The Home Movie, while praising Raine's choice of verse as appropriate for "an age trained to think in images."]
This challenging, innovative, unsettling novel in verse [History: The Home Movie] relates the history of 20th-century Europe through the interlocking private lives of two families—the author's own English family of Raines, and the Russian family of Pasternaks, to which the Raines are linked by accident of intermarriage. Poet Craig Raine here brilliantly melds the tonal...
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Scarey man, glad she's okay.
On a lighter note, congrats on the grand-kid.
My daughter was very lucky Wednesday. She walked in on a robbery where she works. Should have never happened.
Asst. Manager needed a smoke break. Supposed to go out the front and walk a round. He went out the back and turned the alarm off ???, and left the door cracked open. He then walked down the alley a ways. 4 ScumBags/BGs
pull up in a car..between him and the door. They get out and ask for money. He says No and they proceed to beat the crap out of him. They drag him in the store and go to the managers office.
This is a cell phone store, so no one up front even knows anything is happening.
The managers office has cameras in it. So everything was recorded. The BGs have a gun and put it to the manager's head. He opens the safe and lets them have what they want...... That is when the SBs notice the cameras and proceed to pick up computer monitor... and throw it on the floor a few times ?? I guess they thought they were breaking to recorder.
My daughter hearing the noise opens the door and asks "What is going on?"
The guy with the gun is only a few feet in the door and points the .45 at her and screams something at her. She cannot remember anything except the gun....that is all she noticed. The guy lunges at her and grabs her arm.She spins away and takes off.
Her manager screams at the guy"Don't shoot she's pregnent" (yeah, found out the day before I am going to be a GrandDaddy).....The guy does not shoot. Thank God.
Anyway, she runs on to sales floor, hits alarm, warns everyone in store and runs next door to call police.
Turns out they robbed 2 places before them...firing shots in one of them. Left their store and went to rob another store when the Leo's caught up with them. 4 guys, just got out on parole, according to Leo's.
Whew, this tough to write.
God was looking out for my little girl. She was real lucky.
Thank You
Scarey man, glad she's okay.
On a lighter note, congrats on the grand-kid.
Glad she's ok!! The Good Lord was surely watching out for her.
Well that makes the most incredible story I've heard all day.
Thank God she's ok and congratulations.. She had an angel looking out for here.
About these scumbags getting out on parole and going on a robbery spree... They were on the streets instead of 'on the farm' workin' on the chain gang. We've got a screeeeewed up justice system in this country with over-crouded prisons and all that free labor and strong backs obviously bored that could be put to good use as they should for the taxpayers. I even heard in some states if you work the prisoners you have to pay them.
Voting counts, or it used to anyway.. And political correctness is a term that's time has passed. Time to get old-school to save this nation.
I am glad your daughter is OK and congratulations on the Grandchild.
It sounds like you need a Sheriff Joe where you are at. Our Sheriff joe runs chain gangs and feeds the BG's green bologna in an attempt to train them not to return.
She was Lucky!
Where did this happen?
Oh, I've read there have been a couple of home invasions in Houston in
the last few days. The reports said one was successful when the bad guys
got away and one was not when the home owner used a firearm for
Good luck! I hope it doesn't happen to you or anyone you know!
Keep your gun handy!
Wow! I'm glad she's ok though probably an emotional wreck.
Yeah, she was pretty shook up. They tried to have her identify the guy and she told them she could tell them the gun and clothes color
TOF, everyone could use Sheriff Joe. I love reading about him. Unfortunately, ya'll are the only ones with enough guts to do the right thing. Thanks all.
Glad to hear she's O'K and duing fine. Bad deal for sure.


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Prominent business leaders speak at Montana Economic Development Summit
BUTTE, Mont. - Three prominent business leaders spoke about national issues affecting the USA economy and businesses at the Montana Economic Development Summit in Butte on Monday.
"The lineup of speakers this morning has been absolutely unbelievable," said Rehan Rashid, a summit panelist and energy analyst, "all of these big thinkers and innovators in one place."
Elon Musk spoke first. He's the CEO of SpaceX, a company that develops rockets and spacecrafts, and Tesla Motors, an all-electric car company.
"While things are going really well these days," Musk said, "I think it's always important to remember that when you're creating a company there are very dark times and its about getting through those dark times."
Musk spoke of his journey and struggles to become as successful as he and his businesses are now.
Next was Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook. Sandberg spoke of the issues of gender inequality in the workplace, and how technology has changed the way businesses operate.
Sandberg explained, "the importance of measuring results, not face time. If you as a company reward face time, you will be rewarded with face time. If you talk about the people who are working really hard, rather than the people with the great results, people will work really hard and not focus on results."
Last was Fred Smith, CEO of FedEx. He spoke about how the United States was built on high-paying blue collar jobs, and that's something he believes we've started to lose.
"If you want to invigorate the American economy, its a very straightforward path to do so," Smith explained. "Reform our tax codes so it gets America back to business, and those types of sectors that empty the blue collar workers and middle income Americans that that have been so disadvantages by the tax codes we currently have."
People we spoke to after the speech said they're inspired and impressed that speakers like this are in Butte, Montana.
"There's people from all over the state and all over the country to try and learn from these folks who have lead extremely successful companies," said Cary Hegreberg, the Executive Director of the Montana Contractors' Association.
Park County Economic and Community Development Agent Katie Weaver said, "the speakers coming from these amazing companies and speaking very candidly, so it's been really great. Sheryl Sandberg was phenomenal; I had to come outside and sit down and write some notes...there was a lot going on in my head."
During the speeches, Senator Baucus said the theme of the economic summit is to "think big" and to "believe in yourself," and so far, we're told these prominent speakers have inspired that in the people at the event.


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Cancer Management Chapter 36: Depression, anxiety, and delirium
Cancer Management Chapter 36: Depression, anxiety, and delirium
Although many cancer patients cope well with their disease, psychiatric disorders occur in almost 50% of patients in the setting of malignancy. Untreated psychological and neuropsychiatric disorders can compromise quality of life as well as treatment compliance. Three behavioral syndromes that are often encountered in clinical practice will be discussed here: depression, anxiety, and delirium.
Sadness exists on a continuum, ranging from an emotion common in daily life to a syndrome of severe physical and psychological symptoms consistent with a defined psychiatric disorder (Major Depressive Disorder). Several studies of cancer inpatients report Major Depression prevalence rates of 25% to 42%.
Signs and symptoms/diagnosis
Patients with depressive syndromes may experience an array of psychological and somatic symptoms.
Psychological symptoms include dysphoria (sadness), anhedonia (pervasive loss of pleasure in activities), feelings of guilt or low self-esteem, and thoughts of death or suicide.
Somatic symptoms include sleep disturbance (ie, sleeping too much or too little), change in appetite, fatigue, diminished concentration, and psychomotor agitation or withdrawal.
Focus of diagnostic evaluation Although the diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder requires that greater than half of these symptoms (including dysphoria or anhedonia) be present for at least 2 weeks, patients who do not meet these criteria may be in significant distress, and may be described as having an Adjustment Disorder. In medically ill patients, diagnosis is complicated by the fact that somatic symptoms may also arise as a result of disease and treatment. For this reason, when evaluating the depressed cancer patient, special attention should be paid to those psychological symptoms that are less likely to be directly related to somatic disease or treatment.
Psychological causesMajor depressive disorder is common in the general population (point prevalence, ~6%) and is a recurrent disease. Patients with a history of mood disorder are at risk for relapse in the face of a cancer diagnosis. In the setting of malignancy, obvious stressors include news of initial diagnosis, treatment failure, or disease progression. Patients may also confront more subtle stressors, including loss of independence, financial woes, diminished body image, family strain, and existential angst.
Disease- and treatment-related causes
Presenting symptom of malignancy Depression may be a presenting symptom of some primary malignancies, most notably pancreatic carcinoma. Primary and metastatic brain tumors can cause frontal lobe disinhibition syndromes or personality changes that mimic depression and other psychiatric disorders.
Drugs Many drugs used in general medical practice are associated with psychiatric syndromes. The most common of these drugs are β-blockers, anti- hypertensives, barbiturates, opioids, and benzodiazepines. Many primary and supportive therapies for cancer are also commonly associated with depression. They include corticosteroids (also possibly associated with mania), cytokines (especially interferon-alfa and interleukin-2), whole-brain radiation therapy, and chemotherapeutic agents, including procarbazine (Matulane). Patients treated with tamoxifen may complain of depression or "chemo brain." The latter term usually refers to cognitive slowing. Treatment of tamoxifen-related depression raises particular challenges. Recent evidence suggests that many antidepressants used to treat these symptoms inhibit tamoxifen's anti-cancer effect through P450 interactions.
Management of depressive syndromes begins with accurate diagnosis. Clinicians should assess for somatic and psychological symptoms of the syndrome and should always ask about suicidal thoughts or intent. In addition to medication, laboratory assessments should be reviewed, as metabolic disarray, anemia, low B12 levels, and thyroid dysfunction can all contribute to the development of depressive symptoms. Once depression is diagnosed, treatment involves antidepressant medication, sleep aids, when possible, removal of exacerbating agents, and psychotherapy.


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Having read Walts book. and considering teh discussion on this leads to that.
It is not just the prevention of backfilling. In fact that description flies int eh face of exactly what Walt is trying to say. you are again in a frame of thinking that is about preventing what the bees are doing rather than working with them. At one point Walt addresses this directly. STOP trying to make the bees do what you want. (Not filling the nest) and help them do what they want to do in excess (expand). Is is the manipulation at the time they are expanding that increases that expansion. it increases it so much that the bees never have a prayer of filling it back in. but when they do . let them. let them pack in nectar to their little hearts content. it will all be honey in the end. honey for you to harvest. Help them they can't make the deadline anyway. When they do miss the deadline they will expand again. You removed a lot of that honey making it easier for them. All you need to do is give them room.
Also take careful note of Walts warning about thinning the honey in the late summer. You can carry this to far.
Another key point. make the manipulation before it is needed. That means be one step ahead of the bees at every turn. add space before they know they will want it. remove honey before they make the decision to start eating it. Anticipate their next move and start the work for them.
That is mostly what I see Walt is trying to get across. If "Keeping the bees from..." is anywhere in your thoughts or words. you are already to late. Watch yourself for thoughts like, "I am helping the bees do..." I think you will find your timing and your focus will be more in line with the management method.


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The Stuttgart-based Hackerspace Global Grid Team meets on Saturday and Sunday afternoon for in-depth hack-sessions to work on the project.
Everyone interested is free to join in to help or simply copy by and talk to us.
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Everyone's welcome! (Donations towards shack e.V. are welcome)
Date: Saturday and Sunday afternoon and late into the night
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We'll be meeting on a regular basis at the space to clean up!
Nobody likes to work or hang out in a messy environment and lots of people produce lots of … well, leftovers 🙂
Here's what we do:
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- Everyone gets a more or less randomly selected task assigned (there's single-person tasks and multiple-person tasks)
- Do it
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The key thing here is: cleaning doesn't have to be a big ugly mess if you do it often enough and if you don't have to do the same thing every time.
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Did you know that New York City was recently ranked the seventh craziest city in America, based on psychiatrists per capita, stress levels, eccentricity, and alcohol consumption? If one were to judge on its politicians' ideas, though, the Big Apple would be a shoo-in to receive the "wacko" blue ribbon.
Unfortunately for the rest of us, this loony bin also serves as an incubator for ill-advised trends that eventually go national. Remember the trans fat ban? It got its start in NYC.
Last week, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn proposed draconian zoning laws to ban some fast food restaurants from operating, supposedly to fight childhood obesity. Never mind that research last year from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis found that living in the vicinity of fast food restaurants had little to no effect on children's weight, or that after a fast food ban was implemented in south Los Angeles, RAND Corporation research found that "the premises for the ban were questionable."
Alas, this isn't the only rotten policy proposal coming out of the Big Apple. It's simply the latest development in a culture of meddling bureaucracy, revenue-starved politics, and self-righteous activism.
Unbelievably, New York state legislators Eric Adams and Felix Ortiz, who represent Brooklyn, have introduced legislation to prohibit the use of salt by restaurants in the preparation of food anywhere in the state. Violation of this would result in a $1,000 fine.
And consider last year's launch of NYC's anti-soft drink campaign. Now, a reasonable person could understand that drinking too much soda, or any beverage with calories, leads to weight gain. But the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene took it one step too far. How? By sponsoring stomach-turning subway ads depicting soft drinks turning into—literally—globs of yellow fat. This is what happens when food purists watch too many episodes of "Scared Straight."
Research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition last October found no link between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and children's weight. This follows a 2008 review in the same journal that aggregated years of research and found no association between sugary drinks and weight gain in children.
As for the belief that population-wide salt reductions will reduce blood pressure, some researchers aren't convinced. A 2002 review in the British Medical Journal found, "It is unclear what effects a low sodium diet has on cardiovascular events and mortality." And the editor of the American Journal of Hypertension told the New York Daily News that the recent effort to urge food companies to reformulate salt levels amounts to "an experiment on a whole population."
Poor science rarely stops politicians desperately seeking dough. New York Governor David Patterson has singled out sugary drinks in an effort to slap a large statewide tax on them to help reduce his budget deficit.
Fortunately, the tax has gone nowhere. But you know politicians are really reaching when they play the "it's for the children" card. "If you're against it, you really are against the kids," Mayor Bloomberg vented on his radio show recently.
Bloomberg has even compared salt to asbestos as justification for pushing invasive big government policies: "If we know there's asbestos in a school room what do you expect us to do? Say it's not our business? I don't think so. The same thing is true with food."
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An architect, a professor, a dentist, and a teacher. Children as young as six and retirees in their 60s and 70s. Musicians and massage therapists and artists; Mainers and folks from away. All living together, sharing common space, learning to accommodate each other's whims while living their individual lives to the fullest. It's not the premise of a new reality show — it's the model for a co-housing development in Belfast that broke ground this month and will eventually comprise 36 private residences, plus common space, on 40 acres of midcoast farmland.
"It's not really houses we're selling," says Sanna McKim, one of the co-founders of the Belfast Cohousing and Ecovillage; she'll there with her husband and two children when construction is complete. "It's community. We want to have a little more to do with our neighbors."
As author and environmentalist Bill McKibben says in his introduction to the recently reissued Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities (New Society Publishers), "the average American eats meals with friends, families, neighbors, half as often as fifty years ago. The average American has half as many close friends." Thanks to technology, the pressures of money and work, and sprawl, we've become isolated, like islands.
However, whether as a result of financial necessity or as an expression of certain values, collaboration and shared resources are increasingly commonplace. (Keep in mind that tent cities are springing up all over the country.) Cohousing is nothing less than a piece of a larger movement — one that embraces community over the cold realities of the rat-race. In a society where a safety net is more crucial than ever, cohousing instills a restored sense of "neighborhood" — of caring for each other, of helping each other.
"[T]he cohousing community is a wonderful challenge, the best kind of challenge: it doesn't tsk tsk at Americans for their selfish ways, it just offers them a subtly different take on how the future might unfold," McKibben says.
Cohousing projects can coalesce around a shared interest (such as art or music), demographic (several exist purely for older citizens, for example), or design element (the Belfast homes will be extremely energy efficient), but there are some fundamental commonalities: community dinners; shared childcare responsibilities; work groups for maintenance, gardening, or farming; community government that is often based on consensus; and ongoing interaction with neighbors.
Little of this is mandatory, although misanthropes and those disinclined to participate in group activities are unlikely candidates for cohousing; most communities require that residents sign up to cook one group meal every month or few months, with such common dinners occurring once or twice a week, and commit to a certain number of maintenance, landscaping, or home-improvement hours per month or year. In a high-functioning cohousing system, expectations regarding participation are clear, as are consequences.
In some ways, the cohousing village is like an enhanced condo association with communal perks and shared values. Residents have their own income sources — the community does not serve as a revenue-generator, except in rare instances — and homes are individually owned and financed.
Of course, these types of arrangements present unique challenges.
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Ryo has hailed his "priceless" opportunity to train with Thierry Henry.
Henry has been back at London Colney since the middle of November and signed a short-term loan deal from New York Red Bulls two weeks ago.
The record goalscorer was a childhood favourite of Ryo and the Japanese youngster is delighted to be playing alongside his role model.
"It is a little strange," he told Arsenal.com. "He was one of the players I really looked up to [when I was younger]. It's a priceless experience to play and train alongside him.
"Every minute detail in the way he plays is quality. You look at everything he does and he's an example to behold.
"I try to watch players like Henry in training and watch what they do. He's the player I want to be like."
Look out for a video feature with Ryo on Arsenal Player soon.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Nobody is saying the Nets are going to overtake the Knicks in NY....that's not even possible.
But it's good to have another team taking attention in NY. And since there isn't really any NY/NJ rivalry in the NBA, it's not really a bad thing for fans either.
Maybe it WILL spark a rivalry should the Nets land D-Howard. Never know. that could be cool actually.


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Paul George addressed the media for the first time since suffering his gruesome leg injury, and said he currently has "no date or time frame" on his recovery timeline.
Jaylen Brown (hip) is good to go for Game 5 against the Cavs on Thursday.
Zaza Pachulia (heel) went through a full practice on Thursday.
According to K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune, "most everyone associated with the Bulls" believes that Dwyane Wade will pick up his player option.
Danny Ainge said that Lonzo Ball told the Celtics that he will not work out for them prior to the draft.
Kentucky G Hamidou Diallo has withdrawn from the NBA Draft.
Jaylen Brown (right hip pointer) is questionable for Game 5 on Thursday.
Jae Crowder strained his left thigh in Tuesday's Game 4 loss to the Cavaliers, but he said after the game that he's "fine."
LeBron James bounced back with 34 points on 15-of-27 shooting in Tuesday's Game 4 win over Boston, adding six assists, five rebounds, one steal, one block and one triple in 38 minutes.
Kyrie Irving went off for a playoff career-high 42 points in Tuesday's 112-99 Game 4 win, giving his team a 3-1 series lead.
Kelly Olynyk will start Game 4 vs. the Cavaliers on Tuesday.
Amir Johnson (right shoulder) will not suit up for Game 4 against the Cavs on Tuesday, according to sources of Michael Eaves of ESPN.


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Dez Bryant is closer to the Fitzgerald mold (with a tad more speed). Bryant has great body control and a real nose for the ball. Both he and Calvin are very 'air dominant', but I'd say Bryant has better hands at this point in his career than Calvin did... probably even still.
Yes, Johnson has produced at an elite level, but Skip is talking about projections for the future-- not judging them on their respective careers as of today.
Of course, for Bryant to reach Meagtron's level he's going to have to put it together with preparations. And despite his recent arrest, he's actually been doing just that.


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France might go into the Six Nations as joint favourites with England but they will tread warily on to the Stadio Olimpico pitch for their opener tonight (NZT). The last time they played in Rome, at the Stadio Flaminio two years ago, Les Bleus suffered their first defeat against the Azzurri of Italy.
"France are a great team but there's no doubt about the fact they have respect for us," Italy's captain, the Stade Francais No8 Sergio Parisse, said.
"In 2011, we beat them at Flaminio. We all know their individual qualities but we'll be going into this match with no fear, as we do every time."
France will have Thierry Dusautoir at openside flanker. The former French captain and 2011 World Player of the Year was rested for the Argentina tour and missed the autumn tests because of a knee injury.
Lock Pascal Pape retains the captain's armband while Maxime Machenaud's fine performances in France's wins over Australia, Argentina and Samoa have earned him another start at halfback, alongside Frederic Michalak.
The backbone of the team is the one that started the November tests, coach Philippe Saint-Andre said.
Dusautoir was not guaranteed a place in the starting line-up when he was called up in the initial 33-man squad but his work ethic has secured a spot.
"When we drew up the 33-man list, Thierry Dusautoir was not playing with Toulouse, so we had to wait until his last two European Cup and Top 14 games to assess his form," Saint-Andre said. "We saw during his preparation that he had worked a lot while he was injured. In Italy, we will need to defend a lot, so we will need his experience and ferocity."
As for the co-favourite tag going into the championship, Saint-Andre insisted complacency would not be an undermining factor.
"France were the favourites against Italy two years ago," he said. "It was a tsunami.
"We will have to be focused on this game now. We have won four matches in a row; let's make it five."
Saint-Andre insisted that France's priority was simply to get off to a good start in their opening two matches.
"We are going to divide it into two blocks: win in Italy and then the home game against Wales. Then we'll think about the rest afterwards."
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In Arabs bargaining Carrick's interest is as much in describing this commonplace market scene as in constructing a painting of abstract elements and high-keyed and vibrant colours. For Carrick, the intense light and colourful costumes of the Arab people provided a rich visual spectacle that allowed her to experiment with ever more intense blocks of colour and pattern in her work.
Many artists travelled to Morocco to paint. They admired the beauty, the uniqueness of the dress, the brilliance of the light and the unaccustomed brilliance of colour that they found there.


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January 24, 1975
Richfield, OH US
Richfield Coliseum
Rock and Roll, Sick Again, Over the Hills and Far Away, In My Time of Dying, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Kashmir, The Wanton Song, No Quarter, Trampled Underfoot, Moby Dick, How Many More Times, Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog, Communication Breakdown.
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Press Review: Zeppelin: Slow to Start, but Hot!
RICHFIELD - Led Zeppelin spent their first hour on stage at the Coliseum Friday night playing music that was howlingly loud, but soggy and spiritless.
It may have been the effects of guitarist Jimmy Page's intermittent slugs on a Jack Daniel's whisky bottle, or they might just have needed to get some adrenalin moving, but after that first hour the band caught fire and soared through the rest of the concert.
In their seven years together, the members of Led Zeppelin have perfected a raucous, straight-ahead form of rock and roll steeped in blues and heavy metal overtones.
THE HEAVIEST musical weight falls on the shoulders of Page, whose incomparable guitar work overshadowed the efforts of his three cohorts.
Rail-thin, with a frazzled mop of black hair, Page dominated the evening with solos and fills that alternately screamed in intricate anguish or roared through dense, monstrous chordings.
Strutting and stalking across the stage, he directed most of his intensity toward his Gibson, slung almost knee-level. Simply, he proved he is one of the premier rock guitarists.
Initially, a disappointment was vocalist Robert Plant who demonstrated his vocal pipes are almost shot from years of abused singing in the alto range. After an hour of rasping and shouting his way through several songs, though, Plant showed the audience he can still sing like a banshee.
DRUMMER John Bonham and bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones filled in the bottom of Zeppelin's sound. Bonham delivered a 15-minute version of the drum Solo, during which he abused his drum kit with sticks, palms and fists, all at a thundering volume. Jones demonstrated unexpected keyboard work with some neat, electric piano solos.
And, yes, they were loud. Pushing their music through a quadrophonic sound system that carries an estimated 8,000 watts, the band produced a sound that bypassed the ears, settling in the chest cavity and exploding into the cerebral cortex of a listener.
Their offerings from the yet unreleased album were greeted politely by crowd members, most of who roared in frenzied appreciation as they recognized the opening phrases of a familiar song.
IN QUICK succession, they blasted out their well-known numbers: "The Song Remains the Same," "How Many More Times,", "Whole Lotta Love" - gathering strength and momentum with each.
The last number of their prepared set was "Stairway to Heaven," a piece that has become almost a litany to rabid Zeppelin listeners. They shouted for it, then quietly sang the words with Plant. It began quietly, gently and gathered force through its 10 minutes until it peaked amid a din of bellowing listeners who had shot to their feet even before the song had ended.
The audience demanded and got two encores. And watching the dazed exhausted listeners leave the hall, it was obvious the band had succeeded. [By B.VON STERNBERG | Beacon Journal. Jan 1975]
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Indeed please get 'em scanned if you can and send them along.
I recall Plant's voice was very hoarse and Page had broken a finger or two in a train door so his playing was likewise not up to snuff. I also remember them sharing a HALF GALLON jug of what appeared to be Jack Daniels whiskey. The bottle had a handle on the neck so Plant could hold it with a thumb and fingers, rested on his shoulder, like a hillbilly with a moonshine jug. Moreover I recall the more of that he swilled the better his voice got.
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According to the latest prenotification security advisory from Adobe, next week, the company plans to issue a 'security update' for Adobe Reader X (10.1.2) running on Windows, Linux and Macintosh.
Adobe's products are under permanent fire from malicious cybercriminals, exploiting known vulnerabilities in Adobe's products, who succeed, primarily relying on the fact that end and corporate users are not patching in a timely manner.
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Visit to Tanzania for the EAFCA Conference - Part 1
After a recent trip to Africa Molly Laverty, our Producer Relations Manager, blogged "Tanzania is really far from Portland". Having just returned from the latest EAFCA (Eastern African Fine Coffees Association) annual meeting held in Arusha, Tanzania, I can similarly attest to the remoteness of Tanzania and the difficulty in getting there and coming back!
I was invited by EAFCA to attend this year's conference and give two presentations – the first in a plenary presentation discussing Direct Trade and its implications in the specialty coffee business, the second in a break-out roundtable session entitled 'Good Things (and Bad Things) That Happen When the Coffee Market is High'. I attended EAFCA under the sponsorship of Coffee Corps®, an extremely worthy operation run by CQI (Coffee Quality Institute) in Long Beach, California. I have volunteered in the past for Coffee Corps projects in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Colombia, but this was my first visit to Tanzania. Hopefully, it won't be my last!
I could have foreseen from my arrival at Kilimanjaro that my time in Tanzania was going to be a challenge. I had spent 25 hours in transit from take-off to touch-down, flying first from Portland to Seattle, then on to Amsterdam, and finally to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Airplane seats and I were not designed for each other, with the results being that I have a very difficult time sitting for ten hour stretches on inter-continental flights (or in this case, two sequential ten hour stretches), let alone being able to relax enough to sleep. So when we finally landed in Arusha in a downpour – apparently the first major rain event of the rainy season – I was completely exhausted. The Kilimanjaro airport isn't very large or sophisticated, so we climbed down stairs from the plane and crossed the tarmac in an absolute downpour, getting soaked to the skin in the process. So now I'm both exhausted and soaking wet. Good thing my friend Pete Owiti was waiting for me with a car and driver, as I was exhausted and just wanted to dry off and get to bed. The rains were heavy, and our driver cautious, so it took us over almost two hours to get to our accommodations in Moshi. Once there, we discovered that the power was out – a regular occurrence in most of Tanzania, as I would subsequently discover – so there went my hopes for getting a bite to eat before getting some sleep. Good thing I travel often enough at origin to have learned to always carry extra food with me that I can rely on if I need to, plus I have a flashlight and some small LED emergency lights that I tuck away into pockets in my backpack and suitcase. I may be too much of a boy scout sometimes, but I'm glad that I travel prepared!
I spent several days prior to the actual conference with current WBC and USBC 1st place champion Michael Phillips from Intelligentsia Coffee, Chicago conducting barista trainings in Moshi and Arusha for African baristas. Mike was ably assisted by Devin Pedde from Intelligentsia Coffee, Los Angeles – the 3rd place USBC champion for 2010, South African barista champ Ishan Natalie, and Kenya barista champion Peter Owiti. With such a talented crew and much support from Dorman's Coffee in Kenya, including the use of a couple of La Marzocco Linea two-group machines, the trainings went fantastic. So well, in fact, that I was seldom called upon for help – which in itself was very refreshing, and speaks volumes to the professionalism and passion of Mike, Devin, Ishan, and Pete as they worked to elevate the skills of the baristas that were fortunate enough to attend their sessions.
I broke away from the barista team after a couple of days to visit with Alex Rechsteiner and Edwin Agasso from Burka Coffee Estate Ltd. outside of Arusha. Alex is the managing director, whilst Edwin is the coffee agronomist with Burka Estate. As I quickly discovered, Edwin knows a truly amazing amount of information about growing fine coffee, learned during his education and training in Kenya. I spent an informative and enjoyable afternoon with Edwin touring the several properties that make up Burka Estate, and did a cupping of many different grades and types of their coffees. Edwin is dedicated to coffee quality, and I learned much about the coffees of Tanzania while talking and cupping with him.


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Grace, you are so right, & Damon would do anything for her. He also has the control & a level mind that is needed for her sparatic outbursts of emotion that she has. He looks out for her. Stafan seems to only love her around her world. It is an awesome show. I loved Dark Shadows & Barnabus, the new one in color. We will enjoy the Vampire Diaries. I am concerned as to what the Wolves are up to. As much as I don't admire Claus, he is strong, & a leader, would really hate to see, as the Twilight Saga so candidly said, "the dogs" take him out. Nothing on line will even give me a hint. Enjoy next Thursday.
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Grace, me too. I too, am not fond of the dominate so to speak wolf that is planning all the vampire killing. I think the pack is following the leader. It is as if they are sired to the dominate wolf. Thursday will answer lots. OMG, Jerrimy, Sad, that he has turned out to be a hunter. Hoping by the end of the season, they will have gotten his straight, back human, & can't imagine him killing one of the main characters, but, he could really do some damage, nail biting episodes! Love the show.
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Provided one takes the time to get profeicient with the .40 cal in that size platform it's a fantastic combo.
The Glock 19 & 23 are the probably the pefect carry guns, all things considered. Not too small, not too large, 15+1 in 9mm, 13+1 in .40. Hard to go wrong with them.
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Queenstown yesterday hosted the first pre-auditions for the X Factor New Zealand - with eager songsters arriving well before the 10am start time.
More than 100 hopefuls waited patiently in the small Performing Arts Centre Trust Hall for their chance to sing in front of four TV3 executive producers.
Best friends Alex Johnston, 15, and Samantha Haines,14, both of Wanaka, were the first to try out for the local version of the international hit franchise.
They auditioned separately and said they thought their auditions went well, with positive comments from the producers.
Contestants do not find out whether they have made it through to the next round on the day so the girls said they would be awaiting the call.
The resort was the first of 27 towns across New Zealand to host the pre-auditions over the following six weeks.
TV3 spokesperson Rachel Lorimer said producers were delighted with the auditioners. "They were prepared and were giving it a good shot. We're looking forward to more," she said.
People need to be at least 14 years old to audition.
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Today, the X Factor show is in Invercargill and tomorrow Dunedin.


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It is situated on the first floor of an attractive building without elevator. It is exterior, very bright, with 5 windows and balconies overlooking the Plaza General Vara del Rey.
This lovely 45sqm apartment is totally refurbished and has a separate bedroom with a comfy double bed (1.35 x 1.90) where you are going to have very relaxing nights. The bathroom offers everything you need for personal care.
The living room has a comfortable sofa bed (1.50 x1.90), huge fitted bookshelves, a TV, a dining area with table and 6 chairs and a lovely black wall of slate, like a chalkboard, to draw or write whatever you want.
There is closet space and the kitchen is fully equipped with microwave, oven, fridge, crockery and cutlery, all the things you need to prepare your meals, making your stay easier and perfect such as dishwasher and washing machine.
There is air-conditioning and heating. It has WiFi internet, TV, DVD, CD player, radio, washing machine, bed linen, towels, hair dryers, iron, etc.. In short: everything you need to make you feel at home and have a great time you'll find in this property.
In this charming lovely apartment the wooden beams and rustic window shutters come together with contemporary furniture and sweet decor details, giving it a great sense of old-meets-new and warm and cozy environment to your holidays.
The apartment is just four minutes from the metro La Latina, and 10 minutes from the Plaza Mayor, walking. On Sundays, just outside the building, the legendary open-air market takes place. There is much hustle and bustle but really, this is an experience you can't miss.
If you need anything, please ask. Enjoy your stay!
House rulesRefundable security deposit required at check-in: 150€
Check-in and check-out are flexible and negotiable depending on the occupancy of the apartment.
There are no house rules, just the common sense rule. I am a really friendly person who is up for everything, there should be no problems.
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Reviews of this property
Wow, this is the best kept secret of Madrid. It is a great apartment, not very big, but just the right size, cozy and very stylish. We enjoyed the neighborhood of La Latina, an authentic, non-touristic area where the locals live. At walking distance you'll find lots of small pubs, cafes and restaurants.
Unless you like crowded areas with busloads of tourists, Enrique and his apartment are the best choice for a great stay in Madrid. We loved it!
Enrique was very helpful and considerate host. Gave us plenty of information, tried to be help of during our stay. Apartment was cosy and nice as it's shown in the picture. Nice area, close to metro and plaza mayor.
To me the best thing in the Madrid was this apartment actually. If I visit Madrid again, I'll definitely choose this place again. Highly recommended!
Yes, our stay in Madrid in Enrique's apartment was delightful, nice area, close to everything, very charismatic and homely apartment.
Enrique is a very nice host, he makes everything very easy. We will come back.
love from Juana and Ren
We had a very nice stay in Madrid as and the appartment contributed to that. A great location, especially on sundays with the market right in front of the appartment. It was clean, comfortable and cosy. Also Enrique was a great host, very flexible and well prepared. He send us all the nessecary information in advance.
Excellent Home from Enrique gives much information to feel good in Madrid. Communication is simple and warm and trusting relationship. The apartment is ideally located, is very nice, well designed and equipped "at home". Taste and comfort. The area is perfect for lounging in the Rastro. When you love Spain, it is the ideal place to enjoy more! I highly recommend this pied-à-terre.
Excellent accueil de la part d'Enrique qui donne un maximum de renseignements pour se sentir bien à Madrid. La communication est simple et les relations chaleureuses et confiantes.
L'appartement, idéalement situé, est très agréable, bien conçu et équipé "comme chez soi". Goût et confort. Le quartier est parfait pour flâner au Rastro.
Quand on aime l'Espagne, c'est le lieu idéal pour l'aimer encore plus!
Je recommande vivement ce pied-à-terre.
The apartment was very well located, the neighborhood was also very nice and centrally located and the metro was close. A floor very well conditioned and cozy. The anfritión very helpful and pleasant. Therefore, highly recommended.
El piso estaba muy bien situado, el barrio también era muy agradable y centrico y el metro estaba cerca. Un piso muy bien acondicionado y acogedor. El anfritión muy atento y agradable. Por lo tanto, muy recomendable.
A wonderful apartment in the greatest location in Madrid. Handy for metro, good food and sights. Enrique couldn't be more helpful and welcoming. Apartment clean, stylish and comfortable with everything you would need for a stay in Madrid.
Highly recommended.
L'appartamento è comodissimo alla metro, a tutte le zone di maggiore interesse culturale e l'area attigua é ricca di buoni locali per cenare. Durante il soggiorno il proprietario si é dimostrato molto gentile e ci ha fornito tutte le informazioni di cui necessitavamo. L'appartamento è perfetto per due persone, ma anche in 4 si sta bene. La cucina é abbastanza attrezzata e la pulizia buona, ma da migliorare. Nelle vicinanze si trova un buon panificio- pasticceria, un supermercato e un fruttivendolo.
Bel appartement, fonctionnel et cosy, correspond parfaitement aux photos.
Bien situé! Le métro est à 3 minutes.
Dans les rues aux alantours on trouve des terrasses, des bars et des restaurants. Le quartier est vraiment bien et animés.
Bien que l'appartement soit sur une petite place calme, le soir, c'est est un peu bruyant.
Ruim, comfortabel, licht en gezellig appartement, vooral als je met twee personen bent. Uitzicht naar verschillende kanten. Vriendelijke en gastvrije ontvangst door Enrique. We voelden ons meteen thuis in het appartement. Prima ligging bij pleintje in leuke buurt, vlakbij metrostation (va. 5 min). Winkels en horeca in de directe omgeving. Zondag een vintagemarkt direct bij het appartement. Wij waren er in juli met hoge temperaturen en waren erg blij met de airco in het appartement. Tweepersoons bed slaapt goed, maar is niet heel breed.
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Do you go back a few days after planting cells to check for emergence or do you make your first check when you are checking for eggs?
Do you go back a few days after planting cells to check for emergence or do you make your first check when you are checking for eggs?
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I check for emergence, and at the same time try to ensure that each mating nuc still has a supply of honey, pollen, brood, and empty comb.
What do you do when the cell was a dud? That is, if you don't have another cell at the time.
So much to learn, so little time!!
I mark them with a single white thumbtack and try to make sure I give them a frame with eggs, as soon as possible, to help reduce laying worker problems. Right now, I am between queen cell batches and have several mating nucs with white thumb tacks (telling me they are awaiting a cultured queen cell). I am watching them most closely until my next batch of queen cells is ready to place. If they raise their own queen cells from the eggs I give them, I will remove them when I place the cultured cell, but usually only if I sure those cells are older than my cultured cell. I think they help the new cultured virgins have a purpose -- destroy rival queens.
I only make a couple of batches of queens a year, so I check for emergence and then merge any nucs with failed cells with nucs that have hatched queens. In queen castle type setups I just remove the slide. In 5 frame boxes I replace empty comb with bees from the failed nucs.
I make up new mating nucs with the next batch of cells since it will be maybe three weeks until I do my next batch. If I was making a batch a week, I would just add a frame of open brood to a failed nuc and then cut out any queen cells when I put the next cell in.
I just replace the non-emerged cells with new ones. Or, right in the yard, you can graft a couple of cell cups from a nearby strong hive and push the cups into a brood frame. Or give them a frame of open brood/eggs from another strong hive and then requeen when you have cells available if you want specific genetics. I really dislike doing the work to make splits and then having to combine them or letting them dwindle, so I take pains to get them queenright.
So checking queen emergence will not disturb the virgins acceptance? I've raised a few queens I'm just trying to fine tune my schedule and do it better not necessarily faster!
-Dan Williams
When the virgin emerges in her own mating nuc, I've never seen them later reject her, unless she fails to mate and start laying. They might then, later try to supersede her.
I have seen them reject virgins with some physical defects, especially malformed wings, where they wouldn't be able to fly. At my post-emergence check, I usually take care of any malformed virgins, as soon as I spot them.