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Writing Ideas
- Try making a cut-up or collage of Wylie's sonnet sequence, in the mode of Ted Berrigan. Print the poem out and cut up the individual lines. Do the same with other sonnet sequences, such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese or George Meredith's Modern Love. Then select and arrange individual lines to form new sonnets. Instead of thinking about narrative continuity, select and arrange lines based on sound, association, color, or other non-semantic elements. See Berrigan's The Sonnetsfor examples of the kind of poem that might result.
- Wylie's sequence imagines what "you say" about a hypothetical move to "the Eastern Shore." The poem's speaker speaks for the other half of the couple. Write a response, in the voice of the poem's "you" answering the speaker's concerns.
- What is the most arresting line of Wylie's poem for you? Isolate that line and use it as the first line of your own poem. Try using Wylie's vocabulary as a palate to create your new poem.
Discussion Questions
- The first three sections of Wylie's sequence are overloaded with natural images and sensory detail. Circle or otherwise mark all the ways that color, weather, flora and fauna, and sensation are figured. How does Wylie create "brimming cornucopias" in this poem? Compare it to other poems of rich sensory and natural detail, including John Keats's "To Autumn."
- As Caitlin Kimball notes in her guide to this poem, the first three sections happen in a hypothetical mood "tinged with foreboding." Where and how do you see foreboding happening in the poem? What is the relationship between foreboding and the final section?
- Wylie's poem contains rhymes both conventional and outlandish (long/scuppernong); often she rhymes phrases (best of all/fur will fall) or multi-syllabic words (Eastern Shore/Baltimore). Locate both end rhymes and other kinds of internal rhyme or rhyming in the poem. How do rhymes knit the poem together and (perhaps) pull it apart?
Teaching Tips
- Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote a sonnet whose first line is, "I will put chaos into fourteen lines." In what ways is Wylie's sonnet "chaotic"? Review different kinds of sonnets with your class, and perhaps provide examples. What kinds of arguments, complaints, ideas, and emotional states do sonnets represent? Try having the class write a collaborative sonnet. Beginning with Millay's line, have each student add a line until there are 14 lines total. Ask students to think about the different kinds of sonnets with their varying voltas, rhyme schemes, etc.
- Wylie's lovers represent different and competing versions of, and locations in, America; her poem suggests connections between environment and temperament. Have your students trace the links between geography and speaker by visually representing each "place" the poem describes. Ask them to think about both the images the poem explicitly gives (such as squirrel hunting) as well as those it suggests (Odysseus and Circe in "lotus-eating ancestor"), and how all images get emotionally freighted. How do the places Wylie describes suggest the psychology of the couple? How might your students visually represent psychological states or attitudes? Students might choose to make a comic, collage, sketch, diagram, word cloud, or other form of visual representation of the poem's geo-emotional landscapes.
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Elinor Wylie: "Wild Peaches"
Poem Guide
A wild peach's sweetness is easy to savor. It grows spontaneously; its discovery feels providential, a reward for one who strays from the path. But a peach essentially is a human creation, the product of years of rigorous cultivation. Wild peaches are wild because their farmer has abandoned them, or because a traveler has tossed one into a soil and climate favorable to it. Inheritance and errancy, abundance under control and then out of it again—from the start, Elinor Wylie's poem provokes us to entertain these tensions. It's a specifically American poem, conceived after an escape from America. It plainly professes New World roots while drawing on a European poetic inheritance. Its dramatized anxieties held at a mild ironic distance strike a modernist note, while its lyricism and traditional prosody would seem to date it well before those harrowed, unstable years between World War I and the experimental fertility of the Roaring Twenties.
The four Petrarchan sonnets that compose the poem are relentlessly musical, heaped with what critic Morton Dauwen Zabel called the "tray after tray of choice images" that distinguish Wylie's work. They are delicious, and the cadences hypnotic, as in the poem's first description of nature:
The winter will be short, the summer long,
The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot,
Tasting of cider and scuppernong;
All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all.
The squirrels in their silver fur will fall
Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot.
The local color is vivid and correct throughout this poem, from the coonskin cap of the speaker's pioneer companion to the flora and fauna of the southeastern United States (scuppernong and chestnuts, speckled quail and canvasback).
But as richly imagined as the first three sections are, they are hypothetical, at the direction of the male companion ("You say we'll emigrate to the Eastern Shore"), and tinged with foreboding. At the beginning of the poem, the two characters' relocation from Baltimore to the wilds of coastal Maryland or Virginia is deliberate and presumably romantic:
When the world turns completely upside down
You say we'll emigrate to the Eastern Shore
Aboard a river-boat from Baltimore;
We'll live among wild peach trees, miles from town,
You'll wear a coonskin cap, and I a gown
Homespun, dyed butternut's dark gold color.
But then the scene takes an unsettling turn:
Lost, like your lotus-eating ancestor,
We'll swim in milk and honey till we drown.
Here, in the same breath, Wylie alludes to Odysseus's fate-battered but noble adventurers, and the exodus of the Israelites to the promised land as recounted in the Bible. This image of prosperity and sweet delirium is also one of self-annihilation, suggesting that some aspect of this adventure doesn't sit well with the speaker. She addresses the verses to him and seems to keep his point of view foremost—"The squirrels . . . will fall . . . before your shot" and "By February you may find the skins / Of garter snakes . . ."—but it is this touch of dread at the start that reveals the reproach mixed with her devotion. After all, it is his "lotus-eating ancestor," not hers, who leads them into the wilderness.
The upheaval that spurs the lover's desire to flee is ambiguous. Is it private or public? Just when and why will the world turn "completely upside down"? The phrase echoes the title of a protest ballad from the English Civil War in the 17th century; legend has it that an English general sang it as he surrendered to the French and American forces in Virginia in 1781. Whether or not Wylie meant to allude to this turning point in American history, it does serve to further dislocate the poem in time. The couple's arrival on a "river-boat from Baltimore" to live among once-cultivated peach trees indicates that the mid-Atlantic has already been well settled, and the scene occurs closer to Wylie's time than the Colonial era; whoever they are, chronologically they are more gleaners than settlers.
This lack of temporal specificity tempts us to read the poem as an escape fantasy, brought on by romantic turmoil or global crisis—or both. Wylie's own world certainly had turned upside down by the time she wrote "Wild Peaches" and the other poems that appeared in her first full volume in 1921. The privileged child of a high-ranking public servant, Elinor had lived in the Washington, D.C., area since she was young. She married a personally troubled local lawyer, whom she left for an older and more prominent attorney, Horace Wylie, in 1910. The following year, she and Horace fled the social persecution that followed their affair by boarding a boat to England, where Wylie began to read and write poetry seriously. By all accounts, they had planned to stay there for good, but when World War I broke out, Elinor and Horace feared their American passports would be scrutinized and their assumed names discovered. In 1916, they returned to America, married, and settled again in Virginia. The union didn't last.
As the poem continues to spill its bounty of sunshine, fruit, and wild game, hints of death and violence color the pastoral daydream. The rhythms and sounds remain languid, however, as the "squirrels in their silver fur will fall / Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot," and "we'll trample bright persimmons, while you kill / Bronze partridge, speckled quail, and canvasback." The endless harvest months yield "fruits red and purple, sombre-bloomed and black"; the snakes' shed skins are "dwindled and harsh, dead-white and cloudy-clear." Wylie envisions a sun that is brilliant but severe: it "burns from copper into brass." It forestalls frost, never quite letting winter take hold; the puddles are only "roofed with glass" until noon, when the hot sun "makes the boys unfold / Their knitted mufflers." In the second sonnet, Wylie reiterates that "peaches grow wild and pigs can live in clover," and so we're reminded that the speaker and her partner are not practiced farmers but hunter-gatherers amid this untended growth, where "strawberries go begging" and plums are ripe for plucking by blackbirds as well as humans. "We shall live well—we shall live very well," goes the speaker's blithe refrain, but her (or is it her partner's?) assurance betrays their vulnerability to the vagaries of providence.
So the speaker is free but uneasy in this land of plenty—and she isn't even there yet. Although she characterizes herself as a passive helpmeet in a homespun gown, she has visualized the flight into the wilderness acutely and completely. The scene is a synthesis of Wylie's imagination and memory—the mid-Atlantic landscape as she experienced it during her youth in the late 19th century, and as a maturing poet hounded away—and forced back—to her homeland during a time of social change and personal instability. While Ezra Pound was exhorting American poets to "break the pentameter" and "make it new," Wylie instead adopted traditional lyric forms and reached back to the Romantics and late-Victorian Aesthetes to find her poetic models. During a career that spanned only seven years, Wylie would ascend in a small but high-profile coterie of lyric poets that included Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Teasdale, and Louise Bogan. Though they decidedly were not associated with the modernist movement, they shared the modernists' struggle to integrate increasingly complex cultural inheritances, and their openness to dramatizing conflicting interior states. In "Wild Peaches," the speaker's senses are exquisitely honed, but so is her skepticism.
Bogan praised this skill of Wylie's for "fusing thought and passion into the most complex forms." While the imagery of "Wild Peaches" is voluptuous, its prosody is genteel and well controlled, especially here in the middle two sonnets. Wylie carefully balances her ratio of poly- and monosyllabic words, as in these lines: "When strawberries go begging, and the sleek / Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak," and "Fat pockets dribble chestnuts as they pass." She also has an ear for subtle repeated sounds within a line:
Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover;
A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;
The spring begins before the winter's over.
By February you may find the skins
Of garter snakes and water moccasins
Dwindled and harsh, dead-white and cloudy-clear.
Irregular stresses energize the iambic pentameter, and end-stopped lines are balanced with enjambments:
The sun, which burns from copper into brass,
Melts these at noon, and makes the boys unfold
Their knitted mufflers; full as they can hold,
Fat pockets dribble chestnuts as they pass.
The last sonnet breaks through this well-wrought sensuousness, laying bare the speaker's apprehensions:
Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones
There's something in this richness that I hate.
Up until now, the poet has placed herself in the background, a mostly passive witness to her partner's actions and the leisurely churn of the seasons, an observer of the world around her rather than of her own thoughts and feelings. Now the speaker's declarations become terse and urgent, but she can't clearly articulate her unease or hostility to her partner's proposals. She couches her connection to her tradition in aesthetic, not spiritual terms ("I love the look, austere, immaculate, / Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones"), which points up her emotional and cultural distance from it. "There's something in my very blood that owns / Bare hills," she declares, exploiting what Wylie scholar Judith Farr calls her "johnnycake side" as she reaches to claim restraint as a birthright. As a further gesture of reserve, the sonnet's octave is one line short. In stark but vague avowals ("something in this richness," "something in my very blood"), Wylie has mounted a rejection of her partner's overbearing escape plan. Now she takes out a finer brush and paints the New England landscape in clipped sibilants:
Bare hills, cold silver on a sky of slate,
A thread of water, churned to milky spate
Steering through slanted pastures fenced with stones.
I love those skies, thin blue or snowy gray,
Those fields sparse-planted, rendering meager sheaves. . . .
She then contrasts the Northern with the Southern landscape by collapsing the lush seasonal fantasia of the previous three sonnets to only four lines. The sibilance is softened by f's and b's and long vowels:
That spring, briefer than apple-blossom's breath,
Summer so much too beautiful to stay,
Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves,
And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death.
At once haughty and self-scrutinizing, the speaker's confession dramatizes the anxiety of an aesthete as well as a lover. She mistrusts the easy sweetness of the lotus (or peach) and its power to turn the sensuous to senselessness. Her pious ancestors believed that worldly passions could pervert a passion for the world to come; Wylie seems to borrow their fundamentalism to understand her imagination's lavish attention to the physical world and her urge to prune it back. Without spiritual conviction, her atavistic drive to pare surfaces to their essence leaves her vulnerable to natural law. Physical beauty, like passion, is contingent and impermanent; we can manipulate and revel in its bounty, but it is beyond our control and will one day overwhelm our efforts. "Wild Peaches" finds a lyric poet struggling to confront and transcend her inheritance in a rapidly changing landscape. It was a burden she shared with her modernist contemporaries.
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Extravagantly praised in her lifetime, the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie suffered a posthumous reversal in her reputation but has experienced something of a revival of interest among feminist critics since the 1980s.
Wylie was born in Somerville, New Jersey to a socially prominent family, and grew up in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. As the daughter of a lawyer who later became solicitor general of the United States, she was trained for the life of a debutante and a society wife, but she rebelled against that destiny and became notorious, in her time, for her multiple marriages and affairs. Her childhood was unhappy, according to Edward Kelly in the Dictionary of Literary Biography; her father had a mistress, her mother was a chronic hypochondriac, and at least one of her siblings, a brother, committed suicide. Another brother was rescued after jumping off a ship, and a sister died...
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Lt. Governor Guadagno, Madam Speaker, Mr. President, members of the Legislature, fellow New Jerseyans:
I am pleased to present to you my budget for Fiscal Year 2014.
The budget continues a journey you began with me three years ago – to get New Jersey's house in order; to turn Trenton upside down; to make hard but better choices so that we could put our state back on a path to growth.
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Jamie you are a saint & deserve a medal for promoting healthy eating
Hi Jamie
I am not sure if you or your team read posts but I hope you get a chance to read this one. I have never written on a forum before but felt compelled to do so after watching your latest TV show in the US.
I believe that what you are trying to achieve is truly admirable and that you deserve a sainthood or something for perservering or even starting your food revolution. The opposition that you come up against is amazing and literally gobsmacking. The narrowmindedness and inability to see what you are trying to achieve makes me at times truly worried.
I myself am a parent of 2 young children and try to do all I can to provide healthy, homecooked meals & a healthy diet. I myself have come across opposition in this area when I asked at the nursery for my son & daughter to not be given the puddings but fresh fruit instead. I of course only had their best interest at heart but you would have thought I'd asked for them to be excluded from anything that was fun!! I do of course allow my children treats such as cakes, biscuits & chocolate but I feel this should be my choice to give them when I want and not a daily occurence. Learning a healthy diet goes along with learning all the other life skills needed so I believe this should start in nurseries and schools, just as you do.
You have truly inspired me to believe that what I am doing is right for my family & my children and that we should not be afraid to continue to challenge others views. You have started this mammoth task in the UK & now the US and I truly applaud you for attempting such a daunting task. I hope you are successful and change does happen as too many lives seem to be affected and destroyed by something that is so simple & yet also so enjoyable too.
Healthy eating can be learned and we can all learn to love it & most of us do naturally. I just wanted to let you know that there are like-minded people out there who totally support you and what you are trying to do so please, please never give up - you are an inspiration to us all.
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I needs some tips on how to restore this thing. I'm turning 16 and ther's a good chance I might get this car, but if I continue to get good grades I might get a 2008 scion tc. The montero on the outside looks okay, but the interior looks like a pile of sh$*t. The paint on the top looks scratched up and the seats are tearing up beacause of my sibings who constantly play in the car eating and making a mess in the car. The only thing that looks new is the pioneer audio system my dad installed in it 2 yeas ago. If I do have to use this car, what should I start off doing to make this car brand new, my dad should know but if I bug him aout it then I might have to use it. Also the directional indicator(turn signa handle is broken) and i'm wonder how do I fix that and do I need to replace the steering wheel because of it? Please I need Help!Thanks!http://www.lyna-carrental.com/vehicles/20074202380_94-Montero-DGreen-Rear.jpg
I suggest you keep getting good grades. Otherwise, if you have to drive this car be grateful! I know it kind of sucks to have to drive your parents old beater car that they want to get rid of... my dad passed down an '89 camry to me when the LeBaron I bought for $800 went dead before I got my license. It wasn't in the best shape; rust, torn seat, bad muffler, etc. But after a replacement muffler I loved that car. It's kind of nice having a car that you don't have to worry about keeping nice in high school. You'd have to be more specific/include pics for anyone to help you with that turn signal stalk issue, but my guess is something just needs to be bonded/adhesived to wherever it broke off. Dowel rod perhaps??? I know you probably want a nice car right away, and it would be extremely generous if your parents bought you a new tc, but if you don't end up getting that just remember you'll have plenty of time to own nice cars. Patience friend, patience.
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Do case manufacturers really understand water cooling?
Posted on 10th Apr 2014 at 08:59 by Antony Leather with 25 comments
Manufacturers such as Corsair and NZXT are now in the habit of listing radiator compatibility in their case instruction manuals too - they're clearly taking it seriously and rightly so. Water cooling is one area of the PC industry that has certainly been growing over the last few years with all-in-one liquid coolers and full-on custom water cooling topping cooler graphs and featuring in many eye candy-filled systems - both modding projects and standard builds alike.
However, there is one small issue with many cases - specifically their radiator mounts. They're usually designed only for half-height radiators, which lack surface area and thus cooling potential compared to their full-height siblings, and many cases also seem to be listing radiator and water cooling compatibility as little more than tick-box features.
My point here is that when you try to install a water cooling system in one, there's so little space that tube kinks become a real issue and there's also little thought as to where to put pumps and reservoirs. One big factor here is that case manufacturers aren't actually that concerned with custom water cooling loops (as in separate components connected together at home) and rather more with all-in-one systems such as a Corsair H80i.
It's not just Corsair and NZXT, who incidentally make some of the best all-in-one liquid coolers out there, that are doing this. After all, you can forgive them for promoting a combination of their own case and cooler, but plenty of other manufacturers are doing it too.
For instance, I've recently borrowed the Lian Li PC-V360 we looked at recently to see how well it can cope with a water cooling system, seeing as it has a dedicated dual 120mm-fan radiator mount in the side panel and is too slim to fit large air coolers.
In short, it wasn't easy at all and I had to use anti-kinking springs on the tubing for everything to fit inside - and that's using the skinniest radiator I could find. Also, this turned out to be only just capable of cooling my overclocked Core i5-3570K and GeForce 660 Ti with the fans on full blast, which for me half defeats the point of water cooling, which is noise reduction.
Even with an all-in-one liquid cooler things would be tricky, but as we speak I'm in the process of dismantling the system to go back to my trusted BitFenix Prodigy, which is much more water cooling friendly. Of course, that's my point; some cases do work well with water cooling, the Prodigy being one of them. It's also far from being a large case - the PC-V360 is taller and deeper but can't quite decide whether to jump off the fence on the air cooling side or water cooling side.
A lot of the issues, then, revolve around radiator depth, and at the moment, many case manufacturers are content to leave their cases with the bare minimum. You probably can't blame them to some extent as the vast majority of all-in-one liquid coolers use skinny radiators - one reason why a custom kit with a full-height double or triple 120mm-fan radiator will likely perform much better and quieter with an overclocked CPU.
So, what would I like to see? Better consideration for water cooling enthusiasts for one, but this could just as easily be brought about by all-in-one liquid cooler manufacturers beefing up their radiators too, especially where double fan radiators are concerned. That way, we don't only get better cooling from their own coolers, but you won't have to opt for enormous cases or go through the hassle of having to use multiple radiators too. It wouldn't require massive changes either - a few small modifications to existing case designs could make a world of difference.
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By SSI Staff · February 3, 2014
The average number of access control projects settled back to 60 in 2013 following an upswing during the prior year. Nearly three-fourths (69%) of installing security contractors only install 1-4 access control systems per month, and nearly nine in 10 (89%) install fewer than 10 each month. Large companies ($10 million or more in annual revenues) are putting in an average of 156 access systems on an annual basis compared to 120 four years ago. The average for small operators is 42 and 60 for midsize companies.
The order of the top six access control markets remained unchanged from a year ago, with only residential (+2 percentage points) and retail/entertainment (+1 point) exhibiting growth. Nursing homes/assisted living/daycare and churches/temples/worship centers appear for the first time and combined for 9% of the total pie. The top market for large companies is government and industrial for midsize firms. Small operators get 42% from offi ces and homes.
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Could you please specify what access control systems are talked about in the article - only standard solutions consisted of controllers, locks and readers or also turnkey solutions, such as IP-turnstiles? As an example I can name IP-based turnstiles by PERCO (www.perco.com). Thanks in advance.
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- In a shallow bowl, combine the flour, salt, and pepper. In another shallow bowl, lightly beat the egg. Dip veal in egg, then coat with flour mixture.
- In a large skillet, brown veal in oil on both sides. Stir in the mushrooms, broth and wine. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 5-10 minutes or until mushrooms are tender and meat is no longer pink. Serve with spaghetti. Yield: 2 servings.
Originally published as Veal Scallopini in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2002, p184
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Once an apple orchard, Candlestone Golf & Resort in Belding, Michigan, provides the comforts of nature and solace that will keep you carefree to your very core—and an Escape to this tree-lined oasis in the midwest is as sweet as pie.
Relax in the comfort of recently remodeled rooms with warm accent colors, new mattresses, flat-screen TVs, Internet access, and panoramic views of the golf course. With views of the Michigan countryside that roll along the peaceful trails of East Riverside Park, you'll cultivate memory after memory whether you stroll along gorgeous flower beds and undisturbed river banks or sit beside the gazebo and listen to live music played by local artists.
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Steam summer sale, July 6: Left 4 Dead 2, GTA IV and DLC, Prototype, Arkham Asylum
You would have to be absolutely insane to miss out on the deals Steam's put up for its summer sale tonight. Left 4 Dead 2's gone up for £3.74, Far Cry 2 for £2.49, Prototype for £7.49 and Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY for £3.74. Big deal, though, has to be Grand Theft Auto IV and […]
Rocksteady: Arkham Asylum won't "be our best work, we still have places to go"
Rocksteady boss Sefton Hill has told Develop as far as it's concerned, Batman: Arkham Asylum was just the beginning of things for the developer.
Rumour - First Batman: Arkham City details emerge from GI
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Game Informer's posted up a video showing a secret room in Batman: Arkham Asylum, which shows a blueprint of what appears to be Arkham City and some concept art for its namesake game.
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Haven't bought Batman: Arkham Asylum yet? Still on the fence on the Rocksteady action epic? The GOTY version is now half-price on Steam.
Final Fantasy XIII sells over 5 million units worldwide in FY10
Square Enix has announced its sold over 5.5 million units worldwide of Final Fantasy XIII in the company's fiscal year ending March 31, 2010.
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Rumor: Arkham Asylum 2 to miss 2010 release
A UK retailer has said that Warner may hold off on releasing Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 this year, and instead aim for 2011.
Rumor: Rocksteady prepping new DLC for first Arkham Asylum?
Batman appears when his enemies least expect him, and apparently, so does his DLC. With Arkham Asylum's new-Batmobile smell long since worn away and a sequel pegged for later this year, Rocksteady's somewhat surprisingly decided to revisit Batman's first trip to the titular loony bin with some new DLC.
Rocksteady reckons that a Bane game could be "really crazy"
Fresh off its BAFTA Game of the Year win for Batman: Arkham Asylum, Rocksteady's studio director Sefton Hill chatted a bit with VideoGamer about sequels.
Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY gets May release in the US
The Game of the Year Edition for Batman: Arkham Asylum will be heading to the US in May.
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Warner just announced it's acquired a majority shareholding in Batman: Arkham Asylum developer Rocksteady.
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has won big time at the AIAS awards: the Naughty Dog action title walked away with ten gongs. Get all the results below.
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Atlanta has high hopes of beating the Giants, I hate to DISAPPOINT them but the Giants need this WIN Big time !
The Falcons are still in good position to clinch a first-round bye or the NFCs No. 1 playoff seed as they stare down the final three games of the season.
Despite the 30-20 loss to Carolina last week, Atlanta can clinch the No. 1 or a guarantee of at least the No. 2 spot by beating the Giants and then getting a little help from a couple of teams.
Time to start DISAPPOINTING Teams ! No one cares about us ! We have to control our own Destiny !


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Wojciech Szczesny can "feel the improvement" in Arsenal's defence and he puts it down to a major team effort.
Arsène Wenger's side conceded 17 goals in their first nine games this season but have let in just 10 in their last 11. They have been particularly tight in Europe, shipping two goals in four group games.
Arsenal go into Wednesday's clash with Borussia Dortmund on the back of two Champions League clean sheets against Marseille and Szczesny has enjoyed a front-row view of his team's defensive growth.
"I can feel the improvement in defence," he said. "I think it has been the defensive work from the whole team starting with the strikers, midfielders, defenders and myself.
"I think we have done very well defensively. We got two clean sheets in the last two games against Marseille which is a fantastic achievement because they are a quality side. That gives us a lot of confidence going into the game on Wednesday and hopefully we can just keep another clean sheet.
"We work together on the training ground and it seems to be working during the games," he added. "We are much more confident, we concede less goals and I hope we can keep it going."
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"Being vocal is my job, my job as a keeper is to talk to my defenders," he said. "I feel like they trust in me, and when I say something they listen. I am just doing my job."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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[quote user="nycsportzfan"][quote user="Spizi"][quote user="myles2424"][quote user="Spizi"]Cut/Let Walk
- MacKenzie, Diehl, Manningham, Jacobs, Ross, and Grant
- TT, Goff, Blackburn, Weatherford, Carr
- Carl Nicks, Demetrius Bell, Curtis Lofton
Rd 1- Dwayne Allen TE, Clemson - read my whole thread about him and TE's in today's NFL
Rd 2- David Wilson RB, VT - great speed, balance, and break tackle ability. Jacobs is gone and Bradshaw is playing with something broken every game.
Rd 3- Cliff Harris CB, Oregon - ballhawk and has good return skills[/quote] why would you want to let manningham walk? We don't exactly have a legit 3rd WR threat....
Jacobs considering he takes a pay cut needs to come back, our RB of the future needs to be drafted & meanwhile replace Danny ware....I'd much rather a dress that In the 3rd (Doug Martin) & go defense 1st & 2nd.....
& Ross, we saw how important CB depth is, I don't see us letting him go, unless of course he gets better $$ elsewhere
FA-Oline,safety depth,TE
Draft-LB,DT,interior Oline,WR depth[/quote]
I would love to keep manningham but idt we can afford him.[/quote] I'm with you.. U can't afford to pay mario num 1 WR doe when hes your teams num 3 wr.. Thats why we drafted Jerrell Jerrnigan and we still have Barden and we can use a pick in the draft or pick up a cheaper option in FA'cy but i just don't see mario coming back.. I think Jerrnigan will be ready next yr to help out
Yeah, Mario's probably going to Denver/St. Louis/Chicago... any of those places he is instantly the no.1 receiver. much like '09, the G-men have absolutely no need to go splurge on a FA wideout.
They've got JJ12, Barden, and Devon Thomas sitting right there, and if the past couple years have proven anything, its that not only can JR identify WR talent, but TC and Eli can develop the hell out of it.
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SANTA CLARA -- There is absolutely nothing wrong with Jim Harbaugh's peripheral vision, as Cam Inman and I can personally vouch.
In fact, Harbaugh might have optical superpowers: He was answering one question during the 49ers coach's Tuesday presser but apparently also closely monitoring two Bay Area News Group reporters three rows back all along.
"Were you and Cam kind of writing each other notes, trying to figure out what question to ask?" Harbaugh called out to me from behind the podium.
Well, yes and no: I was definitely glancing at something Inman had scribbled (got me!), but I was going to ask a question along the same lines, anyway.
It was about a player's contract. And Harbaugh, I should have known, does not speak about contracts.
But this led me to another contractual topic that I believe Harbaugh was partially anticipating all along, because he's just that canny and eagle-eyed.
And because it's a fairly large question. Not immediately pressing, but large.
What about your own contract, Jim? It expires after the 2015 season. Have there been any talks to extend your deal beyond that term?
"Yeah, put me in the same category as the players -- this is a policy," Harbaugh said without missing a beat. "Doesn't ever seem to do any good to talk about contracts publicly."
Hmm. That's about as bland as anybody could get on the topic, but the no-contract-talk thing is understandable.
Harbaugh has fulfilled two of the five contracted years, at about $5 million per, and delivered two magnificent seasons along the way, with Season No. 3 about to start with massive expectations.
After the 2013 season is over, Harbaugh will still have two years left. But of course, he has never stayed in one coaching job longer than the four years he spent at Stanford, when he was rightfully looking at other jobs about two years in.
Which I remember because I was asking Harbaugh these same questions back then, and he was no-commenting them, same as now.
All understandable. But financial plans are vital for all sports franchises, especially NFL teams with all the money going in and out and the frantic roster and coaching turnover.
The 49ers have extended Vernon Davis, Joe Staley, Patrick Willis, NaVorro Bowman and others long before they ever came close to free agency -- which was wise and timely.
The 49ers have decided not to extend other players, and we have seen many of those guys depart.
The 49ers front office will have the same decisions to make with Colin Kaepernick and Aldon Smith, among others, next offseason.
There are plans. There are financial gut-calls. And by the way, general manager Trent Baalke is signed through 2016 -- one year beyond Harbaugh's deal.
So that, in some way, leads to the man who is the face of the franchise, its burning life force, and a potential February 2016 free agent:
Jim, just generally, do you want to be with the 49ers beyond 2015?
"Again, there is no positive result that comes out of talking about contracts," Harbaugh said.
"If you think you've got a story there, feel free to run with it."
There's that QB-level anticipation again: Maybe Harbaugh knew these questions were coming, at some point.
I've been asking around a little about Harbaugh's long-term future with the 49ers and have heard a few things that were not surprising.
First, there were some very informal offseason discussions between the 49ers and Harbaugh's camp about the idea of a long-term, high-dollar extension.
But both sides decided that there was no urgency to get anything done right now; Harbaugh is comfortable dealing with this in due time, and so is 49ers owner Jed York.
Harbaugh is logically going to want a big raise whenever he gets a new deal, and, yes, he almost certainly will deserve one.
Interestingly, at $5 million per, Harbaugh is the third-highest-paid coach in the NFC West, behind St. Louis' Jeff Fisher ($7 million) and Seattle's Pete Carroll ($6 million).
Meanwhile, the 49ers are getting their state-of-the-art stadium ready for a grand opening next season and are a favorite to get to and -- this time -- win the Super Bowl.
Everything is focused on Harbaugh. He knows that, the Yorks know that, Baalke knows that, the entire team knows that.
If the 49ers win the Super Bowl this season, I think Harbaugh will get a monster extension at a salary close to double what he's making now.
If they don't, then everything will have to play out -- Harbaugh is not known for longevity anywhere, but he also seems perfect for this place and this team.
And you know who has this scoped out clearer than anybody else? Harbaugh, of course, who can probably see me typing this right now.
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Even at the turn of last century, Aucklanders knew what made a great location: sea views, close to town and fancy new transport technology.
When cutting-edge electric trams replaced horse-drawn transport in 1902, Herne Bay's fate as one of the city's most desirable suburbs was sealed.
Then in 1913, one smart developer built two Edwardian dream homes in Galatea Tce. Similar to surrounding bay villas, the houses were updated with fashionable square bays and vaguely Art Nouveau circular veranda details. Restoring what American owner Randall Wulff called "the peaches" was part of a meticulous renovation he and wife Judy undertook three years ago.
The Wulffs said they just wanted a yard for the new puppy and two kids, but admit they've "lived, loved and renovated villas" since their return to Auckland, where Randall now works for Air New Zealand. The harbour views and generous villa proportions were winners.
The house had benefited from only a few careful owners, but Randall and Judy knew it needed a bit more love.
"The front four rooms are virtually original," Randall says. "They're all 13-foot [4m] studs with five different patterns of pressed tin ceilings."
The hallway's elaborate arch and pillars, and the carved corner fireplaces, hark back to a more gracious era. Those tall square bays feature in the front living room and master bedroom next door, with two more large bedrooms across the hall.
Beyond the elegance of the front four rooms, older renovations at the rear of the house were a bit tired. "The bones were great," says Judy, "with the sunny windows and sea views." Not so great was the room-darkening cork floor and timber joinery.
"It made such a difference painting everything white and opening up the western wall with sliders," she says. Judy claims it's the sunniest house she's ever lived in, tracking the sun from the living area's bay window: morning coffee, sunny winter reading nook, evening glass of wine watching the harbour.
The couple were experienced planners so specified a classic panelled kitchen, packed with storage. "I can be cutting veges and look up to see a yacht race on the harbour," Judy says. The marble waterfall benches give way to stainless steel in the clever butler's pantry.
Two upstairs bathrooms have benefited from their touch, too. They slotted in a light-filled en suite with double shower, while a generous family bathroom was reclaimed from a back porch, with its own harbour views from the sculptural bathtub.
More dramatic changes took place on the lower level. The wide, shaded upstairs veranda has stairs to the lower decks and a transformed garden. Randall trucked in 300cu m of scoria, sand and soil to create a level drained lawn, so that puppy got the best playground in town.
A heated pool surrounded by decks keeps his people and their friends happy, too.
Inside, the Wulffs have streamlined a warren of downstairs rooms into a family area with separate entry and lots of potential uses. A remnant of the house's past as the Mercury Theatre's storage and "party house" is now a separate media room, complete with vintage Air NZ first-class seats. New French doors from the spacious games room blur indoor and outdoor entertainment options.
One large bedroom has its own generous en suite, and adding a double-size salvaged window created another light-filled garden bedroom. A marble-topped laundry could become a kitchenette, plus there's masses of storage and a separate toilet handy for swimmers.
Twin peaks on the double garage reflect the street's character and conceal yet more storage and workrooms below.
With this old lady's heritage restored, Randall and Judy can now contemplate another project in their favourite part of Herne Bay.


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May is Mental Illness Awareness Month. Guest speaker Hector Matascastillo will share lessons of his journey to recovery and bring meaning to living with a mental illness at an event from 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, May 16, at Central Lakes College in Brainerd.
This event is free and open to the public. Whether you're looking for inspiration or information on mental illness, Matascastillo's "Lessons from a Volcano-On Suffering" will be educational and moving.
The event is in part sponsored by National Alliance on Mental Illness NCR, BL Broadcasting, Comfort Inn and Suites and Lakes Printing.