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Because of this combination of skills / perks [u]Arcane spirt +divine order[/u] : this combination gives you 80-90% of the bar filled in both armor and recovery( reduses agility to about 15-20% [u]energy drain[/u]: normally only reduses your grenade cool down but is augmented by other abilities. [u]Embrace the void[/u]: where it starts to get fun. Damaging enemy's with your grenade / nova bomb triggers energy drain [u]life steal[/u] killing a enemy while energy drain is active restores a " significant portion " if your health. [u]the hunger [/u] extends the duration of energy drain With these abilities you should be able to tank very well
That's also not mentioning what possible boosts your Light armor may grant you allowing you to choose something else because your equipment grants that particular boost automatically.
Edited by DawnBlue: 8/14/2014 6:22:32 AMEdited above the post as well so everyone notices it: [u][b]Stay away from this thread, do not make new comments here, if you awaken this beast it will consume your logic and shit out lies and stupidity![/b][/u] You have just one error there [i][quote][u]life steal[/u] killing a enemy while energy drain is active restores a " significant portion " if your health. [/quote][/i] The actual skill description for Life steal is this [quote][i]Killing an enemy with Energy Drain immediately restores a significant portion of your health.[/i][/quote] You don't just kill everything and be immortal, you need to [i]kill with the melee ability[/i]. That's not gonna happen very often in hard content - I doubt we will be facing millions of low HP enemies instead of just a bunch of tough ones. That would also be the inherent error with your plan to begin with, even if it didn't fail hard at the point where you thought Life steal is completely different. Energy drain has two meanings. It's the name of the melee ability which has cool down and it's the name of the buff you get from hitting an enemy with said melee ability. Embrace the Void will grant you the buff from Grenades / Nova Bomb, making Grenade cooldown shorter, [i]but will not interact with any upgrades you can select for Energy drain itself.[/i] You can't increase movement speed, regain health or reduce Nova Bomb cooldown using Embrace the Void. Edit: I just realized how old this thread is, you might as well have figured all this stuff out a long time ago... Edit 2: Well, if anything, this thread has once again shown me that I shouldn't be surprised by idiocy of any level anymore. People are blatantly making up facts with no proof whatsoever. [u][b]Stay away from this thread, do not make new comments here, if you awaken this beast it will consume your logic and shit out lies and stupidity![/b][/u]
Edited by DeviousBard: 8/14/2014 5:59:00 AMPersonally i plan on using the Voidwalker as a glass cannon, focusing mostly on speed. The SunSinger is what i plan on using as more of a tank. It can get the same level of toughness and recovery while being able to give itself major defensive buffs. Plus it has good abilities that allow it to deal large amounts of DOT. Which i hope will keep enemies focused on me (seeing that i will be doing constant damage to them) while my allies can work on killing them more efficiently. I really hope it will work out like that.
Edited by the one and only: 7/29/2014 11:31:14 PMCool build idea, but solo defense is not tanking, and it means sacrificing useful skills needed for good and balanced team play. Almost all the mmo's out there give a chance to build your sorc/healer/mage into some sort of defender, but they never measure up to tank classes for the simple reason they can't support defense for a whole team, which is real tanking. Any experienced rpg-er knows solo tanking is cool PvP and solo grinding, but if you can't tank for your team on a raid, then re-spec or get off my team. There will always be skilltrees for solo play (titans striker), but team raids are where the heart of this game will lie imo.
Well there wont be any tanking to do in the game but as far as damage mitigation you're definately right sunsingers will be able to get the same as defenders that way.
How do you think the warlock will pull Agro off them big ass things they going to be shooting at everyone no matter what you are
[quote]life steal killing a enemy [b]while energy drain is active[/b] restores a " significant portion " if your health.[/quote] From the talent calculator on destinydb: "Killing an enemy [b]with[/b] Energy Drain immediately restores a significant portion of your health." Very similar but the key word "with" instead of "while active". These mean two very different things. From what I can tell it seems you have to use your melee while the cooldown is up to gain the life steal effect. This would limit the warlocks tanking ability greatly if this was true. Meaning in order to gain the health you would have to use your melee attack and kill an enemy and only then would you gain health back. I read some of the posts and it seemed like you were saying any kills while Energy Drain was active would result in health restored. Would love to hear your thoughts or counter-arguments.
I've played all 3 classes to death. Still think titans will be more tanky. Can't deny that the warlock class is an absolute beast with the high rec and high arm. Agl don't mean shxt at that point
We're not looking at the value of the armour you're wearing here. Plus Warlocks don't have skills that mitigate damage or make them a foundation for the team to revolve around like titans do.
I think it'd be best to describe the warlock as an off tank. Their mobility and regen should help them keep aggro on adds and their AoE should allow them to clean them up as well. Titan has damage mitigation which is where tanks usually shine. A boss that crits like cray will still drop someone that doesn't have any mitigation. Not to mention the Titan has group buffs to shields and such which will really let the 2 work in tandem. So far hunter seems pure single target dps as well. I feel as though the game may hopefully shine when we have lvl 20's working in tandem to get the synergy between everyone I think Bungie was going for.
Warlock is the best class because it can also use grenade so titian isn't even a class
Not compared to the titan's defender class. Not by a long shot. The defender drops a shield that gives him and his buddies who pass through shields. His melee if killing a person grants him a shield. That one can be modified to charge continually AND have even more resistance to damage. Plus the standard armor passives and the ability to make his super charge more often he gets shields more often. He also can supress other supers with a grenade. So no. Any class can be some what tanky. But the titan is the king of it.
I was wondering about that skill if it would give me life steal everytime my nade hits someone. I don't think it will work like this because I would stack gear to make nade cool down as low as possible. It would make the warlock amazing in pve as well.
Best tanks my ass. What you described is a life tank and they are cooldown bound. Titans tank well and then tank better when their abilities are up. Your description makes Warlocks tank well only when they can use lifesteal and energy drain (which isn't all the time)
Edited by O I AM DONK: 7/29/2014 5:39:18 AMhave you seen the bladedancer subclass for the hunter it made me have to change my pants again......thanks bungie >.> allthough on the warlock topic a tank isnt 100% on being able to take a hit you have to hold agro on everything and in this game the titan can directly stop you from attacking all the warlock will be is a cannon no longer glass cannon but directly high armor high dmg but personally when you got a bladedancer hunter that blinks around oneshoting things but im not gonna go around d riding the hunter just because i love it warlock is something you use for a trash mob destroyer but high dmg on single too titan is a tough guy who can incapacitate enemys and take a hit i wouldnt put him incredibly high on dmg meter and finally the hunter is a single target menace ending lives a a single foe with minimal blows
I'm going to laugh if the Warlock can out tank a Titan.
Toss this into your build: http://www.destinydb.com/items/2771018500-skull-of-dire-ahamkara#zsXXVS8 1.) Its a skull... that has to look cool. 2.) It buffs your defense during Nova Bomb. 3.) Improves all siphon abilites. 4.) Other synergy with defense/grenade.
Seems to be a slot for another subclass. Maybe expansion? I wonder what the trends may be for future class builds and optimization.
Defence and armor are 2 different things armor is the characters stat and defence is the amount of your "armor peice's defence points added together".
I had more defense then my Titan friend and I am a Warlock
Edited by Godlike13: 7/29/2014 2:04:14 PMIf u can regen ur health with ur melee, grenades, and super then wouldn't it be better to focus on armor and agility over armor and recovery.
Look at sunsinger they can revive themselves and other players with there super
You should probably take a look at the titans defender subclass
[quote]( reduses agility to about 15-20%[/quote] [quote]reduses [/quote] [quote][u][i][b]reduses[/b][/i][/u] [/quote]
titan's still gonna be my starter at least. It's the best looking class
What about the hunters ability to teleport? In combination with invisibility. Gonna be ruthless


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Little Ericsons, big problems?
Hello SailNet general! I'm new to the forum, and I'm looking into getting my first boat. I'm looking for something that would be relatively forgiving, and not too tricky to learn on. Speed can come later, right now I'd like to focus on doing it right. Additionally, I've been looking at boats with an eye to potentially living aboard during the summer. ( I work at marinas, I can get a mooring, and possibly even a slip, depending on how slow '12 looks to be, for almost nothing)
To that end, the Ericson 27 has caught my eye. Again, I'm not looking for speed, and a lot of reviews say the things are pretty bulletproof. However, it never hurts to ask, and so I ask SailNet, does anyone have any major problems with these things to report, or know someone who does? And yes, I do plan on asking the same question on the EY.org forums. I'm asking here because I'm selfish, and these forums move much faster. Thanks for any advice you can give, or maybe there are other, better classic plastic options out there for my needs.
Did you look at the "Boat Reviews" section of SN?
Thanks for the reply, and yes, I looked at the reviews. In fact, one of the reasons the E27 piqued my interest was the fact that it had so many positive reviews. I was just wondering if anyone had any specific complaints apart from the (apparent) problem of companionway hatch cover delamination, and the usual complaints one has with old boats.
I've always heard that Ericson's were pretty well made boats.
You might find that some of them have the Atomic 4 engine in them. That is not an issue to me as my older classic plastic Tartan 27' has one. A boat with an Atomic 4 should be cheaper then a comparable boat equipped with a diesel engine.
Beyond the usual stuff older boats come with (worn cutless or shaft, chain plates, soft spots, stinky holding tank etc, etc) I see no reason not to consider an Ericson 27'.
A 27 footer is about the smallest size I'd ever consider for living aboard.
You should look at as many E27's and other 27 footers as you can before pulling the trigger on anything.
Happy hunting.
Yeah, I'm fortunate geographically, at least as far as selection is concerned. I've taken the opportunity this freaky winter has afforded me and gone looking a bit.
I looked at an Erickson 27 several years ago in Baltimore Inner Harbor's City Dock Marina that was a derelict procured by Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Living Classroom's Foundation. It cannot recall which model it was, but I was really impressed by the amount of interior room. The headroom was at least 6'-4", the boat was beamy, wide open inside, but the cockpit was relatively large. Ironically, the boat was sold an hour before my arrival. It was powered with an Atomic-4, which looked and ran like the engine was brand new. It had a large sail inventory, roller furling, it needed some elbow grease to remove years of accumulated grime, but it was in pretty good condition considering its age. The boat sold for $2,000. A couple days later I purchased a 1968, 27 Catalina with an Atomic-4, 5 sails, in better shape, for the same amount of money.
You can find bargains like these all over the world, but you'll have to do some searching at the various marinas to find them. As for the Erickson, the guy that purchased it sails nearly every day of the season, even when the weather has been nasty and he says the boat handles very well, and it even does a decent job in light winds.
Good Luck,
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Look at the Sabre 28. I owned one for 18 years. It's a great, solid boat and beautiful to look at. We liked it so much that when we wanted more room, we bought another Sabre in 2005. You won't be sorry.
Always found their cockpits uncomfortable. Low back rests, narrow space between lazarettes, and quick motions in a seaway
When I signed up for SN, I read through a LOT of those reviews and the one thing they ALL had in common was glowing reviews and a positive "would buy again".
Owner reviews are good for garnering model specific info, but for an overall opinion of "goodness" I want a third party involved.
You could do worse than seek out the Ericson Owners Assoc - good folk on there when I did some idle research into a 34X (not many of those about)...
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A very cute love story featuring Emily and Logan. Emily is full of mischief and plans to fix her family's financial problems by masquerading as a vampire in order to form a buzz about her new novel and sell it to a publisher for money. Logan is not a titled citizen in London, but is highly respected as he is increadibly wealthy. He happens to be one of Emily's father's creditors, and therefore despised by Emily. But one night changed it all--feeding her curiosity, she kisses him and since then he has not stopped thinking about her. Likewise she is in complete denial of her attraction to him and mistakenly believes that her anger is out of hate. Along the way they find endearing qualities, finding themselves unable to keep thier hands off each other. Logan's past catches up to him, putting those he love in danger. This book has several memorable scenes inclding the one with all his friends talking to him about how he is in love with Emily and him denying that very fact. Lets not forget all those steaming sex scenes..wow!
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Almost 15 years later, Mr Dandrea is still trying to perfect the relationship. He now has 128 employees, including 72 in Argentina and others in Peru, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela. He also has 10 people working out of an office in Washington state and employees in California, Missouri, Oregon and Virginia. Only 46 people report to the main office in Pittsford. "It's a lot of fun working this way," he said. "But there are always challenges."
While there are benefits to employing a far-flung staff – salaries and office overheads may be lower in other countries, for example – it can be difficult to get employees to work cohesively. The suggestions in this guide come from business owners who have tried.
Ken Cauley, founder of a video game news site, Kombo.com, said the hardest part was creating accountability. The company, which he sold to GameZone in 2010, was based in Detroit, but he worked with 10 employees and 30 freelancers in the US, Australia, Canada, Honduras and Japan, among other places.
One frequent problem was missed deadlines. "Grand ideas wouldn't work out," said Mr Cauley, now president and founder of Advanced Media, an online advertising company. "And you always had to figure out what happened after a problem occurred."
His first idea, he said, was to throw money at the problem, thinking that if people were paid more, they would make more time to do the work. That did not help.
In 2006, four years after starting his business, Mr Cauley decided his staff needed a set of black-and-white rules. He and his employees developed the "Kombo Bible", a 40-page document that detailed every aspect of the company, including what to do when problems arose and the repercussions for making a mistake.
Soon after, people stopped missing deadlines and productivity increased. Thanks to the handbook, he said, employees knew exactly what would happen if they slacked off. "If someone ended up getting fired, they knew they were getting fired," he said. "The accountability issues pretty much dropped to zero."
Kuty Shalev, founder and chief executive of Clevertech, which builds custom software and applications for wholesale distributors, financial companies and start-ups, has also had to deal with missed deadlines. His company is based in Woodmere, New York, and has employees in India, Israel, Pakistan and other places. Mr Shalev has employees post a daily goal on Yammer, an internal social network for businesses. His software developers also have to submit their code at the end of the day. If managers find something odd, they investigate.
But missed deadlines are not the worst of his problems. Occasionally, employees do not even show up. He now requires all employees to have mobile phones, so he can track them down if they fail to report.
Entrepreneurs had to understand and be sensitive to cultural differences, Mr Shalev said. In other countries, for example, people often need days off to attend religious functions. Some of Mr Shalev's employees in Moldova and Ukraine deal with frequent blackouts – he has had to buy generators for some – and one Pakistani employee wanted a day off to sacrifice a goat.
Argentines, Mr Dandrea said, really like their holidays. They often get one or two days off every month, and if a holiday falls on a Tuesday, he said, people often stay home on Monday, too. One time, a client had a problem on a Friday night, and no one got back to him until Wednesday because the Argentine project manager had two days off. "The customer was incensed," Mr Dandrea said.
He has learned to coordinate schedules across countries. If the Argentine office is closed, someone has to make sure colleagues in other countries fill in.
Sometimes, simple communication can be an issue. In some cultures, people say yes a lot – "but they don't mean yes; they mean they heard you," Mr Shalev said.
He has spent long meetings talking about a project and assigning tasks only to get back work that did not reflect his instructions. The best way to get his message across, he has learned, is to "make it visual". He uses Jing, a program from TechSmith that allows people to share screen shots, videos and images.
"Everyone can understand a photo or video much better than listening to words," Mr Shalev said. "That's even true with staff and clients in the US."
When you see your employees every day, it is easy to tell if someone has the blues. But what if you only talk to them on the phone? "I've gotten two weeks' notice and had no idea something was wrong," Mr Dandrea said. "There's no griping at the water cooler that will get back to you."
When employees are off-site, it is easy to ignore the "commitment conversation", as Mr. Dandrea calls it, which is why he makes sure his managers have regular discussions with staff members. Managers have been taught to give a lot of feedback and even to ask directly how an employee is feeling. "We look for chinks in the armour," he said.
He also uses an online recognition program called Potential Point that allows people to reward others virtually for a job well done. When someone in the US nominates someone from Argentina for doing good work on a project, the entire company sees the nomination.
Michael Brody-Waite, chief executive and co-founder of InQuicker, a company that creates software that displays wait times at emergency rooms and doctors' offices, often sends his Nashville-based employees to spend three days at the company's other office – a coffee shop, technically – in British Columbia. "When they visit the guys in Canada, they end up surfing, hiking and snowboarding," Mr Brody-Waite said. "The idea is to be more natural with each other."
Perhaps the biggest problem with a far-flung staff is the temptation for the boss to work around the clock. Mr Shalev said it was hard to turn off when he knew there were employees working as he was getting ready for bed. The first few years running his company, he said, he often got caught up with something and did not go to bed until 3am.
To avoid a 24-hour work day, Mr Shalev asks his overseas employees to work as close as possible to 9 to 5 Eastern Standard Time. That means some people have to start working at 5am. Others start in the afternoon, take time off for dinner and finish at night.
As much work as it has taken Mr Dandrea to run a successful business across multiple countries, he said he had no regrets about his 1998 excursion to Argentina. "Working virtually," he said, "gives us access to so much more talent."
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Earlier in the afternoon, three Australians - cartoonist Michael Leunig, writer John Marsden and artist Rod Moss - chewed over the question of whether their homeland is "The Lucky Country".
We are accustomed to the stereotype of the brash Ocker, but these three were the exact opposite. Leunig said the term, coined by writer Donald Horne, had always baffled him.
"You can get a lot of bad luck in Australia," he said. "At the moment it feels unlucky. There's a political philosophy being imposed upon us. There is a swagger, like 'we are going to change you people'. This government and this budget [referring to last week's Australian budget] is a dismay."
Marsden said he was in the Middle East when the Tampa boat people crisis occurred and "I felt ashamed to be an Australian. We had to introduce ourselves and I was thinking, 'Can I say I am a New Zealander?'"
Rod Moss' response to the "ordinariness" of growing up in suburban Melbourne was to "exit to the centre" of the country and live in the midst of "the unlucky Australians, the indigenous people".
"The indigenous people were the only ones who have fought to defend their country," added Leunig.
"Otherwise, Australians have always fought to defend someone else's country."
A quiet session, with modestly intelligent speakers. Australia is lucky to have them.


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No passing fancy for Bill Belichick: Pats coach wants no talk of Dan Marino or passing records
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FOXBORO — Bill Belichick was not in the mood to wax poetic about Dan Marino and the fall of the NFL passing yards mark on Wednesday. But it wasn't without several attempts on parts of several media members in attendance for his weekly Wednesday look ahead to the coming opponent.
Reminded that not only did Drew Brees pass the mark on Monday night in the win over the Falcons, but his own quarterback Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers of the Packers could all pass the previous mark of 5,084 yards set by Miami's Marino in 1984.
The exchange began with the following question: With quarterbacks around the league throwing for so many yards this year, what really changed this year as opposed to several years ago?
"Well I think we've seen production in the passing game," Belichick said. "I mean, look at Marino's, that was 20 years ago, or whatever it was, and we're talking about that record now standing for quite a while. I think it's all a function of execution. There have been great passers in this league for a long time, great receivers, great tight ends, great runners, great defenders. So sometimes each year falls a little bit different. I don't have a great explanation for it."
Shalise Young of the Boston Globe offered this follow-up: As a defensive coach, though, with all the rules that have been made the last few years, would Marino have thrown for far more yards [under the current rules]? If Marino was playing now, do you think he'd have thrown for 5,500 yards?
"Yeah, I don't know. If if's and buts were candy and nuts, everyday would be Christmas," Belichick said in a wry and droll reference to Dandy Don Meredith. "I don't know. I have no idea."
Young: Do those rules help though?
Belichick: Which rules are you talking about?
Young: The rules of not being able to hit quarterbacks, and how receivers you can't touch them further downfield.
Belichick: Those rules have been in place for 15 years.
Young: But there's a bigger emphasis on them in recent years.
Belichick: Look, talk to the people who make the rules. They do all those studies. Trust me. They do all those studies. They know how long each game was, in every year it was played, the length of time, the amount of penalties, the amount of yardage, the amount of rushing yardage, the yards-per-carry, the yards-per-completion. All that's been studied, very thoroughly, by people a lot smarter than I am. So I don't really know. I'm just trying to get our team ready for Buffalo, a team we didn't do very well against [earlier this year]. I'm just thinking about Buffalo. I don't [know about] all the statistics and all the rules, trying to solve all the world's problems in the passing game. I'm just trying to solve ours against Buffalo.
Young: But it's just interesting that Marino's record stood until…
Belichick: Yeah, it's a great story. And I'm not really…I mean, last time I watched Marino throw, I don't know when that was. I'm just trying to concentrate on Buffalo.
Reporter: So you don't think there's anything to the fact that potentially three guys will break that record this year.
Belichick: Do I think there's anything to it? What's that mean?
Then Tom E. Curran of CSNNE.com interjected and appropriately pointed out: "It stood for 30 years. No one's done that. Four guys are going to break 5,000 yards. The game is totally different, that's what [Young is] getting at."
Belichick: If that's what you want to write, go ahead. I don't know.
Reporter: But you're the expert.
Belichick: Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just trying to get ready for Buffalo. I'm not trying to analyze the passing game of the last 20 years. That's for people a lot smarter than me. Like you guys.
A couple of post-scripts to this bizarre scene: ESPN's Chris Berman was in the back of the room watching all of this. The press conference began with Belichick doing a bow to the "Swami" – as in we are not worthy. Berman was in town to do his annual sit-down with Tom Brady.
Secondly, Brady was asked the same line of questioning about the passing marks falling and his response: "Coach Belichick could certainly speak to that more than I could."
Oh, the irony.
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Syrian government forces pounded the rebel-held town of Rastan on Friday, according to activist accounts. Reportedly under opposition control, Rastan, just 20 kilometers north of Homs, has been under heavy attack for days as troops loyal to President Bashar Al Assad attempt to take back the town. A series of videos emerging from the area, of which the above is a compilation, appear to lend credence to claims of heavy shelling.
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Several years ago I was dating this cool lady from Somerville who was very removed from the Boston music scene. A few weeks into our relationship, she confessed a massive love for VICTORY AT SEA, and in particular, the incredible, hypnotic voice of Mona Elliott. I went to the show, which I think was at the Middle East, and was equally impressed, and not too long after, completely fell for their track "Bored Otherwise," the standout off their final record, All Your Things Are Gone. The lush, melodic band, born from the Swirlies and Spore in the late '90s split in 2007, but this damn near-perfect gem of enchanting rock and roll stayed in my head long after their demise.
Victory at Sea are back in action tonight at the Middle East downstairs, performing a benefit show for Donna Shroupsky-Rain, who according to Boston Band Crush, is facing mounting medical bills while battling breast cancer. This could be the last time we get to see a live performance from V@S (who were thankfully around before anyone probably ever thought of shorthanding their name with an @ symbol). Hopefully it's not the case.
If it is, it will mark the end of their run but the start of another, as scene veteran supergroup NO LOVE makes its debut tonight as well, combining the talents of Cameron Keiber, Sarah Borges, Mike Joy, Ian Adams, and Victory at Sea's Mel Lederman, who pulls a double-dip. Also on the bill are Wheelers & Dealers, featuring Mary Lou Loud and Pat McGrath, and Reindeer.
Hell of a bill.
Here's hoping Victory at Sea plays "Bored Otherwise," and that they raise a fuckton of money for Donna.


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Sons Of The King
Dre Z & Roots Gwaan
Conscious Riddims
CD / Digital Release
August 19, 2013
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|Vocals : 5
|Backing : 5
|Production : 5
|Sound quality : 5
|Sleeve : 5
When a Roots artist releases an impressive debut set; the massive always takes a closer look for consistency and durability. This is certainly the case with Hawaii's Roots Gwaan! His debut, "Betta Way-Rastafari" made a big impact and this true Rastaman has matured mightily ever since. His brand new effort, "Sons Of The King", is as solid as it gets and a true representation of the forward direction of JAHwaiin Roots Reggae Musik.
Roots Gwaan has been putting out King's Musik of the highest order from his gates in Kona, Hawaii since the early part of the new millennium. His debut and the heartical, "Exalt H.I.M", proves a strong future for this rising talent. This chanter, farmer, record shop/label owner and Sound System operator has worked with the likes of Andrew "Bassie" Campbell, Perfect Giddimani, Ras Biblical and now with highly respected Dre Z; whose touch has blessed numerous Jah works. Dre Z (Andres Estrada) provides ites instrumentation and masterful production. This set was recorded at Conscious Riddims (Kona) and mixed at Dre Z's Native Fya Studio (New Mexico).
Livin In This Time opens up this musical gift and will instantly draw you in with Roots Gwaan's hypnotizing chanting. There's nuances of Midnite's approach here but it's all his Iriginal style and fashion. The riddim is sprinkled nicely with taut drums, piano and rugged guitar licks. King In Motion is a righteous ode to The Most High. On top of a natural progression, Mr. Sisley shows his diversity and experience, fe real. He is a Rastaman in every sense and the song is a heartical meditation with strong ideology. Strong songwriting! Angels is THE standout selection here. Clever string arrangements and killer piano riffs are the platform for this supremely spiritual structure. Biblical style with excellent musician manship and production from Dre Z(big up). Perhaps his best song to date!
Naturally, featuring the talented Marty Dread is a joyful and uplifting track about the virtues of true Love and devotion to your Empress. Pure enjoyment from artist to listener on this yah one. Mystery Light is a boomshot; Roots Gwaan is a powerful chanter and he doesn't hold back here with clear thought and observation. Great drums, guitar and percussion are predominant. Ganja anthems are a mainstay on his albums and they are abundant here (thankfully). Chalice Champion is ripe for the picking. He chants with conviction over a rock solid riddim with subtle mixing and intoxicating lyrics. On par with Alborosie's now classic songs of the same vein. Herbs Reveal has a homegrown feel and demonstrates the versatility that Roots Gwaan has now mastered. A real message of the benefits of the proper use of the perfume of Mt. Zion over a superbly arranged riddim with Midnitesque qualities.
Island Mystic is a seriously progressive work. He rides a muscular riddim with the demeanor of a true veteran about his experiences and reasonings on His Imperial Majesty's Farm (his headquarters). True meditation with massive appeal. Find A Way shows how well rounded this artist really is. No filler or artificial lyrics here; just Word, Sound & Power inna musical shower. Once again, Dre Z provides a skilful musical foundation that's rich and robust. Jah Gave Us Life is an instant classic! Over a semi-acoustic landscape, Roots Gwaan takes us back to ancient days with humbleness and the result is soothing to Heart and Soul. Another absolute stunner is Stars Over Oceans; a Lovers track that boasts wide vocal range that's thoroughly enjoyable. This song is right up there with the best of recent Lover's Rock (inna Island style). Potent lyrically and musically; it deserves instant rewind! The final gift is Chant Peace, a flawless tour-de-force that has an impeccable riddim with killer piano/bass/drum/guitar - just everything is in the right place. Lyrics like, "clean up the mess Babylon create and start all over". Great ambience of hope and inspiration - yes, indeed!
Roots Gwaan and Dre Z really deliver on "Sons Of The King". A top ranking and Iriginal blueprint of how our beloved King's Musik is being manifested into Real Authentic Sound that is REGGAE MUSIC. Trends come and go but conscious people want a message of thoughtfulness, reality and upliftment right now. This is what Roots Gwaan provides in his music. This is message music and that's a fact. In fact, Roots Gwaan is slated to perform in the Pacific Northwest soon, so do not miss out. Bottom line is that even if you've never heard of him; "Sons Of The King" will nourish your Heart and Soul. Highest recommendation. Go deh!!!


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Posted by Mary Shea on the B2B Marketing Professionals Blog on May 4, 2016
In a recent blog post, "Why Millennials Struggle For Success", well known psychologist, author and MacArthur Fellow Angela Duckworth, explores the question many experienced business leaders and managers ask as well: What's wrong with Millennials? Why do they keep changing jobs? Why do they complain when work needs to be taken home over the weekend? And so on. She asks if it's because they don't have enough grit. Duckworth believes the secret to outstanding success is not talent but rather a special blend of passion and persistence called grit. Duckworth developed a Grit Scale and now has scores from thousands of Americans where her data reveal that grit and age go hand and hand.
So what do we do with those Millennials? Today, Millennials make up one third of the workforce and in four years time they will be half. With the average age of the US B2B sales rep at 40 years old, millennial sellers are, or soon will be, the future revenue generators and business leaders for their firms. Smart sales and marketing leaders realize that status quo communication, management approaches and tools will fail to inspire, and are adapting their enablement strategies and tech stacks to resonate with this important group of employees.


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Tuesday Papers: RBS tips UK back into bonus debate
And investors return €100 billion to eurozone periphery as fears recede over crisis.
Top stories
- Financial Times: British Chancellor George Osborne is braced for a new political backlash over bank bonuses, as state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland prepares to pay as much as £250 million to staff at an investment banking division heavily implicated in the Libor-rigging scandal.
- Financial Times: Almost €100 billion of private funds flowed back into the eurozone's periphery late last year after action by the European Central Bank encouraged reinvestment in the crisis-hit countries.
- The Guardian: The UK taxpayer will not be able to reclaim £2.3 billion in unhonoured deposit guarantees from the Icelandic government linked to online bank account Icesave, a court in Luxembourg has ruled.
- The Daily Telegraph: France's labour minister sent the country into a state of shock on Monday after he described the nation as "totally bankrupt".
- Financial Times: Japanese regulators said they found no evidence of shortcomings with manufacturing standards at lithium-ion battery factory of GS Yuasa, the battery supplier to the grounded Boeing 787 fleet, in Kyoto.
- Financial Times: In the second quarter since Marissa Mayer took over as chief executive in July, Yahoo saw 4% growth in revenues to $1.2 billion; Yahoo beat earnings estimates by more than 14% in its fourth quarter.
- The Guardian: Michael Clarke, the boss of Premier Foods, has quit the company after less than 18 months in the job, during which he collected more than £2.7 million.
- Financial Times: Peter Beck's Swift Trade must pay an £8 million fine for market abuse for moving share prices on the London Stock Exchange through rapidly placing and cancelling orders on thinly traded companies, a London tribunal has ruled.
- Financial Times: Peter Beck's Swift Trade must pay an £8 million fine for market abuse for moving share prices on the London Stock Exchange through rapidly placing and cancelling orders on thinly traded companies, a London tribunal has ruled.
- The Independent: Nat Rothschild escalated his battle with Bumi's board on Monday, dismissing their plans for a radical shake-up of the Indonesian coal miner he co-founded – before they had even been announced.
- Financial Times: Royal Dutch Shell has made its first move into plans to export liquefied natural gas from the US, joining a project planned by Kinder Morgan, the pipeline group, at Elba Island in Georgia.
- Financial Times: Amazon.com is starting to make greater inroads into the advertising market as it seeks to disrupt the established digital marketing businesses of rivals such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft and AOL.
- The Daily Telegraph: France's labour minister sent the country into a state of shock on Monday after he described the nation as "totally bankrupt".
- Financial Times: Japanese regulators said they found no evidence of shortcomings with manufacturing standards at lithium-ion battery factory of GS Yuasa, the battery supplier to the grounded Boeing 787 fleet, in Kyoto.
- The Guardian: Hilco, the restructuring specialist, has made millions by sucking up the assets of dying brands including Woolworths, Habitat and Borders.
- The Guardian: The outgoing easyJet chairman, Sir Mike Rake, could still risk a battle with Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of the airline, as he intends to stay in position until a successor is found.
- Financial Times: The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, the $160 billion Canadian pension fund, will increase its real estate allocation from C$30 billion to C$40 billion during the next 18 months.
- The Daily Telegraph: Travelodge, the budget hotel chain, is to create 420 new jobs by opening 14 hotels across the UK and Spain this year.
Business and economics
- Financial Times: Jesse Litvak, a former managing director in Jefferies' Connecticut offices, has been charged with defrauding clients, including the US government and prominent hedge funds, of more than $2.7 million by inflating prices of mortgage securities to bolster the brokerage firm's trading commissions.
- The Daily Telegraph: Rupert Murdoch has offered a "major apology" for a "grotesque" cartoon in The Sunday Times, after the newspaper was accused of anti-Semitism.
- Financial Times: Moody's has cut the credit ratings of six of Canada's biggest banks, including Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal, National Bank of Canada and TD Bank, because of worries over the country's rising consumer debt and high house prices.
- Financial Times: Net long positions on the euro reached their strongest level since the summer of 2011 last week, according to figures from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission that are used as a proxy for hedge fund investors in the global currency market.
- The Daily Telegraph: The performance of Marks & Spencer is under fresh scrutiny after it emerged that the retailer is missing internal sales targets by as much as 30% in China.
- Financial Times: Commodities are unlikely to enjoy a return to the "buoyancy" of the past decade – when copper, aluminium and oil prices hit record highs – as China's use of raw materials slows, Claude Dauphin, chief executive of Trafigura, has warned.
- Financial Times: Seymour Pierce is approaching rivals about injecting money into or taking over the small-cap broker, people familiar with the discussions have said.
- Financial Times: On Wednesday Research In Motion will finally launch its BlackBerry 10 operating system and two smartphones designed to run on it.
- Daily Mail: Ryanair expects a 7% increase in profits to €540 million in the year to March despite a 19% rise in oil costs.
- Financial Times: Toyota has reclaimed its position as the world's largest carmaker for the first time in two years, selling a record 9.75 million vehicles globally in 2012 as Japan's car industry rebounded strongly.
- The Daily Telegraph: Italian coffee giant Lavazza is preparing to challenge the likes of Costa and Starbucks on the UK high street with ambitious plans to open as many as 400 shops over the next decade.
- Financial Times: Barnes & Noble said that it would close up to 30% of its bricks-and-mortar stores over the next decade.
- Financial Times: Fewer than 10% of FTSE 100 companies were expecting a material increase to bonus payouts as remuneration committees planned to exercise restraint at annual meetings over coming months, said the professional services firm PwC.
- Financial Times: Shares of China Cosco Holdings dropped more than 5% on Monday after China's largest shipping company warned late on Friday that it expects to make a loss of $1.7 billion when it releases full-year results in March.
- The Daily Telegraph: Falklands oil and gas explorer Borders & Southern's shares jumped more than 10% on Monday morning after it increased estimates for Darwin discovery, and raised hopes the find could be technically and commercially viable.
- Financial Times: Shares in Herbalife dropped as much as 11% in volatile trading on Monday as regulators said they were taking action against an illegal pyramid scheme that in fact involved a different company.
- Financial Times: Sales in Filtronic's wireless division more than doubled year-on-year to £11.9 million for the six months to 30 November because of widespread adoption of 4G services.
Share tips, comment and bids
- The Independent: London Television Centre was bought by ITV on Monday for £56 million.
- Financial Times: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and the CME Group each considered bids for parts of NYSE Euronext shortly before it agreed to be sold to IntercontinentalExchange for $8.2 billion last year, according to people familiar with the matter.
- The Guardian (Comment): In the past, a 25% fall in the pound would have turned the trade figures around – not this time.
- The Guardian (Comment): The UK's looming triple-dip recession should be austerity's death knell, but in the fevered brains of Washington analysts it lives on.
- The Daily Telegraph (Comment): One of the most refreshing things about going to the World Economic Forum in Davos is that it reminds you just how irrelevant to much of the rest of the world the political and economic concerns of Britain really are.
- Daily Mail (Comment): At least no-one can accuse Michael Clarke, departing after a mere 18 months as chief executive of Premier Foods, of lingering beyond his best-before date.
- Financial Times (Lex): ETFs: at its 20th anniversary, the SPDR S&P500 exchange traded fund is the world's biggest ETF with $125 billion under management, according to NYSE Euronext.
- Financial Times (Lex): Gazprom's mighty empire: as Russia's gas producer gangs up on Ukraine once again, the case for restructuring the company becomes ever more urgent.
- Financial Times (Lex): Caterpillar in China: the construction vehicle maker is arguing with ERA Mining Machinery about accounting misconduct. The fight should not be allowed to sink quietly.
- Financial Times (Lex): UK high-speed railway: private sector involvement can work well in the early stages of a rail project, but recent experience in the industry is not good.
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Jan 29, 2013 at 06:23
Reading all the 'Top Stories' I get a feeling of Deja-vu about halfway down !!report this
Jan 29, 2013 at 13:12
I got the "deja-vu" feeling right at the start. RBS to pay a massive bonus, shortly followed by the British Public parting with another huge sum of taxpayer cash
(this time for fines). Which year is this again?report this
Jan 29, 2013 at 13:55
RBS bonus ...... you couldn't make it up could you !!!!!!report this
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Bruce Lee, the cat. [PHOTO CREDIT: JAMES COCKSEDGE]
Published: 6 November, 2013
by PAVAN AMARA
MOST people who dial 999 when there's not an emergency risk being charged with wasting precious police time.
But Bruce Lee, a caller from Kilburn, is expected to escape prosecution: he's a pedigree Singapura kitten.
Officers broke down the door of his owner's flat on Thursday morning after the home-alone cat accidentally stepped on the house phone, dialling 999.
Not taking any chances, police rushed to the scene, only to find Bruce Lee hiding under a mountain of clothes in a wardrobe.
Owner James Cocksedge, 33, returned home from the shops at midday to find the chaotic scene.
"I didn't tell him off," said Mr Cocksedge, a sound engineer who works on television and film projects and lives with fiancée, Monica de la Cruz.
"I couldn't. He already looked so ashamed of himself," he said. "He got himself into this situation and then didn't know what to do, so he just hid. If anything I felt a lot of sympathy for him. He was quite upset by the whole ordeal.
"It happened the day before his first birthday, so it wasn't great timing for Brucie."
He added: "Basically, he always jumps when the phone rings and then starts knocking about the receiver. I imagine someone must have rang, he probably went nuts, dialled nine three times, heard a voice, suddenly freaked out and left the phone. Then the police started banging down the door and he hid."
Singapura are thought of by feline experts as playful and active cats. The guitar-playing Hit Cat in Disney's cartoon feature The Aristocats is a Singapura.
Mr Cocksedge said: "All I know is, I left Bruce Lee and his sister Audrey for a couple of hours and when I got back the police were waiting outside my flat. They said: 'Don't worry, we've had to force entry, but the cat is all right.'
"The phone was on the floor. Audrey was quite relaxed but Bruce had disappeared. I found him looking guilty at the back of the wardrobe and I put two and two together."
Camden police police explained that they "couldn't take any chances" by ignoring the call.
"Bruce Lee is still in shock," added Mr Cocksedge. "We've been cuddling him, rubbing his belly, prodding him, throwing his favourite balls so he can fetch them. He likes that. But we've also started to unplug the phone when we're out. He's got a cheeky side to him, and he might do it again, although he'd be silly to."
A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said: "We take all abandoned calls seriously. These calls are typically resolved with a call back from a police operator, confirming the need for police. When call backs are unanswered, checks are carried out, and police will respond to the address where appropriate."
>>WATCH: Bruce Lee Cocksedge playing fetch (click here)
wow just wow i mean how can a cat dial 999 that's impossible but here in the us its 911 so no cat can dial 911 here........................
Wow, what a genius!
I saw that officer attend this he's quite the looker!
Another reason to go to 112 ?
Except that I have dialled 112 in error, from my mobile because using phone banking menus left those numbers on my screen..
I have had a stuck "9" before that went to emergency services, embarrassing.
So why not 909, it would be a pretty unlucky fluke for a cat to dial that..
his fiancee best not take his surname :)
The exact same thing happened to my next door neighbour many years ago. The police came knocking on our door trying to find out what was up.
Apparently the cat always jumped up to the phone when the answering machine went off, and it was the voice of his owner leaving a message. He knocked the phone off and stood on the 9 and ended up connecting to the emergency services. Luckily someone was home next door asleep in bed and woke up eventually so they didn't have to buy a new door.
Clipping from when my cat dialled 999 some years ago. They're all at it.
Not April 1st, is it?
I know this is true because I was indoors when it happened.
Some ten years ago I had a cat called 'Pickles' who dialled 999.
I was upstairs in my house one day when I could hear a voice, I thought it strange as I didn't have a radio at the time and thought it could possibly be
from my handsfree telephone so I lifted the receiver and the person said
'Emergency services'. Shocked, I blurted out 'I haven't rung 999' and seeing my cat Pickles pawing at the duvet beside me looking most pleased with herself (honest) I said it must have been my cat who did it. The operator asked for my name etc to confirm who I was and said that he had dogs dial 999 but never a cat. Thinking about it my cat was always pawing at the telephone buttons. After I hung up, I remembered I had a last number dialled option which I used and could see 999 displayed on the screen. Pickles must have 'pawed' 9-9-9-dial in that order by sheer fluke, in future I had to cover
the phone buttons! Something I shall never forget.


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Richard Wilbur "is a poet for all of us, whose elegant words brim with wit and paradox," announced Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin when the poet succeeded Robert Penn Warren to become the second poet laureate of the United States. Wilbur won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his collection Things of This World: Poems in 1957 and a second Pulitzer for New and Collected Poems. He has won the Wallace Stevens Award, the Frost Medal, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, two Bollingen Prizes, the T.S. Eliot Award, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award, the Prix de Rome Fellowship and many more honors, fellowships and awards for his poetry. His translations of French verse, especially Voltaire's Candide and the plays of Moliere and Jean Racine, are also highly regarded by critics; his translation of Moliere's Tartuffe won the 1971 Bollingen Prize.
Wilbur's grandfather and great-grandfather were both editors, and Wilbur showed an early interest in journalism. As a student at Amherst College in the early 1940s, Wilbur wrote stories, editorials, and poems for his college newspaper and magazine. His experience as a soldier in World War II, however, drove him to "versify in earnest." He has described the influence of his experiences in war on his poetry: "One does not use poetry for its major purposes, as a means to organize oneself and the world, until one's world somehow gets out of hand." This emphasis on order and organization shapes Wilbur's first collection, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems (1947), which "treat his war experiences in a style so elaborately formal that the most awful subjects are sublimated into irony, or even black comedy," noted Adam Kirsch in the New Yorker. Wilbur's concern with order and his restrained, formal touch opened him to charges of sacrificing real emotion for smoothness. James Dickey, in his book, Babel to Byzantium, wrote that one has "the feeling that the cleverness of phrase and the delicious aptness of Wilbur's poems sometimes mask an unwillingness or inability to think or feel deeply; that the poems tend to lapse toward highly sophisticated play." Of Wilbur's second book, Ceremony and Other Poems (1950), Randall Jarrell famously complained that Wilbur "never goes too far, but he never goes far enough."
John Reibetanz speculated in Modern Poetry Studies that "for Richard Wilbur, the sights offered by World War II contradict and threaten his most basic beliefs, as we can infer them from his writings: that love is more powerful than hatred; that nature is a source of values and of reassurance; and that there is a strong creative urge in both man and nature which constantly seeks and finds expression in images of graceful plenitude . . . But in the 1940's," Reibetanz concludes, "the utter disparity between what he saw and what he wished to see made him run for cover." But Wilbur himself has dismissed the notion that being a poet of praise and not complaint is a matter of running from reality. "I feel that the universe is full of glorious energy," he explained in an interview with Peter Stitt in the Paris Review, "that the energy tends to take pattern and shape, and that the ultimate character of things is comely and good. I am perfectly aware that I say this in the teeth of all sorts of contrary evidence, and that I must be basing it partly on temperament and partly on faith, but that's my attitude." Robert B. Shaw comments in Parnassus: Poetry in Review that while "it is true that some of Wilbur's earlier poems veer with disconcerting abruptness from the naturalistic to the esthetic. . . . He has never, in fact, avoided negative subject matter as completely as some critics have charged." The critic later asserts that several poems in his third collection, Things of This World, deal directly with humane and political issues.
While Wilbur continued to produce composed, reflective, and largely optimistic poetry in collections like Things of This World, (1956), Advice to a Prophet (1961) and Walking to Sleep (1969) using traditional patterns of rhyme and meter, the poetic landscape of the times meant that his work was often judged harshly. "The typical ghastly poem of the fifties was a Wilbur poem not written by Wilbur," wrote Donald Hall in 1961, "a poem with tired wit and obvious comparisons and nothing to keep the mind or the ear occupied." Hall knowingly added: "It wasn't Wilbur's fault, though I expect he will be asked to suffer for it." When the Confessional poets of the 1960s and '70s came into vogue, Wilbur's reputation began to suffer. "Public taste," Stephen Metcalf wrote in the New York Times, "courtesy of 'Howl' and Lowell's 'Life Studies' and the phenomenon known as Sylvia Plath—edged away from Wilbur, and from his dedication to urbanity and metrical poise. Wilbur, it used to be said, coasted along a little too smoothly; he wrote the poem bien fait." However, Wilbur's work has always enjoyed critical acclaim, and his third volume, Things of This World, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1957. The volume contained one of Wilbur's most famous poems "A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra," which Jarrell himself described as "one of the most marvelously beautiful, one of the most nearly perfect poems any American has written." Another poem from the same collection, "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," is one of his most anthologized.
Wilbur's collections from the 1970s and '80s continued his reputation as a formalist writing important work, though writing it somewhat on the fringes of contemporary poetry. Poems like those in The Mind Reader (1976) manage "to stand up against every kind of poetic chic," said Bruce Michelson in Southern Review. As Wilbur has grown older, however, his work has become more personal—in a Paris Review interview, he admitted "I've begun to crumble a bit, and write more shamelessly of what is near to me." He was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for New and Collected Poems (1988). His nomination for the poet laureate position came soon after. Analyzing New and Collected Poems, the Los Angeles Times Book Review contributor Joshua Odell noted how the new poems "clearly show a continued evolution in style from an ornate elegance found particularly in Wilbur's first collection, The Beautiful Changes, toward a simple, direct and crisp verse." Still, as some critics have noted, the changes in Wilbur's poetry have not affected the basic philosophy his verses have always shown: a belief that the "glorious energy" of the world tends toward "pattern and shape." Wilbur's detachment, his refusal to complain or "glamorize" the self, his formal brilliance and his reliance on meter and rhyme have helped him regain critical attention, and the publication of his Collected Poems in 2005 was met with much acclaim. Writing in Slate, James Longenbach wrote that "Wilbur's poems matter not because they may or may not be stylish at any given moment but because they keep the English language alive: Wilbur's great poems feel as fresh—as astonishing, as perplexing, as shocking—as they did 50 years ago."
Wilbur is also a gifted and prolific translator. His aptitude and facility with formal verse have benefitted his work translating French poetry and plays. Speaking of his "tactful, metrical and speakable translation of verse drama," Hudson Review critic Alan Shaw comments: "Wilbur's [translations] are almost the solitary example of this kind in English." The expertise and importance of the poet's translations of plays by Moliere, Voltaire, and Racine has been little questioned by reviewers. "The rendition [of Moliere's The Misanthrope], delightful and literate, made Moliere accessible for the first time to a wide American audience," wrote David H. Van Biema in People. Comparing Wilbur's version of The Misanthrope (1955) to other translators', John Ciardi wrote that "instead of cognate-snapping, as the academic dullards invariably do, Wilbur has found English equivalents for the turn and nuance of the French, and the fact that he has managed to do so in rhymed couplets that not only respect themselves as English poetry but allow the play to be staged . . . with great success is testament enough."
Wilbur has also published a number of works for children. These include a trio of word-play books devoted to synonyms and antonyms: Opposites (1973), More Opposites (1991), and Runaway Opposites (1995). Self-illustrated, these books offer amusing poems devoted to words with opposite meanings. A Game of Catch, another work for children, was first published in the New Yorker in 1953 and reprinted as a separate volume in 1994. Other books for children include The Disappearing Alphabet (1998) and The Pig in the Spigot (2000). Wilbur's children's literature often investigates language and words in a witty, inventive way. Jennifer M. Brabander of Horn Book noted that "Wilbur's poems are filled with small, satisfying surprises."
Richard Wilbur's books of prose include Responses: Prose Pieces, 1953-1976 (1976 / 2000) and The Catbird's Song: Prose Pieces 1963-1995 (1997). Mary Maxwell, reviewing the book for the Boston Review thought that readers "may be surprised by melancholy undercurrents swelling below the book's expectedly sane and sunny acumen." Wilbur taught for twenty years at Wesleyan University and helped found the influential Wesleyan University Press poetry series in 1959, which first published important poets like James Wright, Richard Howard, and Roberty Bly. The press continues to publish important new and established contemporary poets to this day. After Wesleyan, Wilbur spent ten years as writer-in-residence at Smith College. He has also served as Chancellor Emeritus of the Academy of American Poets.
- The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, Reynal, 1947.
- Ceremony and Other Poems, Harcourt (Boston), 1950.
- Things of This World: Poems, Harcourt, 1956.
- Poems, 1943-1956, Faber (London), 1957.
- Advice to a Prophet, and Other Poems, 1961.
- The Poems of Richard Wilbur, Harcourt, 1963.
- Walking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations, Harcourt, 1969.
- Seed Leaves: Homage to R. F. (poem), limited edition, David R. Godine, 1974.
- The Mind-Reader: New Poems, Harcourt, 1976.
- Seven Poems, Abbatoir Editions, 1981.
- New and Collected Poems, Harcourt, 1988.
- Mayflies: New Poems and Translations, Harcourt (New York City), 2000.
- Collected Poems: 1943-2004, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2004.
- (Translator) Moliere, The Misanthrope: Comedy in Five Acts, 1666 (also see below; produced in Cambridge, MA, by the Poet's Theatre, October 25, 1955; produced off-Broadway at Theatre East, November 12, 1956), Harcourt, 1955.
- (Lyricist with John Latouche, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, and Leonard Bernstein) Voltaire, Candide: A Comic Operetta Based on Voltaire's Satire (musical; based on adaptation by Lillian Hellman; music by Leonard Bernstein; produced on Broadway at Martin Beck Theatre, December 1, 1956; produced on the West End at Saville Theatre, April 30, 1959), Random House, 1957.
- (Translator) Philippe de Thaun, The Pelican from a Bestiary of 1120 (poem), privately printed, 1963.
- (Translator) Moliere, Tartuffe: Comedy in Five Acts, 1669 (also see below; produced in Milwaukee, WI, at Fred Miller Theatre, January, 1964; produced on Broadway at ANTA Theatre, January 14, 1965), Harcourt, 1963.
- (Translator) Moliere, The Misanthrope [and] Tartuffe, Harcourt, 1965.
- (Translator) Moliere, The School for Wives: Comedy in Five Acts, 1662 (produced on Broadway at Lyceum Theatre, February 16, 1971 ), Harcourt, 1971.
- (Translator) Moliere, The Learned Ladies: Comedy in Five Acts, 1672 (produced in Williamstown, MA, at the Williamstown Festival Theatre, 1977), Harcourt, 1978.
- (Translator) Jean Racine, Andromache: Tragedy in Five Acts, 1667, Harcourt, 1982.
- (Translator) Moliere: Four Comedies, Harcourt, 1982.
- (Translator) The Whale and Other Uncollected Translations, BOA Editions, 1982.
- (Translator) Racine, Phaedra, Harcourt, 1986.
- (Translator) Moliere, The School for Husbands (also see below), Harcourt, 1992.
- (Translator) The Imaginary Cuckold (also see below), Dramatists Play Service, 1993.
- (Translator) Moliere, The School for Husbands & Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold, Harcourt, 1994.
- (Translator) Moliere, Amphitryon, Dramatists Play Service (New York City), 1995.
- (Translator) Baudelaire, L'invitation au voyage, or Invitation to the Voyage: A Poem from the Flowers of Evil, 1854, Little, Brown (Boston), 1997.
- (Translator) Moliere, Don Juan, Dramatists Play Service (New York City), 1998, published as Don Juan: Comedy in Five Acts, 1665, Harcourt, 2001.
- (With Louis Untermeyer and Karl Shapiro) Modern American and Modern British Poetry, revised abridged edition, Harcourt, 1955.
- A Bestiary (anthology), Pantheon, 1955.
- (And author of introduction and notes) Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Poems, Dell, 1959.
- (Editor, with others) Major Writers of America, Harcourt, 1962.
- (With Alfred Harbage, and author of introduction) William Shakespeare, Poems, Penguin, 1966, revised edition published as Shakespeare, the Narrative Poems and Poems of Doubtful Authenticity, 1974.
- (And author of introduction) Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, David R. Godine, 1974.
- (And author of introduction) Witter Bynner, Selected Poems, Farrar, Straus, 1978.
- (Contributor) Gygory Kepes, editor, The New Landscape in Art and Science, Paul Theobald, 1955.
- Poems (recording), Spoken Arts, 1959. (With Robert Hillyer and Cleanth Brooks) Anniversary Lectures, U.S. Government Printing Office (Washington, DC), 1959.
- (With Louise Bogan and Archibald MacLeish) Emily Dickinson: Three Views (criticism), Amherst College Press, 1960.
- Advice to a Prophet, and Other Poems, Harcourt, 1961.
- (Contributor) Don C. Allen, editor, The Moment of Poetry, Johns Hopkins Press, 1962
- Loudmouse (juvenile), illustrated by Don Almquist, Collier (London), 1963,
- Prince Souvanna Phouma: An Exchange between Richard Wilbur and William Jay Smith (poem), limited edition, Phoenix Book Shop, 1968.
- Digging to China: Poem (Child Study Association book list; first published in Things of This World), Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1970.
- (Self-illustrated) Opposites: Poems and Drawings (children's poems), Harcourt, 1973. Harcourt (New York City), 1982.
- Responses: Prose Pieces, 1953-1976, Harcourt, 1976, expanded edition published by Story Line Press (Ashland, OR), 2000.
- (Lyricist) On Freedom's Ground (cantata; music by William Schuman), produced in New York City at the Lincoln Center for the Statue of Liberty Centennial, October, 1986.
- Conversations with Richard Wilbur, edited by William Butts, University Press of Mississippi, 1990.
- (Self-illustrated) More Opposites (children's poems), Harcourt, 1991.
- (Author of foreword) Rollie McKenna, A Life in Photography, Knopf (New York City), 1991.
- A Game of Catch, illustrations by Barry Moser, Harcourt, 1994.
- Runaway Opposites, selections illustrated by Henrik Drescher, Harcourt, 1995.
- The Catbird's Song: Prose Pieces, 1963-1995, Harcourt, 1997.
- The Disappearing Alphabet (children's fiction), illustrated by David Diaz, Harcourt (San Diego), 1998.
- Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences (contains Opposites and More Opposites), edited by Diane D'Andrade, Harcourt, 2000.
- The Pig in the Spigot (children's fiction), illustrated by J. Otto Seibold, Harcourt (San Diego), 2000.
Also recorded Richard Wilbur Reading His Own Poems, for Caedmon, and additional readings for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, Library of Congress. Translator of The Funeral of Bobo, by Joseph Brodsky, for Ardis. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of critical reviews to periodicals. General editor, "Laurel Poets" series, for Dell; former member of poetry board, Wesleyan University Press.
Further Readings
- Bixler, Francis, Richard Wilbur: A Reference Guide, Macmillan, 1991.
- Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, Supplement: Modern Writers, 1900-1998, Gale (Detroit), 1998.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 3, 1975, Volume 6, 1976, Volume 9, 1978, Volume 14, 1980, Volume 53, 1989.
- Cummins, Paul F., Richard Wilbur: A Critical Essay, Eerdmans, 1971.
- Dickey, James, Babel to Byzantium, Farrar, Straus, 1968.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, Gale, 1980.
- Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning, A Reader's Guide to the Poetry of Richard Wilbur, University of Alabama Press, 1995.
- Hill, Donald L., Richard Wilbur, Twayne, 1967.
- Hougen, John B., Ecstasy within Discipline: The Poetry of Richard Wilbur, Scholars Press, 1994.
- Hungerford, Edward, editor, Poets in Progress, Northwestern University Press, 1962, new edition, 1967.
- Jarrell, Randall, Poetry and the Age, Knopf, 1953.
- Jarrell, Randall, The Third Book of Criticism, Farrar, Straus, 1969.
- Kunitz, Stanley, and Vineta Colby, Twentieth-Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, H. W. Wilson, 1955.
- Michelson, Bruce, Wilbur's Poetry: Music in a Scattering Time, University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.
- Nemerov, Howard, editor, Poets on Poetry, Basic Books, 1966.
- Salinger, Wendy, editor, Richard Wilbur's Creation, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor), 1983.
- Rosenthal, M. L., The Modern Poets, Oxford University Press, 1965.
- America, October 15, 1994, p. 18.
- Booklist, November 15, 1998, Michael Cart, review of The Disappearing Alphabet, p. 585; March 1, 2000, Ray Olson, review of Mayflies, p. 1190.
- Boston Review, summer, 1998, review of The Catbird's Song.
- Christian Century, May 24, 2000, Pelaez Jill Baumgaertner, review of Mayflies, p. 607.
- Hollins Critic, April, 1977.
- Horn Book, September-October, 1998, Jennifer M. Brabander, review of The Disappearing Alphabet, p. 618.
- Hudson Review, summer, 1969; summer, 1987.
- Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 1998, review of The Disappearing Alphabet.
- Library Journal, April 15, 1997, Barbara O'Hara, review of The Catbird's Song, p. 83.
- London Magazine, July, 1957.
- Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1983; April 18, 1987; October 13, 1987.
- Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 31, 1988; October 9, 1988.
- Modern Poetry Studies, Volume 2, numbers 1 and 2, 1982.
- Nation, November 3, 1956.
- National Review, September 2, 1988.
- New Republic, June 5, 1976; March 24, 1982, Brad Leithauser, "Reconsideration: Richard Wilbur—America's Master of Formal Verse," pp. 28-31.
- New York, February 13, 1995, p. 102.
- New Yorker, December 12, 1994, p. 122.
- New York Times, January 28, 1983; April 18, 1987, Irvin Molotsky, "Richard Wilbur Is Named Nation's Poet Laureate," p. 26; March 14, 1999, David Sacks, review of The Disappearing Alphabet, p. 30; April 16, 2000, David Kirby, review of Mayflies.
- New York Times Book Review, December 14, 1969; December 26, 1982; April 18, 1987; May 29, 1988; August 27, 1995, p. 27.
- Paris Review, winter, 1977.
- Parnassus: Poetry in Review, spring/summer, 1977.
- People Weekly, October 5, 1987.
- Publishers Weekly, August 2, 1991, p. 60; March 13, 1995, p. 68; February 10, 1997, review of The Catbird's Song, p. 72; August 17, 1998, review of The Disappearing Alphabet, p. 70; February 7, 2000, review of Mayflies, p. 69.
- Saturday Review, August 18, 1956.
- School Library Journal, September, 1992, p. 272; April, 1994, p. 132; May, 1995, p. 117.
- Sewanee Review, spring, 1978.
- Shenandoah, fall, 1965.
- Southern Review, summer, 1973; April, 1975, Raymond Oliver, "Verse Translation and Richard Wilbur," pp. 318-330; July, 1979.
- Southwest Review, summer, 1973.
- Time, November 19, 1984.
- Times (London), July 15, 1989.
- Times Literary Supplement, May 20, 1977; September 15-21, 1989, p. 999.
- Tribune Books (Chicago), July 24, 1988.
- Twentieth Century Literature, winter, 1995, Philip White, "'Walking to Sleep' and Richard Wilbur's Quest for a Rational Imagination," pp. 249-265.
- Variety, January 3, 1994, p. 58; May 30, 1994, p. 58; February 16, 1995, p. 82.
- Virginia Quarterly Review, summer, 1990, Peter Harris, "Forty Years of Richard Wilbur: The Loving Work of an Equilibrist," pp. 412-425.
- Wall Street Journal, April, 2000, p. W10.
- Washington Post, July 25, 1976; October 6, 1987.
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- Advice to a Prophet
- After the Last Bulletins
- A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra
- A Barred Owl
- The Beautiful Changes
- "Because he swings so neatly through the trees,"
- Castles and Distances
- Ceremony
- A Chronic Condition
- Conjuration
- A Courtyard Thaw
- The Death of a Toad
- Driftwood
- Ejaculation, Reply, and Song
- Five Women Bathing in Moonlight
- For C.
- Gemini
- Hamlen Brook
- "If you're fond of road-blocks, this one can't be beat:"
- Junk
- Lamarck Elaborated
- Looking into History
- Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
- Lying
- Marginalia
- Museum Piece
- Part of a Letter
- A Plain Song for Comadre
- A Simile for Her Smile
- Some Words inside of Words
- Still, Citizen Sparrow
- Three Riddles from Symphosius
- To an American Poet Just Dead
- To Ishtar
- Trolling for Blues
- Under a Tree
- We
- Weather Bird
- Wellfleet: The House
- "When in your neighborhood you hear a neigh,"
- A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness
- Worlds
- Year's End
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Richard Wilbur "is a poet for all of us, whose elegant words brim with wit and paradox," announced Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin when the poet succeeded Robert Penn Warren to become the second poet laureate of the United States. Wilbur won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his collection Things of This World: Poems in 1957 and a second Pulitzer for New and Collected Poems. He has won the Wallace Stevens Award, the Frost Medal, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, two Bollingen Prizes, the T.S. Eliot Award, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award, the Prix de Rome Fellowship and many more honors, fellowships and awards for his poetry. His translations of French verse, especially Voltaire's Candide and the plays of Moliere and Jean Racine, are also highly regarded by critics; his translation of Moliere's Tartuffe won the 1971 Bollingen Prize.
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