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Iceland & Greenland Adventures - Part IAuthor: Linda V. (More Trip Reviews by Linda V.)
Date of Trip: July 2005
We listened to a lecture in the morning by Morten, "North Atlantic Pinnepeds." The Arctic doesn't have fur seals or sea lions - these are the seals with ears. Instead, the Arctic has harp seals, bearded seals, ringed seals, and a bunch of others with holes for ears. Walruses also live here. Morten isn't very encouraging about the possibility of seeing walruses. The seals are a favorite food of polar bears and Inuits.
We ate and ate and ate all day long, hanging out in the lounge and running out to the bow to crunch through the ice, look at seals and birds. We saw quite a few little auks also known as dovekies. These are tiny birds and very common this time of year.
At 3PM we went to a short video documentary on Scoresbysund and the Ittoqqortoormiit village (pronounced ee-ta-kor-two-me). This means "those who live in big houses". There is a population of 500 (with 180 children). They live in cute colorful houses, but it looks like a rough life. These are Inuit people, and the area is rich with polar bears, muskoxen and seals. Helena Dejak (owner of Nonni Travel in Iceland) presented the video. She helped produce it in 1995 to help the villagers market tourism to their area. She made a comment that they were so lucky that the white people came there to help them. (She didn't mean this in an insulting manner.) We got to watch a dog sledding trip on the video - too cool!
We enjoyed yummy warm peanut butter cookies at tea time. Great stuff. We visited with Margaret from Toronto. She had trouble getting to Iceland - stuck in the Boston airport overnight. I had to complain that our flight got in early AND we got upgraded. She and her husband, Brad, were also on our Antarctica trip.
Suddenly around 5PM, Kim announced that there was a polar bear swimming on the port side of the ship. We all ran outside - even left my coat and gloves behind. He was a little far away, but I had my binoculars and was able to see him pedaling through the water. Kim said he was distressed, so we would not follow him. He would climb out onto an ice flow and then slip back in the water. He was very large. From way far away you could see him lumber across the ice. Yeah! We saw one.
We had a briefing at 7PM and heard from Kim and the naturalists. We are being very flexible with our schedule. Our captain is continuing to push through the ice and hopefully we'll be able to zodiac around tomorrow. It will be neat to visit Ittoqqortoormiit. Now I'm just hanging in the lounge, reading, writing, and looking at photos as Renee downloads them...
July 4, 2005 Monday; 2:55 p.m. The Explorer - Day 4; Vacation - Day 6 Entering Scoresbysund, Greenland
"Give me dogs, give me winter and you can keep the rest." -- Knud Rassmussen, the famous half Greenlandic half Danish explorer
We've had quite an interesting day. I went to bed around 1:15AM. At 3:45AM, Kim came over the intercom announcing that there were 3 polar bears on an ice floe with a kill. You didn't have to tell me twice! Nina and I hopped into shoes and jackets and stumbled up on deck. Oooh - it was c-c-cold. I had on my flowered pajama bottoms with a fleece, jacket, and my Russian hat. Unfortunately, I only brought my glove liners, so my hands got cold. I was the only goober wearing flowered jammies also! I was afraid to miss the bears and didn't want to change into real pants.
When we first arrived on deck the bears were pretty far away, but you could see their heads once in awhile popping up (as I looked through the binoculars). The boat was making her way through sheets of ice, just pushing forward.
Nina and I dashed up to the top of the boat for better views. Eventually the bears moved into clear view, and the boat got pretty close. Sometimes, the bears would pause and look at the ship and stand up. They dragged their kill around. This was a mama polar bear with a boy and girl cub - around 2½ years old. She ushered the bears off to the right and they began walking on the ice floes, their reflections in the water below. It was incredible. I only wish my digital camera had a better zoom. My binoculars certainly came in handy. I could see their black tongues as they ate scraps of the kill. There were two bloody kill sites. Poor little seal. Not much left of him - just a flipper and some insides. The cubs went back to the kill and started flinging it around in their mouths - back and forth across the ice. After about an hour, they started retreating, so Nina and I headed back to the room to continue sleeping. It took me the longest time to warm up enough to fall asleep. Before I knew it, an announcement came over the intercom saying it was 9AM and breakfast would be served till 9:30. Well I certainly couldn't miss a meal, so we got up there in time to grab a plate.
At 10AM, we had a lecture from Morten on polar bears. They are also known as ice bears, white bears, and Nannuq. It was interesting. The babies are tiny, tiny when they are born in December or January. Mama keeps them in the den until spring time nursing them. Depending on which part of the world the bears live in, the mama will care for the bears until they are 2 to 4 years old. Here in East Greenland, she'll kick them out at about 2½. The bears we saw this morning will get the boot pretty soon.
Went out on deck to see the ice. The captain has tried numerous routes trying to get us to Scoresbysund. We spent hours plowing through so much ice. Darlene and I were outside the bridge laughing and talking and observing our progress when the mean captain pulled the door closed. Oops. I went to the other outdoor area near the bridge. There were about 4 of us out there. As we got to a nice open area of the sea, I commented to Roger (the ornithologist), "Full steam ahead!" Then the nice captain, Paul, closed the other door to the bridge with a glare. Oops again. Guess I should take a hint and stay away from the bridge. Went back inside where it was nice and toasty.
Before we knew it, it was time to eat again. Our captain had to turn the boat around and try a new entrance to the Sound. Fortunately, after another hour or two we made it to Scoresbysund. Spent more time at the bow of the boat admiring the icebergs and stuff. It was cool to lean way over the side of the ship as we slammed into pieces of ice. Sometimes they would push out of the way; other times they would split apart and move out of our way.
As we moved through the sound you can see large-ish mountains covered in snow. We passed Ittoqqoortoomit. I was hoping to see those colorful houses, but we were kind of far away, and all I could see were a few brown looking houses on grey snow. Bummer! We will be stopping to pick up a few Inuit people to join us for a few days. That should be interesting. Uh oh...I'm getting tired. We will be doing a landing soon. It will be great to get out and walk ON Greenland.
-- later -- 11:45 p.m.
I haven't missed teatime yet - 4PM everyday - with yummy warm cookies. I'm partial to the peanut butter and the shortcake cookies. Do you think 3 cookies adds a lot of calories? Oh well...
At 4:45PM we were ready for our first zodiac adventure. Nina, Darlene, Mary Jane and I hopped into the first zodiac with Morten as our driver. The water was like glass - so smooth. The mountains, icebergs and ice floes all reflected into the water - it was so beautiful. I think 4 zodiacs went out with passengers. We cruised between the ice and found two little awks and trailed them. I took a ton of pictures of everything - hopefully some will be great. You could see where the red paint had rubbed off the bottom of the ship. Slamming into all of those ice floes tends to help you lose a lot of paint. Frank, the photographer, was in our zodiac and took a ton of photos for GAP. He's supposed to create the GAP Arctic brochure.
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Pets of the Week: Animals available for adoption at local shelters
Several dogs and cats are available for adoption from the Indiana County Humane Society's animal shelter along Rose Street and from Four Footed Friends along Beck Road.
Available for adoption this week at Four Footed Friends are Blessing, a 7-year-old neutered cat and Shaffy, a 6-year-old, neutered Shih Tzu. He is deaf. See them in a video below:
Available at the Humane Society are Ty, a 2-year-old male coonhound and Renegade, a 3-month-old black and white male cat.
Call the humane society at (724) 465-7387 or Four Footed Friends at (724) 349-1144 for more information.
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James J. Nestor is a photographer for The Indiana Gazette.
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Review for Cookie Monster by fremea
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
There is a great and unique option in Cookie Monster called "Override Global Cookie Permissions". Use it if you have problems in some sites when you set "block all cookies" and set the site for "accept session cookie".
It's a big asset compared to CSLite and others.
To create your own collections, you must have a Mozilla Add-ons account.


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Real Estate News: Gulf Splurges on Home Improvement
Here is a look at real-estate news in Friday's WSJ:
Gulf Splurges on Home Improvement: Booming oil prices are flooding Arab countries with money, but where the lion's share of that wealth would once have been pumped into the world's financial markets, much of it is now being spent at home.
Stunned Home Buyers Find The Bidding Wars Are Back:A new development is catching home buyers off guard as the spring sales season gets under way: Bidding wars are back. From California to Florida, many buyers are increasingly competing for the same house.
Recent Arrivals Dull Montauk's Gritty Edge: New, chic establishments are moving into Montauk, the remote resort community on the easternmost tip of Long Island, N.Y., making some residents wonder if the Hamptons' well-heeled patrons are moving closer.


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Perfect wheel dressing combo? I think so!
Armor All Brake Dust Repellent + Turtle Wax Black Tire Coat
SHINY! You can see me in the reflection! (The change in gloss is more reflection, the open car door) If you like the wet tire look, then Black Tire Coat is for you too. This picture is 2 days after application. It's dry to the touch. Besides the appearance, the next best thing about it is: ZERO SLING! You won't find this on the side of your car. Per the packaging, it's supposed to last months. Although, while still fresh & tacky, it can collect dust.
You can tell this isn't a black paint either because you can see thru it where the tire was marked with a grease pencil (you can kinda see some dust on the gloss):
Although, it's important to REALLY clean your tires before applying, just like painting. There are additives in the tire the seep out over time that makes the tires brown. I just used soap & water & had some peeling (which I originally thought was mud). This is the peeling & immediately after a rain storm 4 days after application:
One week after application, before a wash. Also shows how well the repellent worked too:
(I hit it with water before I remembered I wanted pictures, but it was just a 1 sec blast)
One week after application, after a wash & wipe with dry towel:
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Full side shots, post wash:
Overspray on the driveway, notice the water beading on the crescent shape:
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Re: Perfect wheel dressing combo? I think so!
Thanks for the post, I will give those products a try. That's a bad ass hood. Where did you get it?
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Nice pics! Car looks fantastic, too. Most of the stuff I've used in the past slings off onto the side of the car. Drives me crazy! I'll have to pick up those two products and give 'em a try.
Um-m ... ever think of lowering your car just a smidgeon?'05 CTS-V, Maggie, Kooks, Hotchkis, Ground Control, Corsa, B&M, DSS/Hendrix, Full 3M Clear Bra, Autovation, V Headrests, CTS Console, STS-V 55w Fogs, Black Vette FRCs, Specter Werkes, Katech LS9 Clutch, SS Brake Lines, Heavymetals U-Turn Fuel Line Eliminator, Momo Combat Evo Shift Knob, Wldwhl Clear Sidemarkers, Linea Corse LC855 Wheels, plus a couple more. Mustang dyno'd at 472 RWHP/411 RWTQ.
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Yea, I've considered lowering it. I want to, just haven't gotten around to it. Thanks for the compliments!
After a few months of this stuff (black tire coat), it's not at as good as the first time. I'm not sure what the issue is. The brake dust repellent works great still. I ran out of the Armor All & found some Meguires product that was similar. It works ok, but it does NOT like any water on the rim. I sprayed it on the rims after leaving the car to dry overnight . . . well, that didn't work. There was still water in the lugnuts area. When I sprayed it, it ran down the rim & turned it white. There's a huge white streak now.


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Three gamblers are suing Foxwoods Resort Casino in federal court, claiming the casino owes them more than $1.1 million they won playing mini-baccarat in December 2011, as well as $1.6 million they had deposited with the casino to cover any losses.
Foxwoods has refused to pay because it believes the three cheated, according to the suit filed July 31 in U.S. District Court in New Haven.
The plaintiffs - Chinese nationals Cheung Yin Sun of Las Vegas and Long Mei Fang and Zong Yang Li, both of Los Angeles - are seeking more than $3 million in "consequential" damages that include $100,000 per plaintiff for civil rights violations and $50,000 in legal fees they say they incurred in proceedings before the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Gaming Commission.
They're also seeking unspecified punitive damages, interest and fees.
According to the suit, the plaintiffs deposited the $1.6 million in "front money" before gambling at the casino on Dec. 23-24, 2011. They then won $1,148,000 worth of chips playing the card game mini-baccarat, openly employing a strategy known as "edge sorting," which gave them an advantage against the casino, or "house." The practice is legal in Connecticut and other U.S. gaming jurisdictions, the plaintiffs say in their suit.
"Basically, edge-sorting is possible because some brands of playing cards are not cut symmetrically across their backs and some players are gifted with eyesight keen enough to tell the difference," the suit says.
An "edge-sorter" can "sort" certain cards by having them turned opposite the rest of the cards in play. The sorter can recognize the backs of those cards when they are dealt after the next shuffle, "provided the sorted cards are not reversed in the shuffling process rendering the sorts unintelligible," according to the suit.
Foxwoods could easily have thwarted the edge-sorting by reversing the sorted cards, the plaintiffs claim.
Card dealers turned certain cards at the gamblers' request, the suit says.
"… If Foxwoods and Foxwoods management knew that plaintiffs were edge-sorting and let them practice their form of advantage play anyway - intending to keep their losses if they lost but not honor their winnings if they won - this would be intentional fraud," the plaintiffs allege.
In a February 2012 ruling, the director of the Mashantucket gaming commission's Inspection Division found that the gamblers had violated Foxwoods' gaming regulations, warning that they would be subject to arrest by Connecticut State Police if they returned. The commission later upheld the director's ruling.
The plaintiffs are represented in the federal suit by New London attorney Sebastian DeSantis. The named defendants, including Foxwoods, certain Foxwoods executives and others associated with the Mashantucket gaming commission, have yet to file a response to the suit.
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By Morgan Sharick, Junior Defender, August 25-September 1, 2012
Now that we are six games into the season, it is a great time to reflect upon what we have and have not accomplished thus far, particularly this past week. The final game of our "five games in nine days" series had good results. Despite a somewhat slow and sloppy first half, every girl on the team gutted out 45 minutes of good soccer in the second half, and we were able to put two more goals in for a 3-1 final decision over Duquesne. Because of the physical toll that the first five games had on us, we spent Monday and Tuesday giving our bodies some valuable rest. When Wednesday rolled around, we were on our toes ready to prepare for a tough weekend against two highly respectable opponents in Miami (FL) and Penn State.
Although we were off to a 4-1 start in our first five games, there were issues that needed to be addressed in practice in order to optimize our chances against Miami on Friday night. We knew that we would be matched up against exceptional athletes and talented soccer players, as the Hurricanes had qualified for the NCAA Tournament last season amidst competing in arguably the most competitive conference the in the country, the ACC.
We spent some time on Tuesday sharpening our technical skills in warmup, and then we jumped right into drills and short-sided games. As a team, we have been struggling to dominate the 50/50 balls on the field, particularly the battles for second balls, so the focus of one of the drills was 50/50 balls, both first and second.
Thursday was tactic-oriented; as we worked on ball movement as well as our defensive pressure and transition in a 4-2-3-1 formation (we typically play a 4-4-2). In only one game using this formation, we created a lot of scoring opportunities, so the coaches believed that playing this way could be successful for us against Miami. Our team has displayed coachability and versatility in adapting to a different formation, and that is promising for the rest of the season.
Friday rolled around, gameday, and we were out on the field bright and early to review our defensive and offensive set pieces before classes started. Coach Miller emphasized how important our repetition is in this category because it has proven to be a strength of our team. There is a significant amount of concentration and focus that goes into building good habits on set pieces, whether it be corner kicks or free kicks, and by dedicating an hour on game days to perfecting these good habits, we are positioning ourselves to excel in all aspects of set pieces.
At 5:30 p.m. on Friday, when the first whistle blew, we were ready to prove people wrong, to show that we can hang with some of the best teams out there. For a good portion of the first half, we played a step behind physically and mentally, carelessly giving the ball away and allowing them to beat us up a little bit. It was evident that they were going to be dynamic on both sides of the ball, testing us in our defensive third, and pressuring in all areas of the field. We began to adjust before halftime, and the coaches gave us some specific instructions to carry out in the second half. There was space to exploit along the sidelines, as Miami was playing a 4-3-3, lacking wide midfielders.
From the moment the second half started, we executed the game plan that we were given. We created chances by switching the point of attack, and we matched their physicality for 45 minutes, battling to a 0-0 tie at the end of regulation. Heading into overtime, each one of us looked at each other and declared that we refused to lose, and we battled with that mentality for nearly 10 more minutes. Unfortunately, one split-second lapse of concentration cost us with 30 seconds left in the first overtime; we had to walk away in disappointment, knowing that we deserved the win.
Nonetheless, there were many positive things to take from the game, particularly the spirit with which we fought. Coach Mike told us that although up until this point we have enjoyed winning, we have not shown that we do not like to lose. He said that we finally displayed the latter in the Miami game, and that hating to lose is a mentality that will do wonders for us in the future. If we take that mentality with us each time we step onto the field, regardless of whether it be in training or in a game, this season will be extremely promising.
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Hmmm, a toddler you say? Why have his parents let him go clubbing then?
Guitar music may currently dominate the UK's perception of Sheffield, but there's always been more to the city than Pulp and the Arctic Monkeys. Sheffield gave the world Cabaret Voltaire, Warp and, more recently, bassline house. It's a city that has always had a vibrant electronic underground and its own very particular take on dance music - and now a 23-year-old known as Toddla T may be about to take the Sheffield sound national. But how?
Over the years, club nights such as NY Sushi (RIP), the Tuesday Club, Kabal and Lights Down Low have all stood out for their genre-defying readiness to mix bass sounds (ragga, hip-hop, drum'n'bass, breaks) with house, electro and bleepy techno. In turn, that eclectic, tightly knit local scene has sustained and inspired numerous DJs and producers - from Winston Hazel, Pipes and Parrot to JP Buckle, Fat Truckers and Ross Orton, co-producer of MIA's Galang - who have all, in their own different ways, pushed a peculiarly South Yorkshire aesthetic of off-beam, bass-heavy electronic music.
Which brings us to Tom Bell, who makes music under the name Toddla T. Toddla is openly influenced by the old guard. For instance, he DJs with Winston Hazel, and Ross Orton mixed Buff Nuff, the soon-to-be-massive track that Toddla has just produced for Roots Manuva. His own tracks, meanwhile, such as Back Chatter and Fill Up Mi Portion (both versions of his Do U Know "riddim"), along with his monumental recent single, Soundtape Killin', make it patently clear where he's coming from.
As in so much Sheffield dance music, taking pleasure from the bass is a priority for Toddla. The slow, purring dub and jump-up ragga bass patterns (which subtly influenced Sheffield electroclash acts such as White Trash and Fat Truckers) are to the fore, as is what Toddla - referring to a sound that can be traced all the way back to Cabaret Voltaire - calls "this electronic Sheffield clangy thing". Equally, like all the best Sheffield music, Toddla's stuff has serious pop nous, and doesn't take itself too seriously. There's a ready, very British sense of humour to the Soundtape Killin' video. It looks like something Daft Punk might have made had they grown up in Broomhall and had £27 to spend on a promo.
But the quality that makes Toddla T so exciting is less about his Sheffield roots and more to do with the way he connects with so many different and younger scenes. He works with MCs such as Sorecee and Mr Versatile, and bassline heroes like Nastee Boi remix his tunes. Meanwhile, Toddla is off remixing Jack Penate and Hot Chip, or DJing at Fabric with Sinden and Switch.
His free-to-download mixtape brings all this together in fine itchy, energetic style, taking in electro, R&B, hip-hop, bashment, jungle, fidget house and pop. For clubbers of a certain vintage, it will bring to mind the joyous, liberating, controlled chaos of early Basement Jaxx sets. More importantly, you could easily imagine it booming out of a passing souped-up Subaru or tsk-tsking tinnily out of a Nokia on the top deck of any bus in Britain.
But should Toddla cross over in that fashion, it will be on his own terms. If the Sheffield dance underground has only rarely made inroads into the charts - All Seeing I, for instance, or I Monster's Daydream in Blue - it is because the city, as a whole, is on a constant bullshit alert. While the rest of Britain will do anything for fame, the one-time People's Republic of south Yorkshire regards The Industry with a deep, ingrained suspicion. As Toddla puts it, in the current issue of Sandman magazine: "There's all these dickheads in the industry, especially at record labels. At first I was like, 'Is everyone like this? Am I gonna have to compromise and have to deal with dickheads?' But, no, you don't - there are some all right people. I've got a right good team."
With principles as solid as his beats, in this jaded world Toddla fair makes the heart sing. But is he alone? And do you agree that Sheffield is unique, or are there other corners of Britain, with similarly self-sustaining scenes, that this blog should be shouting about?


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Like a foot-dragging ex-boyfriend who keeps promising to move out, the School District has yet to vacate the Glynn Archer School, despite an original July 1 deadline.
The city agreed to a month's extension, until Aug. 1, but this week an assistant city attorney told the City Commission he wasn't certain if that would happen, either.
"There is demolition scheduled for October," City Commissioner Teri Johnston said at a budget hearing this week upon learning the legal title remained in the School District's hands.
Seven weeks ago, the School District hosted an emotional ceremony inside the auditorium of the school, at 1302 White St., billing the event as the official handing-over-the-keys to the city.
But that was purely ceremonial, since renovations to convert the building to City Hall have not started, Schools Superintendent Mark Porter said Thursday.
"We knew that once we started to remove stuff, the building was going to start looking like heck," Porter said.
The only reason for the School District's delay is the time and care required to remove Smart boards, other electronics and items accumulated over decades-long ownership, he said.
"There was more left to do here than we had thought," said Porter. "I know we are spending a lot of time on it, and I'm still hopeful the Aug. 1 date will work. If we're talking about anything, it's days and weeks."
The city of Key West doesn't want to take ownership while the schools' things remain inside the building set for a $17.2 million reconstruction into a grand City Hall, Assistant City Attorney Larry Erskine said Tuesday at the city's budget hearing.
Stuck in the middle of the title transfer, though, is the Key West chapter of the Boys Girls Club, which has called Glynn Archer home for two decades.
The nonprofit, the funds for which the city cut from $25,000 to about $19,000 for fiscal year 2014 as it begins to "phase out" funding, doesn't have a contract or lease with the School District.
"The last we heard was we could stay there during the summer," Executive Director Dan Dombroski said Thursday.
When a huge air conditioning unit recently sputtered out, the nonprofit replaced it with a smaller unit thanks to a private donor, Dombroski said.
"I wasn't going to spend $800 on it," he said.
The Boys Girls Club signed up 134 children in Key West for its summer program, which costs -- at most -- $90 a week for 50 hours of childcare.
Kids get a free breakfast, lunch and two snacks each day.
Dombroski said the program will be fine this year, even with the city's reduction, but he implored commissioners this week to reconsider phasing out the childcare program altogether.
Key West is home to 144 nonprofits, and the city cannot remain the only local source of funding for the kids' program, Johnston said in reply.
She suggested the Lodging Association, Business Guild and other Key West groups start pitching in.
"If you want a community with families, someone's got to be watching those kids every day," Dombroski said.


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Credit card counterfeiters travelling from Tampa to Miami found out once again the buck stops in Lee County.
On June 13, 2013, the Lee County Sheriff's Office Highway Interdiction Unit was on marked patrol along Interstate 75 when a detective performed a traffic stop on a speeding vehicle. While obtaining paperwork from the driver, the detective observed numerous shopping bags in the vehicle stuffed with cartons of cigarettes and baby clothes. Detectives spoke with the driver and one of the passengers separately and were given conflicting stories about the nature of their business in Tampa. Due to the suspicious nature of the situation, detectives requested to search the vehicle and the driver consented.
Detectives located approximately $3,700 worth of high end liquor, cigarettes and household goods throughout the car and in the trunk complete with receipts from Lee County businesses including Target, Walgreens, Publix and Sweet Bay supermarkets. Detectives also discovered forty-nine (49) cards that had the appearance of gift cards. Further investigation, however, revealed that the cards were all counterfeit.
Yoandy Alvarez Suarez, DOB 2-5-86; Carlos Fleitas, DOB 11-16-86 and Madelyn Suarez Diaz, DOB 9-11-85, all from Hialeah, were arrested and charged with Trafficking in counterfeit credit cards.


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Effective December 31, 2015, after more than 25 years on the bench, Marion County Circuit Court Presiding Judge, Jamese L. Rhoades (Position 1), will retire.
Effective October 31, 2015, after more than 16 years on the bench, Marion County Circuit Court Judge, Dennis J. Graves (Position 7), will also retire.
Between September 8, 2015, and October 2, 2015, Governor Kate Brown will accept applications for appointment to the judicial positions vacated by Judge Rhoades and Judge Graves. To apply for appointment to these vacancies, candidates must:
1. Complete and return by mail or hand delivery, a signed Governor's Interest Form to: Ben Souede, General Counsel Office of the Governor, 160 State Capitol, 900 Court Street NE
Salem, Oregon 97301-4047
This form is available at http://www.oregon.gov/gov/admin/Pages/Judicial-Appointments.aspx.
2. Complete and return by mail or hand delivery, a signed MCBA Judicial Selection Committee, Biographical Statement to: Marion County Bar Association, Judicial Selection Committee, Attention: Noel Grefenson, 1415 Liberty Street SE, Salem, Oregon 97302
This form is available at the MCBA website.
Note: The deadline for receipt of both forms is 5:00 p.m., October 2, 2015. Mailed forms are timely only if post-marked before the deadline and provided that a faxed or emailed copy is also received by the deadline as follows:
Governor's Interest Form: Fax (503) 378-6827, E-mail: email@example.com
MCBA Biographical Statement: Fax (503) 375-4214, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
On October 27, 2015, the Judicial Selection Committee will interview candidates for recommendations to the Governor. Interviews will take place throughout the day on the Fifth Floor of the Marion County Courthouse, 555 Liberty Street NE., Salem, Oregon 97301. The Committee will provide interview times to candidates as soon as possible after receipt of all applications.
It is expected that additional investigation and interviews of candidates by the Governor's Office will take place during November and December, that she will announce her appointments in December and that our new judges will be sworn and take the bench early January 2016.
For additional information, please contact Noel Grefenson at (503) 371-1700.


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What's the right way to get this off? Just pry it?
Get something pointed ( like an ice pick) and force it into one of the 4 cracks around the button. Once you pry up one of the 4 quarters, it will be easy to remove the button.
It was a real task to get these buttons off. Some were damaged. Where can I get the part that holds the button on?
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You won't be able to find the exact part that holds your button on. You will have to use a #15 button washer, also called a spring washer for threaded nails. Most upholstery shops would have them, but if you can't find any locally, send me a PM and I'll send you some. You may have to trim them to fit under the loop, but you can cut them with a heavy scissors.
If it was me doing it I would just wrap some button string around the washer and pull it in that way.
Question: Through my research I'm coming to the conclusion that you have to fabricate new ones if needed. Am I right? I've seen through some web sites that buttons have there own specicific sizing terminology. In my case, it's a # 45 which is 1 1/8. It looks as if kits are offered to make these buttons. But they are expensive. Is there anywhere I can pick them up arleardy made and ready for installation?
No, not ready made. You need to find someone with the machine and dies to make the buttons from scratch. I have a button making machine, but the largest size die I have is #40 and the cutter and top and bottom dies for size #45 would cost over $100. I have a supplier that will make any size button for me. I would need you to send me enough leather scraps to make the buttons with. Also, send one of the old buttons along to make sure you get the right size. Send me a PM.
Ok, so now I have my buttons. Can I find the string on perfectfit.com? I want to check it out. I might go that way instead of hog rings
They don't seem to have it, but these guys do: BUTTON TWINE
Midwest Fabric has it as well.
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The technology titans could have a new leader, for now anyway. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has swelled more than 22% since the start of the second quarter. In comparison, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is up just 7.3% and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is up just 4.5% for the period. The difference in returns is surprising given that Microsoft isn't exactly known for innovation. More to the point, both Apple and Google have been buzzing with the prospect of wearable technology -- namely the Apple iWatch and Google Glass -- buzz that normally translates into bullish stock momentum. Apple CEO Tim Cook says that wearable tech could be "profound" -- but it certainly isn't showing up on stock returns, or at least not yet.
There are two big questions -- Why and how much higher will Mr. Softee (so-dubbed for its stock ticker "MSFT") climb?
Microsoft Rising
Microsoft is basically dividend into four segments. Close to 30% of its revenue comes from its largest segment, its Business Division. Next, is the company's server platforms, which make up almost 25% of its revenue. Microsoft Windows comes in third with 22.5% of its revenue. The balance is made up of its online services division, home and entertainment (Xbox anyone?), and other. Microsoft is currently looking at restructuring its operations into becoming more of a "devices and services" company -- an aim, which puts tablets and cloud computing square in the company's crosshairs.
How High
Microsoft is currently trading at $34.80 -- that is just over 2% higher than the company's one-year target estimate of $34.08 -- and there is really no reason to think the tech titan is going to keep rising.
The creator of Windows and Office is really working hard to gain a foothold in the tablet market, so much so that it has begun discounting Windows RT, a tablet-version of Windows 8, but its efforts just don't seem to be working. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), one of the largest PC maker in the world, has already said that it has no plans to create a Windows RT device while Samsung (SSNFL.PK) did develop a Windows RT tablet then opted to only sell in a fraction of its markets.
Breaking a Bad Habit
Microsoft has made some efforts toward the cloud -- namely its newest version of Office, called Office 365, operates from the cloud -- but with limited success. The new version of Office isn't nearly as developed as Google Drive or Apple iCloud, both of which offer integration for their respective document services and provide ways to collaborate.
With their enhanced functions and much lower pricing, I have a sneaking suspicion that the only reason Google Docs and Apple Pages haven't caught on more readily is that Microsoft Office was such an early market leader that it became a default formatting option -- almost like the way many people refer to adhesive bandages as "Band-aids," soda as "Coke," or facial tissues as "Kleenex."
Microsoft has gone pretty far on investor momentum and current consumer habit for its products -- but these are not good reasons to make an investment. Looking to the long term, Google or apple are much better investments.
Google is currently trading at $859.89 on a 52-week range of $556.52 to $920.60 and carries a one-year target estimate of $929.33 -- making for a projected return of roughly 8% over the next year and beyond that who knows? Aside from Google Glass, the company is pursuing several opportunities, least of which is its recent stake in peer-to-peer lending (read more about that here).
On the other hand, Apple offers a greater potential for return, but it also has greater risk. Right now, the company is trading at $437.30 on a 52-week range of $385.10 to $705.07 with a one-year target estimate of $540.86 -- that's a potential return of almost 24% over the next 12 months. Apple has been hit hard lately -- tax scandals and patent infringement are bound to take their toll. I'm not sure if Apple will quite reach the heights consensus estimates are predicting but investors should be able to buy in closer to $400 and feel pretty confident about a longer-term position, especially with the upcoming launch of iRadio.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Some Favorite Books of 2008
A few of these books were published last year, and there are definitely others that we'd like to point out to readers, but for the sake of brevity, we limited our picks. We hope you'll fill in the gaps in the comment stream.
Creatures of a Day
Reginald Gibbons
Louisiana State Univeristy Press
Creatures of a Day was a finalist for the National Book Award, deservedly so. There are some poems in this book that have become a permanent part of my consciousness. I remember reading "Sleepless in the Cold Dark" in manuscript and thinking that, though you could feel the antecedents (Williams mostly), something here was new. The poem is flat-out beautiful, and it accomplishes its effects with such small, sharp precisions of syntax and linebreaks that you hardly feel your heart breaking until it's already happened.
Twigs and Knucklebones
Sarah Lindsay
Copper Canyon Press
Sarah Lindsay's new book is unusual among books of contemporary poetry for several reasons. It's almost completely devoid of the first person pronoun, for one thing. Most of Lindsay's poems are historical or (as in the stunning sequence "The Kingdom of Nab") pseudo-historical. One of the most memorable poems in the book is a strange, moving piece called "Elegy for the Quagga." A Quagga was a zebra-like creature which was hunted to extinction in the late nineteenth century. Lindsay links this extinction with the eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia, and by the time you finish this poem you realize you're never going to hear this sound that is the poem's subject — and yet you're now dying to. The poem ends "a kind of horse, less picture-esque than a Dodo, still we mourn what we mourn, even if when it sank to its irreplaceable knees, when its unique throat closed behind a sigh, no dust rose to redden a whole year's sunsets, no one unwittingly busy two thousand miles away jumped at the sound, no ashes rained on ships in the merciless sea."
The Fifty Minute Mermaid
Nuala Ni Dhomhnail (translated by Paul Muldoon)
Gallery Press
Because the Jack Spicer book is already on everybody's list, and as everyone's trying to economize this season, here's a two-fer, The Fifty Minute Mermaid (Gallery Press), poems originally written in Irish by Nuala Ni Dhomhnail and translated by Paul Muldoon. What you'll get: two terrific poets working in tandem. Her poems are sexy, wry, and completely original, and especially striking in Muldoon's translations. Though she's been a surprising poet for years, this book is, even for her, a departure. She's not so much writing the biff-bang-pow individual poem as poems in sequence with a cumulative effect. Muldoon says that hers is a particularly local kind of Irish, locatable almost to a single neighborhood. Yet it should appeal to just about anybody on the planet because… it's about a mermaid. Who doesn't like mermaids? And what's a better language for mermaids than Irish? These poems convey the strangeness of the Irish language – and of merfolk. Muldoon, of course, is ingenious at deploying the oddities of the Irish, which must be one of the ur-languages of poetry.
George Oppen
Collected Poems
New Directions
I'm cheating here because it's not exactly a brand-new book, but what makes this paperback reprint special, besides being a lovely book to hold in your hands, is that it comes with an audio CD so you can hear George Oppen read his own work… a revelation in itself. Oppen goes a long way back with Poetry. He was published many times over the years in the magazine, and he's one of the few people who can say that his book was reviewed in its pages by none other than William Carlos Williams. An absolutely essential book.
Sleep's Powers
Jacqueline Risset, translated from the French by Jennifer Moxley.
Ugly Duckling Presse
In 2008 Ugly Duckling Presse created a Dossier Series "to expand the formal scope of the Presse. Dossier publications don't share a single genre or form–long poem, lyric essay, criticism, artist book, polemical text–but rather an investigative impulse." One of eight titles so far, Sleep's Powers by Jacqueline Risset (tr. by Jennifer Moxley) is page-length and little-longer essays on sleep, dreams, and imagination‹and, consequently, everything else. It's episodic pullings from literary (Proust, Bataille, Beckett, Rimbaud, Kafka) and personal history (her purring cat, fear of the dark, refuge in the bed of her little brother). Born in Besancon, France in 1936, Risset is considered one of her country's most important poet-essayists, and UDP is one of the few places to read her in English. Offset and letterpressed at an edition of 1,000, it's a dream gift for the insomniac in your life.
my vocabulary did this to me The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian
Wesleyan Press
Dear Jack Spicer, You can blame Kevin Killian and Peter Gizzi for completely ruining your effort to prevent the distribution of your books beyond the Bay Area. Even posthumously, you created a force field that made it difficult to find any of the small press editions of your work. And even if one did, it was impossible to understand the scope of your work—your poetry dictation, your letters to Garcia Lorca, your packrat collection of written forms (baseball line-ups, bureaucratic forms, footnotes), your zany poems—until now. Not since Whitman has a poet worked so hard at listening to what form poetry wanted to take. Though you might be miffed that your collected poems "is already on everybody's list," as Don Share pointed out, we're not.
King Driftwood
Robert Minhinnick
One of the best Welsh poets writing today, Minhinnick's latest book is full of long, investigative poems that wander freely, but never formlessly. Often weird takes on the dramatic monologues, these poems feature collisions: natural meets unnatural, literary and classical allusions spar with extreme contemporary ones, form battles apparent formlessness. Minhinnick's interest in hard science scrapes against his other interests in a sort of primitive mysticism and hermits, castaways and other people on the fringes. Though Minhinnick writes well about extreme places, these poems are as interested in extreme mental topographies; like maps, they want to show everything as much as they can.
The Walking-Away World
Kenneth Patchen
New Directions
The Walking-Away World (and its companion volume, We Meet) introduced me to the work of Kenneth Patchen; he immediately became a favorite. TWAW presents the picture poems—paintings and drawings integrating text—he created over the last decade of his life. Combining his brilliant "creatures" and lyric observations intensified by their brevity, this book delights, distresses, and delights again.
Poetry Magazine Critics' Picks
The Essential George Johnston, selected by Robyn Sarah
The Porcupine's Quill,
Among the recent and much-hyped rebootings of various reputations – including Crane's, Spicer's, and O'Hara's – this slim thing, The Essential George Johnston (the inaugural edition of a new series on Canadian poets), is an unpretentious, 64-page relief. There is nothing romantic about Johnston's obscurity. Until his death in 2004, he was an exacting poet who wrote about the unfashionably everyday, with an attention to form (both fixed and free-ish) that was rigorous but natural. He published in the New Yorker, and taught, but was no careerist; if the poem wasn't fully realized and utterly essential he didn't write it. This pared-down selection – smartly arranged by another exacting Canadian, Robyn Sarah – is itself all-business, right down to the elegant but unfetishizable cover, a no-frills affair that forces you to turn to the poems – real poems – without delay. Okay, it came out in 2007, but nevermind the copyright date; it's still the best book of the year.
by Anne Gorrick
Shearsman Books
Anne Gorrick has developed the reverberating poems of Kyotologic ostensibly upon the foundation Sei Shōnagon's famed thousand-year-old Pillow Book, yet these poems are anything but imitations. Gorrick's is a unique and affecting style that depends upon both the look of the poem on the page and the sound and meaning of sentences and phrases. Working with a finely tuned poetic ear, she weaves her almost-stories out of words and phrases to create beautiful and surprising meaningscapes. Her primary technique is a sophisticated use of repetition: she takes a phrase, repeats it at irregular intervals, often mutating the phrase often during this process. She builds her effects slowly within her poems so that these wonderful constructions do not seem like anything less than the wonders of nature sitting before us as they always were supposed to have been.
The Alphabet
by Ron Silliman
University of Alabama Press
Size matters, and that is one of the messages of Ron Silliman's thousand-page poem, The Alphabet. Written in 26 sections, one for each letter of the alphabet itself, Silliman does not so much create a world as reveal one for us. He does this by atomizing his experience and replaying these fragments for us in a huge ongoing reel. The effects are almost like watching a home movie so filled with jump cuts that you cannot hold onto an idea for more than a few seconds, but so full of sharp memories that you could hardly bear to turn away. This book is huge and demanding, but also one of the most accessible bits of experimental poetry you are apt to see. The language is clear and usually declarative, but the unavoidable effects of the accumulation of quotidian detail, when properly controlled, is a grand emotional and intellectual experience.
Crabwise to the Hounds
Jeramy Dodds
Coach House Press
The most exciting Canadian debut this year, hands down. Part-time archaeologist Jeramy Dodds specializes in densely metaphoric accounts of god-knows-what (surrealist tall tales? gothic head trips?) that nestle so enthusiastically into their internal rhymes, assonances and alliterations that you can't help but believe—and reread—the ravishingly unbelievable things he tells you ("Capillaries are winter maples scrubbing the mist. / Blood cells are dust-taxied down a flashlight's path.") Marrying a maniacal love for oddity ("The tubas are full of fog and fallen thoroughbreds") with a loathing for recycled language ("Shipwrights shoulder-pole / bedrolls and Swede-saws / through a cellophane of rain") Crabwise to the Hounds is a five-star livewire act.
Elephants & Butterflies
Alan Michael Parker
BOA Editions
I love this book's noise, its chant-like rhythms, its crazy mix of fact and invention. Alan Michael Parker's skill is really a kind of serendipity: poems pivot from satire to nostalgia to brashness with self-delighting philosophical curiosity. Like the seven restleness, reinvented sonnets at the book's centre, Elephants & Butterflies strives for a style nimble enough to turn on a dime. The properly lived life, according to Michael Parker, is a place where a busted Toyota teaches you to "junk the sucker and sing a song about it." Can't think of anyone, anywhere, writing such happy, high-energy poetry.
by Ed Barrett
Pressed Wafer (9 Columbus Sq, Boston, MA 02116)
Bosston is the love child of John Ashbery and Dennis Lehane, and it does for the Boston Irish what Robert Lowell did for the Brahmin, creating a mythos at the intersection of tribe and city. A noirish feverdream of buried voices — some literally buried, like the murdered moll Deborah Hussey — it begins with an excerpt from a Boston Magazine article about the intimidation of the State Senator Dianne Wilkerson for her role in ending housing discrimination against African-Americans in South Boston, and as it builds we meet, among others, Emerson, Thoreau, Wieners, Yeats, Dice-K Matsuzaka, the Virgin Mary and of course the Bulger Brothers.
"Boston is a brand," he said firmly with a directness he knew would not insult his audience but showed respect for the unwritten codes and allegiances they had made their money from: a few of them after a brief time in the business; others at the summit of a longer career who knew how expensive memory and sentiment were and could afford these waters of human existence.
Its dead will simply not stay buried.
Bosston's publication earlier this year completes an unnamed trilogy that began with Rub Out (2003) and Kevin White (2007). Barrett came to his adopted city by way of Brooklyn; having lived in both places, I can attest to the mood of secretiveness that pervades both towns, the long shadows around their gilt-edged libraries and the angels in their cemeteries. Barrett's terse, gothic prose poems read as disjunctions but work furiously at that underground conjoining that real poetry does.
Fiona Sampson
For All We Know
by Ciaran Carson
For All We Know is a numerologist's dream: a haunting, filmic palindrome of seventy sonnets and double-sonnets that provide the harmonic ground for love poetry of unusual delicacy. But it is also a psychological and political thriller, which extends Ciaran Carson's uniquely necessary project of contextualising the Northern Irish Troubles within European history. Intricate symbolism – a watch, perfume, a patchwork quilt, a pen, Bach's fugues – "trips" the reader between episodes. Yet, despite its virtuosity, this verse-novel is a moving and profound meditation on the fugal nature of time and love: indelible lyricism uniting the extraordinary multiplicity of its forces. (Small wonder it's short-listed for the 2008 T.S.Eliot Prize.)
Selected Poems 1969-2005
by David Harsent
David Harsent is a self-evidently major poet. Though much admired by his peers, he's so busy with the rest of his writing life – as librettist, novelist and writer for screen – this could easily be forgotten. Selected Poems 1969-2005 (short-listed for this year's Griffin International Prize) traces the development of an utterly individual voice. As well as early dream-poems, it includes great poems of his maturity from Legion and Marriage – my personal favourite, and an extended study of love, desire and the art of looking. Harsent articulates our dreams and nightmares. His luminously-accomplished verse is vivid, direct and undeniable. The book's a necessity for any serious poetry library.
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"…having lived in both places, I can attest to the mood of secretiveness that pervades both towns, the long shadows around their gilt-edged libraries and the angels in their cemeteries."
Then you were a tourist, or worse–a student–in both places.
One must bear in mind one thing.
It isn't necessary to know what that thing is.
–John Ashbery
Some things that got me through 2008:
Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allen: I only discovered Pickard's poems this year, thanks to Ange Mlinko's write-up on this site. They make me want to write well.
August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It off in Rapid City
Unrest, Imperial f.f.r.r.: You can't imagine what a mess I was in college.
Ange Mlinko's poems in this month's issue of Poetry made me turn around to pick up the hat that would have been knocked off by them if I'd been wearing one. Then I leaned against things for a while. Then I walked into an orchard. Not really, I don't know where any orchards are.
Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities:
Flying Lotus, Los Angeles
Marianne Boruch, Grace, Fallen from: Intelligence writhes here, & what I would call grace.
The Gaslight Anthem, The '59 Sound: The best rock & roll I've heard since the Hold Steady's first record.
Rae Armantrout, Versed:
Was it a flaming mouse
that burned Mares' house down
or was it just the wind?
On Tuesday Mares and his nephew
stood by the original version.
Is this plausible?
Fire Chief Chavez said Tuesday
that he thought so.
Mary Jo Bang, Elegy: "Ashes mirror ashes": a perfect line, whose form replicates its sense, from a book that surprised & saddened the hell out of me.
Kent Johnson, Homage to the Last Avant-Garde: Even if my copy weren't inscribed with a secret dedication, this outrageous, cool-headed subversion of everything anyone has ever held dear would be precious to me. Forget how funny he can be: has anyone else noticed what a fantastic writer Kent is? (Ange, you've read "When I First Read Ange Mlinko," no?) One recognizes what a little shit Stephen Dedalus is but can't help admiring his formulations; likewise, one knows what styles are being appropriated & parodied here but is amazed nevertheless to find them as urgent & often as delicately crafted as their originals:
This is not a poem about the mind, but a poem
about the sky, which thinks its thunderclouds out loud
and its crows and its rain, and then, when becalmed
and asleep, when a moon drifts through, dreams horses,
or hearses, or two figures facing, back-lit and aureoled,
the two figures there standing, in a dhow with a sail
that is already shredding.
These are the sorts of things that make me dream in pink.
Kent Johnson is okay, though I think Mark Yakich and Gabe Gudding are worlds funnier and better in the tragicomic realm. The only realm worth it these days. Also, the best of the year should include: Gudding's Rhode Island Notebook, Yakich's The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine, Roger Sedarat's Dear Regime, and other folks I never see in Poetry. Liz
Yes, Homage to the Last Avant-Garde is terrific–one of my favorite books this year. It's committed AND funny, wise and exposed. I wrote about in my column at Bookslut.com earlier this year: http://www.bookslut.com/marsupial_inquirer/2008_09_013517.php.
Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand's Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space (Long Beach: Palm Press, 2008) is also one of my favorite books. It looks at various public-minded approaches to poetry, showing how it can be used to discuss social and political issues in public spaces.
And Micah Ballard's new one, Parish Krewes (Lowell: Bootstrap Productions, 2009) just arrived with marvelous cover art by David Meltzer.
There are a few "new arrivals" shelves in my house. Then there's the "new arrivals" stack. The pile. The corner.
The "to sell on Amazon" bin.
And those few that actually make their way to the desk, cutting through the three (five? ten?) year lag time most poetry books seem to carry.
I dug these:
Truong Tran: Four Letter Words
Donna Stonecipher: The Cosmopolitan
Kevin Davies: The Golden Age Of Paraphernalia
Stephanie Young: Picture Palace
That should read Ballad of Jamie Allan. & what up with screwy italics, Harriet?
I forgot to mention Tomaž Šalamun's Woods and Chalices. & A. C. Graham's marvelous Poems of the Late T'ang is finally back in print, thanks to NYRB Classics.
Five of my prefer'd for 2008:
Kent Johnson's Homage to the Last Avant-Garde (Shearsman, 2008)
Kevin Davies's The Golden Age of Paraphernalia (Edge, 2008)
Peter Culley's The Age of Briggs & Stratton (New Star Books, 2008)
C. D. Wright's Rising, Falling, Hovering (Copper Canyon, 2008)
Carl Martin's Rogue Hemlocks (Fence Books, 2008)
The titles go to the reviews.
That was Ashbery?
And all this time I thought it was Curly from CITY SLICKERS.
Frustrating to want to buy The Fifty Minute Mermaid
Nuala Ni Dhomhnail (translated by Paul Muldoon)
Gallery Press
Tried to find it through Email search-no luck.
I love her poetry and it's so hard to find here.
Will I have to go to England Amazon for a copy?
I think it would be good to suggest where we find these books
in the USA.
Ruth Albert
Good point, Ruth! Wake Forest University Press will publish Ni Dhomhnail's book in the US – but till then, yes, it's available from Amazon UK, which is where I bought my own copy.
You can also buy books direct from Gallery Press. They're very good with getting orders on time.
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, December 19th, 2008 by Emily Warn.


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|Bruins don't qualify Brett Connolly, making him unrestricted free agent
|06.27.16 at 6:59 pm ET
The Bruins did not extend a qualifying offer to restricted free agent Brett Connolly, meaning the former sixth overall pick will become an unrestricted free agent who can sign with any team as of Friday. The B's also declined to qualify fellow forwards Landon Ferraro and Ben Sexton.
Boston did qualify its other eligible players in Torey Krug, Colin Miller, Joe Morrow, Chris Casto, Brian Ferlin and the KHL-bound Alexander Khokhlachev. The team could still re-sign the players it opted not to qualify.
The team could still re-sign the players it opted not to qualify, meaning a return to Boston should not be ruled out for Boston. Because Connolly made over $1 million last season ($1.025 million), his qualifying offer would have had to be 100 percent of what he made last season. As such, it is possible the Bruins declined to qualify Connolly in hopes of simply signing the player for less money.
Though he just turned 24 last month, Connolly's 210-game NHL career has been very disappointing to this point.
After parts of four seasons with the Lightning, he was traded to the Bruins at the 2015 trade deadline in exchange for a pair of second-round picks. He broke his finger in his second practice with the Bruins and ended up getting into just five games with the B's in that season. Last season, he scored just nine goals and added 16 goals for 25 assists in 71 games.
He scored just two goals over his final 26 games of the season, though one of them was an empty-netter.
|Brett Connolly not thinking about what healthy scratches might mean for future with Bruins
|03.28.16 at 3:27 pm ET
WILMINGTON — If Brett Connolly shot with the accuracy he used to describe his current status, he'd be a 30-goal-scorer.
"It's obviously not enjoyable," Connolly said Monday.
A gifted young player who entered the season with high expectations, Connolly's lack of production with Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand got him bumped to the bottom six early in the month. Recently, he's been out of the lineup altogether, sitting three of the last four games as a healthy scratch.
In the one game he did play in that span, Connolly lost his cool prior to a faceoff and broke Aaron Ekblad's stick at the drop of the puck for an obvious slashing call. He ended up playing just 4:45 that night, the last game action he has seen.
After being acquired for two second-round picks at the 2015 trade deadline, this is not how the 23-year-old Connolly (nine goals, 16 assist in 70 games) expected this season to go. Given that he's on a one-year deal and will be a restricted free agent at season's end, there's reason to wonder whether he could be dealt this offseason.
"You've just got to keep plugging away," Connolly said. "It's the nature of the business. Hopefully things turn around."
Whether Connolly should be out of the lineup is debatable. He probably offers more right now than Jimmy Hayes, but the Bruins made a three-year commitment to Hayes last offseason and are on the books for Hayes' $2.3 million cap hit for the next two seasons. Hayes was also the Cam Neely/Don Sweeney leadership group's acquisition; Connolly was acquired while Peter Chiarelli was still on the job.
Those things work against Connolly, but he has not helped himself. Connolly served as Bergeron and Marchand's right wing for much of the season, but scored just six even-strength goals prior to Boston's acquisition of Lee Stempniak.
|Brett Connolly can (and can't) relate to Jonathan Drouin situation
|01.04.16 at 7:05 pm ET
The story sounds familiar enough — a top pick of the Lightning has not become a star and figures to eventually be traded — but Brett Connolly can't put himself in Jonathan Drouin's shoes completely.
On Sunday, the Lightning sent Drouin, whom they drafted third overall in the 2013 draft, to Syracuse of the AHL. That led to agent Allan Walsh revealing that his client had requested a trade from Tampa in November, news that was still somewhat shocking despite ongoing murmurs that the 20-year-old left wing was not happy with how the team and coach Jon Cooper were using him.
Based on his own experience, Connolly — the Lightning's first pick (sixth overall) in 2010 — hopes that Drouin doesn't expect anything in the league to just come to him. He calls Drouin a "good kid" whom he feels can be a star wherever he ends up.
"He's a good player. He's got a lot of talent," Connolly said of his former teammate. "Young guys come in the league and you realize really fast that it's a tough league. You've got to find your game and you've got to work at it. It's not going to be given to you no matter how high a draft pick you are."
Connolly knows what it's like to be drafted early by the Lightning and not ascend to stardom as quickly as planned. Like Drouin, Connolly returned to his junior team for another season after being drafted and then turned pro a season later. Both players spent their first pro season playing for Tampa given that the CHL/NHL transfer agreement required players under 20 to either stay with their junior teams or play for their NHL club. Most notably, neither one put up mesmerizing numbers in the NHL in the early going; Connolly had four goals in 68 games in his first NHL season, while Drouin had four goals in 70 games as a rookie.
Yet Connolly's situation is different from Drouin's in that he wouldn't have had a problem staying in Tampa. The team traded him last season because they had a crowded forward group and couldn't send him down without waivers. At least from the outside, a lack of patience from a still-developing player appears to be a big factor in Drouin's case. Drouin has two goals in 19 games this season, giving him a total of six goals in 89 career NHL games.
|Ryan Spooner, Joonas Kemppainen, Brett Connolly jell quickly, create chances in Bruins' win over Maple Leafs
|11.21.15 at 11:50 pm ET
A quick look at Saturday night's box score wouldn't reveal anything notable about the Bruins' third line. Ryan Spooner, Joonas Kemppainen and Brett Connolly didn't score. None of them played more than Spooner's 14:40. They combined for four shots on goal, which is fine but certainly not something that jumps out at you.
But Saturday night was a notable game for that trio. They played really well together, even if it didn't show up in the box score. They had a lot of puck possession and created some of the Bruins' best scoring chances in a game that didn't have many of them.
And to be honest, that was a little surprising. Spooner, Kemppainen and Connolly had spent hardly any time together before Saturday, yet they appeared to have pretty good chemistry. Spooner had played the wing only in spurts before Saturday, yet he looked comfortable there and made things happen from the left side. Kemppainen hadn't exactly been lighting the world on fire on the fourth line, yet he didn't look out of place at all in a top-nine role.
"I think most of the game we played pretty well together," Spooner said. "We talked a lot before the game and just said, 'If we don't have much, just try to get the puck in deep.' We did that. And I think off the rush, we had a couple chances too. I thought it went well for sure."
Spooner, Kemppainen and Connolly all entered Saturday as negative possession players in terms of both regular Corsi and relative Corsi. You wouldn't have been able to guess that watching Saturday night's game against Toronto, though. They were the Bruins' top three players in terms of Corsi-for percentage, with all three finishing the night at 69 percent or better.
They combined for one fewer shot attempt than Patrice Bergeron's line and three more than David Krejci's line, despite getting significantly less ice time. They also created a couple good chances that didn't even count as shot attempts — a Kemppainen centering pass just missed a charging Spooner early in the first period, and a Spooner feed for a charging Connolly did the same midway through the third.
On the latter chance, Spooner's speed down the wing was clearly a factor, something Claude Julien was happy to point out after the game.
"I think Spoons has really done a good job on the left wing there, adapting to it and using his speed," Julien said. "A lot more involved in the last two games, and that's what we need out of Ryan. And that's a sign of a young player really who's getting it. He wants to be better, so kudos to him."
Spooner said after the game that he's still not completely comfortable on the wing — he said he's probably played wing fewer than 20 times in his life — but he also noted that having fewer defensive responsibilities helped, as he admitted that his defense as a center hasn't always been great. Kemppainen helps in that respect, as he is pretty responsible defensively. And Kemppainen clearly benefited from playing with faster, more skilled players.
Whether Spooner, Kemppainen and Connolly stay together remains to be seen. Frank Vatrano is expected back soon, perhaps as early as Monday, so expect more line-juggling to make room for him. But even if they don't stay together for now, it's nice for Julien to know that he has this as a bottom-six option that can be effective in the future.
|Brett Connolly making impact whether or not he's scoring since return
|10.28.15 at 1:06 pm ET
That Brett Connolly has scored goals in all three games since being a healthy scratch is a great sign. Here's another one: He's drawing penalties instead of taking them.
Connolly, whose most memorable plays from his five games with the B's last season were the five minor penalties he took in two games, has drawn two penalties in the last three games. He also hasn't taken a single penalty over his seven games this season. The Bruins want Connolly to perform and stay disciplined. So far, he's done both.
"I think it kind of comes with the territory of playing hard and finishing your checks," Connolly said Wednesday. "When you're finishing your checks and you're being hard to play against, it's usually the time when guys will take penalties on you and do things that they maybe they wouldn't do if you're not playing hard against them. I think just playing hard, that's when guys will take penalties on you."
A good example of that came Tuesday night, when Connolly finished a hit on Oliver Ekman-Larsson and got the Coyotes defenseman to take an undisciplined interference penalty in retaliation. The Bruins didn't score on the ensuing power play, but they did two games earlier when Connolly drew a high-sticking double-minor. Forty-six seconds after Claude Giroux went to the box for the infraction, Patrice Bergeron scored to tie a game the Bruins would eventually lose.
Playing with Bergeron and Brad Marchand has undoubtedly led to his increased production, as the first-line duo has set up each of his three goals since he returned to the lineup. That he's staying disciplined could prolong his stay in the top six.
"It's better to be drawing them than taking them," Connolly said. "I've been on a little bit of a streak here of not taking penalties. I knew that it was going to fade away and go away. I haven't really been the guy to take a lot of penalties in the past. It's been good. I think that I've just got to continue playing hard and being hard to play against. Hopefully they'll keep taking penalties."
The "that" to which Connolly refers is the ugly two-game stretch late last season. Full of energy after missing about a month with a broken finger suffered in his second practice, Connolly's penalties put the B's in a bad spot as they tried to secure a playoff spot. The B's lost both of those games, with Connolly's high-sticking penalty against the Panthers leading to a power play goal.
"Maybe I came in, you're so excited to play and you're maybe trying to do a little bit too much," Connolly said. "It was frustrating for sure, when you're always in the box and then the coach isn't happy with you. It was something I had to adjust to, and I thought I've been better at it as of late."
Said Claude Julien: "He comes in, he wants to make an impression going hard. Sometimes you try so hard, you're not always doing the right things. I think now he's more — I keep using the word — he's more comfortable in what we're doing here. He's just going out there and playing his game. I think whenever he skates the way he skates, and with his big body and his strength, he has to have guys drag him down or hold him. That's the reason I think he's drawing penalties."
It was just a week ago that things weren't looking great for the scratched Connolly. His return has seen plenty of reasons as to why he shouldn't expect to be a healthy scratch again soon.
|Why Claude Julien and the Bruins still consider new OT a work in progress
|09.25.15 at 12:22 pm ET
You can safely assume when on-ice officials are explaining what happens to a head coach in the middle of a play, there is still some uncertainty about the rules.
Such is the case with the reformatted overtime in the NHL. On Thursday night, Bruins defenseman Matt Irwin took a hooking penalty 1:25 into the extra period. Instead of the Bruins going down a man, the Rangers went up a man.
The reason?
The NHL is introducing the 3-on-3 overtime this season. To avoid a 3-on-2 situation that would be more like a pre-game warmup rush, the NHL decided to go with a modified power play that would be identical to overtimes of the past. But while that was difficult enough to get used to, what happened next was even a little more peculiar.
The Rangers, getting mixed up with the extra man line changes of the new overtime, took a too many men on the ice when they wound up with the puck and six skaters on the ice. Veteran referee Eric Furlatt went over to Claude Julien to explain that the Bruins would not gain an extra man and go 4-on-4 but rather the Rangers would lose their additional man on the ice.
Then the Bruins would have their own 4-on-3 once Irwin's penalty expired. Neither team scored and the Bruins would win the preseason game, 4-3, in seven rounds of a shootout. Still, the experience was much more helpful than Tuesday night's encounter with the Capitals, a game that featured 3-on-3 for all of 12 seconds before David Pastrnak scored.
|Chris Kelly on looming line choices: 'We've got a great problem to have'
|04.05.15 at 10:27 am ET
Chris Kelly is hardly worried about the looming decisions that will have to be made to determine who will play and who won't come playoff time.
Kelly moved from his left wing spot and centered a line Saturday that had Max Talbot on left wing and newcomer Brett Connolly on the right. This left out Gregory Campbell and Daniel Paille. The way Kelly sees it, there are five players trying to make Claude Julien's job as difficult as possible with competition in the last week.
"Competition, that's why we all play. Competition is good, and it makes everyone better, I think. We've got a great problem to have, good players that can play in the lineup, and I think every guy is trying to make it difficult on him to make those tough decisions," Kelly said. "Ultimately, you want to go out there and play your best hockey and help the team."
Connolly played in just his second game with the Bruins since returning from a broken finger in his second practice with the Bruins and was relieved to finally contribute. Kelly said he was happy from what he saw from his line during a 2-1 shootout win over the Maple Leafs Saturday.
"We had some pretty good chances," Kelly said. "I think all three of us, our feet were moving, and we weren't in our end too often, so it was good. A bounce here, a bounce there, maybe we would've been able to get one."
Julien insisted after the game that what he's trying to do is more about keeping everyone fresh than holding an audition for the fourth line in the final week. Read the rest of this entry »


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Title: From This Day Forward
Author Name: GibbsGirlAbby
Rating: R
Series: The "To-Do List" 'verse. Prequel to "Tony's To-Do List." You don't have to read that one first.
Genre: Slash
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Summary: Tony takes his vows seriously.
Spoilers: None—this is a not-too-distant future fic.
Disclaimer: These characters belong to DPB, CBS, Paramount, et al. No copyright infringement is intended.
Warnings: Boy on boy action. Don't like? Don't read.
From This Day Forward
He's lost track of the number of times he's had to sit in hard plastic chairs in halls reeking of disinfectant. So many times now that it doesn't even faze him, that the chair is just a chair, and the hall is just a hall and that the most important thing is what's going on beyond the door.
He rises and paces once more, peering into the small window, hoping against hope that they've moved the curtain out of the way, that he'll catch a glimpse, some sign that things are going well, that things will be fine. But no glimpse, and as he watches and listens, he just hears beeps and sirens and calm but anxious voices around the bed where his husband lays.
His husband. He shakes his head and moves from the door, back to the chair, sitting down and absently rubbing his wedding ring, remembering when it wasn't there…
"You want to what?" At Tony's words, Gibbs glared, the glare that said 'I know you heard me, you're just stalling for time.' He relented. "You want us to get married?"
"Just like that?"
Now came the Gibbs eye roll. "What do you mean, just like that? We've been together for four years, Tony. We've lived together for three. And we've known each other forever. What's the big deal?"
"Because that's what I do," Gibbs shrugged. "I wanted to marry you when you moved in. Hell, I think I wanted to marry you when you tackled me in Baltimore." He pulled Tony out of his chair at the table, standing the other man between his legs and looping his arms loosely around Tony's waist. "Now it's legal everywhere, so what do you say?"
Tony pretended to consider the question. "Not a very romantic proposal, Jethro," he said.
"You want romance, go get a woman," Gibbs scoffed.
"Not in love with a woman," Tony said, leaning down and catching Gibbs' mouth. "In love with you."
Gibbs moved to deepen the kiss, but pulled back at the last moment. "Is that a yes?"
Tony laughed, straddling the chair to half-sit on Gibbs' lap. "That is a HELL YES!" he said, fusing their mouths back together again.
With a trembling hand, Tony removed his ring, clutching it hard in his fist as he leaned back, head bumping the wall a bit. He took a deep breath, trying to calm his nerves. In…hold…out. In…hold…out. The shaking that threatened to overtake him was kept at bay for now. He opened his fist slowly, watching the florescent light from above shine on the gold band. With stronger fingers, he slid the ring back on…
"I, Tony DiNozzo, take thee, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, as mine forever. To have and to hold, from this day forward, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, 'till death do us part."
The priest turned to Gibbs. "You have a ring?" Gibbs nodded, turning behind him to Fornell who held out the simple gold band. "Repeat after me again: With this ring I thee wed."
Tony felt the cool metal slide down his finger, watched Gibbs' face as he placed the band there, and thrilled as Gibbs echoed the priest's words. "With this ring, I thee wed."
"With my body, I thee worship," the priest continued.
Gibbs looked up, still clutching Tony's hand, and winked. "With my body, I thee worship."
Tony chuffed a laugh, but still felt a blush creep up his neck.
"Tony? You have a ring?"
He nodded, turning to McGee and holding his hand out. The matching band was placed into his hand and he grasped Gibbs' left one, holding the circle above the digit and didn't wait for the priest. "With this ring, I thee wed," he said, slipping it on Gibbs finger. "With my body, I thee worship." He gripped Gibbs' hand tightly, loving the feel of his ring on the other man's finger.
"Always anticipating, aren't ya, DiNozzo?" Gibbs chided softly.
"Gotta stay one step ahead, Boss. Learned a long time ago I might get run over if I'm too slow."
"But you weren't too fast. I still caught you."
"Yeah, but who said I didn't want to be caught?" Tony replied. He leaned in and brushed a soft kiss across Gibbs' mouth.
"Hmm." Both men turned to the priest as if they forgot he was there. "Shall we continue?"
Gibbs grunted an affirmative, and the priest continued. "Then by the power vested in me by the Church and the State of Virginia, I pronounce that you are hereby married, husbands for life."
Both Gibbs and Tony turned to toward the speaker. Abby's hands were now covering her mouth, black lace gloves stark against her pale skin. With a laugh, Tony gave his attention to his new husband, held his face in both hands, and kissed him for what seemed like years...
Two years later Tony and Gibbs are still happy. Not that it's been all sunshine and gummy bears—two strong personalities such as theirs will always have conflicts. But for the most part, the legality of their union was a mere formality, a codicil to their previous successful life together, both at home and at work. It seemed to Tony that life with Gibbs would always be good.
Until today.
A thud in the kitchen was swiftly followed by a crash. Tony was just coming into the house when it sounded, and with a start, headed straight back. He found Gibbs on the floor, coffee from the crashed pot pooling around the prone body. Tony skidded to his husband, kneeling down in the liquid. "Gibbs!" he said, tapping the older man on the cheek. "Gibbs!"
The blue eyes fluttered open, hazy and unfocused.
Tony cradled Gibbs' head in his lap and pulled his phone out, dialing 911. "Federal agent down. Need an ambulance. Five twenty five Laurel, Alexandria."
"What is the nature of the emergency?" the operator asked.
"Not sure," Tony said, not seeing any bullet holes or other external injuries beyond a burn on his hand. "Heard a crash, found him in the kitchen. Opens his eyes, but they're unfocused. Unresponsive to touch." He placed a hand on Gibbs' neck. "Pulse is strong but rapid, breathing is okay. Don't think it was a heart attack."
"Thank you, an ambulance has been dispatched."
"What, now, I mean, what should I do?" Tony's heart was beating fast. "Keep trying to wake him up?"
"No, sir. Just monitor him, and if he stops breathing proceed to do CPR. The ambulance should be there any moment."
Just as the operator said that, a faint siren sounded though Tony could barely hear it over the pounding of his own heart. "They're here," he said tossing the phone away and cradling Gibbs closer. "Damn you, Jethro, don't you dare die on me!" He bent down and kissed the gray head. "I mean it, I haven't had near enough time with you!"
A voice called from the other room. "Hello?"
"Back here!"
"You're not supposed to be back here, sir," the nurse in scrubs told Tony.
Tony stared her down. When he'd finally had enough of waiting, he'd come through the door with the little window and was heading for the curtained area where he knew Gibbs was being treated when he was stopped. "That is my husband," he told the woman, surprised his voice was as steady as it was. "I am going to go over there and be with him."
"Sir, they're still working on him."
"I won't be in the way," Tony insisted, doing a faint and parry move to go around her.
"Doctor…" the nurse warned.
"You makin' trouble, DiNozzo?"
Tony stopped at the curtain, the voice familiar even though the words weren't clear. He gripped the green fabric and quickly scanned the area, the machines beeping, tubes of liquid connected to flesh, the pale man lying in the bed. With a strained smile he looked at Gibbs, noting the slight downturn of his mouth and the bandaged right hand. "You know me, Boss. Never could stay out of it." He turned to face the doctor and other medical professionals hovered around Gibbs. "What's the verdict, doc?" he asked, coming to stand next to the bed and grasping Gibbs' arm with one hand, other one lifted to thread through the gray strands of hair matted with sweat.
"Go ahead, doc," Gibbs said. Tony's eyes narrowed as the slurred words only came out of one side of Gibbs' mouth.
The doctor took a deep breath. "Agent Gibbs has suffered a stroke."


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PhotographyBlog members might be interested in a photo contest that Lindemans wines is running. Winners will have their photo appear in a Lindemans ad in People magazine. Info and rules are here if anyone would like to take a look:
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OPI Houston We Have a PurpleSaturday, May 14, 2011
I'm not usually a big fan of the Jelly finish, so I had avoided the OPI Texas collection. However, on a recent trip to ULTA (with my new friend, Amanda, who is a reader! Hi Amanda!) I finally saw the polishes in person. I'm a big, giant sucker for the pink/purple tones in this range, so I had to pick it up.
While OPI called this a Sorbet finish, really it is a jelly finish. If calling it Jelly is a bit confusing, run over to check out my friend Michelle's explanation over at All Lacquered Up, since she recently tried out Big Hair, Big Nails from the same collection.
My big complaint with any jelly polish is the number of coats needed to avoid an uneven finish and visible nail line. I'm wearing 3 coats here, and I had enough coverage to make me happy. I took this picture on day #5 of my manicure and you can see that I had very minimal tip wear and no chips! I had been working in the ICU for 3 days as well during that period, so there are absolutely no wear issues with the sorbet finish.
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Am I the only one who doesn't think this color looks purple at all? I don't see it. To me this is pink. But who cares, it's pretty!ReplyDelete
LOL! I know. In certain lights it might have a little bit of purple in it, but really it's a dark pink/berry color. I found the name to be a bit odd.ReplyDelete
omgosh, a shout out!!! :-) Love it. Hi back! (I'm so behind on my computer time and blog reading but I'm catching up during this rainy morning which coincides with my day off).ReplyDelete
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