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Felix Vail, 73, is accused of killing Mary Horton Vail, his wife, on Oct. 28, 1962. He claimed she drowned in the Calcasieu River while they were running trotlines. (Rick Hickman / American Press)
Last Modified: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:27 AM
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
A 90-year-old man who was present when Mary Horton Vail was pulled from the Calcasieu River in 1962 said her body was rigid and straight with her arms folded across her chest.
Isaac "Ike" Abshire's testimony was part of a preliminary exam Tuesday to determine whether there was reason to hold 73-year-old Felix Vail, Mary's husband, who was arrested May 17 and charged with second-degree murder.
The case was reopened recently because of an investigative report by Mississippi journalist Jerry Mitchell.
Prosecutor Hugo Holland said the case will go before a grand jury on June 27.
Judge Robert Wyatt said that while he thought it would be difficult to bring what he heard Tuesday to a jury trial, it was enough to warrant holding Vail without bond.
Defense attorney Andrew Casanave asked for a $20,000 cash bond to be set.
Abshire was one of four people to take the stand Tuesday. Calcasieu Coroner Terry Welke also testified, as did sheriff's investigator Randy Curtis and Mississippi man Thomas Wesley Turnage.
Welke said he used photographs and a 1962 autopsy report to come to the conclusion that the death was a homicide. Mary had bruises on her head and legs and had a scarf wrapped around her neck, he said.
Casanave went through much of the report line by line, asking Welke if the notes were consistent with a drowning or a homicide. Welke answered "possibly" to many of the questions, later expounding on why he believed Mary's death was a homicide.
He said that one day in the coroner's office, he walked into a room where investigator Zeb Johnson was discussing photos of Mary with deputies. Johnson and the deputies told Welke that her death had been ruled an accidental drowning. But her swollen neck and the scarf wrapped around it raised his suspicions, he said.
Welke said that even though the autopsy report did not denote strangling, he would not rule it out as a cause of death because of the swelling of her neck and the scarf wrapped around it twice. A bruise on Mary's head was "consistent with a head injury," he said.
The "coffin-type" position her body was in when it was found was not consistent with a drowning victim, he said. He said that when people drown, first they fight, then their body jackknifes, head and legs down, once they die.
He said coroners do see drowning victims in other positions, but never like they had been lying down. "The fact that she was rigid is very concerning," Welke said.
He said he noticed there was a dark substance on Mary's hands. As he further examined the photographs, he said he noticed it was on her forehead, her shirt and her toes, which led him to believe she had been laid face down or on her back with something on top of her. She was "dead prior to going in the water," he said.
The 1962 photographs and a police report were provided to the Sheriff's Office by Abshire, who kept them in an envelope. Abshire said he worked with Felix and rented a room to him prior to his marriage to Mary. He said he often had them over to his home, and had visited with them two days before Mary's death.
"I was kind of like a big brother to them," Abshire said. "That's what she said." Mary had once asked him if he thought Felix could take her baby away, he said.
He said during a conversation at work, Felix told him he didn't like his baby and didn't like Mary while she was pregnant. "I told him that even a dog loves their children," Abshire said. "I couldn't understand that."
He said Felix had once told him that Felix's sister and her husband were hiding Mary from him and that he was mad at them. After Mary was reported drowned, Felix went out with two other men on his father's boat to help find her.
After a fruitless search the Monday after her death, they found Mary on Tuesday. She was wearing blue jeans and a sweatshirt and appeared to be lying on her side with her arms crossed, he said.
"I thought she was tied; that's what it looked like," he said.
He said her neck was swollen and the scarf was tied with a "big knot, not a woman's knot." It covered her mouth like a gag, he said.
After Mary's death, Felix confronted Abshire one day at work and told him he was going to sue him for the things he was saying, Abshire said.
"I said, 'Bring it on. I want to get on the stand and say what I saw,' " Abshire said.
A special chair was brought in for the elderly Abshire. At one point he drew a laugh from the courtroom when Casanave asked him if former Calcasieu Coroner Harry Snatic was a good man. "Well, he was a coroner," Abshire replied.
Thomas Wesley Turnage, who said he had known Felix for most of his life, recounted a conversation he had with him in 1964. Turnage said that while his car was broken down, he often rode to and from work with Vail. One day on the way to work, talk turned to Mary, whom Turnage said Felix referred to as his ex-wife, and their son, Bill.
Turnage said Felix told him Mary had wanted another child to fix their marriage, but Felix didn't want the one he had. "He said, 'I fixed that damn bitch. She won't never have another one,' " Turnage said. He got another ride home, he said.
Turnage said he didn't tell anyone for years at the urging of his parents, but when he saw an article by Mitchell, he called him to tell his story.
Felix is also the last known person to have seen two other women alive: A girlfriend, Sharon Hensley, went missing in 1973, and another wife, Annette Craver Vail, went missing in 1984.
Sheriff's detective Randy Curtis said Felix told Tulsa, Okla., detectives that he dropped Annette off at a Trailways bus station in St. Louis on Sept. 16, 1984, and never saw her again. But Felix's sister, Sue Jordan, told the detectives Felix and Annette were in Sulphur for the Cal-Cam Fair in October 1984, Curtis said.
Jordan, who is now deceased, told investigators that they left and Felix returned alone about a week later, Curtis said.
The hearing drew a rare packed courtroom for a single case, with Mitchell and a producer from "48 Hours" in attendance.
In a rare move, Calcasieu Parish District Attorney John DeRosier is handling the case himself, along with Holland. He said he and Holland will prosecute the case "all the way through."
"This has been going on way too long," DeRosier said when asked why he was personally prosecuting the case. "He's gotten away with this for 51 years now, and I strongly suspect the other two ladies are no longer with us. We owe it to their families to pursue it to the end."


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Apr 9, 2013|
Four topics we haven't touched upon. The NCAA tourney and Lil' Ricky, the worst call in MLB history, the Masters and MORE
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I think Louisville deserve to win they were the better team as much as it pains me to say because I can't stay in Tina well asked when I'm on Michael. I thought of the block called for the team that foul call what was it clean block. Like -- with a couple minutes left changed the game. I'm sure army maybe maybe it would it change that I just think global. There -- a couple of times in the national and international semi final and in the championship game. They were down a dozen points in each game and came back to win. I felt like when it was a one point game and halftime Michigan had -- down early. If you don't have deleted if you don't have that significantly to have to be not gonna bury them the first to have met with the game I felt like no matter what happens in the second have. Global global was gonna win -- I was surprised that Rick Pitino jumped like somebody was sure that I was not active in the game well. 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Literacy is important – without books there would be no sexy librarians.
I know what you're thinking, and yes, that previous sentence was a profound statement, so take some time and let it resonate.
Finished? Good.
Now I'd like to tell you all about the cutting-edge literary event, the 12th Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, taking place in Montréal from April 21-25.
The 'Blue Met Fest,' as it's informally called, is a Montréal festival that welcomes over 250 writers, translators, cartoonists, storytellers and publishers from around the world for five days of literary events. It is an opportunity for the wordsmiths of the world to congregate, share ideas, learn and support each other.
If you are interested in any of the multiple forms of literary expression, this is one Montréal festival that you do not want to miss.
Here are some stellar Blue Metropolis highlights:
Reading the World – With writers descending on Montréal from Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and America, it is no wonder that "Reading the World" is the official theme of this year's festivities. The festival aims to bridge the distance between the page and the person. Come and connect.
Creative Writing Workshops – The festival is clearly a great place to network, but it's also a fertile ground for developing your own skills as a writer. Why not take a poetry class or incubate your inner spoken word artist? Now's your chance.
Book Launches – If fresh Canadian literature gets your ink flowing, you're in for a treat. A couple notable releases include Locavore by Sarah Elton and Traumatology by Priscila Uppal.
Big Names – To name a few of the folks involved in the festival: Lebanese poet Joumana Haddad, Mexican novelist Cristina Rivera Garza, Governor General's Award-winning author M.G. Vassanji and Pulitzer-prize-winning Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon.
Blue Metropolis Festival
April 21-15, 2010
Tickets: 1-800-361-4595
Where to stay: For convenience sake, the official festival hotel, Delta Centre-Ville, is your best bet.
Where to eat: Make sure you have a croissant from the charming Olive & Gourmando. For a classy dinner, with locally grown ingredients, dine at TOQUÉ!
What to do in your spare time: A wonder through Old Montréal is an absolute must. To have a unique local experience, head up to Mile End. Grab a coffee at Le Dépanneur Café and pop into Drawn & Quarterly.
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I am going to try to rebuild some of my tool batteries.
Anyone have any first hand experience with doing
The savings aren't huge but you can bump up the
amp hours as well as insure quality cells.
I am going to try to rebuild some of my tool batteries.
Anyone have any first hand experience with doing
The savings aren't huge but you can bump up the
amp hours as well as insure quality cells.
Closing in on retirement.......
How? Got any information on it?
you must endeavor to persevere
Never done it, have considered it, my nature is to fix stuff instead of investing in new. Do you have a good (quality and cheap) source of Sub -Cs? Also, are you going to get Sub-Cs with solder tabs?
I have a bunch of old/dying power packs - like to get them running again.
After digging a lot I found the guy on ebay to be
the best source for Sub C batteries for price and
quality. He has a web site as well but they sell for
more money there than on ebay (go figure).
Rechargeable batteries are only made by 2 companies
in the world. Panasonic and Sanyo. So no matter what
the label says, they are one of those.
I am leaning toward the 3800 mAH instead of 4500 mAH
because they are a better value and will blow stock
batteries out of the water, even my new 3.5 packs.
And yes to tabs. This guy will not combine shipping so
even if he ships them together you pay full load. But
I can't find a better source even with that..
Not super cheap........... but a 20 pack of matched cells will
rebuilt 2 of my 12V packs ($30 a piece w/S&H).
All you need is a good soldering iron (500W), some rosiin core
solder, and a scuff pad to clean the tops before soldering.
Use the old battery case to hold the batteries in position while
Closing in on retirement.......
There was a guy selling instruction son how to rejuvenate your old tool batteries by zappingthem with a power source using jumpers. He claims it works.
Banjos and bees... how sweet it is!
....sounds like my father's friend who was always mentioned when using heavy tools named "four finger harry" (he was imaginary). i assume the person you are talking about has a similar name, but referencing his acid burned face
How are you disposing of your spent power cells?
The bees know!
AKA Wormtounge
I just throw them in the trash, along with the burned-out fluorescent tubes and old, half-full pesticide spray bottles. Just kidding, no I don't.
The big box home improvement stores have bins for just that purpose - disposing of used dry cells. I have to pay a buck to dispose of the fluorescent tubes, but it is worth it - mercury is a nasty poison, especially when it ends up in groundwater and my can of tuna. We have a couple days set aside in the spring when you can bring in old paint cans, pesticides, lead batteries, etc. for proper disposal by the county.
I have rebuilt batteries for power tools and such. Not to hard unless the batteries are tacked welded together. Then it is best to get batteries with tabs. Check to see if there is a BatteriesPlus where you live. The will rebuild for a nominal fee and their batteries are affordable.
I have rebuilt lithion notebook batteries before and have a few links for batteries.
If you want to change your tool over to lithium you need to get the controller board also. That in my opion is too much trouble.
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I am perfectly happy with NiMH batteries and their
Picked up 4 "dead" battery packs last week on ebay.
One turned out to be a newer on and in great shape!!
I have to order the sub-c cells next week and run
down a decent soldering iron. I only have a pistol
type and a 25W pencil style. I have read a 60W pencil
style is best for batteries???
Closing in on retirement.......
I have a heavy duty pencil tip that with digital heat control (I used to do some SMT soldering before I discovered the "bake in the oven approach") and I've used it to put together many battery packs. Most of mine have scars where I've opened sealed plastic housing but they still work fine. It's a great way to avoid the high price of new battery packs.
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I have a few pounds of it, Was wondering if it was resaleable or not.
anyone know??
"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point."
I'm sure it's still used for something somewhere, but most of the time someone is paying abatement fees for it.
Keep it sealed if you don't know what it's capable of. The term "Mad Hatter" came from it's use in the tanning industry in England way back when. The vapor it releases is as bad as contact with it.
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill
Agreed. It is bad stuff. I had to find a home for a whole bunch of mercury once and was lucky to find a university that took it.
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Anyone remeber going to the dentist as a kid, he would take a penny rub mercury on it with their fingers, then give you the magic dime they made !
My how times have changed.
I need it. I have been working on building a mercury vacuum pump for some time. I only have a quarter of the amount I need.
Yes, yes I know the hazards.
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OK OK, I give up! What do you need to pull a vacuum like that for
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It took time to balance the wires and make sure the fixture hung straight. It is such a fabulous look and really makes a presence where ever you put it. It just makes our entry look great.
I hung this light over my dining Room table and it looks great! It adds just the right modern touch that I was going after and gives off great light.It gathers dust easily so you have to clean it often but it looks so good, I don't mind.


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To know: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum opens to the public today. At least a hundred people are dead after a fire broke out along a fuel pipeline in Kenya. And eight candidates will meet in Florida tonight for the second G.O.P. Presidential debate in less than a week.
To view: Two Presidents, Barack Obama and George W. Bush, standing side-by-side at the 9/11 Memorial reflecting pool on the day's tenth anniversary.
To attack: Seventy-seven American NATO troops were injured in Afghanistan after the Taliban struck a coalition base on Saturday.
To read: The Washington Post fact checks claims by former and current governors running for the G.O.P. nomination as to who really has the strongest job-creation chops: Perry, Romney, or Huntsman?
To force-feed? The Los Angeles Times reports on China's Ramadan crackdown which included one school escorting students to lunch to ensure that kids were eating, not fasting.
To socialize: A new report from Nielsen concludes that social media accounts for 22.5 per cent of the time Americans spend online, topping online games and even e-mail.
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Ever since the Eric Mangini era began earlier this year, how the new regime impacts the media and fans attachment to the team has been a topic of discussion. Among the most outspoken in his concern for the team's approach to both the fans and the media has been Akron Beacon-Journal sports columnist Pat McManamon.
While Pat now serves as a general sports columnist (witness this morning's excellent story about LeBron James and the salary cap), Pat served as the Beacon-Journal's Browns beat writer during most of the expansion era, and saw things from the inside as a Browns employee at one point. He has a unique perspective on how the team interacts with the media and fans.
Pat also maintains a frequently updated blog that is one of our favorites here. Click here to check it out.
The chat will be hosted by OBR Publisher Barry McBride, who also brings a unique perspective as a Browns fan whose career took an odd left turn into the sports media in the last decade.
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YOGA ""I can think of no better book to recommend to a friend beginning to be excited by yoga but bewildered by the plethora of different schools and their sometimes-conflicting teachings. In addition, I would be hard-pressed to think of a book I would recommend more highly to any yoga student seeking to deepen a yoga practice . . . The great gift of The Heart of Yoga lies not simply in the depth of Desikachar's learning, but in the compassion, gentleness, practicality,… (more)
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man's coat looks as if it had been done with a biscuit-punch. There was a fireplace big
enough to camp in; and its projecting sides and hood, of carved and pillared stonework,
had the look of a cathedral door. Along the walls stood men-at-arms, in breastplate and
morion, with halberds for their only weapon-- rigid as statues; and that is what they
looked like.
In the middle of this groined and vaulted public square was an oaken table which they
called the Table Round. It was as large as a circus ring; and around it sat a great company
of men dressed in such various and splendid colors that it hurt one's eyes to look at them.
They wore their plumed hats, right along, except that whenever one addressed himself
directly to the king, he lifted his hat a trifle just as he was beginning his remark.
Mainly they were drinking--from entire ox horns; but a few were still munching bread or
gnawing beef bones. There was about an average of two dogs to one man; and these sat in
expectant attitudes till a spent bone was flung to them, and then they went for it by
brigades and divisions, with a rush, and there ensued a fight which filled the prospect
with a tumultuous chaos of plunging heads and bodies and flashing tails, and the storm of
howlings and barkings deafened all speech for the time; but that was no matter, for the
dog-fight was always a bigger interest anyway; the men rose, sometimes, to observe it the
better and bet on it, and the ladies and the musicians stretched themselves out over their
balusters with the same object; and all broke into delighted ejaculations from time to
time. In the end, the winning dog stretched himself out comfortably with his bone
between his paws, and proceeded to growl over it, and gnaw it, and grease the floor with
it, just as fifty others were already doing; and the rest of the court resumed their previous
industries and entertainments.
As a rule, the speech and behavior of these people were gracious and courtly; and I
noticed that they were good and serious listeners when anybody was telling anything--I
mean in a dog-fightless interval. And plainly, too, they were a childlike and innocent lot;
telling lies of the stateliest pattern with a most gentle and winning naivety, and ready and
willing to listen to anybody else's lie, and believe it, too. It was hard to associate them
with anything cruel or dreadful; and yet they dealt in tales of blood and suffering with a
guileless relish that made me almost forget to shudder.
I was not the only prisoner present. There were twenty or more. Poor devils, many of
them were maimed, hacked, carved, in a frightful way; and their hair, their faces, their
clothing, were caked with black and stiffened drenchings of blood. They were suffering
sharp physical pain, of course; and weariness, and hunger and thirst, no doubt; and at
least none had given them the comfort of a wash, or even the poor charity of a lotion for
their wounds; yet you never heard them utter a moan or a groan, or saw them show any
sign of restlessness, or any disposition to complain. The thought was forced upon me:
"The rascals--they have served other people so in their day; it being their own turn, now,
they were not expecting any better treatment than this; so their philosophical bearing is
not an outcome of mental training, intellectual fortitude, reasoning; it is mere animal
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stumble across someone or somethingand stumble (up)on someone or something; stumble into someone or something
to find someone or something, usually by accident. I stumbled across an interesting book yesterday when I was shopping. Guess who I stumbled into at the library yesterday? I got lucky and stumbled on the right answer.
stumble into someone or something
1. to trip and lurch into someone or something. Not seeing the brick in the path, Carl tripped and stumbled into Alice. Jamie stumbled into the wall.
2. Go to stumble across someone or something.
stumble on someone or something
1. Go to stumble across someone or something.
2. to trip over someone or something. There were three of us sleeping in the small tent. Each of us would stumble on the others whenever we went out or came in. I stumbled on the curb and twisted my ankle.
stumble over someone or something
to trip over someone or something. Tom stumbled over Bill, who was napping on the floor. Don't stumble over the laundry basket.
stumble through something
to get through a sequence of something awkwardly and falteringly. The cast stumbled through the first act and barely finished the second. Mary stumbled through her speech and fled from the stage.
stumbling block
Fig. something that prevents or obstructs progress. We'd like to buy that house, but the high price is a stumbling block. Jim's age is a stumbling block to getting another job. He's over sixty.
stumble across somebody/somethingalso stumble on somebody/something
to meet someone or find something unexpectedly Lee has stumbled across a plot to sell high-tech US weapons to international terrorists. Border Patrol agents stumbled on the drugs when they were on a routine patrol.
a stumbling block
a problem which prevents someone from achieving something (often + to ) Lack of willingness to compromise is the main stumbling block to reaching a settlement. Money, obviously, is a major stumbling block in any project of this size.
stumble across
Also, stumble on. Find by chance, discover or meet with unexpectedly. For example, When we were hiking up the mountain we stumbled across a few abandoned shepherd's huts , or At the flea market Alfred stumbled on a quite valuable old lithograph. This idiom uses stumble in the sense of "accidentally trip." [Mid-1500s]
stumbling block
A hindrance or obstacle, as in His lack of a degree is a real stumbling block to his advancement. This term originally meant "a tree stump over which one trips." Its figurative use dates from the early 1500s.
stumble across
To come upon someone or something accidentally or unexpectedly: I had given up finding my keys when I stumbled across them lying under the dresser. On my way to work this morning, I stumbled across an old friend I hadn't seen in years.
stumble onor stumble upon
1. To trip and almost fall on account of hitting the foot or stepping on something: He stumbled on the curb and fell. She stumbled upon a tree root.
2. To come upon something accidentally or unexpectedly: I happened to stumble on my jacket when I wasn't even looking for it. The detective stumbled upon the truth while thinking about something else.
1. and stum [st?m] and stumble-bumbles (ˈstəmblæˈbəmblæz) n. barbiturates; sedatives; tranquilizers; alcohol. (Drugs.) Kelly was shocked to find a handful of stumble-bumbles in his brother's jeans.
2. n. the inability to stand up and walk straight. I guess I have the stumbles today. Not enough sleep, I guess.
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My friend Mika suggested this week's grammar topic: How do you know when to use was versus were in a sentence?
Should it be: "If I was a millionaire," or "If I were a millionaire"? We're talking about a common grammatical stumbling block with an intimidating title: "the past subjunctive case."
Okay, forget you saw that title. That's the first step to getting past the confusion, because, let's face it: no one looks at a name like "the past subjunctive case" and then says, "Oh, yeah, this will be easy."
But there's a relatively easy, simplified way to look at the crux of the issue. Sure, like most elements of grammar, you can make it as complicated as you want, but this will at least get you started on the right path.
So here goes.
You're standing around the watercooler at the office, marveling at the size of this week's lottery jackpot and doing a little daydreaming with some of your co-workers. Caught up in the fantasy, you start to describe what to do if your bank account suddenly exploded with $312 gazillion.
Do you begin, "If I was a millionare" or should it be "If I were a millionaire"?
Did you buy a ticket for this particular drawing? If not, then it isn't possible (at least, this go around), that you could be a gazillionaire. If you bought a ticket but the drawing hasn't yet occurred, it still isn't possible (at least, so far) that you are a gazillionaire. When it isn't possible, you are projecting an unachievable scenario, so you use were. Most of the time, you also use were when you're speaking in terms of something you wish for rather than something that's real.
If you did buy a ticket and the drawing happened (but you don't know the numbers or don't have your ticket in front of you to check), then it is possible at that moment that you could be a millionaire. When it is possible, even if it's unlikely, use was.
You mean that's all there is to it? Pretty much.
But remember, you can get as complicated with grammar as you like: this is just a simplified way of looking at the basic question of was/were.


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More than $1 billion was wiped off Samsung's (SSNLF.PK) market value on Monday, following President Barack Obama's veto of the International Trade Commission's import ban on some of the older models of the iPhone and iPad; shares closed down 0.9 percent at 1,274,000 won, or $1144.05. Comparatively, shares of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) continued last week's upward trajectory, closing down $6.9, or 1.49 percent, at $469.67. Here's a cheat sheet to Monday's top Apple stories:
IDC Confirmed It: Apple's Tablets Are Definitely Slipping
It now seems as though IDC is in agreement with Strategy Analytics on some aspects of the global tablet market, particularly on the rankings of the main players. However, there are some major discrepancies in the numbers when it comes to just how big each company's share of the market is.
The results may not be surprising. IDC reported that Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android took the cake for market share in the second quarter, growing from 38 percent in the second quarter of 2012 to 62.6 percent a year later. This was made possible by a 162.9 percent increase in sales in that time frame… (Read more.)


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(CNSNews.com) – Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dodged a question about the controversial writings of Goodwin Liu, who was nominated by President Barack Obama to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last year. Feinstein instead said that Liu indicated that he understands the difference between being an advocate and a judge.
To serve on the court, Liu must be confirmed by the Senate. At the Capitol on Wednesday, CNSNews.com asked Sen. Feinstein, "In a 2008 law review article Professor Liu argued that there was a constitutional right to welfare – what he called a 'judicial recognition of welfare rights' – do you agree with him that there's a constitutional right to welfare?"
Feinstein did not directly answer the question, but instead said that Liu had assured her that he knew the difference between being an academic and a judge.
"Here's how I understand the situation with Professor Liu," said Feinstein. "He has written that -- that's true, several things. He has written it from the perspective of a university professor as opposed to a judicial appointment."
"I think you would find a very different Goodwin Liu as an appellate court judge," she said.
Liu, a law professor and associate dean of the University of California-Berkeley School of Law, wrote in a 2008 law review article that courts should seek to define "welfare rights," which he described as "an affirmative constitutional right to particular social goods such as 'education, shelter, subsistence, health care and the like, or to the money these things cost.'"
In arguing for the judicial establishment of alleged "welfare rights," Liu rejects any "transcendent moral principles" in favor of "socially situated" ways of thinking, he states in the article. Liu argues that courts should use prevailing social norms instead of consistent moral principles when creating new welfare rights.
"My thesis is that the legitimacy of judicial recognition of welfare rights depends on socially situated modes of reasoning that appeal not to transcendent moral principles for an ideal society, but to the culturally and historically contingent meanings of particular social goods in our own society," Liu wrote.
CNSNews.com asked Sen. Feinstein whether Liu had repudiated his views on welfare rights in becoming the "very different Goodwin Liu" she had described. Feinstein answered by saying the Liu had made clear he knew the difference between being an academic and a judge.
"He's [Liu] made a defined indication to me that he understands the difference between an advocate and a [judge]," said Feinstein. "What he's said is that he would be judicious and I believe he will. I think he's one of the brightest legal scholars in this country."
Liu's nomination to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to come before the Senate for a vote on Thursday, May 19.


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Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital could reduce workforce by up to 120 employees
SALINAS, Calif. - Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System leaders are working on a reorganization proposal that could mean layoffs for as many as 120 staff members.
Hospital officials say reorganization is necessary to position them to meet the long-term needs of the communities it serves. Officials hope to minimize the impact of possible staff reductions through attrition and separation incentives.
One element of the proposed reorganization is to increase the number of full-time nursing positions in relation to part-time positions. Currently 75 percent of SVMHS registered nurses work part-time, but qualify for the same health benefits provided to full-time employees. The proposed job reductions do not change patient care staffing or reduce nursing hours at the bedside.
The plan also calls for creating specialty care areas, providing more private rooms and reorganizing clinical areas by floor location and department.
Information and details surrounding negotiations with the California Nurses Association is online here.
SVMHS is proposing a redesign of employee health care options, the costs of which would be phased in over a four-year period.
To view the current medical plan, click here. To see the proposed medical plan, click here.
A base wage comparison can be viewed here; and a benefit comparison is here.


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Why don't you just get some standard pressure rounds in a lighter grain? Practice with the easy stuff and carry the good stuff.
This is a discussion on Advice needed about snubbies within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I have a S&W 638 as a carry gun, but I am considering adding a new snubbie to the mix. The 638 is great, but ...
I have a S&W 638 as a carry gun, but I am considering adding a new snubbie to the mix. The 638 is great, but it kicks like a mule with my current carry ammo, Buffalo Bore 158gr +P lswchp. The only thing more brutal that I have shot lately was a scandium .357 and my hand hurt for a week after the scandium adventure.
How much will felt recoil be lessened when shot out of a heavier gun? I am considering either a 3" model 60 or a 3" sp101. The sp101 is a few ounces heaver than the model 60, but both of them are a lot heavier than the 638. I would love to shoot both guns to decide, but it is hard to find those in rental guns. The gun range that is closest to me only has a 2" sp101 and no Smith snubbies as range guns.
I appreciate any light my fellow forum members can shed on this.
Why don't you just get some standard pressure rounds in a lighter grain? Practice with the easy stuff and carry the good stuff.
My name is Frogman46 and I'm tougher than you.
That is a good idea atctimmy, and it is what I normally do. I was just wondering if the extra weight would make that much difference. Part two is I really think I want a .357.
The heavier gun will make a lot of difference. Bigger grips will make a lot of difference too. .357 will erase any gains made by giving up lightweight and short grips.
"Just blame Sixto"
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I have a S&W 442 which is an airweight .38 and a 2" Ruger SP101 in .357 Mag. The heavier SP101 seems to kick about the same a with full house .357 Mag as my 442 does with full house .38+P. I do not find either one of them unpleasant to shoot one handed or two. I would think a 3" SP101 would be slightly better handling recoil than the 2". In short, yes, the extra weight of the SP101 handles the recoil better.
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Holy cats - you start off by saying the recoil from a +P .38 is pretty brutal, but you really want a .357???
If you want a .357 snub, the SP101 is a good starting place but it's not as concealable as a J-frame. And with just a tad less concealability than the SP101 you can get a K-frame (M19, M66) with 6 shots instead of 5.
Bottom line from a physics perspective is that a heavier gun will have less perceived recoil than a lighter gun.
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Wimp that I am, I thought a heavier gun might make my BB carry ammo a little more pleasant to shoot. :-)
Gasmitty, have you carried a K frame concealed? I am just wondering how easy that would be to do, and if it would be possible iwb?
You don't need a different sidearm you need better preforming ammo with less felt recoil ............ Speer Gold Dot 135gr +P or 110gr DPX
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The only .357 snubby I have is a Smith Model 19 with a 2-½" barrel and even with 158gr .357s the recoil is not bad. I do not currently use it as a carry gun but when I was active duty I carried either a Smith 10 or 15 in a 1980s Safariland model 19 shoulder holster with no problems.
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I agree with SIXTO, weight and grips make a huge difference. I have no desire to carry ultra-light or scandium alloy snubbies.
I have a 2.25 inch SP-101 in 357 mag and it does a pretty good job taming magnum loads even with the factory grips which IMO are pretty decent. No doubt I would get even better performance with some other grips, but haven't seen the need to change them.
I like the heft of the Ruger in my hand, on my hip, and it's not uncomfortable in my pocket. You have the comfort of knowing it's built a tank and won't have pieces falling off if you drop it on concrete like the feeling I have with the Ruger LCR.
Other people feel the weight of the SP-101 is just agonizing and think they are carrying a Buick in their pocket... I think that's a little melodramatic, but to each their own, eh?
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"The gun is the great equalizer... For it is the gun, that allows the meek to repel the monsters; Whom are bigger, stronger and without conscience, prey on those who without one, would surely perish."
The difference in recoil is significantly less in the Detective, which is why i carry it more than the Cobra. The 21 Oz (plus ammo weight) is still very comfortable. So, yes I think you'll notice significant difference - though it's an opinion, I don't know your revolvers well.
One thing I suggest: skip the +P in the Buffalo Bore. You don't need it. Really. Those rounds are so potent for SD - look at the speeds for standard, not that far from +P I believe - and look at the penetration data for the standard: either 14" or 16". That's plenty, plus the rounds are engineered specifically so standard .38 is wickedly lethal - (as well as +P of course). 6 of those are PLENTY - or even one well-placed.
Here are the specs on it (and notice it states it has much less recoil than +P):
Standard Pressure Short Barrel Low Flash Heavy .38 Special Pistol & Handgun Ammunition
Just my opinion, but "hamlet" nailed it. Just use the standard pressure BB Short barrel stuff. That's all I carry in my snubs. IMO, the heavier round is the way to go for better penetration, especially in .38 special. The +p stuff IMO isn't necessary with the 158gr round. There's plenty of horse power to push that round beyond the 12" FBI recommended depth.
As far as the SP101 goes. There's one at my local GS with my name on it and I'll make the move on it soon enough. I want one to add to my revolver collection, not as a replacement.
I have the S&W 642 airweight revolver, which is the perfect size and weight for a carry snubby. These revolvers were designed for concealment, and to be a close-up defensive weapon, and do not "require" such a high pressure load to be effective.
I've found the best ammo for this little revolver to be the Hornady Critical Defense .38 SPCL 110 gr. FTX. It is very accurate, and has minimal recoil for a .38 snub. A large % out there today worry too much about size and using +P ammo , but if that be the case ......... carry a .45
Hi Skeeter. I have a three inch SP101 in .357 and I think it's a bear to shoot with full power 125 grain loads. I can't imaging what your "scandium adventure" must have been like. If it were me, I would practice with what I carry. I'm sure you already know this, but follow-up shots could be necessary in a defensive situation and with the full power leads out of a small revolver, that can be a challenge. What I've settled on in my SP101 are the Remington medium velocity Golden Saber 125 grain loads. Much more manageable.


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Superlux HD668B Headphones Testing and Results
Testing Methodology
Even though they are the cheapest set of headphones we have ever reviewed, the Superlux HD668B Headphones deserve to go through the same tests as other headphones. We performed this review with the help of AudioCheck.net's sound test to check for frequency response, sound quality, driver matching, and binaural signal. We also used a mixed music playlist to evaluate sound quality.
To accurately test using AudioCheck.net it is recommended that all audio samples are downloaded and not played online, so as to avoid any distortion caused by the compression of online media. Our test systems are completely different to cover how the Superlux HD 668B Headphones perform in each platform. We also created a music playlist that includes more than 36 hours of mixed genres including Metal, Dance, Classical and Soft Rock.
Test Systems
- Personal Computer (using an Audioengine D1 USB – DAC )
- Nokia Lumia 521 Phone
- IPod Nano 6
Music Playlist (Albums)
- Led Zeppellin – Led Zepellin IV
- Nicolas Jaar – Darkside
- Claude Debussy – L'enfant Prodigue
- Soda Stereo – Cancion Animal
Frequency and Response and Dynamic Range: One prominent feature from the Superlux 668B Headphones are the big 50 mm drivers that are gracefully placed in their semi-open design. These two are the ones to blame for the great clarity and depth of these headphones, and for the great performance in the low and mid-range. However, when we first got these headphones, there seemed to be lots of disturbances in the highs. These disturbances can be fixed with the right EQ, on our iPod Nano this issue was easily fixed by using the included EQ option "Treble Reducer".
On our test using AudioCheck.net we found that at about 6 kHz the treble would start to become a bit disturbing. We found that they responded right until about 20 kHz, were we met our roadblock. On the lows we found a pretty stable and linear response right until about 270 Hz were it dropped slightly. Overall very linear performance except in the highs, however this was fixed by using an EQ. For this price it is really hard to find similar performance. Concerning the impedance, the Superlux 668B Headphones will play just fine on most portable devices, however they might sound slightly better on a dedicated sound card or DAC.
Binaural Testing: Binaural testing is the ability to fully recognize the location in space by using the noise produced by an object. It is usually a good indicator to isolate a great pair of headphones from the rest. There are many ways to test this, however we decided to use a soundtrack that takes great advantage of binaural recording. By listening to Claude Debussy's L'enfant Prodigue and closing our eyes we could clearly identify were all of the objects or players were located in the recording. Just for the sake of testing it, when we plugged them into our DAC we could almost identify the distance from each artist in L'enfant Prodigue, as if almost we were in the same room. Binaural testing, definitely not a problem for our underestimated test subject.
Sound Quality: The most astonishing feature from the Superlux 668B headphones is their sound clarity. It is a complete pleasure to just sit down and listen to Nicolas Jaar;s low relaxing beats, or if you are of more classical taste, we could almost hear a distant cough in our L'enfant Prodigue studio recording. Vocals are astonishing, they might sound a bit too bright if not EQed, but when fixed both Led Zeppelin and Soda Stereo sounded almost like I was using my Audio Technica ATH-A900X with a more vibrant noise. For the price, I do not think you can find a better Sound Quality, the Superlux HD668B Headphones have performed really well as budget headphones.


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With the 7.0.27 release the Apache Tomcat team introduced a WebSocket implementation. WebSocket has received a lot of hype, and has been much anticipated by Tomcat users. Let's take a quick look at what web sockets are, what benefits and limitations they have and how they are implemented in Apache Tomcat 7.
WebSocket is considered the next step in evolution of web communication. Over time, communication has evolved in steps to reduce the time and data throughput for the application to update a user's browser. The evolution has looked a little like this:
Each of these steps had their benefits and challenges. Apache Tomcat 6 implements bi-directional communication over HTTP using its Comet Processor. This implementation allowed for asynchronous event driven request processing as well as bi-directional communication. This implementation had a few limitations.
Comet proved that the proverb "build it and they will come" is not necessarily true. Each major servlet container had its own implementation and non-standard APIs. Adoption was fairly sporadic.
The Servlet 3.0 release introduced a new feature called Asynchronous Servlets. This implementation standardized and simplified most Comet implementations by removing the bi-directional requirement of the protocol but retaining the ability to disassociate a container thread from the HTTP request. We can compare this feature to the server version of client AJAX calls. It lets a request hang until a response is ready to be delivered without using worker thread on the container. This feature offers little new over Apache Tomcat's Comet Processor in terms of functionality. The fact that it is a standard Servlet API, gives frameworks an easier way to build on top of it.
Asynchronous servlets address some of the need in web communication, but not all, and the lack of bi-directional communication made its use still limited. If you take standard API aside, it may have been considered step back from most Comet implementations.
WebSockets is another attempt to standardize an idea of having asynchronous, event driven and bi-directional communication over HTTP. The standardization comes in form of a JavaScript API as well as a communication protocol. While this highlights the lack of a standard server-side API the Servlet 3.1 expert group are already discussing including some basic level of support for this and discussions are active as we are writing this article. Whether that will evolve into a full WebSocket API remains to be seen. In the meantime major servlet container are publishing non- standard APIs, Tomcat being no different.
So let's summarize what a WebSocket implementation gives us:
On the protocol level there is one major difference from what has been done previously, and that is that the WebSocket switches the protocol away from HTTP. This is where a proxy can change its behavior and support this type of messaging as well. Whether this is in theory only still remains to be seen. If we look at a WebSocket client initiating a request we can see that the intermediary has to, at a minimum,
GET /chat HTTP/1.1
Host: server.example.com
Upgrade: websocket
Connection: Upgrade
Sec-WebSocket-Key: dGhlIHNhbXBsZSBub25jZQ==
Origin: http://example.com
Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: chat, superchat
Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13
understand the "Connection:upgrade" headers. The response contains the critical status code of 101
Switching Protocols
Upgrade: websocket
Connection: Upgrade
Sec-WebSocket-Accept: s3pPLMBiTxaQ9kYGzzhZRbK+xOo=
indicating that a protocol switch has been confirmed and is now expected. After this handshake is complete the client and server move away from request/response communication and can send messages independently of each other.
In short: not completely. First, proxies and intermediaries may still not work – so deployments using Wide Area Networks (WANs) are questionable. Secondly, there are still no standard Java APIs. However, given the buzz around WebSocket, this may be addressed soon.
Another thing to be careful for is that every HTTP/TCP connection requires the initial handshake and introduces a message roundtrip before you even send or receive data over the WebSocket protocol. If you're not careful, and have very short interactions, WebSocket may be too much overhead. WebSocket are ideal for longer running conversations between client and server.
The good news is that WebSocket has benefited from a lot more attention, especially client side and cross language than any other previous attempt at enhancing web communication. It has also received a competitor for bi-directional communication, and that is SPDY, an implementation also underway within the Apache Tomcat project.
WebSocket is a straightforward implementation of bi-directional communication over HTTP. The API is part of the HTML 5 specification and so far many different server side implementations are available. It is not without risks, since the Java APIs are yet to be standardized so implementations can vary. Additionally, working with proxies and intermediaries may still not work, however it is important to note that WebSocket utilizes the Upgrade feature of HTTP to switch protocols after the initial request/response handshake has been completed. This gives future proxies an option to reject or support the WebSocket protocol over WAN.
The first released version of WebSocket in Apache Tomcat was released with Apache Tomcat 7.0.27.
Tomcat maven plugin for version 7.0.27
Hello Filip,
I wonder where to download a maven tomcat plugin that works with the referred version.
BTW, awesome functionality delivered by the Tomcat team guys.
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threading with websockets
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Seems like an obvious scalability problem?
Also the connections seem to be closed automatically on some sort of timeout, do you know what the configuration value for that is?
The stack of the occupied thread is from a thread dump it (note its an exec thread):
"http-nio-8443-exec-14" daemon prio=5 tid=7f9b571ec000 nid=0x119dab000 waiting on condition [119daa000]
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State: RUNNABLE
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UConn Huskies men's basketball head coach Jim Calhoun loves to ride his bike. Someone might want to keep him away from it after another accident.
Back in 2009, he hit a pothole in his charity event and broke five ribs at the 12 mile mark but continued on to finish the 50 mile event. This year, riding for pleasure, he suffered another accident after hitting some sand while out for a ride.
According to Dom Amore of the Hartford Courant, Calhoun may have broken his hip in a biking accident near his summer home in Madison, CT.
Jim Calhoun will not be at event tonight. Broke his hip in biking accident in Madison.— Dom Amore (@AmoreCourant) August 4, 2012
More on Jim Calhoun. Happened mid afternoon. He is headed to UConn Health Center to confirm if hip is broken.— Dom Amore (@AmoreCourant) August 4, 2012
Calhoun's annual charity All-Star Game is tonight and obviously he won't be at Mohegan Sun to watch his former players take part in it.
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Carl Phillips was born In 1959. As of 2011 Phillips has authored 10 books of poetry, including two which were finalist for the National Book Award.
Phillips is also the recipient of the Academy of American Poets
Fellowship, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, the Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, induction
into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress.
Shadow: Poems
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 15, 2011)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
Phillips' book of poetry is a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award
A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak Low
Comparing any human life to "a restless choir" of impulses variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh book, examines the double shadow that a life casts forth: "now risk, and now / faintheartedness." In poems that both embody and inhabit this double shadow, risk and faintheartedness prove to have the power equally to rescue us from ourselves and to destroy us. Spare, haunted, and haunting, yet not without hope, Double Shadow argues for life as a wilderness through which there's only the questing forward—with no regrets and no looking back.
Low: Poems
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Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive—and one of poetry's most essential—contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft. Over the course of nine critically acclaimed collections, he has generated a sustained meditation on the restless and ever-shifting myth of human identity. Desire and loss, mastery and subjugation, belief and doubt, sex, animal instinct, human reason: these are among the lenses through which Phillips examines what it means to be that most bewildering, irresolvable conundrum, a human being in the world.
These new poems are of a piece with Phillips's previous work in their characteristic clarity and originality of thought, in their unsparing approach to morality and psychology, and in both the strength and startling flexibility of their line. Speak Low is the record of a powerful vision that, in its illumination of the human condition, has established itself as a necessary step toward our understanding of who we are in the twenty-first century.
Riding Westward: Poems
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What happens when the world as we've known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less able--or less willing--to distinguish reality from what is desired? In Riding Westward, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his own--speculative, athletic, immediate--as he confronts moral crisis. What is the difference, he asks, between good and evil, cruelty and instruction, risk and trust? Against the backdrop of the natural world, Phillips pitches the restlessness of what it means to be human, as he at once deepens and extends a meditation on that space where the forces of will and imagination collide with sexual and moral conduct.
The singer turning thisand that way, as if watching the song itself
--the words to the song--leave him, as he
lets each go, the wind carrying most of it,
some of the words, falling, settling into
instead that larger darkness, where the smaller
darknesses that our lives were lie softly down."
--from "Riding Westward"
Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006
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Quiver of Arrows is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips's work that showcases the twenty-year evolution of one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Hailed from the beginning of his career for a poetry provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft, Phillips has in the course of eight critically acclaimed collections generated a sustained meditation on the restless and ever-shifting myth of human identity. Desire and loss, mastery and subjugation, belief and doubt, sex, animal instinct, human reason: these are among the lenses through which Phillips examines what it means to be that most bewildering, irresolvable conundrum, a human being in the world.
Phillips's sensibility as he questions morality, psychology, and our notions of responsibility is as startlingly original as the poems themselves, whose exacting standards for the line's flexibility and whose argument for a versatile, more muscular syntax bring to American poetry "something not unlike a new musical scale" (The Miami Herald). Quiver of Arrows is the record of a powerful vision that, in its illumination of the human condition, has established itself as a necessary step toward our understanding of who we are in the twenty-first century.
The Rest of Love: Poems
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This collection won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Striking new poems from a writer whose "lyric gift . . . outstrips all diversionary maneuvers." (Carol Moldaw, The Antioch Review)
The light, for as far as
I can see, is that of any number of late
afternoons I remember still: how the light
seemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been living
insider it, waiting - I'd heard all about
that one clear note it gives.
--from "Late Apollo III"
In The Rest of Love, his seventh book, Carl Phillips examines the conflict between belief and disbelief, and our will to believe: Aren't we always trying, Phillips asks, to contain or to stave off facing up to, even briefly, the hard truths we're nevertheless attracted to? Phillips's signature terse line and syntax enact this constant tension between abandon and control; following his impeccable interior logic, "passionately austere" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post Book World), Phillips plumbs the myths we make and return to in the name of desire-physical, emotional, and spiritual.
Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry
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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Graywolf Press (June 1, 2004)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
The Award-winning poet Carl Phillips grapples with issues of authority,
identity, and beauty in these sensual and deeply intelligent essays
The "coin of the realm" is, classically, the currency that for any culture most holds value. In art, as in life, the poet Carl Phillips argues, that currency includes beauty, risk, and authority-values of meaning and complexity that all too often go disregarded. Together, these essays become an invaluable statement for the necessary-and necessarily difficult-work of the
Rock Harbor
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (September 1, 2002)
Language: English
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A masterful new collection by one of our most important contemporary lyric poets
Wind as a face gone red with blowing,
oceans whose end is broken stitchery--
swim of sea-dragon, dolphin,
shimmer-and-coil, invitation. . . . You Know
the kind of map I mean. Countries as
distant as they are believable . . .
--from "Halo"
Carl Phillips lyric explorations of longing and devotion, castigation and
mercy, are unrivaled in contemporary poetry.
Here, in his sixth book, Phillips visits those spaces, both physical and psychological, where risk and safety coincide, and considers what it might mean to live at the nexus of the two. Sifting among the upturned evidence of crisis, from Roman Empire to westward expansion, from the turn of a lover's face to the harbor of the book's title--a place of calm fashioned of the very rock that can mean disaster--these poems negotiate and map out the impulse toward rescue and away from it. Phillips's pooling, cascading lines are the unsuppressed routes across his unique poetic landscape, daring and seductive in their readiness to drift and reverse as the terrain demands.
Cortège: Poems
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Publisher: Graywolf Press (March 25, 2002)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
(From the Back Cover)
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"Carl Phillips is a poet of eros, but for him eros isn't simply sex, or even sexual desire sublimated into social ritual, or art, or any of the overdetermined ploys by which all of us, men and women, heterosexual and homosexual, attempt to close the distance between ourselves and others. Rather, eros is the never ending struggle, as he puts it, 'to fill a space in so there's no room left for awhile for what he surely calls a suffering inside him.' In the intricacies of thinking and feeling enacted in every poem of Cortège, no feeling ever quite escapes its opposite--the joy of fulfilled desire is infused with the isolation it has momentarily eclipsed, the heaven of intimacy only heightens 'how it feels to be stranded.' Cortège is a book that has been packed in salt: the durable salt of artistic making, and the bitter salt of longing. Few other poets writing today can track so well, so unforgettably, the estranging spaces in the heart of love, the perils of beauty or the beauty of peril."--Alan Shapiro
"Out so much farther than our present pieties, attentive to no social or sentimental voice, only passion's (so often ruinous, defiant of upshot), it is not in every case, every poem, that Carl Phillips triumphs over my timidity. As with Sappho and Pasolini, though, traces of the winged god are everywhere unmistakable, even when this new poet has kicked them over: it is a sacred entail his harsh graces make. I for one am an awed (if lacerated) heir."--Richard Howard
The Tether: Poems
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 3, 2002)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
Graceful and resonant new work by a lyric poet at the height of his skill.
As I understand it, I could
call him. Though it would help,
it is not required that I give him
a name first. Also, nothing
says he stops, then, or must turn.
--from "The Figure, the Boundary, the Light"
In the art of falconry, during training the tether between the gloved
fist and the raptor's anklets is gradually lengthened and eventually
unnecessary. In these new lyric poems, Carl Phillips considers the substance
of connection -- between lover and beloved, mind and body, talon and perch
-- and ts the cable of mutual trust between soaring figure and shadowed
Contemporary literature can perhaps claim no poetry more clearly allegorical than that of Carl Phillips, whose four collections have turned frequently to nature, myth, and history for illustration; still, readers know the primary attributes of his work to be its physicality, grace, and disarming honesty about desire and faith. In The Tether, his fifth book, Phillips's characteristically cascading poetic line is leaner and more dramatic than ever."
Pastoral: Poems
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Publisher: Graywolf Press; 1 edition (March 2, 2002)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
In his newest book, National Book Award finalist Carl Phillips creates a shadowy inner landscape where the field is the heart, and the heart itself has a beautifully, often treacherously flawed darkness that each of us seeks to penetrate, believing in the possibility of light. Examining how to fill and fulfill the life granted us--how to realize the self entirely, and in time--these rhythmically sequenced meditations circle the predicaments of our longing against the backdrop of pastoral tradition. How do we balance control and abandonment when making poetry, as well as in making a life with another person? How do we reconcile fleshly desire and spiritual intention? Tightly coherent, emotionally nuanced, Pastoral both enlarges and defines Phillips's already impressive poetic territory.
From the Devotions: Poems
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Publisher: Graywolf Press (March 2, 2002)
Language: English
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With From the Devotions, Carl Phillips takes us even further into that dangerous space he has already made his own, where body and soul--ever restless--come explosively together. Speaking to a balance between decorum and pain, he offers here a devotional poetry that argues for faith, even without the comforting gods or the organized structures of revealed truth. Neither sage nor saint nor prophet, the poet is the listener, the mourner, the one who has some access to the maddening quarters of human consciousness, the wry Sibyl. From the Devotions is deeply felt, highly intelligent, and unsentimental, and cements Phillips's reputation as a poet of enormous talent and depth.
"In his extraordinary new book of poems, From the Devotions, by far his best, Carl Phillips has done what few of his contemporaries have dared or managed with as much elegant authority. He has plotted here the romantic landscape of desire. Myths are unsheathed and glisten. History is held and pondered. Violence shimmers, desires are silhouetted against the light of love and death. His tone is at once erotic and mystical, hushed and compelling. This book is a blessing, a ravishing, a haunting. I urge you to read it--to succumb to it."--J.D. McClatchy