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WASHINGTON Twenty years ago, when a senator asked then-appellate Judge Clarence Thomas why he wanted to be on the Supreme Court, Thomas said he often looked out his courthouse window at arriving prisoners and said to himself, "But for the grace of God, there go I."
During his confirmation hearing, Thomas explained that he would identify with defendants: "So I can walk in their shoes and I could bring something different to the court."
It is now clear that to Thomas, those remarks did not mean he necessarily would empathize with defendants. During two decades as the court's most consistent conservative, he has taken a tough approach to criminal defendants' cases, showing a disdain for hard-luck tales of bad childhoods and a conviction that defendants accept responsibility.
As several cases this term have shown, criminal law is one area in which Thomas — who almost never speaks during public court sessions — is making his mark. He often writes alone, yet with strong rhetoric that gets attention — particularly in light of his difficult background and professed concern for men who took the wrong path.
"When he steps in the shoes of people," says Stanford University law professor Jeffrey Fisher, "he's more likely to say tough-love is necessary and you have to take responsibility."
It has been almost two decades since President George H.W. Bush nominated Thomas and his Senate confirmation hearings rocked the nation.
Timeline of two decades on the court
July 1, 1991: President George H.W. Bush nominates Clarence Thomas, then an appeals court judge in Washington, D.C., to succeed
September 1991: Senate Judiciary Committee hearings begin on the nomination; the committee splits 7-7 on whether to favorably recommend Thomas to the full Senate, then votes to send his nomination forward without a recommendation. Opponents such as committee chairman Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., criticize Thomas for evasive answers, including on individual privacy rights.
October 1991: Judiciary Committee hearings reopen after then-University of Oklahoma law professor
Oct. 15, 1991: Senate confirms Thomas on a vote of 52-48, the closest confirmation vote in more than a century.
July 1998: Continuing to face criticism for his conservative stands on legal issues, -- particularly from black leaders who say he has not served his own community -- Thomas tells a convention of the National Bar Association (the nations largest organization of predominantly African-American lawyers): Isnt it time to move on? Isnt it time to realize that being angry with me solves no problems?
December 2000: Addressing his reluctance to ask questions at oral arguments, Thomas tells a group of students he was self-conscious about his Gullah dialect when he was young. I just started developing the habit of listening, he says. I think this is probably the first time I ever even told anybody about it.
October 2007: Thomas publishes My Grandfathers Son: A Memoir, in which he recounts Hills allegations and compares himself with the black defendant wrongly charged with rape in Harper Lees classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.
October 2010: Thomas wife, Virginia, calls Hills office at Brandeis University and asks for an apology for Hills allegations against Clarence Thomas. Hill reports the voice-mail to campus police and declines any apology.
February 2011: Thomas passes his five-year anniversary of saying nothing during oral arguments.
By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY
Thomas' first set of hearings, when he addressed questions related to the law and why he wanted to be a justice, were eclipsed by the second round that was called after law professor Anita Hill claimed Thomas had sexually harassed her when she worked for him at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of Education.
Thomas denied the claim and the Senate eventually approved his nomination, 52-48. Yet Hill's accusations endured as fodder for dinner table conversations and campus debates, as well as late-night comedians. The Thomas-Hill ordeal also became a force in the congressional elections of 1992, when a record number of women were elected to the U.S. House and Senate.
Now, Thomas is the third-longest serving justice on the current nine-member bench. At the time of his confirmation, he was 43. If he serves to the age of his predecessor Thurgood Marshall, who was 83 when he retired, Thomas, who turns 63 this month, could have another 20 years on the bench.
Hill's claims linger in the news, revived last year when Thomas' wife, Virginia, telephoned Hill and asked her to apologize to her husband. Hill declined.
As much as such off-bench activities draw headlines, Thomas is establishing a significant legacy on the law, notably on cases involving prisoners. This spring, he dissented alone when the court threw out a harsh re-sentencing order for an Iowa drug dealer who earlier had won leniency, entered rehabilitation and turned his life around.
Thomas also wrote the court's opinion reversing a $14million civil rights judgment for a New Orleans death-row inmate whose prosecutors had concealed blood evidence that could have helped him prove his innocence. And Thomas wrote a recent opinion against a California convict who claimed his lawyer was ineffective because the jury was never told about his childhood brain injuries, abuse and deprivation.
In that case, Thomas referred disapprovingly to an "infatuation with 'humanizing' the defendant."
"He certainly is the least compromising of the justices, in that he has strong views and is reluctant to temper them," says George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr, who like Fisher specializes in criminal cases. "The themes you see in his criminal law cases are the themes that you see elsewhere. He says, 'If you do wrong, you have to take the consequences.'"
A striking conservatism
After two decades, Thomas remains the most controversial justice, and most conservative. He is more to the right than Justice Antonin Scalia in interpreting the Constitution, and Thomas can be the most aggressive of the court's nine members in seeking to overturn past rulings.
In a major 2009 voting-rights case, only Thomas wanted to throw out a provision of a landmark 1965 law that requires states to clear any changes in voting procedures with the Justice Department to ensure changes don't hurt blacks or other minorities traditionally kept from the polls. As he alone dissented, Thomas wrote, "The extensive pattern of discrimination that led the Court to previously uphold (the provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act) … no longer exists."
Thomas also was the only justice in the 2010 case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission who said federal disclosure rules for campaign spending violate First Amendment free speech rights. His dissenting statements have no force of law, but they draw wide attention on law school campuses and in the media. While they often become fodder for his critics, the statements also give Thomas a high-profile way to lay out a counter argument and if not persuade his colleagues, influence others.
In criminal law cases, the conservatism of the court's only African-American justice has been striking.
Thomas signaled his approach early four months after his October 1991 confirmation. He dissented in a case involving a Louisiana prisoner who had been shackled and punched by guards as a supervisor looked on. The beating loosened the inmate's teeth and cracked his dental plate.
The court majority in Hudson v. McMillian ruled the beating violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Thomas, joined only by Scalia, argued that the Eighth Amendment was not violated by the "insignificant" harm the inmate suffered. The New York Times blasted Thomas' dissenting opinion in an editorial titled, "The Youngest, Cruelest Justice."
Thomas contended the history of the Eighth Amendment limits the scope of its protection for prison life. "Surely prison was not a more congenial place in the early years of the Republic than it is today; nor were our judges and commentators so naïve as to be unaware of the often harsh conditions of prison life," he wrote in the case. "Rather, they simply did not conceive of the Eighth Amendment as protecting inmates from harsh treatment."
A decade later, in 2002, Thomas dissented from a decision against Alabama's practice of chaining prisoners to outdoor hitching posts and abandoning them for hours without food or water. At the outset of his opinion, he quarreled with the court majority's use of the term "hitching post." Rather, he wrote, "the apparatus to which (the prisoner) was handcuffed is a restraining bar."
Thomas, joined by Scalia and then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist, dissented from the majority's decision that guards should have known the punishment was unconstitutionally cruel and that the prisoner had grounds to sue.
Focusing on the crime
Now, nearly a decade later, Thomas' pattern of ruling against criminal defendants is only deeper.
"Justice Thomas is probably the most conservative on matters related to crime and punishment, followed closely by Justice (Samuel) Alito" says Cornell law professor John Blume. He notes that Alito, who joined the court in 2006, is a former federal prosecutor.
Thomas often separates himself from fellow justices with his lack of consideration for a defendant's plight. "Some of his opinions reveal a failure to appreciate the facts and circumstances of (a defendant's) life," Blume said, "and a myopic focus on the crime itself."
Thomas declined to be interviewed.
A series of cases this term have shown Thomas' inclinations and overall approach to go it alone.
In the Iowa case, Pepper v. United States, testing trial judges' discretion in sentencing, Thomas dissented from the majority view that a drug dealer's assistance to law enforcement and later rehabilitation could lead to less prison time than U.S. sentencing guidelines dictate.
Breaking from his colleagues on whether the convict should have gotten 24 months, rather than 65, behind bars, Thomas said he believed the longer sentence was required by law. "Although this outcome would not represent my own policy choice," Thomas wrote, "I am bound by the choices made by Congress and the Federal Sentencing Commission."
When Thomas is in the majority with other conservatives on a criminal case, Stanford professor Fisher notes, Thomas often is assigned the opinion for the court. (The most senior member of the majority, typically Chief Justice Roberts, makes the assignment.)
Thomas "doesn't flinch from writing blunt opinions," Fisher says, "even when there may be a feeling among some of the others that something went wrong in a case."
That was the situation in a March case from Louisiana, when the conservative majority ruled that a former death row convict could not sue prosecutors who had failed to turn over blood evidence that could have shown his innocence in a separate armed robbery and led him to testify on his behalf in a murder trial.
Thomas dispassionately recounted John Thompson's situation, brushing past how prosecutors had railroaded him and how close Thompson came to execution. Thomas said that while prosecutors in the New Orleans district attorney office had been caught burying evidence in four prior cases, there was no significant pattern of violations and the district attorney could not be sued for failing to properly train his assistants.
Prosecutors are trained in law school, Thomas emphasized. "Before they may enter the profession and receive a law license," Thomas wrote, "all attorneys must graduate from law school or pass a substantive examination."
The four liberal justices dissented, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was so provoked that she read portions of her statement from the bench. She stressed the injustice to Thompson and responsibility of former district attorney Harry Connick . She noted that prosecutors have a constitutional obligation to reveal evidence that might exonerate a person: "That obligation was dishonored in this case. Consequently, John Thompson spent 14 years isolated on death row before the truth came to light."
Justice Thomas took the lead in another ideologically divided criminal case this spring, rejecting an appeal from a California murder convict who said his lawyer failed to present evidence of his troubled background that might have gotten him a life, rather than death, sentence.
As Thomas stated in the first sentence of his opinion in Cullen v. Pinholster, Scott Pinholster and two other men broke into a home and fatally beat and stabbed two men who interrupted a burglary.
Thomas played down the facts of Pinholster's childhood that the convict said should have been presented to jurors. Thomas' emphasis contrasted with that of dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Thomas wrote: "When he was very young, Pinholster suffered two serious head injuries, first at age 2 or 3 when he was run over by a car, and again at age 4 or 5 when he went through the windshield during a car accident. When he was 5, Pinholster's stepfather moved in and was abusive, or nearly so."
In her rendition of the facts, Sotomayor noted that it was Pinholster's mother who ran him over as child. Regarding the stepfather, Sotomayor offered no "nearly so" caveat: "Pinholster's stepfather beat him several times a week, including at least once with a two-by-four board," she wrote. "There was so much violence in the home that Pinholster's brother dreaded coming home each day. Pinholster's half-sister was removed from the home as a result of a beating by his stepfather."
She said the majority ignored critical details of Pinholster's case and asserted that "fair-minded jurists could not doubt that," based on the new record, at least one juror would have opposed a death sentence, which would have blocked imposition of the ultimate punishment.
But Thomas, in his opinion, stressed that even if the jury had heard the full story of Pinholster's family problems, he still might have gotten death: "(T)he jury might have concluded that Pinholster was simply beyond rehabilitation."
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Barchester Adlington Manor Care Home
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Street Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield SK10 4NT
Adlington Manor Care Home provides 24-hour nursing care alongside expert care for people with dementia in the Memory Lane Community. It is situated within the midst of the Cheshire countryside. They are proud to be accredited as part of Barchester's… more
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Horseshoe Lane, Alderley Edge SK9 7QP
Cavendish Court Care Home comes courtesy of care provider Maria Mallaband and offers a luxurious residential environment for up to 43 elderly people, amidst the scenic Cheshire countryside. With a skilled and experienced team of carers, Cavendish… more
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London Road, Adlington, Macclesfield SK10 4NJ
Hope Green is located on the edge of the village of Poynton and is conveniently located close to junction 1 of the M60 motorway. Local shops, library, hairdressers, surgery, pharmacy and public house are all within walking distance. Hope Green Residential… more
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Brook Lane, Alderley Edge SK9 7QG
Brookview welcomes those with nursing, residential and respite needs, and also offers dementia, convalescence and palliative care. Significant investment has made Brookview a luxury home, with pleasing additions including a wet room in all bedrooms,… more
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Barclay Park, Hall Lane, Mobberley, Knutsford WA16 7DZ
Not only is Sunrise of Mobberley – one of Cheshire's premier providers of retirement living, residential care and dementia care – situated in a picturesque, semi-rural location, but the home also makes use of the latest thinking in design to create a… more
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Edenfield Road, Mobberley, Knutsford WA16 7HE
Leycester House is highly regarded in the local community, providing expert care for older people including 24 hour care, day care and respite care services. The home has a vibrant programme of entertainment and activities for residents to enjoy,… more
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1 Dairyground Road, Bramhall, Stockport SK7 2HW
Sunrise of Bramhall offers individual, customised residential care and dementia care services in Manchester and the surrounding area. Their community forms an integral part of a Cheshire village that's steeped in local history. Close to the historic… more
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147/149 Gatley Road, Gatley, Cheadle SK8 4PD
The aim of the proprietors and staff at Ashbourne House is to provide a happy, safe and comfortable home for residents so that they live as full and active life as they are able, in a congenial and homely atmosphere. They encourage residents to retain… more
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5 Stancliffe Road, Sharston, Wythenshawe, Manchester M22 4RY
Ringway Mews is a bright and modern care home offering residential and nursing care to the elderly. Dementia, Parkinson's and palliative care plans are supported by a team of expert and professional carers, 24 hours a day in pleasant and homely surroundings.… more
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Pinewood Road, Summerfields, Wilmslow SK9 2RS
Hazelmere House is a purpose-built home that offers many forms of care, nursing and rehabilitation to elderly residents. Residential, convalescence and respite needs are welcome, with carers also experienced in palliative care, as well as being able… more
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Petersburg Road, Edgeley, Stockport SK3 9QZ
Cherryfield House is registered for twenty-nine residents, with mostly en-suite rooms and pleasant living areas highly-suited to the needs of adults diagnosed with dementia. Older people with care needs and adults with conditions like Alzheimer's… more
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239 Adswood Road, Shaw Heath, Stockport SK3 8PA
Bamford Grange is located close to shops, amenities, public transport and the M60 motorway link. Stockport town centre is just a few miles away. This purpose built home provides nursing and social care for the mentally infirm elderly. Accommodation… more
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Flash Lane, Bollington Cross, Macclesfield SK10 5AQ
Committed to providing individualised care, Mount Hall is a nursing home with a dedicated team of staff who work hard to understand the needs of each resident. Care plans are offered for short and long term needs and include palliative and Parkinson's… more
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Woodford Road, Woodford, Stockport SK7 1QF
Southfield House is a privately-owned residential care home in Woodford, Cheshire, providing relaxed, comfortable surroundings with the reassurance of professional 24 hour care. It sits amongst a number of large detached residential properties, in an… more
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I haven't done it personally, but this article indicates that they got a 5 shot average of 1139 fps at 10 ft using a Remington 124gr JHP +P load. (Refer to the table on page 2 of the article.)
I can't put my finger on them at the moment, but I believe I've seen a couple of other articles that seem to support this.


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Where's all of the Phoenix brides at ?!
I went to a bridal show and the PLACE WAS PACKED with brides !
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Here! What bridal show?!
I went a while ago....probably in January. I was just commenting that I figure that there would be more Arizona/Phoenix brides on here. :)
I'm here too. I havn't been to any bridal shows out here, are they any good?
Hey, I'm a Phoenix bride too! Just saying hello! When/Where are you all getting married?
There is one on 11/1/09. There was a post somewhere on here with a link to 2 free tickets! I know there is one on 10/4/09 and another in January!
I live in the Phoenix area, However getting Married in Maui ! (10 more days) :)
But I have lived in the valley my whole life, I could be useful help !
becomingdee!!! You need to get some bio stuff up!!! Cute pic!
I am in Arizona. I used to live in Phoenix, but moved to Flagstaff after I got married last year. PW was a life saver while planning. Now, I have my own wedding floral & decor business. I have access to lots of great vases and decor, so if anyone needs any help let me know.


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ULM, Germany (AP) Philipp Kohlschreiber and Florian Mayer gave Germany a 2-0 lead over Brazil in their Davis Cup World Group playoff on Friday with victories over Rogerio Dutra Silva and Thomaz Bellucci.
Kohlschreiber defeated Dutra Silva 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 in the first match, although the 25th-ranked German was pushed hard by the 134th-ranked Brazilian.
Mayer had a more comfortable 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 victory over Bellucci, who faded after the first set. The Brazilian No. 1 was sidelined for most of the summer with an abdominal injury.
Brazil will need to win the three remaining matches to stay in the World Group for another year.
The doubles match is on Saturday with reverse singles on Sunday.
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I liked the idea of folding sunglasses. The form factor was great. The included carrying case was perfect for throwing in a bag or in my car.
The style was a bit more european than my normal taste. But, not too bizarre.
However, the glasses weren't as wide as I'd like and the arms weren't as long as i'd like.
My biggest knock though, is the durability, the number one quality a cheap pair of banger glasses needs is resilience. One drop from waist height took these dudes down. Split, irreparably on the nose.


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The European Union's ambassador to the Philippines says grant money from his grouping is meant to promote development, not system change, in foreign countries.
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Nepali climbers said Tuesday that a rocky outcrop near the top of Mount Everest known as the "Hillary Step" is intact, disputing a British climber's claim the feature had collapsed.
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The South African city of Cape Town is instructing people to severely restrict water use because of the area's worst drought in more than a century.
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Japan's lower house approved a bill Tuesday allowing authorities to punish those found guilty of planning serious crimes, legislation that opponents say could be used to undermine basic civil liberties.
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A steely gaze from one woman. A slight, apologetic bow from another. On the first day of the biggest trial in South Korea in years, two small gestures reflect the state of a friendship that toppled a president.
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A computer defeated China's top player of the ancient board game go on Tuesday in the latest test of whether artificial intelligence can master one of the last games that machines have yet to dominate.
Trump tests waters for Mideast peace in meeting with Abbas
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Testing the waters for Middle East peace, President Donald Trump traveled Tuesday through the barrier ringing biblical Bethlehem to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Yemen officials confirm clashes between US troops, militants
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Yemeni security officials and tribesmen say U.S. helicopters airlifted soldiers to the Arab country's central Marib province where they clashed with suspected al-Qaida militants.
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Manchester police say the man who set off an improvised explosive device at an Ariana Grande concert in northern England died in the attack. Police said Tuesday 22 people died in the attack Monday night. It wasn't clear if that included the suspected suicide bomber. Dozens more were injured.
2 men in Indonesia caned dozens of times for gay sex
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Two men in Indonesia's Aceh province were publicly caned dozens of times Tuesday for consensual gay sex, a punishment that intensifies an anti-gay backlash in the world's most populous Muslim country and which rights advocates denounced as "medieval torture."
Analysis: In Mideast, Trump pushes shared worries over Iran
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As he hopscotches through the Middle East, President Donald Trump is urging Israel and its Arab neighbors to unite around a "common cause": their deep distrust of Iran.
U.S delivers 6 coastal patrol boats to Vietnam coast guard
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The United States has delivered six coastal patrol boats to Vietnam's coast guard in a move that expands the two nation's security cooperation amid tension in the disputed South China Sea.
Abbas adviser says Trump visit could reopen path to talks
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A senior Palestinian official says he expects President Donald Trump's visit to the Holy Land to reopen a path toward resuming long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
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A disruptive passenger on a United Airlines flight from Shanghai to New Jersey was asked to get off the plane in a politically tinged altercation, resulting in an unscheduled stop in San Francisco and an arrival delayed by eight hours.
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Handcuffed and her inmate number put on her clothing, South Korea's disgraced ex-President Park Geun-hye was brought to a Seoul court on Tuesday to stand trial on a slew of corruption charges that have already led to her ouster from office and arrest.
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The Latest on the bribery trial of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye (all times local):
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Former President Park Geun-hye stared straight ahead and denied that she engaged in bribery and leaking government secrets at Tuesday's start of the criminal trial that could send South Korea's first female leader to prison for life if she is convicted.
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A human rights watchdog condemned the bombing of a Thai hospital that wounded more than 20 people on the third anniversary of a military coup, saying the blast was an inexcusable crime.
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Designed to enable anyone from a novice to an Olympic standard swimmer to achieve an exact balanced kick, while using their preferred armstroke.
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If you've been following our activities for the past years, you know how much we like Twitter. Arguably the most active social network within the data visualization and journalistic communities, the popular micro-blogging platform continued to grow in 2013, a trend that is sure to continue this year.
During the time we've been using Twitter, we collected several insights from folks who work or are interested in data visualization, and we thought it would be fun to pull some of some of our favorites of 2013 in to a single post. We tried to focus on messages without links, and there's no way we can do a post about Twitter and data visualization without recommending some of the most prolific users, such as Alberto Cairo (@albertocairo), Santiago Ortiz (@moebio) or Andy Kirk (@visualisingdata), just to mention a few.
So, hope you enjoy this selection – and get ready to Retweet a lot!
Your data vis should be better than a bar chart? Well, then… first, make a bar chart.
— Moritz Stefaner (@moritz_stefaner) November 1, 2013
It's the same in data viz as in engineering. It's too easy to think of cool technologies you can use instead of the result you really want.
— Jon Peltier (@Jon_Peltier) November 19, 2013
If there's something I dislike more than bad marketing infographics is bad marketing infographics on marketing infographics
— Chiqui Esteban (@chiquiesteban) November 27, 2013
problem of programming tutorials: they show you how to do it right instead of what to do when things fail (which happens 95% of the time).
— Dominikus Baur (@dominikus) July 31, 2013
Working w lots of folks. Learning: ppl are emotionally attached to data they've collected. They want to know you'll treat their data right.
— MLK Strength to Love (@datatelling) August 1, 2013
QOTD: "Data journalism is like sex among teenagers: They all say they're doing it, but in reality very few are."
— Marie Gilot (@louiegilot) August 5, 2013
Never underestimate how long it takes to clean up data that looks clean.
— Kim Rees (@krees) August 6, 2013
I'm a designer trying to quit infographics and do only interactive. I'm like a model trying to stop modeling and start an acting career
— Paul Van Slembr… (@ptvan) August 15, 2013
If your algorithms show up in your dreams, then you're a programmer. If your algorithms dream of you, then you are an expert :-).
— Cesar A. Hidalgo (@cesifoti) August 15, 2013
Information is not the problem. It's how you contextualize it: for whom, when, how, how much, and of course, why.
— Michael Babwahsingh (@mbabwahsingh) August 16, 2013
At any given moment in time, 9 PEOPLE are making up a statistic.
— made-up stats (@madeupstats) August 19, 2013
For graphics in exploratory data analysis, words should tell viewer how to read the design (if it's complex) and not what to read. #dataviz
— Stephen Yamada (@MoshiYama) August 21, 2013
So many visualizations suffer from being stuffed into 800px websites. Designers need good justification and UX to let their creations breath
— Bryan Connor (@thewhyaxis) August 23, 2013
Complex systems are like sweaters. You think a design change will just pull out a loose thread, but then the whole sleeve unravels.
— Kim Goodwin (@kimgoodwin) October 4, 2013
A bad visualization is worth a thousand swear words. Ross & Bennett #strataconf
— Naomi B Robbins (@nbrgraphs) November 12, 2013
Data is proof that a person left a mark. Remember the human behind the statistic. Therein lies the story.
— sarah slobin (@sarahslo) November 26, 2013
I wish more people talked about what they did with their data and less about how much they got.
— zv (@zaxtax) November 24, 2013
Statistics. Probably the most complex thing people expect you can teach them in 45 minutes.
— Mats Einarsen (@matseinarsen) October 10, 2013
Coding is complicated? Try to understand problems with Pantone colors and printing presses and I'll tell you what's complicated.
— Chiqui Esteban (@chiquiesteban) September 4, 2013
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VandenHurk Named 2012 Tribe MVP
Wood, Locke, Hernandez, Boggs Honored; Holt is POTM
By Michael Raines / IndyIndians.com | August 31, 2012 10:24 AM ET
Additionally, RHP Tim Wood (Henry Smock Relief Pitcher of the Year), LHP Jeff Locke (Starting Pitcher of the Year), INF Anderson Hernandez (Defensive Player of the Year) and OF Brandon Boggs (Offensive Player of the Year) will all be honored for season-long accomplishments. INF Brock Holt has been named the Indians August Player of the Month and will receive a custom-made watch courtesy of Windsor Jewelry after tonight's game.
VandenHurk joined the Indians in mid-May and sandwiched a pair of relief appearances around his first start before joining the rotation full-time on May 31. Across his first 10 appearances, VandenHurk won each of his first eight decisions. As of Wednesday, his 12 wins ranked in a five-way tied for the second-most in the International League.
A native of Einhoven, Netherlands, VandenHurk is tied with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RHP Ramon Ortiz for the most wins in all of Triple-A baseball since his Indians debut on May 14. His 107 strikeouts are the most in the league since his debut and his 3.07 ERA is the fifth-best in the IL this season.
VandenHurk is projected to start for Indianapolis tonight against the Toledo Mud Hens. The first pitch is scheduled for 7:15 p.m.
Wood, the Henry Smock Relief Pitcher of the Year, has spent the past two seasons building his argument for consideration as one of the greatest closers in Indianapolis Indians history. In 2012, Wood had appeared in 54 games through Thursday and recorded 21 saves, both of which rank second in the IL.
Overall, Wood is 6-6 with a 2.19 ERA this season, which ranks second on the team among full-time relievers. In the past two seasons with the Indians, Wood is 8-6 with 44 saves, posting a 2.44 ERA (31 earned runs in 114.1 innings pitched).
On Tuesday morning, it was announced that Wood had been named to the IL postseason all-star team along with former Tribe OF Starling Marte. Wood is the first two-time postseason all-star as a reliever since the league began including the award in 1978. In early August, Baseball America named Wood the IL' s Best Reliever.
Locke, the Tribe's Starting Pitcher of the Year, is 10-5 with a 2.48 ERA, the third-best in the IL among starters. As of Wednesday, his 24 starts were the second-most on the team, as were his 131 strikeouts.
The southpaw also spent a brief stint in the major leagues, making a pair of relief appearances for the Pittsburgh Pirates, posting no record and a 0.00 ERA. Locke has been especially effective in three starts since returning from the bigs, going 1-0 with a 1.08 ERA, issuing just five walks and recording 18 strikeouts.
For the second year in a row, a Hernandez is the Tribe's Defensive Player of the Year. Last year, it was former Indians outfielder Gorkys Hernandez being honored for his jaw-dropping range and impressive arm; this year, Anderson Hernandez is being honored for his versatility.
Hernandez spent most of the season at second base but also played significant numbers of games at third base and shortstop and even made one start in left field. In 96 defensive games through Thursday, Hernandez posted a .970 fielding percentage and helped turn a team-high 40 double plays.
Another player being honored for his versatility is Boggs, the Offensive Player of the Year. Boggs has played the most games out of anyone on the team -- 123 as of Thursday -- and batted in all but one slot in the batting order, only never being slipped into the No. 2 hole. Boggs also played all three outfield positions and designated hitter and even made one appearance on the mound, his first since high school, throwing a perfect inning against the Pawtucket Red Sox on June 5.
As of Thursday, Boggs had batted .262 on the season and ranked first among all Indians players in walks (58), third in runs scored (61), hits (104) and RBI (55), tied for second in doubles (24) and triples (five) and tied for third in home runs (nine).
In addition to those players receiving awards for their season-long excellence, newcomer Holt will be honored as the Tribe's August Player of the Month. Holt made his Triple-A debut on August 7 and has not stopped hitting since.
In 23 games for the Indians as of Thursday, Holt had batted .440 (40-for-91 with seven doubles, one home run, seven RBI, 12 runs scored and four stolen bases. Since his debut, Holt leads all of Triple-A baseball in hits and ranks second among all minor leaguers.
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I entered into a contract to purchase a 2009 Chevrolet Corvette on EBay. After speaking with the owner of Midwest RV, I sent my contractor to go get the car (600 miles away from Indiana) He drove 10 hours to get the car. The car was nothing like seller described.
The clear coat is coming off, the rim is bent, the fiberglass is cracked, the transmission has troubles and has metal shavings on the dip stick. After driving 10 hours they then refused to allow me the car after giving them a cashiers check, that they confirmed was good with my bank. (Chase Bank)
These guys are SCAM artists. My attorney found out they are NOT allowed to do business in Kansas as an LLC and the BBB has had multiple complaints. My attorney also has found they are in financial trouble. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THEM!!!
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#1 Author of original report
Tried to Remove this report
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, September 23, 2014POSTED: Tuesday, September 23, 2014
I have tried multiple times to remove the report on this site, so both parties can move on with their perspective compaines and it will not allow it.
I wish Midwest RV the best of luck and hope that they can take advantage of this great year for the RV business
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#2 REBUTTAL Owner of company
re: midwest rv llc, re: stuart surface
SUBMITTED: Saturday, August 24, 2013POSTED: Saturday, August 24, 2013
I am the owner of Midwest RV llc......to start things off, my company is no where near financial trouble, never has been.....We are one of the midwest leading sellers for late model used travel trailers and high end 5th wheels.....I put my 2009 corvette for sale on ebay....i have 100% feedback rating, with over 100 high end sales......Stuart Surface purchased the car, he has a "0" feedback rating and is new to ebay....i described the car as a very clean 2009 corvette zhz convertible with 53k miles........
when he sent a driver to get the car, it was four people who looked like they worked for a carnival.......they picked the car apart, only for the reason to try to talk me down........i told them they didnt have to buy it.......then i recieved multiple threats from Stuart , saying he put a lien on my car and was going to sue me.....i passed all of the threatening text messages and emails to my business attorney........
This guy claims he is worth millions, but after researching his name, he has multiple claims against him......and was in trouble with the IRS for major tax fraud......if he was worth millions he would not buy a used 2009 corvette.......I hope nobody ever has to deal with this guy cause he is a relentless sociopath and has serious issues........anyone who has questions can contact me anytime, Midwest RV llc.....Ottawa, KS...........this has been the absolute worst business situation i have ever had to deal with. If this guy does not get his way, he tries everything he can to ruin a good person, or company's reputation.
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Still No response a year later
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Banfi's Rosa Regale is unusual to the point of uniqueness. A deep red sparkling wine, it is made in Acqui in the Piedmont region of Italy from Brachetto grapes. Ferment in the Italian sparkling method (in tanks, not in bottle), it is bottled at all of 7% alcohol.
You would swear by the nose and the taste that this is spiked with berries and flower petals. With its pink foam, there's nothing that doesn't exude fruitiness here, with jammy strawberry sweetness making you think of a fruit syrup you might apply to a cheesecake.
Banfi says Rosa Regale is made for pairing with chocolate, positing that it's the best wine for chocolate there is. I wouldn't go that for — the sweetness is too cloying to stand up to good chocolate, the berry character turning a bit too lollipop-like when faced with the stuff. But no matter: Rosa Regale is perfect on its own… provided you know what you're getting into.
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Kirchner: I start to doubt whether this can be called justice
A US appeals court in New York has told Argentina to spell out its offer to settle a suit by holders of defaulted bonds that Buenos Aires brands "vultures," court documents showed
But Argentine President Cristina Kirchner insisted that while the country was willing to repay its debts, it would not grant the so-called vulture funds better terms than those agreed upon in past restructurings, AFP has reported.
Argentina's lawyer suggested in a hearing on Wednesday that the government was willing to repay the debt via an unstated formula different from what the bondholders -- US hedge funds -- were demanding.
The court therefore ordered Argentina to submit in writing the "precise terms of any alternative payment formula and schedule to which (the country) is prepared to commit" by March 29.
Under the order, Buenos Aires must detail how and when it would repay the bonds, and what assurances it would provide about repayment.
Argentina defaulted on some $100bn in debt in 2001, and has since restructured its debt twice, covering around 75 percent of the nominal value of the bonds.
But hedge funds NML Capital and Aurelius Capital Management, which bought up some of the original defaulted debt at steep discounts, refused to go along with the restructurings and are suing to recover 100 percent of the bonds' value, a total of $1.3bn.
In an October ruling, a New York judge said Argentina would have to repay both sets of the bonds. The added $1.3bn burden, however, could strain the country's finances and force it into default on all the bonds again.
In Buenos Aires, Kirchner said Argentina would agree to pay the hedge funds at the same discounted value and on the same schedule as the other creditors.
"Our offer to these 'vulture funds' is that they receive the money in the same way as those who are being paid back today, with the same 'haircut' and the same timetables," she told Argentina's congress.
"If there is a judge or a country that chooses to harm 93 percent of bondholders in order to favour seven percent, I start to doubt whether that can be called justice," she added.
"We are willing to pay these 'vulture funds' but not under better terms, because we would be committing a crime, cheating and defrauding 93 percent of creditors."
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Winn-Dixie Issues Recall on Pre-Prepared Broccoli Crunch Salad
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 25, 2013 – Winn-Dixie today announced an immediate recall in all Winn-Dixie stores of the Taylor Farms Broccoli Crunch Salad sold in the full-service case in the deli department. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the reason for the recall is the potential that the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The recall is part of a larger recall issued by Taylor Farms Tennessee, Inc. and Taylor Farms Maryland, Inc. as a result of a recall of Reser's Fine Food Inc. products.
To protect its customers, Winn-Dixie is immediately recalling the Broccoli Crunch Salad from deli cases in all stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.
The recalled Taylor Farms Broccoli Crunch Salad was sold at stores between Oct. 19 and Oct. 24. Winn-Dixie has received no reports of any issues associated with Broccoli Crunch Salad consumption.
"The health and well-being of our customers is top priority for us and we want to ensure our customers only consume safe and healthy products," said Brian Wright, Winn-Dixie's communications and community vice president. "We encourage customers to immediately discard the product or take it back to their neighborhood store. Anyone who purchased the product can request a full refund, no questions asked."
To receive the refund, customers may present proof of purchase through a receipt or the product-packaging label.
Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms. An invasive infection spreads beyond the gastrointestinal tract. In pregnant women, the infection can cause miscarriages, stillbirths, premature delivery or life-threatening infection of the newborn. The very young, seniors and persons with weak immune systems are the most susceptible to foodborne illnesses.
Customers with questions about the recalled products may contact the Winn-Dixie Customer Call Center toll free at 866-946-6349, Mon. - Fri., 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. EDT and Sat., 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. EDT.
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MS bike ride in New Bern this weekend
NEW BERN, CRAVEN COUNTY - Cyclists and volunteers are gearing up for the 25th Annual Bike MS: Historic New Bern Ride.
Vice President for Development for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Shannon Hinson said, it feels like Christmas after all the preparation.
"It takes a whole year so it builds up to this one weekend, and it feels like a big party," Hinson said.
The two-day cycling event raises millions for Multiple Sclerosis -an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. Currently, MS has no cure.
Last year, the event raised about $7.1 million, and this year Hinson said they hope to raise $8.1 million.
Cyclists can ride a 30, 75, 50, or 100 mile course through Craven, Pamlico, and Beaufort County. The event expects more than 2,000 cyclists, and 500 volunteers throughout the weekend.
The New Bern Police said they will not close roads in the city. They expect minimal delays at major intersections. The police traffic unit will be in the city limits to help manage traffic flow.
A cyclist with MS, Elizabeth Paige, said this event helps people with MS feel stronger.
"They have the control to do something to combat the disease. There will be a lot of people here who won't be as fortunate as I am who have MS that won't be able to ride, but their spouse, sister, brother, or friend will be riding for them," Paige said.
Paige has been riding in the event for the past 13 years. She said events like these help tremendously with research.
"When I was diagnosed in 1995, we didn't even have any drugs that could alter the course of this disease," Paige said.
Paige's friends and family come every year to support her by riding, and to join in the fight for the more than two million people worldwide waiting on a cure.


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The Dolphins didn't do themselves any favors with their loss at Buffalo today, but Miami did get some relatively good news in the late-afternoon window of games, as the Ravens' loss to New England and the Chargers' win over Oakland has set up a mad dash to the sixth and final playoff spot in the AFC.
The Dolphins, Ravens, Chargers and Steelers are all mathematically alive heading into the final week of the regular season and only one of those four teams will make it to the playoffs.
Here are those teams' schedules for Week 17: Dolphins host Jets; Ravens visit Bengals; Chargers host Chiefs and Steelers host Browns.
So what needs to happen for the Dolphins to find themselves playing in January? Continue reading to find out…
(Note: For the purposes of simplicity, we are only using scenarios involving wins and losses, not ties.)
Here are the possible outcomes of games on Sunday that involve a Dolphins win over the Jets:
Scenario 1:
Dolphins, Chargers and Ravens all win. The Dolphins go to playoffs (based on conference record).
Scenario 2:
Ravens and Dolphins win, Chargers lose. The Ravens go to playoffs (based on head-to-head).
Scenario 3:
Dolphins and Chargers win, Ravens lose. The Dolphins go to playoffs (based on head-to-head).
Scenario 4:
Dolphins win, Chargers and Ravens lose. The Dolphins go to playoffs (based on having better record).
If the Dolphins lose, they cannot make the playoffs. If there's a four-way tie at 8-8 between Miami, San Diego, Baltimore and the Jets (who, by beating the Dolphins, would be 8-8), Baltimore wins the Wild Card. If there's a five-way tie between those teams and the Steelers, Pittsburgh would win the final spot in the playoffs.
Make sense?
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Three Observations from loss at Buffalo
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62 Responses to "Updated Week 17 Playoff Scenarios"
Just Win Baby! The rest will take care of itself!
This is going to be a hell of a exciting week!!!!!!!! Go phins
Is it too early to start with FIRELAND again?
I'll take scenarios one, 3 & 4 please!
Oh ok, clear as mud.
Sherman sucked today
the dolphins don't deserve t go to the playoffs, the chargers do
If the Dolphins are gonna play next Sunday with their ass tight and nervous they are going down again, jets have nothing to loose and the Dlophins should play the same way thinking that it's been a decent season and play like in a practice with no pressure, that's the only way the gonna beat the jets.
Dolphins are going to make the playoffs because the Ravens will lose since they are playing the Bengals in Cincy, and the Chargers will probably win because Andy Reed Is resting his starters, but that doesn't matter because the Dolphins won the head to head tie breaker.
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The key question Asian investors ask me when they want to make acquisitions subject to our Overseas Investment Act is whether they will be discriminated against when they make an application.
And non-Asian foreign investors ask whether the anti-foreign investment sentiment over the Crafar farms sale also applies to them or is it specific to Asian investors?
My answer is the same to both groups. The Crafar farms controversy was an unfortunate combination of events.
Crafar farms are one of the biggest blocks of farmland ever sold to foreigners in New Zealand. The first applicant was found not to have satisfied the good character requirements; she was declared bankrupt for defaulting on loans, and was wanted by the equivalent of our Serious Fraud Office in Hong Kong. Not a good start.
There is an old Chinese saying to beware of walking in the dark, as one day you will meet a ghost!
You have to meet the good character requirements - and more. As the Court of Appeal confirmed last week by upholding the Government's decision permitting Shanghai Pengxin to purchase the Crafar farms, it is a privilege for overseas persons to invest in New Zealand land - no matter where they come from.
Such persons must satisfy the tests in the act, but if the Minister of Finance and Land Information are satisfied that those tests are met they must approve an application for consent.
There is, quite properly, no legal discretion for ministers to decline an application simply because they don't like the applicant's nationality.
An applicant for consent must satisfy the Overseas Investment Office that they are of good character, that they have demonstrated a financial commitment to the investment, that they have relevant business experience and acumen to the investment, and, perhaps most importantly, that, unless the people with control of the investment are New Zealand citizens, or will reside in New Zealand indefinitely, the investment will benefit New Zealand.
The court held that a wide range of experience could be relevant to an investment such as the Crafar farms, and it is not necessary for Chinese investment bankers to know how to milk cows.
The Court of Appeal has also not disturbed Justice Miller's earlier finding in the High Court that any benefits claimed as part of an application must be benefits that would not otherwise accrue.
That means most applicants have to promise to do more with their investment than a competing New Zealand bidder, such as promise public access, environmental commitments, or increased employment and production opportunities.
So the effect of the Overseas Investment Act is now to ensure that New Zealand benefits doubly from overseas investment - we gain the benefits of access to international capital, but simultaneously we ensure that applicants deliver extra benefits for New Zealand.
The Court of Appeal has thus provided more certainty for overseas investors on the tests they need to meet to successfully obtain consent.
Unless Maori appeal to the Supreme Court, Shanghai Pengxin will be able to pay for and take possession of the farms it agreed to buy over a year ago.
Could there be tougher overseas investment legislation ahead? The courts only interpret and apply what Parliament enacts and the history of overseas investment regulation shows New Zealanders are torn between their desire to have their cake and eat it too.
We want to attract foreign investment (knowledge and skills) and to do business with Asia in particular (its size and enormous growth potential means it will be the largest market for New Zealand exports), but we don't like them buying up prime farmland.
Tougher rules for foreign investment in purchasing productive land are proposed in member's bills from David Shearer and Russel Norman called the Overseas Investment (Restriction on Foreign Ownership of Land) Amendment Bill and the Overseas Investment (Owning our Own Rural Land) Amendment Bill.
Will the controversy over the Crafar farms result in tougher laws? Probably not, given the balance now struck in the current law.
Our recent history shows a trend to toughen or to complicate the tests, starting with the potential sale of Auckland International Airport shares to foreign investors which did not proceed.
The Labour Government amended the Overseas Investment Regulations 2005 to require the OIO to consider whether the overseas investment would help maintain New Zealand control of "strategically important infrastructure on sensitive land".
The National Government made more changes to the Overseas Investment Act and Regulations (coinciding with the sale of the Crafar farms ) so that there are now about 25 separate factors that have to be considered when determining whether there is a benefit to New Zealand.
Some of those have multiple sub-factors.
The OIO has to consider whether the investment would promote New Zealand's economic interests, and the extent to which the investment includes opportunities for participation by New Zealanders.
On the foreign investment front, New Zealand is probably as close as possible to having its cake and eating it too.


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i just found this. they recalled her food, my $26 six pound bag of royal canin, vet perscribed dry cat food.
they recalled it one day after i had to put her down.
please look at this, and make sure your food isn't on the list..... i wouldn't want any one else to go thru what i have.
http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood.html#r ecall
it's been one week since i had to put pea down, and i miss her.
i miss feeling her stretch next to me on the bed.
i miss her unconditional love.
i miss her freckled nose, and that spot on her gum line that make it look like she had a missing tooth.
i miss her pawing around her water bowl before she would settle down for a drink.
i miss her greeting me at the door when i come home, trying to tell me how her day went. i never did learn 'cat-ese'
i miss the sight of her trying to cover her food after she was done eating it.
i miss her chasing kibble when one would drop on the floor.
i miss the seeing of her on top of the radiators, absorbing the left over heat.
i miss the photo opportunities. she always knew how to strike a pose.
i miss hanging out and watching t.v.
i miss her looking at me from the window when i went into the backyard.
i miss the feel of her fur.
i miss her sunbathing.
i miss her rubbing her face wherever she could.
i miss my brave bug catcher.
i miss the sight of the tip of her ears before she would hop up onto the bed for the evening.
i miss her chasing rainbows the toy prism would cast on a sunny day.
i miss her companionship.
i miss her exploring the shower after i used it.
i miss watching all the cat yoga poses.
i miss her whiskers.
i miss the sight of her flopping down on the floor at my feet.
i miss the sound of her voice.
i miss giving her belly scratches.
i miss getting ready to go to work, and having her crowd me at the sink for attention.
i miss her dancing and singing for her dinner when i came home from work.
she would have loved yesterday. i opened the windows for the first time for spring. the back window was drenched in sun and a fresh breeze. but she wasn't there to enjoy it.
the apartment is empty without you pea.
pea had to be put down today due to severe kidney failure....
she was my little ray of sunshine, and she will be with me forever.
i love you pea cat!!!
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where in the world is craig santos perez?
so i was just in new york last week for the poets & writers california writers exchange award & i had a blast! i will be blogging about the trip at the PW website–so hopefully you can check that out when it's live.
i returned to cali for two days, dragged my travel weary butt back to the san francisco airport and survived a 11 hour flight to japan, a three hour layover, and then a 3.5 hour flight to my homeland, the pacific island of guahan (guam). my family migrated to california in 1995, when i was fifteen years old, and this is my first trip home since then.
so what am i doing here? read on to find out…
As part of the Community Conversations on the Military Buildup Project the Guam Humanities Council is sponsoring a series of "community conversations" on the military buildup entitled: "8,000 How Will It Change Our Lives?"
The "conversations" are part of the Council's effort to encourage island residents to examine the impact of the relocation of military personnel and their families to Guam in 2014. The "humanities based conversations" will focus on the themes of service, leadership, community, identity and power.
The Council selected the "civic reflection" model to convene community conversations with diverse groups of residents in a variety of settings around the island. Civic reflection is an innovative approach that has been successfully implemented by humanities councils across the country to engage citizens in discussions of important issues that affect civic life.
In April of 2009, the Council trained 18 facilitators to use the model to conduct conversations in diverse settings throughout the community. A series of six 90-minute conversations will be held among a small group. Conversations begin with a focused discussion of a selected reading, poem, film or other text.
The trained facilitators guide the participants through a reflection process that encourages critical analysis, asking questions, and self-expression. Through civic reflection, individuals are invited to step into a hospitable space where they may critically think and talk about the values and choices we make while living together as a community.
As part of the project, the Council will host three larger community conversation events and special presentations. The first of these events will take place from March 22 through March 26, 2010, when the Council will bring to Guam poet Craig Santos Perez.
i arrived at 2am on monday. here's a picture of the airport:
then i arrived at the Outrigger hotel and dropped dead and woke up a few hours later and crawled to the breakfast room and saw this:
then i stumbled to the lobby and saw a display about outrigger canoes on guam. and i was surprised to see the same archival image that was used on the cover of my second book:
then i stumbled around tumon, the tourist district, to find a duty free galleria, massage parlors, 2 gun clubs, strip clubs, adult stores, karaoke clubs, and a tapioca drink cafe:
then i met up with some members of the humanities council for lunch at a chamorro restaurant called proa, where i ate a fried whole parrotfish with coconut milk & veges:
then myself & reps from the council were interviewed on a local radio station:
then i had dinner at the humanities council office, where i met many of the board members and the trained facilitators. it was a chamorro feast:
then i dropped dead again. in the morning, there were two sessions of the civic reflection model at the university of guam (UOG). the two sessions included about 50 students from various courses in the english, composition, and chamorro language departments. here is one session reading & discussing a selection of my poems from my second book:
how the model works is that i read my poems aloud to the students, then they break up into groups for discussion led by the humanities council's facilitators. then i return to the students and answer questions.
after the UOG sessions, i was interviewed by a TV news crew from the Pacific News Center. then, we drove about five minutes and did one session at guam community college (and, in typical guam style, i learned that the professor for that class is my auntie!). haha. after that session, i returned to UOG and visited the only creative writing class at the university…i read some poems from both my books and then led the class in a writing assignment and then the class shared their work:
then i went to another TV news station and briefly appeared on the station's 'extra' segment:
now i'm gonna drop dead. four time zones in three weeks. and i have to do another radio interview at 730 am…then it's off to two high schools, an afterschool program, and then a large community event in the evening. wish me luck and i'll report back at the end of the week! xoxo.
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Wow, take it easy, Craig. That's a lot of touring.
Thanks for a fantastic experience Craig. Really enjoyed the workshop. Great to see you again!
Wow, Craig. I hope you are taking your Vitamin C! Hopefully, the continued feasting will keep you strong.
Great post, lovely to read such vibrant writing in the blogsphere – I did the poets & writers california writers exchange as well, and it was thrilling. Many happy returns on your tour! Best, julian
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