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It's important to be prepared for any situation when you're camping. This can make shopping for camping gear a little overwhelming. You don't want to forget anything, but you also want to pack light and keep the trip fun and simple. This guide answers frequently asked questions about camping gear, so you can easily figure out what you need and start enjoying nature.
What gear do I need to get started?
A few basic pieces of camping equipment are necessary for a safe and comfortable camping trip. You'll want to at least have these basics. These items will prepare you for a car-camping trip (one where you drive to a campground that has a few amenities, like running water, fire pits, or maybe a grill).
Tent: Tents are available in many sizes and materials. Larger tents are comfortable, but they may be too heavy for backpackers.
Sleeping bag: Down sleeping bags offer the most warmth, while synthetic sleeping bags are more affordable and are also machine washable.
Cooking equipment: Roasters and grills allow you to prepare simple meals, while camp stoves give you more options. Dutch ovens provide you with a fun way to make casseroles and cakes. Whichever cooking equipment you choose, be sure to pack the right food to cook on it; for example, if you bring a griddle, make sure to pack pancake mix and eggs. Easy-to-wash serveware is important, but don't worry about buying a large set, as your morning coffee cup will be used for your water at dinner, too.
Lanterns and flashlights: You'll need to light things up at night, and it's good to have a few different options, so if one fails, you'll have backup. A lantern fills a tent or picnic table with light, while a flashlight can get you to the public restroom (or behind a friendly tree) in the middle of the night.
First aid: Above all else, a well-stocked kit is a must. See the list above for what it should include, and modify it for your personal needs. Pack it all in a waterproof container, so it won't get ruined by rain or a fall in a lake.
I have the basic camping gear, but I want to really get comfortable at the campground. What should I buy next?
The basics will get you out and camping, but you can always add more to your collection for a more comfortable experience. If you want to relax, look for camp chairs and hammocks. If you want to get a better night's sleep, shop for air mattresses or cots. If you want to observe nature, shop for binoculars and guide books. If you want to make a party of it, shop for outdoor games, like horseshoe sets.
I'm ready for a real backcountry adventure. What camping gear do I need?
Choose a hiking backpack with a frame and waist support. Next, shop for backpacking versions of the basics, like a smaller tent and lighter, warmer sleeping bag. Instead of a lantern, you may want a headlamp, which is like a headband with a flashlight on the forehead. Bring a water filter and a water bottle for hydration. Pack food that is lightweight and travels well, and that can be prepared with just a fire or boiling water; you can find small, portable camp stoves, too. You'll need a compass and a map, or a GPS unit. Dress for extreme elements and be prepared to layer; pack sturdy jeans, sunglasses, and sunscreen as well as a warm hat, sweater, and gloves. Your hiking boots and socks will be the gear you notice the most when you're backpacking, so don't skimp on those.
How do I break in my hiking boots?
First, wear your boots for short periods of time in your house. This will help you decide which socks will cushion your feet the best. Lace your boots tightly, so you'll be wearing them the same way in the house as on the trails. After you've worn your hiking boots around the house, and they seem to fit comfortably, wear them while running a few errands around town or in the yard. Don't ever skip breaking in a new pair of hiking boots. Remember that you will be wearing these for a long time, possibly with the weight of outdoor supplies on your back.


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Nobody can deny this man's service to the community, or the insatiable hotness of his reggae dancehall hit "We Be Burnin'." Oh, wait, we're thinking of musician Sean Paul, not this year's favorite man in uniform. Our Lt. Paul probably earned this vote for being one of the most accessible officers on the force—a regular source for civic leaders and the media on issues ranging from downtown panhandling to underage drinking.
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Citation: Hanson, L.E., Ocamb, C. 2009. Ramularia Leaf Spot. pg. 10 In Compendium of Beet Diseases and Pests, 2nd edition. R.M. Harveson, L.E. Hanson, and G.L. Hein, eds. APS Press. St. Paul, MN.Book Chapter. Interpretive Summary: Ramularia leaf spot of beet, caused by Ramularia beticola is a minor disease in the United States and a more important problem in other beet growing areas and during seed production. Symptoms, disease cycle, and disease management are discussed in this chapter.
Technical Abstract: Ramularia leaf spot of sugar beet, a disease caused by Ramularia beticola, is a sporadic problem in the United States, particularly in seed production. It is a more common problem in parts of Europe. Symptoms include light brown, angular spots on the leaves and can cause death of leaves. Epidemiology and management strategies are discussed.


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New Haven, CT - To the average observer, the site in the photo might look like an uninhabitable, barren moon-scape vacant lot but to us at New Haven Farms, it�s a gorgeous, mouth-watering, hunka-hunka piece o� land that is due to become the next New Haven Farms site!
Welcome to Phoenix Pharm!
On a humid Sunday July afternoon, almost 50 volunteers from the Manhattan based non-profit, Global Health Corps came out to help NHF clean up what was then a weed strewn area on the Phoenix Press property at 15 James Street in Fair Haven. Phoenix Press is a long time family owned and operated printing company and is New Haven Farms� dedicated printer. Having reached their goal after a mere three years to be the greenest commercial printer in the US, Phoenix Press is recognizable by the wind turbine between its office and the Quinnipiac River, from which Phoenix can harness 100kw of wind energy. Our farm site, or Pharm site [as Cassidy Metcalfe, our co-farm manager calls it] will be directly under this wind turbine. Phoenix Press was kind enough to offer us this space months ago but it is only now that we have had the capacity to begin to build there.
For those of you that haven�t heard of New Haven Farms, we recently launched The New Haven Farms� Fresh Produce Prescription Program, which seeks to provide a community based solution to the problem of obesity and poverty related chronic-disease factors. Members who fit the health-risk and economic criteria are enrolled in a 16-week nutrition and farm education program and receive fresh and organic farm produce baskets on a weekly basis. Members are also required to attend at least one two-hour on-farm educational session per week for the duration of the season.
Last year, the Global Health Corps folks volunteered their time to get our first farm site off the ground. Now they are here to help us launch our fifth. Each summer, GHC participants travel to New Haven to participate in a two week fellowship seminar training program at Yale University. Monique Centrone Stefani, our Steering Committee member who is leading the research team, gave a talk at Yale recently about her data work on measurements and outcomes of our nutritional education program.
Monique explains her work: �Research on New Haven Farms will seek to establish the relationship between household food security (not having enough food to eat), diabetes risk and participation in urban agriculture. We want to establish first that we can help low-income urban residents to eat more fruits and vegetables by participating in a low-cost CSA and combined nutrition/farm education program. With that in place, we hope to see a reduction in risk factors for obesity, such as BMI or body mass index.�
Eric Sun, the program intern, commented that �without Monique�s speech, maybe a handful of students would have participated, but her talk about her research was so inspiring, we all had to come and lend a hand.�
Global Health Corps aims to mobilize a global community of emerging leaders to build the movement for health equity. Half of the fellows are American and half are from around the rest of the world. Each American partners with an international fellow and they are stationed in Washington DC, New Jersey, New York and also travel as far as Africa to partnering countries such as Uganda, Burundi, Malawi, and Zambia.
Robinson, for instance, is from Uganda and works with statistics and monetary evaluations of businesses in his homeland, partnering with the Infectious Disease Institute inKampala. He comes from a family of farmers and is very proud to talk about his family�s crops which include jack fruit, cassava and plantains, which they use for their favorite dish, matoke. He says he is very excited to be part of this day�s farm work and is looking forward to taking back all the knowledge he has accumulated through GHC to his home country soon. We wish him well.


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The Android 2.2-powered Gratia is HTC's latest mid-range smartphone. Its name, which can roughly be translated from Latin to "grace", sounds a lot less bold than its older siblings the HTC Desire, Hero and Wildfire, but there's a lot to like about this friendly-looking Android phone.
Last year, HTC produced several of our favourite metal-bodied phones, including the HTC Legend and Google Nexus One, but the Gratia takes a completely different approach. Aside from the hard glass front, the phone's body is almost completely covered by a single oversized plastic battery cover. The exposed screw heads on the phone's back suggest you'll need to get out a screwdriver to get anywhere near its battery but it's a rouse - all you need to do is pull the cover off, using the fingernail recess on the Gratia's top.
This cover balloons out from the sides of the touchscreen a little on each side, stopping the Gratia from seeming slim in spite of its svelte 11.7mm thickness, but these curves also increase the handset's comfort factor. Next to HTC's bigger, bolder, brasher phones, there's something almost excessively friendly about the Gratia. That said, it's not quite as slick as the mid-range unibody HTC Legend.
A squeeze of the phone's middle causes a creak as the plastic cover flexes - the plastic used isn't as hard or thick as that used in the HTC Wildfire, but build quality is otherwise very good. Still, we imagine its looks won't impress as many people as quickly as the Wildfire or Legend did. It comes in either a black or white finish, and while both look smart those exposed screws introduce an element of quirkiness that not everyone will love.
Although these disruptions of the phone's lines are deliberate, its sides are otherwise simple and unadorned. On the top is the power button, also used to wake the Gratia up once the backlight times out, and the 3.5mm headphone jack. The left side is home to the volume controls and the microUSB slot is on the handset's bottom, used for charging and transferring data. There's no physical camera shutter button and, thanks to the design of the battery cover, no seam that runs down these sides.
In something of a throwback to yester Android devices, the HTC Gratia uses an optical trackpad. This is used to scroll through the interface, and as a "select" button, but can easily be ignored in favour of all-touchscreen navigation. The soft keys are touch-sensitive pads that sit just below the main touchscreen, and thankfully they feel nice and responsive.
Lift the battery cover off completely and the true design of the Gratia is revealed. It's an almost entirely non-curvy rectangle, a little like an iPhone 4 that's been beaten with the ugly stick. Of course, you're never meant keep and use the phone without the battery cover on, so it's a moot point. Underneath the cover are the SIM and microSD card slots - and as the battery doesn't have to be removed to access this slot, card hot-swapping is no problem.
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Coco Crisp slugged a two-run shot to help the Red Sox win Tuesday night's game 3-0. Wait…Coco again? Yes! Coco Crisp is absolutely on fire recently. In his last three starts, Coco is 5-14 (.357) with three HR's and seven RBI. He helped Jon Lester earn the win…but the Sox lefty didn't really need much help. Lester started and produced seven shutout innings with five strikeouts.
The Red Sox earned the series win with a 7-4 victory in the finale. This game starred J.D. Drew, who has been on an absolute tear in June as he makes his first All-Star game bid (hopefully). Drew went 4-5 with another HR and four RBI, falling a triple short of the cycle. The Sox scored seven runs…all without Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, and Kevin Youkilis in the lineup. Niiiiice.
Sox Stud of the Game(s):
J.D. Drew has to get the nod, even though he went 0-4 in Tuesday's game. He has really kept the Red Sox rolling with David Ortiz out of the lineup, and he needs to be rewarded for it. After a 4-5 with another HR, Drew is batting .327 with 13 HRs, 43 RBI, and 53 runs. Let's vote him into the All-Star Game…seriously.
Diamond Dud of the Game(s):
Red Sox pitchers are the Sox duds for their batting. I mean, come on. Not one Red Sox pitcher has a hit this season? You have got to represent the American League better than that. (I know this sounds ridiculous, but it's hard to nitpick when the Sox just keep winning).
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"…The male equivalent to a vegan Rachael Ray-his recipes are flavorful and approachable and certainly have the same potential for mass appeal." – Publishers Weekly
Mark, the winner of Vegan.com's Recipe of the Year Award, has more than 20 years experience preparing creative vegan and raw food cuisine. He was the executive chef for the North American Vegetarian Society's 2012 – 2016 Summerfest, one of the largest vegetarian conferences in the world. He specializes in vegan and raw food recipe development and offers vegan cuisine workshops, trainings and retreats internationally. Mark is described by VegCooking.com as being "poised on the leading edge of contemporary vegan cooking". He is the author of seven books and the founding chef of the celebrated Blossoming Lotus Restaurant, winner of a prestigious I'lima Award for "Best Restaurant on Kaua'i". Mark holds a Masters Degree in Holistic Nutrition and is the recipient of a Platinum Carrot award, given to America's top "innovative and trailblazing healthy chefs".
Mark received his initial culinary training from his grandfather, Benjamin Bimstein, a renowned chef and ice carver in New York City. He developed his love for world culture and cuisine during travel journeys through Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South and Central America. His first cookbook, Vegan Fusion World Cuisine, coauthored with Bo Rinaldi and featuring a foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall, has won several national awards, including a Gourmand Award for "Best Vegetarian Cookbook in the USA".
In addition, Mark coauthored The 30-Minute Vegan, The 30-Minute Vegan's Taste of the East, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eating Raw. He is the author of The 30-Minute Vegan's Taste of Europe, The 30-Minute Vegan's Soup's On! and his latest book, Healing the Vegan Way, selected as "#1 Book for Vegans in 2016" by Philly.com.
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Emmnauel Adebayor spoke exclusively to Arsenal.com ahead before he left for Wednesday's game at Dynamo Kyiv. Here's what he had to say.
Firstly, what did you make of Group G when it was drawn?
I think a lot of people think it's going to be an easy one but I don't think so. I don't think it is going to be easy to pass through. We know that playing in Ukraine is going to be very difficult especially because their players are playing in front of their fans and will be doing everything to win the game. But we are Arsenal. We just have to believe in ourselves and, if we can, play our football. If we can stay patient, score the goals then, in the end, we'll win the game. That's what we're going there for.
A good start will be crucial if you are going to get through to the next stage?
It'll be especially crucial because we are away in the first game. We have all our confidence back in the Premier League and we're trying to build on it in Kiev but it won't be easy. It'll be very difficult and I believe that the squad are ready for it. So as you say, a crucial win on Wednesday will get our confidence back more and make it a little bit better for the next stage.
Is your personal confidence high after Saturday? You had not scored in the League but you ended up with a hat-trick?
Yeah, my confidence has always been high because I've had a few chances. I hit the post against Fulham and I set-up three goals against Newcastle. I know if I keep working hard for the team and we keep on playing the football for the team, you always have a chance to score. Those are the things that I always put in my head and it made the goals that went in on Saturday against Blackburn easy. So yeah I'm very happy and for sure my confidence is higher than before.
You joined Arsenal in January 2006 but you could not play in the Champions League for Arsenal that year and they got to the Final. Is your desire extra strong because you missed out?
Of course, that is what I have said to myself. We have every chance to win the Champions League with Arsenal. I couldn't play back then because I was cup-tied and in my head it was difficult. But now I have a chance to play so there's an argument for me to be more hungry than most of my team-mates. But I think I'm not the only one. Cesc lost in the Final aswell and Kolo lost in the Final aswell so to be honest I think all these players would like to win it in their career. These are the things that we're going to pin together as brothers and help each other on the pitch and off the pitch and try to achieve something this season. I don't know whether we're going to win the Champions League or the Premier League but we have to achieve something because we have the quality within the squad. We just have to believe in the squad and believe in ourselves to do it.
Also you were on the bench for Monaco when they lost to Porto in the 2005 Final so, in one way, the Champions League has been a difficult tournament for you personally so far?
Yeah I've told most of my family this. I had the chance to be in the Final with Monaco but I was on the bench and I could see all these special things going in the Final. After the World Cup and European Championships, the Champions League is the highest level of competition so these are the things that give you the highest motivation. I know if I have the chance to win something like the Champions League with a team like Arsenal I will be very happy and very glad.
Are Arsenal better equipped to win Champions League than previous years?
I don't know. At the moment the most important thing is keep our focus high and, after Wednesday's game or the first stage, we can talk about whether we have a chance to win it or not.
Arsenal are second with five wins from six games and yet still appear to be slightly overlooked this season. Are you happy to be in background?
I'm always happy. You know better than anyone, last year most of the Premier League and the fans were running away with Arsenal but we only finished third. We nearly won the Champions League, we nearly won the Premier League. This season it is all established again - Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool. We just need to keep going and playing our football. At the moment we are winning and that is the most important thing. We'll see at the end of the season what people write again.
You took a long time to score in the Champions League but now you are on a run of goals in Europe. What have you done to put that right?
For me as a footballer the most important thing is to work hard for the team and I think up until now I've been doing that quite well. As you say during all of last season I never scored. Only in the Quarter-Final against Milan and Liverpool home and away I scored. For me the most important thing is keep on going, keep on working hard for the team. I don't know whether I am going to score on Wednesday or not but if the team win that is going to be more important than if I score. If I score and we win it's going to be even better but at the moment the most important thing is we have to win. It could be Theo Walcott or Emmanuel Eboue or Kolo Toure whoever scores it doesn't matter, the most important thing is that we bring the three points back to London.
Finally just how tough a week is this for Arsenal?
It's big, it's the first time we're going to play three times away in one week. We've won at Blackburn so we have to play away again. We know it's important to win especially when you play the first leg of the Champions League away and then we travel to Bolton so yeah anyway we are just taking game after game. We go to Kiev. Let's win that game then we can talk easily about the game at Bolton.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Jack Mc Glynn
9 July, 2012
Six months of blistered thumbs
We've officially rolled past 2012's half way point. In that space we've enjoyed a trio of 'worth a try' entries and at least five 'worth a buy' titles.
Realistically, on average there's actually been a worthwhile title every second week this year. The likes of
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Diablo 3
Sniper Elite
and the unpredictably accomplished
Street Fighter X Tekken
have graced disc trays on a regular basis.
But due to an admittedly self imposed ruling, I'm limited to choosing but five games to represent this year's opening salvo. These choices are far from flawless, most suffer some nagging flaw or quirk.
But amidst the plateau of copycat efforts, to their credit each carves itself an identity, via creative narration, gameplay or immersion.
Dragon's Dogma
[Capcom – May]
Dragon's Dogma
is soooooo booorrrinng. It's not that it's vanilla, because in all honesty, Vanilla is delish. It closer resembles faux, own brand vanilla – a squalid concoction of skimmed milk, sugar and what I can only assume is puréed cardboard.
Derivative source material, generic archetypes, commonplace settings and banal creature design plague cut-scenes and hub worlds while uninspired fetch-quests sours variety. Worse still, an unceasing barrage of ye-olden chatter quickly rams down any and all defensives measure your patience can muster!
In spite of all this drivel,
Dragon's Dogma
is rather splendid, commendation solely attributable to its combat.
With a host of hybrid classes and styles, players can scale colossal beasts, hacking at soft flesh with enchanted daggers, block, pre-empt, parry and riposte armed foes, conjure whipping maelstroms, frozen protrusions and fiery barriers of dark magic, pin enemies to trees with brutally accurate archery, lay sizzling dynamite booby-traps, unleash staggering martial combos and wheeling kicks or simply chuck some unfortunate, squealing bugger off an adjacent cliff.
Dragon's Dogma
is guilty of numerous missteps. But thankfully, monster hunting, its core essence, is not among them.
Spec Ops: The Line
[Yager – June]
Spec Ops
is hard, and I don't just mean as a cover to cover enterprise in shooting bullets from guns.
latest is a praiseworthy effort in delivering an unflinching, ugly examination of the human condition when stripped of society's comforting, restraining shackles.
An impressive voice cast, led by gaming A-lister
Nolan North
, weave cynicism and humour through sympathetic exchanges while the surrounding dereliction of a once opulent
hammers a stark visual disparity to compliment the unfolding narrative.
Spec Ops
is let down only in execution. Sand traps are few and far between and amount to little more than overpowered, level-shifting enviro-triggers. Its third person personing is generally tight but as ever, cover hopping proves problematic and instances for melee and stealth scarcely exist.
Still, in contrast to entry no. 5, it is those moments of subtle, minimal involvement that so elevates this effort, lingering in the mind.
The very best games offer an alluring narrative.
Spec Ops
offers a genuinely challenging one.
Max Payne 3
[Rockstar – May]
Similar in vein and execution to the above,
Max Payne 3
recounts the grim tale of a royal f*ck-up of a man who sinks to increasing depths of pill addiction, alcoholism and general worthlessness.
Irreparably damaged by the tragic death of his family, Max resigns himself to the fact that he is good for but one thing and attempts to drown this acknowledgement (if not himself) in a sea of narcotics and booze until finally, violently shook from his rut.
Redemption hardly an option, it's the promise of purpose, however shady, within his drunken reach that angles this debacle of violent heft on a straighter, narrower route.
Also of note, Max is terribly good at killing.
Unforgiveable control oversights and verbose soliloquies aside, MP3 (Hah!) offers a campaign of considerable length, spotted with handsome spectacle and furious battles. Incorrigibly bleak and seldom light, Max grips players by the windpipe, unrelenting til the credits roll.
Mass Effect 3
[Bioware – March]
Haters gonna hate.
Mass Effect 3
marked the finale to the gaming world's most beloved Space Opera and your feelings on the divisive conclusion notwithstanding, it remains a celestial effort on
Missing those rich character bonds so cleverly fashioned in its matchless predecessor, ME3 compensates with strong multiplayer, an arsenal of weapons, a cluster of new biotics, a batch of new tech and some series defining set pieces.
Striving for drama at every turn, the galaxy's incomprehensible expanse is subtlety ignored as you encounter everyone you've ever so much as made a sidelong acquaintance with, wondering if they'll make it to the long heralded climax intact.
It's all in there: Dialogue trees, power combos, alien sex-scenes, weapon modifications, journalist punching (a personal favourite) melee finishers, suspect dancing and a string of sweeping engagements both earth based and star-bound.
Mass Effect
aims to overwhelm players with tumultuous waves of exhilaration and raw emotion.
And to its does so, for the most part, without compromising that role playing integrity held secure since its debut in 2007.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: Enhanced Edition
[CD Projekt Red – April]
A difficult decision, allowing a year old game to lead this bi-annual charge but ultimately, it boils down to this...
The Witcher 2's
console debut is the very best game released this year. No exception.
A scum crusted fantasy, foaming with personality and charm, TW2AoKEE sidesteps destiny, prophecy and similar messianic moulds for a more personal tale. Geralt is a humble mutant, quite handy with a blade and can usually be found chasing monsters, memories and tail!
TW2AoKEE hurls terms at you, expecting you to do the corresponding research. But unlike too many stiff, turgid fantasy yarns, this one does it with a wink, grin, belch or f-bomb.
Combat is a brutal choreography of sword thrusts, base conjuring, hurled ballistics and majestic finishers, made easier with some forethought, poisonous traps and improving narcotics. Dialogue is an altogether more ambiguous, dangerous enterprise. Each bribe, growled warning or spoken voodoo trigger events which shape entire acts in the game's latter half.
Most games pompously boast replay value, but TW2AoKEE is the very first game to make good on this lofty promise. Exclusive characters, dialogue, plot, locations, items and revelations unfold with an early, seemingly ordinary decision.
This is a game for adults, who don't shrink at the sight of digital fornication, flinch at the tune of a raunchy drinking game, have the patience to read 30 seconds of text every second hour and can live, or play, with the consequences of seemingly innocent actions, be it the persecution of entire races of overturning warring nations.
It also plays like a dream... in case anyone's interested.
Top 5 games of 2012... so far
The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings Enhanced Edition
Mass Effect 3
Max Payne 3
Spec Ops The Line
Dragon's Dogma
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Usually when someone apologizes to me it's for something so trivial -- or not even their fault -- and I just do the whole, "It's OK, don't worry about it," thing. It seems the people who actually SHOULD apologize, never do.
So anyway, this morning I received an apology and was left speechless. I seriously had no idea how to respond. I just said something like, "OK, well, bye," and hung up the phone. I am not sure I've ever received an apology that was so completely warranted, over something so serious. So serious, in fact, that, "I'm sorry" alone kind of seemed inadequate.
So... what's the proper way to accept an apology?
In a situation like that I suppose I would respond that I appreciated their sincere apology. I might say that I would take their words to heart and it would most likely take time to heal the rift between you.
I don't think you need to say you forgive them or minimize the hurt they caused. I think it is okay to just acknowledge their regret.
Kim ~mom to one awesome dd (12)
I don't think it requires immediate action. Let it sit for awhile and bring it up again later if you feel inclined to do so.
And here's the wisdom of Facebook on the subject:
"Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace."
I am a ruminator and resentment-holder-onner-to. I could use a bit of this myself. ie if no one is hurting me in the moment, letting it go will make the moment better for me.
If you're not willing to accept the apology, or you're afraid the apology has strings attached, say something to that effect. You can say what you wrote here-- "I'm sorry" is inadequate for the seriousness of what happened.
It's a fine line between resentment and righteous anger at being wronged. At almost fifty, I'm finally learning to assess people's behavior in my decisions about how to deal with them rather than wrapping up my energy and happiness in what they did to me. All the insipid advice I've heard throughout my life about letting go made things even worse, until I was able to fine-tune what to release as opposed to what to use in my own behalf.
I think a civil and simple "thank you" is always appropriate. It's an acknowledgement that still gives you room to make up your mind and gives the person apologizing a chance to follow up with action that underscores their sincerity, if they're equal to that.
Empty-nesting SAHM to DS1 (1989) and DS2 (1992). Caregiver to my mother (1930). Married to DH since 1986.
I've received a few apologies for serious things (mostly high school bullying). I said, "thank you - that means a lot to me" It did. I'm not sure what I would have said if I hadn't already been at a place where I'd let go of my resentment. I'll never forget the way these people treated me, but I was already past holding a grudge when they apologized for it.
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Loving my amazing dh, James & forever missing Aaron Ambrose (11/07)
i dont know.
however here are some of my thoughts.
-depends on the intentions. if the intention is genuine then its easy to accept. if you cant tell what their intention are - do they really mean it - its so much harder.
i feel one of the worst things the British has taught us after bread and butter is 'i'm sorry. oh i shot the gun and accidently killed your son, i am sorry.
for me - after all these years - lookign at life and trying to live better this is what i have come to the conclusion.
what matters is what "i" say. which means have the courage to speak your truth. so i mostly, if i have the courage, speak the truth. saying please give me a few days to understand what you are saying. you just apologized for <something this big> i dont know how to fathom that. so i am neither accepting or denying your apology - but for sure right now i dont know how to respond to you.
i have found - every. single. time - EVERY SINGLE TIME - i speak genuinely its well taken. UNLESS the person is messed up and not able to 'hear' me. then it was my bad judgement to speak up. HOWEVER sometimes its sooooooo freeing just to say your words whether they were heard or not.
so there is so many layers to it.
however when someone has done something very very big - its sooooo hard to say i'm sorry. it goes beyond sorry. so i tend to see it as someone wanting to make amends. THAT is key. not what words they use. i knew how sorry my ex was that he couldnt stay in the marriage. that he wanted out. but it still hurt and i still became single. but somewhere there was within me - through all the pain - some peace that he got it - before it got hidden under a lot of unpleasantness.
i am lucky i have dd to work on. that she is open to who i am and what i say. so when she says sorry - sometimes i am so not ready to hear it. it doesnt change the fact that i still stubbed my toe and it hurts so bad due to her. once i have had my composure back i tell her hey i know you are sorry. no one does these things purposely. but gosh darn it STILL hurt. i know you really want me to know how sorry you are. its ok. i understand.
I tell my kids they need to acknowledge the apology — to not say something when your sister says, "I'm sorry" is just rude. I give them three answers as jumping off points and then they are welcome to come up with their own if none of the three seems quite right. The three basic answers to "I'm sorry" are:
"It's okay." (if you really are okay with it — like you know your sister didn't mean to step on your toe and it's not broken and doesn't even hurt much now.)
"I'm sorry, too." (if you both were wrong-- fighting or arguing, etc.)
"Thank you." (to acknowledge that the other person had the guts to step up and apologize, but if you don't feel comfortable telling them "it's okay" because it isn't okay that they took your toy/book/shirt/etc and ruined it.)
I then teach them that if they are the one who messed up they need to make amends if (offer a cold pack for a hurt toe, a hug for reconciliation after an argument, buying a new book with your own money for the one you ruined, etc.)
I think it's much the same for adults. If you think the apology was sincere but you're not ready to let everything be "okay" then I think "thank you" acknowledges the act of apology without absolving the person of the wrong.
If you think it was not a sincere apology then I think you can still say a polite thank you and reiterate how the act of wrongdoing made you feel — "Thank you. I really felt blindsided when you talked about me behind my back." You're not letting them off the hook, but are acknowledging that they apologized.
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Hmm this is a weird situation because I guess it's more in the context of a professional relationship. And it's not so much that I don't forgive this person, just that the whole thing has been very traumatic and I just haven't fully processed it yet. So I guess given what you all said, I responded sort of appropriately? It was so incredibly awkward. I do give this person a lot of credit for offering an apology, and I hope the lesson has been learned and the same mistake won't be made with someone else. Ahh. That's kind of what I wish I said. I am no good at phone conversations!
yeah, but she caught you by surprise. You didn't have a chance to think or process it.
If you want to talk to this person or write them a note, you could. The ball is in your court -- you can finish the conversation (or not) whenever and however you want to.
but everything has pros and cons
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MSNBC anchor Robach implied Bush protesters unpatriotic
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As noted on the weblog Daily Kos, MSNBC Live anchor Amy Robach suggested that protesting President Bush's policies was unpatriotic. Following a live broadcast of President Bush's Independence Day address at West Virginia University, Robach told viewers, "There were a couple of protesters we heard with a few signs, but for the most part, looks like a very patriotic crowd."
Robach apparently does not believe that one can love one's country while opposing the current president. As The New York Times reported, many of the protesters did, in fact, explicitly state their support for the troops:
Outside the presidential rally in Morgantown, one protester made reference to the [Valerie Plame] case, holding a sign that read: "Jail Karl Rove."
Several dozen other protesters demonstrated against the war in Iraq, chanting, "Please support our troops, not the president!"
From the July 4, 10 a.m. ET edition of MSNBC Live:
The President there striking a patriotic chord in West Virginia at the West Virginia University. On this Fourth of July during his Independence Day address, he thanked those who have served and who are serving this country. He said that we are all praying for families who have lost loved ones during this time of war -- the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This, by the way, was Bush's third Independence Day trip to the state of West Virginia, of course, a state that certainly helped him win the election with those five electoral votes, a swing state. Certainly, the key is paying tribute to and thanking clearly for their support of him during his presidential race. And he certainly spoke to those who came out, and many have said they came out to support him. There were a couple of protesters we heard with a few signs, but for the most part, looks like a very patriotic crowd there. Very thankful and excited to see the president of the United States.
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Wei-Chung Wang Makes the Brewers' Opening Day Roster
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It appears that the Milwaukee Brewers will go with left-handed pitcher Wei-Chung Wang on their Opening Day roster. The Pittsburgh Pirates lost Wang in the Rule 5 draft in the Winter and at least for now, he seems to have overcome the long odds of a player jumping from the Gulf Coast League directly to the majors.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Brewers informed Zach Duke that he made the Opening Day roster and they also sent out pitcher Rob Wooten, which got their bullpen down to the minimum. That means that Milwaukee will go with three lefties in the bullpen on Opening Day and within a couple weeks, Tom Gorzelanny will return, leaving them with another decision to make.
For now though, barring any late Spring Training pickup, it looks like the 21-year-old lefty from the Pirates will remai...
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I do not know whether to report the following as "good news" or "bad news" but it certainly is interesting news. General Massoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, you know, one of the bad guys according to the United States of America, came out with a battle plan to halt the Islamic State of Syria forces who currently are in Iraq. Latest reports reveal the ISIS is murdering Iraqi soldiers who surrender, and their compatriots in Syria just crucified a few men. Oh, it was not Jesus, not was it any person of the Jewish religion. Well, back to the story about Iranian generals, the men who head Iran's Revolutionary Guard, top on our list of bad groups. General Jazayeri informed the Iraq government that he was prepared to develop a plan, based on the Syrian model, that will end the reign of ISIS terror. I trust the reader is clear–the guy we consider to be a "bad guy" is ready to assist the USA in defeating the bad guys currently in northern Iraq.
According to the Iranian general, he is ready to employ "our successful experiments in popular all-armed defense, the same strategy used against terror on the defensive–mobilizing masses in all ethnic groups." Of course, the "terror groups" he was fighting were the terror groups we were supporting in Syria. It is now clear. The terror groups we oppose are now the terror groups we support and the end result will be triumph of the groups that we oppose. Please do not get confused. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. This is now AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY. Clear?


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Re: unix font problem
"P.J. Hinton" wrote:
> On 30 Sep 1999, Jinfeng Liu wrote:
> > When I ran mathematica, it still complained "assertion
> > `GenericUnicodeFont != 0' at MathEditFont.c:43 failed" in the terminal,
> > and "The mathematica fonts are not properly installed in your system.
> > Without these fonts, typeset mathematical expression cannot be displayed
> > properly" in a pop-out window.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? Thanks a lot.
> What shell command did you use to launch the front end on the SGI machine?
It's 'mathematica' in /usr/local/bin.
It says :
# Mathematica V3.0.1 command file
# Copyright 1988 - 1997 Wolfram Research, Inc.
I don't know whether our sys. admin. modified the original script.
At first, the script looks for fonts, and executes 'xset fp+' and 'xset
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I think that step was fine, b/c it did not complain anything about that,
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The We-Play-by-Different-Rules EffectBy
"Facebook would disclose the number of daily active mobile users only 'for the staff's reference,' not in its registration statement, Vetter wrote. That number showed a big jump, to an estimated 58 million mobile-only Facebook users on Dec. 31, 2011, from 23 million on March 31, 2010."
—Linda Sandler, Brian Womack and Douglas MacMillan, "Facebook Fought SEC to Keep Mobile Risks Hidden Before IPO," Bloomberg News, October 10, 2012.
When can Sandler, Womack and MacMillan write a similar piece on Groupon? Not soon enough.
Michael Holland and Luigi Zingales are quoted in the above masterpiece. (If you care about American capitalism, American finance, our technological progress, or the "complete picture" of an "amateurish approach" as described, read and reread this dissection of one Social Network.)
David Kirkpatrick and Paul Kedrosky are not quoted. As far as I know, they, like Holland, avoided the plague. (See their Surveillance Midday appearance the day of the $38 issue.)
What screams out loud pre-, mid- and post- "quiet period" is some/many/all in this 38-penny opera felt they were entitled to a different stage: an original playing field.
David Kirkpatrick must write a sequel to his outstanding The Facebook Effect. Call it The We-Play-by-Different-Rules Effect. Discuss.


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Teen Summer Writing Contest Winners
Last week, the winners of the Teen Summer Writing Contest were announced at a reception held at the Tomball Library. Hosted in conjunction with the Barbara Bush Branch Library, the Writing Contest was a huge success. Over 100 entries were submitted by teens from both branches, various other HCPL branches, and five states across the country. Thanks to all the teens who wrote and submitted fantastic entries!
Congratulations to all our winners for their outstanding poems and short stories!
Poetry, 6th-8th Grade:
1st – Tortillas by Kezia Lozano
2nd – The Parting by Jade Shuffler
3rd – The Race by Jadé Oremosu
Short Story, 6th-8th Grade
1st – Grass Crosses by Kezia Lozano
2nd – What You Really Hear When You Hold a Seashell to Your Ear by Samah Khan
3rd – The Scan by Stephen Price
Poetry, 9th-12th Grade
1st – The Monster by Hafsa Bouderdaben
2nd – Under the Words by Ally Toto
3rd – In the Grass, Under the Tree by Meaghan Kelly
Short Story, 9th-12th Grade
1st – Forgetting Myself by Hafsa Bouderdaben
2nd – Breaking Normal by Kanika Bhandari
3rd – The Half-Man by Muneeb Khan
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EUP College Fair
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Organization: Admissions
Description: All high school students and their parents are invited to attend the annual EUP College Fair hosted by the LSSU Admissions Office. Representatives from more than 25 colleges and universities will be available to answer questions about applying for college, campus life, financial aid, and academic programs. Many academic departments from LSSU will be there. This is an excellent opportunity for students and parents to explore higher education options after high school!
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As an undergraduate at Auburn University in 1994, Jonathan Tate, a white suburban kid from Huntsville, Ala., signed up for Rural Studio, where he helped to design one-of-a-kind "charity houses" on a shoestring budget. The university-affiliated program was only in its second year, but director Samuel Mockbee was a compelling figure who offered two things Tate wanted: exposure to the poverty-stricken rural South and a chance to build something unique. As it turned out, he got more than he expected. "It's not how to hang a door in a frame that I carry with me," says Tate, a partner at New Orleans-based building studio and an adjunct assistant professor of architecture at Tulane University. "It's the strong confidence in who I am as an architect and the role I can play to affect people in this world."
On the West Coast, Geoff Piper chose the University of Washington's architecture program because of the design/build studio offered through BaSiC Initiative. As he worked alongside community folks to build a library in Mexico in 2000, he, too, became less focused on the pragmatics of building and more attuned to architecture's social power. During the course of his studies, Piper worked with BaSiC Initiative founder and director Sergio Palleroni on several low-income projects, including a straw bale house in South Dakota. Today, he divides his Seattle practice, Fivedot Design/Build, between traditional design/build/development and nonprofit international projects.
Just 10 years ago, community-based design/build studios were a novelty in architecture schools. But now they're commonplace. When Fivedot organizes a project and looks for students to participate, "we're competing against 30 design/build programs happening over the summer, as opposed to about two when I was going to school," Piper says. It's as though the profession is rediscovering social agendas after a long hiatus following the failed public housing experiments of the 1960s. It's not that architects didn't care about social issues, Tate says. But in Mockbee's hands, Rural Studio may have marked a point where they could once again be involved, by raising the idea that it was time to get over the stigma and back into the discussion. "For a few decades, architects were afraid to step out and say something about these things, not to mention that there was a period of heavy intellectualizing about what architecture was," he says.
As Mockbee brilliantly illustrated, doing good and doing good architecture can be the same thing. And when students are involved, everyone wins. They get to experience the thrill of building their ideas while also leaving a legacy. But it's not just the hands-on time that's ultimately of value. Community-based design trains budding professionals to work as a team rather than as a single genius architect, to take control over complex real-world conditions, and perhaps most important, to have a greater sense of agency in the world. In short, it exposes them to the side of architecture that schools tend to miss.
mixing altruism and ego Back in 1995, another designer observed the disconnect between classroom conjecture and real-world design—and decided to do something about it. But The University of Kansas' award-winning Studio 804 was born almost by accident. As professor Dan Rockhill tells it, his firm, Rockhill and Associates, needed help on a project out in the country. He enlisted his students, who were wildly enthusiastic. In 1999, Studio 804 was incorporated as a 503(c) organization, and the model evolved over the years. After stick-building five affordable houses, the group began designing prefab structures that could be transported to sites farther away. And unlike many school studios, this one is run as a business, without university subsidies. Rockhill borrows money from the community development corporation that sponsors each speculative project. When the house is sold, he pays back the loan with interest and plows any profits back into Studio 804. Meanwhile, he gets a salary from The University of Kansas and students get credit for the course.
Although participation isn't mandatory, Rockhill truly believes that having their hands in the concrete makes his students better architects. And by working in poor communities where there are few English speakers, students see a side of life they never knew existed nearby. "Helping them be accountable to sustainable practices is another thing I feel good about," Rockhill says. "Students are anxious to produce buildings that are responsible to the environment. They're the ones who will bring about change."
Accountability is the big bonus at Tulane's URBANbuild program, too, according to director Byron Mouton, AIA. In this case, he says, it's about helping each other maintain energy, stay on schedule, and practice diplomacy with colleagues and city agencies. Unlike design studios in which students work on a project at their desk and stand up alone to defend it to jurors, fieldwork is all about collaborating. "I like watching these guys figure out how to control their anger and deal with disappointments, but most of all how to come together in support of each other," says Mouton, who became semi-famous when a 12-week URBANbuild class was filmed for the reality TV series Architecture School, which aired last year on the Sundance Channel.
Occupying the gap between theory and practice can be painful. The documentary-style Architecture School series drew some criticism—mainly that the finished house didn't blend with the Central City neighborhood and that no locals could afford to buy it. Mouton admits that encouraging innovation within nonprofit parameters can be a tricky balance to achieve. The agency with whom URBANbuild works asks for a 1,200-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath home because it's the easiest model for matching low-income buyers with government subsidies. So size and function are non-negotiable. And to keep things interesting, URBAN-build experiments with different building systems each year. The first house, built in summer 2006, used familiar wood framing to ensure that the project could be completed in 12 weeks with unskilled labor. The second project featured prefab metal panels, the Architecture School house was made with SIPs, and LEED Silver certification is the current project's goal.
But Mouton is unapologetic about giving students a long design rope. "We won't ask a group of 12 students to work for free on a tight schedule and then just produce a Habitat for Humanity house," he says. "What we give them is design opportunity." Sometimes that means allowing students to design special components that aren't cheap but that can be eliminated without compromising the basic scheme if the house is reproduced with paid labor. As hard as URBANbuild works to keep costs low, finding qualified buyers in down-and-out neighborhoods is daunting. "They have to find people who have a perfect credit score and have had the same employer for three years," he says. What's more, "we're trying to resurrect old neighborhoods that are often dangerous, and it's difficult to find buyers who want to take that plunge. It will take a decade of just dropping the seeds into the neighborhoods, and it's a slow, agonizing process."
Indeed, a project's location has a huge influence on how funding, construction, and legal terms are structured. Programs located in places with no building codes or officials have very different educational opportunities than those in red tape-entangled urban environments. All, however, share the belief that the logistics can't be handed off as though they were the responsibility of other entities. Students learn to work with trade contractors, understand the process by which a piece of equipment or building material arrives at the site, and the environmental impacts of construction. If they're cutting a material, they need to know the ordering lead time and how and where it's made. "All of those things are abstract until the moment it's your obligation to deliver it to someone," says David Lewis, director of The Design Workshop at Parsons The New School for Design, where nine of the design/build projects in the New York City-based studio's 11-year history have been urban. "More important, your design won't be erected if you don't understand how those things operate and control them."


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James Schuyler in the Spotlight
I'm a theater guy. In my field, in my business, when a character addresses the audience, there are two options: he or she is on the stage itself, in front of us, telling a story (see Our Town, Swimming to Cambodia), or the character is speaking to us from a specific place and time other than onstage and right now. The actual actor is always in the present, on the stage, but the character, more often than not, is somewhere else—some other location at some other moment—addressing us from there.
Someone once excitedly told me about seeing a play by Irish playwright Conor McPherson, one in which a guy tells his long, crazy story directly to the audience and then, at the end, puts on a necktie. Suddenly, the audience knows he's going out, or going to court, or wherever. The reveal is that he is not just talking to us in some nowhere place, or on the stage, but actually speaking to us from somewhere in the world of the story, and that the story is still happening as it is being told.
That feeling—the story happening as it's being told—times ten, times a hundred, is what first struck me about James Schuyler's poems: a specific time, place, room, garden, season, all happening in the present with the kind of balance, detail, and occasion more typical of a painting than a diary. That's how Schuyler's poems work for me, what gives them their own charge. The poems are grounded in a day, in a place, and sometimes written not for an abstract reader but for a specific person, on a specific occasion. In an essay about naturalism and theater, playwright Steven Dietz once wrote that if people actually talked the way they do in David Mamet's plays, it would cost $17.50 to get into Chicago. Similarly, if any Joe's recorded observations read like James Schuyler poems, every grocery list and seed packet would deserve its own chapbook.
Reading Schuyler's Collected Poems, the theater guy in me thinks of Stanislavski's method for acting—the speaker of the poem, like a character in a play, has an objective and a motivation, but he also has obstacles that stand in his way (long distance, depression). The act of writing the poem is a solution—but not just because the poet is emoting. He's specifically, purposefully, creating the poem as a project or a gift, a love letter, a postcard, a birthday present. Often with Schuyler, the postcard poems—like those in the "Loving You" section of The Crystal Lithium (1972)—are more of a wish-I-were-there than a wish-you-were-here. Even more often they are a here-I-am-and-I-will-tell-you-in-every-way-inside-and-outside-me-what-"here"-is-this-morning with some gallows humor and some memory or longing thrown in. It's landscape with emotional baggage. But in the end, there's a purpose to recording the "here," a purpose for getting through the day—an activity or a break. They're lunch hour poems that take all day.
Schuyler's poems increase in tension as their specific purpose comes closer to the surface. In Schuyler's last long poem, the glorious "A Few Days," there is the sense of the preoccupied host making conversation but conveying anxiety. He's talking about the weather and mundane plans, but he has a particular, nervous pitch that leaves the companion—the reader, the listener—wondering what's going on here? What's going on upstairs? Something shifting, hurried, aiming-to-please, distracted, and also entertaining is happening here—shades of Warhol and Capote, or at least how they have been portrayed on film. And then the picture becomes clearer:
It's no day for writing poems. Or for writing, period.
So I didn't.
Write, that is. The bruises of my face have gone, just
a thin scab on
the chin where they put the stitches. I'm back on Antabuse:
what a drag. I
really love drinking, but once I'm sailing I can't seem
to stop. So, pills
are once again the answer. . . .
There's a sense all through "A Few Days" of searching for the right chemical, the right transformative experience, and that it is within arm's reach—or if it is not, there is nothing to do but wait for a new day. The holy is in the mundane, and the holy can be reached from time to time through life's static—static from the brain, static from the body.
But the static is not the primary focus of Schuyler's poems. In "A Few Days," he writes:
Let's love today, the what we have now, this day, not
today or tomorrow or
yesterday, but this passing moment, that will
not come again.
Now tomorrow is today, the day before Labor Day,
1979. . . .
So many of his poems seek the specifics of the day. "Advent"—along with the long poems, one of my favorites by Schuyler—does this in a haiku-like manner: specific emotion, specific weather, specific season. In "Overcast, Hot," he memorializes, maybe as a joke, the summer of '81:
It's a hot day:
not so hot
as the days before:
it's that July,
the one in 1981,
the hot one. . . .
In the end, however, he captures a view from a specific place more than a public history, more a postcard than a public document. The effect is not unlike Richard Avedon's portrait of W.H. Auden. Or, just to take this a little further: other people's poems remind me of Avedon's standard portraits—white background, no context to when and where it was written. Schuyler's poems remind me of the rare work that Avedon did outside the studio. With Auden, Avedon ground the portrait in a specific day and a specific place instead of suspending a vague, unspecified whiteness. Or, to make another analogy and compare contemporaries, while John Ashbery disorients and constantly surprises the reader like Godard, Schuyler is Eric Rohmer. He sticks to chronology and captures emotional and physical texture. He believes in the ability to capture people and objects in an impressionistic manner, to record actual motion in the world. It's as simple as (in "A Few Days"): "The phone rings./And is answered." But then also: "I'll soon forget it./What have I not forgot?"
The nine poems by James Schuyler in the current issue of Poetry—taken from Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems, to be published in 2010—also chart the evolution of his style, as well as experiments and occasions. "Poem (The day gets slowly started)" captures Schuyler's mature style, gracefully balancing the observational, the overheard, the textural, the emotional, and the cerebral:
The day gets slowly started.
A rap at the bedroom door,
bitter coffee, hot cereal, juice
the color of sun which
isn't out this morning. A
cool shower, a shave, soothing
Noxzema for razor burn. A bed
is made. The paper doesn't come
until twelve or one. A gray shine
out the windows. "No one
leaves the building until
those scissors are returned."
It's that kind of a place.
These poems also show Schuyler outside his wish-I-was-there mode, actually being there, out of domesticity, at a concert in "Scarlatti" and in Italy itself in "Foreign Parts."
If I immersed myself in Schuyler-like immediacy and transparency here, I would write about having one pint of beer, sitting at a counter at Whole Foods, facing Halsted Street in Boystown in Chicago on a Friday night in fall 2009—but it wouldn't be the same. Or would it be, or who am I to say? And if I rewrite this paragraph a week later in a different place—externally, internally; different part of town, after an argument with my girlfriend—do I include that or stick to the original location, the original feeling, and try to deepen that? Do I keep the illusion of a single draft, or capture the layers of revision?
And now I also fight the haze that I sense Schuyler fought as well: the effort to write the next line, the next thought—although the recent unpublished poems, letters, and journals indicate that maybe it wasn't a struggle. Maybe the rest of his life was the struggle, and writing, after the struggle of getting up, was an easy reprieve.
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Modern window coverings can now be opened and closed by pushing a button on your iPad.
As I don't own an iPad, I haven't been able to open my blinds since they were installed three years ago. I suspect, even if I purchased an iPad, I wouldn't be able to locate the virtual keyboard required to make stuff work, so my blinds will forever remain shut.
There is good news for the technically inhibited, however. Apparently, you can still buy curtains, blinds and drapes that are manually operated with drawstrings. They're like a ripcord for wanna-be parachutists, with the added advantage that you can either open or close your blind depending on which cord you pull.
"Motorized window coverings are very useful in homes with open or cathedral ceilings in which windows high up on the walls can be difficult to reach, said Said Ron Hermann, the new owner of Budget Blinds on Henderson Hwy,
"Long poles are sometimes used to manipulate curtains or shutters on such windows, but the touch of a button is absolutely the best way to adjust them."
Remote controls are handy in newer homes with big windows that require larger, heavier coverings, Hermann added. He sells a unit "like a WiFi connection" that can be plugged into a computer to control the time of day a home's window coverings are opened or closed, as well as when lights go on and off.
"Almost any type of blind or drape can be motorized, but people should be prepared to pay considerably more for the convenience," he said.
Metal venetian blinds with drawstrings are still available, but the modern trend is to wood, faux-wood or vinyl slats operated by a vertical tilt bar in shorter runs, or cords or motors in longer runs, he added.
For people who like a vertical look, Hermann said Hunter Douglas manufactures blinds with 3-1/2-inch hardwood louvers, including a wood valance, side or centre draw, opposite or centre stack and standard chain or cord operation.
"We have a five-year warranty on all products we sell. If your dog chews your wood louvers or your child spills a soft drink on your curtains, we'll replace them, no questions asked, as long as they are installed by our professionals," he said.
Budget Blinds has nearly 4,000 'territories' throughout Canada and the U.S., making it the number-one window-covering franchise in North America, according to its website.
"We benefit from economies of scale, allowing us to offer clients very competitive pricing on all our window treatments," said Hermann, adding that the word "Budget" should not be misconstrued as "cheap." He said his company has quality inventory for people with a limited amount to spend, as well as for those who have thousands of dollars to invest.
Budget's service includes in-home consultation by staff designers who will suggest appropriate window treatments, including matching duvet covers, pillows and other accessories for an entire bedroom or other rooms.
"Blinds, curtains and draperies will reduce things such as glare and UV penetration. But if you're really going for a wow factor, then matching window coverings with other decor is the best way to go," Hermann said, adding that Budget products are GREENGUARD Certified as eco-friendly. Some contain up to 40-per-cent less volatile organic compounds than competing products, while shades are made of 100-per-cent recyclable materials.
Shutters comprise more than 30 per cent of sales at Visions Draperies, a window-treatment company with a 30-year history in Winnipeg. The business, located on St Anne's Road, was recently purchased by Kimberly and Lindsay Buus, a mother/daughter duo with many years of management and design savvy between them.
"Shutters are popular because they look great in any room, they're sturdy, they can be finely adjusted to let in or close out almost any amount of light, and they increase the resale value of your home," said Lindsay, the store's manager. "They're also stain-resistant and easy to clean."
Visions Draperies employs tradesmen who specialize in shutter installations only, ensuring that each job is completed by experienced craftsmen and eligible for a manufacturer's warranty.
Blinds that open from top down or bottom up are also a much-sought-after item because they are a relatively inexpensive way to reduce glare, Linsday said.
"We purchase our blinds from HunterDouglas, Levolor, Maxxmar and Shade-O-Matic, and buy custom drapes from 12 different vendors, of which 90 per cent are Canadian."
Purchasing within the country gives Visions Draperies a leg up on big-box retailers, allowing the store to fill an order in six to eight weeks, she added.
"We can have a Canadian-made product in our store in two to four weeks, and installed in a client's home within a few days of delivery."
Visions Draperies has a seamstress, Shirley Foamete, who makes drapes, panels and some types of blinds to order, as well as in-house designers who work with clients to choose from more than 1,000 fabric samples provided by major wholesalers such as Jo-Ann Fabrics.
"We will do window treatments for an entire house or a single window, depending on what clients want," said Lindsay, adding that the store's products are priced from very affordable to whatever a person has budgeted for window coverings.
She said there are lots of options available such as adding a privacy shade to a window that has drapes or putting a valance over the top to give it a classic, finished look.
She and her mother are also preparing to introduce a complete renovation service that would include tearing apart a single room or an entire house and rebuilding it to conform to modern building codes, as well as adding the trendiest flooring, cabinets, furniture and, of course, window treatments.
Carolyn Giese of Creative Window Coverings & Accessories is a believer in polyester blinds because "they are relatively inexpensive, easy to clean or dust, and can be raised to allow full light into a room or lowered to cover a window partially or completely."
The louvers can also be manipulated to diffuse light or to create an opaque surface that cannot be seen through, but has sufficient luminescence to create a warm ambience in a room, he added.
One of her recent jobs was a complete window treatment in a large home in south Winnipeg.
"I used polyester blinds throughout because the owners wanted a bright interior that also offered personal privacy and protection from harmful UV rays," said Giese, adding that they had a budget of about $10,000.
The blinds, including a remote-controlled section near the top of a high wall, were purchased and installed for $7,000. Another $3,000 was spent on faux-leather valances and side panels in many of the rooms.
Said one of the owners, "I'm extremely pleased with the outcome. The window treatments highlight the decor in the house as well as giving us privacy without feeling as if we're completely cut off from the outside world."
The family has two children whose rooms were also outfitted with the blinds and sheer, coloured drapes that pick up other tones in each room, Giese noted. Giese and her partner offer a range of design options, including custom blinds, draperies, furniture, accessories, art, greenery, new home selections and staging.
Marcel Ayotte, owner/operator of Marcel's Drapery and Blinds at 156 Sherbrook St. since 1980, jokes that "if you're a student struggling financially, tin foil makes an inexpensive, UV-reflecting window covering."
Ayotte said his business is half-residential and half-commercial. On the residential side, screen roller shades are in vogue because they are inexpensive and prevent solar rays from heating up a house in summer and causing UV damage to furniture and accessories.
Ayotte said he also sells a lot of Roman shades (a window covering that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds) because they are available in multiple colours and styles that will add a touch of class to any room.
"There are unlimited choices in panel drapes that can include a black-out option consisting of dark material sewn to the back of each panel," he said, adding that roll-up shades can also function as black-outs.
Though it's difficult to put a price on the cost of window coverings because of the diversity of materials available, Ayotte estimated that a single room would cost from about $600 to $1,500. Window coverings for an entire house would range from $4,000 to $10,000 without motorization, or from around $6,000 to $15,000 with motorization.
Ayotte also sells tract supplies and does repair work such as re-cording cellular blinds and replacing worn tracks.


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Plant City
Coach: Wayne Ward (fifth season, 25-17)
Last season: 8-3
Class/district: 7A-8
Colors: Aqua, orange and white
Stadium: Raider Stadium, One Raider Place, Plant City
Playoff history: 1975, 1998, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013
Last appearance: Lost 17-10 to Sickles.
Season schedule
Aug. 29 vs. Steinbrenner, 7:30
Sept. 5 at Wharton, 7:30
Sept. 19 at Durant, 7:30
Sept. 26 vs. Bloomingdale, 7:30
Oct. 2 vs. East Bay, 7
Oct. 10 at Tampa Bay Tech, 7:30
Oct. 17 vs. Spoto, 7:30
Oct. 24 at Strawberry Crest, 7:30
Oct. 31 vs. Brandon, 7:30
Nov. 7 at Gaither, 7:30
Mark your calendar
Plant City vs. East Bay, Oct. 2: Plant City was 4-0 last season when it traveled to take on the Indians, but East Bay, despite completing only three passes in regulation, won in overtime on a 23-yard touchdown pass, snapping the Raiders' win streak. This season, assistant coach Greg Meyer said his team can't wait to get another crack at its district rival. Plant City and East Bay have the potential to be the top teams in the district again, so aside from being a rivalry matchup, the game could essentially decide who will take the crown.
Huddle highlights
Key transfer: The big news for the Raiders this offseason was the acquisition of Austin Carswell from Strawberry Crest. Carswell, who transferred in January, quarterbacked the Chargers and threw for 930 yards and 13 touchdowns. But that's not all he can do. The 6-foot-1, 175-pound athlete also lines up at wide receiver and defensive back.
Quarterback competition: The Raiders planned to play Carswell at quarterback in the spring game against Armwood, but he was determined to be ineligible until the fall because of the transfer. The Raiders started sophomore Corey King instead and liked what they saw. Meyer said King will start the Raiders' first game under center, but that Carswell, who will likely start at wide receiver and defensive back Week 1, could also compete for the job.
Taking the place of Chase: Four-star wide receiver TJ Chase has Division I offers from just about everyone and could have been a big weapon for the Raiders, but Chase decided to take his talents to Bradenton's IMG Academy. But with wide receivers like Carswell, Markese Hargrove and converted basketball player Deondre Gatlin at wide receiver, Meyer thinks the Raiders will be just fine. "They understand the opportunity with him being gone," Meyer said. "I'm sure if you asked any of them, they'd love to be the guy."
Filling holes: The Raiders graduated 16 seniors, including several Division I signees. Despite the great loss of talent, though, Meyer isn't worried about finding replacements to fill their shoes. Defensively, he admits, the Raiders are young up front, but a strong linebacker corp led by veteran Sawyer Dawson will be a big help.
Senior class: The Raiders will feature far fewer seniors than in 2013, but Meyer said he's been impressed by the new unit's leadership abilities — a factor that could help Plant City be a contender for a district title. "These seniors came in and really ran practice in a way really no other senior class has done until this point," Meyer said. "We just kind of put it on them to run the show, and they're stepping up."
Known quantities
ATH Austin Carswell, Sr.: Meyer can't discuss the new Raider without speaking about his versatility, something that could help out Plant City immensely this season. Carswell had just two receptions last season for the Chargers, one of them being a 23-yarder, but his athleticism combined with the promise he's shown in practice leads the coaching staff to believe he could be successful wherever he lines up.
LB Sawyer Dawson, Sr.: Dawson led the Raiders with 87 tackles, 12 for loss last season, and will be back to lead a linebacker corp Meyer said should be the highlight of the defense. Dawson, a Purdue commit, also had two sacks, three interceptions, a fumble recovery and a blocked field goal in 2013.
RB Sterling Day, Jr.: Coming off a season in which he had 514 rushing yards and seven touchdowns, Day is the Raiders' leading returning rusher. Day won't be the only one carrying the ball for the Raiders, but the 5-foot-10, 185-pound running back could very likely lead the way.
ATH Markese Hargrove, Jr.: Described as "Mr. Consistency," Hargrove had 270 yards receiving and one touchdown while rushing for 164 more. Now that Hargrove — who had four receptions for 31 yards in a spring game loss to Armwood — is an upperclassman with a leadership role, Meyer is counting on him to deliver a whole lot more, and
OL Evan Crowell, Sr.: Crowell, who missed six games in 2013 because of a hamstring injury, played defensive end and guard last year, but the 6-foot-2, 280-pound linemen has been moved to center this year, a role in which Meyer thinks the Crowell will shine.
QB Corey King, So.: The Raiders' next starting quarterback might only be a sophomore, but Meyer said you'd never know it by the way King carries himself on the field. The wise-beyond-his-years QB finished 9-of-12 for 72 yards and an interception in the spring game, and though he'll continue to face competition for the starting job, Meyer is confident that, at least for game one, King is the guy.
LB Kwest Fluitt, Jr.: Last year, Fluitt was unable to play for the Raiders because he didn't have the grades, but Meyer said Fluitt has worked hard on his studies to earn back his eligibility. That hard work has been mirrored on the football field. Meyer thinks Fluitt, who he says has the perfect combination of size and speed, could have a big year as part of a linebackers group rich with talent.
DB Peyton Collins, Jr.: A starter at free safety last season, Collins had some big plays, including an interception in the red zone on the final play of regulation against East Bay to force overtime. Since then, the offseason has been good to Collins, and Meyer said he's already witnessed a stronger, more confident athlete.
DB/WR Javaris Whitsett, Sr.: Whitsett had 25 tackles last season, but now that standout defensive back and Temple signee Jyquis Thomas has graduated, Meyer said Whitsett has stepped up to lead the secondary. That's a job that includes guarding some of Tampa Bay's best receivers, which this season will include Wharton's Auden Tate and Steinbrenner's Kezio Snelling.
WR Antoine Thompson, So.: One of many who will pitch in to replace Chase, Thompson could be big for the Raiders on offense. Meyer said the 6-foot, 165-pound receiver has had a great summer, which included flourishing at a Florida Tech camp, after which he received his first college offer from the Panthers.
Coach's corner
"Our goal is to win a district title, and we feel like we've got a great shot at that. Even with the loss of the seniors, even with TJ leaving, we've gotten stronger. It's almost been addition by subtraction." — Meyer


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In view of the Hillbrow Tower in downtown Johannesburg is the Ellis Park Stadium, home of the Lions rugby team. We went there on an outing with some Wycliffe colleagues. One of them had received some free tickets that they shared with the group. This was our first time attending a rugby game.
The Lions were playing the Bulls, and red and blue team flags were waving all around the stadium. Rugby is very popular in South Africa. We saw Invictus earlier this year–a movie set just after the end of aparthied that featured the Springboks, the South African national rugby team. The final game of the 1995 Rugby World Cup featured in that movie was played in this stadium.
Rugby is an intense game with regular scoring and constant action. Between the swift tackling (with no protective pads!) and the occasional altercations, sometimes it looked brutal. The game consists of two 40-minute halves. Unlike in American football, there is no break after a tackle; the play just continues until someone scores, the ball goes out of bounds or there is some infraction. Rugby is played in several other African countries including Kenya.
Overall, we quite enjoyed our first experience with South African rugby.


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Chris Adams is president of Engaged Public and project director for TBD Colorado.
In his 2012 State of the State address, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper launched a major new initiative aimed at getting Coloradans involved in setting the course for the future.
The effort is called TBD Colorado (for "to be determined"). TBD invites Colorado residents to learn about some of the major issues in the state — including health, education, transportation and the state budget — and then to set priorities and consider possible policy changes.
In order to ensure that Coloradans have accurate and balanced information, each issue has a framing committee to help present key background information and identify some of the big picture questions. For health they are:
How does Colorado become the healthiest state?
How can Colorado build on its strength and reverse the obesity trend?
How can Colorado reduce economic losses due to the uninsured?
How could Colorado reduce the increasing cost of public programs like Medicaid?
How should Colorado invest in children's health?
If TBD is successful, it will help the state break stalemates on issues of great importance to current and future generations.
Colorado has distinguished itself through the role ordinary residents have carved out for themselves in governing the state. We are a people who like to know the facts, build a vision and then think of creative ways to achieve it.
TBD Colorado is open to all Coloradans and offers a variety way to participate. All of them start at www.TBDColorado.org.
On the website, you can nominate yourself for a limited number of openings at regional meetings (nominations for regional meetings close on a rolling basis from March 16 to April 5), download a "meeting packet" to hold your own conversation (available April 1), nominate yourself for summit meetings to be held in June (register on the website by April 15) or online (starting this summer).
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Which is first concrete paint or floor leveling compound?
I was going to paint my concrete basement floor with a moisture barrier paint. but I was also going to pour some self levelling concrete to fill in a few bad spots.
Which should I do first?
I would think that would be first.
If that water proof paint is cement based don't expect it to survive long on the floor. It is very brittle and will fracture easily.
Yikes----Self leveling compound is to soft for use as a finished floor---it will be all scraped and gouged in no time----
Have you considered using an epoxy compound such as is used on garage floors?? Also, one of the companies that does spray-on bedliners for trucks (Line-X I think) has products for use on concrete floors and patios.
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