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LEWIS: Mr. Frost, when I think about the way you write, the language you use seems entirely a language of your own; and in your first book you seem to have started writing this way without apparently any influence from anyone else.
FROST: You can see in some poems some lingering words "fain" and "list" that I was getting rid of, that I was ashamed of to begin with.
LEWIS: Yes, but you got rid of those pretty fast, I think.
FROST: Yes.
LEWIS: But the - the poem "Mowing"...
FROST: "Mowing"? Yes, now that's perfectly clear, straight goods -- mine.
LEWIS: But that seemed to set the style, and you never felt any need to alter it much?
FROST: No, I don't remember thinking much about style except that I was ashamed at "thee" and "thou" and "thine" and such things as that: that I'd dropped them without any - without thinking much about it.
LEWIS: Yes.[. ..] When I re-read your poems to write an introduction to some of them I noticed one or two Augustan phrases almost. Or they might have been Augustan as altered a bit by Crabbe. One of them was - the "highway where the. ..." (How does it go?) The "highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. " (Into My Own) And then there was one phrase: that famous one about
That seems to me very like a good Augustan, or at any rate a good line by Crabbe. Did you read him?
FROST: No, I had never read Crabbe when I wrote that. But I'd read, you know, so scatteringly - so at large - that I can't put my finger on any particular thing. I didn't know about Crabbe until somebody called my attention to him, and then I felt some kinship. I have two first editions of him now.
LEWIS: Yes, yes. And another thing, do you not think that the language of the American countryside, of the country folk you lived amongst so long, has got into your poetry?
FROST: It must have a good deal, though I'm aware of another - of a vocabulary a little below any I use, you know: a little more - a little rough, a little cruder. But I think there's nothing in our country talk of the sort of rustic kind that didn't come from some quarter in England.
LEWIS: Yes?
FROST: There'll be a word like "clide." The cattle - the cattle get clide. That's "cloyed" really, and that's a word that you wouldn't use for animals, you know, like "sorrowful and cloyed." But they use it about the cattle: The cattle get clide, when they're overfed. Things like that I haven't played with. They're curiosities, but I haven't played with them.[. ..]
LEWIS: Now there's another thing that interests me very much. I've forgotten where you said it, but somewhere or other : that you write a poem to clear up some confusion in your own mind.[. ..]
FROST: Yes, I suppose that's a good deal backward-looking theory, that I can see in nearly every poem some answer to some doubt or some question, you know, that's come up in my mind -- even in argument with people or something - a difficulty in a situation, you know, that needs a phrase to finish it off. The same as in diplomacy they find a phrase. It's just like diplomacy - you find a phrase.
LEWIS: Yes.
FROST: It's a way out of something. Now that's not very obvious in the poems. Not as obvious to anybody else as it is to me. I could probably name twenty or thirty poems that were just answers to somebody that had - somebody that had left me unsatisfied with the last thing he said in an argument.
LEWIS: Yes, yes.
FROST: A year afterwards.
LEWIS: I suppose most of us start off in a kind of fog. We have a feeling that there is a poem asking to be written and one makes moves into this fog to see the right direction to follow, but I noticed in the --I think it's in your introduction to your collected poems - you made a difference between the way the scholar works with his accumulation of facts and the way a poet works. I think you said the poet just allows whatever sticks to him to stick to him, like burrs when you walk through a field. But I've been looking into this lately, and it seems to me that - that at a certain stage, at any rate, of their work scholars - I mean historians, philosophers, or scientists - have very much the same imaginative jump as poets do. I think it was Collingwood, the Oxford historian and philosopher, who said that he - he starts in a fog, and he doesn't know what the problem is until he is halfway towards solving it. Well, that is true for us, isn't it - for poets?
FROST: Yes, yes, that's a good description - another good description of a way a poem happens.
LEWIS: Yes.
FROST: But it seems to me there's a difference here about the material. You can see the deliberateness with which the scholar seeks his material after he gets going, but a poet never lives in that way at all. All the best things he ever uses are things he didn't know he was getting when he was getting them. A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair .
LEWIS: Yes. Do you find that subjects have to lie about in your mind for a long time before you can use them or. ..?
FROST: Oh, no. The thing is that the scattered material that's been making in various ways - thrown ahead of me, all round me; and all of a sudden some day I see a way across some of it, and that is a little theme - a little idea. It gives me a start and a direction so that I can use some of this stuff. That's all. You never - you never cease: you never rest from sort of little ideas and things that don't seem to start to be poems. They're just scattered thoughts, you know. But some day, all of a sudden, there's one that looks as if it's just struck like lightning across a lot of this stuff.
LEWIS: Narrative poems, you've written quite a lot of them. Have you come across any narrative poems written in our time that seem to you true narrative? They seem so often to me to be really dramatic monologues or ballads or something concealing themselves as narratives.
FROST: Yes, I guess that there's a good deal of that in mine, too. Can you think of one that seems to you pure narrative? I think every poem, even a little lyric, ought to have a progress through it; it ought to go to an end and have something of a narrative movement in it.
LEWIS: Yes, yes.
FROST: Not stand still and pirouette on one leg.
LEWIS: I've tried to write narratives myself, and I'm not at all sure. ...I mean we're so overawed now by critics and, indeed, other people who tell us that the work of the narrative poem is all done better by the novel or the short story or the films, and so on, that I tend to get rather overanxious, I think, when I'm writing a narrative poem.
FROST: I think there's always someone talking. I even look, when I approach a novel, to see if it's unbroken prose, without any conversation in it. I don't read it then, I want it to be broken with talk. I want drama in the narrative - a lot of talk. I suppose mine just runs over with these things. There's always somebody - nearly always somebody-talking.
LEWIS: Yes.
FROST: I remember someone said to me once, "What you're trying to write is the short story." But I thought that was rather doubtful.
LEWIS : It seems to me that possibly you have an advantage in the writing of narrative by living in a fairly remote place: in the country, where small things that happen - things that are gossiped about - are extremely important. I should think that is a good foundation, isn't it, for telling the sort of stories that you tell? In the next village but one, they would refuse to admit that you existed, and you refuse to admit they exist; so in the country you're in a close circle of a community, and anything that happens there is potential drama and story .
FROST: Yes, I've picked up many of them all my life. And they're all dialogue, aren't they, nearly?
LEWIS: Quite a lot of them.
FROST: Yes, there's a story implied in every case. They are rather the sort of thing you speak of; they're gossip. And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's - and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three - the three great things. Philosophy is just a thing that trims religion, you know - that prunes it and all that. And you've got science. And you've got this: the biggest of all, is gossip - our interest in each other .
LEWIS: Yes, which is really based on a kind of hero-worship, isn't it? Or rather a lot of hero-worship is based on that, isn't it?
FROST: Yes, yes.
LEWIS: And I suppose that anyone who is going to write a narrative poem now has to have the kind of interest in human beings that often comes out as hero-worship.
FROST: That's it. It is hero-worship, you see, and one of the things that makes you go is making a hero out of somebody that nobody else had ever noticed was a hero.
LEWIS: Yes, exactly, yes.
FROST: You pick up the unconsidered person.
LEWIS: Yes, and of course that is what gossip does, in a small community: it makes heroes, doesn't it - or villains - out of our neighbors? But they're big anyway.
FROST: Yes. Do you know, that's interesting
to hear you use the word that way, when people are saying there's
no such thing as heroism left. Some of the talk is that way. I
know of a book of history that says heroism is out of date. But
it's in everything. It's in making a book, you know. And it takes
a hero to make a poem.
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Farmer Paul Hudson, from Rillington, is organising a tractor road run on Sunday 25 May to raise money for a cancer charity that supported his unclethrough a fatal illness.
The event will take place acorss the Yorkshire Wolds and Valley and will involve a convoy of more than 50 tractors in proud procession as they take part in a Road Run to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
It will be the third annual event organised by Mr Hudson, who said: "we are raising money for Macmillan this year in memory of my uncle, Arthur Croft.
"He was from Duggleby and he was a keen vintage tractor and vintage ploughing enthusiast, and he raised lots of money for lots of different charities over the years.
"Sadly, uncle Arthur died from cancer last year He had absolutely wonderful support from the Macmillan team at Scarborough Hospital. Last year he came out with us on the Tractor Run, and he said it was one of his best ever days.
"I asked him if we were doing it again this year which charity we should support, and without hesitation he said Macmillan. I'm honoured to be able to organise this again this year in his memory, and I hope that we can raise as much money as possible for the charity which really did make such a fantastic difference to him."
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Discussion in 'Racquets' started by TopspinAce, Mar 16, 2012.
Any suggestions!? Im just looking for something fun..I have about 15 sets of head synt gut and grips
my friend still uses the old 6.1 classic and he strings it with full poly at around 38 lbs. Works great and is very comfortable. Still one of the best racquets you can use IMO
does synthetic gut work though..im out of poly right now
sure it does. Been playing with the 6.1 classic long before poly was even around. Usually rocked it around 60-65 lbs. Nothing fancy or special about stringing it.
I've loved Head RIP Control 16 in mine. Strung up at 60lbs. The 6.1 Classic handles higher tensions like a dream!
does synthetic gut work...... Man you need to try some forten sweet 16/17 in this stick. All my greatest experiences with this stick were with synth guts. Had some random poly/multi crap hybrid in one 16x18 and full gamma synth gut in the other... Gamma synth gut ruled it. So much consistency and predictability. The perfect amount of crisp for amount of feel i want. It's so much work to find this type of feel for a cheap price with hybrids, polys, OR multis. Maybe I'm just a synth gut guy.though
I get great spin and pop while having it soft enough for my wrist. Beware the string might be more powerful than you might want. I hit long for a while during warmups, but started dialing that power in with just a tad more spin via follow through on my strokes. I love this racket, but... unfortunately it's just to heavy for me. I don't have enough timing for a racket that needs either a precise or deliberate swing. I am currently trying to get used to the 18x20 PS6.1 Classics but spring has doomed california with a storm. I might be posting a review soon... I have 2 string set ups but haven't gotten used to or broken in either of them yet. Also I cannot see myself being able to play this racket in a good duration without ridiculous fatigue compared to my rebels. Which are almost perfect for me...
this is what i did wrong. I put Gosen Sheep Micro 17 at 52 because i was afraid of the stiffness... I should have done 56+. It's so mushy it's hard to get excited about hitting. In contrast, the forten is making me want to sneak a french kiss from the racket
Hahaha! I love how the Rec Tensions are 55-65lbs on it. It definitely was made to be strung high! Great comfort all else considering. I don't recall ever stringing mine up with poly though, always used Head RIP.
Thanks! This is what I needed! Im not using it full time just for gags but I'm glad synt gut will work but you never told me at what tension with HEAD Synt gut..and p.s I love the rebels xD
i think you should use a stiffer synth gut @60+. If you don't need the comfort anyways. if you do i recommend staying at 60 with a softer string like forten sweet.
Fuji is all too correct when he says this racket is meant for high tensions.
I still have my 6.1 Classics and although I don't use them much these days, they're certainly fun for some occasional noodling around. These are probably my all-time best performers for serve & volley and doubles play.
I string my own gear, so when I was using my 6.1's a lot, I tried a number of different tensions with both 16 ga. and 17 ga. syn. gut, plus a sampling or two of multifiber. The multi was just too mushy for me in that frame, but I was also surprised with just how much better I liked the feel of 17 over 16 ga. syn. gut. Even though the thinner string isn't typically as durable as a thicker option, the feedback and general performance I got with the 17's was substantial for me.
I liked my Classics strung right up to 64-65 lbs. when I was using them a lot, but if I occasionally restring any of them now, I'll probably shoot for 61-62 lbs. I've gone in the direction of softer racquets and currently use the Volkl C10 Pro 98, but I can honestly say that it's not the demon around the net that the 6.1 Classic was for me when I used it all the time.
Im just looking for something fun.....but not necessarily best?
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NEVER one to be overburdened by modesty, Labour leader Ed Miliband has taken to boasting that he is much more clever than David Cameron. "I feel I am the one with much more intellectual self-confidence," he has declared.
But this pomposity is wholly unjustified. If one is speaking in academic terms alone then Miliband is the inferior of the two since his degree from Oxford is only second-class whereas Cameron's is first-class.
More importantly Miliband has failed to show real political intelligence, courage or insight since he won his party's leadership in 2010. Instead of forcing his party to confront the realities of a changing world or the dismal, debt-laden record of the last Labour government he has presided over a headlong slide into a Left-wing comfort zone where puerile, anti-Tory insults and class-war slogans become substitutes for genuine debate.
Nothing exemplifies that unthinking pattern more than Labour's latest party political broadcast for the forthcoming European and local government elections. Such broadcasts are notorious for their lack of popular appeal but this effort from Labour must rank as the worst in history. It serves as a visual monument to Labour's vacuity.
For those fortunate not to have seen this bizarre commercial, it is a spoof of the 1957 cult classic The Incredible Shrinking Man. In Labour's pathetic version, filmed in black and white to provide a period atmosphere, the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is "The Uncredible Shrinking Man", growing ever smaller at the Cabinet table as he is bullied into accepting Tory policies.
If you do not have any fresh ideas use stealth tactics to scare voters.
Inevitably the Conservative ministers are portrayed as a gang of grotesque, ignorant braying toffs, who delight in rewarding the rich and punishing the disabled. "I have a friend who is down to his last two yachts," is one line from the leaden script.
It is amazing this piece of nonsense was ever approved by Labour's strategists. The broadcast barely appears professional at all but looks more like a cheap video put together by a bunch of sniggering Left-wing students who live under the delusion that they have a sense of humour.
In one particularly asinine passage several Tories are shown as not even knowing what the letters NHS stand for, while the fictional David Cameron trumpets his enthusiasm for closing hospitals.
Yet thanks to the experience of looking after his severely disabled son Ivan, who died in 2009, Cameron probably knows more about the health service than most of the smooth, wellheeled apparatchiks on the Labour front bench.
This pitiful broadcast was completely negative in tone and devoid of any content about Labour's policies. The party has absolutely nothing to say beyond playground abuse. Labour has become little more than a noisy wing of the anti-capitalist occupy movement, full of self-indulgent rhetoric about bashing the rich.
What is so offensive about this approach is its hypocrisy, for Labour's leading figures are just as privileged as the coalition's ministers. Harriet Harman's father was a Harley Street surgeon and her aunt the Countess of Longford, while Ed Balls and Tristram Hunt were educated at private schools. Ed Miliband himself, married to a high-earning barrister, is a property millionaire. Moreover Labour is the party of real nepotism. The offspring of Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, Jack Straw and Harriet Harman are all being lined up for safe Labour seats.
The broadcast shows exactly how Labour intends to fight the next general election, not by promoting realistic politics but by whipping up class divisions. Hate not hope will be Labour's central theme. That might seem ironic given that Miliband has just hired President Obama's former campaign manager David Axelrod as his election adviser.
But despite the upbeat image of Obama's first presidential bid in 2008 Axelrod has always been one of the toughest, most ruthless street fighters in American politics. Hammering and smearing opponents is central to his style. That negativity was reflected in 2012 when Obama sought re-election in perhaps the dirtiest campaign in modern history.
The Republican candidate Mitt Romney, a brilliant businessman and successful governor, was relentlessly attacked over his wealth and his supposed contempt for ordinary Americans.
One Democrat commercial even came close to accusing him of killing a man's wife after she had lost her healthcare benefits. As Obama himself said: "If you do not have any fresh ideas use stealth tactics to scare voters."
WITH Axelrod and Miliband at the helm that is what Labour has in store for the electorate. Miliband might like to pose as a "nice guy" but we should remember that he not only pushed aside his brother David and also spent more than a decade at the heart of Gordon Brown's paranoid, partisan machine. All his rhetoric about "One Nation Britain", in reality his entire strategy is built only on the bitter politics of envy.
At the next general election the Tories will present a picture of optimism, recovery, freedom and aspiration. But Labour will offer a far bleaker, more narrow vision. Labour is unfit for office, as this week's dismal broadcast so clearly demonstrates.


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November after Hurricane Sandy. He needed labor for tear-outs and roofing jobs his salesmen had
already signed. We had brought labor crews out to work for a different company but they weren't staying busy so we agreed to do work for Chris and payments would be received as Insurance checks came in.
We cleaned out water-damaged items from many residences for Mihalic's company and have only
received $2000 to date.
I have called for payment (which he has already received from homeowners' insurance company),
he answered my call on Friday, February 16th, told me he was going over our payment and for me to call him back in 1 hour, I asked if he would answer his phone, he gave me his word he would answer. I have been calling ever since to no avail. I have contacted his offices in Garner, NC and Pleasantville, NJ only to have the assistant take a message but no call back.
I am not alone in this, his office and salesmen don't get paid after a while so there is a turn-over every month or so. He has been prohibited from doing business in Indiana due to fraud there but he still has an office, it's just in someone else's name. When I searched his name, there was a Craigslist posting from a homeowner in NC warning others not to do business with him due to the fact that he does not pay subcontractors and then the homeowner gets a lien put on their property.
I have been told by an ex-employee that he is having customers affected by Storm Sandy sign over their insurance checks to him directly because he states it will make the process go faster and smoother. I have also been told that he is bouncing company checks and spending thousands of dollars at the casino. She was a first-hand witness to this. I have been in contact with a reporter in North Carolina (where his permanent home address is) and he has told me that they have been contacted more than once regarding Chris Mihalics shady dealings. They have even run news reports on him exposing his lacking business ethics. This is probably the reason he is in New Jersey now.
When we left New Jersey due to the fact that funds were low because we werent getting paid, our labor stayed on and worked another week directly for Chris. When they went to the
Pleasantville office to get paid, Chris called the police saying they were trying to steal his computer equipment. All lies! When the crew explained they were only there to get paid, the officers told Chris to just pay them and it would be over. He said they only worked a couple of hours and he had no intention of paying them.
I have been told that Chris has made over $700,000 from Hurricane Sandy, because of not paying employees and subcontractors, and plans to retire soon.
We need this fraud to be exposed. Hard-working people are being taken advantage of and homeowners are going to be held responsible for owner pocketing the money because subcontractors are going to be
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We are left with no money to pay our workers, we have paid workers out of our own pockets but still owe and now we are facing our family being put on the streets because of this owner's greed.
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The controller's multi-lane M8 cable/connector system employs Molex iPass technology. Consequently, the 24-port cabling system uses three connectors to attach to 24 drives, making it suitable for high density environments.
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AMCC's line of PCI Express-to-SATA II RAID controllers now consists of 2, 4-, 8-, 12-, 16- and 24-port offerings. AMCC's 3ware 9650SE family of RAID controllers is available in low profile 2-, 4-, and 8-port models, and full-height 12- 16- and 24-port configurations.
RAID 6 safeguards data against two drive failures for maximum fault tolerance. The 9650SE controllers minimize the RAID 6 write performance penalty by calculating double-parity simultaneously, rather than consecutively.
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I'm back.
After a couple shows and a well-earned week away, I'm in the audience this evening offering insights, opinions and random rambling from the sold out Carrie Underwood show at the James Brown Arena.
There's always been some debate as to where to find the line dividing rock and country. Is it in Zac Brown's twangier jams? A Lynyrd Skynyrd slow jam? According to Sons of Sylvia, the black-clad brothers opening for Underwood, it never existed. The band opened with a smoking solo plaid on a Flying V steel (I know, it was my first as well) that quickly segued into a an unapologetically heavy version of the Stones' Gimme Shelter. That was followed with a song that opened with the line "I was born the year John Lennon died".
Remember, this is, ostensibly, a country act. And certainly there are elements of the classic country sound in the songs, but there's also black leather blended with the mandolin and a decided punk approach to the group's bluegrass attack. The look like the Strokes, play like the Pistols but still come straight outa Nashville.
There is no rock. There is no country. There is just music. Just ask the Sons of Sylvia.
More later.
Craig Morgan
It isn't surprising that Craig Morgan has survived the rigors of Nashville, dodging one-hit wonder status and becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry, because he is the very template of what a contemporary country performer should do and be.
There's nothing particularly spectacular about Morgan. The songs are strong - but living in a town profusely populated by tune spinners looking for a big break will produce the occasional gem. What works for Morgan is his understanding that country fans want a certain measure of earnestness and a certain measure of humor. They want classic country twang and the horns and strings of contemporary pop. They want a rocker and a guy that can deliver the occasional quirky cover - in Morgan's case Easy (Like Sunday Morning) and The Joker. He delivers all of this, and is able to do it in the limited time allotted a middle-of-the-bill opener.
Craig Morgan may never move the units or sell seat the way Carrie Underwood, this evening's hostess with the mostess, can. It doesn't matter. He's avoided becoming a flash in the pan and, nearly ten years into his career, has become that rarest of performers.
He's a successful working musician.
Underwood Overkill?
In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that when it comes to concerts, I believe an artist should err on the side of simplicity. There are, of course, a few exceptions to this rule. When U2 plays a football stadium, for instance, it's perfectly acceptable to carry a construction that allows the band to project and perform for fans located 100 yards away. But for the most part, I believe all the pomp and circumstance is, at best, unnecessary and at worst, employed to hide something.
I bring this up because Carrie Underwood, or perhaps her handlers, does not share my less-is-more belief. Nary a single stop remains unpulled this evening. Lavish stage set? Check. Multiple costume changes? Check. A bonanza of lighting, video and mechanical effects? Check, check and check. It's full-tilt boogie.
It's also a shame. It's a shame because although Underwood manages to hold her own in front of the special effects spectacular, I have to wonder how a more intimate and controlled concert might sound. If, instead of having to push with all her might during each and every number, she were allowed the opportunity to just sing. She is, after all, a gifted singer. She won a contest and everything.
It's true that I am not a participant in the music industry - just an active observer. I also understand that Underwood is still in the early stages of a career that last several decades. Plenty of time for subtle. Still, I have to question the taste of a John Denver cover performed in the bed of a pickup flying over the audience.
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Assignment: go on tour with realtor and reporter to homes left abandoned in North Port, FL.
If anything had "oh-no" written all over it, that did. I've been on the "tour-with-realtor" assignments a million times before, not getting into any house, struggling to make pictures at 65 mph. However, the realtor, Shannon Moore, saved the day. She understood exactly what I wanted, and had all the codes and keys to make it happen over a couple hours on an assignment for The New York Times (story by Andrew Martin here). She took us right into homes that are part of the 17% of all homes in Florida literally just that.
While I knew the editor wanted to see Mrs. Moore for investors – literally guys on the phone who may never see a property before selling it – I wanted to piece together a series of details that show that emptiness after the housing crash. It wasn't hard to find. Homes devoid of an human feeling, boarded up, decaying in their drywalled cave. One was a grow house raided by the cops a few weeks prior. Another a home with doggie door boarded up. Many of them in various states of robbery.
When I moved to Florida almost 10 years ago, I would go on tours of these perfect little developments with a realtor selling them before they were even finished. Now, some of these homes can be bought for less than price of the car we were riding in.
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After a product readiness assessment of an industrial building site in Washington, Darren Lamb, community and economic development director, shared "the good, the bad and the ugly" with the Washington City Council.
The Missouri Partnership, in conjunction with local communities, offered the new consultant outreach in 2013 as part of its marketing activities, Lamb told the council.
The partnership chose three areas for review, including the Branson/Springfield area, Moberly and Franklin County.
The city of Union and East Central College also participated in the assessment. Communities that had either existing buildings or certified sites through the Department of Economic Development and were active in the Certified Work Ready Communities program were given special consideration.
As part of the assessment, the city had to submit a mock RFI (request for information). Up to three sites in the county that would be offered as a project site could be submitted.
In Washington, Lot 12 of the Heidmann Industrial Park was submitted. One site in the Union Corporate Center also was chosen.
Washington's site is 80 acres and is a pregraded lot, Lamb said. It's located across from Valent Aerostructures.
The Good
Lamb said the evaluators thought Washington had an "exceptional industrial park," as well as a great base of existing industries.
"They were pretty impressed with a community our size, in Heidmann," Lamb said, noting they only saw Heidmann and not the city's other six industrial parks.
Site evaluators gave praise to the city for running a separate website, Washmoworks, where site consultants can look up site location information without sifting through a community website.
The consultants made a special note of the excess water and sewer capacity and said to market the sewer treatment facility and the fact that Washington is (or soon will be) a work ready community. Evaluators said the city's RFI submittal and proposal were well done.
Consultants were in Franklin County for two days.
The Bad
The site consultants also pointed out several possible negative aspects of the site in its review.
Lamb noted that some of the items aren't necessarily bad, but could get the city "tossed out" if an industry is very critical of one aspect.
Consultants noted that as a part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, Washington is a "nonattainment area," meaning air pollution levels exceed National Ambient Air Quality Standard.
The city also has emission controls, unlike some other industrial areas.
The site is less than a mile from a residential area, which could sway some potential industries.
Additionally, 50 miles or less to an international airport is ideal, Lamb said. Washington is just over that limit.
Some industries also look at a volunteer fire department as a drawback, Lamb said during the presentation.
The Ugly
Price per acre was the biggest concern for the site evaluators, Lamb said, however, price can be adjusted.
The second, and most controversial aspect, Lamb said, was the lack of a spec building.
Their argument, he said, was that cities lose a lot of looks because industries look for a spec building.
Lamb said that a spec building is a "very expensive marketing tool."
The final drawback is that the site needs more ground, he said.
Lamb highlighted several recommendations from the consultants including to lower the price per acre substantially, brand and market the park globally by incorporating St. Louis into the name; develop a new marketing piece for the park;
Market regional workforce numbers, including the St. Louis area; market the number of jobs created and square footage built within the park; formalize an aggressive incentive package for the park; construct a speculative building in the park. Size and parameters should be researched;
Enlarge the entrance signage to create more of a presence; and begin the search for acreage for an additional industrial park.
Lamb said he also had the opportunity to ask about Franklin County's role in economic development, as the county has talked for years about hiring an economic development director.
"Their argument was 'If they don't have a product, they don't need a director,' " Lamb said, meaning that unless a new park is developed, a director is not needed.
Site consultants recommended the county focus efforts on employers in unincorporated areas as well as smaller cities, update community economic development strategy (which is a requirement to have on file and to keep updated), and assist in marketing efforts for existing programs.
Lamb said it was good to go through the exercise and that the evaluation gives the city some goals moving forward.


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North Central Ruffed Grouse Society chapter banquet March 31
The North Central Minnesota Ruffed Grouse Society chapter will host its 28th annual sportsmen's banquet March 31 at the Hampton Inn in Bemidji.
The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the social hour while the dinner is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. start.
Tickets, which include dinner and an individual Ruffed Grouse Society membership, are $55. Sportsmen may also purchase a family membership, which includes two dinners, for $100. Additional dinners are also available for $30.
Sportsmen who purchase their membership and dinner tickets prior to the banquet are eligible to buy tickets for the various drawings at discount prices. The program also will include auctions and games.
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Congestion Control is the most important goal in wireless sensor network. Wireless sensor network is the event based system. When the event occurred, multiple sensor nodes sense the same event and are active for transmitting the information. This increases too much data traffic in the network, load becomes heavy this lead to congestion. Congestion causes packet drop, low throughput, increasing queuing delay, retransmission of packets this causes consumption of additional energy and wastage of communication resources. In this paper, the authors propose work of a Priority Based Scheduling and Congestion Control Protocol (PBSCCP) using multipath multi-hop routing in wireless sensor network.


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This bass was designed mainly for metal and rock, hence the two large active humbuckers. The pickups have a high output and can produce punchy lows while still able to produce decent sounding highs and mids. I currently am using light guage strings and have the guitar on an amp with a 10'' sub on clean. With the bass turned down on the on-board eq, this bass can produce fair sounding tones for things like slap bass and jazz. However, the low end sounds muddy when the bass eq is turned down, no matter what pickup is selected. This bass is definatly able to be used for most styles, but would be best for metal and rock.
Overall Impression — 8
This beautiful bass was a steal used for $250. While I wish the tone was better when the bass eq is turned down, it is a great guitar inside and out. The finish is beautiful and sturdy, the guitar stays in tune and is reliable, and overall is a great guitar to own.
Reliability & Durability — 10
As having this guitar for about 10 months and it getting knocked around a lot, nothing has been overly damaged. A few scratches have been obtained, but the finish is hard as a rock and will not be damaged easily. The guitar seems to be steady enough that I would probably be able to gig without a backup. The guitar is almost perfectly balanced and would be possible to play multiple songs without getting tired and thus would be fine for live play.
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While I do not know what the stock action is like, the guitar came perfectly set up on light guage strings. The strings are high enough that slapping is possible but low enough that you don't kill your fingers pressing down on the higher frets. With the tune-o-matic bridge design, it is easy to change string hight for the higher frets. My specific guitar did not contain any flaws that I have come across and have not heard any specific problems with this bass overall.
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Bought this excellent bass guitar at Guitar Center used. While I am not exactly sure, I believe this bass to be discontinued as I was unable to find it on the Ibanez website. The bass comes with 24 medium sized frets. While some prefer to have jumbo frets, the medium frets make the neck somewhat shorter and more managable to play, especially when slapping. There are neck and bridge humbuckers, both active. The controls are a pickup selector, volume knob, and bass/treble equalizer knobs. The bridge is an Ibanez design similar to a Tune-O-Matic. The finish is a nice blue quilt-top but the guitar comes in other finishes I believe.


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Rioja Alavesa, Spain / $14 Retail
This lively, crisp and refreshing rose has a moderate alcohol content and is good for quaffing at barbecues and outdoor events. A blend of equal parts Garnacha and Tempranillo, the wine was macerated with the skins briefly to extract color and flavor prior to cold fermentation and vinification in stainless steel tanks. In the glass, the bouquet bursts with aromas of red berries, cherry, melon and floral notes. They are followed by watermelon, strawberry, lime, raspberry, mineral notes and hints of white pepper on the palate. Serve it well chilled. It's a versatile food wine that goes well with savory paella, pasta, curries, baby back ribs, grilled chicken and sausage. Buy it at: W.I.N.O. Drink it at: Roux on Orleans, W.I.N.O and Houston's on St. Charles Avenue. — Brenda Maitland


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The countdown to this year's RockNess is on and festival organisers today have announced yet even more fresh and exciting talent, plus an absolute blinder of an electro treat, to the already heaving-with-quality line up.
As one of the biggest names in techno, it is impossible to love the genre and not be familiar with the name Jeff Mills. And if there wasn't a word like "Wizard" to describe him it would be necessary to invent one. A founding member of the noted Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance, along with "Mad" Mike Banks and Robert "Noise" Hood, as well as past resident of New York's legendary Limelight, signed artist on Berlin's acclaimed Tresor label and creator of Chicago's Axis Recordings, plus countless other groundbreaking achievements of note, Jeff Mills is revered as a demi-God by electro purists the world over.
Now in a very special appearance, an absolute must for techno connoisseurs, RockNess is thoroughly delighted to announce the maestro will join the exceptional line up of this year's Sub Club Sound System 25 Years celebrations. Expect an unforgettable set as Jeff Mills, under the moniker of 'The Wizard', whips up a storm of unparalleled ferocious intensity playing a set of funk, soul and extremely rare early electro classics.
Inspired at the outset by the likes of Nirvana, Mudhoney and The Pixies, Irish rock group Ash have notched up five studio albums (and a mini album) and countless top 40 hits. 'Girl From Mars', 'Oh Yeah', 'Burn Baby Burn'… Ash make great pop songs. Heralded as the ultimate singles band, the 3-piece turned their back on the traditional route of recording an album every couple of years and set up their own studio and label, Atomic Heart Records. This newfound freedom enabled the band to record and release songs at will. Thus was born the A-Z Series – a collection of 26 songs released fortnightly for an entire year. 2011 saw Charlotte Hatherley return to join the band for a one-off tour to much acclaim. 2012 sees the 20th anniversary of Ash with an appropriate celebration stop off at Dores.
RockNess favourite Rob da Bank is Highlands-bound again this year too, back to thrill as always no doubt with a big heaving box of stupendously tasty audio delights. Rob da Bank's shows are a colourful corner of the musical universe where you're as likely to stumble into stripped down techno as you are woozy weird folk, bootleg covers, brand new dubstep to oddball electronic so expect the unexpected!
The rise of Yorkshire indie rockers The Pigeon Detectives is one based on strength of tunes - launched with hit drenched debut Wait For Me, and a relentless approach to touring. Feted by the likes of Steve Lamacq and Jo Wiley, three albums in and with a fourth scheduled for an autumn 2012 release, the platinum selling five piece are set to bring their sound of sculpting guitars and scudding choruses to the festival following a highly successful European tour.
Errors is a four piece band from Glasgow with a unique take on dance music. Signed to the brilliant Mogwai's Rock Action label, they have to date released a series of singles, EPs and their debut album "It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever" and these releases have brought them acclaim across the board from MTV, Zane Lowe and Vic Galloway along with sessions at Maida Vale for Mary Anne Hobbs, Rob Da Bank and Huw Stephens, magazines such as NME, Dazed and Confused and Rock Sound as well as tours and live dates with bands as varied as Underworld, Franz Ferdinand, Explosions In The Sky, Gary Numan and Mogwai. NME has hailed them as "one of the most interesting bands in the country". Don't miss Errors at RockNess this June.
Sound Of Guns return to RockNess once again with their sure-fire power and raw energy. Hailing from Liverpool, Sound Of Guns have blazed a trail since they formed in 2008 cementing their deserved reputation for delivering searing rock with their second album, Angels and Enemies picking up support from Zane Low and Xfm along the way.
The Correspondents take a large helping a swing, jazz, cha-cha-cha and much more from the history of music and add a large helping of fat drum and bass and electro beats to create something that's unique in the current musical landscape. And with frontman Mr Bruce's high voltage performance depicting the trials and errors of love, lust and loss they have consistently destroyed crowds on the festival circuit marking them out as a must see act.
"We're delighted with this announcement. Jeff Mills closing his stage on the Sunday night is going to be something special"
Festival Director Jim King
Tickets for RockNess are on sale now and cost - Friday day ticket - £59 / £85 (VIP), Saturday and Sunday day tickets - £64 / £85 (VIP), 3 day weekend camping - £159, 3 day weekend non camping - £149, 3 day weekend camping / non camping student ticket - £145, 3 day VIP weekend camping ticket - £209, 3 day VIP weekend non camping ticket - £199, 3 day Disabled weekend camping - £79.50 – please email firstname.lastname@example.com, 3 day Disabled weekend non camping - £74.50 - please email firstname.lastname@example.com. The RockNess Express is £225
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Tips for traveling via the Empire Builder
My watch read 4 a.m. as I stood alone and groggy on the platform of downtown Fargo's Amtrak station.
Cold rain had started to fall, and I swore the sky in the east was starting to get light.
When travelers plan a cross-country trip, taking the train isn't always an option that comes to mind. Yet there I was, in the middle of the night for the second year in a row, prepared for a multi-hour, multi-state journey.
Last summer, I took Amtrak's Empire Builder from Fargo to Milwaukee, which took 12 hours one way. This time around I settled in for a much longer trip to Washington, D.C.
Both trips could have been a lot faster if I had flown or driven. I also wouldn't have had to be awake at such an ungodly hour.
But that's the unique appeal of train travel – it's a throwback experience, eschewing the immediacy of flying for a longer, more scenic trip.
Watch as you pass by old towns and abandoned buildings, new cities and sprawling suburban developments, open fields and country roads. All of those features make up a part of the country you wouldn't see if you flew through the air.
Taking the train is also relaxing, allowing you the opportunity to sit back and not worry about a thing as the rails roll by underneath you.
But because the train is a longer and a different kind of trip, there are a few things you need to know if you're thinking of taking Amtrak this summer.
First and foremost: Check your train's status, as the Empire Builder often arrives late to Fargo's station, regardless of whether it's going east or west.
(The Empire Builder also stops at the BNSF depot in Detroit Lakes.)
Things to do
Depending on where you're traveling and if you get dealt a delay along the way, you might be on the train for a long time. Thanks to delays on my most recent trip, I ended up being on trains from roughly 4 a.m. on a Tuesday to about 10:45 p.m. on a Wednesday — so bring entertainment.
Some passengers pack their computers or portable DVD players to help pass the time, while others bring an e-reader or books. Outlets are placed at each seat to help you charge your various devices.
The train's café car also offers tabletops that groups of passengers can use to play cards or board games.
But whatever you bring onboard, don't get too immersed — keep your eyes open.
In addition to the cities you'll go through, you can take in good ol' Mother Nature.
After the eastbound Empire Builder train leaves Minneapolis-St. Paul, it heads southeast and hugs the scenic Mississippi River. During that stretch, it's hard not to take your eyes away from the window.
On the way back from Chicago, the train travels that route in the evening, which means that you get to view sunset over the river and the picturesque bluffs of southern Minnesota.
Get to know other passengers. If you run out of things to do and get tired of looking at the landscape, don't be afraid to talk to strangers.
Chances are good that that person sitting next to you – like the French woman on my trip who had set out for New York from Seattle four days ago – will have an interesting story to tell.
If you get hungry or thirsty onboard the train, there are a few options.
On the Empire Builder, passengers can purchase food in the café or dining cars. Café items include various snacks and microwaveable food, while the dining car offers full meals.
Neither option is particularly cheap, so if you want to save yourself some money, Amtrak allows passengers to bring their own food as long as they eat it at their seat or in the upper level of the Sightseer Lounge car.
On my trip, I brought sandwich items, such as canned tuna and peanut butter, and various other snacks, all of which helped me stave off hunger and keep my wallet intact.
Still, there are a few items in the café car you may want to purchase. Coffee, hugely necessary after waking up from a night of interrupted sleep, is available for a reasonable price, as is a small selection of beer and wine.
Staying comfortable
Train seats are fine, but they're not the most comfortable. Unless you're willing to fork over extra cash for a sleeping car, you may want to think about packing items to make the trip more pleasant.
Consider bringing a blanket to keep warm at night, as the train can get a little chilly. Additionally, you'll be thankful for a soft pillow, even if that's something small and inflatable.
If you're a light sleeper, bring ear plugs or a sleep mask. The train itself isn't that loud, but the passengers around you might be. On my trip, the group of eight that boarded the train in Indiana around 3 a.m. wasn't in any hurry to go to sleep, or even lower their voices.
You should also keep extra clothes and toiletries nearby. Amtrak bathrooms aren't anything luxurious, but they're big enough to change clothes if necessary.
In the end, if you make your experience as comfortable and enjoyable as possible, you may already start to plan your next trip before you even step down off the train.
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December 14, 2004
v No. 250406
Oakland Circuit Court
LC No. 2003-047928-CH
Before: Murphy, P.J., and White and Kelly, JJ.
Plaintiff appeals as of right from a circuit court order granting summary disposition to
defendant pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(4) (lack of jurisdiction) in this action that purports to raise
a constitutional issue concerning defendant?s determination of the taxable value of plaintiff?s
property. We affirm. This case is being decided without oral argument pursuant to MCR
The circuit court correctly concluded that plaintiff?s claim was within the original and
exclusive jurisdiction of the Tax Tribunal. MCL 205.731. ?[T]he Tax Tribunal has original and
exclusive jurisdiction over those tax issues which involve the accuracy and methodology of the
property tax assessment.? Johnston v Livonia, 177 Mich App 200, 208; 441 NW2d 41 (1989).
However, ?the Tax Tribunal does not have jurisdiction over constitutional questions and has no
authority to hold statutes invalid.? WPW Acquisition Co v City of Troy (On Remand), 254 Mich
App 6, 8; 656 NW2d 881 (2002). Rather, the circuit court has jurisdiction to consider those
matters. Id. Although ?subject-matter jurisdiction is determined only by reference to the
allegations in the complaint,? Grubb Creek Action Comm v Shiawassee Co Drain Comm'r, 218
Mich App 665, 668-669; 554 NW2d 612 (1996), the label a party uses for his action is not
determinative of whether the action is within the jurisdiction of the circuit court or the Tax
Tribunal, Johnston, supra, 208. Where a claim does not involve the validity of a statute or
actions by the tribunal, the framing of a claim in constitutional terms does not remove a case
from the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tax Tribunal. Wikman v Novi, 413 Mich 617, 646-647;
322 NW2d 103 (1982).
The allegations in plaintiff?s complaint assert a dispute over valuation. Plaintiff?s
complaint alleges that there was an addition during 2001 that permitted an increase in taxable
value of $13,125 for 2002, which should have resulted in a total taxable value of $116,222,
rather than $137,910 as assessed by defendant. Although plaintiff?s complaint refers to the
?basis? on which defendant increased plaintiff?s taxable value as being unconstitutional, in
substance it challenges defendant?s methodology and calculation of the taxable value. These are
matters that are within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tax Tribunal. Johnston, supra at 208.
In opposing defendant?s motion and on appeal, plaintiff attempts to raise a constitutional
issue that is inconsistent with the allegations in his complaint. Despite alleging that ?[t]he
addition to Plaintiff?s property during 2001 is $26,250, permitting an increase in the taxable
value for 2002 of $13,125,? he now asserts that his position is that there was no ?addition,? as
that term is used in the Const 1963, art 9, § 3. Even if the allegations in the complaint were
consistent with this argument, this is not a constitutional issue over which the circuit court has
jurisdiction to the exclusion of the Tax Tribunal. The argument does not contest the validity of a
statute implementing Const 1963, art 9, § 3. Cf. Meadowbrook Village Associates v City of
Auburn Hills, 226 Mich App 594; 574 NW2d 924 (1997), and WPW Acquisition Co v City of
Troy, 466 Mich 117; 643 NW2d 564 (2002).
Plaintiff?s reliance on Kok v Cascade Charter Twp, 255 Mich App 535; 660 NW2d 389
(2003), is misplaced. In Kok, this Court reviewed the Tax Tribunal?s decision affirming a
township?s calculation of taxable value. This Court?s decision provides some guidance
concerning the meaning of the term ?addition? as used in Const 1963, art 9, § 3, in situations
where new construction occurs over more than one year. The decision may have been helpful to
plaintiff had he properly challenged his assessment before defendant?s board of review. But the
decision does not support plaintiff?s view that a challenge to an assessment based on
interpretation of the term ?addition? is a constitutional issue within the jurisdiction of the circuit
court. It implicitly supports the contrary view because the challenged ruling was that of the Tax
Tribunal; there is no indication that this Court believed the tribunal lacked jurisdiction to decide
the issue.
For these reasons, the circuit court properly concluded that it lacked jurisdiction over
plaintiff?s claim and that defendant was therefore entitled to summary disposition pursuant to
Plaintiff?s stated issues also refer to the circuit court?s award of sanctions to defendant.
Because plaintiff has not briefed that issue, it is abandoned. Prince v MacDonald, 237 Mich
App 186, 197; 602 NW2d 834 (1999).
/s/ William B. Murphy
/s/ Helene N. White
/s/ Kirsten Frank Kelly


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september 18
Witness & Legacy and Mein Kampf: The Photography of David Levinthal The Holocaust Museum of Houston and the Blaffer Gallery present a joint show about the Holocaust. Photographs by David Levinthal and paintings, sculpture, video and installations by 22 other artists (many of them survivors of concentration camps or the children of survivors) attempt to translate the horrific violence into images, and to examine the psychic scars it left. To celebrate this show, the galleries are hosting a joint reception. Transportation between the two will be provided by Metro, and viewers will be introduced to the exhibits by docents stationed on the buses as well as in the galleries. 6-9 p.m. Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, entrance no. 16 off Cullen Boulevard, and Holocaust Museum Houston, 5401 Caroline, 743-9530. Free.
Cinderella Both ballet and fairy tales occupy that region of our imagination that is lyrical and magical. Everything that happens in them seems so impossible. The leaps and turns and lovely lines of the ballerina embody that mystical moment little girls long for when they read the tale of Cinderella, who's transformed from a stepchild/scullery maid into a princess. Ballet seems the perfect medium for her tale, and Ben Stevenson's Cinderella is now in the repertoire of 20 companies throughout the world. In 1996, the New York Times called the work "splendid" and "dazzling." Tonight we here in Houston can be dazzled by both the magical power of fairy godmothers and the wondrously human power of the ballet. 7:30 p.m. (See Thrills, Dance for other dates and times.) Brown Theater, Wortham Theater Center, 500 Texas, 227-ARTS. $10-$88.
Roseanna Vitro Borders Books in Meyerland hosts musical events regularly, and tonight it features something special. Roseanna Vitro, who began her career in Houston, sings jazz like few others do. In the words of a Chicago Reader critic, she sounds as if her voice "could physically move the stage -- reaching down for something slow and sultry, she brings a hothouse sensuality to her music." Tonight, as part of the Houston Jazz Festival, she'll perform songs from her latest release, a compilation of Ray Charles tunes. Come, listen and if you buy a CD, she'll probably autograph it. 8-10 p.m. Borders Books, Music & Cafe, Meyerland Plaza, Loop 610 at Beechnut, 661-2888. Free.
september 19
Romper Room We call it play when a kid builds head-high towers with blocks, or when she cuts off Barbie's hair and glues it to her plastic horse. When grownups do the same, we call it art. Of course, those adults tend to be consciously subversive, sexual and political as they draw and glue and stack; that's part of what makes their stuff art. Still, that thoughtful time artists spend in the studio is colored by the distant shadows of their childhood play. And therein lies the concept of a new DiverseWorks show: examining "the zone in which art and play collide." Twenty artists throughout the nation have contributed work for Romper Room, a traveling show organized by Thread Waxing Space in New York. Tonight marks the opening reception. 7-9 p.m. DiverseWorks, 1117 East Freeway, 223-8346. Free.
Jack and Jill The battle between the sexes has been a central theme of comedy since Aristophanes's Lysistrata decided that she and all her sister Athenians would withhold their "favors" till the menfolk realized that making love is infinitely better than making war. Fast forward to 1996, when Pulitzer-nominated playwright Jane Martin writes her own take on this ancient struggle. Jack and Jill has been called a "touching, cautionary and, yes, very funny dissection of the human heart." It is the story of a man and woman who fall in love but find that her need to articulate her feelings collides with his desire to be quiet about touchy-feely stuff. Sound familiar? Rob Bundy, who begins his second year as Stages's artistic director and whose credits include productions at Actors Theatre in Louisville and Circle Repertory Lab in New York, will direct. Runs thru Oct. 12. Opens 8 p.m. tonight at Stages Repertory Theatre, 3201 Allen Parkway, 527-0220. $25-$28, opening night; $15-$21, regular performances.
september 20
Houston Women's Festival Move over Lilith Fair: The Houston Women's Festival is an all-day affair featuring music, comedy, music, art and then of course, more music, all female, all righteous and many from right here in Texas. The Therapy Sisters and Cowboy's Nightmare are just two of the six acts singing today. Most promising of all is the duo that headlines: Zrazy hails all the way from Ireland, plays a critically acclaimed mishmash of Irish-influenced techno-pop/jazz/ballad music and has played it in London, Vienna and Amsterdam. Celebrate your femaleness. 1:30 p.m. to midnight. Garden in the Heights, 3926 Feagan, 868-1910. $10, advance; $12, door; $5, children ten16; free, children under ten.
Terry Fox Run Years ago, Terry Fox lost his right leg to cancer. So he did what any sane man would do: He set out on a 5,300-mile run across Canada in hopes of raising people's awareness of cancer. He ran 3,399 miles and raised $24 million before losing his life to the disease. Inspired by his courage, others have taken up his cause. This year marks the 16th Terry Fox Run for Cancer. Registration, 6-7 a.m. Four Seasons Hotel, 1300 Lamar, 652-6206. $20, 5K; $10, kids' 1K.
Gail Donahue Storey Way before publishing her first novel, The Lord's Motel, Houston writer Gail Donahue Storey was gathering her students into a big circle and imparting to them all her wisdom about the craft of writing. Back then, in the late '80s, she was known to her University of Houston progeny as patient, wise and, most of all, kind. Her take on humanity and its foibles is loving: In her books, outlandish characters find themselves in preposterous situations -- a librarian, for instance, discovers that she has become the unwitting star of a bachelor party. This weekend, Storey shares her good heart and big brain in a three-hour writing workshop. Its very timely subject: "the power of memoir to help revitalize ourselves." 9 a.m.-noon. Spiritual Heights Wellness Center, 508 Pecore, 864-4325. $35.
Power of Houston Houston Industries has been putting on the granddaddy of festivals to beat out all festivals this week, covering more than 12 downtown city blocks with five separate stages. Today enjoy more than 25 bands and performing events, including such diverse groups as the Zydeco Dots, the Hollisters, Vince Vance and the Valiants, and the Righteous Brothers. It all culminates at 10 p.m. with a fireworks display that's said to include "thousands of pyrotechnic effects," "12 tons of explosives" and laser lights. All this excitement will originate from over 60 sites, including building rooftops and ground locations. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Downtown Houston between Dallas, Milam, Rusk and Bagby, 684-6465. $5, adults; $2, children under 12; free, children under three.
september 21
Walk for Diabetes Sixteen million Americans, including 200,000 in Harris County, have diabetes. It's the fourth-largest cause of death in this country, killing more folks than AIDS or breast cancer. And if it doesn't kill, the complications that come from the disease, including loss of limbs and blindness, are devastating. Coerce, badger and beg your neighbors, friends and enemies to pledge some pennies for every mile you walk, and join the more than 2,000 others who are trying to raise funds for diabetes research. 7 a.m., check-in; 8 a.m., walk begins, Meyerland Plaza at Loop 610 and Beechnut, (800) 254-WALK.
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A Plethora of Peppers for Purposes Practical and Peculiar Today local chefs will gather together and peel, pan-fry, parboil, poach and otherwise prepare plenty of peppers, producing a plentiful, palatable paradise of pepper dishes. The public is invited to partake; proceeds will permit Urban Harvest to pursue its pledge to plant organic produce. 47 p.m. Rainbow Lodge, #1 Birdsall, 880-5540. $25.
september 22
Live Looking back, '95 was a magical year for Live. The band lunged dramatically from a promising "Buzz Bin" phenomenon into the multi-platinum stratosphere a bit sooner than anyone could've imagined. During the lengthy Throwing Copper tour, the group's live show has all the gusty force of U2's super-earnest productions circa War, minus the quasi-militant overtones. Today the intense, teeth-grinding shtick of bandleader Ed Kowalczyk has a tendency to wear an audience down, but there's no denying the power of the band's pummeling rhythm section. And in a year defined by ditzy No Doubt disposability and electronica's faceless synthetic gurgles and farts, there's always room for a little ferocity. Luscious Jackson and Manbreak open. 7 p.m. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Dr., The Woodlands, 629-3700. $15-$30.
september 23
Thom Gunn The Margarett Root Brown Houston Reading Series is the best in the city, featuring some of the most famous, erudite and even controversial writers committing their ideas to paper. Thom Gunn, a poet and recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, opens the program this year reading from his latest book, Collected Poems; perhaps he'll share with the audience some poems that have yet to be published. 8 p.m. Brown Auditorium of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1001 Bissonnet, 734-3013. Free.
september 24
Finding the Love of Your Life Now that's a title that promises all sorts of interesting workshop mates. Carl Hamilton, the singles pastor at First Presbyterian Church, suggests that there is a much sounder way to find your one-and-only than by listening to your woefully wrong-headed heart. Instead, Hamilton urges that you follow the "ten proven principles for choosing a companion" and discover the "seven premarital danger signs." He'll explain those precepts in a free series of eight classes, open to singles in their twenties, thirties and forties. The workshop literature promises "plenty of opportunities for class participation." No preregistration is required, and child care is provided. 7-8:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 5300 Main, 526-2525. Free.


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I'm dj-ing and producing music since 2002. I had played a number of events in Hungary (4.49 Gathering, Psyweekend, Ozora festival - Pumpui stage etc.) and Mental Soup Festival II Italy, Hilltop Festival in Slovakia and so on..
I was also part of Psybetyarok, Wooden Monsters www.myspace.com/woodenmonsters and fekePont band www.myspace.com/feketepont Besides these project I'm involved in sound design.
Nowadays I'm playing psytrance and chill-out (dub, downtempo) dj sets.
You can reach me on https://soundcloud.com/dj-nasca as well.
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