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I take a seat in the third row
and catch the eulogies. It's sweet
to see old friends, some I don't know.
I wear a tie, good shoes, and greet
a stranger with a kiss. It's bliss
for an insecure guy to hear
deep words. I'll live on them, not miss
a throb, and none of us will fear
the night. There are no tears, no sad
faces, no body or sick word
of God. I sing, have a warm chat
with friends gone sour, wipe away bad
blood. And sweet loves? I tell a bird
to tip them off. Then tip my hat.
It was on this day in 1986 that the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff, killing all seven astronauts aboard. That evening, President Ronald Reagan eulogized the lost astronauts in one of the finest addresses of his presidency. He said, "We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped 'the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'"
It's the birthday of the French novelist Colette, (books by this author) born Sidonie Gabrielle Colette in Saint-Sauver-en-Puisaye, France (1873). She is best known as the author of Cheri (1920) and Gigi (1945), but Colette published over 50 novels in her lifetime, many of them autobiographical.
Colette's first books are known as the Claudine series, and they were published under the name "Willy," which was the pen name of her first husband. These books follow the improper adventures of a young French woman. According to one story, her husband would lock Colette in a room until she had written enough words. This treatment, while cruel, also meant that Colette wrote four novels in four years.
Colette began working in the music halls of Paris when she divorced her husband. She became the talk of Paris for baring a breast on stage. She caused a riot at the Moulin Rouge for doing a pantomime of sexual intercourse during a sketch. It was also during this time that Colette began having affairs with women, as she would do between marriages throughout her life. She became involved with her manager, a woman known as "Missy," who was also a niece of Napoleon III.
When World War I broke out in Europe, Colette began working as a freelance journalist, but she also converted her home into a hospital for the war wounded. She remarried and gave birth to a daughter, who later claimed that her parents had neglected her. Colette also had a mysterious relationship with her stepson, and many people speculated that they had an affair. The publication of Cheri in 1920 only fueled that speculation. It is the story of an aging woman engaging in an affair with a young, inexperienced man.
The publication of Cheri also brought Colette great fame as a writer. By the end of the 1920s, Colette was widely regarded as France's greatest woman writer. She became the first woman admitted to the prestigious Goncourt Academy, and in her later years, she achieved the same legendary status as Gertrude Stein, the American expatriate living in Paris.
In 1935, Colette married her third husband, a pearl salesman who had lost his business in the Depression. He was Jewish and as a result had difficulty finding work. Colette supported him financially and helped him hide when Germany occupied France in World War II. Colette's most famous novel, Gigi, was published in 1945, when she was 72 years old. Three years later the novel was adapted into a film, and in 1958 it was adapted into a popular musical.
When Colette died in 1954, she was given a state funeral, and thousands of mourners attended the service.
Colette said, "By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet."
It's the birthday of Jackson Pollock, born in Cody, Wyoming (1912). He is best known for his innovations in abstract impressionist painting. He was often called "Jack the Dripper" because of his radical painting style.
Pollock's family moved to Arizona and California when he was a boy, and during this time Pollock first saw Indian sand paintings, which fascinated him. He later attended art school in California, where he studied seriously and drew a series of anatomy drawings.
In 1929, Pollock began studying under Thomas Hart Benton, the realist mural painter, at Manhattan's Art Students League. Pollock said, "He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting." Pollock became deeply influenced by Pablo Picasso's work and the work of other surrealist painters, and this led Pollock to experiment with his painting. He developed the "drip" technique, where he would draw or drip paint onto enormous canvases. Sometimes he applied paint directly from the tube, and other times he used aluminum paint to make his work more brilliant. He was so energetic in his attacks on the canvas that his approach to painting became known as "action painting."
Jackson Pollock said, "Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you."
It's the birthday of the English novelist and critic David Lodge, (books by this author) born in London, England (1935). He is the author of several novels, many of which resemble Lodge's own life.
Lodge was born in suburban London to a traditional Catholic family, and he was raised in the years following World War II. His early novel, The Picturegoers (1960), is about a Catholic family in South London who take in a university student as a lodger. Other early novels bear striking resemblance his life: Ginger, You're Barmy (1962) draws upon Lodge's own compulsory service in the British military, and The British Museum is Falling Down (1970) follows the comical story of a Catholic graduate student working on his thesis. Aside from his semi-autobiographical novels, Lodge closely protects his privacy.
Lodge is the creator of the fictional town of Rummidge, which is based on Birmingham, England, and has been the setting for several novels. He has also created the imaginary American state of Euphoria, located between North California and South California, and is home to a state university in the city of Esseph, which is a fictionalized version of Berkeley, where Lodge taught for a brief time. His novels set in academia are usually satirical in nature.
David Lodge said, "A novel is a long answer to the question 'What is it about?' I think it should be possible to give a short answer in other words, I believe a novel should have a thematic and narrative unity that can be described."
Halfway to work and Merriman already has told me
What he thinks about the balanced budget, the Mets'
Lack of starting pitching, the dangers of displaced
Soviet nuclear engineers, soy products, and diesel cars.
I look out the window and hope I'll see a swan.
I hear they're bad-tempered but I love their necks
And how they glide along so sovereignly.
I never take the time to drive to a pond
And spend an hour watching swans. What
Would happen if I heeded the admonitions of beauty?
When I look over at Merriman, he's telling Driscoll
That the President doesn't know what he's doing
With China. "China," I say out loud but softly.
I go back to the window. It's started snowing.
It's the birthday of novelist and essayist Edward Abbey, (books by this author) born in Indiana, Pennsylvania (1927). He's best known for his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), about a gang of four "environmental warriors" who liberate sections of the Utah and New Mexico wilderness through sabotage.
When he was 17 years old, he saw the desert for the first time as he hitchhiked and rode the rails across the country. He returned to the East to work for a short time as a caseworker in a welfare office, but then he went back to the Southwest to work as a fire lookout and ranger in Arches National Park. He worked there for three years and turned the experience into the book Desert Solitaire (1968).
Desert Solitaire begins: "This is the most beautiful place on earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. A houseboat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near the Hoboken waterfront, or even, possibly, for those of a less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio or Rome - there's no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment."
It's the birthday of writer Anton Chekhov, (books by this author) born in Taganrog, Russia (1860). His father came from a long line of serfs, but his grandfather had bought the family's freedom before Anton was born. When Chekhov was 16, his father's grocery store went out of business. The whole family left for Moscow, except Anton, who was left behind to finish school and earn money. He lived in the corner of a house and scraped out a living by tutoring family friends. He later called his adolescence a "never-ending toothache."
After he graduated from high school, he left for Moscow to study medicine. While he was at medical school, he started writing for comic magazines to earn money for his family and himself. He knocked out short, funny stories in his spare time, and later said it was a relief to write in the evenings after spending the day studying chemistry and anatomy. For years, he couldn't decide whether to devote his life to medicine or literature, so he split his time between the two. In 1884, he got his medical degree and began his career as a doctor, which he called "a sporadic second career which was to bring much hard work but little income." He often treated peasants whose poverty reminded him of his childhood, and he wouldn't ask for very much money in return for his care. He set up free clinics in provincial Russia, and he fought the cholera and famine epidemics of 1891 and 1892.
He was always a little embarrassed about his love for writing and used pseudonyms for years. He told a friend, "Medicine takes itself seriously; the game of literature requires nicknames." After graduating from medical school, he continued to write stories for weekly magazines and newspapers. His friends encouraged him to try writing something more ambitious, but he didn't think he was as good a writer as everyone told him he was. The magazines he wrote for gave him strict limits on the number of words per story, and he often started and finished the short pieces in one sitting. He wrote to a friend that he treated writing "frivolously, casually [and] nonchalantly." It wasn't until he received encouraging advice from an editor that he began to write seriously and under his own name.
Chekhov is one of the inventors of the modern short story. His stories were usually short, full of passive characters, and without much of a plot. They didn't have big emotional climaxes, and they usually ended with a moment that revealed something about the main characters' lives.
His first play, The Seagull, opened in 1885. It got horrible reviews, and he walked out on it at intermission and vowed never to write another play. But two years later, it was produced again, this time to rave reviews. The success inspired him to go on to write the plays Three Sisters (1901), The Cherry Orchard (1904), and Uncle Vanya (1897), which are now considered classics.
Chekhov said, "Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out."
It's the birthday of writer and politician Thomas Paine, born in Thetford, England (1737). His writings helped to inspire the American Revolution.
The girl in the lobby reading a leather-bound book.
The man in the lobby using a broom.
The boy in the lobby watering plants.
The desk clerk looking at his nails. The woman in the lobby writing a letter.
The old man in the lobby sleeping in his chair.
The fan in the lobby revolving slowly overhead.
Another hot Sunday afternoon.
Suddenly, the girl lays her finger between the pages of her book.
The man leans on his broom and looks.
The boy stops in his tracks.
The desk clerk raises his eyes and stares.
The woman quits writing.
The old man stirs and wakes up.
What is it?
Someone is running up from the harbor.
Someone who has the sun behind him.
Someone who is barechested.
Waving his arms.
It's clear something terrible has happened.
The man is running straight for the hotel.
His lips are working themselves into a scream.
Everyone in the lobby will recall their terror.
Everyone will remember this moment for the rest of their lives.
On this day in 1815, President James Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating $23,950 to purchase Thomas Jefferson's library of 6,487 volumes. In 1814, after capturing Washington, D.C., the British burned the U.S. Capitol, destroying the Library of Congress and its 3,000-volume collection.
It's the birthday of poet and novelist Richard Brautigan, (books by this author) born in Tacoma, Washington (1935). He wrote Trout Fishing in America (1967), his best-known work, on a portable typewriter while sitting alongside the many trout streams. He committed suicide in 1984, two years after the publication of his last novel, So The Wind Won't Blow It Away. He was famous for his whimsical, surrealist style. He wrote: "The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, 'Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper,' and put the coin in my hand, but never came back."
It's the birthday of historian and author Barbara Tuchman, (books by this author) born in New York City (1912). She wrote The Guns of August (1962), a study of the events that led to the outbreak of World War I. She said, "War is the unfolding of miscalculations."
Over the course of decades style changed:
Your regular Joe stopped wearing hats,
Polished brogues, ties, starched white shirts.
America became casual and drove away
From the store on the corner of First and Main.
Even Sunday faded. Over his after-hours Scotch
The retailer pleaded to his pleated wife:
"What can I do when gentlemen no longer
Are gentlemen? What can I say to a world of rubes?"
Each morning he tied a perfect Windsor knot.
Later, he stared disconsolately out the windows
At the busy cars, brightened when someone came in.
"How could you buy a suit from a stranger?"
He asked himself. Each advertised day replied.
It's the birthday of novelist Kenzaburo Oe, (books by this author) born on the island of Shikoku, Japan (1935). He fell in love with literature at an early age, after his mother gave him a translation of Mark Twain's novel Huckleberry Finn (1885). He spent most of his childhood playing in the forest near his house, and he often fantasized about flying away from his home like geese he saw above the forest.
He was in grade school during World War II, and he always remembered the moment Japan surrendered to the United States. He wrote, "The adults sat around their radios and cried. The children gathered outside in the dusty road and whispered their bewilderment. We were most surprised and disappointed that the emperor had spoken in a human voice. ...How could we believe that an august presence of such awful power had become an ordinary human being on a designated summer day?" He was shocked when the American soldiers arrived in his village, and, instead of killing everyone, handed out chocolate bars and bubble gum.
He became the first member of his family to leave his island when he went to school in Tokyo. He began writing fiction with some success, and then in 1963, his first son was born with a cerebral hernia, which resulted in permanent brain damage. He was devastated when he got the news, and found that he felt ashamed, as though his son's handicap were his own fault. During that time, he took a trip to Hiroshima where he met people suffering from radiation sickness, and he began to see that his feelings about his son were similar to Japan's feelings about its past. He used his experience to write a novel called A Personal Matter (1964), about a father struggling to love his deformed son. It was a huge success, and Oe went on to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1994.
It's the birthday of (Pearl) Zane Grey, (books by this author) born in Zanesville, Ohio (1872). He's one of the most popular writers of Westerns of all time. He started out as a dentist, and only wrote in his spare time. But then he fell in love with a woman who encouraged him to give up dentistry and focus on his writing, so that's what he did. He's the author of Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) and many other novels.
It's the birthday of short-story writer and novelist John O'Hara, (books by this author) born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania (1905). His father was a wealthy doctor, and his family lived in the most affluent part of Pottsville, but because they were Irish Catholics, they were never really accepted by upper-class society. O'Hara didn't do well in school, and his father punished him by getting him steel-working jobs during the summer. When he finally graduated from high school, his father refused to pay for him to go to Yale. He always felt inferior for having missed out on an Ivy League education.
He got a job as a newspaper reporter and started writing fiction on the side. His upbringing had made him very sensitive to social distinctions, and he began to write fiction that examined, in precise detail, the way people dressed, the way they talked, what kinds of cars they drove, and what schools they went to. His dialogue was so accurate that some critics accused him of carrying around a tape recorder and transcribing conversations.
He went on to become one of the most popular serious writers of his lifetime, writing many best-selling novels, including Appointment in Samarra (1934) and A Rage to Live (1949). Most critics consider his best work to be his short stories, which were published as the Collected Stories of John O'Hara (1984). He holds the record for the greatest number of short stories published by a single author in The New Yorker magazine.
He said, "I want to get it all down on paper while I can. ... I want to record the way people talked and thought and felt, and do it with complete honesty."
It's the birthday of Norman Mailer, (books by this author) born in Long Branch, New Jersey (1923). He was an engineering student at Harvard when he was drafted into the Army in 1944, and he served in the Philippines and Japan until 1946. After his discharge, he moved to New York City and spent 15 months writing a novel about the war called The Naked and the Dead (1948).
That book became the definitive literary novel about World War II, and it made Norman Mailer famous at the age of 25. It begins, "Nobody could sleep. When morning came, assault craft would be lowered and a first wave of troops would ride through the surf and charge ashore on the beach. ... All over the ship, all through the convoy, there was a knowledge that in a few hours some of them were going to be dead."
His next two novels flopped, and critics said that he had failed to live up to his promise as a writer. He was depressed by the bad reviews he had gotten, and he decided that he would take a break from trying to write the great American novel. Instead he wrote one of the most confessional books that had been published up to that time, Advertisements for Myself (1959), about his own ambitions and fears. He wrote, "Like many another vain, empty and bullying body of our time, I have been running for President these last ten years in the privacy of my mind. ... The sour truth is that I am imprisoned with a perception which will settle for nothing less than making a revolution in the consciousness of our time." Norman Mailer died in 2007.
The head of Lincoln looks down from the wall
While movies echo dramas on the screen.
The head of Lincoln is serenely tall
Above a crowd of black folk, humble, mean.
The movies end. The lights flash gaily on.
The band down in the pit bursts into jazz.
The crowd applauds a plump brown-skin bleached
Who sings the troubles every woman has.
She snaps her fingers, slowly shakes her hips,
And cries, all careless-like from reddened lips!
De man I loves has
Gone and done me wrong...
While girls who wash rich white folks clothes by day
And sleek-haired boys who deal in love for pay
Press hands together, laughing at her song.
It's the birthday of novelist and essayist Reynolds Price, (books by this author) born in Macon, North Carolina (1933). He once described his birthplace as, "a town of 227 cotton and tobacco farmers nailed to the flat red land at the pit of the Great Depression." On the day Price was born, he and his mother almost died from complications. In his memoir Clear Pictures (1989), he wrote that his father, who was a hard-drinking salesman, "fled the house in the freezing dawn, went out to the woodshed; and there he sealed a bargain with God, as stark and unbreakable as any blood pact in Genesis - if Elizabeth lived, and the child, he'd never drink again." Reynolds grew up feeling like the anchor that held his family together. His most recent book is Letter to a Godchild: Concerning Faith (2006).
It's the birthday of poet Galway Kinnell, (books by this author) born in Providence, Rhode Island (1927). He became obsessed with the poetry of William Butler Yeats in college when his roommate, the poet W. S. Merwin, woke him up one night and read Yeats to him until dawn. After that night, Kinnell devoted himself to writing poetry in the style of Yeats. He eventually found his own voice as a poet, but he named all of his children after important figures in Yeats's work.
He said, "To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment."
It's the birthday of novelist Muriel Spark, (books by this author) born Muriel Camberg in Edinburgh, Scotland (1918). When she was growing up, she liked to write love letters to herself that she signed with men's names and hid in the sofa cushions in the hope of shocking her mother. During World War II, she got a job writing false news stories for the British Political Intelligence Department, with the goal of demoralizing the German people. In one such story she wrote that a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler had succeeded in blowing off his trousers.
She was almost 40 years old when she published her first work of fiction, The Comforters (1957), but she then went on to write many more dark satirical novels. She's best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), about a strange teacher at a girls' school.
It's the birthday of poet and novelist Langston Hughes, (books by this author) born in Joplin, Missouri (1902). His father divorced his mother and moved to Mexico when Hughes was just a baby. He was raised by his mother and grandmother, but after high school he went to Mexico to get to know his father for the first time. He was disgusted when he found that his father was obsessed with money and more racist than most white men Hughes had ever known.
He went to Columbia University for a year, but then he decided that he wanted to learn from the world rather than books. He quit college, hopped a boat to Africa, and as soon as the boat left New York Harbor, he threw all his college books overboard. He took odd jobs on ships and made his way from Africa to France, Holland, Italy, and finally back to the United States.
He got a job working as a busboy in a Washington, D.C., hotel, and one day he left three poems he had written next to the plate of the poet Vachel Lindsey. Lindsey loved them and read them to an audience the very next day. Within a few years, Hughes had published his first book of poetry, The Weary Blues (1926).
He got involved in the Harlem Renaissance and started to write poetry influenced by the music he heard in jazz and blues clubs. He said, "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street... [songs that] had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going."
Hughes was one of the first African-American poets to embrace the language of lower-class black Americans. In his essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (1926), he said, "[I want to write for] the people who have their nip of gin on Saturday nights and are not too important to themselves or the community, or too well fed, or too learned to watch the lazy world go round."
In his poem "Laughers," he made a list of what he called "my people": "Dish-washers, / Elevator boys, / Ladies' maids, / Crap-shooters, / Cooks, / Waiters, / Jazzers, / Nurses of Babies, / Loaders of Ships, /Rounders,/ Number writers, / Comedians in Vaudeville / And band-men in circuses - / Dream-singers all."
It's the birthday of humorist S(idney) J(oseph) Perelman, (books by this author) born in Brooklyn, New York (1904). He wrote essays for The New Yorker magazine for years, and he's the author of the collections The Ill-Tempered Clavichord (1952) and Chicken Inspector No. 23 (1966). He was famous for his bizarre, absurdist humor. One of his essays begins, "I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws."
Perelman said of himself, "Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin and pauper-poor is S.J. Perelman ...that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted [is a] legend treasured by every schoolboy."
Strings in the earth and air
Make music sweet;
Strings by the river where
The willows meet.
There's music along the river
For Love wanders there,
Pale flowers on his mantle,
Dark leaves on his hair.
All softly playing,
With head to the music bent,
And fingers straying
Upon an instrument.
It's the birthday of James Joyce, (books by this author) born in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin (1882). He only wrote four books of fiction in his life, but they're all considered masterpieces: Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939).
He was born into a middle-class family, but his father was a heavy drinker and couldn't hold a job. They moved from house to house in Dublin, each one smaller and cheaper than the last, until by the time James was a teenager they were almost living in poverty. He went to Catholic schools, and he considered becoming a priest, but decided instead to go to college to study languages and literature.
Joyce almost became a professional singer. He came from a musical family and learned piano as a child. Whenever he went to social gatherings in Dublin, he would entertain the guests by singing traditional Irish ballads, and he even sang in a few local concerts. When he was 21 years old, he still wasn't sure what to do with his life, and he entered a national tenor competition in Dublin. He pawned some books so he could pay the entrance fee, and then spent weeks taking voice lessons and learning songs. He ended up getting third place in the competition, and the judge recommended that he study music seriously. Joyce considered taking lessons from the best teacher in Dublin, but he finally decided that if he was going to be spending most of his time alone in a room, he would rather be writing stories than doing voice exercises.
Joyce thought that to become a truly great writer he would have to escape Ireland, which was still under British control at the time. He went to live on the Continent, first in Paris and then in Trieste. He wrote: "I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use - silence, exile, and cunning. ... I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too."
His first work of fiction was the book of short stories Dubliners (1914). After he finished that he started writing the autobiographical novel that would become A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). The process took 10 years, but the novel established Joyce as one of the best writers of his generation. It tells the story of the childhood and adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who rejects an offer to become a priest so that he can try to become a writer. The book was revolutionary for its style: When Stephen is a small child, Joyce uses short simple sentences, and as Stephen grows older the language becomes more complex to reflect his growing maturity.
Joyce spent seven years writing his next novel, Ulysses, which many people consider to be his greatest work. He wrote most of it in Zurich during World War I. He would stay out late at night at cafés and bars, sleep late into the morning, and then spend the day writing and giving English lessons. He gathered the material for Ulysses from his own life. He based most of his characters on his friends and family members, and the story's action takes place in real places in Dublin. During the years he was writing Ulysses, friends would get angry with him because he always directed conversations toward the topic he happened to be writing about that day, hoping to steal their ideas. He carried around dozens of small slips of paper in his wallet, and he would make tiny notes on them throughout the day. The next morning, he would decipher his notes with a magnifying glass, and then decide where to include them in the novel.
Ulysses is about a day in the life of two Dublin men - Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jewish man whose wife is cheating on him. The two men go about their daily business and finally meet each other at the end of the day. One of the climactic moments comes when Bloom and Dedalus urinate together in Bloom's backyard. Joyce used Homer's Odyssey to come up with the elaborate structure for the novel, and he envisioned Bloom as a modern-day Odysseus - but instead of being lost at sea for 10 years and returning home to a faithful wife, Bloom wanders around Dublin for a day and returns home to an unfaithful wife.
Ulysses is famous for being one of the first works of fiction to make extensive use of internal monologue. Many chapters consist almost entirely of a character's thoughts, with no narrator to help the reader make sense of them. At one point, Bloom is sitting drinking wine in a restaurant and remembers one of the first times he kissed his wife, who he knows is now having an affair with another man:
"Ravished over her I lay, full lips full open, kissed her mouth. Yum. ... Young life, her lips that gave me pouting. Soft, warm, sticky gumjelly lips. Flowers her eyes were, take me, willing eyes. Pebbles fell. She lay still. ...Screened under ferns she laughed warmfolded. Wildly I lay on her, kissed her; eyes, her lips, her stretched neck, beating, woman's breasts full in her blouse of nun's veiling. ...She kissed me. I was kissed. All yielding she tossed my hair. Kissed, she kissed me. Me. And me now."
Joyce set the action of Ulysses on June 16, 1904 as a tribute to the love of his life, Nora Barnacle, since it was on that day that they had their first date. Joyce had first seen Nora 10 days earlier, walking down a Dublin street. She was tall and beautiful, and Joyce approached her and asked her out on a date. They were supposed to meet on June 14, but she stood him up. Joyce wrote her a note that said, "I may be blind. I looked for a long time at a head of reddish-brown hair and decided it was not yours. I went home quite dejected." She agreed to go on a walk with him two days later, on June 16, 1904. Today, June 16 is known in Ireland as Bloomsday, and thousands of people come to Dublin every year to celebrate Joyce and visit the sites mentioned in Ulysses.
Dear Captain Kangaroo,
It's all so quiet now
until I hear the news.
Then eulogies begin.
To think we never knew
how long you were in pain—
and no one wrote to you
to say that we are grown
and busy in our lives—
raising children too.
Your memory survives.
In the storage shed,
in corduroy once red,
by the ears he hangs—
his spectacles askew—
that bunny from the past
I once hung out to dry.
From the corner of my eye
I see him now and then,
remembering our days—
the carrot-colored sun—
our future all ablaze.
Now that day is done.
It's the birthday of novelist Paul Auster, (books by this author) born in Newark, New Jersey (1947). He's the author of The Book of Illusions (2002), Timbuktu (2000), and many other novels. After he graduated from college, he got a job on an oil tanker, saved all the money he made, and then went off to Paris to become a writer. He started out translating French poetry and writing his own poems. After 10 years, he had published a few collections of poetry, but he barely had enough money to pay for food. For a year, he quit writing and started looking for other ways to make money. He even invented a card game and pitched it to toy companies.
Then, in December 1978, he had an epiphany while watching a dance recital in New York City. He later said, "The simple fact of watching men and women moving through space filled me with something close to euphoria." The next day, he started writing again, but instead of writing poetry he wrote fiction. His first novel, City of Glass (1985), was published six years later. It's the first novel in his "New York Trilogy," which also includes Ghosts (1986) and The Locked Room (1987).
It's the birthday of novelist James A. Michener, (books by this author) born in New York City (1907). He's best known for his epic historical novels such as Hawaii (1959), The Covenant (1980), and Poland (1983). His parents abandoned him soon after he was born, and he was raised by a poor widow named Mabel Michener. They moved from house to house in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, sometimes in the middle of the night on just a few minutes' notice. His foster mother read him Dickens and Balzac, and he grew to love their thick, old-fashioned novels.
Michener worked at a series of teaching and editing jobs until he was 36 years old. Then, in 1943, he enlisted in the Navy, and the next year he was sent to the South Pacific. One night, after he almost crashed his plane, he couldn't sleep and went for a walk along the airstrip of his ship. It was then that he decided that if he made it back home, he was going to quit his job as an editor and become a writer. He later remembered thinking, "When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man."
He came up with the idea for a series of stories about the war called Tales of the South Pacific (1947). He said he wanted to show young men what life in the military was really like. He stayed up late at night and typed it out on old envelopes and the backs of old letters from home. When he got back to the States, he gave the papers to a publisher at Random House without retyping it. They published it, and Tales of the South Pacific won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. Two years later, Rodgers and Hammerstein made it into the musical South Pacific, and it made so much money that Michener was able to devote the rest of his life to writing.
Michener sold more than 75 million books in his lifetime. He has written novels about Israel, Colorado, Spain, Maryland's Eastern Shore, South Africa, Poland, Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Most of his stories unfold across decades or even centuries, and include several pages of historical detail.
Michener said, "I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
It's the birthday of writer Gertrude Stein, (books by this author) born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (1874). When she was 30 years old she moved to Paris, and lived there for almost the rest of her life. She once said, "America is my country and Paris is my hometown." She covered the walls of her house in Paris with paintings by Cézanne, Picasso, Renoir, Gauguin, and others. Her house became known as "The Salon," and writers and artists came from all over to get advice and encouragement from her. Ernest Hemingway once said, "Gertrude was always right."
She would hold dinner parties and then stay up afterward to work on her own novels and essays. But she wasn't very well known as a writer until she published her autobiography, which she called The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in 1933. It was serialized in The Atlantic Monthly and became a huge best seller in the United States. Stein became a household name, and the next year she returned to America for the first time in over 30 years, to go on a lecture tour.
Stein said, "Everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really."
It's the birthday of philosopher Simone Weil, (books by this author) born in Paris (1909). T.S. Eliot called her "a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of the saints." After getting a degree in philosophy, she worked in fields and factories, so she could write about what it was like for manual laborers. She gave most of her money to the unemployed, living on as little as possible. She wrote essays on political, social, and religious issues, but not many of them were published during her lifetime. During World War II, she fled to the United States and then to England. There, she was hospitalized with tuberculosis, and she refused to eat more than she thought an average French person was getting on wartime rations. When she died soon afterward, it was ruled a suicide. After her death, her essays were published in Gravity and Grace (1947) and Waiting for God (1950).
Weil said, "Whenever, in life, one is actively involved in something, or one suffers violently, one cannot think about oneself."


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Hi lads, just wondering if anyone knows when the master fixture list is coming out...
Don't knock it better earlier than later. Nothing worse then playing champo finals in October/November!
All for that.Wish they finished leagues earlier aswell
Well it was more to do with the fact that the semi finals haven't changed and are still late August and league calendar is still the same.
So basically, you will have the large majority of teams out of championship by mid July and nothing left to train for except the league,which will still run until late September or October regardless. Going to be very hard to keep players interested once gone from championship.
Look at the Leinster Club Championship dates. The championship has to be played off in time to allow us have a team in Leinster
I see the football fixtures are up. Any links to the hurling fixtures?
There up on the dublin offical website
Is there a link? Can't locate.
http://www.dublingaa.ie/competitions/fixtures/115566 (Div 1)
http://www.dublingaa.ie/competitions/fixtures/115567 (Div 2)
http://www.dublingaa.ie/competitions/fixtures/115568 (Div 3)
http://www.dublingaa.ie/competitions/fixtures/115569 (Div 4)
http://www.dublingaa.ie/competitions/fixtures/115580 (Div 5)
http://www.dublingaa.ie/competitions/fixtures/115601 (Div 6)
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Hello July! The start of a new month and hopefully a fresh start for us all. At the beginning of a new month I like to stop for a moment, look back on the weeks gone by and "put it all in its place". Days, weeks, months and even years can roll by without even a moments glance, so it feels good to take a moment to look back. If you're not a blogger, perhaps writing some notes in a journal would be a good option? It's posts like these that make me happy to have a blog; an online record for me to look back on.
So with this post I'll highlight a few bits and pieces from the month; including some photos from my Instagram feed – which is essentially my visual online diary. Are we friends on Instagram? Pop by and say hello if not, I'm over here.
June was one of those months I knew would be busy; you know when you look at your diary and think, yep, busy. I had two weekends away – one for my friends' hen do and one for Blogtacular – and without those two days at home to rest, catch up, run errands and everything in between, it made the weeks a little busier. The good thing was I knew it was the case, meaning I felt prepared and didn't stress out about it.
Blogtacular was a big highlight of the month. Blogtacular is a conference for bloggers and creatives and this was the third year running I've been. It was so wonderful to catch up with old and new friends and I left buzzing with ideas and inspiration. I'll shortly be opening my Etsy shop, Fred and Bell, selling stickers for planners and notebooks, so I knew Blogtacular would help me put together and finalise plans I have for the shop. Fred and Bell is opening next weekend, so watch this space!
June hasn't been without its bumps though; there's been a few tricky family bits and pieces to sort and of course news of what happened to Jo Cox, plus the EU referendum has been a bit unsettling to say the least. These things will calm in time and sort themselves out, they always do, but it's funny how national news can rock everyone. I certainly felt a little odd in those first few days after Jo Cox and the EU news and I know I wasn't alone. I honestly hadn't really thought I cared that much about the vote, but it's our future and uncertainty is always unsettling.
Today also marks two weeks until my friends Hollie and Mikes wedding; last weekend we had a bridesmaids dress fitting and her hen do at the start of June was so much fun. So fun to get away for a couple of days; we did a hula hoop class, had afternoon tea, had cocktails and went dancing. Loved it! My other best friend, Victoria, is overdue now and we're (im)patiently waiting for his arrival. I can't wait to meet him! I talked a little this month about the cosy stripe blanket I made for him.
Also…. Game of Thrones. Have you been watching? Wow, the last two episodes were just so good, and now we have to wait 10 months for the next series. It all comes and goes so quickly!
Do you have anything exciting planned for this month? This weekend we're off to Wales to spend time with Stu's family; it'll be fun to have some time together and I'm looking forward to catching up with Stu's uncle, who is over from LA at the moment. It's also Hollie's wedding, they'll be a baby arriving soon and I'm hoping for a bit of summer to arrive.
Blog wise, similar to what I did last year, I'm going to take a break from blogging over the summer holidays. It's a great way to recharge the batteries, as well as giving me time out to think about content etc. More on that soon – I've got lots of good posts to come in the meantime!
Thanks for reading, hope you have a good start to the month! Don't forget to follow me on Instagram for all the latest.
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Suzanne Vega recalls final meeting with pal Lou Reed
Singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega has opened up about her final get together with pal Lou Reed before his death last year (13), revealing her final image of the rock icon was not one she's fond of remembering. The Luka singer tells Rolling Stone magazine that she visited Reed at the house he shared with partner Laurie Anderson on Long Island, New York two months before he died in October (13), and she could tell he was very ill.
Vega recalls, "He was hanging out in his backyard in his bathing suit. It was quite an image. He was very thin. You could see the battle scars from his surgery. He asked me if I wanted him to put on a T-shirt, and I said, 'Are you kidding? I'm gonna make you put on a shirt? I don't think so.'"
But the singer also has a lovely memory from her final meeting with Reed after his puppy chewed her sunglasses: "He was truly mortified that the dog had done that to my special sunglasses.
"Lou had a special relationship with his own sunglasses, so it was… telling. I was touched by his concern. I saw another side of him in the last few years. He was thoughtful and funny and kind."
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#50commentchallenge and five favourites19 February 2013
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It's such a lovely idea, plus I've now found a few more blogs to follow xReplyDelete
Oh Rosie, this has made my day! Thank you!ReplyDelete
I have loved seeing your comments pop up on my blog posts in the last few weeks so I will definitely be trying to join in with your challenge. I used to comment a lot on blogs, but like you reading on my phone and kindle has impacted on how much I interact with fellow bloggers in this way. It's so important though, as it makes people feel valued and encourages them to blog more, which is exactly what you want if you love what they're doing anyway!
Franky xx
Rosie, I love your blog and appreciate how genuine and honest you are. It is such a cute place that I have stumbled upon and I will definitely be back. I am not even sure how I wound up here BUT i am so glad i did! I too adore Taza and Bear blog after finding it last night. I think your personal challenge is a fabulous idea and I may just adopt it myself!ReplyDelete
xo, Kelsey Belle
ohhh thats a great idea! i have to say I am quite bad at replying to posts as well, like you I often read quickly and on the move. I shall make more of an effort this week :)ReplyDelete
I did not expect to see myself when I started reading this post, thank you so much for mentioning me. I love your blog :D xxxReplyDelete
Love all five!!!ReplyDelete
Becca from Taz & Bear is adorable, I'm really glad you highlighted her here and she is a greay find. You're right, I read so much on my ipad or phone but it's difficult to comment so I dont bother and I forget to go back. I'm going to try and comment more too :)ReplyDelete
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Such a good idea :) I am like you with commenting, I go through spurts of doing it depending on what else I'm doing!ReplyDelete
This is a great wee challenge! Def will have to try it out. Also looking forward to having new reads! xxReplyDelete
I try to comment on the blogs in my Blog Lovin list, but it can be hard to keep up with everything and I prefer to at least write a sentence rather than 'nice outfit!' I think it's great that you're taking up this challenge and I know it can feel like a chore sometimes but you can bet that every comment you leave will make a blogger smile, plus your readers win because we get to visit some new blogs : ) *logs on to Taz and Bear*ReplyDelete
I think this is a great idea! I've noticed my comments have declined too. Sometimes I read things with the intention to go back and forget to! I also read a lot via bloglovin on my phone and its sometimes so awkward it's sometime snot worth the hassle! I find I comment more via my ipad though - although it's often full of typos and spelling errors!ReplyDelete
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This is a brilliant idea! I've noticed that my comments haven't really increased with my readership and I'm guilty of not leaving comments - usually because I'm reading on my ipad and it doesn't seem to want to play the game, it either freezes or deletes my comment!ReplyDelete
I'll be making an effort to comment more, I love reading comments on my posts so I want to share the love too :)
rachael @ madeupoflittlethings.com xx
This is such a lovely idea Rosie. I'm terrible for not commenting when I read posts on my iPad, I have started making more of an effort to comment lately. xReplyDelete
Ahhh thanks so much for the feature Rosie, I'm absolutely thrilled to be here. Your kind comments have really made my week :-).ReplyDelete
I love this idea too, I have become so bad at leaving comments lately that I need to get back into the habit.
Lotts x
marvelour idea Rosie.finding the time to blog can be hard enough and finding the time to comment can be harder. but you have inspired me to leave a comment from my phone ;)ReplyDelete
So many lovely blogs! Brilliant idea to link up x xReplyDelete
P.S. the combination of autocorrect and those Captcha things on my phone is a total nightmare so I definitely comment less when I'm on my phone.ReplyDelete
i've recently been looking for some new blogs to read so I will definitely check these out and will look forward to future features!ReplyDelete
I really need to comment more, I read a ton a posts everyday & enjoy them but hardly ever comment. Thought this was a good place to start!ReplyDelete
great idea, i might have to follow in your footsteps... and, good picks - i love charlotte, she's one of my faves xReplyDelete
Such a nice idea - I love that you've featured your five favourites, love finding new blogs to read! (Yet more procrastination...)ReplyDelete
What a wonderful idea! I read so many great blog posts and was just saying to my blog partner a couple of days ago that I should make more effort to comment more! I know how great it is for us when someone takes the effort to share the love xReplyDelete
This is a wonderful idea :) It's so wonderful to see people making an effort for others :) <3 xxxReplyDelete
Lovely idea! I read a multitude of blog post daily, but don't always comment. It's a good way to show appreciation of content!ReplyDelete
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This is an amazing idea. I am commenting on every blog post I find interesting instead of 50 though. I love receiving comments so most other people must too so I find this is a great way to connect with other bloggers xxxReplyDelete
lovely idea, sometimes weeks can go by where I don't leave any comments so I've been trying to make the effort to comment more as well. It's nice to let people know you enjoyed their posts! xxReplyDelete
What a great idea, good luck with it. Writing more comments is something I always strive to do but sadly Bloglovin and reading blogs on your phone isn't always conducive to such efforts! But I do try and your post has inspired me to try harder! Thanks also for sharing your five favourite blogs I always love discovering new blogs, so this is fab! xxReplyDelete
This is such a wonderful idea Rosie, I so often find myself thoroughly enjoying a blog post but failing to leave a comment describing how great it is due to laziness or me already reading another blog post. This post of yours has definitely inspired me to conment more often and is also enabling me to find new, inspiring blogs - thanks very much sweet! XxxReplyDelete
This is so sparkly and lovely and inspiring. I am totally guilty of reading and thinking nice thoughts, but never actually jotting them down. I also love your recommendations and these 5 are going straight on my bloglovin'! All adorable!ReplyDelete
I love Taz and Bear and Charlotte's blogs, but you've introduced me to some others that I'd yet to discover....so thank you!ReplyDelete
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Oh, and Jennie's blog as well! I didn't realise her's was the final one you listed :) xDelete
What a great idea! I try really hard to comment on blogs when I read new posts, but I am definitely guilty of just clicking "close" when I'm finished. And thanks for the links to the great blogs!! xReplyDelete
This is such a lovely idea for a challenge, I try to comment on blogs as much as I can when I have something to say as I know how good it feels when you recieve one yourself! It's nice to share the love, makes the blog community a wonderful place to be.ReplyDelete
these look great!ReplyDelete
This is a great idea. Love it. Will definitely be checking back to see which other blogs you recommend. I love it when you find a new blog and it's just what you have been looking for.ReplyDelete
Lauren xoxo
I like posts like this that introduce me to new blogs to read. I am an awful commenter, as I read a lot of blogs on my phone so commenting is difficult and I never manage to remember which posts I need to go and find! I think I also follow too many blogs, so should try and make an effort to only follow the ones that I feel like I want to regularly comment on, harsh tho it may be!ReplyDelete
I found your blog via Twitter, and I'm so glad I did now. This is a really good idea, and one I'm guilty of doing myself. With my old blog, I would comment on every post I read... Not just something generic though mind! While between blogs, and even since I set up my new one, I haven't commented much, if at all. I'm definitely going to remind myself to take the extra minute or two to comment :)ReplyDelete
I absolutely LOVE this idea, and will be joining in with the challenge! I am also guilty of reading, and enjoying, a post and then not leaving a comment. It's always so lovely to receive them, it's the least I could do to give them out! :-)ReplyDelete
Also love that you will be sharing your five favourites every week- great way for us all to discover each other!
So here's to comment 1 of 50!
Love Rosie x
This is a great idea! I am going to take part in the #50commentchallenge myself. Too often do I read blogs, often on my kindle or phone and am guilty of running off without comment - this will change from now! :)ReplyDelete
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Love Love Love this Idea. Now to peak at those blogsReplyDelete
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LKY will be a legacy of regret because of his less 'awareness'
of not knowing when 'to let go'.. Yes, he was great with the old guards which helped him moulded S'pore it is today. But we must always remember..'one swallow cannot make a summer....' that is exactly what LKY is doing now....old age 'mis-wisdom'...I show respect and admiration to him with limitations.
Great people come and go...we had Napoleon, Hilter, Stalin, Karl Marx....the list goes on..so who is LKY in the hierarchy of the Greats of History. We admire LKY but do not epitomise him as a shinning example. S'pore will produce a better 'LKY' with the pasing of his era...
the evolution of Time and Space.....realisng nothing is permanent as no one is as great as one's dead body...
As a Buddhist saying goes .."Man who do not know how to adjust to circumstances is like a corpse in a coffin." - LKY is a living 'corpse'.
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Friday, August 6, 2010
We should not epitomise Lee Kuan Yew (LKY)
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Hello, I am trying to find out what happened in the law suit against Joanne and Todd Mitchell. I heard from another site that they had fled the country..
DO YOUR RESEARCH! This agency is associated with Todd & Joanne Mitchell of Las Estrellas/Adoption Partners. Anyone considering doing business with Adoption Resource Center in Florida, Maryland or the location listed here in North Carolina should first consult the ratings on this website for Adoption Partners. You can view a recent news story about the Mitchells at: http://www.wyff4.com/news/16274181/detail.html
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On the surf today in Duck and Corolla fishing has been good with catches of spot, croaker, sea mullet, blues, flounder, and few pompano. Water temp is 73 degrees. Bloodworms and mullet has been working best. Our charter fishing trips have been doing well the past couple of days as well.
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Litfest2011 starts very soon, and life in the Litfest office is getting pretty busy in preparation. One of the events I'm really looking forward to is the launch on Sunday 16th October of Flax029: Walking in Circles a collection of three poetic walking tours of Lancaster by Elizabeth Burns, Rebecca Bilkau and Martyn Halsall.
The three walks – all starting at The Storey – take different routes
around the city to explore its history and people. For the launch, in
the Storey Auditorium, the poets will read poems to create a journey
around the city, with projections of photographs (by yours truly) of what you might see
en route.
If you'd like to take the walks yourself, a map of all three routes will
be available from the Visitor Information Centre – you can even borrow
an MP3 player with recordings of the poems to listen to as you go. You
can also download the map and audio of the poems from the Flax029 page
of the Litfest website after the event. And an ebook (cover image below) of the all three
sequences will available from the 16th October.
You can see the full set of images here on Flickr.


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November 9, 2004 (Imbituba, Santa Catarina, Brazil) Hawaiian Andy Irons took home his third consecutive world title following the shock elimination of fellow team surfer Joel Parkinson (AUS) in round three of the Nova Schin Festival 2004.
Andy, 26, started the year off right having won the WCT event in South Africa and more recently in France, along with two runner-ups. His consistency paid off today when he made history as only the third male surfer to ever win three consecutive ASP world titles joining four-time winner Mark Richards (AUS) and six-time champion Kelly Slater (FL, USA).
Australian Taj Burrow was virtually unstoppable in the finals today, sealing the deal with a stiff uppercut to the competition and taking the victory. The result lifts Taj into fifth place going into the final WCT event at Pipeline.
"Andy showed the world what a champ is made of; persistence, dedication, and an inhuman drive to be the best, said VonZipper Marketing Manager, Jason Arnold. "The VZ family is so stoked and proud to have the best surfers in the world, Andy, Taj, and Parko representing!


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The Holiday season has begun! Time to spread a little Winter cheer! Participating Halloween Artist Bazaar members are giving away a special edition keepsake box filled with handmade art and giving you the opportunity to spread some holiday cheer. To enter to win, visit http://www.halloweenartistbazaar.com/2016-winter-holiday-give-away/
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SAMPUS! Now Available on T-Shirts, Bags, Stickers, Etc.
I tweaked my SAMPUS t-shirt design and it's now available on shirts, bags, stickers, etc. via http://www.redbubble.com/people/chadsavage/works/19258040-sampus (the t-shirt-of-the-day website I submitted the original version to politely declined on the grounds that it was too late to fit it into their schedule before Christmas).
I'm submitting this to one of those T-Shirt-of-the-Day websites…
#MakingCreepmas Day 10: Santa Clause (or is it…?) #Creepmas
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I just realized I never actually posted this here. I'm way behind on my #MakingCreepmas!!


text: The Coast Guard concluded two days of meetings today with local, state and federal officials as part of its ongoing review to help evaluate the suitability of the Chesapeake Bay for importing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) aboard tankships. The Coast Guard Captain of the Port (COTP) Baltimore received a letter of intent to resume LNG import operations from the Williams Company at its Cove Point facility in Calvert County, Md., last October. If approved, LNG import operations will involve moving LNG in tankships on the middle and lower Chesapeake Bay to Cove Point where the cargo will be handled and off-loaded at the company's waterside facility. Under federal regulation (33 CFR Part 127.009), the COTP is required to evaluate the suitability of the Bay for conducting LNG operations. "Since last December, the Coast Guard has been evaluating security, navigational, vessel, environmental, and general public health concerns associated with LNG tankships to determine if the Bay is suitable to handle these operations," said Lt. Cmdr. Brendan McPherson, a spokesman for the Atlantic Area Command. "In light of the attacks on Sept. 11, we're more focused than ever on the security of our ports, our waterways, and the communities where they are located. These meetings are an important part of that focus." The Coast Guard Atlantic Area Marine Safety Division brought officials and other stakeholders together for the two-day meeting to identify and discuss the risks associated with conducting LNG operations on the Chesapeake Bay. Officials and stakeholders included the Coast Guard Captains of the Port for the ports of Hampton Roads and Baltimore, Department of Energy, NOAA, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Virginia Marine Resource Commission, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Maryland Natural Resources Police, Maryland Emergency Management Agency, members of the Maryland and Virginia Pilot's Associations, Williams Company representatives and a number of shipping and towing industry officials. Experts in risk-based decision making from the Coast Guard's Research and Development Center in Groton, Conn., guided the meeting participants through a five-step risk assessment process. The assessment is designed to identify, characterize, and manage changes in risk expected if the LNG shipments resume at the Cove Point facility early next year as requested. Information obtained over the two days will be used by the COTP Baltimore, along with comments, reports and other information obtained during a public comment period and public meeting held earlier in the year, to help make a final determination if the Bay is suitable for allowing LNG operations to resume. The Coast Guard will also be working with Maryland, Virginia and federal agencies to help identify safety and security measures that may be necessary to permit LNG operations on the Bay. Additional meetings may be scheduled by the Coast Guard as needed. The Atlantic Area Marine Safety Division intends to use the results of this risk assessment to develop and implement a consistent framework for evaluating and determining the suitability of LNG operations in ports and waterways throughout the Eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico.


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first post IBS and hypothyroidism
I am 32 and since I can remember I have not had a normal bowel movement. I get pain before I go and after and consistency was just off. Doctor sent me for a blood test and it came back with thyroid issues - not what I was expecting.
So that was it they gave up and said it was IBS. And offered nothing further.
I have been taking anti diarrhoea tablets for 3 months now - 2 each evening and even with this I'm "going" every day sometimes twice. This has started to stop working. I notice with my menstrual cycle my IBS is horrendous and I don't want to leave the house
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The NFB Braille Enrichment for Literacy and Learning (BELL) Academy prepares blind and low vision children, ages four through twelve, to grow into confident and independent blind people who will live the lives they want. The program provides Braille and non-visual skills instruction through fun, hands-on learning in a day program or residential setting. In addition to Braille crafts, games, and other engaging projects, children learn vital independent living skills, interact with blind adults who serve as mentors, and enjoy field trips to sites related to the NFB BELL Academy curriculum. Through these activities and interactions, the children learn that blindness or low vision does not define them or their future.
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Details of the Academy
NFB BELL Academy provides children ages 4-12 with intense Braille instruction through fun, hands-on learning activities. NFB BELL Academy targets blind and low-vision children who do not receive enough Braille and nonvisual skill instruction in school or who could benefit from Braille enrichment over the summer. NFB BELL Academy typically runs Monday through Friday for six hours each day for two weeks. In addition to Braille crafts, games, and other engaging projects, children learn vital independent living skills, benefit from peer learning and mentoring from blind adults, and enjoy field trips to sites related to the NFB BELL Academy curriculum.
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Please find below a list of NFB BELL Academy sites for the summer of 2017. To learn more about the individual programs which were held in each state, please select that state's link.
Parent Testimonials
"I learned that I can support and encourage her while allowing her to be independent; but it isn't helpful to "save" her. I was able to see just how independent she could be if she was allowed. This was the most positive program/experience we have ever been involved in. Incredible resource for us both."
"I appreciate that he wanted to do more and learn more, the way it was taught was fun and exciting so it made him more excited about it."
"NFB BELL stimulated my daughter's interest in studying Braille. She is now aware of Braille in her environment. She asked after seeing Braille on the train ticket dispensers 'Is Braille that popular?'"
"He learned he can make his own meals and has been asking to pack his own lunch ever since."
"At NFB BELL this summer, my girls got to draw and color on a tactile drawing board that made crayon marks textured."
"He loved the field trips. NFB BELL encourages him to be independent and improve his use of his white cane."
"My son learned there were many students learning Braille, he enjoyed meeting adults and learning of their occupations, and he progressed in his Braille reading and writing skills and new skills like abacus counting and use of the slate and stylus and O&M skills because of the constant reinforcement."
NFB BELL Academy Contact Information
For all other questions about the NFB BELL Academy, please contact:
Carlton Anne Cook Walker
Manager of Braille Education Programs
National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute
200 East Wells Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
Phone: (410) 659-9314, extension 2225
Email: [email protected]
The NFB thanks the following organizations for their generous support of NFB BELL Academy:
Past NFB BELL Programs
2016 NFB BELL Academy
More than three hundred students grew in nonvisual skills and self-confidence at forty-five NFB BELL Academy sites in thirty states.
NFB BELL kept growing in 2015, with thirty-seven programs in twenty-five states.
In 2014, NFB BELL grew once more when twenty-four states hosted thirty-two programs. Read about several of these programs in the November 2014 issue of the Braille Monitor.
In 2013, NFB BELL expanded to twenty-nine programs in twenty-one states. Several of these programs are featured in the November 2013 issue of the Braille Monitor.
2012 brought eighteen NFB BELL programs in eleven states. The new states are featured in this Future Reflections article.
2011 NFB BELL Academy
In 2011, NFB BELL kept getting bigger and was held at eleven sites in seven states. Learn about the 2011 NFB BELL Program in the Braille Monitor.
In 2010, NFB BELL grew yet again and this time by threefold. Five states held six NFB BELL programs in 2010 and reached sixty blind children. Read about the 2010 NFB BELL Program in the Braille Monitor.
After its adoption by the NFB Jernigan Institute, the NFB BELL program was piloted in the summer of 2009. Two affiliates—Maryland and Georgia—hosted the program with great success. Learn more about the 2009 NFB BELL program in the Braille Monitor.
2008 BELL Academy in Maryland
Members of the Maryland affiliate developed the BELL program and ran the program for the first time in the summer of 2008. The program was a great success and was adopted by the NFB Jernigan Institute for further development.
The NFB BELL Academy in the news
- The Lincolnton, North Carolina NFB BELL was featured in the Lincoln Herald.
- The Idaho Falls NFB BELL Academy was featured in the Idaho State Journal and on the local news channel, KPVI News 6.
- NFB BELL of the District of Columbia is featured in this YouTube video.
- NFB BELL in New Jersey's video describes its program.
- A Beep Kickball game at the NFB BELL in South Carolina.
- BELL Ringers in Louisiana produced a great music video: "All About That Braille" in this YouTube video.
- Listen to the NFB BELL panel presented at the 2013 national convention of the NFB in Orlando, Florida.


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Grade I muscle strain: This is the most minor of muscle strains, affecting only a minimal percentage of the muscle fibers of the affected muscle. Complete recovery is expected within weeks.
Grade II muscle strain: This is a partial tear of a significant percentage of the muscle fibers of the affected muscle. Complete recovery can occur but can take months and require rehabilitation.
Grade III muscle strain: This is a complete tear, or rupture, of the affected muscle. This can require surgical repair, and sometimes recovery is incomplete, even after many months of substantial rehabilitation.
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Remember, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression. So you have to make the first one count. Commit one or more of the following first date mistakes and you can forget about becoming the dynamic duo because there will be no second date.
I compiled the following list from surveying two types of people: the first group had been on lots of first dates, while the second group of men and women had learned how to date smart. They had been on a lot fewer first dates but many more second dates. That's because they don't commit these common first date faux pas.
As you read through them, make a note of how many and which first date blunders you usually commit. Add up your score. Then, once you finish beating yourself up and making yourself wrong for being a first date failure, make a vow to do your next first date differently. Turn first date disasters into future dating delights and get a second date.
Oh by the way, I have made all but two of these mistakes. I don't lie and I'm never rude. And I've never had sex on the first date, but...in the past I have let "that chemistry thing" take over and fooled around a bit. The operative phrase here to pay attention to is, "in the past," because I don't do that anymore.
Unrealistic Expectations. The notion that the ideal just has to be real.
Before you even go out on the date do feats of fantasy carry you away? In your mind, do you imagine that this person is going to be the "the one?" If so, that very fantasy causes you to build up expectations. And, you convince yourself that this piece of fiction is fact. Of course your expectations are totally unrealistic, and with that much pressure on yourself and your date, you're bound to be disappointed.
It's okay to hope that every date will be your last first date, but don't expect it. If you do, you will always be disappointed and resentful about your dating life. Just remember, this is a date. D-A-T-E. It's not your whole life. It's only thirty minutes or a few hours out of your life. Backy: On the date be open and stay open. Get rid of your expectations and script. You just may be pleasantly surprised at what happens.
Doing the Ex Talk Torture.
If all you can do is talk about your ex, then you're obviously not ready for prime time dating. Even though you think the life and times of you and your ex is terribly interesting, know that the truth is that you're subjecting your date to ex talk torture.
You're really not ready to date. If you do not listen to my advice, you could waste the good ones because of the timing. So, instead of dating, follow these instructions:
- Lock yourself in a closet and tape record your stories.
- Put them on a single continuous loop tape. Then play them over and over and over again until you can no longer stand your own voice much less those boring stories.
- Come out of the closet. Now you are ready to date.
Remember, this is supposed to be a date – not a support group.
Playing the Way Too Much Information Game aka Spilling Your Guts.
A date is not show and tell time. Sharing is good. That is how you get to know each other. Blabbing is bad. I'm not suggesting that you restrict yourself to inconsequential, surface small talk, but let's face it, you're not being interviewed for the TV show VH1 Behind the Scenes either. Remember that your date is out with you, not the skeletons in your closet. Excessive blabbing, also known as full disclosure is really bad. It's like this. People usually read the reviews or cliff notes of a book before they buy the book. The same rule applies to dating.
Being a Little Too Friendly with Your Lips, Hips, and Other Body Parts
Fooling around or being sexual when you've barely said hello is a really bad idea. Take the time to get to know someone before you cross the sexual threshold. That first kiss is very special. Don't diminish it. It shouldn't be the appetizer to the meal. It can be a completely satisfying meal.
Ladies there is a double standard here. Men like a challenge. Don't make it too easy for them. Many guys figure that how you behave with them on the first date is exactly how you are with other men. For the long term, men like their dates to be easy but not their women. Although a guy will press to see how far he can get, it's up to the gal to say no, regardless of the passion and chemistry. Remember girlfriends, women bond with their bodies, while men bond with their cars, dogs and sports. Men don't bond because of sex. They only bond with a woman once they've made a commitment to her. Ladies, I know you don't think this is fair. It isn't and so what! It's the way it usually is. There are exceptions to all of Shari's rules, but experience has taught me to live by these rules.
Being Inauthentic. Come out come out whoever you are.
The real you is bound to come out someday. How about someday being the day you're on your date. Your date wants to be with a person, not a chameleon. They want to get to know you, not a fabricated persona. Be yourself, not what or who you think your date wants you to be. If this is hard, pretend you're Sally Field receiving her Oscar saying, "You like me, you really like me." Guys, you can do this too, just don't put on a dress. We women often get intimidated by men who look better in their clothes and undergarments than we do.
Lying. It's not nice.
I think there is nothing worse than being dishonest. It shows a lack of character and disrespect for your date and yourself. If you start dating someone and the truth comes out, you'll look like a total jerk and besides, your partner will never know when you're being honest or when you're lying. And, it's always easier to remember the truth because there's only one version of it
Being Dull or Being Desperate.
The rule in Hollywood is don't be dull and don't be desperate. The same rule applies to dating. There is nothing more boring than being out with someone who doesn't talk. And there is nothing worse than being with someone whose theme song is Desperado. Here are some clues: clinginess, hanging on every word, opinions that change faster than the weather, or trying to "make" the date work. Talking about what you know and what you're interested in automatically makes you more attractive because it makes you more alive. And you never have to be desperate. Remember words of wisdom, "Men and women are like trains, another one will be along in a few minutes."
Being Rude and Having Bad Manners
Rude behavior is such a turn off. Here's a tip: how a date treats a waiter is a sure sign of character and how they will eventually treat you. No-no's to avoid: showing up late without calling, dressing inappropriately for the occasion, drunk or smelling like smoke, not being clean (this includes dirty fingernails), bad table manners which include licking the knife and wiping the plate clean, and flirting with others. Guys, I know it's sometimes hard to keep your eyes on your date because you're so accustomed to trolling, but women really appreciate a man who makes a conscious effort to stop his wandering eyes from wandering. And I know you guys know how to give us women your undivided attention. I've seen it and it's oh so wonderful when you do.
Not Giving Someone A Second Chance
Too many times we pass up an opportunity to have a great relationship because the first date doesn't exactly fit our picture. Think about those unrealistic expectations at the top of this list. In today's single world, we often don't see what's right in front of us because we're so busy looking at what's next and trying to figure if there's something better out there.
Sometimes, but not always, it makes sense to give a person a second chance. Most people are usually nervous on their first date. By the second date, you're both more relaxed and you've broken the dating ice. However, if after the second date there's still no chemistry or connection, then at least you know you gave it your all. Then it's time to say, "Next."


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ORU Women Roll IPFW
Kevi Luper and the Golden Eagle ladies cruised past the Mastodons of IPFW Monday night at the Mabee Center.{} ORU extends their winning streak to three with a 102-62 win over IPFW.
The Golden Eagles improve to 13-7, 7-2 in Summit League play.
Kevi Luper and Jordan Pyle both finished with 25 points each.{} Luper pulled to within 19 of Elisha Turek for third place in scoring all-time at Oral Roberts.{} She is just 156 points away from becoming the Golden Eagles all-time leading scorer.
ORU continues league play Saturday when they host UMKC at the Mabee Center at 2:05pm.


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Gotan Project Live Lunatico Trailer (2010)
10 August 2010
Not wanting to replicate what their debut, "La Revancha Del Tango", had achieved musically, the group has a decidedly stronger emphasis on the organic roots of tango on "Lunatico" and utilized a host of local musicians from Buenos Aires; a complete string section, two emcees, a trombonist, and Argentine piano legend and long time Gotan collaborator Gustavo Beytelmann. The result is their most accomplished work yet. "The beats are sparse and liquid, and the transition from Buenos Aires bordello to European dance floor is seamless" - Rolling Stone. "A jiggy melange of tango with a dab of dub" - Entertainment Weekly. "...an intriguing blend of traditional, passionate tango with cool, contemporary electronica" - LA Times. XL. 2006.
Watch the official Gotan Project Live Lunatico 2010 trailer in HD below or find more Gotan Project Live Lunatico videos on Vidimovie.


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