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It's been a tough summer for new broadcast shows, and ABC's "Final Witness" did nothing to change that with its weak bow Wednesday. The night instead was led easily by NBC with a two-hour "America's Got Talent."
According to preliminary national estimates from Nielsen, "Final Witness" averaged a mere 1.0 rating/3 share in adults 18-49 and 4.2 million viewers overall in the 10 p.m. hour, placing fourth among the broadcasters in 18-49 and tying for third in adults 25-54 (1.4/4). A year ago, on the comparable night, the debut of "Primetime Nightline: Beyond Belief" fared a bit better in demos 18-49 (1.2 rating in 18-49 and 1.6 in 25-54). The docudrama features dramatic re-enactments of grisly crimes and features the murder victims telling their stories.
ABC aired repeat comedies earlier on the night, starting with "The Middle" (0.9/3 in 18-49, 3.7 million viewers overall) and "Suburgatory" (0.8/3 in 18-49, 3.1 million viewers overall) and then "Modern Family" at both 9 (1.3/4 in 18-49, 3.8 million viewers overall) and 9:30 (1.3/4 in 18-49, 3.7 million viewers overall).
NBC won the night, getting more solid numbers from U.S. Olympic swimming trials (1.9/7 in 18-49, 7.0 million viewers overall), followed by an expanded, two-hour installment of "America's Got Talent" (2.8/8 in 18-49, 10.5 million viewers overall), which was airing for a third straight night. Though it dominated its time period and was the night's No. 1 show in just about every category, "Talent" matched its summer low.
At Fox, "So You Think You Can Dance" (2.0/7 in 18-49, 5.6 million viewers overall) was down from last week when it faced lesser competition, but matched its year-ago score. It won the 8 o'clock hour in adults 18-49 and finished second to NBC's "Talent" for the 9 o'clock hour; "Dance" also ruled as Wednesday's No. 1 show in women 18-34 (2.6/9).
CBS' "Dogs in the City" continued its struggles in the 8 o'clock hour (0.9/3 in 18-49, 4.7 million viewers overall), as the net fared better with encores of veteran dramas "Criminal Minds" (1.4/4 in 18-49, 6.4 million viewers overall) and "CSI" (1.1/3 in 18-49, 5.5 million viewers overall).
Univision ran third for the night in 18-49, led by "La Que No Podia Amar" at 10 p.m. (1.6/6 in 18-49, 4.0 million viewers overall).
Preliminary 18-49 averages for the night: NBC, 2.5/8; Fox, 2.0/7; Univision, 1.3/4; CBS, 1.1/4; ABC, 1.1/3; CW, 0.3/1.
In total viewers: NBC, 9.3 million; Fox, 5.6 million; CBS, 5.5 million; ABC, 3.8 million; Univision, 3.5 million; CW, 0.7 million.


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Orange and Brown Stripe Denim Necktie
I made these neckties in a manner idiosyncratic to a tailor named H.A. Otter. It took me a number tries to understand his method of making a tie, which is practical, efficient, and elegant. His ties were not cut on the bias, they were cut with the weft (across the fabric's width), as are mine. The most interesting thing I discovered in the process of making them was that the tie's flare was actually a function of its manufacture.
While my ties are influenced by the construction and design of Otter's neckties, their aesthetics and proportions are modern. Having a length of 55" and front width of 3", their overall proportions were determined by what I feel is comfortable. Their backs are square and utilize the fabric's selvedge as a design element, an idea I borrowed from the makers of Hill-Side neckties, Emil & Sandy Corsillo, whom I respect very much.
The fabrics I used are vintage denim and have different dates of manufacture. The blue and the red ties are both Erwin Mills Sport Denim from around the 1940s. The denim for the charcoal and striped ties have a similar feel to the Sport Denim, but their fabrics were not labeled when I found them, so I can't be sure of their manufacturer. The chartreuse colored denim is the most unusual of the lot, and has bits of cotton seed in its weave, leading me to believe it was woven earlier than the others, maybe in the 1930s.
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You guys remember Valve's logo with the dude with a valve on his eye, right? If not, he's posted below.
Or, or! Maybe it's more like Deus Ex or Syndicate. The three definitely seem to have the same idea of futuristic fashion.
Sure, sure we've seen some futuristic augmented reality headgear before, but nothing as elaborate and flashy as this one. Granted, this one doesn't actually work. But it does harness the powers of a Nerf gun look. So there's that.
According to the Etsy designer, these specs are perfect for "a club night, party, glamorous evening, photo shoots." Not so sure I'd wear these to a party, but I might use it for Halloween (coming soon!) or something.
G2 flourotec cybernetic head system [Etsy via This Is Why I'm Broke]


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Japan Extreme Modification – Car Modification
About motorcycles and cars modification , Japan is a country with the result that quite a lot of modifications. According to Keiichi Terada the modification experts from Sigma Spyder Osaka, modification enthusiasts is decreased than ever before Caused by the emergence of new products that have been modified from the manufacturer. types modification in the most preferred by consumers is on the body and engine. to modify the motor mostly done in the body, while for more cars in the machine
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USA Today and Politico Pulse report that Obamacare has prompted BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina to rebate $156 million to its customers in the individual market. This may seem like good news, but it's actually bad news, particularly for BCBS's sickest customers.
Pre-Obamacare, BCBS's customers — whether healthy or sick — had coverage with an insurer that had already pre-funded their future medical needs. Competition protected them from BCBS skimping on care: If BCBS got a reputation for skimping, it would have a hard time enrolling new customers.
Post-Obamacare, BCBS no longer needs that pile of cash, so they're returning it to their customers. That hurts sick enrollees because BCBS is doling it out to all enrollees — not just the sick enrollees whom that money is supposed to serve. This cash-out is actually a transfer from the sick to the healthy.
Also, every BCBS customer who is sick or becomes sick in the future will have less protection against their insurer skimping on care. Competition used to discourage insurers from providing lousy access to care, but under Obamacare, competition will reward skimping. Under Obamacare's price controls, insurers that gain a reputation for providing quality coverage to the sick will attract sick people and go out of business. Insurers that gain a reputation for providing lousy access to care will drive away sick people and thrive.


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Infopeople's Technology Petting Zoo addresses curiosity that can be expressed in groups who are given the opportunity to play with new means of working and communicating. It's a kind of planned play date for staff as well as for the interested community in the contracting library's location. Play dates are a great way to regulate information flow. Sometimes, however, it's the spontaneous play moment that can reach the individual.
Over the years, I've seen whatever just-ripened-past-cutting-edge technology has spread into the library world be treated with kid gloves by some staff and managers who know they should embrace but aren't feeling the love of the new possibilities. It manifests as a kind of tentativeness in walking the walk while talking the talk half-heartedly. When I meet up with trepidation or half-heartedness about a tool or a method that I find valuable, I try to feed the uncertain individual just a bit of enthusiasm at a time–enthusiasm laced with lots of opportunity to play.
Which brings me to my three favorite iPad apps for sharing-the-enthusiasm in the moment, rather than within a planned workshop. The first one is my go-to if the uncertain iPad owner or would-be user already understands (maybe even uses!) Twitter, Facebook, and some assortment of rss feeds on a daily basis. Flipboard, which assembles the contents of these various social media and primary aggregators and displays them in well laid out "magazines," shows how underlying content (including photos) appears right on the swipeable "page" and how easily the user can toggle between scannable "headlines" (status updates) with opening paragraphs and the full and original article or image library. It's a simple and quick toggle as well between the various social media connected to one's customized Flipboard. This is a right-sized playground (some would say lab) for the tentative to see that content can be king without a big tussle with technology.
When I encounter those who are just plain afraid of swiping, tapping, or otherwise getting their fingerprints all over the screen, I ask them to play with my Sandra Boynton app. Really. Who doesn't want to make the pig and the puppy blink their eyes, or wipe away the steam that accumulates when the barnyard denizen use hot water, instead of cold, to brush their teeth? For $1.99, this is the best teaching tool I have bought in at least a decade! Plus, everyone needs a muse while working and my muse is Boynton.
Once we've gotten past content and interactivity, it's time to introduce the reluctant user to SyncSpace, a shared white board app that can be filled by either party with typing or even drawing! Contents can be emailed, in pdf, if a third party missed the meeting where the content was created. Yes, it's a grand productivity tool, but it's also one that the reluctant can meet on his or her own terms, and emailing the work s/he does while we're talking means that there will be a reminder in the tentative user's inbox that the experience was pretty good, nothing broke, and maybe that new technology stuff is doable.


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Cobots in the industry
The vision of collaboration between humans and robots that was created years ago has become reality. With sensitive robot-colleagues, briefly "Cobots", KUKA proves: human-robot-collaboration is realizable now.
With their integrated sensors, they make it possible to automate delicate assembly tasks in the first place – ranging from assembling automotive transmissions through to inserting rubber plugs or handling flexible parts. If unexpected contact is made, cobots, for example, reduce their speed and thus the kinetic energy to an extent that prevents injury. When people and robots can work safely together, many conventional safety precautions become superfluous. Additional costs that would normally be required for safety technology and protective fences can be dispensed with. Workers and robots can share the same workspace without any concerns. In this way, expensive feed systems and production floor space can be saved.
Without doubt, cobots will play a key role in Industrie 4.0 – not only directly as part of modern production, but as data gatherers that can communicate all relevant information to IT systems in real time if required. Information that can be processed immediately and sent back to production. Knowledge that can be used for optimizing production successively or autonomously. At present, no other component in the production process is capable of carrying out this supporting role as well as modern robotic systems.
Man remains at the center of production
The crucial point is to achieve open communication and simple integration. This makes cobots virtuosos for modern, networked production and logistics which will link together automation solutions with services and databases within the foreseeable future. However, a factory staffed by robots alone will remain an illusion, even in the smart factory. People will remain the central focus. However, robots will make people's jobs less arduous, will support people and give them entirely new capabilities.
This means the workers and logistics experts will be able to carry out their jobs even more efficiently, with greater concentration and, above all, more ergonomically. This aspect is becoming increasingly important, especially in a society that is aging to an ever increasing extent – worldwide. An ever smaller number of people in employment will have to generate the entire productive output for the social systems. It will only be possible to meet this challenge by employing the available workforce in a much more productive way than in all previous generations
With LBR iiwa, cobot in different payload categories, KUKA already offers central, key technologies for a wide variety of tasks involving cooperation between humans and machines: collaborative robots, mobile assistance systems, autonomously controlled vehicles and intelligent, digitized automation solutions which reduce the burden on humans in a variety of ways.


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Sanyo knows that some of us are still upset that the futuristic fictional universe of The Jetsons doesn't look like it'll come to pass, so they've thrown us a bone: a Wi-Fi digital picture frame that looks like it came straight out of Jane Jetson's foyer. The innards are pretty unexciting , with Windows CE and 256MB of onboard memory to complement a fairly standard set of picture frame capabilities, including a wide range of storage support, Picasa downloads and limited audio playback. The frame more than makes up for being a technological bore by looking completely amazing, in a retro-futurist kind of way.
It looks like it'll be Japan only for now, but expect about a $US400 price tag if it ever makes its way over here. I'm not even sure Mr. Spacely could drop that much on a picture frame, though. [Sanyo via Akihabara]


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I read a recent topic "Wrong date, after import". I just noticed a reverse issue (which thankfully I've never seen before). After a folder verify, a thumbnail displays the correct date in custom caption (screen cap below) and with redate dialog (ctrl+shift+D) but when the folder is sorted by Photo Date it is in the completely wrong order with respect to other thumbnails. I forced a rewrite of the date by going into ctrl+shift+D, changing a number, then back again, refreshed (F5) & now it sorts correctly. Weird.
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- Weekend Stupidity Roundup: Debt On Parade
- Federal Reserve Oversight and the Failure of Riverside Bank of the Gulf Coast
- Failed Banks, Julian Week #37 Banks #90-93
- Max Keiser: GP Morgan Goldman Sachs Gold Silver Wall Street
- FSN, Peter Schiff, Inflation or Deflation?
- Adviser: High unemployment for years
- Mike's take on DC protest of too much spending
- FSN: Same as it ever was, 1930s Depression and now
Weekend Stupidity Roundup: Debt On Parade
Max Keiser: GP Morgan Goldman Sachs Gold Silver Wall Street
Federal Reserve Oversight and the Failure of Riverside Bank of the Gulf Coast
"Emerging problems" in 2007? I strongly believe that action should have been taken much sooner - at least by 2005 - because of 1) concerns about the housing market, and 2) the concentration of loans in residential real estate. From the report:
Historically, Riverside-Gulf Coast focused on growth through real estate lending in its local service area, a business strategy that created concentrations in both the type of loans and the geographic location. In general, local real estate concentrations increase a financial institution's vulnerability to cyclical changes in the local market place and may elevate a bank's safety and soundness risk. Examiners noted that Riverside-Gulf Coast experienced rapid growth during its first six years when the bank's total assets grew approximately 40 percent annually, to $275 million as of December 31, 2003.
Riverside-Gulf Coast's concentration in real estate loans ranged between 92 and 98 percent of total loans during 2003 to 2008. The bank's real estate portfolio included traditional one-to-four family mortgages and home equity lines of credit. In addition, a substantial number of Riverside-Gulf Coast's real estate loans, such as those for residential construction, were categorized as CRE because repayment was dependent on the rental income, sale, or refinancing of the underlying collateral.
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The signs of excessive risk were apparent in 2003 to 2005. The Fed is aware of the risks, especially of a high growth strategy with a high loan type concentration. If the regulator was unable to step in sooner and evaluate the risk, then the regulatory process is flawed - and the regulator has already failed. It was too late by 2007.
The inability of the Federal Reserve and the Inspector General to recognize the need for tighter supervision in 2005 or earlier is a serious oversight failure.
Failed Banks, Julian Week #37 Banks #90-93
Corus Bank, N.A. Chicago IL 13693 September 11, 2009 September 11, 2009 Venture Bank Lacey WA 22868 September 11, 2009 September 11, 2009 Brickwell Community Bank Woodbury MN 57736 September 11, 2009 September 11, 2009
FSN, Peter Schiff, Inflation or Deflation?
- 1:00 sand foundation
- 2:00 cooked data
- 3:50 loan default deflationary?
- 6:00 govt. fools
- 8:50 prices going up today
- 10:32 can't read notes
- 12:00 Schiff's investing wins and loses
- 17:10 Fed's balance sheet
- 18:20 Velocity or lack there of?
- 19:20 Nail on the head
- 21:20 Japan vs. US
- 23:00 Output Gap
- Rest good didn't take notes
Adviser: High unemployment for years
The president's chief economic adviser warned Friday that the nation's unemployment rate could stay "unacceptably high" for years to come — a situation that would seriously complicate Barack Obama's ability to convince Americans that he's beating back the recession.
"The level of unemployment is unacceptably high," National Economic Council Director Larry Summers said Friday. "And will, by all forecasts, remain unacceptably high for a number of years."
Summers' comments came in a briefing with reporters ahead of Obama's speech in New York City on Monday, marking the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an event widely regarded as having created a panic that caused the global economic meltdown.
Mike's take on DC protest of too much spending
I was at the rally yesterday in D.C., working to educate others that were open minded to listening. 50,000 is such a low estimate it is laughable. I have no experience estimating crowd size, but the march down Pennsylvania Avenue was about a mile long and absolutely filled it. There were many others on the periphery as well. 1 million sounds like a very reasonable lower range to me.
Most that showed up there were simply "anti-Obama," "anti-socialism," but there were a significant number that seemed to have an understanding of the Federal Reserve system and were very responsive when an individual started a chant around the Fed. There also seemed to be a growing awareness of the corrupt revolving door politics with the banks that have a vice grip on our political system.
Anyone that characterizes this rally as simply a "health care thing" is grossly mistaken. Further, there were clearly people there that had no interest in politics for many many years, but have recently become energized. Most interesting of all, were the multiple WWII veterans that appeared in wheelchairs to protest our foreign policy.__________________
-formerly StudentOfJefferson, reporting live from the Washington D.C. Metro Area
FSN: Same as it ever was, 1930s Depression and now
- 2:56 History then vs. history now, economic contraction
- 4:17 Inept monetary policies
- Taxes 63%, 79%, 94% and attempted 100% for high income earners
- 10:50 assault on 4 horsemen
- 12:57 George W. Kaynes and Franklin Delonor Obama
- 20:36 David Walker 4 deficits
- 29:00 UN Currency in the making
- 34:44 Why a dollar collapse would be disadvantageous to all
- 38:45 Summers and Romer bring the dollar down in orderly fasion
- 1:04:40Justice for All (Just tax system)
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Job's First Lament
It is all too easy to slip from an honest and righteous questioning of God's ways to an implicit denial that what He has done is right and good. By definition, all that God does is good, so we cannot ...Read More
Job's Trials Intensify
God is sovereign and we are not. All things are from Him, through Him, and to Him, as Paul says in Romans 11:36. Therefore, everything that He does is for the sake of revealing Himself and His glory. It is ...Read More
The Trials of Job
In stating that the Lord gave and the Lord took away, Job did not "charge God with wrong" (Job 1:22). Job did not accuse the Lord of issuing a direct assault on his family, nor did he claim that God ...Read More
The Enduring Name of the King
God in His providence raises up governments to protect the welfare of their citizens and to maintain peace and justice. However, we know that even the best rulers do not fulfill this task perfectly and that the Lord allows many ...Read More
Praying for the King
Christians who live under governments that are hostile to the interests of the church may find it difficult to pray for their rulers. Scripture, however, does not tell us to pray for our leaders according to their godliness. In fact, ...Read More
Granting Us Peace
As we have noted, the proverbs are not guaranteed promises for this life. We cannot, therefore, apply them in a wooden fashion and grow disillusioned when, for example, Proverbs 16:7 goes unfulfilled and our enemies remain firm in their hatred ...Read More
Divine Concurrence
One of the best examples of concurrence in Scripture is seen in the death of Christ. God ordained the crucifixion and evil men acted to bring it about. Both were necessary for Christ's death to take place. But God had ...Read More
En Route to Rome
As long as our intentions and plans are for godly ends, it is right and perfectly wise to look ahead and chart out an anticipated course of action. However, we must always remember that we are not in final control ...Read More
The Justice of God's Choice
We must take our standards for justice from what God says and not from our own arbitrary opinions. If God says something is just, it is just. Of course, the Lord is not arbitrary about this. Justice is grounded in ...Read More
Persevering, Strengthening Faith
That Paul uses Abraham as a model of faith should greatly encourage us. It shows that the faith that justifies us is not a faith that never faces doubt or that is as strong as it could be at every ...Read More


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December 8, 2011
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Dear CODEPINKer,
Last week the U.S. Senate passed 93-7 a version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) awarding $662 billion for war spending and granting power to the military to arrest and detain U.S. citizens without legal counsel and trial. The provision to grant power to the military was negotiated in secret by Sen. Carl Levin (D) and Sen. John McCain (R). Sen. Lindsey Graham, a supporter of the horrendous provisions, stated, "And when they say, I want my lawyer,' you tell them, Shut up. You don't get a lawyer." The Obama White House has repeatedly threatened to veto the terrible act! The most immediate need is to push the House and Senate members to vote against any conference bill that has either indefinite detention or endless worldwide war inserted. The conference bill could be on the floor of the House and Senate as early as the beginning of next week, and the goal is to send it to the president before the long holiday. Send a letter to Congress telling them to stand up for civil liberties, stop endless wars and vote no on the final version of the NDAA!
The NDAA provision not only strips U.S. citizens of civil liberties, but also includes these sinister provisions: Continued US/NATO war in Afghanistan Funds nuclear weapons and unmanned drones Gives more taxpayer money to the military-industrial complex Stronger sanctions on Iran Join us to jam the twitter waves against #NDAA: Tell Congress to stand up for civil liberties, stop endless wars and vote no on the final version of the #NDAA! http://ow.ly/7R1vq Click to tweet this!
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The 2012 NDAA is the exact opposite of the CODEPINK mission statement so of course we oppose it in its entirety! With strength and resolve! Alli, Farida, Gayle, Janet, Jodie, Kristen, Lisa, Melanie, Nancy, Medea, Rae, Rosie, Sanaa, Sharon, and Tighe P.S. Join CODEPINK, human rights and civil liberties groups on January 11, 2012 in DC to mark the 10th anniversary of unlawful counter terrorism detentions at Guantanamo and call for an end to indefinite detention and unfair trials!
CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. The name CODEPINK satirized the Bush Administration's color-coded, fear-mongering "security" alert system that has since been phased out. CODEPINK is a lively call for the people of the world to "wage peace." More...


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CarGo centered on staying healthy, not outfield roles
Slugger tweaks bat grip to avoid finger strain; talk of potential position shift cools
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies outfielder Carlos Gonzalez ran through the checklist of offseason questions.
Yes, the strained ligament in his right middle finger healed fine without surgery, and he has adjusted the way he holds the bat to avoid a recurrence of an ailment that ruined his final three months last season.
Yes, he has received medical clearance for full-speed workouts in the aftermath of last month's emergency appendectomy during which doctors also removed a hernia.
No, he won't be moving to center field. The Rockies held their first full-squad workout on Saturday, and manager Walt Weiss used it to announce Gonzalez will remain in left field, where he has won a Gold Gove Award three of the last four seasons.
Two months ago, there seemed to be no doubt. With the Rockies trading Dexter Fowler to the Astros, Gonzalez was going to move back to center field, a position he originally played until moving to left field because of Fowler's presence.
"Things have changed since [the Fowler trade]," Gonzalez said. "We've added [Drew] Stubbs, so that gives us different options to consider."
The Rockies also acquired Brandon Barnes in a trade with Houston, giving them two potential right-handed-hitting center fielders, and return outfielders, Charlie Blackmon and Corey Dickerson, who will compete for the left-handed portion of a center field platoon.
That's fine with Gonzalez, who admits that playing left field in Coors Field is not unlike being a center fielder anywhere else.
"In Coors Field, you have to play the outfield," Gonzalez said. "Left field, especially those big corners, you have to cover a lot of ground. When you go on the road, you feel like, 'OK, I'm going to have a couple days off now.'"
For the Rockies, the key is having Gonzalez in the lineup.
With Gonzalez hitting third and Troy Tulowitzki hitting fourth, the Rockies have a dynamic left-right combo in the middle of the lineup.
In four full seasons with the Rockies, Gonzalez has been primarily a No. 3 hitter, and has ranked among the National League elite in that role. Over that stretch, he is tied for third among NL No. 3 hitters with a .310 average, ranks second in stolen bases with 66 and stolen-base success ratio at 84.6 percent, is third with 292 RBIs and third with 89 home runs.
Keeping these two sluggers in the lineup, however, has been a challenge. Tulowitzki has started only 428 games the past four years, and after being limited to 122 starts in 2011 and 131 in 2012, Gonzalez started only 99 games in 2013.
Gonzalez strained the ligament in his right middle finger against Arizona the first week of July, and when he tried to return to the lineup the rest of the season, he would aggravate the injury. He did hit .302, and ranked seventh in the NL with 26 home runs, the last of which he hit on July 20. He only had 32 more at-bats during the season and was limited to late-inning defensive appearances in September because of the injury.
There was a thought that Gonzalez would need surgery to repair the ligament, but he opted for a rehab program that appears to have worked. Just as critical, he said he will no longer hit with the knob of the bat resting against the finger. He is moving his hands up on the bat so that the bottom of his right hand sits on the knob.
"It was a change I needed to make," Gonzalez said.
The move to center field, however, is a change that Gonzalez won't have to make.
"That's fine with me," he said. "I just want to stay healthy and play."
On that, there's no debate in Rockies camp.


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The dynamic duo Jak and Daxter are back in an all-new adventure on PSP™ that picks up the action where the previous trilogy left off. Whether battling Sky Pirates in a customizable aircraft or blasting Aeropeans with the punishing Gunstaff weapon, Jak and Daxter's journey will take them beyond the edge of the Brink – and into a war bigger than they ever could have imagined.
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The good news for the annuity industry: most Americans would consider the fixed-income products to finance some aspect of their retirement.
The not-so-good news: more than half of those surveyed don't really understand how annuities work.
According to a study by The Phoenix Cos., nearly three-quarters (71%) of Americans would consider using annuities to establish predictable income in retirement, as a vehicle to protect inheritances, or as way to protect money for health and chronic care expenses.
But 53% said they are "not familiar with annuities," according to Phoenix Companies, and only 20% are actually planning to use an annuity to convert retirement savings into a set income stream.
The survey confirms what annuity-industry insiders have suspected anecdotally for years, says Mark Fitzgerald, national sales manager for Saybrus Partners, a subsidiary of Phoenix. People "don't necessarily understand the basic income protection traditionally offered on all annuities, and they also are not aware of the range of benefits available on newer products, such as accumulation and chronic care features."
When investors have annuities explained to them, particularly the variety of annuities designed to protect income for specific purposes in retirement, such as long-term health care costs, people show a strong interest, Fitzgerald said. "The annuities available today are not your grandfather's annuity."
About half of respondents said they would use annuities to establish an income stream. Forty-one percent said would use and annuity as an inheritance vehicle, and 36% said they'd use an annuity to establish reserves for health-care expenses.
One-quarter of respondents said they would not consider purchasing an annuity for any reason.
The Phoenix data suggests the annuity industry has some work to do in establishing a greater understanding of their products: 34% of participants said they were "not at all familiar" with annuities; 19% were "not very familiar." Only 13% said they were "very familiar."
Of the pre-retirees surveyed, 69% expressed confidence in their ability to establish predictable income streams with their retirement savings.
The challenge for the annuity industry is in bridging the gap between those who would consider using annuities to set up predictable income streams (49%), and those who are actually planning to do so (20%).
"While it is encouraging that people are willing to consider annuities, they clearly need some help translating intentions into concrete plans," says Fitzgerald.


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Queen Angerboda can be found at Winter's Terrace in the Howling Fjord. She is the wife to King Ymiron. She currently awaits the reawakening of King Ymiron through a ritual being used by the Scourge; players must kill her to stop the ritual.
Queen Angerboda is voiced by Melodee Spevack.
- Anger of Gjalerbron: Increases the time between an enemy's attacks by 25% and slows its movement by 25% for 10 sec.
- Frost Nova: Inflicts Frost damage to nearby enemies, immobilizing them for up to 8 sec.
- Fireball: Causes a ball of fire to hit the target, burning them for 600 - 950 fire damage.
- Queen Angerboda yells: Double your efforts! King Ymiron will awaken and then he will ascend!
- Queen Angerboda yells: Why is this ritual taking so long? Your master promised that your assistance would speed the process!
- Queen Angerboda yells: The ritual proceeds too slowly. More sacrifices are needed!
- Queen Angerboda yells: The time has come for my husband, our king, to rejoin us. Together we will scour this world of its unworthy infestation!
- Queen Angerboda yells: Sleep no longer, my love. With the might of the Lich King behind you, the world will tremble.
- Queen Angerboda yells: Damn the titans for cursing us so! Ymiron, my king, open your eyes!
- Queen Angerboda yells: Soon, my love. Soon you will waken and all of Azeroth will know fear!
- Queen Angerboda yells: Awaken, Ymiron, the time of your continued reign is nigh.
- Queen Angerboda yells: Give me your souls that I might slay the enemy!
- Queen Angerboda yells: You will not stop my work here! My husband-king will awaken!
- The Lich King yells: Not yet, Ymiron. I have other plans for you. You will serve me better within Utgarde Pinnacle. And if these insects survive to find you again, you will get the chance to avenge your wife.
- "Once Ymiron has been awakened, we will scour this world of its unworthy infestation."
Queen Angerboda is named after Angrboða, a giantess of Norse mythology who gave birth to Fenrir, Jörmungandr, and Hel, the children of the god Loki.
- During a quest in the Howling Fjord you actually slay her and disrupt the ritual Queen Angerboda is trying to complete. The Lich King then portals in and transfers King Ymiron to the Utgarde Pinnacle. You are of course able to fight him as last boss in the Pinnacle, if you did this quest before or not. But the fact that you actually are responsible for putting an endboss into an instance is a nice sidenote.
- There is a bug in Patch 3.3.0 where she does not spawn properly. This is listed in the known issues.
- The character of Sara uses her in-game model.
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Setting a new high with Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," director Jerry Vess marks his seventh Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre directorial assignment by adding sparkle to the opening of the outdoor theater's 47th season under the stars.
Not only has Vess gathered a stellar cast to lend extra zest to Porter's timeless classic, but as set designer he has also created a fabulous tri-level cruise ship SS America complete with realistic smokestacks and portholes.
A construction crew of four along with several artist-painters helped Vess. Onboard wall panels rotate to become staterooms where comic action amuses at a rapid pace in quick scene changes. Instantly drawing the outdoor audience members into the action are actors who arrive through the theater aisles to climb the central gangplank to board the ship as passengers on a magical evening cruise.
Contributing to the excellence of this 2012 season opener is music director Ruth Capobianco, whose work meets all requirements of this Broadway smash, aided by pianist/conductor Ken Kimble and his five skilled musicians.
Meghan Bierne creates sassy and elegant costumes evoking 1930s Hollywood glamour to enhance every dancer's moves. Seldom have we seen costumes better complement leading ladies.
Rarely does a star do as much for her costumes as Nicole Anderson, whose portrayal of night-club singer-evangelist Reno Sweeney earns her the "star" title. Witnessing this performance is doubly satisfying to those of us who have watched this home-grown talent develop from childhood roles at Chesapeake Music Hall. In a 2002 review, I described versatile, then-14-year-old Nicole as "a high-kicking dancer in 'A Chorus Line,' Dorothy in 'Wizard of Oz' who can't help stealing every scene she's in."
Anderson is a natural on all counts — a strong actor, a vocalist with ability that extends to spot-on interpretation of Porter's incomparable lyrics, and a dancer capable of dazzling tap who also possesses stunning ballroom grace. Show-stopping moments include her smart delivery of "You're the Top" with Billy Crocker (Midshipman 1st Class Alex Trujillo), an exuberant "Friendship" with Moonface Martin (her fiance, Nathan Bowen) and amazing tour-de-force tap dancing while singing "Anything Goes" to close Act 1. She follows in Act 2 with an equally dazzling "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" before delivering a heart-felt "Take Me Back to Manhattan." Reno Sweeney is a great role, and Anderson owns it this month at Summer Garden.
Another noteworthy home-grown talent is Hannah Thornhill, who learned her dance skills at Stageworkz and performed from an early age with Talent Machine Company. Thornhill's spectacular choreographing debut is filled with fresh creativity, involving dancers with flying feet, supple shoulders and expressive hands. Thornhill creates intricate tap steps for up-tempo chorus numbers and interprets Porter's romantic ballads in syncopated pauses executed by graceful couples.
Thornhill does double duty, also dancing as Reno's Angel 1, setting a rapid pace for the tapping chorus in "Anything Goes" and "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" and perfectly synchronizing dancing fellow Angels Amanda Cimaglia, Carlie Kidd and Lacy Schmidt in each nifty number.
On opening night, after delivering an acceptable "You're the Top" with Anderson's Sweeney, Trujillo relaxed into becoming lovelorn apprentice stockbroker Crocker to sing a romantic "Easy to Love" to debutante Hope Harcourt (Katie Gardner), who is engaged to marry British Lord Evelyn Oakleigh (Jeff Sprague). Later, Trujillo and Gardner deliver "All Through the Night" in longing solos that become a duet sung from separated areas.
Gardner sings well and moves gracefully, enhancing her lovely costumes and reflecting Harcourt's lofty social set.
As the gangster Martin, ASGT favorite song-and-dance man Bowen reveals sharp comedic skills, stealing scenes and enlivening the entire show. His fun "Friendship" duet with Anderson turns a lesser Porter tune into a major highlight, and his solo "Be Like the Blue Bird" shines with comic mastery.
As Oakleigh, Sprague also reveals strong comic skills, delivering in a flawless English accent his enchantment with American slang. Sprague's Oakleigh is comically awkward dancing with Anderson's graceful Sweeney, and amusingly bumbling in his solo "Gypsy in Me" number.
As Moonface's sidekick, Erma, Emily Sergo projects combined naivete and brashness to seduce the ship's sailor crew along with most of the audience. Sergo belts out a brassy "Buddy Beware" that becomes a saucy comic delight.
Noel Milan adds comedy as ship stowaway Billy's millionaire Wall Street boss, Elisha Whitney, who is attracted to Hope's social-climbing mother, Evangeline Harcourt, played by Kathryn Huston. Ethan Goldberg plays dual bartender and bishop roles tending to lost souls.
Keeping the SS America on course are the ship's captain, played by leading music man Wendell Holland, and the purser, played by ASGT song-and-dance man Trent Goldsmith.
Adding extra vigor are several ensemble players who complete the cast of more than 20 members.
"Anything Goes" continues Thursdays through Sundays at 8:30 p.m. through June 24. For tickets, go to summergarden.com or call 410-268-9212.
Setting a new high with Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," director Jerry Vess marks his seventh Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre directorial assignment by adding sparkle to the opening of the outdoor theater's 47th season under the stars.


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'Foreign interference' in St Vincent...............................................................................................................................
By Rickey Singh | Trinidad and Tobago Express | Aug 31, 2010
INTERFERENCE IN the domestic affairs, and election politics in particular, by foreigners in North America and Europe, have been an old problem for some Caribbean countries ever since their independence from Britain.
Best known victims of such interference with money and so-called "experts", are known to have been Jamaica, Guyana, Grenada, Dominica, St Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda.
But it's difficult to recall an outstanding example of the sort of public brazen interference by some American business people, one a former employee of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as well as that of a British agency as currently occurring in the Caricom member state of St Vincent and the Grenadines,
With a new general election expected to be called within the next two to three months, the foreign groups and agents have been increasing their profiles under the guise of "preserving democracy" (what else is new!) in that Windward Island whose Prime Minister is being targeted for, among other "sins", his "unholy alliance" with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.
Dr Ralph Gonsalves, leader of the governing Unity Labour Party (ULP), and currently a second term Prime Minister, suffered a political setback in November last year when the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) of Arnhim Eustace, won a surprising "no" vote campaign at a referendum to change the country's constitution in favour of that of a constitutional republic. Foreign involvement was then also an issue.
The popular margin of victory at the referendum was about 7,000 (29,000 for NDP and 22,493 for ULP). But Gonsalves has been on the offensive ever since.
Yesterday he went public with what he has released as an "Open Letter to the People of the Caribbean" to expose groups and individuals said to be passionately working to "undermine" his government and Vincentian "sovereignty".
Apart from the specific information provided on the American and British groups and business people, Gonsalves referred to the opposition NDP as the primary beneficiary of the ongoing "foreign interference".
He also mentioned Sir James Mitchell, former prime minister and founder-leader of the NDP, as an "Advisory Board member" of the "Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL)" of Britain.
This agency actually promotes as "its principal business, the art and science of mind-bending" and boasts of having borrowed techniques from Adolph Hitler..."
Since Prime Minister Gonsalves' "Open Letter" and simultaneous forwarding of copies to all Caricom Heads of Government, in addition to "sensitising" leading civil society organisations, I opted to get a response from both NDP Opposition Leader Eustace, and Sir James Mitchell.
I failed to reach the NDP leader, at the time of writing, in telephone calls to his home and his party office. I did, however, reach Sir James, the former long-serving prime minister.
After informing him of the relevant sections of Gonsalves' three-and-a-half-page "open letter", Sir James said that as former leader of the NDP and prime minister, "he never saw anything wrong in having 'foreign consultants for elections...."
So far as his presence on the Board of the SCL of Britain was concerned, all he was prepared to say was "I have never been in the business of mind-bending of electoral support of the Vincentian people..."
In relation to Americans operating out of St Vincent and inviting financial contributions to help "protect democracy" that was being endangered by the Gonsalves' administration, the former prime minister said that "using internet technologies to raise funds for any cause has now become a way of life". He preferred not to get into "the details".
However, for his part, Prime Minister Gonsalves has provided a two-page "attachment" outlining specific names of personnel and groups, websites and Facebook postings of those involved in the brazen campaign, a few operating from within St Vincent and the Grenadines, "to raise money starting from a low of US$5) in a campaign to destabilise his administration and make a mockery of his country's sovereignty".
Gonsalves is very categorical in his statement that, "over the past eleven months, commencing around October 2009, and continuing, foreign elements out of Britain and the United States of America have aligned themselves to the opposition NDP in an insidious campaign of defamation of this blessed country and of attempting to destabilise the Unity Labour Party government led by me..."
"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.
Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.
Mweh ka allay!


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Additional Poems by Ezra Pound
A Virginal
No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately.
I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness,
For my surrounding air hath a new lightness;
Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitly
And left me cloaked as with a gauze of ćther;
As with sweet leaves; as with subtle clearness.
Oh, I have picked up magic in her nearness
To sheathe me half in half the things that sheathe her.
No, no! Go from me. I have still the flavour,
Soft as spring wind that's come from birchen bowers.
Green come the shoots, aye April in the branches,
As winter's wound with her sleight hand she staunches,
Hath of the trees a likeness of the savour:
As white as their bark, so white this lady's hours.
As cool as the pale wet leaves
of lily-of-the-valley
She lay beside me in the dawn.
Ancient Music
Winter is icummen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm.
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.
Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
An ague hath my ham.
Freezeth river, turneth liver,
Damn you, sing: Goddamm.
Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm,
So 'gainst the winter's balm.
Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm.
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.
A parody of the Anglo-Saxon poem, Cuckoo Song
Ballad of the Goodly Fere
Simon Zelotes speaking after the Crucifixion.
Fere=Mate, Companion.
Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all
For the priests and the gallows tree?
Aye lover he was of brawny men,
O' ships and the open sea.
When they came wi' a host to take Our Man
His smile was good to see,
"First let these go!" quo' our Goodly Fere,
"Or I'll see ye damned," says he.
Aye he sent us out through the crossed high
And the scorn of his laugh rang free,
"Why took ye not me when I walked about
Alone in the town?" says he.
Oh we drank his "Hale" in the good red
When we last made company,
No capon priest was the Goodly Fere
But a man o' men was he.
I ha' seen him drive a hundred men
Wi' a bundle o' cords swung free,
That they took the high and holy house
For their pawn and treasury.
They'll no' get him a' in a book I think
Though they write it cunningly;
No mouse of the scrolls was the Goodly Fere
But aye loved the open sea.
If they think they ha' snared our Goodly Fere
They are fools to the last degree.
"I'll go to the feast," quo' our Goodly Fere,
"Though I go to the gallows tree."
"Ye ha' seen me heal the lame and blind,
And wake the dead," says he,
"Ye shall see one thing to master all:
'Tis how a brave man dies on the tree."
A son of God was the Goodly Fere
That bade us his brothers be.
I ha' seen him cow a thousand men.
I have seen him upon the tree.
He cried no cry when they drave the nails
And the blood gushed hot and free,
The hounds of the crimson sky gave tongue
But never a cry cried he.
I ha' seen him cow a thousand men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between,
Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea,
Like the sea that brooks no voyaging
With the winds unleashed and free,
Like the sea that he cowed at Genseret
Wi' twey words spoke' suddently.
A master of men was the Goodly Fere,
A mate of the wind and sea,
If they think they ha' slain our Goodly Fere
They are fools eternally.
I ha' seen him eat o' the honey-comb
Sin' they nailed him to the tree.
Before Sleep
The lateral vibrations caress me,
They leap and caress me,
They work pathetically in my favour,
They seek my financial good.
She of the spear stands present.
The gods of the underworld attend me, O Annubis,
These are they of thy company.
With a pathetic solicitude they attend me;
Their realm is the lateral courses.
I am up to follow thee, Pallas.
Up and out of their caresses.
You were gone up as a rocket,
Bending your passages from right to left and from left to right
In the flat projection of a spiral.
The gods of drugged sleep attend me,
Wishing me well;
I am up to follow thee, Pallas.
Sestina: Altaforte
Loquitur: En Bertrans de Born.
Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a
stirrer-up of strife.
Judge ye!
Have I dug him up again?
The scene in at his castle, Altaforte. "Papiols" is his jongleur.
"The Leopard," the device of Richard (Cúur de Lion).
Damn it all! all this our South stinks peace.
You whoreson dog, Papiols, come! Let's to music!
I have no life save when the swords clash.
But ah! when I see the standards gold, vair, purple, opposing
And the broad fields beneath them turn crimson,
Then howl I my heart nigh mad with rejoicing.
In hot summer have I great rejoicing
When the tempests kill the earth's foul peace,
And the lightnings from black heav'n flash crimson,
And the fierce thunders roar me their music
And the winds shriek through the clouds mad, opposing,
And through all the riven skies God's swords clash.
Hell grant soon we hear again the swords clash!
And the shrill neighs of destriers in battle rejoicing,
Spiked breast to spiked breast opposing!
Better one hour's stour than a year's peace
With fat boards, bawds, wine and frail music!
Bah! there's no wine like the blood's crimson!
And I love to see the sun rise blood-crimson.
And I watch his spears through the dark clash
And it fills all my heart with rejoicing
And pries wide my mouth with fast music
When I see him so scorn and defy peace,
His lone might 'gainst all darkness opposing.
The man who fears war and squats opposing
My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson
But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
Far from where worth's won and the swords clash
For the death of such sluts I go rejoicing;
Yea, I fill all the air with my music.
Papiols, Papiols, to the music!
There's no sound like to swords swords opposing,
No cry like the battle's rejoicing
When our elbows and swords drip the crimson
And our charges 'gainst "The Leopard's" rush clash.
May God damn for ever all who cry "Peace!"
And let the music of the swords make them crimson!
Hell grant soon we hear again the swords clash!
Hell blot black for always the thought "Peace!"
The Seafarer
(From the early Anglo-Saxon text)
May I for my own self song's truth reckon,
Journey's jargon, how I in harsh days
Hardship endured oft.
Bitter breast-cares have I abided,
Known on my keel many a care's hold,
And dire sea-surge, and there I oft spent
Narrow nightwatch nigh the ship's head
While she tossed close to cliffs. Coldly afflicted,
My feet were by frost benumbed.
Chill its chains are; chafing sighs
Hew my heart round and hunger begot
Mere-weary mood. Lest man know not
That he on dry land loveliest liveth,
List how I, care-wretched, on ice-cold sea,
Weathered the winter, wretched outcast
Deprived of my kinsmen;
Hung with hard ice-flakes, where hail-scur flew,
There I heard naught save the harsh sea
And ice-cold wave, at whiles the swan cries,
Did for my games the gannet's clamour,
Sea-fowls, loudness was for me laughter,
The mews' singing all my mead-drink.
Storms, on the stone-cliffs beaten, fell on the stern
In icy feathers; full oft the eagle screamed
With spray on his pinion.
Not any protector
May make merry man faring needy.
This he little believes, who aye in winsome life
Abides 'mid burghers some heavy business,
Wealthy and wine-flushed, how I weary oft
Must bide above brine.
Neareth nightshade, snoweth from north,
Frost froze the land, hail fell on earth then
Corn of the coldest. Nathless there knocketh now
The heart's thought that I on high streams
The salt-wavy tumult traverse alone.
Moaneth alway my mind's lust
That I fare forth, that I afar hence
Seek out a foreign fastness.
For this there's no mood-lofty man over earth's midst,
Not though he be given his good, but will have in his youth greed;
Nor his deed to the daring, nor his king to the faithful
But shall have his sorrow for sea-fare
Whatever his lord will.
He hath not heart for harping, nor in ring-having
Nor winsomeness to wife, nor world's delight
Nor any whit else save the wave's slash,
Yet longing comes upon him to fare forth on the water.
Bosque taketh blossom, cometh beauty of berries,
Fields to fairness, land fares brisker,
All this admonisheth man eager of mood,
The heart turns to travel so that he then thinks
On flood-ways to be far departing.
Cuckoo calleth with gloomy crying,
He singeth summerward, bodeth sorrow,
The bitter heart's blood. Burgher knows not --
He the prosperous man -- what some perform
Where wandering them widest draweth.
So that but now my heart burst from my breast-lock,
My mood 'mid the mere-flood,
Over the whale's acre, would wander wide.
On earth's shelter cometh oft to me,
Eager and ready, the crying lone-flyer,
Whets for the whale-path the heart irresistibly,
O'er tracks of ocean; seeing that anyhow
My lord deems to me this dead life
On loan and on land, I believe not
That any earth-weal eternal standeth
Save there be somewhat calamitous
That, ere a man's tide go, turn it to twain.
Disease or oldness or sword-hate
Beats out the breath from doom-gripped body.
And for this, every earl whatever, for those speaking after --
Laud of the living, boasteth some last word,
That he will work ere he pass onward,
Frame on the fair earth 'gainst foes his malice,
Daring ado, ...
So that all men shall honour him after
And his laud beyond them remain 'mid the English,
Aye, for ever, a lasting life's-blast,
Delight mid the doughty.
Days little durable,
And all arrogance of earthen riches,
There come now no kings nor Cćsars
Nor gold-giving lords like those gone.
Howe'er in mirth most magnified,
Whoe'er lived in life most lordliest,
Drear all this excellence, delights undurable!
Waneth the watch, but the world holdeth.
Tomb hideth trouble. The blade is layed low.
Earthly glory ageth and seareth.
No man at all going the earth's gait,
But age fares against him, his face paleth,
Grey-haired he groaneth, knows gone companions,
Lordly men are to earth o'ergiven,
Nor may he then the flesh-cover, whose life ceaseth,
Nor eat the sweet nor feel the sorry,
Nor stir hand nor think in mid heart,
And though he strew the grave with gold,
His born brothers, their buried bodies
Be an unlikely treasure hoard.
from Ripostes (1912)
The Garden
En robe de parade.
Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piece-meal
of a sort of emotional anemia.
And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.
In her is the end of breeding.
Her boredom is exquisite and excessive.
She would like some one to speak to her,
And is almost afraid that I
will commit that indiscretion.
from Lustra (1913-1915)
Ancient Music
Winter is icumen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.
Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
An ague hath my ham.
Damm you; Sing: Goddamm.
Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm,
So 'gainst the winter's balm.
Sing goddamm, damm, sing goddamm,
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.
from Lustra (1913-1915)
Further Instructions
Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions.
Let us express our envy for the man with a steady job and no worry about the future.
You are very idle, my songs,
I fear you will come to a bad end.
You stand about the streets, You loiter at the corners and bus-stops,
You do next to nothing at all.
You do not even express our inner nobilitys,
You will come to a very bad end.
And I? I have gone half-cracked.
I have talked to you so much that I almost see you about me,
Insolent little beasts! Shameless! Devoid of clothing!
But you, newest song of the lot,
You are not old enough to have done much mischief.
I will get you a green coat out of China
With dragons worked upon it.
I will get you the scarlet silk trousers
From the statue of the infant Christ at Santa Maria Novella;
Lest they say we are lacking in taste,
Or that there is no caste in this family.
from Lustra (1913-1915)
The Lake Isle
O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop,
With the little bright boxes
piled up neatly upon the shelves
And the loose fragment cavendish
and the shag,
And the bright Virginia
loose under the bright glass cases,
And a pair of scales
not too greasy,
And the votailles dropping in for a word or two in passing,
For a flip word, and to tidy their hair a bit.
O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Lend me a little tobacco-shop,
or install me in any profession
Save this damn'd profession of writing,
where one needs one's brains all the time.
from Lustra (1913-1915)
Go, dumb-born book,
Tell her that sang me once that song of Lawes:
Hadst thou but song
As thou hast subjects known,
Then were there cause in thee that should condone
Even my faults that heavy upon me lie
And build her glories their longevity.
Tell her that sheds
Such treasure in the air,
Recking naught else but that her graces give
Life to the moment,
I would bid them live
As roses might, in magic amber laid,
Red overwrought with orange and all made
One substance and one colour
Braving time.
Tell her that goes
With song upon her lips
But sings not out the song, nor knows
The maker of it, some other mouth,
May be as fair as hers,
Might, in new ages, gain her worshippers,
When our two dusts with Waller's shall be laid,
Siftings on siftings in oblivion,
Till change hath broken down
All things save Beauty alone.
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I)
"Vocat aestus in umbram"
Nemesianus Es. IV.
E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre
For three years, out of key with his time,
He strove to resuscitate the dead art
Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime"
In the old sense. Wrong from the start --
No, hardly, but, seeing he had been born
In a half savage country, out of date;
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn;
Capaneus; trout for factitious bait:
"Idmen gar toi panth, os eni Troie
Caught in the unstopped ear;
Giving the rocks small lee-way
The chopped seas held him, therefore, that year.
His true Penelope was Flaubert,
He fished by obstinate isles;
Observed the elegance of Circe's hair
Rather than the mottoes on sun-dials.
Unaffected by "the march of events",
He passed from men's memory in l'an trentiesme
De son eage; the case presents
No adjunct to the Muses' diadem.
The age demanded an image
Of its accelerated grimace,
Something for the modern stage,
Not, at any rate, an Attic grace;
Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries
Of the inward gaze;
Better mendacities
Than the classics in paraphrase!
The "age demanded" chiefly a mould in plaster,
Made with no loss of time,
A prose kinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster
Or the "sculpture" of rhyme.
The tea-rose, tea-gown, etc.
Supplants the mousseline of Cos,
The pianola "replaces"
Sappho's barbitos.
Christ follows Dionysus,
Phallic and ambrosial
Made way for macerations;
Caliban casts out Ariel.
All things are a flowing,
Sage Heracleitus says;
But a tawdry cheapness
Shall reign throughout our days.
Even the Christian beauty
Defects -- after Samothrace;
We see to kalon
Decreed in the market place.
Faun's flesh is not to us,
Nor the saint's vision.
We have the press for wafer;
Franchise for circumcision.
All men, in law, are equals.
Free of Peisistratus,
We choose a knave or an eunuch
To rule over us.
A bright Apollo,
tin andra, tin eroa, tina theon,
What god, man, or hero
Shall I place a tin wreath upon?
These fought, in any case,
and some believing, pro domo, in any case ..
Some quick to arm,
some for adventure,
some from fear of weakness,
some from fear of censure,
some for love of slaughter, in imagination,
learning later ...
some in fear, learning love of slaughter;
Died some pro patria, non dulce non et decor" ..
walked eye-deep in hell
believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
came home, home to a lie,
home to many deceits,
home to old lies and new infamy;
usury age-old and age-thick
and liars in public places.
Daring as never before, wastage as never before.
Young blood and high blood,
Fair cheeks, and fine bodies;
fortitude as never before
frankness as never before,
disillusions as never told in the old days,
hysterias, trench confessions,
laughter out of dead bellies.
There died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization.
Charm, smiling at the good mouth,
Quick eyes gone under earth's lid,
For two gross of broken statues,
For a few thousand battered books.
Yeux Glauques
Gladstone was still respected,
When John Ruskin produced
"Kings Treasuries"; Swinburne
And Rossetti still abused.
Ftid Buchanan lifted up his voice
When that faun's head of hers
Became a pastime for
Painters and adulterers.
The Burne-Jones cartons
Have preserved her eyes;
Still, at the Tate, they teach
Cophetua to rhapsodize;
Thin like brook-water,
With a vacant gaze.
The English Rubaiyat was still-born
In those days.
The thin, clear gaze, the same
Still darts out faun-like from the half-ruin'd face,
Questing and passive ....
"Ah, poor Jenny's case" ...
Bewildered that a world
Shows no surprise
At her last maquero's
"Siena Mi Fe', Disfecemi Maremma"
Among the pickled ftuses and bottled bones,
Engaged in perfecting the catalogue,
I found the last scion of the
Senatorial families of Strasbourg, Monsieur Verog.
For two hours he talked of Gallifet;
Of Dowson; of the Rhymers' Club;
Told me how Johnson (Lionel) died
By falling from a high stool in a pub ...
But showed no trace of alcohol
At the autopsy, privately performed --
Tissue preserved -- the pure mind
Arose toward Newman as the whiskey warmed.
Dowson found harlots cheaper than hotels;
Headlam for uplift; Image impartially imbued
With raptures for Bacchus, Terpsichore and the Church.
So spoke the author of "The Dorian Mood",
M. Verog, out of step with the decade,
Detached from his contemporaries,
Neglected by the young,
Because of these reveries.
The sky-like limpid eyes,
The circular infant's face,
The stiffness from spats to collar
Never relaxing into grace;
The heavy memories of Horeb, Sinai and the forty years,
Showed only when the daylight fell
Level across the face
Of Brennbaum "The Impeccable".
Mr. Nixon
In the cream gilded cabin of his steam yacht
Mr. Nixon advised me kindly, to advance with fewer
Dangers of delay. "Consider
Carefully the reviewer.
"I was as poor as you are;
"When I began I got, of course,
"Advance on royalties, fifty at first", said Mr. Nixon,
"Follow me, and take a column,
"Even if you have to work free.
"Butter reviewers. From fifty to three hundred
"I rose in eighteen months;
"The hardest nut I had to crack
"Was Dr. Dundas.
"I never mentioned a man but with the view
"Of selling my own works.
"The tip's a good one, as for literature
"It gives no man a sinecure."
And no one knows, at sight a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it."
* * *
Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:
Don't kick against the pricks,
Accept opinion. The "Nineties" tried your game
And died, there's nothing in it.
Beneath the sagging roof
The stylist has taken shelter,
Unpaid, uncelebrated,
At last from the world's welter
Nature receives him,
With a placid and uneducated mistress
He exercises his talents
And the soil meets his distress.
The haven from sophistications and contentions
Leaks through its thatch;
He offers succulent cooking;
The door has a creaking latch.
"Conservatrix of Milésien"
Habits of mind and feeling,
Possibly. But in Ealing
With the most bank-clerkly of Englishmen?
No, "Milésian" is an exaggeration.
No instinct has survived in her
Older than those her grandmother
Told her would fit her station.
"Daphne with her thighs in bark
Stretches toward me her leafy hands", --
Subjectively. In the stuffed-satin drawing-room
I await The Lady Valentine's commands,
Knowing my coat has never been
Of precisely the fashion
To stimulate, in her,
A durable passion;
Doubtful, somewhat, of the value
Of well-gowned approbation
Of literary effort,
But never of The Lady Valentine's vocation:
Poetry, her border of ideas,
The edge, uncertain, but a means of blending
With other strata
Where the lower and higher have ending;
A hook to catch the Lady Jane's attention,
A modulation toward the theatre,
Also, in the case of revolution,
A possible friend and comforter.
* * *
Conduct, on the other hand, the soul
"Which the highest cultures have nourished"
To Fleet St. where
Dr. Johnson flourished;
Beside this thoroughfare
The sale of half-hose has
Long since superseded the cultivation
Of Pierian roses.
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A jury has convicted a Chicago attorney of murdering former NBA center Eddy Curry's ex-girlfriend and infant daughter four years ago.
A jury has convicted a Chicago attorney of murdering former NBA center Eddy Curry's ex-girlfriend and infant daughter four years ago.
Fredrick Goings showed no reaction when the jury's guilty verdict was read Tuesday in the January 2009 shooting deaths of 24-year-old Nova Henry and her and Curry's 10-month-old daughter, Ava.
Goings represented Henry in a child custody case against the former Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks and Miami Heat center, and was also romantically involved with her. Prosecutors say Henry tried to end her relationship with Goings and moved out with her and Curry's two children.
They say Goings shot Henry in her home while she was holding the infant. Curry's son, who was then 3 years old, was also in the home but wasn't harmed.
Curry, who now plays in China, didn't testify.
Henry's mother, Yolan Henry, said expressed relief after the hearing, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
"I'm feeling elated. I can breathe," she said. "I feel justice has been served."
Yolan Henry testified that she found her surviving grandson, Noah, with the bodies of his sister and mother, and that he told her, "Fredrick did it."
Attorneys for Goings maintained that he was innocent and said there was no physical evidence linking him to the killings.


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It worked just fine with a list with more than one member to contact. It did not do a BCC for 1 email to 1 member, which would also be helpful.
I tested this just now with a test list with two members.Originally Posted by Dirty Butter
both members have the same email address (mine)
and the list admin's address is set to the same address (mine) also.
So, when I send a message to these two members (by clicking the checkboxes on the initial screen) I receive three emails.
One for each member, and one because I'm the admin.
The admin email looks different.
Do you have a spam filter that might possibly be filtering away the messages?
- Tim
It worked just fine with a list with more than one member to contact. It did not do a BCC for 1 email to 1 member, which would also be helpful.
Hello.Originally Posted by Dirty Butter
I just tested this with a single member, and it worked like a charm.
I received two messages (reference previous message about the members of my test list having the same email address as I have).
I received the message that is sent to the member, and I received the message sent to the admin containing the list of addresses the message was sent to. In this case, the list contained a single address as I had only checked a single receiptent.
Can you send me a link of the page you're using to send messages?
- Tim
Tim, let me give you an example of how I might use a Contact of just 1 member.
In checking out blogs, I notice one only has 1 vote, so I go to it, to see what the problem is, and I can't find the voting link. (it was there earlier)
I go back to the Member List and Search for a word in the Name of the site.
Then I use the Contact link from there. In other circumstances, I might have hit Edit, looked at some information, and then chosen Contact.
That's the one that is not doing a BCC.
It doesn't seem likely that I would be sending individual emails to members from the Contact Members list of all members, but would normally be dealing with a problem concerning their banner or some such from the Member List/Edit information.
I look into this.
- Tim
Fixed.Originally Posted by Dirty Butter
Thank you very much. It's working perfectly.


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Tickets can be purchased at the Chamber office or from Chamber members. The winning ticket will be drawn on Dec 11th at the monthly Business After Hours, hosted by Interventional Spine Medicine, Rte 125, Barrington, NH. Members and guests are invited to attend this event from 5-7pm. Tickets will be sold up until 6:15pm that evening. The winner does not need to be a customer of D.F. Richard Energy nor do they need to be present to win.
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Giants Website Prematurely Reveals Super Bowl Winner [PIC]
The New York Giants official website accidentally announced the winner of Super Bowl XLVI more than 24 hours before Sunday's big game even started, by the look of images floating around the web.
The error was immortalized Saturday in this TwitPic screenshot (above), which Jeff Frias posted to Twitter. No signs of the mistake are left on the team's site other than a reported link that leads to the image below.
Bloomberg obtained this statement from the NFL regarding the malfunction. "It is common practice for both teams to create web pages in advance of the conference championship games and Super Bowl. In this case, the hidden URL for the page was inadvertently available for a brief period of time while it was being positioned on the NFL server for possible post tomorrow night."
While online blunders have cost people their jobs in the past, this misstep shows that the Giants organization is unsurprisingly ready to financially capitalize on a possible win.
The tweeted image displays championship garb traditionally sold after national sporting contests. Giants quarterback Eli Manning and three other players are cropped into the image along with the Super Bowl's most-coveted prize, the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The image is emblazoned with these words in all caps: "The Giants are Super Bowl champions!"
The Feb. 5 broadcast of the Giants vs. New England Patriots game kicks off at Indianapolis Lucas Oil Stadium at 6:30 p.m. ET and will be followed by many post-game breakdowns of the games and commercials. One Super Bowl post-game analysis will occur within an NBC-backed Google+ Hangout. Participants will dissect the commercials, which this year cost $3.5 million each.
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Getz feeling good despite sprained left knee
Royals second baseman exits in fifth inning during Saturday's win
KANSAS CITY -- Royals second baseman Chris Getz, playing for just the second time since being recalled from Triple-A Omaha, left Saturday night's 6-5 win over the Tigers with a knee injury in the fifth inning.
The club announced that Getz sustained a mild medial sprain of the left knee, but initial indications were that the injury would not put him on the disabled list.
"I feel pretty good," Getz said, watching a TV replay of the incident. "It tested out pretty good so far. There's a little bit of soreness but, for the most part, I'm in a good place. I feel good about it."
Getz twisted the knee as he tried to catch a sharply hit ball by the Tigers' Prince Fielder. Getz sprawled on the outfield grass in pain while trainers tended to him. After a few minutes, he was helped up and was able to walk slowly off the field.
"It was an awkward play and I was in an awkward position. And, mentally, you kind of go into shock -- what just happened there?" Getz said.
The ball went past Getz for a one-out single which led to a two-run inning for the Tigers.
Getz was replaced by Elliot Johnson.


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It is the Facet of Elemental Earth, passive and receptive it governs the emotions of sadness and trust....Craft ___ ♦Craft ___ ♦ is the Yang Facet of artifice and creation. The Yang opposite of Nature it is the creator that builds, constructs and works....Dominion ___ ♣Dominion ___ ♣ is the Yang Facet of control, groups, civilization, the body politic, the abilities to socialise and lead. It is an active facet that governs groups, areas and control and it is the opposite of Yonder....Enigma _ _ ♥Enigma _ _ ♥ is the Facet of secrets, mysteries, hidden behaviours and cryptic things. Passive and Yin it is the occult opposite of Key....Fury ___ ♣Fury ___ ♣ is the Yang Facet of anger and deep emotional intensity. It is the unbridled storm tossed sea an the thundering waterfall, all the active dynamic forces are in some way, some of the time governed by its certainty. It's opposite is the Yin facet Quiet....Gossamer ___ ♠Gossamer ___ ♠ is the dynamic Yang Facet of strength without weight. Silken threads drifting in the wind, the forces that bend and shake trees and can rip and tear flesh. Gossamer is the light, airy opposite of Burden....Heresy ___ ♥Heresy ___ ♥ is the Yang Facet of lies, deceit, fiction and those things believed to be false. It is the governor of error, the ancestor of dissent and the blame for impiety. It is the dynamic opposite of Orthodox....Inertia _ _ ♠Inertia _ _ ♠ is the Yin Facet of motion, inexorable momentum, falling and sliding. The mother of indolence and lassitude, the patron of procrastination this receptive facet will out-wait and out-last its opposite Zeal....Jeer _ _ ♥Jeer _ _ ♥ is the Yin Facet of emotions. It is the chuckling king of fools, the master of mimicry and mockery, the home of humour and is of course the joke behind its opposite Awe....Key ___ ♠Key ___ ♠ is the Yang Facet of solutions, answers, ingress and interpretation. It is the patron of perception and penetration, the source of science and the 'key' to the cipher of its opposite Enigma....Liberty ___ ♥Liberty ___ ♥ is the Yang Facet of freedom. It is the dream that is imagined, and the imagination itself, the freedom to dream, the license to leisure, the choice of chance, the autocrat of luck and the flexibility and flux to deny its opposite Wyrd....Miasma _ _ ♠Miasma _ _ ♠ is the Yin Facet of corruption and rotting. It is the foulness within, the stink without, it is the dark haze that hides the blight of contamination. So foul is the Facet that its stench may even survive the purifying fire of Phoenix....Nature _ _ ♥Nature _ _ ♥ is the Yin Facet of the receptive and nurturing mother of us all. Passive growth, fertility and flesh are all aspects of this Facet. Nature governs all things native, and genuine unlike the artifice of its opposite Craft....Orthodox _ _ ♦Orthodox _ _ ♦ is the Yin Facet of truth. Orthodox is passive data, a simple truth stood in plain sight, it is approved knowledge, confirmed and conventional. It is the latent law, ever present, plain and proper and only occasionally is it stirred into reactionary activity by its opposite Heresy....Phoenix ___ ♥Phoenix ___ ♥ is the Yang Facet of Elemental Fire. Transcendent the Facet is not just the father of the physical flame, but also the fires within, it is the purveyor of passions and the root of regeneration, it's process powers all life and even the stars. Unchecked it can burn and fry all things including its opposite Miasma....Quiet _ _ ♦Quiet _ _ ♦ is the Yin Facet of receptive silence. In that silence rest quiescent woods, tranquil trees, hushed leaves and even the silent speech of books and plain libraries (and mute, conservative librarians). Sober, calm and studied Quiet is the only way to soothe its opposite Fury....Rook _ _ ♣Rook _ _ ♣ is the Yin Facet of defence. Receptive and resilient it is the bastion of the Facets. Armour and Aegis, shielding and protective it is the only true guard against its opposite Trial....Sin ___ ♣Sin ___ ♣ is the Yang Facet of vices. It is the source of all evil, the inception of immorality, the well of wickedness and is the Facet of transgression and trespass and the one weakness of its opposite Virtue....Trial ___ ♠Trial ___ ♠ is the Yang Facet of competition. It is the commencement of hostilities, the cause of war and the source of sports. Whether striving at tournament or struggling to win Trial is continually in conflict with its opposite Rook....Virtue _ _ ♦Virtue _ _ ♦ is the Yin Facet that governs Goodness. The Facet is the home of hope, love and charity. Incorruptible and innocent it is the Facet of worth and worthiness and the only Facet that the compassion to embrace its opposite Sin....Wyrd _ _ ♣Wyrd _ _ ♣ is the Yin Facet of the goddess of destiny. Binding and weaving she envelops everything in her nets of karma, kismet and doom. Her's is the Facet of inevitability, predestination, misfortune and providence, the only Facet able to plan for and predict its opposite Liberty....Yonder _ _ ♠Yonder _ _ ♠ is the Yin Facet of space and distance. Completely passively this Facet sits holding point A apart from point B. The decider of distance and the root of range and roads, the Facet oversees all paths from space-lanes to highways to the Lea....Zeal ___ ♦Zeal ___ ♦ is the Yang Facet of dynamic motion. It is the dominant, active force that drives enthusiasm, ambition and desire. Earnest and eager it is fervour of fanaticism, faith and confidence of belief.... Cookie? Accept RejectThe site uses Cookies to remember settings like if you are logged in, just like every site on the internet. My cookies are set by this company. 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