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Berlin smart Grand Slam | 17 - 22 juin 2014
Berlin, Germany, June 20, 2014 - The women's quarterfinals took shape on Friday at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Berlin smart Grand Slam, while the men went down to the last 16.
Host country Germany saw their top team Jonathan Erdmann and Kay Matysik eliminated in the pool phase. Second seeded Americans Sean Rosenthal and Phil Dalhauser were knocked out in the first round.
The women's quarterfinal line-up: Ross/Walsh (USA) – Antonelli/Juliana (BRA), Agatha/Seixas (BRA) – Borger/Büthe (GER), Talita/Lima (BRA) – Kolocova/Slukova (CZE), Bawden/Clancy (AUS) - Wang Fan/Yue Y. (CHN).
Poland's Fijalek/Prudel take revenge against Russia
Poland's Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel booked a 2-0 (21-19, 21-14) win over Russia's Konstantin Semenov and Viacheslav Krasilnikov on Friday in the first knockout round of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Berlin smart Grand Slam. Read more
Brazil's Agatha/Seixas knock out European champions in Berlin
Brazil's Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas De Freitas knocked out European champions Madelein Meppelink and Marleen van Iersel with a 2-0 (21-16, 23-21) win in the second elimination round of the FIVB Beach Volley World Tour Berlin smart Grand Slam. Read more
Flying Dutchmen top the pool with three wins at Berlin Grand Slam
on Stiekema and Christiaan Varenhorst won their third pool match on Friday, to top their pool at the FIVB Beach Volley World Tour Berlin smart Grand Slam. After two straight wins against Schalk/Saxton from Canada and USA's Rosenthal/Dalhauser on the first day of main draw, the 18th seeded Dutch team needed a third set to defeat Czech team Premysl Kubala and Jan Hadrava: 21-13, 17-21, 15-6. Read more
On Saturday the men will kick off at 8.00 with the second elimination round, followed by the women's quarterfinals, the men's quarterfinals and the women's semifinals. The men's semis and the medal matches for both genders are scheduled for Sunday.
The $800.000 Berlin smart Grand Slam is the fourth of seven Grand Slams on the European continent. Next week the World Tour will move to Norway for the FIVB Stavanger Grand Slam.
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USA's Bourne/Hyden and Czechs Kolocova/Slukova strike gold in Berlin
Berlin, Germany, June 22, 2014 - USA's Tri Bourne and John Hyden and Kristyna Kolocova and Marketa Slukova from the Czech Republic claimed the gold ... More...
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USA's Bourne/Hyden win first World Tour gold in Berlin
Berlin, Germany, June 22, 2014 - Tri Bourne and John Hyden won their first World Tour gold medal at the FIVB Beach Volleyball Berlin smart Grand Slam ... More...
22.06.2014 19:01:53
Kolocova and Slukova crowned as Berlin smart Grand Slam champions
Berlin, Germany, June 22, 2014 - Kristyna Kolocova and Marketa Slukova won their second gold in only one month by winning the FIVB Beach Volleyball Wo... More...
22.06.2014 07:21:29
All-American men's final at the Berlin smart Grand Slam
21.06.2014 20:06:00
Brazil and Czech Republic in women's final in Berlin, USA and Brazil supply men's semifinalists
21.06.2014 19:41:52
Brazil's Antonelli and Juliana face Czech team Kolocova/Slukova in Berlin final
21.06.2014 18:47:15
American qualifiers Doherty and Lucena storm into Berlin semis
21.06.2014 14:10:28
Antonelli/Juliana knock out Ross/Walsh to advance to semifinal
20.06.2014 20:48:09
Poland's Fijalek/Prudel take revenge against Russia
20.06.2014 20:09:28
Brazil's Agatha/Seixas knock out European champions in Berlin
20.06.2014 13:02:20
Flying Dutchmen top the pool with three wins at Berlin Grand Slam
20.06.2014 09:35:56
Volleyball internationals visit FIVB Beach Volleyball Berlin smart Grand Slam
19.06.2014 20:18:07
Women reach deciding phase in Berlin, men just get started
19.06.2014 19:44:37
Impressive start for Doherty and Lucena in Berlin main draw
19.06.2014 18:05:26
Germany's Borger/Büthe delight the home crowd with third win
19.06.2014 13:55:26
USA's Ross/Walsh on track for back-to-back gold
19.06.2014 11:24:26
American qualifiers upset Moscow champions in Berlin
18.06.2014 20:50:41
Upsetting day for German teams at Berlin smart Grand Slam
18.06.2014 18:30:56
Brazil's Bruno/Alison pushed hard in Berlin qualification
18.06.2014 15:59:34
Berlin Grand Slam ends for home team Holtwick/Semmler
18.06.2014 12:42:59
Tough opening match for 2013 champions Talita/Lima in Berlin
17.06.2014 20:05:13
Berlin residents Bieneck/Grossner claim main draw spot at Berlin Grand Slam
16.06.2014 22:20:22
Talking Stats: 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour—June 16
16.06.2014 18:18:05
Top of the world returns to Berlin's 'Mitte' for the FIVB smart Grand Slam
16.06.2014 08:22:57
FIVB Beach Volley World Tour moves to FIVB Berlin smart Grand Slam
16.06.2014 01:52:23
FIVB World Tour in middle of three straight $800,000 FIVB Grand Slams
11.03.2014 10:33:23
Berlin Smart Grand Slam heads back to city centre
30.01.2014 16:38:52
2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour ready for more highlights in record-breaking year


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From the Washington Post's reliably irritating "On Faith" blog, Jeffrey Stanley writes about being the faculty adviser for a student-led paranormal investigation club while being a skeptic, but not happy about being a skeptic.
Friends and fans assume I am a true believer but the truth is that I am not. I am a healthy skeptic. And that's depressing for me because it means that on some level I feel certain there's nothing out there. I try contacting the spirit world before live audiences to keep an element of hope simmering on the back burner of my mind.
Nothing? Why does he call it nothing? There's a lot. The fact that he doesn't think he can find magical stuff doesn't mean there's nothing.
He explains about "spirit boxes"…sort of.
You turn on a video or audio recorder to document your session. You now ask a question into the air and await a response. Sometimes the responses are immediate and crystal clear. Others are difficult to understand beneath all the static and only come to light during amplified playback. Some responses have to be slowed down and have their volume boosted to improve clarity. In my experience, a five-minute recording might contain 20 or 30 audible "responses." Only about 10 of these will be easily understandable to the average listener. So while the results are not as instantly gratifying or dramatic as using a Ouija board in front of an audience, the results after post-production can be quite stunning and difficult to explain away.
Skeptics will try, though. I chuckled when I first Googled "EVPs debunked" and read various naysayers' biased conclusions. They generally start from their subjective presupposition that listening to the dead is impossible, then loop to their own self-gratifying conclusion that spirit boxes are indeed not receiving voices from the dead.
Wait, what? Their subjective presupposition that listening to the dead is impossible? Subjective? Really? Aren't there very good objective reasons for thinking that listening to the dead is impossible?
This is like agnostic atheism, and science doesn't have the tools to investigate the supernatural, again. Same old bullshit – it's all a tossup either way; the two are evenly matched; it could be yes or it could be no and nobody knows anything either way. Yeah no that's not right. It's not just some stupid prejudice to think that the dead are dead. And what's "self-gratifying" about that anyway? It's the longing for immortality that provides the motive for wishful thinking, not the opposite.
Subjective presupposition nothing.

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Among the many mysteries surrounding The Interpreter is the one that finds Sydney Pollack heralded as a major American director, a maker of Serious and Important Movies. His filmography, marked by mawkish mediocrities (Out of Africa, as vibrant as a coffee-table book; The Way We Were, its romance as plausible as sci-fi) and self-important bores (Havana, so awful the audience staged a revolution; Bobby Deerfield, a race-car movie that goes 'round and 'round), certainly doesn't merit the huzzahs. Save for the giddy Tootsie, which has aged like a bottle of Boone's Farm, and the goofy Three Days of the Condor, Pollack's output suggests he is but a pedestrian moviemaker, a small-screen guy who transitioned to the big screen forty years ago and forgot to make the stories bigger. And it is best to forget his last two movies altogether: 1995's Sabrina remake and 1999's Random Hearts, rightly assessed by film historian David Thomson as "so awful their polish seemed absurd."
The Interpreter, starring Nicole Kidman as an African-born translator at the United Nations and Sean Penn as a Secret Service agent mourning a recently dead estranged wife, would be nothing without that polish -- a shrug of a thriller, a tangle of inexplicable conspiracies upon which you could hang yourself out of sheer boredom. It's a movie about an assassination plot told almost entirely in flashback; everything that happens in the present -- which isn't much -- has to be explained again and again with old tales about past lives, not to explicate the onion-peeling layers of deceit common to political thrillers, but merely to reiterate the numbingly obvious. Which is to say the whole movie makes sense until you begin to ask the simplest questions, and then it falls apart. Only Kidman, as the woman who overhears plans to kill a beloved African liberator turned murderous dictator named Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), and Penn, as the skeptic sent to investigate her claim, keep us interested, emotionally attached to something so facile and hunh?-inducing, you'll wonder only much later how you got suckered into believing two plus two equals six.
Kidman, channeling Meryl Streep, plays Silvia Broome, a woman with a past that keeps revealing itself in Photoshopped pics that show up at the most inopportune moments. Though she claims hers are the politics of "peace and quiet," snapshots of a younger Silvia reveal she was in fact once a gun-toting rebel prone to attending the rallies of a hunky freedom fighter named Xola (Curtiss Cook), a former lover. Such revelations, which trickle out as the movie creeps toward its inevitable showdown, render her claims of eavesdropping those deadly whispers all the more dubious. She, too, has a vested interest in seeing Zuwanie, her old hero, popped in front of the U.N. General Assembly.
Tobin Keller (Penn), assigned to investigate, doesn't buy her story; Silvia strikes him as a woman with too many secrets to make much of what she says credible. "But it's a credible threat," he tells his higher-ups, who include Pollack himself, again making a cameo in his own movie à la Hitchcock, whom this movie tries hard to emulate without matching his dark humor. (Only Catherine Keener, as Penn's partner, bares her teeth in a shark's smile, as a Secret Service agent assigned to keep strippers' hands off visiting prime ministers.) And so Tobin and Silvia dance around each other, sharing secrets and war stories like lovers who know they'll never even get to kiss. It's their relationship -- strained and awkward, warming to tense and forlorn -- that keeps our interest, perhaps because the story that swirls around them, involving righteous rebels and dead families and busybody ghosts, never meshes into a coherent, affecting whole.
Pollack worked from a screenplay penned in part by Steve Zaillian (Gangs of New York, Schindler's List) and Scott Frank (Out of Sight, Get Shorty), with other writers credited as well, and the movie plays like a messy hodgepodge of moods, ideas, politics, and emotions. It centers on this one idea -- the assassination of Zuwanie, as he's coming to New York to explain he's a good guy and not a dictator engaging in ethnic cleansing -- but never holds on to that center, spinning off in too many directions that are meant to keep us guessing, but serve only to disorient us, to keep us from noticing how nothing makes a lick of sense.
During those moments when something tangible happens in the present, the movie can thrill and move us. The sight of a masked man on Silvia's fire escape delivers a proper jolt, and a scene aboard a Brooklyn bus, where a would-be assassin carrying more than his lunch bumps into Silvia and the feds and yet another of Zuwanie's enemies, is at once wrenching and comic, Hitchcock by way of the Three Stooges. But The Interpreter dashes the suspense by talking the audience to death. The action gives way, time and time again, to the inaction of people sitting there, explaining why they're there and how they got there and why they're not leaving, which isn't thrilling at all.
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Gossip Girl Review: Winning!Steve Marsi at .
After Gossip Girl dared to Dair last Monday, would it raise the stakes even higher tonight?
"Cross Rhodes" picked up after the kiss-heard-round-the-Upper East Side, with just about every relationship on the show affected by it in some day. Dair, obviously, but also Chair ... and Derena. And Blerena and even Duck.
Overuse of cheesy couple names aside, Dan and Blair hooking up has been great for the show. Everything is in flux now, from Blair's emotions to the battle between Chuck and Dan. After tonight, who is really winning?
It's premature to make any endgame predictions, but if you thought Dair was a flash in the pan, you thought wrong. Especially after Blair filled in for Lola in the Upright Citizens Brigade's rendition of Inside.
Watching B's face as Sabrina talked about Dylan's true feelings for Claire was a poignant moment - the moment Dan and Blair truly became one in the sense that their mutual attraction was realized and proclaimed.
Some people still say they have no chemistry in the romantic sense. I used to be one of them, but every week I come around a little bit more. Their courtship may be complicated and unorthodox, but it's real.
Leighton Meester, as always, portrayed Blair as a Type A control freak one instant, and a vulnerable maiden in distress the next. It's not the Blair we once knew, and she's not perfect, but such is her life nowadays.
Louis. The prenup. Chuck. These remain formidable obstacles for Dan and Blair (more so the latter ... I sense a vintage Gossip Girl unraveling of the dowry in two sentences of dialogue next week) to say the least.
Serena was right about one thing, though. When Blair is head over heels for a guy, nothing else in the world matters. There's no rationalizing it or explaining it away, and tonight, her walls came down at last.
The mixed emotions of feeling forbidden to do such a thing but at the same time wanting it SO badly shone brightly tonight as Blair kissed Dan not once but twice - once passionately, once lovingly, both memorably.
Is their relationship on firmer ground than it was a week ago? Absolutely. That's the good news. The bad is that moments after Chuck called off his character assassination mission, Gossip Girl dropped the bombshell.
Humphrey, you bastard ...
Dan may be winning, or at least giving Chuck all he can handle in the quest for Blair's heart, yet the Basshole was in rare form with his traditional, sex-based subterfuge. He may be just getting started, too.
Swapping out the manuscript and painting Dan as a plagiarist (while a bit dubious logistically) was cold and calculated. Even if you're rooting for Dan, it was fun to watch the "old" Chuck come out and play a bit.
Yes, using women as objects for pleasure and revenge is not being a good person ... as someone helpfully pointed out. Chuck had been through a lot, though, and he did ultimately listen to B's advice, so we'll allow it.
It seemed he learned his lesson following Blair's directive, until he learned Dan tipped off G.G. Now all bets are off. Dan's the man in many respects, but when it comes to undermining schemes, Chuck may be peerless.
His next move will be very interesting. How far will he go against Blair's order to leave Dan alone? How badly will Dan be hurt when Blair eventually finds out her Muppet prince charming was behind the blast?
Your guess is as good as mine. Blair's love life is very much a blank page, an open book just beginning, with the rest still unwritten (yes, I just quoted The Hills theme song), and I can't wait for the next chapter.
Hey, that book sure sounds more interesting than Dan's next one. Zzzzzzz.
I could go on ad nauseam about the virtues of Dan, the redeeming qualities of Chuck, and the case both can make to put a ring on Blair's finger one day, but we actually have a lot more to cover from "Cross Rhodes."
Namely the fact that ... they did cross. The Rhodes girls, that is.
Finally. After nearly a YEAR as the UES' most infamous impostor, ChIvy was outed at last as she came face-to-face with Charlie Rhodes ... and Carol, Lily and Serena. It was a good, deceitful and confusing run.
Cece's failing health was the nail in the coffin (too soon?) for her. ChIvy should have just bailed in the Hamptons, but she wouldn't abandon her faux grandmother, even if it meant having her trail of lies exposed.
I've been bored by ChIvy for some time. That said, it was great to see her go down. She might be better off if she just split, but it appears she may seek revenge as Georgina's henchwoman next. Good luck with that?
The other silver lining to what looks like Cece's certain demise is that it brought Blair and Serena back together. An evening that began with a major frenemy feud ended on the best of terms, with the two like sisters.
One person who won't be getting in Dair's way is S, who in a moment of reflection, loyalty and surprising maturity, agreed to support her BFF, no matter what. Aww. At least that's one feud we can cross off.
Blair staying with S at the end was a sweet gesture as well. As fun as it is to watch those two bicker and fight in their snarky way, it's only enjoyable when you know they'll come around in the end. And they do.
Will Cece's passing bring the fractured Rhodes clan closer together, or drive a wedge between them? Conventional wisdom says the former, but ... Carol paid Ivy to impersonate Charlie and now they know this.
Not your average dysfunctional family in other words. A few more odds and ends from this episode, which started off slowly but converged in a rather emotional and dramatic way by the end of the hour:
- Don't know quite what it is, but is everyone loving Nola as a couple as much as me?
- You know Lola's an outsider because she's beyond bad at Facebook/phone stalking.
- Did anyone else catch the Dorota and Jenny Inside characters in the background?
- How appropriate is it that Rufus still hides his old clothes from Lily in Brooklyn?
- Great scarves tonight - both on Blair and Alessandra. Chuck has good taste.
- Was Lily just wearing jeans for the first time ever?
- R.I.P. Cece. You were great.
Before we turn it over to your comments, as always, here's next week's promo for "The Princess Dowry." Looks like Hurricane Georgina (absent tonight) is forming and taking dead aim at the Upper East Side ...
What did you think of this evening's Gossip Girl? Discuss below!
Who do you think should be with Blair?
Steve Marsi is the Managing Editor of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Google+ or email him here.


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Talks with Cuban pitching prospect stalled
PHILADELPHIA -- Everybody waiting for the Phillies to officially announce an agreement with Cuban right-hander Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez might be waiting a while.
In fact, an announcement might never happen.
A source indicated to MLB.com on Tuesday that the two parties had hit a snag since word quickly spread July 26 the parties had agreed to a six-year, $48 million contract that included an $11 million option for 2019.
The Phillies have said nothing about Gonzalez since the story broke, not even as much as acknowledging anything might be cooking with the Cuban. Asked just before Tuesday night's game against the Cubs at Citizens Bank Park if a deal with Gonzalez might no longer happen, Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. repeatedly declined comment.
Since the agreement late last month, numerous reports have mentioned scouts with questions about Gonzalez's elbow. He had bone spurs removed from his elbow sometime within the past two years, although it has been written he had made a full recovery.
Scouts who have seen him pitch recently consider him a No. 3 starter in the big leagues, which would have helped the Phillies entering 2014.


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On Claude McKay's "The Negro's Tragedy" and Langston Hughes' "Christ in Alabama"
Josua Eckhardt
[Textual note: The Negros tragedy was first published without this title in the July-August issue of The Catholic Worker, where it is followed by I turn to God for greater strength to fight and Around me roar and crash the pagan isms.]
The Negros Tragedy is an identity politics poem par excellencecomplicated by the Christology that McKay develops throughout The Catholic Worker sonnets. The speaker feels the Negros tragedy and wants to heal his pain in the first quatrain. In the second, such positive declarations give way to exclusionary ones: whites are excluded from the Negros ken, or point of view.
Only a thorn-crowned Negro and no white
Can penetrate into the Negros ken
(The Negros Tragedy ll. 5-6)
A second qualifier in addition to race has slipped in here: Only a thorn-crowned Negro. This direct reference to the suffering Christ, mockingly crowned king of the Jews by Roman soldiers, draws from a later moment of Christs ministry than does Look Within. Indeed, Christs ministry is all but over, and his Passion well underway, by the time he is beaten before Pilate. And it is just such a suffering Christ whom the Negro must follow, for McKay, if he is going to penetrate his own ken, or understand and correct his own social position.
In the sestet, the white man is again excluded, here from writing McKays book, which is shot out of my blood.
So what I write is shot out of my blood.
There is no white man who could write my book
Though many think the story can be told
Of what the Negro people ought to brook.
Our statesmen roam the world to set things right.
This Negro laughs, and prays to God for Light!
(The Negros Tragedy ll. 9-14)
White men cannot do McKays writing for him. Nor can they rightly perceive the Negros tragedy and the way it needs to be answered. One wonders just how sweeping a critique this is: how many are the many who think they can tell the story of the Negros tragedy? There were of course many white antiracists on the leftand in the Catholic Worker movement; to how many of them does McKays critique apply? The second to last line may invite a sigh of relief after this uncertainty when it specifies the offending parties as [o]ur statesmen. If this can be taken as a specification of all of the whites earlier in the poem, then the target of this sonnet is no wider than that of Look Withinthe U.S. government in its official ineffectiveness. But of course, there is no strictly linguistic reason why the subject of line 13 should modify the parties excluded from the Negros tragedy earlier in the poem. And there is even less historical/political reason why it should, given McKays regular boldness in critiquing those on the left who would be, and often were, his allies.
In the last line, the ineffective statesmen and the misunderstanding whites are laughed off as[t]his thorn-crowned Negro prays to God for Light! This turn to Godto take the words of the sonnet that follows this one in The Catholic Workerparticipates in a move McKay made in a much earlier sonnet, the 1919 To the White Fiends. After turning racist associations of blackness and savagery against racists, "To the White Fiends" also asserts the unmistakably black speakers direct access to God. The result is that whether the "white fiends" subscribe to the confused notions of black savagery in the first half of the poem, and/or the vaguely Christian framework in the second, they are restricted from their own ideological apparatus. In the second half, the speaker claims that the "Almighty" has created the formers soul out of "darkness" and set him on earth to be, paradoxically, a light.
But the Almighty from the darkness drew
My soul and said: Even thou shalt be a light
Awhile to burn on the benighted earth,
Thy dusky face I set among the white
For thee to prove thyself of higher worth;
Before the world is swallowed up in night,
To show thy little lamp: go forth, go forth!
(To the White Fiends, ll. 8-14)
But To the White Fiends is freeze-framed at creation: the originary moment in which the Almighty creates the speaker and bespeaks his special purpose to him. The Negros Tragedy is set later in such a speakers life: corresponding to the late point in Christs Passion when the speaker shares Christs crown of thorns but, knowingly and triumphantly, laughs and prays to God for light (cf. the dark Passion in the 1921 The White City, l. 6).
The combination of this crown of thorns and confidence in prayer does not only develop McKays earlier religious imagery; it heightens the distinction between his religious imagery and Langston Hughes. One could say that Hughes Christ in Alabama wears the same crown of thorns that McKays 1945 Christ-figure does, since the beaten and black moment of Christs life was endured with a crown of thorns. In other words, like The Negros Tragedy, Christ in Alabama refers to a crucified Christ.
Christ is a nigger,
Beaten and black.
O bare your back!
(Christ in Alabama, ll. 1-3)
Both Hughes and McKays American Christ-figures are unmistakably black. The provocative implication Hughes makes by re-setting the holy family in the American south of the Scottsboro trial is that in Alabama only a Nigger can play Christs role, because only s/he participates in such suffering. In part, this is precisely what McKay says in this later sonnet: Only a thorn-crowned Negro and no white / Can penetrate into the Negros ken. But Hughes rendition of the black Christ is more exclusionary because it implies that only a nigger can follow Christ, at least in Alabama. McKays version says nothing about the ability of others to follow Christ, but he makes clear that, in order to penetrate the Negros ken, [o]nly a thorn-crowned Negro will do.
A more substantive difference between McKays and Hughes Christ-figures is forced by the third stanza of Christ in Alabama. After successfully appropriating the Christian imagery that too often was used to justify racism, Hughes goes on to identify Mary with the Mammy of the South and God the father with a White Master. In re-casting the holy family as the illegitimate family of the slave plantation, Hughes goes too far to unproblematically maintain his appropriation of Christianity. This is because in the first two stanzas, racists are confined to the italicized third lines, responsible for persecuting Christ and Mary and so cut off from them. In the third stanza though, the role of God the father is reserved for the White Master:
Gods His Father
White Master above,
Grant us your love.
(Christ in Alabama ll. 7-9)
If the first stanza of the poem effectively steals Christianity away from racists, this third stanza would seem to give it right back, insisting that at least in Alabama mastery is synonymous with whiteness and that, as one of the masters tools, Christianity always already serves the White Master. Colored in this way, the holy family does far more political harm than good. If both Christ is a Nigger in Alabama and God his father is a White Master, then not even Gods son can access him without reinscribing the illegitimate family structure of the slave plantation.
McKays thorn-crowned Negro prays to God for Light, on the other hand, without being troubled by Hughes pitfalls. This is as true of McKays early poems, such as To the White Fiends and The Lynching, as it is of the later ones. McKay never concedes Christianity or any other religion to racists, neither by coloring God nor by any other means. The difference between McKays early and late religious sentiments can be seen more clearly vis-ŕ-vis Christ in Alabama. McKays early religious sonnets never achieve the specific shame and suffering of Christ, as Hughes so perfectly does in Christ in Alabama. In The Negros Tragedy, McKay approaches the force of Christ in Alabama much more closely: here McKays Negro is identified with the suffering, thorn-crowned Christ. The difference is that McKays Christ-figure can still laughingly pray to God. If Hughes Christ were to try to do that in Alabama, he would find himself quite forsaken, and probably starting the horrible poem over again with the white master cursing, O, bare your back!
Copyright © 2001 by Joshua Eckhardt
Return to Claude McKay
Langston Hughes


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Equities are shooting higher overnight as the dollar plummets down and has landed directly upon long term support. Bonds are roughly flat, oil rose to the $100 mark and has since fallen back, gold is slightly higher, and most food commodities are slightly lower.
Below is a 60 minute chart showing how the dollar plummeted down to exactly touch long term support, bounced, and then collapsed again. This is a critical juncture for the dollar. Should it break this level, then massive pressure will mount on the "Fed" and our politicians to act. Should it fall rapidly we may see a melt-up of commodities which would further pressure those on the margins:
Personal Income and Outlays were reported for January. According to Bloomberg, "Purchases increased 0.2 percent, the smallest gain since June and half the median forecast of economists surveyed… Incomes climbed more than projected, reflecting the tax-cut compromise reached by President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans in December, and inflation remained below the Federal Reserve's long-term forecast."
Although spending is not accelerating as expected, according to this report, "real" wages increased a whopping 1.0% in January, and are now up 4.6% year over year. That is simply astonishing and complete, dare I say, bullshit. Just like GDP and many other statistics, they take a dollar figure and adjust it for inflation (calculated their way) to make it "real."
This report claims that the "core" price index rose by only .1% in January, .8% year over year, which of course is complete fantasy. To say that the data is disconnecting from reality is quite the understatement. And speaking of disconnected from reality, here's Econoday parroting the consumer centric spin:
Income growth jumped in January but spending slowed considerably. Inflation remains on two tracks with headline numbers outpacing the core. Personal income in January increased 1.0 percent, following a 0.4 percent gain the month before. The latest figure came in higher than the consensus estimate of 0.4 percent. Wages & salaries, however, grew a moderate 0.3 percent after gaining at the same pace in December.
As in December, consumer spending for the latest month was led by auto sales and higher gasoline prices. Personal consumption expenditures increased a modest 0.2 percent, following a 0.5 percent advance in December.
For January, strength was led by nondurables, up 0.9 percent (including gasoline), with durables advancing 0.4 percent. Services spending was flat for the latest month. Notably, inflation eroded the gain in overall spending as chained dollar purchases fell 0.1 percent in January after a 0.3 percent boost the month before.
On the inflation front, the PCE price index posted a 0.3 percent rise, matching the gain in December. The core rate was not as strong but still warmed up a bit with a 0.1 percent rise, compared to no change in December. On a year-ago basis, headline PCE prices are up 1.2 percent in January-the same rate as in December. Core inflation held steady at 0.8 percent year-on-year versus in December.
Year on year, personal income for January was up 4.6 percent, compared to 3.8 percent in December. PCEs growth improved to 4.0 percent from 3.9 percent in December.
Income is up, which is good, but spending has slowed. To date, the easing in spending growth is not worrisome given that it is coming off strong months. However, moving forward, healthier gains in wages & salaries are going to be needed to keep spending ahead of what appears to be building headline inflation.
Again, bad data leads to massive misallocations, and this report is a giant pool of disinformation.
And speaking of disinformation, the Chicago "Fed" releases the PMI Index at 9:45 Eastern this morning.
While the data is disconnected from reality our "Fed" continues to buy up debt – print money from nothing. Doing so lessens the burden placed on the member banks, and thus frees them up to leverage up. And leverage up they have, to new Mark-to-Fantasy wild extremes. Indeed, their hot money rotation has run up food and energy like there is no tomorrow, and this has set off riots and revolutions around the globe. Historic and quite the sight to see. What is most amazing is our failure as a nation to accept our role in creating the havoc, and in starving those whose incomes go substantially to obtaining food.
This violence has now spread to Oman where oil refineries are under pressure. Of course Saudi Arabia jumps forth once again and claims that they can make up for their oil production too, no problem. This is yet another outright lie and more disinformation.
In Ireland Fine Gael toppled decades of central banker controlled politicians. Enda Kenny, the newly elected Prime Minister, is already calling on the central banks to renegotiate the terms of recent central banker money from nothing never ending enslavement rob the people blind loans.
Mr. Kenny, with all due respect, this is the wrong approach. There should be no negotiating and there should simply be no loans. Tell the central bankers to pound sand, leave the Euro, and produce your own sovereign money! You will never be a free nation until you do so. No, holding elections does not make you free.
The end of month and beginning of month is a time that typically sees buying in equities that produces an upwards bias. This is more true with the daily billions being pumped into the system. But we're at an inflection point in the markets with the dollar at long term support. Continued pumping may cause the dollar to break down further – the fallout will get even more dangerous if it does.
The math is impossible and it is now pressuring all levels of government in the U.S., and despot regimes the world over. The correlation between the money pumping and mispriced markets is clear and can be seen in the chart below comparing the size of the "Fed's" balance sheet to the S&P:
Welcome to the modern "fundamental" condition of the market. It's a fairly heavy week for economic disinformation reports, the Employment Situation comes this Friday.


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DWTS Season 12, The Finale – The Cheesecake Awards!!
Oy veh. One more for the season. WARNING! This one gets a tad…harsh. If you are overly sensitive in regard to some of the regulars on this show, look out. 🙂 You've been warned. I (Heidi) was feeling particularly evil when I wrote my parts.
Best Moment of the Finale: The Three Stooges reaction to Chelsea Kane getting 3rd place
Heidi: Ahhh…that was soooo sweet. Guess what, stooges, you don't have all the power, no matter how hard you try. LOL. Want to see what we're talking about? Keep your eye on the judges once the camera goes wide again. The body language is hilarious. Len and Carrie Ann are sitting, not clapping, in shock. Mwahahahaha….
Courtney: Both of them looked like they'd just seen the ghost of Michael Jackson or something. Utter, total, and complete shock – followed by bitterness. The Almighty Judges thwarted in their master plan??? Muahahahaha – you betcha. Probably a good thing that Carrie Ann wasn't clapping – her arm fat was jiggling like crazy earlier in the night when she was grooving in her chair to Black-Eyed Oh-bitch-please.
The Award for Being Almost TOO Cheesey to Bear: Tom Bergeron/Producers for that silly opening voiceover on the last night
Heidi: Is it just me or was that just way more over the top than normal?? I mean, this ain't the Olympics, it's DWTS (which I guess makes my complaint ironic…or redundant…or…pointless?) – but do we really need the dramatic talk about "their journey" to get to the finals??
Courtney: You'd think we were watching the pre-show for the Olympics or the Superbowl or even Idol – the sad backstory, the clawing their way to the top, the blood, sweat, toil, and tears, this has been their lifelong dream, yadda yadda yadda. Way, WAAAYYYY over-the-top. Spare me.
The Karma Really Works Award: Len Goodman for "If they don't like our scores, then vote for them!!"
Heidi: Fan-f@#ing-tastic. 🙂 That's called having karma take a bite out yo ass. 🙂 We DID vote and it didn't quite go the way you expected, did it? But this still does piss me off because that sure as hell didn't work in week 9, did it. I fully expect to see the BonASS dance in the finale next season so they are more likely to get their way. Anyway, I think the producers were taking a poke at the judges, since when they aired this little gem they likely already knew that Chelsea took 3rd place. 🙂
Courtney: You may be onto something with the producers taking a swipe at the judges – perhaps they were trying to make them the scapegoat for the whole fiasco. I can't help but wonder if TPTB were catching so much flak for the WTA dance that they decided to shift the blame to the judges – making a point of having Len say that right before announcing Chelsea as 3rd place was a subtle way of saying "Blame the judges! They're the ones that gave the scores!" Of course, I don't think anyone in a position of authority on the show is blame-free for the shitshow that was season 12 – as I said on Twitter the other day, this season was one big series of unfortunate events that resulted from TPTB trying to atone for the sins of season 11…and failing miserably. Viewers tend to fight back when they start monkeying around too much with the basic premise of the show – this is a prime example.
Award for Most Bizarre Dancing "tic": Maks and walking
Heidi: He does this all the time and did it again in his freestyle with Kirstie. He has quite long sections of just walking across the dance floor. Don't get me wrong, it really worked well in the mood of his freestyle, but often it's just a time-wasting move that he uses too much – IMO, of course. They all have tics or signature moves – but those are MOVES. This is walking. I'm surprised he doesn't get called on it more often. I'd call him on it. 🙂
Courtney: Yeah, I guess it's kind of his "thing" – like Mark's jimmy legs, Cheryl's sheer-skirted ballgowns, or Lacey's sometimes-pointless displays of flexibility. I am a bit surprised that he doesn't get called out on it more, but I guess he does walk with a sense of purpose in his step – I guess I can forgive it more easily than, say, spastic dancing or copied choreo.
The Award for the Best Use of NEW MATH: Brooke Burke/the Producers
Heidi: Most watched season ever?? Seriously?? TV Guide said it was up by double digits but compared to what?? And for the ENTIRE season and not just the finale? Doubtful. It's possible I could be brain-dead, but ratings are one of those things I pay attention to and I thought it was down – and some weeks Nielsen reported it was down. Now, granted, I don't look THAT closely, but damn, I think this is creative math at work here. They're forcing me to do a post on ratings trends. 🙂 Maybe they meant to say "Most watched SPRING season ever." That might work.
Courtney: I feel like the phrases "most watched season ever" and "closest competition ever" have become clichés in the great DWTS lexicon – they seem to toss 'em out every time the finale rolls around. And lucky for them – most viewers don't care enough to contest it. But for us Scullys & Mulders who know "the truth is out there" – it's endlessly annoying. It's taking liberties with the data – and that pisses us off. We ain't stoopid 🙂
Heidi: :::swoon::: Just call me Scully – I love me some Mulder. 🙂
The "Oh. I didn't think about that" Award for Failure to Engage the Brain: Mark Ballas, for his freestyle choreography
Heidi: Dude, probably not a good idea to plan to have your partners hands and feet light up, necessitating wires running all up and down her body, AFTER you've spent 60 seconds tossing her around the dance floor. OF COURSE the batteries came un-plugged and the battery pack got dislodged (incidentally, affecting her performance – not that it mattered to the stooges). Battery packs with wires + highly tricky dancing = OOPS
Courtney: That was a dumb move on his part, but so was picking a freestyle song/theme that did nothing to showcase his partner's skills or even allow her to connect to the music. I've said it before, but I'll go ahead and say it again: I don't feel like I was watching a performance of their freestyle; it was just a regurgitation, if you will. Unlike Kirstie & Hines, who I felt both really "connected" to their routines on a personal level, this did not feel like something Chelsea would have chosen for herself – it said nothing about her. This was music recycled from Mark's heydey, with moves that show how great MARK is, not Chelsea. The poor girl was just trying to keep up the whole time. The malfunctioning lights were just icing on the crappy cake.
Best Song Lyrics Written by a 5-Year Old: Black Eyed Peas Song they Debuted on the Finale
Heidi: So, Will.i.Am's kid has begun writing song lyrics now?? Really, wasn't that just one line chanted over and over again for three minutes?? This group continues it's downward spiral into mediocrity.
Courtney: The Peas are gadawful, period. I move that we relegate them to Yo Gabba Gabba! duty ASAP, cause their songs are serious gibberish. Like, seriously – my cat makes more interesting noises when pooping in his litter box than the Black-Eyed Oh-bitch-please – no more! do in a song. The person I feel most sorry for in this whole Pea-induced debacle is Hines – poor guy had to deal with him at the Superbowl AND the DWTS finale. I bet he's ready to slap that metal toupee off Will.i.am's head and kick Fergie right in her London Bridge. I'd make some funny comment about the other two, but seriously – who remembers their names? They will eternally be Asian Guy and Other Black Guy to me. That seems punishment enough for those poor souls. Hashtag, just sayin'. 😉
Heidi: Bwahahaha…London Bridge. Is that in her mouth or is it a euphemism for…never mind. 🙂 I like that one song "I Got A Feeling" but mainly because I have seen a home video of four of the five Hough siblings just jamming out to it with Derek leading the way. It takes a Hough…technically 7 of them since it was 4 sibs and 3 of their little girls.
Comedic Line 'O the Night: ANYTHING by Mike Catherwood.
Heidi: Hilarious dude. The one that really made me giggle was when he called Tristan "Lucky Charms". LOL And may I just say that he can really pull off that short…body suit thingy that he was wearing. He was trying to be ridiculous, obviously, but I just kept thinking about what an awesome body he had. 🙂
Courtney: Mike is seriously doing a disservice to the women of the world by not capitalizing on his fab form. Case in point: I'm not really a "leg" girl (most regulars here can tell you I'm a pec girl – especially if a guy can make them dance), but I was marveling at how RIPPED Mike's quads and hamstrings are. Meeeeooowwww. The whole "riotously funny" act is just icing on the cake. Seriously judges (more specifically Carrie Ann…and maybe Bruno) – you couldn't have ridiculously overscored Mike the first two weeks so we could have kept him around a bit longer? I don't know too many people who would have been upset if Wendy had gone home earlier 😉
Heidi's Favorite Moment of the Night: Petra and Dmitry's Dance to Josh Groban
Heidi: Okay, this clearly shows what a total SAP I am, but I just loved how Groban walked out there singing and Petra didn't realize until Dmitry stopped her and pointed – the look on her face was just priceless. That woman is just an angel, I swear.
Courtney: I may have been rolling my eyes and saying "Surprise, surprise", but I have to admit – Petra's genuine look of surprise and delight was enough to make sitting through "You Raise Me Up" again worthwhile 🙂 Such a doll…her gratitude for everything in life is just beautiful. Wish we could have a celeb like her on every season!
The Absolute, Without a Doubt, Stupidest, Most Awkward Bit of the Entire Season, Maybe the Entire Series: Wendy Williams interviewing herself.
Heidi: And trust me when I say that it did NOT get less awkward on the second viewing. It might have been worse because you knew what was coming. For the love of god. The only thing I can't decide is if watching her dance would have been worse…or better.
Courtney: Let me answer that last query of yours: it would have been worse to see her dance. That was the only good thing about this gawdawful filler – at least we didn't have to see her move awkwardly through another cha-cha, quickstep, or foxtrot. But a singular version of Wendy is annoying enough – I did not need the plural. And poor Tony had to sit there and play along with the whole shitshow. FAIL.
The "Me? A Westler? Nope, Comedian is My Current Occupation" Award: Chris Jericho
Heidi: This dude proved to be one of the more intriguing and unexpected characters on this season. Some hard-ass wrestler dude? Nah, he's a comedian who imitates Bruno and throws himself on the judges table so that Bruno can lay one on him. 🙂 The whole "rubbing my chest for no apparent reason" was just totally…right on. 🙂
Courtney: Just like I wish Mike could have stuck around longer, I really wish we could have seen more of Chris, too – the guy was just so darn LIKEABLE. And his impersonations were spot-on – he really captured the nuances of both Len & Bruno's accents perfectly. *sigh* Somehow I think this season would have been slightly less agonizing to watch had we gotten more of Chris…
Real World Problem Award: Kendra falling off the judges' table at the end of her samba
Courtney: Fact: drunken ass-shaking on elevated surfaces seldom ends well for us common folk. But you'd think with a bevy of strong, coordinated, muscular guys there to catch her after she dipped, that Kendra would be in no danger of this kind of mishap. WRONGO-BONGO!!! I'm still trying to figure out how she managed to nearly fall & bust her head open with 5+ able-bodied men within arm's reach. Can't decide if they were just distracted (Teddy) or apathetic (possibly Tristan…;-)).
Heidi: They were trying to dodge pinches from Bruno and got distracted. 🙂 HEY, it's not out of the realm – dude has been WAY out of control all season long.


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Northeast's Snow Reprieve Is Still Days Away
21 deaths are blamed on East Coast storm, with more snow expected this weekend.
Feb. 14, 2014 -- Snow continued to fall on the East Coast this morning, another burst from a storm that slammed the region with heavy snow, freezing rain and sleet Thursday.
At least 21 deaths – most of them in traffic accidents – were blamed on the storm as it made its way across the South and up the coast. The victims include a pregnant New York City woman who was struck by a snow plow and killed. Her baby was delivered by cesarean section.
Snow totals included 12 inches in Baltimore; 11 inches in Philadelphia and New York City; and 15 inches in parts of New Jersey.
Some areas in Virginia experienced 28 inches of snow.
The snow and ice caused building roofs to collapse, including a tennis center on Long Island, a Virginia gas station and numerous homes in New Jersey.
Additionally, a Spirit Airlines flight was struck by lightning while landing in Atlantic City, N.J.
The storm's changing precipitation – from heavy snow to pounding rain and back to snow – left roadways flooded and covered in a soupy slush. The travel problems extend to air travel, with thousands of flights canceled across the country, according to the website FlightAware.com. In Washington, D.C., the two main airports were closed. Amtrak canceled and delayed train service.
Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter called on residents to help one another, encouraging teens to build their college funds in the process.
"To the young people of Philadelphia, given that you have a day off, grab a shovel," Nutter said. "There is much money to be made."
The ongoing weather problems have left states depleted. Gov. Daniel Malloy said Connecticut is declaring a state of emergency because of low salt supplies.
"We will be asking the White House and FEMA to assist us in locating additional stocks of salt for the purposes of building up our supply beyond a one-storm supply," Malloy said.
"Under normal conditions that would be fine, but we're being told by the salt suppliers that they are not ... They're not locating additional salt, so that's the problem."
Those salt supplies will likely diminish in the coming days. While today's temperatures could reach 40 degrees in many areas, leading to melting, more snow is expected this weekend across the Northeast.
Major cities are expected to get 1 to 3 inches, but some areas in New England could experience another doozy, with 6 to 10 inches possible.
By next week, highs should climb into the 50s.
But that is still days – and at least one more storm – away for an East Coast that's running low on winter patience.
ABC News' Max Golembo, ABC News Radio and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Off to the hobby shop I go.
Big and little. Lol
My built from scratch ERBE is almost done.
Body came today. still deciding on what color to fill it in with.
running the summit front and rear bumpers.
ERBE, ERBE, Summit, Slash 4X4, Bandit,
^ thanks good to know about the brackets and trimming.. cheers!
painted the body last night, Candy Red with Indy Silver behind backed with Black.
Should be drivable tomorrow when my batteries and center CV axles come in.
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ERBE, ERBE, Summit, Slash 4X4, Bandit,
My E REVO MAMBA MONSTER FULL METAL JACKET & full alloy creation E Revo vxl drift m3
E Revo vxl drift m3
full metall jacket
This is my 2nd ERBE build.
Still deciding on Motor/ESC combo.
Who doesnt like a pink body shell
Running a Summit rear bumper w/lights for something a bit different. May run the front too without the 2 top lights.
Running Black chassis/rockers/tubes.
Will eventually get rid of the bright yellow dish wheels in favor of something not as yellow!!
Last edited by E REVO BY BULENT; 12-22-2012 at 05:13 PM.
Got wheels/tires from my brother and his girlfriend,
ERBE, ERBE, Summit, Slash 4X4, Bandit,
Newest edition to the traxxas family.
still got new rims and tires coming
ERBE, ERBE, Summit, Slash 4X4, Bandit,
My ERBE with 67' Pontiac GTO body and Trencher X's on Desperado rims.
Forget what the Wing is but also have RPM trutracks, A Arms and axel carriers.
T-bone skid plate F&R and bottom skid plate.
Traxxas steel CVD's too (not in pic since its old)
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[IMG][/IMG] my custom paint job
Off to the hobby shop I go.
Here is my GorillaMaxx G3R E-REVO Brushless with Ken Block custom body. The body is slightly shorter than the stock E-REVO as the X-Brace Chassis is slightly shorter and wider. I made two of these bodies - one for show and one for bashing. The body was run all of 2012 and will be retired soon... Wait until you see the body I plan on running in 2013... :-) Enjoy!
Here is my GorillaMaxx G3R E-REVO Brushless with Ken Block custom body. The body is slightly shorter than the stock E-REVO as the X-Brace Chassis is slightly shorter and wider. I made two of these bodies - one for show and one for bashing. The body was run all of 2012 and will be retired soon... Wait until you see the body I plan on running in 2013... :-) Enjoy!
Here is my version of two good designs..
Now im Working on Led light and paint on the shell..
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My boys and I just completed the body I will be running in 2013. The individual metal panels took some time to create, but it was worth the extra time and effort. Red hubs are on the way. The X-Games Ken Block and Brian Deegan themed bodies turned out great. I am thinking of making some vintage Gulf and Martini bodies for my old school vintage Nikko Super Sprints next.
The body on the G3R:
Close up of the painted metal panels:
The Ken Block body next to the Brian Deegan body:
My ERBE with full rpm tuning and esc from the x0-1
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Here are some pics of my ERBE
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First accident
Sharing is the best thing to do on EARTH legally.
Jumping this weekend
doesn't look like an e revo any more it needs red wheel hubs and nuts
Just finished yet another erbe build, made the stencil flames, drew it, cut it out ect, spray can paint job,thought the tremor wheels would be a nice touch, instead of the Hpi blast. Hope you guys like it....
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hmm there goes another wheel.....
Had the e revo out yesterday at a local spot I bash. There was a frozen pond I used to get a run at a huge hill climb. Soo much fun
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Every winter, when the fields are frozen and we're busy packing seeds, we catch wind of someone referring to their pile of glossy seed catalogs as "garden porn". The term is more apt than cheeky. These slick catalogs are filled with photos of unblemished veggies and centerfold scenes of fecund harvests accompanied by hyperbolic descriptions of their assets.
The pornographic pages used to lure me into a fantasy where veggies aren't blighted and butts don't have pimples. But sex is rarely what is portrayed in pornography and my farm rarely produces plants that look like what I see in most catalogs or on seed envelopes. As far as I'm concerned, this is a good thing, on both counts.
Every farm or garden is a story with its own tragedy, slapstick, drama, sex, death, and delicious redemption. Where are the catalogs that communicate the stories of losing all your Brussels Sprouts over night to one woodchuck, giving a hummingbird a bath with the hose, finding self-sown volunteers from last year, wishing for rain, wishing for sun, having a stand-off with a young buck over an apple sapling, listening to pollinators, being stung, finding a lost ripe musk melon hidden beneath weeds, watching helplessly as your tomatoes rot from blight, forgetting what variety you planted and having to wait two months to find out, flitting from open flower to flower hand-pollinating with a freshly picked male stamen, sitting down to a meal your grew yourself, blemishes and all?
Over time I came to believe that these are the experiences that make my farm real. More than that, I realized that I wanted to keep things down to earth with our seed company.
As I learned more about the modern seed industry I began to see past the airbrushed transplants and photo-shopped stills in the seed catalogs. I found that the true face of the industry was not so pretty. Many catalogs cover-up where their seeds come from, how they are grown, and who owns the brand name. Most seed companies get their seeds from large scale monocrop seed farms using pesticides, herbicides, and soil-wasting farming practices. Looking deeper I found that a few multinational corporations, mostly biotech, own the bulk of seed sources. I realized that my seed dollar spent at a familiar seed catalog, even one offering heirlooms, could very well be supporting the likes of Monsanto.
When it came time to design our seed packaging and website and figure out how to get the word out about our seeds, I knew I needed to do it differently from conventional catalogs. I wanted honesty, transparency, and to communicate the stories of our seeds.
When we first came up with the idea of using original artwork from different artists for the covers of our seed packs, some people suggested that it would be better to stick to what everyone else does, photos. But we wanted our packs to communicate something more about the seeds they hold. The artwork reflects the diversity of the seeds we grow and suggests that each seed comes with a story.
Since I don't expect the garden porn industry to change anytime soon, I believe we have to make our own change. For me this meant learning how to save seeds, finding a creative way to share seeds with other gardeners, and eventually becoming a seed farmer. My partner and I started a Seed Library— getting seeds into the dirty hands of caring gardeners without the help of glossy garden porn.
I'm not saying you have to throw out your stash of mags, maybe this year's catalogs will give you some new ideas to try in the privacy of your own home garden. I do hope, though, that you won't compare your performance in the field to what you see in the slick overproduced pages of your seed catalogs. Instead, I hope you discover that what you have, your garden, your farm, your story, has more beauty, flavor, spice, and perfection than can be captured by a glib description or a camera's click.
We welcome the farmers and gardeners who sow our seeds to share their garden's story with us, in any form, poetry, prose, microfiction, recipes, how-to, hard hitting journalism, rants, humor, photos, or art. Over time, these submissions will fill the Seed Library catalog and blog with realness, helping us stay grounded. Stay seedy!


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- CARAMEL APPLES are READY!
- Apple Season is HERE!
- The Honey Jar-ers!
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Lapacek's Orchard in the Poynette Press (last year)
We spent the majority of Saturday cleaning and preparing the apple store for the upcoming season. We got an amazing amount done! While there I noticed the editorial from last fall on the wall and thought I'd share it. It came out on October 1st, 2008, just when we were starting to get worn down from apple season. It was just what we needed to boost us up for the next month of craziness!
by Amber Tyler
Could any sign of fall's arrival outshine the sights and sounds of college and professional football on a crisp Wisconsin day? Most definately. Sure the trees have started to change colors, and birds have begun there journey south. I've even unpacked my wool sweaters, but it isn't officially fall until I've had my first caramel apple.
It's not just any caramel apple, it has to be a Lapacek's Orchard caramel apple. It's been a tradition for myself and my family for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid we would go to Lapacek's Orchard and get a caramel apple. I think I had the apple almost done before we even left the orchard they are that good.
I've had other caramel apples, even attempted to make some of my won, but they just didn't taste the same. I don't know what they do to make them taste so good, maybe they add angel tears into the caramel. They taste so wonderful, the only way I can describe the taste is heaven on a stick. It might have to do with the almost half inch of caramel they put on each apple Or it could be the fresh juicy tartness of the apple. Combined with the sweetness of the caramel. It just melts in your mouth, a perfect combination. I love them simple as that.
When it comes to caramel apples I'm what you call a traditionalist. Just caramel and apple for me no need to dress it up with nuts. To each their own I guess. Everyone in my family likes them with nuts. Don't even get me started on the gourmet caramel apples. You know the ones with M&Ms, dipped in chocolate not caramel and have cookie chums sprinkled on them. Many places sell the gourmet caramel apples, but you pay gourmet prices that I believe taste as good as the traditional caramel apples.
Last year I was golfing at the golf course at Poynette and on one of the holes I could see the Lapacek's Orchard. After that that's all I could think about and my game went down the tubes. I was like a drug addict. I couldn't wait for my next fix. I needed a caramel apple. So of course; I had to stop in after I was done golfing and get my "usual'" one caramel apple, with no nuts. What could wash the caramel apple down any better, but some apple cider. I seriously think there could be something with my angel tear theory.
Lapacek's Orchard is a small family owned and operator business. They are located a half a mile mile east of Poynette, on Highway CS and Q.
Amber Tyler is a graphic designer and production artist for the DeForest Times Tribune, Lodi Enterprise, Poynette Press, and the Waunakee Tribune. Now that she's done writing this column she's going to treat herself to her second caramel apple of the season.


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- Huma Abedin, a longtime Hillary Clinton adviser, announced her separation from Anthony Weiner Monday.
- The separation comes amid new allegations that Weiner, a former congressman and NYC mayoral candidate, was sexting with a woman.
- Weiner's congressional career ended after a 2011 sexting scandal, and his mayoral campaign was derailed by a second scandal
Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin announced Monday that she was separating from her husband, former congressman and onetime New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner.
"After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband," Abedin said. "Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy."
The announcement by Abedin, who currently serves as the vice chairwoman of Clinton's presidential campaign, comes hours after a New York Post report that Weiner was again sending sexually suggestive messages with at least one woman.
The photos and messages were published in the Post late Sunday and showed shots of Weiner either shirtless or in his underwear. One photo shows a child that the Post reports was his toddler son. NBC 4 New York has not been able to independently confirm the photos.
Weiner told the Post he had been "friends for some time" with the woman and that the conversations were private. He deleted his Twitter account hours after the Post hit newsstands on Monday.
NBC 4 New York has reached out to Weiner for comment.
Abedin and Weiner have been living separate lives for some time, a close friend of hers told NBC News.
"This did not happen overnight. This has been brewing," the friend said.
Notably, in recent months, Abedin has not been seen wearing a wedding ring.
A second friend told NBC News that Abedin, who has been in the Hamptons for several days already, will likely lay low and focus on spending time with her family.
Weiner's congressional career was derailed when he tweeted an explicit photo of himself to a woman in 2011. He initially denied he had posted the image but later admitted to sexting with "about six women over the last three years" before resigning from Congress.
Weiner attempted to re-enter the political fray in 2013 as a candidate for New York City mayor and briefly polled as the leading Democratic candidate that summer. But Weiner revealed that he had sent explicit photos and messages to three more women since 2012, some under the alias "Carlos Danger," and his candidacy floundered. He lost the Democratic mayoral primary with less than 5 percent of the vote.
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton's opponent in the presidential election, praised Abedin's decision to separation on Monday, calling it a "very wise decision" in a statement to The New York Times.
"I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information," the statement reportedly said.


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Crystal Bowersox poses with her Takamine for the cover of her new CD, All That for This. The Takamine, which couldn't be much more than 10 years old, looks like a chunk of driftwood washed up on a beach. I've seen barns abandoned for 70 years that have more paint on their front than that guitar.
My friend Randy Owen had a 12-string version of this Takamine. After years of touring, it spent four days underwater in a storage locker during The Great Nashville Flood a few years ago. Although the guitar's neck fell off and most of the seams separated, its bulletproof poly finish looked showroom fresh. So Crystal, although you want to give the impression you literally played the paint off your guitar during countless, passion-filled hours spent honing your craft, that's just not possible. You could not have put in more hours on that guitar than Willie Nelson has on his old Martin.
A battle-worn acoustic like Willie's "Trigger" has sincerity about it—as if every scar represents emotions and sweat pounded into it. That's a guitar of good times and long, lonely miles suffering for your art while being legitimately cooler than anybody else in the room.
There's the irony: People who go to the trouble of giving their guitar a relic job want to appear genuine by faking authenticity. It's the guitar equivalent of $300 jeans crafted with holes in the knees, sanded threadbare by a 9-year-old chained to a table in a Mumbai sweat shop. I realize this comparison is about as fresh as a Seinfeld episode, but clichés become clichés because of their inherent truth.
I get the aesthetic and pragmatic appeal of relics. Fender, Fano, and a few other manufacturers build relics that look and feel similar to an old guitar, yet are more reliable than one that survived 45 years of abuse.
Hypocrite that I am, I own two relic instruments—a Tele and a bass. Both play and sound great, but I feel like a poser when I'm using them. I struggle to conceal my shame, knowing that a closer look will reveal that all this apparent wear is a calculated fraud. Truth is, you can tell mo-faux from the real deal 99.9 percent of the time.
Here are the tells. Most new guitars have a poly finish. Most old guitars have a nitrocellulose finish. Poly does not wear like nitro. Nitro is delicate, prone to cracking, chipping, fading, and wearing away. Poly is durable—forever young and shiny.
Those who relic also give themselves away because they go too far. They're not satisfied with a normal 50 years worth of wear. They want their guitars to look like Keith Richards himself personally played 50 years worth of gigs on it.
Compare Bowersox's newish Tak to the 1946 Martin D-18 above. Although we've logged a few hundred hours together, I treat this D-18 with the concerned care you'd give a baby. The previous owner may not have been as careful, but through 67 years of playing, my guitar still looks relatively new compared to Crystal's Tak. And that's in spite of my D-18's delicate nitro finish.
Look at my 1967 Tele—a true player's guitar. Its former owner put in tens of thousands of hours on it, installed an early B-bender in the '70s, and added a brass nut and brass saddles. In spite of the age and play, the 46-year-old nitro finish shows only very light wear.
Check out my PRS that I bought new in 2007. This poor thing has been knocked over and nearly crushed when a light truss landed on it during a world tour. The nitro finish has a few dings, but considering the abuse, it looks played, not artificially aged.
Guitars are like the Velveteen Rabbit: If the owner truly loves them and plays them enough, they will come to life. If you want your guitar to look played, play it so much that it seldom sees the inside of a case. After a few months, maybe you'll find your 4-year-old son joyfully beating it with a drumstick. You'll be pissed, but in due course, you'll laugh it off.
After a year maybe you'll swap out the pickups, and in doing so your screwdriver will slip and gouge the front. You'll curse, but in time you won't care. Maybe on a sweaty, lonely August night the neck will feel sticky and you'll impulsively sand it down to the wood. It will look rough but eventually your hand grease will leave that neck smooth and buttery. Somebody will spill beer on it, blow smoke on it, airlines will do their best to destroy it, and hundreds of hours of music will vibrate through it. All of this will make your guitar an honest-to-God relic—a historical artifact of your musical journey. You can't fake that.


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Latest "U.S. Drought Monitor" shows improvement
The U.S. Drought Monitor is a colaborative effort with its origins at the University of Nebraska. Each week soil scientists, in conjuction with meteorologists, assess weekly rainfall totals and soil moisture across the U.S. as of Tuesday. After two days of analysis the weekly drought map is released on Thursday, and it looks like the regular bouts of rain we're getting in Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas are enough to keep serious drought at bay.
As you can see in this week's edition much of Arkansas is clear of dry conditions of any kind and only a sliver of NWAR can actually be labeled as being in a "moderate drought." Much of the River Valley has seen enough rain recently to have absolutely no drought worries.
Keep in mind this latest edition does not take into account Wednesday morning's heavy rain, so, I think on the whol anyway, we can all be pretty happy with Mother Nature... for now at least.
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I was wondering if anyone else has this symptom. It feels like there is fluid running down my leg. We all know how that feels. I used to have it bad but has cleared up since I have been diagnosed and trying to do things right. It feels just like its running down my leg but when I look, my leg is dry. Is that a phantom deal like with phantom pain or what is it???
It feels very strange! Anyone have this symptom?? Thanks everyone for sharing your ideas, symptoms or whatever......sure makes it comforting to know you are not alone in dealing with LE. Hope everyone has a good day!


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UF's Donovan named SEC coach of the year
ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia sophomore Kentavious Caldwell-Pope has been named Southeastern Conference player of the year by The Associated Press.
The awards announced Monday also included Florida's Billy Donovan as coach of the year and Mississippi's Marshall Henderson as newcomer of the year.
Caldwell-Pope ranked second in the SEC in scoring at 18.5 points. The 6-foot-5 guard was a unanimous choice to the All-SEC first team, joined by Florida's Erik Murphy, Alabama's Trevor Releford, Tennessee's Jordan McRae and Kentucky's Nerlens Noel.
Henderson led the SEC in scoring at 20.1 points after joining the Rebels. He also was named to the second team.
Donovan received the coaching honor after guiding Florida to the regular-season championship and a spot in the NCAA tournament.


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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to spend £20 million on parts for the UK's new offshore patrol vessels (OPVs).
Defence chiefs announced in November that they would purchase the three ships which will be built, subject to approval, by BAE Systems.
Construction is scheduled to begin later this year at the Clyde shipyards in Scotland.
On a visit today, Defence Minister Philip Dunne announced the signing of a contract to buy parts for the vessels, which will be used in anti-piracy and anti-smuggling operations in the waters around the UK and abroad.
The contract will allow BAE Systems to begin work on parts such as the engines and gearboxes, which require a longer time to make and therefore have to be ordered in advance of the main shipbuilding programme, the MoD said.
Mr Dunne said: "This £20 million is a significant milestone, critical to the successful delivery of these three vessels for the Royal Navy.
"The OPVs will not only provide an additional capability for the UK but also at its peak, the OPV programme will safeguard more than 800 vital skilled roles in the shipbuilding industry."
Mick Ord, managing director at BAE Systems Naval Ships, said: "This first investment towards the programme is great news.
"We're incredibly proud to work on a new class of vessels for the Royal Navy and have already begun establishing the highly skilled team that will design, build and deliver them."
In November the Clyde shipyards were selected over Portsmouth for the planned construction of a new generation of Type 26 frigates for the Royal Navy.
The deal would guarantee work at Govan and Scotstoun until 2034 but the contract is not due to be finalised until after September's referendum.
Defence Minister Andrew Murrison has said the decision could be reversed if Scotland leaves the UK.
The new OPVs are designed to have more storage and accommodation facilities than the current River Class ships and a larger flight deck for Merlin helicopters.
The first vessel is expected to be delivered to the Royal Navy in 2017.


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