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Just days before the Murdochs come face to face with their chief tormentors in the House of Commons. Wired.co.uk's media commentator Peter Kirwan examines News Corp's dire situation »
Hours before MPs were to vote on a motion against it, News Corp has dropped its bid to buy BSkyB »
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ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS! Best deal I've ever found on Hostelworld. Boutique house right in town, with an owner the townspeople love. The rooftop, complete with fire pit, is a serene place to hang out & hear donkeys, roosters, cats, dogs, and call to prayer. Fully stocked kitchen with fresh bread and vegetables each day. We had the house to ourselves; there is the potential to be sharing the house with strangers. Trust that adventurous budget travelers tend toward honesty, and go for it. Visit Siwa!
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I had been given directions to the villa, but actually bumped into Penny in the street buying bread for my stay. The villa is situated just a couple of minutes walk from the main square in Siwa and Penny quickly filled me in on the area, but after that left me to find out for myself, but was always available for a chat if needed. Tourism has taken something of a nosedive in Egypt recently, so if you are looking for somewhere of the beaten track, somewhere different in fact, this place should be
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3:00pm Friday 13th September 2013 in Sport By Stuart Amos
The difference between winning and losing at the top level is often defined by very tight margins, just ask Harlequins' George Lowe and Wasps fly half Andy Goode.
For Goode, the definition of tight is the width of a post as he missed the match winning kick in Saturday's thrilling 16-15 win for Quins at Twickenham.
For Lowe, it is the last ditch first half tackle that stopped Wasps winger Tom Varndell in his tracks with the try line seemingly at his mercy.
Replacement scrum half Karl Dickson may have scored the game-clinching try, but it was the Kingston-born centre's tackle – and Nick Evans' boot – that kept his side in the game with Wasps threatening to run riot.
And the point was not lost on the 23-year-old former Epsom College student, who revealed his intervention was as much by luck as judgement and admitted it was an important first step on the road to the Premiership final.
"I looked across their attacking line and saw Tom [Varndell] waiting, so was ready," said Lowe.
"I know how quick he is and with the space he had I knew he had a good chance of getting away. I just went for him.
"We do not practise that sort of tackle in training specifically. We just talk about work rate and not giving up.
"If you think you have a chance to stop them scoring, it is about doing everything you can to stop them.
"To get the away win is a great way to start the season. It was important to win.
"It was much tighter than we wanted, but it was the first game of the season and there are things to work on."
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And Lowe knows victory would make an equally important statement of intent for his side.
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"With George North, George Pisi and Ben Foden, they have some big ball carriers in the back line let along their forwards and we will have to stop them.
"There is no specific plan, but we have to focus on our defensive patterns.
"They like to attack round the sides so we will have to stop them getting over the gain line there.
"We are always talking about being the top team in the league and in Europe at the end of the year, but if we are going to do that these are the sort of games we have to win."
Academy graduate and England Saxon Lowe, who started his rugby career as a junior at Cobham, recently extended his stay at the Stoop and, despite growing up at the club, is not sick of the place.
"It is nice to have secured my place in the squad. Hopefully, I can kick on," he said.
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Kickin' it, actually. I haven't been doing much graffiti lately, which disappoints me. So I'm dedicating today to getting inspired to do letters again. haha.
Exchange with me, mah' *****.
Get 'dat creativity flowin'.
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Community banks have safely provided traditional banking services to municipalities for decades. Municipalities appreciate the ability to support local community banks and ensure that their funds are reinvested in the community. However, recent incidents in which Wall Street firms sold municipalities opaque financial derivatives, causing them to lose significant sums, led Congress to create a municipal advisor registration requirement. ICBA supports the intent of Section 975 of the Dodd Frank Act which is to require the registration of those entities with the Securities and Exchange Commission that are unregulated, not subject to the supervision of the banking agencies, and that perform advisory services to municipalities.
Municipal Advisor Rules. ICBA is concerned that SEC rules under Section 975 of the Dodd-Frank Act, if interpreted broadly, could require thousands of community banks and their employees to register with the SEC and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) for doing nothing more than offering traditional bank products and services to municipal customers such as advising municipalities about interest rates on deposits, making loans to municipalities, or entering into a cash management arrangement with them. Such an interpretation could lead community banks to stop offering services to municipalities, which would increase the cost of banking for them. The intent of Section 975 of the Dodd-Frank Act was to require the registration of unregulated entities that act as municipal advisors and that are paid a fee for their advisory services. Accordingly, ICBA urges the SEC to use its broad authority to exempt community banks from registration under the SEC rules.
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If you know anything about Dribbble, the entire theme of the site is basketball driven despite being a design site. The basketball terminology fits well and adds a unique spin unlike many similar sites of its ilk in the past. With that in mind, Balllin' is a spin-off rather than an imitation of the style that Dan and Rich have set for Dribbble. It was really fun to "rebound" the mood of the site. Even with the name of the app, I threw around a few names like Disssh, Bouunce, but ultimately who could resist such a fun and go-lucky name as Balllin. Playing off the foundation set seemed natural. Even the name of this blog post wrote itself. I can't go without mentioning the people who helped out on the project. Each individual party I worked with took their part of project a step farther in some way or another that really made the project special. I can't credit them enough.
My wish for the app is to have built something that will excite the core audience. Something that will become an invaluable utility and change the way dribbblers interact with Dribbble. Even with a nice mobile web version of the site available, I hope Balllin' once again proves that native apps provide the best experience for end users. As an iOS developer, if I can't don't that, I'll need to reevaluate my livelihood.
If you've been counting thats two apps this summer. If feels good to ship. I've created the Kangaroo Bandit brand as a cheerful and fun way to put out fun little apps like this one. I don't have any plans for other apps at the moment, but I do plan to continue to improve Balllin'. In fact, if you like the app and want certain features, please email Dan and Rich and urge them to continue to build out their API. Without the API, this app couldn't exist.


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The Star gets a bashing from Sydney architect
Sydney architect Philip Cox who worked on the initial design of The Star casino says it is his 'worst building so far' and will not work on a casino again.
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Leading architect Philip Cox has described The Star as "my worst building by far" and a "disaster", saying he would never again involve his firm in a casino project.
Mr Cox, who also designed the Sydney Football Stadium, the Maritime Museum and King Street Wharf went on to deride casinos as "evil".
"It was a disaster, because we had to work with American architects," he said of The Star project in an interview with Indesignlive.
Refurbished: what The Star casino looks like now. Philip Cox has hit out at the original building, which was renovated in 2011. Photo: Greg McKenzie
"I don't believe in [casinos]. At that stage I didn't care, but over the years I've realised they are an evil part of our society, causing misery. And aesthetically I hate it; it's my worst building by far."
His comments follow an $870 million refurbishment at the Pyrmont venue in 2011 which it is understood removed a substantial amount of Mr Cox's work.
Opened in 1997 at a cost of $1.2 billion, The Star was jointly designed by Mr Cox's firm Cox Richardson and US-based Hillier Group, with input from American consultants Landmark Entertainment.
Philip Cox: says he hates the look of The Star. Photo: James Brickwood
Labelled "gobsmackingly gaudy", it attempted to blend Las Vegas-style casino theme concepts with a down-to-earth Terra Australis touch.
The original casino, which has since been modified, included a five-star hotel, an apartment block, the 2000-seat Lyric Theatre, restaurants, shops and a food hall.
The gaming area included a number of bizarre features which have since been scrapped, such as a 25m-tall pseudo rock that spurted a waterfall, a "magic tree" featuring 10,000 optical fibre lights and an underwater-themed area including seaweed, treasure chests and glass bubbles.
The original, much-derided main entrance off Pyrmont Street featured a waterfall fountain, and flames that erupted as customers travelled up the escalators. It has been replaced by a new, more modest main entrance overlooking the harbour on Pirrama Road.
At the time of opening, Mr Cox alluded to the uneasy relationship between his firm and the American designers, saying the Landmark consultants wanted a "Las Vegas type of solution" however "we, at all stages, maintained that wasn't the solution for Sydney".
Mr Cox, who on Friday declined to elaborate on his controversial comments, has previously described the casino as a destination for everyday Sydneysiders, adding "we see it more as a civic project than overtly a casino".
It is not the first time Mr Cox has criticised his former clients. In an interview with Fairfax Media in June this year, he described The Star's unsuccessful $1.1 billion expansion bid including two upmarket hotels, luxury villas and a rooftop water park as "vulgar Americanism".
The proposal for a bridge between Pyrmont and Barangaroo was "the grossest part of it", he added, saying "keep to your own turf. Don't take up the waterways".
The Star proposal lost out to James Packer's Crown Casino bid at Barangaroo - a proposal Mr Cox has said is "a bit Macau".
A spokesman for Echo Entertainment, The Star's operator, said observers would be ''hard pressed'' to find original features of the casino following its recent refurbishment.
"We are talking a tale of two buildings – what was designed in the 90s compared with the new integrated resort of today,'' he said.
The vision for modern casino design was ''so much broader than 30 years ago, including how it contributes to the surrounding urban environment'', he said.
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Max Jahn, what a guy. I used to be a part of the JDV club during my last year at Sloan, which mostly meant that I spent time with some great people and organized group homebrewing sessions. A nice shout out in Businessweek:
"In January 2011, 20 students at MIT Sloan School of Management traveled to Austria to learn about chocolate-making, the waltz, and proper etiquette for greeting a dance partner in the grand tradition of the Viennese ball. (The gentleman bows his head to the lady's outstretched hand, but stops short of planting his lips.) Those aren't skills most MBAs have on the top of their to-learn lists. Then again, Sloan's Joie de Vivre club, which organized the trip, isn't your typical student organization.
Max Jahn, a former Merrill Lynch (BAC) banker, started Joie de Vivre in 2010 after attending a classical music concert with fellow Sloan students during his second semester at the school…."I was listening to this beautiful music and I thought, I have classmates that are gifted in so many fields," he says. "But when I meet them in a data models class or at a recruiting event, I don't ever hear about their amazing talents."
The idea for the club, often called JDV to spare Sloan's quants from attempting French accents, was to give students an opportunity to share extracurricular passions and interests. The group's first meeting included a viola performance, a chocolate tasting, and a lecture on rare orchids given by a Sloan student who had cataloged the flowers for the Mexican government prior to entering business school. Other activities included a talent show and the trip to Jahn's hometown of Vienna."
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You could have been forgiven for thinking opposing coaches John Worsfold and Kevin Sheedy had swapped sides in describing their teams' record-breaking performances in the AFL game at Blacktown on Sunday.
The former downplayed his surging team's sizzling start to the season by describing West Coast's 81-point flogging of Greater Western Sydney as "a tough day at the office".
The Eagles kicked a club record first quarter score of 11.4, which also equalled their highest score for any quarter, and ultimately cruised to victory 23.12 (150) to 10.9 (69).
The free-scoring Eagles kicked over 20 goals for the third straight game this season despite missing several injured stars and were too slick and potent for the hard-working GWS.
The fledgling Giants made a more modest dent on their record book, notching their biggest game total following 63- and 129-point defeats by Sydney and North Melbourne.
However, an upbeat Sheedy drew solace from the fact the Giants were only outscored 12 goals to eight over the last three quarters and won the last quarter by 13 points in front of 6,875 spectators at the first AFL game at Blacktown International Sports Park.
He predicted they could be a very good team in four weeks once they got some key players back from injury, while Worsfold said the Giants would eventually become an awesome side.
Trying to prise a compliment from Worsfold for his own team's performance proved almost impossible, the West Coast boss already looking to the mouth-watering home clash with Hawthorn on Saturday.
Asked to assess the game against the Giants, a deadpan Worsfold said "a tough day at the office and we look forward to the pairing for next week's game against the Hawks".
Worsfold was pleased with the effort of Mitch Brown and some of the other players who took their opportunity in the absence of several injured stars.
While the Giants were at times bullied by the physically imposing West Coast, five-goal Eagle Luke Shuey recognised they wouldn't get the same latitude against the far more experienced and potent Hawks.
"We did get away with a lot due to playing an inexperienced team," Shuey said.
"I think if we would have done some of the things we did today against Hawthorn or Carlton, we probably would have been shown up a bit."
Sheedy lamented another poor start by his men but said they were still heading in the right direction.
"We worked hard through the game, we gave a lot of free kicks that ended up in goals that hurt us and when we stopped doing that we started playing better," Sheedy said.
"I thought we were very competitive the last three quarters and that was a great experience for our boys."
Worsfold reported injuries for Bradd Dalziell (knee) and Daniel Kerr but expected to regain captain Darren Glass and Matt Rosa for the Hawthorn game though he wasn't sure about Matt Priddis.
Chris Masten and Quinten Lynch each kicked three goals for the Eagles with Masten adding 30 touches, one behind the team-leading Scott Selwood.
Callan Ward tallied 36 and Tom Scully 30 for the Giants with back-up ruckman Jonathan Giles kicking three goals.
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But Mirco Bergamasco's missed conversion proved costly as Ireland marched straight down the other end for replacement O'Gara to split the posts with his drop goal.
Two penalties from Bergamasco had earlier given the Azzurri a 6-3 halftime advantage but although Brian O'Driscoll's try just after the break seemed to have settled Irish nerves, there was no indication of the late drama that was in store.
Italy made a positive start smashing Ireland backwards in the tackle before Sergio Parisse - playing his first RBS 6 Nations match since March 2009 - helped win a penalty off Sean O'Brien which Bergamasco kicked between posts.
But the hosts paid the price for some committed defence when Six Nations debutant Edoardo Gori had to be replaced after only 12 minutes by Pablo Canavosio.
Ireland finally woke from their sluggish start towards the half's midpoint and mounted their first meaningful attack down the Italian right.
A carving run from Luke Fitzgerald saw him burst into the 22 but just as he released Jonathan Sexton with the posts in sight the fly-half was scragged by centre Alberto Sgarbi.
The momentum was now firmly with the visitors and having worked their way into the 22, an overlap beckoned but Keith Earls couldn't gather ball cleanly and when possession was switched the other way Gordon D'Arcy knocked on.
The resulting scrum saw the Italian front row, led by tighthead Martin Castrogiovanni, send the Irish pack shunting backwards winning a penalty in the process.
But the relief was shortlived and when an Italian hand crept into a ruck on the Italian 22 Sexton slotted the penalty between the posts to level the scores on 28 minutes.
Italy immediately responded by using heavy cavalry to punch their way upfield but Bergamasco pulled his penalty just wide before Burton was off target with a drop goal.
However on the stroke of halftime, Bergamasco was on target with a penalty wide on the right after Denis O'Leary failed to release in the tackle to give the hosts a merited 6-3 halftime advantage.
Whatever Declan Kidney said to his troops at halftime certainly had its effect as the visitors stormed in front after just four minutes.
After winning possession from a poor Italian lineout, Ireland stormed into the 22. Sexton was hauled down but the ball was recycled down the blindside for O'Driscoll to take advantage of a mismatch against Castrogiovanni to burrow over.
Sexton converted for a 10-6 lead which seemed to instantly sap Italy's confidence as a host of handling errors started creeping their way into the game.
But bad hands were not an exclusive Italian preserve as D'Arcy for the third time in the match knocked on, this time with the tryline at his mercy.
The Azzurri rallied in the final quarter of the game and a rolling maul brought them deep into the 22 before opting to go for a scrum where they won a penalty.
Despite several resets referee Romain Poite opted to keep his cards in his pocket and when Italy did use possession the ball was spilled.
It was one-way traffic going into the last ten minutes and Denis Leamy was binned for hands in the ruck - again Italy ignored the option of the posts and went for the lineout.
After going through several phases, the ball was spread wide and full-back McLean dived over in the corner to spark wide scenes in the Stadio Flaminio.
But Bergamasco's missed conversion was immediately punished by O'Gara - a replacement for Sexton - as Ireland escaped by the skin of their teeth.
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Name | Tries | Conv | Pen | Drop | Pts |
Mirco Bergamasco | 2 | 6 | |||
Luke McLean | 1 | 5 | |||
Total | 1 | 2 | 11 |
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Brian O'Driscoll (capt) | 1 | 5 | |||
Ronan O'Gara | 1 | 3 | |||
Jonathan Sexton | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
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Watford's Troy Deeney would welcome a new striker at Vicarage Road
3:00pm Friday 8th June 2012 in Sport By Frank Smith , Deputy Group Sports Editor
Troy Deeney insists he would welcome the competition should Watford decide to sign another striker despite admitting he had to "bide his time and bite his tongue" earlier this season.
Deeney only appeared in the starting line-up five times between the beginning of last season and mid-December and had to wait until Boxing Day for three consecutive starts.
The striking trio of Deeney, Joe Garner and Chris Iwelumo had scored just four goals between them last season before Marvin Sordell was sold to Bolton Wanderers at the end of January.
Many believed the Hornets would need to sign a replacement on loan after Sordell's departure if they were to remain in the division, with relegation still a threat.
Marcello Trotta was brought in briefly but improved form meant manager Sean Dyche was able to rely on the strikers already at the club – with Deeney finishing the campaign on 12 goals.
The forward spoke to the Watford Observer before heading off for his summer break and when asked whether he was wary of the Hornets signing a replacement for Sordell, he replied: "No. I hope someone does come in as it would be nice to see new faces. If he is a better calibre of player than we have then it is nice to test yourself.
"For me personally, he could bring anybody in but I know what I need to do to be in the team and I aim to come back to pre-season having lost a bit of weight, stronger, faster and be what I am now but five times better. Whoever is in my way is just another challenge to knock out of the way."
Deeney joined from Walsall on the first day of the 2010/11 campaign, which meant he started the season on the bench behind Danny Graham and Sordell.
The duo's form meant Deeney made just one start in his first three months at the club and he was often used out wide rather than in his favoured striker's role.
Even after Graham's departure, first-team opportunities were hard to come by for Deeney following the arrival of Iwelumo and Garner but he ended the campaign as arguably the club's first choice striker, having scored nine goals in his last 17 games.
When asked if he was pleased with his season, Deeney admitted: "Yes and no. I would have liked to have been in (the team) from the start of the season but I had to prove I was good enough for the new manager, who had seen a lot of last year which I took for granted. And he brought in big names in Chris and Garns and had to play them because he had to show why he bought them.
"So I had to bite my tongue and bide my time and I finished the season as top goalscorer. So it has been a long year but it has been one where I have become a better man as well because mentally I am now ready for every aspect."
Deeney said he was not happy with his goal tally for the season as a whole but was pleased he had surpassed his mini target of scoring eight after Sordell left the club.
The 23-year-old's aim for the 2012/13 campaign is to "start the first game" and then beat his previous career best of 14 goals in a season.
Deeney is currently awaiting sentencing on a charge of affray, with this due to take place on Tuesday. He was unable to talk about the case but was pleased with the supporters' reaction against Peterborough United, the day after it was disclosed he would stand trial.
He said: "Honestly I would have prefered if it didn't come out as I am quite a private person in some senses but it came out and the fans have been good with me.
"Maybe if it had come out last year then they wouldn't have been as good with me but when you score goals it changes perceptions and I just have to get on with it. It is what it is."


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State Police troopers stopped cars at a sobriety checkpoint on Memorial Avenue in Chicopee.
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Trooper Mary Wakeham administered a sobriety test to a suspected drunk driver at a checkpoint along Route 16 in Everett.
A driver performed a sobriety test at a checkpoint in Chicopee.
A trooper held a portable breathalyzer at the Chicopee sobriety checkpoint.
State Police Trooper Matthew Sheehan took a suspected drunk driver into custody along Interstate 93. A breath test later indicated the driver's blood alcohol content was .17, which is above the legal limit. Sheehan was on "saturation patrol" looking for drunk drivers.
A man was arrested for drunken driving at the Everett checkpoint.
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Judge W. Michael Goggins in Northampton District Court. He acquitted a defendant with a .13 breathalyzer test, saying, "I'm going to give you a break."
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Judge Paul F. Healy Jr. retired from the bench in December 2010. His portrait hangs in a courtroom in Framingham District Court. He acquitted a defendant who caused a crash and admitted drinking four or five beers. An ER doctor testified the driver was "highly intoxicated."
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Judge Thomas S. Barrett in Quincy District Court. He acquitted a defendant who got into an accident and told police, "I was driving, I'm drunk, and it's all my fault."
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Judge J. Thomas Kirkman at New Bedford District Court. Earlier this year he cited an outdated jury instruction that the breathalyzer has a margin of error of .01. The real margin of error is a small fraction of that.
Judge James J. McGovern in Brockton District Court. He was charged with drunken driving in 1995 and was acquitted at a bench trial. Of 11 OUI bench trials he held in Bristol County in 2009 and 2010, he found all 11 defendants not guilty.
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Went for my first bike ride in weeks today as I am still recovering from whooping cough. Only 6km but it was good to have the wind in my face and the sun on my back again! Small steps!
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6 kms. That's almost a CX C grade race! Well done
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Whooping cough...that's rough Mark. Glad to hear youre back on the bike.
For anyone who hasn't had a whooping cough booster since childhood...get one. As Mark will atest whooping cough isnt just a cough...it can kill you.
I thought I was safe as I was vaccinated as a kid, but apparently you should have a booster every 10 years!
My GP told me that there is more than one variant, so can still get whooping cough if vaccinated or had it as a toddler (like me).
I had coughing fits that would last 15 minutes and I was gasping for breath. It is really scary!
I want to know where you found the sun on your back.
Good to hear you are on the mend and back on the bike Spartacus.
Whooping Cough - ouch! I got vaccinated a couple of years ago along with my son (5yrs old at the time if I remember). I was actually after a tetanus shot as it had been 20+ years since the previous one. The actual jab was a triple - tetanus/whooping cough/diphtheria (if I remember correctly) and I got it at the Burnside Council chambers. You book it a couple of weeks ahead and there is a modest cost $20~30 or something.
I caught the flu about 3 weeks ago - that had me on the couch feeling very poor for 4 days - most unusual for me! Now of course everyone is saying - "get a flu jab"!
You would have had a Boosterix shot...combined diptheria-tetanus-whooping cough booster. The GP gave me the scrip for my shot and my wife who's an RN got to stab the needle into my arm. Its a funny thing but Ive never seen her look so happy :(
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SANFORD - Some of the Atlantic Coast Conference's top senior basketball players are signed on for a barnstorming tour that includes an April 22 appearance at Lee County High School.
Local high school seniors and recent graduates will be playing against the ACC All-Stars. Tip-off is 7:30 p.m.
The ACC standouts who have committed to play include: Duke's Mason Plumlee, Seth Curry and Ryan Kelly; N.C. State's Scott Wood and Richard Howell; North Carolina's Dexter Strickland; and Wake Forest's C.J. Harris.
Players will be available following the game for a limited autograph session.
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British poetry is in rude health, so why don't more people read it?
The New Statesman's renewed commitment to poetry.
By Sophie Elmhirst Published 30 August 2012In an anthology of pieces from the New Statesman published in 1963, the editor Edward Hyams wrote that "the early work of almost every poet to make a name since 1913 appeared in the New Statesman. The literary editors, from J C Squire and Desmond MacCarthy to Karl Miller, have made a deliberate policy of seeking out young talent while never neglecting the old."
The editors' eye for talent was quite something in those early years. Poems were published by everyone from the war poet Siegfried Sassoon to W H Auden. Three weeks after his death in combat in 1917, the NS published Edward Thomas's "Adlestrop", which has become one of the most celebrated poems in English (today we publish poems by Thomas's biographer Matthew Hollis). W B Yeats's "Easter 1916" was first published in the NS in October 1920.
There have been excavations and discoveries, too. In 2010 we published, to immense international interest, "Last letter", a previously unseen poem by Ted Hughes that describes the events during the three days leading up to the suicide of his first wife, the poet Sylvia Plath. And there have been many curiosities over the years, as well – for instance, in 1959, we published Bertolt Brecht's "The Farmer's Concern", followed the next year, bafflingly, by a poem called "Midstream", written by Mao Zedong in the 1920s. It includes the lines:
O schoolmates, in youth blossoming and tall with talents,
We must now in the arrogance of our knowledge
Uproot our scented careers.
Fingering mountains only, and rivers,
To hold poetry alive in our minds,
We will use for manure
Those bygone dreams of ten-thousand-household fiefdoms.
There are fewer dictators in our pages these days, but we hope by publishing poetry weekly once again we can help showcase the best of the new. As Fiona Sampson writes in her essay, on page 46, poetry in Britain today is rich, energetic and varied. And there are many more ways to find poems – one can hear them spoken aloud at poetry slams or read them online in alternative, digital forms, as well as in magazines such as this. There is a multitude of voices out there. It is a question of tuning in and finding them.
The New Statesman is not alone in helping readers seek out those new voices. The charity First Story is part of this effort, too. In the following pages, alongside poems by John Burnside and Samuel Beckett, James Lasdun and Rachael Boast, is a poem by Azfa Ali, a student at Oxford Spires Academy. Ali took part in a workshop, supported by First Story, that met every week under the supervision of the writer Kate Clanchy. That workshop led to the publication of a collection of poems, entitled Journeys. I recommend it to anyone seeking out urgent poetic voices in the first flush of creativity.
Inside our poetry special, you will find:
Fiona Sampson on the thriving British poetry scene
"Moly" by Samuel Beckett
"Untitled" by Samuel Beckett
"Industry Bay" by James Lasdun
"After Sappho" by Rachel Boast
"Beginnings" by Azfa Ali
"On the vanishing of my sister, aged 3, 1965" by John Burnside
Ted Hughes's "Last Letter" was published in the 11 October 2010 issue of the New Statesman
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Ooops. Does double the posting give double the emphasis, do you think?
I'm with Adrienne Rich: 'Poetry can save your life.' It acts to rehydrate those many people who, I experience in my one-to-one and groupwork, suffer from a sense of severe dry meaninglessness in our 'culture'.
I'm with Adrienne Rich: 'Poetry can save your life.' It brings a little water to a sense of dry meaninglessness from which so many people, I experience in my one-to-one and group work, suffer severe dehydration.
the trouble with poets is they demand so much of us and too often give so little in return.
yes, some poems are very good, but i would have to read an awful lot of poems to find the one i really liked.
whereas the signposting to what might be an enjoyable song to listen to is more reliable.
Re earlier comment, meant to mention that Anthony Howarth, poet, is British. Hope you feature his poem some time. Narrative, impressionist, a prisoner's escape -
"...No penalty
Eyes soar
Through gaps in clouds
Past cathedrals
Between cliffs
Through valleys
Over the highest mountain
The country of the mind..."
I only seemed able to read poetry when I lived alone. With a bottle by me and a guarantee of no interruptions. Perhaps that's the answer.
Speaking of "rude health", case in point, collection of poems TRAVELLER BEHIND BARS. On web there's text and some audio of poems read by the author, Anthony Howarth. And there's audio of a wonderful poem, CELESTIAL HAMBURGERS, from his next book, TRAVELLER TALES.
My best answer: because there's a disconnect to do with our education/parenting culture in the early teens that means many of us go from enjoying the musicality/wordplay/cleverness of it as a child to being bored with studying the worthiness of the classics by mid-teens. We misplace the reading skills that allow us to enjoy and judge poetry on its merits and somehow replace it with a half-baked mental tick sheet with questions like: "Does it rhyme? Is it politically engaged? Does it remind me of Mr Wordsworth?"
But there are other factors, amongst which is the failure of many poets and poetry critics to successfully aim their discourse outwards, so as to include a wider readership in the discussion and evaluation of poetry. The language of the criticism has unfortunately acquired the flavour of wine snobbery: a thousand ways of asserting that something is classy as hell, but none of explaining why.
My personal experience is rediscovering poetry at A Level, mostly thanks to a good English teacher. I now have a big damn bookshelf of the stuff. Like any art, its intentions and uses vary hugely. There is no 'poetry does this' reductivism that successfully captures the breadth of philosophy and technique.
Answer: Because I'm stuck with the Elizabethans and Metaphysics. Such poetry sets a standard I have not found surpassed by any poetry since. Even though I write some myself.
I find Elizabethan poetry a bit rough and ready - possibly like the Elizabethans themselves. A bit earthy, ruddy-cheeked, and with a dagger at the waist.
Personally I prefer the poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - it's more refined, don'cha know....


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During day one of PAX East 2012, we attended and recorded the Star Wars: The Old Republic 3PM Q&A with Stephen Reid, Cory Butler, James Ohlen and Cameron Winston. In order to bring you the audio in a timely manner, we uploaded it to our Youtube channel which is available as an embed below.
If you would like to listen to it at another location, the mp3 version is available here (right click > save as). If you would like to see text highlights of the Q&A, hit the jump.
DB: Hey everybody, how's PAX going so far? Having a good time? Tired? Enjoying taking a load off? So we're going to start a Q&A here in a couple of minutes. And by a couple of minutes I mean right now because apparently everybody's here. So we've got a couple of developers here to answer any questions you have. If you've had a chance to play game update 1.2 feel free to ask questions about it. If you saw the legacy presentation before and thought of questions while you were wandering around, now's a great time to ask. Anything on your mind, feel free to ask these guys. I'm going to be wandering through the crowd so you guys can ask your questions. Let me go ahead and introduce who we have here. My name is David Bass. I'm on the community team and I also have Stephen Reid, our community manager. I've got Cory Butler, one of our live producers. He makes sure the servers don't break. That's all he does. James Ohlen, game director freshly off a plane. He does not know what time it is right now, but it's all right. And Cameron Winston, who's one of our combat designers.
So I'm going to wander through the crowd. If you guys have questions, just catch my eye or slip me a dollar. Let's start right up front here.
Why are the smuggler missions not very smugglerly?
I did not hear that question.
As a smuggler, you don't do anything that is actually counts as a smuggler. You don't transport goods for the Hutts from one side of the galaxy to the other and try to avoid being caught. Is that coming out soon? To give characters a little bit more in terms of what they can do besides basically running up to somebody and going, "What can I do for you? What can I do for you? What can I do for you?"
JO: So did everybody hear that question? I'll just repeat it. He's just asking if the smugglers right now don't get to smuggler in SWTOR so, when are they going to have some type of smuggler minigame. That's something we have been discussing. I can't give you a timeline. We have a design for it. It's definitely not coming out in the next couple of updates, but it is something that is obviously a big part of that class and you can expect something.
Q: I love the game. Before playing SWTOR, I was a big SWG fan and part of that game that I enjoyed the most was space combat. Right now space combat in TOR is kind of on a track. Which is interesting. It gives that Starfox kind of feel. And I was wondering if you guys were going to expand upon that make it more dynamic and more controllable type of play.
JO: So the question is are we going to expand the space game? So I can give you my answer that I've given several times which is we do have a secret project in the works right now involving expanding the space game that I actually got to try out a week ago. It's really cool, but I can't say anything. I've said that before. Don't worry, I haven't revealed anything I haven't said before.
Q: Which planet in TOR did you most enjoy designing…
JO: The question is which planet do we most enjoy designing in SWTOR. If you talk to the writers and the world designers it would be Voss. And that's because Voss is the only world in SWTOR that's brand new that hasn't appeared in any other SW fiction so the designers got a lot of creative freedom with that world. That's why they like it.
Q: Hello. This one's going to be kind of a long one. So the way the game's now …if you were to take a character from level 1 to level 50 all the gear that you get for questing is sufficient enough to progress you all the way to the end. However there's still like greens, blues, and purples that still drop and there's really no point having to grind those out. So I was wondering if you were planning on re-purposing all that stuff? Because what ends up happening is it's either vendored or it's thrown up on the GTN.
JO: So are you talking about green blues purples in the level up game?
Q: Yes.
JO: But don't you use them as you're leveling up?
Q: Well if it's an upgrade, I'll take it, but usually I end up just throwing it out because I have not use for it.
JO: so it's not better than your current equipment. Right now if you can't use the equipment then yeah, you put it on the auction house and you sell it for extra cash so you can buy something else from the auction house that you can use. In addition once legacy system's out which is coming in 1.2 you going to hopefully going to have a bunch of legacy characters that you can start sharing equipment with. We also have legacy equipment that's going to be equipment that binds on legacy, which will be really cool. Therefore, that'll make it a little more interesting.
Q: I know you guys are coming out with legacy abilities where my Sentinel can get the "junk-kick" for smugglers. I play a Dark Side sentinel and force stasis; I don't really feel dark- side. Are you going to be able to skin your Force Stasis for force choke or skin your Telekinetic throw to Force Lightning so I can kind of customize my look a little bit more to show I'm dark side on the Republic?
JO: So what you want to have happen is for your consular to be able to go to the Dark Side and start using your powers but still look Dark Side?
Q: Yeah, have the same exact ability, but just skin it differently. So with Force Stasis I can look more sinister and actually chock him out.
JO: That's a really cool idea and I will take that under advisement and bring it back to the team, so thanks for the idea.
I was also a big fan of SW galaxies and I was wondering if eventually we'll have player bounties?
JO: So the question is about player bounties. So in the game we have some ideas about player bounties. When are we going to introduce them is still up in the air. There's a lot of complexities to player bounties because once you start encouraging player vs. player killing in the open world it can get really dangerous. It can get out of control so we have to make sure the system is well designed and doesn't cause PvP issues. As you're probably aware, we don't want any more PvP explosions in our game at this point.
Q: Hi. Actually I have a question. My favorite element of the game is probably the single player campaign; the story. That's like the original KOTOR: single player based or whatever. I know you guys have made it clear that you're going to come out with new flashpoints, but is there any thought into the future of actually expanding the story? New stories because I love seeing a scene with some guy who double-crossed you and you hear John Williams soundtrack. That's so awesome.
JO: The question is are we going to continue to add new stories to SWTOR. I guess in the same vein as what you were used to in class stories from levels 1 to 50. And the answer is yes! Very much so. We have a whole bunch of people working on that. I can't talk about when you're going to be seeing that, but maybe soon. We did say that we're going to see some stuff this year and we're going to see a lot more next year as well.
Q: My guild was placed on a server. And it's basically without transfers right now our server is fairly low pop and basically we've lost several people and it's very hard to replace on a small server when you're a hardcore raiding guild because the pool is so little. Are transfers coming soon because right now it's very difficult to do raiding when we lose people?
JO: The question is are server transfers coming soon? Character transfers? And the answer is that is one of our number one priorities. I think I walk into the programmers' office every other day and go, "can we get this out faster?" So yeah, it's coming soon. It's a difficult problem. We need to make sure that when you transfer over your character it deals with all kinds of things like legacy and guild and all that stuff so it's not as easy as it might seem.
Q: I was wondering if you could explain the ancient pylons spotted and what the working-as-intended way to beat them probably was?
JO: Are you talking about the ancient pylons in the eternity vault?
Q: Yeah. What was the original intention design raid to beat that? Because we've only beat that with complete randomness.
JO: Well, that was the plan. Just complete randomness. We have been working on it. We know it's not very popular. Actually we did some testing and that was the least popular element of every operation and flashpoint so. We know it's not the greatest thing in our game and so we're really looking at it. We actually have some adjustments to it in update 1.2
Q: Me again. So you guys are doing a great job with game. I love it. It's my favorite MMO in a long time. I do have a question though with the art. What's with the republic side armor? I mean it doesn't really feel Jedi. Like the Consular headgear. The new Sentinel PvP set kind of looks weird. Where do you guys get that design because I see a level 10 Marauder and I think my god this guy's got crazy gear and he's a level 10? I'm level 50 and I'm wearing junk. Right now I have my orange set ready for 1.2 and it's a level 10 because I think that looks the best. Do you guys have any plans to kind of revamp where the art direction is going with the republic armor? Because right now even Kira Carsen says, "Did all the fashion designers go over to the Empire?"
JO: So the answer to that is I play on the empire. The Sith Warrior is my favorite class so I pretty well put all the concept guys on the empire! <Laughter> I'm just kidding. No. It's everyone has a different opinion on looks. Our concept guys they concept a whole bunch of different things. Sometimes our armor looks cool. Sometimes not so much. We're trying to experiment. We took all the feed back we got on the from our public test on some of the republic armor--specially the Jedi knight and Jedi Consular--very seriously and the concept guys are actually doing some really good stuff for the next tier gear we're going to be doing in future updates. The stuff you saw, we know that's not popular, but we can't adjust that quickly. It's just sometimes we're going to have really cool armor. Sometimes we'll miss a little bit. Sometimes the concept guys will come up with something that people connect to. It's just you have to give it concept guys the freedom to experiment.
Q: Illum. At release Illum was sort of an import part in PvP and then there were sort of a lot of problems. I'm sure your aware. And now it almost seems like you're sort of fazing it out; you've just given up on it basically. So is that the plan? First of all, what happened really and secondly, is the plan in the future to phase it out completely?
JO: So the question is what are we going to do with Illum. The plan is not to faze out open world PvP and the style of gameplay that Illum introduced. It's just that we want to phase out Illum until we have a new version that's much better. Because the current version of Illum has a lot of issues because we haven't solved the faction imbalance. In addition, until we solve that we don't want to continue to struggle with something that you can't really. You can't really fix it until you solve that major problem and that requires technology that we currently don't have. So that's why we're kind of fazing it out.
Q: Hi. I've got a question about color crystals. I play a bounty hunter. As opposed to lightsaber-weilding class, color crystal for like bounty hunter doesn't seem to be as prominent as skills you would actually use with a blaster. Is there any plan to add something like that for non-lightsaber classes?
JO: So the question is when you get a color crystal and you put it on some of the classes--for example the bounty hunter and you feel the bounty hunter that doesn't use the blaster very much--you don't actually see the impact of that color crystal as much as you'd like to. And are we going to do anything to address that issue? Currently we have no plans for that.
Q. Hi. I was wondering: is cross-faction transfers ever going to be available for characters who possibly go to the dark side, or dark side go to the light side?
JO: So the question is can you switch from imperial to republic? So actually that was part of our original design back in 2007 we were going to do that, but then it turned out to be way too expensive and crazy. So we've been looking it. You never know though. We keep on bringing it up. It is something that would be really, really cool and really fits the kind of light side/dark side feel of the game. But currently, not this year.
Q: What's the word on the gay/lesbian companion relationships topic that was brought up
JO: So the question is what are we doing about the gay romances in SWTOR. We do have plans for that, but we're not talking about it until we've actually finished it. So we'll have more information on that in the future. Though it is a popular topic in the news. That's for sure.
Q: I'm currently 400 Cybertech. I make a lot of money off of earpieces. Especially if I crit. I was trying to figure out what I'm going to make money on in 1.2 and if I'm going to have to grind dailies to earn all the gear to pull out all the mods and if it's going to cost me like 14 billion credits to get that stuff out to reverse engineer or if I can just do it without pulling it out to try and reverse engineer the mods.
JO: I can't give you specific answers to that. I can say we've got a lot of rebalancing in 1.2 for the crafting game and for the end economic game so as a crafter I think you're going to be really happy with what we've done in 1.2 to make all the crafting skills much more equal and more fun to be a crafter and more economically viable at the top level.
Q: I'm brioche and you guys have said that reusables are going away, but we're going to be able to keep the ones we have now, but any future ones will not be reusable anymore.
JO: So the question is once we take reusables away and change them into usables are you sill going to have your reusables available to you.
Q: Well, you said that you're not going to be able to reuse any future ones. So like the next level, reusables won't be there. So if Biochem doesn't have the reusables anymore it kind of loses the luster of the crew skill. I mean because if you have one you can sell there's only a 10-point difference on the one that's exclusive to Biochem. Do you think maybe in the future since mudpacks are going down to once per fight maybe Biochems can get like a special passive ability that lets them use more than one per fight this way to actually keep Biochem?
JO: I don't think we're planning for that right now, but we are planning to make sure that even though change through, Biochem is still going to be a viable crew skill. I think we know it's popular and we had to make some adjustments for power reasons, but I don't think we're nerfing it really.
Q: I'm not a min/maxer, but I mean the draw of Biochem is the reusable so I'm not dropping 60,000credit a night on med packs and stems and stuff. I can buy one on the auction house and they only get 10 points less. I'll take that 10 points less or 10 points more if I can just reuse it. I think the biggest problem is getting rid of reusables guts-out brioche for the most part.
CW?: Generally speaking with crafting it's really hard to say exactly what the reason one goes to [a particular skill]. Are you Cybertech you love grenades or are you a Cybertech because you love mods? Do you think it's better to be an Armstech because you always want to have the best weapon or do you thing it's best to be Armomech because you always want to be in the best armor. And what each player gets out of each craft is going to be really subjective to that and you might think without the reusable stim packs that there's no reason to be a Biochem. Or someone else going, "wow if I couldn't craft my own implants I don't know how I could play this game." Or "man if I didn't have that stim that doesn't wear off I don't know what I would do." So there's a lot of different components to these and we're always looking to try to make the most balanced and fun crafting experience we can for you where each craft brings something unique to your personal character and play style. I just overall know that the goal from my standpoint is to give each craft something unique and fun about it that is appealing to different players and different play styles.
Q: I see that there are auction house, I'm sorry GTN, UI improvements, which I'm very excited about. However I've noticed you still don't have the feature like where if I were to say throw 99 Bondar crystals into the little slot and say okay I want to split it to 10 stacks of 10 at such a price. So I was just wondering if that eventually will be coming.
JO: So we're going to continue to improve the auction house and every game system in SWTOR as we go on. That's a known issue. It's kind of a quality of life feature, because it's not a huge feature. It's on our backlog. So you will see it at some point. Maybe this year hopefully. I'm not making any promises though.
Q: Hello again. Sorry. So 2 quick questions. 1: are you going to fix /who To show guild or a little bit more detail because right now it's just a little bit random. And 2: What is your intent for social points. As it is right not it just seems like an endless grind to get some Tusken Raider gear and that's it. Is there anything else you would want to do with them?
JO: In response to social points questions. Yes, social points wasn't as balanced as well as we wanted it to be. So you got to the end game and you didn't have quite the social level that we thought you were going to have. So we're looking at that. Unfortunately who characters that are already at level 50 if we make changes to the level up game, that's not going to help you out there. So we've been discussing all sorts of different plans like how to make social points more relevant for level 50s so that players don't have to do the grind. Because that's one of the elements of the game we try to avoid. The social points are really there to allow you to get really cool uniforms and once you start using the mods you can be the guy who looks like a sandperson playing through eternity Vault or the girl who has the Princess Leia gold bikini on playing through the Eternity Vault or some other ridiculous uniform. So that's kind of the point of social points. It's just a social game system. And your other question was? Oh, /who. We don't have any plans on that currently, but I will remember your comment.
Q: You talked about at the guild panel the crafting gear being able to crit and augment slots on it but raiding gear that drops won't have that. As a min/maxer am I going to be required to pull out my mods out of my raiding gear to put it in an orange crafting crit? Or is there going to be a way to still have the same look of armor to the new tier gear but with the same augment slot so it can have the same stats.
JO: So the question is when you get your operation gear are you going to be able to look that way and still be at the top level in terms of power level? Yes.
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