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Article says the story broke here:http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/25/sarah_palin_parts_ways_with_fox_news_116807.htmlFrom that article:"It's my understanding that Gov. Palin was offered a contract by FOX, and she decided not to renew the arrangement," the source close to Palin told RCP. "She remains focused on broadening her message of common-sense conservatism across the country and will be expanding her voice in the national discussion."
Maybe she would rather be free than be muzzled by Fox.
FNC is now part of the enemy of our freedom.Imagine Hume suggesting that Kerry might prove to be an outstanding SOS.
The pretty girls tend to have a rather crowded dance card.When will we have the guts to put our best spokes-babes on the field ???Palin / Bachmann 2016Let´s go down swingin´ !!
Fox has disappointed me with the way they muzzled Sarah Palin. I hope she will be unfettered now, but I fear she will not have a venue to voice our views as she once did so well.
Is it me, or has FoxNews gradually become RATNewsLite?Congratulations for a wise decision, Gov. Palin. Keep Your Freedom of Speech!
Good.Any network that hires Shep, Juan, Geraldo, and Alan Coombs is no place for a conservative
Smart move, Mrs. Palin.FOX is no longer fair and balanced..I can´t imagine anyone paying Dennis Kucinich to speak. Gack.
I won´t watch Shepherd Smith and I DVR the O´Reilly Factor so that I can fast forward passed the annoying liberals like Alan Colmes.
Fox, including Greta, haven´t called on her very much in the last 6-9 months. I suspect there were restrictions in actions that she could take while under contract to Fox as a "contributor". And it is not necessarily a plus to be tied to any network. This frees her to act as she wishes.
I didn´t see her on Fox much because I don´t watch Fox much; not since they went over to the dark side.I hope we still hear from her. She is the best hope we have.
Why does ABC make it sound as if Sarah was fired?
FOX had a good thing going.....pre progressive
I´d love to see a Conservative (the) View, with Sarah and other sensible, normal human beings.
Rock on, Sarah!! you made a smart move..
Fox keeps drifting further and further to the port side.Pretty soon they´ll all be southpaws.
One more reason not to watch...Dennis in, Palin out...Fox stinks....
Good. Her 15 minutes of fame expired a long time ago. I mean here is a former governor and VP candidate using terms like "lamestream media." Time to grow up, Sarah.
So, did Fox find yet another liberal they liked? Is that why Sarah got the boot?
Maybe she will go to Blaze TV. Maybe she will run for office.
#19, Sarah makes most so-called GOP leaders look like the little kiddies when it comes to standing up for her country.Wonderful decision, Sarah. The former Governor can easily pick and choose what she does and she did!
Wrong group Miss Jeffery!Ted in Michigan
Rumor is that FNC will now hire Tina Fay if she agrees to wear a blond wig.
It all started when Axelrod met with Roger Ailes or whatever the guy´s name is that is the head of Fox News. I haven´t watched Fox since before the election.
Hard to think she was muzzled about anything. Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter and the one who sits in for O´Reilly, (can´t think of her name right now), and others certainly aren´t muzzled and I doubt she was either.
Good on her! Who watches Fox anyway except people like #19?
She lasted longer at FOX than she did as governor.
I haven´t watched Fox since just after 9/11.
I know for a fact they cancelled some of her appearances during the conventions. FOX muzzled E.D. Hill when she asked what the heck the fistbump thing was during the 2008 elections - she got demoted, then fired.FOX muzzled Michelle Malkin when she used to fill in for O´Reilly and said something they didn´t like. Now Laura Ingraham is there.Meanwhile Jemmu, Kristin, Beckel, Colmes, Juan and now Dennis can tell any lies they want so Fox can falsely claim to be ´fair and balanced´. There are truths and there are lies and they do not deserve equal time, FOX!
Who knew she was even there!!??A FOX News aside note: During the week, before FOX and Friends at 0600, the network now has on two leggy blonds in the shortest skirts I´ve ever seen...and not sitting behind a desk. On the one hand, that´s fine and good--very uplifting; but on the other hand, it does seem a bit (what´s the word?) Cheap? Tawdry? Low Class (that´s two words!).End of message.
Doesn´t Sorryos and the prince own part of FOX ? Maybe they paid Sarah to keep her occupied.
Good choice, Ms. Sarah. Any network that would hire Dennis the Menace would certainly not be my choice either. We will miss you. Best of luck to you & keep firing.
We look forward to whatever Sarah has in mind for her future, as is her Right in the USA. She is a cheery All-American patriot who has so much to offer this country´s goals of Life, Liberty & Justice for ALL, so we hope to hear more of her wisdom regarding living & thriving in the USA again very soon.With amazing good cheer & grace, the entire Palin Family has endured many bogus barbs by the vile statists who have stalked her mercilessly for years and who still don´t understand that CHARACTER COUNTS and so Palin is the victor.
I noticed that Palin´s appearances on Fox dropped sharply after O´Reilly conducted a telephone interview of her and she wouldn´t let him interrupt her and tell her what she was saying. She talked right over him, saying the communication between the studio and her home was bad and she couldn´t tell what was being said. I thought she was terrific and I was cheering her on from my Living Room.She is, to my knowledge (which is limited because I don´t watch Fox much any more), the only person who managed to control an interview with O´Reilly....which probably led to her lack of subsequent appearances on Fox.
I won´t criticize Fox; They are trying to stay on the air. I´m hoping for a 3rd party or a cessation. The Heritage Foundation could organize it... and banished patriots could rise again... Palin, Cain, West & more.
And Glenn Beck! How could I leave out Beck!
My family has always been staunch FOX supporters until the Newtown shooting. This event was so obviously a hoax perpetrated by Obama and the media to manipulate us into giving up our arms. Not only did FOX fail to expose the lie, they fed into the lie...so much so that I´m sure they were involved as well. FOX is now considered by us as the MSM. Thank God for Ldotters and Breitbart!
#28, you can thank the DNC, the leftist operatives and their army of lawyers for creating the situation that made it impossible for any Alaska state business to get done and tying up all their resources with excessive frivolous inquiries and lawsuits (all of which were thrown out). That is why she resigned--for the good of the state.Still, she accomplished more in her short tenure than most Governors do in two terms!I wonder if 19 thinks the Obamas have impeccable etiquette, class and gravitas...? (cough, cough)
It was time. Fox is cutting those particular losses.


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I used a thrifted man's shirt to make my first version of the Sorbetto top from Colette patterns, which will certainly not be the last as it is soooo easy to put together, and such a great base for many alterations!
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I cut a size 0, but used the length of size 18. I managed to position the pieces so that I could keep the shirt's bottom hem as it was.
I recut the armholes along the size 6 line as 0 was a bit tight and I also shortened the darts by about 1 inch (I probably could have used lower darts too).
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I wore it for the first time on a trip to San Francisco, with my denim mini-skirt, a RTW navy jersey blazer and dark blue leggings. I quite like this look.
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This is just beautiful. I love the collar effect. This is such a wonderful blouse it just begs to be made so many different way, I am starting on number four tonight but this time a nightie with some tufts at the top. You can make this many many times and non will look the same.
Yours are so lovely, so are the ones I see that everyone has made.
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thank you that's very sweet! This pattern is so versatile, it's definitely a great base for a lot of projects…
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Wow! This looks so good – I love that collar! Thanks for the inspiration.
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It seems that during the course of gaming, various trends come and go, much like everything nowadays.
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The Darkness II altered its visual style from a realistic to cell-shaded effect, reminiscent of the game's comic origins.
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Three Tales of Terror for Halloween
"They're coming to get you, Barbara."
For the uninitiated, that's a quote from the beginning of Night of the Living Dead. But I'm not talking about zombies coming to get you, or coming to get Barbara either. I'm gonna let Robert Kirkman and Max Brooks bring the zombies to the masses for the time being.
What's coming from me to get you is three scary stories, soon to be available on your closest haunted Kindle, Nook, iPad, or computer. They have a few things in common - like the simple fact that they're all horror stories - but otherwise they're all very different. I announced them a few weeks ago, in the hopes that the finished products would be available by Halloween, and, well, I'm on track. Unless something unexpected like a zombie holocaust occurs between now and then, I'll be able to tell you next Monday to go get them.
Just as with The Giant/The Littlest Goblin package I got published last May, they're only .99 cents and only available as an eBook. This time, though, you're getting a lot more bang for your buck: there's THREE stories, and they're generally longer than the first two.
Without revealing too much, here's a little bit about each of the new stories.
The One That Got Away is a bit of horror/comedy - something along the lines of Stephen King's first Creepshow or Tales from the Crypt. I got the idea several years ago when I heard that a girl I'd hooked up with a couple of times in college had died really young from some rare and vicious cancer. I know, I know - that's not funny - and neither is the ultimate ending of the story. But as I wrote the initial scenes (which coincidentally take place in my favorite bar The East Point Corner Tavern), I had my tongue planted firmly in my cheek. The main character, Evan, and his best bud, Stan… well, they're a couple of idiots. You gotta love them, but it's hard not to chuckle at their alcohol-fueled antics.
I've mentioned The Thrall of Fate before. It's an ode I wrote in 2009 to commemorate the birthday of one of my literary heroes - Edgar Allan Poe. Poe himself is the main character of the story - but he's a very different Edgar Allan than the one who died in a gutter in 1849 of some strange and terrifying malady. I had to take some liberty with the details of Poe's early life, so consider this an alternate history piece, with a twist and a finale I sincerely hope Poe himself would approve of.
I wrote Killing The Messenger with the sole intention of creating a monster from an unexpected source. And I don't mean like the shit monster Kevin Smith created in Dogma or the meat monster from David Wong's John Dies at The End.
You know, though, as I think about it, Messenger actually has TWO antagonists - one the monster I created, and the other, an amorphous, mysterious other. This other entity is responsible for doing what the title suggests, over an over again. But the visceral effect of my "monster" may be the thing you're more likely to take away from the story. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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He was out selling lemonade/on the Fourth of July, and he died
Sister Claire said that he was/an angel on Earth/She stood there and she told us
She had clearly rehearsed/Every verse/Of the lies that tie you down"
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Sophomore Sam Richards (Glenwood, Iowa/Glenwood) broke a scoreless game late in regulation with her first goal of the year and that proved to be all that the Buena Vista women's soccer team needed on Saturday afternoon as it got past Illinois College, 1-0. The game was the first away from home for the Beavers this season.
It was a defensive battle for most of the game with team's combining for only 19 total shots. The one that counted most, though, was when junior Shelby Ripperger (Lee's Summitt, Mo./Lee's Summitt North) dished a pass to Richards for the game's first goal with nearly 18 minutes left to play in regulation. It was Richard's only shot in the contest and Ripperger's ninth career assist.
As a team, the Beavers out-shot the Lady Blues 5-1 in the first half and 13-6 for the game.
Senior Kellyn Arnold (Minnetonka, Minn./Hopkins) led all players with five total shots, including four on-goal. Eight of the team's 13 shots were on-goal.
BVU, which has now posted shutouts in three of its first four contests this season, continues its best start in school history with the win.
Freshman Jaclyn Pfeifer (Kansas City, Mo./Oak Park) recorded her third win of the year, while chalking up three saves.
The Beavers (3-0-1) will again face a Midwest Conference opponent on Sunday afternoon, September 9, when they play host to Grinnell College (0-2-1) inside of J. Leslie Rollins Stadium. Game time between the two teams is scheduled for 3:00pm.


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I think this is an important clue. Maybe try different cables, or using a different switch port on both devices. This should work, the fact that it fails suggests something is either broken in the switch or the router, or there is an email@example.com wrote:… when I have my network all on the Procurve and I wire it to the AEBS via cat6a I get errors if the AEBS uses DHCP to assign addresses to my network devices on the procurve. This is what I want the AEBS to do so it is a problem for me. I don't know why the AEBS would cause errors when it is wired to my network on the procurve. Baffling…
Sorry I was not clear. I meant try to set the AEBS connection to the switch to 100 mbits. You should be able to do this on the AEBS email@example.com wrote:I have tried to set the NAS devices to 100mbits but that has not resulted in anything but errors as well when connected to the AEBS.
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Literary Criticism (American History Through Literature)
Reviewing the Pennsylvanian Adam Seybert's (1773825) Annals of the United States in the January 1820 issue of Scotland's venerable Edinburgh Review, the English critic, clergyman, and author Sydney Smith (1771845) asked a question that would ring in the ears of American writers for over a generation: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? Or goes to an American play? Or looks at an American picture or statue?" Several decades after the Declaration of Independence and the successfully waged Revolution, most knowledgeable observers felt that it was still too soon to identify a distinctively American way of writing, much less a coherent body of literary criticism produced on the American scene. A mere half century later, however, a vibrant, compelling, and durable body of American literature had been produced, and criticism had begun to take stock of the young nation's literary efforts.
The most important American literary criticism of the antebellum period was not written in university settings by professional academics but instead was produced by public intellectuals who typically were also active themselves as writers in such genres as poetry, fiction, essays, and religious sermons. The rise of major research universities in the United States, which began in earnest only in the late nineteenth century, would eventually spawn legions of highly trained academic critics wielding advanced degrees and diverse critical theories, but before the Civil War, literary criticism developed much more sporadically and with far less institutional support than in later years. Nevertheless, the criticism produced during this period has been extremely influential, particularly since some of the most indelibly important literary artists of the periodalt Whitman (1819892), Herman Melville (1819891), Edgar Allan Poe (1809849), Margaret Fuller (1810850), and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803882)lso made major contributions to American literary criticism.
Literary tastes were shaped largely by essays and reviews published in a range of newspapers and, especially, American magazines like the Christian Examiner, Biblical Repertory, United States Magazine and Democratic Review, American Whig Review, The Dial, North American Review, Boston Quarterly Review, Southern Literary Messenger, Putnam's Monthly Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, and Catholic World. Periodicals flourished in the United States, but American readers, most of whom read prose and poetry by both British and American writers, also continued to rely as well upon British critical opinion found in periodicals such as Blackwood's Magazine and Edinburgh Review in order to cultivate their own ideas about literature. Indeed, many American periodicals did not serve to produce distinctively "American" writing and criticism but instead followed the more conservative aesthetic tendency to favor the British Enlightenment tradition of neoclassical prose styles and oratory rather than the Romanticism, Democratic nationalism, and vernacular styles that eventually came to dominate the literary production of the major nineteenth-century American writers. Of particular note, the North American Review, an eminent Boston magazine founded in 1815, served as a venue for major publications in the areas of history, literature (especially poetry), and literary criticism. For instance, more than any other American magazine of the period, the North American Review was created along the lines of nineteenth-century English literary quarterliesssues included not only literary criticism but also scholarly articles and reviews in an eclectic range of other intellectual fields, such as history, science, and theologynd maintained very strong ties with the scholarly worlds of Harvard and the Boston Unitarian establishment. So important were British publications for the development of American criticism that the young Maine novelist John Neal (1793876), an early advocate of American literature, actually had some of his greatest influence during 1824827, when he lived in England and became the first American to write for the major British reviews, including a series of critical essays on American writers for Blackwood's Magazine.
At approximately mid-century, an important exception to the dominance of periodicals in the field of antebellum literary criticism was produced just at the moment of America's most profound literary activity; just a few of the major works published during 1850855 include Emerson's Representative Men (1850), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Thoreau's Walden (1854), Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855), Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850). The first major book to reckon comprehensively and critically with the American literary tradition arrived in the form of the large (ten pounds spread over two volumes) and lavishly illustrated Cyclopedia of American Literature (1855), produced by Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1816878) and George L. Duyckinck (1823863), two prominent New York editors and contributors to the Literary World, the leading weekly literary review of the period. Destined to become a standard reference work for American literary history, the Cyclopedia trumpeted innovative fiction by Duyckinck's close friends Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804864) and Melville in particular as representative of the best in American writing while reserving lesser praise for more popular (and more traditional) writers like the poets Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806867), James Russell Lowell (1819891), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807882).
Although he is remembered primarily for his short fiction and poetry, during the frenetic two decades before his death in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was one of the more active book reviewers and liter-ary critics of his generation. Having acquired some literary repute for his popular poem "The Raven" (1845), Poe proceeded soon after to detail his method and principles for composing verse in "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846), published in Graham's Magazine (1826858). It is here that Poe famously announced his intersecting aesthetic principles of brevity and the macabre. First, "If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression. . . . What we term a long poem is, in fact, merely a succession of brief ones" (p. 1375). Second, and more notoriously, Poe insisted on the production of beautiful lyrical effects, the most critical being that of poetry's ideal subject. Consequently, he would write "Beauty . . .
The fullest expression of Poe's theory of prosody and poetic technique arrived in final form in the pages of the Southern Literary Messenger with the publication of "The Rationale of Verse" (1848). Based in Richmond, Virginia, the Southern Literary Messenger (1834864) became one of the earliest American vehicles for southern literary criticism and book reviews. Its most prominent contributor, Poe, took over the editorship for the period 1835837, during which time he became notorious for his hard-hitting reviews and attacks on other writers. The Southern Literary Messenger quickly waned in its literary influence in the 1840s and especially as the Civil War approached, and the magazine's pages came to be filled with discussions of military and naval affairs.
For the early decades of the nineteenth century, most American writers continued to look to Europe, and especially to England, for their ideas about literature. But the theme of American literary identity steadily came to dominate the new nation's literary criticism during the antebellum period. As the century progressed, American writers increasingly spoke of the need for a distinctively American literature: one that would boldly express the new nation's difference from Europe while setting forth its own distinctive cultural, political, and moral sensibility. Based in New York City in the decades before the Civil War, the "Young America" literary movement, led by critics such as Evert Augustus Duyckinck, Cornelius Mathews, Bayard Taylor, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, and William Gilmore Simms, was perhaps the most vocal of all American groups advocating a resistance to European literary influences in favor of an authentic and innovative American way of writing. The antebellum Young America movement, which was active in both political and literary discourses, took a good deal of its energy from the jingoistic political concept of American "Manifest Destiny," a term first published in 1845 by John L. O'Sullivan (1813895) in New York City's United States Magazine and Democratic Review.
The fervor associated with the Young America movement can be traced through much literary criticism of the antebellum period, but the matter of American literary achievement found its watershed precisely in the summer of 1850 with the publication of Melville's lengthy essay-review of his friend Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) in the influential New York magazine the Literary World. Identifying himself only as "a Virginian Spending July in Vermont," Melville in his review took the bold step of comparing Hawthorne's genius to that of William Shakespeare, whose plays had become a highly popular staple of the antebellum American stage. The tragic sensibility of Shakespeare, wrote Melville, could be discerned in Hawthorne's great historical fictions of early America, in which readers could discover a "great power of blackness in him [that] derives its force from its appeals to that Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free" (p. 243). At the same time Melville, who would not publish his masterwork Moby-Dick (1851) until the following year, would leave room for a new American writer (perhaps himself) who might surpass Shakespeare and Hawthorne in both genius and national sensibility:
But it is not meant that all American writers should studiously cleave to nationality in their writings; only this, no American writer should write like an Englishman, or a Frenchman; let him write like a man, for then he will be sure to write like an American. Let us away with this leaven of literary flunkeyism [sic] towards England. If either we must play the flunkey [sic] in this thing, let England do it, not us. While we are rapidly preparing for that political supremacy among the nations, which prophetically awaits us at the close of the present century; in a literary point of view, we are deplorably unprepared for it; and we seem studious to remain so. (P. 248)
Before the Young America movement took firm hold at mid-century and signaled the shift of intellectual and critical preeminence from Boston to New York City, the most innovative currents of American liter-ary criticism drew their sustenance from European Romanticism. Foremost among the groups of writers influenced by Romanticism were the New England transcendentalists, led by Ralph Waldo Emerson and including such writers and critics as Amos Bronson Alcott, Theodore Parker, Sarah Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Orestes Augustus Brownson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Jones Very, and others. The critical principles of Romanticism came to these writers from numerous European sources, but a watershed event for many of them was James Marsh's (1794842) American edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (1829). It was Coleridge's Neoplatonic distinction between ordinary cognition (Understanding) and the spiritual activity of the mind's eye (Reason) that led Emerson to a number of crucial pronouncements about poetry in his most important essays.
The Dial (1840844), a seminal but short-lived Boston journal devoted to literature, philosophy, and religion, served in many respects as an organ of the New England transcendentalist movement and was a major vehicle for important critics of the day. Although its circulation was small and its content disparaged by the mainstream press at the time, The Dialdited by the brilliant feminist critic Margaret Fuller, who was assisted by George Ripley (1802880)resented a learned and eclectic mixture of literary criticism, much of it grounded firmly in the traditions of European Romanticism. Its essays included, for example, Fuller's "Goethe" and the Unitarian minister Theodore Parker's (1810860) "German Literature," among many others. While it never adopted a clear editorial position or cultivated a single critical model, its pages nevertheless reflected the continuing influence of European thinkers on the development of an American literature. Emerson succeeded Fuller as editor of The Dial in 1842.
Emerson's literary theory is at once the most rigorously stated and the most subtly complex of the antebellum period. Beginning with the eight brief chapters of his anonymously published Nature (1836) and continuing with his first edition of collected Essays (1841), Emerson set forth the main principles of his distinctive brand of Romantic intuitionism and laid the groundwork for Henry David Thoreau's (1817862) profound analysis of the correspondence between language and nature in Walden (1854). For instance, from Emerson's assertion, in Nature, that "words are signs of natural facts" (p. 20) grows much of Thoreau's interest in the relation between thinking, writing, and the natural world.
Walt Whitman (1819892), whose preface to his 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass stands with, and probably above, Emerson's essays as the major statement of American literary theory for the nineteenth century, is at once a major theorist and an unprecedented innovator in the field of American poetry. Although their ideas about American literature are not identical, there are profound links between Emerson's transcendental intuitionism and the younger Walt Whitman's own critical ideas and the innovative poetry that he produced between 1855 and 1891. As Whitman himself readily admitted, Emerson's literary theoryxpounded not only in Nature but also in "The Poet," "The American Scholar," and "Self-Reliance"as transformative for Whitman's sense of himself as America's greatest poet. "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil" (Trowbridge, p. 166), Whitman was said to have written of the influence of Emerson's thought, thus confirming the intellectual linkage between the most crucial American poet and essayist, respectively, of the nineteenth century.
In his essay "The Poet" (1844), which was so important for Whitman's intellectual development, Emerson had outlined a concept of the poet as an heir to intertwined traditions of Christianity and Romanticism. As a former Unitarian minister trained at Harvard, Emerson saw in the greatest poets a prophetic dimension that infused an aesthetic of Romantic self-expression with the moral force of religion. Consequently, he could say with supreme confidence that "the poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty" and, moreover, that "the world is not painted or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe. Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate, but is emperor in his own right" (p. 449).
Less a literary critic than a founder of a new type of poetics in his untitled preface to Leaves of Grass, Whitman is nevertheless of major importance as a theorist concerned with new forms of writing that would be appropriate to the American nation. In that crucial preface, Whitman declares that the ideal poet must be a complete lover of the universe, one who draws the materials of his composition from nature while prophetically serving as America's representative of the common people. The preface also makes specific assertions about a new poetry that will proceed organically, will be free of all unnecessary ornament, and will entirely avoid conventional rhyme and meter. When it came to the formal requirements of the new American poetry, Whitman insisted boldly,
the rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take shapes as compact as the shapes of chestnuts and oranges and melons and pears, and shed the perfume impalpable to form. (P. 11)
In addition to his prescription for poetry freed of the traditional rules of rhyme and meter, though, Whitman's largest critical project is woven into his political sympathies and nationalist preferences for the concept of "America." Thus, he opens his preface to Leaves of Grass with a prose hymn to America, thereby signifying that his revolutionary poetics are inseparable from an implicit critique of all that is not American: "The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem" (p. 5). The elitism and cultural imperialism that such statements apparently engender, though, are modified by Whitman's abiding concern for democratic arrangements and a populist sense of preference for the ordinary human being, so that "the poet sees for a certainty how one not a great artist may be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist" (p. 9). Echoing the New York advocates of Young America who preceded him, Whitman would insist further in his preface to Leaves of Grass that "of all nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest" (p. 5)he problem of literary criticism in America would remain for much of the nineteenth century inseparable from the problem of national politics. And only by enduring the trauma of the Civil War would criticism in America finally make the enormous adjustments required to see the complexities of American literary ambition through a cultural lens shaped profoundly by issues of race, class, and gender as well as by the earlier desire to create a literature of distinction that could claim artistic independence from Europe.
See also The Dial; "Hawthorne and His Mosses"; Literary Nationalism; Periodicals; "The Philosophy of Composition"; "The Poet"; Transcendentalism; Young America
Primary Works
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature. 1836. In Essays and Poems, pp. 79. New York: Library of America, 1996.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The Poet." 1844. In Essays and Poems, pp. 44568. New York: Library of America, 1996.
Melville, Herman. "Hawthorne and His Mosses." 1850. In The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, edited by Harrison Hayford et al., pp. 23953. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1987.
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Philosophy of Composition." 1846. In Poetry, Tales, and Selected Essays, pp. 1373385. New York: Library of America, 1996.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. 1855. In Poetry and Prose. New York: Library of America, 1996.
Trowbridge, John Townsend. "Reminiscences of Walt Whitman." Atlantic Monthly, February 1902, pp. 16375.
Secondary Works
Green, Martin. The Problem of Boston: Some Readings in Cultural History. London: Longmans, 1966.
Grey, Robin. The Complicity of Imagination: The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century English Culture. Cambridge, U.K, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1941.
Miller, Perry. The Raven and the Whale: The War of Words and Wits in the Era of Poe and Melville. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956.
Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. 1988. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Spiller, Robert E., Willard Thorp, Thomas H. Johnson, and Henry Seidel Canby, eds. Literary History of the United States. 3 vols. 3rd ed., rev. New York: Macmillan, 1963972.
Widmer, Edward L. Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Zboray, Ronald J. A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
James Emmett Ryan
Source: American History Through Literature, ©2006 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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MANCHESTER City Girls Under 10s matched their first team by securing the league title with a 4-0 victory over Stockport County last weekend.
The girls team, who are the youngest of any of Man City's teams, have now won the league for the second year in a row, winning every game in the process.
The Under 10s ladies, who play their home games each Saturday at Woodsend, Flixton, have only conceded four goals all year in what has been a truly remarkable season for them.
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QUOTE ({DoA}DrunkMonkey @ Feb 23 2003, 03:13 PM) |
yea, fades in my opinion are a bit unballanced, even with the 54 res cost. i had a game where we had one hive and res enough to supply around 5 ppl HA, HMG and welders to us all. they had 2 hives and fades were around, we were trying to push them back but even with us all working together, welding each other, shooting at primary targets, setting outposts ECT we just couldn`t push back 3 fades with dc around the corner! and mabye the wol |
QUOTE (Totenkopf22 @ Feb 24 2003, 08:11 AM) |
What it is, is that fades can be whored so easily. All I ever see them doing is idiotically running side to side and firing their acid rockets through open doorways until they've annihilated all the base defenses while the skulks move in for the kill. Either the acid rocket damage needs to be toned down, or the sentry guns need to be a little more sensitive. |
How do you secure res without turrets? |
QUOTE (Obliterater @ Feb 23 2003, 02:10 PM) |
The thing about fades is, that the Marines have to spend all thier money capping a hive, and turreting it, so when the fades come they are not teched up enough to fight them. Also, fades eat turrets in about 10 seconds, so all nodes that dont have phase gates are dead, which means that resorces get tight very quickly. |
QUOTE (Aries86 @ Feb 23 2003, 07:14 PM) |
Most of the time I command I use this strat: First I secure one hive and dont even worry or try to get the second(send marines to keep the aliens busy). Then i proceed to get rts and tell marines to guard them. At about this time about half of my marines are swearing at me and calling me a freaking idiot and we need to go for the second hive or we automaticly lose the game. Afew minutes go by rt flow is pretty good(mainly because i didnt waste money on trying to get 2nd hive then losing it) half the marines are still swearing at me the other half(mostly regs on the server) tell them to shut up and play and that i know what im doing. im teching and have 3lvl upgrades and have everything upgraded and waiting for a good stock of rts. This is around when aliens get fades... and omg it never fails some marines will always yell out "OMG THEY HAVE FADES ITS OVER ALL BECAUSE WE HAD A **** IDIOT COM THAT DIDNT GET THE SECOND HIVE. LETS JUST ALL F4 RIGHT NOW." this is when i proceed to tell them that they have level 3 upgrades and they can take careless fades down easy(most fades r careless at this point because they think that won). Then fun starts i say to marines have fun and drop ALOT of hmgs nades heavy armour and say have fun(1on1 a heavy full upgrade marine kills a fade, skill makes this very), just work in groups and make your way to rts or hives(most of the time i can give everyone something) I dont know if you guys have ever played had heavy vs fades wars but it is so much fun. I think its the most fun part in NS. Most of the time after the game my marines will tell me that that was the most fun game theve ever played in. using this tatic i have won almost every game that i can recall except one and that was because there was a server/map bug and i couldnt upgrade the tf and siege. and ofcourse one of my marines used non-team chat tsay and said "What do u mean u cant build siege" then after that aliens just proceeded to OC/DC rush all my outposts with fades(now that is very deadly) this game last along time most of the time and is the best type of game you can play in ns in my opion (note: i was also venting the fact that marines are NEVER up to this strat. |
QUOTE (Ambrosek @ Mar 23 2005, 07:53 PM) |
You Can Never Win In Clan Match Which is SC start |
QUOTE (Garet Jax @ Feb 25 2003, 05:15 PM) |
Someone suggested mining the Rts. Sounds like a good idea, ive never done it before as a com, but when they explode won't FF (whether mp_friendlyfire is 1 or 0) damage the RT (as a tripped mine can kill a marine in the blast)> also when they have fades u are buggered (although 2 fades will win the game for aliens so losing a res tower doesnt make much dif.) |
QUOTE (Ambrosek @ Mar 23 2005, 07:53 PM) |
You Can Never Win In Clan Match Which is SC start |
QUOTE (Garet Jax @ Feb 24 2003, 01:26 PM) | ||
That's a good point. Also consider the minimum res. required to produce a single fade, and a single HA/HMG: Fade 1 hive: 80 res Evolve to Fade: 54 res TOTAL *134 res* HA/HMG Weaps Lab: 45 res Proto Lab: 45 res Research HA: 50 res Adv. Armoury: 35 res (or is it 25?) Produce HA: 25 res Produce HMG: 25 res ( i think i got HA/HMG cost wrong - might be more?) TOTAL *225 res* There ya have it. 134 res for a fade, 225 for a HA/HMG. Plus i left out the cost of building an armoury in the 1st place |
QUOTE (shader @ Mar 6 2003, 02:00 AM) |
meatsheild - i got no idea what the skill level of ppl is on the servers u play on, but where i play, 'rines never bother capping more than one hive, the same strat is played over and over again, go to the spot on the map with the highest concentration of res points (ie cargo on ns_nothing), cap all the res there, turret if u can protect more than one rp with a single tf, mine otherwise, hold till upgraded to jp +hmg, then go kill the hive thats building, then go kill the original hive. works almost every time. if the server has 20+ players the marines neednt even leave their base except to cap one more res point, the res model is so unbalanced. give up on two hive lockdown, just rush res points then keep the aliens distracted by going on the offensive. few aliens have the sense to chomp ur res nodes when someones shooting the hive with an lmg. as for the fades+umbra - the point of this strat is that u will have jp+hmg b4 the 2nd hive is operational. aliens don't get a chance to go fade if u tech rush. |
QUOTE (Ambrosek @ Mar 23 2005, 07:53 PM) |
You Can Never Win In Clan Match Which is SC start |


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(…more) These are those who might be defined as members of the real-day Irish Diaspora people entitled to vote in Irish matters (my opinion, open to discussion). Even within this group we would have to eliminate people who are so long gone from Ireland as to be deemed to have no further interest in Irish present-day matters of concern to us Irish living in Ireland and not them anymore. For example, Niall O'Dowd would be considered a viably-entitled member of the Irish Diaspora but you, George, despite you having an Irish Passport, would not be a member of the Diaspora entitled to vote, in or outside of Ireland. That makes for 21 million, less one: you. You are now free to ask if I'm really TDP on you and on Niall and on others like Townie who likes to TDP as well on occasions.
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jacersagain: Your post is unintelligible just as its author is unintelligent. There simply are not 20 million Irish citizens living outside of Ireland. There aren't even one tenth of that number. Stop posting stupidities in 2013, jacers. You're a year older--try to be a year wiser.
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*Happy New Year to one and all at, and on, Irish Central from Dublin, the Capital of the Gathering in Ireland in 2013* (Ok, now that I've got that off me chest, nobody can say I didn't wish all and each the best for the coming year). Now lemme see and review comments below:… @ bobby, 8.30pm 30th Dec: thank you for pointing out my "million out" error; it should be 23 million. @ angrypaddy at 12.18pm last day of last year: you're the fool 'cos you don't know the diff between Africa and Poland (and, *a whisper in yr ear* please learn how to speel properly). Now for the biggy: @ Wou'knee, the iggerant eejit… I have a precision tool called a calculator. Taking Niall O'Dowd's figure of 70 million of Irish Diaspora as a base, I punched inta me calculator, that if you deduct those ineligible to have a right to vote under that foreigner, the Irish Minister for Idiotic Pronouncements, Mr. Varadkar's calculations, you'd be left with 20 million. bobby corrected me on that to 21 million, meaning Irish vote counters would be left with 23 million vote slips to manually count out for a President of a country of 3.8 million people, of which about 2 million would be legitimate native Irish voters. Anyone who wishes to dispute this should take the matter up with my precision tool. By the time that manual count is over and its results declared, it will be past the time for the next election, thus proving my assertion that Varadkar is crazy.
Pilib04--I haven't checked recently, but I think your figure of 100K is inflated. I have a hunch it's more like $80k. But that's not the point, the point is that US citizens are exempted tax obligations on that 80k or whatever because they have already paid taxes on that income in their country of residence. You don't believe in double taxation, do you?
I agree with Ireland North that those Irish living in Ireland do not ipso facto have any greater knowledge of Ireland. In fact over the years I have been astonished at how little some of the Irish migrants coming over here know about their home country. During the conflict in the North of Ireland it was axiomatic that people from the South knew next to nothing about what was going on 60 miles north of Dublin. As to Jacersagain's extraordinary error of citing '20 million Irish'overseas getting the vote, this is utter nonsense. The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs has a pretty good idea of the number of Irish passports they issue--leaving aside the ones the Israelis issue-and they cite a figure of perhaps one million Irish passport holders domiciled overseas. Wake up Jacers, Christmas is done for this year.
I hope they mean actual Irish citizens who are living abroad.
@jacersagain only people who were born in Ireland who had to emigrate in the last 50 years (not their children) should be allowed to vote.Other wise half of Africa would be voteing you fool !!
@jacersagain, you left out a million people in your numbers.
Crazy Varadkar. Not a hope this will ever happen. Imagine counting 20 million 'foreign' Irish votes in an election for a President of a country of 3.8 million inhabitants. We always have enough trouble counting 2 million votes by hand, never mind a potential 22 million!
To paraphrase Tina Turner - "... what's [knowledgeability] gotta do wid it?" Many Irish in Ireland under 40 (due to a revised education and designer propagandistic censored press and media) have been led to believe that Patrick Pearse was the lead singer of Boys Zone or West Life. James Connolly was Gene Butler's dance partner in River Dance. And 1916 is a minute after a quarter past seven in the evening. Strange as it may seem, geographical distance confers political perspective over natives who can't see the wood for the trees. Commendable forward thinking from an occasionally innovation-challenged administration.
To paraphrase Tina Turner - "... what's [knowledgeability] gotta do wid it?" Many Irish in Ireland under 40 (due to a revised education and designer propagandistic censored press and media) have been led to believe that Patrick Pearse was the lead singer of Boys Zone or West Life. James Connolly was Gene Butler's dance partner in River Dance. And 1916 is a minute after a quarter past seven in the evening. Strange as it may seem, geographical distance confers political perspective over natives who can't see the wood for the trees. Commendable forward thinking from an occasionally innovation-challenged administration.
And not before time,just like a lot of countries that allow their citizens to vote when living abroad it would give a say to the millions that still carry an Irish passport,Ireland would be in the unique position where election outcomes could be decided by the diaspora because of the numbers eligible to vote,maybe this scenario would'nt meet with approval by the locals,but if a solution could be found to allow them the vote,it would without doubt be a major step forward and benefit not only to the country,but in its relations with the Diaspora.
American Expatriates vote absentee. Many only visit the U.S. rarely and take advantage of not having to pay taxes on their first 100gs or so of income. No reason why Irish expats should lose the vote.
Donal1951-- I agree, you shouldn't get the vote. Your knowledge of Ireland is deficient. But Irish people should.
No. Despite being an Irish citizen through my immigrant father, and staying in touch with kin in Ireland. I am not knowledgeable to vote