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She had previously only revealed she had suffered a "serious head injury" but it's now emerged the actress had a five-and-a-half-inch crack to her skull.
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This is a guest post from one of our users, Tim Gunter, Senior Systems Analyst at Vanilla Forums. Tim caught my attention with a recent tweet that read (and I quote), "I. Love. @SendGrid. Parse API so damned fantastic, I want to get an "I <3 Parse API" tattoo on my FREAKING FACE!" Later that night, our API had Tim feeling like the "Lord of the internets".
As soon as I saw this, I had to learn more about the experience that inspired such excitement, and within hours Tim had sent me the story below…
Vanilla currently uses an external payment gateway (lets call them Acme Pay) to handle online payment processing for our hosted plans. It is pretty standard as far as mainstream "old school" payment processers go (not "new school" like Stripe, Braintree or Zuora). The API is fairly clunky and unpolished, but it gets the job done.
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One big drawback I discovered with Acme Pay is that they do not support http "callbacks" to our system, to report on things like successful/failed payments, cancellations, refunds, etc. Obviously the lack of callbacks makes the system far more difficult to manage and track. We have to poll the gateway frequently and ask the equivalent of: "hey, anything cool happening?". This is very frustrating, but it doesn't end there. It seems that in addition to a lack of callbacks, Acme Pay does not store actual unique records of failed payment attempts. So that data simply doesn't exist.
I called them up and discovered that the one thing they CAN do is send emails, either to us (the merchant) or to the client, (or both) whenever a payment succeeds or fails. Ordinarily this would be nearly useless to us, since we were looking for more automation, not another manual step (receive email, look up client, manually update their records). Emails sounded like a big hassle, and we weren't getting anywhere. Time was ticking on and the processor was still not in a working state.
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Shibuya crossing where thousands of people cross on a daily basis. Just as I'm about to make my way through my normal route to walk to Rag Tag for my first dose of 2nd hand Comme on this trip, a girl comes up to me and tentatively asks "Style Bubble san?" Being recognised anywhere is always awesome but in Japan, it's particularly giddy, because of precisely what happened in the next ten minutes. We started to engage in conversation through her iPhone translation app. She spoke into it in Japanese and it would return with an English translation and I would do so vice versa. 21st century convo right there. The gist was that she liked my blog very much. All the while, she was leading me towards Shibuya's Parco department store. Apparently there was an exhibition I'd be interested in going to. I had no idea what it was but duitfully followed her. This iPhone translation thing was tickling me.
We arrive at Parco Museum and lo and behold, the designer Mikio Sakabe pops out. I had no idea that he and his partner in crime Yoshikazu Yamagata (of the label writtenafterwards), co-founders of a fashion school Coconogacco in Tokyo, had curated this space in Parco and that their own respective S/S 14 presentations were also taking place this weekend. I had to thank this girl profusely for a) such an accidental and awesome encounter in Tokyo and b) for leading me to a fashion occurence that was right up my street. "Zetsumei" was the name of the exhibition and literally, I think it means "Death". Don't be misled by the morbid name though. In fashion's cyclical pattern, whatever comes around must die off eventually. It's a reference to the industry's resurrective ebb and flow. For Sakabe and Yamagata, they're hoping to kill off commerciality for the time being in order to give birth to an unexplored source and process of creativity. That's why they gathered a group of young designers – some of them students, some just getting started – to each express themselves in their own installation at this exhibition.
The first part of the exhibition in the first week of October was one stage of the exhibition – the "Dawn" as it were. When I dropped by, the whole space had already undergone one stage of transformation so that we had arrived at the "Death" stage. No need to worry about the semantics here. The take home point is that just before the official Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Tokyo is about to begin (which is why I'm here in Tokyo), "Zetsumei" represents a very raw rebellion against that organised status quo. The designers here were tasked not to make clothes but to express their sentiment, their state of feeling, their world and their aesthetic through installations. They may have had garments. They may not. The important thing is that they have something to say. They make you intrigued as to what kind of a designer that person may turn out to be. They might go on to other creative fields. Who knows. They're sowing their initially untamed and wild seeds here and it's definitely a mode of expression in fashion teaching that isn't always encouraged. Trust Yamagata and Sakabe, who themselves graduated from Central Saint Martins and the Antwerp Royal Academy respectively, to start these designer younglings on a less than conventional path.
Osa's Secret Garden exhibition was a pile up of duveys and girls with swathes of artificial hair on their legs. Apparently the designer hated having hairy legs and it's an expression of that hirsute embarrassment. Like much of Tokyo's pre-occupations, it was a simultaneously sweet and odd source of inspiration.
Momoku Okusa grew up with brothers who boxed and so built a Day of the Dead-themed enclosed ring to contain her fantasy boxers.
Alicorn expresses hope with Game of Thrones-esque quasi-Medieval gowns and fantastical paintings.
In a reverse of the film Lars and the Real Girl, Bokuto's installation sees a robot boy and a real girl joined in a surreal sauna. Strange love and all that.
Ryota Murakami's installation was particularly sweet as he explained that he went through a period of lack of inspiration and so turned to his mother, who began to sketch away on designs. She's also turned her designs to life with her crochet skills. Murakami's mother is basically some kind of amazing. This is his ode to his mother's mode.
Hikaru Kodama bludgeons innocence with a sledgehammer by taking knife to teddy bears and mixing up ladylike tail coats with black PVC diapers. Another prevailing theme from this Zensutmei exhibition is the feeling of unease in one's childhood and this was definitely one expression of that.
Teenage dirtbag action from Maiko Fukushima where hentai manga, hamster wheels all collide in one messy manic sprawl.
Try and make sense of Natsuki Watanabe's homme/femme on a toilet. Gender bending is another theme as expected from a fasihon culture that celebrates conventional feminine traits in men and vice versa.
I loved Satoshi Kishimoto's painted, layered and graffiti-flecked basketball gear.
As a child Sho Sudo imagined that love motels would be like awesome places to visit. So he set about expressing that.
Noriko Nakazato also played out her childhood fantasies by creating her own shrink wrapped department store, selling doll body parts and other strange paraphernalia.
Sakabe's partner Jenny Fax sets up a corner shop selling all manner of deliberately branded trinkets.
The young designers' thoughts and processes are better seen in the walls of sketches and portfolio pages.
The founding seeds of this exhibition can be seen in the two S/S 14 presentations put on by Mikio Sakabe and writtenafterwards, designed by Yamagata. This was actually the first writtenafterwards presentation I had been to, and having been a fan of all of his previous conceptual shows, I was quite excited. Yamagata had built a wooden spaceship, which sat in the middle of the room. From the darkness emerged a parade of kids trussed up in delicately patchworked kimonos, all displaying the sort of textiles prowess that Japan is renowned for. Leading this circle was a beautiful ghostly woman in a similarly intricate red kimono – patched and repatched, collaged and recollaged. They circled around the spaceship to a steady drumbeat and a random strumming of the guitar. Then she got in and as a light shone down, the implication was that she was fired up into the air. It turns out the installation was based on the old Chinese/Japanese tale the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, starcrossed lovers that became immortalised as stars in the Milky Way. Yamagata sends his weaver girl up into space in a vastly updated vehicle but in garments that chip away at the past. Like the kimono, the whole experience was layered and complex. This might well be the happiest accident of a fashion show I've ever stumbled into.
The next day, Mikio Sakabe presented his S/S 14 collection. Sakabe specialises in delving deep into the beffudlement of Japanese adolescence. All that nostalgia and subversion doesn't seem to wear thin precisely because his presentations taps into a slightly different facet of Japanese coming of age everytime. This season it was no different as cartoon doggie knits, translucent suggestive organza and late Victorian dollhouse volumes were all thrown into a mix. The girls were muted blonde with a wounded and folorn expression and some wore decorative eye patches. Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind inspired the backdrop. They're a set of dolls, who have been contaminated by a rot under the sea, or more pertinently, the radiation of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, clearly still heavy on most Japanese people's minds. Sweet sadness – that's another Sakabe trait. It will be interesting to see his partner Jenny Fax's presentation on Saturday to see the whole story, as their shows are so often intertwined.


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The Pistons have just two games left before they head into their most important offseason in years.
Detroit will likely hold a top six pick in the draft and will have more than $20 million in cap space.
Pistons coach Lawrence Frank maintains that the best way to get better is to have your current players improve.
Obviously the improvement of the team's last three lottery picks Andre Drummond, Greg Monroe and Brandon Knight as well as Kyle Singler is paramount for the Pistons to get better.
But the Pistons have two other players who could be just as important to the team's development in Rodney Stuckey and Jonas Jerebko.
Stuckey will be 27 later this month and Jerebko turned 26 in March so both are relatively young. Stuckey has just one year (partially guaranteed) left on his deal, while Jerebko is signed through next season with a player option he will likely pick up for the 2014-15 season.
Both have been wildly inconsistent this season, but have come on strong to finish the year.
Throughout his career Stuckey has battled inconsistency and his 11.6 points and 3.5 assists per game this season are both the worst since his rookie season.
But in his last seven games Stuckey is averaging 17.3 points, 5.3 assists and 3.0 rebounds.
Stuckey has started in four of those seven games and it's clear he's been more effective as a starter this season.
He averaged 18.8 points, 3.0 assists and 3.0 rebounds in a four-game stretch where he started while Knight was out with an injury in late March.
For the season Stuckey averages 13 points and 3.8 assists as a starter and 11 points and 3.4 assists off the bench. But you also have to factor in Stuckey's terrible start to the season where he started the first eight games and averaged 9.3 points and 4.3 assists, while shooting 28.2 percent (24 for 85) from the field.
Since that start, Stuckey is averaging 15.1 points and 3.5 assists as a starter.
'We're just happy he's playing at the level he is. I think he's playing very, very well. You always look at different reasons why and try to figure it out. The good thing is we want to get off to as strong of finish as we can. Obviously he's a big part of it and he's playing a lot of minutes, and deservedly so, he's impacted the game.'
In the last four games Stuckey has started at point guard and Detroit is 3-1 with Stuckey running the point.
Frank was asked if Stuckey is more effective with the ball in his hands and simply replied it's Stuckey's job to be effective regardless.
'He doesn't always have the ball in his hands in prior years,' Frank said. 'He's been very effective so I don't want to take anything away from him. But I think regardless of what position you play in the game of basketball, no one has the ball in their hands the whole time. There's only around four players in this league that have it in their hands significantly more. You gotta be able to be effective both on and off the ball. I don't want to take away with anything from Rodney because he's done a very good job. He's done a very good job at the point guard position so hopefully we can keep on building on it.'
What the future holds for Stuckey is unclear, but if he can manage to play more consistent then he could be a huge boost for the Pistons next season.
Meanwhile, Jerebko has to be happy to being getting an opportunity after he was buried on the bench in December and January.
Jerebko played the first 13 games of the season, but after a rough start sat the next 15 and 28 of the next 29.
He finally got an opportunity again in February and averaged 6.7 points and 3.2 rebounds in nearly 14 minutes per game.
He followed the up by averaging 8.9 points and 4.6 rebounds in more than 21 minutes per game in March and so far in April is averaging 14 points and 5.3 rebounds in more than 25 minutes per game.
Jerebko is an energy player and is never going to be an offensive juggernaut, but he's shown his style can effective.
'Sometimes as player when you have big numbers offensively, you can let that dictate. To me it's how you get them,' Frank said. 'For Jonas it's got to be all hustle, effort, energy, shoot open shots, crash the glass, cut off the ball, be a ball mover. Then whatever happens, happens. The stat sheet often can't tell how good a guy like that plays. I think he's in a real good rhythm. He's playing and he's taking advantage of it. He's strung together several good games, which is a big, big positive.'
Playing more consistent will be a huge key for both Stuckey and Jerebko, but both are relatively young and can improve in other areas in hopes of turning the Pistons' franchise around next year.
'For each guy what you try to do ... is you target certain areas that they have to get better at,' Frank said. 'You're not going to get better at everything, but target two or three areas that when you come back, you have to have made significant improvement. We isolate those skills and make sure there is a detailed plan to get that done.'
Dave Pemberton covers the Pistons for Digital First Media. Email him at email@example.com and follow him on Twitter @drpemberton.


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~~ Simsong Simsong 05:39, 31 October 2008 (UTC) http://simson.net/
It seems that pages with "+" in title are not properly handled. Look at 3+1_Data_Recovery .FUF 08:13, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
- Fixed. Thanks. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL . Turns out I needed to add the $wgUsePathInfo=true to the config file. Simsong 14:06, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
- Good .FUF 14:07, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
I think we need some kind of "ban user and delete his contribution (last created page)" button. .FUF 11:35, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
- So do I.I'll look around to see if there is such a module. Simsong 14:41, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
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Several area stores are preparing to open tonight and sell Ravens memorabilia to fans eager to show their pride over the team's Super Bowl win.
Around midnight at Dick's Sporting Goods located inside Columbia Crossing shopping center, fans raided the shelves to get their hands on Super Bowl Champions gear.
"I told myself I wasn't going to waste any time," said Elkridge resident Cheryl Guyton. "I got a magnet, a sweat shirt, T-shirts, cups, and I might not be done yet."
Guyton said she got a little nervous watching the game, but the end result produced elation.
"I was getting nervous for awhile, I was shaking and trembling," she said. "It was the most amazing thing for Ray to go out that way."
Brendan Marr of Columbia was shopping at Dick's with his seven-year-old son Andrew.
"I was shopping here yesterday and saw the signs," Marr said with two Super Bowl champion T-shirts draped over his shoulder. "They won, so we came."
Modell's Sporting Goods on Reisterstown Road in Baltimore also planned to reopen Sunday night. All of the store's merchandise will be available for purchase, but assistant manager Mike Milazzo said he expects the bulk of the sales to be Ravens-related.
He said the store will open as quickly as the staff can get championship merchandise set up and will stay open until business slows.
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Twenty-nine children from the Maspeth school visited the Credit Suisse office in Manhattan, where they learned how to dress for a job interview, about being cordial and respectful at work, and to always take a person's business card and send a follow-up email.
"Focus and really work hard" was the theme of the trip, according to organizer Daisy Montalvo, an administrative assistant at Credit Suisse.
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Boston archdiocese tells faithful they can miss Sunday Mass
The Boston archdiocese today urged Catholics to heed safety warnings from public officials during the blizzard, and to only try to attend Mass Sunday if they can do so safely.
As part of its faith, the Roman Catholic church requires its followers to attend Mass on Sundays.
"The faithful are encouraged to use good judgment when planning to travel to Mass. Hopefully the storm will have passed on Saturday, and roadways will be clear for travel on Sunday,'' the archdiocese said in a statement.
"In the event that roadways are not clear for travel on Sunday, the faithful are reminded that the obligation to attend Sunday Mass does not apply when there is grave difficulty in fulfilling this obligation,'' the statement said.


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Last year for my son's birthday I wanted something different to pair on my dessert table with all the cupcakes, candy, cookies, and rice crispy treats I had. SO I made these cute little mason jar apple pies, added some ribbon around them, and they ended up being the HIT of the party! Some people even took them home haha... These pies were the most popular of all the desserts I made. I used a … [Read more...]
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by Nathan Lerner
This year, the Philadelphia Folk Festival will celebrate its half-century milestone. Held on the Old Pool Farm near Schwenksville, the lineup for the 50th edition will include such stalwarts as Arlo Guthrie, Levon Helm, David Bromberg, Trombone Shorty, and Tom Rush. These traditional fan favorites will be augmented by local acts, including The Berrys, Hoots & Hellmouth, Burning Bridget Cleary, RUNA, Birdie Busch and Suzie Brown.
Lafayette Hill resident, Juli Vitello, will be playing a pivotal role at the festival. The 55-year old Boston native will be running the Friends of the Festival program. She has worked in this capacity as a volunteer ever since the program's inception in 2006."I went to the festival for over 20 years," she explained, "and always had a great time. I met so many wonderful people. I reached an age when I wanted to give something back for all those good times."
In addition to running the Friends of the Festival, for the past six years Vitello has been a member of the board of directors of the Philadelphia Folksong Society, the sponsoring organization of the festival. She is currently the board's recording secretary. What exactly does the Friends of the Festival involve? For an additional fee of $195, concertgoers can obtain premium perquisites at the festival, such as a reserved parking space, seating in the hospitality tent adjoining the backstage, two gourmet picnic meals, inclusion in a commemorative group photo, chair massages, access to free showers and enhanced opportunities to interact with performers. According to Vitello, "Most people who are Friends of the Festival insist that it is worth it just for the parking."
Vitello described the evolution of the Friends of the Festival: "In the beginning, I was my whole committee. However, as we have grown and offered more, I have picked up terrific new helpers. Each year, we try to add more. We listen to the Friends and what they would like to have.
"Most years we sell Friends tickets well into August. However, this being our 50th annual Philadelphia Folk Festival, many people signed up who never did in the past. This year, for the first time we sold out." (The fees generated by the Friends of the Festival go directly to Philadelphia Folksong Society.) "You get to know the kids of some festival-goers and about their lives and pets. Some come from as far away as Georgia and Ohio. This year, one is coming all the way from France…
"The first time I ever walked down the hill to the stage I heard Tom Paxton singing 'Did You See John Hurt?' It remains one of my favorite songs. One of my first friends, when I came here from Reading, was Gene Shay when he was at WMMR." Shay has served as emcee at every festival since its origin.
Vitello's résumé includes her accomplishments as an Emmy Award-winning television producer as well as 12 years at Electric Factory Concerts as a publicist and marketing specialist. She then decided to pursue a career in education. She had previously earned a degree with honors in Literature from Albright College in Reading. Vitello resumed her studies at Chestnut Hill College, where she earned a master's degree in Education with a certification for middle school. She currently teaches 7th and 8th graders at the Green Woods Charter School in upper Roxborough.
Vitello waxed nostalgic when she described one specific aspect of the festival. "My favorite moment each year is at 7:30 at night, when the bagpipe player walks down the hill, playing to signal the beginning of the evening performance. You have already seen so much good music during the day, and when you hear that sound and know you have a whole night of music in front of you, you could just cry with happiness. "
Vitello's son, Carson, graduated Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School with Honors and currently matriculates at the University of Pittsburgh. Vitello's husband, Don, is a television director, who won two Emmys. He currently works for Fusion, a Philadelphia-based production company.
"I think the Festival has lasted 50 years," said Vitello, "because it is a great environment in which to see music. It is a safe place to entertain your family with many activities for kids such as crafts, juggling and concerts in Dulcimer Grove. If you get into any kind of difficulty, lost tent stakes, lost children or anything else, someone will always help you out. I once saw a guy who came totally alone and was taken into a campsite with 100 folks he never met before, and he happily spent the weekend there.
"I would hate to see the day come when the festival no longer exists. Mostly, I want to help sustain the festival for my son and kids in his generation, who also love it."
The 50th annual Philadelphia Folk Festival will take place Thursday, Aug. 18, through Sunday, Aug. 21. For more information, call 215-247-1300 or visit www.pfs.org/folk-festival.
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This page gives some informal guidance on how Fedora communities in different locales can establish Internet domains with the word "Fedora" in them. The Fedora trademark guidelines have specific requirements that must be met for setting up these domains, in order to preserve the value of the Fedora trademarks. The Fedora trademarks are owned by Red Hat worldwide, and apply to all Internet domains regardless of their country of origin or registrar.
- We recommend that local communities use a *.fedoracommunity.org domain name supplied by the Fedora Project, along with their own hosting.
- To establish any other domain with the word Fedora in its domain name, you must have a trademark license agreement with Red Hat.
- Refer to the sections below for more information.
Buying a separate domain
Not every local community requires a local domain. Many local communities can function perfectly well in the existing Fedora Project domain(s). Fedora already offers the ability for communities to provide complete translations for our main web site and other pages. We are also working on the capability to have a translated MediaWiki that will not require as much manual work on the part of translators.
In addition, splitting off a domain has the tendency to keep local community members from getting up to date information that flows on the official Fedora channels. It multiplies the number of areas a community member needs to monitor and thus takes away from the time they could otherwise spend on contribution directly to Fedora.
However, there are some good reasons for local domains to exist, and the Fedora Project realizes the importance of enabling the community to grow Fedora in localities around the world. Therefore we have a few options available to people who want to set up a domain to support this effort.
Other considerations
Trademark guidelines
In all cases, community domains must adhere to the Fedora trademark guidelines, and if they choose to display a Fedora logo consistent with those guidelines, they must also adhere to the Fedora logo usage guidelines.
National top-level-domains
The Fedora Project tends to discourage the use of fedoraproject.XX or fedoraproject.org.XX domains. One of the primary reasons for establishing local community domains is to clearly identify that a community owns and is responsible for the content at that domain. Using the name fedoraproject in a domain reduces that clarity and could cause significant legal risks for our primary sponsor in some cases. We encourage domains to use a XX.fedoracommunity.org domain wherever possible, or at least a different domain name using fedora under a trademark license agreement as required in the Fedora trademark guidelines.
Mailing lists and email
To establish a mailing list for a community, simply create a ticket in the Fedora Infrastructure issue tracking system. Generally, this list will be in the form of firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you are setting up web applications on your hosts and need to use email addresses for messages, you may use firstname.lastname@example.com wherever applicable. Hosts can be set to use the fedoraproject.org mail servers.
For additional assistance, contact the Fedora Infrastructure team.
There are essentially two options open to local communities who want to purchase a domain with the word "Fedora" in the name for purposes of Fedora community work.
Pre-purchased domain
The Fedora Project or Red Hat can provide a subdomain in the *.fedoracommunity.org domain, and arrange for it to point to the fedoraproject.org domain name servers. Since we control those name servers, it is very easy for the Infrastructure team to then direct host queries to the appropriate community server(s).
To use this option:
- If you are to be responsible for the hosts for the community site, ensure your Fedora Account System account is up to date. If someone else is to be responsible, make sure you have their name and complete contact information available.
- Email the fedora-advisory-board with your request. Use the subject Community domain request. Indicate whether you or someone else is to be responsible for the hosts. Do not post any personal information in the email. Please do indicate the following, though:
- Names of the team that will maintain the site, and their current roles in the Fedora community
- Services that will be offered through the new domain
- An IP address or URL where the Board can look at the content and presentation, and verify that the trademark guidelines are being consistently applied
- The Fedora Board will respond as quickly as possible, and ask for any further information needed.
- The Fedora Board will take a rapid "consensus vote."
- The consensus vote essentially answers the question, "Can the community set up this domain?"
- In most cases, it's expected the Board will answer "Yes."[1]
- A Board member will file a ticket in the Fedora Infrastructure issue tracker, and send you a link.
- After review, you will be assigned an appropriate subdomain and contacted for required host information. The Infrastructure team will ask for IP addresses, and will assign A, AAAA, and TXT records as needed.
Note that we cannot guarantee availability of a domain other than *.fedoracommunity.org, nor that we will provide more than one domain for a particular community group. Currently we do not plan to issue records other than those listed in the process above (e.g. MX for mail servers). The purpose of additional local community domains is to allow domains to set up web sites and forums in a locale's language, but to keep that community cohesive with the rest of the Fedora community.
Self-purchased domain
Communities may purchase their own domains, but only after completing a trademark license agreement from Red Hat, pursuant to the trademark guidelines.
To use this option, email the fedora-advisory-board with your request, before you purchase any domain. The Fedora Board will respond as quickly as possible, consider the request, and arrange for a trademark license agreement as appropriate.
- ↑ This is very much like the matrimonial audience question, "Is there any reason why these two shall not be joined...?" Absent a good reason not to approve the domain, requests should be granted. Reasons to deny might include lack of clear domain ownership or good faith, or perceived intent to disparage, for example.


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In a hallmark episode of Mad Men Don Draper said, "Nostalgia -- it's delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, 'nostalgia' literally means 'the pain from an old wound.' It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels – around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved."
Of course, for all of you out there who, unlike me, don't voraciously follow the AMC series, Don was pitching an ad for a slide projector (nostalgia, indeed) to a potential client. However, I like to think that this quote speaks of yet another rotary mechanism with equal validity, both practically and emotionally speaking, though there may be some folks who'd argue the dingus as obsolete. Well, my record player is still alive and spinning, taking me to new places as often as it swings me back, right 'round, home-bound again like a flawlessly sound-tracked time machine. I can offer no better example of this cyclical sentimental journey than the summer season I spent aboard my little hi-fi this year enjoying an endless rotation summer jams beginning with the fresh sun-soaked (and smog-stained) sounds of Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti, what with the extremely timely June 7th release of Before Today on 4AD, and, now that summer is winding down, rounding out the season with a mess of Carolina beach music 7" singles culled from the belly of the 45's bargain bin at Amoeba Music in San Francisco.


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Weis-Buy Farms Inc. is part of the article 'Tomato Prices Fall As Volumes Increase', written by Andy Nelson, published by The Packer, July 01, 2013.
A glut of product pushed down tomato prices in June.
After months of strong markets, tomato prices were falling as spring gave way to summer and more domestic deals began, said Chuck Weisinger, president and chief executive officer of Weis-Buy Farms Inc., Fort Myers, Fla.
"The last two weeks, prices have dropped precipitously," Weisinger said June 25. "We're looking at an overabundance of product."
Tony DiMare, vice president of Homestead, Fla.-based DiMare Co., agreed.
"We're in for a tough summer as long as the weather is favorable," he said.
"Product is coming in from a lot of locations."
On June 25, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported prices of $4.95-5.95 for 25-pound cartons of loose mature-greens from California, down from $10.95-11.95 last year at the same time.
In addition to Florida and Mexico, in late June California production was ramping up and product also was starting to come out of Arkansas, South Carolina and Georgia, with other seasonal production just around the corner, Weisinger said.
"It's almost like we have to get a little too cheap before we can come back."
That comeback could begin as early as the week of July 1.
"I have a feeling that people will be surprised by the amount of business we do next week" in the runup to the Fourth of July, Weisinger said.
"I think this is a short-term glitch. I expect more stabilization after the Fourth."
Quality out of Florida was very good in late June, with no arrival problems reported, Weisinger said.
"The growers are doing a fantastic job finishing these tomatoes."
DiMare Co. reported very good quality at the end of its Florida deal and the beginning of its California deal, DiMare said.
The company wrapped up its Ruskin, Fla., production the week of June 17 and began shipping from Newman, Calif., in mid-June.
High freight rates to the East Coast will make it harder for DiMare Co. and other California shippers to supply Eastern markets with product this summer, DiMare said.
Weis-Buy Farms Inc. is part of the article 'Tomato Prices Fall As Volumes Increase', written by Andy Nelson, originally published by The Packer, July 01, 2013.


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Morning MarketBeat: From Cyprus to Records
Pre-Market Brief:
MARKET SNAP: At 5:55 a.m. ET, S&P 500 futures down 0.2%. Treasury yields little changed. Nymex down at $95.90; gold down 0.1% at $1,596.18. In Europe, FTSE 100 down 0.1%, DAX down 0.7% and CAC 40 down 0.9%. In Asia, Nikkei 225 up 0.2% and Hang Seng up 0.7%.
Overnight action: U.K. banks facing capital shortfall; European regulators to charge banks over derivatives; Euro's bears go back on the prowl.
Watch for: MBA weekly mortgage applications survey (7:00 a.m. Eastern Time). February Pending Home Sales (10:00): Seen down 0.5%, after rising 4.5% a month earlier. EIA weekly petroleum status report (10:30).
Speeches: Chicago Fed President Charles Evans (11:00); Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren (11:30); Cleveland Fed President Sandra Pianalto (12:15 p.m.); Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota (1:00 p.m.).
Earnings: EXFO, Five Below, Forest City, H.B. Fuller, Lindsay Paychex, Progress Software, PVH, Red Hat, Steelcase, SYNNEX, Texas Industries and UniFirst, among others, are scheduled to report quarterly results.
For more MarketBeat and other streaming markets coverage from The Wall Street Journal, point your mobile browser to wsj.com/marketspulse.
The Breakfast Briefing
Worries about Cyprus may be fading, but they shouldn't be forgotten.
The latest euro-zone flare-up has been relegated to a shrug for traders, pushing the S&P 500's run at all-time highs to the forefront. The fact that another record chase coincides with the recent mess in Cyprus illustrates how the rally keeps rolling along while dark clouds loom above.
Yesterday's rally pushed the index to less than two points from its record of 1565.15, achieved on Oct. 9, 2007.
Milestone mania hit markets earlier this month when the Dow Jones Industrial Average joined the Wilshire 5000, the Russell 2000 and the Dow Jones Transportation Average in record territory, while the broader S&P 500 lagged a bit behind.
The psychological impact of the broader S&P 500 joining the record-high club shouldn't be lost, even as its timing has brought back some bad memories.
"The events in Cyprus provide another very visible—albeit extreme—illustration of the financial problems which are holding back the global recovery," says Julian Jessop, chief global economist at Capital Economics. "Indeed, even though the Cypriot economy itself is tiny, the ramifications could still be felt worldwide, both in economic activity and market volatility."
Mr. Jessop points out the bailout will have "damaging effects" on Cyprus's economy. It also raises fresh questions about the stability of the currency union.
"It is premature to conclude that Cyprus's membership of the currency union has been secured, given the deep and prolonged recession now facing the country," he says. "The departure of even a tiny country from the euro could become a model for others to follow, especially if the exiting economy subsequently rebounded."
Such a development could ripple through economies around the globe, he says. "At the very least, it could bring to an end the current period of low volatility in financial markets."
That may be so. But in the short run, the focus on the S&P 500's record chase has the potential to drown out the lingering concerns sparked by Cyprus.
Morning MarketBeat Daily Factoid: On this day 15 years ago, Viagra received FDA approval.
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Stocks to Watch
PVH is expected to report fourth-quarter earnings of $1.50 a share, according to a consensus survey by FactSet.
Red Hat is projected to post fourth-quarter earnings of 30 cents a share.
Paychex is likely to report earnings of 39 cents a share in the third quarter.
Overnight Headlines (Links)
Ahead of the Tape: Europe Must Do More Than Put Out Fires: "Forget crisis fatigue. Europe is fighting recession fatigue. through all its ups and downs, the region's economy continues grinding lower, failing to post any growth overall since autumn 2011."
Banks Looking at $100 Billion Legal Tab: "Investors, insurers and municipalities continue to pursue damages for actions tied to the mortgage meltdown, the financial crisis and the rate-rigging scandal."
Berkshire Set to Get Big Goldman Stake: "Warren Buffett struck a deal with Goldman Sachs that will make his Berkshire Hathaway one of the largest shareholders in the investment bank."
Cyprus Sets Bank Restructuring: "Cypriot officials gave the first indications of the steep losses facing large deposit holders at the island's two biggest lenders, as hundreds of bank workers staged a demonstration outside the country's central bank and demanded the resignation of its governor."
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Starting Political Group: "Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg is co-organizing a political advocacy group made up of top technology leaders that would push federal legislative reform on issues ranging from immigration to education."
Heard on the Street: Little Comedy in Clear Channel's L.A. Story: "Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings is facing something of a digital dilemma. The Los Angeles City Attorney asked Clear Channel and CBS's billboard division, to comply with a court order and turn off more than 100 digital billboards in the city."
New Web Of Insiders Is Charged: "A highly productive informant has led federal prosecutors to another group of alleged insider traders, one that includes a hedge-fund analyst and the investment chief for Wyoming's retirement system."
Overheard: A Bear Call on Bullish Analysts: "Anyone who has listened to earnings conference calls may have noticed that the bullish analysts don't always ask the most trenchant questions. Companies seem to have noticed this, too."
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Tonight, the Senate voted to confirm Vivek Murthy as the country's new Surgeon General, the youngest in history.
But the "top doctor" spot had been vacant for over a year. The misconception that gun violence is a political issue instead of an urgent public health crisis derailed President Obama's Surgeon General nomination and twisted a doctor's legitimate concerns about gun violence into a scandal.
Murthy is well-qualified. He has a B.A. from Harvard and an M.D. and M.B.A. from Yale. He's a physician at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, and the co-founder of TrialNetworks, which leverages technology to improve clinical trials, and VISIONS, an HIV/AIDS education nonprofit.
Murthy is also a close Obama ally. He founded Doctors for America (formerly Doctors for Obama), an organization of more than 16,000 doctors and medical students that's been a key supporter of the Affordable Care Act.
Despite Murthy's impressive resume, opponents could object to his youth (he's 36) or his political connections to the President and his agenda. His concerns about gun violence, however, are what really made him controversial and delayed his confirmation for so long.
A manufactured controversy
"Tired of politicians playing politics w/ guns, putting lives at risk b/c they're scared of NRA," Murthy tweeted back in 2012. "Guns are a health care issue."
How might a doctor come to that conclusion? "My concerns with regard to issues like gun violence have to do with my experience as a physician, seeing patients in emergency rooms," he told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in February.
Emily Miller, author of " Emily Gets Her Gun: ...But Obama Wants to Take Yours," blasted Murthy as "rabidly anti-gun" in an editorial in The Washington Times. The NRA vigorously lobbied against his nomination, and even some Democrats are ran scared.
To more qualified observers, the controversy seems absurd.
"We are appalled that a candidate of such high caliber - with impeccable credentials, a well-earned reputation as a 'doctor's doctor' and formidable experience in management and leadership - could be derailed for a moderate position on gun violence that aligns with the vast majority of America's health professionals," a team of doctors, who personally know Murthy, wrote on WBUR's CommonHealth.
Indeed, Murthy's position is hardly fringe.
A doctor should not be taken to task for speaking out about a problem that lands thousands of people in emergency rooms every year. Those are exactly the things that doctors — and especially anyone about to be charged with safeguarding the nation's health — should be vocal about.
"A public health emergency"
Gun violence unquestionably is a public health issue. In 2009, it was the cause of 31,347 deaths, just under the number of deaths attributed to car accidents (36,216). Guns were also involved in an additional 73,505 non-fatal injuries.
The American Public Health Association calls gun violence in the United States "a major public health problem and a leading cause of premature death." They're not alone.
"The idea that gun violence is a danger to public health is utterly uncontroversial among doctors' groups, academic institutions that focus on public health, and children's safety advocates," wrote Sy Mukherjee at ThinkProgress. "The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a resolution in 2011 officially opposing any law that bars doctors from having open conversations about gun safety and the risks of having firearms in a household with their patients."
And yet the discussion about gun violence in this country is usually framed as a deadlocked political battle between pro-gun right-wingers and pro-gun-control left-wingers. It's time to rethink that.
In a 2013 essay in the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors suggested that a public health and safety campaign — similar to the approach that has sharply reduced deaths from car accidents — should be applied to the gun violence problem as well.
"None of these proposed changes will be easy, but public health has had many successes, even against powerful and intractable private interests," they write.
C. Everett Koop, President Ronald Reagan's Surgeon General, agreed. He called gun violence a "public health emergency."
"No society, including ours, need be permeated by firearm homicide," he wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1992. "The right to own or operate a motor vehicle carries with it certain responsibilities ... We propose that the right to own or operate a firearm carries with it the same prior conditions."
It's not that Murthy's views are on the right side or the wrong side of a political debate. It's that framing gun violence as a political issue, instead of as a health crisis, is backwards — and dangerous.
"This should not be a political issue," Thomas K. McInerny, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a statement. "Gun violence is a public health issue that profoundly affects children and their families."
The way forward
Back when his confirmation was looking increasingly unlike, Murthy said that as Surgeon General, he would focus on "obesity, tobacco-related disease, mental illness, and community-driven public health initiatives" and "not use the office to advocate for gun control."
That may have helped his chances, but it won't necessarily help the country.
Reasonable people can disagree on how to approach the problem of gun violence, but we have to learn to look at it as more than a political talking point.
It's a tragic public health concern, and efforts to curb its damage should match our efforts against smoking and reckless driving. When respected members of the medical community call attention to the problem and voice support for solutions, they should be applauded, not punished.


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First, the trade deadline is a misnomer. The only thing 31 July represents is the last day a team can trade a player away without having to subject him to the waiver process. Teams do still make trades after 31 July. It is harder to do, but it happens. So to expect no more trades in a baseball season starting 1 August is kind of silly.
Second, it is standard practice for clubs to put their players on waivers. In many years, WHOLE TEAMS are placed on waivers. Does this mean a fire sale is in the offing? No, it means the GM is keeping his options open. He can't trade someone away unless he clears waivers. It also gives him some intel on who is interested in guys on his roster (a tactically savvy move, in my opinion).
So Heath Bell being placed on waivers is not at all unusual. I'll bet he was not the only Padre placed on waivers; he's perhaps the most interesting because most folks in the industry expected him to be traded away before the deadline.
Now he's on waivers. What's that mean? A couple of things. Any team can put a claim in for him, but the priority of who gets the claim is in reverse order of record. So the Houston Astros would have the highest priority if they wanted Bell, then Baltimore, then the Royals, and so on. Only one team will be awarded the waiver claim, and if there's no deal struck, the next team in the list does not get a second chance to pick the player up.
In Bell's case, the Giants were the worst record team to make a claim on him, which is why reports have stated the Giants claimed Heath Bell on waivers.
Once a team is awarded a claim,
Assuming the Padres would want a player on the Giants 40-man roster, that guy would either have to have already cleared waivers, or have been put on waivers at roughly the same time as Bell in order to make a trade work. Or, the Padres would have to accept a lesser player, a low minor-leaguer, a guy not protected on the 40-man roster - and the chances of them trading Heath Bell for a low level prospect are virtually nil.
Everybody got that? No? Let's sum up:
- Placing players on waivers post-trade deadline is standard operating procedure in baseball;
- Claiming a player placed on waivers is no guarantee that player will join the claiming team;
- Heath Bell is not going anywhere.
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A collection of personal thoughts and experiences - mostly centered around running.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Cheat Mountain Open!
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Adam, a little modesty here please. Afterall this a public blog. For those of you who have not run Cheat Mountain, then you need to. It is another wonderful West Virginia run. Adam, Kadra and all of their volunteers cater to you in every way. There are no details left unchecked. For example, if there is not enough mud on the course, then they will get out there with water and make some. Just ask Doug Blackford about last year. He slid off a muddy bank and if I was not there to save him, he might still be there. Afterall what are friends for (a little modesty of my own). My application went in the mail yesterday (opening day). I am already looking forward to August!ReplyDelete
NICE!!! Rick, you need to make Beth run this one. :o) it definitely looks fun!! I need a few more ultras under my belt, but maybe I can run this one 2011! :o)ReplyDelete
Cheers adam!! and I hope your race fills quickly!!
You are officially the CMMM 50M PR-man. Now talk Jenny into making the trip with you to run the race and I'll give you a hefty percentage of my RD salary (fyi: 50% x $0= $0)
Jenny, Do you realize how many ultras you will have under your belt when August comes along. Cheat Mountian is your best race to get your first 50 miler. You had your first 50k in WV in 2010. You could have your first 50 miler in WV in 2010. If you sign up (which you should) for Dan's Highland Sky, you could have your first 40 miler in WV in 2010. With all of this, WV will adopt you. In all seriousness, Cheat Mountain is your best place for your first 50 miler. No where else will you get that warm fuzzy family feeling in a 50 miler that Adam and Kadra pour out to us trail runners. Don't put this off until 2011. Go for it girl!ReplyDelete
Adam, Cheat Mountain is easy to talk about and when you believe in something you want to talk about it. I will be happy to only take a percentage of your RD salary, but I think I deserve 60% and not 50%!!!
A couple of items that I left out of my previous comment. I will continue to work on Beth and I think she is getting closer to coming under the Cheat Mountain spell or maybe Adam's magic. I am not really sure, but Adam, if I do get Beth to come up with me, I can guarantee you one thing. Beth will bring her "magic wand". If you have not seen it, it is amazing. I think she bought it at the dollar store. When she taps your head to put you under her magic spell (mine is always good), the magic wand makes a nice little noise.ReplyDelete
Last year I met Doug and Dennis at Cracker Barrel in Abingdon to travel up in the family van to Beverly. Funny how Beth lives in Abingdon and Jenny is only about 10 miles away. You know the family van holds a good many folks. As an added bonus, Adam even has hot showers available at the start/finish so that we can travel back home in the family van smelling all clean and fresh. Now how can two ladies pass up all of this fun???
After the last two comments it's a done deal, you get 60%.
Now make it stop snowing and you can have 100%!
Everyone is wanting it to stop snowing. I will have to call upon Beth and her magic wand to help in the snow issue. Just to make you a little envious, in Johnson City we can now see grass and the sidewalks are clear. Tammy and I are heading up sometime this weekend to Mount Mitchell / Black Mountain to check out the course. I can guarantee you that we will be back in the snow.ReplyDelete


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The unstoppable Jim Clark
Season's results | Drivers' Championship | Constructors' Championship
The year proved to be a memorable one for Jim Clark and Lotus. Clark won seven races in all. It was the most devastating display of craftmanship by a single driver since the great triumph of Alberto Ascari 11 years previously.
Absent from the tracks in 1963 was the Porsche team, which had withdrawn to concentrate on sports car racing. The German marque would be back as an engine-supplier more than 20 years later. The Lotus, BRM and Cooper line-ups were unchanged but, as usual, the off-season had been busy. Having lost his Porsche ride, Gurney teamed up with Jack Brabham to drive the double champion's own cars. The promising Bowmaker/Lola team withdrew, and the cars were bought by Reg Parnell for young Kiwi, Chris Amon.
With Bowmaker out, Surtees moved to Ferrari. He joined Belgian Willy Mairesse, who had shown some promise in the past. The Ferrari breakaway had spawned a new team, ATS, and a pair of works Ferrari drivers, Phil Hill and Baghetti, both jumped ship. They would come to regret their decision.
Clark led the opener at Monaco, but retired when the gearbox broke. It was to be his only retirement in an exceptionally reliable year for Lotus. With Clark out, Graham Hill and Ginther scored a one-two. Clark's luck changed at Spa, and he took a memorable win in the rain, ahead of McLaren and Gurney (scoring the Brabham team's first top three finish).
It was the same story at Zandvoort, where Clark led all the way to win from Gurney and Surtees, and at Reims, where even a misfire could not stop him. Clark scored his fourth win in a row at Silverstone, while Surtees took second after Graham Hill ran out of fuel on the last lap. Surtees had threatened to win for a couple of years, and he finally came good at the Nurburgring, scoring Ferrari's first success since Monza in 1961. Clark took second, ahead of BRM's Ginther.
At Monza Ferrari had a new chassis, which was designed to accept the forthcoming 1964 spec V8 engine. Clark headed home Ginther and McLaren, and clinched the champ- ionship - even though there were still three races to run. Graham Hill headed Ginther and Clark home at Watkins Glen. Clark was stymied by a flat battery, and had to start from the back.
The Mexican Grand Prix was in the championship for the first time, and Clark scored his sixth win of the year. He added a record seventh in South Africa in December to cap an amazing season. Before dropped scores were taken into account, he had amassed 73 points.
Brabham finished second in Mexico and then team-mate Gurney repeated the feat in South Africa, showing that "Black Jack" had got his sums right, and would be a force to reckon with.
Reproduced from The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Formula One published by Carlton Books


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Alive Magazine
This full-color member magazine features stories on animal conservation throughout the world, animals and exhibits at the Milwaukee County Zoo, and the Zoological Society's extensive education programs that teach about animals and the environment. There are also children's activities, people profiles and photography layouts. The magazine is published in January, April and October. What's Gnu is a section with stories and photos of new arrivals or animal births at the Zoo.


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R.H. Sin's poems are often only a few lines long, and yet the emotional punch of his language gives these words an enduring power beyond the short page. He doesn't back away from the pains and struggles of life and love, and yet his determined, unapologetic voice provides a measure of comfort and a message of perseverance that is at once realistic and indomitable. This blend of determination and painful vulnerability gives his poetry a distinctive, engaging flavor.
Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist. Her work expresses the intricacies of love and loss. Love & Misadventure is her first poetry collection.
Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her readers. Her talent for translating complex emotions with astonishing simplicity has won her a cult following of devoted fans from all over the world.
Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist.
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Scholars, students, and all who delight in Yeats's varied music and sheer quality will rejoice in this expanded edition. As the introduction observes, "Early and late he has the simple, indispensable gift of enchanting the ear....He was also the poet who, while very much of his own day in Ireland, spoke best to the people of all countries. And though he plunged deep into arcane studies, his themes are most clearly the general ones of life and death, love and hate, man's condition, and history's meanings. He began as a sometimes effete post-Romantic, heir to the pre-Raphaelites, and then, quite naturally, became a leading British Symbolist; but he grew at last into the boldest, most vigorous voice of this century." Selected Poems and Four Plays represents the essential achievement of the greatest twentieth-century poet to write in English.
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Don't hide your heart but reveal it, so that mine might be revealed, and I might accept what I am capable of.
If the heart isn't there, how can the body speak? If the heart doesn't seek, how can the body seek?
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One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to revise anything.
He fell in love.
Three years and almost one thousand poems later, Tyler is now known as the creator of the Typewriter Series: a striking collection of poems typed onto found scraps of paper or created via blackout method. Chasers of the Light features some of his most insightful and beautifully worded pieces of work—poems that illuminate grand gestures and small glimpses, poems that celebrate the beauty of a life spent chasing the light.
The Divine Comedydescribes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption.
'The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism... likely to be the best modern version of Dante' - Bernard O'Donoghue
'The most moving lines literature has achieved' - Jorge Luis Borges
'This version is the first to bring together poetry and scholarship in the very body of the translation - a deeply-informed version of Dante that is also a pleasure to read' - Professor David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania
Individual editions of Robin Kirkpatrick's translation - Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso - are also available in Penguin Classics, and include Dante's Italian printed alongside the English text.
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. His life was divided by political duties and poetry, the most of famous of which was inspired by his meeting with Bice Portinari, whom he called Beatrice, including La Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy. He died in Ravenna in 1321.
Robin Kirkpatrick is a poet and widely-published Dante scholar. He has taught courses on Dante's Divine Comedy in Hong Kong, Dublin, and Cambridge where is Fellow of Robinson College and Professor of Italian and English Literatures.
The first translation of the poet's complete works when it was published in 1966, Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters introduced a new generation of Americans to the alienated genius—among them the Doors's lead singer Jim Morrison, who wrote to translator Wallace Fowlie to thank him for rendering the poems accessible to those who "don't read French that easily." Forty years later, the book remains the only side-by-side bilingual edition of Rimbaud's complete poetic works.
Thoroughly revising Fowlie's edition, Seth Whidden has made changes on virtually every page, correcting errors, reordering poems, adding previously omitted versions of poems and some letters, and updating the text to reflect current scholarship; left in place are Fowlie's literal and respectful translations of Rimbaud's complex and nontraditional verse. Whidden also provides a foreword that considers the heritage of Fowlie's edition and adds a bibliography that acknowledges relevant books that have appeared since the original publication. On its fortieth anniversary, Rimbaud remains the most authoritative—and now, completely up-to-date—edition of the young master's entire poetic ouvre.
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Nikki self–published her first book Black Feeling, Black Talk/BlackJudgement in 1969, selling 10,000 copies; William Morrow published in 1970. Know for its iconic revolutionary phrases, it is heralded as one of the most important volumes of modern African–American poetry and is considered the seminal volume of Nikki's body of work.
My House (Morrow 1972) marks a new dimension in tone and philosphy––This is Giovanni's first foray into the autobiographical.
In The Women and the Men (Morrow 1975), Nikki displays her compassion for the people, things and places she has encountered––She reveres the ordinary and is in search of the extraordinary.
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (Morrow 1978) is one of the most poignant and introspective of all Giovanni's collections. These poems chronicle the drastic change that took place during the 1970s––when the dreams of the Civil Rights era seemed to have evaporated.
Those Who Ride the Night Winds (Morrow 1983) is devoted to "the day trippers and midnight cowboys," the ones who have devoted their lives to pushing the limits of the human condition and shattered the constraints of the stautus quo.
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Take the Mic is an essential guide for lifting your poetry from the page to the stage. Marc Kelly Smith (So What!), grand founder of the Slam movement, serves as you personal coach, showing you how to craft stage-worthy verse and deliver a poetry performance that shakes the rafters and sparks thunderous applause. In Take the Mic, you discover how to...Pen poetry that's conducive to on-stage performance Overcome stage fright Practice powerful performance techniques Rehearse like a pro Shape a loose collection of poems into a killer set Connect with your audience — heart and soul Master the art of self-promotion Schedule your own slam poetry tour Transform your hobby into paying gigs Act professional to establish a solid reputation in the Slam community
Take the Mic is packed with practical exercises you can do alone or in class to hone your skills and transform your body, mind, voice, verse, and spirit into an engaging stage presence.
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This groundbreaking anthology presents in chronological order over four hundred poems written during the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic development. Concise biographies for each poet complete the anthology. By organizing the poems in chronological order, readers will see poets in a new light. Here A. E. Houseman, for example, rubs shoulders with T. S. Eliot, showing that traditional forms can hold their own against the modernist orthodoxy. All the major events of the twentieth century are reflected in the choice of poems within these pages. Including poems by Noël Coward, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, G. K. Chesterton, Ezra Pound, Philip Larkin, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, W. H. Auden, e. e. cummings, Dylan Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank O'Hara, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, John Updike, Robert Penn Warren, among a host of others, this richly rewarding collection captures the history of the twentieth century within one monumental volume.
Hau ofa s essays criss-cross Oceania, creating a navigator s star chart of discussion and debate. Spurning the arcana of the intellectual establishments where he was schooled, Hau ofa has crafted a distinctive often lyrical, at times angry voice that speaks directly to the people of the region and the general reader. He conveys his thoughts from diverse standpoints: university-based analyst, essayist, satirist and humorist, and practical catalyst for creativity. According to Hau ofa, only through creative originality in all fields of endeavor can the people of Oceania hope to strengthen their capacity to engage the forces of globalization.
Our Sea of Islands, The Ocean in Us, Pasts to Remember, and Our Place Within, all of which are included in this collection, outline some of Hau ofa s ideas for the emergence of a stronger and freer Oceania. Throughout he expresses his concern with the environment and suggests that the most important role that the people of the sea can assume is as custodians of the Pacific, the vast area of the world s largest body of water.
This special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. From its inception in 1988, it has been hotly debated, keenly monitored, ardently advocated (or denounced), and obsessively scrutinized. Each volume consists of seventy-five poems chosen by a major American poet acting as guest editor—from John Ashbery in 1988 to Mark Doty in 2012, with stops along the way for such poets as Charles Simic, A. R. Ammons, Louise Glück, Adrienne Rich, Billy Collins, Heather McHugh, and Kevin Young. Out of the 1,875 poems that have appeared in The Best American Poetry, here are 100 that Robert Pinsky, the distinguished poet and man of letters, has chosen for this milestone edition.
You are the profile picture in my Facebook;you are my only friend in my Friendster. You occupy the whole space in my MySpace; You are my only contact list in my Yahoo! Messenger. My Skype isnt working cause you are not here. I multiply my love for you in my Multiply.com, so please accept my FarmVille invitation cause I want to plant more love for you and hope to harvest the same from you.