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The Washington Redskins continue to mine the open market for receiving help.
Free-Agent Tracker
Follow all the developments on the NFL's open market with our up-to-the-minute tracking of 2014's free agents. **More...**
NFL Media's Albert Breer reported that Kenny Brittwill visit with the team on Tuesday, according to a source. The former Tennessee Titans wide receiver has generated interest from a handful of clubs, including the New England Patriots, Carolina Panthers and Seattle Seahawks.
Britt's production crumbled to just 11 catches last season, but the 25-year-old still ranks as one of our top remaining free agents, largely because of what he showed prior to 2013.
After adding former Arizona Cardinals pass-catcher Andre Roberts across from Pierre Garcon, the Redskins and quarterback Robert Griffin III aren't looking for a No. 1 receiver, but Britt would make for a juicy addition.
Other visits we're tracking on this eighth day of free agency:
»The 'Skins have another visit lined up. According to the National Football Post, former Chiefs inside linebacker Akeem Jordan will make the trip to D.C. on Tuesday. He recently visited the Titans.
» The Vikingsannounced that former New York Jets offensive lineman Vladimir Ducasse will meet with Minnesota on Tuesday after huddling recently with the Cincinnati Bengals.
» Kevin Patra broke down Henry Melton's visit with the St. Louis Rams on the heels of the defensive lineman's meeting with the cap-strapped Dallas Cowboys.
» NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported that former Chicago Bears return man Devin Hester will meet with the Atlanta Falcons on Tuesday, marking his first free-agent visit of the offseason.
» Former Denver Broncos pass rusher Robert Ayers is visiting the Bengals on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. Cincy is searching for depth at defensive end after Michael Johnson signed a big-money deal with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
»Former New Orleans Saints fullback Jed Collinsis visiting with the Lions today, ESPN.com's Mike Triplett reports.
»The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, still in the market for a receiver are hosting Louis Murphy, Rapoport reported. The pass-catcher had stints with the New York Giants and Carolina Panthers after being drafted in the fourth round by the Oakland Raiders in 2009. Rapoport adds that Murphy has three more visits scheduled this week.
»Former New Orleans Saints cornerback Mike Jenkins is visiting the Arizona Cardinals on Tuesday, per Rapoport. Jenkins was in Tampa on Monday visiting the Bucs.
»Former Giants defensive back Terrell Thomas visited the Panthers, Aaron Wilson of the National Football Post reported.
The "Around The League Podcast" breaks down the latest free agency moves and highlights a few under-the-radar signings.


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Seven years in the making, Doris Kearns Goodwin's latest book The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Simon & Schuster, 2013) provides a riveting account of the nation's 26th and 27th presidents and the remarkable times during which they served. Not surprisingly, a preemptive deal for movie rights was promptly inked by DreamWorks, the studio behind the Steven Spielberg-directed Academy Award-winning film Lincoln, which was inspired by Kearns Goodwin's tome Team of Rivals.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian will captivate attendees at "Doris Kearns Goodwin, Inspiration & Anecdotes Presented by IberiaBank," The League Club's annual luncheon, February 7 at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples. The event raises money for the Club's Community Trust Fund, which has granted more than $2.7 million to numerous local nonprofit agencies during the past 27 years. (Click here for tickets.)
In this interview, Kearns Goodwin shares insights on Progressive Era journalism and today's media, moviemaking with Steven Spielberg, and writing about great U.S. presidents. Edited excerpts follow.
NI: What are you looking forward to on this visit to Naples?
DKG: Once again, it will be so wonderful to be there in the middle of February. And I'll probably go somewhere near the Red Sox. I'd love to get to a spring training game, especially after our World Series.
Speaking of your beloved BoSox, describe the winning World Series experience last fall in three words …
I would say "happiest baseball night." You really meant three words! I know what to say, rather, to maybe sound like a young person: "Awesome, awesome, awesome!"
Did you think, as you worked on The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, it would make for a riveting film?
During the time I was with Steven Spielberg during the Lincoln movie we talked about what I was doing on Teddy and Taft. He had seen manuscript pages and then page proofs, and then finally the entire book. It's great to think of working with that team of people again. When you're writing you're much more solitary. So it's just such an extraordinary experience to be part of a group so intensely involved on the same project.
During the writing of the book, did thoughts of how it could be a blockbuster movie have an effect?
I think once Lincoln was made, having read screenwriter Tony Kushner's draft, I began to think a little bit visually about what makes a scene as opposed to just the written word. I'm not sure it changed anything I was writing, except that when I was working on the 1912 Republican Convention, and it's so dramatic—policemen at the door, people are fighting each other, they're knocking each other down, they're yelling and booing and hissing—then I knew, oooh, this would make a good scene and have a dramatic impact. When things happen to your characters, even if it's sad thing—somebody dies, or somebody gets a stroke as Nellie Taft does—it would be dramatized well. It does become a little part of your writing. I'm mostly using private journals and diaries and written sources, but I do think about describing the scene a little bit more, or putting in the physical details of something. I've gotten more used to that from watching the screen-writing process.
Do you think that makes for a better read?
I'd like to think so. I think to the extent that you can get the reader imagining the way a person looks, not only by seeing the pictures, which is a big part of giving them the sense of what these people look like. But even in your descriptions of them, or the venue where they're talking, a movie can do in much more dimensional detail than you can through the written word.
You have commented on today's 24-hour news cycle, and how the media pander to the opinions of a specific audience. How can the media offer an objective, well-informed perspective?
I think the thing that's so contrasting, what these journalists were rewarded with at the time I am writing about [the turn of the twentieth century], is that working at the most important magazine at the time, McClure's magazine in the Progressive Era, they were allowed several years of research on staff, paid, with extraordinary expense accounts to do the research necessary. It was almost like mini books they were putting out—50,000 words, 80,000 words stretched over 12 issues. As a result, what they produced is pretty impregnable. It still stands up today—Ida Tarbell's exposé of Standard Oil, or Ray Baker's of the railroads, or Lincoln Steffens' of corruption in the cities. You read them today and they are not sensationalized. They were hard-hitting and they had a point of view, but they were fact-based. Now it's impossible to imagine a place that would underwrite a reporter for that period of time, give the generous expense accounts to write these huge pieces that would appear—where? That's the problem. Attention spans are so diminished and the outlets for this kind of writing have been diminished. That's scary, because those writers really changed public opinion. They told stories that people could then talk about as a common conversation, and then pressure the Congress to do what Teddy Roosevelt wanted them to do. He needed these stories out in the field to pressure Congress from the outside in.
How can journalists today get the public engaged in a meaningful way?
The key always is—one of the things S.S. McClure said that I believe so strongly—is the story is the thing. That's what moves people. It's not just abstract facts about something, or constant yelling back and forth. If you could tell the story, as these people did, [for example,] then people begin to understand and decide to do something about it. McClure said, "There's no one left but all of us," meaning the public has to be involved in what's happening in Washington, or nothing will get done. We're very much at that stage now.
What you need is sustained interest in something to really produce that kind of public sentiment that's going to finally make Congress do something.
Do you think there is a possibility of reducing the crippling partisanship in the country, and how?
So many people in the public are frustrated with this that there may have to be structural changes. They may have to figure out how to redistrict the districts—because as long as we have districts that are just catering to a certain point of view, people in those districts don't have to care about what the public as a whole thinks.
Something also has to be done about campaign financing. It's still the poison of the system that our representatives spend so much time raising funds that inevitably they're raising funds from special interest groups who want them to do something for them. It may be that it's reached a point of such irritation to the public that something is going break.
What would Teddy Roosevelt think about the divide in the Republican Party attributed to the Tea Party, a split that resembles the party during his time?
His success while he was president was that he was able to keep the two wings of the party together—the conservative regular wing and this emerging progressive wing. For a period of time he was able to argue that unless the Republican Party moved in a more progressive direction to soften the problems of industrialization, it would no longer be the majority party. So he had a warning for his own party. He said, at the time, if our party gets known as the party of the rich and the property owners, then it will not have power again. And he warned the country that if the parties got divided between the property owners and the rich on the one hand and the wage workers and the poor on the other, it would be bad for the republic.
Roosevelt constantly talked about how class hatred would be the rock on which the republic would founder. He never wanted to be against the rich just because they were rich; only if they used unfair means to accumulate their wealth. He'd be for labor unions as long as they didn't use unfair means to do what they wanted to do. His Square Deal still remains to me in some ways, where a leader needs to go: "I'm for the poor and the rich, the wage worker and the capitalist, as long as they have a square deal from the government." The difference between him and the Tea Party now is he believed the government had a large responsibility in the social and economic life of the country.
Is the United States behind the curve compared to many nations in electing women to the top offices in government?
Without question. I think the answer to getting more women at the top levels will be getting more women going through the system from the beginning, which means the state legislatures, the state senates, city councils… At all those levels, we still don't have enough women, but it's inevitable. When you look at more college graduates who are women, more medical doctors in school now who are women, more in law school. It's going to happen.
Do you think Hillary Clinton is going to be our first woman president, or another woman on the rise who's not on the average citizen's radar yet?
Certainly if Hillary Clinton decides to run, it would seem she is able to get the Democratic nomination. And then, it depends on where we're at in 2016, who her opponent is, and what people are feeling. But I think we're ready for the first woman president. She could have won the last time had it not been for the fact that she was up against the first African American president, and that he ran a campaign that understood the caucus system, and all sorts of things made it not happen for her. But it wasn't because she was a woman that she didn't win. I think we're definitely ready, and I think it will be a big deal when it happens.
If you were interviewing yourself, what would you ask that has not been asked yet? And how would you answer?
[Laughs] I guess, really, if I were interviewing myself … Oh my gosh, this is a really hard question! Maybe what I would ask is, if I could be in a room with all my presidents, what would I want to ask them? The answer would be, I would ask each of them to tell me their favorite stories, because stories are what bring them alive.


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Are you too busy to commute to yoga class but daunted by the thought of choosing poses and sequences on your own? Establishing a yoga routine at home may be easier than you think. An at-home practice offers freedom and flexibility, enabling you to set a schedule that suits a busy life. It's less expensive than attending classes, and you can select the types of poses you want to focus on in a given session.
Some top yoga teachers encourage it. "Practicing at home allows you to focus on the internal and meditative aspects of yoga," says Richard Freeman, director of the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado. Instructor Rodney Yee, codirector of the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, agrees. "Classes and workshops are great, but taking your practice home is what it's all about," he says. Here, Freeman, Yee, and veteran teacher Beryl Bender Birch offer advice on how to make a home yoga practice successful.
Step One: Learn proper form
Step one: Learn proper form
If you're uncomfortable with your current knowledge of yoga, it may be necessary to take one or two classes or attend a yoga conference. "Classes or conferences are good in the beginning to learn proper alignment and techniques," says Bender Birch, founder and director of The Hard & The Soft Astanga Yoga Institute in East Hampton, New York. "But they aren't absolutely necessary. Many books and videos are available to provide great instruction if you really study them." (For a sampling of guided yoga routines, see "Five Home Yoga Books and Videos," below.)
In addition to making sure you are doing the poses correctly, it's worth the effort to understand the philosophy that accompanies yoga. Yoga is a mindful exercise, and many practitioners consider that aspect as important as the postures. In fact, some believe an at-home yoga regimen offers a better chance for mindfulness because it eliminates public distractions.
Step Two: Create the right space
Step two: Create the right space
Establishing a place in your home for yoga will help you stick to your plan. After all, you are more likely to take to the mat if you set aside a dedicated area. If you live in a small apartment or house, however, "don't let the limited room be a deterrent to your home practice," says Bender Birch. You can temporarily move tables, chairs, or couches, or for more privacy, you can section off a specific yoga spot with portable screens.
Proper lighting and room temperature are important considerations when preparing a yoga space. Natural light is best because it is soothing and limits reflective glare, says Yee. The room should be comfortably warm, around 75 to 85 degrees, to facilitate heating muscles and improving flexibility. In chilly weather, you can roll out your mat in front of the fireplace or heater for a cozy, inspiring spot.
Another factor to take into account is floor surface. "Hardwood or ceramic tile are ideal because of their stability," says Bender Birch. She advises avoiding spongy surfaces or padded carpet, which can throw off your balance. To keep from slipping, get a nonslip or sticky mat. "[Other] props, like blocks and straps, are not required but can be helpful in some asanas [poses], especially for beginners," says Bender Birch. "But keep in mind, a great thing about yoga is that it's so portable. When you load up on stuff, you lose that benefit."
Music and scents are optional. "Soothing or meditative types of music can be a nice addition for Savasana [Corpse Pose], but I don't recommend music during most of the practice," says Bender Birch. "It's more important to focus on your breath." If you do choose to include a scent, Bender Birch recommends natural, pure products instead of synthetic scents, which could introduce chemicals into the air you breathe. "Don't burn incense during your practice either, because it releases smoke that could be irritating," says Bender Birch. Instead, use smokeless aromatherapy diffusers with natural scents, such as cedar, pine, rose, or lavender.
Step Three: Begin your practice
Step three: Begin your practice
Now that you've learned proper form and prepared a space, you are ready to begin your routine. Some people like to become invigorated in the early morning. Others would rather use yoga to unwind after a long day. Whichever you choose, Freeman recommends waiting two to three hours after a heavy meal and one hour after a light meal. "Having a relatively empty stomach is important because during an asana practice there is much activity in the abdomen, and too much food in the stomach impedes movement," he says. Also, Freeman adds, blood goes to the stomach for digestion after you've eaten, causing your body to relax and your practice to be less vibrant.
5 home yoga books and videos
Living Yoga Upper Body/Abs/Lower Body Videos
with Rodney Yee and Suzanne Deason (Gaiam, 1998, 1999).
Each video presents a 30-minute beginner workout.
Yoga Journal's Yoga Basics
by Mara Carrico and the editors of Yoga Journal (Henry Holt and Company, 1997).
This book offers complete coverage of types of yoga, practice guidelines, and sample poses.
Yoga with Richard Freeman:
Ashtanga Yoga: The Primary Series (Delphi Productions, 1993).
An in-depth two-hour video with demonstrations of alignment and technique.
Intermediate to advanced
Power Yoga: The Practice
video or DVD (Image Entertainment, 2002) and book (Fireside, 1995) both by Beryl Bender Birch.
Each includes a 75-minute workout.
Something different
Om at Home by Cyndi Lee
(Chronicle Books, 2003). This journal highlights a different practice for each season of the year.
For your routine, select poses from different categories, such as standing, seated, and twisting. For example, a sequence for a half-hour session might begin with Sun Salutations, then progress to standing poses, arm balances, forward bends, twisting poses, and finish with restorative poses. Always consult a yoga book, videotape, or instructor for detailed direction on specific poses and sequences within these categories. Hold each pose for three to five complete breaths. The finale is traditionally Savasana, held for at least five minutes.
"[Beginners should] avoid inversions, like the Plough, as well as headstands, shoulder stands, and backbends," says Bender Birch. "Those are safer in a supervised setting." Also, don't force yourself into a posture, and be sure to go at a pace that allows your breathing to stay deep and full. "You've got plenty of time to grow into the postures," says Freeman. "The main thing is to stay open and mindful."
If you have questions about alignment, Freeman recommends checking in with an instructor. In fact, he says, "it's probably a good idea to check in with an instructor at least two or three times a year anyway." Practicing in front of mirrors is acceptable, too, but use them sparingly, once or twice a week. Too much time in front of a mirror can encourage you to focus on superficial or external factors, says Freeman. "An obsession with self-image can be a cause of torment. It's very important that the practice of yoga not become an enhancement of narcissism," he says.
Step Four: Find a tranquil finish
Step four: Find a tranquil finish
To wrap up your home yoga session in good form, spend at least five minutes in Savasana, says Bender Birch. Restorative poses such as this quiet the mind, allowing time to soak in the benefits of your practice and to transition gradually from this period of relaxation and meditation to the rest of your day or evening.
Regardless of whether you're a beginner or a veteran yogi, you may be unsure of your home yoga routine when first going solo. Don't worry—it doesn't have to be perfect. "One of the biggest mistakes people make is always trying to get it right," says Yee. "Yoga is a process, not a destination. Your body will tell you if it's aligned properly when you listen to it. Never compete with anyone else, and remember that yoga should move you toward equanimity and ease."
Victoria Freeman practices yoga at home to simplify her life. "Being able to find peace and serenity is a huge benefit that speaks to the heart of yoga," she says. Freeman wrote a chapter in The Sports Nutrition Review, due out this year.


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Who said, "If you choose to suppose
That my nose is too long, you are certainly wrong!"
That remarkable Man with a nose.
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"How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!"
The following lines by Mr. Lear were written for a young lady of his acquaintance, who had quoted to him the words of a young lady not of his acquaintance, "How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!"
"How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!"
Who has written such volumes of stuff!
Some think him ill-tempered and queer,
But a few think him pleasant enough.
His mind is concrete and fastidious,
His nose is remarkably big;
His visage is more or less hideous,
His beard it resembles a wig.
He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers,
Leastways if you reckon two thumbs;
Long ago he was one of the singers,
But now he is one of the dumbs.
He sits in a beautiful parlor,
With hundreds of books on the wall;
He drinks a great deal of Marsala,
But never gets tipsy at all.
He has many friends, lay men and clerical,
Old Foss is the name of his cat;
His body is perfectly spherical,
He weareth a runcible hat.
When he walks in waterproof white,
The children run after him so!
Calling out, "He's come out in his night—
Gown, that crazy old Englishman, oh!"
He weeps by the side of the ocean,
He weeps on the top of the hill;
He purchases pancakes and lotion,
And chocolate shrimps from the mill.
He reads, but he cannot speak, Spanish,
He cannot abide ginger beer:
Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish,
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!
Edward Lear, the artist, author of Journals of a Landscape Painter in various out-of-the-way countries, and of the delightful Books of Nonsense, which have amused successive generations of children, died on Sunday, January 29, 1888, at San Remo, Italy, where he had lived for twenty years. Few names could evoke a wider expression of passing regret at their appearance in the obituary column; for until his health began to fail he was known to an immense and almost a cosmopolitan circle of acquaintance, and popular wherever he was known. Fewer still could call up in the minds of intimate friends a deeper and more enduring feeling of sorrow for personal loss, mingled with the pleasantest of memories; for it was impossible to know him thoroughly and not to love him. London, Rome, the Mediterranean countries generally, Ceylon and India, are still all dotted with survivors among his generation who will mourn for him affectionately, although his latter years were spent in comparatively close retirement. He was a man of striking nobility of nature, fearless, independent, energetic, given to forming for himself strong opinions, often hastily, sometimes bitterly; not always strong or sound in judgment, but always seeking after truth in every matter, and following it as he understood it in scorn of consequence; utterly unselfish, devoted to his friends, generous even to extravagance towards anyone who had ever been connected with his fortunes or his travels; playful, lighthearted, witty, and humorous, but not without those occasional fits of black depression and nervous irritability to which such temperaments are liable.
Great and varied as the merits of his pictures are, Lear hardly succeeded in achieving any great popularity as a landscape-painter. His work was frequently done on private commission, and he rarely sent in pictures for the Academy or other exhibitions. His larger and more highly finished landscapes were unequal in technical perfection—sometimes harsh or cold in color, or stiff in composition; sometimes full of imagination, at others literal and prosaic—but always impressive reproductions of interesting or peculiar scenery. In later years he used in conversation to qualify himself as a "topographical artist;" and the definition was true, though not exhaustive. He had an intuitive and a perfectly trained eye for the character and beauty of distant mountain lines, the solemnity of rocky gorges, the majesty of a single mountain rising from a base of plain or sea; and he was equally exact in rendering the true forms of the middle distances and the specialties of foreground detail belonging to the various lands through which he had wandered as a sketcher. Some of his pictures show a mastery which has rarely been equalled over the difficulties of painting an immense plain as seen from a height, reaching straight away from the eye of the spectator until it is lost in a dim horizon. Sir Roderick Murchison used to say that he always understood the geological peculiarities of a country he had only studied in Lear's sketches. The compliment was thoroughly justified; and it is not every landscape-painter to whom it could honestly be paid.
The history of Lear's choice of a career was a curious one. He was the youngest of twenty-one children, and, through a family mischance, was thrown entirely on the limited resources of an elderly sister at a very early age. As a boy he had always dabbled in colors for his own amusement, and had been given to poring over the ordinary boys' books upon natural history. It occurred to him to try to turn his infant talents to account; and he painted upon cardboard a couple of birds in the style which the older among us remember as having been called Oriental tinting, took them to a small shop, and sold them for fourpence. The kindness of friends, to whom he was ever grateful, gave him the opportunity of more serious and more remunerative study, and he became a patient and accurate zoölogical draughtsman. Many of the birds in the earlier volumes of Gould's magnificent folios were drawn for him by Lear. A few years back there were eagles alive in the Zoölogical Gardens in Regent's Park to which Lear could point as old familiar friends that he had drawn laboriously from claw to beak fifty years before. He united with this kind of work the more unpleasant occupation of drawing the curiosities of disease or deformity in hospitals. One day, as he was busily intent on the portrait of a bird in the Zoölogical Gardens, an old gentleman came and looked over his shoulder, entered into conversation, and finally said to him, "You must come and draw my birds at Knowsley." Lear did not know where Knowsley was, or what it meant; but the old gentleman was the thirteenth Earl of Derby. The successive Earls of Derby have been among Lear's kindest and most generous patrons. He went to Knowsley, and the drawings in the Knowsley Menagerie (now a rare and highly-prized work among book collectors) are by Lear's hand. At Knowsley he became a permanent favorite; and it was there that he composed in prolific succession his charming and wonderful series of utterly nonsensical rhymes and drawings. Lear had already begun seriously to study landscape. When English winters began to threaten his health, Lord Derby started a subscription which enabled him to go to Rome as a student and artist, and no doubt gave him recommendations among Anglo-Roman society which laid the foundations of a numerous clientele. It was in the Roman summers that Lear first began to exercise the taste for pictorial wandering which grew into a habit and a passion, to fill vivid and copious notebooks as he went, and to illustrate them by spirited and accurate drawings; and his first volume of Illustrated Excursions in Italy, published in 1846, is gratefully dedicated to his Knowsley patron.
Only those who have travelled with him could know what a delightful comrade he was to men whose tastes ran more or less parallel to his own. It was not everybody who could travel with him; for he was so irrepressibly anxious not to lose a moment of the time at his disposal for gathering into his garners the beauty and interest of the lands over which he journeyed, that he was careless of comfort and health. Calabria, Sicily, the Desert of Sinai, Egypt and Nubia, Greece and Albania, Palestine, Syria, Athos, Candia, Montenegro, Zagóri (who knows now where Zagóri is, or was?), were as thoroughly explored and sketched by him as the more civilized localities of Malta, Corsica, and Corfu. He read insatiably before starting all the recognized guidebooks and histories of the country he intended to draw; and his published itineraries are marked by great strength and literary interest quite irrespectively of the illustrations. And he had his reward. It is not any ordinary journalist and sketcher who could have compelled from Tennyson such a tribute as lines "To E. L. on his Travels in Greece":—
"Illyrian woodlands, echoing falls
Of water, sheets of summer glass,
The long divine Peneïan pass,
The vast Akrokeraunian walls,"Tomohrit, Athos, all things fair,
With such a pencil, such a pen,
You shadow forth to distant men,
I read and felt that I was there."
Lear was a man to whom, as to Tennyson's Ulysses,
"All experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world."
After settling at San Remo, and when he was nearly sixty years old, he determined to visit India and Ceylon. He started once and failed, being taken so ill at Suez that he was obliged to return. The next year he succeeded, and brought away some thousands of drawings of the most striking views from all three Presidencies and from the tropical island. His appetite for travel continued to grow with what it fed upon; and although he hated a long sea-voyage, he used seriously to contemplate as possible a visit to relations in New Zealand. It may safely, however, be averred that no considerations would have tempted him to visit the Arctic regions.
A hardworking life, checkered by the odd adventures which happen to the odd and the adventurous and pass over the commonplace; a career brightened by the high appreciation of unimpeachable critics; lightened, till of late, by the pleasant society and good wishes of innumerable friends; saddened by the growing pressure of ill health and solitude; cheered by his constant trust in the love and sympathy of those who knew him best, however far away—such was the life of Edward Lear.—The London Saturday Review, Feb. 4, 1888.
Among the writers who have striven with varying success during the last thirty or forty years to awaken the merriment of the "rising generation" of the time being, Mr. Edward Lear occupies the first place in seniority, if not in merit. The parent of modern nonsense-writers, he is distinguished from all his followers and imitators by the superior consistency with which he has adhered to his aim—that of amusing his readers by fantastic absurdities, as void of vulgarity or cynicism as they are incapable of being made to harbor any symbolical meaning. He "never deviates into sense;" but those who appreciate him never feel the need of such deviation. He has a genius for coining absurd names and words, which, even when they are suggested by the exigencies of his metre, have a ludicrous appropriateness to the matter in hand. His verse is, with the exception of a certain number of cockney rhymes, wonderfully flowing and even melodious—or, as he would say, meloobious—while to all these qualifications for his task must finally be added the happy gift of pictorial expression, enabling him to double, nay, often to quadruple, the laughable effect of his text by an inexhaustible profusion of the quaintest designs. Generally speaking, these designs are, as it were, an idealization of the efforts of a clever child; but now and then—as in the case of the nonsense-botany—Mr. Lear reminds us what a genuine and graceful artist he really is. The advantage to a humorist of being able to illustrate his own text has been shown in the case of Thackeray and Mr. W. S. Gilbert, to mention two familiar examples; but in no other instance of such a combination have we discovered such geniality as is to be found in the nonsense-pictures of Mr. Lear. We have spoken above of the melodiousness of Mr. Lear's verses, a quality which renders them excellently suitable for musical setting, and which has not escaped the notice of the author himself. We have also heard effective arrangements, presumably by other composers, of the adventures of the Table and the Chair, and of the cruise of the Owl and the Pussycat—the latter introduced into the "drawing-room entertainment" of one of the followers of John Parry. Indeed, in these days of adaptations, it is to be wondered at that no enterprising librettist has attempted to build a children's comic opera out of the materials supplied in the four books with which we are now concerned. The first of these, originally published in 1846, and brought out in an enlarged form in 1863, is exclusively devoted to nonsense-verses of one type. Mr. Lear is careful to disclaim the credit of having created this type, for he tells us in the preface to his third book that "the lines beginning, 'There was an old man of Tobago,' were suggested to me by a valued friend, as a form of verse leading itself to limitless variety for Rhymes and Pictures." Dismissing the further question of the authorship of "There was an old man of Tobago," we propose to give a few specimens of Mr. Lear's Protean powers as exhibited in the variation of this simple type. Here, to begin with, is a favorite verse, which we are very glad to have an opportunity of giving, as it is often incorrectly quoted, "cocks" being substituted for "owls" in the third line:
"There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!' "
With the kindly fatalism which is the distinctive note of the foregoing stanza, the sentiment of our next extract is in vivid contrast:—
"There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was terribly bored by a bee;
When they said, 'Does it buzz?' he replied, 'Yes, it does!
It's a regular brute of a Bee.' "
To the foregoing verse an historic interest attaches, if, that is, we are right in supposing it to have inspired Mr. Gilbert with his famous "Nonsense-Rhyme in Blank Verse." We quote from memory:—
"There was an Old Man of St. Bees,
Who was stung in the arm by a wasp.
When they asked, 'Does it hurt?' he replied, 'No, it doesn't,
But I thought all the while 'twas a Hornet!' "
Passing over the lines referring to the "Young Person" of Crete to whom the epithet "ombliferous" is applied, we may be pardoned—on the ground of the geographical proximity of the two countries named—for quoting together two stanzas which in reality are separated by a good many pages:—
"There was a Young Lady of Norway,
Who casually sat in a doorway;
When the doors queezed her flat, she exclaimed, 'What of that?'
This courageous young person of Norway.""There was a Young Lady of Sweden,
Who went by the slow train to Weedon;
When they cried, 'Weedon Station!' she made no observation,
But thought she should go back to Sweden."
A noticeable feature about this first book, and one which we think is peculiar to it, is the harsh treatment which the eccentricities of the inhabitants of certain towns appear to have met with at the hands of their fellow-residents. No less than three people are "smashed,"—the Old Man of Whitehaven "who danced a quadrille with a Raven;" the Old Person of Buda; and the Old Man with a gong "who bumped at it all the day long," though in the last-named case we admit that there was considerable provocation. Before quitting the first "Nonsense-Book," we would point out that it contains one or two forms that are interesting; for instance, "scroobious," which we take to be a Portmanteau word, and "spickle-speckled," a favorite form of reduplication with Mr. Lear, and of which the best specimen occurs in his last book, "He tinkledy-binkledy-winkled the bell." The second book, published in 1871, shows Mr. Lear in the maturity of sweet desipience, and will perhaps remain the favorite volume of the four to grownup readers. The nonsense-songs are all good, and "The Story of the Four little Children who went Round the World" is the most exquisite piece of imaginative absurdity that the present writer is acquainted with. But before coming to that, let us quote a few lines from "The Jumblies," who, as all the world knows, went to sea in a sieve:—
"They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,
To a land all covered with trees.
And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart,
And a hive of silvery Bees.
And they bought a Pig, and some green Jackdaws,
And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws,
And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,
And no end of Stilton Cheese.
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live.
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a sieve.
And in twenty years they all came back,
In twenty years or more,
And everyone said, 'How tall they've grown!
For they've been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone,
And the hills of the Chankly Bore.' "
From the pedestrian excursion of the "Table and the Chair," we cannot resist making a brief quotation, though in this, as in every case, the inability to quote the drawings also is a sad drawback:—
"So they both went slowly down,
And walked about the town,
With a cheerful bumpy sound,
As they toddled round and round.
And everybody cried,
As they hastened to their side,
'See, the Table and the Chair
Have come out to take the air!'"But in going down an alley
To a castle in a valley,
They completely lost their way,
And wandered all the day,
Till, to see them safely back,
They paid a Ducky-Quack,
And a Beetle and a Mouse,
Who took them to their house."Then they whispered to each other,
'O delightful little brother,
What a lovely walk we've taken!
Let us dine on Beans and Bacon!'
So the Ducky and the leetle
Browny-Mousy, and the Beetle
Dined, and danced upon their heads,
Till they toddled to their beds."
"The Story of the Four little Children who went Round the World" follows next, and the account of the manner in which they occupied themselves while on shipboard may be transcribed for the benefit of those unfortunate persons who have not perused the original: "During the daytime Violet chiefly occupied herself in putting saltwater into a churn, while her three brothers churned it violently in the hope it would turn into butter, which it seldom if ever did." After journeying for a time, they saw some land at a distance, "and when they came to it they found it was an island made of water quite surrounded by earth. Besides that it was bordered by evanescent isthmuses with a great Gulf-Stream running about all over it, so that it was perfectly beautiful, and contained only a single tree, five hundred and three feet high." In a later passage, we read how "by-and-by the children came to a country where there were no houses, but only an incredibly innumerable number of large bottles without corks, and of a dazzling and sweetly susceptible blue color. Each of these blue bottles contained a bluebottlefly, and all these interesting animals live continually together in the most copious and rural harmony, nor perhaps in many parts of the world is such perfect and abject happiness to be found." Our last quotation from this inimitable recital shall be from the description of their adventure on a great plain where they espied an object which "on a nearer approach and on an accurately cutaneous inspection, seemed to be somebody in a large white wig sitting on an armchair made of sponge-cake and oyster-shells." This turned out to be the "Cooperative Cauliflower," who, "while the whole party from the boat was gazing at him with mingled affection and disgust … suddenly arose, and in a somewhat plumdomphious manner hurried off towards the setting sun, his steps supported by two superincumbent confidential cucumbers … till he finally disappeared on the brink of the western sky in a crystal cloud of sudorific sand. So remarkable a sight of course impressed the four children very deeply; and they returned immediately to their boat with a strong sense of undeveloped asthma and a great appetite."
In his third book, Mr. Lear takes occasion in an entertaining preface to repudiate the charge of harboring any ulterior motive beyond that of "Nonsense pure and absolute" in any of his verses or pictures, and tells a delightful anecdote illustrative of the "persistently absurd report" that the Earl of Derby was the author of the first book of "Nonsense." In this volume he reverts once more to the familiar form adopted in his original efforts, and with little falling off. It is to be remarked that the third division is styled "Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures," although there is no more rhyme than reason in any of the set. Our favorite illustrations are those of the "Scroobious Snake who always wore a Hat on his Head, for fear he should bite anybody," and the "Visibly Vicious Vulture who wrote some Verses to a Veal-cutlet in a Volume bound in Vellum." In the fourth and last of Mr. Lear's books, we meet not only with familiar words, but personages and places—old friends like the Jumblies, the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, the Quangle Wangle, the hills of the Chankly Bore, and the great Gromboolian plain, as well as new creations, such as the Dong with a luminous Nose, whose story is a sort of nonsense version of the love of Nausicaa for Ulysses, only that the sexes are inverted. In these verses, graceful fancy is so subtly interwoven with nonsense as almost to beguile us into feeling a real interest in Mr. Lear's absurd creations. So again in the "Pelican Chorus" there are some charming lines:—
"By day we fish, and at eve we stand
On long bare islands of yellow sand.
And when the sun sinks slowly down,
And the great rock-walls grow dark and brown,
When the purple river rolls fast and dim,
And the ivory Ibis starlike skim,
Wing to wing we dance around," etc.
The other nonsense-poems are all good, but we have no space for further quotation, and will take leave of our subject by propounding the following set of examination questions which a friend who is deeply versed in Mr. Lear's books has drawn up for us:—
What do you gather from a study of Mr. Lear's works to have been the prevalent characteristics of the inhabitants of Gretna, Prague, Thermopylae, Wick, and Hong Kong?
State briefly what historical events are connected with Ischia, Chertsey, Whitehaven, Boulak, and Jellibolee.
Comment, with illustrations, upon Mr. Lear's use of the following words: Runcible, propitious, dolomphious, borascible, fizzgiggious, himmeltanious, tumble-dum-down, spongetaneous.
Enumerate accurately all the animals who lived on the Quangle Wangle's Hat, and explain how the Quangle Wangle was enabled at once to enlighten his five travelling companions as to the true nature of the Cooperative Cauliflower.
What were the names of the five daughters of the Old Person of China, and what was the purpose for which the Old Man of the Dargle purchased six barrels of Gargle?
Collect notices of King Xerxes in Mr. Lear's works, and state your theory, if you have any, as to the character and appearance of Nupiter Piffkin.
Draw pictures of the Plum-pudding flea, and the Moppsikon Floppsikon Bear, and state by whom waterproof tubs were first used.
"There was an old man at a station
Who made a promiscuous oration."
What bearing may we assume the foregoing couplet to have upon Mr. Lear's political views?
Nonsense Books
A Book of Nonsense
There was an Old Derry down Derry, who loved to see little folks merry;
So he made them a Book, and with laughter they shook
At the fun of that Derry down Derry.
To the
great-grandchildren, grandnephews, and grandnieces
of Edward, 13th Earl of Derby,
this book of drawings and verses
(The greater part of which were originally made and composed for their parents,)
As dedicated by the author,
Edward Lear.
London, 1862.
Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures
There was a Young Person of Smyrna,
Whose Grandmother threatened to burn her;
But she seized on the Cat, and said, "Granny, burn that!
You incongruous Old Woman of Smyrna!"
There was an Old Man on a hill,
Who seldom, if ever, stood still;
He ran up and down in his Grandmother's gown,
Which adorned that Old Man on a hill.


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Advanced-Level Science Projects: What Types of Bacteria Are Found in Your House?
What Types of Bacteria Are Found in Your House?
Bacterial organisms are everywhere. They are in our homes and schools, in our foods, and in the air we breathe. Your body is marvelously designed to fight bacteria when it enters your body through a cut or another means. While some bacteria is necessary in your body, too much, or the wrong types, can cause serious problems.
Bacteria are smaller than cells and often invade cells. If your body can't protect itself through its immune system, the bacteria will eventually destroy the cell.
One of the problems with bacteria is that you can't see it. If you could, you could do a better job of avoiding it. In the experiment described below, however, you get to not only collect bacteria, but see it grow, as well.
Explosion Ahead
Much caution is needed while doing this experiment because you don't want the bacteria you collect to spread anywhere except in the petri dish in which you'll be placing it. Allowing bacteria to spread is not a good idea.
You'll collect samples of bacteria from different areas in your home, then allow it to grow in covered petri dishes containing the nutrient agar. Petri dishes are available from biological supply companies. A set of 10 dishes will cost you about $15. Be sure to label each dish carefully so you know from which area the bacteria inside of it was taken.
Some good areas within your home to check are door handles, the insides of your sneakers, staircase railings, bathroom faucets, your teeth, and the computer's keyboard.
Use a cotton swab to wipe the surface you're testing, then wipe the swab gently onto the nutrient gel in the petri dish. Put the cover, also labeled, onto the petri dish and place it in a dark, warm area where the bacteria can grow undisturbed.
Check for bacterial growth every 12 hours for one week. Record any changes in each dish noting the amount, color and shape of the bacteria.
At the end of a week you will be able to clearly see what areas in your home have the most bacteria. You can chart your information, providing helpful information for your parent or guardian.
Make sure you throw away the petri dishes at the end of the experiment. It would be a good idea to photograph each dish at the end of the experiment for your display at the science fair.
An interesting step further would be to test the back doorknob, then wipe it clean with bleach and swab it again and test for bacteria. This would help you to see if the cleaner did its job and killed the germs.
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Science Fair Projects © 2003 by Nancy K. O'Leary and Susan Shelly. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
To order this book direct from the publisher, visit the Penguin USA website or call 1-800-253-6476. You can also purchase this book at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.


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Kanye West's sixth solo album, Yeezus, is in stores now and is already being hailed by critics as one of the best LP's of the year. We called it "bizarre, brilliant, and like nothing you've heard before." It's also incredibly, incredibly quotable, with lines touching on Chewbacca furs, croissants, and lascivious Hamptons spouses. If you thought West's interview with The New York Times was packed with quotables, well, you ain't heard nothing yet.
"Real nigga back in the house again / Black Timbs all on your couch again / Black dick all in your spouse again / And I know she like chocolate men / She got more niggas off than Cochran, huh?!?" – Kanye West, "On Sight"
"No sports bra let's keep it bouncing" – Kanye West, "On Sight"
"God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God!" – Kanye West, "Black Skinhead"
"Pink-ass Polo's with a fucking backpack / But everybody know you brought real rap back." – Kanye West, "I Am A God"
"I am a God / So hurry up with my damn massage / In a French-ass restaurant / HURRY UP WITH MY DAMN CROISSANTS!" – Kanye West, "I Am A God"
"I just talked to Jesus / He said, 'What up, Yeezus?' / I said, 'Shit, I'm chilling / Trying to stack these millions.'" – Kanye West, "I Am A God
"You see there's leaders and there's followers / But I'd rather be a dick than a swallower." – Kanye West, "New Slaves"
"Fuck you and your Hampton house / I'll fuck your Hampton spouse / Came on her Hampton blouse / And in her Hampton mouth." – Kanye West, "New Slaves"
"Bitch I'm back out my coma / Waking up on your sofa / When I park my Range Rover / Slightly scratch your Corolla / OK, I smashed your Corolla." – Kanye West, "Hold My Liquor"
"Chasin' love, lots of bittersweet hours lost / Eatin' Asian pussy, all I need was sweet and sour sauce." – Kanye West, "I'm In It" [Ed Note: Yikes]
"Uh, black girl sippin' white wine / Put my fist in her like a Civil Rights sign / And grabbed it with a slight grind / And held it 'til the right time / Then she came like AAAAAAHHH!" – Kanye West, "I'm In It"
"I don't give a damn if you used to talk to Jay-Z / He ain't with you, he with Beyoncé, you need to stop actin' lazy / She Instagram herself like #BadBitchAlert / He Instagram his watch like #MadRichAlert." – Kanye West, "Blood on the Leaves"
"Star Wars fur, yeah I'm rockin' Chewbacca." – Kanye West, "Guilt Trip"
"It's so packed I might ride around / On my bodyguard's back like Prince in the club." – Kanye West, "Send It Up"
"I know I got a bad reputation / Walking 'round, always mad reputation / Leave a pretty girl sad reputation / Start a Fight Club, Brad reputation." – Kanye West, "Bound 2."
"One good girl is worth a thousand bitches." – Kanye West, "Bound 2"


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Inspirational Fitness Movies
These 11 Movies Will Make You Want To Hit The Gym ASAP
This article was originally published by AskMen UK.
Watching films is an essentially slothful hobby, but watching the right inspirational movies might make you want to sprint down to the gym once the credits have rolled. These 11 films should get any man ready to break out the weights.
American Psycho
Playing Patrick Bateman, Christian Bale has what most men would consider the ultimate body shape, which as he shows, he works incredibly hard to achieve. He is also a psychopathic murderer so it's important to draw a very firm line when emulating his life choices.
Terminator 2
It's one of the greatest action movies in history, obviously, and Arnold Schwarzenegger at his peak. Arnie isn't the only impressive physique, though. A lot of us would be extremely happy if we could match Linda Hamilton's granite guns in this movie.
Any Given Sunday
Oliver Stone's American football movie is not so much one to inspire you because of the workouts, but because of all the shouty, rabble-rousing speeches given by Al Pacino. You could try copying these for your Sunday five-aside. Can't hurt.
Ong Bak
A modern classic of martial arts movies. Tiny Tony Jaa did all his own stunt work, even the bits that look basically impossible. At one point he kicks the crap out of someone while his legs are on fire. That is absolutely not recommended as a work-out method, but it doesn't half get you revved up.
Kill Bill: Vol 1
That House of Blue Leaves sequence where Uma Thurman lays waste to 88 masked fiends is all you need to make you want to dash out and become athletic as hell and a bit handy with a sword. It might also make you believe you can pull off a bright yellow tracksuit, but for 99% of us this will be untrue.
Karate Kid
He might be a fairly scrawny child but that guy can do a crane kick on a tiny pole, and until we can perfect the same thing he will forever be slightly superior.
The Avengers
Because whatever body shape you aspire to there's someone to motivate you. Want to be toned but not massive? Look to Hawkeye. Over 40 and want prove you can still get buff? Try Iron Man's workout. Want arms the size of hams? Captain America or Thor. Dream of being the size of a bungalow and bright green? Sure champ, there's Hulk for you.
Point Break
Not the remake of the surfing film, which is more likely to inspire a bored nap than a workout, but the 90s original. All that adrenaline makes you want to get outside and do something active in the fresh air, rather than locking yourself in the gym. N.B. Do not use bankrobbing as cardio.
Fight Club
What message did we take away from this film about the fragility of modern masculinity and the dangers of living a life defined by the superficial? That we'd really like to look like Brad Pitt when shirtless. Call us shallow…
Nobody is suggesting that once you've achieved your workout goals, you should start showing off your achievements by wearing little leather pants– although if you want to then you do you, pal – but the torsos in this film are the sort most of us would ideally like to reveal on the beach. As part of the 300 workout, the cast had to throw around tractor tyres to help get phenomenally ripped, so this is inspiration for the serious lifter.
The ultimate workout movie. Not only does it contain the best exercise montages and feature one of the most energising pieces of workout music imaginable, 'Gonna Fly Now' by Bill Conti, but the whole film is about working hard to achieve more than you ever thought you could. If this doesn't get you down to the gym or running up a lot of stairs then you are probably an actual slug. An actual dead slug.
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Cleo D'Arcy was educated as a plant virologist, and for the first 15 years of her professorial career, her primary teaching assignment was a graduate level lecture/laboratory plant virology course. She enjoyed this teaching assignment and, 27 years later, continues to teach plant virology (PLPA 404). However, D'Arcy began to think that her interest and talent in teaching could be used to educate broader audiences about topics in which she passionately believed—agricultural literacy, professional ethics, and college teacher preparation. Toward that end, she developed several unique courses and instructional materials that have been used as models at other institutions.
D'Arcy has designed or co-designed three highly successful courses at the University of Illinois. Plants, Pathogens, and People (PLPA 200) was developed in 1993 in order to teach a broad range of undergraduate students about important agricultural issues that impact their daily lives. The course fulfills general education requirements in advanced composition and natural sciences and has been filled (75 students) during preregistration each of the past 12 years. Students learn facts and concepts about plant diseases and related issues in class, and they enhance and apply their learning by reading and writing about issues such as genetic engineering, pesticide use, and biodiversity. Over the years, D'Arcy has developed multiple instructional formats and media for use in PLPA 200. One current focus of her research is evaluation of the effectiveness of these approaches for students with different learning styles.
To supplement this course and to provide an agricultural literacy tool to others, D'Arcy and her colleagues (primarily Darin Eastburn) have developed an extensive public website. The Plant, Pathogens, and People (PPP) website (http://www.ppp.uiuc.edu) is designed to allow college and advanced high school students to independently learn about agriculture and related complex issues through plant pathology examples. Currently, modules on four important diseases are available: crown gall, Dutch elm disease, late blight, and soybean cyst. The National Science Foundation funded an expansion of the PPP site, which was selected "Site of the Month" in the Plant Pathology Internet Guidebook. Students in courses at several universities in the United States and other countries have used the resource materials and virtual activities available on the PPP site.
D'Arcy has always had a strong interest in professionalism and professional ethics. She began teaching graduate students about these topics in a series of informal evening classes in 1982 with Wayne Pedersen. This evolved into the course Professionalism and Ethics in the Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CPSC 590), which currently enrolls 15 to 20 students from across the College of ACES each year. D'Arcy continues to lead this course, working with several other faculty members and numerous guest speakers from campus, businesses, and other organizations. Students learn about and discuss topics such as mentoring, scientific writing and editorial processes, oral and poster presentations, money and people management, getting and keeping a job, and conflict resolution. Each student prepares and leads a discussion related to a class topic. This class has served as the model for professionalism courses at other U.S. institutions, including the University of Arkansas, the University of Georgia, North Carolina State University, and Oklahoma State University.
In 1997, D'Arcy led a team of four faculty members in her college to design and implement Teaching College. Over 160 new faculty, post-docs, and graduate students have learned about learning theory and teaching methods through this innovative 10-week course. D'Arcy has led sections on a variety of topics, including learning styles, discussion leadership, teaching portfolios, and instructional technology. Peer observation and mentoring are important aspects of the class, and she has been instrumental in these activities across her college. The success of this course is evidenced by the development of a community of teachers who regularly share their experiences and knowledge. In 2000, D'Arcy and the co-instructors of Teaching College were honored as recipients of the first annual Team Award from their college.
Since D'Arcy became the Department of Crop Sciences teaching and advising coordinator in 1995, she has been one of two co-instructors in the Undergraduate Crop Sciences Seminar (CPSC 498), the department's capstone writing and speaking experience for undergraduate majors. D'Arcy presents information on and models effective communication skills, and the students "learn by doing." Each student's presentation is evaluated by his or her peers and the instructors, and writes a paper on a topic related to crop sciences. The department submits the best papers to the American Society for Agronomy manuscript competition, and D'Arcy is extremely proud that one or more of her students have been national winners every year that she has cotaught the course.
D'Arcy has written three and edited many of the APS online lessons in plant pathology (published online by APS) for students in introductory plant pathology courses. In addition, she is the co-creator (with Dr. Eastburn) of two videotapes on plant diseases which are distributed by APS PRESS for use in plant pathology courses around the world. Recently, D'Arcy has published several articles on her teaching scholarship in order to share what she has learned with her peers, and she has co-authored (with Gail Schumann) an introductory plant pathology textbook published by APS PRESS in 2006.
Over the years, D'Arcy has gradually evolved from being a plant virology researcher with an interest in teaching, to a teacher who keeps her hand in research. This is how she wants it, because for her it is true that—as one University of Illinois bumper sticker says—"I'd rather be teaching."


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Venezuela's Chavez arrives in Cuba for cancer surgery
HAVANA (CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived Monday in Cuba for surgery just days after saying his cancer had returned.
State-run VTV showed Chavez embracing Vice President Nicolas Maduro and other top Venezuelan officials before his plane took off early Monday.
On Saturday, Chavez announced that his cancer had returned and said he wanted Maduro to replace him if "something were to happen that would incapacitate me."
If the president dies, Venezuela's constitution specifies that the vice president assumes the presidency until new elections can be held.
Chavez called for voters to take things a step further.
"My firm opinion, as clear as the full moon -- irrevocable, absolute, total -- is ... that you elect Nicolas Maduro as president," Chavez said, waving a copy of the Venezuelan Constitution as he spoke. "I ask this of you from my heart. He is one of the young leaders with the greatest ability to continue, if I cannot."
It was the first time Chavez had spoken publicly about the possibility of a successor -- a shocking subject from a man who looms larger than life in Venezuela and in Latin American politics.
"This is huge. He could have said something indirectly. He could have said something like, 'We'll have to see. Let's talk about it when the time comes,'" said Javier Corrales, a professor of political science at Amherst College in Massachusetts. "He switched from being very evasive to very articulate. That must have been the result of a major change in health for the worse."
Venezuela's information ministry said Monday that Chavez was optimistic as he headed to Cuba for treatment.
Cuban President Raul Castro met him in Havana, the information ministry said. Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said in a Twitter post that he was on the way to visit Chavez there.
Chavez, who had surgery in 2011 to remove a cancerous tumor, has undergone further surgery and radiation in Cuba since then. He declared himself cancer-free in July.
Health rumors dogged Chavez on the campaign trail this year, but didn't stop him from winning re-election in October.
The president has repeatedly spoken publicly about his cancer battle, but has never specified the type.
The government has released few specifics, fueling widespread speculation about his health and political future, and sparking criticism from political opponents.
VTV Sunday showed throngs of supporters cheering and praying in support of Chavez.
An opposition coalition leader told CNN affiliate Globovision that the opposition would be prepared for a new presidential vote.


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Lords of the Black Sun Free Download
Lords of the Black Sun Free Download PC Game Cracked in Direct Link and Torrent. Lords of the Black Sun – Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars,….
Game Overview
Arkavi Studios
Iceberg Interactive
12 Sep, 2014
Strategy, Turn-Based, Sci-fi, Adventure
Lords of the Black Sun is an epic, complex, dense, turn-based 4X PC strategy game, set in deep space.
Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.
The galaxy is full of secrets and dangers: Discover ancient ruins and artifacts, repel or befriend pirates, promote a general to guide your fleets to victory. Concoct complex plots with your allies or use your intelligence services to uncover weak spots on that threatening empire whose leader has vowed to destroy you.
Make sure to keep your population happy or be prepared to face protests against your rule, or in a worst case scenario, rebel factions within your empire.
Only the mightiest rulers can prevail in the depths of space. Are you up to the task of becoming a Lord of the Black Sun?
Key Fetures:
- 8 major races each with their own ship designs, technologies, unique traits and unique abilities, meaning playing with each race is a different challenge and offers new ways to approach the game.
- Big, living universe: In addition to the major powers, independent races and pirate clans also claim the galaxy as their residence; their existence can be an annoyance, or a blessing if you can take advantage of them.
- Deep economical and political layer: War isn't the only way to weaken your rivals. Diplomacy, inteligence and trade can be one of many powerful tools that, if used properly, can be very effective as well.
- Tactical Turn based combat.
- Create and customize your own ship designs.
- Generals: These unique and powerful units evolve as they battle and if used well can be the difference between defeat and victory.
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System Requirement
- OS: Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1
- Processor: Dual Core 2.0 Ghz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB graphics card
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 1150 MB available space
- Sound Card: Integrated
- Additional Notes: There is a known issue with people using ATI cards on Vista so if you are one of those we recommend you skip the game until a fix is found
- OS: Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1
- Processor: Quad Core 2.0 Ghz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB graphics card
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 1150 MB available space
- Sound Card: Integrated


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A call for drug policy-reform is echoing across Latin America, where a decades-long, U.S.-sponsored battle against drug production and distribution has fostered a climate of fear, insecurity, and death. Throughout the region, former and current political leaders have allied with academics, medical professionals, and community activists to issue an appeal for a multinational dialogue on alternatives to the current drug war, including a possible end to drug prohibition.
In February, the multidisciplinary Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy (co-chaired by former Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, Cesar Gaviria of Colombia, and Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico) called the drug war a "failure" and issued a groundbreaking report urging other governments in the region--including the United States--to rethink prohibition policy. More recently, on a May 2009 trip to Atlanta, where he gave the commencement address at Emory University, former President Vicente Fox of Mexico told an interviewer that the time has come to "discuss and assess the possibility" of legalizing drugs.
Nowhere is the sense of urgency more acute than in Mexico, where President Felipe Calderon's ongoing battle against the drug cartels has left parts of the country in a near perpetual state of combat. According to Milenio, a Mexican media association, the campaign has claimed more than 10,000 lives since December 2006, when Calderon deployed the military to help federal police in their fight against the cartels.
The death toll includes countless civilians, and Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says the drug war has led to an exponential surge in reported cases of official abuse. Increasingly, human-rights activists are drawing a direct link between drug prohibition and human-rights violations. "Without a doubt, rethinking the criminalization of drug use would be a very important long-term strategy to improving the serious human-rights situation that Mexico is facing today," says Ana Paula Hernandez, a Mexico City-based human-rights activist and political consultant. Mexico's opposition parties are hoping to capitalize on the country's mounting impatience with Calderon's struggle against narcotic trafficking and its bloody side effects to regain seats in the legislature from the president's party, the Partido Accion Nacional (PAN). As the Prospect went to press, midterm elections--scheduled for July 5--were gearing up to be, in part, a referendum on the president's drug policies. Up for grabs are all 500 seats in Mexico's lower House--the Chamber of Deputies--as well as governorships in six states and hundreds more positions in state legislatures and city halls. At least one party, the social democrat Partido Socialdemocrata (PSD) has placed legalization on its official platform, and members of one of the country's two main opposition parties--the center-left Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (PRD)--are floating their own legalization proposals. There are presently two active PRD bills to decriminalize marijuana: one at the federal level and one in Mexico City.
According to journalist Dan Feder, who covered the Mexican legalization movement extensively from 2002 until 2004, representatives of nearly every political party in Mexico have proposed legalizing drugs at one time or another. The country's first legalization bill was introduced in 1998 by PAN Senator Maria del Carmen Bolado del Real. But Feder says it wasn't until the 2000 presidential election--which saw the end of Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) supremacy in Mexican politics and the election of PAN's Vicente Fox--that a dialogue on drug-policy reform entered mainstream political discourse. By the 2003 midterm elections, new parties like Mexico Posible--a forerunner of PSD--and progressive members of PRD were openly advocating the legalization of marijuana.
Today, reform advocates populate every level of Mexican society and have hosted forums on drug legalization for universities, city councils, and, recently, the federal legislature. Last October, President Calderon himself--a dedicated social conservative--sent a proposal to the Mexican Senate that would decriminalize the possession of small quantities of most drugs, giving users the option of seeking treatment to avoid criminal prosecution while tightening penalties for street dealing. The so-called Ley de Narcomenudeo was passed by both houses of Congress in late April and at press time was awaiting the president's signature.
Advocates of legalization in Mexico greeted the measure with marked skepticism. Alejandro Madrazo Lajous, a Mexico City-based attorney who advises the reform community, says that while the current bill can theoretically be called decriminalization, in practice authorities maintain inordinate discretion over how it's applied. "It's not actually decriminalization insofar as the conduct is still considered a crime," he says. "Technically the crime still has to be reported and investigated, but it stops there and never reaches court." Instead, Lajous explains, after a first encounter with police, users are referred to public-health authorities who are empowered to make a determination of addiction (farmacodependencia) and recommend treatment. After a third police encounter, addicts will be compelled to enter treatment; if they refuse or fail to complete the program they face prosecution. Though compelled treatment should apply only to addicts, Lajous says that since farmacodependencia will be predicated on the vague standard of "showing any symptoms of dependency," he suspects federal authorities will try to send everyone to treatment upon a third report.
Rather than representing an enlightened, treatment-oriented approach to drug use, critics say the new law is more akin to a similar proposal, floated by President Fox in 2004, to create a legal distinction between users and traffickers--not as a public-health initiative but as a necessary step to enforcing stricter penalties against low-level dealers.
"Basically, Fox said that it was important not only to prosecute the big drug barons but also to fight the petty traders who sell retail," explains Jorge Hernandez Tinajero, director of the drug-policy reform group Colectivo por una Politica Integral Hacia las Drogas (CUPIHD). "But they realized that to enable such a thing they needed to determine who is a small dealer and who is a consumer, [so] Fox proposed establishing quantities of certain drugs to be considered legal for personal possession while tightening, by far, the penalties for those who violate."
By 2006, Fox's proposal had passed both houses of the Mexican Congress before the president himself vetoed the bill, allegedly under U.S. pressure.
Like Fox's proposal, the Calderon bill includes strict mandatory minimums for street-level dealing, and for the first time allows undercover police to make street buys from dealers. The day after the measure passed the Chamber of Deputies, CUPIHD released a statement calling the law a half measure that could potentially do more harm than good. "Nobody can say that Calderon's proposal is an initiative to decriminalize drug use," Tinajero says. "If a consumer is caught by the authorities he has two options: either declare himself an addict and be assigned to a rehabilitation center and be 'cured,' or be declared a drug trafficker and go through a legal process that can lead to imprisonment. In reality the Calderon proposal will strengthen the war on drugs, especially against consumers."
Elsa Conde, one of four representatives of the PSD in the Chamber of Deputies and the sponsor of a recent congressional forum on marijuana reform, voted against the bill and worries that the law will further criminalize the "poor and unprotected." Given the tiny "legal" quantities proposed---5 grams for marijuana, a half gram for cocaine, and even smaller amounts of heroin and methamphetamines--Conde says more users and addicts are likely to be labeled dealers and subjected to the harsher penalties that the law mandates. "We didn't support this [bill] because while we agree that consumers and traffickers must be adjudicated differently, this proposal will only serve to imprison more people and will not have any real impact on public safety or the supply of drugs," she explains. "This proposal is not about respecting the rights of consumers."
Her argument underscores a fundamental ideological split between Mexico's two main reform groups. Unlike PRD and others who take a pragmatic approach to decriminalization, PSD and its supporters say reforming drug policy is as much about protecting the civil rights of consumers as it is about national security. "The PRD proposes the legalization of drugs only to combat drug trafficking, which I believe reveals, to a certain extent, its conceptual limitations [in thinking] about the problem; they have not yet understood the importance of defending consumers or of taking a civil-rights approach to this argument," Tinajero says.
Accepting the validity of a pragmatic argument for ending drug prohibition, one must still question how much of an impact even full legalization in Mexico would have on drug violence so long as drugs remain illegal in the U.S. Because American demand will continue to fuel a market for cross-border narcotics traffic, cartel wars over lucrative drug routes are likely to continue regardless of the legal status of drugs in Mexico.
Ricardo Sala, director of the reform group Convivencia y espacio publico, A.C., concedes that under a legalization scenario traffickers will still try their best to reach the U.S. market, but he says regulation will give Mexican authorities more control over how and where drugs are produced and distributed in the country. "Legalization should mean regulation: a better control of drugs and drug availability," he says. "If the Mexican state has a better control of drug production, transportation and commerce, then it will be more difficult for illegal trade to make it all the way from the fields or through Mexican territory up to the northern border."
In April, President Barack Obama tapped U.S. Attorney Alan Bersin to serve as the nation's first "border czar" and has pledged to send an additional 500 federal agents to the U.S.-Mexico border this year in response to drug violence. That's on top of the estimated $700 million in aid, most of it to support law-enforcement efforts, earmarked for Mexico in 2009. But even with an end to prohibition now being discussed at the highest levels of government in Mexico, reform advocates on both sides of the border admit that any real progress on legalization will still require stronger support from one of the major parties. And that's unlikely to happen without a change of policy in the United States.


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Thursday evening, after some diligent searching, I found the obituary for Julia Hawley Hoyt, Addie's mother. The microfilm was so badly faded that the text was barely legible, but I did find it.
As I expected, Julia Hawley Hoyt never made it back to Lake Mills after November 30, 1894. She left her home in Lake Mills, Wisconsin after Thanksgiving to rush out to Denver, Colorado. Her eldest daughter (Anna Hoyt Whitmore) was sick with Scarlet Fever, as was Anna's whole family (husband and three children, ages six, three and one).
The trek from Chicago to Denver took 26 hours. Julia would have arrived into Denver on December 1st. That was the day that little Ernie, Anna's eldest child, died from the Scarlet Fever.
According to the obituary I found in the Lake Mills Leader Julia Hoyt contracted Scarlet Fever while she was there in Denver, and died in May, almost six months later.
Died, at San Mateo, California, May 9th (1895), Mrs. Julia Hoyt of Lake Mills, Wisconsin at the age of 51 years. Mrs. Hoyt was born in Milford, Jefferson County in 1844 where she grew to womanhood. She was married to Mr. Homer Hoyt on October 16, 1862 at Milford. She was the mother of three children, two daughters and one son, Mrs. Wilbur Whitmore, Denver Colorado, Eugene B. Hoyt, and Miss Addie Hoyt of Lake Mills, all of whom survive to mourn the loss of a gentle and loving mother.
The funeral took place at San Mateo, California May 12th and the deceased was buried beside her father and sister. Mrs. Hoyt was called to Denver about last Thanksgiving time to assist her daughter in the care of her children who were sick with Scarlet Fever and during these tender ministrations contracted the disease, which at last resulted in dropsy causing her death.
As a devoted wife, a kind and loving mother, and a true neighbor, Mrs. Hoyt will long be remember, and her numerous friends will be moved with tenderest sympathy for the mourning children, who must sustain through grief and sorrow their irreparable loss.
"No more to hear her voice of love,
Nor feel her touch so kind,
waiting until the shadows move,
Revealing the beyond."
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To read more about little Ernie, click here.
To learn more about Addie, click here.
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Apple on Monday took the wraps off iOS 7, revealing a dramatic new design that sheds six-year-old interface elements, and replaces them with a cleaner, more modern aesthetic. From top to bottom, the OS that powers the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch has been renovated for both looks and usability.
"It's the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of iPhone," Apple CEO Tim Cook said during Monday's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote.
Meet the new iOS
The entirety of the OS and the stock apps have been redesigned with a new, dramatically different flat look. The typography and icons have all been revamped. There's a sense of planes of data: Translucent textures reveal what's in the background. Backgrounds change in a parallax effect when you move the phone: As you do so, things in the background move around ever so slightly behind frontmost elements. Animations receive an overhaul, too.
A new approach to multitasking shows large previews of your running apps that you can flip through. And a new panel, which you drag up from the bottom of the phone's screen, reveals access to all sorts of quick controls for toggling settings.
Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi showed off redesigned apps including Weather, Calendar, Mail, Messages, and even Phone. Game Center loses its green felt entirely; wood is gone from iBooks. Even apps like Stocks and Compass have a new look with "precision and a sense of purpose," Federighi said.
The new Weather app uses animated backgrounds that reflect the current weather conditions, and you can tap into the forecasts for more details than the app showed before. You can pinch for an overview of forecasts for multiple cities.
The updated Calendar app looks very different, with some design elements seemingly inspired by third-party apps like Calvetica and Fantastical. A new gesture lets you swipe from the left edge of the screen to go back one level in Messages and Mail. And you can slide across messages to move them or trash them–a la Mailbox.
Notification Center scores a new look too, along with tabs that filter notifications for "today," "all," and missed. And Notification Center is now available from the lock screen. Folders on iOS can now contain multiple screens' worth of apps.
"Installing iOS 7 on your phone is like getting an entirely new phone, but one that you already know how to use," Federighi said.
There are 10 brand new features in addition to the glossy new design that will make even an older iPhone feel like a new experience.
Control Center
Control Center is sort of like Notification Center: You swipe up from the bottom of the device to access it. iOS finally adds a centralized hub with Control Center, You can turn on Airplane Mode, toggle Bluetooth, turn on Do Not Disturb, enable lock rotation, access AirDrop, and quickly access specific apps. You also use Control Center to adjust playing tracks, and more. The feature also works from the lock screen. There's a flashlight now, too, so if you wake up in the middle of the night and need to find something, you can grab your phone, Federighi said.
Control Center provides a handy way to toggle features on and off at any time; a simple swipe up will let you turn on Airplane Mode, resume the song you were listening to, or pull up your calculator or camera without the hassle of diving into apps. It appears as a transparent layer, so you can still keep an eye on your background activity.
Apple announced that iOS 7 would include multitasking for all apps. As you access certain apps more frequently than others, iOS 7 will notice and let those apps poll for new data more currently. If there are other apps you check more often in the morning, iOS 7 will automatically grab data for those apps at the right time.
iOS 7 also adds "opportunistic updates." If the phone is on and in use, and the network conditions are good, it pulls more background data. And push notifications can trigger background processing for an app, too.
A new approach to multitasking shows large previews of your running apps that you can flip through.
"Safari is the most popular mobile browser in the world," Federighi said. The browser now includes a unified search field, akin to the location bar in desktop Safari, which lets you enter in both URLs and searches. New views make browsing your tabs and frequently accessed sites more simple. Type-ahead suggestions offer URLs and Google search results alike.
The location bar recedes as you scroll through a page, offering more visual space to the webpage's content. You can use that same new "swipe from left" gesture to navigate back a page, too.
The Shared Links feature new in the forthcoming OS X Mavericks update comes to iOS 7 as well: You can browse links shared socially by your friends.
The new tabs interface in Safari is eye-popping, and you aren't limited to just eight. You see large previews of your visited pages in a vertically scrolling list with interesting perspective. You can drag tabs to rearrange them, or flick them away when you don't need them anymore.
Any app that supports the Share Sheet gains access to AirDrop: Your friends who are near you appear right there. When you tap to share, your friends can choose to accept the data you're sending, and the appropriate app launches on their devices, too. It uses peer-to-peer Wi-Fi for maximum transfer speeds, so there's "no need to wander around the room, bumping your phone," Federighi said.
Camera & Photos
The Camera app is now "four cameras in one," Federighi said. It's a video camera, still camera, square camera, and panorama camera. And still photos can include filters, which can generate live, real-time previews.
The updated Photos app now offers Moments, which better organizes your photographs without your needing to intervene. Like iPhoto's events on the Mac, Moments can analyze your photos' location data and dates to assemble your photos intelligently, and label them in more useful ways than an endless grid of photo thumbnails.
"You may not remember when you did it, but iOS does," Federighi said.
The Photos app also gains access to iOS 7's new filters, and it gains new sharing options, too. In addition to AirDrop support, you can share photos via iCloud–which is how Photo Streams are labeled in iCloud. For the first time, other people can share into your Photo Stream, too, allowing friends and family members to mutually share photos together. And Photo Streams now support videos as well.
Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue talked about Siri. Siri gets a redesign in keeping with iOS 7's look–and it gains a new voice, too. Actually, it gets two new voices: a male and a female option. German and French speakers have voices of their own to enjoy in iOS 7.
Siri can control a lot more, too: "Play my last voicemail," "Turn on Bluetooth," "Increase my brightness," are among the controls the personal assistant now understands. Siri can also answer more questions, and it integrates with Twitter and directly incorporates Wikipedia. In a not-so-subtle clue as to the status of the Apple-Google relationship, Siri will get its search results direct from Microsoft's Bing.
Another new feature Cue showed off was iOS in the Car–which integrates Siri, too. The feature would work with in-dash displays on many cars, and shows your apps. A slew of car manufacturers will offer integration with the feature starting in 2014, Cue said.
App Store
"It's way easier to find apps than ever before," Cue said. There are new sections for finding apps for kids, and a new option to browse "apps near me." That way, if you're at a specific spot where certain apps are popular, they're easy to surface.
The App Store, like OS X Mavericks, now gains the ability to update apps automatically in the background.
Cue called the iOS 7 Music app "the best music player we have ever done."
You don't just see your content on your device; you also see all your iTunes in the Cloud purchases–not just for music, but for movies and TV shows too.
Cue also introduced iTunes Radio, a new way to browse music on your iOS device that's built into the Music app. iTunes Radio includes a set of featured stations curated by Apple's music editors, along with music that's currently popular on Twitter. You can share stations with friends, or create new stations based on specific artists. You can skip ahead past songs you don't want to hear, too.
In addition to featured stations, you can create your own as well. You can create stations by musical genre, or by a specific artist or song.
More features in the fall
Apple only previewed 10 of iOS 7's new features on Monday, but more are coming when the update is released this fall, if the company's last iOS 7 slide is any indication. iOS 7 will be available as an upgrade for the iPhone 4, 4s, and 5, iPad 2 and later, iPad mini, and the fifth-generation iPod Touch.
Potential features we might see this fall include audio-only FaceTime over Wi-Fi, number and address blocking, notification sync, support for Smart Mailboxes and improved search in Mail, and activation lock, which requires your iCloud username and password after a remote wipe.